![]() Using CIA records compiled from that review, this study traces CIA interest and involvement in the UFO controversy from the late 1940s to 1990. James Woolsey ordered another review of all Agency files on UFOs. In late 1993, after being pressured by UFOlogists for the release of additional CIA information on UFOs, (3) DCI R. The idea that CIA has secretly concealed its research into UFOs has been a major theme of UFO buffs since the modern UFO phenomena emerged in the late 1940s. Many are convinced that the US Government, and particularly CIA, are engaged in a massive conspiracy and coverup of the issue. UFOlogists-a neologism for UFO buffs-and private UFO organizations are found throughout the United States. ![]() (1) Former US Presidents Carter and Reagan claim to have seen a UFO. HainesĪn extraordinary 95 percent of all Americans have at least heard or read something about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), and 57 percent believe they are real. 1, 1997Ī Die-Hard Issue CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 Gerald K. Did you know, we know more about the surface of Mars than the ocean floor?”ĭon’t say: “ I’m not drawing any straws – I’m for killing that goddam thing right now.Source: Studies In Intelligence Vol. Also, you’re probably not going to be snorkelling in the benthic zone.ĭo say: “So reassuring that new species are still being discovered. Although bathynomus are carnivorous, they mainly eat dead stuff on the seafloor. You’re going to forget all about it … until it bursts out of your chest at the buffet breakfast! Anyway, back to this new facehugger monster should I be cancelling my holiday to Cancún? Yeah, when you go on the snorkelling excursion it’s going to rip your mask off, lock on to your face and plant its embryo down your throat. What’s one of them? Sounds kind of sexy … The pink see-though fantasia is a glowing globby thing with transparent skin, so its entire digestive system (including its anus) is all visible, working away. I’m just waiting until someone makes a movie about the pink see-through fantasia. If you’re looking for scary other-worldly inspiration, look to the bottom of the sea. The aliens in Spielberg’s adaptation of War of the Worlds are reminiscent of jellyfish. Jabba the Hutt is not unlike a sea cucumber. Now turn it over and check out the underside …Īggghhhh! It’s a facehugger from Alien! Isn’t it? It’s scary down there in the deep. This one was first thought to be the already known Bathonymus giganeus species, but research just published in the Journal of Natural History has found it to be a new species. ![]() The size is attributed to the phenomenon known as deep-sea gigantism, also responsible for giant squids. That’s because they’re related – they’re both isopods. Habitat: The benthic zone – the lowest ecological zone in a water body – although they were discovered between 600 and 800 metres down.Īppearance: A creamy yellowy colour 26cm long (that’s about a foot for the Brexiters reading), 13cm wide. Yucatanensis suggests Mexico, right? Very good – this is a newly discovered species in the Gulf of Mexico. From fossil records, that’s how long giant isopods are calculated to have been around.Īnd bathynomus yucatanensis is a giant one of those? That’s what bathynomus means.
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