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ust when you think the shows can't get any bigger or brighter this show happens. Author, lecturer, the great Canadian military unifier and former Minister of National Defence, the Hon. Mr. Paul Hellyer joins us on the program to discuss his 2005 public statements that UFO's are real, extraterrestrials are visiting us and much of our technology is emulating theirs. We also go on to speak about his new book 'Light at the End of the Tunnel' a vast and profoundly politically unfiltered piece of work abiut the UFO phenomenon, the pending collapse of the environment, the self sabotaged and demented economic system, and what we can do as a species to unite and save the world. The Unified Field also has Canada's exclusive first scoop on Paul's very first UFO sighting just a few weeks back over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend! He's a gentleman, a scholar,true Canadian patriot and national hero and he's right here on Atlantic Canada's ONLY paranormal radio broadcast.But that's not it folks. We also talk about water discoveries on the moon, Mars, Jupiter's Moon Titan. There's also a SETI update, the recent passing of two legends in the field of research and writing, Zecharia Sitchen and Col. Wendell Stevens, a University of New Mexico dig for a flying saucer, and an article from Michael Schratt of Open Minds about an incredible UFO sighting in Exeter, New Hampshire in 2005. There's this and a whole lot more. Don't go anywhere else. This is your Atlantic Canadian source for the unexplained.
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More Water on Moon than Anyone Ever Thought!
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A jet flies past the moon over the city of Aarau, Switzerland, April 24, 2010.
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WASHINGTON | Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:27am EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is far more water on the moon than just about anyone thought and it is likely widespread deep under its surface, according to a report released on Monday.
Recent moon missions have shown frozen water in shadowed craters on the moon's surface, and ice under the gray dust. It could have been carried there by bits of comets as asteroids hitting the surface, however.
But a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows there is much more water on the moon than that -- findings important for future moon missions.
"Water may be ubiquitous within the lunar interior," the researchers concluded in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"For over 40 years we thought the moon was dry," said Francis McCubbin of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who led the study.
"We found that the minimum water content ranged from 64 parts per billion to 5 parts per million -- at least two orders of magnitude greater than previous results."
The water is not immediately accessible -- it is incorporated in the rocky interior of the moon, according to the report, published here
Most scientists now believe the moon was formed when a Mars-sized object hit the Earth 4.5 billion years ago, knocking off material that compacted to form the moon.
Magma was formed during this process and some water molecules would have been preserved as the magma cooled and crystallized.
The researchers looked at samples collected 40 years ago during Apollo moon missions. The kinds of rocks that will be more common in the interior carry chemical evidence of hydrogen and oxygen compounds that point to water,
"The concentrations are very low and, accordingly, they have been until recently nearly impossible to detect," Bradley Jolliff of Washington University in St. Louis, who worked on the study, said in a statement.
"We can now finally begin to consider the implications and the origin of water in the interior of the Moon."
(Editing by Sandra Maler)
e common in the interior carry chemical evidence of hydrogen and oxygen compounds that point to water,
"The concentrations are very low and, accordingly, they have been until recently nearly impossible to detect," Bradley Jolliff of Washington University in St. Louis, who worked on the study, said in a statement.
"We can now finally begin to consider the implications and the origin of water in the interior of the Moon."
(Editing by Sandra Maler)
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Evidence for Past Water on Mars Keeps Flowing, This Time from Glaciers
Posted in: Mars by Nancy Atkinson (1 Comment »)
This image shows a river that sprang from a past glacier from an unnamed crater in Mars’ middle latitudes. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS
No sooner do we post one article about water on Mars when it’s time for another. Planetary scientists have uncovered telltale signs of water on Mars — frozen and liquid — in the earliest period of the Red Planet’s history. They found evidence of running water that sprang from glaciers throughout the Martian middle latitudes as recently as the Amazonian epoch, several hundred million years ago. These glaciofluvial valleys were, in essence, tributaries of water created when enough sunlight reached the glaciers to melt a thin layer on the surface. This led to “limited surface melting” that formed channels that ran for several kilometers and could be more than 150 feet wide. The finding is “more than ‘Yes, we found water,’” said Caleb Fassett from Brown University, who along with Brown research analyst James Dickson, professor James Head III, and geologists from Boston University and Portland State University published a paper in Icarus. “What we see now is there’s this complex history of different environments where water is being formed.”
The team analyzed 15,000 images snapped by the Context Camera (CTX) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to compile the first survey of glaciofluvial valleys on Mars. The survey was sparked by a glaciofluvial valley that Dickson, Fassett, and Head spotted within the Lyot crater, located in the planet’s middle latitudes. The team, in a paper last year in Geophysical Research Letters, dated that meltwater-inspired feature to the Amazonian.
In his survey, Fassett found dozens of other Amazonian-era ice deposits that spawned supraglacial and proglacial valleys, most of them located on the interior and exterior of craters in Mars’ midlatitude belt. “The youthfulness (of the features) is surprising,” he said. “We think of [post-Noachian] Mars as really, really cold and really, really dry, so the fact that these exist, in those kinds of conditions, is changing how we view the history of water on the planet.”
What makes the finding even more intriguing is that the Brown planetary scientists can study what they believe are similar conditions on Earth. Teams from Brown and Boston University have visited the Antarctic Dry Valleys for years, where the surfaces of glaciers melt during the austral summer, sparking enough meltwater to carve a channel. The team will return to the Dry Valleys later this year to continue the study of this microclimate.
“It’s sort of crazy,” said Dickson, a member of the Brown team who stayed in the Dry Valleys for three months last year. “You’re freezing cold and there’s glacial ice everywhere, and it gets just warm enough that you get a river.”
Fassett plans to search for more glaciofluvial valleys as more images come from the CTX, which has mapped roughly 40 percent of the planet.
Source: Brown University
Worldwide SETI Effort Revisits Stellar Neighbors
Analysis by Ray Villard
Fri Nov 5, 2010 12:17 PM ET
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Today astronomers are kicking off a worldwide marathon to look for messages from any alien civilizations that might inhabit nearby stars.
Astronomers are aiming radio and optical telescopes at selected targets in the chance a "Hello, how are you?" message comes our way. The hypothesized radio or laser pulse messages would have to have been transmitted Earthward within a radius of 100 light-years. Participating countries included Australia, Japan, Korea, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Argentina, and the United States.
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This survey is being done in commemoration of the first SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) experiment, Project Ozma, which was launched in April 1960 by radio astronomer Frank Drake. He named it after the princess Ozma in the L. Frank Baum series: "The Land of Oz."
Shin-ya Narusawa of Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory in Japan launched the commemorative Project Dorothy, named after the Oz heroine memorialized by actress Judy Garland in the 1939 film musical production of Baum's "The Wizard of Oz."
ANALYSIS: Are Aliens Eavesdropping On Us? Not Likely
The SETI Institute will observe five target stars using the new Allen Telescope Array (ATA), located in northern California. The ATA will examine these stars between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, on November 6.
Any chance for success? Let’s take a look at the ATA's target stars from nearest to farthest:
Epsilon Eridani
One of Project Ozma’s very first targets, this orange dwarf star lies just 11 light-years away. It has two belts of rocky and icy debris. A Jupiter-size planet has been confirmed Inside the innermost belt. The gas giant world is in a very elliptical orbit that shuttles it from a distance just beyond that of Mars' orbit to closer than Venus’ orbit is to the sun. And, this carries the planet inside the star's habitable zone briefly once every 12 years. Any accompanying moons would alternately bake and freeze over the roller-coaster orbit. The star is estimated to be only 600 million years old. That’s way too young for the evolution of technological intelligent life as we know it.
Tau Ceti
At 12 light years away, Tau Ceti is a sun-like star encircled by a thick dust disk similar to our Kupier belt that lies beyond Neptune. The star’s habitable zone is at about the distance Venus is from our sun. This was another Ozma target, but no planets have been discovered to date. Depending on the dynamics of any existing gas giant planets in the system, the thick disk might bombard any Earth-like world with cometary debris. This might disrupt biological evolution with a successive chain of mass extinctions. If intelligent life arose it would have to advance quickly to achieve the space technology needed for avoiding its own destruction by comet showers.
HD 69830
This orange dwarf star is 41 light-years away in the constellation of Puppis. It has a large asteroid belt, first discovered by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005. The belt is kept gravitationally corralled by three Neptune sized plants. One of these worlds lies in the star’s habitable zone. It could conceivably have a Titan-like moon that would be a home for life.
55 Cancri
At a distance of 41 light years, I’d buy a one-way ticket to this binary star system. The primary star 55 Cancri A is a solar-type star. Best of all, it’s the age or our sun and has a full-blown planetary system and Kupier belt outer rim. The red dwarf companion star is 100 billion miles away, too far to disrupt a planetary system.
To date five know planets orbit the star within the radius of Jupiter’s orbit. A hot Jupiter and super-Earth mass planet orbit very close to the star. A nearly Saturn-mass planet lies within the star’s habitable zone. This would be a sweet spot to go looking for large habitable moons capable of possessing an atmosphere.
And there is room for yet undetected terrestrial mass planets near the habitable zone. I was so intrigued by this star I had my colleague, space artist Lynette Cook, do an illustration (above) for our 2005 book Infinite Worlds. 55 Cancri will be a likely target for an interstellar probe in the coming centuries.
Eta Arietis
Located 98 light-years away this seething star is eight-times more luminous than the sun. Its rapidly migrating habitable zone would sweep outward past the distance Jupiter is from our sun. No planets have been found here, yet. With a projected lifetime of roughly 2 billion years, this star is too short-lived for biological evolution as we know it. (Earth did not evolve multicelled organisms until nearly 4 billion years after its formation.)M
So is anyone sending us an interstellar "tweet" from any of these stars? I’d place my money on 55 Cancri. Any civilization here would be intrigued to explore their planetary system. They would be enticed to send a probe to the dim red dwarf companion to explore any planets. Viewed from the surface of a planet in the 55 Cancri system our sun would be a bright white star near the burning blue-white star Sirius. It would no doubt get the attention of Cancri sky watchers. But would they be at a technological intersection in time where they are signaling us now? Just wait.
Image credit: AKA, SAO, NASA
Artwork copyright: Lynette Cook
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Zecharia Sitchin, one of the giants of paleocontact, passes away
Antonio Huneeus | Oct 28, 2010 | 20 comments
Zecharia Sitchin
I was saddened to learn yesterday that Zecharia Sitchin, one of the giants of the Ancient Astronaut or Paleocontact theory, passed away recently in New York City at the age of 90. Although he died last October 9th , his official website, www.sitchin.com, just posted this short announcement:
“We regret to inform you that Zecharia Sitchin passed away on the morning of October 9th. A small, private family funeral was held the next day.
The family asks that you respect its privacy during this difficult time and refrain from contacting family members directly. Instead, to offer tributes to Mr. Sitchin or to contact those handling his affairs, please email tributes@sitchin.com or send a letter to P.O. Box 577, New York, NY 10185.
We appreciate the support that you have given over the years. Please continue to monitor this website for further updates.”
I knew Zecharia quite well. I met him for the first time in 1986, long before he became a household name in the paleocontact and ufological fields, when my friend Marcello Galluppi, a well known astrologist and paranormal radio show host from Detroit, invited me to sit for a long radio interview he did with Sitchin at his home in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. It was here that I heard for the first time Sitchin’s now famous story of how he started his lifelong quest for the Anunnaki, the gods of ancient Sumer, or the Biblical Nephilim, which in time he came to believe were real extraterrestrials from the planet Nibiru and not just mythological figures. Sitchin’s parents were Russian Jews from Azerbaijan who emigrated in the 1920s to what was then known as Palestine, present-day Israel, then under British rule. Zecharia was a 9-year-old boy attending Biblical school and the discussion focused on a cryptic passage from the Book of Genesis (6:4-1) concerning the so-called Nephilim, a Hebrew word usually translated as “giants,” who married the daughters of man and had children by them.
Sithin with giant Olmec statues in Mexico.
“I raised my hand and I said, excuse me teacher,” Sitchin said in that 1986 radio interview, “but why do you say giants when the word in Hebrew is Nephilim which literally means those who had come down, does not mean giants, does not mean tall people; and he said, Sitchin, sit down, you do not question the Bible; but of course I did not question the Bible, I questioned an interpretation of the Bible.” Thus began his lifelong quest to decipher the true identity of these Nephilim, which led him in time to study the mythology and history of all the ancient civilizations in the Near East, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Egyptians, Babylonians, Hittites, Hebrews, etc. In later volumes of The Earth Chronicles he also covered other ancient civilizations of the world in India, Mesoamerica, Stonehenge and elsewhere.
Sitchin was a very private man who didn’t talk much about his personal background. The biographical blurb published in his series of books known as The Earth Chronicles is extremely short. However, having known him for many years, I was able to get a few extra details about his life. He was born in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan (now an independent country, then a Soviet republic) in July 1920. His parents emigrated to British-controlled Palestine in the 1920s and he participated as a young man in some archaeological digs in that rich area full of antiquities. He attended university in England, studying at the prestigious London School of Economics and Political Science, and graduated from the University of London with a major in economic history in the late 1930s. He served during World War II at the Allied Command in Jerusalem and worked as a journalist and editor in the newly created state of Israel for several years. He settled eventually in New York, where he worked in business and continued his historical research on his spare time. Although Sitchin’s research was carried out independently from universities and scientific institutions, he was a member of the Israel Exploration Society, the American Oriental Society, and the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
Sithcin with a Sumerian statue in 1996. (image credit: Manuel Fernandez)
THE 12TH PLANET
It was in 1976, after 30 years of research, that he finally published his first and seminal book, The 12th Planet, where he basically laid out his whole theory about the Anunnaki or Nephilim. The original hardcover edition by Stein and Day received relatively little attention. Sitchin’s style was dense and scholarly and it takes some effort to get used to it, but eventually this book and its many sequels in what became known as the Earth Chronicles series gained a wider following, particularly after Avon released them as pocket books. Sitchin’s approach was different from that of Erich von Däniken and other proponents of the Ancient Astronaut or Paleocontact theory. Unlike them, Sitchin had a complete theory; he wasn’t just saying that aliens from somewhere in the cosmos visited Earth in ancient times, he was telling the reader who the Anunnaki or Nephilim were, where they come from, when they came to Earth and what they did here, their reason for setting up a terrestrial colony and a way-up station on Mars, why and how they genetically manipulated the creation of mankind, the “adamic race,” out of a primitive ape man species that had developed naturally on this planet, when and why the Biblical floods took place, the relationship between the so-called gods and the first human kingdoms, and so on. I think it was the fact that Sitchin was providing a detailed scenario to all these key questions and issues dealing with our origins that led to an ever wider audience for his books.
This is not the time to analyze in detail Sitchin’s theory or point out its flaws (you can find several critics and skeptics on the web that have questioned some of his translations of Sumerian tablets and his interpretation of Sumerian astronomical lore). For those who are not familiar with his works, we can divide Sitchin’s theory in two broad categories: the astronomical and the mythological aspects. The astronomical is probably the more controversial one. It was Sitchin’s contention that the Anunnaki didn’t just come from some unknown planetary body in space, but from a precise celestial body in our own solar system. This is what he called the 12th planet, although it would be actually the 10th planet—he explained the reason he called it twelve was because it incorporated the Sun and Moon as well to conform to the classical tradition of 12 zodiacal constellations, 12 months, etc. In his first book he used the name Marduk for the planet, after the chief god in the Babylonian cosmogony, but in later books he referred to it by the Sumerian name Nibiru, which according to Sitchin has an extremely elongated elliptical orbit that takes 3600 years to make one full orbit around the Sun. Now, it’s true that astronomers from the U.S. Naval Observatory and elsewhere have been looking for many years for Planet X, as it’s called in astronomical circles, so the existence of a planet in the far reaches of the solar system is not that controversial. But the assertion that a planet extremely far away from the Sun has life is a concept that few scientists accept. Sitchin’s scenario for the appearance of this planet is based, among other sources, on the Enuma Elish, a Babylonian creation myth epic in which the chief god Marduk defeats a dragon called Tiamat.
Sumerian Sun God, Utu.
The mythological aspect of Sitchin’s books is fascinating and may explain in part his popularity. By the time you finish reading a couple of his volumes, you end up knowing the main psychological traits of some of the key Anunnaki figures like Enki, Enlil or the goddess Inanna (better known by her Babylonian name Ishtar) and all their plots and counter-plots. It’s fascinating stuff for sure. The 12th Planet was followed by six other volumes in the Earth Chronicles series (The Stairway to Heaven, The Wars of Gods and Men, The Lost Realms, When Time Began, The Cosmic Code and The End of Days) and seven companion volumes (Genesis Revisited, Divine Encounters, The Lost Book of Enki, The Earth Chronicles Expeditions, Journeys to the Mythical Past, The Earth Chronicles Handbook and his last book published in 2010, There Were Giants Upon the Earth: Gods, Demigods, and Human Ancestry). They are all available in beautiful hardcover editions published by Bear & Company. There are also dozens of translations of Sitchin’s books in all the major languages (Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Italian, etc.). In addition, there was a very well produced European documentary based on Genesis Revisited titled Are We Alone in the Universe?, which is available on DVD.
By the 1990s, Sitchin became sort of a cultural phenomenom with Sitchin Study Groups, Earth Chronicle Expeditions to Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Turkey and other countries with important archaeological monuments, Sitchin Studies Days, etc. I am proud to say that I was the speaker chosen by Zecharia to deal with the UFO topic at the first Sitchin Studies Day, held in Denver in 1996 as part of the International Forum on New Science. Other speakers included aeronautical engineer Neil Freer, Marlene Evans, Ph.D., Madeleine Briskin, Ph.D. and Father Charley Moore, and a book of the proceedings, edited and with an Introduction by Sitchin, was published under the title Of Heaven and Earth (Book Tree). Sitchin’s last public lecture was to a packed audience at the Life Expo in Los Angeles in February 2010, where ‘Cost-to-Coast’ radio host George Noory presented him with a lifetime achievement award.
Of the many stories that I could tell about Zecharia Sitchin, one of my favorites memories is the evening we spent at Shirley MacLaine’s apartment in Manhattan’s Upper East Side back in 1988. Shirley was giving then one of her New Age seminars at a major hotel in New York City and she asked our common friend Marcello Galluppi, who was one of her astrologers, to arrange a meeting with Sitchin and his wife Rina at her apartment after the seminar. Also present were Shirley’s longtime friend and former New York Congresswoman, Bella Azbug, and Mr. Ian Ballantine, founder of the major publishing companies Ballantine Books and Bantam Books. Most of the evening was spent with Shirley asking Sitchin about his research, and at one point she wanted to know how Jesus fit in the Nephilim scenario. Zecharia, who could be quite cagey, refused to answer. Shirley MacLaine was obviously not accustomed to people refusing her requests, so she pressed on. Zecharia didn’t budge, so Shirley told him that his answer would be kept confidential. Sitchin responded, “what I say in this room tonight will be repeated tomorrow in another room.”
From left: Antonio Huneuss (author), Zecharia Sitchin, Shirley MacLaine. (image credit: Antonio Huneeus.
Time will tell if Sitchin’s Nibiru theory or parts of it are correct. He was undoubtedly an original character who reinvigorated the Paleocontact hypothesis big time, exposing it to thousands of new people. At the very least, he provided readers with provocative ideas and taught them a lot about ancient history and the origins of mankind.
In the following days we’ll post in this Open Minds site the full transcript of an interview I did with Sitchin in 1996. An edited version of it was published in several international magazines and languages. It deals with Planet X, alien structures on Mars, his then new book Divine Encounters, the Maya Calendar, and much more. Stay tuned.
Recent New York Times article on Sitchin. Click on the image to enlarge.
Read more here: 1996 interview with Zecharia Sitchin
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
UFO Icon Wendelle C. Stevens Has Passed Away
Lt. Colonel (USAF Ret.) Wendelle C. Stevens passes at 87
By Antonio Huneeus
www.openminds.tv
9-7-10
UFO research pioneer, Wendelle Stevens passed today at 4:44 pm in Tucson, Arizona of respiratory failure.
Lt. Colonel (USAF Ret.) Wendelle C. Stevens was one of the world’s best known UFO researchers. Born in 1923 in Round Prairie, Minn., he enlisted in 1941 in the US Army and was transferred to the Air Corps in1942. He served in the Pacific Theater during World War II and subsequently in a classified project in Alaska to photograph and map the Arctic land and sea area, where the data collecting equipment onboard B-29s detected UFOs. Stevens also served as US Air Attaché in South America. He retired from the USAF in 1963 and worked for Hamilton Aircraft until 1972.
UNM scientists dig for flying saucer
Larry Barker Investigates
Updated: Friday, 05 Nov 2010, 12:01 PM MDT Published : Thursday, 04 Nov 2010, 10:51 PM MDT
• Reporter: Larry Barker
• Producer: Mark Corey
CORONA, N.M. (KRQE) - You know the story: Aliens crash their spaceship near Roswell. The government secretly recovers the debris and a handful of dead E.T.s. Then the whole thing is covered up.
It's either the most important event in human history or one whopper of a tall tale.
But did it happen? Sorry Roswell, but there is no scientific proof a flying saucer ever plowed into the New Mexico prairie.
There are no GPS coordinates, photos, recordings, debris or, for that matter, little green men. Zilch. Nothing. Nada.
So it's going to take more than faded memories of a few old-timers to turn skeptics into believers. What the UFO community badly needs is scientific evidence. And that's where the University of New Mexico enters the picture.
"We engaged in a highly credible standard archeological investigation of a piece of landscape that has been warranted to be the location of a flying-saucer event," Dick Chapman, director of UNM's Office of Contract Archeology, said.
And how many previous research projects had Chapman and staff done related to UFOs and flying saucers?
"This was the only one," Chapman said.
You heard it right. UNM on the trail of Roswell's aliens.
"I thought, 'Wow, this is a real hoot. This is going to be interesting,'" retired UNM archeologist Bill Doleman said. "Believe me, if you go to Outer Mongolia and say Roswell, the response from people who don't speak a word of English will be 'UFO.'"
Doleman headed the UNM project featured in a TV documentary hosted by Bryant Gumbel on the cable Sci-Fi Channel.
"Archeologists from the University of New Mexico have returned to Roswell with a unique new mission: to use the tools of modern science to prove or disprove what some claim is science fiction," Gumbel narrates in the show before cutting to Doleman.
"We are digging holes in the ground to look for physical evidence of an extraterrestrial vessel impact," the scientist then says.
Armed with shovels, trowels and backhoes UNM dug up a nine-acre piece of prairie northwest of Roswell.
"The summed evidence from the hearsay-level knowledge really points to this spot as being a recognized potential crash site (of) a UFO," Chapman said recently.
UNM's excavation was funded entirely by the Sci-Fi Channel. TV executives paid UNM thousands of dollars to put the alien crash site under a microscope.
"We did not go out there looking to prove the existence of a UFO crash at that location in 1947," Doleman continued. "We went out there to look for evidence of the events that were reported to have happened."
UNM probed the prairie in 2002. In May 2010 the university published its final report producing a document steeped in controversy.
"I love science fiction, but that's not what the research division of a university should be putting out," Dave Thomas of New Mexicans for Science & Reason said. "Maybe UNM should consider changing the name of the College of Arts and Sciences to the College of Art and Science Fictions."
Thomas, a physicist at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, leads an organization that promotes the use of science in examining unusual claims.
"I think they did get sucked into what basically was a massive exercise in pseudoscience," he said.
The validity of UNM's alien dig is predicated on the assumption that a UFO really did crash, and where it ended up is absolutely critical. You see, if a flying saucer crashed over there, but UNM dug over here, then the entire exercise is pointless.
Doleman conceded the value of the excavation amounts to "not much" if the UNM team dug in the wrong place.
"Sci-Fi Channel really wanted to go dig at the Roswell crash site," Doleman said. "Question is, as you put it, where is it?"
The UNM crew, though, didn't choose the site.
"It was chosen for us (by the) Sci-Fi Channel," Doleman said.
UNM's dig location was chosen by two discredited UFO believers Don Schmitt and Tom Carey who acted as technical advisors to the Sci-Fi Channel.
"Today they will take to the air in search of the final resting place of the ill fated spacecraft," Gumbel intones during the documentary.
Asked if he would rely on Don Schmitt to locate the site for an expensive scientific dig, Thomas said, "I sure wouldn't. No."
So how did Schmitt and Carey know a UFO crashed at that exact site? Well, they didn't, and neither did UNM."
"The digging was science," Doleman said. "The choosing of the location was not."
UNM's research even caught the attention of the governor. In a briefing, Doleman explained how UNM's archeologists discovered a gouge in the prairie.
"The exciting part of this was that, wow, we've got a stratigraphic anomaly right where there should be one," Doleman says in the Sci-Fi Channel documentary."
Yet disturbed earth doesn't sway Thomas.
"Just finding a furrow at this spot near Corona in no way proves that an alien spaceship crashed there in 1947," he said.
The Sci-Fi Channel paid UNM almost $26,000, and the excavation lasted two weeks. Bags of dirt and artifacts were recovered for laboratory analysis.
But when it was all over, UNM came up empty-handed finding no physical evidence of a UFO crash, Doleman said.
"I think they would have been wise just to say, 'We're not going to do it, find somebody else to do it, that's not what we do, pseudoscience for hire,'" Thomas said. "I think the only thing that would convince the UFO community that nothing happened in Roswell would be for aliens to land on the lawn of the White House and come out and say, 'Guys we had nothing to do with 1947. That wasn't us.'"
Still, Doleman isn't willing to give up on the aliens yet. He said the purported site needs further study.
According to the Air Force the 1947 crash, which has become know as the Roswell Incident, involved a balloon carrying scientific instruments. The flight was part of a secret government project to listen for Soviet nuclear tests, the Air Force maintains.
More online from KRQE.com: Roswell UFO timeline
Michael Schratt | Nov 05, 2010 | 0 comments
Exeter, New Hampshire, 2005
On July 20, 2005 a resident of Exeter New Hampshire had a very interesting UFO sighting. Around 3:15 PM, David was outside preparing his lawnmower. After checking the oil, he had had just finished a glass of water and then saw a large cigar shaped object hovering in the sky. The principle eyewitness stated that he saw equally spaced windows along the entire craft which was described as enormous in size (about the length of two Nimitz aircraft carriers). The object moved very slowly from west to east. The object began changing colors from a bright silver, to an orange/red. A strange cloud of red and orange flames began surrounding the object, and before he knew it, the object stretched out like a rubber band. It grew to about twice its original size, and then it was gone.
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Diamond Rings-Wait and See- Special Affections
The Ravonettes-Last Dance- In and Out of Control
Owen Pallet- Honour the Dead Or Else- A Man With No Ankles
Caribou- Lalibela- Swim
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