Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
07-04-2016
Physicist Discusses UFO Propulsion System and Bending of Space and Time
Physicist Discusses UFO Propulsion System and Bending of Space and Time
Have you ever wondered how aliens travel through space or how they power their crafts? If so, there’s a detailed description of this otherworldly system that has been made public by the man who presumably worked for a secret government facility dealing with replicating alien tech.
You probably remember Bob Lazar, the man who claimed to had been employed as a physicist on project Galileo – a classified program ran by the government who dealt with mirroring alien technology to their own advantage. Lazar carried out his assignment in an out-of-reach base known as area S4 that was 10 miles south of Area 51.
After lazar decided to go public, he discussed in detail about the technology the aliens were using on their otherworldly crafts. In the following lines I’ll highlight the explanation given by Bob Lazar for the space-time manipulation used by ETs to travel across the universe:
“Assuming they’re in space, they will focus the three gravity generators on the point they want to go to.
Now, to give an analogy: If you take a thin rubber sheet, say, lay it on a table and put thumbtacks in each corner, then take a big stone and set it on one end of the rubber sheet and say that’s your spacecraft, you pick out a point that you want to go to – which could be anywhere on the rubber sheet – pinch that point with your fingers and pull it all the way up to the craft.
That’s how it focuses and pulls that point to it. When you then shut off the gravity generator[s], the stone (or spacecraft) follows that stretched rubber back to its point. There’s no linear travel through space; it actually bends space and time and follows space as it retracts.
In the first mode of travel – around the surface of a planet – they essentially balance on the gravitational field that the gravity generators put out, and they can ride a “wave”, like a cork does in the ocean. In that mode they’re very unstable and are affected by the weather.
In the other mode of travel – where they can travel vast distances – they can’t really do that in a strong gravitational field like Earth, because to do that, first of all, they need to tilt on their side, usually out in space, then they can focus on the point they need to with the gravity generators and move on.
If you can picture space as a fabric, and the speed of light is your limit, it’ll take you so long, even at the speed of light, to get from point A to point B. You can’t exceed it – not in this universe anyway. Should there be other parallel universes, maybe the laws are different, but anyone that’s here has to abide by those rules. “
The graphic below presents a part of the propulsion system. According to Lazar, the three divisions below the hull have a particular characteristic – they are curved. Other than this, each of these three sections have different spacing from the wave generators, meaning that the focal lengths are different, thus the shape of the generated wave will also be different after passing through the lenses.
For every different angle the waves pass through the hull, a distinctive effect of refraction will occur to the wave. If the craft then uses the two outer generators to combine their microwave-beams at a defined point in the distance, it would lock-in to that point and get carried out by the gravitational pull.
So, you may be wondering how this complex mechanism is powered, and here is the answer – Element 115, a super heavy element presumably found on other planets from binary star systems. According to Lazar, the alien craft uses 223 grams, cut to a triangular shape, within the reactor structure. He furtherly explains the powering process:
“Inside the reactor, Element 115 is bombarded with a proton which plugs into the nucleus of the 115 atom and becomes Element 116, which immediately decays and releases, or radiates, small amounts of antimatter.
The antimatter is released into a turned tube which keeps it from reacting with the matter that surrounds it. It is then directed towards a gaseous matter target at the end of the tube. The matter and antimatter collide and annihilate, totally converting to energy. The heat from this reaction is converted into electrical energy in a near 100% efficient thermoelectric generator…”
If Bob lazar is correct, the US government could already possess a replicated alien system that could bend time and allow for interstellar travel. However, the “alien element” needed to power the system is missing and can only be found in other parts of the universe. It’s speculated that continuous attempts to imitate element 115 are being made by the government, and the numerous space probes sent into space also have a secret mission to discover alien compounds that would ultimately lead to an era of “space conquering” by the human race.
If this plan will go in our favor we are yet to find out, but due to the recent gravitational wave discovery and other significant progress in science it’s likely that the hour of disclosure will come sooner rather than later. (source)
Phobos: The Ultimate Ancient Alien Outpost Beyond Earth
Phobos: The Ultimate Ancient Alien Outpost Beyond Earth
In 1960, Dr. S. Fred Singer, special advisor to President Eisenhower on space developments said: Phobos, generally accepted as a celestial body, actually may be an artificial satellite launched long ago by an advanced Martian race.
In our solar system, there are three moons that have caused quite a debate among researchers in the last couple of decades: Earth’s Moon, Mars’ moon Phobos and Jupiter’s Europa.
Earth’s moon has been heavily questioned in the last fifty years because of the numerous mysteries behind it. Dr. Robert Jastrow, the first president of NASA’s Commission of Lunar Exploration called the moon “the Rosetta Stone of the planets.” many people who firmly believe that Earth’s moon is actually a terraformed and engineer piece of hardware that has a 3-mile thick outer layer of dust and rocks. Beneath this layer, it is believed that the moon has a solid shell of around 20 miles made of highly resistant materials such as titanium, uranium 236, mica, neptunium 237. Definitely, elements that you would not expect to find “inside” the moon. Robin Brett, a scientist from NASA perhaps described the moon in the most accurate way possible when he said that: “It seems easier to explain the non-existence of the Moon than its existence.”
Jupiter’s moon Europa is another mysterious one. According to researchers, the best place to look for extraterrestrial life is there. According to statements from Dr. Kevin Hand, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the search for alien life could prove to be fruitful in the next planned mission to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moon which could hold the ultimate evidence proving we are not alone in the universe.
During an event at the Royal Institution, Dr. Hand outlines that our understanding of Earth’s oceans has taken us a long way, teaching us how alien oceans on other planets or moon, could prove to be potentially habitable environments, and within our solar system, the best shot would be Jupiter’s moon Europa.
And while the previous two moons are really interesting, the most mysterious moon in our solar system is without a doubt Phobos, Mars’ anomalous companion. In fact, many scientists consider Phobos as an artificial satellite which simply put, should not be orbiting mars at all.
There are numerous things which are totally odd when we look at Phobos. First of all, the moon is hollow, it isn’t a solid celestial object like many scientists believed in the past. In fact, according to research performed by the European Space Agency, Phobos’ interior is filled with ‘cavernous, geometric rooms … right-angle walls … and floors — detectable via the semi-regular ‘structure of the returning, interior radar echoes …’ as they were impressed upon the reflected MARSIS signals …’” In other words, that isn’t the typical structure you would find in a moon. As a matter of a fact, the origin of Phobos still remains a mystery and many believe that this small Martian satellite was in fact placed into orbit by ‘someone’ in the distant past.
Phobos has remained a mystery ever since its discovery in 1877, and even today, we are still unsure what the moon is made of. Phobos is the closest moon to its planet in the entire solar system, orbiting Mars at a distance of just 6,000 kilometers above its surface, a fact that has caused numerous scientists to question its origin and purpose.
Last year, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission made numerous close approaches to Phobos:
“Among the data returned were spectral images of Phobos in the ultraviolet,” NASA explained. “The images will allow MAVEN scientists to better assess the composition of this enigmatic object, whose origin is unknown.”
According to NASA, „Comparing MAVEN’s images and spectra of the surface of Phobos to data from asteroids and meteorites will help scientists understand whether the moon is “a captured asteroid” or was formed in orbit around Mars.“
Interestingly, previous studies found that there is evidence of organic molecules on the surface of Phobos, adding to the mystery of this mysterious Martian satellite.
Without adding anything else we have two very interesting details about Phobos: First of all, no other moon in the solar system is known to have a similar interior filled with ‘cavernous, geometric rooms … right-angle walls … and floors, and it is one of the first moons to show evidence of organic molecules on its surface.
But the mystery behind Phobos is far more enigmatic than anyone imagined. In fact, when the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft was mapping the small moon of Mars, Phobos, and sent its incredible images from the small, potato-shaped moon back to Earth satellite ufologists had a field day speaking about the mysterious structure that was clearly visible on the surface of Phobos. There in plain view, a large rectangular object undoubtedly resembling an artificial monolith stands alone. Nothing in the vicinity has a similar shape or size, so the question is, what is it? What is its purpose? And who placed it there?
Rumors about the object became so intense that famous “Buzz” entered into the debate. Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the surface of the moon, surprised many by saying, “We should visit the moon of Mars, there’s a monolith there, a very unusual structure on this little potato shaped object that revolves around Mars once every seven hours. When people find out about that they are going to say, “Who put that there? Who put that there?” Well, the universe put it there, or if you choose God put it there.’
Interestingly, the theory that Mars’ moon Phobos could, in fact, be an Ancient Alien Satellite was proposed over 50 years ago. In 1960, Dr. S. Fred Singer, special advisor to President Eisenhower on space developments made headlines when he commented Phobos saying: The Martian moon Phobos, generally accepted as a celestial body, actually may be an artificial satellite launched long ago by an advanced Martian race.
According to rense.com, Dr. Singer backed a claim first made by the Soviet astrophysicist Shklovsky. The Russian scientist’s announcement that Phobos was a hollow, artificial satellite, proving the existence of a Martian civilization, set off heated arguments among astronomers. Shklovsky based his decision on a long study of Phobos’ peculiar orbit, which other astronomers have noted. The Russian claim has calculations and those of earlier astronomers prove Phobos cannot possibly be an ordinary moon.
Three years after the incredible statement by Dr. Singer, Raymond H. Wilson Jr., Chief of Applied Mathematics at NASA stated that “Phobos might be a colossal base orbiting Mars.
NASA states we will discover Alien Lifeforms in the next 20 years
NASA states we will discover Alien Lifeforms in the next 20 years
According to statements from NASA, it’s very likely that we will discover Alien Lifeforms in the next 20 years. NASA firmly believes that there are literally 100 MILLION planets within our galaxy that could host life as we know it.
A team of American scientists from NASA has stated that its ‘increasingly likely that Alien life will be found in the next 20 years’. According to an article posted on NASA’s website, new research tools will show that ‘discovering Alien life is within reach’.
“I think in the next 20 years we will find out we are not alone in the universe,” NASA astronomer Kevin Hand said during a panel discussion at NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.
But.. do researchers know something we don’t know? According to Hand, there is ‘growing evidence’ that indicates that at least some sort of Alien lifeforms may be found in our solar system with Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, being one of the most likely places due to its massive amounts of water, which could prove to be an ideal pool for life.
NASA is definitely stepping up it’s Alien search as they have announced plans to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite and James Webb Space Telescope in 2017, new technologies that will work together with existing technology in the search for habitable, Earth-like planets located in our cosmic neighborhood, the Milky Way.
“Just imagine the moment, when we find potential signatures of life. Imagine the moment when the world wakes up and the human race realizes that its long loneliness in time and space may be over,” added Matt Mountain, director and Webb telescope scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
But NASA.. do you know something we don’t?
Why is NASA so confident we will find Alien life in our own Galaxy?
“Sometime in the near future, people will be able to point to a star and say, ‘That star has a planet like Earth’,” said Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Astronomers think it is very likely that every single star in our Milky Way galaxy has, at least, one planet.”
Looking at these predictions, we see that NASA firmly believes that there are literally 100 MILLION planets within our galaxy that could host life, having the necessary conditions for life as we understand it. This, however, doesn’t take in count all other worlds which have completely different characteristics, and maybe in one of those countless worlds, life could develop opposite to what we think it needs to exist.
“What we didn’t know five years ago is that perhaps 10 to 20 percent of stars around us have Earth-size planets in the habitable zone,” Mountain said during the panel discussion. “It’s within our grasp to pull off a discovery that will change the world forever.”
In an interview to the Express, Dr. Hand said: “We may be able to discover if there are signs of organic or possible life on Europa.”
“Images show there could be possible life on Europa.”
Location:between Poreč and Novigrad, Croatia Date:end of july (not sure about the concrete day, maybe between 18th and 29th) 2011, between 9 and 11 p. m. Submitted by Mirka
Witness report: between Poreč and Novigrad – end of july (not sure about the concrete day, maybe between 18th and 29th) 2011, between 9 and 11 p. m.
Triangular shape, 3 ligthening points (yellow), weird moves. 9 – 11 p. m. I sat on the beach and for 15 or 20 minutes stared at that “thing” over the sea. Few minutes it was just “hangin” on one place, than it started to move really weird way, but still was the triangular shape. I don´t remember how it disappeared, I was like hypnotized… There were many people on the beach, I´m sure, someone saw the same…
I´m sorry I have no photos – like I said, I was like hypnotized and wasn´t thinkin´ about taking photos (and if I would, I´m sure it wouldn´t work – my cell phone in that time had very bad camera).
A witness at Pell City in Alabama reported observing a large, black, cylinder-shaped UFO and videotaping it as it hovered over a highway.
According to the witness, he was driving eastbound on I-20, just west of Pell City at two minutes past twelve noon on October 21, 2015, when the UFO was observed over the interstate.
The witness then pointed his camera to the strange aerial object and tried to record the sighting. In his estimation, the object is around 80 feet long and about 300 feet off of the deck. The witness observed it approximately from two miles of the interstate before passing underneath it.
The witness could not see any windows of the object, which appeared to be stationary.
The wife of the witness was travelling less than 10 minutes behind him but wasn’t able to identify the object as it had moved away by that time.
The witness reported his sighting to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and included a video that shows the UFO briefly near the end of it. He also submitted a still image from the video that clearly shows the bizarre thing. MUFON field investigator Michael Haynes close the case as unknown after an investigation.
Here’s one new interesting video of a huge unidentified flying object that was hovering near International Space Station on 5th April 2016.
Witness report:After switching to the NASA ISS live stream channel a clearly defined UFO appeared in the upper left hand corner, above the horizon. I was able to take a total of 4 screenshots before the UFO disappeared completely from sight. Gauging that it accelerated away in the same direction the ISS was travelling in, the speed had to be in the tens of thousands of miles per hour. Each screenshot shows the NASA meter on the bottom which exemplifies the speed from a standstill of the UFO to when it is just a bluish dot in the distance. Unfortunately, the screenshots, while clearly showing a UFO in two of the frames, does not compare to what I saw on the 480p resolution (highest resolution offered on the live stream) 42″ screen I was watching it live on. It was so unquestionably real and present. NASA cut the live feed after my last screenshot (the 4th frame in which the UFO had completely disappeared) and the live feed was left down for nearly an hour. The UFO appeared near the ISS at 1:21 p.m. central European time, 5 April 2016.
Here’s a new daytime footage of an unidentified flying object that was seen and filmed over a ranch in Puebla, Mexico. This happened on 3rd April 2016.
This day in UFO History: 1966 Westall Incident: The Unresolved Mystery
This day in UFO History: 1966 Westall Incident: The Unresolved Mystery
Whether UFOs have been around longer or no existence at all, the truth is always out there. Most people do not consider the facts right in front of their recorded history. When Roswell came out in 1947, the perception of people towards the mysterious object is alien visitation. In fact, they consider it as one of the most significant stories. However, when the Westall incident occurred, it immediately gained attention, making it as one of the most witnessed and greatest sightings ever recorded in the history.
The 20-minute Westall encounter took place in April 6, 1966, exactly 50 years ago, in Australia. Around 11.00 am, they were completing a sports activity when a grey saucer-shaped spacecraft object with a slight purple color was spotted. More than 200 students and teachers allegedly witnessed the mysterious flying object, about twice the size of a family car, descending in an open grass field. The paddock was adjacent to pine trees are known as the nature reserve today (The Grange back then). According to the reports, the object ascended in a northwestern direction over the suburbs of Clayton South, Australia. Where the saucer shaped craft had landed in a circle, no one knows if it completely landed. What is certain is it disappeared 20 minutes after.
The police have spoken to some adult witnesses, and an unscheduled assembly by the headmaster of the school was declared to that effect. The school reminds the students that the alleged object was not an extraterrestrial vessel, but a man-made weather balloon. They also told the students not to share the story with anyone. A science teacher Andrew Greenwood was visited by the officers who threatened him not to say anything. Otherwise, he is discredited. Despite popularity, the press was minimal, but since The Dandenong Journal interviewed many people, it ended up as a front page story.
Although witnesses reported the mysterious aircraft, investigators were unable to find any record. As for the Moorabbin Airport, no aircraft entered the airspace during that time.
International Space Station: Facts, History & Tracking
International Space Station: Facts, History & Tracking
By Tim Sharp, Reference Editor
The International Space Station, as photographed by crewmembers aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2010.
Credit: NASA
The International Space Station (ISS) is the most complex international scientific and engineering project in history and the largest structure humans have ever put into space. This high-flying satellite is a laboratory for new technologies and an observation platform for astronomical, environmental and geological research. As a permanently occupied outpost in outer space, it serves as a stepping-stone for further space exploration. This includes Mars, which NASA is now stating is its goal for human space exploration.
The space station flies at an average altitude of 248 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. It circles the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17,500 mph (28,000 kph). In one day, the station travels about the distance it would take to go from Earth to the moon and back. The space station can rival the brilliant planet Venus in brightness and appears as a bright moving light across the night sky. It can be seen from Earth without the use of a telescope by night sky observers who know when and where to look. You can use our Satellite Tracker page powered by N2YO.com to find out when to see the space station.
Five different space agencies representing 15 countries built the $100-billion International Space Station and continue to operate it today. NASA, Russia's Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities (Roscosmos), the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are the primary space agency partners on the project.
Structure
The International Space Station was taken into space piece-by-piece and gradually built in orbit. It consists of modules and connecting nodes that contain living quarters and laboratories, as well as exterior trusses that provide structural support, and solar panels that provide power. The first module, Russia's Zarya module, launched in 1998. The station has been continuously occupied since Nov. 2, 2000.
Starting in 2015, changes to the ISS were performed to prepare the complex for crewed commercial spacecraft, which will begin arriving as early as 2017. Two international docking adapters will be added to the station. Additionally, an inflatable module from Bigelow Aerospace is scheduled to arrive in 2016.
Current plans call for the space station to be operated through at least 2020. NASA has requested an extension until 2024. Discussions to extend the space station's lifetime are ongoing among all international partners; several countries, such as Canada, Russia and Japan, have expressed their support for extending the station's operations.
During the space station's major construction phase, some Russian modules and docking ports were launched directly to the orbiting lab, while other NASA and international components (including Russian hardware) were delivered on U.S. space shuttles. [Rare Photos: Space Shuttle at Space Station]
How big is the International Space Station?
The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 861,804 lbs. (391,000 kilograms), not including visiting vehicles. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional five-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, gym facilities and a 360-degree bay window. Astronauts have also compared the space station's living space to the cabin of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
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A six-person expedition crew typically stays four to six months aboard the ISS. The first space station crews were three-person teams, though after the tragic Columbia shuttle disaster the crew size temporarily dropped to two-person teams. The space station reached its full six-person crew size in 2009 as new modules, laboratories and facilities were brought online.
Also in 2009, the record for the largest gathering in space was set during NASA's STS-127 shuttle mission aboard Endeavour. When Endeavour docked with the International Space Station, the shuttle's seven-person crew went aboard the orbiting lab, joining the six spaceflyers already there. The 13-person party was the largest-ever gathering of people in space at the same time. While subsequent NASA shuttle and station crews matched the 13-person record, it has never been topped. [Related: The Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records]
With a full complement of six crewmembers, the station operates as a full research facility. In recent years, technology such as 3-D printing, autonomous Earth imaging, laser communications and mini-satellite launchers have been added to the station; some are controlled by crewmembers, and some controlled by the ground. Additionally, there are dozens of ongoing investigations looking at the health of astronauts staying on the station for several months. [Related: Weightlessness and Its Effect on Astronauts]
Crews are not only responsible for science, but also for maintaining the station. Sometimes, this requires that they venture on spacewalks to perform repairs. From time to time, these repairs can be urgent — such as when a part of the ammonia system fails, which has happened a couple of times.
Spacewalk safety procedures were changed after a potentially deadly 2013 incident when astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet filled with water while he was working outside the station. NASA now responds quickly to “water incursion” incidents. It also has added pads to the spacesuits to soak up the liquid, and a tube to provide an alternate breathing location should the helmet fill with water. NASA is also testing technology that could supplement or replace astronaut spacewalks. One example is Robonaut. A prototype currently on board the station is able to flip switches and do other routine tasks under supervision, and may be modified at some point to work “outside” as well. [Infographic: Meet Robonaut 2, NASA's Space Droid]
If the crew needs to evacuate the station, they can return to Earth aboard two Russian Soyuz vehicles docked to the ISS. Additional crewmembers are transported to the ISS by Soyuz. Prior to the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet in 2011, new space station crewmembers were also ferried to and from the station during shuttle missions. In 2017 or so, NASA expects to replace most Soyuz flights with SpaceX's crewed Dragon spacecraft and Boeing's CST-100.
Crews aboard the ISS are assisted by mission control centers in Houston and Moscow and a payload control center in Huntsville, Ala. Other international mission control centers support the space station from Japan, Canada and Europe. The ISS can also be controlled from mission control centers in Houston or Moscow. [Photos: Space Station's Expedition 32 Mission]
The ISS hosted its first one-year crew in 2015-16, with NASA's Scott Kelly and Roscosmos' Mikhail Kornienko, which drew international attention and acclaim. The agencies have expressed interest in running more one-year missions in the future, but have not made a commitment to date.
Surprise! Gigantic Black Hole Found in Cosmic Backwater
Surprise! Gigantic Black Hole Found in Cosmic Backwater
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
The immense black hole at the center of the galaxy NGC 1600 appears to be 17 billion times the mass of the sun. This computer-simulated view shows a supermassive black hole at a galaxy's core.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (Space Telescope Science Institute)
One of the biggest black holes ever found sits in a cosmic backwater, like a towering skyscraper in a small town.
Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole containing 17 billion times the mass of the sun — only slightly smaller than the heftiest known black hole, which weighs in at a maximum of 21 billion solar masses — at the center of the galaxy NGC 1600.
That's a surprise, because NGC 1600, which lies 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, belongs to an average-size galaxy group, and the monster black holes discovered to date tend to be found in dense clusters of galaxies. So researchers may have to rethink their ideas about where gigantic black holes reside, and how many of them might populate the universe, study team members said. [The Strangest Black Holes in Space]
"The black hole is much bigger than we expected for the size of the galaxy or where this galaxy lives, the environment," said study co-author Chung-Pei Ma, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley.
"That's the puzzling part — or the intriguing part — of the result," she told Space.com. "There may be more NGC 1600s out there lurking at more ordinary sites, like small towns in the U.S. rather than Manhattan."Ma is head of the MASSIVE Survey, a multitelescope effort that began in 2014 to identify and catalogue the most massive nearby galaxies and black holes. NGC 1600 first showed up in the survey with data from the McDonald Observatory in Texas.
The galaxy NGC 1600 is much larger and brighter than its peers, and harbors a black hole with a mass 17 billion times that of the sun, a new study suggests. NGC 1600 is the large elliptical galaxy at this image's center, also shown in the inset.
Credit: NASA, ESA, Digital Sky Survey 2
Although the initial observations weren't detailed enough to see the spectrum of light from the galaxy's center clearly, Ma and her colleagues could already tell that they were looking at something extraordinary: "It was a little bit like looking at a hurricane from very far away," she said. "We couldn't quite tell how big this hurricane was, this black hole was, but the hurricane was so big that we already started to feel the wind using this coarser data."
Suspecting they had spotted a very large black hole, study team members next investigated the elliptical galaxy using the northern half of the Gemini Observatory, twin telescopes situated in Hawaii and Chile. Gemini allowed them to probe the black hole's "sphere of influence," Ma said — the region where the black hole's mass held more sway than the overall galaxy's, where it was whipping the stars into action. They also scoped out the site with data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
The stars "were going so fast that the only way they could be travelling at this speed is if you had a 17-billion-solar-mass black hole at the center," she said.
The largest supermassive black hole ever found contains up to 21 billion times the mass of the sun, and resides in a more expected location: the incredibly dense Coma Cluster, which includes more than 1,000 identified galaxies. (For comparison, the black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way totals around 4 million solar masses.)
The black hole in the Coma Cluster resides in a galaxy surrounded by bright peers, but NGC 1600 outshines its neighboring galaxies by at least a factor of three. NGC 1600's black hole takes up about 2 percent of its galaxy's mass — which is about 10 times larger than black holes at the center of their galaxies are expected to be.
Small black holes can form when massive stars collapse. The enormous ones at the centers of galaxies likely grow so large by taking in a lot of dust and debris early on in their lives and by colliding and merging with other black holes, which occurs when two galaxies combine.
"The way we understand how galaxies and black holes grow to such high masses is from how galaxies form," Ma said. "Typically, we believe they form by emerging galaxy collisions, or cannibalism — they collide together, like the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy: we are approaching each other, and we're going to collide one day. So we are going to form a bigger galaxy, and the two individual black holes of the progenitor galaxies would come together to form a bigger black hole." [Watch: Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collision Simulated]
So the biggest galaxies are often formed from several smaller galaxies that merged, whose corresponding black holes have merged as well. A more crowded cluster of galaxies creates favorable conditions for extremely large black holes to form, it seems — but NGC 1600 is in a much sparser area.
"One possibility for how to get a big mass is maybe NGC 1600 had eaten up its friends," Ma said. "It gobbled up its friends, and during the process it acquired their black holes — maybe it got to be so big at the expense of its friends."
That could explain the unusually empty neighborhood around NGC 1600.
Alternatively, the black hole could have been in a region of the universe that had a lot of gas early in its life, Ma said.
"The universe contained a lot of gas when it was younger," she said. "Maybe it got really, really big when the galaxy was very young."
If that were the case, Ma added, the black hole could have grown to its current size without ever residing in a more densely populated area.
Black Hole : How Well Do You Know Nature's Weir...
Black holes are so bizarre, they sound unreal. Yet astronomers have found good evidence they exist.
Possibly twins
Besides probing the mysteries of its location, the researchers are zeroing in on the condition of the black hole itself — or, potentially, the black holes themselves.
When two galaxies merge, their central black holes circle each other, getting closer and closer until they combine into one. The researchers' observations suggest that the black hole at NGC 1600's center might actually be two in the process of merging, or one that very recently merged.
The key insight there is that, while the galaxy shone brightly with starlight, the center seemed unusually empty. Such large galaxies usually have cores that are correspondingly bright, Ma said.
"The way I like to say it is, for some reason, the stars seem to be scared of the very center; they somehow don't want to get very close," she said. "Right now, the most elegant way to explain the existence of this scoured-out region is by binary black holes."
Stars that are too distant to be directly pulled into such a system can still be heavily influenced by it. The dynamics of a system with two supermassive black holes at its center are such that approaching stars whip around and are accelerated outward, fleeing the system and forcing the black holes to move a tiny bit closer to one another, Ma said. Each star has little effect, but over time, the black holes are drawn closer and closer together — and eventually coexist in a ring where most nearby stars have been flung away.
Researchers can't currently tell if the system is still two black holes or has already merged into one. But NGC 1600 could be a prime candidate for scientists who study gravitational waves to scrutinize, Ma said: Gravitational waves would be generated by black holes that are still circling and colliding, but not by ones that have already combined.
Everywhere?
Avi Loeb, chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University, called the new work an exciting discovery.
"It would be interesting to find more black holes of this mass range and check whether this is an outlier or typical case," Loeb, who was not involved in the study, told Space.com in an email.
"The fundamental question is, which environmental conditions nurture the growth of the most massive black holes?" he said. "We would love to know the answer to that question through future studies like this one."
Loeb added that the NGC 1600 black hole's size makes it a good target for the Event Horizon Telescope, a coalition of nine telescopes around the world that will work together to image black holes.
Study team members hope to further investigate NGC 1600 with the Hubble telescope to get a better look at its core and pin down the black hole's mass more precisely, and they will continue to learn about the distribution of large black holes via the MASSIVE study.
Sparsely populated parts of the galaxy are much more common than the superdense areas where the largest black holes have been found so far. So, if black holes this large are common in such areas, too, NGC 1600 might just be "the tip of the iceberg," Ma said. MASSIVE should reveal just how common the huge bodies are, and expand researchers' understanding of the beasts, she added.
"I'm confident we're going to find black holes — if we don't, that would be really, really strange — but the question is going to be … how massive can these black holes be? Is 17 billion, 20 billion [solar masses] where they stop growing? Or could there be even bigger monsters out there we haven't found?"
De Brit Jadon Beeson (20) was op zijn smartphone livebeelden van het ISS aan het bekijken, toen hij plots een vreemde ontdekking deed: er leek een UFO naast het ruimtestation te vliegen. De jongeman stuurde de beelden meteen door naar NASA. "Het leek een beetje op de Millennium Falcon uit Star Wars", getuigt Beeson.
"Ik zag dat er een metalen object boven de aarde zweefde. Het had een blauwe gloed en het bleef daar ongeveer twee minuten hangen", zegt Jodan Beeson, die toevallig naar livestream van het ISS aan het kijken was. "Het lijkt een beetje op de Millennium Falcon uit Star Wars of iets uit 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind", aldus Jodan.
De man uit het Britse Worcestershire stuurde de beelden onmiddellijk door naar NASA, maar voorlopig heeft hij nog geen antwoord ontvangen. Uit de beelden valt voorlopig niet op te maken om welk ruimtetuig het zou kunnen gaan. Ook de grootte van het tuig valt moeilijk in te schatten.
Nu er alsmaar meer satellieten en sondes de ruimte worden in gestuurd, krijgt NASA steeds vaker UFO-meldingen binnen.
Something strange has been spotted hovering close to the International Space Station and it's raising a few eyebrows.
Whispers of 'UFO' have begun to circulate after images appeared of the unidentified object on the horizon of the space station.
The images were captured by Jadon Beeson, 20, as he watched the live stream from the ISS on his phone.
Images have emerged of an unidentified object spotted close to the International Space Station (pictured top left above the horizon). The images were captured by a member of the public from a live stream from the ISS
'I looked and realised there was a metal object above the earth. It had a blue glow to it and it stayed there for about two minutes,' he explained.
'It was a metallic object, it looks like a Millennium Falcon from Star Wars or something from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'
'I thought it was all very strange,' he added.
Beeson, from Stourport-on-Severn in Worcestershire, sent the images to the agency for its take.
The object (pictured on the horizon in the upper left part of the image) looks to be cigar-shaped, with a blueish hue on one end that matches the upper atmosphere, and looks to have a band in the middle of the object
It has been described as resembling something from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (still pictured), the Stephen Spielberg Hollywood sci-fi hit from the 1970s
THE UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Images have appeared of an unidentified object close to the International Space Station.
It looks to be cigar-shaped, with a blueish hue that matches the upper atmosphere, and appears to have a band in the middle.
It resembles similar objects spotted previously which were also captured on video.
The images were captured by Jadon Beeson, as he watched the live stream from the ISS.
'I took a picture of it and have contacted Nasa, but I've heard nothing back yet,' he explained.
From the images, the object looks to be cigar-shaped, with a blueish hue on one end.
This hue matches the upper atmosphere, and the craft appears to have a band in the middle of the object.
It resembles similar objects that have been spotted previously, and which have also been previously captured on video.
MailOnline contacted Nasa for comment on the images but is yet to hear back from the space agency.
The skies above are becoming increasingly busy, with communications and research satellites collecting and relaying data for modern life.
Jadon Beeson, who captured the images, described the unidentified object as resembling the Millennium Falcon, the infamous smuggler's star ship from Star Wars (pictured)
The object reportedly appeared out of nowhere and disappeared (still pictured), but there is no accompanying footage from the live stream for context, its identity and its origin remain a mystery. However, it resembles similar objects which have been spotted previously, and which has been previously captured on video
CYNIC'S CORNER: IS IT A UFO?
In the true sense of the word, this is an unidentified flying object.
The images were captured by a member of the public during a live stream from the ISS, but there is no sequence for the images, and no accompanying video for context.
It could perhaps be a satellite, the Chinese space station, orbiting debris or even light refracting in the upper atmosphere.
Of all of these, the most worrying would be space debris, which poses a very real threat for astronauts working in space.
And finally, there's the possibility the images have been edited.
All of which remain unconfirmed.
This fact, added with the high-quality streaming footage from the space station means such sightings of unidentified objects are becoming increasingly common.
In addition to the ISS and fleet of satellites, one of the larger objects in permanent orbit is the Chinese Tiangong space station, which is cigar-shaped with solar panels.
There is no indication yet what the object is, it's composition or how far away it is from the space station, making it difficult to gauge it's size.
It is also not possible to tell whether the images have been edited in any way.
One possibility is that it could be space debris, a growing problem in the Earth's uppermost atmosphere.
There are estimated to be more than 20,000 items of space junk currently trapped in Earth's orbit, including old engine parts, dead satellites and other floating junk generated by space missions or from collisions in space.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'The ISS seems to be a magnet for UFO activity. In the past couple of years alone, several UFOs have been seen during the broadcast of live feeds by Nasa from the ISS, and in at least one other instance the feed was quickly switched off. This fuels the belief of conspiracy theorists that Nasa is covering up these visitations.
'In this case it is difficult to know what this, it could be anything from space junk, a satellite or even a lens flare or reflection. We would need far better evidence to determine if it was an alien spacecraft.
'That's the problem, any object or flick of light out there is given as proof that extraterrestrial craft are monitoring our planet, and are keeping an eye on the ISS at a distance.
'One other thing to bear in mind is this, if aliens are interested in the ISS why do they appear on Nasa's live TV feeds? Surely by now they would have developed efficient cloaking devices to make themselves invisible to human eyes and technology. But, that would take all the fun out of UFO spotting.'
UFO Caught on Live Stream near the Space Station (ISS) | UFO Sightings 2015 | ISS UFO Sightings 2015
Des officiers de police examinent une zone de brûlure sur une route après le décollage d'un ovni observé par des témoins, à South Hill (Virginie), le 21 avril 1967.Photo Agence Martienne
Depuis les années 70, le Centre national d’études spatiales recueille les récits d’ovnis. En décortiquant leur structure, le sociologue interroge : ces histoires fantastiques sont-elles la dernière incertitude que nos sociétés rationnelles se permettent encore ?
Arnaud Esquerre : «Les récits extraterrestres seraient une variation moderne des histoires de fantômes»
Arnaud Esquerre nous a habitués à s’intéresser aux sujets les plus étranges. Il a consacré sa thèse aux sectes, étudié les prédictions de fin du monde, l’astrologie ou l’incinération. Parce qu’il y a «une excitation à aller là où personne ou presque ne vous a précédé», explique-t-il. Mais aussi parce qu’il aime réfléchir aux enjeux théoriques et généraux à partir d’objets «méprisés». Avec son nouveau livre, déroutant, Théorie des événements extraterrestres (Fayard), le sociologue spécialiste du langage ne déroge pas à sa règle. La réalité de l’existence des petits hommes verts n’est pas son sujet. Ni même de savoir si les témoins qui assurent avoir vu des lumières clignotantes dans le ciel affabulent. Si Arnaud Esquerre étudie les récits extraterrestres, c’est pour mieux comprendre comment on raconte des histoires.
Pourquoi donc vous intéresser aux récits de ceux qui disent avoir vu des événements extraterrestres ?
Depuis les années 70, un petit département du Centre national d’études spatiales (Cnes) collecte les récits de ceux qui disent avoir vu des choses inexplicables dans le ciel. Une vingtaine d’enquêteurs sur tout le territoire sont chargés d’élucider ces phénomènes mystérieux, qui peuvent faire aussi l’objet d’une enquête de gendarmerie. Ces récits d’événements extraterrestres n’avaient pas été étudiés en sociologie et en anthropologie, parce qu’ils sont rendus anonymes. J’ai analysé la structure commune d’environ 1 500 témoignages [recueillis] entre 1952 et 2012 et tenté de dégager ce qui caractérisait le «genre» de ces récits extraterrestres - littéralement ce qui est extérieur au domaine terrestre. En travaillant sur ces énigmes et ces enquêtes, je me suis inspiré de ce qu’avait fait Luc Boltanski pour les romans policiers et les romans d’espionnage (1).
Première découverte : les récits d’événements extraterrestres obéissent eux aussi à la même structure narrative…
Comment, depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, des gens qui ne se connaissent pas, ne vivent pas au même endroit et parlent parfois à plusieurs décennies de distance en arrivent-ils à raconter un récit construit de la même manière ? Il n’existe pourtant pas de version originale du récit extraterrestre, une matrice qui aurait été copiée par ses versions successives et expliquerait que leur forme soit si stable.
On pourrait penser que si les témoignages se répètent, c’est que la chose vue est la même : la soucoupe volante. Or les descriptions du phénomène observé sont extrêmement variées : une forme, une lumière ou les deux à la fois ; du rouge, du blanc ou du vert ; des formes triangulaires, des cigares, des disques ou des carrés.
Ce qui est commun à la grande majorité de ces récits, c’est leur structure : ils sont brefs et chronologiques, décrivent d’abord une situation routinière. Les témoins regardent le ciel et voient quelque chose qui, en général, ne fait pas de bruit. Soudain, la chose se soustrait à leur vision. A la fin de leur récit, ils cherchent à donner des gages de sérieux : «Je tiens à dire que je suis sain d’esprit», «je ne bois pas», «je ne crois pas aux extraterrestres». Les témoins demandent aux gendarmes et aux enquêteurs du Cnes d’apporter une explication à ce qu’ils ont vu. Alors que l’anthropologie a toujours mis l’accent sur l’apparition, comme celle de la Vierge ou des fantômes, la particularité des récits d’événements extraterrestres est que leur point culminant se trouve justement dans la disparition de l’objet. S’il restait visible, on comprendrait ce qu’il est.
Selon vous, c’est donc la forme du récit plus que la chose vue qui explique que soient regroupés dans la même catégorie «extraterrestre» des événements qui n’auraient sinon rien à voir entre eux ?
Exactement. Le terme d’ovni est «culturellement disponible» et permet de donner une appellation à une chose mystérieuse. On peut ainsi se demander pourquoi l’agence spatiale a longtemps collecté les récits d’agriculteurs rapportant la présence de traces au sol - souvent des cercles ou des disques dans un champ - qui n’ont a priori aucun lien avec le ciel.
Parmi tous les témoignages que vous avez étudiés, certains, plus rares, ne respectent pas la même trame…
L’un d’entre eux est assez connu. Il y est question de l’enlèvement d’un homme par un ovni, dans les environs de Cergy-Pontoise, en 1979.
Mais c’était un canular…
Contrairement à ceux qui ont vraiment fait l’expérience de l’événement extraterrestre, les auteurs de ces récits non vécus utilisent des procédés littéraires : des flash-back ou des effets d’anticipation. Ils contiennent des détails qui n’ont rien à voir avec l’énigme, supposés rendre le récit plus crédible, comme lorsque les romanciers usent de «l’effet de réel» et ajoutent des détails pour faire plus «vrai».
Justement, de quel genre littéraire se rapprocheraient les récits extraterrestres ?
On les associe généralement aux récits de science-fiction où apparaît un engin volant, comme ceux de Jules Verne par exemple. J’ai relu ces récits et ça ne collait pas. Je n’y retrouvais jamais l’énigme qui était au cœur des témoignages que j’étudiais. Dans la science-fiction, il y a du suspense - que veulent les extraterrestres ? - ou des enjeux de pouvoir. Mais il n’y a pas de doute sur ce qu’on a devant les yeux une fois les extraterrestres identifiés.
Les récits vécus se caractérisent au contraire par une incertitude sur la chose même qui est perçue. Cette hésitation est une caractéristique du genre fantastique, c’est même la définition qu’en fait l’historien Tzvetan Todorov : le récit fantastique ouvre sur une incertitude qu’on n’arrive pas à lever. On peut alors rapprocher les récits extraterrestres des histoires de fantômes et d’esprits, où l’on aperçoit quelque chose, sans trop savoir quoi.
Je fais une hypothèse : les récits d’événements extraterrestres seraient une variation structurelle des histoires de fantômes plus anciennes. Or celles-ci ne sont jamais étudiées, aujourd’hui, en France. Ce n’est pas un sujet pris au sérieux, il est donc renvoyé à d’autres systèmes de pensée. Les fantômes auraient bien leur place chez les animistes, pas dans notre société entrée dans l’époque des Lumières.
Notre société «rationnelle» s’autoriserait-elle davantage à croire aux ovnis, des apparitions plus technologiques et «scientifiques», qu’aux fantômes ? Cela expliquerait pourquoi des gendarmes et une agence spatiale enquêtent sur des phénomènes extraterrestres…
On peut en effet se demander pourquoi des enquêtes sont ouvertes sur ces récits étranges. Il n’y a pas de crime ni d’affaire d’argent ou de sexe. A l’origine, les investigations s’intégraient dans le contexte de la guerre froide, mais la guerre froide est terminée et les enquêtes continuent. En réalité, elles sont toujours liées à la sécurité et à la surveillance du territoire. L’agence spatiale classe les témoignages en fonction de leur étrangeté. Un point lumineux fixe est un cas de faible étrangeté. Les points lumineux qui se déplacent de manière non linéaire sont classés dans le niveau d’étrangeté le plus élevé. Un grand nombre d’affaires sont résolues : l’objet non identifié se révèle être une lanterne thaïlandaise ou un météore. Dans les années 90, les rayons lasers des discothèques ont suscité beaucoup de témoignages.
Reste de l’inexpliqué…
Ce qui ne veut pas forcément dire que le phénomène est inexplicable en soi. Mais l’incertitude est consubstantielle au récit même : il faut envisager qu’il est des expériences vécues qui ne peuvent être rapportées que de manière fantastique. Pourquoi ne pas accepter de vivre dans un monde où l’on pourrait raconter des histoires dans lesquelles on ne sait pas ce qui s’est passé ? «Certaines choses dans le voir nous paraissent énigmatiques parce que le voir dans son ensemble ne nous paraît pas assez énigmatique», écrit Wittgenstein. Nous sommes habitués à une sorte de routine visuelle, et dès que quelque chose s’en détache, cela nous trouble. L’énigme, dans nos sociétés européennes, est renvoyée à la littérature, au cinéma… à l’œuvre. Pas au récit de choses vécues. Le fantastique redonnerait pourtant de la poésie au monde.
Date of sighting: March 26, 2016 Location of sighting: Alexandria, Virginia, USA Source: MUFON #75524
This UFO was reported today on MUFON and the eyewitness states they spotted the object while on the train. Excellent capture, even though he only had a few seconds to get the photos. If you live in Alexandria and have seen this UFO, please let us know in comments below. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Eyewitness states: On Saturday March 26, 2016- I was exiting the Huntington Metro garage on the Huntington Ave side (lower Huntington Metro) when coming down the ramp across from Fenwick Dr. when I glanced up and saw a strange silver/grey object hovering off in the distance seemingly over the area of the highway/Eisenhower ave/ Duke st. I could not tell its exact size but it was large and stationary ( it did not lower or raised as I watched it). I noticed that the sky was partly cloudy but the top of the object was reflecting sunlight or radiated its own light. As I was watching the item, a couple came up to me and said that they had first spotted the object form the metro train as they came into Eisenhower station. The wife stated that her husband did not see any type of tether and ask me did I see one. I said I did not as we watched it hover, then spin on its axis and I saw the attachment just under its “nose”. It was slightly curve and reddish in color. I took out my cell phone and snap off a couple of pictures. I then quickly cross Huntington ave and made my way towards Huntington Park, which took me know more than 5 minutes. I lost sight of the object so I crossed the length of the park still not spotting it. I made my way to the banks of Camron Run/ Huntington Creek, looked and saw nothing. I stood there for about 10 minutes before I left and went on my way. The pictures are nice and clear but the object to far away for the phone to get a better picture. Blow-up you can see the attachment better.
Fifty years ago, soon-to-be president and then-representative Gerald R. Ford changed the conversation about UFOs in a very permanent way. In 1966, a growing number of reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects were coming out of Michigan. Naturally, people were concerned. Being the representative of the state’s 5th District, Ford shared their concern and called upon congress to conduct a “congressional inquiry” into the matter.
And he wasn’t shy about taking on the problem. UFOs were getting a lot of media attention and Ford didn’t shy away from a spotlight. He issued a pre-hearingpress release making the case for government transparency and calling out a prominent astronomer.
Ford is not satisfied with the Air Force explanation of the recent sightings in Michigan and describes the “swamp gas” version given by astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek as “flippant”
Ford proposed that either the Science and Astronautics Committee or the Armed Services Committee of the House schedule UFO hearings and “invite testimony from both the executive branch of the government and some of the persons who claim to have seen UFO’s.” Politically speaking, he was all in.
Now, it’s important to remember that this is 1966. We’re talking Cold War, post-Cuban Missile Crisis, hide-under-your-desks-in-the-event-of-a-nuclear-attack America. This stuff wasn’t funny. It was weird and frightening. When Ford called for a formal congressional inquiry, he lent a degree of credibility to loose rumors, but he also calmed public panic. His commitment to transparency on the parts of the Air Force and the government sent a clear message: The government won’t hide hard truths.
Amateur photo of "purported UFO" by George Stock in Passaic, New Jersey, 1952
Ford didn’t get his congressional inquiry, but he did get a major report from the University of Colorado Boulder and the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, which was responsible for investigating UFO sightings.
This Project Blue Book investigation lasted a little over three years before it was terminated in 1969. According to a fact sheet distributed by the US Air Force to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, “The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;” a review of the University of Colorado’s report by the National Academy of Sciences; past UFO studies and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during the 40s, ‘50s, and ‘60s.”
So what did the report find?
Between 1947 and 1969, Project Blue Book had 12,618 reports of UFOs, 701 of which were deemed “unidentified.” Many were explained away as meteorological events, classified test flights, weather balloons and things of that nature. Those that remained unidentified apparently lacked sufficiently compelling evidence to keep Project Blue Book afloat.
The distributed US Air Force document goes on to state:
“As a result of these investigations and studies and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project BLUE BOOK are:(1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as “unidentified” represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as “unidentified” are extraterrestrial vehicles.”
Even after the Air Force hung up its tin hat, though, civilians continued investigations into UFOs. Today, organizations like MUFON exist to catalog and track UFO sightings.
As we become increasingly convinced of the probability that we’re not alone in this universe, the investigation of unexplained events and UFO sightings seems more urgent and more credible than ever before.
There’s reason to think that without Ford’s willingness to risk his reputation on an insistence that UFO sightings be investigated, there may not have been an investigation or a report at all. Ford gave the witnesses behind these sightings credibility and drew attention to need for an explanation, no matter how vague.
Though there was never a formal congressional hearing, Ford’s push for transparency from the government and the military was an important move, and had everyone from politicians to mailmen thinking about UFOs seriously.
Whether or not we have the “whole truth” is still a matter that conspiracy theorists and those who want to believe are ready and willing to debate. Any way you spin the flying disc, though, the original man who wanted to believe just might’ve been Gerald R. Ford.
Photos via George Stock and Swedish Military and George Stock, Passaic, New Jersey, 1952
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Fighters of the U S air force was shot down UFO 2016 ! Two Unidentified Aerial Pheno
Fighters of the U S air force was shot down UFO 2016 ! Two Unidentified Aerial Pheno
Fighters of the U S air force was shot down UFO 2016 !!! | Night Vision – Two Unidentified Aerial Pheno A Sphere flies by like a roller coaster, then a Sphere flashes a bright light! My night vision footage wouldn’t upload to YouTube, it did not recognize the format. To upload, I record my footage off my computer. I hope this problem is resolved soon.
Otherworldly UFOS Rain Down On Indiana USA!!? WATCH THIS ASAP!! 2016
Otherworldly UFOS Rain Down On Indiana USA!!? WATCH THIS ASAP!! 2016
Otherworldly UFOS Rain Down On Indiana USA!!? WATCH THIS ASAP!! 2016 Becky Lewis Caught 3-28-16 just after sunset in the western sky, I caught these objects. The first clip shows two objects, second clip, searching for the objects (which I may not see and you do), Third clip, ANOTHER separate object which COULD BE a plane but behaves very strangely. YOU DECIDE.
Alabama cylinder UFO caught briefly on witness video
Alabama cylinder UFO caught briefly on witness video
An Alabama witness at Pell City reported watching and videotaping a large, black, cylinder-shaped UFO hovering over a highway, according to testimony in Case 71724 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness pulled this still image from the video. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness was driving eastbound along I-20 just west of Pell City at 12:02 p.m. on October 21, 2015, when a large, black, hovering object was noticed over the interstate.
“I whipped out my camera and tried to record it,” the witness stated.“I estimate the object to be around 80 feet long and approximately 300 feet off of the deck. I observed it for about two miles of interstate before passing underneath it.”
The witness described the object.
“I could not see any windows or features to the object, and it appeared stationary.”
The witness asked his wife if she saw the object as she was traveling behind him.
“My wife was traveling less than 10 minutes behind me and was not able to positively ID the object as it had moved away by then.”
The witness included a short video of the object and a still image taken from the video.
Cropped and enlarged version of the still frame taken from the witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
“I looked at what I had recorded and did a screen grab of the object zoomed in. I will attach both files. Unfortunately, the video makes it appear much smaller than what I was observing. Anyways, I don’t know what it was, thought maybe you would be interested.”
The object is hard to see in the video and is only briefly captured near the end. The still frame taken from the video shows the object very well.
Alabama MUFON Field Investigator Michael Haynes investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
Pell City is a city in St. Clair County, Alabama, population 9,565. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
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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.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
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