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9 JUNE 1959 PROJECT HORIZON REPORT
A U. S. ARMY STUDY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF
A LUNAR OUTPOST
(TRANSMITTAL LETTER)
SECRET
CRD/1 (S) Proposal to Establish a Lunar Outpost ( C )
Chief of Ordnance CRD 20 Mar 1959
1. (U) Reference letter to Chief of Ordnance from Chief of Research and Development, subject as above.
2. © Subsequent to approval by the Chief of Staff of reference, representatives of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency indicated that supplementary guidance would be required concerning the scope of the preliminary investigation specified in the reference. In particular these representatives requested guidance concerning the source of funds required to conduct the investigation.
3. (S) I envision expeditious development of the proposal to establish a lunar outpost to be of critical importance to the U. S. Army of the future. This evaluation is apparently shared by the Chief of Staff in view of his expeditious approval and enthusiastic endorsement of initiation of the study. Therefore, the detail to be covered by the investigation and the subsequent plan should be as complete as is feasible in the time limits allowed and within the funds currently available within the office of the Chief of Ordnance. In this time of limited budget, additional monies are unavailable. Current programs have been scrutinised rigidly and identifiable "fat" trimmed away. Thus high study costs are prohibitive at this time.
4. © I leave it to your discretion to determine the source and the amount of money to be devoted to this purpose.
No contacts with agencies outside the Army will be made until after the results of the preliminary investigation have been presented to the Department of the Defense. The findings of the initial investigation will be made through my office to the Chief of Staff. No additional distribution will be made and no public release will be made concerning this project. Because of the sensitive aspects of this proposal it is essential that this project not be disclosed prematurely;
5. Your plan of accomplishment should include full utilisation of the other technical services and combat arms to the extent feasible and necessary. In the accomplishment of this investigation the Chief of Engineers all be responsible for the design, constriction, and maintenance of the base and the Chief Signal Officer will be responsible for communications and other support for which he is peculiarly qualified. Specific emphasis should be given to the Army-wide capability to contribute to this project. The results of this preliminary investigation are requested by 15 May 1959.
6. Reproductions of this letter to the extent you deem essential is authorised. All copies will be recorded.
Signed
ARTHUR G. TRUDEAU
Lieutenant General, GS
Chief of Research and Development

Requirement for a Lunar Outpost 1. General.
There is a requirement for a manned military outpost on the moon. The lunar outpost is required to develop and protect potential United States interests on the moon; to develop techniques in moon-based surveillance of the earth and space, in communications relay, and in operations on the surface of the moon; to serve as a base for exploration of the moon, for further exploration into space and for military operations on the moon if required; and to support scientific investigations on the moon.
2. Operational Concept.
Initially the outpost will be of sufficient size and contain sufficient equipment to permit the survival and moderate constructive activity of a minimum number of porsonne1 (about 10 - 20) on a sustained basis. It must be designed for expansion of facilities, resupply, and rotation of personnel to ensure maximum extension of sustained occupancy. It should be designed to be self-sufficient for as long as possible without outside support. In the location and design of the base, consideration will be given to operation of a triangulation station of a moon-to-earth base line space surveillance system, facilitating communications with and observation of the earth, facilitating travel between the moon and the earth, exploration of the moon and further explorations of space, and to the defence of the base against attack if required. The primary objective is to establish the first permanent manned installation on the moon. Incidental to this mission drill be the investigation of the scientific, commercial, and military potential of the moon.
3. Background of Requirement.
a. References:

NSC policy on outer space.
OCB Operations Plan on Outer Space.
b. Reason for Requirement.

The national policy on outer space includes the objective of development and exploiting US outer space capabilities as needed to achieve scientific, military, and potential purposes. The OCB Operations Plan to implement this policy establishes a specific program to obtain scientific data on space environment out to the vicinity of the moon, including the moon's gravitational and magnetic fields and to explore the characteristics of the moon's surface. There are no known technica1 barriers to the establishment of a manned installation on the moon.
The establishment of a manned base of operations on the moon has tremendous military and scientific potential. Because invaluable scientific, military, and political prestige will come to the nation that first establishes a lunar base, it is imperative that the United States be first.
The full extent of the military potential cannot be predicted, but it is probable that observation of the earth and space vehicles from the moon will prove to be highly advantageous. By using a moon-to- earth base line, space surveillance by triangulation promises great range and accuracy. The presently contemplated earth-based tracking., and control network will be inadequate for the deep space operations contemplated. Military communications may be greatly improved by the use of a moon-based relay station. The employment of moon-based weapons systems against earth or space targets may prove to be feasible and desirable. Moon-based military power will be a strong deterrent to war because of the extreme difficulty, from the enemy point of view, of eliminating our ability to retaliate. Any military operations on the moon will be difficult to counter by the enemy because of the difficulty of his reaching the moon, if our forces arc already present and have means of countering a landing or of neutralising any hostile forces that have landed. The situation is reversed if hostile forces are permitted to arrive first. They can militarily counter our landings and attempt to deny us politically the use of their property.
The scientific advantages are equally difficult to predict but are highly promising. Study of the universe, of the moon, and of the space environment will all be aided by scientific effort on the moon. Perhaps the most promising scientific advantage is the usefulness of a moon base for further explorations into space. Materials on the moon itself may prove to be valuable and commercially exploitable.
4. Organisational Concept.
The establishment of the outpost should be a special project having authority and priority similar to the Manhattan Project in World War II. Once established, the lunar base will be operated under the control of a unified space command. Space, or certainly that portion of outer space encompassing the earth and the moon, will be considered a military theatre. The control of all United States military forces by unified commands is already established and military operations in space should be no exception. A unified space command should control and utilise, besides the lunar base, operationa1 military satellites and space vehicles, space surveillance systems, and the logistical support thereof. Other space commands might be organised as our operations extended to translunar space.
5. Degree of Urgency.
To be second to the Soviet Union in establishing an outpost on the moon would be disastrous to our nation's prestige and in turn to our democratic philosophy. Although it is contrary to United States policy, the Soviet Union in establishing the first permanent base, may claim the moon or critical areas thereof for its own. Then a subsequent attempt to establish an outpost by the United States might be considered and propagandised as a hostile act. The Soviet Union in propaganda broadcasts has announced the 50th anniversary of the present government (1967) will be celebrated by Soviet citizens on the moon. The National Space policy intelligence estimate is that the Soviets could land on the moon by 1968.
6. Maintenance and Supply Implications.
The maintenance and supply effort to support a lunar base will be high by present standards. Continued delivery of equipment and means of survival will be required and each delivery will be costly. Every conceivable solution for minimising the logistic effort must be explored. Maximum use of any oxygen or power source on the moon through regenerative or other techniques must be exploited. Means of returning safely to earth must be available to the occupants of the outpost.
7. Training and Personnel Implications.
The number of personnel on the base itself trill be quite small, at least initially, but the total number of personnel supporting the effort may be quite large. Until further study is made a realistic qualitative and quantitative personnel estimate cannot be provided. The training requirements of earth-based support personnel would resemble those of personnel in long range ballistic missile units and radar tracking systems. For the relatively small number of personnel actually transported to the moon base training requirements would be exacting in many fields.
8. Additional Items and Requirements.
A complete family of requirements and supporting research and development projects will be necessary to develop all of the supporting equipment to establish a lunar base. Very high thrust boosters, space vehicles, intermediate space stations, space dwellings, clothing and consumable supplies will have to be developed.

VOLUME I SUMMARY AND SUPPORTING CONSIDERATIONS (U)
9 JUNE 1959
PROJECT HORIZON REPORT
A U. S. ARMY STUDY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF
A LUNAR OUTPOST
(S) CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
A. GENERAL
HORIZON is the project whose objective is the establishment of a lunar outpost by the United States. This study was directed by letter dated 20 March 1959, from the Chief of R&D, Department of the Army, to the Chief of Ordnance. Responsibility for the preparation of the study was subsequently assigned to the Commanding General, Army Ordnance Missile Command. Elements of all Technical Services of the Army participated in the investigation. This report is a limited feasibility study which investigates the methods and means of accomplishing this objective and the purposes it will serve. It also considers the substantial political, scientific and security implications which the prompt establishment of a lunar outpost will have for the United States.
B. JUSTIFICATION
1. The Broad Requirement
The US national policy on space includes the objective of developing and exploiting this nation's space capability as necessary to achieve national political, scientific, and security objectives. The establishment of a manned outpost in the lunar environment will demonstrate United States leadership in space. It will also provide a basis for further explorations and operations on the lunar surface as well as a supporting capability for other US operations in space.
2. Purpose of the Lunar Outpost
The establishment of a manned US outpost on the moon will:
Demonstrate the United States scientific leadership in outer space
Support scientific explorations and investigations.
Extend and improve space reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities and control of space.
Extend and improve communications and serve as a communications relay station.
Provide a basic and supporting research laboratory for space research and development activity.
Develop a stable, low-gravity outpost for use as a launch site for deep space exploration.
Provide an opportunity for scientific exploration and development of a space mapping and survey system.
Provide an emergency staging area, rescue capability or navigational aid for other space activity.
3. A Realistic Objective
Advances in propulsion, electronics, space medicine and other astronautical sciences are taking place at an explosive rate. As recently as 1949, the first penetration of space war accomplished by the US when a two-stage V-2 rocket reached the then unbelievable altitude of 250 miles. In 1957, the Soviet Union placed the first man-made satellite in orbit. Since early l958, when the first US earth satellite was launched, both the US and USSR have launched additional satellites, moon probes, and successfully recovered animals sent into space in missiles. In 1960, and thereafter, there will be other deep space probes by the US and the USSR, with the US planning to place the first man into space with a REDSTONE missile, followed in 1961 with the first man in orbit. However, the Soviets could very well place a man in space before we do. In addition, instrumented lunar landings probably will be accomplished by 1964 by both the United States and the USSR. As will be indicated in the technical discussions of this report, the first US manned lunar landing could be accomplished by 1965. Thus, it appears that the establishment of an outpost on the moon is a capability which can be accomplished.
4. Scientific Implications
A wealth of scientific data can be obtained from experiments conducted at a lunar outpost. Without doubt, the scientific community will generate many new and unique applications as man's actual arrival on the moon draws nearer reality. The very absence of knowledge about the moon and outer space is scientific justification to attempt to breach this void of human understanding.
It is to be expected that civilian efforts to advance science for the sake of science will parallel the military efforts. It is also expected that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will treat those subjects in greater detail than is either possible or desirable in this study, and that such action will further strengthen the requirement for the earliest possible establishment of an extraterrestrial outpost.
5. Political Implications
The political implications of our failure to be first in space are a matter of public record. This failure has reflected adversely on United States scientific and political leadership. To some extent we have recovered the loss. However, once having been second best in the eyes of the world's population, we are not now in a position to afford being second on any other major step in space. However, the political implications of being second in space activities accomplished to date have not been nearly as serious as those which could result from failure to be the first in establishing a manned lunar outpost.
The results of failure to first place man on an extra-terrestrial base will raise grave political questions and at the same time lower US prestige and influence. The Soviet Union has announced openly its intention that some of its citizens will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution (1967) on the moon. The US intelligence community agrees that the Soviet Union may accomplish a manned lunar landing at any time after 1965. Judging from past experience, it is not difficult to visualise all manner of political and legal implications which the Soviet Union might postulate as a result of such a successful accomplishment nor the military advantages it might achieve thereby.
6. Security Implications
The extent to which future operations might be conducted in space, to include the land mass of the moon or perhaps other planets, is of such a magnitude as to almost defy the imagination. In both Congressional and military examination of the problem, it is generally agreed that the interactions of space and terrestrial war are so great as to generate radically new concepts.
Admittedly, the security significance of the moon, per se, in the context of offensive and defensive operations, is a matter for conjecture at this time. From the viewpoint of national security, the primary implications of the feasibility of establishing a lunar outpost is the importance of being first. Clearly the US would not be in a position to exercise an option between peaceful and military applications unless we are first. In short, the establishment of the initial lunar outpost is the first definitive step in exercising our options.
7. Summary
Unquestionably, there are other applications of space (i. E. reconnaissance, meteorology, communications) which will permit an earlier attainment of meaningful accomplishments and demonstrate US interest in space. Individually, however, these accomplishments will not have the same political impact that a manned lunar outpost could have on the world. In the still vague body of fact and thought on the subject, world opinion may view the other applications similar to action on the high seas, but will view the establishment of a first lunar outpost as similar to proprietary rights derived from first occupancy. As the Congress has noted, we are caught in a stream in which we have no choice but to proceed. Our success depends on the decisiveness with which we exercise our current options. The lunar outpost is the most immediate case. It is the basis for other more far-reaching actions, such as further interplanetary exploration.
C. CONCLUSIONS
Four major conclusions summarise the more detailed deductions which may be drawn from the entire report:
Political, scientific, and security considerations indicate that it is imperative for the United States to establish a lunar outpost at the earliest practicable date.
Project HORIZON represents the earliest feasible capability for the U. S. to establish a lunar outpost. By its implementation, the United States can establish an operational lunar outpost by late 1966, with the initial manned landings to have taken place in the spring of 1965.
The importance of an early decision to proceed with the program. Coupled with adequate funding, must be clearly understood Inordinate delay will have two inescapable results:
The program's ultimate accomplishment will be delayed, thus forfeiting the change of defeating the USSR in a race which is already openly recognised as such throughout the world.
Delayed initiation, followed later by a crash program, which would likely be precipitated by evidence of substantial Soviet progress in a lunar outpost program, will not only lose the advantage of timeliness but also will inevitably involve significantly higher costs and lower reliability. The establishment of a U. S. lunar outpost will require very substantial funding whether it is undertaken now or ten years hence. There are no developments projected for the predictable future which will provide order of magnitude type price reductions.
The U. S. Army possesses the capability of making significant contributions in all aspects of such a program.
D. ORGANIZATION AND CONTENT OF THE REPORT
The Project HORIZON report has been divided into two volumes, which are entitled as follows:
Volume I - Summary and Supporting Considerations
Volume II - Technical Considerations and Plans.
Volume I is, as indicated, a document which gives a short summary of the other volume, a discussion of non-technical considerations, and a resume of the resources and facilities of the Army Technical Services which can lend support to this program.
Volume II is a technical investigation of the problem. It includes practical preliminary concepts for all elements of the program and. In many cases, relates actual hardware available from current programs to the solution of specific problems. It includes a broad development approach and a funding breakout by fiscal year. Also included are personnel and training requirements for all segments of the operation together with the policy of the US with respect to space and the legal implication of a lunar outpost. This volume was prepared by a unique working group, comprised of a special segment of the Future Projects Design Branch of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), which was augmented by highly qualified representatives of each of the eleven Technical Services of the Army. These representatives were carefully selected for the specific task and, during the course of the study, became resident members of the aforementioned ABMA group. The resident representatives or the Technical Services were supported by their respective services with a group of the highest calibre specialists who were made available exclusively to support the project. Thus, it is believed that the depth of experience, knowledge, and judgement brought to bear on the problem by this group is commensurate with the task of accomplishing the report objectives.
Throughout the preparation of the entire report, and especially within this technical volume, the guiding philosophy has been one of enlightened conservatism of technical approach. Briefly stated, this philosophy dictates that one must vigorously pursue research to "advance the state-of-the-art?', but that paramount to successful major systems design is a conservative approach which requires that no item be more "advanced" than required to do the job. It recognises that an unsophisticated success is of vastly greater importance than a series of advanced and highly sophisticated failures that "almost worked. " Established engineering principals, used in conjunction with the best available design parameters, have been applied throughout in order to remove the elements of science fiction and unrealistic planning.

9 JUNE 1959 PROJECT HORIZON REPORT
A U. S. ARMY STUDY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF
A LUNAR OUTPOST
(S) CHAPTER II: TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND PLANS
A. OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This part of the study presents applicable technical information which substantiates the feasibility of the expedited establishment of a lunar outpost, and it relates U. S. capabilities and developments to the accomplishment of the task It is comprehensive in its scope, covering the design criteria and requirements for all major elements of the program including the lunar outpost, the earth-lunar transportation system, the necessary communications systems and the considerable earth support facilities and their operation. The technical assumptions concerning design parameters for this program are realistic yet conservative. Likewise, the assumptions which concern the scope and magnitude of other U. S. programmes which will support HORIZON are reasonable and in line with current and projected programs.
B. RESUME OF THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM
The basic carrier vehicles for Project HORIZON will be the SATURN I and II. The SATURN I, currently being developed under an ARPA order, will be fully operational by October 1963. The SATURN II, which is an outgrowth of the SATURN I program, could be developed during the period 1962-1964. The SATURN II will utilise improved engines in the booster and oxygen/hydrogen engines in all of its upper stages.
By the end of 1964, a total of 72 SATURN vehicles should have been launched in U. S. programmes, of which 40 are expected to contribute to the accomplishment of HORIZON. Cargo delivery to the moon begins in January 1965. The first manned landing by two men will be made in April 1965. The build-up and construction phase will be continued without interruption until the outpost is ready for beneficial occupancy and is manned by a task force of 12 men in November 1966.
This build-up program requires 61 SATURN I and 88 SATURN II launchings through November 1966, the average launching rate being 5. 3 per month. During this period some 490,000 pounds of useful cargo will be transported to the moon
During the first operational year of the lunar outpost, December 1966 through 1967, a total of 64 launchings have been scheduled These will result in an additional 266,000 pounds of useful cargo on the moon
The total cost of the eight and one-half year program presented in this study is estimated to be six billion dollars. This is an average of approximately $700 million per year. These figured are a valid appraisal, and, while preliminary, they represent the best estimates of experienced, non-commercial, agencies of the government. Substantial funding is undeniably required for the establishment of a U. S. lunar outpost; however, the implications of the future importance of such an operation should be compared to the fact that the average annual funding required for Project HORIZON would be less than two percent of the current annual defence budget.
C. OUTPOST
The lunar outpost proposed for Project HORIZON is a permanent facility capable of supporting a complement of 12 men engaged in a continuing operation The design of the outpost installation herein is based on realistic requirements and capabilities, and is not an attempt to project so far into the future as to lose reality. The result has been a functional and reliable approach upon which men can stake their lives with confidence of survival.
1. Location
The exact location of the outpost site cannot be determined until an exploratory probe and mapping program has been completed. However, for a number of technical reasons, such as temperature and rocket vehicle energy requirements, the area bounded by +-20 deg latitude/longitude of the optical centre of the moon seems favourable. Within this area, three particular sites have been chosen which appear to meet the more detailed requirements of landing space, surface conditions, communications, and proximity to varied lunar "terrain".
A rather extensive lunar mapping program is already underway in order to satisfy existing requirements in Astro-Geodesy. Maps to a scale of 1:5,000,000 and 1:1,000,000 are planned for completion by December 1960 and August 1962, respectively. Larger scale mapping will then be undertaken for several specific site selections.
2.. Design Criteria
The design of the lunar outpost facilities will, of course, be dominated by the influence of two factors - the lunar environment and the space transportation system capabilities. A few of the more pronounced primary lunar environmental parameters are listed below:

Essentially no atmosphere.
Surface gravity approximately 1/6 earth gravity.
Radius of approximately 1000 miles is about 1/4 that of earth. (This results in a significant shortening of the horizon as compared to Earth. )
Surface temperature variations between it lunar day and night of + 248 deg F to - 202 deg F.
Maximum subsurface temperature at equator is -40 deg F.
These and many other unfamiliar environmental conditions require that every single item which is to be placed on the lunar surface have a design which is compatible with these phenomena. However, a careful determination has been made of man's requirements to live in this environment, and it appears that there is no area which cannot be adequately solved within the readily available state-of-the-art.
3. Outpost Facilities and Their Installation
The first two men will arrive on the lunar surface in April 1965. They will be guided to an area in which the cargo build-up for future construction has already begun. Their landing vehicle will have an immediate return-to-earth capability; however, it is intended that they remain in the area until after the arrival of the advance party of the construction crew. During their stay, they will live in the cabin of their lunar vehicle which will be provided with necessary life essentials and power supplies. For an extended stay, these will be augmented by support from cargo previously and subsequently delivered to the site by other vehicles.
The mission of the original two men will be primarily one of verification of previous unmanned environmental investigations and confirmation of the site selection and cargo delivery.
Figure I-1 shows the HORIZON outpost as it would appear in late 1965, after about six months of construction effort. The basic building block for the outpost will be cylindrical metal tanks ten feet in diameter and 20 feet in length. (Details of typical tanks are shown in Fig. I-2.) The buried cylindrical tanks at the left-centre of Fig, I-1 constitute the living quarters of the initial construction crew of nine men who will arrive in July 1965, (Details in Fig. I-3.)
During the construction period, this force will be gradually augmented until a final complement of 12 men is reached. The construction camp is a minimum facility and will be made operational within 15 days after the beginning of active work at the outpost site. Two nuclear reactors are located in holes as shown in the left portion of Fig. I-1. These provide power for the operation of the preliminary quarters and for the equipment used in the construction of the permanent facility. The main quarters and supporting facilities are shown being assembled in the open excavation to the right-centre of the figure. These cylinders will also ultimately be covered with lunar material. Empty cargo and propellant containers have been assembled and are being used for storage of bulk supplies, weapons, and life essentials such as insulated oxygen/nitrogen tanks. Two typical surface vehicles are shown: one is a construction vehicle for lifting, digging, scraping, etc.; the other is a transport vehicle for more extended distance trips needed for hauling, reconnaissance, rescue, and the like. In the left background, a lunar landing vehicle is settling on the surface. A lightweight parabolic antenna has been erected near the main quarters to provide communications with earth.
The basic completed outpost is shown in Fig, I-4. Significant additions beyond the items illustrated in Fig. I-1 are two additional nuclear power supplies, cold storage facility, and the conversion of the original construction camp quarters to a bio-science and physics-science laboratory.
A number of factors influenced the decision to locate the main structures beneath the surface. Among these were the uniform temperature available (approximately -40 deg F), protection from meteoroids, security, good insulating properties of the lunar material, and radiation protection. Each of the quarters and cylinders will be a special double-walled "thermos bottle type" vacuum tank with a special insulating material in the space between the walls. (Vacuum is usually maintained simply by venting the tank to the lunar void. ) Despite the ambient subsurface temperature of -40 deg F, the heat losses from these special tanks will be remarkably low. Investigations show that the incidental heat given off by an adequate internal lighting system will nominally supply essentially all of the heat required to maintain comfortable "room" temperature in the outpost quarters.
A suitable atmosphere will be provided within the quarters. The basic gas supply will stem from special insulated tanks containing liquid oxygen or nitrogen The nitrogen supply needs only to provide for initial pressurisation and replacement of leakage losses; whereas, the oxygen is, of course, continuously used to supply bodily needs. However, the weights and volumes of both gases are quite reasonable and present no unusual problem of supply. Carbon dioxide and moisture will be controlled initially by a solid chemical absorbent and dehumidifier. Such a scheme requires considerable amounts of material; therefore, a carbon dioxide freeze-out system will be installed later.
4. Personnel Equipment
For sustained operation on the lunar surface a body conformation suit having a substantial outer metal surface is considered a necessity for several reasons: (1) uncertainty that fabrics and elastomers can sustain sufficient pressure differential without unacceptable leakage; (2) meteoroid protection; (3) provides a highly reflective surface; (4) durability against abrasive lunar surface; (5) cleansing and sterilisation. Figure I-5 shows a cutaway and "buttoned up" concept for such a suit. It should be borne in mind that while movement and dexterity are severe problems in suit design, the earth weight of the suit can be allowed to be relatively substantial. For example, if a man and his lunar suit weigh 300 pounds on earth, they will only weigh 50 pounds on the moon
A comprehensive program will be undertaken to provide special hand tools, load-handling gear, and dining equipment to meet the unusual requirements. Initially, all food will be pre-cooked; however, as water supplies increase with the introduction of a reclaiming system, dehydrated and fresh-frozen foods will be used., Early attention will be given to hydroponics culture of salads and the development of other closed-cycle food product systems.
5. Environmental Research
In order to corroborate essential environmental data, a series of unmanned experiments are planned. There are early data requirements in the areas of radiation, meteoroid impacts, temperatures, magnetic field, surface conditions, ionisation, radio propagation and biological effects.
D. SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
1. Flight Mechanics
In choosing appropriate trajectories to use in this program, one must strike a balance between the low-energy paths and the high energy curves. The low energy trajectories give the highest payload capability, but are sensitive to small variations in the injection conditions and can also lead to unacceptably long transit times. The higher energy trajectories are faster and are not as sensitive to deviations in the injection conditions, but they result in payload penalties and higher terminal velocities which in turn require greater braking energy at the termination of the trip. A good compromise appears to be a trajectory which will yield a transit time from earth to moon of approximately 50 to 60 hours. Several different trajectory schemes will be used in Project HORIZON. They include trajectories for transit: (1) direct from the earth to the moon, (2) direct from earth to a 96-minute (307 nautical mile altitude) orbit of the earth, (3) from this 96-minute earth orbit to the moon, and (4) direct from the moon to earth. In addition, there are special considerations for the terminal phase of each type trajectory.
Figure I-6 illustrates the two basic schemes of transporting man and cargo from earth to the moon.
The first scheme (1 above) is the direct approach, that is, a vehicle would depart the earth's surface and proceed directly to the lunar surface using a retro-rocket or landing stage for the final landing manoeuvre. Since the moon has no appreciable atmosphere, a rocket type propulsion system will be required for the landing. The second scheme (2 and 3 above) shown is that for proceeding first into an earth orbit and later departing the orbit for the flight to the lunar surface, again using a landing stage. In either scheme, the flight time from the earth or earth orbit to the moon will be the same.
The direct scheme, which is the most straightforward, has two advantages: first, it offered the shortest flight time from the earth's surface to the lunar surface since an orbital stopover is not required.
In the orbital scheme, much larger payloads can be transported into orbit, assuming the vehicle size to be constant, and by accumulating payloads in orbit, it is possible to transport a payload to the moon on the order of ten times (and more if desired) the capability of a single vehicle flying directly to the moon.
To illustrate this point, it has been assumed in the study that the. First men arriving on the moon will be provided with an immediate return capability. Figure I-7 depicts the vehicular requirements for the two schemes.
The direct approach would require a six stage vehicle with a lift-off thrust of 12 million pounds, as compared to a two-million-pound thrust vehicle for the orbital schemes. By placing the upper stage and payload of two-million-pound thrust vehicle into orbit, and with additional vehicles as shown, performing a fuel transfer and checkout operation, the same mission, that of transporting two men to the moon and returning them to earth, could be accomplished.
It should be pointed out, however, that if the United States is to have a manned lunar outpost by 1966, and at the same time provide the first men arriving on the moon with the desired return capability, the orbital approach is mandatory, since a 12-million pound thrust vehicle will not be available to meet the required schedule.
For the return to earth, from either the earth orbit or the lunar surface, aerodynamic braking will be used, since it allows significant overall payload increases when compared to rocket braking. The aerodynamic braking body used for this study is similar in shape to a JUPITER missile nose cone modified by the addition of movable drag vanes at the base of the cone. Though the size varies, the same basic shape was considered for use from the lunar surface to earth act as for use from the 96-minute orbit to the earth's surface. Studies show that, within acceptable limits of entry angle, the vehicle can make a successful descent which is well within the physical tolerances imposed by man's presence, and which can be guided with acceptable accuracy for final recovery. The recent successful flight and subsequent recovery of two primates aboard a nose cone further substantiates the validity of this approach to earth return braking. This test vehicle was fired to IRBM range and, due to the steep re-entry angle, the decelerative forces r· associated with this operation were many times greater than expected for project HORIZON trajectories.
2. Orbital Carrier and Space Vehicles
Only two basic carrier vehicles are required to carry out Project HORIZON - SATURN I and a further development, SATURN II.
The SATURN I vehicle, shown in Figs. I-8 and I-9 consists of a clustered booster with a lift-off thrust of 1,504, 000 pounds, a twin engine second stage of about 360,000 pounds of thrust, and a lox / hydrogen (O2/H2) third stage of 30,000 pounds of thrust. The initial performance of this vehicle will enable it to place 30,000 pounds of net payload in a 96-minute orbit and 7,500 pounds of net payload to earth escape velocity. It will be powered by eight North American H-l engines which are a greatly simplified version of the engine used in JUPITER, THOR, and ATLAS. The second stage is a modified version of the TITAN booster. The third stage is a modified CENTAUR vehicle currently under development by Pratt & Whitney and Convair.
The SATURN II vehicle (Fig. I-10 and I-11) is based on a modified SATURN I booster. The North American H-1 engines of the original version will be replaced by H-2 engines which will up-rate the total thrust by 1/3 to a sea level value of 2,000,000 pounds. The second stage will incorporate two 500,000-pound thrust O2/H2 engines, a third stage will utilise two 100,000-pound thrust O2/H2 engines, a fourth stage will use one such engine. Present feasibility studies indicate a SATURN II payload capability of 70,000 pounds into a 96minute orbit using three stages and 26,750 pounds to earth escape velocity using four stages. The development of such a vehicle will provide the nation a near-optimum vehicle for the utilisation of the SATURN booster. The prime requirement for the development of such a vehicle is an expansion of current high-energy O2/H2 engine programs to include development of 100 K and 500 K engines.
As mentioned earlier, 6,000 pounds of useful cargo can be soft-landed on the moon with the direct method. As presented herein, only cargo will be transported in this manner, although there is a discussion of how personnel could also be transported to and from the moon utilising the direct method. The second form of conveyance requires two steps. Initially the required payloads, which will consist of one main lunar rocket vehicle and several additional propellant tankers, will be placed in a 96-minute orbit of the earth. At this time, the propellants in orbit will be transferred to the main lunar rocket vehicle.
Figure I-12 is a conceptual view of the operations in the equatorial earth orbit. The operation in orbit is principally one of propellant transfer and is not as assembly job. The vehicle being fuelled is the third stage of a SATURN II with a lunar landing and return vehicle attached. The third stage of the SATURN II was used in bringing the combination into orbit and has thus expended its propellants. This stage is fuelled in orbit by a crew of approximately ten men after which the vehicle then proceeds on to the moon. It is planned to send all personnel and approximately 1/3 of the cargo to the moon by the orbital method.
Using this orbital system, individual payloads of 48,000 pounds may be soft-landed on the moon. This value is especially significant, since it represents the approximate minimum weight required for a complete earth return vehicle, which is already assembled and loaded with propellants and is capable of returning several men. Thus, in order to provide a pre-assembled return vehicle on the lunar surface during the time frame under consideration, it is mandatory to go through an initial earth orbit. In addition to providing a large individual payload capability, the orbital transportation system offers other important advantages. Among these are that the total number of firings to deliver the same amount of payload to the moon is less and payloads may be fired for orbital rendezvous at any given pass every day of the month. This alleviates the launch site scheduling problems which are associated with the restricted firing times of direct flights.
There are two versions of the lunar landing vehicle. The first type will be used for direct trips from earth to the lunar surface. This vehicle has a gross weight of 26,150 pounds and will soft land some 6,000 pounds of payload. The second vehicle will be used for flights via orbit. It will have a gross weight of 140,000 pounds which gives it a capability of soft landing approximately 48,000 pounds of payload on the moon. Each type of vehicle will have suitable payload compartments to accomplish different mission requirements. The lunar landing vehicle shown in Fig. I-13 has an earth return vehicle as a payload. For such return vehicle payloads, the structure of the expended braking stage will serve as a launching platform when it is time to begin the return journey to earth.
To sustain the orbital station crew and to provide for their safe return to earth, an orbital return vehicle such as shown in Fig. I-14 will be provided. This vehicle may be used in conjunction with another established United States orbital station, or it may be used as a basis for a minimum orbital station needed to support Project HORIZON. It is capable of carrying from 10 to 16 men. It will be carried into orbit by a SATURN I during the first part of the program and replaced by a SATURN II in 1967.
3. Guidance and Control
An investigation of the guidance problems concerned with Project HORIZON indicates that the necessary accuracies and reliabilities can be met by adaptations, combination and slight extensions of known and available guidance hardware and techniques. Final injection velocity, which marks the beginning of the coast phase of the trajectory to the moon, will be controlled by conventional means. Mid-course guidance will assure that the lunar landing vehicle would come within approximately 20 km (11 nautical miles) of the selected point. The terminal guidance system, which would be target oriented, would reduce the three standard deviation error at landing to approximately 1.5 km.
E. TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INTEGRATION
The development and integration of the space carriers to support HORIZON have been carefully outlined and various considerations as to compatibility, size, development schedule, and overall mission have been included and discussed in detail in Volume II.
Personnel space transportation requirements to support HORIZON are shown on Pig. I-15. By the end of 1967 some 252 persons will have been transported into an earth orbit, 42 will have continued to the moon, and 26 will have returned from the moon. The orbital station strength is approximately ten; however, the crew will be rotated every several months. The space transportation system will deliver some 756, 000 pounds of useful cargo to the lunar surface by the end of 1967. In order to accomplish this, 229 SATURN vehicle firings will be required. A schedule of launching and the broad mission assigned each vehicle is shown in Fig. I-16. It should be noted that, due to the savings incurred by the booster recovery system which will be used, the total number of SATURN boosters required to support the program is not 229 but only 73.
F. COMMUNICATIONS ELECTRONICS
The communications required for Project HORIZON are logically divided into an earth-based and lunar-based complex. Each of these complexes may be considered as having two functions - communications and surveillance. Of particular significance for the earth-based complex is the 24-hour communications satellite system presently under development; As illustrated in Fig. I-17 such a system will provide the capability of constant communications with both space vehicles in transit and the lunar outpost.
In addition to the 24-hour communications satellite system, the current development program of a world-wide surveillance net will provide space surveillance for the United States during the 1960 era. The basic hardware and techniques used in this net are directly applicable to HORIZON. Figure I-18 illustrates schematically how such a world net station could be expanded to support HORIZON by the addition of two additional 85-foot antennas and other equipment.
Communications on the lunar surface will pose special problems due in a large part to the lack of atmosphere and the relatively high curvature of the surface. However, careful investigation reveals no problems which cannot be solved by an appropriate research program. In a number of areas, current developments appear almost directly applicable; for example, the small helmet-mounted radio currently in production and troop use. A micro-miniaturised version of this, presently in advanced development, will provide a basis for personal communication between individuals clad in lunar suits. As the lunar outpost expands, radio relay stations will extend the radio horizon as conceived in Figure 1-19.
In addition to voice communication between members of the lunar party, a number of other electronic devices will be used at the outpost, These include TV receipt and transmission, transmission of still photographs, homing and location devices, instantaneous self-contained emergency communications packs (for distress signals to earth), infrared detectors, and radar detectors.
G. LAUNCH SITE
A survey was made to determine the adequacy of the Atlantic Missile Range and Pacific Missile Range for the accomplishment of Project HORIZON. The results of this survey indicated that, all things being considered, neither site was suitable. Since a new launch site will be required, a study was made to determine the optimum location and requirements for such a site.
The results of this study are discussed in detail in Volume II and illustrated in Fig. I-20. A total of eight launch pads are required. This facility will support the requirements of HORIZON and would also provide additional capacity for other United States programmes.
The equatorial location of the new launch site would provide very real advantages in terms of payload capability, guidance simplicity, and operational launching schedules in terms of increased latitude of appropriate firing times. Two sites stand out when compared to others: Brazil and Christmas Island. Both of these locations appear feasible; however, more detailed criteria will have to be established to make the best choice. Cost and early availability may ultimately be the governing factors. It is emphasised that site acquisition and initiation of launch site construction is one of the most critical items in the program with respect to lead-time. For the purposes of this study it has been assumed that the Brazil site would be used.
H. PROGRAM LOGISTICS
The logistic support for Project HORIZON has been studied in overall scope as well as detailed investigations of specific areas such as manufacturing considerations, transportation considerations, personnel, and personnel training.
The results of the studies show very clearly that military participation in the logistic portion for Project HORIZON is not only desirable, but mandatory. No attempt has been made to determine the level of military participation since such items as the world-wide political situation will play an important part in the ultimate decision.
I. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Project HORIZON has been divided into six phases which include R&D as well as the operational aspects of the overall program. The schedule for each phase is illustrated on Fig. I-21 and discussed below:
Phase I - The initial feasibility study was completed on 9 June 1959 and is contained in this two volume report.
Phase II - The detailed development and funding plan will require a more detailed study with limited experimentation. This phase will require approximately eight months to complete and will cost $ 5.4 million.
Phase III - The hardware development and system integration phase constitutes the majority of the development effort. In Phase III all:

Systems (space transportation, communication outpost, etc.)
Sub-systems (space vehicles, communications, ground and relay stations, etc.)
Components (rocket engines, communication transmitters & receivers, etc.)
Schemes and procedures (orbital rendezvous, orbital fuel transfer, etc.)
required to accomplish the project objectives will be developed.
Phase IV - The construction of the lunar outpost involves the utilisation of the systems and procedures developed in Phase III and is in actuality an operational phase of the program. The completion of this phase will accomplish the initial objective of the program: "establish a manned lunar outpost. "
Phase V - The initial period of outpost operation will begin in December 1966 and will constitute the first completely operational phase of the program.
Phase VI- The expansion of initial outpost operational capabilities could begin at any time after December 1966. For the purpose of this study it has been assumed to begin in January 1968.
1. Basic and Supporting Research
The importance of a strong basic and supporting research effort in support of a project of this nature cannot be overstated. Typical areas requiring attention are food and oxygen, clothing, chemical, biological, radiological bio-medical, vacuum conditions, weightlessness, meteoroids, lunar-based systems, moon mapping, explosives in lunar environment, power generation, material and lubricants, liquid hydrogen production and handling, and lunar "soil" mechanics.
2. Project HORIZON Development Program
As mentioned above, a strong basic and supporting research program will be required to accomplish the HORIZON development program, and ultimately the project objectives. The development program for this project is basically covered by the first three phases of the project outlined above, the first of which has been completed. Phase II, the next step in the development program, must be accomplished in the time scale indicated in Fig. I-21 if the United States is to succeed in establishing the first lunar outpost. The development plan, generated in Phase II will spell out in considerable detail the developments required in Phase III, as well as requirements for later phases.
Basically, Phase III will be the development portion of the project. During this phase, al1 development required to accomplish the project objectives will be satisfied.
3. Research and Development Facilities
Several unique facilities will be required to support HORIZON. Figure I-22 is a view of a large lunar environmental simulator which will provide a capability for research, development, testing and training for HORIZON as well as other projects in the national space program. Figure 1-23 illustrates a space flight simulator which will provide for research and training of effects associated with boost acceleration, coasting, weightlessness, and braking deceleration. In addition, medical research facility is located in conjunction with this site.

2011-10-20T06:30:00.001-07:00

Giant UFO flies over the moons surface casting a shadow, Sept 2011 video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: September 2011
Location of sighting: Earth's Moon

In this video you see a far away view and a close up view of the same UFO moving over the surface of the moon. Watch carefully and you will see the black shadow the UFO causes on the surface of the moon. This is 100% proof that the UFO was over the moon and an alien base exists somewhere on it-due to the size of the ship.

This is not the first time such a UFO was recorded. Remember what the Italy astronomer recorded back in April 29, 2007? Hold on to your hat.

2011-10-20T06:28:00.001-07:00

Transportation Tunnels On The Moon, Apollo 15 Images, UFO Sighting News.

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I (SCW) was looking at some moon photos sent in by a reader at our site and I decided to have a look at other Apollo 15 images. That led me to this particular one that has not one, but three transportation tunnels visible on the far left, far right and upper middle of the photo. These are structures and not photo mistakes as some would think. I have seen these tunnels before in other photos, for instance in the Apollo 20 photos of the cigar UFO in Deporte Crater, the far left and upper left had two tunnels that cross each other at 90 degree angles. You may need to add light to the photo.

Notice the three transportation tunnels on the moon in this image. Link here.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS15/M/2272.jpg
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS15-M-2272

2011-10-20T06:27:00.001-07:00

3 Moon Structures Found In Apollo 15 Photos, Dome-Mothership-Tower, Sept 18, 2011 UFO Sighting News.

Location of sighting: Earth's Moon
Date of reporting: Sept 18, 2011

Source Photos at:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS15/M/2282.jpg
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS15-M-2282

2011-10-20T06:26:00.000-07:00

By Mark Thompson Mon Sep 19, 2011 05:01 AM ET () Comments | Leave a Comment

Apollo 10, launched on May 18, 1969, was the "dry run" before the first moon landing mission, Apollo 11.
After carrying out a lunar orbit docking procedure, the Lunar Module (called "Snoopy") was jettisoned.
42 years later, UK-led astronomers now hope to track down Snoopy, which is believed to still be orbiting the sun.

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The ascent stage of the Apollo 10 Lunar Module "Snoopy" is photographed from the Command Module prior to docking in lunar orbit. Click to enlarge this image.
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It's not often I read about a new project that leaves me undecided whether it's totally crazy or a stroke of genius.
I was recently sent a press release of such a project and, having read it over a few times, I think I'm leaning toward the latter.

The idea is the brain child of British amateur astronomer Nick Howes who not only has a passion for hunting for asteroids, but also for the Space Race -- in particular, the Apollo era.

It's perhaps fitting then that Howes' new project combines his two passions and will challenge him and a host of other very prestigious organizations more than they have ever been challenged before.

SCIENCE CHANNEL: Take the Apollo Quiz!

The Apollo 11 mission that landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon rather overshadowed the phenomenal achievement of the previous mission, Apollo 10. Without the bravery of Thomas Stafford, John Young and Gene Cernan, the moon first landing would never have happened.

Not only did this historic mission do everything Apollo 11 did (except actually land on the moon), it also set records for the fastest human beings have ever flown and the furthest mankind has ever been from Earth.
As part of the mission, Apollo 10's lunar module ascent stage -- affectionately called 'Snoopy' -- was discarded and sent into an orbit around the sun. 42 years later and it's still believed to be out there.

PHOTOS: Tape Recording Reveals Kennedy's Space Vision

In a celestial version of finding a needle in a haystack, Howes and his team are about to embark on the seemingly impossible: finding Snoopy!

WATCH VIDEO: Enjoy our top 5 lunar moments; astronauts singing, dancing and falling over... on the moon!

After consulting members of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Faulkes Telescope team, who are working with the Space Exploration Engineering Corp and astronomers from the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy as well as schools across the UK, the team are under no illusion of how difficult the task will be as Paul Roche, Director of the Faulkes Telescope Project states: "To paraphrase President Kennedy, we are trying these things 'not because they are easy but because they are hard' -- this will be a real test for the hardware and the people involved."
The challenges facing the team are enormous, a fact that isn't lost on Howes. "The key problem which we are taking on is a lack of solid orbital data since 1969," he told Discovery News. "We've enlisted the help of the Space Exploration Engineering Corp who have calculated orbits for Apollo 13 and working closely with people who were on the Apollo mission team in the era will help us identify search coordinates."

PHOTOS: Myths of the Moon Missions

"We're expecting a search arc up to 135 million kilometers in size which is a huge amount of space to look at," Howes continues. "We're aware of the scale and magnitude of this challenge but to have the twin Faulkes scopes assist the hunt, along with schools, plus the fact that we'll doubtless turn up many new finds such as comets and asteroids makes this a great science project too."
If the team find a potential suspect, they will turn to detailed spectral analysis to see if the hidden messages in the reflected light can confirm if they have succeeded in finding Snoopy.
The chances of the team finding the lost lunar module are small, and the challenges daunting, but let's not forget that some of the greatest discoveries in scientific history have come from moments like this, when a team of enthusiastic and dedicated people come together to take on the seemingly impossible.
After all, surely that was the very essence and spirit of the Apollo missions over 40 years ago.

ANALYSIS: Apollo 18: The Lost Apollo Missions

2011-10-20T06:24:00.001-07:00

Top 10 Albert Einstein Quotes

10. "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

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2011-10-20T06:22:00.001-07:00

Controlled Offensive Behavior

http://science.discovery.com/tv/dark-matters/documents/controlled-offensive-behavior.html

Controlled Offensive Behavior — USSR (U)
Prepared by U.S. Army Office of the Surgeon General Medical Intelligence Report
July 1972

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Controlled offensive behavior as defined within the scope of this report includes Soviet research on human vulnerability as it applies to methods of influencing or altering human behavior. There is an ever increasing amount of information emanating from the USSR (samizdat or underground press) that suggests that certain authoritarian institutions in the USSR are engaged in the practice of "mental reorientation" of numerous individuals who are classed as political dissenters.
The "mental reorientation" is being accomplished through various means including confinement, isolation and psychopharmaceutical administration. This treatment of so-called insane individuals is causing alarm among an international cross section of psychiatrists. The literature contains sufficient data on human mental manipulation and, therefore, "warrants surveillance by interested parties. It appears that the USSR stresses physical and medical "treatment" of its political detainees under the guise of psychiatric care rehabilitation.
The Soviet Union is well aware of the benefits and applications of parapsychology research. The term parapsychology denotes a multi-disciplinary field consisting of the sciences of bionics, biophysics,psychophysics, psychology, physiology and nenropsychiatry. Many scientists, US and Soviet, feel that parapsychology can be harnessed to create conditions where one can alter or manipulate the minds of others. The major impetus behind the Soviet drive to harness the possible capabilities of telepathic communication, telekinetics, and bionics are said to come from the Soviet military and the KGB.

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MK ULTRA X-CIA--- Now NSA IS DOIN IT !

2011-10-20T06:21:00.001-07:00

http://science.discovery.com/tv/dark-matters/documents/pdf/95mkultra.pdf

2011-10-20T06:20:00.001-07:00

NASA: Beam me up some power, Scotty

September 19, 2011

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NASA boffins are looking into making a science-fiction staple - the idea of transmitting power to spacecraft using lasers or microwaves - into reality.
Sending enough energy to replace commonly-used present day space propulsion via laser beam would be quite a feat. One of the most powerful lasers in the world that's capable of keeping a beam going for any length of time - Boeing's Airborne Laser Test Bed - can put out only a few megawatts of juice, but (according to El Reg's back-of-a-pint-coaster calculations) it takes about 190 gigawatts to power the first stage of a Saturn V rocket and 4.1GW to make a single Delta IV core rocket go.
But NASA is undeterred and, after giving the project the snazzy name of Ride the Light, has dished out around $3 million to a number of companies to investigate using beamed power by lasers and microwave energy.
The agency said in its statement:
This project will attempt to develop a low-cost, modular power beaming capability and explore multiple technologies to function as receiving elements of the beamed power.
This combination of technologies could be applied to space propulsion, performance and endurance of un-piloted aerial vehicles or ground-to-ground power beaming applications. Development of such capabilities fulfills NASA's strategic goal of developing high-payoff technology and enabling missions otherwise unachievable with today's technology.
Not content with riding the light, NASA has also handed over approximately $710,000 to US firm Amprius to help it develop a prototype battery that will work well in the extremely low temperatures of space. The company will look at manipulating both the silicon anodes and the electrolyte formulation to get the battery juicing up in the cold.
The financing for both products is being made through NASA's Game Changing Development Program, which looks for revolutionary technology for future missions. ®

2011-10-20T06:19:00.001-07:00

Project MKULTRA

http://science.discovery.com/tv/dark-matters/documents/mkultra.html

THE CIA'S PROGRAM OF RESEARCH IN BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION
Wednesday, August 3, 1977
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Subcommittee on Health & Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources
Washington, D.C.
Following is an excerpt of an opening statement from Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.).

Download the full transcription of the committee hearing (PDF).

Senator KENNEDY. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. We are delighted to join together in this very important area of public inquiry and public interest.
Some 2 years ago, the Senate Health Subcommittee heard chilling testimony about the human experimentation activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over 30 universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations."
At least one death, that of Dr. Olsen, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers. The test subjects were seldom accessible beyond the first hours of the test. In a number of instances, the test subject became ill for hours or days, and effective followup was impossible. Other experiments were equally offensive. For example, heroin addicts were enticed into participating in LSD experiments in order to get a reward-heroin.

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2011-10-20T06:16:00.001-07:00

Secret Government Experiments Come to Light

September 15, 2011

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The government may not want you to know that it set off nuclear bombs willy-nilly in the atmosphere or tested LSD on unwitting subjects, but at least the Science Channel does!
In case you believed that elaborate government conspiracies were merely the driving force behind X-Files episodes, the Science Channel is setting the record straight. As a compendium to their latest show, "Dark Matters," which explores the darker side of science, the Science Channel has published introductions and full transcripts from government hearings on some of the most unbelievable -- yet true -- conspiracies, including the highly-controversial MKULTRA project.
VIDEO: The Philadelphia Experiment
According to the 1977 transcriptof the hearing before Congress, MKULTRA projects on behavioral modification, drug acquisition and testing took place over the better part of a decade, from 1953 through 1964.
Perhaps best known for administering the psychedelic drug LSD to unwitting participants, MKULTRA actually was composed of 149 (known) projects, across 86 universities and institutions, that dabbled in everything from harmless hypnosis to horrific human testing.
No one was spared. The CIA was an equal-opportunity abuser. The report details it as an “extensive testing and experimentation" program that included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign."
SCIENCE CHANNEL: Top 5 Mad Scientists
The gory details will probably forever remain unknown. In 1973, all the MKULTRA files were supposed to have been destroyed. But, in a Hollywood-science-fiction-movie twist of fate, seven boxes of financial files were categorized differently, and so overlooked. Shortly thereafter, they were discovered during a routine Freedom of Information Act request and turned over to the public.
A few hardworking senators in various congressional committees and subcommittees set out to compile what they could. If you’ve got the time, the curiosity or the wherewithal to never trust your government ever again, then it’s worth the full 173-page read -- or at least a quick scan.
Need further conspiracy theory fodder? Look no further than the Science Channel. You can also read the reports on the USSR’s Controlled Offensive Behavior (for the sake of simplicity, let's just call it mind control) and U.S. High-Altitude Test Experience (how and when the U.S. set off nuclear bombs in the atmosphere).

2011-10-20T06:10:00.000-07:00

NRO Maintains US Intel Satellite Edgeby Karen ParrishWashington DC (AFNS) Sep 19, 2011

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NRO_Maintains_US_Intel_Satellite_Edge_999.html

NRO's ability to fuse various streams of intelligence data - including image, signals and geolocation - into a single, usable result has increased by an order of magnitude, but is five orders of magnitude below where it needs to be.

The National Reconnaissance Office is 50 years old this month, but its mission of designing, building, launching and maintaining America's intelligence satellites is always future focused, its chief said yesterday.
Bruce A. Carlson, a retired Air Force general and NRO's director, told defense reporters here the office's current missions range from identifying roadside bombs in Afghanistan to tracking activities in China and North Korea.
The National Reconnaissance Office has launched six satellites in seven months, "the best we've done in about 25 years," the director said.
As recently as two years ago, more than 30 percent of the organization's programs were rated yellow or red for improper performance. All the NRO's major system acquisition programs are now in the green - delivering on schedule, on contract and on price, Carlson said.
Carlson said NRO's mission is getting more challenging because space is becoming increasingly congested where the satellites work.
"Other countries are launching a lot of stuff, and it's becoming more competitive," he said. "We all have to operate in the same space."
And it's no secret the Chinese are becoming more active in space, the director added. "That concerns us because we're not absolutely sure of their intent," he said.
NRO and Air Force Space Command have a joint space protection program, Carlson said, which is the "ace in the hole" should "somebody try to do something."
"We also use the space protection program to work around the congestion problem ... make sure we don't run into something else up there," he said.
China and Russia both contend with the United States for room in space, Carlson said.
In satellite surveillance as with night fighting, deep strike capabilities and special operations expertise, "they have to focus on our strengths," the director said.
China and Russia don't try to compete with U.S. capabilities, but to counter them, Carlson noted. "That's why we have a space protection program," he said.
China is a focus for his organization's surveillance efforts, as is North Korea, Carlson said.
"I remain concerned about [China's] intent and exactly what it is that I do not know," he said.
North Korea also works "really hard to deceive us," Carlson noted. "We work really hard to make sure we don't let them deceive us. So it's sort of a cat-and-mouse game. It's very serious for us."
The NRO's three main lines of business are imaging, signals collection and communications, the director said. The science and technology, or developmental and demonstration program, underlies all three, he added.
"We have a very active program to do our own technology," Carlson said. "We're the only organization in the government that does space reconnaissance ... and that takes some unique technologies."
NRO partners with the National Laboratories and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in developing new capabilities, but some 60 percent of the equipment on the six recently launched satellites was developed in-house, he said.
Several other small satellites - less than about 1,000 pounds - are now in orbit demonstrating new technologies that NRO will roll into its existing surveillance systems, the director said.
For imaging reconnaissance, the NRO seeks to examine as many parts of the spectrum with as many instruments as possible, he said.
The goal is to "do sensing ... in the daytime, at night, in bad weather, good weather ... and sandstorms," he said.
Some of the signals collection satellites are "remarkably old," he said.
"Those satellites were designed to collect Soviet long-haul communications that dealt with the Cold War," he said. "Now they're collecting phone calls or push-to-talk radio signals out of the war zone."
NRO uses its communications satellites to relay image or signals data around the world and down to the ground for processing, then shunt the results back to where they're needed, Carlson said.
"Processing takes a lot of energy and [computer] capacity," he said. "We've got to do that on the ground; we can't afford to do it in space."
NRO's ability to fuse various streams of intelligence data - including image, signals and geolocation - into a single, usable result has increased by an order of magnitude, but is five orders of magnitude below where it needs to be, Carlson said.
"It's incredibly difficult to take a picture someplace and fuse it with signals intelligence, that you might have a million pieces of, and sort that all out and geolocate it rapidly," he said. "But in many cases we're able to do that ... in minutes or less."
One promising example of fusion is the "red dot" system, Carlson said, which pinpoints the signals emitted by roadside bombs set for electronic detonation.
"We do a lot of work to make sure that we know what those signals are, where they're coming from, and geolocate them," he said.
That data generates a red dot on displays in military vehicles or command posts to show high probability of an explosive, he added.
"I can't tell you exactly how we do that, but it's a pretty clever set of technologies," the director said. "What it has meant is that, even though we still have an unacceptable loss from [roadside bombs], we are catching a lot of them before they're detonated."
The system has been in place for approximately six months and has been about 80 percent effective, he added.
NRO was also "instrumental" to the NATO operation in Libya, ensuring the air campaign was successful, Carlson said.
The NRO feeds data to military commanders, he said, but it is also a key strategic asset, serving the National Security Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
There will always be competition between, for example, the information an analyst wants to assess foreign weapon systems and a combat commander's need to know where and how many cell phones are operating in a particular enemy area, the director noted.
Whether identifying insurgent behavior patterns or focusing on larger national security questions, Carlson said, "My job is to ... get the most out of a sensor."
There are only so many satellites in orbit, so NRO has an inclusive and responsive process to allocate its 24-hour capabilities, he said.
"What that allows us to do is very rapidly ... worldwide and throughout our architecture, tune those systems," he said.
An example is an aircraft bailout requiring a search-and-rescue effort, he said.
"We can, within a matter of seconds, turn an incredible number of our sensors on a specific area," he added.
Carlson said during NRO's next 50 years, the challenges are to do what it now does even better, and to develop more in-space capability.
"We know what we have to do - we have to provide the best, integrated intelligence in the world," he said. "Now, [we have to] do it faster and cheaper."
Space satellites have always focused downward, and now need to be able to look around and up as well, he said.
"Because space is more congested and more contested and more competitive ... we've got to build systems that continue to be much more adaptable," he said. "Space reconnaissance - that's my job."

2011-10-20T06:08:00.001-07:00

The National Reconnaissance Office just released video from codename Hexagon, a Cold War era spy-sat photo program. Twenty KeyHole "Big Birds" were launched from 1971 to 1986. Their resemblance to Hubble Space Telescope is not merely coincidental.

Credit: NRO

http://www.space.com/13004-declassified-spy-satellite-kh-9-hexagon.html

2011-10-20T06:06:00.000-07:00

Bermuda Triangle: New anomalous phenomenon discovered

16.09.2011

http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/16-09-2011/119067-bermuda_triangle-0/

Recently, American scientists who studied the sea near the famous Bermuda Triangle have found another "anomaly". They saw that the surface waters in this area are literally teeming with a wide variety of viruses. However, the viruses do not represent any danger for humans as they only interested in oceanic bacteria. 

The very phrase "Bermuda Triangle" has appeared only recently - it was coined by a fan of Spiritualism and esoteric Vincent Gaddis in 1964. By this toponym he meant an area located between the island of Puerto Rico, the Florida coast and Bermuda. According to the famous mystic of the last century, this area of the Atlantic became notorious due to the fact that hundreds of ships and aircraft disappeared there. Some ships, however, were found later, but without their crews and passengers.

All this made Gaddis suggests that there was some anomaly in this area. However, he was not the first one to express this idea. In 1950 an American journalist Alexander Jones wrote an article about the mysterious disappearance of ships in this region (which he called simply and tastefully - Sea Devil). Yet, the Bermuda Triangle acquired real popularity in 1974, when Charles Berlitz, a popularizer of science, published a book under the same title where he collected descriptions of various mysterious disappearances in the area. The book immediately became a bestseller, and as a result the mysterious and dangerous Sea Devil became known to the entire world. After that different groups of scientists engaged in searching for reasons to explain these disappearances.

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However, over time the skeptics slowly gained the upper hand over amateur mystics. No anomalies in this part of the ocean were found, and the U.S. Coast Guard has issued several reports according to which the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle did not occur more frequently than in other regions of the ocean, and they occurred mainly due to storms. Historians, digging in the archives, found that the area since the discovery of America was very often visited by various vessels, including pirate ones. Until the second half of the 20th century sailors made no mention of it as a mysterious place where ships were constantly perishing. Persnickety journalists analyzed Berlitz's book and found that most of the facts presented by the writer were not entirely true, and some were just made up.

By the 1990s, the interest in the Bermuda Triangle was largely exhausted. Recently, however, scientists regained interest in this area, because they did discover one anomaly there. However, it has nothing to do with the disappearance of ships and aircraft. 

A team of U.S. scientists led by Professor Craig Carlson of the Bermuda Institute of Oceanology (St. George, Bermuda) have been conducting oceanographic research in the northwestern part of the Sargasso Sea for ten years, near the Bermuda Triangle and Bermuda islands. Recently a report on the work of the biologists has been published. Especially interesting in this report was the fact that, according to the observations of scientists, most numerous living organisms in the surface layers of the ocean in this region are viruses. Interestingly enough, the dynamics of these microscopic organisms is directly linked with the seasons. For example, in the summer viruses multiply actively in the water layers at depths ranging from 60 to 100 meters, and their number is up to ten million particles per drop of water. In the winter, sometimes they did not exist in the surface layers at all as they would go into the depths, following their masters.

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The researchers analyzed the DNA of the viruses caught and found that 90 percent of them still were not known to science. However, these microorganisms, both known and unknown, did not present any danger to humans. They all belong to a group of bacteriophages, that is, the objects of their attacks are bacteria living in the ocean. Bacteriophages are known to be very old-fashioned and conservative as they do not change their habits, and do not attack other creatures.

To be able to reproduce, bacteriophages lie in wait for unsuspecting bacteria. They attach themselves to their cell walls and enter into the victim's DNA. Furthermore, they integrate into the genome of the bacteria (which is a single circular DNA molecule, lying freely in the cytoplasm and not protected by any walls). This makes them forget about their own responsibilities and focus on producing all the necessary molecules for the assembly of new viruses. This assembly also takes place inside the bacterial cell. When the number of newborn bacteriophages reaches several million, they come from the host cell, effectively breaking it into pieces, and then go in search of new victims.

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The organic molecules of the dead bacteria fill the water surrounding them, and since bacteriophages kill hundreds of thousands of cells, it is not surprising that the sea surface in this place turns into a nutrient broth. Other bacteria hurry there for a feed and quickly become prey of cunning virus. This means that the bacteriophages form a microscopic ecosystem where they live. 

Other marine creatures, unicellular and multicellular planktonic organisms, also enjoy the fruits of their work. Some are attracted by free nutrient broth, and others - by the bacteria feeding on it. It turns out viruses create a "cafeteria" in the surface layers of the sea. Even whales and dolphins come to eat there (these, in turn, are interested in swarms of krill feeding on microplankton and fish eating krill).

Scientists were amazed by what they saw because they did not know about this role of viruses in the formation of oceanic ecosystems. According to many oceanographers, oceanic viruses are very poorly understood because they are hard to catch. But now it is clear that they are countless in all seas and oceans. 

"While we cannot see them with the naked eye, viruses are the dominant form of life in the ocean. They constitute 95 percent of the total biomass of the ocean. That is, the mass of virus is even larger than the mass of krill, fish and larger animals such as whales, combined. Given the pace of virus multiplication and their number, it becomes apparent how important their role in nutrient cycling on the planet is," said one of the authors of the study of biological "anomalies" of the Bermuda Triangle Dr. Rachel Persons. However, some experts believe that in this case there are no abnormalities specific to the Bermuda triangle as processes involving the viruses are occurring in many areas of the oceans. For example, biologists from the U.S. and Canada investigated the surface waters of the North Atlantic and reported that the most diverse viral community (129,000 genotypes) was found off the coast of British Columbia. The number of these microorganisms is also very high - approximately 50 million particles in a drop of water, which is five times greater than in the Bermuda Triangle. This "virus rage" is explained by the fact that this area has rising sea currents (upwelling), bringing nutrients from the depths of the ocean to the surface. In such areas sentient beings are more abundant and their diversity is higher than in the surrounding areas, and the virus is no exception to this rule.

It appears that the largest "virus carrier" on the planet is exactly in the oceans. It is fortunate that most of microscopic parasites living in it are not dangerous to humans. 

Anton Evseev

Pravda.Ru

Lunokhod1

2011-10-20T06:04:00.001-07:00

http://selena.sai.msu.ru/Home/Spacecrafts/Lunokhod1/lunokhod1e.htm

2011-10-20T06:02:00.003-07:00

Encyclopedia Astronautica
Moon
http://www.astronautix.com/fam/moon.htm

2011-10-20T06:02:00.001-07:00

Encyclopedia Astronautica
Early Soviet Lunar Lander

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/earander.htm

2011-10-20T06:00:00.001-07:00

Soviet Cities on the Moon? (Feb, 1958)

Filed under: Sign of the Times,Space — @ 10:45 am
Source: Science Digest ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1958

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2011-10-20T05:58:00.003-07:00

Mysterious "Monuments" on the Moon

Argosy Magazine, August, 1970
Volume 371, Number 2

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MANY PHENOMENA OBSERVED ON THE LUNAR SURFACE APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN DEVISED BY INTELLIGENT BEINGS. NOW, U.S. AND RUSSIAN MOON PROBES HAVE PHOTOGRAPHED TWO SUCH "CONSTRUCTIONS" AT CLOSE RANGE

Report from ARGOSY's Science Editor, IVAN T. SANDERSON
Four years ago, Russia's Luna-9 and America's Orbiter-2 both photographed groups of solid structures at two widely separated locations on the lunar surface. These two groups of objects are arranged in definite geometric patterns and appear to have been placed there by intelligent beings. Since American space officials have chosen not to publicize these findings, our readers are probably not aware of their existence.
The Luna-9 photographs, taken on February 4, 1966, after the craft had landed in the Ocean of Storms, reveal two straight lines of equidistant stones that look like the markers along an airport runway. These circular stones are all identical, and are positioned at an angle that produces a strong refleetlon from the sun, which would render them visible to descending aircraft.
Upon examining the photographs, Russian scientist Dr. S. Ivanov, winner of a Laureate of the State Prize (equivalent to a Nobel Laureate) and inventor of stereo movies in the U.S.S.R., noted that a chance displacement of Luna-9 on its horizontal axis had caused the second and third shots of the stones to be taken at slightly different angles. This double set of photographs allowed him to produce a three-dimensional stereoscopic view of the lunar "runway."
Why the Luna-9 station changed its position between its second and third transmissions is not known. The official Russian explanation was: "Deformation of the lunar surface. The ground may have settled at the spot where the station landed, or perhaps a small stone caused the initial instability."
Whatever the reason, it was good luck for the Russian observers. "With the stereoscopic effect," reported Dr. S. Ivanov and Engineer Dr. A. Bruenko, "we can affirm that the distance between stones, one, three, two and four is equal. The stones are identical in measurement. There does not seem to be any height or elevation nearby from which the stones could have been rolled and scattered into this geometric form. The objects as seen in three-D seem to be arranged according to definite geometric laws."

The above photo was shot by Orbiter H-2 from twenty-three miles above the lunar surface, and shows shadows cast by eight spires. According to NASA, the area photographed is about 740 by 540 feet at lunar coordinates 15 degrees 30' E. And 40 degrees 30' N. The sun was 11 degrees above lunar horizon. The general plan of the arrangement of these objects is shown in the diagram at the top of the page. Russian scientists who examined the geometrical relationships among the objects found that numbers 3, 4 and 5 are in exactly the same arrangement as the pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Menkaura. at Gizeh, Egypt. Russian estimates placed the largest spire. number 7, as standing as high as a fifteen story building.
The second set of photographs were taken by America's Orbiter-2 on November 20, 1966, twenty-nine miles above the lunar surface, over the Sea of Tranquility. The photographs, of an area some 2,000 miles from the "runway" reported by the Russians on the Ocean of Storms, show what appear to be the shadows of eight pointed spires shaped like Cleopatra's Needle (the ancient Egyptian obelisk now in Central Park in New York) and the Washington Monument.
Since Orbiter-2's cameras were pointed straight down at these spires, only their shadows are visible; but NASA stated that the sun was eleven degrees above the horizon, and from this, American space scientists estimated that the "largest protuberance" is approximately fifty feet wide at the base and from forty to seventy-five feet high.
However, the Russian scientists who examined the Orbiter-2 photos disagreed with these American estimates, and said that the smallest of these eight apparent obelisks was "similar to an extremely large fir tree," while the largest was, by their estimation, three times the height claimed by the Americans - or as tall as a fifteen-story building!
In addition, Soviet Space Engineer Alexander Abramov has come up with a rather startling geometrical analysis of the arrangement of these objects. By calculating the angles at which they appear to be set, he asserts that they constitute an "Egyptian triangle" on the moon - a precise geometric configuration known in ancient Egypt as an abaka. "The distribution of these lunar objects," states Abravov, "is similar to the plan of the Egyptian pyramids constructed by Pharaohs Cheops, Chephren and Menkaura at Gizeh, near Cairo. The centers of the spires in this lunar abaka are arranged in precisely the same way as the apices of the three great pyramids."
What is America's position regarding the investigation of the mysterious moon objects? A high NASA authority, when questioned on what has been done by us in the four years since these objects were photographed, replied, "Yes, we know of these photographs and they were very clear, but there has been no speculation on them, and they have been filed for now."
We fail to appreciate such an attitude toward something of the first interest to our whole moon-probing endeavor; especially one which has been so openly investigated ,by our rivals in this effort.
However, in 1968, NASA released a very remarkable publication, the "Chronological Catalogue of Reported Lunar Events." This list includes lights, both stationary and moving, appearing on the moon and then suddenly disappearing; some perfectly circular craters that look more like domes and which are, in some cases, arranged in perfect alignment, and such phenomena as glowing mists and sudden patches of gem-colored outpourings.
John O'Neil, former science editor of the late New York Herald Tribune said that he observed a gigantic bridgelike structure in the Sea of Crises (on the moon) under which the sun shone when at a low angle. This was later confirmed by other astronomers. Recent literature has been crammed with descriptions of wall-like structures that form perfect squares or rhombs; of rills that look like water-eroded river beds, arid of lines that look like roads, and even a grid of streets on the lunar surface.
Of course, many such apparently man-made structures, seen on earth from on high, later prove to be simply natural formations, At the southern edge of the Sahara Desert in Northern Nigeria is one such natural formation, which when seen from above, appears to be an enormous layout of structured walls.

The two photos at the top were taken by Soviet probe Luna-9 after its soft lunar landing in February, 1966. Photos show shadow cast by small solid object, one of a number of apparent "markers" staked out across the lunar surface nearly two thousand miles away from the site of the lunar spires. Diagram shows arrangement of stones, many of which are the same siz, shape and are set at identical distances apart.

And from an orbiting space craft, the Barringer Crater in Arizona looks like an artificial construction.
Despite both manned and unmanned landings on the moon, we still know very little of just what is on its surface, simply because of its size, the wide variety of its topography, and the still comparatively limited range of our probes.
Suppose for a moment that the earth was probed from the moon by two manned landings - let us say in Utah and East Africa. How much would we learn of the surface of the rest of the planet? Our oceans, lakes, mountain ranges and rivers might well be spotted and photographed from on high on approach, but just how many smaller things, like pyramids and obelisks, built by thinking creatures with an intelligent design in mind, might go unrecognized; or, still worse, might even be seen and filed away simply because they did not accord with what was accepted as possible by the experts at the home base.
Though very little attention has been given to the mysterious moon objects in this country, both the Orbiter-2 obelisk photographs and the Luna-9 runway pictures were widely published in the Soviet Union, for Russian scientists have always been extremely interested in the pursuit of any evidence of extraterrestrial life. Moreover, the question the Russian scientists are now asking about these lunar objects is whether intelligent beings could have visited our moon long ago, and erected thereupon permanent monuments and landing fields.
The question should not come as any great surprise to us because the Russians have long and consistently gone after archeological and historical evidence of superior life forms having visited this planet.
The material amassed by them in support of such an idea is now somewhat overwhelming. For instance, they claim that many Biblical stories, such as the apparent destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by an atomic bomb, are historical accounts of such visitations. They have reported finding metallic discs, like modern record ing platters, in Asiatic caves, and they have published reproductions of early Christian wall paintings from old monasteries in Yugoslavia that appear to show angels in space ships.
There are quite a number of strange material things that strongly suggest some extraterrestrial origin or influence. The Egyptian pyramids continue to puzzle scholars, who are now studying their sealed rooms with the most advanced and sensitive electromagnetic devices. One scientist, Dr. Amr Gohed, stated officially to the London Times that "Either the geometry of the pyramids is in substantial error, which would affect our readings, or there is a mystery which is beyond explanation . . . there is some force that defies the laws of science at work in the pyramids."
The possibility of extra-terrestrial influence on the moon was put forth at a meeting of the American Rocketry Society by Dr. Carl Sagan, who said, rather simply, that "Intelligent beings from elsewhere in the universe may have - or have had bases on the averted side of our moon."
Why, we may well ask, did man ever start making obelisks anyway? It's a very tough job and seemingly purposeless. Is the origin of the obelisks on this earth, and those on the moon, the same? Could both be ancient markers originally erected by alien space travelers for guidance of later arrivals?

The basic inforniation contained in this article was given to us by Lynn Schroeder and Sheila Ostrander who last year visited Russia, Bulgaria_, Romania and Czechoslovakia, at the invitation of Russian scientific organizations which had set up an international symposium covering the general field of parapsychics. They are the joint authors of a book on this subject, published this month by Prentice- Hall, incorporated, entitled "Psychic Research Behind the iron Curtain." The substance of this article is extraneous to this fascinating book, but it seem to us to be of great interest in this day and age of moon and planetary probes by the U.S.S.R. and ourselves.

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2011-10-20T05:58:00.001-07:00

Extraterrestrrial UFO technology driven by gravity wave polarized integrated consciousness
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/22364.asp

2011-10-20T05:55:00.001-07:00

Recent UFO Reports / Sightings

http://www.viewzone.com/mufon.html

A GERMAN UFO expert has claimed that a NASA spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens -- who are now attempting to contact the Earth.Hartwig Hausdorf claims that Voyager 2 an unmanned interplanetary probe blasted into space 33 years ago â€“ has started transmitting strange, unintelligible signals, Bild newspaper revealed today.
NASA installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever found it.But last month the probe began sending back distorted messages from its location near the edge of the solar system that baffled NASA scientists were unable to decode, Mr Hausdorf says.
"It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe, thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth," the author of UFOs -- They Are Still Flying told Bild.
The signal from Voyager 2 which takes 13 hours to reach the Earth -- broke off fully on April 22. NASA said engineers were working to solve a data transmission fault. The space agency has not commented specifically on Mr Hausdorfâ€™s comments, although it says the fault is likely to be a glitch in the probeâ€™s computer memory.
Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1 were launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Three decades on, they are the most distant human-made objects in outer space.
Voyager 1 is currently more than 8.5 billion miles from Earth. It will soon travel beyond the heliosphere.
Special thanks to Herald Sun.com
KEN PFEIFER MUFON N.J.

3-19-10 ANNAPOLIS MARYLAND: "I am a local photographer in Annapolis and I was doing a night shoot on the practice fields of St John's College at 9.16 pm, the witness stated. I was using a Nikon D700 with a 70-200mm 2.8 professional lens mounted on a tripod. I didn't open the files to edit the images until a few days later, on a Sunday. When I enhansed the dark areas around the buildings on campus, I noticed 9 light blue orbs with a corona like halo around them. The orbs were positioned in front and back of the end of the roof line. They appeared to be in a loose formation, banking to the right and departing the area. Several of the objects had a slight maroon hue to them."

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2011-10-20T05:54:00.001-07:00

NATO air strike hit a residential building and a hotel in Libya, killing 354 people

NATO air strikes on the ousted leader’s home city of Sirte overnight had hit a residential building and a hotel, killing 354 people.
Fighters loyal to the interim government were fighting street to street, slowly advancing into the city, but have been unable to dislodged Gaddafi loyalists defending it, Reuters journalists embedded with the interim government force said.
The city echoed with the sound of heavy shelling and gunfire. National Transitional Council interim government fighters said they had seen NATO warplanes above the city on Friday but did not know if they had bombed.
“NATO attacked the city of Sirte last night with more than 30 rockets directed at the city’s main hotel and the Tamin building, which consists of more than 90 residential flats,” Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said in a call from a satellite phone to the Reuters office in Tunis.
“The result is more than 354 dead and..
89 still missing and almost 700 injured in one night,” he added. The Tamin building is a landmark building in the centre of Sirte, named after the Tamin insurance company.
Reuters was unable to verify Ibrahim’s account of the incident. Gaddafi-held areas have been cut off from communication since the fall of Tripoli.

“How can anyone justify NATO’s murderous acts in support of an armed group against whole cites and tribes in Libya?” Ibrahim said, adding there was no foreign media in the centre of Sirte.
NATO spokesman Colonel Roland Levoie said: “We are aware of these allegations. It is not the first time such allegations have been made. Most often, they are revealed to be unfounded or inconclusive.”

GADDAFI “LEADING STRUGGLE”

Fighters pushing into the besieged town appeared to be making slow but steady progress.
Ibrahim said Gaddafi was personally directing loyalist fighters who are fending off provisional government forces at his remaining strongholds. Those include Sirte on the coast, Bani Walid southeast of Tripoli and Sabha in the deep Sahara.
“He is leading all aspects of this struggle. He is talking to the people, he is lecturing, he is discussing, he is looking after all matters of the resistance,” he said. “He is in Libya…he is very confident, his morale is high and he believes we will win this fight.”
Ibrahim said that pro-Gaddafi forces had been stockpiling weapons and planning for a drawn-out war.
“We will be able to continue this fight and we have enough arms for months and months to come,” he said.
Ibrahim would not comment on Gaddafi’s precise location but said he himself was now near Sirte and had been travelling between it and other towns still loyal to Gaddafi. Reuters was not able to confirm his location independently.
“In the last 17 days more than 2,000 residents of the city of Sirte were killed in NATO air strikes,” Ibrahim said.
NATO says its air strikes in Libya since March have not killed large numbers of civilians.

Reuters 2011
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2011-10-20T05:53:00.001-07:00

US Space Spy Agency to Unveil Hush-Hush Satellites on Saturday

2011-10-20T05:51:00.000-07:00

Pyramid on the Moon - Hubble image leaked to public

CLICK THIS http://secretsoftheuniverserevealed.blogspot.com/ Image taken by hubble telescope december 2008

D.I.P. PROJECT MARXEN UFO88

2011-10-20T05:50:00.000-07:00

TOP SECRET FILE

FORM INFRA

D.I.P. PROJECT MARXEN UFO88
http://www.think-aboutit.com/Underground/marxen.htm

DEPARTMENT OF INTERPLANETARY AFFAIRS
OFFICIAL DOCUMENT/TRANS ENVATE/PROJECT MARXEN
data inclusive DE-CLASSIFIED JANUARY 1, 1989 INEREN CLEARANCE BY S . E. MAR
SUBJECT: U.F.O. AND REPORTED EXTRATERRESTRIAL ON MOON AND MARS
CLASSIFICATION: Formerly TOP SECRET U.F.O., E B.E., AND E.T. CELL] DATA AND OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THIS AGENCY AND OFFICIALS FORMERLY OR ACTIVELY REPRESENTING THE UNITED NATIONS, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, AND THE N.A.S.A. SPACE PROGRAM, AS WELL AS CIVILIAN SCIENTIFIC U.F.O. INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEES AND NETWORKS AND THE FILES OF M.I.N.D INTERNATIONAL.
COMPILED BY S.E. MAR, DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERPLANETARY AFFAIRS JANUARY THROUGH MAY 1972 AND IN 1990.
by Steve Omar/EN MAR

THE MOON IS A FOREIGN NATION

Apollo Moon astronauts were often followed to the Moon, at times, by U.F.O.s. Official N.A.S.A. Apollo 12 photograph AS12-497319 clearly Shows a large U.F.O. hovering over an astronaut walking on the Moon.
The government agencies policies of keeping U.F.O.s secret from the general public is well-known and has been well-documented in several books by famous astronomers like J. Allen Hynek(who investigated U.F.O.s for the U.S. Air Force, Major Donald Keyhoe, Timothy Good(in his book Above Top Secret), and many other professionals. One unquestionably absolute expert we may want to consult is Christopher Kraft, who was director of the N.A.S.A. tracking base in Houston during the Apollo Moon missions, when he revealed the following conversation "after" he left his work at N.A.S.A.:
ASTRONAUTS NElL ARMSTRONG and BUZZ ALDRIN speaking from the Moon:
"Those are giant things. No, no, no .... this is not an optical illusion. No one is going to believe this!"
MISSION CONTROL(HOUSTON CENTER): "What...what...what? What the hell is happening? What's wrong with you?"
ASTRONAUTS: "They're here under the surface."
MISSION CONTROL: "What's there? Emission interrupted...interference control calling Apollo II."
ASTRONAUTS: "We saw some visitors. They were there for awhile, observing the instruments."
MISSION CONTROL:"Repeat your last information."
ASTRONAUTS: "I say that there were other spaceships. They're lined up on the other side of the crater."
MISSION CONTROL: "Repeat...repeat!"
ASTRONAUTS: "Let us sound this orbita ..... In 625 to 5...automatic relay connected...My hands are shaking so badly I can't do anything. Film it? God, if these damned cameras have picked up anything..what then?"
MISSION CONTROL: "Have you picked up anything?"
ASTRONAUTS: "I didn't have any film at hand. Three shots of the saucers or whatever they were that were ruining the film."
MISSION CONTROL: "Control, control here. Are you on your way? Is the uproar with the U.F.O.s. over?
ASTRONAUTS: "They've landed there. There they are and they are watching us."
MISSION CONTROL: "The mirrors, the mirrors...have you set them up?" ASTRONAUTS: "Yes, they're in the right place. But whoever made those space ships surely can come tomorrow and remove them. Over and out."
It is logical that if government agencies keep the existence of U.F.O.s from outer space secret from the public, if they discovered the home of the U.F.O.s that would obviously be secret also, and they would have to release "cover stories" about the Moon to hide the truth. The problem has been that witnesses have "talked" to our Department of interplanetary Affairs.
Among the experts who told us about life on the Moon and the discoveries of the astronauts were Farida Iskiovet, former U.F.O investigator for the President of the United Nations, a mysterious Mr. English who did TOP SECRET photography for N.A.S.A. and the moon astronauts, Commander Mark Huber formerly of Naval Intelligence who knew much top secret data, Sgt. Willard Wannal(formerly Army Intelligence), Major Wayne S. Aho(formerly Army Intelligence who submitted U.F.O research to Congress), Dr. James Hurrah from the N.A.S.A. space program, and others who have secret identities. I personally spoke to all of the above leaks and investigators.
Suspicion or interest in life on the Moon grabbed public attention when the inventor of the radio(so credited) Marconi Tesla publicly reported his experiments in transmitting radio signals to the Moon and attempting to receive answers, which he indeed believed took place. After that, American, British, and French astronomers reported glowing and moving and sometimes even blinking lights on the Moon during the 1920s and 1930s, often reported in local newspapers and scientific journals of those years which can often be found in major libraries. This interest peaked when a respected expert in aerial phenomenon, Pulitzer Prize winning astronomer John O'Neill, publicly reported observing the "bridge" on the Moon that appeared artificially constructed by intelligence. There were other witnesses to the twelve mile long "bridge" which was erected because it was not seen in the same place before, and was later dismantled for unknown reasons(was it too conspicuous?). The bridge sighting occurred in the early 1950s.
Most of the Gemini and Apollo astronauts admitted that they saw U.F.O.s while they were in orbit, particularly Gordon Cooper who publicly admitted he believed they were intelligently controlled craft(we have seen his photos of U.F.O.S). James McDivitt also took U.F.O. photos while orbiting Earth and we have seen these also. One Soviet astronaut mission in the 1960s, designed to set a new record for time in orbit, was mysteriously aborted right after their craft entered space. Private researchers with powerful receiving radio equipment claimed the Soviet cosmonauts were followed into orbit by U.F.O.s, which surrounded them and began bouncing them back and forth as if they were playing a ball game with the Soviet craft. The cosmonauts reportedly panicked and were immediately Sent back to Earth.
During the 1950s many U.F.O.S seen over Earth were tracked back to the Moon by government tracking stations in secret complexes in deserts in Arizona and Nevada and inside underground mountain bases. WE HAVE ONE PHOTO OF A SAUCER SHAPED CRAFT HOVERING OVER THE MOON, taken by a civilian astronomer. Sergeant Willard Wannail, who investigated U.F.O. landings on Oahu when in Army Intelligence, showed us an 8 by 10 CLEAR glossy detailed photo of a silvery spaceship hovering directly over a huge Moon landscape, estimated to be several miles long, and said to be CITY-SHIP designed to transport thousands of people between solar systems or galaxies and live for extended periods of time in self-sufficient orbiting communities!
In the 1950s to 1960s more moving, flashing, and stationary lights were seen on the Moon by civilian astronomers, usually inside craters, along with a mysterious glowing cross.
Soviet and American spacecraft in orbit over the Moon began to photograph mysterious structures on the Moon which were censored by N.A.S.A. for awhile, yet Were obtained by Scientific researchers like Fred Steckling who demanded the evidence from this so-called "civilian agency." It is amazing how N.A.S.A. released these photos WITHOUT COMMENT! Many of the structures can only be seen when these photos are blown-up to a much larger size.
The U.S. spacecraft RANGER II took over 200 photographs of Moon craters with domes inside. These domes are nothing new. They were reported in the news media by French astronomers about 48 years earlier. 33 Moon dome photos from Lunar Orbitter 2 were released without comment, in Washington D.C., in 1967. On June 1, 1966, N.A.S.A. had admitted to the news media that astronauts had Seen U.F.O.S, then later on contradicted themselves by denying it. (anyone who saves all official releases on U.F.O.S from agencies will find many contradictory statements to prove a cover-up). That did not stop Astronaut Gordon Cooper from his public statement "I believe in extraterrestrial life because I saw a spacecraft"(on his 16th Gemini orbit). There are also the photos in our files of the "Blair cuspids", taken by satellites on the Moon showing strange spires that have been found to form perfect geometric patterns. Tall white spires resembling the Washington monument were photographed on the lunar surface, along with mysterious straight roads or tracks that cut through craters, hills, valleys, and rock piles without a twist. Some of the domes had flashing lights. Several N.A.S.A. photos we saw showed long cigar-shaped objects parked on the Moon, which later departed in other photos. We observed one photo of a pyramid like object on the dark side. THE DARK SIDE is always hidden to our eyes and telescopes on Earth, an obviously perfect place for aliens to construct secret hidden spaceports. A lack of atmosphere is no problem to enclosed domes with artificial environments, which even N.A.S.A admits our scientists have the technology (but not the billions of dollars) to construct, an underground bases with artificial air-conditioning like our military now has on Earth.
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell privately told Farida Iskiovet, of our Department of Interplanetary Affairs, that he saw a U.F.O. on the Moon.
In 1978 a mysterious tall, stocky, agent-appearing stereotype man moved to Maui, identified as a Mr. English. I cannot give out his full name. He had a TOP SECRET security clearance from N.A.S.A., and reported to me that he was staff photographer to the Apollo astronauts, had photographed the wreckages and bodies of crashed alien flying discs in a secret Texas Air Force hanger, and had a seen an unidentified spacecraft in flight while with astronauts. He traded U.F.O. data with us and admitted the astronauts have seen alien spacecraft on the Moon, and that our Moon expose' is true!
There is an unconfirmed report that when Buzz Aldrin opened the door after landing on the Moon, he immediately saw a transparent etherical being staring at him outside. Welcome to the Moon?
N.A.S.A. director Kraft added that there was a public and a secret private .A.S.A. radio frequency between Moon and Mission Control and that the conversation above took place during a mysterious two minute interruption in public transmissions. To prove it is the truth, hundreds of independent CIVILIAN radio operators with powerful VHF equipment separately reported hearing the AME spaceship report from the Apollo moon-walkers! Soviet radio operators also picked it up and published it in Moscow. Another mysterious radio message tom the Moon was broadcast on French public television only one time before it was censored AFTER it leaked out. That transmission appeared to be a mysterious clearly spoken ALIEN LANGUAGE. The famous French historian and author Robbert Charroux published the transmission which has been suppressed in the U.S. It came from astronaut Worden who transmitted it to N.A.S.A, and expert linguists have been unable to translate the message.
However, the following PUBLIC RADIO BROADCASTS from the Moon WERE NOT CENSORED:
"The dome-ical structures are partially filled up. Breach has either flowed into these STRUCTURES before they were BUILT or the DOMES are younger than the floor. The area is OVAL or ELLIPTICAL."
What are these domes and structures that were built? Apollo radio public broadcasts from the Moon also used terms and phrases "FLASHES OF LIGHT", "BUILDINGS", "ROADS", "TRACKS", and "HUGE BLOCKS." When news reporters asked space program officials what these terms were all about, they were absurdly told that these are metaphors for geological formations. However, the scientist "who taught geology to the astronauts", admitted he was totally baffled by those terms! This geology expert, Farouk El Bez admitted the clincher when he said, "Not every discovery has been announced." When news reporters asked him about the flashes of light, Mr. Bez replied, "there is no question about it. Not natural."
Astronaut Irwin radioed back to Earth, "that's the most organized structure I've ever seen." How Could the most organized structure Irwin had ever seen be a natural formation? How can geological formations flash on and off.
N.A.S.A. tried to distort the truth by replying volcanic action could cause the flashes, yet in other contradictory statements said there was no volcanic activity observed in those areas.
Domes up to 1,500 feet high, taller than our skyscrapers were too high to deny that they were bigger than any building on Earth(miles wide). A radio tower appearing thing was photographed, along with sequences of large moving vehicles leaving tracks in the lunar soil. We have these photo reproductions.
A huge clearly photographed lake, wider than Maui island, was photographed on the hidden back side of the Moon with a spaceport near it(NASA APOLLO 8, with what appears to be a long road in the distance.
Have any of you ever wondered why there have been NO ASTRONAUTS SENT TO THE MOON SINCE 1973!? Why was the Moon program suddenly ended after so much publicized great success? What sense does that make? 17 years of no landings as of this writing. Why did N.A.S.A. scientists and spokesmen of the 1960s brag about how they were going to establish space bases, mining operations, and colonists on the Moon in the 1980s change their plans? The likely excuse is lack of money from Congress, but that was a cover-up. The Apollo program only costed less than one percent of the budget! Considering the huge billions spent on DEFENSE, the military advantage of having a base on the Moon would be enormous. Why were the American space officials of the 1950s-60s so publicly afraid that the Soviet military might beat America to the Moon to gain a military advantage. So why risk that serious threat by abandoning the Moon flights? And why did the Soviet cosmonauts NEVER land on the Moon?
COULD IT BE THAT THE MOON IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND SOMEONE ELSES PROPERTY, AND THE MOON GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT US COMING UP AND INVADING THEIR TERRITORY WITH OUR NUCLEAR WEAPONS, POLLUTION, UNWELCOME MILITARY FACILITIES, DISEASES, LITTER, MINING EXPLOITATION, AND HISTORICALLY PROVEN RECORD OF FOREIGN IMPERIALISM?
Could it be that Moon locals kicked us off their world fearing that Americans would exploit and conquer the Moon like we did with the Mexicans in the U.S. deserts, the Hawaiians, and other cultures. And would Moon citizens welcome Soviet Communist dictatorship, military aggression, and slave labor circa 1960s-70s? We doubt it.
N.A.S.A. is passed to the public as a civilian organization, but is it really? It is funded by government controlling the policies by financial pressures. N.A.S.A. directors and astronauts have traditionally been former military officers drawing military pensions, many who own stocks or positions in defense industries as civilians. When in the military they took oaths of secrecy regarding U.F.O.S, subject to U.F.O. secrecy laws like JANAP-146, The Code of Federal Regulations title 14 section 1211, and other military laws demanding U.F.O. secrecy for life. Punishments include fines up to $10,000, 10 year jail sentences, persistence harassment, and transfer or confinement to remote inconvenient military stations. While in the service people who talk too much about U.F.O.S may be court martialled, reduced in rank and pay, and dishonorably discharged, and in retirement they can lose all retirement financial and medical benefits...their income. In all cases they are threatened with confinement to mental institutions and the government agencies WILL PUBLICLY SAY THEY LIED OR SUFFERED FROM HALLUCINATIONS, etc. In cases of high ranking officers or key scientists or N.A.S.A. directors knowing shocking details about alien visitors, these individuals know that they can accidentally and suddenly die with their whole families in "planned" accidental deaths engineered by military intelligence agents. In extreme cases many were transferred to Vietnam or other foreign war zones, and bombed by American airplanes on purpose to silence them..and blame enemy planes. Some of the M.I.A.S met that fate...or were imprisoned in remote underground bases after they mysteriously disappeared "in action."
NOTE THAT the astronauts who talked about U.F.O.s were all from the era before the first APOLLO Moon landing(1969)before the wall of secrecy was imposed and during the years N.A.S.A. publicly admitted U.F.O. sightings. Why did N.A.S.A. suddenly change it's public policy? Was it the Apollo orbit around the Moon that sent back photographs of mining operations, domes, roads, a pyramid, a spaceport(named Luna) and lakes on the hidden dark side of the Moon? Did they fear a possible alien invasion from that base and panic and fear the public would panic? Was it too embarrassing to admit that all the billions of taxpayers dollars spent on the space program was largely wasted because the main goal was to colonize the Moon and we were kicked off that world because "we are screwed-up?" No official wants to admit what corrupt negative folks they are on the six o-clock news, after being told so by aliens!
Why do some of the craters photographed on the Moon have the exact same walls, floors, rims, and other details as atomic bomb craters...and do not geologically look like the other craters formed by meteor impact? The Lamont Observatory and other civilian experts noted that fact.
Why did the N.A.S.A. program land a probe on the Moon, its batteries went out, and it stopped working supposedly forever, and then someone or something mysteriously turned it back on, repaired it, and it began working after a year of silence? When confronted with their photos of domes and roads and other artifacts, why do certain N.A.S.A. spokesmen reply "no comment", "subject to further analysis", "not all the discoveries have been announced" and other double-talk to keep them looking clean if the bubble ever bursts big-time?
Plate 115, Apollo 16, 16-18918 has to be blown-up to clearly see the large oval-shaped object inside a crater. N.A.S.A. has no scientific explanation for this object that does not fit into the natural terrain. Apollo 13 NASA NO. 13-60-8609 shows a large circular glowing UF.O. hovering over a very dark Moon landscape, definitely not natural. N.A.S.A. LUNAR ORBITER 5 Photo HR 1033, taken on the hidden side of the Moon, clearly shows a huge cylindrical shaped object appearing to be parked on the Moon with front section in an opening on the side of the crater at Mare Moscovience. There is so scientific geological explanation. Apollo 15 photo 1512640 shows a reported mining operation at the Hunboltd crater. 3 domes are shown inside the crater Archimedes.
The ancient Babylonians, Sumerians, Egyptians, Chaldeans, Phonecians, Assyrians, Aztecs, Mayans, Hindus, and Tibetans all left written records claiming they were contacted by ancient astronauts who taught them the basics of civilization, but not technology that could be used against the E.T.s. Modern historians do not tell us that because they believe the ancients were not telling the truth...with no documented evidence to PROVE the ancients made-up the histories. There is a lot more evidence the ancients were telling the truth, based on the astronomical knowledge no primitive cultures could has possibly attained, artifacts and ruins only a modern technology could create, and the sudden appearance of the Egyptian civilization at its cultural peak with no prior history of evolving. There is a lot of documented proof (SEE MY VOLUME HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN AGES."
Many scientists in 1990, as well as thorough archeologists-explorers like Robbert Charroux, Eugenes Savoy, Warren Smith, Peter Colosimo, Dr. George Hunt Williamson, and many others in my files from the last few decades, say they've absolute scientific proof of ancient astronauts based on ancient writings, ruins, artifacts, and historical contradictions they have analyzed in painstaking investigations. I have also talked to Farida Iskiovet of the United Nations U.F.O. investigation and 8 former army, navy or air force intelligence officers who had top secret security clearances, as well as former N.A.S.A officials, and our department interviewed some ex C.I.A. agents...who all say they know there were ancient astronauts influencing earlier cultures..and here is the bombshell...there is scientific proof of ancient nuclear warfare on Earth left by radiated ruins and skeletons, nuclear bomb craters on Earth from ancient times, and buildings and objects with that nuked look, as well as carbon-dating and radiation tests on these things. Is that tied into the nuclear bomb appearing Moon Craters? And if ancient astronauts could get to Earth from other solar systems, it would be easier for them to get to our Moon because its thin atmosphere and absence of violent weather would make it much easier for construction and mining...not to mention its absence of large empires of hostile locals!
We have accumulated massive research indicating our Moon was colonized and explored by races from other planets, most notably in the Orion constellation, and that aliens Called ZETANS from Zeta Reticula are active there today. The Zetans have been analyzed by government psychologists to be, in ways, similar to Nazi scientists...technologically very advanced and materialistic, intellectual geniuses, yet lacking the kind of compassionate emotions and spiritual desires common with most people in our Earth nations.
To N.A.S.A, the Pentagon, the President and his top aids...that finding is a bit too scary to put on our six o'clock television news. If you think people might panic, you must first realize that the military officers who have been running the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies and a Secretary of Defense already HAVE panicked. If they can do that will all their military power, where do we stand? A chance?
There is also absolute scientific proof that the Zetans have forcibly abducted thousands of Americans, many who were used in bizarre Nazi-like genetic experiments. The locals on the Moon, from Regil, Betelguese, the Bernard Star, and a planet orbiting Sirius, most known as "grays" but not all(some are blue, Nordic blondes, or orange or even pale white), are the ALLIANCE OF THE HOLY 6)..their capital planet reportedly TYRANTOR. They have been involved in a star wars empire intergalactic war for at least 50,000 years, during which they invaded on conquered planets in Regil and enslaved many people, the star wars against the Lyrans and Vegans, and against the Sirians who would not join the ALLIANCE OF SIX. Some of these star wars were fought on Earth in ancient times when colonies from different planets fought for our planet to try to take control. The Pleideans from planet Erra, humans from a spaceport on Venus, Sethians, Centaurians and beings from the reported 12th planet in our system were involved in these battles on Earth and were mostly driven off the planet(except for remaining secret underground cities and bases all of those civilizations still have on Earth). The Zetans now have a spaceport on the hidden dark side of the Moon, and many underground cities there too. They also have scientific, military, and mining stations on the surface of the Moon. So Americans and Russians can't just fly up there and plant their flags and say, "hey, this is ours!"(like they are used to doing after invading other countries on Earth).
Government agents have been forced to do everything they can theorize or scam on, to make it look like the Moon is a dead world impossible to inhabit. What they do not tell you is that ZETANS do not need an atmosphere like ours to breath because ZETANS do not have lungs. They do not need to irrigate and grow crops because Zetans have no digestive systems. They do not need to worry about being too hot or cold because they have incredibly thick tough skin..like reptiles only more extreme and much tougher..and are cold-blooded...the sun, heat, and cold on the Moon do not damage their skin. In fact, they would DIE IN OUR EARTH ATMOSPHERE without a space suit, like they did after emerging from those crashed flying saucers...because our Earth atmosphere is poisonous to Zetans. The atmosphere in one of their planets, orbiting a dying red star sun, is composed of elements like sulfur and carbon monoxide...described by some scientists like the runaway greenhouse effect of out of control pollution Zetans would like on Earth for themselves. They cannot live on the surface of Earth without creating genetic sub-human hybrids in laboratories..part them and part us. So they live in underground cities in the United States, Soviet Union, Moon, Mars and certain asteroids off Jupiter.
In ancient times a planet between Mars and Jupiter, Maldek, was destroyed and turned to asteroids by a nuclear war, allegedly from Zetanic influence. Mercury had a civilization and atmosphere and was destroyed by nuclear war, reportedly knocking it out of orbit sending it too close to the sun. MARS also had nuclear wars which reportedly destroyed its oceans, much of its atmosphere, forests, and farms (which were further devastated by a passing comet or asteroid). We are fortunate such star wars did not destroy Earth after they set-off the global cataclysms that destroyed Atlantis, Lemuria, Rama, and other continents...and devastated civilizations in ancient Middle Eastern, Asian, and American Amazonian cultures, etc.(for the scientific evidence read my volume HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN AGES.
We also have massive documented evidence that the N.A.S.A. SPACE PROGRAM is a public front and proof it is a public "disinformation agency", and we have files of false contradictory statements it has made about the atmospheres of Venus, Mars, the Moon, etc.
There is another TOP SECRET military space program that is the REAL THING.
THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM It is known to some as Alternative 3. it is not designed to serve the public. It is designed to RESCUE the elite of the President and his inner circle, the Joint Chiefs of Staff running the military, key corporate executives playing the secret game, key top scientists in on the scam, certain favored political leaders, directors of the secret intelligence agencies, and key members of secretive organizations with names like illuminati, Council on Foreign Relations, Jason Scholars(a top think tank), MJ-12 or MAJORITY, Round Table, Bilderbergers, Tri-lateral Commission, and other "insiders" from that a "THINK TANK" of top scientists from many fields, concluded in the 1950s to 1960s, was an unavoidable series of world catclysms that would destroy most of humanity by the year 2,000. Included in this scenario was the great threat of nuclear war, runaway greenhouse effect, out-of-control pollution and over-population(running out of necessary natural resources), and cataclysmic earthquakes and tidal waves caused by the periodic historical proven shifts of the Earth's axis, as well as a comet projected to come too close to Earth. The first two alternatives involved using scientific technology and world negotiations with leaders to stop those disasters, but the experts believed that would be hopeless; as well as going underground on Earth which was also considered a bad idea. Alternative 3 was to develop a top secret insiders space program with Majority(MJ-12) as a secret interplanetary state department in the Pentagon, and secretly build underground spaceports to live in on Mars and the Moon and surface domed manufacturing, mining, communications, and other centers. The ALTERNATIVE 3 astronauts landed on the Moon and built their own bases many years BEFORE the FIRST APOLLO ASTRONAUTS landed on the Moon in 1969, as the result of a secret treaty between the pentagon and the Zetans. The Zetans helped the Department of Majority colonize the Moon with secret bases, and in exchange the Pentagon's Majority Department helped the ZETANS colonize the United States with their own secret underground bases. The Pentagon decided that co-operating with the ZETANS was a better idea than being invaded!
The Zetans showed the pentagon scientists how to Construct nuclear and mercury powered saucers, as well as space shuttles, rockets, and other N.A.S.A. technology that was inferior to the anti-gravity magnetic powered saucers of the Zetans and thus at a military disadvantage. Of course, our Presidents did not want to go on the six o'clock news to talk about how they made a top secret treaty with a violent conquering foreign planet that in the past nuked the Earth people! Not a bad reason for a big secret.
The Pentagon's secret saucers were also aided by captured NAZI rocket scientists who were testing saucers they got from the ZETANS instructors in 1944, when the Zetans had the NAZIS do their genetic experiments for them...much easier than abductions. The primitive saucers, rockets, and shuttles of the pentagon insiders, often mistaken for REAL U.F.O.S, made it to the Moon and Mars. In May 1962, a secret spacecraft from the Pentagon landed on Mars and video-taped it, and I have seen the actual video. It shows a Martian landscape far different than what N.A.S.A. showed us! Mars had canals, lakes, green vegetation, swamps, and animal life on the surface, but N.A.S.A. the dis-information agency wants you to believe it is a dead world so you will not expect E.T.S live there! They have never shown the public most of the 2,000 photos they promised us with VIKING I.
When the first Apollo astronauts landed on our Moon in 1969, they were shocked to find it already inhabited. Thousands of Americans, Soviets, British, French, and Australians were ALREADY LIVING THERE! Astronauts who discovered too much truth and were considered security risks died in those famous accidents in the shuttle or on the launch pad, etc.
Have you ever wondered why the HUBBLE, the most expensive and expertise telescope ever invented, was flawed so it would not take the kinds of photos it should produce? Do you really believe all those technological experts from prestigious universities with billions of dollars at their disposal could make such embarrassing idiot mistakes. Please, do not be so naive, if you so do. This was a planned accident because that telescope was too good. It would photograph things on the Moon and Mars and in orbit that the public astronomers are not supposed to see!
The footage of the American spacecraft landing on Mars BEFORE Apollo landed on the Moon leaked out in major public British TV for one evening, thanks to a smuggling scientist, before it was Censored and never made it to America. British authorities tried to call it a hoax to cover-up the leak, but it was no hoax. The only astronaut who has ever died outside of duty said it was the truth on video, and he was silenced. We have seen that interview too, as well as a secret video stewing the scientist who leaked that video being assassinated. A book exposing ALTERNATIVE 3 appeared in 1976 and was quickly forced out of print. I have read it. You can't even order it, and the printers will not issue a new release in spite of a huge demand! Very strange to turn down that big profit. Not really.
On public FRANCE INTER TV on August 3rd, 1962, at 8:00 A.M., and also in the weekly magazine Le Meilleur, was another leaked that was covered up fast. Alain Ayache reported "why has no one Spoken of the mysterious message heard on the Moon---20 untranslatable words? Perhaps it proves that other men exist, something that N.A.S.A wished to hide...words which really sow the Seeds of panic. Everything was going well that day on our Moon, then at 11:15 an extraordinary fading occurred and contact with Houston was lost. Worden, who was in charge of telecommunications, had his attention drawn by a breathing sound and a long whistle. A sentence was constantly repeated on one note., Varying from a small to a shrill tone, and from lightly stressed sounds to raucous exclamations. Luckily the transmission was recorded on Lem's tape recorder, and Worden transmitted it to N.A.S.A. Here are the 8 separate words .......
"MARA RABBI ALLARDI DINI ENDAVOUR ESA COUNS ALIM."
Why did the Berlin Wall Come down so suddenly and unexpectedly with the cold war ending and enemies becoming friends? Did President Reagan give a clue at his speech at the 42nd session of the General General Assembly of the United Nations, on September 21, 1987, saying "in our obsessions with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget much unites the members of all humanity. Perhaps we need some OUTSIDE universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think that how quickly our differences world-wide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet I ask, "IS NOT AN ALIEN FORCE ALREADY AMONG US?"
In Reagan's speech on December 4, 1985, he stated "if suddenly there was a threat to this world from Some other species from another planet, we'd forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries." Soviet President Gorbachev publicly stated "At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the Earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the U.S. and Soviet Union would join forces to repel the invasion." (Feb. 6. 1987 in Soviet Life)
I ABSOLUTELY EMPHASIZE THAT YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR OF THE ZETAN INVASION, AS THE UNITED CONFEDERATION OF PLANETS(the friendly aliens plans to remove all of them from Earth in 1993! More details in another one of my documents, tapes, and lectures.
THIS IS NOT FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC. Use common sense, wisdom, discretion in spreading this information, while avoiding skeptics, paranoid types, religious fanatics, and the emotionally unstable.
CIVILIZATIONS ON MARS
In 1959 a Martian flying disc spacecraft reportedly landed in the wilderness outside of Moscow, in the Soviet Union, where a secret meeting with Soviet Premier Nakita Kruschev was arranged. The conference regarded improving relations with Earth, exchanging knowledge, and securing world and interplanetary peace, yet the Soviet government rejected the terms. This report originated from Sgt. Willard Wannall, formerly of Army Intelligence, who investigated U.F.O.s in Hawaii while in the military in the 1950s, and met with us while we were in the Department of Interplanetary Affairs research agency in the 1970s.
On April 24, 1964, an oval shaped metallic flying object landed in a farm field in Newark Valley in New York State, and two alien beings emerged from the estimated 20 foot long craft. Farmer, Gary Wilcox drove his tractor toward the object clearly visible on a bright sunny day. The farmer kicked the metallic object to make sure it was real. The two occupants were about 4 feet high, and they carried a square tray full of the different vegetables they had collected from his farm. Wilcox reported that when he confronted the beings stealing his crops, they said "don't be alarmed, we have spoken to people before." Gary described the voices as being very strange. They wore white, metallic-looking overalls without seams, stitching or pockets. He could not see their hands or feet. He could not see their other features beneath the full space-suits, which we speculated were protecting these aliens from the Earth's atmosphere deadly to their race. As Wilcox became inquisitive, one of them stated, "We are from what you know as the planet Mars. We can only come to Earth every two years," and left a warning that Earth people should stay out of space. They said that they were studying the organic materials on Earth because of the rocky structure of Mars, and that they did not fly near our cities because they avoided the air pollution. The beings told Wilcox everything in monotone. He asked if he could go with them and they rejected.
Wilcox gave the beings a bag of fertilizer and exchanged information about it and other subjects, before they entered the craft and took off. Wilcox was investigated by a psychiatrist and the sheriff department, who found him a normal, truthful person with no emotional problems, and they confessed they believed his UFO experience was real.
In February 1972, United Nations diplomat Farida Iskiovet, who investigated UFOs and occupant contacts for the President of the General Assembly, told me and my department agents that she had been contacted by a landed spacecraft from the planet Mars. The reported contact took place in the Mojave Desert, in California, in 1971, and made the "front page" of the major Arizona newspaper the daily Arizona Republic. This story also made the front page of the San Clemente Sun-Post in an article written by Fred Swegles, who covered President Nixon and his staff at the Western Whitehouse. Farida stated that the alien offered to admit an ambassador to their interplanetary confederation in this solar system, in exchange for an alien ambassador to the General Assembly of the United Nations, in an attempt to re-establish diplomatic relations with Earth and other planets that had been suspended in ancient times due to hostility on Earth. However, the terms of this peace arrangement were not acceptable to the Security Council, and the exchange was rejected in a secret meeting. Adam Malik, President of the United Nations, was in favor of the treaty and exchange and he was in contact with us on this matter. Iskiovet and Malik were frustrated with U.N. attempts to block this exchange, so they came to us to help try to establish a civilian council to handle affairs between the people on Earth and the Interplanetary Confederation in this solar system.
The corporations and military-government interests that finance and control the U.N. did not accept the alien insistence on destroying all weapons, ending all wars, and eliminating all polluting fuels, which are all the biggest bank accounts in the world.
The most famous astronomers of the early twentieth century, including the great Percival Lovell, stated there were signs of intelligent life on Mars. They reported huge areas of green vegetation that expanded and contracted with the melting of the ice caps and the 4 seasons on Mars. In the 1950s, teachers in public schools in America taught students that the temperature at the Martian equator was about 80 degrees.
The man credited with inventing the radio, Marconi, published data that he believed he had received intelligent radio signals from Mars.
For three decades, several astronomers in different parts of the world reported seeing flashing and moving lights on the surface of Mars, some huge explosions, and other strange unnatural phenomenon. In 1927, the U.S. government carried out a public experiment designed to try to detect intelligent life on Mars, by sending radio transmissions toward that planet and waiting for an answer. A series of dots and dashes, in Morse code was revealed on a machine, reportedly originating from the direction of Mars, and drawing a human face on a piece of receiving paper in dots and dashes! This drawing in Morse code was displayed in the Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C,
In 1976 the famous Viking probe was sent to Mars by NASA, and out of over 2,000 photos reportedly taken of that planet, only a small fraction were shown to the public. Since most of those photos were not released to the news-media, were they trying to hide something?
One photo that was published by the U.S. daily newspapers over a decade later, shows what many researchers believe to be pyramids and a huge face carved into the surface of Mars. We have studied other Mars photos showing what appears to be an ancient ruined city, roads, rectangular buildings, and walls. Skeptics say that shadows may make natural objects appear like a man-made structure, yet all the photos taken from different angles of the sun and the cameras show the exact same objects the same way, ruling out the shadow theory.
The proof that the NASA space program covers up the truth about Mars is all tile serious contradictions in their public data. NASA told the public that the Martian atmosphere is less than one percent of that of Earth. Then how could their 50 foot parachute on the rocket they landed on Mars even slow it down? Scientists calculated NASA would need a parachute over a mile wide to slow down the Viking probe in a one percent atmosphere! Their 50 foot parachute would crash like a rock!
Furthermore, if the Martian atmosphere is only one percent of Earth's, how can sand dunes similar to our deserts in Arizona be photographed. Impossible! It would take 200 mile-per-hour winds on a planet with air said to be so thin that no winds over 40 miles-per-hour had ever been recorded, and the warm rising air to cause those winds did not even exist on that part of Mars(according to other NASA data). NASA also claimed that the temperatures around the Martian polar areas was a minus 90 to 120 degrees, in a region where another NASA statement said the polar ice melts. How can ice melt at minus 90 to 120 degrees below zero? It melts at 32 degrees above zero.
How can NASA land a probe on Mars that shoots out a flame that burns the soil below it at thousands of degrees with deadly chemicals, then a shovel scoops up that SAME fried poisoned soil and reports "there is no life in it." What life on Earth could survive in soil blasted at thousands of degrees by poisonous chemicals ? All the loose topsoil of any potential biological value was blown away by the rocket landing.
Fred Steckling, who has some thorough research on Mars, stated that "their true findings and most pictures are classified material which to this day have not been shown. He added that we were told Mars is about half the size of Earth, with a surface gravity of about 40 percent and that the atmospheric pressure is about 7.7. millibars compared to 1,000 on Earth. We are also told that the Martian temperature ranged from minus 22 below zero(F) to minus 122 degrees. One Viking probe landed about a thousand miles closer to their equator than the other one, yet contradicted logic by reporting the temperature at the equatorial region was colder than up north. He added, "the amazed scientists discovered a 100 percent mistake during atmospheric measurements. The argon content of the Martian atmosphere was not 30 percent, but only 3 percent. A mistake of the same magnitude was admitted when a much higher water vapor reading was received than thought possible from earth measurements."
Dr. George Sands, of Mission Control, stated "IT IS OBVIOUSLY WETTER THAN WE ANTICIPATED. THERE IS GROUND FOG AT THE LANDING SITE DURING PART OF THE DAY. Thirty microns of water have been found in the atmosphere, enough to not only cause ground fog, but ALSO FROST AND SNOW!"
NASA data, to a meteorologist, problematically proves Mars is much warmer than official reports stated. Ground fog is made by warm moist air moving across cool land or water, and ground fog is a product of temperatures ABOVE 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
Water-based clouds like on Earth have been photographed about 15,000 feet over Mars, and such clouds and fog cannot exist in an atmospheric pressure of only 7.7 millibars. Evidence indicates that 32 degrees above zero must exist up to at least 15,000 feet on Mars, which is higher than Haleakala Crater in Hawaii. We all know we can live as we walk through Haleakala. Minus 122 degree temperatures can exist in certain parts of Mars, just like minus127 degrees has been recorded on Earth.
There are also thousands of American scientists, engineers, medical personal, and other specialists secretly living in Martian underground bases and cities, who have either been abducted by UFOs and taken there, or are part of a top secret exchange program with the Pentagon's MJ-12 agency called ALTERNATIVE THREE. The Pentagon has been secretly trading livestock, minerals, and a labor force to these Zetans on Mars, for a couple of decades at least, for technology that was developed into the Star Wars defense system, lasers, superior metals, computers, medical advancements, etc. Read our report on aliens on Maui for the details.
Martians also live on Earth underground at secret cities and bases, like the one below the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean established by Baavians.
Most Martians are 3 to 4 feet tall, yet not all of them are the same size or race.
The underground civilization has no pollution, disease, crime, poverty, political corruption, malnutrition, or warfare, and few of the problems associated with Earth civilization.
It has been described as a technological, intellectual, scientific, computerized paradise, where emotions such as pleasure, sexual ecstasy, and individuality have been eliminated among the locals. Following leaders called Knowers is the norm. Cloning is the main form of reproduction.
However, there is also a spiritual civilization on Mars that is so far advanced that the other civilizations cannot interfere with it. The spiritual civilization has very little involvement with Earth and avoids its internal affairs. This civilization is on a higher 4th dimensional frequency than the other 3D nations on Mars.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN magazine stated, "the Martian environment is by no means so hostile as to exclude LIFE."
The sand dunes on Mars photographed by the Orbitter have the SAME height and dune to dune spacing as sand dunes on Earth in Colorado. That is impossible in an atmosphere one percent of Earth's. Viking 2 revealed the Martian polar caps are frozen water, that snows often, and the atmosphere above the polar areas is saturated with water vapor. NASA stated the North Pole on Mars is now going through its summer, so the ice cap is about as small as it ever gets. How can ice in these below zero temperatures melt like they said it does?
Dr. Martin, who was with Pasadena Viking Control, said the biology instrument on Mars have received positive signs of life in spite of the amazing fact it was at such a blow-torched landing site! "Analysis of the Martian environment has so far shown that there is carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sufficient amounts of water vapor.
ARE NOT THESE THE BASIC INGREDIENTS FOR LIFE. If we would have placed our Viking landers in our Pasadena parking lot and received the SAME chemical and biological readings were, received from Mars, WE WOULD HAVE CALLED IT A DEFINITE SIGN OF LIFE." He gave that report at the International Academy of Astronautics.
Scientists admit that if all the water trapped below the surface of Mars was released to the surface, it would form an ocean a mile deep covering the entire planet!
Dr. Daniel J. Milton reported that "we have photographed the Martian mystery channels(canals). They resemble huge flood channels some 24 miles wide and several hundred miles long, shaped by sudden discharges of water that dwarf the flow of the Amazon River." Dr. Milton is a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, commenting in Science Newsfront.
An international AP release stated that photos of Mars' northern regions reveal mysterious patterns, resembling contour PLOWING on the planet's red surface. Striped patterns that resemble an aerial photograph of a farmers field after plowing have been studied with no natural explanation. The stripes are too regular to be natural.
In research published by the French archeologist and historian Robbert Charreux, which we have been unable to even order in book stores in the United States(why is it suppressed?), Mars was colonized by extraterrestrials from the Proxima Centauri solar system about 15,000 years ago. These were tall aliens from a planet about half the size of Earth called Baavi. These expeditions found Mars similar in size to Baavi, with similar atmospheric characteristics. Mars has many canyons and at the bottoms are shrubby trees not more than ten feet high, standing on both sides of small narrow streams. On the banks of these streams is a type of moss which stores infrared heat rays from the sun during the day, and then gradually releases that heat at night. As a result, when the night temperature on the red Martian plains dips to sixty to one hundred degrees below zero, near the moss at the canyon floors it may be 40 to 50 degrees above zero. The oxygen of the air is largely fixed by the ground under the atmospheric pressure that is really about a tenth of the surface of Earth(at sea level), so there can be a 40 degree difference between air and ground. The bottoms of such canyons have released enough oxygen to support a small humanoid monad Martian with robust vitality.(Even NASA admits huge quantities of oxygen and water are trapped below the Martian ground).
The report added that the mammals on Mars are rodents with thick white fur, comparable to large hares, that feed on roots, larvae, and the eggs of big lizards that live among the low rocks of the canyon walls. In deep hollows, water forms marshes in which crustaceans proliferate. About 12,000 years ago life-sustaining conditions on Mars deteriorated to the point where it became urgent to evacuate most of the inhabitants, who migrated to Earth and landed high in the mountains of Tibet, where the air is thin with little oxygen like it is on Mars.
However, before the exodus the Baavians had hybrid genetic cross-breeding with the short native Martians with the somewhat Oriental features.
This inter-racial mixing took place over many generations over 3,000 years, producing a humanoid hybrid. However, many of the residents of Mars flew to the Moon and Earth (where many primitive ancients mistook them for gods).
Mars once had large oceans, abundant atmosphere, and vegetation according to official NASA research. They just try to cover it up today.
We have much detail on the Baavian civilization on their home planet, in our other publications. The Martians who landed on Earth about 11 to 12 thousand years ago, over hundreds of generations, slowly adopted to lower elevations and Earth's climate as they gradually migrated to the lowlands over the centuries to seed the Asian races.
Other research states that Mars was involved in nuclear wars when the Orion Empire invaded our solar system in ancient times, devastating the forests, oceans, rivers, and atmosphere on both Mars and Mercury ..... and causing the destruction of the ancient prehistoric Atlantean Empire on Earth. The nuclear devastation in Atlantean times was so great very little trace remains today of that culture. Other reports indicate Mars was also devastated by a catastrophic approach of a comet in ancient times, indicating more than one great cataclysm on Mars (we have scientific evidence of 5 great world cataclysms on Earth in ancient times). Many Martians chose to colonize the safe inside of their planet deep underground, rather than to flee to Earth. Today an entire civilization of artificial dome-shaped protected underground cities, air-conditioned with controlled climate and connected by tunnels and subways...exist all around Mars. These self-sufficient underground communities grow their own food in artificial food facilities created by their superior technology, mine the interior of the planet, and manufacture space-craft.
Mars is reportedly no longer involved in colonizing the Earth or trying to substantially interfere in our affairs like they did in ancient times. There are also different races living on Mars. These races originate from other solar systems, and are not at the same level of spiritual, technical, or intellectual evolution, disagreeing on interplanetary affairs. One race active on Mars is reportedly from Zeta Reticula, a small humanoid grey race with large heads, long slender arms, and no lungs(they do not need an atmosphere to breath), and no digestive system as we know the Zetans are biologically somewhat like insects, with thick tough skin adaptable withstanding a harsher atmosphere like on the surface of Mars. There are also androids and robots living on the .Martian surface!
The Sirian Interplanetary Empire reportedly claimed Mars before it claimed Earth in Atlantean times, and the ancients called the Sirian constellation the Phoenix Constellation...the Phoenician Empire in ancient Persia worshipped SIr.
The Phoenician Empire in ancient Persia worshipped Sirius, and the Phoenix Project of the Secret Government(Illuminati) using technology Tesla, Einstein, Parsons, and Von Neumann was named after the Sirian solar system and constellation. Its former directors now trying to expose its secrets claimed that the Sirians gave them their technology of mind-control, time-travel, invisibility, etc.
Our chronology indicates that at one time the Sirians controlled Mars, the Pleiadeans controlled Venus, the Orion League controlled the Moon, and the Vegan Lyrans controlled the Earth ..... while galactic war devastated Lemuria, Atlantis, and other ancient Earth empires as these races fought for control of the Earth's natural resources, people, and rulers.
The Sirians evacuated Mars when its atmosphere and surface was devastated by nuclear war and a comet, while the Alcyone Pleiadeans evacuated Venus in the same conflicts Venus Whov.
Whatever race lived on Mercury also had to leave its material plane, yet we have yet to discover specifically who lived there before it was hocked out of orbit and spun closer to the sun in a nuclear cataclysm. Of course, Maldek was blown apart into asteroids in these cataclysms.
This scenario is allegedly the reason why the Galactic Confederation, the Solar Police Force, the Ashtar Command, and even the Orion League(Star Wars Evil Empire) will not allow a major nuclear war on Earth anymore. Such a cataclysm would destroy the Orion colony on the Moon(Luna) and the Sirian colony today on Mars. The Illuminati and its 4th Reich(New Berlin Nazis), Asian Communism, and Western nuclear powers do not want such a war for the same reasons. It took too long to recover last times
The Clementine probe that took over a million detailed photos of the Moon in the 1990s took a lot of detailed photos of domes and ruins and artifacts on the Lunar surface that are not available to the public. I have been in close association with Richard Hoagland and his Mars Mission.
Hoagland is the famous scientists who wrote the Monuments of Mars and publicly exposed the Pace, pyramids, and other Martian and Lunar ruins on CNN, major newspapers, and national and international magazines. He came to Maui in 1994 when I was only able to say Hi and shake hands. Later I became affiliated with his Mars Mission to expose this huge news. We witnessed color photos of the shattered domes and other artifacts on the Moon blown up to movie theater screen size at the Castle Theater on Maui. They were shocking evidence of some incredible ancient Lunar cataclysms.
Hoagland also sent details of suppressed photos taken by Clementine that further confirm this evidence and a lot more. It also turned out that NASA had been releasing several-generation copies of the key photos instead of the clearest archive originals, and in the archives same key photos were missing completely! Hoagland had demanded access to the NASA archives and was given a lot of run-around until certain NASA researchers sided with him and showed him some hidden evidence.
We suggest to you...go to a video store and rent out Arnold's classic movie Total Recall. This is a mostly TRUE MOVIE about secret Pentagon/ Soviet/ Illuminati activities on Mars. A lot of truth is leaking out as so-called fagromented fiction.
Some researchers now think the 39,000 year old Egyptian Sphinx was a Sirian/Martian GODDESS whose breasts were sheered off by invading Christians who condemned goddess worship and defaced the hair and face destroying its feminine features. This information comes from the Phoenix Project scientists and technicians.
Aleister Crowley and his Magic secret societies are allegedly the legacy of Martian Secret Science and Sirian psychic and inter dimensional genetics. There are apparently some thriving underground cities on both the Mars and the Luna where intergalactic colonists and their associates shuttled up from the Phoenix Project, Delta Forces', Pentagon lunar-circles, New Berlin(underground in Antarctica), and Illuminati plan their future survival during prophesized Earth cataclysms.

2011-10-20T05:48:00.001-07:00

Gaddafi dies of wounds - NTC official
By Samia Nakhoul | Reuters –

Ritual Deaths

http://www.expansions.com/ritual-deaths-2/
Yesterday , there were several deaths that were all related to politics and media. Notice the ages of the people involved:
Kara Kennedy, daughter of the late Senator Ted Kennedy. She was 51 years old. She had beaten lung cancer and then died of a heart attack after doing her work-out for the day. She was a film-maker and TV producer.
Eleanor Mondale, daughter of the former Vice President, Walter Mondale. She was 51 years old and died after a battle with brain cancer. She was a radio host and a TV reporter.
Senator Charles Percy died at the age of 91. His daughter, Sharon, is married to Senator Jay Rockefeller. Sharon had a twin who was mysteriously murdered at 21 years old. That crime has never been solved.
Sen. Rockefeller is from West Virginia. On the same day of Senator Percy’s death, a plane crashed at an air show in West Virginia. Coincidence? Another plane crashed at an air show in Nevada, killing 9 people.
The number “51″ is the end of a series of cycles, numerologically. The number “91″ is a double new beginning. So, we have endings and beginnings symbolized in these deaths. Again, all connected to politics and media.
The number “9″ is the end of a cycle. The plane that crashed in West Virginia was a T-28. The number “28″ is the start of a double new beginning frequency. These numbers keep coming up over and over. It cannot be a coincidence.
All of these incidences show that the Illuminati are ending something and starting a new phase. This new phase will have to do with a political event and a media event. Watch the news very carefully before the end of this month. September, being a “9″, is also representative of an end of a cycle. This comes right before October, a “10″ month, which is the start of a double new beginning.
These deaths and crashes very clearly demonstrate how the Illuminati use numbers symbolically to enhance events that they seek to perpetrate on the public. Should be an interesting couple of weeks ahead.

2011-10-20T05:45:00.001-07:00

Ancient meteorites showered Earth with gold: study

By David Paul Morris | AFP News – Thu, Sep 8, 2011
Were it not for meteorites striking Earth some four billion years ago, humans would never have laid eyes on the gold that has raised and ruined civilisations, according to a study published Thursday.
Two hundred million years earlier, during the violent throes of planetary formation, Earth was a mass of molten minerals set ablaze by collisions with planet-sized heavenly bodies.
These Olympian crashes probably threw up the Moon and also caused billions of tonnes of liquefied gold and platinum -- enough to cover the planet with a crust four metres (13 feet) thick -- to sink to centre, creating its core.
And there the precious metals lie, forever beyond the reach of grasping human hands.
This much was known. The enduring mystery was why there remained anything more than trace amounts of gold in Earth's outermost skin, called the crust, and the layer underneath, the mantle.
Indeed, precious metals are tens, perhaps thousands of times more abundant in Earth's silicate mantle than they should be if none were added after the great meltdown during the planet's early phase.
Hence the theory that gold and other shiny rare metals were imported from outer space after our orbiting, rotating home had cooled enough to harden, at least partially, into rock.
But it was only a theory.
To put it to the test, a trio of researchers led by Matthias Willbold of the University of Bristol in Britain analysed ancient rocks from Greenland that took shape shortly after the formation of the core but before the suspected bombardment of meteorites.
Their results were published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
Using cutting-edge technology, they measured the isotopic composition of tungsten, a very rare element which, like gold and other heavy precious metals, gravitated to Earth's centre during the formation of the core.
When atoms have the same chemical makeup but a varying number of neutrons, which changes an atom's mass, they are said to have different isotopes.
These minute variations can indicate both the origin and age of a mineral.
Comparing the Greenland samples to rocks from elsewhere on the planet, the researchers detected a tiny but unmistakable 15-parts-per-million difference in the abundance of a particular isotope, called 182W.
The gap is perfectly consistent with the theory that the "excess" gold which human's so covet is a fortuitous by-product of an ancient meteorite shower.
"Our work shows that most of the precious metals on which or economies and many key industrial processes are based have been added to our planet by lucky coincidence when Earth was hit by about 20 billion billion tonnes of asteroidal material," Willbold said in a statement.

2011-10-20T05:44:00.001-07:00

RESEARCH ON MARS – Papers by Gilbert V. Levin, Ph.D.
http://www.gillevin.com/mars.htm

In 1952, Dr. Gilbert V. Levin invented a rapid, highly sensitive method to detect microbial contamination of water and food. In 1958, he obtained a NASA contract to develop the method to seek extraterrestrial life. The method was selected in 1969 for use on NASA’s 1976 Viking Mission to Mars. Originally named “Gulliver,” for the Lilliputians (microorganisms) it was seeking, it was renamed the “Labeled Release (LR)” experiment by NASA to indicate the technology used – the release of radioactive gas from radio-labeled compounds in the event they were metabolized by microorganisms in the Martian soil. Simply put, the LR squirted a drop of carefully designed radioactive food onto a tiny cup of Martian soil and monitored the air above the soil to detect radioactive gas that any microorganisms present might breathe out. Levin and his co-workers, notably Dr. Patricia Ann Straat, then spent the next decade developing the experiment and instrument, and in analyzing the results obtained from its successful operation on Mars. At both landing sites, some 4,000 miles apart, the LR returned evidence of living microorganisms. Initially discounted by NASA and most space scientists, the results of this milestone project have, nonetheless, been causing excitement and controversy ever since. In 1997, after 21 years of study of the Mars LR results, of new information scientists obtained about environmental conditions on Mars, and of the extreme environments in which life was found on Earth, Dr. Levin published his conclusion that the LR had, indeed, discovered living microorganisms on the Red Planet.

Levin first presented his conclusion in an invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) on July 30, 1997, in San Diego. On July 20, 1998, he presented another paper with new findings supporting that conclusion. Many attempts have been made since then by other authors to explain the Mars LR results as having been caused by chemical or physical reactions between the LR nutrients and the soil. No one, however, has duplicated the full experimental results the LR obtained on Mars. In recent years, there have been many important converts to the life theory, possibly the fore-runner of a major paradigm shift in humanity’s continual search for its place in the universe.

Below are his publications related to Mars. They are presented in chronological order, from the early up to the latest scientific findings by him and others related to this intriguing issue, the resolution of which, as termed by NASA, would be “the greatest experiment in the history of science.”

GILBERT LEVIN, Ph.D.

2011-10-20T05:42:00.000-07:00

Moon to have no-fly zones by month end

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http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article2432999.ece

THE PURPOSE: NASA's "recommendations" of no-fly zones are for preserving and protecting Apollo missions' historical sites and artefacts.

No-fly zones will come into effect on the moon for the very first time by the end of this month! Why, even buffer zones that spacecraft may have to avoid will come into existence. The reason: avoiding any spraying of rocket exhaust or dust onto certain historical sites and artefacts on the moon.

The historical sites are of course the Apollo landing sites and artefacts present on the moon. And the “recommendations” are for preserving and protecting these historical sites. There are currently more than three dozen historical sites that preserve the more than four-decade-old remains.

“Apollo 11 and 17 sites [will] remain off-limits, with ground-travel buffers of 75 metres and 225 metres from each respective lunar lander,” states the July 20 guidelines of NASA. Science journal had obtained the guidelines.

No legal binding

According to Science, by the end of this month NASA is expected to come up with a set of “recommendations” for spacecraft and astronauts visiting the “U.S. government property on the moon.” Of course, these recommendations will not be legally binding as the 1967 Outer Space Treaty makes it clear that the lunar surface has no owner.

Despite the lack of ownership, NASA is hopeful that other countries will respect the U.S. sentiments. Incidentally, the restriction list contains more than the historical sites. For instance, the list includes studying discarded food and abandoned astronaut faeces.

Study of bacteria

Though these restrictions may appear preposterous, there are clear scientific compulsions to collect and study them. For example, studying the discarded food will reveal the viability of bacteria on the moon and, if present, how they have mutated and survived after years of exposure to solar radiation.

It is worthwhile to remember that all scientific experiments conducted on board during space travel are of a few days duration and pale in comparison with decades of constant exposure to several stressful lunar conditions/environment.

Similarly, there are other scientific compulsions to study the artefacts left behind on the moon. For instance, any metallic objects would reveal how these materials have degraded after prolonged exposure to solar radiation and other peculiar conditions prevailing on the moon.

What prompted the space agency to act was the Google Lunar X prize for those landing a robot that moves 500 metres and sends images from the moon. Precise landing near the Apollo sites would get them more money.

Very recently, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. The paths made when the astronauts explored the lunar surface have been very clearly captured by the images.

According to NASA, at the Apollo 17 site, the tracks laid down by the lunar rover are clearly visible, along with the last foot trails left on the Moon. The images also show where the astronauts placed some of the scientific instruments that provided the first insights into the Moon's environment and interior.

Saturn Anomalies

2011-10-20T05:40:00.001-07:00

http://www.alien-ufos.com/ufo-alien-discussions/21727-gigantic-motherships-other-bizzare-anomalies-near-saturn.html

2011-10-20T05:38:00.001-07:00

Isolation biggest challenge in Mars trip simulation

Stephanie Smail reported this story on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:50:00

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/s3316299.htm

ELEANOR HALL: Finally today to the latest step by humans to reach the planet Mars.

Six participants in a simulation project are finding out exactly how hard it may be even to make the psychological leap.

They're aiming to stay in total isolation for 520 days - the time scientists think it would take to get to Mars and back, and they've already been in the simulator since June last year .

But the isolation and monotony is taking its toll, as Stephanie Smail reports.

STEPHANIE SMAIL: Diego Urbina has been isolated from the outside world for 15 months, and he misses it.

DIEGO URBINA: Simple things such as the blue sky, such as I don't know, going dancing in the evening. I love that, and here I am not able to do it.

STEPHANIE SMAIL: He's one of the six men from Russia, Italy, China and France who volunteered to simulate the year and a half long trip to Mars and back.

Based at a special facility at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, the men are living in a completely artificial environment, with no daylight and no fresh air.

Diego Urbina has been making video diaries during the project.

DIEGO URBINA: My family, I miss them a lot, and my friends. Well, in general I miss a lot the randomness of the world.

STEPHANIE SMAIL: And although there's only two months to go, the men are starting to struggle mentally.

Jonathan Clark from the Mars Society of Australia says the isolation the men are experiencing is similar to teams who travel to the Antarctic.

He says they experience a so-called "third quarter syndrome" when they're on the home stretch but there's still a way to go.

JOANTHAN CLARK: After the half way point and before the last quarter when people will be getting ready to come home, there is a very low point in morale.

Of course, going to a Mars mission there's also an additional factor as well. In the Antarctic with winter over, things start to improve. Of course, going to Mars the high point is the landing, which is half way through. And then after you've had all the excitement of the landing and all the attention then comes the hard slog of the eight month trip back to earth.

STEPHANIE SMAIL: The men have an internet connection and have been staying in touch with friends and relatives. Diego Urbina even has a Twitter account. But an artificial delay means direct conversations haven't been possible for months.

The Mars Society's Jonathan Clark.

JOANTHAN CLARK: There are no windows and of course this is something that's different to an actual space mission, where you would have a spacecraft window. And of course as you get closer to earth you'll see the earth growing from, you know, a pale blue dot to an actual planet. I'm sure that would have a real influence on morale as well, and they'd be getting sunlight through the windows.

STEPHANIE SMAIL: Project managers say the men have now set a record for the longest time away from the natural world in history and the last two months of the project will provide invaluable insights into the psychological and health impacts of the experiment.

Project manager Jennifer Ngo-Anh says the men have found intriguing ways to keep their spirits up.

JENNIFER NGO-ANH: So what they have been doing is for Halloween, for example, they dressed themselves up with scientific equipment. For Christmas they came up with their own self-made nativity scene, and they also celebrated the Chinese New Year.

STEPHANIE SMAIL: Jonathan Clark says the experiment is an invaluable contribution.

JOANTHAN CLARK: We do these experiments precisely so we can find out how to manage it. And future attempts will be more successful than present ones, and when we're ready to go to Mars then, you know, people will be even better at that.

ELEANOR HALL: I just couldn't do it. That's Jonathan Clark from the Mars Society of Australia ending Stephanie Smail's report.

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2011-10-20T05:36:00.001-07:00

Aliens and Ice Cream: We take another look at Bob Collin's UFO Book Exempt from Disclosure

We take a second look at the controversial alien visitation book, and recall the Spy Games that surrounded its release.
By GARY S BEKKUM
Futurist, STARstream ResearchThis page was last updated 09/21/2011 05:56:09 PM -0000
(STARpod.org) -- My first look at the 2nd edition of Bob Collins' expose' of the UFO cover-up Exempt from Disclosure was a few years ago.

Like Sharon Weinberger, the defense journalist, and author of the book Imaginary Weapons, "I am not a UFO person."
(Really, in spite of all of the UFO related material at STARpod.org, I have never had much interest in UFOs, at least since I read the Condon Report in the early 1970s. On the other hand, I have been very interested in reports of 'new physics' potentially related to UFO-like propulsion systems, such as the incredible claims of Podkletnov and Ning Li on antigravity-like effects. And especially where it can be shown that the US government has spent tax payer dollars investigating these kind of claims.)

Whereas Sharon spent the past few years exposing "imaginary weapons" that have been or are currently funded by the government, my interests lie primarily in current cutting edge scientific debates pointing towards "imaginary weapons" that might someday come to fruition.

Although it may appear that Sharon and I live on opposite ends of the debate, we both share fluid channels for sources living out their imaginary dreams on the Internet.

I first heard about the weirdness involving the UFO connections to the US Air Force from a source nicknamed "Sarge" -- to the best of my recollection this was 1983.

Sarge told me, "If you knew the truth about what's going on with the Air Force and the UFOs, you wouldn't be able to sleep at night!"

I filed this bit of gossip in the back of my mind and hardly thought about it for almost twenty years. However, in 1988, and mostly because of what I had heard from Sarge, I did watch a TV special UFO Cover-up: Live.

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When Bob Collins, a retired Air Force officer, offered to send me a copy of his Revised 2008 2nd edition of Exempt From Disclosure, I could hardly refuse.

Bob's timing could not have been better.

On a whim, I had been looking at the original "leaked" MJ-12 MAJIC TOP SECRET Eisenhower Briefing Document -- aka as MJ EBD -- an unconfirmed piece of work many (including the FBI) would declare as BOGUS. I was curious about the picture the MJ-12 documents were designed to paint in the reader's mind

What I found most curious about the MJ 'EBD' was the strange combination of markings and errors -- obscurity wrapped in obvious mistakes -- which suggested the possibility that there was more to this story than simple fabrication.

As it turns out, Bob Collins' book does paint the backdrop for a large part of the "rest of the story."

The revised Exempt from Disclosure strikes me as more coherent today than my (foggy) recollection of the original.

The new coherence is largely due to my own enhanced understanding of the stories behind the story, which I consider essential for anyone attempting to scale this particular mountain with any intention of finding a trail that leads to the top of the mystery.

(I ask that "UFO persons" steeped in the mythology have pity upon us newbies to the field -- those persons for whom this review is intended.)

An essential prerequisite to Bob's book is the 1988 national broadcast of "UFO Cover-up Live." Part of that broadcast includes two UFO "birds" from the AVIARY: FALCON and CONDOR.

Whereas the 1988 broadcast used the bird names to conceal the identity of these UFO sources, Bob's book opens up the back story to the so-called "bird droppings" and pushes the mystery with tidbits of fact, rumor, speculation, and conspiracy.

In a previous brief review I noted a "wealth of information" in Bob's book.

Bob's approach to the topic mixes fact with rumor, fantasy with speculation, and in the end leaves the uninitiated reader confused about what this journey is really all about.

I suspect that is exactly the purpose Collins had in mind.

You will not find an answer in Exempt from Disclosure.

Instead you will find a lot of unanswered questions waiting at the end of the road: questions I suspect that have haunted the author for years.

Collins' gift is to hand off the mystery to the reader, in hope that someone "out there" will pickup on the threads and track down the heart of the mystery.

I don't know if there is any one special trail to the top of this mountain, but the base is well worth exploring.

The book is divided into three main sections.

The first offers some background to the key persons involved in the "bird games" of the AVIARY, and the alleged MJ-12 group.

The second reviews some of the key intelligence persons alleged to have been involved, including CIA's Allen Dulles, James Jesus Angleton and Richard Helms.

The testimony of "contributor" Richard (Rick) Doty, a former AFOSI agent, provides most of the UFO-related information about the alleged alien visitors.

(It was Rick Doty's apparent 'behind the scenes' involvement that ultimately engaged CIA's Ron Pandolfi in the Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape affair, when concerns were raised about UFO-types and elicitation by foreign espionage with the intention of entering classified US government facilities.)

The final section concludes with a look at where the government may be keeping all of the ET technologies which many claim have been reversed engineered and incorporated into secret projects.

Along the way you will be treated to weird tales of alien ambassadors with a preference for strawberry ice cream and a human extraterrestrial exchange program.

I keep hearing Sarge in the back of my mind saying "If you knew the truth ..."

What are we to make of all of this?

In the end a "reality check" is necessary to put Collins' work in perspective.

We know for certain the government has an interest in exploiting weirdness for intelligence purposes. It's a matter of record found in numerous officially released documents dating back to World War Two.

Whereas "unauthenticated" documents (others would declare as "debunked" and "bogus") cannot be taken at face value, the true history of the American and British governments' fascination with parapsychology, UFO physics, and psychological warfare slowly trickles into public awareness in spite of serious resistance to the Freedom of Information.

It does not matter if the conspiracies and speculations are right or wrong.

Our government has been involved with UFOs in the past, persons in high-level government positions continue to express an interest, personal or otherwise, and intelligence agencies and their proxies in the private sector have been tasked to take advantage of phenomena outside of the mainstream experience.

To paraphrase my friend Sarge, after you read Exempt from Disclosure, you may not be able to sleep at night.

And if you are certain Bob Collins' book is nothing more than fantasy, keep in mind the old adage:

"The truth IS stranger than fiction."

Exempt from Disclosure is available at http://www.ufoconspiracy.com/

For more about the government's paranormal efforts, and some of the Spy Games surrounding Bob Collins' book, see SPIES LIES and POLYGRAPH TAPE -- Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games Book.

2011-10-20T05:34:00.001-07:00

APOLLO 18

There IS Some THING On The Moon

The new film Apollo 18 claims to be 'found footage' of a covert mission to the moon. But if you're looking for the REAL paranormal activity in space, we have the story.
In 1998, CIA & DoD consultant Ingo Swann published drawings of what appeared to be an extraterrestrial outpost on the lunar surface. We ask an American astronaut who's been there and report on our own close encounter with some THING not of this Earth. Is there a reason we never went back?
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By GARY S BEKKUM
Futurist, STARstream ResearchThis page was last updated 09/21/2011 05:55:29 PM -0000
(STARpod.org) -- There's Some THING on the Moon? Myths, fantasies, science fiction, and psychic spying claim a presence 'not of this Earth' on our nearest neighbor in space. Is there any truth underlying the new lunar alien conspiracy movie Apollo 18?
Not according to Dr, Edgar Mitchell, one of twelve men who walked on the Moon during the Apollo space program.
I asked Dr. Mitchell about Ingo Swann, one of the CIA's extraordinary human performance superstars in the 1970s, who once held a TOP SECRET security clearance and trained psychic spies for the military. In 1998, Swann self-published a small book about extraterrestrial visitors and his own personal encounters which began while he was working at the CIA-sponsored Stanford Research Institute on anomalous mental perceptions -- psychic remote viewing of targets in the Soviet Union. Swann and another CIA superstar, the late Pat Price, had somehow penetrated a super-secret NSA facility in West Virginia and produced classified information -- allegedly using only the powers of the mind.
Shortly after this, Swann was contacted by a mysterious "Mr. Axelrod" (a pseudonym) who had a target he needed to be 'remote viewed' -- typically this was done by providing coordinates of the location. When Swann agreed to have a look -- after being blind-folded with a bag over his head and strip searched and brought to a secret underground location -- he was shocked to discover the target was on the lunar surface, and there, before his mind's eye, were humanoid extraterrestrial beings staring right back at him, using the powers of their mind's eye. And according to Swann, whatever these beings represented, they appeared to have super-human powers of perception far beyond anything he had previously encountered.
For a time, Swann claims to have been frightened that the extraterrestrial intelligence he had encountered would track him down and come after him. Later Swann had an encounter with a beautiful female being in a Los Angeles grocery store, all while under the observation of Mr. Axelrod's men. And to top it off, Axelrod later told Swann, over a scrambled phone connection, that the female alien he had encountered was "really dangerous." Then, as if this wasn't enough to rattle Swann's state of mind, Axelrod flew him to an undisclosed location somewhere in Alaska to eye-witness an unidentified object floating over a lake. Having sensed Axelrod and his men, and the then very frightened Ingo Swann, the object fired at them with what can only be described as a powerful laser beam weapon. With tree limbs falling all around and on top of the men, they quickly took cover. Looking back, Swann watched as the unearthly object drew water from the lake into its belly -- and then it was gone.
So, with all of the set-up for a REAL Apollo 18 like story, I asked Dr. Mitchell, who is also well known for an interest in the nature of consciousness, what he thought about Swann's encounter stories.

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When I contacted astronaut Mitchell, I naturally inquired if he knew anything about visitors inhabiting our nearest neighbor in space, noting that Kit Green, a former CIA analyst who consults to the US Defense Intelligence Agency on emerging technology threats, had come forward about government contact with alleged extraterrestrial biological entities (see Mark Pilkington's book Mirage Men and my own Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape for further information on the alleged alien presence).
"Very suspicious of Ingo's claims about black ops and aliens on the moon," emailed Mitchell, who then added, "It is certainly possible and even likely that ETs have had operations on and around the moon, but nothing that we (NASA astronauts) have seen and reported."
This was not exactly what lunar conspiracy theorists wanted to hear, but at least Mitchell left the door open for otherworldly possibilities.

During the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon, Mitchell conducted unauthorized ESP tests. Later he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to explore the nature of human consciousness. He has also reported on very strange, seemingly psychokinetic events in his book, The Way of the Explorer, so I asked if he was aware of recent revelations that former NSA Senior Official Thomas Drake had been experimenting with Chris Robinson, a psychic spy from England.

Mitchell replied that he was unaware of Drake's involvement in the psychic spy business, but then he threw me a curve ball.

"I know of quite a few credible stories of ET communication with earthlings."

Were some of our fellow space travelers on this island Earth tapped into the cosmic version of Facebook, I wondered? Ingo Swann had more or less suggested this possibility in his book back in 1998, when he noted the lunar alien presence seemed to use a kind of "telepathy plus" version of mental communication. It was this super-telepathy that had so frightened Swann. Since any ultra-advanced extraterrestrial intelligence would almost certainly have developed some form of (artificial?) mind-to-mind communication system, I certainly couldn't dismiss Swann's claim in my own mind.

I knew from US government files that in the 1990s, elements within the Department of Defense were exploring the possibility of using telepathy for battlefield communications. A source to Jon Ronson for his book The Men Who Stare at Goats had relayed the same story.

Another astronaut, the late Gordon Cooper, also related stories of an associate who had "telepathic" contact with sources from beyond the Earth. Cooper allegedly provided technical information concerning space shuttle design flaws sourced from a telepathic alien contact.

I wondered if Mitchell suspected a covert extraterrestrial alien presence among us.

"I suspect they are walking among us," wrote Mitchell, adding, "There seemingly is a global cabal trying to keep the wraps on the ET presence for their own reasons (profit?), but it is starting to unravel and will likely come apart before long."

A global cabal? Secretly receiving their instructions by telepathic messages from the great beyond?

And what of the story of telepathic contact at space entrepreneur Bob Bigelow's Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, where a physicist was allegedly held captive in a telepathic trance by unknown intelligent entities?

Perhaps the answer would be found in the alleged NSA paranormal program. One NSA source, allegedly working within the project, claimed that NSA operatives had been blocked in their effort by extraterrestrial interference from an unknown source.
It did seem we had crossed the line from the nuts-and-bolts hard science of lunar explorations and space travel into the often nuts-and-more-nuts realm of paranormal activity.
And the trailer for Apollo 18 appeared to do the same.
At this point I was left pondering the possibility, no matter how slim, of a covert extraterrestrial presence, both on the Moon, and here on the Earth.
Fortunately, I had more -- if purely subjective -- evidence to consider.
Following after Ingo Swann, a private paranormal investigation had gone "to the moon and back, again."
In early August of 2006, an informal private experiment was conducted against the alleged extraterrestrial presence on the moon, involving persons familiar with Swann's tale. The names of those involved have been withheld, due to an agreement to maintain confidentiality.

An experienced "phenomenologist" familiar with a variety of paranormal activity, initiated an attempt to recreate Swann's psychic perception, from somewhere in Europe.

The European psychic observer focused on "the dark side of the moon," an allusion to the far lunar surface and regions hidden by lunar shadows.

This person reported achieving "an out of body" experience of being surrounded by grayish shapes -- shadow beings -- among other unrelated images, which then invoked intense feelings of anger.

Another party, acting as an "outside objective observer," was located somewhere on the North American continent.

The American "control subject" was initially unaware that the above experiment, which had been informally proposed, was actually taking place.

Within a few hours of the European attempt to recreate Ingo Swann's remote viewing of the moon, the America "control subject" reported an odd experience.

Recalling a feeling of an unexplained "intense anger" at the periphery of an ordinary dream, the American reported a transition to an unusually lucid dream-like state:

"Last night, in the midst of an ordinary but vivid dream, I was 'awakened' to find myself in the midst of a 'visitor-like' experience -- there was a ball of twisting three-dimensional images, shifting and changing, of ordinary human scenes. Think of a snake-ball, or something like tentacles of light wrapped around each other. Each tentacle was a three-dimensional image or recording of a scene of human activity. One scene appeared to be viewing an operating room from overhead. I also sensed grayish figures; featureless stick-men or shadows, around the ball -- fully formed but fleeting -- [the images] passed through each other. I opened my eyes to check out the room, which was normal, so I assumed this was purely a mental phenomena. When I closed my eyes I was able to return to the images. This was nothing like an ordinary dream ... notable was the twisting of the images around each other, and the shadow beings surrounding the image. I sensed ... they were empty or void of emotion and intellectual response. I do not believe they were 'real' but were a different layer of image. My impression ... something quite different from the human mind was attempting to find a 'translation' into human language, and had resorted to the imagery. Unfortunately, the rate of processing of images and meaning was not compatible with my perception / mental process."

As intriguing as subjective reports may be, and this includes those from Swann and other government-funded experts in the field, there remains little on-the-record evidence to support the idea of an external intelligence behind the phenomena.

One expert described this odd dream-like visual information as originating with limbic circuit stimulation, involving hypnogogic imagery, which is sometimes reported at the onset of sleep.

The source explained that "the information is real, not imagination -- the circuits involve prefrontal cortex, and thus are not traditional memory traces from the hippocampus."

Apparently the source of these "real signals" remains something of a mystery.

Is this evidence of an extraterrestrial agent in human form?

In other words, at the end of the day, is the extraterrestrial source already encoded inside of the human species?

Are some of us, at least some of the time, literally "alien avatars," walking amongst the human species, unnoticed?

Is it possible, as was suggested by Paul Davies at the Royal Society, that once upon a time, alien nano-probes "inserted messages" into the genomes of Earth's biological entities?

Are these ghostly nocturnal encounters, along with their cousins, "anomalous mental phenomena," which have been extensively studied the government, an ancient message to the human race, encoded directly into our subjective experience of the world?
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2011-10-20T05:30:00.000-07:00


Yes Virginia, We Did Walk on the Moon NASA releases a new video from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) featuring some of the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 sites. So where, exactly, are the alleged aliens?

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(STARpod.org) -- A new NASA video, featuring Noah Petro of the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, presents incredible new images of the lunar surface taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
"When I first took a look at these images, my jaw dropped to the ground," says Petro in the video (see below).
"We have some of the most stunning images of the lunar surface that I've ever seen," exclaimed Petro, explaining, "These are pictures of the Apollo 17, Apollo 14, and Apollo 12 landing sites -- giving us the clearest view of where the astronauts went, where they sampled, where they conducted scientific experiments on the lunar surface."
Images taken of the Apollo 17 landing site show the resting spot of the once-mobile lunar rover. Tracks left behind by the vehicle are clearly visible, as are tracks made by the astronauts, in addition to the lunar module landing vehicle. Parts left behind forty years ago can be seen resting in place on the lunar surface. Here's a link to the NASA Goddard LRO images page.
So where are the alleged lunar aliens? Presumably they are hidden deep inside shadowy craters on the dark side (far side) of the Moon. Or not. What do you think?
Check out the video:

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2011-10-20T05:28:00.000-07:00

Yes, Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, there are UFOs and Men in Black

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell claims ET is here, but the mainstream media fails to understand the big picture. If you can't nail down the UFO phenomenon, you can track the persons who are involved in the mystery. Francis Pharcellus Church's brilliant insight into the human spirit remains relevant for a modern civilization seeking its place in the cosmos.
By GARY S BEKKUM
Futurist, STARstream ResearchThis page was last updated 09/21/2011 05:55:59 PM -0000
(STARpod.org) -- It's interesting how the mainstream media downplays the connection made by Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, between UFOs and the "men in black."

Over the weekend I took a few minutes to review interviews conducted with Dr. Mitchell when he appeared on CNN, Fox, and other programs in the summer of 2008, following his claim on Kerrang Radio in the UK of a government cover-up of an extraterrestrial presence.

According to Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the aliens are here.

As one commentator noted, "Dr. Mitchell, if this is true, this would be the story of the century!"

Of course the true believers already know the UFOs have arrived. And they hold a million tales of alien visitation near and dear to their hearts.

Yes, Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, there are UFOs and Men in Black.

Your little friends in the media are wrong, sir.

"They have been affected by a skepticism of a skeptical age."

UFOs and Men in Black exist as certainly as paranoia and duplicity, deception and misdirection, cover-ups and scandals, misdeeds and mistakes, tricksters all, hidden under the guise of protecting our national security.

"They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be that is not comprehensible by their little minds."

"All minds," Dr. Mitchell, "Whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge."

The power of these words, penned by Francis Pharcellus Church in 1897, transcend and translate universal truth.

A truth no one knows better than you, Dr. Mitchell, when you gazed at our tiny world lost in the blackness of infinite space and knew there was more intelligence "out there" than the little minds of men could hold.

First steps; infant steps taken toward the stars.

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Alas! How dreary would be late night talk radio, were there no UFOs, aliens, and Men in Black. It would be as dreary as if there were no Dr. Edgar Mitchell to bring forth a disclosure of the secrets and the cover-ups.

"There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence."

Not believe in UFOs sir?

You might as well not believe in the Men in Black, who watch every sensor in space, every movement on the Earth, read every message as it passes from spark to thought around our world and back again.

You might as well not believe in Ingo Swann, in spite of his TOP SECRET clearance, who flew to the moon and back on a thought, not a rocket, and later trained teams of psychics to provide defense intelligence under approval of the Deputy Secretary of Defense and Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

You might ask the NSA, but even if then they did not find a single UFO or an alien presence, what would that prove?

"The most real things in the world are those than neither men nor children can see ... Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world."

We have been told about these things, and have heard a few tales as well.

We have heard that the Men in Black cannot track the phenomena, so instead they track the people involved with the phenomena.

We have heard about "network analysis" and secret government "core stories," about "alien guests of the U.S. government," and "extraterrestrial biological entities."

We have heard tales of government cover-ups, of secret locations, of reverse engineered extraterrestrial derived technologies, of minds, machines, and madness.

We have read accounts from "human time machines" and their predictions of 9/11 years and months before the events took place.

We have seen letters, documents, email messages, declassified memorandums, power plays, Internet spy games, and fingers pointed to those who are no longer with us.

We have read the testimony of your late colleague, Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, about engineering information passed on to NASA from a "telepathic extraterrestrial source."

We have experienced the magic of dreams and visions, encounters at the limit of the human mind, and the reality beyond.

"You may tear apart a baby's rattle, to see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond."

Is it all real?

Are there UFOs and Men in Black, an alien presence, hidden agendas and a cosmic mystery?

Yes, Dr. Mitchell, "in all this world there is nothing else as real and abiding."
(The author acknowledges a deep appreciation for the words of Francis Pharcellus Church, which inspired this article.)

2011-10-20T05:26:00.001-07:00

NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites

09.06.11

Media briefing materials associated with this story can be found here.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when the astronauts explored the lunar surface.

This interactive shows two LRO images of the Apollo 17 landing site. Click and drag on the white slider bar to wipe from one to the other. The left image was released today; the right image is a zoom-in on an LRO image released in 2009. LRO was moved into a lower orbit to capture the new image. The images do not line up perfectly because of differences in lighting conditions, angle of the LRO Camera, and other variables. Image brightness and contrast have been altered to highlight surface details. (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ASU)
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At the Apollo 17 site, the tracks laid down by the lunar rover are clearly visible, along with the last foot trails left on the moon. The images also show where the astronauts placed some of the scientific instruments that provided the first insight into the moon's environment and interior.

"We can retrace the astronauts' steps with greater clarity to see where they took lunar samples," said Noah Petro, a lunar geologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who is a member of the LRO project science team.

All three images show distinct trails left in the moon's thin soil when the astronauts exited the lunar modules and explored on foot. In the Apollo 17 image, the foot trails, including the last path made on the moon by humans, are easily distinguished from the dual tracks left by the lunar rover, which remains parked east of the lander.

"The new low-altitude Narrow Angle Camera images sharpen our view of the moon's surface," said Arizona State University researcher Mark Robinson, principal investigator for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC). "A great example is the sharpness of the rover tracks at the Apollo 17 site. In previous images the rover tracks were visible, but now they are sharp parallel lines on the surface."

This interactive shows two LRO images of the Apollo 12 landing site. Click and drag on the white slider bar to wipe from one to the other. The left image was released today; the right image is a zoom-in on an LRO image released in 2009. LRO was moved into a lower orbit to capture the new image. The images do not line up perfectly because of differences in lighting conditions, angle of the LRO Camera, and other variables. Image brightness and contrast have been altered to highlight surface details. (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ASU)
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At each site, trails also run to the west of the landers, where the astronauts placed the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to monitor the moon's environment and interior.

This equipment was a key part of every Apollo mission. It provided the first insights into the moon's internal structure, measurements of the lunar surface pressure and the composition of its atmosphere. Apollo 11 carried a simpler version of the science package.

One of the details that shows up is a bright L-shape in the Apollo 12 image. It marks the locations of cables running from ALSEP's central station to two of its instruments. Although the cables are much too small for direct viewing, they show up because they reflect light very well.

NASA Goddard's Dr. Noah Petro discusses the significance of the new Apollo images from LRO. (Credit: Chris Smith, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
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The higher resolution of these images is possible because of adjustments made to LRO's orbit, which is slightly oval-shaped or elliptical. "Without changing the average altitude, we made the orbit more elliptical, so the lowest part of the orbit is on the sunlit side of the moon," said Goddard's John Keller, deputy LRO project scientist. "This put LRO in a perfect position to take these new pictures of the surface."

The maneuver lowered LRO from its usual altitude of approximately 31 miles (50 kilometers) to an altitude that dipped as low as nearly 13 miles (21 kilometers) as it passed over the moon's surface. The spacecraft has remained in this orbit for 28 days, long enough for the moon to completely rotate. This allows full coverage of the surface by LROC's Wide Angle Camera. The cycle ends today when the spacecraft will be returned to its 31-mile orbit.

The paths left by astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell on both Apollo 14 moon walks are visible in this image. (At the end of the second moon walk, Shepard famously hit two golf balls.) The descent stage of the lunar module Antares is also visible. (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ASU)
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"These images remind us of our fantastic Apollo history and beckon us to continue to move forward in exploration of our solar system," said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

LRO was built and managed by Goddard. Initial research was funded by the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. In September 2010, after a one-year successful exploration mission, the mission turned its attention from exploration objectives to scientific research in NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html

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2011-10-20T05:19:00.001-07:00

http://www.philadelphia-experiment.com/

Al Bielek Passed Away in Mexico on Oct. 10, 2011 at Age 84

2011-10-20T05:18:00.001-07:00

Al Bielek Passed Away in Mexico on Oct. 10, 2011 at Age 84

From Ken Adachi, Editor
http://educate-yourself.org/ab/albielekpasses14oct11.shtml
October 14, 2011

Al Bielek Passed Away in Mexico on Oct. 10, 2011 at Age 84 (Oct. 14, 2011)

I received an e-mail today from Rich Grybos that Al Bielek, whose extraordinary memories surrounding the 1943 Philadelphia Experiment and the secret projects undertaken at Montauk, Long Island had kept millions of late night radio listeners enthralled for nearly two decades, had died last Monday, October 10, 2011 at 6:30 AM in Guadalajara, Mexico. Al was 84 years old and was buried at a local cemetery in Guadalajara.

Rich told me that Al's niece, Dee, expending a great deal of time and energy, had been taken care of Al in recent years after Al had become increasingly incapacitated due to a series of strokes. Rich told me that while the strokes that Al suffered prevented him from speaking clearly, Al's mind remained sharp and alert. He also said that Al continued to enjoy watching si-fi movies right up to the end.

Rich said that he had come to meet met Al in 1970 through an introduction from the Scottish writer Ivan T Sanderson (1911-1973), who, Rich claimed, had great respect for Al Bielek.

Al Bielek's birth certificate is dated March 31, 1927, but whether he was "born" on that date or not depends on how much of Al's story you're willing to believe. Al has always maintained that his real identity is that of Edward Cameron, son of a career Naval officer; that he had participated in the Philadelphia Experiment of August 12, 1943; and that he had been regressed back in time to that of a 9 month old baby in California in December 1927, where he was raised as "Al Bielek" by Arthur E. and Albertina Bielek.

Al Bielek was a close friend of Phil Schneider while he was still alive and convinced Phil to go public with his story of government collusion with negative extraterrestrials, bent on installing a New World Order slave society. Phil Schneider paid the ultimate price for his patriotism and allegiance to the American people when he was murdered by covert operatives in January of 1996. Al Bielek also gave many audio and video presentations over the years with Preston Nichols, a veteran of the Montauk Project and co-author of many books on Montauk with Peter Moon. Preston is currently living in upstate New York.

Al Bielek demonstrated an early aptitude for electronics while still in high school and later developed into quite an expert. Quoting a portion of Rich's e-mail to me:

" As to his electronic abilities, I asked him once if he could look at a device sold by Mankind Research Unlimited (was CIA-connected I later discovered). Anyway Al proceeded to draw on the spot the entire schematic of the device! You may know that he was close friends with Bob Beck. He also was very heavily involved in ELF research during the time of the "Russian Woodpecker".

The movie, "The Philadelphia Experiment" first triggered his suppressed memories on his involvement..."

More needs to be said of the life and times of Al Bielek, but I'll wait to hear from more people who may have known Al and may wish to share their stories. Anyone wanting to send condolences to Al's family can send letters or e-mails to me and I will forward them to Rich Grybos, who will in turn, forward them to Al Bielek's niece, Dee. At a later date, I may be able to talk to Dee directly and learn more details of Al's final years. I lost contact with Al somewhere around 2007 or 2008. He had moved from his Florida apartment to a nursing home and I didn't know how to contact him. I had many lengthy conversations with him over the phone from 2000 - 2006 and I took many notes. He was an interesting man.

Ken Adachi

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2011-10-20T05:00:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-30T09:45:00.000-07:00

Stephen Hawking: "What are the chances that we will encounter alien life, as we explore the galaxy?" (Weekend Feature)

In his famous lecture, Life in the Universe, Stephen Hawking asks: "What are the chances that we will encounter some alien form of life, as we explore the galaxy?"

If the argument about the time scale for the appearance of life on Earth is correct, Hawking says "there ought to be many other stars, whose planets have life on them. Some of these stellar systems could have formed 5 billion years before the Earth. So why is the galaxy not crawling with self-designing mechanical or biological life forms?"

Why hasn't the Earth been visited, and even colonized? Hawking asks. "I discount suggestions that UFO's contain beings from outer space. I think any visits by aliens, would be much more obvious, and probably also, much more unpleasant."

Hawking continues: "What is the explanation of why we have not been visited? One possibility is that the argument, about the appearance of life on Earth, is wrong. Maybe the probability of life spontaneously appearing is so low, that Earth is the only planet in the galaxy, or in the observable universe, in which it happened. Another possibility is that there was a reasonable probability of forming self reproducing systems, like cells, but that most of these forms of life did not evolve intelligence."

We are used to thinking of intelligent life, as an inevitable consequence of evolution, Hawking emphasized, but it is more likely that evolution is a random process, with intelligence as only one of a large number of possible outcomes.

Intelligence, Hawking believes contrary to our human-centric existence, may not have any long-term survival value. In comparison the microbial world, will live on, even if all other life on Earth is wiped out by our actions. Hawking's main insight is that intelligence was an unlikely development for life on Earth, from the chronology of evolution: "It took a very long time, two and a half billion years, to go from single cells to multi-cell beings, which are a necessary precursor to intelligence. This is a good fraction of the total time available, before the Sun blows up. So it would be consistent with the hypothesis, that the probability for life to develop intelligence, is low. In this case, we might expect to find many other life forms in the galaxy, but we are unlikely to find intelligent life."

Another possibility is that there is a reasonable probability for life to form, and to evolve to intelligent beings, but at some point in their technological development "the system becomes unstable, and the intelligent life destroys itself. This would be a very pessimistic conclusion. I very much hope it isn't true."

Hawkling prefers another possibility: that there are other forms of intelligent life out there, but that we have been overlooked. If we should pick up signals from alien civilizations, Hawking warns,"we should have be wary of answering back, until we have evolved" a bit further. Meeting a more advanced civilization, at our present stage,' Hawking says "might be a bit like the original inhabitants of America meeting Columbus. I don't think they were better off for it."

Casey Kazan via http://www.rationalvedanta.net/node/131

2011-08-30T09:42:00.001-07:00

Earth-bound asteroids come from stony asteroids

by Staff WritersWashington DC (SPX) Aug 29, 2011

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Earth_bound_asteroids_come_from_stony_asteroids_999.html

This is a Hayabusa capsule landed at Woomera in South Australia. Credit: [Image courtesy JAXA/ISIS]

Researchers got their first up-close look at dust from the surface of a small, stony asteroid after the Hayabusa spacecraft scooped some up and brought it back to Earth. Analysis of these dust particles, detailed in a special issue of the journal Science this week, confirms a long-standing suspicion: that the most common meteorites found here on Earth, known as ordinary chondrites, are born from these stony, or S-type, asteroids.
And since chondrites are among the most primitive objects in the solar system, the discovery also means that these asteroids have been recording a long and rich history of early solar system events.
The 26 August issue of Science includes six reports and a Perspective article that highlight the initial studies of this asteroid dust. Science is published by AAAS, the nonprofit science society.
The Hayabusa spacecraft was launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2003 to sample the surface of the near-Earth asteroid known as 25143 Itokawa. The unmanned vessel reached its destination a little more than two years later-and in November 2005, it made two separate touchdowns on the surface of Itokawa.
Although its primary sampler malfunctioned, the spacecraft was able to strike the asteroid's surface with an elastic sampling horn and catch the small amount of dust particles that were kicked up. After reentering Earth's atmosphere and landing in South Australia in June 2010, Hayabusa's delicate samples were analyzed extensively by various teams of researchers.
"Science is very excited and pleased to be presenting these important scientific analyses," said Brooks Hanson, Deputy Editor of the Physical Sciences.
"The first samples that researchers collected beyond Earth were from the moon, and the first analyses of those samples were also published in Science. Those samples, along with the more recent sampling of a comet and the solar wind, have changed our understanding of the solar system and Earth. They are still yielding important results.
These Hayabusa samples are the first samples of an asteroid. Not only do they provide important information about the history of the asteroid Itokawa, but by providing the needed ground truth that is only possible through direct sampling, they also help make other important samples-like meteorite collections and the lunar samples-even more useful."
The asteroid sampled by Hayabusa is a rocky, S-type asteroid with the appearance of a rubble pile. Based on observations from the ground, researchers have believed that similar S-type asteroids, generally located in our solar system's inner and middle asteroid belt, are responsible for most of the small meteorites that regularly strike Earth.
But, the visible spectra of these asteroids have never precisely matched those of ordinary chondrites-a fact that has left researchers suspicious of their actual affiliation. The only way to confirm a direct relationship between meteorites and these S-type asteroids was to physically sample the regolith from an asteroid's surface.
Tomoki Nakamura from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan and colleagues from across the country and in the United States were among the first to analyze this regolith brought back by Hayabusa. The team of researchers used a combination of powerful electron microscopes and X-ray diffraction techniques to study the mineral chemistry of Itokawa's dust particles.
"Our study demonstrates that the rocky particles recovered from the S-type asteroid are identical to ordinary chondrites, which proves that asteroids are indeed very primitive solar system bodies," said Nakamura.
The researchers also noticed that Itokawa's regolith has gone through significant heating and impact shocks. Based on its size, they conclude that the asteroid is actually made up of small fragments of a much bigger asteroid.
"The particles recovered from the asteroid have experienced long-term heating at about 800 degrees Celsius," said Nakamura. "But, to reach 800 degrees, an asteroid would need to be about 12.4 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter. The current size of Itokawa is much smaller than that so it must have first formed as a larger body, then been broken by an impact event and reassembled in its current form."
Separate teams of researchers, including Mitsuru Ebihara from Tokyo Metropolitan University and colleagues from the United States and Australia, cut open the tiny regolith grains returned by Hayabusa to get a look at the minerals inside them.
Their composition shows that the dust grains have preserved a record of primitive elements from the early solar system. Now, those mineral compositions can be compared to tens of thousands of meteorites that have fallen to Earth, and then correlated to the visible spectra of other asteroids in space.
Akira Tsuchiyama from Osaka University in Toyonaka, Japan and colleagues from around the world also analyzed the three-dimensional structures of the dust particles. Since dust from the surface of the moon is the only other type of extraterrestrial regolith that researchers have been able to sample directly (from the Apollo and Luna missions), these researchers closely compared the two types.
"The cool thing about this Itokawa analysis is the tremendous amount of data we can get from such a small sample," said Michael Zolensky from the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, a co-author of the research.
"When researchers analyzed regolith from the moon, they needed kilogram-sized samples. But, for the past 40 years, experts have been developing technologies to analyze extremely small samples. Now, we've gained all this information about Itokawa with only a few nano-grams of dust from the asteroid."
According to the researchers, Itokawa's regolith has been shaped by erosion and surface impacts on the asteroid, whereas lunar regolith, which has spent more time exposed to solar winds and space weathering, has been more chemically altered.
Takaaki Noguchi from Ibaraki University in Mito, Japan, and colleagues cite this chemical difference between the lunar dust and the Itokawa samples as one of the reasons astronomers have never been able to definitively tie ordinary chondrites to S-type asteroids in the past.
"Space weathering is the interaction between the surface of airless bodies, like asteroids and the moon, and the energetic particles in space," said Noguchi.
"When these energetic particles-like solar wind, plasma ejected from the Sun and fast-traveling micrometeoroids-strike an object, pieces of them condense on the surface of that object. In the vacuum of space, such deposits can create small iron particles that greatly affect the visible spectra of these celestial bodies when they are viewed from Earth."
But now, instead of using lunar samples to estimate the space weathering on an asteroid in the future, researchers can turn to the asteroid regolith for direct insight into such processes.
Two more international studies led by Keisuke Nagao from the University of Tokyo and Hisayoshi Yurimoto from Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, respectively, have determined how long the regolith material has been on the surface of Itokawa and established a direct link between the oxygen isotopes in ordinary chondrites and their parent, S-type asteroids.
According to the researchers, the dust from Itokawa has been on the surface of the asteroid for less than eight million years. They suggest that regolith material from such small asteroids might escape easily into space to become meteorites, traveling toward Earth.
"This dust from the surface of the Itokawa asteroid will become a sort of Rosetta Stone for astronomers to use," according to Zolensky. "Now that we understand the bulk mineral and chemical composition of the Hayabusa sample, we can compare them to meteorites that have struck the Earth and try to determine which asteroids the chondrites came from."

2011-08-30T09:39:00.000-07:00

Out of Thin Martian Airby Michael Schirberfor Astrobiology Magazine

http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Out_of_Thin_Martian_Air_999.html

MAVEN - which stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN - will not only provide a better handle on the current loss, but it will also provide a window on the past, by determining how the upper atmosphere controls the loss rate.

A wet Mars is just a memory, but where did the water go? Geological observations suggest rivers and seas dotted the martian surface 3.5 billion years ago. The amount of water has been equated to a planet-wide ocean half-a-kilometer deep or more. For the planet to have stayed warm enough for liquid water, scientists assume that Mars had a greenhouse "blanket" of carbon dioxide atmosphere at least 1000 times thicker than what Earth has now.
That carbon dioxide is mostly gone. So is the water. "Either they went up or they went down," says Dave Brain from UC Berkeley.
By "down," Brain is referring to the subsurface of the red planet. Water ice is known to be lurking underground, while vestiges of carbon dioxide can be found in the polar ice cap and in certain mineral deposits. But many scientists expect that a large fraction of the water-soaked atmosphere was sucked "up" into space.
"We know that escape is occurring today from the martian atmosphere and that it has occurred in the past," says Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado, Boulder.
The current loss rate of martian atmosphere is estimated to be around 100 tons per day, but this is based on incomplete data. Jakosky is leading a NASA mission called MAVEN that plans to fly to Mars in 2013 to measure all aspects of atmospheric escape.
MAVEN - which stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN - will not only provide a better handle on the current loss, but it will also provide a window on the past, by determining how the upper atmosphere controls the loss rate.
"The more we know about the loss rate now, the better we can extrapolate back in time when Mars was presumably warmer and wetter," says Michael Combi of the University of Michigan.
Combi and his colleagues model the outer envelope of Mars' atmosphere, called the exosphere, where particles make their "jump" into space. As part of NASA's Mars Fundamental Research program, they are working on a full three-dimensional simulation that can use MAVEN's observations to say how much water Mars has lost to space.
Leaky planetThe main ways that atmospheric particles can escape a planet's gravity are ion escape, neutral escape and impact erosion, explains Brain.
The last of these, impact erosion, was dominant around 4 billion years ago, when the terrestrial planets were bombarded with large pieces of space debris. Big "splashes" like these would have hurtled large volumes of atmosphere into space, while also introducing water and other material to the surface.
However, Mars managed to hold onto a considerable amount of atmosphere throughout the bombardment. We know this because the evidence of martian water is 3.5 billion years old - when impacts had become less common. Scientists therefore have to look to other escape routes to explain where all the water went. The best-measured mechanism is ion loss. This typically occurs when sunlight or a collision ionizes gas molecules in the upper atmosphere.
The resulting ions are susceptible to the forces of electric and magnetic fields, which on Mars means that the solar wind can "pick up" the ions and drag them out into space.
ESA's Mars Express mission recently measured loss rates of a few grams per second for several ion species on Mars. This is about the same as the ion loss on Earth, which might seem surprising considering that Earth has a strong magnetic field for deflecting the solar wind.
However, Mars Express was measuring these rates during solar minimum when the Sun produces less ionizing radiation and less wind-whipping solar storms. It's possible that the unprotected martian atmosphere gets stripped faster during solar maxima or during more active periods in the Sun's past.
Moreover, ion loss is only part of the picture. Mars is also vulnerable to the loss of neutral atoms due to its comparatively weak gravitational field. Neutral loss occurs on Mars in a variety of ways. Hydrogen atoms can have enough thermal energy to escape the planet's gravity. Heavier atoms, like oxygen, can also escape as a result of energetic chemical reactions or collisions.
Neutral particles are hard to detect, so scientists have so far relied on indirect measures to estimate the neutral loss rate. The best constraint comes from 35-year-old data from the Viking mission. When the Viking landers plowed through the atmosphere on their way to the surface, they provided information on the density and other conditions of the upper atmosphere.
Combi and his colleagues incorporate this Viking data into their model of the upper atmosphere. Their computer simulations focus on certain chemical reactions that are driven by sunlight. The reaction products are energetic atoms, some of which can escape into space if they reach an altitude where collisions with other gas particles become unlikely.
In their model, Combi's group has to take into account the daily and seasonal changes in sunlight hitting different parts of the atmosphere. They also consider the effect of the variations in solar activity over the 11-year solar cycle.
A recent calculation by Combi's group found the loss rate of neutral oxygen atoms should be about 100 times greater than the ion loss measured by Mars Express. Taking this as their baseline, the researchers estimate that Mars could have lost a 10-meter-deep layer of water from its surface over the last 3.5 billion years. But estimates like these are speculative, as they are based on an incomplete picture of the martian upper atmosphere. A data upgrade is needed.
Craven for Maven"The MAVEN mission is the first to have as its sole focus understanding the nature of the upper atmosphere and how it controls the escape rates," Jakosky says.
The $485-million MAVEN will carry eight instruments to measure ion and neutral escape, as well as the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere. Over its planned two-year mission, it will also monitor the solar wind, solar ultraviolet, and solar storms, which are the main drivers that influence the rate at which material is stripped off the martian atmosphere.
"We have never before had all the right instruments on one spacecraft," Brain says.
One of the challenges of past missions has been characterizing a "leak" that is spread over the entire 150,000 square kilometers on Mars' outer atmospheric surface. MAVEN's orbit will be varied in such a way that it samples the loss rate from a wide range of different latitudes, as well as at different times of the day.
Still, the satellite can only be in one place at one time, so models like that of Combi's group are needed to fill in the gaps. "These models are absolutely essential for us," Jakosky says. "They will allow us to take the MAVEN measurements that are made at discrete times and locations and extrapolate them to other times and places."
When trying to imagine loss rates long ago, researchers will have to account for changes in the solar output. By observing Sun-like stars at earlier stages in their lives, astronomers believe our Sun was more active in the past - with more storms and greater ultraviolet flux. Consequently, atmospheric escape should have been ramped up on high as well.
"We can't measure what the atmosphere was like billions of years ago," Jakosky says. "However, we can measure it today, measure how the processes that control it work, and then use models to extrapolate to other conditions."
So in the end, the models need the satellite to ground them in reality. And the satellite needs the models to stretch its reach to the beginning of martian history.
Only then will Mars spill the secret of its lost water.Moffet Field CA (SPX) Aug 29, 2011

2011-08-30T09:34:00.000-07:00

New Evidence for Cold Ocean on Early Mars

by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor

Date: 28 August 2011 Time: 01:01 PM ET

A view of Mars as it might have appeared more than 2 billion years ago, with an ocean filling the lowland basin that now occupies the north polar region.
CREDIT: Taylor Perron/UC Berkeley

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http://www.space.com/12761-ancient-mars-cold-ocean-evidence.html

The existence of an ancient, frigid ocean on Mars that was surrounded by glaciers could explain the unusual minerals found making up the northern lowlands of the Red Planet, a new study suggests.

These findings add new evidence to the idea that ancient Mars was once cold and wet, not cold and dry nor warm and wet as is often argued.

Astrobiologist Alberto Fairén at the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center and his colleagues investigated why the early crust of the northern Martian lowlands apparently lacks a mineral group called phyllosilicates when compared to similarly aged crust in the planet's southern lowlands. These minerals are common in marine sediments on Earth. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars]

Their climatic and geochemical models suggest that if a northern ocean existed on Mars, it would have been close to freezing. Moreover, features around the proposed ocean basin are consistent with the presence of large glaciers, such as underwater stretches of rocky debris known as moraines. Near-freezing temperatures and large glaciers would prevent phyllosilicates from forming and depositing in a lowland ocean basin.

"Our multidisciplinary analyses offer an explanation for the existence of an ocean in the past of Mars which is consistent with the mineralogy detected so far by orbiters and landers," said Fairén, lead author of a study appearing online Aug. 28 in the journal Nature Geoscience. "If there were oceans on Mars, they were cold glacial, similar to the polar seas on Earth. The coasts would be rimmed by glaciers, and portions of the ocean would be ice-covered."

There are currently two leading ideas for what the climate of ancient Mars might have been like.

One is that it was cold and dry, asserting that valley networks and other geological features suggestive of liquid water in Mars' past were essentially results of bursts of heat confined in space and time, suggesting that Mars could not have sustained oceans. The other is that Mars was once warm and wet, implying that it could once have supported lakes, seas and rainfall for long periods.

"I became interested in this idea after realizing the contradiction among the geological evidence, which points out that liquid water was once abundant on Mars, and the climate models, which so far have had a difficult time explaining warm conditions on early Mars allowing water to remain in the liquid state," Fairén told SPACE.com.

Instead, the researchers are suggesting an ancient Mars that was wet but not warm.

"A cold and wet Mars seems to be a suitable solution for this decades-long standing puzzle, and a glacial northern ocean would fit perfectly in that cold and wet scenario," Fairén said.

The scientists are currently searching for additional evidence of a cold Martian ocean in global datasets, including analyzing the evolution of glacial coastal land features, looking for signs of icebergs and preparing additional low-temperature geochemistry models.

"This is not an easy job, as the evidence for the ancient ocean is mostly buried under tons of more recent materials, including kilometer-thick sedimentary and volcanic deposits, which make our work more and more challenging," Fairén said.

2011-08-30T09:31:00.000-07:00

Armstrong relives historic Moon landing

By Amy CoopesSydney, Australia (AFP) Aug 29, 2011

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Armstrong_relives_historic_Moon_landing_999.html

a unique moment in time

It's more than 40 years since Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon, but his memories of the historic flight remain as undimmed as his passion for further exploration of space.
The Apollo 11 commander, now aged 81, relived the 1969 mission that enthralled the world as he watched Google's new high-definition images of the Moon in Australia last week.
The pictures, available on YouTube since May but which Armstrong said he had only just seen, show Apollo 11's landing spot, including the fuel cell left behind which it also used as a launch pad.
"So for the sceptics about whether we ever landed on the Moon -- this is a pretty good indication that somebody's done it," he quipped to a business audience that had paid hundreds of dollars to hear him speak.
The famously private astronaut provided a rare glimpse into the flight, recalling the moment he hurtled free of Earth's gravity at "more than 10 times the speed of a rifle bullet".
"You're looking down at Asuncion Island in the Atlantic at dusk, and you soon fly into darkness," he said.
"You see some city lights on the African coast and notice lightning flashes illuminating some thunderheads like neon mushrooms far below you."
Crossing over to the daylight side of Earth he said a "scimitar of light" became a flood, blinding in its brightness, and though minutes passed by swiftly "you seem to be perfectly motionless".
"You look at Malaysia and the islands of Indonesia below, they're dropping away from you six or 8,000 kilometres per hour they're dropping away," he said.
"The horizon is growing more and more, you can see Australia off to the right and Japan off to the left, and all of a sudden you can see the entire circle -- the whole planet Earth, kind of a gigantic blue medicine ball covered with white lacy clouds, and it's floating slowly away from you into the inky black sky."
Playing the new high-definition pictures of the Moon alongside the original July 1969 Apollo footage, Armstrong recalled his arrival on the desolate, cratered landscape and the historic phrase relayed back to Earth: "Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed."
But he was also forward looking, telling the audience that the American space programme was "in some chaos".
As the United States contemplates the future of its space programme following the end of the shuttle era last month, he said NASA should start using the Moon for training missions for Mars exploration.
"I do favour going to Mars but I believe it is both too difficult and too expensive with the technology we have available at the current time," he told those gathered in Sydney.
"I favour returning to the Moon. We made six landings there and explored areas as small as a city lot and perhaps as large as a small town. That leaves us some 14 million square miles that we have not explored."
Armstrong also reflected at length on the Apollo programme and Americas space race with Russia.
It was a sometimes desperate and very close contest, he said, with the Soviets unmanned Luna 15 racing neck-and-neck for the lunar surface with Apollo 11 after an ambitious John F. Kennedy had set a deadline of 1970 for the United States to land on the Moon almost a decade earlier.
The Soviet craft's landing gear failed as it approached the Moon and it crashed into the surface, while Armstrong hoisted the American flag to "reach a goal that dreamers had been dreaming of for many, many centuries".
After Apollo 11, Armstrong said five more lunar spacecraft and 10 astronauts landed on the Moon, with the experiments completed there and samples returned multiplying mankinds knowledge of its closest neighbour "one thousand-fold".
"We understood the substantial risks, we were willing to accept them because we believed that our goal was a worthy goal," he said.
"I was fortunate enough to be led by men who made me yearn for the vast and endless sea above the surface of the Earth, and I am in their debt."

2011-08-30T09:28:00.001-07:00

Earth’s neighbouring star found

The Australian National University

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20112908-22548.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencealert-latestnews+%28ScienceAlert-Latest+Stories%29

Researchers have uncovered a new stellar neighbour with the discovery of the closest young star to Earth.

The international team, including Simon Murphy, a final-year PhD student from the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, have shown that the star, named AP Columbae, is the closest so-called `pre main-sequence’ star. Their paper has been published this week in The Astronomical Journal.

“Pre main-sequence stars are much younger than the Sun. Using telescopes in Coonabarabran, Chile, Hawaii and California we have shown that the faint, red-dwarf star AP Columbae is the closest such star to the Earth,” said Mr Murphy.

“For decades it was believed that young stars only resided in vast star-forming regions like the Orion Nebula. These regions are typically several hundred light years away from the Earth. With the advent of accurate, all-sky surveys we can now find young stars much closer to home.”

AP Columbae, an otherwise innocuous red-dwarf star in the constellation of Columba is a comparably close 27-light-years away from Earth and approximately 40 million years old.

“To put that into perspective, it means this star was formed after the dinosaurs became extinct and when mammals first started to become dominant on Earth,” Mr Murphy said.

The star is the newest member of a group of young stars known as the Argus Association. The age and close proximity of AP Columbae make it a prime candidate for getting good images.

“Because AP Columbae is so close we are able to hunt for giant gas planets at high resolution, close to the star. Later this year we are hoping to use the eight metre Gemini South telescope in Chile to observe any planets that might be present.”

2011-08-30T09:27:00.000-07:00

High Frequency Gravitational Waves

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/gravwaves.pdf

2011-08-30T09:19:00.000-07:00

Inside the Spy Game With The Man Who Knew Too Much: An Update

After "publicly accusing a person with seven current contracts with the Intelligence Community, four classified -- with a distinguished career in Intelligence to boot, and who is the current Chair of the Science Board for the Undersecretary of Defense for Chem/Nuclear/Biological matters -- as being in the pay of a Foreign Power who is wittingly passing them classified material..."
Dan T. Smith -- the man who knew too much -- leaked an investigation of a joint Chinese-American high-frequency gravity wave research program a year before the public version of the investigation was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence MASINT Committee under CIA's Dr. Ron Pandolfi, as told in Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape | Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games, with a nod to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
By GARY S BEKKUM
Futurist, STARstream Research
October 7, 2007
This page was last updated 08/21/2011 03:57:30 AM -0000
(STARpod.org) -- This article was originally published in October 2007. Given the incomplete information we had available at the time, I decided to reveal as much as possible and overcome writer's block by using as many titles of films by Alfred Hitchcock as I could fit into the tale. I have underlined the titles of the Hitchcock films in this version of the story so you can see how it was originally put together (please let me know if I missed any!).
Since the story was published, part of the investigation referred to in the article as it appeared in 2007 was revealed to the public by the American Office of the Director of National Intelligence. We broke the story of the investigation a year prior to confirmation from the US government -- but as you may see, there were other, more serious sounding allegations included in the original story, which may (or may not) be in the redacted classified material from the government's report. You can read the declassified FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY version of the study here, thanks to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). The FOUO version has the classified material redacted, as noted in the report.

Mr. Dan Smith is either breaking the spy game rules or playing by someone else's covert game plan.

At issue: Smith's allegations, that a meeting with physicist Robert Park -- arranged by Smith at the request of a Senior Intelligence Official at the DIA, who reports to the Director of National Intelligence -- was about potential misuse of government resources for research into high-frequency gravity waves.
A response to Mr. Smith's allegations from a physicist, and another top former intelligence officer and professional consultant to the U.S. Government, exposed a more serious allegation of impropriety on the part of the Senior Intelligence Official.

Physicist Robert Park is a well-known skeptic of all things paranormal. He is the author of the book "Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud."

Park failed to respond to our request for his comments.

Citizen Smith's involvement in an elastic affair involving the Intelligence Community began shortly after the torn curtain that once divided east and west was permanently dissolved by the frenzy of electronic communication over the Internet. Mr. Smith is known for his allegorical twisting of behind-the-scenes spy games, posted at his blog, which has received attention recently from UFO researchers and forum members.

And Mr. and Mrs. Smith are not strangers to Washington politics.

Mr. Smith's father, Harvard economist Dan Throop Smith, was the Treasury Department's number one tax adviser during the Eisenhower White House. He has two sisters, one that once taught in a one-room school in Montana, and according to Smith's Blog, lives without the luxury of television or the Internet. Mr. Smith's other sister, the wife of business executive Charles Leighton, is a friend of President George W. Bush's aunt, Nancy Bush Ellis. Mr. Leighton earned a Jack Anderson story in the Washington Post over a bizarre cuff link affair.

Dan Smith posted what appear to be sensitive email messages to a public Internet web site, the Open Minds Forum, and in the process transmuted private messages into open source material. As a result it appears that Smith's actions helped to sabotage the alleged meeting with Park.

What are we to make of Mr. Smith's new role as saboteur? Smith's attempt to effectively blackmail his handler has tied a rope around his personal agenda, strangling the intended disclosure for the time being. It's all downhill from here.

One area of concern regarding the latest series of 'leaks' coming from email messages distributed by Mr. Smith, is that some of the emails appear to have originated with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The addresses in question end with "@dia.mil." Mr. Smith's posting of the email addresses clearly identifies two individuals at the DIA.

If verified, the use of official government email servers in communications to Mr. Smith would confirm that Smith is not a 'psycho' acting out a bizarre fantasy on the Internet. The Senior Intelligence Official's modus operandi often appears to involve Smith, which is strange given previous statements to Internet journalists that Mr. Smith's state of mind is questionable.

Smith posted a message to Park, apparently from the Senior Intelligence Official, that appears to confirm Dan Smith's role in the spy game:

"Dan received degrees from the University of Maryland in physics and philosophy. He occasionally provides pro bono counsel to the US Government, providing a representational perspective from the lunatic, scamming, and general fringe science communities. He currently appears to be too unstable to provide a valuable contribution but may recover over the weekend. I'll check with him and decide whether or not he should participate."

The latest spy fiasco, in what superficially appears to be a CIA family plot to coerce the rich and strange to sabotage government disclosure, has given Mr. Smith a bout of stage fright, causing him to withdraw from public forums to his personal blog:

"It was my contention that we were headed to a new level in the acclimation effort via the R&D protocol. But when I put Ron on the spot with respect to to a meeting with a known skeptical academic, he opted to cut me out of that meeting. I have not heard from him since. For the time being, I have removed myself from contention on the disclosure front."

R&D refers to "Ron," the Senior Intelligence Official at DIA, and Dan Smith. The academic referred to by Mr. Smith is Robert Park. "Ron" -- Dr. Ron Pandolfi -- is well known for his interest in alternative scientific subjects, and for shutting down government programs rooted in pseudo-science.

In an email from Ron earlier this year, I was advised to refrain from "revealing methods and sources" and later received a request from a private investigator associated with Ron:

"I am kindly asking that you please do as Ron requests and retract the obviously specious information Dan provided to you about him."

Smith has run afoul of a few of the birds from the AVIARY -- intelligence officers past and present, stigmatized by bird names once used to casually conceal their identities during the research phase of a Fox TV special about UFOs that aired in the late 1980s.

Without a shadow of a doubt, some members of the AVIARY appear to be under suspicion of more than spreading rumors of top-secret government liaisons with extraterrestrial life forms.

Allegations from one of Ron's associates, a former senior intelligence officer at CIA who continues to consult for the U.S Government, suggest Ron's actions over the past year are intended to 'out' a spy stealing government secrets. To catch a thief, Ron appears to keep Smith spellbound with the promise of government disclosure. But did "Ron" pick the wrong man?

Our foreign correspondent, Caryn Anscomb, who is based in the United Kingdom, told us that Ron's associate "seems a bit upset with it all."

A physicist known for his research in fringe areas, including psychic remote viewing and alternative energy sources, reacted to the allegation from Smith that the meeting with Robert Park was to discuss the waste of government funds for gravity wave research. Smith immediately posted the emails to the public forum at Open Minds.

Smith wrote, "It seems that the Soap Opera has been transmographied into a slight-of-hand act. It might also be called misdirection. By taking that ever so cheap-shot at [the physicist], and by having [Ron's associate] get on his High Horse to come charging to [the physicist's] defense, we have become a conspiracy of dunces or geniuses, depending on one’s PoV."

The physicist's response to Smith's allegations of misuse of government resources, "to accuse a scientist of fraud is legally actionable," triggered a reaction from Ron's associate, the former intelligence official:

"Indeed. As is publicly accusing a person with seven current contracts with the Intelligence Community, four classified...with a distinguished career in Intelligence to boot, and who is the current Chair of the Science Board for the Undersecretary of Defense for Chem/Nuclear/Biological matters...as being in the pay of a Foreign Power who is wittingly passing them classified material. Later denials that what was meant was that it might be a 'hypothetical' that was really meant is not exculpatory in a Tort Action for personal and professional libel. When written confirmation exists that the person doing the posting was doing it as part of an agreed 'Protocol' with a sitting Senior member of the DNI, by name...it becomes rather important for other reasons. Most courts would not see it as an innocent 'mistake' when the identical pattern is repeated three times in one year."

Smith appears to be suffering from vertigo as he assails the heights of counter-intelligence, in his quest for a cosmic lifeboat. In the process, his goal of moving government disclosure to the forefront of Washington politics has receded into the horizon, revealing the precipice beneath him.

My advice for Mr. Smith: be careful with your next step. If you slip the drop can be murder.

As for the spies, they continue to chatter past each other over the web, like strangers on a train, destined to stare out the rear window at the receding landscape of the real world.

Bon voyage!

[Note: I was included in the some of the original emails from Smith. The replies were later posted at Open Minds Forum. They are reproduced at the Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape blog, without comment.]

I confess a bit of hesitation in bringing this tale to the general public, having earned a notorious reputation for not obeying the rules of journalism when it comes to anonymous sources. Once you enter the spy game, you are always under suspicion of being a secret agent, no matter how young and innocent you appear on the surface. One thing I have learned from the lessons of others caught up in the shadowy tales of intrigue and real-life espionage: when you become involved in spy games, you should always tell your wife.
UPDATE:
Smith's allegations are confirmed by the public release of an FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY report, commissioned by Dr. Ron Pandolfi, for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) MASINT to the MITRE JASON government consultants. Many of the 'unusual suspects' were identified by name in the report, including, but not limited to Pandolfi, Mark Pesses, and Paul Murad.
The introduction to the report explains, "The subject of High Frequency Gravitational Waves (HFGW) has attracted considerable interest in the US government over the last few years. In September 2007, HFGW came to the attention of the National MASINT Committee of ODNI; in turn, staff at this committee asked JASON to review both the underlying science and technology of HFGW, and their implications for national security. JASON hosted briefings during June 17-18, 2008 from individuals both inside and outside the US government, and also collected about a thousand pages of printed or electronic material. This report gives our conclusions and supporting analyses, after having considered this input. Classified topics and conclusions are presented in the accompanying classified appendix ... We are especially grateful to Ronald Pandolfi and Mark Pesses of ODNI for their continued help in arranging briefers and documentation; they were ably assisted by Paul Flemming and Sara Shelton. We benefitted from briefings by Robert Baker, Gary Stephenson, Paul Murad, Patricia Walters, Ronald Pandolfi, Kevin Pollpeter, and Mark Pesses."

2011-08-30T09:10:00.001-07:00

Uri Geller

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A Phenomenon of CIA Interest

Long before the NBC TV reality show "Phenomenon," featuring psychic Uri Geller and illusionist Criss Angel, there was the CIA. Although it happened many years ago in a land that today seems far, far away -- the early 1970s -- it remains a tale of great significance for our time.
This page was last updated 08/29/2011 02:03:41 AM -0000
(STARpod.org) -- Long before the NBC TV reality show "Phenomenon," featuring psychic Uri Geller and illusionist Criss Angel, there was the CIA.

Although it happened many years ago in a land that today seems far, far away -- the early 1970s -- it remains a tale of great significance for our time.

Uri Geller attracted the attention of the CIA at a time when the depth of Russian and Soviet satellite interests in all things paranormal sent a chill up the collective spine of the Intelligence Community.

Today there are signs that the Intelligence Community remains engaged in exploring psychic phenomena for use by "psychic spies" -- either to collect intelligence, or to bait and switch the enemy as a counter-intelligence ploy, as part of the war on terror.
U.K. based author Jon Ronson told the tale of Uri Geller's "reactivation" by a mysterious man named "Ron," shortly after the events of 9/11.STARstream Research confirmed the existence of "Ron," a senior intelligence official, named Dr. Ronald S. Pandolfi, and his interest in exotic phenomena.

When we contacted Ron, he directly denied the use of psychics by the present -day intelligence community. This appears to contradict other information provided by multiple independent sources to STARstream Research, including confirmation from another UK based psychic, Chris Robinson, suggesting that DIA and NSA continued to explore psychic remote viewing following 9/11.
Declassified official US government records prove that psychics were being used for intelligence collection in the STAR GATE program until 1995. Declassified UK MoD files prove that the British Ministry of Defence was also exploring psychic phenomena shortly after 9/11.

Investigative journalist and author Gus Russo, who is better known for digging away at the conspiratorial aspects of the JFK assassination plot for PBS and ABC than for exploring the world of the paranormal, was told by a source familiar with the National Security Agency that NSA was currently using highly trained psychics, called remote viewers, to gather intelligence. The alleged program is said to operate at the deepest level of secrecy at the agency. It is possible that the CIA killed the STAR GATE program to protect a next-generation project that was secretly underway at NSA. It was later learned that Chris Robinson was working with Thomas Drake, the former senior NSA official who had been under indictment by the US Justice Department for his whistle-blowing against government waste and mismanagement at NSA. The most serious charges against Drake were later dropped in favor of a plea agreement to unauthorized use of a government computer system. The extent of Drake's involvement with paranormal intelligence collection, and any official involvement by NSA, remain unknown.

In the 1970s, the idea that paranormal phenomena might actually represent a serious threat to the United States was taken quite seriously. In the western world, Uri Geller was at the center of the phenomenon.

The CIA, and a handful of other government agencies, narrowed the paranormal field down to two possible areas of immediate interest: psychokinesis, the alleged ability of the mind to affect matter directly, and clairvoyance, the alleged ability of the mind to perceive distant persons, places or things. To overcome the so-called "giggle factor" of embarrassment associated with the paranormal in the scientific community, the intelligence community would later identify the field as Anomalous Mental Phenomena, or AMP. Early work with Geller and others lead to numerous paranormal programs.

A once-secret 1973 CIA memo states "Since, as matters now stand, apparently nothing more is to be done with GELLER and since we can ill afford to ignore the powers which he allegedly has and which SWANN does not share, [Ingo Swann, another famous psychic tested by CIA] the following possibility might be explored."

The importance of Uri Geller to the CIA cannot be understated. He represented an immediately accessible test subject at a time when films of Soviet psychics moving matter with their minds had been obtained by the western world. Concerns were raised that anyone capable of affecting material objects might also be capable of initiating the detonator of a nuclear weapon.

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the memo is the picture it paints of the the modus operandi of the spy agency.
The memo continued:

Telling SRI (sincerely, by the way) [the Stanford Research Institute, where tests of Uri Geller's powers were taking place] that we have no intention of easing them out and that they will have full access to the data and first option re publication, we persuade them to use their good offices with GELLER in the following manner. They tell him that, in order to get the kind of money necessary for prolonged research, they showed their data and film on a highly selective basis to officials in the USG [U.S. Government]. While all expressed interest (and many incredulity) only one group had both the vision and the courage and the means to pursue the matter -- and they urge GELLER to at least listen to the proposition they wish to make. If he asks who they represent SRI finesses the matter by telling him that the representatives, themselves, would rather explain their status.
NOTE: Alternatively, with appropriate backstopping, we could pass ourselves off as NIH officials -- see below) SRI then provides the introduction to GELLER and we try to convince him to accept a contract as our consultant for a two or three month period -- renewable if both parties concur. If we don't pose as NIH officials and if he insists on knowing who we are, we tell him -- but only after enough low-key and sympathetic exposure to permit him, at least, to judge us objectively. If we pose as NIH, the rationale for our interest is simple -- straight basic research. If we drop cover, the rationale is simply that, in addition to our scientific interest in understanding the phenomena, we are concerned about the potentialities for its use in the wrong hands against the interests of humanity as a whole; we have a defensive responsibility in that regard and solicit his help in meeting it. In other words, we virtually level with him. As matters now stand we have little to loose and, handled adeptly, we might get a reasonably cooperative response. If so, we arrange for him to be ensconced in an NIH clinic (under alias if he prefers) and ensure that the conditions (privacy, security, yet freedom of movement for G who will live and sleep there but be free to leave outside 'office' hours) are optimum from his and our points of view. We then conduct the experiments designed for him and have him examined by an array of NIH specialists. In this context, while we probably have to keep the regimen as un-threatening and unpainful as possible, it would be of great value if we could obtain blood / metabolic / other indices both when he is 'high' (performing well) and when he is in a normal state. If consistent traces lead to biochemical suggestions, the whole matter of both identification and enhancement in others (drug-wise for example) might be short-circuited. All of us experience in less dramatic ways 'on' and 'off' states -- with minor cycles being measured in hours or days and major ones measured sometimes in years. When we are 'on' we 'click,' feel 'fit,' are on top of things and we are perceived by others as being 'effective,' 'dynamic,' 'magnetic,' etc. It seems reasonable to assume that similar or analogous cycles are operative in the 'psi' arena -- and that (as with us) the underlying causes are physical / chemical, as well as environmental and psychological.

2011-08-30T09:09:00.001-07:00

Is CIA Crashing the White House UFO Disclosure Party?

Tareq and Michaele Salahi achieved personal fame after crashing a White House dinner party. Dan T. Smith would like to do the same for disclosure of government UFO phenomena secrets, with a little help from Ron Pandolfi, his friend at CIA.
By GARY S BEKKUM
Futurist, STARstream Research
This page was last updated 08/27/2011 03:51:55 AM -0000
(STARpod.org) -- Tareq and Michaele Salahi achieved personal fame after crashing a White House dinner party.

Dan T. Smith would like to do the same for disclosure of government secrets, with a little help from Ron Pandolfi, his friend at CIA.

Smith is the son of Dan Throop Smith, the late Harvard economist who served as chief tax adviser to President Eisenhower, and a descendent of the Throop family, who founded Cal Tech.

Dan Smith, inflamed by the abuses of power in the Nixon administration, told me he once contemplated more drastic actions than mere party crashing.

On September 11, 2001, America witnessed first hand the devastation wrought by drastic actions. Smith attaches particular personal significance to the 9/11 events, which he interprets as a wake up call to the eschaton: the final days of mankind.

According to Smith, his sister, a friend of Nancy Bush Ellis, spoke with the former CIA Director and U.S. President George H. W. Bush by phone from a plane shortly after leaving Logan International within minutes of the hijacked 9/11 flights.

Days before 9/11, Smith says he was invited to a meeting with his friend from the CIA. The implication of this meeting, claims Smith, was advanced knowledge of an impending world-altering event. Smith later reported this meeting to the local FBI.

Smith is convinced that his friends in the intelligence world are holding the cards to the end of days. From the outside looking in, one cannot always tell who is ahead.

Smith's goal in "crashing the White House party" is to force the hand of government disclosure.

About ten years ago, Smith exposed his trump card: Dr. Ronald S. Pandolfi, who, according to numerous accounts in the New York Times and the Congressional Research Service, was a high level CIA analyst tasked against U.S. corporations offering technology assistance to China's rocket program in the 1990s. Based upon the Pulitzer award winning account in the New York Times, Pandolfi worked out of the National Intelligence Council, writing National Intelligence Estimates (NIE) for the President of the United States.

Mr. Smith suggests that Dr. Pandolfi is more than an analyst: according to Smith, he is involved with CIA and DIA operations, not only science and technology. Pandolfi's most recent official public action involved tasking the elite JASON scientific advisory committee on an obscure pseudo-scientific cooperative effort between American and Chinese researchers.
A few years ago Pandolfi and Smith were at the center of a strange Internet fiasco intended to associate John Gannon, former CIA man (and head of the National Intelligence Council) who helped in the creation of Homeland Security, with the reverse engineering of "UFO" technology.

One of the benefits of "rogue journalism" is the freedom of bending the rules to the game. This is particularly helpful when some of the party players sitting at the game table work for government intelligence agencies.

Conspicuously absent from this party: The Secret Service.

Pandolfi confirmed to me by email that he was aware of Mr. Smith's desire to "crash the White House" for disclosure.

In the summer of 2009, Smith claimed Pandolfi was acting as an Intelligence Community liaison to the White House.

When I informed Pandolfi of Smith's intention to show up at the White House gate, he quickly arranged to meet privately with Smith at another location in the Washington, D.C. area.

Later Smith reported Pandolfi had left the White House position over excessive politics in the Obama administration.

Now, having exposed his Pandolfi card for everyone interested in the games at hand, Smith once again contemplates a strategy to "crash the White House" for disclosure.

Pandolfi, and his former mentor at CIA, Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green, have been widely exposed by the Internet as the "keepers of the weird" -- the government's real life X-files -- a carefully guarded "phenomenology problem" that confounds the experts in the Intelligence Community.

For what it is worth, some of the files were released as a result of Pandolfi's CIA in 1995, when Congressional action resulted in the takeover of the Defense Intelligence Agency's STAR GATE program.

Smith remains convinced there is much more about the phenomenology problem still hidden in the bowels of the Intelligence Community.

Whether or not those files will reveal anything about Smith's deeply felt belief that this is the end of history remains to be seen.

2011-08-30T09:07:00.000-07:00

Don Ecker's 'Dark Thoughts': Long Saga of Lunar Anomalies

On July 20th, 1969 the American Apollo 11 Mission touched down, forever immortalized with Neil Armstrong's "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" quote. So, if we as a species should know about any celestial body, our Moon should be the most known, right?
Well as it turns out, not necessarily.
By DON ECKER, Host, Dark Matters Radio

May 18, 2011
This page was last updated 05/18/2011 10:13:08 PM -0000
(STARpod.org) -- The Moon -- gazed upon for countless centuries by lovers in all seasons, used by farmers to illuminate their nighttime harvesting in the autumn, cursed by soldiers trying to sneak up on the enemy and looked upon with awe by first time young astronomers. The Moon has almost always presented a familiar if not friendly countenance peering down upon us with serene familiarity.
The "Man in the Moon" has been a familiar figure to generations of Moon watchers. The optical illusion of a face is generated by the craggy features set off by smooth plains of the lunar surface.
The Moon, of course, was also the catalyst that fueled a multi-billion dollar and ruble race between the American and Soviet space agencies in the early 1960s, when President John Kennedy threw down the gauntlet to the American public in his historic race to the Moon speech. And on July 20th, 1969 the American Apollo 11 Mission touched down, forever immortalized with Neil Armstrong's "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" quote. So, if we as a species should know about any celestial body, our Moon should be the most known, right? Well as it turns out, not necessarily.

Mystery Lights

For the last several hundred years, astronomers have observed mysterious lights on the lunar surface. In the early 19th century, England's Sir John Herschel saw unidentifiable lights on the Moon during an eclipse, and said some of the lights appeared to be moving above the Moon. Other astronomers of the period reported seeing geometrical patterns of lights that resembled city streets. In 1869, the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain began a three-year investigation when a "sudden outbreak" of mystery lights was observed in the area of Mare Crisium.
On the night of July 29, 1953, John J. O'Neill settled himself at his telescope for an evening of lunar viewing. O'Neill was the science editor for the New York Herald Tribune. The "seeing," an astronomer's term for viewing, was excellent. As O'Neill began to observe the area around the Mare Crisium crater, he was astounded to view what appeared to be a "bridge" that straddled the crater, a structure that appeared to stretch for 12 miles.
O'Neill reported his discovery to the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers. As he expected, O'Neill was attacked by a number of astronomers, but one month later O'Neill found support from England when legendary British astronomer Dr. H. P. Wilkens verified it.

A natural' description

Patrick Moore, a leading member of the British Astronomical Association, also observed the bridge and reported it. Here was a bridge where one had never been seen before. O'Neill, careful in the extreme, called it a "natural" bridge that had somehow "popped up" almost overnight.
Lunar Transient Phenomena, or LTP, is an old subject with astronomers. Beginning several hundred years ago, certain areas of our Moon have consistently displayed light and object phenomena having no clear explanation. Starting in the 1960s, NASA began to study LTP in earnest. This study included anything that showed color, light, movement or anything mysterious, anything that was different from the norm.
In June of 1972, an astronomy magazine published a NASA announcement about a program for studying LTP. NASA was looking for anyone with the proper equipment and experience to study the Moon in detail. Thirty-two observers responded and were detailed to study four different sites that had shown LTP in the past. The program was not a success, as only six astronomers reported with regularity, and then not necessarily on the sites assigned.

Moore's catalog

Patrick Moore began to catalog LTP, and the list proved to be fascinating. In the crater Aristarchus, blinking lights, red and blue lights, brightenings and pulsations have all been observed. In the crater of Plato, blinking lights, moving lights and red color have been observed. Other craters that have displayed LTP in the forms of unexplained lights, clouds, blinking and flashing displays and colored lights have included Eratosthenes, Biela, Rabbi Levi, and Posidonius.
NASA has attempted to explain the above examples of observed LTP as gas escaping from lava deposits, Moon sunrise that caused ultraviolet excitation of gas, solar flare particles that create luminescent excitation, or volcanic action that causes belching fire that would explain the lights and occasional smoke.
First published in 1976 by David McKay, George H. Leonard's book Somebody Else is on the Moon became one of the first books to take a close look at high strangeness on the Moon. Leonard created quite a stir by delving deep into NASA archives and finding a great number of photos from the first unmanned missions, and the later Apollo missions to the Moon.

NASA photos

Many of the photos showed Moon anomalies that Leonard and others claimed could not have been natural. The Moon does not have any discernible atmosphere or weather, no air or running water. With the exception of changes from meteor bombardments, the surface stays much the same as it has always been. NASA has stated that the lunar body is almost geologically dead, yet certain areas have registered on seismic equipment left on the Moon by the Apollo missions. These areas correspond with areas that are known for LTP.
When it comes to Apollo missions, rumors have abounded for years about what the astronauts are reported to have witnessed. In Timothy Good's Above Top Secret, it is reported that former NASA Chief of Communications Systems Maurice Chatelain says that Neil Armstrong viewed two UFOs resting on the rim of a crater. "The encounter was common knowledge in NASA, but nobody has talked about it until now," Chatelain stated.
Soviet scientists confirmed the incident. Dr. Vladmimir Azahzha, a physicist and mathematics professor, has stated, "Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But his message was never heard by the public - because NASA censored it."

New Moon efforts

Several years ago, Moon anomaly investigator James Sylvan contacted UFO Magazine requesting information on contacting Richard Hoagland of the Cydonia, Mars investigating team (now called the Mars Mission). Sylvan had been following up for years on George Leonard's work, and had gathered all the photos that Leonard had referenced. Sylvan then sent Hoagland samples of photos showing the anomalies that Leonard had found during his investigation.
Sylvan's set of photos showed items that truly did not appear natural. In the still-warm wake of his exclusive focus on Mars, Hoagland began to study the lunar question, and became convinced that certain areas did have huge artificial structures. The primary formations today are referred to as the "shard," the "tower," and the "cube."

In this recent revival of lunar anomalies investigation, the crater Ukert proves to be most provocative. Noticed by Hoagland, the strange phenomena on Ukert prompted him to contact Dr. Bruce Cornet, and independent geologist. Now allied with Hoagland in the search, Dr. Cornet has published his analyses of the photos of the lunar areas in question, descriptions that can more or less be considered the current party line on Moon anomalies.
Dr. Cornet explained Ukert as ". . . a crater like feature that displays a circumscribed equilateral triangle at full moon in its center. I agree that this triangle is not natural, because the sides of the crater are much brighter only opposite the sides of this triangle. The angles of the triangle intersect the darkest three areas of the crater rim, while the brightest three areas of the rim are opposite the sides of the triangle. In addition, the brightest parts of the rim are midway between the apices of the triangle, and are at 120 degrees orientation from one another."

'Comments on the shard'

Cornet says, "The Shard is an obvious structure which rises above the Moon's surface by more than a mile. Its overall irregular spindly shape (containing a regular geometric pattern) with constricted nodes and swollen internodes, if natural, has got to be a wonder of the universe. No known natural process can explain such a structure."
Cornet goes on to say that "The Tower represents an enigma of the highest magnitude, because it rises more than five miles above the surface of the Moon, and has been photographed from five different angles and two different sides. The Tower exists in front of and to the left of the Shard in the Lunar Orbiter III-84M photograph. The top of the Tower has a very ordered cubic geometry, and appears to be composed of regular cubes joined together to form a very large cube with an estimated width of over one mile!"

Again working with NASA imagery, Cornet also describes evidence for a massive, but vastly damaged dome that appears in Mare Crisium. Cornet stated that he was able to make out a set of large, concentric and circular light patterns within the mare. Reportedly he identified a spire or tower that rises from the surface within the light circles. "Magnification of the area around this spire shows cubic patterns like those around the Tower in Sinus Medii."
He has emphasized that computer enhancements of some of the formations show that they're apparently made of some reflective, glass-like material, highly eroded on the Moon's airless, vacuum-like environment.

NASA's non-reporting

The next question that readers are likely to ask is, if this information is even half true, then why was none of it reported by either NASA or the Apollo astronauts? The answer might go like this: Even though NASA is a civilian agency, it is in part financed by Department of Defense funds, and in the past, most astronauts were active duty military officers on detached status to NASA. In effect, all are subject to the military regulations, and if these regulations are broken, fines and penalties await.
Sitting behind all this is the National Security Agency (NSA), which monitors all transmissions and screens all footage taken on missions.
Under these circumstances, the barriers to openness are close to insurmountable. Were our years-long effort and billions upon billions of dollars (1960s dollars) expended just to say we got there? Is it feasible that after a half dozen missions, we just quit?
For years, rumors abounded that we were "asked" to leave early on (by the much-speculated "somebody else on the moon"), but that would have caused massive questioning and perhaps panic if we suddenly stopped, so we completed the program and the went into hiatus - until Apollo-Soyuz in 1975, and then the Shuttle in the early 80s, and most recently the Clementine mission (which at press time was still unrecovered). Again, this idea is pure speculation and rumor.
But an underlying question remains: Where secrecy is possible, where can we be sure of getting the truth? The only way a solution to these new and highly important mysteries will be found, especially if the Cornet analyses are even remotely on target, is through yet another, completely open lunar mission.
Whatever else might be found from current data stands as is until then.

Join the Conversation: There's Some THING On the Moon?

For more about the government's paranormal efforts, see SPIES LIES and POLYGRAPH TAPE -- Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games Book.
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Copyright (c) 2011 by Don Ecker and Dark Matters Radio for STARstream Research / STARpod.org -- All rights reserved.

2011-08-30T09:05:00.001-07:00

The Alien View Of Earth, Part I

Sunday, August 28, 2011 04:15:18
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1017/496/The_Alien_View_Of_Earth,_Part_I.html
The Alien View of Earth. Part I
There have been postings related to possible alien action taken toward Earth due in large part to the mess humans have made of the planet, and so to keep the contamination and Cabal contained, humans must be dealt with... What would we realistically look like from the alien perspective?
Background
About 450,000 years ago, the Earth was set up as a kind of zoo – filled with flora and fauna representative of several other planets in the galaxy. It was intended to be a garden, both as a repository of seed, as well as allowing approved groups of ET scientists the opportunity to experiment and develop different bioforms.
Into this pristine scenario, in a freewill universe, came the reptilian Orion group, behaving more as pirates than evil-doers, and as was their wont, everywhere they went, they just took whatever they wanted. Sometimes they were challenged and stopped but there was no one on Earth to stop them. They wanted to use Earth as a base, and mine for uranium and gold – atomized gold benefiting their body chemistry.
They grew tired of the manual labor and conceived the idea of creating slave workers – physically strong but not too bright so that they could do the hard labor, but didn’t have the smarts to gain the upper hand. The created ones called their god-like masters the Anunnaki. The Solar Council called them interlopers but as long as they didn’t destroy the planet nor stop peaceful Others from doing their work there, the Council could not really object. No one had officially defined the planet as off-limits, so all they could do was watch.
And the Anunnaki behaved themselves initially, until other ETs came here and land disputes began with the Aryans in the region of India, and then began sky warfare between the two groups, as was later described in the Mahabharata. The garden had become a battlefield, and the Council moved to stop it – just as they had to intervene after the destruction of the planet Marduk between Mars and Jupiter. The soul group responsible for the destruction of Marduk had been forced to reincarnate on the Earth to work out their issues, but continued their aversion to the Law of One in Atlantis, refused to cooperate, and were close to destroying the Earth. These Anunnaki descendants in Atlantis by this time looked like Man, and were followers of the Might Makes Right path. (The original Anunnaki retained their reptilian form.)
The Council intervened and ordered the destruction of Atlantis and the collection of the wayward souls, after first warning the followers of the Law of One on Atlantis to escape. The Anunnaki were recognized as the instigators of the problems on Earth and were invited off by a much older and more powerful ‘watchdog’ race that is occasionally at the service of the Solar Council. However, due to the Law of Responsible Creation, if your race is capable of creating sentient life forms then you are responsible for what you create and are to stay with it to properly guide your creation, protect it if necessary, AND learn the ‘lesson’ of what it takes to shepherd your creation.
Thus, about 600-500 BC, the main Anunnaki group left, as well as peaceful Others from Sirius, the Pleiades, Andromeda and Lyra, and the remaining 300-400 Anunnaki were called the Remnant. They occupied places inaccessible to Man. Very shortly thereafter, in keeping with the dictum of the Law of Responsible Creation, the Remnant began interacting with Man, representing themselves as what would be later known as the Greek gods. And as time went on, they were renamed into the Roman gods; Zeus became Jupiter, Ares became Mars, Poseidon became Neptune, etc.
Note: the Anunnaki always fought among themselves and with Others, but not all Anunnaki or Orion beings are considered ‘bad.’ Nor are all Pleiadians, Lyrans or Sirians ‘good.’ Discernment is needed and Man often lacks this.
But playing god didn’t really work because the Remnant had split into two main groups, neither of which liked Man, and mostly just disagreed about what to do with him – which continues to this day. The Remnant Dissidents would like to kill Man off, to be rid of him and their lesson, whereas the Remnant Insiders have accepted responsibility and seek to get Man to the place where he can be responsible and interface in a mature way with other ET groups. (How’s it working so far?)
Because many souls inhabited the human bodies, this made them sentient beings, and they could not be killed without serious payback. If the Solar Council didn’t visit you with penalty, the Law of Karma would extract its ultimate farthing from those who violated Universal Laws.
Thus the Remnant today are largely underground since Man can spy on most any land locale on the Earth and discover them… the goal is to stay undiscovered, and thus they also inhabit under the larger lakes and oceans. And the Moon, which makes a great observation platform, provided it doesn’t rotate, so that the Moon-based instruments can more easily track Earth activity.
Man has never been alone, and this is not his planet, so that he could not ever fight the ETs and “take the planet back.” It was never his, and the ETs have always been here, so Man is observed, and even manipulated – religion being one of the great attempts to instill in Man a sense of something larger than himself. Concurrent with that was the desire to inculcate in Man a desire (via fear if necessary) to behave and respect other humans and the planet… a code of ethics if you will, but with Man’s perverse nature (owing to the legacy of Anunnaki genetics) religion became a means of defining who had the better God, the more true religion, etc and the effort descended into war on Earth.
When Man was created, an erect hominid was chosen as the strong physical specimen and the Anunnaki inserted their DNA into key places in the hominid’s genome to give the created being the ability to speak and learn, but not enough to plot against the creators and outsmart them. The Anunnaki leader/god, Enlil, was furious with the created result – they were noisy, rowdy, smelly (hominid traits) and petty, violent, conniving (Anunnaki traits) and the latter were the traits which amplified the hominid tendencies to be territorial and fight for food, mate and home. Enlil was right: the human experiment on Earth should have been destroyed – a much better version exists in the Pleiades. And he did try it several times with Suruppu disease, and thinned out Man’s numbers. (It is now known as HIV.)
Note: this is reminiscent of YHWH smiting humans in the Bible when they were disobedient, and that is largely another version of the Atra-Hasis account of Enlil’s dealing with wayward Man.
Versions of Man
Having taken an erect bipedal hominid and merged some controlled Anunnaki DNA with it, the Lulu was created, using Sumerian terminology. As could be expected, the behavior was more ape-like than Man-like, and a second version was created called Adama. There were many trials, failures, and genetically unstable versions, some of which could not reproduce. Enki mixed his DNA with an Adama female and created the Adapa as a mammalian version of Man, and this simplified the reproductive issue but necessitated live birth compared with the egg delivery of reptilians.
As the Adapa females were also attractive to the Igigi (Watchers) they also had intercourse with them, and genetics being less restrictive in those days, the Anunnaki-Human hybrid offspring were sometimes very large, anywhere from 9 to 13 feet tall. (Think Philistines and Goliath, and the Anakim, Rephaim and Giborim.)
As far as Enlil was concerned, things were out of hand and he permitted the Flood to remove most of the aberrations. But some giants continued after the Flood – Goliath and King Og (13’ tall) and the Germanic king Teutobokh (10’ tall). It was the job of the Remnant to remove these exceptions and see to it that Earth humans were of a lesser stature than their Anunnaki gods (who were 7-8’ tall). This also meant changing human genetics so that giants were a rare exception (Sun Mingming is a current Chinese basketball player, standing 7 ft 9), and species could not mix and mingle creating the chimeras that Atlantis was known for.
One of the failed versions of Adama devolved into Neanderthal – the genetics were not yet stabilized and today’s geneticists and anthropologists need to make a slight alteration to what they consider the linear, evolutional progression of Man. FYI, Neanderthal DNA did not evolve into Cro-Magnon (Adapa) and it was necessary to remove Neanderthal as he was, frankly, dumb and violent. A later tweak to Cro-Magnon produced Homo sapiens, which is also seeing its DNA degrade today due to stress, pollution, chemicals and the occasional interbreeding with humans whose DNA has negatively mutated.
Note: as aberrations developed in the human genome, producing undesirable human behavior that would “wire in” genetically, and result in self-terminating offspring, it was quickly dealt with. (Think Sodom & Gomorrah, Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro…)
Hence the need to restart the human genome on a stronger, more adaptive basis (think epigenetics) and to that end additional DNA was inserted into Cro-Magnon creating Homo sapiens (223 genes nowhere found in other vertebrates on Earth) and that is the major difference between Man and the Apes.
Current Status
To this day, Man still suffers the basic (stripped-down) DNA that science officer Enki set up, and at the request of the Solar Council, a benevolent group of ETs with their Grey clone/workers was tasked with the job of improving/expanding the human DNA into a more peaceful (less testosterone) and more spiritual/psychic/intuitive version (homo noeticus/Indigos/hybrids) of Man. Such project is completed and after the coming Change, whatever is left of Man will be living with the new hybrids and Earth will be stabilized.
The main body of the Anunnaki cannot come back, and neither can any of the other groups except by permission of the Solar Council. The Earth is in quarantine – by the same powerful group that “invited” the Anunnaki off the planet 2500 years ago. Even interdimensional visitors are discovered and evaluated: if they are up to no good, they are asked to leave, or are removed. They are only allowed to observe. (It will not be permitted for Man or the Earth to be destroyed or removed as this would disturb the mechanics of the solar system.) Thus, there are no external ETs causing any of the disasters on Earth.
Before the Anunnaki left, 2500 years ago, they regularly came and went from Earth, largely for health reasons. Upon their return to Earth, they did not want to find the humans had united and organized civilizations and militaries that would make it hard to again dominate them. Thus, they also created a Chaos group of humans who were programmed to infiltrate and spread disinformation, operate false flag operations, work to destroy proactive movements – a conniving version of Man. Anything to keep the humans distrusting each other and hopefully fighting each other. (How’s that working so far?)
In the ‘20s and ‘30s in Europe, a Nordic group of earthlings were contacted by members of the Remnants in a bold experiment to orchestrate a new, proactive world order. The League of Nations had failed and the UN would do no better (in fact, be off-purpose later in the hands of the Chaos group). In return for their cooperation, advanced technological tools and designs were given to the Nordics to ensure their success in uniting and managing the unruly earth people. The Chaos group made sure this didn’t happen, by infiltrating the Nordics, and then by lying to the public about what the NWO group was really doing – to make sure it would not happen again. Man would be his own worst enemy in fighting unification and progress on the planet due to his misunderstanding which was conditioned using the Media by the Chaos group.
The basic problem is that the current version of Man (Homo sapiens) was denied the DNA that would have made him intuitive and able to discern what was being done to him. The new version of Man, the Indigos and hybrids, will be considered psychic and deception will be impossible on Earth – telepathy and clairvoyance will be commonplace. Everyone will know who lied and robbed the store. Hence Man will grow and be able to know which ETs are trustworthy and which aren’t. The Solar Council and Insiders favor this replacement/upgrade of Man; obviously the Dissidents and Chaos group don’t – and out of this struggle come the current problems on Earth.
Significance?
Why tell you this? There are people around the planet who ask “Why don’t the good guys (ETs) land and begin to communicate with us?” Surely the Media would announce it and it would begin a new era on the Earth… let’s connect some dots.
First, your Media is controlled – all your news stories come from one of several news funnels: AP, UPI, etc… and the Cabal has given orders that nothing is to make the news regarding UFOs (which are really IFOs – they have long ago been identified). So our group deliberately performed the 1 ½ hour (106 min.) display over Phoenix back in 1997. That could not be ignored… except that your corrupt leaders gave the order to drop flares by parachute in the general area to serve as a source of disinfo… And then the governor of AZ made mock of the whole incident (as he was told to, which he now regrets). So don’t look to your Media any time soon for the “disclosure” or truth.
Secondly, there were meetings and treaties signed between 1952 and 1964 between ETs and 4 Earth govts which were soon broken by the latter as they continued to demand more weaponry to shoot down the UFOs. You were found duplicitous, petty and violent, and the Council followed Plan B: infiltration with what you have called Indigos, Wanderers, and Star Children… most of whom were programmed but are not yet aware of their potential and future roles. They subscribe to the 11 Universal Laws, as do the benevolent ETs. This is your hope.
Thirdly, how would you know the real, benevolent ET craft landing from the Cabal’s look-alikes? And from out of the landed craft step beings that look just like you and speak Earth languages… because they are from Earth. Here to solve your problems – if you will just turn it all over to them (and their NWO agents). Dr. Werner von Braun warned back in the 70’s about such a scam (google: Carol Rosin). The benevolent ETs don’t work this way, for obvious reasons.
We think you will make it as a species… or we wouldn’t bother. But beware the Cabal; they are supported by big money and the Dissidents who think they serve the Draconian/Anunnaki leadership – which has been removed from the playing field (by the quarantine). There is much Cabal frustration on Earth now as two “take over” dates have come and gone because they were (and continue to be) blocked. The Cabal’s secret decision several years ago was: “OK, if we can’t have the planet, neither will you!” We foresaw that. Not to worry. We can’t afford to lose planet Earth, it is in the natural order of things that she will make the Shift and take hundreds of thousands of Lightworkers with her. Very soon.
Those who see nothing happen, be aware that you didn’t make the Shift and will be starting over (after a tough time on what is left of this Earth on this timeline). Sorry. Remember it was your choice to believe or doubt, thus to go or stay. No one controls where you will go – your consciousness (or level of spirituality) determines where you go. You have had many teachers on the planet and many earthlings (due to their Anunnaki legacy genetics) could not hear them. That was what was meant by “Those who have ears to hear…” The “sins of the fathers” were genetic shortcomings that were passed down to later generations… who could not hear.
Hence the genetic incursion by the Zetans to redo the human genome.
The Cleanup
Earth is suffering quite a bit of pollution by Man, depletion of the ozone layer by Man, trash piles in the major seas by Man, insects and birds are suffering due to Man’s overuse of EMF and microwaves, Man continuing to kill sentient higher lifeforms in the seas (dolphins and whales), Man has left a lot of space trash circling the Earth, Man still does atomic explosions to refine his killing skills, and Man continues to abuse others to make a buck.
Man’s disregard for the planet and others shows up in the continuing, unregulated real estate development field – tear down all the old trees and shrubs (millions of leaves) to put up a parking lot, or a new condo with a few 20-leaf trees… There is now 25% less oxygen on the planet than there was 100 years ago (you can google this and hit the Natl Geographic website info). At this rate, what do the developers think they are going to breathe while trying to spend their money?
Note: All in all, Man is something of a concern to all peace-loving ETs and while it is not the plan to invade Earth and get rid of Man, there is a serious plan to proactively infiltrate via genetic upgrade and change Man from Homo stupidus to Homo noeticus.
There are basically four main groups on Earth that are vying for control. Man is an ensouled being and that is the reason the Council seeks to protect and develop his divine (soul) potential, and that is exactly the reason the Dissidents and Chaos group (i.e., Cabal) seek to keep him dumbed down and trapped on Earth. If a soul cannot grow and fulfill its potential, it cannot move into higher realms where it can rule over the lower ones. Souls cannot be killed, but they can be tricked and trapped and that is the pathetic situation on Earth today. Now you know how it got that way.
The current version of Man is not going out into space without serious accompaniment by benevolent ETs as he’d never survive a solo encounter with the negative (STS) Orion group. Hence the quarantine. (Think you’re going back to the Moon?) SETI is the answer? They’re already here and Man didn’t listen to them. Crop Circles are them communicating with Man? No longer true; some Circles are now made by Man – from satellite – to instill fear: case in point is the 2005 depiction of the inner solar system with Earth missing. (The STO Alliance did do the Chilbolton alien face with the circular ascii message.)
As if the above weren’t enough to think about, Man is being removed by famine, war and disease. There are over 15 killer diseases on the planet and several of them have no cure, as well as several overused antibiotics that are now useless as the bacteria have developed a resistance to them.
In his ignorance and greed, Man has definitely created some ecological problems from which he cannot escape, including the current reopening of the Gulf BP oilspill... The turnaround date was 1987 and world leaders were told to clean it up or risk losing the environment. (The same year that President Reagan almost told people what he had discovered about ETs.) Man generally chose to ignore the warnings...and did not take Reagan’s hint. Don’t think that the Remnant, who are still here, don’t see this situation. Both groups of the Remnant feel the same way about Man tearing up the planet as a homeowner feels about termites tearing up the home. Something has to be done to stop it.
The Earth Changes are happening at the right time.
While there is no Rapture and no UFO rescue/airlift scheduled at this time, what is coming is a more dramatic way (Shift) to separate the sheep from the goats. And souls will learn a lot more from it, and then start again on a new Earth, without the interference of Others. Future incarnations into more advanced body/mind containers on the future Earth will ensure the better ‘evolution’ of Man spiritually – which is what it is all about.

Posted by Prisoner67 on Sunday, August 28, 2011 23:05:02

Thanks for the comments. Part II should be posted by next Friday at the latest (9/2/11) -- same section. It will have info to clarify what Man is, why we're here and who is also here with us, and what is being done about it. This necessitates some info to be shared on timelines.

Re: Marks2much -- my age is in my moniker (byline) and I have been at this for years, and was just as confused as a lot of other people. ( I am not a famous author posting under a pseudonym, although I know almost as much as Dr. Boylan, Dr. Michael Wolf, and the late John Keel.)

One day in Dec. '97 my doctor told me I had 3 years to live and so I quit my lucrative county computer job, cashed in my retirement and savings chips -- why not party and go where I wanted to go before leaving the planet?
While hiking in Sedona in June '98 I dropped to my knees and made an intense prayer to be able to serve Man and the planet before I died so that my life might count for something positive. There was no answer, no voice from the clouds. I continued traveling.
I decided to move to Tucson in late October '98 and that's when I was (very unceremonially) visited in my motel room -- in El Paso. I was taken out of my body, protected by a swirling green energy field (protection I was later told) and allowed to watch the whatever-it-was they were doing to my head, and I was 20-30 min later put back in my body. It was 2 in the morning. I was put back to sleep.
They had done something, and given me knowledge and an ability to ask and receive info about whatever I asked -- it comes in 1-sec downloads. However, if I had no need to know something, I was told so and had to live with not knowing whatever it was I had asked. I didn't even know who They were.

The next three days were unreal... I had written it all off as a dream, but I not only knew things now and had answers to almost all my questions, but I could heal myself by willing it (sorry, it doesn't transfer to others) and I now see auras.

In fact, I sometimes think I know too much. They showed up in person again in 2003 and asked if I was ready to do my part... Sure, I said -- Healer? Teacher? Maybe prophet (ugh)? None of the above. I was disappointed when They told me what it was, but I have done and continue to do my part, a minor thing, in addition to doing a few posts. I can see my part working and They permit me to post. I wrote a book that connects all the dots, 17 chapters, 12 appendices, huge glossary... and no one will publish it. Not that people are going to have the time to read it for a while anyway, so it sits on a CD in the closet. Some of the info shared in my posts is from that book.

BTW, knowing the answer is not what it is cracked up to be, but what sustains me is Their promise of where we (proactive) people are going. Perhaps the book will be printed there...

Re: AmrahAOlson -- you are right about the reptiles, but don't worry, most of them are gone and because we're in quarantine, their cohorts cannot get to us. The new Earth will be free of them and many other obstructive things.
The Zetas are mostly "good guys", perhaps you are thinking of the Dows -- a bunch of Greys who do work with the Orion group for less than nice purposes.
The PTB/Cabal/Chaos group are not expected to survive the Earth Changes in a way that would allow them to take power/control again over Earth... I have heard that most will be trapped in their DUMBs (underground bunkers) under water or lava with their assist from the Remnant gone.

I have posted elsewhere that Man is a valuable being (possessing a soul -- the soul is created in the Father's image with all the potential implied in that) and that is why there is so much neg effort spent trying to contain/trap and dumb Man down -- to keep him from actualizing his divine heritage. That is also why the HIgher Beings are involved -- to put the Father of Light's Plan back on track.
Not said earlier was that not all men have souls, and it was a mistake to incarnate into bodies that the Anunnaki provided... hence Man is to learn from that karmic error and rise above it. That info is in Part II.

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