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UK Convenes Emergency COBRA Over Drones, Possible 'Hostile State'
Tuesday, 24 December 2024 08:41 AM EST
Unidentified drones over U.S. air bases in the United Kingdom reportedly prompted British senior officials to hold secret meetings to discuss the emergency, which could be the work of an enemy state.
U.K. military officials have expressed alarm that it has been impossible to find the pilots responsible for controlling the drones and have not ruled out that the aerial objects are the work of a hostile state, The Times of London reported.
The drones involved sophisticated technology that prevented authorities from tracking them or identifying those responsible.
None have been captured, nor have they been affected by electronic countermeasures such as jamming, the outlet reported.
Investigators believe the drones were controlled in real time by live operators and not programmed.
Authorities have ruled out the work of hobbyists.
"They're very sophisticated, very fast. This is not the work of hobbyists but no one is confident of attribution at the moment," one British official told the Times.
The U.K. situation is similar to that seen over parts of New Jersey, New York, and neighboring states, where drones have been seen since Nov. 18.
At least two COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room A) meetings have been held, the Times reported.
COBRA meetings, gatherings of senior government officials, often are held in time of national crisis, according to the Security Journal United Kingdom.
The purpose of a COBRA meeting is to ensure that the government can respond quickly and effectively to crises, with all relevant information and decision-makers in one room.
U.S. Navy members have joined British military police to investigate the drones seen over Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Fairford, and RAF Feltwell.
Facilities to house nuclear weapons are under construction at Lakenheath, the Times reported.
British and American intelligence services have probed whether Russia's military intelligence agency, GRU, was responsible.
"It seemed to us that it was plausible the Russians were behind the flights but it could have been non-state groups," a U.S. intelligence source told the outlet.
"There has been no firm evidence that Russians were involved."
U.S. military officials say the drones, flown over the bases in late November and early December, varied in size and configurations.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/u-k-cobra-meeting/2024/12/24/id/1192759/
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/mystery-drones-hostile-state-fhs07lnb7
Russia reeling as 'mysterious fire' destroys drone warehouse causing £13m damage
UPDATED: 05:05, Tue, Dec 24, 2024
A Russian warehouse containing parts for Shahed drones has been destroyed in a fire, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Defence.
The warehouse was located in Western Tartarstan and contained parts for Shahed-136 drones, estimated to be worth £13 million.
In a post to its Telegram channel, Ukraine's Defence Ministry wrote: "The mysterious destructive fire was another blow to the military-industrial complex of terrorist Russia.
"The Ukrainian defence ministry's general directorate of military intelligence reminds us that there will be fair retribution for every war crime committed against the Ukrainian people."
The Shahed is an Iranian-produced UAV that Tehran supplies Russia with.
Last year, Moscow and Tehran signed off on a secret military deal, which would see Russia initially re-assemble imported Iranian Shahed attack drones at a facility in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tartarstan.
According to the agreement, Russia would then proceed to produce airframes that would be combined with Iranian-supplied engines and electronics.
Finally, the Tatarstan plant will start manufacturing UAVs independently, with a target of building 6,000 drones by September 2025.
Engineers at the facility, which, when fully developed, is expected to measure 100,000 square metres, are said to be using Russian industrial expertise to produce drones in greater quantity and with greater quality control than Iran has ever achieved.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1992373/russia-warehouse-fire-tartarstan-shahed-drones
Russian Military Airfield Hit by Blasts After Ukraine Drone Raid
Dec 24, 2024 at 5:34 AM EST
Ukraine's latest drone raid has struck a critical air base close to the border that serves as a key location for the launch of Russian missiles into Ukraine, Kyiv reported.
The Millerovo area, located in Russia's Rostov Oblast, was hammered by UAVs on Monday evening, Rostov Regional Governor Yury Slyusar posted to Telegram.
Slyusar said about a dozen drones had been intercepted during the overnight raid and that no casualties had been confirmed.
According to Ukrainian officials, however, the drones successfully struck Millerovo air base, situated a few miles from the occupied regions of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian outlet Censor.net reported that local residents heard explosions near the airfield, while independent Russian newspaper the Moscow Times, citing eyewitnesses on social media, reported fires breaking out on the streets of Millerovo and damage to the Millerovo Cossack Cadet Vocational College.
Newsweek has contacted a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Rostov for further information on the raid.
Millerovo serves as a critical springboard for Russian air campaigns, and it is one of the main launch sites for Russian missiles and drones into Ukraine, including a 23-hour onslaught that began on Monday.
"From 10:00 on December 23 to 09:00 on December 24, 2024, the enemy attacked with 60 Shahed type strike UAVs and drones of other types from the directions of Bryansk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk," Ukraine's air force reported on Tuesday.
As a result, the air base has become a critical target for Kyiv's attacks, Millerovo itself being one of the first airfields targeted by Ukraine following the launch of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
The air base was also subject to a major drone attack in July, during which 26 UAVS were reportedly shot down by Russian air defenses but caused significant damage to Millerovo.
Launch sites for Russian missiles have remained critical targets for Ukraine throughout the yearslong conflict.
In August, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Kyiv's ability to strike air fields and military facilities deep inside Russian territory as the "one decision" that could allow Ukraine to repel Russian advances.
This prompted him to petition the U.S. and other Western allies to ease range restrictions on foreign-supplied weaponry, to which U.S. President Joe Biden and other nations eventually assented.
Yury Slyusar, the acting governor of the Rostov Oblast, wrote on Telegram: "Overnight in the Millerovsky and Tarasovsky districts, 4 more UAVs were destroyed and suppressed by electronic warfare.
There were no casualties, information about the consequences on the ground is being clarified. The threat of unmanned danger in the Rostov region remains."
Andriy Kovalenko, a lieutenant in the Ukrainian Defense Forces and the head of the National Security and Defense Council's Center for Countering Disinformation, wrote on Telegram:
"Disco at Millerovo airfield. For Russia, it is a strategic airfield in the Rostov region. It serves as a base for front-line aviation, which performs tasks to support Russian infantry operating in the east and south of Ukraine."
Ukraine and Russia have continued to exchange aerial attacks, with Russian President Vladimir Putin pledging to make Kyiv the stage for a "high-tech duel" between Moscow's weaponry and Western-supplied air defense systems.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-drone-raid-russian-military-airfield-2005554
Huge Boomerang-Shaped Object Seen Over St. Louis, Missouri
December 23, 2024
It's not uncommon for someone to see a UFO, UAP or whatever you want to call something in the sky you can't identify.
However, it's not every day that you have hundreds of people see the same object which is what has just happened over St. Louis, Missouri where many say they saw a huge boomerang-shaped object and there's video to prove it, too.
I saw this report which was just shared a few days ago on the National UFO Reporting Center website. According to the report, this happened the night of December 3, 2024 over Richmond Heights, Missouri.
It says "Chevron or boomerang shaped UAP seen flying over St. Louis suburb, sighting corroborated by other reports recently."
They're not kidding about the corroborated reports either. There's a thread on the UFO sub-Reddit about this object including video.
This is the object you can see beginning to the west of the moon in the sky and eventually passing across.
This Missouri UFO report is so specific, they even gave exact GPS location information about where they saw it from.
If you look at the video share on Reddit, you'll see many in the St. Louis area that saw this odd boomerang-shaped object.
Let me propose at least one conventional explanation.
Considering how active the B-2 Spirit stealth bombers are at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, you have to at least consider that one of these aircraft COULD be what those in St. Louis are seeing.
It's more or less boomerang-shaped. No, in my judgement, that's not what this object is, but it is dark so it's a possibility.
I think that an object seen by so many deserves some extra attention.
Let's hope this helps making more aware of it so someone can come up with some additional information about what was spotted over Richmond Heights, Missouri.
https://101theeagle.com/boomerang-object-over-richmond-heights-missouri/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hdv3o7/my_friend_just_captured_this_over_nyc_121324/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31686224/amupac-alien-base-mexico/
Bizarre tale of city ‘protected by underwater ALIEN base just off coast of Mexico shielding them from hurricanes’
Updated: 17:31, 24 Dec 2024
A CITY of 300,000 people believes it is protected by an underwater alien base just off the coast.
Dubbed by locals as 'Amupac' - the legendary structure is believed to be the saviour and shield of the people in Tampico, Mexico.
Alien believers claim the mythical base - which is said to sometimes spawn UFOs - has led to them avoiding trouble for 57 years.
According to locals, there hasn't been a hurricane in the region since 1967 - something they say is due to aliens living in Amupac.
The wacky legend describes the underwater wonder as an “intraterrestrial” and “multidimensional” secret zone invisible to the human eye.
Self-proclaimed alien investigators in Mexico have drawn up a theory saying a group of 10ft, thin and light-skinned aliens have built up the base off Miramar Beach.
They claim a series of metre-long aluminium, iron and copper alloy bars have been secretly buried in the seafloor when the beings first visited.
Juan Carlos Ramón López Díaz, president of the Association of Scientific Research on UFOs in Tamaulipas (AICOT), has been leading the legend for decades.
He claims to have visited the alien base during an astral trip through mediation and believes it has been made in Tampico to protect the locals.
The idea of the alien base lurking beneath the water first came from local news outlet El Sol de Tampico newspaper in 1967.
They ran a sensational story headlined "Platillos Voladores Sobre Tampico" - translated to English as "Flying Saucers Over Tampico".
It quoted local cops as saying they witnessed "nine unidentified objects" in the sky moments before a terrifying hurricane was due to hit.
The paper added that "thousands of inhabitants' saw objects in the sky" as the natural disaster remarkably bypassed the city.
Prior to 1967, the region was known as a hotbed of hurricane and tropical storms.
Only a year earlier Hurricane Inez left 74 people dead as four other major storms ripped through Tampico and nearby Ciudad Madero across three decades between 1933 and 1966.
But ever since the alien sightings not a single weather phenomenon has attacked the region.
In 1988, a hurricane due to smash the city - but it suddenly changed direction and hit further up the coast.
All natural disasters have disappeared from weather radars in the area when passing through the Gulf Coast.
Most recently, devastating Tropical Storm Karl was all but set to strike on the shoreline in 2013 after terrorising the neighbouring towns and villages.
But at the last moment, radars showed the cyclone taking a sharp turn and completely skipping over the area.
A 71-year-old local called Beatriz García said that during the build up to the storm, her and most of the neighbours had their feet up despite the constant red weather warnings.
She told Vice: “I immediately said they [aliens] are going to protect us.’ "And this is what I believe and trust - that they exist, that there is a base."
The brutal weather found its way back in line with the weather radar and continued ravaging the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
And this streak of good fortune has meant the legend of Amupac has quickly grown into a widely accepted belief by locals.
They claim the extraterrestrial beings have developed a device capable of using magnetic fields to fend off weather phenomenons.
This layer of protective tech has kept the area protected ever since 1967, they claim.
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Dr Rosario Romero, a climate scientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has been baffled by the long-lasting streak of good weather in the area.
But she quickly shot down the idea of aliens manipulating the region. She said ever-changing weather was more likely to be a reason for the spate of luck.
Prevailing westerly winds and high pressure subtropical systems are said to drive away hurricanes and push them towards the southern coast of the US.
Dr Romero said people have chosen to forget about serious flooding in 2013 in Tampico. And earlier this year, Tropical Storm Alberto also affected Tampico.
It reached 50mph as it made landfall near the region. But it was described as weak and left Tampico virtually unscathed.
Despite experts continuing to discredit any unworldly explanation for steak of good luck, most of the Tampico locals have are convinced of their protectors.
Outsiders who view the idea of alien security as a wacky and far fetched dream are soon left questioning their stance once they step foot in the city.
Dozens of restaurants and shops in the region have taken inspiration from Amupac to suit the beliefs of the alien-loving people.
They sell extraterrestrial-themed stuffed toys and memorabilia from green earrings to eerie, illuminated postcards.
Lots of the local brands and eateries have even picked up martians as their chosen mascots to entice in visitors.
The nearby beach where the alien base is said to be has been dubbed "Playa Protegida" - the "Protected Beach".
Tampico's municipal government has even used the theory to launch an annual event.
The last Tuesday in October is celebrated as the "Day of the Martian" where locals gather at the beach to thank the aliens for their protection.
Tampico historian Marco Flores thinks many locals are well aware of the legend being improbable - but they want something to believe in.
He told The Guardian: "If science doesn't give us any explanation, we'll get it by magic. "Fantasy is always more attractive than reality."
It comes as locals in Tapico have also claimed to have spotted saucer-shaped UFOs hovering above the supposed alien base back in 2023.
Unexplainable images shared by a crew member onboard an oil rig near the city show a number of strange objects in the sky.
One shows a small aircraft with glowing lights at the bottom of it soaring in the sky.
At least six amber lights can be seen underneath the potential spaceship that is also surrounded by a silver disc.
Another picture shows three illuminated dots in the air making up a peculiar triangle shape.
Both crafts are believed to have suddenly appeared before quickly jetting off and never returning.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14222497/peru-alien-mummies-mystery-corpses-slanted-eyes-hair.html
Mystery of Peru's' 'alien mummies' deepens after two more corpses are found with slanted eyes and hair
Updated: 16:15 EST, 23 December 2024
The case of Peru's mysterious 'alien mummies' continues to deepen after the unveiling of two new creatures named Paloma and Antonio.
The corpses were said to have been found in the Nazca desert, where the first mummy was uncovered seven years ago by journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan.
Paloma and Antonio share the same three fingers as previous mummies, but feature small, slanted eyes and are described as being the size of 'a short adult.'
The mummies were recently analyzed by Dr David Ruiz Vela, former president of Peru's Medical Association, who determined that they have human-like organs with a visible brain structure.
Dr. Ruiz claimed that Antonio had a stab wound in his chest, while Paloma showed evidence of hair— a first among the mummies. Both are said to be 1,500 years old.
Researchers have suggested that the bodies were fossilized by algae, which helped preserve them, along with a highly toxic adhesive that 'does not match those of the time.'
Maussan has presented roughly a dozen of these bodies, showcasing many of them in front of Mexico's Congress as evidence of alien beings that once walked the Earth.
While Maussan has stood firm in his claims, experts remain convinced that the mummies are nothing more than dolls manipulated by grave robbers.
In 2018, one year after the discovery was announced, scientists concluded from at least four independent analyses of DNA samples and other mummy materials that they were modified, pre-Columbian mummies.
But the claims have not stopped Maussan and other researchers in their tracks. The latest discoveries are unlike the previous mummies Maussan has found.
Paloma and Antonio differ in facial features and size, along with wounds that were found on Antonio.
'He has a stab that broke his ribs on the left side of his chest, penetrating the chest, abdomen, liver and completely perforating him inside,' Dr Ruiz Vela said in a video.
He believes that Paloma lived for up to 60 years.
'This is the first time we've found a dried body with hair, hair with copper-colored characteristics,' said Dr Ruiz Vela.
Jois Mantilla a journalist who has become dedicated to proving the mummies are real said that 'more will be revealed in 2025' about the creatures, specifically the secret place for where the bodies have been recovered.
The location has been kept from the public to keep looters at bay, researchers have said.
Mantilla said that previously found mummies has four different types of DNA, including a human from Asia, two apeds from Africa and an unknown.
'That unknown DNA is probably what makes it have the characteristics of three fingers, he said.
'I have a theory that this DNA is the DNA of its creators. We humans do not have the technological capacity to combine DNA nor with all the money in the world can we manage to mix an ape, a chimpanzee with a human.'
Mantilla then claimed these creatures were created in a lab at least 1,800 years ago.
A recent imaging analysis on one of the humanoids named 'Maria' found it has biological similarities to that of a human - but with 'many morphological and anatomical structural differences.'
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The creature's bones were observed to flow smoothly under the mummified casing, in a way that is found throughout the human body, and its elongated skull showed no signs of artificial cranial deformation.
The team was also able to date the mummy to between 240AD and 383AD, 'indicating its coexistence with the ancient Nazca civilization,' they shared in the study.
The team conducted magnification examination, allowing them to peer inside and see that the mummy lacked hair and external ears - it only had openings of the ear canals.
'The most notable feature of the skull is its significant elongation, without external signs of cranial compression from external agents,' reads the study published in the Journal of Social and Environmental Management.
'Specifically, it is the cranial vault that shows an atypical growth and development, resembling a dolichocephalic phenotype. 'Additionally, the cranial volume is 30 percent larger than that of a normal human.'
Scans of the internal creature revealed it had bulging eyes and protruding upper and lower jaws.
Maussan turned Mexico's Congress into a circus when he brought two mummies to argue his case that they are not of this world.
He ushered in a team of researchers who performed a DNA analysis on the figures that showed 30 percent is 'not from any known species' and stated that the figures were 'authentic,' comprising a single skeleton.
The figures underwent carbon dating by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), which determined the bodies had three-fingered hands, no teeth and were more than 1,000 years old, Maussan claimed.
'These specimens are not part of our terrestrial evolution […] These aren't beings that were found after a UFO wreckage,' Maussan said to Congress in September.
'They were found in diatom [algae] mines and were later fossilized.'
He later added: 'Whether they are aliens or not, we don't know, but they were intelligent and they lived with us. They should rewrite history.' 'We are not alone in this vast universe; we should embrace this reality.'
Maussan brought a squad of medical experts who carried in a letter signed by 11 researchers from San Luis Gonzaga National University in Ica, Peru, declaring the same.
Anthropologist Roger Zuniga of San Luis Gonzaga National University in Ica Peru said Tuesday: 'There was absolutely no human intervention in the physical and biological formation of these beings.'
However, the letter made clear that the team was not implying the bodies were 'extraterrestrial' but did not answer where the remains originated.
Argentine surgeon Celestino Adolfo Piotto also took the stand, claiming he reviewed the results of testing done on the bodies and made the bizarre case that 'they were an evolved version of today's human beings, calling them 'our descendants.'
But ufologist Will Galison - a close friend of the archaeologist who first analyzed the supposed 'aliens' - said he believes the 'corpses' are dummies that are 1,000 years old.
Galison said they may have been made from animal remains a millennia ago, possibly for ritual purposes, with the heads bearing a 'remarkable similarity' to alpaca skulls.
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Cyber Rave | Tesla Light Show
Dec 23, 2024
One of two new Light Shows rolling out now in the 2024 Holiday Update (Song – Ready for Assault)
To perform your own show, tap Toy Box → Light Show on your vehicle touchscreen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zxQpYYSvTM
Jolly ol' chekt