Rare Triangular Fireball During The Perseid Meteor Shower Over Hampshire, UK – Aug 2015 (Video)

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Around the globe, people looked up to the night sky to catch what is considered to be the best meteor shower of the year.
 

The Perseid meteor shower hit its peak Wednesday night and stargazers captured the sparkling show, which was even more dazzling this time around due to the moon’s new phase.

The light from the moon was less likely to get in the way of faint meteors, a plus for observers, and a phenomenon that hasn’t happened since 2007.

Check out the video of a rare triangular Perseid fireball rushing across the screen from the UK Meteor Observation Network.

Is it really a fireball or it could be something else?
 

  

 

14-08-2015 om 22:41 geschreven door peter  

Drivers Close Encounter In The Yucatan

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DRIVERS CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN THE YUCATAN   JULY 1989   

……….  TEKAY YUCATAN   

I had to make a last-minute trip to Chetumal and was no longer able to go to the game. Nothing happened on the outward trip, but on the way back, my co-worker and I experienced something I’ll never forget.  “We were already in Yucatán, and we were about to reach Tekax when I suddenly saw a bright light in front of us, like a car shining its high beams at us. It was more or less 100 meters away. We were flashing it with our own lights, but then we saw the light veer off to the right, as if going into the wilderness. We thought the car or truck had overturned and slowed down to see if they needed help. To our surprise, we saw nothing at all, and there wasn’t any street or little trail through which it could have vanished. It didn’t make any noise either. 

“Minutes later, when we had driven no more than five kilometers, I saw that light again, but this time it was behind us, and to our amazement, it began to rise until it vanished into the heavens. We both saw it, so I’m certain it wasn’t a hallucination. I still find it hard to believe today, but my eyes did not deceive me, “he explained  “When I brought this up to my co-workers, some of them explained that they had already had similar experiences in that segment of the road, but preferred to keep quiet to avoid scorn.  

“But the story of my UFO encounters doesn’t end there. In the late ’90s I ran into some strange lights in the Mérida-Tizimín road in the vicinity of the community of Chenché de las Torres. There was a clearing at the time that allowed for a view of the whole landscape, as the grass wasn’t that tall. That’s where I saw four lights in a straight line before they suddenly split. At first I thought it was a plane, but after the lights separated I realized this couldn’t be the case, as it made no noise whatsoever.  “I was lucky to see it, because I had pulled my truck over to clean the windshield by hand, as the wipers had broken. I think that if I hadn’t stopped, I would’ve never realized it. I wasn’t afraid. I just felt helpless because I was alone and aware that no one would believe what I saw. 

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14-08-2015 om 22:37 geschreven door peter  

Astronomen vinden 'zomaar' met telescoop 'jonge Jupiter' buiten ons zonnestelsel - HLN.be

 Bron: Belga

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Astronomen hebben de kleinste planeet buiten ons zonnestelsel gevonden, tenminste dankzij rechtstreekse waarneming met een telescoop. Dat heeft space.com gisteren gemeld.

14-08-2015 om 22:13 geschreven door peter  

NASA ontdekt ijsvlakte op 'hart' van Pluto - HLN.be

Bron: Volkskrant.nl, NYT

IJsvlakte 'Tombaugh Regio' op het 'hart' van Pluto. © ap.

NEW HORIZONS Ruimteorganisatie NASA heeft een nieuw beeld vrijgegeven, dat ruimtetuig New Horizons afgelopen dinsdag van dwergplaneet Pluto heeft gemaakt. Op het beeld is een ijsvlakte te zien, die zich op het groot hartvormig vlak op de planeet bevindt.

IJsbergen

'Tombaugh Regio' wordt hier met groen aangeduid. © afp.

Op de vlakte zijn onregelmatige, veelhoekige segmenten te zien, die afmetingen van tientallen kilometers hebben. De segmenten zijn omringd door smalle troggen, waarvan sommigen heuvels vertonen.

De vlakte, die de naam Sputnik Planum kreeg, maakt deel uit van het grotere, hartvormige vlak op Pluto, dat 'Tombaugh Regio' werd gedoopt naar de ontdekker van de dwergplaneet. 

Ten zuiden van de ijsvlaktes bevindt zich een bergketen, die de naam Norgay Montes kreeg. De keten is vernoemd naar Tenzing Norgay, de scherpa die de Mount Everest met Edmund Hillary beklom.

14-08-2015 om 22:08 geschreven door peter  

Wetenschappers vinden onderaards meer onder piramide in Mexico * HLN.be

Bron: Belga, Fox News

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In de Mexicaanse Maya-stad Chichén Itzá op het schiereiland Yucatán hebben wetenschappers een onderaards meer onder een piramide gevonden. Het meer is tot 35 meter lang en meer dan 20 meter diep.

Het gaat om de eeuwenoude tempel van Kukulcán, ook bekend als 'El Castillo', op het schiereiland Yucatán in Mexico. Hij werd gebouwd door de Maya's en is één van de bekendste bouwwerken in Mexico. Archeologen hebben nu ontdekt dat de piramide gedeeltelijk gebouwd werd op een meer van wel twintig meter diep. Tussen het fundament van het bouwwerk en het meer ligt een natuurlijke kalksteenslaag van vijf meter dik.

De wetenschappers deden de eigenaardige vondst niet aan de hand van opgravingen, maar door een geo-elektrisch onderzoek. Volgens archeoloog Guillermo de Anda is de ontdekking van groot belang. De aanwezigheid van het onderaardse meer kan namelijk bevestigen dat de Maya's de tempels gebruikten als kosmologische instrumenten. "De vier grotten die de tempel omringen zouden bijvoorbeeld de vier windstreken kunnen voorstellen, met in het midden het meer als het centrum van het universum", aldus de Anda.

Mysterieuze cultuur
Volgens geoloog Rene Chavez zijn er nu eerst andere vragen te beantwoorden. "Wisten de Maya's dat er water aanwezig was vooraleer ze aan de bouw van de piramide begonnen? Het antwoord op dergelijke vragen kan ons alweer meer inzicht geven in hun mysterieuze cultuur".

 Volgen

NeoMex‏@Neomexicanismos

Chichén Itzá: Encuentran cenote debajo de la pirámide de Kukulcán http://m.starmedia.com/noticias/insolito/chichen-itza-encuentran-cenote-debajo-piramide-kukulcan.html …

14-08-2015 om 22:01 geschreven door peter  

Proberen aliens contact met ons op te nemen? Signalen uit de ruimte stellen wetenschappers voor raadsel

Wetenschappers hebben in de afgelopen 15 jaar vreemde radiogolven gedetecteerd die een patroon volgen dat niet kan worden verklaard aan de hand van bekende natuurlijke fenomenen.

In de film Contact uit 1997 is een astrofysicus, die gespeeld wordt door Jodie Foster, de eerste mens die contact maakt met een buitenaardse beschaving, nadat ze een sterk radiosignaal oppikt uit de ruimte.

Was het een profetische film? Wetenschappers detecteren al 15 jaar lang vreemde radioflitsen uit de ruimte die een wiskundig patroon lijken te volgen. Er zijn twee mogelijkheden: ze worden veroorzaakt door een nog niet ontdekt fenomeen in de ruimte of ze worden geproduceerd door een bepaalde vorm van technologie. Als ze een technologische oorsprong hebben en niet door ons worden gegenereerd, kunnen het signalen zijn van een buitenaardse intelligentie.

Kan geen toeval zijn

De astronomen die de radioflitsen hebben waargenomen, hebben zoiets niet eerder gezien en ze begrijpen er evenmin iets van. De krachtige radiogolven duren slechts een paar milliseconden en stoten dan net zoveel energie uit als de zon in een hele maand doet.

Sinds 2001 zijn er 10 van deze radioflitsen gedetecteerd. De bron moet volgens onderzoekers klein zijn, maximaal enkele honderden kilometers in doorsnee. Ook komen ze van ver, mogelijk uit een geheel ander sterrenstelsel.

De radiosignalen hebben allemaal een golflengte die een veelvoud is van 187,5 centimeter. Er bestaat een kans van 1 op 2000 dat dit patroon toeval is. In het heelal zijn enkele kosmische objecten die radioflitsen kunnen produceren, zoals bijvoorbeeld pulsars. Misschien zijn er nog niet ontdekte soorten sterren die deze radiogolven verspreiden.

Geavanceerde technologie

Het is ook mogelijk dat deze signalen een meer aardse herkomst hebben. Misschien hangt er een onbekende spionagesatelliet boven de aarde, die signalen vanuit de ruimte lijkt te sturen. In 2010 pikte de Parkes Observatory in Australië 16 signalen op die leken op radioflitsen, maar uiteindelijk afkomstig bleken te zijn van magnetrons in de sterrenwacht.

Als de radioflitsen inderdaad worden veroorzaakt door buitenaardse intelligente wezens, iets wat niet bij voorbaat wordt uitgesloten, is het niet gemakkelijk om ze te versturen als boodschap. Ze zouden over een technologie moeten beschikken die veel geavanceerder is dan we ons kunnen voorstellen. Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

[MNN]

14-08-2015 om 21:49 geschreven door peter  

Vliegtuig verdwijnt, om 10 minuten later weer te verschijnen: time slip?

Zo’n 40 jaar geleden zou een passagiersvliegtuig in het niets zijn verdwenen terwijl het boven Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport de landing inzette.

Er werden gelijk hulpdiensten ingeschakeld omdat men vermoedde dat het toestel in de buurt van de luchthaven was gecrasht. Terwijl de hulpvoertuigen zich verzamelden op de plek waar het toestel voor het laatst was gezien, verscheen het plotseling recht boven ze.

Er waren 10 minuten voorbijgegaan en het vliegtuig verscheen op de exacte locatie waar het ook was verdwenen. De klokken aan boord van het toestel, inclusief de horloges van de passagiers, liepen allemaal 10 minuten achter. De mensen aan boord wisten echter niet dat er 10 minuten waren verstreken. Voor hun was het alsof er ineens vanuit het niets hulpdiensten waren verschenen.

Mannen in pakken

Dit incident is uitgebreid onderzocht door luchtvaartdeskundige Martin Caidin (1927-1997). Hij werd vaak geconsulteerd door de NASA. Vlak voor zijn dood deelde Caidin zijn onderzoek met Loyd Auerbach. Die zei dat vlak na het incident ‘mannen in pakken’ verschenen bij de landingsbaan en het vliegtuig binnengingen.

Was het een zogeheten time slip? “Time slips zijn niet echt paranormaal van aard,” zei Auerbach. “Het gaat erom dat tijd op een vloeiende manier beweegt. We weten niet eens wat tijd is. Veranderingen in snelheid en zwaartekracht kunnen tijd beïnvloeden. Dit gebeurt onder zeer ongewone omstandigheden en de effecten zijn bijna verwaarloosbaar. Er is veel meer voor nodig om te kunnen verklaren hoe een vliegtuig tijdens de landing een verandering in tijd veroorzaakt.”

Wormgaten

Auerbach, die aan de John F. Kennedy University in Californië verschillende lezingen heeft gegeven over tijd, houdt zich met name bezig met het onderzoek naar tijdreizen en time slips. Sommige theorieën die hij voorbij heeft zien komen gingen over gravimetrische oorzaken en wormgaten. Maar gedacht wordt dat wormgaten microscopisch klein zijn. Als ze al bestaan, hebben we geen idee wat ze doen.

Over de hele wereld worden time slips gemeld, alleen worden de bizarre verhalen vaak niet serieus genomen, aldus Auerbach. Hoe kan de verdwijning van dit vliegtuig worden verklaard? Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

[Epoch Times]

14-08-2015 om 21:47 geschreven door peter  

Buitenaards wezen opgegraven in India?

Het komt niet iedere dag voor, maar in de Indiase deelstaat Jodphur stonden boeren vreemde te kijken toen ze een put aan het slaan waren. 

Ze hadden misschien vanalles verwacht, maar niet dat ze een buitenaards uitziend wezen zouden opgraven. 

Eind juli waren een aantal mensen bezig met het graven van een gat voor het maken van een put in de Indiase deelstaat Jodphur. 

Toen stuitten ze naar eigen zeggen op een vreemd uitziend wezen wat een soort kruising lijkt tussen iets menselijks en buitenaards. 

Te oordelen aan de ogen zou je zeggen dat je hier te maken hebt met een buitenaards wezen. Na publicaties van de foto’s die hieronder staan, ging het verhaal viraal via de sociale media.

Volgens ufoloog Scott Waring bestaat er geen enkele twijfel en hebben we hier te maken met een buitenaards wezen want zoals hij zegt: 

“Dit vreemde wezen heeft zoveel mensachtige trekken dat het wel buitenaards moet zijn. Het heeft hele donkere ogen om het tegen zonlicht te beschermen. Dit is bewijs dat het liever ondergronds woont dan erboven”. 

Het is jammer dat er verder weinig gegevens bekend zijn over deze vreemde vondst. Zoals of het wezen dood was toen het werd aangetroffen of nog leefde? Als het wel dood was toen het werd aangetroffen dan moet het met grote waarschijnlijkheid onlangs zijn overleden omdat het lichaam nog geen tekenen van ontbinding vertoont. 

Of hebben we hier te maken met enkele creatieve Indiase boeren die denken dat een beetje roem altijd beter is dan in de grond wroeten. 

Het is in ieder geval een populair onderwerp op de Indiase sociale media. 

Bron: 

Ufo Sigthings Daily

{ www.NIBURU.nl }

14-08-2015 om 21:41 geschreven door peter  

Anne Strieber Has Died

After a long and courageous struggle, Anne Strieber died on August 11, 2015. She founded Unknowncountry.com as Whitleysworld in 1998. In 2001, she changed the name and expanded it to include what she described as "the credible edge of science and reality." She was its managing editor until January of 2015. Anne was also a novelist, and published three books, "the Cave" as Anne Matthews, "the Invisible Woman," and her personal favorite, "Little Town Lies," both as Anne Strieber. In nonfiction, she published "the Communion Letters," a compendium of letters from close encounter witnesses. She was also the author of "Anne's Diary" on this website. She also co-authored an account of her illness, "Miraculous Journey," with Whitley.

She supported her husband Whitley throughout his career, and edited every book he published. After reading and cataloging hundreds of thousands of letters written to him in response to his book "Communion," she was the first person to realize that the appearance of what she termed "the visitors" was associated with the simultaneous appearance of ghostly apparitions. She never ceased her research into the strange and ignored phenomenon called the "close encounter" experience, and formed the fundamental approach to it that is the basis of Whitley Strieber's work.

Anne is survived by Whitley, her husband of 45 years, and her son Andrew and his family. Services for Anne will be private. Anne contributed to many charities, and her wish was that others contribute on her behalf to the charities of their choice. 

13-08-2015 om 23:53 geschreven door peter  

TAKEN : AN ALIEN ABDUCTEE TURNS THE TABLES ON AN ABDUCTION

He had been taken from the desert, in Texas, when he was seven years old.

Photo taken over Scotland on September 20, 2011

His father, shot-gun in hand, and he had been climbing rocky outbreaks amidst cactus and scrub.

They had hunted coyote there before,

and had used a coyote lure, a blow- into device that produced a sound that resembled a rabbit’s cry of pain; with their backs to the setting sun to blind the predator’s approach, they had shot and killed six, that evening.

But soon they had been prey and not predator.

A craft had appeared overhead.

It had appeared from nowhere, instantly.

It was blue like the sky, slowly changing to brown, like the desert floor, then silver as though the color progression change of metal cooling.

Later, when his father had awoken, a shell had been discharged, missing from the chamber, but he had no memory of ever firing the gun.

The seven year old had been swept aloft into an overhead craft and examined by small, dark, large-eyed, hairless beings with large pear-shaped heads extended in the back.

They had a thin torso, long arms with three long fingers, spindly legs, no ears and mere slits for mouth.

The large black eyes strangely had compelling power.

“You will not remember!”

But he had remembered..

He had felt pain unlike any ever imagined and he screamed

The large black-wet eyes had stared at him endlessly, extensively, close up to his head.

“This will not hurt.”, they had said.

But agony had suffused lines and channels throughout his body.

Terror, rage and pain had overcome him.

The creatures had been puzzled by his pain, saying,” You will not remember.”

When he was returned to the desert floor, some forty minutes later, his father had looked switched off, eyes glazed, saliva dribbling from the right corner of his mouth.

It was his sobbing, he had then believed that had awoken his father.

His father had told him that he had imagined and dreamed it.

“The Texas sun can give you heat stroke, make you see things”, he had said, holding the shaking boy close and placing a hand over his son’s forehead.

” Let’s find some shade.”

They had walked to the shade of hemlock and mesquite at the foot of rock outgrowth and had eaten bologna sandwiches with yellow mustard and had washed it down with canteen water.

During this, the child had held his father’s hand and  had not let go; while his father had chewed slowly watching his son in puzzlement, the child had stared upwards in fear.

When he was seventeen,  an abduction’s violence became mutual, one night  :

*One night, a creepy psychic feeling had prevailed, and aware of them, and their approach, he had pretended to be asleep, had gone into deep, regular breathing, and had visualized a dream he would like to be in, but instead, he had waited.

‘The wallpaper on three walls had distorted and bulged and animal-like small snouts and pear-shaped grey heads, on small creatures had waggled in rapid fashion, back and forth.

They had seemed to melt out of his bedroom walls, had stood coldly  to surround him and his bed, one close by his side, two at the footboard, and another by the doorway.

He had jumped up and had grabbed the closest one to him around the neck, had clutched the feather-like being’s back to his own chest, pinioning him.

The creature had frantically struggled to hit him with a small hand-held rod-like device, but the pillows had

prevented the creature from reaching the teenager’s body with it.’

In panic, the lightweight creature had squirmed and had thrashed in the boy’s tightening grip.

The others had in quick moves, like jumping spiders, scattered from the tight circle.

He had tightened his grip and had squeezed hard until

something brittle had snapped in the creature’s neck.’

Suddenly the scene had changed; he had seen his whole family, brother, mother and father surgically eviscerated, but alive and in tears.

On a black floor under hospital lights, had been lungs, intestines, strewn amidst their gore,  and as they had laid there amidst their organs, they had pleaded with their eyes for him to save them.

The image had been so real that it had successfully worked to confuse, startle and distract him.

He had been convinced that real harm had come to his family and he had quickly loosened his grip.

His parents  had writhed in agony, butchered horribly in front of his eyes.

There had been a dank, musty smell that had then permeated the bedroom.

The creature in his arms had, in self protection, in desperate panic to free itself,  flashed the imagery into his mind, but he had killed one of them.

They never came for him physically, after that night;  when he was safely deep within R.EM. sleep, they would tease away, vibrate his astral soul, from his body left behind in bed, in alien astral abductions, and he’d awaken with vivid screen memory “bad dreams”, feeling even more bereft, completely unable in out of body abductions, to strike  back at his tormentors.

He once read that another abductee wrote:

‘A leap in consciousness will require a dissolution and restructuring of your beliefs about the nature of reality’.

To his mind, to live unburdened by an insatiable curiosity to comprehend the mysteries of the motives and tactics of  the pilots of UFOs in our universe, was in itself, quite an amazing thing.

But her eloquent published words brought him peace:

‘The history of mankind has been punctuated by personalities who refused to be bound by the grand illusion of space and time, seekers who penetrated the limitations of space and form.’

‘Knowing that the aliens reside in a different reality explains why this whole UFO phenomenon is so slippery; we exist within a matrix of other realities all merging in one spot: the mind.’

‘Their world coexists with our own intimately intertwined and separated by the thinnest veil- our arrogant assumption that we are the sole proprietors of the only reality.’

And he knew forever, by her words, that abductees are all alone, together..

*based, in part on a Gulf Breeze account, from the sixties

{ http://thehorrormoviesblog.com/ }

13-08-2015 om 23:43 geschreven door peter  

Project Serpo – The Exchange Program Between Humans and Aliens

In 2005, an anonymous source sent a series of emails to a UFO Discussion Group led by former U.S. Government Employee Victor Martinez.

These emails detailed the existence of an Exchange Program between the U.S. Government and the Ebens – alien beings from Serpo, a planet from the Zeta Reticuli Star System. The program was thus called Project Serpo.

The source identified himself as a retired employee of the government, claiming he had participated in a special program.

The program’s origins lay with the two UFO crashes in New Mexico in 1947, the famous Roswell incident and another one in Corona. 

He claimed one extraterrestrial survived the crash and was transferred to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The other six deceased extraterrestrials were placed in a freezing facility in the same laboratory.

Establishing communications with the scientists and military personnel, the survivor provided them with the location of its home planet and continued to cooperate until its death in 1952. 

The alien provided information regarding the items found inside the crashed UFOs. One of the items was a communication device that it was allowed to use, contacting its home planet.

A meeting was set for April 1964, when an alien craft landed near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Upon retrieving the bodies of their dead comrades, the extraterrestrials engaged in an information exchange that was carried out in English, thanks to the aliens’ translation device.

One thing led to another and in 1965, the aliens accepted to take a group of humans back to their planet as part of the exchange program. 

Twelve military personnel were carefully selected for a ten year stay on Serpo. The ten men and two women were specialists in various fields and their task was to gather as much information as possible, regarding all aspects of life, society and technology on the alien planet.

They were three years late and four people short when they finally returned in 1978. Two men had died on the alien planet. One man and one woman had decided to stay. The journey to Serpo, located 37 light years from Earth, took only nine months aboard the alien craft.

They had learned that Serpo was a planet similar to our own, albeit smaller. It orbited around a binary star system and had an atmosphere similar in composition to the one on Earth. 

However, the two suns meant there were higher levels of radiation and the twelve humans had to resort to protection at all times. Two of them died from complications. The heat was extreme and it took the remaining humans several years to adjust.

Another problem was the food. The crew had taken enough food to last them for two and a half years but eventually had to resort to eating native Eben food. Anyone who’s traveled abroad knows about the serious gastrointestinal implications posed by eating local food but the human crew eventually adjusted.

Another problem was the length of the day on Serpo, which was 43 Earth hours long. Also, it never got fully dark as their night skies were dimly lit by the smaller sun. The crew had complete freedom to explore the alien planet and they were not hindered in any way.

The geology of the alien world was different; there were few mountains and no oceans. Several types of plant-like life existed but mostly near the polar area, where it was cooler. 

There were also types of animal life and some of the larger ones were used by the Ebens for work and other tasks but never as food sources. They produced their food through industrial processes, of which they had many.

The inhabitants of Serpo lived in small communities led by a large city. They lacked a central government but seemed to be doing fine without it. 

The Ebens had leadership and an army but the Earth team noticed they never used weapons of any type and violence was virtually unheard of. They had no concept of money or commerce. Every Eben was issued items in accordance with their needs.

The planet’s population was about 650,000 individuals. The human crew noted the Ebens were disciplined in all aspects of their lives, working on schedules based on the movements of their suns. There were no other civilizations on Serpo except the Ebens.

Their method of reproduction was similar to our own but it had a much lower success rate. Therefore, their children were highly isolated. 

In fact, the only problem the human crew had was when they intended to photograph Eben children. They were escorted away by the army and asked not to attempt that again.

Upon returning to Earth, the remaining eight members of the expedition were quarantined for a year. During this period, they were debriefed and the complete account amassed around 3,000 pages. 

All members of the expedition have since died from various complications due to radiation exposure. The fate of the two people who chose to remain on Serpo is unknown. The Ebens have not contacted Earth since 1985.

By Locklip

{ http://humansarefree.com/ }

13-08-2015 om 23:34 geschreven door peter  

When a 'UFO' flies by, does it bother bears?

On a completely autonomous mission, the UAV flies towards the location of a collared bear in northwestern Minnesota.

Credit: Jessie Tanner (@jessiectanner)

If an unidentified flying object suddenly appeared in the sky, it's likely your heart would beat faster. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on August 13 have found that the same is true for bears.

The UFOs in this case are actually unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which have become increasingly valuable to wildlife researchers, allowing them to observe animals, including endangered species, in their natural settings from long distances and over difficult terrain. It had appeared as though the animals were taking these encounters in stride. For instance, American black bears rarely seem to startle or run away when a UAV comes near. But the new study reveals that despite the bears' calm demeanor when in the presence of UAVs, their heart rates soar, a sign of acute stress.

"Some of the spikes in the heart rate of the bears were far beyond what we expected," says Mark Ditmer of the University of Minnesota, St. Paul. "We had one bear increase her heart rate by approximately 400 percent—from 41 beats per minute to 162 beats per minute. Keep in mind this was the strongest response we saw, but it was shocking nonetheless."

The researchers fitted free-roaming American black bears living in northwestern Minnesota with Iridium satellite GPS collars and cardiac biologgers. The collars sent the researchers an email with each bear's location every 2 minutes while the biologgers captured every heartbeat. Then Ditmer and his colleagues programmed a UAV to fly to the bear's most recent location.

In the end, the researchers were able to analyze their data very precisely to find out what hidden effect their UAV flights—which lasted only a brief 5 minutes due to battery life and other logistical constraints—might have had on the bears.

In 18 UAV flights taken in the vicinity of four different bears, individuals only twice showed any major change in their behavior in response to the UAVs. However, the biologgers revealed consistently strong physiological responses. All of the bears in the study responded to UAV flights with elevated heart rates. Fortunately, the bears recovered very quickly.

"Without the use of the biologger, we would have concluded that bears only occasionally respond to UAVs," Ditmer says.

The researchers say it will now be important to consider the additional stress on wildlife from UAV flights when developing regulations and best scientific practices. UAVs are growing in popularity for many uses in addition to research—for example, to discourage poachers and track down wildlife for ecotourists. In many countries, few rules are in place to guide UAV use.

"UAVs hold tremendous potential for scientific research and as tools for conservation," Ditmer says. "However, until we know which species are tolerant of UAVs, at what distance animals react to the presence of UAVs, and whether or not individuals can habituate to their presence, we need to exercise caution when using them around wildlife."

Ditmer and his colleagues are now working with captive bears to find out whether the animals can get used to overhead UAV flights over time and, if so, how long it takes.

Explore further: Unmanned aerial vehicles mark robotic first for British Antarctic Survey

More information: Current Biology, Ditmer et al.: "Bears Show a Physiological but Limited Behavioral Response to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.024 

{ http://phys.org/ }

13-08-2015 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

Hello Drones, Goodbye UFO Hunting

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13-08-2015 om 23:02 geschreven door peter  

WATCH: Has 'US security service jet cam recorded first ever confirmed UFO sighting'?

VIDEO alleged to have been leaked from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which shows a "UFO being tracked by thermal imaging camera" has appeared online.

13-08-2015 om 22:55 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 8/13/2015

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• In my view: The day a UFO came to Norwich – Eastern Daily Press
• WATCH: Has ‘US security service jet cam recorded first ever confirmed UFO sighting’? – Daily Express
• Hello Drones, Goodbye UFO Hunting – The Huffington Post
• The Sexy UFO Religion Behind Go Topless Day – LAist
• When a ‘UFO’ flies by, does it bother bears? – Phys.org

13-08-2015 om 22:40 geschreven door peter  

Octopus genetic code is so strange it could be an ALIEN, according to scientists

The creatures have a hugely complicated genome sequence, and have more protein-coding genes than even humans

Scientists claim a new map of the octopus genetic code has revealed a creature so strange that it could be an "alien".

The creatures have a hugely complicated genome sequence, and have more protein-coding genes than even humans.

Octopus DNA is highly rearranged - like cards shuffled and reshuffled in a pack - containing numerous so-called "jumping genes" that can leap around the genome.

US researcher Dr Clifton Ragsdale, from the University of Chicago, said: "The octopus appears to be utterly different from all other animals, even other molluscs, with its eight prehensile arms, its large brain and its clever problem-solving abilities.

"The late British zoologist Martin Wells said the octopus is an alien. In this sense, then, our paper describes the first sequenced genome from an alien."

PA

The scientists who sequenced the genome of the California two-spot octopus report their findings in the journal Nature.

They discovered unique genetic traits that are likely to have played a key role in the evolution of characteristics such as the complex nervous system and adaptive camouflage.

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Analysis of 12 different tissues revealed hundreds of octopus-specific genes found in no other animal, many of them highly active in structures such as the brain, skin and suckers.

Cephalopods, which include the octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus, are a family of predatory molluscs with an evolutionary history stretching back more than 500 million years to a time long before plants colonised the land.

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They inhabit every ocean at almost all depths and possess a range of features that call to mind sci-fi aliens.

These include prehensile sucker-lined tentacles, highly mobile, camera-like eyes sensitive to polarised light, sophisticated camouflage systems that alter skin colour and patterns, jet-propulsion, three hearts, and the ability to regenerate severed limbs.

Although the genome is slightly smaller than a human's it is packed with more genes.

It was as if the octopus genome had been "put into a blender and mixed", said co-author Caroline Albertin, also from the University of Chicago.

{ http://www.mirror.co.uk/ }

13-08-2015 om 18:46 geschreven door peter  

Strange Polymorphic Amoeba Anomaly In The Sky Over Miami, FL (Video)

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We have an intrinsic limitation in our senses that blocked us from be aware of them until somebody invented the microscope, after that we were able to know that they are thousands of different types of microorganisms, with multiple and very varied shapes, configurations, some of these shapes change like tiny amoebas. 

To be able to see some of them, virus for example, electronic microscopes are needed with very powerful magnification.

Only after the invention of the microscope we were fully aware of their existence and the overwhelming influence that these very tiny living beings have for our continual survival and in all earth biosphere.

The same can be said word by word of anomalies.

The sky produce a very strong scattering of visible light, almost a third of the sun light is scattered by the atmosphere. This “simple” phenomenon has tremendous repercussions on the topic at hand.

Because of this scattering any small semi-opaque object, let’s say one meter in dimension will be invisible to our eyesight in daylight just at a few thousands of feet in altitude, if the object is smaller or more opaque it will be “invisible” even at lower altitude.

So then this “simple” phenomenon causes a very misleading impression to anybody looking up in a clear sky, the many small and not so small objects that populate our sky: bugs, birds, drones, high altitude airplanes and other things, almost all of them are “invisible” to our senses creating in us the false impression that in a blue sky when we do not see anything then nothing is up there.

That impression has been with us all the time, since the very first humans were looking at the sky.

So we have an intrinsic limitation in our senses that had blocked us from being aware of the many different objects that populate our skies.

Now you will start seeing the parallel with the microorganisms case.

But now we have a “new” instrument that allow us to bypass that limitation in our senses, like a microscope for microorganisms, and that “new” instrument allows us to “see” almost all the little objects that populate our skies.

That new instrument is a “dual optical system”. A dual optical system is a combination of two independent optical parts.

At his point in time, my experience and knowledge tells me that without the use of a dual optical type system, anybody trying to observe the small objects in our sky will be very limited, it will be like using a loupe to observe microorganisms.

Now in the same way that by using microscopes a “new world” of life forms was open to our knowledge and study, by the systematic use of a dual optical system a “new world” is being opened to our observations and you will detect “new” objects that are not the standard ones that almost anybody will expect.

These new objects are what some of us call: anomalies or sky anomalies.

For example Unidentified Flying Objects forming digits 3 and 5.

These objects are “messages” in themselves and you can get a reply back from them, not using multi-million dollars Radio-Telescopes dishes, just simple mirror signals, a “low-tech” way to send signals in daylight that have been used for thousands of years, how ironic life can be!!

I always sent prime numbers mirror reflections to the “anomalies”, number 3 first and then number 5, the first primer numbers after 2, well this anomaly formed these two numbers: 3 and 5. Coincidence?

If these objects have an earthly origin since they appear to be in the high level of the atmosphere then they will be all over the planet because the conditions on those high levels are almost the same in any location, now if these objects are not from earth then since the universe extend in all directions, these objects will be coming from any direction at any time.

In the same way that stars are masked by the sky scattering of visible light in daylight any small object in the atmosphere is also masked. This masking effect is lower in the infrared portion of the spectrum and even lower in the short radio wave portion, so scanning the sky in the infrared or in the short radio wave (radar) portion of the spectrum is a lot more effective than scanning the sky in visible light.

Some anomalies respond with bright flashes to direct light signals in daylight or at night.

Some anomalies had responded by morphing into digit shapes correlated to the signals sent to them.

After observing anomalies systematically the idea that they are living beings is a natural one.

The videos below show some of these amazing and surprising anomalies.
 

  

By Jeremy Thomas.

Cameras used:

1- A modified LG camera, 1/3″CCD, standard definition, with 16-160mm motorized lens and 950nm pass IR filter, USB video capture card used in a PC with iSpy. Magnification up to 26x.

2- An unmodified IP camera, 1/2.5″ CCD, 5MP 2k high definition, on a 900mm Telephoto no filters. Connected to the local network and used in a PC with iSpy. Magnification: 130x

3- A SDI-HD Panasonic board camera in “prime on a Meade 1000mm short tube scope, no filters connected via coaxial cable an AJA SDI-HD video capture card on the “observing station” PC. Magnification 166x.

 

Thanks http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/

Check out more contributions by Jeffery Pritchett ranging from UFO to Bigfoot to Paranormal to Prophecy

13-08-2015 om 18:00 geschreven door peter  

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LEGENDARY NASA ASTRONAUT MAKES A SHOCKING DECLARATION THAT WILL ROCK THE WHOLE WORLD

Text “Please scroll down for video In the video below Alex Jones speaks with legendary astronaut Story Musgrave about the future and how the Obama administration is doing everything they can to destroy the American space program, NASA. But just who is Story Musgrave? “

Story never finished school, ran off to Korea with the U.S. Marines where he was an aircraft electrician and an engine mechanic. He started flying with the Marines and over the next 55 years accumulated 18,000 hours in over 160 aircraft. He is a parachutist with over 800 freefalls. He has 7 graduate degrees in math, computers, chemistry, medicine, physiology, literature and psychology. He has been awarded 20 honorary doctorates. He was a part-time trauma surgeon during his 30 year astronaut career.“

Story was an NASA astronaut for over 30 years and flew on six spaceflights. He performed the first shuttle spacewalk on Challenger’s first flight, was a pilot on an astronomy mission, conducted two classified DOD missions, was the lead spacewalker on the Hubble Telescope repair mission and on his last flight, he operated an electronic chip manufacturing satellite on Columbia.” (Read More about Story Musgrave By Clicking Here) Here is the breaking report… 

13-08-2015 om 17:54 geschreven door peter  

Wetenschappers concluderen na DNA-studie: Octopussen ‘zijn aliens’ en hebben 10.000 meer genen dan mensen

Wetenschappers hebben ontdekt dat octopussen zo vreemd zijn dat je ze eigenlijk zou kunnen zien als aliens. Na de eerste volledige genoomsequentie blijkt dat de octopus in niets lijkt op andere dieren.

Het genoom van de octopus bevat liefst 33.000 eiwitcoderende genen, 10.000 meer dan mensen. Clifton Ragsdale van de Universiteit van Chicago zei: “De octopus is met zijn acht tentakels, grote brein en probleemoplossende vermogen zo anders dan andere dieren, zelfs andere weekdieren.”

“De Britse zoöloog Martin Wells (de kleinzoon van H.G. Wells) zei dat de octopus een alien is. Je zou dus kunnen zeggen dat ons paper de eerste genoomsequentie van een alien beschrijft,” aldus Ragsdale.

De octopus gebruikt een aantal genen om van kleur te veranderen en zich zo aan te passen aan de achtergrond. “We hebben honderden nieuwe genen gevonden die andere dieren niet hebben en die mogelijk betrokken zijn bij dit unieke camouflageproces,” zei Daniel Rokshar van de Universiteit van Californië in Berkeley.

Octopussen verschenen meer dan 400 miljoen jaar geleden in de oceanen. Pas 230 miljoen jaar later kwamen de eerste zoogdieren ten tonele.

De octopus blijkt vooral veel zogeheten protocadherine-genen te hebben, die een rol spelen bij de ontwikkeling van zenuwcellen en de wisselwerking tussen neuronen. Het genoom van de octopus bevat 168 van deze protocadherine-genen; dat is 10 keer zoveel als andere ongewervelde dieren en twee keer zoveel als zoogdieren. Het onderzoek is verschenen in Nature. Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

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13-08-2015 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

Is Banbury becoming an alien hotspot? Police deal with multiple extraterrestrial reports

Thames Valley Police has responded to 15 reports of aliens and UFOs in the last four years

It may sound out of this world but Thames Valley Police has dealt with 15 reports of aliens in just four years.

Residents have spotted little green men twice in Chipping Norton - and were so concerned they called the police force for help.

All of the cases were reported between 2011 and 2014 across the force area.

They also include three sightings in neighbouring Milton Keynes, two in Oxford, five in Reading, two in Slough and one in High Wycombe.

Back in 2007, local UFO expert Michael Soper claimed Banbury and the surrounding area was becoming an alien hotspot.

“Banbury is quite active,” he said.

“There are more paranormal events here in Oxfordshire than in any other part of the country and they can be dramatic.

“We have had a landing near Wallingford.

“I think we are being visited by dimensional craft.

“I don’t know whether they come from another race of humans from another dimension.”

But the number of UFO sightings reported to police has decreased, according to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Banbury Guardian.

In 2011, Thames Valley Police received seven calls concerning aliens.

Just three years later (in 2014), the number had dropped by more than a third with only two calls reporting aliens.

But Michael, of Contact International UFO Research based in Wheatley, is expecting a boom in reports soon.

He added: “I do expect reports of sightings of UFOs to pick up because we’re coming up to a period of change in the solar cycle.

“People do still informally report sightings to us.

“Our view is that these things are happening all the time, what varies is people ability to see them and inclination to report them.

“Generally speaking Oxfordshire is very remarkable for these lights that appear in the skies.”

Many sightings of UFOs have been logged across the county in recent years.

Back in November 2013, a resident in Banbury described seeing a metallic rectangular object with a large “shark” shaped fin and bright orange light around it flying in the skies over Banbury.

They added: “It was flying from my left to right on a straight path, however once it was past the boundary of the town (on the right) it increased in speed dramatically, pitched up and to the left then down to the right in an elongated ‘S’ shape and then I lost it behind the house adjacent to the garden.

“This is not something I can logically explain away, particularly the increase in speed and the way it turned in the sky.”

Another sighting was reported in May 2012, when a man spotted a “ball of light” over the M40 which split in two and flew off towards Banbury.

In 2007, a man spotted three “bright white lights in the form of a triangle” over Chipping Norton that “shot across the sky in perfect formation” towards Oxford.

{ http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/ }

13-08-2015 om 01:54 geschreven door peter