UFO Spiral in the sky seen and heard across Western Canada. Hoax or cover up?

Event: Friday, May 21. Time: Unknown

The Norway spiral comes to mind when TheWeatherSpace.com received photographs and even an amazing video of the event. An object swooped down from the sky and then returned in a brilliant display on Friday night across the Western Canada areas.

Three different photographers have given their photos to TheWeatherSpace.com in what looks like something out of a science fiction movie. We cannot see what would cause this one Earth. The Norway spiral was said to be caused by a missile launch in the Russian territory. But what is this?

The only known areas to launch on the Western coast are the Vandenberg Air Force Base and Alaskan areas. Vandenberg confirms no launches and Kodiak Island has to be ruled out due to the direction of travel (from the west).

The photographs show a very similar shape and mysterious object off the coast of Canada. The object is not a missile as one photograph from the beach has the trajectory curving up! What is it?

A video was sent to TheWeatherSpace.com and the web team has added it to the video server on YouTube.com. The video shows the entire sequence of this object as filmed by Steven Murray.

“I have four sky cameras to catch meteors on and number three caught it”, Murray said. “I saw it from my office while doing work. The object was on the monitor. By the time I rushed outside the object was gone but the loudest boom I ever heard from a distance struck shortly after.”

via UFO Spiral in the sky seen and heard across Western Canada.

Something real happened and then it seems there was a quick cover up. There were multiple eye witnesses and photos from multiple points of view.

However, one person said the video is not right:

“I know that is what I saw.  … the video is not what it looked like.  The PHOTOS are what it looked like!  Someone must have done a re-creation of the actual event.  The photos are 100% real!”

The video does not match the uneven shape of the spiral in the photos. The video looks high quality, but still fake, like a Star Trek ship going to warp speed (but better).  One thing I heard is that the best UFO video footage ever was taken and this CG work was overlayed then it was released. So, in the video the light ship is drawn over whatever really was first captured.

Some youtubers are saying the guy who released the fake looking video (Kevin Martin?) was visited by people, had his life was threatened, his family was threatened, and he was told not to talk about it.

The reason for creating a fake video would be so you can then have someone admit to the hoax.  Sure enough, here is the “admission” that it was a hoax:

What looked like numerous photographs and videos of a ship entering the cosmos was actually put together by not a team, but one person.

Kevin Martin, a Southern California Weatherman has come forward as the hoaxer to what is likely the biggest hoax ever created.

Martin claims he e-mailed the material to TheWeatherSpace.com in an effort to test a theory of his out.

“Who is more gullible, Americans or Europeans?”, asked Martin. “A growing number of conspiracy theorists are American, while Europe seems to have their head on straighter to the facts. I decided to test it out with a half done CGI video and photoshop photo stills, sending it to Betty Morgan at TheWeatherSpace.com Space News section.”

Martin claims that his theory was correct, Europeans have a better handle on reality than Americans.

Upon further investigation it seems like Martin is a master at marketing, graphics, and even manipulation. TheWeatherSpace.com was fooled and I apologize for that.

http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/05-22-2010-UFO-Spiral-in-the-sky-seen-and-heard-across-Western-Canada.html

According to a comment UFOs about:

the hoaxer has already come forward and confessed about this, and an editor has lost her job over it!

Question: Did anyone real really see and hear this? If so, this is a major cover up. Is this a hoax, or a hoax of a hoax?

The so called hoaxer just came forward and said he lied about hoaxing the video. The real guy Steven Murray came forward and said the video is real and the hoaxer is lying, he said he remains quiet because he wants to protect his family. These are the most important videos we have to date, we are being visited. By the way the airplane is moving in the other vid, study it.

…the guy Kevin who said he made it, didn’t have the skills to make this. That’s why he was busted and had to admit he didn’t make it (lol…claim to fame ending in shame). So now the question is, who did?

…The hoaxer has retracted his story, he said he lied about hoaxing the video. The real person Steven Murray said the video is real, but he has been approached and told to keep quiet.

- youtube

And now, the second video:

The second piece was again authored by Ms. Morgan who explained the origin of the second video:

Another video has just surfaced to us from in a jet airliner at 25,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Washington State.

Meaning, I guess, that some guy just happened to be pointing his video camera out the window, just after sundown, against what was aparently non-reflective glass by his seat as he cruised above the Prince Rupert area of Western Canada at just the right time.

None of this would be worth addressing but for the fact that the first Weather Space post was linked by Coast to Coast AM‘s website and C2C is one of the biggest sources of paranormal news on the radio and on the Web. It’s therefore inevitable this new spiral UFO will come up for a bit of discussion online. Maybe a good deal of discussion.

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A few obvious things:

• - Both videos, supposedly from two different sources, are almost the exact same length: 1:22.
• - Both videos seem to follow a pattern – display the anomaly first, then pad the last half of the video with ambient noise: a barking dog and crickets in the first; barely-heard conversation and possible engine noise in the second.
• - Both videos show what seems to be – especially in the first, “Steven Murray” video – an unusually static background with the motion of the phenomenon in the sky. Also, the action of the “spiral UFO” screams, after a few views, CGI rendering. It’s smooth and artful.

Now some of the less obvious details:

• - At the moment, there have been no reports about this phenomenon made to MUFON.com. Not one. All the most recent reports as of May 23 came from Great Britain or the United States. Why is this notable? People report the most ridiculous things imaginable to MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network) daily. This isn’t a deal-killer, of course – the Norway Spiral wasn’t reported on MUFON (as far as I could tell) until it was already a major news story.
• - An examination of still photos posted with the videos on The Weather Space articles were somehow manipulated with Adobe Photoshop. Link 1, link 2. Both images were created and saved in Adobe Photoshop CS 4. This isn’t a deal-killer, either – some people simply use Photoshop to shrink images to an appropriate size to use online.
• - Numerous “legitimate” news outlets reported on the Norway Spiral shortly after images of it began to pop up on message boards all over the Web. It was unavoidable, even for normally skeptical press organizations. The Norway Spiral had simply been seen by too many people. As yet, though, the Western Canada Spiral, which supposedly was witnessed in the sky over Prince Rupert, hasn’t even made it into a Prince Rupert publication.

- http://www.huffreport.net/2010/05/new-reports-of-spiral-anomaly-in.html

Stalin blocked two attempts to kill Hitler, Russian general says

Josef Stalin blocked two attempts to kill Adolf Hiter during the Second World War, fearing that his replacement as Nazi leader would make peace with the Western Allies, a top Russian general said.

A plan to attack Hitler’s bunker in 1943 and a 1944 plot involving an assassin who had gained the trust of the Nazi leadership were both cancelled on Stalin’s orders, General Anatoly Kulikov told a historical conference in Moscow on Tuesday.

“A plan to assassinate Hitler in his bunker was developed, but Stalin suddenly cancelled it in 1943 over fears that after Hitler’s death his associates would conclude a separate peace treaty with Britain and the United States,” Russia’s RIA news agency quoted Gen Kulikov as saying.

In 1944, the Soviets again plotted to kill Hitler after a potential assassin managed to gain the trust of the Nazi leadership. “A detailed assassination plan was prepared, but Stalin cancelled it again,” Gen Kulikov was quoted as saying.

Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945, as Soviet forces closed on Berlin, effectively ending the war in Europe and setting the stage for the Cold War stand-off between Russia and the West.

An estimated 27 million Soviet citizens died in the 1941-1945 war with Nazi Germany.

Gen Kulikov was Russia’s interior minister from 1995 to 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin. He said that the Club of Military Leaders, which he heads, would include details of the assassination attempts in a forthcoming book on the Second World War.

via Stalin blocked two attempts to kill Hitler, Russian general says – Telegraph.

Elderly Chicago Couple Buried Alive in Trash

Two people in their 70s are hospitalized in critical condition after they were found buried under mounds of trash in their home on Chicago’s South Side, CBS Station WBBM reports.

Police had conducted a well-being check Monday evening, as the couple hadn’t been heard from in three weeks.

Police Lt. Dale Kingsley said their Grand Crossing neighborhood home was “packed from floor to ceiling” with garbage.

Officials said the couple – a 79-year-old woman and a 76-year-old man – appear to be hoarders. Junk was stacked from the floor to the ceiling in the basement and first and second floors.

Paramedics found the stench so overpowering they had to don hazardous materials suits before going inside the home, according to Fire Department spokesman Kevin MacGregor.

The couple, possibly suffering from malnutrition, were taken to Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center in critical condition, according to Kingsley. were taken to Jackson Park Hospital.

By Tuesday morning their condition had improved, according to a hospital nurse.

Foul play is not suspected, according to Kingsley, who said the building will likely have to be condemned.

via Elderly Chicago Couple Buried Alive in Trash – CBS News.

German bank ‘blown up by robbers in botched raid’

Suspected robbers in Germany appear to have miscalculated the quantity of explosives needed to blow their way into a rural bank.

The building housing the bank in the northern village of Malliss was largely destroyed by an overnight explosion.

The bank’s cash machine survived intact and the suspected thieves are not thought to have made away with any money, Germany’s Welt Online reported.

No-one was injured, though the blast damaged nearby cars and buildings.

Investigators were working on the assumption that robbers had placed their explosives, possibly made from petrol or acetylene, at the entrance to the bank, German broadcaster NDR said.

The presence of a delivery van near the site of the explosion indicated that the suspected thieves may have intended to drive off with the cash dispenser, local media reported.

via BBC News – German bank ‘blown up by robbers in botched raid’.

Meteorites Land in SoHo’s Evolution Store

Meteorites have landed in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.

But fear not, fashionistas and art lovers: The boutiques and galleries are perfectly intact. The meteorites arrived last week, not from outer space but from Sweden, and they are for sale at a small shop called Evolution.

The 4.5-billion-year-old alien rocks, known as Muonionalusta meteorites, came from a strewfield first discovered in 1906 by two children tending cattle in a pasture. While kicking stones, they found one that stood out from the rest and brought it back to their village. It was later identified as an iron meteorite.

Since then, meteorite hunters have found pieces in the area and sold them to dealers and stores like Evolution.

But how can the casual shopper be sure they’re really rocks that journeyed through the solar system and crashed to Earth before ending up in the middle of SoHo — and not just rocks?

“The crystalline structure of the iron that they’re made out of — which is typical of meteorites — you don’t see that in iron on the Earth because the crystalline structure can’t form this way here,” store manager Alex Minott explained to AOL News. “The exterior surface of the meteorite is covered in something called the fusion crust — when the meteorite passes through the upper atmosphere and gets heated up.”

As for the age, the 4.5 billion years is merely an estimate. But give or take a billion years, it’s still ridiculously old.

“It’s based on what is currently believed by scientists about the origin of the solar system, that iron meteorites of these types are formed roughly coevally with the planets,” Minott said. “And since the Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago, we put in about the same date. No one can say exactly, but the iron in the solar system seems to have formed all around the same time.” …

via Meteorites Land in SoHo’s Evolution Store – AOL News.

Farmers brace for grasshopper invasion

A major infestation of grasshoppers could descend this summer on Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska and the Dakotas, damaging rangeland and crops, ranchers, farmers and scientists say.

In some places, this summer could be the worst for grasshoppers since the mid-1980s, said Charles Brown, a grasshopper suppression specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“There is the potential for widespread outbreaks this summer,” Brown said. “We could see grasshopper levels several times of what you would see in a normal year.”

Less severe but significant outbreaks are possible in Nevada, Utah and Idaho, according to the USDA.

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The threat assessment is based on results from the USDA’s annual survey of adult grasshopper populations conducted in late summer, Brown said. High numbers recorded last year were part of a natural buildup of grasshopper populations that occurs periodically. Those adult grasshoppers laid eggs that could hatch bugs that cause a much bigger problem this summer, he said.

Last year was trouble enough, said Marge West, whose family operates a 10,000-acre cattle, wheat and alfalfa ranch northwest of Gillette, Wyo.

“Last year we lost probably a third of our rangeland,” said West, 74. “If it’s any worse this year, we’re going to have a real disaster.”

via Farmers brace for grasshopper invasion – USATODAY.com.

Online record of ‘religious dissenters’ published for first time

The records of religious dissenters, including William Blake, Daniel Defoe and JS Mill, have been published online for the first time.

The first tranche of the “Non Conformist Registers” has been put online detailing the hundreds of thousands of people who shook up the established order with alternative ideas over the past 225 years.

The database, which goes live on Wednesday, discloses those who refused to conform to the doctrine of the established Anglican Church including Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists and Quakers.

The Quakers were the first religious group to denounce slavery while Methodists were great advocates of women’s rights.

More than 224,000 names are included in the register, which dates from the late 17th century, which also detail baptisms, marriages and burial inscriptions.

The digitised papers originally come from the London Metropolitan Archives, which is run by the City of London authority and were compiled by Ancestry.co.uk, a family history website.

Some of those who feature in the archive include George Fox (1624-1691), founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Daniel Defoe (1659-1731), the author of Robinson Crusoe who was the son of Presbyterian nonconformists, William Blake (1757-1827), one of Britain’s greatest artists, and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), the British philosopher and politician.

As British non conformists were not recorded by the state until 1837, these documents are, for the most part, the only records of these non conformists in existence. They also form part of the London Historical Records.

Experts say non conformists, who were simply labelled if they listed themselves as being part of “dissenting organisations”, were often intellectuals and freethinkers, who can largely be credited with being behind modern civil liberties. …

via Online record of ‘religious dissenters’ published for first time – Telegraph.

Video Gamers Can Control Dreams, Study Suggests

Playing video games before bedtime may give people an unusual level of awareness and control in their dreams, LiveScience has learned.

That ability to shape the alternate reality of dream worlds might not match mind-bending Hollywood films such as “The Matrix,” but it could provide an edge when fighting nightmares or even mental trauma.

Dreams and video games both represent alternate realities, according to Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada. But she pointed out that dreams arise biologically from the human mind, while video games are technologically driven by computers and gaming consoles.

“If you’re spending hours a day in a virtual reality, if nothing else it’s practice,” said Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada. “Gamers are used to controlling their game environments, so that can translate into dreams.”

Gackenbach first became interested in video games in the 1990s, when she watched her son repeatedly kiss a new Nintendo gaming console on the way home from a Toys “R” Us. She had previously focused on studying lucid dreams, in which people have awareness of being in a dream.

The last decade of game-related research has since yielded several surprises, although the findings represent suggestive associations rather than definitive proof, Gackenbach cautioned. She is scheduled to discuss her work as a featured speaker at the Sixth Annual Games for Health Conference in Boston this week.

via Video Gamers Can Control Dreams, Study Suggests | LiveScience.

Jayne is great. I’ve been a fan since I read Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain. (Plenum Publishers (1988). Ed. with Dr. Stephen LaBerge.)

LaBerge is the person who proved to the scientific community that lucid dreams exist.  He did this by planning with lucid dreamers that once they became aware they were dreaming, they would signal with their eyes.  Eye movements can be recorded as can brain waves. By getting simultaneous brain waves along with specific planned eye signals (such as left, forward, left, forward, up, forward,   up, forward,  down, forward, down, forward),  LaBerge showed that lucid dreamers were aware inside of their dreams and could remember and carry out specific experiments.  When you are dreaming, you send out signals to your body when you attempt to move, but quickly afterward, you send a suppression signal. This keeps you from moving while dreaming, but you can still read the signals that are sent to the body with certain instruments. I believe another thing LaBerge did, just to show that the eye signals were not chance, is to plan to tap out his name in Morse code while dreaming. As planned, did this while brain waves showed he was in a dream state.  This is what got me excited about lucid dreams. Communication with the outside world is possible.

GPS is getting $8-billion upgrade

Improvements, including the replacement of satellites, aim to make the system more reliable, more widespread and much more accurate.Without it, ATMs would stop spitting out cash, Wall Street could blunder billions of dollars in stock trades and clueless drivers would get lost.It’s GPS, and it’s everywhere.

Although most people may associate the Global Positioning System with the navigation devices that are becoming standard equipment on new cars, GPS has become a nerve center for the 21st century rivaling the Internet — enabling cargo companies to track shipments, guiding firefighters to hot spots and even helping people find lost dogs.

“It’s a ubiquitous utility that everybody takes for granted now,” said Bradford W. Parkinson.

He should know. Three decades ago, as a baby-faced Air Force colonel just out of the Vietnam War, Parkinson led the Pentagon team that developed GPS at a military base in El Segundo.

Now, scientists and engineers — including those at a sprawling satellite-making factory in El Segundo — are developing an $8-billion GPS upgrade that will make the system more reliable, more widespread and much more accurate.

The new system is designed to pinpoint someone’s location within an arm’s length, compared with a margin of error of 20 feet or more today. With that kind of precision, a GPS-enabled mobile phone could guide you right to the front steps of Starbucks, rather than somewhere on the block.

“This new system has the potential to deliver capabilities we haven’t seen yet,” said Marco Caceres, senior space analyst for aerospace research firm Teal Group. “Because GPS touches so many industries, it’s hard to imagine what industry wouldn’t be affected.”

The 24 satellites that make up the GPS constellation — many of them built at the former Rockwell plant in Seal Beach — will be replaced one by one. The first replacement was scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral this weekend. The overhaul will take a decade and is being overseen by engineers at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, where Parkinson and his team developed the current system.

“We know that the world relies on GPS,” said Col. David B. Goldstein, the chief engineer for the upgrade. …

via GPS is getting $8-billion upgrade – latimes.com.

Discovery of stem cell illuminates human brain evolution, points to therapies

UCSF scientists have discovered a new stem cell in the developing human brain. The cell produces nerve cells that help form the neocortex – the site of higher cognitive function—and likely accounts for the dramatic expansion of the region in the lineages that lead to man, the researchers say.

Future studies of these cells are expected to shed light on developmental diseases such as autism and schizophrenia and malformations of brain development, including microcephaly, lissencephaly and neuronal migration disorders, they say, as well as age-related illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Studies also will allow scientists to track the molecular steps that the cell goes through as it evolves into the nerve cell, or neuron, it produces. This information could then be used to prompt embryonic stem cells to differentiate in the culture dish into neurons for potential use in cell-replacement therapy.

The study is reported in a recent issue of the journal Nature, (vol. no. 464, 554-561; issue 7288).

“This discovery has the potential to transform our understanding of the development and evolution of the human neocortex, the most uniquely human part of the central nervous system,” says the senior author of the study, neurologist Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.

“It also should inform our understanding of developmental diseases and advance the creation of cell-based therapies. Many neurological diseases develop in neurons or the neural circuits between them. If we’re going to understand how these disorders develop, we have to better understand how the human and primate cerebral cortex develops.” …

via Discovery of stem cell illuminates human brain evolution, points to therapies – UCSF News Office.