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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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.
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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
Unidentified flying object over San Antonio, Texas 26-Jan-2016
Unidentified flying object over San Antonio, Texas 26-Jan-2016
Here’s one interesting UFO sighting video of an unknown lights in the night sky above San Antonio in Texas. This paranormal event happened on 26th January 2016.
Witness report:What I recorded was a large, unidentified craft being “escorted” by a jet. The lighting, to me and my son, was unusual. So was it’s speed, it’s flight path, and altitude. I do not claim to be an expert in aeronautics. However, I can tell what is typical for my area.
Mulder and Scully have witnessed far too much nutty space shit to remain incredulous.
An old, recognizable poster is visible on the wall of Fox Mulder's office during the new X-Files miniseries. It shows a blurry image of what appears to be a flying saucer hovering over a forest. Printed in bold type below the shot: i want to believe. It serves as a testament to Mulder's earnest faith in extraterrestrial or paranormal beings and a deep skepticism towards a heavy-handed federal government that suppresses and obfuscates their existence.
That the iconic image still hangs in the same spot since The X-Files pilot aired way back in 1993 is a little wink to longtime fans. But in 2016, it's also a cringe-inducing, laughably outdated relic—both because of events that have occurred over the last 23 years in Chris Carter's beloved sci-fi universe and, more importantly, what's transpired in our own world.
The gap in The X-Files's internal logic is the size of a black hole, and it's the most glaring problem that drags down the six-episode miniseries. (Episode four airs tonight.) The show asks viewers to be smart enough to follow its dense plots and labyrinthine conspiracy theories while also demanding they turn off their brains long enough to swallow the idea that this pair of FBI agents and ex-lovers still question the existence of otherworldly beings and strange phenomena after being exposed to a lifetime's worth of crazy in the original pilot alone.
The show's writers have taken great pains to muddy the supernatural waters with fake-outs and red herrings; it's part of the purpose of Dana Scully's character. By playing the rationalist Clarence Darrow to Mulder's William Jennings Bryan in all things unexplained, she plants seeds of doubt in the viewer's mind. But presumably the duo has witnessed far too many slimy aliens, werebeasts, and shadowy men in black during their tenure to remain incredulous. As a spook-hunting sleuth, Scully's been abducted, impregnated by aliens, and made out with a shapeshifter—just to name a few indignities. (The 401k and health benefits at the FBI's X-Files division must be amazing.) After all that does she really still think all this nutty space shit is a product of psychosis and natural phenomena?
Still, The X-Files has bigger problems than the amnesia of its characters: the show's core premise has aged much worse than its attractive lead actors. The Roswell incident is a fun diversion, but there's something hopelessly quaint about being obsessed with the cover-up of a gaggle of big-eyed aliens that crashed in the New Mexico desert 60 years ago when measured against the insanity of the present.
Consider that we currently live in a world where nation-state superpowers prepare for the possibility of a proxy war in space and our own government openly spies on us by scanning our e-mails and listening to our phone calls ("I've heard of Edward Snowden," Mulder quips during the first episode, but offers no further commentary). It's hard to give a shit about UFOs when our own military employs drone fleets to shoot missiles at foreigners for associating with suspected enemy militants, and is now experimenting with building a robot army for the ground war of the future. The biggest cover-ups in our government are not conducted in some secret government lab—they're out in the open. Lobbyists and super PACs backed by massive corporations cast doubt on the irrefutable truth about climate change and ensure no new federal gun regulations are passed. Who's afraid of a few ghosts when we've got the ghosts in the political machine?
And conspiracy theories? Those things are a dime a dozen these days. It's hard to buy 2016 Mulder as some sort of fringe personality because of his views of American government when a significant number of us have adopted some version of those same views.
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Some of the conspiracy theories spread by the 2016 Republican presidential candidates make Fox Mulder look like Walter Cronkite.
In 1958, 73 percent of Americans trusted the government, according to aPew Study. But by April 1980, that number had cratered to 28 percent. In Ronald Reagan, we elected a president who positioned himself as someone who shared that same outlook, who saw overgrown government as "the problem, not the solution." There were plenty of legitimate reasons for the mounting disillusionment towards Washington—Watergate, Vietnam, the Cold War, the excesses of the CIA and FBI, you name it. But some suspected that we were only seeing the tip of the iceberg of government overreach and power, and they concocted ideas that the feds covered up JFK's real killer or faked the moon landing or concealed an alien spaceship near Roswell.
By the time that The X-Files debuted in 1993, it tapped into a certain breed of paranoia that didn't just expand but went mainstream, especially on conservative talk radio. As the top syndicated talk show host in country, Rush Limbaugh was unafraid to spout off conspiratorial theories about, say, the death of White House deputy counsel Vince Foster. During The X-Files's peak later in the decade, Rupert Murdoch's Fox News institutionalized and legitimized a more virulent strain of American thought about the nature of the entities that govern us. Today when Republican presidential candidates offer crazy theories about President Obama—that he was born in Kenya or is secretly instituting Sharia law in America or will authorize an obscure, 20-year-old nonbinding United Nations resolution that will abolish private property—that person isn't straitjacketed and given a tinfoil hat to wear. That person wins the Iowa caucus and pushes on against the tyranny of better health care.
Not that conspiracy theories are relegated to the right. The left is increasingly rife with batty ideas: "9/11 was an inside job!" "Vaccines cause autism!" "There are toxins in all my food!" "The Koch Brothers control everything!"
Perhaps that's why midway through the first episode of the new miniseason of The X-Files, the showrunners rip up decades of the franchise's mythology to unveil the "real conspiracy" that drives world events, one that scratches the left's anxieties just as much as those of the right. A faux Fox News commentator Tad O'Malley (Joel McHale) clues in Mulder to an elaborate plot that somehow incorporates climate change, the prison-industrial complex, agribusiness, the NSA, and more. Turns out that extraterrestrials were benevolent do-gooders come to earth in the prime of the nuclear age to save us from ourselves. But the government killed them and have spent the last several decades exploiting and developing their technology and driving world events to a coming moment where this elite top 0.1 percent will take over the world.
It's like a postapocalyptic horror movie coauthored by Occupy Wall Street and Ayn Rand, and it's sure a lot to put on a poster. But I'm sure Fox Mulder will find a way; after all, every man of faith needs an icon.
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Dwarf Planet Ceres Still Stuns, 215 Years After Discovery
Dwarf Planet Ceres Still Stuns, 215 Years After Discovery
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
215 years after its discovery, we know so much more about the dwarf planet Ceres. NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured this amazing view of Ceres in the asteroid belt, showing the dwarf planet's Occator Crater in false color, after it arrived in orbit around Ceres in 2015.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The dwarf planet Ceres was first glimpsed through a telescope 215 years ago, and as researchers learn more than ever, they continue to be amazed by the object.
NASA's Dawn mission arrived at the dwarf planet last year and saw odd features that observers are still trying to figure out: more than 130 reflective areas are likely made up of salt, and the small body also hosts a rather large, cone-shaped mountain.
"When [Italian astronomer Giuseppe] Piazzi discovered Ceres, exploring it was beyond imagination," Marc Rayman, mission director and chief engineer for Dawn at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement. "More than two centuries later, NASA dispatched a machine on a cosmic journey of more than 3 billion miles to reach the distant, mysterious world he glimpsed." [Photos: Dwarf Planet Ceres, the Solar System's Largest Asteroid]
But back when Ceres was discovered, Piazzi didn't quite understand what he was looking at. After his first observation on Jan. 1, 1801, he noticed that the object had changed position slightly on his next observing night. His first suspicion was that it was a comet, but he also had evidence that the object might be something else.
"I have presented this star as a comet, but owing to its lack of nebulosity, and to its motion being so slow and rather uniform, I feel in the heart that it could be something better than a comet, perhaps," Piazzi wrote to fellow astronomer Barnaba Oriani.
Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres on Jan. 1, 1801, using this instrument, called a Ramsden Circle. The telescope is on display at the Palermo Observatory in Sicily.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Palermo Observatory
Piazzi also wrote to astronomer Johann Elert Bode, who devised a mathematical formula that he said would predict the locations of planets in the solar system relative to the sun. There was an undiscovered planet, the formula said, between Mars and Jupiter. For this reason, Ceres caught Bode's attention. Bode had already marshaled a group of astronomers to search for an object in that region, and he was determined to uncover more information. (We now know that the formula merely outlined a coincidence in the planets' positions.)
Piazzi spoke to the press about his finding, but he did not give his data to other astronomers. This made things difficult when he fell ill and was unable to continue his observations. In February of that year, Paris-based astronomer Jérôme de Lalande asked for some data from Piazzi, who provided it in April, after he had recovered. One of Lalande's students, Johann Karl Burckhardt, then calculated that the orbit of Ceres appeared to be circular, unlike a comet's.
But by the spring of 1801, no one had been able to see the new object besides Piazzi, because the skies had been cloudy. Also, by that time, Ceres was so close to the sun, from Earth's perspective, that it couldn't be seen at night. There was a real risk of losing it in the skies forever. After immense pressure from other astronomers to make his observations public, Piazzi published the data in July. Ceres was finally spotted again in December 1801 by astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach, using projections from mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Astronomers still debated about the status of Ceres — comet, planet or something else — until other objects like it were discovered between Mars and Jupiter. These findings included Pallas (1802), Juno (1804) and Vesta (1807). Astronomer William Herschel suggested that these smaller objects be called "asteroids," because they appear starlike in telescopes.
Today we have found hundreds of thousands of asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 along with Pluto, due to its size and circular shape. Researchers have viewed it with the Hubble Space Telescope and up close with NASA's Dawn mission, which is orbiting the dwarf planet.
Dawn is currently in its lowest orbit ever, just 240 miles (385 kilometers) from Ceres' surface, where it will reveal even more about the mysterious dwarf planet.
Mount Kailash, which means “precious jewel of eternal snow” remains a place shrouded in mystery and legend.
According to ancient beliefs, this enigmatic Tibetan mountain represents the axis of the world or the stairway to heaven. In many eastern countries Mount Kailash is considered the holiest place on Earth. Some ancient sources say this is where we can find the mysterious city of the gods.
Located around four long rivers, the Indus River, the Sutlej River, the Brahmaputra River, and the Karnali River, Mount Kailash remains a very sacred place and a great repository of mystical knowledge.
Considered as the holy abode of Lord Shiva, the mountain is currently considered unconquered. It advised not to climb the mountain, since that would be sacrilege and cause misfortune.
A man-made pyramid?
Mount Kailash somewhat unusual shape has led to speculations that perhaps the mountain is not a mountain at all. Russian scientists have suggested that the top of Mount Kailash is actually a giant man-made pyramid from ancient times. Now, if this is true, then human history has to be re-written. It would mean that this is the largest known pyramid known today.
Scientists who have studied the mountain’s topography and structure say that it has a pyramidal shape, and not unlike all known pyramids, is strictly oriented to the cardinal points. “The results of recent Russian studies of Tibet and the Kailash range in particular, if true, could radically alter our knowledge on the growth of humanity and civilizations. One of the theories that the Russians have put forth is that Mt. Kailash could be a vast, human-built pyramid, the heart of an entire complex of a hundred smaller pyramids.
Additionally, this complex might be the center of a world-wide system connecting other monuments or sites where miraculous and paranormal phenomena have been observed.
Numerous travelers, especially in the beginning of the 20th century, have come to proclaim this owing to the fact that Mt. Kailash is too perfect to be a totally natural phenomenon, or at any rate give the appearance of human intervention.
Its shape resembles a vast cathedral and hellip; the sides of the mountain are surprisingly perpendicular and fall sheer for hundreds of feet.
The stratum is horizontal with the layers of stone slightly varying in color. The dividing lines show up clear and distinct, which gives the entire mountain the facade of having been built by giant hands, of huge blocks of reddish stone,” Researchers Club reports.
Ancient aliens at Mount Kailash?
There are also some ancient Buddhist legends about Mount Kailash that indicate the place was used by powerful gods who possessed alien advanced technology.
According to one legend, a Buddhist “sorcerer” named Milarepa challenged the sorcerer of the Bön religion, Naro Bön-chung. There was a fierce superhuman battle, but both sorcerers turned out to be equally powerful.
They then decided to race each other to the top of Mount Kailash.
One of them used some sort of magic drum to reach the top, while the other won by using ‘rays of the sun’. What was the “magic drum” and “rays of sun”? Was it some kind of ancient alien technology? Were the “magicians” actually ancient aliens flying in spaceships?
What is causing the rapid aging?
Another mysterious aspect about the mountain concerns the rapid aging of those who visited the area. After spending 12 hours in the region, the length of nails and hair is equal to two weeks in normal conditions! Is this caused by some energy surrounding this mysterious place?
A secret entrance to Shambala?
Interest in Mount Kailash goes back far in time. Several mystics have said the mountain has a secret entrance leading to the legendary kingdom of Shambala.
Some Indian sects believe that there is a region north of the Himalayas called Kapapa, where “perfect men” reside. Shambhala itself is supposed to be a land in or just north of Tibet, where many travelers have heard of the tradition from holy men:
“In the midst of high mountains there are unsuspected enclosed valleys. Many hot springs nourish the rich vegetation. Many rare plants and medicinal herbs are able to flourish on this unusual volcanic soil.
Milarepa was a yogi, sage, and poet much-beloved by the Tibetan people. He was often depicted as in the illustration shown here, with a hand raised to his ear in a listening gesture, symboling his way of teaching the Buddhist wisdom through songs.
Shambhala, the land safeguarding the Kalachakra teachings is difficult to find. A Himalayan explorer, Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) was one of those who believed in existence of Shambhala. Many others did the same and even tried to reach Shambala.
Some of them disappeared forever and never found this fabulous kingdom whose reality is visionary or spiritual as much as physical or geographic.
“In Tibetan texts it is written that Shambhala is a spiritual country that is located in the north-west of Kailash. It is hard for me to discuss this topic from a scientific point of view. But I can quite positively say that Kailash complex is directly related to life on Earth, and when we did schematic map “City of the Gods”, consisting of pyramids and stone mirrors, we were very surprised – the scheme was similar to the spatial structure of DNA molecules,” Professor Ernst Muldashev said.
According to Tibetan Buddhist Teachings, Shambhala is a “Place of Happiness and Tranquility” and also a place where many religious teachings originated.
It is rumored that when the ice finally melts, it will reveal “THE EYE”. Prof. Ernst Muldashev Ph.D., a doctor and explorer, after exploring Tibet said:
“There are two underground countries, the Shambhala and Agartha, which are each part of the gene pool of humanity and civilization. Information provided by the Thule Society (Eckhart and Haushofer), shows there is a higher civilization, coming from the Gobi, from the Himalaya and divided into two branches, the Shambhala and Agartha. The former being the center of power, protected by unknown forces and energy. It seems that not only are there underground centers in Tibet and the Himalayas but these tunnels are widespread all over the entire globe”
Home of the gods
Mount Kailash is of great religious significance. Hinduism teaches that Lord Shiva, the destroyer of evil and sorrow, resides at the summit of the legendary mountain Kailash, where he sits in a state of perpetual meditation along with his wife Parvati. According to Vishnu Purana the mountain’s four faces are made of crystal, ruby, gold, and lapis lazuli. It is a pillar of the world and is located at the heart of six mountain ranges symbolizing a lotus.
Mount Kailash was home of Lord Shiva.
According to Buddhism, the mountain is home of the Buddha Demchok who represents supreme bliss.
It is also said that it was on this sacred mountain that Buddhism replaced Bon as the primary religion of Tibet. The Bon is an indigenous religion which predates Buddhism in Tibet. In Jainism, Kailash is called Mount Ashtapada and is the site where the first Jain Tirthankara, Rishabhadeva, attained liberation from rebirth.
Ancient secrets of Mount Kailash remain embedded in the heart of the Himalayas and this mysterious place will continue to fascinate people for a very long time. Perhaps one day in the future, we will be able to unravel the mysteries of Mount Kailash and find answers to questions that intrigue us. There is no doubt this is a place of great cultural and spiritual significance.
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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.'
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