New Theory Behind Dozens of Craters Found in Siberia

March 2, 2015 - When a massive and mysterious hole was discovered in Siberia last July (see pictures), social media users pointed to everything from a meteorite to a stray missile to aliens to the Bermuda Triangle as possible causes. But the most plausible explanation seemed to be the explosive release of melting methane hydrate—an ice-like material frozen in the Arctic ground—thanks to global warming.

Now, scientists are arguing that the methane theory is unlikely, based on new satellite surveys released by Russian researchers that found dozens of new craters in Siberia.

"The jury is still out" on the cause of Siberia's craters, says Carolyn Ruppel, chief of the U.S. Geological Survey's Gas Hydrates Project. But she and other scientists say the new satellite mapping suggests another explanation that has to do with the rapid melting of ice cores called pingos.

A pingo is a plug of ice that forms near the surface over time and has a small mound or hill on top.

When an ice plug melts rapidly—as many have been, thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures in Siberia over the past year—it can cause part of the ground to collapse, forming a crater. But that process alone isn't enough to explain the ejected rocks that have been found around the rim of the craters, which suggest some sort of explosion.

Instead, Ruppel theorizes that the craters were formed by a sudden release of natural gas that had been stored in the permafrost but was kept under pressure by the weight of the pingo.

This theory is bolstered by the Russian satellite data, which show pingos—they appear as small mounds—in the exact positions where the craters later formed.

There are many more pingos across Siberia, as well as on Alaska's North Slope, so there's substantial risk of additional craters opening up as the planet continues to warm, Ruppel says.

Until this week, scientists had known about only three of the craters. In November, scientists from the Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration donned climbing gear and explored one of them, which was 54 feet (16.5 meters) deep.

But in response to the discovery of more holes, Moscow-based scientist Vasily Bogoyavlensky has called for an "urgent investigation" of the holes amid safety fears, since oil and gas operations are not far from the craters on Russia's remote Yamal Peninsula, in northern Siberia.

Bogoyavlensky, who is deputy director of Russia's Oil and Gas Research Institute, told Russian media this week that at least seven craters have now been detected by satellites, including one large hole that is surrounded by as many as 20 smaller craters. Two of the previously discovered craters have developed into lakes.

But Ruppel says methane hydrates are found only in permafrost on land at about 740 feet (225 meters) or deeper, which is much deeper than any of the observed craters (which are around 50 feet, or 15 meters, deep).

Watch the video of one of the holes below.

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02-03-2015 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

Plasma-driven satellites launched from Cape Canaveral

Two communications satellites blasted off Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, kicking off more than a half-year of novel maneuvers in orbit using plasma drive engines to position the spacecraft 22,300 miles above Earth and link the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Loaded with payloads for Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite, the Falcon 9 rocket started up its nine kerosene-fueled engines, passed an automated computer-run health check, and soared away from Cape Canaveral at 10:50 p.m. EST Sunday (0350 GMT Monday). The 22-story launcher steered due east from Florida’s Space Coast, casting an orange glow across a hazy moonlit sky as it climbed through the atmosphere atop 1.3 million pounds of ground-shaking thrust.

The slender white launcher, capped with an aerodynamic shroud covering the mission’s two satellite payloads, surpassed the speed of sound 73 seconds after liftoff. The booster’s nine Merlin engines cut off just shy of the mission’s three-minute mark, following by staging and ignition of a single-engine upper stage for the first of two firings on Sunday’s flight.

The rocket’s composite payload shroud jettisoned moments later, and the Falcon 9’s second stage engine switched off after accelerating to orbital velocity about nine minutes into the flight.

The engine fired again after a 17-minute coast phase as the Falcon 9 transited the Atlantic Ocean, then the rocket began a carefully-choreographed sequence to deploy the pair of two-ton satellites — first the ABS 3A spacecraft, then the Eutelsat 115 West B bird five minutes later.

The satellites reached a “supersynchronous” transfer orbit stretching up to 63,000 kilometers (39,146 miles) above Earth, with a low point of about 410 kilometers (254 miles) and an inclination of 24.8 degrees, according to Ken Betaharon, chief technology officer for ABS, which is based in Hong Kong and Bermuda.

The mission marked the first time SpaceX launched two large satellites in one flight, and the procedure was also the debut of a patented tandem payload stack developed by Boeing, which manufactured the Eutelsat 115 West B and ABS 3A spacecraft.

SpaceX bypassed an experimental booster flyback tried on previous Falcon 9 launches. The satellite duo on Sunday’s launch, with a combined weight of more than 9,000 pounds,  required the full measure of the Falcon 9’s propellant load.

The Falcon 9 released the satellites in an on-target orbit, and officials declared the launch a success, completing SpaceX third satellite delivery mission of the year and the medium-class rocket’s 16th mission overall.

The video below shows separation of the Eutelsat 115 West B satellite from the Falcon 9 rocket Sunday night.

Two more Falcon 9 launches are on track for liftoff in the next six weeks.

SpaceX’s next launch is set for March 21 with the TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space of France on behalf of the government of Turkmenistan.

The company’s next resupply mission to the International Space Station is due for launch around April 10.

Next up for the Eutelsat and ABS satellites is a series of intricate maneuvers to raise their orbits using only xenon-fueled ion thrusters, a design innovation incorporated for the first time into the tandem payloads launched Sunday.

The two spacecraft mark the debut for a new lightweight platform called the Boeing 702SP, which differs from other communications satellite designs with the removal of the large fuel tank that forms the core of most spacecraft.

Half of the weight of most communications satellites is taken up with fuel, sometimes carrying up to 5,000 pounds of liquid propellant for in-space maneuvers. The innovation of the Boeing 702SP allows satellite operators to order smaller spacecraft that can host extra communications capacity to replace the mass freed up with the removal of the fuel tanks, said Mark Spiwak, president of Boeing Satellite Systems International Inc.

“One of the big drivers was cost,” Spiwak said. “We’re able to get the launch cost significantly reduced, get more payload mass to orbit, and reduce the overall cycle time of (building each satellite).”

ABS 3A had a launch weight of about 4,400 pounds and rode in the upper position inside the Falcon 9 rocket’s nose cone. Eutelsat 115 West B was a little heavier at about 4,850 pounds, comprising a beefier central structure to help support the weight of the ABS spacecraft riding on top.

Large communications satellites built by Boeing and other companies have used electric propulsion before, but the spacecraft have always carried chemical rocket fuel to supplement their ion engines.

Without the need for liquid fuel, each satellite weighs less than 5,000 pounds. Betaharon said a spacecraft with comparable capabilities would weigh more than 8,000 pounds without the all-electric propulsion system.

With the reduced weight at launch, two lighter payloads can ride into orbit together on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which is only powerful enough to loft one large telecommunications satellite at a time.

The Falcon 9 rocket streaks downrange in this long exposure photograph. Credit: SpaceX

“The real driver for that lighter solution was to be able to stack two commercial communications satellites on top of each other and provide a dual launch,” said Mike Connelly, director of Boeing’s product line for the new 702SP platform. “When you look at the mass of a satellite, with kind of a classic satellite system, it’s dominated by the fuel load of the direct-to-orbit mission.

“Going to an all-electric system, you’re able to reduce the fuel load by almost a factor of 10,” Connelly said. “That fuel load reduction allowed us to stack the satellites on top of each other, and give the customers a two-for-one deal on the launch costs.”

Sunday’s launch was the first time Eutelsat or ABS flew a satellite with SpaceX, which has scooped up dozens of commercial launch contracts after undercutting the prices of competitors and logging successful flights to demonstrate the reliability of the global launch industry’s newest big player.

The Falcon 9’s delivery of the Eutelsat and ABS satellites to orbit Sunday also notched the first of at least a half-dozen launches this year with commercial communications payloads.

“SpaceX has a bunch of really bright young people,” Betaharon said in an interview with Spaceflight Now. “They need a little more experience, but to be fair to them, I think they have really worked very hard to accommodate us.

“They need a little bit more experience in planning … With these guys, they often have to make real-time decisions in their next steps and schedule, but I think that’s going to slowly disappear once they have enough launches behind them,” Betaharon said. “They are, like I said, a bunch of bright young people, and we’ve been here to support them. They need a little bit of adult supervision, but otherwise they are OK. But I think they are really hard-working people and very accommodating.”

The deal Eutelsat and ABS got for Sunday’s launch proved too good to pass up, and officials announced in March 2012 the selection of Boeing to build the satellites and SpaceX to launch them.

Artist’s concept of the Eutelsat 115 West B satellite. Credit: Boeing

Eutelsat and ABS paid less than $30 million a piece to launch their satellites on the Falcon 9, a benefit of the SpaceX launcher’s bargain prices and Boeing’s effort to shrink the mass of communications spacecraft, officials said.

Such a low price for the launch of a communications satellite is “almost unheard of,” according to Betaharon, a satellite industry veteran with more than 35 years of experience.

Another tandem Falcon 9 launch with Eutelsat and ABS spacecraft is scheduled before the end of 2015.

The downside of relying on ion thrusters to reshape the spacecraft’s orbit is it takes much longer — six months for ABS 3A and eight months for Eutelsat 115 West B — for the satellites to reach their final locations in geostationary orbit.

Compare that to less than a month for communications satellites with conventional liquid propellant.

“The advantage you get with xenon-ion is very high ISP (specific impulse, or efficiency), but the consequence is that the thrust is low and it takes longer to get from the transfer orbit to geosynchronous orbit,” Connelly said. “The basic science of the transfer orbit doesn’t change, it’s just the amount of time to get through the orbit-raising period.”

The thrusters are the same as the units flown on previous Boeing satellites, and they work by consuming xenon gas, using electricity to ionize the propellant, the spitting out plasma at high speed. The thrust delivered by the four engines on each satellite is comparable to the pressure exerted by holding a piece of paper, but the upside is the thrusters can fire nearly continuously.

ABS 3A’s destination is at 3 degrees west longitude, blanketing the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East with television programming, Internet services, cellular backhaul, and maritime communications capacity.

“If everything goes well, and we have no issues with the electric thrusters, it should be in orbit and operational around the end of August or the beginning of September timeframe and last for about 22 years,” Betaharon said.

The ABS 3A satellite (top) and the Eutelsat 115 West B satellite (bottom) are stacked inside Boeing’s factory in El Segundo, California. Credit: Boeing

The ABS payload hosts 24 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders, replacing and extending communications coverage currently provided by the ABS 3 satellite, which launched in 1997 and is nearing the end of its life.

“Virtually every geographic market you can see from that location, we are covering it with C- and Ku-band,” Betaharon said. “Also, the Ku-band beam covering Europe allows us to have a trans-Atlantic coverage from Europe to North America. That can be used for navigation or for other in-flight connections.

“Every service you can imagine that can be provided via satellite can be provided with this one,” Betaharon said. “We’ve got a very high-performance satellite, and the beams are very powerful, and some of the capacity is already spoken for ahead of time.”

The Eutelsat 115 West B satellite will slide into a parking slot at 114.9 degrees west longitude over Latin America.

“The launch of the next-generation Eutelsat 115 West B satellite is a milestone that will position us as a major satellite operator across the continent,” said Patricio Northland, CEO of Eutelsat Americas. “It will transform the 114.9 degrees west orbital position that is already a neighborhood of choice for fast-growing high-speed data and mobility markets in North and South America.”

Eutelsat acquired the spacecraft launched Sunday with the French operator’s purchase of Mexico’s Satmex in 2014. Satmex originally negotiated the satellite’s manufacturing and launch deals with Boeing, SpaceX and ABS in 2012.

“This satellite will address data services, including broadband access, cellular backhaul, VSAT solutions and social connectivity,” said Michel de Rosen, CEO of Eutelsat.

The new satellite — fitted with 34 Ku-band and 12 C-band transponders — will replace a former Satmex spacecraft launched in December 1998 and reach customers in a wide swath of the Americas from Alaska to Patagonia. It also carries an instrument package for the Federal Aviation Administration to improve air navigation over the United States.

Eutelsat says it is the first of five new spacecraft the company expects to launch this year.

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02-03-2015 om 23:12 geschreven door peter  

To survive we must leave earth...

As the way earth is going we are directing ourselves and our planet to extinction. As now a days we
have the global warming really quickly, we all have seen it and eventually the sun will accelerate global warming to a point where all of Earth's water will simply evaporate. In a billion years from now the Earth will be a very hot, dry and uninhabitable place.  We have extreme climate changes that leave everyone with the mouth wide open all year long. The world population is expanding at exponential rate what leads us to diminishing natural resources vital to our survival and no one is doing anything to replace them with sustainable alternatives or try to grow our natural resources.  Even if the humans manages not to push itself to the a nuclear war and extinction, there are thesis telling us that our aging sun will expand and swallow the planet in roughly 7.6 billion years.

Stephen Hawking said in an interview with Big Think "I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space.  It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load." 

Hawking says he is an optimist, but as in the recent past, humankind's survival has been nothing short of "a question of touch and go" he says, citing the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963 as one example of how we narrowly escaped extinction. According to the Federation of American Scientists there are still about 22,600 stockpiled nuclear weapons scattered around the planet, 7,770 of which are still operational.  Because of this the threat of a nuclear holocaust has not subsided. Probably the frequency of nuclear weapon use in the future will increase, because every country that has power will be fighting for the resources that they let die in the first place. The nuclear weapon threat and even use will be our everyday bread.  Every country wants power, resources and want to live, which will be really difficult with everything that is adding up to this time ticking bomb that we let our planet become.  We just hope that the negotiations are taken with care and judgment or the years remaining on our planet are going to be less that we think now.  

Hawking also said that between next thousand years it will take man to make the planet uninhabitable and the billion years it will take for the sun to turn our planet into an arid wasteland, there is always the chance in the middle that a nearby supernova, an asteroid,  a black hole could do us in. 

So the future is not so bright for our planet between global warming, contamination, increased population, nuclear weapons, natural resources reduction and every human being not caring for what really matters instead of oil, money and power.  We must do something now, because sadly finding another habitable planet to live in is far from reality. Just saying that the nearest star Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years away, so to travel to it we have to be flying at the speed of light for 4.2 years. Obliously we are far from light travel for 4.2 years with a craft full of humans.  If we travel in chemical fuel rockets we have use the trip would take about 50,000 years, so no humans will survive this journey. Sadly we are in the path to extintion faster than we ever think of...

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02-03-2015 om 23:01 geschreven door peter  

Pluto is eigenlijk groter dan de aarde (als we atmosfeer meerekenen) - HLN.be

Bron: Buzzfeed, pluto.jhuapl.edu 

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Oké, het rotsachtige gedeelte van Pluto is natuurlijk veel kleiner dan de onze planeet aarde. Zelfs kleiner dan onze maan. Maar als we de atmosfeer meerekenen, dan liggen de kaarten plots anders.

Planeten hebben atmosferen, ook dwergplaneten als Pluto. Hoe ver de atmosfeer van Pluto precies reikt, is moeilijk te meten. Maar uit onderstaand beeld blijkt dat Pluto mét atmosfeer plots groter is dan onze aarde mét dampkring. NASA-wetenschapper Michael Summers postte de tekening vorige week op de blog van New Horizons (over een missie naar Pluto), waar hij aan meewerkt.

"Als we de atmosfeer van Pluto definiëren zoals we dat met die van de aarde doen, dan is de buitenkant van die van Pluto minstens zeven keer diens radius boven de oppervlakte. Dat betekent dat het volume van Pluto's atmosfeer meer dan 350 keer dat van Pluto zelf is! Dit illustreert wat voor een vreemde en wonderlijke nieuwe wereld we gaan binnentreden en verkennen."

En dit is dan nog een bescheiden schatting. Pluto's atmosfeer zou weleens nóg groter kunnen zijn dan op deze foto. Het is wachten op de bevindingen van New Horizons om daarover uitsluitsel te krijgen.

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02-03-2015 om 22:56 geschreven door peter  

Woman Takes A Video Of A Triangle-Shaped UFO Over Mississippi

As most parts of North Mississippi were being dumped by snow, one woman claims she saw something that should not be part of a winter. Paranormal investigator Angela Ashton believes she saw a UFO. Ashton, a certified member of Cryptic Shadows Paranormal Research, says she ran outside when she saw the object to get a video of it.

Ashton says that the UFO was at least of the same size of a football field. According to her report, she was laying in her bed when she saw a huge, bright blinding light through a huge window of her bedroom.

Ashton says that the strange object hovered silently as she recorded it above a nearby field on Craft Road in Lewisburg, Mississippi. When she can’t resist the cold outside, she ran inside. She then saw the object shot up and vanished.

The 15-year-old witness claims she has been seeing things she can’t explain but for her, this is the first one worthy of reporting. She reveals that she has been witnessing bright lights in a similar location for several nights in the past couple of days, but all of them were not compelling to encourage her to run outside and record the activity.

It was only when the craft was much brighter, much closer and very visible when she decided to run outside at 12:46AM CST and started filming. Because of her excitement, she ran on a barefoot and stayed in the snow for a short time while filming the large UFO.

The object had hovered for approximately 20 minutes before it disappeared, according to the witness. She saw the lights pulsating and appeared to glow a red color at times. She described the shape of the craft as triangular, and because it was hovering so low, she saw the object clearly, like a 3D effect. She further claims that she saw the large UFO ejecting smaller orb lights, but not clear from her vantage point.

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02-03-2015 om 22:50 geschreven door peter  

UFOs debated in Schuylkill Haven

By Amy Marchiano

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — A group of people interested in learning more about unidentified flying objects met Saturday.

They were there to learn more about the Mutual UFO Network. The organization began in 1969 and MUFON’s goals, according to its website, are to “investigate UFO sightings and collect the data in the MUFON database for use by researchers worldwide, promote research on UFOs to discover the true nature of the phenomenon, with an eye toward scientific breakthroughs, and improving life on our planet and educate the public on the UFO phenomenon and its potential impact on society.”

The company is based in Newport Beach, California, and has about 3,000 members. Using the MUFON database, one can research alleged UFO sightings. No alleged incidents are yet listed as occurring in Schuylkill County. In Pennsylvania, there are 50 listed cases. The closest such alleged sighting is in Allentown in Nov. 15, 2014, where someone claimed to have seen three black round objects flying next to each other, according to the database.

However, the approximate 40 people who attended a MUFON meeting in Schuylkill Haven at 950 E. Main St. learned that the organization gets about 30 reports every month in Pennsylvania, Bill Weber, chief investigator for the state, said.

Weber and Dan Medleycott, state section director for MUFON, talked for about 2 hours about the organization and answered questions from audience members after being invited by Bob Seltzer, president of the Seltzer Group, an insurance broker. Seltzer has been a member of MUFON for five years. A former classmate from college told him about the group.

Weber explained at the meeting how one can become a field investigator, which is someone authorized to take reports on UFO sightings. He also said there are a number of alleged sightings around the world. In January, he said, there were 721 global sightings. Of those, he said, 575 were for suspected extraterrestrial-related UFO sightings reported to MUFON. For example, in California in January there were 90 such reports, he said. Pennsylvania had 29 that were reported to the MUFON headquarters in California.

“Each case gets the same level of investigation,” Weber said.

Medleycott told attendees about attempts to get information on purported sightings.

Weber said there were no landings reported in January “or entities observed. We get those too.”

He urged those in the audience and the wider public to report anything suspicious to MUFON at www.mufon.com.

“Others talk. But we investigate them (the alleged incidents),” he said.

Joining MUFON is not for the faint of heart, Medleycott and Weber said.

“We start getting involved in this stuff and all the sudden I start to hear clicking on my cellphone,” Weber said.

He does not think we are alone in this universe.

“They’re here. They’ve been here. There is some agenda,” he said of what they call extraterrestrial biological entities.

When asked to clarify, Weber said, the beings are here somewhere on the planet. He realizes that people might be skeptical about what he believes or what MUFON does but said it is unrealistic to think we are alone in the universe. He is not aware of any reported sightings in Schuylkill County or UFOs or otherwise. He did say that a woman said she was abducted by something at Washington Crossing State Park in Bucks County about 10 years ago and he believes her.

Tom Mohan, 63, of Schuylkill Haven, came out to learn more about the unknown.

“I’m interested in what might be out there,” he said.

He does not believe that we are alone in the universe.

“We can’t be that naive,” he said.

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02-03-2015 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

NASA Receives Proposals for More Solar System Exploration

(Photo : By Harman Smith and Laura Generosa (nee Berwin), graphic artists and contractors to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (http://www.nasa.gov/) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

02-03-2015 om 20:46 geschreven door peter  

The True Story of Travis Walton – New Film

This is the teaser for the New Film “Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton”. From Jen Stein. Promo produced by Ron James of Ivolve TV.

02-03-2015 om 20:42 geschreven door peter  

UFOs allegedly hover and merge in Leicestershire (VIDEO)

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A women in Leicestershire, England awoke on February 3 to find two UFOs hovering in the sky near her home in the town of Earl Shilton.

The witness claims she got out of bed at approximately 4:50 a.m. that morning to investigate strange noises. She ventured downstairs, but, after finding nothing, she decided to return to bed. And that is when she noticed two bright lights through the window that appeared to be floating in the sky over nearby Barwell.

(Credit: Lufoin/Hinckley Times)

She managed to record twenty seconds of video showing the two UFOs that reportedly “kept merging into one and moving side to side.” The lights allegedly shot off together at an incredible speed.

The sighting is being investigated by the Leicestershire UFO Investigation Network (Lufoin). “We don’t have a clue at the minute,” says investigator Joanne Kavanagh. “We are trying to rule out whether it was an aircraft – we know it wasn’t anything to do with a police helicopter and we are still waiting to hear from the air ambulance.”

The two UFOs allegedly merging. (Credit: Lufoin/Hinckley Times)

She explains to the Hinckley Times, “A lot of incidents can be linked to Chinese lanterns or drones but I don’t believe the orbs moved in the same way.”

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02-03-2015 om 20:15 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 3/2/15

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• Is this a UFO? Video released of unidentified objects – ITV News
• Kids thought UFO had crashed after car takes out 2 power poles in South Richmond – WTVR
• UFO survival game Orphan hits Kickstarter goal, PS4 version still possible – GamesRadar
• UFOs debated in Schuylkill Haven – Republican & Herald
• Did VA just confirm UFO dangers? – Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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02-03-2015 om 20:08 geschreven door peter  

Amazing Cloaked UFOs Photographed in Logansport, Indiana

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In Logansport Indiana on a partly cloudy day the colorful object appeared in the blue part of the cloudless sky around 3:00 on February 4, 2015. We didn’t notice the additional objects until the pictures were developed.
  

First noticed it at 3rd & Market intersection while stopped at a stoplight heading east. My wife took the pictures, from out the side door (The window was rolled down). 

 

My wife and I seen the objects several blocks ahead. The best view of it was when drove east a couple blocks from the right lane. I was shocked and fascinated at the same time. I drove under the approximate sighting area and that’s when I lost sight of it. Mufon case 63671.

 

 

 

 

Links original ’4608×3456′ images.

 

http://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/63671_submitter_file1__feb12015301.JPG

 

http://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/63671_submitter_file2__feb12015302.JPG

 

http://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/63671_submitter_file3__feb12015303.JPG

 

Thanks http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/

02-03-2015 om 20:03 geschreven door peter  

Huge UFO Spotted On SOHO image – Mar 2015 (Video)

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An unusually gigantic UFO-like object was spotted near the sun on NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) This isn’t the first UFO seen orbiting the Sun but it’s certainly one of the most remarkable Unidentified Flying Objects.
  

As always, there is much debate whether it is a UFO or not. I came across an article published by NASA in 2003/1/17.

According to NASA “Most commonly, UFO claims are due to perfectly natural flaws or artifacts in our publicly available data and images, having gone through a strikingly similar “enhancement” used to “prove” the existence of UFOs.”

NASA: “Ever since launch, there’s been a number of people who’ve claimed to have seen flying saucers and other esoteric objects in SOHO images. Although some of these supposed pictures of UFOs can seem quite intriguing, they have always turned out to have a quite ordinary cause when examined by experienced SOHO scientists.”

“In recent days, we’ve been receiving so many questions and claims that we’d like to set the record straight: We’ve never seen anything that even suggests that there are UFOs “out there”.

“In the past we’ve been accused of “covering up” UFO evidence when we present our explanations, and of “refusing to comment” (or “clamming up”) when we give up on somebody who won’t accept our explanations.”

NASA continues: “Yes, this was a picture from SOHO, but didn’t show any UFO! We believe similar “enhancements”, possibly starting with other types of image artifacts (see below for details), are behind all of the recently published “UFO proof” claims. Claims without the time and date of the picture(s) are close to worthless, because the data processing cannot be verified by others.”
 

Despite NASA’s explanation and their attempt to damage the credibility of the UFO community the object, as shown on the SOHO LASCO C3 image of 2015/03/01 see first image and video below, is not enhanced or manipulated, it is not related or connected to a solar event or CME, it is a stand-alone object, even, it has a solid structure which makes me believe that this object is more than just a natural flaw or artifact.

  

Thanks http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/

02-03-2015 om 19:58 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Fireball Explodes Over Kerala, India – February 2015 (Video)

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There is a secret space war going on?

Once again strange objects falling out of the sky after a mysterious fireball explodes over Kerala in India.

The sighting of suspected fireball-like phenomenon, reportedly accompanied with booming sound in some cases, triggered panic across the city and its suburbs on Friday night.

As news spread like wildfire, people came out of their homes in droves in many places with their eyes cast towards the sky. Similar sightings were reported from many parts of the city such as Vyttila, Kakkanad, Vypeen, Palarivattom, and Kathrikkadavu and even from suburbs such as Paravur, Kizhakkambalam, Mazhuvannoor, Kolancherry and Fort Kochi.

According to TheHindu, Aneesha and Sumesh who were at a restaurant at Fort Kochi claimed to have sighted a lit-up sky reminiscent of fireworks at around 10 p.m. “The sky soon turned blue as it happens just before rain. We felt as if it happened very close to us.

Fire units were dispatched from the Gandhi Nagar unit following panic-stricken calls from residents at Vyttila. However, their officials could not trace any visible evidence of a drop of fireball to the earth.
 

There are also reports that people found strange-looking stones from Kuruppampadi near Perumbavur and Akkampara near Kolancherry, writesManoramaOnline.

And a metallic strip looking like a part an aluminum pot was recovered from Poochakkal near Cherthala.

Samples have been collected from two sites–one each in Mazhuvannur and Karumaloor villages from where reports of objects falling out of the sky, district collector M.G. Rajamanickam told The Hindu.

Prof. Joe Jacob, faculty member, Department of Physics, Newman College, Thodupuzha, pointed towards the involvement of a meteor. “However, that conclusion is purely going by the witness accounts and cannot be scientifically confirmed,” he said.
 

Original video of the fireball.

  

 

Video of strange metallic strip found on impact site. 

Video of impact site.

Video of fire on impact site.

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02-03-2015 om 19:51 geschreven door peter  

‘Now Here’s A Real UFO’ — Mysterious Footage Baffles Online UFO Community (Video)     

02-03-2015 om 19:43 geschreven door peter  

Mermaids Are Aliens

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Mermaids Are Aliens 

02-03-2015 om 19:40 geschreven door peter  

Sunken Pyramids and Sphinxes: Was Atlantis Discovered in the Bermuda Triangle?

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Sunken Pyramids and Sphinxes: Was Atlantis Discovered in the Bermuda Triangle? 

 Scientists Paul Weinzweig and Pauline Zalitzki have discovered some unusual structures while working off the coast of Cuba. The structures were found with the aid of sonar and robot submersibles at a depth of about 2,200 feet (670 meters), smack in the middle of the infamous Bermuda Triangle.

Samples that we recovered from the ocean bottom have justified our structures that we call megalithic structures. The samples are granite stone, completely polished, with some incrustations of fossils. Fossils of organic creatures that normally live on the surface, not on the ocean bottom. This is very interesting because this is evidence that the whole surface sank to the depth of 700 meters (2,297 feet, or about a half mile down),” Zalitzki was quoted as saying.

Among the sunken ruins, the researchers identified several sphinxes and at least four giant pyramids, all of them larger than the ones in the Giza plateau.

Their report indicates the ancient city was flooded by rising waters while the land was sinking into the sea. These events most likely happened at the end of the last Ice Age, around 12,000 years ago. At the moment, this theory supports the legend of Atlantis.

3-D rendering of the sonar data

So why haven’t we heard about it? Why are there no documentaries, expeditions to the area and museum exhibits showcasing the findings?

Well, according to journalist Luis Mariano Fernandez, the city had been discovered decades ago and access to the site was cut off during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The U.S. government discovered the alleged place during the Cuban missile crisis in the sixties. Nuclear submarines cruising in the Gulf (in deep sea) met pyramid structures. They immediately shut down the site and took control of him [sic] and the objects, in order that it will not come to Russians hands.” 

Using a remotely operated underwater vehicle, Weinzweig and Zalitzki discovered huge pyramid structures that were similar, albeit much larger than Egyptian ones.

Sonar images of the underwater structures

They believe the stones used in the construction of these megalithic monuments had to be very large, perhaps weighing several hundred tons. However, mainstream science does not admit to the existence of advanced technology in prehistoric times. Something is amiss here.

“It has been confirmed that the stones were cut, carved and polished to make them fit together and thus form larger structures. On the strange inscriptions, some of them similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics, very little is known, except that they are very abundant and found in almost all parts of the field. There have also appeared symbols and drawings whose meaning is unknown,” writes Fernandez.

Zalitzki has found similar symbols on the island of Cuba and she believes they are identical to those found engraved on the underwater structures. Interestingly enough, legends of the primitive cultures (such as the Olmecs) in the northern part of Central America tell how their ancestors came from Atlanticú, an island that sank during a cataclysm.

Several archaeologists have stated that the Olmecs might have devolved from the Atlantean survivors, the remnants of their superior culture fading during the course of thousands of years. Atlantis only survived in their mythology and through a passing reference made by Plato.

It is worth noting that many unconventional historians believe there is a strong connection between the Atlanteans and the ancient Egyptians. They believe the Egyptian culture was influenced, even guided by the survivors of the Atlantis catastrophe.

Their claims appear to be supported by the discovery of pyramids and sphinxes off the coast of Cuba and corroborated by legends from all around the world.

However, until complete evidence (re)surfaces, we are left to speculate, as we always have.

02-03-2015 om 19:33 geschreven door peter  

Many Witnesses To Hugh Triangle Ufo Over Illinois

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MANY WITNESSES TO HUGH TRIANGLE OVER ILLINOIS

JANUARY 5, 2000  …….     ST CLAIR COUNTY ILLINOIS

On Wednesday, January 05, 2000, the National UFO Reporting Center received two telephone messages (at 0316 and 0351 hrs. Pacific Standard Time) from Officer Thomas “Ed” Barton, employed by the Lebanon, IL, Police Department. The messages apprised our Center that a UFO sighting had occurred in St. Clair County, Illinois, and in surrounding areas, at approximately 0410 hrs. (Central) earlier that morning.  Later the same morning, we were able to talk to Officer Barton, who reported to us the following:  At approximately 0410 hrs. (Central) on that morning, he overheard an announcement by the St. Clair (IL) Emergency Dispatch operator that a citizen had entered the Highland, IL, police station, and requested that an officer go outside and view a very peculiar object that was hovering nearby in the sky. The citizen had witnessed the bizarre looking object on his way to work, and he apparently refused to leave the station until a police officer had viewed the object with him.  Having heard the announcement about the incident over his radio, Officer Barton looked to the southeast from his location in Lebanon, and noticed two extremely bright white lights suspended in the sky, close to the horizon. The two lights were radiating so much light that the spectacle reminded Officer Barton of the Japanese “Rising Sun” symbol, used on the Japanese battle flag. A very short period of time later, the two large lights appeared to merge into one, and the illumination the object was radiating appeared to increase dramatically.  Officer Barton began driving south and east in attempt to approach the object. He turned his overhead flashers on, and at times was driving at 75-80 m.p.h. toward the object, which was still generally to the southeast of his position. After a short period of time, Officer Barton realized that the object appeared to be traveling toward him.  He stopped his vehicle, extinguished his overhead flashers, and rolled down the window on the passenger side of his vehicle. The object approached his location, and passed overhead at an estimated altitude of 1,000 to 1,500 feet, and within an estimated 100 feet lateral distance of his position on the ground. It was headed generally to the west, or northwest, at this time. The object was distinctly triangular in shape, with three white lights on the apices of the triangle, and it exhibited a “galaxy” of peculiar lights on its aft end, including white, hues of red or pink, and perhaps other colors, as well.

After passing overhead Officer Barton, the object suddenly turned to its left, without either banking or yawing apparently, it suddenly accelerated quite dramatically, and seemed to “streak” to the west, covering approximately 8 miles, the officer estimated, in approximately 3 seconds.  (Note: Officer Barton, in multiple telephone conversations with our organization, and during at least one radio broadcast, has emphasized how almost unbelievably quickly the object accelerated and moved a considerable distance to the southwest in just a few seconds. Its velocity was almost unimaginable, he reports. This is one aspect of the case that strongly suggest to us that the object almost certainly was not of human manufacture.)  He radioed St. Clair County Emergency Dispatch, apprising them that he had the object in sight, and advising them as to the direction it had moved, generally to the southwest. He recommended that dispatch contact units to the south and west of his position, e.g. Shiloh, Millstadt and Dupo, to have the officers there attempt to spot the object from their vantage points.  Apparently at least one officer from Shiloh, IL, witnessed the object next, and two other officers, who have not come forward and who apparently do not wish to be identified, witnessed the object while they were standing in the cemetery of their town, as well.  An officer from the Millstadt Police Department, Officer Craig Stevens, with whom NUFORC also spoke, overheard the broadcast, and moved his cruiser to a dark part of that town to see if he could spot the object in the night sky. He quickly spotted the object to the west of his location, at approximately 45 degrees above the horizontal plane, and gauged its size as “huge.” He estimated that it was “one or two stories” tall, and perhaps three stories long.” It had several very bright lights on it.  St. Clair Dispatch requested that someone, if possible, attempt to get a photograph of the object. In response to that request, Officer Stevens removed polaroid-type camera stored in the trunk of his cruiser and quickly photographed the object. Because the outside temperature was low, approximately 18-20 degrees (F), neither the camera, nor the film functioned well, so the resolution of the photograph is not good.  After Officer Stevens had taken the photograph, the object appeared to move further to the west, moving toward Dupo, IL, Cahokia, IL, and St. Louis, MO. A Dupo police officer may have witnessed the object at that time.  In the final analysis, the police departments and communities involved in the incident include the following: Highland, Summerfield, Lebanon, Shiloh, Mascoutah, Millstadt, Dupo, and Cahokia, Illinois. The object was observed by officers from at least the following communities (in chronological sequence): Lebanon, Shiloh, Millstadt, Dupo, and Cahokia.
Notes and Addenda:
1)     1.  Scott Air Force Base: At one point during the sighting, we estimate, the object was within 2-3 statute miles of Scott Air Force Base. However, an official spokesman for that base reportedly made an official statement to the effect that A) their tower was closed for approximately one hour during the time of the sighting; B) their base radar had been turned off for unspecified reasons during the same hour; and 3) none of their personnel was aware of the sighting, and none had seen the object.
2)     2.   NUFORC has received several unconfirmed reports that shortly after the incident, several of the police departments involved in the sighting, and several of the actual eyewitnesses to the incident, received visits from two, or more, individuals, who are active employees from the federal government. They requested that the parties involved in the incident curtail all their statements to the press. We are unable to confirm these reports at the time this Summary Statement is being prepared.
3)      3.  Alleged intercept by military aircraft: NUFORC has an unconfirmed report from a highly reliable source that jet fighters from a nearby Air National Guard unit may have been “scrambled” to take a look at the object. The nearest ANG unit we are aware of is the Missouri Air National Guard, which flies F-15’s out of Lambert Field/St. Louis Airport. We have a second hand report that personnel at the airport witnessed a take-off of F-15’s at approximately 0420 hrs. that morning. We have a second report from an individual who remembers having been awakened at approximately the time of the sighting by the sound of military jets taking off from Lambert Field.
4)     4.   Other witnesses: NUFORC has received a report from a woman who was driving to work that morning and allegedly witnessed the object. We are awaiting her written report. Other witnessed have asserted that they may have seen the object earlier to the north, near Lake Michigan. We have received no written reports of such sightings. We also have an unconfirmed report that the object was video taped during the early part of the sighting. This fact, too, is yet to be confirmed. 

NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

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02-03-2015 om 19:06 geschreven door peter  

Project Serpo, the Exchange Program Between Humans and Aliens

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Project Serpo, the Exchange Program Between Humans and Aliens 

02-03-2015 om 18:56 geschreven door peter  

Are Ufos Deemed Demonic?

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02-03-2015 om 18:53 geschreven door peter  

Een UFO zo groot als een voetbalveld ( Video )

Het volgende verhaal dat zich enkele dagen geleden in Amerika afspeelde, bevat een paar interessante aspecten.

Niet alleen ging het om een enorme UFO, maar ook hier weer was volgens de getuige sprake van kleinere UFO’s die de grote verlieten.


Het betreft een waarneming van paranormale onderzoekster Angela Ashton. Nu hebben we onlangs geschreven dat het misschien niet zo vreemd is dat sommige mensen overal UFO’s waarnemen en anderen niet.

Dat dit misschien te maken zou kunnen hebben met een bepaalde gevoeligheid die de één wel bezit en de ander niet. Daarom is het bijzonder dat deze waarneming afkomstig is van iemand die zich al dagelijks bezighoudt in de paranormale wereld.

In ieder geval, Angela lag ’s avonds in bed in Lewisburg in de Amerikaanse staat Mississippi, heeft een groot raam zonder gordijnen en werd wakker doordat ze het volgende waarnam:



Volgens haar was de UFO of UFO’s enorm en had de grootte van een voetbalveld. Zij is er heilig van overtuigd dat we hier niet te maken hebben met een aards object, maar dat de oorsprong absoluut buitenaards is.

Ze licht het één en ander verder toe in een interview met de lokale televisiezender.

Daarin zegt ze nog iets wat deze zaak interessant maakt. Dat is dat ze dacht dat de grote UFO kleinere losliet, maar dat ze daar niet honderd procent zeker van is. Ook dit is iets wat de laatste tijd steeds meer voor lijkt te komen bij waarnemingen.

Ook hier was het schip volkomen geluidloos, hing een tijd stil, had pulserende lichten en verdween vervolgens. Het was trouwens niet de eerste keer dat Angela daar die lichten waarnam, maar wel dat ze zo duidelijk waren.

Aangezien Angela in bed lag toen ze de lichten voor het eerst zag die bewuste avond is ze in haar opwinding zo de sneeuw ingelopen om het te kunnen filmen. Dat is de reden dat ze dit dan ook niet zo lang vol heeft kunnen houden en het filmpje helaas betrekkelijk kort is, maar boeiend om te zien..

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02-03-2015 om 18:41 geschreven door peter