Rendlesham ‘UFO incident’ part of Suffolk’s social history

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Rendlesham Forest where the 1980 UFO sightings took place.

John Hanson is working with retired American air force officer, Colonel Charles Halt – who was deputy base commander of the twin USAF bases at Woodbridge and Bentwaters at the time of the incident in December, 1980 – on the project.

Mr Hanson, who lives in the West Midlands, believes there are still people yet to come forward who may have vital evidence – or who saw strange phenomena which may or may not be connected to the events in Rendlesham Forest.

He said a recent appeal had indeed elicited new memories from people in Suffolk.

He said: “One man from Bury St Edmunds, near the British Corporation Sugar works, told me he and his wife had seen a cone-shaped object, hovering above his front garden in December 1980, which is of interest, as we have other sightings from the Bury St Edmunds locality, not too far away from the same factory.”

Col. Charles Halt (Retired) with John Hanson (left) and David Bryant (centre) in Rendlesham Forest to explain the 1980 UFO sitings.

Mr Hanson, co-author of a series of UFO books entitled Haunted Skies, also wants to contact local former DJ Gary Collins, ex-Pc David King and Pc Brian Creswell, one of the original officers that attended the scene.

He said: “I hope people will get in touch if they saw anything around the time of the incident – or can put me in touch with any of these people – as this forms part of our social history, whatever you may think about such matters, and should be recorded.”

After the 1980 incident, Col Halt prepared a memo to the Ministry of Defence describing “unexplained lights”, and recorded what became known as the Halt Tape – a documented investigation in the forest, during which he saw mysterious lights like those witnessed by airmen Jim Penniston and John Burroughs two nights earlier.

In 2010, Col Halt signed an affidavit claiming the encounter was extraterrestrial and that it had been covered up by the Government.

Anyone who can help should call John Hanson on 0121 445 0340, email johndawn1@sky.com or skype john.hanson108.

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26-10-2015 om 20:57 geschreven door peter  

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket passed its critical design review, gaining a new look in the process.  Credit: NASA View full size image

NASA's next-generation rocket has a new look.

The space agency has revealed a reworked color scheme for the Space Launch System heavy-lift booster, removing the paint from one major component, while adding "racing stripes" to another.

The new appearance was rolled out on Thursday (Oct. 22) with the announcement that a critical design review (CDR) had been completed. The review is a milestone toward the Space Launch System's (SLS) first test flight, targeted for 2018. [Photos: NASA's Space Launch System for Deep Space Flights]

"We've nailed down the design of SLS," said Bill Hill, the deputy associate administrator for NASA's development of exploration systems. "We've successfully completed the first round of testing of the rocket's engines and boosters, and all the major components for the first flight are now in production."

Billed as the most powerful launch vehicle ever built, the SLS is NASA's first rocket to be specifically designed to support astronaut-crewed missions beyond low Earth orbit since the Saturn V that launched astronauts to the moon 45 years ago.

And it was with that iconic booster in mind that NASA first represented the SLS with a similar black-and-white motif when it announced the rocket in 2011. Now, the design is exposing its more colorful core.

"The program concluded the core stage of the rocket and launch vehicle stage adapter will remain orange," a NASA statement described, noting orange is "the natural color of the insulation that will cover those elements."

The burnt orange-color foam is the same that was used to insulate the space shuttle's large external fuel tank. Back in 1981, NASA painted the first two of those tanks white to protect against ultraviolet radiation, but chose to forego the coating on subsequent missions to save on the weight of the paint.

The new SLS art also includes stylized orange and gray markings on the vehicle's two side-mounted boosters.

The solid rocket motors are built from the same casings that flew with thespace shuttle, but are now one segment longer (for a total of five) to provide the additional thrust needed to launch the more massive SLS.

The look of the rocket's exterior was just one of the details confirmed by the critical design review (CDR).

The CDR examined the first of three configurations NASA plans for the rocket, referred to as "Block 1." The Block 1 will have a 77-ton (70 metric tons) lift capability powered by the twin boosters and four RS-25 engines, the latter also reused from the space shuttle. The next planned upgrade of SLS, the 1B, uses a more powerful upper stage with a 115-ton (105 metric tons) lift capacity.

The Block 2 SLS will add a pair of advanced solid or liquid propellant boosters to offer a 143-ton (130 metric tons) lift capacity. In each configuration, the SLS will use the same core stage and four RS-25 engines.

"This review gives us confidence that we are on the right track for the first flight of SLS and using it to extend [the] permanent human presence into deep space," said Hill.

Thirteen teams of engineers and aerospace experts took 11 weeks to review more than 1,000 documents and more than 150 gigabytes of data as part of the process.

When first announced in 2011, NASA’s Space Launch System sported a Saturn V-inspired color scheme, as seen at left. 
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The CDR was the last of four reviews that examined SLS concepts. The next step is design certification, which will occur in 2017 after manufacturing, integration and testing is complete. The certification will compare the actual final product to the rocket's design.

The final assessment, the flight readiness review, will take place just prior to the rocket being ready to launch.

"This is a major step in the design and readiness of SLS," stated John Honeycutt, SLS program manager. "Our team has worked extremely hard, and we're moving forward with building this rocket. We are qualifying hardware, building structural test articles and making real progress."

A separate CDR, now underway, is reviewing the design of the Orion spacecraft, the astronaut-carrying capsule that will launch atop the SLS. NASA has said it will be ready to launch its first crewed Orion and SLS mission by 2023.

Watch a new animation of the Space Launch System (SLS) launching at collectSPACE.

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26-10-2015 om 20:35 geschreven door peter  

Is There Another Advanced Civilization Living Beneath Our Feet?

As science and science fiction join, we begin to decipher the ancient mysteries of the human experience. If entities exist under the surface of our planet, they would not live in volcanic rock but in advanced spaceships meant to generate essential life habitat. Are tectonic plate shifts an act of their doing, or a truly natural part of earth? 

 

Theories about the Hollow Earth usually include a central sun, aliens, and legendary subterranean cities and civilizations that some open minded people believe could link science and pseudoscience, but only if discovered physically. In ancient times, this idea of subterranean realms seemed arguable, and it became associated with the image of “places“ such as the Christian Hell, the Greek Hades, the Jewish Sheol or the Nordic belief of Svartalfheim.

 

However in modern times, with both sides of the Arctic and Antarctic regions melting down at an accelerated rate, the truth behind this enigma and its allegorical connections to other genesis or creation myths in the tale of humanity’s journey on planet Earth could soon be revealed.

 

 

According to the Hollow Earth theory, our planet is either fully hollow or otherwise contains a massive interior space. There are allegedly races that live in underground cities beneath planet Earth. Often enough, these dwellers of the underground are more technologically advanced than we humans are on the surface. Some think that UFO’s are not from other planets, but are fabricated by strange beings from the inside of our planet.

 

 

 Throughout time, some people have claimed that they encountered these mysterious beings from the ground, some even wrote detailed reports of the meetings or even books regarding the way they were greeted and taught.

An interesting description of such an encounter comes from John Cleves Symmes Jr, an American officer, trader and lecturer who introduced the concept of openings to the inner world of the poles. He declared that:

 

 "The Earth is hollow, and habitable within; containing a number of solid concentric spheres, one within the other, and that it is open at the poles 12 or 16 degrees; I pledged my life in support of this truth, and I am ready to explore the hollow, if the world will support and aid me in the undertaking.“

 

 

Symmes’ Hollow Earth theory described the world as consisting of five concentric spheres, with our outer earth and its atmosphere as the largest. He saw the Earth’s crust as being around 1000 miles thick, having an Arctic opening about 4000 miles wide, and an Antarctic opening measuring around 6000 miles wide. He suggested that he managed to enter this underground realm because the curvature of the rim of the polar openings were gradual enough that it would be possible to enter the Inner Earth without being aware of the passage. He stated that because of the centrifugal force of Earth’s rotation, the planet would be flattened at the poles, and thus have ample passage into the Inner Earth.

 

Symmes also claimed that this inner surface of the concentric spheres in his Hollow Earth would be lit by sunlight reflected off of the outer surface of the next sphere and would be livable, being a “warm and rich land, stocked with thrifty vegetables and animals if not men.“ He ultimately concluded that the Earth, as well as every celestial orbicular body that existed in the universe, visible or invisible, which partook in any degree of a planetary type, from the smallest to the greatest, are all established, in a greater or lesser degree, in a compilation of spheres.

 

 

Symmes wasn’t the best lecturer. He felt uncomfortable as a public speaker. Still, he preserved. He started making disciples and soon his ideas began to take shape into the public’s minds. The book Symzonia appeared in 1820 and has often been associated with him. It describes the voyage of Captain Seaborn from 1817 who set out for the South Pole in order to prove the theory of an internal world, published by Captain John Cleve Symmes. Afraid of the attitude of his crew, he does not fully inform them of his desire, hiring them rather for a commercial journey in the South Seas. The crew discover the internal continent, which is named Symzonia in honor of Symmes.

 

The new world appears to be of a garden paradise, consisting of:

 

[…] gently rolling hills within an easy sloping shore, covered with verdure, checkered with groves of trees and shrubbery, studded with numerous white buildings and animated with groups of men and cattle, all standing in relief near the foot of a lofty mountain, which in the distance reared its majestic head above the clouds.”

 

 

The internals are described as a peaceful race, their power emanating from the people. They were led by a “Best Man“ and a council of one hundred, elected for their modest and exemplary merit. The most fundamental characteristic of the internals was their simple life style, as they despised material gain and sensual pleasures.

 

They lived equally, without the desire for wealth or carnal pleasures, while producing only what is needed for the society. The society is described as living for the unified good and prosperity of all of their people. This fairness applied even to their diet, for they were vegetarians. Because of the contrast between the principles and values of the two races, the “Best Man“ orders Seaborn to leave this paradise inside the Earth, along with his crew, as described:

 

It appeared that we were of a race who had either wholly fallen from virtue, or were at least very much under the influence of the worst passions of our nature.”

 

Even though Symmes and his disciples were not able to reveal completely palpable evidence for their claims, there must be more than a grain of truth in it as countless people experience visions of this inner place and gain some kind of spiritual guidance towards it.

 

In our current state of understanding, we realize that planet Earth holds a lot of mysteries waiting to be uncovered. The earth is said to be almost eight thousand miles in diameter, and the deepest excavations ever attempted only reached half a mile below its surface. We are, therefore, extremely ignorant of the nature and structure of the interior of this vast mass the earth holds and might remain so unless those intraterrestrial beings decide to make the first step towards us.

 

When will they break the ice and uncover the truth?

 

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26-10-2015 om 20:24 geschreven door peter  

UFO Did Crash In Roswell And Aliens Were Found: Confirms Man Who Walked On The Moon

NASA astronaut who once walked on the Moon says he STILL believes a UFO with aliens DID crash in a US desert before the government covered it up and wants the world to know the TRUTH!

 

Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell was one of six key people involved in the release of a new ‘smoking gun’ image said to show one of the aliens that died in the crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

 

The picture is now widely believed to have been false or a hoax….

 

But despite the mess that was the ‘Roswell Slides’ event last week not changing history at all in the quest for extra terrestrial life as it had suggested it would, Edgar STILL remains adamant that more than one alien landed at Roswell nearly 70 years ago – and some of them were captured alive and could still be alive somewhere to this day.

 

“The truth about it is that it was real. I was there when the Roswell incident took place. I was on my way to college and had just graduated high school. 

 

“One day, it was in the Roswell Daily Record, which was a newspaper in Roswell, about an alien spacecraft that had crashed, and the next day that it had been denied by the Air Force, saying that it was a weather balloon. 

 

“I believed that and went off to college. 

 

“Many years later, after I had been to the moon and came back, I went out to Roswell to give lectures, talk and meet people I knew since I was a kid. 

 

“Many of the people I knew, along with descendants of the people who had been involved in the Roswell incident, told me their stories.” He said.

 

 

Edgar confirmed that the descendants included the son of an undertaker who provided “coffins for the alien bodies” and the son of a sheriff who “kept traffic away from the crash site” and helped keep the area secure from prying eyes!

 

Mr Mitchell who actually was meant to attend the 6,000-audience conference in Mexico for the recent Roswell Slides” event but actually appeared via video link, saying at 84 he was far too old to travel that far (perhaps a change of heart!?).

 

Edgar recently spoke of why the authorities have kept “alien visitations above top secret” during an interview with HighCountry News ahead of another UFO conference this month.

 

Speaking about the now panned and completely debunked ‘alien’ image, Mr Mitchell added:

 

“They’re certainly not human – looks like what the little greys look like.”

 

Mr Mitchell stated a very wise comment and also said that we do not know what beings are in the Universe because our planet is like a grain of sand on a huge beach.

 

Mr Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

 

 

 

Mr Mitchell also added:

 

“A family friend who was a major in the United States Air Force told me it was all real. 

 

“I got the stories from all of these various people into my head when I came back from the moon, and I then went to the Pentagon and told them my story about that and said, give me your opinion. 

 

“The admiral who I spoke to said, ‘I don’t know anything about it, but I’m going to find out.’ 

 

“He went out to New Mexico and checked all around, came back and told me, ‘Your stories are quite correct and all real.’”

 

Edgar was also keen to confirm that the US government found dead and live aliens on board the crashed craft at Roswell!

 

Apparently, the US Government covered up the Roswell incident because they did not know if the ‘visits’ were hostile and also did not want Soviet Russia discovering about it….and possibly stealing any potential knowledge or technology!

 

 

 

Edgar told how governmental agencies in the US did not know at all what to do with the alien crashed saucer and its “superior technology” for fear of it getting into Soviet hands and being used against them one day!

 

 “The best course of action was to just lie about it, and keep it to themselves. They labeled it ‘above top-secret,’ and that created the long running iron curtain separating a secret group within the government, and the American public.” He said.

 

Mr Mitchell also made a shocking statement that he had been made aware of “many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA” with each and every one covered up!

 

Please check out an intriguing video with Edgar below:

 

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26-10-2015 om 20:12 geschreven door peter  

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*.  Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y.Bai. et al. View full size image

When the monster back hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy belched out an exceptionally high number of powerful X-ray flares last year, it made astronomers wonder — is this a sign that the beast chowed down on a passing gas cloud, or is this lack of cosmic etiquette typical for black holes?

The black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short), is typically very quiet – it doesn't eat a lot of material, and there is relatively little light that radiates from the region around it. Which is why the apparent uptick in bright X-ray flares came as a surprise to scientists.

Could the bright flares seen in August 2014 have been caused by a gas cloud that passed too close to the black hole, and become an unsuspecting snack? And if that is the case, what does it tell scientists about what exactly happens to material that falls into a black hole? Alternatively, are these types of flare clusters typical of black holes, and an example of scientists' limited understanding of these mighty beasts? Upcoming observations may shed some light on these dark objects. [Images: Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Shreds … Something.

Bright flare activity increases

Packing a double punch of observational power, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space telescope have been observing Sgr A* (pronounced "Sagittarius A-star") on and off since 1999. In the last three years, the total coverage time has increased thanks to a series of dedicated observation campaigns.

For long stretches, Chandra's detectors would see only "quiescent" X-ray activity from Sgr A*, and then, suddenly, a bright flare would appear. The center of the Milky Way is one of the most densely populated regions of the galaxy, and the view between Earth and Sgr A* is blocked by stars and gas clouds. The Chandra scientists cherished the light that managed to make its way to their detectors, according to Daryl Haggard, an astrophysicist at McGill University in Montreal,  who studies the black hole using Chandra data.

Haggard is a co-author on a new study suggesting there was a two- to threefold increase in the number of bright flares emitted by Sgr A* beginning in August 2014 and extending through November 2014 (the paper does not show an overall increase in the flare rate). In one particularly active period, five bright X-ray flares burst forth from Sgr A* in a time frame that would typically see only one. One of the flares, seen in September, was three times brighter than any other flare detected from that region. The new paper looked at 15 years of Chandra and XMM-Newton data, as well as data from the SWIFT space telescope, in an effort to show that the increase was not merely a result of greater observation time.

What was happening to cause the increase? According to the new research, there are two leading ideas.

G2, the mystery object

The first hypothesis involves a controversial object called G2. In 2011, a group of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile announced that this cosmic daredevil was going to make a very tight swing around Sgr A*. What would happen during this close approach was a subject of hot debate, because scientists couldn't say for sure what G2 was – a pure dust cloud or a compact object surrounded by a dust cloud.

If G2 is a solid object, then it should have swung around Sgr A* without being pulled past the event horizon, beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape. But if it is pure gas, scientists predicted that the gravity of the black hole would smear it like a wisp of smoke, and a sizable amount of material would become lunch for Sgr A*. That would, theoretically, produce an increase in the light emitted from the region around the black hole, because when material falls into a black hole it accelerates rapidly, causing it to radiate light.

That means that if G2 is a dust cloud, it could have provided scientists with the first real-time, short-term observation of a black hole eating. To watch one of the most monstrous cosmic creatures in the universe devour a meal right in our own backyard would be an unrivaled opportunity for scientists. It would tell them about how black holes grow over their lifetimes, and provide new insights into the strange physics that takes place near the edge of these extreme gravity wells. Imagine a scientist who is trying to study lions in the wild, but never getting to see them hunt and devour their prey — G2 might finally let scientists watch Sgr A* in action.

The excitement was a palpable lead-up to G2's close approach to Sgr A*. Andrea Ghez, an astrophysicist at the University of California at Los Angeles and one of the scientists who confirmed the existence of Sgr A*, said it was one of the "most watched events in astronomy in my career."

And then, nothing.

Chandra saw nothing, nor did any of the other telescopes observing at the time.

Stefan Gillessen, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and one of the lead proponents of the gas cloud theory, argued that G2 might still be a pure gas cloud, but that the dynamics of how and when it would be pulled into Sgr A* were different than originally predicted. Scientists don't fully understand how material might behave around a black hole.

The new suggestion that Sgr A* released an increased number of bright flares in late 2014 could be the missing light show, according to Gabriel Ponti, a research fellow with the Max Planck group and the lead author on the new paper. Perhaps the material from G2 took longer than expected to fall toward the black hole and radiate.

"A year or so ago, we thought [G2] had absolutely no effect on Sgr A*, but our new data raise the possibility that that might not be the case," Ponti said in a statement from Chandra. [Black Holes of the Universe in Images]

A long monitoring campaign of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole has revealed some unusual activity. Typically relatively quiet, the black hole (called Sagittarius A*) had an increase in bright X-ray flares in mid-2014. The timing of this surge coincided with the close passage of the mysterious G2 object near the black hole. Astronomers will continue to observe the black hole to ascertain the true nature of the increase in brightX-ray activity.
Credit: NASA/CXC/MPE/G.Ponti et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss

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A cluster of flares

Ponti cautions that the new research cannot confirm the connection between the flare activity and G2 — there's no evidence to show that it isn't just a coincidence. Plus, the paper points out that observations in infrared light seem to show that G2 has survived its trip around Sgr A*, suggesting it is not a pure gas cloud.

This doesn't rule out the possibility that some of the gas from G2 was pulled into the black hole, but it means scientists would have to have a new model for how much gas could be syphoned from G2. And that raises the question of how quickly material moves through the region around a black hole, and around Sgr A* in particular. Does it flow down to the black hole's gaping maw in a smooth, quickly moving stream, like cream moving through coffee? Or is it slow, like molasses across asphalt? If this burst of flare activity is due to G2 passing by, it would suggest that material falls very quickly, according to Haggard. In fact, it would suggest that material is basically in free- fall as it gets closer to the black hole's event horizon. [The Strangest Black Holes in Space]

The likelihood of a G2 connection to the increased flare activity "seems tenuous to me," Haggard told Space.com. She prefers an alternative possibility — that black holes normally exhibit "flare clustering," or bursts of activity that vary from the "average" behavior they exhibit most of the time.

Ponti writes in his blog post for the Chandra website that other black holes that accrete matter at a similar rate to Sgr A* (but which are millions of times less massive) also show "long-term modulation in their flaring properties." (Another factor to consider is that an object called G1, spotted before G2 and with a similar physical appearance, approached Sgr A* at a similar distance in 2001, but there was "no particular evidence for anything unusual happening as a result of G1's passage." However, he also notes that "the X-ray monitoring was much sparser" at the time.)

The largest X-ray flare from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole has been detected. Chandra caught this flare, which was 400 times brighter than the black hole's usual output, in September 2013. Researchers also saw a second large X-ray flare a little over a year later.
Credit: NASA/CXC/Amherst College/D.Haggard et al.

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Illuminating a black hole

Scientists are still trying to understand why black holes like Sgr A* might release flares in periodic clusters, rather than evenly over time. It could have to do with how the gravitational pull of the black hole destroys matter that falls toward it, perhaps breaking it up into clumps, like a string of pearls that then fall in one after the other, each creating their own flare. It could also have to do with the magnetic properties of the black hole.

The Event Horizon Telescope, a worldwide network of radio telescopes, is currently dedicated to studying the monstrous beast that lives at the heart of Earth's galactic home. No data has come out of the project yet, but the collaboration may provide the best-ever images of a black hole.

"At present, we don't know whether the observed variation has anything to do with G2 or not and we are eager to know what the new data collected in 2015 will tell us," Ponti wrote in a blog post on Harvard University's Chandra website.

The object known as G2 may not have provided a snack for Sgr A*, the way so many people hoped it would. But it is nonetheless a fascinating object, potentially something that astronomers have never seen before. Ghez's group of researchers at UCLA have proposed that it may be two stars that merged into one, and they're wondering if these types of merged stars are typical around Sgr A*, and why.

Sgr A* is the nearest example we have of one of the most captivating creatures in the universe: An object with a gravitational pull so powerful it can bend light, or stop it from ever escaping. There are black holes in the universe that are brighter than entire galaxies, and others that are almost completely invisible. Scientists still aren't sure if falling into a black hole would involve being shredded into long strips like spaghetti, or crushed by all the material that ever fell in before. The flares detected by Chandra and XMM provide clues about what happens to those that enter the cosmic lion's den.

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26-10-2015 om 20:04 geschreven door peter  

Rusland in de ban van ‘zeer grote vliegende schotel met felle groene lichten’

Op de sociale media wordt de laatste dagen druk gesproken over ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten boven de hoofdstad van de Russische autonome regio Boerjatië. Een vrouw zag een ‘oplichtend’ object met ‘een groot aantal groene lichten’ in de lucht boven Oelan-Oede. Dat schrijft The Siberian Times.

Samen met haar zoon en twee voorbijgangers zag ze hoe het mysterieuze object verdween en vervolgens vlak bij haar opnieuw verscheen.

“Toen het boven ons hoofd bleef hangen, kon ik geen woord uitbrengen,” zei de vrouw. “De twee voorbijgangers verstopten zich in een gebouw. Het was een zeer grote schotel met in het midden felle groene lichten. Ik kon niet geloven dat zoiets bestond.”

Vreemde cirkels

Boven het Russische Baikalmeer werd in juli 2010 iets soortgelijks gezien. Toen waren mensen getuige van drie ‘UFO’s’ met een groene waas. “Ze vlogen heel laag over ons heen,” zei Nikita Tomin. “Het object scheen met een groen licht op ons. We waren een beetje bang.”

Een andere inwoner van Oelan-Oede maakte onlangs melding van een fel oplichtend object dat hij midden in de nacht vanaf het balkon had gezien. Iemand anders zag rode lichten in de lucht die zomaar in het niets verdwenen. Eerder deze maand zagen inwoners van Oelan-Oede ook al vreemde cirkels boven de stad (foto).

“Het was zeker geen satelliet”

Een 35-jarige man uit de plaats Khorinsk, op zo’n 165 kilometer van de stad, zei afgelopen week: “Ik zag het met mijn eigen ogen. Rond 19.00 uur ging ik naar buiten om te roken en zag ik een oplichtende bol in de lucht, heel fel. Ik dacht eerst dat het een satelliet was, maar toen ik beter keek merkte ik dat de bol zich slechts 200 tot 300 meter boven de grond bevond.”

“Het was zeker geen satelliet, het bewoog zich anders voort,” ging de man verder. “De lichten werden langzaam maar zeker minder fel en kleurden rood. Ik hoorde geen geluid. Het is heel stil waar ik woon. Er zijn geen auto’s.”

[Siberian Times]

26-10-2015 om 19:34 geschreven door peter  

Glowing Cigar UFO Over Colima Volcano, Mexico On Live Cam, Aug 15, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: August 15, 2015

Location of sighting: Colima Volcano, Mexico

Cam URL: http://webcamsdemexico.com/webcam-volcan-de-colima

 

Here is an older sighting a few months ago, but I have not posted it before, so here it goes.

 

Many UFOs have been seen around Colima Volcano and this UFO is glowing white light which shows us its a high energy source, not a bird or plane. Also the UFO is in the typical tubular shape that are commonly seen around Mexico volcanos. 

Scott C. Waring

www.ufosightingsdaily.com

 

News states: 

August 15, 2015, fire Colima volcano, again webcams of Mexico attracted to an object that quickly crosses a certain distance of the monitoring team.

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26-10-2015 om 19:21 geschreven door peter  

Incredible giant UFO has people running away in fear, Oct 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 2015
Location of sighting: Buryatia, Russia
News source: http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/f0172-ufos-buzz-city-of-ulan-ude-with-residents-seeingvery-big-saucer-with-bright-green-lights/

This hit the news today and its a very cool sighting. Russia is known for its UFOs and this is one for the history books. The UFO is low over the building and has two orbs above it, used like sensors of sorts. These orbs are often seen buzzing around UFOs, some measure only a few inches. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
The latest unidentified flying objects in the capital of Buryatia have had the social media buzzing in recent days. A woman reported seeing a 'glowing' entity in the sky above Ulan-Ude with 'a lot of green lights, some red and blue'. She watched with her son and male two passers-by as the mysterious object disappeared and then reappeared 'very close', making a noise like the engine of a car, she claimed. The men at first claimed it might be a toy plane or drone. 'When it stopped right above us, I could not say a word and saw the two men running to hide in a building,' said the woman. 'It was a very large saucer with bright green lights in the middle. My son got scared, grabbed my hand and we ran away. I never believed that something like that could exist.' (more at source).

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26-10-2015 om 19:17 geschreven door peter  

Researchers at George Washington University are reporting that they’ve discovered the human consciousness on-off switch, deep within the brain. When this region of the brain, called the claustrum, is electrically stimulated, consciousness — self-awareness, sentience, whatever you want to call it — appears to turn off completely. When the stimulation is removed, consciousness returns. The claustrum seems to bind together all of our senses, perceptions, and computations into single, cohesive experience. This could have massive repercussions for people currently in a minimally conscious state (i.e. a coma), and for deciding once and for all which organisms are actually conscious. Are monkeys conscious? Cats and dogs? A fetus?

When it comes to human consciousness, much like the rest of our brain’s operation, there isn’t a whole lot in the way of actual scientific knowledge. Despite a century of “modern” neuroscience, we still only have a rough sketch of how the human brain works. Most theories, though, generally agree that consciousness is probably created by a part of the brain that integrates activity from different regions of the brain into a single, holistic experience. To put it in (very loose) computing terms, this seat of human consciousness would be somewhat like a CPU; without it, you’d just have a bunch of different parts that are theoretically functional, but not really capable of getting anything useful done.

The claustrum, below the neocortex, in a human brain

The research, led by Mohamad Koubeissi at GWU in Washington DC, was originally tasked with analyzing a woman with epilepsy. The neuroscientists were stimulating regions of the brain with electrodes in an attempt to discover where her seizures originated from. Then, when they stimulated the claustrum — a thin region of the brain underneath the neocortex — the patient slowly lost consciousness. When the stimulation was removed, consciousness returned. When the claustrum was stimulated, the woman just stopped whatever she was doing (speaking, reading, moving) and stared blankly into space; when stimulation was removed, she continued as normal with no recollection of what had just happened. [DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2014.05.027 – “Electrical stimulation of a small brain area reversibly disrupts consciousness”]

Speaking to New Scientist, Koubeissi said: “I would liken it to a car. A car on the road has many parts … but there’s only one spot where you turn the key and it all switches on and works together. So while consciousness is a complicated process created via many structures and networks – we may have found the key. [Read: Human consciousness is simply a state of matter, like a solid or liquid – but quantum.]

As you might expect when it comes to bleeding-edge neuroscience, there are some caveats to the research — most notably, the study only looked at the brain of one person, and due to her epilepsy (and previous removal of part of her hippocampus) she doesn’t necessarily represent a “normal” brain. In short, more research needs to be done — and following the publishing of this paper, you can be guaranteed that there will be more research into the claustrum.

Neural pathways in the human brain

If it turns out that the claustrum is the seat of consciousness, the repercussions could be monumental. Consciousness — the idea that we are somehow greater than the sum of our dumb animal senses — has always been a rather sticky concept. The general idea is that consciousness is one of the key factors that makes us human — that imbues us with humanity — rather than merely roaming around, responding to hard-coded instincts.

Curiously, even though stimulating the claustrum removed consciousness, the patient was still awake. Consciousness is often discussed in relation to wakefulness, but seemingly they are not as closely connected as originally fhought. This new research could also inform us about anesthesia and comas — two other areas of medicine we still know very little about. [Read: MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons.]

Finally, it’s worth pointing out that the claustrum is believed to be present in all mammalian brains. Does this mean that all dogs and cats are conscious and self-aware? When the human (or other mammalian) fetus develops a claustrum, does it become conscious? What about other, simpler animals that don’t have a claustrum? Interesting questions that neuroscientists are no doubt be racing to answer.

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26-10-2015 om 00:06 geschreven door peter  

25-10-2015 om 23:49 geschreven door peter  

A Ceres-like asteroid slowly disintegrates while orbiting a white dwarf star in this illustration. A similar object seems to be coming apart as it orbits one of the white dwarfs imaged by the Kepler Space Telescope during its K2 mission - the first object ever seen transiting a white dwarf. Credit: Mark A. Garlick View full size image

The planet-destroying Death Star from "Star Wars" may be fictional, but a star at the end of its life and only a bit bigger than Earth could be its real-world twin: The star is currently destroying and disintegrating an orbiting planet bit by bit.

The ill-fated planetary body and its debris are about the size of Texas or the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest asteroid in Earth's solar system, and it will be fully destroyed within about a million years. Scientists watching the object disintegrate will get the best-ever view of a solar system's death, researchers said — and a look at the likely future of our own system.

Scientists observed the crumbling planet using NASA's Kepler space telescope and pulled out further detail through ground observation. This marks the first time scientists have ever seen a planetary body passing around a tiny, faint white dwarf (the planet's destroyer), researchers report in a new study. [Infographic: How to Tell Star Types Apart]

"This is something no human has seen before," Andrew Vanderburg, a graduate student at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lead author of the new study, said in a statement. "We're watching a solar system get destroyed."

"What we're seeing are fragments of a disintegrating planet that is being vaporized by [the white dwarf's] starlight and is losing mass," Vanderburg told Space.com. "The vapor is getting lost into orbit, and that condenses into dust which then blocks the starlight." (The object is being destroyed by the white dwarf's intense heat and possibly by its gravitational tides as well, likely after its orbit became unstable and moved inward, the researchers said in the statement.)

Watching the dust from the decomposing object change the light from the white dwarf is a major milestone for understanding stars and the planets that orbit them, the researchers said.

Stellar mystery

As a star grows old, it balloons outward into a huge red giant, swallowing anything orbiting too close to it. Researchers say that, in the case of Earth's solar system, the sun will grow to engulf Mercury, Venus and possibly Earthin about 5 billion years.

Eventually, an old star runs out of fuel; then, it sheds its massive outer envelope into space, and its core contracts into a small, dense white dwarf. (White dwarfs are the final form of stars close to our sun's size, whereas much larger stars end in supernova explosions.)

Any elements heavier than hydrogen or helium should soon be sucked into the center of that white dwarf, but as astronomers learned to peer closer, they noticed something strange: Many white dwarfs somehow still have heavy elements like magnesium and iron in their atmospheres that should have been pulled inward. So, astronomers surmised, something must be continuously adding those elements to the surface.

Rocky material in orbit around a white dwarf star (center). Collisions turn larger material into dust, some of which then rains down on to the white dwarf.
Credit: © Mark A. Garlick /space-art.co.uk/University of Warwick

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Some astronomers suspected that planets and other bodies orbiting the white dwarf, knocked off-kilter by the star's loss of mass, might collide with one another and shatter into asteroidlike pieces, which, if they wander too close, would be pulled apart by the dwarf's gravity. Then, those pieces would form a disk of dust that would fall into the star, replenishing its supply of metals. 

Astronomers had noticed, in some cases, the very planet-like makeup of those dusty veils. But because nobody had ever seen the broken-up planets themselves passing around a white dwarf, it remained an educated guess.

Seeing strange signals

Now, Vanderburg's group has spotted just such a signature in the recurring decline and reappearance of a white dwarf's light picked up by the Kepler space telescope during its K2 mission. White dwarfs are small, so such "transits" occur quickly as objects orbit them and are easy to miss.

But because white dwarfs are so small, the passing bodies can block out more light and make the change much more noticeable. This particular white dwarf star is about 570 light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo, and the object orbits its star at a distance of about 520,000 miles (837,000 kilometers) — more than twice the distance from the Earth to the moon, researchers said in the statement.

By incorporating data from ground-based telescopes as well, the group was able to piece together a more detailed view of the object passing in front of the star. The transits were very short, confirming that the thing being blocked out was very small, like a white dwarf. Moreover, the transits were asymmetrical in how much light they blocked over time, providing the researchers a key clue to interpreting the scenario.

"Instead of being transited by a solid planet, the white dwarf was being transited by a planet that has a dusty, cometlike tail trailing behind it," Vanderburg said. That tail, rather than just an isolated object orbiting, would make the starlight change unevenly over time. There are likely several fragments making the journey and entering astronomers' view, Vanderburg said.

The data that finally supported this conclusion and pulled all the observations together reached Vanderburg in an email at 1 a.m, just before he was going to sleep — and he was up for the next five hours because the data "was just so exciting and so stunning," he said. For the first time, researchers were seeing the 10-year-old theory about how white dwarf systems evolve directly confirmed in the night sky.

New views

Other researchers are similarly enthused by this finding, Vanderburg said, and almost all of them have their own theories for what, exactly, is happening.

"We've never witnessed something like this," said Francesca Faedi, an astronomer at the University of Warwick in England, and author of a "News and Views" column accompanying the new results, published online today (Oct. 21) in the journal Nature.

"It's the first object known to have been born, survived and [be] dying around the host star — which is very cool," she told Space.com.

By watching a planetary body break apart around the white dwarf, researchers will be able to get a sense of the different elements inside it as it disintegrates. They will also be able to study its atmosphere much more easily than if it were orbiting a larger star — simply because it covers up more of the star and creates a bigger signal for today's technology to analyze. By finding white-dwarf transits in Kepler data, researchers will get the closest look yet at such exoplanets. [The Strangest Alien Planets (Gallery)]

"Finally, white dwarfs get a little bit of fuss around them," Faedi said. "They deserve that."

Seeing the final stages of a planetary system around such a dwarf is key, she added. "We cannot have a nice picture of exoplanets, we cannot understand exoplanets, unless we understand how they got formed, how they evolve dynamically and how they die," Faedi said.

And while they're at it, systems like these give astronomers hints about what will happen when the sun becomes Earth's own "Death Star." Of course, by then Earth will be burnt to a crisp following the sun's expansion into a red giant, if not engulfed altogether. But at least it won't have succumbed to the Dark Side. 

Editor's Note: This article was updated Oct. 23 to further clarify why the object is coming apart.

Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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25-10-2015 om 23:37 geschreven door peter  

Evil Reptilian Alien Uses Hologram Of The Deceased To Rape Woman – This Story Is From Dr. Karla Turner – Was She Murdered? (Video)

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I am sharing this story because it is popular amongst the reptilian haters. Just like humans if a human rapes it doesn’t mean every human rapes. Same with beings such as Reptilians. Reptilians are the new Jews to hate on in the space cult whacko sections of the scene. So I am sharing for discussion not to condemn an entire species but to definitely condemn the actions of an evil reptilian if this story is true. I know for a fact good Reptilians exist. So don’t always buy the hype but this is something to think on regardless of your feelings for the reptilians. Some maybe of the light and others of a more demonic nature. You can watch the video below to find out more about Dr. Karla Turner’s supposed murder. – Jeffery Pritchett 

From: ALIEN ABDUCTIONS IN THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE
by Dr. Karla Turner

A man in his late 40′s came to us to explore several alien- related events in his life, and in the interview he told of a strange, although not apparently alien-oriented, episode that had haunted him since childhood.
When he was ten years old, his grandmother came to visit in his home, and since the house was small, she shared his bed on the first night of her visit.

During the night, the boy was awakened by a loud male voice. He couldn’t understand what the voice was saying, but it sounded angry and was addressing the grandmother lying beside him. The next morning, he asked his grandmother, “What was that voice in the bedroom last night?”

His grandmother, with tears in her eyes, pulled him tightly to her and said, “That was the devil.” She said nothing more about the episode, but she did insist that her son take her back to her own home immediately. It was an unreasonable request, and her son tried to talk her out of it. But the grandmother was adamant, and finally her son agreed to take her home the following day.

The entire family made the trip of over a hundred miles back to the grandmother’s farm, and within an hour of their arrival, the grandmother suffered a massive stroke and died. Ever since that event, the man had felt a heavy burden of guilt associated with his grandmother’s death. Yet there was no conscious reason for him to have felt that way. The entire event was poignant and mystifying, but in all the alien encounters he had subsequently undergone, he had felt that the aliens were his friends and were helping him by expanding his psychic abilities. 

A regression session was arranged, and in the course of the hypnosis, he was asked to look at that childhood experience. What he recalled was an abduction in which he and his grandmother were taken to a spacecraft in the company of reptilian aliens. He remembered the aliens telling his grandmother that they were interested in learning about her knowledge of medicinal herbs. And they offered to exchange medical information of their own. They gave the boy and the grandmother a liquid to drink, explaining that it was beneficial and would make the grandmother feel young and attractive again. So both of them drank the liquid, and the man remembered seeing his grandmother indeed looking much younger. That was the extent of his recollection.

Both he and Ms. Bartholic, who was conducting the regression, were puzzled by this, because there was nothing in the episode to account for the guilt he had felt about the grandmother’s death. So Ms. Bartholic deepened the man’s trance level and asked him to look at it again, with much clearer vision. And what he then recalled was much more disturbing.

The abduction, at first, followed his initial recollection. But when the liquid was drunk, he now remembered a very strong feeling of change in his body. And he saw that the grandmother didn’t actually look younger. Instead, she was placed on a table and approached by one of the reptilian aliens who wanted to have intercourse with her. The liquid had acted as an aphrodisiac, yet the grandmother resisted and said that since her husband’s death she would not have sex with anyone. The reptilian laughed and disappeared from the room momentarily. When he returned, he was accompanied by a man who looked exactly like the dead husband.

At this point, the grandmother agreed to have sex, but as the act was in progress, she suddenly realized that the image of her dead husband was a cruel illusion. It was actually the reptilian on top of her, and she cried out in great resistance for him to leave her alone. Once he was finished with her, he lifted up the little boy and placed him on top of the grandmother, forcing another sex act upon the both of them. Then the grandmother was removed from the table and the little boy was victimized himself by the reptilian, forced to have anal and oral sex. The grandmother protested violently, pushing the reptilian away from her grandson and interposing her body between them. “By Jesus,” she shouted, “you will not touch this boy!”

That must have been the wrong thing to say, because the reptilian became very angry and threatened her. “You will die for that!” he told her, and the two people were returned to the bedroom from which they’d been taken. The next morning, the grandmother told the little boy that the devil had been there the night before, and that was when she insisted upon being taken home. And, as it turned out, she did die immediately thereafter.

This, then, was the cause of the man’s lifelong sense of guilt about her death. He had been forced to have sex with her, and her death had followed shortly after. But none of this story would have emerged if Ms. Bartholic had done as most investigators do and stopped the regression after uncovering the story about the exchange of medicinal knowledge.

There are other cases in our files that show a similar deception at work in the initial hypnotic recall. We cannot trust that first memory, it is clear, for like so much else in the abduction experience, there may well be further maskings of events.

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

25-10-2015 om 23:19 geschreven door peter  

Diamond Shaped Alien Craft Spotted Over Pennsylvania

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25-10-2015 om 22:57 geschreven door peter  

Lorsque l’esprit veut conclure à tout prix

Notre psychisme a un penchant naturel pour l’ordre, qui se révèle désastreux face à la complexité. L’essayiste états-unien Jamie Holmes démonte ce mécanisme dans son éloge de l’incertitude et de l’ambiguïté

25-10-2015 om 18:48 geschreven door peter  

'We worden warm gemaakt voor het buitenaardse' - AD.nl

'Er zijn de laatste 60 jaar duizenden ufo-meldingen gedaan: te veel om af te doen als onzin.' © Annemarie Kleywegt .

AD MAGAZINE De ontdekking van water op Mars en de berichten over een ster waar 'iets onverklaarbaars' omheen zweeft, zijn nieuw voer voor de discussie die een groeiend deel van de bevolking bezighoudt: zijn wij alleen?

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  • Vooral van mensen die schrijven dat ze het fijn vinden dat hun waarnemingen en ideeën eindelijk serieus worden genomen
          Coen Vermeeren

Een klassieker van cabaretier Theo Maassen, die de aardse zoektocht naar buitenaards leven 'nogal zonde van het geld' vindt: ,,Er maar twee opties: of ze zijn dommer wij, ­­­of ze zijn slimmer dan wij. Als ze dommer zijn dan wij, dan hoef ik er niks mee te maken te hebben. En als ze slimmer zijn dan wij, dan vinden zij ons veel eerder dan wij hun." 

Lachen natuurlijk, maar volgens ufo-gelovigen ziet Maassen één dingetje over het ­­hoofd: 'ze' zijn er al. Voormalig lucht- en ruimtevaart-
docent Coen Vermeeren, die beweert zelf meerdere keren ufo's te hebben gezien, is er ook zeker van. De wetenschapper schreef in 2013 het boek Ufo's bestaan gewoon, gebaseerd op veel bestaande literatuur en gesprekken met ufo-getuigen. De publicatie leverde behalve een enkele diskwalificatie (TU Delft-collega/astronoom Dap Hartman omschreef Vermeeren als 'ufo-gekkie') naar eigen zeggen dagelijks 'ongelooflijk veel reacties' en steunbetuigingen op. 

,,Vooral van mensen die schrijven dat ze het fijn vinden dat hun waarnemingen en ideeën eindelijk serieus worden genomen." Overigens noemt Vermeeren, die geregeld lezingen geeft over 'hét onderwerp van deze eeuw' zich wat betreft de ufo-materie tegenwoordig liever 'filosoof en vrijdenker', naast zijn gewone baan als directeur van Studium Generale aan de TU Delft. ,,Want het vak ufoloog bestaat helaas nog niet." 

Verder kijken
Dat zou best eens kunnen veranderen. Want de groep mensen die verder wil kij­ken dan hemel en aarde, groeit gestaag. Dat merkt ook Robin de Boer (32) uit Lage Zwaluwe, die met zijn website Ninefornews.nl ('een kleine één miljoen unieke bezoekers per maand') veel aandacht besteedt aan buitenaards leven. ,,Uit peilingen in onder meer Groot-Brittannië blijkt dat inmiddels meer dan de helft van de mensen gelooft in intelligent 
buitenaards leven. Dat was 20 jaar geleden wel anders." 

De verklaring voor het toegenomen geloof van intelligent leven in het universum is volgens De Boer, van huis uit geograaf ('nee, nog nooit zelf een ufo gezien') eenvoudig. ,,De NASA komt met de ene na de andere spannende onthulling, variërend van de aanwezigheid van water op Mars tot ijs op Pluto. Dat is spectaculair. En vooraanstaande astronomen beweren dat we binnen nu en een generatie intelligent buitenaards leven zullen ontdekken. We worden dus langzamerhand warm gemaakt voor het buitenaardse." 

Daar komt nog bij dat een astronoom van Penn State University afgelopen week melding maakte van een wel heel mysterieuze ster in a galaxy far, far away. Het lijkt alsof er van alles rond die ster zweeft dat niet op een 'natuurlijke' manier kan worden verklaard, wat de mogelijkheid oproept dat het 'aangelegd' is. Niet bepaald een theorie waar serieuze wetenschappers snel op komen.

 

• Religie is gebaseerd op vertrouwen. Maar ik ben wetenschapper, dus ik wil gewoon bewijs zien
•           Coen Vermeeren

© Annemarie Kleywegt.

Stephan Hawking
En er is meer: zo doneerde afgelopen zomer de Russische miljardair Joeri Milner 100 miljoen dollar aan Seti, de organisatie die (tot nu toe vergeefs) speurt naar buitenaards leven. 

En door de befaamde Britse natuurkundige 
Stephen Hawking ('niet te hard roepen in de kosmos, want de kans bestaat dat hogere levensvormen net zulke agressieve, gewelddadige karaktereigenschappen hebben als wij') erbij te betrekken, betekent dat een enorme impuls voor de believers.  

Bewijs
De suggestie dat het geloof in ufo's en aliens kenmerken heeft van een nieuwe religie, verwerpt Coen Vermeeren. ,,Religie is gebaseerd op vertrouwen. Maar ik ben wetenschapper, dus ik wil gewoon bewijs zien." 

Dat keiharde wetenschappelijke bewijs voor ufo's ontbreekt, geeft ook Vermeeren toe. ,,Maar er zijn de laatste 60 jaar duizenden ufo-meldingen gedaan van leken én getrainde waarnemers als piloten, astronauten en militair personeel. Er is video- en fotomateriaal, er zijn radarbeelden, er zijn talloze getuigenverklaringen: het is gewoon veel te veel om af te doen als onzin." 

En, voor de goede orde: ufo betekent unidentified flying objects, ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten dus, wat niet automatisch zegt dat er groene mannetjes aan boord van het object moeten zitten. Vermeeren: ,,Ongeveer 95 procent van de ufo-meldingen is te verklaren. Dan blijken het weerballonnen, luchtspiegelingen of drone-achtige objecten te zijn. Maar dan blijft er nog altijd vijf procent over."

En, beweert Vermeeren, de gemelde onverklaarbare ruimteschepen zijn slechts het topje van de ijsberg. ,,Stel je voor: je bent piloot en ziet een ufo. Je bent verplicht dat aan de autoriteiten te melden, maar zeker als je een vrouw, kind en hypotheek hebt, bedenk je je wel twee keer of je dat wel doet: voor je het weet wordt er door mensen aan de grond getwijfeld aan je waarnemings-vermogen en ben je je baan kwijt." Die 'moderne variant op de brandstapel' - je wordt belachelijk gemaakt en sociaal uitgesloten als je beweert dat je ufo's hebt gezien - verdwijnt volgens Vermeeren pas als er serieus wetenschappelijk onderzoek wordt gedaan naar ufo's én als ufo-melders onder ede worden gehoord in de rechtszaal.

Paniek
Wat volgens Vermeeren ook zou helpen: overheden die minder krampachtig ufo-info onder de pet houden. Dát dat gebeurt, is volgens de wetenschapper geen vraag meer. Kort samengevat: autoriteiten ontkennen het bestaan van ufo's in eerste instantie om paniek te voorkomen - in januari 2014 werd het luchtruim boven Bremen tijdelijk gesloten na talloze ufo-meldingen - maar ook omdat het de wereldeconomie op z'n kop zou zetten. Vermeeren sluit zich daarbij aan bij de Canadese ex-minister Paul Hellyer, die beweert dat buitenaardse techniek onze aardbol ingrijpend zal veranderen. ,,Wie geluidloos onze dampkring in kan komen, moet over superieure techniek beschikken," doceert Vermeeren. ,,Technieken die 'vrije energie voor de mensheid' dichterbij brengen. Dat vinden de Shells, de banken en andere grote bedrijven van deze wereld niet leuk, zij hebben er alle belang bij om de huidige situatie in stand te houden." 

Niet zo lekker
Vermeeren gelooft dat de buitenaardsen vredelievend zijn ('er is meerdere keren op ufo's geschoten, maar er is nog nooit teruggeschoten') én de mensheid verder kunnen helpen. Dat laatste is hard nodig, vindt hij, zeker omdat het met onze wereld ('oorlogen, leeggeviste zeeën, klimaatproblemen, boekhoudschandalen') momenteel niet zo lekker gaat. Vermeeren: ,,Het is niet zo gek dat ook veel jonge mensen denken: wat moet ik in deze wereld? De zoektocht naar buitenaards leven is voor mij dan ook een menselijke les in nieuwsgierigheid. En wat dat betreft zie ik gelukkig bij steeds meer mensen een open blik."

Robin de Boer van Ninefornews.nl ziet in dat verband ook een nieuwe ontwikkeling. ,,Eerst waren het vooral mensen uit de spirituele hoek die in aliens geloofden, nu merk je dat er een grote groep 'gewone' mensen interesse krijgt." En aangezien er ook veel mensen zijn die alle ufo-meldingen en buitenaardse uitstapjes afdoen als complotdenkerij en klinkklare onzin, levert dat met name op internetfora nogal wat verbaal gebekvecht op. De Boer: ,,Ik denk zelf ook dat er wel degelijk buitenaards leven mogelijk is, maar ik heb bepaald niet de wijsheid in pacht." En met een grijns: ,,Maar als de mensheid nu al zoveel met elkaar bekvecht, ben ik heel benieuwd hoe dat gaat als er straks echt aliens landen."

Dit artikel is gepubliceerd in AD Magazine, de weekendbijlage van het AD.

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  • Ongeveer 95 procent van de ufo-meldingen is te verklaren. Dan blijken het weerballonnen, luchtspiegelingen of drone-achtige objecten te zijn. Maar dan blijft er nog altijd vijf procent over
  Coen Vermeeren

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25-10-2015 om 18:35 geschreven door peter  

The Dogon Tribe and their mysterious connection to Sirius

The Brightest star(s) in the sky is Sirius without a doubt, the name Sirius, comes from the Greek language and is translated as the glowing one or bright one. And what might appear as a single star is in fact a double or even possibly triple star system according to observations made in the 1920’s. Apparently our scientists are beginning to accept just now what ancient people worldwide already knew thousands of years before us, like the Dogon tribe in Africa.

According to the Dogon, the “instructor” gods descended from Sirius and brought knowledge and wisdom. What is interesting is that the Dogon knew about Sirius and its “triple” star system way before “modern” science found out its existence. According to studies it is believed that Sirius C, the third system, is a red dwarf star a hundred times less massive than our own Sun, and a lot less brighter making it hard to see with our equipment, thus the discovery is still awaiting confirmation from the astronomic community. But hey, the Dogon knew about the “triple star system” way back and that is whats causing all the stir.Ancient Egyptians also knew Sirius, and just like Orion, they considered this star system very important as they believed that the gods came from Orion and Sirius, Osiris and Isis.

The Dogon are an extremely interesting tribe, their most sacred and most ancient traditions speak of a star that is accompanied by the planetary system Sirius which they call “Po Tolo.” How did they know that? Whats even more interesting is the fact that the Dogon knew that every 50 years, the planet completed its orbit, and they knew that it was -, facts that modern-day astronomers have managed to corroborate. To make things even more interesting, the Dogon knew of the existence of a third star which they called “Emme Ya“, corresponding to the relatively newly discovered Sirius C. The Dogon believe that Emma Ya is actually four times lighter than Po Tolo even though it takes the same time to complete its orbit around Sirius A.

So how did they do it? How is it possible that these incredibly intelligent people known as the Dogon tribe knew of all of these extensive astronomical details? Details that were considered pure mythological stories until they were actually corroborated by astronomy and science, and all of a sudden mythology turns into reality. Apparently we have to understand that there is a thin line between mythology and reality, it’s just a matter of interpretation. How is it possible that the Dogon had all this astronomical knowledge without the tools to observe the sky properly?

The Dogon are a wonderfully mysterious tribe, their wisdom in astronomy has baffled researchers for centuries, their detailed knowledge about our Solar System is incredible. They knew about Jupiter and refered to the giant planet as “Dana Tolo“, they also knew about the four satellites and the rings, their “mythology” described the elliptical orbits of planetary systems around the sun and they even recognized the Sun as the “brother system” of Sirius. They claim that these two systems got separated to form two different star systems but with one identical origin. Just how did they manage to obtain this knowledge?

Modern day astronomy knows that Sirius B is a “white dwarf“, technically a tiny star that is extremely heavy. But there is more to the Dogon actually, they know about Sirius B and it is impossible to find Sirius B in the sky with the naked eye, and they even seem to possess almost identical astronomical diagrams compared to our modern-day ones, where drawings represent the orbit of Sirius B around Sirius A, what is baffling is the fact that they actually drew Sirius B with a smaller size and claimed the star itself consists of a material brighter than Iron which they call “Sagla.” How is it possible that with all of this knowledge, today we consider these “facts” as being pure mythological details of the Dogon? When their “mythology” seems to accurately represent what we are just finding out about our universe. Sirius was first seen in 1862, when American astronomer Alvan Clark managed to observe that Sirius was composed of “two” stars with a target of 47 cm in diameter.

How did the ancient Dogon manage to calculate that “Po Tolo” takes around 50 years to orbit around Sirius when modern-day astronomy has calculated with a small degree of error that it actually takes50.040 years. Do you think all of this above is incredible? Well there is more to it actually… The Dogon state that “Emma Ya” is the second companion of Sirius and it even has a smaller satellite that orbits around it. The Dogon call it “Nyan Tolo“,basically translated to as: The Star of the Woman.

Sirius in other cultures and ancient civilizations

This of course is not an isolated event. The Ancient Egyptians also had extensive knowledge about Sirius. In ancient Egypt, Sirius was referred to as Sopdet, and it is recorded in the earliest astronomical records, during the era of the Middle kingdom, the ancient Egyptians based their calendar on the heliacal rising of Sirius. For the Chibchas from modern-day Colombia, the heliacal rising of Sirius marked the beginning of the rain season. Ancient Sumerians also considered Sirius as being very important and they used it to define the timing of the agricultural cycle. Bright stars were important to the ancient Polynesians for navigation between the many islands and atolls of the Pacific Ocean.

For the Māori people of New Zealand, the appearance of Sirius marked the chilly onset of winter. TheMāori people called it Takurua referring to both the season and star. As we can see, there are numeros cultures and ancient civilizations who believed that Sirius was of extreme importance, but the Dogon however had the most accurate details of Sirius. According to the Dogon, all of their knowledge originated from beings that came from “Nyan Tolo” which is the satellite of “Emme Ya” in the Sirius System around 3000 B.C., these beings are referred to as “Nommos” and they arrived to the Dogon in a “Red Ark“, as these beings landed, there was fire and smoke, roaring sounds that resembled huge rocks crashing into each other.

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Time travel may be theoretically possible, but it is beyond our current technological capabilities. Credit: argus | Shutterstock View full size image

Paul Sutter is a research fellow at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste and visiting scholar at the Ohio State University's Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP). Sutter is also host of the podcasts Ask a Spaceman and RealSpace, and the YouTube series Space In Your Face. He contributed this article toSpace.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

"Hey, let's meet at the Bagel Cafe on Broad Street in an hour," you tell your friend, "because I'm really hungry for bagels."

Without realizing it, you just described an event in space-time. Notice how there's minimal gap between the words "space" and "time." That's important. We're used to thinking of "space" as somewhat related to "time," but not intimately connected. If I want to meet you — to get bagels, for example — we need to specify the coordinates on Earth and the coordinates in time. But that's as deep as the connection goes. It's just another description we use to organize meetings or describe events in the past. 

About a hundred years ago, even top-tier scientists thought the same way. That was the legacy of living in the worldview of Galileo and Newton: an absolute reference frame against which all else is measured, and a master clock somewhere out there in the cosmos ticking away the universal time. Separately perfect and perfectly separate. 

Unfortunately, during the Relativity Revolution, led by figures such as James Clerk Maxwell, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincare and Albert Einstein, the absolute reference frame and the master clock were the first up against the wall (as covered in my previous essay "Everything's Relative: The Discovery of Space-Time"). 

What was left after the carnage? If all motion is relative, and there are no absolutes, how are we supposed to think about space and time? What's the relationship? It wasn't Einstein who gave the answers, but one of his former professors Hermann Minkowski. 

Realizing relativity

Albert may have taught us relativity, but Hermann taught us how to thinkabout relativity. 

In the man's own words:

"The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."

Wow, gutsy statement. But Minkowski had math and evidence on his side, so he could afford to go all-in. He even admits how whacko his ideas sound, but he's arguing that the results of the Michelson-Morley experiments back him up. Well, I should say the lack of results from the Michelson-Morley experiments. Using the best light-interfering gizmos the 19th century had to offer, they failed to find any evidence for a changing speed of light as the Earth moved through its orbit. Hence, no evidence for an aether, and no absolute reference frame or a master clock. Minkowski: 1. Haters: 0.

If that paragraph didn't make any sense to you at all, then you really need to (re-)read my last essay. Go ahead, it's only a click away.

So here we are. No time for space and no space for time. We simply can'tthink of them as independent concepts. There can be only one: space-time . The framework developed by Minkowski solidified the concepts developed by Einstein and put them in a nice, tidy little package, where time and space are on equal footing, as I explain in this video.

Which watch to watch?

And by equal, I really mean equal, and that equality lets us interpret all the strange shenanigans of Einstein's Special Relativity. Here's an example: time dilation. You may have heard the phrase "moving clocks run slow." If you've never heard the phrase before, well, you have now, so we can proceed.

Let's pretend you have a twin. If you really do have a twin, great, you can perform this experiment in real life. Shove your twin into the nearest interstellar spaceship. If you don't have one handy, ask Elon.Tell your twin to rocket off to some distant star at close to the speed of light, then return. 

Off your twin goes. The bit of light representing your twin's fantastic adventures grows smaller and smaller, receding into the blackness of space. You live your life, bored, lonely and wishing you had reversed roles in this experiment. Time passes. Years. Decades. You're gray, wrinkled in places you never knew you had, and have managed to grow a crop of grandkids.

One night, your twin's speck of light returns to the night sky, grows brighter, then flames into Earth's atmosphere. The capsule opens, and out walks your twin. Your…surprisingly youthful twin. No wrinkles. Not a hint of gray. Looking barely any older than the day your twin left.

Sci-fi? No. Sci-fact. Your twin has made a trade only possible in the world of space-time: a trade between moving in time for moving in space. 

Let's back up a bit to see what's going on. When you walk around, you can choose any direction you please. That's kind of the point of walking around. You maintain a constant walking pace but can put that walk into any direction or combination of directions. You can walk straight north, following a compass. Or totally east. Or split 50-50 between north and east. Or mostly north and a little east. Whatever, you pick, it's cool, and you don't even notice. 

Your total speed stays the same, but it's split up between two directions, and the more you put in one direction the less you put into another.

It's pretty simple and obvious for space. As it should be for space-time.

Here's a way to think about it that makes it all work: we're all moving through space-time at the same speed. A constant speed. The speed of light. Notice that I said space-time and not just space. Everything is moving through four-dimensional space-time at the same speed, but some things are moving more in space and less in time, and vice versa, as easily as you can move more through north and east, and vice versa.

So what did your twin do? Your twin traded motion in time for motion in space. The faster one moves in a spaceship, the slower one moves through time. 

And I don't just mean the perception of time. I mean actual, biological, physical time. Your twin didn't age as much as you simply because of that movement at close to the speed of light.

Moving clocks run slow.

How many clicks to get to the center of the Milky Way?

This means that you can reach the center of the Milky Way galaxy in only a couple dozen years. Yes, you! No, I'm not joking around! You just need to provide a nice constant acceleration — say 1g, the same acceleration you feel from the Earth’s gravity. (Note: this trip may be challenging to engineer, but that’s not my department.) You'll never crack the speed of light, but you'll inch ever closer to it. And the faster you go, the slower time passes for you. Everyone stuck on Earth will be counting the millennia, but in this video I show how you'll get there in only a lifetime. Just don't bother coming back, because…well, everyone you know and love will be long dead.

You can take this thought experiment all the way to the extreme: light itself. A photon — a bit of light — experiences no time at all. Photons do not age. In a blink, a photon can move from one end of the universe to the other. They're moving completely in the spatial dimensions without moving at all in the time dimension. [Detecting Ripples in Space-Time, with a Little Help from Einstein]

This all hangs together because of another face of relativity. Not only do moving clocks run slow, but distances get shorter the faster you move. That star that looks so far away when you're sitting still? Boost yourself to 90 percent of the speed of light and — hey! — that star isn't so far away anymore. Your twin riding on that spaceship didn't notice any super-slow-mo effects; instead he or she just saw a squished-up universe.

It is how it is

Seems too weird? Too bad. This is the way our universe appears to work. This is the price we have to pay for abandoning a cosmos with a fixed universal reference frame and a master clock. Experimentally verified, over and over, for a hundred years. 

We've tested it with super-precise atomic clocks on airplanes. Subatomic particles get extended lifetimes when boosted to incredible velocities. GPS systems need to account for it when giving you accurate positions. Special relativity — and the views of space-time that go along with it — pass every test we can throw at it, and we've thrown a lot.

In a relative universe, clocks run slow, rulers shrink, and space can be traded for time, as easily as turning a corner. 

Learn more by listening to the episode "What is spacetime? (Part 2)" on the Ask A Spaceman podcast, available on iTunes and on the Web athttp://www.askaspaceman.com. Thanks to many people for all the questions about space and time that led to this episode! Ask your own question on Twitter using #AskASpaceman or by following Paul @PaulMattSutter andfacebook.com/PaulMattSutter.

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