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November 20, 2009 -  Large Hadron Collider: Looking for the “God Particle” and Beyond.  Click for report.

Tonight, Friday, November 20, near Geneva, low-energy
protons will be fired in opposite directions without collisions inside
the 17-mile-long circular tunnel of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
built underground on the Swiss-French border, and powered by a French nuclear reactor.
After huge superconducting magnets melted down in September 2008, misinformation about
mini-black holes ready to destroy Earth and one theoretical physicist's recent hypothesis
that perhaps the universe doesn't want the Higgs Boson particle discovered,
LHC is back in the test firing stage until at least Christmas before
high-energy proton collisions in 2010. Image courtesy CERN.

- Parts 1 - 2:  June Crain and Wright Field, 1942 - 1952. 
Click for reports.

“I took it (metal from ‘spaceship’) and bent it and I twisted it
and laid it back down and it went Pfffffft! Got right back to the same shape.” 
- June Crain, Secretary, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Ohio, 1942-1952

- Red List of Earth Life Facing Extinction Keeps Growing.
Click for report.

“Ever since we have been doing the Red List, the numbers go up every year.
...We are certainly looking at an extinction crisis where things are accelerating
and it's an out of control stage.” - Craig Hilton-Taylor, Mgr., IUCN Red List, U. K.

Updated with Photos: November 18, 2009 - Part 1:  More New Zealand Metal Spheres Under Project Moon Dust.   Click for Real X-File.

U. S. Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff Message Center,
from Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) concerning Project Moon Dust information
from New Zealand location received on November 13, 1978.

November 18, 2009 - Bolide Explosion After Midnight
Shocked Western States. See KSL-TV Video, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Mysterious iridescent-blue cloud in dawn sky over
Utah and Colorado - was it linked to what exploded shortly after midnight?
“First appeared as a ring when the eastern sky was dark looking southeast
of Salt Lake City, Utah, right before dawn on Wednesday. Disappeared completely
as sun came up.” Quote and image © 2009 by Jeff Kendrick.

Spaceweather.com reports: “A remarkable fireball that turned night into day over parts of the western United States right after midnight (Nov. 18) was not a Leonid meteor. Infrasound measurements suggest a sporadic asteroid not associated with the Leonid debris stream. The space rock exploded in the atmosphere with an energy equivalent to 0.5 - 1 kilotons of TNT. Approximately 6 hours later, observers in Utah and Colorado witnessed a twisting iridescent-blue cloud in the dawn sky. Debris from the fireball should have dissipated by that time, but the cloud remains unexplained; we cannot yet rule out a connection to the fireball event.”

2:28 PM EST - November 16, 2009 - Atlantis Shuttle Blasted Off
for International Space Station.

NASA's Atlantis space shuttle launched from Kennedy Space Center
near Cape Canaveral, Florida, today at 2:28 PM EST, to deliver a year's
worth of hardware to the International Space Station (ISS) that will require three
spacewalks to store all the heavy cargo in hatches on the exterior
of the orbiting space station. Image courtesy NASA.

November 15, 2009 - CDC Reports A/H1N1 Has Infected 22 Million Americans, Killed Nearly 3,500 Adults and 540 Children Since April 2009.
Click for report.

No one knows what will happen next because this novel A/H1N1 persisted through the 2009 summer, increased in September, earlier than normal seasonal flu, and is still widespread in North America and flaring in other parts of the world such as the Ukraine. Will this H1N1 decline before the normal end of flu season in February? H1N1 continues to be a dangerous and unpredictable virus and the fact that 540 children have died since April (6 months) - when the normal child death from seasonal flu in an entire year averages 85 - is alarming.

“We've been tracking influenza for decades.
What we are seeing in 2009 is unprecedented.”
- Anne Schuchat, Director, CDC National Center
for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

Today, Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
visited flu victims at a hospital in the western Ukrainian
city of Lutsk. Image © 2009 by AFP/Getty.

U. K.'s Daily Mail reported today: “British scientists are examining the strain of swine flu behind a deadly Ukrainian outbreak to see if the virus has mutated. A total of 189 people have died and more than one million have been infected in the country. An unnamed doctor in western Ukraine told of the alarming effects of the virus: ‘We have carried out post mortems on two victims and found their lungs are as black as charcoal. They look like they have been burned.’” The World Health Organization reports the intense Ukrainian H1N1 outbreak has slowed down in its rapid spread. The next step is to see if that Ukraine A/H1N1 virus has mutated to a more virulent strain.

November 13, 2009 - NASA Reports Water On the Moon.

“We are ecstatic! Along with the water in Cabeus,
there are hints of other intriguing substances. The permanently
shadowed regions of the moon are truly cold traps, collecting and
preserving material over billions of years.” - Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS
Principal Investigator, NASA's Ames Research Center, Calif.

Visible camera image shows the plume of ejected water ice
and moon dust in the Cabeus lunar crater on October 9, 2009,
at about 20 seconds after impact. Image by NASA.
Click for: Oct. 9, 2009 NASA TV, no live image toward end of impact.

NASA:  “Preliminary data from the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates that the mission successfully uncovered water during the Oct. 9, 2009 impacts into the permanently shadowed region of Cabeus crater near the moon’s south pole.

The impact created by the LCROSS Centaur upper stage rocket created a two-part plume of material from the bottom of the crater. The first part was a high angle plume of vapor and fine dust and the second a lower angle ejecta curtain of heavier material. This material has not seen sunlight in billions of years.

“After traveling approximately 113 days and nearly 5.6 million miles (9 million km), the Centaur and LCROSS separated on final approach to the moon. Traveling as fast as a speeding bullet, the Centaur impacted the lunar surface shortly after 4:31 a.m. PDT October 9, with LCROSS onboard instruments watching. About four minutes of data was collected before the LCROSS itself impacted the lunar surface.”

November 11, 2009 - More Multi-Colored Aerial Lights
Above Fryeburg, Maine.    Click for report.

Unidentified, colorful, aerial light photographed
(est. 15 second exposure) on November 4, 2009, above Fryeburg,
Maine. Upper left streaks are star trails in time exposure.
Image © 2009 by Jonathan Spak.

November 11, 2009 - Saturn and Moon Rhea.

The Cassini spacecraft took this raw image of Saturn,
its rings and moon Rhea on November 8, 2009. The camera was pointing
toward Rhea from approximately a million miles away (1,874,061 kilometers).
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

November 10, 2009 - Stickney Crater on Martian Moon, Phobos.

Stickney Crater is the largest on Phobos, about 6 miles (9 km) across,
nearly half the diameter of the Martian moon. This enhanced-color image of Stickney
was recorded by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it passed within
some 3,729 miles (6,000 km) of Phobos in March 2008. Even though the surface gravity of small
Phobos is less than 1/1000th Earth's gravity, streaks suggest loose material has slid down inside the
crater walls over time. Light bluish regions near the crater's rim could indicate a freshly exposed surface.
The origin of the curious grooves along the surface is mysterious, but might be related to the original
impact that created the large crater. Image: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA.

November 5, 2009 - Final  Part 8:  1980 Animal Mutilation
High Strangeness Files.  Click for Real X-File.

“Maybe they aren't helicopters after all because I've heard
the chopper sound right above me when I couldn't see anything!”
- Phil McKinley, Colorado Rancher

Pregnant, six-year-old cow was alive and well at noon,
but found dead and mutilated at 5 PM, only five hours later,
30 miles east of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Photo © 1982 by rancher Linda Dzuris.

November 4, 2009 - California “Drone” with Three Moving Spheres.

Click for video analysis.

September 11, 2009, on Highway 41 near Lemoore, California, south of Fresno, an oddly- shaped aerial object surrounded by three moving spheres was videotaped for 16 seconds (one digital frame above). Lemoore Naval Air Station trains Navy pilots and crews and has been a “hot-spot”
for unidentified aerial object reports. Digital video enhancements 2009 by LunaCognita.

Updated:  November 2, 2009 - Is There Life in Europa's Huge Ocean?
Click for report.     Click for podcast.

      
Europa's reddish cracks and pock marks in ice
covering 100-mile-deep liquid water ocean.
Image by NASA/JPL/U. of Arizona.

October 30, 2009 -  How Long Will Our Sun Remain Quiet
and Cosmic Rays Increase?    Click for report.  

- High Strangeness in Overton and Basingstoke, Hampshire, U. K. 
Click for report.   Tune In Dreamland Online.

Video frame from September 28, 2009,
videotape around 11 PM, Overton, Hampshire, England.
Videotape © 2009 by Derek Bridges. Prepared by Kenneth Parsons,
Chairman, British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society.

October 29, 2009 - Most Distant Cosmic Explosion Ever Seen.

Gamma-ray burst from exploding star only 630 million years after Big Bang.

“We're now starting to approach the time
when we think the very first galaxies turned on.”
- Nial Tanvir, Ph.D., Univ. of Leicester Team Leader

The journal Nature reports today that an April 2009
event captured by NASA's space-based Swift telescope, and called GRB 090423,
is the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen only 630 million years after the Big Bang.
Above image is merged data data from Swift's Ultraviolet and X-Ray telescopes.
Credit: NASA/Swift/Stevan Immler. See: Nature.com.

October 28, 2009 - Part 7:  1980 Animal Mutilation
High Strangeness Files.   Click for Real X-File.

“As the ‘helicopter’ rose upward, it seemed to turn into a ‘ball shape’
and I yelled for my mother-in-law to run out into the yard ...
She said as the object rose, it changed into a ‘square shape.’”
- John Cumby, Littleton, Colorado

September 23, 1980, 7 PM Mtn., a shape-shifting aerial craft
appears over cattle pasture near home of John Cumby in Littleton,
Colorado, a suburb southwest of Denver.

October 28, 2009 - NASA's Ares 1-X Rocket Took First Test Run Today.

NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted its 100 meters (328 feet)
successfully October 28, 2009, at 11:30 AM Eastern from Pad 39B from the
Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The $455 million unmanned
new rocket's performance and hardware systems were monitored by NASA as it climbed
to an altitude of about 28 miles in two minutes before falling back into the Atlantic.
Despite White House concerns that the Ares costs too much in difficult economic
times, NASA hopes this rocket will replace the space shuttle fated for
retirement in 2010. Photograph © 2009 by Reuters.

October 27, 2009 - Real “Sea Monster” Skull
Unearthed in Southern England.

“These creatures were monsters.
It could have taken a human in one gulp;
in fact, something like a T. Rex would have been breakfast
for a beast like this.” - Richard Forrest, Ph.D., U. K. Paleontologist

So huge and strong, this pliosaur was an ocean terrorist 150 million years ago.
It was found along the southern coast of England in Dorset and East Devon known
as the “Jurassic Coast” that covers 95 miles with rock records of 185 million years
in Earth history. There in Weymouth Bay, the 8-foot-long skull and lower jaw
of the estimated 52-foot-long aquatic reptilian pliosaur was found.
Illustration © 2009 by Mark Witton. See photos:  BBC Dorset.

October 23, 2009 - Big Hole in Moon.

213-foot-wide (65 meters) hole discovered on the moon
that could go down at least 262 feet (80 meters), perhaps into a large
lunar tunnel more than 1,200 feet wide. Hollow lava tubes on the moon have
been hypothesized and hoped for as natural shelters for future lunar astronaut
bases, but none were confirmed until this one. The photograph was taken
of the moon's Marius Hills region on May 20, 2008, by Japan's then-orbiting
Kaguya Terrain Camera. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter could also
begin snapping new shots of the area that are 10 times sharper. Credit:
ISAS / JAXA / Junichi Haruyama et al. See:  JAXA.

October 22, 2009 - Dust Devil Trails on Mars.

Recent high-resolution picture from the HiRISE camera on board
the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows twisting dark trails criss-crossing
reddish-beige terrain on the Martian surface. Once a mystery, the trails are now confirmed
to be trails through the Martian red dust by dust devils that also periodically clean off
the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. Typically lasting only a few minutes, dust devils
become visible as they pick up loose red-colored dust. On Mars, dust devils can rise up
to 5 miles (8 kilometers) high. Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA.

October 21, 2009 - Part 6:  1980 Animal Mutilation
High Strangeness Files.  Click for Real X-File.

“I did careful microscopic exam on the tissue cut from the calf's belly.
It was not a cut, not a laser burn. No cells were destroyed. The excision
was separated between cells, cell by cell.” - Iona Hoeppner,
Briggsdale High School Science Teacher

Photomicrograph of mutilated cow's cells
and cooked hemoglobin © by John Altshuler, M. D.

October 21, 2009 - Is the Swine Flu Vaccine Safe?

“Contrary to the perception among many people that this influenza,
the novel H1N1, is mild, (new) data vividly demonstrate that this influenza
can make you very, very ill.” - William Schaffner, M. D.,
Vanderbilt University Flu Expert

The United Kingdom begins vaccinating people against the swine flu today, while U. S. and Australia vaccinations have been underway. The only problem in the United States so far has been shortage of enough vaccine to meet American demands. NewScientist.com details facts about this and other seasonal flu vaccines at:  NewScientist.com.

Click for Earthfiles report.    Click for podcast.  

   
New England Journal of Medicine on October 8, 2009,
reports CDC research that indicates 7% mortality in U. S. H1N1 cases -
above normal seasonal flu. H1N1 cases have been doubling each week
and virulent strain of H3N2 is coming north from Southern Hemisphere.  
Novel 2009 H1N1 photomicrograph by CDC.  

October 20, 2009 - Moultrie Game Camera Manager
Puzzled by “Milk Bottle” Images.  Click for report.

“This is the first time that our Moultrie game trail camera
people have ever seen anything like those ‘milk bottle’ images.
The head of Moultrie engineering, research and development now
has the photos, but so far no explanation.”  - Gene Matchen,
Manager, Moultrie Customer Service

“Milk bottle” aerial object caught by game trail camera
behind tree branch on December 1, 2008, between 11:05 PM and
11:29 PM Central in Edom, Texas. Image provided by camera owner.

October 19, 2009 - 32 More Planets Beyond Solar System Discovered.

The European Southern Observatory's HARPS spectograph has spotted
at least 75 of the roughly 400+ exoplanets now known.
“By targeting M dwarfs and harnessing the precision of HARPS,
we have been able to search for exoplanets in the mass and temperature
regime of super-Earths, some even close to or inside the habitable
zone around the star.” - Xavier Bonfils, Ph.D., HARPS Team

Illustration of two of three suns in the Gliese 667 C
star system and exoplanet in foreground. See ESO.

October 17, 2009 - Part 5:  1980 Animal Mutilation
High Strangeness Files.   Click for Real X-File.

“There was a chemistry sophistication in the actions
of whoever broke into my lab and took all the calf samples.”
- Iona Hoeppner, Briggsdale High School Science Teacher

October 16, 2009 - Mysterious “Ribbon” Discovered
at Solar System's Edge.

“This is a shocking new result. We had no idea this ribbon existed -
or what has created it. Our previous ideas about the outer heliosphere
are going to have to be revised.” - Dave McComas, Ph.D., IBEX
Principal Investigator, Southwest Research Institute.

IBEX's all-sky map of energetic neutral atom emissions
reveals a bright “ribbon” of unknown origin. Map courtesy NASA.

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has discovered energetic neutral atoms in the outer heliosphere where the solar wind begins to slow down and mix with interstellar matter from outside our solar system. The particles also form small filaments into a mysterious fine structure. The “ribbon” does not glow, but IBEX “sees” the energetic particles. See NASA.

October 15, 2009 - Woman Witnessed 1996 Crop Circle
Appearing Opposite Stonehenge,
Reported by U. K. Researcher Lucy Pringle.   Click for report.

“There was an apparition, an isolated mist over it
and as the circle was getting bigger, the mist was rising above
the circle. As the mist rose, it got bigger and the wheat circle got bigger.” 
- U. K. Eyewitness “M”

The fractal Julia Set across the A303 highway from ancient Stonehenge was
reported on July 7, 1996. The formation measured 915.5 by 508 feet, covered a square acre
and was made of 151 circles. The center of each circle twisted differently, according to
field investigators. Aerial © 1996 by Lucy Pringle.

October 15, 2009 - Unusual Deer Death in Smithville, Oklahoma.
Graphic photographs.  Click for Real X-File.

“I looked specifically at the hole where the deer's anus should have been
and it appeared to have been cut in straight lines around the anus without blood.” 
-Howard Goins, Mena, Arkansas, Resident

Deer was first discovered on Saturday,
October 10, 2009, in Smithville, Oklahoma.
Image © 2009 by Howard Goins.

October 14, 2009 - Part 4:  1980 Animal
Mutilation High Strangeness Files.   Click for Real X-File.

“During the night, someone with a key or lock pick
got into the lab, ransacked it, took every mutilated calf sample
and some formalin preservation fluid.” - Iona Hoeppner,
Briggsdale, Colorado, High School Science Teacher

Half of head stripped clean to bone
in July 26, 1977, cattle mutilation near Sterling, Colorado.
Photograph by Logan County Sheriff's Office.

October 12, 2009 - More Lights Like Stephenville, Texas,
in Maine.   Click for report.

“A man who is career military here is absolutely perplexed
by the photos.”  - Jonathan Spak, Fryeburg, Maine

             
Left:  Canon Rebel digital image, cropped, taken Monday, September 21, 2009,
in Fryeburg, Maine. Right: Friday, September 25, 2009, another photo after unidentified,
sparkling, aerial object showed up again northwest of town. Images © 2009 by Jonathan Spak.

October 6, 2009 - Cosmic Rays Reaching Earth
At Highest Level in 50 Years.    Click for report.  

“We think if the tilt of the sun’s solar magnetic fields
continue to decline over the next few months or year, the intensity
of cosmic rays reaching Earth will go up even more – perhaps from 19%
to even 30%  more than we have ever observed in the Space Age.”
- Richard Mewaldt, Ph.D., Cal Tech Physicist

Illustration of cosmic rays
reaching Earth by NASA.

October 5, 2009 - Part 2, 2009 Canadian Crop Formations:
Stettler, Alberta, and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.   Click for report.

“I was amazed that I found entire stems coming from the ground
flattened that were perfect without breaks, cracks or creases.”
- Donald Tash, M. S., Retired Science Teacher, Stettler, Alberta

         
Left:  Stettler, Alberta, Canada, wheat formation discovered August 25, 2009.
Right:  Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, wheat formation discovered
September 19, 2009. Diagrams © 2009 by Paul Anderson, CCCRN.

October 3, 2009 -  4.4-Million-Year-Old Female Skeleton
Could Be Direct Human Ancestor.
“This is not an ordinary fossil. It's not a chimp. It's not a human.
It shows us what we used to be.” - Tim White, Ph.D., Lead Scientist,
Univ. of California-Berkeley

Ardipithecus ramidus female lived in Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago. Bones were discovered in an Ethiopian desert along with at least 35 other members of the species in 1992. Called “Ardi,” she was about 4 feet tall, weighed 110 pounds, lived in trees, but walked upright on the ground carrying food in her long arms. Thus, Ardi is a hybrid, a transitional hominid, that is a million years older than the "Lucy" Australopithecus aferensis skeleton found in 1974, and could be a direct ancestor in an evolutionary line that became Homo sapiens. Illustration by J. H. Matternes, Science.

October 2, 2009 - Former RAF Bentwaters S/Sgt. James Penniston Describes Craft, Symbols and Missing Time.  

- Airman John Burroughs - Was He Taken Into A Craft?  

      
  Click for reports.     Click for Earthfiles Podcast.  

September 28, 2009 - Part 2:  1980 Animal Mutilation
High Strangeness Files.  Click for Real X-File.

Time exposure photos of mysterious lights above pastures
during intense animal mutilation activity. B&W in Colorado
© Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune; color in Arkansas
© by Jim Williamson, Little River News.

September 25, 2009 -  Four RAF Bentwaters Eyewitnesses

        
Rendlesham Forest surrounds RAF Woodbridge airstrip and extends to nearby
RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk County, England. A series of mysterious light, beam and craft
phenomena were witnessed by at least three dozen military personnel between December 26, 1980
and January 9, 1981, including interaction with the RAF Bentwaters weapons storage area
that included nuclear weapons. Light beam illustration by Jan Roth.

- Former RAF Bentwaters Security Airman Speaks for First Time. Click for report.  
- Former RAF Bentwaters Staff Sgt. Jim Penniston Describes Black,
Glassy, Triangular Craft, Symbols and Missing Time.   Click for report.

- Former RAF Bentwaters Airman John Burroughs -
Was He Taken Into A Craft?   Click for report.

- Former RAF Bentwaters Airman Steve LaPlume Saw Huge Aerial Cylinder
Over RAF Woodbridge East Gate on January 9, 1981.  Click for report.

September 22, 2009 - Part 1: 1980 Animal Mutilation
High Strangeness Files.   Click for Real X-File.

“It's like whatever mutilated this horse embalmed him!”
- Robert Blake, Rancher, Simla, Colorado

“Mutilations - what's the answer? Predators ... or UFOs?”
Greeley Tribune, Greeley, Colorado,
Sunday, November 2, 1980.

August 28, 2009 -  Parts 1 - 3:  1980 RAF Bentwaters Lights and Craft
Were “Extraterrestrial In Origin.”   Click for reports.   Click for podcast.

“Col. Halt could see that a UFO was shining a beam down
into the weapons storage area.” 
- Gary Heseltine, U. K. Transport Policeman

- Part 4:  1980 Bentwaters Lights - Were They Time Travelers?
Click for report.

“They are time travelers. They are us.
... and they are using us like Band-Aids.” 
- USAF Staff Sergeant James W. Penniston (Ret.),
Dec. 1980 RAF Bentwaters, from 1994 hypnosis session

Updated with Podcast - Part 5:  USAF Col. Charles I. Halt (Ret.)
Says 1980 RAF Bentwaters Lights and Craft Were
“Extraterrestrial In Origin.”  Click for report.    Click for podcast.

“Those lights and craft were beyond the realm of anything
we know and were intelligently controlled. Now, I’ll say one
other thing – it’s certainly possible that whatever it is might be from
another dimension.”  - Col. Charles I. Halt, (Ret.), Dec. 1980
Deputy Base Commander, RAF Bentwaters, U. K.

    
Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt described mysterious aerial light that emitted white, narrow, beam
down in front of him and over the weapons storage facility (above), said to contain nuclear
warheads, at RAF Bentwaters, England, in the early morning hours of December 28, 1980.
Illustration by Jan Roth at www.rendlesham-incident.co.uk used with permission.

- Part 6: Is Time Travel Past and Future Possible?  
Click for report.
“There are actually several solutions of Einstein’s equations
that allow for travel to the past and future through time and travel through
space. ”  - Michio Kaku, Ph.D., Theoretical String Theory Physicist

January 8, 2007 - U. S. Navy Yeoman Sees Extraterrestrial Photos.

              
Click on Google or YouTube for links to Earthfile's video excerpt.

For more about Navy Yeoman, drawings of non-humans and documents:
Click on Earthfiles reports:
• 03/17/2006 -- Part 1: U.S. Navy Chief Yeoman Describes "Extraterrestrial Biological Entities" in TOP SECRET/MAJIC Photographs.

• 03/23/2006 -- Part 2: U.S. Navy Chief Yeoman Describes "Extraterrestrial Biological Entities" in TOP SECRET/MAJIC Photographs.