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Wednesday is #February's #FullMoon — the #SnowMoon.

It also marks just one final #lunar #cycle before #March's #WormMoon — which is also a #TotalLunarEclipse & it's the #KrononautMoon!

#2025Mar14 is the #night when #TimeTravelers are invited to come visit, or to send us a #quantum #signal. You are invited too, wherever you are.

Please take lots of #photos & share them with @KronoMoonPhotos, noting any #anomalous #phenomena. 🔗 KronoMoon.org

The Krononaut Moon ProjectThe Krononaut Moon ProjectCommunity Time Travel Research since 1982 Mar 09. 🏳️‍🌈 ☮️

#podcast: What makes for a reliable #UAP #report & what do the reliable reports tell us about the #phenomena? 1.5hr

Robert Powell is an Exec. Board Member of the #Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. #SCU

❛❛ #RobertPowell was the former Director of Research at #MUFON from 2007-2017 and created MUFON's #Science Review Board in 2012. ❜❜

🔗 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ 2024 Dec 20
🔗 ExploreSCU.org/robert-powell
🎩 h/t @mcquiniac

Apple PodcastsThe Anomalous ReviewAstronomy Podcast · 9 Episodes · Updated Semiweekly

Evidence is emerging of a secret #US #Gov X-files-style program tracking #UFOs / #UAPs under the codename #ImmaculateConstellation. This new 13-min #video features several investigators & recent #media clips. Much of it is speculation, but keep a watchful eye for #ImmaculateConstellation when Congress reconvenes hearings on #unexplained #phenomena in mid-Nov, after the presidential election.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=vTROmXiZDg 18 Oct 2024

Good, skeptical article in #ScientificAmerican by #astronomer Phil Plait, critiquing claims of #alien encounters. But, like us here at @KronoMoon, ie, #Community #TimeTravel #Research, Plait concludes:

…"Should we bother studying #unidentified #phenomena, #aerial or otherwise? Of course! Not all have been explained, though we shouldn’t leap to the conclusion that they’re unexplainable"…

🔗 ScientificAmerican.com/article 22 Jul 2024
🔗 universeodon.com/@cosmiclibrar

Scientific AmericanNope—It’s Never AliensClaims of alien starships visiting Earth always fall short, but people still fall for them

It's really hard to #prove a #negative.

No,
really hard. And this is a problem.

If you want to prove that cows exist, all you really need to do is show someone a cow. Look, here's the cow. Touch it. Hear it moo. It's real.

Now imagine how you would go about proving that cows
don't exist. Think about it for a little while.

Sean Kirkpatrick, Director of the Defense Department’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), just retired. And he has things to say about how much money is spent on "UFO" research programs that are basically
created by #UFO cultists and conspiracy theorists working for the US government itself. He calls it "a self-licking ice-cream cone".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/sean-kirkpatrick-pentagon-ufo-conspiracy-theory-myths

Now let's think about this for a minute. And let's start by ditching the stupid term "UFO", Unidentified Flying Object. Hear me out on this: UFOs are
boring. ANYTHING you see flying is unidentified, until you identify it and know what it is. And if you're really bad at identifying things, anything flying can be a "UFO". A bird. Venus. An inflated garbage bag. The ISS.

Flying objects, or aerial phenomena, don't become interesting until you can identify them. And, bear with me here for a moment: The US government would
absolutely love to identify actual alien technology. Seriously. Can you imagine the edge that would give us? And that's why the government has been looking so hard, for so long, at #anomalous #aerial #phenomena. Since the 1950s.

And all of that searching has found
nothing that can be identified as alien technology, or a flying vehicle of non-terrestrial origin. 1950s missile casings ... parachutes ... weather-observation satellites ... skeletons of animals launched into space for research purposes. And a host of other things. But not one single piece of alien technology.

But ... you remember what I said about proving a negative?

Well, here's how it works when you're a UFO cultist. You search and search for evidence that "UFOs" are real. And if you find evidence,
you WIN!!! You've just proved that UFOs are real!

But if you
DON'T find anything, you ALSO win. Because in your mind, the fact that you couldn't find anything proves that there is a government #coverup. It's the only possible explanation. If there was no cover-up, you would have found something. And the government cover-up means there must be something to hide, which — AGAIN — "proves" that UFOs are real.
Either way, you "win". In your own mind.

This is the cultist/conspiracy-theorist mentality. If you are certain that something must exist, but you cannot find any evidence of it no matter how you search,
this proves that it exists AND that there is a government cover-up. It's circular logic. Delusional, magical thinking.


You see how this works...?

The Guardian · Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spendingBy Richard Luscombe

I saw my first ever Brocken Spectre yesterday! I was flying, & out of the window as we descended was a grey aircraft that was shadowing us, occasionally visible through the clouds & surrounded by a rainbow halo. The Brocken Spectre, a phenomenon of light and moisture, has been responsible for mountaineers thinking they are seeing outsize, mysterious human figures on nearby peaks, & is likely behind untold myths of ghosts & giants.

#Lightning is one of the most extreme of #natural #phenomena. An abrupt electrostatic discharge of millions of #volts and hundreds of thousands of #amperes, lightning can be observed in a single cloud, between several clouds, between a cloud and the ground and vice-versa
#EarthScience #Physics #sflorg
sflorg.com/2023/01/phy01162302

www.sflorg.comDeflecting lightning with a laser lightning rodguide lightning using a high-power laser