NASA`s new proposed budget gets a boost to explore for extraterrestrial life

We're going to Europa! US committee assigns $18.5 billion to fund NASA's search for alien life and a mission to Jupiter's moon
--US House Appropriations Committee has revealed its budget for Nasa
--It directs NASA to start an 'Ocean Worlds Exploration Program'
--This would search for life in the solar system - such as on Europa
--However, it cuts Earth Science funding, drawing criticism from the agency

By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN FOR MAILONLINE
May 20, 2015

Nasa's latest budget is set to include a greater emphasis on the search for life and also fund a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa in 2022. In a draft bill, the agency has been told to start a new Ocean Worlds Exploration Program that would hunt for life in the outer solar system. But the budget proposals also include cuts for the Earth Science and private spaceflight programs, drawing criticism from both Nasa and the White House.

The bill, which can be viewed online, was drawn up by the US House Appropriations Committee and will be considered today. If passed, it will give the agency $18.529 billion of funding up to September 2016 - an increase of $519 million from last year.

Excitingly, there is a large emphasis on searching for life both in our own solar system and beyond, with multiple missions planned.

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The bill proposes $140 million for a robotic mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa - $110 million above what was requested. It directs Nasa to achieve a launch ‘no later than 2022’ on its upcoming Space Launch System rocket.


The goal of the Ocean Worlds Exploration Programme would be to ‘discover [existing] life’ on one of the solar system’s outer moons. These include Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus, in addition to Europa, which are thought to have vast reservoirs of water - and possibly life - under their surface (illustrated) Img credit: NASA

A further $86 million  is intended for the Ocean Worlds Exploration Program, with a goal to ‘discover [existing] life’ on one of the solar system’s outer moons. These include Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus, in addition to Europa, which are thought to have vast reservoirs of water - and possibly life - under their surface.


Observations of Europa and other moons have heavily suggested there are vast reservoirs of liquid water underground waiting to be explored. It is theorized that the conditions in these environments could be suitable for life to survive. Img credit: NASA

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While the budget doesn’t say specifically what sort of mission should be mounted, the money will be useful for researching methods to peer, or even travel beneath, the surfaces of these worlds.

The more primitive Europa Clipper mission, meanwhile, will have the goal of flying past Europa multiple times to evaluate the ocean believed to be underground.

It may even fly through ejected plumes from the moon, and Nasa is also looking at various proposals to include a lander that could analyse the surface. This could be useful in working out, for example, if it is possible to ‘melt’ the surface, which a future lander could do to explore underneath.
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Laura Magdalene Eisenhower:'ET invasion has already occurred and governments do not want us to know'

             
Laura Magdalene Eisenhower: 'ET invasion has already occurred and governments do not want us to know;' posted by Alfred Lambremont Webre on April 13, 2014

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VANCOUVER, BC - In an ExopoliticsTV interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre, cosmologist Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, affirmed that an Extraterrestrial invasion has already occured and gobvernments do not want us to know. Riterating her statement before the World Symposium in San Marino, Mr. Eisenhower stated, "There has been a massive cover up in regards to ET contact with our governments and there has been much secrecy in regards to those who have been either abducted or contacted - this is because an invasion has already taken place and they don’t want us to know this. This invasion has infiltrated every sector of our society, in disguise to most, but blatantly obvious to many. When we look at Whistleblower testimony - it is clear that some sort of deal was made with a group of ET’s and from what I have discovered, this began long before Ike [former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mr. Eisenhower's great-grandfather] ever stepped into office."

Laura Magdalene Eisenhower's official statement at San Marino is set out below.

Laura Magdalene Eisenhower: Disclosure
March 30, 2014
Official Statementby Laura Magdalene Eisenhower

As presented at the 22nd WORLD SYMPOSIUM ON UFOs AND RELATED PHENOMENA; Extraterrestrials and World Politics (the Italian equivalent of the Citizen's Disclosure Hearings).
Republic of San Marino.
© 2014 Laura Magdalene Eisenhower /
www.CosmicGaiaSophia.com

All rights reserved. May be posted in it’s entirety, complete with copyright and links.

Source: http://cosmicgaiasophia.com/LauraEisenhower033014Disclosure.pdf
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For starters, I would like to share a quote from my Great Grandfather President Eisenhower from his farewell address to the Nation on January 17, 1961 ~

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military– industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

Being a descendant of Dwight David Eisenhower opened me up to everything that had to do with what his famous speech warned us about - that being the Military Industrial Complex. It also helped me to see the responsibility we each have as citizens, to be alert and knowledgable and to express our peaceful methods and goals. Many of us were born with solutions and its time that our voices were heard. No one is addressing our concerns and our children currently have no real future, but to live in an enslaved society.

After seeing so many rumors throughout my life in regards to Eisenhower and meetings with Extra Terrestrials, I began to investigate the subject and then discovered that my path was leading me into more than just research and information, but actual events that made it clear that these were not just rumors.

None of what I share comes from anything I got from other family members; I stand with my views, experiences, theories and facts independently.

The creation of Contact Protocols in case of an open contact with Extraterrestrials is extremely important. But the awareness of possible alien contact scenarios is important as well. There has been a massive cover up in regards to ET contact with our governments and there has been much secrecy in regards to those who have been either abducted or contacted - this is because an invasion has already taken place and they don’t want us to know this. This invasion has infiltrated every sector of our society, in disguise to most, but blatantly obvious to many. When we look at Whistleblower testimony - it is clear that some sort of deal was made with a group of ET’s and from what I have discovered, this began long before Ike ever stepped into office. I have researched, experienced and investigated Exopolitics, remote viewing, channeling, purported ET races and Galactic History and have been on a Mission that goes into this deeper energy terrain, ever since I was a child. I also do session work with people that have experienced contact and have gone through abductions so there is no question or doubt in my mind about whether or not ET’s are interacting with humanity.

Perhaps some of the pieces of my jig saw puzzle might be wrong or false, but many are surely trustworthy. Besides, as I shall tell you later, in 2006 I was recruited to go off planet to Mars, which is tied into the secret Treaties which I will discuss in this paper - this agenda is called Alternative 3.

Sad Realities
We cannot deny Weather modification and the spraying of our skies. If this is something that people struggle with believing, please research the work of Dane Wiggington, who is an expert in this field and also Scott Stevens - a former meteorologist. Really, all you need to do is look up at the sky to know that something is very wrong. We are also dealing with the Fukushima disaster, Geoengineering, Genetically Modified foods, false flags in the news, media control, Mind-control, possible fake alien invasion scenarios, possible fake ascended masters and the threatening controlled collapse of the Economy, Martial law, FEMA camps and the chipping of civilians.

For people hearing this for the first time, it pains me to share this, but I have to because I know things could greatly shift, if you knew this all to be true. If you decide it is inaccurate than I accept that, I just ask that you San Marino; Disclosure have an open mind and from there, do all you can to learn more and help us to make this world a better place.

All these are not conspiracy theories, but a sad reality behind which a world Secret Government is operating. A Shadow Government who has its hands on extraterrestrial technology. This has all been carefully planned and set up, as a massive infiltration into the areas that are trying to solve these issues and protect us. An Ex M-16 operative whistleblower states that the Military Industrial Extraterrestrial Complex [MIEC] is currently using a “Tablets of Destiny” supercomputer system that includes the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails and Artificial Intelligence mind control system to attempt planetary ecocide and genocide. He states that the Pleiadian fleet is here to liberate humanity and will be successful.

Those responsible and those who are involved have to be held accountable or assisted in breaking free of the controls that are blackmailing them into doing this. With so many accounts of trauma-based mind-control, many involved are not even fully in possession of themselves. If this is hard to believe, please research stories like that of Cathy O’Brien, Duncan O’Fineoan and Arizona Wilder, among many others.

We are challenged as a humanity in fully understanding the difference between who is here to help and who isn’t, but that can only come through discernment and educating ourselves about our Galactic History and through bringing hidden truths out into the open. We also must develop ourselves spiritually, so that we are not limiting or blocking ourselves from expanding into higher Earth energies.

This is not about New Agey or religious belief systems, it is more about the recognition of integrity, our need for unification and taking care of our planet and respecting other life forms. We need to do what is right for ourselves and for future generations and not put money or fear first. We need to see all beings as extensions of ourselves and it is up to us to align with what will serve the highest good of humanity and the planet. Surely there is no concrete evidence for all the elements I am going to present. On the other hand, in spite of this, they really show a possible “secret history” we have to face and consider.

When We First Hear About Treaties
For the most part, when we hear about relations with ET and our governments, we only hear about Eisenhower. For instance, as Dr. Pinotti and CUN documented in 2000, today we know that UFOs were reported in Italy during the Thirties and that Mussolini — considering them a new foreign aerial weapon, he created in 1933 an official committee headed by Guglielmo Marconi – “Gabinetto RS 33” - with the purpose of reverse engineering studies after a UFO crash in Lombardy and the recovering of two Nordic-type pilots (II Duce) considered German pilots. These Italian studies were later inherited by Nazi Germany.

In any case, in the USA the above mentioned Treaties did not originate with Eisenhower and although I have numerous people to mention who validate this, I am only going to list a few. According to Jason Bishop III, a Dulce Base Whistleblower, “The U.S. Government in 1933, agreed to trade animals and humans in exchange for High Tech Knowledge, and allow them to use underground bases that we would not disturb, in the Western USA”.

According to a whislteblower and ex-operative of M-16, the first treaty between the Grey extraterrestrials (reptilian-like beings from the Draco star system) and the American Government under the administration of Roosevelt, was signed in July, 1934. It was the so-called “Grenada Treaty”. The treaty stated that in return for the Greys providing high technology, the US federal government would allow the Greys to proceed unhindered with human abductions for use in an ongoing ET genetic programs. This occurred after refusing the help of the Pleiadians who wanted eventual military disarmament. He also said that after the US government refused to work with the Pleiadians, they approached Hitler and the Nazis instead. The Pleiadians worked out a treaty with Hitler and the Nazis that in exchange for technology the Nazis would not attack the Jewish people. The Nazis developed their advanced saucer-shaped aircraft from the Pleiadian technology. Though Greys are well-known in abduction cases, ufologists have no reports of such events, as well as of close encounters of the third kind with reptilian entities. But this whistleblower is not the first to make such claims.

Reports confirmed by contactee Billy Meier stated that space-time technology was exchanged by a certain race of Pleiadians with Hitler’s Germany during 1933 to 1934, seemingly through a group of Nazi channelers: the psychic women called ‘Vrilerinnen’ and headed by Maria Orsich. Billy Meijer and the ex-operative both said that by 1941, the Pleiadians pulled out of the treaty and would no longer deal with Hitler and Nazis. It was at this time that the Greys approached them, and this is where the Nazi trauma-based mind control technology came from.

According to the ex-operative of M-16, the Treaties are renewed every 10 years... If these statements are true, this is what the backdrop is, which potently validates the meetings with ET’s that took place in the Eisenhower administration in 1954. Our government, during the Roosevelt administration, seemingly got secret technologies that weren’t about mind control, like what the Nazis received, but were anti-gravity devices, metals and alloys, free energy, and medical technology and this was in exchange for allowing the Greys to infiltrate human societies on different levels, which also included the possibility of cloning certain World leaders. So now we see that both sides have been influenced by these Greys.

Infiltration Continues
It seems infiltration has been a factor since the 2nd World War and the War just changed into something else, but was never won. During Truman’s time in the presidency, handling the ET problem was a task that the President could not alone manage. Many crashes seem to have taken place before Roswell in 1947, and this was stored at today’s Area 51 where many tests, crafts, ET autopsies and experiments have been and are still being conducted. Extra-Terrestrials are also said to occupy this base along with others, like scientists and military personnel. Morgan Martell discusses on his website about Project Paperclip ~

In 1946, President Truman authorized Project Paperclip. One purpose of Operation Paperclip was to deny German scientific expertise and knowledge to the Soviet Union and United Kingdom as well as inhibit post-war Germany from redeveloping its military research capabilities. One of the fields that Nazi doctors and psychologists had made advances in, was that of social and behavioral engineering in humans, also known as mind control.

The OSS (Office of Strategic Services) had already been active with Operation Paperclip for over 3 months before Truman gave the order, and many Nazi party members had already entered the United States. So the OSS resorted to whitewashing the histories of Nazis or sometimes even creating entirely new identities which made it easy for them to spread their influence in America. It has been said by the Whisteblower of M-16, that the CIA was created almost two years after this and the American National Security act of 1947, to handle the massive number of mind-control, cloning, and other covert projects that were born from Paperclip. Normal laws do not apply to them, so they can get away with all sorts of things. All of this has turned most defense related projects and technologies, into weapons used to control us. MJ-12 (Majestic Twelve) was also created, as a group dealing in ET investigations. This was also the year of the Roswell crash and where the Extra Terrestrial Biological Entities (EBE’s) came into the picture, that helped us to make contact with their race.

Alternatives 1,2, 3 and Mars
When President Eisenhower was in office, he commissioned a secret society known as THE JASON SOCIETY (JASON SCHOLARS) in 1955, which is considered to be a branch of Majestic-12, that Truman established while in office. The Jason Scholars was created to sift through all the facts, evidence, technology, lies and deception and find the truth of the alien question. Alternatives 1, 2 and 3 are three agendas recommended by JASON Society scholars and are related to different scenarios to prevent a possible future Doomsday that is more than likely induced and not natural, but this was not known back then by many because they surely would not go along with it and I believe that this is a part of the warning Ike gave us.

The first Alternative is about the use of nuclear devices to blast holes in the stratosphere from which heat and pollution could escape into space, the second aims at building a network of underground cities and tunnels in which mankind’s selected élite could survive, and the third deals with a secret space colonization program on Mars with the same purpose. I was recruited to go to Mars in 2006, but declined, because I believe the power of the human Spirit, our connection to this Earth and our unification as a race is going to carry us through, and so will our connection with our own higher consciousness and higher dimensional ET races and their advanced technologies that are in harmony with Nature.

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Could the seas of Saturn`s moon Titan harbor life?

By Alan Boyle

MSNBC Cosmic Blog

November 28, 2011

This infrared image from the Cassini orbiter shows the hydrocarbon lake known as Kraken Mare toward the northern edge of the disk. The dark Senkyo sand sea dominates the central area of the image. -NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI

A fresh photo from the Cassini orbiter shows the hydrocarbon-rich seas and dunes of Titan, a Saturnian moon that might be capable of sustaining life as we don't know it.

The picture, published today on the websites of NASA's Saturn mission and Cassini's imaging team, shows the huge sea known as Kraken Mare as a dark spot on the northern edge of Titan's disk. The dark Senkyo dune field is front and center. Cassini's narrow-angle camera captured the view in near-infrared wavelengths from a distance of 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers) on Sept. 14.

Titan is totally shrouded in smog, but Cassini's camera filters are set up to pierce through the haze and spot details on the surface below. The cold condtions on the moon are such that hydrocarbons such as ethane and methane can exist in liquid form. This rare picture from Cassini shows the glint of sunlight off the sheen of Kraken Mare, which is larger than the Caspian Sea on Earth. (And yes, Kraken is named after the mythical sea creature. "Mare" is Latin for "sea.")

This image, obtained using Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, shows the first observed flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's Titan moon. -NASA/JPL

Titan's seas, lakes and rivers of hydrocarbons are among the reasons why the murky Saturnian moon ranks higher than Mars on a recently published list assessing planetary habitability. That may sound strange, considering that the typical temperature on Titan is 289 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-178 degrees Celsius). But Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Washington State University who helped put together the list, told me that it makes sense to rank Titan as the top prospect for extraterrestrial habitability.

"If you think about it, Titan has a thick protective atmosphere like Earth's, similar to the early Earth atmosphere," he said. "It has a lot of nitrogen and methane in it, and...

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Cassini image confirms liquid on Saturn moon:
Reflection off Titan lake is the first seen on a world other than Earth -MSNBC

Jupiter`s icy moon Europa may hold vast amounts of liquid watery lakes and possibly life?

Life-bearing lake possibly on icy Jupiter Moon

Fresh findings about Europa based on studies of Antarctica and Iceland
By Irene Klotz; Discovery News

11/16/2011 2:35 PM ET

MSNBC

An image of Europa from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft shows plains of bright ice, long cracks and dark patches that likely contain both ice and dirt. NASA/Ted Stryk

New research shows that the jumbled ice blocks crowning the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa are signs of large liquid lakes below, a key finding in the search for places where life might exist beyond Earth.

Drawing from studies of underground volcanoes in Iceland and Antarctica, scientists ran computer models to see if the chaotic formations on Europa's surface could be explained by the same geologic processes seen on Earth.

"We looked at melt underneath the ice, and the fracture and collapse of ice shelves," Britney Schmidt, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics, told Discovery News.

...The study provides "the best model so far" for the ice formations on Europa, Paul Schenk, a staff scientist with the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, wrote in an email to Discovery News.

"If we go back with penetrating radar instruments we should be able to see into the ice shell, determine the stratigraphy of the layers in the shell and verify which model works best," Schenk said.

Europa, which is slightly smaller than Earth's moon, is believed to have a large ocean of salty water beneath its frozen crust.

"Europa has more water than all of Earth's oceans," planetary scientist Simon Kattenhorn, with the University of Idaho, told Discovery News.

While the ocean itself is of interest to scientists searching for life beyond Earth,...

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credit: Britney Schmidt/Dead Pixel VFX/Univ. of Texas at Austin & djxatlanta

Additional Resources:
[Photos] Moons of Jupiter
SCIENCE CHANNEL: Take a tour of Titan, Callisto & Europa
NEWS: Europa, Jupiter's Moon, Could Support Complex Life

NASA Study of Clays Suggests Watery Mars Underground

NASA/JPL News

November 2, 2011

Impact cratering and erosion combine to reveal the composition of the Martian underground by exposing materials from the subsurface. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL
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November 02, 2011

PASADENA, Calif. -- A new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet's surface.

A new interpretation of years of mineral-mapping data, from more than 350 sites on Mars examined by European and NASA orbiters, suggests Martian environments with abundant liquid water on the surface existed only during short episodes. These episodes occurred toward the end of a period of hundreds of millions of years during which warm water interacted with subsurface rocks. This has implications about whether life existed on Mars and how the Martian atmosphere has changed.

"The types of clay minerals that formed in the shallow subsurface are all over Mars," said John Mustard, professor at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Mustard is a co-author of the study in the journal Nature. "The types that formed on the surface are found at very limited locations and are quite rare."

Discovery of clay minerals on Mars in 2005 indicated the planet once hosted warm, wet conditions. If those conditions existed on the surface for a long era, the planet would have needed a much thicker atmosphere than it has now to keep the water from evaporating or freezing. Researchers have sought evidence of processes that could cause a thick atmosphere to be lost over time.

This new study supports an alternative hypothesis that persistent warm water was confined to the subsurface and many erosional features were carved during brief periods when liquid water was stable at the surface.

"If surface habitats were short-term, that doesn't mean we should be glum about prospects for life on Mars, but it says something about what type of environment we might want to look in," said the report's lead author, Bethany Ehlmann, assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also in Pasadena. "The most stable Mars habitats over long durations appear to have been in the subsurface. On Earth, underground geothermal environments have active ecosystems."

The discovery of clay minerals by the OMEGA spectrometer on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter added to earlier evidence of liquid Martian water. Clays form from the interaction of water with rock. Different types of clay minerals result from different types of wet conditions.

During the past five years, researchers used OMEGA and NASA's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer, or CRISM, instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to identify clay minerals at thousands of locations on Mars. Clay minerals that form where the ratio of water interacting with rock is small generally retain the same chemical elements as those found in the original volcanic rocks later altered by the water.

The study interprets this to be the case for most terrains on Mars with iron and magnesium clays. In contrast, surface environments with higher ratios of water to rock can alter rocks further. Soluble elements are carried off by water, and different aluminum-rich clays form.

Another clue is detection of a mineral called prehnite. It forms at temperatures above about 400 degrees Fahrenheit (about 200 degrees Celsius). These temperatures are typical of underground hydrothermal environments rather than surface waters.

"Our interpretation is a shift from thinking that the warm, wet environment was mostly at the surface to thinking it was mostly in the subsurface, with limited exceptions," said Scott Murchie of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., a co-author of the report and principal investigator for CRISM.

One of the exceptions may be Gale Crater, the site targeted by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. Launching this year, the mission's Curiosity rover will land and investigate layers that contain clay and sulfate minerals.

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, or MAVEN, in development for a 2013 launch, may provide evidence for or against this new interpretation of the Red Planet's environmental history. The report predicts MAVEN findings consistent with the atmosphere not having been thick enough to provide warm, wet surface conditions for a prolonged period.

JPL, a division of Caltech, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. APL provided and operates CRISM. For more information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mro and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro .

Article link: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-337&cid=release_2011-337&msource=11337&tr=y&auid=9795733

Was JFK Killed Because of His Interest in Aliens?

Secret memo shows the president demanded UFO files 10 days before his death

An uncovered letter written by John F Kennedy to the head of the CIA shows that the president demanded to be shown highly confidential documents about UFOs 10 days before his assassination.

The secret memo is one of two letters written by JFK asking for information about the paranormal on November 12 1963, which have been released by the CIA for the first time.

Author William Lester said the CIA released the documents to him under the Freedom of Information Act after he made a request while researching his new book 'A Celebration of Freedom: JFK and the New Frontier...'

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Viking Indeed found "organics" on Mars

New experiment on Mars-like soil showed the Viking lander did find organics on Mars

(image courtesy of NASA science photo library)

Exerpt from DiscoveryNews article (Viking Found Organics on Mars, Experiment Confirms):

More than 30 years after NASA's Viking landers found no evidence for organic materials on Mars, scientists say a new experiment on Mars-like soil shows Viking did, in fact, hit pay dirt.The new study was prompted by the August 2008 discovery of powerful oxygen-busting compounds known as perchlorates at the landing site of another Mars probe called Phoenix.

...Scientists repeated a key Viking experiment using perchlorate-enhanced soil from Chile's Atacama Desert, which is considered one of the driest and most Mars-like places on Earth, and found telltale fingerprints of combusted organics--the same chemicals Viking scientists dismissed as contaminants from Earth.

"Contrary to 30 years of perceived wisdom, Viking did detect organic materials on Mars," planetary scientist Christopher McKay, with NASA's Ames Research Center in California, told Discovery News. "It's like a 30-year-old cold case suddenly solved with new facts."

..."The bottom line of this work is that the Viking landers did detect organics on Mars, we just did not realize it," McKay asserts. He and his colleagues estimate that the Martian soil contains a few parts per million of organics, comparable with the driest parts of the Atacama Desert.

More Proof to UFO and Alien Existence?

Recent interview with assistant of renowned astrophysicist sheds new light on UFO and alien existence

(Left: Dr. J. Allen Hynek)

Recently, George Noory of Coast-to-coast-am hosted Paola Harris, an investigative reporter in the field of extraterrestrial related phenomena research and Ann Eller, secretary to the late renowned astrophysicist Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who is known as the Father of UFO-Alien research.

For a full four hours, they both discussed the life of late J. Allen Hynek, who was the scientific advisor to Project Blue Book and the techinical advisor for the film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Eller recalled her tenure with the legendary ufologist that shed some light about his life and research. She described him as a, "very quiet, private and soft-spoken man." As a researcher, she said he was "a true scientist" who wanted "tangible proof." Based on Eller`s time working with Hynek, she sensed he "was close enough, for twenty years, to the inner sanctum that he had a certain amount of fear" for the safety of his family and himself.

Some revelations shared by Eller was that Hynek was a "closet Rosicrucian" who was "very spiritual." Rosicrucianism is the theology of a secret society of mystics, formed in late medieval Germany, holding a doctrine "built on esoteric truths of the ancient path," which, "concealed from the average man, provide insight into nature, the physical universe and the spiritual realm." Hynek also had in his possession a remarkable letter, received in 1954 from someone at Ohio State`s Astronomy Department. This letter according to Eller, documented the fact that "intelligent signals were being received, by their radio telescope, from the vicinity of Venus." Eller said when she showed the letter to Hynek, he simply put it away and "it was never spoken of again."

Eller also claimed to have seen a list containing the names of the original members of MJ-12 in Hynek`s office. MJ-12, also known as Majestic 12, is the code name of a secret committee of scientists, military leaders and government officials, supposedly formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. The purpose of the committee was allegedly to investigate UFO activity in the aftermath of the Roswell incident-the purported crash of an alien spacecraft near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947. This alleged committee is an important part of the UFO conspiracy theory of an ongoing cover up by the government on UFO information. Its important to note, the FBI has concluded that the MJ-12 documents are false. The FBI adopted the Air Force Office of Special Investigation`s (AFOSI) opinion the documents are "bogus" and the FBI’s official position became that the MJ-12 documents were "completely bogus.” A copy of the purported Harry Truman letter Authorizing Majestic Twelve:

Hynek also voiced concern and suspicion about the origins of the cancer that ultimately cost him his life.

Paola Harris, who was a friend and colleague of Hynk from 1980 until his death in 1986, recalled how his passing impacted the field of Ufology as well as her career as a UFO researcher. She stressed and noted that how his loss created a void in the field of UFO studies, since he was a highly respected scientist in the field. "I cried my eyes out when he died," she recalled, "I stopped every part of my research after he died. I did not want to do anything."