COSMIC JOURNEYS
June 28th, 2007 by Barry Eaton
Crop Circles…
Latest crops formations (celestial glyphs)
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(Make sure to read the comments page “So I would say the CC makers are delivering a harsh message of purification or fasting which is upon us… The 11th hour…? Also November seems strong with this CC message.” Check the new ones so far in JULY — “CROP CIRCLE FACTOID: The number of territories where crop circles have appeared can never be definitively known but the best estimate is 56 countries.” Taken from CROP CIRCLE ETIQUETTE: Guidelines for visiting formations
UFO files: MoD documents record mystery illnesses and alien residue
Flying Toblerones, mysterious illnesses and silky-white substances are among hundreds of close encounters described in previously top-secret files released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
More than 6,000 pages of material spanning from 1994 to 2000 holds hundreds of other-worldly experiences with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and apparent aliens across Britain.
Aircraft of all shapes and sizes have been witnessed flying over a wide range of locations - including Chelsea Football Club and the home of then Home Secretary Michael Howard in Kent.
One man told police he was physically sick and developed a ‘’skin condition” after an eerie ”tube of light” enveloped his car in Ebbw Vale, in Wales, at 10.40pm on January 27 1997.
The man, who worked at a funeral director, was sent to the doctor after his alleged brush with the unknown.
This is just one of hundreds of bizarre reports received by the police, military and Government, suggesting that the truth might be out there after all.
This fifth instalment released under a three-year project between the MoD and The National Archives consists of 24 files of UFO sightings, letters and Parliamentary Questions.
The records feature papers relating to the famous ”Rendlesham Forest” sightings, often dubbed as ”Britain’s Roswell”
Other highlights include:
:: A man arrived at his Birmingham home at 4am on March 20, 1997, to discover an illuminated blue triangle hovering over his garden. The craft shot off leaving behind a ‘’silky-white” substance on the tree-tops, which he collected in a jam-jar.
:: A UFO sighted by Boston and Skegness police, in Lincolnshire, was captured on film. The police reported the sighting to the coastguard, who in turn alerted ships in North Sea - where a crew saw more UFOs. Simultaneously, an unidentified blip was picked up on radar over Boston.
:: A request submitted to former Prime Minister John Major from a councillor for an inquiry into 600 alleged sightings in Bonnybridge, Scotland, known as the ”Bonnybridge Triangle”.
:: An object travelling at more than 1,000 knots was tracked by a senior air traffic controller from the control tower at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, in Ayrshire, in February 1999.
:: A West Lothian electrician spotted a ”Toblerone-shaped” UFO hovering over a field. A sketch of the craft is included in the report.
:: A letter from senior MoD official Ralph Noyes in which he describes seeing a film of UFOs captured by RAF fighter pilots in 1956. Mr Noyes claims the footage was shown at a secret underground screening arranged for Air Defence staff at the MoD Main Building in 1970.
Experts believe the records highlight how shapes of reported UFOs have changed over the last half-century.
This could be explained by representations of UFOs in popular culture - such as TV shows like The X-Files.
Many reports in this latest file describe aircraft as big, black and triangular in shape with lights along the edges, whereas the predominant form in the 1940s to 1950s was saucer or disc-shaped.
Dr David Clarke, author of The UFO Files and senior lecturer in journalism from Sheffield Hallam University said: ”In the 1950s the next big leap in technology was thought to be a round craft that took off vertically and it’s intriguing to note that this is the same period when people began to report seeing ‘flying saucers’ in the sky.
”In the period the latest file release covers, triangular-shaped US stealth bombers and Aurora spy planes featured heavily on TV, such as The X Files between 1993-2002, and films, such as Independence Day released in 1996 and the shape of reported UFOs corresponds.
”It’s impossible to prove a direct link between what people are reading and watching and what they report as UFOs but one interpretation could be that the latest advances in technology may be influencing what people see in the sky.”
:: The files are available to download for free for a month from the website www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos
Ice deposits found at Moon’s pole
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India’s Chandrayaan-1 probe carried US equipment to the Moon
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A radar experiment aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft has identified thick deposits of water-ice near the Moon’s north pole.
The US space agency’s (Nasa) Mini-Sar experiment found more than 40 small craters containing water-ice.
But other compounds - such as hydrocarbons - are mixed up in lunar ice, according to new results from another Moon mission called LCROSS.
The findings were presented at a major planetary science conference in Texas.
The craters with ice range from 2km to 15km (one to nine miles) in diameter; how much there is depends on its thickness in each crater. But Nasa says the ice must be at least a couple of metres thick to give the signature seen by Chandrayaan-1.
Dr Paul Spudis, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, estimated there was at least 600 million metric tonnes of water-ice held within these impact craters.
The equivalent amount, expressed as rocket fuel, would be enough to launch one space shuttle per day for 2,200 years, he told journalists at the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
What all these craters have in common are large areas of their interiors that never see sunlight.
Extreme cold
Temperatures in some of these permanently darkened craters can drop as low as 25 Kelvin (-248C; -415F) - colder than the surface of Pluto - allowing water-ice to remain stable.
“It is mostly pure water-ice,” said Dr Spudis. “It could be under a few tens of centimetres of dry regolith (lunar soil).”
This protective layer of soil could prevent blocks of pure ice from vaporising even in some areas which are exposed to sunlight, he explained.
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Ice thrown up by the LCROSS impact was in a crystalline form
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In February, President Barack Obama cancelled the programme designed to return Americans to the Moon by 2020.
However, Dr Spudis said: “Now we can say with a fair degree of confidence that a sustainable human presence on the Moon is possible. It’s possible using the resources we find there.