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14-02-2016 om 01:29 geschreven door peter  

Wonders in the Sky: A Breakthrough in UFO Research

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Wonders in the Sky is a collector's limited edition book by world-leading UFO researchers Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, which presents the scientific research and artistic beauty of 424 UFO sightings prior to the Industrial Revolution. This is the new benchmark in UFO research.

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14-02-2016 om 01:28 geschreven door peter  

Phoenix Arizona Alien Encounter

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14-02-2016 om 00:55 geschreven door peter  

Strange Lights In The Sky Over The Netherlands (Video)

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Witness recorded with his phone strange lights in the sky in the South of the Netherlands on February 2, 2016.

Witness states: I filmed this with my phone from inside the car. Can anyone explain to me what I was just looking at?
 

The Dutch news websites immediately explain it as being “polar stratospheric clouds” but I did not see any other different colors that are specific with polar stratospheric clouds.

Polar stratospheric clouds also known as nacreous clouds are colorful clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 meters (49,000–82,000 ft).

The cloud formation with the three lights/objects is quite different if you compare it with a specific polar stratospheric cloud.
 

Witness added some stills and contrast effects to enhance the pictures, but the video footage itself is unedited.

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14-02-2016 om 00:46 geschreven door peter  

Gravitational Waves: What Their Discovery Means for Science and Humanity

People around the world cheered yesterday morning (Feb. 11) when scientists announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time whose existence was first proposed by Albert Einstein, in 1916.

The waves came from two black holes circling each other, closer and closer, until they finally collided. The recently upgraded Large Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) captured the signal on Sept. 14, 2015. Not every scientific discovery gets this kind of reception, so what exactly is all the hype about, and what's next for LIGO now that it has spotted these elusive waves?

First of all, detecting two colliding black holes is thrilling by itself — no one knew for sure if black holes actually merged together to create even more-massive black holes, but now there's physical proof. And there's the joy of finally having direct evidence for a phenomenon that was first predicted 100 years ago, using an instrument that was proposed 40 years ago. [Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO: Complete Coverage]

But what is truly monumental about this detection is that it gives humanity the ability to see the universe in a totally new way, scientists said. The ability to directly detect gravitational waves — which are generated by the acceleration or deceleration of massive objects in space — has been compared to a deaf person suddenly gaining the ability to hear sound. An entirely new realm of information is now available.

"It's like Galileo pointing the telescope for the first time at the sky," LIGO team member Vassiliki (Vicky) Kalogera, a professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois, told Space.com. "You're opening your eyes — in this case, our ears — to a new set of signals from the universe that our previous technologies did not allow us to receive, study and learn from."

"Up until now, we've been deaf to gravitational waves," LIGO Executive Director David Reitze, of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), said during an announcement ceremony in Washington, D.C. "What's going to come now is we're going to hear more things, and no doubt we'll hear things that we expected to hear … but we will also hear things that we never expected."

With this new sensory view of the universe, here are some of the things scientists hope to discover.

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New windows on the universe

LIGO is particularly sensitive to gravitational waves that come from violent cosmic events, such as two massive objects colliding or a star exploding. The observatory has the potential to locate these objects or events before light-based telescopes can do so, and in some cases, gravitational-wave observations could be the only way to find and study such events.

For example, in yesterday's announcement, scientists reported that LIGO had identified two black holes spinning around each other and merging together in a final, energetic collision. As their name suggests, black holes don't radiate light, which means they are invisible to telescopes that collect and study electromagnetic radiation. Some black holes are visible with light-based telescopes, because material in their immediate vicinity radiates, but scientists haven't seen examples of merging black holes with radiating material around them.

In addition, the black holes spotted by LIGO are 29 and 36 times the mass of the sun, respectively. But Reitze said that as LIGO's sensitivity continues to improve, the instrument could be sensitive to black holes that are 100, 200 or even 500 times the mass of the sun that are further away from Earth. "There could be a really nice discovery space that opens up once we get out there," he said.

Scientists already know that studying the sky in different wavelengths of light can reveal new data about the cosmos. For many centuries, astronomers could only work with optical light. But relatively recently, researchers built instruments allowing them to study the universe using X-rays, radio waves, ultraviolet waves and gamma-rays. Each time, scientists got a new view of the universe.

In the same way, gravitational waves have the potential to show scientists totally new features of cosmic objects, LIGO team members said. [Study of Gravitational Waves Could Unravel Many Mysteries (Video)]

"If we're ever lucky enough to have a supernova in our own galaxy, or maybe in a nearby galaxy, we will be able to look at the actual dynamics of what goes on inside the supernova," said LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss of MIT, who spoke at the announcement ceremony. While light is often blocked by dust and gas, "gravitational waves come right out [of the supernova], boldly unimpeded," Weiss said. "As a consequence, you really find out what's going on inside of these things."

Other exotic objects scientists hope to study with gravitational waves are neutron stars, which are mind-bogglingly dense, burned-out stellar corpses: A teaspoon of neutron-star material would weigh about a billion tons on Earth. Scientists aren't sure what happens to regular matter under such extreme conditions, but gravitational waves could provide extremely helpful clues, because these waves should carry information about the interior of the neutron star all the way to Earth, LIGO scientists said.

LIGO also has a system set up to alert light-based telescopes when the detector seems to have spotted a gravitational wave. Some of the astronomical events that LIGO will study, such as colliding neutron stars, may produce light in all wavelengths, from gamma-rays to radio waves. With LIGO's alert system in place, it's possible that scientists could observe some astronomical events or objects in various wavelengths of light, plus gravitational waves, which would provide a "very complete picture" of those events, Reitze said.

"When that happens, that'll be, I think, the next big thing in this field," he said. 

Relativity

Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, which was published in 1916. That famous theory has stood up to all kinds of physical tests, but there are some aspects that scientists haven't been able to study in the real world, because they require very extreme circumstances. The extreme warping of space-time is one example of this.

"Until now, we have only seen warped space-time when it is very calm — as though we had only seen the surface of the ocean on a very calm day, when it's quite glassy," Kip Thorne of Caltech, another founding member of LIGO and an expert on warped space-time, said at yesterday's ceremony. "We had never seen the ocean roiled in a storm, with crashing waves. All that changed on Sept. 14. The colliding black holes that produced these gravitational waves created a violent storm in the fabric of space and time." [The History & Structure of the Universe (Infographic)]

"This observation tests that regime beautifully, very strongly," Thorne continued. "And Einstein comes out with beaming success."

But the study of general relativity via gravitational waves is far from over. Questions remain about the nature of the graviton, the particle believed to carry the gravitational force (just like the photon is the particle that carries the electromagnetic force). And scientists have many questions about the inner workings of black holes, which gravitational waves may help illuminate (so to speak). But all of that, the scientists said, will be revealed slowly, over the course of many years, as LIGO and related instruments collect more data on more events.

A legacy for the future

Looking toward the next three years, Reitze said the collaboration is focused on increasing LIGO's sensitivity to its full potential. This will make the observatory — which consists of two big detectors, one in Louisiana and the other in Washington state — more sensitive to gravitational waves. But scientists don't know how many events LIGO will see, because they don't know how often many of these events occur in the universe.

LIGO detected the binary black hole merger even before the instrument began its first official observation campaign after its recent upgrade, but it's possible that this was a lucky break. To get the gravitational astronomy train rolling, LIGO simply needs more data.

When asked to comment on LIGO's impact on the world beyond the scientific community, and about how gravitational-wave science might influence people's daily lives, Reitze simply said, "Who knows?"

"When Einstein predicted general relativity, who would have predicted that we'd use it every day when we use our cellphones?" he said. (General relativity provides an understanding how gravity influences the passing of time, and this information is necessary for GPS technology, which uses satellites that orbit further away from the gravitational pull of the Earth than people on the surface).

LIGO is "the most sensitive instrument ever built," said Reitze, and the technological advances that have been made while building the observatory may feed into technologies that will be used in ways people can't yet predict.

Thorne said he sees the larger contribution of LIGO slightly differently.

"When we look back on the era of the Renaissance, and we ask ourselves, 'What did the humans of that era give to us that's important to us today?' I think we would all agree it's great art, great architecture, great music," he said.

"Similarly, when our descendants look back on this era, and they ask themselves, 'What great things came to us?' … I believe there will be an understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe and an understanding of what those laws do in the universe, and an exploration of the universe," Thorne added. "LIGO is a big part of that. The rest of astronomy is a big part of that. And I think that cultural gift to our future generations is really much bigger than any kind of technological spin-off, than the ultimate development of technology of any kind. I think we should be proud of what we give to our descendants culturally."

Follow Calla Cofield @callacofield. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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14-02-2016 om 00:25 geschreven door peter  

Bright UFO Discards Another Glowing Object To Ground Level

A man in Spokane Valley in Washington claimed to have witnessed and recorded a glowing sphere on video. The object apparently stopped to hover and seemed to drop something. On January 26, 2014, the witness noticed a bright object in yellow, red, and orange colors from the outside into a back porch around 7 p.m.

He went north of his house and stopped before he changed direction to the east. He alerted his family for them to witness the strange aerial event.

The witness saw the object hovered, flashed brightly many times, and discarded something glowing from the bottom of it. The object then slowly lost its brightness.

Interestingly, it wasn’t the first time he saw the object. He saw the same object doing the same thing in almost the same place, only slightly farther southeast.

A second witness made a report to UFOSNW of a large glowing orange sphere to the east at approximately 1810 hours on the same date. The witness lived around a mile from the first witness who took a video footage.

MUFON investigator James E. Clarkson closed the case as an unknown aerial vehicle (AUV). He considered the case as strange with technical evidence and strong witness credibility.

13-02-2016 om 23:05 geschreven door peter  

Details

Written by Miguel Mendonça

Category: In-depth

 Published: 13 February 2016

By Miguel Mendonça

In 2015 I met ET-human hybrids for the first time—eight of them. Within two months, my reality was expanding so fast that I had to let go of trying to understand it all intellectually. It became clear that this cannot all be understood with the mind. We cannot turn their information on consciousness, love and oneness into personal knowledge without opening our hearts and occasionally letting the mind take a back seat.

That is just one of the key learnings that came out of the research that Barbara Lamb and I undertook for what has become the book Meet the Hybrids – The Lives and Missions of ET Ambassadors on Earth. The hybrids have access to a level of understanding that answers not just the big questions of ufology, but many of the biggest questions that humans have ever thought to ask.

Let that sink in for a moment. Then let the questions flow: how do they know so much? Who are they? What are they? Why are they here?

This brief introduction to hybrids will only scratch the surface of what we uncovered in the research, but it will give the reader a sense of the complexity and multidimensional nature of the subject.

This has major implications for ufology, and indeed the wider enterprise of human inquiry. I will close with some further thoughts on what this suggests for our continuing research in this field.

What is a hybrid?

There are various types of hybrids it seems. For our glossary, the definition we arrived at—with input from the hybrids—was: a being which has been genetically altered to be more than one species.

How are hybrids created?

Another complex question. One of the hybrids was created as part of a military project, combining DNA from her human parents and two ET races. Four of the hybrids understand they had ET genetics introduced while in their mother’s womb. Commonly, they are composed of a number of ET races. Some call these their ET ‘frequencies’.

One of the hybrids described a process called ‘spinning’, in which the various genetics and ‘energetic imprints’ of the ET ‘parents’ are combined, in order to set up the template for the cell mass. This is then made ready for the being to incarnate on Earth to human parents.

Several understand they made an agreement as a soul to incarnate on Earth as a hybrid, and they may recall doing the planning while in that pre-corporeal state.

Another of the hybrids had several theories as to how he was created, including the possibility that, given his Mantis component, he may have created himself. As these particular Mantis beings don’t die in the way we understand, they can choose a new form as required.

How do they know they are hybrids?

Most of them uncovered their identity slowly, putting pieces together over the years as memories of ET visitations came back, visitations increased or messages from ETs came through more clearly.

They all have ‘guides’ or ‘star families’ they interact with in various ways. These guides may be ET, or human or animal spirits. Sometimes these guides offer hints, sometimes they are more direct with their messages. They can also use physical effects to enhance their messages.

It was common that the hybrids had no shock or surprise at receiving confirmation of their nature. Many expressed relief—a reaction far from what a regular human, I imagine, would have at learning such a thing.  

Why are hybrids created?

This is the question the hybrids themselves are most concerned with. What is their purpose—their mission? And what are the ETs trying to achieve through this enterprise?

This is, in my view, the most important information to come out of this research for the field of ufology. The answer depends on which ETs one is referring to. There are principally two classes: those in ‘service to self’, and those in ‘service to others’. Most of the ‘negative’ experiences with ETs may occur with the service to self ETs, who reportedly display little compassion for the needs of humans. The ‘service to others’ class are, in general, more like cosmic missionaries, and are here to help humankind evolve—to move through the ‘Ascension’ process.

Ascension is another contested topic. Some hybrids view it as a process of the planet and its inhabitants shifting from the third to the fifth dimension—becoming less physically dense, and some see it as more of a spiritual evolution, in the sense of becoming more enlightened, and living more harmoniously with ourselves, each other and the world in which we live. So both could be thought of as processes of spiritual development, but the term ‘spiritual’—as ever—has varying interpretations.

Both classes are creating hybrids. The activity of the ‘self’ class has been documented across two key books by David Jacobs, and the ‘others’ class by ourselves, and 17 years ago, by CristiAnne Quiros in her PhD dissertation. Many people have explored aspects of these subjects over the last few decades, but I refer here to specific studies of hybrids.

Understanding of the hybrid subject has been previously somewhat skewed towards a darker interpretation, as Jacobs’ work and conclusions have dominated the discourse. His research has pointed to a ‘colonization’ program, wherein certain ETs seek to take over Earth by producing hybrids which look human but can control the minds of other humans through their superior psychic abilities.

The dissertation of Quiros, a psychology graduate, was (to my knowledge) the first major study of the phenomenon which directly involved people identifying as hybrids. The lives and understandings of six—all North American women—were explored for the purposes of equipping the therapeutic community to assist hybrids and their friends and family. Quiros found that the hybrids saw their creation, and the intentions of the ETs responsible, as being a fundamentally benevolent enterprise, which seeks to preserve and enhance human life, principally through the expansion of human consciousness—relating to the concept of Ascension.

Our research explored the subject in a similar way, but went deeper and wider. What became evident is that Jacobs and Quiros may both be correct in their conclusions—they are simply talking about different ETs. The hybrids noted that among the races we hear of regularly, there are often several varieties. For example, the reptilian hybrids in the book made it clear that they are connected to benevolent reptilians, and the male Mantis hybrid said that there are Mantis beings with very different looks and agendas.

Between these two classes of beings there may be a nebulous middle ground, wherein experiencers are being traumatized by ‘service to others’ ETs who may have their own reasons for giving people the experiences they do. One of the hybrids pointed to the work of Lyssa Royal and Keith Priest, who discuss this in detail.

Bringing these two strands of research together to form a synthesis is an important step in comprehending the apparently contradictory information that has been coming forth over the last six decades concerning ET intentions. If we give credence to both sides of the interpretation, we have a much richer, more comprehensible picture of what is happening on this planet, involving the work and agendas of non-human intelligences.

Missions, abilities and services

Linking into the Ascension process are the missions of the hybrids. Some have numerous aspects to their missions. They are equipped with special abilities that help them carry out these missions, which they will often deliver through particular services.

Their missions range from helping the Earth and its people and animals, to helping other hybrids and starseeds, to developing new technologies.

In terms of abilities, most or all of them have some psychic and healing ability. The healing may involve psychic function at the diagnostic level as well as the treatment level.

Hybrids as spiritual teachers

Within a month of commencing the interviews, it was evident that perhaps above all else, this type of hybrid is effectively a spiritual teacher. Their understanding of the journey of the soul, of the evolutionary process we are all undertaking, is often detailed and profound. This is a subject that refuses to get hung up on the material or the intellectual—no matter how much we may want to apply the standards of Western materialist science to it. John Mack concluded the same in his research. We need to be open to other ways of knowing, particularly direct experience. The book offers advice and techniques from the hybrids for pursuing one’s own Ascension, and even for connecting with ETs directly.

Beyond ufology

The hybrids take us right through and beyond ufology, and throw open a mass of questions as to what we may best do with their information, and how we may continue to make progress with this subject. If we accept the word of the hybrids, and work with their information and techniques personally, we find that ufology becomes too small a place for this exploration. The level of conceptual expansion and personal spiritual revelation available to anyone suggests that we revisit the definition of ufology, and ask whether this is still a useful term, or if it has now been outgrown.

The increasing contact between science and spirituality which is developing in the mainstream—as well as the continuing exploration of space—is opening up opportunities for the information that has been produced by ufology to connect with and contribute to these more conventional modes of inquiry. And given the unprecedented democratization of information flows in our culture, I submit that the time has never been better for those of us committed to expanding our understanding of reality to make progress in offering our research to the mainstream.

The hybrids offer the royal road to solving the mysteries of ufology, and so much more. Let us make the best use of this resource. After all, for many of them, helping us is built into their mission.

Miguel Mendonça is co-author with Barbara Lamb of Meet the Hybrids – The Lives and Missions of ET Ambassadors on Earth 
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13-02-2016 om 12:38 geschreven door peter  

Mobile Stargazing: The Universe at Your Fingertips

Being out under the stars on a clear night can be "food for the soul," and it's been known to trigger a lifelong passion for astronomy in more than one impressionable youngster - myself included! But it can also leave you wondering what you're looking at. Is that bright object a star, or a planet, or even a satellite? Where does one constellation end, and the next one begin? And where can I find that comet that everyone’s been talking about? Is it even visible from where I live?

It's not always convenient to consult an astronomy book, or magazine star chart, in the dark, and not everyone has access to these aids. But nearly everyone has a mobile device these days, and there are plenty of apps available for sky watchers of all ages and knowledge levels. In this series of columns, we'll explore astronomy the 21st century way – with astronomy and space-related apps and gadgets.

Here, we'll explain how to navigate the sky and learn some prominent stars and constellations. We'll learn why different stars are visible at different times of the year. We'll cover how the planets move along the ecliptic (the plane of the solar system), and where to find it. We'll study the moon's motion across the sky, and why it occasionally eclipses a star – or the sun! We'll start off by helping you configure the app so you're ready for the next clear night. [Smart Space Apps to Explore the Universe]

For telescope owners, astronomy apps can offer advice on what to observe, and what’s likely to be visible with your equipment, large or small. Many naked eye stars are actually double or multiple systems, often comprised of stars of different colors - and these can be enjoyed in a backyard telescope. Most of these multiple stars were named before the invention of the telescope, so they only bear a single name. Other stars vary in brightness on a repeating schedule that you can track yourself by observing how they vary compared to their neighbors in the eyepiece field of view. Advanced astronomy apps provide background information of the story behind the names, and the interesting science around the stars’ behavior.

If you're a planet enthusiast, an astronomy app can tell you where the four Galilean moons of Jupiter are, and whether they are eclipsing one another, or casting their little round black shadows on the great planet's face. Jupiter rotates once every 10 hours or so, so your app is a great aid to determine when to look for the Great Red Spot. We'll explain how to configure and use the app to do all of these tasks.

Deep sky objects, nebulas, star clusters, and galaxies populate the night sky year round. While most galaxies are beyond the reach of backyard telescopes, several are easy to see with unaided eyes, if you know where to look. The Great Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, is six full moon diameters across, and the light you're seeing now left there 2.5 million years ago! Messier 31 is one of a list of 110 famous deep sky objects first listed by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771, many of which can be spotted without a telescope. We'll cover how to generate lists of these objects for your location and observing date, and use your app to find them.

Not all apps are created equal. While we won't play favorites, we will identify the simple ones for beginners, and highlight the ones with advanced features that budding astronomers and even teachers can use, indoors or out, to fully learn the science. When new apps are released or old favorites updated, we'll review them and highlight what's new.

From time to time, we'll explain the purpose for many of the features, like the red screen mode for night vision, the meridian and ecliptic reference lines, and the various coordinate grids that can be switched on. Some of the apps allow you to explore the universe by flying from place to place and seeing the sky from another star. Or view our solar system as seen from another planet.

Some of the apps even allow you to connect to a computerized telescope and drive it around the sky. We'll cover that, too.

This Mobile Stargazing column will go beyond stargazing. We'll look at the apps for various space telescope and planetary exploration missions, including apps that tell you how to see the International Space Station, or watch spacewalks on your phone. There are even apps to alert you when to head outside and look for auroras, also known as northern lights. We'll also see how stargazers use mobile devices as astronomy aids, from taking smartphone astrophotographs, to leveling your telescope tripod, to catching that perfectly composed photograph by predicting where the moon or other objects will be on a given day and time.

In the next column, we'll highlight how mobile devices and apps represent a fundamental shift, allowing us to make a connection with the sky that we just couldn't before. We'll highlight common features found on most astronomy apps and how to set them up for best results. I'm also interested to hear what you want to know about, so please send questions and ideas for topics to cover in future columns. Until then, keep your eyes on the skies!

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13-02-2016 om 12:06 geschreven door peter  

Meteorite hunter Geoff Notkin searching for space rocks with metal detectors in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Credit: Photographs by Geoffrey Notkin. Copyright 2016 Aerolite Meteorites Inc. View full size image

When news broke that a meteorite may have crash-landed in India last weekend, some experts thought it was odd that no one had seen a fiery space rock blaze across the sky.

That turned out to be the first of many clues suggesting that the unusual incident wasn't caused by a space rock, but likely by a land-based explosion — one that killed one person and injured three others, experts told Live Science.

"Initial assessments, based on photos posted online, are not consistent with something from space," NASA said in a statement emailed to Live Science. "Small meteorites do not start fires or cause explosions when they hit the ground." [See Photos of Meteorites Discovered Around the World]

The intense scrutiny paid to the Indian event isn't out of the ordinary. Typically, researchers rush to find meteorites the moment these extraterrestrial rocks hit Earth, said Geoff Notkin, president of Aerolite Meteorites, the world's largest meteorite company, and former host of the TV show "Meteorite Men," which aired from 2009 to 2012 on the Science Channel.

Notkin has chased Earth-bound meteorites for more than 20 years, and shared his tactics for tracking down the space rocks. But first, it's important to review the terminology: Small chunks of rock in space are called meteoroids. They're called meteors (shooting stars) when they fall through Earth's atmosphere, and they're known as meteorites if they touch down on land or in the water. 

About 48.5 tons (44,000 kilograms) of meteoritic material falls on Earth daily, but it's usually the large, rare meteors and meteorites that make headlines (and craters), according to NASA.

Fireball in the sky

Large meteors often look like fireballs as they blast across the sky, much like the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor explosion that rained meteorites across parts of Russia and Kazakhstan, Notkin said. Researchers can use Doppler radar — the same technology that meteorologists use to predict the weather — to follow the meteor and its debris as it breaks apart during its flight.

"If we can get Doppler data on the falling patterns, it can really narrow the search area," Notkin said.

This stone meteorite was part of the massive Chelyabinsk fireball, seen over Russia on February 15, 2013.
Credit: Photographs by Geoffrey Notkin. Copyright 2016 Aerolite Meteorites Inc.

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Other than that, researchers rely on eyewitness accounts and video footage (if there is any) to track the meteor. Sometimes, meteorites tumble onto private land, and Notkin will ask landowners if he can look on their property. (If the meteorite is later sold after being studied, Notkin and the landowner will agree on how to split the profits, he said.) In the United States, a meteorite that falls on a landowner's property belongs to the landowner, but if a space rock falls on public land, it belongs to the Smithsonian Institution, Notkin said.

Once researchers find the landing site, they examine objects in the area. Chances are, it's a meteorite if it has "a thin, black rind" on its surface — one that formed when the rock was "superheated" as it raced through Earth's atmosphere, he said.

"When they make it to Earth, they look very much like charcoal briquettes," Notkin said.

Moreover, meteorites are rich in iron, so they stick to magnets, he said. But the longer a meteorite sits on Earth, the more it's exposed to oxygen, water, fertilizers and other contaminating elements.

"There's a real urgency to recover them and get them to the lab as quickly as possible," Notkin said. "These are recently arrived visitors from outer space that have a lot of potential valuable information that they can tell us about their origin." [Crash! 10 Biggest Impact Craters on Earth]

Once a meteorite is in the lab, researchers can analyze its components. For instance, the mineral schreibersite, which contains nickel, iron and phosphorous, is found only in iron meteorites, Notkin said. Another clue is the Widmanstätten pattern, a geometric structure unique to iron meteorites, he said. Some meteorites are packed with gemstones, which form on asteroids that once had a molten core and formed crystals out of the magma.

Recovered meteorites can also yield fascinating geologic discoveries. In 2011, researchers found a new type of mineral on a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite.

Space rock skeptic

After investigating countless meteorites, Notkin said he was skeptical when he heard about the Indian episode.

"When there's an unexplained event — when there's an explosion or a strange rock appears — it's very common for people who don't have expertise in meteorite science to say, 'Oh, that must be a meteorite. It must be something that fell out of the sky,'" Notkin said.

NASA seemed to echo that skepticism.

"To form a crater the size of what has been posted online would have required a meteorite of at least several kilograms," NASA said in the statement. "While more details may be forthcoming from local scientists, this is unlikely something from space."

Follow Laura Geggel on Twitter @LauraGeggel. Follow Live Science@livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on Live Science.

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13-02-2016 om 11:47 geschreven door peter  

Clinton wades into quicksand of the UFO phenomenon

By Darren Bond

In early 2016, Hillary Clinton gave what might be the most significant signal ever telegraphed to the American people about UFOs.

Or she just confirmed that the concussion she suffered three years ago has finally gotten to her.

On Jan. 4, Clinton, in response to a question from a reporter, stated that she intended to get to the bottom of the UFO issue and opined that she thinks we may have been visited, but wasn’t sure. She also stated that her campaign manager, John Podesta, made her personally pledge to get the information out. She suggested a task force might be created to look into the matter.

This is not the first time a person running for the Presidency has expressed an interest in the topic. President Jimmy Carter, during his 1976 campaign, stated that, as president, he would seek to get all the information about UFOs released to the public. It has beenreported that during a top-secret intelligence briefing, one of the first questions the newly elected President Carter asked the then-current CIA director George H.W. Bush was whether he could get access to the government’s information related to UFOs. Bush denied the request, stating that the president-elect had no “need to know” this information.

President George H. W. Bush

In a strange twist, we fast-forward to Oct. 15, 2015, when that very same former CIA director and former-President George H.W. Bush — while campaigning for his son Jeb — was asked whether the government would ever tell the truth about the UFO phenomenon. His response was, “Americans can’t handle the truth.” Naturally, Jeb’s spokesman said the comments didn’t represent the campaign.

Toward the end of the same article, reporting on the President’s comments, the writer suggested that Bush Sr. was likely suffering from some form of senility; however, undercutting that assertion in the very same article were the former president’s 1988 comments on the subject when his senility was not in question. He verified that the issue was classified, and that he knew a good deal about it.

Mainstream media have long-dismissed stories on the subject by making the obligatory comment about little green men. Everyone then chuckles because educated media types all know that humans are the only beings in the universe.

True to form, when Hillary Clinton broached the subject in January, CNN suggested she was joking. But while she may have been somewhat playful in her demeanor, the substance and extent of her comments suggested purpose and planning.

Clinton has been involved in UFO discussions through what the UFO community refers to as the Rockefeller Initiative. She has a good bit of background on the issue. We can either assume she is senile, was just joking, or she has some calculated interest in revealing what would be the most important disclosure in human history.

Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta

The key is John Podesta. He has stated that getting the UFO files released was his greatest failure while in the Obama Administration.

He also encouraged Lena Dunham to ask Hillary about UFOs several months ago.

The campaign neither disavowed Hillary’s comments nor suggested she was joking. Also, keep in mind that her comments were made on the weekend at a small-town newspaper, a prime time and location to test the waters on a new issue.

The main directive of any campaign manager is to stay on point. Promoting the campaign manager’s UFO opinions is not part of that prime directive. I find it hard to believe that the campaign hadn’t rehearsed this and probably a thousand other off-the-wall questions. She could easily have said she had no interest in the topic. If she wanted to be playful, why not joke about Donald Trump’s hair being the vestigial remains of his Sasquatch heritage?

Of course, maybe these were the gratuitous ravings of a politician trying to get the UFO community’s vote. But she didn’t just make one statement: She promised action. These tangible expressions and promises for the government to review the issue are steps that no governmental official, past or present, has been willing to even acknowledge, much less pursue.

In this author’s humble opinion, the evidence for the UFO phenomenon is so overwhelming that only the uninformed will be surprised by the reality of UFOs. (Check out the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure for a comprehensive background). What the phenomenon represents is another matter.

The political repercussions of UFO disclosure

Regardless of your view, the perplexing question remains: What could the Democratic frontrunner for the U.S. presidency gain by interjecting the issue of UFOs into her campaign?

The speculation starts with the assumption that UFOs are a real phenomenon that the government knows exists but is unwilling to admit. If we don’t assume at least that much, then I can’t really see any advantage for Hillary Clinton to mention the subject.

As a candidate who is not adored among her supporters nor trusted among the voters generally, what would be the advantage to mention the topic if she thought it were a dead end? It would seem to have only downsides and no upside; however, what if she felt she needed to swing for the fence with some truly game-changing information that could change the dynamic and the topic of the race?

There is no doubt changing the topic of her campaign would be helpful. Recently, she has faced questions about her health. She is facing an insurgent campaign from Bernie Sanders that has gained momentum. Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades have been forcefully reconstituted in the new book, The Clintons’ War on Women, and are systematicallyseeping into the campaign. Her role in the destruction of the credibility of Bill’s victims is a major part of the book and an awkward issue for the campaign. The never shy Donald Trump has not so gently fanned those flames.

The Clinton Foundation’s fundraising from foreign sources is still ripe for discussion. The Benghazi affair lingers. Finally, and probably most importantly, the classified email problem continues to fester and could result in an indictment, and an indictment in the middle of the campaign would be almost insurmountable.

All these issues undercut the image of Hillary as a champion of women and a competent, trustworthy leader. UFO disclosure is the one issue that could vaporize every one of her political liabilities and render Donald Trump and the seven dwarfs irrelevant.

The effects of a Disclosure President

Hillary would probably not be the Disclosure President; however, for Hillary to get the political benefit of disclosure, she only has to set off the chain reaction and watch as President Barack Obama makes the announcement. In this one stroke, Obama is made relevant and thrust back into a worldwide media storm — not the story of the year, but the story of all recorded human history. While President Obama might bask in the attention, he would have to answer some of the most difficult and delicate questions a president has ever been asked, thus clearing the way for the next president to continue the project of disclosure with very little political risk.

In the meantime, disclosure would suck all of the air out of the election, obliterating her political baggage. She would then become a champion of truth on the most important issue of all time. She would be instantly changed into the good government advocate that brought transparency to that good ol’ boy military-industrial complex, which had been sitting on this truth for its own purposes for at least 70 years. It would give her the power to move forward and control the debate on the issue.

It would also disconnect her from the systematic deception of the government. How would Americans react if the country had been denied the benefits of transformative technologies paid for by the citizens but hidden for decades? What if NASA had been building rockets while the government had space technology capable of traveling easily to planets and maybe the stars? By initiating the start of disclosure, Hillary Clinton would guarantee her role as the first woman president and the greatest whistleblower the world has ever seen.

Presidential candidates Cruz and Trump

One can imagine the confusion and consternation of the two leading Republicans with the change of topic. How could Trump recapture the limelight? His campaign against illegal “aliens” would take on a new meaning. He would no doubt brag that he had long known everything there is to know about UFOs. (In fact, he was trailed by a UFO at a recent campaign stop.) But he would be in the most uncomfortable position of having President Obama and Hillary Clinton leading the discussion with the real inside scoop.

Ted Cruz would have a different problem. Since his base is substantially made up of the evangelical right, the religious implications would pose a serious challenge to this group’s religious world views. Would they take the position that disclosure was an elaborate conspiracy? Not a preposterous idea. Would they express the revelation as demonic interference and mesh this notion into their end-times theology? A person with Cruz’s intellect, political smarts and obvious religious faith would have to very quickly come up with a convincing and unifying reaction.

Many Americans would sigh a bit of relief that the government had finally admitted what was obvious to them. The cultural conditioning that has been going on for the last 70 years would finally make sense to everyone.

If Hillary could pull off disclosure, she would likely guarantee her election; however, if she attempted it and failed, it would probably be the final nail in the coffin of her candidacy.

Either way, it would be the most interesting pre  sidential campaign in American history.

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13-02-2016 om 11:37 geschreven door peter  

Epic Gravitational Wave Detection: How Scientists Did It

A technician works on some of the optics for a Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detector.

To spot gravitational waves directly for the first time ever, scientists had to measure a distance change 1,000 times smaller than the width of a proton.

Researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced today (Feb. 11) that they had made history's first direct detection of gravitational waves, enigmatic ripples in space-time whose existence was first predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's famous theory of general relativity.

The gravitational waves were generated by the merger of two medium-size black holes about 1.3 billion years ago, researchers said. These waves raced through space at the speed of light and encountered Earth, where they were picked up by LIGO's two huge detectors as a brief signal on Sept. 14, 2015. [Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO: Complete Coverage]

Supersensitive detectors

The LIGO detectors are in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington. Each one consists of a giant L-shaped structure with arms 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) long. A laser beam shines down each arm from the crux of the "L," and mirrors at the ends of these arms reflect the light back.

If the beams from both arms arrive back at the crux at the same time, they cancel each other out, and no signal is produced in the system's light detector. This is the normal, expected scenario. But if one of the beams arrives a bit late, a signal is produced, which could be evidence of a gravitational wave.

Gravitational waves, after all, distort the fabric of space-time. A wave that passes through a LIGO detector — and "passes through" is a fairly apt description, because gravitational waves do not interact meaningfully with matter — will lengthen space-time ever so slightly along one arm of the "L," and compress it along the other arm. 

"Ever so slightly" does not fully capture just how minuscule this distance change is, however. The effect LIGO observed last September works out to a shift of a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a meter — about one one-thousandth the diameter of a proton, project team members said.

To put this kind of sensitivity into yet more perspective, LIGO technology is theoretically capable of measuring the distance from the sun to the nearest star — Proxima Centauri, which lies about 4.25 light-years away — "to a level of about the width of a human hair," David Reitze of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), executive director of the LIGO Laboratory, said during a news conference today.

"LIGO is the most precise measuring device ever built," Reitze added.

Achieving this level of sensitivity isn't easy. For example, LIGO's laser beams travel down the detectors' arms in a near-perfect vacuum. And the system's light-reflecting mirrors hang from pendulums in a sophisticated quadruple-suspension setup, to isolate them from the everyday jiggling and jostling experienced on Earth's surface, LIGO team members said.

Furthermore, the groundbreaking detection wouldn't have been possible without a significant overhaul of the LIGO detectors, which first hunted for gravitational waves between 2002 and 2010. The project then took a five-year observing hiatus, as team members redesigned and upgraded the system's instruments to get a new "Advanced LIGO" up and running. [Study of Gravitational Waves Could Unravel Many Mysteries (Video)]

Advanced LIGO features a sensitivity 10 times that of the original incarnation, project representatives said. The new version began its first official observing campaign in September 2015 — a few days after the historic detection, which was actually made during an engineering test run.

The fact that Advanced LIGO made a detection so soon after getting to work suggests that the system will spot more gravitational waves in the near future, team members said.

"We ought to see some more over the coming year," said LIGO project co-founder Kip Thorne, also of Caltech.

Confirming the find

The Sept. 14 signal was spotted by both LIGO detectors, about 7 milliseconds apart. This double detection gave team members confidence that they had captured a real astrophysical event, rather than something produced by local environmental conditions.

But they still took great pains to rule out alternative explanations, scrutinizing a variety of detector data and the output of numerous on-site instruments that measure seismic activity, radio interference and many other possible sources of "noise" that could conceivably mimic a gravitational-wave signal, team members said.

"It took a long time to get this [result] out, and that's part of the reason," said LIGO project co-founder Rainer Weiss, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The signal also closely matched that predicted by supercomputer models of black-hole mergers, said LIGO Scientific Collaboration spokeswoman Gabriela Gonzalez, a professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University.

Details of the signal allowed the LIGO team to estimate the masses of the two merging black holes — 29 and 36 solar masses, respectively. The single black hole that resulted from this smashup contains just 62 times the mass of the sun.

"That's because there were three solar masses emitted in energy, in gravitational waves. That's a huge amount of energy," Gonzalez said. "And we can tell all of that from this tiny fraction of a second in the waveform."

Further details embedded in the signal revealed that the wave source lies about 1.3 billion light-years from Earth, she added. And the time delay between the signals recorded in Louisiana and Washington provided more information, allowing the LIGO team to triangulate that source's location to a degree.

"We can tell it came from the southern sky, in the rough direction of the Magellanic Cloud," Gonzalez said.

The LIGO collaboration will publish its results in an upcoming issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.

The LIGO project is operated by scientists at Caltech and MIT, and it's funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

13-02-2016 om 11:17 geschreven door peter  

Searching for Hollow Earth, Ufologists Find Underwater Skyscraper

Scientists, archaeologists and UFOlogists alike have been using the Google Earth software which proved to be very competent tool when it came to finding relics, unknown geological structures or even signs of extraterrestrial existence.

 

 There have been countless theories and even tens of detailed descriptions of a place called the Hollow Earth, where an advanced civilization discretely makes its living, far away from the savage jungle of our society. The growing interest for this topic made UFOlogists begin an ample search for this legendary place using – you guessed it – Google Earth.

 

Searching based on symmetry, they divided the globe in 3 zones and zoomed in on a spot located exactly opposite to the great Giza Pyramids. This exact spot held nothing interesting, but widening the search area and zooming in even closer, the UFOlogists discovered a massive structure, measuring approximately one mile in height, on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

 

 

Most people believe that this tower is not a natural formation, but rather an artificial one, simply because nothing similar has ever been discovered on our planet. For firm believers of the Hollow Earth theory, this was the final proof they needed, not only of its existence, but also the location or pathway. They geologically inspected the tower’s surroundings, and found something looking like a layer, a very large gap streching deeper than the ocean floor.

 

This so called layer is said to be similar, more or less, to what people who claim to have visited it depict. These people also said that the race inhabiting inner Earth doesn’t really hide there forever, but have chosen to come out very rarely, which probably means they do so in order to study us, and not for the resources (We didn’t believe that Earth was going to run out of resources soon anyway).

 

Hollow Earth theorists and UFO believers don’t normally agree. This case is a rare exception, and for completely different reasons. UFO researchers don’t really believe in the existence of another, slightly different or more advanced human race, but they have always accepted the possibility of inner Earth.

 

More than 95% of the world’s seas and oceans are entirely unexplored and most of the globe is covered in water, so mankind only knows very little about the planet it inhabits. What geological structures or life forms lay in the vast unknown areas might be beyond human comprehension. The possibilities are endless.

 

Also, people normally think of UFOs as pure aircraft or spacecraft. But if aliens could travel through space, then a UFO would have no problem submerging and navigating the oceans just like a submarine. UFOlogists now believe this tower to be part of a global network of such gigantic structures, used by ancient advanced civilizations (human, alien, or both) to transmit and receive large amounts of energy through great distances, or as some would say, from one side of the Earth to another.

 

Tesla also came up with a similar theory about transmitting the energy through air, proving it possible, but researchers who believe the ancient Egyptians, Mayans or Sumerians also possessed this technology are still not being taken seriously.

 

No country has yet to make an official statement on this discovery, which seems a bit odd, let alone send an exploration team (at least not officially). So here are the exact coordinates if you want to take a look for yourself. Let us know what you think.

 

32 ° 30’07 .74 “S / 149 ° 52’46 .51” W

 

http://www.ewao.com/

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13-02-2016 om 11:06 geschreven door peter  

World Mysteries 2016 | Vimanas - ancient flying machines - Ancient UFO And Spaceships

13-02-2016 om 10:47 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Prove Einstein Was Right After Detecting Gravitational Waves

The discovery may usher in a new era of astronomy and answer big questions about black holes.

ULLSTEIN BILD VIA GETTY IMAGES

Albert Einstein at his desk in Germany in 1929. It was years prior, in 1916, when he predicted the existence of gravitational waves as part of the theory of general relativity.

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13-02-2016 om 10:42 geschreven door peter  

Opportunity Rover Photo Sees Flying Object Over Hill, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: February 2016
Location of discovery: Mars
Source NASA photo: 

http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/1/n/4269/1N507176992EFFCP40P1978L0M1.JPG
Found by: Streetcap1 of Youtube.

Reports of strange things in rover photos never seem to cease, but its always the public that reports them. Here Streetcap1 of Youtube caught an object not to far in the distance that is moving from right to left of the screen. The is a faded trail behind it...a distortion of sorts which tells us the direction it came from. It looks like the spacecraft in the distance is watching the Opportunity rover. Observing it.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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13-02-2016 om 10:26 geschreven door peter  

Majestic 12: A UFO Disinformation Scandal

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13-02-2016 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

The Hidden Hand – Alien Abduction Documentary

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13-02-2016 om 00:57 geschreven door peter  

The Secret Space Program Full Documentary

The Secret Program Full Documentary features in-depth discussions of the secret space program, particularly its real identity, people responsible of its formation, and the reasons behind its development. It answers questions that have long been around, such as the truth about the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations, their advanced technology, and the people who have knowledge about it. It further explores why the truth has been kept secret from the public.

The documentary also features interviews with the Secret Space Program conference’s attendees in Amsterdam. They share their own stories or experiences about UFO sightings. There are also random street interviews of people in Amsterdam where locals share their thoughts about aliens, alien abductions, and alien contacts.

It is believed that a secret space fleet code known as “Solar Warden” has been in secret operation since around 1980, unknown to the public knowledge. The documentary makes you decide if this subject is nonsense, or conspiracy has been going on, or perhaps it is very sensitive that may cause confusion and commotion across the globe.

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13-02-2016 om 00:51 geschreven door peter  

Alien signs

UFO Congress EBE Award Winner – Best Documentary & Peoples Choice Award. Now featuring one of the best documentaries ever produced on the question of an Extraterrestrial connection to the Crop Circle phenomena. Recommended viewing from start to finish.

13-02-2016 om 00:47 geschreven door peter  

Aliens Killing Human Beings

I just found this interesting documentary on Youtube: Aliens Killing Human Beings – A Very Rare, Yet Documented Case.

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13-02-2016 om 00:42 geschreven door peter