Using a standard inkjet-printer, researchers claim to be able to produce flexible electronic circuits that could advance bendable electronics for clothing, soft robotics, and wearable devices (Image: Alex Bottiglio/Purdue University)
Researchers at Purdue University have shown how standard inkjet-printers can be employed to produce flexible electronic circuits from liquid-metal nanoparticle inks. This simple printing solution promises faster, cheaper, and easier production of stretchable, bendable electronics for clothing, soft robotics, and wearable devices.
Making circuits elastic means that many rigid platforms could be made pliable, opening up a range of potential new applications for electronic devices. To make this possible, however, new manufacturing techniques are required. Nanoparticle ink-jet printed ductile circuits may well solve this problem.
"We want to create stretchable electronics that might be compatible with soft machines, such as robots that need to squeeze through small spaces, or wearable technologies that aren't restrictive of motion," says Rebecca Kramer, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University. "Conductors made from liquid metal can stretch and deform without breaking. This process now allows us to print flexible and stretchable conductors onto anything, including elastic materials and fabrics."
To create the flexible metal ink, liquid metal is distributed evenly through a non-metallic solvent by using ultrasonic energy to fracture the liquid metal into nanoparticles. This nanoparticle suspension is then usable in an ink-jet printer, as if it was ordinary ink.
"Liquid metal in its native form is not inkjet-able," adds Kramer. "So what we do is create liquid metal nanoparticles that are small enough to pass through an inkjet nozzle. Sonicating liquid metal in a carrier solvent, such as ethanol, both creates the nanoparticles and disperses them in the solvent. Then we can print the ink onto any substrate. The ethanol evaporates away so we are just left with liquid metal nanoparticles on a surface."
The oxidized gallium (Ga2O3) "skin" originally applied to the liquid-metal nanoparticles to keep them electrically inert during processing needs to be removed once printing has finished, allowing the nanoparticles to recombine and the material to become conductive.
"But it's a fragile skin, so when you apply pressure it breaks the skin and everything coalesces into one uniform film," said professor Kramer. "We can do this either by stamping or by dragging something across the surface, such as the sharp edge of a silicon tip."
Being able to activate various sections of a device individually makes the technique extremely versatile. It may one day be conceivable to produce a generic blank nanoparticle film that could be easily customized to suit a large range of possible applications.
"We selectively activate what electronics we want to turn on by applying pressure to just those areas," says professor Kramer.
One major advantage of this circuit activation process, unlike similar graphene printing techniques, is that the resultant printed material does not need to be heated to exceptionally high temperatures to activate it. This makes the Purdue technique more readily accessible to ordinary circuit designers.
This isn't the first application of nanoparticle conductive liquid in an ink-jet printer – back in 2013 Gizmag reported on a system developed at Georgia Tech that prints conductive circuits on PET film and photographic paper. However the Purdue University technique is the first claimed to be able to print on stretchable materials and retain its integrity when stretched or flexed.
Kramer says that the team plans to investigate various properties of the new ink and how it interacts with the surface being printed on.
"For example, how do the nanoparticles orient themselves on hydrophobic versus hydrophilic surfaces? How can we formulate the ink and exploit its interaction with a surface to enable self-assembly of the particles?”
The results of the research will be published in the journal Advanced Materials on April 18.
A growing list of commentators, politicians and religious leaders appear to sense something big, something ominous, is hiding around the corner.
Is this just foolish speculation, or are they onto something?
Carl Gallups, a longtime Baptist pastor and radio host, has taken a serious look at the issue in his new book, “Final Warning: Understanding the Trumpet Days of Revelation.” The book is getting lots of play on Amazon, cracking its top 100 bestseller list, which may say something about the amount of interest in this topic.
Gallups posits that the first five trumpet blasts of Revelation may have already occurred. If that is the case, the sixth trumpet, a world war that kills millions, could be knocking at the door.
Gallups said he did not write the book to scare people, nor does he claim any inside knowledge of God’s prophetic timetable.
Rather, his intent was to stimulate discussion and awaken the sleeping Christian church to the possibility that the return of Jesus Christ may be near. Because if it is, there are myriad scriptures that warn the brethren to be prepared, not to let the oil in their lamps run low like the parable Jesus told about the “foolish virgins.”
“Millions of people, including theologians and preachers, around the world see the same things I believe I am seeing,” Gallups told WND. “Current geopolitical events appear to be in the process of lining up with specific biblical prophecies, and especially those prophecies that contain key word definitions.”
Gallups explained what he meant by “key words.”
The sixth trumpet prophecy of Revelation Chapter 9 has long been viewed by many as a description of a massive war involving 200 million people occurring in the vicinity of the Euphrates River.
The war brings mass carnage, death and destruction to an area that Revelation 2:13 indicates is the seat of Satan’s earthly throne.
“The Euphrates River begins in Turkey and runs through Syria and Iraq. Those nations are major players in the Middle East upheaval of today and the main stomping grounds of ISIS,” Gallups said. “There are nearly 400 million Muslims living in the Middle East now. If a multinational war broke out in that area involving Iran, Russia, the U.S., Israel, North African nations, and possibly China – it is not hard to imagine at least 200 million people fighting a bloody war in the Middle East.”
Some of the others in the media, political and religious realms who have been talking about World War III recently include the following.
Radio host Mark Levin said, “I believe World War III has begun. And I believe we’re going to be attacked. You think we took out a building or a compound and that’s it, there is no more imminent threats against the United States? … This is why it’s immoral, it is unconscionable not to secure that southern border, and tighten it up really, really hard. And they won’t.”
“So World War III has broken out. Just remember, World War I and World War II we weren’t initially involved in those wars in any significant way, but we were pulled in. And World War III has now broken open, in my humble opinion, the lead up to it.”
Pope Francis warned in September 2014 that a type of “piecemeal World War III” may have already begun with the current spate of crimes, massacres and destruction, the BBC reported.
“Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction,” he said.
The pope went on to say the international community would be justified in using force to stop what he called “unjust aggression” by Islamic State militants, who have killed or displaced thousands of people in Iraq and Syria, including many Christians, the BBC reported.
Former Rep. Michele Bachmanntold WND earlier this week that she believed the world’s nuclear pact with Iran, brokered by the Obama administration, “heralds World War III.”
Even though Obama and his supporters are hailing the deal as one that will bring a historic peace and security, Bachmann and others see it differently.
“This [deal] virtually guarantees, in my opinion, a World War III,” she said. “I think that alone would qualify Barack Obama for being the worst president that the United States has ever had to endure.”
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachevwarned that the Ukrainian crisis could evolve into World War III and, if it does, Vladimir Putin might find it “unavoidable” to launch Russian nuclear missiles.
Putin has also set the stage for a new world war by officially declaring that both NATO and the United States are the top threats to Russia.
In an interview with the German news magazine Der Spiegel, Mikhail Gorbachev claimed the recent NATO expansion in response to the Ukraine crisis represented a major change in direction for Western powers.
“The expansion of the bloc in the east [of Europe] has destroyed the European security order which was written in the Helsinki Final Act of 1975,” Gorbachev claimed. “[NATO’s expansion is] a 180-degree turn drawing us away from the Paris Charter of 1990, which was made together with all European states to finally leave the Cold War in the past.”
Former Ukrainian ambassador in Washington, Yuri Shcherbak, who authored the book “The Strategic Role of Ukraine,” also recently spoke out about the Ukraine’s unique potential as a flashpoint for World War III.
“This (U.S.-Russian conflict that’s being carried out in Ukraine) is a prelude to World War II. A lot of people know this,” Shcherbak told Ukraine’s Channel 5 television on Dec. 29 as reported by Global Research.
Glenn Beck, on his Feb. 16 radio show, said World War III is coming and “Nobody will recognize it yet.”
“Just like we were at the beginning of World War II when they invaded Poland, we are entering those times. We just don’t know it yet,” Beck said. “There is going to come a time when we will have no choice.”
The king of Jordansaid last month he wanted to wage “World War III” on ISIS.
Speaking to CNN, King Abdullah implored all religions to come together, adding, “This is our war.”
He made a point of referring to the fight against the Islamic State as a “Third World War” and called upon all nations to come together to help counter the threat posed by the terrorist group since they conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Noah Beck, author of “The Last Israelis,” cited in an op-ed for the Christian Post that Obama’s secret nuclear talks with Iran will lead to World War III.
“Obama should know by now that if he forces Israel’s hand, then Israel alone will neutralize the Iranian nuclear threat, regardless of how messy the aftermath may be. Netanyahu – like any other responsible Israeli leader – would rather bring about World War III than the last Israelis.”
Many are talking about Iran or Syria triggering World War III in the Middle East. In fact, Iranian officials themselves were warning two years ago that World War III was coming, as WND reported.
“This can entail a chain of violence that may lead to World war III. A potential Israeli attack against Iran with an objective of destroying its scientific and nuclear facilities is sheer madness,” said Ali Ahani, Iran’s ambassador to France. “Its consequences are disastrous and uncontrollable.”
The rhetoric eerily matched that coming out of North Korea.
Deputy chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, Brig. Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, warned the U.S. that Iran would continue its nuclear program.
“We would not trade off our rights,” he said, adding that Iran would stand with North Korea in its face-off with America.
Geopolitical analyst Joel Skousen has long warned that North Korea could be the flashpoint for a global conflagration.
“There has to be a reason why North Korea has been preserved. … It can only be because the globalists know that they are the puppets of China and that they will be the trigger,” Skousen said in a February 2014 interview with Alex Jones.
Being ‘watchful, not fearful’
Gallups told WND there must be a balanced way that believers approach the current volatility in which the Middle East, Russia-Ukraine, and the Koreas all appear as powder kegs waiting to explode.
“I think it is important for Christians not to live in fear or anxiety. That kind of living is the opposite of faith and trust,” he said. “God’s got this – ultimately. I am not setting dates and times, nor have I ever been an alarmist. I am simply examining distinct biblical prophecies and watching world events unfold at the same time. I have been watching, preaching, and teaching these things for 30 years. Both Billy and Franklin Graham have recently made similar statements as mine, regarding the prophetic times in which we find ourselves.
Gallups said he’s aware Christians have differing views about the order of end-time events, particularly about the trumpet prophecies and where they might fall in relation to the “rapture.”
“I deal with all of that in my book,” he said.
But regardless of his views on the trumpet prophecies, there are certain indisputable facts.
“We must admit Israel is back in the land, Islamic nations are aligning against her this very moment, anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world, Christians are being burned alive in cages and having their heads cut off, and tens of thousands of Christians have been uprooted and have fled to the desert and wilderness areas of the Middle East,” he said. “These things should give the church in America a very real reason to do some biblical housecleaning and stiffen its spine of boldness. If ever there were a time to ratchet up the proclaiming of salvation in Jesus Christ, it is now.”
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Britain is one of the least religious countries in the world, coming sixth from bottom in a global study of belief carried out across 65 countries.
Win/Gallup International polling suggested that over 50 percent of Britons did not believe in any religion, 13 percent were committed atheists and that the rest were unsure how to define their beliefs.
Only 30 percent said they were religious.
Thailand was found to be the most religious country, with 94 percent of those asked claiming to belong to a religious group.
In Armenia and Morocco, 93 percent of those asked said they were religious.
In continental terms, Western Europe and Oceania were less religious than Africa and the Americas.
China was one of the most atheist countries, with only 6 percent of people adhering to a religion and 61 percent stating their commitment to atheism. Only 13 percent of Japanese people said that they subscribed to a religion.
Despite religious belief taking a knock in some countries, the study found that far from being on the wane, there are nearly twice as many believers as non-believers in the nations surveyed.
Win/Gallup International president Jean-Marc Leger told the Guardian: “Religion continues to dominate our everyday lives and we see that the total number of people who consider themselves to be religious is actually relatively high.”
The study broadly corroborates the findings of a poll by the Times newspaper, published in February, which suggested that religiosity in Britain is dying as almost one in five British people now identifies themselves as atheist.
The poll, made in conjunction with YouGov, surveyed 1,550 adults.
It found that 19 percent identify themselves as atheists, 7 percent as “agnostic” and 3 percent as “humanist.”
In contrast, 49 percent identified themselves as Christian, while 42 percent said they had “no religion” they directly identified with.
Additionally, the poll found David Cameron’s Anglican faith made little to no impact on the way voters viewed him, with only 12 percent of identifying Christians claiming the prime minister’s faith improved their opinion of him.
The global WIN/Gallup investigation also identified a number of compelling global trends, finding that religious beliefs were more common among people who were younger, poorer and less educated.
Housewives were found to be one of the most intensely religious groups, arguably lending some weight to the famous description of religion by socialist revolutionary Karl Marx: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
Peter Sutherland an insider’s insider. Head of the UN Migration Council. He will soon be your next landlord.
The same person who oversaw the Great Gulf Coast Holocaust in which the Gulf of Mexico suffered irreparable harm, will also be in charge if and when millions of Americans are transported to FEMA camps if the Jade Helm drills go live.
The Gulf of Mexico was “blown up” five years ago and it was no accident. The same nefarious forces, led by the same man, will be in charge when the UN is in charge of gun confiscation and the mass relocation of American citizens. Walk with me as I connect the dots between UN gun confiscation, mass and forcible relocation of American citizens to FEMA camps and the people responsible for blowing up the Gulf.
By Treaty, the UN Will Seize American Guns
The easiest dot to connect in these myriad of events which will culminate in the takeover of the United States by the United Nations, is gun confiscation.
I recently detailed how the forces connected to Jade Helm will morph, by treaty, into a Multi-national force run by the United Nations and they will seize American guns as a prelude to martial law. If you have not read the previous article in which it was clearly established that the United Nations will soon be involved in gun confiscation of privately held American guns, it would be helpful to do so before reading the rest of this article.
Any police detective will tell you that it is sometimes necessary to look at the facts of an old crime in order to solve a new crime. If one wants to understand the forces at work which are posturing to enslave America through Jade Helm, one has to first take a summary look at the forces behind the so-called Gulf Oil Spill because many of the players, one in particular, will prominently figure in what is coming.
The Genesis of Our Present Demise
Before we can solve the soon-to-be-crime in which the UN completes its pre-positioning of its assets and moves to seize American guns and impose martial law under the umbrella of a completely manufactured crisis, we need to take a retrospective peek at what happened in the Gulf Oil Spill, and it ironic that we are doing so now on the verge of the 5th anniversary of the event.
Shortly following the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill, I wrote a seven part series which exposed the conspiracy, which in part, blew the lid off the event by demonstrating the money movement prior to the explosion was orchestrated. Yes, I am saying that this was a false flag event. Proving this assertion is as easy as counting 1-2-3. The players involved in the Great Gulf Coast Holocaust were the following:
1. British Petroleum was the owner of the oil being removed from the floor of the Gulf. BP CEO Tony Haywardsold 40% of his BP holdings in the weeks prior to the spill and paid off his mortgage on his estate in Kent, England, and avoided staggering losses. And true to form involving the pattern of perpetuating a false flag event with media complicity, on June 8, 2010, less than six weeks following the oil spill, BP bought Google and Yahoo Search Terms, related to the oil spill, in an obvious attempt to conceal as much of the truth as possible from the public.This is identical to the practice recently seen when Google pinned a Washington Post article at the top of all searches on Jade Helm, covering a three day period, in an article entitled Why Jade Helm 15 Is Freaking Out the Internet. The article went on to detail how anyone who is concerned with Jade Helm is a member of the lunatic fringe. Isn’t it nice the Google protects the criminality of the elite by obfuscating the truth on their search engine?
For future reference, the man who was the CEO for BP, for 13 years, just prior to the Gulf event, was a man named Peter Sutherland and this will become a very important consideration, before the end of the article.
2. Halliburton was drilling at the base of the Deepwater Horizon. Very coincidentally, only 11 days before, on April 9, 2010, Halliburton purchased Boots and Coots for a quarter of a billion dollars. Just who is Boots and Coots? Coincidentally, they are the largest oil clean up firm in the world And when the explosion took place 11 days later, wasn’t it fortunate that Halliburton was there armed with Boots and Coots as they capitalized on their timely good fortune? Subsequently, Halliburton’s profits increased 83% in just 3 months following the Gulf Oil Crisissubsequent to the clean-up efforts. It was simply raining coincidences back in 2010!
3. Goldman Sachs and Transocean instituted a “put option” on Transocean’s stock for preferred Transocean insidersthe very morning of the explosion. Transocean boldly walked away with a $270 million dollar profitimmediately following the explosion because they had doubly indemnified the rig only weeks prior to the explosion through Lloyds of London. This alone should have been enough to trigger a massive investigation. The subsequent cover-up for this event began in 2007, three years before the event, as Goldman Sachs reorganized Transocean, the owner of the destroyed oil rig, into a Cayman Island corporation. In doing so, it made Transocean virtually impossible for Congress to investigate and subsequently discipline the perpetrators.
During the Gulf crisis, Peter Sutherland had moved from BP to a non-executive CEO position with Goldman Sachs. As such, and combined with his recent BP experience, Sutherland was in a position to coordinate events.
The genesis of the coverup began with PresidentObama. The President got his hands dirty as well. The late Bob Chapman, while appearing on the Alex Jones Show in June of 2010, revealed that Obama’s only asset holder, Vanguard I and Vanguard II, dramatically sold off BP stock only few weeks before Gulf oil explosion. Chapman also revealed that “According to this FSB report the largest seller of BP stock in the weeks before this disaster occurred was the American investment company known as Vanguard who through two of their financial arms (Vanguard Windsor II Investor and Vanguard Windsor I Investor) unloaded over 1.5 million shares of BP stock saving their investors hundreds of millions of dollars, chief among them was President Obama. The FSB further estimates in this report that through Obama’s three accounts in the Vanguard 500Index Fund he stands to make another $100 million over the next 10 years as their largest stock holding is in the energy giant Exxon Mobil which they believe will eventually acquire BPand all of their assets for what will be essentially a “rock bottom” price and which very predictably BP has hired Goldman Sachs to advise them on.” Watch the entire interview below.
The top five dumping institutions of BP stock just prior to the spill included Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (-4,680,822), Wachovia Bank National Association(-2,667,419) and it is important to note that Wachovia is a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, thus, making this one tight little family of co-conspirators. We also see massive dumping of Sanders Capital, LLC (-1,371,785) and PNC Bank, National Association (-1,177,413) brings noted globalist George Sorosinto the conspiracy as well. And we now know, with some certainty, who orchestrated the entire event.
Peter Sutherland: A Person of Strong Interest
Many have asked if there was a central figure who coordinated this conspiracy?
If I were an unencumbered investigator and not operating under the umbrella of an agenda, I would want to look closely at a globalist named Peter Sutherland as the possible mastermind. But you see, Sutherland is not just the architect of the Gulf Oil Spill, as you will soon note, he will be behind what is coming with the United Nations in order to take down of the United States.
Peter Sutherland
Peter Sutherland is an insider’s, insider. He is on the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group, he is an Honorary Chairman of the Trilateral Commission (2010-present), he was Chairman of the Trilateral Commission (Europe) (2001–2010) and Sutherland was Vice Chairman of the European Round Table of Industrialists (2006–2009). Sutherland was also the former head of the World Trade Organization and the related GATT. Sutherland is the ultimate insider.
More to the point, from 1996-2009, Sutherland was the CEO of BP. In 2009, he resigned from BP and assumed a “non-executive” CEO position with Goldman Sachs, less than a year before the Gulf Event. Sutherland was in position to know how to manipulate the Gulf event and further, he would have been the one at Goldman Sachs who was in charge of the dumping of BP assets prior to explosion and to have orchestrated the cover-ups of Transocean and Halliburton.
Where was the FBI and the SEC through all of this?
As if this is not enough to raise eyebrows, here is where Sutherland becomes my primary person of interest in this conspiracy. In 2006, Peter Sutherland was appointed as the special representative (SRSG) on the United Nations International Migration and Development.
The UN’s International Migration and Developmentwould be in charge of large scale population movements. At one time, I believed that the Gulf was going to be evacuated and that Sutherland, who helped his corporate cronies profit from the event, would be in charge of the UN mandated evacuation of the Gulf. That still might happen, especially considering that Jesse Ventura,in his show, Conspiracy Theory, discovered an Army Corps of Engineers document granting the Corps $40 billion dollars to evacuate the Gulf. However, today, there is a much more pressing issue. I was correct when I stated that Sutherland is going to be in charge of a major UN population movement inside the United States.
The entire ecosystem of the Gulf has been damaged beyond repair because of theuse of the controversial dispersant, Corexit, the people in the Gulf are being exposed to poisoned air, water and food. Much has been made of the cleanup workers from the Exxon Valdez oil spill and their ultimate fate. Most died before reaching the age of 51. Researchers, Wilma Subra and Kim Anderson et al., have detailed how many people in the Gulf cannot expect to live a normal lifespan because of the high rate of cancer causing chemicals found in Gulf subjectsbloodstreams. This makes the Gulf a depopulation event by definition.
As previously mentioned, the Army Corps of Engineers have been positioned to engage in a future and direct Gulf depopulation action. According to the Army Corps of Engineers, in 2007 the US government allocated$40 billion dollars for a project to depopulate the Gulf Coast region. The Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson and project
Army Corps Director of publicity, S.I. Rees, downplayed the importance of the $40 billion allocation. However, the funding is available for the express purpose of relocating Gulf residents and was admitted to by Ries on air. The original document which detailed the Corps’ Gulf depopulation project is now classified and this was done after Jesse Ventura exposed the plan on his show, Conspiracy Theory, on December 10, 2010. If you would like to actually view the cover page and the first page of the document, simply web search Jesse Ventura and the Louisiana Conspiracy video and move the time bar to about 35 minutes.
Conclusion
When you see when Jade Helm 15, or its successor, morphs into the coming suppression of the American people, and we see the blue helmets on our streets, it will be Peter Sutherland in charge in his role as the Director of the UN Migration Council. And I am certain that he will handle the next crisis with the same demeanor and integrity as he handled the Gulf crisis.
Located twelve miles outside of Sedona is the famous Bradshaw Ranch. It got its name when Hollywood stuntman Bob Bradshaw acquired the 140 acre ranch in 1960 for $200 an acre. At that time, all that remained of the original homestead was an old adobe house believed to be the oldest pioneer structure in the area. When he wasn’t working in the movies, Bradshaw turned the property into a working ranch and movie set.
The Western town set on the ranch served as the primary location for five movies, two television series, and many commercials. In total, over fifty full length motion pictures were shot in the area.[2] An original Marlboro man (who didn’t smoke), Bradshaw was a stunt double for many leading stars, including Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Beau Bridges, Kenny Rogers and even Elvis Presley. The “Crocodile Dundee” (aka Paul Hogan) Subaru commercials were mostly filmed at the ranch, as well as many other commercials and photo shoots.[3]
Vegetation in the area consists primarily of pinion pines, juniper trees, Arizona cypress, cottonwood trees, mesquite trees, prickly pear cactus, agave cactus, sagebrush, and tumbleweed along with various other shrubs and bushes.[4] Trees only reach around twelve to fifteen feet and most are scrubby and bush-like. The western town of Hollywood fame was torn down by the forestry service but the ranch house and round fenced livestock fields can still be seen on Google earth. Lately, the most photographed part of the ranch is the locked gate.
John Bradshaw, Bob’s son, explained why he originally started “A Day in West” tour business. “In 1997, the property taxes on my dad’s ranch jumped from $2,500 per year to $25,000, I developed the jeep tour business as a way to help bankroll the purchase of the ranch.”[5] At that time, tourists spent a full day on the still working ranch or classic western movie set. Folks so inclined, could even play cowboy for a day on horseback. A Day in the West quickly became a popular attraction. Nevertheless, the property was acquired by the US Forestry Service in April of 2001 for $3.5 million dollars.[6] What remains unexplained is why the federal agency has forbidden access to the taxpaying public (who paid for the land) since May 10, 2003.[7] The word on the street in Sedona is that the government is covering up a virtual invasion of interdimensional entities coming through a wide open dimensional corridor. While some may doubt, dimensional corridors are held by physicists to be possible. In fact, the Bible describes gates and doors (studied in depth in our upcoming book On the Path of the Immortals) beyond which both good and evil intelligence exists and that, at times, come through these doorways into our reality. Astrophysicist Hugh Ross, gives a scientific explanation: “If a black hole connected to one sheet of space-time in the universe happens to make contact with another black hole connected to a different sheet of space-time, that point of contact may (hypothetically) offer a travel corridor.”[8] Interestingly he has also pointed out the occult connection to residual (unexplained) unidentified flying objects (RUFOs): “Observations reveal that professional astronomers deeply involved in cultic, occultic, or certain New Age pursuits often see RUFOs, whereas professional astronomers who stay away from such pursuits never encounter RUFOs.”[9] Perhaps this data is explained by the fact that occult and New Age activities potentiate interdimensional portals?
In magical practice such passages are assumed. A local occultist, David Miller, explains that, “Corridors are tunnels of energy connecting the fifth dimension to the third. In a sense, they are interdimensional, they exist in neither dimension yet connect to both. … There are many corridors in the Southwest, including around Sedona and the Grand Canyon.”[10] Other areas include the San Luiz Valley CO, Skinwalker Ranch UT, ECETI Ranch WA, Yakima WA and Mount Shasta, CA.
We believe the case for extra dimensions, made in Exo-Vaticanaand bolstered by the upcoming book sequel and SkyWatch TV Special Investigative Report (On the Path of the Immortals), supports identifying the most active hotspots as entry zones. If finding such a gateway is a possibility, then Sedona’s Bradshaw Ranch on the tip of the ancient Anasazi settlements, was one of our candidates. After living on the ranch for two years, Linda Bradshaw observed:
I believe these openings have always been on our plane and they’ve perhaps been the portals to allow others in, but if one were to ask my opinion of my experiences regarding this magical place, I would say that not only are they being allowed in, but they are coming in in great numbers. I would also love to say that only compassionate beings of light are scooting through these portals, but this does not always seem to be the case. I have come face to face with a few decidedly nasty beings.[11]
Her appraisal is refreshing because interdimensional entities are usually discussed in the glowing terms of a New Age. We were also encouraged that the former Mrs. Bradshaw (who now goes by Linda Ball) prudently aligned with the God of the Bible, offering this advice, “…it is important that one declares his or her position (who one is and whom they serve) and knows this to be true.” And then finishing with Isaiah 6:3 ‘Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God of Hosts.’”[12] It’s difficult to dismiss her testimony because she displayed good instincts. For example, after an encounter with the Greys she remarked, “They did not leave me with a good feeling.”[13] Bradshaw Ranch or not, a negative assessment of the greys should come as no surprise to our readers.
Over a decade ago, co-author of the upcoming On the Path of the Immortals, Tom Horn wrote, “This is what I was talking about from the moment I mentioned time-dimensional doorways, and the entities that can and do move through them. Since the beginning of time and on every continent of the world the record bears the frightening image of those who often come through.” While the entities change over time, the similar features (like an overly large head) are remarkable.
It seems likely that Sedona has been one of the main demonic doorways in the United States since 1980. The flood of false spirituality and theological error coming from the region is unprecedented. While it’s far from an exact science, the magnetic anomalies, coupled with so much documented vortex and portal lore, leads us to suspect an open preternatural portal area. No other region in the continental United States compares when it comes to identified vortexes. Whether this is a Jungian consciousness driven phenomenon or one quantifiable by materialist science, or some of both, is still open to interpretation. We suspect both. According to UFO Digest, Bradshaw Ranch “has seen more paranormal activity in recent years than perhaps any other US location. So much so, it appears to have attracted the attention of the US Federal Government. A cluster of paranormal activity has been reported; from sightings of strange humanoid entities, to the pulsating lights of UFOs—and the most massive amount of Orb activity ever witness by this investigator.”[15]Bradshaw Ranch is one of the primary reasons we came to Sedona.
A Day in the Weird Wild West
In order to investigate the phenomena, we arranged to meet with a guide named “Hoss” that would take us as close to theBradshaw ranch as we could get without threat of arrest, specifically to an area where “light beings” or “Orbs” have been filmed materializing and dematerializing and which the US Government may be intrigued (or in communion?). Standing six foot two inches tall, at two hundred fifty pounds, our guide sported a tan cowboy hat with an authentic Western poncho concealing an iPhone, hunting knife, and a Smith and Wesson revolver. Bradshaw Point gas been declared “no man’s land” by the US government but even they couldn’t stop us from looking over it from a strategic high point. At least with a gun toting cowboy in the lead, we were prepared for the worst if it came.
Putnam with Hoss on Bradshaw Point
We pulled up to Bradshall Hill, overlooking the ranch to the West, the surrounding canyons North and Northeast, and Sedona to the Southeast (follow footnoted link to Google Maps).[17] The weather conditions were optimal between 5:00 and 7:00 PM on January 15, 2015. When we arrived the temperature was around 54 degrees and it cooled to the mid-forties as the sun went down. Humidity went from a daytime 35% up to 50% at nightfall. There was a lite breeze around twelve miles per hour[18] when we got out of the car and began setting up our gear.
Getting down to business, our guide pulled out a magnetometer which quickly spiked giving a highly anomalous reading. Fortunately, my previous training paid off here. In preparation for writing the Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic, I studied the scientific discipline of parapsychology and completed specific training in filed investigation with degreed parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach MS.[19] I learned that of all the fanciful instruments used on ghost hunting shows, magnetometers have real evidential merit. Auerbach found that his magnetometers detect “unusually high magnetic field[s]” at the spot where “ghosts” are seen.[20]He also found that magnetometers register high readings when people communicate with an apparition and fall back down when the communication ceases.[21] A portal researcher, Phillip Imbrogno, observed, “What all these interdimensional vortex and window areas have in common around the world is that they all sit right on top of a number of magnetic anomalies with an intermediate electromagnetic pulse.”[22] If Keel, Auerbach and Imbrogno’s theories are correct, then the high magnetic field reading we observed upon arrival at Bradshaw hill might indicate a spiritual presence, an interdimensional portal, both, or another nearby anomaly. As the night progressed, the interdimensional inference was corroborated.
The portal hypothesis was only on the table for our research because of previous documentation of related anomalous activity. The books Merging Dimensions[23] and Dimensional Journey[24]feature copyrighted photographs of orbs, UFOs and even Bigfoot tracks. Also, the anecdotal evidence for a portal at the ranch is compelling. After living there a few years with her children, Linda Ball (formerly married to Bob Bradshaw, as mentioned above, who later converted to Christianity) wrote:
My perception of reality was tested and questioned again and again as I had encounters with extraterrestrials, Bigfoot and other humanlike entities that towered over me. I was able to photograph much of the phenomena, which began rather benignly with wafting, multi-colored orbs of light, then escalated over seven years to the more heart-stopping episodes where I encountered and interacted with otherworldly beings.[25]
After one particularly scary incident involving flying saucers, Ball writes that Bob thought she[Linda] was an extraterrestrial and refused to let her back in the house. She wrote, “As he later confessed to me, he suspected that I was one of “them” and he was therefore afraid of me. This was tragic. It took about two hours before he relented and unlocked the doors, allowing me to come in out of the cold.”[26]While Mr. Bradshaw passed away in 2008 and is unable to give his side of the story, one is hard pressed to imagine the rough and tumble cowboy in such a state of terror. Ball and Bradshaw eventually split up. Linda now lives in Montana. John Bradshaw, their son, still lives in Sedona operating the tour company that we hired for this investigation.
Merely suggesting the existence of an interdimensional portal is controversial but there is supporting evidence. On the way to Bradshaw hill, Hoss admitted that he was initially skeptical but became a fast believer after only two outings. With half a dozen or so UFO and orb tours based in Sedona (some are led by self-identified alien abductees), it’s becoming a common testimony.[27]In a New York Times article titled “Abandoning Doubt in Sedona, Arizona,” a skeptical reporter concedes, “In approximately two hours, we counted about 40 unidentifiable things flying high above us.”[28] After over twenty five years of investigating, Tom Dongo claims to have witnessed and photographed flying and stationary light orbs of different sizes, shapes and colors many thousands of times.[29] He also believes the evidence supports the existence of some sort of portal. “Some of these lights would fly around some, then either blink out or fly off into the distance. Clearly, after observing for so long, it was evident to me that most of these lights originated from the same point — or points. This would indicate some sort of entrance point, or portal.”[30] After completing our field investigation, we agree.
I (Cris Putnam) have never been an orb believer because most of what I’ve seen looks to be dust particles, drops of water, moisture on the lens, and things of that nature. Even so, my experience on Bradshaw hill changed my mind. At dusk, we were visited by and captured a vivid orb on video without using flash photography. Even though there was no wind, it moved extremely fast, changed direction and then faded out of existence. A brief video clip of this manifestation is included on the book trailer here and will be further examined in the upcoming SkyWatch TV Special Investigative Report (the 1.5 hour Special Report DVD will be given away with the book if ordered through SkyWatch TV in May). The Orb that we filmed from two camera angles even seemed to make intentional, evasive maneuvers. Another elusive orb had earlier been seen from this same hill that “seemed to know people were trying to get a shot of it. It would always blink out just before the shutter was tripped or the camcorder was focused.”[32]
Alternating positions with my wife, one of us awkwardly posed while the other snapped off shots using flash, with a Cannon Powershot SX40HS. All the while our videographer (Chris Florio) continuously shot video. This allowed for rigorous review of the video, when anomalies are in the still image. If a ball of light appears on both cameras then most common natural phenomena created by dust and moisture close to or on the lens of the flash enabled camera are excluded. Accordingly, in the upcoming book On the Path of the Immortals the orb evidence considered appears on both cameras. Bright light-orbs are clearly seen in photos and video shot simultaneously from different angles. On one occasion, the videographer saw a light orb with the naked eye that was later confirmed on the photo and video. It appeared to be the size of a grapefruit (as can be seen shooting up and then hovering about ten to twelve feet behind Putnam in the image below).
Light Being(?) Or “Orb” Above Putnam Appears On Video And Photo
In connection with the arrival of the anomalos Orb, suddenly in the distance, a fast moving UFO flashed across the sky with untold speed, it was gone before we could even aim a camera toward it. But this was not the case with our next opportunity as we filmed a gigantic V-Shaped craft silently moving overhead (images and info in the next entry and more in the upcoming book). We all had the feeling that clearly multifaceted phenomenon was manifesting throughout the area at the same time, being seen by multiple eye-witnesses and captured on film by our crew. It was our guide’s opinion that what we were witnessing were spirits and/or spirit-craft from nearby Indian burial mounds. But we had a different interpretation, even though the rapid-fire variety of behavior and appearance still leaves multiple explanations open for consideration: spirits, spook lights, earth lights… demons and angels.
First, the weight of testimony suggests that such spirit entities, and interdimensional beings are crossing over from the nearby portal. Regarding our fast jerking orb from the first video, LA Marzulli replied,
“I think you captured an orb on film. In Watchers 1 we showed pictures of hundreds of orbs flying into ECETI ranch. Then there’s the one clip where a man is standing in the field where these orbs appear and one flew into the back of his neck and doesn’t come out again. Posession? Maybe, and this is why I believe the orbs may actually be what dis-embodied spirits look like.”[34]
While this notion is the most common, opinions vary. Max Greiner and Joie Pirkey believe that God’s Holy angels travel about in orb form too. Pirkey has many interesting photos taken during worship services.[35] Of course, in the Bible even “angels” are a bifurcated category, as in “Holy” (Acts 10:21 cf) and “Fallen” (Matthew 25:41). Thus, the category “spirits” is likely multifaceted and distinguishing characteristics are not easily discerned from such photographic evidence.
Second, some of the orbs behave like spook lights or ghost lights, traditionally called the will-o’-the-wisp. The ghost light phenomenon is known by a variety of names in English, including hinkypunk, jack-o’-lantern, friars’ lantern and hobby lantern.[36] Famous examples include the Brown Mountain lights of North Carolina where for over one hundred years “globes of various colored lights, ranging in size from mere points to 25 feet in diameter”[37] have been seen rising above the tall trees. Also the notorious Joplin “Hornet” Spooklight which “has appeared seemingly as a ball of fire for almost 140 years”[38] at the intersection of Spooksville, OK and Joplin, MO. And again, many of these reports are from reputable persons. A recently declassified official U.S. Air Force document even reveals that a project blue book investigator observed the spook light for one and half hours through binoculars. The report describes the orb as “four times the size of a basketball with bright white light” emitting a “red flame trailing” as it moved about silently.[39]
Third, some orbs might be earth lights. A similar portal is believed to be located on the Yakima Indian Reservation on the east side of the Cascade Mountains in southern Washington State. Some researchers, scientists and geologists try to explain these orbs as a natural phenomenon known as earth lights:
There are similar areas around the world which are termed “windows” by Earthlight researchers with these fault line areas where UFO activity or “Earthlight activity” is very strong. Hessdalen Valley of Norway is a good example. I will not discount the Earthlight theory entirely because one must be open to all possibilities not just one when researching the unknown. There certainly exists evidence to suggest that there could indeed be some natural form of energy that releases itself in the form of balls of light or some kind of gases, however this in my opinion does not mean that all of the UFO activity at Yakima can be explained away as earthlights.[40]
Colored orbs on the 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg painting[42]
According to Greg Long, author of Examining the Earthlight Theory, “The majority of the UFO sightings mentioned by Long involved ball-shaped nocturnal lights. Frequently, they were reddish orange and interacted with observers.” [41] The description matches the orb we caught on video at the Bradshaw ranch. In association with these manifestations, Long also reported strange humanoids, apparitions, and Bigfoot sightings. Astrophysicist Hugh Ross—a Christian scholar at Reasons to Believe—concurs with Jacques Vallee’s writing, saying, “Written records of ancient sightings dating back at least three thousand years document the same highly luminous balls and multicolored disks, breaking up and coming together, darting around at velocities and accelerations that defy the laws of physics.”Whatever they turn out to be, it seems such orbs have always been seen. Yet in our next entry, we’ll go where some of these modern manifestations may now be emanating from… a doorway at “The Canyon’s Secret Underground Base.”
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