​NASA today supports the first public debate about the existence of UFOs ● Chinese archaeologists discovered a bunker that belonged to the infamous Japanese unit 731 ● What else did the Neanderthals invent

Today, NASA is holding the first public debate on the existence of UFOs

Starting at 17:30 Romanian time, a team of 16 specialists from different fields, from physicists to astrobiologists, will support the first public debate in the history of NASA on the possible existence of UFOs, implicitly the existence of some extraterrestrial civilizations.

The conference, which can be watched live here, precedes the official announcement that NASA will make in a few weeks when the specialist reports are completed. The said team was formed last year in parallel with a new division of the Pentagon, which also studied and is still studying thousands of such cases, which are reported by both the military and special services.

It should be noted that NASA preferred to change the name UFO (English UFO) to FAN (English UAP), which would rather be translated as unknown anomalous phenomena. In fact, in an official statement before today’s conference, NASA described such UAPs as phenomena that cannot be identified as aircraft or natural phenomena that can be scientifically explained.

Between us, we should not wait for some kind of revelation. Since the creation of the team last June, NASA has announced that there is “no clear evidence to indicate an extraterrestrial origin” for such phenomena.

In April, the Pentagon already made a similar statement. Even so, NASA’s view, which many consider less transparent than the Pentagon’s, is worth noting.

Chinese archaeologists have discovered a bunker that belonged to the infamous Japanese unit 731

Although the existence of Unit 731 is recognized by most international organizations, its operation remains largely contested. Especially from the side of Japan, which, although it recognized the existence of the unit in the 1990s, still claims that it has no data on its activities.

To clarify, Unit 731 was formed back in 1936, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and operated until the end of World War II in 1945. It is estimated that more than 300,000 prisoners were killed, tortured, mutilated, and subjected to unimaginable experiments aimed at testing biological and chemical weapons.

After Soviet troops entered China in the final months of the war, Japanese forces were ordered to destroy all laboratories and bunkers used by Unit 731, kill all prisoners, and erase all traces. Many of those who participated in the experiments there would later end up in the US, which would give them immunity and withhold much of the available data, only to use it in their own weapons development program.

At the same time, in the USSR, the Japanese prisoners who were part of the 731st unit were undergoing a trial similar to the Nuremberg trial, the prosecution was led by Lev Smirnov, the prosecutor who represented the Russian side at the famous Nuremberg trial.

Returning to the discovery of Chinese archaeologists, it is a U-shaped bunker 33 meters long and 21 meters wide, consisting of several rooms and tunnels connecting them. The discovery was made in Heilongjiang province, near the city of Anda in northeastern China.

According to preliminary data, these are operating rooms, laboratories, cells, dining rooms, bathrooms and storerooms. It can even be the largest object of its kind. Chinese authorities said they would release new claims as archaeologists and military experts gather more data.

What else did the Neanderthals invent?

That Neanderthals were able to create artificial chemicals 100,000 years before Homo sapiens discovered similar methods was already a known fact. In this case, we are talking about birch tar, an extremely effective glue that was used to attach a stone or bone point to the wooden support of spears or other weapons they used.

Evidence of this practice has been found in Syria, Romania and Germany, but as is often the case, over time such discoveries have been strongly contested. Now we can talk about certainty, and a team of German specialists from the University of Tübingen recently published an article in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences in which they tried to reproduce the methods by which Neanderthals could achieve such a result.

Chemical analysis of samples of birch tar found on Mousterian artefacts in Germany showed that it was produced in an oxygen-free environment. First, a few years ago, it was said that Neanderthals obtained tar by inserting birch bark into eggs through a crack, which was then covered with clay. Under the thermal influence of fire, resin would come out.

The mentioned German researchers claim, however, that there were other methods, somewhat less complicated, but no less ingenious. As a result of their experiments, it turned out that the tar was most likely obtained in underground devices. In particular, birch was inserted into a cavity in the ground, smeared with clay, and then set on fire. The synthetic tar then flowed into a container at the bottom of the pit.

According to German researchers, this discovery is confirmed by the presence of some soil minerals in the tar, which reveal traces of such actions (oxygen-free environment, absence of any traces of soot, thermal action).

Interestingly, despite the controversy regarding the cognitive capabilities of this type of person, German specialists claim that such an invention did not appear suddenly. It is clear that this happened after long experiments and more or less successful attempts. And this shows us once again that the Neanderthals were not as backward as they are said to be. They were still human after all.

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