“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.
This crescent sliver of Earth's South Pole was photographed on November 12, 2009, by Rosetta, a European Space Agency spacecraft, from about 400,000 miles away.
November 19, 2009 Cambridge, England - This past spring, the United Nations Environment Program declared 2010 to be the Year of Biodiversity. The goal is to unite 40 international organizations to assess the loss of biodiversity on Earth now and what to do in the future to keep Earth life from dying out in the face of climate change, loss of habitats and onslaughts from pesticides and other toxins in the environment. The 2010 Year of Biodiversity slogan is “Life in harmony, into the future.”
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“He brought in ‘two little men (non-human).’ He called them ‘little green men.’ Then he described them as a ‘greenish-blue.’ And they were 4-feet-tall. And they were dead.”
- June Crain, Secretary, Air Material Command, Wright Field, Ohio, 1942-1952
November 19, 2009 Olympia, Washington - Recently in Las Vegas at Ryan Wood's UFO Crash Conference, a former police detective shared a tape recorded interview he did on June 27, 1997, with a 72-year-old woman who had worked as a secretary for the War Department at Wright Field, Ohio, from 1942 until 1952. Before marriages, her name then was June Crain and during her work at Wright Field, she said she held both a SECRET and Q clearance (under authority of Atomic Energy Commission), heard about UFO crashes in New Mexico and retrievals of non-human bodies, and even held in her own hands a piece of “spaceship” metal that she could not cut and no matter how hard she twisted, the metal would always spring back to its original shape.
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November 11, 2009 Fryeburg, Maine - On October 12, 2009, Earthfiles reported an interview with Jonathan Spak, 37-years-old, owner of a restaurant who photographed anomalous, colorful lights over Fryeburg, Maine. Now a month later on November 4, 2009, Jonathan has photographed more anomalous lights that are included in this Earthfiles report. If anyone else might be having repeated sightings of multi-colored, aerial lights that persist in a specific geographical area, please email me at [email protected].
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November 5 , 2009 Albuquerque, New Mexico - The following continues from Parts 1- 7 about the 1980 animal mutilation high strangeness summary I typed up for my private research files and am now sharing for the first time in this Real X-Files series. This segment continues on September 22, 1980, after the high strangeness at Iona Hoeppner's Briggsdale, Colorado, high school lab.
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The icy surface of Europa is cracked like an egg from the tug and pull of Jupiter's gravitational stretching. Below the ice is a 100-miles-deep liquid water ocean and new data indicates more oxygen than expected reaches that ocean from the icy surface. Water plus oxygen could mean life there right now. Image from Galileo spacecraft, 1995 - 2003, by JPL, NASA and Ted Stryk.NASA released this image of Europa as true color of the moon's icy surface full of cracks. The slightly reddish tint of the surface cracks is still a mystery, but the hypothesis is that sulfur compounds are responsible. Image courtesy NASA/JPL.
Updated November 2, 2009, with podcast and Europa book information at end of report from Tucson, Arizona - There is a moon in our solar system that is about the size of Earth's moon, but beneath its icy surface is a liquid water ocean 100 miles deep. That moon is Europa, one of 49 known moons that orbit Jupiter, of which Europa, Io, Ganymede and Callisto are the largest.
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“We don’t have records prior to 1874 that give us details about the sun. Compared to the past 130 years, our sun now is unprecedented as far as how slow this Solar Cycle 24 is taking off - or not taking off!”
- David Hathaway, Ph.D., NASA Heliospheric Team Leader
NASA'S Advanced Composition Explorer satellite (ACE) launched August 1997 to study solar particles and galactic cosmic rays. It has nine instruments onboard that helps it track solar wind and galactic cosmic rays from interstellar space beyond the heliosphere. ACE serves as a space weather station while in orbit. ACE can provide a one-hour advance warning of any geomagnetic storms that are caused by coronal mass ejections. Strong solar coronal mass ejections can disrupt radio, TV and telephone communications on Earth. Logo by NASA.
October 30, 2009 Huntsville, Alabama - For twelve years, NASA has had a satellite positioned a million miles in front of Earth with the sun about 92 million miles beyond. Its mission has been to study particles that come near Earth from our sun, the solar system and the galaxy. The satellite is called Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE, and some of the highly energetic particles ACE has been monitoring are cosmic rays.
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“The new H1N1 is like the avian flu on steroids. It really is a new beast, so to speak.”
- Sherif Zaki, M. D.,
CDC Chief of Infectious Disease Pathology
Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report by CDC showing novel H1N1 flu virus is widespread throughout the United States as of October 17, 2009. See website links for more information at the end of this Earthfiles report.
“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
New England Journal of Medicine on October 8, 2009, reports CDC research that indicates 7% mortality in U. S. 2009 H1N1 cases - higher than normal seasonal flu. H1N1 cases began doubling each week in September 2009. Further, a virulent strain of H3N2 is coming north from Southern Hemisphere. Novel 2009 H1N1 photomicrograph by CDC.
October 30, 2009 - Atlanta, Georgia, and Houston, Texas - On Friday, October 23, 2009, President Barack Obama declared the H1N1 pandemic to be a U. S. national emergency. He said, “The rates of illness continue to rise rapidly within many communities across the nation, and the potential exists for the pandemic to overburden health care resources in some localities.” The goal now is to lift bureaucratic requirements to help hospitals and health care facilities deal more easily with the pandemic emergency.
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“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 Albuquerque, New Mexico - The following continues from Parts 1- 6 about the 1980 animal mutilation high strangeness summary I typed up for my private research files and am now sharing for the first time in this Real X-Files series. This segment continues on September 22, 1980, after the high strangeness at Iona Hoeppner's Briggsdale, Colorado, high school lab.
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