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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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
23-08-2015
Scientist at deathbed makes shocking confessions about aliens
Scientist at deathbed makes shocking confessions about aliens
A recording has been released of the late US scientists Boyd Bushman who worked at a secret base of the United States Air Force. At that secret base, alien technology was developed and adapted for human use. According to Boyd, numerous alien bodies were studied at the facility as well. In the video, recorded shortly before his death, the Lockheed-Martin scientist shows images of alien bodies which according to him, were taken with disposable cameras at Area 51, a secret base of the Air Force in the state of Nevada.
Even though some of the details in the Biography of Bushman may seem controversial, according to British tabloid “Metro”, Bushman was an important researcher in aerospace corporation Lockheed Martin and had several highly classified patents.”As for the extraterrestrial crafts, we have United States citizens who work 24 hours a day studying UFO’s and Alien technology. We are trying to understand what we need to do.”Bushman confessions which were recorded on video are dotted with images of beings with humanoid bodies. According to the researcher, two groups of alien beings are being studied at Area 51, but there are also aliens who work in cooperation with humans.
Area 51 is an area of land located in Nevada owned by the United States government. It is popular for the fact that there, for years, numerous scientists have claimed to have been developing and testing new technologies based on alien tech, and secret military aircrafts. It is commonly known as Area 51, although the official name is Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) designation: Area 51.
According to Bushman, the alien technology is very advanced, these beings can travel at speeds much faster than light, and most of them come from planets that are located around 68 light years away from planet Earth. Bushman states that the aliens working at Area 51 are around 1.5 meters tall, they have fingers and toes just like humans but can live much longer than humans. These extraterrestrial beings are able to communicate via telepathy.
According to Bushman, scientists from Russia, China and the United States are working together at Area 51, their main research is anti-gravity technology.
Recently, Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator, confirmed the existence of infamous Area 51, but said that it does not harbor any kind of alien life or alien technology. “There’s an Area 51. But not devoted to what many people think. It’s a normal place of research and development. I never saw aliens or spaceships in it.
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This is the amazing design for NASA’s Star Trek-style space ship, the IXS Enterprise
This is the amazing design for NASA’s Star Trek-style space ship, the IXS Enterprise
“Warp speed, Mr. Sulu” (courtesy of Mark Rademaker/Flickr)
NASA engineer and physicist Harold White announced a few years ago that he was working on a potentially groundbreaking idea that could allow space travel faster than the speed of light. Yes, like in “Star Trek.”
And now, to boldly go where no designer has gone before, Mark Rademaker — who is collaborating with White — has created a CGI design concept for the “warp ship.” They’re calling it the IXS Enterprise.
“We wanted to have a decent image of a theory conforming Warp ship to motivate young people to pursue a STEM career,” Rademaker said in an e-mail interview. “It does have some Sci-Fi features that might never transfer to a possible final design, unless we really want to.”
A warp ship such as the IXS Enterprise could allow travel to interstellar space in a matter of weeks rather than, say, centuries. And the science behind why it might be possible is truly mind-boggling.
An over-simplified explanation is that the concept seeks to exploit a “loophole” in Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity that allows travel faster than the speed of light by expanding space-time behind the object and contracting space-time front of it. Io9 explains more:
Essentially, the empty space behind a starship would be made to expand rapidly, pushing the craft in a forward direction — passengers would perceive it as movement despite the complete lack of acceleration.
White speculates that such a drive could result in “speeds” that could take a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri in a mere two weeks — even though the system is 4.3 light-years away.
White, whose title is “Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate,” has mathematically calculated a plausible way to accomplish this using far less energy than required by the original theory, which was proposed in 1994 by physicist Miguel Alcubierre.
His concept requires using large rings that surround the spacecraft (which you can see in the image above) to greatly reduce the amount of energy needed to warp space-time in front of and behind the spacecraft.
“The rings are most important as they will form the Warp bubble,” Rademaker said in his e-mail. “The way they are designed now will reduce the energy requirement needed to form the bubble. (By quite a large factor.) Also we tried to fill up as much space within the rings, it’s expensive to leave that open or unused.”
White and his team at NASA’s Eagleworks Labs are now working to create a “proof of concept” for this idea.
So how quickly can this all become a reality? According to White, in an interview with i09, proving that the math can become a reality in the lab is the first and probably most important step in the process:
What White is waiting for is existence of proof — what he’s calling a “Chicago Pile” moment — a reference to a great practical example.
“In late 1942, humanity activated the first nuclear reactor in Chicago generating a whopping half Watt — not enough to power a light bulb,” he said. “However, just under one year later, we activated a ~4MW reactor which is enough to power a small town. Existence proof is important.”
White explains in great detail the science behind his quest in this lecture:
Rademaker’s design is posted in his Flickr account, and we’ve included the images with his permission:
Abby Phillip is a general assignment national reporter for the Washington Post. She can be reached at abby.phillip@washpost.com. On Twitter:@abbydphillip
We could travel to new worlds in NASA's starship Enterprise
We could travel to new worlds in NASA's starship Enterprise
US space agency commissions design for its first warp speed spaceship
NASA announced in 2012 that it was working to build a "warp drive" that could enable "faster-than-light" travel. Two years later and the space agency hasn't built a spaceship capable of such speeds yet — but thanks to artist Mark Rademaker, we now know what one could look like. The result is the IXS Enterprise, a ship that shares similarities with both its science fiction Star Trek namesake, and NASA's real-world space shuttle.
Rademaker worked together with NASA's Dr. Harold White to produce visual concepts for the craft. White and his team at NASA are hoping to make "faster-than-light" travel possible with Alcubierre drives. The drives, named for physicist Miguel Alcubierre, theoretically work by distorting space-time. By expanding the space behind a ship and contracting the space in front of it, the IXS Enterprise could drastically speed up our space travel potential, making the 4.3 light-year journey to Alpha Centauri in around two weeks.
Rademaker says he was influenced in the design for his Enterprise by Matt Jefferies' sci-fi artworks from the 1960s. But where famed aviation artist Jeffries, who helped create the spaceships of the Star Trek universe, imagined spindly craft with thin rings, the IXS Enterprise sits inside two circles chubby enough to power its Alcubierre drive. The spacecraft is fatter than most of Jefferies' sci-fi ships, too, capable of bearing four cylindrical pods on its flanks, and sporting a wide, flat, duck's bill of a command module. Speaking at the SpaceVision conference last year, Dr. White justified the design, saying that "if you're going to go to all the trouble of making it that big, you might as well fit all you can in there."
Until NASA announces a breakthrough in its research of Alcubierre drives and "faster-than-light" travel technology, Rademaker's concepts will remain only concepts. But his visualization of the IXS Enterprise still gives us a glimpse of the kinds of vehicles we'll hopefully one day be able to use to travel to strange new worlds, to seek out new life, and new civilizations.
An Alcubierre drive is theoretically capable of warp speeds, but the travel time to our nearest neighbor is still two weeks. Any "faster-than-light" craft will need to be big enough to have room for staff and supplies to survive out beyond the edge of our solar system.
Rademaker's images imagine the ship during its construction. His design is shown to be modular, with space for four pods on the side of the ship that could house living quarters, supplies, or — in keeping with the ship's name — a holodeck.
The number of sponsors suggests NASA is expecting the commercial space travel sector to keep growing. Squint at the bottom right of the nameplate and you might see a familiar logo: Weyland-Yutani, the nefarious fictional megacorporation from the Alien movies.
The body of the IXS Enterprise is suspended inside two large rings, a design decision that means the craft can sit safely inside the warp bubble generated by its Alcubierre drive. A good thing, too: any appendages that jutted outside would be subjected to unimaginable effects as the ship distorted space-time.
The concept of a warp drive-enabled spaceship is still fanciful at this point in human development, but Rademaker's images blend elements of real-world tech with sci-fi suggestion. The Enterprise's side solar panels look like they've been borrowed from the International Space Station.
The Olmec heads are one of those archaeological artifacts that mainstream archaeology tries to avoid at all costs. Mainstream theories are limited to tarnish the magnificence of the once incredible ancient civilization that made them with absurd and ridiculous theories.
The Olmec culture is barely known today, a culture which is believed to have reigned over Mesoamerica 1200 years before the birth of Christ and is predecessor to the fabulous Maya, Inca and Aztec cultures.
The Olmec civilization, one of the first -if not the first, culture(s) of Mesoamerica were actually few settlements that history has placed in the Stone Age.
There are numerous theories surrounding the enigmatic civilization and their mysterious architectural features and statues. The most talked about objects are without a doubt, the famous Olmec Heads weighing between 20 to 40 tons and reaching up to three meters in height.
These enormous heads were carved from basalt rocks. Official theories have placed the Olmec heads as being at least 3000 years old. Most of the researcher has been performed on the Gulf Coast: Three Zapotes, La Venta, San Lorenzo and Laguna de los Cerros.
In addition to the gigantic heads, the Olmecs have left other pieces of great artistic value, such as thrones, altars and human figures and no other culture in Mesoamerica attained perfection and the level of mastery of the Olmecs when it comes to sculpting.
The question is, how did this ancient civilization that was almost in the stone age, manage such perfection that engineers today cannot replicate?
Other ancient civilizations across the globe, like the ancient Egyptians had copper chisels to carve the incredible monuments we see today. When we talk about the Olmecs, we are talking about an ancient civilization that did not know about bronze and other tools, they only had the knowledge of carving “stone” with other “stone” materials.
Seeing the majestic work done by this incredible ancient civilization, it is hard to believe what mainstream archaeology is telling us.
Another important problem raised, is how did the ancient Olmecs manage to transport these colossal heads?
Here is the interesting part: The nearest place where the ancient Olmecs could have obtained the necessary material for their colossal heads is Tuxtla Sierra, a group of volcanoes located in the southern part of Veracruz, about 70 kilometers from where the Olmec heads were originally found.
If we take in count that the stones used to carve the Olmec heads ranged in weight from 20 to 40 tons, we ask, how did they transport them? According to history, the ancient Olmces did not posses knowledge of the wheel.
Mainstream researchers have proposed several theories that are open for debate. One of those theories is the famous “wooden roller theory”.
According to researchers, the ancient Olmec civilization used wooden rollers to transport these gigantic rocks to their destination. They placed a series of wooden rollers beneath the rock to minimize friction and make it possible to transport.
The only thing is, a huge amount of wood would be necessary to achieve this. According to a recent study, 20 people were needed to transport a rock that had a weight of 0.5 tons.
How many people would have been used in the past to transport a rock that had a weight of over 40 tons? The other issue is that the places where the Olmecs lived is filled with marshes and swamps which makes it impossible to transport the rocks over these wet places.
Mainstream archaeology points to the fact that Ancient Olmecs were very skilled navigators who used canoes to transport these gigantic rocks across water… a theory that doesn’t “hold much water” according to others.
In 1869 when Jose Melgar discovered the colossal sculptured heads of the Olmecs, he quickly pointed out the strange shape the heads had, they looked anything but how the natives from the region looked.
They appeared to resemble natives of the African continent. Researchers quickly pointed out that, similar mysterious faces and sculptures were discovered in Teotihuacan, atypical features for the local natives.
Mysteriously, these gigantic heads were all found buried deep beneath the surface, almost as if their creators wanted to hide these gigantic colossal heads on purpose. But why hide them?
Numerous questions remain regarding the Ancient Olmec civilization and their incredible giant heads. How did they carve them, how did they transport them and why go through all the trouble to hide them deep beneath the surface?
At the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, archaeologists uncovered a 10,000-year-old man-made monolith that they believe is evidence of a prehistoric civilization. The rock monument’s colossal size (12 meters, or about 39 feet in height) suggests that quite a few people would have been needed to move it — something that would have been difficult if, as previously suspected, the inhabitants had been hunter-gatherers living relatively solitary lifestyles.
Here above we see an illuminated UFO (mothership made of energy only-light beings) caught by accident during the lightning storm. Its passengers may be energy beings, shooting off in all directions. The boys said they saw lights flying around the sky, like search lights but not. If I hadn’t seen something like this just a few months ago, I might be skeptical. But I did around midnight with my family here in Taiwan. I understand his description. These are energy beings, not usually interested in humans, but if you notice them, they may make a circle high up like they did for my family. The lights move fast, but sort of have a sense of…awareness about them. Cool sighting. SCW
Eyewitness states: Oak Lawn, IL looking west, around 91st & Ridgeland Ave. My son, 12 and another boy, 9, were outside of a family party. They saw (4) objects moving around in the stormy sky. He ran inside, and grabbed his phone. He said (3) took off with flight patterns never seen before. The way he described the objects, I thought they were searchlights from a “Grand Opening” or an event of some kind. However, at around 12-14 seconds, lighting illuminates the sky with the illuminated object obscured by the clouds, not light shining on the cloud. That’s no searchlight. Take a look, let me know what you think. Regards, John Oak Lawn IL
A video shot in Japan’s port city of Osaka has been making the rounds online, displaying a swarm of white spherical objects of unknown origin flying across the sky. The low-quality footage has triggered speculation over extra-terrestrial life and UFOs.
The two-minute clip shows the mysterious round objects moving quickly in the sky, while following a dance-like pattern.
The footage, which has since been reposted a few times from a Japanese YouTube channel, left many viewers puzzled as to what the flying anomalies could be, and also spurred conspiracy theories.
Some reports pointed out that the Japanese UFO sighting closely resembled the white lights witnessed in June over Hyde Park in London, UK.
However, the sighting in London was very brief, with the objects disappearing within seconds, making it a difficult comparison.
In one of the most recent UFO sightings, a massive alien spacecraft was “spotted” near the sun by ufologists viewing NASA pictures captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on July 15, 2015.
A video released by YouTube user Streetcap1 speculates as to the nature of the object.
Could This Be An Alien Outpost Spotted By Nasa? This image of Ceres, taken by NASA’s Dawn probe on Feb. 19, 2015, from a distance of about 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers), shows two mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet’s surface.
Black Night satelliet waargenomen bij ISS Ruimtestation ( Video )
Black Night satelliet waargenomen bij ISS Ruimtestation ( Video )
Eerder deze week verscheen er al een UFO dichtbij het ISS ruimtestation.
Nu is er daar nog een object verschenen en die lijkt verdacht veel op de beruchte 12.000 jaar oude Black Night satelliet.
Iets meer dan een week geleden brachten wij het verhaal van een vrouw in Amerika die door haar keukenraam een object waarnam dat veel leek op de beruchte Black Night Satelliet.
Ver voordat wij de eerste satellieten de ruimte in stuurden was er al een onbekende die berichten naar de aarde zond.
Het was een satelliet die de naam The Black Knight kreeg en waarvan de leeftijd wordt geschat op minimaal 12.000 jaar.
In 1960 verschenen er diverse nieuwsberichten in kranten en ook een artikel in Time waarin bekend werd gemaakt dat een mysterieuze “donkere” satelliet was ontdekt in een baan om de aarde.
De Amerikanen werden nerveus omdat ze dachten dat het een nieuwe Russische spionagesatelliet was en de bevolking kreeg de indruk dat de leiding geen idee had over wat er nu eigenlijk boven hun hoofden gebeurde.
Nu lijkt het erop alsof deze zelfde Black Night Satelliet is opgedoken bij het ISS ruimtestation.
Wat verschijningsvorm betreft, lijkt dit verdacht veel op die Black Night Satelliet.
Wie weet hebben we hier inderdaad te maken met de beruchte 12.000 jaar oude satelliet. Of is het een ander soort UFO?
Het is in ieder geval duidelijk dat we ook hier weer te maken hebben met een door iets of iemand gemaakt object dat geen deel uitmaakt van het ISS ruimtestation.
Group Of UFOs Show Up Near Henderson Nevada, Aug 22, 2015, -video- UFO Sighting News.
Group Of UFOs Show Up Near Henderson Nevada, Aug 22, 2015, -video- UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 22, 2015 Location of sighting: Henderson, Nevada, USA This just came out today. A person in Nevada tonight caught some UFOs over the city and they look a lot like the Phoenix lights. The move about and then line up. The even divide into more lights. This is over seven minutes of raw footage that cannot be disputed. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Video of a group of UFO's that showed up in Henderson, Nevada on February 12, 2015. This was a nice change as I don't have too many captures from this location. As always they are one the edges of the city and don't stick around for too long.
1952 UFO Incident: How U.S. General Johnson Recounts his Encounter
1952 UFO Incident: How U.S. General Johnson Recounts his Encounter
The existence of aliens and extraterrestrials are the most debatable questions of all time. Lots of people seem to ask instances at TV, radios, newspapers and within many scenarios. However, they are provided an unclear reply. The reality will be in which aliens do exist as properly as declaring “yes” for you to this sort of a major question unquestionably demand some heavy explanations that may follow. The statement is true for the U.S. Air Force General Gerald W. “Jerry” Johnson, who reported witnessing a strange object in Los Angeles while hovering an F-84G aircraft in 1952. The video was posted on July 8, 2015, to YouTube by Mutual UFO Network. Johnson had a distinguished career in Air Force having 33 years with active service in the Second World War. According to him, the two extraterrestrial discs approached his plane flying in close formation. As the discs flew, one flew above and the other below. The surprised pilot closely focused his attention on the other direction to witness the discs flying away.
He collaborated with the ground control and asked about another airplane flying in the vicinity, but they answered negatively. Johnson’s testimony is considered remarkable, and this is being shown by the UFO community who created a buzz about it. Statements by professional pilots are highly valued because they have considered the evidence of reliable witnesses. In a declassified intelligence on the sighting being filed by John E. Albert, the intelligence officer Major in 1952, Johnson said the discs had no noticeable means of thrust and no visible exhaust or trail. The details suggest to enthusiasts that a flying machine was merely a product of advanced technology. When you consider the 1952 incident, it is improbable that the U.S. Army was engaged clandestinely in researching and developing a flying disc based on technology as sophisticated as stated in Johnson’s report. Did Johnson encounter an extraterrestrial vessel on that Sunday morning?
A group of researchers believes that the Island of Sardinia was home to legendary Atlantis
A group of researchers believes that the Island of Sardinia was home to legendary Atlantis
According to a group of Italian scientists, the island of Sardinia might have been known as Atlantis in the distant past.
While many believe Atlantis was a figment of Plato's imagination, there are many researchers that believe that Atlantis and the Atlantean race did in fact inhabit our planet in the distant past. Now, it seems that evidence has been found that supports the existence of Atlantis.
It seems that experts are getting extremely close to finding out the truth about the incredible Atlantean civilization and their exact location on Earth.
The team presented their hypothesis about the cause of the disaster which devastated the island of Sardinia around 1175 BC. The explanation not only establishes the impact of a comet and tsunami as responsible for the destruction, but said that the event was the inspiration for Plato's legendary Atlantis. Scientists believed that a comet that plunged into the sea could have been the cause of a tidal wave that destroyed bronze age settlements on the islands.
Atlantis... A figment of Plato's imagination or reality?
Sergio Frau who is a writer and expert in Atlantis believes that the southern part of Sardinia resembles an "underwater Pompeii."
" We are talking about a great volume of water, 500 meters in height. Only the impact of a comet near the coast could have caused similar destruction," said Frau during a conference.
Frau, who in June visited the site along with a dozen of Italian scientists believes that Sardinia is the same island that Plato described as Atlantis, contradicting the prevailing theory that Atlantis was located somewhere near the Strait of Gibraltar. The expert argues that a tsunami caused by a comet wiped out the ancient civilization of the island some time in the second millennium BC.
Until a few decades ago, the existence of destructive tsunamis in the Mediterranean was not thought possible, recent investigations have refuted that notion showing that at least 350 tsunamis have occurred in the area over a period of 2,500 years.
The bronze age Su Nuraxi archaeological site, on Sardinia, uncovered in 1950.
Photograph: Alamy
Sardinia is one of the many locations that have been related to the famous Atlantis. Ancient philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle and Greek historian Herodotus, all believed that modern-day Sardinia was "the island of Atlas", situated beyond the pillars of Hercules, in the strait between Sicily and Tunisia.
The hypothesis of a large tsunami being the destructor of the island is supported by several ancient documents which recorded the historic event. in the Old Testament, Ezekiel writes, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? […] In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters […] All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee …”
Inscriptions in the Temple of Ramses II in Egypt describes foreign-speaking people witnessing how an earthquake and water sank their lands because a god called Nun sent a massive wave to destroy villages.
Today Sardinia is an island with numerous archaeological sites. It Contains 7,000 nuraghi castles/forts, cemeteries, giant tombs, caves with names like "Abode of Bruges' ruins and temples. Regrettably, all this archaeological wealth was kept isolated from the world of research for a long time due to the large number of mosquitoes carrying malaria on the island.
The most complex of the Island's Bronze Age structures is Su Nuraxi, at Barumini, which was discovered in 1950. The fortress, constructed from huge basalt blocks, is surrounded by a maze of circular walls (pictured) – the remnants of a later hamlet
In the late 20th century a compound called DDT was able to eradicate the problem and allowing researchers and archaeologists to rush to Sardinia.
“One of the merits of the research carried out by Sergio Frau is to have shown that the nuraghe civilization was one of the focal points of the ancient world, in terms of both geography and outlook,” says Azzedine Beschaouch, former head of the Unesco world heritage centre. “Now we need to give scientific, historical, cultural, political and emotional substance to a still mysterious past.” added Beschaouch.
Is Technology Changing Our Cultural Attitudes Toward UFOs?
Is Technology Changing Our Cultural Attitudes Toward UFOs?
Drones and UFOs: It’s hard to deny the growing association between these two subjects, particularly in recent years where more and more reports of supposed anomalous aerial phenomenon are being chalked up to being possible drone sightings.
One incident that occurred in May of 2012 involved FAA officials investigating an unidentified object or aircraft that came dangerously close to colliding with a commercial airliner over Denver, Colorado. According to both pilots and FAA reports, the object purportedly resembled a large, remote controlled aircraft. “Now we have something in controlled airspace that poses a danger,” Denver-area aviation analyst Greg Feith said at the time. It was unclear what the object had been, although it had been suspected by many at the time that the object may indeed have been a drone.
A recent article in the Huffington Post by Jeffery Shaffer discussed a drone sighting he had, which led him to consider whether the broad use of drones today is diminishing the efforts of UFO researchers. “The evidence pool is being polluted by an ever-increasing presence of small, sophisticated flying machines that are totally terrestrial in origin,” Shaffer wrote. “It won’t be long before drones become the default explanation for every shiny speck or glowing orb that traverses the wild blue yonder. They also present an array of new opportunities for UFO-related pranks and hoaxes.”
Shaffer related his own experience, in which he had been commuting home when he observed what would become his first drone flyover:
“While waiting at a stoplight next to a shopping center, I noticed a bright bluish light in the sky directly ahead. How do I know it wasn’t a plane or helicopter? I’ve seen plenty of them in the past, along with hot air balloons, kites, and even streaking green meteorites that broke into pieces.”
Of course, the color blue might be distinguishable from most conventional aircraft for another reason: the FAA does not permit blue lights on any aircraft operated above a certain altitude, although hobby aircraft and RCPs often do feature this color. Shaffer noted that there was “no feeling of awe or mystery,” and after confiding to his wife what he had seen later that night, learned of a drone store in a shopping mall nearby. “I was probably witnessing an aerial test drive,” he surmised.
Returning to the notion that drone appearances are diminishing the UFO phenomenon in some way, perhaps we don’t need a sky littered with drones to affect such change. The UFOs seem to be doing a fine job of it themselves, if reports over the last few years are indeed indicative of a decline in the number of reports of strange things seen in our skies.
Bufora, the top UK forum for skywatchers, ruefully admitted that UFO sightings have been in “steady decline” since the late 1990s. Most striking of all, the British Flying Saucer Bureau has suspended its activities, because the number of sightings has crashed from a peak of around 30 a week to almost zero. Denis Plunkett, the retired civil servant from Bristol who founded the bureau in 1953, says: “I am just as enthusiastic about flying saucers as I always was, but the problem is that we are in the middle of a long, long trough. There just aren’t enough new sightings. It is not like being a philatelist. There is always something new to say about stamps.”
This isn’t just a British phenomenon. In Indiana in the US an amateur association of scientific ufologists known as Madar (multiple autonomy detection and automatic recording) has seen a steady and accelerating fall-off in UFO activity since the peaks of the mid-70s. Likewise, New Jersey’s skywatchers have openly wondered whether to call it a day. Even the cold skies of northern Norway are bereft: “It’s unexplainable,” says Leif-Norman Solhaug, leader of Scandinavian skywatching society UFO Nord-Norge. “Maybe people are just fed up with the UFO hysteria.”
Nick Redfern and I have similarly noted our frustration with this apparent trend here at MU (as can be read here and here), and just to show that we aren’t the only ones, writing for Aeon Magazine in 2013, writer Stuart Walton similarly noted, “Once, the skies were refulgent with alien craft; now they are back to their primordial emptiness, returning only static to the radio telescopes, and offering the occasional meteor shower to the wondering eye.”
Speaking of meteors, as I stood outside peering into the night sky just 12 hours prior to having authored this post on the subject, I watched brilliant pinkish Perseids streaking through the sky over me and thought, “where are all the unknowns?” Were they really ever there to begin with?
Well, certainly… although understanding what “unknowns” may entail also requires a breakdown of the possible kinds of objects, and their origins, which may have been associated with UFO sightings over the decades. I suspect there are good reasons for there being fewer decent UFO sightings in recent years, and few of them probably have to do with visits from extraterrestrial beings.
There was a time, of course, where UFO literature had been rife with such seemingly otherworldly happenings. Is the integration of technology into our lives affecting this in some way? Had the UFO reports of yesteryear truly been representative of physical craft, or were they the rudiments of some cultural holdover from the past, manifesting within our collective minds as if to display for us, in some instructive way, a path to the future, assisted by stark, alien symbolism… and nothing more?
I doubt that drones by themselves are enough to drive a death nail through the heart of UFOlogy. They may, however, be one part of the broader, cumulative trend toward secularism that is emerging from within the coming technocracy, and which have contributed to the ever-changing UFO mystery as it appears to have withdrawn increasingly from our midst. Or, rather than having withdrawn or disappeared, perhaps our cultural perception of UFOs has simply distanced itself from where the phenomenon once lingered near the realm of imagination, favoring instead a technological outlook that is more sober than at any time before.
Maybe it’s fair to ask whether technology, and maybe other factors, are indeed changing our attitudes, culturally and otherwise, about UFOs. Whatever the cause, and however we choose to interpret it, the fact that a change has been taking place for some time seems hard to deny at this point.
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If You're Not A Believer In Aliens, This News Footage Might Make You Think Again
If You're Not A Believer In Aliens, This News Footage Might Make You Think Again
While filming an interview in Lima, Peru, earlier last month, a news crew stumbled across a peculiar sight. What appeared almost undeniably to be at the very least a large and purple object was seen hovering over the capital city, that many at the time were heavily convinced was UFO.
The mysterious object was spotted in the middle of the day on February 10th, and hovered in the sky for at least two hours, until floating quickly away, according to witnesses. The Peru chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) isinvestigating reports further.
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The Cherry Creek Sightings remain a mystery after 50 years
The Cherry Creek Sightings remain a mystery after 50 years
CHERRY CREEK, N.Y. (WIVB)
– What really happened near Cherry Creek in Chautauqua County 50 years ago? Did several teenagers really see a UFO, or did their imaginations run wild?
It’s a case that caught the attention of the New York State Police and the U.S. Air Force when the sightings allegedly happened on August 19, 1965.
The first sighting occurred around 8:20 in the evening. 16 year old Harold Butcher was milking cows in the barn on Aldrich Hill Road where he claims to have seen a “shiny silver” saucer shaped object.
“I think something unusual really did happen,” said Robert Galganski, a retired transportation safety researcher who’s examined the sightings extensively over the years. “I think the kids actually saw something.”
According to various reports, including an investigation done by the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), Harold reported an unusual noise similar to screeching coming from a bull tethered to a metal pipe in the field.
According to a NICAP report, Harold described it “like I have never heard come from an animal before.”
Harold eventually rushes to the barn window and reports seeing a “football-shaped object hovering just above tree-level” around 500 feet from the barn.
“He later described it as having a pair of vertical seams running up and down the side. He estimated the size to be about 50 feet long and maybe 20 feet thick,” Galganski said. “He can’t tell whether the object landed in the pasture or not because there’s an elevation rise between where he was at the barn and the area just before the tree line.”
Harold told a NICAP investigator that the object emitted a beeping noise, and that it “it descended slowly emitting a red vapor downward from around the edges.” He also reported that a radio in the barn was making “a heck of a noise like a loud static.”
At one point, Harold ran outside toward the object and watched it begin to rise in the field. He reported that the “red vapor” shot from the edges toward the ground.
Harold stated to NICAP that it ascended behind the clouds “as fast as a snap of my fingers.”
“The object rises up and disappears in the low lying clouds. And the clouds, according to Harold, turn green,” Galganski said.
Robert Butcher remembers his brother Harold running over to the farm house all excited.
“He said come quick. There’s a big old flying saucer or something that just landed in the cow pasture,” said Robert Butcher, who was 14 years old at the time of the sighting.
Not long after a second sighting was reported on the farm. And this time Robert says he caught a glimpse of something strange.
“I think I remember seeing something orange like coming out of the backside of it, or underneath it or something. I don’t know for sure because it’s been so many years,” the younger Butcher stated during a recent interview with News 4.
And there was a third sighting that same night allegedly witnessed by Harold, Robert, another brother and a friend, according to a NICAP report.
“Because increasing darkness obstructed the view, the others reported the glowing yellow vapor, the green glow of the clouds above, and a faint outline of the object,” the report stated.
Two New York State troopers were called to investigate the strange sightings on the farm.
“They were serious,” recalls former NICAP investigator Jeffrey Gow.
Gow was a college student back in 1965 while working the Cherry Creek case.
He not only interviewed some of the witnesses, but Gow also talked to the troopers who responded that night.
“The sense I got from the troopers was that they were supporting that something had happened out there on the site. They weren’t dismissing it as it was a hoax. They leaned in the direction of something actually occurring out there,” Gow said.
In Gow’s original NICAP report from 1965 he notes that one of the troopers “admitted that those reporting the sighting seemed convincing…too rustic to be able to create a hoax of this sort.”
Jeffrey Gow added: “They talked about it. Gave me the details. Most notable was how impressed they were by the atmosphere. In other words, when they said, when we got out there these people were really were excited. Something had really set them off and it was difficult to calm them down.”
And it wasn’t just the State Police responding. A U.S. Air Force team from Western New York was dispatched the next day to investigate.
In those days the Air Force investigated UFO sightings under the Project Blue Book program.
“According to both teams, both the Air Force and the New York State troopers, these kids were not acting. They were genuinely scared,” Galganski added.
The Air Force report stated that “the investigating officer and three technicians were convinced that the sighting was not a hoax or fabrication. One technician remained unconvinced.”
Harold Butcher, who’s now deceased, appeared on the television show Sightingsback in 1997.
“I never seen anything move as fast as this thing moved and disappeared and come back as quick as it did,” Harold Butcher said at the time.
Whatever he saw still remains a mystery 50 years later.
Robert Butcher, who was just a boy when the Aldrich Hill Road dairy farm became known as the flying saucer farm, said he and his brothers had their own suspicions about what happened.
“We always thought maybe it was the Air Force or some other country, or something. Didn’t know what it was. Nobody could ever tell us what it was.”
The Project Blue Book program, which was terminated in 1969, labeled the Cherry Creek incident as unidentified.
“Although the sequence of events are dubious, the sighting is carried as unidentified by the Air Force since there is no definite concrete explanation,” the Air Force report reads.
“It means that they cannot explain it as any conventional man-made object, any normal phenomena, atmospheric or stellar, or it wasn’t a hoax,” Galganski said.
Of the thousands of UFO sighting reports examined by the Air Force over two decades only around 5 percent fall into the unknown category. Cherry Creek is one of the few.
“I have seen a number of cases, really tight cases with trained observers, really quite impressive detail that they debunked. Easily debunked. And I expected this one to go the same route because they could have more easily done it to this one. But they didn’t,” Gow explained.
The Air Force ruling on Cherry Creek also surprised Robert Galganski who believes the agency “reluctantly and grudgingly” classified the sighting as unidentified.
“Some of the explanations that Blue Book came up with were so outlandish that they were more amazing than saying that it was unidentified. Their conclusions are legendary. I mean they’re often quoted as an example of how far this agency would go to debunk UFO reports.”
Galganski says he noticed some discrepancies in Harold Butcher’s version when he began reinvestigating the case in the 1990s, and interviewed Harold by phone.
“One that the object had legs — tripod like legs that came out of the bottom which do not appear in any of the NICAP team’s reports . And he had a different color for the object,” Galganski said. “Over the course of 30 years this is the fish story that gets better and better and better.”
In Jeffrey Gow’s original report from 1965, he states that “on occasion” he noticed Harold “coloring in” some details of the story.
“He had a great deal of detail in the story right down to the description of the object and different things that to me seemed a little bit too much detailed,” Gow said recently.
50 years later Robert Butcher stands by the story.
“I know he saw something. I know I saw something.”
Robert Galganski was ready to write-off the Cherry Creek incident as a clever hoax. But then he learned of other witness sightings before and after the August 19 incident.
The one that really got his attention involved two state troopers who allegedly saw something strange 28 hours later in the same area.
According to a NICAP report, the troopers were on Plank Road, about 1.5 miles from the farm where Harold Butcher reported seeing an object the night before.
Jeffrey Gow remembers the troopers showing him where they were around 1:15 a.m. on August 21.
“They said it was eerie.”
As they looked down on the farm where the Butcher sightings occurred, the troopers reported seeing a straight-line, fixed-position pattern of lights with a smaller red light in the front.
“They said it was coming right at us, but it was coming really low. And they said it came right over us and we looked up and there were seven orange, amber circles following the original small light,” Gow said.
In the original report, one of the troopers noted that “it seemed all eight lights were of the same object.”
The report also stated that the object was “about 2000 to 3000 feet above our head…it seemed to hold a straight north-south course.”
When asked what kind of sound the object made as it passed overhead, the troopers stated that the “object purred like a bag full of kittens.”
“You’ve got two people who are trained observers, professionals. And also, unlike the Butchers perhaps, they don’t want publicity among their peers,” Gow said. “They don’t want to be known as the troopers who were behind the flying saucer. So I would expect them to be much more reticent to voice what they feel. But they seemed sincere. You can’t prove anything of course, but my sense was that they were sincere.”
For Galganski, the troopers’ sighting turned out to be more impressive and compelling than what Harold Butcher and his brothers reported seeing the night before.
And that was enough for the UFO researcher to reconsider his initial skepticism.
“I think the kids actually saw something. There was a stimulus. They absolutely saw something,” Galganski said.
Jeffrey Gow, who interviewed the Butchers back in 1965, agrees that there was some kind of stimulus that night.
“Something happened. I feel that something happened out there. What it could have been is any number of things.”
Robert Butcher, who’s now 64 years old, knows some people will always be skeptical no matter what.
”It’s their choice not to believe. All I know is what I saw. I won’t lie to you about it. I don’t believe in lying.”
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GHOSTLY PARTICLES FROM OUTER SPACE DETECTED IN ANTARCTICA
GHOSTLY PARTICLES FROM OUTER SPACE DETECTED IN ANTARCTICA
Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside our galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way.
Finding these cosmic neutrinos not only confirms their existence but also sheds light on the origins of cosmic rays, the researchers said.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is made up of 86 shafts dug 8,000 feet into the ice near the South Pole. The shafts are equipped with detectors that look for the telltale light from high-energy particles plowing through the surrounding ice. [See Photos of the IceCube Observatory Buried in Ice]
Neutrinos have little mass, and zip through matter so easily that a block of lead a light-year across wouldn't stop them. These elusive particles come from high-energy sources: exploding stars, black holes and galactic cores among them.
Though they don't interact much with matter, occasionally one will hit an atomic nucleus on Earth. When that happens the neutrino generates a particle called a muon. That's what scientists look for when seeking neutrinos — the muons move faster than the speed of light in a solid (ice in this case) and generate light waves, like the wake of a boat in water, called Cherenkov radiation. They also show the paths of the neutrinos. (The speed of light is constant in a vacuum, but it is slower in a medium like ice or glass — this is what causes refraction. So the muons aren't actually breaking the speed of light limit).
The IceCube project found neutrinos from outside our galaxy in 2013, but to confirm that detection the researchers, led by a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had to make sure these neutrinos weren't coming from sources within our own galaxy (such as from the sun). To do so, they looked for neutrinos with similar energies that were coming from all directions at the same rate, meaning they are independent of the Earth's rotation and orbit around the sun — the only way that can happen is if the source is outside the galaxy.
The scientists also had to filter out muons created when cosmic rays crash into the planet's atmosphere. They used the Earth itself to weed out most of these muons, pointing the observatory through the Earth and toward the sky in the Northern Hemisphere (which is "down" with respect to Antarctica).
Over two years, between May 2010 and May 2012, the observatory logged more than 35,000 neutrinos, with 20 of those showing high enough energies to suggest they came from cosmic sources.
Those 20 neutrinos, called muon neutrinos, came from the opposite direction, but at approximately the same rate, as similar neutrinos observed in earlier runs. Since the rate at which they showed up was about the same throughout the observation, it means it didn't matter where the observatory was pointed as a result of the daily rotation and yearly orbit of the Earth — the result predicted for extragalactic neutrinos. [Wacky Physics: The Coolest Little Particles in Nature]
"At least a fraction of that flux is extragalactic origin," Albrecht Karle, a UW-Madison professor of physics and one of the senior authors of the new study, told Live Science. "This was a new discovery."
Those observations also told them something else: The energies of the muon neutrinos, and their numbers, didn't fit well with several models of their origins. The scientists don't address it deeply in their study ("We leave that to theorists," Karle said), but the data appear to show these muon neutrinos are probably not coming from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are highly energetic events in space.
"There are some stringent upper limits of neutrinos from GRBs — we know they don't produce that many," he said.
Similarly, active galactic nuclei don't seem to be the culprit, either, though Karle said it's too soon to say for sure. ( via livescience.com )
Other possibilities are galaxies going through bouts of rapid star formation, or masses of gas and dust that surround black holes at the galactic centers. As atoms get pulled into the maw of a black hole, they slam into each other more often at higher energies. Eventually some produce pions, neutrinos and photons. If that were the case, Karle said, then one would expect a nearly one-to-one ratio of high-energy neutrinos to accompanying photons. But that hasn't been confirmed or refuted yet.
The study is detailed in today's (Aug. 20) issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.
OUT OF THIS WORLD: 'TRITON OXYGEN RESPIRATOR EXTRACTS AIR UNDERWATER'
OUT OF THIS WORLD: 'TRITON OXYGEN RESPIRATOR EXTRACTS AIR UNDERWATER'
A new invention looks set to change Scuba and diving in general. It’s shocking task lies in the idea of microscopic, nano scale ‘artificial Gills’, can effectively separate the Oxygen from the water while diving, on demand. A series of tiny threads or strands have microscopic holes along their width, which are smaller than water molecules.
It’s called the ‘Triton Oxygen Respirator‘ (Image Below), a miniature but incredible device that will do away for the need to move bulky tanks on dives, and allow the dives to last much, much longer than can be had with current equipment.
The weight accumulations will help emergency responders to move around more calmly too without having to move bulky and heavy tanks around with them. We inhale about 6 litres per minute (when resting) and maybe 10 times that when working tough, so a pack containing 2 or 3 litres of water will stockpile a generous supply of O2, enough to last long enough to pursuit and salvage people from smoke filled buildings.
The Scuba industry is thinking ahead onto commercial, private and military ships as a secure device expressed to all passengers and crew, aircraft too if they have to dive into the sea. It could also be used on land, by firefighters, with minor adjustments. All they’d need would be a small canister of water or something identical to a hydration backpack to excerpt O2 from..there’s lots of O2 in a particular litre of water..about 630 litres worth. ( via topinfopost.com )
HIS APOLLO ASTRONAUT HAS ONE OF THE EERIEST EXTRATERRESTRIAL THEORIES OF ALL TIME
HIS APOLLO ASTRONAUT HAS ONE OF THE EERIEST EXTRATERRESTRIAL THEORIES OF ALL TIME
Most UFO enthusiasts have been lampooned by mainstream society, but there's something to be said for the fact that an Apollo 14 astronaut is a believer. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, is an outspoken alien conspiracy theorist, and he has some interesting hunches about what they might be doing to pick on our puny planet.
One of his most interesting ideas suggests that aliens are preventing us from blowing each other up with nuclear weapons.
Mitchell is very outspoken about his belief in UFOs.
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According to this spaceman, the vast majority of those UFO videos we see give clear evidence of extraterrestrial life.
The astronaut says that in 1945, while the U.S. was testing atomic weapons in New Mexico, military officials frequently spotted UFOs.
Why were the aliens there, though?
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Mitchell believes that they were "attempting to keep us from going to war and helping create peace on Earth." Sure enough, many of the missiles were mysteriously disabled shortly thereafter, and those fired were shot down by an unidentified aircraft.
Edgar Mitchell is also a fervent believer that the Roswell event was a real UFO crash, and that the government did autopsies on alien bodies in Area 51.
I mean, say what you will about silly alien theorists, but Edgar Mitchell seems like a guy with a good head on his shoulders. He's also one of the few people on this planet who has left the atmosphere, so I think we have to listen to him by default, right?
One of my major beefs with UFO issue is the discussion always ends up sounding like the script of a (bad) science fiction film.
C’mon, why don’t the aliens just land on the White House lawn and announce themselves? Because, we are told, they are watching us and taking data. They want to keep their presence hidden so that it doesn’t affect our evolution. There is more, but you get the idea.
The problem, of course, is that any civilization with technology capable of spanning light-years ought to be able to hide themselves well enough to avoid detection from hairy apes with jet-planes like us.
“Lights in the Sky” has been at the root of many UFO sightings. But why would alien spacecraft need lights? If they were really planning interstellar black-ops, then they should paint their spacecraft — you know — black and turn off the damn lights.
Here is a Reported Sighting in Sonora Mexico, August 16 2014 (SEE VIDEO)
Maybe the lights are not for navigation, landing or warning to approaching spacecraft but for communication like it Close Encounters of the Third Kind or maybe they are part of a Propulsion system?
Check out this Sighting in Colombia
A NASA study has recently concluded that the “Cannae Drive,” a disruptive new method of space propulsion, can produce small amounts of thrust without the use of propellant, in apparent discordance with Newton’s third law. According to its inventor, the device can harness microwave radiation inside a resonator, turning electricity into a net thrust. If further verified and perfected, the advance could revolutionize the space industry, dramatically cutting costs for both missions in deep space and satellites in Earth orbit.
Burkhard Heim (see Heim’s Quantum Theory, HQT) postulated that linking gravity to electromagnetism would generate a light particle he coined as a gravitophoton. Maybe the lights reportedly emanating from various UFO sights are a manifestation of HQT in action.
A Photon Starship with a type of propulsion using effectively a ‘beam of light’. This is allied with other exotic forms of propulsion, such as ‘electric’ and ‘ion motors’. We just beginning here on earth with photon rockets and solar or photon sails.
More than 25 years ago, the United States began to develop a missile defense system that was given the nickname “Star Wars.” This system was designed to track and use lasers to shoot down missiles launched by foreign countries. While this system was designed for war, researchers have found many other uses for these high-powered lasers. In fact, lasers could one day be used to propel spacecraft into orbit and to other planets.
An early model of a laser-propelled light-craft
Photo courtesy Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The basic idea behind light propulsion is the use of ground-based lasers to heat air to the point that it explodes, propelling the spacecraft forward. If it works, light propulsion will be thousands of times lighter and more efficient than chemical rocket engines, and will produce zero pollution.
A light-craft in action. The bright light you see is the air combusting under the rim of the craft.
Photo courtesy Rensselaer
Laser-propelled Light-craft
Light-propelled rockets sound like something out of science fiction — spacecraft that ride on a laser beam into space, require little or no onboard propellant and create no pollution. Sounds pretty far-fetched, considering we haven’t been able to develop anything close to that for conventional ground- or air-travel on Earth. But while it may still be 15 to 30 years away, the principles behind the light-craft have already been successfully tested several times. A company called Light-craft Technologies continues to refine the research that began at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
The basic idea for the light-craft is simple — the acorn-shaped craft uses mirrors to receive and focus the incoming laser beam to heat air, which explodes to propel the craft.
Here’s a look at the basic components of this propulsion system:
Carbon-dioxide laser – Light-craft Technologies uses a Pulsed Laser Vulnerability Test System (PLVTS), an offspring of the Star Wars defense program. The 10 kw pulsed laser being used for the experimental light-craft is among the most powerful in the world.
Parabolic mirror – The bottom of the spacecraft is a mirror that focuses the laser beam into the engine air or onboard propellant. A secondary, ground-based transmitter, telescope-like mirror is used to direct the laser beam onto the light craft.
Absorption chamber – The inlet air is directed into this chamber where it is heated by the beam, expands and propels the light-craft.
Onboard hydrogen– A small amount of hydrogen propellant is needed for rocket thrust when the atmosphere is too thin to provide enough air.
Prior to liftoff, a jet of compressed air is used to spin the light craft to about 10,000 revolutions per minute (RPMs). The spin is needed to stabilize the craft gyroscopically. Think about football: a quarterback applies spin when passing a football to throw a more accurate pass. When spin is applied to this extremely lightweight craft, it allows the craft to cut through the air with more stability.
Once the light craft is spinning at an optimal speed, the laser is turned on, blasting the light-craft into the air. The 10-kilowatt laser pulses at a rate of 25-28 times per second. By pulsing, the laser continues to push the craft upward. The light beam is focused by the parabolic mirror on the bottom of the light-craft, which heats the air to between 18,000 and 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit (9,982 and 29,982 degrees Celsius) — that’s several times hotter than the surface of the sun. When you heat air to these high temperatures, it is converted to a plasma state — this plasma then explodes to propel the craft upward.
This laser light craft could also use mirrors, located in the craft, to project some of the beamed energy ahead of the ship. The heat from the laser beam would create an air spike that would divert some of the air past the ship, thus decreasing drag and reducing the amount of heat absorbed by the light-craft.
Microwave-propelled Light-craft
Another propulsion system being considered for a different class of light-craft involves the use of microwaves. Microwave energy is cheaper than laser energy, and easier to scale to higher powers, but it would require a ship that has a larger diameter. Light-crafts being designed for this propulsion would look more like flying saucers (now we’re really heading into the realm of science fiction). This technology will take more years to develop than the laser-propelled light-craft, but it could take us to the outer planets. Developers also envision thousands of these light-craft, powered by a fleet of orbiting power stations, that will replace conventional airline travel.
Microwave-powered light-craft will rely on orbiting power stations.
Photo courtesy NASA
A microwave-powered light-craft will also utilize a power source that is not integrated into the ship. With the laser-powered propulsion system, the power source is ground-based. The microwave propulsion system will flip that around. The microwave-propelled spacecraft will rely on power beamed down from orbiting, solar power stations. Instead of being propelled away from its energy source, the energy source will draw the light-craft in.
Before this microwave light craft can fly, scientists will have to put into orbit a solar power station with a diameter of 1 kilometer (0.62 miles). Leik Myrabo, who leads the light-craft research, believes that such a power station could generate up to 20 gigawatts of power. Orbiting 310 miles (500 km) above Earth, this power station would beam down microwave energy to a 66-foot (20-meter), disk-shaped light-craft that would be capable of carrying 12 people. Millions of tiny antennae covering the top of the craft would convert the microwaves into electricity. In just two orbits, the power station would be able to collect 1,800 gigajoules of energy and beam down 4.3 gigawatts of power to the light-craft for the ride to orbit.
The microwave light-craft would be equipped with two powerful magnets and three types of propulsion engines. Solar cells, covering the top of the ship, would be used by the light-craft at launch to produce electricity. The electricity would then ionize the air and propel the craft for picking up passengers. Once it’s launched, the microwave light-craft used its internal reflector to heat the air around it and push through the sound barrier.
So in the end we can see that having lights on a extraterrestrial crafts may very well we the propulsion system and/or communications rather than what we use them for here on earth which is mainly for navigation.
Or,…Maybe the Lights have others uses we cant even imagine yet!
Strange UFO Lights Confuse Witnesses!
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