Retired Col. Robert Friend, a former director of the Air Force's nearly 20-year UFO study, Project Blue Book, says that science should continue looking into the mystery of flying saucers.
Friend, assigned in 1958 to direct Blue Book, was charged with trying to determine if UFOs were a threat to national security and whether they could be of scientific interest.
“When I first took over the program, I wrote two staff studies, and in both instances, I recommended that [UFOs] be put into another agency which would give them full scientific investigations and analyses,” Friend told The Huffington Post over the weekend at a special lecture titled “Military UFOs: Secrets Revealed.”
The event, held at the Smithsonian-affiliated National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, featured Friend, seen below, three other retired military colonels and a former United Kingdom Ministry of Defense UFO investigator.
Photovoltaic (PV) cells, onshore wind turbines, internet technologies, and storage technologies have the potential to fundamentally change electricity markets in the years ahead. Photovoltaic cells are the most disruptive energy technology as they allow consumers of all sizes to produce power by themselves—new actors in the power market can begin operating with a new bottom-up control logic. Unsubsidised PV markets may start to take off in 2013, fuelling substantial growth where PV power is getting cheaper than grid or diesel backup electricity for commercial consumers.
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Managing loads and achieving a good match between power consumption and weather-dependent power production will likely become a key issue. This consumption—production balance may trigger massive innovation and investment in energy management technologies involving different kinds of storage and controls. Increasing autonomy and flexibility of consumers challenges the top-down control logic of traditional power supply and pushes for a more decentralised and multi-layered system. How rapidly and smoothly this transformation occurs depends to a large extent on the adaptation speed of the regulatory framework and on the ability of market players to develop appropriate business models. The paper discusses conflicts of interest; hurdles and drivers; opportunities; and traps for this perspective.
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Phi Beta Iota: Howard Bloom is a moral and intellectual force that should not be ignored. We strongly recommend his work. Below are links to three other books he has done.
Corruption, crime, false testimony, lies, are sand in the gears of society. All of our institutions — academia, civil society, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non-profit — have lost their integrity and embraced a culture of cheating, corruption, and living lies at every moment. If we are to survive as homo sapiens, we must restore integrity to every aspect of our existence. At multiple levels, the majority of us–including myself–are simply not ready to rise to the opportunities before us, including the salvation of the US political system in 2012, rather than “four more years” of corruption so pervasive it shames us, taints us, for eternity.
Tip of the hat to Berto Jongman, one of Europe's finest researchers, for pointing me to the work of Mike Bara. Below are short presentations of his two key books, and my notes on his 2010 presentation (following the embedded video), as well as some additional suggested viewing and reading.
The New York Times bestseller about the strange history of NASA and its cover-ups regarding its origins and extraterrestrial architecture found on the moon and Mars is even more interesting in its new edition.
Authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara include a new chapter about the discoveries made by ex-Nazi scientist and NASA stalwart Wernher von Braun regarding what he termed “alternate gravitational solutions,” or the rewriting of Newtonian physics into hyperdimensional spheres.
Two Worlds in Collision: Extraterrestrials, the Secret Government, and You
Host: Richard Dolan
In the wake of an ever-growing police state, it seems the secret of human contact with other intelligences present on the Earth has been hidden. Who is keeping the secret hidden? What and who are these intelligences operating behind the scenes, and what do the implications mean for humanity and our planet?
4 Sessions, Starting May 12th 9am Honolulu • 12pm San Francisco • 3pm New York • 8pm London
In a time of intensifying military power and invasive surveillance, many believe that a great secret remains concealed from us: The secret of human contact with other intelligences present on the Earth, now and in the distant past. If this is the case, then who is keeping this secret hidden? What kinds of intelligences operate behind the scenes, and what does this imply for the future of humanity and our planet?
