There could be extremophiles living at very high altitude in the atmosphere?

It is well known that some living beings on earth have adapted to live in very "extreme" conditions showing with that the amazing adaptability capacity of carbon based life. Now it is very natural to ask about the possibility of some organisms adapting to the very rarified conditions at high altitudes, is there any active scientific program that systematically study the atmosphere's biology?

 There are many reports and very detailed recordings of what appears to be new life forms in the high level of the atmosphere.

I had been doing atmospheric observations in daylight using telescopes and I had observed and recorded what appears to be living beings but of a very bizarre and anomalous nature, let me point out just for the record than I am not a UFO believer and I fully believe that anything that is observable is "explainable" one way or the other, but I also believe in the force of empirical evidence, consistent observational data about a given occurrence strongly points to the reality of these occurrences.

 For example I had recorded several times what appears to be as an undulating autonomous vertical line, be aware that this was recorded with a telescope, but detected in infrared, it is well known that infrared spotting provides enhanced detection effectivity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PN__nFHOMc

Some of these bizarre objects appear to be polymorphic as this one spotted on 10/22/15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwkXOVtyxoQ


Or some could be like localized and autonomous plasma-like like this one on 1/7/16:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD9vFud50Bc

 I had recorded regularly these bizarre autonomous objects from two different locations in Florida US, I am planning to do observations soon in Arizona with more clear skies.

 It appears that these bizarre objects can be observed in any location in our planet and they behave like living beings.

 Obviously this needs more systematic study and observations from independent sources. The goal of posts like this is to report about these manifestations and hopefully motivate more people to make these independent observations, the resources needed are very modest, just a little more than for observing birds flying at high altitude.

 But it appears that biologists had been missing a golden opportunity of studying possibly new life forms right here in our skies.

This area of interest had been hijacked by Ufologists when it really belongs to Biologists.

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This was posted at TheNakedScientists website, it is a "sanitized" introduction to anomalies, sadly scientists and/or science types had proved to be unable to handle the full version of facts around the reality of anomalies, they really are detached from reality.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=65464.0

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What is a Scientific View of Reality?

What is a Scientific View of Reality?

A scientific view of the world/reality is a view that is unconditional servant of consistent observational data, were no idea or theory of reality is ever cherished or final because new observational data may contradict it and then that idea or theory must be modified/discarded.

When scientific theories start being "cherished" they start to becoming dogmas, anybody questioning it will be labeled as a "crank" or worst by fellow "scientists", at that point Science is not science anymore and actually not different from any religious institution.

 Today Official Science is a big mix of that, questioning cherished/stablished ideas had become tantamount of professional suicide and new ideas/facts contradicting the orthodoxy are heavily attacked and dismissed without a proper and serious due diligence, the scientific stablishment had become the Inquisition of modern times and the damage done by that systemic/endemic/pathological modus operandi is really impossible to measure.

Actionable knowledge.

Documenting anomalies manifestations is really great, but looking for "connections" and regularities in these manifestations is even better, some of these regularities already have useful value to increase the effectiveness of our own observations. 

 For example knowing the relations between "secundary" anomalies like orbs-type or laminar-type to "main" anomalies is very useful because if you spot one of these secundary anomalies alone is very likely that one "main" anomaly will be around, I had used that insight many times when I had spotted laminar anomalies: searching around them or backtracking the path that they were following I had found others bigger anomalies. 

 Now we also know that anomalies will be in a more "natural" state, meaning poloymorphic/morphing/shape-shifting, when beyond naked eye spotting distances that is also an "actionable knowledge" because that implies that by using higher magnification optical equipment we will have more chances of spotting anomalies in polymorphic states, lower magnification equipment will capture more anomalies in mimic states, the observational data available fully confirm that.

Being aware and internalizing these actionable insights will only make you a better, more acute, Anomalies/UFO hunter. Searching for and documenting these actionable insights is perhaps the more important goal that active observers should pursue. Providing just a footage of anomalies manifestations is like giving a man just a fish for food, but providing actionable insights is like teaching a man how to fish. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Bulletproof method to spot anomalies.

Anomaly morphing into digit "5" 11/09/15 3:08pm EST.

In anomalies observations the only clear path is to be clinically objective.

 The only clear path that can be followed in the area of anomalies studies/observations, what can be considered as the real Ufology, is to follow a "clinically objective" approach. 

 Classical Ufology had been stagnant for more than 60 years precisely by not following an objective approach and being drown, trapped in a maze of claims that are impossible to verify by direct observations. That is exactly the reason why classical Ufology can not be considered as a science as compared for example to Biology that have its specific objects of interest that are observed and studied directly by biologists. By assuming that anomalies are Ufology's subjects of interest then Ufology can be considered then as a science with its specific subjects of interests, by direct observation and study of anomalies ufologists can do exactly what biologists had been doing in Biology.

 The wonders of science that we are using almost any instant today had come to be as the result of applying "actionable/objective" procedures, all actionable knowledge that we have today about anomalies(knowledge that still the nuts and bolts UFO believers are denying) had been the result of applying objective procedures. 

 No actionable knowledge about anomalies had come to be as the result of following non-objective instructions or "revelations", no tool/instrument used to observe/objetivize anomalies had been the result of any subjective revelation either but the result of hard science/actionable knowledge. You can watch or listen to as many "Bashar" "revelations" as you want but you will not find a single actionable insight in any of them. 

 Clinical objectivity is the answer and only accepting claims supported by consistent and recurrent observations, the core of the scientific method, the success of this approach is really undeniable.

Cognitive Dissonance is the end result of modern education at all levels.

 We had already seen the pervasive use of simplistic debunking to explain away anomalies, simplistic debunking is the universal passtime of armchair theorists. For these armchair theorists building simplistic "models" of reality is a "convincing" way to "explain" reality. 

 But that logic is intrinsically flawed because simplistic models can be build or imagined of any aspect of reality. 

 A planetarium is a "convincing" model of the night sky but it is not the night sky. Modern "educated" people see reductionism as the ultimate philosophical tool to explain reality and this education has as the crown of achievement many reductionist and ideal models of reality. 

 The current status quo regarding the reality of anomalies clearly shows that this mindset is an obstacle to really be aware of this reality. It can be considered as a global pathological state of cognitive dissonance and modern education is at the root of it.

A losing battle.

 When the scientific method is used in the so called Ufology only one hypothesis is consistent with recurrent observational data: that anomalies are living entities of some sort, no other hypothesis from Ufology is fully consistent with the recurrent and consistent observational data available and coming in almost in a daily basis. 

 No by chance the idea of anomalies being living beings is "suppressed" by the hardcore UFO believers, but nobody will be able to deny in the long run what current data is clearly implying, with more people using high optical magnification equipment the amount of evidence pointing in that direction will only increase, hardcore UFO believers are fighting a losing battle. 

 And the ironic thing is that accepting that anomalies are living entities do not exclude at all some truth in the extraterrestrial hypothesis ETH, but the hardcore nuts and bolts ET believers are so narrow minded that they will not "bend" for anything less than what they want. 

 Some people exposing this narrow mindset even dedicate very little time trying to get solid evidence of what they believe is the truth and instead dedicate a lot of efforts and time "attacking" the people that are providing evidence almost in a daily basis, almost all people making these "attacks" hardly can be considered as active observers and the tools that they use are really very outdated, but they pretend to be "experts" in the field with many years of experience, experience that had taught very little to them, but these people dedicate a lot of time and effort "attacking" and belittling anything done for anybody that do not follows their very narrow agenda, I want to repeat what is in the title of this post: they are fighting a losing battle.

What is a scientific view of reality?

What is a Scientific View of Reality?

 A scientific view of the world/reality is a view that is unconditional servant of consistent observational data, were no idea or theory of reality is ever cherished or final because new observational data may contradict it and then that idea or theory must be modified/discarded.

 When scientific theories start being "cherished" they start becoming dogmas, anybody questioning it will be labeled as a "crank" by fellow "scientists", beyond this point that is not science anymore and not different from any religious dogmas. 

 Today Official Science is a big mix of that, questioning cherished ideas had become tantamount of professional suicide, we already have "dissident" scientists and new ideas are heavily attacked, the scientific stablishment had become in fact the Inquisition of modern times and the damage done by that systemic/endemic/pathological modus operandi is really impossible to measure.

Highly polymorphic digit "1" anomaly 11/28/15 10:29am EST.

 Another example of anomaly with dynamic geometry, self luminous and taking digit shapes, in this case digit "1".

Polymorphic/variable geometry anomaly 12/11/15 4:45pm EST.

 One example of anomaly with variable geometry:

Electrostatic plasma ball like anomaly 01/07/16 3:07pm EST.

Electrostatic Plasma ball like anomaly, this is a good example showing an anomaly that behave like a living being and also an example of anomaly very far of being similar to any known mundane object. But once anomalies are studied in detail very likely it will be recognized that they are part of earth environment as any other living being.

Three simple steps for systematically observing anomalies.

 The validation of observational claims can only be done by trying to duplicate the same observations by independent observers, many things that we assume to be real can be validated that way, the reality of birds for example: anybody in many regions of the world will be able to observe birds and verify by themselves their reality, no because pictures of birds appear in many places, nothing can replace direct experience.
 Now the reality of anomalies is an observational claim that can only be validated by observational data confirming their reality coming from multiple independent observers, that already is in place, there are multiple detailed consistent footage that gives solid footing to the reality of anomalies, but again nothing can replace direct experience and there are very clear and objective procedures that if followed will allow anybody to observe these amazing objects/manifestations in any location in our planet in daylight with a clear sky, the confirmation/validation of the reality of anomalies is available to anyone that really wants to observe them, the unscientific approach of denying new facts or claims without doing any due diligence and using simplistic/closeminded debunking arguments is as old as man himself and was used as the main argumentative tool by the Inquisition against the new ideas that contradicted the religious dogmas, today we have many self titled scientists using exactly the same modus operandi.

 These are three basic/simple steps that will allow anybody to systematically observe anomalies.

1- Infrared spotting: It is well known that the sky scattering of visible light is higher in the blue portion of the visible electromagnetic spectrum than in the red segment of that spectrum, the reason why the sky is blue, but this scattering is even lower in the infrared portion of the spectrum and lower still in the short radiowave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

 One direct implication of this facts around the sky scattering of visible light in daylight is that if we use narrow band filters to look at the sky, filters that allow only a very narrow segment of the electromagnetic spectrum to pass, the relative reflection of any object in the atmosphere respect to the sky scattering will be higher when we move to the red portion of the spectrum and even higher in the infrared or short radiowave segment of the spectrum, but since we can see objects by the light that they reflect(or not) then that means that any reflective object in the atmosphere will be more "relatively bright" when we observe this object in the infrared or short radiowave segment of the electromagnetic spectrum, in other words: the object will be more easily "spotted" in infrared than in visible light and that is fully confirmed by practice.
 Stars are masket by the sky scattering of visible light in daylight, but many bright stars can be spotted in daylight if using narrow band infrared pass filters and digital cameras that are sensitive to infrared.
 That is the basic idea of spotting in infrared, by spotting in infrared many more objects will be visible than if spotting in visible light.
 Anomalies are usually small and bright, like stars, and usually move at relatively high altitudes, they are masked in daylight as the stars are, but they can be spotted more easily if using infrared pass filters with digital cameras sensitive to infrared.

2- The use of high optical magnification equipment able to resolve the details of distant objects.

 Since anomalies usually move at high altitudes you will need high magnification optical equipment to be able to see their structure details otherwise you will only see bright dots of light.
 That means that you need to use telephoto lens, medium sized telescopes or, in the lower end, superzoom cameras as the Canon sx50, sx60 or Nikon p600, p900.

3- Send direct signals to the anomalies spotted.

 Anomalies will change behavior and body geometry in response to direct signals sent to them, once this responses are observed any doubts about the reality of anomalies will evaporate, this is a critical step.

Armchair theorists should learn from engineers.

Engineers know the value of telemetric(observational) data, when building sophisticated prototype equipment or machinery it is well known that telemetric data takes precedence over any forecasting data produced by any theoretical model of the prototype equipment under consideration, these theoretical models must be fine-tuned/modified to match telemetric data, observational data is king. 

 But today we have many armchair theorists thinking that reality should be the one bending to their models of reality, they think that their models of reality are more real than reality itself, they are unable to do what engineers do all the time: modify their models to fit observational data. 

 Engineers are forced to act in synchronization with reality otherwise the equipment/machinery that they may build will not work properly. 

 But apparently armchair "experts" can get away with their ineptitude and pretend that the world behave in the way that they imagined independently of the observational data presented to them. Luckily for them the machines/equipment that they use in a daily basis were build for engineers knowing very well the value of observational data.

 Reality is like a very complex machinery that always is in prototype state, telemetric (observational) data about the behavior of this complex machinery always is coming from multiple sources, any models or ideas that we may have about the reality machinery must be adjusted to fit that observational data, as engineers do all the time, observational data reign suppreme in that sense because our ideas of reality should be unconditional "servants" of that observational data. 

 That is the truly scientific and objective(engineering) approach to reality, today many self titled scientists are very far of following that approach, that is why they denied the reality of meteorites for many years and today they are denying/ignoring the reality of anomalies, any engineer doing that in a similar situation will produce faulty machinery, scientists doing that today are producing faulty ideas of reality.

Anomalies/UFOs as living beings.

Anybody that had observed anomalies directly with some frequency may be lead naturaly to the idea that anomalies are living beings of some kind:

Direct communication with Anomalies/Ufos.

 The reality of the autonomous anomalous flying objects in the atmosphere, anomalies for short, is supported by an overwhelming amount of consistent observational data around the world, this is a reality that can be confirmed by anyone using very simple instruments.

 The extraordinary thing about anomalies is that some of them will respond to direct light signals making huge flarings/big and sudden increse in brightness that some also call power-ups in daylight or at night, that "response" alone is a clear indication of their anomalous nature because no mundane object respond to direct light signals that way.

 But some anomalies had responded in a more complex form, many anomalies are objects of dynamic geometry, they continously shape-shift, they are polymorphic, many of these geometric changes follow cycles, they repeat over and over, and many times the geometric changes in anomalies are preceded by flarings. Well some anomalies had responded to pulses of light in sequences of prime numbers by taking the shape of prime digits "3" and "5".
 So anomalies could be considered as "messages" in themselves.