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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THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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...
09-02-2016
Ondes gravitationnelles : encore une prédiction d'Einstein confirmée !
Ondes gravitationnelles : encore une prédiction d'Einstein confirmée !
Pour la première fois, les "vibrations de l'espace-temps" prédites par Einstein ont été détectées. Une découverte plus importante que celle du boson de Higgs.
Au départ, ce n'était qu'une folle rumeur. Un message posté le 11 janvier sur Twitterpar le cosmologiste Lawrence Krauss, de l'université d'Arizona State : « Mes dernières informations au sujet du Ligo ont été confirmées par des sources indépendantes. Restez branchés ! On a peut-être découvert des ondes gravitationnelles !! Excitant. » Retweeté plus de 1 900 fois, le tweet du cosmologiste a fait le tour de la planète science, s'attirant une volée de réactions sceptiques tant la nouvelle était à peine croyable. Mais, désormais, la découverte est quasi officielle : des physiciens sont parvenus à détecter des ondes gravitationnelles. « Si l'information est confirmée, c'est l'une des plus importantes découvertes scientifiques de notre temps. À mon avis, plus importante encore que celle du boson de Higgs ! explique au Point Catherine Bréchignac, secrétaire perpétuelle de l'Académie des sciences. La preuve que nous disposons maintenant d'un appareil capable de mieux comprendre l'infiniment grand. Nous n'allons plus nous contenter de regarder les étoiles, mais voir à l'intérieur d'elles, car ces ondes pénètrent la matière au seuil de laquelle la lumière s'arrête. »
L'histoire des ondes gravitationnelles commence il y a cent ans avec Albert Einsteinqui se met en tête de comprendre comment se propage le champ gravitationnel dans la toute nouvelle théorie de la gravitation qu'il vient de construire, la théorie de la relativité générale. Mais l'article que le physicien écrit en 1916 contient une importante erreur, et ce n'est qu'en 1918, dans un deuxième papier, qu'il en donne la bonne description. Les ondes gravitationnelles, « OG » de leur petit nom, forment l'un des éléments-clés de la théorie de la relativité générale : la propagation par ondes, à la vitesse de la lumière de la gravitation. La relativité générale prédit en effet que tout corps qui se déplace génère une déformation de la structure de l'espace-temps, autrement dit, modifie les distances et le temps, et cette déformation se propage par ondes successives dans le cosmos à la manière d'une vague à la surface de l'eau. Seuls des événements extrêmement violents génèrent des OG, des cataclysmes cosmiques, tels que la formation d'une étoile dans un trou noir, l'explosion d'une supernova ou encore la collision de deux étoiles à neutrons. Mais, pour autant, personne n'avait encore réussi à détecter ces déformations de l'espace-temps, qui se propagent dans l'Univers à 300 000 km/s, la vitesse de la lumière.
« Courage »
Cela fait trente ans pourtant que les scientifiques les traquent activement. D'un côté, Virgo, une antenne de détection construite à Pise sous l'égide du CNRS et de l'Institut national de physique nucléaire italien (INFN), qui mobilise six équipes françaises (APC, LAL, LAPP, LMA, LKB, OCA). De l'autre, Ligo de la National Science Foundation avec ses deux interféromètres situés aux États-Unis. En 2014, vu l'ampleur du défi, Virgo et Ligo ont signé un accord pour mettre en commun leurs données. En septembre 2015, ce sont les deux interféromètres américains qui ont enfin capté des signaux, éphémères – ils n'ont duré qu'une petite fraction de seconde –, provenant du mouvement orbital, puis de la fusion de deux trous noirs géants, chacun d'une masse équivalant à 30 soleils, situés à environ un milliard d'années-lumière de la Terre. C'est cette observation qui vient donc d'être confirmée après vérification des données.
Pendant longtemps, on a douté de l'existence de ces ondes. « La première preuve mathématique n'a été apportée qu'en 1952 par Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, spécialiste de la relativité. Puis, à la fin des années 50, un autre pionnier, Joseph Weber, a eu le courage de penser qu'il fallait construire des détecteurs assez sensibles pour détecter les OG », raconte Thibault Damour (1), professeur à l'Institut des hautes études scientifiques, qui a notamment fourni au réseau Ligo/Virgo une méthode inédite pour décrire le signal émis par la fusion de deux trous noirs et faciliter ainsi sa détection.
« Courage », le mot n'est pas trop fort si l'on interroge les chercheurs qui ont consacré tout ou partie de leur carrière à la quête des ondes gravitationnelles. « Dès le début de construction de Virgo, il y a eu plusieurs voix conservatrices qui se sont levées : c'est trop risqué, trop cher, mieux vaudrait investir sur d'autres domaines. Heureusement, le CNRS a tenu bon ; c'est cela, l'avantage principal des organismes nationaux de recherche, leur persévérance sur des cibles scientifiques de longue durée », se souvient Stavros Katsanevas, directeur adjoint scientifique de l'Institut de physique nucléaire et physique des particules (IN2P3) du CNRS et président de l'Observatoire européen des ondes gravitationnelles (EGO/ VIRGO) de 2002 à 2012. « Cela dit, la construction de Virgo a commencé trois ans plus tard que celle de Ligo. Les collègues de Virgo ont fait des efforts remarquables, et le retard s'est réduit à quelques mois seulement. Les deux collaborations travaillent main dans la main et des contributions cruciales dans l'analyse de ces événements ont été apportées par les équipes européennes, telles que le laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie de l'IN2P3/Paris-Diderot/CeA/Obs de Paris. »
Vertigineux
Depuis l'annonce de la détection, c'est comme si le monde de la physique avait subi une onde gravitationnelle, et ceux qui n'avaient pas brillé par leur enthousiasme jouent désormais des coudes pour être sur la photo. Il est vrai que l'exploit de Virgo/Ligo donne ni plus ni moins naissance à une nouvelle astronomie. Quatre cents ans après l'astronomie optique lancée par Galilée lorsqu'il a braqué sa lunette vers le ciel. « Les premiers radiotélescopes ont ensuite ouvert la voie à l'astronomie radio, les satellites ont lancé l'astronomie des rayons X, puis celle des rayons gamma, etc. Des astronomies toutes basées sur les ondes électromagnétiques jusqu'à ce que les premiers détecteurs de neutrinos cosmiques inaugurent l'astronomie neutronique. La détection des ondes gravitationnelles, d'un autre type de signal donc, nous donne de nouvelles lunettes pour voir des choses nouvelles dans l'Univers », précise Thibault Damour.
De fait, les perspectives sont vertigineuses : pouvoir sonder l'énergie noire, cette force étrange qui expliquerait l'expansion de notre Univers, mieux explorer le cosmos et, pourquoi pas, remonter dans le temps jusqu'à 14 milliards d'années. En effet, non seulement les physiciens ont capturé le signal émis par des ondes gravitationnelles, mais ils ont aussi observé, pour la première fois, la fusion de deux trous noirs. La preuve de l'existence de ces ogres dévoreurs de lumière, qui détiennent peut-être le secret de la naissance de notre Univers. Au début des années 2000, Jean-Pierre Luminet, astrophysicien à l'Observatoire de Paris-Meudon et directeur de recherche au CNRS, écrivait : « Les frontières de la science sont toujours un mélange bizarre de vérité nouvelle, d'hypothèse raisonnable et de conjecture extravagante. » La prouesse que viennent d'accomplir les physiciens américains, français et italiens ouvre une fenêtre sur l'Univers en apparence extravagant inventé par Einstein il y a un siècle.
(1) Le prochain cours de Thibault Damour à l'IHES, les 18 et 25 février, porte sur « Ondes gravitationnelles et systèmes binaires » :WWW.IHES.FR
Dutch police are collaborating with a raptor training company named Guard From Above in an attempt to train eagles to take down rogue drones.
Honestly, it’s a pretty genius idea to train birds of prey for such a thing versus having some idiot with a gun going “drone hunting.”
While testing is still ongoing to make it as safe as possible for the eagles, you can clearly see in the footage below how easily an eagle can take out a drone.
In the future, it’s possible we see some type of animal dream team specifically deployed to take out drones, which could include eagles, gorillas, geese, dogs, and kangaroos.
Under the terms of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, the Defense Intelligence Agency has declassified several hundred pages of documentation on UFOs. Of course, the file does not contain any kind of definitive smoking-gun. It does, however, provide the reader with more than a few intriguing reports on notable incidents. One such incident, described in the DIA’s files, occurred in the summer of 1979.
The DIA documentation notes that late on the afternoon of August 8, 1979, “…the Embassy here received information that a strange object had been found on a farm near Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Source stated that the object was about 70 centimeters in diameter and two meters in circumference with a hole in one side and a metal skin covering of approx one-half inch thickness. Later the object was described as ‘about three times the size of a basketball.'”
Additionally, we have the following information: “A second fireball fell from the sky early in the morning of the same day that the first one was found near Cotoca. This second one was found 200 kilometers north of the city of Santa Cruz on the farm of Juan Saavedra by the Campesino Gonzalo Menacho Viveras. The place is in the area of Buen Retiro near the Yapacane River. According to the information given by the Campesino, around 12:30 a.m. on Friday last week he heard a loud whistling sound and saw a fireball followed by an explosion. He said that the next evening a silent aircraft that had three lights was flying over the explosion area.”
The document continues: “After dawn on Friday morning the Campesino started looking around the area of the impact and found a sphere. As it was not heavy, he took it home where he kept it until his friend, Nataniel Mendez Hurtado, learned of the other sphere in Cotoca and passed on information concerning this second sphere. The mystery of finding these two spheres, exactly alike, is that according to the witnesses they were fireballs. That is to say that these spheres became real balls of fire when they entered the atmosphere because of the friction and after a high speed fall they hit the ground. However, in the area where they’ve been found, there were no signs of the impact and looks as though the spheres landed smoothly.”
The file also reveals that American personnel had secured “a roll of 35mm film for color prints and a roll of Kodachrome 40 movie film. The 35 mm film will be developed and printed here in La Paz. The movie film will be forwarded to DIA.” Back in the late 1980s – using the Freedom of Information Act – I tried to obtain copies of the film and the photos. But, unfortunately, with no luck. I wasn’t denied access to the material, I should stress. It could no longer be found by the time of my request.
It must be said that this particular case almost certainly has a prosaic explanation. Namely, that the spheres were probably debris from a rocket-launch, or from a satellite decaying in the Earth’s atmosphere. Here’s a perfect and near-identical example. On the other hand, that the spheres seemed to have landed in a fashion described as “smoothly,” rather than slamming into the ground after a violent descent through the Earth’s atmosphere, is thought-provoking. As is the fact that there was no noticeable impact point – at either site – which again reinforces the image of a smooth descent. And what are we to make of that “silent aircraft” which flew over the “explosion area” one night after the second event occurred?
As is so often the case in such affairs, we’re left with more questions than answers.
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SpaceX's Grasshopper: Reusable Rocket Prototype
SpaceX's Grasshopper: Reusable Rocket Prototype
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
On Oct. 7, 2013, SpaceX's Grasshopper rocket climbed 2,441 feet (744 meters) into the air before safely landing back on its launch pad in McGregor, Texas.
Credit: SpaceX
Grasshopper was a reusable vertical-takeoff-and-landing rocket prototype tested by the company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in preparation for more ambitious launches. After progressively higher hops and pinpoint landings in two years, SpaceX wrapped up the program in 2013 to move resources into the Falcon 9 rocket.
The first stage of several versions of the Falcon 9 rocket have splashed down successfully, and SpaceX is now aiming to land the rocket on an automated barge. Several barge-landing attempts have been made since 2015, but the rocket has not survived any of them yet. SpaceX, however, says that it is getting close to success and that the technology is possible to make the pinpoint landing happen.
Grasshopper was the first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9, which the company still uses today for the Dragon cargo spacecraft flights to the station. Test flights ran between 2012 and 2013 and were successful, according to SpaceX.
First announced in September 2011, Grasshopper was one piece of SpaceX's desire to make a fully reusable system that will fly cargo and people to and from space. Traditionally, rockets have been considered "throwaway" items, with few exceptions (such as the space shuttle's external solid rocket boosters.)
SpaceX's vision then included fly-back first and second stages on the rocket as well as a spacecraft that can land on land. The Dragon spacecraft currently lands on the water, similar to how the Apollo spacecraft used to do. The human-rated version of the spacecraft will also initially land on water, but later versions are expected to reach solid ground with the stabilizing help of Dragon's SuperDraco engines.
"We will see if this works," SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk said when announcing Grasshopper. "And if it does work, it'll be pretty huge."
SpaceX's reusable Grasshopper rocket prototype rises skyward from its McGregor, Texas launch pad during a June 14, 2013 test flight that reached 1,066 feet (325 meters) before descending back to Earth. This still was taken from a video recorded by a small unmanned hexacopter.
Credit: SpaceX
The six-foot flight
The first test flight of the rocket took place Sept. 21, 2012, when Grasshopper made a quick six-foot (1.8-meter) jump up and down at SpaceX's test facility in McGregor, Texas. With each subsequent flight, the company then tried to shoot a bit higher or do something different.
Over several test flights in 2013, Grasshopper demonstrated an ability to fight back against wind gusts, as well as to move sideways in the air to its target. It also flew several hundred feet high on a few occasions. The company filmed the rocket flights from the air using autonomous aircraft, providing high-definition views that it uploaded to the Web for sharing.
Among Grasshopper's notable flights was a jump in April 2013 that saw the 10-story vehicle fly 820 feet (250 m) high. In June 2013, Grasshopper leaped 1,066 feet (325 m) and made a near-perfect landing. A subsequent flight test in August included a 100-foot lateral or sideways maneuver before the rocket touched down safely on the ground.
The program capped off Oct. 7, 2013, when the rocket flew 2,441 feet (744 m) into the air, making a flawless takeoff and landing in a flight that lasted about 79 seconds. SpaceX then decided to retire the prototype in favor of using the personnel and money for other programs, notably the Falcon 9 rocket.
On April 18, 2014, SpaceX made a world-first controlled splashdown of the first stage of a Falcon 9, during a Dragon spacecraft resupply run to the International Space Station.
After several water landings, SpaceX tried to make a world-first attempt for a barge landing in January 2015 during a cargo flight to the International Space Station. The first landing made it on target, but the rocket landed hard enough to damage some of the support equipment on the ship, according to Musk.
Another attempt was called off in February 2015 when on landing day, the barge was facing 3-meter waves (almost 10 feet) and also had a malfunction in one of its four thrusters, making it tough to stabilize the ship. SpaceX instead elected for a water landing, which it pulled off successfully.
SpaceX also made hard landings on the ship in rocket flights in April 2015 and January 2016. The first malfunction was partly traced to a problem with the control system, while the second failed because one of the landing legs did not latch. SpaceX did, however, land the rocket's first stage safely on land (near its launch site at the Kennedy Space Center) in a December 2015 flight.
Musk's ultimate goal is to establish a colony on Mars by bringing the cost of spaceflight down as much as he can. Launch costs are considered one of the toughest things to overcome, since it takes a lot of fuel and velocity for a rocket to fight against Earth's gravity to bring items into space.
What Is a 'Morning Star,' and What Is an 'Evening Star'?
What Is a 'Morning Star,' and What Is an 'Evening Star'?
By Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist
Skywatcher Shawn Malone took this photo of two "evening stars," Venus and Jupiter, in Eagle Harbor, Michigan, on March 10, 2012. Whether a planet qualifies as a "morning star" or an "evening star" can vary throughout the year.
Credit: Shawn Malone
I received an interesting inquiry recently from a woman who wanted to know the meaning of the terms "morning stars" and "evening stars."
"I mean, they're not stars … they're planets, right?" she asked. "So why do we call them stars? And is a morning star only visible in the morning, like at the crack of dawn, or at other times as well? Hope you can clear this up for me because I'm totally confused!"
Originally, the terms "morning star" and "evening star" applied only to the brightest planet of all, Venus. Far more dazzling than any of the actual stars in the sky, Venus does not appear to twinkle, but instead glows with a steady, silvery light. The fact that Venus was a "wandering star" soon became obvious to ancient skywatchers, who noticed its motion relative to the background stars, going from the eastern sky in the morning to the western sky in the early evening. Nicolas Camille Flammarion, a noted French astronomer in the late 19th and early 20th century, referred to Venus as "The Shepherd's Star." I myself like to refer to Venus as the "night light of the sky." So, it's easier to understand the origin of the terms "evening star" and "morning star" if we only considered Venus.
Of course, Venus is not the only wandering "star" in the sky; there are four others that are also visible to the unaided eye (five, if you include Uranus, which is barely perceptible without any optical aid on dark, clear nights). The difference is that, with the possible exception of Jupiter and, on rare occasions, Mars, none of the others stands out in the same manner as Venus. Nonetheless, somewhere in the distant past, "morning star" and "evening star" became plural in order to account for the four other planets.
When an evening star is branded as a morning star
This upcoming week, there are officially no evening stars, only morning stars.
But the distinction between these terms is not very precise. As an example, let me call attention to the fact that rising in the east this week, between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., is the planet Jupiter. It will attain its highest point in the southern sky between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. local time, and will still be visible, sinking in the western sky at dawn. The giant planet is thus ideally situated for observations of its changing cloud bands and four big satellites for much of the night.
The fact that Jupiter is already above the horizon during "prime-time" evening hours should qualify it for evening-star status. By the same reasoning, it is a morning star as well!
The next planet due to come into view will be Mars, which rises soon after 12:30 a.m. local time and is crossing the southern meridian by sunrise. So, the Red Planet must be a morning star.
With Mercury and Venus, there is never such ambiguity, as they are never very far from the sun in the sky. In fact, in the pre-Christian era, both of these planets had dual identities — two names — as initially, it was not realized that they alternately appeared on one side of the sun and then on the other. Mercury was called Apollo when it shone as a morning star, and was called Mercury when it appeared in the evening sky. Venus was Phosphorus in the morning and Hesperus in the evening. We can thank Pythagoras around the 5th century B.C. for pointing out that Hesperus and Phosphorus were really one in the same.
Because they orbit the sun more closely than Earth does, Mercury and Venus are called "inferior" planets. Elongation refers to the angle between the sun and a planet, as seen from Earth. In general, when Mercury or Venus has a western elongation from the sun, it is a morning star; with an eastern elongation, it is an evening star.
Different planets may appear together in the morning or evening sky, depending on their location relative to Earth and the sun. Jim Gemmel of Warrenton, Virginia, took this picture of Venus and Jupiter on March 10, 2012.
Credit: Jim Gemmel
Transition at opposition
This rule can be extended to the planets that orbit the sun beyond our own orbit — the so-called "superior" planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. When a superior planet is in the same spot in the sky as the sun, it is at conjunction. While a superior planet is moving from conjunction with the sun to just a day prior to its opposition (when it is directly opposite the sun in the sky), it is a morning star. At opposition, it rises approximately when the sun sets and sets as the sun rises. From then on, it is branded as an evening star, rising or already in the sky as daytime ends.
So, going by this nomenclature, Jupiter will arrive at opposition and will become an evening star on March 8, Mars on May 22 and Saturn on June 3. Until then, they are all morning stars, even though, as we have already seen, Jupiter — and, eventually, Mars and Saturn — will be readily visible in the evening sky well before their opposition dates.
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmer's Almanac and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.
In India is een onderzoek begonnen naar de vraag of een buschauffeur door een meteoriet is omgekomen. De chauffeur werkte voor een technische school en stond op het schoolterrein op het gras vlak bij een cafetaria toen er een soort explosie leek te zijn. De man raakte daarbij zo ernstig gewond dat hij op weg naar het ziekenhuis overleed. Indien dit aan een meteoriet te wijten is, zou dat het eerste geval in 52 jaar zijn.
In de grond was een krater ontstaan en er werd een blauwe steen gevonden die de vorm van een diamant heeft. In hetzelfde incident raakten ook drie tuinmannen gewond.
Geen explosieven Ooggetuigen stelden dat ze zaterdag rond de middag een vliegend object zagen neerstorten op de school. De politie dacht aanvankelijk aan een terreuraanslag, maar een woordvoerder verklaarde aan The Indian Express dat er geen spoor van een explosief of granaat werd aangetroffen. Met behulp van een wetenschapper die in het district verbleef na een gelijkaardig incident twee weken geleden besloot de politie dat het om een meteorietinslag ging.
De premier van de betrokken deelstaat Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, zei vandaag dat de man door een meteoriet is gedood en dat de familie meer dan 1.300 euro smartengeld krijgt. Het gevonden materiaal moet echter nog worden geanalyseerd, aldus wetenschappers. Indien de man inderdaad door een meteoriet is omgekomen, zou dat het eerste geval in bijna 52 jaar zijn.
Koe in Venezuela Dodelijke meteorieten werden al eerder gemeld, maar nooit officieel bevestigd. Uitzondering daarop vormt een koe die in 1972 in Venezuela door een meteoriet werd getroffen. Die meteoriet, die al die tijd als deurstop dienst had gedaan, werd in 2007 geveild.
Het enige menselijke slachtoffer van een meteoriet ooit was Ann Hodges. Zij werd in 1954 in haar huis in Alabama getroffen maar overleefde.
Chelyabinsk Het meest onderzochte incident met meteorieten uit het recente verleden is dat in de Russische stad Chelyabinsk in 2013. De schokgolf van de meteoriet beschadigde gebouwen en zorgde voor honderden gewonden, maar er vielen geen doden.
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Amerikaanse astronaut Edgar Mitchell overleden: “We worden bezocht, de vraag is alleen waar ze vandaan komen”
Amerikaanse astronaut Edgar Mitchell overleden: “We worden bezocht, de vraag is alleen waar ze vandaan komen”
Afgelopen week is astronaut Edgar Mitchell op 85-jarige leeftijd overleden. Mitchell was de zesde man die voet zette op de maan. Hij maakte onderdeel uit van de missie Apollo 14.
Tijdens een interview met NBC in 1996 zei Mitchell dat hij drie functionarissen uit drie verschillende landen had ontmoet die claimden contact te hebben gehad met aliens. Dergelijk contact wordt volgens hem geheim gehouden door de overheden.
In een interview met de St. Petersburg Times zei Mitchell: “We weten allemaal dat UFO’s echt zijn. De vraag is alleen waar ze vandaan komen.” Hij voegde toe dat ingewijden binnen de Amerikaanse overheid onderzoek deden naar de geborgen lichamen van aliens.
Disclosure Project
Hij zorgde in 2008 voor opschudding toen hij op de radio vertelde dat buitenaardse wezens de aarde hadden bezocht. Volgens hem hebben regeringen de zaak de afgelopen 60 jaar verborgen. “Het fenomeen van UFO’s is reëel,” zei hij.
Mitchell werkte in 2009 mee aan het Disclosure Project. Veel prominenten verklaarden zeker te weten dat er ontmoetingen zijn geweest met buitenaardsen. Mitchell riep de Amerikaanse overheid op om de waarheid te vertellen over buitenaards leven.
Area 51
Hij verwees onder meer naar het zogenoemde Roswellincident. Mitchell groeide op in de buurt van die Amerikaanse plaats. De VS zou daar, op de geheime locatie Area 51, de wrakstukken van een UFO bewaren die daar in 1947 zou zijn neergestort. De CIA gaf het bestaan van Area 51 onlangs toe, maar verklaarde niets over UFO’s en buitenaards leven.
Afgelopen jaar nog vertelde hij aan de Daily Mirror dat vredelievende aliens een nucleaire oorlog tussen de VS en de Russen hebben vermeden. Daarvoor kwamen ze naar onze planeet en vlogen ze met hun UFO’s boven Amerikaanse raketbases. “Jullie kennen de regio niet zoals ik,” zei hij. “Het is een testgebied voor kernwapens en dáár waren de aliens in geïnteresseerd.”
Na zijn vertrek bij de NASA, richtte Mitchell een instituut op dat zich bezighoudt met het paranormale en het onverklaarbare.
NASA legt enorm moederschip in de ruimte vast ( VIDEO )
NASA legt enorm moederschip in de ruimte vast ( VIDEO )
Een beetje gevoel voor humor is de mensen bij NASA nu ook weer niet te ontzeggen.
Wanneer ze radaropnames hebben van een gigantisch ruimteschip, noemen ze het een asteroïde.
Soms is het voor ons moeilijk om voor te stellen hoe geweldig groot de afstanden in de ruimte zijn.
Objecten in de ruimte zoals het Internationaal Space Station cirkelen op een afstand van ongeveer 400 kilometer boven ons aardoppervlak.
Ver voorbij dat ruimtestation bevinden zich natuurlijk ook talloze andere interessante objecten.
We zien regelmatig opnames voorbij komen die zijn gemaakt door de ruimtetelescopen van NASA zoals SOHO, maar waar we minder vaak wat van zien is het Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex.
Het Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC), ook wel Goldstone Observatory, is een gebied in de Mojavewoestijn in het zuiden van de Amerikaanse deelstaat Californië, 60 kilometer ten noorden van Barstow waar een aantal antennes op gestationeerd zijn.
Het observatorium maakt onderdeel uit van NASA's Deep Space Network, wordt beheert door ITT Corporation voor Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Het belangrijkste doel van het complex is het volgen van en communiceren met ruimtemissies. Het Deep Space Communication Complex komt driemaal voor in de wereld. De andere twee zijn gevestigd in Madrid (Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex) en Canberra (Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex).
De volgende opnames zijn gemaakt door dit Deep Space Network op een afstand van ongeveer 120.000 kilometer van de aarde.
Volgens NASA moet dit object een asteroïde voorstellen, maar wij geloven daar helemaal niets van. Dit lijkt in de verste verte niet op de gewone afbeeldingen die NASA maakt van asteroïden.
Dit object draait klaarblijkelijk in 10,5 maanden rond de zon, iets sneller dus dan de aarde die dit doet in 12 maanden.
De afstand van het object tot de aarde varieert dan ook van 120.000 tot 314.000 kilometer.
Wanneer een object op die afstand door NASA wordt vastgelegd, praten we niet over een klein object. Bovendien suggereert de vorm allerminst een brokkelige asteroïde.
Waar het op lijkt, is dat we te maken hebben met iets hebben zoals het ISS, maar dan toebehorend aan een buitenaardse beschaving. Een soort gigantisch moederschip dat in een permanente baan om de zon cirkelt en wellicht dient als basis voor onderzoek in ons gedeelte van het zonnestelsel.
En wie weet wordt de mensheid te zijner tijd wel geëvacueerd naar dat soort steden in de ruimte wanneer deze planeet onleefbaar zou worden.
I do believe, as technology advances, so will the publics abilities to record and even contact aliens. Technology will arm the UFO researchers with very powerful tools. The one I want the most is a tool that can detect CGI in video to tell me if its real or not. There is an overwhelming amount of fake UFO videos on Youtube and we really need to know the truth, and fakes don't help the cause. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
CHICAGO (FOX 32 News): Mark Hammergren knows that the truth is out there. An astronomer for the Adler Planetarium – and a confessed X Files fan – he’s lived a life looking up into the stars. And when it comes to reported sightings of UFOs around the Chicago area, he’s heard a tale or two. Mark often gets phone calls at the Adler, with people claiming to see unexplainable lights and objects in the sky – unexplainable until Mark starts investigating. Modern UFO sightings in the U.S. began nearly 70 years ago. During that time, no definitive proof has ever been uncovered. But that doesn’t mean that the search is over, especially for astronomers. A quick Google search of UFOs in Chicago will yield a seemingly never ending trail of rumors, theories and speculation. And Mark will always be there to follow the trail. Because he’s a man who knows the value of looking into the night sky. He knows, somewhere out there, the truth is waiting.
Below, you see the close up view of the UFO that is orbiting asteroid 2004 BL86 right now. The UFO is 70 meters long. They call the UFO a small moon, but its not. As you see from the focused photos below, The UFO has a long metallic cylinder hull and two more smaller cylinder sections on opposite sides. The UFO is spinning, which gives us a great view of it from different angles as you see below. It came 750, 000 miles from Earth. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Above is the focused altered version, below is the original untouched version.
Deep Space Network JPL News States: 1/27/2015 UPDATE: The Goldstone scientists observing 2004 BL86 are part of a team of astronomers from around the world who have been characterizing the asteroid. Spectroscopic observations of 2004 BL86 made by Vishnu Reddy, a research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, using the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, indicate the asteroid's spectral signature is similar to that of massive asteroid Vesta. Located in the heart of the solar system's main asteroid belt, asteroid Vesta was the recent destination of NASA's Dawn mission, which is now on its way to the icy world Ceres. Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, have released the first radar images of asteroid 2004 BL86. The images show the asteroid, which made its closest approach today (Jan. 26, 2015) at 8:19 a.m. PST (11:19 a.m. EST) at a distance of about 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers, or 3.1 times the distance from Earth to the moon), has its own small moon. The 20 individual images used in the movie were generated from data collected at Goldstone on Jan. 26, 2015. They show the primary body is approximately 1,100 feet (325 meters) across and has a small moon approximately 230 feet (70 meters) across. In the near-Earth population, about 16 percent of asteroids that are about 655 feet (200 meters) or larger are a binary (the primary asteroid with a smaller asteroid moon orbiting it) or even triple systems (two moons). The resolution on the radar images is 13 feet (4 meters) per pixel. The trajectory of asteroid 2004 BL86 is well understood. Monday's flyby was the closest approach the asteroid will make to Earth for at least the next two centuries. It is also the closest a known asteroid this size will come to Earth until asteroid 1999 AN10 flies past our planet in 2027. Asteroid 2004 BL86 was discovered on Jan. 30, 2004, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey in White Sands, New Mexico.
Here’s one new video of a bright unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above Smyrna in Tennessee on 21st January 2016.
Witness report: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….
“UFO Did Crash In Roswell” Confirmed The Man Who Walked On The Moon. R.I.P Edgar Mitchell
“UFO Did Crash In Roswell” Confirmed The Man Who Walked On The Moon. R.I.P Edgar Mitchell
Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell who once walked on the Moon, sadly passed away on Thursday 4th February 2016. He always claimed that he STILL believes a UFO with aliens DID crash in a US desert before the government covered it up and wants the world to know the TRUTH!
The former NASA astronaut and man on the moon Edgar Mitchell, has always remained adamant that more than one alien landed at Roswell nearly 70 years ago – and some of them were captured alive and could still be alive somewhere to this day. He went on to say:
“The truth about it is that it was real. I was there when the Roswell incident took place. I was on my way to college and had just graduated high school.
“One day, it was in the Roswell Daily Record, which was a newspaper in Roswell, about an alien spacecraft that had crashed, and the next day that it had been denied by the Air Force, saying that it was a weather balloon.
“I believed that and went off to college.
“Many years later, after I had been to the moon and came back, I went out to Roswell to give lectures, talk and meet people I knew since I was a kid.
“Many of the people I knew, along with descendants of the people who had been involved in the Roswell incident, told me their stories.” He said.
Edgar confirmed that the descendants included the son of an undertaker who provided “coffins for the alien bodies” and the son of a sheriff who “kept traffic away from the crash site” and helped keep the area secure from prying eyes!
Mr Mitchell once stated a very wise comment and said that we do not know what beings are in the Universe, because our planet is “like a grain of sand on a huge beach”.
Mr Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
Edgar Mitchell exploring the Moon in 1971
Mr Mitchell also added:
“A family friend who was a major in the United States Air Force told me it was all real.
“I got the stories from all of these various people into my head when I came back from the moon, and I then went to the Pentagon and told them my story about that and said, give me your opinion.
“The admiral who I spoke to said, ‘I don’t know anything about it, but I’m going to find out.’
“He went out to New Mexico and checked all around, came back and told me, ‘Your stories are quite correct and all real.’”
Edgar was also keen to confirm that the US government found dead and live aliens on board the crashed craft at Roswell!
Apparently, the US Government covered up the Roswell incident because they did not know if the ‘visits’ were hostile and also did not want Soviet Russia discovering about it….and possibly stealing any potential knowledge or technology!
Apparently the US Government were nervous about a potential hostile situation with Aliens after the Roswell event!
Edgar told how governmental agencies in the US did not know at all what to do with the alien crashed saucer and its “superior technology” for fear of it getting into Soviet hands and being used against them one day!
“The best course of action was to just lie about it, and keep it to themselves. They labeled it ‘above top-secret,’ and that created the long running iron curtain separating a secret group within the government, and the American public.” He said.
Mr Mitchell also made a shocking statement that he had been made aware of “many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA” with each and every one covered up!
Please check out an intriguing video with Edgar below:
U.I.P Summary
Edgar Mitchell no matter what, deserves a lot of respect as believe it or not but he did once upon a time walk on the moon, even though a lot of people think that this was faked. Mr Mitchell is a brave man, not just for his work as an Astronaut for NASA, but also for putting his reputation at stake by declaring his belief in Aliens and the events that happened at Roswell!
Yes Edgar was part of the fiasco that was the Roswell Slides recently, however you get the impression by his sudden non arrival at the event that he smelt a rat about the whole slides thing so perhaps had a change of heart! But when a man who used to work for NASA as an Astronaut declares that Aliens exist, then there is no denying the fact that the world has to LISTEN UP to what he is telling us all….
Sadly Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon, passed away at a hospice in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday 4th January 2016. He died alongside his loving family. He was 85 years of age, and spent many of those years seeking the truth about who our ET visitors are – We salute you Sir for your bravery and for helping Humanity discover the truth about what lies beyond.
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FBI’s Memo Confirms “Aliens DO EXIST”
FBI’s Memo Confirms “Aliens DO EXIST”
A memo has recently been discovered, apparently claiming by the ‘FBI’ that Aliens do exist! This memo was discovered by some leading UFO Researchers it has been confirmed.
The UFO Investigators are based at the Hakui Centre for UFO Research in Tokyo, Japan. Claiming that they have discovered an important document PROVING that Extra-terrestrial life exists.
The unusual memo supposedly confirms the existence of 3 foot Alien Beings, which piloted flying saucer type crafts.
According to some insiders, the FBI have become VERY anxious about this find and are concerned that if the document is released into the public domain members of the public gaining access to thousands of documents!
This recent exciting Memo found, apparently confirms the below:
“An investigator for the Air Force states that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. “They were described as being circular in shape with raised centres, approximately 50 feet in diameter.
“Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture.
“According to Mr (name blanked out), the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling mechanism of the saucers.”
The Truth Is Coming??
U.I.P SUMMARY – Is it just me, but it really does feel like the FBI, NSA, MI5 and the CIA really do need to be a lot more careful with this ‘top secret’ information!? It feels like every month we are learning more and more about what is supposedly REALLY going on, by leaked information by Government Agencies.
Like we mentioned above, this is not the first time that the FBI has leaked information about Alien Beings and I am sure it is not that last time either. The NSA even have on their website an apparent ‘recorded Alien message’ from space, which they must have posted on there very discreetly!? Even the UK’s government agencies appear to be slipping up recently……!?
Could it be that this is all part of the ‘drip feeding of disclosure’ or just sloppy maintenance by these ‘supposed’ professional government agencies??
This is ALL of our Universe that we live in and we are ALL part of the Universe – So we should all know the truth about our Extra-terrestrial visitors opposed to having to depend on leaked government memos/documents.
VIDEOVanuit de huiskamer meekijken hoe het met de rijdende Marsrover Curiosity gaat: het kan nu. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA plaatste maandag een nieuwe video van Curiosity mét rondkijkmogelijkheid op YouTube.
De 3D-panoramavideo is samengesteld uit honderden beelden die werden genomen op 8 december 2015. Op de beelden zijn de Namib duinen te zien, op zo'n zeven meter afstand van de camera.
Op de achtergrond is het Marsgebergte Mount Sharp te zien. Dit zijn de eerste beelden die gemaakt zijn van zandduinen op een andere planeet dan de aarde, verklaart NASA.
De Curiosity Mars Rover is sinds 2012 op Mars voor onderzoek naar het klimaat en het milieu op mars.
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Crazy! Object Falls from Space, Explodes On Impact and Kills 1 Man In India
Crazy! Object Falls from Space, Explodes On Impact and Kills 1 Man In India
Gepubliceerd op 7 feb. 2016
www.undergroundworldnews.com It's been confirmed that it was an object falling from the sky, and not a blast of explosive substances, that killed a bus driver of an engineering college near Natrampalli in Vellore on Saturday.
Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has announced Rs. 1 lakh as solatium to the family of the deceased driver, Kamaraj.
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Alien Disclosure : A Timeline of Secrecy [FULL VIDEO]
Alien Disclosure : A Timeline of Secrecy [FULL VIDEO]
Documents the efforts by Prime Minister St. Laurent’s government in the early 1950s to investigate flying saucers. This effort included building a flying saucer observatory, studies called Project Magnet and Second Storey, gravity control experiments, and the plan to land an alien at a Top Secret base in Alberta at the same time that high level officials in the USA and UK were meeting with aliens. Grant Cameron will show conclusively that high level officials in Canadian and US government knew the extraterrestrial nature of the phenomena from almost day one.
Officials have also known the nuclear connection and Mr. Cameron will talk about nukes in 1945, 1954, 1975, and 1988. Grant will name the officials since 1948 that have provided Top Secret briefings to the President, how Bill Clinton dealt with the effort by Laurance Rockefeller in 1993 to get disclosure, and Hillary Clinton’s interest in the subject as she runs for President in 2016.'
Quick, what's the best way to provide an alternative source of energy for the Earth?
If you answered, "Get a mini black hole to orbit Earth," then you andphysicist Stephen Hawking may be thinking on the same wavelength.
In a lecture on Feb. 2, the famed scientist said tiny black holes, about as massive as the average mountain, could power all of the world's energy needs.
"There is nothing technically wrong with this idea, but it is not very practical, at least within the next 10,000 years," said Sabine Hossenfelder, a physicist at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, who blogs at backreaction.blogspot.com.
Leaky black holes
Originally, scientists believed black holes were regions of collapsed matter so dense that nothing, not even light, could escape from their gravitational pull. Then, in 1974, Hawking put forward the idea that black holes leak quantum particles, a process now known as Hawking radiation.
The biggest black holes, which are billions of times more massive than the sun, live at the hearts of galaxies, while black holes about 10 times the size of the sun are peppered throughout the universe, Hossenfelder said. Such massive black holes are very cold, and so emit Hawking radiation. But researchers have also proposed the existence of relatively tiny black holes that would be hotter, and so emit more particles via Hawking radiation.
"A mountain-sized black hole would give off X-rays and gamma-rays at a rate of about 10 million megawatts, enough to power the world's electricity supply," Hawking said in the lecture. "It wouldn't be easy, however, to harness a mini black hole. You couldn't keep it in a power station, because it would drop through the floor and end up at the center of the Earth."
Elusive space objects
But there's another problem: No one has ever found evidence of these mini black holes, and there are good reasons to doubt they exist, Hossenfelder said.
In theory, these black holes formed early in the universe's history, when matter existed in a hot soupy plasma. As this primordial soup got squished together and flung apart, causing fluctuations in density, the theory held, occasionally some regions got so dense that the matter collapsed in on itself, forming mini black holes, Hossenfelder said.
But to form these primeval black holes, most models assume a high level of density fluctuations, which also tend to produce many more black holes than are present in the universe.
"You don't want everything to end up in black holes," Hossenfelder told Live Science.
Major towing problem
Then, presuming these miniature black holes are real and that people could detect the objects' existence, the problem becomes how to reach the monstrous powerhouses. That could take tens of thousands or even 100,000 years, Hossenfelder noted.
Next comes the monumental task of harnessing the black holes' power for energy.
"You cannot land on it and put some booster on it and move it, because it does not have a surface," Hossenfelder said. By using the gravity of a much larger object, people could theoretically tow a mini black hole, eventually coaxing it to sit in Earth's orbit, she said. Scientists would also have to harness the black hole's energy while simultaneously shielding humans from the black holes' harmful radiation (a relatively simple matter compared to all of the other tasks involved in the setup, she said).
DIY black holes
Of course, if venturing deep into outer space is unrealistic, there are other ways to harness mini black holes, Hawking said in the lecture.
But these extra dimensions may or may not exist: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has so far seen no trace of them, Hossenfelder said. And if there are extra dimensions, that doesn't mean that lab-made mini black holes could power anything. If particle colliders such as the LHC did produce these tiny black holes, the objects would stick around for just 10 raised to the minus 23 seconds, she said.
"These tiny black holes would decay immediately. There is no way you could harness their energy," she said.
Deux trous noirs qui fusionnent émettent des ondes gravitationnelles (simulation). Crédit : MPI
Cent ans exactement après qu'Einstein ait prédit leur existence, les ondes gravitationnelles viennent d'être observées par l'observatoire américain Ligo.
L'analyse des données, réalisée conjointement avec l'équipe européenne de Virgo, montre un signal émis par la fusion de deux trous noirs de 29 et 36 masses solaires.
Voir l'univers gravitationnel
Parmi les physiciens et astrophysiciens qui en ont eu vent - nous ne parlons pas là des rumeurs qui couraient il y a quelques semaines -, cette découverte est qualifiée « d'extraordinairement importante. ».
Bien sûr, les scientifiques sont convaincus depuis des années de l'existence des ondes gravitationnelles — le comportement du pulsar binaire PSR1913+16, découvert par Russel Alan Hulse et Joseph Hooton Taylor, prix Nobel en 1993, ne peut s'expliquer que par l'émission de telles ondes. Mais encore fallait-il les voir !
Désormais, l'Univers n'est plus observé seulement à travers le prisme des ondes électromagnétiques. Les frémissements de la trame de l'espace-temps, ces fameuses ondes gravitationnelles imaginées par Albert Einstein dans un article de 1916, vont permettre de sonder le cosmos à des distances et dans des régions inatteignables jusqu'ici : des confins de l'Univers aux horizons des trous noirs.
« Et il y aura des surprises ! » s'enthousiasme un chercheur qui, n'étant pas impliqué, tient à garder l'anonymat jusqu'à l'annonce officielle prévue le 11 février 2016.
À vrai dire, cette première observation est déjà en soi une surprise : personne ne s'attendait à ce que le premier événement observé par un détecteur d'ondes gravitationnelles au sol soit dû à une fusion de trous noirs. Les spécialistes auraient tous misé sur des événements un peu moins violents, mais plus courants : des fusions d'étoiles à neutrons.
Par ailleurs, les masses mises en jeu sont un peu plus importantes que ce que les astrophysiciens attendaient. Faudra-t-il amender les modèles de physique stellaire sur lesquels reposent les prédictions des chercheurs ? Il est évidemment trop tôt pour le dire.
Tester les idées d'Einstein
Cette observation, qui valide une fois de plus la théorie de la relativité générale d'Einstein, promet aussi de pouvoir la tester dans un régime nouveau, dans lequel la gravité est très intense (en « champ fort »). Les théoriciens ont en effet réalisé des prédictions très précises sur la forme et l'intensité des ondes gravitationnelles obéissant strictement à la théorie d'Einstein.
Seront-elles validées ? Il faudra sans doute attendre le lancement de la mission spatiale européenne Elisa en 2034, chargée de détecter les ondes gravitationnelles depuis l'espace, pour avoir la réponse.
BRITISH CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY HIGHLY INTERESTED IN PILOTS' UFO SIGHTINGS
BRITISH CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY HIGHLY INTERESTED IN PILOTS' UFO SIGHTINGS
Despite the fact the UK's Ministry of Defense officially ended its UFO investigations in 2009, it appears that the British Civil Aviation Authority decided -- unbeknownst to the public -- to continue collecting reports that involved UFOs with possible flight safety issues.
"They were only interested in sightings that definitely had a bearing on aircraft or flight safety, and were no longer interested in reports from the public, who'd seen things in the sky and reported them to the Civil Aviation Authority," said David Clarke, the official UK National Archives consultant and a journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.
Clarke, seen at right, told the Huffington Post that the Civil Aviation Authority -- a different government department from the MoD -- kept separate records of UFO cases, "not only by the aircrew, themselves, but also anything unusual that was seen by air traffic controllers on the ground at airports."
Through the filing of Freedom of Information requests, Clarke found that the Royal Air Force specifically requested any UFO reports submitted to the Department of Transport would no longer be forwarded to the MoD.
The RAF specifically states that "members of the public who make such reports are not encouraged to believe an investigation will take place."
It's now known that British air traffic controllers have been receiving UFO reports on almost a regular basis.
Speaking on the BBC Radio's "Today" programme, on Aug. 17, Richard Deakin, the head of the UK's National Air Traffic Control Services, was asked if he or his staff had ever been unable to identify a flying object.
"Well, occasionally, there are objects that are identified that don't conform to normal traffic patterns -- not just from the UK point of view, but from around the world," Deakin responded.
"I have to say it's not something that occupies a huge amount of my time." Deakin added that these sightings occur "typically around one a month."
If that's true, then Clarke's calculations of how many actual UFO sightings were written up as Mandatory Occurrence Reports, or MORS, was substantially higher.
"As far as MOR reports that I got from using the Freedom of Information, from December 2004 to October 2010, their actual database listed 10 instances of UFOs or unidentified aircraft," said Clarke. "Now [Deakin] is saying they get a report every month," he added.
"If that was the case, I'd expect it to be 80 in that six-year period, not 10. So, my question is: Where did all the others go?"
This comes on the heels of the Ministry of Defense's ruling that all UFO investigations in the UK have come to an end.
According to the MoD's website: The MoD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life.
However, In over fifty years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom.
The MoD has no specific capability for identifying the nature of such sightings.
There is no defence benefit in such investigation. Furthermore, responding to reported UFO sightings diverts MoD resources from tasks that are relevant to defence.
UK pilots have reported a number of chilling near-misses with UFOs.
One incident involved David Hastings, a British pilot pictured below, who, along with his co-pilot, David Paterson, was flying a Cessna Skymaster plane over the Mojave Desert in America on Sept. 9, 1985.
"We were sitting there enjoying the sunshine when we both suddenly saw this speck out on the horizon at our 12 o'clock position," Hastings told HuffPost.
"This speck suddenly grew extremely quickly until we saw this huge shadow go over the top of us," he recounted. "But the most amazing thing about it was there was no noise and absolutely no movement or turbulence at all. We looked at each other, saying, 'What the hell was that?'"
At that point, both pilots felt that something was in the air off the port (left) side of their plane, but they couldn't see anything there. They agreed that they were able to sense something moving outside.
Hastings walked to the back of the plane, grabbed his camera and returned to the cockpit where he snapped two pictures out the window. All he was able to see in the camera viewfinder was the left wing of the plane and the ground below.
It was only after they returned to San Francisco and got the pictures developed that they knew they'd encountered something extraordinary.
"One picture showed what we expected to see -- the aircraft wing and the ground," said Hastings. "But in the second one, there was this [cigar-shaped] thing. We were both convinced that it was not a manmade object.
"Several pilots have seen UFOs in England, so it didn't surprise me, but I was surprised that we actually got a picture of it."
Hastings recalls that, although he wasn't frightened by the object, he was mostly concerned about the initial encounter with it and the possibility of a mid-air collision. No hoax was ever determined in this case, which remains unexplained to this day.
Why do aviation officials avoid talking about UFOs? In the UK, Clarke suggests it's something that could result in bad publicity ( via huffingtonpost.com ).
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Einsteins zwaartekrachtgolven zouden zijn gespot DS.be
Einsteins zwaartekrachtgolven zouden zijn gespot - DS.be
Albert Einstein. Foto: AP
Volgens aanzwellende geruchten zouden Amerikaanse en Europese fysici zich opmaken om aan te kondigen dat ze zwaartekrachtgolven hebben waargenomen. Donderdag is er een gezamenlijke persconferentie van het Amerikaanse Ligo-observatorium, het Europese deeltjeslab Cern en de Italiaanse Virgo-detector.
Geruchten over de ontdekking doen al weken de ronde. Als ze kloppen, dan is dit voor de natuurkunde wat de ontdekking van het Higgsboson in 2012 was: héél groot nieuws, en kunnen de betrokken onderzoekers zich verlustigen in een zekere Nobelprijs.
Einstein
Het bestaan van zwaartekrachtgolven werd honderd jaar geleden door Einstein in zijn relativiteitstheorie voorspeld, maar niemand heeft ze sindsdien ooit waargenomen. De golven zijn ‘rimpels’ in de tijdruimte, zo volgt uit de formules van de theorie. Ze ontstaan bij gewelddadige gebeurtenissen in de ruimte waarbij grote massa’s betrokken zijn. Explosies van sterren bijvoorbeeld, of botsingen van zwarte gaten, of melkwegstelsels die in elkaar schuiven. Die gebeurtenissen brengen de tijdruimte aan het trillen en genereren daarbij zwaartekrachtgolven.
Dat zwaartekrachtgolven bestaan, daaraan twijfelt geen astronoom meer. Maar niemand heeft ze ooit al waargenomen, omdat ze uiterst zwak zijn. Vandaar dat enkel uiterst precieze meetinstrumenten ze op de staart kunnen trappen. Op aarde staan er zo meerdere opgesteld, waaronder die van Ligo en Virgo, maar die hadden tot nog toe nooit beet gehad.
Zwarte gaten
Volgens Alexander Sevrin, hoogleraar fysica aan de VUB, zouden de geobserveerde zwaartekrachtgolven zijn veroorzaakt door de fusie van twee zwarte gaten ‘met een totale massa van enkele tientallen malen die van onze zon’. Dat zou blijken uit indiscreties bij het Europese deeltjeslab Cern. De onderzoekers zouden de kans op minder dan één op drie miljoen schatten dat hun waarnemingen zijn te wijten aan toevallige fluctuaties van de achtergrondruis.
Ook de Leuvense fysicus Thomas Hertog, Belgisch verantwoordelijke bij het geplande ruimte-observatorium voor zwaartekrachtgolven van de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie Esa heeft signalen opgevangen dat de geruchten over de eerste waarnemingen van gravitatiegolven zouden kloppen. ‘Als het waar is, dan is de ontdekking qua impact vergelijkbaar met die van het Higgsdeeltje in 2012.’
Spanning
In de natuurkundige wereld stijgt de spanning, maar pas donderdag weten we of er nu wel of niet zwaartekrachtgolven zijn gezien en wat die heeft veroorzaakt. Wat er precies verteld zal worden op de persconferentie, blijft voorlopig een goed bewaard geheim.
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