& on this day, 28 years ago, my daughter, Marguerite Daniele Canada
was born. Here's the scoop! She was supposed to arrive April 1st (which
would've made her an "April Fools" baby). But she was smarter than us
& waited until 12:40 am, April 2nd to come into the world. I love
you always, my dearest daughter, Marguerite. may you always be blessed! -Daniel aka Obsidian
Dr. J. Allen Hynek (past Chairman of the Astronomy Department of Northwestern University) served as the scientific consultant to US Air Force's official UFO investigation, initially the secret Project SIGN and later the well-known Project "Blue Book". He did field-investigations and talked to claimed UFO eye-witnesses for 2 decades (between 1948-1969). Starting out as a skeptic, who tried to "explain away" the phenomenon (in an attempt to explain the Michigan 1966 sightings, Hynek came up with the infamous "swamp gas" idea, which became something of a national joke), he later became convinced of the UFO reality and admitted that Project Blue Book had misled the public. His work and findings were used by Director Steven Spielberg for the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." -Daniel aka Obsidian
Some UFO evidence withfour-way confirmation: ground visual, ground radar, airborne visual and airborne radar -- as early as 1950s, watch LtCol Brown NPCC 2001 testimony, who worked in the US Air Force's Office of Special Investigations on project Grudge, the precursor to Project Bluebook. Such radar/visual UFO are considered by experts as being worth further investigation.
Ufo Testimony, supported by declassified documents from the US National Archives, US Navy pilot Cmdr Graham Bethune describes the encounter with a huge 90m (300ft) discoid UFO in 1951 on the way back from a classified mission to Iceland: "We had 31 people [relief crews] on board and a psychiatrist, plus the crew. We all witnessed it"
I invite you all to check it out! -Daniel/Obsidian
Summary: A brief
biography of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the father of scientific ufology.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek (1910-1986)
Dr. Hynek was born in Chicago in 1910. He received bachelor
and doctorate of science degrees in physics and astronomy from the University
of Chicago in 1931 and 1935 respectively. While working on his doctorate he was
a fellow of the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
From 1936 to 1941, Dr. Hynek was an instructor and assistant
professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio State University. From 1941 to 1946
he supervised technical reports in applied physics at John Hopkins University.
He went back to Ohio State in 1946 to become a full professor in physics and
astronomy.
For five years ending in 1960, Dr. Hynek was associate
director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Astrophysics Observatory in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was head of the optical satellite tracking
program. During this period he lectured at Harvard University.
Dr. Hynek became the Chairman of the Astronomy Department
and director of the Dearaborn Observatory at the Evanston campus of
Northwestern University. His specialty was the chemical composition of he
stellar atmosphere. He pressed very hard for Northwestern to procure a modern
astronomical telescope in order to spare students extensive travel to do
advance research. He retired from teaching in 1973.
His legendary career in the study of UFO phenomena began in
1948 at Ohio State when he was asked by the Air Force to act as astronomical
consultant to Project Blue Book - a role he carried out for 20 years. In 1966,
after a rash of sightings in Michigan, he went to the area to take charge of
the investigation. After interviewing scores of people he ascribed certain
sightings to luminous marsh gas rather than something from space. In a
wonderful example of irony, the infamous "swamp gas" flap had a major
impact on the level of skepticism toward government investigations and prompted
many amateurs to become citizen investigators.
In due course Dr. Hynek became disenchanted with the
intentions and methodology of the Air Force. When Project Blue Book was closed,
he voiced this concern, continued his work privately and eventually founded the
Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in 1973. By then Dr. Hynek had executed a 180
degree turn in his views on the subject - one of the most famous such reversals
in history.
Dr. Hynek wrote several books and published the
International UFO Reporter. It was he who formulated the encounter
classification scheme made famous in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
A reporter once suggested to him he might be remembered not
as an astronomer but as the man who made UFOs respectable. He replied, "I
wouldn’t mind. If I can succeed in making the study of UFOs scientifically
respectable and do something constructive in it, then I think that would be a
real contribution."
He died of a brain tumor on April 27, 1986.
Were it not for the challenging (to the mainstream
community) content of the science of this phenomena, Dr. J. Allen Hynek would
already be widely recognized as one of the most important scientists of the
twentieth century.
Content assistance from CUFOS
Personal Note: This author heard Dr. Hynek speak at a small
gathering in Denver, Colorado just a month or two before he died. He was
obviously not well and had difficulty formulating his thoughts. He did not
mention his illness and persevered to give a fine presentation of the state of
the evidence at that time. He worked up until the last moment because he
believed in what he was doing and knew he was right.
I have dedicated this website to him and all the others
researchers who refused to be dissuaded from going where others fear to thread.
They are collectively the Galileo of our time.
OK. To my friends out here, who doubt the veracity of the
claim that the late Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination was NOT a
conspiracy/cover-up, I have gone through the pains of scaring up this
video-with the evidence presented. Please take the time to view it &
i welcome any feedback/comments from you on the subject. Bon Appetito!
-Daniel aka Obsidian
Indeed we are just beginning to scratch the surface of scientific discovery!
-Daniel aka Obsidian
Two more planets in our Solar System, say astronomers
By Richard Ingham
4 hours ago
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Researchers suggest that "at least two" planets lie beyond Pluto (AFP Photo/)
Paris (AFP) - The Solar System has at least two more planets
waiting to be discovered beyond the orbit of Pluto, Spanish and British
astronomers say.
The official list of planets in our star system runs to eight, with gas giant Neptune the outermost.
Beyond
Neptune, Pluto was relegated to the status of "dwarf planet" by the
International Astronomical Union in 2006, although it is still
championed by some as the most distant planet from the Sun.
In a
study published in the latest issue of the British journal Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers propose that "at
least two" planets lie beyond Pluto. Their calculations are based
on the unusual orbital behaviour of very distant space rocks called
extreme trans-Neptunian objects, or ETNOs.
In theory, ETNOs should be dispersed in a band some 150 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun.
An
AU, a measurement of Solar System distance, is the span between Earth
and the Sun -- nearly 150 million kilometres (almost 93 million miles).
ETNOs should also be more or less on the same orbital plane as the Solar System planets. But observations of about a dozen ETNOs have suggested a quite different picture, the study says.
If
correct, they imply that ETNOs are scattered much more widely, at
between 150 and 525 AU, and with an orbital inclination of about 20
degrees.
To explain this
anomaly, the study suggests some very large objects -- planets -- must
be in the neighbourhood and their gravitational force is bossing the
much smaller ETNOs around. "This excess of objects with unexpected
orbital parameters makes us believe that some invisible forces are
altering the distribution" of the ETNOs, said Carlos de la Fuente Marcos
of the Complutense University of Madrid.
"The
exact number is uncertain, given that the data we have is limited, but
our calculations suggest that there are at least two planets, and
probably more, within the confines of our Solar System," the Spanish
scientific news agency Sinc quoted him as saying.
"If it is confirmed, our results may be truly revolutionary for astronomy."
So far, there is no direct evidence to substantiate the theory.
Marcos's
team, which includes astrophysicists at the University of Cambridge,
devised a model based on changes previously observed in the orbit of a
comet called 96P/Machholz 1 when it came near Jupiter, the biggest
planet in the Solar System.
Based
on this model, the movement of the ETNOs was consistent with one planet
at nearly 200 AU and another at about 250 AU, they said. Last
year, the ALMA advanced telescope, located in Chile's bone-dry Atacama
desert, found that planets in other star systems can form hundreds of AU
from their sun.
Neptune
orbits at an average distance of about 30 AU, and Pluto, which has a
highly eccentric orbit, circles the Sun at an average of about 40 AU.
I used to think she was a complete looney. However, after watching this video I have to agree & to say, sometimes it pays to listen to Roseanne Barr, and/or women like her. Check it out!
-Daniel aka Obsidian
I hate to say it happened again, but, unfortunately, I have to say so. Something is terrible amiss with these foreign flights! (let's just hope they find some of the passingers & crew alive)...
-Daniel aka Obsidian
Search for missing AirAsia jet #QZ8501 bound for Singapore from Indonesia suspended
By Yahoo! Singapore | Yahoo Newsroom – 2 hours 59 minutes ago
WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR:
- AirAsia flight QZ8501 bound for Singapore from Surabaya,
Indonesia and carrying 162 people on board went missing Sunday morning. - Contact with the plane was lost around an hour after
departure, somewhere over the Java Sea between Belitung island and
Pontianak, on Indonesia's part of Kalimantan island. - Search and rescue operations were launched with the
Indonesian army as well as Singapore and Malaysia scouring the
area around Belitung, but have been suspended for the night.
Indonesia air traffic control
lost contact with AirAsia flight QZ8501 bound for Singapore from the
Indonesian city of Surabaya on Sunday morning.
Search and locate efforts were launched but Indonesia later suspended the operation as
darkness fell. The national search and rescue agency said the operation
will resume at first light on Monday morning, with the search area
expanded to include mountainous areas on land.
Earlier, AirAsia released a statement listing 162
people on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and one infant making up
155 passengers along with seven crew members (two pilots, four flight
attendants and one engineer).
The passengers comprise one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one British,
three South Koreans and 149 Indonesians, while the crew consists of six
Indonesians and one French (the co-pilot). See the full manifest here.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) confirmed that the
Singaporean on board the missing flight is a two year-old girl
travelling with her father, the British national.
A Changi Airport staff
holds up a sign to direct possible next-of-kins of passengers of AirAsia
flight QZ 8501 from Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, at Changi
Airport in Singapore December ... more
QZ8501 lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control at 7:55am
local time, 42 minutes after departure and an hour before it was
scheduled to land in Singapore.
Reuters reports
that the aircraft was between the Indonesian port of Tanjung Pandan and
the town of Pontianak, in West Kalimantan on Borneo island, when it
went missing without a distress signal.
The plane was on the submitted flight plan route before it asked for
permission to deviate to avoid "bad weather" described by
officials as dense storm clouds, strong winds and lightning.
"The plane requested to the air traffic control to fly to the left
side which was approved, but their request to fly to 38,000 feet level
from 32,000 feet could not be approved at that time due to a traffic,
there was a flight above, and five minutes later the flight disappeared
from radar," said an Indonesian air transport official.
Map locating the scheduled flight AirAsia QZ8501, which went missing on Sunday morning
The
captain in command had a substantial total of 6,100 flying hours and
the first officer a total of 2,275 flying hours, said AirAsia, adding
that the jet underwent its last scheduled maintenance on 16 November
2014.
Air Asia chief Tony Fernandes confirmed the
plane had been given the all-clear by aviation technicians, was
in "good condition" and "has never had any problems whatsoever".
Indonesia responded by dispatching seven aircrafts, four navy ships
and six boats from its search and rescue agency. It has also received
offers of support from Australia, Singapore, Britain, South Korea and
Malaysia so far.
A C130 plane was deployed by the Republic of Singapore Air Force in
the afternoon, with another of its aircraft due to join the search on
Monday morning along with four vessels from the Republic of Singapore
Navy.
In a statement late Sunday afternoon, the CAAS said that the
next-of-kin of the Singaporean on board were contacted and were at the
Changi Airport Relatives Holding Area (RHA).
"They are being provided with all necessary assistance and support,"
CAAS said. "Assistance and support are likewise being provided to the
relatives and friends of affected passengers who are at the RHA."
According
to the Changi Airport Group, as of 6:30pm on Sunday, 47 relatives and
friends of 57 passengers on board the missing flight have registered at
the holding area.
"Help and support are being provided to them at
the RHA by 36 Changi Airport Group (CAG) care officers and four
counsellors from the Ministry of Social and Famiy Development," it said,
adding that other staff from AirAsia, airport partners and officials
from the Indonesia embassy in Singapore were also assisting.
According to Airbus, the missing A320-200 is a twin-engine single-aisle aircraft seating up to 180 passengers in a single-class configuration.
It was registered as PK-AXC and
was delivered to AirAsia from the production line in October 2008.
Powered by CFM 56-5B engines, it had accumulated approximately 23,000
flight hours in some 13,600 flights.
Airbus said it would provide full assistance to authorities in charge of the investigation.
AirAsia has established an Emergency Call Centre that is available
for family or friends of those who may have been on board the aircraft.
The number is: +622129850801.
AirAsia will release further information as soon as it becomes
available. Updated information will also be posted on the AirAsia
website at www.airasia.com. (Correction: This article initially identified the aircraft as an A380. It is an A320.)
North Korea is having serious connectivity issues this morning, North Korea Tech reports.
The country has extremely limited web infrastructure to begin with, but
reports from Dyn indicate the country's infrastructure has suffered a
series of major outages over the past 24 hours. As a result, anyone at a
North Korean IP would have found it nearly impossible to connect to the
web. "I haven’t seen such a steady beat of routing instability and
outages in KP before," said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis
at Dyn Research, told North Korea Tech. "Usually there are isolated
blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn’t be surprised if
they are absorbing some sort of attack presently." The premise is
particularly relevant given recent statements by President Obama, which promised a "proportional response" to the recent attack on Sony.
If the outage is in fact the result of a US attack, it would
represent a wholesale attack on a country's access to the internet,
setting a dangerous precedent of retaliation against targeted attacks.
Access to the web in North Korea is generally restricted to military or
government uses, so the downtime would have no effect on the average
citizen, but the precedent could be used to justify far more destructive
denial-of-service attacks. Still, it's just as plausible that the
downtime is the result of internal North Korean operations or simple
infrastructure problems. Until more evidence surfaces, it's difficult to
say for sure.
I know this is a little late-because I've been quite busy, lately-but I want to thanx you ALL for celebrating my 50th birthday, Sat @ the Broadway Dive bar. It was a great & memorable time. Thanx a bunch & hope to see you in 2015!
-Daniel aka Obsidian
This is great footage of a Russian professional mixed martial artist defending his wife from a bunch of Russian punks thugs. Check it out!
-Daniel aka Obsidian
Physicist Claims Evidence Ancient Nuclear Explosions Ended Life On Mars
A plasma physicist is advancing a theory in which he
claims to have evidence of two ancient nuclear explosions on Mars,
events that he believes wiped out an ancient civilization on the red
planet.
According to the Daily Mail,
Dr. John Brandenburg is set to present his theory at the 2014 Annual
Fall Meeting of the American Physical Society in Illinois, which will be
held this Saturday. His lecture, Evidence of Massive Thermonuclear Explosions in Mars Past, The Cydonian Hypothesis, and Fermi’s Paradox, will examine the theory, which he also advances in a paper set to be published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle physics.
“Given the large amount of nuclear isotopes in Mars atmosphere
resembling those from hydrogen bomb tests on Earth, Mars may present an
example of civilization wiped out by a nuclear attack from space,” he
wrote.
Brandenburg’s research centers around a high concentration of
Xenon-129 in the atmosphere of Mars, as well as an abundance of Uranium
and Thorium on the planet’s surface, as Vice
notes. He claims that Mars was the site of several “massive
radiological events,” which were responsible for the current
concentrations of radioactive elements.
“This pattern of phenomenon can be explained as due to two large anomalous nuclear explosions on Mars in the past.”
Brandenburg, who holds a degree from UC Davis, has previously claimed
that Mars was once home to two ancient civilizations, known as Cydonia
and Utopia, which possessed a level of technology similar to that of the
ancient Egyptians.
“Analysis of new images from Odyssey, MRO and Mars Express orbiters
now show strong evidence of eroded archeological objects at these
sites,” he wrote. “Taken together, the data requires that the hypothesis
of Mars as the site of an ancient planetary nuclear massacre, must now
be considered.”
Observers have long claimed to see evidence of ancient civilizations
in photos sent back by rovers on the surface of Mars, as the Inquisitr
has previously noted. Brandenburg asserts that the infamous “face on
Mars,” which was found in the Cydoina region, is an artifact from an
ancient alien race.
Brandenburg also believes that his theory could explain the Fermi
Paradox, which questions why humanity has yet to contact alien life,
despite the mathematically high probability of its existence. Warning
that mankind should be wary of such an attack on our own planet, he
advocates a manned mission to Mars in order to study any remaining
evidence.
The upcoming book Death on Mars: The Discovery of a Planetary Nuclear Massacre is authored by Brandenburg and further details his theories.
[Image: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, via Vice]
CERN scientists discover 2 new subatomic particles
By JOHN HEILPRIN
9 hours ago
GENEVA (AP) — Scientists at the world's
largest smasher said Wednesday they have discovered two new subatomic
particles never seen before that could widen our understanding of the
universe.
An experiment using the European Organization for
Nuclear Research's Large Hadron Collider found the new particles, which
were predicted to exist, and are both baryons made from three quarks
bound together by a strong force.
In a statement Wednesday,
officials at the lab known by its French acronym CERN announced the
discovery, which could shed more light on how things work beyond the
"Standard Model" physics theory explaining the basic building blocks of
matter. The results also were submitted to the publication Physical
Review Letters.
"Nature was kind and gave us two particles for the
price of one," said one of the CERN collaborators, Matthew Charles, of
the CNRS's LPNHE laboratory at Paris VI University.
The new
particles are more than six times as massive as the protons that
scientists have been deliberately crashing into each other in a 17-mile
(27-kilometer) tunnel on the Swiss-French border near Geneva to see what
they can discover about the makeup of the universe and its tiniest
particles.
The heavier weight of the two particles is due in part
to their "spins" in opposite directions which is "an exciting result,"
said Steven Blusk of Syracuse University in New York.
CERN-based
physicist Patrick Koppenburg said the study, using data taken during
2011 and 2012, could help differentiate between Standard Model effects
and "anything new or unexpected in the future."
Teams
of thousands of CERN scientists also used the state-of-the-art particle
accelerator to discover the subatomic particle known as the Higgs
boson, without which particles wouldn't hold together and there would be
no matter. The discovery helped Peter Higgs win the Nobel Prize by
proving his theories right.
I don't think this is a laughing matter (not that anyone is laughing)
but in a nuclear age, when relationships between Russia & America
are @ their all-time lowest, since the beginning of the cold war...we
have this spectacular explosion over Russia's sky... -Obsidian
i don't think we can afford to ignore this report, people...
-Obsidian
NATO reports 'large scale' Russian air activity in European airspace
Brussels (AFP) - NATO said
Wednesday it had tracked and intercepted four groups of Russian
warplanes "conducting significant military manoeuvres" in European
airspace over the past two days.
"These sizeable Russian flights represent an unusual level of air activity over European airspace," NATO said.
The
planes, which included strategic bombers, fighters and tanker aircraft,
were detected over the Baltic Sea, North Sea/Atlantic Ocean and the
Black Sea on Tuesday and Wednesday, it said.
NATO
allies sent up aircraft to intercept and identify the Russian planes
which were continually tracked on the ground as well, it said in a
report from its SHAPE military headquarters in Mons, western Belgium.
The report made no mention of the Ukraine crisis nor linked the increased activity to it.
However,
Russia's intervention in Ukraine, which NATO has said constitutes the
most serious threat to US-Europe security since the Cold War, has sent
tensions soaring.
NATO's
eastern members, many of them such as Poland and the Baltic states once
ruled from Moscow, have been particularly nervous and the US-led
alliance has put in place additional aircraft and personnel on a
rotating basis to reassure them.
At a summit last month, the 28 NATO leaders agreed the alliance would have to step up its readiness levels in response.
Russia's
intervention and the speed with which it was able to bring military
pressure to bear on Kiev in support of pro-Moscow rebels in the east
surprised many and badly rattled countries on NATO's eastern flank.
- Sharp increase in NATO intercepts -
In
a breakdown of the incidents, NATO said that in the early hours
Wednesday, eight Russian aircraft -- four TU-95 strategic bombers,
capable of carrying nuclear weapons, and four tankers -- were detected
over the North Sea, flying in international airspace.
Four Norwegian F-16 fighters were sent up to intercept them.
Six
of the aircraft then turned back towards Russia while two TU-95s
continued over the North Sea, with British Typhoon fighters called in.
The two planes then flew down into the Atlantic, where Portuguese F-16s picked them up.
The two bombers subsequently turned around, flying west of Britain, apparently heading back to Russia, it said.
Meanwhile,
on Wednesday afternoon, a mixed force of at least seven Russian
warplanes were intercepted over the Baltic Sea, while another two TU-95s
and two Su-27 Flanker fighters were intercepted by Turkish fighters
over the Black Sea.
On Tuesday, another seven Russian planes flew
over the Gulf of Finland and Baltic Sea where they were intercepted by
German Typhoon fighters, deployed as part of NATO's support efforts for
its eastern allies.
In this case, the Russian aircraft had filed a
flight plan with air traffic control authorities, were using
transponders, but did not maintain radio contact with civilian air
traffic control.
Unannounced
flights "pose a potential risk to civil aviation... (as) civilian air
traffic control cannot detect these aircraft nor ensure there is no
interference with civilian air traffic," it said.
NATO said there had been more than 100 intercepts of Russian aircraft in 2014 to date, about three times more than in 2013.
"Scrambles and intercepts are standard procedure when an unknown aircraft approaches NATO airspace," it said.
Is this a possible picture, taken by the Mars Rover, of an ancient Statue dedicated to a former ruler of the red planet? I'll let you be the one to decide. Check it out anyway!
-Obsidian
Guess what? Heeeeere we go again! (& one would think that i'm
scouring the news for reports like this. but such is not the case.
Reports like this are in plain sight. This particular one's straight
from Yahoo news). You think they've gone tabloid? I think not! -Obsidian
"I'm your huckleberry"
19th century slang which was
popularized more recently by the movie Tombstone. Means "I'm the man
you're looking for". Nowdays it's usually used as a response to a threat
or challenge, as in the movie. "Who thinks they can beat me?" "I'm your huckleberry."
The etymology of the phrase is traced back to Aurthurian Lore.
Huckleberry Garlands were said to be given to Knights of the Kingdom for
coming to the service of a damsel. They would approach the lady, lower
their lance, and receive the small branch as a symbol of gratitude; much
like a medal.
Therefore, "I'm Your Huckleberry" literally means "I'm your Hero." In current adaptaions, in reference to the movie Tombstone, it means "I'm your man." as an affirmative response to a challenge.
And if anyone disagree with this information: I'll be YOUR Huckleberry! -Obsidian
Get used to this kind of reporting from the main stream, watch dog, media. Remember the days when these types of reports where greeted with an almost visceral response from the media. Well, it looks like times R a changing, doensn't it?
In truth, the media is trying to prep you for future, more startling "announcements" of such discoveries. It has to make one wonder why.
-Obsidian
It's always good to keep an ear open for the radio program, "Coast to Coast." This one is about the researcher, Linda Moulton Howe and her uncovering details about a secret area called Dolce. Well, check it out!
-Obsidian
Though this is one of the older examples of what astronaunts have been seeing whenever they go out of Earth's orbit, I think this is a good video to whet any nay-sayer's appetite for the subject of UFOs.
-Obsidian
"Paul's letters are demanding and forceful, but in person he is weak, and his speeches are worthless!" -2 Corinthians 10:10 (Sometimes it's the effect of what we say that matters the most)
In case you haven't heard, NFL's Baltimore
Ravens running back, Ray Rice has just been released from the team &
suspended from football indefinitely by the league, for punching out
his then fiance in the hotel elevator in Vegas, last year & trying
to pawn it off as if she had just gotten drunk & fell down.
Ray Rice, you're a big-ass-loser: No more football for you, chump! -Obsidian
Map locating the scheduled flight AirAsia QZ8501, which went missing on Sunday morning
