Spooky! Quantum Action Is 10,000 Times Faster Than Light

Here, a false-color image of a laser beam showing a superposition of entangled photons spinning in opposite directions.  Credit: Copyright: Robert Fickler/University of Vienna View full size image

How fast do quantum interactions happen? Faster than light, 10,000 times faster.

That's what a team of physicists led by Juan Yin at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai found in an experiment involving entangled photons, or photons that remain intimately connected, even when separated by vast distances.They wanted to see what would happen if you tried assigning a speed to what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance."

They didn't find anything unexpected, but that wasn't the point: in physics, sometimes it's good to be sure. The group published their work on the ArXiv.org, a preprint server for physics papers.

All tangled up

Quantum physicists have long known that after two particles — photons, for example — interact, they sometimes become "entangled." This kind of experiment has been repeated many times, and involves taking two entangled photons and sending them to different places. Perhaps photon A goes to Los Angeles and photon B goes to Boston.

When photon A is observed, it has a certain polarization, perhaps "up." The other photon in Boston is always in the opposite polarization, "down." No matter what measurement is made of photon A, photon B will always be opposite. It is impossible to tell what the polarization will be before you measure it, but the entangled photons always seem to "know" the right state to be in, instantaneously. [Twisted Physics: 7 Mind-Blowing Findings]

As Chad Orzel, assistant professor of physics at Union College, explained, "It's as though you sent two cards to two different addresses. One might be the jack of diamonds and the other the ace of hearts. When you get the card at one address you know which one went to the other. Quantum mechanics is weird because until you open the envelope, saying which card it is doesn't have any meaning; it could be either one."

Speed of quantum interaction

This is what Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance." And the correlation between the photons' states seems to happen instantaneously. But what does "instantaneous" really mean? That's part of what the Chinese team wanted to look at.

So the researchers entangled two photons and sent them to two different stations about 10 miles (16 kilometers) apart. In their ArXiv paper, the scientists said that previous experiments had "locality loopholes," which is another way of saying that it's possible to explain the link between photons with something other than the "action at a distance."

The group measured the state of one photon and timed how long the entangled state took to show up in the other. They found that the slowest possible speed for quantum interactions is 10,000 times thespeed of light — assuming your experiment is moving relatively slowly, at least relative to light beams.

Whereas the result may sound like a way to send faster-than-light messages, it isn't, really, because you can't know the state of the entangled photon pair before it's measured; so there's no way to control it and make the photon at the other end take on certain states and use it like a Morse code telegraph. [10 Implications of Faster-Than-Light Travel]

This type of experiment has been done before, notably by a European team, in 2008. So why do it again? Many physics experiments are performed to check more closely the values of constants used in equations, for instance, which enable more precise measurements in other areas.

Orzel said that even if it turned out that there was some small amount of time it takes for the state of a photon to change (meaning it's not instantaneous), it isn't clear that lag would mean much for quantum physics generally. That's because there are several interpretations for why quantum phenomena happen the way they do, and all explain the experimental results equally well. Physicists aren't even certain that there's an experiment one could do to tell the difference.

He added that it is extremely unlikely that anyone will ever get an "exact" value for the speed of such quantum interactions, and, in fact, modern physics prohibits that kind of finding in principle. But it is useful to see what the limits are — to clarify what we mean when we say "instantaneous."

"There's a certain strain of physics that people that will say it has to be instantaneous – in fact, if it is faster than light it must be instantaneous," Orzel said. "So if you can put a limit on it that is kind of cool."

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The Secret Pyramid In North Dakota You Probably Never Heard Of

This is the Pyramid you probably never heard of and it is located in Cavalier County, North Dakota, representing the point of collision of two worlds in a huge radar that has the mysterious shape of a pyramid- built to face a devastating attack of Soviet missiles during the Cold War. But some believe that this facility has a far bigger purpose, one that could otherworldly meanings.

Many ufologists and researchers have questioned the particular shape of this complex, why was it built in a pyramidal shape? And why does it seem to resemble the pyramids ancient people built thousands of years ago, in Egypt, America and Asia? What possible connection does this facility have with these ancient wonders? And could it be possible that this pyramid, built in modern times, proves theories supporting that the ancients did not built their pyramids as tombs and monuments, but as structures with a far greater purpose?

The Library of Congress in Washington DC, has published the photos of the construction of a military missile base with a pyramidal form, and some believe that its capabilities go far beyond its original purpose, defend against a Soviet aggression.

The Library of Congress in Washington DC, has published photos and drawings of a military complex built in the state of North Dakota in 1975. In the photos, taken by photographer Benjamin Halpern for the US Government, the various stages of building appear to be very similar to the Mexican pyramid of Kukulkan in the archaeological complex of Chichen Itza.

The purpose of this radar pyramid was to detect and intercept ballistic missiles launched by the Soviet Union that could threaten the United States. This “high tech” radar base was equipped with 30 interceptor missiles LIM-49A Spartan and 16 short-range missiles which could destroy incoming threats such as missiles to US soil. The military believed that this new complex would provide safety and a new and advanced way to eliminate the threat of a nuclear missile strikes from the USSR due to its capability of intercepting enemy missiles before reaching US soil, in the atmosphere. Thanks to the radars located on each of the sides, the pyramid provided a 360 degree coverage and was able to detect intercontinental missiles at a distance of 1,100 kilometers and intercept them before reentry.

The Russians did not wait long and built the Soviet A-35 system, which defended Moscow and nearby missile fields. It is believed that an updated version of this defense system, the A-135 version is still in operation today.

The interior of the pyramid is just like the exterior, amazing,  housing several underground bases where the control room and monitoring systems were located. All of those rooms were connected to a network of powerful radars across US soil. It is a construction straight out of a Star Wars movie, but its peculiar design and shape has awaken the interest of ufologists that have come to question its purpose. Was it built to intercept intercontinental missiles? Or was the construction of this strange pyramid, in North Dakota of a otherworldly purpose

These wonderful photographs a pharaonic building that has been lost in time, something that has captured the interest of researchers and science fiction writers alike, yet, it is a pyramid that most of us have never heard of. According to many, today, not a single  human being can be seen for miles around the complex, and official statements are that the facility is completely abandoned,looking like a post-apocalyptic science fiction movie scene.
Out of the hundreds of shapes the builders could have used to construct their “radar” station, why was the pyramidal shape used? According to many theorists and ufologists, it has a deep connection to the history of mankind and the origins of humanity. Not only was this complex facility built as a defensive station, ufologists believe it to be a secret facility and the images above are only the tip of an underground “iceberg”.

This high tech station was closed “official” only four months after being opened, reports as to why the station that costed millions of dollars closed after only being operated for four months is something that has yet to be explained. Some believe it was closed because the station was proven to be ineffective, others believe that the costs of maintaining it were simply to high, but there are also those who believe that this station has not been closed, and that it is still in operation today, not as a defensive complex, but rather as a facility similar to Dulce Base.

Ufologists state that the government would not have thrown away such a complex base worth millions of dollars, they believe, that the “futuristic” Pyramid located in North Dakota is a place of extreme importance even today, and state that strange sightings that have been reported in North Dakota, of unidentified flying objects are closely connected to this “research facility.”

Perhaps the truth about this secret Pyramid and its purpose is something that will be kept in secrecy, but many questions that have been raised throughout the years as to why a pyramid, and why it resembles many other ancient pyramids is something many would like to know the answer to.

Here we leave you a series of images of this incredible construction:

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16-09-2015 om 18:50 geschreven door peter  

UFO Phenomena and Psychological Warfare (VIDEO)

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Neanderthals are almost TWICE as old as first thought: DNA suggests extinct human species emerged 700,000 years ago

• Geneticists obtained the oldest DNA ever sequenced from a human species
• It confirmed fossils in a cave in Spain belonged to an early Neanderthal
• Scientists believe Neanderthals first emerged in Europe 400,000 years ago 
• DNA suggests the species is 300,000 years older than previously thought 

By RICHARD GRAY FOR MAILONLINE

They are one of our closest human relatives and dominated Europe and much of Asia for hundreds of thousands of years, but Neanderthals may be far older than previously thought.

A new study by geneticists has revealed a collection of fossilised bones discovered in a cave in northern Spain belonged to an early member of the Neanderthal family.

It is the oldest partial genome from early human fossils ever to be sequenced and pushes back the date for the origins of the Neanderthal branch of our evolutionary tree by up to 300,000 years.

Geneticists have sequenced DNA from the fossilised remains (pictured) of early humans discovered in a cave in the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain. The 430,000-year-old-bones were found to belong to an early Neanderthal and the analysis suggests the species may be up to 765,000 years old - twice as old as previous estimates

Anthropologists had believed Neanderthals first evolved around 400,000 years ago, possibly from another early human species called Homo heidelbergensis.

THE COMPLEX EVOLUTION OF MAN

However, analysis of a collection of the 430,000-year-old bones discovered in the Sima de los Huesos, or pit of bones, in the Atapuerca Mountains in Burgos, Spain, show they belong to Neanderthals.

And the DNA analysis, say the researchers, suggests Neanderthals must have emerged well before this time.

According to the journal Science, Dr Matthias Meyer, a palaeogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany who led the work, suggests Neanderthals, and their relatives the Denisovans, could have split from their common ancestor with modern humans up to 765,000 years ago.

Mutations and differences in the DNA can provide scientists clues about how old a species may be compared to modern humans. 

Speaking at the conference of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, he said: 'Our results place the Sima de los Huesos hominins on the Neanderthal evolutionary lineage.

'In congruence with previous morphological analysis, they show that the Neanderthal/Denisovan population split predates 430,000 years ago, the geological age of the Sima remains.

The findings could lead to a dramatic shake up of the current shape of the human family tree.

Modern humans – Homo sapiens - were only thought to have emerged in Africa around 200,000 years ago before rapidly spreading around the world.

Their close relatives Homo neanderthalensis were thought to have then evolved in Eurasia from a common ancestor.

The new study suggests these two species may have diverged far earlier than previously thought.

The fossils found at Sima de los Huesos have been controversial for some time after researchers couldn't agree whether they should be classified as Neanderthal or Homo heidelbergensis.

However mitrochondrial DNA from one of the bones suggest they were more closely related to Denisovans, an extinct type of early human found in Siberia. 

Researchers have spent decades studying the remains found in the 'Pit of Bones', reconstructing the skull shown in the GIF above, which revealed it had suffered a heavy blow to the head before death

New techniques are finally allowing scientists to extract and sequence nuclear DNA – the genetic material found in the centre of all cells in the body – in ancient fossils 

For the recent study, Dr Meyer and his team were able to obtain 1 to 2 million base pairs of ancient nuclear DNA from a tooth and leg bone from Sima de los Huesos. 

These were then scanned for unique markers found only in Neanderthals, Denisovans or Homo sapiens.

The Sima fossils were additionally found to have far more of these unique markers for Neanderthals than the other species.

THE NEW HOMO NALEDI SPECIES

Professor Chris Stinger, a palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, told Mail Online the results had implications for the origins of our own species too.

He said: 'There has been a lot of debate about how deep in time the Neanderthal-sapiens split was, with estimates ranging from about 800,000 to 300,000 years ago. 

'I've recently favoured a split time of about 400ka, and have argued for many years that the widespread species Homo heidelbergensis at about 500 ka was probably the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. 

'As Matthias Meyer explained, when the new data is used to recalibrate divergences you arrive at older split times both between the Neas and Denisovans (around 450,000 years ago) and for their lineage and ours (650,000 years ago). 

'This suggests that if Homo heidelbergensis fossils do lie on the ancestry of the later species, this group must already have split by 500,000 years ago into a proto-Neanderthal/Denisovan line and a proto-sapiens line.

'Alternatively, we might have to consider that many or all of the "heidelbergensis" fossils are not on the direct lines of descent after all, and they are an off-shoot.'

 

The fossils found at the Sima de los Huesos site in Spain's Atapuerca Mountains (shown on map) have been highly controversial but are now the oldest human remains to have had genetic information sequenced

Scientists previously claimed the bones (skull pictured) were either Neanderthal or an older species of human called Homo heidelbergensis. The DNA has settled the debate by identifying them as Neanderthal

The findings come just days after anthropologists announced the discovery of a new species of early human called Homo naledi, which was found in a cave in South Africa's Gauteng province.

The species was found to have both human and ape-like qualities. It had a brain the size of a gorilla and distinctive ape-like fingers, but may have stood upright on two legs.

Most intriguingly, scientists believe the extinct human species may have buried its dead as the remains of up to 12 individuals were found in tiny inaccessible cave.

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Apocalyptic Trumpet Sounds In the Sky Over Jakarta, Indonesie – Sept 2015 (Video)

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Apocalyptic trumpet sounds were heard in the sky over Jakarta, Indonesie on September 11, 2015 from 06.00 to 07.00 pm

The strange sound caused a stir among locals. The unexplained phenomenon has been widely discussed on social media and local TV channels but it was unclear where it came from.

The eerie sounds have been continuously heard at all different times and locations around the world for almost a decade but there is still no exact explanation for it.
 

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16-09-2015 om 18:12 geschreven door peter  

British Cop Witnesses TALL WHITE Aliens Inspecting Fresh Crop Circle

Not many people know this, but back in 2009 a British police officer witnessed ‘Alien Beings’ inspecting a fresh crop circle in a middle of a field!

 

The Police Sergeant who has not been named, witnessed the event back in 2009.  The Policeman was off duty at the time when he noticed the unusual ‘Beings’ in the field.

 

The Police Officer pulled his car over and walked over to the field to see what was going on as he apparently had a ‘strange’ feeling about what he was seeing.  However, as he approached the ‘men’ – who were all way over 6ft tall with long blond hair – he suddenly heard “the sound of static electricity” and the trio ran away ”faster than any man he had ever seen” so fast that it apparently almost seemed ‘unreal’.

 

 

Many crop circles, including this one in May 2009, have appeared near Silbury Hill, Wiltshire

 

 

Leaving the scene of the strange event the Police Officer jumped quickly back into his car and travelled back home to Marlborough, Wiltshire, and then contacted paranormal experts and told them he had spotted a UFO.

 

Not surprisingly the Police force that the Officer works for, refused to comment at the time and stated “That it was a personal matter!”

 

The unnamed Police Officer asked for support off a Gentleman called Andrew Russell who is a Crop Circle Investigator.  Andrew described in detail what the Police officer saw on that unusual day:

 

”At first he thought they were forensic officers as they were dressed in white coveralls. He stopped his car and approached the field. ‘The figures were all over 6ft and had blond hair. They seemed to be inspecting the crop. When he got to the edge of the field he heard what he believed to be a sound not dissimilar to static electricity.

 

”This crackling noise seemed to be running through the field and the crop was moving gently, close to where the noise was.

 

”He shouted to the figures who, at first, ignored him, not glancing at him. When he tried to enter the field they looked up and began running.

 

”He said; ‘They ran faster than any man I have ever seen. I’m no slouch but they were moving so fast. I looked away for a second and when I looked back they were gone.

 

”I then got scared. The noise was still around but I got an uneasy feeling and headed for the car. For the rest of the day I had a pounding headache I couldn’t shift.”

 

This strange incident happened on July 6th as the Police Officer was driving down the road.  Apparently the three very tall figures were inspecting the odd-shaped Crop Circle in the field.  They all appeared deeply interested and analysing the Crop Circle – was it them who made it, or possibly was it their fellow colleagues from a far!?

 

The crop circle had been there in the field for a few days before this incident.

 

 

2009 was a very popular year for Crop Circles in the Wiltshire area, UK.

 

 

When the Police Officer walked over the unusual beings, they suddenly become ‘disturbed’ looking and ran off at speeds beyond the Officers belief! As soon as he looked away for a split second they were ‘gone’

 

A spokesman for Wiltshire Police said:

 

”The police officer was apparently off duty when this happened so we have no comment to make because it is a personal not a police matter.”

 

Another Crop Circle Expert, Colin Andrews, who investigated the incident alongside Andrew Russell, said he is ”convinced” by the police officer’s story and does not see any reason at all why the Officer would of made this story up!

 

”I am quite convinced the officer had an experience that day and one that we have not fully explored.”I think with the unusual movement of the being and the poltergeist experiences there is too much additional information to say that is something in nothing.” He said

 

Some have suspected that this was the Tall White Aliens that the Officer had witnessed.  The Tall whites have even been acknowledged by Edward Snowden, who believes that they are very much in contact with Planet Earth and watching our every move.

 

 

The Tall Whites

 

U.I.P SUMMARY – It is very interesting that this sighting was in Wiltshire, as this is one of the key UFO/Crop Circle areas around the world .Could it possibly be that what this Police Officer saw were the Beings who are responsible for these crop circles being formed around the UK, or perhaps they are just as curious as to ‘what else’ is out there trying to communicate with Earth.

 

Yes Crop Circles have been deemed by many to be elaborate fakes by students or Drunk Famers at night, but when you actually look at the sheer amount of detail involved to these incredible designs, I personally feel it is impossible for any humans to create such a spectacle over night, in the pitch black of night!

 

Some people believe that Crop Circles were made by Orbs – please see a video below of an ‘apparent’ Orb caught on camera making a crop circle:

 

As far as what or WHO these Beings are, is a completely different matter altogether! The way that they have been described sounds just like the Tall White Aliens, and the way they move would kind of confirm that there were no odd-ball humans, but something else, something very unique and different!?

 

Is it a coincidence that one of the most unknown areas of the world, Stonehenge, is in Wiltshire, and that we have so many unusual sightings in this part of the UK……I don’t think so, and this is why this part of the world is one of THE top UFO Hotspots.

 

Hope to see you all at the end of August at one of the UK’s main UFO event – Warminster 2015

 

 

Stonehenge – One of the many Mysteries of Wiltshire

 

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16-09-2015 om 18:07 geschreven door peter  

Aliens could DESTROY Earth if they found us but scientists still want to make contact

MAKING contact with any aliens out there could be deadly for mankind if they turn out to be hostile, scientists have warned...but most still think it's worth taking the risk.

16-09-2015 om 18:01 geschreven door peter  

You’ve probably heard or seen the Baltic Seaanomaly, now researcher Peter Lindbert claims that “It is not an object which is man made in modern time. What ever it is, it’s either from during the Ice Age or pre-Ice Age. The object is older than 140,000 yrs. Older than that…with straight angles/lines – rounded corners – much like a dinner plate and separate from the base below.” Continue reading for a video and more information. 

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14,000 YEAR OLD UFO? – THE BALTIC SEA ANOMALY

Is the Baltic Sea Anomaly a 14,000 year old alien spacecraft that crash landed?
In what seems to come straight out of a starwars film, something like a crashed millenium falcon has been spotted at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

The image first appeared on the sonar of Ocean X, a private treasure hunting company, a couple of years ago.

You can see its strange and artificially circular shape. It looks something like a UFO.

Also note the streak marks behind it. Look at the way they are shaped….it looks like whatever this thing was crashed and skidded along the ground before coming to a stop

The team that discovered this object noted that when their boat was directly above it some of their electrical equipment stopped working. When they sailed away , the equipment started working again.

The dive team that explored the sunken object also explained how the object appeared to have steps leading into an egg shaped entrance.
Parts of either the object or rock that had formed around it were dated to be around 14,000 years old.

Still, some experts say this could completely be a natural geologic rock formation.

But, to me at least, the way it stands out on a sonar scan, the steps and entrance the divers note, and the apparent skid marks that trail the object…a natural geologic rock formation seems like an unlikely culprit.

Just what is this object laying at the bottom of the baltic sea? Could it be an alien spacecraft that crashed long ago?

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16-09-2015 om 17:50 geschreven door peter  

‘Bewijs dat aliens 1 miljoen jaar geleden landden op aarde’ onderzocht in Rusland

Alienjagers hebben een ‘versteende UFO’ gevonden die zou kunnen bewijzen dat aliens meer dan een miljoen jaar geleden naar de aarde zijn gekomen. Dat meldt de Britse Daily Express.

Een groep paranormale onderzoekers uit Rusland, genaamd Kosmopoisk, is ervan overtuigd dat de ‘vliegende schotel’ uit de ruimte afkomstig is. Lokale media meldden dat het object is gevonden in de buurt van de Russische stad Wolgograd, waar geregeld UFO’s worden gesignaleerd.

De ‘schijf’ heeft een doorsnee van vier meter en wordt onderzocht door Vadim Tsjernobrov, een beroemde paranormaal onderzoeker uit Rusland. Eerder werden volgens Bloknot-Volgograd ook al kleinere ‘schijven’ gevonden in het gebied, met een doorsnee van zo’n twee meter.

Het object wordt bestudeerd in een lokaal museum. Volgens mediaberichten zijn de eerste onderzoeksresultaten vrij controversieel. Het zou ongeveer één miljoen jaar oud zijn. Ufologen speuren ondertussen in het gebied rond Wolgograd naar sporen van de ‘UFO’.

‘UFO-steen’ met doorsnee van vier meter gevonden bij Wolgograd (Bloknot-Volgograd)

Kosmopoisk is in 1980 opgericht door de Russische schrijver Alexander Kazantsev, oud-luchtvaartingenieur Tsjernobrov en astronaut Georgi Beregovoy, om de mysteries van het universum te ontrafelen.

Volgens critici is het object gevonden in een gebied dat vroeger een oceaanbodem vormde en kan de vorm worden verklaard door erosie onder het wateroppervlak.

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Donut-shaped object caught in tape over De Pinte, Belgium 19-Aug-2015

Donut-shaped UFO over Belgium

This unidentified flying object was seen and recorded in the sky above De Pinte, a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. Record date: 19th August 2015.

16-09-2015 om 17:18 geschreven door peter  

‘Invisible’ airplanes: Chinese, US race for cloaking tech

Cloaking technology from BAE makes a tank (left) show up on radar screens in disguise (right). It's one of many "invisibility cloaks" being developed. (BAE Systems)

New stealth technology makes airplanes invisible not only to radar, it renders them hidden to the human eye as well – just like an invisibility cloak in a Hollywood sci-fi thriller.

News reports from China last week touted the country’s work on a “cloaking” technology that uses a hexagonal array of glass-like panels to bend light around an object, obscuring it from view as though hidden by an invisibility cloak. Experts say the technology is legit – and not unlike American and European projects from the past few years.

“The general public … might not hear about how far the U.S. has really come, because it is and should remain classified,” firearms expert Chris Sajnog, a former Navy SEAL, told FoxNews.com. “Other countries are still playing catch-up -- but they're closing the gap.”

But while classified work progresses, several public projects from universities and military supply companies show just how real this futuristic technology is.

How to disappear completely
Professor Chen Hongsheng at China’s Zhejiang University demonstrated a device that made a fish invisible and a cat disappear, according to the South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong daily.

The professor’s team is one of 40 funded by the Chinese government during the last three years, the paper reported. Some projects use materials that shuttle light away from an object; alternatives create electromagnetic fields that bend it away -- truly high-tech camouflage.

“The idea isn't new, but materials enabling the technology are becoming more available,” David R. Ricketts, professor of engineering at North Carolina State University, told FoxNews.com. “It’s like we see in the movies. If you tape a picture of an empty hallway to a security camera, the person looking at the camera sees an empty room -- even though you could be walking through the hallway. The ‘cloaking’ approach simply takes the light on one side of the object and transmits it on the other so that you don't see the object in between.”

Another Chinese professor, Ma Yungui, an optical engineer at Zhejiang University, is working on a device that prevents objects from being detected by heat sensors or metal detectors, the Post said. As small as a matchbox, it interferes with infrared camera detection, too – allowing troops to move secretly in the night.

The Chinese professors did not return calls from FoxNews.com seeking comment.

• 'Other countries are still playing catch-up -- but they're closing the gap.'

- Chris Sajnog, former Navy Seal and firearms expert

“A few years ago we had a demonstration of these technologies here in San Diego,” Sanjog said in an email. “The mirrors currently being used are large and easily detectable, while the use of wavelengths is limited to a very narrow spectrum, i.e. visible light, but not radar or thermal. Also, both of these technologies only work well when viewed from one angle, and in warfare your security is nothing if it’s not 360.”

Major arms developers such as BAE Systems readily acknowledge work on this kind of technology, such as the Adaptiv program, which aims to hide armored vehicles.

“The U.S. military is among many who have expressed interest in Adaptiv, which could be transferred to other platforms, such as ships and helicopters,” said Mike Sweeney, a spokesman for BAE.

Pixel perfect
BAE’s technology, similar to what the Chinese are now touting, deploys sheets of hexagonal “pixels” that can change temperature very rapidly. On-board cameras pick up the scenery and display it on the vehicle, which can allow a moving tank to match its surroundings.

Research is concentrated mainly on the infrared spectrum, a pressing concern for the Swedish government group funding the work. But BAE has combined its pixels with technologies that camouflage other parts of the electro-magnetic spectrum to provide all-round stealth.

But most camouflage used by the military is not as high-tech as these tools. Take for example the “ghilie suit,” a garment designed to resemble heavy foliage and popular with the military and hunters.

“As a former lead instructor for the Navy SEAL sniper program, I've taught many of our current warriors the art of passive camouflage. For example, wearing a well-made ghillie suit in the proper environment can render its user virtually invisible, and this is a cloaking device that works 360, with no batteries needed,” Sajnog said.

Some experts dispute that these new technologies can work in battlefield conditions at all.

“Invisibility cloak is a poorly chosen term,” Thomas Way, associate professor of computing science at Villanova University, wrote to FoxNews.com in an email."Invisible to what? We already have stealth aircraft that are invisible to radar (usually), but there is absolutely no way given our current understanding of physics that something could be made invisible to the naked eye.”

“If that's what they are claiming, it's a hoax.”

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Very Strange Clouds Filmed Above Costa Rica – Sept 2015 (Video)

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On September 15, 2015 witness filmed a very strange cloud phenomenon above Costa Rica at about 3.00 pm local time.

We may wonder whether this strange cloud is just a natural phenomenon or a so-called earthquake light or there’s more than our eyes can see?
 

Earthquake lights are reported to appear while an earthquake is occurring, although there are reports of lights before or after earthquakes.

They are reported to have different shapes with a white to bluish hue, but occasionally they have been reported having a wider color spectrum.

The luminosity is reported to be visible for several seconds, but has also been reported to last for tens of minutes.

A different explanation involves intense electric fields created piezoelectrically by tectonic movements.

Another possible explanation is local disruption of the Earth’s magnetic field and/or ionosphere in the region of tectonic stress, resulting in the observed glow effects either from ionospheric radiative recombination at lower altitudes and greater atmospheric pressure.

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16-09-2015 om 11:41 geschreven door peter  

Is this a TR3B Military Craft or a UFO ?

(Before It's News)

On April 21, 2010 in a small town on Lake Winnipesaukee, NH we caught something in 2 shots with the camera.

We’re on our way to the bus stop and took a few minutes by the water as we had time to spare.

It was early morning. 

This was completely without sound and when taking the pictures I never spotted it in the sky and

I have a good eye.  

Could this be the TR3B ?? Or something else..

I feel an obligation to help get the word out that “WE ARE NOT ALONE”

Do with it what you will.

I am only the messenger.

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I only post my personal experiences.

-Rwealone

16-09-2015 om 11:37 geschreven door peter  

When the UFO-ing gets tough, the tough get UFO-ing: How a Billy Ocean gig may have sparked alien invasion fears in Twickenham

Billy Ocean: Sparked UFO fears after Isleworth concert

A Billy Ocean concert may have inadvertently sparked fears of an alien invasion in Twickenham, after mysterious lights were seen in the sky.

Residents were left flummoxed by the "weird lights" which appeared above the town last night but it seems it may have been caused by the Isleworth gig.

ONE FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Twickenham Death Star: Video of strange light posted on YouTube

Christine Joanna Hart, who lives in Northcote Road, St Margarets, said she filmed the "bouncing" lights from her home.

She said: "Some of them were disappearing up and down, I said to my son "guess what, I've seen a UFO".

"It was awesome and the most exciting thing I have ever seen."

Ms Hart said she successfully filmed the 'UFOs' in the sky but when she reviewed the video nothing could be seen.

The RTT can confirm that the video does not show UFOs, but appears to be darkened, as if it is filming a black screen.

An entranced Ms Hart's voice can be heard over the top saying: "There's flying lights in the sky. Oh. My. God.

"They all lined up and then they kind of went to one side and then they vanished and they came back and there they are again.

"Now they are making like a shape - this is f**king awesome."

And she was not the only one to be left perplexed by the unusual sky display.

Smiti Lukhman said: "Anyone else in Hounslow seeing these weird lights in the sky?".

@hemal_96 wrote on Twitter: "So those weird lights in the sky were apparently from twickenham stadium".

ANOTHER FROM THE ARCHIVES: First-time snapper captures "UFO" over Hampton

Richmond Council said the lights were unlikely to be from Twickenham stadium but said the strange lights could have been from the Redlees Park gig in, which used lasers.

SEPTEMBER 15 UPDATE: An England 2015 spokesman has confirmed it has "undertaken a few lighting tests" at the stadium and said this could be the source of the strange lights.

{ http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/ }

16-09-2015 om 11:32 geschreven door peter  

Stephen Hawking Wants To Hurry Up And Find Aliens Already

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Stephen Hawking, along with a group called Breakthrough, launched two initiatives in July to try to find alien life elsewhere in the universe. Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire, is bankrolling the project.

The first part is called Breakthrough Initiative, and will see $100 million invested to search the skies using the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia and the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. It will be 50 times more sensitive than previous searches, and cover 10 times more space than anyone has ever tried before. That starts in 2016.

The second part of the initiative is called “Breakthrough Message” and will offer prizes totaling $1 million to whomever can come up with the best message to send in to space, in case alternate lifeforms are listening to Earth. Details of the competition have not yet been released, but according to the Breakthrough Initiatives website, they promise not to beam any messages in to space until “a wide-ranging debate at high levels of science and politics on the risks and rewards of contacting advanced civilizations” has taken place.

The astronomers and philosophers at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) are now entering the contest. At a conference in Leeds last week, they discussed how the content of this message needs to be updated from what NASA sent up aboard the Pioneer 10 spacecraft in the ’70s. According to Jill Stuart at the London School of Economics:

• “We really need to rethink that with any messages we are sending out now. Attitudes have changed so much in just 40 years. I would be uncomfortable with sending out any images or messages that include Western-dominated material.”

She’s referring to this plaque (which was developed by Carl Sagan) that was included with Pioneer 10, which finished its 30-year mission to Jupiter in 2002:

VIA WIKIPEDIA

If alien life exists, we’re not even sure it’ll have eyesight like ours that will let them see 2D pictures. Should we send them math formulas? Music? The SETI group had a hard time deciding if they’d even enter the competition, because some dudes have watched Predator way too many times.

• “…the thinking was that the silence in the skies might be because alien civilizations are hiding from us, and that it might be stupid to attract attention,” said Anders Sandberg.

The nearest star system that could possibly hold life is 10 light years away, which means it could take at least 20 years for any missive we send out to space to reach the first group of maybe aliens. So sending up memes is right out, everyone. (I hope at least three of you just sadly closed the browser tab you were going to Rick Roll E.T. with.)

(Via Gizmodo)

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16-09-2015 om 11:27 geschreven door peter  

Drones Are the New UFOs

Despite headlines suggesting that it's only a matter of time until a drone crashes into a plane, the truth is we know very little about just how pervasive close calls between drones and airplanes are, and we know very little about the severity or risk of such incidents.

Last month, the Federal Aviation Administration released data showing that airplane pilots made 678 reports of drone sightings and near misses since the beginning of the year, roughly three times more than the total number of sightings in all of 2014.

The narrative surrounding this report was predictable: The FAA said that "pilot reports of close calls with drones soar in 2015," a USA Today op-ed demanded the FAA "ground drones" before "inevitable bloodshed," and the Washington Post led with a story about a "swarm of small rogue drones" that "disrupted air traffic across the country on a scale previously unseen in US skies."

A "large vulture," a "fast moving gray object," a "mini blimp," a "red UAS or balloon," and "a UFO" were all classified as drones in the FAA's report.

Few news organizations truly delved into the FAA's actual data (our own report noted that the FAA has been prone to exaggeration in the past), partially because, often, there's little to follow up on in terms of local news reports or finalized findings on any given incident. This leads to large numbers of "sightings" being miscategorized and drone sightings being construed as truly close calls, according to a new analysis of the data by the Academy of Model Aeronautics. By releasing raw, preliminary information with no follow up or analysis, the FAA’s report is flawed at best, misleading at worst.

The AMA is a hobbyist group with 140,000 members. It has the interests of drone pilots in mind, but has traditionally worked very closely with the FAA and is generally considered to be a fair and reasonable entity—in fact, many drone pilots believe that the AMA sides with the FAA too often.

According to the AMA’s analysis, since November 2014, there have been only 10 incidents in which airplanes had to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a drone, which is just 1.3 percent of all incidents reported by the FAA. The mere fact that a pilot sees a drone does not mean the drone operator was doing anything wrong or that the manned aircraft is automatically put at risk; the AMA notes that many drones could have been flying with FAA permission or within the FAA guidelines.

These numbers are significant, but without further information, it’s impossible to say how outside the norm this actually is. We don’t know how often, for instance, pilots attempt to evade birds, but we can guess that it’s probably much more often than with drones: In 2013, there were 11,399 reported plane-bird collisions.

Most importantly, in more than a dozen of the sightings, pilots said they weren't sure what they saw: One pilot said he saw what looked like a "large vulture;" others saw a "fast moving gray object," a "mini blimp," a "red UAS or balloon," and, in one case, a pilot saw "a UFO." These objects were all classified as drones in the FAA's report.

"It seems the term 'drone' has become the new UFO, applying to everything from balloons and birds to model rockets and mini blimps," the AMA wrote.

The current strategy of lumping nearly all aircraft (and sometimes bird) sightings in a single report about near misses with "unmanned aerial systems" isn't doing anyone any favors, the AMA argues. The drone industry is currently trying to police reckless fliers with a mix of education campaigns and hardware geofencing, which restricts where drones can fly. Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics, which is one of the largest hobby drone manufacturers, said he's trying to put an end to the "mass jackassery" that's come as drones become more popular.

16-09-2015 om 11:21 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 9/15/2015

(Before It's News)

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• Mystery Lights In The Sky Leave Everyone Guessing – Eagle and Times
• Harlow UFO spotter Karl shares his ‘scary’ experience – Harlow Star
• Drones Are the New UFOs – Motherboard
• Stephen Hawking Wants To Hurry Up And Find Aliens Already – UPROXX
• When the UFO-ing gets tough, the tough get UFO-ing – Richmond & Tickenham Times

16-09-2015 om 11:11 geschreven door peter