UFO-Forschung - Falcon-9-Start verursacht UFO-Alarm über Indischen Ozean und südlichen Afrika

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Falcon-9-Start auf Vandenberg AFB

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HARARE, Zimbabwe - There are reports of an unusual moon shaped object that flew across the sky between 7 and 7.15pm on Sunday evening.

Zimbabwe State media says it received calls from people in Karoi, Mashonaland West; Mt Darwin in Mashonaland Central and Mutoko in Mashonaland East provinces, all confirming having seen the object, which they described as bigger than the moon and moving from the east to the north.

People confirmed having seen the object from as far as in Botswana, South Africa and Malawi.

When contacted for comment, an official from the Meteorological Services Department said they can only comment after liaising with their officers in the respective places.

Meanwhile, in Missouri, United States: The Devil's Promenade: Inside the rural Missouri town haunted by mysterious light that even Army engineers are at a loss to explain. A photographer has lifted the lid on a famously unexplained light phenomenon that appears in an area of the Missouri known as the Devil's Promenade

Locals in the Ozarks hills say they have seen the light and heard the tales of it all their lives.

The name of the area is the title of the series, created by artists Lara Shipley and Antone Dolezal,- but the mysterious apparition itself is known to the townspeople in southwest Missouri as the Spook Light.

Spook Light appears as a basketball-sized orb of light, but only every so often and only by chance on a road called E50, where the rolling Ozark hills disappear into the endless flatness of Kansas and Oklahoma.

 

Spooklight Road: Southwest Missouri's West 50 road is famous to area people as where Spook Light, a bright and aptly named anomaly

Quelle: Zimbabwe Mail

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Quelle:mu

UFO-Forschung - Russland Verteidigung ist nicht darauf vorbereitet mit einer Alien-Invasion umzugehen

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Russia Unprepared to Deal With Space Alien Invasion – Official

KRASNOZNAMENSK (Moscow region), October 2  – A Russian military space official admitted Wednesday that the country will be powerless to act should Earth become the target of an interplanetary incursion.

Sergei Berezhnoy, an aide to the head of the Titov Space Control Center, said that Russian aerospace defense authorities have not been tasked with preparing for the contingency of an alien attack.

“There are enough problems on Earth and in near-Earth space,” Berezhnoy said in response to a reporter’s question.

The planet’s space powers are in any event limited in their scope of action for building up military capabilities beyond the Earth’s confines. Under the terms of the 1976 Outer Space Treaty, to which Russia is a signatory, states cannot place weapons of mass destruction in orbit, although conventional weapons are allowed.

The Titov Space Control Center, which is run by the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces, is the country’s primary military and commercial satellite control facility.

The facility currently operates about 80 percent of Russian orbital spacecraft.

Quelle: (RIA Novosti)

Raumfahrt - ISS-Crew beobachtet sonderbare Wolke im Weltraum durch SS-25-Raketenstart

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12.10.2013

A strange but amazing cloud seen from the International Space Station. Credit: Mike Hopkins/NASA

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The astronauts on board the International Space Station saw a strange and unexpected view out their windows yesterday. “Saw something launch into space today. Not sure what it was but the cloud it left behind was pretty amazing,” tweeted NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins.

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano also got a shot of the cloud, as well as another picture of a contrail left from the launch.So what launched into space? Of course, there was no launch from NASA because of the government shutdown, and I couldn’t find any other launches on the docket anywhere else, so I checked in with Robert Christy at the Zarya.info website, who usually knows of everything going up (or down) in space.

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‘A missile launch seen from space: an unexpected surprise!’ tweeted ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano. Credit: ESA/Luca Parmitano.

“Without precise date, time and location it’s not possible to say for sure,” Christy replied, “I believe there was a missile launch from Kapustin Yar (Kazakhstan) on October 10 so if the photo was taken over the Eastern Europe or central Asia region than that might be what he saw.”

Doing a search for that, I found a notation on the RussianForces website that said:

Strategic Rocket Forces carried out a successful test launch of a Topol/SS-25 missile on October 10, 2013. The missile was launched at 17:39 MSK (13:39 UTC) from Kapustin Yar to the Sary Shagan test site in Kazakhstan. According to a representative of the Rocket Forces, the test was used to confirm characteristics of the Topol missile, to test the systems of the Sary Shagan test site, and “to test new combat payload for intercontinental ballistic missiles.”

I had thought ICBM’s were a relic of the Cold War, but according to Wikipedia, “As of 2009, all five of the nations with permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council have operational long-range ballistic missile systems: all except China have operational submarine-launched missiles, and Russia, the United States and China also have land-based ICBMs (the US’ missiles are silo-based, China and Russia have both silo and road-mobile missiles).” Additionally, Israel launched an ICBM test in 2008, India test-fired one in 2012 and there was much speculation that a launch by North Korea in December 2012 to put a satellite into orbit was really a way to test an ICBM.

Parmitano also got an image of the cloud:

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Another view of the cloud in space from the missile launch. Credit: ESA/Luca Parmitano.

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“An immense cloud forms outside the atmosphere after the disintegration,” Parmitano said via Twitter.

Robert Christy noted that at the launch time noted by the RussianForces website, the ISS was over Iran, heading northeast towards Mongolia, and the Sun was about to set at Kapustin Yar.

“The view from the ISS would have been with a low sun angle, shining ‘over the photographer’s shoulder’ – hence the rather striking image against a darkish background with no glare from the Sun,” Christy told Universe Today via email.

Oh, the things you can see out your window in space!

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Quelle: UT

UFO reports from Russia and spooky pictures from the International Space Station have been traced to the same phenomenon: a Russian missile launch that took place last Thursday.

One of the spookiest things about the UFO sightings is that they were predicted in advance.

"Russia just test-fired a Topol ICBM from the Kapustin Yar range on the lower Volga, to the Shary Shagan impact zone in Kazakhstan," NBC News space analyst James Oberg reported Thursday on the Above Top Secret forum. "In the past, such launches have been seen over a wide area, as far away as Israel and Syria, and reported as UFOs. ... If the weather was clear, we might expect some spectacular videos to show up on YouTube and RUTube."

Sure enough, UFO sightings streamed in from Russia, accompanied by amazing videos of cometlike flare-ups.

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Meanwhile, a large set of images have been downloaded to the ground, showing a spectacular view of a Russian Topol/SS-25 missile that was launched by the Russian military on October 10.

The rocket was launched from Kapustin Yar with a target of passing over the Sary Shagan test site in Kazakhstan. The missile has a range of nearly 7,000 miles.

The hi-res images (a huge set available in L2 - from which the .gif was created) were captured from the ISS by Parmitano and fellow Expedition 37 crewmember Mike Hopkins, who tweeted at the time: “Saw something launch into space today. Not sure what it was but the cloud it left behind was pretty amazing.”

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Und zum Abschluß gab´s noch AURORA-Nachschlag :

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Hierzu gibt es auch eine schöne GIF-Animation:

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Quelle: NSF

UFO-Forschung - CENAP-Report´s im AFU-Archiv in Schweden

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Fotos: AFU

UFO-Forschung - UFO´s im Alltag

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EIN BISSCHEN WIE EIN UF

Neues Fluggerät: Hexakopter startet erstmals in Wesseling

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Ziemlich lautlos und futuristisch anzuschauen: Der Hexakopter der RWE.

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Astronomie - "UFO-Alarm" durch VENUS am West-Horizont

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Derzeit kann man bei klarer Witterung am frühen Abend Venus am West-Horizont sehen, welche einem gleich durch ihre starke Leuchtkraft auffällt. Erst glaubt man ein Flugzeug im Landeanflug zu sehen, dann kommt der Astronomie-Laie zum Grübeln weil der "Leuchtpunkt" sich nur langsam tiefer zum Horizont bewegt und aus dem Sichtfeld (Bäume, Häuser, Berge) verschwindet. Unbedarfte können daraus eine UFO-Meldung machen und sich in die Reihe von Leuten wie u.a. US-Präsident Nixon stellen, welcher ebenfalls von der Leuchtkraft von Venus genarrt wurde.

Nachfolgend eine Foto-Serie welche am 31.10. sowie 3.11.2013 aufgenommen wurden:

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Im übrigen sind diese Fotos von sogenannten Orbeffekten für jeden nachvollziehbar, bis auf Ufologie-Gruppen welche diese als Bilderbücher vertreiben und den Leichtgläubigen die schönsten Geschichten dazu erzählen...

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Fotos: ©-hjkc

UFO-Forschung - Area 51: Dokumente enthüllen des "Kalten Krieges Versteckspiel"

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Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 7 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets

In late 2012, the U.S. Air Force declassified a trove of documents, including records of a secret program to build a flying saucer-type aircraft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers. The ambitious program, called Project 1794, was initiated in the 1950s, and a team of engineers was tasked with building a disc-shape vehicle capable of traveling at supersonic speeds at high altitudes.

The declassified documents reveal plans for the plane to reach a top speed of Mach 4 (four times the speed of sound), and reach an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). The project's estimated cost was more than $3 million, which in today's dollars would be more than $26 million.

Project 1794 was canceled in December 1961 after tests suggested the flying saucer design was aerodynamically unstable and would likely be uncontrollable at high speeds (let alone supersonic speeds).

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Almost no other site has garnered as much attention from conspiracy theorists and UFO-enthusiasts as Area 51, a remote desert tract near Groom Lake in Nevada, roughly 83 miles (134 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas. The intense secrecy surrounding the base sparked peoples' imaginations, and Area 51 was commonly linked to paranormal activities, including pervasive theories that suggested Area 51 hid aliens and UFOs.

In July 2013, declassified documents from the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51 for the first time, and confirmed that the top-secret site was used to test a variety of spy planes, including the well-known U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.

While Area 51, which operates as a detachment of Edwards Air Force Base in neighboring California, has never been declared a covert base, the research and activities conducted there were some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets.

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Project Grudge

While Area 51 was not a top-secret base designed to study extraterrestrials, the U.S. Air Force did study the existence of UFOs. Project Grudge was a short-lived program launched in 1949 to study unidentified flying objects. The mission followed an earlier program, known as Project Sign, which published a report in early 1949 stating that while some UFOs seemed to be actual aircraft, there was not enough data to determine their origins. 

Critics of Project Grudge said the program solely set out to debunk UFO reports, and very little actual research was conducted. In his book on the topic, Edward J. Ruppelt, Air Force Captain and director of Project Grudge, wrote: "[I]t doesn't take a great deal of study of the old UFO files to see that standard intelligence procedures were not being followed by Project Grudge. Everything was being evaluated on the premise that UFOs couldn't exist. No matter what you see or hear, don't believe it."

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Stealthy work

More than 60 declassified documents in an Area 51 file were posted on the Internet by the National Security Archive late last month, compiled and edited by archive senior fellow Jeffrey Richelson. The archive is located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Those of you hoping for information about captured aliens and flying saucers will be disappointed.

A number of documents focus on the quest to develop stealth capability in aircraft. Others report on another type of activity at Area 51 — the exploitation of covertly acquired Soviet MiG fighter jets.

American engineers assessed the design, performance and limitations of MiGs in an attempt to learn their vulnerabilities — knowledge that could come in handy during combat situations.

Spysat overflights

An April 1962 document sourced to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) outlines the rationale for photographing Area 51 by either a high-flying U-2 spy plane or a then-classified CORONA reconnaissance satellite. The idea was viewed as a means of seeing what the Soviet Union might learn from its own satellite images of the facility.

This would provide "a pretty fair idea of what deductions and conclusions could be made by the Soviets should Sputnik 13 have a reconnaissance capability," explains the memorandum, which was marked "secret." [Gallery: Declassified US Spy Satellite Photos & Designs]

Also part of the plan, the memo states, was having a U-2 image Area 51: "Without advising the photographic interpreters of what the target is, ask them to determine what type of activity is being conducted at the site photographed," the memo states.

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Skylab

Also of interest is another document, dated April 11, 1974, from the deputy director of the NRO to the chairman of the director of central intelligence's Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation. This memorandum discusses what to do about a photograph taken by Skylab astronauts of Area 51, outlining the issues to be considered in deciding whether or not to release the photograph.

The two-page document, marked "Top Secret," mentions a draft decision paper that focuses on the "relative merits of retaining [deleted in document] as a high-priority secret national security installation versus the merits of the NASA belief that there would be domestic and foreign problems created by withholding the photograph."

The April 1974 memo also says that the Skylab photograph "in the public domain would almost certainly provide strong stimulus for media questioning and the potential near-term revelation of the missions of the installation."

Skylab astronauts took this photograph as they approached the orbiting laboratory on the the third and final mission, known as Skylab 4, in November 1973.

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Unclassified platform

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A follow-up memorandum from April 19, 1974, marked "Confidential" for then-Director of Central Intelligence William Colby, explains that the recent Skylab mission "inadvertently photographed" Area 51, and that there were "specific instructions not to do this."

The memo also reports that the Skylab photo is the subject of an interagency review and that Department of Defense officials believed it should be withheld from public release.

At the time, NASA — and, to a large extent, the State Department — took the position that the image should be released. It would be allowed to go into a repository in Sioux Falls, S.D., that contained satellite remote sensing data of the Earth's land surface and "let nature take its course," the memo states.

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Complex issues

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The April 19 memo explains that there are some complicated precedents that should be reviewed before a final decision could be made about the Skylab image. For example, there was a question of whether anything photographed in the U.S. can be classified if the platform from which the image was taken, such as NASA's Skylab, is unclassified.

In addition, the April 19 memo notes that there are some complex issues in the United Nations concerning U.S. policies about imagery from space. Further, the document raises the question of whether or not the photo would be leaked anyway, even if it were withheld.

The memo also carries handwritten responses by the CIA's Colby.

Colby expressed some doubts about the need to protect the image, since the Soviet Union had it from their satellites anyway. He further asked, "If exposed, don't we just say classified USAF [U.S. Air Force] work is done there?" 

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The CIA's declassified map of Groom Lake/Area 51

Credit: National Security Archive

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Hide and seek

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Dwayne Day, an American space historian, policy analyst and author, has previously written on Area 51, as well as the 1974 Skylab image flap.

It turns out that the Skylab shot of Area 51 was placed in NASA's collection of Skylab photographs, Day said, but nobody had noticed. So, in the end, NASA won its argument with the intelligence community over the image, he said.

As for playing Cold War hide-and-seek at Area 51 with the Soviet Union, Day said the Soviets had spy satellitesand that they could certainly see the airfield.

"But, of course, the CIA knew the flight paths of Soviet satellites, and they would avoid having their aircraft in the open when satellites were overhead," Day told SPACE.com. "The best form of concealment is a big hangar where you can park all your planes."

Day said that there has been at least one report of an effort at Groom Lake to create a fake heat signature for orbiting satellites to see.

"I have my doubts about that," Day said. "The timing is wrong — too early for anybody to expect the Soviet Union to be capable of that kind of infrared observation."

Day said he's also wondered about a photograph taken at Area 51 showing a line of A-12 OXCART spy planes, probably from 1964. OXCART was the label given to the CIA's A-12 program, meant to come after the U-2 to perform reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union.

"The Soviets did not always have reconnaissance satellites in orbit," Day said, "so did the CIA line these planes up for a beauty shot when they knew that they were safe from observation? Or, did they simply not care?"

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Stealthy F-117 was tested at Area 51.

Credit: National Museum of the United States Air Force

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Quelle: Space Insider

UFO-Forschung - Die UFOs welche auf Urlaub-Fotos auftauchen...

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Kaum hat die Sommer-Urlaub-Saison begonnen, und die ersten Heimkehrer ihre Urlaub-Fotos ansehen, kommen sie, die UFOs welche man erst dann entdeckt. Ein gutes Beispiel ergab sich nach meinem eigenen Sommer-Urlaub an Nord- und Ostsee. Als ich meine Digital-Fotos bearbeitete und auch "UFO-fündig" wurde und sie dann nicht an eine der drei großen Ufologen-Gruppen sendete, sondern hier einmal aufführen will, wie schnell "Unbekannte Flug-Objekte" auf Urlaub-Fotos kommen können.

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Klassiker der UFO-Bilder sind Vögel als Ursache, wie nachfolgend:

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Aufgenommen bei Eckernförde

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Auch in der Mitte des Fotos (Ausschnitt) handelt es sich um einen Lenkdrachen, welcher hier als "schwarzer Fleck" erscheint.

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Auch hier handelt es sich nicht um eine anfliegende Untertasse, sondern um ein Insektenfleck auf der Windschutzscheibe.

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Auf Helgoland entdeckte ich dann bewusst schon vor Ort dieses schöne Ufo...

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...welches jedoch nur ein Wasserturm auf der Insel Helgoland ist. Und nur per Photoshop zum UFO wurde.

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Fotos: ©-hjkc

UFO-Forschung - UFOs und Aliens im Alltag

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Als über dem Kanal feindliche Ufos schwebten

Der 18-jährige Jonas Würdinger aus Regensburg dreht für sein Leben gern Filme. Bei einem Festival wird er für seine Kreativität einen Preis erhalten.

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