Breakthrough in Quantum Communications

Last April I wrote about quantum communications and how it could be used by extraterrestrials and eventually by us. Quantum communications is not merely faster than light, it is instantaneous across any distance. A link to that post is here. You can also find it under older posts.


http://ufosinindiana.blogspot.com/2010/04/quantum-communications-between-stars.html

There has been a major breakthrough in this area! Here is a link to that story.

http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=10057

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The Philidelphia Navy Yard and Vanishing Ships

Since I was very young I have been deeply interested in mysteries. I discovered the Philadelphia Experiment when I was about seventeen. I had found in my local branch library a copy of Uninvited Visitors by Ivan T. Sanderson. The last chapter is about the Philadelphia Experiment And describes the story in pretty complete detail.

In case you are unfamiliar with this story, and I suspect you are not, in 1943 an experiment is supposed to have been conducted by the United States Navy to render a warship invisible. The ship was the USS Eldridge DE-173, a destroyer escort which was stationed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard at the time. According to the story a large amount of strange electronic gear was installed on the ship. It was then taken out to sea where the equipment was tuned on. The vessel then reportedly did vanish and reappeared. After that things apparently got out of control. The ship developed a tendency to vanish on its own. When it reappeared crewmen would materialize half in and half out of bulkheads decks and ship's superstructure. On one occasion the ship was reported to disappear from its birth in Philadelphia, appear in a birth in New York then returned to the first birth entirely on it's own.

The story was used as the basis for a rather good science fiction movie in 1984, rewritten as fact by Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore in 1995 and has been the subject of a number of documentaries.

I've always had trouble believing this story.

First of all I know something about invisibility. There are ways of rendering an object invisible. One is to use gravity. If you can generate a gravitational field powerful enough, light will bend around it and the object generating the field will be invisible. A black hole does this very well. Our own sun however, though it is vastly larger than the Earth, can only distort the position of stars visible on its periphery. This method is a bit impractical. Another way is to create a cloak covered with computer controlled video receptors and imagers. Images on one side of the cloaked object would be repeated on the other side, hiding the object. This was used in a science fictional sense in the James Bond film Die Another Day. Finally there is the much more feasible concept of optically warping light around the object using meta-materials or prisms made of calcite. This has been done on a small scale but depends on polarized light and so far only works on certain frequencies of light..

None of these has any chance in the near future of making a warship vanish using present day science and the Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occurred 69 years ago.

It also should be noted that the Navy has had the ability to make a warship vanish for over two hundred years. Submarines submerge.

Still I remained interested in the story until I had a conversation with the great science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp. de Camp was something of a hero of mine. One of the first books I owned, read, and remember the name of he author of was All About Rockets and Jets by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. This was a primer on rocket and jet propulsion and I must have read it at about eight years old.

In 1979 I decided that Indianapolis needed a science fiction convention. I discovered “cons” that year. The first Indianapolis con, InConJunction I, was held in 1981 and has continued every year ever since.

One year we were privileged to have as our guest of honor Mr. de Camp.

L. Sprague de Camp is considered to be one of the great luminaries of the field. He is author to far more books than can be mentioned here. One of his SF greats is Lest Darkness Fall. He wrote a great deal of fantasy and was listed as technical adviser on the Conan movies. He also wrote a great deal of nonfiction including The Ancient Engineers and interestingly The Evolution of Naval Weapons, US Government Textbook 1947.


When I had the opportunity to speak with Mr. de Camp at length I learned that he had been part of a team working for the Navy in 1944 to dream up and create new, cutting edge technology. The team was thee men, Lt. Commander L. Sprague de Camp, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov. Their lab was in The Philadelphia Navy Yard, one year after the legendary experiment was supposed to have taken place.

Of course I asked him about it. If anything like this had happened he would have been in exactly the right position to have heard about it. He hadn't. In fact he was adamant that nothing like this ever occurred. There was, he said, an ongoing process to degauss ships to demagnetize their hulls. This was the first time I'd heard of this. The process was to make the ship unattractive to magnetic mines. Someone had said it would make it invisible to them. In a speech to the convention later that weekend he mentioned it and refereed to Charles Berlitz as “The inventor of the Bermuda Triangle.” He also mentioned this in his autobiography, Time and Chance.

I didn't get a chance to have Sprague autograph All About Rockets and Jets. It had been read to disintegration many years before.

Since then the incident has been extensively investigated. No evidence at all, tangible or otherwise, other than that given initially by Carlos Allende who first mentioned it in an annotated copy of Jessup's The Case for the UFO has surfaced. Strange when you consider the large numbers of eye witness testimony to the events of the Roswell incident in 1947.

I cannot accept this as anything other than an entertaining legend.

On November 7 2010 at 6pm a student at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) was walking down Michigan Street on campus when he looked up and saw a fantastic object. He was too astonished to think of taking a photo, something he chastised himself for in his initial report to MUFON, but he did make the drawing reproduced above.

Since the sighting was in Indianapolis I drew the case. The witness did not want to meet with me but agreed to talk over the phone. Like many witnesses he initially believed that his report to MUFON would be the end of it and did not realize that we try to follow up and investigate every case. Our purpose is not to simply catalog cases but to investigate as deeply as we can and gather as much information as possible to solve the UFO mystery.

We do not want to disturb people's lives which in this case became an issue.

He described the object as silent and huge, the apparent size of 15 to 17 full moons. The underside had radiating spokes or vanes similar to the underside of a mushroom. There were several red lights both on the periphery and in the center and the apparent front of the craft or object was described as silver.

Since submitting his report the witness has become very reticent to be associated with a UFO sighting. He wishes to remain anonymous and adamantly refused to allow me to record my interview with him. The stated reason for this reluctance is his intention to enter a field of science as a career and he is worried about he potential discrimination. He is presently studying the sciences at IUPUI where the sighting took place.

The witness seems credible and very intelligent. There seems to be no obvious motive for perpetrating a hoax. No other witnesses could be contacted. There were no other reported sightings of the object.

Indianapolis International Airport and Indianapolis Air Traffic Control were of no help.

The witness did not exhibit any evidence that might indicate abduction. He was strikingly aware of the time during and after the sighting and is certain he can account for every second.

One unusual detail is the reaction of other people near the witness during the sighting. He refers to one person who saw the object and at least one other who should have. (I was not given information that would have allowed me to contact them.) Each either ignored or completely disregarded the object. Only the witness regarded the object as unusual. In fact highly unusual as illustrated by the description and illustration included in his report. Why then did the others consider it not worth a second look? I am personally familiar with this particular area of Indianapolis. It is near Indianapolis International Airport and it's glide paths. Jumbo jets fly overhead low and slow, almost constantly, on their landing approach. They frequently appear enormous and are considered by the people in the area as ordinary as cars on the street. Blimps are not as frequent but not unusual Indianapolis is a major sports venue and blimps can appear at any time. This might account for others in the area to simply not pay sufficient attention. People in the city also never seem to look up.

It must also be considered that if you accept the concept of alien abductions in urban areas then you must ask why the alien vessels aren’t seen far more often over cities. Is some agency at work concealing them or perhaps influencing potential observers to not see them?

In regards to this sighting I believe there are three possibilities:

1. The witness mistook a conventional aircraft for an unconventional one. I consider this to be unlikely in light of the witnesses intelligence, science background, and familiarity with the area.
2. This is a hoax. I find no credible reason to suspect this.
3. This is a real sighting of an unknown craft.

HARD EVIDENCE

Many excellent UFO researchers are locating and cataloging trace evidence of apparent extraterrestrial craft and other anomalous objects. While a significant amount has been recovered the fact remains that as yet we have no hard evidence that will convince the scientific community that UFOs are a real phenomena. A recent edition of The MUFON Journal stated "There is no scientific evidence for UFOs." Why? Simply because it has not been possible to definitively prove that the stuff recovered came from another otherworldly technology.

While we don't know what the military might have recovered, civilian researchers have so far not been able to recover from an alien crash site anything that points to an alien technology. Objects believed to be implants have been recovered. So has apparent debris from crashed or exploded craft. However the technology they may represent has not been penetrated. And always, the materials they are made of are found on Earth. They always will be.

The artifacts brought home from the Roswell crash by Major Marcel and witnessed by his son are described as being exceptionally light and strong. Foil like substances are described as being impervious to cutting tools and return to their shape when crumpled. It would be wonderful to see an analysis of these materials but any analysis that may exist is hidden in Army or Air Force archives. Nevertheless, I expect they are composed of elements found here on earth. The possibility of finding a material never before seen on this planet is unlikely.

All of the elements composing the Earth, The stars and planets, and even ourselves were forged in the heart of stars and launched across space in the explosion of super novas. These are the elements that compose all of the universe. They are the elements described in the periodic table. While new elements are still being discovered at Fermi and other institutions and more are expected to be found by the Large Hadron Collider these new elements lack the stability to survive decay more than a few milliseconds. The elements composing the alloys used in construction of an extraterrestrial; space ship must be stable. They must be elements found on Earth as well as every other part of the universe.

Recently Bill Birnes and his team of UFO Hunters searched the site at Aurora, Texas where a UFO was reported to have crashed on April 17, 1897. They found a significant amount of aluminum in the well where crash debris was reportedly dumped and on the surrounding land. Aluminum is an element. Today it is used extensively in the construction of aircraft. It was rare in the 19th century but it was being made. This aluminum could have been made on Earth or it could have been part of a space craft.

In his book Crash: When UFOs Fall From the Sky, Kevin Randle reports a case in South America of a witnessed explosion of a saucer. The debris found at the explosion site was magnesium. Another element commonly used on Earth in aircraft construction today. This magnesium was unusually pure and free of trace elements but it still was an element found on Earth. Magnesium, like all Earthly elements that make all of our materials, are also found in space.

What then will constitute scientific proof of UFOs? What is needed is an intact device or artifact from a UFO if not a complete space craft or a physical alien. Nothing else will provide sufficient proof.

©2010 David A. Henninger

IFOs

A frequent UFO report describes a luminous object performing tight maneuvers at night. The lights on the object do not conform to the red and green navigation lights and white landing lights of normal aircraft and the maneuvers appear to be too radical for an air craft piloted by a human being. Yet a relatively new mn made aircraft can account for this kind of report. The availability of bright, lightweight. LEDs has been embraced by radio controlled aircraft hobbyists. Most have equipped their model aircraft with navigation and landing lights in precise scale. A few. however, have installed very bright LEDs in unusual configuration on their models creating an anomalous appearance. These can be reported as UFOs by a casual observer who may be unaware that they are observing a radio controlled model.

RC hobbyists often fly their models at night now that light weight lighting is available. The models perform maneuvers in scale to their size which appear to be,, and in fact are, impossible for a manned aircraft. Of course RC aircraft must remain in the immediate vicinity of the controller on the ground to maintain line of sight and radio range.

An example of this kind of UFO appearing RC plane can be seen at the following link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOo3FIS4q-g

©2010 David A. Henninger

Orange Balls of Light

The most common type of UFO reported in Indiana this summer is the Orange Ball of Light or OBOL. OBOLs appear, as the name implies, as a bright orange sphere that seems to be burning or smoldering. They travel slowly and lazily across the sky usually with the wind and only last a minute or two. They seem, at least in the cases that I have investigated, to appear most frequently at night under cloud cover or overcast. Certainly some of these reports are distant airplanes slightly obscured by smog so that the navigation lights are blurred together. But many are sighted by reliable observers with excellent eyesight and with airplanes clearly visible in the same section of sky. Dozens of these have been reported this summer. Many more over the past several years.

Exactly what these objects are is a matter of debate within the UFO community. Some investigators believe that these are controlled devices or vehicles. Linda Moulton Howe has reported that flaming balls of light accompany cattle mutalations.

I suspect that OBOLs, at least the variety that appear in Indiana, are a natural phenomena, perhaps electrostatic in nature similer to ball lightening. Recently a number of new aspects of lightening have been verified by science. Lightening is now known to take huge etherial forms called elves, jets, and sprites that travel thousands of feet above a Thunderstorm . Lightnening might have other forms not yet identified.

There is also the possibility that OBOLs are related to earth lights, a phenomena not yet understood but beginning to get scientific recognition. Earthquake lights, which may or not be the same as earth lights, have been scientifically recorded both before and after an earthquake and are believed to be generated by geologic forces. None of these luminous bodies are fully understood.

So far we have no idea what OBOLS might be and we have no good clues. There have been many brief observations but few good pictures and even fewer good theories. Investigations continue.

©2010 David A. Henninger

Tiny UFOs in October

Indiana is being overflown by millions of tiny UFOs. They look like small bright spots in the clear blue sky Indiana is enjoying this week and are best seen in morning or evening.

Many species of smaller spiders will climb high in a tree and spread a net of webbing. The wind will take this like a kite and carry the spider for miles, sometimes hundreds of miles. This frequently happens shortly after a hatching so an observer might see dozens in an hour.

This afternoon I observed about fifteen. Most appeared as a bright fuzzy spot in the blue sky traveling in the direction of the wind and reflecting the sunlight. One or two were two or three bright spots connected by gossamer webbing making the whole thing resemble a creature in the first Poltergeist movie. truly an alien appearance.

Detailed information about this unusual trait of spiders can be found in Wikipedia. Search for ballooning (spiders).

©2010 David A. Henninger