Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
25-04-2015
UFO specialist shares experiences
UFO specialist shares experiences
Photo: NickPope.net
Nick Pope, a science fiction author and one of the world’s leading UFO experts, will present a lecture on his research and investigations into extraterrestrial phenomenon 7 p.m. Thursday in Rogers-Stout Hall Room 102.
The event is coordinated by the Mary B. Martin School of the Arts and the ETSU Department of Literature and Languages.
Pope is originally from London and developed a 21-year career of investigating UFOs at the Ministry of Defense in the United Kingdom.
“I had to investigate all the sightings reported to me, but I knew that most of these things were going to turn out to be misidentifications,” Pope said. “I would interview the people, I would check whether anything unusual was tracked on radar. If we had a photograph or a video, I would send it to various air force experts, and I tried to be open minded in my approach and just come to a conclusion about what was going on.”
Pope’s responsibility during these investigations was to find out the precise date, time and location of the sighting and provide a detailed description — shape, speed, size and color of the object.
“Most sightings obviously did turn out just to be crossed light, weather balloons, meteoroids, that sort of thing,” Pope said. “But 5 percent we couldn’t explain and I think this is where it gets controversial.”
These inexplicable instances were mysterious because there were sometimes multiple witnesses, such as police officers or military personnel, and the sightings were sometimes backed up by photographic and video evidence.
Some sightings could also be tracked on radar and undergo a technical analysis.
“We couldn’t entirely rule out that theory but we certainly couldn’t prove it either,” Pope said.
Pope said many people believe mysteries and unexplained theories are in some way connected with UFOs.
“We’ve got people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens, we’ve got people who wanted to ask what we knew about crop circles,” Pope said. “I think, in conspiracy theories, the government is always the bad guy so we were the ones really being accused of a cover-up and we had many people who were sometimes quite hostile.”
Pope said the way to react to this was to try to be supportive and keep an open mind.
“We wanted to solve the mystery, but people always think the government has all the answers, but the funny thing is often that is not the case,” Pope said.
Some of Pope’s former investigations are in the process of being declassified and released to the public.
“We recognize that there is a lot of interest in this and we genuinely tried to be helpful,” Pope said. “We always tried to help them with information but of course there were a small number of people that didn’t believe us and thought we had a spaceship hidden away in an air force hangar somewhere.”
Pope later applied what he learned conducting these investigations to his science fiction writing.
He is the author of two sci-fi novels: “Operation Thunder Child” and its sequel “Operation Lightning Strike.”
On Thursday and Friday, Pope will speak in two classes: Creative Writing Fiction and Studies in English: Monsters and Literature to share his experience with science fiction .
“I like to challenge myself, so my first books were non-fiction and I just wrote about my own government investigations on UFOs, but then I thought it would be more challenging to take that a step further and ask what if,” Pope said. “I think people are fascinated by the idea of where science and technology might take you.”
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Researchers discover what was located on top of the Great Pyramid in Egypt
Researchers discover what was located on top of the Great Pyramid in Egypt
April 25, 2015 - The investigations of renowned Spanish architect Miguel Pérez-Sánchez that lasted over ten years, allowed him to rebuild via computer models and with great accuracy, the pyramid of Cheops and determine that it was “crowned” by a sphere of 2 meters in diameter.
Pérez Sánchez announced his discovery in a publication of the book containing his doctoral thesis where he explained that “the pyramid of Cheops, according to analysis, demonstrates that it was an encyclopedia of knowledge.”
The Great Pyramid is the most important building of the Old Kingdom, it is one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, the only one that remains standing today. Devoid of its original coating blocks of white limestone, the great Pyramid lacks its summit which gave the pyramid another 9 meters in height. Now, researchers know the exact shape of the object that was placed on top of the pyramid.
As proposed by Pérez-Sánchez, the sphere that the ancient Egyptians placed at the top of the pyramid symbolized the Eye of Horus and had a diameter of 2,718 royal cubits (2.7 meters), which is the accurate measure of the number e. The sphere located on the Pyramid was placed as a worship to the Sun and Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, which was associated with Isis.
Pérez-Sánchez had the support of a multidisciplinary team in his investigation, allowing him to construct a computer replica of the Great Pyramid like never before.
The three-dimensional drawing of the Great Pyramid has revealed its original measurements, analyzing it, allowed researchers to understand the historical significance of the monument. In addition of the sphere located on top of the pyramid, missing today, analysis enabled researchers to find out the inclination angle of 51,84º, the platform that supported the sphere with a pi perimeter of royal cubits; and the height of the pyramidal vertex of 277 778 cubits, equal to the quotient of dividing 1,000,000 between 3,600. According to Pérez-Sánchez, the discovery of the original shape and dimensions of the Great Pyramid, its reconstruction and analysis revealed an architecture made of pure mathematics, geometry, geodesy and astronomy.
The original surface of the pyramid, now in ruins, was 100,000 times the number pi (π) 3000 years ahead of the understanding of π.
The ancient Egyptians that planned the Pyramid had an incredible scientific knowledge, understanding the Pythagorean Theorem two millennium ahead of time, a precision in the definition of pi with 6 decimals 3 millennia ahead of its time, including the knowledge of the number e, and the accurate measures of the Earth, Sun and Sirius anticipated over 4 millennia.
The geodesic dependence of the Great Pyramid has been confirmed by scaling relations based on the sexagesimal system. The weight of the pyramid is estimated at 5,955,000 tons. Multiplied by 10^8 gives a reasonable estimate of the earth’s mass. It also represents the Sun’s Radius: Twice the perimeter of the bottom of the granite coffer times 10^8 is the sun’s mean radius. [270.45378502 Pyramid Inches* 10^8 = 427,316 miles]
Thanks to the astronomical data provided by Plutarch, researchers managed to place the incredible monument in its historical context understanding why Pharaoh Khufu had commissioned these incredible projects.
This is believed to be the reason why, Snefru, father of Khufu, built during his reign, three pyramids in search for the “perfect pyramid” which explains the efforts of the architects of the Pyramid, to include within the Great Pyramid, their knowledge of the past.
More importantly, Pérez-Sánchez mentions the great Sphinx in his work, stating that “the Great Sphinx is not contemporary with the pyramids that surround it, but it is the product of a much earlier civilization that shaped and carved it around the eight millennium BC.
"Alien Light" --A Key to the Discovery of Habitable Worlds
"Alien Light" --A Key to the Discovery of Habitable Worlds
“We’re combining techniques to discover new information about how planets form, their range of properties and what sorts of planets are most common, with the eventual goal of finding terrestrial planets and venues for life in the universe,” said James Graham, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy who leads the new “Exoplanets Unveiled” project.
UC Berkeley astronomers will lead one of 16 new projects funded by NASA to coordinate different exoplanet searches to more efficiently find habitable planets around other stars, and perhaps extraterrestrial life itself. The project, led by Graham, will bring together researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford University and coordinate their efforts with other researchers across the United States. The budget for the four-year project is $3.25 million.
The Berkeley and Stanford teams are involved in two major exoplanet searches: a highly successful search for exoplanets based on the wobble they produce in a star’s motion or the dimming they create when they transit in front of a star; and a newly launched survey by the Gemini Planet Imager to directly take pictures of planets by capturing the heat they give off.
UC Berkeley’s “exoplanets unveiled” project is part of the NExSS (Nexus for Exoplanet System Science) initiative announced April 21 by NASA to bring together the “best and brightest,” according to a NASA press release. NExSS is conceived as a virtual institute marshalling the expertise of 10 universities, three NASA centers and two research institutes to better understand the various components of an exoplanet, as well as how the parent stars and neighboring planets interact to support life.
A unique aspect of the UC Berkeley-led project is the involvement of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), for which Graham is the project scientist. Bruce Macintosh, the principal investigator for GPI, is also part of the NASA team. GPI is a new instrument for the Gemini Observatory and began its exoplanet survey at the Gemini South Telescope in November 2014. GPI has already imaged two previously known exoplanets and disks of planetary debris orbiting young stars where planets recently formed.
“With GPI, we’ve already shown that we can see planets as they move month to month around their stars,” Macintosh said. “With this new collaboration, we will combine the strengths of imaging, Doppler and transits to characterize planets and their orbits.”
Gemini Planet Imager's first light image of the light scattered by a disk of dust orbiting the young star HR4796A is shown at the top of the page. This narrow ring is thought to be dust from asteroids or comets left behind by planet formation; some scientists have theorized that the sharp edge of the ring is defined by an unseen planet. The left image shows normal light, including both the dust ring and the residual light from the central star scattered by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere. The right image shows only polarized light. Leftover starlight is unpolarized and hence removed from this image. The light from the back edge of the disk is strongly polarized as it scatters towards us
Collaborator Geoff Marcy, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy, perfected the Doppler technique, which detects stellar wobble, and went on to discover more than 100 of the first known exoplanets. He is also part of the Kepler Mission team that has discovered nearly 2,000 exoplanets by the transit method. Both these techniques find planets that orbit near their star, while direct imaging via GPI is most sensitive to planets orbiting far from their star. Habitable, Earth-like planets lurk in-between.
“A principal goal is to focus on the overlap region where we can use all three techniques we now have to study planets,” Graham said.
“It is a wonderful confluence of multiple approaches to planet-hunting that allows us to detect planets that are both near and far from the host star,” Marcy said.
Aside from the Gemini South Telescope, the team plans to harness the adaptive-optics capabilities of the Keck Observatories in Hawaii and eventually the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for construction next door to Keck on Mauna Kea.
Paul Kalas, an adjunct professor of astronomy and co-PI for the project, noted that the goal of imaging Earth-size planets is still decades away, since direct imaging instruments like GPI would have to be sensitive enough to detect faint starlight reflected off the planet. Currently, GPI is able to see only hot, Jupiter-size planets that are bright because of their own infrared glow.
“The techniques and technologies developed for the Gemini Planet Imager will be used on future NASA planet-finding missions, such as the WFIRST telescope, which could see the reflected light from ‘super-Earth’ planets,” Macintosh said. The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a NASA observatory designed to perform wide-field imaging and spectroscopic surveys of the near infrared sky to explore exoplanets and dark energy. It is expected to be launched in about 10 years.
“If you could see reflected light, you might be able to see the signature of life,” Kalas said. “We are just now sowing the seeds to get to that point.”
Swiss cheese universe: Enormous hole in the universe may not be the only one
Swiss cheese universe: Enormous hole in the universe may not be the only one
April 24, 2015- Astronomers have found evidence of a giant void that could be the largest known structure in the universe. The “supervoid” solves a controversial cosmic puzzle: it explains the origin of a large and anomalously cold region of the sky. However, future observations are needed to confirm the discovery and determine whether the void is unique.
The so-called cold spot can be seen in maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which is the radiation left over from the birth of the universe. It was first discovered by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) in 2004 and confirmed by ESA’s Planck Satellite. For more than a decade, astronomers have failed to explain its existence. But there has been no shortage of suggestions, with unproven and controversial theories being put forward including imprints of parallel universes, called the multiverse theory, and exotic physics in the early universe.
Now an international team of astronomers led by Istvan Szapudi of the Institute for Astronomy at The University of Hawaii at Manoa have found evidence for one of the theories: a supervoid, in which the density of galaxies is much lower than usual in the known universe.
To understand the effect of a void, imagine the universe is like a Swiss cheese, with holes – voids – corresponding to empty spaces devoid of matter and gravitational pull. When a photon, a particle of light, from the CMB encounters a void it will lose energy but regain it as it exits.
However, since we believe that the universe is constantly expanding, the photon will exit into a medium that is less dense than before it entered the void. Lower density means weaker gravitational pull on the emerging photon. This means that the photon cannot make up all the energy it lost and ends up with a little less energy – and hence lower temperature – than light from regions on the sky that did not pass through the void.
This process explains why the spot is 70 μK colder than the surrounding chilly CMB radiation, which is 2.7 K in whichever direction one looks on the sky. Tiny fluctuations imprinted by processes in the early universe do exist in this remarkably even temperature distribution, but they typically only differ by 18μK.
But it isn’t the first time researchers have claimed to find a supervoid that explains the cold spot. In 2007, radio astronomers announced they had found a low density region when they counted the number of radio sources towards the direction of the cold spot but competing studies at visible wavelengths appeared to dispute their findings.
Other studies searched for voids at particular distance – or redshifts – towards the direction of the cold spot but found no convincing evidence of any deficit in galaxy counts. To count the galaxies closer to home and check for the existence of a nearby void required a significant increase in the area of the sky astronomers could survey. This capability came with new catalogues of objects identified in wide-field all-sky surveys.
Istvan and his team used two sets of data by matching objects discovered at infrared wavelengths by Nasa’s Wide Field Survey Explorer (WISE) with colours in visible light measured by the robotic telescope Pan-STARRS1 to make a tomographic map of the distribution of galaxies in the cold spot.
A dip in the numbers of galaxies in the centre of the cold spot signaled the presence of the largest known structure in the universe – a supervoid stretching 1.8 billion light years across the sky when universe was 11.1 billion years old – which is relatively recent on cosmic timescales.
This is an exciting result – but the study is complex, with a number of errors that can creep in due to various assumptions. Understanding the density of the universe on near and far sides of the void is more challenging than one might expect and the simple assumption of a single, giant void is – as the authors point out – likely to be naive. More detailed maps of the supervoid will help determine whether it has substructure within it.
But future observations mapping different regions of the sky will also check how rare the void is. The chance of an accidental alignment between the cold spot and the supervoid seems small, but not impossible. The race is therefore on to find other voids in order to confirm the supervoid’s relationship with the cold spot. The team already have plans to use the Dark Energy Camera -– which recently shed new light on dark matter – to investigate another candidate void near the constellation Draco. Ultimately, understanding the nature of voids and cold spots might require modifications to our favourite cosmological models or perhaps even models of gravity itself.
The }is exciting not just for cosmologists, but also for technologists. In the future, new facilities – such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope – will survey the whole sky every few nights for a decade. Mining the torrent of data that will allow astronomers to search for large-scale structures such as voids and clusters and to make discoveries of new explosive or time-variable objects such as supernovae and gamma ray bursts. Combining these approaches in a new era of data-driven discovery may open new, exciting windows on our universe.
Antarctica was once Atlantis. An antediluvian island continent paradise from where evil nephilim overlords ruled the entire Earth with great ruthlessness using occult knowledge that included things like black magick & super advanced technology taught to them by their fathers - the watchers that fell in the days of Jared [see 1 Enoch 9:6-9]. Related:Ruins Of Ancient City Found In Antarctica Poseidonis was the capital of Atlantis. The island continent appeared to sink into the ocean during the Great Deluge mentioned in Genesis 6:5-7,11-13 & 7:17,19-24. Later it was flash frozen due to sudden global crustal displacement where it was covered with ice until the Nazis learned from esoteric Tibetan monks that Antarctica used to be Atlantis during their expedition there from 1938-1939.
Related:The Forbidden Land of Agartha and the Thule Secret Society The Nazis built Base 211 in Antarctica and started searching for all the flash frozen advanced technology which they tried to retro-engineer until the Americans took over the operation during Operation Highjump.
Operation Highjump Hidden Antarctic War Veterans: Frozen in Time, but Not Forgott
The Americans then took all the technology found then and later during Operations Deep Freeze with all the occult Nazi scientists back to the U.S.A. to keep retro-engineering all the technology in D.U.M.B.s hidden in the remote desert plus start the process of releasing some of the fallen watchers in the same areas. Related:Worldwide UFO cover up and deep underground military bases (D.U.M.B.S). This technology will be used to sell the "alien" strong delusion to an unsuspecting public to help set up the NWO of the antichrist with the fallen watchers, djinn, neo-nephilim, genetic hybrids, and evil human minions pretending to be the different kinds of "aliens".
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"Hacking the Chemical Fingerprint of the Universe" --Detecting Organic Molecules in Space
"Hacking the Chemical Fingerprint of the Universe" --Detecting Organic Molecules in Space
The terahertz region of the spectrum is chock-full of information. Everything in the universe that is warmer than about 10 degrees Kelvin (-263 degrees Celsius) gives off terahertz radiation. Even at these very low temperatures molecules can rotate in space, yielding unique fingerprints in the terahertz. Astronomers using telescopes such as Caltech's Submillimeter Observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, and the Herschel Space Observatory are searching stellar nurseries and planet-forming disks at terahertz frequencies, looking for such chemical fingerprints to try to determine the kinds of molecules that are present and thus available to planetary systems. But in just a single chunk of the sky, it would not be unusual to find signatures of 25 or more different molecules.
To be able to definitively identify specific molecules within such a tangle of terahertz signals, scientists first need to determine exact measurements of the chemical fingerprints associated with various molecules. This requires a precise source of terahertz waves, in addition to a sensitive detector, and the terahertz frequency comb is ideal for making such measurements in the lab.
"When we look up into space with terahertz light, we basically see this forest of lines related to the tumbling motions of various molecules," says Finneran. "Unraveling and understanding these lines is difficult, as you must trek across that forest one point and one molecule at a time in the lab. It can take weeks, and you would have to use many different instruments. What we've developed, this terahertz comb, is a way to analyze the entire forest all at once."
Light can come in many frequencies, only a small fraction of which can be seen by humans. Between the invisible low-frequency radio waves used by cell phones and the high frequencies associated with infrared light lies a fairly wide swath of the electromagnetic spectrum occupied by what are called terahertz, or sometimes submillimeter, waves. Exploitation of these waves could lead to many new applications in fields ranging from medical imaging to astronomy, but terahertz waves have proven tricky to produce and study in the laboratory. Now, Caltech chemists have created a device that generates and detects terahertz waves over a wide spectral range with extreme precision, allowing it to be used as an unparalleled tool for measuring terahertz waves.
The new device is an example of what is known as a frequency comb, which uses ultrafast pulsed lasers, or oscillators, to produce thousands of unique frequencies of radiation distributed evenly across a spectrum like the teeth of a comb. Scientists can then use them like rulers, lining up the teeth like tick marks to very precisely measure light frequencies. The first frequency combs, developed in the 1990s, earned their creators (John Hall of JILA and Theordor Hánsch of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilians University Munich) the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics. These combs, which originated in the visible part of the spectrum, have revolutionized how scientists measure light, leading, for example, to the development of today's most accurate timekeepers, known as optical atomic clocks.
The team at Caltech combined commercially available lasers and optics with custom-built electronics to extend this technology to the terahertz, creating a terahertz frequency comb with an unprecedented combination of spectral coverage and precision. Its thousands of "teeth" are evenly spaced across the majority of the terahertz region of the spectrum (0.15-2.4 THz), giving scientists a way to simultaneously measure absorption in a sample at all of those frequencies.
The work is described in a paper that appears in the online version of the journal Physical Review Letters and will be published in the April 24 issue. The lead author is graduate student and National Science Foundation fellow Ian Finneran, who works in the lab of Geoffrey A. Blake, professor of cosmochemistry and planetary sciences and professor of chemistry at Caltech.
Blake explains the utility of the new device, contrasting it with a common radio tuner. "With radio waves, most tuners let you zero in on and listen to just one station, or frequency, at a time," he says. "Here, in our terahertz approach, we can separate and process more than 10,000 frequencies all at once. In the near future, we hope to bump that number up to more than 100,000."
After the device generates its tens of thousands of evenly spaced frequencies, the waves travel through a sample--in the paper, the researchers provide the example of water vapor. The instrument then measures what light passes through the sample and what gets absorbed by molecules at each tooth along the comb. If a detected tooth gets shorter, the sample absorbed that particular terahertz wave; if it comes through at the baseline height, the sample did not absorb at that frequency.
"Since we know exactly where each of the tick marks on our ruler is to about nine digits, we can use this as a diagnostic tool to get these frequencies really, really precisely," says Finneran. "When you look up in space, you want to make sure that you have such very exact measurements from the lab."
In addition to the astrochemical application of identifying molecules in space, the terahertz comb will also be useful for studying fundamental interactions between molecules. "The terahertz is unique in that it is really the only direct way to look not only at vibrations within individual large molecules that are important to life, but also at vibrations between different molecules that govern the behavior of liquids such as water," says Blake.
Additional coauthors on the paper, "Decade-Spanning High-Precision Terahertz Frequency Comb," include current Caltech graduate students Jacob Good, P. Brandon Carroll, and Marco Allodi, as well as recent graduate Daniel Holland (PhD '14). The work was supported by funding from the National Science Foundation.
The Daily Galaxy via Caltech
Image credits: Lance Hayashida/Caltech and NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team
A woman recently posted a video showing a UFO hovering near Chile’s erupting Calbuco volcano.
The volcano erupted on Wednesday, April 22 for the first time in more than forty two years. Four thousand residents were forced to evacuate the area as ash and smoke filled the sky.
Ana Luisa Cid, a UFO researcher in Mexico City, put together a compilation of volcano eruption videos that show the aerial object seemingly hovering near the Calbuco volcano. And this UFO appears to have two very bright white lights.
The UFO near the Calbuco volcano. (Credit: Ana Luisa Cid/YouTube)
Ana Luisa Cid points out that some have suggested the UFO is simply a drone or helicopter gathering aerial footage of the volcano. But she also comments, “What is striking, in my opinion, is that the object remained static, then vanished. Optical illusion?”
At least one helicopter and one plane were in the sky during the volcano’s eruption.
TVN, Chile’s state-owned television network, posted an aerial video of the volcano eruption shot by a helicopter pilot.
And Chile news station T13 posted a video story on April 23 about the “pilot who was mistaken for a UFO.” The media outlet interviewed pilot Vicente Beasley who was reportedly flying a Cessna 206 during the volcano eruption. Beasley also captured video of the volcano’s plume.
UFOs have been seen near volcanos several times in recent years. A video recorded in 2012 even shows what some believe is a UFO flying into the Popocatépetl volcano in Mexico. Some UFO researchers believe UFOs are either attracted to volcanos, or that the pilots of extraterrestrial spacecraft have hidden bases inside volcanos.
But in the case of this most recent UFO near an erupting volcano, pilot Vincente Beasley’s testimony and supporting video footage make it pretty likely that his plane is the UFO seen in the video posted by Ana Luisa Cid and others.
In a recent interview, Dr. Steven Greer stated that, to his knowledge, there are dozens of benevolent Extraterrestrial species who are eager to make contact with us.
“These beings are very eager to find humans who are enlightened, who approach them peacefully, because what our covert, classified, military projects have been doing is try to track these objects and shoot them down.” – Dr. Steve Greer
In Dr. Greer’s opinion, the UFO phenomenon intensified after the development of nuclear weapons, when we became a threat to our own existence, the planet we inhabit and possibly to other intelligent species in the Universe as well.
“I think they [the aliens] have been here, around, for many thousands of years; I surely doubt it’s a recent phenomenon.
“I think that if you look at this and talk to people in the British intelligence and people in the United States Military, the real increase in these events happened around the time we started detonating nuclear weapons and at the same time we started going out in the space.
“You have to understand that any civilization that has reached a point of peaceful coexistence, who would see us evolving out of the time of World War II into this post WWII period, where we began to go into space, but at the same time began to develop hydrogen bombs and nuclear weapons.
“I think this would put a big red flag over this planet and my understanding is that they are quite concerned about what we are doing to this planet and also that we don’t turn loose on the Universe, where we can be a threat to other planets that are existing peacefully and do not even have the concept of warfare and weapon systems.”
Also, Dr. Greer does not believe in alien abductions and mutilations stating that, in his opinion, all of them are staged by the government as a scare tactic, so that we don’t oppose the idea of weaponizing the space.
“The big mythology in the new age world is that there are the good ones and the bad ones and, in reality, most of that is disinformation created by the intelligence community to scare people because, eventually, they would like to have us put all these weapons into space and spend trillions of dollars on Star Wars [technology]. And this is exactly what we’ve done.
“I have folks who worked on these [programs] in the 1960s, where we already had weapon systems that were based in space, that were targeting these extraterrestrial vehicles. This has been going on for 40 years.”
Dr. Greer also stated that, to his knowledge, none of the dozens of ET species that are visiting us are hostile.
In his own words, “some of them [the ETs] are quite worried of our hostility and have done things to try to contain us… like a quarantine.”
You can listen to the entire interview bellow and please enjoy the wonderful CGI footage of benevolent ETs operating in space and around alien worlds:
Numerous examples of making contact with UFOs, by using a powerful laser (night vision footage):
Unfortunately, night vision goggles are not available in all countries, not can they be ordered from countries who prohibit them.
On YouTube, you’ll see videos of people “calling” UFO’s with infrared laser pens (see image to the left). They’ll also use these pens to point out UFO’s to other people who may be UFO watching with them.
Many of the highest quality night vision goggles and monoculars cost several thousand dollars. Most of us can’t afford a “Generation 3″ or “Gen 4″ type of monocular/goggle, but there are alternatives.
I have a Yukon 5×42 Digital Night Vision Ranger monocular and it’s hard to go longer than 10 minutes without seeing a UFO. You can find this particular monocular brand new on Amazon for under $400.
I also have an ATN PVS7 Gen 3 Night vision goggle with an Alpha tube that is simply amazing but these types of goggle will run from $2,200- $4,000+.
If you’re looking for something in night vision goggles that is better than your own two eyes AND affordable, go with the Night Ranger monocular. OR… save up and get a good pair of night vision goggles. Either choice will show you more UFO’s than what you can see with the naked eye!
An uncovered letter written by John F Kennedy to the head of the CIA shows that the president demanded to be shown highly confidential documents about UFOs 10 days before his assassination.
The secret memo is one of two letters written by JFK asking for information about the paranormal on November 12 1963, which have been released by the CIA for the first time.
Author William Lester said the CIA released the documents to him under the Freedom of Information Act after he made a request while researching his new book ‘A Celebration of Freedom: JFK and the New Frontier.’
Assassination: Was JFK shot to stop him discovering the truth about UFOs?
The president’s interest in UFOs shortly before his death is likely to fuel conspiracy theories about his assassination, according to AOL News.
Alien researchers say the latest documents, released to Mr Lester by the CIA, add weight to the suggestion that the president could have been shot to stop him discovering the truth about UFOs.
In one of the secret documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, JFK writes to the director asking for the UFO files.
Released: Letter from JFK to CIA director asking for access to UFO files, which has been released to an author under the Freedom of Information Act
In the second memo, sent to the NASA administrator, the president expresses a desire for cooperation with the former Soviet Union on mutual outer space activities.
The previously classified documents were released under the Freedom of Information Act to teacher William Lester as part of research for a new book about JFK.
He said that JFK’s interest in UFOs could have been fuelled by concerns about relations with the former Soviet Union.
Beam me up: Days before he was killed, JFK wrote to the CIA demanding access to their files about UFOs
Unclassified: A second memo written by JFK on November 12 1963, 10 days before his assassination, which has been released by the CIA
‘One of his concerns was that a lot of these UFOs were being seen over the Soviet Union and he was very concerned that the Soviets might misinterpret these UFOs as U.S. aggression, believing that it was some of our technology,’ Mr Lester told AOL News.
‘I think this is one of the reasons why he wanted to get his hands on this information and get it away from the jurisdiction of NASA so he could say to the Soviets, “Look, that’s not us, we’re not doing it, we’re not being provocative. “.’
But conspiracy theorists said the documents add interest to a disputed file, nicknamed the ‘burned memo’, which a UFO investigator claims he received in the 1990s.
The document, which has scorch marks, is claimed to have been posted to UFO hunter Timothy Cooper in 1999 by an unknown CIA leak, but has never been verified.
Disputed: In the ‘burned memo’ the CIA director allegedly wrote: ‘Lancer [JFK] has made some inquiries regarding our activities, which we cannot allow’
In a note sent with the document, the apparent leaker said he worked for CIA between 1960 and 1974 and pulled the memo from a fire when the agency was burning some of its most sensitive files.
The undated memo contains a reference to ‘Lancer’, which was JFK’s Secret Service code name.
On the first page, the director of Central Intelligence wrote: ‘As you must know, Lancer has made some inquiries regarding our activities, which we cannot allow.
‘Please submit your views no later than October. Your action to this matter is critical to the continuance of the group.’
The current owner of the ‘burned memo’, who bought it from Timothy Cooper in 2001 told AOL News that it shows that when JFK asked questions about UFOs that the CIA ‘bumped him off’.
UFO investigator Robert Wood said he has tested the paper it was printed on, the ink age, watermarks, font types and other markings.
He said: ‘I hired a forensics company to check the age of the ink and check several other things that you can date, using the same techniques you’d use in a court of law.’
VIDEO: Egyptoloog Zahi Hawass loopt woest weg uit debat over geschiedenis van de wereld
VIDEO: Egyptoloog Zahi Hawass loopt woest weg uit debat over geschiedenis van de wereld
Op 22 april stond in een hotel in Caïro het eerste open debat tussen aanhangers van twee compleet verschillende theorieën over de geschiedenis van de wereld gepland. Op die dag zouden de beroemde egyptoloog dr. Zahi Hawass en de Britse schrijver en journalist Graham Hancock met elkaar in debat gaan.
Vlak voor het debat keek Hancock nog even naar zijn slides, toen dr. Hawass een foto voorbij zag komen van de Belgische auteur Robert Bauval, waar Hawass in het verleden vaak onenigheid mee heeft gehad. Dr. Hawass werd gelijk woest en begon te schreeuwen naar Hancock en zijn vrouw Santha (de vrouw met de witte jurk).
Orion
Hawass eiste dat Hancock alle verwijzingen naar Robert Bauval en diens Orion-correlatie-theorie zou verwijderen. Die theorie veronderstelt dat de drie grote piramides op het Gizeh-plateau overeenkomen met de drie sterren in de riem van Orion. Toen Hancock uitlegde dat hij de alternatieve kijk op de geschiedenis niet kon uitleggen zonder te verwijzen naar de theorie van Bauval begon Hawass opnieuw te schreeuwen en liep hij woest de zaal uit.
Eén van de bezoekers wist de tirade van Hawass vast te leggen op video. Terwijl de zaal langzaam volstroomde, wisten de organisatoren van het debat dr. Hawass er toch van te overtuigen terug te keren naar de zaal. Hawass weigerde echter om de presentatie van Hancock te volgen.
Göbekli Tepe
Na de lezing van Hawass stelde één van de aanwezigen de vraag of het 11.600 jaar oude bergheiligdom Göbekli Tepe in Turkije invloed heeft gehad op het bepalen van de leeftijd van de Sfinx van Gizeh. Hancock en anderen hebben namelijk gesuggereerd dat beide complexen mogelijk even oud zijn. Dr. Hawass leek niet op de hoogte te zijn van het bestaan van Göbekli Tepe en was niet in staat om de vraag te beantwoorden.
VIDEO: Lichtstraal van mysterieus object gezien bij vulkaan in Chili
VIDEO: Lichtstraal van mysterieus object gezien bij vulkaan in Chili
Televisiecamera’s hebben een mysterieus vliegend object vastgelegd tijdens een vulkaanuitbarsting in het zuiden van Chili. Dat meldt persbureau Sputnik.
De Calbuco-vulkaan is voor het eerst in ruim 40 jaar onverwacht uitgebarsten. Uit voorzorg werden zo’n 4000 inwoners van een nabijgelegen dorp geëvacueerd. Vluchten in de regio zijn geannuleerd omdat de vulkanische as toestellen kan beschadigen.
De vulkaan ligt in de buurt van de populaire toeristenplaats Puerto Varas, zo’n 1000 kilometer ten zuiden van de hoofdstad Santiago. Vanuit Puerto Varas was de kilometershoge aspluim goed te zien.
Volgens de directeur van de regionale hulpdiensten kwam de uitbarsting als ‘een verrassing’. Hij zei dat Calbuco niet onder speciale observatie stond. De laatste grote uitbarsting van de vulkaan was in 1961, al was er nog een kleinere eruptie in 1972.
In de aswolk werd ook een mysterieuze lichtstraal van een ongeïdentificeerd object vastgelegd. Sommigen beweren dat het gaat om een UFO, al is niet duidelijk waarom een UFO helemaal naar de aarde zou afreizen om in een actieve vulkaan te duiken.
Wanneer een professionele fotograaf een opname maakt van een UFO dan vind men dat toch wel wat extra bijzonders hebben.
Professionele fotograaf legt UFO vast boven Rome ( Video )
Wanneer een professionele fotograaf een opname maakt van een UFO dan vind men dat toch wel wat extra bijzonders hebben.
De reden zal ongetwijfeld zijn dat men denkt dat goedbedoelende amateurs allemaal dingen zien die er niet zijn, maar dat professionele fotografen voldoende getraind zijn om werkelijkheid te kunnen onderscheiden van fictie.
Het volgende geval is uitgebreid in het mainstream nieuws geweest in Italië.
Een professionele fotograaf was bezig met het filmen van een vliegtuig vanaf de patio van zijn woning in één van de buitenwijken van Rome.
Terwijl hij filmde merkte hij het object niet op, maar toen hij na de opname de beelden bekeek, zag hij een vreemd vliegend object verschijnen.
De filmopname is onderzocht door het Mediterranean UFO Center. Zij hebben uitgesloten dat het hier om een vogel of iets dergelijks zou kunnen gaan en dat de filmopname echt is.
Afgezien van dat soort vaststellingen kan ook de onderzoeker, Angelo Maggioni, geen antwoord geven op de vraag waarmee we hier te maken hebben.
Deze UFO lijkt uiterlijk wel enigszins op die die heel regelmatig boven het Zwitserse Biel/Bienne wordt waargenomen. Wie weet hoort deze UFO in Rome wel thuis in de buitenaardse basis in Zwitserland.
Former Canadian Defence Minister Hopes To Get Support From The Masses About UFO Disclosure
Former Canadian Defence Minister Hopes To Get Support From The Masses About UFO Disclosure
Stories of alleged UFO cover-ups by world governments have been around for many years. Though no substantial evidence to prove that they’re true, many believe that such high-level secrets exist. Former Canadian defence ministry talks about the alleged cover up in a series of speaking tours.
In the “Disclosure Canada Tour,” keynote speaker Paul Hellyer spoke to the crowd of approximately 400 people at the University of Calgary on Saturday. Canada’s defence minister in the 1960s, Hellyer, and other speakers are on tour. The series of tours is urging the government to release all the classified information about UFOs.
The 91-year-old Ontarian first became vocal about his belief that governments are hiding the truth on the presence of extraterrestrials in 2005. He said UFOs are as common in the sky as airplanes.
Hellyer said that he is committed to spreading the word about his beliefs, and he has showed that in participating the tour.
Hellyer is aware that not much of the media touch about the UFO subject and the disclosure. So, he and other speakers on the tour just have to keep working away. They’re hoping that the day will come where they get the support of the masses, and they’ll say in once voice, “Prime Minister or President we want the truth now because it affects our lives.”
The tour is scheduled for another session on Sunday in Vancouver.
Washington (CNN)The latest version of unmanned naval aerial combat vehicles achieved another first on Wednesday when it conducted its first aerial refueling test, the Navy announced.
While flying off the coast of Maryland and Virginia, the X-47B, an unmanned vehicle designed to eventually operate off naval aircraft carriers, successfully connected to an Omega K-707 refueling tanker and received more than 4,000 pounds of fuel, the Navy said in a press release.
"What we accomplished today demonstrates a significant, groundbreaking step forward for the Navy," Capt. Beau Duarte, the manager for the Navy's Unmanned Carrier Aviation program, said in the release. "The ability to autonomously transfer and receive fuel in flight will increase the range and flexibility of future unmanned aircraft platforms, ultimately extending carrier power projection."
The X-47B receives fuel in flight April 22nd.
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This is the latest in a series of firsts for the remotely piloted plane that the Navy hopes to develop into a battle-ready aircraft that can operate safely alongside its manned counterparts aboard aircraft carriers.
In 2013, an X-47B became the first unmanned aircraft to take off and land from an aircraft carrier, although all other aircraft were removed from the deck before the test flight. Last year, it became the first such aircraft to take off and land alongside a manned plane, an F/A-18 Hornet on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
It was not known going into the test whether the aircraft would be able to effectively maneuver its probe used to take in fuel with the tanker's drogue, also called the basket, in the same way a pilot would be able to position their aircraft in a refueling operation.
"In manned platforms, aerial refueling is a challenging maneuver because of the precision required by the pilot to engage the basket," Duarte said. "Adding an autonomous functionality creates another layer of complexity."
A part of the Navy's Unmanned-Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike system, the X-47B will eventually be developed into follow on aircraft the Navy hopes to deploy into operation in 2020 or beyond.
This is a depiction of three beings that Travis Walton says he confronted during what he described as a UFO abduction in 1975. | William Keeble / Onwinges Prod.
This is a depiction of three beings that Travis Walton says he confronted during what he described as a UFO abduction in 1975. | William Keeble / Onwinges Prod.
Close encounters of the FOURTH kind. That's when a person claims to have been kidnapped by a UFO and its reportedly otherworldly occupants.
Of course, there's no tangible evidence that anyone has ever been taken aboard an extraterrestrial spacecraft. But there are those who claim they've been abducted, and their stories are chilling.
"It was a metallic, glowing disc, making some very strange sounds," Walton told us. "The closer I got to it, the more scared we all got and they were swearing at me to get away from there, and when I got up close, it suddenly got louder and started to move.
"I jumped for cover and then jumped up to run back to the truck, and that's when this blast of energy hit me, and I just felt this numbing shock go through my body. But the crew said it threw me through the air 10 or 20 feet and I landed in a way that they were immediately certain it had killed me, and they fled."
The incident began on Nov. 5, 1975, after a long day of work in the Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber, Arizona. Walton and six other loggers were heading home when they suddenly saw a 40-foot-diameter shiny disc hovering in the air.
Walton first told his extraordinary story in a 1978 book, "The Walton Experience," which became a 1993 film, "Fire In The Sky." His account has just been turned into a candid documentary, "Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton."
Walton reveals the terrifying details of his experience at the hands of several "non-human" beings, and his feelings of suffocation and the fear that he was dying as the event unfolded.
Watch this trailer for 'Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton'
"When I was first able to focus my eyes good enough, I was still on the table. And as soon as I saw this face, and knew it wasn't human, I tried to hit it away from me. They were much smaller than me, and I think that's the reason they gave up. Once they found out they couldn't control me, they split. I was absolutely terrified."
Walton, pictured at right, was declared missing for five days, during which time his logger buddies fell under suspicion of foul play. When Walton finally turned up again, not knowing how long he'd been gone, an intense investigation was underway, including multiple polygraph, physical and psychological tests.
He tells HuffPost about little known aftermath details, including subsequent research in the forest area which has shown an unusual growth rate in trees in the immediate vicinity of the encounter.
"About 15 years later, it was discovered that the trees nearest to where [the UFO] hovered had been producing wood fiber at 36 times the rate it had in the 85 years before that," Walton says. "More recently, a complete core sampling revealed that this thickened growth was only on the side of the trees towards, or in the direction that the craft had been."
Walton addresses the stigma that he and so many other people -- who claim encounters with possible alien beings -- are generally considered unreliable wackos.
"The scientific evidence of the likelihood of intelligent life in our vicinity has become so overwhelming that the people who believe that we're alone in the universe -- those are the kooks."
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of his close encounter, Walton will speak at the November Skyfire Summit in Arizona. On the agenda is a road trip to the exact spot where this four-decade-long controversy began.
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Mysterious Radio Bursts Are Indeed Coming From A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Mysterious Radio Bursts Are Indeed Coming From A Galaxy Far, Far Away
April 23, 2015 - In 2001, the Parkes Radio Telescope picked up an extremely energetic burst of radio waves that lasted a mere five-thousandths of a second. Since then, astronomers have found several more so-called fast radio bursts, or FRBs, and even observed one of these pulses in real time last May. Based on these observations, the FRBs seem to be coming from more than 3 billion light years away, far beyond the Milky Way.
The origin of fast radio bursts is still unknown: They might come from an incredibly heavy, incredibly fast-spinning magnetar throwing off flares, or from a massive collision between dense neutron stars—or from something else entirely. "You need something that happens on a very short time scale and can produce a ton of energy," says Emily Petroff, a graduate student at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. Other researchers have speculated that FRBs are the products of human--or alien--technology, and some doubted that the bursts came from outside the galaxy at all.
But now, the debate surrounding FRBs' origins may be put to rest at last. Researchers have determined the source of a signal remarkably similar to FRBs, clearing the reputation of these bursts and where they come from.
What makes researchers think fast radio bursts are coming from outside the galaxy? An FRB signal is "spread out" in time, meaning the waves that make up an FRB don't arrive at a radio telescope all at once. This spreading effect can happen when a signal passes between stars. While traveling through the interstellar medium, the signal's waves slow down depending on their frequency. By the time the signal reaches a radio telescope, the high-frequency waves have pulled ahead of the low-frequency ones, and thus arrive sooner, stretching out the signal. Fast radio bursts are very stretched out, indicating they come from a galaxy far, far away.
Other researchers, however, point out that the spread effect could have a different cause. Another spread-out signal that radio telescopes have picked up is the peryton. But these bursts definitely don't come from other galaxies, or even other planets. Instead of coming from a single point in the sky, a peryton signal looks like it's coming from all over, a sure sign that its source is very local. Some blame perytons on atmospheric lightning, radio interference, or even telescope glitches. Unfortunately, perytons look pretty similar to FRBs, so they throw doubt on the idea that the bursts are coming from far away. Some astronomers even think FRBs are just another form of perytons, a false signal rather than an extragalactic one.
But perytons' reign of uncertainty is at an end, thanks to three perytons that popped up at the Parkes Radio Telescope in one week this past January. Petroff and other astronomers at Parkes took a look at the telescope's recently installed radio interference monitor, to see what radio activity was going on nearby around the time of the perytons' appearances. The monitor, which gathers a wider range of frequencies than the telescope does, picked up strong emissions at a frequency around 2.5 gigahertz every time the radio telescope had seen perytons. "That led us to thinking, 'What emits at 2.5 gigahertz?'" says Petroff. "And the obvious thing was microwaves."
The next step was to see whether the scientists could use microwaves to make a peryton appear. They ran the machines at different settings and for varying amounts of time, but the radio telescope didn't pick up any new perytons. Then they tried opening the door while the microwave was active. When you pull open the door of a running microwave, its engine, called a magnetron, releases the energy that was bouncing around inside the oven. The discharge sweeps across a range of frequencies as the engine shuts down, creating a stretched-out frequency spread and interfering with the radio telescope's observations. This was the source of the mysterious peryton signal.
Since microwaves are the culprit behind perytons, Petroff and other authors argue in their new paper, their findings strongly suggest that fast radio bursts are indeed coming from space. FRB signals look different from perytons, and they appear even when the telescope is pointed away from peryton-producing microwaves. Timing is another dead giveaway: FRBs appear at all times of day, whether or not humans are on site nuking coffee and making Cup Noodles. Perytons, on the other hand, only occur during business hours. "They all peak right around lunchtime," says Petroff. "So that should have been a red flag."
‘Britain’s Atlantis’ – a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea – has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews.
Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark was slowly submerged by water between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC.
Divers from oil companies have found remains of a ‘drowned world’ with a population of tens of thousands – which might once have been the ‘real heartland’ of Europe.
A team of climatologists, archaeologists and geophysicists has now mapped the area using new data from oil companies – and revealed the full extent of a ‘lost land’ once roamed by mammoths.
The research suggests that the populations of these drowned lands could have been tens of thousands, living in an area that stretched from Northern Scotland across to Denmark and down the English Channel as far as the Channel Islands.
The area was once the ‘real heartland’ of Europe and was hit by ‘a devastating tsunami’, the researchers claim.
The wave was part of a larger process that submerged the low-lying area over the course of thousands of years.
‘The name was coined for Dogger Bank, but it applies to any of several periods when the North Sea was land,’ says Richard Bates of the University of St Andrews. ‘Around 20,000 years ago, there was a ‘maximum’ – although part of this area would have been covered with ice. When the ice melted, more land was revealed – but the sea level also rose.
‘Through a lot of new data from oil and gas companies, we’re able to give form to the landscape – and make sense of the mammoths found out there, and the reindeer. We’re able to understand the types of people who were there.
‘People seem to think rising sea levels are a new thing – but it’s a cycle of Earth history that has happened many many times.’
Organized by Dr Richard Bates of the Department of Earth Sciences at St Andrews, the Drowned Landscapes exhibit reveals the human story behind Doggerland, a now submerged area of the North Sea that was once larger than many modern European countries.
Dr Bates, a geophysicist, said: ‘Doggerland was the real heartland of Europe until sea levels rose to give us the UK coastline of today.
We have speculated for years on the lost land’s existence from bones dredged by fishermen all over the North Sea, but it’s only since working with oil companies in the last few years that we have been able to re-create what this lost land looked like.
‘When the data was first being processed, I thought it unlikely to give us any useful information, however as more area was covered it revealed a vast and complex landscape.
‘We have now been able to model its flora and fauna, build up a picture of the ancient people that lived there and begin to understand some of the dramatic events that subsequently changed the land, including the sea rising and a devastating tsunami.’
The research project is a collaboration between St Andrews and the Universities of Aberdeen, Birmingham, Dundee and Wales Trinity St David.
Rediscovering the land through pioneering scientific research, the research reveals a story of a dramatic past that featured massive climate change. The public exhibit brings back to life the Mesolithic populations of Doggerland through artifacts discovered deep within the sea bed.
The research, a result of a painstaking 15 years of fieldwork around the murky waters of the UK, is one of the highlights of the London event.
The interactive display examines the lost landscape of Doggerland and includes artifacts from various times represented by the exhibit – from pieces of flint used by humans as tools to the animals that also inhabited these lands.
Using a combination of geophysical modelling of data obtained from oil and gas companies and direct evidence from material recovered from the seafloor, the research team was able to build up a reconstruction of the lost land.
The findings suggest a picture of a land with hills and valleys, large swamps and lakes with major rivers dissecting a convoluted coastline.
As the sea rose the hills would have become an isolated archipelago of low islands. By examining the fossil record – such as pollen grains, microfauna and macrofauna – the researchers can tell what kind of vegetation grew in Doggerland and what animals roamed there.
Using this information, they were able to build up a model of the ‘carrying capacity’ of the land and work out roughly how many humans could have lived there.
The research team is currently investigating more evidence of human behavior, including possible human burial sites, intriguing standing stones and a mass mammoth grave.
Dr Bates added: ‘We haven’t found an ‘x marks the spot’ or ‘Joe created this’, but we have found many artifacts and submerged features that are very difficult to explain by natural causes, such as mounds surrounded by ditches and fossilized tree stumps on the seafloor.
‘There is actually very little evidence left because much of it has eroded underwater; it’s like trying to find just part of a needle within a haystack. What we have found though is a remarkable amount of evidence and we are now able to pinpoint the best places to find preserved signs of life.’
Ancient Paintings depicting Alien Visitors: the Wandjina of Western Australia
The most visually striking of the ancient aboriginal paintings can be found in the Kimberly region of Western Australia. Besides bearing a striking resemblance to modern depictions of aliens, the Wandjina figures also have an interesting story to tell.
Due to its proximity to Southern Asia, it is very likely that the Aboriginal Australians settled in the Kimberly region as early as 70,000 years ago. Their mythology is rich and interesting, both in terms of characters and events and the legends surrounding the Wandjina make for a very interesting topic.
As the story goes, the Wandjina created the world and everything within it during a period the Aborigines call Dreamtime. The legend says they came from beyond the stars, acting as civilizing gods and teaching the locals their way of life.
After completing their work, the Wandjina left. According to some stories, they returned to their home, somewhere in the Milky Way. An alternative scenario has the Wandjina painting their likeness on the surfaces of rock shelters before entering the rocks themselves.
Aborigines hold the paintings in high regard and maintain them with a sense of sacred duty.
These depictions present the Wandjina as majestic and strange creatures, usually painted against white backgrounds. Their faces are encircled in an oval band with outward radiating lines, reminiscent of a space faring humanoid’s helmet. They are always painted with big black eyes, a nose but never with a mouth. In fact, legends say the Wandjina never resorted to speech as they conveyed their will directly inside the mind of their subjects. Telepathic abilities?
The Wandjina paintings of Western Australia aren’t the only ones of their kind. Similar ancient paintings have been found in Indian caves, all over South America and in many regions of Africa.
Sibera Doomed? Huge Landslide and Another Giant Crater hit Novokuznetsk!
Is Siberia doomed? In just three weeks, a town in the Novokuznetsk Region has seen a massive, slow moving landslide and yet another giant crater.
On April 1 (not a joke), a dramatic landslide occurred in a Siberian town, swallowing up roads and a railway, uprooting trees and destroying power lines. Thankfully, the disaster happened at a turtle’s pace and nobody was hurt.
But then, just as the locals were recovering from the effects of the landslip, another strange geological phenomenon hit the area. On April 20, a new giant crater appeared in town. Measuring 65 feet (20 meters) in diameter and with a depth of 100 feet (30 meters), the hole is causing panic amid residents, who fear the next one might swallow their homes.
The craters that have made the news in the past few months are a cause of great concern. But while the previous craters were only found in northern Siberia’s Yamal peninsula, this one is located almost 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) to the south.
Alarmingly, the Novokuznetsk crater is the southernmost sinkhole. Is this evidence that there is something brewing beneath Siberia, slowly making its way south?
Probably not. While Russian authorities made no comment on the situation, the locals blame the newly-formed crater on the abandoned coal mines just outside of town.
Emergency Ministry personnel arrived at the site, isolated the sinkhole and filled it with earth. The recent landslide had provided more than plenty…
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