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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...
I cannot speak for others, but I certainly accept the challenge. All of the information I provided came from viable sources, and tells the FULL story. I do not understand how any complete analysis of the MJ-12 documents could not include the circumstances behind how they were brought to the public. These facts cannot be swept under the rug. I highly respect Stanton and his work, and I included Stanton's comments in my story, but with all due respect, although Menzel's background is interesting, it is completely circumstantial and proves no connection to extraterrestrials. Just because the facts related to Doty, Moore, Shandera, and Bennewitz are complicated and difficult to understand and cast doubt on the veracity of the documents, they are still very pertinent. Using the uranium atoms analogy, the credibility of the scientists and the reputation of the labs where scientific tests are conducted are certainly weighed heavily when it comes to the veracity and accuracy of scientific claims. It is too late to add such a debate to the roster of the 2015 International UFO Congress. We schedule that out many months in advance, and if you go to the event's website you will see the line-up has been set. The only TBAs are people we are in the final process of confirming and have not yet announced their names. We certainly can look to holding such a debate in 2016. However, I propose that we debate this matter on Open Minds UFO Radio in the near future.
I would hereby like to Publicly challenge Kevin and/or Robert Hastings, and/or Barry Greenwood, and/or Alejandro Rojas or all together to a debate about the legitimacy of the the Cutler Twining Memo, The Truman Forrestal memo, the Eisenhower Briefing Document. I have long acknowledged that there are a large number of phony documents out there. The question is whether those three are legitimate as I have demonstrated. I think an appropriate site would be during the IUFOC in February in Arizona.The debate I had 2 years ago there with John Alexander was very well attended.I have no idea why people think it is more important to talk about the machinations of Richard Doty, Bill Moore, Jaime Shandera, Paul Bennewitz etc than about all the facts that I noted which were not known to be true until after the documents were received.How did a hoaxer know those facts?As a nuclear guy I long ago leaned to focus on what is relevant. That 99.3% of uranium atoms in nature are not fissionable, tellls us nothing about the 0.3% that are. I would say let all sell their books What say you all?
Believe in aliens? Then you're probably an atheist or Muslim: Study reveals how religion affects your likelihood of believing in ET
Astronomer David Weintraub at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee has written a book discussing which faiths are likely to embrace aliens
A study in it reveals that 55 per cent of Atheists believe aliens exist, while 44 per cent of Muslims and 37 per cent of Jews think that life is out there
Around 32 per cent of Christians believe in aliens as well as divine beings
Professor Weintraub thinks that Asian religions would have the least difficulty in accepting the discovery of extraterrestrial life
Published: 10:57 GMT, 1 October 2014 | Updated: 13:30 GMT, 1 October 2014
With around third of Americans admitting to believing in aliens, and more exoplanets being discovered that could harbour life, it is no longer unusual to believe in the existence of ET.
Now an astronomer has claimed that a person's belief in extraterrestrial life varies according to whether they also believe in a God and even specifically which religion they identify with.
In the new book he reveals that atheists are the most likely group of people to believe in extra-terrestrials, at 55 per cent, followed by Muslims.
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A new book (pictured left) by astronomy professor David Weintraub (pictured right) reveals that Atheists are the most likely group of people to believe in extra-terrestrials, followed by Muslims and Jews
It summarises what religious leaders and theologians from over 24 major religions say about alien life, including Judaism, Roman Catholicism, the Church of England, Hinduism and Buddhism.
Astronomy professor David Weintraub, of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, said: ‘When I did a library search, I found only half a dozen books and they were all written about the question of extraterrestrial life and Christianity, and mostly about Roman Catholicism, so I decided to take a broader look.’
‘Very few among us have spent much time thinking hard about what actual knowledge about extraterrestrial life, whether viruses or single-celled creatures or bipeds piloting intergalactic spaceships, might mean for our personal beliefs [and] our relationships with the divine.’
His book, Religious and Extraterrestrial Life, includes the results of a poll that found 55 per cent of Atheists believe aliens exist, while 44 per cent of Muslims and 37 per cent of Jews think that life is out there in the universe.
Around 36 per cent of Hindus and 32 per cent of Christians believe in aliens as well as divine beings.
Of the Christians, the Eastern Orthodox faithful were the most likely to believe in aliens (41 per cent) while Baptists were the most sceptical at 29 per cent.
Of the Christians, the Eastern Orthodox faithful were the most likely to believe in aliens (41 per cent) while Baptists were the most sceptical at 29 per cent.
Are the world's religions ready for E.T.?
Catholic leaders have been debating about the possibility of life on other worlds for a thousand years. The crux of the debate is whether intelligent aliens would suffer from original sin, because they are not descended from Adam and Eve (illustrated) and if they do, did Christ visit them and was he resurrected on other planets?
Professor Weintraub thinks that Asian religions would have the least difficulty in accepting the discovery of extraterrestrial life, because Hindu thinkers have speculated that humans may be reincarnated as aliens, and vice versa, while Buddhist cosmology includes thousands of inhabited worlds.
He found passages in the Qur’an that appear to support the idea that spiritual beings exist on other planets, but notes that these beings may not practice Islam as it is practiced on Earth.
However, Professor Weintraub found very little in Judaic scriptures or rabbinical writings hinting at the existence of aliens.
The few Talmudic and Kabbalistic commentaries on the subject do assert that space is infinite and contains a potentially infinite number of worlds and that nothing can deny the existence of extraterrestrial life.
He says that Jews don’t believe the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence would have much effect on them, quoting a Jewish anthropologist and scholar who concluded that the relationship between Jews and God would not be affected in the slightest by ‘the existence of other life forms, newly discovered scientific realities or pan-human behavioural changes.’
If the rate of discovery keeps up its current pace, astronomers will have identified more than a million exoplanets by the year 2045 and some of them may harbour alien life (a 'traditional' representation of an alien is pictured) leading more religious leaders to question the impact extraterrestrials may have on their beliefs
Professor Weintraub said that Roman Catholics have given the possibility of extraterrestrial life the most thought among Christian religions.
Catholic leaders have been having an on-off debate about the possibility of life on other worlds for a thousand years, he said.
The crux of the debate is whether intelligent aliens would suffer from original sin, because they are not descended from Adam and Eve, and if they do, did Christ visit them and was he resurrected on other planets?
‘From a Roman Catholic perspective, if sentient extraterrestrials exist some but perhaps not all such species may suffer original sin and will require redemption,’ according to Professor Weintraub.
The debate may increasingly come to the fore, because astronomers are detecting exoplanets - some of which could harbour life - at a rate faster than ever before.
In 2000, astronomers had detected 50 planets orbiting other stars, while today that number has grown to more than 1,000.
Professor Weintraub believes Asian religions would have the least difficulty in accepting the discovery of extraterrestrial life, because Hindu thinkers have speculated that humans may be reincarnated as aliens, while Buddhist cosmology includes thousands of inhabited worlds. A praying Buddhist monk is pictured
If the rate of discovery keeps up its current pace, astronomers will have identified more than a million exoplanets by the year 2045.
While there are many conflicting views in the Protestant faith, he said that Lutheran theologian Paul Tillich’s view are probably largely representative – that the ‘saving power’ of God must be everywhere. However, God’s plan for human life may not be the same as his plan for aliens.
Professor Weintraub thinks that Evangelical and fundamental Christians may struggle the most to accept any discovery of alien life, because most of their leaders assert that extraterrestrial life does not exist.
However, Mormonism and Seventh-day Adventism are two Christian faiths that embrace aliens.
In Mormonism, God helps exalt lesser souls so they can achieve immortality and live as gods on other worlds.
Water vapour absorption in the clear atmosphere of a Neptune-sized exoplanet
Water vapour absorption in the clear atmosphere of a Neptune-sized exoplanet
Transmission spectroscopy has so far detected atomic and molecular absorption in Jupiter-sized exoplanets, but intense efforts to measure molecular absorption in the atmospheres of smaller (Neptune-sized) planets during transits have revealed only featureless spectra1, 2, 3, 4. From this it was concluded that the majority of small, warm planets evolve to sustain atmospheres with high mean molecular weights (little hydrogen), opaque clouds or scattering hazes, reducing our ability to observe the composition of these atmospheres1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Here we report observations of the transmission spectrum of the exoplanet HAT-P-11b (which has a radius about four times that of Earth) from the optical wavelength range to the infrared. We detected water vapour absorption at a wavelength of 1.4 micrometres. The amplitude of the water absorption (approximately 250 parts per million) indicates that the planetary atmosphere is predominantly clear down to an altitude corresponding to about 1 millibar, and sufficiently rich in hydrogen to have a large scale height (over which the atmospheric pressure varies by a factor of e). The spectrum is indicative of a planetary atmosphere in which the abundance of heavy elements is no greater than about 700 times the solar value. This is in good agreement with the core-accretion theory of planet formation, in which a gas giant planet acquires its atmosphere by accreting hydrogen-rich gas directly from the protoplanetary nebula onto a large rocky or icy core6.
Figure 1: White-light transit curves and starspot crossing temperature estimates.
a, Transit curves from the Hubble WFC3 and warm Spitzer, aligned in phase and shifted in flux for clarity. The four warm Spitzer transits at both 3.6 and 4.5 µm (ref. 9) are binned for illustration. Starspot crossings are seen as deviations near +0.5 h in the Kepler photometry (blue). b, We estimated the starspot temperatures by dividing the Spitzer transit residuals by the Kepler transit residuals (colours as in a). The dashed lines represent the photosphere-to-starspot temperatures for three stellar model atmospheres22. Water vapour has been detected in sunspots as cool as 3,000 K, corresponding to a contrast of ~1,800 K here14. There is essentially no starspot temperature that can produce sufficiently strong water absorption to mimic our result.
Figure 2: The transmission spectrum of HAT-P-11b.
a, Our WFC3 observations show transit depth variations in agreement with a hydrogen-dominated atmosphere. The coloured, solid lines23, 24 correspond to matching markers displayed in Fig. 3. The error bars represent the standard deviations over the uncertainty distributions. An atmosphere with a high mean molecular mass (dark blue line) is ruled out by our observations by >3σ. The WFC3 spectrum was allowed to shift, as a unit, over these uncertainties. Rs, stellar radius. b, Detailed view of our WFC3 spectrum. For the purposes of visually comparing the spectral significance, we shifted all of the models by 93 p.p.m. in the grey region in a and in b.
Figure 3: Spectral retrieval results of our transmission spectrum.
The coloured regions indicate the probability density as a function of metallicity (relative to solar) and cloud-top pressure derived using our Bayesian atmospheric retrieval framework23, 24. Mean molecular weight was derived for a solar C/O ratio at 10 mbar. Black contours mark the 68%, 95% and 99.7% Bayesian credible regions. The depth of the observed water feature in the WFC3 spectrum required the presence of a large atmospheric scale height that can only be self-consistently obtained for an atmospheric metallicity below 700 times solar at 3σ (99.7%) confidence. The atmosphere is probably predominately cloud-free at least down to the 1 mbar level. We indicate the matching models plotted in Fig. 2 with coloured markers.
Extended Data Fig. 1: HST white-light curve with exponential ramp effects.
The gaps resulted when HAT-P-11 was occulted by the Earth during Hubble’s ~96 min orbit. We decorrelated the ramp effect by fitting an average, two-parameter (scale and amplitude) exponential function over time.
Extended Data Fig. 2: An example of WFC3 scanning-mode observation spectral images.
a, Example spatial scan spectral image with the normalized summations in the dispersion (upper) and cross-dispersion or scanning (right) directions. b, Integrated spectrum (blue) and spectral template (red) before (top) and after (bottom) fitting; the amplitudes and colours are normalized to 1.0.
Extended Data Fig. 3: Correlations between all fitted parameters for our HST WFC3 white-light curve.
We calculated the Pearson correlation coefficient over the posteriors of each parameter, and found the correlations to be small (<0.10 in magnitude), or in most cases negligible (<0.01 in magnitude). Blue represents regions of lesser posterior density and red represents regions of greater posterior density, with green and yellow in the middle.
Extended Data Fig. 4: Wavelength-dependent transit light curves.
The coloured points are the wavelength light curves, ranging from blue (1.17 μm) to red (1.67 μm) with 18 nm spacing. The black lines represent the best-fit transit light curves over the wavelength range from 1.1 to 1.7 μm. The curves are shifted for display purposes only. The differential light curves were fitted with differential analytic transit curves to derive the planetary spectrum seen in Fig. 1. We added the white-light curve into the differential light curves to derive the data above.
Extended Data Fig. 5: The distribution of Kepler starspot crossing anomalies.
We fitted a Gaussian profile to each of the 298 spot crossings seen during the 208 transits observed by Kepler. Here we show the distribution of starspot amplitudes, calculated as the height minus baseline of the fitted Gaussian profile in parts per million. The dashed lines represent the starspot crossing amplitudes observed during our four concurrent Spitzer observations. In particular, note that all four spot crossings with concurrent Spitzer observations are at the larger end of the distribution. In addition, the spot crossing on ut 7 July 2011, the largest spot crossing feature observed during our concurrent Spitzer observations, crossed a spot with ΔT≈ 900 K.
Extended Data Fig. 6: HAT-P-11 Kepler light curve for ~4 yr of short cadence.
The variation in flux has a peak-to-peak modulation of ~2%, consistent with the spot coverage inferred from our previous Kepler study12. The times of our Spitzer observations are marked with vertical blue lines. The time of our HST WFC3 observation, included in this analysis, are marked with a vertical red line.
NASA: Gigantische rechthoekige structuur verborgen onder het maanoppervlak
NASA: Gigantische rechthoekige structuur verborgen onder het maanoppervlak
Als iemand op internet schrijft over ‘geometrische vormen’ op de maan, gaat het meestal over UFO-jagers die vreemde dingen op het maanoppervlak hebben gezien. Dit keer ligt het anders. Wetenschappers melden dat kloven op de maan een enorme rechthoek vormen.
Het draait allemaal om de oceaan der stormen (Oceanus Procellarum), waarvan oorspronkelijk werd gedacht dat het een oceaan zou zijn. Inmiddels is duidelijk dat de ‘oceaan’ bestaat uit basalt. Altijd is aangenomen dat Oceanus Procellarum, de grootste ‘maanzee’, is gevormd door de inslag van een asteroïde. Nu zijn astronomen daar niet meer zo zeker van.
Rechthoekige structuur op de maan (Kopernik Observatory/NASA)
Gegevens die zijn verzameld met behulp van twee maansondes van de NASA wijzen erop dat de mare een vulkanische oorsprong heeft. De sondes van de GRAIL-missie hebben in 2012 het zwaartekrachtsveld van de maan in kaart gebracht.
Onder de oceaan der stormen zijn ondergrondse structuren ontdekt die een afwijkende zwaartekrachtsaantrekking vertonen. Bij de meeste maanzeeën zijn deze structuren cirkelvormig, maar bij de oceaan der stormen wordt een rechthoek zichtbaar. Dit is volgens astronomen in strijd met de inslaghypothese.
“Het patroon van zwaartekrachtsanomalieën op de maan heeft een dusdanig onverwachte vorm dat we genoodzaakt worden op andere manieren na te denken over de processen aan het maanoppervlak,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna van de Brown-universiteit in de staat Rhode Island. “Je kunt je afvragen wat er onder het oppervlak van de andere planeten in het zonnestelsel verborgen ligt.”
In a video posted to YouTube by the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas (seen above), the resident skeptic of the TV show Chasing UFOs, debunks a famous UFO video that was provided by the Mexican Air Force to Mexican UFO investigator Jaime Maussan.
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The video posted today was from a lecture by scientist Ben McGee, a co-host of the show Chasing UFOs, and Ben Hansen, one of the hosts of the TV series Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files. They discussed what it was like doing paranormal investigations on TV. McGee says it was frustrating trying to do a real scientific investigations with very limited time and resources.
One of the investigations Chasing UFOs conducted on the show was of a famous UFO video from Campeche, Mexico. In 2004, the Mexican Air Force sought the help of UFO researcher and journalist Jaime Maussan, and provided him the UFO video. They said the footage came from one of their planes outfitted with a FLIR camera. This is a sophisticated camera that captures heat signatures.
On the footage, several points of light seem to be following, and even surrounding, the military aircraft. It is very compelling video, and has been the source of much debate. Much like that which will likely ensue in the comments below and on our Facebook page when we post this story.
McGee began his investigation of the Campeche video by looking at the recording mechanism. He says of the Mexican Air Force’s camera, it is “very hard to get better than this.”
He elaborated, “The best possible camera that I think humanity could have ever aimed at something unexplained. It gives me everything you could possibly ask for. Its current GPS coordinates, azimuth, meaning which direction from zero to 360 degrees was the camera pointed. Its inclination; how far off the horizon was it pointed. The date time to the second. It’s all there. For me, I was very encouraged. I thought maybe I could actually figure out what this is or this might stand up.”
The next thing McGee looked into was the appearance and the apparent motion of the objects. He noted that they were points of light, and they never broke formation. No matter how much the camera moved around and panned and zoomed in on the objects. They were always in the same sequence.
McGee also found that the leading skeptical hypothesis was that the lights were actually from oil rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico. However, the oil rigs were 100 miles away from the airplane. Ben thought that idea was a stretch, and they tested this theory on an episode of Chasing UFOs.
The crew rented a plane and took up cameras and a FLIR system. They flew a similar path the Mexican Air Force took, but couldn’t see much. They had to get very close to the oil rigs to pick them up with the FLIR. However, the oil rigs did not have flames while they were filming.
Ben’s co-host, Erin Ryder said, “We could barely see the water, let alone these oil rigs. I just don’t see how people can mistake these oil rigs for UFOs.”
A still image of one of the oil rigs as seen by the investigators on Chasing UFOs. (Credit: National Geographic)
The image on the left was captured using the FLIR system by the Chasing UFOs crew. The image on the right is of the same area captured by the Mexican Air Force. (Credit: National Geographic)
Ben’s other co-host, James Fox, agreed with Erin and said that their test proved that the oil rigs were not what the Mexican Air Force caught on camera. However, Ben disagreed.
On the show Ben said, “Because the atmospheric conditions today were different than they were for the Mexican FLIR footage, and because the military’s camera may have had a different calibration than ours, I don’t think our experiment was conclusive either way.”
In his presentation, he also noted that they were using a less sophisticated FLIR system on the TV show.
Ben decided not to abandon the oil rig theory, but to look at it from a different perspective. He decided to examine the pattern of the lights and compare them to the oil rig towers. He especially noted that there were a couple of groups of three lights. He found that the towers also were often grouped in threes.
Some of the oil rigs possibly caught in video. They are often in groups of three as in this picture. (Credit: Oil Rig Photos)
Ben also found an image of two burning vents from the group of oil rigs that looked like two of the lights in the UFO video. So, Ben says he decided to see what pattern the towers would make if somehow conditions were right for the Mexican Air Force FLIR to pick them up. He knew where the plane was, and where the towers were, so he had enough data to make an accurate estimation.
Ben drew site lines from where the plane would have been to the horizon, and his pattern matched exactly what the Mexican Air Force FLIR cameras caught. But Ben says that was not good enough. He also noticed that what would have appeared to have been one light to the FLIR camera was actually two lights, one in front of the other. This being the case, Ben thought he could predict that at some point in the film, that light would separate into two lights, as the angle the plane viewed those lights changed. Sure enough, he found that the light did appear as two lights in part of the Mexican Air Force video.
Ben pointing out the site lines he drew to discover that the oil rigs aligned with the lights in the Campeche UFO video. (Credit: National Atomic Testing Museum)
Ben predicted the first light in the second group of three would separate into two lights as the plane progressed. (Credit: Mexican Air Force)
Soon after the above image was taken in the video, the first light in the second group can be seen separating into two lights as Ben predicted. (Credit: Mexican Air Force)
As for the apparent motion of the lights, Ben says that was due to the plane moving and the clouds in-between the plane and the oil rigs. The clouds appear to go in one direction and the lights in another, but both are stationary.
McGee says, “You got the fact that it matches the light arrangement, so you get the series of 11 lights, and then you get this predicted one light turning into two. I think it actually is the oil complex.”
McGee continued, “I can only conclude, either you had some sort of craft hovering directly over each tower, or it was just the towers.”
See any flaws in Ben’s analysis? Or maybe you think he did one heck of a job getting to the heart of this mystery. Either way, tell us what you think below.
CLOSE ENCOUNTER AT WURTSMITH AIR FORCE BASE IN MICHIGAN OCTOBER 1975 …….. WURTSMITH AIR FORCE BASE MICHIGAN
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My name is Garel W. White, Retired USAF and now living in the Seattle Area. I don’t know if you will get this response, but over the years it has become more clear than confusing about the nature of the Wurtsmith UFO incident in October 1975. Reading about the incident in the early years suggested I was not telling the truth until I now read that 2 UFOs were in the area and split up while being chased by a KC 135 Tanker. One shot toward Saginaw and the other found its way over to our Capehart Gate Housing Area and Motor pool and Munitions Storage. This is where I became clear on the incident because even in your current story you key on the Capehart Housing Gate Flyover. Here is my story. Garel W. White, Sgt, stationed at the Main Gate, Wurtsmith AFB approx. 1020 hrs.; almost ½ hour of initially being posted there for the Midnight Shift. I never really noticed the extra activity over the radio because I was busy controlling the small rush of vehicles entering the installation and was normal for that time. I got a call on the Hot Phone from the Command Post and answered it. The Command Post asked me if I saw anything over the Lake (Lake Huron) just like that! I looked and saw a bright white light that looked similar to the Planet Venus low in the sky. I reported that to the Command Post and they told me to keep an eye on it and they could give me no more information when I asked what was up? I thought nothing of that and continued to my duty with on-coming vehicle traffic entering the base. Approx. 10 minutes later the Hot Phone rang again. This time I glanced up and noticed it was not the Planet Venus low in the sky. It was larger and appeared to be coming toward landfall of the Michigan shoreline. I watched it for about a few more minutes as the traffic coming on base died down and I could pay more attention to it. I noticed another Security Police Vehicle approach with my Squadron Commander Major? I can’t remember his name but I can get it. The white light was approx. 5 miles away when the Major and I watched it approach. I noticed some red lights and a slight swooshing sound as it closed in and stopped almost centered over the Main Gate (Less than 100 feet to the right of the Main Gate) about 150 feet in the air. It was a piercing white light; so bright you could not see behind it, around it, over it, etc. I felt it was low enough I could pick up a rock and hit it. At this time no traffic entered the base. I stepped off the platform of the Entry Control area, walked about 100 feet from the Main Gate directly under the blinding white light. It stayed there for more than 5 minutes; whoosh, whoosh, whoosh in 3 second intervals was the only sound I heard. The Major walked over and we were both perplexed to what it was. We were both directly under it. This was for a little less than 5 minutes. I walked back to the gate and it began to move slowly approx. 2 to 3 mph down the roadway direct line toward the flight line, about 2 miles away from the Christmas Tree Alert B-52s and Alert KC-135 Tankers, illuminating the roadway as it went until approx. 3 blocks away the light went out, then lots of radio traffic. I don’t know where Michael Meyers was, but he did stop by and compared notes with me. The Major departed after the lights went out to the Command Post. I was told not to speak of the incident, and I didn’t until I was going to retire at Grissom AFB, INDIANA in 1990. I told a batch of new 1st year troops of the encounter with a UFO when I was in my first 4 years of service. They said I was pulling their leg until one of them went to his room and came back with a “TIME LIFE” Book on UFOs and listed under Malstrom AFB UFO was word for word of the UFO account except it only said Capehart Housing and not the Main Gate encounter. I’ve sort of kept my mouth shut until 2003 when I noticed the KC-135 was chasing 2 UFOs in a story starting from Loring AFB and wound up at Malstrom AFB. (I saw the 2nd one!). Now I feel better about the whole incident. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. KENS NOTE: Some info on the long history of Wurtsmith Air Force base…..The Strategic Air Command‘s 4026th Strategic Wing was activated at Wurtsmith on 1 August 1958. The 4026th SW was a B-52′s dispersal wing, a part of SAC’s plan to disperse its big bombers over a larger number of bases, thus making it more difficult for the Soviet Union to knock out the entire fleet with a surprise first strike. The 920th Refueling Group’s KC-135 Stratotankers were transferred to the 4026th from Turner AFB, Georgia in July 1960. It was inactivated on 9 January 1961. SAC’s 40th Air Division was reactivated in July 1959 and assigned to Eighth Air Force with headquartered at Wurtsmith AFB. The Division was the parent unit of four SAC wings and advisor to three Aerial Reserve Force units. The Division’s mission was to supervise and monitor the operation of the 379th and 410th Bombardment Wings, the 305th Aerial Refueling Wing, the 351st Strategic Missile Wing, the 128th Aerial Refueling Group, and the 931st Aerial Refueling Group. SAC also began to extended the runway to 12,000 feet in 1959 to better accommodate the B-52. Along with the runway extension, a “Christmas Tree” alert pad area was constructed on the north side of the 24 runway end to accommodate 9 alert aircraft, and a “Mole Hole”, where alert crews would live on shifts ready to man the alert aircraft and take off within a few minutes notice. KEN PFEIFER WORLD UFO PHOTOS AND NEWS WWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOSANDNEWS.ORG WWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOS.ORG SPECIAL TKANKS TOWWW.UFOCASEBOOK.COM
Capturing unique photo is not easy job, some photographers capture photos that are good for centuries, other don’t. HybridLibrarian counts down part II of world’s 10 most mysterious photographs ever taken.
At 8:45 pm I decided to go for a walk around the block for half our to an hour, I left my place and enjoyed a peaceful evening stroll. I was walking through a dark alley that cut through two apt building ending up at a old school that is across the road from the high school which has several large football fields. While in the alley heading home I talked briefly too a group of guys who claimed to have seen a UFO in the sky and if I hurried over to the field I could still catch them. He pointed me in the direction that they seen the UFO and said they have to leave. I hurried over too the field and did not notice anything and thought for sure I had missed them, shortly after about a minute of observing the sky I observed some lights that seemed to come from nowhere, I saw five bright circular lights in the sky that were in a boomerang like V formation, the UFO was in the very bottom part of the cloud layer and the clouds around the UFO’s lights vanished all around for hundreds of feet. I felt a feeling of fear and astonishment when I first seen the craft, the lights were in the east direction moving south climbing in altitude, I observed the lights as they began to get smaller, the light started to pulsate and grow brighter when the UFO disappeared in a streak of light much like what a shooting star looked like only the streak of light traveled into space instead of the ground. I was still watching the sky and observed a light travel back from the direction in which it had shot away, the light was moving at super speeds because it traveled towards myself growing a bit brighter, the lights then slowed down and stayed stationary. The sighting lasted for about ten minutes and occured just after 9 pm. I could still make out the UFO when I left the school field. I walked home very excited about what I had just observed and the first thing I was going to say to my room mate was if he wanted too come and take a look at a UFO in the sky near the high school, so I came upstairs gave his door a quick knock and entered his room. I was instantly hit by a big gust of wind that made the curtains hit the roof and I almost blacked out, it felt like I had been drugged or was overcome by a deamonic dark presence, I remember seeing a dark shadow creature come over me freezing me with fear.
I thought to myself oh my god I just had my room mate abducted and I went to the living room where I noticed that 20 seconds had elapsed in 40 minutes, I looked around the house for my room mate and finally found him outside when I told him the things that had just happened, he didn’t think it was crazy at all. I was overcome by an energy and dreading feeling that I had too get out of the house, I thought for sure I was going to be abducted and I did not want to put anyone’s life in danger. I left the house and walked for about an hour too a picnic table at a small creek that was still in the city but it was late and I barely observed a vehicle. At this time I was starting to calm down and was beginning to accept what had recently happened to me, I was a little bit on edge because I jumped when something came out of the bushes, it turned out to be a dog that stopped to take a drink out of the creek and continued on his way. It was starting to get late, approximately 1 am, I grabbed my backpack and was about to head to the road when I heard something in the bushes again and thought it was the dog having another drink at the creek so I walked down to the waters edge to see if I could pet him and make a friend, I was mistaken because I observed two short human like creatures, around 4′ tall and a slender build, they had dark eyes that were larger then our own and no visible hair clothes to speak off. The creatures were dark In colour but not black, possibly a dark grey.
I watched the ET’s run away from me running towards a carwash looking back at me for a glance, the one jumped on top of a car with ease and ran over the top of it jumping down and continuing to follow the other as they ran into the dark where I could not make them out. I instantly thought” if they are running that way I am going this way” and I made my way to the brightly light highway that was nearby. I was honestly scared of these things and all I wanted to do at this time was too feel safe. I honestly don’t know what they were going to do to me or why they ran away. It has even crossed my mind that perhaps they were either coming to drink water from the creek or were stalking the stray dog that recently came from the path that the et’s were. I accept now that we are not alone and am amazed at the fact that we have so many documented account of the same lights in the sky and the same creatures known as the Grey Aliens.
MANY ORBS WITNESSED NEAR LONG BEACH NEW JERSEYSEPTEMBER 7, 2014 …. LONG BEACH NEW JERSEY
I have seen flying saucers since august 18, 1980. This was my 8th UFO experience, but I have never seen orbs, only spaceships. These were orbs, I think, not what I usually experience. I first noticed the object before dinner, but I just blew it off. We had dinner on the beach, overlooking the water. My wife noticed it after dinner, when we went to leave. I immediately saw a large bright light again, much brighter than the first time, approximately 45 earlier. I knew immediately what it was, a UFO. We just purchased a camera a few days before, and we went to the waters edge, and started filming. My wife did. The object, there were 4-5 of them, were extremely bright, varying in size from a pin head to a quarter. I estimate about half a mile to a mile away from shoreline. They moved independently, and went from bright small in size, to immensely bright and huge, maybe the size of a quarter. They moved up and down, remained stationary, and one of them went over land when big, over I would assume sandy hook area, 10-15 miles north of where wewere.
There were 6-7 people on the beach watching and filming as well. It was amazing to see. My feelings…very excited, very controlled. I wanted to attract them, and stood in the light than ran across the water and did jumping jacks to attract it. It did not respond. The objects got extremely big and bright maybe 3-4 times. These actions unfortunately were not captured on video of photos. I told my wife to take video, to make sure we had it on video. I spoke to my cousin on the cell phone throughout part of the experience, because he knows of all the things I have experienced, and I was describing the scene to him as it happened. I am very lucky to have experienced what I have throughout my life. We never lost sight of the objects. We left after about an hour or so. We saw amazing detail of 2 orbs around a tremendous bright round light, sometimes two bright circles of light. Unfortunately, I do not know how to submit this to you right now, but will have my wife do so in the next few days to a week. You will be amazed, or maybe not, since this is probably common but it is amazing, and I would like an explanation as to what this is. I believe it is extra terrestrial. My wife thinks it was secret military craft, but she also said she did not know what it was. She does not believe in UFO’S, since she has never seen one, but then, she could not explain what we saw. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. KEN’S NOTE: This area has been very active with sightings over the years. Ft Monmouth is nearby and has a two mile dock that protrudes out into the bay. Military ships can be seen there often. The bay leads to the Varrazano Bridge and eventually Manhattan. Check it-out on Google Earth.
This case is under investigation by Bob Spearing of MUFON New Jersey.
AMAZING PHOTO OF THREE UFO CRAFT OVER CANADAAUGUST 10, 2014 …. OSHAWA ONTARIO CANADA
On Sunday August 10, 2014, while at home in Oshawa, Ontario, I was outside on my driveway washing my car when suddenly I hear this humming sound and look to the north below HWY 2. About a quarter mile north of my position and some thousands of feet up I see three bright red ruby lights maintaining in a triangle formation. Being in a state of awe watching them moving across from the east to west, maybe 30 seconds passed. I then ran into the house for my camera; being once again outside in about 20 seconds. Started to film this spectacle and watch the direction of these three lights at 9:20 pm. I watched them pass over Whitby heading towards Ajax. The lights appeared to turn to the southwest heading to southern Ajax. I snapped one last picture at the greatest distance away. The last picture reveals a structure between the three lights. After a couple of days I noticed on the net of reports in Oshawa/Whitby /Ajax/Toronto /Burlington, Ontario. It would appear many folks had witnessed this marvel along this flight path this triangle of lights had taken probably due to the time not being too late. What is also interesting is that it started in Oshawa. No further reports came out ‘east of Oshawa.’ Very bizarre and shocking sighting to witness. I assume by the size that would be one to two hundred yards apart in spread of the lights. It is also interesting to note this occurred during a full moon cycle. Photos taken with Canon PowerShot SX260 HS.
SALEM — October in the Witch City might seem like tourist territory, but this year there’s plenty of witchcraft-related events that even a jaded local could love.
Beginning tomorrow and building until the city celebrates Halloween on Friday, Oct. 31, Salem is slated to host a wide array of tours, speeches, balls, films, art shows and other events, much of it highlighting the region’s spooky past.
But nestled among the myriad events — all of which are outlined on a city website at www.hauntedhappenings.org — are numerous gems for the local who thinks he or she has heard it all before.
“There’s really something for everyone, and there’s something really great about being a tourist in your own backyard,” said Kate Fox, the city’s tourism czar. “Walking away and saying, ‘I lived next door all my life, and I’ve never done that. That was really fun.’”
Fox said the city is always trying to appeal to the local mindset, in part because a large percentage of tourists come to Salem in October with friends or family who live locally. Thus, locals find themselves at costume balls, on guided tours, at the Witch Museum — and loving it.
“You don’t have to be a tourist to enjoy these things; they’re fun for everybody,” Fox said. Read more at Gloucester Times
The loss of a sense of smell can predict death within five years, according to research published today in the online journal PLOS ONE.
The study was from the National Social Life, Health and Ageing Project (NSHAP) and involved more than 3000 US participants aged between 57 and 85. It was conducted by Jayant Pinto and colleagues from the University of Chicago.
They asked the participants to identify five common odours – rose, leather, fish, orange and peppermint – as a way of assessing the accuracy and robustness of their sense of smell.
After five years, the participants were asked to take the test again. During the five year gap, 430 participants (12.5% of the total) had died, with 39% of those who failed the first smell test dying before the second test. Of those who had scored moderately well on the first test, 19% had died by the second test, while only 10% of those who had a healthy sense of smell on the original test had died during the period.
Surprisingly, loss of smell was a more accurate predictor of imminent death than a cancer diagnosis, heart disease or lung failure.
However the researchers argue smell loss does not cause death. The smell receptors, on the tip of the olfactory nerve, are continuously regenerated by stem cells, which makes them unique in the human body. One hypothesis is that the production of stem cells falls away as we age, affecting our sense of smell and indicating the body can no longer repair itself. – Cosmos Magazine
So this was a few weeks back in senior year of high school, and after school on a Friday I was looking for a quiet place to get some studying done and I was wandering around and went into the choir hall, which is just one long hallway with many rooms off either side, so I’m walking then I get to the end of the hall and there is a door I’ve never seen before. I open it and inside is a well-lit room with mirrors covering all walls. I walk in and close the door behind me. I sit down at the piano and mess around for a while, and once I’m done, I proceed to walk to a door on the side that leads outside. I get outside and walk to my car that is nearby in the main parking lot. Short walk. I drive off and think nothing of it. Fast forward a few weeks and I don’t feel like going home, so I’m going to play some piano then head home. I walk into the choir hall, and I walk all the way down, only to find a blank wall. This confused me, especially because there was a water fountain with the same sharpie mark on it as there had been outside of this mystery music room. I walked back up to the entrance, to double-check I was in the right place. “Choir Hall” looked back at me above the door in bold lettering. I walk back down, and there, like nothing ever happened, is this door. I try the handle but it is locked, so I look in and the room I knew was there. I can’t figure out what happened, and now the room is there every time I check. – Reddit.com
China’s “Supercave” Takes Title as World’s Most Enormous Cavern
China’s immense Miao Room cavern, hidden beneath rolling hills and reachable only by an underground stream, is the world’s biggest cave chamber, an international mapping team reported on Sunday. Read more at National Geographic
Silent but astute, ufologist scour the skies of the metropolitan area looking for strange objects, lights and odd movements. With their trained eye, their able to distinguished common air traffic from something that perhaps hails from another world. Their purpose is to disclose the strange phenomena that plow the skies. However, this disclosure sometimes affects interests that are contrary to those of the ufologists.
Research and discovery can lead to enemies. “We're listening in on you. Be careful.” This is the first message received by Adriana Nicala, the Ituzaingó-based ufologist. At first he did not take it as a threat, but a prank. “[The call came in] at 10 in the morning. Since it says “we're listening in on you” I thought it had to do with a local radio show.”
Faced with this uncertainty, Nicala replied, “Who's this?” – but received no reply.
He then phoned the unknown number, but no one answered. “Seconds later I received another text message. “Are you an idiot? Don't call me.” I told him to go to hell in another message, phoned him again and he answered.”
From the other side of the line, he heard the voice of a man between 30 and 40 years old who nervously asked not to be called again, then asked [Nicala] what time he left home, to increase the threat. The last message Nicala ever received sealed the person's intentions: “Have a care with what you say. I'm not far away from you.”
According to the ufologist, threats, tapped phones and having his movements traced are commonplace. Nicala remembers that Luis Burgos, director of the Federacion Argentina de Ovnilogia, had a personal conversation he'd had with other UFO researchers played back to him over the phone. They had taped it right off his phone. “It's the intelligence services. Not from the United States, but from here. Our stance on the Monte Grande incident was very upsetting,” he says.
“On a previous occasion, they ruined 20 terabytes of information we had. They disrupted a hard drive with 20 terabytes from our radio show. They got in while we were on the air. The engineer, Gaby Mottura, realized someone ahd gotten in because things were running slow. The IP showed us that they'd first entered from New Mexico, then another IP from Virginia came in. The second lingered 40 minutes and listened to the entire show. When we mentioned on air that things were running slowly, it went away, but not before planting a virus that ruined everything. They do this to erase their tracks,” says Nicala, who broadcasts his experiences and those of his companions on the Testimonio Ovni radio show, broadcast on Inadaptados Radio (online) every Saturday at 20:00 hours.
“I'm not afraid. One's concerned about family, but I'm not afraid. It's not like I have firearms or anything, but I'm confident. I know there's an intelligence out there, without question. It's eminently powerful. If it allows something to happen to me, then it was meant to be. These people who threaten me should be more frightened, because I've seen these machines [UFOs] do things that ought to scare them,” concluded Nicasa.
[Translation (c) 2014 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to the 24 CON newsroom, Leandro Fernandez Vivas [24CON] and Guillermo Giménez, Planeta UFO]
If we ever find intelligent life beyond Earth, most atheists would be cool with that. Mormons and Seventh-Day Adventists might actually embrace it. But fundamentalist Christians? Not so much. Vanderbilt astronomer David Weintraub delves into those differences, plus other spiritual and cultural perspectives on the search for extraterrestrials, in a newly published book titled “Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It?”
Weintraub takes a close look at the doctrines laid out by more than two dozen religions, cross-checking how they’d accommodate the discovery of alien life. He concludes that Asian religions would have the least difficulty (although a recent survey indicated that only 36 percent of Hindus believe extraterrestrials exist). Biologist Richard Dawkins, an outspoken atheist, said last week that it’s“completely implausible and arrogant” to think we’re alone in the universe. So are any of us ready to deal with it if E.T. shows up? “While some of us claim to be ready, a great many of us probably are not,” Weintraub said in a news release.
Albert Rosales referred me to a recent report from the UK. I posted as received:
September 12, 2014, midnight
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
my father and i were on our way back from fishing heading towards a local caravan park which is situated on the n.east coast of whitley bay.to the right of the park is a farmers field with a ploughed field and some woodland.as we made toward the park my father said what’s going on in the woods as there we could see lots of white lights moving around. i replied to my father looks like theres people around checking things.as we drew nearer the lights appeared to raise up from behind the trees but bow white and blue flashing.my father kept asking what do you think it is?i said its an aeroplane just took off but my father saw an entirely different object to what i thought which i questioned.i said what do you see…he replied it,s like something out of flash gordon look at the lights all over it!we approached a bend in the road and the object moved outward toward sea while passing over the trees at roughly 5 to 10 mph….my father said it looks like its stopping or going to land on the main road.as we neared the main road which is beside a local land mark called st.marys lighthouse we turned and saw to our disbelief what i saw was an aeroplane hovering above the houses but what was strange it seemed to have landed.i was driving very slow lookin up at the craft and wanted to stop but my father said whatever you do dont stop theres something weird going on.i remember a car passing us but not making a sound or stopping or even where it had gone.everything seemed to be happening in slow motion.alll around there was silence and nobody around.i passed below the craft and saw what appeared to be a doorway with stairs leading from it..my father said keep going dont stop as i nearly mounted a kerb.the craft had blue and white lights on its wings which were flashing in sequence, they were very bright and seemed to be signaling out to sea.as we were driving away i said to my dad i wander what this woman is doing walking down the middle of the road.also do you realise theres no one around or any sign of life.the figure approaching appeared to be a woman but like a dark sillohette.we kept on driving not looking back or noticing where she had gone….we got home explaining what we had just seen to family members and our thoughts and asked if anything had been on news but there was nothing nothing on radio as far as i know. my father still says he saw something completely different to what i thought which is very strange on my behalf and to which neither of has any explanation.there is one thing to add and that is i saw the same thing again but at a different time with another person.this event took place at exactly the same location in broad day light…….these events actually happened to me.
Source: MUFON CMS
NOTE: The area around Whitley Bay has had a fair amount of UFO activity over recent years. I’m not sure what to make of this figure of a woman. Lon
Robert Salas joins Dr. Rita Louise on Just Energy Radio where he discusses his encounter with extraterrestrials while working at a nuclear missile silo as well as the history of UFO cover-up in the US and around the world.
UFO mania: Alien Remains? Three new elongated skulls uncovered in Antarctica
UFO mania: Alien Remains? Three new elongated skulls uncovered in Antarctica
Smithsonian archaeologist Damian Waters and his team have uncovered three elongated skulls in the region of La Paille, Antarctica. The discovery came as a total surprise to the world of archaeology as they are the first human remains uncovered from Antarctica, thought never to have been visited by humans until the modern age.
We just can’t believe it! We didn’t just find human remains on Antarctica, we found elongated skulls! I have to pinch myself every time I wake up, I just can’t believe it! This will redefine our view of mankind’s history as a whole!” excitedly explains M. Waters
Elongated skulls have been found in Peru and in Egypt, proving past civilizations made contact long before history books want to acknowledge.
But this discovery is plain incredible. It shows there was contact thousand of years ago between civilizations in Africa, South America and Antarctica.
Elongated skulls are thought to have been a common deformation done upon children of the elite in many ancient cultures tells us a spokesman of the Smithsonian Institute of New York.
It was done by wrapping a cloth around the infant’s head when the skull is not yet in a solid state. This characteristic was used to amplify differences of traits between higher ranking classes of society and lower classes .
These elongated skulls are much, much larger than normal human skulls would be. Purposeful cranial deformation can change the shape of a skull, but it cannot increase the volume of the skull.
In addition, these skulls have quite a few other important physical characteristics that greatly set them apart from normal human skulls.
This knowledge is incredibly important, regardless of what these skulls end up being, human or otherwise, it is still important for unraveling the history of our past. These are obviously an incredibly mysterious group of people.
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Was de Grote Piramide een elektriciteitscentrale?
Was de Grote Piramide een elektriciteitscentrale?
Voor ons zijn skylines en straatverlichting vanzelfsprekend, maar kan het zijn dat men in het Oude Egypte en Mesopotamië al elektriciteit gebruikte? Op een graf onder het heiligdom van Hathor in het tempelcomplex van Dendera zijn bijvoorbeeld figuren te zien rond een soort gigantische gloeilamp.
Auteur Erich von Däniken maakte in een laboratorium een replica van de lamp, die een zwak paars licht produceerde. Waar haalden de oude Egyptenaren elektriciteit vandaan? In Bagdad zijn in de jaren dertig kruiken van klei gevonden die als een soort batterij werden gebruikt. De kruiken dateren van 230 voor Christus.
‘Gloeilamp’ onder het heiligdom van Hathor in Egypte (Lasse Jensen)
De kruiken werden gevuld met wijn of azijnzuur en produceerden 1,1 volt. Archeologen vermoeden dat ze werden gebruikt om te galvaniseren, een methode die gebruikmaakt van elektriciteit om een voorwerp te bedekken met een laagje metaal.
De batterijen zijn niet de enige theoretische stroombron. Sommigen claimen dat één van de meest iconische bouwwerken in Egypte dienst deed als een elektriciteitscentrale. Auteur Christopher Dunn schrijft in zijn boeken The Giza Power Plant en Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt dat de Grote Piramide van Gizeh werd gebruikt voor het opwekken van stroom.
Dat gebeurde volgens Dunn in de koningskamer, die net als de rest van de Grote Piramide voornamelijk uit roze graniet bestaat. Graniet bevat kleine kwartskristallen die onder druk spanning produceren, iets wat ook wel het piëzo-elektrisch effect wordt genoemd. Piëzo-elektriciteit wordt zeer veel toegepast; denk aan elektrische gasaanstekers, luidsprekers, inktjetprinters, maar ook in de autotechniek.
Volgens Dunn werd de granieten sarcofaag in de koningskamer gebruikt om trillingen van de aarde om te zetten in elektrische energie.
De la vapeur d'eau détectée dans l'atmosphère d'une exoplanète de la taille de Neptune
De la vapeur d'eau détectée dans l'atmosphère d'une exoplanète de la taille de Neptune
Pour la première fois, des chercheurs américains ont réussi à scruter l'atmosphère d'une exoplanète nettement plus petite que Jupiter. Une belle avancée.
Des astronomes ont détecté la présence de vapeur d'eau dans l'atmosphère d'une exoplanète lointaine de la taille de Neptune, soit quatre fois celle de la Terre : une bonne nouvelle pour les scientifiques qui pistent les molécules d'eau dans l'univers, à la recherche de signes de vie potentiels. Jusqu'à présent, les astronomes étaient seulement parvenus à mesurer la composition de l'atmosphère de grandes exoplanètes, de taille comparable à celle de la géante gazeuse Jupiter, soit la plus grosse planète de notre système solaire. "Ces nouvelles mesures marquent donc une avancée pour sonder les atmosphères de planètes plus petites", souligne la revue scientifique Nature qui publie l'étude réalisée par une équipe menée par Drake Deming et Jonathan Fraine de l'université du Maryland (États-Unis).
L'exoplanète en question est située à environ 124 années-lumière de la Terre dans la constellation du Cygne. Baptisée HAT-P-11b, elle est "la planète la plus petite et la plus froide à présenter des molécules d'eau détectables", souligne l'étude. Elle fait environ 4 fois le rayon de la Terre, mais 26 fois sa masse. En taille, elle est proche de Neptune, la planète du système solaire la plus éloignée de notre astre. Mais elle est bien plus proche de son étoile et donc beaucoup plus chaude (environ 600 degrés Celsius).
"Une pièce du puzzle"
Pour mener leur travail de détectives, les chercheurs ont scruté l'exoplanète à partir d'informations recueillies par les télescopes spatiaux Hubble et Spitzer de la NASA. Ils ont comparé ces données avec les observations du télescope spatial Kepler de la NASA lancé à la recherche d'exoplanètes. Lorsqu'une planète transite devant son étoile hôte, son atmosphère absorbe certains rayons de lumière. Grâce à la spectroscopie, il est possible de mesurer ce phénomène et de déterminer ainsi quels éléments chimiques se trouvent dans l'atmosphère. Mais plus la planète est petite, plus la recherche est délicate...
Jusqu'à présent, quatre exoplanètes de la taille de Neptune ou plus petites avaient été observées alors qu'elles passaient devant leur étoile, mais aucun signe d'absorption n'avait pu être mis en évidence sans doute à cause d'épais nuages, souligne l'astrophysicienne Eliza Kempton du Grinnell College dans l'Iowa (USA), scientifique extérieure à l'équipe de recherche, citée par Nature. HAT-P-11b, elle, n'a pas ce problème. Son atmosphère ne présente pas de nuages à haute altitude et les chercheurs ont pu établir qu'elle contenait de la vapeur d'eau. "Selon l'étude, sa composition pourrait être proche de celle des planètes géantes de notre système solaire : essentiellement de l'hydrogène avec des traces d'atomes plus lourds comme de l'oxygène sous forme de vapeur d'eau", relève Eliza Kempton.
Les astronomes traquent la présence d'eau sur les exoplanètes, car c'est une condition nécessaire - mais pas suffisante - pour permettre à la vie d'apparaître. Les chercheurs veulent aussi tester l'hypothèse selon laquelle d'autres planètes se sont formées de la même façon que celles de notre système solaire. "Trouver de la vapeur d'eau et de l'hydrogène sur HAT-P-11b "est une pièce clef du puzzle", cohérente avec les principales idées des astronomes sur la formation des planètes, estime Drake Deming, auteur principal de l'étude. Les exoplanètes sont des planètes en orbite autour d'une autre étoile que le Soleil. Elles se comptent par milliers. Leur composition atmosphérique peut apporter des indices sur leur formation et leur évolution.
(N.Morgan) Mars has been the focus of the space community for many years. The never ending question that has plagued the science world is could Mars be inhabitable? Much of a planet’s history can be deciphered by looking at its surface and asking what came first and what came next. For example, a lava flow that spreads out and fills a large impact crater is clearly younger than the crater, and a small crater on top of the same lava flow is younger than both the lava and the larger crater.
This principle, called the law of superposition, and other principles of stratigraphy, first formulated by Nicholas Steno in the 17th century, allowed geologists of the 19th century to divide the history of the Earth into the familiar eras of Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. The same methodology was later applied to the Moon and then to Mars.
Another stratigraphic principle used on planets where impact craters are well preserved is that of crater number density. The number of craters greater than a given size per unit surface area (usually million km2) provides a relative age for that surface. Heavily cratered surfaces are old, and sparsely cratered surfaces are young. Old surfaces have a lot of big craters, and young surfaces have mostly small craters or none at all.
In the video below, we will see images from Mars that frankly shouldn’t be there. Were these man-made objects or something else?
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
![HAT-P-11 Kepler light curve for [sim]4 yr of short cadence.](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v513/n7519/carousel/nature13785-sf6.jpg)
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