Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S 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.
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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...
11-03-2016
Filer’s Files #11 – 2016 Intelligence Directs UFOs - PART I
On February 25, 2016, taking photos at Old Fort Parker above Groesbeck, Texas
Filer’s Files #11 – 2016 Intelligence Directs UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Admiral Farney on UFOs, UFO Crash in Missouri in 1941. First US Jet Disc, Lt. Colonel Talks about Investigating and Debunking UFO Sightings, Chosen: Chronicles of an Alien Abductee, and We Are Not Alone
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Egypt, India, New Zealand, Romania, South Africa, and England and Scotland in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
George A. Filer III
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Special Projects
Admiral Farney on UFOs
Navy Admiral Delmar S. Fahrney, former head of the Navy’s guided-missile program, statement was printed in New York Times, January 17, 1957
Retired Rear Adm. Delmer S. Fahrney said he has talked with a number of scientists and engineers who reported seeing strange flying objects. He added,“There are signs that intelligence directs such objects because of the way they fly. They are not entirely actuated by automatic equipment.” He said, “By the way they change position in formations and override each other would indicate that their motion involves a tremendous amount of technology of which we have no knowledge, and that their development must have taken a long period of time.”
Fahrney also stated, “Reliable reports indicate there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds and controlled by thinking intelligence’s.”
“There are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds… No agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve….
On January 16, 1957 – the day after NICAP’s Board of Governors met for the first time – Board Chairman Delmer S. Fahrney called a press conference. News media all over the country quoted his statements identifying him as one of the few “top brass” to speak out in defense of UFOs.
Note; A friend of mine Commander Bethune a pilot for Navy VIPs often flew Admiral Fahrney to Wright Patterson Air Force Base where he claimed some alien craft were kept and examined. The Navy became primary researchers for the government while the Air Force took most the heat from the news media.
UFO Crash in Missouri in 1941
By Paul Blake Smith, the 1941 UFO crash might well be the most exciting, shocking, and impact event that is now the subject of a new book.
Did three extraterrestrials really crash-land their circular spaceship on a farm just outside of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Pastor William G. Huffman, was called by police authorities to travel immediately to a crash site on April 12, 1941, He was to administer the last rites to the three member alien aircrew. Paster Huffman was escorted to the site and saw a crashed metal spaceship. The craft was flown by three identical Grey aliens.
This stunning recovery was then allegedly taken to a secret hiding place beneath perhaps the most recognizable building in the world? Was an aspect of the scientifically examined alien craft’s propulsion system applied to the U.S. nuclear weapons program to help win World War II?
The serious, amazing pre-Roswell claims and quotes, rumors and insights, opinions and documented facts are all examined here, in proper chronological, easy-to-read order, the only book to ever comprehensively explore perhaps the wildest nonfiction story of all time.
This book indicates the US had a crashed saucer from space to evaluate and to back engineer its technology as early as 1941;Huffman said he was given a photo of two men holding up one of the aliens, but the image was taken by a so-called photo expert and never returned to the Huffman family. he believes the aliens and their damaged craft were initially brought to the Sikeston Missouri Institute for Aeronautics, before being stored in an underground facility beneath the Capitol building in Washington DC. According to two sisters from Ohio, their father, Rev. Turner Holt, was taken on a tour of the secret rooms in the 1940s by Secretary of State Cordell Hull and shown three large jars, each containing a non-human with big eyes.Read the full recap here.
Below is a declassified oval office Top Secret memo indicates the alien crash was real and the recovered crash helped in the development of the atomic bomb in th Manhatten Project. Also they now have the opportunity to extend our technology.
First US Jet Disc
During World War II and immediately after the Navy developed a disc shaped craft. It’s possible the crashed Cape Girardeau craft helped in the development of the first US Jet Disc.
The first flight of the V-173 with conventional propellor engines was on 23 November 1942 with Vought Chief Test Pilot Boone Guyton at the controls. The aircraft’s most significant problem concerned its complicated gearbox that routed power from the engines to its two long propeller shafts. The gearbox produced unacceptable amounts of vibration in ground testing, delaying the aircraft’s first test flight for months. Flight testing of the V-173 went on through 1942 and 1943 with 190 flights, resulting in reports ofUFOs from surprised Connecticut locals. Charles Lindbergh piloted the V-173 during this time and found it surprisingly easy to handle and exhibiting impressive low-speed capabilities. On one occasion, the V-173 was forced to make an emergency landing on a beach. As the pilot made his final approach, he noticed two bathers directly in his path. The pilot locked the aircraft’s brakes on landing, causing the aircraft to flip over onto its back. Remarkably, the airframe proved so strong that neither the plane nor the pilot sustained any significant damage.
The basic wing area (427 sq ft.) and plan form (less elevators and propeller nacelles) of the V-173 and XF5U-1 were identical tested. A developed version of the originalV-173prototype, the XF5U-1 was a larger aircraft. Of all-metal construction, it was almost five times heavier. A modernized version with jet engines is shown in the photo.
The Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics established the Navy Liaison Office at Edwards AFB on August 28, 1946, to oversee development of the Vought XF5U-1 Skimmer.
Lt. Colonel Talks about Investigating and Debunking UFO Sightings
Recently at the International UFO Congress, an ex-fighter pilot approached Open Minds Antonio Huneeus and asked to share his story.
Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Dick French’s 27 years of military experience has taken him around the world. He has flown fighter jets in Vietnam and Korea, operated in military intelligence, and been exposed to some of our nation’s biggest secrets. His career started in the AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) where he would conduct stakeouts to remove personnel who were breaking the military’s code of conduct. He then moved on to pilot training school and became a pilot.
Later he was transferred to the 6004’s Air Intelligence Security Squadron where it was his duty to investigate any reported UFO sighting. He would collect any photographic evidence, question witnesses on the size and shape of the object, its estimated capability, and any other occurrences that surround the sighting. In the end though,
Lt. Col. French talked to me on several occasions and spoke very openly that UFOs exist and some are likely extraterrestrial. He indicated we did have pieces of alien craft but not much could be discerned from them. French mct Army Lt. Colonel Philip Corso who claimed key UFO parts were sent to aviation companies without explaining their source. He also claimed various advanced technology was back engineered.
Lt. Col. Richard French was a lead investigator on Project Blue Book in the 1950s, his job was to shoot down false reports of UFOs. Superiors told him to debunk the sightings however he could. They personally did not believe in alien UFOs. This position allowed him to travel to many interesting UFO hot spots while meeting high-ranking officials. Given his job, French never dreamed he would end up in Newfoundland one day watching what appeared to him to be two extraterrestrials performing repairs on a submerged, unknown circular craft.
In Washington, D.C., recently, the 83-year-old retired officer testified at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure in May3, of 2013 at the National Press Club in Washington a panel of six former members of Congress about his work as a UFO debunker in 1952.
French recounted how the Newfoundland incident unfolded in the early 1950s, after two UFOs were seen off the coast of St. John’s. French’s superiors ordered him to look into the situation.
“They told me there were two UFOs involved and that they were deep under the water, after entering the water doing roughly 100 miles an hour.
“There were a 100 people assembled on the wharf looking in amazement at the water, including several local policemen.”
Col. Richard French, Capt. Jim Courant, Major George Filer and John Callahan at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure:
French recalls the water was very clear and he could see two circular craft, each one about 18 feet in diameter and approximately 3 feet thick. He said the two objects were floating below the surface of the water, a couple of feet apart, not more than 20 feet from the shore. And he saw two beings in the water near the ships.“The first thing I saw was the UFOs, and it was apparent to me that they were doing something to the craft, and I couldn’t really tell what because they were on the bottom side of it and not visible to me except when they would occasionally get over to the side where I could see them. The water was fairly clear and I could see without any trouble. They weren’t down at the bottom of the [seabed] — they were about half way down.”
The beings he saw “were about 2 or 3 feet tall, light grey in color, very thin, long arms with either two or three fingers. The top of their heads was much wider than their jaw line, their eyes were very slanted and you couldn’t see pupils in them. They looked the way [aliens] have been depicted in motion pictures.”
As French watched, one of the ships began to rise out of the water.
“When it hit the [surface], it was going about 100 miles an hour. It then accelerated to somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 to 3,000 miles an hour and disappeared. It returned about 20 minutes later, slowed down to nearly a stop before it entered the water, then went down, and the two [beings] worked together.
“It took them about 20 minutes and then the two ships departed together, again slow when they exited the water, and immediately they sped up to a very high speed. I believe they were repairing [the ship] and tested that the repairs had been adequate, and then away they went.” Thanks to Lee Speigel and Antonio Huneeus
Chosen: Chronicles of an Alien Abductee
5 Stars.
Alien abductions are the kind of thing most people have a healthy skepticism about. After all, when the main proof comes from the people who have claimed to be abducted, and it is difficult to give too much credence to what they might say. Sometimes, however, the proof they give is so compelling that even the heartiest skeptic must sometimes be convinced to believe that it may at least be possible. That is the case with Byron Lacy’s account in Chosen.
Lacy’s book is full of recollections not only of his abductions by various aliens, but also of how those abductions have affected his life.
He tells them in such a straightforward, ordinary way, and with so many details, that it’s hard to be skeptical about his story. The details, too, are convincing enough to make anyone at least consider the possibility. After all, what other explanation could there be for a small child being healed of sarcoma after a doctor told his parents that they might as well have another child already as a replacement? What other explanation could there be for Byron’s numerous accounts of having “lost time,” or of his finding scratches and puncture wounds on his body, or of the memories that suddenly resurface about having been brought aboard an alien ship? These questions kept returning to my mind as I read, and I could think of no other answer except to believe that Lacy was telling the truth.
The one complaint I had about the book is the way Lacy presents his story. It does not go in chronological order, which can make it rather hard to follow, and I sometimes had trouble telling when a particular chapter took place. If you stick with it, though, you will find a compelling story that I would recommend to anyone who has had even the slightest question about whether we really are alone in the universe. SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW.
Scoop marks on Byron’s right leg
Byron W. Lacy has written an excellent book that should be read by everyone, because if you suspect you are an abductee this is the book you should read. Lacy, a civil servant, musician, artist, and poet was born in Texas. The young Byron was not expected to survive a childhood case of sarcoma cancer. Yet he did, miraculously. In 1961, he witnessed a flying submarine like thing at close range over his entire elementary school class as they exercised in the yard. Other uncanny events include repeated narrow escapes from deadly car accidents. Only in 2009, after seeing a couple of “stargates” materialize in the sky was Lacy convinced he had been alien plagued and abducted for a generation. His imaginary playmate “pirates” Byron saw, as a little boy were the enigmatic intruders. Byron believes he and fellow “abductees” endured many strange experiences: missing time, bodily implants and mysterious scarring, and “little gray” humanoids. For Byron, it is obvious; skeptics be damned, and countless folks are being abducted. A far-out, disconcertingly readable memoir that flatly declares everything about aliens you read online or see dramatized on TV is true. _Kirkus Reviews, ORDER HERE
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Filer’s Files #11 – 2016 Intelligence Directs UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #11 – 2016 Intelligence Directs UFOs - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Arkansas Triangle
Malvern — My sighting was about 19’85, when I took my poodle outside and noticed a big light or huge star but it was too close to the ground. I called my two daughters and their boyfriend to come outside and the light started coming toward us. I thought it was a helicopte with a couple lights on the side, that were green,.maybe red, with a white one in the front. The object was triangle, dark and flew on the other side of my cousin’s house. There was no sound and we were stunned. The UFO was in the direction of a place that is called National Lead at Magnet Cove. My thought was the UFO was getting some kind of power from these mines since it hovered for so long? I lived just 8 miles out of Malvern, and I have had this on my mind for years and would like to be hypnotized. My mother saw this UFO coming in from church one night. Thanks to Jannis and Website
California Light
San Ramon – I was out on my back deck early this morning on March 6, 2016, and took pictures of a beautiful sunrise after a storm last night. When I came in to my room to look at my pictures I saw a light that I initially thought was a star. However, I took the pictures one right after the other and saw that the bright object had moved significantly. When I enlarged the picture it almost looks like a bright greenish yellow bell shaped object. I thought this is very interesting and not quite normal. I felt excited about seeing the object in my pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brea— Hiking in Carbon Canyon—I was out taking pictures Sunday, March 6, 2016, at 11 AM—in clear sky. I took 71 pictures. Hours later, when sharing pictures, noticed light blue circle, different blue than sky, in two pictures.
Upon further review of pictures, a light-blue sphere or circle could clearly be seen–with four prominent white lights. The object was not noticed while I was taking the pictures. In reviewing pictures that were snapped in a millisecond rate, the circle appeared to have moved from a cloud to open blue space between clouds. Planes coming from south appeared to be flying unusually low and doing circular patterns thru clouds in early evening. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Object
Denver — I was taking pictures of myself and an American flag on February 29, 2016. After I got home, I looked through the photos and saw an object in the sky. I have no idea what it is. Possibly a drone.
I’m really curious and excited about it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
Delray — I was at the public beach on February 27, 2016, admiring the beautiful cloud formations when I noticed a very bright rectangle or oblong in the southeast sky. It was too far for me to see the details. After ten minutes, I didn’t notice it but then after about ten more minutes. I saw it again in the east, 30 degrees above the horizon.
There was a boat out in the ocean that looked as it may have been trying to go towards the object. Then a small plane and two helicopters flew around above us at the beach. The black helicopter was hovering over the ocean then moved to try to photograph the UFO. Very odd to hear the two copters and a small plane at the same time in the same area. I decided to take photos with my iPhone. It was just odd….so bright -enough to stand out. It did not scoot around,..but did fly east within the 45 minutes. The object was still there when I left. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Objects
Paris — My husband wanted a picture of the flag at this farm we were passing on February 29, 2016. The strong winds made it look amazing.
I took pictures and then later when reviewing saw the three craft to the left of the flag. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Lights
Indianapolis – On March 2, 2016, the witness called and reported his sighting a few minutes after occurrence. He was outside stargazing and saw very bright, large orange lights “floating in their own pattern to the northeast. He saw the lights rising from the ground. The lights vanished quickly in about 10 minutes behind the tree line. A few minutes later the witness saw a large orange light hovering in the sky. Two photos and a video were taken by cell phone. The video did not reveal any detail and is not displayed in this report. No sound was heard. Skies were clear and stars were visible at the time of the sighting. They did seem to be the same size. The witness later added that he saw around 15 objects above the tree line.Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
New Jersey Craft
airview – Three witnesses were abducted into a saucer shaped craft with a rainbow of lights. Three teenage witnesses were playing basketball from 6 to 9 AM Saturday morning July 1974,. Weather was clear and sunny and they were across the street from a fire station in Fairview, NJ. While walking back to his friends home noticed that the area was empty of cars and people when normally there would be “50 to 100 people in the park.” Noticed rainbow colors out of the corner of his right eye rainbow colors. When he looked he saw a shining silver metallic saucer with round tinted windows. He alerted his two friends who also saw the craft. He heard and felt whirring/roaring and his shirt was flapping as if in “a 50 mile an hour wind” but there was no wind. They were paralyzed and could not run.
They arrived back at his friend’s home with no memory of walking there. Witness discussed the incident with two friends and they had no memory of being on the ship as he did. He recalls seeing them on “operating tables” but he was standing 30 feet away. Ship appeared larger inside than outside, possibly 400 feet across. About 25 creatures, four feet tall were present with about 10 to 15 around him and the rest around his friends. The creatures were gray in color with large round heads and large black eyes. The creatures were touching him all over. They were speaking telepathically and were surprised when they realized that he could hear them. His mother had told him that there was psychic ability in their family but he had never really believed it. He asked why they were there? His impression was that they were friendly and curious and meant no harm. He believed that they were trying to help his two friends, who both had heart problems and he believes that their lives may have been extended by the aid rendered on the craft. He remembers looking out the window and down onto the basketball court where they had been playing.
He could see other beings moving about in long corridors. He remembers seeing the craft ascend after they had been returned. It moved up and to the right, leaving a rainbow colored trail behind. When he returned to his home his mother said he seemed changed and he replied, “It’s no big deal mom.” Thanks to MUFON CMS Millville — I always look up-as I love astronomy-and I see a bright pulsating star- at about 45degrees facing east on February 25, 2016. It had fuzzy edges and rear facing “arm like appendages” on top. I asked wife and daughter to come
Oregon Saucer
Sherwood — In 1952, my father and I were cutting down a tree and I looked up and saw this hovering saucer coming towards us. It made a humming noise but had no lights. It was about 75 yards from us; I could have hit it with a gun, and about 75 feet from us. It came slowly towards us and hovered over us for about 5 minutes. It had round dark colored windows, about two feet in size, going around the side and was an aluminum color with no lights. It had a dome on top like an upside down cup, and it came almost to the edge of the saucer. The bottom had a four-foot fan/blade like a spinning wheel, spinning on the bottom. It was going fast. My mom saw it too. We watched it and it hovered over us, then it shot straight up and went out of sight. It left a pure white corkscrew trail as it lifted off. The trail stayed a long time until the breeze dissipated it. We wanted to call Portland but thought no one would believe us. I am in my eighties now and wanted to tell my story. Photo is a rendering. Thanks to MUFON CMS”
Tennessee Ship
I had walked out on front porch and looked up and saw at first what I thought my be another helicopter going over on March 6 2016 . Yet I discovered this was no chopper. 8:50PM
No sound, It had four Orange lights, they swirled inside like plasma. Orange, light orange and a tint of yellow. It actaully reflected on the bottom of craft. One white light on each end of these orange plasma lights. and alot of little strobe like lights all over it.
Where the orange lights are the craft extended out in a cigar shape and rounded up. The lights illuminated the bottom of the craft. A beautiful black yet shiny metal.The plasma was like reaching up the curve of the bottom of the ship. Beatiful it was. I made a computer drawing, although it is not the best, my apologies. The grey shape is the oval rounded part coming down to were the lights are. Thanks to MUFON CMS
This is not a cigar craft or tube that people claim to see, but I do see were they could get confused. out to help me clarify what I am seeing?-They see it also. I took cell phone video, with audio description of what we are “seeing”. I ran in to get binoculars;-the craft is dinner plate shaped with an indented pie plate look. The “arms” I saw was actually the craft turning up on it’s side while hovering for 51 minutes of observation. At least ten other jets were flying in different directions. This thing defies ANYTHING I have ever seen. We felt awe and lost sight when the were stars were obscured by clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Disc
Groesbeck – On February 25, 2016, I was taking photos at the Old Fort Parker Historic Site five miles north of Groesbeck, in Limestone County.
I did not see object. I found it on frame #4070 four days later when my file was downloaded for processing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Auburn – On February 23, 2016, at 6:55 PM, my wife and I saw two formations of reddish orbs. The first formation had three orbs in a triangular pattern heading west. The second formation was huge! I counted 10 orbs on a specific formation following the first formation that had vanished. Attached is an iPhone picture of the second formation in the sky. You can see the cluster in the sky and houses below.
Note:Skies were cloudy with bases at 24,000 feet and 10,000 feet. Surface winds were from the east at 13 MPH. Winds were from the east to southeast in the lower 5,000 feet of the atmosphere. This suggests that the objects were drifting with the wind and could be like Chinese Lanterns. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Sphere
Puerto Punta Loyola — I was filming for nearly 25 minutes on February 25, 2016 at a time the lights had already moved further south and were directly over the mountain. They made a motion like turning on each other, they were quiet for a second and started rising slower towards the south. It followed the line of the coast and entered towards the sea.
All this happened about noon and lasted less than half an hour. I could go to see UFOs at any time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Australia Orb
St Kilda, Melbourne – On February 29, 2016, I noticed an object as it reflected light, and was stationary for some time
I have no idea what object was that I was able to see with my naked eye. I then took photos of the object to view via camera. Object looks like a set of wings and, stayed in the same location, and then disappeared. Lost site of object as it disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sydney — I saw a triangular flash of light move northwest on a clear night on January 3, 2016, at 10:30 pm, in a clear sky.. The object moved from as far as I could physically see in about 1 second then lifted outwards into the atmosphere. The light was very hazy bright like you would see with lightening flashes through storm clouds. The object was extremely large. If you look at the Southern Cross from earth, we have the two pointers.. this object was as wide as the gap between the two pointers so it was HUGE. It seemed to me that this was very high in the night sky so I can only imagine how big it was. I heard no sounds although it looked to move faster than the speed of light. Thanks to UFOINFO
Canada Lights
St.Marie-St.Racheal, N.B. –These pictures were taken with my friend’s hunting camera in the woods near this home on January 11, and 13, 2016 in St.Marie-St.Racheal, N.B. I was only able to send 9 pictures, the remanding 20 pictures are much more brighter.They were taken on two different nights, 8 pictures on January 11-2016 late in the night and 21 pictures also late in the night.
In the back ground you will notice the feeding box for the animals. I would also like to add that since this event happen, all the animals have stopped coming to eat in these area, whereas before they would come on a daily bases. The light seems to come from sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kanata, Ontario — My husband took these pictures in the parking lot at 840 March Road, on March K2W 0C9. He was taking pictures of the sundog, as it was unusually bright. Later, he told me that he did not notice the disk when he took the pictures.
When I looked at them later, I found the anomaly. You be the judge! It looks to me like a saucer at varying angles and location. I circled them on the pictures to show where it was and labeled the images for ease of reference. I also included the original pictures unedited for confirmation that the pictures are not edited.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Egypt Cylinder
Cairo — Back in July 1, 2009 or 2010, I went to Egypt for vacation and was watching the pyramid’s light and sound show from my room balcony. I shot several pictures of the show and later on when I was checking the photos; I noticed an anomaly in one of the photos. An object was present, which was not a reflection of the lights. I have other photos in the same light conditions. Another couple that we met stated they spotted the same object and saw it moving quite slow for an aircraft and it made no sound.
I have this photo for quite a time and did not show it to anybody besides my wife and the couple that confirmed that it was what he or she saw.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Octagon
Bharat Nagar –My name is Jaya Kumari and on March 8, 2016. while returning from my office I saw a flying object approach. It was 100 feet from ground moving at a slow speed. As I leaned out to see the object, I saw the bottom of an octagon shaped disk size of 250 square feet with four red lights around the disk. It seemed to be a heavy metal disk shaped object. It approached at a slower speed but zoomed at an immense speed suddenly right above my head with fast blinking red lights. The object then blasted off to the eat sky.
Bangalore – Two similar UFOs were reported over Bangalore on March 8, 2016. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Bright Light
Tauranga Bay of Plenty — I could not sleep and noticed a shimmering star changing colors in the distance so I got my binoculars to look at it more closely on March 5, 2016. It was just a star and I returned to my bed, when my whole room lit up. I looked out from my two-story window to see a huge glowing bright lime greenish yellow orb coming up from the southeast. It was growing larger as it approached very fast. Then it suddenly changed its direction and descended in a sloping trajectory creating a suburb was full of light. I lost sight of it as it dropped below the roof lines of neighboring houses and into a large lake’s a block away. I did not feel scared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Romania Disc
Asi— I was with my friend taking night photos of Palas Mall using my Samsung S4 mobile phone on February 27, 2016.
I thought I saw a bright whitish shining object moving in a zig zag manner over my camera screen, so I decided to take a few more shots of the same spots.
I thought it could be an UFO as it moves over the camera screen in a zig zag manner at high speed and disappeared suddenly.
Of the few photos taken of the same direction of the sky, only one of the photos have a blue disc with white light above the building. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Switzerland Orb
Bern— My son went with his grandmother from Burgdorf to Bern on March 5, 2016.
He saw a floating object over the highway.
Because he always has his iPhone in his hands, he took the picture of the ufo. Can you see it? Left side up
Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Africa Sphere
Manenberg Cape Town — It was 1982, or 83 when I was four years old when my brother and I were playing near Scheldt Walk. We noticed alot of grownups looking up in the sky, congregating on the corner of a nearby block of flats. This happened about hour before noon. When we looked up we saw a sphere like object flying up and down in the sky. It made a whooshing sound as it flew over our heads. It moved swiftly about and every now and again dipped behind nearby houses out of view for different intervals before coming up again. There was a strong police presence with various police vehicles on the ground and a police helicopter chasing the sphere.
We couldn’t see what the ground units were doing that were 300 meters from us. The air chase continued when I heard a dull bang and saw smoke coming from the one end of the sphere. This was during the apartheid years and everything was hush hush after the incident. I know what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Light
St Albans — Herts Advertiser news desk revealed last week that a man in London Colney had seen some peculiar lights in the sky above St Albans at 10.15 pm on August 29, 2010. He saw ten objects that were not Chinese lanterns traveling very fast and in a straight line. Rob Stichbury saw something similar at around the same time. He said, “The bright object was traveling extremely fast coming from the St Alban. It was following the path of Nicky Line and took 15 seconds to cover the horizon. It was too large to be a plane, and was moving quite low and much faster than any other traffic. Ken Collins also saw a strange object traveling faster than any aircraft. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
London – I was at Borough Market, near Cathedral Street, taking photographs of the top of the nearby Shard building, On closer inspection of the photographs, I noticed that a progressive path of UFOs was recorded on the several images that were taken. They were clearly visible above the pinnacle of The Shard at 4.30 pm.
In extreme close-up, the object to the right has a clearer structure – perhaps metallic. I was using an iPhone 6, and I’m certain that these are not light reflections; I take lots of photographs and have never observed this phenomenon before or since.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Scotland Discs
Linlithgow – We were visiting Blackness Castle in Scotland on March 5, 2016, and took many photos with the sun setting behind me.
The shutter rate on my camera was very high at 2500th of a second on F9 stop.
On one of my photos, I noticed two glowing objects taken at 17:25 Greenwich Mean Time.
These objects only showed in one of my photos.
Blackness Castle is near Bonnybridge and the Falkirk Triangle a hot spot for UFO sightings.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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LUCHTVAARTDe Canberra-bommenwerper werd ontworpen in de jaren 40, maar de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA gebruikt nog altijd drie exemplaren van het oude toestel.
'De Canberra was al van in het begin goed ontworpen'
David Keen, RAF Museum
Liefst 33 jaar nadat de Amerikaanse luchtmacht zijn Canberra's met pensioen stuurde, vliegen er nog altijd drie van de toestellen rond in dienst van NASA. De Canberra's maken deel uit van het Airborne Science Program (ASP), dat vliegtuigsystemen ontwikkelt voor wetenschapsdoeleinden en voor het verbeteren van satellietgegevens.
Omdat de Canberra's ontworpen zijn om erg hoog te kunnen vliegen, maakt hen dat geschikt voor verscheidene taken. Onder meer voor het ondersteunen van de satellieten van NASA. Dat legt Charles Mallini, programmamanager van de Canberra-vloot van NASA uit aan de BBC. Zo worden de Canberra's ingezet voor het uitvoeren van calibratietests om de metingen van satellieten op punt te zetten, testen ze nieuwe sensoren vooraleer die ingezet worden in de ruimte en voeren ze vanop grote hoogte metingen uit die vervolgens afgetoetst kunnen worden met de informatie die satellieten doorsturen. Ook worden de toestellen geregeld ingezet voor het uitvoeren van wetenschappelijke tests.
Dat de Canberra's nog altijd rondvliegen is te danken aan het ontwerp van de vliegtuigen. Nochtans is dat niet evident, aangezien de Canberra stamt uit de eerste generatie straaljagers. "De Canberra was al van in het begin goed ontworpen", legt David Keen van het RAF Museum in het Britse Hendon uit. "Het toestel kon behoorlijk snel vliegen voor een bommenwerper, en vloog ook hoger dan alle andere bommenwerpers. Net deze kenmerken zijn verantwoordelijk voor zijn lange staat van dienst."
NASA is bovendien niet van plan de Canberra's snel aan de kant te zetten. "We zijn altijd op zoek naar manieren om hun capaciteiten te verbeteren op vlak van uithouding, communicatie en dataverzameling. De drie toestellen hebben net een reeks upgrades gekregen, waaronder een nieuw autopilootsysteem", aldus Mallini. Meer nog, tot 2013 had de NASA zelfs maar twee Canberra's in dienst. De derde lag al sinds 1972 stof te vergaren op een vliegtuigkerkhof in Arizona, tot de NASA het vliegtuig oplapte en weer aan het werk zette.
Al zal het wel steeds moeilijker worden om de vliegtuigen in de lucht te houden, vreest Mallini. "Het vinden van onderdelen is een van onze grootste uitdagingen, aangezien veel onderdelen niet meer verkrijgbaar zijn en de fabrikant allang niet meer bestaat. We hebben al onderdelen gehaald uit museumvliegtuigen uit het hele land. Wanneer er geen onderdelen te vinden zijn, moeten onze ingenieurs ze zelf ontwerpen en ontwikkelen."
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DE WANDELENDE ROTSEN IN DEATH VALLEY, USA ( VIDEO )
DE WANDELENDE ROTSEN IN DEATH VALLEY, USA ( VIDEO )
Grote rotsen die per stuk honderden kilo’s wegen worden verplaatst in het Amerikaanse Death Valley en niemand weet hoe.
Al heel lang wordt hier gezocht naar antwoorden en al vele jarenlang wordt er gespeculeerd over de elektromagnetische velden van UFO’s die dit veroorzaken.
Death Valley is het laagst gelegen deel van Amerika en tevens de plek waar de hoogste temperaturen optreden.
Death Valley is een dal in de Verenigde Staten dat samen met de omgeving deel uitmaakt van Death Valley National Park. Het is voor het overgrote deel gelegen in de staat Californië en voor een klein deel in de staat Nevada. Het dal is omringd door bergen en maakt deel uit van de Grote Bekken en de Mojavewoestijn. In Death Valley National Park is een woestijngebied met zoutvlakten, rotsformaties, canyons, zandduinen en bergen.
Het is er droog en dor, maar het is ook een gebied dat bekendstaat als een UFO hotspot. Een plaats waar meer dan gewoonlijke UFO-activiteit wordt waargenomen.
Op de droge bodem van Death Valley liggen rotsen die per stuk honderden kilo’s wegen, maar toch desondanks schijnen ze te kunnen wandelen.
Dit fenomeen is niet nieuw. Al sinds het midden van de negentiende eeuw wordt er melding gemaakt van rotsen die voortbewegen over het zand.
Aangezien er geen menselijke sporen worden gevonden zoals voetafdrukken lijkt het duidelijk dat de rotsen niet door mensen worden voortbewogen. Door wie of wat worden ze dan bewogen?
Iets waar ook al jarenlang over wordt gespeculeerd, is dat deze rotsen worden voortbewogen door elektromagnetische velden die door UFO's worden gecreëerd. Dit zou ook een aannemelijke verklaring kunnen zijn omdat dit gebied afgelegen is en daarom een perfecte locatie voor UFO-activiteit. Ook zijn dit de gebieden waar wordt gespeculeerd over buitenaardse bases.
Zoals in de onderstaande video te zien, is een fotograaf er onlangs in geslaagd om vreemde bewegingen in de lucht vast te leggen op beeld.
Dat alles neemt echter niet weg dat NASA zegt een antwoord te hebben gevonden voor de bewegende stenen. Dit zou worden veroorzaakt doordat in de winter het er ’s nachts zo koud wordt dat de bodem bevriest, waardoor er een laagje ijs zou ontstaan. Door dit laagje ijs zou er volgens hen maar heel weinig wind voor nodig zijn om de rotsen te doen voortbewegen.
Het is een theorie die niet is bewezen. Net zoals het voortbewegen door UFO’s een theorie is die niet is bewezen.
Vooralsnog blijft het dus een raadsel waardoor die rotsen zich kunnen verplaatsen.
ExoMars Spacecraft Roll Out to Launchpad for Monday's Liftoff (Photos)
ExoMars Spacecraft Roll Out to Launchpad for Monday's Liftoff (Photos)
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
A Russian Proton rocket and its ExoMars 2016 payload are hoisted into vertical position at Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 11, 2016.
Credit: B. Bethge/ESA
The next robotic mission to Mars has rolled out to the launchpad ahead of its liftoff, which is planned for Monday (March 14).
A Russian-made Proton-M rocket carrying the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli lander — which together constitute the first part of the two-phase, European-led ExoMars mission — rolled out to the pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today (March 11) and was hoisted into vertical position. Technicians had filled the Proton's Breeze upper stage with propellant and oxidizer yesterday (March 10), European Space Agency (ESA) officials said.
If all goes according to plan, the Proton will blast off at 5:31 a.m. EDT (0931 GMT; 3:31 p.m. local Kazakhstan time) on Monday. You can watch the ExoMars launch live here at Space.com, courtesy of ESA.
After liftoff, TGO and Schiaparelli will cruise through deep space for seven months, arriving at the Red Planet in October.
The pair will separate on Oct. 16. A few days later, TGO will set up shop in Mars orbit, beginning a five-year study of the planet's atmosphere that focuses on a hunt for methane — a gas that could be produced by living organisms, if any exist on the Red Planet.
The two ExoMars 2016 spacecraft and their Russian Proton rocket sit on the launchpad at Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 11, 2016.
Credit: B. Bethge/ESA
Schiaparelli, meanwhile, will aim to pull off Europe's first-ever successful landing on Mars, with touchdown scheduled for Oct. 19. (ESA's Beagle 2 lander apparently settled softly on the planet in December 2003, but it never contacted its controllers after that.)
ESA wants Schiaparelli to gather environmental data on the surface for as long as its batteries last (likely two to eight days, ESA officials have said). But the lander's main purpose is to prove out entry, descent and landing technologies that will help get the second main component of the ExoMars program — a deep-drilling, life-hunting rover due to launch in 2018 — onto the red dirt safely.
TGO's observations will help mission planners select a landing site for this rover, and the orbiter will help relay data from the wheeled robot to Earth after it touches down.
NASA was ESA's main partner on ExoMars until early 2012, when the American space agency dropped out, citing budget issues. Russia then came onboard as partner. The Russian federal space agency, known as Roscosmos, is providing Proton rockets for both ExoMars missions, a landing platform for the ExoMars rover and some science instruments.
Stanton Friedman Extraterrestrial Craft are Real [FULL VIDEO]
Stanton Friedman Extraterrestrial Craft are Real [FULL VIDEO]
Published on Jan 28, 2016
Stanton Friedman "To reach a scientific conclusion about the reality of flying saucers requires the collection, review, and evaluation of an enormous amount of evidence. I have done so and concluded that some flying saucers are alien spacecraft, that the subject represents a Cosmic Watergate, that there are no good scientific arguments against these conclusions. The UFO debunkers ignore the large scale scientific studies, the numerous relevant highly redacted highly classified UFO documents, the numerous studies showing trips to nearby stars are feasible. Instead we are treated to proclamations of impossibility unsupported by evidence. It is well worth looking at the mountains of data. Science tells the story. We are being visited and are being lied to. Reality triumphs over fiction when science is properly employed."
For almost 60 years the public has been hearing about flying saucers and then UFOs. Press coverage has ebbed and flowed, but polls have always shown a very high awareness score. Motion pictures, tabloids, and TV programs have picked up the slack with a mélange of fiction and some truth. Unfortunately, much of what has been told by the “powers that be” has been false. Many different government agencies have shared in the misrepresentation and have provided outright LIES as well. The press and other academic and scientific groups have often blindly accepted and promulgated nonsense without any effort to get at truth. Webster's Dictionary defines LIE as an untrue statement made with the intent to deceive. Hopefully, the LIES presented in this paper will help cause these protectors of the public to do their job: seek and present truth.
Project SERPO and the Alien Human Exchange Program
Project SERPO and the Alien Human Exchange Program
Published on Mar 11, 2016
The origins of the program supposedly started after two UFOs crashed in Roswell and Corona, NM in 1947. The one surviving extraterrestrial recovered from the Corona crash supposedly assisted the U.S. military in establishing contact with the Ebens, his fellow beings on Serpo. This communication eventually led to a 1965 exchange program, where 12 specially trained U.S. military personnel went to Serpo aboard one of the Eben’s spacecraft as part of a 12-year mission to learn more about Serpo’s geology and biology, as well as learning more about the Ebens.
During the mission, it was learned that Serpo is approximately 37 light years away from Earth, has two suns, is slightly smaller than Earth, and has a similar atmosphere. However, the radiation levels on Serpo were higher than on Earth, so the team had to keep their bodies covered at all times. The Ebens had leaders but no real form of government and they lived in small communities with one large city which acted as the central point of the civilization. The total population on the planet was around 650,000.
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Space Race Losers? US Leadership in Danger, Report Warns
Space Race Losers? US Leadership in Danger, Report Warns
By Jesse Emspak, Space.com Contributor
Artist's illustration of NASA's in-development Space Launch System megarocket on the pad.
Credit: NASA
The United States could lose its long-held leadership position in space science, technology and exploration if the country doesn't renew its commitment to those fields soon, a coalition of space-industry organizations has warned.
Such a commitment should include the completion of a crewed launch system, stable NASA budgets and continued partnerships with other nations on projects such as the International Space Station, said the 12-group coalition, which jointly presented a white paper at the National Press Club on Friday (March 4).
"What we have is a rather unprecedented consensus of the space community in the United States," said Elliot Pulham, CEO of the nonprofit Space Foundation and one of three experts who shared their thoughts with reporters at the document's unveiling. [Giant Leaps: Top Milestones in Human Spaceflight]
Pulham added that one of the board members of the Space Foundation, journalist and writer P.J. O'Rourke, would have kept the message quite short if he had attended the event: "He would have said it should be one sentence: 'Space is good — keep investing.'"
The group plans to send the white paper, which is called "Ensuring U.S. Leadership in Space," to candidates for office, from the presidential race on down to local congressional campaigns.
The main problem, the report said, is that NASA's funding is decided at the whim of politics. And at the moment, NASA's budget is at a historic low as a share of the overall federal budget. Meanwhile, other countries, such as China, are ramping up their investments in space.
The Orion Spacecraft is the Future of Deep Space Travel
Eric Stallmer, president of the nonprofit Commercial Spaceflight Federation, said that politicians often regard space as a regional issue, one that affects jobs in Florida, Texas and other states. But that's a very limited, and limiting, view, he added.
"Space affects all 50 states," Stallmer said. "It's a national space program."
Another big threat to U.S. leadership in space is malaise, brought on partially by past successes, several experts said.
"We landed on the moon, and that cemented in our heads that we were leaders," said Sandra Magnus, executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Doing a great thing once, she added, doesn't guarantee leadership forever. [NASA's 17 Apollo Moon Missions in Pictures]
"Conquering malaise means allowing ourselves to be led by optimists and visionaries," Pulham said. Making this happen could boost the nation's "soft power," creating an environment in which other countries want to work with the United States, he added.
One of NASA's purposes is to "expand the bubble" of knowledge, Magnus said. Since the agency's establishment in 1958, NASA has built a base of expertise that has led to increased accessibility to space, Magnus said, citing the recent phenomenon of student groups launching cubesats as an example.
"For 50 years, we were kind of caught in low-Earth orbit, but now the edge of the bubble is expanding," she said. "Now people are engaged behind that in ways that aren't necessarily tied to government funding."
Investing in space allows new industries to develop, and that requires a commitment that is often lacking these days, Stallmer said. The coalition said it hopes Congress and the next president — whomever that might be — will commit to a plan of action, and fund the agency accordingly.
An important investment, the panel said, is a launch system able to get American astronauts into space, a capability the nation lost when the space shuttle program was grounded in 2011. (Right now, Russia and China are the only countries that can launch astronauts to space.)
NASA is currently developing the Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion capsule toward this end, and the coalition urged continued support of these efforts. SLS and Orion are designed to help get astronauts to deep-space destinations such as Mars. Meanwhile, SpaceX and Boeing have signed NASA deals to develop "astronaut taxis" that will get spaceflyers to Earth orbit and back, beginning in 2017.
During Friday's event, panelists were asked whether fully funding SLS — which is scheduled to fly for the first time in 2018 — might actually hamper American leadership in space, since the program might not even survive into the next administration. And private companies — notably SpaceX, which is building a rocket called the Falcon Heavy — might soon be able to lift hefty payloads into space for less money.
But Magnus said developing SLS technology is still important. "That system [SLS] is the expansion of the bubble," she said. "You need to continue to push the boundaries of what you're doing. You need to bring the technologies to bear that can push us out further."
And SLS and other NASA technology will still transfer to industry at some point, she added.
The panel also stressed that the U.S. should continue to partner with other nations in ways that benefit the America's space industry and security.
Lowering trade barriers in some areas could help make this happen, Pulham said, noting that restricting sales of certain equipment overseas simply encouraged other countries to develop their own capability to launch rockets.
"Our allies could not buy from us, so instead [they] developed their own indigenous industries," he said. "There was a time when 75 percent of launch capability was built in Colorado. Now it's zero percent."
Pulham also noted that some advanced spacecraft parts are now being built by other nations. "Other people have technology that we should want to get our hands on as well," he said.
Some barriers need to be in place to address real security concerns, Pulham said. "But they should not be so high that we can't do common-sense work together."
How Often Do Big Fireballs Blaze Up in Earth's Sky?
How Often Do Big Fireballs Blaze Up in Earth's Sky?
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Trail left by the object that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February 2013.
Credit: Alex Alishevskikh/Flickr, CC BY-SA
A fireball exploded over the south Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 6 in the most powerful such event since February 2013, when a similar "airburst" injured more than 1,200 people in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.
Last month's fireball packed the energy equivalent of 13,000 tons (13 kilotons) of TNT, but it exploded in a remote location, so no eyewitness reports are known. (The event was recorded on NASA's Fireball and Bolide Reports page.)
Meteors burn up in Earth's atmosphere every day, but most are small and therefore fly completely under the radar. Fireballs as dramatic as the Feb. 6 event — which was caused by an object estimated to be 16 to 23 feet (5 to 7 meters) wide — occur about once every two to three years, according to Peter Brown, a professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada and a member of the Western Meteor Physics Group. [Photos: Russian Meteor Explosion of Feb. 15, 2013]
The Feb. 6 fireball, while powerful, would probably not have caused damage even if it had hit Earth over a populated area, Brown added.
"The only way you might get damaged is if rocks hit the ground and you are unlucky enough to be hit by some debris," he told Space.com.
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The object that exploded above Chelyabinsk three years ago was about 65 feet (20 m) wide, experts say, and had an estimated explosive energy of 500 kilotons. The blast shattered hundreds of windows; the reported injuries were almost all caused by shards of flying glass.
Meteor terminology can get confusing, so here's a quick primer: An asteroid is a space rock. A meteoroid is a space rock about to hit Earth, a meteor is a space rock burning in Earth's atmosphere, and a meteorite is a space rock that made it all the way to the ground. (And, technically speaking, a fireball is a meteor that shines at least as brightly as the planet Venus in the sky.)
Meteorite Explosion - Russia Chelyabinsk 2/15/2013 - Asteroid expected to pass close by Earth
Meteoroids can come in several different forms. A small percentage of them (perhaps 5 percent) are made of solid iron. Others are more like comets — collections of ice and dust — and still others are rubble piles composed of bits of rock, dust and ice.
If the meteoroid is solid iron and large enough, a fraction of it can survive its trip through Earth's atmosphere and make it all the way to the ground, Brown said. A more loosely-held-together meteoroid, however, will break up in the air.
Both the Chelyabinsk rock and the Feb. 6 object likely came into the atmosphere at a shallow angle of about 20 degrees, subjecting each to relatively little heating and allowing each to penetrate deep into the atmosphere. Both rocks also each exploded at about 19 miles (30 kilometers) above the ground.
A much more powerful airburst took place over the Tunguska region of Siberia on June 30, 1908, flattening about 770 square miles (2,000 square km) of forest.
The best current estimates, Brown said, have the Tunguska object exploding with a force of between 5 and 15 megatons, or about 10 to 30 times the total energy of Chelyabinsk. Experts think the Tunguska meteor was at least 100 feet (30 m) wide, and they believe it detonated about three times closer to the ground than the Chelyabinsk object did — between 4.3 to 6.2 miles (7 to 10 km) above the Siberian treetops. [What If Tunguska Event Happened Over New York City? (Video)]
Tough to track
NASA and other agencies have a robust asteroid-tracking program that can detect objects about 16 to 32 feet (5 to 10 m) wide depending on their proximity to Earth, lighting conditions and other factors.
So far, surveys have found two asteroids of this size shortly before they impacted Earth: 2008 TC3, which came in over Sudan in 2008, and 2014 AA, which impacted over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Jan. 2, 2014.
The main observatories for this work, Brown said, are the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey and the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System). Catalina found both 2008 TC3 and 2014 AA. Both Catalina and Pan-STARRS are continually improving their capabilities and will likely be able to detect more objects of this type in the coming years, he said.
Also coming online in the next few months the University of Hawaii's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). This asteroid-detection system is optimized to pick up meteoroids impacting Earth, and will scan the sky a couple of times a night in search of them. The aim is to give a few days' or weeks' notice ahead of an impact.
But such tracking efforts are concerned primarily with big, potentially dangerous objects, not small fry like the one that caused the Feb. 6 airburst.
"They are too hard to detect ahead of impacting Earth’s atmosphere, and almost never do any damage — Chelyabinsk being a notable exception," Lindley Johnson, lead program executive at NASA's newly created Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), told Space.com via email.
"This size object hit and no one noticed," Johnson added, referring to the Feb. 6 rock. "Except we in the NASA PDCO did and put it on our fireball reports page, and that’s why everyone now knows about it."
Destination Mars: A Timeline of Red Planet Landings
Destination Mars: A Timeline of Red Planet Landings
By SPACE.com Staff
Sky Crane in aerial ballet mode during the descent of NASA’s Curiosity rover to the Martian surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Editor's Note: NASA's Curiosity Rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface on Aug. 5, 2014, and has been exploring the Red Planet ever since. The following timeline was updated on March 8, 2016.
NASA's newest Mars rover — a car-size robot that will scour the Martian surface for signs that the planet could have supported life — will make a thrilling and unprecedented landing on the Red Planet next month.
The $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity rover, is scheduled to touch down on Mars on the night of Aug. 5. The rover's entry, descent and landing from the top of the Martian atmosphere have been nicknamed the "seven minutes of terror."
Since the 1-ton rover is too big for airbags to cushion its landing, Curiosity is equipped with a rocket-powered sky crane to lower it to the surface. Once Curiosity touches down, cables will release the sky crane, which will fly off and crash-land a safe distance away from the rover.
Here's a look at all the previous missions that have attempted to land on Mars (mission failures marked in bold, successes are underlined):
Mars 2: (FAILED) USSR, launched May 19, 1971. The Mars orbiter and lander arrived on Nov. 2, 1971, but returned no useful data, and the lander burned up due to steep entry.
Mars 3:(FAILED) USSR, launched May 28, 1971. The Mars orbiter and lander arrived on Dec. 3, 1971. The lander operated on the surface of Mars for 20 seconds before failing.
Mars 6: (FAILED) USSR, launched Aug. 5, 1973. The Mars flyby module and lander arrived on March 3, 1974 but the lander failed due to a fast impact.
Mars 7: (FAILED) USSR, launched Aug. 9, 1973. The Mars flyby module and lander arrived on March 3, 1974 but the lander missed the planet.
Viking 1: U.S., launched Aug. 20, 1975. The Mars orbiter operated from June 1976 to 1980 and the lander operated from July 1976 to 1982.
Viking 2: U.S., launched Sept. 9, 1975. The Mars orbiter operated from Aug. 1976 to 1987, and the lander operated from Sept. 3, 1976 to 1980. Combined, the Viking orbiters and landers returned more than 50,000 photos.
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Phobos 1:(FAILED) USSR, launched July 7, 1988. The Mars orbiter and Phobos lander were lost in Aug. 1988 en route to Mars. [Mars: The Spacecraft Graveyard]
Phobos 2: (FAILED) USSR, launched July 12, 1988. The Mars orbiter and Phobos lander were lost in March 1989 near Phobos.
Mars 96: (FAILED) Russia, launched Nov. 16, 1996. The orbiter, two landers and two penetrators were lost after the rocket failed.
Mars Pathfinder: U.S., launched Dec. 4, 1996. The Mars lander and rover landed on July 4, 1997 and communicated with ground teams last on Sept. 27, 1997.
Mars Polar Lander/Deep Space 2: (FAILED) U.S., launched Jan. 3, 1999. The lander and two penetrators were lost on arrival in December 1999.
Beagle 2: (FAILED) European Space Agency, launched June 2, 2003. Beagle 2 launched on ESA's Mars Express orbiter, which completed its prime mission in November 2005 and is currently on an extended mission. The Beagle 2 lander. however, was lost on arrival on Dec. 25, 2003.
Mars Exploration Rover Spirit: U.S., launched June 10, 2003. The Mars rover landed on the Red Planet on Jan. 4, 2004 for three-month mission to look for signs of past water activity on Mars. Ground controllers lost communication with Spirit in March 2010, and repeated attempts to awaken the rover failed. The rover far outlived its intended warranty, and is considered a success. NASA declared Spirit dead in May 2011.
Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity: U.S., launched July 7, 2003. The Mars rover landed on Jan. 25, 2004 for a three-month prime mission in the Meridiani Planum region. The rover has currently logged more than 20 miles on the Red Planet and is now investigating the huge Endeavour crater.
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Phoenix Mars Lander: U.S., launched Aug. 4, 2007. The Mars lander touched down on May 25, 2008 and dug through Martian soil to confirm the presence of water ice beneath the surface. Phoenix's solar panels suffered severe damage from the harsh Martian winter, and communication with the $475 million lander was lost in November 2008. After repeated attempts to reestablish contact, NASA declared Phoenix broken and dead in May 2010.
Phobos-Grunt: (FAILED) Russia, launched Nov. 8, 2011 on a mission to return samples from the Mars moon Phobos. The $163 million robotic probe suffered a crippling malfunction shortly after launch, stranding it in Earth orbit. Mission managers said Phobos-Grunt spacecraft's thrusters failed to fire in a maneuver that would have sent the spacecraft on to Mars. The spacecraft plummeted back to Earth and was destroyed on Jan. 15, 2012.
Mars Science Laboratory: U.S., launched Nov. 26, 2011. The $2.5 billion Curiosity rover landed at Gale crater on the night of Aug. 5, 2012, and will investigate the mountain at its center with exposed rock faces that represent various periods in Mars' geologic history.The Mars rover will also investigate whether the planet was ever hospitable to life.
China Is Planning A Space Telescope That Will Outperform Hubble
China Is Planning A Space Telescope That Will Outperform Hubble
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China is drawing up plans to build its own competing space telescope, one which would outperform Hubble and would dock with its space station, Tiangong. It will have a field of view 300 times larger and will take pictures over an area covering 40% of space.
OUTPERFORMING HUBBLE
While NASA may be planning to send up the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, China is drawing up plans of its own. They are going to build their own space telescope, one which would outperform Hubble.
First reported in the Chinese English Language Daily, the new telescope will be similar to Hubble, but will have a field of view 300 times larger. The new telescope will also have the ability to dock with China’s modular space station, the Tiangong.
This docking ability isn’t just a gimmick. It’s a solution to one of the problems plaguing Hubble—the need for shuttle missions for servicing and maintaining the telescope. The China National Space Administration realized that it could avoid this problem by having the satellite dock with Tiangong whenever repairs or maintenance are necessary
While no date has been released for the launch of the telescope, and it is currently unnamed, these plans would be intertwined with the plans for the Tiangong space station.
Tiangong-1 was launched in 2011 and has been used as a crewed laboratory and a technological test-bed. A future launch in 2016 will send up the Tiangong-2, which will contain a room for a crew of three and life support for 20 days. Another planned module, the Tiangong-3, is scheduled further on in the 2020s, and it is expected that the space telescope will likely follow suit.
LAUNCH DETAILS OR SHORTAGE THEREOF
An artist’s rendering of the Tiangong-1 module, China’s space station with a Shenzhou spacecraft, preparing to dock with the module. Credit: CNSA
One of the goals of the telescope is to capture images of an area spanning 40% of space over a time period of ten years with a precision similar to Hubble. Data gleaned from these images will astronomers in understanding the origin, development, and evolution of the universe.
However, a problem surrounding this project is the shortage of details regarding the launch of the space telescope. Unlike NASA or the ESA, China’s space agency has yet to disclose dates and timelines, a standard operating procedure in most space agencies’ projects. Furthermore, while they have disclosed the goals of their project and the results they are expecting, technical details (such as type of cameras or sensors) are lacking, which makes it difficult to gauge the level of detail of planning for the project.
Yet, it must be noted that China is notoriously secretive, so it doesn’t necessarily mean that the tech isn’t there.
While these lack of details may be due to paranoia over spying, it may also be symbolical of China’s tendency to propagandize its projects regardless of the success or failure thereof. China is currently in a space race with India similar to that between the United States and USSR back during the Cold War.
But in the end, if China does really pull off this project, the whole of humanity will benefit from the information and the research that it will provide.
God is responsible for the spiritual entities within our bodies, and more likely, aliens are the most likely candidates for the geniuses behind the amazing nanotech DNA which designs our life form physical bodies; there is no argument required.
The alien silhouette fingerprints, within our DNA, point to evidence that we were not ordained to this planet, by God, but by aliens , a newly revealed history and destiny for us, in this universe.
God, is also true but the Bible as a touchstone of "HIM", with its myths and tales has no place in this amended and raised human consciousness for reptilian aliens masqueraded as God in ancient times.
God imbues all physical DNA contrived sentient life with sparks of His spirit.
There are, however, beyond belief, many predominant planets whose entire intelligent life forms are spiritual entities, who no physical DNA required to house their spirit beings.
Our physical world is, amazingly, an anomaly, by virtue of the sheer numbers of many such noncorporeal worlds, by comparison.
Does human DNA reflect a computer code, of proteins and time-release enzymes, an alien nanotech, and thus a no longer hidden fingerprint, of our "Creator".
Scientists have found that our genetic code has all of these key computer code elements.
"The coding regions of DNA," expostulates Dr. Stephen Meyer, "have exactly the same relevant properties as a computer code or language" (quoted by Strobel, p. 237, The Case for a Creator, 2004)
Whose mind or what entity could shrink and miniaturize such information and place our DNA's enormous number of 'letters' in their correct sequence as a genetic building block instruction manual?
Could evolution in itself have progressively come up with a nanotech system like this?
It is difficult to fathom, but the quantum of information in our human DNA is roughly comparably equal to 12 sets of The Encyclopedia Britannica-an amazing 384 volumes worth of detailed data that would fill 48 feet long of required library shelves
Yet in their precise size-only two millionths of a millimeter thick-a teaspoon of DNA, according to molecular biologist Michael Denton, has "all the information needed to build the proteins for all the species of organisms that have ever lived on the earth, and there would still be enough room left for all the information in every book ever written" (Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 1996,
p. 334).
Intelligent Design of our Human DNA
As scientists began to unravel and decode the human DNA molecule, they found something amazingly unexpected-a computer programmer's exquisite 'language' composed of some 3 billion genetic letters.
"One of the most extraordinary discoveries of the twentieth century," says Dr. Stephen Meyer, director of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Wash., "was that DNA actually stores information-the detailed instructions for assembling proteins-in the form of a four-character digital code" (quoted by Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 2004, p. 224).
As George Williams explains it: "The gene is a package of information, not an object. The pattern of base pairs in a DNA molecule specifies the gene. But the DNA molecule is the medium, it's not the message" (quoted by Johnson, p. 70).
Design from an intelligent source
To any discerning mind, this type of nanotech high-level information originates only from a technologically advanced intelligent source.
As Lee Strobel explains: "The data at the core of life is not disorganized, it's not simply orderly like salt crystals, but it's complex and specific information that can accomplish a bewildering task-the building of biological machines that far outstrip human technological capabilities" (p. 244).
"For example, the precise nature of this genetic language is such that the average error that is not caught turns out to be one error per 10 billion letters.
If an error occurs in one of the most important parts of the code, in the genes, it causes diseases such as sickle-cell anemia. Yet even the best and most apt typist in the world couldn't come close to making only one mistake per 10 billion letters-far from it."
Michael Behe, a biochemist and professor at Pennsylvania's Lehigh University, explains that DNA genetic data is primarily an instructionmanual.
He reasons: "Consider a step-by-step list of [genetic] instructions. A mutation is a change in one of the lines of instructions. So instead of saying, "Take a 1/4-inch nut," a mutation might say, "Take a 3/8-inch nut." Or instead of "Place the round peg in the round hole," we might get "Place the round peg in the square hole" . . . What a mutation cannot do is change all the instructions in one step-say, [providing instructions] to build a fax machine instead of a radio" (Darwin's Black Box, 1996, p. 41).
We therefore have, in our human genetic code, a complex instruction manual eloquently designed by a more highly intelligent source than even the genius of human beings.
The God agnostic and recently deceased Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of DNA, after decades of work deciphering it, admitted that:
"an honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going" (Life Itself, 1981, p. 88, emphasis added).
Dean Kenyon, a biology professor who repudiated his earlier book on Darwinian evolution-because of discoveries of information found in DNA-states: "This new realm of molecular genetics (is) where we see the most compelling evidence of design on the Earth" (ibid., p. 221).
As well, one of the world's most famous atheists, Professor Antony Flew, admitted that he couldn't explain how DNA was created and developed through evolution.
He now sees the demanding need for an intelligent source to have been involved in the making of our human DNA code.
"What I think the DNA material has done is show that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinary diverse elements together," he said (quoted by Richard Ostling, "Leading Atheist Now Believes in God," Associated Press report, Dec. 9, 2004).
" I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made . ."
Written some thousands of years ago, King David's words about our alien constructed human bodies seems most true.
He wrote:
"For You formed my inward parts, You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made . . . My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought. . ." (Psalm 139:13-15, emphasis added).
Where does all this deposit the theory of evolution?
Michael Denton, an agnostic scientist, concludes: "Ultimately the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century" (Denton, p. 358).
Thus we are left like a precipitate out of a solution with an astounding Creator notion that every life-form on Earth, carries a similar and related genetic code as our extraterrestrial maker and that evolution is hardly what we deduce that it is it .
This discovery shall shake our roots of humanity and confirm or deny our beliefs, both in our concept of a Creator as well as in our own concept of our destiny.
Within this very paradigm, all forms of life farmed throughout the Universe may well be seen as an enormous molecular nanotech creation by a intelligent Creator using amino acid thoughts expressed mathematically.
Crick, DNA's discoverer, perhaps, said it best:
"Life did not evolve first on Earth, a highly advanced civilization became threatened so they devised a way to pass on their existence.
They genetically-modified their DNA and sent it out from their planet on bacteria or meteorites with the hope that it would collide with another planet.
It did, and that's why we're here.
The DNA molecule is the most efficient information storage system in the entire universe.
The immensity of complex, coded and precisely sequenced information is absolutely staggering. The DNA evidence speaks of intelligent, information-bearing design.
Complex DNA coding would have been necessary for even the hypothetical first ‘so-called' simple cell(s).
Our DNA was encoded with messages from that other civilization.
They programmed the molecules so that when we reached a certain level of intelligence, we would be able to access their information, and they could therefore "teach" us about ourselves, and how to progress.
For life to form by chance is mathematically virtually impossible."
Right: A carbon nanotube. Copyright Prof. Vincent H. Crespi Department of Physics Pennsylvania State University.
Abductions and their remnant elusive memories have opened all this for Paul, a confirmed atheist, UNTIL he saw aliens float him out of his body, in his bed, at night. Then, he knew that they were interested in an essence he never suspected that he had; a soul. Our spiritual powers that interest and addict interdimensionals are the very powers that can be used to thwart further attacks.
They infect auras with attachments to themselves and ride the reincarnation roller coaster with people, to avoid the death that they fear and to steal the spiritual recycling that we have.
These joyriding grays can be sinister, discorporate alien souls ,stuck to your energies, who bring a new meaning to the concept of a silent invasion.
Some stars may host multiple generations of planets, a dazzling new photo suggests.
The newly released image, which was captured by the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) in Chile, shows a dusty disk around an old double star called IRAS 08544-4431, which lies about 4,000 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sails). Scientists created this video look at the dust-shrouded star to showcase the discovery.
This disk is very similar to the planet-forming structures commonly observed around young stars. While it's not clear whether planets actually do take shape around older stars, the new photo — the sharpest ever taken of such a disk around a mature star — hints that this is a possibility, researchers said. [The Strangest Alien Planets (Gallery)]
"Our observations and modeling open a new window to study the physics of these disks, as well as stellar evolution in double stars," study co-author Hans Van Winckel, of the Instituut voor Sterrenkunde in Belgium, said in a statement. "For the first time, the complex interactions between close binary systems and their dusty environments can now be resolved in space and time."
An image shows the dusty disc around the close pair of aging stars IRAS 08544-4431.
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2; Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
The scientists used several VLTI telescopes, an associated instrument called the Precision Integrated-Optics Near-infrared Imaging ExpeRiment (PIONIER) and a new high-speed infrared detector to take the photo.
"We obtained an image of stunning sharpness — equivalent to what a telescope with a diameter of 150 meters [490 feet] would see," study team member Jacques Kluska, of Exeter University in England, said in the same statement. "The resolution is so high that, for comparison, we could determine the size and shape of a 1-euro coin seen from a distance of 2,000 kilometers [1,240 miles]."
The IRAS 08544-4431 system consists of an old red giant star, as well a nearby, younger, "normal" star. The dust that comprises the newly imaged disk was expelled by the red giant, researchers said.
The Very Large Telescope Interferometer at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile obtained the sharpest view to date of the dusty disc around the pair of aging stars IRAS 08544-4431.
Credit: ESO
"We were also surprised to find a fainter glow that is probably coming from a small accretion disk around the companion star," said study lead author Michael Hillen, also of the Instituut voor Sterrenkunde.
A sky map shows the location of aging double star IRAS 08544-4431.
Credit: ESO/IAU and Sky & Telescope
"We knew the star was double, but weren't expecting to see the companion directly," Hillen added. "It is really thanks to the jump in performance now provided by the new detector in PIONIER, that we are able to view the very inner regions of this distant system."
Hillen and his colleagues are publishing their results in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
The VLTI is located at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in northern Chile.
Remember the sci-fi movie Transcendence where the main character dies and his consciousness gets transferred into a computer? It is possible that something like this may soon become a reality; at least, this is what one company claims.
Well, at the moment, such a possibility still belongs to the category of science fiction, but it seems that a start-up called Humai has some ambitious plans for making it happen. The company actually promises toresurrect humans by transferring their consciousness into an artificial body.
In fact, the technology necessary to do something like this doesn’t exist yet, but the company claims to be able to resurrect the first human within 30 years.
How are they going to achieve it? According to the company’s website, the first step will be to “store data of conversational styles, behavioral patterns, thought processes and information about how your body functions from the inside-out” with the help of artificial intelligence and nanotechnology.
Then, “this data will be coded into multiple sensor technologies, which will be built into an artificial body with the brain of a deceased human. Using cloning technology, we will restore the brain as it matures.”
Moreover, Humai CEO Josh Bocanegra has revealed further details of the process in his interview withPopSci, saying that the brain will be frozen after death using cryonics and then stored until there is a technology capable of implanting it into an artificial body.
“The artificial body functions will be controlled with your thoughts by measuring brain waves. As the brain ages, we’ll use nanotechnology to repair and improve cells. Cloning technology is going to help with this too,” he said.
These ideas may sound very promising while in reality there is no solid evidence that one’s consciousness can be ‘downloaded’ from the brain and transferred into a machine, just like a computer file can be copied to another computer via USB. It’s far more complex than that.
Moreover, the claim that the artificial body can be controlled with one’s thoughts is hardly tenable. Even though certain technological advances of the recent years made it possible to control things like robotic limbs and advanced implants via brain waves, there is still no practical ways to control a whole artificial body.
It’s also worth noting that the brain is not the only organ that determines the way we think, feel and behave. In fact, other parts of the body also participate in regulating our behaviors. For example, hormones produced by our glands can actually influence our decisions and actions, not to mention that consciousness does not equal mind or brain. It’s more complex than that. There is also much evidence to suggest that consciousness may not be local at all, and that our body’s might just be ‘consciousness vessels’ and our brains just the receivers of consciousness much like the antennae on your radio.
In any case, even if consciousness uploading becomes feasible one day, it is unlikely that science and technology will be advanced enough to make it happen in 30 years from now, or maybe it already is.. Deep inside some of these black projects that are kept hidden, but that’s a whole nother’ topic altogether. Till then, those who want to live forever will have to accept the idea of the inevitability of death.
What about you, would you like to live forever? We would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Anna is the owner and lead editor of the websites Learning-mind.comand Lifeadvancer.com, and staff writer for The Mind Unleashed. She is passionate about learning new things and reflecting on thought-provoking ideas. She writes about technology, science, psychology and other related topics. She is particularly interested in topics regarding introversion, consciousness and subconscious, perception, human mind’s potential, as well as the nature of reality and the universe.
Packing Lunches for Space: Scientists Talk Astronaut Health on 1-Year Mission
Packing Lunches for Space: Scientists Talk Astronaut Health on 1-Year Mission
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
NASA's Scott Kelly (left) poses with Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka on March 15, 2015. Kornienko and Kelly spent nearly a year in space, to help scientists understand the physical and psychological impacts of spaceflight. The work paves the way to eventually send humans to Mars.
Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are back on Earth after spending a record 340 days on the International Space Station. The mission's primary goal was to investigate the physiological and psychological effects of long stints in space, to help pave the way for future crewed missions to Mars.
Last Friday (March 4), a group of NASA scientists fielded questions from the public about Kelly and Kornienko's extended stay on the station, during a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA). The scientists discussed specific questions about the physical and metal toll that spaceflight can have on humans — questions they will have to answer before NASA can safely send humans to Mars or other distant locations. You can read the entire AMA here, or check out some of the highlights below.
"It will take 6 to 9 months to get to Mars and 6 to 9 months to get back, and that will be in a zero-gravity environment," Julie Robinson, NASA's chief scientist for the International Space Station, wrote in the AMA. "We need to be sure no health problems will put a future Mars mission at risk. And right now, if we had the vehicle, we would not be ready to go." [Home! Year-in-Space Astronaut Scott Kelly's Earth Return in Photos]
Scott Kelly Has 'Mixed Emotions' About Being Back On Earth | Video
Kelly and Kornienko are not the first people to spend a year in space, but this is the most in-depth study of how such a mission affects the body and the mind. (A typical stay on the space station is about six months.) In addition to studying the two men, scientists also collected data on Scott Kelly's identical twin brother, former astronaut Mark Kelly. The scientists hope to get a look at how spaceflight affects the body on a genetic level.
"From the perspective of NASA's Human Research program, [the One Year] mission is not yet over just because the flight has landed," John Charles, associate manager for international science for NASA's Human Research Program, wrote during the Reddit AMA.
Most of the studies performed on Kelly and Kornienko require data collected before, after and during their flight. Some of the studies will require the continued collection of samples and other data as late as September, wrote Scott M. Smith, nutritional biochemistry laboratory manager for NASA's Human Research Program. In addition, some of the blood and urine samples Kelly collected during the flight are coming back to Earth on a SpaceX vehicle in May. That means scientists will still be working on their results well into 2017.
"The Twins Study data — from all 10 experiments — will be analyzed in bulk, and we hope to publish a main paper first, with likely smaller piece papers to follow," Smith said.
Without gravity compressing the spine, people tend to "grow" a few inches — although Shannan Moynihan, a NASA flight surgeon, told questioners that, "As soon as Scott returned to gravity and stood up, gravity began to compress his spine again. Most likely, he is already back to his prelaunch height."
Some astronauts experience back pain when they return to Earth, and the effect of microgravity on spinal problems is one of the many experiments being done with data taken on the space station.
"We see biochemical changes reflecting return to gravity almost immediately, but bone growth takes time," Smith wrote. "Our estimates from four to six month Mir and ISS missions is that it takes two to three times the length of the mission to recover bone. The great thing about this mission is that we have no idea what happens with crewmembers on one-year missions."
"Much of the change that occurs in weightlessness occurs early in flight — the first few months — and levels off more or less thereafter," Charles wrote. "So in at least a few areas, it is probably okay to extrapolate from 6-month and 1-year missions to 2.5-year Mars missions. But others require different approaches."
Robinson said the study of astronaut vision issues was the most important part of the One-Year Mission.
"About three years ago, we discovered that some (not all) astronauts were having permanent vision loss in space," Robinson wrote. "We think the shift of fluids to the brain causes the optic nerve to swell and press on the back of the eye, literally causing the globe (eyeball) to flatten!" Robinson wrote.
"We hadn't noticed the pattern until we had multiple long-duration missions on the space station!" Robinson continued. The One-Year Mission is 'our first check of the effects beyond 6 months on ISS.'"
One person asked the scientists if living in space affects brain activity.
"That is one of our studies," Charles said. "Scott [Kelly] and other astronauts and cosmonauts have volunteered to do some simple mental and physical tasks (not so simple, maybe — adding numbers, recognizing shapes in different orientations, etc.) — while inside a (sic) MRI so the actual regions of the brain involved in the task can be visualized and measured."
One way to potentially clear up some of the problems that arise due to living in microgravity is to build a ship with artificial gravity (AG), which could be created by making a ship that spins, like a centrifuge. This kind of ship design can be seen in many science fiction books and movies.
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"Yes - we've considered AG," Smith wrote. "Lots of issues...e.g., do you spin the whole vehicle? Or put a smaller centrifuge inside the vehicle? Do you need to spin 24h/day? Or is 1-2 hours enough? What level [gravity] do you need? A handful of ground-based bed rest studies have been conducted to assess some of these questions. More are planned. One step at a time."
Robinson said they are using good exercise regimens to protect astronauts' bones, muscles and hearts. "It might be possible to have small artificial gravity options, like a small centrifuge or cycle," she wrote. "NASA has studied artificial gravity for the whole vehicle, and there are technical problems with that in having all the systems operate well. Looked great in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' though."
Senioritis in space
What are the most valuable psychological insights that will come from the One-Year Mission, and how will that knowledge help astronauts headed to Mars?
"We know that crew members get ready to come home at the end of their mission," Robinson wrote. "It's a form of 'senioritis' we sometimes call the 'third quarter effect.' As missions get longer, the impacts of being away from your family and isolated from people are expected to be bigger. Scott [Kelly] participated in several studies of performance to get scientific data on this issue."
According to Charles, three major psychological topics being studied in the One-Year Mission are "behavioral medicine (what happens to an astronaut during spaceflight), team (how do groups of people work together effectively in stressful, confined environments) and sleep/circadian rhythm studies."
"There are experiments that the crew are participating in to measure the psychosocial effects of being in space," Robinson said. "Our flight surgeons also monitor each crewmember's well-being during and after the mission."
Moreover, there are support activities for the crew that make a big difference, Robinson said. "Our cargo vehicles bring fresh fruit and care packages, and the crew can call their families on a satellite phone," she wrote. "Those last ones really help, and we can't do them the same way on Mars. I imagine if we pre-position a Mars habitat, we will make sure there are some care package surprises waiting there for the crew."
Diet is a significant part of astronaut health in space — not only for nutritional value but also the psychological effect of eating. But how much choice do astronauts have in their food supply?
"In essence, they can eat whatever they want — from the space food system, which repeats about every 8 days," Smith said. "They also get a set of 'preference' containers to augment nominal food supply (amounts to about 10% of their intake). We track what they eat, and make recommendations, but it is a bit like sending your kid to school with a lunch box. :)" [7 Everyday Things that Happen Strangely In Space]
Additional risks
During the AMA, one person asked, What was the "one thing that you guys were most terrified of in this mission and didn't happen?"
"Our highest risk for loss of any ISS mission is a strike by a piece of orbital debris that causes a depressurization of one of the modules," Robinson said. "We do everything we can to avoid this (debris shields and even moving the ISS if a piece of space debris comes too close)."
If a spaceship travels to Mars, one major health concern will be increased exposure to space radiation. Astronauts on the International Space Station are still close enough to home to be largely protected by Earth's magnetic field (although they still experience higher doses of radiation than people on Earth). One Reddit questioner asked if NASA was getting close to building a module to protect astronauts from radiation on the journey to Mars.
"We don't have this worked out yet," Robinson wrote. "It is one of our top risks for going to Mars. We will need to use some combination of passive shielding, active (electromagnetic) shielding, and use propulsion to go as fast as we can to minimize deep space transit. We don't know the best combination yet."
And will there be another one-year mission on the station in the near future?
"NASA's Human Research Program has requested additional year-long missions on ISS, but all the other aspects of such missions must be considered by all the partner agencies, so no final decision has been made one way or the other," Charles said. "The goal would be to do some of the same or similar work measurements as on Scott [Kelly] so we could see the results on a larger number of people — important because of individual variability between people."
A man in Mexico claims he built a pyramid because an alien told him to
Raymundo Corona says he erected the 22 feet stone temple after being visited by a tall man calling himself Herulayka, who had honey-coloured eyes, white hair and from a planet called Nefilin 20 times the size of Earth.
He told a local paper the alien said he was from the constellation of Orion.
He built the pyramid close to Monclova in the state of Coahila near the Mexico-US border, despite being warned he would be taken for a drunk or a drug addict if his story ever came out.
Raymundo Corona built the pyramid in Coahila near the Mexico-US border
He told me to build the temple in the form of a pyramid
Raymundo Corona
Mr Corona, 33 when he claims the alien visited him in 1984, said: "He told me to build the temple in the form of a pyramid.
"When I asked him why it had to be in the form of a pyramid, he said it was because it should be like my faith, something that winds and storms couldn't move and was always pointing upwards."
Recalling the moment he asked his mysterious visitor his name, Mr Corona told Mexican daily La Vanguardia that Herulayka had warned him: "Many people will laugh at you, defame you and say it was an act of insanity or something he did during a bender, it was an act of a madman or a drug addict.
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The alien was said to be from the constellation of Orion
"He told me he came from the constellation of Orion, from a place called Nefilin which is a place 20 times larger than Earth where people are similar to human beings.
"He was a tall man with honey-coloured eyes and white hair down to the ground. He was barefoot and wore a tunic tied with a rope."
Mr Corona, whose wife was less than a day away from giving birth to his daughter at the time, says he had seen the alien in dreams before their meeting in person.
He said the extraterrestrial had claimed humans were destroying their own planet and should wake up to the fact they must look after it like a child because it gave them what they needed for their own survival.
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Mr Corona says he was visited by aliens 1984
Mexico is said to be the most active country in the world for UFO and alien sightings.
Last summer video footage emerged allegedly showing an "alien humanoid" on the roof of a building in Nuevo Laredo, northern Mexico.
Viewers claimed the clip proved onc e and for all extra terrestrials are visiting Earth while others branded it a "pointless hoax."
The website Neuva Region.com reported an Argentine farmer filed a complaint with the local cops about a UFO (OVNI) that landed in his cornfield leaving behind a 600 meter by 6-ft. swath of crushed corn plants. (Six hundred meters equals 1968 ft.) Along with the damage, other witnesses claimed they saw “a ship with strange lights and colors flying over the area.”
The location of the alleged UFO landing was Pujanto, 42 kilometers west of Rosario. “Raul, a farmer aged 62, appeared before the Commissioner of the town of Santa Fe to report a complaint of damage to his corn field. The strange thing is that it is not clear who or what caused this strange happening. In fact, there was no theft of the crop or vehicle tracks in place; only the patch of flattened corn.
Neighbors said the area brought out witnesses who claimed to see a ship with strange lights and colors flying over the area, according to the journalist who told Radio 2 Hector Lopez. These are people who were in the area of the cemetery at the entrance of the town on Route 33. The incident occurred around 3:00 AM, and the mark left by the supposed UFO is about 600 meters by six feet wide.
The commissioner, Walter Freniche, confirmed the complaint and told Radio 2 that the crushed area was verified. He noted that there was no theft, or vehicle tracks, “but maybe the incident occurred four or five days ago, and had disappeared by now.” Freniche noted that “neighbors reported seeing lights” although none of them reported officially. He added: “It’s a difficult case.”
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Blue Plasma UFO Seen By Scientist During Hunting Trip In Canada, 45 Min Video
Blue Plasma UFO Seen By Scientist During Hunting Trip In Canada, 45 Min Video
Date of sighting: August 2014 Location of sighting: Canada Source: MUFON Its understandable that a person in the DOD wants to keep things off the record. In the government, you either play by their rules, or their rules will kick you out. Its just about job security. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: A extremely credible Scientist that works with highly advanced technology who is also a contractor with the Department of Defense tells about a encounter with a large U.F.O. while on a hunting trip , 3 hunters see a dog bone shaped U.F.O. that is 170 feet long, covered in blue plasma, watch a interview with two of the hunters who witness this out of this world craft 400 feet away from them, Investigated independently by myself and Robert Powell (Director of Research for MUFON) Mutual UFO Network , for a considerable time, this event has produced specific details normally not observed and is now being released to the public, with the witness needing specific help furthering his research.
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NASA dropped a 2-ton kinetic missile on the moon: What did they destroy? Is it possible that NASA bombed the moon in order to destroy an Alien base? According to many people around the world, the answer is a big YES. Optimized-NASA nuke Moon Accor
NASA dropped a 2-ton kinetic missile on the moon: What did they destroy?
Is it possible that NASA bombed the moon in order to destroy an Alien base? According to many people around the world, the answer is a big YES.
According to a set of images and alleged reports, there are alien structures on the surface of the moon, and NASA launched a 2-ton kinetic weapon to destroy them, despite international laws clearly prohibiting it.
One of the greatest enigmas regarding UFOs and Alien life is whether governments and Space Agencies around the world are covering up such information. While seeing UFO’s on Earth and videos from space isn’t something new, in the last couple of years, a lot of attention has been drawn to Earth’s moon. There, on the surface of Earth’s natural surface lay numerous ‘Alien’ Bases. The fact that many believe NASA and governments around the world have covered up information on these alien bases has become a widely accepted ideology in the last decade among ufologists and believers.
One of the most interesting things about the moon, which involves a ‘typical’ cover-up is the LCROSS mission by NASA where they literally BOMBED the surface of the moon for alleged ‘Scientific’ purposes.
Despite the fact that it strictly prohibited, NASA released a ‘Centaur’ kinetic weapon which ultimately impacted the moon.
In the last couple of decades, several extremely important treaties have made significant impact on Military Space Policy, and according to the Book The Paths Of Heaven: The Evolution Of Airpower Theory, the following treaties are of note:
1) The Outer Space Treaty (OST) which dates back to 1967, clearly states that international law applies BEYOND the atmosphere. The treaty of 1967 reemphasized standing international laws and initiated new space-related laws: Free Access to space and celestial bodies for peaceful intent, prohibitions on national appropriations of space or celestial bodies, prohibitions on putting any weapons of mass destruction in space or on celestial bodies.
2) The Antiballistic Missile (ABM) treaty of 1972 (which was signed between the USA and the USSR) banned the development, testing, and employment of space-based ABMs.
3) The Convention on Registration (1974) requires parties to maintain a registry of objects launched into space and report orbital parameters and general function of those objects to the UN.
4) And most importantly, the Environmental Modification Convention signed in 1980 which prohibits the hostile use of environmental modification.
Apart of the above-mentioned treaties, in 1977 a convention was concluded on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques which set out a number of prohibitions also with respect to outer space and celestial bodies. (Source: Perestroika and International Law)
Despite the above-mentioned facts, NASA modified the surface of the moon after launching the 2-ton kinetic weapon which created a 5-mile wide crater.
‘Officially’, the main LCROSS mission objective was to explore the presence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. The mission was launched together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on June 18, 2009, as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years.
But… why break numerous international laws and go against their very own standards all of a sudden? Well, according to many, the true purpose behind the 2009 LCROSS ‘Moon bombing’ was far more enigmatic than anyone at NASA is willing to accept.
According to many ufologists,-and alleged images which show ‘alien’ structures on the surface of the moon- NASAs LCROSS mission had a more militaristic objective rather than scientific. Many believe that the 2-ton kinetic weapon that was detonated on the Moon’s South Pole was aimed at an Alien Base located there.
Check out these images:
This “bombed” moon base might perhaps explain why we haven’t been there in recent years, why would we avoid the Moon so much? We know that it is a place filled with minerals, it has water (and they really needed to bomb it to find out?) and it would make a perfect outpost for anyone who wants to continue the exploration of our solar system and it would also help us get to Mars and beyond.
However, despite the fact that many reports and enigmatic images of alleged structures on the moon are there, it’s nearly impossible to prove (or disprove for that matter) their existence and the truth behind until perhaps one day, we return to the Moon. However, returning to the moon isn’t a guarantee that we will finally have disclosure whether or not there is an alien presence on the moon.
It is a profound mystery why NASA decided to break international laws and literally BOMBEDthe moon for alleged scientific purposes.
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