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...
29-04-2015
Heeft NASA per ongeluk een warpveld opgewekt?
Sneller dan het licht: Heeft NASA per ongeluk een warpveld opgewekt?
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft mogelijk per ongeluk een warpveld ontdekt. Ruimteschepen kunnen zo’n warpveld gebruiken om sneller dan het licht te reizen, iets wat tot dusver in het rijk van de sciencefiction thuishoorde.
“Warp speed, Mr. Sulu,” zei kapitein James Kirk van het fictieve sterrenschip USS Enterprise vaak in Star Trek. In de jaren negentig opperde natuurkundige Miguel Alcubierre dat een golf de ruimte voor een ruimteschip in elkaar kan drukken, terwijl de ruimte erachter uit elkaar wordt getrokken. Deze vervorming zou een zogeheten warpbel om het schip creëren.
Door de enorme hoeveelheid energie die nodig is om zo’n warpbel op te wekken, werden de ideeën van Alcubierre nooit in de praktijk gebracht. Harold White van het Johnson Space Center van NASA deed een aantal aanpassingen waardoor de hoeveelheid benodigde energie aanzienlijk werd teruggebracht.
Sneller dan het licht
In het laboratorium experimenteerde NASA met de EmDrive, een motor die zonder brandstof door de ruimte kan bewegen. Toen lasers door de resonantiekamer van de EmDrive schoten, leken sommige laserstralen sneller dan het licht te gaan, zo meldt NASASpaceFlight.com
Als dat zo is kan de EmDrive een warpveld of –bel opwekken. De website Mysterious Universe vond dit commentaar na de tests op een forum: “Dat is de grote verrassing. Het interferentiepatroon in de EmDrive lijkt precies op [dat van] een warpbel. En de wiskunde achter de warpbel komt overeen met het interferentiepatroon dat in de EmDrive is gevonden.”
Om te bewijzen dat het warp-effect niet is veroorzaakt door atmosferische opwarming, moeten wetenschappers de test in een vacuüm doen. Als de resultaten hetzelfde zijn, kan dat betekenen dat de EmDrive een warpveld produceert. En dat kan uiteindelijk leiden tot de productie van een warpdrive.
In het begin van de jaren zeventig werden een jongen en een meisje na een vermissing van drie maanden dood gevonden.
Ze waren bedekt met brandvlekken en de bomen waar ze bij in de buurt werden gevonden, waren aan de bovenkant verschroeid.
Het volgende verhaal is afkomstig van een onderzoeker van B.U.F.O.R.A., een Brits ufo onderzoekscentrum, enigszins vergelijkbaar met MUFON.
Deze man doet dit al een lange tijd en kan zich nog een vreemd geval herinneren uit 1970 toen er een meisje en een jongen waren verdwenen. Ze waren tussen de elf en twaalf jaar oud en afkomstig uit Enfield, ten noorden van Londen:
De kinderen woonden ongeveer een halve kilometer ten noordwesten van het King George de Vijfde waterreservoir. Dit meer is ongeveer drieëneenhalve kilometer lang en iets minder dan 500 meter breed.
De twee kinderen verdwenen in maart 1970 en kwamen in juni van dat jaar weer tevoorschijn. Ze werden dood gevonden bij een groepje bomen, ongeveer een halve kilometer ten noordoosten van het waterreservoir en minder dan 300 meter van een goed verlichte weg.
De politie ging met speurhonden het hele gebied af waar de kinderen hadden gewoond, waren verdwenen en weer tevoorschijn kwamen.
Het lijkt vreemd dat ze zomaar verdwijnen voor drie maanden en dan vervolgens naast een groepje bomen waarvan het leek dat de bovenkant was weg geschroeid, weer opduiken.
De lokale krant in die tijd, de Waltham Forest Guardian Independent, kwam tot de conclusie dat de kinderen niet waren vermoord en schreef onder andere het volgende:
1) Ze stierven aan brandplekken (mogelijke straling of microgolven?). 2) Ze stierven omdat ze te lang werden blootgesteld. 3) Niemand had enig idee wat er gebeurd kon zijn. 4) Hun lichamen werden niet vlakbij elkaar gevonden en één van de schoenen van het meisje ontbrak.
De andere schoen die het meisje nog droeg was helemaal schoon. Er zijn gevallen bekend van UFO’s die dieren hebben aangevallen en gedood waarbij ze brandplekken hebben achtergelaten op de dieren (mogelijke straling).
Het is heel onwaarschijnlijk dat de zon dit soort brandplekken zou hebben veroorzaakt.
UFO’s hangen boven de boomtoppen en de grond en verschroeien de natuurlijke vegetatie op zo’n manier dat er nooit meer iets groeit. Dit is het geval met de bovenkant van de bomen op de plek waar de kinderen werden gevonden.
Weken na de trieste vondst was de politie nog bezig in het gebied. Ze namen grondmonsters mee om te laten analyseren. Ze gingen zelfs zover dat ze delen van de bosjes waar de kinderen werden gevonden, meenamen.
Wanneer je twee stenen uit de lucht laat vallen dan zullen deze niet op dezelfde plek terecht komen. Dit was, zoals gezegd, ook niet het geval met de lichamen van de kinderen.
Ik ben er heilig van overtuigd dat ze in aanraking kwamen met buitenaardse wezens. Ik voel dat ze gestorven zijn onder grote stress en dat ze werden gevonden tijdens een periode dat er zich in dat gebied veel UFO waarnemingen voordeden.
Ik heb zelf in de jaren erna diverse mensen geïnterviewd uit de buurt waar de kinderen waren gevonden. Helaas zonder enig succes want niemand was bereid om te praten en de meesten leken zelfs angstig.
J ’en ai parlé autour de moi. On m’a demandé si j’avais changé de marque de whisky. » Pierre Dauchin n’avait pourtant pas bu dans la nuit du 18 avril. Cet habitant de Liancourt est sûr de ce qu’il a vu. Il en a même rédigé un rapport détaillé, transmis à la gendarmerie de Liancourt. « À 23 h 45, depuis ma propriété de Liancourt sur les hauteurs de la ville, je remarque dans le ciel, côté vallée, à une altitude d’environ 150 mètres, deux lumières mobiles inhabituelles qui, à petite vitesse (moins de 100 km/h), semblent suivre le cours de la Brèche d’amont en aval, c’est-à-dire du Nord vers le Sud. La distance qui m’en sépare est de 800 mètres environ. Le ciel est clair, sans nuages, la température est de 12ºC. Il n’y a pas de vent. Les deux objets volent l’un derrière l’autre. Ils ont la forme d’un triangle équilatéral comportant une petite lumière blanche à chaque sommet », écrit ce dernier dans son courrier.
La gendarmerie enquête
Le phénomène dure sept minutes. Immobiles puis fuyants, les objets évoluent sans bruit. "Depuis ma chambre à l’étage, j’ouvre ma fenêtre pour les observer en évitant les diffractions visuelles du double-vitrage. Pendant plus de deux minutes, je les vois se déplacer. » Puis se séparer. Les trois lumières – deux blanches et une rouge – forment un triangle étrange en face de lui. L’ancien ingénieur est tellement scotché par le spectacle qu’il ne pense même pas à le prendre en photo.
L’ancien conseiller municipal a tout juste le réflexe d’appeler une voisine. «Je lui demande d’observer l’objet dans la direction que je lui indique. Elle le voit, mais, ne portant pas à cette heure ses lunettes de vue, elle n’en distingue que le point rouge qui continue à se déplacer une vingtaine de secondes, s’estompe en direction du plateau d’Ars et disparaît», confie Pierre Dauchin dans sa lettre.
Alors que s’est-il passé dans le ciel de Liancourt cette nuit-là ? À la mairie, personne n’est venue signaler cette apparition nocturne. La brigade de gendarmerie a bien reçu le témoignage de Pierre Dauchin. «C’est le seul. Mais nous prenons au sérieux ce courrier. Les textes nous obligent à faire des investigations après ce genre de signalement. On va se rapprocher de l’aéroport. Cela peut correspondre à un radar météorologique ou autre chose», expliquent les autorités locales, très terre à terre. On est loin du fantasme de l’OVNI de leur côté. «Attention aux drones qui prolifèrent en ce moment», relativise une autre source.
Contacté, le Cercle des suricates de l’Oise, une association d’observateurs du ciel, férus de phénomènes paranormaux, n’est pas surpris. «Selon la description que le témoin en fait, il pourrait s’agir d’un TR3B, un vaisseau qui n’a rien d’extra-terrestre, un avion furtif, un projet caché selon la théorie des complotistes», assure Kevin Rose, le président de l’association.
Si ce dernier n’en a jamais vu « en vrai », il suit de près les explications sur Internet sur le sujet. «Je me demande même si ce genre d’engin ne décolle pas de la base aérienne de Creil», s’interroge Kevin Rose, complètement conquis par le récit crédible du Liancourtois, et persuadé que la défense française pourrait posséder ce type d’avion. Le mystère plane-t-il au-dessus de l’Oise ou dans les têtes ?
Check out this interesting daytime footage of an unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above Rome in Italy. This was taken on 12th April 2015.
Ice on Mars: Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water
Mars distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes -- between the blue lines, in both the southern and northern hemispheres. A thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear as the surface of the ground, but radar measurements show that there are glaciers composed of frozen water underneath the dust. Credit: Mars Digital Image Model, NASA/Nanna Karlsson
Ice on Mars: Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water
Mars has distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes in both the southern and northern hemispheres. A thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear as surface of the ground, but radar measurements show that underneath the dust there are glaciers composed of frozen water. New studies have now calculated the size of the glaciers and thus the amount of water in the glaciers. It is the equivalent of all of Mars being covered by more than one meter of ice. The results are published in the scientific journal, Geophysical Research Letters.
Several satellites orbit Mars and on satellite images, researchers have been able to observe the shape of glaciers just below the surface. For a long time scientists did not know if the ice was made of frozen water (H2O) or of carbon dioxide (CO2) or whether it was mud.
Using radar measurements from the NASA satellite, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers have been able to determine that is water ice. But how thick was the ice and do they resemble glaciers on Earth?
A group of researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have now calculated this using radar observations combined with ice flow modelling.
Data combined with modelling
“We have looked at radar measurements spanning ten years back in time to see how thick the ice is and how it behaves. A glacier is after all a big chunk of ice and it flows and gets a form that tells us something about how soft it is. We then compared this with how glaciers on Earth behave and from that we have been able to make models for the ice flow,” explains Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson, a postdoc at the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.
Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson explains that earlier studies have identified thousands of glacier-like formations on the planet. The glaciers are located in belts around Mars between the latitudes 300-500 — equivalent to just south of Denmark’s location on Earth. The glaiciers are found on both the northern and southern hemispheres.
From some locations on Mars they have good detailed high-resolution data, while they only have more sparse data from other areas. But by supplementing the sparse data with information about the flow and form of the glaciers from the very well studied areas, they have been able to calculate how thick and voluminous the ice is across the glacier belts.
Could cover the entire planet
“We have calculated that the ice in the glaciers is equivalent to over 150 billion cubic meters of ice — that much ice could cover the entire surface of Mars with 1.1 meters of ice. The ice at the mid-latitudes is therefore an important part of Mars’ water reservoir,” explains Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson.
That the ice has not evaporated out into space could actually mean that the thick layer of dust is protecting the ice. The atmospheric pressure on Mars is so low that water ice simply evaporates and becomes water vapour. But the glaciers are well protected under the thick layer of dust.
N. B. Karlsson, L. S. Schmidt, C. S. Hvidberg. Volume of Martian mid-latitude glaciers from radar observations and ice-flow modelling. Geophysical Research Letters, 2015; DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063219
Cigar-Shaped UFO Hovers Near Mexico Volcano Captured By Live Cam
A UFO watcher shared images of what appeared as a cigar-shaped alien vehicle on the UFO Sightings Daily website. He claimed it was not the first time he spotted a UFO in the vicinity of the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico. (Photo : Scott Waring)
Cigar-Shaped UFO Hovers Near Mexico Volcano Captured By Live Cam
A mysterious object seen hovering over the mouth of the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico could yet again trigger another round of debate between believers and skeptics on the existence of intelligent alien life.
UFO watcher Scott Waring posted images of the unusual object he described as a cigar-shaped UFO on the website UFO Sightings Daily. He said that he found the anomaly in an archived live cam footage of the volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in Mexico.
Although the mysterious object was initially difficult to distinguish, the form became more apparent when the image was enlarged. It appeared as a black oblong-shaped object flying near the clouds. Waring likewise said that it was not the first time that a UFO was spotted in that particular area.
“I have been keeping an eye on this live cam for over five years now and I have reported over 50 UFOs over it since then,” Waring said in a post.
One of these supposed UFO sightings occurred in 2013 and was captured in a video that showed what seemed to be a UFO flying above Popocatepetl volcano. The footage, which depicted a spacecraft approaching the volcano, showed the mysterious vehicle slowing down and turning towards the crater of the mountain, where it descended. The footage was taken on May 30 at 8:30 p.m.
Mutual UFO Network chief photo and video analyst Marc D’Antonio said that this clip could be depicting a meteor that fell over the volcano. He also noted that the path of the object could also be illusory.
“In this case, the object is moving from right to left and appears to be descending, but it is exactly this behavior you see if an aircraft at altitude is heading away from you — this is the consequence of perspective and round Earth,” D’Antonio said.
In 2012, a similar video emerged showing another UFO shaped like a cigar exhibiting the same behavior.
UFO Sightings Daily is a hub for UFO enthusiasts. On Friday, Feb. 13, the website shared another UFO discovery in a video taken by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) outside the International Space Station (ISS).
Space watchers claimed that the clip, which was posted by YouTube user Streetcap1 online on Thursday and has been dubbed the “Friday the 13th” sighting, could be depicting a UFO. The video has been viewed over 12,000 times since it was first uploaded.
This is an artist's impression of a quasar with a supermassive black hole in the distant universe. Credit: Zhaoyu Li/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Misti Mountain Observatory
Monster black hole discovered at cosmic dawn
Scientists have discovered the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at that time. The international team led by astronomers from Peking University in China and from the University of Arizona announce their findings in the scientific journal Nature on Feb. 26.
The discovery of this quasar, named SDSS J0100+2802, marks an important step in understanding how quasars, the most powerful objects in the universe, have evolved from the earliest epoch, only 900 million years after the Big Bang, which is thought to have happened 13.7 billion years ago. The quasar, with its central black hole mass of 12 billion solar masses and the luminosity of 420 trillion suns, is at a distance of 12.8 billion light-years from Earth.
The discovery of this ultraluminous quasar also presents a major puzzle to the theory of black hole growth at early universe, according to Xiaohui Fan, Regents’ Professor of Astronomy at the UA’s Steward Observatory, who co-authored the study.
“How can a quasar so luminous, and a black hole so massive, form so early in the history of the universe, at an era soon after the earliest stars and galaxies have just emerged?” Fan said. “And what is the relationship between this monster black hole and its surrounding environment, including its host galaxy?
“This ultraluminous quasar with its supermassive black hole provides a unique laboratory to the study of the mass assembly and galaxy formation around the most massive black holes in the early universe.”
The quasar dates from a time close to the end of an important cosmic event that astronomers referred to as the “epoch of reionization”: the cosmic dawn when light from the earliest generations of galaxies and quasars is thought to have ended the “cosmic dark ages” and transformed the universe into how we see it today.
Discovered in 1963, quasars are the most powerful objects beyond our Milky Way galaxy, beaming vast amounts of energy across space as the supermassive black hole in their center sucks in matter from its surroundings. Thanks to the new generation of digital sky surveys, astronomers have discovered more than 200,000 quasars, with ages ranging from 0.7 billion years after the Big Bang to today.
Shining with the equivalent of 420 trillion suns, the new quasar is seven times brighter than the most distant quasar known (which is 13 billion years away). It harbors a black hole with mass of 12 billion solar masses, proving it to be the most luminous quasar with the most massive black hole among all the known high redshift (very distant) quasars.
“By comparison, our own Milky Way galaxy has a black hole with a mass of only 4 million solar masses at its center; the black hole that powers this new quasar is 3,000 time heavier,” Fan said.
Feige Wang, a doctoral student from Peking University who is supervised jointly by Fan and Prof. Xue-Bing Wu at Peking University, the study’s lead author, initially spotted this quasar for further study.
“This quasar was first discovered by our 2.4-meter Lijiang Telescope in Yunnan, China, making it the only quasar ever discovered by a 2-meter telescope at such distance, and we’re very proud of it,” Wang said. “The ultraluminous nature of this quasar will allow us to make unprecedented measurements of the temperature, ionization state and metal content of the intergalactic medium at the epoch of reionization.”
Following the initial discovery, two telescopes in southern Arizona did the heavy lifting in determining the distance and mass of the black hole: the 8.4-meter Large Binocular Telescope, or LBT, on Mount Graham and the 6.5-meter Multiple Mirror Telescope, or MMT, on Mount Hopkins. Additional observations with the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope in Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, and the 8.2-meter Gemini North Telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, confirmed the results.
“This quasar is very unique,” said Xue-Bing Wu, a professor of the Department of Astronomy, School of Physics at Peking University and the associate director of the Kavli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics. “Just like the brightest lighthouse in the distant universe, its glowing light will help us to probe more about the early universe.”
Wu leads a team that has developed a method to effectively select quasars in the distant universe based on optical and near-infrared photometric data, in particular using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Explorer, or WISE, satellite.
“This is a great accomplishment for the LBT,” said Fan, who chairs the LBT Scientific Advisory Committee and also discovered the previous record holders for the most massive black hole in the early universe, about a fourth of the size of the newly discovered object. “The especially sensitive optical and infrared spectrographs of the LBT provided the early assessment of both the distance of the quasars and the mass of the black hole at the quasar’s center.”
For Christian Veillet, director of the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, or LBTO, this discovery demonstrates both the power of international collaborations and the benefit of using a variety of facilities spread throughout the world.
“This result is particularly gratifying for LBTO, which is well on its way to full nighttime operations,” Veillet said. “While in this case the authors used two different instruments in series, one for visible light spectroscopy and one for near-infrared imaging, LBTO will soon offer a pair of instruments that can be used simultaneously, effectively doubling the number of observations possible in clear skies and ultimately creating even more exciting science.”
To further unveil the nature of this remarkable quasar, and to shed light on the physical processes that led to the formation of the earliest supermassive black holes, the research team will carry out further investigations on this quasar with more international telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Telescope.
The above story is based on materials provided by University of Arizona. The original article was written by Christian Veillet/LBTO and Daniel Stolte/University Relations – Communications. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Journal Reference:
Xue-Bing Wu, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan, Weimin Yi, Wenwen Zuo, Fuyan Bian, Linhua Jiang, Ian D. McGreer, Ran Wang, Jinyi Yang, Qian Yang, David Thompson, Yuri Beletsky. An ultraluminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass black hole at redshift 6.30. Nature, 2015; 518 (7540): 512 DOI: 10.1038/nature14241
Cold Spot suggests largest structure in Universe: A supervoid 1.3 billion light years across
A map of the cosmic microwave background made using the Planck satellite. The Cold Spot, the ellipse at the bottom right, area resides in the constellation Eridanus in the southern galactic hemisphere. The insets show the environment of this anomalous patch of the sky, as mapped by Szapudi's team using PS1 and WISE data and as observed in the cosmic microwave background temperature data. The angular diameter of the vast supervoid aligned with the Cold Spot, which exceeds 30 degrees, is marked by the white circles. Credit: Graphics by Gerg? Kránicz. Image credit: ESA Planck Collaboration
Cold Spot suggests largest structure in Universe: A supervoid 1.3 billion light years across.
In 2004, astronomers examining a map of the radiation left over from the Big Bang (the cosmic microwave background, or CMB) discovered the Cold Spot, a larger-than-expected unusually cold area of the sky. The physics surrounding the Big Bang theory predicts warmer and cooler spots of various sizes in the infant universe, but a spot this large and this cold was unexpected.
Now, a team of astronomers led by Dr István Szapudi of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa may have found an explanation for the existence of the Cold Spot, which Szapudi says may be “the largest individual structure ever identified by humanity.” The researchers report their findings in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
If the Cold Spot originated from the Big Bang itself, it could be a rare sign of exotic physics that the standard cosmology (basically, the Big Bang theory and related physics) does not explain. If, however, it is caused by a foreground structure between us and the CMB, it would be a sign that there is an extremely rare large-scale structure in the mass distribution of the universe.
Using data from Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) telescope located on Haleakala, Maui, and NASA’s Wide Field Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite, Szapudi’s team discovered a large supervoid, a vast region 1.8 billion light-years across, in which the density of galaxies is much lower than usual in the known universe. This void was found by combining observations taken by PS1 at optical wavelengths with observations taken by WISE at infrared wavelengths to estimate the distance to and position of each galaxy in that part of the sky.
Earlier studies, also done in Hawaii, observed a much smaller area in the direction of the Cold Spot, but they could establish only that no very distant structure is in that part of the sky. Paradoxically, identifying nearby large structures is harder than finding distant ones, since we must map larger portions of the sky to see the closer structures. The large three-dimensional sky maps created from PS1 and WISE by Dr András Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary) were thus essential for this study. The supervoid is only about 3 billion light-years away from us, a relatively short distance in the cosmic scheme of things.
Imagine there is a huge void with very little matter between you (the observer) and the CMB. Now think of the void as a hill. As the light enters the void, it must climb this hill. If the universe were not undergoing accelerating expansion, then the void would not evolve significantly, and light would descend the hill and regain the energy it lost as it exits the void. But with the accelerating expansion, the hill is measurably stretched as the light is traveling over it. By the time the light descends the hill, the hill has gotten flatter than when the light entered, so the light cannot pick up all the speed it lost upon entering the void. The light exits the void with less energy, and therefore at a longer wavelength, which corresponds to a colder temperature.
Getting through a supervoid takes hundreds of millions of years, even at the speed of light, so this measurable effect, known as the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect, might provide the first explanation of one of the most significant anomalies found to date in the CMB, first by a NASA satellite called the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), and more recently, by Planck, a satellite launched by the European Space Agency.
While the existence of the supervoid and its expected effect on the CMB do not fully explain the Cold Spot, it is very unlikely that the supervoid and the Cold Spot at the same location are a coincidence. The team will continue its work using improved data from PS1, and from the Dark Energy Survey being conducted with a telescope in Chile to study the Cold Spot and supervoid, as well as another large void located near the constellation Draco.
István Szapudi, András Kovács, Benjamin R. Granett, Zsolt Frei, Joseph Silk, Will Burgett, Shaun Cole, Peter W. Draper, Daniel J. Farrow, Nicholas Kaiser, Eugene A. Magnier, Nigel Metcalfe, Jeffrey S. Morgan, Paul Price, John Tonry and Richard Wainscoat,. Detection of a supervoid aligned with the cold spot of the cosmic microwave background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv488
Explosions of Jupiter’s aurora linked to extraordinary planet-moon interaction
Explosions of Jupiter’s aurora linked to extraordinary planet-moon interaction
In this artist's rendering, flows of electrically charged ions and electrons accelerate along Jupiter's magnetic field lines (fountain-like blue curves), triggering auroras (blue rings) at the planet's pole. Accelerated particles come from clouds of material (red) spewed from volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io (small orb to right). Recent observations of extreme ultraviolet emissions from Jupiter by satellite Hisaki (left foreground) and the Hubble Space Telescope (right) show episodes of sudden brightening of the planet's auroras. Interactions with the excited particles from Io likely also fuel these auroral explosions, new research shows, not interactions with particles from the Sun. Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
On Earth, bursts of particles spewed by the Sun spark shimmering auroras, like the Northern Lights, that briefly dance at our planet’s poles. But, on Jupiter, there’s an auroral glow all the time, and new observations show that this Jovian display sometimes flares up because of a process having nothing to do with the Sun.
Jupiter watchers have long known that the giant planet’s ever-present polar auroras — thousands of times brighter and many times bigger than Earth — are powered by both electrically charged particles from the Sun colliding with Jupiter’s magnetic field and a separate interaction between Jupiter and one of its many moons, called Io. But there are also auroral explosions on Jupiter, or periods of dazzling brightening, similar to auroral storms on Earth, that no one could definitively trace back to either of those known causes.
In the aurora-making interaction of Jupiter and Io, volcanoes on the small moon blast clouds of electrically charged atoms (ions) and electrons into a region surrounding Jupiter that’s permeated by the planet’s powerful magnetic field, thousands of times stronger than Earth’s. Rotating along with its rapidly spinning planet, the magnetic field drags the material from Io around with it, causing strong electric fields at Jupiter’s poles. The acceleration of the ions and electrons produce intense auroras that shine in almost all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum but most brightly in high-energy bands, like ultraviolet light and X-rays, that are invisible to unaided human eyes.
Now, new observations of the planet’s extreme ultraviolet emissions show that bright explosions of Jupiter’s aurora likely also get kicked off by the planet-moon interaction, not by solar activity. A new scientific paper about these observations by Tomoki Kimura of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, and his colleagues, was published online today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
Starting in January 2014, a telescope aboard the JAXA’s Hisaki satellite, which focused on Jupiter for two months, recorded intermittent brightening of the giant planet’s aurora. The telescope detected sudden flare-ups on days when the usual flow of charged particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind, was relatively weak.
Additional space and ground-based telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope, also viewed Jupiter during these lulls in the solar wind. Both Hisaki and Hubble witnessed explosions of the planet’s aurora despite the solar wind’s calm, suggesting that it’s the Jupiter-Io interaction driving these explosions, not charged particles from the Sun, according to the new study. The new research does not address exactly what is happening in the Jovian magnetosphere to cause the temporary brightening of auroral explosions.
T. Kimura, S. V. Badman, C. Tao, K. Yoshioka, G. Murakami, A. Yamazaki, F. Tsuchiya, B. Bonfond, A. J. Steffl, A. Masters, S. Kasahara, H. Hasegawa, I. Yoshikawa, M. Fujimoto, J. T. Clarke. Transient internally-driven aurora at Jupiter discovered by Hisaki and the Hubble Space Telescope. Geophysical Research Letters, 2015; DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063272
What is the nature of our own personal universe if not to unify and reach out to others beyond our control in space time travel?
I know that in my universe of galaxies and worlds exist black holes that we do not understand yet however, some of us do due to what we call worm holes and worm travel beyond the imagination in this way of existence we now perceive as reality. It may be that physicists are still trying to understand that which some of us already understand and knows exist in our way of being, doing, having, and knowing.
Why is it that some of us work outside and beyond the known three dimensional working world way of thinking which we all agree to in the law of the universe we unified as the critical mass mind way of being, doing, having, and knowing as our own reality? We have an agreement that is constantly evolving and changing in this world of which we co-create together with our own thoughts which are energy.
We have an agreement with others who are more advanced than we are who have evolved over billions if not trillions of what we call earth years as 365 days in a year on planet earth revolving around the sun.
It's time to wake up to the fact that we create our own universe inside the known universe we call home inside our own minds. Most people have no way to study the mind outside of their own existence in this reality of what we call the world of humanoid sentient intelligent beings.
The Internet was first conceived by J.C.K. Licklider. Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, known simply as J. C. R. or "Lick", was an American psychologist and computer scientist who is considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history. Born: March 11, 1915, St. Louis, MO., Died: June 26, 1990, Arlington, MA, Books: Libraries of the Future. What will you create for us all?
Love can sense time and space as space time for us all. We will always find a way to exist as a species. Educate everyone in this world about health and sustainability as prosperity for all. We should all know that somewhere in the universal order are many of us who are somewhere else who was once here on this planet. Their destination of spirit was with a soul that was an old school paradigm that we now recognize as our reality. We accept that we are born, we live, and we die. Now in the Cosmos Connection we are expanding our universal laws to know we are co-creators with those in this universe and others.
There are branes our bubble universes are attached too and through the black holes are the white holes that are at the bottom of black holes in other universe which are like tiny pin pricks in balloons. Expand our science and religions to understand that Gods and Goddesses of our ancient alien ancestors were all speaking about the theory of knowing everything as a beginning and an end in the circle of life we call time. We still share past, present, and future, as that which is before and after us while we exist as those who are split with memories of our past as we imagine our future.
This is fact that we can control our future destiny as fate if we call it what it used to be. It's time for etymology and epistemology to begin sharing the point of time where we come together in both science and religion as a faith with hope that there is a future in our imaginations where we meet again in another place and time not in this universe but another.
De Amerikaanse luchtmacht zal volgende maand een vierde keer zijn mysterieus ruimtevliegtuig X-37B lanceren. Dat heeft het welingelichte space.com vandaag gemeld.
De X-37B lijkt op een miniatuurversie van de spaceshuttle van de NASA die ondertussen op stal is gezet. Op 20 mei moet een Atlas-V draagraket van op Cape Canaveral in Florida voor een vierde keer het onbemande en door Boeing gebouwde tuig in de ruimte brengen.
De nuttige lading en de activiteiten van deze nieuwe missie zijn geheim. Maar toch wist space.com te melden dat het onder andere gaat om een experimenteel voortstuwingssysteem en studie van materialen in de ruimte.
Welke van de twee X-37B toestellen van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht zal vliegen, is ook niet meegedeeld.
De vorige vluchten startten in april 2010, maart 2011 en december 2012. De laatste missie duurde 675 dagen, een record. Hoelang de nieuwe vlucht zal duren is eveneens niet meegedeeld.
Al sinds de ruimtesonde Dawn nadert op dwergplaneet Ceres is er heel wat te doen over enkele mysterieuze lichtvlekken op het oppervlak. Het Amerikaanse ruimteagentschap NASA speelt nu in op de hype door bal weer terug te kaatsen: wat denkt u dat het is?
Is het een ruimtebasis van aliens? Of toch maar een zoutvlakte of een vulkaan? De NASA lanceert een poll om van u te vernemen hoe u de lichtvlekken, een grote en enkele kleinere, op dwergplaneet Ceres inschat. De vlekken werden in de voorbije maanden gefotografeerd toen ruimtesonde Dawn Ceres begon te naderen.
Wetenschappers suggeren dat het wel eens ijs zou kunnen zijn. Eerder was al eens waterdamp opgemerkt in de buurt van het oppervlak van Ceres, dat op gemiddeld zo'n 428 miljoen kilometer van de aarde rond de zon draait. Ook een zoutvlakte of een vulkaan worden niet uitgesloten. Maar aangezien lava een pak meer licht zou geven, wordt dan eerder gedacht in de richting van ijsvulkanen.
Vermoedelijk op 1 mei zullen de resultaten vrijgegeven worden van de eerste erg nabije passage van Dawn langs Ceres. In afwachting daarvan mag u zelf eens een gokje wagen op de site van de NASA. En als u echt wilt, kunt u ook gokken op het ietwat enigmatische 'iets anders'. U zou overigens niet de enige zijn. Na de optie ijs, die een derde van de stemmers kan bekoren, blijkt 'iets anders' de populairste keuze te zijn.
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Mars’ Photo Reveals Alien Ship, Underground Bunker and Other Structures
Mars’ Photo Reveals Alien Ship, Underground Bunker and Other Structures
A NASA photo of Endeavour Crater seems to show an alien ship, underground bunker, house-like structures and more. It was captured by NASA’s Opportunity rover in 2014.
André R. Gignac, self-proclaimed alien hunter, has found what he called clues pointing to a range of things that US government and NASA are possibly hiding. Analysis of the image reveals the presence of an alien ship in the middle of a bunker and the alien base.
Gignac also claims that the base on the crater’s floor comprises housing structures and some sort of missiles and rockets. He also pointed out the burst of flame, which for him clearly visible from the alien ship. The rockets, missiles and housing structures are distributed in a circle, Gignac said.
Gignac explained that the picture presented evidence of an underground bunker with a structure appearing like a panoramic window.
Some sites called Gignac as ascientist, which he cleared up that he is not, and he never claimed as such. Gignac added that some sites reported that he claimed to have spotted armed people in the window, but he wasn’t brought that thing out. He also denied some reports that he said there was a hidden army on Mars.
He suspects the lies that have been repeated all over the internet about UFO or extraterrestrial reports make someone like him to just stay silent. But he promised not to keep his mouth shut amidst the inconsistency of reports regarding his claims.
Abra a sua mente. Mas primeiro, feche as portas! Baseado em mais de 600 histórias verídicas e no best-seller do aclamado investigador de OVNIs Budd Hopkins, este thriller de ficção científica explora o mundo bizarro e sombrio dos encontros com extraterrestres.
Quando o respeitado psiquiatra Dr. Neil Chase (Richard Crenna) começa a tratar Lesley Hahn (Daphne Ashbrook), que sofre de alucinações paralisantes, perdas de memória e paranóia maníaca, nenhuma explicação racional se parece ajustar àquele caso. Entretanto, uma dona-de-casa do Nebraska, Mary Wilkes (Mare Winningham) sofre dos mesmos sintomas. E quando o Dr. Chase a encontra e aprofunda ainda mais os dois casos, as semelhanças entre as suas histórias de pesadelo levam o que era antes céptico para o mistificador mundo dos raptos por OVNIs. Há mesmo uma presença extraterrestre a trabalhar aqui e, se é assim, vieram estes visitantes para salvar um mundo velho... ou para começar um novo? Os Últimos Invasores vão fazê-lo acreditar.
You can also read this : Bermuda Triangle interesting facts, secrets, history and theories.
The Bermuda Triangle has long been believed to be the site where a number of mysterious plane and boat incidents have occurred.
While it has become part of popular culture to link the Bermuda Triangle to paranormal activity, most investigations indicate bad weather and human error are the more likely culprits.
Research has suggested that many original reports of strange incidents in the Bermuda Triangle were exaggerated and that the actual number of incidents in the area is similar to that of other parts of the ocean.
While its reputation may scare some people, the Bermuda Triangle is actually part of a regularly sailed shipping lane with cruise ships and other boats also frequently sailing through the area.
Aircraft are also common in the Bermuda Triangle with both private and commercial planes commonly flying through the air space.
Stories of unexplained disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle started to reach public awareness around 1950 and have been consistently reported since then.
Unverified supernatural explanations for Bermuda Triangle incidents have included references to UFO’s and even the mythical lost continent of Atlantis.
Other explanations have included magnetic anomalies, pirates, deliberate sinkings, hurricanes, gas deposits, rough weather, huge waves and human error.
Some famous reported incidents involving the Bermuda Triangle include:
The USS Cyclops and its crew of 309 that went missing after leaving Barbados in 1918.
The TBM Avenger bombers that went missing in 1945 during a training flight over the Atlantic.
A Douglas DC-3 aircraft containing 32 people that went missing in 1958, no trace of the aircraft was ever found.
A yacht was found in 1955 that had survived three hurricanes but was missing all its crew.
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Does The Sealand Skull Prove Aliens Visited Earth?
This strange and unexplained skull was discovered in July 2007, in Olstykke which is on the Danish Island Sealand.
The Sealand skull was discovered while digging was being performed for replacement of sewer pipes. The strange mystery was no other bones that fit to the skull have been found at the site, dispite extensive digging.
The skull was however found with other artifacts pertaining to the Neolithic age. Carbon dating of the skull put it’s age between 1200 and 1280 A.D.
The skull was found above the pipes being replaced, which suggests that the skull hasn’t been buried for long, maybe only 100 years ago.
The skull is 1 1/2 times larger than the size of a regular human cranium. The eye sockets are extremely larger than a normal human.
The skull has a very smooth surface which seems to point to it being adapted to a cold climate and the relative eye size is hypothesized to point to a nocturnal creature, something that lived underground, or lived with a very dim sun orbiting its planet.
Suggestions to why it was recently buried include that someone was keeping the skull as a secret, and finally decided to bury the skull to keep its existence unknown.
Really? human, no way!
The secret order!
There is an old tale in Olstykke and nearby villages, that tell of a member of the “Order of Pegasus’ Light” protected various items, which included an old mysterious cranium and several devices of extraordinary light. These extraordinary light devices were said to be unbreakable metal or ceramic.
Little is known about this “Secret Order” and what other artifacts it may be protecting, but locals claim alien artifacts are among the items hidden. The Order was established in 1350.
Some known members of the Order are William Shakespeare, H.G. Wells, Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Heller, Rene Descartes, Ambrose Bierce, Giovanni Boccaccio, and others – all writers.
Secrets, Aliens, Time Travel!
Why an order of writers would keep alien artifacts and devices is a little strange. But since the Order’s name suggests that possibly someone (time traveler or alien visitor?) from either the Pegasus galaxy or Pegasus constellation, came to Earth and gave us knowledge that was kept secret by this order. It does seem to suggest that these writers may have been influenced somehow by this “visitor” and they revealed some of the knowledge they learned through their writings. But no one knows for sure, and never will. But intriguing anyway right?
Case Unsolved
The skull has still to be proven to be fake.
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UFO Policy Cancelled By Royal Australian Air Force
UFO Policy Cancelled By Royal Australian Air Force
By Paul Dean ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com 4-23-15
In the 1994, and further in 1996, the Australian Defence Department increasingly and officially washed their hands of the UFO/UAP matter. This came after some 44 years of official Defence handling of the issue, with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the old Department of Air (DOA) begrudgingly doing the lion’s share of the investigative work - if you can call it “investigative work” that is. See, judging by the thousands of declassified and released pages held now at the National Archives of Australia (NAA), its crystal clear that those in RAAF and Aviation officialdom did a sub-standard job of , chronological filing, policy development, and last, but definitely not least, actual investigation. Veteran researcher Bill Chalker stated to me in my first phone conversation with him 6 years ago, that his opinion of the government’s handling of the matter, after looking through the files, was “an entirely lostopportunity” for a proper “scientific appraisal” of the UFO matter. He was right then, and he is right now.
As stated above, the Department of Defence (DOD) washed their hands of the matter in 1996, however, there was still, from 1996 until very recently, one final scant, almost useless, UFO policy for the Defence community to refer to when needed. It was titled “Defence Instructions (General) ADMIN 55-1, Unusual Aerial Sightings Policy”. Tonight I can report that even that policy has been cancelled, and I can even give you a date: the 25th of March, 2013. That’s it. The whole sorry state of affairs is really over. The RAAF, and DoD as a whole (with the exception of the RAAF’s 41 Wing “Contacts of Interest” Standing Instructions, of which has nothing to do with the public, or indeed, most of the DoD) truly holds no policy on the UFO matter. You can’t even expect to get a reply email or latter if you contact them. That’s it.
And here is how it ended.
Now, as mentioned above, the former 1996 to 2013 DoD policy on the subject of UFO’s (or Unusual Aerial Sightings as the RAAF referred to the issue) was titled “Defence Instructions (General) ADMIN 55-1, Unusual Aerial Sightings Policy”. It was dated 13 Jun 1996, and carries this statement:
“For many years the RAAF was responsible for the handling of Unusual Aerial Sightings (UAS) at the official level. This function ceased in 1996 after consideration of the scientific record suggested that there was no compelling reason for the RAAF to continue to devote resources to the recording and investigation of UAS.”
This instruction followed the 1994 policy change, which, for example, stated:
“Consideration of the scientific record suggests that, whilst not all UAS have a ready explanation, there is no compelling reason for the RAAF to continue to devote resources to recording, investigating and attempting to explain UAS. The RAAF no longer accepts reports on UAS…”
“Some UAS may relate to events that could have a defence, security or public safety implications, such as man-made debris falling from space, a burning aircraft or an aircraft making an unauthorised incursion into Australian air space. Where members of the community may have witnessed an event of this type they are encouraged to contact the police, civilian aviation authorities or coast watch.”
As one can see from these official statements, there was, by the mid-1990’s, a complete lack any interest in the UFO topic, or, any half decent faith in what people, sometimes very highly qualified, had been reporting to the RAAF for decades. It may be important to note here that the 1996 policy was slightly reviewed and amended in the year 2000 too. This becomes important, as we shall see.
On the 25th of June, 2014, I received a letter (which was actually a reply letter to earlier correspondence I sent to the Chief of Air regarding the stunning 1973 North West Cape UFO case) from the RAAF Director of Coordination, Group Captain Catherine Wallis. In her letter to me, she mentioned that the DOD’s 1996 Defence Instruction for Unusual Sightings Policy had been entirely cancelled in March 2013. She actually said, in black-and-white, that “…Defence has no current policy on this issue.”. Effectively, she was stating that the 1996 policy (which was barely a policy at all) had died. This was news to me. So I told those who would listen, and that was that.
Then… I had an idea……
The DOD can’t just “cancel” a Defence Instruction without various layers of administrative action and tasking taking place. There has to be paperwork. I mean, for starters, the actual 3 page policy itself must surely have the word “Cancelled” stamped over it. Or something. So, on the 24th of January, 2015, I sent a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Defence FOI Branch, explaining to them their own pitiful UFO policy, and its total cancellation, with this brazen demand:
“I want to be furnished with a copy of the cancellation document(s); I also want to be furnished with copies of any and all material (memorandums; email letters; minutes of meetings; references to secondary material used in decision making processes; loose minutes; interagency correspondence with civil aviation bodies; etc.) that were created, used or “went in” to cancelling the above mentioned policy.”
Gotcha, Gotcha, Gotcha!
On the 27th January 2015, I received a reply from the Defence FOI Branch stating that my request for said material was valid, and would be processed. Nine weeks later, the requested material was emailed to me, on the 15th of April to be exact, and it contained a single PDF of 58 pages of Defence material: internal emails, briefs, minutes, distribution lists, procedural documents, and, of course, the actual cancellation of “Defence Instructions (General) ADMIN 55-1, Unusual Aerial Sightings Policy”, or, rather the policy front page, still intact, but with the word “Cancelation” at the bottom. Above (top) is an image of the policy cancellation. After 60 years of official involvement in the UFO, or “UAS”, matter, our DoD, spearheaded by the RAAF, that one word “Cancelation” formally finalises their having anything to do with the UFO/UAP phenomenon. I just hope that when a really serious incident occurs over Australia, witnessed by hundreds, plotted on synthetic aperture radar, over thousands of square kilometres, that they get their act together and take matters more seriously.
In my Part Two of this piece (hopefully published very soon) I will highlight the details from the other 57 pages of material they furnished me with, which is the process work which went into cancelling the policy, the opinions, the procedures and the bureaucracy involved. One day someone will look back and see what a piece of messy history it all is.
In the 1994, and further in 1996, the Australian Defence Department increasingly and officially washed their hands of the UFO/UAP matter. This came after some 44 years of official Defence handling of the issue, with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the old Department of Air (DOA) begrudgingly doing the lion’s share of the investigative work - if you can call it “investigative work” that is. See, judging by the thousands of declassified and released pages held now at the National Archives of Australia (NAA), its crystal clear that those in RAAF and Aviation offialdem did a sub-standard job of , chronological filing, policy development, and last, but definitely not least, actual investigation. Veteran researcher Bill Chalker stated to me in my first phone conversation with him 6 years ago, that his opinion of the government’s handling of the matter, after looking through the files, was “an entirely lost opportunity” for a proper “scientific appraisal” of the UFO matter. He was right then, and he is right now.
As stated above, the Department of Defence (DOD) washed their hands of the matter in 1996, however, there was still, from 1996 until very recently, one final scant, almost useless, UFO policy for the Defence community to refer to when needed. It was titled “Defence Instructions (General) ADMIN 55-1, Unusual Aerial Sightings Policy”. Tonight I can report that even that policy has been cancelled, and I can even give you a date: the 25th of March, 2013. That’s it. The whole sorry state of affairs is really over. The RAAF, and DoD as a whole (with the exception of the RAAF’s 41 Wing “Contacts of Interest” Standing Instructions, of which has nothing to do with the public, or indeed, most of the DoD) truly holds no policy on the UFO matter. You can’t even expect to get a reply email or latter if you contact them. That’s it.
And here is how it ended.
Now, as mentioned above, the former 1996 to 2013 DoD policy on the subject of UFO’s (or Unusual Aerial Sightings as the RAAF referred to the issue) was titled “Defence Instructions (General) ADMIN 55-1, Unusual Aerial Sightings Policy”. It was dated 13 Jun 1996, and carries this statement:
“For many years the RAAF was responsible for the handling of Unusual Aerial Sightings (UAS) at the official level. This function ceased in 1996 after consideration of the scientific record suggested that there was no compelling reason for the RAAF to continue to devote resources to the recording and investigation of UAS.”
This instruction followed the 1994 policy change, which, for example, stated:
“Consideration of the scientific record suggests that, whilst not all UAS have a ready explanation, there is no compelling reason for the RAAF to continue to devote resources to recording, investigating and attempting to explain UAS. The RAAF no longer accepts reports on UAS…”
“Some UAS may relate to events that could have a defence, security or public safety implications, such as man-made debris falling from space, a burning aircraft or an aircraft making an unauthorised incursion into Australian air space. Where members of the community may have witnessed an event of this type they are encouraged to contact the police, civilian aviation authorities or coast watch.”
As one can see from these official statements, there was, by the mid-1990’s, a complete lack any interest in the UFO topic, or, any half decent faith in what people, sometimes very highly qualified, had been reporting to the RAAF for decades. It may be important to note here that the 1996 policy was slightly reviewed and amended in the year 2000 too. This becomes important, as we shall see.
On the 25th of June, 2014, I received a letter (which was actually a reply letter to earlier correspondence I sent to the Chief of Air regarding the stunning 1973 North West Cape UFO case) from the RAAF Director of Coordination, Group Captain Catherine Wallis. In her letter to me, she mentioned that the DOD’s 1996 Defence Instruction for Unusual Sightings Policy had been entirely cancelled in March 2013. She actually said, in black-and-white, that “…Defence has no current policy on this issue.”. Effectively, she was stating that the 1996 policy (which was barely a policy at all) had died. This was news to me. So I told those who would listen, and that was that.
Then… I had an idea……
The DOD can’t just “cancel” a Defence Instruction without various layers of administrative action and tasking taking place. There has to be paperwork. I mean, for starters, the actual 3 page policy itself must surely have the word “Cancelled” stamped over it. Or something. So, on the 24th of January, 2015, I sent a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Defence FOI Branch, explaining to them their own pitiful UFO policy, and its total cancellation, with this brazen demand:
“I want to be furnished with a copy of the cancellation document(s); I also want to be furnished with copies of any and all material (memorandums; email letters; minutes of meetings; references to secondary material used in decision making processes; loose minutes; interagency correspondence with civil aviation bodies; etc.) that were created, used or “went in” to cancelling the above mentioned policy.”
Gotcha, Gotcha, Gotcha!On the 27th January 2015, I received a reply from the Defence FOI Branch stating that my request for said material was valid, and would be processed. Nine weeks later, the requested material was emailed to me, on the 15th of April to be exact, and it contained a single PDF of 58 pages of Defence material: internal emails, briefs, minutes, distribution lists, procedural documents, and, of course, the actual cancellation of “Defence Instructions (General) ADMIN 55-1, Unusual Aerial Sightings Policy”, or, rather the policy front page, still intact, but with the word “Cancelation” at the bottom. Below is an image of the policy cancellation. After 60 years of official involvement in the UFO, or “UAS”, matter, our DoD, spearheaded by the RAAF, that one word “Cancelation” formally finalises their having anything to do with the UFO/UAP phenomenon. I just hope that when a really serious incident occurs over Australia, witnessed by hundreds, plotted on synthetic aperture radar, over thousands of square kilometres, that they get their act together and take matters more seriously.
In my Part Two of this piece (hopefully published very soon) I will highlight the details from the other 57 pages of material they furnished me with, which is the process work which went into cancelling the policy, the opinions, the procedures and the bureaucracy involved. One day someone will look back and see what a piece of messy history it all is.
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Australian Monthly UAP / UFO Reports
Australian Monthly UAP / UFO Reports
By Keith Basterfield ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com 4-4-15
March 2015 Australian national level sightings listing
Compiled by Keith Basterfield and Paul Dean. This is the sixth in a series of Australian national level sightings listings, gathered from input by Australian civilian UAP groups, and other sources. Many of the reports in the listing have not been investigated and documented.
One of the reasons for the listing, is to draw people's attention to cases of which they might not be aware, and to stimulate them to then investigate and report back to us all. Paul and I would prefer to be publishing only cases which have been investigated, but the lack of investigated and published cases within Australia, would mean we would miss out on so many others. We have therefore chosen to compile as many as possible, with the hope, that over time, most cases we list here will have been investigated.
A man visited a property in Tasmania which has been the scene of previous unusual light phenomena. At 2040hrs on 20 March 2015, in the company of the two property owners, they brought his attention to a slight glow around the honey box which he thought was just normal light. Then, moving to a rear fence, the owners saw a light and the man tried to approach it. He "...could clearly see a golf ball sized light at 70??metres away sitting at the base of a tree." The man approached the light but lost sight of it. The owners told him "...the light had shrunk to a very small point source as I approached it."
At about 2100hrs, the man "...walked about 40 metres from the owners...and the 6 week old torch I had (with new batteries) started to act weird and the light would go on and off." After walking back, the torch resumed its usual functioning.
At about 2140hrs "...a second light appeared in the air about 2 metres (?) off the ground and about 5 metres to the left of the 'pilot light' which was still sitting at the base of the tree." The three went inside after watching for a while longer.
On the 21 March 2015 at 0610hrs, "I witnessed a light about the size (?) of a basketball (?) appear at approximately 70-100 metres away. It stayed in the air for about 4 seconds. I initially flashed my torch at it with no response from the light, which then moved to the right and I could not see it anymore."
"I also placed three game cameras (which work off localised heat sources) and set them to video function as normal. When I picked up the cameras, which had nothing of note on them, I found that two of them were now on still mode."
The man returned to the location on the 26 March. At 2015hrs the "pilot light" was again visible from the front gate. He approached this light but it faded so he returned to the gate. He could then see it again, approached but lost sight of it. The walkie talkie he had with him was working until he was about 100 metres away from the property owners, it started cutting in an out. He moved forward about another 100 metres, and a white light appeared at about 50/70 metres to his left and started flashing on and off. One second on and two seconds off. After about ten seconds another white light appeared about 10-15 metres to the right of the first light and this also turned on and off. After five minutes he returned to the farm. More lights were seen at 2245hrs and also on the following night.
(The above was summarised from a first hand account by the visiting male witness, supplied courtesy of Bill Chalker and TUFOIC. Keith Roberts of TUFOIC has kindly supplied us with a full account on the recurrent light phenomena.) . . .
March reports: 2 March 2015 1556hrs Mount Druitt, New South Wales ?minsRaw Raj Saini took a photograph during a thunderstorm. ACERN.
2 March 2015 2030hrs Howrah, Hobart, Tasmania Facebook & telephone. Bright light to north of Mt Wellington. The star like light brightens and fades, plus moves about a bit before descending behind hills. Astronomical. TUFOIC. 5 March 2015 0545hrs Near Wollongong, New South Wales ?mins Raw "Driving north along Sheepwash Rd heading towards East Bowral and west of Kangaloon...saw a flash lighting of deep blue colour light up the whole east side (left side of car) of the sky for a couple of seconds. At the same time the radio went off and then returned sounds after the blue flash had finished. There was a full moon on the right hand side of the car in the sky. I reported it to the ABC Illawarra radio station to see if anyone else saw it and confirmed what it was...ABC Illawarra confirmed they had an outage for 10 seconds around the same time." http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/2007/report-a-sighting/
5 March 2015 2130hrs Tweed Heads, New South Wales 20mins Raw Looking north at an elevation of about 45 degrees, Terri saw four medium sized white lights "circling almost dancing" which seemed to be contained in one cloud" on a cloudy night. One was slower than the others. "These lights did not stay in the same spot they moved close in a south direction." They then disappeared. http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/2007/report-a-sighting/
8 March 2015 Evening East of Nerang River, Queensland (40-50) secs Raw/IFO? Witness saw a "..big ball of light" before it faded out. "They then saw something black drop from the object." Seemed only 200 meters up in the air. No sound. No flashing lights. Suspected garbage bag balloon. UFO Research Queensland.
9 March 2015 0930hrs South-West Western Australia secs IFO Hundreds of people watched a silver object with a tail travel over south-west Western Australia. It was extremely bright. It exploded and there was a two second long ball of light. Identified as a fireball. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-09/possible-meteor-flashes-across-perth-sky/6291094
9 March 2015 ?hrs Safety Bay, Perth, Western Australia 20+mins Personal observation Amanda Lucks "Just recorded an orange orb over Safety Bay, Wambro Beach from my house in Waikiki. Very bright. Watched for 20+ minutes and it never moved left or right, only faded out. On video. It was flashing with red flashing lights." Perth UFO Casebook Facebook page.
12 March 2015 2129hrs Newcastle, new South Wales ?mins raw Adam saw "3 bright orange objects" travelling north. All at different times, but within a couple of minutes of each other. Faster than an aircraft. Burning. On a slight descent. http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/2007/report-a-sighting/
13 March 2015 (1830-1900)hrs Greenwood, Perth, Western Australia. ?mins Raw Greg Ramsden reported seeing "a fire cracker" travel across the sky. He had time to call two other people to watch it. It was lost in the distance. "Slower burning light" than a fireball. "I don't think it was a UFO." Travelled south to north in the eastern sky. http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/2007/report-a-sighting/
13 March 2015 2355hrs Apollo Bay, Victoria (2-3)secs Raw A bright lime-green coloured , object with a tail, was seen at azimuth 200 degrees, elevation 10-15 degrees. It was descending towards the sea. Orange sparks were trailing off it. It blinked out. A similar object was seen at 0036hrs 14 March 2015 by the same observer. http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/2007/report-a-sighting/
15 March 2015 1030hrs Canberra, Australian Capital Territory ?mins Raw A glint of light in the western sky caught the attention of the witness. "A disc shaped object not a long tube with wings" therefore not an aircraft. "Appeared to be spinning or pulsing." Moved slowly. "I often see objects like this in the area from time to time." Sunny day with intermittent cloud cover. MUFON case management system. http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl
17 March 2015 1930hrs Dural, Sydney, New South Wales 10mins Raw Ron reported seeing lights in the sky, "green in the centre red surrounding them quite bright." Seen at 45 degrees north-west. The object was under dark rain clouds. "Moved about in a small area about half a kilometre away in erratic circles and then very slowly move away from this position going north-west till it disappeared 10 minutes later." No sound. http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/2007/report-a-sighting/
17March 2015 (1800-1830)hrs Northern Gold Coast, Queensland (3-4) secs Raw Witness noticed a bright red, pulsating light over the hinterland. It was close to a bright star in the sky. It then made a quick U-turn under the star and stopped close to the star. It then disappeared. UFO Research Queensland Facebook page.
17 March 2015 2255hrs McDowall, Queensland (3-4)secs Raw A glowing blue ball was noticed in the eastern sky. It was moving very quickly to the west. Emitted a high intensity light. It was apparently lower than the clouds. UFO Research Queensland Facebook page.
19 March 2015 2017hrs Ellenbrook, Perth, Western Australia 20mins Raw John Brown reported looking 45 degrees south, and seeing a "bright red and white flashing light which moved across the sky and then back again before moving out of sight. http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/2007/report-a-sighting/
19 March 2015 1930hrs Gorokan, Central Coast, New South Wales ?secs Josh Elton, 15, and other family members were in their lounge room, when they saw what they thought was a low flying aircraft. "It was swerving all around as we looked out to San Remo..." The 12 second video shows a very bright ball of light crossing a small portion of sky near the horizon. The video is available to view at the link below. The Express Advocate newspaper sent the video to UFOPRSA in Sydney. Dominic McNamara is cited as saying "Flashing lights are normally at a slower frequency, but can sometimes appear to be a revolving object instead...Interestingly, vector diagrams and measurement shows that it appears to change course ever so slightly towards the left of camera as it is about to be lost to sight...In the end it is impossible to say what this is...To date there is no other report of this." http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/central-coast/ufo-close-encounter-of-an-errie-kind-as-gorokan-family-sees-hovering-sphere-of-light/story-fngr8h0p-1227274218623
19 March 2015 2130hrs Rose Bay, Tasmania 10secs Facebook Star like light at high elevation, travelling south but after ten seconds seems to fade out. Satellite. TUFOIC. 20 March 2015 0030hrs Wagga, New South Wales A photograph, showing a light trail in the sky, was submitted. MUFON Case management system. http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl
20 March 2015 0200hrs St Leonards, New South Wales ?mins Raw Two people reported a boat sized rectangular object, hovering just above the water at a distance of 15 metres. MUFON Case management system. http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl
21 March 2015 0000hrs Rockhampton, Queensland ?mins Raw A witness reported being attacked by a UFO, and that something took control of his mouth. MUFON Case management system. http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl
22 March 2015 (2130-2200)hrs Patterson Lakes, Melbourne, Victoria ?mins Raw Ron and two other people were sitting on a balcony, when Ron saw a "red ball of light shoot up from somewhere, guessing in the Dingley, Westal or Springvale area...It started to head in our direction...it nearly flew directly over us...towards the Portsea area...lost sight of it." No flickering, and no sound. After 30 seconds to a minute, another one appeared. http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/ufo-sightings-Melbourne
23March 2015 1952hrs Shelly Beach, Ballina, New South Wales ?mins Raw A man saw a single, white light travelling north, faster than an aircraft. It was white, round, soundless. It was 10 degree elevation above the ocean. It then reduced in size and appeared to change course from north to east, as it got smaller and slowed, until it disappeared. It appeared to have a smaller light to the rear. UFO Research New South Wales.
26 March 2015 ?hrs Darwin, Northern Territory 10secs Raw A bright, lime green light in the sky was seen by 21 year old Yoanna Williams."It slowed right down and disappeared." Northern Territory News. 30 March 2015.
26 March 2015 2000hrs Eastern freeway, Melbourne, Victoria 30secs Raw Kylie and her partner saw a "...white object fly horizontally across the sky...It flew behind a cloud for a couple of seconds...it reappeared...continued to fly north/west bound." White colour. Left no trail. http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/ufo-sightings-Melbourne
27 March 2015 Between 2000-2300hrs Long Reef, Sydney, New South Wales Personal observations. UFORNSW conducted a sky watch and CE5 session. On a clear, starry night a number of observers reported the following: Mariana - "Two objects briefly moving before fading out and also an extremely bright shooting star travelling east to west." Damien " I noticed 3 bright lights in a triangular formation at a 35 degree angle from my position...The centre light appeared to have a much smaller spherical light under it..." The lights moved and at one point two merged into one. Rozainah - Saw three very quick flashes from the corner of her eye towards the south-east. Also something like a smoke trail, very short and lasting a couple of seconds. John - Saw some flashes of light in the sky. One flashed brighter than other stars and then faded. Monita - An orange object at 70 degrees seen for 2 seconds. UFO Research New South Wales.
27 March 2015 1840hrs Gold Coast, Queensland ?mins Raw Sitting in a backyard, three people observed, overhead, a pulsating "bright ball of light" moving north. "...it was below the cloud line." It then changed direction to move north-east. It was soundless and moved at a constant speed. It finally "...disappeared out of the sky" at an angle of 30 degrees. MUFON Case management system. http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl
28 March 2015 0600hrs Perth, Western Australia ?mins Personal observation Samuel Johnson reported "...a bright orange line shooting down slowly on the horizon east of Perth...it was slow and then started to curve before going behind the hills." Perth UFO Casebook Facebook page. 28 March 2015 2015hrs Baulkham Hills, Sydney, New South Wales 9mins Raw Damien Nott advises: "This object was seen heading east to west over the city and then did a slow controlled half circle U-turn and then head back east towards Sydney at an upwards angle...seen by two witnesses and caught on two different cameras. On video it can be seen spitting out semi-transparent blobs of what appears to resemble white puffs of plasma like smoke." Via UFO Research New South Wales.
28 March 2015 2030hrs Ansons Bay Road, Tasmania 60mins Facebook & telephone contact Two witnesses were returning at about 8.30pm from a shooting trip, when they noticed a large light, low over paddocks. Estimated to be half kilometre or more from the road. They stop to view the light through binoculars and a rifle scope. It appears to be a triangle shape with a dome area above. The colour is a blend of green, red and yellow. Beneath, there seems to be ribbons of coloured light reaching down towards the ground. At this point a loud beep sound was heard and a white light was observed approaching from the south-east. It is only visible for 15 seconds as it performs a quick turn and disappears in the sky.
The witnesses now decide to see if they can approach closer to the light from nearby farm and bush tracks. Due to locked gates they fail to get any closer and after 30 minutes return to the road. The light is still there. They now shine their spotlight (range 350 metres) towards the light and it appears to reflect the light. Almost at once the object looks to move away from the road in a zig zag or circling movement and is soon lost to view. The two witnesses return home to St Helens and say they can still see a fading light, high up ion the sky.
The report was lodged on Facebook (29th March) with follow up by TUFOIC's Northern rep. Phil Polden. Investigation in progress. TUFOIC.
Older cases:
28 February 2015 2203hrs Hardwicke Bay/Warroka, South Australia ?mins Raw An individual noted that the wind increased, looked up and saw an object hovering over trees. The object had yellow and orange lights "around it shaped in a disc form." A beam of blue and white light came down from it. MUFON Case management system. http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl
28 February 2015 1715hrs Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales 15mins Raw A "tiny silver dot" was seen in the sky. The witness was facing north, looking up at a 60-70 degrees elevation. It was lost, then found again, at 45 degrees east of the original position, and at 80 degrees elevation. It was slowly moving west, then made a slow right turn to head north. It was lost to sight behind trees/buildings. The sky was clear and blue. http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/2007/report-a-sighting/
9 February 2015 1930hrs Toowoomba/Clifton, Queensland 40mins "A man was driving from Toowoomba to Clifton when he saw two lights in the sky he thought could be planes. He continued driving but then saw three lights in the sky dipping up and down, so he pulled over to look at them through binoculars.
It was then he could see a shadow with lights around it that had a diffused shape. He continued to drive to Clifton and was outbound on his way to Leyburn when he saw an object with 8 golden yellow lights spinning around it about 25 to 50 meters in front of him, and at tree top level about 10-15 metres above him. The object was silent and the lights gave off no emanations on the surrounding environment. witness described thee lights as "looking like they were suspended in the sky." The witness observed the entire event over a 40 minute period while he travelled about 20 kms at very slow speed. There were two other drivers who he thought would have seen the light too." UFO Research Queensland.
6 February 2015 2035hrs Sydney, New South Wales ?mins Raw (Reported 12 March 2015.) Was filming the Moon rise as it was a new full moon, with Aiptek handheld camcorder - no filter on lens - in nigth vision setting. Did not notice the object until playback and in full screen mode. "In playback I noticed an orange globe - but find it hard to get a single frame. managed to capture an image - it was coming and going between frames which made it difficult. I was on the balcony in front of my apartment. In playback the object seemed to be heading straight up and disappear. In the clip it appears at 0.01 at 12 position." MUFON case management system. http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl
February 2015 1630hrs Williamtown, New South Wales ?mins Raw Brett reported seeing five silver, diamond looking objects, "appearing tiny due to cruise height, flying south to north in formation." http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/2007/report-a-sighting/
8 January 2015 Ca. 2100hrs Bray Park, Brisbane, Queensland 3mins Raw Two people sitting outside a house saw an object in the sky. It dimmed and brightened a few times. It was moving slowly with small, erratic, movements. It moved off to the south-west at high speed. It was white in colour, and spherical in shape. http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/sighting-reports/bray-park-brisbane-australia-uf-sighting
20 December 2014 2240hrs Logan, Queensland ?secs Raw An individual was sitting outside, looked up and saw a big white light. It went behind trees and was lost to view. Then, looking straight ahead "something streaked across the sky leaving a mustard yellowish orange streak. It faded in seconds. There was no associated sound. UFOPRSA "Phenomenon Times." February 2015.
27 October 2014 1637hrs Moonta, South Australia ?mins Raw (Reported 16 March 2015.) "Taking photos of a storm approaching from NW." Captured something in one of the pictures, it is small. Not in photos before or after. "A few other people around town I mentioned the object to have said they saw something flying in the clouds glowing a red or orange colour that same day." "I didn't notice the object at the time." MUFON case management system. http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl
7 April 2012 2000hrs Warner, Queensland ?mins (Reported 12 February 2015.) "A young man was at a friend's house when they decided to walk to the local shop. They reached a high point on a hill and saw a deep orange dot in the sky. They didn't think anything of it but as they walked a few hundred metres and turned a corner they saw a bus-sized sphere about 50 metres above the road. It had a diameter of 4 metres and was moving silently at about 5km/hr. It appeared to be made of a fire or plasma and an orange/red colour. They heard a man yell "What the ...is that" a girl scream and another girl crying. They watched it move at about 40 to 50 metres then it accelerated to 4/5 times its speed, then disappeared at a 45 degree angle. The object was extremely bright but didn't scatter any ambient light nor did the witness recall seeing it cast any shadows. Even though the light was bright it seemed to cause no harm to their eyes." UFO Research Queensland.
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Signs of Alien Life by 2025, Says NASA Chief Scientist
Signs of Alien Life by 2025, Says NASA Chief Scientist
Recent observations by planetary probes and telescopes on the ground and in space have shown that water is common throughout our solar system and the broader Milky Way galaxy.
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Humanity is on the verge of discovering alien life, high-ranking NASA scientists say.
"I think we're going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we're going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years," NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan said Tuesday (April 7) during a panel discussion that focused on the space agency's efforts to search for habitable worlds and alien life.
"We know where to look. We know how to look," Stofan added during the event, which was webcast live. "In most cases we have the technology, and we're on a path to implementing it. And so I think we're definitely on the road." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Former astronaut John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, shared Stofan's optimism, predicting that signs of life will be found relatively soon both in our own solar system and beyond.
"I think we're one generation away in our solar system, whether it's on an icy moon or on Mars, and one generation on a planet around a nearby star," Grunsfeld said during Tuesday's event.
Recent discoveries suggest that the solar system and broader Milky Way galaxy teem with environments that could support life as we know it, Grunsfeld said.
For example, oceans of liquid water slosh beneath the icy shells of the Jupiter moons Europa and Ganymede, as well as that of the Saturn satellite Enceladus. Oceans covered much of Mars in the ancient past, and seasonal dark streaks observed on the Red Planet's surface today may be caused by salty flowing water.
Further, NASA's Curiosity rover has found carbon-containing organic molecules and "fixed" nitrogen, basic ingredients necessary for Earth-like life, on the Martian surface.
Farther afield, observations by NASA's Kepler space telescope suggest that nearly every star in the sky hosts planets — and many of these worlds may be habitable. Indeed, Kepler's work has shown that rocky worlds like Earth and Mars are probably more common throughout the galaxy than gas giants such as Saturn and Jupiter.
And just as the solar system is awash in water, so is the greater galaxy, said Paul Hertz, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division.
New research suggests we might want to widen our search for Earth-like exoplanets.
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The Milky Way is "a soggy place," Hertz said during Tuesday's event. "We can see water in the interstellar clouds from which planetary systems and stellar systems form. We can see water in the disks of debris that are going to become planetary systems around other stars, and we can even see comets being dissipated in other solar systems as star evaporates them." [6 Most Likely Places for Alien Life in the Solar System]
Hunting for evidence of alien life is a much trickier proposition than identifying potentially habitable environments. But researchers are working steadily toward that more involved and ambitious goal, Stofan and others said.
For example, the agency's next Mars rover, scheduled to launch in 2020, will search for signs of past life and cache samples for a possible return to Earth for analysis. NASA also aims to land astronauts on Mars in the 2030s — a step Stofan regards as key to the search for Mars life.
"I'm a field geologist; I go out and break open rocks and look for fossils," Stofan said. "Those are hard to find. So I have a bias that it's eventually going to take humans on the surface of Mars — field geologists, astrobiologists, chemists — actually out there looking for that good evidence of life that we can bring back to Earth for all the scientists to argue about."
NASA is also planning out a mission to Europa, which may launch as early as 2022. The main goal of this $2.1 billion mission will be to shed light on the icy moon's potential habitability, but it could also search for signs of alien life: Agency officials are considering ways to sample and study the plumes of water vapor that apparently erupt from Europa's south polar region.
In the exoplanet realm, the agency's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an $8.8 billion instrument scheduled to launch in 2018, will scope out the atmospheres of nearby "super-Earth" alien planets, looking for gases that may have been produced by life.
JWST will scan the starlight that passes through the air of super-Earths, which are more massive than our own planet but significantly less so than gaseous worlds such as Uranus and Neptune. This method, called transit spectroscopy, will likely not work for potentially habitable Earth-size worlds, Hertz said.
earching for biosignature gases on small, rocky exoplanets will instead probably require direct imaging of these worlds, using a "coronagraph" to block out the overwhelming glare of their parent stars, Hertz added.
NASA's potential Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, which may launch in the mid-2020s if given the official go-ahead, would include a coronagraph for exoplanet observations.
Blue UFO At Space Station On Live Cam, April 24, 2015, UFO Sighting News.
Blue UFO At Space Station On Live Cam, April 24, 2015, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 24, 2015 Location of sighting: space station The International Space Station has been a UFO hotspot for several years now. The live cam has giving us a lot of valuable images and video of suspected UFOs near the ISS. Streetcap1 of Youtube is the researcher who has caught the most amazing, closest and docked UFOs at the space station. This is another instance of that. This blue UFO was near the space station, and may have been there days later on April 28 when a launched rocket of the Russian cargo ship lost control and could not dock with the ISS. Perhaps they caused the cargo ship to spin out of control, as an experiment...what will NASA do about it? SCW
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