Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Alien Entity Has Vested Interest In Human Baby, Victoria, Australia, Jan 2016, Video
Alien Entity Has Vested Interest In Human Baby, Victoria, Australia, Jan 2016, Video
Date of sighting: January 16, 2016 Location of sighting: Victoria, Australia
Here we have a baby monitor video of an entity standing over the head of the baby. The entity has a tilted head, looking down at the babies face. For an alien to come to a baby, it must have some vested interest in this child. What I mean is, the child may have been implanted with knowledge or abilities beyond that of human understanding.
Its no secret that Australia is a hotbed for UFO sightings. It appears that the aliens in that region are trying to change humanity by implanting certain knowledge and skills that would one day help tilt humanities future into the direction that aliens see as more desirable. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: A mother capturing two ghostly spirits in the cradle of her daughter as she slept A mother claims to have captured the disturbing moment when two “ghostly spirits” interacted with her daughter as she slept. Jade Yates, who lives in Barongarook, Victoria, Australia, observed through the creepy video baby monitor, where two figures seem to float above the crib notes, she shared the video on Facebook on 23 January 2016.
AMAZING PHOTO OF A STRANGE GLOWING OBJECT IN BOLIVIA
JANUARY 21, 2016 ………. SANTA CRUZ BOLIVIA
This happened in the town of Chochis, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. I witnessed this while on holiday. I had already heard stories that these types of things were often seen in the area. After visiting all the places we wanted to, we walked two kilometers from the Sanctuary of Chochis. Here we went to see a farm that belonged to a friend. It was then that we saw a light, at first from afar. It was where he kept his cattle. We went closer to investigate, and then we were surprised to see this light approaching. We called it a machine as you could make out the shape as it flew. This object appeared to vibrate as it went.
We were able to take a couple of pictures quickly with our cell phones. Soon, the object sped up and was gone from sight. We feel that this area warrants much more investigation for UFOs. We will return to see if we find anything else like what we saw this night.
Many paintings between 14th and early 18th century depict different, unusual aerial objects that look very similar to modern-day UFOs at first glance. It’s just normal to wonder why artists in these times appeared to be obsessed with these objects that they included them in scenes surrounding the stories of Jesus Christ’s birth and death.
For example, the mural or fresco from 1350, “The Crucifixion,” at the Visoki Decani Monestary in Kosovo, the unknown artist included two strange-looking objects with apparent pilots in the sky on both sides of Jesus.
The details in the upper right and left portions of the Kosovo fresco may refer to something readily familiar to modern eyes – the sun and the moon. The two celestial bodies are somewhat personified by two crouching figures, creating a man in the moon effect.
The Annunciation with Saint Emidius
Another painting from 1946 “The Annunciation with Saint Emidius,” by Carlo Crivelli, at the National Gallery in London, shows a circular object making a thin beam of light down to the Virgin Mary.
The reasons for this could be the form of symbolism the artists were trying to depict, but why these things crop up in so many works of art from these times.
Computer scientist Jacques Vallee said that “It is true that these paintings don’t represent actual sightings by artists or contemporary events of the scene.” Valle and co-author Chris Aubeck will publish an extensive update to their book “Wonders in the Sky,” which goes in depth into reports of mysterious aerial objects reported by several people starting in 1879, and moving backward to biblical sightings.
Vallee said: “The value of it, scientifically, is that now we can anchor the beginning of theUFO phenomenon into real, documented history.”
“You can’t only say that, because somebody spotted something circular in the sky duringmedieval times, it’s a similar phenomenon that people see today. We are not making that statement. We’re merely describing what people saw and the events associated with it to contribute the comprehensive study of the history of the event.”
Baptism of Jesus
“I think the skeptics are correct in stating that many of the accounts have to do with things that, in recent times, we recognize as comets, meteors, or other natural phenomena. And that is fair. We go through that and remove those and we keep the ones that are unidentified,” Vallee said.
“We do not go into ideology. We are not saying it is proof of alien. We’re saying there is a phenomenon, and it has some characteristics of the modern phenomenon, and we let it go at that. You still have to account for various depictions because of the changes in cultures and media, through which the data has arrived at us.”
A 15th-century painting “Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John” at the Palazzo Vecchio Museum in Florence, Italy, shows Mother Mary looking down while something strange is taking place in the background.
On another painting, a man can be seen with his dog standing on a ledge looking up what appears to be a domed UFO.
Lastly, the painting from 1710, “Baptism of Jesus,” by Arendt de Gelder, shows a large, round object making beams of light down to Jesus.
New “ X-Files ” Will Take On 9/11 Conspiracy, World Government And NSA Spying
New “ X-Files ” Will Take On 9/11 Conspiracy, World Government And NSA Spying
Government corruption was always one of the main themes that played out in the classic television show “X-Files,” and it was typically shown in the form of UFO and alien cover-ups. However, the show’s creator said in a recent interview that the new revival of the series will also touch on some of the more political conspiracies that take place in our world.
X-Files creator Chris Carter said Edward Snowden and issues like the 9/11 conspiracy will be fair game in the new revival of the show. The new series will feature the same classic characters, David Duchovny as Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully.
“A lot of the rights and liberties that were signed away [with the Patriot Act] are being abused now, and no one seems to care,” Carter said.
“We see the admitted spying by the government. These are not things we’re making up and it informs everything Mulder and Scully are doing,” he added.
Entertainment Weekly reported that the new series featured issues like, “war in the Middle East, NSA spying, chem-trails (here called ‘aerial contaminants’), police militarization, supposed FEMA prison camps, and the eventual military ‘takeover of America’ by a UN-like group of ‘multinational elites.’”
“The idea of a New World Order is relevant,” Carter says.
The article states that this elaborate web of conspiracies will tie back to the alien cover-up that took center stage in the older series.
Carter continued, “I’ve kept my finger to the wind and trying to figure out what’s relevant and possible credible. People know the show deals with science and fact and also deals with far-flung theories about not only the supernatural but government conspiracies. It throws out as many questions as it does answers. And I have to say what it’s done for me and the writers it has given us a whole new open field which to run. It’s given the show an interesting new life and context that it might not have had in 2002.”
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Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe
Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe
Results and Discussion
Genetic studies of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) show that all present-day non-Africans belong to two basal mtDNA haplogroups (hgs), M and N [10]. The time to the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of each of these two clades has been estimated independently at around 50,000 years ago (50 ka) (95% confidence interval [CI], 53–46 ka) and 59 ka (95% CI, 64–54 ka), respectively [11]. However, whereas present-day Asians, Australasians, and Native Americans carry both M and N mtDNA hgs, modern individuals with European ancestry lack almost completely lineages of the M clade [12]. The different spatial distributions and TMRCA estimates of these two ancestral clades have been interpreted as evidence of an early spread of modern humans carrying hg M into Asia, perhaps via a southern route, followed by a later non-African diffusion of the N clade, perhaps via a northern route [7]. However, an alternative model proposes a rapid and single dispersal across Eurasia, with Asia being reached first, whereas Western Eurasia would have been settled only after a hiatus, during which hg M was lost [4].
Little is known about the genetic makeup of the first European hunter-gatherers, who likely arrived ∼45 ka [13], or about the subsequent population dynamics during the nearly 40,000 years spanning from the Late Pleistocene to the Neolithic transition [14]. Here, we reconstructed 35 complete or nearly complete mtDNAs (from 11× to 1,860× average coverage) of ancient modern human individuals from Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, Czech Republic, and Romania, spanning in age from 35 to 7 ka (Figure 1; Table S1). Hybridization capture of mtDNA in combination with high-throughput sequencing technologies [15] allowed us to evaluate typical DNA damage patterns and average fragment length [16] as criteria for authentication of ancient DNA (Supplemental Experimental Procedures). Both features were taken into account in an iterative probabilistic approach [17] that jointly estimates present-day human contamination and reconstructs mtDNA sequences (Table S2). Combining 311 modern and 66 ancient dated worldwide mtDNA genomes (both new and from the literature; Table S3), we used Bayesian phylogenetic methods [18] to estimate the mutation rate and hg coalescence times. Further, we combined our 35 new mtDNA genomes with 20 previously published ancient European mtDNAs for a total of 55 pre-Neolithic sequences (Table S4) and explicitly tested scenarios of the early population history of Europe using coalescent demographic modeling paired with approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) [19] (Supplemental Experimental Procedures).
Hg assignment of the authenticated mtDNAs confirmed that the vast majority of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene individuals belonged to the U lineage, which is a subgroup of the N clade [20] (Figures 2 and S1). We also found a basal U lineage that had no derived position leading to known sub-hgs in a 33,000-year-old Romanian individual. Surprisingly, three hunter-gatherers from Belgium and France dating to between 35 and 28 ka carried mtDNA hg M, today found predominantly in Asia, Australasia, and the Americas, although it is almost absent in extant populations with European ancestry [12].
We used 66 ancient dated mtDNAs as tip calibration points in BEAST v1.8.1 [18] in combination with 311 modern worldwide mtDNA sequences to reduce the possible impact of sample biases (Table S3 and Supplemental Experimental Procedures) in estimating the mtDNA mutation rate and hg M and N divergence times. Strict and uncorrelated lognormal relaxed clocks were tested, under both a constant size and a Bayesian skyline tree prior. The four analyses returned mtDNA mutation rates (Table 1) consistent with previously published rates using similar methodology [21, 22]. The Bayesian skyline, in combination with strict rate variation among branches, performed best according to stepping-stone and path sampling methods [23] and highest effective sample size (ESS) values, giving a best estimate of the mutation rate of 2.74 × 10−8 (95% highest posterior density [HPD], 2.44–3.01 × 10−8) mutation/site/year. This model allowed us to refine time estimates for the TMRCA of the basal non-African clades M and N of circa 49 ka (95% HPD, 54.8–43.6 ka) and 51 ka (95% HPD, 55.1–46.9 ka), respectively (Table 1; Figure 2; Supplemental Experimental Procedures).
Table 1Haplogroup Divergence Times and mtDNA Mutation Rate
Tree Prior
Clock
Statistic
Divergence Time
Clock Rate Whole mtDNA
Log Marginal Likelihood
TMRCA hg M
TMRCA hg N
Stepping-Stone Sampling
Path Sampling
Constant
strict
mean
58,869
57,482
2.62 × 10−8
−48,759
−48,754
median
58,578
57,181
2.62 × 10−8
95% HPD
68,163–50,380
64,363–51,387
2.30–2.93 × 10−8
ESS
585
445
651
Constant
relaxed
mean
58,961
58,531
2.67 × 10−8
−48,755
−48,751
median
58,507
58,207
2.67 × 10−8
95% HPD
70,389–49,125
66,398–51,664
2.30–3.04 × 10−8
ESS
354
416
431
Skyline
strict
mean
49,106
50,562
2.74 × 10−8
−48,577
−48,571
median
48,837
50,317
2.74 × 10−8
95% HPD
54,780–43,598
55,138–46,892
2.44–3.01 × 10−8
ESS
741
799
863
Skyline
relaxed
mean
48,005
50,179
2.77 × 10−8
−48,550
−48,546
median
47,695
50,021
2.77 × 10−8
95% HPD
53,917–43,054
54,189–46,483
2.47–3.07 × 10−8
ESS
251
285
348
The values reported are obtained in BEAST [18] using 377 worldwide mtDNAs, 66 of which come from ancient dated human remains. A Bayesian skyline tree prior in combination with strict rate variation between branches performed better than the other three tested models according to higher log marginal likelihood estimates (compared to the constant tree prior models) and effective sample size (ESS) values. HPD, highest posterior density. See also Table S3 and the Supplemental Experimental Procedures.
The observed mtDNA hg variation through time, including the apparent loss of hg M in Europe, suggests a genetic bottleneck that may have been influenced by climatic events (Figure 3). This period of European prehistory was accompanied by severe climatic fluctuations, such as the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 25 to 19.5 ka) and, at the end of the Pleistocene, the Bølling-Allerød interstadial followed by the stadial Younger Dryas—a period we refer to as the Late Glacial (14.5 to 11.5 ka) [24, 25]. These climatic changes have been proposed as a driver of the range contraction to refugia in many species [26], including modern humans, for whom there is absence of evidence of northwestern European occupation during the LGM [25, 27]. We used coalescent modeling paired with ABC [19] to test a range of explicit models of European hunter-gatherer demography (Figure S2; Table S6), using the complete set of 55 pre-Neolithic ancient mtDNA genomes (Table S4). The best-fitting model (Figure 3 and 2b inFigure S2) strongly supports maternal population continuity through the LGM, albeit as a single genetic bottleneck, before being replaced by a new incoming population at the onset of the Late Glacial 14.5 ka (model posterior probability,P2b = 0.807). Based on the estimated parameter values of this model (Table S5), we infer that this surviving population diverged from the ancestral one around 29 ka (95% HPD, 36–25 ka), prior to the beginning of the LGM.
The new hunter-gatherer mtDNA genomes reported here approximately triple the available sequences from pre-Neolithic Europe. One novel finding, that three out of 18 European pre-LGM hunter-gatherers carry a previously undescribed basal mtDNA lineage M (Figure 1A), has important implications for the timing of the dispersal of modern humans into Eurasia. Excluding a ∼40,000-year-old Romanian individual known not to have contributed notably to the modern European gene pool [28], our BEAST analyses give a TMRCA for clades M and N from 44 to 55 ka, respectively. Our estimated dates, together with the oldest accepted archeological evidence for the presence of early modern humans in Australia and Europe (both dated to at least 45 ka [13, 29]), are consistent with a model of a single, late, and therefore rapid dispersal of a source population containing both M and N hgs, which contributed all the mitochondrial diversity of present-day non-Africans (cf. [7]). Human individuals whose ancestries trace back to potential earlier expansion(s) outside Africa [30, 31] are thus unlikely to have left any surviving mtDNA descendants.
Figure 1
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Archeological Sites and Hunter-Gatherer mtDNA Haplogroups
(A) Pre-LGM dispersal of non-African populations, carrying both M and N lineages (hgs R, U, U5, and U2′3′4′7′8′9 belong to the N clade, distinct from the M clade).
(B) Post-LGM re-expansion in Europe while ice sheets retracted.
Figure 2
Maximum Parsimony Tree of Present-Day Human and 55 Pre-Neolithic mtDNA Genomes
Pre-LGM samples are shown in blue, Post-LGM in green, Late Glacial in magenta, Holocene hunter-gatherers in red, and present-day individuals in black print. Average values of 14C dates are reported next to each specimen when available. Red arrows indicate divergence times of M and N clades. Hg M is almost absent in present-day individuals with European ancestry. Oase1 represents a pre-N lineage. The tree is rooted with one Neanderthal and 16 deeply divergent African mtDNAs (not shown). See also Figure S1 and the Supplemental Experimental Procedures.
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Climatic Fluctuations and European Hunter-Gatherer Demography
On the left is the NGRIP δ18O climate record, and on the right is an illustration of the best-supported demographic model (2b inFigure S2). Each colored point gives the mtDNA hg of the 55 dated pre-Neolithic individuals used in the coalescent modeling analysis. West-East site locations for each sample are approximated. See also Figure S2, Table S4, and the Supplemental Experimental Procedures.
Phylogeographic inference based solely on mtDNA has limitations [2], but information from single loci can provide meaningful constraints on models of human prehistory. In particular, the fact that hg M has never previously been found in Europe is generally interpreted as an important limitation for the proposed scenarios of non-African population dispersals [4, 7]. According to the most popular model [4], an early expansion occurred before the M and N diversification with a subsequent loss of M in only the population ancestral to Europeans. Our evidence for the existence of hg M in Late Pleistocene Europe revises this scenario. It suggests that the loss of hg M may be due to population dynamics that occurred later within Europe itself. The expansion either occurred before the diversification of M and N, with subsequent migration bringing both lineages into Europe, or the dispersal was later, occurring after their TMRCAs. Contrary to recent findings [11], though similar to a previous study [32], our two TMRCAs are almost identically dated, suggesting a single major dispersal after 55 ka for all non-African populations, including Europe. The genetic evidence of pre-LGM hg M indicates that this lineage reached Western Europe by at least 35 ka (GoyetQ116-1), either alongside the first arrival of N or later. The reconstructed phylogeny (Figure 2) with both basal N and M lineages in Late Pleistocene Europe possibly mirrors the inferred back migration into Africa, which has been suggested by the existence of hgs U6 and M1 in modern-day North Africans [33]. Therefore, the major modern human dispersal described here after 55 ka might have affected not only non-Africans, but also African populations to some extent.
The potential impact of climatic events on the demography, and thus the genetic diversity of early Europeans, has previously been difficult to quantify, but it likely had consequences for the relative components of ancient ancestry in modern-day populations [14]. Our demographic modeling reveals a dynamic history of hunter-gatherers, including a previously unknown major population shift during the Late Glacial interstadial (the Bølling-Allerød, ∼14.5 ka). Under our best-fitting model (Figure 3 and 2b in Figure S2), the small initial founder population of Europe slowly grows up until ∼25 ka and survives with smaller size in LGM climatic refugia (25–19.5 ka) [25] before re-expanding as the ice sheets retract (Figure 1B). Although this model supports population continuity from pre- to post-LGM, the genetic bottleneck is consistent with the apparent loss of hg M in the post-LGM. The subsequent Late Glacial period is characterized by drastic climatic fluctuations, beginning with an abrupt warming during the Bølling-Allerød interstadial and followed by a similarly drastic period of cooling during the Younger Dryas [24]. Globally, the early warming phases of the Late Glacial are strongly associated with substantial demographic changes, including extinctions of several megafaunal species [34] and the first expansion of modern humans into the Americas [35]. In European hunter-gatherers, our model best explains this period of upheaval as a replacement of the post-LGM maternal population by one from another source. Although the exact origin for this later population is unknown, the inferred demographic history (Figure 3 and 2b in Figure S2) suggests that it descended from another, separate LGM refugium. On the basis of mtDNA alone, we cannot rule out some degree of genomic continuity throughout the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherer populations, and thus into present-day Europeans [14]. For this reason, we interpret our model as capturing the maternal signal of a major population shift, rather than a complete replacement. Ancient nuclear DNA data and additional geographically and temporally distributed specimens may provide a more comprehensive picture, possibly identifying the source and ancestry of these later incoming hunter-gatherers.
In conclusion, the large dataset presented here allowed us to provide a late upper bound on the major dispersal of all non-Africans and to uncover unexpected population dynamics of European hunter-gatherers. The Late Glacial event that we identify here is the oldest in an accumulating list of major European population turnovers revealed by ancient mtDNA [20].
Author Contributions
D.G.D., H.R., C.C., F.V., C.T., M.F., M.M., M.B., M.L., E.G., G.C. I.C., C.B., D.F., M.G., J.v.d.P., R.C., B.G., A.R., K.W., H.B., D.G., J.S., D.C., P.S., K.H., and N.J.C. provided archeological material and related information. C.P., A.M., A.F., and C.W. performed laboratory work. C.P., G.R., W.H., A.P., and J.K. analyzed genetic data. C.P., W.H., A.P., and J.K. wrote the manuscript with input from all co-authors.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful for comments from Stephan Schiffels, Hugo Reyes-Centeno, David Reich, Maria Spyrou, Henrike Heyne, Heidi Colleran, and members of the Department of Archaeogenetics of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, as well as the three anonymous reviewers. We thank Pontus Skoglund, Qiaomei Fu, Viviane Slon, and Eppie Ruth-Jones for access to unpublished data, Martyna Molak, Alexander Peltzer, Marek Dynowski, and Judith Beier for technical support, and Annette Günzel for graphical support. We further thank the Soprintendenza Archeologia della Puglia, which authorized and supported the excavations at Grotta Paglicci, and Professor A. Palma di Cesnola for fieldwork and studies over the years. Part of this work was performed on the computational resource bwGRiD Cluster Tübingen funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg and the Universities of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, within the framework program bwHPC. J.K. and C.P. were supported by the Baden Württemberg Foundation, J.K. and A.M. by the DFG grant KR 4015/1-1, and K.H. by the European Research Council (ERC StG 283503). The Goyet project led by H.R. was funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (grant no. 7837), the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences of CSUN, and the RBINS.
Accession Numbers
The accession numbers for the 35 mtDNA genome sequences reported in this paper are GenBank: KU534947–KU534981.
DNA evidence uncovers major upheaval in Europe near end of last Ice Age
DNA evidence uncovers major upheaval in Europe near end of last Ice Age
A photograph of les Closeaux at Rueil-Malmaison, Paris Basin, France. Credit: L. Lang
DNA evidence lifted from the ancient bones and teeth of people who lived in Europe from the Late Pleistocene to the early Holocene—spanning almost 30,000 years of European prehistory—has offered some surprises, according to researchers who report their findings in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on Feb. 4, 2016. Perhaps most notably, the evidence shows a major shift in the population around 14,500 years ago, during a period of severe climatic instability.
"We uncovered a completely unknown chapter of human history: a major population turnover in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age," says leading author Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany.
The researchers pieced this missing history together by reconstructing the mitochondrial genomes of 35 hunter-gatherer individuals who lived in Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, and Romania from 35,000 to 7,000 years ago. Mitochondria are organelles within cells that carry their own DNA and can be used to infer patterns of maternal ancestry.
"There has been a real lack of genetic data from this time period, so consequently we knew very little about the population structure or dynamics of the first modern humans in Europe," Krause says.
The new data show that the mitochondrial DNA of three individuals who lived in present-day Belgium and France before the coldest period in the last Ice Age—the Last Glacial Maximum—belonged to haplogroup M. This is remarkable because the M haplogroup is effectively absent in modern Europeans but is extremely common in modern Asian, Australasian, and Native American populations.
Dolnte Vestonice burial 16, South Moravia, Czech Republic Credit: Martin Frouz
The absence of the M haplogroup and its presence in other parts of the world had previously led to the argument that non-African people dispersed on multiple occasions to spread across Eurasia and Australasia. The researchers say the discovery of this maternal lineage in Europe in the ancient past now suggests instead that all non-Africans dispersed rapidly from a single population, at a time they place around 50,000 years ago. Then, at some later stage, the M haplogroup was apparently lost from Europe.
"When the Last Glacial Maximum began around 25,000 years ago, hunter-gatherer populations retreated south to a number of putative refugia, and the consequent genetic bottleneck probably resulted in the loss of this haplogroup," explains first author of the study Cosimo Posth of Germany's University of Tübingen.
The researchers say their biggest surprise, however, was evidence of a major turnover of the population in Europe around 14,500 years ago, as the climate began to warm. "Our model suggests that during this period of climatic upheaval, the descendants of the hunter-gatherers who survived through the Last Glacial Maximum were largely replaced by a populationfrom another source," says Adam Powell, another senior author at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
The researchers say the next step is to construct a more comprehensive picture of the past by analyzing the complete genomes of these ancient individuals along with additional specimens representing more times and places.
More information:Current Biology, Posth et al.: "Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe" dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.037
The digital eye often sees the things we miss, so its no surprise to see that he didn't notice it until he got home. This happens a lot and since its so easy to enlarge a digital photo and keep the detail, these UFOs are getting caught more often. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Inexplicata Newsstates: Argentina: UFOs (or BLURFOs) Over Barreal? A man took photographs along the Route 149 near San Martín street without seeing a single thing. He was startled, however, upon viewing the images. SAN JUAN - Hector Eduardo Sawiak is a resident of San Juan and a fan of extraterrestrial phenomena, as well as a member of ICOU (Investigadores de Campo Unidos - United Field Researchers), a federal network that extends throughout the country. A few days ago, while visiting Barreal, he stopped along Route 149 near San Martín street to take a photo of the landscape. He noticed nothing unusual at first. But upon downloading photos to his computer, he found something striking. "Normally, they move at speeds imperceptible to the human eye," he told DIARIO DE CUYO, regarding the UFO phenomenon. "I take my humble camera everywhere I go, sometimes in an effort to photograph something, at others just to shoot the landscape," he added. [Translation (c) 2016 S. Corrales IHU with thanks to Guillermo Giménez, Planeta UFO, and Diario de Cuyo)
Apollo astronaut and the sixth man to walk on the moon, Dr. Edgar Mitchell has died at the age of 85.
In 1971, Mitchell piloted the Apollo 14 mission which landed on the moon, earning him a myriad of awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a place in the Science Hall of Fame.
Mitchell differed from most of his fellow astronauts due to his strong advocacy for the reality of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
Although he did not see a UFO during his space travels, Mitchell believed the evidence for the phenomenon was overwhelming.
He was also an ardent researcher of consciousness and the nature of psychic phenomena, founding the exceptional Institute for Noetic Sciences in 1973.
Mitchell's contributions towards the understanding and acceptance of paranormal phenomena cannot be understated and all students of the unexplained owe him a tremendous debt of gratitude.
Edgar Mitchell, die als zesde man ooit op de maan wandelde, is gestorven. Dat maakte het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap Nasa bekend. Mitchell werd 85.
Mitchell stierf donderdag al, in West Palm Beach in Florida. Dat was net één dag voor de 45ste verjaardag van de Apollo 14-missie, die hem naar de maan bracht. De astronauten van die missie zetten er een recordverblijf neer.
Mitchell en het andere bemanningslid Alan Shepard waren het derde team dat door de Nasa naar de maan was gestuurd. Ze kwamen er aan op 5 februari 1971. Een eerdere lancering met de Apollo 13 was afgebroken na technische problemen.
De leden van Apollo 14 verbleven maar liefst 33 uur op het hemellichaam, goed voor twee maanwandelingen. Ze kwamen ook terug met 43 kilo aan gesteente.
De tv-beelden van deze maanmissie waren de eerste in kleur. Er is te zien hoe Shepard een partijtje golf speelt op de maan.
Na zijn vertrek bij de Nasa, richtte Mitchell een instituut op dat zich bezighield met het paranormale en het onverklaarbare. Hij geloofde openlijk in buitenaards leven en in gebedsgenezing. In 2011 spande de Amerikaanse overheid een proces aan tegen de man omdat hij geprobeerd had een camera te verkopen die is gebruikt bij zijn ruimtemissie.
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UFO's boven Moskou, Rusland zijn echt ( VIDEO )
UFO's boven Moskou, Rusland zijn echt ( VIDEO )
Verbazingwekkende opnames van UFO’s boven Moskou zijn door een expert als echt beoordeeld.
Het zal je gebeuren dat je ’s avonds even een stukje gaat lopen in de Russische hoofdstad en je ziet een aantal vreemde objecten boven je hoofd.
De beelden zijn ondertussen heel Rusland door gegaan en de maker van de video die bekend staat onder de naam Timur, vertelt het volgende:
“Er waren vier lichtbollen. Links een rode, twee witte in het midden en rechts een minder felle”.
“Soms verdween het object rechts en kwam dan weer terug. Allemaal samen maakten ze een geometrische vorm van een ruit.
De Russische UFO expert Vadim Chernobrov heeft de beelden bestudeerd en hij denkt dat de opname echt is. Verder zegt hij, “Deze lichten kunnen niet worden verklaard als iets atmosferisch of kosmisch”.
“Ook kun je dit niet een soort mirage noemen omdat we hier te maken hebben met een exacte geometrische vorm die door de objecten werd gevormd”.
“Sommige mensen komen uiteraard weer met de bekende Thaise ballonnen, maar dat is onzin vanwege de bewegingen en de snelheid van de objecten”.
Er zijn meerdere video’s beschikbaar, maar de meest uitgebreide die wij hebben kunnen vinden is die van Timur zelf en duurt ongeveer zeven minuten.
Alleen lijkt het in die zeven minuten durende video alsof die objecten stilhangen in een bepaalde formatie. Aangezien er in de media wordt gesproken over snel bewegende objecten zal dat misschien een andere video zijn die wij dan niet hebben.
Maar goed, evengoed fascinerend als je ’s avonds even een rondje over straat loopt en je ziet een aantal vreemde objecten in de lucht hangen.
Gezien de manier waarop de lichten strak in de ruitformatie blijven, is er ook nog de mogelijkheid dat alle vier lichten onderdeel vormen van één schip wat niet duidelijk zichtbaar is.
Het zou ons niets verbazen als er een afvaardiging van de Galactische Federatie even koffie kwam drinken bij Poetin om de instabiele situatie in onze wereld door te spreken.
The Moon’s tug on the Earth’s atmosphere has a slight but measurable effect on rainfall.
Credit: Jessie Eastland, CC by-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
When the moon is high overhead at night, its gravity actually can reduce the amount of rainfall very slightly, new research reveals.
In an article for Geophysical Research Letters, University of Washington scientists Tsubasa Kohyama and John M. Wallace report that the moon causes the Earth's atmosphere to bulge toward it. That causes the pressure, or weight of the atmosphere, on that side of the planet to go up, which in turn increases the temperature of air below.
Since warmer air can hold more moisture, the same parcels of air are now farther from their maximum moisture capacity, resulting in a slight dip in rainfall.
The researchers studied 15 years of data collected by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite from 1998 to 2012. It proved that the rain is reduced by an amount that is measurable, though imperceptible to humans — a change of about 1 percent in the total rainfall variation.
"As far as I know, this is the first study to convincingly connect the tidal force of the moon with rainfall," said Tsubasa Kohyama, a doctoral student in atmospheric sciences.
While the effect isn't going to affect agriculture or alter weather forecasts, the knowledge is potentially beneficial to climate researchers, who can use it to test the physics behind their climate models.
The effect of the moon's position on air pressure on Earth was first detected back in 1847, and researchers showed in 1932 that the moon could affect air temperature as well. A 2014 study by the same University of Washington researchers confirmed that air pressure on Earth varies with the position of the moon.
Wallace plans to conduct future studies to see whether certain types of rain storms, such as heavy downpours, are more susceptible to the moon's position, and whether the moon has any effect on the frequency of storms.
Universe's 'Dark Ages' May Come to Light with Moon Orbiter
Universe's 'Dark Ages' May Come to Light with Moon Orbiter
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
The Dark Ages Radio Explorer would orbit the moon, taking readings with a radio telescope while it was shielded from Earth in order to probe the universe's early "dark ages."
Credit: University of Colorado
A proposed spacecraft would orbit the moon, sheltering in its shadow to gaze uninterrupted into the early days of the universe.
The Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) mission would dodge Earth's noisy, disruptive environment to peer back into the universe's dark ages and cosmic dawn — the mysterious epoch just as the first stars and galaxies began to shine — with a little help from the moon.
"The moon, in this case, is just a big blocking disk," said Jack Burns, director of the Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research at University of Colorado, Boulder and DARE's principal investigator. [How the DARE Dark Ages Moon Orbiter Will Work (Infographic)]
"We've argued that this is a unique way, and may turn out to be effectively the only way, of probing these first stars and galaxies that occurred in our universe — that led to galaxies like the Milky Way, stars like our sun, several generations later," he told Space.com.
Research suggests the universe formed in the Big Bang about 13.8 billion years ago, and the earliest light astronomers can detect, called the cosmic microwave background (CMB), dates from about 400,000 years later.
But soon after that, until about 1 billion years after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with a haze of neutral hydrogen — atoms with one proton and one electron each. That haze muffled the signals of the first stars' formation so they are not detectable today.
Burns and his collaborators plan to measure the neutral hydrogen itself, which surrounded and was heated by the very first stars and galaxies, to learn about that long-ago epoch.
The signal neutral hydrogen gives off is easy to detect when it's relatively close by; researchers have measured its 21-centimeter-long wavelength (about 8 inches) since the 1950s to learn about the diffuse gas that lies between stars. But when the signal is coming from the universe's far reaches, things get more complicated: the farther away the source is, the more stretched out the signal gets, because the source is moving away from Earth faster and faster. That "redshift" effect means that, because the universe is expanding, light will always appear redder when it comes from farther away (which also means earlier in time).
With the time periods DARE is dealing with, and the distance the light has to travel, those easily measured 21 cm waves can get very stretched out — the researchers plan to look for wavelengths from 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) to 24.6 feet (7.5 m) long, Burns said. Plus, he added, they shine incredibly faintly.
This raises two main problems. First, the charged layer of Earth's atmosphere, the ionosphere, "wreaks havoc" with the radio waves that come through, Burns said, absorbing and refracting them until they're too difficult to interpret. And many of the wavelengths he's interested in run up against a major Earth emission — FM radio, which uses the same wavelengths of light and overwhelms the faint signal. [The Universe: Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps]
"We've concluded that these observations are best done from a very quiet place that has no ionosphere," Burns said. "And in the local part of our solar system nearest the Earth, that would correspond to the far side of the moon."
DARE would take observations during the portion of its 2-hour orbit when the moon shields it from Earth's radio waves, while it's on the moon's far side. When shielded from the sun as well, the spacecraft could collect higher-quality data; the best possible time is during the full moon, DARE materials said.
Blasting off
Burns hopes to submit a proposal to NASA's Explorer program in December — if selected to do a concept study and chosen for flight after that, the mission could launch somewhere around 2021 or 2022, he said.
The DARE team has partnered with Ball Aerospace, which is also based in Boulder, to develop plans to repurpose one of the company's smaller spacecraft to deliver the probe to lunar orbit.
"One of the main differences between this mission and most other satellite missions is the lunar orbit," Lisa Hardaway, the lead for Ball Aerospace on the DARE spacecraft, told Space.com in an email. "We used a motor that acts as a third stage, similar to when Apollo was launched. There have been a few missions to the moon that have used similar techniques, but most of our launches are for Earth orbit, so this is anything but routine." A separate mission partner will be in charge of the rocket and booster, she added.
Once in place around the moon, isolated from Earth's noise, measuring the faint signals will still be a challenge, Burns said. For instance, radiation from the spacecraft itself can distort the sensitive measurements if it's not properly shielded. The mission will also need to rule out the much brighter "foreground" radiation in the Milky Way itself.
"The telescope and spacecraft have to work together to collect the needed data, yet be isolated from each other so that spacecraft signals do not interfere with instrument signals," Hardaway said. "To that end, instrument electronics are buried within the spacecraft except for those highly sensitive electronics that need to be directly with the antenna."
Undiscovered worlds
Other projects are in progress, on the ground, to look at slightly later periods in the universe's history with the same neutral-hydrogen signal. For instance, the proposed Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, HERA, would look at the "reionization period," when ultraviolet light from newly forming stars destroyed the neutral hydrogen and eventually rendered the universe visible at high wavelengths again. Projects like HERA require similarly sensitive antennas to pick out the signals they're searching for.
"The biggest challenge is not unique to DARE," said HERA project leader Aaron Parsons, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley. "There's a lot of other stuff in the sky that's bright, that is emitting light at these frequencies. It's maybe 100,000 times brighter than the signal that we'd like to see in the early universe." [Amazing Photos from Giant Radio Telescope ALMA]
DARE makes some aspects of detecting faint signals easier by getting away from interference, and certain signals can only be detected from space, Parsons told Space.com, but designing precise-enough antennas will still be difficult.
In fact, Parsons said, strides made in ground-based radio telescopes could make missions like DARE more plausible in the long run.
"Once you've shown the science capabilities of [detecting the signal], then the stage will be really set for something like DARE, where you bring this out into space," he said.
For both DARE and ground-based radio telescope projects, neutral hydrogen is the key to seeing what the universe was like long ago — giving a perspective that no earlier astronomy has been able to give, the researchers said.
"It's only been in the last, let's say 30 years that we've been able to answer quantitative questions about cosmology; where our universe came from, what it was like long ago, how did we get to where we are, what's the ultimate fate of the universe," Parsons said, adding that this knowledge has all come from measuring a tiny snippet of the universe's early history, when the cosmic background radiation was emitted. "One little slice, and we've learned all this incredible stuff about cosmology."
Projects such as DARE and HERA would extend our sight into the vital moments after the universe went dark, and as it transitioned to being light again, Parsons said.
"Rather than just having this thin shell that we're learning from, we can be learning from the whole volume of the universe," he said. "And that's really incredible."
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Ruimtevaartdeskundige Coen Vermeeren voert een eenmansstrijd tegen het ongelovige wetenschappelijke establishment
De Nederlandse lucht- en ruimtevaartdeskundige Coen Vermeeren (53) wil dat de wetenschap ufo's ernstig neemt. Hij zet daarmee zijn eigen reputatie op het spel. Maar zijn integriteit is hem meer waard. "Er is geen belangrijker onderzoeksterrein dan buitenaards leven."
Mijn geconditioneerde brein had een aan lager wal geraakte professor verwacht. Een schichtig om zich heen kijkende plomperd met een versleten Star Wars-T-shirt en een kapsel dat dringend opnieuw moet voorgesteld worden aan een fles shampoo, wil het ooit nog door vrouwenhanden aangeraakt worden. Een op Red Bull en Aïki-noedels overlevende ufo-gek die op gedempte toon praat en zich intellectueel superieur waant omdat hij in alfabetische volgorde vijftig planetoïden kan opsommen.
Grand Canyon Underground Citadel - Evidence of Giants and Underground Cities in America.
Grand Canyon Underground Citadel - Evidence of Giants and Underground Cities in America.
The most famous report - about giants and underground cities - appeared in the April 5, 1909 edition of The Arizona Gazette, entitled “Explorations in Grand Canyon.” Explorer G.E. Kinkaid discovered a huge underground “citadel” while rafting on the Colorado River.
David Hatcher Childress, hailed as the real life Indiana Jones is an explorer and seeker of ancient civilizations, structures and knowledge. This piece is full of amazing and enlightening information the astonishing 1909 Phoenix *(USA) newspaper report about Egyptian chambers and artefacts in The Grand CanyonNOW!!! If that doesnt intrigue you then Im not sure what will!
Exploring a tunnel that stretched “nearly a mile underground,” Kinkaid found this citadel, which was filled with tablets carved with some type of hieroglyphics, and home to a stone statue he described as resembling Buddha.
Copper weapons lined the walls, but the most intriguing aspect of this ancient dwelling/worship place/tomb, were the mummies, all wrapped in a dark fabric.
The mummies were supposedly more than nine-feet-tall. To feed the fire of conspiracy, and to keep anyone from finding the giants of the citadel themselves, the United States government allegedly closed that area of the canyon from public view.
But this well-known story of American giants isn’t alone .
The New York Times reported a nine-foot-tall skeleton of a man discovered in a mound near Maple Creek, Wisconsin, in December 1897. The Times also carried the story “Strange Skeletons Found”near Lake Delevan, Wisconsin, in its May 4, 1912 issue. The skulls of giant skeletons excavated from a mound had “a minute resemblance to the head of the monkey.
” But an April 9, 1885 story in The New York Times entitled: “Missouri’s buried city: A strange discovery in a coalmine near Moberly,” revealed a find that predated the supposed citadel in the Grand Canyon by 24 years. Moberly, the largest city in Randolph County, Missouri, had a population of 6,108 in the 1880s.
Coal miners, sinking a shaft 360 feet deep, broke into a cavern revealing “a wonderful buried city,”the article claimed. Lava arches stretched across the roof of the cavern, looming over the streets of an ancient city “which are regularly laid out and enclosed by walls of stone, which is cut and dressed in a fairly good, although rude style of masonry.
” Workers, along with Moberly city recorder David Coates and Moberly city marshal George Keating, inspected the site and found a 30-by-100-feet hall in the cavern filled with stone benches and hand tools. “Further search disclosed statues and images made of a composition closely resembling bronze, lacking luster,” the article read.
Explorers discovered a stone fountain in a wide court, still pouring “perfectly pure water” into its basin. But it was what lay beside the fountain that interested the people exploring the site.
“Lying beside the foundation (of the fountain) were portions of the skeleton of a human being,” according to the article. “The bones of the leg measured, the femur four and one-half feet, the tibia four feet and three inches, showing that when alive the figure was three times the size of an ordinary man, and possessed of a wonderful muscular power and quickness.
” Its skull, the story reported, was shattered; bronze tools, granite hammers, metallic saws and flint knives were scattered all around. “They are not so highly polished, nor so accurately made as those now finished by our best mechanics, but they show skill and an evidence of an advanced civilization that are very wonderful,” according to the article.
Explorers spent twelve hours in the buried city and resurfaced only after the oil in their lamps burned low. “No end to the wonders of the discovery was reached,” the article stated. “A further extended search will be made in a day or two.”
No record of the extended search could be found
Dr. Tom Spencer, a professor in the department of History, Humanities, Philosophy and Political Science at Northwest Missouri State University, said that’s because after printing the story, the newspapers tried to forget it. “A lot of the time I think these stories were written based entirely off hearsay and little or no direct on-site reporting,” he said. “As the story grew, the details got more and more outrageous.”
He equates it to a childhood game where children sit in a circle and one child whispers a story into another’s ear and by the time the story completes the circle, it was completely different. “If you recall, sometimes the ‘finished story’ bore little resemblance to the original story,” he said.“My guess is one element of this story is factual – like the strange shaft formation or a long femur was found – and it became more and more embellished as it went around the journalistic circle at the time.”
So what happened to the fabulous buried city under Moberly, Mo.? “There were stories like this periodically at the time and they usually disappear quietly because someone goes to investigate and there’s nothing to it,” Spencer said. “In order to avoid the embarrassment the newspapers just don’t say anything else about it.”
However, Moberly resident John W. wants to find out for certain. “Myself and several friends have researched the article archived at The New York Times,” John said. “The article discusses coal miners finding a Crystal City with several advanced features as well as the bones of what can only be called a giant.”
John and his group plan to investigate the claim of an underground city. “We have found the mine. Our hopes are to take a field trip and find the underground city if we can access the mine,” he said. “We have driven by and the site exists. You can still see remnants of the old access road through the field. It would appear this mine has not been in use since the time period of the news article.”
Moberly calls itself “The Magic City.” Hopefully John and his crew can discover just how magic it is.
Alien Megastructures exist after all? Confused scientists cannot explain strange dimming at distant Star
Alien Megastructures exist after all? Confused scientists cannot explain strange dimming at distant Star
Is it possible that Alien Megastructures exist after all? After months of observations and studies, the only thing we know about Star KIC 8462852 is that it has gotten even stranger.
The whole fuss created last October when astronomers noticed strange flickering at a distant star might not be a natural phenomenon after all. Much has been said in the last couple of months about The Star (Nicknamed „Tebby’s Star“, after its discoverer, Tabetha Boyajian) and the mysterious dimming around it. So far, no one has been able to understand or explain what’s causing the star to ‘lose’ around 20% of its light.
Despite the fact that a Jupiter-sized planet can cause darkening of the star, it only corresponds to 1%, while the amount observed at KIC 8462852 corresponds to 22%, meaning that something HUGE was causing the light coming from the star to be clocked out of sight.
The Star made headlines around the world when Jason Wright, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University, suggested that it could be surrounded by some type of alien megastructure. Quickly dismissed, Wrights theory was rejected when astronomers proposed that a more logical –yet less exciting—reason behind the stars dimming could, in fact, be a swarm of comets.
However, after tedious studies and calculations, scientists aren’t sure what to think as its nearly impossible for comets to cause the strange dimming around Tabby’s star.
Bradly Shaefer, an astronomer at the Louisiana State University has studied the history of the star looking at old photographic plates, hoping that these could shed more ‘light’ onto the mysterious dimming around the star. To his surprise, and that of people around the world, not only does the stars random dimming date back more than a century, it has been gradually dimming over that period, another mystery that makes it even harder to explain. Schaefer calculated that it would require 648,000 comets, each 200 kilometers wide, to have passed by the star – something that according to many is completely implausible.
But if the strange dimming isn’t caused by natural phenomenon such as a swarm of comets, then what is causing it?
According to many people, these indications suggest that it’s very likely that we have observed Alien technology that goes far beyond our explanation.
Unlike many other astronomers, Boyajian does not reject the idea of Alien megastructures causing the dimming of the star. Boyajian thinks the theory suggesting alien megastructures deserves a follow-up.
According to Phil Plait, slate blogger and astronomer the dimming registered is actually something that you would expect to see if aliens were building a „Dyson Sphere“, or something similar to it. Plait calculated how big the megastructure would actually be: „Aliens would need to build a minimum of 750 billion square kilometers (290 billion square miles) of solar panels to account for the 20 percent drop in their star’s brightness. “That’s 1,500 times the area of the entire Earth.“
Who knows maybe after all… its ALIENS
Even though SETI turned their telescopes towards the star, they have come up empty-handed in their search. This, however, doesn’t mean aliens aren’t there, it might just be that we don’t have the technology to see or hear them in outer space.
Considering the „Comet theory“, Massimo Marengo, an associate professor of astronomy at Iowa State University who co-authored a study suggesting the likely cause of the Star’s dimming was caused by comets told Space.com “It would be more mass than what we have in the whole Kuiper Belt” [the band of icy bodies in the vast region beyond Neptune].“
“You can get out of that if you assume it’s the same family of comets passing in front of the star over and over, but with the century-long dimming trend, too, that family of comets has to get bigger every time it passes the star. “It’s a difficult thing to do,” added Marengo.
Alien megastructure or not, KIC 8462852 has certainly given us a lot to talk about in recent months. While we don’t have to be looking at alien megastructures, if we do, we probably wouldn’t even recognize them, so until we can confirm or deny one theory, all options are available for debate and must be accepted equally.
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The Greatest Smithsonian cover up: Dozens of Giant skeletons discovered around the world
The Greatest Smithsonian cover up: Dozens of Giant skeletons discovered around the world
It seems that the idea that Giants walked on Earth is a possibility being considered by more people in the last couple of years. Due to the number of mysterious findings around the world, a large number of researchers is considering the possibility that these ‘mythological’ beings actually existed on Earth in the distant past.
Stories and tales about gigantic beings inhabiting Earth occur in almost all ancient cultures and civilizations. We can find stories in many mythologies of the ancient world: Greek, Norse, Germanic, Indian, Indo-European, and also in the new world as in the traditions of the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas; but most importantly in almost all mayor sacred books of antiquity: the Lebhar Gabhale, the Hindu Ramayana and even in the Bible.
One of those ‘crucial’ pieces of evidence is a discovery made in Wisconsin, a discovery that was omitted by researchers who remained silent and decided not to speak about the lost race of giants found in burial mounds near Lake Delavan in Wisconsin. The mysterious discovery, which was first reported in the 4 May 1912 issue of the New York Times states that at least 18 anomalous skeletons had been found in Wisconsin exhibiting extremely weird features unlike any known species to date. The excavation side was overseen by the Beloit College and included over 200 mounds. (source)
These anomalous skeletons were unlike anything seen before, totally differing from any known human species with alleged heights that ranged between 8 to 10 feet.
“…presumably those of men, are much larger than the heads of any race which inhabit America to-day.”
Vine Deloria, a Native American author and professor of law said:
“Modern day archaeology and anthropology have nearly sealed the door on our imaginations, broadly interpreting the North American past as devoid of anything unusual in the way of great cultures characterized by a people of unusual demeanor.
“The great interloper of ancient burial grounds, the nineteenth century Smithsonian Institution, created a one-way portal, through which uncounted bones have been spirited.
“This door and the contents of its vault are virtually sealed off to anyone, but government officials. Among these bones may lay answers not even sought by these officials concerning the deep past.”
The long lost “Fallen Angels” the Nephilim?
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown.” Genisis 6:4
The Smithsonian Institute has been accused by many people of deliberately hiding discoveries that could potentially alter the views society has on history and life on Earth.
Discoveries of beings that are unlike any know human species have been made around the world. In 2002, a report by National Geographic state that over a dozen of giant skeletal remains were found in Greece, ranging in height between 10 and 12 feet.
On 10 August 1891, the New York Times reported that scientists from the Smithsonian Institution had discovered several large “pyramidal monuments” on Lake Mills, near Madison, Wisconsin.
“Madison was in ancient days the center of a teeming population numbering not less than 200,000,” the Times said.
“The celebrated mounds of Ohio and Indiana can bear no comparison, either in size, design or the skill displayed in their construction with these gigantic and mysterious monuments of earth — erected we know not by whom, and for what purpose we can only conjecture,” said the Times.
The mysterious stories continue throughout the years, and in 1897, the Times wrote another story about large burial mounds discovered in Maple Creek, Wisconsin.
“In it was found the skeleton of a man of gigantic size. The bones measured from head to foot over nine feet and were in a fair state of preservation. The skull was as large as a half bushel measure. Some finely tempered rods of copper and other relics were lying near the bones.”
In 1870 the Wisconsin Decatur Republican wrote an article about two well-preserved giant skeletons of an unknown race discovered near Potosi.
The list of the anomalous discoveries goes on and on… and giant skeletal remains have been found in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and New York, and other places around the world. Strangely, these discoveries have never been given proper attention by the media, and most researchers consider them as being unimportant to history.
We cannot forget to mention the 200 million year old Giant Footprint found in Africa that hasn’t been explained by researchers who have tried very hard to ignore it since it could potentially rewrite history as we know it.
Yesterday, a strange sky phenomenon took place in the region of Doukkala in Morocco.
On February 4, 2016, a group of citizens witnessed the moment that weird clouds fall to the ground. The rare phenomenon occurred days after strange sounds were heard in other regions of Morocco.
But, clouds cannot plunge off the sky and settle on the ground, the clouds shown in the video falling in Doukkalaq is artificial foam according to Meteorologists..
Well, if it’s artificial foam where it comes from and are these ‘clouds’ another proof of geoengineering and weather manipulation?
I am 30 years old and I am from Norway. On Saturday October 10, 2015 I had an experience that I cannot explain. I was a passenger in a car and on my way home from a course in a location called Asker. I suddenly became aware of a very bright cigar formed object on the sky. Right behind the object a smaller object of the same shape occurred. I was looking at these two objects and I was trying to understand what it was. It was so big, but with no wings and suddenly it disappeared. I was looking around in the sky trying to find it, but the sky was empty. Five Seconds later it suddenly appeared again in the sky, but this time in a new shape and much, much closer to the car I was sitting in. It was V-shaped and upside down if you understand. It was very white and bright but no lights. It was V shaped upside Down and squared like boxes. So I had a 3D sight of it. It was not just a flat thing on the sky, it had mass. (This is in the middle of the day). Behind the biog V it was a smaller V hanging. I was looking at this thing and I was trying to make sense out of it, but I could not understand what it was.
My friend who was driving the car did not see it because she was looking at the road. I was planning to tell her to turn her head around to look at it, but I could not make myself tell her to look. I felt paralyzed by the sight and I was to busy in my head trying to find out what this thing was. And then suddenly it disappeared! The sky was empty again. The big, huge thing was just gone. When I came home I started to look up pictures on Google and I found this web page with the Woman and her 21 year old son telling her story that is similar to mine. The shape is the same I guess, but the object I saw was an upside down V. And I did see a cigar shaped object first and then it suddenly became V shaped after disappearing and reapparing again. I am just looking for answers. Do you have more information about others seeing stuff like this V shaped thing that I did see this weekend? I have never seen anything like this. The thing was just hanging in the sky. I am just confused. I will be happy if you got more stories like this.
UFO Fleet Over Tennessee Town Feb 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Tennessee Town Feb 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 3, 2016 Location of sighting: Smyrna, Tennessee, USA Source: MUFON #74278 Here you can see the UFOs pass behind a building as the car moves down the road. There are about six glowing lights, but only 4 are visible most the time. This looks like many small ships in formation, but I believe it to be one single large ship. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: My daughters and I were driving East on I-24 in Tennessee. The lights seemed to be hovering over the trees to the southeast of my location. We were driving, so it was hard to tell. I thought they were possibly helicopters from a nearby Air National Guard base. They seemed to remain stationary as we drove right under them. There were four bright points of white lights shaped in a crescent with a twinkling reddish/white in the center of the four brighter points of light. I have lived in this area most of my life and have never witnessed anything like this before. We continued on to our destination writing it off as what we thought it had to be, helicopters. But, curiosity got the best of me....
Oregon Witness Photographed Sphere UFO Over A Tree Line
Oregon Witness Photographed Sphere UFO Over A Tree Line
A witness from Oregon claimed to have spotted and photographed a black sphere UFO in Eugene just over the tree line in an adjacent area. He first noticed a dark object while looking out a kitchen window facing east. The strange aerial thing was above the tree line of a neighbor’s backyard at 9:24 in the morning on October 6, 2015.
The witness stated that he had enough time to get the camera and managed to take multiple in-focus images of a dark sphere or something round and black. He was standing in a doorway of a sliding glass when he pictured the thing before it moved behind a tree and lost sight of it.
The witness filed a case to Mutual UFO Network on October 7, 2015, and sent three images. His testimony can be found in Case 71227 of MUFON’s witness reporting database. Oregon MUFON Assistant State Director Keith Rowell is still in the process of investigating the case.
Eugene is Oregon’s second largest city. It’s the county seat of Lane County with 160,552 individuals. Investigator Rowell is expected to announce the result of his investigation soon.
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