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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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
23-03-2016
"Flying Saucers, A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies" : UFO DEBUNKER Psychoanalyst C.G. Jung
"Flying Saucers, A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies" : UFO DEBUNKER Psychoanalyst C.G. Jung
"Flying Saucers : A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies" (Paperback)
The first English edition was in print, published in 1959.
"Flying Saucers, A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies", is controversial psychoanalyst C.G. Jung's floundering attempt to embrace the UFO phenomenon with a stilted logic that does not exist in the UFO realm.
Like many who have not actually seen UFOs nor have had bizarre alien encounters with non-human intelligences, Jung cannot, or will not, wrap his mind around the literal truth of reported worldwide experiences of UFOs and their alien pilots, singularities of his 'reality'.
Reading this book, seeing his thoughts emerge on paper, one can see his struggle intellectually with indigestible experiences of high strangeness with aliens; his explanations seem stranger and weirder than the actual phenomenon itself!
Jung holds that alien UFO technological craft which morph into different shapes, wink out and reappear and transport human abductees are a mere projection of mankind's "collective unconscious".
He states that although secularized Western Civilization's Every Man has lost belief in any paranormal God of Christianity/ Judaism that, nonetheless, the human psyche has a religious, myth-making function which is unconscious in nature and which cannot be turned off.
Jung's seems clearly baffled for he postulates that at our core, even in especially "rational" or especially atheistic modern thinking human beings, is a deep, secret religious longing.
A "conflict occurs", he claims, because the conscious mind has rejected God; thus, the "collective unconscious" 'compensates' for this, by projecting illusions, hallucinations of UFOs as well as hallucinations of the alien beings who pilot them.
The lengths that such uninitiated minds to UFO/alien realities will go, to explain away such things, is rather quite remarkable, and Jung is a sure example of such debunker oriented minds.
To Jung, the global phenomenon of reported UFOs and their alien beings is a mere 'projection' of our unconscious desire; we 'create' an ersatz psychological substitute for God.
I think I can grasp this feeble attempt of Jung, towards a psychological metaphor, for whether it's enmasse looking for God, or attending group UFO sky watching, we ARE still looking 'up'.
But Jung further also goes on to connect people who see UFOs and who report the abduction phenomenon with the universal anxieties they have, created by World War II and the Cold War, a silly psychological surmise that pales, beside the monumental evidences of Earth's alien reality.
Somehow, human fears are transformed, according to Jung, to become reduced into the mind's unreal projections of flying saucers, in his words, "a modern myth of things seen in the sky".
Jung, who refutes UFOs and aliens, on a sheer symbolic level, exhibits little common sense or innate horse sense.
UFO observations, though non-religious by nature, DO encompass a similarity to the "spiritual" or semi-religious dimension, in many tangential ways:
Part of the phenomenon does involve astral abductions; one's body is left behind in a car, or in bed, and one's spiritual essences are extracted, 'vibrated' out of one's body..
One reports seeing one's body receding below as one is ascending into an overhead craft..
One's astral essences , in abductions, maintain all of one's personality traits and idiosyncratic fine judgmental qualities.
As well, some power seeking abductees have surely assumed the roles of purported prophets, who bring messages of occult truth and shaman- like salvation from aliens, who in effect become new gods.
There IS a strong connection between the ideas of abductees and those native to the ideas of Theosophy.
And there ARE strong similarities between the predatory spiritual treatment of abductees by aliens, and the too easily dismissed notions of demonic possession.
However, Jung goes much further than symbolic associations by connecting UFOs to his personal more contentious idea of a LITERAL collective unconscious, its "projections" and its "archetypes".
To his mind, a flying saucer is an archetype, compared to the mandala, its round shape a universal symbol of' wholeness'.
Jung is always however sufficiently unclear as to whether he regards these psychic projections in some sense real, or whether they are to his thinking sheer internal, subjective illusions.
He does not elucidate whether he sees UFOs as hallucinations, or if they may then exist as physical entities
Jung leads one to believe that he sees the supernatural in a literal sense, but that he would never say this explicitly, because of his trained "scientific" pretenses.
He may have seen himself as a psychological prophet of the occult's salvation or as its apologist.
The rest of his book is even more far-fetched; Jung makes more highly subjective and idiosyncratic analysis of dreams and paintings that do in some way deal with UFOs.
Jung painfully squeezes all kinds of "mythological" symbolism from them and finally goes on to
review the quasi-religious musings of an abductee, Orfeo Angelucci, whom he calls "naive".
The similarities between the messages received by Orfeo from aliens, to certain religious notions, are indeed somewhat striking.
But, The Collective Unconscious? !
A better explanation is that "naive" Orfeo had been reading Theosophical literature...
I can't say I was convinced by any of Jung's thinking .
"Flying Saucers", gives one a glimpse of how Jung approached UFO paranormal experiences as a mythical quasi-religious phenomena, for he painfully could not accept or understand these experiences, at face value.
If I were able to write him a letter, it would say:
"Dear Carl,
I have for years, personally had contact, seen these entities and their craft mentioned by so many other abductees the world over, and seen them eyeball-to eyeball.
You're a P.H.D. trained to be simple minded, yet one with enough intellectual gall to preach that UFOs and aliens are fictional imaginings, which the world now knows to be pure horseapples, such that P.H.D., in your case stands for Piled High and Deep.
I know, for a certainty, having passed many psychiatric and neurological medical exams, that I am not schizophrenic, nor mentally ill, hallucinating, paranoid or suffering brain lesions, for having experienced these alien beings eyeball-to-eyeball, aboard their craft during abductions since I was a child.
Without question, these encounters clearly contradict everything that you (and I )have ever learned or been told by clearly uninformed others.
I have been an abductee and researcher for forty years and well know that your dismissal of UFOs as symbolic mandalas is a mistaken analytical contrivance, to explain away a reality that you could not logically conceive of.
Thomas Jefferson, likewise an also otherwise brilliant man, refused to accept presumed recorded and documented meteorite accounts, as he logically and also mistakenly believed that rocks, " could never float in the air to then later, fall and come down".
I have had on-going interactions with non-human UFO beings since I was a young child, and after forty years of such experiences and much research I share with you what I have gleaned.
There are only two predominate alien categories visiting us, essentially : those brilliantly malevolent, and those who won't get involved.
Sanguine, Pollyanna thinking is puerile , concerning true alien motives and tactics, who as good gameskeepers never let the animals within this preserve, that we call, "Earth", suspect that it is indeed, a preserve.
Aliens and their craft are as equally inter-dimensional as they are inter-galactic.
In addition, when commonly seen UFOs wink out and reappear, they have already traveled to and then returned back, in time. They are the masters of our Universe. Some of these sinister beings seek to infuse their dis-corporate energies into our multilayered psyches, and represent joy-riding lamprey parasites of human consciousness, itself.
Aliens ride the reincarnation roller coaster along with us, exploiting our spiritual quantum, a quality that we as a race , are barely aware of.
The full alien truth, is down a long hall, and somewhere else, for we are seen by them, as merely perfunctory, not unlike the way that we see poultry.
You cannot see your alien nose upon your face and thus assert that your alien nose is UNIVERSALLY not there, but is instead a projected UFO nasal image from an inner mental conflict.
I, assure you that your UFO nose, contrary to your opinion, is UNIVERSALLY, in fact, actually there, perched between your eyes and mouth.
To persist in such pseudo scientific assertions, to an alien abducted person, one who has seen UFOs and aliens, is an inane attempt, one that denies, contradicts and explains away, many others direct experiences with such beings.
Such convoluted persistence is more than useless: it is damaging disinformation.
Your crippled faculties reveal a paltry understanding of humankind's history of alien/ UFO interactions, clearly beyond your own limited grasp .
A formally trained psychiatrist's postulations, in this paranormal realm, is as useless as teats on a bull....
While you argue that one's UFO nose ISN'T really there, I and other abductees, hold ourselves up, as a mirror to you, to point out obvious physical snouts and sinuses.
Our remarkably similar worldwide alien/UFO experiences, refute your useless -pseudo- logical analysis, and we hold our UFO noses up high, a posture of indignation, at your notion that we do imagine our alien noses.
You're not a singularity of cynicism; according to one eloquent abductee:
" A leap in consciousness will require a dissolution and restructuring of your beliefs about the nature of reality."
To me, to live unburdened by an insatiable curiosity to comprehend the mysteries of the UFOs in our skies, is quite an amazing thing, in itself.
She, the abductee, continues:
"The history of mankind has been punctuated by personalities who refused to be bound by the grand illusion of space and time, seekers who penetrated the limitations of space and form."
Knowing the aliens reside in a different reality explains why this whole UFO phenomenon is so slippery; "we exist within a matrix of other realities all merging in one spot: the mind."
Aliens and their craft exist.
My expanded consciousness and mental abilities are merely the outcome of my contacts with them.
To again quote this author-abductee:
"Their world coexists with our own intimately intertwined and separated by the thinnest veil- our arrogant assumption that we are the sole proprietors of the only reality."
Alien technology, recovered from downed discs and other craft, has already inspired Skunkworks to give us the ability to recreate and reverse engineer:
lasers,
fiber optics,
nuclear power,
ultrasound uses
cold fusion anti gravity,
microwaves,
stealth technology,
nanotechnology,
microchips,
specialized surgical tools,
cloning-genetic engineering-
and most recently we scramble to deduce 'smart skins' of craft which like chameleons, alter shape and color according to environments.
All of these magical technologies were successfully studied, reverse engineered and imitated.
But, aliens aboard UFOs in reptilian and in grey form, see us in much the same perfunctory way, that we see chickens, as a crop to be harvested and farmed, not a species to be elevated to equanimity.
Sincerely yours,
Paul Schroeder"
Director of CIA, Admiral R.H. Hillenkoetter: "It is time for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional hearings. Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel." p. 58, quoted from New York Times, February 28, 1960, p. L30
Paul's BIO:
Abductions and their remnant elusive memories have opened all this for Paul, a confirmed atheist, UNTIL Paul saw aliens float him out of his body, in his bed, at night.
Then, he knew that they were interested in an essence that he never suspected that he had, a nonphysical 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 human beings, as a sanctuary, to avoid the death that they fear and to steal the spiritual recycling that we have.
Souls are garnered, detoured from our natural spiritual evolution in Heaven.
These joyriding grays can be sinister, discorporate alien souls, stuck to our energies, who bring a new meaning to the concept of a silent invasion.
ASTROPHYSIQUE «Vie extraterrestre : à deux doigts de la réponse». C'est ce qu'a voulu démontrer Robert Lamontagne, astrophysicien à l'Université de Montréal et directeur du télescope de l'observatoire du Mont-Mégantic, dans une captivante conférence qui a eu lieu la semaine dernière au Café Clovis du Cégep de Drummondville.
Voici une image de Kepler 186f, l'une des exoplanètes dont parle Robert Lamontagne pendant sa conférence.
Devant près d'une centaine de curieux, tous passionnés par ce qui se passe ailleurs que sur la terre, le scientifique a commencé par effectuer un survol des toutes premières observations des planètes de notre système solaire, notamment celles de Galilée, et des premiers signaux radio qui, vers 1960, ont permis d'écouter l'univers.
Puis, Robert Lamontagne est entré dans le vif du sujet et c'est là que c'est devenu fascinant, très fascinant. «À ce jour, nous avons découvert 2093 exoplanètes (planètes qui comme la terre tournent autour d'un soleil). Au début, en 1995, ce fut extraordinaire; maintenant c'est rendu commun. Aujourd'hui, on en voit de toutes les sortes, des petites, des grosses, des chaudes, certaines sont gazeuses, on a même découvert des planètes qui gravitent autour de trois soleils, imaginez un triple coucher de soleil…
«Plus nos technologies progressent, plus nous trouvons des exoplanètes dont la masse se rapproche de celle de la terre et plus elles sont à une distance semblable à celle qui sépare notre terre du soleil. Trop près c'est trop chaud, trop loin c'est trop froid pour que naisse la vie», a expliqué l'astrophysicien.
Photos, graphiques et animation à l'appui, le conférencier a avancé que, sur les 100 milliards de soleils que compte notre galaxie, il se trouverait environ 400 milliards d'exoplanètes. «On peut présumer, d'après les recherches récentes, que 15 % des exoplanètes peuvent présenter des caractéristiques ressemblant à celles de la terre, telles que l'atmosphère, une surface solide et de l'eau liquide. Il faut juste les trouver», lance-t-il avec la conviction que la science y parviendra à mesure que seront élaborés de plus puissants téléscopes.
Robert Lamontagne, qui est également membre de l'iREx (Institut de recherche sur les exoplanètes), se dit confiant que les instruments à venir permettront de faire un bond de géant au début des années 2020. Il a parlé de TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), de la NASA, qui verra le jour vers 2018 avec la mission de balayer le ciel afin de trouver spécifiquement des exoplanètes. Il y a également le JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) qui sera aussi en fonction en octobre 2018, qui sera 10 fois plus puissant que Hubble. Et surtout, il y a le TMT (Trente Mètres Téléscope), un observatoire astronomique terrestre capable d'observer depuis le proche ultraviolet jusqu'à l'infrarouge moyen (500 fois plus puissant que le Mont-Mégantic), et le EELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) avec son miroir primaire d'un diamètre de 39 mètres, qui doit entrer en service en 2024.
Selon Robert Lamontagne, les observations vont devenir plus précises. «Il n'y a rien de garanti, mais au train où vont les choses, on aura une réponse sur la vie extraterrestre dans les années 2022, 2023, 2024…» conclut-il, en s'en remettant à la pensée de Carl Sagan : «Quelque part, quelque chose d'extraordinaire attend d'être découvert».
Question collatérale : et si nous étions seuls dans cet univers? Et bien ce serait un beau gâchis d'espace, comme le dit Jodie Foster dans le magnifique film Contact, de Robert Zemeckis.
Have you ever looked into the sky and wondered whether we alone in the universe?
Many people think that in such a vast universe, there must be something else out there.
But for Gary the very thought was preposterous.
That was, until one night in March 2013 when he was recovering a vehicle in Barlaston.
It was a Friday night when he received the call to attend to a breakdown of the car.
He was sent to Rough Close and what he didn't know was that this was to be a call he would never forget.
It was shortly after midnight and the weather was heavy with rain.
A lady had broken down some way from home and required Gary's assistance.
As he pulled up in the lower car park, overlooking Wedgwood, he saw the lady and her car.
Gary introduced himself and began to investigate the problem with the car.
As he continued to work under the bonnet, he heard a strange sound coming from the field not far away.
"It sounded like a swishing noise accompanied by a low buzzing," he told me.
"We both looked towards where the noise was coming from and we froze with fear when we first saw it.
"The initial thing we noticed was a light radiating from the field where the noise was coming from.
"Whatever it was it had just began to lift off the ground and was heading directly upwards."
Gary described the craft as black in colour and a shaped like a cigar and he estimated it to be approximately 50 feet in length.
Both the lady and Gary stood transfixed on the glow of this unknown object.
"When I glanced at the woman she was actually smiling, it felt euphoric and stimulating not scary at all," he explained.
When the object reached approximately 20 feet into the air it slowed down and changed direction, swinging around to face towards them.
Gary said: "That was the only time I felt concerned, it seemed to notice us and that felt surreal."
Then the lady that Gary had come to help, started to walk slowly towards the object.
He watched with uncertainty and fear as she seemed to be in some kind of trance.
He moved quickly towards the lady and stood in front of her.
"I was trying to stop her but she seemed drawn towards the object and continued to try and get past me - keeping her eyes fixed on the craft at all times."
Eventually he shouted over to her and she seemed to snap out of the trance.
At the very same time, the object let out a deep pulsing sound before going off into the sky before it disappeared completely.
Following the silence, Gary talked to the woman who claimed that although she could remember seeing the light in the field, she couldn't remember walking towards it.
When I asked Gary what he thought had been happening he told me: "I actually think the craft had been waiting for someone to come past and caused the woman's car to breakdown.
"Once she pulled over it was waiting for the right time to abduct her but I showed up and prevented that from happening by just simply being there.
"It was strange but once the craft had gone her car started back up and I couldn't find any fault with it"
So the next time your car starts to play up, it might be worth considering who is actually watching you…
Aliens could be living in far away globular cluster
Groups of stars called globular clusters, have been around more than twice as long as the sun and Earth, meaning any potential alien life could have evolved to be MORE advanced than humans.
Dr Rosanne Di Stefano from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the US, made the bold claims in an article about star clusters.
Globular clusters are areas in the universe which are densely packed with ancient stars, the majority of which are older than our sun.
The “halo” region of the Milky Way – the part beyond the catherine wheel arms of our galaxy – contains globular clusters which have stars as old as 10 billion years old.
Considering the sun is 4.6 billion years old and has allowed us to evolve to intelligent beings, Dr Di Stefano believes 10 billion years worth of evolution could mean that the potential aliens are even more advanced than us.
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Globular clusters are regions densely packed with ancient stars
Additionally, the stars in this region are close together, meaning it takes light as little as one month to travel from one star to another, whereas the closest star to Earth, aside from the sun, is 4.2 light years away.
Dr Di Stefano said due to the close proximity of the stars, "it would also be easier for a civilisation to explore and even set up outposts on other worlds”.
Only one planet has been found in a globular cluster - the 12.4 billion-year-old Methuselah, named an exoplanet because it isn’t in our solar system.
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But Dr Di Stefano wrote in the Sky at Night magazine: "It would be strange if there were not many others.
"Of course, this is all conjecture. We don't know whether there is alien life in such clusters.
“But globular clusters would be a good place to look and might be the first place where intelligent life is identified in our galaxy."
However, others believe we should focus the search for alien life on Earth's transit zones.
A report recently published in Astrobiology states scientists should hone in on the areas of space that we can see, and thus potential aliens may be able to see us.
Astrophysicists René Heller and Ralph Pudritz’s study states alien civilisations may be looking for extra-terrestrials in the same way we are tracking exoplanets – by monitoring their shadows as they pass in front of their host star.
They write: "Our planet may be seen by distant observers against our Sun's light, allowing them to detect us.
“As an ultimate consequence, even if our species chose to remain radio-quiet to eschew interstellar contact, we cannot hide from observers located in Earth's solar transit zone, if they exist.”
Fifty years ago today, reports of Unidentified Flying Objects swarmed over Michigan. Headlines screamed from the pages of newspapers. Reporters headed to a swamp near Dexter and to a girls’ dorm at Hillsdale College.
The witnesses were not few and far-between. The people who said they saw these things included law enforcement officers and college officials. The U.S. Air Force sent in an expert from its Project Blue Book program, which investigated UFO reports from 1952 to 1969. After a short time visiting and talking to witnesses, J. Allen Hynek declared that what everyone had seen was not some alien invasion, but swamp gas. In articles from back then, swamp gas was described as methane emissions from decaying vegetation, which can ignite spontaneously.
Some people had a hard time swallowing that theory. One of them is Harry Willnus of South Lyon, a retired high school teacher and UFO enthusiast. Willnus, who was not a witness but has researched the Swamp Gas Case, sat with me last week to revisit those events of 50 years ago.
One more thing. If you think people didn’t take this seriously back then, know this: A congressman from Michigan called for congressional hearings on the Michigan UFO sightings.
His name was Gerald Ford.
Mr. Willnus, can you set the scene for me? Fifty years ago today, what did people report in a swamp near Dexter?
People reported lights. There were a number of police officers there, including at least 12 officers from Washtenaw County. Several from Dexter, the city of Dexter. A host of townies, and this thing went on for about four hours, off and on.
What were they seeing?
They were seeing lights, they were seeing some kind of a craft. There were more than one craft in the area, which were reported over a number of days. Sometimes they were seen flying in formation, a group of three or four. Other times, we had cases where a UFO was hovering over a deputy’s squad car.
Is that right?
Yes.
So this all started March 20, 1966.
It was the beginning. … Before that there were many, many sightings in this area, other states as well, and it went on after this. But the two cases known as the Swamp Gas Case are the Dexter case of March 20, 1966, and the following night, Hillsdale College, behind a girls’ dorm, March 21. … There were at least 60, 70, maybe 80 coeds in a dorm and they observed these lights for some time. ... On one occasion, the lights came up very, very close to the windows of the dorm, scared the girls. And then the police would be called, object would leave, police would leave, eventually the object would come back.
Back to the swamp in Dexter. … This wasn’t just a man and his son out in the countryside after drinking a bunch of moonshine or something and seeing visions. Real, credible people, including sheriff’s deputies, reported seeing the same thing.
Exactly. Frank Mannor was a no-nonsense guy.
He’s the guy who first reported the swamp incident?
Yes.
Did he describe what it looked like? Have you seen reports of what this craft looked like?
It was about the size of a small car. He said it was football-shaped. It had lights on each end. The lights sometimes would vary in intensity and colors. There was somewhat of a haze underneath it, which is commonly reported around UFO sightings, some kind of a haze. It may have to do with their propulsion systems.
Tell me how this was portrayed in newspapers and television around Michigan at the time.
Fascination. There was a degree of fear, though, with some people. … I was teaching school and they called an impromptu staff meeting, one of the teachers immediately stood up and said, I’ve got a long drive home, get this thing over quick, I don’t want to be on the road if it’s even close to dark, with this UFO stuff going on.
OK, there’s all these reports, and the Air Force sends in an expert (Hynek).
Hynek had about a day and a half. He visited both places: Hillsdale and the Dexter swamp. Looked the situation over. He was constantly being hounded by the press. And he interviewed witnesses, basically. He was riding back in the squad car with Sheriff Doug Harvey, Washtenaw County Sheriff. ... He said he just couldn’t put it together, what people had seen. But after they got back to the sheriff’s office, this is when I think the big event happened. The dispatcher stepped into the office and said, “Dr. Hynek, you’ve got a call from Washington.” Hynek stepped out, he took the call, he came back in, he looked a little gray, shook, and he was mumbling, “Swamp gas.” I don’t think Hynek knew what swamp gas actually was until he got this phone call. …
When did you get interested in UFOs and these kinds of studies?
I was a young lad, maybe 10 years old or so, and I saw a couple articles in the local paper, the Detroit Times, in those days, about UFOs. That’s what got me interested. I began to read and eventually did some investigating.
You’ve been a schoolteacher, you were a history teacher, you’re a sane human being. What do you say to those folks out there who would question all this as nonsense?
I would say, if you do your homework, go into this with an open mind ... there’s a tremendous amount of information and proof and evidence there that Planet Earth is being visited on a very regular basis. ... Have you ever seen one?
I’m trying to think. I love looking at the night sky. I’m a big fan of stargazing. I’ve seen plenty of satellites and things going around … I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anything that I would classify as something from another world. How many people do you think have?
The estimate is as high as 14% of U.S. citizens have seen something that they cannot identify. Maybe most of those, they are something natural. But I say give me the top one-half percent. The military people, police officers, responsible citizens who’ve had sightings, and close-in sightings, and then listen to some of these. You’re going to be scratching your head.
Current State reporter Kevin Lavery went to Ann Arbor this weekend for a conference commemorating the anniversary of the sighting to try to find out.
“The call came into the Washtenaw County Sheriff around 8:30 that evening,” says Harry Willnus, ufologist and former director of the Michigan UFO Network.
On the line was a local farmer named Frank Mannor. He said he was on the porch trying to calm down his barking dogs when he saw a bright object falling from the north.
“He described a football-shaped object, about the size of a small car,” says Willnus. “He also mentioned a mist that seemed to hang from the bottom, which is common in UFO sightings.”
The Washtenaw County Sheriff’s police report described an object with blue, green and white flashing lights. The lights would often change colors.
News reports from Hillsdale the following day would describe similar sightings.
“I think what made these cases unique is their relation to each other in time – one day after another – and the huge number of witnesses involved,” says historian Will Matthews.
“We’re talking 50-100 witnesses in Dexter – and close to that number in Hillsdale.”
Such an uncommon sighting was bound to bring outside attention, and suddenly, Walter Cronkite wasn’t the only one interested in the Michigan farm town.
J. Allen Hynek, renowned astronomer and an authority on UFOs during the 1940s, was brought in by the Air Force to investigate.
Hynek’s probe concluded that people were probably just witnessing a natural phenomenon called “swamp gas.”
“They needed someone to come in and say ‘here’s what you probably saw that night’,” says Willnus. “He was convinced that these were crackpots, visionaries – people who were seeing things or had too much to drink.”
The Mannor family had a rough time after the government denounced the UFO sighting.
Cars lined up around their property for weeks after. People unnecessarily tromped over their lawn. Frank Mannor even had his car windshield smashed by a beer bottle.
Years later, Hynek’s skepticism about UFOs would subside. He and Willnus would eventually work together at the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago.
Even with an official investigation – and explanation – those few nights in 1966 remain clouded in mystery.
But it’s not so mysterious to Harry Willnus.
“I’m absolutely a believer,” says Willnus. “What I really enjoy- and this has happened several times in my life- people who just laugh at me, they’re just so, ‘what is wrong with you?’ And then, guess what? They have their own sighting. They have their own close encounter and, oh my god, I’ve seen the eyes become like saucers.”
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Astronomen zien voor het eerst flits van de schokgolf van exploderende ster
Astronomen zien voor het eerst flits van de schokgolf van exploderende ster
Tim Kraaijvanger
Wanneer een grote ster explodeert, dan is er een korte flits zichtbaar. Deze ontstaat door de schokgolf die zich naar buiten toe voortplant en de ster uiteen rijt. De Kepler-ruimtesonde heeft deze flits voor het eerst ‘live’ gezien.
Drie jaar lang heeft Kepler iedere 30 minuten het licht vastgelegd van 50 biljoen sterren in 500 verre sterrenstelsels. De onderzoekers hebben deze gegevens geanalyseerd, in de hoop een supernova-explosie – oftewel het einde van een ster – te vinden. En dat is gelukt!
In 2011 zijn twee massieve rode superreuzen geëxplodeerd. Deze zijn waargenomen door Kepler. De eerste reus – KSN 2011a – was meer dan 300 keer zo zwaar als de zon en bevond zich op het moment van exploderen op 700 miljoen lichtjaar afstand van de aarde. Het tweede exemplaar – KSN 2011d – was 1,2 miljard lichtjaar van onze planeet verwijderd en ongeveer 500 keer zwaarder als de zon.
Na de flits van de schokgolf neemt de helderheid van een supernova snel toe.
“Om dit in perspectief te plaatsen: deze twee reuzen zouden gemakkelijk de baan van de aarde om de zon kunnen vullen”, zegt hoofdonderzoeker Peter Garnavich van de universiteit van Notre Dame in Indiana. De flits van de schokgolf is slechts twintig minuten zichtbaar. “Om deze flits te zien, moeten we 24/7 een camera richten op de hemel boven ons. Je weet niet waar en wanneer een supernova-explosie plaatsvindt.”
Een type II-supernova-explosie ontstaat wanneer een ster niet meer genoeg nucleaire brandstof heeft. Normaal gesproken kan een ster tegendruk leveren tegen de enorme zwaartekracht, maar wanneer er geen brandstof meer is, stort de kern in elkaar. Het binnenste van de ster gaat zich gedragen als een keiharde bol. Meer naar buiten gelegen schillen van de ster vallen naar binnen, maar kaatsen vervolgens op de keiharde bol en botsen weer met de sterlagen die volgen. Hierdoor ontstaat een schokgolf. Het duurt een uur voordat de schokgolf het oppervlak van de reuzenster bereikt, waarna de flits te zien is.
Opvallend is dat bij de kleinste ster (KSN 2011a) geen flits van de schokgolf te zien was. Bij KSN 2011d wel. De onderzoekers denken dat de kleinere ster omgeven was door een schijf van gas, die voorkwam dat de flits te zien was. “Dat verbaast ons wel”, geeft Garnavich toe. “Het zijn twee supernova’s, maar we zien ook twee verschillende dingen.”
De Kepler-ruimtetelescoop heeft vier gyroscoopachtige wielen om aardachtige exoplaneten te vinden. Er zijn minstens drie wielen nodig om goed te functioneren, maar in 2012 en 2013 gingen twee wielen kapot. NASA beëindigde de Kepler-missie en startte de nieuwe K2-missie. Nu kan de ruimtetelescoop alsnog ingezet worden om supernova’s en actieve sterrenstelsels te vinden. Garnavich en zijn collega’s hopen binnen de K2-missie nog veel meer supernova-explosies te vinden.
Recordbrekend snelle winden ontdekt rond zwart gat
Recordbrekend snelle winden ontdekt rond zwart gat
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De winden nabij het supermassieve zwarte gat hebben een snelheid van meer dan 200 miljoen kilometer per uur!
Het gaat om een zogenoemde quasar-wind. Quasars zijn schijven heet gas die ontstaan rond supermassieve zwarte gaten in het centrum van grote sterrenstelsels. De schijven zijn groter dan de baan die de aarde rond de zon trekt en warmer dan het oppervlak van onze ster. “Zwarte gaten kunnen een massa hebben die miljarden keren groter is dan die van de zon,” vertelt onderzoeker Patrick Hall. Dat komt doordat zwarte gaten alles opslokken wat te dicht bij komt. “Maar wanneer materiaal richting het zwarte gat cirkelt, wordt een deel ervan weggeblazen door de hitte en het licht van de quasar. En dat zijn de winden die we nu detecteren.”
Sneller “We hebben het over windsnelheden van twintig procent van de snelheid van het licht,” vertelt onderzoeker Jesse Rogerson. “Dat is meer dan 200 miljoen kilometer per uur. Dat is vergelijkbaar met een categorie 77-orkaan. En we hebben reden om aan te nemen dat er quasar-winden zijn die nog sneller zijn.”
“WE HEBBEN REDEN OM AAN TE NEMEN DAT ER QUASAR-WINDEN ZIJN DIE NOG SNELLER ZIJN”
Trager “We hebben niet alleen de snelste ultraviolette wind ooit ontdekt,” vertelt Hall. De onderzoekers stuitten in dezelfde quasar op een andere wind die veel trager bewoog. “Met slechts 140 miljoen kilometer per uur. We zijn van plan om deze quasar in de gaten te houden om te zien wat er nu gaat gebeuren.”
De onderzoekers hopen gaandeweg steeds meer te weten te komen over deze quasar-winden en de gevolgen die ze hebben voor hun omgeving. “Quasar-winden spelen een belangrijke rol in de totstandkoming van sterrenstelsels,” vertelt Rogerson. “Wanneer sterrenstelsels ontstaan, slingeren deze winden materiaal naar buiten en voorkomen dat sterren ontstaan. Als zulke winden niet zouden bestaan of minder krachtig waren, zouden we veel meer sterren in grote sterrenstelsels zien.”
Nieuwe zwaartekrachtkaart onthult hoe Mars er van binnen uitziet
Nieuwe zwaartekrachtkaart onthult hoe Mars er van binnen uitziet
Tim Kraaijvanger
Drie ruimtevaartuigen in een baan om Mars hebben een zwaartekracht gemaakt van de rode planeet. Dankzij deze kaart leren wetenschappers hoe Mars er van binnen uitziet.
“Net zoals een dokter een röntgenfoto gebruikt om het lichaam van een patiënt te inspecteren, gebruiken astronomen zwaartekrachtkaarten om de binnenkant van een planeet te ontleden”, vertelt onderzoeker Antonio Genova van het MIT. “Dankzij deze kaart kunnen we ruimtevaartuigen nog beter in een baan om Mars plaatsen, omdat we weten op welke plekken de zwaartekracht afwijkt. Ook begrijpen we nu beter hoe mysterieuze gebieden op deze planeet ontstaan.”
De nieuwe zwaartekrachtkaart verklaart hoe sommige landschapskenmerken zijn ontstaan op de grens tussen de relatief vlakke noordelijke laaglanden en de bekraterde zuidelijke hooglanden. De onderzoekers bevestigen daarnaast dat de buitenkern van Mars uit vloeibaar gesteente bestaat. Dit leidden zij af uit de bewegingen van de korst en de mantel van Mars. De twee manen om Mars – Phobos en Deimos – trekken namelijk voortdurend aan de korst en de mantel van de rode planeet, net zoals de maan verantwoordelijk is voor getijden op aarde.
Nieuwe zwaartekrachtkaart van Mars. Zoals je ziet is het zwaartekrachtsveld het sterkst (wit/rood) boven bergen en vulkanen, zoals de Olympus Mons.
Zwaartekrachtkaart van het noordelijk halfrond.
En van het zuidelijk halfrond.
De drie ruimtevaartuigen die de gegevens verzamelden waren de Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey en de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Hoewel Mars op foto’s er perfect rond uitziet, is de planeet bobbelig. Een ruimtevaartuig in een baan om Mars voelt dit. Zo is de aantrekkingskracht boven een berg sterker dan boven een ravijn. Deze veranderingen dwingen ruimtevaartuigen om kleine baancorrecties uit te voeren. Deze fluctuaties zijn zestien jaar lang bijgehouden, waardoor wetenschappers een kaart hebben kunnen maken van het zwaartekrachtsveld van de rode planeet.
Overigens lijkt het makkelijker dan het is. Er zijn ook andere krachten actief, die de banen van ruimtevaartuigen beïnvloeden. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan de kracht van zonlicht dat op de zonnepanelen van de ruimtevaartuigen valt of het afremmende effect van de atmosfeer van de rode planeet. Wetenschappers zijn twee jaar bezig geweest om deze krachten te filteren, zodat alleen de eigen zwaartekracht van Mars overbleef.
Het zwaartekrachtsveld van Mars verandert voortdurend door het veranderen van de seizoenen. Als het op een halfrond van de rode planeet winter is, dan vriest drie tot vier biljoen ton koolstofdioxide uit de atmosfeer vast op het oppervlak, waardoor er een flinke poolkap ontstaat. Dat is ongeveer 12 tot 16 procent van het totale gewicht van de volledige Martiaanse atmosfeer.
TAU IX Treaty—The US Government Has a Secret Pact With the Greys
TAU IX Treaty—The US Government Has a Secret Pact With the Greys
Many accounts throughout history approve the theory saying that The U.S. Government has closed a secret agreement with The Greys.
The exact day is unknown but most sources indicate that the agreement happened in 1954. At that time, a committee of Grey aliens would have reached Edwards Air Force Base, with the sole purpose of contacting Dwight Eisenhower, the US President at that point in time.
The deal has since been known as the Edwards Agreement or, as Dr. Dan Burisch called it, the Tau IX Treaty for the Preservation of Humanity.
A common goal has been established following the discussions, one that would prove extremely productive for those involved. The deal specified that the US Government would let people to be abducted on a regular basis and the Greys solemnly promised they would bring them back safely and only after erasing their memory.
But, as many abductees could confirm, the situation was slightly different. More often than not, those who were kidnapped by aliens would recall the incident, in all its dredful details.
In exchange for allowing the Greys to have human guinea pigs, the Government got their hands on advanced alien knowledge and technology. Another ‘clause in the contract’ was the exchange program of ambassadors from both sides. However, it is unclear how many were involved in this exchange program, but the most renowned are Crill, the reptilian from the Draco constellation and J-Rod, the Grey from Zeta Reticulum.
The Edwards Agreement was the pinnacle of a series of events that began in 1947, when the wreckage of an alien spacecraft was recovered near Roswell, NM. Inside the wreckage, several alien bodies were found. This incident undoubtedly raised awareness towards the UFO phenomenon and undeniably gave rise to modern ufology.
In 1949, another crash took place in New Mexico but this time however, there was one survivor left. He was dubbed EBE, which is short for extraterrestrial biological entity and the details he spilled out allowed the US Government to make contact with his people.
In 1951, the Greys were reached using a device built with the help of the EBE. One year later, extraterrestrial communications were well underway, paving the road for the 1954 treaty.
On the night of February 20 to 21, 1954, while enjoying his vacation in Palm Springs, California, President Dwight Eisenhower disappeared for a short while. It is thought he was secretly escorted to nearby Edwards Air Force base for an encounter with the Grey aliens. His official statement was that he had to undergo a dental emergency and so he visited a local dentist.
While the meeting did go as planned, there were some unexpected consequences. The landing was kept secret in order to see how people would react when confronted with a technologically advanced alien race. The hundreds of soldiers present at Edwards AFB during first contact received no briefing prior to the event; they were the unaware test audience.
This approach would later prove to be disastrous, as a high percentage of those present began suffering from various psychological ailments, ranging from dysfunctional behavior to psychosis, criminal intentions and suicide.
Several confessions have surfaced throughout the years, from people who say they witnessed the event firsthand. One of them is Gerald Light, a famous metaphysical community leader at the time. Light says his involvement was gauging the effect this breakthrough would have over the general public.
My dear friends: I have just returned from Muroc [Edwards Air Force Base]. The report is true — devastatingly true! During my two days’ visit I saw five separate and distinct types of aircraft being studied and handled by our Air Force officials — with the assistance and permission of the Etherians! I have no words to express my reactions. It has finally happened. It is now a matter of history, wrote Light.
If Light is to be believed, several other important figures were present at the meeting. Among them was Eisenhower’s chief economic advisor, Dr. Edwin Nourse, who offered his expertise on the potential economic outcome of a first contact with intelligent alien life. Light also said several trustworthy religious leaders had attended the meeting, their roles being obvious.
A number of other sources support Light’s claims. Whistleblowers have put forward their credentials, describing two sets of meetings involving different extraterrestrial groups.
According to former Naval Intelligence officer William Cooper, large objects traveling towards Earth had been seen in 1953. First believed to be asteroids, it was later determined they were actually space ships. Two distinct missions, Project Sigma and Project Plato managed to establish contact with the extraterrestrials, through binary code.
Cooper distinguishes between two alien races: the Nordic ones, friendly towards humanity and the Greys, who had different goals with humans. According to him, the Nordics contributed to the signing of a non-aggression treaty between humanity and the Greys. The Nordics did not offer technology but rather the chance for spiritual advancement from our current dimension to the next.
The treaty told that aliens would not intervene in our affairs and neither would we interfere with theirs. Their presence on Earth would be kept as a secret. They could regularly abduct humans for medical and scientific purposes as long as they would keep them safe from harm. The humans would then be returned to their abduction point, with no memory of the event.
Their demands were that humans break apart its nuclear weapons arsenal. They reminded of humanity’s self-destructive potential and also condemned the fact that we were killing each other, harming the planet and wasting its natural resources. The committee interpreted their demands in a very suspicious way, believing that nuclear disarming was not in the best interest of the United States since it would leave the world defenseless in the face of an alien threat. Eisenhower ultimately rejected their proposition.
Another witness to the meetings was John Lear, son of the creator of the Lear Jet, William Lear. According to him, the Nordics offered a hand in extinguishing the Greys’ threat but President Eisenhower refused it because there was no technology involved.
Did this meeting really happen? If so, it would appear to confirm the current world-wide UFO phenomenon. However, more than 60 years have passed since the alleged First Contact, and official disclosure is still missing.
The Navy’s unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator, the X-47B, not only plugged into a refueling basket trailing behind an Omega KC-707 tanker, but it also sipped gas from it for the first time. This historic mission is slated to be the X-47Bs last in what has been an incredibly successful test program with huge implications.
During the mission, which is the capstone to a series of refueling tests this week, the X-47B took off, flew out to the tanker, formed up with it, engaged the basket, and then sucked 4,000 pounds of fuel from it before heading back home to Naval Air Station Patuxent River for an autonomous landing.
The aircraft’s refueling system and software was developed over many years, and could provide autonomous aerial refueling for future Navy UCAVs operating from aircraft carriers.
According to Northrop Grumman:
Northrop Grumman began developing AAR (air-to-air refueling) technology for both Navy and Air Force application nearly a decade ago, pioneering a “hybrid” approach that integrates both GPS and infrared imaging to enhance navigational precision and hedge against GPS disruption. Initial UCAS-D flight testing began in 2012 using a manned Learjet as a surrogate for the X-47B. These successful proof-of-concept flights demonstrated the overall feasibility of the X-47B AAR system and helped refine its navigation, command and control, and infrared sensor processing components.
Unless something drastically changes, the fact that the X-47B will be retired even though the stealthy “cranked kite” flying wings (there are two X-47B demonstrators, Salty Dog 501 & 502) have only used up 20 percent of their service life remains somewhat of a controversial issue.
Considering that the Unmanned Carrier Launched Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) program, which is the Navy’s production follow-on contract to the X-47B program, keeps getting delayed over requirements squabbling in Washington, keeping these incredibly capable machines in testing seems like a no-brainer.
The success of the X-47B program also reminded USAF, and the public, just what Northrop Grumman and their stealthy flying wings are capable. How this will factor in to the USAF’s looming and shadowy Long Range Strike Bomber(LRS-B) contract award is uncertain, but the shape of the X-47B is highly rumored to very similar to the Northrop Grumman’s entrant into that contest.
Regardless of what will happen next in any of these programs-related procurement programs, these two super-drones will go down in history as some of the most game-changing test aircraft ever built. As a result, their final orders will surely include sitting sentry in America’s most prominent aviation museums.
U.S. Navy Photograph by Liz Wolter
Tyler Rogoway is a defense journalist and photographer who maintains the website Foxtrot Alpha for Jalopnik.com You can reach Tyler with story ideas or direct comments regarding this or any other defense topic via the email address Tyler@Jalopnik.com
The image above has been splashed all over the net over the last week. It looks like a scene out of The Flight Of The Navigator, but really, that tarp could be hiding the future of American air power.
The image was taken by Arizona resident Charlene Yazzie on Arizona Route 77, with the convoy of trucks and black SUVs from the Department of Public Safety heading south toward the town of Holbrook, Ariz.
When contacted by KMOV of St. Louis, the Department of Public Safety, which is a major state law enforcement body, playfully said they have no idea what the thing is stating: “UnFOrtunately we do not know what that is but it looks interesting.”
As for what lies beneath that gray tarp, we can only speculate, but we have seen stealthy flying wing aircraft and radar test models transported this way before.
Most famously, the Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Aircraft System (UCAS) demonstrators crossed the country on flatbed trucks. Their out-of-this-world lines and shrink-wrapped anonymity sparked many flying saucer theories, even though the move was openly publicized and the craft were clearly the X-47Bs.
Here is one very tame local media report:
Here is Northrop’s “cranked-kite” radar cross-section test mock-up, a precursor to the X-47B, being moved from Northrop’s plant in Palmdale, California to Lockheed’s Helendale RCS test facility:
Image Credit: The Howland Company
There is no reason that either of the X-47Bs would be heading through rural Arizona on a truck, that is, unless the Navy is trying to send them to the boneyard very quietly. Additionally, the shape in the picture is not definitively that of the X-47B. It is possible that this is a radar cross-section test model related to the X-47 program or an entirely separate program altogether. Even one related to Northrop Grumman’s B-21 or its failed competitor is entirely possible. It could also be a the fuselage of an actual aircraft.
Still, the question remains, what is it doing in eastern Arizona? The answer may lie somewhat farther to the east—in New Mexico.
Kirtland Air Force Base/Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque has a radar cross-section test range and the National Radar Cross Section Test Facility is located west of Holloman Air Force Base, near Alamogordo. The route, assumed by the location that the photo was taken, could take that said object from Southern California or Nevada to either of those facilities.
That is not a short or convenient voyage for such a conspicuous and large load, but it is possible and there is a precedent for such an operation.
What is odd is that we have no other photos of this thing. If it really skipped through multiple states, either on its way from California, or if it were an X-47B being sent from the east coast, to the boneyard in Tucson, you would think an avalanche of other photos of it would have shown up. The other alternative is that it is not an aircraft at all.
What do you think it is? If you have any information on the mystery convoy, please contact me at tyler@jalopnik.com.
Beautiful, Bewitching Pluto Poses in New Images from New Horizons Probe
Beautiful, Bewitching Pluto Poses in New Images from New Horizons Probe
by Calla Cofield, Staff Writer
This snapshot captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft shows the western region of the heart-shaped area informally known as Sputnik Planum, which has been found to be rich in nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane ices. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
And the hits just keep on coming. Another batch of Pluto photos from NASA's New Horizons probe reveals the majesty and mystery of this icy world.
The images are the latest releases from the treasure trove of data and snapshots captured by during New Horizon's close flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015. One of the new images gives a close-up view of the unofficially titled Sputnik Planum, a heart-shaped region on Pluto's surface that is suspiciously crater-free.
One haunting snapshot, taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), captures layers of atmospheric haze above Pluto's surface. The different layers of haze (about 20 can be seen in this image) have been found to extend across the surface for hundreds of kilometers. But according to NASA, they are not strictly parallel to the dwarf planet's surface. "For example, scientists note a haze layer about 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the surface (lower-left area of the image), which descends to the surface at the right," according to a statement from the space agency.
The top portion of this image shows that a smooth section of the informally named Sputnik Planum is 228 miles (367 km) wide. Beneath it is a close-up of the also informally named Vulcan Planum on the surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, that is 194 miles (312 km) wide.
Sputnik Planum is free of craters, which suggests that it experiencedrecent geologic activity. Vulcan Planum is dotted with not only craters, but also deep troughs. Also visible is the mountain Clarke Mons, which appears to be surrounded by a deep "moat." The highly textured surface indicates that the surface of Charon is ancient, according to NASA. The new Science papers report that water-ice-rich Vulcan Planum "is likely a vast cryovolcanic flow or flows that erupted onto Charon's surface about 4 billion years ago. These flows are likely related to the freezing of an internal ocean that globally ruptured Charon's crust," the statement said.
It's Pluto in a whole new light. This enhanced color view of Pluto's surface was created using two of New Horizons' instruments: the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) color imagery, and the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager panchromatic imagery.
The region shown in the image is just underneath the western lobe of Sputnik Planum (the tip of the craterless plane dips down at the top middle of the image). Ices that fill Sputnik Planum have altered the surrounding terrain, "creating a chaoslike array of blocky mountains," NASA officials said.
NASA has rounded up a list of the top new findings reported in those research papers. Because of the spacecraft's relatively low data transfer rate, information collected during the flyby is still being downloaded to Earth, which means scientists still have more layers to pull back on this amazing object.
Tycho crater is often images because it's clearly visible on our Moon's surface and can be seen in stunning detail in this image.
Astrophotographer John Chumack took this image on Feb. 19 with a 6-inch Newt Reflector Telescope & ZWO 120M Monochrome camera, 500 frames stacked in Registax6.
"Tycho is about 108 million years of age, and is relatively younger than most craters. You asked how do we know how old it is? This information is based on analysis of samples of the crater ray recovered during the NASA Apollo 16 mission," he wrote in an email to Space.com. [How to Photograph the Moon: A Photo Guide]
About half way between the Straight Wall and the moon's south pole is Tycho crater, named for Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe . Although not the largest crater on the moon, Tycho is one of the brightest, indicating that it is one of the youngest of the craters. It is the point of origin of a huge system of rays which encircle the moon, best seen in about a week when the moon is full. Tycho is 53 miles (86 kilometers) in diameter with classic central peak and terraced walls.
Editor's note: If you have an amazing skywatching photo you'd like to share it with Space.com and our news partners for a possible story or image gallery, send images and comments in to managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.
A five-dimensional black hole could 'break' general relativity, say physicists Uh oh...
A five-dimensional black hole could 'break' general relativity, say physicists Uh oh...
If you thought regular black holes were about as weird and mysterious as space gets, think again, because for the first time, physicists have successfully simulated what would happen to black holes in a five-dimensional world, and the way they behave could threaten our fundamental understanding of how the Universe works.
The simulation has suggested that if our Universe is made up of five or more dimensions - something that scientists have struggled to confirm or disprove - Einstein's general theory of relativity, the foundation of modern physics, would be wrong. In other words, five-dimensional black holes would contain gravity so intense, the laws of physics as we know them would fall apart.
There's a lot to wrap your head around here, so let's start with the black holes themselves. In a five-dimensional universe, physicists have hypothesised that black holes are more like very thin rings rather than holes, and as they evolve, they can give rise to a series of 'bulges' that become thinner and thinner over time, and eventually break off to form mini black holes elsewhere.
These ring-shaped black holes (or 'black rings') were first proposed in 2002, but until now, no one’s been able to successfully simulate their evolution. This has been made possible thanks to the COSMOS supercomputer at the University of Cambridge in the UK - the largest shared-memory computer in Europe that can perform 38.6 trillion calculations per second.
The problem with five-dimensional black holes is that they’re thought to consist of 'ultragravity rings', where gravity is so intense, it gives rise to a state known as naked singularity. Naked singularity is an event so strange, no one really knows what would occur, except that the laws of general relativity would no longer apply.
Einstein’s general theory of relativity is based on how we think gravity governs the behaviour of the Universe. We know that matter in the Universe warps the surrounding fabric of spacetime, and this warping effect is what we refer to as gravity. Since it was first proposed 100 years ago, general relativity has passed every test - everything we observe in the Universe follows its stipulations, but singularity can pose some problems.
In a four-dimensional universe (where the fourth dimension is time), singularity is thought to be the point of a black hole where gravity is at its most intense - the centre - and this is surrounded by the event horizon at the black hole's edge.
"As long as singularities stay hidden behind an event horizon, they do not cause trouble and general relativity holds - the 'cosmic censorship conjecture' says that this is always the case," says theoretical physicist Markus Kunesch from the University of Cambridge. "As long as the cosmic censorship conjecture is valid, we can safely predict the future outside of black holes."
But what if singularity could exist outside a black hole's event horizon? When Physicists have hypothesied that in five or more dimensions, if an object that has collapsed to an infinite density - singularity - is not bound by an event horizon, it becomes naked singularity, and things would get so crazy in and around that object, we'd need to completely rethink our understanding of how physics works. The whole thing just makes me really nervous.
"If naked singularities exist, general relativity breaks down," said one of the team, Saran Tunyasuvunakool. "And if general relativity breaks down, it would throw everything upside down, because it would no longer have any predictive power - it could no longer be considered as a standalone theory to explain the Universe."
If our Universe only has four dimensions, everything is cool, and ring-shaped black holes and naked singularity are not a thing. But physicists have proposed that our Universe could be made up of as many as 11 dimensions. The problem is that because humans can only perceive three, the only way we can possibly confirm the existence of more dimensions is through high-energy experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider.
Kunesch and his team say they've just about hit the limits of what their supercomputer can simulate, but would like to figure out what it is about four-dimensional universes that make naked singularity impossible, and general relativity correct. "If cosmic censorship doesn't hold in higher dimensions, then maybe we need to look at what's so special about a four-dimensional universe that means it does hold," says Tunyasuvunakool.
The study has been published in Physical Review Letters, and for more on those 11 dimensions, here's theoretical physicist, Michio Kaku:
Explosive Dark Energy In The Universe (#Mind Blow Documentary)
Explosive Dark Energy In The Universe (#Mind Blow Documentary)
Gepubliceerd op 15 feb. 2016
In this "The Mysterious Universe" video documentary, we are going to take you through a journey across the universe, where you can learn about the explosive dark energy present in the universe. Scientists believe that this explosive dark energy is responsible for the creation of everything.
By watching this space and universe documentary, you can learn about the explosive dark energy in the universe, dark energy and dark matter in the universe, dark matter energy theory by scientists, etc.
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Nick Redfern discusses British government interest in the UFO phenomenon in this excerpt from an interview I conducted with him in Aztec, New Mexico, in March 2003.
Hochgeladen von njorgensen1154 am 13.08.2011 Mass Sight over Carmichael CA near Sacramento CA. This took place over my home around 7pm. I watched this for about 15 minutes. After the first 8 I couldn’t see them with my eyes only could get them on film. I had to speed up the video for Youtube time frame of 10 Minutes. If your with the Media and would like a full unedited copy please e-mail me I’m more then happy to give one out.
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VREEMDE VORTEX VERSCHIJNT OPNIEUW OP MEXICAANSE RADAR ( VIDEO )
VREEMDE VORTEX VERSCHIJNT OPNIEUW OP MEXICAANSE RADAR ( VIDEO )
Mexico blijft het land waar zich geregeld hele vreemde zaken voor doen waar geen enkele wetenschappelijke verklaring voor is.
Zoals UFO-waarnemingen, enige tijd later gevolgd door een enorme vortex op de weerradar waarvan men niet weet hoe snel ze deze beelden offline moeten halen.
Toen in oktober 2012 er een enorme cilindervormige UFO de beroemde Popocatépetl vulkaan in Mexico binnenvloog keek iedereen met open mond naar wat daar gebeurde.
Onderstaande afbeelding is afkomstig van de weerradar van Intellicast van 27 oktober, de dag dat een Ufo de vulkaan Popocatepetl in vloog. Het beeld bleef de hele dag online tot en met 28 oktober.
Hier zie je heel duidelijk de vorm van de vortex.
Het centrum van de vortex ligt precies op de plaats waar de vulkaan zich bevindt. Dit toeval lijkt ons te groot om geen verband te hebben met de Ufo die op datzelfde moment de vulkaan binnenvloog.
Eind 2015 begonnen er opeens op de radarbeelden van de Mexicaanse KNMI die in de buurt van Mexico City staat, vreemde vortexbeelden te verschijnen. De radar heet officieel Catedral Radar en bevindt zich op 3600 meter hoogte. Niemand kon enige verklaring bedenken voor de vreemde vortex.
Het gebeurde niet slechts op één dag, maar op verschillende dagen tot aan het einde van het jaar.
Aangezien men geen oorzaak kon bedenken, werd aan het begin van het nieuwe jaar het gehele radarsysteem grondig gereinigd en alle systemen opnieuw ingesteld.
Het mocht allemaal niet baten, want aan het einde van februari en begin maart verschenen de vortexen weer op de radar. Dit keer was er naast het beeld zoals hierboven ook een soort variant te zien.
In de onderstaande video wordt een verband gelegd tussen UFO-waarnemingen in Mexico en het verschijnen van de vortex op de radar.
Nu zijn er rond die data wel een aantal waarnemingen geweest, maar dat waren andere dagen en vrij kleine UFO’s vergeleken met degene die in 2012 de vulkaan in dook.
Volgens ufoloog Scott Waring wordt een dergelijke vortex wel degelijk veroorzaakt door een UFO, maar dan waarschijnlijk door een groot moederschip dat zich bijvoorbeeld verborgen houdt in een wolk of iets dergelijks.
Hoe dan ook, voorlopig heeft niemand een verklaring voor de vreemde vortex op de radar. We weten alleen dat het niet door vuil is veroorzaakt.
BIZARRE GEBEURTENIS BIJ CHINEES VEKEERSLICHT ( VIDEO )
BIZARRE GEBEURTENIS BIJ CHINEES VEKEERSLICHT ( VIDEO )
Meer en meer komen er berichten waaruit blijkt dat dimensies elkaar in de praktijk overlappen.
Mensen die van het ene moment op het andere verdwijnen, halve mensen op foto’s en nu weer een vreemd voorval in China.
Wanneer we ervan uit gaan dat bewakingscamera’s gewoon vastleggen wat er daadwerkelijk gebeurt, hebben we een vreemd vooral in China.
Op 18 maart 2016 legde een bewakingscamera bij een Chinees kruispunt een bizarre gebeurtenis vast.
Er staan auto’s en een motor te wachten bij verkeerslichten, wanneer er opeens een soort lichtflits in beeld verschijnt. Het is niet alleen een flits, maar ook een soort lichtspoor dat linksaf slaat op het kruispunt.
Wanneer je naar de beelden kijkt dan zie je dat de motorrijder in de gaten dat er iets vreemds langs schiet. Want hij kijkt onmiddellijk in de richting waarin het vreemde licht verdween. Dan duikt er nog iemand op ook die ook in die richting wijst.
In onderstaande video zie je de flits en het lichtspoor rond de 43 seconden en later bij 1 minuur 58 een herhaling in slow motion.
Is hier een logische verklaring voor of hebben we hier te maken met iets uit een andere dimensie dat hier even per ongeluk terechtkwam?
Beste bezoeker, Heb je zelf al ooit een vreemde waarneming gedaan, laat dit dan even weten via email aan Frederick Delaere opwww.ufomeldpunt.be. Deze onderzoekers behandelen jouw melding in volledige anonimiteit en met alle respect voor jouw privacy. Ze zijn kritisch, objectief maar open minded aangelegd en zullen jou steeds een verklaring geven voor jouw waarneming! DUS AARZEL NIET, ALS JE EEN ANTWOORD OP JOUW VRAGEN WENST, CONTACTEER FREDERICK. BIJ VOORBAAT DANK...
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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