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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.
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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...
20-05-2015
Nearby Super-Earth May Harbor Huge Volcanoes
Nearby Super-Earth May Harbor Huge Volcanoes
Drastic temperature variations observed on 55 Cancri e suggest the exoplanet is geologically active
Temperatures on a nearby “super Earth” exoplanet varied dramatically recently, suggesting that large and very active volcanoes may exist on the alien world’s surface, a new study reports.
Researchers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope found that temperatures on 55 Cancri e—a planet eight times more massive than Earth that lies 40 light-years away—swung between about 1,832 to 4,892 degees Fahrenheit (1,000 to 2,700 degrees Celsius) from 2011 to 2013.
“This is the first time we’ve seen such drastic changes in light emitted from an exoplanet, which is particularly remarkable for a super Earth,” study co-author Nikku Madhusudhan, of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy in England, said in a statement. “No signature of thermal emissions or surface activity has ever been detected for any other super Earth to date.” [The Strangest Alien Planets (Gallery)]
This atmospheric variability was observed on the “day side” of 55 Cancri e, which lies so close to its host star that it completes one orbit every 18 hours. The planet is tidally locked, meaning one side always faces the star and the other always faces away.
Artist’s concept of the exoplanet 55 Cancri e, which may host large and active volcanoes. Image released May 4, 2015.
The researchers said they aren’t sure what’s behind the huge temperature shift, but they’ve got a leading candidate in mind.
“We think a likely explanation for this variability is [that] large-scale surface activity, possibly volcanism, on the surface is spewing out massive volumes of gas and dust, which sometimes blanket the thermal emission from the planet, so it is not seen from Earth,” lead author Brice-Olivier Demory, of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, said in the same statement.
If this interpretation is correct, volcanism on 55 Cancri e would likely be even more intense than it is on Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in Earth’s solar system, researchers said.
Astronomers once thought that 55 Cancri e was so carbon-rich that it was composed largely of diamond, but recent studies suggest that the planet’s carbon abundance may have been overestimated. The new observations further add to the mystery and intrigue of 55 Cancri e, one of five planets known to orbit the star 55 Cancri.
“The planet could still be carbon-rich, but now we’re not so sure. Earlier studies of this planet have even suggested that it could be a water world,” Madhusudhan said.
“The present variability [in temperature] is something we’ve never seen anywhere else, so there’s no robust conventional explanation,” he added. “But that’s the fun in science—clues can come from unexpected quarters. The present observations open a new chapter in our ability to study the conditions on rocky exoplanets using current and upcoming large telescopes.”
Artist's illustration of NASA's New Horizons in the Pluto system. The probe is scheduled to fly by Pluto on July 14, 2015. credit NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben
A NASA Pluto probe may end up with one final mission after its work exploring the outer solar system is done — carrying a message to advanced alien civilizations.
NASA is considering allowing a team of researchers, teachers, artists and engineers to upload an interstellar message to the agency's New Horizons spacecraft, which will perform the first-ever flyby of Pluto on July 14.
This project, known as the One Earth Message, is being led by Jon Lomberg, who was design director for the "golden records" that were placed aboard NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft before their 1977 launch to teach any aliens that might encounter the probes about humanity and its home planet. [5 Facts About NASA's Voyager Spacecraft]
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The goals of the One Earth Message are similar, but the new project would be a more global and collaborative effort, asking people around the world to contribute images, sounds and ideas for this farflung "message in a bottle."
"This is really a chance to try to think about ourselves from the long perspective," Lomberg told Space.com. "We'll never know if this extraterrestrial audience that we're designing it for will receive it. But we do know that the people of Earth who participate, who play a role in it — it can literally change their lives."
A digital message
Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, and Voyager 2 will join its twin in this rarefied realm soon. The two probes' golden records are actual records — 12-inch-wide (30 centimeters) gold-plated copper disks that come with cartridges, needles and instructions about how to play them. The identical records contain 115 analog-encoded images, as well as audio of thunder and other natural sounds, music and spoken greetings in 55 different languages.
The Golden Record carried a message from Earth on board NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions.
Credit NASA
The One Earth Message, by contrast, would be digital. If NASA greenlights the project — the space agency has expressed enthusiasm but has yet to approve it officially, Lomberg said — the team will be allowed to beam 150 megabytes of data to New Horizons.
The One Earth Message would therefore hold about the same amount of information as Voyager's golden records — perhaps 100 images and about an hour of audio, Lomberg said. (Videos would take up too much memory.)
"We're writing a haiku, not a novel," he said.
The digital format would allow the One Earth Message to be more flexible, layered and integrated than was possible with the golden records, Lomberg added. For example, the message could be changed over time by beaming more files to New Horizons. It could also include a map of the world, and every picture and every sound could be tagged to the spot from which it came. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
Crowdsourced content and funding
There's another key difference between the Voyager and New Horizons efforts: While the golden records carry information chosen by a small committee (which was chaired by famed astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan), the One Earth Message would be a crowdsourced affair, with contributions from people around the globe.
"It's not simply a photo contest," Lomberg said. "It's a process that's going to find out what people want to send."
Just as the One Earth Message's content would be crowdsourced, a chunk of its funding would be too. (The team is not asking NASA to pay for the project.) Lomberg and his colleagues hope to raise at least $500,000 from people around the world via a Fiat Physica campaign, to build and maintain a Web presence and to figure out the best way to program the message.
Additional money raised would be used for education and outreach, among other things.
"The total budget is a couple of million [dollars], to do everything we'd like to do," Lomberg said.
People would be able to contribute a certain number of photos for possible inclusion in the One Earth Message for free, he added. Anyone who wants to submit additional pictures would be able to do so, for a fee that would help cover the costs of the project's website.
The One Earth Message Fiat Physica campaign runs through July 15. As of yesterday evening (May 17), the crowdfunding effort had raised about $12,000 of its $500,000 target. You can learn more about the campaign here: http://www.fiatphysica.com/campaigns/oem/
The group is also looking for private support, Lomberg said.
Drawing up a message designed to be understood by alien civilizationsis not a simple or straightforward task. For example, how would any hypothetical extraterrestrials that chance upon New Horizons even know that humanity is trying to say something to them?
"How can you send files so that aliens can figure them out? They're not going to know what a jpeg is," Lomberg said. "Our challenge is to find ways of coding the message so that it calls attention to itself as a message."
But there's plenty of time to work on such issues. The transmission to New Horizons would occur in July 2016 at the earliest, Lomberg said, and it could even be postponed until after the probe flies by a second faraway object in 2019 during a potential extended missionthat NASA is mulling.
While the One Earth Message is designed to be interpreted by aliens, it's a worthwhile exercise even if New Horizons zooms through space alone for all of its days, Lomberg said. The project, he stressed, has the potential to get people more excited about the New Horizons mission and space exploration in general — and possibly to bring people around the world together in a perspective-altering experience.
"For almost 40 years, I've seen how the Voyager record has inspired people," Lomberg said. "It seems like it's time for another generation to have that same type of inspiration."
Patrick Macnee Explores the 'Top Secret' UFO Mysteries of Roswell
Patrick Macnee Explores the 'Top Secret' UFO Mysteries of Roswell
Did a UFO, flown by alien beings from outer space, crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947?
At first, the government said yes. Then, it said no — it was only a weather balloon. Thirty years later, when eyewitnesses to the strange event began talking, and UFO investigators and authors seriously began probing, a mystery was born which still exists to this day.
At 9 p.m. Sunday, Newsmax TV will air the gripping documentary, "Roswell: Top Secret," which investigates the controversial history of the "Roswell incident," which spawned an avalanche of books, television specials and movies and turned rural Roswell overnight into "UFO central."
Narrated by British actor Patrick Macnee of "The Avengers" fame, the film traces the entire history of the Roswell investigation, from the first government statements that it was a crashed UFO to the immediate correction into the "weather balloon" story, which few believed.
"What we're talking about is a story of visitation by beings from another planet, here on a mission of exploration, perhaps, only to end up casualties," Macnee states. "It is a story of our government deliberately concealing details of the incident.
Were the remains of a "stingray-shaped" spacecraft containing the alien pilots found in Roswell? Watch this shocking film to find out.
The documentary adds to the diverse programming featured on Newsmax TV, the new lifestyle, news and information channel. Newsmax TV is America's fast-growing news and information channel, now carried in more than 40 million U.S. satellite and cable homes.
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Latest release of ‘X-files’ shows MoD took idea of alien visitors seriously
Britain’s defence intelligence agency considered the possibility of alien craft visiting Earth and asked “UFO desk officers” to monitor any potential threat from outer space, hitherto top secret documents released on Thursday show.
Thousands of pages of highly classified files document how officials in the Ministry of Defence were worried they would be accused by the public of not taking UFOs seriously enough, and how some thought there really could be someone out there. “It was important to appreciate that what is scientific ‘fact’ today may not be true tomorrow,” a defence intelligence officer warned in August 1993.
He pointed out: “It was only a few hundred years ago that ‘scientists’ believed that the Earth was the centre of the universe.” He added: “It was generally agreed until early this century that the atom could not be split.”
Sightings of alleged UFOs could be explained by very strange-shaped clouds, ball lightning, or US “black” (secret project) aircraft, the unidentified official suggested.
“If the sightings are of devices not of the Earth, then their purpose needs to be established as a matter of priority. There had been no apparently hostile intent and other possibilities are one, military reconnaissance; two, scientific; three, tourism.”
The clearly frustrated intelligence official observed that the MoD might have taken the prospect more seriously if UFOs had “a red star painted on them”, a reference to the Soviet Union.
Some intelligence officials were excited about the prospect of harnessing rare atmospheric plasmas initially claimed to be UFOs, such as ball lightning, for novel weapons technology. One even suggested that if craft from outer space really did exist, the MoD could adopt their stealth technology.
Most officials in the MoD were deeply sceptical. Papers released today show that back in 1979, a UFO intelligence officer wondered why aliens would want to visit “an insignificant planet [the Earth] of an uninteresting star [the sun]“.
But officials had to cover their backs because of persistent claims of UFO sightings and questions from the public. MPs also regularly returned to the subject, requiring answers from the prime minister. In 2009, before he was elected, David Cameron promised to publish Whitehall’s remaining secret files on UFOs.
“I don’t think any of us have any clue whether there’s intelligent life out there, and it is certainly not something that any government should seek to hide from anyone,” he said.
John Major told MPs in 1996: “The government has no plans to allocate resources to researching extraterrestrial phenomena.”
The MoD did, however, decide to devote more resources on a study as officials warned Tony Blair he could expect even more questions following the passing of the Freedom of Information Act. A MoD official reported in 2000 that the study concluded: “Many of sightings can be explained as mis-reporting of man-made vehicles, [and] natural but unusual phenomena.”
In a valedictory note in December 2008, the last unidentified “UFO desk officer” – described yesterday by David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University, author of The UFO Files, as “one of the strangest jobs in Whitehall” – wrote to the RAF’s operations headquarters in High Wycombe. “The MoD’s position on UFOs, aliens and extra terrestrials is quite clear. We know of no evidence to confirm the existence of aliens, spaceships, extra terrestrials etc, or if they have visited the Earth.”
Suggestions that there were secret teams of scientists “scurrying around the country in a real-life version of the X-files” was “total fiction”.
But in a perhaps reassuring conclusion, the officer continued: “However, since the universe is a very large place and mankind has only explored a very small corner of it, we cannot rule out the existence of intelligent life on other planets. We therefore remain open minded on the topic. In the absence of proof either way, this position seems a perfectly sensible one. However, as you can probably guess, the above position does not make very interesting headlines nor, I suspect, would sell many books”.
UFO ‘sightings’
Ministers and the MoD have been inundated with claims of many hundreds of sightings of aliens. They include: two tall silver-suited “faceless humanoids” in Wales, three tall “men in black” in Spalding, Lincolnshire, and “golden orbs” across Britain – the result of a craze for releasing sky lanterns.
A mounted police officer reported a sighting of a “square/diamond shaped object moving across the sky and changing shape” while on duty at Chelsea football ground in 1999.
Files released on Thursday show the MoD recorded “UFO sightings” throughout the UK, from the Orkney Islands to Cornwall, and in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Thailand, New Zealand and the US.
There’s an old saying that the best place to hide a book is in a library. The latest Ministry of Defence UFO files released to the National Archives contain more than 6,000 pages of documentation, so if there was a memo somewhere in there saying the MoD had a crashed spaceship hidden away in an RAF hangar somewhere, it might not be found.
Before I start all manner of conspiracy theories with that remark, however, I should say that there is no such memo and no such spaceship – and I say that as someone who spent three years of my 21-year MoD career working on this issue.
This is the fifth batch of UFO files to be made available and is part of an ongoing three-year programme to release the entire archive. The decision to release the files was taken in 2007, to deal with the administrative burden of responding to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act. At one time, MoD was receiving more FOI requests on UFOs than on any other subject.
The newly released files cover the period 1994 to 2000. It’s interesting to note that the cult TV series The X-Files was at the height of its popularity at this time. Might this have influenced people making UFO reports?
I’m sceptical about the link between science fiction and UFO sightings. While the popularity of The X-Files might make some people speculate about aliens and government cover-ups, there’s no evidence to suggest that sci-fi films and TV shows influence people’s perceptions of anything strange that they see. Given the current stratospheric popularity of the blockbuster movie Avatar, if people were being influenced by sci-fi in the way suggested, we’d be inundated with reports of people seeing blue aliens. We’re not!
So, how do the MoD’s real-life Mulders and Scullys compare to their fictional counterparts? Having done the job myself, from 1991 to 1994, I’m sorry to have to report that it’s not quite as glamorous as people might suspect. There’s no running around dark warehouses with guns and torches. It’s more a case of asking colleagues in the RAF to check the radar tapes and writing polite letters back to members of the public, stating that most UFOs turn out to be misidentifications of ordinary objects and phenomena.
For those with the patience to wade through 6,000 pages of documents, it’s a mixed bag. There’s a great deal of mundane correspondence between the MoD and the public, together with a vast number of UFO sightings which are clearly aircraft lights, satellites or meteors. But there is some more interesting material.
As one reads the files, one can sense the MoD’s growing irritation with the subject – an irritation that arguably culminated on 1 December 2009 when the MoD finally disengaged altogether and announced that they would no longer be investigating UFO sightings reported by the public. Some of the files are entitled “persistent correspondent”. This is a coded way of saying “this person is becoming a nuisance”. As will be seen in future file releases – the last files won’t be released until 2011 – this frustration boiled over when the Freedom of Information Act came fully into force.
Another sign of the MoD’s “corporate irritation” with the subject is revealed in the response to somebody who claimed to have been kidnapped by aliens (it’s not just UFOs; these real-life X-Files include material on other mysteries such as alien abductions and crop circles). The person concerned had written to ask about MoD policy on alien abductions and pointed out that if the experience was real, the MoD was failing to maintain the territorial integrity of UK airspace – a core defence mission. After explaining the MoD’s role with respect to UFOs, the somewhat sniffy response stated: “Abduction is a criminal offence and as such is a matter for the civil police.”
This conjures up the bizarre thought of a flying saucer landed on the side of a road, with a bemused constable leaning through the entrance hatch saying, “Excuse me sir, have you any idea how fast you were going?”
Thanks to the UFO files release, the truth is out there
UFO festival in Roswell, New Mexico Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis
Afterfive years of a rolling disclosure programme, the contents of Britain’s “UFO files” are no longer a secret.In total 209 files and approximately 52,000 pages of information on unidentified things in the sky, collected by the Ministry of Defence, have been made available to the public by the National Archives. But what have we learned from the mountain of paperwork that has slowly emerged into the public domain since the project began in May 2008?
Do these documents prove that we have been visited by creatures from outer space in flying saucers? And has that fact been covered up by the governments of the world?
And if the answer to those questions is an emphatic “no”, then why were they closed from public scrutiny for so long? Why is the government releasing them now? And how can anyone be sure they contain the truth?
It is worth pointing out this unique project involved the largest release of documents younger than 20 years in the MoD’s entire history. Their aim in opening them ahead of their normal release date was to achieve greater openness.
They believed this would help counter what they described as “the maze of rumour and frequently ill-informed speculation” that surrounded their involvement, both real and imagined, in the investigation of UFOs.
This commitment to openness has been appreciated by the public, as the statistics collated by staff at the National Archives proves. Since the first UFO document release, more than 4.7m pages have been viewed by more than 3 million visitors from more than 160 countries around the world.
Furthermore, the blanket media coverage of the 10 file releases brought news of the project to an estimated global audience of 25 million people.
In all, more than 3.9m documents have been downloaded, and one UFO policy file from 1997 – which contained formerly top secret documents – has been downloaded more than 250,000 times.
In my opinion, the success of this open government programme lies in the fact that, whatever you believe about UFOs and alien life, you can now see for yourself what constitutes the “evidence” and make up your own mind. This is freedom of information working to inform and educate the public.
The files contain details of about 6,000 separate observations reported to the British authorities since 1984. On average, between one and 200 sightings were logged by the “UFO desk” each year, but some years broke records. For instance, in 2009 until November, when the MoD closed their UFO hotline for good, 643 sightings were recorded.
Was this and similar spikes in numbers recorded in 1978 and 1996-97 the result of aliens stepping up their surveillance of earth? Or is it more likely that people’s awareness of the subject, raised by press stories and productions such as Close Encounters or The X-Files, made them more inclined to report their experiences officially?
If the latter is true, and I believe the evidence is overwhelming, then we have to accept that UFOs – whatever their ultimate origin may be – are a social and cultural phenomenon. In the absence of any convincing evidence for the existence of aliens, they are a mystery that has more to do with what we as humans want to believe about our place in the universe.
And if the contents of the files teach us anything, they demonstrate that in the vast majority of examples, UFOs turn out to be IFOs – identified flying objects.
Chinese lanterns and balloons, aircraft (both civilian and military), bright stars and planets, meteors, space junk, unusual weather and rare natural phenomena can explain more than 95% of sightings. And as for the remaining 5%, we should always remember that the “u” in “UFO” stands for “unidentified”, it’s not code for “alien spaceship”.
The sheer number of sightings raises the question of why, after 60 years, no solid, conclusive evidence has ever been produced that could be verified by scientists. Despite mass ownership of advanced digital cameras, not a single convincing photograph of a flying saucer or artefact of extra terrestrial origin has been produced.
Of course there are those who will continue to believe the government has concealed “the truth” in even more top secret files hidden elsewhere. But I think most rational people will accept that the truth about UFOs and the people who see them is actually here, in these files, and not somewhere in outer space.
As the MoD’s last UFO desk officer wrote in 2009, the public was “… starting to get a more accurate impression of our role in UFO matters [and] I sense that realisation is also starting to dawn amongst some ufologists that we do not have hordes of investigators scurrying around the countryside … and that our interest is really quite minimal.”
He added: “Naturally a section of ufologists will never be convinced of that, but frankly, whatever we say, they will choose to believe whatever they believe and we will never convince them otherwise.”
• This article originally appeared on the National Archives blog and is republished here with permission
Alien autopsy? A still from the documentary The Roswell Incident Photograph: Channel 4
Conspiracy theorists claimed the US military had captured a crashed alien aircraft, but “The Man” maintained it had merely recovered debris from a top secret surveillance balloon. Ask Ant & Dec – they made a film about it: 2006 flop Alien Autopsy.
2. Belgian wave, 1989-90
A sighting from the Belgian UFO wave (29 November 1989 to April 1990). guardian.co.uk
Over five months, 13,500 people claimed to have witnessed large, silent, low-flying black triangles, and around 2,600 of them filed written statements. Sceptics blame helicopters or mass delusions caused by eating chips with mayonnaise.
Pilots EJ Smith, Kenneth Arnold, and Ralph E Stevens look at a photo of a UFO that they spotted in Washington. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
The press first coined the term “flying saucer” after this Idaho pilot claimed he had seen a string of nine shiny, saucer-shaped objects flying at supersonic speeds near Mount Rainier, Washington. What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
5. Bracknell pub pair, 2013
UFOs – flying discs – spotted in the sky over in Bracknell in 2013. Public domain
Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Regan both claim to have seen UFOs. Carter was widely mocked for his 1973 sighting, but the man who eventually succeeded him in the White House also saw a mysterious object – in 1974 above Petersfield, California. Probably wisely, the wily old cowboy kept pretty quiet about it.
7. Levelland case, 1957
Reports of a UFO sighting in Levelland, Texas in 1957. Photograph: guardian.co.uk
Texas motorists reported their engines stalling after encountering a glowing, egg-shaped object – and that their vehicles restarted after it flew past. An investigation concluded that it was down to an electrical storm and “ball lightning”.
Twenty UFOs were spotted and detected by radar around Brazil but reportedly disappeared when military aircraft were sent to intercept them. Experts attributed the sighting to debris ejected by Soviet space station Salyut-7. Of course they did. They would. Right, guys? Guys?
10. Tehran incident, 1976
US military report into a sighting of a UFO over Tehran in 1976. Guardian
A UFO allegedly whizzed over Iran’s capital, disabling the electronic instrumentation of two F-4 Phantom II jets and jamming ground control equipment. Iranian generals said on record that they thought the object was extra-terrestrial. Don’t tell Melanie Phillips.
Mysterieus groen licht in de lucht boven Groningen
Mysterieus groen licht in de lucht boven Groningen
Harry Perton uit Groningen maakt graag foto’s van de natuur. Dinsdag ging hij op pad in de Onlanden, het grensgebied tussen de provincies Groningen en Drenthe.
Bij thuiskomst keek hij even raar op. Op één van zijn foto’s van dreigende luchten is een groen lichtverschijnsel aan de hemel te zien.
“Opeens flitste er iets,” schrijft Perton op zijn weblog. “Ik dacht eerst mijn toestel, maar de flitskap stond niet omhoog. Ook zat er geen druppel op mijn lens. Ik besloot dat het een bliksem moest zijn geweest. Maar thuis zie ik wat vreemds op één van de foto’s die ik aan het eind van het bomenlaantje maakte.”
Was het een UFO, een meteoor of een bijzonder natuurverschijnsel? Zegt u het maar.
Hessdalen is a village and a long valley in Norway. It isn’t just a pristine community, but it is also known for its occasional occurrences of luminous phenomena known as the Hessdalen Phenomenon, which are the strange, hovering and flashing series of lights. The glowing orbs appear to be as large as cars, that’s why they have drawn attention from most ufologists. They are moving very slowly and was seen separating, but reforming later on. They also winked in and out. In most cases, they shoot down the valley and disappear. In the human eye’s point of view, you may see them, but will vanish later on.
The Extreme Flashing
When the strange light appeared in 1980s, it attracted to physicists. In December 1981, the hovering lights shone brighter. Residents took the notice, and the press descended as well. The occurrence of strange balls of light soaring over a valley in central Norway has mystified scientists and spectators across Europe for years. Ivar Kvaal, the Norwegian photographer, tells TIME that he has also met oddball fanatic. The case has been divided. But most villagers are honest and sane.
The Debatable Statements
However, scientists think that the unusual lights could be a natural ‘battery’ that was deeply buried underground, created by metallic minerals. As reacted with a sulfurous river that run through it. These occurrences have paved the way for theories to flourish. In the atmosphere, the light came from the ionized gasses in ball lightning, decaying radon or the atmosphere. It was the earth acting like a giant battery. While others believe these are aliens, there are those that believed it is a result from tapped clean energy. But where does this charge to energize plasma originated? It may be extraterrestrial.
The science was certainly not definitive, but the facts so far are incredibly intriguing.
MILITARY F-4 Jet Chases UFO over Iran Date: September 18, 1976
Location:Tehran, Iran The sequence of events can be reconstructed from both Iranian sources and declassified U.S. intelligence documents: t pay too much attention. The radar system was turned off since it was under repair. After he received the fourth telephone call at 11:15 p.m., Perouzi went to the terrace next to the tower and observed the UFO with binoculars: Suddenly I saw it. It was rectangular in shape, probably seven to eight meters [24 to 27 ft.] long and about two meters [7 ft.] wide.
4 Phantom jet from Shahrokhi AFB to investigate.
The first scramble is summarized in a “Memorandum for Record” from the U.S. Defense Attaché Office (DAO) in Tehran: “The F-4 took off at 01:30 a.m. and proceeded to a point about 40 nm [45 statute miles or 75 km.] North of Tehran. Due to its brilliance the object was easily visible from 70 miles [110 km.] away. As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nm [29 statute miles or 46 km.], he lost all instrumentation and communications (UHF and Intercom). He broke off the intercept and headed back to Shahrokhi. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications.” At 01:40 a.m., Gen. Yousefi authorized a second F-4 scramble piloted by Lt. Jafari, who quickly established radar contact with the UFO.
The DAO Memorandum describes the events of the second scramble: “The size of the radar return was comparable to that of a [Boeing] 707 tanker. The visual size of the object was difficult to discern because of its intense brilliance. The light that it gave off was that of flashing strobe lights arranged in a rectangular pattern of alternating blue, green, red and orange, in color. The sequence of the lights was so fast that all the colors could be seen at once.”
“The object and the pursuing F-4 continued a course to the south of Tehran when another brightly lighted object, estimated to be .5 to .33 the apparent size of the moon, came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F-4 at a very fast rate. The pilot attempted to fire an AIM-9 missile at the object, but at that instant his weapons control panel went off and he lost all communications (UHF and Interphone). At this point, the pilot initiated a turn and negative G dive to get away.” The aircraft electric system went back to normal once the F-4 reached a certain distance from the UFO.
The small object returned to the primary object, but a second one emerged and flew toward the ground. Gen. Yousefi observed the landing from the balcony of his Tehran residence: “He went down and landed on the ground and now it is a communication between the mothership and that small flying object, and it shows the lights between those two is connected.”
More strange events were still reported that night. A UFO seemed to follow the F-4 as it approached the runway, and a civil airliner experienced communications failure but did not see anything.
The DAO Memorandum describes the investigation early that morning: “During daylight, the F-4 crew was taken out to the area in a helicopter where the object apparently had landed. Nothing was noticed at the spot where they thought the object landed (a dry lake bed), but as they circled off to the West of the area they picked up a very noticeable beeper signal. At that point, where the return was the loudest was a small house with a garden. They landed and asked the people within if they had noticed anything strange last night. The people talked about a loud noise and a very bright light like lightning.”
Nick Redfern is a paranormal writer and investigator. In this recent interview, Nick shares his personal experience with the promoters of old slides they believe may depict an alien. He also talks about some of his history and what is in store for him in the future.
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Japanse graftombes op Mars?
Japanse graftombes op Mars?
Wat zijn de kansen dat op Mars een vrijwel identieke graftombe wordt ontdekt zoals die werden gemaakt in Japan in de zogenaamde Kofun periode.
Wanneer je de beelden naast elkaar legt, zijn beide tombes vrijwel identiek.
De Kofunperiode is de periode in de Japanse geschiedenis tussen circa AD 300 en 538. Het is genoemd naar de grafheuvels die het meest in het oog springende aspect van de cultuur vormen.
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je hoe zo’n Japanse graftombe er vanuit de lucht gezien uitziet.
Vanaf de zijkant gezien, zien ze er ongeveer zo uit:
De structuur zoals we die zien in Japan is uniek, met scherpe randen en specifieke patronen uit de tijde van het oude Japan. Maar, is er misschien een mogelijkheid dat er een connectie is met structuren buiten deze wereld? Een aantal mensen denkt van wel.
Dan hoeven we in de ruimte niet zo gek ver te kijken want op Mars is er een vrijwel identieke structuur gevonden door NASA.
NASA zelf zegt uiteraard dat wat we daar zien, is gevormd door natuurlijke erosie. Dat is hun standaard antwoord op bijna alles wat op Mars wordt aangetroffen aan vreemde zaken.
De structuur op Mars ziet er ongeveer zo uit:
Wanneer je beide afbeeldingen naast elkaar legt dan krijg je het volgende:
In de volgende video worden er aan de hand van voorbeelden nog meer gelijkenissen getoond tussen de constructie op Mars en de graftomben in Japan.
Toeval? Of was er in oude tijden een relatie tussen de bewoners van Japan en die van Mars?
Here’s one interesting footage of a bright unidentified flying object or orbs making maneuvers in the daytime sky above Florida. This was taken on 15th May 2015.
One of the hottest UFO areas of Russia is the Omsk region of southwestern Siberia which has a rich history of sightings as well as crop circles and other unexplained events. On May 15, 2015, an amateur photographer added his name to the UFO spotters list when he captured images of six bright lights traveling in a straight line across the sky.
Dmitry Yushkevich shot the photographs starting at 12:49 am when he first noticed the unusual lights over the city of Tara in the Omsk region. He shot a second image a minute later and the lights had already traveled behind a television tower. Those appear to be the only shots he took.
Second image of UFO behind television tower taken by Dmitry Yushkevich
UFO expert Nick Pope called the photograph a “fascinating image” and speculated on what it might be.
It could be a fireball or a meteor breaking up in the atmosphere, or some sort of exotic atmospheric plasma phenomenon. It would be interesting to learn if the Russians tracked this on radar. The area concerned is a UFO hotspot, so another possibility is that this is an area where the Russians are testing secret prototype aircraft, drones or weaponry.
Magnified image of Omsk UFO
Omsk is a hotspot for UFOs and more. UFOs were reported in Omsk in 1990 and 1991 by employees of the Omsk Synthetic Rubber Plant who described them as a “cloud of gas in the middle and two reddish lights on the edges.” Orange snow fell in the area earlier this year. Vladimir Krupko, head of the Omsk planetarium, says he once found a crop circle in the Omsk region and the Omsk Museum of History and Culture is home to a collection of elongated human skulls found in a nearby forest over 15 years ago.
Then again, the UFO could be something else. The Russian news publication Pravda says it was more likely a rocket separating, although there were no records of any recent rocket launchings.
Did Dmitry Yushkevich photograph an alien spaceship or a secret Russian weapon? Is Omsk becoming Siberia’s Area 51? Should Russians prepare for visits from the Cossacks in Black?
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UFO crash in Bolivia witnessed by thousands of people
UFO crash in Bolivia witnessed by thousands of people
May 20, 2015 - On May 6, 1978, at about 4:15 p.m., something crashed into a mountain near El Taire on the Bermejo River, the border between the Bolivian province of Tarija and Argentina. Thousands of people saw this happening and later described the object as being cylindrical in shape with a flaming tail. It had caused a supersonic bang that was heard up to 150 miles away.
Photograph of El Taire mountain.The crash site is marked with an arrow. (credit: Hesemann)
The UFO crash in Bolivia. Sketch according to eyewitness reports. (credit: Hesemann)
Source:Michael Hesemann, 1998
On May 6, 1978, at about 4:15 p.m., something crashed into a mountain near El Taire on the Bermejo River, the border between the Bolivian province of Tarija and Argentina. Thousands of people saw this happening and later described the object as being cylindrical in shape with a flaming tail. It had caused a supersonic bang that was heard up to 150 miles away and that cracked windowpanes as far away as 30 miles in every direction. The next day, the papers were speculating on what had come down in that godforsaken place. The explanations ranged from meteorites to UFOs and belated reentry of some Apollo capsule. All of them referred to statements of eye witnesses.
Then it was announced that the Argentinian authorities had sent the 20th unit of the border police to the area in question to look for wreckage on their side of the border. The search in that mountainous country could last for weeks, so swarms of reporters went to the nearest big town, Aguas Blancas, to take up quarters there and await further developments, as well as to interview eyewitnesses in the town. And in fact, there were a number of witnesses who claimed to have seen the object. Most of them described it as oval or cylindrical and metallic. The army, too, seemed to be convinced that it was a UFO. Corporal Natalio Farfan Ruiz, the commandant of a small border police unit at the little village of La Marmora (800 inhabitants), confirmed the crash to Argentinian reporters saying: "It was about 4:30 p.m. when a cylindrical object made the earth tremble. Just imagine what would have happened if the UFO had fallen on the houses!" Policeman Juan Hurtado had also seen what had happened: "It looked like a gigantic wine container emitting a trace of white smoke. I saw it clearly. It flew directly above my head. I was on duty and at that moment was talking with three engineers from the mine in La Paz, when we saw the object crashing into the El Taire mountain. The impact was so strong that it threw me to the ground. The earth trembled at that moment."
Finally, the Bolivian Air Force sent three single-motored AT6 airplanes—a model from World War II—to the area and discovered the crash site on the southern slope of the El Taire mountain. Whereas the pilots found it impossible to land anywhere near it, the newspaper Clarin of Buenos Aires announced on May 14, that the object had been found. As proof, they quoted the police chief of Tarija: "Our men have discovered the object and inspected it, but have received no instructions for further action. It is a dull metallic cylinder twelve feet long with a few dents. No one knows what is inside it, and we are awaiting the arrival of various technical commissions. A NASA expert is also expected to arrive tomorrow morning."
As a matter of fact, no NASA expert came at Tarija.-Instead, two U.S. Air Force officers, Col. Robert Simmons and Maj. John Heise arrived. According to a newspaper, although these officers were officially on leave, they had been instructed to take the object to the United States in a Hercules C-130 transport machine, which was waiting for them at La Paz. When other newspapers made inquiries at the American Embassy regarding this secret mission of Simmons and Heise they were met with a denial. Only two years later, 5 relevant documents were released by the U.S. State Department: they revealed that Simmons and Heise had been assigned to the military attache of the U.S. Embassy in La Paz and did, in fact, fly to Tarija accompanied by an officer of the Bolivian Air Force, in connection with Project Moon Dust.
The first of these documents was a telex sent by the U.S. Ambassador in Bolivia, Paul H. Boeker, to the State Department. In that, he quoted newspaper reports and requested the department "to ask the relevant agencies whether they could explain what this object could be," adding "during the last week, more and more UFO reports are coming from this region." The answer was a telex classified "secret" dated May 18 in which the U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance personally declared: "Preliminary information has been checked with appropriate government agencies. No direct correlation with known space objects that may have reentered the earth's atmosphere near May 6 can be made. However we are continuing to examine any possibilities."
He then referred the embassy to "State aerogram A-6343" of July 26, 1973, classified 'Secret,' "which provides background information and guidance for dealing with space objects. In particular any information pertaining to the pre-impact observations, direction of trajectory, number of objects observed, time of impact and detailed description, including any markings would be helpful." The next document was a "Moon Dust Message" of the office of the U.S. military attache, dated May 24, addressed to the Division for Foreign Technologies at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon, classified as "confidential NOFORN (No Forwarding To Foreign Nationals)." Under reference Moon Dust, the military attache at La Paz reported that "they had taken pains to verify the press reports. " In addition to that, they had asked the general staff of the Bolivian Air Force and the chiefs of the Bolivian Army who had declared—apparently after a first unsuccessful attempt— "we have sent search troops to the area in question but have found nothing. " The army came to the conclusion that there could have been an object there, or maybe not, but to date they had found nothing. The attache added that he would send two officials to Tarija and promised, "We will keep you informed if anything turns up. " These "two officials," we can assume, were Simmons and Heise.
Regrettably, no further reports concerning the Simmons-Heise expedition were released and, to get a picture of what happened, we are forced to rely on reports in the Argentinian press. Apparently, however, nobody came to the conclusion that a meteorite had hit the earth. At the world-famous Smithsonian Institution there is a data bank of scientific occurrences, or an "alarm network," that keeps track of every volcanic eruption, every earthquake and every meteorite collision since 1973 with painstaking accuracy. The data bank reveals no mention of a meteorite falling during May 1978 at the Bolivian-Argentinian border. The Air Force documents reveal that the 1127th field activities group, which coordinated Project Moon Dust, was interested in another task besides the recoveiy of UFO wrecks and other space objects, represented by the code name HUMINT. This code name, short for Human Intelligence, means the collection of information from human sources through clandestine undercover methods—in contrast to interrogations, reading through files and correspondence, etc. In other words, it meant the collection of information about UFOs from reliable sources through a game of deceit. The method which was chosen to achieve HUMINTs goals was so bizarre that nobody outside the UFO community would believe it. It was the birth of the "Men In Black," subject of a Hollywood blockbuster movie in 1997.
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We Will Live on the Moon in 50 Years, Says Stephen Hawking
We Will Live on the Moon in 50 Years, Says Stephen Hawking
British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said last night, in a television show dedicated to the International Space Station (ISS), that in 50 years people will live on the Moon and we will be on our way to Mars, considering that this century will be the “Space Age.”
Professor Hawking believes that the human race will face imminent risk of extinction if other planets will not be colonized because too many people will live on Earth, and the planet can not support an infinite number of people.
Stephen Hawking made the comments during the show “Live from Space: Lap of the Planet,” broadcast on Channel 4 in United Kingdom, during which astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were broadcast live from the orbit.
The 72-year-old professor said: “Our planet is an old world, threatened with an ever-expanding population and finite resources. We must anticipate these threats and have a plan B.
If our species is to survive the next hundred years, let alone a thousand, it is imperative we voyage out into the blackness of space to colonize new worlds across the cosmos.
If we follow this path, I have no doubt that this century will go down, in the history of humankind, as the true Space Age.”
ISS ranks third among the brightest objects in the sky after the Sun and Moon, and can be seen on clear nights as a bright spot. The show presented British viewers the life and work of astronauts aboard the ISS.
Stephen Hawking, moving with a wheelchair and communicating through a computer and a voice synthesizer, has been diagnosed with a degenerative neural disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) at the age of 21, and doctors said at the time that he had left not more than two or three years. Now Stephen Hawking is one of the most respected scientists in the world, known for his work on black holes and his “Brief History of Time”, which became an international bestseller.
It's Raining Spiders In Australia, And That Excites UFO Believers
It's Raining Spiders In Australia, And That Excites UFO Believers
This month, the weather reports from down under are downright terrible for arachnophobes. That’s because the story that it has literally been raining down baby spiders in one part of Australia appears credible, according to scientists.
Clouds of millions of baby spiders were spotted falling out of the sky upon the so-called southern tablelands of New South Wales earlier this month, coating parts of the countryside and even some homes with the strands of their webs that they rode upon the wind.
“What happens is that during a particular time of the year, particularly in May and August, young spiders in the Outback somewhere throw these threads of spiderwebs up in the air and use them as a parachute to detach themselves from the ground and move in large colonies through the sky,” one local retiree named Keith Basterfield told the Goulburn Post newspaper.
Basterfield also took the opportunity to request the public to send him samples of the spider web material, which is also sometimes called “angel hair.” The paper obliged, publishing his post office box where the public can send their samples.
But there’s a hidden, more bizarre side to angel hair that might be compelling this retiree to ask for spider web donations. Basterfield is well known in the UFO research community, having published a few books over the years on the topic. He’s also been cataloging and analyzing Australian instances of angel hair since at least 2001.
Normal cobwebs. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
Why? Well, it could be because many UFO enthusiasts and researchers believe that some instances of angel hair could actually be a mysterious substance created by the interaction of a UFO or its electromagnetic field with Earth’s atmosphere.
So, there’s that.
But in this particular instance, both Basterfield and scientists seem to be in agreement that what fell onto Australian fields this month was probably drifting spider webs.
Naturalist Martyn Robinson from the Australian Museum told the Sydney Morning Herald that spiders that release a streamer of their silk web into the breeze can sometimes travel long distances this way en masse.
“You can have entire fields and paddocks and trees festooned with this gossamer or Angel Hair, as some people call it,” he said, also stressing that it is unlikely that these flying flocks of spiders are poisonous or otherwise harmful.
Of course, if we’re talking about alien spiders riding on angel hair created by UFO exhaust, perhaps there is some reason for concern.
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