The photo, taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express satellite, shows an area in the Elysium region of the red planet near the equator where scientists have found a frozen lake, buried under dust and volcanic ash accumulated over the past few million years. The lake is huge, 500 by 560 miles wide, and at least 150 feet deep. Water ice and frozen carbon dioxide is known to exist at the Martian icecaps.
February 18, 2005 -- David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust sung that "there's life on Mars" 30 years ago and astronomer Percival Lowell wrote his book "Mars As the Abode of Life" in 1908 (yes, S.P.A.C.E. has the original mint-condition book!).
Now add NASA scientists Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, Californa, who have studied data from the current U.S. Mars and European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiters and have seen telling "methane signatures" in the data, telling of the likelihood of it being produced by a subsurface biosphere. The evidence is indirect and inferential.
On February 13 they held a private meeting with NASA scientists to explain their conclusions, which will be published as a paper in the prestigious British "Nature" science magazine this May, and which is now undergoing scientific peer review.
SPACE.com staff reporter Brian Berger wrote in his article on Feb. 16 that "they have found strong evidence that ife may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water." They base their amazing conclusions on the study of similar conditions on Earth where life thrives in difficult Martian-like conditions, along with a study of data gathered by the Mars orbiters on the presence of methane and the likely case that it is produced by what the scentists call a "bioreactor," meaning lifeforms.
The abundance of methane in the thck atmosphere, which ESA scientists say is more than expected, and on the surface of the planet-sized satellite of Saturn, Titan, detected by the ESA Huygens space lander on January 14, seem to be produced by non-living chemical reactions. Surface life on Mars is unlikely, given the wispy atmosphere and radiation exposure from the Sun and space, plus the generally sub-zero chlly weather, except for occassional daytime 60 degree F temperatures during Martian Summers.
In a NASA press statement released today, NASA denies that their scientists have found evidence of life on Mars and that s paper about it is being sent to "Nature" and peer reviewed, as ESA scientists say that life is likely.
For more information on the SPACE.com story, click-on the following link:
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Tuesday, February 8, 2005 -- Two high school students in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn reported a daytime UFO sighting by the Verazzano Narrows Bridge, New York City's waterway entrance. The sighting took place on February 2, according to a report filed today with NUFORC (the National UFO Reporting Center).
The witnesses' reported: "I am a 16 year old high school student and I was witness to a sighting that appeared on ABC News on Feb. 2, 2005 at 3:00 p.m. I looked out my window and I saw what looked like verticle lines in the grayish blue clouds with lines that were almost gold. Then one by one more rips appeared. One was headed towards the Verazzano Bridge. There were two orbs near the bridge and one of the 'lines' went from verticle to horizonital, and became fireballs, almost like a comet. The jet-trail disappeared, almost like a comet. The one by the bridge slowly moved, and the two spheres disappeared, and that one line kind of just drfted, but eventually it went out of my line of sight, and that was it." (-- thanks to www.nuforc.org and webmaster Peter Davenport.)
[CEN Editor's Note: The bridge is less than a mile from my home. I have seen at least three UFOs in the vicinity of the bridge, not to be confused with the frequent airplanes that fly over the bridge on their approach to Newark Airport and the helicopters. I have also heard both first firsthand and secondhand reports from witnesses of UFOs witnessed here. If the hgh school student reported this to the local newspaper - where I worked as a staff reporter for two decades - the paper would have dismissed the report as unnewsworthy.]
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February 3, 2005 -- When the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society prints a feature article by credible scientists reporting that UFOs are in all probability real and deserve serious scientific study in light of the "New Physics" of the Quantum Kind, then it is time for science to do so. The space society, founded 72 years ago in 1933, is composed of prominent space and rocket scientists, astronomers and astrophysicists, and other science professionals.
The feature article, "Inflation-Theory: Implications for Extraterrestrial Visitatons," appears in the current BIS "Scientific Space Journal" on pages 43-50, and was brought to S.P.A.C.E.'s attention on January 14 through a feature article on the SPACE.com website by its Senior Editor Leonard David in "ET Visitors: Scientists See High Likelihood."
The article's authors are astrophysicist Bernard Haisch (director-California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics and scentific editor-Astrophysical Journal"), and three physicist well-known in Ufology: James Dearoff (Oregon State University professor and formerly researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research), Harold Puthoff (director-Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin, Texas) and Bruce Maccabbee (prominent for his research into UFO photos, films and videos).
They urge scentists to study "high quality" UFO close encounter reports and to re-examine "the ET hypothesis in light of the new physics." In doing so, the authors contend that scientists may very well find "some genuine ET signature within the data." They also note the discovery by Australian astronomers last year that the Earth is embedded within a huge "galactic habitable zone" in our Milky Way Galaxy and that "our world is immersed in a much larger extraterrestrial civilization," writes Leonard David on Space.com, and that "gven a billion years advanced physics, might not buzzing around the galaxy be possible?"
The distinct probablities that "other dimensions (with) habitable universes adjacent to our own" actually exist, David writes of the BIS Journal report, makes UFO visitations distinctly posible if not very likely probable. This is "somewhat of a breakthrough," writes Haisch in the BIS Journal article. A new book by poplar theortrical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, "Parallel Worlds" features te latest New Physics findings and spectulations.
Two of the BIS Journal article's authors, James Deardorff and Bruce Maccabee, will be speakers at the X-Conference presented by Steven Bassett's Paradigm Research Group on April 22-24, 2005 in Washington, DC.
For more information, along with an item from Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country by Anne Strieber (host of the "Mysterious Powers" show), click-on the links below:
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February 2, 2005 -- "The Thing From Another World" was one of the first movies dealing with flying saucer reports. Directed by Howard Hawks, it appeared in 1951, the same year as the famous "The Day the Earth Stood Still" movie about a spaceship and its pilot, Klaatu (Michael Rennie) with robot Gort, landing in Washington, DC. In 1951 the world was four years into the "modern flying saucer era" with UFO reports appearing regularly in the media, unlike today.
"The Thing" begins with a dramatic opening sequence as a group of scientists surround a huge circle on an Arctic iceshelf under which is a crashed flying saucer. The creature inside ("the thing" played by James Arness, who later played U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon in the TV series "Gunsmoke") later runs amok on the Arctic station.
An actual prop from the movie, "The Thing's" Polyfoam severed green hand and forearm, was on display at a recent science-fiction art exhibit of original paintings and movie props held at The New York Academy of Sciences in New York City (2 East 63rd St. at Fifth Ave., Manhattan.)
"From Imagination to Reality: The Art of Science Fiction" was on display in the Academy's Gallery of Art and Science in the building's main lobby from November 5, 2004 through January 28, 2005.
Among other Hollywood movie props was the XM Rocket model from "Rocketship XM," a 1950 movie, starring Lloyd Bridges (later star of the "Sea Hunt" TV series) about the first crewed spaceflight, sent towards the Moon but diverted by a meteor storm to Mars. The astronauts discovered a ruined civilization destroyed by atomic war and they are attacked by the war's savage humanoid mutant descendents.
The marvelous artwork at the exhibit included BEMs (Bug-Eyed Monsters), fanastic beings and space aliens, cyborgs and robots, spaceships, spacestations and space habitats such as an O'Neill space colony (after astrophysicist Gerald K. O'Neill's "High Frontier" space concepts) and a Dyson Sphere (conceived by Priinceton University astrophysicist Freeman Dyson), mind powers, and other science fiction themes portrayed by famous authors (Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Joan Vinge, William Gibson, Lester del Ray, Piers Anthony and Larry Niven) and illustrators (Donato Giancola, John Berkey, Wayne Barlowe, John Schoenherr, Michael Whelan, Vincent Di Fate, Dean Ellis, Murray Tinkleman, Richard Powers and Paul Lehr).
The artwork themes included interspecies communication, psionics, first contact, genetics, starships, psychohistory, submarines and time travel.
It should be noted that the late Dr. John Mack spoke at the Academy some years ago, at a FIONS - Friends of the Institute of Noetic Science - program. Also, The Mindshift Institute, founded by Michael Mannion and Trish Corbett, has had meetings there.
For more infomaton on "The Thing From Another World," check the links below:
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CINCINNATI UFO RESEARCHER KENNY YOUNG DIES
February 2, 2005 -- Kenny Young, a talented and awards-winning Cincinnatti UFO researcher who lived in Kentucky, has died of cancer at age 38, according to Whitley Strieber Unknown Country's News. |
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February 1, 2005 -- "Annie," the longtime popular daily comic strip about the adventures of Little Orphan Annie and Daddy Warbucks, recently ran a series of cartoons with a UFO theme throughout January, which S.P.A.C.E. caught notice of later in its run.
The story is about Vail, "a space-happy maniac" in contact with a "Martian Mothership" who claims that he is the "Queen of Mars." He runs into a car from Daddy Warbooks shouting "Mother! I hear you, mother! I'm coming, mother!" as he covers his ears from what he tells are thunderous engine sounds, which Warbucks cannot hear.
Warbucks, Annie, a rancher's car head and a police helicopter head for a desert mesa, where a movie about Martians was filmed. Vail climbs a Devil's Tower-type hill, where he calls out for he mothership" to take him home to eternal life on Mars. The cartoon shows the huge mothership which only Vail sees, while the others see Vail just waving his arms into the sky and failing off the hill and to his death.
Since the 1950s, newspaper cartoon strips and comics have often portrayed UFOs and space aliens, more recently in "Ziggy" and other popular comics.
The "WOW! Contact" synchronicities and high strangeness events, as reported in the "Project Wonderland Chronicles" since June 2000 until mid-October 2004, will soon be updated in the new Volume Five of the Chronicles: the "WOW! CONTACT WONDER-LOG." A preview link to the new volume with current updates appears below. The Surreal Interface demonstrates the awesome universality of the Contact's archetypes and how it intersects with individuals drawn into the "contact."
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