Galleries: 2014 Astrofest photo winners
UNDER Australia's iconic Parkes 'Dish' in central NSW the winners of Australia's best space-themed photos.Source:News.Com
Friday, 12 December 2014
The year’s best cases of alien ‘proof’
WHETHER it’s Stephen Hawking predicting the certainty of alien life or the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in California claiming that we will “find E.T. within two dozen years,” debate over the existence of aliens is as rife as ever.
For those grappling with the Fermi paradox, this year provided a number of seemingly inexplicable cases that were seized upon by believers as prove that ET is out there. We’ll let you decide.
Bones on Mars
With satellites and robots beaming back publicly available images and even live streams from their trips of space exploration, the internet is continually abuzz with material to ignite the age-old debate. Photos from the Mars Curiosity rover put many in a frenzy this year as they claimed one particular piece of surface material bore a striking resemblance to a human thigh bone. So either aliens on the red planet have an extraordinarily similar build to us … or it’s just a rock.
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| Alien thigh bone or rock? - you be the judge. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Source: Supplied |
Area 51 deathbed confession
An interview with a man claiming to be former Lockheed Martin scientist Boyd Bushman surfaced shortly after his death in August. In the video interview he goes into intricate detail about his work at the notorious Area 51 site, holds up photos of captured aliens and describes their physical qualities. The authenticity of the video has been widely discredited — the photos bearing an uncanny resemblance to a toy sold at Walmart — but those desperate to meet ET, are n’t so easily dissuaded. The video has since been taken down but excerpts can be seen here.
The mystery of X-37B
The intriguingly long voyage of the unmanned X-37B came to an end in October, but the mystery of the mission lingers on — providing fuel to the fire for Conspiracy theorists. Most of the public theories about what the US led X-37B did during its continuous two-year flight have to do with spying and national security. But there are also those that think the craft was looking for aliens, commandeering abandoned alien bases on other planets or flying around communicating with extraterrestrials. Only the US government knows.
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| Government secrecy breeds speculation. Source: Supplied |
Is the Rosetta comet really a comet?
It was one of the most impressive and impactful scientific achievements of recent time. For most people, the fact that we were able to land a satellite on a comet in space meant that we might gain a greater understanding of the origins of our own existence. For others, it meant that the government was lying and the mission was about making contact with an alien base. The theory grew out of an anonymous e-mail from a supposed “ESA whistleblower” that claimed the comet was not exactly the auspicious rock form that it was made out to be.
Flight MH370
The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 provided one of the biggest mysteries of the year. Perhaps unsurprisingly, one theory about the cause of the disappearance postulated the involvement of aliens as some claimed that radar readings showed that a UFO interfered with the flight.
Reason.com conducted a poll in the United States and found out that five per cent of their respondents believed Flight 370 was abducted by aliens. Several bloggers also pointed out a number of UFO sightings around Malaysia before the plane’s disappearance. With the international community yet to discover the location of the missing plane, at this point the conspiracy theory continues.
The UFO hiding behind the sun
The list wouldn’t be complete without a token UFO sighting. Those that comb the skies in search for a glimpse of alien activity are seldom short of a good imagination and a smudge or spec can quickly become an interstellar spacecraft.
NASA’s solar observatory catches lots of spectacular solar flares and asteroid activity, and of course, other unidentified flying objects. According to UFO Sightings Daily, the abnormality in the image below is some sort of craft orbiting the sun ... very, very close to the sun. The proximity of the object to the sun would presumably present all kinds of problems, but clearly we can’t begin to understand the transport capabilities of our galactic counterparts.
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| If you squint just enough ... Aliens! Image Credit: NASA/SOHO Source: Supplied |
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Wednesday, 10 December 2014
10,000-year-old rock paintings depicting aliens and UFOs found in Chhattisgarh, INDIA
Archaeologists in India have discovered 10,000-year-old rock paintings that appear to depict extraterrestrial visitors and UFOs that once landed on earth. We’re not saying it was aliens, but it was definitely aliens.
The Times of India carried the story this week from Charama in the state of Chhattisgarh, where archaeologist JR Bhagat pointed out that ancient cave paintings appear to show representations of extraterrestrial visitors.
“The findings suggest that humans in prehistoric times may have seen or imagined beings from other planets which still create curiosity among people and researchers,” Bhagat told the Times. “Extensive research is needed for further findings. Chhattisgarh presently doesn’t have any such expert who could give clarity on the subject.”
This is a cave painting found in Kimberley, Australia. They were painted by the native Aborigines approximately 5,000 years ago. These are depictions of what they called Wandijina, or sky beings. In their tradition these beings were part of the beginning of creation, and had great power of nature. The first thing I took from this were the large heads, a common theme among today’s purported extraterrestrial visitations.
There are paintings like this all over the world. Just like there are many ancient pyramids built all over the world by different civilizations at different times that had no contact with each other, these cave paintings share the same anomaly. These are petroglyphs discovered in Utah, in the Barrier Canyon, which depict a number of tall beings with similar shaped heads as to the ones in Australia. There are also similar beings painted on rocks in Utah’s Sego Canyon.
The Times of India carried the story this week from Charama in the state of Chhattisgarh, where archaeologist JR Bhagat pointed out that ancient cave paintings appear to show representations of extraterrestrial visitors.
“The findings suggest that humans in prehistoric times may have seen or imagined beings from other planets which still create curiosity among people and researchers,” Bhagat told the Times. “Extensive research is needed for further findings. Chhattisgarh presently doesn’t have any such expert who could give clarity on the subject.”
According to archaeologist JR Bhagat, these paintings depict extraterrestrials. The Chhattisgarh state department of archaeology and culture is planning to seek the help of NASA and ISRO for research regarding the paintings.
“The findings suggest that humans in prehistoric times may have seen or imagined beings from other planets which still create curiosity among people and researchers. Extensive research is needed for further findings. Chhattisgarh presently doesn’t have any such expert who could give clarity on the subject. The paintings are done in natural colours that have hardly faded despite the years. The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features. The nose and mouth are missing, and in a few pictures they are even shown wearing spacesuits. We can’t refuse the possibility of imagination by prehistoric men but humans usually fancy such things.” – JR Bhagat
According to the times of India:
“There are several beliefs among locals in these villages. While few worship the paintings, others narrate stories they have heard from ancestors about “rohela people” -the small sized ones -who used to land from the sky in a round shaped flying object and take away one or two persons in the village who never returned.”
Antiquity is filled with stories of beings, materials and flying objects that, according to modern day thinking, should not have existed. For anybody who has studied ancient mythology, they would know that a large amount of evidence exists today to turn those ‘mythical stories,’ (as we interpret them) into stories of a possible ancient reality.
More Ancient Art
Ancient cave paintings depicting possible UFOs and extraterrestrials have been found all over the globe. This one (one of the earliest known forms of human art) is from the French cave of Pech Merle. In the paintings within this cave there are several objects that resemble flying saucers. The paintings here are approximately 20,000 years old, and of course we can never really know what the true meaning of the painting is, but it is interesting nonetheless.
This is a cave painting found in Kimberley, Australia. They were painted by the native Aborigines approximately 5,000 years ago. These are depictions of what they called Wandijina, or sky beings. In their tradition these beings were part of the beginning of creation, and had great power of nature. The first thing I took from this were the large heads, a common theme among today’s purported extraterrestrial visitations.
There are paintings like this all over the world. Just like there are many ancient pyramids built all over the world by different civilizations at different times that had no contact with each other, these cave paintings share the same anomaly. These are petroglyphs discovered in Utah, in the Barrier Canyon, which depict a number of tall beings with similar shaped heads as to the ones in Australia. There are also similar beings painted on rocks in Utah’s Sego Canyon.
