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

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.

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.

Nancy mentioned in Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4160138/Is-doomsday-...

Here is an interesting prong....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/lost-continent-mauritius-indian-o...

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!

Black Ops Chemtrails Intended to Hide Nibiru (Feb 4)

A Top Secret mission is under way to hide a giant alien planet that is going to obliterate Earth.

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-...

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.

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...

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: 

On the NASA live-feed they are broadcasting this with lots of interviews:  https://youtu.be/UdmHHpAsMVw

Which brings up the idea that if the two look a little closer.....

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.

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.

~

Which Sunset Was Real?

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

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.

From the Daily Mail....

• A dossier of 18 MoD papers was due to be released in March this year
• A German site has claimed that Brexit is to blame for the delay in publication
• The files are expected to be made public after the UK general election in June
• Details of a UFO sighting by military personnel in 1980 may be among them

By Tim Collins For Mailonline

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4530122/Secret-gover... 

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       

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.

Here's the Hancock/Rogan podcast about ancient cataclysms w/o a skeptic...

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.

New article regarding Planet 9 appeared in Popular Mechanics on Jul 12, 2017 , also been feature on Yahoo Science News .

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.

Blast from the Past: On Disclosure  of the Extraterestrial Life:

On Youtube, the 1995 Disney´s  Ufo Documentary.

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....

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!

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-...

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.

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

Scientists find living bacteria from outer space on ISS satellite’s surface

http://tass.com/science/977591

MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. Scientists have found living bacteria from outer space on the surface of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). They are being studied on Earth but most likely they don’t pose any sort of danger, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov told TASS on Monday.

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.

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.

Trump to send astronauts back to the moon -- and eventually Mars

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/politics/trump-astronauts-moon/index....

"He will change our nation's human spaceflight policy to help America become the driving force for the space industry, gain new knowledge from the cosmos, and spur incredible technology," Gidley said Monday.

The directive, Gidley said, will push NASA to "refocus ... on its core mission of space exploration."

Trump's pick for NASA administrator -- Jim Bridenstine, a Republican congressman from Oklahoma -- has yet to be confirmed. He has come under withering criticism from Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, who wields considerable power over the space program.

Both Trump and Pence have made it clear since the 2016 campaign that they would like to send astronauts back to the moon.

During a 2016 campaign event near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Trump pledged to "free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistical agency for low Earth-orbit activities" and "instead refocus on space exploration."

"Under a Trump administration, Florida and America will lead the way into the stars," he said.

Pence, during the first meeting of the National Space Council in October, said the Trump administration "will return American astronauts to the moon, not only to leave behind footprints and flags, but to build the foundation we need to send Americans to Mars and beyond."

"The moon will be a stepping-stone, a training ground, a venue to strengthen our commercial and international partnerships as we refocus America's space program toward human space exploration," Pence said.

Other Republicans, namely former former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, have expressed interest in going back to the moon.

During his 2012 presidential bid, Gingrich advocated for forming colonies on the moon.

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Found: Another star system with eight planets, just like ours

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/12/...

An illustration of the Kepler spacecraft. (Wendy Stenzel/NASA/Ames Research Center)

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.

But the number of worlds is not the only similarity between our solar system and the Kepler 90 system. As in ours, Kepler's small, rocky planets are closest to the sun and its gas giants farthest away. Kepler 90 itself is larger than our sun, though not extremely so.

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.

NY Times: Pentagon study of UFOs revealed

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/16/politics/pentagon-ufo-project/index.html

Former Sen. Harry Reid speaks at a rally in Nevada in 2016. The New York Times says it was his interest that spurred the creation of the UFO program.

The Pentagon says the program has since been shuttered.

"The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ended in the 2012 timeframe," Pentagon spokesman Tom Crosson told CNN. "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."

But according to the Times, certain aspects of the program still exist with officials from the program continuing to investigate encounters brought to them by service members, while these officials still carry out their other duties within the Defense Department.

The former director of the program told the paper that he worked with officials from the Navy and CIA from his office in the Pentagon until this past October, when he resigned in protest. He said a replacement had been named, but he declined to identify them.

Reid, the Times says, was also supported in his efforts to fund the program by the late Sens. Ted Stevens of Alaska, Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, and John Glenn of Ohio, the first American to orbit the Earth, who told Reid the federal government should take a serious look at UFOs.

And working to keep a program that he was sure would draw scrutiny from others, Reid said he, Stevens and Inouye made sure there was never any public debate about the program on the Senate floor during budget debates.

"This was so-called black money," Reid told the Times regarding the Defense Department budget for classified programs.

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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.

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Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, has had a longtime interest in space phenomena.CreditAl Drago/The New York Times

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.

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Pentagon officials say the program ended in 2012, five years after it was created, but the official who led it said that only the government funding had ended then.CreditCharles Dharapak/Associated Press

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.

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Luis Elizondo, who led the Pentagon effort to investigate U.F.O.s until October. He resigned to protest what he characterized as excessive secrecy and internal opposition to the program.CreditJustin T. Gellerson for The New York Times

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.

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Robert Bigelow, a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid, received most of the money allocated for the Pentagon program. 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.CreditIsaac Brekken for The New York Times

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.

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.

Main stream media and Youtube go into a frenzy with pilot interviews, discussions and questions about Pentagon UFO program!

https://youtu.be/0psNCUZU50I

https://youtu.be/3w0aXTfDDq8

https://youtu.be/nmjowugK__o

https://youtu.be/XaJR6h-41Nk

https://youtu.be/w-t5UI3Tk6s

https://youtu.be/l4xDz0nMEUU

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...

Earth may well have been visited by UFOs, the former head of a secret US government programme has revealed.

Scaramucci: Trump’s view on climate change will ‘surprise’ you

31 December, 2017 "Short-lived White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Americans would be “surprised” by President Trump’s true view on climate change science, despite tweeting dismissive comments about global warming.

“I think you guys should ask him directly if he’s a climate change denier or not,” Scaramucci told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. “I think you will find you will be surprised by that answer.”

Trump, who has previously called global warming a hoax, infuriated scientists by conflating cold weather with climate change in a tweet Thursday on the chilly New Year’s temps. <...>

“My prediction is, is that some time at the end of 2018, people will look back at him and say, wow, he had a lot of common sense by getting out of that climate accord,” Scaramucci said"

Reference: Diaz, D. (2017, December 31). Anthony Scaramucci: Trump's view on climate change might surprise you. Retrieved January 08, 2018, from http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/31/politics/anthony-scaramucci-donal... 

 EXPRESS UK !!!

The US President is supposedly in on the Nibiru secret, despite the world’s entire scientific community in agreement that it does not exist.

But a bunkum White House insider report published on SomeonesBones.com, alleges that Russian President Vladimir Putin has educated his US counterpart about the doomsday system.

According to the bizarre article, President Trump knows the “facts” and is on the lookout for a chief Nibiru scientistic adviser.

The article reads: “Trump believes Nibiru is real. That’s an immutable fact. But what he knows has come from other world leaders, specifically Vladimir Putin, not from anyone in his administration.

“He wants someone to work alongside him in understanding Planet X.

“But, at the same time, he is afraid the Senate might discover he’s seeking an expert on Nibiru. And he fears a witch-hunt.”

Without naming its ‘credible’ White House source, the article alleges that Donald Trump is biding his time before revealing the Planet X truth, for fear of reprisal.

Nibiru is a made-up planetary system, supposedly from beyond the edge of the solar system. Sometimes it is known as Planet X, Wormwood or Nemesis.

Doomsday enthusiasts believe its arrival will herald the end of the world as we know it, when its powerful gravitational waves wreak havoc on Earth.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/907854/nibiru-donald-trump-pla...

http://www.ibtimes.sg/alien-life-possibly-hiding-saturns-moon-encel...

Alien life possibly hiding in Saturn's moon Enceladus, says new study

• February 28, 2018 17:25 +08

A recent study has provided new insights into how the warm interior of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus could be sustained for billions of years. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

"What The F— Is That Thing?": Fast Moving UFO Stuns U.S. Navy Pilots

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-11/what-f-thing-fast-moving-...

Stunning video captured by U.S. Navy pilots in 2015 shows a mysterious object with "no obvious wings or tails," and "no exhaust plume" traveling at a high rate of speed over the Atlantic Ocean "very low over the water."

The declassified Department of Defense (DoD) video was released by analytics firm The Stars Academy of Arts and Science - whose advisory committee includes former Clinton and Bush Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon.

 “What the f— is that thing?” shouts the pilot of a U.S. Navy F/A 18 Super Hornet equipped with a Raytheon AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pod - one of the most advanced imaging devices in use by the military which can locate and designate targets at distances over 40nm. 

The unidentified vehicle appears as a white oval shape moving at high speed from top right to lower left of the screen flying very low over the water.   Initially, the sensor is unable to capture the object.  The Weapon Systems Operator (WSO) steers the sensor ahead of the object to attempt another capture.  On the third attempt, the sensor tracking capture is successful.   The sensor is now in “autotrack” mode, where the sensor uses contrast and other parameters to lock-on to a target, automatically keeping it centered in the sensors viewing frame. -TTSA

pecifically noted by the TTSA;

• There are no obvious wings or tails on the object.  Even IR imagery of a cruise missile, would have visible wings at this range.

• There is no exhaust plume from the object. An exhaust plume is clearly visible on conventional aircraft in the mid-wave infrared frequency used by the ATFLIR.  Shown below is a mid-wave infrared image of a F-16 in flight.  The sensor is in “white-hot” mode. Note that the length of the exhaust plume is nearly the length of the aircraft.  The video from which this still was extracted makes it clear that the F-16 is subsonic, which means the throttle is at a low setting which creates relatively low exhaust temperatures and volume of exhaust gases.  In a higher power setting, the exhaust plume would be much larger and brighter.

https://www.stateofglobe.com/2018/03/24/wikileaks-the-worlds-larges...

25 March 2018

Scientists secretly believe we're all going to die soon - retired professor

We're all going to die - that's a fact.

But even Millennials should be preparing to meet their maker, if American scientist Guy McPherson is to be believed.

The retired biology and ecology professor says runaway climate change is going to kill us all by the year 2026. And if we somehow make it off the planet before then, unlike the inhabitants of the starliner Axiom in apocalyptic Pixar classic WALL-E, we might not be able come back.

"It's certainly all over for us in the not too distant future," Prof McPherson, who used to teach at the University of Arizona, told The AM Show on Monday.

• Humans 'don't have 10 years' left thanks to climate change - scientist

In late 2016, he appeared on Three's Paul Henry to say humanity would be wiped out in 10 years. He's sticking by that timetable - even suggesting he might have overestimated how long we have left.

"For most of us, we'll be going sooner than that 2026 timeline I presented a couple of years ago."

Here's how it'll apparently go down: "Plant life will be unable to keep up with the repetitive rise in temperature. Plants will die, and we need plants to survive. We don't eat without plants. The water will continue to be fouled, the air will continue to be spoiled," explains Prof McPherson.

"But a primary factor will be starvation as civilisation collapses and the inability to grow grains at scale is one result."

Let's say the luckiest of us make it aboard the Axiom. Then what happens?

"It could be - and I'm not predicting this, but this could happen - that the world's 400-plus nuclear power plants melt down catastrophically when unattended by people because they're not paid, because civilisation collapses. That could cause ionising radiation to strip away the Earth's atmosphere and leave us in the not-too-distant future looking a lot like Mars.

"It could be that we lose the living planet. That's not what I wish for, that's not what I'm predicting, but it wouldn't surprise me. There would be no human around to document that demise."

Prof McPherson's ideas don't appear to have much support in the wider scientific community. A quick Google search brings up numerous blogs and articles debunking his claims, saying he appears to misunderstand some facts about how the global climate works, and misrepresents others.

The last time Prof McPherson was in New Zealand, Victoria University climate expert Prof James Renwick took a closer look at his claims. While Prof McPherson appeared to be very knowledgable about his areas of expertise - ecology and biology - there were serious problems with his understanding of atmospheric physics, and he exaggerated some key figures by up to 10 times.

"If your public profile depends on your image as an authority on 'global warming', you would do well to be clear on the science," Prof Renwick wrote, saying there was no need to be so alarmist when the reality was dire enough.

"My perception is that concerted global action within the next decade can avoid the worst consequences. The flip side is that business as usual, even for another ten years, could lock in changes that do indeed put global society at risk and threaten possibly hundreds of millions to billions of lives. Not instant death, but a very unpleasant future for a very long time.

"I find that prospect plenty scary enough, and it leaves room for us to take action. Let's take it."

A conspiracy?

Prof McPherson says other scientists agree with him - they're just too scared to say so.

Guy McPherson. Photo credit: The AM Show

"There are several scientists who do not disagree with the information I present. Does that mean they agree with me in public? Of course not, because they would lose support for these prestigious academic positions if they agreed with me in public.

"They don't ever disagree with me, but they don't publicly agree with me either."

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In the meantime, he says he'll be "living as largely as I can" in his home in Belize, "surrounding myself with people I love and doing the work I love, which includes education".

If people ignore his message, he doesn't really care - remember, we're all going to die soon whatever we do.

"I'm presenting evidence - if people don't want to believe it and they want to call me names as a result, I don't have any control over that. I'm a rationalist. I've been pursuing scientific activity for a very long time, my entire adult life. If you don't want to believe me, that's really not on me."

Newshub.

http://www.ibtimes.sg/mysterious-planet-9-edge-our-solar-system-not...

Mysterious Planet 9 at the edge of our solar system, not harmful but pulling strings: Expert

Tilting the entire solar system to one side?

• By Staff Reporter
  March 27, 2018 14:27 +08

NASA , which has recently begun a probe on the existence of a ninth planet at the edge of our solar system, is confident that it will not hit the earth in the near future.

Using the advanced Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, astronomers find it 10 times the mass of Earth and its distance from the Sun could be around 20 times the distance between Neptune and the Sun.

It is "hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the orbits of distant bodies, perhaps even tilting the entire solar system to one side," said NASA researchers.

The existence of this mystery planet has been a topic of raging debates within the science community since the inception of this theory in 2014. Some said that the mystery planet or the Planet Nine could be the missing super-Earth of our solar system, which would have a higher mass than our globe but substantially lower than that of Uranus and Neptune.

There are now five different lines of observational evidence hinting at the existence of Planet Nine. said planetary astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Konstantin Batygin. "If you were to remove this explanation and imagine Planet Nine does not exist, then you actually generate more problems than you solve," he said.

Batygin in his research studied the orbits of six space objects situated in the far out Kuiper Belt, which is a region of icy bodies stretching from Neptune into outer space. He found out that all those objects had elliptical orbits around a central point.

Objects from the Kuiper Belt orbit in the opposite direction from everything else present in our solar system, point out the researchers. Only the existence of Planet Nine can explain why these bodies from the far away Kuiper Belt end up "polluting" the inner Kuiper Belt, they added.

"The existence of Planet Nine is the only thing that can explain the weirdness of these high-inclination orbits," said Konstantin Batygin.

Mulitiple Mainstream Media news outlets announce pilots spotted a UFO.

Pilots say they spotted UFOs while flying over Arizona

A Learjet pilot and an American Airlines pilot saw the object on February 24 and radioed the regional air traffic controller in Albuquerque.

"A UFO!" someone quickly responded.

"Yeah," the pilot replied again with a chuckle.

A second sighting

Minutes later, the FAA controller alerted an American Airlines that was flying in the area, according to the recording released by the FAA.

"American 1095, uh, let me know if, uh, you anything pass over you here in the next, uh, 15 miles," an air traffic controller said.

Aliens, flying discs and sightings -- oh my! A short history of UFO...

"Let you know if anything passes over?" the pilot responded.

"American 1095, affirmative," the controller said. "We had an aircraft in front of you that reported something pass over him and, uh, we didn't have any targets. So just, uh, let me know if you see anything pass over you."

"Alright," the pilot said.

Shortly, the pilot radioed traffic control also reporting the mysterious object.

"It's American 1095. Yeah, something just passed over us," the pilot said. "I don't know what it was, but at least two-three thousand feet above us. Yeah, it passed right over the top of us."

American Airlines referred all questions to the FAA.

It's unclear whether the object spotted by the pilots was a UFO. A FAA spokesperson suggested the object wasn't necessarily something out of this world.

"We have a close working relationship with a number of other agencies and safely handle military aircraft and civilian aircraft of all types in that area every day, including high-altitude weather balloons," the FAA spokesperson said.

The controller was unable to verify that any other aircraft was in the area at the time, the FAA said.

Was it a weather balloon?

A pilot said he did not believe the object could be a weather balloon.

When the air controller asked more about the object, the American Airlines pilot said he wasn't sure "whether it was a balloon or whatnot."

He only described it as having "a big reflection," and "traveling several thousand feet above us, going the opposite direction."

The strange encounter happened not far from Roswell, New Mexico -- a town that became synonymous with extraterrestrial activity in 1947 after reports that a flying object crash-landed in a field.

Authorities said it was a weather balloon but that hasn't stopped plenty of Americans from coming up with their own out-of-this-world theories.

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2 airline pilots report seeing UFO while flying over Arizona

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airline-pilots-ufo-sighting-arizona/

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‘A UFO!’: FAA recording reveals moment two pilots report unknown object flying overhead

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/03/28/a-ufo...

A couple article paragraphs about piecing together the puzzle of the solar system:

Meteorite found in Sudan may be part of a “lost planet” that was destroyed in our early solar system (April 19, 2018)

Analysis of the meteorite revealed compounds similar to those found on Earth diamonds, including chromite, phosphate and iron-nickel sulfides. This is the first time such compounds have been found in an extraterrestrial body, and it suggests the meteorite was formed under intense pressure – deep beneath a surface of a long-destroyed planet.
Given that there are still mysteries about our current solar system – including the potential existence of ‘Planet Nine’ – it could help us to better understand how our planetary neighbours formed.
http://www.alphr.com/space/1009115/meteorite-sudan-lost-planet-sola...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03808-6

Nibiru smacked to death many small water planets formerly in the Asteroid Belt
ZetaTalk Insight 6/11/2016
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/11ju2016.htm

the Asteroid Belt, a graveyard of small planets that were smashed to pieces when Planet X passed through the Asteroid Belt in the past.
ZetaTalk Insight 10/26/2013
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/26oc2013.htm

Note: written by Jul 15, 1995. Planet X and the 12th Planet are one and the same.
The Asteroid Belt was created when trash in the 12th Planets tail crashed into moons of some of the large planet in the Asteroid Belt, putting them in motion so that they became missiles directed at other planets. Eventually with all this bumping around in a crowded field, the inequity was great enough, the size disproportionate enough, that shattering of a small planet occurred. Magma sprayed outward in a burst, creating hardened magma in space which then itself became a missile on the move. Once begun, this process accelerates, creating increasing incidences where a piece of trash is large enough to shatter a planet. The planets disintegrate not because the missile is so large it physically breaks it apart, but because the molten core is opened, forcefully, and the lava pushed outward in a plume by the missile. Now the crust implodes, and the repercussions of this cause more magma plumes, so that the planet eventually does not have the mass to prevent a collision, by virtue of a repulsion force. Thus these wasted shells eventually collide with each other, breaking them into what you now term asteroids.
Asteroid Belt
http://www.zetatalk.com/science/s11.htm

Wow! Various news outlets announce the Cover-Up may indeed exist:

Nibiru BOMBSHELL: Wacky claims of huge media COVER UP on mythical planet

A MYSTERIOUS planet "on a collision course with Earth” is being covered up, it has been sensationally claimed.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/659456/Nibiru-Planet-X...

Doomsayers have long thought that a huge mystical alien world called Nibiru – or Planet X – is hurtling through space and will appear in our skies at any moment.

The planet will wipe out most of mankind, believers warn.

And now conspiracy theorists bizarrely claim mainstream newspapers have agreed with various governments not to reveal to the world they know a mythical planetary system is making its way towards Earth.

They believe every newspaper editor across the globe has agreed not to break the story due to fears of the panic it would cause.

Fears of a looming apocalypse reached new heights this year as Christian prophets and conspiracy theorists proclaimed the end is nigh.

Mythical planet Nibiru is at the centre of these fears.

It was supposed to hit us last month, but the date was revised based on apocalyptic passages in the Bible that claim it will be visible before Christmas.

Many people claim to have seen the so-called “intruder planet”, with amateur photos and videos appearing online.

One of the leading pushers of the "Nibiru media blackout" theory is UK-based conspiracy theorist Matt Rogers, who runs the YouTube channel Sky Watcher Matt Rogers.

He releases daily videos, with claims he has evidence of Nibiru in the sky, in which he lambasts the media for keeping quiet.

Mr Rogers said: "We can all see from the skies, that the skies are changing, that there is a problem, but still the media says nothing, because the governments and the shadow government don't want them to.

"In this video, I'm going to show how the powers that be control the media, because they do it every day.

"They tell us everything is fine, but you can see the chemtrails up there.

"They have been getting away with the propaganda for many, many years.

"We listen to those TV stations, we read the newspapers, we listen to the radio, and we look at the internet, but they are all controlled by the powers that be - the shadow government.

"They play us all the time as puppeteers - we need and demand the truth we want true news."

Despite these claims, mainstream media outlets have reported on theories since August when it was believed Nibiru was about to pass Earth.

Space boffins at NASA continued to deny the existence of the alien planet until recently.

Speaking last month, the space agency said the mysterious “super-Earth” – which is 10 times the weight of our planet – may be so powerful it is pulling the other planets out of orbit and even tilting the entire Solar System to one side.

A leading figure in the so-called Nibiru Cataclysm movement believes that Planet X’s gravitational pull will whip up 740mph tsunamis and earthquakes registering 9.8 on the richter scale here on Earth.

Researcher David Meade previously said that only 50% of the world’s population will be left after the disaster.

Daily Star Online previously released the conspiracy that claimed Pope Francis was surpassing information on the deadly planet.

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NASA covered up Nibiru ‘for 30 years’ and is withholding ‘the TRUTH’ about Planet X

US SPACE agency NASA is involved in a major cover up over the existence of a mythical planet that could wipe out mankind, it has sensationally been claimed.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/691097/nasa-nibiru-2018...

Doomsayers have long thought that a huge mystical alien world called Nibiru – or Planet X – is hurtling through space and will appear in our skies this year. 

The planet will wipe out most of mankind, believers warn.

NASA has thoroughly debunked the Nibiru myth – but some claim this is a cover-up to stop people panicking and save space in protective bunkers.

A former scientist at the US Geological Survey has sensationally claimed he has broken a confidentiality agreement to warn humanity about the danger of the approaching planet.

Dr Ethan Trowbridge worked for more than 10 years at the US government agency, learning about the imminent catastrophe posed by the planet Nibiru, which he claims consists of a brown dwarf star and seven planets.

According to Dr Trowbridge, the USGS and NASA were aware of the approach of this planet at least thirty years ago and together with other state bodies, entered into a criminal conspiracy to hide the existence of the planet.

“The USGS learned about Nibiru after this information came from NASA,” he told Daily Star Online.

“We were instructed to check whether the abnormal climate change due to the influence of this heavenly body and studies proved this relationship”, he said.

He added that only a handful of employees from the USGS know about the mythical planet.

He said: “This information is highly classified and all documents and information concerning its fragmented and divided by department so that people working with fragments of this information can not understand its purpose. 

“I think maybe forty or fifty employees have a real idea of what is happening.”

Just last week, another top scientist urged NASA to prove Nibiru is not real.

Fears of a looming apocalypse reached new heights last year as Christian prophets and conspiracy theorists proclaimed the end is nigh.

Mythical planet Nibiru was at the centre of these fears.

It was supposed to appear in September, but its apparent arrival date has been revised to later this year.

Many people claim to have seen the so-called “intruder planet”, with amateur photos and videos appearing online.  

There has been no official confirmation of its arrival and Nasa’s only statement read: “‘Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. 

“There is no factual basis for these claims."

“If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye.”

Dr Trowbridge cites a sharp rise in sea level, sudden changes in temperature and melting of polar ice, is iproof of Nibiru’s influence on our planet.

He believes that Nibiru will irrevocably change our planet.

He added: “Nibiru will devastate the Earth”.

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Zeta Talk:

Voyager 1 has been floating outbound to the northern edge of the Solar System since 1977, and in combination with Voyager 2 (which has been outbound to the southern edge of the Solar System), they have been able to triangulate the location of Nibiru as it prepared for another passage.

But since 2014, Voyager 1’s main thrusters have been dying, and fearing they would lose their optimum view of Nibiru during its passage, NASA in desperation tried to access the backup thrusters, finding them operational.

Why is this in the news? Why is the public being informed? The establishment, in particular NASA, is looking for an explanation of why they delayed informing the public about Nibiru lo these many years. Nibiru is heavily shrouded by red dust. Where the Moon Swirls form into long tubes and can focus light down the tube like a flashlight, Nibiru itself is so shrouded it looks like a dim fuzz ball. The Second Sun happens only on occasion, and Moon Swirl orbs, though brilliant, likewise fade quickly. Thus NASA hopes to claim that they only now have been able to discern Nibiru, due to Voyager 1 regaining functionality.

http://www.newsweek.com/planet-nine-evidence-grows-after-scientists...

Planet Nine Evidence Grows After Scientists Find Distant Object with Extraordinary Orbit

5/16/18 at 12:36 PM

Two years ago, scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) found evidence to suggest that a planet larger than Earth could be hiding beyond the orbit of Pluto, in the furthest reaches of the Solar System.

The researchers didn’t directly observe the hypothetical ninth planet, but they did predict its existence based on the strange orbits of a handful of distant, icy worlds in the Kuiper belt—a disc of primarily small and rocky bodies that begins just past the orbit of Neptune—that were extremely unlikely to have occurred by chance.

Since this discovery, scientists around the world have been trying to uncover more evidence of Planet Nine. Now, an international team of researchers has reported the discovery of another distant world, possibly a dwarf planet, which has a bizarre orbit that it is likely being influenced by the ninth planet, they say.

“It’s not proof that Planet Nine exists,” David Gerdes, from the University of Michigan and a co-author of the new paper, told Quanta Magazine. “But I would say the presence of an object like this in our solar system bolsters the case for Planet Nine.”