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UFO-Forschung - ASTRONAUT: IF YOU THINK UFOS ARE ALIENS, YOU’RE AN IDIOT OBVIOUSLY, IVE SEEN COUNTLESS THINGS IN THE SKY THAT I DONT UNDERSTAND.

6.04.2022

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield

In a recent CBC interview, retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield shared his opinion on the elevated public interest in “unidentified aerial phenomena” sightings.

Hadfield had a clear answer as to whether extraterrestrial lifeforms were behind the mysterious incidents. If you think they’re aliens, he says, you’re a moron.

“Obviously, I’ve seen countless things in the sky that I don’t understand,” Hadfield told the Canadian broadcaster. The retired astronaut also was a pilot for both the Royal Canadian Airforce and US Navy.

“But to see something in the sky that you don’t understand and then to immediately conclude that it’s intelligent life from another solar system is the height of foolishness and lack of logic,” he added.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

Other experts have suggested that adversaries could be behind the mysterious sightings, suggesting other nations like Russia or China may be invading US airspace using highly advanced technologies.

Even if aliens aren’t behind the UFOs, that doesn’t mean we should discard the possibility that we are not alone in the universe, according to Hadfield.

“But definitively up to this point, we have found no evidence of life anywhere except Earth, and we’re looking,” he told the CBC.

The topic of UFOs has hit a fever pitch as of late. Following a bombshell 2017 report by The New York Times that uncovered the Pentagon’s shadowy UFO program, several unclassified videos taken by military pilots have surfaced that appear to show inexplicable objects that appeared to defy the laws of physics.

Several pilots have come forward since, sharing their stories of what they saw — and lawmakers are taking their reports more seriously than ever.

Last year, Congress set up a “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force” to investigate these reports and is set to release a report some time next month.

Until then, obviously, we’ll have to take any claims or theories with a healthy grain of salt.

In einem kürzlichen CBC-Interview teilte der pensionierte kanadische Astronaut Chris Hadfield seine Meinung zum erhöhten öffentlichen Interesse an Sichtungen „nicht identifizierter Luftphänomene“ mit.
Hadfield hatte eine klare Antwort darauf, ob außerirdische Lebensformen hinter den mysteriösen Vorfällen stecken. Wenn Sie denken, dass sie Außerirdische sind, sagt er, sind Sie ein Idiot.
„Offensichtlich habe ich unzählige Dinge am Himmel gesehen, die ich nicht verstehe“, sagte Hadfield dem kanadischen Sender. Der pensionierte Astronaut war auch Pilot für die Royal Canadian Airforce und die US Navy.
„Aber etwas am Himmel zu sehen, das Sie nicht verstehen, und dann sofort zu dem Schluss zu kommen, dass es sich um intelligentes Leben aus einem anderen Sonnensystem handelt, ist der Gipfel der Dummheit und des Mangels an Logik“, fügte er hinzu.
Nicht identifizierte Luftphänomene
Andere Experten haben vermutet, dass Gegner hinter den mysteriösen Sichtungen stecken könnten, was darauf hindeutet, dass andere Nationen wie Russland oder China mit hochentwickelten Technologien in den US-Luftraum eindringen könnten.
Auch wenn Aliens nicht hinter den UFOs stecken, heißt das nicht, dass wir laut Hadfield die Möglichkeit verwerfen sollten, dass wir nicht allein im Universum sind.
„Aber definitiv haben wir bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt nirgendwo außer der Erde Hinweise auf Leben gefunden, und wir suchen“, sagte er der CBC.
Das Thema UFOs hat in letzter Zeit einen Höhepunkt erreicht. Nach einem bombastischen Bericht der New York Times aus dem Jahr 2017, der das schattenhafte UFO-Programm des Pentagon aufdeckte, sind mehrere nicht klassifizierte Videos von Militärpiloten aufgetaucht, die unerklärliche Objekte zu zeigen scheinen, die den Gesetzen der Physik zu widersprechen schienen.
Seitdem haben sich mehrere Piloten gemeldet und ihre Geschichten über das, was sie gesehen haben, geteilt – und der Gesetzgeber nimmt ihre Berichte ernster denn je.
Letztes Jahr richtete der Kongress eine „Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force“ ein, um diese Berichte zu untersuchen, und wird voraussichtlich nächsten Monat einen Bericht veröffentlichen.
Bis dahin müssen wir natürlich alle Behauptungen oder Theorien mit einem gesunden Körnchen Salz nehmen.

Quelle: THE BYTE

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Chris Hadfield on exploring Mars and the growing conversation about UFOs

Former International Space Station commander answered listener questions Sunday on Cross Country Checkup

Landing a rover on Mars is "almost indescribably difficult," according to retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.

Despite that reality, scientists have landed a handful of them on the Red Planet. 

China's space agency is the latest to do so, dropping the Zhurong rover on Mars earlier this month. On Saturday, it took its first drive on the planet's surface.

Hadfield, who was the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station, said conducting research on Mars is crucial to finding out whether we're alone in the universe.

"Why are we trying to land on Mars? Well, I think the fundamental question is that Mars was a lot like Earth four billion years ago when life first formed on Earth," he told Cross Country Checkupguest host Jason D'Souza on Sunday.

"So if it happened here, did it happen there? And it will be evident somewhere in the geologic record."

The rovers currently traversing Mars are conducting research and taking samples from the ground. If a rover finds one fossil, Hadfield said, "we will know we're not alone in the universe."

Hadfield joined Checkup as part of the program's regular Ask Me Anything series, and answered questions from listeners about Mars, unidentified flying objects and our responsibility as humans in space. 

'What's in it' for Mars?

With rovers — and possibly one day humans — landing on Mars, Ed Camelot in Edmonton asked "what's in it" for the Red Planet?

If there is life on Mars, whether fossilized or primitive, Hadfield said it's important to consider what it would mean for us on Earth, and what responsibilities we have.

The 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty offers "fundamental building blocks of the legal system" for space-faring nations, he said. 

That treaty is a basic framework on international space law, according to the UN, and outlines key principles, including that space exploration should be in the interest of all countries, and that states should avoid harmful contamination of outer space and celestial bodies.

"We're very careful with everything we've sent so far to Mars to make it — to the absolute best of our ability — to make it sterile so that it won't inadvertently bring life to Mars or react if there is some sort of primitive life on Mars," Hadfield said.

"If there was intelligent life or advanced life, we would treat it even more thoughtfully and more differently."

Asked whether he would ever consider a "one-way trip" to Mars, Hadfield said he has spent his entire life taking great risks for space exploration — but astronauts don't make big journeys without proper preparation.

With that in mind, he told Checkup he would happily help with development of technology to enable Earthlings to live somewhere hostile, like Mars or the moon.

"I'm interested in it, but my question would be what ship and who with and what is the purpose?" Hadfield said.

"We're going to get there eventually, and I'd love to be part of the team that makes that happen."

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A portion of a panorama made up of individual images taken by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows the Martian landscape on Feb. 20, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Reuters)

How about UFOs?

Calling from Kamloops, B.C., Byron McDonald asked whether Hadfield is following the growing discussion about unidentified flying objects.

Often a taboo subject, the presence of UFOs has become a hot topic not only on social media, but in mainstream media and even the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.

The news magazine 60 Minutes recently aired a report about UFO sightings in U.S. airspace. Next month, a report on what the U.S. government calls unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, will be delivered to Congress by U.S. intelligence agencies.

"Obviously, I've seen countless things in the sky that I don't understand," said Hadfield, a former pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force and U.S. navy.

"But to see something in the sky that you don't understand and then to immediately conclude that it's intelligent life from another solar system is the height of foolishness and lack of logic."

Hadfield acknowledged the existence of extraterrestrial life is worth thinking about, and that it's likely that there is life in other parts of the universe.

"But definitively up to this point, we have found no evidence of life anywhere except Earth, and we're looking," he said.

Still, Hadfield said it's not surprising that the conversation is gaining steam. 

"It's intriguing and it's right on the brink between reality and science fiction and fantasy. And so it's all really fun to think about."

Quelle: CBC

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Pentagon UFO Report Describes Radiation Burns, Other Bizarre Claims

What the hell did we just read?

Pentagon-UFO-Bericht beschreibt Strahlenverbrennungen und andere bizarre Behauptungen
Was zum Teufel haben wir gerade gelesen?

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Four years after filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the US Defense Intelligence Agency, British tabloid The Sun was handed a stunning piece of information: over 1,500 pages of bizarre, previously classified documentation about reports of contact with UFOs.

The material is surprisingly full of outrageous claims, from alleged injuries to “human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems,” to an “apparent abduction” and “unaccounted for pregnancy.”

But that doesn’t mean should we take all of this information at face value. The Sunis a pretty dubious tabloid, so it’s likely that it’s framing the documents in as sensational a way as possible.

The cache comes from a shadowy Pentagon program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) which secretly ran from 2007 to 2012. The program came to light in 2017 when the New York Times obtained military footage, later confirmed to be authentic, seemingly showing unidentified aircraft moving in highly unusual ways.

According to the Sun, the report includes 42 cases from medical files and 300 similar cases in which people claim to have been injured following “anomalous” encounters. Some of these injuries appeared to be the result of electromagnetic radiation or inflicted by “energy related propulsion systems.”

In case you’re taking any of this too seriously, the report also contains reports of “poltergeists, crop circles, spontaneous human combustion, alien abductions and other paranormal events,” according to the tabloid.

Other eyebrow-raising encounters apparently described in the documentation include “ghosts, yetis, spirits, elves and other mythical/legendary entities,” according to the Sun.

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical. For one, the outlet has yet to publicize the documents it received. We also don’t know what kind of vetting process the AATIP used in its investigations, as Live Science points out. In other words, it’s possible that the documents represent nothing more than a bunch of cranks who contacted the government.

But considering that the US government is taking investigations into what it refers to as “unidentified aerial phenomena” more seriously than ever before, it’s at the very least a notable release, and we’ll be intrigued to learn more.

Whether anybody else outside of the Sun‘s editorial department will ever be able to comb through these documents is still unclear. So for now, we’ll have to take the news with a hefty grain of salt.

Vier Jahre nach Einreichung eines Antrags nach dem Freedom of Information Act bei der US Defense Intelligence Agency erhielt die britische Boulevardzeitung The Sun eine erstaunliche Information: über 1.500 Seiten bizarrer, zuvor als geheim eingestufter Dokumentation über Berichte über den Kontakt mit UFOs.
Das Material ist überraschend voll von unerhörten Behauptungen, von angeblichen Verletzungen an „menschlichen Beobachtern durch anomale fortschrittliche Luft- und Raumfahrtsysteme“ bis hin zu einer „offensichtlichen Entführung“ und „unbekannten Schwangerschaft“.
Aber das bedeutet nicht, dass wir all diese Informationen für bare Münze nehmen sollten. Die Sun ist eine ziemlich dubiose Boulevardzeitung, daher ist es wahrscheinlich, dass sie die Dokumente so sensationell wie möglich einrahmt.
Der Cache stammt aus einem schattenhaften Pentagon-Programm namens Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), das heimlich von 2007 bis 2012 lief. Das Programm kam 2017 ans Licht, als die New York Times militärisches Filmmaterial erhielt, das später als authentisch bestätigt wurde und anscheinend gezeigt wurde nicht identifizierte Flugzeuge, die sich auf höchst ungewöhnliche Weise bewegen.
Laut Sun enthält der Bericht 42 Fälle aus Krankenakten und 300 ähnliche Fälle, in denen Menschen behaupten, nach „anomalen“ Begegnungen verletzt worden zu sein. Einige dieser Verletzungen schienen das Ergebnis elektromagnetischer Strahlung zu sein oder durch „energiebezogene Antriebssysteme“ verursacht worden zu sein.
Falls Sie irgendetwas davon zu ernst nehmen, enthält der Bericht laut Boulevardzeitung auch Berichte über „Poltergeister, Kornkreise, spontane menschliche Verbrennung, Entführungen durch Außerirdische und andere paranormale Ereignisse“.
Andere Augenbrauen hochziehende Begegnungen, die offenbar in der Dokumentation beschrieben werden, beinhalten laut Sun „Geister, Yetis, Geister, Elfen und andere mythische/legendäre Wesenheiten“.
Es gibt viele Gründe, skeptisch zu sein. Zum einen muss die Verkaufsstelle die erhaltenen Dokumente noch veröffentlichen. Wir wissen auch nicht, welche Art von Überprüfungsprozess die AATIP bei ihren Untersuchungen verwendet hat, wie Live Science betont. Mit anderen Worten, es ist möglich, dass die Dokumente nichts anderes darstellen als ein Haufen Spinner, die sich an die Regierung gewandt haben.
Aber wenn man bedenkt, dass die US-Regierung Untersuchungen zu dem, was sie als „unidentifizierte Luftphänomene“ bezeichnet, ernster denn je nimmt, ist es zumindest eine bemerkenswerte Veröffentlichung, und wir werden gespannt sein, mehr zu erfahren.
Ob jemand außerhalb der Sun-Redaktion jemals diese Dokumente durchforsten kann, ist noch unklar. Also müssen wir die Nachricht vorerst mit einem kräftigen Körnchen Salz nehmen.

Quelle: Futurism

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