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...
10-01-2017
Hubble voorspelt wat de Voyager-sondes allemaal tegen gaan komen
Hubble voorspelt wat de Voyager-sondes allemaal tegen gaan komen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Voyager 1 zal bijvoorbeeld over zo’n 40.000 jaar op zo’n 1,6 lichtjaar afstand langs ster Gliese 445 zoeven.
De ruimtesondes Voyager 1 en Voyager 2 werden in 1977 gelanceerd en haasten zich met meer dan 61.000 kilometer per uur door de ruimte. Voyager 1 is inmiddels bijna 21 miljard kilometer van de aarde verwijderd en zoeft door de interstellaire ruimte: het gebied tussen de sterren dat onder meer gevuld is met gas en stof. Voyager 2 is inmiddels bijna 17 miljard kilometer van ons verwijderd.
Hubble Terwijl de sondes zich van ons vandaan haasten, bestuderen ze het materiaal dat hen omringt. Maar wat gaan zij in de toekomst nog meer tegenkomen? Dankzij ruimtetelescoop Hubble hebben we daar nu een iets beter beeld van. De ruimtetelescoop bekeek het materiaal op en langs de route van de ruimtesondes.
Hubble ging na wat Voyager 1 en Voyager 2 te wachten staat.
Afbeelding: NASA / ESA / Z. Levay (STScl).
Context “De Voyagers bestuderen kleine gebieden terwijl ze zich met zo’n 61.000 kilometer per uur door de ruimte haasten,” vertelt onderzoeker Seth Redfield. “Maar we hebben geen idee of deze kleine gebieden heel gewoon of zeldzaam zijn. De Hubble-observaties geven ons een breder beeld, omdat de telescoop langs een langer en breder pad kijkt. Dus Hubble voorziet ons van context bij alles waar de Voyagers doorheen bewegen.”
De toekomst Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat Voyager 1 over zo’n 40.000 jaar – de sonde is dan natuurlijk allang niet meer operationeel – op zo’n 1,6 lichtjaar afstand langs de ster Gliese 445 glijdt. Voyager 2 zal zover zo’n 40.000 jaar op een afstand van zo’n 1,7 lichtjaar langs de ster Ross 248 glijden. Deze sonde zal over een paar duizend jaar bovendien de interstellaire wolk die ons zonnestelsel omringt, verlaten. Vervolgens zal deze zo’n 90.000 jaar op rij in een tweede interstellaire wolk vertoeven alvorens een derde interstellaire wolk binnen te gaan. De observaties van Hubble suggereren dat de elementen waaruit de interstellaire wolken zijn opgebouwd van wolk tot wolk ietsje verschillen “Deze variaties kunnen betekenen dat de wolken op verschillende manieren of op verschillende plekken zijn ontstaan en daarna samen zijn gekomen,” stelt Redfield.
De observaties van Hubble geven niet alleen context aan wat de Voyagers (gaan) zien, ze geven ook een beter beeld van wat onderzoeker Julia Zachary “de lokale interstellaire omgeving” noemt. Zeker wanneer we ze combineren met wat de Voyagers – die nog zo’n 10 jaar in staat zijn om gegevens te verzamelen en naar de aarde te sturen – allemaal ‘zien’.
Venus has some spooky looking clouds swirling around its atmosphere, and scientists think it might be the evil doing of extraterrestrial life. Certain dark streaks embedded in those clouds have been stumping scientists since the 1960s, prompting a new proposal to probe the second planet from the sun for potential alien life by 2025.
A team of American and Russian scientists will be submitting plans for a new mission, known as Venera-D, which will send an unmanned aerial vehicle into the heart of this mysterious occurrence. If accepted, Venera-D would be a joint endeavor between Roscosmos (Russia’s space agency) and NASA.
Their main goal is to determine if those dark streaks could be evidence of microbial life. For decades now, scientists have been dreaming up all kinds of hypotheses about the streaks: Some think it could be particulates, like iron or sulfur, that have mixed with the clouds. Others think it could actually be ice, though with a planet that’s nearly 900 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface, that’s probably not the case.
“I cannot say that there is microbial life in Venus’ clouds,” Sanjay Limaye toldAstrobiology Magazine, an atmospheric scientist from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and member of the Venera-D science definition team. “But that doesn’t mean it’s not there either. The only way to learn is to go there and sample the atmosphere.”
As Limaye pointed out, scientists have very few clues as to what causes the streaks. But they do know that the streaks absorb ultraviolet light unlike the rest of the atmosphere. They also know that if the streaks did consist of microbial life, they might have a protective layer of ring-shaped polymers, which would stave off large quantities of sulfuric acid. Another factor to consider is the planet’s super rotation, a phenomenon that occurs when the atmosphere rotates at a faster pace than the surface.
There have been previous complications with exploring Venus in the past. Its high surface pressure and even higher temps make it a very challenging landscape for our technology. Mariner 5 was the first successful landing, but it only survived for 93 minutes. For Venera-D to be successful, it will have to be like nothing scientists have ever created before.
An artist’s impression of the VAMP UAV flying through Venus’ clouds.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
The proposed design calls for a solar-powered vehicle that would be able to propel through the clouds to collect data at night. During the day, it would have helium reserves that would allow it to stay buoyant without using power. It would also have large wings that would help it navigate the stormy conditions. These mechanisms would allow the craft to shift between different altitudes of the atmosphere.
Surprisingly, with this design, the team thinks the vehicle will be able to survive for a year or more, offering up enough information for scientists to potentially confirm whether we have other life in our solar system or not. Unfortunately, we won’t have a response from NASA or Roscomos until late this year.
Rogue planets just had their unfortunate introduction to the public consciousness via an especially silly conspiracy theory involving a collision and the subsequent end of the world. Let us not allow that to bury the actual new research coming forth about them, because that’s what’s really worth your time.
Researchers testing whether a much-mythologized object called Planet Ninemight indeed be a captured rogue planet found it certainly looks like one. They also performed simulations of various different kinds of rogue encounters with our solar system; they found that if the rogue had a mass equal to or greater than that of Jupiter, it could subsequently leave a physical impact on the configuration of the entire system. James Vesper of New Mexico State University presented the research Friday at the 229th American Astronomical Science meeting in Grapevine, Texas.
We can easily picture the stars that don’t have planets, but it’s a bit odd to imagine in inverse (sorry) — free-floating planets rolling around in space, not tethered by any kind of regular orbit, either because they’ve escaped their original host star or because they never formed around one to begin with. Those planets are rogue planets, and they’re often prone to being “captured” by a new star when they wander into its system.
Vesper said their data showed 60 percent of all rogue encounters being “slingshotted” into the galaxy — they come in close to the sun and then shoot right back out. About ten percent of these encounters take one or more planets out with them. If two or more planets are knocked out — but the rogue is captured — Vesper refers to the exchange as a “kick and stay.”
Suffice it to say rogue planets can mess things up in a variety of ways.
There are scores of rogue planets in our galaxy — possibly numbering in the billions — and a handful relatively close to our own solar system. There are enough to possibly provide an explanation for some of the dark matter in the Milky Way’s disc, and they actually outnumber stars.
Children return to school after Christmas break to discover a UFO has landed in the school grounds
A strange flying saucer-like craft has landed in the grounds of Sibford School near Banbury in Oxfordshire. Children returned after the Christmas break to discover that an unidentified flying object had crashed into their Forest School area
By the time the children arrived, the scene of the crash had been cordoned off with police tape and investigations are on-going as to how and why the space ship came to land at Sibford.
Junior School Head, Edward Rossiter said: “To say the children were surprised would be an understatement! We had received reports of strange sounds and flashes being seen in the sky overnight but the scene at the crash site and the size of the craft was incredible and really left the children in awe.”
Traditionally, Sibford Junior School marks the first half of the Spring Term with a creative curriculum where by all lessons are centred around a central theme.
In the past, topics have included Beneath the Waves and The Rainforest and, as luck would have it, the theme for 2017 is Out of this World!
Said Edward Rossiter: “I suspect it will take the children a good five weeks to really get to the bottom of what happened here!”
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Talking Close Encounters
Talking Close Encounters
Mary Rodwell RN is the founder and principal of Australian Close Encounter Resource Network (ACERN). Since 1994 Mary has worked in private practice as a professional counsellor, hypnotherapist, metaphysical teacher, researcher, author, Reiki master, and international speaker. A thrice-published author in the field, Mary is recognised internationally as one of Australia’s leading researchers in the UFO and contact phenomenon.
She spoke with The Echo in the leadup to her keynote presentations at the Close Encounters Conference.
Mary, how did you come to be working in such a unique area?
I was working in private practice counselling when I was approached by a client who had heard I was open-minded and said that for this there are no support groups, for this they just think you are a loony. He proceeded to say that he and his family were having ‘visits from extraterrestrials’ and taken… he often woke up with marks and shaved areas on his body and his family were very frightened. He asked if I could help.
Fortunately I had read two books on this phenomenon. Abduction – Human Encounters with Aliens (former professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University) Dr John Mack, who believed those he worked with this experience, and Communion by author Whitely Streiber (who had extraterrestrial experiences throughout his life). This enabled me to be supportive and help the family. From that time I researched this phenomenon and now have worked with more than 3,000 cases globally.
When people ask you what do you do, what do you say?
I normally will just mention I am a counsellor and hypnotherapist. If they want me to share more I say I help people with their ‘anomalous’ paranormal experiences. If they ask for more information I say experiences where someone believes they have had contact or encounters with extraterrestrials
How do you deal with sceptics or people who are reticent to believe in alien abduction or contact experiences?
I suggest they become ‘informed’, as there is a huge amount of whistleblower evidence by credible military personnel, pilots, and even two presidents, Reagan and Carter, who have said they have seen UFOs. Every six minutes around the globe someone sees a UFO; they have been seen on footage taken by NASA. What it really says is that they are just uninformed.
As a therapist, did you ever consider that these experiences were delusions or some sort of projection?
No. As a counsellor one can easily tell when someone is being truthful and authentic. It is very obvious when someone is unstable or delusional. It can hardly be delusional when a whole family are having similar experiences even as young as four or five years. In some cases these people don’t even believe in aliens except their experiences leave little doubt that’s what they are experiencing. My clients range from MDs nurses, and social workers to psychologists (they know full well how this may sound) but they also know this is real.
What caused you to come to a point of view that these were ‘real’ experiences?
Video and photographic evidence (I will be showing images of craft at the Close Encounters conference). Marks on the body that appear after these experiences… these fluoresce under ultra-violet light. Implanted objects seen on X-ray and removed surgically and show magnetic anomalies. Ground EMF traces.
Missing time periods they cant explain. And major changes in the individual. For some it may create trauma such as PSTD; for others changes in lifestyle, focus on holistic lifestyles with heightened psi senses; they may write and draw unusual scripts and show healing abilities… this does not occur unless something very real has happened.
What are the commonalities in the stories that you have been told?
There are many patterns that evidence the experiences.
Sighting an anomalous bright light moving in a strange sequence in the sky, or a cigar- or saucer-shaped object etc.
waking up with a bright light/blue or white in the room at night and sensing beings/presences in the room
feel paralysed… aware of being taken somewhere…
aware of being in a room having medical procedures
waking up with marks, strange triangular dots, bruises and scars on the body
feeling very tired and exhausted the next day after the experience
wake up with nightclothes in strange places or outside with all the doors locked
find you are writing unusual scripts or drawings
become more psychic… may see people’s energy fields.
Is alien abduction and contact more common than we think… do some people just not tell because they’re worried someone will think they’re mad?
Correct. I believe there are probably thousands or even millions of people who are having contact/encounters but are too fearful of sharing their experiences because they will be judged as unwell, or attention seeking etc.
How can extraterrestrial contact transform your life?
In our latest in-depth surveys one and two (600 questions) with almost 3,000 surveyed and conducted by The Dr Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE) www.experiencer.org co chaired by Dr Bob Davis neuroscientist (another keynote speaker at Close Encounters Conference) and Dr Jon Klimo, former professor of psychology. Eighty-five per cent of those surveyed said their encounters had been positive, transformative and life changing. There are many reasons for this and I will explain why in my presentations at the conference. But simply these contacts expose people to information and experiences that change their understanding of themselves. They learn who they really are, why these beings are interacting with them, and how we are all connected.
In films I have seen, ET contact is generally negative and harmful, except of course for the gorgeous ET. Is this a common representation of life beyond the stars? Why is it presented like this? Can it be benevolent and positive?
Only 25–30 per cent of those surveyed said they had negative experiences; more than 75 per cent had loving and positive encounters. This is new information and I suspect it’s only the fear-based ones that catch public attention.
What do you believe ETs have to teach us?
I believe we are a hybrid species and intelligently designed with some DNA from the beings that are interacting with us. This DNA evidence of intelligent design I explore in my presentation. If they are our creators then of course they are still interacting and monitoring us. The children and adults speak of being taught a range of subjects on spacecraft and the origins of who we really are. Much of what we are taught as to our ancient history I believe is inaccurate; the ‘gods’ of old were extraterrestrials. The indigenous peoples know this as they also know our ancestors came from the stars.
What should we expect from your presentation at the Close Encounters Conference?
A panel that shares the FREE research data on what we have found on our surveys globally so far and how this information has changed how we understand contact with these intelligences.
I have been working on three Powerpoint presentations; one is for the Afterlife conference, which primarily shares stories from children and their encounters, which is in my second book The New Human that I am launching at the conference.
I have two presentations on Sunday and Monday; one is called Triggers of Consciousness and shows the many ways we are being awakened and activated by these non-human intelligences. Real footage of UFOs, whistleblower info, paranormal phenomena, orbs and strange artwork/scripts, languages etc that are expressed after contact with similar information coming from China…
Transformation:my final Powerpoint covers adults who have had such powerful ET contacts that have changed them forever. One is a molecular biologist; another a medical doctor. I show evidence in our DNA that we are intelligently designed and how this dormant DNA is being activated as we are evolving now.
Mary Rodwell is a guest speaker at the Close Encounters Conference at the Byron Theatre on Sunday and Monday. For program and ticket information go to closeencountersconference.com.au
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Alien Surfaces at Infamous Santa Monica's UFO Wreckage?
Alien Surfaces at Infamous Santa Monica's UFO Wreckage?
NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 01: Confetti falls throughout Times Square during the New Years Eve celebration on January 1, 2013 in New York City. An estimated one million revelers from around the world endured long hours of cold weather to have a front seat to this year's star studded celebration.
(Photo : Photo by Christopher Gregory/Getty Images)
It is always great and mysterious news when a UFO is seen or captured entering the realms of our world. They prove to be great experimental matter, and with every UFO that lands on earth, we gain more information on the extra-terrestrial world.
On New Year's day, a crashed UFO made its way to a Santa Monica alleyway where it lay broken near a couple of trash cans. Sources like SMObserved state that the alien occupant inside had left its broken down transport machine.
Not just that but a Christmas tree that was somewhere in the alley proved to be a great snack for the little fella'. Some say that the UFO must have been brought down by the incessant gun firing that took place over the skies of Texas.
And other reports state that it might be a 2-decade old NASA launch that faced malfunctioning and lost its way in space. Or maybe it was something awesome and new to start off 2017 right. And perhaps the latter could be true.
Tyron Osborne claimed to have witnessed a UFO lit aflame on the 28th of December, 2016 over the skies of Britain's Devon. Thankfully the 52 year old was aware this was a once in a lifetime discovery and he quickly grabbed his camera to record the moment. EastDevon24 has all the pictures.
That UFO which was seen over the port town, Exmouth in Devon was sighted by Tyron on Wednesday around 1 PM in the afternoon. Some say that the orbiting UFO may have been the same one that was seen over the UK. If not, then there is still one out there.
Although many people connect UFOs with aliens and ET life, that cannot yet be assured and certified. Because the evidence that is provided is so weak and of low quality, nothing can be assumed, calculated or even proven. Yet the hearts of many stay hopeful.
But that is not a hard and fast rule for many times out of this world evidence has come along with crashed UFOs. UrbanGhostsMedia has the truest and most shocking stories that have truly happened and there is no use denying it.
Do you think we are alone in the universe? If not, then have aliens visited earth? (Photo: Top5s/YouTube)
The good thing on reported 'UFO Landing Sites' is that these places became a hotspot for tourists because it is really a great place to travel to. UFO up to the present time still remains a mystery and total fantasy to everyone as there is no strong evidence to prove their existence most especially aliens.
Many places in the world have the advantage to their claim as 'UFO Landing Sight' as they relive the controversy in reality. Some places have even annual UFO-themed festivals and other adventures. Check out the list of place provided by CN Traveler:
Roswell, New Mexico- UFO landing site reported in the year 1947. The must-see ceremony in this place is the Roswell UFO Festival that is conducted during June 29- July 1. The festival features a 10k 'alien chase', light parade, UFO-themed art show, and a pet costume contest.
Elmwood, Wisconsin- UFO landing site in the late 70s. Extraterrestrial celebration in this place is conducted annually known as UFO days which features a parade, craft fair, and concerts. The region consists of less than 800 population and just outside the Twin Cities.
Area 51, Nevada- A military base wherein UFO sightings have been reported. Currently, the road leading to the base was declared as Extraterrestrial Highway. The place is actually remote but adventurers can and visit the town of Rachel, Nevada.
Kennedy Space Center, Canada- This is not a reported UFO landing site rather a place where questions regarding 'flying discs' are answered. NASA Headquarter provides footage of space lights wherein astronauts answers a person's curiosity about aliens. People who are fond of research for UFOs are recommended to go here.
Other sightings related to UFO landing which science- fiction lover wish to visit includes; Aurora (Texas), Mineral Lake (Washington), Kecksburg (Pennsylvania), and Gover's Mill (New Jersey). Many experts until the present time are subjecting their researchers to provide the existence of these UFO landing controversies.
A report from the Huffington Post talks about the bizarre giant symbols that are seen on Google maps near Roswell UFO Crash Site. The symbol is one prominent Buddhist symbol. Some believe that the symbol is a message from the aliens to humans regarding their entry in the territory. Meanwhile, some of Canada's beautiful places are endangered; dare to visit them before gone click here for full details.
Thinking about attending Stephen Hawking’s party for time travelers? Don’t bother. If you were going to go, the whole world would know by now. Unless he killed you when you arrived at the party he didn’t announce until the next day back in 2009. Six years later, on his 75th birthday, he still hasn’t announced that any guests showed up.
This stunt, which the famous physicist used to illustrate that time travel isn’t possible (though some people contest that notion) is just one example of Hawking’s extraordinary mind at work. For a man whose life has been defined by exploring and explaining unseen, unproven, and even untestable phenomena, the time traveler party incident, replete with his signature bombast, was par for the course.
Hawking was born in Oxford, England in 1942, but his family moved away when he was a child. He returned to his hometown for university — studying physics at the local institution known as University College, Oxford. From there, he went on to study cosmology at Cambridge, eventually holding the same professorship that Sir Isaac Newton once held.
In the decades since his college days, Hawking has turned his gaze towards space, ceaselessly adding to humanity’s body of knowledge. When he’s not publishing in academic journals — which he’s done over 100 times — he’s making bold proclamations about aliens or the fate of humanity.
It may take Stephen Hawking a few minutes to compose sentences with his voice synthesizer, but when he does, they're often sick burns or proclamations of alien annihilation.
In the year since his 74th birthday, he continues to weigh in on society’s woes, curtly replying, “I can’t,” when asked to explain Donald Trump’s rise to prominence. That being said, he continued, in characteristically Hawking fashion, to make some rather demeaning remarks about Trump appealing to the lowest common denominator.
But he hasn’t just talked about Earthly issues. With an ear to the skies, in 2016 Hawking’s research group shouldered the task of analyzing signals that scientists suspect may be alien civilizations attempting to communicate.
Dreaming of finding a future for humanity in space, the physicist purchased a ticket on Virgin’s future space flight. Have we mentioned that he thinks humanity is doomed on Earth? Well, apparently Hawking has put his money where his mouth is.
While he regularly talks about how humanity is doomed, he also speaks publicly about his own health from time to time. “I relish the rare opportunity I’ve been given to live the life of the mind,” said Hawking in the 2014 documentary Stem Cell Universe. “But I know I need my body and that it will not last forever.”
And though his body won’t last forever, it’s something of an anomaly that it’s lasted this long. Diagnosed with ALS when he was 21, Hawking has lived with the typically fatal disease for 54 years. In spite of the health complications that come with living in a wheelchair for over 40 years, he maintains a sense of humor. He’s even programmed the voice synthesizer through which he speaks to respond to encounters with fans, saying “No, but I’m often mistaken for that man.”
He was spotted celebrating his birthday as close to outer space as one can get on short notice: watching Rogue One in the cinema.
Lest we forget for one second that space is terrifying, there is now new data about what the black hole in the center of our galaxy does to any star that gets too close. Not content with rendering unfortunate celestial objects “spaghettified,” black holes also turn them into “spitballs”, essentially, ripping them to literal shreds. Those shreds — streamers of gas — can then coalesce into planet-sized balls and find themselves subsequently spewed across the galaxy. The research was presented last week at the American Astronomical Society’s annual winter meeting.
The initial shredding could take place in a single day (for comparison, actual gas planets like Jupiter need many millions of years to fully form), with the resulting spitball forming in less than a year. And they’re not a phenomenon unique to the Milky Way — black holes at the center of galaxies like Andromeda are spewing them out at a good clip as well.
“A single shredded star can form hundreds of these planet-mass objects. We wondered: Where do they end up? How close do they come to us? We developed a computer code to answer those questions,” said lead author Eden Girma at the meeting.
Artist's rendering of galactic spitballs.
To that end, some spitballs would be as light as Neptune and potentially as heavy as multiple Jupiters. They also glow — a symptom of the intense heat that went into their formation. They can still be hard to distinguish from rogue planets — only one in 1,000 of these similar-looking objects will end up being a spitball — but they could also be just a few hundred lightyears from Earth. Still, they won’t remain close for too long — about 95 percent are traveling at incredible enough speeds (20 million miles/hour) to soon clear the galaxy entirely.
Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, has an answer for why aliens probably don’t look like the way we usually illustrate them in pop culture (the skinny gray/green body beneath a bulging, vaguely triangular head and glassy bug eyes). Speaking to Neil deGrasse Tyson last week for a National Geographic Star Talk entitled, “The Science of Alien Sightings,” Shostak discussed common (supposed) misconceptions about how aliens are often portrayed in the media. Comedian Michael Ian Black was also present, if you were for any reason worried that Tyson wouldn’t bring sufficient personality.
Humor-wise, it’s still pretty watery stuff, but Shostak’s correction (if we can call it that) about our collective perception of aliens is worth noting. As he points out to Tyson, a third of the public believes in the “UFO phenomena”. Yet despite the massive number of people who have claimed alien sightings (and abductions), the description of their appearance usually falls along familiar lines.
Have u seen this alien
“Think what were gonna do in this century, which is invent thinking machines,” Shostak said. “The aliens have probably already done that, so the real aliens probably look like machines.”
At this juncture we do have questions, mostly revolving around the implied idea that machines all look alike and that alien machines would look like machines as we tend to picture them, but perhaps that is for another day. Shostak, who’s also the former Center for SETI Research director, has spoken before about how aliens are more likely to resemble something mechanical rather than something soft and tentacle-y.
You can watch the full clip below, though don’t say we didn’t warn you about the humor. It is bad.
If robots are destined to become our overlords, we might as well work to get a little perspective on that future — literally. NASA Ames Research Center’s Intelligent Robotics Group is creating robots with 3D user interfaces that let you (or at least, the lucky human operating them) see the world through their eyes. The Visual Environment for Remote Virtual Exploration (VERVE) has already been adapted to Nissan’s autonomous vehicle systems to give the operator the means to see Mars through their eyes. The Silicon Valley-based center released a new video detailing the technology and its applications.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have already been able to use the VERVE system to control the robots on the ground at Ames. Fluid communication between deep-space astronauts and the autonomous rovers they command will be a cornerstone of our missions to explore and eventually colonize Mars.
Much as the VERVE technology will allow autonomous rovers on the Red Planet to intelligently navigate its rocky surface, it’s facilitating Nissan vehicles’ ability to make the safest decisions about surrounding traffic in real time.
“This is not only a demonstration of the transfer of space technology to industry, but also the application of their research back to our space technology, with additional uses for our unmanned aircraft systems research. This is a perfect example of technology literally driving exploration and enabling future space missions,” said Ames Center Director Eugene Tu at the 2017 International CES.
The Intelligent Robotics Group specializes in developing technology to explore remote and extreme terrain — like Mars — and, in the case of VERVE, providing 3D views of that terrain.
We tend to associate NASA’s Mars-focused robotics efforts with the Curiosity rover, but there’s a fairly deep bench of fascinating missions — these diminutive bouncing robots for instance, or this recent effort to partner with private companies testing their robots on the moon as a means of proving their worthiness to progress to Mars.
Department of Homeland Security films UFO - Puerto Rico - 2013 - Official Government Footage
Department of Homeland Security films UFO - Puerto Rico - 2013 - Official Government Footage
Published on Jan 10, 2017
On 26th of April 2013 the Department of homeland security filmed a UFO that was flying over Puerto Rico.
The object in the video was captured by a thermal imaging camera on a DHS aircraft, and according to the researchers, it exhibits characteristics that cannot be explained by any known aircraft or natural phenomenon.
The video is overlaid with the sort of telemetry one would expect from a military or law enforcement thermal image video. It shows an object apparently moving very quickly over land and then into the ocean. It seems to be tumbling or changing shape. It moves over buildings, through trees, and eventually over the ocean. Then things get weird. The object appears to go in and out of the ocean without slowing down, and at the end of the video is either joined by another object or breaks in two.
“The object was between three to five feet in length and its speed varied between approximately 40 mph to 120 mph. Its median speed was roughly 80 mph.”
An interesting characteristic at the end of the flight was when it apparently submerged into the ocean, traveled for over half a mile, and then flew back out. “Its speed through the water reached a high of 95 mph and average 82.8 mph.”
A group of independant, skeptical researchers with backgrounds in various fields of science and technology released a 161 page document detailing their findings: http://media.wix.com/ugd/299316_9a12b...
In March 2016, scientists detected 10 powerful bursts of radio signals coming from outer space. Recently, six more mysterious signals dubbed fast radio bursts (FRB) have been detected coming from the same location far beyond the Milky Way galaxy.
These mysterious FRBs are very powerful and short-lived signals, as they last only for a few milliseconds. But, they generate as much energy as the sun releases in an entire day. Although these signals are extremely powerful, scientists still aren’t sure about their source.
Scientists named the region from where the signals are coming as FRB 121102. That spot is about 3 billion light-years away from Earth.
As per the research team, “Our discovery of repeating bursts from FRB 121102 shows that for at least one source, the origin of the bursts cannot be cataclysmic, and further, must be able to repeat on short [less than 1 minute] timescales. Whether FRB 121102 is a unique object in the currently known sample of FRBs, or all FRBs are capable of repeating, its characterization is extremely important to understanding fast extragalactic radio transients.”
The researchers are working to find the reason behind these FRBs. The international team of researchers suspects that the source could be an exotic object, like a young neutron star or a supernova remnant. However, it is also possible that these FRBs are from different sources as well, perhaps even aliens.
NASA just explained why Moon dust is 'levitating' above the lunar surface
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NASA just explained why Moon dust is 'levitating' above the lunar surface
It's floating with no air.
BEC CREW
NASA scientists have figured out why dust particles on the Moon are floating several centimetres above the surface, despite the fact that there’s no wind or flowing water to propel them up there.
The discovery could not only explain how these dust particles are transported across vast distances on the Moon - they could also describe processes that are occurring in many airless environments, including the rings of Saturn.
"This new ... model resolved a fundamental mechanism of dust charging and transport, which has been puzzling scientists for decades," said one of the team, Xu Wang, from NASA’s Ames Research Centre in California.
Scientists have known about these levitating particles for over five decades now, and they’ve been used to explain the Moon’s strange 'horizon glow' - a phenomenon first observed by the Apollo astronauts and NASA’s Surveyor probes in the 1960s.
When the Apollo mission orbited the far side of the Moon, they saw an incredibly bright arc of light shining on the horizon just after sunset.
In 1994, NASA's Clementine spacecraft captured this amazing image of the phenomenon:
The Moon's horizon glow. Credit: NASA
The same thing that was first witnessed by the Apollo astronauts surrounding the Moon in the 1960s was later recorded over the rings of Saturn, and in craters on the asteroid Eros.
"These are all the examples of dust transporting across vast regions without winds or flowing water," says NASA.
"Scientists believed electrostatic dust processes could explain these space observations, but until now, there were no studies to support these explanations."
To figure out if these particles are actually being held in suspension above the lunar surface by electrostatic forces, Wang and his team performed an experiment in the lab to see what micron-sized dust particles would do when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation or electrically-charged gases known as plasmas.
In both cases, the dust particles would leap several centimetres above the surface, and the team says that on the Moon, light would scatter through these levitating particles to create the horizon glow.
"On Earth’s moon, these dust particles would have been lofted more than 4 inches (10 centimetres) above the lunar surface," NASA reports.
"[T]he Moon’s horizon glow - seen in images taken by Surveyor 5, 6, and 7 five decades ago - may have been caused in part by sunlight scattering in a cloud of electrostatically lofted dust particles."
You can see the results below:
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The study found that the strange properties of Moon dust combined with UV radiation or plasma from the Sun can loft single particles - or sometimes even large clusters of dust - up above the surface.
This is due to the reaction causing an emission and re-absorption of electrons inside 'micro-cavities' formed between neighbouring particles, which can generate unexpectedly large electrical charges and intense repulsive forces.
These forces cause the dust particles or clusters to lift off the surface, or 'levitate'.
And it's not just causing the 'horizon glow' effect - it's maintaining a frustratingly hostile environment on the Moon, because of how 'sharp' those floating particles actually are.
As the Soil Science Society of America explained back in 2008, the powdery dirt found on the lunar surface was formed by micrometeorite impacts that pounded local Moon rocks into fine particles.
The energy from these impacts actually melted the lunar dirt into a vapour, and once that vapour cooled and condensed on the soil particles, it covered them in a glassy shell.
"The dust was so abrasive that it actually wore through three layers of Kevlar-like material on Jack’s boot," Larry Taylor, director of the Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee, said of Apollo 17 crewmember Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt's 1972 Moon walk.
The NASA team says that this phenomenon could theoretically occur in any airless environment, and could explain how dust particles can move across the rings of Saturn, or form 'dust ponds' on the Eros asteroid, without any winds to propel them.
"We expect dust particles to mobilise and transport electrostatically over the entire lunar surface, as well as the surface of any other airless planetary body," said Wang.
NASA Solves the Mystery of How Matter Moves on Exotic Worlds
NASA Solves the Mystery of How Matter Moves on Exotic Worlds
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The mystery of how dust on the moon travels through an airless environment. Researchers discovered UV radiation and the sun's plasma can cause the particles to spring above the surface creating the "horizon glow."
Researchers noticed the same phenomena was also occurring on the rings of Saturn and the craters of Eros, which could help us learn more about how matter behaves in other airless environments.
MYSTERY SOLVED
How dust particles on the Moon’s surface levitate and transport themselves across vast distances have baffled scientists for more than 50 years now — and has been used to explain the Moon’s ‘horizon glow.’ But, it seems that a team of scientists from NASA solved the mystery.
“This new ‘patched charge model’ resolved a fundamental mechanism of dust charging and transport, which has been puzzling scientists for decades,” explained researcher Xu Wang, from NASA’s Ames Research Centre in California. The journal Geophysical Research Letterspublished the study.
The team wanted to figure out if these dust particles are suspended by an electrostatic force. Wang, together with Mihaly Horanyi at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and their team of researchers conducted lab experiments to see how micron-sized dust particles would behave when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation or electrically-charged gasses (or plasmas).
The team discovered, in both cases, the dust would actually leap by a few centimeters above the surface. On the Moon, the strange properties of its dust combined with UV radiation or plasma from the Sun can loft single particles and, sometimes, even large dust clusters up above the surface.
The NASA team’s lab tests. Credits: NASA
DUSTING YOUR BOULDERS OFF
On the Moon, these dust particles would scatter light reflected from the Sun, creating that famous ‘horizon glow’ that was first captured in the 1960s by the Apollo astronauts and NASA’s Surveyor probes.
“[T]hese dust particles would have been lofted more than ten centimeters (four inches) above the lunar surface, leading researchers to conclude that the moon’s “horizon glow” — seen in images taken by Surveyor 5, 6, and 7 five decades ago — may have been caused in part by sunlight scattering in a cloud of electrostatically lofted dust particles,” according to NASA.
The same phenomenon was observed later over Saturn’s rings and in the craters of the asteroid Eros — where dust is also transported across vast regions devoid of winds or flowing water. “We expect dust particles to mobilize and transport electrostatically over the entire lunar surface, as well as the surface of any other airless planetary body,” said Wang.
Unfortunately, the dust particles on the Moon actually create a rather harsh environment on its surface. The particles can be sharp and therefore dangerous to anything on the surface. These dusts are partly formed by meteorite impacts that pounded the Moon’s surface rocks into fine particles, which are actually sharp due to being covered by a glassy shell. The glassy shell comes from lunar dirt that’s melted into vapor, thanks to the energy from the meteorite impacts, which cooled and condensed on the dust particles.
“The dust was so abrasive that it actually wore through three layers of Kevlar-like material on [Harrison Schmitt’s] boot,” explained Larry Taylor, director at the Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee, speaking of the Apollo 17 crewmember’s 1972 moon walk.
A man was convinced he'd spotted a cloud hiding an alien spaceship after he noticed the surface appeared to be 'reflective'.
Anthony Sakowski was baffled by his discovery, which he spotted in the sky while driving in Arizona.
He films the strange saucer-shaped cloud for over two minutes while driving along a country road.
Alongside the footage, Anthony wrote: "Strange cloud hiding UFO . Reflected above."
The man claimed the spaceship was hiding behind the cloud(Photo: YouTube/Anthony Sakowski)
He added: "UFO reflected on haze above."
Anthony published the video on YouTube on January 6 although the exact date and time of the sighting is unknown.
The clip has now been viewed more than 5,400 times.
The cloud appeared to be reflective(Photo: YouTube/Anthony Sakowski)
Most viewers were convinced that Anthony had simply spotted a lenticular cloud , which are stationary lens-shaped clouds and have often been mistaken for UFO sightings.
But UFO hunter Scott Waring, of UFO Sightings Daily disagreed, saying: "The UFO was noticed when the sun lit it up and caused a disk reflection above it on the clouds.
"Only a metal reflective surface could do this, and, as you see, the dark area of the cloud is the actual UFO."
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Chilean Navy still puzzled over UFO footage
Chilean Navy still puzzled over UFO footage
Its been almost three years since one pilot from the Chilean Navy caught footage of an unidentified flying object (UFO) in the country’s airspace, but the government body still could not put their finger around the situation.
The seemingly dubious craft—which was first sighted in November 2014 but was only shared to the public recently— was shot using an infrared camera during a routine coast patrol in broad daylight, according to The Huffington Post
The supposed UFO was hovering high in the clouds before emitting what seemed to be a type of gas as it cruised along.
After unsuccessfully trying to communicate with it multiple times, the pilot tracked the craft from around 40 miles and reported it to nearby radar stations.
Even more surprising was that neither of them were able to detect the ‘UFO’ on their screens, despite being completely visible to the nearby navy choppers.
More so, no other aircraft were authorized to fly in the area where the aircraft was sighted, the report said.
The UFO sighting incident has been the subject of a thorough investigation by the Chilean government agency, the CEFAA (Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos), for the past two years.
However, its officials remain clueless about the matter, even after questioning the pilots, air traffic controllers, and radar operators who witnessed the levitating object.
“We do not know what it was, but we do not know what it was not,” director of CEFAA, General Ricardo Bermúdez, described the complexity of the incident in the report.
The executive added that even their organization’s cream-of-the-crop could not identify nor give out possible suggestions regarding the obscure vehicle.
“I was very impressed by these witnesses. They were highly trained professionals with many years’ experience, and they were absolutely certain that they could not explain what they saw,” he said.
As of this writing, the CEFAA is still seeking help from expert groups to resolve the mystery. Khristian Ibarrola
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1952 Washington D.C. UFO Incident
1952 Washington D.C. UFO Incident
The 1952 Washington D.C. UFO incident, also known as the Washington flap or the Washington National Airport Sightings, was a series of unidentified flying object reports from July 12 to July 29, 1952, over Washington D.C. The most publicized sightings took place on consecutive weekends, July 19-20 and July 26-27.
Events of July 19-20
At 11:40 p.m. on Saturday, July 19, 1952, Edward Nugent, an air-traffic controller at Washington National Airport, spotted seven objects on his radar. The objects were located 15 miles south-southwest of the city; no known aircraft were in the area and the objects were not following any established flight paths. Nugent's superior, Harry Barnes, a senior air-traffic controller at the airport, watched the objects on Nugent's radarscope. He later wrote:
"We knew immediately that a very strange situation existed ... their movements were completely radical compared to those of ordinary aircraft". Barnes had two controllers check Nugent's radar; they found that it was working normally. Barnes then called National Airport's other radar center; the controller there, Howard Cocklin, told Barnes that he also had the objects on his radarscope. Furthermore, Cocklin said that by looking out of the control tower window he could see one of the objects: "a bright orange light. I can't tell what's behind it".
At this point, other objects appeared in all sectors of the radarscope; when they moved over the White House and the United States Capitol, Barnes called Andrews Air Force Base, located 10 miles from National Airport. Although Andrews reported that they had no unusual objects on their radar, an airman soon called the base's control tower to report the sighting of a strange object.
Airman William Brady, who was in the tower, then saw an "object which appeared to be like an orange ball of fire, trailing a tail ... it was unlike anything I had ever seen before." As Brady tried to alert the other personnel in the tower, the strange object "took off at an unbelievable speed." Meanwhile, another person in the National Airport control tower reported seeing "an orange disk about 3,000 feet altitude".
On one of the airport's runways, S.C. Pierman, a Capital Airlines pilot, was waiting in the cockpit of his DC-4 for permission to take off. After spotting what he believed to be a meteor, he was told that the control tower's radar had picked up unknown objects closing in on his position. Pierman observed six objects - "white, tailless, fast-moving lights" - over a 14-minute period. Pierman was in radio contact with Barnes during his sighting, and Barnes later related that "each sighting coincided with a pip we could see near his plane. When he reported that the light streaked off at a high speed, it disappeared on our scope."
At Andrews AFB, meanwhile, the control tower personnel were tracking on radar what some thought to be unknown objects, but others suspected, and in one instance were able to prove, were simply stars and meteors. However, Staff Sgt. Charles Davenport observed an orange-red light to the south; the light "would appear to stand still, then make an abrupt change in direction and altitude ... this happened several times".
At one point both radar centers at National Airport and the radar at Andrews AFB were tracking an object hovering over a radio beacon. The object vanished in all three radar centers at the same time. At 3 a.m., shortly before two jet fighters from Newcastle AFB in Delaware arrived over Washington, all of the objects vanished from the radar at National Airport. However, when the jets ran low on fuel and left, the objects returned, which convinced Barnes that "the UFOs were monitoring radio traffic and behaving accordingly". The objects were last detected by radar at 5:30 a.m. Around sunrise, E.W. Chambers, a civilian radio engineer in Washington's suburbs, observed "five huge disks circling in a loose formation. They tilted upward and left on a steep ascent."
Publicity and Air Force Reaction
The sightings of July 19-20, 1952, made front-page headlines in newspapers around the nation. A typical example was the headline from the Cedar Rapids Gazette in Iowa. It read "SAUCERS SWARM OVER CAPITAL" in large black type.
By coincidence, USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the supervisor of the Air Force's Project Blue Book investigation into the UFO mystery, was in Washington at the time. However, he did not learn about the sightings until Tuesday, July 22, when he read the headlines in a Washington-area newspaper.
After talking with intelligence officers at the Pentagon about the sightings, Ruppelt spent several hours trying to obtain a staff car to investigate the sightings, but was refused as only generals and senior colonels could use staff cars. He was told that he could rent a taxicab with his own money; by this point Ruppelt was so frustrated that he left Washington and flew back to Blue Book's headquarters at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Before leaving Washington, Ruppelt did speak with an Air Force radar specialist, Captain Roy James, who felt that unusual weather conditions could have caused the unknown radar targets.
Events of July 26-27
At 8:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 26, 1952, a pilot and stewardess on a National Airlines flight into Washington observed some strange objects above their plane. Within minutes, both radar centers at National Airport, and the radar at Andrews AFB, were tracking more unknown objects. A master sergeant at Andrews visually observed the objects; he later said that "these lights did not have the characteristics of shooting stars. There were no trails ... they traveled faster than any shooting star I have ever seen".
Meanwhile, Albert M. Chop, the press spokesman for Project Blue Book, arrived at National Airport and refused several reporters' requests to photograph the radar screens. He then joined the radar center personnel. By this time (9:30 p.m.) the radar center was picking up unknown objects in every sector. At times the objects traveled slowly; at other times they reversed direction and moved across the radarscope at speeds calculated at 7,000 mph.
At 11:30 p.m., two jet fighters from Newcastle AFB in Delaware arrived over Washington. Capt. John McHugo, the flight leader, was vectored towards the radar pips but saw nothing, despite repeated attempts. However, his wingman, Lt. William Patterson, did see four white "glows" and chased them. Suddenly, the "glows" turned and surrounded his fighter. Patterson asked the control tower at National Airport what he should do; according to Chop, the tower's answer was "stunned silence". The four objects then sped away from Patterson's jet and disappeared.
After midnight on July 27, Major Dewey Fournet, Project Blue Book's liaison at the Pentagon, and a Lt. Holcomb, an Air Force radar specialist, arrived at the radar center at National Airport. During the night, Lt. Holcomb received a call from the Washington National Weather Station. They told him that a slight temperature inversion was present over the city, but Holcomb felt that the inversion was not "nearly strong enough to explain the 'good and solid' returns" on the radarscopes.
Fournet relayed that all those present in the radar room were convinced that the targets were most likely caused by solid metallic objects. There had been weather targets on the scope too, he said, but this was a common occurrence and the controllers "were paying no attention to them." Two more jets from Newcastle AFB were scrambled during the night. One pilot saw nothing unusual; the other pilot moved towards a white light which "vanished" when he closed in. A Capital Airlines flight leaving Washington spotted "odd lights" which remained visible for about twelve minutes. As on July 20, the sightings and unknown radar returns ended at sunrise.
White House Concern and the "Shoot-down" Order
The sightings of July 26-27 also made front-page headlines, and even led President Harry Truman to personally call Capt. Ruppelt and ask for an explanation of the sightings. Ruppelt, remembering the conversation he had with Capt. James, told the President that the sightings might have been caused by temperature inversion, in which a layer of warm, moist air covers a layer of cool, dry air closer to the ground. This condition can cause radar signals to bend and give false returns. However, Ruppelt had not yet interviewed any of the witnesses or conducted a formal investigation.
CIA historian Gerald Haines, in his 1997 history of the CIA's involvement with UFOs, also mentions Truman's concern. "A massive buildup of sightings over the United States in 1952, especially in July, alarmed the Truman administration. On 19 and 20 July, radar scopes at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base tracked mysterious blips. On 27 July, the blips reappeared."
White House concern may possibly have resulted in an order to shoot down the UFOs, reported in various International News Service (INS) stories on July 29, 1952. E.g., one such story reported that "jet pilots have been placed on a 24-hour nationwide 'alert against the flying saucers' with orders to shoot them down if they ignore orders to land."
An Air Force public information officer, Lt. Col. Moncel Monte, confirmed the directive stating, "The jet pilots are, and have been, under orders to investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can't talk them down." It was further stated that no pilot had been able to get close enough to take a shot at a flying saucer, as the objects would disappear or speed away as soon as an interceptor approached, sometimes outflying their pilots by "as much as a thousand miles an hour."
However, in seeming contradiction to the admitted "shoot-down" order, Air Force headquarters also put out statements that the unidentified flying objects were no threat to the United States and not controlled by "a reasoning body."
Some public protests resulted, including telegrams and letters to the White House stating that the policy was dangerous if the UFOs were controlled by extraterrestrial beings, who would obviously be much more technologically advanced than humans.
The July 29 Air Force Press Conference and Air Force's Explanation
In response to the INS "shoot-down" stories, to calm rising public anxiety and answer the news media's questions about the sightings - and, hopefully, to slow down the numbers of UFO reports being sent to Blue Book, which were clogging normal intelligence channels - Air Force Major Generals John Samford, USAF Director of Intelligence, and Roger Ramey, USAF Director of Operations, held a well-attended press conference at the Pentagon on July 29, 1952. It was the largest Pentagon press conference since World War II. Press stories called Samford and Ramey the Air Force's two top UFO experts.
Samford was heavily influenced by Capt. Roy James, who had discussed the sightings with him earlier in the day and who also spoke at the conference. Samford declared that the visual sightings over Washington could be explained as misidentified aerial phenomena (such as stars or meteors). Samford also stated that the unknown radar targets could be explained by temperature inversion, which was present in the air over Washington on both nights the radar returns were reported.
In addition, Samford argued that the radar contacts were not caused by solid material targets, and therefore posed no threat to national security. In response to a question as to whether the Air Force had recorded similar UFO radar contacts prior to the Washington incident, Samford admitted that there had been "hundreds" of such contacts where Air Force fighter interceptions had taken place, but stated they were all "fruitless." The conference proved to be successful "in getting the press off our backs", Ruppelt later wrote.
Among the witnesses who supported Samford's explanation was the crew of a B-25 bomber, which had been flying over Washington during the sightings of July 26-27. The bomber was vectored several times by National Airport over unknown targets on the airport's radarscopes, yet the crew could see nothing unusual. Finally, as a crew member related, "the radar had a target which turned out to be the Wilson Lines steamboat trip to Mount Vernon...the radar was sure as hell picking up the steamboat".
Air Force Captain Harold May was in the radar center at Andrews AFB during the sightings of July 19-20. Upon hearing that National Airport's radar had picked up an unknown object heading in his direction, May stepped outside and saw "a light that was changing from red to orange to green to red again ... at times it dipped suddenly and appeared to lose altitude." However, May eventually concluded that he was simply seeing a star that was distorted by the atmosphere, and that its "movement" was an illusion.
At 3 a.m. on July 27, an Eastern Airlines flight over Washington was told that an unknown object was in its vicinity; the crew could see nothing unusual. When they were told that the object had moved directly behind their plane, they began a sharp turn to try to see the object, but were told by National Airport's radar center that the object had "disappeared" when they began their turn.
At the request of the Air Force, the CAA's Technical Development and Evaluation Center did an analysis of the radar sightings. Their conclusion was that "a temperature inversion had been indicated in almost every instance when the unidentified radar targets or visual objects had been reported".
Project Blue Book would eventually label the Washington radar objects as "mirage effects caused by double inversion" and the visual sightings as "meteors coupled with the normal excitement of witnesses". In later years two prominent UFO skeptics, Dr. Donald Menzel, an astronomer at Harvard University, and Philip Klass, a senior editor for Aviation Week magazine, would also argue in favor of the temperature inversion/mirage hypothesis.
Criticisms of the Air Force Explanation
Almost from the moment of General Samford's press conference, eyewitnesses, UFO researchers, and Air Force personnel came forward to criticize the temperature inversion/mirage explanation. Captain Ruppelt noted that Major Fournet and Lt. Holcomb, who disagreed with the Air Force's explanation, were not in attendance at Samford's press conference. Ruppelt himself discovered that "hardly a night passed in June, July, and August in 1952 that there wasn't a temperature inversion in Washington, yet the slow-moving, solid radar targets appeared on only a few nights".
According to a story printed by INS, the United States Weather Bureau also disagreed with the temperature inversion hypothesis, one official stating that "such an inversion ordinarily would appear on a radar screen as a steady line, rather than as single objects as were sighted on the airport radarscope."
Also, according to Ruppelt, when he was able to interview the radar and control tower personnel at Washington National Airport, not a single person agreed with the Air Force explanation. Michael Wertheimer, a researcher for the government-funded Condon Report, investigated the case in 1966. He found that the radar witnesses still disputed the Air Force explanation, but that did not stop the report from agreeing with the temperature inversion/mirage explanation.
Ruppelt related that on July 27 the control tower at Washington National had called the control tower at Andrews AFB and notified them that their radar had an unknown object just south of the Andrews control tower, directly over the Andrews AFB radio range station. According to Ruppelt, when the Andrews control tower personnel looked they all saw "a huge fiery-orange sphere" hovering over the range station.
When Ruppelt interviewed the tower personnel several days later, they insisted that they had been mistaken and had merely seen a bright star. However, when Ruppelt checked an astronomical chart he found that there were no bright stars over the station that night, and that he had "heard from a good source that the tower men had been 'persuaded' a bit" by superior officers to state that their sighting was merely a star.
There were also witnesses who claimed to see structured craft and not merely "glows" or bright lights. On July 19 an Army artillery officer, Joseph Gigandet, was sitting on the front porch of his home in Alexandria, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington.
At 9:30 p.m. he claimed to see "a red cigar-shaped object" which sailed slowly over his house. Gigandet estimated the object's size as comparable to a DC-7 airplane and at about 10,000 feet altitude; he also claimed that the object had a "series of lights very closely set together" on its sides. The object eventually flew back over his house a second time, which led Gigandet to assume that it was circling the area.
When the object flew away a second time, it turned a deeper red color and moved over the city of Washington itself; this occurred less than two hours before Edward Nugent first spotted the unknown objects on his radar at Washington National. Gigandet claimed that his neighbor, an FBI agent, also saw the object.
Dr. James E. McDonald, a physicist at the University of Arizona and a prominent ufologist in the 1960s, did his own analysis of the Washington sightings. After interviewing four pilot eyewitnesses and five radar personnel, McDonald argued that the Air Force explanation was "physically impossible". Harry Barnes told McDonald that the radar targets "were not shapeless blobs such as one gets from ground returns under anomalous propagation", and that he was certain the unknown radar blips were solid targets; Howard Cocklin agreed with Barnes.
Aftermath: The Robertson Panel
The extremely high numbers of UFO reports in 1952 disturbed both the Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Both groups felt that an enemy nation could deliberately flood the U.S. with false UFO reports, causing mass panic and allowing them to launch a sneak attack.
On September 24, 1952, the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) issued a memorandum to Walter B. Smith, the CIA's director. The memo stated that "the flying saucer situation ... have national security implications ... in the public concern with the phenomena ... lies the potential for the touching-off of mass hysteria and panic". The result of this memorandum was the creation in January 1953 of the Robertson Panel.
Physicist Howard Percy Robertson chaired the panel, which consisted of prominent scientists and which spent four days examining the "best" UFO cases collected by Project Blue Book. The panel dismissed nearly all of the UFO cases it examined as not representing anything unusual or threatening to national security.
In the panel's controversial estimate, the Air Force and Project Blue Book needed to spend less time analyzing and studying UFO reports and more time publicly debunking them. The panel recommended that the Air Force and Project Blue Book should take steps to "strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired".
Following the Panel's report, Project Blue Book would rarely publicize any UFO case that it had not labeled as "solved"; unsolved cases were rarely mentioned by the Air Force.
References:
Clark, Jerome, The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial. Visible Ink, 1998. ISBN 1-57859-029-9
Michaels, Susan, Sightings: UFOs. Simon and Schuster, 1997. ISBN 0-684-83630-0
Peebles, Curtis, Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth. Berkley Books, 1994. ISBN 0-425-15117-4
Randle, Kevin D., Invasion Washington: UFOs Over the Capitol. HarperTorch, 2001. ISBN 0-380-81470-6
Ruppelt, Edward J. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
The structure was discovered pyramids from space satellites. Images that do, can clearly see its form and shape. It is about 1.7 times larger than the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Orthodox scientists and skeptics, of course, argue that, in this structure, it is only natural, geological formation created, but satellite images and photographs of people who were in it, speak a different language.
From the perspective of classical science, which in harmony with religion does not admit the possibility that long before our civilization was built by someone on our planet unique technical monuments, it is understandable that something like a gigantic pyramid under the ice of Antarctica can not and must not exist.
Its undeniable existence but implies the issue, rather the fact that either was for some reason built an alien civilization, or – the other possibility – that in Antarctica, which was at times her of building not covered by ice, it has built a developed terrestrial civilization, which for some reason ( natural disasters, or self-destruction ….) ceased to exist.
However, the fact that Antarctica was ice-historic times, the meantime science already knows and accepts.
In Antarctica there under the ice even two other, smaller pyramid. It announced a group of eight scientists who do research there. Since this is a serious scientists who are very careful and do not want to premature closures, so their statements are restrained. In addition, also because while they want to remain anonymous – they are two Americans and six Europeans.
These scientists say that it is necessary to send a new big adventure, which will be equipped with all necessary devices and will be able to conclusively determine whether the artificially built pyramids.
The highest of the pyramid is located directly on the coast. Mentioned two smaller pyramids are close to each other and the distance from the coast 16 km.
Modern science is based on the fact that Antarctica looked like in ancient times completely different way than today. The analyzes showed that the Antarctic in those days were warm summers, with temperatures above twenty degrees. Rainwater was even covered with forests, similar to those now in New Zealand. It is inhabited by a large number of organisms. If at that time on the continent they were living human beings – which now admit more courageous scientists – so there would have been very appropriate and favorable conditions for life.
Cheops pyramid in Egypt has a length of one side of its base of 230 meters. The same party giant pyramid in Antarctica but has up to 400 meters.
I conclude that it allowed to-view that in recent years occurred in the Antarctic to the large amount of warming, glaciers and snow cover was melted, and thus from the eternal snow and ice liberated apex of the pyramid, while a substantial part of it is still hidden. From the pyramid stands
De maan, die je overmorgen weer in al haar glorie kan aanschouwen, zou wel eens samengesteld kunnen zijn uit een heleboel kleine maantjes die ooit allemaal rond de Aarde cirkelden. De maan zoals we die kennen zou het resultaat zijn van een reeks kosmische botsingen. Die zorgden voor veel maantjes die samensmolten tot de maan die we elke avond zien.
De gangbare theorie is dat de Maan is ontstaan doordat de Aarde botste met Theia, een planeet van ongeveer de grootte van Mars. Theia zou hierbij volledig vernietigd zijn en versmolten met de aardmaterie, waarvan een dikke brok vloeibare lava zou weggeslingerd zijn. Die enorme brok vloeibare materie trok samen als een gigantische druppel die geleidelijk stolde tot de vorm van de Maan.
Israëlische wetenschappers zijn echter van oordeel dat een aantal kleine botsingen samenklonterden en een reeks minimaantjes vormden. Over een periode van miljoenen jaren zouden die minimaantjes op hun beurt samengeklonterd zijn tot de maan die we kennen.
De wetenschappers voerden ongeveer duizend computersimulaties uit en schatten dat zowat twintig botsingen zouden hebben volstaan. Volgens hen zou dit ook verklaren waarom de maan samengesteld lijkt uit materiaal afkomstig van de Aarde en niet van een andere planeet.
"Ons model gaat ervan uit dat de oude Aarde ooit een reeks manen had, telkens gevormd door een andere botsing met de proto-Aarde", zegt co-auteur Hagai Perets van het Israëlisch technologie-instituut in Haifa.
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