>astronomer locates active UFO stargete in Big Dipper
I don't know about Big dipper, but astronomers have witnessed ufo's for centuries without knowing it. Many have requested proof of alien activity.
It can not be done on the net as the observations were done through centuries and from before computers were made.
In short;
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The Case For The UFO
by Morris K. Jessup
1955: Bantam Books, New York
In many ways, the most intriguing data of all comes from the skeptical astronomers. Their observations do tend to be quantitative, timed, and
documented. The astronomical data is more than merely qualitative. In other words, the astronomers themselves, being conscientious data hounds, were
not content with merely seeing things move in space. Although unaware of the true nature of what they saw, they recorded as much as time and equipment
would permit, and, as a result, they have enabled us to locate the habitat of the UFO's.
As with our own observations today, any single sighting by an astronomer could be a mistake or an illusion. But hundreds of sightings are involved,
and dozens of serious reliable astronomers. Many round things have been seen crossing the discs of the sun and moon, and some in space with no
background. Roundness implies spherical or discoid shapes.
Lights have been seen in space, some of them near Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the moon, and some between us and those orbs, so that they might be on
their surfaces. In the case of the moon, lights have been seen on the surface.
There have been shadows on the moon and on the earth which could have been cast only by manipulated space contrivances. The advent of the great comets
and tile red spot on Jupiter in the late 1870's 'was coincident with the mysterious appearance of a new crater on the moon precisely the size of the
UFO's seen by astronomers between the earth and the Moon.
The astronomers have seen two distinct classes of objects: the spherical, definitely outlined ones, and the hazy, nebulous ones. Both have appeared to
undergo intelligent manipulation and exhibit erratic motions. In all of these are features that have counterparts among the sightings listed by lay
observers since 1947. Simultaneous observations by two or more observers have at times established the approximate distances of the UFO's through
study parallax. ("Parallax" is the displacement, often measurable, caused by looking at an object from two different points; e.g. hold up a finger
and view it with first one eye and then the other. The displacement against a distinct background is parallax.)
All in all, the astronomical evidence for UFO's, while less voluminous than other types, is better grounded in factual and quantitative data. It must
be given great weight. If, in reality, the astronomical profession is to be forced into the position of being the principal witness for the defense,
in the case of the UFO's, its members will suffer a most peculiar type of embarrassment, for theirs is the unenviable position of having been most
dogmatic and derogatory.
It seems unfortunate that astronomy, once the leader in the search for qualitative knowledge, is apparently degenerating into opposition to
pioneering. Yet, astronomy, while strictly an observational and not an experimental science, takes front rank in denying authentic observational data
which threatens in the slightest to upset its own scientific apple cart.
In an observational science such as astronomy, laws have to be built from innumerably repeated observations and not, as is partially true in physics
and chemistry, on the basis of duplicative laboratory experiment. In such cases, as the astronomer knows only too well, repeated observations must be
accepted as tantamount to proof.
Many of astronomy's tenets are in such a category. To take only one example, the hypothetical life history of stars is based entirely on the
so-called spectral sequence built solely upon spectroscopic observations of thousands of stars and the subsequent grouping and arranging of these into
some logical structure. Even in this ponderous sequence there are erratics, or stars with peculiar spectra, whose real nature is a matter of
speculation even after a hundred years of spectroscopy. Yet, the astronomer can hardly deny the existence of the obviously shining star, no matter how
recalcitrant may be its light waves.
There Is Intelligence in Space
The vast amount of material from the past, in all categories, shows clearly that intelligence exists in space! "Intelligence" is the sine qua non of
our analysis. Without it our thoughts may be meaningless. With it, our corollary postulates are automatic.
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Remember this was in 1955! So that today's astronomers witness the same as astronomers have for many centuries should not suprise anyone.
and further;
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It may be difficult to see the significance of antiquity in the consideration of space flight or space inhabitance. But failure to consider the
sprawling background of the UFO problem is the greatest single factor in the appalling chaos which engulfs this enigma. Take but one small item: the
little piece of meteoric iron which was found deep within a tertiary coal bed. The locale and the finding are authentic. The shape is purely
artificial. It is but an inch or so square, practically a cube. Four sides are squarely faced, and the other two are convexly shaped, with complete
symmetry. Around the four surfaced sides runs a groove, geometrically contrived. Here are three established facts:
1. Placement in an incipient coal bed some 300,000 years ago.
2. Made of meteoric iron, identifiable by structure and chemical content.
3. Clearly shaped by artificial means.
The number of explanations as to how it got into that coal bed may be few or several, but there is one underlying fact which cannot be scoffed into
oblivion: This piece of natural steel was shaped by an intelligent instrumentation at least 300,000 years ago!
We can go on, but somebody has to make a choice, or deny and ignore the entire factual substratum. Science has ignored it. The choice is most galling
to face: Was this gadget, created as it was by intelligence, placed there by man indigenous to earth, or was it dropped from space by a space
traveler?
You choose to say: placed by Man? Then there was a race of men here 300,000 years ago who knew enough to shape steel, and, by inference, make
machinery. If they could do that, they most likely had locomotion of some sort, and there is no good reason to deny that they could have found space
flight either by research or accident. At worst there was time to develop a civilization of any preassigned refinement. Science doesn't like that.
Alternative to that horn of the dilemma, we must contemplate space flight of 300,000 years ago, capable of bringing this little machine part to the
earth, or of bringing civilization itself and planting it here within that type of animal life judged most likely and suitable to perpetuate and
develop mental capacity. It is indeed a nasty choice for inhibited minds.
We can conclude that space habitation has existed for many millennia. We do not care whether earthmen took to space as a matter of convenience,
comfort, and safety after blowing off a portion of the planet; or whether space inhabitants created terrestrial intelligence "in their own image."
Bluntly: "What's the difference?" The basic thought is that man is living in a world in which he is neither the completely dominant nor the
supremely intellectual being.
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The rush of oddities and unusual events in the decade 1877 to 1887 is very much in evidence. Perhaps it does seem to be drawing the long bow a bit if
one tries to make out that the presence of the great comets, or the activity of the Red Spot on Jupiter, were influential in causing such events, but
that all of these were concomitant is undeniable. If space life is limited to the earth-moon system, there is probably no common cause, but it must,
however, be borne in mind.
Of greater pertinence is the observed and authenticated activity on the lunar surface during these and the immediately preceding years. Not only were
there appearances and disappearances of lunar craters about the size of some of the larger space craft which have been seen, but there is some
evidence that nebulous entities hover over these evanescent craters and contribute to their obscuration.
Observations of UFO phenomena and related events on or near the earth's surface may be distorted by excitement, emotionalism and prejudice. But the
direct observations of space life and its contingent activity, as seen by astronomers, are more objective and more coolly recorded. We can feel more
relaxed in dealing with them, on more solid ground.
Astronomical observations break naturally into three categories: lights, shadows, and bodies. Lights and shadows, perhaps, in reality comprise one
group since one is the counterpart of the other, while bodies, on the other hand, tend to divide into two groups, one made up of solid contrivances
and the other of nebulous or cloudlike units.
Lights seem to be especially representative of intelligence, particularly when they appear to have independent movement, or to shine in places where
there seems to be no natural organic activity, for lights have to be created as well as manipulated. The hundreds of observations of lights on or near
the moon and in other parts of nearby space--lights which seem to exhibit volition, purposefulness and direction -- are extremely difficult to explain
on any other basis than intelligent activity in space. On the other hand, they become a natural corollary to such activity. Again, since science has
failed utterly to offer any other acceptable explanation, we ask that these lights be taken as one more phenomenon which can be simply adapted to our
organic environment by the one common denominator of space flight and space life.
Shadows are almost as easily identified with intelligence as are lights, and one is pretty well the counterpart of the other. Their validity cannot be
denied. Russell's shadow on the moon, 1,500 miles in diameter, holding a steady position for hours, cannot be lightly dismissed. The shadows on our
own clouds, as seen in Texas and England, are irrefutable proof that some kind of dirigible bodies are moving in our upper atmosphere or in nearby
space.
Bodies seen in space may be considered to have more direct and obvious connection with intelligence than do lights and shadows. There was a time when
astronomers, seeing these by the dozens, thought them to be intra-Mercurial planets, or asteroids. Keen analysts have long since dispelled that
misapprehension, but they have not discouraged nor discredited the sightings. These have remained without explanation for many decades, and some for
hundreds of years. All of these observations gradually came to be regarded as erratics, to be ignored if possible. Astronomers who did not make any
such observations liked to call them hallucinations, especially the spindle-shaped ones whose configuration did not resemble that of more commonly
known celestial objects. Mass passages, such as those seen by Herschel and Bonilla, were laughed off as being bugs, birds or seeds; or at worst,
meteor swarms.
Little effort was made to determine the parallax of such objects, so their distance was never fairly established. We cannot blame the individual
astronomer too much for this, particularly since many of those observations were made by amateurs. In those days it had not entered our comprehension
that any of these spatial wanderers could be so close to the earth that parallax would be noticeable between observers only a few score miles apart.
It has remained for us, awakening to the importance of those old observations, to make what we can of parallax studies for determining the distance of
the objects sighted. It is not astonishing that our findings substantiate earlier analyses, but there may be an element of amazement in finding that
these bodies are being navigated within the earth-moon system.
There is something more of astonishment, however, in finding that the astronomical observations include two distinct and divergent types of bodies:
the solid, geometrically shaped structures, and the ill-defined nebulous clouds. Both have been recorded by impeccable witnesses. Both have been shown
to exhibit evidences of intelligent direction or control. Both have their parallel instances among the current observations of UFO's seen by the man
in the street, since 1947, and by our forebears as shown in historical records.