Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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...
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Ten astonishing UFO cases that SHOOK THE WORLD in 2016
Ten astonishing UFO cases that SHOOK THE WORLD in 2016
THE past 12 months has seen major interest in the UFO subject with developments in some of the world's most notorious cases.
The number of alleged sightings continues to grow and interest remains high in some of the most mysterious unresolved cases including Roswell, Rendlesham, and Warminster.
Nigel Watson, author of The UFO Investigations Manual, said: "2016 was a bumper year for UFO sightings, attempts at alien contact and new pieces of evidence to support the view that ‘they’ are visiting us.
"The theories, reports and sightings are intriguing and often startling and virtually unbelievable, yet it is hard to dismiss them all as fabrications or the product of over active imaginations.
"If there are aliens visiting us they are having a good laugh at our bemusement."
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The Roswell UFO mystery still captivates people nearly 70 years on.
In his view, these were the 10 most significant developments of the past 12 months:
1. Roswell
The controversy surrounding the alleged crash of a flying saucer at Roswell in 1947 was given a new twist, when an anonymous engineer reported to US-based the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) that he had interviewed a witness to the incident, as revealed by Express.co.uk.
The interviewee was said to be a welder who described seeing at Roswell an intact round craft that had no rivets, seams or any visible openings.
He was ordered to weld open an entrance, and as he finished his job he glimpsed inside where he saw two small dead beings, dressed in purple flight suits.
High ranking officers told him to never tell this story otherwise he would spend time in prison or worse, according to the testimony to MUFON, which is the world's biggest organisation dedicated to UFO research.
In a separate twist, UFO hunter Chuck Zukowski made the claim that he found a lump of metal at Roswell, and thinks it could be a piece of the flying saucer wreckage.
If there are aliens visiting us they are having a good laugh at our bemusement.
Nigel Watson
2. Rendlesham
US Air Force officers claimed they saw UFOs and a craft at close range in Rendlesham Forest in December 1980.
Retired Colonel Charles Halt, 76, who was base deputy commander at the time, claimed the officers who first saw the lights, and then a UFO "on the floor", could not account for a 40 minute period while searching in the woods when their communication systems went "off air".
The three officers - John Burroughs, Bud Steffens, and James Penniston, later told of feeling "static" as they observed the object's flashing lights and hieroglyphic-like markings.
It was also revealed this year that two former military technicians claimed that in this time period a UFO WAS caught on radar and seen from the control tower of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge as well as in Rendlesham Forest, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk.
In the light of this new evidence UFO investigator Gary Heseltine also called in 2016 for the Ministry of Defence to re-investigate the case to find out what really happened.
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UFO investigator Gary Heseltine with Rendlesham witness Coln Charles Halt (right).
The Spanish Ministry of Defence was the latest government to release its UFO files to the public in 2016.
Eighty digital files containing a total of 1,900 pages cover UFO sightings dating from 1962 to 1995.
These contain several observations by military personnel, including one in December 1989 of a slow moving lenticular object that projected changing lights of bright colours that was tracked on radar by air traffic control at Santiago de Compostela.
4. UFO whistleblower
A former US Naval Officer this year promised to reveal thousands of top secret UFO files, that he saw in his position as a third-class petty officer at the Naval Telecommunications Center within NAS Moffett Field from February 1986 to October 1989, as revealed by Express.co.uk.
The man, who has not been publicly named, claimed the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government had an ongoing project looking at UFO sightings, including Rendlesham in the 1980s.
The alleged files have, however, yet to materialise.
The International Space Station (ISS) seems to be a magnet for UFO activity, if alien chaser are to be believed.
In 2016, several supposed UFOs were seen during the broadcast of live online feeds by NASA from the ISS, and in at least one other instance the feed was allegedly quickly switched off. This fuels the belief of conspiracy theorists that NASA is covering up these visitations to keep them from public view - something the agency denies.
One video, entitled "ISS Space Station Attacked or Attacks Missile or UFO Interesting Capture”, recorded by the ISS's own live-stream camera was posted online in May 2016.
In the video, which was broadcast as a series of still images rather than moving footage, a dark cylindrical-shaped object appears to have passed closely above the Earth to a portion of the ISS that can be seen to the left of the frame.
Speculation ranged from it being a missile, an escape pod or an alien ship to the more sceptical view that it was some random space junk.
From the 1960s, the Wiltshire town was plagued by a series of mystery UFO sightings, that often resulted in people's cars temporally breaking down.
But, more than 50 years on, this year new light was cast on these cases.
Express.co.uk highlighted that a Ministry of Defence report buried in the National Archives, was found that concluded meteors not fully burning up in Earth's atmosphere could trigger all the events people experienced in Warminster, including seeing strange lights, cars failing and psychological effects.
The report said the plasma objects, when in loose formation, could generate a physical field "from which the reflection of light does not occur" meaning they appear as "black craft, often triangular and up to hundreds of feet in length".
The mysterious top secret US Air Force base in the Nevada desert, is another magnet for UFO chasers, due to a conspiracy theory that crashed flying saucers have been stored and experimented on there.
Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Minister of Defence, speaking at a UFO conference this summer, claimed that he spoke to a man who was flown to Area 51 and shown inside the flying saucer craft that are stored there.
He signed an oath of secrecy but felt compelled to reveal his story to Hellyer as he was dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, it was claimed.
The buildings at the side lacks windows which is to prevent employees viewing anything that is not related yo their tasks at work
Black projects are highly classified military or defence projects that are unacknowledged by the US government and the military
Nearly every week in 2016 artificial objects from spoons to statues were seen in images sent back from Mars by the unmanned NASA Curiosity Rover vehicle.
Three supposed towers like huge skyscrapers have been spotted along with structures reminiscent of ancient pyramids on Earth.
Scott C Waring a relentless searcher for such evidence, was impressed by the discovery of two crumbling pyramids in archived images from Curiosity.
He said: "The pyramids are imperfect, because of age, but its still amazing that such structures exist on Mars and have never been addressed by NASA.
"Why is that rover driving around looking for tiny microbes of life, when huge five-floor pyramids are just a mile away?"
But NASA says no such evidence has been found and the anomalies are the result of pareidolia when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects in textures like the surface of a rock.
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Is this an alien on Mars or just an optical illusion?
A former soldier claimed he was repeatedly abducted by aliens and even subjected to "mind control experiments" that involved the British Army.
At the age of 44, Bill Brooks, now 66, discovered his history of alleged abductions.
He also claims that he has been hounded by Freemasons, and aliens even showed him the resting place of some of serial killer couple Fred and Rose West's victims.
The musician also claimed to have removed two implants from his body after an abduction.
Mr Brooks reveals in the book “44” ghost written by alien abduction expert Joanna Summerscales, and published this year, that he first began being taken onto space craft as a child.
One account is that in 1960, lying in a crop of corn, a 10-year-old Mr Brooks saw two eight feet long spheres spinning around one another above him.
In another case, known as the Abingdon abduction incident, Mr Brooks claims to have seen a cow taken up into a UFO, before he was removed from his car through his windscreen by three aliens.
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The book 44 tells the story of 'alien abductee' Bill Brooks.
Paranormal investigator and conspiracy theorist Max Spiers believed in UFOs, government breeding programs, mind control and aliens in our midst.
While in Warsaw, Poland, to attend a conference in June 2016 he was found dead in suspicious circumstances.
Days before, 39-year-old Max, texted his Mother, Vanessa Bates: "Your boy's in trouble. If anything happens to me, investigate."
Vanessa said “I think Max had been digging in some dark places and I fear that somebody wanted him dead."
An inquest opened in the UK this month has not found a cause of death and said he vomited litres of black liquid before death.
The case led to conspiracy theory claims that secret government agencies are prepared to murder such investigators to prevent them getting to the truth.
There is, however, no known evidence to back up this theory.
Mr Watson said: "Government agencies could be at work but it seems very extreme to murder people, especially over decades, when there are easier ways to discredit UFO researchers.
"Another theory is that mysterious Men in Black and the aliens themselves are behind these murders to eliminate anyone who gets to close to the truth about their operations."
Mr Watson added: "So, 2016 was a significant year for unexpected electoral results - Trump becoming US President, the UK public voting to leave Europe - and there is a great hope that the public pressure for full disclosure of the UFO mystery will eventually force the new US President to reveal everything in their government files and admit that they have been in contact with extraterrestrials since the Roswell incident in 1947, and have their flying saucers stored away at Area 51.
"So far there has been no such disclosure, which just adds to the mystery and fuels ever more bizarre theories about aliens visiting and abducting us for their own unfathomable reasons.
"Even though no flying saucer has landed on the White House lawn, people throughout the world keep seeing UFOs in the sky and post videos and photographs of them on the Internet, they combined with the constant flow of UFOs apparently shadowing the International Space Station and the many artifacts and buildings seen in pictures of the Moon and Mars indicate that something weird is going on."
A musician has claimed to have seen a flaming UFO flying through the sky.
Mark Emmins was stunned when he saw the fiery object soaring above Exmouth in Devon.
Mr Emmins said he first noticed the oval-shaped luminous craft at around 1pm on Wednesday - but it was still floating above around three hours later.
Mark Emmins was stunned when he saw the fiery object soaring above Exmouth in Devon
His quick-thinking friend Tyron Osborne, grabbed his camera and snapped the bizarre sight as the pair stared open-mouthed at what they believe was an alien spaceship.
Sharing pictures, Mr Emmins wrote: 'Today for the second time in my life I can honestly say that myself and my neighbour watched a UFO.
'It was stood still in the sky for some hours and then decided to move and then vanish. We got photos too.'
Mr Emmins said he originally thought the object looked like a 'bent cloud', but he then noticed the skies were clear.
He explained: 'It was lit up like a white light at first, then changed colour to a dark shade before it vanished. But it was stationary for a few hours before it moved.'
Photos of the alleged UFO sighting have caused mass debate on Mr Emmins' Facebook page, with some suggesting that the incident could have been caused by a launch from Her Majesty's Naval Base Devonport, in Plymouth.
Mickie Owen wrote: 'Probably some new type of sick military weaponry originating from the nearby Plymouth Naval base.'
However, others have their own theories.
Mr Emmins said he originally thought the object looked like a 'bent cloud', but he then noticed the skies were clear
People on Facebook have been divided over the origins of the object, with one man suggesting that it could have been a launch from a military base
Wendy Seaman posted: 'Looks like the Enterprise. Are you sure it wasn't a satellite, one goes over about 4ish daily. When its a clear day you can see it clearly.'
Paul Oxenham said: 'It could have been someone's drone.'
Warren Johnson wasn't impressed by the pictures and wrote: 'It's definitely a fake anyway but all good fun posting it.'
But Steph Pommier seemed positive that the sighting could be evidence that we are not alone in the universe.
She wrote: 'UFOs have been spotted since the beginning of Man. Just accept it. We cannot know nor control everything. '
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We are the Anunnaki’s son’s
We are the Anunnaki’s son’s
We are the Anunnaki’s sons, and have been given a push in our development by those minor gods. We are not alone in the Universe, and there exists Entities that are more advanced than us. Those Entities have been watching us and visiting periodically our Planet. All our Religions, that in a certain way teach basically the same, need to be reformulated, as in some cases we have been calling god some of those higher Entities
All that, and much more, is engraved in thousands of tablets that have survived for more than 5.000 years, preserved in the best possible way, as burnt clay! Those clay tablets were cooked by the fire of the library of Nineveh, and by that abnormal fact, were then given an extra resistance to endure time!
The big question is then, who is the Anunnaki’s God? The real Universal God?
The Real Universal God is a much more abstract one and is the togetherness of all Universal Consciousness. The Holly Spirit, the togetherness of all consciousness, is the Universal God, but by being such an abstract idea people have tended to forget, and revert to more humanized types of gods.
Quantum Theory tells us than man go on creating his own world, and in it resides the source of man free will.
We can by our conscience influence the way the wave will collapse. Everything being waves means we are all part of a Universal net, where anyone influences everyone! Evil is a man’s creation. The USA Military and economic cartels have kept some very important discoveries, particularly in the field of Energy generation, hidden from us, for more than 40 years.
To have no doubts about this so delicate and important subject, read the book that Steven M. Greer just published, called “Disclosure”. Steven is a M.D. Doctor, working in the emergency room of an American Hospital, who since 1993 has dedicated most of his time trying to force the American and other Governments to disclose all the facts they have hidden about Human contacts with Alien entities.
After reading his last book, you will be terrible scared, but deeply convinced that something very big and important has been kept hidden for too long, and so well hidden that even some American Presidents knew very little about it!
The late President Eisenhower in his last speech to the Country, in January 1961, alerted about the dangers of the “huge industrial and military machinery of defense”. This machinery does not respect anyone, not even the USA President, who they feel is a transitory person, while they are permanent ones. They have created a real perfect secret environment, where no one has the vision of the global, and neither the capacity to unblock the system.
This covert program is so well protected that today, there is not in the USA anyone capable to give an order to disclose it!
Unbelievable as it may be, one of the reasons why the secret has been so well kept, is that today it is hard to find who can reveal it, or who has the key to open the vaults of the secret! Its control has run out of the governments and no democratic institution has the power, or knowledge, to control it. The biggest reaction to the disclosure of such a secret comes in the first place from the political power, which is dead scared of the consequences such world socio-economical changes will generate
Maybe we can keep this secret till this generation dies, but no doubt we will transmit a moribund planet to our sons and all futures generations. The consequences of avoiding the problem are too high to risk.
The Earth is becoming polluted beyond repair, with 6 billion people wishing to have access to all modern amenities; our fossil energies will be depleted in no more than 20 years. So, by now we know who we are, who re-made us, or gave us a push in the evolution scale, and who those so funny and fierce gods, we were for so long mistook with the real God.
We also have now an idea how the Churches should be reformulated in order as to be able to keep having a place in this new society. We know that certain knowledge, given to us by Entities from another planet, should be soon disclosed, as with it we still can avoid the Earth destruction by pollution and fossil energy exhaustion. We have in our hands the ways to leave to our sons and grandsons a better and cleaner world, and just because of such an egoistic scare, we have no right to cowardly, like Nero enjoying the sight of Rome in flames, keep just for ourselves the last days of our Planet Earth.
We know that to arrive safely to the end, we have to be very cautious and follow a very narrow way The Universe has plenty of time for itself, and if we fail, others will win and pass the bridge safely. The end result is in our hands.
GENEVA — A defecting Russian scientist has surfaced with a mind-bending account of what REALLY occurred when he and his colleagues went missing for five days in a mysterious lake 12,366 feet beneath the Antarctic ice.
Dr. Anton Padalka told authorities in Switzerland that the researchers discovered a bizarre and deadly life form dubbed Organism 46-B – a highly intelligent octopus-like creature that claimed the lives of three of the team members.
But the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin claimed that “nothing of scientific interest” was found – because the former KGB strongman hopes to weaponize the organism.
“The discovery of such unusual life in Lake Vostok was the most important scientific breakthrough in decades, but we were ordered not to divulge it because of Mr. Putin’s sinister scheme,” the whistleblowing geologist told the Swiss.
It was in early February 2012 that members of the Russian Antarctic Expedition succeeded in the drilling through more than two miles of thick ice to Lake Vostok – a project that took more than 30 years. Because the freshwater lake has been sealed off from the rest of the world for between 15 and 34 million years, scientists had predicted they would find new species that had evolved far differently than any seen before.
“According to our research, the quantity of oxygen there exceeds that on other parts of our planet by 10 to 20 times. Any life forms that we find are likely to be unique on Earth,” Sergey Bulat, the project’s Chief Scientist said on Russian TV as the geologists were drilling down.
Previously, extremely weird creatures had been found in deep-sea vents off the coast of Antarctica including hairy-chested yeti crabs that feed on gardens of bacteria they cultivate on their bodies and carnivorous, seven-armed sea stars that can catch and kill those crabs.
Just as the eight man team neared the lake all communication with the outside world mysteriously ceased. As days crept by and the researchers failed to respond to increasing frantic efforts to reach them by radio, fellow scientists worldwide feared the worst.
“No word from the ice for 5 days,” Dr. John Priscu, a professor of ecology at Montana State University and head of a similar Antarctic exploration program grimly told Fox News at the time. “I can only imagine what it’s like.”
Or maybe he couldn’t. Dr Padalka claims that during this time, he and his colleagues were fighting for their lives in the lost world deep beneath the earth’s surface.
“We encountered Organism 46-B on day one as we were conducting a preliminary dive in our low-temperature wetsuits,” he recounts. “It disabled our radio, which we later learned to our alarm, was intentional.”
Although the creature has 14 arms instead of the usual eight, it kills in a similar manner to an ordinary octopus — seizing its prey, injecting it with paralyzing saliva then dismembering it into small pieces with its beak. But Organism 46-B has another trick up its sleeve.
“It is able to paralyze prey at a distance of up to 150 feet by releasing its venom into the water from an organ similar to its ink sac,” explained Dr. Padlaka. “Tragically, my colleague and life-long friend Dr. Vindogradov was killed this way. He tread water wearing a blissful smile as the organism approached him. We watched helplessly as it used its arms to tear off his head, then popped his remains its mouth. It was as if it had hypnotized him telepathically.”
The 33-foot-long man-eater also boasts extraordinary camouflage that helped it stalk the researchers.
“Many species of octopus can alter their appearance, usually to avoid larger predators,” Dr. Padalka explained. “Sacs of colorful pigments called chromatophores allow them to change colors, and by contracting their muscles they can blend in with the smooth ocean floor or a craggy coral reef. The well-known mimic octopus can contort its boneless body to take on the shape of a sea snake or stingray.”
But the shape-shifting abilities of Organism 46-B sound almost diabolical.
“It shaped itself into the form of a human diver. We thought it was one my colleagues swimming toward us in scuba gear. By the time the closest scientist realized what it was, it had grabbed him and torn him to bits.”
If an arm of an ordinary octopus is cut off, the severed limb will crawl away – sometimes even seize prey and place it in the mouth of the octopus. Experts say that’s because each arm contains a cluster of neurons – essentially its own brain. The arms of Organism 46-B demonstrated a chilling knack for operating autonomously.
“After our sole female researcher chopped off one of the arms with an ax, the severed limb yanked the weapon out of her hands,” recalled the scientist. “That night the arm slithered onto the icy bank where we were sleeping and strangled her.”
The experts believe that not only does the octopus regenerate its limbs, the brainy severed tentacle may be able to form a new octopus.
Octopuses are extraordinarily intelligent, able to negotiate mazes, use tools and even build structures with Legos. The newly discovered entity is in a class by itself.
“From the way it adapted each time we changed our tactics, we became convinced it is at least as intelligent as an average human,” Dr. Padalka revealed. “If we were not all Ph.Ds, I fear it would have in the end outwitted us.”
Miraculously, the eggheads were able to capture the creature in a tank. After the five surviving scientists made their way to the surface, the program’s director ordered that the bore hole be immediately plugged. The geologists expected to be honored internationally for their amazing find. To their great disappointment, however, the Russian government claimed that the team had found no life in Lake Vostok – and denied that divers had even entered the water.
“There’s nothing much down there, I can assure you,” according to a statement by the chief of the Vostok Research Station, A. M. Yelagin. The director of the Russian Antarctic Expedition, Valery Lukin, admitted that the plug had been put in place but called the precaution “routine.”
U.S. and British experts were puzzled by the announcement.
“It’s a little bit of an anti-climax,” geologist Dr. David L. Meckenroy of the U.K. said on TV at the time. “It’s hard to believe we were so wrong about there being unusual life down there.”
Dr. Padalka claims he fled his native country in July after learning to his horror that the government is planning to put the discovery to military use.
“Some species of octopus lay 200,000 eggs,” he pointed out. “Imagine if they were deposited in reservoirs and lakes across North America?”
The Russian government calls the whistleblower’s claims preposterous.
“It is laughable. Ho, ho, ho,” declared Mikhail Belochkin of the Bureau of Truthful Information. “It sounds like something you might see on one of your science fiction TV channels. The Cold War is over, my friends. If our scientists made a discovery of such magnitude, do you seriously doubt that we would share it with the world?”
Have you ever heard that people go crazy during a full Moon? What’s going on to cause all this lunacy? Or maybe, just maybe, it’s all a myth and nothing special ever happens during full moons.
If I went crazy, like real actual cluster-cuss crazy, you might call me a lunatic. Or you might say I suffered from lunacy. What does that even mean? This word comes from lunaticus, meaning “of the moon” or moonstruck. It was more popular during the late 1800’s, yet it still hangs around.
Surely it must still be an important and useful diagnostic medical term. As when the Moon is full, everyone goes crazy. It’s called the lunar effect. Everyone knows that. Right?
People have theorized for thousands of years that the Moon has all kinds of impacts on us. It affects fertility, crime rates, dog attacks, and increases blood loss during surgery. It must be a full Moon, they say. Full moon tomorrow night! All the crazies will be out! They say.
So what causes allthis moon madness? What makes us sprout metaphorical canines and race around in a fugue state hungry for manflesh when the moon is full? Are we experiencing tidal forces from the Moon on our internal organ juices? Is it a result of us evolving lockstep with the lunar cycle? Perhaps the light coming from the Moon affects our visual cortex in a way to stimulate the animalistic parts of the brain? It has been with us for so long as a belief, there must be something to it. Right?
Nope, it’s all a myth. All of it. Tidal effects on behavior aren’t happening. We experience two high and two low tides every day, and it has nothing to do with the phase of the Moon. In fact, your body experiences more gravity from your chair than it does from the Moon. If the motion of blood was somehow that reactive, should you step into a full elevator everyone would pass out with all the blood rushing to their extremities pulled by your gravity.
No way! You say! It’s true! Because the Moon is closer when it’s full, and its tug on our “materia” and “humors” is stronger. Unfortunately for this theory, our Moon travels an elliptical orbit, and the time when the Moon is closest has nothing to do with when it’s full.
The Moon can be full and close – supermoon. Or it can be full but farther away – minimoon.
Full Moon Rising Over Northwest Georgia on June 22nd, 2013. Credit and copyright: Stephen Rahn.
In 1985, a team of scientists did a Meta study, looking at 37 separate research papers that attempted to study the Moon’s impact on all aspects of humanity. They found papers that demonstrated a correlation, and then promptly found the mistakes in the research. They found absolutely no evidence. We don’t get into more car accidents. Hospital rooms aren’t more crowded. Werewolves aren’t apparently a thing.
We do notice the coincidences, when something strange occurs and there happens to be a full Moon. But we don’t notice all the times when there wasn’t a full Moon. To learn more about this, I’d suggest heading over to the wonderful blog “You are not so smart” by David McRaney, and reading up on “Confirmation Bias”.
So, where did this idea come from? Historians suspect it’s possible that the brightness of a full moon disturbed people’s sleep schedules.
I’m partial to the idea that in history, the full Moon was a high time for people to be active at night, favouring work or travel by the light of the full moon. So, perhaps there were more accidents.
But not anymore. People are superstitious about mundane things like black cats, ladders and broken mirrors, it’s not surprising they’re superstitious about our beautiful and bright companion prettying up the sky almost every night.
Well people, if UFOs are not spaceships from other planets that means to me Star Travel has never been achieved – Period!
Everyone would agree that looking up on a clear night seeing the billions of stars does something inside. It inspires us and challenges our thinking. The more intelligent you are the more the sky confounds you.Yet according the large majority of scientist UFOs are not alien and there is not a shred of evidence otherwise.
Fermi’s Paradox says :“if there is other intelligent life where are they?”
What could the answer be?; They are not as technological? They are very far away? We are alone in the universe? There is no way to get to other stars?
The universe is ten billion years older than our star. Some of the stars around us are billions of years older than our sun. Now they have discovered hundreds of planets around these stars. So where are they?
The answer, in my book is: everywhere you look!
It seems they have been here for some time. They don’t seem to want us to get to know them. The scary part is they seem to interact with us in private most of the time. What would keep a intelligent species here and not communicate.
One of the answers may be the history of the human species. We rarely keep our contracts or promises. We have almost wipe out hundreds of species off the planet. We go to war at a drop of a hat. Our scientist have egos compared to rock stars. And people are afraid. The next time you go to You Tube or read a blog with comments. Notice the vicious attacks on anything UFO. It is relentless and violent name calling at best and or sexist and raciest at it’s worst. The only time that humans attack like this verbally and with no regard for discourse is fear. The fear that this be true. But that is changing. The fear of the past becomes the investigations of the future. After all these years they are taking notice.
Finally it’s up to us in the UFO Community to take the higher ground. We will never reach the fear but we can reach those who can see mature behavior. As you just heard the “Times they are a changing” and the next few years should be astonishing.
According to Sitchin’s interpretation of Mesopotamian iconography and symbolism, outlined in his 1976 book The 12th Planet and its sequels, there is an undiscovered planet beyond Neptune that follows a long, elliptical orbit, reaching the inner solar system roughly every 3,600 years. This planet is called Nibiru (although Jupiter was the planet associated with the god Marduk in Babylonian cosmology).According to Sitchin, Nibiru (whose name was replaced with MARDUK in original legends by the Babylonian ruler of the same name in an attempt to co-opt the creation for himself, leading to some confusion among readers) collided catastrophically with Tiamat (a goddess in the Babylonian creation myth the Enûma Eliš), which he considers to be another planet once located between Mars and Jupiter. This collision supposedly formed the planet Earth, the asteroid belt, and the comets. Sitchin states that when struck by one of planet Nibiru’s moons, Tiamat split in two, and then on a second pass Nibiru itself struck the broken fragments and one half of Tiamat became the asteroid belt. The second half, struck again by one of Nibiru’s moons, was pushed into a new orbit and became today’s planet Earth.
According to Sitchin, Nibiru (called “the twelfth planet” because, Sitchin claimed, the Sumerians’ gods-given conception of the Solar System counted all eight planets, plus Pluto, the Sun and the Moon) was the home of a technologically advanced human-like extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki in Sumerian myth, who Sitchin states are called the Nephilim in Genesis. He wrote that they evolved after Nibiru entered the solar system and first arrived on Earth probably 450,000 years ago, looking for minerals, especially gold, which they found and mined in Africa. Sitchin states that these “gods” were the rank-and-file workers of the colonial expedition to Earth from planet Nibiru.
There is a lot of confusion about the origin of the word Nephilim and what it means. In Hebrew it literally means to fall. As in fallen angel. The Bible, the Talmud and the Koran (where they are referred to as Djinn) all speak of fallen angels.
In the Book of Genesis in the Bible it relates how the Nephilim produced children with humans. One was even depicted as killing Japheth, Noah’s son, and taking his place whereupon he fathered many children with Japheth’s unsuspecting wife which eventually populated much of Northern Europe.
In the following video, journey into the world of Fallen Angels, Satan, Shadow People, Aliens, Demons, Anunnaki, Archons, Ancient Giants, “Ancient Aliens” & Genetic Hybrids. Almost all of what we know about the Nephilim comes from the Holy Bible in Genesis Chapter 6. If you’ve studies or looked into the Nephilim at all, or even if you haven’t, I’m sure you’ll find the video below refreshingly different than many other videos on the topic. I certainly did, and I’ve seen a ton.
“Kopie van sterrenbeeld gevonden op grond bij Stonehenge”
“Kopie van sterrenbeeld gevonden op grond bij Stonehenge”
Net zoals de piramiden in Egypte, die gezamenlijk de kopie van het sterrenbeeld Orion vormen, blijken ook de prehistorische plaatsen in Europa uit kopieën van sterrenbeelden op de grond te bestaan. Zo ook bij Stonehenge.
Auteur-onderzoeker Eelco de Boer deed onderzoek naar oude Helwegen van de Germanen.
De Germanen geloofden dat hun zielen na de dood over deze Helwegen door zwanen naar het Paradijs of naar de Hel vervoerd werden.
De Helwegen zijn al langer bekend. Dokter de Vroege uit Rotterdam beschreef hun loop van Externsteine, een prehistorische plek in Duitsland, tot aan de kust in Nederland.
De onderste Helweg liep naar de kust van Zeeland, het paradijs, en de bovenste naar de Waddeneilanden, zogenaamd de Hel.
De oude naam voor het paradijs is Walhalla en het Zeeuwse eiland Walcheren heeft deze naam nog in zich.
De naam van de Hel luidde Tarsus en ook deze naam vinden we terug in de Waddeneilanden, een beetje meer verscholen maar daardoor uniek.
T: Texel A: Ameland R: Rottummerplaat S: Schiermonnikoog U: Vlieland (u en v zijn voor taalkundigen uitwisselbaar) S: (ter) Schelling, ter is een voorzetsel
De naam Helwegen is in Nederland nog bekend, denk aan Marijke Helwegen, een bekende tv-persoonlijkheid.
Het viel Eelco de Boer op dat veel namen langs de onderste Helweg met zwanen te maken hadden. Zwanen kwamen ook in veel mythen voor.
Als kenner van de oude mythen wist de auteur dat ook bij de verhalen over Stonehenge zwanen genoemd werden.
Na het doortrekken van de oude lijnen van dr. De Vroege, ontdekte Eelco dat de onderste Helweg exact doorliep tot aan Stonehenge.
De bovenste Helweg liep exact door tot aan Lindisfarne, een zeer heilige plek in Engeland. De vraag was natuurlijk welk volk exacte lijnen over zeeën heen kon trekken.
De auteur had al eerder sterrenbeelden op de grond in Nederland ontdekt en paste zijn methoden nu rond Stonehenge toe.
Tot zijn verbijstering ontdekte hij dat onbekenden met ongelooflijke precisie het sterrenbeeld Zwaan in het Britse landschap hadden gevormd.
Op de gekopieerde sterrenpunten staan nu nog steeds kerken op oude heilige plaatsen, waaromheen later plaatsjes zijn ontstaan.
De auteur publiceert in principe gegevens die door zijn lezers te verifiëren zijn. Plak op Google Earth plaatsmarkeringen op genoemde plaatsen en zie hoe ongelooflijk nauwkeurig het sterrenbeeld zich vormt.
In zijn boeken is te lezen hoe ook op andere plaatsen langs de Helweg in Nederland en Duitsland hetzelfde sterrenbeeld is te vinden.
De schrijver benadrukt dat de cultuur van de makers van Stonehenge, en andere megalithische bouwwerken in Europa, al verdwenen was toen de Egyptische piramides nog gebouwd moesten worden.
In zijn boeken gaat Eelco de Boer gedetailleerd in op zijn bevindingen. Het lezen maakt nieuwsgierig en daagt uit om zelf op onderzoek te gaan naar nog meer bewijzen!
ONDERZOEKER-AUTEUR EELCO DE BOER
De ontdekkingen en theorie van onderzoeker-auteur Eelco de Boer uit Bergambacht, beschreven in zijn boeken Verdwenen beschaving en Verborgen geschiedenis, hebben er onder andere toe geleid dat er in Friesland bewijzen werden gevonden van sterrenbeelden op de grond.
Nieuwe geheimen onthult hij binnenkort in zijn derde boek, dat in het voorjaar van 2017 zal verschijnen met de titel:
‘Abraham was een Fries en Homerus een Zeeuw.’ (En, Nederland was het beloofde land.)
Het geheim der Eersten: Auteur Henriëtte Hemmink verwerkte Eelco’s opzienbarende theorie en ontdekkingen op spannende manier in een fact-thriller.
DNA-pionier en Nobelprijswinnaar: “Leven naar aarde gebracht door intelligente buitenaardsen”
DNA-pionier en Nobelprijswinnaar: “Leven naar aarde gebracht door intelligente buitenaardsen”
Meer dan 60 jaar geleden ontdekten Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins en James Watson dat DNA een dubbele helix is. Ze kregen er de Nobelprijs voor de Geneeskunde voor.
Crick en Watson kwamen met het model van de dubbele helix, waarbij de strengen om elkaar heen draaien en de nucleotiden van beide met elkaar verbonden zijn als de sporten van een ladder.
In zijn boek Life Itself uit 1982 schreef Crick (1916-2004) dat het onmogelijk is dat het DNA-molecuul zich op aarde heeft gevormd en dat het van elders moet zijn gekomen.
Hogere beschaving
Francis Crick (AFP)
Crick domineerde lange tijd het vakgebied van de moleculaire biologie, en was een bezield inspirator voor vele onderzoekers.
Samen met zijn collega Leslie Orgel ontwikkelde hij de theorie van de ‘directed panspermia’ (gestuurde panspermie).
Volgens deze theorie is het leven op onze planeet niet alleen van buitenaardse oorsprong, maar ook doelbewust op onze planeet gebracht door een hogere beschaving.
Onwaarschijnlijk
Om het lokale leven niet te verstoren, kiezen dergelijke beschavingen mogelijk jonge planetaire systemen uit, zo is de gedachte.
“Het lijkt nu onwaarschijnlijk dat buitenaardse organismen de aarde hebben bereikt als sporen die worden gedreven door de stralingsdruk van een ster of als levende organismen in een meteoriet,” schreven Orgel en Crick.
Intelligente wezens
“Het alternatief is gestuurde panspermie, de theorie dat organismen bewust naar de aarde zijn gebracht door intelligente wezens van een andere planeet,” zeiden ze.
“Wij concluderen dat het mogelijk is dat leven de aarde op deze manier heeft bereikt, maar dat er op dit moment te weinig wetenschappelijk bewijs is om iets te kunnen zeggen over de waarschijnlijkheid,” klonk het.
Pennsylvania UFO reporting moving out of funnel cloud
Pennsylvania UFO reporting moving out of funnel cloud
A Pennsylvania witness at Elverson reported watching a “metallic craft” moving out of a cloud formation that quickly split into two where each object then moved away in opposite directions, according to testimony in Case 81049 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness image 1.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness had just let his dog outside at 7 a.m. on December 19, 2016, from a front porch facing north.
“I was sitting on porch and I heard this ‘jet sound,’ just like the gas burner of a hot air balloon,” the witness stated.“ And I looked left, to the west and I saw this silver-gray, circular object come down from this group of clouds. There were no other clouds around, nothing but blue sky, except for this cluster.”
The witness immediately stopped and turned to look at the event.
Witness image 2.
(Credit: MUFON)
“It stopped and the aircraft split; and one headed due west and the other went due east towards me. I saw the metallic reflection of the craft that came towards me, because the sun was coming up. After 1-2 seconds, both craft disappeared into thin air, only leaving its exhaust or ‘trail.’”
The witness then ran into his house to get a phone to take pictures of what was left.
“At that point, the cloud cluster and trails were directly north of me and moving east. As I studied enlargement on my computer screen, I can see a circular, semi-white cloud ‘burst’ amidst the gray cluster above, almost like the burst pushed the clouds out into a circle and the object came down out of the clouds before it separated intotwo.”
Witness image 3.
(Credit: MUFON)
The sighting frightened the witness.
“Scariest thing I’ve ever seen. I just couldn’t believe my eyes. I see all kinds of weird things out here where I live, but can never get photos in time. But this morning, I got it; well, the latter part of it, anyway.”
Elverson is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, population 1,225. Pennsylvania MUFON State Section Director Julia Weiss investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown.
Witness image 4.
(Credit: MUFON)
“The sighting is unknown because it came out of a funnel cloud and then split into two objects, leaving vapor trails,” Weiss stated in her report.“The round object and sounds is not consistent with military jets and-or anything I can think of. The actual funnel cloud disappearing right after the objects split in both directions is also quite puzzling. The cloud, if itself a vapor trail, would remain. I am deeming this sighting unknown.”
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.
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Electrostatic Plasma Ball like Entity Over Redland, Florida On Dec 29, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Electrostatic Plasma Ball like Entity Over Redland, Florida On Dec 29, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 29, 2016
Location of sighting: Redland, Florida, USA
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Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
In the same way that stars are masked by the sky scattering of visible light in daylight many small objects in the atmosphere are also masked. This masking effect is lower in the infrared portion of the spectrum and even lower in the short radio wave portion, so scanning the sky in the infrared or in the short radio wave(radar) portion of the spectrum is a lot more effective than scanning the sky in visible light. From video footage the "best" that we can show is the anomalous character of a given manifestation, to get clear ideas of the nature or origen of Anomalies further comprehensive research is needed that video alone can't provide. But Anomalies manifestations are a "local" phenomena and local phenomena usually have local explanations or causes. Some anomalies respond with bright flashes to direct light signals in daylight or at night showing with that clearly their anomalous nature. Key steps for systematically observing anomalies:
1- Infrared spotting. Using an optical magnification in the 20x range. 2- The use of very high optical magnification able to resolve distant object details, in the 150x optical magnification range. 3- Direct signaling to the anomalies spotted. Anomalies will change behaviour and body geometry in response to "smart" signals.
UFO Follows Space Station On Live Cam! Dec 29, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Follows Space Station On Live Cam! Dec 29, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 29, 2016 Location of sighting: At space station (ISS) This video was taken by the space station live cam and shows a UFO below the space station. The UFO has perfectly matched speed with the station and as the UFO shoots through the clouds below, sometimes it drags some of the clouds behind it in a trail. This is a UFO. Amazing capture by Joshua Blake of Youtube. Scott C. Waring
UFO Seen By Kid At Park Moves At High Speed, Dec 29, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen By Kid At Park Moves At High Speed, Dec 29, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 29, 2016 Location of sighting: Unknown This video was recorded by ACTA of youtube. Watch as these kids both record an unidentified flying object in the clouds above. The excitement in their voices clearly show their intrigue at the unusual craft that they were trying to watch. At one point the boy with the earphones says, "did you see that? It grew smaller really fast!" That happened because the UFO flew away from the boys at a high rate of speed then stopped at a certain point. Cool video of young UFO researchers on the hunt in their neighbourhood. Its very possible this was an alien craft, but it is impossible to determine for sure without a more focused and close up video of the object. So, until we know more, the object in the sky is truly and unidentified flying object...a UFO. Scott C. Waring
A cloud of gas and dust began to collapse 4.6 billion years ago, triggering the formation of Earth's sun and solar system. Pictured here: a much larger collection of gas and dust, spotted in the constellation Cygnus, which is about 4,500 light-years away.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
The explosive death of a star — that may have been up to a dozen times the sun's mass — might have triggered the formation of the solar system, a new study finds.
The sun as well as the rest of the solar system was born from a cloud of gas and dust about 4.6 billion years ago. According to previous research, some event disturbed this cloud, prompting a gravitational collapse that formed the sun and a surrounding disk of matter, where the planets were born.
By searching for telltale patterns that have been left in matter from the dawn of the solar system, Yong-Zhong Qian, co-author of the new study and an astrophysicist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and his colleagues now suggest that the explosive death of a small star could have kicked off that collapse. [Our Solar System: A Photo Tour of the Planets]
Prior work has suggested that a supernova's shock wave might have packed enough energy to compress the preexisting cloud of dust. And researchers have searched for evidence of that blast: Supernovas generate telltale patterns of unstable, short-lived radioactive isotopes. The discovery of the signatures of such anomalies in ancient rocks would help confirm the idea that a supernova triggered the solar system's formation. (The isotopes of an element have different numbers of neutrons. A different number at the end of the isotope's name identifies each variety: for example, beryllium-9 or beryllium-10.) Until now, researchers have failed to find the fingerprints of these isotopic anomalies in ancient meteorites that were left over from the birth of the solar system. However, researchers had been examining supernovas from relatively high-mass stars — those that are 15 or more times the sun's mass, Qian told Space.com. Qian's group chose to model lower-mass supernovas instead, from stars that are 12 times the sun's mass or less, and they investigated what isotopes would be formed from those explosions. They focused on the production of beryllium-10, an isotope that is commonly found in meteorites. Its prevalence in meteorites was already a mystery for researchers, Qian said. One theory held that high-energy cosmic rays could have stripped away protons or neutrons from atomic nuclei to create the beryllium-10 — a process called spallation.
Using new supernova models, Qian and his colleagues found that a low-mass supernova could generate vast amounts of ghostly particles known as neutrinos, whose influence on atomic nuclei could have created beryllium-10 — which would explain the high levels of that isotope in the meteorite record.
Moreover, the researchers said that the influence of a low-mass supernova might also explain the presence of other short-lived isotopes that are also found in meteorites, such as calcium-41 and palladium-107. "A low-mass supernova can explain the wide range of data that we have," Qian told Space.com.
Qian noted that the study group's findings do not explain the presence of all short-lived isotopes that are found in meteorites. "We think that some of these other short-lived nuclei might have been contributed by other mechanisms," Qian said. "I don't think that should be taken as a weakness of our model — it's just that our model cannot explain everything. Our work is a major piece of the puzzle about the solar system's formation, but there are other pieces of the puzzle that should be looked at as well."
Future research can also investigate what effects a shock wave from a low-mass supernova might have had on the cloud that became the solar system, Qian said. The scientists detailed their findings online Nov. 22 in the journal Nature Communications.
China's Lofty Space Ambitions Include 2018 Landing on Moon's Far Side
China's Lofty Space Ambitions Include 2018 Landing on Moon's Far Side
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Credit: gov.cn
China's Information Office of the State Council on Tuesday (Dec. 27) released an expansive white paper on that country's space activities in 2016. The document also projected a look at China's space agenda over the coming years, a plan that includes a lunar sample-return mission and the first soft-landing on the far side of the moon in 2018.
In an associated press conference marking the release of the white paper, vice administrator of the China National Space Administration, Wu Yanhua, stated that China plans to develop a new generation of heavy-lift carrier rocket, the "Changzheng-9" or "Long March-9." That booster is intended for future manned lunar landing and deep space exploration missions, according to a report by the website Crienglish.com.
"There is an old saying in aerospace industry, 'If you want to develop space industry, you need to work on space rockets first; and if you want to develop space rockets, you need to work on its engines first,;" Wu said in the press conference. "So now we need to make progress in the heavy-lift carrier rocket's engine first, to create conditions for the whole project. It is planned that the heavy-lift carrier rocket's maiden flight will be held around 2030." [China in Space: A Video Look Back]
Vice administrator of China National Space Administration, Wu Yanhua, speaks at Dec. 27 briefing unveiling a white paper on Chinese space development 2016.
Credit: gov.cn
China's 5-year space plan
The wide-ranging white paper lays out the purpose of China's space program as well as its vision and principles of development. It also includes a summary of China's major developments in space since 2011, and the major tasks ahead for the next five years.
The document also includes policies and measures for development and the role of international exchanges and cooperation.
In terms of deep-space exploration, the white paper explains that China will continue its lunar exploration project, and strive to attain the automated extraterrestrial sampling and returning technology by space explorers.
Three strategic steps
"We plan to fulfill the three strategic steps of 'orbiting, landing and returning' for the lunar exploration project by launching the Chang'e-5 lunar probe by the end of 2017 and realizing regional soft landing, sampling and return. We will launch the Chang'e-4 lunar probe around 2018 to achieve humanity's first soft-landing on the far side of the moon, and conduct an in-situ and rover detection and relay communications misison from the Earth-moon L2 point."
Also noted is that through China's lunar exploration project, topographic and geological surveys will be implemented and laboratory research conducted on lunar samples; geological survey and research as well as low-frequency radio astronomy observation and research will be carried out targeting the landing area on the far side of the moon for a better understanding of the formation and evolution of the moon.
Next lunar probe
At the press conference hosted by the State Council Information Office, Wu also detailed work underway on Chang'e-5, targeted for liftoff at the end of 2017.
"We will take samples from the surface of the moon as well as different depths of the moon rocks after drilling, and the samples will be used by scientists for scientific research," Wu said.
Wu added that work related to Chang'e-5 is going smoothly.
Mars and beyond
Explained in the white paper is that China intends to execute its first Mars exploration operation, and grasp key technologies for orbiting, landing and roving exploration.
China plans to launch this Mars probe by 2020 to carry out orbiting and roving exploration.
"It will conduct further studies and key technological research on the bringing back of samples from Mars, asteroid exploration, exploration of the Jupiter system and planet fly-by exploration. When conditions allow, related projects will be implemented to conduct research into major scientific questions such as the origin and evolution of the solar system, and search for extraterrestrial life," the paper explains.
Raising human spaceflight capacity
In the category of human spaceflight, the white paper notes that China plans to launch the Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft to dock with the now Earth-orbiting Tiangong-2 space laboratory, "and research and master key technologies for cargo transport and replenishment to accumulate experience in building and operating a space station."
"We strive to acquire key technologies and conduct experiments on such technologies," the paper continues, "to raise our manned spaceflight capacity, laying a foundation for exploring and developing cislunar space." [China's Tiangong-2 Space Lab in Pictures]
China’s 60-ton medium-size space station is depicted in this artwork.
Credit: CNSA
In June 2016, China's new Wenchang launch center on Hainan Island celebrated its first launch. Renovations have also been accomplished in the Jiuquan, Taiyuan and Xichang launch sites, "forming a launch site network covering both coastal and inland areas, high and low altitudes, and various trajectories to satisfy the launch needs of manned spaceships, space laboratory core modules, deep space probes and all kinds of satellites," the document explains. "The integrated capacities and functions of space launch sites will be enhanced and exploited to meet various needs."
Historical starting line
The white paper concludes by noting that the country is "standing at a new historical starting line," with China "determined to quicken the pace of developing its space industry, and actively carry out international space exchanges and cooperation."
Since 2011 China has signed 43 space cooperation agreements or memoranda of understanding with 29 countries, space agencies and international organizations.
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published in October by National Geographic this October. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel six-part series, Mars. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.
Proxima Centauri's Origins Could Mean Its Exoplanet Really Is Habitable
Proxima Centauri's Origins Could Mean Its Exoplanet Really Is Habitable
By Ian O'Neill, Seeker
Credit: ESO
After decades of uncertainty, it seems that astronomers may have found the strongest evidence yet that Proxima Centauri is indeed "gravitationally bound" to Alpha Centauri. This is interesting for many reasons, primarily because now we're pretty sure the Alpha Centauri system is a triple-star system, with two stars (Alpha Centauri A and B) orbiting closely and one oddball sibling (Proxima Centauri) with an extremely wide orbit.
But with the recent discovery of a small rocky exoplanet in orbit around Proxima, this new finding will boost hopes that this little world may be habitable for life as we know it.
Proxima Centauri is located around 4.25 light-years away making it the nearest star to Earth beyond our sun. The star's planet, called Proxima b, is approximately the same mass as Earth and orbits within the star's "habitable zone" — the region surrounding a star that's neither too hot or too cold for liquid water to exist on a planetary surface. Finding any planet within a star's habitable zone — regardless of the star's size or luminosity — will always be exciting as, if there is liquid water there, life could be possible. And discovering a (potentially) habitable world on our galactic doorstep is an incredible stroke of luck.
Though we know that Proxima b is there, we can only guess at its composition and have no clue whether or not it possesses any water. But new evidence suggesting Proxima Centauri is indeed a distant sibling of the Alpha Centauri could help us find out.
Proxima Centauri was only discovered a century ago and, since then, astronomers have been trying to understand its motion in the sky, a task that becomes very complicated when considering how dim it is. Red dwarfs are many times smaller and produce only a fraction of the light of our sun. But using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument at the ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, astronomers have, for the first time, gained precision measurements of the dim star's radial velocity, a key metric if we are to understand if it is in any way related to Alpha Centauri.
The HARPS instrument is extremely sensitive to the wobble of stars as small exoplanets orbit around them, gravitationally tugging at them. Indeed, it was the HARPS instrument that discovered the tiny wobble of Proxima Centauri, revealing the presence of Proxima b. But this time, HARPS was able to deduce the velocity at which the tiny star is moving away from us and compared it with the radial velocity of Alpha Centauri. Both radial velocities closely match, which means that, in all likelihood, Proxima Centauri has a wide orbit around Alpha Centauri. They are therefore, probably, gravitationally bound.
Though this is a significant find — indeed, the question of whether or not all three stars are in orbit around one another has been vexing astronomers since Proxima Centauri was first spotted — it could reveal an interesting tidbit about the nature of Proxima b itself.
If Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri are gravitationally bound, this gives us a clue that the group formed from the same star-forming nebula billions of years ago. They are all therefore the same age. Over time, the trio's orbits evolved and Proxima Centauri for some reason was thrown away from the Alpha Centauri binary. In research to be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, the researchers speculate that before Proxima Centauri was ejected and sent on the lonely orbit it's in today, a planet formed far from the star and then migrated to a lower orbit. As it occupied such a distant (and cold) orbit, it would have likely been an icy world and that ice could have been water. And now Proxima b is orbiting in a very habitable location for liquid water to exist on its surface, then perhaps — just perhaps — it possesses water to this day.
Though it's a bit of a reach to be making any assumptions about the water content of a planet we cannot directly see, it's interesting to think that Proxima b may have formed with an abundance of water ice and it's hard not to get excited for the artistic renderings of alien oceans under a red sun.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured these two images using its Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) and Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS). The upper ISS image shows relatively cloud-free skies, while the VIMS image captures widespread cloud cover.
Mysterious, thin, wispy clouds hide under the hazy upper atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew over Titan on June 7 and July 25 and captured strikingly different photos of the moon's high northern latitude using the probe's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) and Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS). Only the VIMS (the bottom, color image) was able to peer through the moon's hazy atmosphere to capture an infrared view of the elusive clouds. The VIMS image shows widespread cloud cover during both flybys.
The different views captured by Cassini's two onboard imaging cameras raise the question of why clouds would be visible in some images but not others, according to a NASA image description. That's especially puzzling because the two images were taken fairly close together in time. [Gigantic Ice Cloud Spotted on Saturn Moon Titan (Photos)]
ISS consists of a wide-angle and a narrow-angle digital camera, which are sensitive to visible wavelengths of light and to some infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths. The monochrome image at the top was captured by ISS from a distance of about 398,000 miles (640,000 kilometers) and is almost cloud-free. However, the bottom image was captured from about 28,000 miles (45,000 km) by the VIMS at the longer, infrared wavelength, and bright clouds are visible in Titan's northern skies.
"Even though these views were taken at different wavelengths, researchers would expect at least a hint of the clouds to show up in the upper image," NASA officials said in a statement. "Thus, they have been trying to understand what's behind the difference."
Based on atmospheric models, scientists have predicted that clouds will become more common at high northern latitudes during summer on Titan. Since 2004, Cassini has documented alterations in weather patterns as seasons change on Titan. Images collected by Cassini will help track the onset of clouds in the north, where Titan's lakes and seas are located, NASA officials said.
"The answer to what could be causing the discrepancy [between the ISS and VIMS images] appears to lie with Titan's hazy atmosphere, which is much easier to see through at the longer infrared wavelengths that VIMS is sensitive to (up to 5 microns) than at the shorter, near-infrared wavelength used by ISS to image Titan's surface and lower atmosphere (0.94 microns)," NASA officials said in the statement.
Differences in illumination geometry or changes in the clouds themselves were ruled out, as the images taken by ISS and CIMS were made over the same 24-hour period.
"High, thin cirrus clouds that are optically thicker than the atmospheric haze at longer wavelengths, but optically thinner than the haze at the shorter wavelength of the ISS observations, could be detected by VIMS and simultaneously lost in the haze to ISS — similar to trying to see a thin cloud layer on a hazy day on Earth," NASA officials said. "This phenomenon has not been seen again since July 2016, but Cassini has several more opportunities to observe Titan over the last months of the mission in 2017, and scientists will be watching to see if and how the weather changes."
UFO disclosure advocates began 2016 in the same position as most years, fighting an uphill battle to get the government to disclose what it knows about UFO phenomena. By May, hopes were rising that complete UFO disclosure by 2017 could be a real possibility, as a candidate from a major political party, Hillary Clinton, was profiled about disclosure with the New York Times. At the end of the year, many are dismayed with the loss of what appeared to be a golden opportunity.
As noted here in the Inquisitr, the election of Donald Trump may well ensure UFO disclosure in the near future, whether or not that is his intent. And there are no guarantees Mrs. Clinton would have been able to disclose anything, as she added the proviso that she would only disclose anything not related to national security. But the brief return to the headlines is fading, so what hope is there for complete UFO disclosure soon?
Could Donald Trump’s space plans ensure disclosure? [Image by Mark Wilson/Getty Images]
Well, to classify the first option as hopeful wouldn’t work. That is because not many people hope for war, but war might be a certain way for UFO disclosure to occur. In spite of the certainty of mutually assured destruction, humans have not lost the stomach for violence. Would a world war spark contact with the UFOs and aliens?
In this scenario of complete UFO disclosure, an alien ship could arrive in a way that ensured that it was witnessed by masses. Whether they came as messengers of peace, or more likely as the exterminators to clean up the hornet’s nest, with human advances in communication the world would achieve disclosure, official or not. As frightening as this possibility may be, it may be on the agenda for 2017.
The second option for complete UFO disclosure is more whimsical, but certainly less dire than the first. 2017 is the 70th anniversary of both the Kenneth Arnold “flying saucer” sighting and the Roswell misunderstanding for which the evidence seems to get softer with each passing year. That will translate into plenty of media coverage, and a raised awareness about UFOs. What makes that a potential treasure for UFO researchers is that more people will be paying attention.
Perhaps that one “smoking gun” piece of evidence is sitting in someone’s attic. Maybe that person remembers how grandpa never will forget that time that he went to recover an acorn-shaped metal box UFO in Western Pennsylvania. Maybe that person goes rummaging through grandpa’s old stuff that was left up there after he passed and finds “the” picture of a UFO. Maybe a government spokesperson slips up answering questions about an old case and spills the details on something new and different. Crazier things have happened, and when the UFO anniversary events coverage begins, who knows what might happen?
The point is that any time UFO coverage goes to a national level, the UFO disclosure movement has the opportunity to educate the wider public. This is an opportunity to embrace the challenge to state the case for disclosure. Some may view it more as a commercial feeding frenzy, but what does that mean? So is the Super Bowl in American football, which also draws a billion or so viewers each year. How nice would it be to have an audience that big for just 30 minutes to explain why complete UFO disclosure matters?
Could NASA’s new Webb Space Telescope spot a UFO or signs of alien life? [Image by Alex Wong/Getty Images]
Finally, one should never rule out the ever-present possibility of contact from sentient beings through programs like the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). One unmistakable radio telescope captured signal could completely set the UFO research world into a frenzy of excitement. Really, any type of contact along the frontiers of human scientific exploration would do the trick.
While any, or none of these scenarios could occur in 2017, the idea is that UFO disclosure advocates have no reason to be pessimistic. It would be closer to the truth to suggest that those people who really would like to see UFO disclosure happen should utilize the big anniversaries in the coming year to discuss how far UFO research has come, and what lies ahead to a wider audience. One never knows when a difference maker will be listening.
Either stars are strange, or there are 234 aliens trying to contact us
Either stars are strange, or there are 234 aliens trying to contact us
by Evan Gough, Universe Today
A portion of the 234 stars that are sources of the pulsed ETI-like signal. Note that all the stars are in the narrow spectral range F2 to K1, very similar to our own sun. Credit: Ermanno F. Borra and Eric Trottier This graph shows the …more
We all want there to be aliens. Green ones, pink ones, brown ones, Greys. Or maybe Vulcans, Klingons, even a being of pure energy. Any type will do.
That's why whenever a mysterious signal or energetic fluctuation arrives from somewhere in the cosmos and hits one of our many telescopes, headlines erupt across the media: "Have We Finally Detected An Alien Signal?" or "Have Astronomers Discovered An Alien Megastructure?" But science-minded people know that we're probably getting ahead of ourselves.
Skepticism still rules the day when it comes to these headlines, and the events that spawn them. That's the way it should be, because we've always found a more prosaic reason for whatever signal from space we're talking about. But, being skeptical is a balancing act; it doesn't mean being dismissive.
What we're talking about here is a new study from E.F. Borra and E. Trottier, two astronomers at Laval University in Canada. Their study, titled "Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars" was just published at arXiv.org. ArXiv.org is a pre-print website, so the paper itself hasn't been peer reviewed yet. But it is generating interest.
The two astronomers used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and analyzed the spectra of 2.5 million stars. Of all those stars, they found 234 stars that are producing a puzzling signal. That's only a tiny percentage. And, they say, these signals "have exactly the shape of an ETI signal" that was predicted in a previous study by Borra.
This graph shows the number of detected signals by Spectral Type of star. Credit: Ermanno F. Borra and Eric Trottier
Prediction is a key part of the scientific method. If you develop a theory, your theory looks better and better the more you can use it to correctly predict some future events based on it. Look how many times Einstein's predictions based on Relativity have been proven correct.
The 234 stars in Borra and Trottier's study aren't random. They're "overwhelmingly in the F2 to K1 spectral range" according to the abstract. That's significant because this is a small range centred around the spectrum of our own Sun. And our own Sun is the only one we know of that has an intelligent species living near it. If ours does, maybe others do too?
The authors acknowledge five potential causes of their findings: instrumental and data reduction effects, rotational transitions in molecules, the Fourier transform of spectral lines, rapid pulsations, and finally the ETI signal predicted by Borra (2012). They dismiss molecules or pulsations as causes, and they deem it highly unlikely that the signals are caused by the Fourier analysis itself. This leaves two possible sources for the detected signals. Either they're a result of the Sloan instrument itself and the data reduction, or they are in fact a signal from extra-terrestrial intelligences.
The detected signals are pulses of light separated by a constant time interval. These types of signals were predicted by Borra in his 2012 paper, and they are what he and Trottier set out to find in the Sloan data. It may be a bit of a red flag when scientist's find the very thing they predicted they would find. But Trottier and Borra are circumspect about their own results.
As the authors say in their paper, "Although unlikely, there is also a possibility that the signals are due to highly peculiar chemical compositions in a small fraction of galactic halo stars." It may be unlikely, but lots of discoveries seem unlikely at first. Maybe there is a tiny subset of stars with chemical peculiarities that make them act in thisway.
A portion of the 234 stars that are sources of the pulsed ETI-like signal. Note that all the stars are in the narrow spectral range F2 to K1, very similar to our own sun. Credit: Image: Ermanno F. Borra and Eric Trottier
To sum it all up, the two astronomers have found a tiny number of stars, very similar to our own Sun, that seem to be the source of pulsed signals. These signals are the same as predicted if a technological society was using powerful lasers to communicate with distant stars.
We all want there to be aliens, and maybe the first sign of them will be pulsed light signals from stars like our own sun. But it's all still very preliminary, and as the authors acknowledge, "…at this stage, this hypothesis needs to be confirmed with further work."
That further work is already being planned by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative, a project that searches for intelligent life in the cosmos. They plan to use the Automated Planet Finder telescope at the Lick Observatory to further observe some of Borra's 234 stars.
The Breakthrough team don't seem that excited about Borra's findings. They've already poured cold water on it, trotting out the old axiom that "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" in a statement on Borra's paper. They also give Borra's findings a score of 0 to 1 on the Rio Scale. The Rio Scale is something used by the international SETI community to rank detections of phenomena that could indicate advanced life beyond Earth. A rating of 0 to 1 means its insignificant.
An artist's concept of Europa's surface. On the moon's still-unknown terrain, a mobile lander could have trouble moving away from a contaminated site, scientists say.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Searching for signs of life, or life's precursors, on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa could spoil the hunt before it begins — which is why many scientists advocate going underground.
An ocean containing twice as much water as all of Earth's seas is thought to slosh beneath Europa's 10-to-15-mile-thick (15 to 25 kilometers) ice shell. For this reason, astrobiologists regard the 1,900-mile-wide (3,100 km) Jovian moon as one of the solar system's best bets to host extraterrestrial life.
Furthermore, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted evidence of water-vapor plumes emanating from Europa's south polar region, suggesting that material from the ocean may fall back onto the moon's icy surface. [Europa May Harbor Simple Life-Forms (Video)]
That's an exciting prospect for NASA, which aims to put a lander on Europa in the 2020s to look for chemical evidence that the moon could support life. (NASA's Europa mission began as a flyby-only affair, but the U.S. Congress ordered the inclusion of a lander late last year.)
However, the very landing could complicate this search greatly. Firing thrusters to slow the spacecraft's descent "will be like hosing down the ground with ammonia, and this is a very inconvenient thing to do," said Ralph Lorenz, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland.
It's inconvenient because ammonia contains nitrogen, he said. "Everything in our body has nitrogen," Lorenz told Space.com. −−"If you are interested in nitrogen as a prerequisite for life, then finding even traces of it at Europa is important, and so even a little thruster contamination matters a lot."
If such contamination were to occur, scientists would struggle to figure out if nitrogen detected at Europa was native or imported from Earth, he said.
In a study published in the journal Planetary and Space Science this past August, Lorenz found that putting a 440-lb. (200 kilograms) spacecraft down on Europa would disturb the surface out to 30 feet (9 meters) around the lander. He concluded this after studying images of past surface disturbances caused by spacecraft landings on Earth's moon and Mars.
Scientists cannot assume that the Europa lander will be able to move away from such a contaminated site. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has wheels, so it drove away from its Red Planet landing site back in 2012. But scientists know little about the hazards on Europa's surface, Lorenz said.
"The distribution of rocks could cause a lander to tip over, or it could fall into a crevasse," Lorenz said. "In space exploration, it's not good enough to speculate that this will work. Why throw 1 [billion] or 2 billion [dollars] into it?"
The issue of nitrogen contamination on Europa is more problematic than it is on Mars or Earth's moon because the Jovian satellite is much colder than these other worlds, Lorenz said. At its warmest, temperatures on Europa don't rise above minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 160 degrees Celsius). Under such frigid conditions, ammonia is more likely to stick to Europa's surface, allowing it to interact with other molecules and perhaps make a mess of observations, Lorenz said.
Other researchers think that sampling Europa's surface is important, but that the best samples lie deeper. "We have to go down, beneath the surface," said Britney Schmidt, a planetary scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology who has worked on NASA's Europa lander mission concept.
This means drilling into Europa's ice. Schmidt thinks a mission needs to drill at least 4 inches (10 centimeters) down, to a place where the thrusters haven't contaminated the ice and space radiation hasn't destroyed biogenic molecules — the stuff− necessary for life's processes to take place.
"If we get 10 centimeters, or a meter [about 3 feet], down, this area hasn't been blasted with the thrusters," Schmidt told Space.com. "Maybe a portion, but the confidence for getting a pristine sample goes up the further you go down."
The Europa lander won't just be looking for ammonia or nitrogen, stressed Peter Willis, a chemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Still, he said, the Europa lander mission will take precautions; the lander will likely bore into the ice, Willis said. NASA also plans to employ the sky-crane landing method, which put Curiosity down on Mars, with the Europa craft, he added. −−After descending toward Europa, a hovering spacecraft will fire thrusters into the air to stay aloft while it uses a cord to lower the lander down to the surface. Then, it will let go. [How Curiosity's Sky Crane Landing Worked (Infographic)]
In such a case, "the spacecraft actually falls, but we hope not too far," Willis said.
Limiting the amount of Earthly organics being sprayed on Europa's surface will help NASA's quest to find extraterrestrial life —− even if what researchers are looking for doesn't walk or swim, Schmidt said.
"People want us to drill into Europa and find a fish," she said. "But right now, this is not realistic;− the hope is to land there and detect biogenic molecules, the molecules essential for life."
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