Artist's illustration of planets forming in a circumstellar disk like the one surrounding the star LkCa 15. The planets within the disk's gap sweep up material that would have otherwise fallen onto the star.  Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech View full size image

For the first time ever, astronomers have directly observed planets in the process of being born.

Scientists have photographed a gas-giant exoplanet forming around a young star called LkCa 15, which lies about 450 light-years from Earth.

"It's exciting, because it's the first time that we've been able to image forming planets directly," study lead author Stephanie Sallum, a graduate student at the University of Arizona, told Space.com. "It gives us a system to follow up in the future, in depth, to really understand the details of how planets form." [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]

The LkCa 15 system features a large disk of dust and gas surrounding a sunlike star that's just 2 million years old. Such circumstellar disks commonly surround newborn stars, providing the raw materials from which planets form.

Indeed, previous studies have spotted large gaps in some disks that newly accreting alien worlds likely cleared out. Scientists have even detected disk asymmetries and heat signatures that have been interpreted as evidence of planets inside these gaps.

Adaptive optics observations from the Large Binocular Telescope and the Magellan Adaptive Optics System (color scale) show multiple sources in the cleared region of the LkCa 15 transition disk (gray scale). 
Credit: by Steph Sallum. Gray-scale image generated from submillimeter data published in Isella et al., 2014.

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Such a gap exists in LkCa 15's disk, and one giant protoplanet candidate, known as LkCa 15b, was detected in the system in 2012, at a distance of about 16 astronomical units (AU) from the star. (One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun, about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers.)

To learn more, Sallum and her colleagues zeroed in on the LkCA 15 system using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), an observatory in southeastern Arizona that boasts two 27-foot-wide (8.4 meters) primary mirrors.

The team confirmed the existence of LkCA 15b, imaging it directly in hydrogen-alpha photons, a type of light that's emitted when superheated material accretes onto a newly forming world. (Like newborn stars, newborn planets are surrounded by disks of feeder material.)

Other LBT observations revealed the presence of another newborn planet, LkCA 15c, inside the gap and suggested that a third (LkCA 15d) exists there as well, study team members report online today (Nov. 18) in the journal Nature.

"We're seeing sources in the clearing," Sallum said. "This is the first time that we've been able to connect a forming planet to a gap in a protoplanetary disk."

"The researchers' discovery provides stringent constraints on planet-formation theories," Zhaohuan Zhu of Princeton University, who was not affiliated with the new study, wrote in an accompanying "News & Views" piece in the same issue of Nature. "For example, such theories now have to explain how a giant planet can form 15-16 AU from its star within 2 million years, and still be growing after this time."

The new technique demonstrated by Sallum and her team could lead to the discovery of many other newly forming exoplanets, allowing astronomers to learn much more about the distribution of young worlds, Zhu added.

"Such an understanding of the young planet population will shed light on the decades-old problem of planet formation, and reveal how young planetary systems can evolve into older ones such as our solar system, billions of years after they were born," Zhu wrote.

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Filer’ Files #52 – 2015 Merry Christmas Miracles -PART II

Sightings of UFOs in the United States

Arizona Light

As I was leaving for work, I looked up and noticed an object in the sky on December 8, 2015. At first, I assumed it must be a star, but there were no other stars in the sky.

I spent 20 years in the Air Force and strongly believe this was not an airplane.

Also, on the 4th of July my brother in-law and I saw multiple objects in the sky that appeared to be purple.Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Strange Light

Soquel — I took three photos while on a walk in my neighborhood in the Santa Cruz Mountains on December 15, 2015. It was a beautiful rainy day and I felt compelled to stop and take some photos with my cell phone. At the time I stopped I did not notice any blue orbs in the distance yet they appeared on 2/3 photos I took. It looks like the orb was moving as it is in different locations in the two photos.

You can see that the orb is half behind a tree branch and you can see the illumination of it peaking behind! I was totally blown away when I saw these after my walk when I got home and loaded them on to my computer. . Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Object

Fort Pierce — I was at work outside and I looked up and saw what appears to be a triangle on November 18, 2015.

It was a pyramid sucking in the clouds surrounding it was roughly at 11 o’clock or 85 degrees in the northeast sky.

It was roughly at an altitude of 10,000 feet and was roughly 300 feet wide.

I grabbed my camera and snapped photos that I need someone to see.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Lights

St Charles – I was returning to work in the afternoon. There were some beautiful cloudbanks southeast of my location.

I snapped a photo, and did not realize until I downloaded them that evening that the object was there. Once I saw the picture,

I was hoping that someone here would be interested in seeing the photo. I had seen a UFO in this vicinity years ago, as well.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Indiana Triangle Orange Lights

Evansville – On December 14, 2015, three of us witnessed a triangle shaped object with orange colored lights steadily progress over a period of five hours toward our home from the west. We saw a light beam come directly down very quickly. I took a picture and caught this! We saw one bright red flash. As it went, overhead clouds had covered and a slight break in the clouds showed it overhead. The lights were orange and huge spanning the soccer field next to us. There appeared to be two other triangles to the left, which did not show up. You can see the light beam and something appears to be in it!

Note: The enhanced image (edge detection) shows a beam vertically below the three orange lights. This is consistent with what the witnesses saw. One wonders why the object was airborne for so long (5 hours). Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website

Michigan Disc

Marquette — I was at the beach checking out the waves on December 11, 2015. This area is well known for some sightings but some have come close to this in another area.

I felt shaky after I saw that comment because I was confused. I was flabbergasted.

The object was an oval shape and continued to hover in the south direction then moved north at a high velocity of speed. Never seen anything excel so fast in my life. ~JE

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Plymouth – On December 18, 2015, I was at my residence and didn’t notice it until I reexamined video of snow I had filmed on my iPhone to send to my family in Turkey. I decided to slow down footage and noticed the UFO.

I immediately thought it was a UFO.
It was unwavering/ quick and blue.
I felt amazed and also shocked at what I saw.
I lost sight quickly. Thanks to MUFON CMS

St Paul – I was walking my dog along the railroad track on December 20, 201, over Como Avenue. It was points of light in the north sky moving N to S in a line. The lights formed a rough line that moved uniformly and silently. As the four passed overhead, the second one diminished in brightness and emitted a red light that disappeared.

I observed a fifth apparently catching up. At this point, there were four flying at the same speed. Then all began to disappear the same as the first. Each light had a bright center enveloped in a fuzzy glow. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Nebraska Pilot Sighting

Omaha — I am an air traffic controller for Minneapolis Center and at 7 PM, the pilot of an air carrier (heavy) that was under my control reported two flights of two aircraft on March 25, 2004. There were no other aircraft in the vicinity at the time. He said they were 15 miles in front of him at 35,000 feet traveling away from him in a westerly direction. The UFO’s stayed out in front of his aircraft for 15 minutes until the pilot said that the UFO’s were so far out in front of him that he could hardly see them anymore. After being relieved of my duties, I reported it to my supervisor who put me in contact of the Military Air Defense who said that they saw no objects in the area of this aircraft.

((NUFORC Note: We have communicated multiple times with the witnesses. They both confirm that no radar returns were visible on the Controller’s radar screen at the time of the incident. The case has been forwarded to the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomenon (www.narcap.org). The case is under active investigation! The above image is a rendering. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJWebsite

New York Light and Object

Buffalo — I have been sitting on these photos for a while for various reasons. As soon as I started documenting the geoengineering activities laying waste to the skies, anomalous objects started appearing that I had trouble comprehending on July 11, 2015. There were pulsating lights, silver orbs floating in sky, and this object, which I still cannot identify. I have never seen a shape-shifting drone before. The object was completely silent, pitch black, and moved swiftly. I was taking pictures of the sky when the object emerged from behind a tree. All photos taken at 20:25 EST from Elmwood and Lafayette Avenue. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York — I was out UFO hunting in Manhattan, with my phone camera on September 9, 2015. I had a feeling that if I walked around in East Harlem on 117th where I live that I might see something. I walked south on 3rd Ave and saw several fast moving strange lights that were too fast to capture.

I walked to Lexington Avenue to see a strange whiteness in the clouds. There was a big flash of light when I took the picture, which came out looking like a black saucer that I have seen in daylight before. This photo really surprised me, and we still don’t know what it is. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ohio Sphere

Hillsboro — I am always taking sky pictures and not always but every now and then, I find things that shouldn’t be there.

On December 14, 2015, was one of those times.

I take random pictures without really focusing because I like surprises and because I like aiming at the sun and surrounding clouds and it is hard to really focus at those.

I got home, connected my phone to the computer and went through my pictures. This is when I saw them. I circled them. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Puerto Rico Moving Objects

I took two pictures of the moon on September 28, 2015. Pictures were taken with my iPhone from the same place. The different time is the time it took to make the close-up a minute later.

The object quickly moved from under to over the moon. It looks too big for a satellite. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington Disc

Arlington – On October 16, 2015, I saw three UFO’s at night. The one I wanted to really tell you about happened during the day around 10:30 AM. I reported it to MUFON for the first time ever and they sent an email me followed by a phone interview. We were heading for the Grey Wolf Lodge for a vacation scanning the clouds when I noticed a hovering silver disc. I could see the sun light reflecting off it. It had no wings, windows, or lights. I stared at the object as it vanished and then reappeared! It hung out for another minute then disappeared again. This is the first thing I have seen in 46 years that actually made me believe they could be here.

The date of occurrence was October 16, 2015, but I didn’t get a real photo. It kept disappearing! The craft looked like two metal silver colored dinner plates stacked face to face. Thanks to William Puckett, DirectorWebsite

Worldwide UFO Reports

Australia Orb

Sydney — On our way back from coffee, on December 19, 2015, we noticed chemtrails being conducted in a cross over pattern above the sky. I took photos of the plane in action as it was undertaking the second trail. When I got upstairs and revised the photo, I spotted an orb of silver/metallic appearance with six bright lights clearly visible upon the surface of the orb. The lights are clearly distinct once uploaded to my pc.

With the second lot of photos the orb in a different location and seems to be fainter, but still had the characteristic lights within lights. In the second photo, the orb/craft is not visible and returns in the third photo to a new location compared to the first photo.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Brazil Light

Bragança Paulista — I was taking a picture of the moon on November 26, 2015.

Then I saw something with a square shape passing by, I got one shot of it and then it disappeared.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Orb

Ingersoll, Ontario – My sister took this photo on November 4, 2015.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

China Tower

Shanghai — While visiting China, we took photos outside the Oriental Pearl Tower before we went in for supper. I took this photo and realized the glow in the photo R/H side. After taking the photo I could not see anything, thus did not worry further. Sometime later I was checking the pictures and noticed the light , however it was not until MUCH LATER when returning back to South Africa , , after loading all pictures on my Lap Top , that I was intrigued by this picture I took. I have NO explanation what is was, but when I took the picture it was there, and next thing GONE!

Finland Sphere

Artjarvi — I was out for smoke on porch a humming vibration sound then a ball of light flew over my porch on December 18, 2015. It was 3:00 AM when the sphere moved south. It could have taken off from ground next to me, I’m not sure. Did not seem to be meteor. On September 15, 2015, I saw a disk at the same location. Thanks to MUFON CMS

France Vessels

Saint Chamas — It all started four years ago when my companion and I came out in the garden with my dog to 11:50 p.m. Twice in three days we saw two very large vessels at low altitude. The first resembled a structure that emitted a light that shined from the inside. The second spent time above my home and was scarier, and very dark with a kind of visible electricity on its surface. They moved in silence.

A few weeks after I visited my family 780km from my home at night I was able to observe the phenomena. Since we moved to St. Chamas the craft do not stop and fly over my home. My wife and I saw huge phenomenon in the spring 2014 when we saw two pyramidal formations. Thanks to MUFON CMS

India UFO Buzzes Space Research Center

Mahendragiri Center — Perhaps you noticed, their main building at the ISRO looks a lot like a landed flying saucer. This may be to inspire their people toward space exploration. UFOs have been seen for decades around the world at various space launch sites. If we are sending junk into space, aliens just want to check it out before our space junk causes alien health concerns in space or on the planets our junk crashes on. Especially when we us nuclear powered devices on board.

Shepherds have reportedly sighted a mysterious flying object over ISRO’s Mahendragiri centre. ISRO officials denied any such ‘flight’ over the Centre. Police said the shepherds had told them that the object flew near the seventh watchtower. Website

Norway 75 Orbs

Oslo – I was taking a walk Sunday 22 November 2015, around 13:40 hours. It was when I came to ‘Professor Dahl’s Gate 23’ on the west side in Oslo, when something caught my eye. I was seeing 75 small UFOs, or orb-like objects, floating toward me, with an altitude that seemed to be around 300-400 meters.

As they got closer, I noticed that the flight pattern was strange changing patterns in an unnatural way. They changed lanes smoothly, and flew across each other with a bit of space between them. Five minutes into the sighting, they flew over me. The leading UFOs slowed down, and they gathered in a group! I only managed to get one photo out of the observation. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Spain Humanoid

Las Palmas, Gran Canaria – I found in a photo I took in October that I didn’t look at the photo until weeks later.

I noticed a humanoid that really looks like person but the head is somewhat weird, as you’ll see. I went back a few weeks later and checked a few details.

I calculate if it is indeed a “humanoid” to be no more than 120cm tall (4 feet).

Based on the rocks in the background I am sure there is no way they could have caused the shadow.

He is in the shape of a person or whatever…just weird.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/England Light

London — I was on the bus going home, I like to take photos in this area of London as its very pretty (Putney bridge). I didn’t notice this object until showing my wife the photo when I got home. Sun at first, didn’t fit anything else, but was too prominent in shape to be the sun and looks in front of the cloud cover. I didn’t notice or see it in real time, but it’s quite distorted so looks like it was traveling, or moving, however I was on a bus when taking this photo moving at approx 5mph, the person in photo is slightly distorted, but nothing compared to the object.

When noticing it in the photo I felt surprised, excited, slightly shocked. Was a photo sighting not real time so I’m very uncertain but open minded as to what it might be. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Uruguay Lights

Suarez — This is a picture I have seen a UFO in many places in my city.

It’s an old photo dating from 1940. There is an object shaped hat also seen.

This photo was taken from an old box. I find it curious, and it can be anything, but at that time, people did not think about spaceships or anything like that.

I do not think it’s a setup; people see that photo and do not notice that there is something there. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Zaire Light

I was at my house going outside for a smoke when I noticed a very bright star on January 2, 2015.

After looking for a while, I saw that this star was moving very fast. Not believing my own eyes, I decided to make a video in fact I made two with different devices.

Recently was having problems with my tablet and I freed up memory when I saw the video of the flying light. The UFO was still in the air when I went to bed.

I never thought it was a UFO that night. Thanks to MUFON CMS’

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A Christmas star without a tail

An asteroid is going to pass by Earth for Christmas. However, it has no shining tail like the star of Bethlehem. And it may be difficult to spot - even for hobby astronomers, because the asteroid won't get that close.

The asteroid with the number 163899, also known under the name 2003 SD220, will fly by planet Earth at a safe distance of 11 million kilometers on New Year's Eve. That's equivalent to 28 times the distance between us and the moon.

As a comparison: The last asteroid that flew by Earth on a holiday came much closer to our planet. "The great pumpkin," also known as "2015 TB145," came as close as only 500,000 kilometers to our planet right on Halloween this year.

And in 2013 the asteroid 2012 DA14 flew by Earth as close as 28,000 kilometers. That's lower than some geostationary communication satellites are orbiting the Earth.

No unusual asteroid

The New Year's Eve asteroid falls into a class of celestial objects that are not uncommon. There are several per year, and they are not considered a threat to us. Only asteroids that approach Earth closer than 300,000 kilometers deserve special attention from astronomers.

2003 SD220 has an estimated diameter of about 700 meters. Objects of such size would cause global damage if they struck Earth. However, astronomers estimate that such an impact would happen only once in about 100,000 years.

Space engineers want to divert dangerous asteroids using spacecraft

Keeping an eye on objects in space

Astronomers from the world's large space agencies are constantly keeping an eye on such threats from space. For the next 100 years, they exclude the possibility of such a severe meteorite hitting out planet.

The largest asteroids in our solar system are known to us, and their orbits have been calculated for decades to come. More problematic are smaller objects, even just over ten meters in size, as those can race towards earth undetected. Suddenly they can come out of the darkness and strike the Earth, like the 40-meter large rock that landed near the Siberian town of Chelyabinsk in 2013. The shockwave that ensued ultimately destroyed windows all over the town - and injured as many as 1,500 people.

The next spectacular fly-by of a big asteroid is expected in April 2029. That's when Apophis will pass Earth at a distance of only 30,000 Kilometers. That is roughly one tenth of the distance of the moon. Apophis is several hundred meters in diameter, and the asteroid is set to return once again after that - in 2036.

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By Jessica Orwig

(Danielle Futselaar/SETI International) 
Alien-hunting telescopes have peered at the mysterious star KIC8462852 and are quickly unraveling the theory that this star could harbor an alien megastructure.

The search is just the beginning of a much grander experiment for Doug Vakoch and his team at the new organization called SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) International, not to be confused with the SETI Institute.

For background: earlier this year, Yale postdoctoral graduate student Tabby Boyajian and Penn State astronomer Jason Wright discovered a bizarre and perplexing giant structure orbiting star KIC8462852, which is 1500 light years from Earth. It's unlike anything they've ever seen.

Wright suggested that the giant structure could be what's called a Dyson swarm (shown above). A Dyson swarm is a still-in-progress version of a hypothetical machine known as a Dyson sphere, which an intelligent civilization would construct around their host star to collect tremendous amounts of solar energy.

How to look and listen for aliens

The implication that an advanced alien race could be building such a structure got Vakoch and the scientists at SETI International very excited.

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For six nights between Oct. 29 and Nov. 28, they pointed a small Panamanian telescope at their Boquete Optical SETI Observatory toward the star.

They were hunting the distant stellar system for laser pulses that any potential aliens might be sending Earth's way.

And for three out of those same six nights, they also turned the California-based Allan Telescope Array (shown on the right) toward the same star to listen for any radio signals (just in case the potential aliens didn't have lasers).

As far as they could tell, anyone living around KIC8462852 is staying quiet since they didn't detect any artificial signals coming from the system.

Either that, or there are no aliens at all.

The latter is far more likely. The large, irregular objects orbiting this star are probably comets that were transported from another star, they say.

The team recently published their results on the pre-print server site ArXiv.org and have submitted it for publication in the ahe Astrophysical Journal Letters.

A new system for hunting aliens

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"I think a lot of people would say that, 'Oh, you didn't find anything and therefore you've failed,'" Vakoch, who is the President of SETI International, told Business Insider. "But it was actually a quite different process of searching for signals from KIC8462852 than the usual sort of searches that we do."

By coordinating observations from both the telescope in Panama with the Allan Telescope Array, Vakoch and the team have begun to establish what they hope will be a brand new system for hunting aliens.

"If a signal is detected that happens to be somewhat transient, we need observatories around the world to look at this and have the capabilities to observe," Vakoch said.

Moving forward, Vakoch hopes to apply this new approach toward other stars with planets. Perhaps one or more of those systems will be sending a signal toward Earth.

Stop listening and start talking

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"The key, if we really do detect a signal, is to able to look at the same star at the same time with different observatories," Vakoch said.

So far, SETI International has not set priorities on which stars they'll study, but Vakoch personally hopes to begin studying those that are closest to Earth.

And if SETI discovers a signal in the coming years, then Vakoch has plans for how to make contact.

"We need to look even more closely at the nearest stars, and that's in preparation for getting ready to send signals to other stars. That's one of the major goals of the new organization ... which is to look at innovative strategies to make contact that don't rely on just listening for signals but also sending intentional signals of our own," Vakoch said.

You can read more about the hotly-debated idea to send signals to potential alien civilizations here.

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[HD] The UFO Phenomenon Explained—18 of the Best Orb UFO Sightings Ever Recorded

This world is more than meets the eye, and I literally mean it. Our eyes can see only a small part of the light spectrum which means that many things remain hidden from us, or cannot be understood due to the limits set by our body, and I am not talking about bacteria or viruses here.

 

It has been discovered recently that an entire world of UFOs coexists with our own. They have the capability of appearing into our dimension – when we can see them with the naked eye, but most of the time they remain hidden from us, and can only be observed with the help of special light filters.

 

The phenomenon is absolutely real, and it may involve actual alien crafts, artificial intelligence, organic beings with the ability to fly, or even light spirits who reside inside our planet. Mostly referred to as “orb UFOs”, the spectacular appearances are performing bizarre rituals in the sky which are beyond our comprehension level.

 

 

Apart from the dynamic movement and the tremendous speeds at which they travel, the orb UFOs were also filmed while morphing, shooting at chem trails or even releasing other small orbs. They appear to be drawn by huge energy fluxes, with some of them appearing above or inside of massive thunderstorms, while others seem to like the energy released by big crowds of people (during music festivals, meditating sessions and so on).

 

After Jim Martin, a UFO enthusiast and analyst witnessed a peculiar UFO encounter, he decided to upgrade his gear and start chasing UFOs in order to better understand what is going on. With the help of a full spectrum camera and other special lens and filters, he succeeded in capturing many UFOs performing different tricks around his house. After a while, he decided to share all this forbidden knowledge with the rest of the world, so he narrated a short but extremely informative video with this intensifying phenomenon.

 

 

 

The orb UFOs behavior differ from sighting to sighting, but they also keep common traits such as the pulsating light which expands and then quickly closes in, and also the dynamic of movement which is a fairly impressive feat as it cannot be achieved by any of our earthly crafts. Speaking of crafts, another interesting thing to note is the fact that ground radars fail to detect all these UFOs, thus making the hypothesis of them being otherworldly creatures more viable.

 

The nature or origins of this things remains yet a topic of debate, but from what we have seen, they appear to return to the ground instead of disappearing out in space. Could they reside here on earth? Is it possible that secret alien bases are found on this planet? I believe that it is likely to be so if we think of all the unexplored and inaccessible places on Earth, also since society brought us close inside of industrialized cities, our daily exploration range extends close to nothing.

 

 

So how can we explain these playful UFOs? And what might their purpose on our planet be? Are these protective spirits? Or maybe organic beings who used to reside on Earth long before humanity?

 

Whatever the case, since more and more people are attracted by this, the truth might surface at some point, and hopefully we and the rest of the world will be prepared to embrace a new idea of life, while erasing and rewriting the current one. Stay vigilant!

 

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24-12-2015 om 21:59 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Discover that Human DNA Bears a Message from Extraterrestrials

A new study reveals how the human DNA was encoded using an extraterrestrial signal used by ancient aliens who visited Earth in the distant past.

 

The study is called “The “Wow! Signal” of the terrestrial genetic code”, and it is the work of two researchers from the Department of Mathematics, respectively Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.

 

The two authors of the study, researchers Vladimir I. shCherbak and Maxim A. Makukov, trust in the existence of a “Biological SETI” – a mathematical code residing inside the human DNA, and is something that cannot be explained via the course of evolution as traditional theories claim.

 

According to the study, science is a step closer to proving the Ancient Astronaut theory as well as the hypothesis of our species being engineered by advanced aliens through DNA manipulation. The scientific duo stated in the Icarus Journal that:

 

Once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales. In fact, it is the most durable construct known. Therefore it represents an exceptionally reliable storage for an intelligent signature. Once the genome is appropriately rewritten, the new code with a signature will stay frozen in the cell and its progeny, which might then be delivered through space and time.

 

In other words, the human DNA is designed with such a precision that it reveals an “ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language”.

 

 

As a result of this study, other researchers now discuss the probability of us humans being engineered outside of our solar system by our alien creators several billion years ago, a hypothesis strongly supported by the many ancient texts found on Earth that speak of the creation of mankind and the creator gods or deities.

 

However, the study also focuses on the idea that life on Earth emerged as a result of microbiological particles being carried throughout the cosmos on asteroids and comets, which behave as giant transportation devices that plant life on different planets capable of sustaining it. This theory differs from the classic evolution theory, as its supporters believe that we were not a random product of evolution, but a certain creation of our makers, designed and sent to Earth on purpose.

 

Cherbak and Makukov presented a detailed analysis of the human genome that shows a previously ignored precision-type method in the mapping between the DNA’s nucleotides and amino acids. The duo stated that:

 

Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language. Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing.

 

 

So is it possible that we were designed by advanced alien beings with extended knowledge of creating life through DNA manipulation? If so, is the human species a product originating from another planet in this vast universe? Or is it rather a product designed on Earth by an advanced race who anchored on this planet in the ancient past, as many timeworn texts suggests?

 

While we cannot deny the panspermia hypothesis claiming that life on the earth originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space that were able to initiate life upon reaching a suitable environment, we find it likely that life on Earth is in fact a product of more intelligent species with the ability to create life. Whatever may be the case, the upcoming years will reveal more information regarding topics that were until now forbidden or ignored.

 

The complete study HERE.

 

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24-12-2015 om 21:48 geschreven door peter  

The First Reported Alien Abduction Is Finally Getting The Movie It Deserves

Germain Lussier

24-12-2015 om 21:27 geschreven door peter  

Scan reveals ‘magic symbols’ inscribed onto a 1,300 year old silver scroll

According to one of the researchers, the silver plate which is only 0.01 cm thick was made by a professional ‘magician’ in the distant past.

 

A silver roll discovered inside an ancient amulet has revealed what appears to be a magical spell that remained a secret for over 1300 years. Researchers believe that the mysterious inscription was placed there by a Jewish “magician” who lived in Jerash, one of the most important and best preserved Roman cities in the Near East around 740 AD.

 

Although the outer metal case was cracked and corroded, experts managed to extract the delicate silver scroll inside. In ancient times, it was common to write spells in small sheets of lead, silver or gold, which often served as a protection against evil. However, these metal inscriptions were not put inside to be read, they were actually used as the heart of the amulet to which the sorcerer consecrated a certain power. This and the fact that the enrolled text was filled with mysterious magical characters has made it nearly impossible for experts to decipher

 

 

Using CT scanning and 3D modelling, researchers managed to digitally unfold the Jerash scroll. Image Credit Dr Raja / Nature

 

In order to solve the mystery surrounding the ancient silver roll, archaeologists from the University of Aarhus, Denmark led by Rubina Raja performed a CT scan and a 3D model of the artifact in order to unroll the Jerash scroll digitally which allowed the accurate display of 17 lines of text written in a unknown language along with what are believed to be a set of magical symbols used by the sorcerer.

 

Experts believe that the first line consists of magical spells written in some form of Greek while the rest of the text appears to be written in some sort of Arabic language which remains undeciphered. According to the report published in Nature, ancient “wizards” or “magicians” invented their own languages and, exploiting the fact that most of the time people could not read or write, generated meaningless messages or whose sense only they knew.

 

 

‘The scroll was inscribed with 17 lines in presumed pseudo-Arabic as well as some magical signs,’ the study, published in Nature, said.’

 

‘It is difficult to identify meaningful words, and there certainly are many cases that can hardly be reconciled with Arabic, both in regard to letter shapes and ligaturing,’ the study said. ‘

 

Researchers state that the text also contains signs that clearly do not match or imitate Arabic letters, most of which are found in the first line.

 

Dr Raja said: ‘We’ve sent it out to the world’s leading philologists, and all came to the conclusion that they can’t read it, and that it must be pseudo-Arabic.’

 

‘Collectively, it has not been possible to assign these signs to a known alphabet. Since we presume that the artefact is an amulet and since the main text seems to be in pseudo-script (characteristic of many magical texts), it is reasonable to view the signs as ‘magical’.’

 

The Jerash amulet was discovered in 2014 in the ruins of house that was destroyed in 749AD

 

‘The silver plate is only 0.01 cm thick. It is very thinly beaten and it’s a magnificent specimen, ‘Dr Raja said.

 

‘It was clear when the scroll was removed from the container that it was inscribed since several lines of incised letters were visible on the reverse of the folded metal sheet.

 

 

Hidden for over 1300 years, a silver scroll seen to the top of the image was discovered hidden in an ancient amulet seen to the bottom, revealing what appears to be a undeciphereed magical spell.

 

‘The use of magical signs was widespread in antiquity and they are found in texts written on a multitude of mediums.’

 

Even though experts have absolutely no idea what is written on the scroll, this is extremely exciting news for them since the scroll shows that Greco-Roman and Semitic traditions lived on beyond the Arab invasion, even though they were presumed to have died out.

 

‘Since it was not possible to read the ‘text’ we cannot identify the religious affiliation of the amulet’s owner,’ the researchers wrote.’

 

‘Even if in the case of the Jerash scroll we cannot reconstruct a text from the (pseudo-)script, it is an important contribution to the reconstruction of mentalities and daily life in the ancient world.’

 

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24-12-2015 om 21:15 geschreven door peter  

Scan reveals ‘magic symbols’ inscribed onto a 1,300 year old silver scroll

According to one of the researchers, the silver plate which is only 0.01 cm thick was made by a professional ‘magician’ in the distant past.

 

A silver roll discovered inside an ancient amulet has revealed what appears to be a magical spell that remained a secret for over 1300 years. Researchers believe that the mysterious inscription was placed there by a Jewish “magician” who lived in Jerash, one of the most important and best preserved Roman cities in the Near East around 740 AD.

 

Although the outer metal case was cracked and corroded, experts managed to extract the delicate silver scroll inside. In ancient times, it was common to write spells in small sheets of lead, silver or gold, which often served as a protection against evil. However, these metal inscriptions were not put inside to be read, they were actually used as the heart of the amulet to which the sorcerer consecrated a certain power. This and the fact that the enrolled text was filled with mysterious magical characters has made it nearly impossible for experts to decipher

 

 

Using CT scanning and 3D modelling, researchers managed to digitally unfold the Jerash scroll. Image Credit Dr Raja / Nature

 

In order to solve the mystery surrounding the ancient silver roll, archaeologists from the University of Aarhus, Denmark led by Rubina Raja performed a CT scan and a 3D model of the artifact in order to unroll the Jerash scroll digitally which allowed the accurate display of 17 lines of text written in a unknown language along with what are believed to be a set of magical symbols used by the sorcerer.

 

Experts believe that the first line consists of magical spells written in some form of Greek while the rest of the text appears to be written in some sort of Arabic language which remains undeciphered. According to the report published in Nature, ancient “wizards” or “magicians” invented their own languages and, exploiting the fact that most of the time people could not read or write, generated meaningless messages or whose sense only they knew.

 

 

‘The scroll was inscribed with 17 lines in presumed pseudo-Arabic as well as some magical signs,’ the study, published in Nature, said.’

 

‘It is difficult to identify meaningful words, and there certainly are many cases that can hardly be reconciled with Arabic, both in regard to letter shapes and ligaturing,’ the study said. ‘

 

Researchers state that the text also contains signs that clearly do not match or imitate Arabic letters, most of which are found in the first line.

 

Dr Raja said: ‘We’ve sent it out to the world’s leading philologists, and all came to the conclusion that they can’t read it, and that it must be pseudo-Arabic.’

 

‘Collectively, it has not been possible to assign these signs to a known alphabet. Since we presume that the artefact is an amulet and since the main text seems to be in pseudo-script (characteristic of many magical texts), it is reasonable to view the signs as ‘magical’.’

 

The Jerash amulet was discovered in 2014 in the ruins of house that was destroyed in 749AD

 

‘The silver plate is only 0.01 cm thick. It is very thinly beaten and it’s a magnificent specimen, ‘Dr Raja said.

 

‘It was clear when the scroll was removed from the container that it was inscribed since several lines of incised letters were visible on the reverse of the folded metal sheet.

 

 

Hidden for over 1300 years, a silver scroll seen to the top of the image was discovered hidden in an ancient amulet seen to the bottom, revealing what appears to be a undeciphereed magical spell.

 

‘The use of magical signs was widespread in antiquity and they are found in texts written on a multitude of mediums.’

 

Even though experts have absolutely no idea what is written on the scroll, this is extremely exciting news for them since the scroll shows that Greco-Roman and Semitic traditions lived on beyond the Arab invasion, even though they were presumed to have died out.

 

‘Since it was not possible to read the ‘text’ we cannot identify the religious affiliation of the amulet’s owner,’ the researchers wrote.’

 

‘Even if in the case of the Jerash scroll we cannot reconstruct a text from the (pseudo-)script, it is an important contribution to the reconstruction of mentalities and daily life in the ancient world.’

 

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24-12-2015 om 21:15 geschreven door peter  

LEFT TO RIGHT - FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE - PALAZZO VECCHIO MUSEUM, FLORENCE - NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON

The story of Christmas began when three wise men saw something strange in the sky and decided to investigate.

Anyone who's seen a UFO can easily relate to what those wise men might have been thinking, and that's what makes the images in these paintings so compelling.

Many unusual aerial objects depicted in paintings between the 14th to the early 18th century look, at first glance, like modern-day UFO sightings.

It's easy to wonder why artists of those long-ago centuries seemed obsessed with including these curious objects in scenes surrounding the stories of the birth and death of Jesus Christ.

The first example here is a wall mural, or fresco, from 1350, "The Crucifixion," artist unknown, in the Visoki Decani Monestary in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. Two odd-looking objects with "pilots" can be seen in the sky on both sides of Jesus.

VISOKI DECANI MONESTARY, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA

"As odd as the details in the upper left and right sections of the Kosovo fresco may seem to modern eyes, they, in fact, refer to something readily familiar: the sun and the moon," according to Dennis Geronimus, associate professor of Italian Renaissance art and chair of the Department of Art History at New York University.

"The strangeness, to our sensibilities, no doubt lies in the fact that the two celestial bodies are personified by two crouching figures that are shown as inhabiting them: producing a kind of 'man in the moon' effect," Geronimus told HuffPost in an email.

He added that the apparent simultaneous presence of both the sun and moon, "alludes to mentions in several of the Gospels of the sky growing dark in daytime during Christ's crucifixion."

Our next painting, from 1486, is "The Annunciation with Saint Emidius," by Carlo Crivelli, that resides at the National Gallery in London. It shows a circular object shooting a thin beam of light down to the Virgin Mary.

NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON

"The golden beam descending from a cloud bank through an opening in Mary's bedroom wall, and reaching its destination at the Virgin's head, carries along its path the Holy Spirit," said Geronimus. "Characteristically, here it assumes the form of a white dove and symbolizes the incarnation.  

"The Virgin Mary is shown as being infused -- or, to put it literally, impregnated -- with the Holy Spirit, a miraculous event that will lead to the birth of Christ."

The following image is a close-up of that circular cloud bank.

NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON

Computer scientist Jacques Vallee agrees with Geronimus' take on these works of art. But he wonders why this form of symbolism seems to crop up in so many works of art from these years.

"It's certainly true that these paintings do not represent actual sightings by the artist or contemporary events of the scene," Vallee told HuffPost. Vallee and his co-author, Chris Aubeck, are about to publish an extensive update to their 2010 book, "Wonders in the Sky," which looks at reports of strange aerial objects reported by many people -- including scientists -- in pre-20th century accounts, beginning in 1879 and moving backward in time to biblical sightings.

"The value of it, scientifically, is that now we can anchor the beginning of the UFO phenomenon into real, documented history," Vallee said.

"You cannot simply say that, because somebody saw something round in the sky in medieval times, it's the same phenomenon that people see today. We are not making that statement. We're simply describing what people saw and the phenomena associated with it as a contribution to the overall study of the history of the phenomenon."

Vallee (see image below) was a principal speaker in 1978 at the only major United Nations UFO presentation in history, where he urged serious, international, unbiased research, focusing on those UFO reports considered truly unidentified.

PHOTO BY Y. NAGATA

"I think the skeptics are right in saying that many of the reports have to do with things that, today, we recognize as comets and meteors and other natural phenomena. And that's fair. We go through that and eliminate those and we keep the ones that are unidentified," Vallee said.

In the late 1960s, Vallee's early UFO research was so respected by the United States Air Force that his books were recommended reading to cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado.

He points out how many people misinterpret unexplained objects seen in old paintings. 

"We don't go into ideology. We're not saying it's proof of alien anything. We're saying there is a phenomenon and it has some of the characteristics of the modern phenomenon, and we let it go at that. You still have to account for differential descriptions because of the changes in the cultures and the changes in the media, through which the data has arrived to us." 

Our next painting to consider, from the 15th century, "Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John," is attributed to more than one artist and is located at the Palazzo Vecchio Museum in Florence, Italy. Mary, mother of Jesus, is seen looking down while, in the background, something unusual is taking place.

PALAZZO VECCHIO MUSEUM, FLORENCE

What appears as a domed UFO is hovering in the sky while a man and his dog are standing on a ledge staring up at it. These details are revealed in the following composite image.

PALAZZO VECCHIO MUSEUM, FLORENCE

"The dark blue, almond-shaped form, emitting golden rays, constitutes a symbol that was very common in the Renaissance, when this [circular panel, for private devotion] was painted," said Geronimus. 

"It alludes to the announcement of Christ's birth in Bethlehem to the shepherds, as told in the Gospel of St. Luke (2:8-14). The awed shepherd and his trusted dog are easy to spot here. Rather than depicting an angel as the divine messenger, however, this Florentine master represents the sign more naturalistically -- and obliquely: as a celestial phenomenon."

Our final Christmas painting, from 1710, "Baptism of Jesus," created by Arendt de Gelder, is at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK.

It depicts a large, circular object shooting beams of light down toward Jesus.

FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE, UK

"The four rays that pass down from the sky to illuminate the kneeling figure of Christ, as he is baptized by St. John, refer to the divine power of the Holy Spirit, as embodied again by the white dove hovering at the center of the radiant cloud from which the rays emanate," said Geronimus.

Here's a close-up of that circular cloud with the light beams.

FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE, UK

"What is unusual, really, about this composition is not so much the literal quality of the Holy Spirit's celestial origins, but the fact that the baptism is here imagined as seemingly a nocturnal event.

"Suffice it to say," Geronimus concludes, "none of these painted details amount to early modern UFO sightings, which isn't to say that the Kosovo muralist's or Carlo Crivelli's contemporary audiences did not believe in otherworldly beings or supernatural events." 

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24-12-2015 om 19:06 geschreven door peter  

CERN heeft aanwijzingen voor ‘deeltje dat sleutel kan zijn tot andere dimensies’

24-12-2015 om 18:37 geschreven door peter  

Wetenschapper vindt ‘bewijs voor kernexplosies’ op Mars

24-12-2015 om 18:33 geschreven door peter  

UFO Crash Site Found On Mars On Google Map, Dec 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Above I found two alien ships hidden along the side of the hill. I have found this hundreds of times before in Apollo moon photos, so I am confident about it. They park unused ships along crater walls because it offers protection from micro meteorites and keeps them camouflaged from looters. 

Date of discovery: December 21, 2015
Location of discovery: Mars
Google coordinates: 23°48'52.45"N 158°14'35.18"W

This UFO crash site was found this week on Google Mars by UFOvni2012 of Youtube. Its obvious that a large disk shaped object crashed on the surface and then was later flown or taken away. I checked it out on Google Mars, it is there and if you adjust the type of photo format to 'CTX Mosaic,' you will see it focused nicely. 
Scott C. Waring
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24-12-2015 om 18:19 geschreven door peter  

Doctor Catches Best UFO Photo Of The Year Over Montana, Nov 4, 2015, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: November 4, 2015
Location of sighting: Clancy, Montana, USA
News source:

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/life/my-montana/2015/12/22/ufo-captured-clancy-man-believes-proves-exist/77773710/

This was captured by a doctor in Montana last month. He used a special software that catches moving objects and has worked two years trying to catch one. This has to be the most clear UFO photo we have seen all year long. It was shot during the day, in a part of Montana that has a very low population. This is how its done. #1 catch of 2015! I gota try this motion sensor tech. I will look into it and tell you more soon.
Scott C. Waring
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 Richard O'Connor Next To His Cameras. 

News states:
CLANCY, Mont.— For nearly two years Dr. Richard O’Connor has kept two cameras pointed at the sky with the deep hope and belief that something might be out there. And then, after nearly 280,000 photos captured by motion detection, it happened. Or maybe not. But O’Connor’s findings of what he believes are two unidentified flying objects has set off a barrage of email exchanges, some of them angry, in the community of UFO fans and experts. About noon on Nov. 4, his cameras captured five photos of something flying through the skies of Montana that is hard for some to explain. “It appears to be a light source,” O’Connor said. “In my opinion, even a hardened skeptic would say ‘Wow, that is what I expect a UFO would look like.’” But his discovery has sparked some debate, leaving the doctor to find his own photo experts to determine what his cameras may have captured. The answers to this mystery remain up in the air. (More at source).

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24-12-2015 om 18:09 geschreven door peter  

Norio Hayakawa

former director of the CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE NETWORK

24-12-2015 om 01:22 geschreven door peter  

NASA and Space Agencies around the world are preparing society for Alien Disclosure

24-12-2015 om 00:59 geschreven door peter  

USO: Unidentified Submerged Objects

USO: Unidentified Submerged Objects

In the past few months, we have seen a sharp increase of UFOs in our atmosphere, in space around Earth’s orbit, or even very close to the sun.

Isn’t it a little strange that we never hear about USOs? This subject seems to be “camouflaged” by the powers that be, well…let’s bring them to light:

USO sightings have been happening for a very long time, let’s take a look at Christopher Columbus:

October 11th 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed across the sea on the Santa Maria in search of America; he witnessed a USO coming out of the water then zooming around the night’s sky. As he stood on deck, he saw “a light glimmering at a great distance”. He recorded in his captain’s log that it vanished and reappeared throughout the night, flying up, down, east and west “in sudden and passing gleams”

When we look at history, there is an abundance of legendary tales of giant creatures attacking boats and even submarines! Could they just be USOs fending off any unwanted visitors? Or even some sea creatures trained by aliens to guard underwater bases?

Sea creatures witnessed in the past?

The following is the testimony of Ghunter Krech, the captain of a UB-85; his submarine was discovered floating on the surface by the British patrol boat Coreopsis in the Atlantic ocean on 30th April 1918, the German crew quickly surrendered to the British without any resistance, which was a very unlikely occurrence for the Germans who would usually fight to their deaths:

Krech allegedly reported that the submarine had surfaced during the night for the purpose of recharging its batteries, during which there had been a violent surge of frothing water off the starboard bow. When Krech and some crew members had gone to investigate, a creature the captain described as a “strange beast” had suddenly erupted forth from the cold, dark water and begun clambering up the side of the ship, which had caused the whole submarine to start listing to the side. The beast was described as being enormous, with a small head with large eyes deeply set in a horned skull and a large mouth with sharp teeth that glinted in the moonlight. This strange monster was then claimed to have reached the forward mount gun and to have begun ferociously attacking it, chomping down on the weapon with its formidable jaws and thrashing back and forth.

Fearing that the submarine would continue to tilt under the creature’s weight until the open hatch hit the sea and sank the sub, all available crewmen had opened fire on the mysterious attacker, yet the thing had refused to let go of the gun mount. It apparently had taken a sustained, intense volley of gunfire to finally make the monster relinquish its iron grip, after which it disappeared into the sea.

UB-85

The Shag Harbour incident, 1967

On the night of 04 October 1967, shortly after 11:00 PM, a UFO some 60 feet in diameter was seen to hover over the water near the tiny fishing village of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. The UFO, which displayed four bright lights that flashed in sequence, tilted to a 45-degree angle and descended rapidly towards the water’s surface. Upon impact, there was a bright flash and an explosive roar.

History is fascinating isn’t it? Let’s fast forward to our present time and let’s have a look at more evidence that is suppressed from the public view:

A pilot photographs some amazing underwater lights:

A massive underwater structure which looked like a secret UFO/USO facility was discovered 6.66 miles off the shores of Point Dume, Malibu, California. Could this structure be the reason for the mass UFO sightings off the coast of Malibu from the 1950’s?

Enhanced Google Earth imagery of the submerged underwater formation which creates a plateau measuring 1.35 miles by 2.45 miles wide does not appear to be naturally figured by the ocean water. The upper interior surface of the structure measures 500 feet across making it insusceptible for a nuclear attack. The entire ceiling of the mega-structure is reinforced by over 600 feet tall columns which create an opening that is 2745 feet wide and 630 feet tall!

And what about this one? No further explanations about it, and still hasn’t been debunked to this day:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2160297/Pictured-The-UFO-shaped-object-the-Baltic-Sea–covered-soot-little-fireplaces-lying-end-1-000ft-runway.html

Some USOs make people panic, Sweden was quick to blame the Russians for this, but of course Russia had nothing to do with it. It was a USO, plain and simple!

http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/21/mysterious-craft-off-coast-of-sweden-sparks-hunt-for-uso-unidentified-submerged-object-4914260/

There is also the mysterious “Bloop” a sound recorded underwater that should not be there at all!

The following is a very good documentary covering so much about USOs:

U.I.P Summary: Oceans cover approximately 72% on planet Earth, and we know more about the surface of the moon than the seas and their abyss, there is a good reason for that. The mainstream media are quite happy to drip-feed us the truth by publishing articles about UFOs, but never about USOs! Why would that be? It is because they know too well that USOs are coming in and out of their underwater bases on a regular basis, and the powers that be do not wish for us to know about them. The real rulers of this planet are of alien origins, they are not prepared to share their secrets with their slaves!

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24-12-2015 om 00:50 geschreven door peter  

The fear that drives our alien belief

An alleged UFO — or a pair of airplane lights — outside of Las Vegas. (Adam Baker/Flickr)

Aliens have been in the news a lot recently—regardless of whether you think they are, or have ever been, anywhere else.

A group of former Congressmen convened at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. earlier this month to hear impassioned eyewitness testimony on everything from the Roswell “incident” to more recent, unexplained lights in the sky. Vanity Fair this month published a lengthy profile of Harvard psychiatrist John Edward Mack—a man who believed, implausibly, in alien abduction.

Meanwhile, the “world’s first comprehensive” UFO exhibition recently opened in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where organizers promise 200 artifacts ranging from replicas of the Easter Island statues to “authentic video and audio recordings of people reporting alien encounters.”

“Myrtle Beach is a hot spot for sightings,” one organizer points out in a not-quite-skeptical account of local sightings on CarolinaLive.com.

What is it about UFOs that drive so many people to believe they exist despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary? According to a 2012 National Geographic poll, 36 percent of Americans believe aliens have visited earth. And yet, as a concerned acquaintance wrote to Harvard’s Mack in 1994, such visitations “contradict virtually all of the basic laws of physics, chemistry and biology on which modern science depends.”

Researchers at the Universities of Westminster and Vienna have identified a proverbial host of factors that appear to correlate to belief in UFOs: Gender, politics, religiosity, intelligence, fantasy proneness—even certain psychological disorders, like schizophrenia.

Studies and polls have found, for instance, that conservatives and religious people believe in UFOs far less than their liberal or less religious peers. Men are more likely to believe in aliens than women. (But women, interestingly, are more likely to believe in ghosts.)

The children of believers, of which there were several at the hearings in D.C., are also more likely to spot extraterrestrial life, according to parapsychologist Harvey Irwin.

“When it comes to the Roswell incident, I believe my father and grandfather,” concluded Denice Marcel, one of the hearings’ primary Roswell witnesses, and the descendant of other Roswell truthers.

But the enduring power of UFOs doesn’t seem like something we can explain away as delusion or demographic proclivity. It seems to spring from someplace deeper—the same place, psychologists like C.G. Jung have argued, that forced early humans to make up myths to explain the weather. These stories explain things we don’t, or can’t, understand. (“I was dealing with a phenomenon that I felt could not be explained psychiatrically,” the Harvard psychiatrist who believed in alien abduction once said.)

Without these stories, psychologist Stephen Diamond explains in an essay on UFOs and the “cry for meaning,” we have to accept the fact that some things mean nothing, and others are totally beyond us—a strange, frightening and ultimately deflating thought.

In fact, it’s arguably easier to believe the universe is full of life, even hostile life, than to believe the universe holds no meaning at all. In that respect, a belief in UFOs answers many of the same questions as a belief in God—explaining, perhaps, why the religious tend to not believe in them. Both things convince us, in Diamond’s words, that we are:

“… still capable of experiencing something that lifts us out of our everyday, mundane, ordinary, banal, often seemingly purposeless lives, and [they also remind us], if only momentarily, what it means to be fully, ecstatically alive in a universe filled with beauty, mystery, terror, danger and wonder.”

The alternate narrative isn’t very compelling, which explains why conferences and museums on existentialism, if they existed, would draw far smaller crowds than Myrtle Beach’s “UFO Experience” and D.C.’s recent UFO hearings. It also accounts for the flood of Hollywood features on UFOs—500 since 1947, according to IMDB—and the relative lack of movies on the vast, dark emptiness of the unfeeling universe. (Also worth noting: according to Irwin and others, more alien movies = more UFO sightings.)

Perhaps viewers want to feel what Roy Neary felt in the 1977 hit “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

“I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I’ve been seeing this shape,” Neary says after seeing a UFO. “Shaving cream, pillows… Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.”

Read more by Caitlin Dewey and follow us on Facebook and Twitter at @innovations.

Caitlin Dewey is The Post’s digital culture critic. Follow her on Twitter @caitlindewey or subscribe to her daily newsletter on all things Internet. (tinyletter.com/cdewey)

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24-12-2015 om 00:39 geschreven door peter  

Scientists claimed they found elusive ‘Planet X.’ Doubting astronomers are in an uproar.

The antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) under the northern Chilean sky. Researchers using the ALMA say they have found two mysterious large objects at the outskirts of the solar system.  (Rex Features via AP Images)

It’s a big, dark presence at the farthest reaches of our solar system, a mysterious force powerful enough to skew the paths of planets in orbit and yet so subtle that it slips undetected past even the most powerful telescopes on Earth. For centuries, it has eluded some of the most brilliant minds in astronomy — some say it even destroyed one. It’s the subject of endless calculations and rampant speculation, crackpot theories and countless hours spent gazing, fruitlessly, at the night sky.

It’s known as Planet X.

And on Tuesday, a group of astronomers said they’d found not just one such presence, but two of them.

“ALMA discovers the most distant object of the solar system,” read the title of one paper uploaded to the research-sharing site arXiv. “The serendipitous discovery of a possible new solar system object with ALMA,” went the other.

Using the Atacama large millimeter/submillimeter array (ALMA), a powerful telescope located in the high desert of Chile, the researchers said they’d come across two extremely large objects skimming through the outskirts of the solar system.

Though both studies were submitted to the prestigious journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, neither has been peer-reviewed or formally published — steps that are par for the course with any kind of serious scientific research but especially when pronouncements of previously unknown planets are at stake. They’re both based on limited observations — just two spottings apiece for each odd object. And even after just 48 hours online, they have garnered a great deal of skepticism within the astronomy community.

But the researchers say they posted their papers with exactly that purpose.

“We specifically wanted to reach the community that could tell us if we overlooked something, in which case we fully intend to withdraw the papers,” Wouter Vlemmings, an astronomer at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and co-author on both studies, told Scientific American.

Here’s what Vlemmings and his colleague say they found:

A large rocky something they call “Gna” (for a fast-moving Nordic messenger goddess, one of the authors told Scientific American), that could be an asteroid-type object roughly the size of Ireland zooming around somewhere near Uranus. Alternatively, the researchers propose, it could be an undiscovered planet floating much farther out, or even a brown-dwarf (bigger than a planet, smaller than a star) passing through interstellar space.

Also, a mysterious, unnamed object that appears in the sky close to the alpha centauri system that may be a “Super-Earth” planet far beyond even Pluto or a super-cool brown dwarf that’s really far. It could also conceivably be an icy “trans Neptunian object,” of which there are plenty in the frozen darkness past the eighth planet, but the researchers say that’s less likely (it’s also, not coincidentally, less interesting).

All of which sounds pretty cool — unless you’re Mike Brown, a Cal Tech astronomer who has spent the majority of his careers scanning the farthest reaches of the solar system for just these kinds of objects.

Brown, the self-proclaimed “Pluto killer” who discovered a trans-Neptunian object (big things out past Neptune) that helped dethrone the erstwhile ninth planet back in 2005, would be thrilled to find the long-sought Planet X. He’d be almost as happy to see a paper reporting that other researchers had found it.

But these two papers, he said, are not that.

“The logical leaps are sort of astounding,” he said. “What they really saw they saw is a little blip and then six months later another little blip.”

The evidence that the researchers offer for their findings is too scanty, Brown said, and the probability that they could have stumbled across a huge, planet-like object in a tiny patch of sky is too small. Finding Planet X in the small field of vision they studied with the ALMA telescope, he said, “would be like scooping a cup full of water from the ocean and pulling out the white whale.”

Several other astronomers offered similar commentary in the days after the papers’ initial publication.

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo it was a “considerable stretch” to claim a outer solar system object had been found based on the information in the reports. There could be problems with the ALMA instruments or other explanations for the “blips” that form the basis of the reports, he said.

This may be a classic case of “we should have waited for the referees’ report before going on arXiv,” he said.

“There’s so many reasons why they can’t possibly be correct,” Brown said. “It’s embarrassing to the field.”

That’s because of Planet X’s “long and sordid history,” as Brown put it. Though the notion of a ninth planet of some kind at the outer edge of the solar system is perfectly legitimate — scientists have long seen it as an explanation for irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune — it’s been plagued by false hope and unfounded “discoveries.” One 19th century researcher claimed that the planet was a star he was studying and “lost” (really he just lost track of it). Another claimed there must be as many as three planets out beyond Neptune, though he provided no evidence for his conjectures.

But no Planet X researcher was more beleaguered than Percival Lowell, who launched into the search for the distant object in an attempt to redeem himself after he became a laughing stock for suggesting that aliens might be building canals on Mars.

Little did he know that Planet X was no place to find redemption.

Lowell spent years photographing the night sky with nothing more than a primitive camera and borrowed telescope, searching for evidence of a planet whose existence was still only a theory. He died of a stroke in 1916, his search unsuccessful. A lifelong friend said that the failure “virtually killed him.”

But Lowell didn’t fail — at least, not totally. Unknown to him, Lowell actually captured a large, distant object twice in his photographs. We now call that object Pluto.

Pluto would become “Planet X” a decade later, when a farm kid named Clyde Tombaugh working at the Flagstaff, Ariz., laboratory that Lowell founded came across a small moving speck in his own photos of the sky. “That’s it!” herecalled exclaiming.

And for about 80 years, that was it. Until Brown and his fellow astronomers came along and took the title away from poor Pluto.

Meanwhile, modern analysis of the trajectories of our most far-flung space craft — things like the Voyager and Pioneer probes — has found no evidence of gravitational influence of the kind that could be attributed to a distant planet, at least not as early astronomers envisioned it.

Still, the search for Planet X has continued.

“For those of us who actually work on this, it’s embarrassing to even say you might be looking for these sort of things in the outer solar system because there have been so many crazy theories,” Brown said.

So when reports like the two arXiv studies come out, “you worry that when someone finally finds something that’s not crazy, people are going to say ‘Oh, I heard that story three months ago and it’s not real.'”

But Brown may not need to be so concerned. After all, two centuries of failure has not stopped astronomers from scanning the distant corners of our solar neighborhood, bit by bit, searching for something out there that resembles the rock we call home.

Interest in Planet X is plain to see. Even if the planet itself isn’t.

24-12-2015 om 00:31 geschreven door peter