Cell Towers and Cellphones. Microwave Radiation, Electromagnetic Pollution, Impacts on Human Health                 ~ hehe what "R" they ...really 4 ?

By Joachim Hagopian

Global Research, August 10, 2016

Region: USA

Theme: Environment, Science and Medicine

 

“Electromagnetic pollution may be the most significant form of pollution human activity has produced this century, all the more dangerous because it is invisible and insensible.” — Andrew Weil, MD, bestselling author
We live in the information age when we’re bombarded every single day with incoming data to process and interpret whether it’s true or not. Because the government and mainstream media have an agenda of false narratives and disinformation propaganda to willfully keep people confused in the dark, the American public is starved for the truth and in record numbers has sought it from alternative media outlets on the World Wide Web.
To circumvent people from grasping the full implications of the ruling elite’s control agenda, hundreds of government shills and internet trolls have been deployed, saturating the net with the expressed purpose of muddying the waters, creating disinfo fog of war to obscure, bury and withhold vital information and knowledge from being accessed and fully grasped by the global masses. Additionally, the fast track pathway to global governance – the TPP and TTIP agreements – are geared to seal off internet flow of lifesaving information that could increase global awareness and coalesce into worldwide resistance and opposition to New World Order tyranny.
CIA invented labels from nearly a half century ago like “conspiracy theory” and its recent mutations like “tin foil hat” and fringe element fanatics have methodically conditioned the public to discard and categorically deny the negative truth that exposes government perpetrators’ treasonous betrayal of American citizens as well as Empire’s global transgressions – especially since 9/11.
In actuality a conspiracy theorist is one who questions the statements of known liars. Speaking of known liars, George W’s admonition to disregard conspiracy theories was just the post-9/11 beginning to squelch the truth that makes him a guilty murderous war criminal of his own people. The same cover-up followed the inside job of the JFK assassination that his daddy played a part in, just like his daddy’s daddy financed Hitler. Unfortunately there’s nothing new about the US government murdering presidents who threaten status quo corruption as well as exterminating national populations to gain oppressive authoritarian control. Democide is the killing of citizens by its own government. Six times more victims in the last century died from democide than fighting in all the century’s wars combined that include humanity’s two bloodiest ones on record. History repeats as the federal government’s currently waging a not so secret war against the American people.
Chief among its formidable lethal arsenal is the feds’ war to control our minds through propaganda, having been crafted and honed now for over a century. Shaping public opinion and perception of reality through any and all means necessary involves deceitful weapons of mass destruction manifesting 24/7 through insidious applications of social engineering, various CIA mind control techniques delivered by mass media propaganda, corporate controlled mass consumerism, and six oligarch owned and operated mega-media corporations controlling the outflow of news and information.
This centralized global spigot spews out materialistic values, warped, distorted messages, dogma and false truths spoon fed globally for mass consumption as the not so covert means to manipulate, brainwash and control the human population. Twenty-first century technology has shrunken our planet into a global village of mass consumers to be pliably manipulated and controlled. This presentation will outline how a sinister globalist agenda is using the incredibly powerful telecom industry as yet another WMD for mass mind control, soft kill eugenics and, when deemed most advantageous, a convenient fast kill, genocidal method for culling the human herd.
Over the last quarter century, cell phones have all but replaced the conventional landline telephone system. 91% of Americans from adolescent to adult ages utilize cellphones as their primary means of spoken word communication, often including texting and other online interactive options as well.
Much has been written about the paradoxical effect that wireless cellphones and tablets offer as convenient multimodal transmitters that both instantly expand our opportunity to interact with fellow humans within a readily accessible cyber-world while simultaneously alienating us from real time, face-to-face, eye-to-eye communication and real world human connection. Today a quick glance observation at any public setting – airports, libraries, doctors’ offices – and the vast majority of people are seen busily interacting with their push button machines far more frequently than direct live conversation with even accompanying friends and family. Like lab rats compulsively pushing levers, people habitually check their cellphones over a hundred times a day. Hi-tech toy gadgetry has become the singular, most addictive device known to modern man. IPhones and Wi-Fi devices control how we increasingly preoccupy our daily waking hours more so than any other modern invention since the radio-television era.
For the last couple decades, countless scientific studies have been warning us of the serious damage being done to our brains and bodies as a consequence of our excessive cellphone habits. The radiation literally fries our neurons, alters our DNA with fractured strand breaks, and causes rising rates of brain cancer, tumors and associated other life threatening diseases. A new study from the British Medical Journal led by Dr. Enrique Navarro concludes that living near cell towers inhibits brain functioning, diminishes memory, disrupts the normal sleep cycle and causes widespread irritability. And an analytical review of all research conducted a half dozen years ago determined that 80% of all studies have determined that a direct correlation does exist between tower proximity and adverse symptoms, tumors and cancer.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the governmental agency that regulates the telecommunications industry, has purposely maintained dangerously high tolerance for the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) - 1.6 watts per kilogram, a radiation level standard that’s literally killing people. Paid off with bribes by the largest telecom giants, the FCC has refused to accurately readjust to lowering its hazardous threshold to save lives despite the preponderance of research showing that it would. Instead at a public meeting last month at the FCC headquarters, the federal agency that’s supposed to protect public safety showed its colors shutting down any dissenting voice. Likewise, Washington has chosen to protect the multibillion dollar industry by historically refusing to fund research that might otherwise decisively reveal the truth and thus hinder telecom growth. The FCC allows the industry to hire its own bogus pseudo-scientists to fudge its own inconclusive data to falsely claim cellphone use poses no serious threat to human health.
Just as the FDA is a bought and paid for Big Parma whore intentionally allowing damaging drugs on the market without adequate testing, and the EPA looks the other way when giant corps. like Monsanto spread deadly contaminants throughout our air, soil and water supply, corruption across all federal and state levels could care less about public health and safety, but instead blindly support transnational killers to ensure maximum profits are achieved at horrific human cost. These across the board policies are consistent with how the US government operates as a corrupt oligarchy acting on behalf of Fortune 500’s special interests – not the people’s, knowing a growing number of Americans are becoming sick, suffering and dying as a result of a government that’s turned its back on its citizens. The cold hard facts clearly show that Washington is a fascist crime cabal at war with its own people, now eliminating us through slow death, soft kill methods that only pad telecom/Monsanto/Big Pharma/health industry profits.
True to form, the co-opted FDA, EPA, World Health Organization (WHO) and American Cancer Society have all gone public claiming that radiofrequency (RF) radiation from cellphones and cell towers carry no determined health effects. That said, in 2011 even the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) conceded to classifying radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as “a possible carcinogen to humans.” Then last October another recent study coordinated by IARC examined over 300,000 nuclear workers from US, UK and France and found even low level radiation exposure over time increases the risk of cancer.
But from the American Cancer Institute’s own website, it states that non-ionized radiation from cell towers and cellphones “do not directly damage the DNA inside cells.” This is a blatant lie. Two decades ago pioneering scientist Dr. Narendra Pal Singh and Dr. Henry Lai empirically demonstrated that DNA single and double strand damage does occur at only 2.45 GHz radiation, a rate of one fifth the level producing previously known toxic biological effects and well below the so called FCC regulated “safe” levels that cellphones emit. Lai and Singh’s valuable research supports the widely accepted (amongst honest observers) the very logical conclusion that cumulative DNA damage occurs over time from prolonged use of cellphones. Two years ago a peer review of 80 studies found that 92% showed that non-ionized radiation from cellphones do damage DNA. Yet the Cancer Institute chooses to continue living the lie.
Megras and Xenos found that five generations of mice exposed to extremely low RF rates from .168 to 1.053 microwatts per square centimeter sustained irreversible sterility. These relative low exposure amounts are equivalent to living near a cellular tower. Thus humans living, attending school and working so close to towers are being dangerously radiated, yet the current FCC safe standard remains at 579 microwatts per square centimeter, a full 500 times higher than what causes sterilization in mice. In a related study, males who carry cellphones on belt clips or in their pants pocket have a measured sperm count 30% lower than men who don’t. The globalist overpopulation cheerleaders wouldn’t have it any other way.
Sweeping all this established hard evidence under the carpet just like the tobacco industry perpetrated for decades has been but a temporary fix strategy that buys more time to sell more wireless products and build thousands of more towers. But just over two months ago for the first time in history even a US federal study under the National Institutes of Health confirmed what the prevailing body of honest researchers have indicated all along – that radiation emitted from chronic use of cellphones does in fact lead to rising cancer rates. The former head of NIH’s National Toxicology Program (NTP) that performed the research study states that the findings between radiation exposure and rare forms of brain and heart cancers are definitely causally-connected. This NTP research is the most comprehensive and robust long term (2 years) investigation measuring varying exposure levels of radiofrequencies on rats ever conducted. But this study applies only to simulated radiation emitted from chronic cellphone use only, not exposure to the radiofrequency waves dangerously released from massive cell towers at close distance nor other wireless devices commonly found in both the home and workplace.
Cellphone and cell tower radiation also cause lowered immune systems and alter hormonal levels, adding further complications posing a serious detriment to human health. Still other recent studies from earlier this year for the first time are indicating that certain individuals experience physical pain accompanied by physiological bodily changes from tower signals at even low, regular levels. This finding validates the very real existence of a growing population of about 5% around the world who may be especially sensitive to wireless radiation. Their medical condition known as electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) typically afflicts them with physical pain, headaches, nosebleeds, fatigue, insomnia, anxiety. Previously many uninformed and/or biased medical practitioners automatically dismissed individuals suffering from EHS as hypochondriacs. Lawsuits have generally ruled against those claiming EHS, citing medical literature that concludes it’s merely a psychosomatic illness not caused by electromagnetic radiation. However, last August a French court ruled in favor of a victim complainant. EHS appears to be following the same path that Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Syndrome have undergone in their gradual acceptance within the medical community.
In order to provide service to millions of customers globally, cellphone companies have constructed cell towers and antenna towers across an entire overlapping region since the 360 degree radius of each tower only extends less than 25 miles. That’s why thousands into the millions of towers have been springing up around the globe, especially in densely populated areas where cell phones are at peak use. The trade industry website WirelessEstimator.com lists an updated total amongst the top 121 telecom companies of 118,173 towers in the US. However, the same site maintains that the tower count as of 2009 that includes rooftop antenna transmitters and cell towers number 247,081, further admitting that there is no accurate count. Yet another site antennaesearch.com has an updated US tally of 612,477, and 2,456,899 with wireless rooftop antennas included. Thus, the guesstimated range is enormously wide and for all intents and purposes unknown, but rapidly growing daily around the world.
Meanwhile, a wireless news site article from a year ago stated that due to exponential consumer demand for mobile data, Cisco estimates that by 2019 US mobile traffic will soar to 7 times its 2015 rate. This foretells a far denser concentration of yet even more harmful towers erected in ever-closer proximity to America’s vast sprawling urban population, typically impacting and endangering America’s youth in schools, adults in office buildings and families living in multistory apartment complexes.
In view of thousands of towers built next to or even on school grounds, a growing body of research on children and pregnant mothers is also producing extremely alarming results. Many public schools and universities are also being given cash bribe incentives to permit towers on their premises. Though some local parent and community advocacy groups are beginning to fight back, many education officials are choosing money over their own young people’s health and well-being. Meanwhile, it’s been shown that children absorb twice as much cell phone and tower radiation in the brain, up to three times in the hypothalamus and hippocampus regions, and their blood brain barrier leaks at the smallest traces of radiation. And incredibly kids’ bone marrow takes in ten times the amount of harmful RF waves as adults.
Spiked rates of electromagnetic pollution and its devastatingly harmful effects on human health is a pandemic train wreck currently exploding across the USA and the entire world. And as a direct consequence of chronic, indiscriminate use over the last 25 years, rare forms of brain cancer are now beginning to skyrocket. Predatory telecom giants and bribed governments are exploiting the fact that this weapon of mass destruction cannot be felt as an odorless, tasteless, silent, invisible killer.
All of this is bad enough news, dumbing down citizens and making us ill at national levels, but it’s just now becoming more widely known that a far more diabolical plan is presently in place that is zapping Americans with deadlier levels of radiation from cell towers than before. The most appalling realization is these dangerously higher levels of radiation emanating from weaponized cell towers have absolutely nothing to do with cell phone transmission, but everything to do with democide. They prove that the US government has shifted its soft kill eugenics plan to a faster hard-boil roast of the American population.
A former senior scientist from DARPA, the US deep state black ops research lab that channels all advanced technologies into military WMD’s, recently went public alerting fellow Americans that the federal government is misusing lethal cell tower transmissions as an “act of terrorism” against the US population. With a PhD from Princeton in computational physics and nearly three years at the DARPA Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dr. Paul Batcho is a more than credible source who knows what he’s talking about. When he first began noticing high powered radiation radiating from cell towers in his home in St. Petersburg and surrounding areas of central Florida and Tampa, he followed standard protocol contacting his previous employer DARPA along with DHS, informing them that he believes that the cell towers present a “terrorist” threat. After his repeated attempts to alert authorities drew no response, Batcho contacted longtime activist-writer Dave Hodges of The Common Sense Show. The scientist has written:
These transmissions will cause harmful health affects in the form of enhanced microwave radiation illness. It is imperative that these frequency bands be measured and verified by an official source. These frequency bands do not exist naturally, and there is a technology targeting individuals. The verified measurement and existence of these RF band transmissions constitutes a terrorist act.
The FCC officially limits cell towers to 400 watts of energy output for cell phone data transfer. However, it’s been reported that mammoth sized cables leading into a typical cell phone tower is capable of emitting far greater power, especially when equipped with amplifiers. This makes the enormous level of microwave radiation each tower can project a potential mega-death weapon. And this is the alarm that Paul Batcho is railing against. The death ray machine that each tower represents can generate enough juice to literally cook every human within its city limits. So if the elitist powerbrokers in control plant these WMD’s strategically and so densely across America happen to desire the US population dead, or perhaps under the guise of an invading foreign enemy on American soil, these tower transmitters could conceivably eliminate the entire living population with several million towers at full wattage throttle.
Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate and former US Army officer. He has written a manuscript based on his unique military experience entitled “Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down.” It examines and focuses on US international relations, leadership and national security issues. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century. In recent years he has focused on his writing, becoming an alternative media journalist. His blog site is at: http://empireexposed.blogspot.co.id/.

The original source of this article is Global Research

Copyright © Joachim Hagopian, Global Research, 2016

Flights to Nowhere: Mysterious Airliners That Vanished Without a Trace

• http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/08/flights-to-nowhere-mysterious-airliners-that-vanished-without-a-trace/
•  August 9, 2016
•  Brent Swancer

One of the most widely used and indeed still safest forms of travel is the airplane. Every year millions of people use passenger airliners to crisscross the globe to far-flung destinations. Although there are many things that could potentially go wrong on a flight, a fact thrust into the spotlight with terror attacks, one such danger one might not immediately consider is the chances of a plane and its passengers, sometimes hundreds of people, taking off and seemingly flying out of existence, to never be seen again; gone without a trace. Even more surprising than that this could possibly happen in this day and age of advanced tracking technology is the sobering frequency with which these strange vanishings happen, and how recent some of them are. Here we will look into some of the weirder and more compelling of these cases in which passenger aircraft have vanished without a trace, to fly off to mysterious final destinations unknown. Fasten your seatbelt and put your seats and trays up into their upright positions, because we’re going for a ride.
By far the most talked about and mysterious missing airliner in modern times has to be the strange saga of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. On 8 March 2014 at 00:41 local time, the Boeing 777-200ER took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, for a scheduled flight en route to Beijing Capital International Airport in China, carrying 227 multi-national passengers and 12 Malaysian crew. Conditions were clear and Flight MH370 was scheduled to land at Beijing on time at 6:30 AM. It would never arrive at its destination, and has become one of the most inexplicable and bizarre aircraft vanishings in aviation history.

Malaysian air traffic control received an odd message from the aircraft at 01:19 local time, as the plane was on its way over the South China Sea, when the co-pilot radioed: “Alright, good night.” It was a seemingly simple, routine message that would be the last anyone heard from the airliner again. Malaysian military tracked the plane as it began to veer wildly off course, turning sharply from its north-east course to face nearly due west, making its way over the Malay Peninsula until radar contact was lost somewhere over the Andaman Sea at 2:15. Satellite data has shown that the plane continued some time like this over the South Indian Ocean before disappearing for good. Neither Flight MH370, nor any of its passengers or crew, have been seen since.
The missing Flight MH370 provoked the most intense and costliest search operation ever launched in aviation history. A multinational effort began scouring the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea, looking for any sign of the plane yet they found absolutely nothing. The search, which was led mostly by Australia, was soon extended to include the Strait of Malacca and Andaman Sea, until the search operation was meticulously searching and combing through vast swaths of area, eventually spanning approximately 46,332 square miles of the southern Indian Ocean, both on the surface and below, and still no trace of the missing plane was found. It was thought at the time that the plane had perhaps been deliberately piloted off course before crashing in the South Indian Sea off of Australia, but there was no trace of a crash found anywhere and this was all speculation, and additionally nothing particularly suspicious was turned up in an analysis of the records of the pilots, crew, or passengers. Making the whole thing stranger still was that there had been no distress signal made from the plane, nor any mention of bad weather or technical problems before vanishing.
The search for the missing flight MH370 would end up stretching on for over two years, during which time only a scant few clues would show up. One confirmed piece of wreckage from the plane washed up in July of 2015 at Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean in the form of a flaperon, and several other small pieces and fragments thought to be from the doomed flight have turned up in Africa at Mozambique, Mauritius and South Africa, but the main wreckage has never been found. Other unconfirmed pieces of debris from the plane that have been claimed to have been found include various purses and bags, as well as a piece of metal with the words “NO STEP” written on it found on a remote island in Madagascar, but it is unclear if any of these things actually belonged to the passengers aboard Flight MH370 or if the metal indeed belonged to the missing plane.

Piece of debris thought to have belonged to Flight MH370

The mysterious vanishing of Flight MH370 continues to baffle to this day, and it has spawned a wide range of theories as to what became of it. The leading theory is that the plane flew on autopilot for several hours before running out of fuel and crashing into the sea, but the reason why remains unknown. Of course there are those who disagree with this, and the list of ideas on the disappearance ranges from the rational, to the colorful, to the absurd.
An increasingly popular notion has been that the plane was not on autopilot at all, but rather was under deliberate pilot control, and that the plane was guided into the sea in a controlled glide long after fuel ran out, rather than crashing. This theory lends itself to the notion that terrorists had taken control of the plane, or that the pilot had intentionally doomed the flight for some unknown reason, and another weird detail supporting this is that is seems that the aircraft’s data transmission system and transponder had been deliberately switched off shortly before it diverted off course. The glide theory also means that if this is true, then the plane could have successfully managed to glide under manned control for an extended range well out of the designated search area instead of simply plummeting into the sea, meaning that search efforts might have been focusing on the wrong area all along.
One eerie clue that was found pointing to the pilot intentionally diverting the flight was found in the form of data discovered on a flight simulator at the home of the plane’s captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, which included a plotted flightpath over the Indian Ocean similar to what the plane had taken before vanishing, making it seem that this could be a case of a premeditated murder-suicide. Detractors have pointed out that there is no  evidence that Shah had plotted the course on the simulator himself, and that this was just one potential course of many found on the device. For the most part, the controlled glide and rogue pilot murder-suicide theory has largely been dismissed by authorities but is popular with amateur sleuths and others looking into the mystery.

Other more colorful theories run the gamut from the odd to the downright bizarre. One is the idea that North Korea shot down or hijacked Flight MH370, or the idea the Russian president Vladimir Putin had the aircraft hijacked. Then there is the theory that the U.S. military itself shot down the plane with fighter jets when they became concerned that it had been hijacked and on its way to suicide bomb the military base on the Indian Ocean atoll of Diego Garcia, or that it was shot down accidentally in a military exercise. According to proponents of this theory, this explains the notorious lack of transparency, conflicting reports, and sluggish, poor release of information the Malaysian government and other authorities have shown throughout the investigation. Adding to this conspiracy theory is the idea that all of the debris from Flight MH 370 found so far has been faked.
Various other theories claim that this was part of some insurance fraud scam, that the Israelis hijacked it to carry out a terror attack to blame on Iran, that the plane was forced to land in Ukraine and stolen, that the CIA was involved somehow, that China hijacked the plane to capture spies onboard, and of course that it was abducted by aliens. To this day, we don’t really know what happened to Flight MH370, and it looks like we likely never will. It remains a profound aviation mystery that continues to baffle and incite speculation and debate.
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH3770, while a spectacular case, is not the first passenger aircraft to have seemingly vanished off of the face of the earth. In 1948 and 1949, British South American Airways had not one, but two passenger airliners go missing without a trace. The first was an Avro Tudor IV plane named the Star Tiger, registration G-AHNP, which took off on January 30, 1948 from Santa Maria in the Azores archipelago, where it had stopped off for refueling on a flight from London to Bermuda. The stopover was originally supposed to be just over an hour, but ended up lasting for nearly a full day due to poor weather conditions. On the morning of January 30, the plane took off despite heavy winds at the time, along with 25 passengers and 6 crew. It flew at a low altitude of 2,000 feet (610 m) so as to avoid the worst of the punishing winds and was guided by an Avro Lancastrian aircraft, which took off an hour earlier and kept the airliner updated on weather conditions ahead. The two aircraft maintained constant radio communication with each other at this point.

During the flight, it was noticed that heavy winds were slowly throwing the Star Tiger slightly off course, yet it was still committed to its destination of Bermuda, and the weather merely resulted in an adjustment to the estimated time of arrival. When the Lancastrian landed in Bermuda, the experienced pilot Frank Griffin had not encountered any particularly dangerous weather and expected that the Star Tiger would not be far behind. It would never arrive. The last transmission recorded for the airliner was a request for a radio bearing by the Star Tiger’s radio officer, Robert Tuck, which was given and acknowledged. Not long after this, the Bermuda radio operator tried to contact the plane again but were met with silence. Bermuda Approach Control similarly failed to contact the aircraft, and at no point was any distress call received. The Star Tiger had seemingly just flown off into oblivion, and an emergency was declared.
A search was mounted almost immediately, involving the US Air Force, airplanes, and ships, and efforts to locate the missing Star Tiger would continue for 5 days, yet not a trace or scrap of the airliner could be located. A full investigation was subsequently launched but there could be found no reason for why the plane could have crashed, as the crew had been very experienced, the weather deemed not to be bad enough to cause the plane to go down, and the aircraft itself had not been suffering any serious technical problems. Neither could the investigation come to any conclusion as to why the plane had just suddenly ceased radio communications and not given any distress signal. In the end, the inquiry would state:

In the complete absence of any reliable evidence as to either the nature or the cause of the accident of Star Tiger the Court has not been able to do more than suggest possibilities, none of which reaches the level even of probability. …. What happened in this case will never be known and the fate of Star Tiger must remain an unsolved mystery.

No trace of the Star Tiger or its passengers and crew has ever been found, not even a scrap, and indeed its disappearance is credited as being one of the cases that really helped fuel talk of the whole phenomenon of the Bermuda Triangle and launch it into the public consciousness. Everything from sudden sheering winds, to pilot error, to sabotage, to the fact that it was burning more fuel than usual in its low altitude flight, to aliens and inter-dimensional vortices have been proposed as the culprit behind the vanishing, but the fact is we will most probably never know for sure.
The very next year, British South American Airways lost yet another passenger airliner under mysterious circumstances, a disappearance which would also eerily occur in the so-called Bermuda Triangle. The passenger jet Star Ariel took off on January 17, 1949, nearly exactly a year after the ill fated Star Tiger, heading from Bermuda to Jamaica with 20 people on board. The Avro Tudor Mark IVB passenger liner, registration G-AGRE, had an experienced crew and weather conditions at the time were very clear and calm, yet immediately after a simple, routine location report from the plane, as it cruised at a normal, safe 18,000 feet, all radio contact simply ceased. Considering that weather conditions were clear, no distress signal was issued, and there was no sign of anything at all awry, it was as if the Star Ariel had simply blinked out of existence.
An extensive search was unable to locate any trace of the missing plane. Authorities investigating the strange disappearance of the Star Ariel could find no signs of technical difficulty or a crash caused by the weather, and it was deemed unlikely that the plane could have possibly run out of fuel considering the distance it had gone and the altitude it had been at. Investigators were at a loss as to what could be behind the mystery. No wreckage or evidence of what had become of the Star Ariel was ever found, and frustrated authorities ended up labelling the cause of the vanishing as simply unknown. The best guess anyone has come up with is that the plane met some sudden, catastrophic unknown fate, such as perhaps an explosion that occurred without warning, but this is pure speculation. Not a trace of the plane or its passengers or crew have ever been located.

Another mysterious vanishing aircraft would follow in June of 1950. On June 23, 1950, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 was approaching Lake Michigan at around midnight on its flight from New York to Seattle, with a stopover in Minneapolis. The DC-4 propliner was carrying 55 passengers and crew of 3 at the time, and was heading into rather stormy weather. The weather was so bad, in fact, that three other flights had turned around rather than risk entering the storm. When the flight was nearing Benton Harbor, Michigan, the captain made the sudden request to be allowed to significantly lower the aircraft’s altitude from 3,500 feet to 2,500 feet, but no reason for the request was given. Despite the storm, other planes were in the area at the time, and the airliner’s request was denied. The pilot calmly acknowledged this and this would be the aircraft’s last transmission.
Not long after this final message, locals claimed to have heard a loud, sputtering noise followed by a bright flash of light in the sky. In the ensuing search operation, authorities at first focused on an unexplained oil slick on the lake near Milwaukee but could find no trace of a plane. Some debris turned up near South Haven, Michigan, which consisted of some human remains, blankets with the Northwest logo emblazoned on them, and some foam cushioning from upholstery, and divers rushed to the area to scour the bottom but extremely low visibility made finding anything impossible. It is widely thought that the plane crashed and sank in Lake Michigan, but no further wreckage has ever been found, despite extensive sonar analysis of the bottom in the region of the crash that has turned up nothing but shipwrecks. At the time, this was considered to be the deadliest commercial airline accident in American history, and the cause of the apparent crash of Flight 2501 is still unknown.

The following year, on July 21, 1951, a Canadian Pacific Douglas DC-4 departed from Vancouver, Canada en route to Tokyo, Japan. It was the height of the Korean war, and the airliner, along with 31 passengers and 6 crew, were on their way to assist in airlift operations. The plane was approaching Anchorage Alaska for a refueling stop, about 90 minutes from arrival, when it checked in with its position. Then it simply vanished. Although weather conditions were rainy and icy at the time, the plane had reported no technical issues or problems in its last transmission. No trace of the aircraft has ever been found.
On March 16, 1962, Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 took off from Travis Air Force Base in California on a flight to Saigon, Vietnam. The Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation propliner had been chartered by the US military and was in the process of transporting 93 American Army Rangers and 3 South Vietnamese military personnel. Also on board were 11 civilian crew members. The plane made a scheduled stopover in Guam, after which it continued on to its next stopover at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. 80 minutes into the flight, the pilot made a routine transmission of their location, which was given as about 280 miles west of Guam, and it was noted by operators that the radio contact was beset with heavy static. Weather conditions at the time were clear and calm. When further contact was attempted, the flight remained silent. It would never be seen or heard from again.
The subsequent search was one of the largest air and sea rescue operations in history, including aircraft and ships from the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Marines, and over 1,300 personnel, who scoured a total area of more than 200,000 square miles (520,000 km2) over 8 days without finding so much as a scrap of wreckage. The only clue as to what might have happened to Flight 739 was a report from a civilian Liberian oil tanker claiming to have seen an intense bright light in the sky followed by two descending fireballs near the plane’s estimated position about 500 miles (800 km) west of Guam approximately 90 minutes after its last transmission. The tanker reported that it had ventured to where the fireballs were estimated to have fallen but had found no sign of any floating wreckage or debris. It was thought that the tanker had possibly witnessed Flight 739 exploding in midair, but it was difficult to prove without a single trace of evidence.

The main theory was that the plane was the victim of sabotage, which would not have been unusual since one other Flying Tiger Line flight chartered by the military had crashed due to suspected sabotage in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands after departing from the same starting point, Travis Air Force Base, a mere 6 hours before Flight 739 had vanished. It was also claimed by officials of the airline that it was impossible for the Super-Constellation aircraft to experience a midair explosion under normal operating circumstances and that there had been nothing on board that could have caused such a catastrophic blast, further leading authorities to suspect some form of sabotage or terrorist act. However, with no wreckage recovered and indeed no sign of where it had gone, it was impossible to come to any conclusion as to the aircraft’s fate. No trace of the plane and all of the passengers and crew has never been found.
A particularly weird disappearance of an airliner occurred in 2003 in Luanda, Angola. On May 25, 2003, at Quatro de Feveriro International Airport in Angola, shortly before sunset, a Boeing 727-233 with the tail number N844AA was boarded by mechanic Ben Charles Padilla and his hired helper Mikel Mutantu. Padilla had been hired to work on the decommissioned American Airlines plane to get it ready for its next flight, and had enlisted the help of Congolese Mutantu. The two were strictly mechanics, with neither of them possessing a commercial pilot’s license, and they definately had no clearance to enter the plane or its cockpit. It is unknown why the two suddenly got aboard the plane, but what is known is that it suddenly began an unauthorized taxiing down the runway with its engines revving.

A Boeing 727

Although it was sunset, the aircraft’s headlights were turned off and calls to the cockpit went unanswered. Furthermore, the plane was described as moving erratically, and its transponders had been deactivated. Although neither of the two men seen to have entered the plane were anywhere near qualified to fly it, it nevertheless taxied onto the runway and took off without clearance right in front of the bewildered air traffic control officers, and proceeded to head off southwest towards the Atlantic Ocean. All frantic efforts to contact the cockpit were met with silence until the plane disappeared from sight and for all intents and purposes from existence.
The fact that this incident occurred hot on the footsteps of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was serious cause for concern, and the FBI, CIA, and the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security were all over the investigation immediately in a desperate attempt to staunch what they felt could be another incoming similar terrorist attack. The attack never came, but neither did any evidence on just where in the world the missing plane had gone. An intensive 2-month search turned up no sign of it and theories on what had happened to it ran rampant.
One of the first ideas was that it had simply crashed not long after take-off, but there was no concrete evidence of this as no wreckage was ever found. Also going against this idea were the numerous unconfirmed sightings of the plane that cropped up after its disappearance. N844AA was allegedly seen in July of 2003 in Conakry, Guinea, and again in August that same year at Kankan Airport, Guinea, although these reports remain unsubstantiated and there is no hard evidence at all that the plane has been in any of these locations, or anywhere else at all for that matter.

Another theory is that the plane was stolen to be put on the black market, put to use by terrorists, converted to a freighter for fuel or drugs, or simply stripped for parts, but if this is the case then it seems unlikely Padilla and Mutantu could have been working alone. Not only did neither of them have the qualifications to fly such an aircraft, but a Boeing 727 is supposedly nearly impossible to fly without a highly trained crew of at least 3, so how did these two untrained mechanics make off with it? One idea could be that an unknown nefarious group was on the plane and kidnapped them along with their spoils, or that Padilla and Mutantu were working with them from the beginning.
Another theory holds that it was all a part of an insurance scam. At the time the aging plane had been sitting around the airstrip for months collecting dust and millions of dollars in back airport fees. Additionally, it was described as being old and rundown, with a faded, unpainted finish and all of the passenger seats removed, yet was still highly overvalued in its insurance. It seems possible that someone might have wanted to erase the plane to collect the insurance money and get it out of their hair. However, if this is true, then what happened to Padilla and Mutantu? Were they in on it and went off to live as fugitives or were they disappeared as surely as the plane was? Another theory still is that the plane was shot down by the Angolan military shortly after take-off and then covered up. In the end, no one knows where the missing N844AA or Padilla and Mutantu went, and it remains one of the largest aircraft to have ever vanished without a trace.

There are many questions presented by cases like these. It seems odd that in this day and age of advanced technology, of GPS systems and satellite tracking, that it should be possible to lose track of such large aircraft and have them vanish to never be seen again. How is it possible that these planes can just suddenly seemingly spontaneously cease to exist in modern times? One problem is that in many of these cases the aircraft’s transponders or tracking systems had been deactivated, either by accident or intentionally, which would make tracking much more difficult. Satellite tracking can also be problematic due to the sheer number of airliners in the air at any given time and the fact that some poorer countries fail to implement proper tracking technology due to costs. This is all exacerbated by the seemingly meager amount of manpower dedicated to focusing on keeping carful tabs on all planes, which mostly falls to the private sector and civilian aviation agencies. The government itself has been accused of not paying enough attention to missing civilian planes, even in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. One former intelligence officer who previously served in the once active top secret civilian aircraft tracking agency called SUDDEN SPIRIT said in a very enlightening article in Air and Space Magazine on the dark underbelly of missing planes :

The government has all this freaking expensive stuff—satellites and gadgets and shadowy operations—that collect all this secretive information. Almost none of it is focused on civil aviation. They’re focused on the same crap they’ve been focused on forever, which is foreign military capabilities. If you want to know about some foreign fighter jet, there are probably thousands of people focused on that. If you want to know [about] an airliner, there might be one guy in the whole government.

All of this, in combination with the often remote, difficult to access regions into which the aircraft often crash, would make finding missing airliners and debris difficult. If a plane crashes into the ocean or a large lake, deep water and murky visibility can make finding wreckage nearly impossible, and strong currents can serve to scatter debris far and wide. Perhaps when airliners are all equipped with the newer, more precise technology of ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance—Broadcast) transmitters, the number of instances of vanishing planes will be reduced, but even then the systems can possibly still be compromised, removed, or turned off, and for now we are still seeing planes fly off the face of the earth as in the case with Flight MH370. There is also the possibility that the planes can be stolen and either their identity concealed through removal of identifying marks and serial numbers to make them impossible to track, or simply being gutted for parts to dissolve into nothingness. This is actually rampant in many parts of the world, and these aircraft are commonly referred to as “ghost planes.”

Another question is just what happened to these planes in the first place? For some cases, it could be that they simply crashed due to pilot error or technical malfunctions, but in many cases the aircraft were manned by seasoned crew flying under calm conditions, with no sign of trouble and no distress transmissions issued, and yet they just simply vanished, sometimes right under the noses of air traffic control. Another possibility is that they were subjected to a sudden, violent event, such as a bomb or being shot down by hostile forces. This could explain the sudden lose of radio contact even in clear weather, but there is not always an explosion reported, and it would have to be a potent explosive force to so completely and suddenly destroy a large plane without any warning at all. Yet another scenario is that the planes have been hijacked and taken to locations unknown, yet in that case what happened to all of the passengers and crew aboard them and why haven’t they or the aircraft itself ever turned up? Let’s also not forget the other, spookier, no doubt less likely scenarios such as the mysterious forces such as the Bermuda Triangle, alien abduction, and inter-dimensional vortices.
So what is all of this? Terrorists? Storms? Pilot error or technical malfunctions? Aliens? Do these planes disappear because they have fallen where no one can find them? Because they were whisked away by nefarious agents and erased from existence? Or is it because mysterious forces beyond our comprehension have swallowed them up without a trace? Likely in the end there is no one culprit behind these vanishings, and there is probably a variety of factors at play depending on the case. In the absence of any recoverable evidence to analyze it is really hard to say, and often we are left just grasping at straws. The only thing we can say for certain is that, despite all of our technology and surveillance abilities, large passenger airliners can and still do go missing. Even now there are still those flights to nowhere, taking off and flying past the horizon and into the realm of great unsolved mysteries.

 TAGS: Conspiracy, disappearances, Malaysia Flight 370, missing flights, modern mysteries, mysterious disappearances, strange disappearances, unsolved mystery

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‘Dyson Sphere’ Star Mysteriously and Dramatically Dimming

• http://mysteriousuniverse.org/
•  August 9, 2016
•  Paul Seaburn

The mysterious star with the catchy nickname that refuses to explain itself just got a little more mysterious … and a lot dimmer. Data on KIC 8462852 – aka Tabby’s Star, aka the star that might be surrounded by a Dyson sphere – was analyzed by another set of astronomers and they noticed a 200-day period where it dimmed drastically in comparison to other times. Did the aliens sucking power from the star via the sphere need an emergency energy boost? Did something else temporarily block it from our view? Is this proof it’s some new kind of star? Or what?
KIC 8462852 was nicknamed Tabby’s Star after its discoverer, astronomer Tabetha Boyajian. The erratic behavior of its light, especially the constant dimming, caused speculation that it was partially or fully surrounded by a so-called Dyson sphere of panels absorbing its energy to be used by an alien species for fuel. Farfetched but not yet eliminated as an explanation.

According to a new study, Caltech astronomer Ben Montet and Joshua Simon of the Carnegie Institute measured the light from the star recorded by the Kepler satellite observatory over four years. The dimming occurred at a steady rate of around 0.34 percent per year for about the first thousand days of observation. At that point, the dimming increased dramatically to an annual rate of 2.5 percent for the next 200 days. It then returned to the 0.34 rate for the duration of the Kepler observation. Montet said in an interview with Gizmodo:

The part that really surprised me was just how rapid and non-linear it was. We spent a long time trying to convince ourselves this wasn’t real.

The big dip was real

But it was. What caused the sudden drop in light? Suspecting some cosmic mass (comets, thick dust cloud) may have passed in front of Kepler, Montet and Simon checked the brightness of 500 surround stars and found that only KIC 8462852 took a dip. That means the cause is either in front of, around or inside of Tabby’s Star.
Well, that narrows it down, doesn’t it?

These results introduce us to another delightfully unexpected piece of the puzzle.

Tabetha Boyajian has set up a Kickstarter crowdfunding program to raise enough money to use the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network for a year to watch her namesake and catch it in the act of flickering, dimming, Dyson sphere construction, starship fueling or whatever else it might be.

We will keep you all in the loop as things progress, and will soon send out surveys to gather information for reward fulfillment.

What would Galileo think of a Dyson sphere? Would crowdfunding have saved him from church persecution?

For $10, let’s give them a scroll with my picture on it.