Pre-Announcement Media Coverage

[John Smith]

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: 

"Nearly Every Star Hosts at Least One Alien Planet"

http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-every-star-hosts-least-one-alien-plane...

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:

NASA Scientists "Discover" a Wobbly Planet!?

https://poleshift.ning.com/forum/topics/nasa-scientists-discover-a-...

[casey a]

Al Gore's speech at the World Economic Forum that's taking place in Switzerland. (Its basically a place where the political elite meet the corporate elite). But Gore's speech on climate change is interesting (to say the least). Looks like he's doubling down on climate change. Its one way of getting ppl's attention on the earth changes & renewable energy, I guess.

[casey a]

NASA Cuts ISS Live Feed As 'UFO' Appears (video) http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/01/19/ufo-appears-iss-nasa-cut...

[casey a]

Has Science Just Admitted Planet X/Nibiru Exists? Believers Say Full ‘Nibiru Disclosure’ Is Coming

http://www.inquisitr.com/1769216/has-science-just-admitted-planet-x...

[Mark]

Are there hidden planets in our solar system?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2912323/Are-hidden-p...

Astronomers believe there are at least two unknown planets waiting to be discovered well beyond Pluto.

They claim these planets are changing the position of objects away from Neptune, causing them to behave in strange ways.

If their theory proves true, scientists say it could 'revolutionise' solar system models.

[Yvonne Lawson]

Can you solve some of the world’s biggest UFO mysteries? Rare microfilms of  alien sightings are now available online for free

Mr Arnold saw nine UFOs over Mount Rainier, on 24 June 1947 and the US  government agencies took an interest in reports. A similar sighting (pictured)  occurred over Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 12, 1947

The files relate to USAF  investigations into UFO from 1947-1969

They were conducted under 'Project  Blue Book' which ended in 1970

More than 700 cases remain  unsolved, accounting for  5.5% of the files

In 1948, the US  government launched several inquiries into UFO sightings, which many believed  were sparked by Cold War paranoia.

In what became  known as 'Project Blue Book,' more than 12,000 encounters with UFOs were looked  into by the Air Force.

Now, decades after  the files were closed, the microfilms have been made available online for free – allowing anyone to re-examine the evidence.

The USAF says that  the Blue Book included 12,618 sightings reports, with 701 of which remained  'unidentified' – or around 5.5 per cent of the files.

The files, which  can be accessed here, were previously only available by  visiting the National Archives in Washington, according to a report in openminds.tv. 

'There is plenty  of work for amateur investigators to try to come up with explanations they never  had time to consider or research,' Nigel Watson author of the UFO investigations  Manual told MailOnline.

One case that Mr  Watson is particularly intrigued in for historical reasons is a report filed by  Kenneth Arnold which led to the popular term 'flying saucers'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2908998/Can-solve-wo...

[casey a]

NASA made posters for some known exoplanets. Here is one. http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/08/nasa-travel-posters-exoplanets/

Two suns, you say? That's right, just like Luke Skywalker's home world of Tatooine, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of giant stars.

[casey a]

Kepler 438b: Most Earth-like planet ever discovered could be home for alien life. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/06/earth-like-planet-al...

[casey a]

Ted Turner had a tape made for CNN in case the world ever ended. (Its apparently the Armed Forces band playing "Nearer My God, to Thee"--—the song the band on the Titanic supposedly played, when it went down). (The context to the tape was provided in case a nuclear war took place. But in 1988 would he not have known about Planet x?)

ABSTRACT (from the  New Yorker, in 1988): Talk story about a signoff tape, made by Ted Turner, head of CNN, in the event of nuclear war… We wondered what was on the tape. What did Mr. Turner think America wanted to hear as it prepared for incineration?… “We need to totally disarm,” Mr. Turner told us, “Because, just as with guns, if you've got nuclear weapons you're eventually going to use them… Normally, when a TV station begins & ends the broacast day, it signs on & off by playing the National Anthem,” he said. “But with CNN–a 24-hour-a day channel– we would only sign off once & I knew what that would mean. So we got the combined Armed Forces marching bands together –the Army, Navy, Marine & Air Force bands–& took them out to the old CNN headquarters & we had them practice the National Anthem for a videotaping. Then, as things cranked uo, I asked if they'd play 'Nearer My God, to Thee' to put on videotape just in case the world ever came to an end. That would be the last thing CNN played before we–before we signed off. And, I'll tell you, those guys in the military bands knew what I was up to. He began to play the tape. “I can't watch this without getting tears in my eyes,” Mr. Turner said, and he left the room, tossing his hands in the air. We watched & listened as the band completed the hymn. When it was over, in about a minute, the band members snapped their instruments down to parade rest & the screen went dark. Mr. Turner came back into the office. “Pretty strong, huh?” he said. “I keep this tape around because when the world ends it'll be over before we can say what we wanted to say. Before we can leave any final messages.

This was supposedly leaked by a former CNN intern http://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-video-cnn-will-play-when-the-world-...

It was then picked up by BBC (& given a headline to reflect the truth on the announcement, perhaps).  Does CNN really have a video ready for the apocalypse? - BBC

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2015/01/deep-earth-life-excites...

Deep Earth Life Excites Extraterrestrial Life Researchers

Posted on January 3, 2015 in Aliens, Latest posts, NASA 

Earth is commonly associated with green forests, blue oceans and animals that live in both. However, there’s a possibility too that Earth hosts another biosphere. Tiny microbial organisms could be living below the surface. This could also be the same with extraterrestrial life.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, geoscientist Barbara Sherwood Lollar says that deep-Earth life environment could be far vaster than previously thought.

The idea that alien life could also be the same has received a sudden impact with the NASA’s announcement that Mars Curiosity rover had discovered a plume of methane that spiked and then dissipated on the red planet, an indication of microbial life.

Geochemist Lisa Pratt says that the new study and the new NASA’s discovery of the red planet suggest that scientists should begin searching for something that is different than the conventional cellular life, which researchers used to seeing and studying on Earth.

In 2006, Sherwood Lollar and Pratt announced through a Science paper about the discovery of bacteria living deep in a gold mine in South Africa, completely isolated from sunlight. These microbes managed to live deep in Earth by deriving their energy from hydrogen gas produced by water and the surrounding rock reactions. These microbes are estimated to have lived between three million and twenty-five million years.

Just last year, Sherwood Lollar also part of a team that discovered similar environment. They analyzed water in a mine in Timmins, Ontario with similar chemistry to the mine in South Africa. The team estimated that the water found in the Timmins mine was billions of years old. The site is still subject for further study to know if there’s microbial life living in it.

So, scientists and ordinary people are now curious about how many similar places in the planet host life. Furthermore, the possibility of dark life in the red planet provides exciting stuff among scientists and researchers.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/577776/20150102/orange-dwarf-star-so...

Two Orange Dwarf Stars To Reach The Solar System Might Wipe Out Human Race

January 2, 2015 11:38 AM EST

Some would say that the given time frame is truly a long stretch from today. However, the big threat that the phenomena might cause makes the study worth considering as it will have direct effect to future humanity.

European astrophysicist Coryn Bailer-Jones who works at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg,Germany is predicting that around 14 stars might come within the next few million years. The astrophysicist came to this prediction after analysing the computer-simulated orbits of more than 50,000 stars that are nearby. The prediction also says that among the thousands of neighboring stars, there at least two that humanity should worry about, Forbes reports.

Bailer-Jones' study is set to appear in an upcoming issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics journal. According to the study, the possibility of the dwarf stars entering the boundaries of the solar system might potentially disturb the trillions of comets orbiting in the Oort cloud beyond the primary planets. This might send many comets into the inner solar system and has the potential to hit Earth. Apparently, the comets are made of rocks, dust and organic materials.

According to New Scientist's report, the two stars that have 90 percent probability of reaching the solar system the closest are named as Hip 85605 and GL 710. The Hip 85605 might reach the solar system in 0.13 to 0.65 light years away, while the GL 710 might take around 0.32 to 1.44 light years in the next 1.3 million years.

The estimate on the current position of the Hip 85605 and GL 710 is not accurate and could still be wrong. However, the threat posed by the movements of these stars nearing the solar system is not a joke.

Report says that the Earth can be affected in three ways. First, the gravity can attract comets into the inner solar system and the passing comets might harshly affect Earth's atmosphere due to the powerful ultraviolet radiation that the comets might cause. Second, a small number of the alleged stars might explode like supernova while passing through the Oort Cloud. Finally, the study says that the effect of the supernova remnants could cause long-term global cooling. The global cooling was also suspected to have wiped out the dinosaurs in the past and it is possible that's such incident might wipe out the human race millions of years from now.