Vier nieuwe elementen in de tabel van Mendelejev: "Belangrijker dan Olympisch goud" - HLN.be

Bron: The Guardian, ScienceAlert

De nieuwe elementen in de tabel van Mendelejev. Elementen 114 en 116 werden toegevoegd in 2011.© rv.

WETENSCHAP Alle chemiehandboeken zijn vanaf vandaag in een klap gedateerd, nu er vier nieuwe elementen zijn toegevoegd aan de tabel van Mendelejev. De vier vervolledigen de zevende rij van het periodieke systeem. "Dit is veel belangrijker dan Olympisch Goud", luidt het in de chemiewereld.

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Hun ontdekkers zullen de vier elementen de komende maanden een officiële naam geven. Het eerste element dat benoemd wordt, is element 113, dat voorlopig nog ununtrium (Uut) heet. Het werd ontdekt door een team onder leiding van Kosuke Morita aan het Japanse instituut Riken.

Details van de ontdekking van element 113 werden gepubliceerd in het vakblad Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. De queeste van de onderzoekers begon in 2003, toen ze zinkionen lieten botsen op een laagje bismut. Als reactie ontstond er occasioneel een atoom van het element 113. Het duurde tot 2012 voor het team voldoende bewijs kon leveren van het bestaan van het element, in gelijkaardige experimenten met natrium en curium.

04-01-2016 om 17:59 geschreven door peter  

Belg zag vorig jaar meer ufo’s vliegen - STANDAARD.be

04-01-2016 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

Hillary Clinton: “Ik zal de waarheid over UFO’s en Area 51 onthullen als ik de volgende president van Amerika word”

04-01-2016 om 13:38 geschreven door peter  

The Man Who Shoots At A UFO

Three and a half decades ago, fighter pilot Oscar Santa Maria Huerta had an Independence Day-like experience when he tried to shoot down a bizarre light-bulb craft. Until today, the incident is the only documented case of a military plane firing on an unidentified flying object (UFO).

On the early morning of April 11, 1980, the 23-year-old Lieutenant of the Peruvian Air Force was about to join around 1,800 military personnel and civilians for daily exercises at the La Joya Air Force Base, 1,000 km south of the Peruvian capital.

A pilot who had been flying combat missions since he was 19, Lt Huerta was ordered to take off in his Sukhoi-22 fighter to intercept the unknown silver object that had been observed hovering near the end of the runway.

The strange object was 5 km away, hovering around 600 metres off the ground, and was not responding to any communications. It was in restricted airspace without authorisation, posing a significantthreatto national sovereignty, according to the now-retired Colonel.

Colonel Huerta was among of several former military officers, researchers and others who provided evidence at a big event at the National Press Club in Washington in 2013, in hopes to give pressure to the U.S. government about opening its files on UFO encounters.

Colonel Huerta flew to 2,500 metres and shot a burst of 64 30mm shells when he reached the right distance. Even one of those shells would wipe out a car, but all of them had no effect on the object. It then shot rapidly skywards away from the base and Colonel Huerta activated the aircraft’s afterburner to chase it. As they reached 84 km from the base, in the city of Camana, the UFO came to a sudden stop, prompting him to veer to the side.

After turning up and to the right, Huerta tried to position for another shot. He locked on the target and ready to shoot, but the object made another fast climb that appeared to evade an attack. He tried the same thing two more times, but the object kept shooting upwards seconds before he could shoot.

When the object reached 14,000 metres above the ground, Colonel Huerta attempted to attack from above, but the UFO shadowed him all the way up to 19,200 metres, way beyond the specifications of his aircraft.

He realised he was running low on fuel, losing his capability to attack, so he decided just to flynear the object to get a better look. When he reached 100 metres away, he started to see an object that measured around 10 metres in diameter with ashinycream-colored dome on top, similar to a light bulb cut in half.

The bottom was a wide silver circular base that looked like a metal. It had no antennae, windows, exhausts, propulsion jets, wings, and other components of a typical aircraft. At that moment, the pilot realised it wasn’t a spying device but a UFO, something entirely unknown.

Having not enough fuel, he could not attack, manoeuvre his plane, or make a quick escape. He was afraid as he made his return, gliding part way and zigzagging to make his plane harder to hit. After he had landed, the object stayed in the place he left it for another two hours, visible to people on the base while it reflected in the sun.

In a June 1980 document from the United States Department of Defence titled “UFO Sighted in Peru,” it was revealed that the object remained of unknown origin.

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04-01-2016 om 13:33 geschreven door peter  

03-01-2016 om 22:26 geschreven door peter  

Une importante cité oubliée découverte en Égypte

Une incroyable découverte a été faite par des archéologues britanniques dans le delta du Nil, en Égypte. La cité marchande grecque de Naukratis a été mise au jour après être tombée dans l’oubli durant des siècles. La ville avait été redécouverte par un égyptologue anglais en 1884 mais les scientifiques pensaient que le site n’était pas très important. En réalité, les archéologues viennent de prouver que la superficie des ruines est deux fois plus grande que ce que l’on pensait et que des milliers de vestiges sont à portée de main.

Un patrimoine historique précieux

Près de 10 000 objets anciens viennent d’être sortis des flots, dont des débris d’épaves, des ruines de temples sacrés, mais aussi des figurines dédiées au « festival de l’ivresse ». De plus, la découverte de cette cité implique beaucoup de choses pour les scientifiques : « jusqu'à maintenant, nous pensions que les vaisseaux s'arrêtaient sur la côte méditerranéenne et qu'ils étaient déchargés par des barges », a témoigné le conservateur du British Museum et directeur des fouilles Ross Thomas au Guardian. « Maintenant, on peut assurer que des bateaux de haute mer pouvaient s'aventurer aussi profondément en Égypte ».

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03-01-2016 om 21:45 geschreven door peter  

It's Almost 2016, Dammit, And We're Still Waiting For ET To Land

The year 2015 in UFOs

LEE SPEIGEL COMPOSITE

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03-01-2016 om 21:35 geschreven door peter  

There is something on the Moon that is watching "over" Earth

Earths moon should be without a doubt, the number one priority for Earth's Space Agencies, yet, for some reason, no one seems to be talking about going back to the moon. The question is why? What is up there that is keeping us from coming back? Is there anything at all on the moon, other than the equipment left behind by astronauts and a couple of strange rocks?

 

The Apollo 17 was the final mission of the United States' Apollo program, and was the last time humans walked on the moon. Numerous mysteries have surrounded the Apollo missions and specially the Apollo 17 mission, whose crew consisted of commander and veteran of the mission Gemini 9 and Apollo 10 Eugene A. Cernan, the lunar module pilot and geologist Harrison H. Schmitt called "Jack" and command module pilot Ronald E. Evans. The names of the ships, privilege of the commander, was Challenger and America for the lunar module to the command module.

 

Commander Gene Cernan was the last man to walk on the surface of the Moon in the Taurus Mountains, near the crater Littrow, on the border between the Mare Mare Tranquillitatis and Serenitatis.

 

The "Challenger" module landed on the moon at the following coordinates: 21,2ºN 30,6ºE which is the Taurus Littrow area. Commander Gene Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt were aboard the descent module. 

Harrison had a very interesting idea before the mission began, he actually proposed landing on the "Far side" of the moon, specifically at the Tsiolkovsky crater but his proposition was rejected as NASA considered it to be "too dangerous." But Harrison did not only propose the far side of the moon because he thought it was a good idea, it is believed that there was something important on the far side that the astronauts wanted to investigate.

 

 

The exact reasons why NASA did not allow the landing to take place at the Tsiolkovsky crater were never made public. Curiously, Harrison H. Schmitt designed the insignia of the mission which had, for some mysterious reason a drawing of Stonehenge. This insignia was later replaced by the one we all saw, that of Greek god Apollo.

 

Schmitt never really answered why he had chosen Stonehenge for the flight insignia and has kept the design and the "why" behind it in the shadows. But lets face it, NASA's Apollo program is anything but normal, the abrupt suspension of the Apollo program is something that many people today do not understand completely. Even though Apollo was planned all the way up to the Apollo XX mission, when the crew from Apollo XVII returned to Earth, NASA reported that the Apollo program had "expired" since the mission objectives had been reached."

 

Many believe this wasn't the reason why NASA opted out of the Apollo program, and many historians and researchers believe that it wasn't because of funding either. So what was the real reason? Why have we not returned to the moon?

 

There are some believe that the reason why NASA opted out of the Apollo program has a sinister extraterrestrial background, one that has kept mankind from going back to the moon.

 

The reason why many people believe that there is "something" on the moon that is keeping a close watch on our planet are the countless images of the Apollo missions, and the curiosities behind the missions itself.

 

Reviewing some of the more interesting images from the Apollo program has given us quite a lot to talk about.

 

Obviously the first image of interest would be the mysterious pyramid on the moon which has caused great debate between ufologists and skeptics.

 

 

One of my favorite images is the one below. There appears to be some sort of "rock," that eerily resembles a skull. This "lunar rock" seems to give us the impression it has eyes, a mouth and a nose, it's very creepy

 

 

 

The next image is incredible. Many people believe that what we are seeing in this image is some sort of "tube" sticking out of the lunar surface (look at the center of the image). Mysteriously, this tube shaped object doesn't look anything like the other rocks seen in the surrounding landscape, and its shape clearly resembles some sort of tubery.

 

 

 

What are your thoughts? Is there really something on the moon that has kept us from returning? And what about the images provided above, do they seem like "ordinary" objects on the moon?

 

It seems that in the end, however you put it, there is something mysterious surrounding NASA and its Apollo program, and the images and videos filmed on the moon, are the perfect evidence to support all of those who agree that the Apollo astronauts must have found something mysterious, previously unknown and dangerous on Earths natural satellite. The question that remains is, what was it?

 

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03-01-2016 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

AREA 51: THE MOST SURPRISING THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW

1- IT’S NOTHING LIKE IN THE MOVIES

We’ve all seen inside Area 51—in the movies. Independence Day (1996), Paul (2011), and that awful Area 51 (2014), and on The X-Files, it’s shown as super-high-tech and otherworldly. Of course it would look like that! They have UFO technology. The base is guarded by huge fences and helicopter patrol, right?

There is no fence around it! We at Area51.org have personally been to the border of the base, and can tell you that there’s no fence to hop—just signs with warnings like “lethal force authorized”. We saw and heard no helicopters, although we did spot the legendary “cammo dudes”, the private security guards hired to protect the base. They drive around in ordinary jeeps.

Area 51 may well have alien tech hidden underground, but according to insiders who have spilled the beans, the inside of the real Area 51 looks old and run down.

Area 51 from the air

Bob Lazar, the guy who says he worked there in the ’80s reverse-engineering UFO technology, describes the interior of the underground base as plain and ordinary, much like an old office building with cubicles and meeting rooms. There’s a lot of dust and rust, and not much in the way of neon-cyber whiz-bang technology. That is why it’s so striking, according to witnesses, when you see the alien spacecraft housed there underground—it’s all being held in such a drab, unremarkable place.

No word on what the alien visitors think of these digs, but insiders do claim to have sighted them there, lurking underground.

2- IT DOESN’T EXIST

At least it didn’t until 2013, when the US government finally declassified a CIA document that admitted that a secret base exists out in the Nevada desert. Up until that point, the government absolutely denied that any such base existed, even though it’s surrounded by warning signs authorizing “the use of deadly force” if you enter, and despite the fact that unfortunate pilots who wandered into the base’s airspace were either forced down by Air Force jets or, in some cases, shot down. Later in 2013, Barack Obama became the first president to mention Area 51 by name in public.

Neither the CIA report nor the president mentioned aliens, but, well, that’s not surprising. This is the government we’re talking about.

All that official silence didn’t stop Nevada governor Bob Miller, though. In 1996, he officially declared nearby Highway 375 to be Nevada’s “Extraterrestrial Highway”—a publicity stunt tied in with the movie Independence Day.

3- IT GOT BIGGER—FOR A SURPRISING REASON

Things were great for Glenn Campbell—an Area 51 researcher, not the singer—until 1995. Glenn, who was living in nearby Rachel, Nevada, had discovered a peak not far from Area 51, and it was high enough that he could see the whole base. The peak didn’t appear to have a name, so Glenn dubbed it “Freedom Ridge”. The name stuck.

Vantage points for Area 51 (some forbidden)

He brought others out to Freedom Ridge, too—including professional journalists, who’d become fascinated with Glenn’s adventures as a self-styled investigator of Area 51. A film crew from ABC News were out at Freedom Ridge with Glenn when they were arrested, and their cameras confiscated by Area 51 guards. That may have been the last straw.

In 1995, the US government seized the land around Freedom Ridge and another vantage point, Whitesides Mountain. It increased the size of Area 51 only somewhat, but it made it darn near impossible to get a view of the base from the ground without telescopes or binoculars.

The base is 60 square miles now—and growing. How long until the government seizes additional land? It’s only a matter of time.

4- AREA 51 IS NOT ITS REAL NAME

The government and the military have a lot of nicknames for the base, and they usually don’t call it “Area 51”. Instead, they’ve referred to it as Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Homey Airport, or as just Groom Lake (after the dry lake bed the base is built on). Its first official name was Watertown when it opened in 1956. We get the name “Area 51” from old military maps of the area from the 1950s.

Today the official name is said to be Air Force Flight Test Center Detachment 3—catchy, isn’t it?

5- THERE’S NIGHTCLUB ON BASE

A baseball field at Area 51

No kidding; former employees have said that Area 51 has its own extravagant disco right in the heart of the facility, where employees blow off steam at night after working on ultra-secret projects all day. (Obviously, reverse-engineering UFO technology can take a lot out of you.) We wonder: is the club called Dreamland?

That’s not all: it also has a baseball field (above-ground, see the photo), tennis courts, and a large personal gym. When it first opened, the only amenities were a single tennis court and a bowling alley, but obviously they’ve been expanding. Maybe they even have Wi-Fi.

6- YOU CAN SEE THE BASE FOR YOURSELF—IF YOU’RE WILLING TO TAKE A DIFFICULT HIKE

As we mentioned before, until 1995, you could make an easy hike to mountain peaks near the base called Freedom Ridge and White Sides. From those vantage points, you could get a pretty good look at the distant base, even without binoculars. So, of course, word got out. When the government realized that people were spying on the base, it seized the land.

Today, we’re left with one vantage point: a place called Tikaboo Peak.

It’s not an easy hike, but it’s only a little over a mile. Being remote desert land, this is dangerous, so we’re not recommending it. But it is possible. If you did go, you’d want to bring high-powered binoculars, or maybe a telescope.

Bird and Hike, a hiking website, has the exact info—look for the keyword “Tikaboo” to find the hike. And do not, under any circumstances, venture past the border into Area 51!

7- YOU CAN TAKE A TOUR—SORT OF

Take a tour near Area 51

If you dream of a guided tour of the actual Area 51 base, well, no, they don’t do that. Surprisingly, though, the US Department of Energy does give weekday tours of areas in the Nevada Test Site—think nuclear testing. The tours take all day and require government background checks. They don’t venture into Area 51, but reports say they get pretty darned close, ending up just a bit to the west of the secret base. The tour is free but there are restrictions:

There are strict rules in order to take this tour including proper dress code (no shorts/sandals), age-limit of 14+ years old; no cell phones, cameras or computers, firearms, and a background check is required. You MUST arrange tours months in advance and be cleared by background investigators before taking this tour.

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03-01-2016 om 20:39 geschreven door peter  

I WILL INVESTIGATE UFOS — CANDIDATE HILLARY CLINTON

WILL “GET TO THE BOTTOM” OF UFOS

You may love her or hate her, but if you’re interested in UFOs, you probably want Hillary Clinton to be elected president in 2016.

While on a campaign stop in Conway, New Hampshire, Clinton told a reporter that she definitely intends to investigate UFOs and alien visitation as president. “I’m going to get to the bottom of it,” said Clinton, according to the Conway Sun. The newspaper reported that she answered “with enthusiasm”.

Hillary whisked away by a UFO (photo by Mother Jones)

“I think we may have been [visited by aliens],” she told the reporter. “We don’t know for sure.” Evidently, she intends to find out.

Hillary told the Conway Sun that she was also interested in further investigation into Area 51.

BILL HAS INVESTIGATED

Husband and former president Bill Clinton has previously weighed in on the subject of UFOs and aliens. “First I had people go looking for records on Area 51,” he said on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “[I also] had all the Roswell papers reviewed.”

If Bill discovered anything significant in his records search, he isn’t admitting it publicly—but he did drop a hint. “If we were visited someday,” he told Kimmel, “I wouldn’t be surprised … think about how all the differences among people on Earth would seem small if we felt threatened by a space invader.”

CLINTON CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN JOHN PODESTA: UFOS ARE REAL

Clinton noted that her campaign manager, John Podesta, is outspoken about his conviction about extraterrestrial visits to Earth. One of Podesta’s last messages as an outgoing senior advisor to president Barack Obama was this tweet: “Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the disclosure of the UFO files.” Podesta, a UFO enthusiast, insisted that the tweet was serious.

It seems quite likely that Hillary has been influenced by Podesta’s stance on the subject. “He (Podesta) has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out,” Clinton told the Conway Sun. “One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51.”

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03-01-2016 om 20:31 geschreven door peter  

DID HILLARY CLINTON JUST PLEDGE TO INVESTIGATE UFOS?

Former First Lady and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reportedly plans to follow in her husband’s footsteps and probe the UFO issue if she becomes president.

On Tuesday, December 29, the former New York senator and former secretary of state visited the office of The Conway Daily Sun, a free daily newspaper in New Hampshire. GOP candidates Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush also paid visits to the paper’s office recently. Clinton discussed foreign policy and the economy with Conway Daily Sunreporters during her visit. But she also reportedly discussed UFOs.

According to reporter Daymond Steer, when he asked her about UFOs, Clinton responded, “Yes, I’m going to get to the bottom of it.”

Her husband, Bill, made attempts to uncover UFO secrets while he was president. He specifically did some digging related to the 1947 Roswell UFO Incident, as well as the mysterious military installation Area 51. In 2014, Bill Clinton appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and, when asked about his research, he said he didn’t find any evidence of extraterrestrials. But when Kimmel asked Clinton if he would inform the public if he had, Clinton said he would, then added:

What do we know now? We know we live in an ever expanding universe. We know that there are billions of stars and planets, literally, out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that just in the last two years more than 20 planets have been identified outside of our solar system that seem to be far away enough from their suns and dense enough that they might be able to support some form of life. So, it makes it increasingly less likely that we are alone.

Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff, John Podesta, is currently Hillary’s campaign chairman. This former Counselor to President Obama is a strong advocate for government transparency when it comes to knowledge of UFOs and files related to UFO phenomena. When Podesta left the White House to begin working on Clinton’s campaign, he publicly voiced regret over not being able to get government UFO files released to the public.

In late 2015, following the publication of an interview with Hillary Clinton, conducted by actor Lena Dunham, Podesta posted to Twitter:

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Great interview, @lenadunham. But Lena, ask her about aliens next time!! #TheTruthIsOutThere http://hrc.io/1jusxfk  cc: @HillaryClinton

When asked about Podesta during her recent visit to The Conway Daily Sun, Clinton stated, “He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out.” She continued, “One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51.”

Clinton also reportedly told Steer, “I think we may have been (visited already). We don’t know for sure.”

If the conversation between Clinton and Steer went down as reported, it’s pretty interesting to see her speaking publicly about the topic. Then again, she may have assumed she was having an “off the record” conversation.

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03-01-2016 om 19:03 geschreven door peter  

Universe Had No Beginning And No Big Bang, Scientists Say

Physicists have announced that the universe may have existed forever, and that the Big Bang may never have occurred, according to a new quantum model of the Universe. 

The new model applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and accounts for dark matter and dark energy.

Phys.org reports:

The widely accepted age of the universe, as estimated by general relativity, is 13.8 billion years. In the beginning, everything in existence is thought to have occupied a single infinitely dense point, or singularity. Only after this point began to expand in a “Big Bang” did the universe officially begin.

Although the Big Bang singularity arises directly and unavoidably from the mathematics of general relativity, some scientists see it as problematic because the math can explain only what happened immediately after—not at or before—the singularity.

“The Big Bang singularity is the most serious problem of general relativity because the laws of physics appear to break down there,” Ahmed Farag Ali at Benha University and the Zewail City of Science and Technology, both in Egypt, told Phys.org.

Ali and coauthor Saurya Das at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, have shown in a paper published in Physics Letters B that the Big Bang singularity can be resolved by their new model in which the universe has no beginning and no end.

Old ideas revisited

The physicists emphasize that their quantum correction terms are not applied ad hoc in an attempt to specifically eliminate the Big Bang singularity. Their work is based on ideas by the theoretical physicist David Bohm, who is also known for his contributions to the philosophy of physics. Starting in the 1950s, Bohm explored replacing classical geodesics (the shortest path between two points on a curved surface) with quantum trajectories.

In their paper, Ali and Das applied these Bohmian trajectories to an equation developed in the 1950s by physicist Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri at Presidency University in Kolkata, India. Raychaudhuri was also Das’s teacher when he was an undergraduate student of that institution in the ’90s.

Using the quantum-corrected Raychaudhuri equation, Ali and Das derived quantum-corrected Friedmann equations, which describe the expansion and evolution of universe (including the Big Bang) within the context of general relativity. Although it’s not a true theory of quantum gravity, the model does contain elements from both quantum theory and general relativity. Ali and Das also expect their results to hold even if and when a full theory of quantum gravity is formulated.

No singularities nor dark stuff

In addition to not predicting a Big Bang singularity, the new model does not predict a “big crunch” singularity, either. In general relativity, one possible fate of the universe is that it starts to shrink until it collapses in on itself in a big crunch and becomes an infinitely dense point once again.

Ali and Das explain in their paper that their model avoids singularities because of a key difference between classical geodesics and Bohmian trajectories. Classical geodesics eventually cross each other, and the points at which they converge are singularities. In contrast, Bohmian trajectories never cross each other, so singularities do not appear in the equations.

In cosmological terms, the scientists explain that the quantum corrections can be thought of as a cosmological constant term (without the need for dark energy) and a radiation term. These terms keep the universe at a finite size, and therefore give it an infinite age. The terms also make predictions that agree closely with current observations of the cosmological constant and density of the universe.

New gravity particle

In physical terms, the model describes the universe as being filled with a quantum fluid. The scientists propose that this fluid might be composed of gravitons—hypothetical massless particles that mediate the force of gravity. If they exist, gravitons are thought to play a key role in a theory of quantum gravity.

In a related paper, Das and another collaborator, Rajat Bhaduri of McMaster University, Canada, have lent further credence to this model. They show that gravitons can form a Bose-Einstein condensate (named after Einstein and another Indian physicist, Satyendranath Bose) at temperatures that were present in the universe at all epochs.

Motivated by the model’s potential to resolve the Big Bang singularity and account for dark matter and dark energy, the physicists plan to analyze their model more rigorously in the future. Their future work includes redoing their study while taking into account small inhomogeneous and anisotropic perturbations, but they do not expect small perturbations to significantly affect the results.

“It is satisfying to note that such straightforward corrections can potentially resolve so many issues at once,” Das said.

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03-01-2016 om 18:42 geschreven door peter  

Unexplained Spiral Vortex Appears on Mexican Weather Radar

•  Paul Seaburn

Weather radar pictures have emerged of what appears to be a huge spiral vortex covering the entire country of Mexico on December 26th. Could it be a ghost of some hurricane past or worse – a ghostly prediction of a hurricane future? Is it related to other strange spirals seen on radar displays around the world?

The video posted on the Internet shows a series of radar images of the spiral. It reportedly began on December 26th and was still there as of this writing on December 31st. It strangely appears only on National Weather Service radar centered in Mexico City (named Catedral for the Metropolitan Cathedral – Catedral Metropolitana). If it’s a malfunction, there’s no mention of it on the display nor anywhere else. Could it be something else?

This isn’t the first time a mysterious spiral has appeared on Mexican weather radar. This spiral was seen on October 28th, 2012, and a similar one was reported in 2014, both appearing to have no official or unofficial explanations.

Another strange circle reportedly appeared on Australian weather radar on January 15th, 2010. This nearly-perfect circle covered hundreds of square miles yet there was no mention of any unusual weather that could have caused it.

Strange circle on weather radar over Australia

In 2009, a famous spiral anomaly was seen and photographed over many parts of Norway and Sweden on December 8th. The spiral was blue and grey, lasted nearly 3 minutes and was similar to a previous (but not as bright) spiral a month before.

Mysterious spiral over Norway in 2009

Thousands reported the spiral to various agencies with no explanations … until the following day when the Russian Defense Ministry admitted it was a failed test of a SLBM RSM-56 Bulava missile, one that had already failed in 6 out of 13 prior launches.

Since there appear to no eyewitness accounts of the mysterious spiral on Mexican radar, it has some other cause. But what? Malfunction? Secret government test? HAARP? UFO interference? Something else?

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03-01-2016 om 18:27 geschreven door peter  

Glowing UFO Caught Flying Around Volcano On Christmas Day, Dec 25, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: December 25, 2015
Location of sighting: Volcano Popocatepetl, Mexico
Source cam: http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/popo/UltimaImagenVolcanI.html

This glowing UFO was caught on the volcano live cam on Christmas day. The UFO is very similar to other past videos of a glowing object actually entering the mouth of the volcano. I've been looking at this live cam over the last 3 years and have caught dozens of UFOs around this volcano. The UFO activity and the Aztec stories about the gods of Popocatepetl, both indicate that there is an alien base 5km below the volcano. 

This one came very close to the local population this time. It curious about them. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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03-01-2016 om 18:06 geschreven door peter  

Curiosity Rover Finds A Mineral On Mars That Usually Deposited By Water On Earth

NASA’s Curiosity has recently come across some interesting discoveries that could solve the mystery of the presence of water on Mars.

Christian Science Monitor noted that the robot had found an abundance of the rock-forming chemical silica for the first time. Silica is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen, which on Earth often deposited by water.

According to NASA, Curiosity has discovered much higher concentrations of silica at several sites it has investigated in the past seven months than it has first visited since landing on the Red Planet 40 months ago.

In a video that featured astrogeologist Jens Frydenvang of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, he said that they don’t have a full understanding yet of its meaning. He added that this kind of silica require some water activity here on Earth, and often, it’s also a very nice environment to discover microbial life.

NASA further shared the Curiosity drilled some silica at one rock called Buckskin is in tridymite, a mineral rare on Earth and never seen before on Mars.

On Earth, tridymite can be found in volcanic deposits with rich silica content. So, scientists suspect volcanic evolutions on Mars. But, it is also possible that mineral tridymite has formed by other processes.

A planetary geologist at Johnson Space Center of NASA in Houston, Elizabeth Rampe, said they could solve this by knowing whether the mineral in the sediment comes from a volcanic source or another origin. Rampe added that they were in their labs to see if there was a way to make this mineral without such a high temperature.

Geophysicist Ashwin Vasavada shared at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union that scientists have observed signs of the building blocks of life on the Red Planet. So, it is interesting to find out how the mystery unfolds.

03-01-2016 om 17:58 geschreven door peter  

Mystery Ball of Light Filmed Hovering Over Hessdalen, Norway On New Year’s Day 2016 (Video)

(Before It's News)

Hessdalen is a very remote area in Norway with a long history of UFO sightings. On January 1, 2016 at about 1.00 am local time, StreetCap1 noticed a slight flashing on Hessdalen’s cam so he started recording.

At first StreetCap1 thought it maybe fireworks being the New Year, but as the ball of light suddenly appears and continues its speed over the terrain until it disappears into thin air towards a flashing light in the top right of the picture frame it cannot be fireworks.
 

Video: The ball of light appears at about the 1.29 mark.

  

Thanks http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/

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

03-01-2016 om 01:05 geschreven door peter  

Top 5 Texas UFO Sightings of 2015

(Before It's News)

1. Cube HOvers Over El Paso

2. Dozens of Lights Flash Over Cedar Park

3. Triangle Over Houston

Up close

4. Sparkling Lights Migrate Over TExas

5. Strange Lights Wander Over Conroe

03-01-2016 om 00:53 geschreven door peter  

Top 5 Texas UFO Sightings of 2015

(Before It's News)

1. Cube HOvers Over El Paso

2. Dozens of Lights Flash Over Cedar Park

3. Triangle Over Houston

Up close

4. Sparkling Lights Migrate Over TExas

5. Strange Lights Wander Over Conroe

03-01-2016 om 00:53 geschreven door peter  

Why do little green men go to Liverpool? Merseyside is the UFO capital of Britain as police receive more mysterious calls in the North-West than anywhere else

• Merseyside Police have handled 13 reports of UFO sightings since 2013
• Other hotspots for mysterious sightings include Manchester and Essex
• Officers across the UK receive dozens of UFO reports every year
• Experts say sightings are more likely over big cities despite the cliché of supernatural events happening in the wilderness 

By HUGO GYE FOR MAILONLINE

Liverpool has been revealed as the UFO hotspot of Britain after it emerged that more mysterious sightings are reported to police in Merseyside than anywhere else.

The whole of the North-West of England seems to be replete with unexplained activity - with Greater Manchester and Cheshire also reporting a strikingly high number of UFO encounters.

The findings contradict the usual cliché that remote areas such as moors and forest are more likely to be the venue for UFO sightings than heavily built-up areas.

Hotspots: This map shows the number of UFO sightings reported to police in each area of England and Wales since the start of 2013

Data compiled by MailOnline showed that dozens of calls regarding unidentified flying objects are received by police forces across the UK every year.

Merseyside Police has handled more UFO reports than any other force, with a total of 13 calls on the subject between the start of 2013 and this year.

Among the reports were something 'hovering in the sky with red and green lights' in Kirkby, an 'object flying in the sky with lots of red, green, pink and purple lights on it' in central Liverpool, and 'a strange green light behind bushes in a field' in the Wirral.

Next in the UFO league table was Greater Manchester, where 10 apparent sightings were reported to the local police force.

One woman living in Rochdale told officers she had seen three UFOs flying together - and was forced to attend A&E because she was worried she would faint with shock.

Caught on camera: A UFO pictured in 2009 by a dog-walker at Roanhead beach on the coast of Cumbria

Bright: A flying object was apparently seen in the sky over Retford Town Hall in Notttinghamshire in 2004

Mystery: A reproduction of the UFO seen over Calvine in Scotland in 1990, one of the most notorious 'flying saucer' incidents in the UK

The third most popular destination for UFOs is Essex - police there have received eight calls reporting mysterious lights in the sky since 2013.

Other areas where several UFO sightings have been reported to the authorities include Hertfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Kent and the Thames Valley.

In Lackenby, North Yorkshire, a couple told police in February this year that they had seen a total of six silver-coloured UFOs hovering in the atmosphere.

Two UFOs have been seen above Brighton in separate incidents - one which interfered with radio signals in the town, and another shaped like a rugby ball flying out to sea.

A number of police forces, including those covering London, Scotland and Northern Ireland, were unable to provide data on local UFO sightings.

It is not believed that any of the calls were followed up by a police investigation, with the majority of cases being closed immediately or written off as a hoax.

Spooky: Liverpool has had more reported UFO sightings than any other area of Britain

Sightings: Two Brighton residents called police on separate occasions to report seeing a UFO over the town

BRITISH UFO HOTSPOTS REVEALED

Merseyside – 13 sightings

Greater Manchester – 10

Essex – 8

Hertfordshire – 5

Thames Valley – 5

Kent – 4

Nottinghamshire – 4

West Mercia – 3

West Midlands – 3

West Yorkshire – 3

Cheshire – 2

Cleveland – 2

Dyfed Powys – 2

Gloucestershire – 2

Lancashire – 2

South Wales – 2

South Yorkshire – 2

Sussex – 2

Devon and Cornwall – 1

Lincolnshire – 1

Suffolk – 1

Warwickshire – 1

The Ministry of Defence kept a centralised database of all supposed paranormal activity until 2009, since when there has not been a unified record of sightings.

Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFOs for the MoD, told MailOnline that cities tend to see more sightings than 'remote rural areas', contrary to many people's assumptions.

'In compiling UFO statistics one needs to factor in population density,' he said. 'If there's something strange in the skies, there are more potential witnesses in built-up areas.

'There's a clichéd view of sightings happening in remote rural areas, but most of the real "UFO hotspots" are London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds and other large cities and conurbations.'

He added: 'It's notoriously difficult trying to compile UFO statistics. One problem is that there's no central database, so while some people report sightings to the police, others contact their local newspaper, or a civilian UFO research organisation. The axing of the MoD's UFO project exacerbated this problem.

'The current variation in figures may be significant, but it may simply reflect the fact that some police forces take sightings more seriously than others.'

Mr Pope also suggested that 'one thing we know for sure is that reported UFOs are only the tip of the iceberg' - claiming that most witnesses never tell the authorities what they have seen in case they are 'disbelieved or ridiculed'.

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03-01-2016 om 00:30 geschreven door peter  

Is this for real? Alleged Wikileaks British SIS document about Illuminati & Aliens

A document supposedly dated back to August 19, 1952 has surfaced on the internet of an alleged interrogation between the British SIS and an Illuminati member, whose name has been redacted from the report.

 

 

Thus far, we can see that the alleged document appears to be legitimate when compared to other secret government documents. Names are redacted, which is a common practice. A photo of the man in question, however, is questionable.

 

The second page starts to get into the topic of the shadowy secret organization known as the Illuminati;

 

 

 

If this document is authentic, which I myself have had trouble verifying, and the witness is being honest, this is a paradigm shifting document.

 

It gets more interesting though as we read on;

 

 

But wait, there’s more as the alleged Illuminati member talks about aliens;

 

 

The documents are pretty much self explanatory as it pertains to relevance. The ultimate question, however, is are they real? The internet is rife with hoaxes and I myself have not been able to verify the authenticity of this information. If anyone can do so, please post a link to source it.

 

As many know, the Illuminati was a actually a real secret society in Bavaria in the late 18th century that was discovered and, in turn, disbanded. But this document alleges the groups origins go back much further than that and they are will in existence today. Which is a belief shared by many others today as well.

 

So what do you think? Is this a hoax or have you managed to verify it? The source where I found this can be found HERE

 

You can watch a documentary on this secret shadowy organization below;

 

 

http://www.ewao.com/

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03-01-2016 om 00:09 geschreven door peter