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October 2004
The news items below are updated daily and will cover any paranormal and interesting topics we come across.
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Alien DNA - It is a waste of time searching the skies looking for evidence of extraterrestrials, the evidence is closer to home, "DNA."
According to the latest theory, we will find the evidence in our own DNA. An Australian researcher Paul Davies states that it is a waste of time searching radio waves as SETI does. He says it is more likely that extraterrestrials would have left us an artefact here on Earth for us to find,. but only when we have the technology to read and understand it.
If E.T. came here millions of years ago, they would have to leave us some evidence that would last the years and that would be to leave a message in our DNA. This would be copied and saved over large periods of time. Scientists have discovered large amounts of "Junk DNA" that contain no genes and seem to have no use in the human body. What if this is a message put there by extraterrestrials for us to find? By using a computer to find obvious pattern sequences we can tell if this junk DNA is manufactured. Davies says that if these are found "the presumption of tampering would be inescapable". The truth about extraterrestrials may be a lot closer to us than we have previously thought.
End Of The World Predicted In A Crop Circle - In a new crop circle that has appeared over two nights in August near Silbury Hill, symbols from the ancient Mayan civilization that predicted the end of the world in 2012 were featured. The Moon has a cycle around the Earth, the Earth has a cycle around the Sun and the Solar System has a cycle in the Milky Way. The cycle of the galaxy takes 26,000 years and this calendar is coming to the end of this cycle. The long cycle ends in 2012, the end of time and a new era starts for the solar system.
Polish Crop Circle - There has been so many crop circles appearing in Wylatowo, Poland this year that they are asking the European Union for $126 million to build facilities for all the visitors that come to see them every year. Town councillor Tadeusz Filipczak says "We are drawing up a formal request, we would like to fix the sewer system and put up a campsite for visitors, both from Poland and from elsewhere in Europe."
This photo (Right) is from England as no photo was available from Poland.
Close Encounter - We have just had another close shave. An observed asteroid skimmed past the Earth without hitting the atmosphere on Sunday. The previous object which was five to 10 metres across, named 2004 FU162. streaked across the sky just 6500 kilometres above the ground on March 31st. (This is roughly the radius of the Earth) and has just been reported.
The MIT Lincoln Laboratory's asteroid-hunting LINEAR telescope in Socorro, New Mexico, U.S. observed this new object four times during a 44 minute period. They state that the object came exceptionally close. It was calculated that the encounter with the Earth shifted the asteroid's orbit closer towards the Sun. Previously orbiting the Sun once a year in an orbit that ranged as far inside the Earth's orbit as outside, 2004 FU162 how has a nine month orbit centred closer to Venus than the Earth.
The previous record for the closest asteroid approach to the Earth was set on the 18th March by an object called 2004 FH which missed Earth by about 40,000 kilometres. This was around 30 metres in diameter, big enough to produce a one megaton explosion in the atmosphere. The smaller 2004 FU162 would have burned up as a fireball ending with a smaller explosion, had it entered the Earth's atmosphere.
New Finds At The Tunguska Site - On the 30th June, 1908 a colossal flash lit up the sky over Siberia and to this day, the mystery still remains. What caused this explosion? a Meteor, An asteroid, a exploding comet or was it a Flying Saucer which exploded. Now the mystery deepens as new evidence has been found at the site. Researcher Yuri Lavbin, President of the Tunguska Spatial Phenomenon Foundation in Krasnoyarsk, has spent 12 years researching this mystery and now believes he has found the key to the mystery. His theory is that a comet and a flying machine must have collided 10 kilometres above the Earth's surface causing the explosion.
On an expedition to the Podkamannaya Tunguska river in July, they have found two strange black stones between the two villages. The stones are regular cubes with their sides measuring a metres and a half. The stones according to Lavbin "Are manifestly not of natural origin." They appear to have been fired and "their material recalls an alloy used to make space rockets." When this event occurred only planes made of plywood existed. Also found is a huge white stone "the size of a peasants hut." stuck in the top of a crag in the middle of the devastated forest. The local people call it the "reindeer stone" It is made of a crystalline material which is not typical of the region. Lavbin suggests "it was part of the core of a comet", but the scientific establishment have other explanations.
Message Received From Outer Space - A radio signal which could be a message from aliens has just been detected from outer space, it has been beamed to Earth three times and was picked up by the giant Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico.
According to scientists, the signal SHG bo2+14a has a frequency of about 1420 MHz. and last only about a minute. They have therefore not been able to analyse this. They do no not think it is radio interference or a hoaxer. It does not bear the hallmark of any known astronomical object.
Radio astronomer Dan Werthaimer, from the University of California said "We are not jumping up and down, but we are continuing to observe it." Other observers claim an alien would send message via a physical object because radio signals break up during space travel. The signal has been traced to a point between constellations Pisces and Aires.
Stories Of E.T. Signal Received Now Denied - Apparently, astronomers have now denied that any signals from E.T. or outer space have been received. Researchers connected with the Seti@home research programme told the BBC News Online on Thursday that no contact with extraterrestrials had been made. (This sounds very much like the Roswell scenario)
They stated that "It's all hype and noise" according to Dr. Dan Wertheirmer. "We have nothing that is unusual. It's all out of proportion." Dr. Paul Horowitz of Harvard University who is a specialist in hunting for alien life stated "It's not much of anything at all". and that they are not investigating it any further. Over the years, Seti@home has detected thousands of signals and about 150 signals survived the process for further scrutiny, but none passed the final test. Seti@home analyses some 50 trillion frequency bands looking for alien signals.
Levitating Stones Of Shivapur - In the great ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata, numerous legends are told about the powerful force of a mysterious weapon. In the beginning of the 1900s, an archaeological expedition, which carried out excavations near the Indian settlement of Mohenjo-Daro uncovered the ruins of a big ancient town. This town belongs to one of the most developed civilizations in the world and this civilization existed for nearly three thousand years. Over the years researchers have tried to explain the reason for the towns destruction.
Various theories have been put forward but scientists did not find anything to say there was a flood, there was not a lot of skeletons found and no weapons. The destruction of the town must have happened very fast and very unexpectedly. The scientists came to the conclusion that the ancient town had been ruined with a nuclear blast. They found big stratums of clay and green grass. They think, high temperatures melted clay and sand and they hardened immediately afterwards. Similar stratums of green glass can be found in the Nevada desert after every nuclear explosion. Researchers also found that the heat was not less than 1,500 degrees centigrade.
The great Indian epic, the Mahabharata, contains numerous legends about a powerful force of a mysterious weapon. One of the chapters tells of a shell, which sparkled like fire but had no smoke. When the shell hit the ground, the darkness covered the sky, twisters and storms levelled the towns and a horrible blast burnt thousands of animals and people to ashes. Peasants and people of the town's had to dive into the river to wash away the poisonous dust.
In the town of Shivapur, there are two stones resting opposite the local shrine. One of them weighs 55 kilograms, the other 41 kilograms. If eleven men touch the bigger stone and nine men touch the smaller stone and they all chant the magic phrase, which is carved on one of the walls of the shrine, then the two stones will raise two metres into the air and will hang there for two seconds. The phenomenon of the levitating stones of Shivapur has been researched by European and Asian scientists. Our day is dived into 24 hours, the hour into 60 minutes, the minute into 60 seconds. Ancient Hindus dived the day into 60 periods. lasting 24 minutes each and so on and so forth. The shortest time period of ancient Hinuds made up one-hundred-millionth of second.
Genesis Mission Ends In Disaster - It all ended in disaster. The idea was to collect the Genesis probe as it tumbled down from space by a hook on the front of the helicopters waiting for it's return. The helicopters were piloted by American Stunt Pilots who had been practising for months for this mission, but they did not get the chance. The parachutes which should have opened on the capsule to slow it down and then further parachutes open, failed on all of them and the probe crashed spectacularly into the Utah desert on Wednesday with the fragile samples inside. It is thought that the samples will have been broken upon contact with the earth but Nasa said on Thursday it was hopeful that the solar dust captured could be salvaged from the spacecraft's damaged sample canister which was ripped open with the crash. There is a six-inch gap between the top and the bottom.
The mission which has lasted three years was to collect Solar dust which scientist hoped would yield clues about the origin of the solar system. The canister has been taken to a cleanroom at the U.S. Army Dugway proving ground in Utah near the site where it crashed and they are hopeful of getting some material from it. It will be 48 hours before they can ascertain with certainty if the material is usable.Eventually the solar samples will be taken to the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, for study and preservation.
New Earth Found - Astronomers have found a "super Earth" orbiting a star some 50 light years away. Apparently this find could significantly boost the hunt for worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet is orbiting a Sun-like star, Mu Arae, in a southern constellation called the Altar. The unnamed world is the smallest of the estimated 125 so-called extrasolar planets that have been detected.. It is the smallest yet to be discovered around a star other than the Sun. It has a mass of only 14 times that of the Earth, similar to Uranus.
UFO's Spotted In Space By Astronaut's - A Russian astronaut has claimed that he spotted a UFO in space and accuses other astronauts of keeping silent. Vladimir Kovalenok, spent 217 days in the Soljut 6 space station between 1977 and 1982 and claims he saw a number of UFO's and even witnessed one of them explode. He said that one of the objects he saw in 1981 was really small and he got his camera and took a picture of it and the moment he took the picture, there was a explosion and a plume of smoke. They contacted ground control and they confirmed that at the same time extremely high levels of radiation was measured at the time of the UFO explosion.
KSC Takes A Beating - At Cape Canaveral, the south wall of the gigantic Vehicle Assembly Building looks as if it's lost several teeth The white citadel of the centre has lost more than 52,000 square feet of the exterior walls. Exterior metal panels have been ripped off and 16 by 4 foot holes go all the way through the building. The American Flag which is painted on the building has had a bit chewed out of it during the storms.
The building was created to house the moon rockets and it is where the shuttle orbiters are stacked with their external tank and solid rocket boosters. This building is deemed critical to getting the shuttles back into the air. Luckily, the shuttles and their hangars survived without damage as did the space station hardware. Part of the roof has also been ripped off with the storm. The KSC's Process Control Centre has had severe water damage after losing part of its roof as well. The launch pads for the shuttles and rockets are alright though the building where heat-protection tiles and blankets are made for the shuttle has had about a quarter of it's roof ripped off as well. Kennedy would not speculate on how much the target launch date of March would be affected.
Evidence Of Life Found On Mars - Methane Gas has been found on Mars by scientists and this gas can only come from volcanoes or living organisms. As there has been no sign of recent volcanic activity can it be from living organisms? The Gas traces were picked up by the European Space Agency's Mars Explorer and this was high lighted at the Festival of Science in Exeter Scientist, Dr. Andrew Coates stated "If it is life, then it is the most bog-smacking discovery. There could be flatulent Martians, If it is life then it will be the most primitive form."
Mysterious Booms Again - In America, several Towns kept on reporting mysterious humming noises and booms which was driving them mad. Now in California a serious of loud booming noises is driving the occupants of Indiana mad. Justin Brugger states than in Fort Wayne "It's a quick, solid, boom-type noise." and one lady described it as a tremor. Apparently it first started about a month ago and local people put it down to construction but that does not seem to be the case and the booms remain a mystery.
Brugger is trying to find the cause and plans to plot the boom locations on a map, when he receives the calls from residents who have heard them. So far, they seem to be occurring at random times on a long narrow stretch of land. Denise Porter-Ross from the Mayor's Office said "It's just a little disturbing, you hear these noises, but when you go out to investigate, there is nothing there!"
Unidentified Object Seen Over Park - A couple in the park with their sons on Saturday afternoon spotted a mysterious object in the sky which baffled them and passers-by. It was cigar shaped and appeared in the sky for about 20 minutes at around 2.15pm. It caught their attention because it did not appear to move like an aeroplane. It was spotted when they were in the field opposite the carpark entrance in Guildford Road and they say it was "cylinder-shaped and shiny."
The Newspapers received several other calls that day about the sightings. The director of the Farnborough International Airport, Ann Bartaby said "The object was nothing to do with them." She stated "I have spoken to air traffic control and they did not see anything unusual and nothing was reported to us." and a spokeswoman for the Army said they were not responsible for the unidentified object either.
Signal Received Remains A Mystery - In the western US and Canada an unidentified signal has been showing up on the 40 meter phone band or about 7238 kHz and has mystified amateurs. It has been heard frequently for the past few weeks and resembles a steady carrier.
On closer inspection it suggests that the intruding signal actually is a series of closely space signals. Don Moman, VE6JY, in Edmonton, Alberta, says he has been hearing the signal quite loud. He said that the signal "looks a lot more interesting than it would sound-just a broad tone/hum/buzz. It depends on where you tune." he said.
One spectrogram from VE6JY showed perhaps a half-dozen or more discrete signals. It has been picked up in California by Bob Gonsett and this signal seems to be the strongest. No one is sure what the signal is or where it is coming from but it seems to be somewhere north of Presott, Arizona and west of Interstate.
17FCC monitoring indicates the "buzz" is centred on 7238 1.kHz with a bandwidth of about kHz and spikes spaced at about 90 Hz apart. Jack Roland KEOVH in Colorado also heard the signals for a couple of evenings and remarked "Something is not right there."
High Noon Net Manager Bill Save. N5FLD in Albuquerque, New Mexico said several net participants in Nebraska, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Minnesota and Arizona were all able to hear the mysterious signal.
If you go to www.arrl.org you will be able to read more on this and hear the signal for yourself. Or you can listen to it by clicking the link below.........
HUFOS Download - Signal Received Remains A Mystery (40KB)
Soviet Army And UFOs - The Soviet military have encountered many UFOS and at the end of the 60's a secret laboratory was created in the USSR for the purpose of researching "flying
objects."
In 1947, an Anti-aircraft guns of the Transcaucasian Military District fired on a flying cigar-shaped object which came from the side of the Turkish border.The UFO was flying at an altitude below 4,000 metres. The guns was capable or reaching the UFO and when they fired, no harm was made to the UFO. The cigar shaped UFO increased its speed and flew away over the mountains. This incident caused a lot of trouble because earlier in the day the border guards and military ships monitoring service missed this object. Then the military was unable to trace it over the country's territory. The object was travelling at speeds up to 2000 kilometres per hour.
In 1984 a similar case took place in the Turkestan Military District, near the city of Astrakhan. The air-defence system marked the ball-shaped object flying at an altitude of 2000 metres along the Caspian seashore in the direction of the state border. The object did not respond to the military on the radio and two fighter-planes took off but were unable to bring the object down. After it was fired on, the object descended up to 100 metres and at this low altitude the planes were unable to continue firing. The object flew over several military units and photo's were taken of the object. Near the city of Krasnoyarsk the military tried to bring it down with a helicopter but failed. The object then flew off in the direction of the sea and disappeared from the radar screens. This object was flying at speeds of 100 kilometres per hour.
In 1985 near the town of Krasnovodsk, the radar station under the command of Captain Valuev registered a disc-shaped object, the size of 1,000 metres. It was immovable and later on a small disc, 5 metres in diameter flew out of it and then landed on Krasnovodskaya spit. Patrol boats rushed to the object, but when they reached the distance of 100 metres from the object, it took off and flew away, 1 kilometre. This happened 5 times and then the object flew up at a tremendous speed to the bigger disk and both flew spaceward.
The secret laboratory built to research "flying objects" in the 60's was researching anitigravitation, but the results were kept secret. Its testing area was near the town of Kapustin Yar. At the end of June 1971 the military spotted a large black cigar-shaped flying object floating under the clouds at an altitude of 800 metres. The object was 25 metres long and 3 metres in diameter. There were no wings, no engines and no stabilizers and it was moving at a speed of 150 kilometres per hour and produced no noise.
At the beginning of August 1987, five soldiers of Leningrad Military District went to the North of Karelia region on a special mission to guard an object of unknown origin. It was found on the territory of another military unit near the town of Vyborg. It was 14 metres long and 4 metres wide, 2.5. metres high. It had no doors no hatches and all attempts to open it was unsuccessful. The military tried to break off some parts but could not and only managed to take some rods from its stern. At the end of September the object disappeared from the hanger and left no trace.
Space Probes Being Tugged By Mysterious Force - America's oldest spacecraft, Pioneer 10 and 11 are heading towards distant stars, but scientists have discovered that the crafts launched over 30 years ago are being tugged back by a mysterious force as they sweep out of the solar system. Some researchers say unseen "Dark Matter" may permeate the universe and that this is affecting the Pioneer's passage. Others say flaws in our understanding of the laws of gravity best explain the craft's wayward behaviour.
Now scientists are to press the European Space Agency for a meeting for backing for a mission that would follow the Pioneers and pinpoint the exact cause of their erratic behaviour. The strange behaviour of the Pioneer's was discovered by John Anderson and Slava Turyshev of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and Michael Martin Neito of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
They note that by the time the two spaceships had swept beyond Pluto they were persistent anomalies in their trajectories. The two spaceships were always in the wrong place when they checked. The effect was not large but it was significant. The Sun's gravity was having an effect but there was something more. The scientists think that by fitting a Pioneer follow-up probe with new measuring equipment, navigational device and communications gear, it should be possible to discover if the probes are in the grip of a new force of nature.
Pensioner Spots Three UFO's - Dorothy Godfry, 72 of North Road, Belvedere got up at 5am. on Monday to go to the toilet and when she looked out of her back window to see what the weather was like she saw three UFO's hovering outside her bungalow. She called her husband to witness the sight and said they were three lights in the sky which looked like light bulbs. After about a few seconds one flew off toward Woolwich and another flew to the Thames. The third one stayed put but then zoomed off in the direction of the river.
This sighting is just four miles from Bexley's most famous UFO incident. In 1955 an UFO was spotted in King Harold's Way, Bexleyheath by more that 30 people. The craft hovered above the ground and had eight sucker's on it. It flew off over Beonwell Primary School when the people who were watching it tried to touch it.
Creatures Living In The Earth's Atmosphere - Just recently more and more details are emerging about various forms of life living in the Earth's atmosphere. Various nations on the Earth have stories, fairy tales and legends about such creatures, such as Fairy's, elves, sylphs, giant fire birds, flying snakes and dragons. This weird theory just recently has been gaining more and more details to prove its credibility.
On the 11th September 1948, the Empire State Building in New York was attacked by hundreds of birds of various species. Mysterious creatures in the sky can be traced in the history of the Roman Empire. According to ancient manuscripts, giant red ravens were seen flying in the sky above Rome in the year 106 BC, These birds were carrying red-hot stones in their beaks. They dropped the stones down onto the ground and scorched half the city. Similar like birds were also seen in France and Portugal in the middle ages. They were called "Fire Elementalias, Spectres of Fire." These "Fire Birds" caused numerous fires in the middle of 1980's in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
According to eyewitnesses the birds were huge, and had a wing span of about 4 metres. In historical documents "Fire snakes and dragons" were described in the American town of Crawfordsville, Indiana on September 18th. There is a story about a 10 metres long fire snake which appeared above the central square of the town. This creature was seen by several people who said it was alive and the local pastor said "It's eyes were Red, like a fire and the heat of its breath could be felt at a distance." These creatures were also seen in the sky above Indiana in the 1960's and 1970's. Film director William Gordon Allen used eyewitnesses stories to create an image of the fire snake. This illustration (Right) appeared in the documentary film "Overlords of the UFO." This film was released in 1976.
Sudden migration and the mass deaths of birds can also be considered as indirect evidence to prove the existence of an unknown form of life in the atmosphere of our planet. On the 1th September, 1948 when the Empire State Building was attacked by hundred of birds, all of different species, according to eyewitnesses the birds were slamming into windows as if they were trying to fly away from imminent danger. In May 1917, in the U.S. town of Baton-Rouge, Louisiana, hundred of birds fell dead on the ground and a lot of them had strange burns to their bodies. A similar accident also happened in August of 1960 on the outskirts of Capitola Beach, where more birds fell dead to the ground. Ornithologists could not find out the reason for their deaths.
Charles Fort wrote in his book "The Book of the Damned" that there were weird, jelly like beings who lived in the Earths atmosphere. Ford wrote, Medusa-like creatures had stings and tentacles which they used to hunt for birds. This was not believed, until the American Scientists developed a special substance called "Aerogel"., This substance is lighter than air and the state of which represents both hard and gas conditions. Researchers proposed that the flesh of these mysterious creatures could be made of the same or a similar substance. This can be partly proved with an incident, which accrued on the 28th December 1958. in Florida. A Detective, Faustin Galegos found a strange object outside his house. He said that the picked the object up but he could not feel he was holding it. It was a translucent ball, the size of a soccer ball, and it was practically weightless. After several hours the object virtually melted away and he had the distinct impression that he was holding a dead creature of unknown origin in his hands.
According to researcher Robert Gardner a transport aircraft of the U.S. Air Force took off from an army base in San Diego in the summer of 1939. The plane was carrying 12 passengers and it returned to the base in about an hour, after it had sent an SOS. When the plane landed the only person alive was the commander but he died in several minutes. All the dead military men had strange burns to their skin. It was not possible to find out their origin and what really happened on board the plane.Investigators therefore said that the crew and the passengers used their personal guns. The panels of the plane were damaged with gunshots, as if people were trying to kill a very fast enemy. Apparently to no avail. The mysterious creature failed to be killed.
Russia To Go Into Space Again - Russia are planning to go back into space and say they will be ready for a manned spaceflight to Mars in 2027 - 2031. Provided there is enough money. The president of the Russian Space Academy Vladimir Senkevitch said during a press conference that providing financing will be ample, Russia may be able to send a manned spaceflight to Mars. The Russian space activity according to him must be organized in accordance with the US Space Expansion.
At the moment there are more than 800 spacecraft in orbit today. Half of them belong to the USA while Russia possesses about one hundred satellites, there used to be twice as many previously. Today Russia is ninth in financing space activity whilst it used to be number two. Presently, such countries as Japan, China along with the European countries spend more money on space projects.
Astronaut Dies - Astronaut Gordon Cooper has died, aged 77. on the 4th October 2004. Cooper was one of the first and one of the few astronauts to speak out about his belief in a U.F.O. cover-up. He stated "For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the U.S.A. our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us."
In 1985 Cooper told the United Nations that he believed that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews were visiting this planet from other planets. They are obviously a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth, he said. He said that we need to have a top-level coordinated programme to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the Earth and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion.
Mystery On The Moon - For 500 years, there has been a mystery that has been visible from the Earth and astronomers have still not figured it out. In 1540, before the first telescopes were ever invented, stargazers in the German city of Worms saw a star-like object appear on the Moon. In 1560, the Polish astronomer Hevelius noted the appearance of a ,i>"Red Hill" in the north-western moon area. In April, 1787 astronomer, Sir William Herschel saw loads of red lights in this same crater that he thought that there must be a volcano on the moon. Nasa have also recorded hundred of light flashes, glows, mists and unusual shapes and shadows, all in the same area. These are known as Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLP) - but nobody knows what they are!!!
According to some astronomers, they are optical illusions generated by telescopes In July 1969, Apollo 11 entered lunar orbit and sent back images of a bright TLP. When asked to check it out, Neil Armstrong saw an unusual illumination in the same crater. Most astronomers don't think there are volcanoes on the moon. In 1963, Zdenek Kopal saw a significant TLP event during a major solar flare and thinks particles thrown off by the solar flares cause the moon rocks to glow. IN 1992, Audouin Dollfus saw glowing clouds of moon dust, which were thrown up by emissions of underground gas. The crater on this part of the moon's surface is cracked and radon gas was detected there during the Apollo missions. Could these Moon burps be the source of the mysterious moon lights? Eventually, we shall mine the moon for its valuable helium-3 fuel, so we might just find out then what is causing these mysterious lights.
New Orbital Platform To Be Built By Russia - Russia is going to develop a new orbital basic platform available for cosmonauts according to Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov speaking at the International space Congress in Vancouver.
The new orbital platform is meant for development and tests of perspective interplanetary complexes and for testing the complex of new generation transport and hardware systems. It will include a reusable system for orbiting freight and new braking mechanisms for freight delivery to the Earth and to planets.
Anatoly Perminov believes that assembly and launching of a manned complex to the Moon and Mars must be done on the orbit. This requires creation of an assembly platform and an effective system to provide assembly operations with transport and hardware.
Russian space research institutes and industrial companies have been working on this problem since 1960 - 70's. Russia is experienced in long manned flights and the selecting and training of cosmonauts, effective medical care during space flights and health and efficiency of space crews. Anatoly Perminov adds that the interplanetary manned expedition demands joint efforts of countries with leading space technologies. He said this is important for technical maintaining as well as for financial support of the project.
The exact date of the project depends upon several factors such as the scope of international cooperation, its technological and industrial and financial reserves.
New Way To Speed Up Space Travel - According to scientists, magnetic beams could power high-speed spacecraft to Mars and back in just 90 days.
Space researchers are developing the concept of using focused beams of plasma to develop faster space travel for Nasa.
At the moment, a round trip to Mars would take two years by conventional spaceship. Firing a magnetised plasma beam of charged particles - or ions - at spacecraft equipped with a magnetic sail would shoot it forward at record speeds. A test flight could be ready to be launched within five years if funding is made available to develop the new technology.
Harnessing the magnetic force of repulsion between the sail and the beam would give the spacecraft its immense thrust. The spaceship would launch from a space station in orbit around the Earth and the station would shoot a magnetised beam, which would push the spaceship along at tens of thousands of miles per hour. As the ship neared its destination a second beam-firing from a space station orbiting Mars, would be needed to slow it down.
Therefore, a new orbiting space station would have to be built in orbit around Mars before this would be possible.
New Crew Dock With Station - A Russian spaceship has just docked successfully with the international Space Station. The Soyuz craft carried three crew, Salizhan Sharipov, Yuri Shargin and U.S. astronaut Leroy Chiao. They docked at 0416.GMT, one minute ahead of schedule. The crew will spend 10 days taking over from the outgoing crew who will return to Earth along with Shargin. Chiao and Sharipow will then spend the next six months on the ISS. The new crew, Expedition 10 will study plant growth and carry out experiments on possible vaccines against Aids. Whilst there they plan to make two space walks.
This is the fourth trip to the ISS by a Soyuz spacecraft as this is the only means of getting crews to and from the ISS since the US suspended shuttle flights after the Columbia disaster of February 2003.
The Expedition 9 crew have just completed a six-month tour of duty.and the latest estimate of when the US orbiters might return to flight is May 2005 at the earliest.The construction on the multi-billion-dollar platform is on hold until the shuttles are brought back into service and can carry up new components for the station.
Message Received From Space - A radio signal, the best candidate yet for evidence of intelligent alien life has just been received. The signal has been traced to a point between the constellations Pisces and Aries where there is no obvious star of planetary system within 1,000 light years.
Astronomers who have been scanning for years said it "stood out as being unusual." The signal has been observed for only about a minute, not long enough to allow astronomers to analyse it in detail. Apparently it is unlikely to be the result of any obvious radio interference or noise, and does not bear the hallmark of any known astronomical object.
For years the SETI project has been using programmes running as screensavers on millions of PCs worldwide to sift signals picked up by the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico and scientists are now saying that it may be aliens trying to introduce themselves. They would be most likely to transmit at this frequency, one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen absorbs and emits energy.
The signal has been given the name SHGbo2+14a. It has a frequency of about 1420 MHz.
Other Half Of UFO Couple Dies - The well documented case of Betty and Barney Hill made headlines when they claimed they were abducted for two hours whilst on a trip from Canada. on the 19th September, 1961. Barney Hill died in 1969 and it has just been announced that Betty Hill has now died in her sleep after a battle with lung cancer. She was 85.
This was the first publicized and best documented UFO experience in the White Mountains and the story gained worldwide notoriety. It became the subject of a book, and later a TV. movie was made starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons. Betty and Barney travelled the country and made numerous T,V. and Radio appearances telling the story of their encounter.
In 1995 a Book "A Common Sense Approach to UFO's" was published.
Chinese Satellite Crushes Apartment - In Beijing a section of a Chinese scientific satellite that was returning from orbit has just crashed into an apartment building. It wrecked the top floor but caused no injuries.
The capsule crashed in the village of Penglai, a village in the south-western province of Sichuan and the woman who lived there had just left five minutes earlier.
This was an embarrassment for the Chinese space program. It sent its first astronaut into orbit last October and has launched 20 recoverable scientific satellites to date. .A photo showed the capsule was kettle-shaped and appeared to be about six feet long and was found lying amid broken bricks, beams and roof tiles. One photo showed the capsule being lifted off the building as spectators crowded onto surrounding rooftops.
The tenant of the wrecked apartment, Huo Jiyu was quoted as saying "Maybe this means we will have good luck this year." The capsule was part of a satellite that had spend 18 days in orbit, and the rest of the satellite will remain in orbit according to the governments Xinhua News Agency.
Nasa Identify The Most Likely Cause Of Genesis Crash - Nasa investigators have said that the most likely crash of the Genesis spacecraft on the 8th September was due to a simple design error that went undetected.
Either two redundant pairs of switches cold have triggered the release of a parachute when the craft hit the upper atmosphere But because all four switches were installed backward, as specified by the Lockheed Martin design, the chute never deployed and the probe crashed. It smashed into the Utah desert at more than 300 kilometres an hour and the collision destroyed the spacecraft.
Luckily, the scientists may eventually extract much of the data from the quarter billion dollar mission.The Genesis spacecraft had been collecting the charged particles that comprise the solar wind from a vantage point beyond the reach of the magnetic field of the Earth, it mission had lasted nearly two and a half years. Although the craft perished, the particles are still buried in the collectors, many of which survived unbroken, albeit soiled. Several thousand containers with samples have been shipped to the Johnson Space Centre in Houston and the challenge is to devise cleaning techniques that don't spoil the sensitive measurements. Eileen Stansbery, at the space centre says it is going to take a lot longer and it will be more difficult to retrieve the science because of the crash.
UFO Conferences - The 2004 National UFO Conference takes place in Hollywood, California and runs from the 29th October To the 31st.
UFO investigators, journalists, authors, retired military officers, and other experts gather to present their most recent findings. Among the guests this year is Air Force First Lt. Robert Salas, a former missile launch officer who was responsible for nuclear warheads stored at Malmstrom AFB. He remembers an incident in 1967 in which a glowing oval shaped object hovered over the base and disabled approximately 20 nuclear warheads housed in an underground bunker.
Other guests will examine recent scientific research into unidentified aerial phenomena and classified documents illustrating that contrary to its official position, the U.S. government takes UFO phenomenon very seriously will all be presented.
According to a poll in 2002 two thirds of the American public believe that the U.S.Government is withholding information about UFO's. the U.S. government still maintains that UFO's are not a threat to the national security and keep most UFO related information hidden.
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