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Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Says Governments Covering Up E. T.s

“I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real, although it has been covered up by our governments for quite a long time.”

- Edgar Dean Mitchell, Ph.D., retired Apollo 14 Astronaut, on Kerrang! Radio, U. K.

 

Apollo 14 crew from left: Astronauts Stuart A. Roosa, Alan B. Shepard and Edgar D. Mitchell, February 1971. Photograph courtesy NASA.
Apollo 14 crew from left: Astronauts Stuart A. Roosa, Alan B. Shepard and Edgar D. Mitchell, February 1971. Photograph courtesy NASA.

July 25, 2008  West Midlands, U. K.  - In the West Midlands of the United Kingdom this week, Nick Margerrison, host of Kerrang! Radio's The Night Before Team, interviewed retired 78-year-old Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Ph.D., who earned his Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

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Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Says Governments Covering Up E. T.s

“I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real, although it has been covered up by our governments for quite a long time.”

- Edgar Dean Mitchell, Ph.D., retired Apollo 14 Astronaut, on Kerrang! Radio, U. K.

 

Apollo 14 crew from left: Astronauts Stuart A. Roosa, Alan B. Shepard and Edgar D. Mitchell, February 1971. Photograph courtesy NASA.
Apollo 14 crew from left: Astronauts Stuart A. Roosa, Alan B. Shepard and Edgar D. Mitchell, February 1971. Photograph courtesy NASA.

July 25, 2008  West Midlands, U. K.  - In the West Midlands of the United Kingdom this week, Nick Margerrison, host of Kerrang! Radio's The Night Before Team, interviewed retired 78-year-old Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Ph.D., who earned his Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

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Longest Solar Minimum Since 1913

“It's a fascinating time. It's the quietest sun in a century,
since the solar cycle of 1902 to 1913. ”

- Mark Miesch, Ph.D., NCAR's High Altitude Observatory

 

Spotless sun on April 7, 2009. Out of 365 days in 2008, 266 were without sunspots. So far in 2009, January had 25 sunspot free days; February had 23 sun spot free days; and March had 28 sun spot free days. Image source:  SOHO.
Spotless sun on April 7, 2009. Out of 365 days in 2008, 266 were without sunspots. So far in 2009, January had 25 sunspot free days; February had 23 sun spot free days; and March had 28 sun spot free days. Image source:  SOHO.

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April 7, 2009  Huntsville, Alabama and Boulder, Colorado -  A sunspot is a region of intense magnetic activity on the Sun's surface that are cooler than the rest of the sun. That's why they appear as dark spots. Sunspots are at temperatures of roughly 4,000 to 4,500 Kelvin, which is 6,740 to 7,640 degrees Fahrenheit, and are surrounded by hotter solar material around 5,800 Kelvin, or 9,980 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

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Part 2: Silicas – and Hot Springs? – Could Mean Ancient Life On Mars

“To be honest, what would surprise me the most would be if life never was on the planet Mars. That would be surprising and give us all some pause and make us wonder – why?”

- Dorothy Z. Oehler, Ph.D, NASA Johnson Space Center     

Dark “horse head” of Syrtis Major Planum rises at center of this Hubble telescope image of Mars. On the right side of that darkness is Elysium Planitia; on the left is Arabia Terra. Image courtesy Hubble.
Dark “horse head” of Syrtis Major Planum rises at center of this Hubble telescope image of Mars. On the right side of that darkness is Elysium Planitia; on the left is Arabia Terra. Image courtesy Hubble.

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February 27, 2009  Houston, Texas - Other scientists studying a completely different part of Mars in Arabia Terra have also discovered features they think are the residue of hot springs, largely based on the tell-tale oval rings that closely resemble hot springs in Yellowstone National Park and Dalhousie, Australia. In a recent issue of Astrobiology, NASA Johnson Space Center planetary geologists described one mound on Mars named Vernal crater that could be a dried up hot springs?

 

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Part 1: Silicas – and Hot Springs? – Could Mean Ancient Life On Mars

“On Earth, hydrothermal deposits [hot springs] teem with life and the associated silica deposits typically contain fossil remains of microbes.”

- Jack Farmer, Ph.D., Astrobiology, Arizona State Univ.

 

Dark “horse head” of Syrtis Major Planum rises at center of this Hubble telescope image of Mars. On the right side of that darkness is Elysium Planitia; on the left is Arabia Terra. Image courtesy Hubble.
Dark “horse head” of Syrtis Major Planum rises at center of this Hubble telescope image of Mars. On the right side of that darkness is Elysium Planitia; on the left is Arabia Terra. Image courtesy Hubble.

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February 21, 2009  Albuquerque, New Mexico - NASA landed the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, near the Martian equator on opposite sides of the red planet in January 2004. The goal was to look for evidence of water. Spirit and Opportunity recently came out of 2008 winter hibernation and started their fifth Martian spring of exploring.

 

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Fluorescence Mystery in Red Rain Cells of Kerala, India 

“ ...Organisms replicating at 300 degrees Celsius and showing this kind of autofluorescence are currently unknown to exist on earth, which is again an indication supporting the view that these cells are possibly extraterrestrial.”

- Godfrey Louis, Ph.D., Physics, Cochin University, Kerala, India

South of Bombay, the state of Kerala, India, is in the southwestern tip of the country bordered on the west by the Arabian Sea. Its capital is Thiruvananthapuram.  Map © by mapsofindia.com.
South of Bombay, the state of Kerala, India, is in the southwestern tip of the country bordered on the west by the Arabian Sea. Its capital is Thiruvananthapuram.  Map © by mapsofindia.com.
2001 summer, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for first time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.
2001 summer, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for first time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.
2006 summer, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for a second time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.
2006 summer, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for a second time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.
August 2007, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for a third time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.
August 2007, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for a third time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.

February 14, 2009  Kerala, India   - Three years ago in the April 4, 2006, journal Astrophysics and Space Science was a published paper entitled: “The Red Rain Phenomenon of Kerala and Its Possible Extraterrestrial Origin.” Kerala is on the Malabar Coast in southwestern India. The astrophysical paper was about an event that occurred in July to September 2001 - and several summers since - when raindrops falling on Kerala stained peoples’ clothes. White T-shirts were covered with pinkish-red rain splatters and residents wondered what was happening?

 

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Part 1: Nanodiamonds Link Outer Space Impactors to Earth Extinctions 12,900 Years Ago

“Nanodiamonds only form under very high temperatures and pressures consistent with a major cosmic impact event.”

- Douglas Kennett, Ph.D., Univ. of Oregon

 

Illustration of outer space object headed for Earth impact.
Illustration of outer space object headed for Earth impact.

January 29, 2009  Eugene, Oregon -  14,000 years ago, the last Ice Age was ending at the close of the Pleistocene. The Earth was warming up, forests began to grow back and large animals such as the Irish Elk and the Woolly Mammoth flourished in Europe and North America. In fact, temperatures were even warmer than they are today. North America was teeming with very large animals such as giant sloths, American lions and camels, saber-toothed tigers, mammoths and mastodons.

 

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Part 2: Nanodiamonds Link Outer Space Impactors to Earth Extinctions 12,900 Years Ago

“The danger of comets hitting Earth has not been adequately
addressed because we don’t know where most of them are. SOHO has
discovered 500 new comets in the last eight years!”

- Ted Bunch, Ph.D., Northern Arizona Univ.

On lower left are two of the twenty-one comet fragments that impacted Jupiter's atmosphere leaving dark holes on July 16 to 22, 1994. Each impact mark is larger than Earth. This event was the only time in human history that comet fragment collisions with a planet has been witnessed and photographed. Image © 1994 by John Chumack, Galactic Images.
On lower left are two of the twenty-one comet fragments that impacted Jupiter's atmosphere leaving dark holes on July 16 to 22, 1994. Each impact mark is larger than Earth. This event was the only time in human history that comet fragment collisions with a planet has been witnessed and photographed. Image © 1994 by John Chumack, Galactic Images.

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January 29, 2009  Flagstaff, Arizona - Adding to the great mystery about what exactly happened 12,900 years ago to this planet, there have been discoveries of ancient animals in the permafrost of Arctic tundra such as woolly mammoths with undigested buttercups and grass in their frozen mouths and stomachs. The freezing of the mammoth animals was rapid and thorough.

 

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Methane Mystery On Mars

“We observed and mapped multiple plumes of methane on Mars,
one of which released about 19,000 metric tons of methane.”

- Geronimo Villanueva, Ph.D., NASA Goddard

Dark central area is region of Syrtis Major Planum, locations of Nili Fossae and Syrtis Major ancient volcano, both emission sites of methane gas plumes. Image by Hubble.
Dark central area is region of Syrtis Major Planum, locations of Nili Fossae and Syrtis Major ancient volcano, both emission sites of methane gas plumes. Image by Hubble.
Yellow circles at Nili Fossae and southeast quadrant of Syrtis Major, ancient volcano, mark where NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have measured large quantities of methane emissions since 2003. The persistent size of methane quantities imply a continually replenishing source. Is it geological? Or biological? Map created by Alwyn Botha, www.the-planet-mars-com.
Yellow circles at Nili Fossae and southeast quadrant of Syrtis Major, ancient volcano, mark where NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have measured large quantities of methane emissions since 2003. The persistent size of methane quantities imply a continually replenishing source. Is it geological? Or biological? Map created by Alwyn Botha, www.the-planet-mars-com.

January 25, 2009  Greenbelt, Maryland -  Methane on Mars was first detected in 1999 and 2001, and then has been measured in persistent quantities since 2003 over at least two “hot spots” in the Martian northern hemisphere shown on map above:

 

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Carbonate Finally Found On Mars

“We know there’s been water all over the place, but how frequently have the conditions been hospitable for life? We can say pretty confidently that when water was present in the places we looked at, it would have been a happy, pleasant environment for life.”

- John Mustard, Ph.D., Geological Sciences, Brown University

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has finally found carbonate minerals on Mars that show up as green in the above image of a 12-miles-wide region in Nili Fossae on the edge of the Isidis impact basin. Scientists hypothesize the carbonates might have formed at the surface when olivine-rich rocks were exposed and altered by running water. Image courtesy NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/MSSS/Brown University.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has finally found carbonate minerals on Mars that show up as green in the above image of a 12-miles-wide region in Nili Fossae on the edge of the Isidis impact basin. Scientists hypothesize the carbonates might have formed at the surface when olivine-rich rocks were exposed and altered by running water. Image courtesy NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/MSSS/Brown University.

December 20, 2008  San Francisco, California -  At the annual American Geophysical Union Fall 2008 meeting held in San Francisco from December 15 to December 19, Brown University graduate student, Bethany Ehlmann, reported finding the mineral carbonate on Mars, increasing the chances that life might have existed on the red planet in the past when there was a less acidic watery surface. Carbonates result from carbon dioxide dissolved in water.

 

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