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☆ Pentagon receives more than 350 new reports of UFO sightings
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Dan De Luce | Dan De Luce Is A Reporter For The Nbc News Investigative Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A classified version of the report was submitted to lawmakers, as mandated by a defense spending bill passed by the last Congress. Following demands from Congress, the top intelligence agency released its first report on UFOs in 2021, which looked at 144 reported cases. Officials found no evidence that the reported sightings indicated signs of extraterrestrial life or new breakthrough aircraft or weapons by foreign adversaries. Although the report cited no evidence that UFO sightings could be linked to foreign adversaries, government agencies “will continue to investigate any evidence of possible foreign government involvement in UAP events." The Pentagon last year set up an office to document and analyze UFO reports.

☆ UFO Sightings Increased in Past Two Years, U.S. Intelligence Report Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Warren P. Strobel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An image taken from one of three unclassified U.S. Navy videos shows interactions with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena at an undisclosed location. WASHINGTON—Reported sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, known popularly as UFOs, have climbed significantly in the past two years, and almost half the new sightings remain unexplained, U.S. spy agencies and the Pentagon said in a report released Thursday. The study led by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the number of UAP sightings—often by Navy and Air Force pilots—stands at 510, with 366 of those reports coming in since March 2021. Slightly more than half of the objects are likely unmanned aircraft, balloons or airborne debris, according to analysis by a new Pentagon office focused on the issue, but 171 remain “uncharacterized and unattributed,” the report said.

☆ The US military received hundreds of new UFO reports, but half are suspected to be balloons, drones, and random clutter
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The US military has received hundreds of new UFO reports in recent years, a new intelligence report reveals. Half of the new reported incidents are suspected to be balloons, drones, and random clutter. American officials have attributed a number of UFO incidents to foreign drones engaged in spying or airborne trash, The New York Times reported last October. Although the UAPs can potentially pose a safety hazard for aircraft, there have been no reported incidents between US planes and the UAPs. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a Thursday statement about the new ODNI analysis.

☆ More than 360 new UFO cases have been reported to U.S. intelligence agencies since March 2021
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

"The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified,' the Pentagon said in a statement. WASHINGTON – The top U.S. spy agency said Thursday 366 new cases of unidentified aerial phenomena have been reported to U.S. intelligence agencies since March 2021. In 2020, the Pentagon formed a new task force to investigate UFO sightings that have been observed on several occasions by U.S. military aircraft. The creation of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, or UAPTF, continues an effort begun in recent years to investigate unexplained aerial incidents encountered by the U.S. military. The U.S. Navy has previously led efforts to look into unidentified aerial phenomena since the service branch has reported several encounters involving their aircraft.

☆ North Korea fires 3 missiles amid tensions over drone flights
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters in its latest weapons display on Saturday, a day after rival South Korea launched a solid-fueled rocket as part of its efforts to build a space-based surveillance capability to better monitor the North. It said South Korea closely monitors North Korean moves in coordination with the United States and maintains a readiness to “overwhelmingly” deter any provocation by North Korea. Friday’s unannounced launch triggered a brief public scare of a UFO appearance or a North Korean missile firing in South Korea. South Korea currently has no military reconnaissance satellites of its own and depends on U.S. spy satellites to monitor strategic facilities in North Korea. This week, North Korea is under a major ruling party meeting in Pyongyang to review past policies and new policy goals for 2023.

☆ Fact Check-Old hoax about an alien figure hidden on the dollar bill
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

There is no evidence that increasing the contrast on an image of a U.S. dollar bill reveals a hidden alien figure, contrary to an old hoax that is recirculating online. This is what happens when you increase the contrast on a dollar bill.” (here)Comments on the post include, “It’s all hidden in plain sight,” “WTF Democratic Party” and “Not surprised. An image of an authentic dollar bill is available ( here ) on the website of the U.S. Currency Education Program. An image comparing the authentic dollar bill and the first panel of the altered image that is being shared can be seen ( imgur.com/a/CsURL19 ). An image of a U.S. dollar bill has been altered to make it appear to show an alien figure.

[1/2] The Pentagon is seen from the air in Washington, U.S., March 3, 2022, more than a week after Russia invaded Ukraine. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The Pentagon's new push to investigate reports of UFOs has so far not yielded any evidence to suggest that aliens have visited Earth or crash-landed here, senior military leaders said on Friday. However, the Pentagon's effort to investigate anomalous, unidentified objects -- whether they are in space, the skies or even underwater -- led to hundreds of new reports that are now being investigated, they say. But so far they have seen nothing that indicates intelligent alien life. We will go through it all," Kirkpatrick said, speaking at the first news conference since AARO was established in July.

☆ The UFO Bubble Goes Pop
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Holman W. Jenkins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Call it the buildup to a letdown, as the latest of the required intelligence reports to Congress on the UFO question undergoes a prolonged and likely angst-filled vetting before being delivered to the relevant committees. Its findings will be surprising only to those who imbibed previous official disinformation on so-called UAP, or unidentified aerial phenomena. The most credible and widely trumpeted sightings by Navy pilots now are explained as illusions. Though Chinese surveillance drones do operate in areas where U.S. training flights occur, these are conventional drones, with no unusual capabilities. They aren’t the uncannily speedy, supernaturally maneuverable objects mentioned in previous accounts.

☆ I Saw a UFO, and So Did Members of My Flight Crew
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Another pilot, another opinion on UFOs. I know they exist because I was the co-pilot of a Pan American cargo flight with five crew members who clearly saw their formation. It was on a crystal clear, moonless night over Nova Scotia’s south coast, and we all watched and saw the same thing through different panes of cockpit glass. It lasted five minutes and terminated with the most dazzling feat of aerodynamics we had ever seen. I have now retired to the largest fly-in community in the world, in which many highly trained observers know that UFOs are real, “cataracts and floaters” aside.

☆ Latest U.S. defense-intelligence report on UFOs to be made public soon
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Nov 3 (Reuters) - A declassified version of the latest U.S. defense-intelligence report on UFOs - rebranded in official government parlance as "unidentified aerial phenomena" - is expected to be made public in the coming days. "We are collecting as much data as we can, following the data where it leads, and will share our findings whenever possible." The first such defense-intelligence UAP report to Congress in June 2021 looked at 144 sightings by U.S. military aviators dating back to 2004, most of them documented with multiple instruments. "We are working to mitigate these shortfalls for the future and to ensure we have sufficient data for our analysis." The forthcoming release of the latest Pentagon assessment comes after a first-of-its-kind panel organized by NASA opened a separate, parallel study on Oct. 24 of unclassified UFO sightings data from civilian government and commercial sectors.

That hearing discussed an unclassified report issued by a Department of Defense task force in 2021. There is precedent for the Defense Department, scientists and the media playing down reports of UFOs rather than prioritizing truly open scientific inquiry. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Air Force established a UFO task force named Project Blue Book and commissioned an independent scientific study of the phenomena. There is now a danger that the NASA study, which is also supposed to be objective, may not live up to this scientific ideal. If government and academia don’t do so with UFOs, we may end up with another independent scientific panel in another 50 years, but be no closer to the truth.

☆ The craziest Airbnb designs that just won $100,000, from a ghost town gondola and acorn treehouse to a salt cave and Koi fish dome-house,
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Sarah Belle Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Airbnb awarded 100 recipients $100,000 each to design out-of-this-world properties. But for those looking to step inside an Airbnb and have their minds blown, there's a specific category for that: the OMG! Judges representing Airbnb chose 100 winners from more than 20 countries to award $100,000 each to bring their designs to life. properties. Common themes submitted included stargazing experiences, musical themes, fruit-, mushroom- and wine-inspired, treehouses, and solar panels to boost sustainable energy.

☆ UFO ‘Mystery’ Shouldn’t Drag On
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Holman W. Jenkins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Jenkins joined the Journal in May 1992 as a writer for the editorial page in New York. In February 1994, he moved to Hong Kong as editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal's editorial page. Mr. Jenkins won a 1997 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial coverage. Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Jenkins received a bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

☆ NASA's UFO panel convenes to study unclassified sightings
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Oct 24 (Reuters) - A first-of-its-kind panel organized by NASA opened a study on Monday of what the government calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," commonly termed UFOs, bringing together experts from scientific fields ranging from physics to astrobiology. The 16-member panel, convened with little fanfare, will focus its inquiry entirely on unclassified sightings and other data collected from civilian government and commercial sectors, according to NASA. The team's inquiry is separate from a newly formalized Pentagon-based investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, reported by military aviators and analyzed by U.S. defense and intelligence officials. Announcing the formation of its panel in June, NASA said: "There is no evidence UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin." "Understanding the data we have surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena is critical to helping us draw scientific conclusions about what's happening in our skies," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate NASA administrator.

☆ Apollo 9 commander James McDivitt dies at 93
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

WASHINGTON — James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He passed on a chance to land on the moon and instead became the space agency’s program manager for five Apollo missions after the Apollo 11 moon landing. ... it was like cellophane and tin foil put together with Scotch tape and staples!”Unlike many of his fellow astronauts, McDivitt didn’t yearn to fly from childhood. McDivitt didn’t have money for college growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. “And being the second or third guy wasn’t that important to me.”So McDivitt went into management, first of the Apollo lunar lander, then for the Houston part of the entire program.

☆ ‘The World Without Us’: The abandoned sites overrun by nature
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-23 | by ( Tamara Hardingham-Gill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

However, French photographer Romain Veillon is making it his mission to capture in pictures the potential result of a planet without people. The 38-year-old has spent years photographing abandoned places around the world that have been overtaken by nature, with eerily beautiful results. ‘Post-apocalyptic vision’An image of abandoned Namibian ghost town Kolmanskop by photographer Romain Veillon. The first showcases deserted places that remain relatively well preserved and the second focuses on dilapidated sites in a far worse state. Nature reclaimingThe photographer managed to visit abandoned theme park Nara Dreamland in Japan before it was demolished.

Persons: Romain Veillon, ”, Romain Veillon Veillon, ” Veillon, “, Romain Veillon “, Veillon, Georgia that’s Organizations: CNN, Google, Bulgarian Communist Party, Romanian Ministry of Culture Locations: Namibia, Brussels, Ukraine, ‘, Brandenburg, Germany, Paris, Veillon, Soviet, Bulgaria, Constanța, Japan, Peru, Abkhazia, Georgia

Pentru acest scop au fost selectate 14 soiuri care vor fi testate în condițiile regiunii de sud și centru ale republicii. Platimoon, Oriola, Sweet Cap, Ufo, Alissa sunt doar o parte din soiurile care au fost selectate cu ajutorul partenerilor italieni și plantate pe terenurile a două întreprinderi membre ale Asociației Moldova Fruct. „Din păcate domeniul de cercetare din RM a rămas cu mult în urmă față de occident și este necesară o reformare a lui, de rând cu reformarea altor sectoare și ale cadrului legislativ. Pentru a fi competitiv sunt necesare și investiții majore, care în viitorul apropiat nu se prevăd. Toate aceste procese vor dura în timp, dar sectorul horticol are nevoie de soluții acum, de aceea, asociația împreună cu partenerii au întreprins primii pași pentru a oferi aceste soluții producătorilor, iar pe viitor vor fi aduse mai multe soiuri de fructe care vor fi testate.”spune Eugeniu Bumacov, specialist agrobusiness în cadrul Moldova Fruct.

Persons: Eugeniu Bumacov Organizations: RM Locations: Platimoon, Oriola, Ufo, Moldova, occident

☆ В Молдове попробуют выращивать новые сорта персика и абрикоса
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-17 | by ( Анна Ротарь | ) aif.md time to read: +1 min

0Ассоциация Moldova Fruct совместно с проектом «Livada Moldovei» и Исследовательским центром растениеводства в Чезена (Италия) выступила с инициативой, которая позволит протестировать ряд сортов плоского персика и абрикоса в нашей стране. Мы решили сделать первые шаги в области тестирования, чтобы люди могли на практике увидеть, как ведут себя разные сорта персика и абрикоса, а затем принять правильное решение, – пояснил специалист по агробизнесу Moldova Fruct. Эксперты говорят, что на данный момент существует рынок для всех видов фруктов, но необходимо выбирать современные сорта, наиболее востребованные потребителями. По мнению специалистов, область исследований в нашей стране отстала, и необходима реформа, наряду с обновлением других секторов, а также законодательной базы. Все эти процессы требуют времени, но садоводческий сектор нуждается в решениях сейчас, поэтому ассоциация вместе с партнерами предприняла первые шаги, чтобы предложить эти решения производителям.

Organizations: –, Исследовательский центр растениеводства Locations: Moldova, – Moldova, Чезена, Италия, Молдова

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