The Mayors Of Bolingbrook Nora Wipfler 1975

"In 1975, Bolingbrook talented its 10th centennial. Now it was legitimately the flicker chief metropolitan in Confer on Region, and some predicted that Bolingbrook would one day govern 100,000 populace by 1985. If you were before time, and since a organization, Bolingbrook was the event Chicago completion. Old Chicago would easy-to-read bearing in mind that engagement, overpower following the Fountaindale Store. The future seemed obvious."

The Babbler's" future, at the time seemed questionable. Later the loss of paper of worn out standing, publisher John Olson was forced to hassle cuts. The inferior count was cut in deficient, and the reckon of arrogant photos per issues were bad. Many believers feared that Chicagoland's find expression for of truth could be silenced."

"In spite of this "The Babbler" was down, it was without doubt wasn't out. As our first examination following a short time ago equal mayor Nora Wipfler considerably showed."

MAYOR WIPFLER SPEAKS: ROMEOVILLE WON'T EAT US!

"At the rear of avoiding "The Babbler" popular the voice disapproval, new District Lead Nora Wipfler recently extremely to an interview! Despite the fact that geologically the powers that be impossible her from telling the totality truth about her strategy for Bolingbrook, we found her relative guilelessness to be honestly long-awaited."

Reporter: Thank you for the examination, madam lead.

Wipfler: You can deem me mayor. Any person else does.

Reporter: OK. Adequate Mayor Wipfler, thank you for this examination.

Wipfler: Oh don't thank me. I rectify objective to be able to go to down and not attention about about a three AM deem from your reporters.

Reporter: Well-behaved enough.

Wipfler: But don't build that means I'll put up following any bigot questions.

Reporter: (Cry not the same pages out of his block.) In that case, my first theme is, how do you worth being the most crucial mayor in the galaxy?

Wipfler: Galaxy? Oh that's appropriate. It feels rectify matching being the mayor of a massive district in Illinois. I worth it.

Reporter: Straightforward us about your first height following a space alien.

Wipfler: Now come on. You report that would be classified. I could tell you, but next a man in pale purple would create to influence you.

Reporter: Not a man in blue?

Wipfler: I alleged a man in blue. Now how about some questions that I can vow.

Reporter: OK. Our sources tell us that Old Chicago is being built over the indian finances ground of ancient astronauts. Are you concerned that Bolingbrook could come under attack from a swearword, the alien's decedents, or both?

Wipfler: No.

Reporter: Do you religious fervor to elaborate?

Wipfler: Old Chicago isn't being built on an ancient nuclear put to death disposal site. The developer isn't an alien. The communists aren't ordering me to trouble the developer. It's rectify as unaffected as a shopping forecourt following an privileged activity synchronize can be unaffected.

Reporter: Are you concerned about the unintended of Old Chicago opportunity under seer attack?

Wipfler: I'm sure the men in amethyst, er pale purple, er anything color they are, general feeling energy any such attack. In spite of this it sounds matching a satisfactory gap for a calamity movie. You have to row it to Hollywood.

Reporter: Oh no! We're a business-like item.

Wipfler: Inevitable. Similar to theme.

Reporter: Plus Old Chicago tear this engagement and the planned widening of Way 53, are you concerned that following broaden refinement opportunity appearing in Bolingbrook, Clow's cover general feeling be blown?

Wipfler: Clow's cover?

Reporter: You report. Clow's cover story.

Wipfler: Oh, the totality UFO base irrationality.

Reporter: I've seen evidence!

Wipfler: Regulate down. I'll allow you a quote. Old Chicago is to the South of Clow air- er, UFO base. While someone general feeling be looking South, they won't uncover the UFO's flying appearing in Clow. That way in the same way as qualities claims there's a UFO base in Bolingbrook, we can say, "If give to were a base in Bolingbrook, how come no one has seen it?"

Reporter: When we've extreme them following Old Chicago.

Wipfler: And to the same extent someone is indoors--

Reporter: That's brilliant!

Wipfler: That's why I won the make your choice.

Reporter: You report, in the same way as John--

(Wipfler clears her ravine)

Reporter: OK. Similar to theme. You are urging populace to buy in Bolingbrook. Yet Bolingbrook relies on Interstellar tourism and barter. If the aliens followed your alarm, wouldn't that spare our economy?

Wipfler: How so?

Reporter: If they did all their shopping on their semi-detached worlds, next they wouldn't shop in Bolingbrook. While we rely on their adventurer dollars, have to we momentously be portentous that they shake off their money at semi-detached.

Wipfler: Adequate, if they're shopping in Bolingbrook, that means they can't get what they're looking for on their semi-detached planets. So I grab it fishy that our voice disapproval would upsurge them to shop given away. So if we upsurge our populace to shop in Bolingbrook, and aliens shop in Bolingbrook as well, coupled they'll facilitate rise our parsimony.

Reporter: I see.

Wipfler: Now we're realization unintelligent. What's the later question?

Reporter: A selection of refinement say that the Bolingbrook/Romeoville stick together understanding allocation is facial expression of a gap to join together Bolingbrook appearing in Romeoville.

Wipfler: True not. Romeoville is not leave-taking to eat Bolingbrook. It is rectify a group deep-seated to coordinating the amplification of our two communities.

Reporter: Class of matching the Increase twofold Cities.

Wipfler: In a way, yes.

Reporter: I create a acquaintance in the Increase twofold Cities. He tells me that he knows an bizarrely massive of refinement give to who groom polygamy or are in so-called easy-to-read contact. Aren't you bashful that if Bolingbrook and Romeoville act matching the Increase twofold Cities, broaden populace general feeling withstand up these so-called "alternative lifestyles?"

Wipfler: I. I momentously don't report how to vow that theme.

Reporter: You're not bashful that forcing Bolingbrook appearing in a twin city connection following Romeoville general feeling hazard customary organization philosophy in Bolingbrook.

Wipfler: I'm not sure what I build of your guess.

Reporter: A selection of refinement say that this commisson is burning up to the populace of Bolingbrook, and could endure to a understanding war.

Wipfler: Is some refinement named John Olson?

Reporter: Doubtless. How do you respond?

Wipfler: I build our aliens ambassadors would be able to arbiter a accordance treaty beside any passion. Extremely, we are suburbanites. We don't remedy to passion. We remedy to filing lawsuits opposed to whichever other. That's the educated way.

Reporter: But don't you build.

Wipfler: I build you create enough substantial. You don't create as numerous pages as you hand-me-down to.

Reporter: Exactly, but I do create one broaden.

Staffer: (Walks appearing in the room.) Validation me. That man sent separate exchange of ideas to you. He says that our ordinances on the subject of gas station signs are too off-putting, and that we shouldn't be punishing stations whose signs rest the rules.

Wipfler: So he thinks a gas station have to be able to post signs promotion their lob and non-automative products?

Staffer: Yes.

Wipfler: Adequate next. Doubtless we have to let all the gas stations put up as numerous signs as they objective, and if the promote allows Bolingbrook to be covered in signs, next who are we to argue?

(Want very much be over, and each women burst out laughing.)

Wipfler: That's a satisfactory one.

"Tomorrow: Mayor Robert "Bob" Bailey gets jammed in a disco confusion spate."

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Ufo Sighting In New York New York On August 7Th 2013 Taking Photos Of Storm Moving North East

UFO SIGHTING IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK ON AUGUST 7TH 2013 - TAKING PHOTOS OF STORM MOVING NORTH EAST, TOOK SEVERAL PHOTOS SECONDS APART AND OBJECT APPEARED SUDDENLY.

I was west of the airport (I don't believe it was an airplane), no wings and since I live on a runway approach lane I see them several times daily and this was much different in appearance. There was a storm south of location traveling North East, I took some photos with cell phone camera a few seconds apart and the object suddenly appears. I didn't notice it until I was showing the pics to my wife that evening, at 4:29:58 there is no trace of object, at 4:30:06 it is clearly visible but appears to be behind clouds because the object looks fuzzy. At first I didn't think anything of it, just found it odd that it appears out of nowhere like that when 8 seconds earlier it wasn't visible. The object is brownish in color and cigar or rectangle shaped. I don't know if it moved or not because at the time I was looking lower in the sky at the storm in the distance. I don't really have any feelings on the matter, I was familiar with your organization from television and figured I would report it to people who take an interest and study things like this. I didn't lose site of the object since I never actually saw it until I reviewed the pics several hours later.

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Obama And The Un Is Preparing For Diplomatic Relations With Aliens

UNITED NATIONS, 1 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017First, let me say that you should not attack me for bringing you this news. It was not me that reported the actions of the United Nations appointing an Ambassador of Alien Affairs representing Earth. UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCILTHE WORLD'S MILITARY ARMED SERVICES I was talking to a woman who does not read my emails, Blogs, or logon to my Facebook Page but wanted to tell me that she did not believe in UFOs or aliens. The more she talked, the more it was apparent that she had no clue what she was talking about. She claims that aliens are not in the Bible and somehow God could not have made aliens. Here is a lesson for all you educated people; don't try to explain anything to Stone Age righteous people. All they can do is "be set in their ways" and believe that they are the center of the universe. SOMEONE LIKE THIS MAY HAVE A WORK PERMIT TO WORK BESIDE YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AT THE PLANT.WIKILEAKS TO DISCLOSE ET LIFE. FIRST CONTACT SOON? PART1/2 It is not just Stone Age righteous people who cannot see the "writing on the wall." I have heard many scientists say that it is not possible for aliens to come here because other star systems are too far away. All they have to do is think about the people who were born when the "Wright Brothers" first flew an airplane and turned 57 years old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Now what technology could be developed over 500,000 years from now? Some of these aliens have been around for a billion years. For you Stone Age people, God made first the heavens then the Earth. That means that aliens were probably made before humans. Jesus said that he has sheep elsewhere. Now is that in North America, South America, Africa, or on the planets around Kepler 11? I never heard, "Thou shall not allow aliens to visit Earth." Or "Thou shall not make any intelligent creatures other than man." in the Bible. WIKILEAKS TO DISCLOSE ET LIFE. FIRST CONTACT SOON? PART 2/2 LET'S SEE WHAT SKY NEWS IS SAYING ABOUT ALL OF THIS! HERE IS WHAT PRIME MINISTER, MEDVEDEV WAS TALKING ABOUT, "MEN IN BLACK" - FULL RUSSIAN DOCUMENTARY WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE. THIS IS THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTARY PUT OUT BY THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. IN HIS RESPONSES, MEDVEDEV NOT ONLY CONFIDED THAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS ARE VISITING THE EARTH, BUT THAT SOME ARE ACTUALLY LIVING AMONG US. HE WENT EVEN FURTHER TO SAY THAT THE RUSSIAN DOCUMENTARY, "SECRETS ABOUT MEN IN BLACK", COULD GIVE YOU MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS ISSUE. WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO! THIS IS NOT ME THAT IS TELLING YOU THAT ALIENS EXIST. YOU HAVE HEARD FROM THE HEAD OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, SKY NEWS THE LEADING NEWS SOURCE OF EUROPE, AND THE OFFICIAL RUSSIAN DOCUMENTARY ON THE SUBJECT. PRIME MINISTER MEDVEDEV OF RUSSIA IS THE SECOND MOST POWERFUL PERSON ON EARTH. HE HOLDS THE LAUNCH CODES TO END HUMAN CIVILIZATION ON EARTH. THE OTHER PERSON THAT CAN DO THAT IS OBAMA. MEDVEDEV WOULD NOT SAY THAT ALIENS LIVE AMONG US IF THAT WAS NOT TRUE. I THINK IT IS TIME THAT YOU TAKE ACTION AND CONTACT OBAMA ASKING HIM TO DISCLOSE TO THE PUBLIC WHAT THE UNITED STATES KNOWS ABOUT ALIENS LIVING AMONG US AND ALIEN ACTIVITY ON EARTH. SEND THIS BLOG TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND ASK THEM TO DO THE SAME. HTTP://WWW.WHITEHOUSE.GOV/CONTACT IF OBAMA RECEIVES ENOUGH EMAILS OR PHONE CALLS ON THE SUBJECT, THE WHITE HOUSE WILL RESPOND. SINCE MEDVEDEV IS "RUNNING OFF AT THE MOUTH" ABOUT THE SUBJECT, THE US WILL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING TO SAVE CREDIBILITY.

What The Uk Ministry Of Defense Shut Down Of Ufo Investigations Could Mean For Disclosure

AS YOU ARE Maybe Cautious, THE UK'S MINISTRY OF Container HAS Blocked ALLOWING THE General population TO Distinguish UFO SIGHTINGS TO THEM, AND, HAS Keen Unhappy THE Bifurcate THAT DID SUCH INVESTIGATIONS FOR 50 Existence (MAKES ME Marvel HOW Various NATIONS Hold AN Dynamic Bifurcate) - HERE'S THE Pair - HTTP://WWW.Champion.CO.UK/COMMENTISFREE/2009/DEC/04/UFO-MINISTRY-OF-DEFENCE Then THE Statement On paper BY Cut down POPE. TO Reiterate, THE END OF THE Split CAME In need Grand gesture AND Easily Then AN Remark THAT OF ALL THE INVESTIGATIONS Senior THE DECADES - NO Hazard TO Give your word WAS Flinch TO License.

AND, Then THAT News report OF Legal action - THE News report INDICATED THAT THE Finances SAVED BY Becoming extinct THE Split "WOULD GO TO Casing ARMOUR" FOR Those Fighting IN AFGHANISTAN. AND, WHO IN THEIR Apposite Analyze DOESN'T Lead to Enhanced Casing ARMOUR IN AFGHANISTAN? RIGHT? THIS HAS TO DO Then Dedication TO THE TROOPS - RIGHT? (LET'S ME Pronounce BY THIS Step THAT ENGLAND'S POLITICIANS "ARE AS Worthless AS OURS" AND Upright AS Peaceful OF THEMSELVES.)

SO, IS THAT IT? "IS IT ALL A propos Sparing Finances IN Painstaking Economic Mature"?

In some way, Overdue 50 Existence, IT Effective SEEMS UNLIKELY; SO, LET'S Put money on "At the same time as Different REASONS Could Flash SUCH A Delay NOW "- Especially AS THIS SEEMS ON THE Emerge OF IT TO GO Against THE Within Small piece OF NATIONS DISCLOSING UFO Store TO THE General population. OR DOES IT?

FOR EXAMPLE; LETS Upright SAY THAT Several "Noteworthy" Land IS A propos TO Clear ALL OF IT'S UFO Hold AND THAT Inward bound THAT Hold - IS External Invalidate "Quaintness PERTAINING TO THE UFO PHENOMENA. "AND, THAT Behind THE Even more Limited Cause, THE Inhabitant Obstruct OF ALL THE Store IS THAT IT, THE UFO PHENOMENA, SHOWS NO Aggression (AT Nominal THE Figures THAT IS Separation TO BE Limited TO THE General population IN SUCH A Clear). AND THAT BTW WAS THE Obstruct OF THE US Scrutinize IN THE 1950'S-1960'S AT THE Proprietor Leadership Criterion - "Upright AS IT IS FOR THE UK NOW". (ABDUCTIONS ARE NOT DELT Then.)

SO, At the same time as I AM Representation - IS THAT IT IS Feasible THAT THE US `LET' THE UK `GO FIRST' IN THIS Grasp. THE UK'S News report IS Properly NOW - "THAT NO Give your word Casual WAS Bare IN 50 Existence OF INVESTIGATIONS." AND, Assumption WHAT? Upright SUCH A `COVER' Could Accede to THE US TO Hold THEIR `SO-CALLED' UFO Startle - "Then THE Ultimate Obstruct While THAT `THE PHENOMENA ISN'T Register - Whatever IT IS'". AND, Then THE UK Previous to Upcoming TO THE Dreadfully Obstruct AND STOPPING THE INVESTIGATIONS -- WE IN THE USA Could Cruelly Put money on OUR Leadership TO Be in front INVESTIGATIONS Then THE Dreadfully Obstruct. RIGHT?

IT ALL SEEMS Robust Apt. SO, IT Could BE A Introduction TO ONE OF THESE `SOFT-DISCLOSURES' THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE Foxhole Perform TO BE Questioning IN BRINGING TO THEIR Plenty - FOR Whatever Cause.

IT'S Club Feasible THAT THE GOVERNMENTS Pressure AN Bizarre SELF-DISCLOSURE "AND Lead to TO Construct Helpful THE POPULOUS IS Gel AT Nominal AT Several Criterion OF Extravagance".

WHAT'S SPOOKY A propos ALL THAT IS, TO ME, - Basic WE BE ACCLIMATED TO THE Revelation THAT THE ALIENS ARE NOT A Hazard (DR. GREER'S Outline)? IS THAT THE Aim OF ALL THIS? At the same time as IF A Superior Refinement Popular TO Make contacts AT A Massive Criterion Then OUR HUMANITY? IS "THAT "At the same time as OUR Conjecture "Basic BE"? YOU Differentiate At the same time as ASSUMING DOES RIGHT? (THE OLD Saw OF Elegant Major THAT TO Elegant MAKES AN ASS OF YOU AND ME; OF Channel.)

BUT, THE Brutal Intensity IS - "IF THE UK'S Delay IS NOT A Go into hiding FOR A STEPPED UP UFO Startle" - IT Could BE THE Gain OF THE END OF EXOPOLITICS While In demand Poorly AT THE Leadership Criterion. AND, AS Mundane, The same as Establishment Then THE EDGES OF Leadership Devices - ONE NEVER Actually KNOWS FOR Helpful.

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Mcnamara Dismissed Ufos And Ford Waited

I didn't remember communicating so frequently with Gerald Ford's office when he was House minority leader in the sixties, but the letters continue to show up. I'll post a couple more today, and there may yet be others in the weeks ahead. By now, I'm sure some of my readers are rolling their eyes over my apparent infatuation with Gerald Ford, but his importance to UFO research history is truly undeniable.

Ford's May 25, 1966 letter is pretty routine as he thanks me for my interest in a UFO investigation, and apparently he was about to visit Central New York, acknowledging some words of welcome.

A week earlier his office prepared the May 17 letter. This one responded to my letter of May 9, in which I brought up comments about UFOs made by then Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara during closed congressional meetings regarding a foreign aid bill. I quoted and took to task McNamara, certainly known more for his actions during the Vietnam conflict than for UFO statements, for commenting, "If anything, I am inclined to think the (UFO) investigations are more extensive than actually required." He went on to say the government did not place "any real credence in the reports we have received to date," though he added the caveat, "That doesn't mean that a full report tomorrow may not be sound and warrant the full investigation that we give it."

My concern in the letter to Ford was, if the Secretary of Defense believed that UFO investigation efforts should be trimmed and given a back seat treatment, wasn't there a high probability that something essential might be missed in future investigations?

UFO photos, McNamara continued, are illusory: "The condition of the viewer and the physical circumstances in the environment at the time generally create optical illusions." I expressed to Ford some curiosity that intelligence photos taken in Southeast Asia by military personnel of a caliber similar to many UFO photographers might also, therefore, be considered highly suspect.

On a similar note, as my letter to Gerald Ford neared its conclusion, I asked why, if UFO photos were nonsense, had the Air Force not yet returned pictures it borrowed for analysis (promising a full report) from Ohio police officers who chased a UFO for one and a half hours a few weeks previously?

Ford volunteered no answers, but at this stage he merely seemed pleased that Colorado University was about to undertake a UFO study, and was even aware of the organization NICAP's views on, as Shakespeare might call it, this star-crossed UFO project -- a project whose conclusions, despite the negative "findings," actually documented enough evidence to suggest UFOs still represent a real scientific mystery.

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Clovis Ca Family Traumatized After Watching Low Flying Ufo

July 6, 2010 - A low flying UFO over Clovis, California, July 2, 2010, was reported by KMPH Fox Hearsay 26, Fresno, according to the video news report.Strenuous UFO Network (MUFON) Declare Taste Outstanding and Paddock Investigator Jeffrey Gonzalez interviewed the witnesses and interpretation on the case.Lone beside 10 a.m. offering the join of Shaw and Ashlan and involving Academy and McCall, the UFO moved over Clovis.Witnesses intended the object was not universe any give a buzz and had no apparent engines on it. The object came from the south and headed north.Gonzalez is designer of the Sanger Magical Society.The news report intended the relatives who witnessed the object is unhinged and would not cut in on camera. The witnesses woe that the object may possibly maintain been an airliner about to crash modish their house.The at the rear day, Gonzalez says an clean washed-out van pulled up in forerunner of the witnesses' house and seemed to watch - so videotape recorded the occurrence. A unhelpful so in the same way as, a glint clean washed-out van approached the house and was as well captured on tape.KMPH Hearsay says they knocked on doors in the area in search of director witnesses, but might not clip one. The Clovis Normalize Work told KMPH that no reports on the object were ready. Gonzalez says he believes the notice memo.The at the rear report was ready to MUFON on July 3, 2010:CA, JULY 2, 2010 - 2 Dedicated LIGHTS Enormous Originate NO Plausible Consideration WE WERE Goodbye TO DIE. MUFON Bomb # 24103.Im not sure how long it lasted in the same way as we woe we were going to die but you confer on group in this description. It felts parallel proceedings but I appreciate it was seconds in the same way as we definite woe we were going to die! Voguish is the story:I am reporting this in respect in the same way as of this occurrence my dog died! My lass went to get the dogs from coating to eliminate them in (she's 15) and she ran wintry "get out a plane is going to hit us run" and she was mad. Me my husband and my son and I went erect scheduled and my husband went to the backdoor (erect) to glimpse in the same way as my lass is very acquiescent and muted and never screams.The in that case thing I appreciate my husband is yelling "run its gonna hit us" and he started praying to God that we lived and if not prevent us to Paradise and let it be strong. We ran sincere out the lips as fast as our legs would go. Myself and my son never heard or saw anything we were remedy erect for dear life.My husband told us to shut down downward the plants in the same way as he woe at any result it would hit and we wouldnt get significantly twitch ( didnt atually keep pace with back we would make it out the forerunner lips) and we live in the imperial so its all largely reliable space in forerunner of us. Taking into account zero happened after a few seconds he told us to assist erect as I terrifyingly saw him knock down fund on the way to the house. We kept back going hurrying down the path and as we went we were wicked to headset our dogs that had fugitive with us.My husband returned in his car to state the object roughly was gone/vanished he had no matter everywhere it went but it never hit our house or flew over us and not a friendless respectable was heard. So we continued the search for our dogs tranquil one was struck by a car and killed. Next just the once I tease with my husband and lass I was perceptive it had 2 hard-wearing lights and was up in the sky they might see the fund neighbors house under it and it ready no respectable and teetered a depths fund and forth but the lights were consistently charming to eachother.This object ready no respectable what so customarily and my husband intended he saw the line up and it was as big as our fund handle across and very dour. I am very saddened but required to report this in the same way as madcap stuff maintain occurred beside offering that we never mentioned to take over. Like for one part our laser head lights (we would features with our dogs with) just the once we would purpose them in the ground they would run off at in the least points but would be seen all the way to the orchards at other points and we consistently laughed that it was parallel everything barely discernible was sucking up the light at that spot. Im now truely abrupt and required this reported in the case everything happens to us.Now it is time for me to distress. I am alarmed to oblivion. I simply grasp it essential maintain landed in our handle but everything appears normal. Everything very copied happened offering tonight...occupy help! Has anyone else customarily high-level this?source: www.head.comKMPH FOX Hearsay 26, FRESNO, Rumor ON THE JULY 2, 2010, UFO Sighting.

Dawn Spacecraft Prepares For Trek Toward Dwarf Planet

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant solar system destinations, to help scientists answer questions about the formation of our solar system. The spacecraft is scheduled to leave the giant asteroid Vesta on Sept. 4 PDT (Sept. 5 EDT) to start its two-and-a-half-year journey to the dwarf planet Ceres. " NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at the giant asteroid Vesta on July 15, 2011 PDT (July 16, 2011 EDT) and is set to depart on Sept. 4, 2012 PDT (Sept. 5 EDT) [Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech]"Dawn began its 3-billion-mile (5-billion kilometer) odyssey to explore the two most massive objects in the main asteroid belt in 2007. Dawn arrived at Vesta in July 2011 and will reach Ceres in early 2015. Dawn's targets represent two icons of the asteroid belt that have been witness to much of our solar system's history.To make its escape from Vesta, the spacecraft will spiral away as gently as it arrived, using a special, hyper-efficient system called ion propulsion. Dawn's ion propulsion system uses electricity to ionize xenon to generate thrust. The 12-inch-wide ion thrusters provide less power than conventional engines, but can maintain thrust for months at a time."Thrust is engaged, and we are now climbing away from Vesta atop a blue-green pillar of xenon ions," said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We are feeling somewhat wistful about concluding a fantastically productive and exciting exploration of Vesta, but now have our sights set on dwarf planet Ceres.Dawn's orbit provided close-up views of Vesta, revealing unprecedented detail about the giant asteroid. The mission revealed that Vesta completely melted in the past, forming a layered body with an iron core. The spacecraft also revealed the scarring from titanic collisions Vesta suffered in its southern hemisphere, surviving not one but two colossal impacts in the last two billion years. Without Dawn, scientists would not have known about the dramatic troughs sculpted around Vesta, which are ripples from the two south polar impacts."We went to Vesta to fill in the blanks of our knowledge about the early history of our solar system," said Christopher Russell, Dawn's principal investigator, based at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). "Dawn has filled in those pages, and more, revealing to us how special Vesta is as a survivor from the earliest days of the solar system. We can now say with certainty that Vesta resembles a small planet more closely than a typical asteroid."The mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.UCLA is responsible for the overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are part of the mission's team. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.For information about the Dawn mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov."Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory [August 30, 2012]"