Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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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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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.
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17-08-2015
The Ancient Giants of Nevada and the Mystery of Lovelock Cave
The Ancient Giants of Nevada and the Mystery of Lovelock Cave.
Was North America once inhabited by a race of giants? According to an old legend supported by several challenging archaeological finds, it is possible.
Many Native American tribes tell stories about the long-forgotten existence of a race of humans that were much taller and stronger than ordinary men. These giants are described as both brave and barbaric and legends often mention their cruelty towards whomever they pleased.
The Paiute, a tribe that settled in the Nevada region thousands of years ago, have an outstanding legend about a race of red-haired giants called the Si-Te-Cah. The ancestors of the Paiute described them as savage and inhospitable cannibals.
In the Northern Paiute language, ‘Si-Te-Cah’ literally means ‘tule-eaters.’ Legend has it that the giants came from a distant island by crossing the ocean on rafts built using the fibrous tule plant.
As odd as it may sound, this legend repeats itself all over the Americas, suggesting it might be an incomplete chronicle of a real event that happened long ago.
In Crónicas del Perú, sixteenth century Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León recorded an ancient Peruvian tale about the origin of the South American giants. According to legend, they “came by sea in rafts of reeds after the manner of large boats; some of the men were so tall that from the knee down they were as big as the length of an ordinary fair-sized man.”
Could the giants of Peru and the Si-Te-Cah have been survivors of a massive cataclysm who took refuge on the American continent?
Legend tells that the Si-Te-Cah waged war on the Paiute and all other neighboring tribes, spreading terror and devastation. Finally, after years of conflict, the tribes united against the common enemy and began to decimate them. The last remaining red-haired giants were chased off and sought shelter inside a cave. The tribes started a fire at the cave entrance, suffocating and burning alive the Si-Te-Cah. Those driven out by the smoke were also killed.
The tribes then sealed off the mouth of the cave so that no one might set eyes on those who had once plagued their land. They were all but forgotten until a random event brought them back to light.
In 1886, a mining engineer named John T. Reid happened to hear the legend from a group of Paiutes while prospecting near Lovelock, Nevada. The Indians told him that the legend was real and the cave was located nearby. When he saw the cave for himself, Reid knew he was onto something.
Reid was unable to begin digging himself but news spread and soon, Lovelock cave was attracting attention. Unfortunately, the attention was profit-driven as guano deposits were discovered inside. A company started by miners David Pugh and James Hart began excavating the precious resource in 1911 and had soon shipped more than 250 tons to a fertilizer company in San Francisco. Any artifacts that might have been discovered were probably neglected or lost.
After the surface layer of guano had been mined, strange objects started to surface. This led to an official excavation being performed in 1912 by the University of California and another one took place in 1924. Reports told about thousands of artifacts being recovered, some of them being truly unusual.
Although their claims have not been verified (it comes as no surprise), sources said the mummified remains of several red-haired ancient giants were found buried in the cave. Measuring between 8 to 10 feet in height, these mummies have since been referred to as the Lovelock Giants.
Another intriguing find was a pair of 15 inch-long sandals that showed signs of having been worn. Allegedly, other unusually large items were recovered but have since been locked away in museum warehouses and private collection.
A piece of evidence that remains on-site until this day is a giant hand print, embedded on a boulder inside Lovelock Cave. We won’t go into further debate pertaining to this aspect and its implications.
Needless to say, this discovery has led many into believing the Paiute legend of the Si-Te-Cah might be more than just folklore.
Around the same time as the second Lovelock Cave excavation, another dig revealed a set of equally-disturbing finds. According to a 1931 article published in the Nevada Review-Miner, two giant skeletons had been found buried in a dry lake bed close to Lovelock, Nevada. The over-sized remains measured 8.5, respectively 10 feet in height and were mummified in a manner similar to the one employed by ancient Egyptians.
Another common trait between these mummified giant remains and the ones discovered as far south as Lake Titicaca is the presence of red hair. While some scientists believe the reddish color is a result of the interaction with the environment in which they were buried, the mummies verify the legends, which described the Si-Te-Cah and their kin as red-haired giants.
Proponents of alternative history believe these violent giants were none other than the biblical Nephilim, the forsworn offspring of the ‘Sons of God’ with the ‘daughters of men.’
If this is true, there’s little chance we might get to see any of the giant mummies. Those interested in keeping history secret will never disclose their location
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Terrified Man Shoot Alien Being In Woodville Texas
Terrified Man Shoot Alien Being In Woodville Texas
TERRIFIED MAN SHOOT AN ALIEN BEING IN WOODVILLE TEXASTYLER COUNTY AIRPORT TEXAS
I began to suspect that at night “something” was coming into my apartment. So, I made a trip to Super Wal Mart and I bought 4 wildlife cameras. I read the instructions and practiced using them that entire day. By nightfall I had all 4 strategically located through the apartment and entry from the shop into the apartment. Every morning when I woke up, I grabbed a cup of coffee and then pulled the SD cards out of every camera. Every night without fail I would catch a cat or two walking in or out of apartment but I would also have 5 or 6 shots on each camera that were totally white.
The cameras had snapped pics , but again 5 or 6 would be totally white. It was as if someone had turned on the lights and then let the camera snap photos of a blank piece of white card board. I kept them up for another couple of months, moving them around, in some cases even camouflaging the cameras only allowing the motion sensor and camera lens show. Still nothing, cats, occasionally pics of nothing but a open room, then the white photos.
By this time I was living out there alone, my health had really turned to shit. I was spending a week per month in the dam hospital for my heart or other related health issues. Well one night ,at around 3 am., it seemed that a lot of crazy sightings and encounters would always occur at around 3 am.
At the time I had no idea why, but I had realized the significance in this time period. Only later did I discover why 3 AM was so important in the world of paranormal activity.
Anyway, I was sound asleep when I woke with a start. The first thing that hit me was that I was totally frozen lying in bed. I couldn’t move a muscle. Only my eyes worked. Well, at the end of my bed stood this “Being” the likes of which I had never seen or even dreamed could be possible. It stood about 6 feet tall. Its head was totally devoid of any hair. Its eyes were huge, almond shaped, and looked as if they covered most of its face, curling around the sides of its head. Where ears should have been were simply holes the diameter of a pencil, at least that’s how they appeared. Its nose was barely noticeable, just a small ridge with two holes for nostrils. Its mouth amounted to no more than a slit, no lips. Its skin color and texture was like ours, smooth and tanned in color. By this point I had gotten use to sleeping with my Glock 17 in my right hand at night, round in the chamber. I got to where I couldn’t sleep at night without the comforting feel of its stippled grip in my hand.
As I lay there , screaming in my mind at the horror that was staring down at, with all my might I mentally forced my right hand up, and aiming for its mid torso, I squeezed off one round , striking it dead center. It immediately doubled over and then in a blinding blue flash was gone and I was no longer paralyzed. I immediately jumped out of bed and turned the lights on. All over the foot of my bed, on the footboard and all over the wooden laminate flooring was a yellowish-bluish thick fluid. It was everywhere.
Evidently my 9mm round had wounded it, and confirmed to me that what I had seen wasn’t a dream, but “Real”. I thought about what had happened that night as this afternoon I was going thru my clothing and all my blazers had been hit because the 9mm round had gone completely thru the Entity and penetrated my closet door and drilled a neat hole thru dozens of shirts and suits, ruining them. The last 3 years at that cursed airport was terrifying at times. I dreaded nightfall.
NOTE: The above image is a rendering.
KENS NOTE: Special thanks to the witness Melvon Stephenson. I have been in contact with Melvon for a few years now and this is only one of many close encounters at his air port in Texas. It take a brave man to come forward and admit to alien encounters.
Something crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 68 years ago. The first military authorized press release stated, “RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region.” That’s right, the military was the first to indicate it was a flying saucer.
Roswell Headlines
Then, they quickly said that was a mistake. It was just a weather balloon. But UFO researchers were never satisfied with that answer, even decades later, and the controversy only grew.
The military later revealed that this wasn’t a simple weather balloon, but an aircraft used for clandestine purposes — part of the Army’s top secret “Project Mogul”– to monitor atomic weapon testing in the old Soviet Union. The military also claimed that crash test dummies may have been mistaken for ETs. But that explanation only stirred the controversy.
The central figure surrounding the events of the 1947 Roswell UFO issue was Maj. Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer for the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field. He was assigned the initial task of going out to the debris field to collect some of the material, described as shiny wreckage, including pieces of rubber, super-resistant tinfoil, wooden sticks and metallic-looking I-beams.
Here’s an excerpt from a 35-year-old interview conducted by this writer with Marcel, when he finally felt comfortable talking about the Roswell case more than 30 years after it happened:
We went out to the scene of where the crash was and started picking up the debris. It’s almost indescribable. It’s not the kind of material I’d ever seen in my life, nor have I seen it since. There were various types of materials which I couldn’t identify. There were little members that looked like they were made of wood, but it wasn’t wood and it had some kind of writing or hieroglyphics that I couldn’t decipher and nobody else could. It was flexible, but you couldn’t break it and you couldn’t burn it. Also, I found a piece of metal which was about the thickness of the foil in a pack of cigarettes. But the amazing part about it was you could put it on the ground, hit it with a sledge hammer and you couldn’t even put a dent in it. That astounded me and I knew it was nothing from here. I was convinced it was not from anywhere on Earth and I’m still convinced of that.
I had brought a counterintelligence man with me in a staff car plus a pickup truck. We got everything we could into that and I sent the agent back to the base. Then I filled up my car with stuff. By the time I got back home, my wife said, ‘What happened to you? There’s been a bunch of news reporters out here, wanting a picture of you.’ And I said, ‘For what?’ And there had been a public relations officer with them. He said, ‘From what happened, your husband will be very popular by tomorrow morning.’ So that’s how it all started.
What amazed me most of all was the weightlessness of all this material — it weighed nothing. I found one piece of metal — supposedly metal — which was about a foot wide and about two-and-a-half feet long. When I got back to the base, we [Marcel and several enlisted men] brought it all into a briefing room and set up a whole lot of tables there. One of the men said, ‘Let me see if I can put some of those parts together, to see what the thing might have looked like.’ He came back later and said [he tried but couldn't do it].
I consulted my CO [commanding officer], who said, ‘You better fly the thing to Wright-Patterson Air Field [Ohio]. So, we loaded up the whole thing — which was not a whole lot of material — onto a B-29. We had only picked up one small fraction of what was out there. It was scattered over such an area about three-quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide. We’d been there all day, picking up the fragments.
I asked my CO if it was a better idea to stop at Carswell [Air Force Base] at Fort Worth and consult General Ramey and he said, ‘Yes, you better do that.’ When I got to Fort Worth, I talked it over with the general, and he told me, ‘Don’t open your mouth to the press. Put some stuff on the floor and let them take a picture of it.’ But I was careful not to put out anything with detail on it. So they took pictures, and one picture appeared in the papers.
Gen. Ramey told news reporters this was nothing but a crashed weather balloon, but I do know this: later on, Ramey wanted to cover his statement up, because he didn’t know, himself, what it was. I went back to Roswell to resume my duties, but what they did at Carswell was to make a mock display with a battered weather balloon and they let the press take pictures of that. The whole thing was a cover-up to begin with and that was the last I heard of it.
I know it was not a weather balloon and I’d swear it on the biggest bible. It wasn’t a missile or any part of an aircraft that we know of.
Crash Debris
To mark the crash anniversary, Michael Donovan of OuterPlaces.com joined us on the HuffPost Weird News Podcast to discuss Roswell’s unanswered questions.
Two years ago, Donovan was standing in the Roswell crash debris field along with Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., a highly decorated military flight surgeon.
“It was a moving experience because we’re out on the site and this large thunderstorm was moving toward us — you could see lightning flashing — and he’s standing there with his Iraq war veteran hat on and said, ‘This is amazing. Sixty-six years ago, my father was standing on this very site,’” said Donovan.
“His father had loaded debris into his car, drove back to Roswell, stopping at his house, and showed his wife and son, Jesse Jr., the material after spreading it out on the kitchen floor,” said Donovan. “Here’s a guy — a doctor, a flight surgeon — why would he make up an experience he had in the middle of the night when he was 11 years old? So, when we were standing there at the crash site, I asked him, ‘When they loaded that plane up and flew it to Fort Worth, what happened to it?’ And he said, ‘You know what? I don’t know.’ But he said the base commander’s secretary, a few years ago before she retired, showed somebody a box of stretchy stuff that, if you crushed it, it would pop open. Jesse Jr. said to me, ‘I think that stuff must still be somewhere around, in the military’s possession.’”
Donovan says his belief in UFOs and a possible cover-up surrounding the Roswell UFO incident never gets in the way of his work — which includes co-designing the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
“No, not at all. It goes back to the idea of being on a quest, being a problem-solver, and that’s what designers do. We solve problems. In the reading of science fiction, you begin on a path to discovery. That’s what we do every day and it’s really that kind of interest — learning new things — that put me on the path that I’m now on, relative to OuterPlaces.com.
“In my own mind, I keep trying to create some kind of balance between what I think is a certain appropriate level of secrecy. We’re adults in this country, by and large, and I think the government owes us as much information and let us make up our own minds.”
Here are some unanswered questions that continue to surround the 1947 Roswell UFO crash incident:
What exactly crashed there in 1947? Was it a weather balloon, high altitude spy device, extraterrestrial craft? Did the military switch materials that Maj. Marcel brought back from the debris field and, instead, allow the press to take pictures of an actual battered weather balloon? If the crash site debris wasn’t really a weather balloon, where did the real stuff end up? Why would the military decide to even issue a press release about a captured flying saucer? Related to the above question, why would the military suddenly change the story from flying saucer to weather balloon?li Why did the military hire a local Roswell mortician to make child-sized caskets following the UFO debris retrieval? Why did Jesse Marcel Sr. wait more than 30 years before finally revealing his part in the Roswell UFO events? If true, why would the U.S. government want to cover up such a monumental event as the crash of an alien ship? This weekend’s 20th Roswell UFO festival takes off full blast today with speakers giving their presentations at different locations simultaneously. If lectures don’t fit your fancy, there’s always the alien pet and alien costume contests and a UFO festival light parade to check out.
It’s fair to say that something happened outside Roswell in 1947 that literally put the town on the map. The debris is long gone, but the reverberations have never stopped.
Whatever it was, after almost 70 years, it still depends on whom you ask or what you read, and whether you believe them.
A 1997 CNN-Time poll showed that 80 percent of Americans think the government is hiding information about the existence of alien life forms, and nearly two-thirds of the poll respondents believed that a UFO crashed outside Roswell in 1947.
The public rarely hears about interactions between military personnel and unexplained aircraft — especially during wartime.
As time goes on, however, UFO stories stuck behind red tape begin to see the light of day. The Vietnam War saw its share of UFO activity in the 1960s.
One close encounter, in 1968, involved the crew of an American patrol boat that reported two glowing circular craft following them in the demilitarized zone that separated North and South Vietnam (see depiction below).
The crew aboard a second patrol boat later reported seeing the UFOs over the first boat and a flash of light, followed by an explosion that completely destroyed the boat. These Vietnam reports included close observation of the unknown aerial craft which appeared to house pilots (see recreation image at the top of this story).
Wartime UFO stories are recreated in the premiere episode of the second season of History’s “Hangar 1: The UFO Files.” The accounts are drawn from tens of thousands of UFO cases in the archives of the Mutual UFO Network, the world’s largest UFO investigation group.
“The military was interested in [UFOs] because they had capabilities far above anything that we had, and they wanted to find out what the technology was and, frankly, who they belonged to,” according to former Air Force intelligence officer, Capt. George Filer.
While in Vietnam, Filer — who had a top secret clearance — gave daily briefings to Gen. George S. Brown, deputy commander for air operations in Vietnam.
“Frequently, the Vietcong or North Vietnamese would be attacking an outpost and I would explain that, and we would have ground-air support, particularly at night where we’d go in there with these gun ships, and I would give briefings on all of that,” Filer told The Huffington Post. “Some of the time, there would be unidentified craft over the DMZ.”
Filer described a typical report that he’d receive and which he included in his briefings to Brown:
“You’d have an aircraft flying along, doing around 500 knots and a UFO comes alongside and does some barrel rolls around the aircraft and then flies off at three times the speed of one of the fastest jets we have in the Air Force. So, obviously, it has a technology far in advance of anything we have.
“I would be told this unofficially. People tell you a lot of things that they don’t put in writing or sign their name to. There was always this part of UFOs that, if you got too interested, it could mess up your career. And this is true today even with commercial pilots. I’ve also heard from people serving in Afghanistan saying they’ve seen UFOs, and the Iranian news carries UFO reports pretty regularly.”
During a 1973 press conference, five years after the patrol boat UFO encounters, Brown — as USAF chief of staff — was asked about the Air Force’s position on UFOs:
I don’t know whether this story has ever been told or not. They weren’t called UFOs. The were called enemy helicopters. And they were only seen at night and they were only seen in certain places. They were seen up around the DMZ in the early summer of ’68. And this resulted in quite a little battle.
And in the course of this, an Australian destroyer took a hit and we never found any enemy, we only found ourselves when this had all been sorted out. And this caused some shooting there, and there was no enemy at all involved, but we always reacted.
Always after dark, the same thing happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands in ’69.
Many stories about battling UFOs have emerged throughout history.
One early account of UFO warfare was supposedly seen by the citizens of Nuremberg, Germany, in 1561. On a morning in April, the Nuremberg Gazette reportedly described an aerial battle between large “cylindrical shapes from which emerged black, red, orange and blue-white spheres that darted about… All these elements started to fight one against the other.” An artist, Hans Glaser, created a woodcut of the spectacle, seen below:
During World War II, also in Germany, Allied aircraft pilots often reported mysterious glowing, fast-moving, circular lights, which were dubbed Foo Fighters. The New York Times reported it as “military slang for flying saucers.”
Filer — who documents his sightings and other UFO news at the National UFO Center site — was one of several military eyewitnesses to something extraordinary in the sky over England. It was 1962, and he was the navigator on a refueling tanker.
“We were out over the North Sea when London Control called and asked if we would be willing to intercept an unidentified that was over Oxford and the Stonehenge area. We had just finished up our refueling mission, so we said sure, and they cleared all the traffic around us and gave us top priority as we descended towards the UFO. All they really had was a very large radar return, but it was much bigger than a normal aircraft.”
Filer (pictured above) recalled how his radar scope indicated the UFO was as big as the huge Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland that he and his crew often used as a regular navigation point.
“The ‘thing’ was at 1,000 feet and we were descending from 32,000 feet. We picked up this huge radar return while we were still about 30 miles out. It was dark out and when we got much closer to the object, we saw lights around it, outlining the shape of a cylinder, like a cruise ship. It then just quickly rose and went up into space.
“We were pretty sure we’d just seen a UFO.”
Filer also told HuffPost that he has heard from air traffic controllers who claimed they were told to “always divert aircraft away from UFOs and deny that it existed. I think they want this whole situation to go away, and I think [the policy] is coming from the National Security Council — they’re at the highest level. It sounds funny, but presidents don’t always know what their National Security Council is doing.”
Upcoming episodes of “Hangar 1″ over the next 12 weeks will focus on folks who’ve held military positions and are willing to come forward and tell their stories.
One of those (hold onto your hats) is a man who claims he was in the Marines (wait for it…) and that he was stationed on Mars for several years. That’s right: the red planet Mars. He’ll describe being part of an off-planet military force. Let’s not pass judgment…yet.
There’s also the story of a retired Army sergeant who says he was assigned to UFO crash and retrieval cases where both ships and ET bodies were supposedly recovered — some dead, some alive.
In case you were wondering, Hangar 1 is an actual hangar where MUFON, for a long time, stored all of its archives. At one point, all of the organization’s files were housed in this airport hangar somewhere in the middle of the country. The images of Hangar 1 that appear in the series are of the real hangar.
A group of UFO Researchers from (SCU) The Scientific Coalition of UFOlogy, with extensive backgrounds in science, have come together to analyze an alleged UFO video from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The object in the video was captured by a thermal imaging camera on a DHS aircraft, in Aguadilla Puerto Rico. According to the researchers, it exhibits characteristics that cannot be explained by any known aircraft, military device or natural phenomenon.
The video is overlaid with the type of telemetry one would expect from a military or law enforcement thermal imaging video. It shows an object moving very quickly over land and then off into the distance. It seems to be ignoring gravity as it tumbles and changes shape, moving over buildings and through trees at speeds estimated to be between 40-120mph. Then it gets even more bizarre. The object appears to dip in and out of the ocean without slowing down or causing any signs of interaction with the water, and at the end of the video it is either joined by another object or broken into two.
All of the primary witnesses have requested anonymity. However, several communications from alleged DHS employees indicate that the video caused quite a stir on the base. In our current scientific understanding, when an object travels close to the surface of water, it leaves a wake trailing it. All friction must oppose motion and generate heat, right? This is not the case here. There is no splash and there is no wake. Even when using a military grade “stack” tool and the ImageJ Program, researchers analyzing each 0.01 frame were still unable to find any sign of heat transferring to the water. This craft was not creating friction, thus defying the laws of physics.
A still of the Leaked UFO video in which the object is flying through trees
Research on the video began when an acquaintance to the pilot of the aircraft that captured the video contacted Daina Chaviano, a famous Cuban-born fantasy and science fiction author. She is also a volunteer with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in Florida, where in her spare time she investigates UFO reports. She took the UFO case to her colleague, Morgan Beall, who runs the Florida MUFON chapter.
Chaviano and Beall were so impressed by what they saw, that they assembled a small group of skeptical researchers with backgrounds in various fields of science and technology. The pilot’s acquaintance requested strict control of the information provided and that knowledge of the investigation be limited to a very few people, so until now, the researchers have not shared any information regarding their investigation.
Yesterday, the group released a 161-page report detailing their findings.
The object was filmed over Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. (Credit: Google Maps)
They are vague when it comes to the identity of Chaviano’s informant. They say this person and others who provided information wanted to remain anonymous “to ensure no issues arise with the source’s employers.”
However, the group says: “The source of this video evidence was vetted and identified.”
They say they are absolutely certain that the video is genuine and the information comes from sources on board the DHS aircraft. Their investigation also confirmed their sources told them that the UFO incident began at about 9:20 PM on the evening of April 25, 2013 at the Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It involved the crew of a DHC-8 Turboprop aircraft from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a division of DHS.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bombardier DHC-8Q200. (Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
The DHC-8 took off on a routine flight and soon after takeoff they noticed “a pinkish to reddish light over the ocean that was in their vicinity and approaching toward the south.”
The crew was concerned the tower had not told them about the incoming traffic, so they called it in. The tower told them they also had a visual on the object, but they were unsure of its identity.
Once the object got close to land, its lights turned off, but at this time the DHC-8 was able to begin tracking and filming the object with their onboard thermal imaging system. The DHC-8 did not approach the object, but circled the area and filmed it.
The DHC-8 did not pick up the object on radar. However, their radar was looking downward to track ships on the ocean, not objects in the sky.
According to the source, a flight was delayed by the presence of the object. The research group was able to confirm from airport records that a FedEx flight scheduled to leave at 9:10 pm was delayed until 9:26 pm.
Image of the flight log from the UFO reporting showing the a delayed flight at the time of the UFO event. (Credit: SCU)
The researchers also confirmed the flight time and path of the DHC-8 via radar data obtained from a Freedom of Information Act Request to the U.S. Air Force 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron (RADES) group. The radar data confirmed that the DHC-8 took off at approximately 9:16 pm and circled the airport twice before leaving the area about 10 minutes later.
Flight path of the DHC-8 according to the radar data obtained via a Freedom of Information Act Request. (Credit: SCU)
The researchers note that there was an unknown object or objects tracked on radar a few minutes prior to the DHC-8’s take off, but it is not known for certain that this was the same object that was later caught on video. The unidentified radar strikes were just off the shore to the north and northwest of the airport and lasted about 16 minutes from 8:58 pm to 9:14 pm.
When reading the times, the radar data is presented in a different time zone than the local times. The researchers explained this on their website: “Aviation times reflect Zulu time which corresponds to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The video displays the Zulu time April 26th at 1:22 AM at the top left of the initial frames. Converting this Zulu time to Puerto Rico’s local time gives April 25th at 9:22 PM. Puerto Rico uses Atlantic Standard Time and does not use daylight savings time.”
The research group also thoroughly analyzed the video to determine the nature of the object in the film. They consulted thermal imaging experts to determine the capabilities of the system used for the filming, and broke the film down frame by frame to determine the object’s approximate size, speed, temperature and flight path.
The video (seen at the top of the story) is just under 4 minutes long, but the unknown object was tracked for about 2 1/2 of those minutes. Although it was difficult for the group to calculate the exact location of the object on the first half of its flight, they are confident of its position in the second half.
They have determined that the object came in from the ocean, from the north or northwest of the airport’s airstrip, and then flew over the airstrip, then turned back to the north and headed back out into the ocean.
This is the estimated flight path of the unknown object. The thinner lines estimate possible paths of the object in the first part of its flight. The thicker line shows the path the researchers believe is most likely. The researchers are more confident of the location of the object during the second half of its flight. This data corresponds with what the SCU researchers found. (Credit: SCU)
As can be seen in the map created by the researchers, the DHC-8 was circling the airport as the aircraft was moving along the shore, turning to the south, and eventually disappearing into the ocean to the South.
The flight path of the DHC-8 during the filming of the unknown object posted on Reddit by an anonymous user. This path was calculated using the data in the video. It is marked “heli,” because the Reddit user believed the aircraft to be a helicopter and was unaware it was a DHC-8.
The report states: “The object was between three to five feet in length and its speed varied between approximately 40 mph to 120 mph. Its median speed was roughly 80 mph.”
The report goes on to note that an interesting characteristic at the end of the flight was when it apparently submerged into the ocean, traveled for over half a mile, and then flew back out.
According to the report: “Its speed through the water reached a high of 95 mph and average 82.8 mph.”
The unknown object making its way into the ocean.
One suggestion has been that the object was merely a balloon. However, the researchers reject this idea for several reasons. They say the wind speeds at the time were 8 to 13 mph at ground level and 12 to 18 mph at 400 to 3200 feet. This means the object was moving too fast to be carried by wind currents. It also changed directions from heading south back to the north, and it went underwater with minimal loss of speed.
Another possibility is that the object was actually a bird. The object appears dark on the screen, and for this type of thermal imaging that would mean it was warmer than the ambient air. This is how a bird would appear. However, the researchers note that the object was moving much too fast to be a bird. They note that peregrine falcons, which do occasionally visit Puerto Rico, have an average horizontal speed of 40 to 56 mph, and a maximum of 65 to 69 mph.
The researchers also examined the possibility that the object was a drone. Their research did discover that the Navy is working on a drone that can fly through the air and dive into the ocean and become a submarine. It is called a “Flimmer.”
They found that current Flimmer drones have not been tested underwater and have an airspeed of 68 mph. They also noted that the fastest known underwater battery powered torpedo travels at 50 mph.
The researchers do acknowledge that it could be possible that the Navy is secretly testing a Flimmer drone that is much more advanced. However, they question why the military would so recklessly test it over a civilian area and airport runways.
In conclusion they state: “There is no explanation for an object capable of traveling under water at over 90 mph with minimal impact as it enters the water, through the air at 120 mph at low altitude through a residential area without navigational lights, and finally to be capable of splitting into two separate objects. No bird, no balloon, no aircraft, and no known drones have that capability.”
A still image from the video just as we begin to see two separate objects.
They do not profess to know what the object was, and they welcome “reasonable” suggestions.
However, as to be expected, there are those who have suggested “they know” the object is extraterrestrial in nature, and at least one of those suggestions has come from an anonymous source who has intimate knowledge of this event.
An anonymous letter was sent to one of the researchers that is very similar to one that was sent to John Greenewald, owner of the website TheBlackVault.com. The only thing Greenewald knew about the video was related to a low resolution copy that was leaked to a Puerto Rican UFO researcher. Many assumed the video was taken from a helicopter.
The letter references the exact type of thermal system and aircraft that was used to capture the video. The message was accompanied by a high resolution version of the thermal video, which was then posted on YouTube by Greenewald. The anonymous letter states: “Alien technology is no doubt under the ocean near Puerto Rico!”
Is alien technology being demonstrated in this video? This careful report, which the researchers say took over 1000 man hours to complete, indicates that whatever took place, it is certainly unusual. The entire report is 161 pages long, and thoroughly explains their work, and how they came to the conclusions they did.
The report on the Puerto Rico incident can be found at ExploreSCU.org
Even if the report had come to a mundane conclusion, the effort put into the investigation is remarkable. However, the fact that they could not determine what the object was, and have determined that it displayed characteristics which cannot be explained, makes the report remarkable.
Robert Powell, a retired engineer who worked in the semiconductor industry and helped author the research paper, says although they have finally released their report, “work on this video will continue.”
Powell, Beall, Chaviano, and the rest of the researchers working on the report posted a high resolution version of the video, their report, and an animation of the radar data they obtained on a website called the Scientific Coalition for Ufology.
Powell says they have reached out to other scientific organizations that have shown an interest in the UFO phenomenon, including 3AF Sigma2, a group that is part of the French National Aeronautical and Astronautical Association. The French scientists have agreed to review their work and provide input.
Powell says, “We hope that this report will generate ideas and thoughts from other scientists that may provide more insight into the characteristics of the object seen in the video.”
We are looking forward to getting more involved and providing additional details as soon as they are available.
To download the report, view the video, and find out more about the investigation, visit: ExploreSCU.org & OpenMinds.tv
The Hoia Baciu Forest: UFO Hotspot, Haunted, Or Both?
When most people think of Transylvania, their minds conjure up images of castles, Dracula, and other vampire happenings. More recently however, Transylvania has become known for its Hoia Baciu Forest. Some people have gone as far as to state that this forest is the “Bermuda Triangle” of Romania.
Located just outside the city of Cluj Napoca, one of the historical regions of Transylvania, the Hoia Baciu Forest originally gained notoriety outside of Romania when a biologist, Alexandru Sift, took a picture of a disc shaped UFO in the forest whilst on a scientific research trip in 1968.
The UFO sightings that have occurred in the forest are further fueled by the fact that there is a large clearing in the forest that is in the shape of an almost perfect circle. Nothing grows in this area of the forest, and it’s termed as a “dead vegetation” zone.
Soil samples have been taken from this clearing and analyzed. The results of these tests show no reason why vegetation shouldn’t grow in this area of the forest. Many Ufologists speculate that this clearing could be a landing zone for UFO’s.
The locals believe that the clearing is the home of the ghosts that haunt the forest. Numerous photographs have been taken at the clearing that appear to show floating shapes and the outlines of human beings. These photographs may add credence to the claims of the townspeople.
The people who live around the forest believe that if they enter the forest they will not come out. According to a local legend the forest is actually named after a shepherd that disappeared in the forest along with his 200 sheep.
Their fear may be well founded. There are stories of people disappearing in the forest and when they come out, they have no memory of what happened.
One such story is that of a 5 year old child that disappeared in the forest. She re-appeared 5 years later wearing the same clothes, which were like new, and that she had no memory of what happened to her during the time she was gone. This has led to some people believing that the forest may be a gateway to another dimension.
Another local legend surrounding the forest claims that the forest houses the spirits of murdered villagers who have been trapped in the forest and are unable to cross over. To add validity to this legend, there have been many people who have visited the forest that report hearing disembodied voices and that have witnessed ghostly heads of people floating among the trees.
To add fuel to the fire, many of the trees in the forest are distorted, twisted, and misshapen to the point they resemble something out of a nightmare. This chilling landscape does little to calm anyone who dares to walk among the trees.
In fact, there have been numerous reports of people being physically harmed in the forest. Their injuries have included rashes, feelings of nausea, period of vomiting, burns, scratches and extreme anxiety, just to name a few.
However the forest, especially the barren circle shaped clearing is also the subject of intense interest for paranormal investigators. During a season of the television show, Destination Truth, one of the cameramen while filming in the circle was violently attacked and thrown to the ground by something unseen and unknown.
People who live near the forest have reported seeing unexplainable flashes of light, orbs, and other strange things occurring in the area. In addition, when a thermal imaging camera is used on the alleged orbs that seem to flit through the trees, no heat signature is apparent.
Paranormal investigators who’ve ventured into the forest have reported equipment malfunctions when close to the forest and attribute the equipment problems as being a sign of paranormal activity.
There have also been reports of people remembering all of their past experiences and then forgetting them immediately upon leaving the forest.
The Hoia Baciu Forest is undoubtedly a mysterious and fascinating place and although we cannot say for sure that all the reported phenomena are true, we can certainly say that if one is brave enough, they should travel to Transylvania and try to discover what’s really going on in one of the most haunted forests in the world.
So is the forest a UFO hot spot, haunted, or both?
Glowing UFO in Russia: Did It Cause THUNDERSTORM after Its Appearance?
Glowing UFO in Russia: Did It Cause THUNDERSTORM after Its Appearance?
Several UFO researchers present a different point of views throughout history. There are numerous myths, legends, and also testimonies regarding strange property observed in the sky or even beings that originated within to aid the human race evolve civilization. Since contemporary scholars can’t straight look into the information of these tales, it’s difficult to determine when they are correct reports associated with right activities. Many ufologists, therefore, concentrate on studying reports beginning in this millennium. But did they find something about the glowing light that allegedly caused the thunderstorm?
One resident claimed to spot a weird bright light hovering above the woodland for fifteen minutes before he filmed it from two distinct angles in the skier nearby Moscow. Of course, the video was being uploaded on the YouTube for the public to state. In the footage, one voice of a girl was heard before the object shoots off. The report has been translated from Russian reports, and the family emphasized that they watched the footage for about fifteen minutes. At first, their assumptions were different. But, when they realize something different, the object began to take off. The weather at the time of sighting was just fine. In fact, it wasn’t raining. Unfortunately, when the strange object disappeared, the rain poured immediately, and the storm began.
Some suggested the appearance of the object near storm was ball lightening. It is an unexplained natural electrical phenomenon where the balls of the luminous light of different sizes are seen soaring in the air for a longer time than a typical lightning bolt. But Scott Waring, the alien researcher, believes the orb was noticeable for too long for it to be considered as a ball lightning. He claimed that the mysterious object had shown signs of intelligent movements. He further added that it had a second light ring around it in one image
The International Space Station (ISS) is an engineering marvel and a true example of what countries of the world can accomplish when working together. The International Space Station is a joint project of the USA, Russia, Japan, Canada, and several European countries. The purpose is to provide experimentation in space. The ISS has had minimal testing to date, but that is about to change with the addition of the Columbus module (with the STS-122 Shuttle launch) on December 6, 2007.
When footage of a luminous object hovering over the ISS, it warrants the presumption that aliens are keeping their eyes on humans, hence feared the latter. The footage also implies that the humans are not only monitored, but even the government officials or NASA is deliberately trying to conceal the information to humans. The image of the strange luminous object was being captured on NASA’s live stream. As per the one minute clip, it shows that as the camera pans across, the ISS appears to be a tiny pink dot that is lurking above. Apparently, the small dot has caused quite a buzz online because people were talking about the intelligent life of aliens.
One YouTube user named Streetcap1 uploaded the video stream on the Social Media, labelling the description that the odd object is a spaceship. However, NASA intentionally changed the direction of the camera to lessen its sighting.
The video has already reached 180,000 views and has been the subject of several debates over the nature of the object. According to one commenter, if you are currently searching for Aliens, you need to understand that there are possibilities of the paranormal like interdimensional travels. According to some rumors, there are numerous alien races around Earth. But not everyone was jumping on the strange bandwagon. Other, other skeptical commenters, more rational explanations have been suggested, and it cautioned others from believing the spurious conspiracy theory.
However, interruptions of the video stream are common with NASA footage. In fact, after the video feed was interrupted, a message explained that NASA was experiencing a temporary signal or switching cameras.
US Government Confirms That This UFO Footage is REAL [VIDEO]
US Government Confirms That This UFO Footage is REAL [VIDEO]
Gepubliceerd op 14 aug. 2015
US government confirms that this UFO footage is REAL
A video showing a UFO coming out of the sea and apparently splitting in two is alleged to belong to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
A group called the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU), claims the footage was captured by a DHS aircraft.
They claim they were given the thermal video by a "official source."
In the footage the UFO flies at high speed past the screen.
The SCU say the image could not be a drone, bird, balloon on another aircraft.
They estimate the UFO was travelling at around 90mph under water and 120mph in the air.
The former head of the British Government's UFO Project, Nick Pope said the footage was 'fascinating.'
"Assuming the video isn't a clever hoax - which is always a possibility these days - it's a fascinating piece of footage," he told The Express.
"About the only conventional explanation that might fit the bill is that this is some new drone, but the entry and exit from the sea and the apparent splitting in two of the object makes even this explanation seem unlikely."
He said the footage was the kind which get experts excited, and that he would be watching developments on the video 'with interest.'
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Our Solar System May Have Had A Fifth 'Giant' Planet
Our Solar System May Have Had A Fifth 'Giant' Planet
The missing planet bumped into Neptune before disappearing into the abyss of space, according to a new study.
Artist's impression of the missing gas giant planet that may have been ejected from the early solar system. | Southwest Research Institute
The four gas giant planets in our solar system -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune -- may have a long-lost relative. According to a new study, our system was once home to a fifth gas giant that suddenly vanished some 4 billion years ago after a run-in with Neptune.
Indirect evidence for this lost world is seen in a strange cluster of icy objects -- called the "kernel" -- in the Kuiper Belt. That's the vast region of primordial debris that encircles the sunbeyond the orbit of Neptune.
For the study, Nesvorny created computer simulations of Neptune and the "kernel" cluster as they were 4 billion years ago in the early solar system. At the time, the cluster is believed to have been in Neptune's gravitational grasp. But then, according to the simulations, something happened to cause the cluster to escape Neptune's gravitational pull -- placing the cluster and Neptune in their present locations.
This is where the lost planet comes in: the simulations suggest that it must have been another gas giant that bumped Neptune and caused it and the "kernel" to part ways.
"The location and magnitude of Neptune's jump obtained in this model matches quite nicely the pattern that is needed for the formation of the 'kernel,'" Nesvorny told The Huffington Post in an email.
And according to the simulations, the planet couldn't have been one of the worlds currently in our solar system. The mysterious planet may have been ejected from the solar system after encountering Neptune.
In 2011, Nesvorny authored a previous study -- which involved thousands of computer simulations -- that suggested that the best way to explain the current orbits of the solar system's four giant planets was to include a missing fifth planet.
"I tend to believe that it may be very difficult to find any evidence for the fifth planet," Nesvorny said in the email. "I started looking into [the] formation of the Kuiper Belt, because I was worried that the orbital structures seen there are inconsistent with my model. Now I realized that the opposite may be true. It was certainly a surprise."
What do other scientists think of Nesvorny's new study?
While it's not a "discovery," per se, it's a milestone that will no doubt lead to many new findings about the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system.
The massive black holes, which are 10 billion times the size of the sun, are located over 300 million light years away.
Europa's 'Great Lakes'
Scientists had long-thought that a large body of water existed under the surface of Europa, Jupiter's moon, but it was thought to be tens of miles below an icy crust.
In November, though, astronomers analyzing data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft found evidence that suggests blocks of ice interact with water below the surface, which could mean that nutrients and energy are moving between the underground ocean and icy shell.
NASA's Voyager probes -- launched over 30 years ago -- found huge magnetic "bubbles" at the edge of the solar system.
"The sun's magnetic field extends all the way to the edge of the solar system," astronomer Merav Opher of Boston University said in a NASA statement. "Because the sun spins, its magnetic field becomes twisted and wrinkled, a bit like a ballerina's skirt. Far, far away from the sun, where the Voyagers are, the folds of the skirt bunch up."
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977. Voyager 1 is currently 11 billion miles away and may exit our solar system within the next few years.
"This tells a slam-dunk story that water flowed through underground fractures in the rock," Steve Squyres, a planetary scientist at Cornell University and the principal investigator for Opportunity said in a NASA statement.
While the planets are too close to their sun-like star to harbor life as we know it, the discovery proved that the Kepler spacecraft was capable of spotting planets that are Earth-size, and brings us one step closer to finding a true Earth twin.
The Orion Spacecraft: One Step Closer to a Mars Mission .
The Orion Spacecraft: One Step Closer to a Mars Mission
SPACE MISSIONS - The Orion Spacecraft is a capsule designed to carry humans deep into our solar system and return them safely to Earth. A basic prototype of the capsule has now been launched for a (very) short trip into deep space, without any passengers on board.
With this launch, NASA wanted to test some of the riskiest steps in an Orion flight, such as separations, radiation effects, and re-entry into the atmosphere. After a successful flight and landing in the ocean, the capsule was picked up by a special amphibious ship and brought back to NASA for analysis.
The most remarkable thing about this first Orion mission is the use of old models and technology. The Orion resembles the 1960s Apollo missions both in design and contents. The capsule has the same cone shape and is equipped with a computer that is ancient by the standards of today’s average computer owner. The heat shields are basically made from familiar 1960s material as well. NASA explains all this by saying that this older technology is simply safer and more robust than newer inventions.
As the final product, Orion will allow four people to travel in deep space for up to 21 days. More people can come along, but then the maximum travel time will be less because they will run out of resources more quickly. Orion can bring man to the Moon again, or to an - at this point still imaginary - Mars Transfer System. The next Orion test is scheduled for 2018.
Now what does this first Orion mission really tell us? If you are a realist, you will say that we are still a very far from being able to visit Mars. Orion is far from finished, and it will take us no further than to a Mars Transfer System, that hasn’t been built yet. If you are a Moon landing sceptic, you now have to admit that we could actually have been to the Moon. Orion partly demonstrates that such a mission is possible with 1960s technology.
But if you are open to alternative versions of human history, you may once again wonder if this is new at all. Are we the first ones to come up with the idea of building such a capsule for space travel? Ancient archeological finds include images that are remarkably similar to today’s capsule and astronauts. Could the same scene have taken place in ancient times? Did either humans or aliens figure out how to build and use such a capsule before?
INCREDIBLE STRUCTURE ON MARS PROVES THE RED PLANET WAS INHABITED IN THE DISTANT PAST
INCREDIBLE STRUCTURE ON MARS PROVES THE RED PLANET WAS INHABITED IN THE DISTANT PAST
Does this incredible structure on Mars prove our neighbouring planet was inhabited in the distant past by intelligent beings? It is a possibility according to researchers and UFOlogists. What if Mars was inhabited and we are looking at the remains of a once great civilization?
Another image of NASA's Curiosity rover has been shared on social media and it's going viral, the image seems to show what appears to be the remains of some sort of cube-shaped structure on the surface of the red planet. According to UFO hunters and UFOlogists, the image shows an artificially made structure on the surface of the red planet.
Here is the link to the OFFICIAL RAW image by NASA: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00744/mcam/0744ML0032000030205753E01_DXXX.jpg
And the image:
This is the closeup of the image. Notice how the image appears to be perfectly shaped compared to the remaining scenery. Was it some sort of Cube-shaped structure?
People who have taken time to analyze the image suggest it is very different from the surrounding Martian geology and doesn't belong, in any way to the remaining scenery. But what are we looking at here? This structure is believed to be what remains of a once great Martian building, one that has been built by a civilization that could probably predate our very own.
Does this mean there was definitely life on Mars? WEll no, since many "experts" suggest that what er are seeing in these images beamed back by NASA's curiosity rover are the results of Pareidolia and that we tend to make stuff like this up in our minds. But what if it isn't just Pareidolia? What if this structure, like many other are evidence of an ancient Martian Civilization.
So if these are the remains of structures on Mars, what happened to its once "great Civilization"? According to Dr John Brandenburg , who has a PhD in Theoretical Plasma Physics from the University of California at Davis and he is currently working as a plasma physicist at Orbital Technologies in Madison Wisconsin, the Martian Civilization was wiped from the face of Mars by nuclear Bombs. According to Dr John Brandenburg, there is enough evidence to prove that at least two major nuclear blast went off on the surface of the red planet in the distant past. Dr. Brandenburgs theories are based on the traces of uranium and thorium that have been registered on the surface of Mars.
Pareidolia or life on mars? It's hard to pick out one out of these two. NASA's curiosity rover has certainly sent back some images that are extremely strange and that seem to point towards the existence of an ancient civilization on Mars? But if there was life on Mars, why hide it? Would NASA and other agencies try to hide such an important discovery if they were to make it? How much would our lives change if we were to find out that Mars was inhabited by intelligent beings in the distant past?
Let us know what you think about this image and life on Mars.
Despite populating vast swaths of the planet, and appropriating large amounts natural resources in order to survive, human beings are no more likely to survive a mass extinction event than rare or endangered species, scientists say.
A team from the University of Leeds examining the effects of mass extinctions found that widespread species, like humans, are just as likely to become extinct as less populous ones.
This contrasts with regular circumstances, where a populous species is more likely to survive than a rare or endangered one.
The team of scientists examined the fossil records of vertebrates from the Triassic and Jurassic periods – 252 to 145 million years ago. During this period a mass extinction thought to have been caused by a volcanic eruption wiped out almost 80 percent of all living species and gave rise to the dinosaurs.
Scientists Alex Dunhill and Matthew Wills from the university looked at the distribution of species and the ways they changed during the time periods. They then compared their results with the changes in overall biodiversity and gathered information on the extinction risk of species.
They found that the extinction of many groups of crocodile-like animals led to the rise of the dinosaurs.
“The fact that the insurance against extinction given by a wide geographic distribution disappears at a known mass extinction event is an important result. Many groups of crocodile-like animals become extinct after the mass extinction event at the end of the Triassic era, despite being really diverse and widespread beforehand. In contrast, the dinosaurs which were comparatively rare and not as widespread pass through the extinction event and go on to dominate terrestrial ecosystems for the next 150 million years,” Dunhill said.
Their results were published in the journal Nature Communications, and suggest that mass extinctions “shake up” the natural order, allowing less populous species to become dominant.
“These results shed light on the likely outcome of the current biodiversity crisis caused by human activity. It appears a human-driven sixth mass extinction will affect all organisms, not just currently endangered and geographically restricted species,”Dunhill added.
“Although we tend to think of mass extinctions as entirely destructive events, they often shake up the status quo, and allow groups that were previously sidelined to become dominant. Something similar happened much later with the extinction of the dinosaurs making way for mammals and ultimately ourselves. However, our study shows that the ‘rules’ of survival at times of mass extinctions are very different from those at ‘normal’ times: nothing is ever really safe,” Wills said.
Leading scientists agree that the octopus is basically an alien
Leading scientists agree that the octopus is basically an alien
We've long suspected that octopuses / octopodes / whatever are so damn creepy and unsettling, they've GOT to be aliens.
After all, they're capable of slipping through the tiniest of openings to escape, they're able to figure out a jam jar works and they're essentially the evil genius of the deep sea.
Dr. Clifton Ragsdale, a leading researcher at the University of Chicago, conducted the first genome sequence of the octopus and found some pretty interesting results. For one, it is completely different from all animals - or humans, for that matter.
"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," explained Dr. Ragsdale. He went on, quoting zoologist Martin Wells who first postulated that the octopus must be alien. "In this sense, then, our paper describes the first sequenced genome from an alien."
Humans carry 25,000 protein-coding genes whereas the octopus has 33,000 - that's a total of 8,000 more coding genes than us. PAY ATTENTION IN THE BACK THERE, I'M NOT REPEATING THIS.
Anyway, the sequencing conducted at the University of Chicago also had a few other discoveries. For one, the researchers think they've cracked how the octopus is able to think so fast and how it registers taste through its suckers on its tentacles. Sorry if you were eating just there.
Moreover, the octopuses' ability for its tentacles to continue functioning - even after it's been dismembered - is being adopted and researched for use in robotics. So when the robot apocalypse eventually happens and we find out that dismembering them has little or no effect, we'll have the octopus to thank. Wonderful.
Look, it's all very exciting - but here's the takeaway. The octopus is an alien who is biding their time until they develop an evil formula to conquer the surface.
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Diamond UFO Over Volcano, Arrow Over Glasgow, Truck Over NY
Diamond UFO Over Volcano, Arrow Over Glasgow, Truck Over NY
If you have friends who still refer to all UFOs as “flying saucers,” this weekend brought news of three different sightings with three different shapes – a diamond, an arrow and a semi-truck – that you can show them as proof that UFOs come in all shapes and sizes. Are we in the midst of an alien spacecraft show where they bring out all of the new models?
Diamond-shaped UFO over Colima Volcano
The diamond UFO was spotted over the Colima Volcano in Mexico, a place that UFOs frequently visit, like the cigar seen in July and the horse in January. The huge diamond-shaped UFO spotted in a picture was taken by one of those webcams that are always pointed at the volcano to record eruptions and unexpected alien visitors. Shot on July 15, there’s no other information on this UFO so it’s open for speculation as to its actual size and whether it was coming or going.
Arrows are a shape not often seen in UFOs. This orange object was photographed over Glasgow, Scotland, by Stuart Noble while he was getting ready to take pictures of some identified flying objects – the Perseid meteor shower in mid-August.
An arrow-shaped UFO spotted over Glasgow, Scotland
The “arrow” description was given by the witness, but this UFO also resembles a jellyfish like the green one seen over the Netherlands in May. Noble did not say if there were any other witnesses and no other reports of this arrow UFO have been found so far.
If flying arrow UFOs are rare, flying trucks – outside of monster truck rallies – are almost non-existent. Yet that’s the description a witness gave to MUFON investigators of a UFO he saw on August 4, 2015, over Ronkonkoma, a tiny town on Long Island, New York.
The unidentified witness estimated the UFO was 500 feet away, under 500 feet in altitude and “the size of an 18-wheeler.” Ronkonkoma is near the Long Island MacArthur (Islip) Airport but the witness was certain this silent UFO was no conventional aircraft.
It was like whoever was flying it suddenly realized it was approaching an airport and it stopped. Its lights went out. Then it went backwards (reverse) and flew in the same direction from where it came … It had lights that were pulsating. But the light was inside the craft – all different colors.
Other witnesses reportedly saw the semi-sized UFO continue to alternately move, hover, descend and ascend before it eventually disappeared.
Moral of these stories: If it looks like a duck and flies like a duck, get a video anyway because it could be a UFO.
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‘Extragalactic’ radio waves a mystery, scientists say alien life forms could be responsible
‘Extragalactic’ radio waves a mystery, scientists say alien life forms could be responsible
Stephen Hawking and Russian Billionaire in $100M Hunt for Aliens
SCIENTISTS are investigating unexplainable bursts of radio waves that could be messages from alien life forms, after an Australian team stumbled upon the phenomenon.
Ten of the bizarre flashes have been picked up by radio telescope over the past 15 years, displaying a mathematical pattern that has bamboozled experts, in a real-life version of the 1997 sci-fi film Contact.
Lasting just a few milliseconds, the radio bursts erupt with about as much energy as the sun releases in a month, New Scientist reports.
It all started last year at the CSIRO’s Parkes Telescope in central-west New South Wales, which last year picked up a radio burst in real-time, a world first that sparked a hunt through data that unearthed nine similar events.
The Parkes radio telescope in NSW was the first to detect a fast bursts of radio waves (FRB) last year.
Source: Supplied
What makes them so unusual is that the delay between the arrival of the first and last waves of each burst is always close to a multiple of 187.5, a mathematical phenomenon for which no explanation has been found.
The brevity of the bursts, and the distance between their lower and higher frequency waves, means they are likely to come from a source that is both extremely small — hundreds of kilometres across at most — and very far away, possibly in another galaxy.
The analysis was undertaken by Michael Hippke of the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, and John Learned at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, who concluded that there was a 5 in 10,000 probability of the mathematical phenomenon being a coincidence.
The researchers explored several possible explanations for the fast bursts of radio waves
(FRBs).
Jodie Foster’s character in the sci-fi film Contact discovered a mathematical sequence of prime numbers while listening into radio signals in the hopes of proving the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Source: News Limited
The first is simply the limitations of human knowledge; it could be that we simply haven’t come far enough in our understanding of physics.
Alternatively, human technology such as an unmapped spy satellite could be to blame.
Or the source of the bursts could be an extraterrestrial beacon, a signal from aliens attempting to get our attention — as explored in the film Contact.
However, it is possible the bursts came from a more ordinary, earthly source. Initially unexplained pulses picked up by the Parkes Telescope in 2010 turned out to come not from an intergalactic source, but from a microwave in the site’s kitchen.
UFO watchers, don’t get too excited; the FRBs could have an explanation we haven’t thought of.
Source: News Corp Australia
While the scientists at the facility quickly clued onto the nature of the signals, which differ from FRBs, it’s a perfect illustration of how a perfectly ordinary phenomenon can confound even the most highly trained scientific mind — albeit only briefly.
The culprit? A worker who went to nuke their lunch and opened the microwave door prematurely, causing a pulse that mimics some of the characteristics of an astrophysical burst.
This did not detract from the scientists’ conclusion that the FRBs they have been studying were emitted from another galaxy.
However, it does seem pertinent to remember the philosophical principal of Occam’s razor.
Also known as the law of parsimony, it states: “The simplest explanation is usually the right one.”
Ce sont des animaux qui invalident en partie la théorie de l'évolution de Darwin... mais sont-ils d'origine terrestre ? Ils sont en contradiction avec les idées de Darwin tout simplement parce que leurs capacités et systèmes de protections naturels ne leur servent à rien dans leur milieu naturel !
Ce sont les Tardigrades, un groupe complet d'animaux très répandu sous toutes les latitudes, mais peu connus du public, et qui posent bien des questions aux spécialistes. Ils sont ce qu'on appelle des extrêmophiles : ils peuvent résister à des conditions de températures extrêmes sans aucun problème, à certaines radiations et au vide spatial. Pire, ils peuvent "ressusciter" après avoir longuement séché, de nombreuses années plus tard...
Le 14 septembre 2007, une fusée russe satellisait une capsule sphérique dans laquelle s'entassaient 43 expériences scientifiques. L'une d'elles concrétisait un projet un peu fou : vérifier si quelques animaux, directement exposés au vide spatial pourraient survivre. On sait que des bactéries en sont capables mais il semblait impossible que des animaux puissent résister aux deux grands dangers de l'espace, le vide, qui fait bouillir l'eau interne, et les rayonnements ultraviolets, qui démolissent les chromosomes.
Pourtant des biologistes suspectaient un groupe d'animaux étonnants, les tardigrades, de pouvoir relever le défi. On savait déjà qu'ils peuvent supporter un vide semblable à celui de l'espace et des zoologistes russes ont affirmé que certains avaient survécu à une sortie dans l'espace (rapporté par Guillaume Lecointre et Hervé Le Guyader dans Classification phylogénétique du vivant, éditions Belin). Proches des arthropodes (donc des insectes et des crustacés), les tardigrades sont bien plus discrets, avec une taille variant entre 50 microns et 1,2 millimètre.
Olivier Geoffroy est un spécialiste de ces animaux : " Le tardigrade peut survivre à une plongée dans l'hélium liquide à -272°C, tout près du zéro absolu. Il résiste à une température pouvant aller jusqu'à +151°C. On peut leur appliquer des pressions de 1.000 atmosphères, et ils supportent de fortes doses de rayonnements énergétiques, ultraviolets ou X. Mais les chercheurs ne parviennent pas à comprendre en quoi ces caractéristiques sont utiles à l'animal dans son milieu naturel terrestre." (c'est ici qu'ils contredisent la théorie de Darwin sur l'évolution des espèces... sur Terre).
Jean-Luc Goudet, pour Futura-Sciences, explique en quoi consistait l'expérience Tardis (Tardigrades in space) : "Le Suédois Ingemar Jönsson et ses collègues de l'université de Kristianstad, ont fait placer des boîtiers sur une plate-forme Biopan-6, réalisée par l'Esa, satellisée à 270 kms d'altitude pendant douze jours. Des Tardigrades de quatre espèces différentes, en état d'anhydrobiose, étaient disposés dans quatre séries de ces boîtiers ouverts sur l'espace. Un groupe était protégé de toutes les radiations, deux autres recevaient soit les UV-A soit les UV-B, et le dernier ne disposait d'aucune protection."
"A cette altitude, le rayonnement ultraviolet atteint 7.000 kilojoules/mètre carré, soit mille fois plus qu'au niveau de la mer. Les Tardigrades sont, pour beaucoup du moins, revenus vivants. Dans le groupe soumis aux UV-B, le rayonnement ultraviolet a tout de même décimé plus de 80% des animaux et le taux de survie était nul chez les animaux exposés aux UV-A et B. En revanche, la plupart des Tardigrades qui n'ont reçu que les ultraviolets A - tout en ayant, rappelons-le, subi le vide spatial pendant une dizaine de jours - étaient bien vivants.Les animaux ont repris leurs activités habituelles, et les biologistes ont constaté qu'ils étaient toujours capables de se reproduire.
Cette résistance pose problème car elle implique probablement des mécanismes de réparation de l'ADN, que les puissants rayonnements UV ont certainement dégradé." http://www.futura-sciences.com/fr/news/t/zoologie/d/le-mystere-des-tardigrades-ces-animaux-qui-resistent-au-vide-spatial_16608/ Les travaux des chercheurs ont été publiés le 9 septembre dernier par Current Biology (sur abonnement). - http://www.current-biology.com/
Un correspondant de l'AFP à Washington précise : "Comme leur habitat naturel, les mousses et les lichens, subissent souvent des sécheresses prolongées,ces animaux sont capables, après s'être en grande partie desséchés eux-mêmes, de ressusciter même après plusieurs années."
Les Tardigrades se nourrissent d'animalcules plus infimes qu'eux, et se tiennent au milieu des Mousses et des Algues, notamment sur les toits mousseux et dans les gouttières; quelques-uns d'entre eux vivent dans l'eau. Ils jouissent d'une grande notoriété depuis que Spallanzani a découvert qu'ils possédaient, comme les Rotifères, une singulière faculté : celle de la réviviscence; tant que l'humidité nécessaire à leur prospérité leur fait défaut, ils demeurent comme morts; aussitôt qu'on leur rend l'humidité dont ils ont besoin ils s'éveillent de nouveau à la vie et reprennent leur activité.
Olivier Geoffroy a formulé quelques hypothèses sur l'origine extra-terrestre du Tardigrade : " Capable de résister aux conditions les plus extrêmes, le Tardigrade possède toutes les aptitudes pour survivre à un voyage spatial même très long, agrippé à une météorite par exemple. Il possède également les caractéristiques qui lui permettraient de ne pas succomber lors de l'atterrissage quelque peu brutal de la météorite sur la surface accidentée d'une planète inhospitalière." http://www.apophtegme.com/ANIMALIA/tardigrade.htm
http://spookscentral.com UFOs photographed Above a Mayan Pyramid
Report submitted to the MUFON database on June 25, 2015
On a trip to Teotihucan in Mexico, I took a photo of the pyramid of the sun. Later when I was reviewing my photo, I saw two objects above the pyramid. I didn’t see or hear them at the time. My friend took an almost identical photo approximately 10 seconds after I did and nothing is in her photo.
The first photo I’ve submitted is mine. The second is my friends photo taken approximately 10 seconds after. In her photo you can see my head in the lower left corner because I was wearing a red and white bandana on my head. Also you can see tourist moving up the steps of the pyramid to show how much time passed between photos.
Photo was taken on 2015-05-04
Full Image of 2 UFOs in photograph taken of a pyramid in Teotihucan, Mexico – Click for full resolution
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Image magnified to show both UFOs – click for full resolution
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Op zoek naar aliens buiten Berlijn: “We moeten het weten”
Op zoek naar aliens buiten Berlijn: “We moeten het weten”
Sommigen geloven dat aliens de aarde al hebben bezocht en tekens achterlaten in de vorm van graancirkels in weilanden. Net buiten Berlijn zijn twee graancirkels verschenen die in de afgelopen dagen veel bekijks hebben getrokken. Dat meldt de omroep Deutsche Welle.
In de graanvelden bij de buitenwijk Schönefeld zijn geometrische patronen ontstaan, die volgens sommigen het gevolg zijn van buitenaards bezoek. Een groep van 15 enthousiastelingen en sceptici wil weten of de patronen echt kunnen zijn gevormd door een landende UFO.
Eén van hen is Sarika Sinha. Ze woont in Berlijn en bezoekt de plek voor de tweede keer. “Vier weken nadat ik aankwam in Berlijn begon ik te zoeken naar groepen mensen die informatie hebben over aliens en UFO’s. Een week later werd ik lid van een groep en verscheen deze cirkel. Ik dacht: laat ik eens een kijkje nemen,” zei ze.
Uitgevallen mobieltjes
Sarika en haar groep analyseren de graancirkels. Het patroon bestaat uit een aantal cirkels die zijn verbonden door middel van lijnen. Vanuit de lucht lijkt het op een grote bloem. De patronen kunnen gemakkelijk worden gespot vanuit vliegtuigen die opstijgen vanaf een nabijgelegen vliegveld.
Leo Ferronato besloot een bezoek te brengen aan de graancirkels bij Berlijn nadat hij ze zelf had ervaren in zijn woonplaats in Brazilië. “Ik kom uit een klein plaatsje in Brazilië. De eerste geregistreerde graancirkel in Brazilië verscheen in een nabijgelegen stadje. Een groot deel van de bevolking was erg onder de indruk omdat het nog nooit eerder was gebeurd,” zei hij.
Ferronato is niet erg onder de indruk van de cirkels buiten Berlijn. Hij had meer gebogen stengels verwacht. Hij had ook gehoord dat mobieltjes waren uitgevallen in andere graancirkels, maar dat is niet gebeurd in Schönefeld.
Afgezet door de politie
Sinha weet niet zeker of graancirkels door mensen of door buitenaardsen worden gemaakt. Tijdens haar vorige bezoek wilde ze van haar gids bewijs hebben dat ze niet worden gemaakt door grappenmakers. Volgens de gids had de politie het gebied afgezet nadat de graancirkels waren ontstaan en vlogen er helikopters rond. Dat lijkt me niet de normale gang van zaken, aldus Sinha.
Graancirkels werden in de jaren zeventig al gedocumenteerd en verschijnen vooral bij snelwegen of vliegvelden. De zoektocht naar buitenaards leven kreeg onlangs een flinke boost toen de Russische miljardair Joeri Milner 100 miljoen dollar doneerde voor de zoektocht naar aliens. Met het geld kunnen wetenschappers grote telescopen afhuren.
Natuurkundige Stephen Hawking zal optreden als adviseur voor het programma. Hij zei dat in een oneindig universum wel andere voorbeelden van leven te vinden moeten zijn. “We leven, we zijn intelligent, we moeten het weten,” zei hij. Het programma moet voor een doorbraak zorgen, vandaar de naam ‘Breakthrough Listen’. Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.
Alsof iemand een lichtknop omdtraait boven Columbus, USA ( Video)
Alsof iemand een lichtknop omdtraait boven Columbus, USA ( Video)
Dat is het gevoel wat je krijgt wanneer je een formatie UFO’s boven de Amerikaanse stad Columbus ziet hangen.
Het ene moment zijn ze “normaal” zichtbaar en het volgende moment lijkt het alsof iemand een lichtschakelaar heeft omgedraaid.
De onderstaande video is een prachtig voorbeeld van wat er steeds meer om ons heen gebeurt.
Witte ronde of soms oranje UFO’s die zich geluidloos in verschillende formaties statig door de lucht bewegen.
Zoals je in onderstaande video kunt zien, gaat het leven op de grond gewoon door. Bijna niemand merkt op wat er boven hun hoofd gebeurt.
Het is zo te zien een soort zwoele zomeravond in de plaats Columbus in de Amerikaanse staat Ohio. De mensen praten luidruchtig, er is een radio te horen en plots verschijnen er een aantal vreemde lichten in de lucht.
Je ziet de objecten door de lucht bewegen. Het zijn niet alleen vreemde lichten die in een bepaalde richting bewegen zoals ballonnen dat bijvoorbeeld zouden doen. Ze bewegen in allerlei patronen waardoor duidelijk blijkt dat ze onder intelligente besturing staan.
Dan, op een gegeven moment rond 1 minuut 35 in de video, gebeurt er iets bijzonders. Je ziet pal na elkaar twee verschillende beelden van dezelfde objecten.
De eerste is deze, waarbij de objecten zichtbaar zijn aan de avondhemel.
Dan hetzelfde beeld, maar alsof iemand een lichtknop omdraait. Zo lijkt het want alle UFO’s schijnen ineens vele malen helderder dan voorheen.
Vijf gele UFO's hangen in de lucht en rechtsonder een rode. Het bijzondere is dat ze allemaal tegelijkertijd feller gaan stralen en later ook weer allen tegelijkertijd dimmen.
Even later dimmen de UFO’s weer en zien ze eruit als voorheen. Na verloop van tijd verdwijnen ze uit het zicht.
De mensen op de grond?
Zij hebben niets gezien en zijn nog heel lang doorgegaan met feestvieren.
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