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Nuclear Physicist Describes Vast UFO Cover-Up
Updated: 58 days 8 hours ago
(June 7) -- "Some UFOs are intelligently controlled extraterrestrial
spacecraft, and this is the biggest story of the millennium."
These words are not the rantings of a deranged individual looking for attention or a comfortable straitjacket. Stanton Friedman is a maverick of sorts.
Employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for companies like General
Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse and Aerojet General Nucleonics,
he worked on highly classified programs involving nuclear aircraft,
fission and fusion rockets.
In 1958, UFOs caught his attention, and Friedman has since lectured about this
subject at more than 700 colleges and professional groups in all 50
states and around the world.
Courtesy of Stanton Friedman
Nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman has devoted more than 50 years to pursuing
the scientific truth of UFOs, and was the original civilian
investigator of the legendary 1947 Roswell, N.M., incident.
the scientific truth of UFOs, and was the original civilian
investigator of the legendary 1947 Roswell, N.M., incident.
"After 53 years of investigation, I'm convinced we're dealing here with a
cosmic Watergate," he told AOL News. "That means a few people within
major governments have known since at least 1947 that some UFOs are
alien spacecraft."
In Friedman's new book, "Science Was Wrong," co-authored with Kathleen Marden, he wrote, "There's been no shortage
of strong, negative proclamations from debunking groups and individuals
who refuse to examine the evidence ... to support the notion that some
UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin."
Friedman cites many cases of UFO encounters experienced by competent, reliable eyewitnesses,
including one involving Japan Airlines.
Courtesy of Stanton Friedman
One of the most credible sightings of a UFO in history is from a series of
images taken aboard the Brazilian ship Almirante Saldanha on Jan. 16,
1958. The Saturn-shaped object was witnessed by the ship's crew and
several scientists. The UFO approached the island, making a steep turn
before flying away quickly. Juscelino Kubitschek, then president of
Brazil, confirmed the authenticity of the photos.
images taken aboard the Brazilian ship Almirante Saldanha on Jan. 16,
1958. The Saturn-shaped object was witnessed by the ship's crew and
several scientists. The UFO approached the island, making a steep turn
before flying away quickly. Juscelino Kubitschek, then president of
Brazil, confirmed the authenticity of the photos.
"A 747 over Alaska encountered something that was twice the size of an
aircraft carrier, that flew circles around the jet. They reported it to
the ground, where both the UFO and the 747 were picked up on radar.
"The explanation from debunkers was that it was Jupiter! Boy, airplane radar
can pick up Jupiter? It was totally ludicrous. You're fighting the
forces of 'evil,' one might say -- arrogance and ignorance."
While some scientists through the years have quietly suggested Earth has been
visited by ETs, Friedman is the most outspoken. He's especially irked
by the attitude of scientists who use radio and optical telescopes in
the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, such as the SETI Institute in California.
"Their livelihood depends on the assumption that there's nobody coming here,
and if we just wait long enough, we're going to pick up the signal and
it'll be the greatest discovery in man's history, and it will help
solve all our problems.
"What really bothers me is that the SETI people will tell you there is no evidence for UFOs. Well, they
certainly don't reference any, so there must not be, right? Wrong!"
If so, why would reputable scientists refuse to consider that Earth may be a vacation spot for otherworldly travelers?
"Because they'd have to admit that they'd ignored such a big story for so long
and that they were wrong," Friedman said. "Being wrong is something
that scientists don't like to admit at all."
Over the past 50 years, numerous surveys and public opinion polls have indicated that
people are very interested in and, even, concerned about UFOs.
Courtesy of Stanton Friedman
One of the best UFO pictures ever taken, this object was photographed by
Paul Trent over his McMinnville, Ore., farm in May 1950. A subsequent
Air Force investigation determined that "an extraordinary flying
object, silvery, metallic, disk-shaped, tens of meters in diameter and
evidently artificial, flew within sight of two eyewitnesses."
Paul Trent over his McMinnville, Ore., farm in May 1950. A subsequent
Air Force investigation determined that "an extraordinary flying
object, silvery, metallic, disk-shaped, tens of meters in diameter and
evidently artificial, flew within sight of two eyewitnesses."
A 2002 Roper poll, commissioned by the Sci-Fi Channel, noted that 72
percent of Americans believed the U.S. government isn't telling all it
knows about UFOs, and 68 percent thought the government knows more
about extraterrestrial life than it cares to disclose.
But why would the government -- any government -- cover up UFO information? To Friedman, the answer is more down to earth.
"I don't know of any government on this planet that wants its citizens to
owe their primary allegiance to the planet. Nationalism is the only
game in town."
Also, Friedman says, there's the military point of view. "From a national security angle, everybody would like to grab
a flying saucer and figure out how it works and use it to deliver
weapons on the other guy, and there's always another guy."
How exactly would one go about obtaining a flying saucer? One way is to
just wait until an otherworldly vehicle develops some mechanical
problem and simply crashes to the ground.
Roswell, N.M., comes to mind.
In July 1947, something crashed outside the small town that, according to
the initial official report, was a flying saucer. Authorities quickly
changed that story, claiming it was merely a weather balloon that had
fallen from the sky.
Thirty years after the Roswell event, Friedman met military personnel who were involved with the events of
1947 and he says they eventually stepped forward to advance the account
of a crashed spacecraft and dead alien bodies.
Because of Friedman's dogged determination, the Roswell UFO legend was born.
"I followed up enough to find a number of key people, and with no Internet available, it took a lot of work," he said.
But Friedman is keenly aware of the abundant skepticism that swirls around the Roswell UFO controversy.
"Naturally, the resistance to acceptance of this case is going to be stronger than
any other case," he said. "Because if it's true, it's everything --
bodies, wreckage, cover-up, threats -- what more do you need?"
Friedman says he's only had 11 hecklers in more than 700 lectures on UFOs.
"I'm still optimistic that, within my lifespan -- and I'm 75 -- we'll get at
least a part of the story, that we're not alone in the universe."
With the discovery in recent years of hundreds of planets circling other
suns, scientists continue to speculate that life is plentiful in the
cosmos.
Plus, in 2008, the pope's chief astronomer, the Rev. Gabriel Funes, proclaimed that intelligent beings created by God might
actually exist in outer space, and that it wouldn't contradict a belief
in God.
All of that gives Friedman hope.
"Now is probably the time to say, yes, we're part of a galactic neighborhood;
unfortunately, we're not the big shots in the neighborhood."
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On Wednesday August 4, 2010, 3:18 pm EDT
By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of U.S. billionaires pledged on Wednesday to give at least 50 percent of their fortunes to charity as part of a philanthropic campaign by two of the world's richest men -- Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.
Based on Forbes magazine's estimates of the billionaires' wealth, at least $150 billion could be given away.
Among the rich joining The Giving Pledge campaign are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, media moguls Barry Diller and Ted Turner, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, "Star Wars" movie maker George Lucas and energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens.
A total of 40 of the richest people in the United States, including Microsoft founder Gates and investor Buffett, now have taken the pledge.
Since launching the campaign in June, Buffett, Gates and his wife Melinda have spoken to about 20 percent of the wealthiest people in the United States -- 70 to 80 billionaires -- in a bid to persuade them to give away their fortunes.
"In most cases we had reason to believe that the people already had an interest in philanthropy," Buffett said. "It was a very soft sell but 40 have signed up."
"We're looking forward to enlisting many of these 40 to go out and make some calls also so we can report an even greater milestone but we're off to a terrific start," he said.
The campaign asks U.S. billionaires to give away at least half their wealth during their lifetime or after their death, and to publicly state their intention with a letter explaining their decision.
Gates has an estimated $53 billion fortune, which places him second on the Forbes magazine list of the world's richest people, and Buffett, who made his fortune with insurance and investment company Berkshire Hathaway Inc, ranks third on the list with $47 billion.
The Giving Pledge does not accept money but asks billionaires to make a moral commitment to give their fortunes to charity.
TAX BREAK NOT A MOTIVATION
"I've long stated that I enjoy making money, and I enjoy giving it away," energy tycoon Pickens, who is worth about $1 billion, said in his Giving Pledge letter. "I'm not a big fan of inherited wealth. It generally does more harm than good."
Buffett and Gates will hold several dinners later this year to recruit more billionaires, and members of The Giving Pledge also will meet annually to discuss their philanthropy.
Buffett and Gates also are due to meet with some of the wealthiest people in China in September and India in March.
"We ... hope that this catches fire in some other countries," Buffett said. "If they want to take what we think is a good idea and run with it, we will be cheering."
Forbes said the United States is home to 403 billionaires, the most of any country. Individual Americans gave more than $227 billion in 2009, according to a the Giving USA report by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, down just 0.4 percent from the previous year despite the U.S. recession.
"I have always thought that the best thing to do is to make the world better for your kids and your grandkids rather than just give them some money," Bloomberg, who is worth $18 billion, told reporters. "Your kids get more benefit out of your philanthropy than your will."
Buffett said none of the members of The Giving Pledge were driven by tax breaks. "Not one has talked to me about taxes," he said. "Anybody who is entitled to take a tax deduction takes it but I think the motivation goes far, far beyond taxes."
Real estate and construction billionaire Eli Broad, venture capitalist John Doerr, media entrepreneur Gerry Lenfest and former Cisco Systems Chairman John Morgridge joined Gates and Buffett when The Giving Pledge was launched in June. Another 34 members were announced on Wednesday.
Buffett pledged in 2006 to give away 99 percent of his wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and family charities. Bill and Melinda Gates have so far donated more than $28 billion of their fortune to their foundation.
The full list of billionaires and their letters can be seen at www.thegivingpledge.org.
Earth's solid inner core may be continually inching eastward relative to its liquid outer core, renewing itself by shedding its front while solidifying its back, a team of French scientists suggests.
"Within less than 100 million years, everything that has been crystallized on the west will have melted on the east," said lead researcher Thierry Alboussiere of Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble.
The idea counters traditional theory that the big ball at the center of the Earth stands still, growing uniformly in all directions as the planet cools. It could shed light on the nature of the core — such as its age, apparent seismic mismatches, and a mysterious coating of dense fluid on its surface.
Seismic clues
About a billion years ago, the middle of the Earth began slowly solidifying from the inside out. The planet is hottest at its center, possibly even hotter than the surface of the sun, yet the core's iron is thought to be solid because of the extreme pressure that has raised its melting temperature. As it freezes, according to theory, the inner core takes in more iron, sending lighter elements up through the liquid outer core. This movement is thought to drive Earth's magnetic field.
Since scientists can't journey the 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers) to the center of the Earth to see what's going on, insight of the 1,600-mile (2,570-km) wide innermost layer more or less stops there. But bits and pieces of indirect information come in all the time, through earthquakes. [Editor's note: An earlier version of this story misstated the Earth's radius.]
"Whenever there is a big earthquake, seismic waves get sent out in all directions and seismographs around the globe record the wiggles," said Michael Bergman of Bard College at Simon's Rock, Mass., who was not involved with the study but wrote an accompanying commentary on it for the journal Nature.
Earthquakes help scientists learn about the inner depths of the planet because seismic waves change speed as they move through different mediums. Researchers can piece together this information to figure out what kinds of rocks and minerals are located in different parts of the Earth's interior.
"But earthquakes don't occur everywhere on the surface of Earth, so we don't have enough data to completely constrain the inner core," Bergman told OurAmazingPlanet. "We have to take what nature can give us."
Over the last couple of decades, nature has offered more questions than answers. Seismologists noticed that waves appear to travel faster through the inner core from north to south than from west to east. Seismic properties also seemed to vary between the Eastern and Western hemispheres of the globe.
These findings did not fit with the traditional picture of the inner core, and neither did the 124-mile (200-km) thick layer of dense material detected on its surface.
"How do you build this dense layer next to the inner core when you're only releasing light material?" Alboussiere said in an interview.
He and his colleagues had an idea that could explain some of the discrepancies. What if rather than just crystallizing over its entire surface, the inner core was simultaneously melting and solidifying on opposite sides? Then perhaps the melting side could inject dense material into the outer core.
Eastward shift
Through mathematical models and lab experiments, the team determined that this may, in fact, describe the dynamics of the inner core in a way that is compatible with seismology's recent discoveries.
They speculate that the inner core is shifted slightly off-center, just to the east. This would put more pressure on the western side, where it would be closer to the center of the planet, and less pressure on the eastern side. The result could be a perpetually denser Western hemisphere and a continual flow of dense fluid from the east that eventually spreads out atop the entire inner core. It might also inspire a re-evaluation of how the Earth's magnetic field is generated and a recalculation of the age of the inner core and its oldest piece.
"The inner core is basically regenerating itself. And superimposed on that is this overall cooling that makes the inner core bigger and bigger over time," Bergman said. "That's just cool to think about."
The study is detailed in the Aug. 4 edition of the journal Nature.
A simple design. I wonder which planets the design is depicting.
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2010/lurkeleyhill/lurkeleyhill2010a.html
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| Location | 51.426°N, 178.607°W |
| Depth | 27 km (16.8 miles) set by location program |
| Region | ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA |
| Distances | 40 km (25 miles) ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska 60 km (40 miles) SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska 2055 km (1280 miles) WSW of Anchorage, Alaska 2880 km (1790 miles) W of JUNEAU, Alaska |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 4.7 km (2.9 miles); depth fixed by location program |
| Parameters | NST=340, Nph=340, Dmin=145.9 km, Rmss=0.97 sec, Gp= 36°, M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=8 |
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August 3, 2010 - Unusual Denmark Aurora After Gigantic Solar Flare.
Thefirst coronal mass ejection energy hit Earth's magnetic field today at
approximately 1740 UT (1:40 pm EDT) after the entire Earth-facing side
of the sun erupted on August 1 with a huge solar flare. High-latitude
sky watchers should be alert for auroras now.
“Seeing the sun erupt on such a global scale has galvanized the international
community of solar physicists. Researchers are still sorting out the complex
sequence of events and trying to understand why they all happened at once.”
On August 1st, the entire Earth-facing side of the sun
erupted with a C3-class solar flare of many filaments of magnetism
that lifted off the sun's surface, along with radio bursts and a
coronal mass ejection. The green aurora above was photographed in Denmark
on August 4, at 56 degrees latitude. Image © 2010 by Jesper Gronne.
Its really hard for me to great everyone due to the fact that I am at work so here is a general greeting for one and all. Especially new members. I welcome you all with open arms. May the light shine on you always.
http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html
