Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
29-09-2016
Student Catches A UFO Sighting On Video
Student Catches A UFO Sighting On Video
A sphere-shaped UFO was spotted and videotaped over Slippery Rock in Pennsylvania. According to the witness’ testimony, which is filed in Case 79259 of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database, the object in question has similar size of basketball.
The unnamed witness, who is a student at Slippery Rock University, ruled out bugs, dust particles, and ball lightning as possible explanations. The mysterious event reportedly started at around 10:27 p.m. on 18 September 2016.
According to the report, the witness noticed a bright dot out of the corner of his eye while doing his homework. Then he heard a bark of a dog from his neighbor. When he turned his attention to the window, he spotted a dazzling, basketball-sized UFO in white or silver color. It was the first time the student spotted such orb in his life with a light humming sound.
The report says that the ball traveled from the woods to a lamp post while pulsating in about a minute. When the sphere came closer to the light post, the lights dim initially, and when the lights came back to normal, the ball began to dance somewhat around them.
While apparently dancing, the circle started to brighten. This time, the witness took out his phone and started recording it on video. A couple of seconds later, the witness waved his hands to try to get the orb’s attention, but it started to zigzag from one point to another, and all of a sudden disappeared moving to the left.
Coin and mysterious UFO The Black Knight Satellite
Coin and mysterious UFO The Black Knight Satellite
Published on Sep 28, 2016
Old European coin depict UFOs? These old coin commemorate the Great Comet of 1680. It was one of the brightest comets in history and was seen by multitudes across Europe from Scotland to France and Italy. BUT was it really a comet? These 1680 coins seem to depict a flying object constructed by some kind of intelligence rather than a comet.
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“Graancirkels onmogelijk allemaal door mensen gemaakt”
“Graancirkels onmogelijk allemaal door mensen gemaakt”
Monique Klinkenbergh geeft in Den Haag een overzicht van haar jarenlange onderzoek naar het graancirkelfenomeen. In 2012 was ze betrokken bij een documentaire van National Geographic.
Ze doorkruiste Wiltshire in Engeland, het wereldwijde ‘epicentrum’, en ging met een vliegtuig achter aanwijzingen aan, soms met succes. “Als je ’s ochtends vroeg in een verse graancirkel staat, dan voel je je alsof je gedachten worden opgetild,” zei ze.
Volgens de voormalig hoofdredacteur van een kunsttijdschrift kunnen al die duizenden graancirkels die sinds de middeleeuwen zijn verschenen, onmogelijk allemaal mensenwerk zijn. Ze kan zich voorstellen dat magnetisme sporen in het graan trekt of misschien is er een andere verklaring.
Indianenverhalen
Het doel van haar tentoonstelling is een juist beeld te scheppen van het graancirkelfenomeen. Dit beeld werd vertekend door de onjuiste maar breed geaccepteerde theorie dat graancirkels alleen door mensen worden gemaakt.
Monique Klinkenbergh
“Zonder interesse van de wetenschap kom ik niet verder,” legde ze uit. “Graancirkels worden sinds twee Britten 25 jaar geleden bekenden er zelf een aantal te hebben gemaakt, afgedaan als grap. Er zijn heel veel indianenverhalen. Maar het is een authentiek fenomeen.”
Groeit gewoon door
Het blijft haar verbazen dat het graan als regel gebogen of zelfs gevlochten is. “Terwijl graan breekt als je dat zelf probeert,” zei ze. In een authentieke graancirkel zijn de stengels van de planten gebogen. Als het gewas niet wordt vertrapt, groeit het gewoon door.
Graancirkels zijn veelal complexe geometrische patronen die in zeer korte tijd, met name ’s nachts, maar soms ook overdag, wereldwijd in allerlei soorten gewassen ontstaan. Inmiddels zijn er meer dan 7000 in ruim 60 landen geregistreerd. De grootte kan variëren van één meter tot enkele honderden meters in doorsnee.
Onbegrepen fenomeen
Hoewel het graancirkelfenomeen een eeuwenoud verschijnsel is, kwam onderzoek pas eind 1970 in Engeland op gang en leidde tot wereldwijde belangstelling. Klinkenbergh is van mening dat, naast door mensenhanden gemaakte graancirkels, er tevens sprake is van een authentiek maar onbegrepen fenomeen.
Meer informatie over de tentoonstelling vind je hier.
Gemaakt voor de goden? Mysterieuze ringvormige geogliefen ontdekt in Peru
Gemaakt voor de goden? Mysterieuze ringvormige geogliefen ontdekt in Peru
In de buurt van Quilcapampa in de Peruaanse regio Arequipa zijn tientallen ringvormige geogliefen ontdekt. De raadselachtige lijnen bevinden zich in de buurt van paden die in het verleden zijn gebruikt voor handel.
Geogliefen hebben onderzoekers altijd al gefascineerd. Aangenomen wordt dat de vreemde patronen op het aardoppervlak zijn gemaakt door Precolumbiaanse beschavingen zodat de goden ze vanuit de lucht konden zien.
De meest beroemde geogliefen zijn de Nazcalijnen, die op 400 kilometer ten zuiden van Lima in de Nazcawoestijn worden gevonden. Ze tonen dieren, planten en vreemde geometrische vormen.
Weinig over bekend
Deze geogliefen zijn tussen 500 voor Christus en 500 na Christus gemaakt en ruim 20 jaar geleden toegevoegd aan de werelderfgoedlijst van Unesco. Er zijn echter nog veel meer geogliefen in Peru waar nog maar heel weinig over bekend is.
“Wij brengen alle zichtbare geogliefen nu voor het eerst in kaart en kijken daarbij ook naar de omgeving en andere culturele eigenschappen,” vertelde curator van het Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto Justin Jennings aan IBTimes UK. “We zien dat bepaalde geogliefen naast elkaar liggen en kunnen aantonen dat de geogliefen verband houden met oude handelspaden.”
Verweven
De nieuwste geogliefen tonen individuele cirkels of cirkels die met elkaar verweven zijn. De ringen hebben bijna allemaal een doorsnee van twee tot vier meter, maar het hele patroon strekt zich uit over een gebied van 800 vierkante meter.
Naar de betekenis van de geogliefen kunnen we alleen maar gissen, aldus Jennings. De meeste lijken te zijn gemaakt in de periode 600 tot 1500 na Christus. De grootste geogliefen bestaan uit concentrische cirkels.
De onderzoeksresultaten worden binnenkort gepubliceerd in het Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
Edward Snowden Secret Alien UFO Drone Project Reviled! New Jersey Experiment!? 9/28/2016 Submitted To Thirdphaseofmoon: This is Patrick McCracken and you have covered a few of my videos in the past. UFO activity has really intensified over the past year. Im glad to say that the drones harassing me has gone way down and i stopped trying to get footage anymore. I found a old clip i thought maybe you could use. It was a nest of military drones i caught on tape on the Mantoloking bridge last spring. Im hoping the people are waking up to this treasonous program being run across the globe. A lot of people are mistaking the secret drone program as just regular ufos because they dont understand the technology the military industrial complex has from the secret space program. Original Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibXLQJ-rj-k
Submitted To Thirdphaseofmoon: KEPT SEE BEATZ The night of Aug. 24, 2016 in Puyallup Wa. I saw what I thought were Chinese lanterns, I even said it in the footage, but I kept the video Safe and did a lot of research come to find out 29 States ban the use of Chinese lanterns with Washington State being one of them because of wildfires here and there was NO special events except a death of a teen here but on that night after this was taken.. I called law enforcement and city hall.. Nothing was happening this particular day, now with that being said I want you to take a look and see for yourself what we saw. Here’s the video guys! Let me know what you think! Universal Love & Light to all! Original Linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwVQSHsozYY
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A New York witness at Colonie reported watching and photographing three cigar-shaped UFOs that hovered overhead under the cloud cover before quickly disappearing, according to testimony in Case 79390 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Cropped and enlarged witness image 1.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness and a sister were driving along Central Avenue heading to Schenectady about 7:10 p.m. on September 11, 2016, when the incident began.
Cropped and enlarged witness image 2.
(Credit: MUFON)
“My sister observed a brilliant light in the sky,” the witness stated.“When I looked the light was steady, didn’t move for about three minutes. I quickly thought it was a UFO.”
The two decided to pull over for a better look.
Cropped and enlarged witness image 3.
(Credit: MUFON)
“It impacted us and my sister parked the car and I got my cell phone to take pictures, which are the ones attached. It looked like a cigar type.”
Then two more objects showed up.
Cropped and enlarged witness image 4.
(Credit: MUFON)
“Then the first UFO moved and then two more showed up and were steady for about a minute and then the three of them disappeared.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image 5.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness submitted five images with the MUFON report, which was filed on September 25, 2016.Colonie is a town in Albany County, New York, population 81,591. New York Chief Investigator Nicholas Voulgaris is investigating.
Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Pennsylvania student videotapes sphere UFO size of basketball
Pennsylvania student videotapes sphere UFO size of basketball
A Pennsylvania witness at Slippery Rock reported watching and videotaping a sphere-shaped UFO the size of a basketball, according to testimony in Case 79259 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness is a student at Slippery Rock University who ruled out ball lightning, dust particles and bugs. The event occurred beginning about 10:27 p.m. on September 18, 2016.
“I was doing my homework when suddenly I noticed a bright dot out of the corner of my eye followed by my neighbor’s dog barking like crazy,” the witness stated.“Upon noticing these things, I then turned towards the window and saw a very bright, basketball-sized, white/silver, beautifully uniquely shaped UFO (orb). This orb was like nothing I’ve ever seen or experienced before.”
Still frame taken from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness said the object appeared to be angelic.
“Its shape was mainly spherical, but looked like it was a spherical shape hard to comprehend – like a two-dimensional creature seeing a three-dimensional sphere. It’s almost like it came from a higher dimensional plane, managed to somehow project to our plane, gave off a feeling of power and love, and was accompanied by a light humming sound.”
The witness has a theory.
“I hypothesize that mathematically, this type of ‘dimensional projection’ can be explained by mapping from a four-dimensional vector plane(their reality) onto a three-dimensional vector plane (our reality; linear algebra transformations). This would allow an orb of possibly a higher dimension to travel to lower dimensions and be visible to us three-dimensional creatures.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness described the object’s path.
“The orb’s travel path was linear, traveling from the woods (behind the back parking lot of my building) to a lamp post (in the back parking lot). While traveling, it was pulsating. Again, I was absolutely astonished by this object. The duration of time it took the orb to travel from the woods to the lamp post was approximately one minute. When the orb neared the light post, it caused the lights to dim initially. When the lights brightened, the orb started to almost ‘dance’ around them in some sort of way. The object appeared to be metallic and have some sort of electric and magnetic field around it. With that being said, it’s almost like the orb was trying to ‘charge’ itself by interacting its magnetic field against the electric field emitted by the light (this is explained by the solenoid-coil experiment to create a charge).”
The orb then became brighter.
“As the orb did this it started to brighten. After staring at this orb baffled, confused, and coming to the realization that I wasn’t seeing things, I took out my phone and started recording it. After a couple seconds of recording I waved my hands to try to get its attention. Upon seeing me, the orb started to zigzag from one point in space to another instantly (null geodesic) and then suddenly vanished instantly. Also, the object appears to disappear traveling to the left.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness included one video with the MUFON report, which was filed on September 19, 2016.
“I submitted the original unedited video I took, so if you want to see how the object actually takes off, slow down the time frames in the video at the time gap from 32s-36s. Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and watch the video. And as a junior physics and engineering student I ensure the accuracy of the theory and invite you to look into the physics/mathematical topics after watching the video to try to make sense of these UFOs and their nature. Hope to hear back from you soon.”
Pennsylvania State Regional Director Fred Saluga is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
The Beginning: UFO Encounters over Washington D.C.
Open Minds Magazine #1
Welcome to Open Minds Magazine. In this new monthly UFO news magazine show (view above), we will take a closer look at the mystery posed by Unidentified Flying Objects, in hopes to gain a better understanding of the nature of the phenomenon and how the government, including the military, and the public react to it.
Perhaps the most thorough examination into the UFO issue was conducted by the U.S Air Force. They began their investigation in 1948. It was called Project Sign, then changed its name to Project Grudge, and finally changed its name once again to Project Blue Book.
As a result of these investigations and studies and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project BLUE BOOK are:(1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as “unidentified” represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as “unidentified” are extraterrestrial vehicles.
However, upon closer examination of the thousands of files released regarding the Blue Book investigations, it becomes apparent that the Air Force’s conclusions were not shared by everyone involved in the investigation, and that there were some truly fascinating cases that remain unsolved.
Often people say they will not believe in UFOs until they land on the White House lawn. Well, one of the most famous and mysterious Blue Book cases came close.
UFO sightings over Washington, DC in July 1952 made worldwide headlines and left the U.S. Air Force dazed and confused. The events spanned several days and included multiple radar identifications of unknown aircraft, some of which were correlated by witnesses on the ground. Many of the sightings caused the air force to scramble jet fighters, and in each of these cases, the UFOs outmaneuvered the jets. This all culminated into what may be the most important official U.S. Air Force UFO investigation of all time.
The U.S. Air Force’s investigation of the events in Washington, DC is best explained in a book written by the lead air force investigator, Captain Edward Ruppelt. Ruppelt—who was the head of the U.S. Air Force’s official UFO investigation department, Project Blue Book, from its inception in early 1952 until late 1953—published The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects in 1956.
The summer of 1952 was a busy time for the Blue Book investigators; Ruppelt referred to this period as, “The Big Flap.” Some of the most credible reports were coming from the Washington, DC area.
On July 10, a National Airlines crew reported a UFO over nearby Quantico, Virginia. They described the object as, “too bright to be a lighted balloon and too slow to be a big meteor.”
Then, on July 13, another commercial airline crew reported a UFO sixty miles southwest of Washington, DC. The crew was flying at 11,000 feet when they spotted a light below them. The object came up to their level, and when they turned on their headlights, it shot up in a steep climb.
The next day, on July 14, yet another commercial airline crew reported a UFO. This time it was during a flight from New York to Miami. While flying in the area of Newport News, Virginia, approximately 130 miles south of Washington, DC, the crew reported seeing eight UFOs.
Two days later, on the night of July 16, at around 9:00 p.m., a “high-ranking” scientist from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Laboratory at Langley Air Force Base reported seeing a UFO with a friend. They were standing near the ocean when they saw two amber-colored lights off to their right. The lights were silently moving to the north. The scientist said they were “much too large to be aircraft lights.”
Ruppelt and his investigators had decided that this object would have been too big to be a plane given the description of the lights, and they could not find an answer as to what the scientists and his friend had seen. Ruppelt said it was a moot point, however, because the scientist “was a very famous aerodynamicist and of such professional stature that if he said the lights weren’t airplanes they weren’t.”
On July 20, Ruppelt was flying to Washington, DC on unrelated business. His plane landed at Washington National Airport in the morning, and he grabbed a paper to catch up on the latest news. There he found in big, bold, capitalized font, “INTERCEPTORS CHASE FLYING SAUCERS OVER WASHINGTON, D.C.”
Washington National Airport control tower. (Credit: Jack Delano/Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons)
Ruppelt immediately called his superior officer at the Pentagon, Major Dewey Fournet, who told Ruppelt there was an investigation happening at Bolling Air Force Base. Rupplet headed there and received a briefing from the intelligence officer. At the meeting, they learned that at 11:40 p.m. the previous night, seven objects were caught on radar at Washington National Airport. At first, the radar operators thought the objects were a formation of planes, but nothing like that was scheduled. The objects moved slowly at about 100 to 130 miles per hour, but then would streak across the scope in sudden bursts of speed. The targets had moved all over the area, including over prohibited areas, such as the airspace over the White House and the U.S. Capitol building. One of the objects was clocked at speeds of more than 7,000 miles per hour.
The targets appeared to have flown near commercial airliners, and soon thereafter reports of strange lights were being reported by pilots. The first sighting from a pilot was from a Capital Airlines flight leaving Washington National Airport. The control tower asked the pilots of that airplane to keep an eye out for strange lights. During the flight, the pilot yelled, “There’s one—off to the right— and there it goes.” The radar correlated that an object had been tracked on the plane’s right side. The pilot reported seeing six more lights in the next fifteen minutes.
Several similar incidents took place that night. However, one of the more notable incidents was when the Washington National Airport traffic controller called the Andrews Air Force Base tower to tell them they were tracking an object south of the base. The tower operators looked out of their windows to see what they described as a “huge fiery-orange sphere” hovering in the sky.
F-94 Starfire. One of the types of jets scrambled to intercept the unknown objects. (Credit: United States Air Force)
At the beginning of the excitement, once the Washington National Airport radar operators had determined their equipment was working properly, they began calling the air force to ask them to investigate. However, they didn’t receive a response. They called over and over, but the air force didn’t respond until daybreak the next morning. One interceptor checked out the area, but by then the UFOs were gone.
The events and the subsequent press coverage sent the U.S. Air Force into a state of pure confusion, complicated by bureaucratic bumbling. It was decided that Ruppelt would stay in Washington, DC to further investigate and formulate a response for the press, who was growing steadily impatient with the air force’s official “no comment” response. However, the USAF finance department would not improve the extension to his stay and sent him home.
Back in his office in Dayton, Ohio, Rupplet says he was too swamped with other UFO sightings to investigate the Washington DC incident. Several of these sightings also included jets being scrambled to check out the UFOs.
Then, exactly one week after the first major Washington, DC event, at about 10:00 p.m., Ruppelt received a call from Life Magazine’s UFO expert asking what the air force was going to do about that night’s UFOs. Ruppelt said, “I have no idea what the Air Force is doing; in all probability it’s doing nothing.”
He had heard anything about a new UFO event and guessed no one else in the air force had either. He called air force intelligence and the Pentagon, and he found out he was right. Several people from the Pentagon hurried out to Washington National Airport including the air force’s press chief Al Chop, Major Fournet, and a U.S. Navy electronics specialist assigned to the U.S. Air Force Directorate of Intelligence. All of them had a front row seat to the evening’s spectacular performance.
From left: Fournet, Chop, and Ruppelt.
Ruppelt had to wait until 5:00 a.m. the next morning to hear what had taken place. He was told at about 10:30 p.m. that Washington National Airport had once again picked up the slow-moving targets. The objects were in an arc surrounding the Washington, DC area. The objects spanned from Herndon, Virginia to Andrews Air Force Base. The same radar operators were present from the prior event, so they were prepared and worked quickly to mark and track the UFOs. They contacted Andrews Air Force Base who confirmed they were also tracking the objects.
At 11:30 p.m., it was decided to call in interceptors to check out the objects. Again they were slow to respond, but two Lockheed F-94 Starfires were in the air by midnight. At this point, reporters and photographers were asked to leave the radar room.
Ruppelt says the radar room was cleared because some of the air force officers thought this might be the night they got a good up-close look at a UFO.
Visibility that night was good. However, when the jets approached the targets, the objects disappeared from the radar screens. The jets returned to their base; however, a few minutes later, strange lights were seen near Langley Air Force Base. The lights were described as “rotating and giving off alternating colors.” The radar tower operators also saw the lights, so they called in an F-94 jet to check it out.
The jet pilot spotted the UFO’s lights and began moving towards it when the light disappeared. The pilot continued to fly around the area, and achieved a radar lock on an object, but whatever it was sped away. The same thing happened two more times.
Soon after the events near Langley Air Force Base, objects were again observed above Washington National Airport. Jets were scrambled again, but this time the objects stayed on radar as the jets approached. The tower controllers gave the jets the coordinates of the objects, but each time a jet closed in the objects would speed away.
This interaction continued for a few minutes until one object did not speed off. The F-94 pilot saw a bright light and hit his afterburners to try to pursue the object. However, as he got closer, the light just disappeared, and he could not get anything on his radar set.
The jets stayed in the area for twenty minutes, but finally ran low on fuel and had to return to the base. Dawn began to break, and soon the targets all disappeared.
The next day the press reported that fighter pilot, Lieutenant William Patterson, said,
I tried to make contact with the bogies below 1,000 feet, but [the radar controllers] vectored us around. I saw several bright lights. I was at my maximum speed, but even then I had no closing speed. I ceased chasing them because I saw no chance of overtaking them. I was vectored into new objects. Later, I chased a single bright light which I estimated about 10 miles away. I lost visual contact with it about 2 miles.
Ruppelt was informed that “everybody in the radar room was convinced that the targets were very probably caused by solid metallic objects. There had been weather targets on the scope too, he said, but these were common to the Washington area and the controllers were paying no attention to them.”
The papers were once again packed with headlines about the UFO chase. Ruppelt flew to Washington, and when he got to his hotel he was mobbed by reporters and photographers. With the help of a colleague he pushed his way to an elevator without making any comments.
According to Ruppelt, the U.S. Air Force was in a state of confusion. They all agreed that the UFO event should be investigated, but no one actually did anything about it. Unable to dodge the public’s fascination with the Washington events, on July 29, Major General Samford notified the press that he would have a press conference on the Washington UFO incidents. Ruppelt felt it a bit odd that none of the men in the radar room at Washington National Airport were involved in the press conference. Instead, the press conference was held by Major General Samford and another officer, neither of whom had been fully briefed.
Samford told the press that the UFO investigations had turned out to be mostly misidentifications, but that the other twenty percent of the reports that came in were from “credible observers of relatively incredible things.”
Edward Ruppelt (standing center) at July 29, 1952 Pentagon UFO press conference. Also pictured, Major Generals Roger Ramey (seated left), USAF operations chief, and John A. Samford (seated right), USAF director of intelligence. (image credit: Wikipedia)
He said the air force would continue to investigate those reports, but they suspect that the Washington, DC events may have been false radar readings due to temperature inversions.
According to Ruppelt, the actually investigation ruled out temperature inversions. In fact, he discovered that every single night of the UFO sightings in Washington, DC, there was indeed a temperature inversion but none of these had previously been mistaken for UFOs.
Ruppelt also discovered that UFOs were a common occurrence in Washington, DC that summer. On May 23, from 8:00 p.m. until midnight, fifty unknown targets had been tracked on radar. There were several similar incidents throughout the summer, including the night of the press conference. As a result, to Ruppelt the objects could only be designated as “unknowns.”
Alleged pictures and videos of this event can be found on the internet. However, they are all either reflections or recreations of the events. No pictures or video was actually captured. However, the cases remain unsolved.
Image often mistaken for 1952 UFO encounter. The lights in the sky are actually reflections from the lights on the posts.
Ruppelt says this case convinced many that that UFOs were interplanetary spaceships.
If the objects over Washington DC in 1952 could not be explained, it seems obvious that an incursion of this sort would pose a threat to national security.
In the government’s UFO files there is a memo that claims the cases that posed a real threat were not included in the Blue Book files, and researchers have been tracking where those cases went.
They have discovered that the U.S. Air Force has taken UFO incidents seriously after the closing of Blue Book in 1969. And the cases that made it to this high-level reporting system are even more fascinating and alarming than the events in 1952.
We’ll take a look at this reporting system and the cases that have been discovered to have prompted its use in the next episode of Open Minds UFO Magazine.
Het loopt zo langzamerhand de spuigaten uit met vreemde dingen die worden gevonden op de planeet Mars.
Van een gouden buitenaardse ring tot een slang en nog veel meer bizarre dingen die volgens NASA niet voorkomen op Mars.
Het begint nu toch wel een beetje belachelijk te worden met alle niet natuurlijke dingen die er worden aangetroffen op de foto’s die volgens NASA door de Rovers op Mars zijn gemaakt.
Wanneer die foto’s inderdaad gemaakt zijn op Mars, dan bewijst dit zonder meer buitenaards leven en wanneer ze niet op Mars zijn gemaakt, dan is het logisch dat er zoveel aardse voorwerpen worden gevonden.
Wat te denken van de volgende gouden ring die is aangetroffen op één van de foto’s? Het zal moeilijk worden voor NASA om dit te verklaren als een natuurlijk object.
Of wat te denken van een slang? Ook iets dat niet zou mogen voorkomen op een planeet die alleen uit rotsformaties zou bestaan.
Of hoe komt een volkomen natuurlijk gecrashte vliegende schotel terecht op het oppervlak van Mars? Deze ontdekking is gedaan de inmiddels bekende Youtubegebruiker Streetcap1.
In de hiernavolgende video zie je een compilatie van vreemde en bizarre ontdekkingen op de planeet Mars die er niet thuis horen.
Met dit alles wordt NASA zo langzamerhand aardig in een hoek gemanoeuvreerd, want ze moeten zo meteen of toegeven dat alle foto’s op aarde zijn gemaakt en ze nooit op Mars zijn geweest of ze moeten toegeven dat er buitenaards leven bestaat.
Het enige dat wij zeker weten op dit moment is dat ze liegen, want dat is tegenwoordig de norm.
HOELANG VOORDAT EEN METEORIET INSLAAT IN DE BEWOONDE WERELD? ( VIDEO )
HOELANG VOORDAT EEN METEORIET INSLAAT IN DE BEWOONDE WERELD? ( VIDEO )
Afgelopen zondagnacht werd de kust van het Australische Queensland opgeschrikt door een enorme lichtflits en huizen die trilden alsof er een zware aardbeving plaatsvond.
Later bleek dat het waarschijnlijk gaat om een meteoriet die net voor de kust is ingeslagen, maar hoelang duurt het voordat de bewoonde wereld wordt geraakt?
Ongeveer een week geleden schreven wij dat de aarde wederom aan een ramp was ontsnapt, omdat een aantal asteroïden rakelings langs de aarde scheerden.
En zo te zien is er nu weer iets dergelijks gebeurd, alleen dit keer kwam het brok ruimtepuin wél onze atmosfeer binnen en veroorzaakte totale paniek aan de Australische kust in Queensland.
Men weet op dit moment niet helemaal zeker wat er precies naar beneden kwam bij Turkey Beach in Queensland, maar het meest waarschijnlijke scenario is een meteoriet.
Het voorval vond plaats in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag en wat er gebeurde zag er uit zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding:
De telefoonlijnen van de hulpdiensten waren overbelast vanwege ongeruste mensen die zeiden dat ze het gevoel hadden dat er een aardbeving plaatsvond omdat hun huizen op hun grondvesten stonden te trillen.
Honderden mensen rapporteerden ook een fel licht en volgens sommige berichten was er zelfs sprake van twee objecten en niet één.
Deze melding kwam van enkele mensen die in een boot aan het vissen waren en zeiden dat ze de drukgolf konden voelen in de boot waarin ze zaten.
De mensen die daar wonen hebben ontzettend veel geluk gehad, want volgens de berichten is de meteoriet in zee geland en heeft het geen verdere schade veroorzaakt.
Maar, niet alleen in Australië komen dit soort dingen voor want afgelopen vrijdag was er ook een dergelijke vuurbol bij ons te zien.
De volgende opname is gemaakt in het Engelse graafschap Kent.
Op het navolgende plaatje staan de meldingen zoals die zijn binnengekomen bij de American Meteor Society.
Meer dan 100 waarnemingen vanuit Duitsland, Nederland, België en Engeland.
Het gaat hier niet meer over incidenten, maar over een structurele toename van het aantal vuurbollen in de lucht.
Nogmaals de statistiek die we lieten zien in het eerdere artikel en daaruit blijkt dat er ieder jaar meer vuurbollen worden waargenomen.
In de afgelopen weken twee asteroïden die rakelings langs de aarde scheren zonder dat iemand deze heeft ontdekt en een meteoriet die inslaat net voor de kust van Australië.
Dat is in een periode van enkele weken drie keer dat de aarde aan een ramp is ontsnapt, dus wat is de kans dat dit zo blijft doorgaan en er niet vandaag of morgen een grote stad wordt geraakt? Dan kunnen ze de Russen daar de schuld weer van geven.
Light Entity Caught Over Slippery Rock, PA - September 18, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Light Entity Caught Over Slippery Rock, PA - September 18, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Sept 18, 2016 Location of sighting: Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, USA News source: MUFON #79259 This is a light entity. They do not need ships to travel in and they move around very fast. In a blink of an eye they can make a 500 meter circle in the sky above you...yes, I have seen a a fleet of about 50 of them one night with my family, and yes, about 5 of them came back and did the circle thing above us for almost ten minutes. They see you faster than you will notice them. They think on a turbo charged level, meaning 10-50X our own speed and move equally with that, but their curiosity often gets them caught on camera. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states: Hello, my name is [Name removed]. I'm currently a student at slippery rock university double majoring in physics/mechanical engineering, and this is my ufo story. Let me start off by saying: I usually try to rationalize things before I come to conclusions, but I can tell you that this wasn't ball lighting, dust particles, or bugs. I was doing my statics homework at 10:20-10:27pm Saturday September 18th when suddenly I notoced a bright dot out of the corner of my eye followed by my neighbors dog barking like crazy.
Upon noticing these things, I then turned towards the window and saw a very bright, basketball sized, white/silver, beautifully uniquely shaped ufo (orb). This orb was like nothing ive ever seen or experienced before. The best way I can describe it is somewhat angelic. It's shape was mainly spherical, but looked Like it was a spherical shape hard to comprehend(like a 2 dimensional creature seeing a 3 dimensional sphere). It's almost like it came from a higher dimensional plane, managed to somehow project to our plane, gave off a feeling of power and love, and was accompanied by a light humming sound. I hypothesize that mathematically, this type of "dimensional projection" can be explained by mapping from a 4 dimensional vector plane(their reality) onto a 3 dimensional vector plane(our reality) (linear algebra transformations). This would allow an orb of possibly a higher dimension to travel to lower dimensions and be visible to us 3 dimensional creatures. The orb's travel path was linear, traveling from the woods (behind the back parking lot of my building) to a lamp post (in the back parking lot). While traveling, it was pulsating. Again, I was absolutely astonished by this object. The duration of time it took the orb to travel from the woods to the lamp post was approximately 1 minute. When the orb neared the light post, it caused the lights to dim initially.
When the lights brightened, the orb started to almost "dance" around them in some sort of way. The object appeared to be metallic and have some sort of electric and magnetic field around it. With that being said, It's almost like the orb was trying to "charge" itself by interacting it's magnetic field against the electric field emitted by the light (this is explained by the solinoid-coil experiment to create a charge). As the orb did this it started to brighten. After staring at this orb baffled, confused, and coming to the realization that I wasn't seeing things, I took out my phone and started recording it. After a couple seconds of recording I waved my hands to try to get it's attention. Upon seeing me, the orb started to zigzag from one point in space to another instantly (null geodesic) and then suddenly vanished instantly. Also, the object appears to disappear traveling to the left. I submitted the original unedited video I took below so if you want to see how the object actually takes off, slow down the time frames in the video at the time gap from 32s- 36s.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and watch the video. And as a junior physics and engineering student I ensure the accuracy of the theory and invite you to look into the physics/mathematical topics after watching the video to try to make sense of these ufos and their nature. Hope to hear back from you soon.
Bright Disk Seen Over New York On Sept 11, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Bright Disk Seen Over New York On Sept 11, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 11, 2016 Location of sighting: Colonie, New York, USA Source: MUFON #79390 UFOs are often seen around sunset due to the setting angle of the sun and the eyewitness to the event. Any cloak craft would become visible for a few minutes around this time, the orange from the craft is from the setting sun. Great catch, but wish we had video for the craft to show us how it moved and if it made any noise. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states: On 9/11/2016 around 7:10pm I was with my sister driving by Central Avenue on Colonie NY on my way to Schenectady. My sister observed a brilliant light on the sky. When I looked the light was steady, didn't move for about 3 minutes. I quickly thought it was a ufo. It impacted us and my sister parked the car and I got my cell phone to take pictures, which are the ones attached. It look like a cigar type. Then the first ufo moved and then 2 more showed up and were steady for about a minute and then the 3 of them disappeared.
Some people would ask why aliens seem to don’t care about landing on the White House lawn. Many may be surprised to learn that UFOs created a panic in Washington, D.C. in 1952. Jets were scrambled when the Air Force noticed UFOs nearby, but jet pilots could not catch the unknown flying objects. These UFO incursions happened in multiple instances, and U.S. Air Force UFO investigators observed one of them from the control tower at Washington National Airport.
The U.S. Air Force investigation could be the most thorough examination of the UFO issue. They started their investigation in 1948, which was called Project Sign, then changed to Project Grudge, and finally called Project Blue Book.
As a result of these studies, the Air Force points three things:
(1) No UFOs has posed any threat to the national security;
(2) No technological developments or principles beyond the present-day scientific knowledge has been found from the sightings submitted to or discovered by the Air Force; and
(3) There has been no proof that sightings categorized as “unidentified” are extraterrestrial craft or vehicles.
However, it appears that not everyone involved in the investigations shared the same conclusions.
The head of Project Blue Book at the time stated that the July 1952 UFO sightings over Washington, D.C. had made headlines worldwide and confused the Air Force. The mysterious events lasted for several days that highlighted with many radar detections of unidentified flying objects, and many people from the ground witnessed some of the events. Jets were scrambled in many of the sightings and each of these incidents, the UFOs managed to outmaneuver the jets.
Various photos and videos about UFOs over Washington DC are all over the internet, but they are all either recreations or reflections of the incidents. No videos or pictures were captured, but the case remains unsolved.
Lead Air Force investigator Captain Edward Ruppelt, head of Project Blue Book from 1952 to 1953, explained the investigation of the events in Washington, D.C. in his book. Ruppelt wrote that many in the Air Force were convinced the UFOs were interplanetary spaceships.
Illinois: 5 floating orbs over Lake Michigan 27-Sep-2016
Illinois: 5 floating orbs over Lake Michigan 27-Sep-2016
Check out this amazing footage of a bright orbs hovering in the sky above Lake Michigan in US state Illinois. This was filmed yesterday (27th August 2016).
Witness report:
At 7:25 PM on 9-27-2016 I looked out my window to see 5 bright lights floating over Lake Michigan. Specifically in front of the South Street Beach area of Evanston,IL. They were initially in a linear formation and then moved to a T formation. Three of the orbs slowly broke away to form a triangle. After 30 minutes the orbs disappeared. A delivery driver coming to my home also saw the lights. There were planes flying past these lights. I have photos and video.
In 1900, the British physicist Lord Kelvin is said to have pronounced: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement." Within three decades, quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity had revolutionized the field. Today, no physicist would dare assert that our physical knowledge of the universe is near completion. To the contrary, each new discovery seems to unlock a Pandora's box of even bigger, even deeper physics questions. These are our picks for the most profound open questions of all.
Inside you’ll learn about parallel universes, why time seems to move in one direction only, and why we don’t understand chaos.
Editor’s Note: This list was originally published in 2012. It was updated in March, 2016 to include newer information and recent studies.
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1. What is dark energy?
No matter how astrophysicists crunch the numbers, the universe simply doesn't add up. Even though gravity is pulling inward on space-time — the "fabric" of the cosmos — it keeps expanding outward faster and faster. To account for this, astrophysicists have proposed an invisible agent that counteracts gravity by pushing space-time apart. They call it dark energy. In the most widely accepted model of dark energy, it is a "cosmological constant": an inherent property of space itself, which has "negative pressure" driving space apart. As space expands, more space is created, and with it, more dark energy. Based on the observed rate of expansion, scientists know that the sum of all the dark energy must make up more than 70 percent of the total contents of the universe. But no one knows how to look for it. The best researchers have been able to do in recent years is narrow in a bit on where dark energy might be hiding, which was the topic of a study released in August 2015.
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2. What is dark matter?
Evidently, about 84 percent of the matter in the universe does not absorb or emit light. "Dark matter," as it is called, cannot be seen directly, and it hasn't yet been detected by indirect means, either. Instead, dark matter's existence and properties are inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter, radiation and the structure of the universe. This shadowy substance is thought to pervade the outskirts of galaxies, and may be composed of "weakly interacting massive particles," or WIMPs. Worldwide, there are several detectors on the lookout for WIMPs, but so far, not one has been found. One recent study suggests dark mater might form long, fine-grained streams throughout the universe, and that such streams might radiate out from Earth like hairs. [Related: If Not Dark Matter, then What?]
Time moves forward because a property of the universe called "entropy," roughly defined as the level of disorder, only increases, and so there is no way to reverse a rise in entropy after it has occurred. The fact that entropy increases is a matter of logic: There are more disordered arrangements of particles than there are ordered arrangements, and so as things change, they tend to fall into disarray. But the underlying question here is, why was entropy so low in the past? Put differently, why was the universe so ordered at its beginning, when a huge amount of energy was crammed together in a small amount of space? [What's the Total Energy in the Universe?]
Astrophysical data suggests space-time might be "flat," rather than curved, and thus that it goes on forever. If so, then the region we can see (which we think of as "the universe") is just one patch in an infinitely large "quilted multiverse." At the same time, the laws of quantum mechanics dictate that there are only a finite number of possible particle configurations within each cosmic patch (10^10^122 distinct possibilities). So, with an infinite number of cosmic patches, the particle arrangements within them are forced to repeat — infinitely many times over. This means there are infinitely many parallel universes: cosmic patches exactly the same as ours (containing someone exactly like you), as well as patches that differ by just one particle's position, patches that differ by two particles' positions, and so on down to patches that are totally different from ours.
Is there something wrong with that logic, or is its bizarre outcome true? And if it is true, how might we ever detect the presence of parallel universes? Check out this excellentperspective from 2015 that looks into what "infinite universes" would mean.
The question of why there is so much more matter than its oppositely-charged and oppositely-spinning twin, antimatter, is actually a question of why anything exists at all. One assumes the universe would treat matter and antimatter symmetrically, and thus that, at the moment of the Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been produced. But if that had happened, there would have been a total annihilation of both: Protons would have canceled with antiprotons, electrons with anti-electrons (positrons), neutrons with antineutrons, and so on, leaving behind a dull sea of photons in a matterless expanse. For some reason, there was excess matter that didn't get annihilated, and here we are. For this, there is no accepted explanation. The most detailed test to date of the differences between matter and antimatter, announced in August 2015, confirm they are mirror images of each other, providing exactly zero new paths toward understanding the mystery of why matter is far more common.
The fate of the universe strongly depends on a factor of unknown value: Ω, a measure of the density of matter and energy throughout the cosmos. If Ω is greater than 1, then space-time would be "closed" like the surface of an enormous sphere. If there is no dark energy, such a universe would eventually stop expanding and would instead start contracting, eventually collapsing in on itself in an event dubbed the "Big Crunch." If the universe is closed but there is dark energy, the spherical universe would expand forever.
Alternatively, if Ω is less than 1, then the geometry of space would be "open" like the surface of a saddle. In this case, its ultimate fate is the "Big Freeze" followed by the "Big Rip": first, the universe's outward acceleration would tear galaxies and stars apart, leaving all matter frigid and alone. Next, the acceleration would grow so strong that it would overwhelm the effects of the forces that hold atoms together, and everything would be wrenched apart.
If Ω = 1, the universe would be flat, extending like an infinite plane in all directions. If there is no dark energy, such a planar universe would expand forever but at a continually decelerating rate, approaching a standstill. If there is dark energy, the flat universe ultimately would experience runaway expansion leading to the Big Rip. Regardless how it plays out, the universe is dying, a fact discussed in detail by astrophysicist Paul Sutter in the essay from December, 2015.
Que sera, sera.
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7. How do measurements collapse quantum wavefunctions?
In the strange realm of electrons, photons and the other fundamental particles, quantum mechanics is law. Particles don't behave like tiny balls, but rather like waves that are spread over a large area. Each particle is described by a "wavefunction," or probability distribution, which tells what its location, velocity, and other properties are more likely to be, but not what those properties are. The particle actually has a range of values for all the properties, until you experimentally measure one of them — its location, for example — at which point the particle's wavefunction "collapses" and it adopts just one location. [Newborn Babies Understand Quantum Mechanics]
But how and why does measuring a particle make its wavefunction collapse, producing the concrete reality that we perceive to exist? The issue, known as the measurement problem, may seem esoteric, but our understanding of what reality is, or if it exists at all, hinges upon the answer.
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8. Is string theory correct?
When physicists assume all the elementary particles are actually one-dimensional loops, or "strings," each of which vibrates at a different frequency, physics gets much easier.String theory allows physicists to reconcile the laws governing particles, called quantum mechanics, with the laws governing space-time, called general relativity, and to unify the four fundamental forces of nature into a single framework. But the problem is, string theory can only work in a universe with 10 or 11 dimensions: three large spatial ones, six or seven compacted spatial ones, and a time dimension. The compacted spatial dimensions — as well as the vibrating strings themselves — are about a billionth of a trillionth of the size of an atomic nucleus. There's no conceivable way to detect anything that small, and so there's no known way to experimentally validate or invalidate string theory.
Physicists can't exactly solve the set of equations that describes the behavior of fluids, from water to air to all other liquids and gases. In fact, it isn't known whether a general solution of the so-called Navier-Stokes equations even exists, or, if there is a solution, whether it describes fluids everywhere, or contains inherently unknowable points called singularities. As a consequence, the nature of chaos is not well understood. Physicists and mathematicians wonder, is the weather merely difficult to predict, or inherently unpredictable? Does turbulence transcend mathematical description, or does it all make sense when you tackle it with the right math?
Moon Speck Captured in Stunning View of Saturn's Rings
Moon Speck Captured in Stunning View of Saturn's Rings
By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Contributor
A speck of a moon makes big waves in a new image of Saturn's rings taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
Captured July 2, 2016, the image shows Saturn's moon Pan inside the Encke gap, a 200-mile-wide (325 kilometers) space held open by the moon's orbit. Because the gravitational forces of Pan sweep most particles out of the gap, the moon is known as a "shepherd." The thin white lines seen in the gap are ringlets, mini-rings made of particles that Pan doesn't kick out of the gap, but does affect its orbit. [Latest Saturn Photos from Cassini's Orbiter]
Pan is only about 12 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter. Astronomers first inferred this tiny satellite's presence from gravitational disturbances captured by the Voyager program, which began in 1977, sending two spacecraft to the furthest reaches of the solar system. (Voyager has kept on chugging past that original mission: In 2013, NASA reported that the Voyager 1 spacecraft had become the first manmade object to make it tointersteller space, outside the bounds of the solar system.)
It wasn't until 1991, however, that scientists reported visual confirmation of Pan. Writing in the journal Nature, Mark Showalter, then of Stanford University, discovered that the moon was visible as a speck in images taken by the Voyager mission. Cassini's views are sharper: This image was taken by the spacecraft's narrow-angle camera in visible light when the spacecraft was about 840,000 miles (1.4 million km) from Saturn, according to NASA. Even so, Pan has been brightened by a factor of two so that it stands out against the dark of the Encke gap.
The Cassini mission is a partnership of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The spacecraft launched in 1997, carrying a probe called Huygens that landed on Titan, Saturn's largest satellite, in 2005. Cassini continues to orbit Saturn. Later this year, NASA plans to send the spacecraft into a set of orbits the agency is calling the Grand Finale, which will send Cassini circling the planet's poles just outside the outermost ring. The spacecraft will then shoot the gap between the innermost ring and the planet's atmosphere to measure Saturn's gravitational fields and even sample its outer atmosphere.
Best UFO Photo in the World Taken at Arenal, Costa Rica 45 Yrs Ago
Best UFO Photo in the World Taken at Arenal, Costa Rica 45 Yrs Ago
On September 4, 1971, the Costa Rican National Geographic Institute was taking aerial photos from 10,000 feet of Lake Cote, the small body of water that would later become the larger Lake Arenal, as part of preliminary studies for the future hydroelectric project, reported CRHoy recently.
The study was funded by the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) to determine water sources in the area for their planned hydroelectric project.
Photographer Sergio Loaiza, along with Costa Ricans Juan Bravo and Francisco Reyes, traveled on a twin-engine Canadian F680 with a special 100 lb map-making camera donated by the German government rigged onto the floor of the plane snapping a photo about every 13 seconds.
It was during this aerial inspection that what is considered to be the best photograph of a UFO in the world was taken.
As explained by ufoevidence.org:
“When the photographs were developed, one of the frames (with the time of 8:25 a.m.) showed what seemed to be a metallic disc about 160ft in diameter, which had just left, or was on the point of entering, the lake. It was giving off light, and had made a sudden manoeuvre at the instant the photo was taken. The object showed up on neither the previous frame of film nor the one afterwards. Checks on the negative eliminated tricks of the light as an explanation.
What the geographers had seen was an extraordinary but little-known phenomenon – a USO. Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, have been reported for centuries. What few people realise is that USOs – Unidentified Submergible Objects – have been reported for almost as long. Sometimes, as in the mysterious incident at Lake Cote, a UFO can be seen transforming itself into a USO, or vice versa.”
Photographer Loaiza said that after the photographs were developed, and the object appearing in that one frame was discussed, he and his colleagues were forbidden from divulging any information about what the scientists on the ICE-Lake Arenal project considered to be a UFO.
In 1979, Ricardo Vilchez, one of the project team members, sent the photograph to an organization in the United States called Ground Saucer Watch (GSW) which analyzes these types of cases. GSW determined that the image was true and unadulterated, reported CRHoy.
After that, the photograph became public in the Costa Rican media.
“It’s one of the most compelling scientific confirmations that UFOs are real,” recounts Oscar Sierra, a UFO researcher based in Costa Rica.
Sierra said the photograph was analyzed in France and the United States by different organizations that studied the case, and all confirmed the object’s existence.
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Scientists To Uncover How Cosmic Dust Impacts Life on Earth
Scientists To Uncover How Cosmic Dust Impacts Life on Earth
A starry sky, with a bright column due to zodiacal light, illuminates the desert landscape around Cerro Paranal, home to ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
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IN BRIEF
Scientists develop a new method to learn more about the composition of cosmic dust
The development will not only lead to a better understanding of the cosmos, but also has practical applications here on Earth.
A DUSTY PLANET
Every year, as the Earth moves around the sun, it sweeps cosmic dust along its way. These dust particles are remnants left by passing comets and asteroids orbiting the sun. An estimated 5 to 300 metric tons (5.5 – 330 US tons) enter the Earth’s atmosphere each day.
Looking to further understand cosmic dust, atmospheric chemistry professor John Plane and a team of researchers from the University of Leeds in Great Britain developed a new experimental Meteoric Ablation Simulator (MASI).
“Only relatively recent advances in computing hardware and software have allowed us to address the precise timing and substantial computational requirements needed for MASI,” according to David Bones, one of the researcher’s in the team.
Current calculations of the evaporation of cosmic dust particles in the Earth’s atmosphere are largely theoretical, using evidence from field radar and optical observations. The model calculations developed in Leeds, however, were capable of simulating the evaporation of each elemental constituents of cosmic dust, such as silicon, iron, magnesium, sodium, calcium.
The researchers designed the MASI to confirm these calculations, using particles with similar composition to those in cosmic dust.
MORE THAN JUST DUST
“During a particle entry simulation that lasts about 12 seconds, we want to take 6,000 measurements while we are rapidly changing the temperature of the filament to flash-heat the particle with real-time feedback,” said Bones.
What they found was that their measurements for sodium and iron atmospheric evaporation or ablation confirmed the model, while the calcium ablation measurements did not. This could mean that ablation models need to account for other factors that happen when cosmic dust particles enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
Now, don’t imagine cosmic dust to be just useless floating particles forming dense clouds in space. Aside from giving us ideas about the atmosphere of other planets and their formation, cosmic dust particles affect radio communications, the climate, and even serve as phytoplankton fertilizers in the ocean.
With tools like the MASI improving our knowledge of metallic ablation in cosmic dust, our understanding of the Earth’s upper atmosphere and the metal layers found there. The applications of this information include understanding the formation of planets and even more practical industrial use, such as particle heating in jet turbines.
“By better understanding the melting and ablation processes we can design ash-resistant jet engines that could fly without disruption through an ash cloud similar to that created when the volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted in 2010,” Bones believes.
Police Thermal Cameras Reveal Invisible UFO Over UK
Police Thermal Cameras Reveal Invisible UFO Over UK
An unidentified flying object (UFO) that was invisible to the naked eye apparently capable of being seen in footage from a police helicopter.
Police officers piloting a chopper discovered the button-shaped aerial object zipping through the air over the Bristol Channel.
Details posted along with the video revealed that the air traffic control did not detect the mysterious shape, and it was only spotted on thermal cameras.
The cops dismissed obvious suggestions as to what it could be since the UFO had a heat signature and was traveling against the wind.
A police chopper based in St. Athan, a small village in South Wales, reportedly captured the footage, which was later uploaded to its Twitter account.
Information posted to its account revealed the strange craft was discovered flying around 1000 feet up at 9:30 pm on Saturday evening.
Multiple viewers said it was a balloon or Chinese lantern, but these explanations can be ruled out with the heat and movement of the UFO.
Without obvious answers as to what the chopper just recorded on video, many suggested it was aliens.
The police Twitter account indicated that it was not a lantern as it was going into the wind. It adds that they filmed it for over seven minutes, but it ‘s hard to judge the size.
The search for extraterrestrial life has so far assumed our cosmic neighbours are organic. What if we’re dealing with artificial intelligence?
By Richard Hollingham
For more than a century we have been broadcasting our presence to the cosmos. This year, the faintest signals from the world’s first major televised event – the Nazi-hosted 1936 Olympics – will have passed several potentially habitable planets. The first season of Game of Thrones has already reached the nearest star beyond our Solar System.
So why hasn’t ET called us back?
There are plenty of obvious answers. Maybe there are no intelligent space aliens in our immediate cosmic vicinity. Perhaps they have never evolved beyond unthinking microbial slime or – based on our transmissions – aliens have concluded it is safer to stay away. There is, however, another explanation: ET is nothing like us.
One theory is that the aliens that may have created intelligent algorithms are no longer with us
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“If we do find a signal, we shouldn’t expect it’s going to be some sort of soft squishy protoplasmic alien behind the microphone at the other end,” says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer for alien-hunting organisation Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti).
Seti has been actively searching for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life for more than half a century. Despite tantalising signals (such as this recent one), it has so far drawn a blank. But Shostak believes we should consider looking to our own future to imagine what aliens will be like.
“Perhaps the most significant thing we’re doing is to develop our own successors,” says Shostak. “If we can develop artificial intelligence within a couple of hundred years of inventing radio, any aliens we are likely to hear from have very likely gone past that point.”
The big question is whether the AI goes on to become conscious and define its own goals and decide it doesn’t need the biological creatures that developed it – Stuart Clark
“In other words,” he says, “most of the intelligence in the cosmos, I would venture, is synthetic intelligence and that may disappoint movie goers who expect little grey guys with big eyeballs, no clothes, no hair or sense of humour.”
The argument assumes that the creatures who built the first AIs – grey guys, hyper- intelligent pan-dimensional beings, sentient trees or whatever – are no longer around.
“Well they might be,” Shostak concedes, “but once you develop artificial intelligence you can use that to develop the next generation of thinking thing and so on – within 50 years you not only have a machine that’s far smarter than all the previous machines but certainly smarter than all humans put together.”
Anyone expecting the grey-skinned aliens from sci-fi films may be disappointed
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“The big question,” says astronomer and author of the Search for Earth’s Twin, Stuart Clark, “is whether the AI goes on to become conscious and define its own goals and decide it doesn’t need the biological creatures that developed it.”
From the self-aware death machines of the Berserker booksto the cyborgs of Battlestar Galactica or The Terminator, science fiction certainly has a rich seam of AIs taking over and wiping out their inferior biological creators. It is not, however, necessarily the inevitable path of any technological civilisation. Artificial Intelligence – truly thinking machines with synthetic super-brains – may not even be possible.
“It’s very unclear to me that this is inevitably going to happen,” says Clark. “But the key point is we are looking for something we imagine to be a bit like us and we’re limiting the search as a result.”
Seti could be looking for ET in the wrong place
Seti uses an array of radio telescope dishes in California to search for signals. The receivers are aimed at star systems where planets have been discovered by Earth or space telescopes such as Nasa’s Kepler observatory. These are planets which might have liquid oceans and life-supporting atmospheres – habitats that have made human evolution possible. But machine intelligences could live anywhere.
“That’s the whole problem,” says Shostak. “Not only could they be anywhere, it would make sense for them to go to places in the Universe where there were big sources of energy – if you’re going to do a lot of thinking, a lot of energy helps so maybe that’s the place to look.”
If this is the case, then Seti could be looking for ET in the wrong place. “Instead of having their own fields of radio telescopes,” says Clark, “maybe that money would be better spent equipping every observatory with piggyback equipment that looks at every signal that’s been received and look for repeating patterns.”
Should we be sending signals as well as listening for them?
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Whether every observatory would agree to host a Seti sensor is a matter for debate. The technology might, however, reveal some other surprising astronomical discovery. We now know that pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars. When Jocelyn Bell discovered the first of these oscillating signals in 1967, only half-jokingly did the University of Cambridge team label it LGM1 for Little Green Men.
In the short term, Seti is likely to continue its search for life on Earth-like planets. “But,” says Shostak, “over the course of time if we can come up with some ideas of where you might find synthetic intelligence, I think they’ll be more and more experiments aimed at doing that.”
Another approach would be to broadcast messages from Earth to target regions of the cosmos. It is a controversial strategy that Stephen Hawking has warned could leave the Earth vulnerable to attack and exploitation. "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,” he warned in 2010.
So are we any closer to discovering whether we are the lone intelligence – AI or not – in the Universe?
“I don’t agree,” Shostak says. “But Seti has no broadcasting capability and the other thing about broadcasting is that even if you do it, it might be a very long time before you get a response – depending how close the aliens are.”
So are we any closer to discovering whether we are the lone intelligence – AI or not – in the Universe? “I don’t think you can ever say there’s nothing there, you can’t prove that negative,” Shostak says. “What you can say is that there’s something wrong with our approach so, for me, it’s very, very early days to think about giving up.”
Clark agrees. “I think Seti should generalise its search as much as possible,” he says. “An answer to ‘yes there’s intelligent life in the Universe’ has profound implications for us and that alone qualifies Seti to carry on.”
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