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, 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...
16-04-2016
FBI Confirms: “Beings Are Visiting Us From Other Dimensions”
There has been much talk nowadays about inter-dimensional worlds, especially what with the Large Hadron Collider in CERN officially being fired back up recently to go hunting for them. Whilst we are all considering where the Aliens could be coming from and IF other dimensions are actually a fact rather than Fiction, along comes this VERY important piece of evidence courtesy of the F.B.I!
And this is a very true story people, the FBI admitted that we have been visited by“beings from other dimensions” and the official link from the FBI vault can be foundhere
To be fair it is very surprising that the FBI have shown such a vast amount of interest in the whole study of the UFO phenomena?! But is it really that surprising when people have been reporting UFO sightings pretty much since the beginning of time, no not really!
I guess it could even be possible that there are a lot of science fiction movies that are actually based on real events, or as some may even call them “leaks” to the general public, given by the government in order to deliberately raise awareness among the population? Subconsciously planting that seed into all of our brains that the Aliens truly are with us!
Back in 2011 after there were some important documents which had been “declassified” a report written by a special agent of the FBI in 1947 reached the public.
This particular FBI special agent, who was a lieutenant colonel whose identity has remained anonymous because of “national security” had gathered numerous amounts of data on the UFO phenomena after interviewing and studying the phenomena for many years.
According to some of these exciting yet slightly bizarre unexpected reports and“Declassified” documents, we have been visited by numerous extra-terrestrial beings, some of whom, are not only from other planets beyond our own, but also from other dimensions.
Apparently some of these Alien beings originate from an ‘ethereal plane coexistent’ within our physical universe. These incredible “entities”, that apparently can “materialize” on our very own planet appeared as huge ‘translucent figures’.
Please see below a transcript of some of the most important details of the report that you all need to know about:
1. Part of the disks carry crews, others are under remote control
2. Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane
3. These visitors are human-like but much larger in size
4. They are not excarnate Earth people, but come from their own world
5. They do NOT come from a planet as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us
6. The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter
7. The disks posses a type of radiant energy or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace
8. The region from which they come is not the “astral plane”, but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoteric matters will understand these terms.
9. They probably can not be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar. if a signal system can be devised for that (apparatus)
Addendum: The Lokas are oval shape, fluted length oval with a heat-resistaning metal or alloy not yet known the front cage contains the controls, the middle portion a laboratory; the rear contains armament, which consists essentially of a powerful energy apparatus, perhaps a ray.
Black holes are one of the strangest objects in the universe, preventing anything from escaping their grip – even light.
Now astronomers have discovered something even more peculiar about these enigmatic objects; they are aligned with each other over distances stretching billions of light-years
The remarkable observations were made by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, which found an eerie alignment between enormous interstellar objects called quasars.
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A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years. An artist's impression of the alignment is pictured
Quasars are galaxies with very active supermassive black holes at their centres. They shine more brightly than all the stars in the rest of their host galaxies put together.
A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over vast distances.
These black holes are surrounded by spinning discs of extremely hot material that is often spewed out in long jets along their axes of rotation.
A team led by Damien Hutsemékers from the University of Liège in Belgium used the Fors instrument on the VLT to study 93 quasars that were known to form huge groupings spread over billions of light-years, seen at a time when the universe was about one third of its current age.
When astronomers look at the distribution of galaxies on scales of billions of light-years they find that they are not evenly distributed. This detailed simulation of large scale structure was created as part of the Illustris simulation. The distribution of dark matter is shown in blue and the gas distribution in orange
VIDEO: Scientists find that supermassive black holes are ALIGNED ( see link )
'The first odd thing we noticed was that some of the quasars' rotation axes were aligned with each other — despite the fact that these quasars are separated by billions of light-years,' said Professor Hutsemékers.
The team then went further and looked to see if the rotation axes were linked, not just to each other, but also to the structure of the universe on large scales at that time.
ENERGETIC PARTICLES SPEWING FROM BLACK HOLE IN MILKY WAY
The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be producing mysterious particles called neutrinos, researchers believe.
If confirmed, this would be the first time that scientists have traced neutrinos back to a black hole.
Researchers say the find could help explain how cosmic rays are produced, and solve a key mystery about how the universe operates.
The evidence came from three Nasa satellites that observe in X-ray light: the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Swift gamma-ray mission, and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).
'Figuring out where high-energy neutrinos come from is one of the biggest problems in astrophysics today,' said Yang Bai of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who co-authored a study about these results published in Physical Review D.
'We now have the first evidence that an astronomical source – the Milky Way's supermassive black hole – may be producing these very energetic neutrinos.'
When astronomers look at the distribution of galaxies on scales of billions of light-years they find that they are not evenly distributed.
They form a cosmic web of filaments and clumps around huge voids where galaxies are scarce. This intriguing and beautiful arrangement of material is known as large-scale structure.
The new VLT results indicate that the rotation axes of the quasars tend to be parallel to the large-scale structures in which they find themselves.
So, if the quasars are in a long filament then the spins of the central black holes will point along the filament.
The researchers estimate that the probability that these alignments are simply the result of chance is less than one per cent.
'A correlation between the orientation of quasars and the structure they belong to is an important prediction of numerical models of evolution of our universe,' said Dominique Sluse, a researcher at the University of Liège.
'Our data provide the first observational confirmation of this effect, on scales much larger that what had been observed to date for normal galaxies.'
'The alignments in the new data, on scales even bigger than current predictions from simulations, may be a hint that there is a missing ingredient in our current models of the cosmos,' added Professor Dominique Sluse.
These black holes are surrounded by spinning discs of extremely hot material that is often spewed out in long jets along their axes of rotation (artist's impression pictured)
Researchers Discover “Bizarre” Black Holes That Are All Aligned
Researchers Discover “Bizarre” Black Holes That Are All Aligned
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Researchers in South Africa have discovered a region of the distant universe where supermassive black holes are all spinning out radio jets in the same direction, which could allow us to better understand the birth, and future of, our universe.
AN UNLIKELY ALIGNMENT
Researchers in South Africa have discovered something “bizarre” in our galaxy: A region of the distant universe where supermassive black holes are all spinning out radio jets in the same direction. Most likely, this is the result of primordial mass fluctuations in the early universe.
That said, this is the first time an alignment of the jets of galaxies over a large volume of space has been seen.
Caption: An image of the deep radio map covering the ELAIS-N1 region, with aligned galaxy jets. The image on the left has white circles around the aligned galaxies; the image on the right is without the circles. Credit: Prof. Russ Taylor
The discovery was made possible by a three-year, deep radio imaging survey of the radio waves coming from a region called ELAIS-N1 using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT).
The jets are produced by the supermassive black holes at the centres of these galaxies, and the only way for this alignment to exist is if supermassive black holes are all spinning in the same direction, says Prof Andrew Russ Taylor, joint UWC/UCT SKA Chair, and principal author of the study.
“Since these black holes don’t know about each other, or have any way of exchanging information or influencing each other directly over such vast scales, this spin alignment must have occurred during the formation of the galaxies in the early universe.”
COSMIC DISTURBANCES
This type of alignment has never been predicted by theories – and an unknown phenomenon like this presents a challenge: How exactly does this discovery fit into our early theories of the universe?
“We’re beginning to understand how the large-scale structure of the universe came about, starting from the Big Bang and growing as a result of disturbances in the early universe, to what we have today,” says Prof Taylor, “and that helps us explore what the universe of tomorrow will be like.”
UFO Ohio? Black ‘flying saucer’ captured in eerie footage (VIDEO)
UFO Ohio? Black ‘flying saucer’ captured in eerie footage (VIDEO)
A UFO, resembling a black “flying saucer” was caught on camera in a spooky video, taken while a father and daughter traveled on an Ohio highway.
The pair were traveling near Chillicothe, Ohio, when the mysterious object appeared, unbeknown to them.
It was only later when the daughter, who was recording aimlessly, looked through her phone’s videos and spotted the strange object in the right corner of the video, flying above the trees.
She showed it to her father, who sent it to Secureteam10, a group that specializes in 'UFO' sightings and conspiracy theories.
The group posted the video to their YouTube page and analyzed what the possible spacecraft could be, noting “odd pins sticking out of it” and its state of hovering just above the treeline.
They ruled out the possibility that the “saucer” could be a drone due to its large size.
YouTube commenters had somewhat different views and many were quick to dismiss the object as an indication of alien life form.
“Doesn't anyone other than myself see that this is a reflection on the windshield?” one user wrote.
Another left a simple explanation, saying, “raindrop, it's a cloudy day.”
The Earth as we know it is made of two planets — and was formed by a "violent, head-on collision," new research reveals.
The collision between Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia formed the moon roughly 4.5 billion years ago, according to a report issued by UCLA geochemists.
Scientists had previously believed that the collision came at an angle of 45 degrees or higher. But the collision was actually more direct, according to the research, which was published in the journal Science.
The scientists studied the oxygen isotopes on Earth and the moon, and found that they were indistinguishable, sharing chemical signatures.
If Earth and Theia collided in a glancing blow, according to the researchers, the Earth and moon would have different oxygen isotopes, with a majority of the moon made from Theia.
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The collision between Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia formed the moon roughly 4.5 billion years ago, scientists say.
"Theia was thoroughly mixed into both the Earth and the moon, and evenly dispersed between them," Edward Young, lead author of the new study and a UCLA professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry, said in a statement. "This explains why we don't see a different signature of Theia in the moon versus the Earth."
Theia — which scientists believe was similar in size to Mars or the Earth — did not survive the collision, but its impact lives on with Earth and the moon.
(CNN)It's enough to make Mulder and Scully seethe with envy.
Nearly 130,000 pages of declassified Air Force files on UFO investigations and sightings are now available in one place online.
Declassified government records about UFOs have long existed on microfilm in the National Archives in Washington, DC. Many of them also live on websites devoted to the topic, sometimes free, sometimes not.
But UFO enthusiast John Greenewald says his database, Project Blue Book Collection, is the first to compile every single declassified document from the Blue Book project -- headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio from 1947 to 1969 -- in one place for anyone to search or download for free.
The collection consists of files from Project Blue Book, Project Sign and Project Grudge, the names given to official investigations into unidentified flying objects by the United States military.
Greenewald's efforts are not motivated by a close encounter or personal experience with unidentified flying objects. He says he's just driven by curiosity.
"I'm a history buff. I think this stuff should be accessible," he said. "Secrets are not bad things; I think we should know about this and it should be in history books."
Greenewald started requesting information related to Project Blue Book through the Freedom of Information Act 15 years ago. His interest was piqued by the first case he received information on about a 1970 UFO incident in Iran, after Project Blue Book ended.
"It defied explanation," he said, "and 5,000 FOIAs later my curiosity hasn't gone away."
Still, Greenewald believes the contents are "just the tip of the iceberg."
"It's all a puzzle," he said. "Just when you think you've got all the pieces to make a picture, you realize it's only a piece of a bigger puzzle."
The Blue Book project was discontinued after a joint review concluded that no significant information had come from it, according to declassified documents on the National Archives website.
Specifically, the review said no UFO "reported, investigated and evaluated" ever gave "any indication of threat to our national security." Nor did the investigations suggest that the sightings "represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge," a 1985 Wright-Patterson fact sheet said.
"Since Project BLUE BOOK was closed, nothing has happened to indicate that the Air Force ought to resume investigating UFOs."
Greenewald is not so sure -- especially not after viewing all the documents, which are full of blacked-out material.
If the U.S. military can't identify some unidentified flying objects, then who can, he wonders? And what are they?
"The biggest takeaway for me is don't believe the company line," he said. "I think something big is going on. How big, I don't think anyone will know for quite some time because government continues to make the rules.
"It's a hard game to when they make the rules and they're the referee."
An artist’s rendering illustrates what a hypersonic missile could look like as it travels along the edge of Earth's atmosphere.Raytheon
The US has reportedly created a new missile as part of the Pentagon's development of hypersonic technology. But the US military has insisted that the weapons will carry conventional missiles rather than nuclear ones, as the arms race with China and Russia grows more intense.
The new missiles – according to information released on 13 April – will reportedly fly at five times the speed of sound (3,800mph) and make them virtually impossible to detect using radar. Researchers are still working on manoeuvre techniques and developing ways of being able to fully control the weapons.
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (Darpa) has spent over $34m (£48m) on hypersonic aircraft and weapon projects. Hypersonic aircraft would be able to fly at between five to 10 times the speed of sound.
New nuclear fears
In an article titled The Problem With The Pentagon's Hypersonic Missile, published by Defense One, three hypersonic projects – including the Lockheed Martin Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 program, the Raytheon Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC), and the Raytheon/Lockheed Tactical Boost Glide – are being examined over whether they would remain conventional weapons, or whether they would spurn the other military superpowers, China and Russia, into developing more nuclear weapons.
The concerns are that hypersonic missiles will allow the US to launch nuclear weapons that could strike targets at longer ranges, in less time than conventional ballistic missiles require, and move so fast current missile defence systems and fighter jets could not intercept them.
Reports suggest that the new generation of missiles can switch between two modes: scramjet –which uses air flowing at supersonic speeds through its engine to further accelerate the missile – and a "boost glide" system – this would extend the range of missiles by making them 'skip' across the Earth's upper atmosphere.
The Pentagon says that the new Hypersonic missile technology would be used in conventional weapons only, but the technology's capabilities are making other nations 'nervous'. (Reuters)
"Hypersonic weapons can be more survivable because of the extreme speed and high altitude. They would be hard to stop,' said JR Smith, director of Raytheon's Advanced Land Warfare Systems.
"At this point, our hypersonics program is really a technology development program, purely focused on 'conventional' payloads, said Stephen Welby, assistant defense secretary for research and engineering at The Pentagon. "There's nothing in the budget related to modelling, researching, or exploring nuclear-armed hypersonics.
"It's 2020 for the missile, 2030…. until you get into something that's refurbishable and probably 2040 until you get into something that's a totally reusable type of capability."
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Akhenaten: The Last Alien Pharaoh Of Ancient Egypt
Akhenaten: The Last Alien Pharaoh Of Ancient Egypt
Ancient texts describe a time in the history of ancient Egypt known as the Predynastic era, where ‘Gods’ ruled for hundreds of years over Ancient Egypt, Akhenaten could easily have been an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh that belonged to that period, only out of place and time. Some Ancient Alien theorists interpret his elongated skull as a sign of extraterrestrial heritage.
Ancient Egypt has one of the most incredible histories on the surface of the planet. Not only are the amazing architectural achievements of the ancient Egyptians noteworthy, but their incredible knowledge in different sciences is also an impressive detail shared by only a few other ancient civilizations around the globe.
However, the Pyramids of the Giza Plateau and the great majestic Sphinx are not the on only mysteries surrounding the ancient Egyptian Civilization, their rulers belong to the list of the most enigmatic details of the ancient Egyptian Civilization, and one Ancient Egyptian Pharoah stands out from the rest: Akhenaten.
Akhenaten, who was known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years. He was the father of Tutankhamun, one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. Many consider Akhenaten as one of the worlds’ greatest and most influential religious innovators. Many consider him as the first monotheist in all of history, a precursor to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Muhammad as prophets who worshiped one God.
However, before Akhenaten, many strange Pharaohs ruled over Ancient Egypt.
One of the most important ancient texts that can tell us more about this time in history is the Papyrus of Turin, which lists all the Pharaohs who ruled over Ancient Egypt.
Not only does this list include all of the ‘official’ historic Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, but it also includes the deities or “Gods” who came from above and reigned over the lands of Egypt before the first mortal Pharaoh of Egypt with a lineage that spreads over 13,000 years. It is a great enigma why mainstream scholars consider this ancient text as pure myth and why most details of the ancient text have been overlooked and omitted from the history books.
“They seem to have no ancestors or periods of development; they seem to have appeared overnight.” – English Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson
The Palermo Stele is another ancient text which mentions the mystery rulers of pre-dynastic Egypt.
Ancient Alien Pharaohs?
This ancient Stele even makes reference to Egyptian God Horus, suggesting that he was a physical ruler of the Ancient Egypt thousands of years ago. Another Egyptian God, Thoth is said to have reigned over the lands of Ancient Egypt from 8670 to 7100 BC. Interestingly, Egyptian High Pries Manetho, who had access to unlimited ancient texts from the Ancient Library of Alexandria, and who wrote for the Pharaoh the history of Ancient Egypt in 30 volumes makes reference to the divine beings that ruled during Pre-Pharaonic Egypt. (source)
According to Egyptian Mythology Akhenaten descended from the gods who arrived on Earth at the time of Zep Tepi and until today, people still believe that this Pharaoh did, in fact, come from the Stars. According to the “Pyramid Texts”, there was a period that emerged from the primordial chaos and the way gods ruled the earth. This time is called “Zep Tepi.”
Many researchers believe that the ancient Egyptian civilization originated in the year 36.900 BC, when ‘Gods,’ who came from the heavens ruled over the land of the Pharaohs. Akhenaten was believed to have bene one of them.
Akhenaten, considered by many as a heretic Pharaoh, was the ruler responsible for taking ancient Egypt towards an entirely different religious lifestyle, trying to reconstruct religion departing from traditional ancient Egyptian polytheism.
“There is only one God, my father. I can approach him by day, by night.” – Akhenaten
Akhenaten, upon becoming Pharaoh ordered all the iconography of previous gods to be removed. He only allowed one emblem, which was a sun symbol, literally a sun disk with curious arms or rays pointing down.
The Aten, or commonly referred to as the ‘Sun Disk’ was illustrated in ancient texts, as a deity, and in The Story of Sinuhe from the 12th dynasty, a deceased king is described as rising as God to the heavens and uniting with the sun-disk, the divine body merging with its maker.
By analogy, the term “silver Aten” was sometimes used to refer to the moon. The solar Aten was extensively worshiped as a god in the reign of Amenhotep III when it was depicted as a falcon-headed man much like Ra
However, Akhenaten was far more mysterious, and his strange looking body has fueled theories suggesting he may not have been an ordinary pharaoh but in fact a mysterious leader who arrived fro the heaven.
The Last Alien Pharaoh?
While Akhenaten is well-known because of the mysterious shape of his head, the list of characteristics is lengthy: an elongated skull, long neck, sunken eyes, thick thighs, long fingers, backward-turned knee joints, a prominent belly that suggests pregnancy and female-like breasts.
The first thing that is strange is his elongated skull, and in all of the statues and depictions of him, we see this elongated skull. In general, his body was sort of like a feminine and masculine mixture. This was, in fact, strange since all other Pharaohs were depicted as strong, imposing figures. Akhenaten however, was not depicted like that, but as a weak, strange looking being with an extremely elongated head.
Why would Akhenaten order the changes he did in the royal iconography to show him as this “weak” Pharaoh? Mysteriously, Akhenaten’s wife Nefertiti was also depicted having an elongated skull. Did they have some genetic anomaly that caused their heads– and body is in general to be misshaped and disproportional? Alternatively, is there something more to this strange Pharaoh and his origins? Is it possible that he was a hybrid human being? With genes and DNA from Extraterrestrials?
A119: The US secret project to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
A119: The US secret project to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
Why would the US ‘nuke’ the moon?
Called “Project A119“, it was one of the most secret projects whose existence has long been denied until recently when declassified documents about the project were released to the public.
The Project referred to as A119, also known as “A Study of Lunar Research Flights,” was a highly secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force with the intention of detonating a nuclear bomb on the lunar surface. It is presumed that the purpose of this study was to demonstrate the superiority of the United States in relation to the Soviet Union and the rest of the world during the Cold War while scientifically speaking, it was meant to answer numerous questions in planetary astronomy and astrogeology.
Full details of the study were presented by Dr. Leonard Reiffel, who led the project in 1958 from a research foundation financed by the United States Army. Carl Sagan joined the research team responsible for the investigation of theoretical effects of a nuclear explosion in low gravity. Sagan revealed his participation in the plan in 1959.
“Project A119” was never carried out, probably because the landing the first man on the moon would contain a better reception from the US population, than detonating a nuke on the moon, which would have kickstarted a space militarization Era. However, another crucial detail was mentioned by project leader Leonard Reiffel when he warned that of detonating such a device on the lunar surface would create a lunar nuclear fallout, which eventually could cause major problems in future lunar research projects and colonization.
The documents proving the existence of “Project A119” remained hidden from the public for about forty-five years. Moreover, despite the disclosure of the files in the early 2000s, the US government has never officially acknowledged its involvement in the investigation. A former executive at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Leonard Reiffel who led “Project A119” in 1958 revealed the existence of documents proving it was more than just conspiracy theorists at work.
During initial planning for the mission, researchers considered using a hydrogen bomb in the first place. However, the United States Air Force vetoed this idea since a Hydrogen Bomb would have been extremely heavy making it hard to transport to the moon. Instead, scientists decided to utilize a W25 Warhead, which is a smaller, lightweight warhead with a relatively low 1.7 kiloton yield.
The Soviet counterpart
According to later reports by the time the US had developed the plan to nuke the lunar surface, the Soviets had developed a similar project which differed from the scenario reported by media. Started in January 1958, it was part of a series of proposals under the codename “E”. Project E-1 entailed plans to reach the Moon while projects E-2 and E-3 involved sending a probe around the far side of the Moon to take a series of photographs of its surface.
LCROSS, NASA and bombing the moon
While the _United States Airforce might have put a hold on “Project A119“, NASA did bomb the surface of the moon for alleged ‘Scientific’ purposes.
Despite the fact that it is strictly prohibited, NASA released a ‘Centaur’ kinetic weapon which ultimately impacted the moon.
‘Officially,’ the main LCROSS mission objective was to explore the presence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. The mission was launched together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on June 18, 2009, as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years.
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The Mystery of the GIANT Swastika near Roswell, New Mexico
The Mystery of the GIANT Swastika near Roswell, New Mexico
Did you know there is a mysterious Swastika symbol located not far from Roswell, New Mexico? In the middle of nowhere, surrounded by different symbols and geometric structures, the controversial Swastika was discovered thanks to Satellite images of the region. But, what on Earth is a giant Swastika doing in the middle of the United States?
The enigmatic symbol has caused quite a debate ever since people saw the mysterious symbol while going through Google Earth, and seeing in the middle of nowhere, not far from Roswell the controversial Swastika.
But who put it there? And how old is it?
Many people have claimed that the enigmatic symbol found near Roswell is the result of Nazi occultism and even Alien worship, due to its proximity to Roswell, where one of the most famous UFO sightings in history occurred.
While many firmly believe the Swastika found near Roswell is in fact the product of Nazi Occultism, it is not. In fact, the original Swastika symbol has nothing to do with the Nazi’s at all.
The Swastika also referred to as the gammadion, is one of the oldest and most widespread symbols on planet Earth. And if you thought it is a symbol that represents evil and death, you are very very wrong. To make it short and clear, the Swastika symbol stands for peace and prosperity and is a very positive symbol.
As we know it today, Swastika is actually a Sanskrit word which means “that which is good” or “all is well” but some translate it to”lucky or auspicious object”, whatever the translation it is a very positive symbol. In Hinduism, it is a very sacred symbol deeply connected with luck and prosperity, and yes, there is a lot to be learned about this ancient symbol which has been misinterpreted since 1900’s. To help understand it, here we have Forty Facts About the Swastika.
While a variation of the Swastika was adopted by the Nazi’s it is still used as a sacred religious symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism, even though many people today are completely unaware of the true origin and meaning of the symbol.
But one of the most important reasons why the Swastika near Roswell was not the product of Nazi Occultism is because, for centuries, Native Americans in New Mexico and other parts of the country used the ancient symbol, predating the Nazi movement by centuries. To the ancient Hopi of North America, the Swastika represents the wandering Hopi clan. To the Navajo clan, the Swastika symbol represents the whirling log; which is a sacred image that represents a legend used in healing rituals
In fact, in other parts of the world, the Swastika has been found to predate many other more popular symbols.
Recent research has shown that the earliest known object with swastika motifs is a bird from the tusk of a mammoth from the paleolithic settlement of Mezine,Ukraine which dates back between 10,000 and 12,000 BCE.
The Swastika was in fact used by the United States military, which brings us to the most likely origin of the Swastika near Roswell.
During World War I, the Swastika symbol was used on the shoulder patches of the American 45th Division.
The most plausible theory explaining the enigmatic Swastika symbol near Roswell is that the ‘Roswell Glyphs’ were in fact created in connection with World War II precision Bombing Practice, used by Pilots from the Roswell Army Air Force Base for target practice. According to reports from locals, there are as many as 17 swastika-like symbols (or better said reverse Swastika’s) spreading across the region of New Mexico. Locals say that the enigmatic symbols are in fact well documented by the air force and the USGS.
It is known that the Army also utilized targets shaped like circles, triangles, ships, docks, and oil tanks.
This is why we believe that the Roswell Swastika isn’t the product of Aliens or Nazi worship, but was used by Pilots during World War II as target practice.
However, this theory isn’t widely accepted by everyone, as there are many people who believe that the enigmatic symbols spread across the land of New Mexico, date back hundreds of years.
What do you think this enigmatic symbol is doing near Roswell?
To check out the symbol for yourself, here are the coordinates to locate the Swastika in Google Maps/Earth:33°12’22.6″N 103°35’05.3″W
WETENSCHAPWetenschappers hebben met behulp van satellietbeelden het mysterie van een reeks eeuwenoude unieke structuren in het zuiden van Peru ontrafeld. De diepe spiraalvormige gaten in de Nazcawoestijn, vlakbij de beroemde Nazcalijnen, zouden deel uitmaken van een ingenieus watervoorzieningssysteem. Dat maakte de BBC bekend.
Het gebied is vooral bekend voor de Nazcalijnen, gigantische figuren van mensen, dieren en planten die werden aangebracht in de woestijn. Maar de lijnen zijn niet het enige bewijs van de Nazcabeschaving, die er van 200 voor tot 600 na Christus leefde.
Het gebied herbergt ook een reeks spiraalvormige, met stenen afgeboorde gaten, gekend als 'puquios'. Al lang werd aangenomen dat het ondergrondse aquaducten zijn, maar verder was er weinig over geweten.
Ingenieus systeem
Een team van Italiaanse onderzoekers denkt nu de antwoorden gevonden te hebben op basis van satellietbeelden. De 'puquios' zouden deel uitmaken van een ingenieus systeem om grondwater naar boven te halen. Onder de gaten bevonden zich kanalen. Via de spiraalvormen werd er wind in die kanalen gevoerd waardoor het ondergrondse water afgevoerd werd naar de plek waar het nodig was.
"De 'puquios' waren het meest ambitieuze hydraulische project in het gebied", zegt onderzoeker Rosa Lasaponara aan de BBC. "Door de toegang tot een onuitputtelijke watervoorraad maakte het systeem het mogelijk landbouw te bedrijven op een van de droogste plaatsen ter wereld."
Ook de Nazcalijnen, enorm populair bij toeristen, hebben volgens de onderzoekers vermoedelijk te maken met de aanwezigheid van water. Eenrecente theorie stelt inderdaad dat de lijnen samen een kaart vormen die de locaties van de 'puquios' aanwijst.
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Netherlands UFO witness recounts military encounter
Netherlands UFO witness recounts military encounter
A Netherlands witness at Soesterberg recalled a UFO encounter in the military from 1991 that left him traumatized, according to testimony in Case 74907 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was outside walking during a night shift watch at a military base near Soesterberg, Netherlands, about 3 a.m. on February 17, 1991, when the incident occurred.
Witness illustration of the object seen on February 17, 1991. (Credit: MUFON)
“Along with another cadet I came at the central parking lot at 3 a.m. and saw a big circle in the sky straight on top off us,” the witness stated.“It had no shape, but only bright lights slowly rotating anti-clockwise and the light points itself didn’t rotate. The colors were in a liquid manner.”
The object was large and the witness wondered exactly what it was.
“I estimate the object about 30 to 50 meters in diameter. The first thing we both thought was a blimp, a zeppelin, the one like Goodyear has with the light screens on the sides. But the fact that it was very low and absolutely stationary and silent made it very, very odd.”
F-4E Phantom II of 32nd TFS taking off, around 1975, at Soesterberg Air Base. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Soon the object began to rotate.
“After some minutes the lights started to rotate faster and suddenly it took off at really incredible speed to the west. A couple of seconds later we felt a short, hard wind blowing which stayed on top of us like a downwash from a helicopter.”
The witness had a clear view of the object.
“If there was a way to describe the speed this thing was going, but I can’t. We had a clear view for over 30 km – that’s 20 miles-plus. This thing covered that distance from stationary in something like 0.10 seconds. I know aviation and have flying experience and I am very technical. This kind of extreme acceleration turns humans into liquid.”
The witness waited 25 years to come forward with the story.
“For many year this has been an unspoken chapter in my life. I didn’t want to speak about the incident because instantly after the encounter, me and the other cadet, became unexplainable very, very ill, and for days suffered a high fever and extreme vomiting. The illness was so bad that it left me traumatized and not able to speak about it for years.”
Soesterberg, Netherlands, today. (Credit: Google)
Soesterberg is a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht, part of the municipality of Soest, population 5,798.Soesterberg Air Base was a Royal Netherlands Air Force military airbase located in Soesterberg, first established as an airfield in 1911.For almost 40 years, United States Air Force facilities at Soesterberg, named Camp New Amsterdam was a major front line USAFE airbase during the Cold War. The base was closed on December 31, 2008, due to budget cuts in the Dutch Army.
Robert Kouba is investigating for MUFON International.
Soldaat: “Ik zag een enorme UFO boven vliegbasis Soesterberg”
Soldaat: “Ik zag een enorme UFO boven vliegbasis Soesterberg”
Een soldaat die gestationeerd is geweest op vliegbasis Soesterberg, zegt in 1991 een enorme UFO te hebben gezien boven de basis. De getuige had op 17 februari 1991 nachtdienst op de legerbasis toen het incident zich voordeed.
“Ik zag om 03.00 uur samen met een andere soldaat recht boven ons een grote cirkel in de lucht,” zegt de getuige. “Het object had geen vorm. Er waren alleen felle lichten te zien die langzaam tegen de klok in draaiden.”
Geen geluid
Het was een groot object en de getuige vroeg zich af wat het was. “Ik schat dat het object een doorsnee had van 30 tot 50 meter,” zegt hij. “We dachten in eerste instantie aan een blimp, een zeppelin, met lichten aan de zijkant. Maar het vreemde was dat het erg laag boven de grond hing en geen geluid maakte.”
UFO boven vliegbasis Soesterberg (MUFON)
Al snel begon het object rond te draaien. “Na enkele minuten begon het sneller rond te draaien, waarna het plotseling met ongelooflijke snelheid wegschoot richting het westen,” aldus de getuige. “Enkele seconden later voelden we korte tijd een harde wind in ons gezicht, zoals bij een helikopter.”
Jarenlang gezwegen
De getuige kon het object goed zien. “Ik kan niet zeggen hoe snel het object vloog,” zegt hij. “Wel konden we tot over een afstand van meer dan 30 kilometer kijken. Dit object legde die afstand vanuit stilstand af in ongeveer 0,1 seconde. Ik ben thuis in de luchtvaartwereld en heb vliegervaring. Door dit soort extreme acceleratie zouden mensen in pulp veranderen.”
De getuige zegt vele jaren te hebben gezwegen over het incident. “Ik wilde er niet over praten omdat we gelijk na de gebeurtenis erg ziek zijn geworden,” zegt hij. “Dagenlang hadden we hoge koorts en moesten we overgeven. Ik was zo getraumatiseerd dat ik er jarenlang niet over kon praten.”
Boven vliegbasis Soesterberg zouden ook in 1979 UFO’s zijn gezien. In februari dat jaar zouden diverse waarnemingsposten UFO’s hebben gezien, maar zoals vaker durfden mensen er niets over naar buiten te brengen. RTV Utrecht besteedde in 2012 aandacht aan het verhaal.
Cigar UFO During Daytime Over Prague, Czech Republic On April 5, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Cigar UFO During Daytime Over Prague, Czech Republic On April 5, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:April 5, 2016 Location of sighting: Prague, Czech Republic News Source: MUFON #75830 This is an interesting report from MUFON today. Its another cigar UFO. I enlarged it and altered the color to make it stand out more as you see in the red boxes. The UFO seems to change shape, but that is because it changes angle slightly. Its not changing shape, just its angle. I'm not surprised that he caught it on his computer instead of seeing it, because the computer screen is so big, and often on a sunny day, its hard to see the tiny screen on a camera or cell photo due to the reflection off the screen. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Sorry, I do not speak english. I only see the objects on my photos later on my computer. On the first photo is object directed nearly perpendiculary. On the second, as same as the third snap, an object is oriented horizontaly. All 3 snaps are during only two seconds, from 16:59:03 to 16:59:04 Prague time, 20160405. Interesting is big distance the object covered I think I saw the same object on the other photos (attached) probably. It is 16:59:31 (4917), 16:55:49 for both 4708 and 4709. On the 4708 is object on the left side up. I don´t know what is it.
A space observer from the UK allegedly captured an image that apparently shows a space craft near Europa, the Solar System’s sixth largest moon.
Some observers say the image is another proof that there’s alien life out there, particularly in areas that haven’t been explored or researched.
Secure Team posted the video online and showed images that were snapped using a Canon 650D camera with a 7D-300mm telescopic lens on a tripod in the back garden.
British Louis Read sent the image to the UFO observers to get some opinions.
According to the video, the spacecraft gets closer to the Europa, one of Jupiter’s 63 moons, and has never been visible since then.
Some experts got so curious about the image, so they increased the exposure of it. They then concluded that it is either a fleet of UFOs or one giant alien structure going about their business.
Space agencies, including NASA, have yet to travel to Jupiter in their quest for more detailed information about the planet, but they are planning to dispatch a probe out there.
NASA is currently exploring Mars with the Curiosity Rover, sending images from the Red Planet back to Earth on a regular basis.
Daytime UFO activity over Evora, Portugal 13-Apr-2016
Daytime UFO activity over Evora, Portugal 13-Apr-2016
I just received this interesting footage of an unidentified flying objects or orbs flying above Portugal city Evora. This was taken on Wednesday, 13th April 2016.
A man from Idaho claimed he had an encounter with a UFO in 1977. The strange object reportedly hovered above a home nearby and traveled towards him. The witness was driving his truck to his home late at night on May 5, 1977.
When he pulled into his driveway, the witness spotted a UFO hovering just over a neighbor’s roof. As he watched the strange aerial thing, he seemed to hear a voice from a male voice saying ‘This is not of this world.’ The witness stopped the truck, got out from it, and watched the bizarre object for 20 to 30 minutes.
Initially, the witness can’t see any detail of the unidentified flying object. It was when the unknown thing passed nearer to him when he saw pulsating, colored lights on the side of the craft.
The witness did not hear any noise or emission from the craft. He described the lights as dazzling but didn’t illuminate the ground or adjacent buildings. The disc was still in the sky over roofs when the witness got tired and went inside.
He reported his sighting almost 40 years ago to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) on March 23, 2016. He included drawings that show the shape of the craft from the side with descriptions or explanations. His testimony is filed under Case 75381 in MUFON’s witness reporting database.
Stephen Hawking wil sonde naar ster Alpha Centauri sturen
Stephen Hawking wil sonde naar ster Alpha Centauri sturen
Tim Kraaijvanger
Stephen Hawking en filantroop Yuri Milner hebben vanavond een nieuw wetenschappelijk project aangekondigd: Breakthrough Starshot. Het doel: een ruimtevaartuig in twintig jaar tijd naar de meest nabije buurster sturen.
Een licht ruimtevaartuig reist op een nader te bepalen tijdstip naar het nabije Alpha Centauri-systeem op een afstand van 4,37 lichtjaar bij de aarde vandaan. Dat is – omgerekend – zo’n 40 biljoen kilometer. Hawking en Milner willen dat deze ruimtesonde deze afstand in twintig jaar overbrugt, wat neerkomt op een snelheid van eenvijfde lichtminuut per minuut.
Aangezien een lichtseconde ongeveer 300.000 kilometer is, moet het ruimtevaartuig dus 60.000 kilometer per seconde afleggen. Dat is vijf keer de doorsnede van de aarde.
Het ruimtevaartuig reist op hoge snelheid naar Alpha Centauri.
Zeilen in de ruimte Hoe gaat dit duo dit plan verwezenlijken? Het ruimtevaartuig van Milner en Hawking weegt niet meer dan een vel papier en gebruikt een zeil – niet groter dan een gemiddelde vlieger – om voort te bewegen. Dit zeil is slechts enkele honderden atomen dik. Een gigantische laserstraal van 100 miljard watt raakt het zeil van dit ruimtevaartuig, waardoor het vliegende zeilbootje flink wordt versneld. Deze straal wordt afgevuurd vanaf een hoge en droge locatie, bijvoorbeeld de Atacamawoestijn in Chili.
Binnen vijftien jaar De verwachting is dat het ruimtevaartuig binnen vijftien jaar gelanceerd kan worden. Tenminste, als de ontwikkelingen op het gebied van nanotechnologie, lasers en microelektronica op het huidige tempo blijven doorgaan. Het feit dat een bekende wetenschapper als Stephen Hawking zijn naam verbindt aan het project is hoopgevend te noemen.
Foto’s van een andere wereld De missie gaat zo’n 100 miljoen dollar kosten. De grote vraag is: wat levert het op? Natuurlijk is het een fantastische prestatie dat een ruimtevaartuig een ander zonnestelsel kan bereiken. Wellicht kunnen er zelfs foto’s gemaakt worden, maar dat gaat spannend worden. Kunnen de gegevens een afstand van vier lichtjaar overbruggen? Hawking en Milner laten het er niet bij zitten en zijn van plan om een ontvanger te bouwen die de gegevens kan ontvangen. We krijgen wellicht voor het eerst foto’s van een andere wereld te zien.
Yuri Gagarin Het is bijzonder dat het project vandaag is aangekondigd. Het is namelijk 55 jaar geleden dat de Russische kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin voor het eerst een rondje om de aarde aflegde. Op Scientias.nl werd in 2011 het jubileum gevierd met een artikel over Gagarin.
Wetenschappers aan boord van het internationale ruimtestation installeren dit weekend de Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM). BEAM functioneert als een soort ruimtetent.
De ruimtetent wordt gekoppeld aan de Tranquility-module. Dit gaat verrassend snel, namelijk in vier uur tijd. De gemiddelde kampeerder prutst misschien wel langer met tentstokken en haringen. Wanneer BEAM is geïnstalleerd, wordt deze module opgeblazen. Eenmaal opgeblazen biedt de ruimtetent zestien kubieke meter extra leefruimte, waardoor de totale ruimte in het internationale ruimtestation met acht procent toeneemt.
Als het aan NASA ligt, worden toekomstige ruimtestations allemaal opblaasbaar. Opblaasbare ruimtestations of modules nemen minder ruimte in en kunnen daardoor makkelijker met een raket vervoerd worden. Ook zijn ze veel goedkoper. De ruimtetent van Bigelow Aerospace kost slechts achttien miljoen dollar. Dat lijkt misschien veel, maar een ruimtestation als het ISS kost vele malen meer, namelijk 150 miljard dollar.
Artistieke impressie van hoe de ruimtetent er uit gaat zien.
De komende twee jaar testen astronauten of de ruimtetent goed functioneert. Beschermt de opblaasbare module de astronauten tegen zonnestraling, ruimteafval en extreme temperaturen in de ruimte? Ontstaan er scheuren of groeien er schimmels aan de binnenkant van BEAM? Hier letten astronauten op.
Na de testperiode zal BEAM losgekoppeld worden, waarna de tent verbrandt in de atmosfeer van de aarde.
Wil jij de installatie van de Bigelow Expandable Activity Module live volgen? Ga zaterdag naar NASA TV. De uitzending start om 11:30 uur Nederlandse tijd. De daadwerkelijke installatie is niet van begin tot eind te volgen, want de plaatsing begint al om 8:15 uur Nederlandse tijd. Om 12:15 uur zijn de werkzaamheden afgerond.
Physicists Send Particles Of Light Into The Past, Proving Time Travel Is Possible?
Single particles of light (photons) to simulate quantum particles travelling through time were just used by scientists from the University of Queensland, Australia. They showed that one photon can pass through a wormhole and then interact with its older self. Their findings were published in Nature Communications.
Closed timelike curves are a concept necessary to understand this experiment(CTC). CTCs are used to simulate powerful gravitational fields, like the ones produced by a spinning black hole, that could theoretically (based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity), warp the fabric of existence so that spacetime bends back on itself. This creates a CTC, almost like a pathway to travel back through time.
“It’s intriguing that you’ve got general relativity predicting these paradoxes, but then you consider them in quantum mechanical terms and the paradoxes go away.” – University of Queensland physicist Tim Ralph (source)
Tim Ralph (quoted above) and his PhD student Martin Ringbauer simulated a Deutsch’s model of CTCs, according toScientific American, “testing and confirming many aspects of the two-decades-old theory.” Although it’s just a mathematical simulation, the researchers (and their team/colleagues) emphasize that their model is mathematically equivalent to a single photon traveling through a CTC. Nothing has actually been sent back through time though; to do that, scientists would have to find a real CTC, which has yet to happen as far as we know. Of course, there always remains the possibility that black budgetscience has.
Think in terms of the ‘grandfather paradox,’ a hypothetical scenario where someone uses a CTC to travel back through time to cause harm to their grandfather, thus preventing their later birth. Now imagine a particle going back in time to flip a switch on the particle-generating machine that created it – this is a possibility that these physicists say they have shown through their simulation.
You can read the specifics of the experiment here.
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