Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
The premise for the original Independence Day was fairly simple. Aliens in huge laser frisbees attack the largest cities on Earth, working their way down to smaller towns as they attempt to eliminate mankind. This is a simple, easy-to-understand premise for a film but it is a really fucking stupid strategy. Like any other battle, the battle for Earth would be determined by one side’s ability to outmaneuver the other. Given that, why the hell weren’t the aliens targeting communications equipment or the electrical grid?
This was apparently not a group of deep space traveling geniuses.
Clever aliens — and aliens capable of locating intelligent life in a very big universe would likely be pretty smart — wouldn’t target humanity in general. They’d focus on infrastructure. The best bet to bringing about humanity’s end destroying the large physical structures and networks necessary for ensuring the survival and safety of humans and delivering essential services. The perfect targets would be remote, vulnerable, and vitally important. Unfortunately for us humans, they would also be myriad.
Here’s what smart aliens would actually attack in America.
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Arizona
PHOENIX - OCTOBER 19: The Palo Verde Nuclear generating plant, the nation's largest nuclear power plant, is seen October 19, 2005 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Arizona Public Service Co was forced to shut down Units 2 and 3 on October 11 when the company could not prove to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the cooling system in the units would operate correctly in case of an emergency. Units 2 and 3 of the plant are expected to be back online and at full capacity by the end of the week. Unit 1 had previously been shut down for maintenance. (Photo by Jeff Topping/Getty Images)
This power plant sits about 45 miles west of Phoenix, Arizona close to the town of Tonopah (population of a little less than 3,000). It’s the largest power plant in the United States, capable of an average electrical power production of over 29,000 gigawatts per hour. The 4,000-acre facility produces 35 percent of the electrical power that powers much of Arizona (hey Phoenix!) and Los Angeles and San Diego (as well as other communities in Southern California). In short, a lot of people rely on this power plant to power their homes and businesses. An alien force, however, could pretty easily launch a strike and take it offline without too much trouble. It’s in the middle of the wide-open desert, after all.
And, to boot, a nuclear meltdown would be a pretty gnarly side effect, especially if winds managed to blow the nuclear fallout towards population centers.
Satellites in Geosynchronous Orbit
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with Thales Alenia Space's TurkmenÄlem52E/MonacoSat satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit
In this instance, actually, it would be wiser to not strike at the surface at all but to fire up at major communication satellites. In GEO, a satellite will appear stationary at the same point in the sky at all times — at least to observers on the ground — which means it would conceivably possible to take out some hardware with a laser gun. The thing that renders objects in GEO vulnerable is also the thing that makes them work: pseudo-static positioning is optimal for commotions instruments since an antenna on the ground does not need to move in order to retain communication. Most of our critical communications equipment is tied to these satellites.
Humans currently have no way of really protecting satellites in GEO. So if I were an alien bent on eliminating our species, I would make GEO a pretty great place for orbital target practice.
Houston’s Water Supply
A view of the Houston skyline at dusk,
Water is life. And making sure our major metropolitan areas have enough water to drink and use for other day-to-day activities is vital to our society. Different communities have different sources for getting water, but some are more vulnerable than others. In the fourth biggest city in the United States, Houston, residents get their water from a mix of underground wells and surface.
Unfortunately, that water infrastructure is crumbling fast. Basic structures like pipes and mains are prone to breaking naturally. All an alien force would have to do is apply a little bit more strain to the existing technology and watch the whole thing fall apart. Before you know it, over two million people are scrambling to find fresh water in one of the hottest and driest states in the nation.
Interstate 5 Through the Central Valley, California
Vehicles drive by a 134-foot-high electronic sign displaying a temperature of 110 degrees Fahrenheit on July 23, 2014 in Baker, California.
California’s Central Valley farms grow a lot of food. And I mean, a lot of foods. The state is responsible for 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic — and so forth. And most of this farmland is, obviously, located in a sparsely populated section of the state.
If aliens wanted to decimate not just food yields for California, but for the rest of the country, they would need to look no further than the Central Valley and begin attacking and scorching the crops located in this region. The effects would devastate the United States’ food production and in all likelihood force us to resort to other means to keep populations well-fed.
Ships in the Florida Strait
A container ship moves past the United States Coast Guard Cutter William Flores.
Transportation by the high seas is still the most cost-effective way to ship goods back and forth between places. The Florida Strait remains one of these key locations that allows ships to pass from the Atlantic Ocean into the Gulf of Mexico and access the Caribbean and Central and South American countries.
As you can imagine, there’s a lot of oil that moves through this transportation hub. While the Florida Strait is not an isolated place, it’s certainly far and wide enough that a rag-tag group of extraterrestrials would just need to create a steady stream of attacks to significantly affect the transport of vital resources.
The Mississippi River Levee System
New Orleans is ringed by hundred of miles of levees to protect against flooding.
Humans aren’t the best at deciding on safe places to build communities. Coastlines are a great example. It used to be essential to be next to a waterway, no matter the disadvantages when it came to flooding and storms. These days, with increased water elevations and more frequent supercell storms, being next to the coast is a liability — yet we continue to stick around and just board things up with levees and dykes, imagining they’ll last forever.
A smart alien force would know this. Just take the 3,500-mile levee system around the Mississippi River that protects 4 million people from devastation via flood. If a hostile invasion wanted to wreak havoc, all it would need to do is impact the levees at key areas during a major storm event and watch the waters do the rest.
Photos via Getty Images / Jeff Topping, Getty Images / NASA, Getty Images / Scott Halleran, Getty Images / Ethan Miller, Getty Images / Joe Raedle, Getty Images / Mario Tama
Are black holes truly black? A new laboratory experiment points toward "no."
Using a simulated black hole made from soundwaves, scientists have observed a phenomenon known as Hawking radiation: a faint energy emission that, in theory, is created right at the edge of a black hole's event horizon, or the point beyond which even light cannot escape.
If Hawking radiation comes from astrophysical black holes (not just those created in a lab), it would mean these objects are not entirely dark. It could also help scientists solve a paradox posed by black holes, and perhaps shed light on one of the most significant problems facing modern physics. [The Strangest Black Holes in the Universe]
Jeff Steinhauer, an experimental physicist at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology in Israel, and lead author on the new study, told Space.com.
According to Steinhauer, earlier calculations bycosmologist Stephen Hawking (who came up with the theory that bears his name) combined the theories of quantum physics and gravity. The current experiment tests those calculations, providing the first strong evidence that they are correct, Steinhauer said.
"A black hole is a testing ground for the laws of physics," Steinhauer said.
Swimming against the current
There's a tricky concept in physics that says that pairs of particles constantly blink into existence throughout space. One is a particle of normal matter and the other is its exact opposite, or antiparticle, so the two annihilate one another, and there's no change to the universe's energy balance sheet. These are called virtual particles. When this happens near the edge, orevent horizon, of a black hole, the particles can avoid complete destruction; one can fall inside while the other escapes.
But observing such interactions in nature has remained difficult, the Hawking radiation around a black hole (if it exists) is so faint that it can't be seen from Earth around known black holes (most of which are very far away). In addition to the distance, the Hawking radiation is likely overwhelmed by radiation from other sources, Steinhauer said.
"It makes it seemingly almost impossible to see this very slight radiation coming from the black hole," he said.
The same problem applies in a laboratory, where any heat can create background radiation that overwhelms the lab-produced Hawking radiation. To eliminate that problem, Steinhauer's experiment ran at less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero.
In the analogue black hole, a line of cold rubidium atoms stream from a laser to create a form of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. The cold gas flows faster than the speed of sound in one direction, so that a sound wave trying to go against the flow can't manage to move forward. In this respect, the slower moving sound wave is like a particle trying to escape from a black hole.
"It's like trying to swim against the river," Steinhauer said. "If the river is going faster than you can swim, you go backwards, even though you feel like you're going forward."
The upstream attempt is analogous to light in a black hole trying to escape, he said. Sound waves trying to move forward instead fall backward. If two virtual particles were created near the edge of the event horizon, one particle could be consumed by the black hole (the fast-moving stream), while the other escapes, avoiding destruction. The escaping particles are called Hawking radiation.
A method of creating a black hole using sound waves was proposed in 1981, and since then scientists have struggled to simulate Hawking radiation in the lab. Two years ago, Steinhauer performed an experiment that measured Hawking radiation after something was deliberately crashed into the event horizon of the analogue black hole. This new experiment took more of a wait-and-see stance, waiting for the particle-antiparticle pair to appear without external stimulation, more like what happens in the depths of space.
Just as Hawking theorized, the simulated black hole spit out the predicted particles, a sign of Hawking radiation.
"What I saw suggests that a real black hole might emit something," Steinhauer said.
The new finding also has larger implications for the field of physics, he said. One of the biggest mysteries in physics is why Einstein's theory of gravity (which describes large-scale interactions in the universe) doesn't seem to be compatible with quantum mechanics (which describes very small-scale interactions).
"Combining gravity with quantum physics is one of the main goals of physics today," Steinhauer said. "Hawking made the first steps toward that."
The simulated black hole tested Hawking's equations.
"His calculations predicted there should be light from a black hole," Steinhauer said. "It turns out his calculations were correct."
Solving a paradox?
One intriguing result of the artificial black hole involved insight into theinformation paradox. According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, everything that crosses the event horizon of a black hole is consumed, including information. As the escaping particle steals energy from a black hole, the massive object can shrink over time, eventually evaporating into nothing. Of course, this assumes it has stopped consuming nearby materialand thus isn't putting on new weight. Theoretically, a black hole can shrink into nothing, taking with it the information carried by or about the particles it consumed.
"Information has vanished," he said. "It's like it goes into the black hole and disappears."
Since quantum mechanics suggests that information can't be lost, that raises a paradox.
According to Hawking's calculations, the surviving particles contain no useful information about how the black hole formed and what it consumed, suggesting that information vanished with the black hole itself.
Steinhauer's black hole revealed that the higher energy particle pairs remained entangled, even after one was swallowed by the event horizon. Entangled particles are able to share information instantaneously, even when they are separated by great distances, a phenomenon sometimes described as "spooky action at a distance."
"Some of the solutions to this [paradox] probably rely on entanglement," Steinhauer said.
Scientists not associated with the research who were interviewed by Nature News and Physics World both said that while the experiment appears to have measured Hawking radiation, it does not necessarily prove that Hawking radiation exists around black holes in space.
The research was published online in the journal Nature Physics.
This Martian Landscape Looks Like the American Desert
This Martian Landscape Looks Like the American Desert
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
Murray Buttes, a series of sandstone features on the surface of Mars, was imaged by the Curiosity Rover on Aug. 5, 2016.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
A panoramic view from the surface of Mars shows brown and copper-colored plateaus and buttes, reminiscent of desert regions in the southwest United States.
NASA's Curiosity Rover took this panorama on Aug. 5, the fourth anniversary of its nail-biting landing on the Red Planet. The view is comprised of more than 130 images taken by the rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam), according to a statement from NASA.
The flat region in the foreground of the image is known as the Murray formation, while the collection of buttes a little further ahead is informally known as Murray Buttes. The region was named after planetary scientist Bruce Murray, a former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who passed away in 2013. (The Curiosity mission is managed by JPL).
The buttes are eroded sandstone formations that sit on top of lower Mount Sharp (the distant bump on the left-side of the image is upper Mount Sharp). The formations are now covered in a layer of rock that keeps them fairly well preserved, the statement said. Curiosity studied the softer layer of sandstone, called the Stimson formation, earlier this year. The flat Murray formation, formed from "lakebed mud deposits," according to the statement.
NASA's Curiosity rover — the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission — landed on Mars Aug. 5. How much do you know about Curiosity and its mission?
For a sense of scale, the wide plateau to the left of Curiosity's robotic arm is about 300 feet (90 meters) from the rover. The mesa is about 50 feet (15 meters) tall, while the horizontal ridge that runs horizontal across the top is about 200 feet (60 meters) long. To see the rover's location when this image was taken, check out this aerial map of its route.
Curiosity's primary mission goal was to study the surface of Mars and look for signs that it may have once been hospitable to life. In its extended mission, the rover is looking for clues as to how this portion of lower Mount Sharp evolved from a (possibly) hospitable water environment to its current, inhospitable condition.
In 1981, the Voyager 2 space probe took intriguing images of Saturn’s rings as it passed by the giant planet on its way to Uranus.
The images showed what looked like ghostly “spokes” moving on the rings, much like the spokes of a bicycle wheel as it turns. After some head-scratching, scientists realized that the Saturnian spokes most likely were tiny specks of dust moving around the rings due to electric and magnetic forces. These forces result from electrically charged gases known as plasma.
Even though you might not realize it based on our daily experiences, researchers think that 99 percent of the matter in our universe is in a plasma state. Many processes that occur in the universe are due in part to the presence of plasma.
Here on Earth, industry uses techniques that involve manipulating these ionized gases for microchip production, as well as for welding materials such as aluminum. Research facilities study plasma in hope of hitting on an efficient nuclear fusion process for energy production. In all these instances micron-size dust is present – which can be a good or a bad thing, depending.
The presence of dust in plasma makes it tricky to study them in a laboratory setting. Here at Baylor University’s Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research (CASPER), we’ve built a sophisticated experimental facility to investigate these dusty plasma systems. We hope to answer fundamental questions related to dust-plasma interactions both on Earth and in space, in the process advancing our understanding of physics and astrophysics. Our investigations will allow us to untangle issues like the role of dust buildup in super-high-speed crashes in space, the formation of planets, and even areas belonging to life sciences, such as double-helix molecular interaction.
Solid swimmers in an electrical sea
Dusty plasma, also called complex plasma, contains small, solid particles distributed throughout the ionized gas. These particles can have the shape of a sphere, a rod or an irregular “pancake.” The reason dusty plasma are very interesting, and even technologically valuable, comes down to the fact that the dust particles themselves can become electrically charged.
We can think of dust particles as swimmers in a sea of electrons and ions – negative and positive charges, respectively. Electrons are so tiny compared to the dust that they easily stick to the particles' surfaces. When that happens, a dust particle will become negatively charged.
Because like charges repel each other, that bit of dust will now feel a push from other negatively charged dust particles. Likewise, that same negatively charged dust particle will feel a pull by the positive ions in the plasma, because charges of opposite signs attract each other. The net result is that dust particles will be pushed and pulled in many different directions, making them move in complex and fascinating ways.
Dusty plasma ‘in the wild’
One place to find dusty plasma is in Earth’s atmosphere, where they’re generated when meteoroids enter the atmosphere’s upper layers at speeds of several kilometers per second. Researchers study them with specialized radars that can detect the ball of plasma that forms around the meteroids as they heat up due to friction with the air.
Photo taken by astronauts of noctilucent clouds in Earth’s atmosphere above the midnight sun (above the blue layer).
Credit: NASA
At high geographic latitudes (between 50° and 70° north and south of the equator) an intriguing phenomenon occurs. Clouds made of tiny ice crystals and dust appear at an altitude of about 80 kilometers during the summer months. Known as noctilucent clouds, they are too thin to be visible in daylight, but they glow before sunrise or after sunset when the sun is below the horizon.
The clouds' icy dust particles are thought to play a role in the chemical composition of the atmosphere at those altitudes. In particular, their presence may be related to depletion of sodium and potassium. And since noctilucent clouds reside in an ionized region of the atmosphere (specifically, the lower ionosphere), their icy dust particles become electrically charged by electrons. These conditions give rise to a variety of electromagnetic phenomenaresearchers are actively investigating.
Artist’s concept of a comet, with solar wind blowing back the coma into a tail.
Credit: NASA, CC BY-ND
Farther from home, but still within our planetary neighborhood, comets can put on an amazing showthanks to dusty plasma effects. As a comet approaches the sun, the sun’s heat transforms part of the comet’s ice into vapor. This vapor, which contains many tiny dust grains, engulfs the comet nucleus to form a “coma.” The solar wind, which is a plasma made mostly of electrons and protons, pushes the cometary coma away from the sun and forms the spectacular tail with which we are familiar.
Even farther from us still, at distances of hundreds of light-years, dust particles embedded in huge, donut-shaped gas clouds move in orbits around young stars. These disks, known as protoplanetary disks, arewhere planets are formed. Portions of protoplanetary disks may be electrically charged and perhaps threaded by magnetic fields. The dust grains that have been detected in many of these disks are small enough to soak up plasma electrons, and it’s likely that grain charging affects how easily grains can grow to form planet precursors.
Illustration of a star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY-ND
Astronomers detect these dusty plasma in space by capturing the light dust particles re-emit after being illuminated by stars. It requires extremely sophisticated instruments, such as the Hubble Space Telescope. From these observations, one can infer things like the dust size and chemical composition.
Dusty plasma in the lab
From a long distance, we can obtain only a limited amount of information about natural dusty plasma. By carrying out controlled experiments in laboratories, we can learn more about dusty plasma properties. For example, by directly manipulating the amount of ionization, we can control the arrangement of the dust particles. In contrast, at this time it is generally not possible to infer the precise arrangement of dust particles in space from telescopic observations.
To experimentally study dusty plasma, a lab must be capable of producing, confining and manipulating an ionized gas – that is, one that contains electrically charged particles. This is possible here at Baylor’s CASPER, where we use advanced instrumentation to investigate the behavior of dusty plasma. For example, we use an instrument called an inductively driven plasma generator – basically a wind tunnel containing electrically charged gases – to study a plasma’s interaction with lunar dust.
We’re also interested in what happens in the plasma when very fast dust particles collide with different targets. Understanding more about these collisions could help with designing better protection for spacecraft from micrometeorite impacts.
CASPER is one of a very few experimental facilities in the world that has three operating complex plasma cells – the chambers into which different gases can be injected to be ionized. Two are Gaseous Electronics Conference radio-frequency reference cells, a standardized plasma-producing chamber. The third is a custom-built device designed here that allows for the formation of much larger complex plasma systems than normally possible. The laboratory within which these cells reside was built from the ground up specifically for them. It’s a highly stable environment with regard to temperature and vibration, making it possible to produce extremely low-noise systems.
A typical experimental setup for studying dust structures in plasma.
Credit: Truell W. Hyde, Jie Kong and Lorin S. Matthews
A typical experiment looks like this: a glass box can be placed between two electrodes to create an electric potential that will confine the dust-plasma system. The dust particles, which are made of melamine formaldehyde and have a diameter of less than 9 micrometers (about a thousandth of a centimeter in size), are introduced into the box through a dust shaker. Once the system power is turned on, the electric forces will change the arrangement of the dust particles, which will form linear or helical chains, depending on the amount of power used. Images of the dust structures can be captured by telescopic cameras.
Top and side views of different dust structures formed in a Gaseous Electronics Conference radio-frequency reference cell.
Credit: Truell W. Hyde, Jie Kong and Lorin S. Matthews
These experiments open a window into the way the universe works, whether we are looking for improved efficiency of industrial processes or trying to understand how our solar system formed.
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Een opname die nu ongeveer viraal lijkt te gaan, laat een vreemd wezen zien van ongeveer drie meter hoog in een woestijn in Portugal.
Op een gegeven moment verdwijnt het achter een bosje en komt niet meer tevoorschijn.
Natuurlijk zijn er regelmatig allerlei grappenmakers die de meest waanzinnige dingen verzinnen om maar aandacht te krijgen en dus is voorzichtigheid altijd geboden.
Wanneer er dan een video-opname publiek wordt van een alien ergens in een Portugese woestijn, is er een gerede kans dat je te maken hebt met een nepopname en zijn commentaren te verwachten zoals de volgende:
“Het is Donald Trump” en “dit is net zo betrouwbaar als de pornosite die mij verzekert dat er talloze vrouwen in de buurt smachtend op mij zitten te wachten”.
Scott Waring echter, van Ufo Sightings Daily, is ervan overtuigd dat we hier wel degelijk met een buitenaards iemand te maken hebben.
Het ziet er in ieder geval zo uit.
Scott zegt dat de buitenaardsen zo ver gevorderd zijn met alles dat ze zelfs in staat zijn om onze gedachten te lezen. Zo zegt hij dat de buitenaardse in dit geval weet dat hij wordt gadegeslagen en dat hij daarom achter het bosje kroop. Niet om zich als zodanig te verbergen, maar wel om zichzelf naar een andere plek te “beamen”.
Volgens Waring is het heel goed mogelijk dat deze buitenaardsen een basis hebben op vier tot vijf kilometer onder de grond.
Dat ook hier sprake zou zijn van een lift die onder de grond gaat zoals destijds het geval in Italië in een zaak die bekendstaat als de Friendship zaak, waarover dadelijk meer.
Nu eerst de opname in de Portugese woestijn:
In een eerder artikel schreven wij over die Friendship zaak in Italië onder andere het volgende:
In Italië vond in de vijftiger en zeventiger jaren contact plaats tussen mensen en buitenaardsen.
Het contact begon in 1960 nadat Gaspare de Lama in het blad Settimana afbeeldingen had gezien van drie vliegende objecten die boven de kust van Pescara in Italië waren verschenen. Hij schreef de redactie een brief waarin hij zijn hoop uitsprak dat de wezens naar de Aarde waren gekomen om de mens te helpen. Enige dagen later werd hij gebeld om een afspraak te maken.
Teleportatie
De eerste ontmoeting vond plaats door middel van teleportatie. Filmrolletjes materialiseerden in de lucht en vielen op de grond. Deze videoboodschappen bevatten meestal een groet of een aanwijzing.
Bruno Ghibaudi van Settimana vroeg Gaspare een kleine radio aan te schaffen. Hij plaatste het apparaat op de tafel waarna er een blauwe vlam van een halve meter uit kwam. Soms spraken Sigir of andere leden van de buitenaardse groep door de radio.
Op een dag liet Bruno weten dat ‘ze een cadeau voor hem hadden’ en Gaspare mocht een locatie uitkiezen. Hij koos voor een plaats bij Milaan alwaar ze een video en foto’s maakten van een vliegende schotel.
De buitenaardsen spraken niet alleen via de radio maar konden ook zien wie in de kamer aanwezig waren en waar de betrokkenen aan dachten. Ze wisten het dialect van de aanwezige personen exact te imiteren. Soms zei afgezant Dimpietro tegen Gaspare dat hij aan iets anders moest denken omdat zijn gedachten negatief waren.
Sigir, Dimpietro, Gallarate en anderen van de buitenaardse groep, die door de getuigen W56 werd genoemd, brachten veel wijsheid over. In het begin twijfelen mensen, want anders zouden ze te naïef zijn. Op de lange termijn vertrouw je op jezelf omdat je vibraties leert onderscheiden.
Vertrouwen
Wanneer je twijfelt kun je eindeloos vragen blijven stellen, maar vertrouwen komt spontaan. De buitenaardsen brachten dit gevoel over. Je kunt geloof achterwege laten, maar vertrouwen is belangrijk. Je kunt niet in God geloven, je kunt enkel ‘liefde’ zijn.
De afgezanten van W56, ongeveer drie meter lang, hadden een bepaalde hoeveelheid liefdesenergie nodig om te overleven. Ze kregen dit echter niet van de groep omdat de leden niet met elkaar in harmonie waren. Gaspare zegt dat ze nog steeds op Aarde zijn.
De spirituele boodschap van de buitenaardse afgezanten was dat een betere wereld geen utopie is, maar reeds bestaat. De afgezanten waren hier het levende bewijs van.
Gaspare heeft het gevoel dat zijn groep gefaald heeft omdat de leden er niet in slaagden liefdesenergie over te brengen aan de buitenaardsen. Een liefde die ze onderling gedeeld zouden moeten hebben om deze vervolgens uit te stralen naar de afgezanten toe.
Wanneer je zegt dat de maan hol is en een kunstmatig gemaakt object, dan zullen velen je meewarig aankijken en Minister Schippers bellen om je op te laten pakken als verward persoon.
Zelfs wanneer ESA (European Space Agency) verklaart dat één van de manen die om Mars draait hol is, gaat er bij niemand een belletje rinkelen.
In plaats van president van Amerika zou het een hele goede zet zijn om Hillary Clinton baas van NASA te maken. Van iedere drie woorden die ze zegt, zijn er minstens twee gelogen, dus de perfecte kandidaat om een organisatie als NASA te leiden.
NASA, Never A Straight Answer, is optimistisch uitgedrukt als je bedenkt hoe ze keer op keer het publiek bedonderen.
Zoals je ziet heeft Phobos een soort metallic glinsterend oppervlak. De foto is net ontdekt, maar al op 28 maart 2016 gemaakt.
Scott Waring zegt er het volgende over:
“Ik vond deze foto van de Mars maan Phobos en is het een hele ongewone foto. Ik heb de natuurlijke kleuren iets verbeterd en ontdekte dat het links paars is, zilverkleurig in het midden en groen aan de rechterkant. Het is een metallic oppervlak.
Deze foto is genomen met een soort telescoop volgens Scott en laat ons de werkelijke vorm en natuurlijke kleuren zien van Phobos.
Het is duidelijk, zegt Scott, dat NASA ook nu weer liegt, want normaal gesproken laten ze ons Phobos zien als een soort aardkleurige eivorm zoals in de hiernavolgende afbeelding van ESA toen deze in 2013 verklaarde dat Phobos hol was.
Dat Mars een hol en kunstmatig object heeft dat rond de planeet draait, moet toch wel her en der wat belletjes doen rinkelen. Maar niet dus, want de wereld draait gewoon door en iedereen heeft het veel te druk met het feit dat Albert van der Linde na 15 jaar stopt bij RT Boulevard, dat is pas echt nieuws.
Het prestigieuze Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA heeft verklaard dat Phobos, de geheimzinnige maan van Mars, kunstmatig is gemaakt. Hij is minimaal voor eenderde hol en de oorsprong is niet natuurlijk.
De astrofysicus Dr. Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky was de eerste die de bewegingen van de omloopbaan van deze Mars satelliet berekende. Hij kwam tot de conclusie dat deze kunstmatig en hol is en dat het in feite niets anders is dan een gigantisch ruimteschip is.
De Russen hebben altijd al veel belangstelling gehad voor de kunstmatige maan Phobos en hebben daar ook de nodige avonturen meegemaakt zoals wij schreven in een artikel van mei dit jaar:
In juli 1988 stuurden de Russen twee onbemande ruimteschepen richting Mars, de Phobos 1 en de Phobos 2. Het doel van de missie was om onderzoek te doen naar de geheimzinnige maan van Mars, Phobos.
Na twee maanden verloor men alle contact met Phobos 1 en verdween deze voor altijd uit beeld. Ook Phobos 2 ging uiteindelijk verloren, maar niet nadat er een aantal vreemde zaken waren voorgevallen.
In januari 1989 arriveerde Phobos 2 veilig bij Mars en begon haar omloopbaan om de planeet. De volgende stap was om het ruimteschip in een zodanige baan te brengen waardoor hij in feite in tandem zou vliegen met de maan Phobos. Hierdoor zou men dan de mogelijkheid creëren om deze maan met geavanceerde apparatuur te onderzoeken.
In eerste instantie ging alles goed, totdat men probeerde Phobos 2 uit te lijnen met de maan Phobos. Op 28 maart kwam het Russische controlecentrum met het bericht dat er communicatieproblemen met het ruimteschip waren. Verder dat Phobos 2 niet langer communiceerde nadat hij een dag daarvoor een rondje had gemaakt rond de maan Phobos. Ook werd het contact later niet hersteld waardoor ook de Phobos 2 als verloren werd beschouwd.
Echter, net voordat het contact volledig werd verbroken stuurde de Phobos 2 een aantal vreemde beelden naar de aarde. De volgende foto laat een ongewone schaduw zien op het maanoppervlak.
Wat het ook was dat deze schaduw veroorzaakte, de experts waren het erover eens dat het niet om iets natuurlijks ging. De grootte van de schaduw op het oppervlak van Mars geeft aan dat het object ergens tussen de 20 en 25 kilometer lang moet zijn.
Dan blijft het een lange tijd stil. Totdat de vroegere Russische kosmonaute Marina Popovich een persconferentie geeft in 1991 waar ze met de volgende geheime foto komt. Het is de allerlaatste infraroodfoto die Phobos 2 naar de aarde heeft gestuurd.
Als je bedenkt dat de totale lengte van de maan Phobos ongeveer 22 kilometer is dan zie je dat dit vreemde object eveneens een lengte heeft van ergens tussen de 20 en 25 kilometer, even groot als de schaduw van het object op het oppervlak van Mars.
Volgens Don Eckerwrote in een artikel in UFO Mag op 25 maart 1989 is de Phobos 2 door deze UFO uit de lucht geschoten omdat de Russen voorbereidingen aan het treffen waren om een krachtige laserstraal richting de maan Phobos af te vuren.
In een eerder artikel schreven wij reeds dat nu ook het Europese Ruimtevaarbureau (ESA) toegeeft dat de maan Phobos kunstmatig is gemaakt en voor een deel hol is. Dan is het wellicht ook heel logisch dat dit een soort buitenaards station is en dat toen het erop leek dat de Russen met hun laserstraal daar misschien grote schade zouden toebrengen, men via een groot moederschip heeft ingegrepen.
De Russen hebben verder nooit iets losgelaten, maar dat het wemelt van leven op en rondom Mars, zoveel lijkt zo langzamerhand wel duidelijk.
.Cloaked UFO Orb Moves Around House Security Cam In Peru, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Cloaked UFO Orb Moves Around House Security Cam In Peru, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: August 2016 Location of sighting: Peru UFOs come in all shapes and sizes. Baseball size UFOs have been seen, reported and even photographed...I witnessed one 4 meters away once on a roof. This one is cloaked. The security cam is equipped with an infrared LED lights that allow it to see at night, but also can see anything thats normally invisible to the naked eye, like this cloaked orb. Awesome catch. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Secret UFO Police Spotted In Florida? Alien Fleet Over The Bronx & More! 8/18/16, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Secret UFO Police Spotted In Florida? Alien Fleet Over The Bronx & More! 8/18/16, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 2016 Location of sighting: Florida & Bronx, NY This video was made by SecureTeam10 of Youtube and its really cool. Some Police spot some glowing UFOs in an area of Florida thats just mind-blowing. There are hundreds of reports every year from police officers around the world that have visual confirmation of UFOs. Here is a great sighting in Florida that is just one of the many around the globe. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
David Wilcock & Corey Goode on the Secret Space Program's 'Alliance for Disclosure', Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
David Wilcock & Corey Goode on the Secret Space Program's 'Alliance for Disclosure', Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Here is an interesting talk about a lot of things that makes me wonder...how the heck does he know this stuff he is saying is true? Well, you got me on that one, but he has some interesting things to say, and it does sound legit. Some of it is from Star Trek...no doubt, but he states he gets death threats about this? I doubt it. One thing I would like to know is...how the heck does he know all this? If its true, then they could easily tell us, but they don't discuss the source of the info. Thats what we need to confirm its real...so till then, stay vigilant on this. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com EMN News states: Amongst the most controversial presenters at Contact In The Desert 2016 in Joshua Tree California this year has to be the combination of David Wilcock and Corey Goode. In this public presentation Wilcock and Goode reveal stories related to an alleged Secret Space Program or SSP and an ‘Alliance for Disclosure.’ Sitting in the audience behind the camera, a small group of attendees are trying to grasp some of the themes discussed by Wilcock and Goode. One person raises the question to the friend beside her loud enough for the people around to hear: “Would a secret space program actually refer to themselves as the ‘Secret Space Program’?'” While healthy scepticism is abundant concerning anything ET, UAP, or anything about clandestine government programs, there is no doubt thousands of people embrace the message brought to light by Wilcock and Goode. If this information is true, this may be a fascinating resource that only genuine whistleblowers bring to public awareness. But if their message is not the real deal, it damages the credibility for all the other genuine researchers and whistleblowers coming out to unveil the hidden mysteries going on around us. A number of people have recently come out publicly to share experiences similar to Corey Goode’s. Collectively, these accounts would be foolish to ignore. Individually, while some stories are highly insightful, others would be more credible if there was better evidential proof. That said, whistleblowers in general offer perspectives that may be hard to embrace initially, but with time, almost always reveal their revelations as truth. EMN is presently negotiating to have exclusive interview access with a never-before-seen whistleblower who is now willing to share his story publicly. The more people “come out” to share their direct Contact experiences, the more pieces to the truth embargo puzzle will be revealed. To learn more about whistleblower Corey Goode and the Secret Space Program, his accounts can be seen on GAIA and across the web.
Constellation-Like UFOs Flying Very Low Above Pennsylvania
Constellation-Like UFOs Flying Very Low Above Pennsylvania
A man from Pennsylvania reportedly spotted a fleet of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) when he was heading out to his vehicle and happened to look up. He recorded the bright UFOs using his phone camera as they traveled the night sky.
The witness reported the strange event he encountered to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which posted the witness’ account along with the video to their database on August 11 and filed the report as case 78125. Based on the witness’ reaction on the video, he was awestruck of his sighting.
According to the report, the UFO sighting occurred on July 31, outside the home of the man in the small city of Bristol in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. A low-flying airplane first caught the attention of the witness in the sky.
When he looked north, he noticed five objects flying straight, but not maneuvering. The report continues that the mysterious objects were moving away from each other. The witness said that these UFOs were flying very slowly underneath the clouds. He also noted that planes were flying around them and across from them, and he found it weird to see a lot of planes flying around at that time.
He went on saying that the objects were brilliant and very close to him. He describes the five UFOs as looking like a constellation in the sky, but just way lower. The witness was able to see the fleet of UFOs for around five minutes before they became out of sight behind some clouds.
The video of the sighting was also posted to YouTube.
NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will map and study the asteroid Bennu before bringing a sample home.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
In 2023, a bit of the primordial solar system will return to Earth. That's when NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will return a sample of the asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich rock hosting traces of the early solar system. While there, the mission will conduct an in-depth study of the rocky body, learning more about how sunlight can shift its position, before gathering a small sample to return to Earth.
Visiting an asteroid
After its September 8, 2016, launch, the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-Rex, will spend two years traveling through space to arrive at Bennu in 2018. The second mission in the world to bring back a bit of an asteroid, OSIRIS-Rex will follow in the footsteps of Japan's Hayabusa, which in 2010 became the first spacecraft to bring a bit of an asteroid back to Earth. It will be the first U.S. asteroid sample return mission.
The bits and pieces left over from the formation of the planets, asteroids carry the blueprints of the early solar system. Studying them allows scientists to see what the early solar system was like, and get a handle on how planets formed.
NASA's Dawn mission visited the asteroid Vesta before moving on to the dwarf planet Ceres. In contrast, OSIRIS-Rex will bring home a piece of Bennu for in-depth laboratory studies not possible while orbiting in space. The team hopes to collect at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of material to achieve their scientific goals.
Understanding how asteroids form will not only provide insight about the early solar system, but also help scientists better understand their makeup today. That could be helpful should any space rocks threaten to collide with Earth. It could also assist in future efforts to mine asteroids.
"The mission will develop important technologies for space exploration that will benefit anyone interested in exploring or mining asteroids, whether it's NASA or a private company," Dante Lauretta said in a statement. Lauretta, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson, is the principal investigator for OSIRIS-Rex.
OSIRIS-Rex will also help astronomers study the Yarkovsky effect on asteroids. Heat from the sun provides a tiny push that can affect the movement of an asteroid. Although the push is minimal, it can build over time, helping to change the path a space rock travels. But the effect can be a challenge to study, as it varies based on the shape of each asteroid.
"The knowledge from the mission will help us to develop methods to better track the orbits of asteroids," Jim Green, director of NASA 's Planetary Science Division, said in a statement.
Sampling an asteroid
Once OSIRIS-Rex reaches Bennu, five instruments on board the spacecraft will study, map and analyze the asteroid in unprecedented detail.
OSIRIS-Rex Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) — By measuring visible and near-infrared light, OVIRS will hunt for organics and other minerals.
OSIRIS-Rex Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) — Using the thermal infrared, OTES take Bennu's temperature and map mineral and chemical abundances. Together, OVIRS and OTES will map Bennu over a wave of interesting wavelengths to help select the best site to sample the asteroid.
OSIRIS-Rex Camera Suite (OCAMS) — A three-camera suite will help map Bennu. PolyCam, the largest, will acquire the first images of Bennu from 1.2 million miles (2 million kilometers) and capture high resolution images of the sample site. MapCam will hunt for satellites and dust plumes around the asteroid, map it in color, and take the photographs to create topographic maps. SamCam will document the collection of the sample and its capture.
OSIRIS-Rex Laser Altimeter (OLA) — By scanning the entire surface of Bennu, OLA will create highly accurate 3-D shape models of the asteroid.
Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) — Studying X-ray emissions of Bennu will help provide an elemental abundance map of its surface. Unlike other imaging instruments, REXIS will examine the composition of the asteroid at the level of individual atomic elements.
Once the asteroid has been studied in significant detail, scientists will identify a region to sample. That's where the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) will come into play. As OSIRIS-Rex draws closer to the asteroid, TAGSAM will blast a sample of pure nitrogen gas at the surface. Regolith (dust and broken rock) blasted from the surface will be pushed into the chamber of the sampler.
To complete all of the planned science, OSIRIS-Rex needs to collect at least 2 ounces (60 grams). The goal is to collect 5 ounces (150 g) to account for any errors in measurement. Three bottles of nitrogen gas allow for multiple collection attempts, and TAGSAM can carry as much as 70 ounces (2,000 g). To weigh the sample in the low-gravity environment, scientists will measure the angular acceleration of the spacecraft before and after the sample is collected.
Although OSIRIS-Rex will sample Bennu, it will never actually land on the surface. Contact during the collection process will be brief, lasting only a few seconds.
"We kiss the surface," OSIRIS-Rex principal investigator Mike Drake, of the University of Arizona, told reporters.
After scooping up the sample OSIRIS-Rex will return to Earth, arriving home in 2023.
NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will spend 2 years mapping an asteroid before returning a sample to Earth.
Credit: NASA
Meet Bennu
Originally known as 1999 RQ36, the rock OSIRIS-Rex will visit was renamed Bennu by 9-year-old Mike Puzio in a 2013 contest. Bennu is an Egyptian god usually depicted as a gray heron. Puzio chose the name because he thought TAGSAM and the solar panels resembled the bird god's neck and wings.
Bennu is one of several thousand Near-Earth Objects orbiting within 120 million miles (190 million kilometers) of Earth. Among those, Bennu was one of less than 200 whose orbit was well known and sufficiently Earth-like. It orbits the sun every 436 days, and comes very close to Earth every six years.
It's also relatively large, about 1,650 feet (500 meters) wide. Rocks smaller than 650 feet (200 m) spin too rapidly to allow a spacecraft to safely land on them. Only a handful of the asteroids in appropriate orbits were large enough to allow a visit.
Among those deemed appropriate, the asteroid has just the right composition. Bennu is relatively rich in carbon-based material. The asteroids that may have brought water and organic material to Earth that helped kick off life would look like Bennu.
"We're going for something rich in organics, which might have had something to do with life getting started," Drake said.
"That's the idea — time capsule, containing probably the building blocks of life."
Bennu's close orbit also makes it a potentially hazardous object, but unlike some media reports, it isn't a definite threat. NASA scientists calculated that there is an 0.037 percent (or 1-in-2,700) chance that it will strike Earth in the last quarter of the 22nd century. For that to happen, the asteroid would need to have its orbit altered in its 2135 flyby of Earth. Studying Bennu today will help them further calculate the orbit, potentially ruling it out.
If the asteroid does collide with Earth, it won't destroy the planet, though it will wreak havoc wherever it touches down. Experts say that the size of the asteroid would likely devastate the local area, but won't cause mass extinctions. In order to cause a global catastrophe, a space rock must be at least twice as large, at 0.6 miles (1 km) wide. Still, the advanced warning provided by OSIRIS-Rex could help scientists take preventative measures long before the potential impact.
No, That Ancient Mausoleum Is Not the 'World's 1st Pyramid'
No, That Ancient Mausoleum Is Not the 'World's 1st Pyramid'
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor
The ruins of a 3,000-year-old mausoleum were discovered in Kazakhstan. The mausoleum's burial chamber had been robbed.
Credit: Photo copyright Viktor Novozhenov
The discovery of a 3,000-year-old pyramid-shaped mausoleum in Kazakhstan has gone viral over the past 24 hours, with several media outlets proclaiming the structure to be the world's first pyramid. But archaeologists say the structure, which contains a series of five walls that gradually get higher toward the center, is not nearly as old as these news reports claim.
The mausoleum is 6.6 feet (2 meters) high and about 49 by 46 feet (15 by 14 m) long, said Viktor Novozhenov, an archaeologist with the Saryarka Archaeological Institute at Karaganda State University in Kazakhstan who helped excavate the mausoleum. "It's made from stone, earth and fortified by slabs in the outer side," Novozhenov told Live Science. A number of media outlets that reported the discovery did not include the size of the structure, which, compared to Egypt's royal pyramids, is very small.
While the exact age of the structure is uncertain, it likely was built during the late Bronze Age, more than 3,000 years ago, Novozhenov said. This is more than 1,000 years after the Egyptians built the step pyramid of Djoser, Novozhenov said, so it is not the "world's first pyramid." [In Photos: Egyptian Pyramid Predates Giza Landmark]
Scientists have been analyzing some of the ceramics found near the mausoleum to help determine the age of the mausoleum.
Credit: Photo copyright Viktor Novozhenov
The mausoleum's burial chamber had been robbed, although graves found near the mausoleum yielded the remains of pottery, a knife and bronze objects, Novozhenov said. Before the mausoleum was robbed, it would have held the burial of a clan leader, and not a pharaoh as has been stated in some online accounts of the discovery, Novozhenov said.
The design of the mausoleum, with its five walls that gradually get higher, is similar in some ways to the step pyramid of Djoser, built about 4,700 years ago at the site of Saqqara in Egypt, Novozhenov explained. The Djoser pyramid, which is far larger than the recently discovered Kazakhstan mausoleum, has six layers piled on top of one another to form a flat-topped pyramid.
While the mausoleum isn't the world's first pyramid it is nevertheless an interesting find said Novozhenov who notes that a lot more work needs to be done. "We need a lot of additional analyses and hard work for interpretation."
Novozhenov said that excavation of the mausoleum is being led by Igor Kukushkin, who is also from the Saryarka Archaeological Institute at Karaganda State University in Kazakhstan.
NASA-wetenschapper: “Saturnusringen gemaakt door reusachtige UFO’s”
NASA-wetenschapper: “Saturnusringen gemaakt door reusachtige UFO’s”
De gerespecteerde wetenschapper dr. Norman Bergrun bestudeerde in het Ames Research Center van de NASA foto’s van de planeet Saturnus die waren gemaakt door Voyager 1 en 2. De NASA-wetenschapper kwam tot de conclusie dat de ringen van Saturnus niet natuurlijk zijn.
Volgens dr. Bergrun zijn de Saturnusringen het resultaat van reusachtige mobiele objecten die rond de zesde planeet draaien en die worden aangestuurd door een bepaalde intelligentie. Hij zei dat de objecten waarschijnlijk ook de maan en de aarde hebben bezocht.
“Dit zijn geen conclusies die je normaal gesproken zou verwachten van iemand met mijn achtergrond,” zei dr. Bergrun, die studeerde aan de Cornell-, LaSalle Extension- en de Stanford-universiteit. “Maar tijdens mijn onderzoek naar de Satursnusringen stuurden de feiten me steeds weer in de richting van een aantal onontkoombare conclusies.”
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Vreemde gedeeltelijke ring rond Saturnus (NASA)
Bergrun werkte onder meer voor Lockheed Missiles and Space Company en Douglas Aircraft voordat hij in 1971 zijn eigen onderzoeksbedrijf oprichtte. Hij bestudeerde foto’s die Voyager 1 op 12 november 1980 van Saturnus maakte en beelden die Voyager 2 op 26 augustus 1981 terugstuurde. Hij ontdekte een aantal opvallende verschillen.
“De meesten van ons hebben geleerd dat de ringen van Saturnus natuurlijk zijn en bestaan uit overblijfselen van uit elkaar gevallen manen,” legde dr. Bergrun uit. “Een aantal jaar geleden begonnen astronomen en natuurkundigen te theoretiseren dat deze ringen slechts 100 miljoen jaar oud waren. Maar op één paar foto’s is binnen vijf minuten een verandering te zien!”
Bergrun ontdekte onverklaarbare lichtpuntjes op de foto’s. Met behulp van een microscoop zag hij dat het ging om gigantische cilindervormige objecten die sporen achterlieten. Volgens dr. Bergrun zijn de objecten in ieder geval ten dele verantwoordelijk voor het ringensysteem van Saturnus.
Gedeeltelijke ringen
Hij concludeerde dat de ringen niet natuurlijk zijn, maar een soort vervuiling als gevolg van de objecten die rond Saturnus draaien. Bergrun berekende dat de objecten ongeveer één tot drie keer zo groot zijn als de aarde.
De aanwezigheid van de cilindervormige objecten zou kunnen verklaren waarom zich in het ringensysteem ook enkele gedeeltelijke ringen bevinden. Dr. Bergrun merkte ook op dat de cilindervormige objecten verantwoordelijk kunnen zijn geweest voor de onverklaarbare Toengoeska-explosie in Siberië in 1908 en massa-extincties op aarde.
Norman Bergrun staat niet alleen. Er zijn inmiddels honderden wetenschappers, politici, hooggeplaatste militairen en astronauten geweest die soortgelijke beweringen hebben gedaan.
VREEMDE VERSCHIJNSELEN IN DE LUCHT BOVEN NEDERLAND EN ENGELAND ( VIDEO )
VREEMDE VERSCHIJNSELEN IN DE LUCHT BOVEN NEDERLAND EN ENGELAND ( VIDEO )
Wat is de kans dat in dezelfde week een getuige in Nederland en in Engeland precies hetzelfde soort fenomeen in de lucht waarnemen?
Iets dat lijkt op een vuurbol, maar het ook weer niet is, ook geen ster is, vervolgens verdwijnt om even later weer iets verder op te duiken?
De eerste gebeurtenis speelt zich in de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag af in de buurt van Apeldoorn.
Een lezer (dank!) schrijft het volgende:
Ik houdt deze mail kort want ik moet eigenlijk zo echt gaan slapen maar niet voordat ik u deze mail heb verstuurd.
Ik zie de hele nacht al dit verschijnsel in de lucht waarvan u een foto vindt in de bijlage die ik heb gemaakt (omstreeks 03.00 uur) met mijn smartphone. (zelf even inzoomen / uitvergroten)
De eerste instantie leek deze vuurbol? Steeds te verschijnen en te verdwijnen op een dezelfde plek. Na een drie tal uren te hebben geobserveerd leek dit niet het geval te zijn en verplaatste het steeds.
Wel gebeurde het verplaatsen niet zichtbaar maar verscheen en verdween op een dezelfde plek om vervolgens na ik schat zo'n tweetal minuten weer elders op te doemen.
De grote vraag luid : wat is het? Locatie foto : Apeldoorn.
Mocht u vragen hebben hoor ik het graag. Misschien is het te verklaren wat het is?..
Op 13 augustus heeft een Engelsman uit Shrewsbury een ervaring die veel lijkt op die van de lezer uit de buurt van Apeldoorn.
Ook hij beschrijft en filmt een orjanje-achtig iets in de lucht en ook daar verdween het object om even later weer ergens anders op te duiken.
Ook hier kan geen sprake zijn van een ster, vanwege de bewolking. De Engelsman dacht eerst misschien met een zogenaamde Thaise ballon te maken te hebben, maar vond zelf ook later dat dit niet kon omdat het licht als het ware uitdoofde om later weer te verschijnen.
Ook is hij ervan overtuigd geen drone te hebben gefilmd.
Zijn deze objecten gerelateerd aan de oranje bollen waarover wij al jaren schrijven en die nog steeds regelmatig aan de hemel worden waargenomen?
En, het meest belangrijke van alles: Na al die jaren hebben we nog steeds geen antwoord op de vraag wat er daar in 's hemelsnaam rondvliegt?
Tips en suggesties zijn, zoals altijd, welkom.
En dan, nog een bericht uit Apeldoorn, toeval?
Op 18 augustus om 11 uur nibiru gezien samen met een buurtbewoner die zich hier ook in herkent. De plaats was Apeldoorn. Geen foto gemaakt niet bij ons was na 5 minuten weg.
What do aliens look like? The clue is in evolution
What do aliens look like? The clue is in evolution
Speculating about what aliens look like has kept children, film producers and scientists amused for decades. If they exist, will extra terrestrials turn out to look similar to us, or might they take a form beyond our wildest imaginings? The answer to this question really depends on how we think evolution works at the deepest level.
Hollywood has given us its fair share of humanoid aliens over the years. Initially this was through necessity, as special effects required someone to clamber into a rubber suit. Ironically, now that CGI makes anything possible, aliens sometimes look even more human in order to help the cinema goer make an emotional connection with them – such as in James Cameron’s Avatar.
At present, the only life forms we can study are here on Earth. These had a single origin around 3.5 billion years ago, but this common ancestor gave rise to perhaps 20m living species of animals alone. These have bodies organised according to about 30 different body plans in major groups called phyla.
At present, the only life forms we can study are here on Earth. These had a single origin around 3.5 billion years ago, but this common ancestor gave rise to perhaps 20m living species of animals alone. These have bodies organised according to about 30 different body plans in major groups called phyla.
The five-eyed fossil Opabinia could have given rise to five-eyed animals today.Nobu Tamura/wikimedia, CC BY-SA
But when animals first diversified some 542m or more years ago in the Cambrian “explosion”, there may have been an even greater diversity of fundamental body plans. Consider the five-eyed and trunked Opabina in the image above, or the stalked and almost flower-like Dinomischus alongside our own distant relative, thechordate Pikaia.
Rerunning the tape of life
In a famous thought experiment, biologist Stephen Jay Gouldasked what might happen if we were to rewind the “tape of life” and rerun it. Gould argued for the importance of chance in evolution: change one small thing early on, and the consequences magnify through time. In the version of history we know, Pikaia(imaged below) or something very like it survived and ultimately gave rise to fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and ultimately ourselves. But what if it had perished? Might some other group have given rise to intelligent beings, and might you now be reading this with five eyes rather than the customary two? If our own origins on Earth really turned on such fine hinges, why should aliens – evolving on different planets – even remotely resemble us?
Pikaia – an early chordate, the group to which humans belong.Nobu Tamura/wikimedia,CC BY-SA
The answer, according to evolutionary biologist Simon Conway Morris, lies in the phenomenon of evolutionary convergence: the process by which distantly related animals come to closely resemble each other. For example, the similar streamlined shape of dolphins, tuna fish and the extinct ichthyosaurs all evolved independently in response to the same selective pressures for moving efficiently through water at speed.
But what aspects of alien biology might we expect? Carbon-based biochemistry is likely given that carbon forms stable backbone chains, and makes stable but readily breakable bonds with other elements. Other elements, notably silicon and sulphur, make less stable bonds at Earth-like temperatures. Water or some other solvent also seems necessary. For evolution to occur there needs to be some mechanism for storing and replicating information with moderate fidelity, such as DNA, RNA or some analogue. Although the first cells appeared on Earth quite early, multicellular animals took nearly 3 billion more years to evolve. So it may well be that life on other planets could get stuck at the single-celled stage.
On an Earth-like planet it is also likely that radiation from the alien sun or suns would be used in biochemical pathways as a source of energy. For moderately large multicellular primary producers, harnessing light efficiently probably necessitates a light gathering system of leaves and branches. Similar shapes and habits have evolved convergently on Earth, so we might expect “plants” with broadly familiar forms on Earth-like planets.
With few exceptions, animals either eat the primary producers or each other, and there are only so many ways of doing this. Pursuing food often necessitates moving with the mouth first, so the animal has a head and tail end. Teeth and probably jaws evolve to hold and tackle food items. Moving against a hard surface requires specialised structures (such as cilia, a muscular foot or legs) at the interface, so that there is a back and front side. Typically, this also imparts bilateral (left/right) symmetry: indeed, most animals belong to a “super-group” called the Bilateria.
Why not giant intelligent “insects”?
But what about the large brained and intelligent creatures that might be capable of crossing interstellar distances? Insects are by far the most species rich group on Earth: why shouldn’t aliens look more like them? Unfortunately, having your skeleton on the outside makes growth difficult, and entails periodic shedding and regrowth. On Earth-like planets, all but relatively small terrestrial animals with external skeletons would collapse under their own weight during moulting, and some critical size may be necessary for suitably complex brains.
The giant weta: one of the largest insects.New Zealand Department of Conservation, CC BY-SA
Relatively large brains, some degree of tool use and problem-solving abilities appear to be correlated on Earth, and have evolved multiple times: in apes, whales, dolphins, dogs, parrots, crows andoctopuses. However, the apes have developed tool use to a vastly greater degree. This is at least partly the result of walking on two legs, which frees up the front limbs, and because of the dexterity of our fingers (which may also be a key to the origins of written language).
Ultimately, the jury is out on the extent to which intelligent aliens – if they exist – would resemble us. It may or may not be significant that humans have just two eyes and ears (just enough for stereo vision and hearing), and just two legs (reduced from the initially more stable four). Many other organs also come in pairs as a consequence of our evolutionarily deep-seated – and perhaps inevitable – bilateral symmetry. Still other elements of our body plan are probably nothing more than chance. The fact that we have hands and feet with five digits is a consequence of the fixation on five in our early tetrapod ancestors – close relatives experimented with seven or eight.
Indeed, most species have been subject to an accidental “locking down” during development – making body plans become stereotyped and inflexible with evolutionary time. Untangling the functional from the accidental is one of the big outstanding challenges in evolutionary biology – and may help us better understand how alien lifeforms could differ from us.
The main way we now search for intelligent life in space is by listening for radio or gamma transmissions. These efforts are increasingly being concentrated on star systems with Earth-like planets, as these are believed to be the most likely to harbour life. After all, it is easier to search for “life as we know it” than life as we don’t.
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What Species Would Become Dominant On Earth If Humans Died Out?
What Species Would Become Dominant On Earth If Humans Died Out?
In a post-apocalyptic future, what might happen to life if humans left the scene? After all, humans are very likely to disappear long beforethe sun expands into a red giantand exterminates all living things from the Earth.
Assuming that we don’t extinguish all other life as we disappear (an unlikely feat in spite of our unique propensity for driving extinction), history tells us to expect some pretty fundamental changes when humans are no longer the planet’s dominant animal species.
So if we were given the chance to peek forward in time at the Earth some 50m years after our disappearance, what would we find? Which animal or group of animals would “take over” as the dominant species? Would we have a Planet of the Apes, as imagined in popular fiction? Or would the Earth come to be dominated by dolphins, or rats, or water bears, or cockroaches orpigs, or ants?
The question has inspired a lot of popular speculation and many writers have offered lists of candidate species. Before offering any guesses, however, we need to carefully explain what we mean by a dominant species.
Let’s Stick To The Animal Kingdom
One could argue that the current era is an age of flowering plants. But most people aren’t imagining Audrey Two in Little Shop of Horrors when they envision life in the future (even the fictional triffids had characteristically animal features – predatory behaviour and the ability to move).
So let’s keep the discussion to animals. This is for practical rather than philosophical reasons: by some standards the world is now and always has been dominated by bacteria despite the nominal end of the “age of microbes” some 1.2 billion years ago. This was not because bacteria ceased to be, or declined in prevalence, but rather because in our myopia we tend to place more importance on the large multi-cellular organisms that came after.
By some accounts four out of five animals is a nematode (a roundworm), so from all these examples it’s clear that neither prevalence, abundance nor diversity is the prime requisite for being a “dominant” form of life. Instead our imaginations are captured by large and charismatic organisms.
There’s an undeniable degree of narcissism in the human designation of dominant species and a strong tendency to award the title to close relatives. The Planet of the Apes imagines that our closest primate relatives could develop speech and adopt our technology if we gave them the time and space to do so.
But non-human primate societies are unlikely to inherit our dominance of the earth, because the apes are likely to precede us to extinction. We are already the only living hominid that’sconservation status is not endangered or critically endangered and the kind of global crisis that would extinguish our species is unlikely to spare the fragile remaining populations of the other great apes. In fact, any extinction event that affects humans will probably be most dangerous to organisms that share our basic physiological requirements.
Even if humans succumb to a global pandemic that affects relatively few other mammals, the great apes are precisely the species that are most at risk of contracting any new diseases that drive us from the Earth.
Will another, more distant, relative (primate, mammal, or otherwise) develop intelligence and human-like society? That too seems unlikely. Of all the species that were arguably dominant animals at some stage in the history of the Earth, humans are alone in their remarkable intelligence and manual dexterity. It follows that such traits are neither requirements for being dominant among animals, nor particularly likely traits to evolve. Evolution does not favour intelligence for its own sake, but only if it leads to higher survival and reproductive success. Consequently it’s a profound mistake to imagine that our successors are likely to be especially intelligent or social creatures, or that they will be capable of speech, or adept with human technology.
So what can we safely speculate about the dominant species, some 50m years after humanity? The answer is both dissatisfying and thrilling all at once: while we can be reasonably confident that it won’t be a talking chimpanzee, we otherwise have no idea what it will look like.
The world has seen a number of mass extinction events in the course of its history. The diversification of life following each eventwas relatively rapid – and the “adaptive radiation” of new species produced new forms including many unlike the ancestral lineages that spawned them after surviving the prior extinction. The small shrew-like creatures that scurried beneath the feet of dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous period looked very different to the cave bears, mastodons and whales which descended from them during the age of mammals. Likewise, the reptiles that survived the late Permian extinction some 250m years ago, which killed off 90% of marine and 70% of terrestrial species did not clearly foreshadow the pterosaurs and dinosaurs and mammals and birds that descended from them.
In Wonderful Life: the Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, the late Stephen J. Gould argued that chance, or contingency, as he called it, played a great role during the major transitions of animal life. There is room to argue about the relative importance of contingency in the history of life, which remains a controversial subject today. However Gould’s insight that we can hardly foreshadow the success of modern lineages beyond a future extinction is a humbling reminder of the complexity of evolutionary transitions.
So while it may be possible that, as many have speculated, the ants will take over the Earth from us, we can only imagine what their dominant ant descendants will look like.
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Incredible story of how a disc-shaped UFO “escorted” a police car for almost two hours
BYPIOTR CIELEBIAŚ , PHILIP MANTLE
A new book by a renowned UFO expert and published for the first time in English has revealed a string of close encounters in Poland
UFOs over Poland
Piotr Cielebiaś is a Polish writer, publisher and journalist dealing with fringe science and paranormal phenomena.
His new book has been translated by UFO expert Philip Mantle who publishes books on strange unexplained sightings.
Here he extracts some of the stories he has translated from the book.
Polish policemen rarely report their UFO encounters but when they do, their reports are astonishing ones.
On January 8th a pair of police officers from in southwestern Poland were returning from a night intervention.
Piotr Cielebiaś
Artists impressions of UFOs over Poland
Their task had been to calm down an aggressive drunkard in one of the villages lost amongst forested farmlands.
When the job was done, they began to head back to their station located dozen kilometers away.
It was about 4am when their Kia Ceed was calmly running lone road.
All of a sudden they noticed some bright lights in the distance that hovered over nearby forest. This prologue may sound prosaic but the rest of the story is much more extraordinary… and complicated.
At first they took it for mobile tower but the luminous object was apparently approaching their car.
Soon it stationed over a groove of trees located about a kilometer from the road.
Orange-yellow in colour the object began morphing and changing colors.
One officer recalled that several minutes before seeing the light his partner had told him 'Something is in the air'.
He said: “She had repeated this sentence several times before the light appeared.
“When the object appeared in the horizon, we decided to stop and go out of the car to examine it.
Piotr Cielebiaś
Author Piotr Cielebiaś has written about a string of UFO sightings
“From the distance it looked like a ball and then changed shape into crescent-like.”
He added that just a while before he could feel as if time slowed for a moment. But it was a matter of seconds.
During the next stage of the encounter Mrs. M. and his partner were totally conscious.
The officers stopped and watched the light maneuvering over a nearby field.
The officer recalled: “It was moving soundlessly, with no noise that should be generated by engine or rotor of the flying machine.
“At some point the object began ejecting something resembling ‘balls of light’.
“Some were disappearing in their way down to the ground, other were returning to the UFO.
“Suddenly from the below of the craft there emanated a ‘flash’ resembling that of a stroboscope.”
According to the officer it was possible to distinguish the shape of the craft hull.
But darkness, strange feelings and appearance of exotic object forced the witnesses to drove off the scene.
To their amazement, after a while UFO began to move in parallel with their car, staying in the constant distance of about a kilometer.
Despite strong concerns and unnatural fear the officer stopped the car in the next village trying to record the object with his mobile phone camera.
He said: “The UFO was in shape of a disc, with a kind of small ‘dome’ on the top.
“It was emitting blinding, yellow light (occasionally turning orange). At the bottom, three smaller white-bluish ‘balls’ could be seen.
Piotr Cielebiaś
“In my opinion they were ‘engines’ but there were no sounds at all.”
It was 4.32 am when the officer took a short video showing a dim light in the distance.
It’s the only one visual documentation of the incident.
The officer said: “The situation was totally unexpected and we weren’t prepared for UFO encounter. I wish I could go closer to that object. It is clear to me now, when all the emotions ceased.”
The UFO recording of was made public but in muted version due to witnesses’ request.
In the original material it is possible to hear excited voiced of both officers commenting the “UFO” appearance.
They also tried to open the car window to check whether the object emits any noticeable sounds but only dog barking could be hear in the distance.
The officers said that during the incident they considered notifying colleagues or other patrol cars about the strange object.
He said: “After short discussion with my partner we decided to stay calm.
“Too many units could hear our report so everyone can imagine the consequences.
“People are rather skeptical and we don’t want more problems”
It was another instance of the taboo UFO encounters made by staff of emergency services is.
The Polish sighting is a very rare case of public servant who decided to reveal his experiences, despite his concern about the consequences.
It’s also interesting that during three stops when the witnesses decided to inspect the object closer, the UFO seemed to withdraw deeper over the fields.
In his opinion the object hovered about 60 meters over the ground but exact size of the craft was hard to estimate.
It was said to be at least dozen of meters in length but it was hard to find any reference points.
In the whole affair there is another one mystery. The witness stated that they observed the craft for about 90 minutes but it seemed too long comparing with the time necessary for them to pass the distance to their home station.
The patrol lost UFO from view when the disc withdrew over nearby fields and then disappeared over the horizon.
About 6 am, when both policemen returned to their station, they decided to report their experience to principals but as Mr. M. said, the duty officer at first burst with laugh and then neglected their story:
The officer said: “He said that I’m dog-tired and hallucinating. The same was with other high officers. They tried to persuade us that we saw balloons or birds.”
Nevertheless, the strange report about exotic “thing” probably induced some concern amongst senior officials but after some time the case was hushed up as if nothing had happened.
Polish national media and web portals usually don’t report UFO incidents although it is a very popular topic.
Piotr Cielebiaś
Police footage of the UFO over Poland
UFO reports from Polish police officers are also rarity but the case from Opole region showed that many other encounters may be not disclosed due to witnesses’ fear of ridicule.
But the real cause of tabooing UFO reports amongst policemen is that there is no official procedure concerning unidentified objects and phenomena.
In other words, an ordinary officer who sees UFO doesn’t know how to react.
However following publicity around the close encounter other officers came forward with stories.
One of them wrote us a report concerning his UFO sighting in vicinity of Otmuchowskie Lake in 2008.
He recalled: “At about 2 am, over Sarnowice, I saw a row of about 15 red lights.
“Along with my partner I decided to hide our car in darker spot so the object could not to see us.
“But then some of the lights went off and other ones change their positions and began to move away in various directions.”
Another story from police officer recalled an event which took place in Opole region, precisely in Daniec area.
The witness said: “It was June or July 1997. From the duty officer we got a call that some drunken man was sticking people with an axe in a village in Opole area.
“It was an emergency, so we rushed with the siren going.
“Just before we arrived my partner had to answer a call of nature so I stopped the car on the side of the road.
“I also got out to straighten my neck.
“Suddenly I saw those objects and in the same moment my colleague screamed: ‘UFO!” I saw two bright orbs flying in the air 300 meters away from the car.
“They weren’t discotheque lights or lanterns. They were flying with high speed, stopping, accelerating and making sharp turns.
“We stood there in awe. I was glad I wasn’t there alone. During the sighting one of the orbs neared us and stayed dozen of meters away.
“The other one remained over the field and then - as if answering a command - both of them departed in just a second. I know that they were intelligent.”
Another report from former officer of Polish state police said: “It was winter 1978 but the exact date got lost in my mind.
“It was about 2am and I was patrolling area between Ornontowice and Chudów checking if the stores were properly shut down.
“I was on my way from Ornontowice to Chudów.
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“The night was beautiful, with no clouds in the sky. Temperature was below freezing and I was standing on the roadside when my attention was drawn to my dog's strange behavior. Automatically I looked up hearing also some unfamiliar sound.”
The officer reported that he saw a black, oblong object with some “windows”. He also got feeling that someone is staring at him.
He added: “It wasn’t a plane. It looked like a hull of Antonov An-22 but without wings.
“There were no sounds at all, despite slight ‘whirring’. Then I saw it against the sky background, from different perspective.
“Afraid that it could be a damaged plane that is going to crash, I rushed to local bakery to phone to the duty officer from Gierałtowice.
“But he also scoffed me saying that I must be drunk.”
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(VIDEO) Bodies Of Strange Creatures Were Found In The Basement Of An Old House In London
(VIDEO) Bodies Of Strange Creatures Were Found In The Basement Of An Old House In London
In 1960 in London at the time of clearing the site for construction of a new residential neighborhood, the old long-abandoned mansion belonged to Thomas Theodore Merlin was sent for demolition.
In the basement of the home builders have discovered several thousand small wooden boxes tightly sealed.
Imagine their surprise when they began to find inside the bodies of strange mythical creatures, which seemed to have been living only in fairy tales.
Ouder dan Stonehenge: Mysterieuze steencirkels in Schotland uitgelijnd op de zon en de maan
Ouder dan Stonehenge: Mysterieuze steencirkels in Schotland uitgelijnd op de zon en de maan
Voor het eerst hebben onderzoekers bewezen dat oude Britse steencirkels precies zijn uitgelijnd op de bewegingen van de zon en de maan, 5000 jaar geleden. Het onderzoek is verschenen in hetJournal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
“Niemand heeft ooit eerder statistisch bewezen dat een steencirkel werd gebouwd met het oog op astronomische verschijnselen,” zei hoofdonderzoeker dr. Gail Higginbottom van de Universiteit van Adelaide in Australië.
500 jaar ouder
Callanish (Wikicommons)
De onderzoekers ontdekten dat de oudste steencirkels in Schotland (Callanish op Lewis en Stenness op Orkney) precies zo staan gericht dat ze de bewegingen van de zon en de maan volgen. Beide cirkels zijn zo’n 500 jaar ouder dan Stonehenge.
Pakweg 2000 jaar later werden in Schotland nog steeds soortgelijke monumenten gebouwd die waren uitgelijnd op de zon of de maan. Deze cirkels waren alleen een stuk eenvoudiger.
Complexe relatie
De stenen blijken niet alleen te zijn verbonden met de zon en de maan. De onderzoekers ontdekten ook een complexe relatie tussen de manier waarop de stenen zijn uitgelijnd, het omliggende landschap en de horizon en de bewegingen van de zon en de maan.
“Dit onderzoek bewijst eindelijk dat de oude Britten de aarde door middel van hun steencirkels verbonden met de hemel,” zei dr. Higginbottom. “Deze mensen kozen ervoor om de stenen op zeer specifieke plekken in het landschap neer te zetten in relatie tot de astronomische kennis die zij hadden. Het vertelt ons iets over hun sterke verbinding met de omgeving en hoe belangrijk die verbinding voor ze moet zijn geweest.”
Astronomy is one of the oldest disciplines of science. Many prehistoric monuments are aligned with stars and planets, giving us clues as to the importance of ancient forms of astronomy. As a result, astronomers remain one of the leading groups responsible for the serious investigation of the UFO phenomenon.
Caracol (The Observatory) in Chichén Itzá, Mexico. The lines of this Mayan temple line up with at least 20 separate astronomical events.
(Credit: Daniel Schwen/Wikimedia Commons)
Astronomer UFO Sightings During the Renaissance
Jean-Charles Houzeau portrait from Popular Science Monthly in 1891. (Credit: Popular Science Monthly)
Hundreds of years ago astronomers were observing objects which can still not be definitively identified. Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck chronicle many reports of anomalous aerial objects throughout history in their book, Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times. One of these mysterious observations was by the famous astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
In 1672, Cassini spotted a small object close to Venus. At first he only took note, but did not share the discovery. He then saw it again in 1686 and decided to announce it as a possible discovery of a new moon of Venus. His sightings continued over the next few decades but were sporadic. In 1884, a former director for the Royal Observatory in Brussels, Jean-Charles Houzeau, proposed the idea that the object observed by Cassini may be another planet. He also named the object Neith, after an Egyptian Goddess. In 1887, the Belgian Academy of Sciences suggested that Neith was just a group of stars near Venus.
In 1686, a much more mysterious sighting was reported by astronomer Gottfried Kirch, the director of the Berlin Observatory. His sighting took place in Leipzig, Germany on July 9 at approximately 1:20 a.m. Kirch said that he saw an extremely bright fireball with a tail that was a quarter the size of the Moon, hovering in the sky for fifteen minutes. He said that people in towns as far as eleven miles away also reported seeing the object. Kirsh explained that eventually the object darted off to the right and left two “globules” that could only be seen by telescope.
Astronomers and Modern UFO research
Cover of the book Wonders in the Sky by Vallee and Aubeck.
(Credit: Tarcher/Penguin Publishing)
UFO sightings by astronomers are often taken more serious than those by the general public, due in part because astronomers are trained to observe and identify astronomical objects and spend a lot of time looking up into Space. Understandably, UFO reports from renowned astronomers helped boost the public’s fascination at the inception of the modern UFO era.
Prior to World War II, UFOs were not as prevalent a topic as they are now. In fact, the term “UFO” was not even coined until the early 1950s during the U.S. Air Force investigation of the phenomenon. Sightings were abundant in the 1950s, and they often made media headlines. It was at this time that Life magazine put together a compelling story that included the accounts of two well-known astronomers. The Life article described the first of these men as “one of the U.S.’s top astronomers.” He wanted to remain anonymous for the magazine story, but it was later discovered that this was Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, a leading scientist in the study of meteors.
In the article, Dr. LaPaz described a sighting that he and his family had on July 10, 1947 at 4:47 p.m. He, his wife, and their two teenage daughters were driving from Clovis, New Mexico to Clines Corners, New Mexico, when they all noticed a strange luminous object that hovered in the sky. Instinctively, Dr. LaPaz began estimating distances in order to make calculations about the object, and his entire family followed suit.
Dr. LaPaz described the object as follows:
[It] showed a sharp and firm regular outline, namely one of a smooth elliptical character much harder and sharper than the edges of the cloudlets . . . The hue of the luminous object was somewhat less white than the light of Jupiter in a dark sky, not aluminum or silver-colored . . . The object clearly exhibited a sort of wobbling motion . . . This wobbling motion served to set off the object as a rigid, if not solid body.
Dr. Lincoln LaPaz on the cover of the University of Wichita Alumni Magazine.
(Credit: University of Wichita Alumni Magazine)
Dr. LaPaz’s family watched the object for thirty seconds before it moved behind a cloud. The object reappeared soon after, but they eventually lost sight of it as it moved behind the clouds again. Dr. LaPaz said, “This remarkably sudden ascent thoroughly convinced me that we were dealing with an absolutely novel airborne device.”
Life Magazine, April 7, 1952. The UFO story in this issue included UFO sightings from prominent astronomers, and alerted the public that UFOs was considered by many as a credible issue.
(Credit: Life Magazine/NICAP)
Dr. LaPaz estimated that the object was 20 to 30 miles away and that it was a solid elliptical object approximately 165 to 245 feet long and 65 to 100 feet from top to bottom. He also estimated that it moved at between 120 and 180 mph horizontally and 600 to 900 mph vertically. His family agreed with his calculations. He did not believe that the object was of an astronomical nature, an illusion, a rocket, or a missile.
Later in the article, Dr. LaPaz commented on the mysterious nature of hundreds of green fireballs seen throughout the Southwest, mostly in New Mexico, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. One green fireball incident referred to a sighting of a large fireball seen by over a hundred-fifty people in Arizona in November 1951.
The sightings of green fireballs became so frequent that the U.S. Air Force established Project Twinkle in order to investigate them. Dr. LaPaz was one of the experts that investigated the phenomenon, and he felt that whatever was being seen were not meteorites.
The Life article explained:
[Dr. LaPaz] points out that normal fireballs do not appear green, they fall in the trajectory forced on them by gravity, are generally noisy as a freight train, and leave meteorites where they hit. The green New Mexican species does none of these things. Neither do the green fireballs appear to be electrostatic phenomena—they move too regularly and too fast.
The second sighting by an astronomer covered in the Life article was that of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto. At around 11:00 p.m., while sitting in his backyard in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with his wife and mother-in-law, they all saw an object dart across the night sky. They agreed it appeared to be oval shaped and had a blue-green glow. Tombaugh said it “seemed to trail off at the rear into a shapeless luminescence.” Tombaugh alleged that he also saw what appeared to be half a dozen windows on the front and the side of the craft.
Project Blue Book Report on UFOs and Astronomers
The Life article popularized the UFO phenomenon at the time and exhibited the highly credible nature of some of the witnesses. Its effect on the U.S. Air Force’s official UFO investigation, Project Blue Book, was evident in a report put together by their consulting astronomer, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. The report referenced the Life article and may have even inspired it altogether.
A still from Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s cameo appearance on Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
(Credit: Columbia Pictures)
Hynek is often considered the father of modern UFO research. He was a professor of astronomy at Ohio State University when he began consulting for the air force on identifying UFOs. At the time he began working with the air force he said he thought the topic of UFOs was just a fad and referred to it as “utterly ridiculous.” However, his opinions eventually changed, and he began to take the topic very seriously.
Hynek is infamous for trying to explain away a famous rash of UFO sightings in Michigan in 1966 as an effect of swamp gas. However, he is more fondly remembered for coming up with the close encounters classification system for UFO reports.
In 1952, Hynek began to surmise that there was more to the UFO phenomenon than he had previously thought. In August, he submitted a report to the air force titled, “Special Report on Conferences with Astronomers on Unidentified Aerial Objects.” Hynek had decided it would be valuable to get the opinions of astronomers on UFOs and assist in the air force’s investigation into UFOs. In order to get the astronomers’ true opinions, Hynek did not tell them he was involved with the air force. He told them he was just a traveling astronomer visiting observatories to talk about scientific issues. He spoke to forty astronomers at various observatories.
Front page of Hynek’s astronomer report in the USAF Project Blue Book files. Click the image to view the entire report in pdf.
(Credit: USAF)
For the most part, Hynek kept the names of the astronomers anonymous, except for those that had already revealed their names in the Life article or had done so to the media in some other fashion. The opinions among the astronomers he spoke to varied. Some thought the topic was a waste of time; others thought that government secrecy on the issue was “stupid.” One astronomer said that if he had seen something he would not tell anyone unless he could remain anonymous and he knew the information was going to a group of scientists for serious research.
Among those who shared their UFO sightings, one had said that he and another astronomer had sighted a group of five “ball-bearing-like” objects moving rapidly during the day. Two years later, he saw a singular similar object. Another astronomer reported that he had seen a light zoom across his field of view that went too fast to be a plane and too slow to be a meteorite. This astronomer pointed out that it is important that scientists do not “fall into the error of believing we understand all physical phenomena.”
Professor Clyde Tombaugh
Tombaugh and LaPaz were also part of Hynek’s report. Hynek reported that besides the sighting Tombaugh reported to Life, he also shared another sighting that took place at White Sands Proving Grounds just outside of Las Cruces. Tombaugh said that while he was looking through his telescope he saw a luminous object traveling from the “zenith to the southern horizon in about three seconds.”
Tombaugh also offered up the use of his telescope at White Sands to help the U.S. Air Force investigate UFOs. He told Hynek that he would just have to ask the general in charge, but Hynek never divulged whether that request was made.
Hynek wrote that he also asked the astronomers about LaPaz’s findings in regards to the green fireballs seen in the Southwest. Many thought the objects were most likely natural objects, but Hynek said questioning revealed that many of them had little knowledge of the details of the sightings. Hynek agreed with LaPaz that given the descriptions and frequency, the green fireball phenomenon did not exhibit characteristics of astronomical objects.
In conclusion, Hynek found that of the forty astronomers he interviewed, five had reported sightings. Hynek noted that this is a higher percentage than the rest of the population. He speculated that this is perhaps because astronomers watch the sky more often, but also noted that astronomers are less likely to misidentify aerial objects.
Hynek observed that the astronomers he spoke to weren’t particularly hostile towards the idea of UFO investigations. He said that when he described the details of the more mysterious reports, they seemed genuinely interested. He felt their “lethargy” toward the subject was mostly due to a lack of good information. Hynek said their biggest fear seemed to be getting branded as questionable scientists as a result of any association with the UFO topic.
Hynek recommended that the U.S. Air Force officially give UFOs the status of a scientific problem and that a group of reputable scientists be allowed to examine sightings. He felt that such an effort would not only lead towards more answers, but also lend dignity to the issue. He continued to push for serious scientific investigationinto UFOs.
The UFO Experience Bookcover
Three years after the air force closed down official UFO investigations in 1969, he published his first book on UFOs, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. In his book, he released his close encounters scale and shared another story on astronomers’ opinions on UFOs. He recounted the story of a reception at which “several hundred” astronomers were in attendance, and where it was reported that there was a UFO being seen outside making strange maneuvers. He said people laughed and made some jokes as usual, but not a single astronomer went outside to investigate. His problem with this was that the lack of investigation didn’t exhibit a true scientific inquisitiveness. He quoted physicist and philosopher Erwin Schrödinger who wrote, “The first requirement of a scientist is that he is curious. He should be capable of being astonished and eager to find out.”
In 1973, Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), an organization of scientists and technical experts. In 1980, they conducted a poll (which included eighteen hundred members of various amateur astronomer associations) and found that 24% responded that they had “observed an object which resisted [their] most exhaustive efforts at identification.”
The Sturrock Report
The U.S. Air Force stopped investigating UFOs based in large part on a study by the University of Colorado in Boulder which was issued in 1969. The study concluded that there was no scientific value in the investigation of UFOs. This report has been dubbed the “Condon Report” in reference to the lead scientist of the investigation, Dr. Edward Condon. In 1970, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AAIA) released its own report that was the result of a multi-year study by one of the organization’s subcommittees. The AAIA disagreed with Condon stating, “[we] did not find a basis in the report for his prediction that nothing of scientific value will come of further studies.” In fact, they suggested further study was warranted.
UFO Enigma Bookcover
In his book, The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence, Dr. Peter Sturrock, a professor of applied physics at Stanford University, noted that the AAIA report made him wonder if perhaps scientists would be more interested in reports by other scientists. He conducted a small survey amongst the members of the San Francisco chapter of the AAIA, and the results were published in their monthly journal in 1974. Of the twelve hundred members responding, 5% said they had UFO sightings.
Encouraged by the results, Dr. Sturrock sought to perform a larger survey and was given permission by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to poll their membership. Dr. Sturrock wrote that he was pleased to receive a 52% response rate, with only a few rude remarks. In fact, the responses were overwhelmingly supportive. Similarly to his previous study, 5% of AAS members admitted having unexplainable sightings. However, Dr. Sturrock was even more satisfied with the results of this study because they indicated that there was significant interest among astronomers in continued research into the UFO phenomenon. Sturrock summarized: “Each respondent was asked to state his opinion on whether the UFO problem deserves scientific study: 23% replied ‘certainly,’ 30% ‘probably,’ 27% ‘possibly,’ 17% ‘probably not,’ and 3% ‘certainly not,’ which represents a positive attitude among 53% of the respondents, as against a negative attitude among 20%.”
The high number of positive responses surprised Sturrock, as he was expecting the opposite. He had also asked how the AAS members would like to receive information on this subject, and the response was overwhelmingly through scientific journals. However, Dr. Sturrock and his colleagues always had problems getting their papers regarding UFOs printed in mainstream journals. This contradiction prompted Sturrock to help start a new organization called the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE), which publishes a peer-reviewed journal. Of the dozen or so professors that helped found the SSE, seven were astronomers. The SSE is still going strong with a large membership of doctorates. The organization’s website defines it as “a professional organization of scientists and scholars who study unusual and unexplained phenomena. Subjects often cross mainstream boundaries, such as consciousness, unidentified aerial phenomena, and alternative medicine, yet often have profound implications for human knowledge and technology.”
Astronomers and UFOs Today
Interest in the UFO phenomenon hasn’t been a passing fad, and astronomers continue to show interest in UFO research today. In 2011, Irish astronomer Eamonn Ansbro made news when he claimed that he was tracking UFOs. Ansbro said that he is convinced that what he is tracking are extraterrestrial spacecraft. He has even given lectures on the topic to the French government, and his studies have been published by the European Space Agency. He has named his project the Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (OSETI).
He told his local paper, the Roscommon Herald, “We haven’t proven our discovery to the scientific community yet and don’t have the resources but we can show that extraterrestrial space craft are on specific orbital tracks around the earth.”
Interest in the phenomenon also continues in other parts of the world. Astronomers at Canada’s David Dunlop Observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario, have been holding lectures on UFOs. The lecturers include astronomers Dr. Ian Shelton and Dr. Tuba Koktay, a husband and wife team, who both worked at the observatory in the past. Dr. Koktay is now a researcher, and Dr. Shelton teaches astronomy at the University of Toronto. Shelton told www.yorkregion.com, “We try to be open-mined and honest, we don’t just dismiss, because we [scientists] don’t knoweverything.”
The ground of the David Dunlap Observatory.
Closer to home, Dr. Derrick Pitts, the chief astronomer and planetarium director for the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and a nationally renowned astronomer, recently told Lee Speigel of the Huffington Post that he was supportive of serious research on the nature of the UFO phenomenon.
I can speculate about what many astronomers would say if you ask them that question. Many of them would say, “I haven’t seen anything, so I can’t say that they exist. I can’t say that this five percent are alien spacecraft.” But if you ask them in the same breath, “Would you be willing to engage in a research project to figure out what these things are,” I don’t know what that answer would be. I’d say, yeah, let’s find out, let’s take a look at it, because here we have a phenomenon that causes a tremendous amount of interest. Why not try to understand what it is?
Astronomer Derrick Pitts
(Credit: Franklin Insitute)
The notion that astronomers are not interested in UFOs is false. Hynek, the U.S. Air Force’s own astronomer, who eventually became a pioneer in civilian UFO research, probably had it right when he observed that often scientists are just not informed of the important details. Even Dr. Pitts said his interests were piqued when he read the credible and mysterious UFO cases presented in Leslie Kean’s book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record.
Historically, astronomers were the leading force behind investigating and reporting on the UFO phenomenon, and they continue to be the driving force into the research into the UFO phenomenon. Their interest adds credibility to the field and demonstrates that there is at least a sliver of interest in UFOs in mainstream science.
A version of this article originally appeared in Open Minds Magazine Issue 26 June/July 2014.
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