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In the Sunday Seattle Times I read an article about NASA. Michael Griffin is the new head and he is changing the direction of NASA. He is going to concentrate on going to the Moon again and to Mars.
In the Book of Lists #2 by Irving Wallace, David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace and Sylvia Wallace, a report on the Moon was presented. It was after we had gone there between July 1969 and December 1972. I thought it would be interesting to go over what they found.
11 MOON MYSTERIES UNCOVERED BY THE APOLLO MISSIONS
The historic Apollo voyages rank among the greatest technological feats and exploratory missions humanity has as yet undertaken. Between July 1969, and December 1972 -- a three and a half year period -- 12 astronauts walked on and explored the surface of this alien lunar world, while another six astronauts orbited the moon, studying with sophisticated equipment vast segments of its surface. The dozen astronauts who landed on the moon spent over 300 hours traversing 60 mi. of the lunar surface. Five nuclear-powered scientific stations were set up, which employed sensitive seismometers, heat flow probes, and magnetometers. The astronauts also collected and brought back to earth over 837 LB of carefully selected moon material, mostly rocks and dust. Despite subsequent efforts to study the evidence and data collected -- and though much light has been shed on this mystery world -- scientists still remain in the dark as to the origin and nature of the planetoid. In fact, the more the experts probe, the more mysteries they uncover.
1. THE PUZZLE OF THE MOON'S ORIGIN
Scientists have offered three major theories to account for the moon's existence in our earth's skies. All three are in trouble, but the least likely emerged from Apollo as the foremost candidate. Some scientists thought that the moon might have been born alongside the earth out of the same cosmic cloud of gas and dust about 4.6 billion years ago. Others opined that the moon was the earth's child, ripped out of the Pacific area perhaps. Evidence form the Apollo journeys indicates, however, that the moon and the earth differ greatly in composition. Scientists at the last lunar conferences -- annual rock festivals, NASA scientist Gerald Wasserburg has dubbed them -- favored the so-called "capture" theory. This holds that the moon was accidentally captured in the earth's gravitational field and locked into orbit eons ago. Challengers of this theory point out the immensely difficult celestial mechanics involved in such a capture. Thus all three theories are in serious hot water. NASA scientist Dr. Robin Brett sums it up: "It seems much easier to explain the nonexistence of the moon than its existence."
2. THE PUZZLE OF THE MOON'S AGE
Amazingly, over 99% of the moon rocks brought back turned out upon analysis to be older than 90% of the most ancient rocks found on the earth. The very first rock that Neil Armstrong picked up after landing on the Sea of Tranquillity turned out to be more than 3.6 billion years old, while the oldest earth rocks are approximately 4.5, and even 4.6 billion years old -- about the age of the earth and its solar system. At the Lunar Conference of 1973, one lunar rock was alleged to be 5.3 billion years old. The most puzzling aspect is that most of these were taken from areas that scientists thought were the youngest surfaces of the moon. Based on such evidence, some lunar scientists have concluded that the moon was formed among the stars long before our sun was born.
3. THE PUZZLE OF HOW MOON SOIL COULD BE OLDER THAN LUNAR ROCKS
The perplexing age of the moon is highlighted by an even more puzzling conundrum. Rocks taken from the Sea of Tranquillity, where the US astronauts first landed, were young compared to the soil on which they rested. Upon analysis, this proved to be at least a billion years older. This would appear to be impossible, since the soil was presumably the powdered remains of the rocks lying alongside it. However, chemical analysis of the rocks revealed that the lunar soil did not come from the rocks but from somewhere else.
4. THE PUZZLE OF WHY THE MOON "RINGS" LIKE A HOLLOW SPHERE WHEN A LARGE OBJECT HITS IT
During the Apollo expeditions, ascent stages of lunar modules and spent third stages of rockets crashed on the hard surface of the moon. Every time, these caused the moon, as NASA documents state, to "ring like a hung gong or bell." On the Apollo 12 flights, reverberations lasted from nearly an hour to as much as four hours. So far no scientist has adequately explained this bizarre lunar behavior.
5. THE PUZZLE OF THE MYSTIFYING MARIA OF THE MOON
The strange dark circular areas of the moon (maria), some of which form the "man in the moon" for viewers standing on the earth, are puzzlingly located almost entirely on one side of the moon. When lunar missions landed on these peculiar dark plain like areas, astronauts found it extremely difficult to drill into the lunar surface. Soil samples are loaded with rare rough metals like titanium (used in supersonic jets and spaceships), along with such rare metallic elements as zirconium, yttrium, and beryllium. Scientists were dumbfounded, because these elements require tremendous heat -- about 4,500 F -- to melt and fuse with surrounding rock.
6. THE PUZZLE OF THE RUSTPROOF PURE IRON FOUND ON THE MOON
Lunar samples brought back to the earth by both American and Soviet space probes contain pure iron particles, Scientists have concluded that the iron did not come from meteorites. Soviet remote-controlled lunar probe Zond 20 brought back tiny samples in which such pure iron particles were discovered, and TASS announced recently that they have not oxidized even after several years on earth. Pure iron particles that do not rust are unheard of in the scientific world.
7. THE PUZZLE OF THE MOON'S HIGH RADIO ACTIVITY
The upper 8 mi. of the moon's crust are surprisingly radioactive. When Apollo 15 astronauts used thermal equipment, they got unusually high readings, which indicated that the heat flow near the Apennine Mountains was hot indeed. In fact, one lunar expert confessed: "When we saw that we said, 'My God, this place is about to melt! The core must be very hot.'" But that is the puzzle. The core is not "very" hot. However, the amount of radioactive materials on the surface is not only "embarrassingly high" but, considering the relatively cold interior, difficult to account for. Where did all this hot radioactive material (uranium, thorium, and potassium) come from? And if it came from the interior, how did it get to the moon's surface?
8. THE PUZZLE OF THE IMMENSE CLOUDS OF WATER VAPOR ON A DRY MOON
The first few lunar excursions indicated that the moon was an extremely dry world. In fact, one lunar expert concluded that it was "a million times as dry as the Gobi Desert." The early Apollo expeditions did not find even the slightest trace of water. But after Apollo 15, the lunar experts were rocked back on their collective heels when a cloud of water vapor more than 100 sq. mi. in size was detected on the moon's surface. Red-faced scientists suggested that two tiny tanks, abandoned on the moon by US astronauts, had somehow ruptured. But the tanks could not have produced a cloud of such magnitude. Nor would the astronauts' urine, which had been dumped into the lunar skies, be an answer. The water vapor appears to have come from the moon's interior.
9. THE PUZZLE OF THE GLASSY SURFACE ON THE MOON
Lunar explorations have revealed that much of the moon's surface is covered with a glassy glaze, which indicates that the moon's hide has been scorched by an unknown source of intense heat. As one scientist put it, the moon is "paved with glass." The experts' analysis shows this did not result from massive meteor impactings. Some feel that an intense solar outburst, a kind of mininova, might have been responsible.
10. THE PUZZLE OF THE MOON'S STRANGE MAGNETISM
Early lunar tests and studies indicated that the moon had little or no magnetic field. Then lunar rocks proved upon analysis to be strongly magnetized. This shocked scientists, who had assumed that the moon had always been without a magnetic field. As the late Dr. Paul Gast of NASA observed, these rocks had "some very strange magnetic properties... which were not expected." If the moon did actually have a magnetic field at one time, then it must have possessed a big iron core, but equally valid data and evidence show that such a huge hot core could not have existed inside the moon. Neither could the moon very well have picked up the magnetism from the magnetic field of another body like the earth. In order to do so, the moon would have had to approach so close that it would have been torn apart by the gravitational pull.
11. THE PUZZLE OF THE MYSTERIOUS "MASCONS" INSIDE THE MOON
In 1968, tracking data of the lunar orbiters first indicated that massive concentrations (mascons) existed under the surface of the circular maria. In fact, the gravitational pull caused by them was so pronounced that the spacecraft passing overhead dipped slightly and accelerated when flitting by the circular lunar plains, thus revealing the existence of these hidden structures. Scientists have calculated that they are enormous concentrations of dense, heavy matter centered like a bull's-eye under the circular maria. As one scientist put it: "No one seems to know quite what to do with them."
"Thank you Neil for sending this interesting article in to be included on the blog. The only thing it didn't say was that the astronauts saw "alien vehicles" on the moon watching them.
Once again the International UFO Congress -- "the Guinness World Record holding largest UFO convention" -- is upon us, and once again I am not able to attend. But it's ok, because I'm pretty sure the lineup will be the same next year...
As I was looking over the schedule today one session coming up this Saturday caught my eye:
"1:00 - 2:15 PM: JEREMY CORBELL - THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE"I thought that was pretty cool because The Invisible College is a fascinating topic to me. It came about in the early 1960s, when Northwestern University Astronomy Professor and Project Blue Book scientific consultant Dr. J. Allen Hynek was able to slowly and stealthily gather together a group of scientists who were interested in studying the UFO phenomenon, even it meant doing it in secret... In 1975 one of the ICers, Dr. Jacques Vallee, wrote "The Invisible College," about his adventures with this group of thinkers, and it remains one of the best, most readable UFO books out there.
How cool, I thought, that the UFO Congress is going to devote some time to this fascinating chapter in UFO history! It's about time someone paid homage to this group of courageous pioneers.
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The Invisible Man got his degree from The Invisible College"
Then I read the bio of the presenter, Jeremy Corbell, and the overview of his Saturday session, and I got confused. Aside from a single, virtually context-free mention of Dr. Vallee's name, there is really nothing there that sounds at all like The Invisible College.
"In this multi-media presentation, Corbell will seek to weaponize your curiosity and provide a blueprint for dismantling the Immaculate Deception imposed by the irrational mind and blind faith of the resolved believer, and the skeptic alike. You will experience never before screened footage from a number of Corbell's upcoming films, and explore the shadowy and mysterious hallways that compose what Jacques Vallee called, The Invisible College."I'm not sure what shadowy and mysterious hallways he's talking about here. You see, The Invisible College wasn't a "college "college, with buildings and lecture halls and classrooms and desks and dorms... It was a bunch of scientists -- about a hundred of them in five or six countries, according to Vallee -- who corresponded and had conference calls and gathered in Hynek's house whenever a few of them could manage to get to Evanston. At least the presenter didn't make the all-too-common mistake of thinking that Hynek, Vallee and their colleagues had perfected an invisibility device. I believe that was part of the original plan, but they never even came close to making it work, and they didn't want to call themselves The Translucent College.
So, in the end I'm not feeling too bad about missing this. Still, I kind of like the idea of this guy "weaponizing my curiosity", even if it makes him sound just a little scary...
Reference: lights-in-sky.blogspot.com
14 January 2010
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NEW MASS UFO SIGHTING SENDS CHINESE MEDIA INTO FRENZY, PHOTOS
In China the UFO mega-events are continuing unabated and the last few weeks have been extra-ordinary for that nation's UFO community.
A new mass UFO sighting by millions of witnesses that occurred on January 11 has sent the Chinese media into a frenzy. This event occurred in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang and was seen over a very wide area. Photos have come to light (see below) and film footage is expected to surface.
Witnesses to the event described the sudden appearance of what at first looked like star which shortly turned red before turning green and morphing into an enormous traditional flying saucer shaped object.The UFO was then described as rotating, turning blue and vanishing.
Some witnesses claimed to have seen the UFO land on a mountain before shooting off in an easterly direction. Other witnesses described the UFO initially shrouded in white mist.
Many eyewitness reports have already been collected and can be read in the sources below. The local Astronomy station has declared the object to have been space-junk. Many witnesses however believe that what they saw might have been extraterrestrial in origin.
found at AllNews web written by michale cohen
So... Over the past several months I've been doing some pretty intense work on my book about the career of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, and it's time to talk about what I've been up to. Think of it as my early Christmas present to you.
It was suggested to me over the summer by a knowledgeable person that the opening chapters of the book were not "lively" enough. I rejected this assessment at first, but after giving it some thought I realized that it was in fact spot-on. The book's opening was flat and inert; it presented the right ideas, yes, but did so in a very static way. For some reason, I had been afraid to flex my writing muscles, and that is not the way you want to start a book.
About that same time, seemingly by coincidence, I decided to pay a visit to the beautiful Yerkes Observatory, which is located about a half-hour from where I live and also happens to be where Dr. Hynek earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics in the early 1930s. Before I knew it, strange discoveries started to pop up left and right. I met interesting people who knew fascinating stories about Hynek, and then I found other people to corroborate the stories. Then I scored an interview with Dr. Hynek's son, who was able to fill in countless details of his father's life. As I studied that period in Yerkes' history and in Hynek's life, an amazing over-arching narrative started to take shape, and I realized that I had the key to a "lively" opening to the book staring me right in the face...
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That's my man, Hynek!"
And so I embarked upon months of rewriting... And now, armed with a really kick-ass opening to the book, and the guidance of a new friend and mentor who knows his way around the publishing world like no one I have ever met (and who I strongly suspect is a human-alien hybrid), I am ready to take my new and improved book to market. To that end I've written a query letter that I'll be sending out to literary agents over the coming weeks, and I've decided to present some edited excerpts from the letter here for your enjoyment. I'll tell you right now that there aren't any spoilers in the letter, but there area few hints here and there...
And, yes, it is a lot of bragging, but that's how you sell a book, folks!
Enjoy!
Science and mysticism, for all their mutual distrust, spring from the same human desire to understand the universe. In recent times, only one scientist of note has embraced this fact, and has been able to walk both sides of this divide with confidence.
Astronomer J. Allen Hynek (1910-1986) never wanted to be involved in the UFO phenomenon; he was a self-described "innocent bystander" when the US Air Force needed a credible scientist to explain away the baffling UFO sightings sweeping the nation in 1947, but he was in truth the only man for the job.
"20 Percent: The unexplained UFO encounters that defined the career of Dr. J. Allen Hynek" is the authorized account of Dr. Hynek's tumultuous dual career as a professional astronomer and a celebrity UFO hunter. My narrative non-fiction book-named after the 20 percent of UFO sightings that remain to this day completely unexplainable-follows along on Hynek's long stint as official debunker for the Air Force's "Project Blue Book, and recounts his dramatic transformation from UFO skeptic to lonely advocate for scientific study of the phenomenon to internationally-revered UFO expert and developer of the iconic "Close Encounters" classification system.
And there's the mysticism, an aspect of Hynek's life that has until now gone unexamined. With input from Hynek's family and closest colleagues, "20 Percent" explores his open flirtation in later years with paranormal, metaphysical explanations for the UFO phenomenon. As more and more people believed that the truth was out there, Hynek wondered more and more what "out there" really meant... I come to this project as the writer of one of the "Top 100 "Star Trek "Episodes of All Time," as ranked by Hugo award-winning science fiction author Charlie Jane Anders on io9.com (my "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode "Who Mourns for Morn?" came in at #72), and my platform grows from there. On the basis of my "Star Trek" work and my popular UFO blog www.highstrangenessufo.com, I formed an association with the Dr. J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies and began plans to chronicle Hynek's remarkable career. "20 Percent" will challenge the myths and misinformation-including stories of his infamous "swamp gas" debacle-that make Hynek a divisive figure even now, nearly 30 years after his death. It will be a must-read for UFO devotees and skeptics alike, and will add immeasurably to the world's understanding of a phenomenon that is as culturally pervasive as it has ever been.Would you read such a book? If so, how much would you pay for such a book? Because, I'm telling you, it may be the best UFO book of all time.
By James Carrion
Follow The Magic Thread
10-10-09
Editor's Note: The Romanek's were offered the opportunity to present a rebuttal to Mr. Carrion's previous OPED found here, and the same proffer is attached in this instance-FW
Stan Romanek recently took his story to the air waves on the Angela Joiner report to explain why the word fallow always seem to be showing up in documents related to his alleged claims of alien abduction and government conspiracy. Blogger Chuck Zukowski recently posted an article supporting Stan's claims that the word "fallow" was a commonly misspelled word and was not evidence of any impropriety in his case. Well, I guess every word in the English language is mangled and misspelled to one extent or the other, but that is not what makes this misspelled word a GIANT, IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE, red flag in the Romanek case. Let me spell out the problem in plain English.
* The word fallow shows up in Stan's original UFO reports to the National UFO Reporting Center.
* The word fallow shows up in the UFO report to the National UFO Reporting Center by a 3rd party witness that allegedly had no relationship to Stan Romanek but corroborates one of his sightings.
* The word fallow shows up in an alleged Air Force document that Stan mysteriously received in his mailbox, subject "Project Romanek".
* The word fallow shows up on the Jeff Rense website in an online posting by alleged physicist John Mannon who supports Stan's story.
* The word fallow shows up on the Above TopSecret.com website in a posting by another alleged physicist (TommyBoy) who supports Stan's claims.
The fact that the word fallow got mispelled in any single document or online posting is not the issue but that the mispelled word shows up in so many third party documents supporting Stan's claims -third parties that allegedly have no relationship or connection with Stan. What are the odds that all of these third parties mispelled this same word (in documents supportive of Stan), is due to chance? The Romanek's don't want you to mull this over using critical thinking but would rather try to refocus your attention on the word fallow being a commonly mispelled word. I don't buy their argument and I continue to consider it a red flag until one or more of these third parties come forward and prove themselves to be real people. Will the real John Mannon please step up? Not by posting again to the anonymous Internet but showing some ID in person so you can be verified to be a real physicist.
Now I have said it before and I will say it again, if the Romaneks want to prove their claims, then they should release ALL of their alleged video and photo evidence for the world and independent researchers to examine and analyze. Instead they have tried to paint that I am on some sort of personal vendetta to discredit their claims. Taking their claims to the airwaves and the blogs with "I don't know how that word got there" and "it is really no big deal" counter arguments is not going to settle this matter. Neither is trying to portray this as MUFON vs Romanek or Carrion vs Romanek.
So critical thinkers, put on your thinking caps and weigh the evidence, and if you are a statistician, take it a step further and calculate the odds. Are you fallowing me here?
* Special Thanks To James Carrion
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AUGUST 09, 2013 - UNITED STATES - Today we're venturing into the realm of the unexplained.
That's the best term to describe what Jeremy White and two cohorts saw early in the morning sky on July 29 down in Pulaski County. It was a UFO, White told me.
File photo.
By that he doesn't necessarily mean it was flying saucer, or an alien spacecraft. But it sure as heck was weird.
White, 37, is a property manager for a residential landlord in Montgomery County. I've met the guy. He's intelligent, self-deprecating, a rationalist and he doesn't strike me as any kind of kook. He works unusual hours. He relaxes at unusual hours, too.
That explains why he and two pals were cruising through the Snowville area in a car at 1 a.m. on a Monday morning. It's a few miles southeast of Claytor Lake in Pulaski County.
They saw it along Simpkinstown Road near the entrance to Camp Ottari, a large Boy Scouts compound, in a clearing where the camp access road begins. At first, it looked like a brighter-than-normal star or planet; a little bit above the horizon. The entire event took about seven minutes.
"After about 20 seconds, we rounded a bend and there it was, much closer and brighter. It was now a yellow-orange color and seemed to be moving in our general direction. I stopped the car, killed the engine and sat out on the window sill to listen.
"The object moved almost directly over us, somewhat slowly and had changed color again to a deep orange. Even though it appeared to be less than a few thousand feet above the ground, we never heard a sound. I also couldn't actually see a solid object - only the light itself."
White has seen unexplained lights in the sky before, even ones that changed color. But he's never seen what happened next.
"The object stopped moving, changed color to a deep, almost crimson red, split into two separate objects and began moving away from both us (in the same direction it had been traveling) and each other (in a V shape).
"When they had both gotten about 20 degrees above the opposite horizon and what looked like several miles apart, they suddenly zipped out of sight along their then-current trajectories."
A reminder: White's only saying he saw something he cannot explain.
This week I spoke to him about the experience.
He said he was sober as a preacher at a Temperance Union rally. He acknowledged that military flights happen over that area all the time.
After the lights disappeared, he interviewed his companions about what they saw.
"We all saw the same thing," he said. "It was just that bizarre."
I forwarded White's full account - on my blog at http://tinyurl.com/l7cm5ar - to John Goss, this newspaper's astronomy columnist.
It could not have been Venus, Jupiter or Sirius, Goss noted, because all those are below the horizon at 1 a.m. Other factors ruled out meteors or satellites, he added.
"Without more details, I can't say for sure what it was," Goss wrote. But he suggested an explanation: "A military aircraft that could separate into two sections." Specifically, a plane and tanker refueling midflight.
"After the fuel has been dispensed, the two aircraft split. As they depart, the back side of their engines would have been seen, helping to explain the orange glow.
"If it was not a refueling aircraft combination, it still could have been a special modified military plane on a test mission of some sort," Goss said.
That still wouldn't explain why Jeremy White and his pals heard nothing.
He's not alone. Lots of people have such experiences. I did, once, when I was hiking with my wife on Roanoke Mountain. My blog fielded more than a dozen accounts of strange sightings in the sky after I posted White's account.
As Goss noted: "Mysteries are fun, and only remain so until they are explained." - ROANOKE.
