Ufo Study Group Presents Award To Longtime Researcher

By Tyrel Linkhorn

limaohio.com

7-15-09

LIMA - After spending more than six decades researching UFOs, John P. Timmerman has developed a reputation in the field as the one of the premier UFO researchers.

"He knows everything there is to know. If you want to know anything about UFOs, John's the one to ask," said Mike Krick, president of the Lima Area UFO Research Associates.

Describing him as "a true gentleman, ufologist, and all-around good guy," the group honored Timmerman on Wednesday evening with several awards for his life's work.

Tom Bowman, the group's secretary, read letters from the area and beyond, including one from Lima Mayor David Berger.

"I'm overwhelmed. That's the only word I can think of," Timmerman said. "It gives me a kind of a thank you for everything I was trying to do."

Timmerman, 85, began studying UFOs in 1947, going on to serve as an investigator and treasurer for The Center for UFO Studies in Chicago. He built a traveling display of UFO information that was presented all over the United States and as far away as China and Japan. The exhibit is now in the UFO Museum in Roswell, N.M.

"I'm hoping to retire from more physical correspondence activities for the UFO phenomenon because there are so many others in the world who are trying to squeeze out the truth."

But the longtime researcher seems unlikely to ever stop helping people look for answers.

"It's something that they're all welcome to ask about if they wish to do so," he said.

Timmerman suspects that governments around the world continue working to hide evidence of UFOs, and that it's possible that all U.S. presidents since the 1940s have also been kept in the dark.

"I don't know how they're going to get out of this but they'll have to one of these days," he said. "The world is going to have to know. And we're not talking about just English, French, German, Italian. We're talking about the planet, because we have to have a good plan for the planet."

He and Krick both acknowledge that not everyone believes, but both said people should look at the facts.

"If people don't believe, you can talk till you're blue in the face and they're not going to believe it until they see it."

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Mutual Ufo Network Update Mufon Where Art Thou

Many of you are significant of the recent problems internal MUFON (Joint UFO Relate). I've stayed out of it, rental MUFON roam value of it's own. Adequate, theoretically they are no longer embezzle value of guests. Whatever thing has happened and MUFON's ma?tre d' is down, as in "Ma?tre d' Not Boon".

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Nasa Rover Voyage To Mars Reveals Radiation Risk To Future Astronauts

Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human explorers from radiation exposure on deep-space expeditions in the future.

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This set of artist's concepts shows NASA's Mars Science Laboratory cruise capsule and NASA's Orion spacecraft, which is being built now at NASA's Johnson Space Center and will one day send astronauts to Mars [Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JSC]"

Curiosity's Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) is the first instrument to measure the radiation environment during a Mars cruise mission from inside a spacecraft that is similar to potential human exploration spacecraft. The findings reduce uncertainty about the effectiveness of radiation shielding and provide vital information to space mission designers who will need to build in protection for spacecraft occupants in the future.

"As this nation strives to reach an asteroid and Mars in our lifetimes, we're working to solve every puzzle nature poses to keep astronauts safe so they can explore the unknown and return home," said William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations in Washington. "We learn more about the human body's ability to adapt to space every day aboard the International Space Station. As we build the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket to carry and shelter us in deep space, we'll continue to make the advances we need in life sciences to reduce risks for our explorers. Curiosity's RAD instrument is giving us critical data we need so that we humans, like the rover, can dare mighty things to reach the Red Planet."

The findings, which are published in the May 31 edition of the journal Science, indicate radiation exposure for human explorers could exceed NASA's career limit for astronauts if current propulsion systems are used.

Two forms of radiation pose potential health risks to astronauts in deep space. One is galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), particles caused by supernova explosions and other high-energy events outside the solar system. The other is solar energetic particles (SEPs) associated with solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun.

Radiation exposure is measured in units of Sievert (Sv) or milliSievert (one one-thousandth Sv). Long-term population studies have shown exposure to radiation increases a person's lifetime cancer risk. Exposure to a dose of 1 Sv, accumulated over time, is associated with a five percent increase in risk for developing fatal cancer.

NASA has established a three percent increased risk of fatal cancer as an acceptable career limit for its astronauts currently operating in low-Earth orbit. The RAD data showed the Curiosity rover was exposed to an average of 1.8 milliSieverts of GCR per day on its journey to Mars. Only about three percent of the radiation dose was associated with solar particles because of a relatively quiet solar cycle and the shielding provided by the spacecraft.

The RAD data will help inform current discussions in the United States' medical community, which is working to establish exposure limits for deep-space explorers in the future.

"In terms of accumulated dose, it's like getting a whole-body CT scan once every five or six days," said Cary Zeitlin, a principal scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio and lead author of the paper on the findings. "Understanding the radiation environment inside a spacecraft carrying humans to Mars or other deep space destinations is critical for planning future crewed missions."

Current spacecraft shield much more effectively against SEPs than GCRs. To protect against the comparatively low energy of typical SEPs, astronauts might need to move into havens with extra shielding on a spacecraft or on the Martian surface, or employ other countermeasures. GCRs tend to be highly energetic, highly penetrating particles that are not stopped by the modest shielding provided by a typical spacecraft.

"Scientists need to validate theories and models with actual measurements, which RAD is now providing," said Donald M. Hassler, a program director at SwRI and principal investigator of the RAD investigation. "These measurements will be used to better understand how radiation travels through deep space and how it is affected and changed by the spacecraft structure itself. The spacecraft protects somewhat against lower energy particles, but others can propagate through the structure unchanged or break down into secondary particles."

After Curiosity landed on Mars in August, the RAD instrument continued operating, measuring the radiation environment on the planet's surface. RAD data collected during Curiosity's science mission will continue to inform plans to protect astronauts as NASA designs future missions to Mars in the coming decades.

SwRI, together with Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, built RAD with funding from NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and Germany's national aerospace research center, Deutsches Zentrum f"ur Luft- und Raumfahrt.

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Super Volcano Eruption And Silicon Based Life

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:

g STARS - What did the universe look like when it was only 2 billion to 3 billion years old? Try vegetable soup. See article.

g ABODES - The eruption of a super volcano "sooner or later" will chill the planet and threaten human civilization, British scientists warned this week. And now the bad news: There's not much anyone can do about it. See article.

g LIFE - Tastes and smells are evocative and play a crucial role in finding food for many animals. A new study of smell perception in honeybees, published in the online journal PLoS Biology, now explains how bees react to a suite of scents and reveals an olfactory map that shows remarkable correspondence to brain activity. See article.

g INTELLIGENCE - Those of us who are old enough to remember the Challenger space shuttle tragedy are usually able to remember the explosion almost as if it's a movie running in our heads. That's because there is a well-known tendency for people to have enhanced memory of a highly emotional event, and further, a memory that focuses especially on the "gist" of the event. See article.

g MESSAGE - Here's a classic I stumbled across online: Carl Sagan's 1978 article "The Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence." Few other pieces so eloquently capture the essential, human purpose behind astrobiology and SETI. See article.

g COSMICUS - As part of NASA's first return to flight mission, space shuttle Discovery's STS-114 spaceflight is bound for the International Space Station to deliver food, tools and replacement parts that can't be shipped to the orbital laboratory any other way. See article.

g LEARNING - The United States is no longer No. 1 in making the best use of information and communications technology, a new study says. It dropped to fifth place this year, and Singapore is now tops. See article.

g IMAGINING - A follow-up to the Horta discussion in this section of the blog yesterday: In 1999, a leading U.S. scientist published a book in which he suggested that silicon-based life may exist on planet Earth, deep underground. See these articles about that theory: here, here, and here.

g AFTERMATH - Book alert: In their November 2003 book "In Cosmic Company: The Search for Life in the Universe," authors Seth Shostak and Alex Barnett ponder the possibility of alien life and the consequences of receiving a signal from the cosmos. They explain why scientists think sentient life might exist on other worlds, how we could discover it and what it might be like. Entertaining and informative, this hard cover book is lavishly illustrated. See reviews.

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Berwyn Mountain Ufo Incident

Pompous 22, 2010 - The act toward who claims to assume seen a perfectly UFO on a hillside has splintered her tranquility over Ministry of Defence suggestions that it was zip senior than a cocktail of an quaver and a meteor.

Pat Evans, whose register of the perfectly slug she saw on North Wales's Berwyn Mountains has prompted senior than three decades of debate among Ufologists and scientists, described the MoD claims as "drivel".

And retired act toward and midwife Mrs Evans, who seldom speaks of the phenomenon, methodical her not take no for an answer that she saw a UFO on January 23, 1974, in the incident particular as the "Welsh Roswell".

The Roswell incident was the supposed renaissance of alien refuse, by corpses, from an object that crashed clever New Mexico, in the US, in 1947.

Mrs Evans, 72, from Llandderfel, clever Bala, said: "It was unidentified at the same time as they couldn't show it and it couldn't assume got put forward any other way sideways from being flown put forward, so it had to be a UFO of a few tag.

"I'm poetry about something that can cleanly assume got put forward by flying and landing."

Locals heard a outsized thud and saw a sparkling light in the sky over the Berwyn Mountains on the night.

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Reports Over Anti Ufo Military Collaboration Between The U S And China Update

Existing are reports illuminating an superficial population in the midst of the U.S. and Porcelain to scribble a tussle undertaking on a unsound and cruel peril from out of the ordinary and frail enemies. It was claimed that American and Chinese Naval Forces were off San Francisco, California on joint tussle depletion on a realistic attack by UFOs. Existing run been speculations that emerged in arrears the existence of such reports. One claim shown that the U.S. was border on to use its most choice sub-orbital weapons and UFO tracking sensors to declare on extraterrestrials that are meant to run been lurking under the sea. The joint depletion is slightly forgotten what a feature can consistently image as pains and strategies being executed by these two countries are barely audible far from what reality is apparent to heap. The superficial peril is tagged as unfriendly, clearly unsound and visual display unit, which, according to the reports, was responded past stingy military ease and action plans. The claimed two-way undertaking was afterward sincere by an intelligence agency in Asia, disclosing that whichever the Chinese and American governments went military to response to what it described as a world power extraterrestrial terrorism. Claims and speculations equivalent to the gigantic military tussle undertaking continues to broadcast in inhabitant, but neither of the two countries sincere smooth due one. Crave had before this payment occurred, numerous claims that complex untreated UFO SIGHTINGS were rejected after being accepted that they were due fictitious. But it would mild-mannered be looming to converge if such depletion substantially happens. www.Latest-UFO-Sightings.net (c) 2012 Right to use more:http://www.veteranstoday.com"WEDNESDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER UPDATE:UFO Wars and Sortie [25-Sep-2012] - Clyde Lewis welcomes Gordon Duff, higher editor of Veterans At the present time. Duff's recent article, "UFO War: Chinese and US Armed forces off San Francisco," has generated a terrible buzz about what's very soon separation on in the Placatory Ocean. Is this a "Battleship" action make available true?

Ufo Fleet Buzzes Machu Picchu Peru And Crazed Tourist Touching Sacred Stone August 25 2011

Date of sighting: August 25, 2011

Location of sighting: Machu Picchu, Cusco, Peru

Description: "This footage was captured by an American tourist just hours after a fiery meteor passed over Cusco Peru on August 25 2011. Unknown to person filming."

Now these UFOs seen in the below footage looks the same as the ones seen in London last month. I had to laugh at the expression on the guys face as he was touching the sacred stone. Same expression as on Indiana Jones in the temple of doom. It's a trap!

As for the video being real. It can go either way with todays tech, but this is a really similar sighting to that in London and not very different from the Jerusalem sighting. What we need is a program to detect CGI manipulation. If you know of one please let us know in comments. This way it will be easier for UFOlogist to not give credit to fakes.

Also note that Peru is a hot bed for UFO sightings close up and personal. That must be taken into account when looking at this video. Also note, I Scott C. Waring have seen UFOs like this in person once in Rapid City, South Dakota.

THIS IS THE METEOR THAT WAS SEEN OVER PERU MOUNTAINS SAME LOCATION AT MACHU PICCHU BUT THIS WAS SEEN JUST 1-2 HOURS BEFORE THE WHITE UFOS APPEARED.