Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
22-09-2016
What is Europa? When will NASA reveal its discovery on Jupiter’s moon?
What is Europa? When will NASA reveal its discovery on Jupiter’s moon?
NASA has discovered “surprising activity” that may relate to the existence of an ocean hidden inside Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Jupiter with its moon Io on the left above its Great Red Spot and Europa on the right
The space agency has sparked excitement by announcing plans to present findings from images captured from the Hubble telescope.
Nasa said: “Astronomers will present results from a unique Europa observing campaign that resulted in surprising evidence of activity that may be related to the presence of a subsurface ocean on Europa.”
NASA will broadcast its hotly anticipated live statement on Europa at 7pm UK time, which is 2pm local time in the US, on Monday.
What is Europa?
Europa is the most famous of the 67 moons that orbit Jupiter, which is the solar system’s biggest planet.
Jupiter’s sixth-closest moon was discovered by Galileo in 1610 and named after Zeus' lover Europa, mother of King Minos of Crete.
It is believed that there is water on Europa, which means that theoretically it could be home to alien life.
A recent NASA study, released in May, suggested that “the necessary balance of chemical energy for life could exist there”.
The space agency said: “Europa is strongly believed to hide a deep ocean of salty liquid water beneath its icy shell.
“Whether the Jovian moon has the raw materials and chemical energy in the right proportions to support biology is a topic of intense scientific interest.”
Mystery of huge 'blob' in deep space finally SOLVED... and the findings are INCREDIBLE
MYSTERY surrounding huge ‘blob’ in deep space which has baffled astronomers for the best part of two decades has finally been unravelled – and the truth is even more mind-blowing than scientists expected.
Astronomer Chuck Steidel, of the California Institute of Technology, and his colleagues first spotted the glowing entity in the 1990s and could not figure out what it was.
The team were trying to study distant galaxies, but as Mr Steidel says, "but we also saw these big blotchy things.”
The massive clouds, which were up to 10 times the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, around one million light years, were found to be vast clouds of hydrogen gas, which the team ultimately named ‘Lyman-alpha blobs’, which Mr Steidel says were meant to be "like the blob from outer space or something like that.”
Nonetheless, what baffled the experts was that they could not understand what was making the blobs glow.
Mr Steidel: "There was no obvious source that could be illuminating that blob.”
However, a new set of astronomers have looked at the clouds and discovered something that was not expecting.
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The 'blobs' can be up to 10 times the diameter of the Milky Way
Inside one of the huge clouds, which was studied by experts using Chile’s ALMA telescope – the world's largest array of radio telescopes – was found to be two large galaxies which are producing stars at a never before seen rate.
Each of the galaxies inside the clouds was producing the equivalent of 100 new stars a year, according to University of Hertfordshire’s Jim Geach.
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The largest known single object in the universe, the Lyman-alpha blob LAB-1
A new report in the Astrophysical Journal states that the galaxies couldn’t be seen originally as they were being obscured by dust.
Mr Geach likened the lighting effects of the galaxies in the cloud to a streetlight on a gloomy night.
He said: "You see a sort of halo around the streetlight because the light from the central streetlight is scattering off water droplets in the fog. It's kind of analogous to what we're seeing with these Lyman-alpha blobs
Russian politician claims he would be good because he gets advice from outer space
Russische politicus beweert dat hij goed zou zijn, omdat hij advies krijgt vanuit de ruimte
Een Russische politicus maakte een wanhopige laatste wanhopige poging om stemmen te trekken door te beweren dat hij een goede MP zou maken, omdat hij kreeg advies van een buitenaardse beschaving.
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Vasilliy Dmitrienko heeft appealled aan de kiezers door de onthulling dat hij krijgt beleidsadvies van vreemdelingen
En ongelooflijk Vasiliy Dmitrienko, 69, van ver-Oost-Russische regio Chabarovsk Krai was nog steeds gezien de steun van zijn partij, die zei dat waar zijn ideeën vandaan kwamen, ze waren duidelijk goede ideeën voor de regio.
Dmitrienko liep voor een zetel bij de parlementsverkiezingen in Rusland die afgelopen zondag werd gehouden op 18 september tijdens welke hij vertegenwoordigde oppositie liberaal-democratische partij "Yabloko" die democratische waarden ondersteunt en verzet zich tegen Poetin politiek.
Hij werd een online Internet beroemdheid na zijn promotie-clip werd uitgezonden op de lokale televisie en werd online gedeeld.
Het toont Vasiliy Dmitrienko, een grijze man in glazen in zijn late jaren zestig maken wat lijkt op het eerste gezicht een nogal saaie speech zijn.
Hij zegt: "Laten we verenigen onze inspanningen om de regio te ontwikkelen Wij zullen er problemen op te lossen met een nieuw parlement."
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De heer Dmitrienko kreeg de steun van zijn partij na de buitenaardse vordering
Maar dan verandert hij plots tack gezegde: "Het fundamentele verschil tussen mij en de andere kandidaten is dat ik een specialist in het leveren van telepathische videocommunicatie tussen alle levende wezens op aarde en een hogere intelligentie."
Ik ben een specialist in het leveren van telepathische videocommunicatie
Politicus Vasiliy Dmitrienko
Zijn verzoek werd snel reposted door een aantal Russische media.
Blijkbaar weet Yabloko partijfunctionarissen niet zien geen kwaad in het hebben van een dergelijke "getalenteerde" kandidaat onder de partijleden.
Igor Khovanskiy, hoofd van de regionale afdeling van de Yabloko partij zei:.. "Ik denk niet dat clips zoals deze reputatie van de partij zou kunnen schaden Hij besloot om zijn verkiezingscampagne te bouwen op deze manier om meer supporters te trekken Ik denk dat dit een PR- stunt als je wil. Hij is zeer geschikt als we niet zal worden rekening houdend met zijn woorden over telepathie ".
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Igor Khovanskly van de Yabloko partij denkt Dmitrienko's video is een PR-stunt
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De 69-jarige wordt uitgevoerd voor de verkiezingen in de regio Chabarovsk Krai
De uitslag van de verkiezing wordt pas bekend op vrijdag, hoewel enquêteurs voorspellen dat de last-minute bod voor stemmen niet te vertalen naar de goedkeuring in het stemhokje.
Internet gebruiker Aleksandr Brodskiy ', verwijzend naar de kandidaat en implicerend dat hij zou kunnen hebben drug-geïnduceerde hallucinaties, zei: "Kunt u mij het nummer van uw drugsdealer, alstublieft?'
Een andere gebruiker van internet, 'alaricy2', zei: "Hij zou moeten lopen voor het presidentschap."
'Maria Gamova' zei op social media: "Dit is de coolste verkiezing promotionele clip ik ooit heb gezien!"
Geamuseerd 'Farida Ibragimova' geplaatst online gegaan om te zeggen: ". Op deze manier heb ik geleerd dat de verkiezingen ook hilarisch kan worden"
When he took his dog for a walk through a UK forest, he never thought that three shining orbs in the sky were going to be the highlight of his evening. Still, they were. The 32-year-old did get struck by them, and they did follow him through the hills near Great Shefford in Berkshire.
He had already seen them four times, so on Monday he took his camera because he wanted to capture the mysterious orbs and examine them closely. However, the camera refused to take his side after he captured some footage. Then the camera suddenly died even though it was fully charged.
The lighted orbs baffled the citizens of the leafy village in West Berkshire, as they were seen over the forest many times by different people in the past three months.
However, the dog-walker managed to capture some of the scenes, shooting the shiny orbs floating over the sky on Monday at around 7.45pm.
The man said: "There is no pattern as to when they appear - it's not a particular day or time but I've seen them about four times now. They have always been in the same position and the most lights I've seen at one time was six. They stay in the sky for a maximum of 15 minutes and then just disappear.
The comments that followed the article trod the usual trail. The readers were neatly divided over whether it was a UFO or not. While one reader said that it was a Chinese lantern, another said that it was a helicopter. The rare commentator called it a UFO---and asked the others to "do some research" on their UFOs.
What could the lights be? Different camera shots have captured different sights---mostly in the sky. Most of them were lights, mysterious objects shaped like spaceships, cigars, doughnuts or saucers.
It certainly looks like the aliens love Hollywood too!
Mars' own Grand Canyon, Valles Marineris, is shown on the surface of the planet in this composite image made aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The image was taken from a video featuring high-resolution images from Arizona State University's Thermal Emission Imaging System multi-band camera on board the spacecraft. (NASA/Arizona State University via Getty Images)
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover, which is targeted to launch in July 2020, will conduct geological examinations on its landing site on Mars. It aims to determine if the Red Planet provides a habitable environment and whether there had been past or even present extraterrestrial life on the planet.
However, one of the aims of the Mars 2020 is to lay the foundation for future human exploration with its MOXIE, Mars Oxygen In-situ Resource Utilization Experiment. The device will produce oxygen from the carbon dioxide atmosphere of the Red Planet at a rate of an estimated 0.35 ounces (10 grams) per hour.
"The object is not to produce a lot of oxygen. The object is to show that the process works on Mars. MOXIE produces only about 10 [grams] per hour of oxygen, less than one percent of full scale," saidDonald Rapp, one of the designers of the device. He added that MOXIE is just one of nine devices on the Mars 2020 Rover, but it's the most essential for human exploration.
According to previous data gathered from Mars, its atmosphere is 96 percent carbon dioxide. So, MOXIE is tasked to inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen, just like what plants and trees do on Earth. Basically, the device will gather carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, store it and will electrochemically divide the molecules into carbon monoxide and dioxygen.
Meanwhile, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a novel spectroscopic technique that may help the Mars 2020 Rover to locate and find signs of present or past extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet.
The technique will help the rover analyze and identify sediments from the planet without compromising its pristine condition. This will allow scientists to identify signs of former life. Maintaining the original composition of sediments is important to make sure data is not altered and the sediments are of their original composition.
"This may help in deciding what samples the 2020 rover will archive. It will be looking for organic matter preserved in sediments, and this will allow a more informed selection of samples for potential return to Earth," said Roger Summons, professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences at MIT.
We delve into the force's X-Files, which feature hovering shapes and an unusual space ship request
‘Dazzling’ green lights, mysterious hovering shapes and even a call asking for a space ship to be sent – these are just some of the intriguing features of UFO reports made toCheshire Constabulary .
Seven such reports were logged by call handlers between 2012 and 2015, according to information released to the Chronicle by the force following a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
Supposedly unexplained figures flying in the skies above Cheshire seem to have led some callers to question ‘is it a bird, is it a plane?’ before ultimately deciding it must be something out of this world and go on to report their suspicions to police.
Police received one report in 2012, none at all in 2013, three in 2014 and three last year, and of the seven in total two relate to Ellesmere Port , two to Northwich and one toChester .
The Chester caller reported having a close encounter outside their own home in April 2014.
One of the Ellesmere Port callers said they saw a ‘dazzling green round light bigger than aeroplane, not a firework and not a plane’ two days after Christmas in 2014.
While another Ellesmere Port resident believed they spotted three UFOs flashing white and blue in the sky 11 months later, last November.
But the strangest log of all was courtesy of one Northwich caller who requested a very unusual mode of transport.
Cheshire police’s records reveal: “Caller not making any sense has asked operator for a space ship.”
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) closed its UFO desk and hotline in 2009 because it was not deemed to serve any defence purpose, and resources devoted to it could be used on more valuable defence-related activities.
After it was disbanded, police forces and air traffic control centres were told not to refer UFO sightings to the MoD any more.
Columnist Cheryl Costa discusses UFOs reported on Sept. 11, 2001.
After making our presentation of the “Nationwide UFO Magnitude Study” at the 2016 Mutual UFO Network Symposium, we demonstrated that we could drill down into the data for a specific day during the sample years of the study (2001-2015). Our presented example of this ability was the Fourth of July sighting chartspublished on this blog in July. During the presentation’s question-and-answer period, we were asked if we’d done a specific day table for Sept. 11, 2001, which we hadn’t. Interestingly, a fair number of people in the audience expressed a desire to see this data. So here is the New York State chart showing the counties and tallies for UFOs on 9/11.
On 9/11, only five counties had sighting reports in the both the MUFON and NUFORC databases. Sixteen UFO sightings were assigned to specific counties, and three had no city reported, therefore there wasn’t any county information. Of the 16 county UFO reports, 12 were assigned to Manhattan.
As an analyst, I must caution readers that an unusual amount of daily UFO sighting reports must be weighed in the context of the emotion and panic of 9/11; something government UFO researchers and debunkers used to call “war nerves.” The other thing that must be clearly pointed out from an analysis view point is correlation does not equal causation.
As a UFO researcher, I point out another unique window of time associated with 9/11: after the attacks. The United States air space was shut down for three days.Nobody was flying on September 12, 13, and 14, 2001.
While the database reports no UFO sighting reports for Sept. 12 and 14, 2001, there were four UFO sighting reports in various parts of New York state on Sept. 13, as evidenced by the chart above.
The question arises: Were there UFO sighting reports in the rest of the United States during the post 9/11 air space shut down? At present, I don’t know, but I promise to get back to you in the near future after I compile the numbers, because to be honest with you, I’m intrigued at what I might find.
Location of event: Area S4, Inside Area 51 Date of event: 1988-1989
Lazar admitted that he worked inside Area S4, a small section of Area 51, and yet he was ridiculed by skeptics. Anyone that doesn’t believe Lazar clearly has no grasp on the subject of UFOs at all. He is legit. I looked into back in 2009 and wrote about him in my book UFO Sightings of 2006-2009. I vouch for him. Scott C. Waring
News states: Robert “Bob” Lazar (born January 26, 1959) is a controversial individual who claims qualifications as a scientist and engineer and alleged that he worked with extraterrestrial technology at a site called S4 near the Area 51 test facility. Lazar claimed to have worked in 1988 and 1989 as a physicist at S4 allegedly located at Papoose Lake southwest of top secret Area 51 near Groom Dry Lake, Nevada. According to Lazar, S4 serves as a hidden military location for the study and research of extraterrestrial spacecraft, or flying saucers using reverse engineering.
Lazar says he saw nine different extraterrestrial vehicles there and has provided detailed information on the mode of propulsion and other technical details of a disc-shaped vehicle he called the sport model. Lazar’s credibility was challenged after it was discovered that “schools he was supposed to have attended had no record of him, while others in the scientific community had no memory of ever meeting him.”[2] Lazar’s supporters counter that Lazar’s credentials and history were sabotaged to create the very questions of credibility his critics have emphasized.
Lazar first appeared in the media in the late 1980s. He appeared on television on a local Las Vegas news program discussing his experience at S4 and Area 51. He was also featured in the Los Alamos Monitor in a story dealing with a jet car he claimed to have built with help from a NASA researcher. The car was built from a jet engine modified and placed on an existing car model.[3] The article stated that Lazar was “a physicist at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility”.
In the race to discover a proposed ninth planet in our Solar System, Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of Northern Arizona University have observed several never-before-seen objects at extreme distances from the Sun in our Solar System.
Sheppard and Trujillo have now submitted their latest discoveries to the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center for official designations. A paper about the discoveries has also been accepted to The Astronomical Journal.
The more objects that are found at extreme distances, the better the chance of constraining the location of the ninth planet that Sheppard and Trujillo first predicted to exist far beyond Pluto (itself no longer classified as a planet) in 2014.
The placement and orbits of small, so-called extreme trans-Neptunian objects can help narrow down the size and distance from the Sun of the predicted ninth planet, because that planet’s gravity influences the movements of the smaller objects that are far beyond Neptune. The objects are called trans-Neptunian because their orbits around the Sun are greater than Neptune’s.
In 2014, Sheppard and Trujillo announced the discovery of 2012 VP113 (nicknamed “Biden”), which has the most-distant known orbit in our Solar System.
At this time, Sheppard and Trujillo also noticed that the handful of known extreme trans-Neptunian objects all cluster with similar orbital angles. This led them to predict that there is a planet at more than 200 times our distance from the Sun. Its mass, ranging in possibility from several Earths to a Neptune equivalent, is shepherding these smaller objects into similar types of orbits.
Some have called this Planet X or Planet 9. Further work since 2014 showed that this massive ninth planet likely exists by further constraining its possible properties.
Analysis of “neighboring” small body orbits suggest that it is several times more massive than the Earth, possibly as much as 15 times more so, and at the closest point of its extremely stretched, oblong orbit it is at least 200 times farther away from the Sun than Earth. (This is over 5 times more distant than Pluto.)
“Objects found far beyond Neptune hold the key to unlocking our Solar System’s origins and evolution,” Sheppard explained. “Though we believe there are thousands of these small objects, we haven’t found very many of them yet, because they are so far away.
The smaller objects can lead us to the much bigger planet we think exists out there. The more we discover, the better we will be able to understand what is going on in the outer Solar System.”
August 2016 - Saturn, 746 million miles from Earth - We just received a new leaked video from one of our contacts in the Russian Space Agency and this new video is very hot ! This short video footage shows Russian cosmonauts reaching orbit of Saturn and exploring with space shuttle fleet the moon Titan. Our contact informed us that they just reached Saturn after a nearly seven-year old space journey.
Watch this amazing VIDEO HERE !there other than ourselves.
The most distant of the planets obviously visible to the naked eye, Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system. Because it travels in an elliptical path rather than a circular one, it doesn't always lie the same distance from the sun as it wanders through the sky.
The distance to Saturn from our planet is constantly changing as both of the planets travel through space. When the two are closest, they lie approximately 746 million miles (1.2 billion kilometers) apart, or eight times the distance between the Earth and the sun. At their most distant, when they lie on opposite sides of the sun from one another, they are just over a billion miles (1.7 billion km) apart, or 11 times the distance between the Earth and the sun.
Space travel is rarely a matter of moving in a straight line. Spacecraft often take advantage of planets, moons, and even the sun to gain speed with the use of little fuel. As such, older missions may have taken less time to reach outer planets than those with more modern propulsion systems.
Pioneer 11 took the first look at Saturn. Launched in April 1973, the craft passed Saturn over six years later, in September 1979.
The Voyager spacecrafts took advantage of an optimal lineup to explore the outer planets. Launched in September 1977, Voyager 1 used a gravitational assist from Jupiter to swing by Saturn in November 1980, only three years after leaving Earth. Although Voyager 2 launched a month earlier than its twin, it took a longer, more circular route and arrived in August 1981, taking a full four years to reach Saturn.
The Cassini mission, which left Earth in October 1997, twice used Venus for gravitational assists, slingshoting off of the cloudy planet. It also made a flyby of Jupiter, imaging the gas giant as it passed by. After almost seven years, the craft entered orbit around Saturn in July 2004, where it intends to study the planet until at least 2017. Among other things, the mission has studied lightning in Saturn's atmosphere.
The New Horizons mission, headed to the dwarf planet Pluto, launched in January 2006. Traveling at the fastest launch speed to date, it passed by Mars and Jupiter, then skimmed by Saturn in June 2008, taking only a year and a half to reach the ringed giant.
As you can see, the question of how long it takes to reach Saturn depends significantly on the path selected for the mission, as much if not more than the speed of the spacecraft itself.
Recently NASA scientists have identified an unexpected high-altitude methane ice cloud on Saturn's moon Titan that is similar to exotic clouds found far above Earth's poles.
This lofty cloud, imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, was part of the winter cap of condensation over Titan's north pole. Now, eight years after spotting this mysterious bit of atmospheric fluff, researchers have determined that it contains methane ice, which produces a much denser cloud than the ethane ice previously identified there.
"The idea that methane clouds could form this high on Titan is completely new," said Carrie Anderson, a Cassini participating scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study. "Nobody considered that possible before."
Methane clouds were already known to exist in Titan's troposphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere. Like rain and snow clouds on Earth, those clouds form through a cycle of evaporation and condensation, with vapor rising from the surface, encountering cooler and cooler temperatures and falling back down as precipitation. On Titan, however, the vapor at work is methane instead of water.
The newly identified cloud instead developed in the stratosphere, the layer above the troposphere. Earth has its own polar stratospheric clouds, which typically form above the North Pole and South Pole between 49,000 and 82,000 feet (15 to 25 kilometers) -- well above cruising altitude for airplanes. These rare clouds don't form until the temperature drops to minus 108 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 78 degrees Celsius).
Other stratospheric clouds had been identified on Titan already, including a very thin, diffuse cloud of ethane, a chemical formed after methane breaks down. Delicate clouds made from cyanoacetylene and hydrogen cyanide, which form from reactions of methane byproducts with nitrogen molecules, also have been found there.
But methane clouds were thought unlikely in Titan's stratosphere. Because the troposphere traps most of the moisture, stratospheric clouds require extreme cold. Even the stratosphere temperature of minus 333 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 203 degrees Celsius), observed by Cassini just south of the equator, was not frigid enough to allow the scant methane in this region of the atmosphere to condense into ice.
What Anderson and her Goddard co-author, Robert Samuelson, noted is that temperatures in Titan's lower stratosphere are not the same at all latitudes. Data from Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer and the spacecraft's radio science instrument showed that the high-altitude temperature near the north pole was much colder than that just south of the equator.
It turns out that this temperature difference -- as much as 11 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) -- is more than enough to yield methane ice.
Other factors support the methane identification. Initial observations of the cloud system were consistent with small particles composed of ethane ice. Later observations revealed some regions to be clumpier and denser, suggesting that more than one ice could be present. The team confirmed that the larger particles are the right size for methane ice and that the expected amount of methane -- one-and-a-half percent, which is enough to form ice particles -- is present in the lower polar stratosphere.
The mechanism for forming these high-altitude clouds appears to be different from what happens in the troposphere. Titan has a global circulation pattern in which warm air in the summer hemisphere wells up from the surface and enters the stratosphere, slowly making its way to the winter pole. There, the air mass sinks back down, cooling as it descends, which allows the stratospheric methane clouds to form.
"Cassini has been steadily gathering evidence of this global circulation pattern, and the identification of this new methane cloud is another strong indicator that the process works the way we think it does," said Michael Flasar, Goddard scientist and principal investigator for Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS).
Like Earth's stratospheric clouds, this methane cloud was located near the winter pole, above 65 degrees north latitude. Anderson and Samuelson estimate that this type of cloud system -- which they call subsidence-induced methane clouds, or SIMCs for short -- could develop between 98,000 to 164,000 feet (30 to 50 kilometers) in altitude above Titan's surface.
"Titan continues to amaze with natural processes similar to those on the Earth, yet involving materials different from our familiar water," said Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. "As we approach southern winter solstice on Titan, we will further explore how these cloud formation processes might vary with season."
The results of this study are available online in the journal Icarus.
Will We Ever Find Alien Life? NASA and SETI Just Weighed in
Will We Ever Find Alien Life? NASA and SETI Just Weighed in
Futurism / ET
IN BRIEF
NASA and SETI experts discussed the question of life outside our own planet during an event celebrating Star Trek. Is extraterrestrial life possible? If so, what form will it take and how close are we to finding it?
Are we alone?
This question has been the subject of science fiction literature since H. G. Wells, and has popped up in films, video games, and more. But how close are we to truly finding life out there?
A panel of experts spoke on this topic during an event celebrating Star Trek’s 50th anniversaryin NYC. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Bobak Ferdowski, together with Dan Werthimer, University of California Berkeley’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) chief, led the discussion.
Let’s dive into their answers to two of the most intriguing questions from the discussion.
IF WE DO FIND LIFE, WILL IT BE PRIMITIVE OR INTELLIGENT?
Intelligent life does not necessarily equate to technological life. For example, dolphins are intelligent, but you don’t see them building VR devices (that we know of, anyway). It will most like be some time before we find intelligent life. Primitive extraterrestrial life, on the other hand, could be discovered in the next 20 to 30 years, according to Ferdowski and Werthimer.
They pointed out the potential for life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. “Europa [may be] completely covered in water. That’s great for primitive life, but if you want technology, you’ve got to have some land surfaces as well,” Werthimer explains. We may find primitive life there, “but it won’t necessarily evolve into something more complex than single-celled life” he points out.
If extraterrestrial technological life does exist, the beings may not be interested in contacting us. The panelists contrasted two popular theories — the Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox. The former posits that intelligent life should be a fairly common occurrence in the universe. The latter questions why alien life, if it was indeed possible, is not observable in a universe teeming with it.
The panelists answered by assuming an extraterrestrial version of Star Trek’s “Prime Directive:” this technological life may be prohibited to mingle with less advance cultures. Or maybe some just aren’t explorers by nature.
WILL EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE RESEMBLE HUMANITY?
“If it’s exactly the same as us, that probably doesn’t mean there were two independent origins of life,” says Ferdowski. If extraterrestrial life does exist, and resembles human beings in basic biology, that could prove there was a common precursor of life in the cosmos, a theory known as panspermia.
Werthimer concluded:
“It’s a profound question either way […] If we find out we’re alone, that means we’d better take incredibly good care of the precious life here on Earth.”
The panelists may not have come to a definitive answer, but they did leave us a lot to consider when we look at our own galactic existence.
NASA geeft maandag aanstaande een telefonische persconferentie over nieuwe bevindingen die voortspruiten uit beelden van Europa, geschoten door ruimtetelescoop Hubble. Europa is in dit geval niet het werelddeel waarin wij leven, maar een van de manen van de planeet Jupiter.
De ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft het over "bewijs van verrassende activiteit die mogelijk verband houdt met de aanwezigheid van een oceaan onder de oppervlakte van Europa". De oppervlakte van de maan Europa bestaat uit een dikke laag ijs, waaronder al langer een vloeibare oceaan werd vermoed, maar nu zou de NASA daar dus bewijzen van hebben. Meteen wordt dan ook gedacht aan de mogelijkheid van buitenaards leven.
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Rabbi: “Nibiru zorgt voor extreme weersverschijnselen op aarde”
Rabbi: “Nibiru zorgt voor extreme weersverschijnselen op aarde”
Doemvoorspellingen blijven populair op internet. Er is op dit moment veel te doen rond de potentiële dreiging van Nibiru. Rabbi Alon Anava zei afgelopen week dat de dwergster verantwoordelijk is voor extreme weersverschijnselen op aarde.
Blogger Menachem Robinson wist bovendien aan Breaking Israel News te vertellen dat Nibiru de komende weken zijn dichtste punt tot de aarde zal bereiken.
Na een recente lezing over de komst van de Messias, linkte rabbi Anava het toenemende aantal tsunami’s, aardbevingen, vulkaanuitbarstingen en andere extreme gebeurtenissen aan de komst van Nibiru.
Verschillende hemellichamen
Hij zei dat de Amerikaanse overheid al voorzorgsmaatregelen heeft getroffen door het hoofdkwartier van de Federal Reserve en de CIA te verplaatsen.
“Decennialang geloofden astronomen dat er een tiende planeet in ons zonnestelsel moest zijn,” zei Robinson, die al veel over Nibiru heeft geschreven. “De tiende planeet werd Planeet X genoemd. X is het Romeinse cijfer 10. Nibiru en Planeet X zijn echter twee compleet verschillende hemellichamen en bevinden zich niet eens in hetzelfde zonnestelsel.”
Volgens rabbi Anava is het ook mogelijk dat er niets gaat gebeuren. “Er zijn profetieën die spreken van brandende rotsen, maar elke profetie kan ongedaan gemaakt worden.”
Vaticaan
Het zijn niet alleen joodse denkers die speuren naar Nibiru. Volgens Robinson is ook het Vaticaan geïnteresseerd in de dwergster. “Het Vaticaan is geïnteresseerd in Nibiru als de ster die de Messias brengt, en de ster van Jakob in Numeri,” legde hij uit.
“Ik zal hem zien, maar nu niet; ik zal hem aanschouwen, maar niet nabij. Er zal een ster voortkomen uit Jakob, en er zal een scepter uit Israël opkomen; die zal de palen der Moabieten verslaan, en zal al de kinderen van Seth verstoren.” – Numeri 24:17
Rabbi Anava zei dat het Vaticaan 500 jaar geleden is begonnen met de zoektocht naar Nibiru. Volgens hem baseerden astronomen van de Heilige Stoel zich op joodse bronnen, waaronder de boeken van Ezechiël, Jeremia en de Zohar, die verhalen over een planeet van vuur die voor de komst van de Messias verschijnt.
Volgens Robinson kan Nibiru binnen nu en enkele weken zijn dichtste punt tot de aarde naderen. Rabbi Anava noemt geen specifiek tijdstip.
Wetenschapper: “Kernexplosies op Mars waren bedoeld om al het leven uit te roeien”
Wetenschapper: “Kernexplosies op Mars waren bedoeld om al het leven uit te roeien”
Er zijn in een ver verleden tot twee keer toe nucleaire ontploffingen geweest op Mars. Dat heeft dr. John E. Brandenburg gezegd tijdens de conferentieAIAA Space 2016van het American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
“We hebben bewijs voor twee grote nucleaire explosies op Mars,” zei Brandenburg. “De plekken bevinden zich ten noorden van Cydonia Mensa en Galaxias Chaos.”
Het gezicht op Mars
Hij voegde toe dat op beide plekken mogelijk archeologische artefacten kunnen worden gevonden. Nieuwe foto’s van het gezicht op Mars (Cydonia Mensa) tonen namelijk ogen, een neus, mond en een helm, aldus de fysicus.
Doelbewuste pogingen
In 2014 werd er voor het eerst aandacht besteed aan de bevindingen van de plasmafysicus. Hij liet weten dat hij zijn werk heeft laten analyseren door het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie. Na een half jaar gaf het Pentagon hem toestemming om zijn onderzoek te presenteren tijdens AIAA Space 2016 in Californië.
Tijdens het congres vertelde hij dat de twee nucleaire ontploffingen in de Marsatmosfeer hebben plaatsgevonden en dat het lijkt te gaan om doelbewuste pogingen om al het leven op de rode planeet uit te roeien.
Enorme schokgolven
De ontploffingen waren volgens hem zwaar genoeg om een enorme catastrofe te veroorzaken en het klimaat op Mars drastisch te veranderen. Omdat er geen kraters zijn gevonden, moeten ze in de atmosfeer hebben plaatsgevonden, aldus Brandenburg.
Aangezien zijn werk zorgvuldig is bestudeerd door het Pentagon, lijkt dr. Brandenburg over bewijs te beschikken dat er kernwapens zijn gebruikt op Mars. Isotopen wijzen op twee enorme schokgolven in de noordelijke regio’s op Mars, veroorzaakt door nucleaire wapens.
A New York witness between Florida and Goshe reported watching and videotaping a cylinder-shaped UFO where the entire object was lit, according to testimony in Case 79187 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON).
The witness and his girlfriend were driving home between 9 and 10 p.m. on August 4, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“We saw a light to our left,” the witness stated.“This thing was a complete lit-surfaced craft. It wasn’t blinking lights. The entire surface of craft was lit up and glowing.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON).
One piece of video was included with the report, which was filed on September 16, 2016. New York Field Investigator Joseph Flammer and Chief Investigator Nicholas Voulgaris are investigating.
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
(Cred it: MUFON).
Please be cautious of UFO video until an investigation is complete. Most UFO reports can be resolved as something natural or man-made. Florida is a village in Orange County, New York, population 2,833.
Een man gaat wandelen met zijn hond en filmt een aantal vreemde objecten, waarna opeens de batterij van zijn camera leeg is.
En twee politieagenten slagen erin om opnamen te maken van een vreemde cilindervormige UFO.
We schreven gisteren over het voortdurende mysterie van de oranje bollen en ook vanuit Engeland komt daarover nu een interessant verhaal.
De waarneming werd enkele dagen geleden gedaan door een man die zijn hond uitliet in de plaats Great Shefford in Berkshire.
Terwijl ze daar samen liepen, zag hij drie glinsterende objecten boven de bomen hangen. Helaas had hij geen camera bij zich en kon hij dus ook niets opnemen. Een dag later ging hij terug naar hetzelfde gebied, dit keer wel gewapend met een camera, in de hoop dat hij dit keer wat interessante opnames zou kunnen maken.
Hij had geluk, want dezelfde objecten die hij de dag ervoor had gezien, waren nu wederom zichtbaar. Hij begon met filmen, maar het plezier duurde niet al te lang, want na twee minuten stopte de camera omdat de batterij dood was,ondanks dat deze volledig was opgeladen.
Buurtbewoners in het dorpje vertelden aan de plaatselijke krant dat ook zij volledig in het duister tasten omtrent de identiteit van de objecten. De afgelopen drie maanden zijn deze vreemde oranje fenomenen door diverse bewoners van het dorp in West Yorkshire waargenomen.
De man met de hond vertelde dat hij ze tot nu toe vier keer had gezien, maar dat ze niet op bepaalde vaste tijden verschenen.
Het hoogste aantal objecten dat hij heeft waargenomen, bedraagt zes en de maximale tijd dat ze zichtbaar waren, is ongeveer een kwartier.
Ook hier echter weer geen antwoorden.
We blijven nog even in Engeland waar enkele politiemensen ook een vreemd object op film wisten vast te leggen.
Deze waarneming vond plaats in een heel ander deel van Engeland en dat was in het plaatsje Consett in County Durham.
Het betrof een sigaarvormige UFO die ongeveer 30 minuten zichtbaar was. Het voorval vond plaats op klaarlichte dag en men zag dat de UFO verticaal om zijn eigen as draaide.
Volgens UFO experts bevindt het object zich op een hoogte van ergens tussen de 350 en 1750 meter en men schat de lengte ervan op ergens tussen de 70 en 150 meter.
Er worden natuurlijk wel vaker cilindervormige UFO’s waargenomen, maar je ziet ze niet zo dikwijls in een verticale positie.
This is interesting. Streetcap1 found an armada passing by our sun this week. There is a main mothership, three medium ships (yellow circle), and 10 tiny craft (red circles) following it. Look how the long thin nose of the medium craft (above) is the same as the nose on the mothership below it. It looks like they are traveling together, because there is safety in numbers...especially for the smaller craft. Also the medium craft flying behind them has a triangle shape. Scott C. Waring
Streetcap1 states: This is a quite complicated looking piece with possibly two or more items meeting in space. As we say here, you couldn't make it up and guess what, I don't. PS. Notice the circle next to the main craft has a small craft at the center. Standard alien greetings approach formation with the boss in the center. How do I know this, I just do.Streetcap1.
Huge Jellyfish UFO Over Caribbean Caught By NASA, Sept 18, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Huge Jellyfish UFO Over Caribbean Caught By NASA, Sept 18, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Above is original, below is negative.
Date of sighting: Sept 18, 2016 Location of sighting:Caribbean Its plain to see there is a giant jellyfish UFO hiding inside this could, and its soaking in the power of the electricity causing lightning all around it. Some ships deliberately create these storms just so they can feed off of them, regardless of the damage they may cause the public. NASA is trying to call these sprites, but its a new field especially created to deliberately misinform the public about these UFOs so they can keep them secret. NASA was created not to find alien life, but to appease the publics curiosity, but giving them crumbs of information. Thus they can say they are doing their job, when in all reality, they are holding the public back. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states: This is a copy and paste from the Nasa website spaceweather.com: 'A-BOMB' SPRITE OVER THE CARIBBEAN: On Sept. 18th, Frankie Lucena of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, photographed an enormous sprite over the Caribbean Sea. For a split-second, the sky was illuminated by a mushroom-shaped flash:Oscar van der Velde, a member of the Lightning Research Group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, explains what Lucena photographed: "This type of sprite is often called 'jellyfish' or 'A-bomb,' and ranks as the largest type of sprite in both horizontal and vertical dimensions," he says. "It consists of a bright halo approximately 85 km above Earth's surface surrounding sprite elements with long tendrils reaching down as low as ~30 km above ground level." "This kind of sprite tends to be triggered by a very impulsive positive cloud-to-ground flash," van der Velde adds. The curious thing is, Lucena did not observe an instigating lightning bolt. Instead, just before the sprite appeared, he recorded a bright point-like flash of light. "Was it a cosmic ray hitting the camera?" wonders Lucena. Play the entire video to see the flash. Another possibility: The point-like flash could have been a cloud-to-ground strike mostly eclipsed by intervening clouds. If Lucena did photograph something new triggering a sprite, perhaps it shouldn't come as a big surprise. The field is relatively new. Although sprites have been seen for at least a century, most scientists did not believe they existed until after 1989 when sprites were photographed by cameras onboard the space shuttle. There is still much to learn.
Gigantic UFO With Multiple Arms Spotted Near The Sun In SOHO Images Captured In Three Different Years
Gigantic UFO With Multiple Arms Spotted Near The Sun In SOHO Images Captured In Three Different Years
An image of the Sun showing an apparent giant alien UFO flying through the inner solar system raises speculations about NASA hiding evidence of alien presence. Cameras on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the image on September 11, 2016.
UFO researchers have been spotting this UFO flying close to the Sun-Earth L1 gravitational balance point in the solar system. SOHO cameras also captured similar flybys in 2011, 2012, and 2016. NASA and the European Space Agency jointly managed the SOHO satellite, which is stationed in a halo orbit around point L1. Its primary purpose is to transmit almost real-time data of solar activity to Earth, which helps in predicting space weather.
The UFO discovered in the image from SOHO LASCO C2 camera has multiple long arms, which according to UFO hunters, could be communication antennae.
Some UFO hunters say that the UFO has three long appendages and a fourth arm that is two times longer than the higher arms. All four arms are believed to be solid objects and not just trails. Other UFO researchers say that the UFO actually has 5-7 arms. They also point out that the arms were not smoke trails or vapor from the engine exhaust, but solid appendages.
The UFO has repeatedly been spotted stationing near the Sun in SOHO images. Alien and UFO hunters suggest that the unidentified flying object follows a fixed route that regularly passes the Sun to refuel by sucking energy from the hot atmosphere of the star.
Alien hunters are now challenging NASA to explain why the mysterious object is present in two images taken on the same day by different SOHO cameras, making it impossible to be just an accidental flaw in the digital image.
Louisville, Kentucky: UFO followed by a smaller UFO fleet 19-Sep-2016
Louisville, Kentucky: UFO followed by a smaller UFO fleet 19-Sep-2016
Here’s one interesting footage of some kind of a UFO fleet flying across the sky above Louisville, Kentucky. This was filmed on 19th September 2016.
Witness report:
watching the night sky with a NV-IR device, i captured a UFO traveling N to NE, when it disappeared above garage i noticed there was a ufo fleet behind it, they flew too fast to be birds and moving very quick in formation at night following a ufo?i don’t think it was birds because they were at the same altitude as the first UFO (main object).
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