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...
28-08-2015
Could Alien Life Spread 'Like a Virus' to the Stars?
Could Alien Life Spread 'Like a Virus' to the Stars?
In this theoretical artist’s conception of the Milky Way galaxy, translucent green “bubbles” mark areas where life has spread beyond its home system to create cosmic oases, a process called panspermia. New research suggests that we could detect the pattern of panspermia, if it occurs.
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As astronomical techniques become more advanced, a team of astrophysicists think they will be able to not only detect the signatures of alien life in exoplanetary atmospheres, but also track its relentless spread throughout the galaxy.
The research, headed by Henry Lin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), assumes that this feat may be possible in a generation or so and that the hypothesis of panspermia may act as the delivery system for alien biology to hop from one star system to another.
Panspermia is a process where life is somehow transplanted from planet to planet. This may happen should a planet, rich with life, be hit by a massive asteroid impact; pieces of that planet’s crust will be propelled into space and any life contained within those samples may be transplanted to another world. If these hardy lifeforms make the trip, then perhaps they can gain a foothold and seed life in this new environment.
There are other hypothetical mechanisms by which life could “hop” from one planet to the next — including the fascinating possibility of “directed panspermia” where an intelligent civilization may deliberately seed other star systems with capsules containing its biological image. Other ideas remove the need for this life to survive the trip, allowing the freeze-dried dead biology attached to space rocks to act as a template for life on a newly seeded world, a process called “necropanspermia.”
These processes are pure hypotheses right now, and this new research does not specify how life may spread, but we do know that chunks of planetary bodies can travel from planet to planet. For example, a type of meteorite found on Earth is known to originate from Mars — its isotopic signature is identical to measurements made by the armada of robots currently orbiting and roving on the Red Planet. These meteorites were bits of Mars crust blasted into space by ancient impacts.
It’s not such a stretch to think that chunks of Earth have also been blasted into space and computer simulations suggest that there’s a statistical chance that Earth rocks have drifted to the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, potentially impacting some of the gas giants’ moons. Whether or not Earth’s abundant life was contained within these rocks is not known and it’s quite a stretch to think that a secondary genesis of life may have been spawned.
But say if life can hitch a ride on space rocks and this life can seed new biospheres on other worlds… how would astrobiologists recognize that life is being spread from one star system to the next? Well, like a common cold, the spread would appear viral.
“Life could spread from host star to host star in a pattern similar to the outbreak of an epidemic. In a sense, the Milky Way galaxy would become infected with pockets of life,” said co-author Avi Loeb, also of the CfA, in a press release.
Using a computer model, Lin and Loeb assumed that the “seeds” from one planet’s biosphere spreads in all directions over time. Should one of those seeds reach a habitable planet, there’s a chance it may take root. This creates several life-giving oases that could be detected by future space telescopes peering into these exoplanetary atmospheres. And should several of these life-endowed worlds be found, a pattern may emerge.
“In our theory clusters of life form, grow, and overlap like bubbles in a pot of boiling water,” said Lin.
According to the authors, whose paper has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters (and can be viewed on the arXiv preprint service), to see any kind of “viral” pattern, life would need to spread comparatively quickly, otherwise the motion of the stars around the galaxy will blur out the pattern. If a panspermia-like spread of life is occurring in the Milky Way, it would be ideal if Earth is located on the edge of a viral “bubble”; a situation whereby all the inhabited worlds are only found in one half of the sky, whereas the other half is devoid of life despite the presence of habitable exoplanets.
The fact that we may be able to decipher the biosignatures of life in the atmospheres of distant worlds is profound enough, but should we discover clusters of inhabited worlds, it begs the question: is panspermia a viable life-spreading mechanism? But even more than that, it questions the origin of life on Earth — did life originate here? Has it spread throughout the solar system or even to other stars?
Or was Earth just in the right place at the right time to catch the virus of life?
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Heflin UFO case revisited August 28, 2015
Heflin UFO photos. CLICK TO ENLARGE
We ran this back in 2012 or 2013. People came out of the woodwork to read this thing. Overloaded the systems. Blew up one of our servers. Smoke was coming off circuit breakers that were snapping. People were screaming "Incoming!".
It was awful. But then...danger is our business. So here goes again. (We've since beefed everything up.)
The Set up: Aug. 3, 1965. Rex Heflin, at that time an Orange County highway inspector was at work one day in his county rig when at 12:37 p.m. he says he spotted a kind of “hat shaped” thing flying in the air in Santa Anna, California.
He said the object was hovering right above the road right in front of him. He grabbed his Polaroid camera (a Model 101 Polaroid camera) that he used during his normal work day to take photos of highway obstructions etc. and got off three photographs of what was (he says) a “metallic-appearing object” and a fourth photo of a black "smoke ring" he says was left behind by the UFO after it sped away at high speed.
Heflin estimated the size of the UFO at around 20 feet wide and saId that as it flew across the road it seemed to hover a bit. He photographed it through his car's windshield as it crossed his line of vision (he got a second photo through his passenger window) and he said that as the object moved toward the east, it tipped a bit and he could see a dark (darker?) underside.
At that point he says he saw a type of "rotating beam of light" coming from the center of the bottom of the object. He said the beam was colored a greenish-white and it rotated (slowly) clockwise from the center of the object out to the rim of the thing.
Heflin also said the craft appeared to "wobble" a bit, kind of like when you see a kid's gyroscope on a table top begin to wobble as it runs out steam. Then he got off a third shot and by then, he says, the object had turned and continued moving east and slowly gaining altitude, then increased it's speed and altitude and as it kept moving it left a smoke like vapor in its wake.
One of the snapshots was published by the Santa Ana Register newspaper on September 20th of that year and the story got much bigger when the newswire services picked it up and fed it national.
THE PHOTOS AND ANALYSIS
The photos at above right are the ones he took. The second shot down on the page is enlarged quite a bit to get a better idea of what he saw.
There are several interesting aspects to this story.
1. The U.S. Air Force (which investigated the case via operation Blue Book) issued a statement saying the photos are a hoax.
2. A UFO investigating group called NICAP investigated the case (both Heflin and the newspaper cooperated in the investigation) which included, among other things, a detailed background check on Heflin (presumably to insure he had not spent any time in a "rest home") and a computer photo analysis study done by Robert Nathan at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who worked with both first-generation prints and copy negatives made by the newspaper.
The Nathan analysis of the photo prints and negs (reportedly) showed there was some kind of light beam emanating from the underside of the object. The analysis also ruled out that the object was something that was dangling in the air from a string or wire.
Years later some people claimed to have a found a "string like object" in the photos but in 1993 a MUFON photo analyst re-examined all the data and the photos from their initial investigation and rejected the string theory (they said it was an “artifact” generated by the photos being copied and recopied so many times).
TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE?
According to NICAP, persons unknown attempted to tamper with evidence and “manipulate information.” So the story goes, the copy negatives of Heflin's famous photos were at some point obtained from Heflin “under false pretenses” by some men claiming to be from the North American Air Defense Command.
The Air Force said if there ever were such people claiming to be from NORAD who came to get the photos, they were most certainly not from the Air Force or NORAD. Implication being: they were imposters, if they ever existed.
In the end the conclusion of UFO investigators was and is the case is a credible, thoroughly investigated sighting and meets all the criteria for evidence of a legit UFO -- which means it is simply a "legitimate" Unidentified Flying Object which brings us right back to that very day in 1965 when Heflin took the photos.
No more, no less.
Now, there is a fellow (named Marvin) who has done his own rather interesting analysis of the photos and he claims, "The odds are not in favor of a large free flying object remaining the same distance (to the camera) and altitude in both Photo #2 and Photo #3. The evidence supports a small object suspended from the truck near the mirror."
He notes that Heflin never filed any UFO report and we know from other sources that Heflin never sought any publicity (how the photos became public was actually by accident, more or less) so Marvin asks: "Was the whole affair just a practical joke that grew out of control?"
A very good question.
He's put his analysis, with the photos, online. You'll find it here.
P.S. If you ever take a photo of a UFO, send it to us. The merciless, take-no-prisoners, mostly sober (most of the time) crack Investigative Team here at the Chronicle will investigate that bad boy like nobody's business. Make NICAP look they have training wheels on their feet.
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WATCH: famous Black Knight UFO myth 'solved' by YouTube novice in just 11 minutes
WATCH: famous Black Knight UFO myth 'solved' by YouTube novice in just 11 minutes
From the nervous, shaky start, you can tell it's his first ever YouTube video.
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The legendary "Black Knight satellite" appears to have been proved as Nasa thermal blanket
The narrator even apologised for his amateur presenting style and asked viewers to bear with him.
But after an 11-minute DIY filming attempt, YouTube user NUA appears to have successfully debunked 1998 photographs of the so-called 'Black Knight satellite'.
Alien researchers have been calling the myth "one of the most convincing pieces of evidence for the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life" for the past 17 years, while some claim it has orbited Earth for at least 13,000 years.
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Nasa footage of Endeavour astronauts working with thermal blanket (ringed) on ISS
"There she goes" - dropped thermal blanket floats from ISS
But NUA's video - titled "Black Knight Satellite UFO Documentary - Truth Exposed 2015 - (Debunked)" - claims to conclusively prove the 'Black Knight', as photographed in 1998 NASA images, was nothing more than a satellite thermal blanket lost by the crew of the Endeavor space shuttle as they worked on the developing the International Space Station (ISS).
In his video, NUA compared NASA video of the Endeavor mission which shows a thermal blanket on the ISS.
The same blanket is then seen being dropped by the crew as it tubules away into space.
He highlights the blanket as being exactly the same shape as the 'Black Knight' in the 1998 pictures seized on by conspiracists and explains that the object only appeared to change shape because it was turning as it fell away.
After releasing the pictures in 1998, NASA said it was a thermal blanket, but it did not stop a wave of conspiracists branding it a huge cover up.
The legend of the alien satellite seems to have then been retrospectively dated back to 1899 when Nicola Tesla announced he was picking up radio waves coming from space, prompting people to suggest something alien was out there.
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NUA has forensically compared shape of blanket to Black Knight and concluded they are the same
It is not a UFO. It is identified. It is a thermal blanket. It is just an unfortunate case of misidentification.
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Experiments in 1928 in Oslo, Norway, picked up the same signals.
In 1954, US state newspapers carried quotes from Donald Keyhoe, a retired naval aviation major and UFO researcher, claiming the US Air Force had detected two satellites orbiting Earth, despite none yet being launched from our planet.
Time then ran a 1960 piece, following the launch of satellites from Earth, stating that the US Navy detected a dark object, possibly a Soviet spy satellite, with a highly irregular orbit.
The myth developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the 'Black Knight Satellite' while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.
It has been reported that a decade later in 1973, a researcher from Scotland, Duncan Lunan, looked back at the Norwegian scientists' data from 1928, before claiming the "messages" suggested the 'Black Knight' was sent by aliens from Epsilon Boötis, as a welcome message to Earth 12,600 years ago.
Many sceptics claim the legend was retrospectively created after the 1998 pictures emerged, with the preceding odd events weaved into the story to make it more convincing.
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He has looked at it from all angles to spot identical features
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Do you agree NUA has solved the Black Knight mystery?
The noises from 1899 and 1928 remain a mystery, but the possible causes do not so far include an alien satellite, according to scientists.
They insist research shows that in 1954 Mr Keyhoe had been promoting a UFO book and the articles had been written in a tongue-in-cheek fashion by the papers.
A follow-up, but less widely read, article in Time also confirmed that the strange satellite had in fact been the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray, they found.
There are reports that Mr Cooper, although maintaining he saw a number of UFOs in space, never claimed to have seen the 'Black Knight satellite' on that mission or at all.
Mr Lunan is also later reported to have denied suggesting any alien satellite had its origins 12,600 years ago and that his conclusion that the noises were a star map were from unscientific methods.
Despite NUA's video, many UFO researchers refuse to believe the fabled 'Black Knight satellite' could be just a thermal blanket, insisting, it is a craft of solid construction.
One 'Black Knight' believer posted online about the thermal blanket explanation: "Classic debunking (rubbish). The things these nutters will come up with just so someone will listen to them."
Groot ruimteschip verlicht ruimtestation ISS ( Video )
Groot ruimteschip verlicht ruimtestation ISS ( Video )
Voor iemand die de gebeurtenissen rondom het ISS ruimtestation op regelmatige basis volgt, is het onvoorstelbaar dat hiervan zo goed als niets terug te vinden is in het mainstream nieuws.
Zelfs een enorm ruimteschip dat ’s nachts het ISS ruimtestation verlicht, haalt de “normale pers” niet eens.
Het lijkt wel alsof mensen volkomen blind zijn voor wat er zich boven hun hoofden afspeelt of misschien is het simpelweg de angst voor het onbekende.
“Als we net doen alsof we het niet zien, dan bestaat het ook niet”.
Mensen zoals ufoloog Scott Waring die zich iedere minuut van hun vrije tijd bezighouden met onbekende objecten in de lucht zien vaak bijzondere dingen.
Zo ontdekte hij via de camerabeelden van NASA een UFO die op gelijke hoogte met het ruimtestation bleef meevliegen, af en toe vertraagde en versnelde om dan vervolgens weer voorbij te komen.
Naast deze UFO ontdekte hij nog een enorm ruimteschip, pal boven het ISS. Op de volgende afbeelding zie je de UFO en helemaal bovenin een deel van het ruimteschip.
Dan, op een zeker moment begint het ruimtestation in de nacht op te lichten door het grote ruimteschip. Een soort gloeiend blauwachtig/paars licht schijnt van bovenaf richting ruimtestation.
Het was volgens Scott ook niet bepaald een klein ruimteschip wat het ruimtestation verlichtte. Al het bovenstaande is vastgelegd op de video hieronder met commentaar van Scott Waring.
One of the credible witnesses in this world full of cruel people is the kids. Though, this is not an absolute principle; their stories are worth hearing. Unidentified Flying Objects are those objects flying in the sky, cannot be identified. It does not necessarily link to aliens, but most people relate it to them because aliens and extraterrestrial beings somehow exist in our stories. Who would make it, if it is not a man-made phenomenon?
Recently, there is a clip about the boy being captured on the mobile phone owned by the parents. Since the parents are concerned, they decide to send it to the “experts” for confirmation and verification. This strange footage was being recorded by a nine-year-old boy admitting that an alien had been following him every single day for two weeks. At first, his parents did not believe. However, the young boy was able to film the object, they considered the explanations. The object is flying around while changing its direction. Afterward, it vanishes in the midair.
According to the experts, the footage is a proof of alien craft following children. In fact, they camouflage themselves from parents to abduct the child. One YouTube comment said that the aircraft is almost invisible to the parents but visible to the child. Because of this, the object is frightening. The report is in connection with those recently claimed that there are strange objects following children, tantamount to a presumption to abduct them. While the story is unbelievable, the fact that the child was able to record the footage, it is a substantial proof that the incident is not fiction or a product of excessive imagination.
When you look closer, you’ll see the shifts of craft shape that changes its direction before dematerialising. It is normal for the viewers to share their opinions online. One audience even believed that the video is of title accusation, is more a reflection of the mindset of the uploader, than proof of anything nefarious on behalf of the craft pilot.
Australia’s Northern Territory is known as the UFO capital of Australia. The Northern Territory records more UFO sightings than any other area of Australia and is known as an hotspot for UFO sightings. Sightings are reported year round from the Top End in Darwin all the way to Alice Springs in the Victoria River Region.
Jason Hampton who lives in Australia’s Top End. The Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory is a geographical region encompassing the northernmost section of the Northern Territory, which is the second northernmost part of the Australian continent. The photos were made in Bynoe Harbour near the Crab Claw Island Resort on May 22nd 2015 at about 11:30 a.m. The photos were taken with a Canon 5D Mark III camera.
One photograph is the original and the other is made using a filter. Hampton took 6 pictures within a minute of some guys coming in from a fishing trip and saw nothing in the sky. Two weeks later when checking the photographs he noticed an object just to the right of the boat that he can’t explain!
“It has a flat area at the front that tapers down as well as a shiny area on the left so its not a bird,” according to the editor of http://www.ufoterritory.com.au/
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These are the other photos taken by Jason Hampton on the day of the sighting.
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut, Speaks Out on Roswell & the Existence of Aliens
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut, Speaks Out on Roswell & the Existence of Aliens
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell walks on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission. (NASA)
Recently, U.K. tabloid The Mirror, published a story quoting Apollo 14 Astronaut and sixth man to walk on the Moon, Edgar Mitchell, as saying that “Peace-loving aliens tried to save America from nuclear war.” To follow up on this claim and prior statements made to the Observer, we called Edgar Mitchell for a short follow up interview.
While the existence of extraterrestrials has always been a fascination driven by science fiction and supposed UFO sightings, this is not a claim you regularly hear from people who have actually been to space. Most recently, with the discovery of the potentially life-harboring planet Kepler 452b and NASA’s new mission to look for water and life on Jupiter’s moon Europa, the topic is once again in the mainstream and up for fierce debate.
I’d like to follow up on some of your previous comments regarding extraterrestrial life. Going back to the Roswell incident, many believe the crashing of an alien craft was covered up by the government—which supports your claim made in our previous interview. Is there anything that you know that differs from what the public is aware of?
Well I think it’s out there in the public. Circumstances were of course, that the Roswell incident was a post World War II event. We were doing nuclear testing over in the White Sands proving ground which was right across the mountain from Roswell and the Roswell Air Field was a military base supporting that. So it seems that most likely what the aliens were interested in was the fact we had a weapons testing facility at the White Sands Proving Ground and were also interested in what we were doing or what the U.S. military was doing.
What exactly were these crashed aliens doing there?
They were observing our activities at the White Sands proving ground and were monitoring our development.
A story went viral two weeks ago citing you as saying, “My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.” Can you elaborate?
I don’t remember speaking to them personally. I don’t know where they got that information. I didn’t make those statements. Somebody has added to my words. Those weren’t my exact words but I don’t necessarily disagree with those statements.
But have you been told by individuals who worked at the White Sands nuclear testing facility that there was UFO activity?
Yes I have.
The Roswell Daily Record from July 8, 1947 sparked years of conspiracy theories of government coverup. (Wikimedia)
You grew up near the site of the Roswell incident. Did you ever see any UFOs?
No, I have not personally, but I’ve spoken to individuals who were in the military and worked at the base at the time. You mentioned in a previous interview that the existence of extraterrestrials was being kept from the public because of the technology they can offer and that may affect the ‘moneyed’ interest.
Who are these people that keep the information secret?
Whoever sets the stage for military or government activity. We’ll probably never know the exact reason for why they do what they do but those are the interpretations that seem common. Switching gears now, I recently interviewed a startup that you sit on the advisory board of, SpaceVR.
Do you think their technology will assist consumers in experiencing a similar effect you had during Apollo 14?
They could react to it that way. There’s a long history in human civilization where people have these powerful effects and responses to different perspectives. My experience in space is what people call a samadhi experience. I think that back in time people were having these kinds of experiences and being overwhelmed by them. Seeing the big picture. That seems to go back in history. You’ll find that those kinds of experiences have been around a long time.
Samadhi—is that a term from Hinduism?
I think that came out of the hindu tradition, yes. In the greek tradition it was metanoia—change of mind, change of heart. I believe in the Buddhist tradition Satori was enlightenment. In other words, these various traditions of the past have added the sub verbiage to these types of expressions of people’s reactions to a new experience of some sort. A powerful experience that caused a change of thinking.
Do you subscribe to any one religion?
Let’s put it this way, I think most of our religions are early attempts at cosmology. In other words, explaining ourselves. How did we get here? Where are we going? Where did all this come from? How did it happen? People from all times have asked these sorts of questions and they came up with their own answers throughout history. Thats perfectly natural. All of our religious experiences are the same thing. Attempts to answer these ancient cosmological questions.
You have been cited many times when discussing the future of quantum physics as a science that could link spirituality and consciousness to everyday science. Can you explain this?
Well let’s put it in context. Quantum physics didn’t exist until the 20th century. It was the result of the work of Max Planck, Albert Einstein and the greats at the end of the 19th and into the 20th century. When quantum physics was formalized, we recognized the interactions between particles and that’s when we started to explain it. The awareness of particles and their interactions down at that level of nature have not been studied or understood before. That’s the quantum world as we understand it. We now know that particles interact. That they are aware of each other. We use that term that they are “aware” because they interact to each other. That was only quantified in the early 20th century. In the 1920s, quantum mechanics had a fairly good scientific organization and it’s taken us all the 20th century to be able to explain that these particles can show consciousness and awareness.
I think we can have a science for it.
Click here to read our early, more in-depth interview with Edgar Mitchell Robin
Seemangal focuses on NASA and advocacy for space exploration. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he currently resides. Find him on Instagram for more space-related content: @not_gatsby
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Astronaut: "Er waren UFO's bij Roswell, maar dat is stilgehouden vanwege de technologie die ze gebruiken" Astronaut: “Er waren UFO’s bij Roswell, maar dat is stilgehouden vanwege de technologie die ze gebruiken”
Astronaut: “Er waren UFO’s bij Roswell, maar dat is stilgehouden vanwege de technologie die ze gebruiken”
Apollo 14-astronaut Edgar Mitchell sprak onlangs in een interview met Observer.com over UFO’s en het beroemde Roswellincident. Volgens velen is er in de jaren veertig een UFO gecrasht bij het Amerikaanse plaatsje.
Mitchell, die in het gebied opgroeide, zei dat hij zelf nog nooit een UFO heeft gezien. Hij zei wel te hebben gesproken met mensen die op de nucleaire basis White Sands hadden gewerkt. Die bevestigden tegenover hem dat er UFO-activiteit was geweest.
Hij zei ook dat het incident geheim is gehouden vanwege de technologie die uit de UFO’s kon worden gehaald door ‘vermogende partijen’. Hij doelde hiermee op de mensen die achter de schermen het overheidsbeleid uitstippelen en het leger aansturen.
De 84-jarige Mitchell maakte deel uit van de Apollo 14-missie in 1971 en was de zesde maanwandelaar ooit. Hij is dus niet zomaar iemand. Volgens Mitchell vlogen aliens met hun UFO’s boven Amerikaanse raketbases en boven White Sands, waar in 1945 de atoombom Trinity werd gedropt, om zich te informeren over de militaire kracht van de Amerikanen.
Uit gesprekken met mensen bleek duidelijk dat de buitenaardse wezens wilden voorkomen dat Amerika oorlog zou voeren, zei hij. Luchtmachtofficieren die de raketbases in de Koude Oorlog bemanden zeiden tegen hem dat er toen geregeld UFO’s werden gespot. Die zouden raketten vaak onklaar hebben gemaakt, met name aan de Pacifische kust. “In die dagen was er hevige activiteit,” zei Mitchell. Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.
Flitsende UFO-formatie niet opgemerkt door publiek ( Video )
Flitsende UFO-formatie niet opgemerkt door publiek ( Video )
Een man is met zijn gezin aan het wandelen in Chicago wanneer hij plotseling iets in de lucht ziet.
Hij maakt er een prachtige opname van, maar verbaast zich erover dat de rest van de bevolking dit simpelweg niet lijkt te zien.
Vorige week schreven wij een artikel over dat een formatie van drie UFO’s relatief vaak voor komt.
Wij ontvingen enkele interessante foto’s van een lezer die genomen zijn in de buurt van Steenbergen (Noord-Brabant) en die niet alleen enkele bijzondere wolken tonen, maar ook een driehoekige UFO-formatie.
Ik zie geen link waar ik m'n zojuist gemaakte foto kan doorsturen van wolken die redelijk in de buurt komen van wat onlangs passeerde op deze site. Het grappige is (toeval of niet) dat er 2 formaties van 3 witte bollen te zien zijn in driehoeksvorm in de wolk. Ik heb meerdere foto's gemaakt ter hoogte van Steenbergen.
Voor wie beschikt over goede ogen; in de laatste foto zijn er zelfs 3 formaties te zien.
Voor wie ze niet heeft kunnen ontdekken, volgt hier een kort filmpje waarbij de lezer aanwijst waar de UFO-formaties zich bevinden:
Naast de driehoeksformatie of drie UFO’s is er nog een verschijningsvorm van deze objecten die de laatste tijd veelvuldig voorkomt.
Dat is de flitsende UFO die vaak wordt gezien als een soort ronde cirkel. Wat we bedoelen is duidelijk te zien op de volgende foto die is genomen door een vrouw in het plaatsje Bismarck in de Amerikaanse staat North Dakota.
De vrouw heeft geen flauw benul wat voor object het is.
In dezelfde staat, maar in een plaats iets meer dan honderd kilometer verderop, werd in Dickinson ook een dergelijke UFO gezien. Beide waarnemingen vonden niet op dezelfde dag plaats voor zover wij kunnen beoordelen.
Ook bij de waarneming in Dickinson waren er een aantal UFO’s zichtbaar in een soort cirkelformatie, waarbij die in het centrum van de cirkel groter was dan de omringende.
De getuige heeft helaas geen foto kunnen maken, maar wel de volgende tekening:
Op een gegeven moment bewogen al de kleinere UFO’s zich weg van de grote in het midden, maar bleven wel exact in dezelfde formatie. Drie tot vijf seconden later kwamen ze allemaal weer netjes terug in hun oorspronkelijke positie.
De gehele voorstelling nam ongeveer een halve minuut in beslag.
Iets vergelijkbaars gebeurde er ook in Chicago op 12 augustus 2015. Een man is samen met zijn gezin aan het wandelen bij de aldaar bekende Buckingham fontein, wanneer hij een aantal vreemde lichten opmerkt in de lucht.
Ook deze UFO’s schijnen zich in eerste instantie in een cirkel te bewegen, maar dan verandert het geheel naar de volgende formatie:
De getuige zegt dat hij zijn leven lang in Chicago heeft gewoond en nog nooit iets dergelijks heeft gezien. Wat hem misschien nog wel het meest verbaasde was dat bijna niemand op de grond dit soort dingen opmerkte.
Iedereen ging gewoon door met wat ze aan het doen waren en ze zagen het niet of ze deden alsof ze het niet zagen.
Ook boven een Turkse stad werd enkele dagen geleden op 24 augustus iets dergelijks gefilmd. Van deze waarneming zijn geen verdere gegevens bekend, maar ook hier een soort cirkelformatie van UFO’s met daar omheen een flitsend licht.
Kortom, we zijn eigenlijk nog geen stap dichterbij een verklaring voor al die onbekende objecten die in ons luchtruim vertoeven. Dat ze er inderdaad zijn, is een discussie die gepasseerd is.
Extraordinary UFO sightings from the US Air Force's Project Blue Book
Extraordinary UFO sightings from the US Air Force's Project Blue Book
Four remarkable stories from the new online database of 130,000 pages of UFO sightings
A photographic negative allegedly showing a fleet of unidentified craft in the skies above Lubbock, Texas
By Morgan Meaker
Between 1947 and 1969, the US Air Force meticulously recorded over 10,000 incidents involving Unidentified Flying Objects. Inside the Project Blue Book archive, which has recently been put online, witnesses described objects as "concave as a soup bowl", "onion-shaped" and resembling "a frosty silvery football" shooting across the sky.
A seed salesman was driving when he saw a flash of light. When he moved closer to the light, his car stopped working.
The light came from a nearby riverbed where he saw an object, resembling a balloon. When he approached the space ship, another flash of light paralysed him.
He was unable to move as two men appeared and began to search him – they asked if he was armed.
After the search, he was able to move again. He asked the men if he could take a closer look at the UFO. They agreed. Inside, he met four men and two women..
They all spoke in German accents and seemed to move around on magnetic fields. The sides, bottom and floor of the ship were perfectly transparent.
After around thirty minutes, they said goodbye. After leaving the UFO, it rose 150ft into the air and disappeared.
At the same time as the sighting, a farmer’s truck broke down two miles away. During the investigation, a blue stain was found on trees near to the scene and green oil was found covering dry leaves.
However the man was assessed by psychiatrists who said his “mental condition” would enjoy publicity. He was later committed to the state mental hospital in Hastings, Nebraska
An Argentinian truck driver was looking for a hotel to spend the night when he saw small red lights, four miles from Isla Verde.
When he got closer to the lights, his engine cut out. Hoping he might find somewhere to stay, he left the car taking with him a blanket and a gun.
He thought he saw the lights of a vehicle. However these lights disappeared and in their place he saw powerful rays of red light coming towards him.
There was a smell of gas that made his eyes and face sting. Frightened, his knees gave way and he shot at the light with his revolver.
In response “the light gave out a sound, like the rapid braking of a car and went backward a few meters”.
He fled into a field looking for a shelter however from a hill two red lights appeared which “reflected” his steps.
The red light continued to follow him as he walked around, confused. Then a blue lit “vineyard shaped vehicle” appeared.
He said it had two small windows and inside he could see someone “but I didn’t see legs or faces, just a body type form”.
Six hundred feet from the object he saw four human beings “or whatever they were”. He asked them questions but nobody replied.
They just walked beside him. They were 6'5" tall with a sparkling uniform.
One of them came very close with a triangular object in his hand. The truck driver was again afraid and so fired another shot and it was “as if a shadow had fallen backwards”.
They returned to the vehicle and the large object passed him overhead. A blue light however did not leave the man until he reached the city.
The investigation confirmed that the truck was at the place the man had said it was and his footprints were also found.
However the US Air Force received only second hand evidence from the Argentinians and decided it was too expensive and too much time had passed to continue the investigation.
Horace Burns was driving his station wagon when he saw a huge metallic object flying in the sky.
It was crossing the highway about 200ft ahead of him when his engine cut dead.
For approximately 90 seconds, the UFO landed lightly, “like a bubble”, in a small field. Burns said it resembled an “upside down toy top” and was about 90ft high.
There was a blue glow around the base of the machine.
The sighting was investigated by a professor at a college in Virginia who passed on his research to the US Air Force.
He said he picked up “tremendously high reading of radiation” at the scene and a 14 year old boy said he had also seen a large UFO travelling in the same direction. The boy’s parents corroborated his story.
The Project Blue Book report reads that there was a lack of evidence and placed the sighting in the psychological category.
A man was riding his bike on the highway when he saw what looked like a “very powerful flare” and four silhouettes that resembled human beings.
Afraid of an ambush, he ran away and stumbled on a nearby house, where he met a couple and told them what he had seen.
Together, the three watched the light as if blinked from white to dull red. Near to the light they saw three men, about 4'9" tall.
They were immobile, dressed in greyish, beige outfits. The light faded and flew away. When they returned to the scene, with the police, they found the highway had been marked with forms, “black as the casting of costly tar”.
The substance was soft and slightly stuck to the ground.
Although the witnesses were described as “very trustworthy people” in the investigation, the report was classed as “unreliable”.
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Britain's Roswell: the truth behind the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident
Britain's Roswell: the truth behind the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident
Did an extra-terrestrial craft land in a Suffolk forest during the winter of 1980? The maker of a new film, The Rendlesham UFO Incident, believes so
The truth is out there? The Rendlesham UFO incident is the subject of a new filmPhoto: Eyevine
Dubbed “Britain’s Roswell”, the Rendlesham Forest incident, which took place over a series of nights in December 1980, continues to fascinate UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists. It is easy to understand why. Consider the following three statements, for example:
1) “This was not some vague ‘lights in the sky’ sighting – the UFO actually landed.” – Nick Pope, a Ministry of Defence employee from 1985 to 2006.
2) “When I arrived [at the scene], it was going in and out through the trees and at one stage it was hovering.” – Sgt. Adrian Bustinza, a security police commander who investigated the incident at the time.
3) “Okay, we’re looking at the thing; we’re probably about two to three hundred yards away. It looks like an eye winking at you... And the flash is so bright to the starscope that it almost burns your eye.” – Taken from the Halt tape, recorded on December 27 1980 by United States Air Force lieutenant colonel Charles Halt.
Only last month, a dog walker uploaded fresh footage of unidentified lights in the sky above Rendlesham Forest, while a new film on the subject, produced by long-time Suffolk resident and Rendlesham Forest incident expert Daniel Simpson, has recently been released. There is even an official UFO trail for walkers to follow through Rendlesham Forest. But what actually happened? And, 35 years after the event, are we any closer to unravelling the mystery?
The start of the Rendlesham Forest UFO trail
As the years have passed, the facts have become increasingly hazy, as statements change and new witnesses come forward. But what we do know for sure is that, in the early hours of December 26 1980, US military personnel (sections of the US Air Force were temporarily stationed at RAF bases in Woodbridge and Bentwaters) spotted strange lights above Rendlesham Forest.
One of these men, John Burroughs, accompanied by his supervisor and one other individual, went to investigate the blue, red, orange and white lights. In his subsequent witness statement, published in 1981, Burroughs explains: “As we went down the east-gate road and the road that leads into the forest, the lights were moving back and they appeared to stop in a bunch of trees... Also, the woods lit up and you could hear the farm animals making a lot of noises, and there was a lot of movement in the woods. All three of us hit the ground and whatever it was started moving back towards the open field… We got up to a fence that separated the trees from the open field. You could see the lights down by a farmer’s house. We climbed over the fence and started walking toward the red and blue lights and they just disappeared.”
Jim Penniston, who accompanied Burroughs into Rendlesham Forest on December 26, claims to have encountered a craft, covered in hieroglyphic-like characters. “I estimated it to be about three metres tall and about three metres wide at the base,” Penniston later explained. “No landing gear was apparent, but it seemed like she was on fixed legs. I moved a little closer. I had already taken all 36 pictures on my roll of film. I walked around the craft, and finally, I walked right up to the craft. I noticed the fabric of the shell was more like a smooth, opaque, black glass.”
Burroughs does not recall this. Indentations on the forest floor, as well as damage to the trees in the area where the lights had been spotted, were found the following morning, however. Radiation levels recorded at the site of the indentations were also unusually high.
In the book Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, which was published last year, Penniston writes: “I left the forest a different man… I was in awe of the technology and yes, a knowing that it was not an aircraft which could have been manufactured in 1980 or even now.” Both Penniston and Burroughs have since suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Two nights later, a different set of military personnel experienced a similar series of events. On this occasion, when the lights were spotted, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt was prepared. A pragmatic character, Halt intended to disprove the wild rumours swirling around RAF bases Woodbridge and Bentwaters. Arming himself with a recording device, he set out to investigate. The subsequent audio tape is now considered one of the most valuable pieces of evidence in the Rendlesham Forest incident.
The transcript of the tape runs to some 18 minutes but includes statements from Halt such as: “I see it too... it’s back again... it’s coming this way... there’s no doubt about it... this is weird... it looks like an eye winking at you... it almost burns your eyes... he’s coming toward us now... now we’re observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground... one object still hovering over Woodbridge base... beaming down”. Halt has since given interviews in which he claims that these occurrences were picked up by British radar. “I didn’t know this until recently,” he told AOL News. “Because people have come forward after they’ve retired. There were two radar confirmations.”
The following night, December 28, one final group of men claim to have encountered something out of the ordinary in Rendlesham Forest. Larry Warren, an 18-year-old soldier who was not even at either RAF base on the night of the first incident, was sent out on patrol with Sgt Adrian Bustinza and a number of other military personnel. Sometime after 11pm, the men departed their trucks and headed towards the field where lights had been seen on the previous two nights.
There, Warren claims to have seen “disaster preparedness officers out here with geiger counters, going in an almost half-clockwise motion around this thing on the ground.” A small red light was then seen approaching from the direction of the coast. “It moved in a downward arc, so fast. [It] stopped and hovered about 20 feet off the ground,” said Warren. “It was the size of a basketball, [an] American basketball. [It was] self-illuminated, not quite red, yet that’s the closest I can describe it.”
Things were about to get even stranger, though. This red light suddenly exploded and a craft appeared on the forest floor. According to Warren, it had “no windows, no markings, no flag or country of origin. Nothing. You could hardly look at it head on, and if you looked at it through the side of your peripheral vision you’d get a shape of it… and there it was, clear as a bell.”
A 1983 News of the World headline about Rendlesham sightings (Ian Ridpath/NoW)
At this stage, Warren and Bustinza were asked to retreat by a senior man. From a distance, they then claim to have witnessed Wing Commander Gordon Williams approach the craft and encounter some alien being with “what looked like eyes, facial features, bright clothing and some other device.” Warren is clear that a “silent stand-off”, rather than any communication, took place.
At around 4.30am, Warren returned to his base but Bustinza claims to have seen the craft depart. “When it took off, it was, like, hovering. It went up and, like, took off at about a forty-five-degree angle, and if you would have blinked, you would have missed it… And we got a cold draft of air that lasted about a good ten seconds. You know, like when you get a good blow of dust or wind. No noise though; I do remember that.”
It is understood that almost half of all UFO correspondence directed at the Ministry of Defence relates to the Rendlesham Forest incident. Despite claims of a cover-up, the MoD’s stance has never wavered. It states: “No evidence was found of any threat to the defence of the United Kingdom, and no further investigations were carried out. No further information has come to light which alters our view that the sightings of these lights was of no defence significance.”
Daniel Simpson takes a different view, however. The director of The Rendlesham UFO Incident, a fictionalised account of the story set in the modern day and filmed on location in Rendlesham Forest, is convinced that either there has been a military cover-up or that something extra-terrestrial occurred in December 1980. And moreover, he believes he has uncovered further evidence to prove it. While filming in Rendlesham Forest – “It does have a very strong atmosphere of something strange” – he asked the Forestry Commission to investigate a series of hatches, which Simpson describes as “mysterious”.
“I got the Forestry Commission to tow one of those hatches off with a four wheel drive and there’s a ladder going down,” he explains, as we discuss his film. “Now, they will tell you that those are drainage systems for the airfield but it’s a very elaborate drainage system.”
A drawing from Jim Penniston's original witness statement
Simpson believes that “the twin bases [RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters] are connected by tunnels underneath, which isn’t that far out a thing to suggest, because a lot of these bases do have an underground facility, especially as it’s a nuclear facility. You don’t keep nuclear weapons on ground level, they have to drop down.”
He continues: “I recently heard a very interesting story of a guy that went up to the Bentwaters air base and, because it’s privately owned, some of those buildings are rented out to people. A company up there wanted to have their internet sorted out and this guy dug down and – he was a telecom guy – he came back and he was sheet white. He couldn’t believe it. He said he’d just come across these cables, two foot down, and they were cables delivering such a powerful internet connection – but they were cables from 1980. I haven’t ever told anyone that story. They [the cables] were from 1980 and yet they were so in advance of what we’ve even got now. I’m told that all the time what we get [technologically] is much behind what they [the military] actually know.”
So what, I wonder, is the truth? Simpson appears conflicted about whether this is a military cover-up at a nuclear facility or something even more alarming. “I honestly believe something very strange went on there and I believe that somewhere is the evidence to prove it but that’s hidden away. I think it’s an extra-terrestrial encounter. I do.”
I put a series of theories to Simpson, which I hope might explain away the idea that extra-terrestrial life landed in a forest in Suffolk 35 years ago. But he bats them all away. Could the lights have come from nearby Orford Ness lighthouse, for example? “The lighthouse theory is rubbish,” he scoffs. “Lighthouses don’t fly down into forests, split up into five different lights and zap off into space at Mach-3. They don’t move through the trees and get mistaken by up to 20 witnesses from the United States Air Force.”
Daniel Simpson's film, The Rendlesham UFO Incident, was shot on location in Rendlesham Forest
The Rendlesham UFO Incident is out now on DVD
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City On Mars Inside Alien Skull Found In India Mars Photo, Aug 27, 2015, UFO Sighting News.
City On Mars Inside Alien Skull Found In India Mars Photo, Aug 27, 2015, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: August 27, 2015 Location of discovery: Ophir Chasma, Mars Source photo: http://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c25-mars-orbiter-mission/3d-portrayals-of-ophir-chasma-terrain Was reading in the news that India Mars orbiter had taken some fantastic photos and they were sharing some with the news. I had to dive in head first on this one. I was looking for structures and faces, but what I found was a combination of both. This structure is actually in the shape of an alien shoulders, neck, cranium and face, but the eerie part is that the head is split wide open, and there are structures inside this head. There is also another face inside the head, but it was to dark with the shadows to bother trying to point it out. I added yellow to outline the outer body, pink being the inside of the skull. A city inside a head shaped structure. This is proof that sometimes aliens can be artistic, bizarre, and eerie. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
One of the oldest theories around has to be the 'Black Knight' satellite, a mysterious black object which has been repeatedly referred to in reference to sightings all over the world and indeed even outside of this world.
After a period of absence from the limelight it appears as though the 'Black Knight' is back again, appearing in the sky above Jacksonville, Florida.
Believed to be a '13,000 year-old alien satellite' (no, really), the 'Black Knight' story originates as far back as 1954, however theorists use a series of images taken in 1998 by the Space Shuttle Endeavour which showed a mysterious black object apparently in orbit around the Earth.
NASA quickly dealt with the 'rumour' calling it nothing more than a thermal heat plate that had fallen off the shuttle.
Of course once a theorist gets hold of a good set of images you're unlikely to keep them quiet and the idea has persisted ever since.
YouTube user "secureteam10" who posted the video has a history of posting UFO videos that could be considered 'dubious' by even the most believing of theorists.
That hasn't stopped the video from getting over 133,000 views though, cementing the one singular truth that comes out of every 'UFO discovery'. Whether you believe them or not, people don't want us to be alone in the universe, and in some ways, that's pretty reassuring.
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Does Ice on Mars mean Life will be Found?
Does Ice on Mars mean Life will be Found?
Scientists have found vast oceans of ice lying just below the surface of Mars in a major boost to the search for alien life on the Red Planet.
‘This discovery will provide the momentum, we are going to put a man on Mars,’ said Nasa’s Dr Jim Garvin.
How much Ice is there? If it was to melt, it would cover the entire planet in an ocean at least 1,640ft deep.
The news greatly increases the chances that there was once at least microscopic life on Mars and that some of it may still survive-Having water just below the surface also means that human colonies could survive and even thrive on the planet and indicates that fuel for manned spaceflight could be manufactured there.
Just beneath the planet’s dirt surface, UA researchers found an enormous slab of water ice, measuring 130 feet thick and covering an area equivalent to that of California and Texas combined.
It was a “crazy-looking crater” on the face of Mars that caught Ali Bramson’s eye. But it was a simple calculation that explained the crater’s strange shape.
Combining data gleaned from two powerful instruments aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, Bramson and her colleagues determined why the crater is terraced — not bowl shaped, like most craters of this size.
“Craters should be bowl shaped, but this one had terraces in the wall,” says Bramson, a graduate student in the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, or LPL.
Terraces can form when there are layers of different materials in the planet’s subsurface, such as dirt, ice or rock.
“It’s worth mentioning that terraced craters of this size are quite rare,” says Shane Byrne, associate professor in LPL. “But in this area of Mars (Arcadia Planitia), there are a lot of terraced craters. The craters may have formed at different times, but they all have terraces, which indicates something weird is going on in the subsurface.”
Terraced Crater in Arcadia Planitia NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Thanks to Mars’ unstable obliquity — the degree the planet tilts on its axis — its climate changes often. Unlike Earth, Mars doesn’t have a large moon to keep it stable. Instead, it wobbles on its axis, and that wobbling leads to dramatic climatic shifts. Those shifts, in turn, have led to intermittent ice ages.
Using MRO’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera, which is operated out of LPL, the researchers created three-dimensional models of the area’s craters, which allowed them to measure the depth of their terraces. The researchers then used MRO’s Shallow Radar, or SHARAD, instrument to beam radar pulses to Mars, allowing them to measure the time it took for the radar signals to penetrate the surface’s buried layers and bounce back.
Bramson combined the two data sets to measure the radar waves’ speed, a pivotal clue to the layers’ composition.
In this crater’s case, the layers turned out to be ice, and lots of it. Just beneath Mars’ dirt surface, or regolith, the researchers found an enormous slab of water ice, measuring 130 feet thick and covering an area equivalent to that of California and Texas combined.
The researchers’ results were published online in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
While the presence of ice came as little surprise to Bramson and Byrne, its age, amount and location did. Although scientists have known for some time about Mars’ icy deposits at its poles and have used them to look at its climatic history, knowledge of icy layers at the planet’s midlatitudes, analogous to earthly latitudes falling between the Canadian-U.S. border and Kansas, is something new.
“Knowing where the ice is and how thick it is can tell you about Mars’ past climates,” Byrne says. “The fact that the ice is so thick and widespread leads us to think it came into place during one of Mars’ past climates when it snowed a bunch, ice accumulated, was buried, and then preserved.
“There have been a lot of climate changes between now and the tens of millions of years ago when we suspect the ice was put there. But it shouldn’t be stable today, and other past climates of ice instability in this region mean the ice should’ve sublimated away into the dry Martian atmosphere by now. So, that’s what we need to investigate.
“What kept the ice around all this time? There’s no climate model that we have now that explains this.”
Also Curiosity confirms Water!
UNEXPECTEDLY high levels of liquid water have been found just a metre under the surface of Mars, boosting the chances of the Red Planet once housing life.
The historic discovery was made by Nasa’a Curiosity Rover – a robotic four-wheel drive space probe which is exploring in detail the surface of Mars – during its latest mission to forensically analyse the Martian floor.
The rover will now turn its attention to looking for evidence of “ancient habitable environments” by examining layers of the lower Mount Sharp region of Mars, and hopefully evidence about how early Mars environments evolved from wetter to drier conditions.
Until this year it was believed Mars was too cold to hold any liquid water, but it emerged in April the Rover found Martian soil is damp with liquid brine, due to the presence of a salt that significantly lowers the freezing point of water.
But now this month the rover had found rocks just a meter below the surface with up to four times as much water content as previously found.
Previous observations by the probe’s stereo camera showed areas characteristic of old riverbed, with rounded pebbles indicating there were once flowing rivers up to one meter deep.
In April close-up images showed slanting expanses of sedimentary deposits, lying one above the other – the kind of deposits formed when large amounts of water flow down the slopes of a crater and meet stagnant water in the form of a lake.
Curiosity rover MAHLI camera wheel images from SOL 529. You can clearly see soil sticking to the rover wheels as if moist:
Silica, monitored with Curiosity’s laser-firing Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument, is a rock-forming chemical containing silicon and oxygen, commonly found on Earth as quartz.
Hydrogen in the ground beneath the rover is monitored by the rover’s Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument. It has been detected at low levels everywhere Curiosity has driven and is interpreted as the hydrogen in water molecules or hydroxyl ions bound within or absorbed onto minerals in the rocks and soil.
Igor Mitrofanov, DAN Principal Investigator of Space Research Institute, Moscow, said: “The ground about one metre beneath the rover in this area holds three or four times as much water as the ground anywhere else Curiosity has driven during its three years on Mars.”
The rover has spent several weeks in the Marias Pass region investigating a “geological contact zone” and rocks “unexpectedly high in silica and hydrogen content” indicating water bound to minerals in the ground.
Also Mars Glaciers Confirmed!
Several satellites orbit Mars and on satellite images, researchers have been able to observe the shape of glaciers just below the surface. For a long time scientists did not know if the ice was made of frozen water (H2O) or of carbon dioxide (CO2) or whether it was mud.
Using radar measurements from the NASA satellite, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers have been able to determine that is water ice.
The image from the High Resolution Stereo Camera shows that a thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear as the surface of the ground, but radar measurements show that there are glaciers composed of frozen water underneath the dust.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
Mars has thousands of glaciers buried beneath its dusty surface, enough frozen water to blanket the planet with a 3.6-foot(1.1- meter) thick layer of ice, scientists said In August 2015.
The glaciers are found in two bands in the mid-southern and mid-northern latitudes. Radar data, collected by Mars-orbiting satellites, combined with computer models of ice flows show the planet has about 5.3 trillion cubic feet (150 billion cubic meters) of water locked in the ice, according to a study published in the issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letter.
Mars distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes — between the blue lines, in both the southern and northern hemispheres. A thick layer of dust covers the glaciers.
Credit: Mars Digital Image Model, NASA/Nanna Karlsso
We have known about Ice Deposits for some time, the HRSC on ESA’s Mars Express obtained this perspective view on 2 February 2005 during orbit 1343 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 meters per pixel.
It shows an unnamed impact crater located on Vastitas Borealis, a broad plain that covers much of Mars’s far northern latitudes, at approximately 70.5° North and 103° East.
The crater is 35 kilometers wide and has a maximum depth of approximately 2 kilometers beneath the crater rim. The circular patch of bright material located at the center of the crater is residual water ice.
The colors are very close to natural, but the vertical relief is exaggerated three times. The view is looking east.
A frozen lake of water-ice on the floor of a 35 km wide impact crater on Mars.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/G. Neukum
We Live in Exciting Times in Space and Planet exploration and with plans of human settlements on Mars these discoveries confirm that settlements will have access to water. And with water a large list of possibilities come into play, like Terraforming!
What would the Red Planet look like?
See a fantasy animation below
http://www.modifiedmars.com/ is a project with the ambition to visualize a 23rd century terraformed Mars and to explore its touristic potential.
It is hard to believe that just a few centuries ago Mars was a lifeless place. Around the turn of the millennium, a time when space programs were stagnating due to a lack of vision by those in power, no human had even set foot on the then Red Planet. Dust storms were torturing the arid landscape, it’s stark beauty unseen by human eyes.
Only a few people were aware of the immense promise of terraforming Mars. With environmental problems on the home world running out of control, even the thought of modifying another planet was like blasphemy to many other earthlings’ ears. Still, it happened.
Just over two hundred years later, rivers are running once more through ancient valleys, ocean waters are washing a long and capricious shoreline, forests are working their way up on magnificent slopes.This Modified Mars is a home to millions of people and the Solar System’s favorite tourist destination.
Ok,… so the the last Video is more of promising fantasy visualization.
Astronauts Photograph 35 Mile High 'Sky Jellyfish' That Live Above the Clouds
Astronauts Photograph 35 Mile High 'Sky Jellyfish' That Live Above the Clouds
Over the past century a number of writers on Fortean topics have speculated that there are strange, unknown beings that live above us in the sky - atmospheric beasts that range from dragons to massive 'sky jellyfish'. Could it be possible that some sightings - in particular of the latter type of 'beast' - are caused by atmospheric phenomena that are only just now beginning to be understood?
A case in point would be so-called 'sprites' - "large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky." The first report of a sprite sighting was in the late 19th century, but they weren't photographed until a century later.
Now, sprites are captured in photographs and on video quite often - and recently, some were even seen from above, by astronauts on the International Space Station (see image at the top of this post). On August 10th, the astronauts spotted red sprites above a cluster of storms over Mexico and El Salvador, and managed to snap some wonderful images.
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acquired August 10, 2015download large image (6 MB, JPEG, 4928x3280)
acquired August 10, 2015download large image (6 MB, JPEG, 4928x3280)
Viewing from a point over northwest Mexico, astronauts aboard the International Space Station looked northeast and shot this unusual photograph of a red sprite above the white light of an active thunderstorm. In the top image, the sprite was 2,200 kilometers (1,400 miles) away, high over Missouri or Illinois; the lights of Dallas, Texas appear in the foreground. The sprite shoots up to the greenish airglow layer, near a rising moon.
Two minutes and 58 seconds later, as the ISS was over the coastal Mexican resort of Acapulco, the crew documented another red sprite (lower image) over a brilliant white thundercloud and lightning discharge near the coast of El Salvador. The shorter distance to the storm—about 1,150 km (710 miles)—makes it somewhat easier to see details of the sprite. City lights are a diffuse yellow because they are shining through clouds.
These photos show the sprite’s tendrils reaching as much as 100 kilometers above Earth’s surface. Sprites are major electrical discharges, but they are not lightning in the usual sense. Instead, they are a cold plasma phenomenon without the extremely hot temperatures of lightning that we see underneath thunderstorms. Red sprites are more like the discharge of a fluorescent tube. Bursts of sprite energy are thought to occur during most large thunderstorm events. They were first photographed in 1989.
Astronaut photographs ISS044-E-45553 and ISS044-E-45576 were acquired on August 10, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 28 millimeter lens, and are provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The images were taken by a member of theExpedition 44 crew. The images have been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by M. Justin Wilkinson, Texas State University, Jacobs Contract at NASA-JSC.
Huge Beam of Light appears above Earth captured during ISS Live Stream
Huge Beam of Light appears above Earth captured during ISS Live Stream
Witness: I was on the NASA ISS live feed, about 5 minutes after watching a sort of portal, wormhole or beam of light like object appeared above the earth and in seconds yet from one side of the earth to the other.
I managed to capture one screenshot before NASA cut the live feed. I continued to wait for the feed to come back hoping for another chance to see the object, but it was gone when the feed came back up.
However, about 10 minutes after the feed was up again, another swirling object appeared but then the feed changed again.
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