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...
06-12-2016
Ancient Coin Of France Apparently Depicts An Unidentified Flying Saucer
Ancient Coin Of France Apparently Depicts An Unidentified Flying Saucer
Absolute proof of UFO sightings from hundreds of years ago has been found in a 17th-century French token, UFO hunters claimed.
The coin-like object, known as the ancient jeton, was used for counting. It reportedly depicts a strange-looking circular entity that looks like a classic flying saucer.
Some even went to speculate that it represents the wheel in the Book of Ezekiel of the Bible, which they believe the Bible’s tale of a UFO encounter. Some skeptics say that the object just represents a drifting mushroom or flower. Others say that it shows a shield.
Meanwhile, many UFO hunters say that the token is an evidence of frequent UFO sightings in ancient France. So numerous that French decided to inscribe such sightings on coins. The object is a French jeton minted somewhere from 1680 to 1856.
It has almost the same size of a U.S. quarter-dollar. It was used for educational purposes to help people count money, and sometimes, used as a substitute for money in playing games. It also looks like other jetons with different educational and religious designs.
Researchers found a Latin inscription that says OPPORTUNUS ADEST, which means “It is here at an opportune time.” The other side of it shows rain drenching a plant-like thing.
UFO Expert Claims Government Withheld More Than Half of the Truth About Aliens and UFOs
UFO Expert Claims Government Withheld More Than Half of the Truth About Aliens and UFOs
A paranormal investigator made a claim that the British government has involvement in the cover-up of the truth about UFOs and aliens.
UFO expert Malcolm Robinson said intelligence that could clarify unsolved British mysteries involving UFOs and aliens had been withheld from public access.
Founder of Strange Phenomena Investigations, Mr. Robinson, has collected and examined UFO evidence for years. In 2015, he presented a collection of evidence containing detailed information about UFOs and aliens to Downing Street, requesting then Prime Minister David Cameron to open an inquiry. However, it failed to materialize.
He said governments in different parts of the world, including Britain, know far more than what they disclosed to the public for sure.
He claims that Nick Pope, the manager of the now defunct UFO desk, once told him that the government did not disclose even half of the truth.
According to documents obtained under Freedom of Information, the department and hotline for UFO sighting reports was shut down in 2009 for the reason that it no longer served a defense purpose and only taking away resources and staff to more significant defense-related activities. The documents further revealed the Ministry of Defence concluded that no UFO report in 50 years had evidence of a potential threat to the U.K.
Now, Mr. Robinson has called for the government to conduct an inquiry in several sightings, including police files from Bonnybridge Scotland. Robinson said that there were over 300 UFO sightings in the small town during the 1990s.
Mr. Robinson noted that about 95% of the sightings could be explained after checking with airports, the National Security Agency, the Ministry of Defence, and meteorological stations, but some 5% don’t have a rational explanation.
Earlier this year, many UFO conspiracy theorists claimed that some MoD UFO files which had been sent to the National Archives had been sent back for further censorship.
ALIENS: While UFOS menaced the US – the Soviet Union was getting the same treatment
During the 1940s and 1950s UFO-mania gripped the US as reports of flying saucers, men in black and alien abductions filled newspaper pages.
But as alien encounters became a sideshow in the states, their communist enemies were also being rocked by mysterious encounters with UFOs.
Around the same time the Soviets also began to have increasing contact with apparent aliens and growing reports of spacecraft entering airspace over Russia.
Soviet-born UFO researcher and author Paul Stonehill told Daily Star Online: “The Soviets were shocked so many UFOs could penetrate their borders and basically just do what they wanted without any control from the Kremlin.
“There were many more cases of direct encounters than in the United States, and anything which was flying over the Soviet Union was very interested in secret military installations.”
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SUPERPOWER: The Soviet Union was at the height of its power during the Cold War
“The aliens would fight back and destroy whatever unit would shoot at them.”
Paul Stonehill
Throughout the Cold War and the space race Soviet forces frequently clashed with UFOs.
Mr Stonehill said: “The Kremlin was paranoid but they could not do anything about it.
“They tried on several occasions where orders were given out from on high to shoot down UFOs, or local commanders would take it upon themselves.
“However, it always ended badly for them.”
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TOP SECRET: UFO reports and alien encounters were dealt with utter secrecy
The researcher, whose articles have been published in 11 languages, unearthed a culture of total secrecy over the phenomena in the Soviet Union.
Kremlin bigwigs would pass off any public reports of the phenomena as a “hoax perpetrated by the Western powers”.
A secret research programme called SETKA was established in 1977 after the Petrozavodsk incident in which 48 UFOs appeared in the atmosphere across the Soviet Union.
The incident came to a head in the industrial city of Petrozavodsk when a huge glowing object appeared overhead – seemingly beaming shafts of light towards the Earth.
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UNEXPLAINED: A photograph of the Petrozavodsk object which triggered panic in the Soviet Union
The aim of the programme was to work out what the UFOs were – with Soviet higher-ups acknowledging the craft could not be of Earth-bound origin.
Stonehill said much of the archives of the programme remain under lock and key, but he added it was passed down between the communist state’s top military minds and scientists.
Forms were also then handed to any soviet soldier, sailor or airmen who reported a UFO encounter for them to file fully detailed reports.
He said: “It was prolific enough to really make you wonder just how much the Soviets knew”.
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PIONEER: Soviets lead the space race for many years – possibly sparking alien attention
A bloody encounter between an alien craft and Soviet forces occurred in 1953 shortly after the death of Joseph Stalin.
The large UFO, initially thought by witnesses to be a “blimp of dirigible”, appeared above the Taiga in Siberia.
Soviet military chiefs dispatched a military special detachment to the area.
When they attempted to engage the craft with aircraft the three Soviet planes just “burned away”, says Mr Stonehill.
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MANKIND: Soviets managed to put the first man in space and carried out the first space walk
A secret order was issued to Soviet forces during the mid-1960s giving Russian commanders strict instructions to “not shoot at UFOs, leave them alone”.
Mr Stonehill said: “The aliens would fight back and destroy whatever unit would shoot at them.
“They would disintegrate planes, and in some cases the UFOs also acted first.”
He added: “No government wants to be powerless in the face of a threat, and it got to the case of the Soviets being very scared.”
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SPACE: Soviet dream of space dominance collapsed – retiring their space shuttle before launch
But despite these violent clashes, he says most Soviet encounters were characterised by alien craft simply “observing” activity.
He said: “It was as if they were under a microscope. There were reports of UFOs present at most, if not all, of the Soviet space launches.
“The craft seemed to know about the space ports and the secret facilities.”
However, he added the motivations of whoever is piloting the UFOs remains a mystery.
Mr Stonehill has spoken to former military intelligence personnel, government officials and Soviet scientists to reveal the depths of the Soviet UFO encounters.
He has had numerous books published on the subject such as Mysterious Sky: Soviet UFO Phenomenon, Soviet UFO Files and UFO Case Files of Russia.
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Is er leven mogelijk in Pluto's ondergrondse oceaan?
Is er leven mogelijk in Pluto's ondergrondse oceaan?
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Als in Pluto’s ondergrondse oceaan leven te vinden is, dan ziet het er waarschijnlijk heel anders uit dan wij gewend zijn.
Recent stelden onderzoekers – waaronder William McKinnon, verbonden aan Washington University – dat Pluto hoogstwaarschijnlijk een ondergrondse oceaan bezit. Het roept een interessante vraag op: is er in die oceaan wellicht leven mogelijk? McKinnon sluit het niet uit.
Giftig en koud Hij denkt dat onder het hartvormige gebied op Pluto – Sputnik Planitia – een oceaan te vinden is. Die oceaan beschrijft hij als “giftig, heel koud, zout en rijk aan ammoniak”. Het klinkt niet direct heel leefbaar. “Het is geen plaats voor bacteriën en al helemaal niet voor vissen of inktvissen of elke andere levensvorm zoals wij die kennen,” erkent McKinnon. “Het leven kan veel hebben: het kan veel zout, extreme kou, extreme warmte, enzovoort tolereren. Maar ik denk niet dat het de hoeveelheid ammoniak die Pluto nodig heeft om te voorkomen dat deze oceaan bevriest – ammoniak is een uitstekende antivries – kan tolereren (…) Maar net als de methaanzeëen op Titan – de grootste maan van Saturnus – roept het de vraag op of er in deze exotische, koude vloeistoffen wellicht een werkelijk nieuwe levensvorm kan bestaan.”
Primitief Maar hoe zou zo’n levensvorm er dan uitzien? Als er al leven mogelijk is in de oceaan, dan is het waarschijnlijk zeer primitief. “Misschien is het zelfs – net als wellicht de eerste levensvormen op aarde – pre-cellulair.”
Volgende generatie Lang niet alle onderzoekers zijn er overigens van overtuigd dat Pluto een ondergrondse oceaan bezit. Tot op heden is er alleen indirect bewijs gevonden voor het bestaan van de oceaan. Het bestaan van de oceaan kan maar op één manier bevestigd worden: opnieuw een sonde naar Pluto sturen en deze in een baan rond de dwergplaneet plaatsen. “Het is aan de volgende generatie om verder te gaan waar New Horizons is opgehouden,” stelt McKinnon. Als uit vervolgonderzoek blijkt dat Pluto daadwerkelijk een ondergrondse oceaan bezit, dan zijn er in de Kuipergordel waarschijnlijk nog veel meer van deze oceanen te vinden. In de Kuipergordel bevinden zich namelijk nog veel meer hemellichamen die qua omvang vergelijkbaar zijn met Pluto.
In juli 2015 scheerde ruimtesonde New Horizons langs Pluto. Voor het eerst konden we de dwergplaneet in detail bewonderen. Het leverde een schat aan informatie op en nog altijd zijn onderzoekers bezig om de door New Horizons verzamelde gegevens te analyseren. New Horizons haast zich ondertussen dieper de Kuipergordel in. Daar zal deze opnieuw onderzoek gaan doen naar een Kuipergordelobject dat – voor zover we nu weten – net zo rood is als Pluto.
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"Could there be life in Pluto’s ocean?" - Washington University De afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute
An artist's conception of the Spiderweb Galaxy, which is actually a massive collection of growing galaxies in the early universe. Protogalaxies are shown in white and pink, while the blue indicates the location of the carbon monoxide gas surrounding them.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Like a spider devouring prey from its web, a mature young galaxy is devouring the recycled gas that surrounds it, rather than snacking on its neighbors.
"This is different from what we see in the nearby universe, where galaxies in clusters grow by cannibalizing other galaxies," lead study author Bjorn Emonts, a researcher at Spain's Center for Astrobiology, said in a statement from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). "In this cluster, a giant galaxy is growing by feeding on the soup of cold gas in which it is submerged."
Working with an international team of astronomers, Emonts made detailed observations of the Spiderweb Galaxy — which is actually a cluster of protogalaxies in the early universe — using the NRAO's Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s (CSIRO) Australia Telescope Compact Array. Rather than forming through collisions with other galaxies (the "cannibalizing" Emonts mentions), the researchers found that the massive galaxy at the heart of the cluster was slurping up cool gas between the infant galaxies. [The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought]
"Cosmic Recycling"
The most massive galaxies in the universe form through a combination of rapid star formation and the cannibalization of other, smaller galaxies, but how much each process contributes in the building of super-galaxies has been an ongoing question.
"Extremely massive galaxies are seen in the young universe, but their presence is puzzling because we do not yet understand how they became so massive so quickly," said Nina Hatch, an astronomer at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. The research was published in the journal Science. Hatch, who was not involved in the study, authored an accompanying Perspectives article about the new research paper. "How do they get enough fuel to form stars so rapidly?"
In search of an answer, Emonts and his team turned to the Spiderweb Galaxy cluster, located 10 billion light-years from the sun. Because of the time it takes for light to travel across space, they are seeing the cluster as it was when the universe was less than 4 billion years of its 13.7-billion-year age. Like a giant spider web, the collection hosts a relatively mature galaxy at its center, surrounded by a web of diffuse ultraviolet light in which tens of smaller, fly-like galaxies are caught. Despite its young age, the central galaxy is one of the most massive galaxies in in the young universe, according to Hatch.
In hopes of finding the gas that fuels the growth of galaxies in the Spiderweb, the researchers studied the gas around it, which serves as the building blocks for stars and galaxies. They found a cloud of gas roughly 100 billion times the mass of the sun that engulfed the growing galaxies. Previous work revealed that billions of young stars had lit up the Spiderweb, leading the researchers to conclude that the super-galaxy is growing directly from the cloud.
"This is a huge system, with this molecular gas [cloud] spanning three times the size of our own giant Milky Way," said co-author Preshanth Jagannathan, of the NRAO, in a statement from Spain's Center for Astrobiology.
"It appears that this whole system eventually will collapse into a single, gigantic galaxy," Jagannathan said.
In addition to its size, the cloud of gas is surprisingly cold.
"It's shocking how cold this gas must be — about minus 200 degrees Celsius (minus 350 degrees Fahrenheit)," study co-author Matthew Lehnert, a professor at the Institute d’Astrophysique de Paris, said in the same statement. "We expect a fiery process — lots of galaxies falling in and heating gas up. Therefore, we expected that all the cold gas would be locked up deep within the galaxies."
Instead, the cold cloud surrounded the protogalaxies, feeding their evolution. Its composition is also surprising. Observations revealed a large quantity of carbon monoxide, material forged in the heart of stars and released in their explosive deaths. Only a third of that material is locked up inside the galaxies, while the rest lies between them. Rather than consuming pristine gas, the Spiderweb Galaxy is relying on recycled material to fuel its growth. Still, its exact source remains a mystery.
"The carbon monoxide that we detected is a byproduct of previous stars, a form of cosmic recycling, but we cannot say for sure where the gas came from or how it accumulated in the cluster core," Emonts said. "To find out, we'd have to look even deeper into the universe's history."
Swiss Finance Company Invests Big Shares in Mars One
Swiss Finance Company Invests Big Shares in Mars One
NASA
IN BRIEF
The shareholders of a Swiss financial services company have agreed to a takeover bid of the Mars One space organization. Hopefully, the move will forward the company's big plans to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars.
Getting to the Red Planet is an expensive business, and the leading contenders are scrambling to acquire sufficient cash to underwrite their dreams.
Mars One consists of two entities: the Dutch not-for-profit Mars One Foundation and a British public limited company Mars One Ventures
FUNDING THE MISSIONS
Many Mars missions are facing a very blunt controversy: how much is it going to cost to send people up there to study and possibly colonize the Red Planet?
A contender in the Mars space race is Mars One, a space tech organization that originates in the Netherlands. The company has two direct arms: the Dutch non-profit Mars One Foundation, and the British public company in charge of monetization, Mars One Ventures. Now, the Ventures profit arm has announced an agreement with Swiss InFin Innovative Finance AG to a shares takeover bid.
Conceptual illustration of the Mars One habitats.
“The acquisition is now only pending approval by the board of Mars One Ventures,” the companies said in a joint announcement.
The finance takeover solidifies Mars One’s efforts to establish a permanent human settlement on the Red Planet. On the Mars One website, they discussed their reliance on corporate investments and donations as a primary funding source. The space tech company did try to gain additional funding by pitching a television reality show about the missions to and life on Mars, but this was axed by their partner production company.
$PACE RACE
To get to the Red Planet is a big dream that needs to bring in big bucks. The different companies gearing up to get us there are funded in different ways.
NASA plans to bring astronauts to Mars itself by the 2030s. It’s funded by the US governmentusing federal revenue from income, corporate, and other taxes.
SpaceX receives most of its seed money from billionaire founder Elon Musk. It also gains much from its government subsidy, with an estimated $4.9 billion coming in for the space tech company and Musk’s electric car empire, Tesla. SpaceX has a more urgent timeline, and they plan to get millions of people up to the Martian “colonies” by 2024—just check out their new outline for a future “Mars-shot.”
Lockheed Martin, based in Maryland, is another privately-owned aerospace company with dreams of the Red Planet dancing through its head. Their Mars Base Camp, a collaboration with NASA, believes it can send astronauts to space by around 2028. It sources funds from its numerous corporate profits, together with investments.
While we’re not sure who can get us to Mars first, what’s certain is that it’s going to take a lot of money to do it.
Atlas the Life-Sized Robot Just Became a Bit More Human
Atlas the Life-Sized Robot Just Became a Bit More Human
IHMC
IN BRIEF
Humanoid robots just got a major upgrade: they can walk!
A new "walking algorithm" has been developed at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) for Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot.
A sped-up animation of the algorithm in action.
STEPPING OUT
We’ve come a step closer to those human-like, walking “droids” we all love from the Star Wars universe. A new locomotion algorithm has been developed that allows the Atlas robot to gingerly walk through rough and uneven terrain.
Most robots would need flat surfaces to traverse. This control algorithm, developed at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) for the Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics, mimics a human-like line of thinking of deliberating carefully before making a step. Atlas balances itself before stepping onto an uneven foothold.
“Our humanoid projects are focused on enabling our bipedal humanoids [to] handle rough terrain without requiring onboard sensors to build a model of the terrain,” said the developers from IHMC. “Our goal is to tackle increasingly more difficult walking challenges.”
HUMAN ROBOTS?
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas has been in the works for a while now under the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a competition funded by the US Government. The company, a subsidiary of Google, has been continuously bringing out developments to make this robot as close to the human form as possible. Particularly, they have been focusing on equipping Atlas with balance and agility, qualities that traditionally would be quite difficult for robots.
Humanoid robots, once a tale from science fiction, are slowly coming to life. Today, they’re mastering walking through rubble and keeping balance on a thin plank of wood. Tomorrow, they could be indispensable partners in our daily lives. The calculated steps that Atlas now makes could be life-saving when put to the right uses. Like in the movies, the future could have artificially intelligent healthcare providers, policemen, and more.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, dubbed the VSS Unity, took to the skies over Mojave, California this morning to complete the craft’s first ever free-flight test. And preliminary data shows it was a huge success.
Today’s flight marked the fifth overall flight for the VSS Unity, which has the distinction of being the only spacecraft built by the company’s in-house manufacturing team — TheSpaceshipCompany — and the 218th flight for its mothership, the WhiteKnightTwo.
Earlier in the week, the duo joined forces to complete a fourth captive carry test. Following the pair’s second captive-carry test in September, engineers decided that all systems were performing as expected and the crew could move onto free-flight testing. The first two attempts (both in November) were thwarted due to weather and an unexpected anomaly, which prevented the crew from separating the two vehicles.
That was not the case today. Following takeoff, the pilots of both vehicles tested multiple onboard systems, ensuring they were ready (and able) to release the spacecraft. Once they received the green light from the control room, the VSS Unity was set free and coasted down to a gentle landing.
During free-flight (also known as a glide test) testing, the two vehicles take off as a mated pair, with the SpaceShipTwo detaching from the WhiteKnightTwo during flight before gently gliding back to the runway. In-flight testing allows engineers thoroughly study how various systems on board the vehicles perform during flight.
The glide tests are not designed to go into space; however, they are a major step towards Virgin Galactic’s ultimate goal: launching people into space. Before that can happen, the aerospace company must first prove its vehicles are safe to carry human passengers. In order to do so, the company has to complete a lengthy testing process that includes captive-carry, free-flight, and rocket-powered tests.
The road to space.
Rocket-powered testing was suspended following a tragic accident in 2014, when the first SpaceShipTwo crashed as a result of pilot error. The accident resulted in the death of one pilot, leaving a second injured.
Today’s successful free-flight test, was a crucial step to resuming rocket-powered flights.
What do NASA and Netflix have in common? Probably more than you would think. Researchers have developed a technique that uses artificial intelligence to help them search for and identify stable planetary systems. The technique is based on learning algorithms used by the streaming giant to offer online recommendations. This new tool will be used in tandem with NASA’s fleet ofplanet-hunting telescopes to identify planets that could potentially support life.
“Machine learning offers a powerful way to tackle a problem in astrophysics, and that’s predicting whether planetary systems are stable,” Dan Tamayo, lead author of the research and a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Planetary Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough, explained in a news release.
As a form of artificial intelligence, machine learning enables computers to learn on their own, without having to be constantly fed data or programmed for a specific task. These types of advanced systems are specifically designed to learn and adapt on their own when exposed to different data.
Tamayo says the team’s technique is 1,000 times faster than traditional methods in predicting stability. The results are available online in the current issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The team hopes the tool will be a valuable asset in astronomy, able to help scientists locate new planetary systems that could potentially hold life, as well as discern new information that would otherwise go undetected with current methods of observation.
Artist conception of NASA's TESS spacecraft.
Tamayo explains that, currently, astronomers rely on multiple methods to detect exoplanets. However, these methods are only capable of providing information on a planet’s size and orbital period — neither of which affects stability.
Understanding how stable a system is will allow researchers to glean insights into how they formed and better assess a planet’s chances for hosting life.
With the technique developed by Tamayo and his team, astronomers will now be able to measure a planet’s mass and its orbit, which will come in handy when analyzing data from NASA’s upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The two-year mission will search for new exoplanets by focusing on the brightest stars in close proximity to our solar system and is set to launch next year.
“It could be a useful tool because predicting stability would allow us to learn more about the system, from the upper limits of mass to the eccentricities of these planets,” says Tamayo.
The Hubble Space Telescope just snapped an image of cosmic crime in process: a supermassive black hole slowly consuming its host galaxy.
This supermassive black hole is lurking in the heart of an elliptical galaxy known as NGC 4696, which is the largest galaxy in the massive Centaurus galaxy cluster about 150 million light-years from Earth. The new observations from Hubble reveal that the supermassive black hole at its center of NGC 4696 has shaped the otherwise typical elliptical galaxy into a cosmic question mark.
Black holes are well known as cosmic monsters, with centers of gravity so dense they gobble up anything that crosses their path. On the plus side, these stellar behemoths tend to be messy eaters, which often results in beautiful works of cosmic art.
The new images reveal spectacular bands of curling filaments, which are composed of dusty ionized hydrogen, spiraling out into interstellar space. Data collected shows that the supermassive black hole is responsible for the dusty tendrils and thread-like filaments we see. Like brush strokes on a cosmic painting, the black hole is painting the cosmos with material from its host.
A view of NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster.
New research also suggests that the galaxy’s own supermassive black hole is also preventing the galaxy from creating new stars — meaning the galaxy is essentially dead. With no new stars being formed, once the black hole has consumed all of the surrounding galactic material, NGC 4696’s lights will go out forever.
HAWKING'S NEW CHILLING WARNING: 'WE’RE AT MOST DANGEROUS MOMENT IN HISTORY OF HUMANITY!'
HAWKING'S NEW CHILLING WARNING: 'WE’RE AT MOST DANGEROUS MOMENT IN HISTORY OF HUMANITY!'
The rise of the new worldwide Nationalism and Britain’s Brexit vote come at “the most dangerous time in the history of the human race,” according to the physicist Stephen Hawking.
The Cambridge professor warns the political shift shows the majority of people on Earth are sick of the status quo and felt they had been “abandoned by their (ruling) leaders.
“It was, everyone seems to agree, the moment when the forgotten spoke, finding their voices to reject the advice and guidance of experts and the elite everywhere.
“For me, the really concerning aspect of this is that now, more than at any time in our history, our species needs to work together,” he added.
Hawking claims the world is facing major challenges, including climate change, overpopulation, food production, the decimation of other species on Earth, epidemic disease and pollution of the oceans.
“Together, they are a reminder that we are at the most dangerous moment in the development of humanity.
“We can do this [overcome the challenges], I am an enormous optimist for my species; but it will require the elites, from London to Harvard, from Cambridge to Hollywood, to learn the lessons of the past year. To learn above all a measure of humanity.”
He also added: “We now have the technology to destroy the planet on which we live, but have not yet developed the ability to escape it.
“Perhaps in a few hundred years, we will have established human colonies amid the stars, but right now we only have one planet, and we need to work together to protect it.”
HOELANG KUNNEN ZE DEZE PLANEET NOG VERBORGEN HOUDEN ? ( VIDEO )
HOELANG KUNNEN ZE DEZE PLANEET NOG VERBORGEN HOUDEN ? ( VIDEO )
Enkele dagen geleden schreven we over hoe nauwkeurig het Bijbelboek Openbaringen verwijst naar de datum van 23 september 2017.
Er zijn echter nog veel meer aanwijzingen die de grootste cover-up uit de menselijke geschiedenis aantonen.
De datum van 23 september 2017 zoals die tevoorschijn komt uit Openbaringen 12 is dan niet een datum waarop de wereld zal vergaan of iets van dien aard, maar wel een bepaald punt aangeeft aangaande wat men in de Bijbel "de eindtijd" noemt.
We hebben ook kunnen zien hoe een ander deel van diezelfde Bijbel kunt uitgelegd kan worden als de datum waarop de planeet Nibiru echt in ons leven zal verschijnen. Dat deze planeet op die datum een plek aan de hemel zal innemen die wordt omschreven als de plaats vanwaar de zevenkoppige draak zal proberen het pas gebaarde kind te verslinden.
Vandaag gaat over andere aanwijzingen voor wat betreft de planeet Nibiru en haar metgezellen. Of de planeet die door astronomen "de Ontwrichter" wordt genoemd, misschien één en dezelfde planeet is als waarover in de Bijbel wordt gesproken.
En als dat zo is, dan heeft de wereld te maken met de grootste cover-up uit de geschiedenis van de mensheid.
In het begin van de jaren tachtig werd er veel geschreven in de pers over een geheime Planeet X die zich in de uiterste regionen van ons zonnestelsel verborgen zou houden en voor de nodige verstoringen zou zorgen bij de planeten Neptunus en Uranus. Zo schreef men onder andere, "Er is “iets” dat als het ware trekt aan deze planeten en zorgt voor onregelmatigheden in hun normale omloopbaan. Deze kracht wijst in de richting van een grote en niet geziene aanwezigheid van een groot object dat wel eens de al zo lang gezochte Planeet X zou kunnen zijn".
In januari 1983 gaat een 80 miljoen dollar kostend project van start waarbij een infrarode satelliet (IRAS) de ruimte in werd gestuurd om op die manier objecten op te sporen die onzichtbaar zijn voor het menselijk oog en er werd het publiek verteld dat een nog niet ontdekte planeet verantwoordelijk zou kunnen zijn voor de ontwrichting van de omloopbanen van Uranus en Neptunus volgens Dr. Thomas C. Van Flandern van het US Naval Observatory.
Ongeveer een jaar later, op 30 december 1983 schreef de Washington Post een verhaal dat heette “Mogelijk zo groot als Jupiter”. In dat artikel schreven ze dat er een planeet was ontdekt die mogelijk zo groot was als de enorme planeet Jupiter en die zo dichtbij de aarde was dat het een onderdeel vormde van ons zonnestelsel. Deze planeet was ontdekt in de richting van het sterrenbeeld Orion.
Volgens het verhaal destijds in de Washington Post hadden de IRAS wetenschappers berekend dat dit mysterieuze hemellichaam onze kant op kwam. Twee bekende wetenschappers uit die tijd, Dr. Gerry Neugebauer en Dr. James Houck, waren er wel zeker van dat de aarde niet op een ramkoers was met deze planeet ("It's not incoming mail. I want to douse that idea with as much cold water as I can."), maar ze zeiden ook geen flauw idee te hebben wat het wel was ("All I can tell you is that we don't know what it is.")
Ook Harrington en Ferrada berichtten over de planeet en daarna werd het stil, doodstil en dat bleef zo gedurende 33 jaar. Wel stierven in de tussentijd vele astronomen, regelmatig onder verdachte omstandigheden, die zich bezighielden met de planeet Nibiru.
En dan nu, in de tegenwoordige tijd, is er ineens Planet Nine. Volgens wetenschappers kan deze planeet zich niet al te lang meer verborgen houden en hebben we te maken met een nog onzichtbare planeet van 10 keer de grootte van de aarde.
Volgens astronoom Mike Brown zal het niet veel langer duren dan 16 maanden, voordat Planet Nine “officieel” ontdekt kan worden. “Ik ben er vrij zeker van dat het tegen het einde van de winter zal zijn. Niet deze winter, maar de volgende winter. Ik denk dat er voldoende mensen naar op zoek zijn en iemand zal erin slagen om hem te vinden”.
Net zoals de Washington Post dat deed in 1983, zo zeggen de astronomen Mike Brown en Konstatin Batygin nu dat er zich daar “iets” bevindt. Zij hebben dit "iets" de bijnaam "de Ontwrichter" gegeven. Wat ons betreft ligt die naamgeving direct in lijn met een andere naam die de onbekende planeet ook is gegeven: de verwoester.
Dus, waarom gingen in de jaren tachtig de luiken naar beneden, toen men al had toegegeven dat er een onbekende planeet was? In al de jaren die volgden werd iedereen die maar durfde te suggereren dat er misschien toch wel een onbekende planeet was, uitgemaakt voor aluhoedje en complotgek.
Het is iedere keer hetzelfde liedje: Mensen die wakker zijn, ontdekken dingen, willen dit bekendmaken en de grote massa, onder aanvoering van een aantal overheidstrollen, maakt die ontdekking belachelijk. Wat zou de mensheid zichzelf een hoop ellende kunnen besparen als ze daar toch eens mee ophielden.
Hoe groot de krachten zijn die kunnen worden veroorzaakt door Planet Nine wordt door de twee eerder genoemde astronomen uitgelegd in de volgende video:
Neem, met bovenstaande in je achterhoofd, een kwartiertje de tijd om de volgende video te bekijken en waarschijnlijk zullen veel puzzelstukjes op hun plek vallen. Dan zie je dat overheden zich vanaf 1983 druk bezighouden met het bouwen van enorme ondergrondse schuilplaatsen met daarnaast allerlei ondergrondse projecten voor mensen die het zich kunnen veroorloven.
NASA heeft ook niet voor niets weer een infrarode telescoop de ruimte in gestuurd en ook een enorme infrarode telescoop op Antarctica geplaatst. Ja, zelfs het Vaticaan plaatste een infrarood telescoop met de toepasselijke naam LUCIFER.
Er bestaat zelfs een complete ondergrondse stad onder het vliegveld Denver dat via een ondergrondse spoorlijn is verbonden met Washington, zodat de elite in sneltreinvaart ondergronds naar hun schuilplaats kan reizen.
Van het heden en de fanatieke voorbereidingen door de rijken der aarde, gaan we weer terug in de tijd. Een tijd waar ook sprake was van de planeet Nibiru.
Een trouwe lezer schrijft het volgende (dank!):
Gisteren een zeer interessante documentaire gezien dat weer wat meer openbaart over Niburu.
Het is in mijn ogen een zeer goede documentaire over de Exodus uit Egypte.
De makers weerleggen de periode waarin dit zou hebben plaats gevonden. Maar zonder dit te weten hebben ze de klok daarmee op ongeveer 3500/3600 jaar geleden gezet.
De documentaire geeft een zeer goed beeld over de 10 plagen van Egypte en een mogelijke wetenschappelijke oorzaak van dit alles.
In mijn ogen vergeten ze het belangrijkste aspect, de oorzaak die dit alles in gang heeft gezet. En daar komt nu net Niburu om de hoek kijken.
Wanneer we dit op de huidige gebeurtenissen op aarde (vulkanische activiteit, aardbevingen etc) projecteren dan wordt e.e.a. duidelijk. Zelfs het openen van de zee vanwege een super eb veroorzaakt door bijvoorbeeld Niburu past nu volledig in het beeld.
Could this REALLY be the face of an alien? Meet the woman, 22, who claims she has extraterrestrial DNA (and can 'astral travel' to Mars if she fancies it)
Could this REALLY be the face of an alien? Meet the woman, 22, who claims she has extraterrestrial DNA (and can 'astral travel' to Mars if she fancies it)
Lea Kapiteli, 22, from Melbourne, always felt different as a child
Said she was visited by a presence, Mezreth, at 13, who explained her past
Mezreth told the then-teenager that she was a Starseed - of mixed origin
He explained that her mum's eggs had been fused with alien DNA
Since Ms Kapiteli says she's learned to astral travel in other worlds
Throughout her childhood, Lea Kapiteli, 22, from Melbourne, said she struggled with unusual physical encounters, strange experiences and presences.
Dismissing them as part of a childhood phase, it wasn't until she hit her teenage years that she found out what they really meant.
Ms Kapiteli told Daily Mail Australia that at the age of 13 she was visited by someone in the night, who explained her past, told her why she felt different to other girls her age, and spoke about the true nature of her heritage.
The presence, who she said was called Mezreth, told Ms Kapiteli that she wasn't like other teenagers. Instead, she was an alien hybrid.
Lea Kapiteli, 22, from Melbourne (pictured), said she found out that she was an alien hybrid when she was 13 years old
Ms Kapiteli (pictured is a self portrait) had always felt different - she said Mezreth explained that she was a Starseed - and her mother's eggs had been spliced with alien DNA
Ms Kapiteli said her mother's eggs had been harvested while she was sleeping, and fused with those of an alien - leaving Ms Kapiteli's genes spliced with extraterrestrial DNA.
Mezreth explained my past. He said: 'Those years you keep trying to forget, those experiences, they were real Lea'
'It was a strange encounter, but it also made a lot of sense,' Ms Kapiteli told Daily Mail Australia.
'For years, I had felt like these things were just vivid dreams and not reality - I had tried to reason unusual experiences away.
'Suddenly, Mezreth was explaining my past. He said: "Those years you keep trying to forget, those experiences, they were real Lea".'
For years, Ms Kapiteli (pictured) had tried to reason away unusual experiences - however, Mezreth told her they were real and she said it started to make 'a lot of sense'
After their first meeting, Mezreth (pictured as drawn by Ms Kapiteli left) visited the teenager countless times more; he told her about her heritage as a Starseed
After that night, Mezreth visited Ms Kapiteli countless times, to further explain her heritage and also tell Ms Kapiteli that she was a Starseed:
When I found out I was a Starseed, I knew I was here for a reason: to witness life on earth
'A Starseed is someone with mixed origin,' explained Ms Kapiteli.
'It's someone who is human, and who was born on earth, but who doesn't have wholly human origins.'
Mezreth explained why Ms Kapiteli had felt 'disconnected' through childhood - she was special.
'For years, I had felt everyone else just clicked while I was abnormal. When I found out I was a Starseed, I knew I was here for a reason: to witness life on earth,' she said.
A Starseed is someone with mixed origin - while they might be born on earth, they are not entirely human (pictured: more of Ms Kapiteli's drawings)
'For years, I had felt everyone else just clicked while I was abnormal. When I found out I was a Starseed, I knew I was here for a reason: to witness life on earth,' Ms Kapiteli (pictured) said
Through meetings and further encounters, Ms Kapiteli started to learn more from Mezreth.
He taught her to astral travel (an out-of-body experience in which you can travel through different universes), and Ms Kapiteli has enjoyed countless adventures since.
'At the beginning I had no control of where I was going, but now I have more and more,' she said.
'Through a bit more concentration and meditation, if I want to go to Mars, I can go there.'
These days, Ms Kapiteli feels fully at home with being a Starseed.
'It took my mum a little bit of time to understand, but she was great and went to research it on the Internet,' she said.
'When I was a child, I had always explained these things to her and she had put it down to me having an overly creative imagination.
'But after she did some research, it also made perfect sense to her.'
Mezreth taught Ms Kapiteli (pictured) to astral travel (an out of body experience that lets her travel to different universes) - she now says she can visit Mars if she wants to
While the 22-year-old said it took her mother a little bit of time to understand that she's a Starseed, Ms Kapiteli says that now her family and boyfriend are extremely supportive
Ms Kapiteli says she is still a novice when it comes to being a Starseed, but she wants to be a 'helper', and assist others in understanding why they might be alien hybrids, too.
'I can understand and appreciate how hard it can be to accept that you might be a Starseed, but once you do, it's much easier,' she said.
'It's so important to talk to someone and share your experiences.
'Being a Starseed is integral to your being and ignoring it will only make it worse.'
Luckily, the 22-year-old says she has a very supportive boyfriend who is 'totally cool with the whole thing'.
'I thought, being different, I'd be single my whole life and wind up like some crazy cat lady,' she said.
'But he's very supportive and we talk about it a lot. Who knows whether it will be passed down to my future children?'
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Maak kennis met de vrouw (22) die claimt dat ze buitenaards DNA heeft (en astrale reizen maakt)
Maak kennis met de vrouw (22) die claimt dat ze buitenaards DNA heeft (en astrale reizen maakt)
Lea Kapiteli (22) uit het Australische Melbourne had in haar jeugd naar eigen zeggen bijzonder vreemde ervaringen.
Toen ze 13 jaar oud was kreeg ze ’s nachts bezoek van iemand die uitleg gaf over haar verleden en haar vertelde waarom ze anders was dan andere meisjes van haar leeftijd.
De aanwezigheid, die zich voordeed als Mezreth, zei dat ze een buitenaardse hybride was, schrijft Daily Mail Australia.
Buitenaards materiaal
Kapiteli zei dat aliens bij haar moeder eicellen hebben weggehaald terwijl ze sliep. Vervolgens zou aan de eicellen buitenaards materiaal zijn toegevoegd.
Lea Kapiteli (Facebook)
“Het was een vreemde ontmoeting, maar er vielen ook veel puzzelstukjes op hun plaats,” zei ze.
“Jarenlang dacht ik dat ik gewoon hele levendige dromen had, ik probeerde steeds een rationele verklaring te bedenken voor de ongewone ervaringen,” voegde ze toe.
“Mezreth legde uit dat die ervaringen echt waren,” klonk het.
Starseed
Na die ene nacht kreeg Kapiteli naar eigen zeggen nog talloze keren bezoek van Mezreth. Ze kreeg ook te horen dat ze een Starseed (sterrezaad) was.
“Een Starseed is iemand van gemengde herkomst,” legde ze uit.
“Het is iemand die mens is, op aarde is geboren, maar die geen menselijke oorsprong heeft,” zei ze.
Kapiteli dacht altijd dat ze raar was, maar daar kwam een einde aan toen ze tot de ontdekking kwam dat ze een Starseed was.
Astraal reizen
Ze zegt dat ze hier is om het leven op aarde te aanschouwen.
Mezreth zou de jonge vrouw ook geleerd hebben om astraal te reizen. “Als ik me goed concentreer tijdens een meditatie kan ik naar Mars gaan als ik dat wil,” lichtte ze toe.
Kapiteli zegt dat ze andere buitenaardse hybriden wil gaan helpen. “Het is zo belangrijk om met iemand te praten en je ervaringen te delen,” zei ze.
‘Heus spektakel’: Kans op zeldzame parelmoerwolken op pakjesavond
‘Heus spektakel’: Kans op zeldzame parelmoerwolken op pakjesavond
Het wordt maandag misschien koud genoeg om zeldzame parelmoerwolken te zien in Nederland. Deze prachtige wolken zijn vrij uniek in deze omgeving.
Parelmoerwolken ontstaan in de stratosfeer als de temperatuur er rond -80 graden Celsius ligt. De weermodellen laten voor maandag temperaturen zien die rond -80 liggen, meldt Weerplaza.
De meeste kans om deze wolken te zien is tegen het einde van de middag. De zon is dan net onder, maar belicht nog wel eventuele wolken die op zo’n 15 kilometer hoogte voorbij komen.
Vrij helder
Het is waarschijnlijk vrij helder, alleen in het westen kunnen wat wolken overdrijven die het zicht kunnen belemmeren.
Als het dinsdagochtend voor zonsopkomst helder is, zou je het ook nog even kunnen proberen. De stratosfeer is dan nog steeds erg koud.
Heus spektakel
Meteoroloog Raymond Klaassen: “De kans is niet heel groot, maar het is zeker de moeite waard om even te kijken. Mooie parelmoerwolken kunnen een heus spektakel zijn. Het zou toch een mooi extra cadeautje zijn op pakjesavond.”
Afgelopen februari waren de stratosferische wolken in Nederland voor het eerst sinds 1996 te zien. Toen werden in de atmosfeer uitzonderlijk lage temperaturen gemeten.
In februari werden parelmoerwolken ook gezien boven Dublin:
Ten years after the Arizona UFO incident known as the 'Phoenix Lights', former Arizona Republican Governor Fife Symington, III, now says that he himself was a witness to one of the strange unidentified flying objects. "I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak.."
On March 13, 1997, one of the most massively witnessed UFO sightings occurred in the skies over and around Phoenix, Arizona. Witnessed by thousands of people and photographed by hundreds, there is no doubt that something was seen over the skies of Phoenix that night. The question remains - what did they see? The strange lights were sighted during a three hour period between 7:30pm and 10:30pm on March 13. They covered a 300 mile corridor from the Nevada line through Phoenix to the Northern edge of Tucson. Since thousands of witnesses called local Air Force bases, news stations, and UFO organizations with their reports, we are able to glean the exact route that the mysterious object took.
Dennis Kucinich, US Congressman & Presidential canidate.
Sighting Location: Graham, Washington, USA
Sighting Date:September 1982
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, October 22, 2007 :
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has seen a UFO, writes Shirley MacLaine in her new book, "Sage-Ing While Age-Ing." Kucinich, she writes on page143-144 of the book, "had a close sighting over my home in Graham, Washington, when I lived there. Dennis found his encounter extremely moving. The smell of roses drew him out to my balcony where, when he looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. It hovered, soundless, for ten minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind." During a Democratic Presidential debate in October, 2007 in Philadelphia, Tim Russert of NBC News asked Kucinich if he saw a UFO. "This is a serious question," Russert said before asking the question. The Chicago Tribune quotes the candidate's reply: "I did," Kucinich said. "And the rest of the account -- I didn't -- I -- it was unidentified flying object, okay. It's like -- it's unidentified. I saw something. "Now, to answer your question," Kucinich said, "I'm moving my -- and I'm also going to move my campaign office to Roswell, New Mexico and another one, an extra, to New Hampshire, okay... And also, you have to keep in mind that more -- that Jimmy Carter saw a UFO, and also that more people in this country have seen UFOs than, I think, approve of George Bush's presidency."
Reinhold Messner, famous mountain climber from Italy.
Date of sighting: 1981
Location of sighting: Katmandu, Nepal
KATMANDU, Nepal — Italian Reinhold Messner, one of the world's foremost mountaineers, said Friday he watched a UFO "the size of a full moon" for nearly three hours while climbing in the Himalayas.
On his return to Katmandu after an unsuccessful attempt on 24,248-foot Mount Chamlang, he said he spotted the UFO as it drifted south into Nepal from Tibet over the mighty snowcapped mountains. "It was moving very slowly," he said. "It moved eastward and then went again southwest and drifted finally north into Tibet." His climbing partner Doug Scott, a British schoolteacher, also sighted the object, he said, as did a nearby joint Polish-British expedition, but at a different time. "It could not be a satellite because they move in an eliptical manner." he said. "The movements of this object were irregular."
John Lennon.
Sighting Date: August 23, 1974
Sighting Location:New York City, New York, USA
August 23, 1974- John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC. Lennon's sighting occurred when he was with his personal secretary, May Pang, in New York, at the time when he and Yoko Ono were separated. He refers to the experience on the cover of his album "Walls And Bridges", which was released in 1974, saying that he saw a UFO. May Pang reports in her book, "Loving John".... "We had just ordered up some pizzas and since it was such a warm evening, we decided to step out on the terrace," recalled Pang. "There were no windows directly facing us from across the street, so John just stepped outside with nothing on, in order to catch a cool breeze that was coming in right off the East River. I remember I was just inside the bedroom getting dressed when John started shouting for me to come out on the terrace. I yelled back that I would be right there but he kept screaming for me to join him in that instant. As I walked out onto the terrace, my eye caught this large, circular object coming towards us. It was shaped like a flattened cone and on top was a large, brilliant red light, not pulsating as on any of the aircraft we'd see heading for a landing at Newark Airport. When it came a little closer, we could make out a row or circle of white lights that ran around the entire rim of the craft - these were also flashing on and off. There were so many of these lights that it was dazzling to the mind. It was, I estimate, about the size of a Lear jet and it was so close that if we had something to throw at it, we probably would have hit it quite easily." Eerily the object passed by. "We often had helicopters flying above us but this was as silent as the night and about seventeen storeys above street level." The object flew off but returned later, by which time she and Lennon had set up a telescope through which they could view it in more detail. "The light was so brilliant coming from the craft that no additional details could be seen. We did take a couple of pictures but they turned out overexposed." They also rang a local newspaper to report the sighting and were told at least seven other people had seen the UFO too. "We even called the police, that's how excited we were, and they told us to keep calm, that others had seen it too." During what was left of the evening, John kept saying, "I can't believe it... I can't believe it... I've seen a flying saucer!"
Major General Vladimir Kovalyonok, Russian Cosmonaut
Date of sighting: May 5, 1981
Location of sighting: Orbiting Earth
Below is his drawing of the UFO he saw.
Many cosmonauts have seen phenomena which are far beyond the experiences of earthmen. For ten years I never spoke on such things. The encounter you asked me about happened on May 5, 1981, at about 6 PM, during the Saljut Mission. At that time we were over the area of South Africa, moving towards the area of the Indian ocean. I just made some gymnastic exercises, when I saw in front of me, through a porthole, an object which I could not explain. It is impossible to determine distances in Space. A small object can appear large and far away and the other way around. Sometimes a cloud of dust appears like a large object. Anyway, I saw this object and then something happened I could not explain, something impossible according to the laws of Physics. The object had this shape, elliptical, and flew with us. From a frontal view it looked like it would rotate in flight direction. It only flew straight, but then a kind of explosion happened, very beautiful to watch, of golden light. This was the first part. Then, one or two seconds later, a second explosion followed somewhere else and two spheres appeared, golden and very beautiful.
After this explosion I just saw white smoke, then a cloud-like sphere. Before we entered the darkness, we flew through the terminator, the twilight-zone between day and night. We flew eastwards, and when we entered the darkness of the Earth shadow, I could not see them any longer. The two spheres never returned.
Victor Afanasyev, Soviet Cosmonaut
Date of sighting: April 1979
Location of sighting: Earth orbit, enroute to Soviet Solyut 6 Space Station
Below photo is the drawing Victor Afanasyev made of the UFO he saw.
In April of 1979, Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev lifted off from Star City to dock with the Soviet Solyut 6 space station. But while en route, something strange happened. Cosmonaut Afanasyev saw an unidentified object turn toward his craft and begin tailing it through space.
"It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely. It was an engineering structure, made from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters long with inner hulls. The object was narrow here and wider here, and inside there were openings. Some places had projections like small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We photographed it, and our photos showed it to be 23 to 28 meters away." In addition to photographing the UFO, Afanasyev continually reported back to Mission Control about the craft's size, its shape and position. When the cosmonaut returned to earth he was debriefed and told never to reveal what he knew, and had his cameras and film confiscated. Those photos and his voice transmissions from space have never been released. It is only now, with the collapse of the Soviet Union that Afanasyev feels that he can safely tell his story. "It is still classified as a UFO because we have yet to identify the object."
James McDivitt, NASA Astronaut, Gemini 4
Date of sighting: June 1965
Location of sighting: Orbiting Earth
In June 1965, Major James McDivitt saw, filmed, and photographed an object, which approached the Gemini IV (3rd June – 7th June 1965) capsule in which they were orbiting the Earth, passing over Hawaii. The UFO had a long arm sticking out of it.
Here is what Major James McDivitt repeated many times:
"I was flying with Ed White. He was sleeping at the time so I don't have anybody to verify my story. We were drifting in space with the control engines shut down and all the instrumentation off (when) suddenly (an object) appeared in the window. It had a very definite shape - a cylindrical object - it was white - it had a long arm that stuck out on the side. I don't know whether it was a very small object up close or a very large object a long ways away. There was nothing to judge by. I really don't know how big it was. We had two cameras that were just floating in the spacecraft at the time, so I grabbed one and took a picture of (the object) and grabbed the other and took a picture. Then I turned on the rocket control systems because I was afraid we might hit it. At the time we were drifting - without checking I have no idea which way we were going - but as we drifted up a little farther the sun shone on the window of the spacecraft. The windshield was dirty - just like in an automobile, you can't see through it. So I had the rocket control engines going again and moved the spacecraft so that the window was in darkness again - the object was gone. I called down later and told them what had happened and they went back and checked their records of other space debris that was flying around but we were never able to identify what it could have been. The film was sent back to NASA and reviewed by some NASA film technicians. One of them selected what he thought was what we talked about, at least before I had a chance to review it. It was not the picture - it was a picture of a sun reflection on the window."
Buzz Aldrin, NASA Astronaut
Date of sighting: July 18, 1969
Location of sighting: Moon
Buzz stated this in an interview:
Buzz Aldrin: There was something out there that, uh, was close enough to be observed and what could it be?
Narrator: Traveling along side of Apollo 11 was a mysterious object like this one (a ringed object at close range is shown), filmed on a later mission. If it wasn't part of their own rocket, it could only be one thing, a UFO. Aldrin: Mike (Collins) decided he thought he could see it in the telescope and he was able to do that and when it was in one position, that had a series of ellipses, but when you made it real sharp it was sort of L shaped. That didn't tell us very much. Dr. David Baker (Apollo 11 Senior Scientist): NASA knew very little about, um, the object reported by the Apollo 11 crew. It was obviously an unidentified flying object, but such objects were not uncommon and the history of even earth orbit space flights going back over the previous years indicated that several crews saw objects. Narrator: Despite having a clear view of the UFO, the crew were wary of reporting it to Mission Control. Aldrin: Now, obviously, the three of us were not going to blurt out, 'Hey Houston we got something moving along side of us and we don't know what it is, you know, can you tell us what it is?'. We weren't about to do that, cause we know that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and who knows what somebody would have demanded that we turn back because of Aliens or whatever the reason is, so we didn't do that but we did decide we'd just cautiously ask Houston where, how far away was the S-IVB? Narrator: Unaware of the drama unfolding in space, Mission Control radioed the position back to Apollo 11. Mission Control: 'Apollo 11, Houston. The S-IVB is about 6,000 nautical miles from you now, over.' Aldrin: And a few moments later, why they came back and said something like it was 6,000 miles away because of the maneuver, so we really didn't think we were looking at something that far away, so we decided that after a while of watching it, it was time to go to sleep and not to talk about it anymore until we came back and (went through) debriefing.
Narrator: To this day, whatever it was that the crew saw has never been positively identified or officially acknowledged.
Gordon Cooper, NASA Astronaut.
Date of sighting: 1957
Location of sighting: Edwards Air Force Base, California, USA
In 1957, Cooper was one of an elite band of test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base in California, in charge of several advanced projects, including the installation of a precision landing system. "I had a camera crew filming the installation when they spotted a saucer. They filmed it as it flew overhead, then hovered, extended three legs as landing gear, and slowly came down to land on a dry lake bed! "These guys were all pro cameramen, so the picture quality was very good. "The camera crew managed to get within 20 or 30 yards of it, filming all the time. It was a classic saucer, shiny silver and smooth, about 30 feet across. It was pretty clear it was an alien craft. "As they approached closer it took off." When his camera crew handed over the film, Cooper followed standard procedure and contacted Washington to report the UFO and "all heck broke loose," he said. "After a while a high-ranking officer said when the film was developed I was to put it in a pouch and send it to Washington. "He didn't say anything about me not looking at the film. That's what I did when it came back from the lab and it was all there just like the camera crew reported." When the Air Force later started Operation Blue Book to collate UFO evidence and reports, Cooper says he mentioned the film evidence. "But the film was never found supposedly. Blue Book was strictly a cover-up anyway." Cooper revealed he's convinced an alien craft crashed at Roswell, N. Mex., in 1947 and aliens were discovered in the wreckage. "I had a good friend at Roswell, a fellow officer. He had to be careful about what he said. But it sure wasn't a weather balloon, like the Air Force cover story. He made it clear to me what crashed was a craft of alien origin, and members of the crew were recovered." Why has the government kept its UFO secrets for so many years? "It started in World War 2, when the government didn't want people to know about UFO reports in case they panicked," said Cooper. "They would have been fearful it was superior enemy technology that we had no defense against. "Then it got worse in the Cold War for the same reason. "So they told one untruth, they had to tell another to cover that one, then another, then another . . . it just snowballed. "And right now I'm convinced a lot of very embarrassed government officials are sitting there in Washington trying to figure a way to bring the truth out. They know it's got to come out one day, and I'm sure it will.
"America has a right to know!"
Richard Russell, US Senator.
Date of sighting: October 13, 1955
Location of sighting: Russian Federation
One of the most powerful U.S. senators in modern history actually eye-witnessed two UFO’s while on a fact-finding trip through Russia in 1955, and the U.S. government kept the sightings a secret for more than three decades. The incredible encounter is detailed in 12 TOP SECRET CIA, FBI, and Air Force reports, and declassified in 1985. Those startling reports reveal that Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr. (D-GA), then chairman of the Armed Services Committee, was on a Soviet train when he spotted a disc-shaped craft taking off near the tracks. He hurriedly called his military aide and interpreter to the window and they saw the UFO, plus another one that appeared a minute later. The astonished trio reported the sightings to the U.S. Air Force as soon as they were out of Russia.
The Air Force Intelligence report says Russell and his two traveling companions spotted the UFOs on October 4, 1955, while traveling by rail across Russia’s Transcaucasus region. "One disc ascended almost vertically, at a relatively slow speed, with its outer surface revolving slowly to the right, to an altitude of about 6000 feet, where its speed then increased sharply as it headed north," the report states. "The second flying disc was seen performing the same actions about one minute later. The take-off area was about 1-2 miles south of the rail line."
Walter Cronkite. CBS News anchor.
Date of sighting: 1950
Location of sighting: South Pacific
In the 1950s Cronkite was part of a pool of News Reporters brought out to a small South Pacific island to watch the test of a new Air Force missile. After a short inspection of the new system by the reporters, they were lead to an area that was a safe distance from the launch site. The missile was mounted on a specially-built launcher that was attached to a cement base. It was obvious that the area had been quickly built just for the test. The details about the missile were going to be given to the reporters in he form of hand-out sheets and press releases after the test.
Cronkite mentioned that he and the other reporters had been warned that photography of the missile test and any audio transmissions or recordings by the press were forbidden. They would have to give a written account of the event. Just as the test was ready to proceed, everyone was writing as fast as they could. As Air Force Security personnel walked around the perimeter of the test area with guard dogs and the news reporters watched, the missile was fired-up and about to be released. Just then, a large disc-type UFO appeared on the scene. Cronkite guessed that the object was about 50-60 feet in diameter, a dull grey color and had no visible means of propulsion. Because the noise of activity around him and the missile engine was so loud, he couldn't tell whether the disc made any noise. He did not notice any coming directly from the object. As Air Force guards ran toward the UFO with their dogs, the disc hovered about 30 feet off of the ground. It suddenly sent out a blue beam of light which struck the missile, a guard and a dog all at the same time. The missile was frozen in mid-air about 70 feet from the launcher as it had taken off. A guard was frozen in mid-step and a dog frozen in mid-air as it had jumped at the disc. Cronkite reminded me that this all happened within the space of about five minutes or less. Suddenly, the missile exploded! After that, the disc vanished. The guard and dog looked alright, but were quickly taken away by medical personnel always present at tests in case anyone became injured. At the same time, guards rapidly ushered the reporters into a concrete observation bunker. After about thirty minutes of sitting in that hot box, they were brought out into the air again and addressed by an Air Force Colonel. The officer told them, "It was all part of the test." Obviously making it up as he went along, the Colonel said that the event was "staged" to test media reaction to UFOs. He reinforced the usual line to the reporters that Flying Saucers were probably not extra-terrestrial, but what people were actually seeing was secret planes being tested by the Air Force. This test was designed to show the media how "shocking" it could be to suddenly view a new technology. Well, Cronkite was certain that what he viewed was a new technology, but he was also sure it was not an Earthly one! He didn't believe the Air Force explanation then, and he still didn't believe it at the time when he told me the story. After the event, reporters were told that since it was a test of media reaction to new technology, they could not report on it! But, they would be compensated later with exclusive stories on new Air Force projects (a promise that was never kept). Being as private as he was, Cronkite never did share with me his own beliefs about UFOs beyond the story he told me. I was so happy to have heard the story that I was afraid to ask anything further!
Clyde Tombaugh, Astronomer who discovered Pluto.
Date of sighting:August 20, 1949
Location of sighting: Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
Tombaugh was probably the preeminent astronomer to have reported seeing Unidentified Flying Objects. On August 20, 1949, Tombaugh saw several UFOs near Las Cruces, New Mexico. He described them as six to eight rectangular lights, stating "I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment." A similar shocked response has been reported by many other who claim to have seen mysterious aerial objects.
Tombaugh was also later to report having seen three of the mysterious Green Fireballs, which suddenly appeared over New Mexico in late 1948 and continued at least through the early 1950s. In 1956 Tombaugh had the following to say about his various sightings: "I have seen three objects in the last seven years which defied any explanation of known phenomenon, such as Venus, atmospheric optic, meteors or planes. I am a professional, highly skilled, professional astronomer. In addition I have seen three green fireballs which were unusual in behavior from normal green fireballs...I think that several reputable scientists are being unscientific in refusing to entertain the possibility of extraterrestrial origin and nature."
Christopher
ColumbusUFO sighting.
Date of sighting: October 11, 1492
Location of sighting: Atlantic Ocean
Even Christopher Columbus, it appears, saw a UFO. While patrolling the deck of the Santa Maria at about 10:00 PM on October 11, 1492, Columbus thought he saw "a light glimmering at a great distance." He hurriedly summoned Pedro Gutierrez, "a gentleman of the king's bedchamber," who also saw the light. After a short time it vanished, only to reappear several times during the night, each time dancing up and down "in sudden and passig gleams." The light, first seen four hours before land was sighted, was never explained."
Edmund Halley, discoverer of Halley's Comet sees UFO.
Date of sighting: March 1676
Location of sighting: United Kingdom
Edmund Halley, the astronomer who discovered Halley's comet, could recall two accounts involving unidentified crafts. His first experience was in March of 1676, when he saw a, as he said, "Vast body apparently bigger than the moon." He estimated it at 40 mi. above him. He also stated that it made a noise, "Like the rattling of a great cart over stones." After estimating the distance it traveled in a matter of minutes, he came to the conclusion that it moved at a speed greater than 9,600 m.p.h.
Alexander the Great records two great "flying shields." Date of sighting: 329 BC Location of sighting: Central Asia Alexander the Great records two great silver shields, spitting fire around the rims in the sky that dived repeatedly at his army as they were attempting a river crossing. The action so panicked his elephants, horses, and men they had to abandon the river crossing until the following day. Alexander the Great was not the first to see them nor was he the first to find them troublesome. He tells of two strange craft that dived repeatedly at his army until the war elephants, the men, and the horses all panicked and refused to cross the river where the incident occurred. What did the things look like? His historian describes them as "great shining silvery shields, spitting fire around the rims... things that came from the skies and returned to the skies."
UFO Cloaked In Cloud Dome Over Rhyl, UK On Dec 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Cloaked In Cloud Dome Over Rhyl, UK On Dec 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 2016
Location of sighting: Rhyl, United Kingdom
A UFO wanted to get a closer look over the UK this week and decided to bring its cloud cloak with it. The cloud is staying together well and clearly hiding something within it. Excellent photos and thanks to SecureTeam10 for the heads up. It makes sense, they want to get close, but not be seen, so they just make the cloud cloak move with them...they may even have walked on the surface around or in the houses below.
Here is the exact location it was seen (Google Map) but its not useful, since its not seen on the map itself, but was seen in person by the eyewitness.
Iedereen kent ze wel uit het kerstverhaal: de ster die de drie wijzen naar het kindje Jezus leidde. Maar nieuw onderzoek suggereert dat die 'ster' wel eens iets helemaal anders geweest zou kunnen zijn: een zeldzaam astronomisch fenomeen dat de komende 500.000 jaar zelfs niet eens meer zou voorkomen.
"De 'ster van Betlehem' houdt ons al eeuwenlang bezig", aldus Grant Mathews, professor theoretische astrofysica en kosmologie aan de universiteit van Notre Dame, die de theorie ontwikkelde. Hij probeert al meer dan een decennium te achterhalen wat er precies aan de hand was in die tijd. "Waar en wanneer verscheen de ster? Hoe zag ze eruit? Welke ster kan die dag zó helder hebben geschenen?"
Jupiter Wel, volgens zijn studie van astronomische, historische en bijbelse bronnen zouden in het jaar 6 voor Christus de zon, de maan, Jupiter en Saturnus allemaal in het sterrenbeeld Ram hebben gestaan, Venus in het sterrenbeeld Vissen en Mercurius en Mars in het sterrenbeeld Stier.
Voor de wijzen - de priesters van Zarathustra uit het oude Babylon en Mesopotamië - zou de opstelling in het sterrenbeeld Ram gewezen hebben op de geboorte van een nieuwe vorst in Judea. De combinatie van de maan en Jupiter wees op de komst van een heerser met een bijzonder lot, terwijl Saturnus het symbool was van het geven van leven.
Iets wat nog werd bevestigd doordat de Ram aanwezig was tijdens de zomerzonnewende dat jaar. "De wijzen zouden dat opgemerkt hebben in het oosten en dat zou hen aangezet hebben om op zoek te gaan naar de nieuwe koning", aldus Mathews.
Baby Iets wat wordt onderschreven door professor David Weintraub van de Vanderbilt University in het Amerikaanse Nashville. "De 'ster' leidde de wijzen dus niet naar de stal, ze vertelde hen gewoon wanneer ze op pad moesten gaan", vertelt hij. "Ze zullen ook geen pasgeboren baby gevonden hebben in een stal. Tegen de tijd dat ze de boodschap in de sterren ontcijferd hadden, zal het kind al zeker acht maanden geweest zijn. De opstelling begon op 17 april van het jaar 6 voor Christus met het opkomen van Jupiter en duurde tot 19 december van dat jaar, toen Jupiter niet langer naar het westen bewoog, maar even stil bleef staan en daarna naar het oosten ging."
Mattheus Volgens Weintraub zou dat ook de theorie zijn die Mattheus in het achterhoofd had toen hij zijn evangelie schreef, dat later in de bijbel werd opgenomen. In zijn tekst komen passages voor die hiernaar kunnen verwijzen. "Hij moet gedacht hebben dat het lezers kon overtuigen dat Jezus de profeet was."
Hoe dan ook, de astronomische opstelling in het jaar 6 voor Christus was een zeldzame gebeurtenis. Op een soortgelijke gebeurtenis is het nog 16.000 jaar wachten en dan zal de Ram niet eens aanwezig zijn tijdens de zomerzonnewende. Een compleet identieke opstelling is er sowieso niet de komende 500.000 jaar, zo hebben de wetenschappers uitgerekend.
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