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For a very long time, the scientific community has been wary of studying UFOs, and the scientists themselves hesitate to talk about their beliefs of unexplained aerial phenomena.

But that attitude is changing, and many scientists are joining the discussion without fear of ridicule.

"UFOs are real phenomena. They are artificial objects under intelligent control. They're definitely the craft of a supremely advanced technology," says physicist Eric Davis, a researcher of light-speed travel.

Davis, a research physicist at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin, studies propulsion physics, which he hopes will one day allow humans to travel easily and quickly through our galactic neighborhood.

He's aware of the public perception -- mostly from skeptics and debunkers -- that no legitimate scientists would ever touch the subject of UFOs.

"They're wrong, naive, stubborn, narrow-minded, afraid and fearful. It's a dirty word and a forbidden topic. Science is about open-minded inquiry. You shouldn't be laughing off people. You should show more deference and respect to them ... Scientists need to get back to using the scientific method to study things that are unknown and unusual, and the UFO subject is one of them."

Davis is one of several scientists who are presenting their views this weekend on a variety of UFO-related topics at the 2013 MUFON Symposium in Las Vegas.

The physicist, who recently won an award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for his study, "Faster-Than-Light Space Warps, Status and Next Steps," knows many colleagues who quietly study UFOs.

"There are scientists who are aware of evidence and observational data that is not refutable. It is absolutely corroborated, using forensic techniques and methodology. But they won't come out and publicize that because they fear it. Not the subject -- they fear the backlash from their professional colleagues. The impact on their career might be detrimental and they'd get bad publicity.

"It's not an acceptable, funded line of research. The National Science Foundation does not accept UFOs as a subject for scientific study."

It may come as a surprise that many scientists have been interested in UFOs for decades.

For 20 years, astronomer J. Allen Hynek was the U.S. Air Force scientific consultant on UFOs during its famous Project Blue Book UFO study that ended in 1969.

Davis believes that the domain for UFO investigations doesn't really belong in the hands of scientists.

"It's the domain of military intelligence," he suggests. "The fact that [unknown] craft are flying around Earth is not a subject for science -- it's a subject for intelligence-gathering, collection and analysis. That's because UFOs are not a natural phenomenon, and that's what science studies."

Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/20/physicist-eric-davis-mufon-symposium_n_3620126.html

Just the other night, while I was promoting my new Monster Files book, the host of the relevant radio show asked me why, if lake monsters are real, don’t we ever find hard and undeniable evidence of their existence? He was, of course, talking about a living specimen or a corpse. Okay, it’s a fair question, and many might take the view that the lack of a creature – alive or dead – is suggestive of the whole thing being nothing more than folklore, mythology, legend, hoaxing and misidentification. Right? Wrong.

There are many reasons why, even in lakes close to highly populated areas, we might never find hard evidence of the existence of such creatures. Let us focus primarily on the world’s most famous lake monsters of all, the Nessies of Scotland’s Loch Ness.

Of course, if flesh and blood animals of unknown origin – or known ones that have survived extinction from an age long gone – do inhabit the dark waters of Loch Ness, why is that we don’t have a body, even just one? After all, with so many tourists running around the shores of the loch like headless chickens, shouldn’t we surely have something physical in our hands by now? Nope, not necessarily.

Yes, Loch Ness is an absolute magnet for tourists. Tens of thousands of people flock to the loch each and every year, all in the hope of seeing a long neck and a hump surface from the shadowy depths. Yet, the number of sightings of the Nessies per year is incredibly small.

If the animals were mammals, like us, then quite clearly they would have to surface fairly frequently to breathe. And with those tens of thousands of people all focusing their eyes, camera-lenses and binoculars on the loch, the fact is that we should have far more than just a handful of yearly reports. Arguably we should have hundreds or even more. But, here’s the thing: we don’t.

This suggests that the Nessies don’t have to surface at all. Rather, they may derive their oxygen intake from the water. In other words, they might well represent some form of large, unidentified kind of fish. Thus, their surfacing might just be out of curiosity, rather than being born out of necessity.

So, if they are fish, then as well as living in the loch, the good chances are that they will die in the loch. And, let’s not omit the fact that they would sink to the bottom of what is a 755-foot-deep loch. Yes, I know that there have been a few land-based encounters, but some fish can leave the water for extended periods. Check out the mudskipper as a perfect example. So, a fish is still a viable possibility.

Now, let’s say that the Nessies are indeed fish which are born in Loch Ness, live in Loch Ness, and die in Loch Ness. When death claims them and they sink to the bottom of the loch, the native and known fish of Loch Ness – including pike, salmon, trout, and many more - would likely make a fast and tasty meal of them. That’s how nature works.

And, of course, the bodies would be sinking to a depth of more than 700 feet. Many skeptics forget that the average monster-hunter has neither the money nor the technology to take a mini-sub to the base of Loch Ness for a few months at a time in search of a corpse or several!

So, keeping all the above in mind – namely the depth of the loch, the probability that the Nessies are not mammals, and that we have no real, feasible way to search for and haul to the surface the bodies before they get eaten by other, smaller fish - is it hardly any wonder we’re lacking in a body?

Very much the same can be said of Ogopogo of British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake or Champ of Lake Champlain. If mammals, then we should be seeing them far more frequently than we do. And there’s the not insignificant fact that Okanagan Lake is 84 miles in length and 250 feet deep. As for Lake Champlain, it is a whopping 125 miles long.

As with Loch Ness, Scotland, this is plenty of space for animals to die in both Okanagan Lake or Lake Champlain, and quickly get devoured before they are ever discovered. And also as with Loch Ness, not everyone (in fact, not even most!) can race around the lowest depths of the lakes all day long, looking for newly-dead bodies, in a high-priced sub!

Richard Freeman, the zoological director of the Center for Fortean Zoology, has come up with another intriguing theory that helps to explain the lack of a corpse. Rather than being entire schools of such giant fish, Richard has pondered on the possibility that there may actually only be a very few of them at any given time, but which live to extraordinary ages. He thinks they may be giant eels.

Says Richard: “Eels normally live for up to ten years before swimming to the Sargasso Sea off the coast of Florida to spawn and die. But there is a known condition which affects the species called Eunuch Eels which makes them infertile. Because they cannot reproduce they do not swim to the Atlantic to spawn – so they don’t die. They can keep living and can grow to incredibly large sizes – like the ones in Loch Ness.”

We assume that if unknown animals live in Loch Ness, and that they are seen for decade upon decade, there must be dozens of them, to allow for mating, reproduction, and the continuation of the species. If, as Richard’s theory suggests, the numbers of very large eels in the loch may actually be no more than several at any given time, this, too, makes finding a body even more difficult. If, from time to time, there is just one massive eel in the loch, that makes matters beyond difficult to resolve.

A colony would be easier to find. A very occasional giant-sized mutation, but one which lives deep in the waters for decades, would pose major problems in terms of finding a corpse. Maybe the same can be said about Okanagan Lake and Lake Champlain. There’s an assumption that there has to be a viable, fairly large breeding population. But, again, what if there’s just an occasional (or even solitary, until the next one comes along), freakish, giant mutation and nothing more? Good luck trying to find the body of one large mutation in a 125-mile-long lake.

And, finally, for those, like me, who often ponder on the idea that the Nessies may be far more paranormal than physical, there’s the story of one of the world’s leading investigators of conspiracy theories, best-selling author, Jim Marrs. While digging into the world of U.S. Government research into remote-viewing and psychic-spying, Marrs learned that elements of the official world had attempted to focus their skill upon solving the riddle of what it is that lurks within Loch Ness, Scotland.

It was no easy task, however, as Marrs noted. Several remote-viewing sessions that targeted the creatures, said Marrs, actually revealed physical traces of the beasts – such as wakes in the water, or the distinct movement of large bodies beneath the surface of the loch. Significantly, those involved in the remote-viewing of Loch Ness even made drawings of long-necked, humped animals that eerily resembled the presumed extinct plesiosaurs of times past.

As Marrs noted, however, when the government’s remote-viewers attempted to dig further into the puzzle, they hit upon a startling discovery: the creatures – if that is what they really were – seemed to have the strange ability to appear and vanish into thin-air, just like classic, chain-rattling spirits, one might very well suggest.

Marrs, in his book, Psi-Spies, commented thus on this curious development in the affair of Nessie: “Considering that reports of human ghosts date back throughout man’s history, the Psi Spies seriously considered the possibility that the Loch Ness Monster is nothing less than a dinosaur’s ghost.”

Whatever your views on lake monsters – whether colonies of unknown animals, occasional freakish eels of massive size, or something less than physical – it all amounts to one thing: there are viable reasons why we have never yet found a body of a lake monster. And they may always remain viable reasons, too.

Source: Mysterious Universe
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/07/lake-monsters-where-are-the-bodies/

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On Feb. 5, 1971, Edgar Mitchell became the sixth of only 12 men to step on the moon. Of that elite dozen, which included Buzz Aldrin and the late Neil Armstrong 44 years ago this week, Mitchell is the only one to go on record about his controversial belief in extraterrestrial UFOs -- and of a possible government cover-up.

Mitchell, 82, is no dummy. While on active duty as a test pilot for the U.S. Navy, he completed an M.S. in aeronautical engineering at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a doctorate in aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mitchell also served in combat during the Korean War as a fighter pilot. In 1970, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

After retiring from NASA in 1972, he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences and later wrote “The Way of the Explorer” to document his experiences with mysticism and space.

I recently spoke on the telephone with the retired U.S. Navy Captain from his home in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was lucid and convincing with his heavy southern drawl, and just a little guarded.

Clash: Let’s start with the moon. Did you know your Apollo 14 crewmate Alan Shepard was going to “tee off” up there?
Moon Golf

Mitchell: Yes, I knew before it happened. But I didn’t know quite when he was going to fit it in. After we had rolled up the solar wind experiment and put it in the data box, I did my javelin throw and he did a golf shot for the first “Lunar Olympics.”

They were between 50 and 55 feet, and my javelin went four inches further than his golf ball. I’ve got the pictures to prove it!

Clash: Was there any big emotion when you stepped on the moon, or was it just part of a long list of things you had to do?

Mitchell: The latter is correct. Sure it was wonderful, we were pleased to do it and it was enjoyable to be among the first, but it was just part of a checklist we had practiced week after week at Cape Kennedy. We would go through the whole routine, rewrite it and modify it again until we were comfortable with the order.

And, of course, our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time. Apollo 11 and 12 were more to prove physically we could get (astronauts) down to the surface, then back safely to Earth.
Mars Base

Clash: Do you believe we need to establish a base on the moon before sending humans to Mars, as some of your fellow Apollo astronauts do?

Mitchell: I don’t think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That’s going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn’t have a lot to offer as a resource base.

There is something we could mine there, I’m sure, but there are better ways to do it. We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

Clash: You’re also known for your views on UFOs. What’s your experience regarding the Roswell, New Mexico, incident of 1947?

Mitchell: After my space flight, I was contacted by descendants of the original Roswell observers, including the person who delivered the child-sized coffins to the Air Force to contain alien bodies. Another was one of the children of the deputy sheriff who was patrolling traffic around the site.
Alien Bodies

There was also a military officer who was a friend of the families not involved in that particular operation, but who did share office space there. They all seemed credible with their stories that the bodies found were alien.

Clash: If that’s the case, why has it been hushed up?

Mitchell: Initially I think there was justification in that leadership officials thought people weren’t ready to handle it. But we are well past that now. Frankly, and this is just personal opinion, remember what (President) Eisenhower said in his final speech: “Beware the military industrial complex.” I suspect that’s what we’re talking about.

But it’s not just military. It’s a cabal of organizations primarily for a profit motive. We invented aircraft at the beginning of the 20th century.
Money Involvement

Twenty years later, we had an airline industry. Think of what that could mean in terms of space travel with control of UFO machinery, technology. There’s a lot of money involved.

Clash: Have you ever seen a UFO yourself?

Mitchell: I consider myself fairly well informed, although I have not seen one personally. I’m not out there looking -- I’m pretty busy.

Clash: Have you been threatened by anyone about your outspokenness on the subject?

Mitchell: No, but they wouldn’t be very successful with me if they tried.

Clash: Are you disappointed that America last visited the moon back in 1972 and has only sent astronauts into low earth orbit since?

Mitchell: There is no question we have to continue with human space development to other planets. But we also need to get our economy running. Then we have to get the world organized to work on this because it is really too much for any one country.

We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.

(James M. Clash is the author of “The Right Stuff: Interviews with Icons of the 1960s” (AskMen, 2012). He writes on adventure for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own. This interview was adapted from a longer conversation.)

Muse highlights include Mark Beech on music, Warwick Thompson on London theater, Laurie Muchnick on books and Stephanie Green’s Scene in D.C.

To contact the writer of this column: James M. Clash at Jamesmclash@gmail.com

Source: Bloomberg News
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-16/ufo-cover-ups-must-end-moonwalker-edgar-mitchell-says.html