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Despicable she Aliens make 'CONTACT'

www.mvtimes.com with EARTH as Russians
detect deep-space signal
It’s terrible to think that someone could be so
desperate, so underhanded, that she would prey
on one of the most vulnerable among our A RUSSIAN telescope has picked up an
society, taking advantage of a woman suffering unknown signal from deep space, prompting
from the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. scientists to believe they may have discovered
But that’s precisely what happened in the ALIEN LIFE.
case of Sally Ann Johnson, the 41-year-old
Florida woman who was sentenced last week to Signals came from near to a planet surrounding
26 months in federal prison and ordered to repay a star 95 light-years from Earth.
$3.5 million she stole from an elderly Chilmark The host star is known as HD164595
woman. She was also ordered to pay $725,912 which is almost the same size as our sun.
to the Internal Revenue Service, taxes never paid The planet in question has been dubbed
on the money she received for her “psychic” HD164595b and is roughly the same size as
V.P. was already prone to believe in the
services. Neptune – a diameter of almost four times that
presence of evil spirits. As her dementia
This case has grabbed a lot of headlines of Earth’s. It is warm and rocky, with a year that
advanced, the woman attributed her symptoms
because of just how sick and twisted it is. lasts just 40 days.
to demonic possession, which she hoped
Johnson, who went by the aliases of Angela The signal was detected by experts at
Johnson could alleviate, prosecutors said.
Johnson and Angelia Johnson, claimed to be a Russia’s RATAN-600 telescope who then passed
Johnson also accrued charges on a credit
psychic who could vanquish demons through the information onto Paul Gilster, author of the
card held in the elderly woman's name, spending
exorcisms. All the while, she was emptying the Centauri Dreams website, which examines peer-
USD20,000 on entertainment and jewelry alone.
Chilmark woman’s bank account. reviewed research on the universe.
We are always struck by the lengths Mr Gilster said the strength of the signal
people will go in an attempt to con people out of Alien breakthrough: Boost indicates that it came from a Kardashev Type II
their money. Just this week, we had another in hunt for ETs as WATER civilisation.
news brief on another scam being perpetrated. The Kardashev scale is an indicator of
The caller purports to be a representative of detected on Jupiter-like how advanced a civilisation is – Earth is a type I
Eversource, and threatens to shut off electricity that can harbour energy from our sun, whereas a
unless a bill is paid using prepaid credit cards. [] exoplanet Type II would be much more advanced and
would be able to use all of the energy from the
Self-proclaimed Psychic WATER has been detected on a faraway host star– like a Dyson Sphere, for example.

exoplanet in what could be a breakthrough for Mr Gilster wrote on his website:
Jailed for Avoiding Tax on finding alien life elsewhere in the universe. “Working out the strength of the signal, the
USD3.5 Million researchers say that if it came from an isotropic
Astronomers have discovered that there are beacon, it would be of a power possible only for
water molecules in the atmosphere of an a Kardashev Type II civilisation.
NEW YORK, NNC – Psychic service have been exoplanet known as 51 Pegasi b, or 51 Peb b for “If it were a narrow beam signal focused
subject to income tax. Fortunately this is not in short. on our Solar System, it would be of a power
Indonesia but happened in the US. The planet is some 50 lightyears away available to a Kardashev Type I civilisation.”
Sally Ann Johnson was sentenced by US from Earth, putting it well out of reach of human While Mr Gilster was not 100 per cent
District Judge Denise Casper in Boston for exploration. confident that the signal came from aliens, he
being avoided paying income taxes for her 51 Peb b has an orbit period of just 4.23 remains optimistic.
exorcism services. days and is just half the distance from its host He said: “The possibility of noise of one
Johnson was sentenced to 26 months in star as the Earth is to the Sun. form or another cannot be ruled out, and
prison after admitting that she tried to avoid Astronomers also say that the exoplanet is very researchers in Paris led by Jean Schneider are
paying taxes on over USD3.5 million (IDR46.6 similar to Jupiter – meaning that it is a gas giant, considering the possible microlensing of a
billion) that she received from her client, an making life on the surface of the planet very background source by HD164595.
elderly woman seeking to cleanse herself of unlikely. “But the signal is provocative enough
demons. However, famed US scientist Carl Sagan that the RATAN-600 researchers are calling for
"There is a strong inference of fraud theorised life on Jupiter would take the form of permanent monitoring of this target.”
here," Casper said as quoted by Business Insider enormous balloon-like lifeforms that float above Astronomers at Search for
on Thursday (1/18/2018). the hot gasses on Jupiter’s surface. Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) were not so
She ordered Johnson to repay the woman He said on his TV show, Cosmos: A Personal excited by the news however.
nearly USD3.57 million she received from 2007 Voyage, that “vast living balloons could stay Eric Korpela of the institute said: “I was
to 2014 and to pay USD725,912 in restitution to buoyant by pumping heavy gasses from their unimpressed.
the US government for the taxes she avoided interiors or by keeping their insides warm.” “Because the receivers used were
paying. This means that the possibility of life making broad band measurements, there's really
Johnson, who never passed the second should not be ruled on “hot jupiter” – nicknamed nothing about this "signal" that would
grade and calls herself a Romani "spiritual due to what it is made up of and closeness to its distinguish it from a natural radio transient.[]
consultant," pleaded guilty in October to trying star – 51 Peb b.
to impede the administration of tax laws. The astronomers wrote in their paper
Court papers refer to her victim only as published in arXiv.org: "We have presented a …
"V.P." and say she attended Radcliffe College detection of water molecules in the atmosphere
and Harvard University, was independently of the original hot Jupiter, 51 Peg b, providing
wealthy and was more than 70 years old in 2007. the first confirmation that the 51 Peg Ab system
She is a resident of Martha's Vineyard, a favorite is a double-lined spectroscopic binary.
vacation spot for the rich and famous. "We detected no methane or carbon
Prosecutors said because of senile dioxide at a significant level in our observations,
suffered V.P, the woman is often felt disturbed indicating a low abundance, or possibly
spirits at his residence. Therefore, V.P hopes inaccuracies in the line lists we used to create
Sally can help solve the problem. the model templates.”