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18-12-2016 om 00:13 geschreven door peter  

Einstein's Theory Just Put the Brakes on the Sun's Spin

Although the sun is our nearest star, it still hides many secrets. But it seems that one solar conundrum may have been solved and a theory originally proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein could be at the root of it all.

NASA

Twenty years ago, solar astronomers realized that the uppermost layer of the sun rotates slower than the rest of the sun's interior. This is odd. It is well known the sun rotates faster at its equator than at its poles — a phenomenon known as "differential rotation" that drives the sun's 11-year solar cycle — but the fact that the sun has a sluggish upper layer has been hard to understand. It's as if there's some kind of force trying to hold it in place while the lower layers churn below it.

Now, researchers from University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), Brazil, and Stanford University may have stumbled on an answer and it could all be down to fundamental physics. It seems that the light our sun generates has a braking effect on the sun's surface layers.

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"The sun won't stop spinning anytime soon, but we've discovered that the same solar radiation that heats the Earth is 'braking' the sun because of Einstein's Special Relativity, causing it to gradually slow down, starting from its surface," said Jeff Kuhn, of IfA Maui, in a statement.

Special relativity predicts that photons, which carry the electromagnetic force (i.e. light), also carry a tiny amount of momentum. If you have enough photons travelling away from an object, they will carry away a large amount of momentum. In the case of the sun's 4 billion year lifetime, the surface has lost a lot of momentum to photons, causing a slowdown of the uppermost 5 percent of the sun. This mechanism, called the Poynting-Robertson effect, has been observed in interplanetary dust, which feels the drag of the sun's radiation, causing it to fall from the asteroid belt into the inner solar system.

What affects dust inevitably affects the soup of super-heated gas in the sun's upper layers and, over its lifetime, the drag caused by photons being emitted from the sun has created a measurable and, until now, mysterious effect.

Using several years of data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the researchers were able to measure waves traveling through the sun to precisely measure the size of the layer that is experiencing this slowdown. The technique, known as "helioseismology," is very similar to measuring the seismic waves travelling through the Earth to measure the strength of an earthquake. The material these seismic waves travel through changes the waves so seismologists can "see" underground.

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Though the sun isn't a solid planet made from rock and metal, its dense plasma interior also allows waves to travel, creating oscillations on the surface that can be measured. Helioseismology therefore allows astronomers to "see" into our nearest star, revealing many details about its interior that may not be obvious on the surface. And in this case, by using helioseismology and studying the sun's magnetic field passing from space into the sun's interior, we can gauge how much of a drag Einstein's special relativity has had on the sun's surface.

"This is a gentle torque that is slowing it down, but over the Sun's 5 billion year lifetime it has had a very noticeable influence on its outer 35,000 kilometers [22,000 miles]," said Kuhn. These findings have accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review Letters and can be previewed on the arXiv pre-print service.

Using our sun as a laboratory for other stars, Kuhn's team believe that a similar effect likely happens for all stars and could have a strong influence on stellar evolution. Now solar astronomers are very interested to understand how this solar slowdown impacts the sun's magnetic field that threads through the entire solar system. As the sun's magnetism is the root cause of space weather that can trigger solar flares and coronal mass ejections that could interfere with satellites and power grids, this research could have a key role to play in our understanding of solar impacts on Earth.

Originally published on Seeker.

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17-12-2016 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

The Mystery of the Sailing Stones in Death Valley

California's remote, beautiful, and foreboding Death Valley has held a mystery for almost a century: it has stones that seem to move on their own, when no one is looking. It happens at Racetrack Playa, a dry lakebed known for its "sailing stones." This effect occurs at a few other places as well, though Death Valley is the most famous spot. Thanks to some high-tech sleuthing, the mystery may have been solved, at least partly.

In their book "Mysteries of the World: Unexplained Wonders and Mysterious Phenomena," Herbert Genzmer and Ulrich Hellenbrand state that "the perfectly flat, dry ground is scoured and scraped with paths that suggest these boulders are being moved along the ground... there is no indication of how this movement could have been brought about by outside forces, and no stone has ever been observed actually making its way across the ground."

Not all of the stones in Death Valley move. Those that do only move every two to three years, and they don't all move at the same time or in the same direction. In fact, some seem to have made abrupt 90-degree turns, judging from the tracks, which range from tens of feet to hundreds of feet long. Most of the stones are not huge boulders but instead range from about 6 to 18 inches (15 to 45 centimeters) in diameter.

Several theories have been proposed to explain this curious phenomenon, including some sort of localized, unknown magnetic effect. This theory has been discounted for a variety of reasons including that many of the stones do not contain significant amounts of magnetic elements such as iron, and that the stones should gradually assemble in one place — which they don't. Some have suggested that the strong winds that blow through the area might move the rocks after the lakebed has become slick.

The most likely solution to the mystery involves a combination of wind, temperature and water. Although Racetrack Playa is a dry lakebed, it is not always dry; in fact, water collects on the surface after rainfall or when snow from surrounding peaks melts. Brian Dunning, a California researcher who discussed this mystery on his Skeptoid podcast, notes that when water is present and the temperature falls below freezing — as it sometimes does — a thin sheet of ice is created: "Solid ice, moving with the surface of the lake and with the inertia of a whole surrounding ice sheet, would have no trouble pushing a rock along the slick muddy floor... As the wind shifts and the flow ebbs, these ice floes drag the rocks across the slippery mud surface in zig-zagging paths, even moving heavy rocks and sometimes dragging some but washing past others nearby."

NASA researcher Ralph Lorenz became intrigued by the enigmatic stones while studying Death Valley weather conditions. He developed a tabletop experiment to show how the rocks might glide across the surface of the lakebed.

"I took a small rock and put it in a piece of Tupperware, and filled it with water so there was an inch of water with a bit of the rock sticking out," Lorenz told Smithsonian.com.

After putting the container in the freezer, Lorenz ended up with a small slab of ice with a rock embedded in it. By placing the ice-bound rock in a large tray of water with sand at the bottom, all he had to do was gently blow on the rock to get it to move across the water. And as the ice-embedded rock moved, it scraped a trail in the sand at the tray's bottom.

Shy stones

Though such explanations are plausible, they were very difficult to prove since no one had actually seen or recorded the stones' movements. Understandably, no one has volunteered to spend every minute of their lives — day and night for several years — enduring temperatures that can reach well above 100 degrees F (37 C), hoping to see a stone move. Furthermore, Racetrack Playa is almost three miles long and over a mile wide (4.8 by 1.6 kilometers). A person of course can't be everywhere at once, and would have to pick one or two rocks to closely and continually monitor just in case they happen to suddenly move. And can you imagine the frustration if someone spent two years watching a non-moving rock, only to later learn that several other rocks on another part of the lakebed had moved while they weren't watching?

Fortunately, the technology exists to investigate the mystery remotely. In 2013, a team of scientists using rocks with motion-activated GPS units and time-lapse photography captured the first video footage of the stones creeping across the desert floor.  [Related: High-Tech Sleuthing Cracks Mystery of Death Valley's Moving Rocks]

It turns out that jagged plates of thin ice, resembling panels of broken glass, bulldoze the rocks across the flooded playa. Driven by gentle winds, the rocks seem to hydroplane atop the fluffy, wet mud. The scientists revealed their findings in the Aug. 27 issue of the journal PLOS One.

The mystery has not been solved completely, however. The video shows how smaller rocks move, but no one has ever seen the gigantic playa boulders budge an inch. Another process may be at work on the biggest rocks, according to Jim Norris, an engineer and member of the team.

"I know there are people who like the mystery of it and will probably be somewhat disappointed that we've solved it," Norris said. "It's a fascinating process, and in many ways I hope that there's more to be discovered. Never say never."

Benjamin Radford, M.Ed., is Deputy Editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine and author of seven books including Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries. His website is www.BenjaminRadford.com.

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17-12-2016 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Metallic Sound in the Mariana Trench Finally Identified

An otherworldly noise that was recorded near the Mariana Trench could be a never-before-heard whale call.

Dubbed the "Western Pacific Biotwang," this newly discovered call might be from a minke whale — a type of baleen whale — according to the researchers who documented the vocalization.

Regardless of what species it is, this whale has range: The call includes sounds that span frequencies that reach as low as 38 hertz and as high as 8,000 hertz. Humans can hear sounds between 20 and 20,000 Hz. [Listen to the New Whale Call from the Mariana Trench]

"It's very distinct, with all these crazy parts," Sharon Nieukirk, senior faculty research assistant in marine bioacoustics at Oregon State University, said in a statement. "The low-frequency moaning part is typical of baleen whales, and it's that kind of twangy sound that makes it really unique. We don't find many new baleen whale calls."

The call was recorded with autonomous seafaring robots, known as "passive acoustic ocean gliders," which can dive up to 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) below the surface. Scientists can send these devices out on solo missions to eavesdrop on whale conversations. Nieukirk and her colleagues collected their acoustic data in the fall of 2014 and the spring of 2015, in an area in the Pacific Ocean east of Guam around the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean. [Video: Take a Tour of the Mariana Trench] 

The twangy, five-part call, which lasts up to 3.5 seconds, was recorded regularly during both the fall and spring. The researchers hope that other scientists will identify the call in other data sets so that they can confirm the source. But in their description of the whale call in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Nieukirk and her colleagues wrote that they suspect a minke whale is responsible for the new call.

Because of the call's complex structure, frequencies and metallic-sounding conclusion, the researchers think that it most closely resembles the regionally specific calls that are produced by a group of dwarf minke whales off the northeast coast of Australia. (Those calls sound a bit like "Star Wars" sound effects.) They added that there are several types of minke whales in the survey area, but not much is known about their behavior — especially their vocal behavior.

"We don't really know that much about minke whale distribution at low latitudes," Nieukirk said. "The species is the smallest of the baleen whales, doesn't spend much time at the surface, has an inconspicuous blow, and often lives in areas where high seas make sighting difficult. But they call frequently, making them good candidates for acoustic studies."

The call still needs to be translated. Most baleen whales use specific vocalizations for seasonal breeding and feeding, but this call — since it seems to occur all year — may have a complex function, the researchers said.

"If it's a mating call, why are we getting it year-round? That's a mystery," Nieukirk said. "We need to determine how often the call occurs in summer versus winter, and how widely this call is really distributed."

It wouldn't be the first time minke whales have puzzled scientists with their calls. In 2014, scientists solved a 50-year-old mystery when they figured out that the so-called "bio-duck" sound that was often recorded in the Southern Ocean was being produced by Antarctic minke whales.

Original article on Live Science. 

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17-12-2016 om 23:10 geschreven door peter  

CONTACT NETWORK HISTORY PROJECT 

by J. Burkes MD 2016 

CONTACTEES, SIGHTINGS AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS CONNECTION 

The author’s personal comment: Twenty-four years ago I took a walk on the wild side. I joined a group that had the audacity to go out at night and try to co-create contact experiences with the intelligence associated with the so-called UFO phenomenon. To my surprise and initial delight we were immediately successful. During our first month of teamwork we had a number of sightings while in the field. 

But stranger still was that this “Otherness That Experiencers Now Call ET” (TOTENCET) targeted us to have individual sightings under circumstances that were not associated with conducting “contact protocols.” One senior member of team reported receiving the following telepathic communication while viewing a large glowing orb flying above her driveway, “You wanted to see us; well here we are.” 

SYNOPSIS: Contact groups attempt to interact with UFO intelligence under fieldwork conditions. The pattern of encounters experienced however also includes individual researchers having personal sightings of UFOs while not doing fieldwork. Three case reports of this phenomenon are described in synopsis form. The implications of this apparent consciousness link between contact groups and UFO intelligence are discussed. 

INTRODUCTION 
UFO contact teams like the CE-5 Initiative, and the Peruvian based group called Rahma facilitate contact experiences with combined programs of psychic/ spiritual training and active fieldwork. These groups emphasize the importance of mental connections between contact workers and UFO intelligence. 

I organized a contact team in 1992 and for over 5 years served as a Working Group Coordinator for Dr Steven Greer’s Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In 1998 I resigned from that position but continued how to work with Rama, and unaffiliated networks of contact activists. 

HIGH STRANGENESS DEFINED 

As a former Working Group Coordinator of the CE-5 Initiative in Los Angeles I had ample opportunities to observe unusual occurrences. According to official CSETI documents "High Strangeness" was defined as "The inexplicable effects and often synchronicity of events related to and occurring before, during and after various Close Encounters or UFO/Extraterrestrial Spacecraft sightings." 

By definition one cannot explain the inexplicable, nevertheless one can endeavor to describe the inexplicable and in the process possibly gain insight into the mechanisms of contact. 

INITIAL EXPECTATIONS WERE WAY OFF BASE 

My initial expectation after becoming Working Group Coordinator in 1992 was that UFO sightings would occur as an exclusive function of fieldwork. I anticipated that as my team mastered the contact protocols, we would experience higher and higher levels of what Dr Greer labeled “CE-5s” and that this would occur in a stepwise fashion. 

To my surprise however, as soon as our Working Group started to carry out field investigations, a number of individuals started reporting personal sightings of UFOs. The witnesses to these sightings were members of the team, or as in one case the physician wife of a LA CSETI researcher. In her case she became very interested in UFOs as the result of her daylight sighting of a metallic disc. (For confidentiality purposes, all researchers other than Dr. Burkes will be identified by pseudonyms.) 

SIGHTINGS NOT DURING FIELDWORK BUT WHILE DRIVING HOME IN THE CAR 

These events transpired while the observers were driving home. It is important to note that the first series of sightings occurred during the initial month following the CSETI workshop in August of 1992 that founded the Los Angeles CSETI Working Group. Just 2 days after Dr. Greer's demonstration of fieldwork techniques, the first personal sighting occurred 

INDIVIDUAL SIGHTING 1, Sept. 1, 1992 

Joseph Burkes MD: while driving home on the 405 Freeway South the Sepulveda Pass at approximately 11:30 PM I had a sighting of an anomalous nocturnal light. It appeared over the highway as a brilliant blue-green light that silently flew by the witness in a northerly direction. It had a slight oscillating movement. At its closest approach light was less than 500 feet away. There was no discernible superstructure associated with the object. This impressed me because of the considerable amount of background illumination from city lights. 

The sighting occurred immediately after I had carried out a vigorous defense of CSETI's contact program to several prominent ufologists. In my opinion these senior researchers were not particularly supportive of the concept of proactively initiating contact. 

Individual Sighting 2, September 23, 1992 

At 2:30 PM a broad daylight sighting of a metallic disc occurred in Woodland Hills California. Dr. Burkes’ colleague Dr. Maria (a pseudonym) observed the UFO hovering two to three miles away over the Santa Monica Mountains. She was driving south towards her home when the sighting occurred. She is a partner in same medical group practice that I was in at that time. Maria is married to “Dr Daniel” who was an original member of my contact team. 

Maria was accustomed to identifying conventional craft as the result of her husband's status as a private pilot. It was their custom to attend air shows and other aviation related events and as a result she was knowledgeable about various types of conventional aircraft. Maria reported feeling confident that the silently hovering disc, glittering in the bright afternoon sunshine was a” true unknown.” The object was approximately 30 feet in length. The sighting lasted about one minute. 

Individual Sighting 3, September 24, 1992; 
While driving home at 9:30 PM after attending a two-hour meditation workshop, a 25-feet in diameter metallic globe-like craft was sighted hovering directly above the witness' home in Palos Verdes Peninsula. 

Dotha was a founding member of the Los Angeles CE-5 Initiative team. An experienced sky watcher, she had no doubt that it was not a terrestrial craft. The sighting lasted approximately one minute; at its closest approach the silent object was less that 200 feet from the observer. 

SIGHTINGS ARE CLUES TO DECIPHER A MYSTERY 

As the months rolled by after these dramatic sightings, I started to muse over the details of my associates’ personal sightings. I looked for possible hidden meanings within the circumstances of the encounters that might contain some kind of message relating to the on-going contact work. Perhaps like a detective in a mystery novel, I kept mulling over the various aspects of the sightings. If those particulars were clues, then I was going to use them to solve the mystery as to what was going on within my contact team visa vie our relationship with flying saucer intelligence. 

My hypothesis was that perhaps these consecutive sightings were not random events, that they might in fact be the product of conscious decisions by intelligent and technologically sophisticated extraterrestrial beings that staged the encounters for teaching purposes. 

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM DOESN’T APPLY TO ALLEGED ALIENS 

I wondered whether factors like the choice of individuals selected for the sightings, or perhaps even more minute factors might have special significance. Michael Lindemann, a prominent student of non-human intelligence, has cautioned ufologists to never assume that one can think like an alien. In other words we should not try to impose what passes as human “conventional wisdom” on beings that may have evolved on different star systems. 

Such extraterrestrial civilizations would undoubtedly have entirely different cultures, different value systems, and different social organizations as compared to Earth. With such infinite possibilities, perhaps a technologically advanced civilization for purposes unknown to us might choose to communicate via outlandishly subtle means. 

AMAZINGLY CONGRUENT CHARACTERISTICS 

It should be remembered that approximately 10% of the US population claim to have had a sighting of a UFO. In terms of an individual’s lifetime of experiences however, a sighting is an exceedingly rare event for most people. The fact that these three individuals who knew each other had a sighting within a few weeks should diminish the odds that they were mere coincidences. 

Even less likely to occur by chance is the fact that the circumstances of the sightings were highly congruent. The observers were all driving home and were alone in their vehicles. Even the direction of travel was the same; we were all going south when the encounters took place. 

PASSIONATE DEFENSE OF PROACTIVELY SEEKING CONTACT. 

In my sighting, I had just left a meeting after engaging in a heated polemic defending CSETI's program of human initiated interactions with what I believed at the time was an extraterrestrial intelligence. Present at the meeting was the “old guard” of UFOlogy. Prominent researcher Ann Druffel was there. She explained to me that as “ufologists” we should study other people’s sightings to determine if they are “anomalous” i.e. “true unknowns.” 

In no uncertain terms I labeled her approach “old fashioned” and that contact groups like CSETI’s had “opened up a new era” in UFO research. As I left the meeting it was clear that I would never again be invited back to the prestigious “LA UFO Study Group.” 

I interpreted my sighting just minutes after leaving the meeting as a message of support, not only for me personally, but also for the larger contact program that I had just so vigorously defended. The sighting gave me a big personal boost that helped sustain my enthusiasm for our project during the difficult months that followed. Considering the organizational and personal challenges that face any new contact team, I will gladly testify that leaders need all the support that they can get. 

MEDITATION FACILITATES CONTACT 

Concerning Dotha's close encounter with a luminescent globe like UFO, she had just left a meditation workshop. Contact protocols employed by contactee groups involve on-site thought projection methods. Usually this involves guided meditation. In preparation for thought projection, individuals in the team are expected to reach an “expanded state of consciousness” through meditation. 

Dotha told me that she thought there was an association between her meditating in the class and her subsequent sighting. If the non-human intelligence responsible for the flying saucer phenomenon were attempting to send my team a message concerning the importance of advanced meditation techniques, what better way to do so than to stage a close encounter just moments after a prolonged meditation session by an experienced practitioner. 

Thus two of the three sightings described occurred immediately after the witnesses were involved in activities integral to contact work. 

WHY DID DR. MARIA HAVE A SIGHTING? 

The most intriguing aspect of this series was the question why was Dr. Maria singled out for a sighting. Although her interest in UFOs soared after seeing the metallic disc, prior to the event her contact with the UFO phenomenon was indirect. It was her husband Dr. Daniel who was the contact activist in the family. 

During the autumn months of 1992 our team frequently convened at Maria and Daniel's house for our business meetings. Meditation is not an easy chore for all researchers; both Daniel and I were both having considerable difficulty meditating. We were restless, as many are, when one first attempts to still the mind. Daniel was not able to follow the recommendation of meditating daily. 

Maria on the other hand was far more open to meditation practice. It was not until several months later, in December of 1992 that she was to undergo formal contact network training by Dr Greer, and as a result she was officially not part of the Working Group when we first held meetings at her home. 

I was quite perplexed as to why she had received a sighting? Dotha and I were active and official members of the team, why was Maria, a non-member, selected for such a dramatic daylight sighting of a metallic disk? 

The answer came to me one night as we conducted our business meeting at Maria and Daniel's home. My beeper rang and I had to call the hospital. Maria was in the family room practicing on her harp. An accomplished amateur, she often gave recitals. I asked Daniel where I could pick up a phone away from the meeting. Daniel suggested that I take the call in the family room. 

"No," I replied, "I don't want to disturb Maria." 

Daniel reassured me by saying, "Don't worry. She practices at least an hour a day. When she's playing her music she's in a total trance." 

It was then that it hit me! That was the clue that I had been looking for. Maria although not yet part of the Working Group, was still able to access consciousness in its most unbounded form while she was practicing the harp. In that relaxed state of being carried away by the divine music that she was creating, a trance like state similar to deep meditation was achieved. Her meditation equivalent was her music! 

It seemed to me this was possibly part of the message that I was supposed to learn from her sighting. If my hunch was correct, I was impressed by its subtlety. 

Personal sightings were clearly linked, not only in time, but also coincided in a variety of other important details, thus indicating that they are not random events. In their totality the patterns of personal interactions confirm the proposition that contact groups have entered into a special collaborative relationship with what in my opinion might well be an extraterrestrial intelligence. 

CONCLUSION 

I believe that these sightings are part of a much broader range of experiences that indicate the virtuoso psychic technology of what I like to call, This Otherness That Experiencers Now Call ET, the so-called aliens. They, who or whatever “they” ultimately turn out to be, were able to track the three of us and choose the time and place of what were clearly in my view staged events. If “they” could do that with us perhaps there is no such thing as a “random UFO sighting.” I am suggesting that the millions of people that report UFO sightings are telepathically linked to “this otherness.” For me the implications of this proposition are awe-inspiring for the following reasons 

The Earth’s population is over 7 billion at this time. If the prevalence rate of a UFO sighting is 10 percent, this suggests that hundreds of millions of people may have a consciousness link with the UFO intelligence by virtue of their having a sighting. Understandably such individuals often have an increased interest in the subject of flying saucers. Under the right circumstances, for example if they had additional sightings or were in an area where a UFO wave had occurred, they then might join the growing number of people that are proactively seeking interactions with UFO intelligence. As one that has promoted human empowered contact with flying saucer intelligence for over two decades, I find this possibility very encouraging.

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17-12-2016 om 22:57 geschreven door peter  

'What drugs you taking?' Marnie Simpson blasted on Twitter over 'UFO sighting'

MARNIE Simpson's fans have hit out at the star after she claimed to see "another UFO".

By Jack Hardwick 

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17-12-2016 om 22:38 geschreven door peter  

UFO expert Max Spiers 'vomited black fluid' before his death, inquest hears

The death earlier this year of Max Spiers, a British Ufologist, has continued to prompt intense speculation among conspiracy theorists, as an inquest in Kent this week heard he "vomited two litres of black fluid" shortly before he died.

Spiers, 39, originally from Canterbury, was found dead at an friend's apartment in Warsaw in July.

Local authorities initially stated he had died from natural causes – but his mother Vanessa Bates approached the media to express doubts over the verdict.

As an inquest into Mr Spiers' death opened in Canterbury last Monday, Mrs Bates told reporters: “It’s been a long time coming, but I’m just relieved that at last something is happening and there is a proper investigation and inquest."

In a statement, coroner’s investigations officer Caroline O’Donnell told the inquest: “Mr Spiers became ill with a high temperature and was weak."

According to the Kentish Gazette, the following day Mr Spiers vomited two litres of black fluid.

“The friend called a doctor who attempted resuscitation before pronouncing him dead.”

A few days before his death Mr Spiers had sent his mother a text message saying: “If anything happens to me, investigate.”

Mrs Bates, an English teacher, said in October: "[Max] was making a name for himself in the world of conspiracy theorists and had been invited to speak at a conference in Poland in July.

"He was staying with a woman who he had not known for long and she told me how she found him dead on the sofa.

"But I think Max had been digging in some dark places and I fear that somebody wanted him dead."

Coroner Alan Blunsdon told the inquest he was waiting to receive a report from Polish authorities, and that he hopes to have Mr Spiers’ laptop and mobile phone forensically analysed.

The inquest has been adjourned until February 22.

Earlier this year author and journalist Nick Pope, who investigated the UFO phenomenon for the Ministry of Defence in the early Nineties, said on Twitter: “The death of Max Spiers was a tragedy, but having run the UK Government's UFO project I promise we don't go around killing UFO researchers.”

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17-12-2016 om 22:25 geschreven door peter  

Government COMPLICIT with alien conspiracies to hide military exercises, shock claims

THE UK government is "happy" to let civilians believe in aliens to hide its much rumoured "black budget", a top UFO investigator has revealed.

By Margi Murphy 

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17-12-2016 om 22:05 geschreven door peter  

WATCH: Mystery blacked-out military helicopter chases after UFO along British coast

ALARMING video footage has captured the moment a mysterious blacked-out helicopter appeared to pursue a UFO across the south coast of England

17-12-2016 om 21:43 geschreven door peter  

Strange burning crater after 'deep boom' from the sky sparks claims UFO crash landed on Earth

The amazing footage shows the large, smouldering hole surrounded by singed ground in Fugu County, north-eastern China

BY MARC  WALKER

Flames lick a scorched crater after a strange object was spotted falling to Earth - sparking claims it was a UFO crash.

The amazing footage shows the large, smouldering hole surrounded by singed ground in Fugu County in north-eastern China, reports People's Daily Online.

A local, only identified as Zhang, told how he heard a deep boom coming from the sky before an object plummeted through the clouds and smashed into the earth.

He said it was moving extremely fast as it plunged from the heavens towards the mountain range.

Zhang added: "It made a loud bang when it hit the ground.

"Then it started burning. The dry grass nearby was quickly set aflame."

Other villagers raced to the 'crash site' and were amazed to see a the huge crater but oddly it appeared to be empty.

The bizarre incident triggered a wave of speculation across the globe as to what was behind the phenomenon.

UFO enthusiasts insist there have been 10 'confirmed' alien crash sites, including one in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk.

The video was posted on QQ.com this week and is thought to have been filmed by an eye-witness.

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17-12-2016 om 21:25 geschreven door peter  

GOLD DIGGERS FOUND THIS STRANGE MUMMY INSIDE SAN PEDRO MOUNTAINS BACK IN 1934

In June 1934, two gold prospectors were blasting for gold in the San Pedro Mountains of Wyoming when they discovered a small cavern which had been concealed by the deep rock. After exploring the tiny man-made cavern they made a highly unusual discovery – the well-preserved mummified remains of a tiny human being, of approximately six and a half inches in height, sitting cross-legged on the floor. 

 

The body was encased in a gelatinous, preserving substance that meant that the body was perfectly preserved as it had been in life. The body had a flattened nose, full set of teeth and fingernails and appeared to be an old man.

 

 THE MYSTERY OF PEDRO, THE TINY HUMANOID 

 

 

What was considered particularly interesting about this find was that local Native Americans had a great deal of folklore about little spirits or tiny people in the region. These beings, they said, had magical powers which were ordinarily related to healing but were occasionally prone to bellicosity and sometimes viciously attacked the Native American people with poisoned arrows. 

 

While many immediately presumed that the discovery was an elaborate hoax, many scientists came to the area with a desire to examine the tiny creature (who was quickly nicknamed ‘Pedro’) more thoroughly. In the years that followed, Pedro was subject to some tested. Some of the scientists came to the conclusion that in life he had been a baby who had died shortly after birth. Others suggested that he was an adult, aged between sixteen and sixty-five years old. They said that he could not have been a new born baby because of his full set of extraordinarily sharp teeth and the presence of what appeared to be raw meat in his stomach. Disturbingly, x-rays also revealed that it was likely that Pedro had suffered a violent death. Many of his bones were broken, and there was considerable damage to his spine and skull. 

 

All of these discoveries seemed to raise more questions than they answered and the question of Pedro’s providence was a matter of huge controversy. Some people maintained that he was a human being, others suggested that he was a member of the separate species alluded to in Native American folklore. Others suggested that he could be an extra-terrestrial being of some kind. 

 

Tragically, it appears as though this question may never be answered as Pedro’s body has been missing for some years. His body was displayed in a series of sideshows in the 1940s before being purchased by a collector named Ivan Goodman towards the end of the decade. When Goodman passed away in 1950, he bequeathed them to man called Leonard Waller. Since Waller took ownership of the mysterious body, the trail has gone cold. 

 

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17-12-2016 om 21:03 geschreven door peter  

EXPOSED! GLOBAL ELITES' AND THEIR SECRET TRIPS TO ANTARCTICA

Antarctica, a mysterious, icy, no man's land. Throughout history, mankind has led to believe that the continent holds no secrets. Evidently, new controversial evidence and research have proven Antarctica to be the base of a secret global cabal, holding immense power. 

 

THE SECRETIVE PLOT OF ANTARCTICA 

 

Whistleblowers have revealed that Antarctica hosts underground facilities belonging to a powerful government-extraterrestrial species alliance, involving the US, Russia, China and even aliens. The name of the alliance is the Interplanetary Corporate Conglomerate (ICC), with many pointing out that its only one of the five major cabals of Earth. 

 

History of the true exploitation of Antarctica began during the Third Reich when the Nazis began exploration as well as construction of a massive network of bases and linking tunnels in the 1930s. According to renowned conspiracy theorist Michael Salla, the expansion lasted well into the 1950s, with Antarctica being a haven for the Nazi elite fleeing the end of the Second World War. Fast forward to the modern age, Antarctica has grown into a special continent where the global elite holds powerful meetings and creation of secret space programs. Not many details are known about these programs, though whatever they are, the chilling effects on mankind it holds is enough to fuel many conspiracy theories on their contents. 

 

 

HOW MUCH POWER IS HELD IN ANTARCTICA? 

 

Other theorists believe that the region is also headquarters of an elite alliance that is the global NWO-Illuminati of the Fourth Reich. The group, also known to be involved with secretive space exploitation, are said to be present (even in the South Americas) thanks to its links with the US government. The partnership has been going on since Operation Paper Clip when many top German scientists went to work for the US after Germany's loss in the Second World War.

 

 A major concern for these secret groups being holed up in the continent is the involvement of extraterrestrial beings. Many whistleblowers have expressed theories that these mysterious beings are only exploiting the greed of the global elite to only further their technology for total world domination. Whether it may be humans or aliens, the fact that there exist secret programs in a barren wasteland like Antarctica proves that the Earth holds many secrets which have yet to be uncovered. Only time will tell if mankind will be fall to the rulings of these groups. 

 

 

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17-12-2016 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

SHOCKING! BIZARRE UFO CRASHED IN CHINA LEAVING MYSTERIOUS DEBRIS BEHIND!

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17-12-2016 om 20:45 geschreven door peter  

Zo zou onze kolonie op de maan eruit kunnen zien - HLN.be

  Bron: Icarus, Science News

Een voorbeeld van een lavagrot op Hawaï. © thinkstock.

Wetenschappers hebben ontdekt dat er onder het oppervlak van onze maan een heel stelsel van stabiele grotten verborgen moet zitten en dat zou mogelijkheden kunnen bieden als we ooit een permanente ruimtebasis op de maan zouden willen openen.

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17-12-2016 om 20:35 geschreven door peter  

NASA: "Mogelijk ijsvulkanen op dwergplaneet Ceres ontdekt" - HLN.be

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Wetenschappers hebben 'ijsvulkanen' - kraters met bevroren water op de bodem - ontdekt op Ceres. Dit is de grootste dwergplaneet in de asteroïdengordel tussen Mars en Jupiter. Waarom dat zo baanbrekend is? De ontdekking van water op één van de donkerste plekken in ons zonnestelsel kan belangrijke informatie leveren voor het bouwen van kolonies in de ruimte.

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Data from @NASA_Dawn indicates ice is everywhere on dwarf planet Ceres http://go.nasa.gov/2gOeWTk 

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Nieuwe beelden van NASA genomen vanop het ruimteschip Dawn heeft onthuld dat er bevroren water vastzit in enkele van de kraters op delen van de dwergplaneet waar de zon nooit schijnt. Ceres is het grootste lichaam in de asteroïdengordel, daarom zijn wetenschappers er zo door geïntrigeerd. Ze hebben het planetair lichaam al uitgebreid vanop aarde bestudeerd met telescopen en andere instrumenten, maar de plek kreeg nooit bezoek van een ruimtetuig tot Dawn er neerstreek in 2015. 

Lijkt op lava
Het team van planetair wetenschapper Thomas Platz heeft locaties van eeuwige schaduw bij meer dan 600 kraters op Ceres ontdekt, tien van hen bevatten waterijs. De camera's op het ruimtetuig hebben onthuld dat de bodem van de kraters op Ceres bedekt zijn met een stromend materiaal dat gelijkaardig is aan lava op aarde. Maar het materiaal is minder dik dan vergelijkbare formaties ergens anders in het zonnestelsel, aldus wetenschapper Ralf Jaumann van het onderzoeksteam van Dawn. En het heeft een lichtblauwe kleur. 

Hoe komt dat ijswater daar?
Omdat een berg op Ceres dezelfde kleur heeft en die zou gevormd zijn door erupties van ijs gemengd met modder, vermoeden Jaumann en zijn collega's dat het stromende materiaal een mengeling van ijs, modder en zouten is die uitbarsten aan zwakke punten in het oppervlak van Ceres, wanneer gesteente uit de ruimte of andere objecten de dwergplaneet raken. Of het stromende materiaal kan het resultaat zijn van een object dat erg hard met Ceres botste, die impact kan namelijk zo groot zijn dat het terrein eronder smelt.

Wetenschapster Jennifer Scully was niet betrokken bij het onderzoek, maar zegt dat de ontdekkingen erg betrouwbaar zijn. "In geologische termen zijn de stromingen op Ceres jong, dit toont aan dat Ceres geen statische plek is, maar een dwergplaneet waar dingen nog evolueren."

Lees ook

• Inactieve vulkaan op dwergplaneet Ceres
• Dawn stuurt scherpste beelden van Ceres tot nu toe
• Produceren de mysterieuze witte vlekken op dwergplaneet Ceres mist?

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Koud en donker
Ceres is het derde planetaire lichaam, na de maan en Mercurius, waar wetenschappers bevroren water ontdekten. Op deze plekken is het ongeveer -200 graden Celsius, één van de koudste en donkerste plekken in ons zonnestelsel. Ralf Jaumann zegt compleet verrast te zijn door deze ontdekking.

Maandorp
Wetenschappers willen meer te weten komen over het waterijs op Ceres en zo ook informatie inwinnen over water op de maan en andere sterrenlichamen zonder atmosfeer. Ze hopen dat deze onthullingen kunnen helpen om een permanente basis voor de mens op de maan te creëren. 

Thomas Platz legt de toekomstplannen uit: "We hopen dat door het waterijs op Ceres te bestuderen, we meer kunnen leren over ijs dichterbij huis, de maan bijvoorbeeld. Deze informatie zou mogelijk kunnen maken dat de mensheid ooit daar zal kunnen leven." Wetenschappers hopen een maandorp te bouwen met de middelen die daar voorhanden zijn: metalen, mineralen en waterijs. Toegang tot water is essentieel voor de bewoners. De kans op een menselijke nederzetting  op de maan neemt aanzienlijk toe als er water aanwezig is."

Het Europees Ruimte Agentschap heeft onlangs aangekondigd dat het de maan wil koloniseren tegen 2030. 

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17-12-2016 om 20:23 geschreven door peter  

Krater van meteoriet die dinosaurussen uitroeide herbergt binnengebergte -  HLN.be

 Bron: Belga

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Een team van onderzoekers, waaronder ook Philippe Claeys van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel, heeft bij recente boringen in de Golf van Mexico het binnengebergte ontdekt van de Chixculub-krater. Het is de eerste keer dat zo'n binnenring van rotsige bergtoppen, een peak ring, gevonden wordt op aarde.

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17-12-2016 om 19:46 geschreven door peter  

Voor het eerst boor aangetroffen op Mars - HLN.be

 Bron: Belga

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Op de planeet Mars is voor het eerst het scheikundig element boor of borium aangetroffen, zo heeft allesoversterrenkunde.nl gemeld. De aanwezigheid van dit semi-metaal kan erop wijzen dat er op het hemellicaam langdurig "voor leven geschikt" grondwater is geweest.

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17-12-2016 om 19:39 geschreven door peter  

Deze vreemde bolvormige wolk verscheen in de lucht boven Japan

In Japan zijn flinke discussies op sociale media ontstaan na de verschijning van een wolk in de vorm van een reusachtige sneeuwbal.

Sommige mensen stellen zelfs dat er een UFO was te zien.

De Japanse twitteraar Poppy maakte in de stad Fujisawa foto’s van het mysterieuze verschijnsel, waarna de discussie losbarstte.

Rolwolk

Volgens Poppy begon de wolk te verdwijnen nadat de foto’s waren gemaakt. Daarna was het alsof er niets was gebeurd.

Meteoroloog Todd Lane van de Universiteit van Melbourne denkt dat Poppy een zogeheten rolwolk heeft vastgelegd.

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日曜日の午後3時に湘南台で奇妙な雲を見たとFacebookで投稿がありました。
確かにこんなの、見たことがない…！

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Bol

Dat is een wolk in de vorm van een cilinder die ontstaat als koudere lucht die met een onweersbui meekomt vanaf enige hoogte in aanraking komt met veel warmere lucht aan het oppervlak.

De koude lucht drukt de warme lucht omhoog, waardoor de vochtige lucht condenseert en er een wolk ontstaat.

“Zo’n wolk lijkt op een bol wanneer je er vanaf een bepaalde kant tegenaan kijkt,” aldus Lane.

Soortgelijke wolk

Ene Hanabusa beweert rond dezelfde tijd als Poppy een foto te hebben gemaakt in de stad, waarop een langwerpige, cilindervormige wolk zichtbaar is.

Afgelopen jaar had Nico, een andere Japanse twitteraar, foto’s gemaakt van een soortgelijke wolk:

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Hieronder zie je hoe een rolwolk eruitziet:

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17-12-2016 om 19:16 geschreven door peter  

UFO DEELT NEER IN AUSTRALIË ( VIDEO )

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17-12-2016 om 19:03 geschreven door peter  

Roswell UFO drops in front of witness vehicle

A New Mexico witness at Roswell reported a late-night encounter with a silent, triangle-shaped UFO just 20 feet ahead while driving along a main road moving out of town, according to testimony in Case 80348 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving out of Roswell when the incident occurred. (Credit: Google)

The reporting witness stated that she and her husband were driving from Albuquerque to Carlsbad and had stopped in Roswell to grab a bite to eat before continuing their journey on October 24, 2016.

“After eating – well after sunset – we headed back on the main road out of town,” the witness stated.“Stopping at a red light, behind a couple cars, in our truck with vehicles all around us, we both noticed and said out loud that the object was coming straight towards us from the dark sky.”

The two had recently seen other strange lights.

“In the two week’s prior we had seen ‘lights’ in the sky around Albuquerque and thought this was going to be the same – nope.”

In comparison, this object was right in front of them.

The witness stopped in Roswell as part of a trip between Albuquerque and Carlsbad.

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“This one was huge in comparison to the far away sightings we had seen before and close. I didn’t have time to take out my camera or to think really because I didn’t want to miss what was happening.”

The witness described the object.

“The object had lights on all ends, the front(or back) was more triangular with bright, white lights; the back(or front), which was closest to us, was more rounded, but still triangular and had bright red, green and blue lights shining down. It was larger than our truck, appeared to be a solid object and appeared out of ‘nowhere’ and coming straight towards us.”

The witness was not sure what the object was.

“I didn’t know what I thought it was, and after speaking with my husband later, he described what he thought maybe an optical illusion, but then dismissed it right away because I was at a different view point and there was no mistaking it was an object of sorts, not just lights from reflections.”

The object’s first appearance was very close to the witness.

“So, we first noticed it being about no more than 20 feet in front of us at about eye level. It slowly, and at the same time quickly, moved right to us and then stopped/hovered right over top of our truck. I thought I would be able to look out the back window and continue to follow its motion, but it was nowhere in sight when I did, and at the same time the traffic light was turning green (husband was driving) and we started driving forward.”

The witness stopped in Roswell as part of a trip between Albuquerque and Carlsbad.

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The witness immediately felt unusual.

“I felt like numb, like did that really just happen and where did the thing go? Also, I didn’t have time to think in the moment, but later wondered, did the other cars see it too? They must have. My husband’s accounts of what occurred are right in line with everything that happened. I felt like it could have been a dream, but it was definitely real life. All this happened over the span of maybe 5-7 seconds and then everything was normal (ish) again.”

The witness has previously had unusual experiences.

“This was not the first experience I’ve had, but definitely the strangest and one worth reporting, I hope to have some light (no pun intended) shed on what happened that night. I must also say that on our trip home the following night we did see a black helicopter carrying something large underneath it – it was too far in the distance to fully capture and I was exhausted of thinking by that point. I don’t know where that was or what time and is not the original report, just had to mention. Thank you.”

Roswell is a city in New Mexico, and is the county seat of Chaves County, population 48,411. Arizona MUFON State Director Donald R. Burleson investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown.

“No conventional explanation for the nature of the described object comes readily to mind,” Burleson wrote in his report. “All things considered, the most prudent conclusion seems to be Unknown/UAV.”

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.

17-12-2016 om 18:52 geschreven door peter