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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...
03-03-2016
Project Horizon: Army Base on the Moon
Project Horizon: Army Base on the Moon
The Army's quest for the highest high ground was a project whose time never came
“ … a lunar outpost … is of critical importance to the U.S. Army of the future.” It was March 1959, and Army Lt. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau, the author of those words, was tasking the Army’s chief of ordnance to develop a proposal for a “manned lunar outpost” that would “protect potential United States interests on the moon.” The story behind this secret study (called “Project Horizon”) and the plan to have an Army base on the moon by 1966, is the story of a great idea whose time has never come.
When Trudeau wrote the ordnance chief, it was less than a year after the Soviets had shocked America and the West with the launch of the Sputnik satellite. With the United States now clearly behind in the so-called “Space Race” with the Soviets, it should come as no surprise that Trudeau and other senior Army leaders were thinking about a military presence in outer space in general – and on the moon in particular. In fact, according to a 118-page monograph produced by the Army in June 1959, “to be second to the Soviet Union in establishing an outpost on the moon would be disastrous to our nation’s prestige and in turn to our democratic philosophy.” Since the Soviet Union had already claimed that its citizens – and presumably the Red Army – would be on the moon in 1967, it was urgent for the United States to get there first.
The Army concluded that seventy-five Saturn II rocket launches could be achieved by the end of 1964 – with forty of these launches needed to put sufficient Project Horizon equipment into orbit for the lunar base’s construction.
The plan was to build a self-sustained moon base that would serve as an outpost for exploration of the moon, and further exploration of space. The base – which would house 10-20 personnel – would be the “first permanent manned installation on the moon” and, perhaps most importantly, would provide a platform for the Army, if required, to conduct “military operations on the moon.”
Cover sheet of the Project Horizon proposal. Note the illustration of the Saturn II that the Army planned to employ in building and supplying the moonbase.
The Army insisted that there were no known technical barriers to establishing a manned lunar base and believed that Project Horizon “should be a special project having authority and priority similar to the Manhattan Project in World War II.” After all, if America had built the atomic bomb, there was no reason that it could not put a handful of soldiers on the moon. Project Horizon contemplated using the multistage Saturn II rocket, then under actual development, and intermediate orbiting space stations (then only on drawing boards) to ferry construction materials to the moon. The Army concluded that seventy-five Saturn II rocket launches could be achieved by the end of 1964 – with forty of these launches needed to put sufficient Project Horizon equipment into orbit for the lunar base’s construction.
As for the base itself, the scientists and technicians who took part in Project Horizon suggested that natural “holes” or “caves” could be covered and sealed with pressure bags to create living space on the moon. This sort of construction also had the attraction of lessening the danger from meteorites and alleviating temperature extremes on the lunar surface. Drawings in the Army study also show a buried cylindrical structure that included living quarters – and an airlock to the surface. As for power, it would be provided by solar or nuclear energy. Oxygen and water could be extracted from the natural environment of the moon. Military personnel stationed on the moon would wear space suits and carry special weapons and equipment developed expressly for moon-use.
The proponents of Project Horizon argued that America’s ultimate goal on the moon should be to deploy moon-based weapons systems. Why? Because moon-based military power would be a strong deterrent to war since an enemy would have great difficulty in preventing U.S. retaliation.
The Army also proposed that a “unified space command” be created to control the lunar base and “that portion of outer space encompassing the earth and the moon.” There seems little doubt that the Army leaders who pushed Project Horizon saw an Army general as the perfect choice to lead such a unified command.
A page from the Project Horizon proposal, detailing plans for layout and living quarters.
The proponents of Project Horizon argued that America’s ultimate goal on the moon should be to deploy moon-based weapons systems. Why? Because moon-based military power would be a strong deterrent to war since an enemy would have great difficulty in preventing U.S. retaliation. This was because the enemy – read the Soviet Union – would have a hard time reaching the moon and, if American forces were already present, they could counter or neutralize any hostile force that might land. This, of course, was also the reason that American military forces must reach the moon first, and establish a military outpost, since the enemy could counter any U.S. attempt to land on the moon “if hostile forces were permitted to arrive first.”
A Manhattan Project-scale effort might have worked, but it would have required a huge increase in the U.S. government’s expenditures on defense and, as the alarm over Sputnik dissipated, there seems to have been diminishing political interest in funding a military base on the moon.
The Army officers working on Project Horizon concluded that the United States could establish “an operations lunar outpost by late 1966,” assuming that “initial manned landings” took place in the spring of 1965.
So what happened to Project Horizon, and the Army’s plan to have a manned lunar outpost?
First of all, the technological challenges were more difficult than the authors of Project Horizon had thought – and also considerably more expensive. A Manhattan Project-scale effort might have worked, but it would have required a huge increase in the U.S. government’s expenditures on defense and, as the alarm over Sputnik dissipated, there seems to have been diminishing political interest in funding a military base on the moon.
Second, the expansion of the war in Vietnam also siphoned off energy – and money – that might have gone to Project Horizon.
Finally, and most importantly, any future American military presence on the moon became an impossibility when the United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom signed an outer space treaty in 1967.
Known formally as the “Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies,” this international agreement limited the use of the moon to peaceful purposes. In short, the militarization of the moon was no longer an option – and remains an impossibility since this international treaty is still in effect.
It took until 1969 before a man – astronaut Neil Armstrong – would take a giant leap for mankind on the surface of the moon, but there is still no base of any kind there. While Project Horizon is largely forgotten today, it remains a great idea whose time simply never came.
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Leaked Footage of UFO Flying Extremely Close to a Russian Military Base has Just Surfaced
Leaked Footage of UFO Flying Extremely Close to a Russian Military Base has Just Surfaced
Leaked military footage of flying objects has recently surfaced and it shows the most amazing thing: a close-up view of a glowing sphere-UFO surprised by the security cameras surrounding a Russian military base. The video reveals further insight on the UFO phenomenon, and it may help us understand the purpose of these mysterious objects.
shown in the previous articles, the ‘orb-UFOs’ are a common sighting in present days, and there are countless reports and recordings of them. However, there has been no close-up view of the objects until recently.
On July 23, 2009, a military operator safety officer surprised what we presume to be an orb-UFO flying extremely close to the perimeter of a military base. The glowing sphere descended from above and approached the water surface of the Moskva River as if looking for something specific. The vigilant guard spotted and then immediately traced the object on the surveillance camera. Although no clear features can be observed other than the unusual glow that’s cloaking the device, the recently leaked video provides valuable evidence of the existence of these UFOs.
As the flying object approaches the water, its reflection starts to emerge, making it likely to be an authentic phenomenon. The device then starts to inspect the area as if interested in something. Its features don’t let much to see except for the usual glow and small dip in brightness, but since it was surprised from such a close distance, its size and round shape are clearly visible, thus excluding the possibility of them being piloted by someone. So are these devices remotely controlled, or do they have a mind of their own?
According to UFO analysts, the luminous sphere could be an alien drone that’s used by an advanced specie of extraterrestrials to spy on earthlings. Its cautious movement, in their opinion, is a clear indicator of it being remote-controlled for the sole purpose of gathering information. However, the fact that the orb-UFO is somehow neglecting the human surveillance cameras, as well as the deadly potential of entering a restricted perimeter of a military bases raises some question marks. Why is this mysterious device exposing to the threat of being downed or captured? Is it possible that its defense mechanism can deflect our earthly weapons? If so, is it trying to send a subtle message or is this lack of precaution a sign that the aliens have a secret pact with the military?
In my opinion, the military of the ‘World’s Powers’ could have a secret pact with otherworldly beings. Either that, or because of their black-budget programs they managed to develop technology way ahead of our time, and are now testing their toys on their own military grounds. Since we lack relevant evidence we can only interpret such cases, but the fact that there are many videos revealing UFO activity all around the world makes it likely that such devices really exist. Regarding their purpose, the best guess is that they are watching us from the shadows in order to understand the human behavior, and this could be because ‘they’ have reached Earth in the last one hundred years or so.
Other than the leaked footage from the Russian military base, TercerMilenio of Youtube compiled other two cases of bright flying spheres, but considering the potential of CGI these days, I do not rule out the possibility of them being manipulated since no relevant features such as reflection or a more detailed image of the material from which the UFO is built-of can be observed. Either this, or they could be organic entities, a hypothesis venturing far from the standard artificially designed devices. Whatever the truth, the provided footage may lead us one step closer towards understanding the widespread UFO phenomenon. What are your thoughts on this?
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@HillaryClinton aide John Podesta seeks UFO files, March 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
@HillaryClinton aide John Podesta seeks UFO files, March 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of news article: March 1, 2016 Location of news: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Source of article:
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-clinton-aide-seeks-ufo-files Here is a great article today by George Knapp, a fantastic and highly respected UFO researcher and journalist. He dives in to discus the potential for John Podesta to push for UFO disclosure if Hillary Clinton is elected as US president. A lot of people are saying Hillary was making a joke when she said it, but I believe she was 100% serous. She not a comedian, she is carful about her words overtime she speaks. If she says it, then she will try. Thats all we can ask right? Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: Several U.S. presidents are on the record, talking about the UFO mystery. Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan say they had UFO sightings of their own, but the current presidential campaign might be the first in which UFO disclosure has been championed by a major party candidate. During a recent campaign stop in Las Vegas, the campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told Politics NOW co-host Steve Sebelius that Clinton will try to get to the bottom of the UFO question. John Podesta has always been a strong advocate for declassification of government files in general and UFO files in particular. “I think the American people can handle the truth about this,” he said.
As White House Chief of Staff for former President Bill Clinton, Podesta helped declassify hundreds of millions of documents. If there were UFO secrets being held somewhere, however, they eluded even the president. Podesta returned to the White House as a special advisor to President Barack Obama. On the day he left the job, he sent out a Tweet saying his biggest disappointment was the failure to find and uncover the UFO files.
These days, Podesta has the ear of another potential president; he's running the campaign for Hillary Clinton. He made it clear to Sebelius that the UFO question has been discussed. “I've talked to Hillary about that. It's a little bit of a cause of mine, which is, people really want to know what the government knows, and there are still classified files that could be declassified,” he said. It wasn't an offhand remark. Podesta has encouraged journalists to ask his candidate about UFOs, and a few have done so.
Mrs. Clinton told a New Hampshire newspaper that she intends to get to the bottom of the UFO mystery, thinks it is possible the planet may have been visited and would consider creating a task force to investigate Nevada's Area 51 military base. The base became a center of UFO attention more than 25 years ago because of reports that aired on KLAS-TV. CNN characterized Mrs. Clinton's remarks as jokes, but Podesta makes it clear that he and his candidate are serious. “I think I've convinced her that we need an effort to kind of go look at that and declassify as much as we can, so that people have their legitimate questions answered,” he said. “More attention and more discussion about unexplained aerial phenomena can happen without people who are in public life, who are serious about this, being ridiculed.” The Clintons know first-hand how the UFO topic invites ridicule.
Many people may remember the frequent tabloid headlines during the Clinton presidency with titles such as “Hillary Adopts Alien Baby” or “Space Alien Endorses Bill.” More recently, conspiracy theorists have suggested there are UFO secrets hidden in Mrs. Clinton's private e-mails. It comes with the territory. “I come in for my fair share of people asking questions about whether I am off my rocker, but I've been a long-time advocate of declassification of records,” Podesta said. Huffington Post writer Lee Speigel has followed the UFO debate since the late 1970s. He notes that Podesta has been way out in front on UFO disclosure in speeches at places like the National Press Club. “It's time to open the books," Podesta told the club. “He ended one of his speeches by saying, not only could the public handle it, but we should do it because it's the law,” Speigel said. In the mid-1990s, billionaire Laurence Rockefeller lobbied the Clintons to end UFO secrecy. Mrs. Clinton was photographed with Rockefeller while holding a book titled, “Are We Alone? The Implications of Discovery of ET Life.”
Bill Clinton has made public statements confirming that he tried to get to the bottom of UFO issues while in office. “First thing I did is send people to Area 51 to see if there were any aliens there,” he told late night host Jimmy Kimmel. The government's interest in UFOs officially ended with the closure of Project Blue Book in 1969, but suspicion remains that unexplained encounters involving national security are still being studied by someone. Podesta suspects someone is holding on to a large cache of UFO files. Speigel says several whistleblowers have surfaced over the years, including the late lunar astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who say secrets are still being kept. “There's military people coming forward now saying, ‘Yeah, the government never did stop investigating UFOs,’ and we need to own up to that,” Speigel said. “We can see what's going on here in Nevada,”
Podesta said. Mrs. Clinton's rival for the Democratic nomination, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, was also asked about UFOs. He said he is far more interested in issues that are more pressing for most Americans.
Grey Aliens are by far the most famous and most reported type of aliens out there. Also known for the famous UFO crash, Roswell Greys have even been reported by famous people. Are they friendly? Do they come in peace? Or are they evil masterminds preparing to invade us?
Area 51 is one of America's, if not the world's, most mysterious places, home to a host of conspiracy theories, including the development of time travel and extraterrestrial activity. WatchMojo takes a look at the top five facts about Area 51.
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U.S. Navy research optical physicist Bruce Maccabee discussed his decades-long quest to force the release of government documents relating to the UFO subject. Many of the issues and events he originally uncovered were appropriated by the X-Files TV series as plot points. He began searching government archives for UFO documents in the mid-1970s and reported his findings in UFO journals at the time. He said that beginning in the early 1950s, even though the Air Force was privately considering an interplanetary explanation for UFOs, they pursued a public policy of denial, which continues to this day. This is supported by many documents that Maccabee uncovered, which he says show that at the time they were written by the military, FBI, and CIA, and “no one thought any of this would ever get out.” In 1977, he received a call from the FBI in response to a letter and was told that there were 16000 pages of UFO material in the FBI files. He says it is more difficult to get historical documents released nowadays.
Twee weken geleden lanceerde de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA de Sentinel-3A satelliet in een baan rond de aarde. Bovenstaande foto is het eerste beeld dat de satelliet doorstuurde naar de Aarde.
Op de foto is de Noorse archipel Svalbard te zien. De eilandengroep bestaat uit drie grotere en een tachtigtal kleine eilanden. Het beeld werd op 29 februari genomen samen met twee andere foto's van het Iberische schiereiland en Californië.
STERRENKUNDE 'The Great Tilt' op de planeet Mars heeft zich veel later voorgedaan dan tot nu toe aangenomen, zo heeft de Britse krant The Guardian vandaag op gezag van een publicatie in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature gemeld.
Ten gevolge van een uitbarsting van het vulkanisch complex Tharsis zijn het oppervlak en de mantel van de rode planeet met zowat twintig tot 25 graden gekanteld ten opzichte van de kern, waarbij rivieren en ijskappen zich over tientallen miljoenen jaren heen verplaatsten. Als zoiets op aarde zou gebeuren, zou Parijs op de noordelijke pool gaan liggen, legt Sylvain Bouley van de Universiteit Paris-Sud uit.
Het gebeuren leidde tot het uitzicht van Mars nu.
Waar men er eerst van uitging dat 'The Great Tilt' zich 3,7 miljard à 4,1 miljard jaar geleden had voorgedaan, leren nieuwe simulaties dat het veel recenter gebeurde. Met name 3,1 tot 3,7 miljard jaar geleden.
Feit is dat Tharsis met jonge lava is bedekt die minder dan drie miljard jaar oud is.
WETENSCHAPDe gigantische deeltjesversneller LHC van het Europees Centrum voor Nucleair Onderzoek CERN is mogelijk iets op het spoor waarbij de vondst van het Higgsdeeltje en de recente bevestiging van het bestaan van zwaartekrachtsgolven verbleekt. Dat heeft het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift New Scientist vandaag op gezag van de Italiaanse vorser Gian Giuduce getwitterd.
The LHC may have found a surprise particle that gives a glimpse into a new theory of reality http://ow.ly/YZhze
Bij de botsing tussen deeltjes in de Large Hadron Collider (LHC) zijn twee 'bumps' opgedoken, onafhankelijk van elkaar en op dezelfde plaats, in de jongste data van het Atlas- en het CMS-experiment dat in juli 2012 het bestaan van het 'godsdeeltje' of het Higgsdeeltje bevestigde.
Mogelijk gaat het een verrassend zwaar deeltje dat de deur openzet voor een totaal nieuwe theorie in plaats van de bevestiging van een bestaande, zo citeerde het blad Giuduce.
Het Higgsdeeltje was het sluitstuk van het Standaard Model over het wezen van de materie. Het bestaan van het deeltje dat alle andere deeltjes massa geeft was al vijftig jaar tevoren voorspeld door de Schot Peter Higgs en de Belgen François Englert en Robert Brout. Dankzij de bevestiging van het bestaan kreeg Englert de Nobelprijs voor Fysica.
Het valt nu af te wachten of er in de komende weken en maanden nog meer hints tevoorschijn zullen komen.
WETENSCHAPIn onze Melkweg lijkt er een gigantische deeltjesversneller te zitten, wellicht in de vorm van een enorme ster. Dat zegt astronoom en astrofysicus Stijn Buitink van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Zijn publicatie verschijnt morgen in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature.
De kosmos is een gevaarlijke plek, zegt Buitink in een communiqué van de VUB. Er vliegt van alles met hoge snelheid in het rond: van kometen tot elementaire deeltjes. Sommige van die deeltjes beschikken over een energie die een miljoen keer groter is dan in de grootste deeltjesversneller op Aarde kan worden opgewekt. Volgens gangbare theorieën zijn ze afkomstig van verre en exotische bronnen, zoals zwarte gaten in andere sterrenstelsels.
Sterrenkundigen van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel en de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen hebben ontdekt dat ook veel dichter bij huis, in onze Melkweg, deeltjes worden geproduceerd met veel extremere energie dan gedacht.
"Wij denken dat er een zeer krachtige deeltjesversneller in ons sterrenstelsel zit, wellicht in de vorm van een enorme ster", aldus professor Buitink. De door dit kosmisch 'instrument' geproduceerde deeltjes reizen aan bijna lichtsnelheid door het heelal totdat ze als een kogel inslaan op de aardatmosfeer. Daarbij spatten ze uiteen in een douche van talloze kleinere deeltjes.
"Door wisselwerking met het magnetische veld van de Aarde ontstaat vervolgens een zeer korte (enkele miljardsten van een seconde) maar felle radioflits", zegt Olaf Scholten, deeltjesfysicus aan de Universiteit van Groningen.
De circa 20.000 radioantennes van de Europese radiotelescoop LOFAR zijn in staat deze flits nauwkeurig te meten. Voor het eerst is het nu gelukt om vanuit het radiosignaal terug te rekenen naar de veroorzaker van de inslag. "We kunnen de kogel nu identificeren", zegt Heino Falcke van de Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen. "In de meeste gevallen blijkt het om een enkele proton of een lichte atoomkern te gaan, afkomstig uit waterstof- of heliumatomen".
Dankzij de radiotelescoop is voor het eerst heel precies de massa van deze deeltjes bepaald, aldus Buitink. "Het blijkt dat ze lichter zijn dan verwacht. Dat betekent dat er mogelijk veel sterkere bronnen van dit soort hoogenergetische deeltjes in onze eigen Melkweg aanwezig zijn dan we aanvankelijk dachten".
Deze bronnen zijn volgens de wetenschappers te beschouwen als gigantische kosmische deeltjesversnellers. Ze zijn miljoenen keren sterker dan de Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Genève of welke toekomstige aardse cyclotrons dan ook. Bovendien zijn ze ook uitstekend inzetbaar voor natuurkundig onderzoek. "Deze deeltjes komen gratis en voor niks uit de ruimte aanzetten - wij hoeven ze alleen maar op te vangen", aldus Falcke. "Grappig genoeg kunnen we nu met eenvoudige FM-radioantennes aan hoge-energie-deeltjesfysica doen."
Astronaut Scott Kelly landt woensdagochtend om vijf uur na een jaar in de ruimte weer op aarde. Tijdens zijn verblijf in het International Space Station kletste de Amerikaan niet alleen met president Obama, maar was het vooral belangrijk om veel data te verzamelen. Kelly (48) en zijn identieke tweelingbroer Mark (die heeft een snorretje) vormen namelijk samen de prestigieuze NASA Twin Study.
Ergens in de woestijn van Kazachtsan landt de Amerikaanse astronaut Scott Kelly samen met zijn Russische collega Mikhail Korniyenko. Na een ruimtereis van 340 dagen - de langste ooit voor een Amerikaan - worden de beide astronauten als helden ontvangen. De Nederlander Piet Smolders, oud-directeur van Artis Planetarium in Amsterdam, kijkt uit naar de landing. "Dankzij Kelly en zijn identieke tweelingbroer kan er nu goed vergelijkend onderzoek worden gedaan naar het effect van gewichtloosheid op de lange termijn op een lichaam.''
Het is niet zo gek dat NASA graag wil weten wat gewichtloosheid met mensen doet. De reis naar Mars gloort aan de horizon, maar welk effect heeft een reis van acht maanden in de ruimte nou eigenlijk op het menselijk lichaam? Niemand die het precies weet. Voor, tijdens en na de vlucht ondergaan de broers fysieke en psychische onderzoeken. Mark, een gepensioneerd astronaut, ondergaat er zes en Scott elf. Eentje is bijvoorbeeld om te kijken hoe lichaamssappen zoals bloed en urine door het lichaam stromen tijdens een lange periode van gewichtloosheid. Daarnaast wordt er ook gekeken naar veranderingen in bloedcellen en de aanpassingen in het immuunsysteem.
Smolders: "Als je een tijd in de ruimte bent, verslappen je spieren fors.'' Je botten worden ook steeds dunner. Elke maand in de ruimte verlies je 1,5 procent aan botmassa. "Door veel te trainen, kan je dat wel een beetje tegengaan, maar de eerste uren op aarde ben je nog niet in staat om op je eigen benen te staan. Dat zie je ook altijd bij een astronaut die landt: die wordt in Kazachstan opgevangen door een groep mensen, op een soort strandbed gelegd en weggedragen.''
Maar op Mars staat er niemand om astronauten op te vangen. Daar moeten ze op eigen kracht aan de slag gaan. "De zwaartekracht op Mars is ongeveer de helft van die op aarde. Met kunstmatige zwaartekracht kunnen de astronauten er lichamelijk wel op worden voorbereid, maar het blijft een ingewikkelde kwestie'', vertelt Smolders.
Toch zijn er ook sceptici. Ruimtevaartdeskundige Luc van den Abeelen bijvoorbeeld, denkt dat NASA de reis van de tweeling vooral gebruikt als propaganda. "Als je puur wetenschappelijk kijkt, is een onderzoek met slechts twee proefpersonen natuurlijk niet zo best.'' En er zijn wel wat meer wetenschappelijke wenkbrauwen gefronst: Zo eet aardbewoner Mark bijvoorbeeld geen astronautenvoer, zoals zijn zwevende broer.
Van den Abeelen vermoedt dat het NASA hoogstwaarschijnlijk meer om geld te doen is. "Ze zijn de Amerikanen en de toekomstige president aan het opwarmen om meer budget vrij te maken voor hun onderzoeken. Dat vind ik prima hoor, maar om nou te zeggen dat dit een grote stap in de richting van Mars is...''
Maar toch... zo'n ruimtereis en alle tweets, foto's en filmpjes die Scott Kelly naar aarde stuurt, blijft iets magisch om te volgen, vinden beide mannen. Van den Abeelen: "Ondanks mijn scepsis blijf ik groot fan. Het is bovendien toch fantastisch als je bedenkt dat de eerste man of vrouw die straks in 2030 op Mars nu al op aarde loopt, of kruipt.''
After zipping around Earth for nearly a year, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly must now get used to living on the planet's surface again.
Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth with a landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan late Tuesday (March 1), ending their unprecedented 340-day stay aboard the International Space Station.
Shortly after landing, both spaceflyers — along with cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, who also came home, but after the typical, 5.5-month station mission — were taken out of their Soyuz spacecraft, placed in chairs near the landing site and taken into a medical tent for an hour-long "field test" to assess their general condition. [Welcome Home! Landing Photos for 1-Year Astronaut Scott Kelly]
That test consists of a variety of experiments, Kelly said late last month in his final conversation from the space station with reporters.
"Some are physical — kind of like even an obstacle course, where you run around obstacles and stand up from a sitting position, and jump and stand," he said.
The spaceflyers then went their separate ways, with Kornienko and Volkov headed to Moscow and Kelly to Houston, where NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) is located.
NASA astronauts just back from an ISS mission undergo several hours of medical tests at JSC, Kelly said. They then generally complete a 45-day "reconditioning period," to build up bone mass and muscle strength lost in the microgravity environment of space, said Stevan Gilmore, the lead flight surgeon for Kelly's one-year mission.
"There are daily workouts and exercises to make sure that we return the crewmember back to the same kind of functioning that they had before the mission started," Gilmore said last month during a NASA TV interview with NASA spokesman Dan Huot.
Even though Kelly stayed aboard the International Space Station for twice as long as crewmembers usually do, the current plan is to put him through the standard 45-day reconditioning program, Gilmore added.
"We do have the latitude, in the case that a little bit more time is required for the rehab process — we can extend that if necessary," Gilmore said. "But I anticipate that it'll look in many ways similar to the six-month experiences that most of the station astronauts have."
The main goal of Kelly and Kornienko's mission — a joint effort involving the United States and Russia —is to better understand how astronauts cope physiologically and psychologically with long-duration spaceflight. This information should help mission planners map out future crewed journeys to Mars, NASA officials have said. (The space agency aims to get astronauts to the vicinity of the Red Planet in the 2030s.)
Kelly and Kornienko are participating in 17 different experiments related to the one-year mission, said John Charles, the chief scientist of NASA's Human Research Program. And those experiments aren't over just because the spaceflyers have landed.
Indeed, Charles said, many of the duo's blood samples won't even come down to Earth until next month, when the samples are scheduled to land aboard SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo capsule. Furthermore, researchers will be tracking Kelly and Kornienko's progress for a while even after that happens.
"There's months and months of post-flight data collection," Charles told NASA spokesman Gary Jordan during an interview on NASA TV last month.
"In some cases, up to nine months after landing, we're still acquiring samples of the astronauts — perhaps even longer, as they return to their normal duties and we acquire data from their annual physicals and so forth," Charles added. "And then the data analysis really begins."
Some of this analysis involves comparing Scott Kelly to his identical twin brother, Mark, himself a former NASA astronaut. Mark stayed on the ground during the yearlong mission and serves as a control, to help researchers identify any genetic changes spaceflight induced in Scott.
Space Station Live: Research Results During One Year Mission
Scott Kelly said during his last in-space news conference that he has been experiencing some issues with his vision, a common occurrence among astronauts. However, while scientists will ultimately have the last word on how the 340-day mission affected Kelly, the astronaut said he's doing all right.
"Physically, I feel pretty good," Kelly said.
The nearly yearlong mission, while unprecedented for the ISS, did not set the record for most time spent in space continuously. Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov earned that distinction, living aboard Russia's Mir space station for more than 437 days, in 1994-95.
Asteroid Could Fly Within Earth's Satellites Next Week
Asteroid Could Fly Within Earth's Satellites Next Week
by Jonathan O'Callaghan
photo credit: Geostationary satellites orbit at about 35,000 kilometers (22,000 miles). Johan Swanepoel/Shutterstock
First things first: There’s no cause for alarm. Asteroid TX68 poses no threat to Earth at the moment. But this asteroid, due to fly past Earth on March 8, is rather interesting.
That’s because, while there is huge uncertainty in how close it will fly past, it might come as close as 24,000 kilometers (15,000 miles). This would be within the orbit of geostationary satellites, which orbit at 35,000 kilometers (22,000 miles).
As mentioned, there is a large amount of uncertainty, though. While that’s the closest approach, it may pass anywhere between there and several million kilometers. NASA'slatest estimate suggests it will fly past at 5 million kilometers (3 million miles). We won’t know for certain until after the asteroid has passed, if we get a chance to observe it.
“2013 TX68 is estimated to be about 100 feet [30 meters] in diameter,” said Cornell University Ph.D. student Sean Marshall, who works on observations of near-Earth asteroids, in a statement. “Its closest approach could be within Earth’s ‘ring’ of geostationary satellites, or it could be 40 times the distance to the Moon – or anywhere in between.”
The chances of the asteroid actually hitting anything are slim to none, though. Space is vast, so don’t expect any satellites to get knocked out any time soon. Nonetheless, it’s a pretty neat event. This isn’t the first time an asteroid has come this close – without actually hitting us, of course – but with more modern telescopes, we should hopefully get a good chance to take a look at the asteroid.
“Should this asteroid come closer than the geostationary satellites, it would be a rare occurrence – that only happens about once per decade for large asteroids,” added Marshall. “What we know for sure is that it will not collide with Earth this month, so do not panic.”
The asteroid will fly past us again on September 28, 2017, with a one in 250 million chance of hitting us. Further flybys in 2046 and 2097 have similarly low probabilities. But while these are low, they do highlight the importance of tracking asteroids to ensure we won’t be hit, something that will be highlighted by the upcoming Asteroid Day on June 30, 2016.
Antimatter Spacecraft Could Sail To Alpha Centauri In Just 40 Years
Antimatter Spacecraft Could Sail To Alpha Centauri In Just 40 Years
by Alfredo Carpineti
photo credit: Artist’s concept of the antimatter driven sail. Steven Howe/Hbar Technologies, LLC
The dream of interstellar travel could be closer than we think, or at least, that's the claim of physicists Gerald Jackson and Steven Howe, who have been working on an antimatterpropulsion system for over a decade now, as reported by Forbes.
Their proposal is for an antimatter-driven sail that could deliver a 10-kilogram (22-pound) probe to the next closest star system, Alpha Centauri, in just 40 years using 17 grams (0.6 ounces) of antihydrogen. The large 100-kilogram (220 pounds) sail would be five meters (16 feet) in diameter, made of carbon, and coated with depleted uranium.
Propulsion would be driven by antimatter stored by the probe. When the antihydrogen hits the sail, the uranium atoms undergo fission. The main product of this fission is two similar sized atoms with high and opposite speeds. One will hit the sail, propelling it forward, and the other will be lost in space. Via this method, the researchers say the probe could reach speeds up to 10 percent the speed of light, reaching the edge of the Solar System in just 10 years.
One of the main issues that need to be addressed, though, is how to store the antimatter. Antimatter is a mirror version of normal matter, which we are made of. Antimatter particles, like the positron and the antiproton, have the same mass of their ordinary matter counterparts but have an opposite charge. When matter and antimatter come into contact they annihilate, turning into pure energy. It is still not clear why the universe is made of matter instead of antimatter.
The idea was first proposed in 2003, at the Particle Accelerator Conference, but it was not pursued due to lack of funding. So, Jackson and Howe, via their company Hbar Technologies, are planning to launch a Kickstarter campaign next month that would allow them to construct a proof-of-concept design and a device to measure the thrust of such system. They hope to raise $200,000, which will provide funding for the next phase of the research.
“Crowdfunding may be a good way to show interest in the project when it comes time to find bigger investors or governmental support,” Jackson told Forbes.
“We will then need funding on the order of $100 million to actually build small prototype propulsion and power systems.”
First Ever Repeated Detection Of A Fast Radio Burst
First Ever Repeated Detection Of A Fast Radio Burst
by Alfredo Carpineti
photo credit: An aerial view of Arecibo where the FRB was observed. H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF
We thought we were finally getting a basic understanding of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) as rare and one-off events, and then Mother Nature decides to throw us a curve ball and hit us with the first repeating FRB.
The source, FRB 121102, was discovered first in 2012. Last year, an international team of researchers used the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope to look at the same region and they were surprised to find 10 additional bursts. As cataclysmic events don’t repeat themselves, the team believes that these bursts were produced by a highly magnetized, extragalactic neutron star.
FRBs were only discovered about a decade ago, and there are only a handful of known examples. These phenomena are isolated and rare, making it very difficult for scientists to understand their causes. The emission regions are estimated to be just a few hundred kilometers across, and it is thought that these signals are from another galaxy. These two qualities indicate that whatever is behind these events must be very bright.
Hypernovae and colliding binary neutron stars, or even black holes, have all been proposed as potential explanations. These events are all incredibly powerful but they would be a one-off occurrence, not a multiple-burst event like the one observed.
"Not only did these bursts repeat, but their brightness and spectra also differ from those of other FRBs," notes Laura Spitler, first author of the new paper, in a statement.
The research, published in Nature, comes in a big week for FRBs. Last week it was announced that scientists had pinpointed the location of an FRB for the first time, but now that claim is being questioned. Being able to pinpoint the exact location is paramount to understanding better these astrophysical events. To find the exact location of this unusual burst event, scientists will need to study the source in more detail.
"Once we have precisely localized the repeater's position on the sky, we will be able to compare observations from optical and X-ray telescopes and see if there is a galaxy there," says Jason Hessels, associate professor at the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. "Finding the host galaxy of this source is critical to understanding its properties."
NASA and Lockheed Martin are working to create the design for supersonic passenger jets that are quieter, and more sustainable, than traditional aircraft.
NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company for the preliminary design of a “low boom” flight demonstration aircraft. This is the first in a series of “X-planes” in NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency’s 2017 budget.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the award at an event Monday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
“NASA is working hard to make flight greener, safer and quieter – all while developing aircraftthat travel faster, and building an aviation system that operates more efficiently,” said Bolden. “To that end, it’s worth noting that it’s been almost 70 years since Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 as part of our predecessor agency’s high speed research. Now we’re continuing that supersonic X-plane legacy with this preliminary design award for a quieter supersonic jet with an aim toward passenger flight.”
Supersonic Heartbeat
NASA’s Commercial Supersonic Technology Project spent years conducting feasibility studies and working to better understand acceptable sound levels across the country. They then asked industry teams to submit design concepts for a piloted test aircraft that can fly at supersonic speeds, creating a supersonic “heartbeat.”
This “soft thump” would be less disruptive than the boom currently associated with supersonic flight.
Artist rendering from NASA
“Developing, building and flight testing a quiet supersonic X-plane is the next logical step in our path to enabling the industry’s decision to open supersonic travel for the flying public,” said Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator for NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission.
NASA’s pick, Lockheed Martin, will complete a preliminary design for Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST). The work will be conducted under a task order against the Basic and Applied Aerospace Research and Technology (BAART) contract at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Lockheed Martin will develop baseline aircraft requirements and a preliminary design. NASA is also looking for supporting documentation for concept formulation and planning.
Sustainability and Flight
NASA’s 10-year New Aviation Horizons initiative is all about sustainability. The project has the ambitious goals of reducing fuel use, emissions, and noise through innovations in aircraft design that departs from the conventional tube-and-wing aircraft shape.
Funding is the one of the biggest factors affecting timeline. Most likely though, we won’t see the New Aviation Horizons X-planes fly until 2020.
A La Défense, on parle OVNI à la cafétéria tous les mois
A La Défense, on parle OVNI à la cafétéria tous les mois
Ariane Riou
La Défense, mardi soir. Une soixantaine de fans d’OVNI se réunissent tous les mois aux Comptoirs Casino du centre commercial des Quatre-Temps pour parler de leur passion. (LP/A.R.)
Quand le centre commercial commence à se vider, ils investissent les lieux. Ce mardi soir, comme tous les premiers mardis du mois, les fans d’OVNI -objets volants non-identifiés - se réunissent dans la cafétéria des Quatre-Temps, à la Défense.
Au fond du couloir des Comptoirs Casino, dans une salle un peu dérobée du reste du restaurant, une soixantaine de personnes, attablées devant leur plateau-repas, écoutent religieusement l’intervenant du jour.
«Ça fait onze ans qu’on vient ici, confie Guy, le responsable de ces soirées OVNI, passionné depuis trente ans. Avant, on se réunissait dans une cafétéria parisienne mais c’était devenu moins pratique. Ici, ils sont contents de nous avoir un soir de semaine, car c’est surtout le midi que les salariés de La Défense viennent manger.»
«J’ai vu une boule lumineuse se poser sans bruit»
Ce soir-là, Viviane est l’une des premières participantes attablées. Elle fait partie des habituées. «Quand j’avais huit ans, j’ai vu une boule lumineuse se poser sans bruit à quelques mètres de ma maison. Elle est restée une minute et elle est repartie comme elle était arrivée, sans bruit, raconte cette Parisienne, qui assiste aux soirées depuis le début. Ça m’a marquée. Et je suis restée fascinée depuis.»
(LP/A.R.)
A côté d’elle, Annette vient, elle, pour la première fois. «J’ai toujours été intéressée par ces phénomènes bizarres, reconnaît cette habitante de Courbevoie. Je ne savais pas que ça existait à deux pas de chez moi et encore moins à La Défense. Je suis ravie de pouvoir en discuter.»
Derrière elles, au fond de la salle, Gilles écoute la conférence, bras croisés, derrière un tas de livres sur les soucoupes volantes qu’il a installé sur quelques tables de la cafétéria. «Quand le vigile a vérifié le contenu de ma valise à l’entrée du centre commercial, il était étonné en voyant mes livres. Il n’était même pas au courant qu’on se retrouvait ici tous les mois», sourit cet ufologue, intéressé par l’étude des objets volants.
«J’ai trop peur qu’on me prenne pour un fou»
Ici, tous les participants déplorent pâtir d’une mauvaise image auprès de l’opinion publique. «Quand j’ai raconté à mon entourage que je venais là, ils se sont foutus de moi», regrette Annette. Julien, 33 ans, évite aussi de parler de sa passion, «surtout au travail». « J’ai trop peur qu’on me prenne pour un fou », lâche cet habitué de 33 ans.
(LP/A.R.)
Il y a quelques années, quand les conférences ont commencé à être filmées et que les réseaux ont fait leurs apparitions, plusieurs fans se sont mis à déserter les conférences. «Ils avaient peur que leur patron découvre ce qu’ils faisaient et que ça nuise à leur travail», observe Guy, le responsable. A chaque conférence, l’anonymat des participants est donc respecté. Chacun s’attable librement avec ses questions et ses certitudes.
«Moi, je ne suis sûr de rien, mais ça m’intrigue», explique Julien. Gilles, lui, se décrit comme un «sceptique pragmatique». «Je suis ouvert à toutes les hypothèses», affirme-t-il. «L’univers est vaste, pourquoi il n’y aurait que de la vie sur Terre ?», questionne Guy. Philippe, qui assure qu’il serait capable «de fabriquer une soucoupe volante s’il avait de l’argent» est, quant à lui, «persuadé que les pyramides ne sont pas l’œuvre des terriens».
Je kunt natuurlijk proberen veel dingen op Mars te verklaren met “natuurlijk gevormd”, maar natuurlijk gevormde kruizen zijn zeldzaam, ongeacht op welke planeet je ze aantreft.
Het is een Fransman die een bijzondere ontdekking heeft gedaan op Mars van een rechtopstaand kruis in het landschap met daarnaast brokstukken van een ruïne.
Overal ter wereld houden mensen zich bezig met het bestuderen van foto’s die door NASA zijn vrijgegeven. Zoals bijvoorbeeld op Mars.
Dit keer is het de Fransman Christian Mace die een bijzondere ontdekking heeft gedaan, niet alleen van een rechtopstaand kruis, maar ook van iets dat lijkt op de restanten van een kerk of een tempel dicht in de buurt.
De onderkant van het kruis is enigszins verborgen door een rots, maar als je dezelfde foto van de andere kant zou nemen, is te zien dat je hier met een fors kruis te maken hebt.
Vlakbij dit kruis is nog een object ontdekt wat lijkt op een bewerkt dak van een gebouw dat in elkaar is gestort.
Ook dit lijkt niet iets dat op een natuurlijke manier is ontstaan, maar meer op de overblijfselen van een soort tempel of iets dergelijks.
Antwoorden over wat zich daar ooit op Mars bevond, hebben we niet. Maar, naarmate er meer wordt ontdekt, worden er wel steeds meer vragen opgeroepen.
Vragen waar voorlopig nog geen antwoorden op lijken te komen.
Strange UFO coin from 1680 puzzles the experts, March 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Strange UFO coin from 1680 puzzles the experts, March 2016, UFO Sighting News
I've been looking for one of these off and on for a few weeks. It looks really amazing and is absolute proof that in the 1600s the French witnessed enough UFO sightings to decide to put some what they saw on coins. This is a French jeton minted in somewhere between 1856 to 1680, a coin-like educational tool that was commonly used to help people count money, or sometimes used as a money substitute for playing games. It is about the size of a U.S. quarter-dollar and similar to thousands of other jetons with different religious and educational designs that were produced and used in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. It appears to commemorate a UFO sighting of a wheel like object. Some researchers feel it represents the Biblical Ezekiel's wheel. The Latin inscription 'OPPORTUNUS ADEST' translates as 'It is here at an opportune time".
If you are lucky you can find one on Ebay (Click Here) for anywhere between $20 US to $500 depending on the sellers asking price and condition of the coin. I heard from a guy who won a similar coin that he got for $45, because it was just listed for a few hours when he hit the buy it now button, so timing and luck are everything. Happy hunting. Scott C. Waring
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