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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27-06-2016
Filer’s Files #26 – 2016 UFOs Are Real - PART II
Filer’s Files #26 – 2016 UFOs Are Real - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Triangle
Glendale — I was driving south and looked up and saw two massive objects in the sky on June 17, 2016. So I pulled over grabbed my camera and watched these two objects approach. The first one a massive building is what it looked like, all black with a black tower on the top. No sound or fire just defying gravity. Then along side of it was another ship that seemed to be an escort for the large building ship. It to was all black with a strange black sphere that was underneath it not attached it flew on its own but stayed under the escort ship. They moved slowly and didn’t seem to care if anyone saw. They came straight at me then turned together as if they were headed to Flagstaff. I have seen many strange thingsbut this was out of this world. I could see details on these craft, but my camera didn’t see them as I did but still captured it ok. Five people at my work also witnessed them. A military helicopter showed up not long after. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Lights
Winton — When we were all coming home and I looked up at the moon and noticed a red star or planet that was in the atmosphere on June 17, 2016. I have a set of binoculars to looked at the red light. Looking at it changed shapes with lights and expanded like a balloon. I then grabbed my camera ad recorded the event.
I was able to obtain the footage which I have included in the pictures. It was amazing to see it glowing and change shapes. The object is still in the sky within the horizon of the moon. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Lights
Coventry— I went outside to smoke a cigarette around 10:30 PM, on June 19, 2016. It was brighter out than normal for that time of night, so I was looking up at the moon trying to see if there was a full moon. To the right of the moon I noticed a star that looked bigger and way brighter than every other star in the sky. Then I saw the red light moving and initially rubbed my eyes thinking I was just seeing things. But the lights kept changing. I kept seeing the red light go by rotating from right to left. So I focused on several other stars thinking it’s just got to be my eyes, but no other star in the sky did anything like that. So I started to take pictures, it was hovering so high up in the sky. I watched it for half an hour while it changed lights the entire time. When I came back outside around a half hour later it was gone. I was excited when I first saw it, but the longer I watched it change and hover above I got nervous. I’m still not positive what exactly happened last night. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Light
Rochester — Pamela Stark My husband and I came out of the restaurant in Taylorville, Illinois this evening. My friends were in the sky. Sure did not look like this when I took the picture. Thursday June 16, 2016. The one was closer to the Earth then ever before and alot brighter. Thanks to Pamela Stark
Missouri Light
Wentzville — I was walking out of my garage to smoke a cigarette on June 18, 2016. As I exited my garage, I noticed a green glowing object the size of a large car hovering above my neighbor’s house.
It took off quickly going west towards the sunset. It Stopped and began flying erratically.
So I pulled out my cell phone and captured it on my camera for a few seconds before I lost sight of it.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Curryville— Heading west on Highway 54 as I was passing through Curryville my 6 year old daughter and I noticed a gray disc in the sky emitting two bright beams on June 17, 2016.
It seemed to hover for 10 seconds max then disappeared. A person who passed me on the hwy earlier was stopped taking pictures of this object as well. I have never seen anything like this but feel it was not normal. Attached are three pics, one of the objects when the beams were off and a couple with the beams on before disappearing. I took these from my cell phone so quality is not the greatest.
New Jersey Tripple Flash
Ringoes— I was sitting on the porch when in June 16, 2016, and I saw a bright red light through the trees. I thought it was a drone from the prom party a street over.until I noticed it was moving in my direction and had no sound. As it come more from behind the trees. I got up and went to the clearing and noticed it had a smaller white light attached to it. Which when the red did the tripple flash you could see structure between the 2 lights. It looked like it was going about 10mph. And while passing me almost looked like it stopped and rotated. Like it was looking at me. But then just kept on going in a east direction.I texted my sister to come out and see it. Even with the big bright flashing stobe. Which you could end up seeing from 30 miles away. This is a similar shot of a red orb.Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mantua — Triangular UFO hovered over route 45 in NJ and turned on its side over the road and then flew sideways towards Philadelphia PA. at approximately 10 mph. I have never encountered any aircraft like this in my life. It made no noise and it seemed to have multicolored lights rotating inside one light. If anyone else witness this at approximately 9:40 pm on June 10th 2016. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Orbs in Video Footage
Brooklyn – Here is one of my most recent captures. I’m shooting at full 600 mm and 1/3000th second shutter speed on June 12, 2016. You will have to watch very carefully. There are various white orbs streaking by and one large craft of some kind. The best way to view is to manually use the slide bar and slowly move it across the bottom. See if you can count the white objects. Some are disk shaped.
Note: The witness has sent several other videos of orbs and disk shaped objects taken during the past year. Only 1 of the videos is posted. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
North Carolina Green Ball
Wrightsville Beach — I took pictures at sunset Thursday, June 16 around 7:45 pm at the southern point of the island where the ocean meets the sound. The next day when I was posting them on Facebook, I noticed a glowing green spot on the image, and enlarged it to see what it was. It appeared to be a translucent, glowing, green orb with dots, lights, or spines on the surface. I then discovered another photo in a different location down the beach with a similar orb on the sand, and 3 more photos with similar, but more perfectly round objects in the sky. In the glare of the sunset, I did not actually see these objects when I took the photos. The photos are from my Galaxy 6S Edge phone, and are untouched outside of cropping to view the objects more closely. Other photos taken at the same time do not have this green spot. I only discovered the orbs in photos after I had left the area. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Disc
Lawton — My family and I were driving through the Wichita Mountains on May 29, 2016. So I took my husband’s cell phone and started to take pictures. One week later I was going through the photos that I took and noticed something in the sky! So I showed my husband and he said it’s a bug but the funny thing is its too big and it has distance to it. So can you please HELP with this photo and let me know what it really is thank you. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Lights
Eugene – I was at a BBQ party around 9:50 pm on June 18, 2016 when people observed a red light flashing bluish white hovering to our east. I observed it for five minutes before taking out my cell phone and recording it.
It hovered for about 45 seconds after I started filming then it abruptly began to take off in a straight trajectory to the east from our location. I lost it when it passed the trees on the horizon. It was very strange and 100% silent. Still pondering what I saw. ‘Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Valleyford I visit your site about once a week. During my visit today I noticed, for the first time, the middle photo of the three that you have posted at the top of your web page. It reminds me of the photo which I have attached. My photo was taken in 2002, during an active, several month long flap starting in February, 2002. his photo was taken with a 35mm film camera mounted to a small telescope. It is not an exact match to your photo, but it does have some interesting similarity. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Wyoming Object
Casper — My boyfriend and I were walking back to our apartment after taking our dog on a walk on May 26, 2016. I looked up and saw something in the sky… Maybe balloons.. My boyfriend works at the dispatch center which is always notified when special events like that take place. There was not anything going on that day that could explain these objects in the sky so I recorded them. The objects were pretty stationary, hovered and moved slowly. I was feeling extremely curious so I posted the video on a facebook page that is for the town, we got many comments about the video, but none that could explain what we saw.
We were the only people who saw these object, there were so other witnesses. We didn’t loose sight we simply stopped recording and went home.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Lights
Rosario River –This is an interesting sighting of some glowing lights over the Rosario River on June 12, 2916. It looks like we are seeing a UFO hovering over the water, hence the two long lights. However the top light is actually the UFO, the bottom light may be the reflection or the illumination from the doorway below the surface which the UFO probably came from. Hiding a doorway underwater that takes you to an underground base is a smart move.Scott C. Waring Website
Silvia Pérez Simondini, director of Visión OVNI and CEFORA, writes, “I was truly amazed on Sunday night. For 26 years, night after night, I have observed and have come to know each spot on the island from the summit of Cerro de la Matanza. On Sunday, with my friend Checo Jaroslav, we visited the summit once more, and I was astonished to see a vast source of light in the middle of the river. The lights of the city of Rosario could be seen in the distance, which gave me the certainty that these lights we were seeing were much closer to Victoria. The bridges are not lit and along the route there is nothing that has such illumination. It was interesting to observe it from hilltop as the upper part of the illumination vanished as if by magic. Since Checo was returning to Buenos Aires along that route, we agreed that he would make sure to see what it was from both sides. The fact is he saw absolutely nothing, or any area illuminated in such a way. We have no idea what it was. These are the photos. News Source: Website
Australia Orb
Gold Coast – I’m not sure what I’m seeing in the photos. They were not visible with the naked eye. The image was taken outside on June 8, 2016. The balcony (no glass window) of the 43rd floor of the Hilton Australia. I noticed the strange object on my first shot so I cleaned the lens and kept taking shots And the object kept moving. Any ideas.Note: There is a possible sun’s reflection on lens. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Sphere
Miquelon Lake — On June 4th at almost midnight our family was camping in Strathcon, Alberta with neighbors when our children asked what the lights were? We were all sitting around a campfire and got up and noticed an orb light followed by three more lights in formation. And then they just kept coming, around 8 more. There was no sound and they look nothing like what my picture looks like, they were high up but bigger, they were like glowing orbs.
My neighbor took a video but there was no sound and it was distorted. We were excited by what we were seeing but I know I was scared, and my daughter was scared. They kept flying and then one by one would disappear.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland Orb
Cork — I took a number of photo’s of the moon with a cheap camera phone. I saw nothing but the moon with the naked eye, until I uploaded the photo’s to my PC! Have a look, remember its not the moon that’s strange in the photo, but the strange objects to the left and down. Zoom in. I also have more photo’s and video footage on a close encounter (60ft) which had a physical affect on me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Israel Disc
Jerusalem – In late September 22, 2015, we took lots of Photos with one having unknown/seen object in picture. Picture taken seconds before has No object! At first I thought it could be a bird. However, other than an occasional Pigeon seen at and around Human food sources we saw few birds flying anywhere around the country. We have several hundred pictures and only the ones near humans have birds.
We also seen other things of the same nature while there but this is the only picture with an object we didn’t notice or possibly see with the Naked eye? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kenya Disc
Muranga County — It was a flying saucer. It’s a foggy morning in Kenya, and a friend and I are driving down a Murram Road video tapping the heavy fog on June 22, 2016. The fog is falling making it hard to drive. It’s terrible weather for us but not for this UFO that took the chance to fly by unnoticed. The video shows the craft flying low and trees bending as it passes over. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Disk Over Volcano
Popocatepetl Volcano — CriterioHidalgo has reprinted a photograph of an alleged UFO captured in June 2016 by Webcams de Mexico (which has acquired a worldwide reputation for its captures of unusual phenomena over the Popocatepetl Volcano). The text reads as follows: “A new UFO photo has gone viral on social media, shown near the Volcan de Fuego in the state of Colima. Through its Facebook account, Webcams de Mexico displayed the photograph last Friday, showing an object crossing the sky near the fiery colossus. The photo asks the question “what could it be?” in order that users may leave their comments about what appears to be a flying saucers.”
UFOs continue to be seen regularly at volcanoes around the world, especially the volcanoes Mt. Popocatépetl, Mt. Colima and Mt. De Fuego in Mexico are UFO hotspots. These volcanoes are the most active places in the world if we talking about the numbers of sightings and evidence of UFOs near volcanoes. For many years, UFOs buzzing around, zipping into the craters, mysterious bright lights shooting over these volcanoes and all these UFOs are captured by webcams trained on these volcanoes. Objects were captured by a team of Maurice Mousseau equipped with special cameras owned by CENAPRED, Nobody knows why are these UFOs especially near these areas. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
Portugal Moving Light
Castelo Branco — On June 20, 2016, around 21:30 hours I went to my balcony and saw this bright light in the sky moving fast horizontaly, then making a curve. After a short moment it descended and disapeared behind the buildings in front of my house. I did not hear any sound. The light kept on appearing for several times during around 15 minutes and descended. Could it be a drone with a light for night flight? Possibly! But drones make some noise and as I said it was a silent night in my town and I did not hear any noise. Or it could be far away for me not to hear it. The second time it took-off I rush into my house to grab may camera and made a few recordings of that light. The intensity of the light, kept on changing randomly from time to time. Sometimes it almost disappeared to be bright the next second. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Bell
Toledo — Photographing the city of Toledo on June 18, 2016, and after download photos to your PC could observe a strange ± object in the right tower of the Alcazar. It is shaped like a cone or bell, it seems metallic and duration could be just seconds since in the next photography and earlier no longer appears.
Actually I did not see the object until the picture down the computer. Visible if zoom is done. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK England Orb and Cigar
Taking photos of insects in my garden when I captured an orb or something moving in towards middle of picture and stopping on June 17, 2016.
The picture was at 1/500th of a second so it must of been incredibly fast then there was two more hovering by a dandelion and others in different places. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Marske – At 9.30 pm on June 21st 2016 saw an object in the sky that was moving. It was cigar shaped but looked like it was on fire but left no trail. It moved at the speed you would expect to see an aeroplane move when you look up to the sky.
I thought it may be a comet or a shooting star or possibly some sort of reflection but I have done some research on all of the above and none move in the way this did. It’s speed was constant and it flew out over the North Sea. I videoed it then checked my phone to see it had recorded and when I looked back up, it had gone. I do not know whether it disappeared or simply went out of sight. Whilst it was visible, I rang my neighbor and she also saw it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The ancient Silla Kingdom reigned over part of the Korean Peninsula from 57 B.C. to A.D. 935, making it one of the longest-ruling royal dynasties. Many of Korea's modern-day cultural practices stem from this historic culture. Yet despite its long reign and wide-ranging influence on culture, the number of Silla burials with intact skeletons remained few and far between, said study co-author Dong Hoon Shin, a bioanthropologist at Seoul National University College of Medicine in the Republic of Korea.
"The skeletons are not preserved well in the soil of Korea," Shin told Live Science in an email. [7 Strange Facts About North Korea]
However, in 2013, researchers had a lucky break while excavating a grave near Gyeongju, the historic capital of the Silla Kingdom. Inside a traditional burial coffin, called a "mokgwakmyo," lay the nearly perfectly intact bones of a woman who died in her late 30s.
Long head
The team managed to extract the woman's mitochondrial DNA, or DNA that is passed from mother to daughter. The analysis revealed that she belonged to a genetic lineage that is present, though not common, in East Asia today. Analysis of the carbon isotopes (versions of carbon with different weights) in the skeleton also revealed that the woman was likely a strict vegetarian, in keeping with the interpretation of Buddhism that was prevalent at the time in the country. She also ate a greater percentage of her calories from foods with a type of carbon found in foods such as rice, wheat and potatoes, versus millet or maize, the researchers reported June 1 in the journal PLOS ONE. (The carbon isotope testing cannot determine whether the diet was composed primarily of rice, potatoes or wheat.)
The team was also able to reconstruct her facial features and head shape based on skull fragments. It turned out that the woman was dolichocephalic, meaning her head width was less than about 75 percent of its length.
That differs somewhat from the trends in the region today, where people are more commonly brachycephalic, meaning their head width is at least 80 percent of the head length.
One possibility is that the head was deliberately deformed to have this elongated shape. Skull deformation has occurred throughout the world, and in fact, archaeologists have unearthed evidence of skull deformation from the neighboring Gaya Kingdom, said study co-author Eun Jin Woo, a physical anthropologist at Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea.
However, the team ultimately ruled out this explanation because heads that are deliberately deformed usually have flatter bones in the front of the skull. To compensate for all of the pressure that head deformation causes, the bones in the side of the skull tend to grow more, Woo said.
"The skull in this study did not show the shape changes in deformed crania," Woo told Live Science in an email. "In this regard, we think her head should be considered as normal variation in the group."
Editor's Note: This article was updated to clarify that foods such as rice, potatoes and wheat produce the same carbon signature, so researchers cannot distinguish which of those specific foods made up the bulk of the Silla woman's diet.
In 2012, Glen MacPherson, of the University of British Columbia, began hearing the sound at night, between 10 and 11 p.m.
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In the spring of 2012, when I was living near the coastal village of Sechelt, on British Columbia’s picturesque Sunshine Coast, I began hearing a humming sound, which I thought were float planes.
The noise usually started later at night, between 10 and 11 p.m. My first clue that something unusual was happening came with the realization that the sound didn’t fade away, like plane noises typically do. And the slightest ambient noise – exhaling audibly, even turning my head quickly – caused it to momentarily stop. One night after the sound started I stepped outside the house. Nothing.
I was the only person in the house who could hear it; my family said they didn’t know what I was talking about.
Naturally, I assumed something in the house was the culprit, and I searched for the source in vain. I even ended up cutting the power to the entire house. The sound got louder.
While I couldn’t hear the sound outdoors, I could still hear it in my car at night with the windows closed and the ignition off. I drove for miles in every direction, and it was still there in the background when I stopped the car. I was able to rule out obvious sources: industrial activity, marine traffic, electric substations and highway noise.
When I searched on the internet for “unusual low-frequency humming noise,” I soon realized that others had conducted the same search. I was part of the small fraction of people who can hear what is called the “Worldwide Hum” or, simply, the “Hum.”
The questions motivating me and thousands of others were the same: “What’s causing this? Can it be stopped?”
One geoscientist’s theory
The classic description of the Hum is that it sounds like a truck engine idling. For some, it’s a distant rumbling or droning noise. It can start and stop suddenly or wax and wane over time. For others, the Hum is loud, relentless and life-altering.
I eventually came across one of the few serious papers on the topic. It was written in 2004 by geoscientist David Deming (who’s also a Hum hearer).
Deming began by describing the standard history: The Hum was first documented in the late 1960s, around Bristol, England. It first appeared in the United States in the late 1980s, in Taos, New Mexico.
He then examined the competing hypotheses for the source of the Hum. Many have pointed to the electric grid or cellphone towers. But this theory is dismissed on two grounds: cellphones didn’t exist in the 1960s, and the frequency emitted by both cell towers and the electric grid can be easily blocked by metal enclosures.
He wondered whether mass hysteria was to blame, a psychological phenomenon in which rumor and “collective delusions” lead to the appearance of physical ailments for which there’s no medical explanation. The fact that so many people have researched the Hum on their own, using a search engine – rather than hearing about it from some other person – moves the conversation away from delusion and hysteria spread by word of mouth.
Deming looked at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), an isolated military compound in Alaska that uses radio waves to study outer space and for testing advanced communication techniques – and a favorite focus of conspiracy theorists, who have accused the facilityof acts ranging from mind control to weather control. He studied the possibility of otoacoustic emissions, which are naturally occurring sounds caused by the vibration of hair cells in the ear.
Deming eventually fingered Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio waves(between 3 kHz and 30 kHz) as the most likely culprit. The world’s military powers use massive land-based and airborne transmitters on these frequencies in order to communicate with submerged submarines. Radio waves at these frequencies can penetrate up to a solid inch of aluminum.
In the paper, Deming proposes a simple and elegant experiment for testing this hypothesis. Hum hearers randomly enter three identical-looking boxes. The first box blocks VLF radio signals, the second box is an anechoic (soundproof) chamber and the third box is the control.
He left the experiment for others to pursue, and while there are some practical difficulties with the design, Deming’s overall concept has motivated the experiments I am currently conducting.
A disciplined inquiry begins
A plethora of pseudoscience and wild conspiracy theories has the potential to drown out the serious work in this area. I’ve encountered seemingly serious people who have argued that the Hum is caused bytunneling under the earth, the electronic targeting of specific individuals,aliens and mating fish.
Given the need for disciplined inquiry into the phenomenon, in late 2012 I started The World Hum Map and Database Project. The database gathers, documents and maps detailed and anonymous information from people who can hear the Hum. It provides raw data for research in a strictly moderated and serious forum for research and commentary, while providing a sense of community for people whose lives have been negatively affected by the Hum.
Most people have some experience with how disruptive some types of noises can be, which is why there are often noise ordinances in many cities and towns, especially at night. There are many sufferers who dread the nighttime because of how loud and relentless the Hum can be. The Hum database is replete with descriptions of desperate people who have been tormented by the noise for years. The phrase “driving me crazy” is all too common. (I feel fortunate that, in my case, the Hum is more of a curiosity than it is an irritant.)
The project also aims to validate and normalize the phenomenon by discussing it alongside other widely reported auditory phenomena, such as tinnitus, a relatively common medical condition that causes people to hear high-pitched squealing tones. Those who experience tinnitus and also the Hum report the two as being completely different in character.
The latest update of the Hum Map, from June 6, presents roughly 10,000 map and data points, and we’ve already made some notable findings.
For example, we’ve found that the mean and median age of Hum hearers is 40.5 years, and 55 percent of hearers are men. This goes against thewidely repeated theory that the Hum mainly affects middle-aged and older women.
Interestingly, there are eight times as many ambidextrous people among hearers as there are in the general population. As more data are collected from Hum hearers, I hope that specialists in demographics and inferential statistics will be able to generate more detailed results.
The goals of the research
The historical record of the Hum is crucial, because if the current version as narrated by Deming is correct, many theories can immediately be ruled out. After all, cellphones and HAARP didn’t exist until decades after the Worldwide Hum was first documented in England in the late 1960s. I currently have a researcher digging into the Times of London digital archive to search for mentions of the Hum going back to the 18th and 19th centuries. If convincing examples are found, then the direction of my research will shift dramatically because all modern technologies could be ruled out.
In my view, there are currently four hypotheses for the source of the world Hum that survive the most superficial scrutiny.
The first hypothesis – argued by Deming and the one I’m currently pursuing – is that the Hum is rooted in Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio transmissions. It’s increasingly accepted now that the human body will sometimes experience electromagnetic (EM) energy and interpret it in a way that creates sounds. This was established for high-frequency EM energy by the American neuroscientist Alan Frey in his infamous“microwave hearing” experiments, which showed that certain radio frequencies can actually be heard as sounds.
Today, there are biophysical models that predict and explain the impact VLF EM energy has on living tissue. I have designed and built a VLF radio blocking box that should be able to test whether VLF radio frequencies are a prerequisite for generating the Hum.
The second hypothesis is that the Hum is the grand accumulation of low-frequency sound and human-generated infrasound (sounds with audio frequencies below roughly 20 Hz and which can be felt more than they can be heard). This includes everything from highway noise to all manner of industrial activity.
The third is that the Hum is a terrestrial or geological phenomenon that generates low-frequency sounds or perceptions of those sounds. For example, there is a well-documented history of animals predicting earthquakes and taking action to save themselves. From an evolutionary perspective, there may be survival value in having members of a population highly sensitive to some types of vibrations. When it comes to the Hum, some humans may have a similar physiological mechanism in place.
The fourth is that the Hum is an internally generated phenomenon, perhaps rooted in a particular anatomical variation, genetic predisposition or the result of toxicity and medication.
The Hum is now the subject of serious media coverage and, increasingly, scientific scrutiny. The overall goal of my project and the people who contribute to it is to find the source of the Hum and, if possible, stop it.
If the Hum is man-made, then my task is to raise public awareness and advocate turning away from the technologies that are causing it. If the source is exogenous and natural, there’s the possibility that there may be no escape from it, apart from masking it with background sounds.
Of course there is the remote possibility that one of the more exotic explanations will prove to be correct. But, as in all science, it seems best to start with what we know and is plausible, as opposed to what we don’t know and is implausible.
In the new movie "Independence Day: Resurgence," opening in theaters today (June 24), Earth will once again gear up for an epic fight with a hostile alien race. The premise will set up some awesome action sequences, but how realistic is the idea that if aliens were to visit Earth, their one goal would be to destroy us? What do the experts think?
Twenty years ago, the new movie's predecessor, "Independence Day," featured Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum cracking wise while using a computer virus (presumably written in an Earth-based computer language) to disable an alien ship and save humanity. In the new movie's timeline, Earth's nations have since created a huge, planetary-wide defense program to shield our planet, but it may not be enough to defend humanity when the aliens return.
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has said repeatedly that he's afraid of aliens wiping out the human race the way a human would wipe out a colony of ants. ['Independence Day: Resurgence' Trailer]
In 2015, Hawking co-launched an initiative called Breakthrough Listen, which will search for alien communication signals out in the cosmos, and eventually broadcast signals from the human race, with the goal of enabling communication across the universe.
"We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans," Hawking said at the Breakthrough announcement. "If you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced. A civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria."
Are the aliens benign?
Alien invasions of Earth are nothing new in sci-fi. One of the most famous examples is "War of the Worlds," an H.G. Wells 19th-century classic that was adapted into a Tom Cruise movie in 2005. In that film, aliens inexplicably begin bursting from underneath city pavement to incinerate humans.
But some films portray aliens as benign, such as 1997's "Contact," based on a 1980s book written by Carl Sagan. A signal begins spouting prime numbers, which Jodie Foster's SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) team tries to decode. Their efforts at talking with the aliens turn a little strange, but there definitely is no invasion.
This hopeful view is something that science communicator Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow, shared at the Breakthrough event in 2015. (It's also the belief held by astronomer Jill Tarter, former director of the Center for SETI Research, whom Foster's character in "Contact" was based on.) Druyan is also involved in the Breakthrough initiative.
"We may get to a period in our future where we outgrow our evolutionary baggage and evolve to become less violent and shortsighted," Druyan said. "My hope is that extraterrestrial civilizations are not only more technologically proficient than we are but more aware of the rarity and preciousness of life in the cosmos."
Active SETI debate
Three spacecraft currently heading out of the solar system — the Pioneer probe and the two Voyager probes — contain maps that point the way back to Earth. And there continue to be initiatives to put messages for aliens on spacecraft. When the NASA New Horizons probe finishes its Pluto and possible Kuiper Belt work, some people are hoping to create a crowdsourced message for aliens to upload to its hard drive.
Some researchers, however, aren't sure it's such a good idea to shift SETI efforts from just listening to actually sending out signals — a method some call "active SETI."
"Active SETI advocates broke with the conventional wisdom of the SETI pioneers, which was to listen but not transmit. This change may have been driven by the impatience of younger SETI people after 40 years of unsuccessful searches," Michael Michaud, author of the book "Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears About Encountering Extraterrestrials" (2007, Copernicus), said in a 2014 interview with Space.com.
"But active SETI is not science," added Michaud, a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State. "It is an attempt to provoke a response from an alien society whose capabilities and intentions are not known to us."
But Earth's sheer distance from other civilizations might serve as a shield against aliens that don't exactly want us around.
Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar-message composition at the SETI Institute, said in 2010, "Even if they tend to be hateful, awful folks, can they do us any harm at interstellar distances?"
Enormous Stars Forming in the 'Little Fox' Captured in Stunning Photo
Enormous Stars Forming in the 'Little Fox' Captured in Stunning Photo
By Jennifer Hackett, Space.com Contributor
An image of Vulpecula OB1, a birthplace of massive stars, captured by the Herschel Space Observatory. The image was obtained during the Hi-GAL survey, which mapped the Milky Way by using five different infrared wavelengths.
Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Hi-GAL Project
The raw material to create stars for millions of years is captured in this stunning, newly retrieved photo from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory.
The space-based telescope was built to detect radiation that had been invisible to other telescopes at the time. That ability not only allowed it to fulfill its major objective of discovering how the first galaxies formed and evolved, but also made it an excellent choice for detecting dust and gas clouds that lead to the formation of new stars. Although its mission ended in 2013, scientists are still analyzing the wealth of data that Herschel collected over its four years of operation, uncovering stunning photographs such as this one.
Located in the constellation Vulpecula, or Little Fox, the region (pictured here in infrared wavelengths) births some of the biggest stars in the galaxy. Thesecolossal O- and B-type stars have much more mass than the sun — up to 16 times more for B stars and up to a staggering 100 times more for O stars — and their lives are significantly shorter for it. They last only a few million years before exhausting their fuel, collapsing and exploding as supernovas, triggering the next batch of stellar births in the region. Because they are so short-lived, the presence of a large number of them in one place signals ongoing star formation.
But what is truly surprising about this image is that the filaments of glowing interstellar gas seen here as red and orange threads are part of a vast, structured web that stretches across all of the galaxy's star-forming regions, NASA officials said in a statement. It was obtained via the Herschel Infrared Galactic Plane Survey, which mapped the inner Milky Way in five different infrared wavelengths.
Graphite Found at Pluto Moon Charon and Dwarf Planet Ceres
Graphite Found at Pluto Moon Charon and Dwarf Planet Ceres
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
The dull, gray surface of the dwarf planet Ceres may come from graphite as organic material is bombarded by radiation from the sun.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The gray surfaces of the dwarf planet Ceres (the asteroid belt's largest resident) and Pluto's biggest moon, Charon, both show signs of containing forms of graphite, the material in pencil lead.
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres last year to embark on an orbital survey, it found a gray, icy world covered with debris left behind by impacts. Spectral observations of the object, which is both a dwarf planet and an asteroid, revealed evidence of a form of graphite called graphitized carbon on its surface, according to Amanda Hendrix, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona.
Graphitized carbon forms when carbon is heated to high temperatures in the absence of oxygen.
Hendrix studies how carbon forms in the inner solar system. She presented the results of her ultraviolet examination of Ceres at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, in March.
Throughout Ceres' history, carbon-filled meteorites and asteroids have crashed into the dwarf planet. The solar wind's charged particles have collided with the deposited carbon, repeatedly reprocessing it to release hydrogen and leaving behind a dull, gray graphitized carbon. The dark material has a low albedo, meaning it doesn't reflect a lot of light.
"It hasn't evolved to proper graphite," Hendrix told Space.com. But it's close.
Similar carbon processing may occur on other objects in the asteroid belt, she said.
And earlier this year, scientists found that Mercury's surface has high levels of carbon, suggesting that it once boasted a graphite-rich crust.
Pluto's largest moon, Charon, has a dull, gray surface marred by a bright-red spot at the poles. As the red material is deposited, radiation may slowly dull its color, changing it to gray like the rest of the moon.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
A dull moon
The inner solar system isn't the only place to find a gray world. Only a few months after Dawn reached Ceres, NASA's New Horizons spacecraftflew by Pluto and revealed that the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon, has a grayish appearance. That color could have been caused by graphite on the moon's surface, according to lab results presented at the conference by Dale Cruikshank, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center.
The presence of graphite at Charon presents a puzzle because New Horizons didn't spot carbon on Charon, but it did so at Pluto.
Before New Horizons arrived at Pluto, scientists hypothesized that the dwarf planet shared its atmosphere with its largest moon, and observations made by the spacecraft seem to confirm it. So carbon may travel from Pluto over to Charon, New Horizons scientists have said..
But although it is mostly gray, Charon also boasts a bright-red spot at its pole.
Cruikshank performed several experiments to learn more about this unusual color combination. In dousing ices similar to those found on the dwarf planet with radiation, Cruikshank was able to produce a residual organic gunk known as tholin. The color of this substance — named in 1979 by Carl Sagan and his colleague Bishun Khare, who performed similar space-themed experiments that left behind tholin as a sticky residue — resembles the color of Charon's red spot, as well as the color of some features seen at Pluto.
In fact, tholin may be involved in both the gray and reddish hues at Charon.
"The neutral color of Charon is consistent with taking tholin material and irradiating it," Cruikshank said during his presentation. "You end up with graphite."
The reddish region at Charon's pole is likely a newer deposit, whereas the rest of the moon is covered with an older layer, Cruikshank said.
Hendrix called these results surprising. Radiation from the solar wind should be significantly weaker at Charon than it is at Ceres, because Charon lies, on average, about 10 times farther from the sun than Ceres does. If the moon's surface is covered with graphite, she said, "it likely formed a different way."
[Editor's Note: This article previously stated that Charon lies about three times farther from the sun than Ceres does. Charon is actually, on average, about ten times farther from the sun than Ceres is.]
Graphite Found at Pluto Moon Charon and Dwarf Planet Ceres
Graphite Found at Pluto Moon Charon and Dwarf Planet Ceres
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
The dull, gray surface of the dwarf planet Ceres may come from graphite as organic material is bombarded by radiation from the sun.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The gray surfaces of the dwarf planet Ceres (the asteroid belt's largest resident) and Pluto's biggest moon, Charon, both show signs of containing forms of graphite, the material in pencil lead.
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres last year to embark on an orbital survey, it found a gray, icy world covered with debris left behind by impacts. Spectral observations of the object, which is both a dwarf planet and an asteroid, revealed evidence of a form of graphite called graphitized carbon on its surface, according to Amanda Hendrix, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona.
Graphitized carbon forms when carbon is heated to high temperatures in the absence of oxygen.
Hendrix studies how carbon forms in the inner solar system. She presented the results of her ultraviolet examination of Ceres at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, in March.
Throughout Ceres' history, carbon-filled meteorites and asteroids have crashed into the dwarf planet. The solar wind's charged particles have collided with the deposited carbon, repeatedly reprocessing it to release hydrogen and leaving behind a dull, gray graphitized carbon. The dark material has a low albedo, meaning it doesn't reflect a lot of light.
"It hasn't evolved to proper graphite," Hendrix told Space.com. But it's close.
Similar carbon processing may occur on other objects in the asteroid belt, she said.
And earlier this year, scientists found that Mercury's surface has high levels of carbon, suggesting that it once boasted a graphite-rich crust.
Pluto's largest moon, Charon, has a dull, gray surface marred by a bright-red spot at the poles. As the red material is deposited, radiation may slowly dull its color, changing it to gray like the rest of the moon.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
A dull moon
The inner solar system isn't the only place to find a gray world. Only a few months after Dawn reached Ceres, NASA's New Horizons spacecraftflew by Pluto and revealed that the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon, has a grayish appearance. That color could have been caused by graphite on the moon's surface, according to lab results presented at the conference by Dale Cruikshank, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center.
The presence of graphite at Charon presents a puzzle because New Horizons didn't spot carbon on Charon, but it did so at Pluto.
Before New Horizons arrived at Pluto, scientists hypothesized that the dwarf planet shared its atmosphere with its largest moon, and observations made by the spacecraft seem to confirm it. So carbon may travel from Pluto over to Charon, New Horizons scientists have said..
But although it is mostly gray, Charon also boasts a bright-red spot at its pole.
Cruikshank performed several experiments to learn more about this unusual color combination. In dousing ices similar to those found on the dwarf planet with radiation, Cruikshank was able to produce a residual organic gunk known as tholin. The color of this substance — named in 1979 by Carl Sagan and his colleague Bishun Khare, who performed similar space-themed experiments that left behind tholin as a sticky residue — resembles the color of Charon's red spot, as well as the color of some features seen at Pluto.
In fact, tholin may be involved in both the gray and reddish hues at Charon.
"The neutral color of Charon is consistent with taking tholin material and irradiating it," Cruikshank said during his presentation. "You end up with graphite."
The reddish region at Charon's pole is likely a newer deposit, whereas the rest of the moon is covered with an older layer, Cruikshank said.
Hendrix called these results surprising. Radiation from the solar wind should be significantly weaker at Charon than it is at Ceres, because Charon lies, on average, about 10 times farther from the sun than Ceres does. If the moon's surface is covered with graphite, she said, "it likely formed a different way."
[Editor's Note: This article previously stated that Charon lies about three times farther from the sun than Ceres does. Charon is actually, on average, about ten times farther from the sun than Ceres is.]
A video showing several purported UFO sightings across the US have sparked conspiracy theories that aliens landing on earth could be imminent.
The footage was uploaded to YouTube by Tyler Glockner, founder of Secure Team 10 , a UFO hunting website.
And Tyler now believes that the increased frequency of the sightings of 'alien crafts' could mean that they are about to make themselves known to humans.
First up, is a glowing orange orb that was spotted in the sky above Long Beach in California.
Youtube/Secureteam
The glowing orb hovering above Long Beach
Tyler says: "You will see a disc-shaped object. This object appears in the middle of this glowing orb [about halfway through the video].
"It looks to materialise, you can see it plain as day, sitting dead centre to where this orange radiation is coming from."
Youtube/Secureteam
Chinese lanterns?
The object then disappears again, although the orange orb remains in place.
The second video shows a cluster of lights hovering in the night sky in Omaha, Nebraska.
A man's voice in the background of the footage suggests that lights could be Chinese lanterns, but a woman quickly dismisses the idea.
Youtube/Secureteam
A cluster of lights were seen hovering over Detroit
A third piece of footage captured in Detroit, Michigan, again shows a dark night sky with several lights glimmering.
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What were the 'mysterious lights' in the sky above Greater Manchester this weekend?
What were the 'mysterious lights' in the sky above Greater Manchester this weekend?
BYADAM JOHN
People living in Tameside and in Gorton claim to have seen a strange phenomenon in the night sky over the past few days
The strange lights above Gorton
Residents in parts of Greater Manchester say the truth is out there... after snapping what they say were ‘mysterious lights’ in the sky.
People living in Tameside and in Gorton claim to have seen a strange phenomenon in the night sky.
Mitesh Tailor, 31, said he was amazed to spot ‘glowing lights’ above Ashton-under-Lyne’sHartshead Estate on Friday evening.
HR officer Mitesh first spotted the lights from his bedroom window on Friday, which he says have resumed even more brightly on Saturday and Sunday nights.
Intrigued by the phenomenon, Mitesh took photographs of what he saw shortly after midnight on Sunday.
He said: “At first I didn’t think much of it, on Friday I thought it was just normal but last night it was a lot brighter.
“It’s not the moon, that is on the other side of my house. They weren’t artificial lights either, the area is really dark.”
Mitesh Tailor
Shop worker Mitesh Tailor also took pictures of the 'mysterious light' above Ashton
And in a separate spotting, Gorton resident Zac Weaver also snapped images which show a strong milky light coming through the clouds.
Zac explained: “The light abve Gorton is back and as you can see in three of the photos there’s actually a little bright light above the tree that seems to move.
“This can’t be the stone roses events as that ended about an hour ago. And I know it wasn’t because of the event becasue the light hasn’t been there the past couple of days.”
Previously the MEN has reported a number of strange lights above Manchester, with some claiming that the lights were extraterrestrial visitors.
But Tameside resident Mitesh added: “I don’t believe in anything like that! I read the article a few weeks ago and they look very similar.
“I think it maybe Saturn coming closer to Earth, there is probably an astronomical reason.”
Saturn is the furthest planet that can be seen with the naked eye. Earth passed between Saturn and the sun on 3 June this year and for the next few months, the ringed planet will be at its brightest.
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Crops Grown in “Martian Soil” Are Healthy And Edible
Crops Grown in “Martian Soil” Are Healthy And Edible
NASA
IN BRIEF
Dutch scientists have successfully grown crops in soil developed by NASA to simulate the composition of Martian terrain. Tests done on four of the ten crops prove they are safe for humans to eat, and do not contain dangerous levels of metals.
FARMING MARS A POSSIBILITY
A team of scientists from the Wageningen University in the Netherlands used soil developed by NASA that simulated the composition of Martian soil, and they grew crops on it. The verdict: Crops grown in Martian soil would be safe for humans to eat.
This research, which has been ongoing since 2013, adds to the ever-growing support for the idea of colonizing Mars, an ambition SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is serious in pursuing. And given this new study, he is definitely not alone. NASA plans to bring humans to Mars in the next 10 to 15 years, so does Dutch company Mars One (though the Mars One mission is a little suspect).
The team was able to grow radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes and have found them safe to eat, since they did not contain dangerous levels of heavy metals, which Mars is known to contain.
Researcher Wieger Wamelink inspects crops from the “Martian” soil. Wageningen Ur.
Abundant harvests of radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes all grown on the soil were found to contain “no dangerous levels” of heavy metals, said the team from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. “These remarkable results are very promising,” said senior ecologist Wieger Wamelink.
“We can actually eat the radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes, and I am very curious what they will taste like.”
VERIFYING MARTIAN AGRICULTURE
A total of ten crops were grown in the soil and the remaining six of the crops will also be tested to see if they would absorb the high levels of metals in Martian soil, such as cadmium, copper, and lead.
These tests will ultimately reveal whether Martian settlers can be self-sustaining—will they be able to easily bring crops and plant them there?
Definitely not far out. Matt Damon farms his crops in a scene from “The Martian,” 2015.
“It’s important to test as many crops as possible, to make sure that settlers on Mars have access to a broad variety of different food sources,” said Wamelink.
Hubble Found a Dark Spot on Neptune, And It’s As Wide As the United States
Hubble Found a Dark Spot on Neptune, And It’s As Wide As the United States
Futurism M.A
IN BRIEF
Hubble has just confirmed a new Dark Spot on the surface of Neptune. The vortex is ultimately the first observed on the blue world in the 21st century.
Announced just a few days ago (June 23), images captured by the telescope confirmed the existence of the vortex, the first one observed in the 21st century.
Credit: hubblesite.org
Neptune’s dark vortices are high-pressure systems and are usually accompanied by bright “companion clouds,” which are also now visible on the distant planet. The bright clouds form when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the dark vortex, causing gases to likely freeze into methane ice crystals.
Observers reported seeing bright clouds on Neptune in July 2015, possible signs of companion clouds accompanying a dark vortex.
In September 2015, the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, revealed a dark spot close to the location of the bright clouds, which had been tracked from the ground. The new Hubble images captured May 16 confirmed OPAL’s findings.
In 2013 NASA went out to explore the two Van Allen Belts–rings of radiation that surround the Earth and affect technologies such as satellite communications and GPS. Much to NASA’s surprise, they discovered not two, but three Van Allen Belts. To their even greater surprise, the third belt seemed to disappear just a few weeks later, and no one was entirely sure why. The answer, it turns out, lies in ‘space tsunamis.’
The Van Allen belts are named for Jame Van Allen, who discovered the belts by accident in 1958 in the early years of space exploration. These belts are regions within the magnetosphere that are comprised of high energy electrons and protons trapped by the Earth’s magnetic field.
And the magnetosphere where the Van Allen belts live–starting at 10,000 km above Earth–is key to protecting the Earth from powerful solar winds and the plasma that is carried on these winds. Some solar winds will produce astounding auroral effects like the Northern Lights, but more aggressive solar winds can be so strong as to create disturbances to electric grids here on Earth.
These storms create ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves of plasma, and it turns out that these waves are strong enough to send the radiation of the outer Van Allen belt harmlessly into interplanetary space. As Ian Mann, a physics professor at the University of Alberta explained and lead author of a study on the discovery explained:
Remarkably, we observed huge plasma waves. Rather like a space tsunami, they slosh the radiation belts around and very rapidly wash away the outer part of the belt, explaining the structure of the enigmatic third belt. We have discovered a very elegant explanation for the dynamics of the third belt. Our results show a remarkable simplicity in belt response once the dominant processes are accurately specified.
And with that, the bizarre mystery of the disappearing third Van Allen belt is solved–and researchers have some more information to help reduce the risk of disruption that space radiation could have on modern technologies used here on Earth.
In 2013 NASA went out to explore the two Van Allen Belts–rings of radiation that surround the Earth and affect technologies such as satellite communications and GPS. Much to NASA’s surprise, they discovered not two, but three Van Allen Belts. To their even greater surprise, the third belt seemed to disappear just a few weeks later, and no one was entirely sure why. The answer, it turns out, lies in ‘space tsunamis.’
The Van Allen belts are named for Jame Van Allen, who discovered the belts by accident in 1958 in the early years of space exploration. These belts are regions within the magnetosphere that are comprised of high energy electrons and protons trapped by the Earth’s magnetic field.
And the magnetosphere where the Van Allen belts live–starting at 10,000 km above Earth–is key to protecting the Earth from powerful solar winds and the plasma that is carried on these winds. Some solar winds will produce astounding auroral effects like the Northern Lights, but more aggressive solar winds can be so strong as to create disturbances to electric grids here on Earth.
These storms create ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves of plasma, and it turns out that these waves are strong enough to send the radiation of the outer Van Allen belt harmlessly into interplanetary space. As Ian Mann, a physics professor at the University of Alberta explained and lead author of a study on the discovery explained:
Remarkably, we observed huge plasma waves. Rather like a space tsunami, they slosh the radiation belts around and very rapidly wash away the outer part of the belt, explaining the structure of the enigmatic third belt. We have discovered a very elegant explanation for the dynamics of the third belt. Our results show a remarkable simplicity in belt response once the dominant processes are accurately specified.
And with that, the bizarre mystery of the disappearing third Van Allen belt is solved–and researchers have some more information to help reduce the risk of disruption that space radiation could have on modern technologies used here on Earth.
An unusual object spotted in the skies over Manchester, England, was filmed recently (well, fairly recently, as we’ll see in a moment), in footage that depicts a flying object described by some as resembling a “torpedo.”
The object, which can be seen in the video below, appears to change color (possibly due to the way light is reflected off of it), as it passes through the sky over the area where it was filmed:
However, there are some issues with the film, or more importantly, the way it is being reported on various news sites. Despite being referred to variously by the Express as “new video footage of a strange cigar-shaped UFO” and “the latest clip”, the footage actually appears to date all the way back to December of last year, according to the YouTube account that uploaded it. Furthermore, no other data appears to have been added along with the video at that time, further removing the film — whatever it shows — from the realm of objectivity.
East Coast Radio in New Zealand, referring to the video as “the world’s scariest UFO sighting ever”, noted that the video was accompanied by the following caption, “Knowing how high it appeared in the sky, I’m guessing its size was massive.” However, the article only mentions that the film was shared via social media, followed by a link to the YouTube video in question which, as stated earlier, does not appear to contain the caption cited here. So what is the object?
The Express further reported that according to one researcher, the object, while resembling a strange “cigar shaped UFO”, was likely to have been a solar balloon of some variety. A number of these balloons are commercially available for purchase, such as the Solar Airship, which is described by online retailer Enviro Gadget as being “a cross between a hot air balloon and a kite. The 8 m long black plastic tube fills with air which heats up, sending it into the air. A 50 M line is attached to tether the airship like a kite.”
Elsewhere, similar models are marketed as “UFO Airships” like this one. With little doubt, the object in the “new” (read: several-months-old) video is merely a solar balloon… which brings us to the $64 question: why is any of this even important?
On the subject of balloons and torpedo or cigar-shaped UFOs, there is actually quite a bit of interesting commentary that can be provided, since it addresses many of the misconceptions about what a UFO is generally alleged to look like, as well as how individuals may perceive (or misperceive) them. In 2014, another variety of balloon managed to spark a small UFO flap over the southeastern United States, when one of Google’s early prototypes for using high-altitude balloons to deliver wifi internet was seen high in the sky by residents in Kentucky and Tennessee:
“This is a balloon that went rogue,” said Google X Rapid Evaluation team leader Rich DeVaul at Smithsonian magazine’s “The Future is Here” festival in Washington, D.C., on May 17. “No one outside Google X knows this,” DeVaul added.
Interestingly, the reports filed by the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), rather than elaborating on the object and attributing “UFO” features to it, instead described the object very much like the balloon it turned out to be:
10:00 AM:Rotating cylinder climbing vertically in sky. Observed for more than one hour over the Piney Flats area.
11:30 AM:Observed tube extend from cylinder shaped object on clear day for approximately 1 hour.
11:45 AM:Silver, slowly rotating, pole shaped object seen in broad daylight. Observation lasted 7 minutes.
12:10 PM: Metallic cylindrical object seen hovering over Johnson City, TN. Observation lasted 20 minutes.
I found this to be significant when I wrote about it two years ago, since it seemed to show that people’s descriptions of the object they observed remained rather grounded, contrary to the notion that an object, when misidentified as being an aircraft or “UFO” of some variety, will also be exaggerated with features like windows, lights, etc, by observers. This may not always be the case, after all.
And of course, while the Express reported that the object in the “new” video, featured earlier in this post, had been “long and narrow, rather than the disc-shape commonly associated with UFOs,” there are in fact a number of reports from over the years that describe cigar shaped objects. In fact, despite the popular “disc” or “saucer” shape popularly attributed to UFOs after Kenneth Arnold’s sighting in the summer of 1947, one year earlier Captain Jack Puckett of Strategic Air Command, while piloting a C-47 en route to MacDill Field, Tampa, Florida, nearly collided with a long, tubular “rocket” with illuminated portholes, which produced a plume of smoke behind it as it traveled.
Puckett’s written statement on the incident read as follows:
“At approximately 6 p.m., while flying at 4000 feet northeast of Tampa, I observed what I thought to be a shooting star to the southeast over the Atlantic Ocean. My copilot, Lieutenant Henry F. Glass, and my engineer both observed this object at the same time. This object continued toward us on a collision course at our exact altitude. At about 1,000 yards it veered to cross our path. We observed it to be a long, cylindrical shape approximately twice the size of a B-29, with luminous portholes.”
Also in the summer of 1946, reports of “ghost rockets” over Scandinavia entailed missile or torpedo-like objects. Hence, despite the popular “Flying Saucer” meme, many of the earliest UFO reports –if not the majority — actually did involve torpedo or cigar-shaped objects which, at times, were very unlike our typical notions about what a UFO “should” look like.
It’s important, from time to time, to break down these preconceptions, especially since this helps us in the broader study of UFOs to understand what, precisely, we are looking at in our skies. And, as the earlier case illustrates, sometimes the UFOs that turn up in videos online, despite their weird appearance, do have quite plausible explanations, whether they be solar balloons sent aloft by hobbyists, or giant wifi hotspots sent skyward by Google!
Ball lightning has been blamed for more UFO sightings than weather balloons and for more ghost sightings than reflections. Part of the problem is that, like UFOs and ghosts, no one can really explain ball lightning either. That may change with a new theory from a Chinese scientist that could explain how these sometimes tiny luminous balls form and how they can seemingly pass through walls to float inside houses and even airplanes.
While called “lightning” because it generally appears during thunderstorms, ball lightning doesn’t act like conventional lightning. It’s spherical, often small and is visible longer than a lightning bolt. Photographs of it are rare, attempts to recreate it in a lab are futile and stories about sightings can border on the unbelievable.
An ‘amazing’ recreation of ball lightning appearing in a room
Enter H.C. Wu, a researcher at the Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation (IFTS) and Department of Physics at China’s Zhejiang University. In his paper published recently inScientific Reports, he claims to successfully explain many of the reported but unsubstantiated characteristics of ball lightning.
Wu’s theorizes that ball lightning begins when a bolt of conventional lightning hits the ground or an object and accelerates electrons, causing them to release microwave radiation. This radiation then charges the air around it, forming a “spherical plasma bubble” that envelops and traps the radiation. That spherical plasma bubble is ball lightning.
Ball lightning or UFO?
This may explain outdoor ball lighting, but what about the luminescent floating orbs reportedly seen indoors and in airplane cabins? Wu claims that the electrons are moving at nearly the speed of light, which allows them to pass through walls and the metal skin of planes. Really?
He also postulates that the microwave radiation produces chemicals that cause ball lightning’s reportedly foul smell (plausible) and they give it the explosive powers often reported just prior to the smell (like an egg ina microwave?).
Ball lightning, orb or something else?
Wu’s study proposes a number of ways ball lightning might be created in a lab but – in case any kids with access to electricity and microwaves read Scientific Reports – warns that ball lightning is “an alarm signal of the existence of ultrastrong microwaves and abundantly hazardous electrons near the ground or aircraft.”
Is this a sufficient explanation for ball lightning? Does it clear up any UFO, glowing orb or ghost sightings for you?
For those who claim to have had close-encounters with landed UFO craft over the decades, experiences of this sort are recognized as having long-lasting effects on witnesses. Sometimes there are physical changes that occur, which may affect the health of an individual, or even present some residual presence on the environment, which suggests a physical interaction that had taken place.
Occasionally, the broader influence of these kinds of incidents may go well beyond even what the witness experienced, or what was found there afterward. Staking their claim in the histories of the places where they occurred, some UFO incidents have left such a lasting impression that they have been made into memorial sites, as tributes built in their memory.
Perhaps the most famous commemorative sites relating to purported UFO landings is the “UFO Trail” near Suffolk, England, which remembers the famous Rendlesham Forest Incident. The trail is befitted with triangular signs, no doubt an artistic touch that was intended as nod to the triangular or pyramid-shaped craft observed there over the course of several nights in December, 1980.
In Scotland, a similar memorial commemorates the purported “attack” of a man named Robert Taylor, who one year prior to the Rendlesham incident, claimed to have observed the landing of an unusual aircraft at Dechmont Law in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland in November, 1979. Taylor was a forestry worker at the time, and said a pair of objects that emerged from the landed UFO attempted to drag him on board the craft; he later returned home appearing disheveled, and complained to his wife that he had been attacked. Taylor’s story is further detailed in thevideo below:
Other locations may present less convincing circumstances, despite the memorials that exist there. On May 18, 1946, roughly coinciding with the beginning of Sweden’s “ghost rocket” wave that year, a Swedish businessman Gösta Carlsson claimed to have observed a UFO land near a forested area of Kronoskogen, outside Ängelholm. Researcher Clas Svahn, who studied the incident in-depth (and even authored a book with Carlsson on the case), later reported that no evidence seemed to exist that could substantiate Carlsson’s sighting.
The Ängelholm UFO memorial site.
One of the most peculiar alleged close encounters that would eventually be commemorated with a landmark at the location occurred near Emilicin, Poland, on May 10, 1978. Farmer Jan Wolski was driving a horse-drawn carriage near his home when he observed an elongated, bus-sized aircraft hovering several feet off the ground, which somewhat resembled an Airstream luxury trailer with peculiar external fittings. A number of smallish individuals appeared around Wolski, who joined him on his cart and directed him toward the object. Strangely, Wolski had mistaken them for being “foreigners” due to the language they spoke, and despite the apparent greenish coloration of their faces, which bore peculiar, slanted eyes. Once they reached the object over the field, Wolski was taken aboard, and advised to disrobe, at which time an examination by two objects resembling plates or “saucers”. After this unusual examination, Wolski was allowed to dress, and was offered to partake in an unusual meal with the “creatures” ow what resembled icicles.
Wolski returned to the location later that day with his sons, and a few of his neighbors, but by that time the unusual “craft” had vanished, though evidence of grass nearby that was “trodden down covered with dew and paths coming in all directions” could still be observed. Today, a memorial that exists there commemorate’s Wolski’s unusual experience, stating that, “On 10 May 1978 in Emilcin a UFO object landed. The truth will astonish us in the future”.
Whether or not any “astonishing” future truths are yet to be afforded us is anyone’s guess. However, the stories of these unusual UFO events have indeed been preserved for future generations, thanks to the work of a handful in our midst that are dedicated to understanding, and preserving the history of the ongoing UFO mystery.
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UFO Caught Over Forest Landing Near Eyewitness In California On June 22, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught Over Forest Landing Near Eyewitness In California On June 22, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Unaltered photos here. Original.
Date of sighting: June 22, 2016 Location of sighting: Yuba River, Dobbins, California, USA Source: MUFON #77296 UFOs often move fast, so fast that the human eye would not be able to notice it. The digital eye is more perfect and can capture most UFOs, but some are just too fast. This is a great capture of a classic style disk with a raised center dome on top. From the photo I can see a cloud like smear of color above it. That is the direction from which it came. It was heading down. It was probably landing in the trees not far from this person. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Below is altered color to see its detail better.
Eyewitness states: On Wednesday, June 22, I was on a boat fishing trip with my father. We were on the North Fork of the Yuba River. On this day at about 5pm I took several pictures of the surrounding canyon and forrest. We returned home on Thursday June 23. While reviewing all the camping photos, I observed an object in the sky above the treeline in one of the pictures. I had taken three pictures within a few seconds of each other. The second picture has the object. The first and third picture of the same location have no object in them. The object looks rectangular, and shiny silver or white on one side. In the location where the photo was taken there were no aircraft in the sky and the only birds we had had seen were hawks or vultures. The area we were in is very secluded. There were no other people around, and no noise other than the river going over a rock bed.
I was looking over Hubble Telescope photographs, when I ran across this round, snail shaped structure that sits on a rectangle shaped base. I had seen it before, and thought it would be fun to go over it again. The structure appears to be a space station that is sitting within the Crab Nebula, however there is by all accounts more. I looked over the Nebula deliberately and it appears that it is not left overs of a supernova, but may actually be a solid material...like a giant sponge-like structure. The idea of a solid nebula may be a new one, but it makes sense. The root like appendages reach out and can be continually expanded upon over the ages as the population grows. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Explaining the Great Flood, Atlantis, and humans in North America Using Science, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Explaining the Great Flood, Atlantis, and humans in North America Using Science, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: June 17, 2016 I really like his ideas in this video. It does make a great hypothesis about what could have caused such floods and changes with the Earth long ago. The Earth is continually moving and so are other things in space, like clouds. Particularly interesting is his thoughts about Plato. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Video states: I’ll set the ground work for each scenario. I am pretty sure the Great Flood did happen. While it is popularized as a Christian story in English speaking countries, the Great Flood transcends almost every single culture around the world. So I don’t doubt it happened. But the main issue is where did the water come from? Most of theories I have seen require bending the rules of the observable reality that we live in. Next is the Firmament. The firmament is something in the book of Genesis that talks about a body of water surrounding the Earth. There is also some interpretation that while the firmament was in place it did not rain much if at all on Earth. After the flood the firmament is gone and today we get lots of rain.
Atlantis is a fabled city written about by Plato in the 300BC time frame. It’s really a tale about an advanced civilization that existed at one time, but vanished at some point. The idea I like about this, is is it possible that humans were more advanced that we thought and something reset us…akin to the saying “send us back to the stone age”. I do not think this is baseless idea, because even today in our current world we have humans that have gone to Moon and sent probes into space, yet there are humans on this planet that still are in the foraging phase.
And finally my last topic is that of humans getting to the Americas. It is believed that humans started in the middle east somewhere around Mesopotamia which is in modern day Iraq. The narrative I was taught as a child was the humans crossed from Russia to North America over a land bridge made of ice during an Ice Age. But there is some disagreement about the earliest humans in the America’s versus when Ice Ages happened. I think this land bridge route is still valid, but I do not require an ice age to cross it. So lets start with the idea that the world we observe today is the same as the way the world was in pre-historic times. The physics and all the other rules are still the same. The water cycle still holds true. So we can assume that amount of the water on the planet today is the amount of water that was on the planet after the Great Flood.
And we can assume that if we do not see a sphere of water surrounding the Earth now, there probably wasn’t one in the past. So that would mean the only way that all this water could be here now, is if it wasn’t here to begin with. With less water that would mean that there could have easily been a real land bridge between Alaska and Russia. They did not have to cross during an ice age. The bridge would have accessible at all times. The Bering Strait is only about 160 feet deep. If we lowered the Earths oceans by 160 feet, that means that much more land would be available throughout the world.
For as long as history has been written, water passages have always been the most important places for humans to live. Even today we see that on the coasts there are metropolitan areas, while deep in the inland the people are much less advanced in terms of quality of life. That has changed in the last 100 years due to motor travel. But up until that point living on the coast or a river was the only way to have successful trade or strategic military advantage. So here is the idea. Back in 2011 I saw this article about how scientists had discovered a massive cloud of water deep in space. What if as one point one of these clouds passed through our solar system? It would probably take while to get here maybe a couple hundred years. But during that time a couple hundred years 6-7 generations word of mouth was the only real way to pass history. So for them 2 or 3 generations is all it would take to be “forever”.
During that time the Suns reflection and heat in the atmosphere would make it appear to be sparkling water in the sky, which could explain the firmament. Once the cloud got near Earth and we started passing through it, the frozen water would melt in the atmosphere and completely saturate the air, it would then start raining. And it would not be localized like what we see now, it would be entire Earth being rained on for an extended period of time. All that water would rush out to the ocean and anything near rivers or oceans, like a human population for example, would be washed out to sea and buried by all the sediments picked up from higher elevation.
Think of the world as one big mud slide. The people living in the higher elevations would not be as threatened by the flooding. And so the more advanced civilization would be destroyed and only the more simple societies in the highlands would be left, hence a reset. Once this space cloud passed, things would settle down and Earth would have a lot more water content.
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