So: Will the world end in 2012?
After the millenarian who built bunkers on the approach of 2000, new end of the world "fans" swear by the fateful date of December 21, 2012. And they have at their disposal the never-ending Internet rumor mill.
Alien, energy and SETI
If accountants are the managers of extraterrestrial civilizations, our strategy for ET contact should be revised.
Most of the research projects on extraterrestrial intelligence listen to signals at frequencies ranging between 1.42 and 1.72 GHz, working under the assumption that extraterrestrial astronomers would use this range of the radio spectrum since it corresponds to radiation emitted by hydrogen, the most common element in the universe.
People: George Van Tassel
Born on 12th March, 1910, George Van Tassel was an ufologist, contactee and paranormal researcher. He was instrumental in starting the construction of the Integratron in 1958 in Landers, California.
Van Tassel spent his childhood in Jefferson, Ohio and later dropped out of high school and worked at a Cleveland Airport. He had a keen interest in flying and after getting the airport job, he soon got his pilot’s license. He teamed up with his uncle who owned a garage in California and while working there, met Frank Critzer, a German immigrant. Read more »
People: Elizabeth Klarer
Elizabeth Klarer was a South African lady who claimed to have been contacted by aliens several times between 1954 and 1963. Born in Mooi River, Natal, South Africa in 1910, Klarer shot to fame after she reported a 1956 encounter with a spaceship from Alpha Centauri. Read more »
People: Reinhold O. Schmidt
Reinhold O. Schmidt was born on February 16, 1897, in Kenesaw, Nebraska to German-American parents. He spent his early life in Nebraska, and later worked as a salesman and a grain buyer for a firm in Brawley, California which required him to travel to the Middle West and negotiate with grain-growing farmers in the area.
Schmidt shot to fame after he related his UFO “contactee” experience while driving through a sand bed on the Platte River near Kearney, Nebraska. He claimed to have seen an alien spaceship and met six ‘human looking aliens’, of which four were male and two female, who conversed amongst themselves in German. Read more »
People: John Grant Fuller, Jr
Born in 1913, John Grant Fuller, Jr. was an American author who wrote several books and articles most of which were on subjects like UFOs, aliens and supernatural. He moved and set up base in New England and wrote a daily column for ‘Trade Wings’, a Saturday Review magazine. Read more »