Archive for September 2nd, 2011
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WikiLeaks publishes all its US State Department cables
Hamilton Spectator LONDON WikiLeaks disclosed its entire archive of US State Department cables Friday, much, if not all, of it uncensored — a move that drew stinging condemnation from major newspapers which in the past collaborated with the antisecrecy group's efforts to … |
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Defendants in PayPal attack plead not guilty
KPSP Local 2 The 14 are accused of disrupting PayPal's computer servers last year in retaliation for the online pay service's decision to cut off the accounts of WikiLeaks . The disruption blocked people from using their PayPal accounts. PayPal suspended WikiLeaks' … |
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A few recent cases:
On August 26, 2011, at about 8:30 pm (“in the afternoon”?) some UBC students were driving in Vancouver when they saw a glowing orange/red object over Burrard Inlet. They didn’t think it was a plane, but it “floated” up and out of sight over Grouse Mountain. they saw two other similar lights as they watched the sky for several minutes at the first one disappeared. (UFO Clearinghouse)
On August 30, 2011, during the evening over Geary, NB, a Canadian Army witness and his wife saw a “bright light travelling across the sky, with no sound or strobing lights like most aircraft.”
As for an old case, I found in the National Archives files a report from October 5, 1970. At about 5:10 am local, radar control operators at Shearwater, NS, had been hearing radio reports of UFOs seen in the area. They were surprised to find a “good radar return” of a stationary object southeast of their position. their “precision radar” painted the UFO at 2500 feet and was observed for 10 minutes. Why did the observation end? Because “the controller discontinued surveillance to prepare for an aircraft recovery,” and he also “did not take his sighting seriously.” Yes, the military radar operator detected an unidentified target but didn’t think it was worth bothering about. Only after he heard about “similar sightings” on commercial civilian radio did he file his official report.
Beyond the radar operator’s personal view, a note at the bottom of the official report notes: “A barium rocket was fired from a rocket range in W. Virginia on Oct. 5/70 at 09:00Z.” Thus, according to the NRC, the radar return was unexplained.
Except that a barium cloud 150 miles up in the atmosphere wouldn’t give a “good radar return” of 2500 feet. Visually, sure, that would explain the UFOs, but not the radar observation, unless we assume that a “precision” instrument that routinely vectored military aircraft safely could be so badly miscalibrated or misread.
Apollo 18 movie poster (credit: Weinstein Company)
The movie Apollo 18 tells the story of what “really” happened to the eighteenth Apollo mission. And while the film’s makers are calling it a “documentary” to create the illusion of reality, NASA is worried that viewers might accept the movie as fact.
Bert Ulrich, NASA’s liaison for multimedia, film, and television collaborations, recently told the Los Angeles Times, “The film is a work of fiction, and we always knew that. We were minimally involved with this picture. We never even saw a rough cut. The idea of portraying the Apollo 18 mission as authentic is simply a marketing ploy. Perhaps a bit of a ‘Blair Witch Project’ strategy to generate hype.”
It’s strange that NASA feels the need to go on the defensive here. The NASA response is clearly a result of The Weinstein Company’s (the team behind Apollo 18) marketing efforts, which have included using UFO researcher Stanton Friedman as a publicity figure for the film. Friedman has made a number of appearances to lend his opinion about whether or not the real Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 missions were truly scrapped, including an August 15 appearance on MSNBC‘s Dylan Ratigan Show. Space.com reports that, in press materials for the movie, Friedman is quoted as saying, “People ask why was there no Apollo 18 mission . . . I ask, what happened to Apollo 18 and Apollo 19? They were both paid for and astronauts were trained. What happened to these missions?”
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And while NASA is urging moviegoers to ignore the claims of reality by the filmmakers, the Los Angeles Times points out, “NASA realizes that keeping the public interested in the extraterrestrial is critical to its future.” Ulrich explained, “It’s a wonderful way to reach the public through these huge media means like feature films and television shows, and it can inspire people in an interesting way, and it also can instruct people about what space exploration is all about.”
Factual or fantasy, Apollo 18 opens in theaters today.
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Exorcism vs. Spiritual Healing and Entity Detachment (The God-like Powers of the Human Mind)
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Dear Lewis, the other day I saw a UFO…
New Scientist (blog) They tend to include explanations of the nature of UFOs, the writer's own unified theories on the origins of life or descriptions of instruments that could image life forms from distant worlds. I make a point of politely replying to every such … |
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UN concerned about Ivory Coast abuse allegations
San Francisco Examiner A United States Embassy cable from January 2010 and recently released by WikiLeaks revealed that Beninese peacekeepers in Ivory Coast enticed underage girls in a poor part of the West African nation to exchange sex for food as recently as December … |
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Uncanny androids and a quest for truth
New Scientist (blog) Karl, our 82-year-old host in the tent, even went so far as to suggest that the plans for the Repulsine, confiscated by the US after the war, might be linked to Area 51 and UFO sightings. The combination of fictions, facts and half-truths raised … |
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- UFO spotted over Woosehill – The Workingham Times
- UFOs invade Chinese internet – Asian Correspondent
- The UFO videos that are all the buzz in China – The Observers
- Contact: UFO, past-life hypnotherapist to speak – The Huntsville Times
- Alien Life More Likely on ‘Dune’ Planets, Study Suggests – Space.com
