Un député russe rencontre des extraterrestres : Dmitri Medvedev est invité à enquêter

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Russie, Kalmoukie - Kirsan Ilyumzhinov dit avoir rencontré des extraterrestres. A la tête d'une république autonome depuis 17 ans, il inquiète plus d'un responsable russe qui demande à Dmitri Medvedev d'enquêter.

Le 26 avril dernier, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov a fait mention de sa rencontre atypique dans une émission télévisée diffusée sur Channel One à heure de grande écoute. Le 18 septembre 1997, le Président de la République autonome de Kalmoukie (sujet de la Fédération de Russie) aurait en effet été approché par "des créatures humanoïdes en combinaison jaune". D'après ce témoignage, un député de la Douma (chambre basse du parlement russe), Andrei Lebedev, suppose que le Président de Kalmoukie a pu divulguer des secrets d'état à n'importe qui. C'est pourquoi, il convoque les plus hautes instances de la Russie. Le journal britannique The Sun précise que M. Lebedev demande également au Président russe, Dimitri Medvedev, de donner ses directives en cas de véritable enlèvement par des aliens.

Il y a eb effet de quoi s'inquiéter quand un élu commence à perdre les pédales et nous fait un remake de Recontres du Troisième Type. Ou alors, il faut que la Russie instaure l'alcootest obligatoire avant de parler en public.

Climat: un ex-ministre appelle les aliens

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Un ancien ministre canadien de la Défense a appelé les gouvernements mondiaux à révéler ce qu'ils savent sur la technologie des extra-terrestres afin d'enrayer les changements climatiques.
"Il faut persuader les gouvernements de dire ce qu'ils savent. Certains d'entre nous pensent qu'ils en savent beaucoup, et cela pourrait suffire à sauver notre planète", a déclaré au quotidien Ottawa Citizen Paul Hellyer, 83 ans. (Avec AFP).

Et voici le 1er avril avec un mois d'avance. Tout le monde peut se tromper. M. Hellyer est un adepte de l'OVNIlogie, qui a déclaré lors d'une conférence en 2005 que "les OVNIs sont aussi réels que les avions."

The Reality of Recent UFO Sightings

By Benjamin Radford
Special to LiveScience

America has seen a spate of alleged UFO sightings in recent weeks and months. Eyewitnesses in Arizona, Illinois, Arkansas, North Carolina, and other states have reported seeing mysterious lights and objects in the sky.

Among the sightings:

• In November 2006, United Airlines employees reported seeing a large, dark, “saucer-shaped” craft over a terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. It hovered for a while, then suddenly rose and shot up into the sky.

• In January 2007, multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing a formation of mysterious bright lights in the sky over western Arkansas, moving too slowly to be aircraft.

• Similar lights were reported this week over Phoenix.

Could such sightings be alien spacecraft? Of course it’s possible; many things are possible. The question is not what is possible but what is probable—what evidence and logic suggest. Before jumping to conclusions about ETs in spacecraft, we must look at the most likely explanations.

What's more likely?

Without some independent confirmation or other evidence, it’s hard to know what the United Airlines employees might have seen. But is it more likely that they saw an optical illusion, or that a large, unknown object hovered over one of the country’s busiest airports without being seen by anyone else or appearing on radar?

The lights over Arkansas and Arizona had something in common: they were both seen near military bases, at a time when Air Force pilots were dropping very bright flares from parachutes during training. The flares, producing in some cases nearly 2 million candlepower, would be visible for miles.

So is it more likely that the mysterious lights were actually alien spacecraft, or that people simply saw the aerial magnesium flares released at the same time and place? (It would in fact be much more mysterious if no one had reported seeing lights in the sky at that time!)

Any object seen in the sky, especially at night, can be very difficult to identify because of the limitations of human perception. Knowing how far away something is helps us determine its size and speed; that’s why we know that moving cars seen at a distance aren’t really smaller, nor are they moving slowly; it’s simply an optical illusion. If the eyewitness doesn’t know the distance, then he or she cannot determine the size. Is that thing in the sky twenty feet long and 200 yards away, or is it 200 feet long and a mile away? It’s impossible to know, and this makes estimates of size, distance and speed very unreliable.

Recipe for a UFO

There is a more fundamental problem with such sightings, and it is revealed in the acronym UFO: unidentified flying object.

All that is needed to create a UFO sighting is one person who may not recognize a light or object in the sky. But just because one person—or even several people—can’t immediately identify or explain something they see doesn’t mean that someone else with more training or experience (or even the same person seeing the same object from a different angle) may not instantly recognize it.

Astronomers, who spend the most time looking at the sky, rarely report UFOs. This is because they often recognize aerial phenomena (odd clouds, comets, etc.) that the average person would consider strange or unexplainable.

Benjamin Radford is an investigator with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and author of three books and hundreds of articles on UFOs, Bigfoot, psychics, and other mysterious phenomena.

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UFO study finds no sign of aliens

Mark Simpson
BBC News

A confidential Ministry of Defence report on Unidentified Flying Objects has concluded that there is no proof of alien life forms.
In spite of the secrecy surrounding the UFO study, it seems citizens of planet Earth have little to worry about.
The report, which was completed in 2000 and stamped "Secret: UK Eyes Only", has been made public for the first time.
Only a small number of copies were produced and the identity of the man who wrote it has been protected.
His findings were only made public thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, after a request by Sheffield Hallam University academic Dr David Clarke.
The four-year study - entitled Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK - tackles the long-running question by UFO-spotters: "Is anyone out there?"
The answer, it seems, is "no".
The 400-page report puts it like this: "No evidence exists to suggest that the phenomena seen are hostile or under any type of control, other than that of natural physical forces."
It adds: "There is no evidence that 'solid' objects exist which could cause a collision hazard."
So if there are no such things as little green men in spaceships or flying saucers, why have so many people reported seeing them?
Well, here is the science bit.
"Evidence suggests that meteors and their well-known effects and, possibly some other less-known effects are responsible for some unidentified aerial phenomena," concludes the report.
"Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere.
"They appear to originate due to more than one set of weather and electrically-charged conditions and are observed so infrequently as to make them unique to the majority of observers."

Rational explanation

People who claim to have had a "close encounter" are often difficult to persuade that they did not really see what they thought they saw. The report offers a possible medical explanation.
"The close proximity of plasma related fields can adversely affect a vehicle or person," states the report.
"Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain. These result in the observer sustaining (and later describing and retaining) his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect, description of what is experienced."
There are, of course, other causes of UFOs - aeroplanes with particularly bright lights, stray odd-shaped balloons and strange flocks of birds, to name but a few.
Yet, it will be difficult to convince everyone that there is a rational explanation for all mysterious movements in the sky.
Some UFO-spotters believe governments will always cover up the truth about UFOs, because they are afraid of admitting that there is something beyond their control.
It is not clear how much time and effort the MoD has spent looking at the skies in recent years, but it appears there are no plans for an in-depth UFO report like the one written in 2000.
A MoD spokesperson said: "Both this study and the original "Flying Saucer Working Party" [already in public domain in the national Archives] concluded that there is insufficient evidence to indicate the presence of any genuine unidentified aerial phenomena.
"It is unlikely that we would carry out any future studies unless such evidence were to emerge."

Malgré plus d'un demi-siècle d'observations -- ignorons les divagations sur des ET préhistoriques --, aucun témoignage d'OVNI n'a jamais été validé comme provenant d'une intelligence extra-terrestre. Plus ces croyances sont infirmées, plus leurs adeptes se tournent vers le conspirationnisme pour expliquer que le gouvernement "nous cache quelque chose de pire encore" et que malgré l'absence totale de preuve, ils ont toujours raison.

Extra-terrestres: le ministère britannique de la Défense a "l'esprit ouvert"

LONDRES (AFP) – Le ministère britannique de la Défense (MoD) a "l'esprit totalement ouvert" quant à l'hypothèse de formes de vie extra-terrestres, selon une lettre interne dont le contenu a été révélé jeudi par le Financial Times.
Grâce à la nouvelle loi sur la liberté de l'information (Freedom of information Act), le journal est parvenu à se procurer cette lettre à usage interne jusqu'alors confidentielle. Le document prouve que le ministère enregistre attentivement les témoignages de gens qui disent avoir vu des formes extraterrestres en Grande-Bretagne, mais seulement, est-il précisé, "afin de déterminer si les événements décrits (par les témoins) ont une pertinence pour la sécurité (du pays)".
"Seule une poignée de ces témoignages a donné lieu à des enquêtes, et aucune n'a fourni de preuves qu'il y avait une menace", détaille la lettre, qui fait état de la complète "ouverture d'esprit" du ministère quant à l'hypothèse de la vie extra-terrestre. Il y a seulement deux semaines, "des lumières étranges" ont ainsi été vues par un quidam dans le ciel du Kent (sud-est de l'Angleterre), alors que le même soir un autre témoin rapportait avoir vu une soucoupe volante au dessus de Stoke-on-Trent (ouest de l'Angleterre).
Le ministère de la Défense a reconnu que ces témoignages récents n'étaient qu'une fraction des milliers de témoignages enregistrés.

Est-ce de « l’ouverture d’esprit » ou le simple bon sens qui fait que le MoD ne s’occupe que des affaires qui pourraient relever de la sécurité, même si le témoignage initial provient d’une personne persuadée d’avoir vu des extraterrestres ?