Magnetar formation mystery solved? Supernova explosions and dizzying spins in a binary system

This artist's impression shows the magnetar in the very rich and young star cluster Westerlund 1. This remarkable cluster contains hundreds of very massive stars, some shining with a brilliance of almost one million suns. European astronomers have for the first time demonstrated that this magnetar -- an unusual type of neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field -- probably was formed as part of a binary star system. The discovery of the magnetar's former companion elsewhere in the cluster helps solve the mystery of how a star that started off so massive could become a magnetar, rather than collapse into a black hole. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

Magnetars are the bizarre super-dense remnants of supernova explosions. They are the strongest magnets known in the Universe — millions of times more powerful than the strongest magnets on Earth. A team of European astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) now believe they’ve found the partner star of a magnetar for the first time. This discovery helps to explain how magnetars form — a conundrum dating back 35 years — and why this particular star didn’t collapse into a black hole as astronomers would expect.

When a massive star collapses under its own gravity during a supernova explosion it forms either a neutron star or black hole. Magnetars are an unusual and very exotic form of neutron star. Like all of these strange objects they are tiny and extraordinarily dense — a teaspoon of neutron star material would have a mass of about a billion tonnes — but they also have extremely powerful magnetic fields. Magnetar surfaces release vast quantities of gamma rays when they undergo a sudden adjustment known as a starquake as a result of the huge stresses in their crusts.

The Westerlund 1 star cluster [1], located 16,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Ara (the Altar), hosts one of the two dozen magnetars known in the Milky Way. It is called CXOU J164710.2-455216 and it has greatly puzzled astronomers.

“In our earlier work we showed that the magnetar in the cluster Westerlund 1 must have been born in the explosive death of a star about 40 times as massive as the Sun. But this presents its own problem, since stars this massive are expected to collapse to form black holes after their deaths, not neutron stars. We did not understand how it could have become a magnetar,” says Simon Clark, lead author of the paper reporting these results.

Astronomers proposed a solution to this mystery. They suggested that the magnetar formed through the interactions of two very massive stars orbiting one another in a binary system so compact that it would fit within the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. But, up to now, no companion star was detected at the location of the magnetar in Westerlund 1, so astronomers used the VLT to search for it in other parts of the cluster. They hunted for runaway stars — objects escaping the cluster at high velocities — that might have been kicked out of orbit by the supernova explosion that formed the magnetar. One star, known as Westerlund 1-5 [2], was found to be doing just that.

“Not only does this star have the high velocity expected if it is recoiling from a supernova explosion, but the combination of its low mass, high luminosity and carbon-rich composition appear impossible to replicate in a single star — a smoking gun that shows it must have originally formed with a binary companion,” adds Ben Ritchie (Open University), a co-author on the new paper.

This discovery allowed the astronomers to reconstruct the stellar life story that permitted the magnetar to form, in place of the expected black hole [3]. In the first stage of this process, the more massive star of the pair begins to run out of fuel, transferring its outer layers to its less massive companion — which is destined to become the magnetar — causing it to rotate more and more quickly. This rapid rotation appears to be the essential ingredient in the formation of the magnetar’s ultra-strong magnetic field.

In the second stage, as a result of this mass transfer, the companion itself becomes so massive that it in turn sheds a large amount of its recently gained mass. Much of this mass is lost but some is passed back to the original star that we still see shining today as Westerlund 1-5.

“It is this process of swapping material that has imparted the unique chemical signature to Westerlund 1-5 and allowed the mass of its companion to shrink to low enough levels that a magnetar was born instead of a black hole — a game of stellar pass-the-parcel with cosmic consequences!” concludes team member Francisco Najarro (Centro de Astrobiología, Spain).

It seems that being a component of a double star may therefore be an essential ingredient in the recipe for forming a magnetar. The rapid rotation created by mass transfer between the two stars appears necessary to generate the ultra-strong magnetic field and then a second mass transfer phase allows the magnetar-to-be to slim down sufficiently so that it does not collapse into a black hole at the moment of its death.

Notes:

[1] The open cluster Westerlund 1 was discovered in 1961 from Australia by Swedish astronomer Bengt Westerlund, who later moved from there to become ESO Director in Chile (1970-74). This cluster is behind a huge interstellar cloud of gas and dust, which blocks most of its visible light. The dimming factor is more than 100,000, and this is why it has taken so long to uncover the true nature of this particular cluster.

Westerlund 1 is a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme stellar physics, helping astronomers to find out how the most massive stars in the Milky Way live and die. From their observations, the astronomers conclude that this extreme cluster most probably contains no less than 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, and all of its stars are located within a region less than 6 light-years across. Westerlund 1 thus appears to be the most massive compact young cluster yet identified in the Milky Way galaxy.

All the stars so far analysed in Westerlund 1 have masses at least 30-40 times that of the Sun. Because such stars have a rather short life — astronomically speaking — Westerlund 1 must be very young. The astronomers determine an age somewhere between 3.5 and 5 million years. So, Westerlund 1 is clearly a newborn cluster in our galaxy.

[2] The full designation for this star is Cl* Westerlund 1 W 5.

[3] As stars age, their nuclear reactions change their chemical make-up — elements that fuel the reactions are depleted and the products ofthe reactions accumulate. This stellar chemical fingerprint is first rich in hydrogen and nitrogen but poor in carbon and it is only very late in the lives of stars that carbon increases, by which point hydrogen and nitrogen will be severely reduced — it is thought to be impossible for single stars to be simultaneously rich in hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, as Westerlund 1-5 is.

Journal Reference:

1. J. S. Clark et al. A VLT/FLAMES survey for massive binaries in Westerlund 1: IV.Wd1-5 binary product and a pre-supernova companion for the magnetar CXOU J1647-45. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014 (in press)

18-05-2014 om 00:26 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: Alien Star Map Found In Kupang, Indonesia?

17-05-2014 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

Something Intelligent This Way Comes

17-05-2014 om 23:22 geschreven door peter  

MILITARY FLIGHT ENCOUNTERS A CIRCULAR UFO OVER THE ATLANTIC

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Newfoundland, Canada – 1951

On February 10, a US Navy flight, Atlantic – Continental Air Transport Squadron one, located at USN Air Station, Patuxent River, Maryland, was out of Keflavik, Iceland at 49-50 degrees north latitude and 50-03 degrees west longitude about 150 kilometers [90 miles] west of Gander, Newfoundland out over the Atlantic Ocean.  The aircraft was probably bound for Gander to refuel judging by its position and course of 230 degrees true, though the report does not mention this.  US Naval Reserve Lieutenant Graham Bethune, co-pilot of Flight 125, was occupying the captain’s seat on the left side of the cockpit in the passenger plane when he first sighted a huge object [at least] 300 feet in diameter on a near collision course with their aircraft.  The co-pilot stated in his official report,… I observed a glow of light below the horizon about 1,000 to 1,500 feet above the water. We both, the pilot as well,  observed its course and motion for about 4 or 5 minutes before calling it to the attention of the other crew members.  Suddenly its angle of attack changed.  Its altitude and size increased as though its speed was in excess of 1,000 miles per hour. It closed in so fast that the first feeling was we would collide in midair.  At this time, its angle changed and the color changed. It then appeared definitely circular and reddish orange on its perimeter. It reversed its course and tripled its speed until it was last seen disappearing over the horizon.  The co-pilot’s report goes on to say that the object came within five miles of their aircraft which was borne out by radar evidence of the encounter because the object had been tracked by DEW Line Ground Radar at the base in Goose Bay, Labrador.

Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe statement: 

When the plane landed, the entire crew was interrogated by AF Intelligence officers. At their destination, Patuxent Naval Air Station in Maryland, the pilot and the rest were questioned again by Naval Intelligence and required to sign full reports. Later, a government scientist (supposedly from the CIA) confidentially showed the pilot secret UFO photos – one portraying a disc like the one over the Atlantic.  In a final interview, the commander was interviewed by Air Technical Intelligence officers at Wright-Patterson AFB. But none of the Navy or Air Force men, or the government scientist, would answer any questions about the UFOs.

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17-05-2014 om 23:13 geschreven door peter  

Livestock Mutilations: Searching For Answers 

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In the past several weeks, the subject of livestock mutilations has been discussed...in particular, on Beyond The Edge Radio with our guests Christopher O'Brien and JC Johnson. In the past, I have posted a few of the investigations by JC Johnson and his group Crypto Four Corners in relation to some of these mutilations. I thought it would be prudent to re-publish two of the accounts from 2010-11, so the readers had a better idea of what these investigators have been seeing and discussing:

Sheep Mutilation Mystery - Dine' Navajo Reservation, Near Hogback, NM

According to my friend and colleague J.C. Johnson of Crypto Four Corners, in March 2010, 24 sheep were mutilated at a farm near Hogback, New Mexico, on the Dine' Navajo Reservation. The livestock owner explains that there were large talon marks but very little blood and no evisceration. Was this an attack by a large flying predator? Why were the carcasses left intact? Could this have been a Chupacabras? Was this another example of animal mutilation and experimentation by non-terrestrials, aliens or government entities?

Click for video - Sheep Slaughter or cut / paste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAfkZiabHoc

J.C. mentioned that a large cryptid bird or pterosaur may have been responsible for this act. That theory is not as far-fetched as it may initially sound.

For many generations, people in New Mexico and parts of Texas say they've seen birds so big they seem prehistoric.

One man claims the rugged landscape near Las Cruces hides a mystery that's haunted him for several years.

Dave Zander has lived near the Doña Ana Mountains for more than 30 years spending almost all his spare time hiking, exploring and fossil hunting in the range between the Robledo and Organ mountains.

He saw something that he's unable to explain and many people find hard to believe.

He recalls the day eleven years ago when he spotted something extraordinary: two creatures perched on a mountain less than a mile away.

"These creatures were so huge they looked like the size of small planes," Dave Zander said.  "All of the sudden one of them jumped off dropped off the top of the mountain, came down the front of the mountain and all the sudden these huge wings just spread out.

"I would say the wings were at least a 20-foot wingspan."

Definitely something out of the ordinary.

"Not a normal bird, definitely of a giant variety," Zander continued.  "It makes you feel like it could come over and carry you off if it wanted to."

Zander witness a real-life scene out of the movie Jurassic Park?

One ancient bird in the vicinity is an Andean condor living at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque.  But it's wingspan of 12 feet pales to what Zander described:  birds with an unprecedented twenty-foot wingspan, with pink bald heads and all-black bodies, and feathers on their enormous wings.


There is nothing on modern record like it.

"In comparison a 20 foot wingspan would truly be a monster and something undocumented by science," cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard said.  "I believe what Dave Zander may have seen are surviving teratorns."

Gerhard has made a career studying prehistoric birds.

"What's interesting the reports of these giant raptor-like birds to continue into modern times," he said.  "We seem to have a large concentration of them here in the Southwest particularly in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as well as New Mexico and parts of Arizona."

Gerhard documented many of these strange reports from all over the globe in the book BIG BIRD! - MODERN SIGHTINGS OF FLYING MONSTERS 

The book includes sightings in different clusters over the past 30 years.

In 1972 in Maxwell in northeastern New Mexico, Ronald Monteleone of Trinidad, Colo., reported what he thought was a pterodactyl flying out of an arroyo.

In Lordsburg in the 1800s locals talked constantly about the sightings of pterosaurs.

And a picture circulated the country in 1890 out of Tombstone, Ariz., but it's never been considered totally legitimate.




"Other eyewitnesses are describing specifically giant feathered dark birds with an enormous wing span," Gerhard said.

Gerhard said his research falls into two different descriptions from witnesses.  Some said the birds look like the prehistoric pterodactyl while others, like the creatures described by Zander, resemble the ancient thunderbird from Native American mythology.

You can find thunderbird images atop many totem poles and also carved into the lava rocks of the Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque.  Similar images are found in petroglyphs all over North America.

According to legend, the thunderbird is said to have a wingspan the length of two canoes with the ability to deafen people with the sound of its flapping wings.

"It is definitely a real animal, according to the native peoples that lived here," Gerhard said.  "It's not necessarily a legendary animal."

Encounters with Flying Humanoids: Mothman, Manbirds, Gargoyles & Other Winged Beasts

Live Pterosaurs in America: Not extinct, flying creatures of cryptozoology that some call pterodactyls or flying dinosaurs or prehistoric birds

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Bloodless Carnage: Livestock Attacks Continue in the Four Corners

WARNING - GRAPHIC MATERIAL!

JC Johnson posted a video in July 2011 that referenced a recent raid and killing of 7 sheep, including a large ram, on a farm in the Navajo lands in New Mexico. The culprit is unknown though evidence suggests a bi-pedal or upright creature. The most astonishing aspect of this particular raid is that there was very little blood found at the scene. Many of the sheep had puncture wounds but scant blood traces were left after the carnage. It didn't seem like there was any feeding on the carcasses...though the 300-400 lb. ram was dragged a fair distance.

Mai-cob

There have been reports of canine-like hominids in the area...not unlike those described as shape shifters. In fact, there has been trace evidence collected at earlier events which is currently being tested for DNA.

Could this be an attack of a lycanthrope or possibly a skinwalker / Mai-cob? The activity suggests that, whatever it is roaming and hunting in the area, it will continue to do so.

Click for video - Bloodless Carnage at Sheep Pen or cut / paste http://youtu.be/txyVYqX6tK8

This is the location where the sheep with the neck puncture wound was found...no blood splatter or pooling

Above - Example of the many fresh scratches found around the pen

Above - A series of fresh tracks were also found including a few hoof-like prints

Some examples of the carnage inflicted

Coincidentally, not long after hearing of the latest attack, I received a correspondence from an individual with the moniker 'Coy Criptid'. He is a resident of the Dine Navajo reservation and this is a reply to an inquiry I made in a previous post. I have not changed anything in the email....completely original:

Well, where to start......? We are not skin walkers, we are "eaters of all"  (closest translation I can do to our real name, sorry) We are old, so old that some of us remember this world when it had many moons and the land flowed like water.  We are not evil, nor good. We just are. In the way of modern thinking, we are like animals; not fallen from grace, and speak and hear God directly. I don't know if we have souls, because we don't die, just .... this is really hard to explain ..... we don't go dormant, just change the way we live.  Right now I am Human. I look, feel, think, and act just like one of you. I will apparently die just like one of you, only to spread out from where my " mortal remains " fall or are eaten, adsorbed... or interred, mingling with the strings of life (another hard one to put into words) that come into contact with me.  Until I decide to become one of them (I have sort of decided on one of the squids, we'll see how that works out). In the time between dedicated forms, we walk in our true forms, remembering all the things that we have been. Its hard to describe being many things at once, but we do go back to places we've been because the "memories of love"(?) draw us back. We watch over you as we are directed to do, letting you live your lives according to Law both good and bad as is the will of the Creator. You are right to fear us in our true forms because we do not think as humans do, but a collage of thoughts from many forms at once.

The Creator bid us to stay our feeding on you many many eons ago, but left us with the right to protect ourselves if threatened in any of our forms (careful with that fly swatter or bar of soap). We have the ability to grasp your, or any other creatures mind if we choose, and hold them while we eat. In this form it is a very unpleasant thought and leaves me nauseous just thinking about it. All of us by now (except the ones that left this world early on for "walk about" or from the great shame) have spent many lifetimes in human form and almost all of them love people deeply.  Every creature on this world fears us because you are all from survivors that have sensed us in true form.  We have to calm you to walk among you even in dedicated forms.

We have traits that can be used to identify us in any of our forms. The closest thing that I can call them is "tells" mine is that I don't eat feet (yuck how nasty, .....this includes fins, hooves, tips of tentacles, pads, wing feathers or anything used as contact points for locomotion blahhhhuch). One of my co cross mates (don't ask, we have 17 separate sexes, talk about a bitch on Friday nights) will not eat anything "purple" as she sees it.  Another friend of mine dislikes certain forms of nerve tissue, says it makes him itch. Short of these little peccadilloes we can consume almost anything and derive energy for life from it, from sunshine to radionuclide and every thing in between, yummy (I know, I know, "feet" have all that and more too but eeuuuuwwww!!) ! I personally have always wanted to taste anti-matter but have never gotten around to going above the cloud tops to taste any. Well, I am rambling on a bit too much, and I have to go to sleep because I have to go to work in the morning, I thought you should know some more about what we are.

With best regards,
Coy Criptid

NOTE: These mutilations are an ongoing phenomena. Christopher O'Brien has new insight on these mutilations in his recent book Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery May I suggest you go to Crypto Four Corners and the C4C group page and follow JC and those researchers who work with him. They conduct very important investigations, while uncovering these mysteries around us...and worthy of your consideration. Lon

17-05-2014 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

UFO Hits Russian Proton-M Rocket Causing It To Explode, Three UFOs Fall In China, Videos And Photos

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17-05-2014 om 22:52 geschreven door peter  

Daily 2 Cents: Bug-nado! — Pentagon Zombie Battle Plan — UFO Crashes In China

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Bug-nado!

The huge funnel-like cloud was spotted by renowned photographer Ana Filipa Scarpa in Vila Franca de Xira, north of Lisbon, Portugal

Ana, 54, spotted the 1,000-foot-high swarm of bugs which was thought to be made from red locusts in an area known as Leziria Grande – meaning big plain.

The massive tornado of insects was about a quarter of a mile from Ana when she took these amazing pictures on March 9.

Ana, who has had work selected for the Sony World Photography Award 2014, said it was a mixture of awe and fear when she realised it wasn’t wind making the cloud.

She said: “At first I believed it was a wind twister, the animals around me were very nervous.

“I stayed in my place and looked for a safe place, but there was none, and at the same time the twister was never reaching me.

“So I entered my car and drove towards it. After same metres I realised that an enormous amount of insects were in fact the tornado.

“I suppose it would be better a wind twister, than a bug twister. I cannot imagine what could happen to me if they had caught me.

“It’s not known for sure what kind of bugs make up this swarm, but they may be red locusts.

“The swarm extended perhaps 1,000 ft. It was nearly a quarter of a mile away from my position and I took the picture with a 200 mm lens.

“Perspective makes the leading edge of the swarm appear smaller and thus tapered.” – Canters News Agency

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Pentagon document lays out battle plan against zombies

Never fear the night of the living dead — the Pentagon has got you covered.

From responses to natural disasters to a catastrophic attack on the homeland, the U.S. military has a plan of action ready to go if either incident occurs.
It has also devised an elaborate plan should a zombie apocalypse befall the country, according to a Defense Department document obtained by CNN.

In an unclassified document titled “CONOP 8888,” officials from U.S. Strategic Command used the specter of a planet-wide attack by the walking dead as a training template for how to plan for real-life, large-scale operations, emergencies and catastrophes.

And the Pentagon says there’s a reasonable explanation.

“The document is identified as a training tool used in an in-house training exercise where students learn about the basic concepts of military plans and order development through a fictional training scenario,” Navy Capt. Pamela Kunze, a spokeswoman for U.S. Strategic Command, told CNN. “This document is not a U.S. Strategic Command plan.”

Nevertheless, the preparation and thoroughness exhibited by the Pentagon for how to prepare for a scenario in which Americans are about to be overrun by flesh-eating invaders is quite impressive. Continue reading at CNN

Read the Pentagon’s Zombie apocalypse plan

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

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UFO Crashes In China

Resident in the Heilongjiang province in China reported seeing three UFOs darting across the sky and apparently one of them came crashing down into in a man’s vegetable garden.

According to Chinanews.com, villagers in Mengchang saw three objects falling from the sky this morning. Soon after they heard a “huge piercing sound,” and a huge ball of flame came crashing down into the vegetable garden of one of the villagers.

What they found in the garden looks straight out of a science-fiction movie. It appears to be a large metal ball covered by a layer of jagged material. According to China Radio International,  China Central Television news is reporting the object to be about 2 and a half feet wide and weighing nearly 90 pounds.

Chinanews.com has suggested that the object could be related to the failure of a Russian rocket at about the same time. The rocket launch was at 3:42 am local time in Kazakhstan, which is 5:42 am in Beijing. The rocket failed 540 seconds into the flight at an altitude of nearly 100 miles.

The Proton-M rocket was carrying an advanced satellite. However, the head of the Russian national space agency, Roscosmos, told Russia Today the rocket and cargo burned up in the atmosphere and should not have caused any damage on the ground.

The Heilongjiang province is a long distance from Kazakhstan, but the timing is coincidental.

Unearthly Disclosure

Need to Know: UFOs, the Military, and Intelligence

Contact: Them or Us

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Woman lynched in Brazil after being accused of witchcraft on Facebook

In a bizarre incident, a mob reportedly lynched a Brazilian woman – suspected of being a witch – to death after a Facebook post for a local news outlet spread an alert, claiming that she had been seen abducting children.

The woman died in Guaruja city near Sao Paulo last week.

“Housewife Fabiane Maria de Jesus, 33, died on May 5 after being beaten by a group of people from Guarujá two days before,” said a report from Folha de Sao Paulo, the country’s largest newspaper on Tuesday.

“The lynching was motivated by a suspicion that Fabiane was connected to child abductions in the region thought to be linked to black magic rituals. According to military police, however, there is no indication that she had committed such a crime,” the report added.

According to the report, a sketch of the woman was included with the alert on Facebook and resembled the victim.

However, administrators for the Facebook page have released a statement denying responsibility for the attack. – Mid-Day

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17-05-2014 om 22:39 geschreven door peter  

POLICEMAN GIVEN MANDATORY RETIREMENT AT A CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD KIND!

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17-05-2014 om 22:32 geschreven door peter  

THE LINDLEY FLYING SAUCER OF 1965

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17-05-2014 om 22:18 geschreven door peter  

Philadelphia Experiment – The Interview – The Soldier who Spent 2 Years in the Future The Years 2749-2751

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17-05-2014 om 13:39 geschreven door peter  

Sherry Wilde The Forgotten Promise: Rejoining Our Cosmic Family A Story Of Life-Long Interaction With Beings From Another World

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Sherry Wilde The Forgotten Promise: Rejoining Our Cosmic Family

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This is the story of one woman’s life-long interaction with beings from another world, and her journey to go beyond the fear to find meaning and purpose.  In this book she explores the abduction experience and shares with you the three important things they insisted she learn.

“This is my story. I cannot prove any of it. For years I was encouraged to write about these experiences, but I resisted. This is not an easy story for me to write, and it might not be easy for you to read or believe. I understand that. . . This book is not only a recounting of my experiences but also the story of how I discovered that, like most things, it is possible to turn the worst thing in your life into something positive just by choosing to look at it from a different perspective.” -from the author

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17-05-2014 om 13:34 geschreven door peter  

Three UFOs Fall In China (video and photos)

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Three UFOs fell from the sky to land in two different provinces in China. One UFO crashed into the Heilongjiang BAIQUAN Yian territory! another UFO crashed into the province Yian, Baiquan territory. According Yian Chang Meng village villagers, they first heard strange loud noise, and then they saw a big ball of fire across the sky falling in a farm owned by a village family. Government officials rushed to the scene to investigate the UFO.

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17-05-2014 om 13:04 geschreven door peter  

'MORGAN SPURLOCK INSIDE MAN' (CNN) INVESTIGATES UFOS WITH MUFON

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The CNN original series “Morgan Spurlock Inside Man” is investigating UFOs with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in this next episode airing at 10 p.m. ET, Sunday, May 18.

 

Morgan Spurlock, Inside Man, CNN

 

MUFON Georgia State Director Ralph Howard in a scene from this Sunday's 'Morgan Spurlock: Inside Man' episode on UFO investigations. 

 

MUFON Executive Director Jan C. Harzan said his group's participation began in Fall 2013 when show producers called with an interest in having Spurlock participate in UFO investigations.

 

“They wanted to train Morgan professionally as a UFO field investigator and then immerse him into one or more actual investigations,” Harzan said. “He took the training and the field investigation very seriously at sites around the country.”

 

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The training portion of the show will include MUFON Chief Technical Adviser Chuck Modlin and STAR Team Manager Fletcher Gray. MUFON Georgia State Director Ralph Howard and MUFON Chief Photo Analyst Marc D'Antonio are also featured in the episode.

Communications Director Roger Marsh worked with both the CNN team and MUFON management and investigators to set up location shooting at multiple sites and to review current UFO sightings from around the country in search of good cases.

 

“Morgan's production team was very dedicated to finding the best cases,” Marsh said. “We were trying to find cases of interest and current cases both at the same time. Many functional directors, state directors and field investigators from MUFON were very involved in the selection process. A lot of people were involved who you won't see in the show.”

 

With an open mind, Spurlock steeps himself in the history, theories, and photographic evidence of UFO sightings, embedding himself at several MUFON locations and communicating with witnesses, conspiracy theorists and other interested parties to make his own determination as to whether or not we are truly alone in the universe.

 

Recently honored by the International Documentary Association with the “Best Limited Series” Award, “Morgan Spurlock Inside Man” is hosted and produced by the Oscar®-nominated documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock and this season will feature a wide range of subjects that are part of the national conversation including, income disparity in the U.S. and the big business of college athletics.

Source: http://ufodigest.com/article/morgan-spurlock-0516

17-05-2014 om 12:58 geschreven door peter  

Mars : stupéfiant panorama à 360° autour de Curiosity

Voilà quelques jours, Curiosity a foré son troisième trou sur la dalle de grès baptisée Windjana, que nous vous avions montrée. Aujourd'hui, découvrez en haute définition le panorama à 360° qui entoure cette dalle. Spectaculaire. Et c'est à un passionné que nous le devons.

Les traces au sol du rover Curiosity en route vers le mont Sharp, sa destination finale. © Nasa, JPL-Caltech, MSSS

.Découvrez le paysage autour de Curiosity à 360° comme si vous y étiez. © Andrew Bodrov, Mars Panorama - Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 613 in Out of this World

Concernant Mars, la stratégie est de mettre en ligne la quasi-totalité des images brutes acquises par les sondes qui tournent autour de Mars ou les rovers qui gambadent sur sa surface. Ces images sont le plus souvent accompagnées des informations nécessaires pour les coloriser, les transformer en images anaglyphes ou les intégrer dans des panoramas. On se souvient que c’est un amateur, Bard Canning, qui a réalisé le film de l’atterrissage de Curiosity en haute définition. Il est parvenu à mettre bout à bout les images prises depuis le rover lors de son atterrissage sur Mars, le 6 août 2012, pour en faire un film si remarquable que la Nasa elle-même l’utilise dans sa communication. Même les communautés ufologiques et les adeptes des théories du complot en tout genre y trouvent leur compte. La recherche d’indices d’une forme de vie extraterrestre intelligente est ainsi grandement favorisée !

Les images de la Nasa pour une science à la portée de tous

Aujourd’hui, c’est un autre amateur qui se fait remarquer. Andrew Bodrov, photographe, a ainsi rassemblé près de 140 clichés acquis par Curiosity au cours d’une même journée pour réaliser un incroyable panorama autour du rover, qui illustre cet article. Ces images ont été acquises le 27 avril 2014 (sol 610) par la caméra Mastcam située sur le mât du rover.

Et le résultat vaut que l’on s’y attarde. La résolution est si fine que l’on peut voir de nombreux détails de la géologie du terrain comme les strates, les affleurements rocheux et autres roches de toutes formes, dont certaines sont rondes ! Un œil exercé remarquera même les différentes conditions de sédimentation.

Quant à Curiosity, il se situe près de la dalle de grès baptisée Windjana, où il vient de forer son troisième trou. Enfin, le rover apparaît étonnamment propre, très peu recouvert de poussière, et aucun équipement ou système apparent ne semble abîmé. Seule fausse note, les roues de Curiosity. Elles sont bien plus usées que prévu, mais leur état ne semble pas s’être aggravé depuis la découverte des premières perforations, en décembre 2013.

17-05-2014 om 12:48 geschreven door peter  

Black Knight Satellite Found In NASA Apollo 10 Photo, May 16, 2014, UFO Sighting News. 

Date of discovery: May 16, 2014

Location of sighting: Earths Orbit

Source: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ISD/highres/AS10/AS10-35-5181.JPG

Mission Source: Apollo 10

Streetcap1 Website - http://www.streetcap1.com

The Black Knight satellite...is an object orbiting Earth in near-polor and is estimated to be over 13,000 years old. A satellite built by aliens. 

Here Streetcap1 of Youtube has found one in an old Apollo 10 photo. In the photo above we can see an enlargement of it. 

 

17-05-2014 om 12:41 geschreven door peter  

Offspring Of The Flatwoods Monster?

The UFO That Was an Alien

I have a very busy couple of weeks coming up and may not be able to post much here for a while. To hold you until I can get back to making regular posts I'll treat you to this fascinating case related to me by Turkish UFOlogist Esen Sekerkarar, one of the speakers at the UFO Symposium in which I recently took part.

I loved the story of the "Esme Alien" for a couple of reasons (and I can't thank Esen enough for sharing it with me). First, the alien entity is just ridiculously weird; a floating poached egg that is somehow creepy and cuddly at the same time. Second, the reaction of the witnesses is remarkable. Third, in this unique story the UFO and the entity are one and the same! How's that for efficiency?

Here, then, is the strange tale of the "Esme Alien":

The alien encounter incident took place in 2001. Three villagers; Fevzi Can, his wife Selma Can and their neighbour Aysel Topaloglu from Narli village in Esme district of the city Usak; woke up early in the morning to hoe their tobacco farm. It was about 7 in the morning. They got on the tractor, as they would always do, but on the way they saw something 30 cm. above the ground on a farm they were passing by. The thing was about 15 meters away from them.
First, they did nothing but kept on driving. But as they drove, the being started to follow them on the same direction, still keeping the 15 meters distance in between. That was when the villagers got puzzled and Fevzi Can stopped the tractor and got off it to look closer what that was. The being started to rise in the air and approached towards them. It stopped about 2 meters away from Mr. Can and hovered about 2,5 meters above the ground. The thing was completely silent. No wings or no propellers were apparent. There
wasn’t any noise of an engine either, but it was in the air. Mr. Can was astonished and confused by what he was looking at, so he thought of throwing a stone at it, thinking maybe he could drop it down and examine it closer. As soon as he had the thought of throwing a stone at it, the being started to rise in the air. Mr. Can threw a few stones at it, but all missed. The being rose about 5 meters then started to fly to the opposite side, all time facing the witnesses, and went away. 

The villagers told that the being they saw was about 60-70 cm. tall, wearing a bright, gelatin-like suit with an orangish, reddish bright light in the belly part. It had an elliptical head and red-coloured feet. It had no arms and the legs looked like to be attached to each other forming a V shape. It had no ears, no nose nor a mouth. According to the witnesses’ testimony; the only facial detail that was apparent was its almond shaped eyes, which seemed to be glued on the suit.

Right after the encounter, the villagers went to Mehmet Yildirim, the head official of the district, and told him about their encounter. Mr. Yildirim notified the governor Ayhan Cevik right away. A security meeting took place and the bulletin including a sketch of the alien was distributed to the head official of the district, security superiors and gendarme
commanders.

The combination UFO/entity was never seen again, which is remarkable when you consider the government's response to the report.
Can you imagine anyone in the US reporting that story to their local government official, then the local official reporting it to the governor, then the governor holding a security meeting, then alerting all the security personnel and gendarmes in the district to watch for a peculiar little floating entity in a gelatin suit who can predict when someone is about to throw a stone at it? My guess is that that would never happen in the US.

Okay, so now that you know the story, I can show you what the alien looked like:

The Esme Alien. I kid you not.

What, I ask you, is the meaning of such an occurrence?

17-05-2014 om 12:30 geschreven door peter  

Russian Proton M rocket Taken out by UFO on 16th May 2014

Amazing video footage of the flight of the Protom M – Russian rocket maybe hit by an UFO and reported by many on 16th May 2014.

Witness said:
Launch of Russian Proton-M Rocket with Ekspress-AM4R (Failure of Third Stage, Sat Lost). Was this caused by a UFO?

17-05-2014 om 11:35 geschreven door peter  

Area 51: George Knapp Interviews Bob Lazar 25 Years After His 1st Historic interview

It has been 25 years to the day since a live interview with a shadowy guy named “Dennis” changed everything for America’s most secret military base. “Dennis” turned out later to be a man named Bob Lazar, who claimed he worked at a secret facility built into a mountainside just south of Area 51′s main facilities.

17-05-2014 om 11:31 geschreven door peter  

Flying saucer UFO flies over Athens, Greece on 15th May 2014

New amazing video footage of a dark saucer UFO recorded while flying over Athens, Greece on 15th May 2014.

Witness said:
New video showing a saucer UFO vanishing and reappearing in the skies of Athens, at first it is at the side of the mountain, then it appears next to the tree at exactly 22 secs before disappearing permanently. Saucer UFOs have been reported on out website all week, something is happening NOW!

17-05-2014 om 11:27 geschreven door peter