Perseids in 2008!

What could be best time to watch for ETV and UFO than a night where the sky is filled with meteors.

The Perseids will next be active from July 17 to August 24, 2008, with their peak on the morning of August 12, 2008.

Head out with your small laser and enjoy a couple evenings signaling to our space brothers and watching meteors!

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids)

Christian Theologians Prepare for Extraterrestrial Life

By BRANDON KEIM

Little green men might shock the secular public. But the Catholic Church would welcome them as brothers.

That’s what Vatican chief astronomer and papal science adviser Gabriel Funes explained in a recent article in L’Osservatore Romano, the newsletter of the Vatican Observatory (translated here). His conclusion might surprise nonbelievers. After all, isn’t this the same church that imprisoned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolves around the sun? Doesn’t the Bible say that God created man — not little green men — in his image?

Indeed, many observers assert that aliens would be bad for believers. Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research, once wrote that finding intelligent other-worldly life “will be inconsistent with the existence of God or at least organized religions.” But such predictions tend to come from outside Christianity. From within, theologians have debated the implications of alien contact for centuries. And if one already believes in angels, no great leap of faith is required to accept the possibility of other extraterrestrial intelligences.

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(Full Article: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5065245&page=1)

Doritos makes history with world’s first extraterrestrial advert

Quite a step forward in the last couple of weeks?

The transmission is being undertaken as part of the Doritos Broadcast Project, which invited the UK public to create a 30 second video clip that could be beamed out to the universe offering a snap shot of life on earth to anyone ‘out there’. 61% of the UK public believe this is just the start of communication with ET life and that we will enter into regular communication with an alien species at some stage in the future.

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(Full Article: http://www.physorg.com/news132496530.html)

Doritos makes history with world’s first extraterrestrial advert

Quite a step forward in the last couple of weeks?

The transmission is being undertaken as part of the Doritos Broadcast Project, which invited the UK public to create a 30 second video clip that could be beamed out to the universe offering a snap shot of life on earth to anyone ‘out there’. 61% of the UK public believe this is just the start of communication with ET life and that we will enter into regular communication with an alien species at some stage in the future.

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(Full Article: http://www.physorg.com/news132496530.html)

Jeff Peckman on David Letterman. June 10, 2008

I’d love to see people starting to talk about a Contact Experience, instead of the usual Abduction Experience. Great show nonetheless. Mr. Peckman did a good presentation, even with the giggle factor still present in 2008.

Support the Denver Ballot Initiative to Form an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission

I’d like to invite you to sign the following petition. 4000 names are needed only. Support the Denver Ballot Initiative to Form an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission

http://www.petitiononline.com/etaffair/petition-sign.html

Jeff Peckman presenting an alleged ET

Finally! Another man that believes we can get into a win/win relation with our space brothers. This was a fresh breath of air coming from the media. I’m far from been convinced the guy behind the window is one of them. Pictures are almost irrelevant at this point, since technology is so advanced, this can all be faked.

I don’t see the motivation behind showing up behind a window and just looking in, for what seem to be no reasons. My truth meter would say, this was staged.

Nasa sponsors course on how to talk to aliens

wow! Is it just me, or things have been really moving forward in the last 2-3 months?

English students at the University of Wyoming are being encouraged to consider the possibility that humanity might one day make contact with aliens and then not know what to say.

“Interstellar Message Composition”, a creative writing class, is believed to be the first of its kind to engage writers in a potential cosmic conversation, say its founders.

“We’ve thought a lot about how we might communicate with other worlds, but we haven’t thought much about what we’d actually say,” Prof Jeffrey Lockwood, the course leader, told ABC News.

The course, currently being taken by 11 students, is partly financed by Nasa’s Wyoming Space Grant Consortium, which sponsors educational and research projects in the state that support the agency’s missions.

Among questions tackled in Prof Lockwood’s class is how aliens might communicate, whether they would be able to translate human language, and whether they would be able to see or hear.

One student, Dixie Thoman, created a poem about menstruation with syllables arranged in a mathematically harmonious order, known as the Fibonacci sequence.

Recordings of the Brandenburg Concerto and Johnny B Goode are among those that have been beamed into space over the years in an attempt to provoke an extraterrestrial response.

The course is being advised by Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition for the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute in California.

“It could be tomorrow that we’ll need to be ready to decide if we reply [to aliens],” he said. “It’s really critical to have people start thinking about it and it makes sense to start with writers. These are people who are really trying to express the human condition.”

(Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk)

What Would You Say to ET?

Interesting Article.

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The students in Wyoming came up with five questions for an interplanetary visitor:

If you have fear, what do you fear?
What is the ultimate purpose of your species’ life?
How can we extend the longevity of our civilization?
What makes you and your kind happy?
What should we know?
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(Full Article: http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/20/what-would-you-say-to-et/)

Denver man wants city prepared for space aliens

Great initiative! I raise my hat to him

DENVER (AP) – A Denver man wants the city to be prepared for possible space aliens and he’s drafted a proposal that would create a commission to deal with the matter.

The city will hold a “review and comment” meeting next Thursday on Jeff Peckman’s proposed ballot initiative to create an 18-member ET commission. Peckman says the Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission would form a strategy “dealing with issues related to the presence of extraterrestrial beings on Earth.”

Denver assistant City Attorney David Broadwell says he doesn’t know what city officials will ask Peckman during the hearing.

The 54-year-old needs 4,000 signatures to get the proposal on the ballot.

Peckman sponsored a 2003 initiative that would require the city to implement stress-reduction techniques. That idea didn’t garner enough support from voters.

(Source: http://www.9news.com/news)

Elizabeth Kucinich on ET disclosure.

Wow! Smart Lady. It’s very refreshing to see that someone actually gets it. This comes in line with what Dr. Von Braun and Carol Rosin were saying. ET haven’t been proven to be malevolent, but it is nearly certain the elites in place will try to spin this into a fear based propaganda to weaponize space. Dear Miss Kucinich, it all depends on how it is presented and who does show the ET presence.

Contact with Extraterrestrials within two decades, say astronomers

This type of article really makes me happy. When scientists come forward with such declaration, it shows progress. And I speculate that this type of contact will happen without 2 to 5 years, not 20 years.

Mankind will make contact with intelligent alien life within two decades, leading astronomers claim.

The recent discovery of Earth-like planets outside our solar system and the launch of a major Nasa mission in 2009 has brought extra-terrestrial contact a dramatic step closer.

In a BBC two Horizon documentary broadcast tomorrow night, the American astrophysicist Dr Frank Drake said: “Everything has caused us to become more optimistic.”

The 76-year-old – who founded the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project (SETI) in 1961 – added: “We really believe that in the next 20 years or so, we are going to learn a great deal more about life beyond Earth and very likely we will have detected that life and perhaps even intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy.”

Nearly half a century ago, Dr Drake devised an equation to estimate the number of alien civilisations in the galaxy.

It takes into account seven factors including the rate at which stars are born in the Milky Way, roughly how many have planets, whether they might be habitable and a guess as to how long an intelligent species exists.

Although everyone’s answer to the equation differs, Dr Drake said the average estimate was that 10,000 technologically advanced life-forms exist in the galaxy.

The theory was dismissed by many experts until April last year when a Swiss team discovered the first two planets, called Gliese 581 c and d, outside the Solar System that could support life.

Dr Drake said: “It shows the potential that life-bearing planets exist.”

SETI senior astronomer Dr Seth Shostak, based in California, told Horizon: “There are 200 billion stars just in our galaxy and at least half of them probably have planets (orbiting them), so that’s 100 billion planetary systems with, let’s say, five planets in each system.

“That’s 500 billion planets out there, and bear in mind there are 100 billion other galaxies.

“To think this (the Earth) is the only place where anything interesting is happening, you have got to be really audacious to take that point of view.”

The search for life on other planets will take a huge step forward next year when Nasa launches its Kepler space telescope, which will constantly scan the same 100,000 stars over its entire four-year mission to discover Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones around suns.

Once Kepler identifies the planets most likely to sustain life, the team at SETI will focus its deep-space listening equipment on those solar systems, instead of randomly scanning the outer reaches of space as at present.

(Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk)

Time to move on, a diplomatic relationship desperately needed…

Joseph Capp definitively has a point. But can we afford to miss what could be the most important event in human history? We have to grow up from this warlike teen period into adulthood. Time for a formal invitation to land and initiate talks.

My own story, ET Shock… and Witnesses of the Directed Kind

I took enough psychology courses in college to know that the human mind deals with the fantastic in many different ways.

But a study has never been done on what happens when a person goes through fantastic, continuing UFO experiences. There’s quite a range of transformation: witnesses may report spiritual change, some are possessed by the need to find answers, and some, after this reality extension, are mentally broken, finding answers in fantasy and delusion.

There are gullible people in the UFO community, we all know that. And there are people in the greater UFO community who come from an academic, or a no-nonsense orientation. Both types choose to read the UFO witness as a confirmation of their own beliefs.

But what about those who are broken by their fear, or for other reasons, around a continuing experience and start to believe fantastic things about themselves and their reality? What happens to them? At the conferences, I notice the interaction seems to be either polite listening or a more active confirming that their fantasies could be real.

We know for certain now, some UFO witnesses are experiencing multiple strange displays of UFOs. And what’s more, there are reports among this particular experiencer group of messages heard in their minds, of feeling compelled to go somewhere and capture video or being ‘instructed’ to simply show up and watch.

Sounds like something from a Twilight Zone episode…and some in the UFO field think that is all it is. Skeptics laugh and pose the dumb question: “Why would ETs go a zillion light years to put on displays for the Prozac People?”

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(Full Article: http://ufomedia.blogspot.com)