Hunt for Alien Artefact

 

Prof. Avi Loeb has shown himself to be an extraordinary man. The Harvard astronomer is behind the discovery of the supposedly first ever interstellar object detected, 'Oumuamua. He then did not hold back from saying so when the evidence led him to conclude that this object was of artificial construction; in other words, built by aliens. I'm sure many other astronomers have had thoughts like that, but none of them have had the guts to say so. Since them Prof. Loeb thinks he has found another interstellar object and that it is far closer to home; it is here on the earth! It has a much less catchy name than Loeb's first discovery: "CNEOS 2014-01-08", although he calls it "IM1- Interstellar Meteor Number 1" for short. IM1 was discovered in 2014 and analysis of its motion shows that it is, like 'Oumuamua, from an interstellar source. It formed in a separate solar system and flew into ours after a long interstellar journey. However, in this case it impacted the earth. It struck the ocean surface somewhere in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2019. Prof. Loeb has organized an expedition to try and find it. He asserts that it is a very important research project because this interstellar object appears to be made of a highly unusual material that cannot be properly identified from its observations before its impact. Loeb thinks IM1 might be artificial like 'Oumuamua. The expedition will involve sending a ship to a location closest to where he thinks the object landed and drop down a robot submersible armed with detection equipment that will scan the seabed. He has raised the budget required. I wish him and his team luck. However, I do wonder how feasible the task is. The sea at the impact site is five to six thousand feet deep. The object, or pieces of it, could be lying some distance from the best estimate of where it entered the earth's atmosphere. It is unfortunately far smaller than 'Oumuamua, about one and a half feet in diameter; the size of a beach ball. Finding anything in the deep ocean is extremely difficult. It took seventy-three years to find the wreck of the Titanic, even though its sinking location was pinpointed more precisely and it is far bigger than IM1, almost nine hundred feet long. Still, if Prof. Loeb succeeds I'll be deeply interested in what comes up. Source: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018859337/looking-for-a-ufo-which-crashed-into-the-pacific-ocean-in-2014. At the same time a mission has been proposed to visit 'Oumuamua. This is almost as difficult as finding a sunken meteorite because 'Oumuamua is a long way away, almost as distant as the planet Neptune and it is getting further away every day by almost fifteen hundred thousand miles. It can no longer be detected from the earth. It will take years to catch it up even if a spacecraft was launched today. It's still worth a try; and you never know, 'Oumuamua might turn around and come back! Source: https://siamtoo.com/6845/. I'll be pretty old by the time Project Lyra is likely to reach 'Oumuamua, but if I'm still in this world I promise to make a report on HPANWO Voice.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-galileo-project.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/06/interstellar-asteroid-is-speeding-up.html.
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/01/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-34.html.

Somerton Man Update

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/11/somerton-man.html.
After so many years of being a cold case, the mystery of the Somerton Man has been reignited. Amazingly, the clues which has led to its reopening were there for the very beginning. Flowers were left on the grave of the unknown man as soon as he was buried and this continued for many years. Local people were seen visiting the grave in a manner suggests more than mere curiosity. In 2007 "Jestyn", real name Jessica Thompson, died and her family did an interview with the press. Kate, Jessica's daughter, said that her mother had told her she lied to the police and that she knew the identity of the Somerton Man. Jessica was an English teacher who worked with many Russian immigrants; she could speak Russian herself. This is a profile that makes it likely that she was a Soviet spy and that so was the unknown man. Not only that, but possibly she had had a relationship with this man and that he was the father of her son Robin. Robin's widow, Roma Egan, and their daughter Rachel lodged permission to have the Somerton Man's body exhumed and DNA testing carried out, a technology that did not exist in 1948. If the family are correct then Rachel is the mystery man's granddaughter. Kate Thompson has opposed this. I expect the secrets it might unveil would cause a lot of family strife, even though it is connected to something so long ago. I know from experience that time is not always a healer in family matters, and even the passing of generations sometimes fails to bury conflicts. Kate also claims that the man's identity is already know secretly to higher-ups in government, which would be consistent with many espionage practices. In May 2021 the body was exhumed. A fresh coffin was brought in and it was carried respectfully by police pallbearers to a van and driven off to be tested by forensic pathologists.
 
At the same time an independent investigation has been running since 2009 led by Prof. Derek Abbott at the University of Adelaide. He has gathered the Somerton Man's DNA from the death mask made of him when his body was found. A few tiny hairs from his skin were left embedded in the plaster. It showed that the man's ancestry came primarily from Iberia and the Caucasus, the south-western and south-eastern extremes of Europe. It is a rare DNA signature among white people in general and more common in the Middle East, even though the man is clearly white. Then, just a couple of months ago in July 2022, Abbott made an astonishing announcement. He knew who the Somerton Man was. His name was Carl "Charles" Webb, a man who had been born in 1905 in Melbourne. Abbott has found this out by doing DNA tests on Webb's living relatives and matching them with those from the death mask. There are no known photographs of Carl Webb when he was alive, but there are some of his brother Roy who does resemble the mystery man. There is also a link to the name "T Keane" which is on some of the man's belongings. Carl's brother-in-law was called Thomas Keane and lived a short distance from him in Melbourne. He might have sold or given Carl some of his things. Interestingly there is no record of what happened to Webb after April 1947 when he was divorced from his wife. We don't know why the divorce happened; maybe because he was in a relationship with Jessica Thompson. After that he just seems to have vanished. He would be extremely old if he were still alive today, a hundred and seventeen plus, which alone would make him a celebrity; but he has never been issued a death certificate. The police have yet to publish their own analysis of the exhumed body. After the forensic study is done, the Somerton Man will be returned to the cemetery and reburied in the same grave, possibly with a name on the tombstone this time. Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-02/carl-webb-brother-resemblance-to-somerton-man/101293788. Along with no death certificate, there was no missing person's report ever filed for Carl Webb. He just seems to have dropped off every paper trail just under two years before the body was found. None of his living relatives ever met him and everything they know about him is second-hand from the intermediate generation. I agree with Kate Thompson; probably Carl Webb was some kind of secret agent. The mission he was on when he died may well one day be revealed to the public, but I suspect the government already know about it and want to keep it quiet, which may be the reason why the police have not yet published their own results. My guess is that his job was something to do with the Cold War which dominated the political world at that time. Nothing in his profile indicates which side he was spying for, apart from his connection to Jessica Thompson, although any real spy worth his salt would never carry around the phone numbers of his contacts unencrypted. His link to her is more likely to be simply personal. He may have been inserted by the KGB, but alternatively he may have been a counterintelligence officer for MI6, the CIA or Australia's own undercover network. His task may have been related to the Emu Field nuclear tests which, unknown to the public at the time, were being planned by the UK and Australia at a site close to Adelaide. The first detonation took place five years later in 1953. Even today, some secrets of the Cold War remain classified, especially those relating to human intelligence. This could be because the methodology and personnel is still relevant to modern operations; but it also could be because of the legal or political ramifications of anybody's cover being blown, as happened with Anthony Blunt, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Z4lucQar0. It could be we'll find out more information in the future, in which case I will immediately report on it.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/12/george-blake-dies.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/03/institutional-russophobia.html.
And: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-obscurati-chronicles-sample-fourth.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones Live at Encounters

 

I will be speaking at the Encounters conference, a new event organized by the author and experiencer Tina A Bird. My fellow speakers are: Dave Hodrien of the Birmingham UFO Group; Gary Heseltine, vice-president of the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research; LaRae Wilkins, long-term conference vendor and advocate for the author Marshall Vian Summers; Maria Wheatley the ancient mysteries investigator; Andy Thomas the author and Tina A Bird herself. The venue is The Jubilee Hall, Little Shore Lane, Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire SO31-1ED. The event is on Saturday the 22nd and Sunday the 23rd of April 2023. It starts at 8.30 AM on the Saturday. Tickets cost £30 per day, see: https://tabird.wixsite.com/website.

Update 28/3/23 CANCELLED
See here for a HPANWO Radio interview with Tina A Bird: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2023/01/programme-493-podcast-tina-bird.html.

Wokery Always Backfires

 

(I've seen ill for a few days so that's why there have been no articles. Apologies.)
See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/07/kemi-for-pm.html.
Something happened last Monday that was of such meagre importance that I didn't bother to report on it. We got a new Prime Minister. Yes, that is of no importance. Seeing as it had been the Coke or Pepsi duo for the previous month I had totally lost interest in the process. I was travelling to Lincolnshire that day to do my presentation at the Mablethorpe Group, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/09/mablethorpe-presentation-videos.html. I could have checked at any time to see who had won during my journey, but I simply was not interested. It was only after I arrived that I casually enquired with one of my hosts and she told me. I shrugged my shoulders and thought no more about it. Liz Truss is, after all, infinitely forgettable. It was no surprise that she has accelerated the programme the Tories have been on for years now. During the '80's under Kinnock and Smith, the Labour Party tried to become "more Tory than Tory", and now the Conservative Party is trying to be more Labour than Labour. This Sargon of Akkad video gives a good summery: https://odysee.com/@lotuseaters_com:1/it’s-way-worse-than-you-imagine:7. I am not really shocked that Liz Truss' senior cabinet is specifically geared towards eliminating white men from government because the political classes have been calling for such a move for years. Obviously I'm opposed to that and think it is dangerous and sinister. However, I'm pleased to say that the comforting trend I have seen emerge lately is also very much alive and well. Liz Truss has appointed her former leadership rival Kemi Badenoch to the cabinet. Does she know what she's doing? Kemi may be a "Black! Woman!", but she is a very different one to the kind currently favoured by the elite, see the background article above. For every Hegelian thesis there is an antithesis; for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction. To put it in more simple terms: wokery always backfires.
 
Kemi Badenoch has been appointed to her first ever cabinet post. The young backbencher is now International Trade Secretary and President of the Board of Trade. Her duties will include forming the country's new trade agreements with the rest of the world and helping British businesses who operate internationally, a very important job in this post-Brexit world; and for such a staunch Brexiteer to be given it is very healthy. She will refuse to take part in the economic sabotage we have seen from previous administrations. Is it really possible Liz Truss was blind to everything but Kemi's skin colour and sex? I know some doom-and-gloomers will accuse me of failing to realize that Truss is playing a four-D chess game, but is she? It was not such a game that led to the 2016 Effect after all? Perhaps it's even better than that! I'm really only joking that Liz Truss could be a Trumpian infiltrator, but for some reason she has brought Jacob Rees-Mogg back indoors, as Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary. This is a man who has spoken out against "climate alarmism". Why did she do that? The reaction from the establishment commentariat has been predictably enjoyable, see: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336860-jacob-rees-mogg-climate-change-concern-over-new-energy-policy-chief/ and: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/11/liz-truss-kemi-badenoch-conservative-tory-leadership-race/. It's not as bleak as Sargon thinks. It is important to follow where this all leads because the who-the-hell-is-she Prime Minister may well not last very long. The expiry dates on PM's do seem to be moving forward lately and it might not be long before she goes the same way as Boris Johnson, in which case Kemi Badenoch will once again be in a position to run for leader. This time she will be higher up the starting grid and will probably receive a stronger backing from the Parliamentary party because of her new experience. It was impressive she got as far as she did last time unseeded. Just when I thought British politics had gone back to being boring again...
See here for additional background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

UFO Truth Magazine- Issue 56

 

UFO Truth Magazine Issue 56 is now available. It can be purchased on this page as a single copy, but please subscribe and save money if you want to read it regularly, see: https://www.ufotruthmagazine.co.uk.
Issue 56 includes an article in my column entitled Do Aliens have a Sense
of Humour?.
 
Also you will find in Issue 56: a news article by Ross Coulthart, the Calvine UFO photo, new analysis of the Lago de Cote case and much much more.
Also in this HPANWO Show programme I interview the UFO Truth Magazine's editor Gary Heseltine: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2021/07/programme-427-podcast-gary-heseltine.html.
See here for details on UFO Truth Magazine Issue 55: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/07/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-55.html.

Mablethorpe Presentation Videos

 

The video recordings of my recent presentation at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire are available.
Part 1: https://www.facebook.com/tom.omalley.125/videos/1023000755043305.
Part 2: https://www.facebook.com/tom.omalley.125/videos/401036532211774.
Part 3: https://www.facebook.com/tom.omalley.125/videos/1444561729396852.

And see here for the complete video: https://www.facebook.com/ben.emlynjones/videos/2509436479203522.
These videos were originally streamed live on Facebook. The lecture is entitled Energy Politics and UFO's. See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/07/ben-emlyn-jones-live-at-mablethorpe.html.
See here for additional background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/free-energy-portal.html.

An Unpleasant Railway Journey

 

King's Cross Station in London has a mystical aura. The origin of its name is contested and might refer to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The station has become even more of a tourist attraction in recent years because in the Harry Potter universe there is a gateway to the magic world on Platform 9 that leads to "Platform 9 3/4". I arrived at the station to catch a train because I was speaking that evening at the Mablethorpe Group in Lincolnshire, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/09/mablethorpe-presentation-videos.html. Because of a mess-up on my part, I had to abandon my outward coach journey and make last minute arrangements to travel via the Oxford Tube to London and catch a train from there. I don't often use railways, much preferring the coach; which is slower, but is far more comfortable and relaxing. King's Cross is like its twin station, St Pancras, in that it has been built in several phases between the mid 19th century and today. There is a new concourse that is lined with inviting shops, pubs and cafes, but most passengers were not in them. They were assembled shoulder-to-shoulder in a crowd of hundreds underneath the notice board. They were staring intently as if not daring to look away. I wondered why until I saw the notice for my own journey, the 14.30 to Peterborough, was not displaying a platform number. The clock ticked down and no number appeared. What's more the same was happening to all the other departures on the board. I went up to the help desk and I was not the only one. Dozens of people were milling there with the same thing on their minds. The person behind the desk reassured us that everything was fine and that the platform number would appear shortly before the train was ready for boarding. She wasn't kidding about the "shortly"; it was literally five minutes before departure. That's why people were crowded round the board staring at it. If you miss an announcement you miss your train. Everybody bolted for the correct platform, some were actually running. A group of station staff stood in two lines goading us in the correct direction like sheepdogs. They clearly were trained to do that and I realized that this procedure was completely normal. There was literally five minutes to get hundreds of people into a nine carriage train. We squeezed in through the doors. When there was too big a crowd outside one door staff instantly directed us to another one. Once inside the train I headed for my designated seat; an announcement told us only to sit in that seat. The problem was that most of the people in the cabin were standing in the aisles, manoeuvring large suitcases and trying to find their own seats; which were often at the opposite end of the cabin. The aisles are only wide enough for one person so everybody was leaning into seat spaces, in some cases almost having to sit on somebody's lap, while another person lumbered past with a fifty pound trunk. We had still not all sat down when the train pulled away from the platform.
 
The train was a brand new one, the famous LNER Hitachi, which is much faster than any other train except the Eurostar. I was impressed by its speed. It made the journey to Peterborough in just forty-six minutes. However, most of those forty-six minutes were needed simply to de-stress from the boarding process. (There is a cafeteria on board which is, of course, cashless.) In the olden days, and even still today on some stations like Swansea, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2022/03/skeptics-2022-at-sufon.html, passengers are told which train is theirs a good half an hour before departure. They are usually allowed to board a good twenty minutes before, so they can take a slow stroll up to the platform. There are usually benches they can sit on and wait if necessary. People not travelling used to be allowed to follow you onto the platform to wave you off. That way you won't get a massive throng of passengers all desperately trying to get onto the train at once. There is something intensely romantic about a traditional train departure which is why they so often feature in classic movies, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEiDZ9Rgd3s. That romance has been destroyed by modern railway practices. Even the word "railway" is hardly ever used nowadays. It is almost always shortened to "rail" or substituted by "train". Can you really imagine Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman waving to each other across the contactless turnstiles? My experience at King's Cross Station is typical of the increasing speed of living. Every moment of every day, we are urged to get somewhere as quickly as possible. Transport is exclusively geared to speed. Enjoyment of the travelling experience is now considered irrelevant. Passenger ships at sea are the same. In my childhood I regularly crossed the North Sea on car ferries from Harwich to the Hook of Holland, which took about eight hours; but it was eight hours of great fun. I used to make entire condensed friendships with other children in the playroom or onboard cinema. Many lines have now replaced their old fleets with "sea-cats"; giant catamarans and trimarans that are fast enough to do the same voyage in three or four hours... but are far less enjoyable, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDF0qciznBU. What benefits do we get for being delivered to our destinations so speedily? Well, usually none. Most of the time there is just another place to get to next, again as quickly as possible! Alan Watts was right in his "music and life" lecture, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4. I would really have been much happier to have been able to stroll gently to my train at King's Cross; and as for the train itself, does it need to be so fast? I would be happy for it to take an hour and a half or longer to reach Peterborough. I would have time to sit back and read a book, or pay for cash to eat a full meal. Of course, the point of my trip was that I had somewhere I needed to be in order to do something at a certain time; well, couldn't I just leave home a bit earlier? Duh. That's why I prefer the coach (as well as it being much cheaper). I can do all the journeying things I like on National Express or Megabus.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/11/hs2-extension-scrapped.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2009/07/turnstiles.html.