Aliens

Hey guys! Thanks for visiting this blog again! :) This week's topic will be aliens. 


Well, if we have the ideology that UFOs are real, we begin to wonder who are the ones that that travel in space and control them and the answer would be: aliens. Or at least that is how we call them. When we think about aliens the first thing to come to our minds is that they are beings from outer space, have big egg-shaped heads and will come to conquer our planet. :P However that is only how Hollywood has portrayed them in movies and TV shows. We should stop for a second and think, what if they look like that because they are using advanced space or Earth suits. For example, when austronauts travel to space, they do not use regular clothes but rather astronaut suits that have things they will need in outer space such as oxygen. The same thing could happen with aliens, maybe their appearance is not the same compared with what they look like in their planet. 


Also we should consider that maybe not all aliens are mean and want to conquer our world, there should be some that have curiosity to know how our world works and how humans are. Maybe aliens are just like humans, and there are some that are better people (aliens?) than others. It would be interesting in the future when we have more contact with them to make treaties and import goods that exist only in their world and make an exchange of information and technology. If this ever happens, probably it will be controlled strictly by the government and not everyone will have access to communicate with aliens at first. 


Feel free to leave your comments and opinions about this post, see you next week :)

False sightings

Hi everyone! I was looking for something to talk about on today’s post when I found a quite interesting article from the NASA about a supposedly UFO that was videotaped by the camera on the Apollo 16 which turns out it was not really one. When the Apollo 16 was returning from the moon on April 27, 1972; the astronauts John Young, Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke captured about four seconds of video footage of an object that seemed to look like a spacecraft from another world (Nasa.gov).

Here is a picture of what the camera captured and was thought could be an UFO:

The object was described as <a saucer-shaped object with a dome on top>. The pictures were captured with a 16mm motion picture camera shooting 12 frames per second from a command/service module window. The object appears momentarily near the moon and as the camera pans, it moves out of the field of view before it reappears as the camera pans back. In total, it appeared in around 50 frames (Nasa.gov).

Some specialists recently studied the footage and they found out that the crew of the Apollo 16 never thought of having seen anything special in the film at the moment when it was recorded and besides this, scientists analyzed a high quality format of the footage and arranged the frames where this object appeared in chronological order for them to make the investigation as accurate as possible (UFOEvidence.org). The combinations they made with the footage showed them more clearly a "linear feature" attached to one side of the object. They also looked at archived images from other Apollo missions and they found out that in the end, there was strong evidence that suggested that the pictures taken by the Apollo 16 were not true since the spacecraft had a structure called EVA a spacewalk floodlight/boom which had a similar structure to the one of the object that appears in the pictures (Nasa.gov).

I think this discovery is quite interesting because, thanks to those studies made to the footage on Apollo 16, it was determined that the supposedly UFO was not a real one besides it is good for us to break with the habit of believing at first sight everything we see and/or everything people tell us. There have been more false sightings of UFOs around the world and most of those false sightings have been identified and removed from the media. However, can we be sure that the sightings we believe are true are for sure real?Or for example, that our own believes on UFOs are real? How can we be sure that what we identify as an UFO is really one and not a sight mistake? I hope you liked the post and feel free to comment on the section below. See you next week.

Works Cited

Latest UFO sightings. 20 September 2011. 21 September 2011 <http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/>.

UFO Evidence. 2011. 21 September 2011 <http://www.ufoevidence.org/>.



Zone 51

Hello guys! Sorry for not having posted anything last week but I did not have time to do so. However, I'm back this week and our topic is Zone 51.

Well, Zone 51 is the top-secret military base also known as <Groom Lake Base> located about 90 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada. The United States Air Force Flight Test Center controls the base. It is said that this base was used in order to test exotic aircrafts and weapons and this base was established in 1954 and the secret U-2 spy plane was tested in order to be used to fly over the USSR. Then, in the 1980s the base increased in size, along with the runway and it was at this time that mysterious lights began to appear and armed guards began patrolling the boarders of the base. In 1989, a "physicist" named Bob Lazar claimed that he worked at a base south of Area 51 and also claimed that Area 51 was testing extremely advanced aircraft and UFO's they got by trading with the aliens. Since then, Area 51 has been thought to be the test center of captured UFOs because of the lights in the night sky (Area51zone.com).

Keeping a secret what goes on in Zone 51 has caused different hypotheses about conspiracy UFO theories arise such as

• The storage, examination, and reverse engineering of crashed alien spacecraft (including material supposedly recovered at Roswell), the study of their occupants (living and dead), and the manufacture of aircraft based on alien technology.
  
• Meetings or joint undertakings with extraterrestrials.
  
• The development of exotic energy weapons for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or other weapons programs.
  
• The development of means of weather control.
  
• The development of time travel and teleportation technology.
  
• The development of unusual and exotic propulsion systems related to the Aurora Program.
  
• Activities related to a supposed shadowy one world government or the Majestic 12 organization.
  

(Ufocasebook.com)


But, do you think this may be true? Two weeks ago we talked about censorship, what if the government IS testing UFO material or has found it in or near Area 51? What if they already have contact with UFOs? Do you think the government may give total access to this information sometime if it exists? See you next week! :D



I found this web page that has some videos of different UFOs seen in Area 51. Hope you find them interesting!

Link


Works Cited:

Area 51. 14 September 2011 <http://ufocasebook.com>.

Area 51. 14 September 2011 <http://area51zone.com/>.