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 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...
Roger and his family lived in New York City, in the Bronx specifically. It was late June 1966, Roger, his wife, daughter 12 and two sons, ages eight and six, decided to get up before sun rise and hit the open road for a day trip to Pennsylvania. The family of six were traveling south on the Throgs Neck suspension bridge just prior to sunrise.
“We were probably about 2/3 of the way across the bridge, when the entire family witnessed a huge green orb UFO hovering above the bridge. My wife and the two boys were excited, yelling to me to look. I remember that it was so close to the bridge that my daughter began screaming because she thought this orb was going to hit the bridge and knock it down.”
Roger tells us that the entire sighting lasted probably no longer than 30 seconds and no one in the car remembers observing this green orb flying away. He says that it just seemed to disappear. What has bothered Roger all these years is that some of the family members clearly remember the event and other have clearly forgotten it. “I think that it is very odd that something that amazing could be so easily forgotten. “
“The huge green orb UFO had no distinguishing marks and the entire family agrees that it was not the moon or the sun. As for the size of the orb, I would say it was a the size of a football field in diameter and I might be underestimating it by quite a bit. The distance that it was from the bridge was perhaps 300 or 400yds.”
Roger told us that the family discussed the sighting briefly after the initial sighting, then it wasn’t spoken of again for nearly two decades.
“It was about 20 years later at a family reunion when someone brought up the subject of UFOs. Then for some odd reason we all remembered the incident like it happened yesterday.”
Roger thinks that while the bridge was scant for other motorists that particular morning in 1966, he feels that there has to be other witnesses to this huge green orb UFO sighting.
The Historical Record of Planet Earth speaks of ongoing contact with extraterrestrials as found in oral traditions, tablets, stone monuments, petroglyphs, and art forms found throughout the planet. Many of these images could also be lenticular clouds.
Art Exhibit British Museum #52 Sumerian Gods – Scroll Through The Images
Figurines, Lizard-headed or Ubaid Style, clay, Ur (Ubaid culture), 5th millenium BCE, h:13.6 cm From the Ubaid – Southern Mesopotamian Period, 5000 BCE – 4000 BCEFound in Ur. The Ubaid culture succeeded the Halaf at the end of the 6th millenium BCE in southern Iraq, then spread throughout Mesopotamia. Ubaid culture is known for painted pottery; large houses of tripartite plan for extended families; and lizard-headed figurines of both male and female gender. Figurines such as the above examples are typical. The figure on the left holds a baby on her hip and suckles it. The figure on the right has incised stretch marks on her abdomen. It has been suggested that the brown-painted dots and lines represent tatoos, and the clay pellets scarring. It is unknown if the shape of the skulls represents actual head-binding.Similar Lizard-headed figurines have been found at Eridu. Collon, Dominique. Ancient Near Eastern Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, pg 46.
Nepal
7,000 B.C. – The Lolladoff plate, discovered in Nepal, appears to show a hovering disk-shaped object in the center and a small being, resembling an alien resembling an alien gray, beside it. The circular pattern is reminiscent of the spiraling movement of consciousness – Sacred Geometry of creation.
Italy
This cave painting is circa 10,000 BC and is from Val Camonica, Italy. It appears to depict two beings in protective suits holding strange implements.
1465 – Cigar shaped UFO – flaming girder seen in the sky during the reign of Enrico IV From Notabilia Temporum by Angelo de Tummulillis
Kiev
Strange suited figure found in Kiev. It dates to ca. 4,000 BC.
Mexico
7000 year old petroglyph discovered in the province of Queretaro, Mexico in 1966. There are 4 figures with outstretched arms below a large oval object radiating what appear to be beams of light.
Ecuador
Ancient Figures in Space Suits
United States – Native Americans
Petroglyphs dating back thousands of years ago by ancient Indians in the American Southwest. According to Indian folklore, two objects collided high in the sky and one crash-landed in the region of Death Valley. Some men arrived (presumably in another ship) and spent some time repairing the damaged craft and were observed by the local Indians. The two images below may possibly depict the ship (left) used by the men who came to repair the damaged craft. In comparing the two images, the one on the right seems to depict structural damage around the edges and the bottom. Could it be the one that allegedly crashed? The images are stills taken from an old TV series entitled “In search of…” hosted by Leonard Nimoy.
Sego Canyon, Utah. Estimated up to 5,500 BC.
Africa Tassili n’Ajjer, Sahara Desert, North Africa
Sahara rock art is a significant area of archaeological study focusing on the precious treasures carved or painted on the natural rocks found in the central Sahara desert. There are over three thousand sites discovered that have information about Saharan rock art. From the Tibesti massif to the Ahaggar Mountains, the Sahara is an impressive open-air museum containing numerous archaeological sites.
Tassili n’Ajjer (meaning “Plateau of the Rivers”) is noted for its prehistoric rock art and other ancient archaeological sites, dating from Neolithic times when the local climate was much moister, with savannah rather than desert. The art depicts herds of cattle, large wild animals including crocodiles, and human activities such as hunting and dancing. The art has strong stylistic links to the pre-Nguni Art of South Africa and the region, executed in caves by the San Peoples before the year 1200 BCE.
The range’s exceptional density of rock art paintings-pictograms and engravings-petroglyphs, and the presence of many prehistoric vestiges, are remarkable testimonies to Neolithic prehistory. From 10,000 BCE to the first centuries CE, successive peoples left many archaeological remains, habitations, burial mounds and enclosures which have yielded abundant lithic and ceramic material. However, it is the rock art (engravings and paintings) that have made Tassili world famous as from 1933, the date of its discovery. 15,000 petroglyphs have been identified to date.
Some of the painting have bizarre depictions of what appear to be spacemen wearing suits, visors, and helmets. resembling modern day astronauts. This takes us to the west African tribe – the Dogon whose legends say they were guided to the area from another part of Africa that was drying up – by fish gods called the Nommo who came in huge ships from the sky.
Two cave paintings from Tanzania. Both are estimated to be up to 29,000 years old. The one on the left is located in Itolo and depicts several disc shaped objects. The other painting is from Kolo shows four entities surrounding a women. Notice also the entity looking down from inside some sort of box or object.
A wood cut from 1479 Arabia shows the appearance of a rocket ship complete with rivet and metal and pointed front with stars gleaming in the background.
This is an old Chinese illustration from a fictional book entitled “Illustrated Survey of Weird Countries” (c.1400 A.D.) and had the following original caption: “Ji Gung Land: The people could make flying cars that travelled far with a suitable wind. In Tarng’s day (c.1700 B.C.), Ji Gung people flying a car on a westerley reached Yew Jo. Tarng dismantled their car so it could not be demonstrated to the people … Later an east wind came on which he had them fly the car back to their own country [5,000 km] west of our gateway.”
Japan
This is an artistic reproduction of a relief found in a labyrinth on the island Jotuo in the Toengt’ing lake. An expedition took place in 1957 (two years before an earthquake in that region). The expedition was led by professor Tsj’i Pen-Lai. They found various reliefs showing “humans” in strange clothes which looked like astronaut suits (hose like objects attached to the clothes). They also found a painting which apparently resembled the solar system. The third and fourth circle (planet) were connected with a line. Also there were ten planets (excluding the sun as planet). This connects easily to the theories about Nibiru, planet X, etc.
Illustration depicting a sighting of a burning wheel in the year 900 over Japan.
This is a tapestry called Summer’s Triumph It was created in Bruges in 1538 and presently resides at the Bayerisches National Museum. You can clearly see several disc shaped objects in the top of the tapestry.
A wood cut found in Nurnberg Germany in 1561 depicts a large dark missile with a many others like it in the sky. Also depicted are globes, cylindrical space ships, and the sun. Many believe it shows humans witnessing a battle between aliens that was later recorded on the wood cut.
Illustration depicts a sighting by two Dutch ships in the North Sea of an object moving slowly in the sky. It appeared to be made by two disks of different size. The source for this account is one of the books entitled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Admiral Blaeu. These books were compilations of articles by different authors and consisted of detailed accounts of long engagements at sea, cartography information, etc.
In France there was a coin minted in 1680 that shows a hovering disc shaped UFO with what appears to be port holes or lights around the outer rim. Due to the fact that a coin was minted depicting this UFO.
15th Century
Germany
This picture shows a UFO sighting over Hamburg, Germany The objects were described as ‘two glowing wheels’ or UFOs November 4, 1697
Rome“Prodigiorum Liber”
Renaissance illustration of a UFO sighting in Rome detailed in a book by Roman historian Julio Obsequens.
UFO’S in Religious Art
In this painting found on a wood drawer from furniture kept at the Earls D’Oltremond, in Belgium, Moses is depicted receiving the tablets of the Ten Commandments, with “flaming horns.” Several equally flaming objects are in the sky before him. The date and artist are unknown.
A disk shaped object is shining beams of light down on John the Baptist and Jesus – Fitzwilliam Musuem, Cambridge, England – Painted in 1710 by Flemish artist Aert De Gelder. It depicts a classic, hovering, silvery, saucer shaped UFO shining beams of light down on John the Baptist and Jesus. What could have inspired the artist to combine these two subjects?
17th century fresco of the crucifixion Svetishoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, Georgia Note the two saucer shaped craft on either side of Christ.
“La Tebaide”
Painted by Paolo Uccello – circa 1460-1465
The Crucifixion
Frescos throughout Europe reveal the appearance of space ships. This 1350 painting seems to depict a small human looking man looking over his shoulder at another flying vehicle. His vehicle is decorated with two twinkling stars, one reminiscent of national insignia on modern aircraft. This painting hangs above the altar at the Visoki Decani Monestary in Kosovo, Yugoslavia.
“Glorification of the Eucharist” – painted by Bonaventura Salimbeni in 1600
Today it hangs in the church of San Lorenzo in San Pietro, Montalcino, Italy. What does the ‘Sputnik satellite-like device’ represent?
Baptism of Jesus
Baptism of Christ by Rogier van der Weyden (12th Century)
Baptism of Christ by Ottavio Vannini c. 1640
Baptism of Christ byFra Angelico c. 1425
John the Baptist by Leonardo Da Vinci
Mother Mary
A fourteenth century fresco of the Madonna and Child depict on the top right side the image of a UFO hovering in the distance. A blow up of this fresco reveals tremendous details about this UFO including port holes. It seems to indicate a religious involvement between UFO’s and the appearance of the Christ Child.
This painting is called “The Madonna with Saint Giovannino”. It was painted in the 15th century by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) and hangs as part of the Loeser collection in the Palazzo Vecchio. Above Mary’s right shoulder is a disk shaped object. Below is a blow up of this section and a man and his dog can clearly be seen looking up at the object.
“The Assumption of the Virgin” Painted circa 1490 by an unknown artist.
Saucer shaped “clouds” intrigue modern ufologists. Could so many have appeared in the sky at one time? Or, are the hat shaped UFOs depicted so numerous here to -punctuate- certain events as being particularly holy?
The Life Of Mary – 14th Century Tapestries
1330 ‘The Magnificent’ – Notre-Dame in Beaune, Burgandy
The painting above was done by Carlo Crivelli (1430-1495) and is called “The Annunciation with Saint Emidius” (1486) and hangs in the National Gallery, London. A disk shaped object is shining a pencil beam of light down into Mary’s crown chakra. A blow up of the object is next to the painting.
The picture above depicts Jesus and Mary and either UFOs or lenticular clouds. The painting is entitled “The Miracle of the Snow” and was painted by Masolino Da Panicale (1383-1440) and hangs at the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Florence, Italy. The bible references flying objects that were perhaps UFOs many go back to Flood Stories.
Witnesses in Canada noticed strange objects flying in the sky near Esquimalt, British Columbia at approximately 8:30 p.m. on the night of Monday, April 27.
Two of these witnesses, Brian Cooper and his wife Melissa, were in bed watching a movie when they noticed two unusual objects zipping through the night sky. The couple raced to the balcony for a better view. Although one of the UFOs quickly vanished, the couple was able to use a cell phone to record video of one of the objects.
UFO over Esquimalt. (Credit: Brian Cooper/CTV News)
As they explained to CTV News, the UFO was a circular craft that was “as being as big as a Volkswagen, flying like a drone, except much faster,” and had lights that “spun in all different directions.”
Veralynn Weaver, the Coopers’ upstairs neighbor, also saw the UFOs.
“I’ve grown up on military bases and I’ve never seen anything like that,” she told CTV News.
The witnesses say the UFOs flew over nearby CFB Esquimalt naval base. The Coopers suspect the UFOs they observed are likely some sort of secret military vehicle, but they also entertain the notion that what they saw could be “proof of alien life.”
UFO over Esquimalt. (Credit: Brian Cooper/CTV News)
“I have never seen anything like this in my life,” says Mr. Cooper. “I’m a very skeptical person.”
CTV News inquired with the naval base about the UFOs. Although the base declined to view the Coopers’ UFO video, a spokesperson from the base confirmed that no military flights took place near the base on the night in question. Reporters also checked with local authorities and were told that no UFO sighting reports were filed that night either.
To check on the done possibility, CTV News showed the UFO video to someone familiar with drones, David Carlos of Victoria Air Photos & Survey. He is of the opinion that the object in the video is a “Multi-rotar, electric air vehicle.” But he is also careful to point out that, purely based on the video, it is impossible to make a conclusive identification.
Although Mr. Cooper dismissed the drone possibility because he thinks the UFOs he observed flew to quickly, it is important to note that some consumer drones are capable of flying extremely fast and can perform incredible flight maneuvers.
“ALLEGED” IMPLANT FOUND IN X-RAY OF WOMAN’S UPPER BACK.
Listen to Recording of Interview With Witness (YouTube):
Description: This was found in my back on April 8. I have severe degenerative disc disease. I also have essential tremors, or Parkinson’s. Strange things have happened in my living room at night, like objects floating across the room. One time it looked like clouds. Another time I saw something that looked like a small bird nest, and then another a large nest. My dog freaked out a couple of times, but I didn’t see anything. I burned sage and she calmed down. I feel good now without the tremors, and a lot less pain in my back. MY DOCTORS ARE VERY CONFUSED. I don’t plan on having anything done, but would like to know more about it.
Note: The witness has been contacted for more information. The “cursor” that shows up in the lower center of the X-Ray is due to the fact that a camera was used to take a photo of the X-Ray displayed on a computer. The doctor provided the woman a CD with her X-Rays. I am trying to ascertain if the woman had previous X-rays of the area and if the object was present. I am assuming that the object first showed up on the April 8 X-ray? The woman says that her doctors have no explanation for the object. The woman has no scars in the area where the object shows up on the X-ray. Although she doesn’t recall specific “abduction” or alien encounters, she has had strange experiences lately which include her pet dog. The woman is handicapped and has other physical problems. The object clearly looks artificial and does not appear to be any kind of growth. I have sent the X-ray to a radiologist to get his opinion. Updates will be posted. Of course I have no way of proving that the X-ray is real and is from the person who sent it me.
Update April 23, 2015: Obviously many “experts” have weighed in that this is a “manmade” device probably with a medical function. I don’t claim to know everything and sometimes go with what the witness tells me and I use sometimes rely on information from commenters. I also have obtained feedback from 2 physicians (see one comment below). One of the physicians is a radiologist he wrote the following: It looks like an implantable electronic device. Alternatively, given the patient’s history, it could be something external. A timer taped to the detector assembly or even a necklace-time piece she was wearing. Best thing is to repeat. If she never had anything place there, it will be gone.
Second Interview With Witness: The witness says that the device was not present on her X-Rays previous to the April 8, 2015 X-Rays. The previous X-Rays were taken in October of 2014.
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Astronomer claims to see UFO close to Montgomeryshire border
Astronomer claims to see UFO close to Montgomeryshire border
A KEEN astronomer believes he saw a UFO in the skies above his home close to the Montgomeryshire border – the second unexplained incident within a year in the area.
Jamie Keeling, 28, from Four Crosses was retrieving items from his car near his home when he claims to have heard a low, deep rumbling noise from above.
Mr Keeling says he saw a large black triangular craft flying overhead with a bright, pulsating red light at each corner. The close encounter occurred shortly before 10pm on Thursday, April 9, as the object apparently flew directly over the Powys skyline.
Mr Keeling said: “It was travelling at a constant speed and height. It was hard to tell what altitude it was flying at, but it looked very high and very large in size and was travelling due east.
“My father is a pilot, and I am a keen amateur astronomer, so I know what I am and am not looking at when it comes to things in the night sky.
“I wondered whether it could have been three military aircraft flying in formation, but all aircraft flying anywhere in the world are obligated to, and are not allowed to fly in any airspace, unless they have a very specific formation of lights displayed; that being a red light on the one wing tip and a green light on the other.”
Last August an “unexplained banana shaped object” was seen in the sky by a model plane enthusiast also in the Four Crosses area.
On this latest occasion light pollution hampered visibility on the night and Mr Keeling said it was impossible to distinguish whether the lights came from one large triangular aircraft or three military aircraft flying in formation.
He said there were no stars visible between the three red lights as the craft moved along it’s flight path, which led him to believe it was one solid craft, but because so few stars were visible on the night he could not be certain.
Mr Keeling believes he has seen the same mysterious craft on two previous occasions at the same spot at around the same time.
He added: “The sightings were the same each time but this time I had a much clearer view as I was standing out in the open in the middle of the road so none of the craft was obstructed and I was able to watch it until it disappeared into the distance.
“I don’t know what it was that I saw, but I do know it was a craft with lights that do not conform to the legal obligations set out by the FAA.
“Its speed was hard to judge as I couldn’t ascertain its distance from my position, but this was not a normal aircraft and I have no idea what it was.”
We can now reveal the greatest secret in the history of Archaeology !
This is an extract of the last chapter from the book 'The Stonehenge Enigma' - Second Edition 2013, by Robert John Langdon - published today.
Epilogue - Ancient monument to the Lost World of Atlantis
If the builders of Stonehenge were the lost civilisation of Atlantis, where did they originate from and why did they come to the Salisbury plain to construct their monument?
We have shown (in the previous chapters of the book) that after the last ice age the ‘great melt’ flooded the landscape of Britain for over ten thousand years. This flooding started a ‘chain reaction’ and as a consequence the sea level slowly increased and vast areas of land were lost including a land mass known as ‘Doggerland’.
Doggerland sinks long after the Northern ice cap melts
Throughout the 19th century, oyster dredgers working the shallow waters off the north east coast of England recorded frequent finds of animal bones caught up in their nets. These discoveries became a regular occurrence as the fishing technology increased and the trawlers at a later date and in deeper waters of the North Sea also found traces of civilisation and a lost continent. Sadly, the location were rarely recorded with any degree of accuracy; this material appeared to come from a number of areas within the North Sea.
One area where the greatest number of finds were was discovered is known as the ‘Dogger bank’ which lies just 90km – 110km (60-70 miles) from the coast of the British Isles. This shoal (a shoal, sandbar , sandbank or gravel bar is a somewhat linear landform within or extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt or small pebbles.) rises about 45m (150 ft) above the North Sea bed. To the north it plunges into deeper water and forms a subterranean plateau covering 17,600 sq. km. (6,800 miles) with a maximum dimension being 260km (160 miles) from North to South and 95 km (60 miles) from East to West.
Over time the number of finds reduced as the same area was dredged day after day and any artefacts sitting on the surface would have been scooped up and either returned as a curiosity (or in a majority) most of the time just thrown back in a different location.
Even so, items such as; bear, wolf, hyena, bison, woolly rhino, mammoth, beaver walrus, elk, deer and most importantly horse have been collected. This precious collection of findings gives us a fantastic insight to what Doggerland looked like, the environment that supported these animals and the climate of this unique area of the world.
It would be impossible to talk about Doggerland and its environment without understanding the clear connection to Plato’s written references to the lost world of Atlantis. Over the years Atlantis has grown to be both a legend and the source of much science fiction. This is neither correct nor helpful in tracing the history of mankind, as it moves the debate from scientific observation to fantasy and the degrading of the most important time of our history.
Plato
Plato is a source of credible information for he is not a ‘story teller’ like some other historic writers, he is fundamentally a philosopher whose writings are still studied even now, some 2,000 years after his death at the most famous and prestigious universities throughout the world. This man is not prone to fantasy or exaggeration, his writings therefore must be accepted as true evidence that once in the distant past an ancient great civilisation did in fact exist and that they changed the course of mankind in ways which I believe we do not fully understand to date.
The next book in our trilogy traces the ‘megalithic builders’ from when they came out of Africa to where they landed in their boats on Doggerland following the herds of Animals as the ice caps receded and the food supply for these ancient ancestors moved north travelling to a new continent. They constructed a civilisation that used new stone tools and incorporated megalithic stone constructions into their society.
Consequently, we need to look at the probability that Plato’s ‘Atlantis’ is a genuine reference to this land, as it is the oldest written source and may give us clues of how this civilisation lived and traded. Fortunately for us Plato gave some detail about this civilisation, such as how they lived and what they believed, which will allow us to compare what we know from landscape and archaeological finds and look for other areas of investigation the texts might reveal.
Plato’s most famous line from ‘Timaeus’, a dialogue between Critias and Socrates, where ‘Critias’ tells a story he learned through his family about the Greek statesman ‘Solon’ whilst he was studying with the most scholarly of Egyptian priests during a visit to Sais in Egypt in about 590 BCE. The priests claimed to have access to secret records about a lost civilisation called ‘Atlantis’, which only they were allowed to read, for it was written on the pillars within their most sacred temple. Now Sais was one of the oldest cities in the old kingdom and the city’s patron goddess was ‘Neith’, whose cult is attested as early as the 1st Dynasty, ca. 3100- 3050 BCE.
The Greeks, such as Herodotus, Plato and Diodorus Siculus, identified her with Athena and hence postulated a primordial link to Athens. Diodorus recounts that Athena built Sais ‘before’ the ‘deluge’ that supposedly destroyed Athens and Atlantis. While all Greek cities were destroyed during that cataclysm, the Egyptian cities including Sais survived.
As we can see from this connection, the deluge has incredible importance to ancient civilisations, clearly indicating that any prehistoric civilisation that wanted to ‘stay alive’ would possibly build boats, not for some, but for everyone. Sadly, the city of Sais has been recently destroyed by farmers who used the house and temple mud bricks as free fertiliser for the fields – to this date the temple and its writings have never been found.
The most famous line from Plato’s dialogue is:
“in front of the mouth which you Greeks say ‘the pillars of Hercules’ there lay an island which is much larger than Libya and Asia together”translated by W.R.M. Lamb 1925 or
“in front of the straits which are by you called the pillars of Hercules; the island was bigger than Libya and Asia together” B. Jowett 1871
Atlantis - Portrayed as a gigantic Island
This single sentence has caused no end of debate about the location of Atlantis. Some suggest that ‘the pillars’ can refer to water flows, thus allowing the speculation (which is current) that Atlantis is a Greek Island. Others suggest (including myself) that the ‘pillars of Hercules’ is the mouth of the Mediterranean between Morocco and Spain. Now this is a case of translation and interpretation, the word ‘mouth’ is sometime called ‘strait’, in other quotations Plato refers to the Mediterranean Sea as “within the straits of Hercules”.
According to some Roman sources, while on his way to the island of ‘Erytheia’ Hercules had to cross the mountain that was once Atlas (the Atlas Mountains are in Northern Africa overlooking the Mediterranean). Instead of climbing the great mountain, Hercules used his superhuman strength to smash through it. By doing so, he connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and formed the Straits of Gibraltar.
But the best evidence is in the name itself ‘Atlantis’ for Herodotus (an ancient Greek historian, 484 BCE – 425 BCE) in a time before Plato’s writings calls the Sea outside the Pillars of Hercules the ‘Atlantis Sea’ (Cyrus, 557-530 BCE: Book 1). Moreover, even today we call it the Atlantic Ocean and in history c’s and s’s are commonly transposed.
So we are left with a clear understanding that Atlantis was in the Atlantic Ocean, but then come the next problem with this description “the island was bigger than Libya and Asia together” this is where most Atlantis claims fall flat. Libya was well known in Plato’s time as a big country as it bordered the Mediterranean, but the reference to Asia cannot be the Asia we know as it was unknown to the old world and the Greeks, therefore the Asia that Plato was referring to is now called Asia Minor.
‘Asia Minor (from Greek: Μικρὰ Ἀσία, Mikrá Asía, small Asia) is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey. It is a peninsula bounded by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.’
The size of this ‘island’ is consequently a major problem for historians to date, as the only two island possibilities are the Caribbean in America or a continent that was once in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that has disappeared without trace. Well the islands of the Caribbean are far too small and the trek across the middle of the Atlantic Ocean without landmass to guide the ships eleven thousand years ago would be too daunting to be truly feasible with ‘Bronze Age technology’ as Plato suggests.
This is why the search has failed to date and all various ‘silly’ hypotheses based on the Mediterranean make news headlines. If we look again at this passage and the exact wording of Atlantis we find something most researchers have overlooked in the translation and it’s the word ‘island’, the original Greek word is ‘nesos’ which can mean either island or peninsula.
If we are looking for a ‘Peninsula’ (which is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland.) that is outside the Mediterranean, then there are only two possibilities - Africa or Europe. These are both outside the Pillars of Hercules and can be easily navigated by sticking to the shorelines. The African continent has shown no signs of any peninsula on its Atlantic side that has disappeared in the past 10,000 years - but Europe has!
Europe 14000 BCE a large peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean (NEP)
If we look at a map of Europe at the end of the Ice Age, we notice that the water levels were about 160m lower than today, so much lower that extra coastlines are added to both Spain and France. But when we look at the British Isles we notice Britain has completely vanished.
It has been replace a massive new land mass protruding into the Atlantic Ocean, for the English Channel, Irish Sea and the North Sea as we know them today has been replaced by a single land mass. Moreover, the land to the west of Ireland and North West from Scotland would have also been reclaimed from the sea.
This peninsula (which includes to the North East Norway, Sweden and Finland, to the east Denmark and the Baltic Sea) creates a continent about the same size of Libya and Asia Minor, which correlates to Plato’s writings.
We know from our history that the rising of sea waters over the last 10,000 years has caused flooding that created the island nation we know today. But, do the writings contain any other information which will allow us to confirm this peninsula is the land mass Critias was talking about?
Plato adds -
“yonder (beyond the pillars of Hercules) is a real Ocean, and the land surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the fullest and truest sense, a continent”
in this sentence the ‘island’ is turned into a ‘continent’ so this proves that the translation of ‘nesos’ is peninsula not island, and in today’s terms, we are looking at a land mass that incorporates the British Isles, Scandinavia and the Northern European countries of France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Netherlands, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Baltic, North and Irish seas, that were at time land masses, which I call the North European Peninsula (NEP).
Therefore, do the other descriptions of Plato’s Atlantis match this new continent?
Where he does give us an indication of some other identification features for this lost continent is -
“and it is possible for the travellers of that time to cross from it to the other islands and from the islands to the whole of the continent”.
If NEP is correct, this could mean either one of two different continents. For about 2,000 years (between 10,000 BCE and 8,000 BCE) you could travel from the North West end of the NEP to the Faroe islands which were about five times larger than the islands we know today (due to the drop in sea levels) and then a short hop west to Iceland, which again, for the same reasons, was twice as wide as today, then finally over the short distance to Greenland and then America.
The coastal route would then allow you access to the ‘New World’ down the entire east side of America. The most interesting and controversial aspect, is that the Atlanteans would have discovered America 11,000 years before Columbus, which may seem far fetched but it will answer an evolutionary mystery that has confused geneticists and anthropologists for many years. This mystery involves the spread of the A- blood group in Northern American Indians and ancient skeletons that have European features and stone tool kits.
Map of the Common 'O' blood group - 'A' was introduced 10,000 years ago in North America
Other illustrations of Atlantis, in Plato’s writings, can now be compared for further comparison such as the famous plain of Atlantis. For -
“The whole country was said by him to be very lofty and precipitous on the side of the sea, but the country immediately about and surrounding the city was a level plain, itself surrounded by mountains which descended towards the sea; it was smooth and even, and of an oblong shape, extending in one direction three thousand stadia, but across the centre inland it was two thousand stadia.”
So a level oblong shaped plain that was surrounded by mountains which were by the sea and the plain which measured about 250 miles by 350 miles. The current North Sea (Doggerland) would comfortably incorporate a flat plain of that size and hence it sinking below the rising sea levels, for it measures 450 miles by 1200 miles. There are mountains in the North in both Scotland and Norway which ‘descended towards the sea’ not even taking into account the mountains of Doggerland in the north which is now the ‘Viking’ and ‘Berger’ sand banks between Shetland and Norway.
Another indication that we are talking about a peninsula or part of a continent is the line ’lofty and precipitous on the side of the sea’ if this was an island would not ALL sides be on the side of the sea? Our newly discovered Atlantis has one side by the sea where the city and plain lays and that is in the north, the area we know now as Scotland, Shetland, Orkney across to Norway, where it always rains.
He continues -
“This part of the peninsula looked towards the south, and was sheltered from the north. The surrounding mountains were celebrated for their number and size and beauty, far beyond any which still exist, having in them also many wealthy villages of country folk, and rivers, and lakes, and meadows supplying food enough for every animal, wild or tame, and much wood of various sorts, abundant for each and every kind of work.”
Modern sonar readings of the North Sea floor has shown this land of ‘rivers and lakes and meadows’ and with the mountains in the north the great plain would naturally face south.
Stonehenge / Atlantis - Momentous discovery has potential to completely rewrite World history
Stonehenge / Atlantis - Momentous discovery has potential to completely rewrite World history - PART II
Even when we search the description for the most obscure references to test this hypothesis we find correlation -
“There was an abundance of wood for carpenter’s work, and sufficient maintenance for tame and wild animals. Moreover, there were a great number of elephants in the island; for as there was provision for all other sorts of animals, both for those which live in lakes and marshes and rivers, and also for those which live in mountains and on plains, so there was for the animal which is the largest and most voracious of all.”
Plato is clearly referring to tropical animals such as Elephants and Lions and anyone living in Britain today would find this unlikely and therefore rule out this continent. But again, we found in the catches of North Sea trawler men the bones of Elephants, Mammoths, Lions and Tigers in the last 100 years in Doggerland making this scenario ‘quite probable’ and it would not take much of a stretch of the imagination to classify ‘the largest and most voracious of all’ as the ferocious Sabre-Toothed Tiger, which coincidently went extinct during the ‘Atlantean period’ 14,000 BCE – 4000 BCE.
So we are looking at a civilisation of megalithic builders that once lost their ‘homeland’ and no doubt a great number of friends family and loved ones in the deluge. This being the case - how would we expect a civilisation to mark such a momentous occasion?
We are a civilisation that has had great losses through war and tragedy in the past, 9/11 in America we commemorated by memorial gardens and here in Britain the war losses are remembered by the cenotaph in London, where we come annually to remember the dead with a two minute silence.
How would future archaeologists view the cenotaph, if all written records are lost 10,000 years in the future - when the wind and rain have wiped the stone monument bear, but still resembling the stone pillar it once was?
Kozarac War Memorial - Does it remind you of something?
We now know from previous chapters (of the Stonehenge Enigma) that Stonehenge was built about 8500 BCE as a place for the sick and dead, we also know that the site was remodelled some four to five thousand years later, roughly at the time that Atlantis finally ‘disappeared’. What I am suggesting is that the new monument continued its commemoration to the dead, but not to individual dead but the death of Atlantis, which would explain how and why this historically massive construction was erected.
Furthermore, it will explain some of the features of Stonehenge we have not mentioned to date in this book. The popular view of Stonehenge is of a completely round monument with lintel stones completing the circle - but there is a massive problem, for not all the stones or the stone post holes are present. Some people have suggested that the monument is incomplete, but those individuals do not understand the monument and the reason for its construction.
A monument to the dead does not face the Summer Solstice Sunrise it faces the Winter Solstice Sunset or Sunrise to mark the shortest day - when light overcomes the darkness, the symbolism of life after death. That being the case, a monument to the dead should face either Winter Sunrise or Winter Sunset and Stonehenge faces the latter. Another reason to ignore the reference to the Sun is that the Sun is usually a representation of life and a completed circle, were as the Moon represents the dead and a crescent. So, the monument would be crescent shaped and hence the reason for the lack of two stones in the South West Quadrant.
So why the horseshoe crescent in the centre of the monument?
The crescent within the crescent faces the Summer Sunrise, this is very symbolic as it represents rebirth or reincarnation. It’s a poignant message through the ages to us decedents of the Atlanteans, where they are telling us that their homeland maybe dead, but the survivors are still alive and will begin again. So the ‘open’ end of the horseshoe points to the Solstice Sunrise, but the ‘main’ direction of the symbol points in the opposite direction – the winter solstice sunset.
This is how Stonehenge would have looked when new in 4200 BCE
Furthermore, there in the centre of the Circle lays a very special stone - the Altar stone. The reason it is special is two-fold. Firstly, it’s made of a material unlike the other Sarsen standing stones, it called mica. “Hawkins makes note that while all the other stones were either Bluestone or Sarsen, the so called altar-stone is ‘of fine-grained pale green sandstone, containing so many flakes of mica that its surface, wherever freshly exposed, shows the typical mica glitter’. Currently, geologists are trying to locate the source of this sandstone in Wales. Sadly, they are looking in the wrong direction as I would imagine it’s from their homeland and currently under less than 30m of water in Doggerland.
But this is not the only piece of Sarsen that is made of ‘mica-sandstone’. The most important piece of this special mica-sandstone lays by the moat of the monument to the north east and is called the ‘Slaughter Stone’. I will not delve into the reason that this stone is called the 'Slaughter Stone', but it is interesting that even the druids some 4000 years after the stone was laid into the ground still associated it with death.
Most archaeologists believe that the Slaughter Stone was once a standing stone at the entrance of the monument, this flawed ideas is the result of a hypothetical drawing by Inigo Jones in 1655. This drawing shows Stonehenge as a perfect circle with hexagon trilithon interior and three entrances into the site with six erect standing stones as access points, of which the Slaughter Stone was one. This idea was incorporated in John Aubrey’s drawing in 1666, which was more accurate, but again had the tendency to place all the fallen stones in upright positions.
The 'Slaughter Stone'
This false assumption was further compounded by William Cunning in 1880, when (it was reported) that he suggested his grandfather “saw” the upright slaughter stone in the 17th Century). This mistake was latter corrected yet the myths amongst archaeologists still remain (Stones of Slaughter, E Herbert Stone, 1924 pp120).
The reality is that the Slaughter Stone was always (like the Altar Stone) a deliberate recumbent as the excavations of this stone by Hawley and Newall in the 1920’s clearly show. As the chalk subsoil was also deliberately flattened before it was placed in its current position, Hawley presumed that the Slaughter Stone was once ‘buried’,. This idea is understandable as the stone does lay below ground level, but what Hawley never understood is that the reason the stone was in this position was for the same reason the ditch was built around Stonehenge, as it was made to be full of water.
Cross-section of the Slaughter Stone - showing it was 'deliberately' only partially buried
This can be observed by the size of the stone hole called ‘E’ (WA1165) which lays two metres north west of the Slaughter Stone, but still within the ‘hollow’ that also contains the stone. Most stone holes at Stonehenge are quite shallow – less than a metre in depth, but stone hole ‘E’ is twice as deep, over 2m. If the Slaughter Stone was placed in it (as some have suggested) it would only be 3m high on the surface, compared to 4.57m for the Heel Stone a few yards away. The only other places in Stonehenge with these large holes is found in the Ditch surrounding the site, which are deep as we have shown to reach the ground water level at construction.
In the past when the Slaughter Stone was placed in this ditch, like the moat, water would have surround the stone similar to an island - for what we see today at Stonehenge is a 6,000 year old model of the land we call Atlantis that lay in the current North Sea.
Slaughter Stone as it would have originally looked surrounded by water
Not only did they place a piece of special mica-sandstone in a watery ditch surrounded by water, but they also carved out the contours of the island, showing high and low ground like a contour release. Archaeologists have always believed these features were ‘weather worn’ by age (although the other recumbent stones have not weathered in the same fashion) but recent laser technology has confirmed our belief that this stone was carved as the markings from the tools used can still be seen at microscopic levels.
Finally, and more importantly, the stone has been placed in a very strange position, almost in the way of The Avenue. This shows that this stone and the Avenue have a connection, this type of connection we see in association with Egyptian Pyramids when ‘slight line’ are cut into the sides of the burial chambers to important star constellations to show their associations with the gods. At Stonehenge, the Slaughter Stone and the Avenue are important as they link rebirth with the death of this Great Civilisation, for if we look from the Major Sight line stone - the Altar Stone and look towards the Slaughter Stone, it is quite remarkably a direct line POINTING TOWARDS the location of Atlantis in the North Sea, a place we now call Doggerland.
A line from the Altar Stone points towards Doggerland/Atlantis
Yet, when you read the two detailed accounts of Plato’s work in ‘The Timaeus’ and ‘Citias’ where some of the narrative is repeated, but you get a sense that Plato is talking about two different times of Atlantis’ history. The original landscape and people, as we have seen his dialogue are not fixed -
“and it was possible for travellers OF THAT TIME to cross from it to the other islands”,
“Many great deluges have taken place during the nine thousand years, for that is the number of years WHICH HAVE ELAPSED since the time of which I am speaking”.
So are we hearing about the original Atlanteans of 9000 years ago who lived in this green and pleasant land or are we being told of a land that was once great during that time then sunk overnight leaving nothing?
The secret is in the text at the start of the story of Solon and what the Egyptians told him -
“As for those genealogies of yours which you just now recounted to us, Solon, they are no better than the tales of children. In the first place you remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones; in the next place, you do not know that there formerly dwelt in your land the fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived, and that you and your whole city are descended from a small seed or remnant of them which survived. And this was unknown to you, because, for many generations, the survivors of that destruction died, leaving no written word.”
What the priests was trying to tell Solon, is that the deluge remembered that Greek history was the one that wiped out Athens and that many such deluges happened in the past - so we can see the confusion with the dates of these floods. Again we see this two-fold story unveiling with Atlanteans referred to as -
“in your land dwelt the fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived”.
Does this give us a description of an Atlantean?
The Legend of Thor from oral traditions
We know from DNA the Scandinavians are descended from blonde and blue eyed ancestors with a pale complexion – this description seems to me to confirm that fact, as if we use the word fair, we generally are referring to their hair and features. Moreover, it also shows that two stories are being recited here as within the same book the Atlanteans are also called -
“various tribes of Barbarians” and “a mighty power unprovoked” and “invaders”.
Moreover, does the line -
“And this was unknown to you, because, for many generations, the survivors of that destruction died, leaving no written word.”
Suggest this race had no written language? It is well known that the Nordic races relied on verbal story telling for their histories. I believe this confirms a ‘Nordic’ Atlantean. But, the most explosive revelation not picked up by most scholars is the line
“and that you and your whole city are descended from a small seed or remnant of them which survived.”
The priests are telling Solon that the Greeks are ‘seeds’ of their great nation. Are they implying that they were the first people to colonise Athens and leave their philosophy and beliefs?
The writing then goes on to say -
“Solon marvelled at his words, and earnestly requested the priests to inform him exactly and in order about these former citizens”
and it continues to reinforce this suggestion by saying -
“You are welcome to hear about them, Solon, said the priest, both for your own sake and for that of your city, and above all, for the sake of the goddess who is the common patron and parent and educator of both our cities.”
So we now, not only have the Atlanteans ‘seeding’ the Greek population but also the Egyptian population a thousand years later. The only question left to answer is when, and that is revealed just a paragraph later when he writes -
“And the duration of our civilisation as set down in our sacred writings is 8000 years. As touching your citizens of nine thousand years ago”.
So we have our answer, probably the most astonishing revelation in the history of world civilisation, the Atlanteans (“ from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean was insolvently advancing to attack the whole of Europe and Asia, to boot” in boats from a land beyond the “pillars of Hercules”) seeded and established the kingdoms of Greece nine thousand years ago and Egypt a thousand years later.
The interesting aspect of this two-fold story is that some scholars get confused and believe that Atlantis sunk 9000 years ago, when clearly Plato was talking about the colonisation of Greece and Egypt, and then goes on to talk about the Atlanteans coming to conquer and enslave the Greeks and Egyptians, which is clearly a later date.
When he does talk about Atlantis sinking, no dates are offered. This is when the second story totally conflicts with the first, initially they were “the fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived” but within a paragraph or two become -
“For these histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Hercules.
This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes.
And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars.”
Pillars of Hercules
This dichotomy does not make sense unless we are talking about two separate time periods. Nine thousand years ago Athens was being seeded and Egypt did even exist as a civilisation for another one thousand years. But the Atlantean army set forth to conquer and enslave, but was defeated by a nation that was in its infancy!
Clearly, this shows two stories with independent time lines. With this in mind, we can date the end of Atlantis after the armed conflict and deluge that destroyed Athens. For Plato writes -
“But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.” B.Jowett (1871).
But another interpretation is -
“But at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods, and one grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished; wherefore also the ocean at that spot has now become impassable and unsearchable, being blocked up by the shoal mud which the island created as it settled down”. W.R.M.Lamb (1925).
I think the key here is ‘But afterwards’ or ‘But at a later time’, this was a time period unknown ‘after’ the conflict and I would imagine that conflict would be many thousands of years after the establishment of Greece and Egypt with independent armies and leadership.
We know from geologists that the last piece of Doggerland sank in about 4000 BC, which is about the time that the Greece Empire was at its height and the Atlantis Empire was all but gone, so it’s my opinion this is the time period Plato was referring too. This would also make sense of the line -
“For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.”
For even today some 6,000 years later, we refer to the area as the ‘dogger sand bank’.
Finally, there is evidence within Plato’s writing that there was contact with the Atlanteans even after the flood had taken way their major city Atlantis, for a line in Critias talking about the final flood gives us get another clue to the location of this legendry land, for Plato writes -
“ there are remaining in small islets only the bones of the wasted body, as they may be called, all the richer and softer parts of the soil having fallen away, and the mere skeletons of the country being left.”
So what was left after Doggerland disappeared?
We have to remember this sea level increase was happening all over the lost continent, so much so the Irish Sea separated Ireland from Wales, the English Channel was formed separating Britain from mainland Europe and the North Sea took the last of the peninsulas land mass and island to become a vast watery landscape – but the British Isles remained. In comparison would you not call that the ‘bones’ of what was formerly there, and does the makeup of this island look like a ‘skeleton of a country’............
Available on Kindle as 'Atlantis - The Stonehenge Enigma'
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for April 2015:
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for April 2015:
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In April 2015 there were 709 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
Country
Number of Reports
UNITED STATES
545
CANADA
55
UNITED KINGDOM
31
INDIA
7
AUSTRALIA
6
BRAZIL
5
ITALY
4
VIET NAM
3
ARGENTINA
3
PUERTO RICO
3
MEXICO
3
TURKEY
3
AFGHANISTAN
2
NEW ZEALAND
2
PHILIPPINES
2
BELGIUM
2
IRELAND
2
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF
2
FRANCE
2
SPAIN
2
CHILE
2
COTE D'IVOIRE
1
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
1
CUBA
1
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
1
PORTUGAL
1
BAHAMAS
1
SWITZERLAND
1
MALAYSIA
1
BULGARIA
1
BAHRAIN
1
CHINA
1
PERU
1
PAKISTAN
1
POLAND
1
GREECE
1
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1
COLOMBIA
1
BELIZE
1
SOUTH AFRICA
1
GUATEMALA
1
LITHUANIA
1
TURKMENISTAN
1
IRAQ
1
TOTAL:
709
Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;
State
Number of Reports
California
66
Florida
49
Texas
36
Michigan
26
New York
25
Oregon
22
Ohio
21
Arizona
20
Illinois
20
Pennsylvania
19
North Carolina
16
Missouri
15
Washington
15
Massachusetts
13
Minnesota
12
Colorado
11
New Jersey
11
Kentucky
10
New Mexico
10
Oklahoma
9
Georgia
8
Arkansas
8
Maryland
8
Nevada
8
Virginia
8
Wisconsin
7
Connecticut
6
Kansas
6
Mississippi
6
Utah
5
New Hampshire
5
West Virginia
5
Tennessee
4
Vermont
4
Indiana
4
Alabama
3
Iowa
3
Delaware
3
South Carolina
3
Alaska
2
Louisiana
2
Montana
2
Maine
2
Nebraska
2
Idaho
2
North Dakota
1
Hawaii
1
Rhode Island
1
If you are getting more sighting reports than listed here, please be sure to enter them manually into CMS. To make this happen automatically, make sure your local MUFON Website is pointing to the CMS Reporting form on www.mufon.com and direct all calls you get to the MUFON website so that witnesses can enter their own report directly into CMS.
ALL sighting reports received by CMS are already filled in by the witness, saving you and your investigators time. Each report is automatically sent to YOU, the State Director and Assistant State Director, for you to assign someone to follow-up and complete the report.
If a UFO sighting comes in over the phone, or by e-mail, and you want to enter it yourself, simply go to CMS at http://mufoncms.com (once logged in) and click on "ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone. Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily added your NEW report to CMS.
Other interesting data points in CMS during April 2015 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;
Shape of Object
Number of Reports
Sphere
144
Other
73
Triangle
68
Disc
67
Star-like
57
Circle
50
Oval
30
N/A
27
Fireball
27
Cylinder
25
Unknown
23
Square/Rectangular
21
Boomerang
21
Cigar
16
Diamond
13
Chevron
9
Flash
9
Blimp
8
Cone
7
Egg
4
Teardrop
4
Saturn-like
3
Bullet/Missile
2
Cross
1
as well as the distance from the observer;
Distance from Witness
Number of Reports
< 100 ft
133
101-500 ft
98
501 ft - 1 Mile
151
Over 1 Mile
170
Unknown
220
NO VALUE
33
Most impressively there were 22 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 1 Entities observed.
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Meteoriet explodeert met kracht van atoombom boven Ierland ( Video )
Meteoriet explodeert met kracht van atoombom boven Ierland ( Video )
Astronomen in Ierland zijn wanhopig op zoek naar getuigenverklaringen van een vuurbal die afgelopen zondag werd waargenomen aan de Ierse hemel.
Volgens David Moore, redacteur van Astronomy Ireland, ontving zijn organisatie honderden meldingen van mensen die rond tien uur ’s avonds een vuurbal in de lucht hadden gezien.
Het object aan de hemel was zichtbaar van Kerry tot aan Donegal.
A meteorite creates a streak of light over the north Yorkshire moors at Leaholm, England last Sunday. Astronomy Ireland are ‘desperately’ seeking eye-witness accounts of a fireball that reportedly streaked across Irish skies late last weekend. Photograph: Steven Watt/Reuters
“Het was waarschijnlijk een rots uit de ruimte die in de atmosfeer is geëxplodeerd. We proberen erachter te komen hoe groot dit object was en waar het is neergekomen”, zei Moore.
“Als je vanuit de ruimte naar beneden had gekeken dan had je Ierland kunnen zien oplichten gedurende enkele seconden. Er kwamen zelfs meldingen binnen van mensen van het platteland die televisie zaten te kijken en toevallig door een raam naar buiten keken”.
Volgens Moore was de vrijgekomen energie zondagavond te vergelijken met een atoombom zoals die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd gebruikt.
Steve Hooks caught the 'fireball' on camera
Ongeveer tegelijkertijd met de Ierse meldingen, kwamen er ook binnen vanuit noord Engeland en Wales.
De grote meteoor werd door diverse bewoners waargenomen rond tien over tien ’s avonds. Zo was Denise Kennedy-Scott in haar tuin in de buurt van de rugbyclub van Blackburn toen ze de vuurbal waarnam:
“Ik keek uit over het veld en keek naar boven en zag eerst een grote vallende ster, maar toen kwam het dichterbij en het bewoog langzaam. Het werd groter en groter”.
Weer terug naar de Ierse David Moore die denkt dat er gemiddeld twee meteorieten per jaar landen op Iers grondgebied. Maar, zelden zijn ze goed zichtbaar als tijden deze laatste waarneming.
Op basis van wat ooggetuigen hebben verklaard, denkt men dat de meteoriet een grootte had van een gemiddelde personenauto.
Moore hoopt dat er alsnog veel mensen naar voren zullen komen en hun vragenformulier invullen zodat ze misschien alsnog kunnen bepalen waar deze meteoriet de grond heeft geraakt.
Hij probeert mensen te verleiden door te zeggen dat een stuk ruimterots in de praktijk best veel geld oplevert. “Als je niet gedood wordt door een meteoriet en hij landt vlak voor je voeten dan heb je geluk gehad”.
For days, astronomers have been monitoring a large filament of magnetism stretching across the face of the sun. On April 28th, it erupted.
Fragments of the filament flew away from the Sun, creating a “canyon of fire” in the sun’s atmosphere and hurling a bright CME into space.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured not only imagery of the filament that snaked across a huge area on the Sun but also a strange UFO-like object near the Sun.
Through the WhatsApp of “El Comercio”, a user caught a UFO or Fireball in free fall apparently plunges to the ground near the oval monitor Av. Javier Prado in Lima, Peru but then the object disappeared.
According to El Comercio witness David Bauman could observe the strange phenomenon around 10:00 am on April 28, 2015 when he headed in a taxi at Av. Javier Prado towards the hill of La Molina.
“I saw a light fell from above a little behind and then I could record it as shown in the video. When I went up the hill tried to see if he had fallen into a nearby area or what happened, but I saw nothing,” said Bauman.
Later, another citizens contacted El Comercio to point out that also they saw a similar object falling near the Jockey Plaza Mall, in the same direction that was reported by others.
Although many people witnessed the phenomenon, no one could precisely describe the nature of the object.
There are somethings that confuse the world to such an extent that people go mad and crazy behind these mysteries. Find out how these mysteries have managed to dumbfound the world since ages and scare the hell out of those who encounter them.
1. The Taos Hum
In the small town of Taos, New Mexico, there is a certain buzz often heard on the horizon that can be compared to the sound of a distant diesel engine. It is a humming sound that is very disorienting for a person who experiences it and it seems to have an effect on people- it has been known to cause insomnia and/or sleep disturbances, nausea, headaches, dizziness and nosebleeds. Needless to say, it can be very irritating for hearers, Although it can be heard by the naked ear, various sound detection devices are not able to pick it up. This is known as the Taos Hum and up to this day, no one still knows how this sound is being created.
2. Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich manuscript was written in a language that men through the centuries have tried to decode to no avail. The only idea anyone has of its origin are the drawings found on various pages.The book has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912. The pages of the codex are vellum. Some of the pages are missing, but about 240 remain. The text is written from left to right, and most of the pages have illustrations or diagrams. Many people have suggested different theories for deciphering the text, while some believe its just pure nonsense and might be a hoax. Whatever it may be, but to this day the manuscript remains a confusing mystery.
3. Jack The Ripper
The name Jack the Ripper has been heard in many shows and movies, pertaining to the serial killer who murdered 11 women in London’s east end in the late 1800?s but was never identified. Most of his victims were prostitutes, whose bodies were mutilated beyond recognition and their throats slashed. In the East End’s Whitechapel district, a string of prostitutes were butchered. The crime scenes were a gory tableau; the brutalized bodies were perversions of the human form. The killer was a collector who took organs as trophies. The signature of a letter that arrived during the murders gave this monster a name: Jack the Ripper. The city was whipped into a froth of suspicion and fear. Wide dragnets snagged scores of suspects, but the police were unable to catch the killer. Vigilante committees formed, and mobs routinely chased people through the streets. And then, suddenly, the murders stopped. Despite three more years of investigation, the police never uncovered the true identity of Jack the Ripper. The unsolved case was officially closed in 1892, though interest in the killings has never dwindled.
4. Bermuda Triangle
Known as the Bermuda Triangle, this legendary expanse of ocean can be found between the points of Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Pilots often tell of their instruments going haywire and numerous ships have been lost at sea. With explanations ranging from gas bubbles to aliens, no one is sure what is behind the strange phenomena.
5. Kryptos
Just outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, you will behold a statue that has coded encryptions on its surface. This very captivating sculpture was created by Jim Sanborn to show that everything can be resolved and decoded with the use of patterns and clues. Of the four inscription sections that were included, only the first three have been cracked. But the fourth? Not even the brilliant minds in the CIA were able to get to the bottom of it
6. Shepherd’s Monument Inscription
In Staffordshire, England, there is a sculpture that has invited the wits and intellect of many intellectuals in an attempt to decode an inscription reading DOUOSVAVVM. Although the Shepherd’s Monument was constructed back in the 18th century, the letters found therein were never solved, even 250 years after it was completed.
7. Tamam Shud
Back in December 1948, an unidentified man was found dead in Somerton Beach, located in Adelaide, Australia. Found in one of his pockets was a piece of paper with the words “Tamam Shud” written on it. The words were translated “finished” or “ended” based on excerpts found in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Although governments around the world have tried to identify the man his identity has remained mystery.
8. Zodiac Killer
During the 1960s and 1970s, there was a certain criminal in the San Francisco Bay area that was identified as the Zodiac killer for the mind-boggling letters he sent to the police and to the press. Although one of the four letters were cracked, which contained a very disturbing message, the other three have never been identified, even until now.
9. Georgia Guidestones
Also identified as the American version of Stonehenge, the Georgia Guidestones located in Elbert County are shrouded in mystery, although they were erected only in 1979. Written on the walls are 10 “new commandments” written in English, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, China, Russia, and Spanish although no one is sure why or for whom they were meant.
10. Rongorongo
In the mysterious Easter Islands where the moai stands, a set of glyphs have been discovered, called the Rongorongo. These glyphs have never been deciphered although they may contain clues concerning the huge heads found scattered around the island.
The Famous Easter Island Heads
11. The Loch Ness Monster
For ages, people have been hearing about the Loch Ness monster and how it baffled everyone thinking that it is a creature unlike any other. There have been many sightings over the years and photos and videos of actual footage have been checked and looked at time and time again, confirming if it could be some kind of sea serpent or a descendant of the dinosaurs. Even up today, as some are claiming, it still exists and swims under the waters.
12. Big Foot
Also known as Sasquatch, bigfoot is supposedly a creature that lives in the snowy mountainous regions of the United States and Canada. It may be identified as a gorilla at first, however, its walking posture can be compared to that of a man’s.
13. Black Dahlia Murder
22-year old Elizabeth Short was very active at promoting herself into showbiz at the time the Black Dahlia murder occurred, The Black Dahlia” was a nickname given to Elizabeth Short, an American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. Short was found mutilated, her body sliced in half at the waist, on January 15, 1947, in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. Short’s unsolved murder has been the source of widespread speculation, leading to many suspects, along with several books and film adaptations of the story. Short’s murder is one of the oldest unsolved murder cases in Los Angeles history.however, no one knew of the killer or who actually did the murder.
14. Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. Stonehenge is surely Britain’s greatest national icon, symbolizing mystery, power and endurance. Its original purpose is unclear to us, but some have speculated that it was a temple made for the worship of ancient earth deities. It has been called an astronomical observatory for marking significant events on the prehistoric calendar. Others claim that it was a sacred site for the burial of high-ranking citizens from the societies of long ago. While we can’t say with any degree of certainty what it was for, we can say that it wasn’t constructed for any casual purpose. Only something very important to the ancients would have been worth the effort and investment that it took to construct Stonehenge.
15. Shroud of Turin
The Shroud of Turin or Turin Shroud (Italian: Sindone di Torino) is a length of linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have suffered physical trauma in a manner consistent with crucifixion. There is no consensus yet on exactly how the image was created, and it is believed by some to be the burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth, despite radiocarbon dating placing its origins in the Medieval period.[1] The image is much clearer in black-and-white negative than in its natural sepia color.
The face in the shroud
The face in the shroud
16. The Lost City of Atlantis
The City of Atlantis has been imagined as the crowning city of Neptune, where mermaids and mermen live. But based on what Plato has discussed during his time, specifically with his two dialogues Timaeus and Critias, it specifically mentioned the existence of Atlantis based on the stories being heard during the journeys, and how Atlantis was in its prime state, thus giving a clue that the place did exist as Plato was a real entity. Now that it sunk into the deep, many are still wondering if it is real, knowing that there are certain objects underwater that may be the remnants of this once beautiful city.
17. Extraterrestrials
From the mysteries found in the Eastern Islands, to the Bermuda Triangle, and even with the Roswell Incident during World War II, men have always been in question as to whether we are not alone in the universe. With some claiming to have been abducted and others calling hogwash, there is as of yet no consensus.
18. Severed Foot Beach in British Columbia
It is not uncommon for bodies to wash up on beaches but for one beach in British Columbia severed feet have consistently been floating ashore for the past several years causing numerous theories to be put forth.
19. Wow! Signal
When Jerry R. Ehman worked under the SETI Project of the Ohio Wesleyan University’s Perkins Observatory, he did not expect that he would be able to pick up a radio frequency supposedly coming from deep space. He was able to get a 72-second signal from the constellation Sagittarius and was never able to get it again. Up to this day no one is sure about the origin of the signal. It derived its name, however, from the “wow!” that Jerry wrote in the margin of the printout.
20. DB Cooper
When DB Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 along with $200,000, he proceeded to jump out of the plane with a parachute. He was never found, however, and this remains the only unsolved case in US aviation history.
21. Lal Bahadur Shastri
He died an unexplainable death since he left the country healthy. Many have claimed that he died of heart attack, but the doctors and other specialists who have checked him out, including his wife, confirmed that he was A-okay. His wife had also made the assertion that the Tashkent Pact, upon signature, gave the chance for him to be poisoned. This was never proven since there was no post-mortem diagnosis of the body so every assumption that could be answered were already included in the grave.
22. Nazca Geoglyphs
The Nazca civilization is responsible for some of the most fascinating geoglyphs on the face of the Earth. They include everything from spiders, monkeys, sharks, orcas, and flowers, the precision of which is incredible given that the Nazca had no way of examining their work from above.
23. SS Ourang Medan
What happened to SS Ourang Medan or “Man from Medan” in Malaysia is perhaps one of the most fascinating and mind-boggling mysteries that ever existed in seafaring history. Everything began with an SOS message in 1947 that mentioned the captain, along with the rest of the crew, was dead. What’s worse, even the telegrapher died during the transmission of the message. When the Silver Star was able to receive the distress call and went to inspect the ship, they confirmed the deaths of all aboard. Speculations of ghosts, hazardous chemicals, and even aliens have been raised, but there is still no conclusion as to what actually happened.
24. Aluminum Wedge of Aiud
Back in 1974, a group of workers in Romania discovered three different objects 10 meters deep in a sand trench. Two of the items were prehistoric elephant bones that have been dated as old as 2.5 million years ago. The third object however, is an aluminum wedge that was found together with the ancient bones. This discovery dumbfounded most researchers, as aluminum was difficult to create even by 19th century standards. While some call it evidence of extraterrestrials, others are calling it a hoax. Whatever it is, we may never know.
25. The Mackenzie Poltergeist in Greyfriars
The Mackenzie Poltergeist is one of the most famous attractions when taking the City of the Dead tour within the Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh as people who join the tour experience bruises, scratches, and some even faint as they enter and see the Black Mausoleum where Sir George Mackenzie lies. Is it all for show? Maybe there’s only one way to find out…
According to Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, black holes are uninhabitable chasms of space-time that end in a “singularity,” or a mass of infinite density. It’s a place so bleak that even the laws of physics break down there. But what if black holes aren’t so forbidding? What if they are instead some kind of intergalactic stargate, or maybe even a passageway into a whole other universe?
It may sound like the premise for a clever science-fiction movie, but new calculations by quantum physicists now suggest that the stargate idea might actually be the better theory. According to the startling new results, black holes do not culminate in a singularity. Rather, they represent “portals to other universes,” reports New Scientist.
This new theory is based on a concept known as ‘loop quantum gravity’ (or LQG). It was first formulated as a way of merging standard quantum mechanics and standard general relativity, in order to remedy incompatibilities between the two fields. Basically, LQG proposes that spacetime is granular, or atomic, in nature; It is made up of miniscule, indivisible chunks about the same size as the Planck length — which roughly amounts to 10-35 meters in size.
Researchers Jorge Pullin from Lousiana State University, and Rodolfo Gambini from the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay, crunched the numbers to see what would happen inside a black hole under the parameters of LQG. What they found was far different from what happens according to general relativity alone: there was no singularity. Instead, just as the black hole began to squeeze tight, it suddenly loosened its grip again, as if a door was being opened.
It might help to conceptualize exactly what this means if you imagine yourself traveling into a black hole. Under general relativity, falling into a black hole is, in some ways, much like falling into a very deep pit that has a bottom, only instead of hitting the bottom, you get pressed into a single point — a singularity — of infinite density. With both the deep pit and the black hole, there is no “other side.” The bottom stops your fall through the pit, and the singularity “stops” your fall through the black hole (or at least, at the singularity it no longer makes sense to say you’re “falling”).
Your experience would be much different traveling into a black hole according to LQG, however. At first you might not notice the difference: gravity would increase rapidly. But just as you were nearing what ought to be the black hole’s core — just as you’re expecting to be squashed into the singularity — gravity would instead begin to decrease. It would be as if you were swallowed, only to be spit out on the other side.
In other words, LQG black holes are less like holes and more like tunnels, or passageways. But passageways to where? According to the researchers, they could be shortcuts to other parts of our universe. Or they could be portals to other universes entirely.
Interestingly, this same principle can be applied to the Big Bang. According to conventional theory, the Big Bang started with a singularity. But if time is rewound according to LQG instead, the universe does not begin with a singularity. Rather, it collapses into a sort of tunnel, which leads into another, older universe. This has been used as evidence for one of the Big Bang’s competing theories: the Big Bounce.
Scientists don’t have enough evidence to decide whether this new theory is actually true, but LQG does have one thing going for it: it’s more beautiful. Or rather, it avoids certain paradoxes that conventional theories do not. For instance, it avoids the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, the singularity inside a black hole operates as a sort of firewall, which means that information that gets swallowed by the black hole gets lost forever. Information loss, however, is not possible according to quantum physics. ~ “Information doesn’t disappear, it leaks out”
Reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think. Some of the things that we accept as true at face value are notoriously wrong. Scientists and philosophers have made every effort to change our common perceptions of it. The 10 examples below will show you what I mean.
1. Great glaciation.
Great glaciation is the theory of the final state that our universe is heading toward. The universe has a limited supply of energy. According to this theory, when that energy finally runs out, the universe will devolve into a frozen state. Heat energy produced by the motion of the particles, heat loss, a natural law of the universe, means that eventually this particle motion will slow down and, presumably, one day everything will stop.
2. Solipsism.
Solipsism is a philosophical theory, which asserts that nothing exists but the individual’s consciousness. At first it seems silly – and who generally got it into his head completely deny the existence of the world around us? Except when you put your mind to it, it really is impossible to verify anything but your own consciousness.
Don’t you believe me? Think a moment and think of all the possible dreams that you have experienced in your life. Is it not possible that everything around you is nothing but an incredibly intricate dream? But we have people and things around us that we cannot doubt, because we can hear, see, smell, taste and feel them, right? Yes, and no. People who take LSD, for example, say that they can touch the most convincing hallucinations, but we do not claim that their visions are “reality”. Your dreams simulate sensations as well, after all, what you perceive is what different sections of your brain tell you to.
As a result, which parts of existence can we not doubt? None. Not the chicken we ate for dinner or the keyboard beneath our fingers. Each of us can only be sure in his own thoughts.
3. Idealist Philosophy
George Berkeley, the father of Idealism, argued that everything exists as an idea in someone’s mind. Berkley discovered that some of his comrades considered his theory stupid. The story goes that one of his detractors kicked a stone with his eyes closed and said, “There I’ve disproved it!”
The idea being that if the stone really only exists in his imagination, he could not have kicked it with his eyes closed. Refutation of Berkeley is hard to understand, especially in these days. He argued that there is an omnipotent and omnipresent God, who sees all and all at once. Realistic, or not?
4. Plato and Logos.
Everybody has heard of Plato. He is the world’s most famous philosopher. Like all philosophers he had a few things to say about reality. He argued that beyond our perceived reality there lies a world of “perfect” forms. Everything that we see is just a shade, an imitation of how things truly are. He argued that by studying philosophy we have a chance of catching a glimpse of how things truly are, of discovering the perfect forms of everything we perceive.
In addition to this stunning statement, Plato, being a monist, said that everything is made of a single substance. Which means (according to him) that diamonds, gold and dog feces all consist of the same basic material, but in a different form, which, with science’s discovery of atoms and molecules, has been proven true to an extent.
5. Presentism.
Time is something that we perceive as a matter of course, if we view it at the moment, we usually divide it into past, present and future. Presentism argues that the past and the future are imagined concepts, while only the present is real.
In other words, today’s breakfast and every word of this article will cease to exist after you have read it, until you open it again. The future is just as imaginary, because time cannot exist before and after it happened, as claimed by St. Augustine.
6. Eternalism.
Enternalism is the exact opposite of presentism. This is a philosophical theory that says that time is multi-layered. It can be compared to a pound cake (however, unlike the time, a biscuit is not up for philosophical debate). All time exists simultaneously, but the measurement is determined by the observer. What he sees depends on which point he is looking at.
Thus dinosaurs, World War II and Justin Bieber all exist simultaneously but can only be observed from a specific location. If one takes this view of reality then the future is hopeless and the deterministic free will is illusory.
7. The Brain in a Jar
The “brain in a jar” thought experiment is a question discussed by thinkers and scientists, who, like most people, believe that human’s understanding of reality depends solely on his subjective feelings.
So, what is the debate? Imagine that you are just a brain in a jar that is run by aliens or mad scientists. How would you know? And can you truly deny the possibility that this is your reality?
This is a modern interpretation of the Cartesian evil demon problem. This thought experiment leads to the same conclusion: we cannot confirm the actual existence of anything except our consciousness. If this seems to sound reminiscent of the movie “The Matrix“, it is only because this idea was part of the very basis of the story. Unfortunately, in reality we have no red pills…
8. The Multiverse Theory
Anyone who has not spent the last ten years on a desert island, has at least once heard of “the multiverse”, or parallel universes. As many of us have seen, parallel words, in theory, are worlds very similar to ours, with little (or in some cases, large) changes or differences. The multiverse theory speculates that there could exist an infinite number of these alternate realities.
What’s the point? In a parallel reality you have already killed the dinosaurs, and you are lying under the ground at a depth of eight feet (because that’s what happened there.) In the other you might be a powerful dictator. In another you might never have even been born since your parents never met. Now that’s a memorable image.
9. Fictional Realism.
This is the most fascinating branch of multiverse theory. Superman is real. Yes, some of you would probably choose a different story, for argument’s sake, Harry Potter might be real too. This branch of the theory argues that given an infinite number of universes, everything must exist somewhere. So, all of our favorite fiction and fantasy may be descriptive of an alternate universe, one where all the right pieces came in to place to make it happen.
10. Phenomenalism.
Everyone is interested in what happens to things when we aren’t looking at them. Scientists have carefully studied this problem and some of them came to a simple conclusion – they disappear. Well, not quite like this. Phenomenalist philosophers believe that objects only exist as a phenomenon of consciousness. So, your laptop is only here while you are aware of, and believe in its existence, but when you turn away from it, it ceases to exist until you or someone else interacts with it. There is no existence without perception. This is the root of phenomenalism.
Ruimtevaart De koppeling van de stuurloos geraakte Russische ruimtecargo Progress-59 (volgens de westerse classificatie) aan het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS is afgeblazen. Dat melden het Russische ruimtevaartbureau Roscosmos en het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA. De Progress had zich gisteren zes uur na lancering van op Bajkonoer moeten vastklinken aan de spacemeccano, maar raakte op drift en is nu terug op weg naar de aarde.
Opdat de cargo niet op aarde zou terugvallen "kan alleen een mirakel helpen", zei een medewerker van de vluchtleiding Tsoup aan het Russische staatspersbureau Ria Novosti. Als het tuig terugkeert, verwacht het Russische ruimtevaartbureau Roscosmos dat het bijna volledig zal opbranden in de atmosfeer. Officieel is de Progress nog steeds niet opgegeven. Het mogelijk verlies van de Progress zou een schade van 88 miljoen euro berokkenen.
Kort na de lancering raakte het bevoorradingsschip in een spin. Progress heeft ruim drie ton aan goederen aan boord, en zou verder de zuurstof- en watervoorraad aanvullen. De bemanning in het ISS hoeft niet te vrezen voor tekorten, al begint men wel in te teren op de voorraden. Als het niet lukt de Progressmodule nog onder controle te krijgen, is het de tweede keer in korte tijd dat een bevoorrading mislukt: in oktober ging het mis toen een Antaresraket ontplofte bij de lancering. De huidige voorraden in het ISS volstaan nog vier maanden.
De vroegere kosmonaut Vladimir Solovjov, die verantwoordelijk is voor het Russische segment van het ISS, bevestigde dat er nog voldoende voorraden aan boord zijn om de missie "veilig verder te zetten en te wachten op de volgende ruimtecargo".
Contact verloren
De lancering gisterochtend vroeg leek aanvankelijk goed te gaan, tot het vluchtleidingscentrum in het Russische Baikonoer het contact verloor.
De motor van de Sojoez-draagraket die de Progress M-27M in de ruimte heeft gebracht, heeft "overgewerkt" en dat kan te wijten zijn aan een panne in het besturingssysteem van die motor, zei een bron bij het bedrijf Chemical Automatics Design Bureau (KB Khimavtomatika) dat de RD-0110 motor heeft gecreëerd. Het besturingssysteem geeft de motor bevelen en de RD-0110 motor bleef langer werken dan hoefde.
De krachtbron heeft al succesvol gewerkt bij 1.500 lanceringen, wat volgens het bedrijf zijn "betrouwbaarheid en goede werking aantoont". Omtrent het ontwerp kunnen er aldus geen vragen rijzen.
Gisteren slaagden de missieleiders erin het contact tijdelijk te herstellen toen Progress over Russisch grondgebied vloog en videobeelden werden opgevangen die het vrachtschip naar de aarde stuurde. Daarop is duidelijk te zien hoe het vrachtschip razendsnel overlangs tolt. Op de beelden schieten aarde en zon beurtelings voorbij.
Als het niet lukt om contact te krijgen met de Progress valt het vaartuig tussen 7 en 11 mei waarschijnlijk terug op aarde. Het is niet bekend waar het ruimteschip de dampkring zal binnenvallen.
Crash in 2011
De Progress-schepen zijn betrouwbaar; in de afgelopen zestien jaar is een bevoorradingsmissie nog maar een keer misgelopen. In 2011 ging het fout tijdens de laatste fase van de lancering, waardoor het vrachtschip neerstortte op Russisch grondgebied. Doordat destijds net de Spaceshuttle was afgedankt, bestond de vrees dat het ISS tijdelijk ontruimd moest worden. Dat bleek uiteindelijk niet nodig. Inmiddels levert naast Rusland en Japan ook het Amerikaanse commerciële SpaceX vrachtjes af bij het ISS. Concurrent Orbital heeft zijn programma na het ongeval in oktober tijdelijk stil gelegd.
In de McMurdo Dry Valleys op Antarctica is een bloederige stroom te zien die wetenschappers tot voor kort voor een raadsel stelde. Lang werd gedacht dat algen de lugubere waterval kleurden, maar niets is minder waar.
"Ik bestudeer de bloedwaterval al lang en het is altijd een mysterie geweest", stelt Jill Mikucki, die samen met haar team van de universiteit van Tennessee wist te achterhalen hoe de felrode stroom ontstaat.
Met dank aan een elektromagnetische sensor die bevestigd werd aan een helikopter, konden ze de temperatuur en het vochtgehalte van de vallei onderzoeken. Zo ontdekten ze de oorsprong van de 'Blood Falls': extreem koud en zout grondwater dat omliggende meren verbindt in een grootschalig ondergonds netwerk. Het bevat zeer waarschijnlijk microbieel leven dat bestand is tegen extreme omstandigheden. De rode tint zelf ontstaat door ijzeroxide.
Voor Mikucki is dit echter nog maar het topje van de ijsberg. "De bloedwatervallen zijn eigenlijk niet meer dan een kleine uitschieter in een veel spannender geheel", klinkt het. Haar onderzoek blijkt namelijk ontzettend relevant te zijn voor de verkenning van planeten als Mars, waar recent ook sporen van een waternetwerk werden gevonden.
"Als we leven op een andere planeet gaan vinden, zal dat zeer waarschijnlijk hard lijken op wat we tegenkomen op Antarctica. De ondergrond is zeer aantrekkelijk als je denkt aan buitenaards leven. Het is misschien koud en donker, maar het beschermt tegen de barre omstandigheden aan de oppervlakte", luidt de analyse.
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VIDEO: Mysterieus object gespot bij internationaal ruimtestation ISS
VIDEO: Mysterieus object gespot bij internationaal ruimtestation ISS
Er zijn beelden opgedoken van een UFO bij het internationale ruimtestation ISS. Het ongeïdentificeerde object kwam voorbij op live beelden die vanaf het ISS werden gestreamd.
Het beeldmateriaal is op YouTube geplaatst en toont een kleine witte schijf in de buurt van het ruimtestation. Het is niet de eerste keer dat de camera’s van het ISS raadselachtige objecten hebben vastgelegd. Verschillende UFO-spotters hebben beweerd dat buitenaardse schepen zijn vastgelegd op video.
Sceptici beweren dat de UFO-waarnemingen kunnen worden verklaard door de slechte kwaliteit van de camera en dat het object in het filmpje in feite de maan is.
Zelfbenoemd UFO-expert Scott C. Waring zei: “Streetcap1 keek naar live beelden van het ruimtestation van NASA toen hij in de verte een glimp opving van een kleine metaalkleurige schijf. Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het alsof de schijf beweegt, maar ik denk dat het object zich even snel voortbeweegt als het ruimtestation.”
De website Snopes.com is minder overtuigd en schreef: “NASA heeft toegegeven dat de camera’s verre van perfect werken. Het HDEV-experiment is gedaan in een poging betere camera-apparatuur te ontwikkelen voor toekomstige missies.”
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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