Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
As a young professor at MIT in the 1920s, Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) did seminal work on analog computing and was a cofounder of Raytheon, whose initial success was based on long-lasting radio tubes. But he is best known for his role in Washington during World War II: as President Roosevelt's advisor, he organized the Manhattan Project and oversaw the work of 6,000 civilian scientists designing new weapons. His 1945 report "Science -- The Endless Frontier" spurred the creation of a system of public support for university research that endures to this day.Although he helped to give rise to the military-industrial complex, Bush was a skeptical observer of the interplay between science and politics. He warned against the dangers of an arms race and led a failed effort to halt testing of the hydrogen bomb. This balanced and gracefully written biography brings to life an American original and his times.
Review of Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century by G. Pascal Zachary
The End of the Frontier: Vannevar Bush & Harry S. Truman
I have made the case elsewhere (Oh Canada! Wilbert Smith & The UFOs) that Vannevar Bush was an extremely unlikely choice to be tapped by President Truman for anything to do with a crashed flying saucer, whether it was the supposed MJ-12 group or the committee referred to by Smith in his famous (or, in my opinion, infamous) "Top Secret" memo which , among other things, detailed his conversation with American scientist Dr. Robert Sarbacher.
Why? Because, to put it in the vernacular, the two were on the "outs" - Bush was Rossevelt's man. With the ascension of Truman to the Presidency, Bush's spot at the top of the scientific establishment in Washington was effectively finished.
In my MJ-12 Mea Culpa, I raised four points for Stan Friedman to answer with respect to MJ-12, one of which was the unlikelihood that Bush would be tapped by Truman for any such project. To his credit, Stan responded to this particular point by sending me the relevant excerpt from Bush's memorandum of his meeting with Truman and Secretary of Defence James Forrestal on 24 September, 1947. It was at this meeting that MJ-12 was supposedly established by Truman, with Forrestal and Bush as key members.
The problem for Stan and other MJ-12 defenders is that Bush's memo of the conference, far from demonstrating that Truman considered Bush a trusted advisor (the kind you would put on a project like MJ-12), reveals the opposite.
Bush was there to discuss with Truman the prospect of Bush taking on the chairman's job at the newly formed Research and Development Board. It was not the job that Bush had been angling for - he wanted the post of Secretary of Defense, as noted by historian Pascal Zachary in Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century (at pp. 322-323). Still, Bush was willing to take the RDB position for a year or so, but only on one condition - if the scientists in the country felt that he had the confidence of the President.
According to Bush, Truman replied that he did not see how they could think otherwise, and that Bush "certainly had his confidence."
That was not enough for Bush, however, who knew better. He told Truman that "inasmuch as he had not called me in for anything for a year, and since the last report that was made on the future of science in this country was made by someone else [PK note - Bush's rival John Steelman], scientists naturally gathered that I was not in his confidence."
This is a remarkable moment for anyone who thinks that Bush had retained any influence in the Truman administration. In the first place, he was being given a consolation job. In the second, he was not willing to take it unless Truman specifically expressed his confidence in him - twice! A man who knew he had the President's confidence would not have had to ask at all.
Truman again assured Bush that he had his confidence, and that Truman had not really realised that Bush had not had anything to do with the preparation of the Steelman report. He then told Bush that, "if it had not been true in the past, I would rather be frequently in contact and that if there was an impression that [Bush] did not have [Truman's] confidence that that impression would soon be corrected by future relations."
Bush took the job. He lasted, as he had predicted that day, less than a year, leaving the RDB in a mess after failing to secure Truman's confidence in his ongoing battles with the Joint Chiefs (see letter from V. Bush to James Forrestal, 8 September 1948 - NARA, RG 218, CDF 1948 - 1950, 334 RDB, 102). In 1948 Bush was specifically excluded from Truman's special advisory committee for an appraisal of progress in atomic research, a final snub to the man who had been instrumental in the creation of the atomic bomb in the first place (see Truman's Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope, pp. 298 - 303; it is one of the few references he makes to scientific issues, indicating its importance).
In 1950, William Golden, Truman's science advisor, noted after a conversation with Bush that "Bush is now on the outside so far as Government scientific matters are concerned, a position of which he is very conscious and to which he referred time and time again. Though President Truman is very cordial to him he does not call upon him for advice, though Dr. Bush has pointed this out to him on a number of occasions. It is very evident that Dr. Bush, who had a very close working relationship with President Roosevelt, does not approve of the current state of affairs." (See the American Association for the Advancement of Science archives, Memoranda of William T. Golden, "Memorandum to File: Conversation with Dr. Vannevar Bush")
None of this should come as a surprise to anyone who has studied the totality of Bush's government service, in particular the rapid decline in his influence once Truman suddenly came to power. Take the New York Times obituary for Bush (30 June 1974, pp. 1 and 36), for example. The Times devoted six columns to Bush's life, but only two paragraphs to his work after the end of the Second World War. Similarly, Physics Today (September 1974, pp. 71 - 72) observed that Bush would be "chiefly remembered for his leadership of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II" and the twenty years prior to 1938, when "he attained great distinction as a professor of electrical engineering at MIT."
Of course, all of this was painfully obvious to Bush, who had discovered the true nature of his relationship with Truman on 14 June, 1945. Truman, in a 15 minute meeting that day, told Bush that he "liked" Bush's Endless Frontier report, which Bush saw as the blueprint for the future of science in the United States (a future that would have Bush at the helm). It was eerily similar to Truman's expression of "confidence" in Bush at the 24 September, 1947 meeting.
Bush left the June 1945 meeting no doubt feeling good about his prospects.
Later that day, a presidential aide told him that Truman had rejected "Endless Frontier."
Not the president himself; an aide. It is a snub that is indicative of what Truman really thought of Vannevar Bush, a man who, as he got the news, must have realised that he had reached the beginning of the end of his own, once seemingly endless, frontier in government service.
FINALLY, a picture of a UFO that is not a badly photoshopped flying cigar.
And not just one image. Hundreds of people reported seeing a ring of blinking lights in the sky above Houston, Texas, during a lightning storm last week and plenty of them had cameras.
Photographs and videos of the event have been circulating on social media, generating so much interest on social media that the Huffington Post actually ran a poll on “The Texas UFO”.
Some of the best footage was recorded by Houston musician Andrew Pena, who says he was videoing the spectacular lightning show while driving along the Interstate 45 freeway in the city’s south and didn’t realise what he had until he played it back at home.
Houston resident Nathaniel Xavier took this shot of the strange ring of lights. Source: Twitter
UFO or reflection of the lamp post in a strange trick of light? Source: Twitter
The video, which shows a circle of brightly coloured lights moving around in the sky, has been declared both “amazing” and “nothing” by UFO-logists and sceptics alike.
“I think the trick with UFOs is figuring out what else they could be,” Dr. Carolyn Summers, vice president for astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, told KPRC-TV.
“It’s easy to say that it could be aliens. The more people who see it in different directions, the more likely we are to figure out where it is, what it is, and see if we can explain it.”
The UFO hovering in the clouds over Houston was seen by hundreds of people Source: Twitter
Mutual UFO Network chief investigator Fletcher Gray dismissed the object as “no more than light trapped in the side window” of Mr Pena’s car.
The UFO was reportedly hovering less than 20km from the Johnson Space Center, leading others to speculate it could have been NASA testing its latest toy, a “supersonic flying saucer” which was launched from Hawaii on June 28.
Another view of the UFO — although this one looks a little touched-up. Source: Twitter
The device, officially named Low Density Supersonic Decelerator, imitates the rapid inflation technique of the Hawaiian puffer fish as a way to protect spacecraft during landings.
The aim is to reduce the speed of descending spacecraft, making it easier to land on planets like Mars.
Other theories include a weather balloon, the reflection of a street light, stadium lights and an unmanned drone but so far there has been no official explanation and no word from NASA.
Leven op Mars? Nieuwe structuur gevonden in meteoriet
Leven op Mars? Nieuwe structuur gevonden in meteoriet
Wetenschappers hebben in een Marsmeteoriet een nieuwe mineraalrijke structuur aangetroffen, die erop zou kunnen wijzen dat onder het oppervlak van Mars leven kan bestaan.
De nieuwe structuur is ontdekt in de Nakhla-meteoriet en bestaat uit nanokristallijn ijzerrijk klei, dat een aantal mineralen bevat. Het gesteente is waarschijnlijk losgekomen tijdens een uitbarsting, waardoor de permafrost smolt en vloeistoffen aan het oppervlak en onder de grond met elkaar werden vermengd.
Elias Chatzitheodoridis van de Nationale Technische Universiteit van Athene en collega’s Sarah Haigh en Ian Lyon van de Universiteit van Manchester maakten gebruik van elektronenmicroscopie, röntgenstraling en spectroscopie om de eivormige structuur te bestuderen.
Volgens hoofdredactrice van Astrobiology Sherry L. Cady laat de studie zien dat het belangrijk is verschillende datasets naast elkaar te leggen om te bepalen of een fragment van een rots al dan niet een biosignatuur is, een fysisch of chemisch verschijnsel dat alleen door het voorkomen van leven kan worden veroorzaakt.
Hoewel de wetenschappers niet definitief konden aantonen dat het object bewijs is voor leven, geeft het onderzoek een grote hoeveelheid informatie over de potentie van Mars om leven te herbergen, aldus Cady. De studie is verschenen in Astrobiology, een peer-reviewed tijdschrift van Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
A video shot outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, during a forest fire unexpectedly captured a lot more than firefighting efforts.
On July 17, 2014, Castanet.net, a news organization in Western Canada, posted a video shot in West Kelowna — northeast of Vancouver — featuring efforts to stop the Smith Creek Wildfire.
Here’s the original Castanet.net video report, showing the UFO at approximately 26 seconds.
“In the news piece, a bright object appears from behind clouds above the fire area quickly moving left to right,” according to Castanet.net. The news site revealed the following description from a witness who noticed the unusual aerial object in the video:
Shot out from the clouds above the mountain during a forest fire near our neighborhood. It pulled a wisp of cloud with it as it exited.
A forest fire broke out on the mountain behind us and during the attempt to put it out, this event took place.
I was watching a video online of the fire from a little earlier in the day and I spotted the UFO 37 seconds in. I have no idea whether anyone else has noticed this or not. Most folks would be focused on the fire.
37 seconds into the video the UFO comes shooting out from a cloud right above the mountain and passes through a clear spot back into the next cloud. I was quite startled and surprised when I saw it.
The UFO left a thin trail of cloud vapor as it exited the cloud. This, to me, eliminates any thought that this might be a camera lens artifact or light phenomenon effect.
The event lasted only a few seconds. Judging by the distance I was from the object it had to have been moving very fast. The scene cuts away while the UFO is still visible. I’m left to assume that there must be more footage of it than I saw.
I phoned the website’s news department to ask if it would be possible to see the full footage, but was met with disapproval. In retrospect, perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned the word UFO.
While no official explanation has surfaced about the UFO, OpenMinds.TV asked Marc Dantonio, chief photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network, aka MUFON, to look at the video. He suggests the object could have been a bolide, a type of very bright meteor that streaks through Earth’s atmosphere.
“I am convinced that this was a really good find,” Dantonio told Open Minds. “It is an Earth-grazer, a meteor that approaches the atmosphere at a shallow angle, and continues on, skipping off the atmosphere back into space. Some of them will slow down enough to become trapped and fall to Earth but they many times just skip on off and keep going.
“This one does indeed show a vapor trail as it moves through, it does come out from behind the cloud, and it moves at a speed completely consistent with Earth-grazers.”
Watch this similar video of a bolide meteor from Mexico in 2013.
There’s one other interesting thing about the Canadian news video that may have been overlooked. YouTube commenter Joe Edwards observed something else in the sky in the same video footage:
“Did anyone notice the very next scene, it seems something dark and very fast flew from right to left across the screen, that was just as interesting,” Edwards wrote. “It occurs at about the 32-second mark.”
This object moves from the far right of the image to the far left, literally, at the blink of an eye. At first, one might assume it’s probably just an insect streaking by the camera. But, depending on how you look at it, it appears to slip behind trees and a telephone pole.
We asked HuffPost video editor Eva Hill to isolate the fast-moving object to see if it could be determined to fly in front of or behind the trees. We’ve included several screen grabs of the object in the following slideshow.
What do you think?
No official explanation has been given for the phenomenon and no meteor crash site has been found so far. Marc Dantonio, chief photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) thinks it’s a bolide or meteor.
It is an Earth-grazer, a meteor that approaches the atmosphere at a shallow angle, and continues on, skipping off the atmosphere back into space. Some of them will slow down enough to become trapped and fall to Earth but they many times just skip on off and keep going.This one does indeed show a vapor trail as it moves through, it does come out from behind the cloud, and it moves at a speed completely consistent with Earth-grazers.
While that explanation seems plausible for the bright object, it doesn’t hold for another anomaly spotted in the enhanced version of the video. At about the 32 second mark in the news video, a black object appears quickly over the pickup truck. Some say it’s a spot on the lens or a bug but it appears to go behind the trees and the telephone pole. Enhanced views don’t help identify it and no explanation for it has come from any parties.
A magnified view of the second object in the video.
What does it look like to you? Was the first object a bolide? Was the second object a bug or a UFO spotting the spotters? Why are there so many UFO sightings in Canada?
A bizarre looking UFO event has taken place in the skies over Milan, Italy on July 6th, 2014. What appears to be a very high flying highly reflective UFO has beencaught on HD video.
The video itself may give clues as to what we are seeing in the video. Two cameras were used in the supplied video . The first is a Sony Handycam HDR-PJ260 and for the second half the video it was a Canon EOS 60D digital camera set for video camera mode. The Canon EOS 60D provides the superiorimages of this event. I have focused on the Canon video for this article.
A little about the camera involved
The 9-point AF system on the new EOS 60D features f/5.6-sensitive cross-type focusing on all nine focusing points. The center AF point is a hybrid of standard cross-type and special diagonally-shaped “X” cross, with high-precision sensitivity for f/2.8 and larger aperture lenses. Available for the first time in an EOS camera are Canon’s new creative image filters. Familiar to Canon PowerShot users, these fun photo effects help make a great image more dynamic, even after it has been shot. Canon provides four artistic filters that allow photographers to capture an image and then create and manipulate a digital copy of it.
The of interest to us in this UFO video is the filter called “Soft Focus Effect Filter”. The Soft Focus effect filter helps dramatize an image and smooth over shiny reflections.
Here is an example of what the soft focus effect has on light colored object.
The cameras aperture is also of interest to us when analysing this video. Aperture, like ISO, controls two things. It controls the depth of field and the amount of light entering the lens. Depth of field refers to how much of the subject is in focus. A shallowdepth of field leaves some of the subject out of focus, while a larger depth of field means that the foreground and background are both in focus. The camera’s aperture is the hole or opening in the lens that allows light through. This hole can get bigger or smaller depending on the camera’s settings. The sizes of the opening are known as f-stops, hence the “F”. F-stops average from f/2.8, f/4.0, f/5.6, f/8.0, f/11, f/22.
In Canon’s literature it makes reference to the F/2.8 as being the optimum aperture setting and that it accommodates even larger aperture settings. In the image below take a look at what a aperture of F/2.8 looks like. Make note of the shape of the opening (the aperture).
This video is obviously a case of optical aberration combined with the “Soft Focus Effect Filter”. This yields the effect you see in the video. The hexagonal shape of the aperture comes into play when the light coming into lens bounces around the optic glass due to impurities in the optics. In bright light situations you can see the shape of the aperture due to optical aberrations in the glass. that would explain the similar shaped reflections you see off the UFO.
One of the more interesting clues that sheds some light on this UFO mystery is the fact that July 6th, 2014 was a Sunday. According to Italian tradition. Most weddings were held on Sunday as it is considered the “luckiest day” for the bond of matrimony.
What the most likely thing we are seeing in the video are wedding balloons released during a wedding ceremony.
Obviously this is just speculation on what the UFO could be. But it is a plausible explanation that has the benefit of being simple and does not require extraordinary events to have occurred. Occam’s razor may being dull and boring but is almost always right. The original photographer needs to come forth and inform us of the exact camera settings were used and provide the original rawvideo for a more in-depth analysis. Otherwise all things point to it being wedding balloons.
After years of speculation it has now been proven beyond a doubt that life can thrive in the vacuum of space. The Russian news service ITAR-TASS reported today that one of their cutting edge scientific experiments which involved taking samples from the illuminators (lights) and the ISS spaceside surface has proven unique and conclusive results. The scientists aboard the ISS have found traces of sea plankton on the outside of the space station.
…Microorganisms could be found on the ISS surface thanks to high-precision equipment. “Results of the experiment are absolutely unique. We have found traces of sea plankton and microscopic particles on the illuminator surface. This should be studied further,” chief of the Russian ISS orbital mission Vladimir Solovyev said.
Every conceivable niche upon planet Earth has been populated by diverse life forms – on land, in freshwater and the seas, beneath layers of rock far below the earth’s surface, in the frozen Arctic and even buried within the formless ooze on the ocean beds and encircling scorching sulfur-spewing hydrothermal vents.
Yet, inexplicably, there is one lone but vast ecological niche that was believed to be totally untouched by biological activity – the atmospheric layers that encompass our planet.
It is common knowledge that Planktons (planktic) survival is strongly dependent on factors such as sources of nourishment, the physical state of the water column, and the abundance of other plankton. Plankton organisms include drifting animals, protists, archaea, algae, or bacteria that inhabit the pelagic zone of oceans, seas, or bodies of fresh water; that is, plankton are defined by their ecological niche rather than phylogenetic or taxonomic classification. Now their niche can be expanded to include zero-gravity, zero-atmosphere, and harsh cosmic rays.
Experiments which had been conducted for a quite long time were summed up in the previous year, confirming that some organisms can live on the surface of the International Space Station (ISS) for years amid factors of a space flight, such as zero gravity, temperature conditions and hard cosmic radiation. Several surveys proved that these organisms can even develop and thrive… Vladimir Solovyev noted that it was not quite clear how these microscopic particles could have appeared on the surface of the space station…
As science evolves and our understanding of the world and the Universe we live in develops, it is going to become abundantly clear that life is able to survive in environments we never dreamed possible. It is this writers opinion that life abounds in the Universe. Life has had over 14 billion years to evolve. That amount of deep time leads to endless possibilities to the diversity and distribution of life in our Cosmos. Life must be everywhere in this amazing and wondrous universe. Life is not constrained to a small sliver of conditions.
Life will thrive in conditions in which we have not even considered up to this point. Life may have evolved even in open space.
Alien Contact - Researchers in Puerto Rico recorded a "WOW" signal sent by a UFO?
Alien Contact - Researchers in Puerto Rico recorded a "WOW" signal sent by a UFO?
An independent group of researchers in Puerto Rico believe they possibly made contact with ‘beings from elsewhere’ last Friday, August 15, 2014, 37th anniversary of the mysterious ‘WOW! Signal’ captured by SETI.
Joshua P. Warren's team transmitted a message, recorded by George Noory, into space all day, from Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and various other spots on earth asking ET to appear around certain GPS coordinates as a live webcam streamed footage of the general location.
A variety of anomalies were captured on camera, including a “saucer-shaped object” that appeared and which then shot straight up into the sky, accompanied by a strange, high-pitched tone.
The video below shows an object appears and disappears at "light speed".
In the next video, we also hear a strange high-pitched tone as an object appears and disappears straight up into the sky.
Warren’s team compared that tone to the famed WOW! Signal, (Video: WOW Signal received at SETI on Aug 15, 1977) and say it is so similar they think the UFO possibly sent this signal to them as a sign of successful communication.
Warren's team captured the strange audio throughout a section of 7+ hours of raw footage from the webcam. Watch the video titled Arecibo Project 2 and listen especially around 1:40:00 into the video.
Joshua P. Warren: “We believe the UFO may have sent us the same type of signal that came from space, and was recorded by SETI, 37 years ago". He adds: “This was a complete surprise. Though it was picked up via a webcam microphone, and not a broad dish like SETI had, our analysis thus far has shown it is essentially a demodulated signal from the WOW! transmission turned into audio.”
When asked for his opinion of what the “beings” may be, Warren said: “After my 7 years of research here, the accumulating evidence suggests we may be dealing with a new form of life in Puerto Rico. Sometimes huge, and sometimes small drones, I believe these beings could be a highly-advanced, extremely sleek and efficient organic/electronic hybrid. They have probably evolved much longer than humans, and are now capable of inter-stellar and inter-dimensional travel, seeming to pop in and out of our visible dimensions almost instantly.
Russian scientists say they have found traces of sea plankton on the surface of the International Space Station (ISS), proving that life can survive in the harsh conditions of space.
Russian ISS orbital mission chief Vladimir Solovyev told reporters that the discovery was made during the analysis of samples taken from the illuminators and the surface of the ISS. ITAR-TASS News Agency writes that this confirms, “some organisms can live on the surface of the International Space Station (ISS) for years amid factors of a space flight, such as zero gravity, temperature conditions and hard cosmic radiation.”
Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov (right) and Oleg Artemyev, both Expedition 40 flight engineers, participate in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA). (Credit: NASA/STSCI)
The experiments not only found that the sea plankton has survived on the ISS surface, but that they could develop.
How the plankton got onto the surface of the ISS is still not known. The plankton could have hitched a ride, or, according to Yahoo! News Australia, Solovyev offered another possibility, “It means that there are some uplifting air currents which reach the station and settle on its surface.”
Solovyev says, “Results of the experiment are absolutely unique. We have found traces of sea plankton and microscopic particles on the illuminator surface. This should be studied further.”
If life can survive adrift in space, it gives credence to the idea that life on earth could have originated from elsewhere. It just hitched a ride on a rock or chunk of ice. It also means that life can flourish in much harsher environments than previously thought. Space itself could harbor living creatures.
UPDATE 8/20/2014
NASA spokesman Dan Huot says they have not confirmed the sea plankton claims. He told Space.com, “As far as we’re concerned, we haven’t heard any official reports from our Roscosmos colleagues that they’ve found sea plankton.” Roscosmos is Russia’s Federal Space Agency.
Cusco (Macchu Picchu), Peru – translated: The photos were taken last April 30, 2014 but it was not until last Thursday, August 14 at the revise saw the objects in them, they are then taken to visit the ruins of Macchu Picchu in Cusco Peru on vacation, so the location is close to it, I’m not sure there were more witnesses and not hear anyone talk about it and as I described I also realized I object to review photos three and half months later, I had never seen this kind of lights and watching the image sequence, seem to be separated to be three fixed lights in the sky. – MUFON CMS
Space Station Covered With Plankton — Bizarre Discovery Baffles Scientists
A strange discovery on the International Space Station has left scientists baffled. It turns out that the space station has traces of living sea plankton on the surface of the spacecraft that orbits more than 200 miles above the Earth’s surface, and well above the planet’s atmosphere.
“The results of the experiment are absolutely unique,” said Russia’s chef Space Station scientist Vladimir Solovyev. “We have found traces of sea plankton and microscopic particles on the illuminator surface. This should be studied further.”
Solovyev said that the plankton is not a form of alien or extraterrestrial life. In fact. the organisms are native to oceans right here on Planet Earth. But how they got on the Space Station is total mystery.
The organisms were discovered during a routine polishing of the Space Station illuminators, the type of housekeeping that is “particularly needed during long space flights,” Solovyev said.
Scientists believe that the organisms could have been living on the outside of the International Space Station for many years. The first components of the space station were launched in 1998 and the station has been occupied by different crews of astronauts for almost 14 full years now.
But not until Russian astronauts Olek Artemyev and Alexander Skvortsov discovered the plankton during recent spacewalk were scientists aware that the living organisms had attached themselves to the Space Station — somehow.
The Russian science chief said he was in the dark as to “how these microscopic particles could have appeared on the surface of the space station.”
While the plankton are of a type that typically live on the surface of large bodies of water, the type found on the Space Station are not native to Baikonur, Khazakstan, which is the area from which the space station was launched.
“Plankton in these stages of development could be found on the surface of the oceans.
“This is not typical for Baikonur. It means that there are some uplifting air currents which reach the station and settle on its surface,” Solovyev said.
Certain microscopic organisms can not only survive but thrive even in extremely hostile environments, such as outer space where there is no oxygen and where temperatures are extreme.
But the real mystery remains how the plankton got onto the surface of the International Space Station in the first place. – Inquisitr
Lost Villages – home to Canada’s first paranormal tale
CORNWALL, Ontario– Are you a believer?
A new report released recently suggests more than 14,000 oddities involving aliens, space craft and strange lights have been catalogued in the last 25 years – but the Cornwall area is home to what could be considered Canada’s first such encounter.
A Winnipeg group known as Ufology Research has compiled and analyzed reported sightings of unidentified flying objects across Canada since 1989 – finding explanations or reasonable explanations for about half of the events.
But a close encounter of the weird kind occurred west of Cornwall back in the 1840s which continues to confound researchers and historians.
What became known as the ‘Marsh Point Ghost’ started out as strange lights on a September evening back in 1845. A farmer was walking home one night, along the banks of the Cornwall Canal west of community, when he spotted the phenomenon.
He spied strange lights dancing around the farm owned by Granny Marsh, 80, who lived with her daughter Clara, 60, on the property, which was located on the island of Milles Roches – which is now among the Lost Villages west of Cornwall.
Unsure what the strange dancing orbs to be, the farmer visited the farm the next morning to determine what kind of disaster had befallen the poor old ladies – but the women said they had seen and heard nothing.
“They were highly amused to hear that people with lights had been seen to be wandering around their place after dark,” reported Rex Lambert, a CBC reporter who in the 1960s recounted the circumstances of the event.
Before long the unknown farmer heard from other residents who claimed to see the lightshow as well.
For the next several weeks countless people witnessed lights, some that seemed to move about the property, cross the canal waters and even climb trees, which were accompanied by the sounds of clanging and even small explosions.
Before long the old women who lived on the property became alarmed.
The phenomenon ended with the arrival of winter and never returned. Experts at the time concluded the event was unlikely to be a hoax, considering the fact that the victims appeared to be a pair of kingly elderly women who lived in a remote part of the country – hardly the best targets for such a prank.
The mystery of the event continues to this day – much of which has been lost to the passage of time.
“I’d never heard a word of this,” said Lost Villages Historical society president Jim Brownell in an interview. – Cornwall Seaway News
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Former G8 Defence Minister Claims Extra Terrestrials Are Here - Mac's UFO News (Special Edition)
Former G8 Defence Minister Claims Extra Terrestrials Are Here - Mac's UFO News (Special Edition)
Gepubliceerd op 20 aug. 2014
Former Canadian defense minister Paul Hellyer, 90, has declared that there may be up to 80 different species of aliens. He said aliens have been visiting our planet for thousands of years and are rather unimpressed with how we live. Hellyer described several types of aliens including 'Tall Whites' who are allegedly working with the U.S. air force in Nevada. Hellyer first went public with his belief in aliens on earth in 2005 and he is the first high ranking politician to publicly state that aliens are real!
Mac's UFO News covers recent ufological events, sightings, article's, documentary's, pod casts, web casts, video specials & exopolitical events from around the globe. I produce a monthly news video highlighting some of the more important cases and news story's.
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Biological UFO's - Best Evidence for Extraterrestrial Extremophiles
Biological UFO's - Best Evidence for Extraterrestrial Extremophiles
Gepubliceerd op 31 mei 2014
Every conceivable niche upon planet Earth has been populated by life forms -- on land, in freshwater and the seas, beneath layers of rock far below the earth's surface, even buried within the formless ooze on the ocean beds and encircling their scorching water-spewing hydro-thermal vents.
Yet, inexplicably, there is one lone but vast ecological niche that has remained totally untouched by such animate activity -- the rarefied atmospheric layers above and encompassing our world. True, insects, bacteria, birds, bats, and various other living entities spend varying extents of time in the sky, but there is no known life form that has evolved to live exclusively here, never venturing ground-ward except to die. There are no sky beasts, or cloud creatures -- or are there?
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UFO mania: NASA explains image showing alien on the Moon. You can also watch the press conference.
UFO mania: NASA explains image showing alien on the Moon. You can also watch the press conference
A video went viral this week capturing what seems to be an "alien" figure walking onthe moon.The short, eerie video showed images taken from Google Moon and zoomed in on what seems to be an extraterrestrial being.
Youtube user wowforreel posted the video and it instantly went viral and received more than 2 million views in less than a month. He believes that a creature is walking on the surface of the moon.
Wowforreel started investigating the video after receiving an online tip from another user called Jasenko where he speculates that an irregular shaped dark spot could probably be a shadow cast by someone or something standing on a massive object.
Anyone can view the "man on the moon" image on Google Moon at 27°34'26.35″N 19°36'4.75″W.
Accordingto the Examiner, it evenresemblesthe ancient Greek statue "Colossus of Rhodes" before its destruction from an earthquake in 226 B.C.
But NASA has announced otherwise stating it is just dust or even an eyelash collected on a film that took that image.
Watch the press conference from NASA.
According to Noah Petro, a deputy project scientist for the Lunar Renaissance Orbiter (LROC) mission that is currently in the moon's orbit, the images are probably taken from either Apollo 15 or 17 which were manned missions to the moon in 1971 and 1972.
Petro confirms this to Pix11 by pointing out that a current LROC does not reveal any lunar feature closely resembling that "man on the moon" image that could cause that pattern on the ground.
He said that his best guess is that something such as dust, an eyelash or even a scratch on the negative was on the film of that photo.
However, this phenomenon is likely attributed to pareidolia, a psychological response to seeing faces or anything that resembles anything human-like which is common to space photos.
Earlier this week, the Rosetta spacecraft captured a "human face" appearance as it entered the orbit of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet.
Dallas Chambers, a radio DJ for KISS FM 96.9 in Amarillo, Texas, captured a video of a UFO last night. He says several people were pulled over on the side of the road watching the “strange blue light dance around the sky of Amarillo.”
He says everyone “checking it out” was “stunned.”
Chambers also posted the video on KISS FM’s website, where he says he watched the light for “quite a while.” He also asks whether the object might have been an RC plane or helicopter.
Chambers writes, “I’d like to think it’s a UFO, and until someone comes forward saying it was them controlling an RC plane or something of that nature, that’s what I’m going to believe it is…”
CAIRO – Archeologists have found a tomb dating back to around 1100 B.C. south of Cairo, Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry said Thursday.
Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said that the tomb belongs to a guard of the army archives and royal messenger to foreign countries. Ibrahim said the Cairo University Faculty of Archaeology’s discovery at Saqqara adds “a chapter to our knowledge about the history of Saqqara.”
Ola el-Egeizy of Cairo University said the tomb contains “very nice inscriptions” of the funerary procession and the afterlife of the deceased.
The tomb was found near another one dating back to the same period belonging to the head of the army that was discovered in the previous excavation season. That tomb was larger but much of what remains is mud bricks as “most of its stone blocks were stolen and many of them are in museums all over the world,” said el-Egeizy. Because of the blocks, archaeologists had long known that the tomb existed though it was not uncovered until recently.
Saqqara was the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis and site of the oldest known pyramid in Egypt.
Egypt’s vital tourism industry has suffered in the wake of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak.
STAR-GAZING COUPLE SPOT CIRCULAR UFO OVER QUEBEC AUGUST 11, 2014 …… DORVAL QUEBEC CANADA
My girlfriend decided to go out to Millennium Park in Dorval, QC. It’s a nice park with an open area where you can sit and star gaze. My girlfriend placed the bed sheets and blanket that she brought with her right in the middle of the park. The moon was very bright and the sky was semi-polluted where you can still see the stars, but the sky wasn’t pitch black. After about 20 minutes of star gazing, my girlfriend pointed towards the south and said “Hey look, what is that?” I quickly looked where she was pointing only to see a very distinctive circular object. The UFO had a grey base which matched the color of the polluted sky, but it also had a “flaming” orange color on the outer edges all around. What was particularly strange about this UFO is that it was gliding, made no sound, and would change speeds. µ
The UFO was slow from the beginning, but started to gain bursts of speeds every second. It wasn’t a constant speed which was strange. There were plenty of planes flying around with big flashy lights and going at the same speed. The object we witnessed was going slower than the planes we were looking at, but has a very distinctive oval shape, and had an orange/flaming ring on the outside which definitely distinguished itself from any plane we saw. The UFO eventually glided out of sight and that was the last we saw of it.
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