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Video: Mysterious Orb - Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK
MUFON Report: Aliens in the House
Stephen Hawking Warns... 'Don't Talk to Aliens'

Video: Mysterious Orb - Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 09:14 AM PDT

rotherhamadvertiser - Publican Paul Cliff was amazed to discover this mysterious orb of light when he checked CCTV footage at his pub.

Paul, landlord of The New Inn at Midland Road, Rotherham, couldn't believe his eyes as it flashed across the bar area at the pub.

He said: "I've never seen anything like it. I just can't explain it. The whole episode is just extraordinary.

His wife Diane said: "We've been here for 12 years and this is the first time we have experienced anything like this."

Video: Mysterious Orb - Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK

MUFON Report: Aliens in the House

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 07:41 AM PDT

MUFON witness report - Arizona - unedited: That night at 3:17 am on 16 April 2010 I was woken up hearing a beeping sound, was not sure what the sound was. Then I realized it kept beeping and it was not the smoke detector beeping. I sat up quickly facing my bedroom door opening. It was pitch black and could not see past my bead room door, it sounded exactly like my treadmill when it is turned on and buttons are pushed to change the settings. I could not figure out why someone would be messing with my treadmill in the middle of the night. I could feel that someone was in my house. Then I thought it was little grey aliens, for some reason it really scared me. I wanted to get up to investigate, but was frozen from fear. I had a baseball bat that I wanted to grab in the corner of my room. I was also thinking of calling the cops. My treadmill was just around the corner of my room in the living room. I can't remember if I am envisioning this or I saw them but I keep seeing these small bluish grey aliens, 2 or 3. Not clearly lit up like I was shining a light on them and they were standing at my bedroom door way. I remember looking outside my window at one point at the sky and it was a lot darker than normal as if there was a craft blocking the city lights. I do not recall seeing a space ship. I do recall that there was no other noise and it was eerily quite outside except for the noises coming from inside from my treadmill, about 3-4 minutes passed with my treadmill beeping. I had a bad feeling and my adrenaline was pumping hard. The next thing I see is a bright white type of light like lightning with a bluish color, it looked like electrical light. Much brighter than a light bulb and the light had a glow to it almost as bright as observing someone welding. It was shining on my wall at a strange angle it did not completely light up the entire wall, the light was coming from my formal living room where my treadmill was. When I saw this I knew that I had to investigate the light. Then a very strange sound stated, I could hear an electrical sound building up and a surge of power, then a loud sound like something left and shot off and something electrical blew up all close the same time. The light lasted about 3-4 seconds before the loud bang from the electrical sound, then the light vanished. Out of the corner of my eye my blinds were open to my window facing north, I never saw any light coming from outside. When the light went out I immediately looked outside and up to the sky. It still appeared eerie dark and could not see any stars or the glow from the city lights. My first feeling was that something teleported out of my living room and then a ship shot off. Second thought sounded like something electrical blew up. Not sure if something flashed by or left, I grabbed my cell phone and baseball bat. I used the phones light to see me way to turn on the first light. Not sure if it was the bathroom or hallway light that I turned on first. I remember banging my baseball bat on the tile floor to make some noise as I went through the house. Before I go the light turned on I had a strong feeling that I was going to see the small grey aliens. I grabbed my flashlight out of the laundry room and then immediately looked in the formal room and saw nothing. Another note I smelled nothing out of the ordinary, electrical burnt or from lightning. I inspected the whole house turned on all the lights. Was thinking about looking outside had a bad feeling not to go outside. I kept hearing something up in my attic or on the roof almost like footsteps. It was really freaking me out. I was hoping to find a window or door open, everything was locked and closed. I would have herd if a person had left my house. When I was going around the house I kept hearing scurrying noises inside and on the roof or attic. The whole time I was searching the house the aliens kept coming into my mind. I could sense something was still there, wanted to look on the roof and in the attic, decided that it was not a good idea. I could sense or feel a presence and that I was being watched. I did also notice that my refrigerator was showing that the power was off for 4 minutes from 3:06 Am to 3:10 (corrected). So while I was asleep my power went off just before this event. Around 4:20 am when I finally got back in bed with all the lights off, the city glow was back, so it appears that a ship was hovering over my backyard blocking out the cities glow from the lights.
My thoughts for some reason when I started searching my house I was looking for grey aliens about 3.5 feet tall. They keep coming into my mind. I have always wanted to meet aliens, but for some reason I was extremely scarred, not sure why. The light and sounds from the electrical noise cannot be explained. The source of the light and the angle that it casted on my wall emanated about 2.5 – 3 feet off the ground in the middle of my formal living room. I have no sources of electrical items plugged in that could have emanated the light and sound. If my treadmill had started glowing it was in the wrong location. My treadmill works fine and I have not found anything that has signs of the electrical activity going on in my living room.
I do not feel that they abducted me but, I keep having strange thoughts of seeing them and that I knew what I was looking for. I felt that they just came in my home and left. Does not make any sense, I am starting to think that I am being abducted and have been the first night I saw the light, because of how out of nowhere I have a strong sense of fear for no apparent reason, like my subconscious is reacting to what has been going on to me.
At various times at night about the time I go to bed I have a sudden sense of fear the hairs stand up on my neck and my back starts to tense up, like I am being watched and I have a strong feeling that I do not want them to take me. The entire night that I am trying to sleep I am almost paralized from fear. I am now scarred when I go to bed, like they are waiting for me to fall asleep, to come and get me this has been going on the following nights from 4-16-2010 to 4-21-2010. The fear is so bad at night, I do not even want to get up at night to go the bathroom 10 feet away. I would love to meet aliens, but not in this manner.

NOTE: another interesting encounter reported to MUFON. Excuse the spelling...decided not to edit. I realize anyone could post a bogus report but, for the most part, these are first-hand accounts that are usually sent with good intentions...Lon

MUFON Report: Aliens in the House

Stephen Hawking Warns... 'Don't Talk to Aliens'

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 07:05 AM PDT

timesonline - The aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact.

The suggestions come in a new documentary series in which Hawking, one of the world's leading scientists, will set out his latest thinking on some of the universe's greatest mysteries.

Alien life, he will suggest, is almost certain to exist in many other parts of the universe: not just in planets, but perhaps in the centre of stars or even floating in interplanetary space.

Hawking's logic on aliens is, for him, unusually simple. The universe, he points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved.

"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational," he said. "The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."

The answer, he suggests, is that most of it will be the equivalent of microbes or simple animals — the sort of life that has dominated Earth for most of its history.

One scene in his documentary for the Discovery Channel shows herds of two-legged herbivores browsing on an alien cliff-face where they are picked off by flying, yellow lizard-like predators. Another shows glowing fluorescent aquatic animals forming vast shoals in the oceans thought to underlie the thick ice coating Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter.

Such scenes are speculative, but Hawking uses them to lead on to a serious point: that a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Hawking believes that contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity.

He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach."

He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is "a little too risky". He said: "If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."

The completion of the documentary marks a triumph for Hawking, now 68, who is paralysed by motor neurone disease and has very limited powers of communication. The project took him and his producers three years, during which he insisted on rewriting large chunks of the script and checking the filming.

John Smithson, executive producer for Discovery, said: "He wanted to make a programme that was entertaining for a general audience as well as scientific and that's a tough job, given the complexity of the ideas involved."

Hawking has suggested the possibility of alien life before but his views have been clarified by a series of scientific breakthroughs, such as the discovery, since 1995, of more than 450 planets orbiting distant stars, showing that planets are a common phenomenon.

So far, all the new planets found have been far larger than Earth, but only because the telescopes used to detect them are not sensitive enough to detect Earth-sized bodies at such distances.

Another breakthrough is the discovery that life on Earth has proven able to colonise its most extreme environments. If life can survive and evolve there, scientists reason, then perhaps nowhere is out of bounds.

Hawking's belief in aliens places him in good scientific company. In his recent Wonders of the Solar System BBC series, Professor Brian Cox backed the idea, too, suggesting Mars, Europa and Titan, a moon of Saturn, as likely places to look.

Similarly, Lord Rees, the astronomer royal, warned in a lecture earlier this year that aliens might prove to be beyond human understanding.

"I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive," he said. "Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains."

Stephen Hawking Warns... 'Don't Talk to Aliens'

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