Friday, November 5, 2010

Latest UFO Sighting Worldwide

Australia Cylinder

Currambine -- I'm 21 years old and I live 35 minutes north of the city of Perth, I was sitting down watching television and decided to catch a photo of the sun setting with my I phone. After taking the shot, I looked at the photo and this extra translucent anomaly appeared in the photo, which was not visible in the sky?
At first, I thought I had just captured a comet/meteor but when I transferred the photo onto my Mac book it looks like something more. There are four four distinctively brighter "dots" and they are relatively uniform in separation?
Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Abductions B.C. Woman Claims 'Visitations' From UFOs

KELOWNA, B.C. -- QMI Agency's Thane Burnett spoke with Corina Saebels, a 54- year- old mom who believes her family has been subjected to otherworldly experimentation. Q - You have two children. What do they think about all this UFO talk?
A - They have both suffered first- hand experiences since early childhood, and still live with some of the after- effects from contact with these beings. They know the reality of what is really going on!
Q - You call yourself an abductee. What does that mean?
A - On a personal level, to be an abductee means that from early childhood, my children and I have been taken many times against our will, and had our bodies, minds and spirits raped. There are many abductees in Canada. The support group, which I held in Kelowna alone, held over 10 people ... from all, walks of life. The abductions began at four years of age, then once a teenager the visitations became more frequent, taking DNA material from us. It seems to be going from generation to generation. To this day, we still have unwanted visitations. Our friends witnessed a ship over our house, and know we were missing through the night and eyewitness reports from strangers. We also have medical evidence of burns on our bodies and marks on the ground after an event.
My personal belief is that there are many different species of aliens, and like us humans, there are benevolent ones and malevolent ones. Unfortunately, for us the "Grays" are the ones dealing with us. The "Grays" have no emotions and are not affected by how much pain and trauma they deliver. They are like robots who simply come to do their job and then leave. These beings come back in late July about every three years.
Q - Couldn't there be a great many explanations for what you've gone through, beyond UFOs and aliens?
A - Sure there are but in our case, there are no other explanations and there is too much proof to think otherwise. I wrote a book, called "The Collectors, that tells of my being paralyzed with fear. I decided to make the fear work for me by turning my diary into a book, hoping to help others and encourage them to come forward. Lately, people are becoming believers and more supportive. I encourage others to tell about their encounters. To the benevolent aliens I would say, "Stop these malevolent ones from hurting our children, and help us! http://www.torontosun.com/
Scarborough -- Hope you received the many photos taken here in Scarborough of this bizarre swirling white shape-changing object taken on November 1, 2010 is ALL SAINTS DAY!
It is a strange and very bizarre form of communication from the sky.
Thanks to Paul Michael Shishis

China Cylinder

Baoutou -- Three flights from Shanghai and Beijing to Baoutou were forced to circle the airport until the UFO disappeared. Two others were diverted to airports in the nearby cities of Ordos and Taiyuan. An airport spokesperson said, "The field was closed for about an hour to guarantee safety."

Flashing lights of varying brightness can be seen in the video. Some observers have expressed skepticism over whether the object really was an aircraft or spacecraft. The Baoutou sighting is the eighth reported UFO sighting in China since the end of June. Some of these sightings may have been military objects. Thanks to: http://uforeportcenter.com

Mexico Orb


MEXICO CITY -- The following vidcaps belong to the extraordinary recording made by young Sergio Javier Mayn, who managed to capture two UFOs with his video camera as they flew over Colonia Torre Blanca, Mexico City, on October 21, 2005 at 18:26 hours. Given the importance of the images, I visited the witness at his home to interview him and conduct an on-site investigation.

Interview with Sergio Javier Mayn, 11 December 2005

Ana Luisa: Hello Sergio. How old are you and what do you do?
Sergio: "I am 16 years old and study at a vo-tech. I want to be an architectural engineer. That afternoon I went up to the roof with my sister Melissa, who told me that there was a UFO in the sky. We both watched a reddish-hued orb, and I went downstairs quickly for the camcorder.
AL: Did you manage to record the red orb?
Sergio: No, it was not possible, because when I went back to the roof, the red orb was not there anymore. Then I turned to the right to look for it and came across another UFO, with a brilliant spherical object at low altitude, static in the heavens. Since my camera was ready, I was indeed able to record it. After recording the orb and taking some photos of it, I realized that a plane was about to fly over and I decided to widen the shot to show the reference. During the first moments of the video, only one UFO is seen, but soon another moves very slowly and rises toward the zenith. I was sure that it could not be an airplane. We could see that it was a black, round object surrounded by smaller, bright orbs. The sighting lasted about three minutes and flew faster than an airplane. Some white orbs are seen, and another longer black-colored object, passed at great speed. UFOs are something we know they exist.

UK/ Scotland

Edinburgh --A Scottish UFO enthusiast has revealed a number of unexplained sightings in Edinburgh and the surrounding Pentland Hills in recent months.
Ron Halliday, who revealed his top ten Scottish UFO events to STV News earlier this year, said witnesses had come forward and reported three sightings to him since July. On July 28, 2010, a middle-aged woman in the Edinburgh suburb of Currie was looking towards the Pentland Hills at around 11.50 PM, when she saw a dazzling light. The woman had a pair of binoculars with her, so she managed to see a round-shaped object with markings on the side. As she watched it, the object - which was pale yellow - seemed to change shape.
Then, at around 9.15 PM, on August 30, the same woman saw a similar light in the same area of Currie. Once again, it was pale yellow. The woman was convinced the object was not a plane.
The third sighting came on September 26, at about 10 PM, when a couple saw an unexplained orange ball travelling at speed across the Slateford area of Edinburgh. The man described it as looking "like a small sun. He said it was noiseless and definitely not a helicopter or plane. The witness also recorded seeing a bright flare coming out at one end of the craft'. Ron says having three sightings around the Pentlands in the space of three months is quite unusual. As UFO researchers will know, these latest events happened only a few miles away from two of the most famous unexplained incidents in Scottish history. Thanks to STV Scotland.

Latest UFO Sightings in the United States

Arizona Flaming Orbs

PHOENIX -- On October 23, 2010, I was at the park and saw something falling out of the sky with a large flaming trail at 7:30 PM. It fell for about ten seconds and then disappeared. The flaming trail then reappeared far below where it had disappeared and continued to fall for five seconds. Then, it just stopped in the sky and a red and white orb pulsated for several minutes.
Suddenly a second flaming trail appeared to the right of the glowing orb and traveled horizontally, stopped and turned into a pulsating white and red orb. The two orbs sat in the sky for a few minutes, and then slowly faded out into smaller bluish orbs. About ten minutes later two orbs appeared with pulsating lights very slowly moving away from each other. After five minutes, they disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Glendale -- on October 25, 2010, an independent witness took this photo . I was sitting out back with my husband and friends when I saw a shooting star. I saw a bright debris trail that suddenly stopped as the object came to a stop. The blue orb then flew about a mile directly west at high speed turned and flew the opposite direction when its debris trail started back up. The object did a slight corkscrew movement and headed towards the ground. My husband yelled, "There's another one!" As these objects' got closer they started to glow red and that is when I lost sight of them. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com

California Cylinder

Calif28Oct10.jpg Pacific Coast -- On October 28, 2010, at 5:45 PM, my 3-year-old son and I were driving home on Pacific Coast Highway heading north and there was a strange drop-down cloud that had several spirals inside. This drop-down cloud was very bright. To the south of this drop-down cloud was a large definitive round bright circle shining through the clouds. In one photo there appears to be a grayish orb like thing in the sky next to the bright circle. I thought it was odd enough to take some pictures.



 
Woodland Hills -- My friend and I were driving south on Highway US-101 on October 30, 2010, after work and saw a huge object, about the size of a blimp moving slowly across the sky. I am very familiar with blimps as the Good Year blimp is stationed in Orange County, but I immediately ruled it out as it was a lot thinner. It was moving quicker than a blimp, without a cockpit underneath it. It was moving northwest, near the San Bernardino Mountains and moving over Glendale. There were no visible seams, and it had a slight shiny appearance, almost like hematite. I am experienced at identifying aircraft and told my friend, "Oh my God, I see a UFO. He was driving and was not able to see it exactly as it flew north, then disappeared behind the mountains. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Colorado Flashes

CAHONE -- The pictures were taken a few miles north of Cortez in Southwest Colorado at the witness's home on September 30, 2010, at 12:30 PM. He said, "I did not see the discs, but I saw a round craft that was much closer. It was in the same area of sky where the discs showed up. I guess I feel it would be a real coincidence that the objects that look so much like discs I've seen are lens flare. I have never had anything even remotely similar show up in the thousands of photos I've taken.
His original sightings occurred last November 17 -- 18, when he had children show up at his house who were apparently from a disc he saw. On the 18th, he was led down the road by these children and up a rise where he could see a craft hovering over a nearby field. He says he sees craft frequently and has photographed cloaked ships, but I have to say his photos were not 100% convincing, yet I could see some kind of circular formation in the clouds in some of his photos .
Note: The above photos were taken by UFO investigator Bob Fiske. Bob was investigating an earlier sighting and the witness saw a flying saucer. Bob pointed his camera in the area of the sky where the witness saw the saucer and the above photo resulted. Bob used a Kodak P850 digital zoom camera to take the photos. This is a good camera and has a maximum resolution of 5.1 mega-pixels. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com

Idaho Bullet Shaped Dart

UKtyne21Nov09.jpgWALLACE -- On August 14, 2007, I was on a patrol spotting for forest fires as a wild land fire fighter. I was in my truck at 3:15am, on United States Forest Service Road 456 and turning on to Placer Creek Road on Moon Pass and saw a wildfire on the tree line about 230 feet to the left. At first, the light was dim, but got brighter and I used the radio to report the fire. My radio was fazing in and out.
I saw the light at super speeds jump out of the tree line into the sky that looked like a bullet shape dart. I thought it was time to put out a fire and hoped I could stop it before it got out of hand. I remember being very scared, my heart was racing, and I have never seen any thing like this before. After I calmed down I remember being lost, confused, and I thought I was going to die that night. (Similar object photo was taken in Tyne, England November 21, 2009 as shown above.) Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Sighting

Schaumburg -- I was driving east towards St. Charles, on October 27, 2010, around 9 pm, and noticed unusual lights on the horizon, which I dismissed as planes heading to land at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. We can often see a few planes circling towards O'Hare to land. We saw three distinct "strings", each made of 10-15 points of light that extended up from the horizon and curved over high in the night sky. We could see planes to the left and right of the hovering strings of light, which moved into or out of our field of vision. After my passenger insisted the lights were not moving, I pulled over to confirm and we watched for several minutes. We then continued East to Route 64 (North Ave.) taking it through St. Charles, IL to the Dupage Airport arriving at 9:30 pm, where there was open space to look. The strings of lights were still visible. We continued east on Route 64 to several large store parking lots at 9:45 Pm, and the lights were gone.
UFO Sighting over Illinois: The news of sightings of unidentified flying objects has become a part of daily lives for all the residents of the US as more and more reports of UFO sightings come in every day. In the latest news about such instances, Illinois has put its hand up as one more place where possibility of such UFO sightings has been confirmed. It was on 27 October that a man spotted a UFO in the skies. The spotting was a couple of hours before noon and the witness viewed it from Grove Road. The news was testified to MUFON, although no confirmation has been made. The one over Knott's Farm was triangular and this one is cylindrical. The witness has also said that the middle section of the object consisted of a band of black color. Pretty vivid UFO it must have been!
The object was predominantly white with a band towards the middle, which takes a dark hue. Illinois is not listed as a region where many of these UFO sightings are expected. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Louisiana Orb

Moultrie Game Camera -- On September 14, 2010, positioned in the deep woods a motion activated Infrared Flash Digital Camera captured this strange light. The camera is strapped to a tree overlooking a mineral block and corn that is visited by wild hogs and other animals. There are no sources of light in the area.
There were four occurrences where light objects were captured at night on September 6, 13, 14, and 15th. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Maryland Photos

Annapolis -- Nothing to tell really, I was just going over photos when I noticed something different in the sky. When I zoomed in on the image it from October 1, 2009, it seemed to be very unusual, unidentified.

I took the photo at my son's special soccer game at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. I did not notice it when taking the photos.

This is the original photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Minnesota Cylinder

West Central -- This object was sighted over West Central Minnesota on Halloween at about 6 pm. It was traveling from the east going west.
Maybe someone can try some enhancements on the photo. Taken with a Kodak easy share c913 using 3x zoom. Thanks to Reverend Schmitt

Missouri Y Shaped Object

MOlibertyY1Oct10.jpgLIBERTY -- I went onto my balcony for a smoke and looked towards the woods behind our parking lot, and there was a very large "Y" shaped object. It seemed to be glowing in a yellow, almost orange color. At first, I thought it was a helicopter until it actually crossed over the tree line and there was no sound. I froze in shock, as it seemed to drift in a semi circle around the field, then pick up speed and head across the cornfields.
When it was out of sight, I called my brother on the other side of town and told him to look north but it was gone. The object was the size of three SUVs strung together and made no noise. I've never been more terrified in my life. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Sightings

Ray Nuvolone writes, "I contacted you two weeks ago regarding joining your team as I finish my classes for my Psych degree. I am even more interested in joining after what I saw this past week. On October 18, 2010, at about 3 AM, I looked at the night sky and saw some kind of white orb floating not far from my place. I took my video recorder right away and watched this thing float around and away into the sky until it stopped. At that point, two more objects appeared and moved in ways that made my brain spin. I mean it was in one spot one second and then in a blink it moves to a different spot closer to the original object and then away again just as quickly. It is very hard to describe here.
Like I said, "I have about 35 minutes long video and I did use night vision. I have shown this to some people and some reactions I have gotten were strange. A friend of mine who is a believer in this stuff shed some tears when he saw it. Most people had a fear reaction such as raised arm hair and disbelief in the video. We all agree this is a true UFO sighting... Thanks to Ray Nuvolone
HILLSBOROUGH -- I saw a perfect triangular shaped object fly directly overhead at a rapid speed at 11:07 PM on October 31, 2010, when my husband and I were out on our porch stargazing. I noticed something moving overhead heading east, and at first thought, it was to think it was a flock of geese, but realized it was a triangular shaped craft with dim lights on each side outlining the shape. It was moving rapidly, and flying not too high up. I saw the object for a few seconds, and then I lost sight of it. It also seemed to be a decent size. There is absolutely no way I could mistake this to be anything else. It stayed in a triangular formation, and it moved as one large unit. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Oklahoma Triangle

Weatherford -- While sitting outside smoking on October 1, 2010, I noticed a meteor falling slowly and prior to impact the meteor became brighter. I ran inside upstairs to the balcony of my apartment getting my camera and a better view and took this video.
I zoomed in my camera and then began filming. I did not think I had gotten anything, since it was so dark. Later, I was downloading a file and captured these triangular lights. What found with my digital camera was unexplainable to me!
Thanks to MUFON CMS

Tennessee Disc
Strawberry Plains -- My daughter and I went out onto the porch to take photos of the rainbow after a big storm on October 25, 2010. She and I were taking pictures at the same time, but she caught this disc in one of her pictures. We did not realize what was there until we reviewed on the camera the pictures she took. I loaded them into the computer and was surprised to see this disc. You can see the sunshine hitting the top and the shadows on the bottom so we know it was something solid. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas Boomerang

Mansfield -- My wife and I were outside putting some things in my truck on October 28, 2010, when she pointed up and said, "What the heck is that; is it a flock of geese?" As it got closer, you could clearly tell it was not birds and had mass to it. The object was just to the right of the moon without lights andNO" sound! There were no lights emitting from it and it appeared to be t. The only thing you could actually see was the outline of an enormous transparent object flying south. As it passed over, it completely disappeared and I now know there are truly mysteries above! Thanks to MUFON CMS

West Virginia Orb

Ansted -- On October 31, 2010, I was sitting in my yard watching a hawk flying over, when I saw an object moving very fast toward the mountaintop. I got a picture but it was moving so fast it blurred the picture. I have seen many of these things here. If you keep close watch you can see one every day. There is no sound, no jet stream, and they move in and out slow or very fast. Sometimes they use the very same path. The last picture I posted was near the same point this one was. There may be a surprising turn of events in getting the attention of someone who knows about UFOs. Looking at the picture you will see a white dot that is not a cloud, nor a bird. With the naked eye it is in the shape of a pill, it is white, and looks like a craft of some kind. The picture does not do it justice. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS

Wyoming Lights

CRAIG -- I was outside and I was looking at the stars and saw these lights as they rose into the air. Thought it was just a star until I focused on it. It was flashing light of red blue and green. I stayed outside for two hours, watched, and then went inside for bed. I never lost sight I went in. I do not know the exact time. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Moon Object Videotaped


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I was video tapping the Moon on October 24, 2010 around 1:20 AM, from my home in Texas. I just moved the camera to this area of the moon and this dark object or shadow flew into my view from top left to the bottom center. I have my videotape to prove it.
Thanks to MUFON CMS

MUFON's Director Clifford Clift's UFO Experience

Greeley, Colorado -- resident Clifford Clift had an experience in 1953 that sparked his interest in unidentified flying objects. The experience changed the course of his life forever, as he slowly became an expert in identifying unidentified objects.
He is now International Director of the Mutual UFO Network, more commonly known as MUFON. Greeley Tribune reports that Clift said that the experience came when he and his grandmother were members of the Ground Observer Corps for the Air Force. "It was during the Cold War, and the Air Force had established sites all across the U.S. to watch for aircraft. The country was terrified that Russia was going to bomb us, Clift said in an interview to Greeley Tribune.
Clift recalled that the Air Force would call alerts and he and his grandmother would go out to their site to watch for aircraft. Clift noted that on one October evening in 1953 when an alert was called, he went out watching the sky and that experience happened. "It was a night with white fluffy clouds, that were pretty sparse, and a full moon, Clift remembered.
"It was about the size of the moon, only it traveled across the sky, southeast to northwest, in about 10 or 15 seconds. It was going so fast it appeared it left a tail that wasn't very long, but was fuzzy, he said, adding that it didn't make any noise, he added. Clift added that he ran from the site and told his grandmother what he had seen. "At first, she didn't believe me. But she finally relented and agreed to call in. I still remember our call sign. It was Bravo, Lima, Red 1, Clift said.
NOTE: Mr Clift is going to take MUFON to the next level. These are exciting times. Thanks to UFO Casebook.com and Lane WS Monitor.com, Ken Pfeifer MUFON New Jersey www.worldufophotos.org

Another Astronaut Admits Seeing UFOs in Space

Clark C. McClelland, former ScO, U.S. Space Shuttle Fleet, KSC, Florida 1958 to 1992 writes, "Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-80 took a crew of five astronauts into a 17 day, 15 hour and 54 minute mission around the earth, the longest flight in the history of this vehicle. During this lengthy flight a very strange event occurred that even had crewman Dr. Story Musgrave unable to explain what he observed from the shuttle windows. A large disc shaped object appeared below the Columbia.
The shuttle was 190 Nautical miles high. The disc was first observed to miraculously appear flying through the clouds below and progressing from right to left. The outer rim of the craft was rotating counter-clockwise.
It was very large 50 to 150 feet in diameter, compared to common space junk and breakaway ice. Astronaut Dr. Story Musgrave, a Payload Specialist on the STS-80 Mission, was interviewed following the flight. As he viewed a videotape of the incident he stated: "I don't know what it is. Whether it's a washer, debris, ice particles, I don't know. "But it's characteristic of the thousands of things which I've seen. What is not so characteristic is it appears to come from no where. You would think that if it's facing the dark side or facing a side towards you which is not reflecting the sun, you would think that you would see something there. It's really impressive.
Dr. Musgrave retired after this flight from NASA. Since then he's been spreading his considered opinion that alien life exists. When Musgrave says, "It's no great leap for one to assume he's admitting knowledge of alien life.
As the final slide of a "Grey ET was shown during a recent astronomy presentation by Dr. Musgrave, he made this surprising comment: "These guys are real I guarantee it! Dr. Musgrave does know the truth. This author guarantees it! Thanks to UFO Casebook.com and Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON www.worldufophotos.org

Denver Voters Rejected UFO Initiative 300

Initiative 300, a proposal to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission was voted down by Denver Voters. The Initiative was designed to help ensure the health, safety, and cultural awareness of Denver residents in relation to potential encounters with extraterrestrial intelligent beings or their vehicles In other election results.

Air Force Officer's Claim UFOs Shut Down Missiles

A group of former Air Force officers, lead by Captain Robert Salas and Colonel Charles Halt, believe that UFOs have the power to disable our nuclear weapons. They believe this because these military men claim to have experienced UFOs disabling nuclear weapons personally, and they're gathering at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to expose the alien threat.
Here's Captain Salas' version of what happened when UFOs attacked the nuclear weapons at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, as told to Larry King in 2008: "The UFO was reported by my top-side guard. A bright red oval object hovering outside the front gate. He was very agitated, frightened, when he told me this over the phone. The reason I believe that what he told me is true is because they had no access to our missile system. They had no way to control it. And while this object was up there, my missiles shut down.
Colonel Halt tells a similar story from his time at RAF Bentwaters, in which UFOs landed in the nuclear storage area and disabled nuclear weapons launching capabilities for several minutes. Could the aliens have their own version of the anti-nuclear Stuxnet worm in beam form? These military officials say so, and they're bringing declassified UFO documents to prove that there's an international UFO/military cover-up. A similar incident occurred recently in Wyoming.

Wyoming Missile Unit Experiences Communications Disruption

The 319th Missile Squadron headquartered at FE Warren Air Force Base overseer of 50 Minuteman III ICBMs, experienced "a disruption of communications" between its five launch control centers and the missiles on October 23, 2010, according to Lt. Col. John Thomas, Air Force Global Strike Command spokesman. He said, "The evidence so far points to a mechanical part failure associated with the missile complex's primary communications system. Somehow the electronic queries that the LCCs send out to each missile to verify its health and status got out of sync and created a transmissions logjam, kind of like 50 people trying to speak simultaneously on the same walkie-talkie frequency. Thomas said it took the missileers about 45 minutes to diagnose and isolate the issue. They switched control of all 50 missiles to one of the LCCs. In short order, all but one of the LCCs were back in the network. "USAF technical experts think the issue is similar to ones that occurred in the late 1990s at Malmstrom AFB, Mont., and Minot AFB, N.D., he said. Daily Report. Editor's Note: UFOs are frequently reported in the Warren AFB area.

Mars Habitable Hot Spots

Nili Patera The residue of hydrothermal vents on the flanks of a volcano on Mars could be signs of one of the most recent habitable environments on the Red Planet, researchers suggest. Scientists investigated data gathered on the Martian volcanoes in the Syrtis Major region of the Red Planet using a powerful spectrometer on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. They focused specifically on deposits near the relatively young Nili Patera volcanic cone, which date back some 3.7 billion years.
When hot water flows through rock, it dissolves minerals, enriching the water with silica, or silicon oxide. When this water cools off and is exposed to air, a material called hydrated silica crystallizes, which is what the investigators unexpectedly detected in the deposits near Nili Patera. The discovery suggests that the vents once served as tiny habitable pockets on Mars where primitive forms of life, could have found refuge. "When you have water and heat, as you have at this site, you have the opportunity for habitability a place where conditions for life, if it was there, could have been supported," study co-author John Mustard, a geology professor at Brown University at Providence, R.I. "The fan shape of the deposits and their location in and around a volcanic cone also suggest they came from a hydrothermal system, he added. On Earth, scientists think hydrothermal environments with silica deposits have significant potential for preserving microbial fossils. Thanks to Space.com and journal Nature Geosciences.

Dr. Levin says Viking Lander found life on Mars

I spoke with Dr. Gilbert Levin who designed the Viking Lander laboratories tests for life on Mars. We both agreed that Mars has life and for some reason JPL is reluctant to admit it, and is only slowly releasing crucial scientific data to support Mars life? It may be the result of a Brooking's Institute report that the discovery of intelligent life could cause a world wide crisis.
vikinglanderbigjoegreen In 1997, Biospherics' President and CEO, Dr. Gilbert V. Levin, announced his new conclusion that his 1976 Viking Labeled Release (LR) life detection experiment found living microorganisms in the soil of Mars. Of all the many hypotheses offered over the years to explain the LR Mars results, the only possibility fitting all the relevant data is that microbial life exists in the top layer of the Martian surface.
Dr. Levin was hired by NASA to develop a laboratory to prove that life exists. He designed experiments that tested the soil of Mars nine times at two different landing sites under different temperature regimes and environmental conditions. All his data point to microbes metabolizing a nutrient solution and giving off an indicative radioactive CO2 gas.
The tests conducted on Mars were positive indicating life, but were not accepted. Dr Levin states, "We have waited ten years for all of the theories, experiments and results produced by the many scientists investigating our experiment to be reviewed before voicing a committed conclusion of our own, that there is life.
NASAs Viking Lander image showing lichen on rocks.

Earth Size Planets Common in Space

PASADENA, Calif. -- Nearly one in four stars similar to the sun may host planets as small as Earth, according to a new study funded by NASA and the University of California. The study is the most extensive and sensitive planetary census of its kind. Astronomers used the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii for five years to search 166 sun-like stars near our solar system. All of the planets in the study orbit close to their stars. The results show more small planets than large ones, indicating small planets are more prevalent in our Milky Way galaxy.

Our ground-based technology can't see Earth-size planets, but we can estimate their numbers," said Andrew Howard of the University of California, lead author of the new study. "Earth-size planets in our galaxy are like grains of sand sprinkled on a beach -- they are everywhere."

The research provides a tantalizing clue that potentially habitable planets could also be common. These hypothesized Earth-size worlds would orbit farther away from their stars, where conditions could be favorable for life. NASA's Kepler spacecraft is also surveying sun-like stars for planets and is expected to find the first true Earth-like planets in the next few years.

Howard and his planet-hunting team, which includes principal investigator Geoff Marcy, looked for planets within 80-light-years of Earth, using the radial velocity, or "wobble," technique. They measured the numbers of planets falling into five groups, ranging from 1,000 times the mass of Earth, or about three times the mass of Jupiter, down to three times the mass of Earth. A distinct trend jumped out of the data: smaller planets outnumber larger ones. Only 1.6 percent of stars were found to host giant planets orbiting close in. About 6.5 percent of stars were found to have intermediate-mass planets, with 10 to 30 times the mass of Earth -- planets the size of Neptune and Uranus. And 11.8 percent had the so-called "super-Earths," weighing in at only three to 10 times the mass of Earth.

"During planet formation, small bodies similar to asteroids and comets stick together, eventually growing to Earth-size and beyond. Not all of the planets grow large enough to become giant planets like Saturn and Jupiter," Howard said. "It's natural for lots of these building blocks, the small planets, to be left over in this process." The astronomers extrapolated from these survey data to estimate that 23 percent of sun-like stars in our galaxy host even smaller planets, the Earth-sized ones, orbiting in the hot zone close to a star. "This is the statistical fruit of years of planet-hunting work," said Marcy. "The data tell us that our galaxy, with its roughly 200 billion stars, has at least 46 billion Earth-size planets, and that's not counting Earth-size planets that orbit farther away from their stars in the habitable zone." The new study finds a surplus of close-in, small planets where theories had predicted a scarcity.

"We are at the cusp of understanding the frequency of Earth-sized planets among planetary systems in the solar neighborhood," said Mario R. Perez, Keck program scientist at NASA. More information about exoplanets is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov . Thanks to Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory.