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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12-01-2017
When the UFO is a Military Explosive
When the UFO is a Military Explosive
A growing concern for offshore races is the danger of UFOs – unidentified floating objects. While on occasion it is a collision with a marine mammal, it is too frequently a result of items not meant for the sea – timber, trash, or worse, shipping containers.
Germany’s Central Command for Maritime Emergencies said the mine was found January 10 by a security vessel at the edge of the Gode Wind 2 offshore wind farm in Germany.
The mine will be towed to shore where it is expected to be detonated on a sandbank of the River Jade. The plan to detonate the mine at sea was cancelled due to weather conditions, the Command for Maritime Emergencies said.
Even now, over 70 years later, more than 2,000 tons of unexploded munitions are uncovered on German soil every year. Before any construction project begins in Germany, from the extension of a home to track-laying by the national railroad authority, the ground must be certified as cleared of unexploded ordnance.
Do we need to be sweeping the race courses now too?
The Spiral-tailed Monkey is just one of the many immense and mysterious ‘geoglyphs’ in Peru’s desert. The Nazca Lines strongly suggest the existence of ancient aliens on earth. (Photo: Naked Science/Youtube)
In 2012, a survey by the National Geographic found that 77% of the Americans believe that intelligent beings outside our planet not only exist, but also already come into contact with human beings. Disclaimer: this article may be sympathetic to the belief of alien visitation, but it does not boldly claim that sapient extraterrestrial beings actually exist, let alone live among humanity. All of the top 5 alien sites on earth just seem too strange to comprehend.
1. Nazca Desert, Peru
In the vast desert of Peru, several centuries old geoglyphs marked the terrain depicting recognizable images. Among them include a spider, a monkey, a dwarfish human, and a hummingbird - all of which drawn on land at an immense scale only visible from bird's eye view. Arguably, the most misunderstood of the images is the 'anachronistic' airplane landing pad stretching a distance of several miles.
2. Easter Island, Chile
The flat and elongated faces of the Moai statues located in Chile's Easter Island continue to baffle visitors. Each one of these colossal stone heads erected firmly on the ground proved an unsolved (definitively) engineering puzzle - leaving the average people to speculate on 'ancient alien' knowledge being responsible.
3. Giza, Egypt
It is not so much as the engineering marvel which made the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx a subject of 'ancient alien' speculation, but rather the curious placement of the structures. The coordinates of these monuments not only map the Orion constellation, mathematicians even decode a sophisticated calendar counting 50,000 years per segment.
4. Tiwanaku, Bolivia
The ruins of Puma Punku continue to baffle even the advanced engineers of contemporary times. With each stone weighing about 800 tons, it is plausible to question how most of these stone blocks resemble a level of stone carving theoretically achievable with powered precision tools - while these ruins were built centuries ago.
5. Nevada, USA
If there is any other place on earth that seems to suggest alien existence on earth, it is the infamous Area 51 in Nevada. This classified US Air Force facility is believed to be an asylum for extraterrestrials in our present time. Although the nearest town attracts visitors, the armed soldiers stationed at the base are authorized to use deadly force against intruders.
“If YOU Don’t Change, We Will REMOVE you” NASA warns about the ET’s Agenda
“If YOU Don’t Change, We Will REMOVE you” NASA warns about the ET’s Agenda
Lets be honest with ourselves, there is an exceptionally good chance that the Aliens are not here to help us, but instead here to REMOVE us and protect other species of the world!
A scene from the Film ‘The day the earth stood still” – could this become a true story!?
This is NOT a fear mongering article, but instead a very real article about the true possibilities of WHY the ET Beings are here. The Human Race as whole are very destructive creatures and sadly the earth and all of the other living things on this planet are feeling the price for our ‘greed and aggression’
In a very recent study conducted by top researchers at the ‘ University of Pennsylvania and the NASA and published in the academic journal Acta Astronautics ( Would Contact with Extra-terrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis ), leading scientists have claimed that intelligent Beings from other planetary systems could very well reach Earth, in order to destroy humanity “in order to make the galaxy a better place to live” and protect other civilizations from the destructive fury of man.
“A pre-emptive strike would be particularly likely in the early phases of our expansion because a civilisation may become increasingly difficult to destroy as it continues to expand. Humanity may just now be entering the period in which its rapid civilizational expansion could be detected by an ETI because our expansion is changing the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere, via greenhouse gas emissions,” the report states.
“Green” aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. “These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets,” the authors write.
Is there Aliens out there who are about to teach us some lessons in manners?
Lets be honest with all of ourselves, if we take into account the VAST amount of changes mankind is causing the planet; environmental damage, wars and violence, making certain types of Animals extinct, we then start to realize that humanity is as a civilization completely out of control and destroying this blue marble planet!
It is clear that we are being watched by the ET’s in the sky who undoubtedly will consider man as a very real danger to the galaxy/Universe and could very well consider the possibility to deliver a pre-emptive strike on Planet Earth, perhaps firstly as a warning shot, or maybe even a key direct strike to end humanity full stop….for the Greater Good! But please guys remember, this is only a hypothesis!
It has also been stated by the researchers that the aliens may even consider the possibility of enslaving the Human Race in order to control it and ‘hopefully’ teach us all how to have care and empathy again, or worse comes to worse use as food! (the Food part sounds a little ‘scare-mongering – courtesy of NASA!)
Other Possible Situations!
Another possible reason for attack on Humanity could be the rising greenhouse emissions, which could very well tip off the Alien Beings that we are a rapidly expanding threat growing outwards, warns the report by the researchers!
Have the Aliens had enough of our actions!?
Ok to be fair this may not exactly rank as one of the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but there is a possibility that reducing our internal emissions might just save the Human Race from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists have claimed.
Watching us all from afar, ET beings might very well view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as clear cut sign of a civilisation growing quickly and aggressively out of control – which could lead them to take drastic direct action to stop us from becoming a far more serious threat and expanding outwards in our Solar system, the researchers have suggested.
This is one of a few extremely speculative scenarios as described by NASA-affiliated scientists and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future, which doesn’t look very attractive to us! But lets be fair, we KNOW what damage we are doing to this planet and if we don’t stop what we are doing NOW we could be leading to our own peril anyway, sadly taking everything else on Planet Earth with us!
Nasa’s Planetary Science Division, Shawn Domagal-Goldman of NASA and his colleagues have actually compiled a list of very plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter, in order to help humanity “prepare for actual contact” and how things could end up for us.
In this intriguing report (which was drafted together way back in 2011 discreetly) Would Contact with Extra-terrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis is actually , divided into 3 broad categories of alien contacts, which are; beneficial, neutral or harmful.
Shawn Domagal-Goldman and his colleagues at NASA have a warning for us
The ‘Beneficial’ encounters ranged from the mere detection of Extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI), for example through the interception of alien broadcasts, to contact with cooperative organisms that help us advance our knowledge and solve global problems such as hunger, poverty and disease….basically the majority of the reasons what we all hope the Aliens are here for…..TO HELP US!
Another very thought provoking beneficial outcome the authors of the report entertain puts together a situation were humanity actually triumphs over a far more powerful Extra-terrestrial aggressor, or possibly even being saved by a second group of ETs:
“In these scenarios, humanity benefits not only from the major moral victory of having defeated a daunting rival, but also from the opportunity to reverse-engineer ETI technology,” the authors write.
Other kinds of close encounters have been suggested by the report which may be less rewarding and leave much of human society feeling indifferent towards alien life. The extra-terrestrials may be too different from us to communicate with usefully. They might invite humanity to join some kind of “Galactic Club” only for the entry requirements to be too bureaucratic and tedious for humans to bother with. They could even become a nuisance, like the stranded, prawn-like creatures that are kept in a refugee camp in the 2009 South African movie, District 9, the report explains.
One of the most unappealing outcomes would arise if extra-terrestrials caused harm to humanity, even if by accident. While aliens may arrive to eat, enslave or attack us, the report adds into the mix that people might also suffer from being physically crushed or by contracting diseases carried by the visitors. In especially unfortunate incidents, humanity could be wiped out when a more advanced civilisation accidentally unleashes an unfriendly artificial intelligence, or performs a catastrophic physics experiment that renders a portion of the galaxy uninhabitable….Or like the famous book ‘War of the Worlds’ we could even accidentally kill off some of the ET Beings with some of our own bugs, which would not make us very popular!
Aliens or Humans may be a lethal mix together due to what viruses or bacteria we have in each other
The report also added that to bolster humanity’s chances of survival in the future, the researchers call for caution in sending signals into space, and in particular warn against broadcasting information about our biological make-up, which could be used to manufacture weapons that target humans. Instead, any contact with ETs should be limited to mathematical discourse “until we have a better idea of the type of ETI we are dealing with.”
But the positives are?
It all appears a bit doom and gloomy doesn’t it, but as much as the majority of time I disagree with NASA on how they appear to ‘hide’ things, I feel this report is kind of fair as we are destroying this planet and like I have said many times before, perhaps we are the next species that needs to be made extinct!?
But on a more positive note the report does not abandon us only to prospects bleak and an apocalyptic end. Scientists also suggest other situations which are more optimistic for us all. An alternative angle on this matter raises the potential of a victory of human civilization against any Alien invaders. This would potentially allow humanity to get hold of extra-terrestrial technologies to use to their own use and learn how to travel the stars and treat incurable diseases. Another variant which the vast majority of us want and hope for is the possibility that extra-terrestrials want to spontaneously share their knowledge with humanity and help us solve age-old problems like hunger, poverty and disease….and even learn of ways to slow down the aging process of our delicate bodies!
But when?
According to the top geeks, anything could happen in the next 20 years:
“Humanity is entering a period in which its rapid expansion could be detected by an extraterrestrial intelligence. The change in the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere due to greenhouse gas emissions could be the signature of our presence in the galaxy.”
The Report confirms.
Even though envision Aliens to look like something out of the movies, according to Andrei Finkelstein , director of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences , the aliens could very well be similar looking to us humans. The extra-terrestrials will probably have a head, two arms and two legs, while the color of their skin may be different…..But like us guys at U.I.P always state:
“In an infinite Universe, comes infinite possibilities!”
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This all sounds very much like a movie and one in particular comes to mind which I am sure that most of you care thinking of the same one ” The Day The Earth Stood Still” A famous book which was adapted into two very popular films and a radio show – in fact the radio show which Broadcasted this story originally in the US had American citizens cowering under their beds thinking that this story was real!
In this charming film, the main character is called Klaatu, an alien who has come to our planet to save Earth from mankind’s destructive ways!
The Aliens actual mission is to destroy humanity and to help the world breathe again! But at the end of the film (sorry to be a plot spoiler if you haven’t seen it) the alien has been moved with compassion and then decides to give us humans another chance – Hopefully IF something like this ever happens, lets just hope that the Aliens can see that there is some good left in the Human Race, and that these aliens have a heart too….
But we do need to change as a species and appreciate this beautiful planet that we live on and respect every other walk of life too that we share this world with…..perhaps the only way forward for the Human Race is by the Aliens teaching us a lesson in respect for world and ourselves. U.I.P
Renowned astronomer Seth Shostak wants you to know there are probably tons of aliens out there, but they don't look like the green space men you might have in mind. Shostak, the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, said there are likely many common misconceptions about aliens because of what we know from movies and TV shows that don't reflect reality.
“Think what were gonna do in this century, which is invent thinking machines,” Shostak said while speaking to Neil deGrasse Tyson last week during a National Geographic Star Talk. “The aliens have probably already done that, so the real aliens probably look like machines.”
Shostak pointed out that roughly 30 percent of all Americans believe in “UFO phenomena.” You can count Shostak, who hosts the SETI Institute’s weekly science radio show, “Big Picture Science,” as a believer, too.
"Seth claims to have developed an interest in extraterrestrial life at the tender age of ten, when he first picked up a book about the solar system," the SETI Institute website reads. "This innocent beginning eventually led to a degree in radio astronomy, and now, as Senior Astronomer, Seth is an enthusiastic participant in the Institute’s SETI observing programs. He also heads up the International Academy of Astronautics’ SETI Permanent Committee."
Shostak has been spreading his message about what aliens could look like for years. He has said that alien life could exist on billions of planets in the universe.
“It doesn’t seem unreasonable to think that we are not alone, if all those planets are completely sterile, you’ve got to think, wow there must be something really special and miraculous about Earth – but generally those people are not scientists,” he told the Guardian last year.
For whatever it's worth, DeGrasse Tyson, the popular TV astrophysicist, also believes in aliens.
"At the moment, life on Earth is the only known life in the universe, but there are compelling arguments to suggest we are not alone. Indeed, most astrophysicists accept a high probability of there being life elsewhere in the universe, if not on other planets or on moons within our own solar system. The numbers are, well, astronomical: If the count of planets in our solar system is not unusual, then there are more planets in the universe than the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet in the cosmos with life would be inexcusably egocentric of us," he wrote in 2003 in NASA's Astrobiology magazine.
“If Communion is not a piece of modern erotic mystical literature, then I do not know what it is. I consider Whitley Strieber and his most famous text to be, in effect, litmus tests for my field. If we cannot take this text seriously, if we cannot exegete it in some satisfying fashion, if we cannot make some sense of this man’s honest descriptions of his traumatic-transcendent experiences, then we have no business trying to understand his spiritual ancestors in the historical record. We either put up here, or we shut up there.” –Jeffrey Kripal, “Better Horrors: From Terror to Communion in Whitley Strieber’s Communion (1987),”in Social
Research 81:4 (Winter 2014).
Jeff Kripal is the kind of scholar who “puts up.” A distinguished professor of religious studies at Rice University, he rises to his own challenge in the extraordinary book called The Super Natural. Using all the tools of his trade, the same ones he’d apply to the mystical experiences of St. Teresa of Avila in the 16th century or the Hindu holy man Ramakrishna in the 19th, he dares to tease out the meaning and implications of Whitley Strieber’s encounters with “the visitors”–usually but lazily identified as UFO aliens–at the end of the 20th.
It’s a controversial book, but Kripal is used to controversy.
Of course, Ramakrishna couldn’t talk back to Kripal. Whitley Strieber can; and in alternating chapters of The Super Natural, he does. It’s the dialogue between these two partners, the “experiencer” and the “theorist” as Kripal puts it, that makes this book such an exhilarating read.
What is the “erotic mystical” experience described in Communion? At its heart is something that happened, or allegedly happened, to Strieber on the night of December 26, 1985. His bedroom in his cabin in upstate New York was invaded by one, or possibly more, small beings. Naked, paralyzed, his arms and legs extended, he felt himself carried out to “a small sort of depression in the woods,” which transformed itself into a “small, circular chamber” above the trees. (This is the closest Strieber comes to actually speaking of a UFO.)
While in this chamber he was subjected to a string of weird, unsettling experiences, including a sort of anal rape performed by a narrow, “gray and scaly” object. He also seems to have first encountered the female entity, uncanny and inhuman in her appearance yet for him “the most essentially and powerfully feminine presence I have ever known,” whose portrait on Communion’s cover has given us our iconic image of the UFO alien. She would be a feature of Strieber’s life through the years to come.
When he awoke in the morning, he remembered nothing of this. He had only an implausible but compelling recollection of a barn owl staring at him through his bedroom window sometime during the night. The details of his experience came back to him about a week later, spontaneously, without the aid of hypnotic regression (though that would come later).
Strieber’s “Communion” (1987). “… the most essentially and powerfully feminine presence I have ever known …”
This was only the beginning. For the next thirty years the “visitors,” in different sizes, shapes and colors, remained intertwined with Strieber’s life. They manifested their presence in a long string of bizarre, inexplicable events that must have been as unintelligible to him as they are for his readers. The aggregate meaninglessness soon grows tiresome. I want to shake off my frustration and bafflement with a dismissal like Aah, he’s nuts, or The guy’s making it up as he goes along!
But Kripal shows me why I mustn’t do that.
These reflexive reactions, says Kripal, are “protective strategies” employed to ward off the threat posed by a book like Communion to our preconceived notions of how the world ought to work and what a human being ought to be. (He speaks of “the public shaming of sincere and serious people … who see or say otherwise,” and since Communion’s publication Strieber has been showered with public mockery of the grossest kind.) Yet they’re wholly natural. To acknowledge and absorb an event, or a series of events, we have to be able to fit them into some recognizable pattern of meaning. Strieber’s encounters resist any such patterning.
Hence the odd experience I’ve had more than once, of picking up my copy of Communion and realizing that I had no notion what was inside it. Had I really read it? I must have—the pages were blanketed with annotations in what I recognized as my handwriting. But I had no recollection of what I’d read. Only the face on the cover; that I would never forget.
Both authors make the point forcefully: if Strieber’s encounters with the “visitors” refuse to show the coherence I expect of them, the problem lies not with them but with my expectations.
I’ve long noticed, for example, that Strieber’s recollections are drenched in sex. It’s pretty obvious; I doubt if anyone past puberty would fail to notice it. My next step follows naturally. What Communion is about is Strieber’s very terrestrial, very human sexual fantasies and anxieties, with a strong masochistic component. (That “essentially and powerfully feminine presence,” he says in The Super Natural, caused him to be “dragged out of the house and essentially beaten until I realized that she was real and I was not dreaming.”) With this Freudian Open Sesame, I ought to be able to make sense of the whole string of experiences.
I can’t, so I blame Strieber.
What I ought to blame, says Kripal, is not my awareness that Strieber’s experiences are fundamentally about sex—that is beyond all question—but my implied “nothing but sex.” In other words, I limit sex to what goes on in our fleshly crotches. If I’d incorporated the ancients’ awareness of it as something “sacred … [with] a terrifying and terrific divinity in it,” I’d be better poised to grasp what Strieber is talking about.
A goddess and her lover (from the Kali Puja festival in Calcutta). ” … had me dragged out of the house and essentially beaten until I realized that she was real and I was not dreaming.” (Source: Wikimedia.)
“I am haunted,” Strieber writes in this new book, “by the paradoxical sweetness of many of these ferocious experiences. One way to put it would be that I had a love affair with a goddess. Another would be that it was an affair with an alien. But the third way to describe it–which is, I suspect, closer to the truth–is that I didn’t know who or what my wife really was, or myself, or any of us. I don’t know what human beings are, and, based on my own life experience, I have every reason to suspect that the form we live in every day is not our only state.”
We’re miles away from any simplistic notions of people being kidnapped by space invaders. The UFO experience is essentially a human experience–I can stand up and cheer that sentiment–only, “I don’t know what human beings are.” Both Strieber and Kripal suggest that we’re something vaster, grander, and stranger than we’d ever imagined.
Strieber speaks now of Anne, his passionately loved wife of 45 years, whom he lost to cancer about six months before The Super Natural came out and whose longed-for ghost pervades the book:
“Sometimes when Anne was sleeping or distracted or her face blossomed with pleasure, I would see in it a flickering shadow of the great-eyed being I’d painted for the cover of Communion. [Actually the cover was done by an artist named Ted Jacobs, at Strieber’s direction.] Now, I am not making a claim here that my wife was an alien or anything so concrete as that. What I am saying is that the shadow of my wife–her life, her ways, my awareness of her body–ghosts through the experiences that I am about to describe like a sylph.”
Kripal, the religious-studies professor, believes in the truth of these experiences. He believes, not least because he’s had one of his own. When he positions himself as “theorist” as opposed to the “experiencer” Strieber, he’s not being entirely fair to himself. He’s an “experiencer” too.
November 1989. Young Jeff Kripal is in Calcutta, researching his Ph.D. dissertation on Ramakrishna. “I had been participating in Kali Puja, a multiday cycle of festivities and rituals celebrating the goddess in her fiercest and, in some more esoteric traditions, most erotic forms.” And it would appear that the goddess, or something very like Her, came to him in his hotel room.
“As this presence did whatever it did to me (the unprintable f-word would be entirely appropriate), the aroused state I was in became more and more intense. It felt as if the energies were reaching down into every single cell of my body, or–if this is even possible–into every subatomic particle, each of which seemed to be humming at an unbelievable frequency. … Whitley’s description in this book of ‘being with an invisible tiger or an invisible saint’ (the double sacred) perfectly describes what I knew on that Night, tigers and saints being what they are: oh so common in West Bengal.”
This is about as strong as an endorsement as you can give, and it functions as empirical groundwork for Strieber and Kripal’s joint assault on the materialist orthodoxy of contemporary science. Strieber is not religious in any conventional sense. To my recollection, he mentions the idea of “god” (lower case) only to dismiss it.
Yet the materialism that equates the human being with the physical body and brain is just as false. So Strieber’s encounters with “the visitors” have taught him.
Experiences like his, or like Kripal’s own (says Kripal, taking up the baton) can lead “out of the consensual trance of culture and religion into something other or more, something so other that it feels and seems alien. … It is not us, not us as rational social egos anyway. And yet it is us, as soul, as spirit. … Consciousness is not ego. Consciousness is not culture.”
Nor is it a product of the brain, doomed to perish with the brain. It’s something transcendent, eternal, filtered through the brain yet unaffected when the brain turns to dust.
This explains, says Kripal, “why the skeptics are so honestly and understandably skeptical (their egos or consensual trances have not yet been invaded or broken). It explains the utter convictions of the mystics, poets, and modern-day abductees (their egos or consensual trances have been invaded and broken).”
So where does that leave me?
Alas, with the skeptics, my “consensual trance” still unbroken, my cherry yet untaken. Which puts me, as I read Communion and The Super Natural, in the position of a lifelong virgin doing his feeble best to understand what sexual ecstasy is all about.
Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal, “The Super Natural” (2016).
“Obviously something incredibly intense had happened to Whitley. I never have doubted the veracity of the intensity of it. … As is the case with almost all of these kinds of experiences, they combine the quality of intense meaningfulness within the first person and a frustrating lack of external corroboration. … We can be talking about a religious experience, we can be talking about a symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy, we can be talking about a possible allergic response to common or not-so-common chemicals, or even a response to electromagnetic phenomena, one way or another. We can be talking about somebody who’s been abducted by real flesh-and-blood aliens. We don’t know, but my problem, as a third-person observer, who believes in the scientific method, is how to interpret it. You can’t just deny it.” –Dr. John Gliedman, quoted in Ed Conroy, Report on Communion (1989)
In the 1980s Gliedman knew Whitley Strieber well. He knew–or at least was entirely certain–that Strieber wasn’t just making up the fantastic experiences that found their way into his 1987 bestseller Communion, many of which Strieber had confided to him over lunch long before the book appeared. In C.S. Lewis’s famous “trilemma” of Lunatic-Liar-Lord (referring to Jesus), the second option seems ruled out.
The first also? Is it thinkable that Strieber’s mind–his perceptions, his memories–though demonstrably free from any of the “mental disorders” defined as such by the American Psychiatric Association, nevertheless doesn’t work quite the way our (statistically) “normal” minds do? That he sees and hears, feels and remembers things that most of us can’t or wouldn’t?
If so, does that make him crazy? Or the rest of us limited?
Like Gliedman, I’m a “third-person observer.” So, in a certain measure, is Jeffrey Kripal, the Rice University religious-studies professor who co-authored with Strieber the mind-bending, mind-opening book that I’m discussing in this and the preceding post. But Kripal has an advantage over me. Unlike me, he’s had his own direct and undeniable experience of “erotic mysticism” of the kind that suffuses Communion, immediate encounter with a cosmic sexuality “reaching down into every single cell of my body, or–if this is even possible–into every subatomic particle, each of which seemed to be humming at an unbelievable frequency.”
It happened to Kripal only once. The experience never came to dominate his life as it did Strieber’s. But that one time was enough for Kripal to know that what Strieber experienced was real. (Whatever “real” may mean.)
Whitley Strieber, “Communion” (1987).
I haven’t had even that one experience. Which puts me in a dilemma. On the one hand, I want to believe Strieber, simply as the decency owed by one human being to another: not to laugh or diagnose away experiences that he or she has felt as soul-shatteringly real.
But I can’t help but disbelieve.
I don’t like the materialist scientific paradigm that Strieber and Kripal attack in their book, any better than they do. “Matter is made up of tiny dead things. … There is no meaning. There is no mind. Evolution is without a goal. It intends nothing. It is going nowhere. The universe is pointless.” This is Kripal’s characterization of it; and he asks, rhetorically, why anyone would want to believe such a depressing vision of reality.
He at once goes on to answer his own question: “those who embrace it do so because they think it is true.”
With good reason, I would add. The materialist paradigm has proven its utility ten thousand times over.
If like many of us I feel compelled as a matter of intellectual honesty to think within this paradigm, I can’t believe Strieber. The events he describes just make no sense. In the scientific paradigm, the world and its happenings may have no meaning or intention–but they’ve got to make sense.
To this we must add a very real and troubling problem. We know Strieber’s experiences only via his claims about them. He himself, assuming (as I do) that he’s sincere in his claims, knows them only through his recollections of them. And these recollections show a distressing capacity to shift over the course of time.
On pages 212-213 of The Super Natural, Strieber tells the story of a strange and unsettling event that happened to him in 1968.
“That year, I was living in London and attending the London School of Film Technique, now called the London Film School. During the summer break, I decided to travel on the Continent. On an overnight train to Florence, I fell in with a girl. We began traveling together. For a couple of weeks in Florence, we had a lovely time, living together in chaste intimacy. But then we went on to Rome, and when we toured St. Peter’s, she became crazy, stalking through the church in raging silence. She scared me. I was living with her in a small pensione near the railroad station. I decided, ‘No more,’ and headed off to the pensione to collect my suitcase and get out of there.
“I went into our tiny room, threw my toothbrush into my suitcase, and started to leave. Then I stopped. Her suitcase was lying at the foot of the bed. I have always been a bit too curious, and I opened it. What I saw shocked me to my core. In it was a nun’s habit and, lying beside it, a dry, flattened owl carcass.
“I didn’t get off the train again until I was in Strasbourg.
It’s a gripping, goosebump-raising tale, if perhaps a trifle implausible. (When I was 23, as Strieber was in 1968, I would have had the most immense difficulty sharing a “tiny room” with an attractive young woman “in chaste intimacy.”) But contrast it with what’s patently an account of the same incident in Communion, page 135:
“I took the train to Italy, second class. On the train I met a young woman and we began to travel together. At this point my memories become extremely odd. If I do not think about them they seem fine, but when I try to put them together they don’t make sense. I recall that we went to Rome, but that we spent a few days in Florence on the way. … For some reason, I left the young woman in Rome and dashed off on the train with no ticket, traveling almost at random. I ended up in Strasbourg, where I saw the cathedral, then suddenly rushed to the station and grabbed another train, a local, that crept across France, ending in Port Bou on the Spanish border.”
Strieber must have written these words in 1986, 18 years after the incident occurred. “For some reason, I left the young woman in Rome.” After 18 years, he couldn’t remember the reason he left her. Another 29 years later, he remembered it vividly. What are we to say of such a memory?
Compare also the half-comical, half-shivery story that Strieber tells on pages 99-100 of The Super Natural, of how William Morrow & Co. editor Bruce Lee encountered two huge-eyed aliens poring over Communion in a New York City bookstore, with the account he gave of the same episode in his 1988 book Transformation, pages 235-237. (And with Lee’s own version of the incident, in Ed Conroy’s Report on Communion.) “He [Lee] watched them walk off into the afternoon crowd on Madison Avenue,” Strieber writes in The Super Natural. “Nobody seemed in the least concerned that two aliens were strolling down the street in overcoats and hats on a warm afternoon.”
Whitley Strieber and Anne Strieber, “The Communion Letters” (1997).
But when he wrote Transformation, Strieber knew perfectly well why they’d be wearing overcoats and hats. The incident didn’t happen on a warm afternoon in 1988, as Strieber remembered it for the 2016 book, but “on a cold, windy Saturday afternoon” in January 1987.
I need to be clear. By questioning the integrity of Strieber’s recollections, I am not questioning his personal integrity. I take that as a given. But if the things that Strieber remembers having undergone are to be used to mount a challenge to the current scientific understanding of how the world works, his memories need to have a solidity that puts them beyond question. They don’t.
Or they don’t always, and that casts a shadow of suspicion on the rest.
And yet …
There’s one monumental fact that persuades me there’s something real and important going on here, that wherever Strieber’s memories come from they tap into something deep within the human psyche. This is the response that Communion evokes in many of those who read it, or simply see its cover.
“I bought Communion in March 1988 on my way to Los Angeles to sing at my cousin’s wedding. I was simply glued to it. There was a strange sense–yet a vague sense of recognition in what you were saying. … I felt drawn to the cover of Communion like a duck to water.”
“Last spring, I saw Communion in the library for the first time. The face on the cover scared me so much that I went home. … I couldn’t understand why I was so afraid of a book.”
“When I walked past the bookstore, it was only out of the corner of my eye that I saw the cover of your book staring out into the mall. I stopped and looked at it, not believing what I was seeing … just how close the depiction of the being on [the] cover was to the real thing.”
“Sitting right there on the kitchen stove [in 1958, when the writer was four], in front of God and all my family and relatives, was this creature that I had never seen before. I remember pointing to the creature on the stove, and by now I had everyone’s attention. Obviously I was the only one who could see it, which only added to the terror. … I never again saw that face staring at me, that is, until I was browsing in a bookstore a few years ago and saw the book Communion, and right there on the cover was that all too familiar face almost laughing at me.”
These are quotes from the book The Communion Letters (1997), co-authored by Strieber and his late wife Anne. They’re extracts, selected by Anne from what Strieber estimates (in The Super Natural) to have been upwards of half a million letters he received between 1987 and 2000. “We stopped counting at two hundred thousand, and that was in 1992. … We have kept around thirty thousand on file.” (The full collection is not currently open to researchers, though I’m given to understand that this may soon change.)
There were others who didn’t write to Strieber, yet whose memories were triggered by Communion and its cover. In his 1994 book Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens, the distinguished Harvard psychiatry professor John Mack–whose tragic death in 2004 we’re still grieving–tells of an abductee who “saw a face in the craft ‘looking down at me,’ and when he later saw the picture of an alien on the cover of Communion he was shocked, for ‘that’s what I imagined was looking down at me when I was nineteen.'” Nobel-laureate biochemist Kary Mullis tells of seeing Communion in a California bookstore and realizing that this book was somehow, mysteriously, connected with his own bizarre experience a few years earlier in his mountain cabin. He was in the middle of reading it when his adult daughter phoned. “Dad, there’s a book I want you to read. It’s called Communion.“
She too, Mullis’s daughter went on to explain, had undergone something uncanny and inexplicable in that same cabin. “When she saw the book, she had experienced the same sort of vague recognition as I had.”
Very few of the stories related in The Communion Letters pose any particular challenge to 21st-century science. Most give the impression of being unusually vivid and powerful dreams, with a few waking hallucinations mixed in. (In the last of my quotes from that book, the four-year-old witness is surrounded by relatives, none of whom sees anything unusual.) But they attest to the incredible resonance that Strieber’s recollections–his narration of them, the artistic rendering that appears on his cover–have had with an incredible range of men and women, who can’t be dismissed as all insane. (Though some perhaps are, such as the author of the letter on pages 239-242.)
This resonance, unlike the memories themselves, is documented fact.
Grant, if you’re willing, that Strieber remembers events that can’t have happened, involving entities that don’t exist. His memories remain genuinely his, genuinely shared with hundreds of thousands of others. As such they’re vitally important, although in what way they’re important we don’t yet understand.
Attention must be paid.
Of all the merits of this wonderful book Strieber and Jeffrey Kripal have given us, this may be the most fundamental. It pays attention. It invites us to do the same.
Ed Conroy, “Report on Communion” (1989). Ed Conroy, “Report on Communion” (1989). Collage from the “True free thinker” website, www.truefreethinker.com. The cover portrait of Strieber is by Ted Jacobs, the same artist who painted the cover of “Communion.”
Mac Intyre drew a picture of the aliens he saw inside the spacecraft
(Sheppnews.com)
A story about an apparent UFO sighting in the 1940s right here in Shepparton has made waves across the globe and sparked the interest of an extraterrestrial researcher.
In last Monday’s News, retired Shepparton policeman Neil John McIntyre spoke of seeing a UFO hover just metres away from him in his youth.
A French UFO researcher published a translated version of the story on his website, and on Facebook the story was shared by a number of UFO groups.
One researcher who took a great interest in the story was former Shepparton man Shane Ryan, who spent years trying to find out more about the famed Westall incident, when a group of teachers and students claimed to have seen a UFO in a Melbourne suburb in 1966.
‘‘What blew me away is that this happened in my home town,’’ Mr Ryan said.
‘‘It felt close to home. I knew the location of that pool hall (where the incident took place).’’
Mr Ryan’s interest in UFOs began when he was on the lookout for a subject to write a book about and he came across the Westall incident.
He spent months speaking to witnesses and documenting their stories.
Now he wants to speak to Neil to make sure his story is shared.
‘‘If it was a genuine UFO I have no idea, but either way something unusual happened,’’ he said.
The weird UFO snapped after it caused power to drop
The strange circular UFO is said to have hovered across the night sky, with power cuts following the mysterious appearance, according to The Bucks Herald.
One resident from Buckingham Park, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, said: "We were lying in bed and this extremely bright light lit up the room. We assumed it was a star because it was a clear night but it was so bright.
"Then it slowly rose up and suddenly shot over the top of our house and you could hear an aircraft like noise but it was too fast to be a plane.
"As it passed over the power in our house dropped and came back. It really freaked us out. Then about 45 minutes later we heard the same sound and the power dropped again briefly and came back. We took a picture but didn't have time to do a video as it suddenly shot off."
Another resident separately contacted the paper claiming to have seen the same event in the Watermead estate in north Aylesbury.
"Then it slowly rose up and suddenly shot over the top of our house and you could hear an aircraft like noise but it was too fast to be a plane.
UFO eyewitness
The eyewitness said: "I was sat watching telly with the blinds closed but one of them was sort of lit up, as if someone was shining a torch on it.
"I looked out and saw this really bright light and then it suddenly shot across the top of the house and as it did all the lights went down and came back on.
"The lights went down a few more times in the next hour too, I'm no conspiracy theorist but it was really bizarre."
Express.co.uk sent the image to Scott Brando, who runs UFO hoax-busting website ufoofinterest.org.
He believed it was just a picture of the planet Venus which has been visible in our skies and the power cuts must be a coincidence.
He said: "I think it could be the planet Venus taken with a catadioptric lens."
He provided a video showing a similar effect.
Did you see anything or lose power in the same area over night on Thursday?
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Scientists Propose a New Explanation for the “Alien Megastructure” Star
Scientists Propose a New Explanation for the “Alien Megastructure” Star
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Researchers believe that, 10,000 years ago, a planet (not an alien megastructure) collided with KIC 8462852 causing the erratic flickering we see.
KIC 8462852 is 8.7 quadrillion miles away – even if we could take New Horizons to explore it, it would take 27.5 million years to reach the star.
KIC 8462852
As exciting as it would be to know that an ‘alien megastructure’ was discovered in our lifetime, it’s also getting more and more unlikely. Another non-alien related explanation surfaces for the light patterns coming from KIC 8462852. Now, Columbia University researchers believe that the star may have, at some point, swallowed a planet in its lifespan. The erratic flickering that we see? This could be caused by remnants of this planet or its moons occasionally blocking the star’s light.
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Assuming this is the reasoning behind KIC 8462852’s unusual light patterns, the researchers estimate the collision took place 10,000 years ago. The increased brightness is due to the star releasing energy after consuming the planet. The recently observed dimming was because it is “digesting” and returning to its normal state.
Their theory is based on existing and available research on the star (also called Tabby’s Star), combined with materials that explore outer-space physics. And if their calculations are confirmed, they would also support the theory that this kind of phenomenon (planet and star collisions) are more common than we thought.
“We estimated that if Tabby’s star were representative, something like 10 Jupiters would have to fall into a typical star over its lifetime, or maybe even more,” said one of the researchers of the study, Brian Metzger, in an interview with New Scientist.
HUNGRY PLANET
Typically, as a planet orbits around a star, the star’s brightness goes down about one percent. With KIC 8462852, the dips were so erratic that its brightness would dip as low as 22 percent. Because of this, scientists assumed that there had to be a massive object moving around it, which is where the ‘alien megastructure’ theory came from.
The latter theory by the way, will prove nearly impossible to prove, given that KIC 8462852 is 8.7 quadrillion miles away. And even if we could take New Horizons (our fastest probe) to explore it, it would take 27.5 million years to reach the star. We could just send a message, but it won’t get there until 3495.
The point is, the technology we have today isn’t equipped to explore and confirm the existence of alien worlds…yet. But with this new theory presented, it looks like we don’t have to. Columbia adds another feasible, non-alien explanation to both the sudden dimming and gradual decrease of the star’s light.
Obviously it’s not the only hypothesis being floated around to explain the phenomenon. Some speculate that the changes in light are caused by cosmic debris, while others think the flickering is caused by a swarm of comets. It’s also wholly possible for new theories to pop up as scientists work towards finding a definitive answer, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
Scientists believe there could be ALIEN life on VENUS
Scientists believe there could be ALIEN life on VENUS
It turns out that a joint team of American and Russian scientists believes there could be alien life on Venus, and they want to send a spacecraft to find out. Called Venera-D, the potential mission would investigate curious dark streaks found on Venus, which experts believe may be caused by Alien life.
Venus, the second planet from the sun, with a temperature that is maintained at 462 degrees Celsius, no matter where you go on the planet –therefore the hottest planet in the solar system— may be home to ALIEN life.
As described by Inverse, Venus has some rather “spooky looking clouds” that just might contain alien life.
Interestingly, in the past, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, published a series of photographs, taken by the Venera probe which allegedly shows evidence of living organisms on Venus. According to an explanation by Leonid Ksanfomaliti, doctor of physical and mathematical science, at the Institute of Space Research, the images taken 30 years ago reveal the movement of extremely strange objects on the surface of Venus.
According to Russian scientist Leonid Ksanfomaliti, this image, taken from a Russian probe that landed on Venus in 1982, we can see a scorpion-shaped life form
These enigmatic dark streaks have captured the imagination and attention of experts since the 1960’s, but now, a team of American and Russian scientists are determined to find out the exact nature of the enigmatic bands in Venus’ atmospheric cover.
Experts from Russia and the US will submit plans for a new mission dubbed as Venera-D, which is basically an unmanned spacecraft that would be sent to Venus, and determine if the mysterious dark streaks are evidence of microbial alien life on Venus.
Ever since the dark streaks were spotted, scientists have tried explaining them. Some believe the enigmatic marks are particulates (like iron and sulfur) that are mixed into the clouds. Other theories propose that it could ice, and there are those who theorize ALIENS may be the ultimate answer.
Scientists are confident there is a so-called ‘sweet spot’ in Venus’ atmosphere at about 50 kilometers in altitude and extending a dozen kilometers outward. It is precisely there, where temperatures range from 30ºC and 70ºC, a more hospitable range for living organisms.
“I cannot say that there is microbial life in Venus’ clouds,” Sanjay Limaye told Astrobiology 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.”
While a new mission to Venus may sound extremely exciting, it is noteworthy to mention that in the past, there have been complications with exploring the second planet from the Sun.
Venus has a high surface pressure, and its temperature of 462 degrees Celsius are a huge challenge for today’s technology.
In the past, the only successful mission that was able to land on Venus was the Mariner 5, which survived for 93 minutes before being destroyed by the hostile conditions on Venus.
If experts want the new Venera-D mission to be successful, they will have to create a spacecraft unlike any other.
Don’t believe in UFOs? These 3 Declassified Military videos will change your mind
Don’t believe in UFOs? These 3 Declassified Military videos will change your mind
One of the videos was recorded in 2004, another one in 2013 and the newest one in 2014. In the videos, we see a UFO performing maneuvers, unlike anything mankind can create today, ignoring gravity and laws that govern over manmade vehicles. Both videos were analyzed by experts who agree that the objects in question are extraordinary and unlike anything they’ve ever seen. Some of these UFO’s were not visible to the naked eye and somehow managed to avoid being detected on radar.
In the 21st century, there are two types of people when alien life is discussed. Those who firmly believe we are being visited –and have been visited for thousands of years— and those who believe that UFO sightings are entirely a man-made phenomenon.
Certainly, while there are countless faked videos available on the internet, there are a couple of videos which are beyond fascinating. They are bewildering.
Two of those videos have recently been declassified by the government.
One of the most fascinating UFO videos was recorded by Homeland Security. The video is out of this world. In the video, a mysterious UFO is seen performing maneuvers, unlike anything mankind can create today. The unidentified flying object is seen moving at extremely fast speed over land and then shoots off into the distance. The laws of physics that govern over man-made aircraft have little effect over this UFO which seems to ignore gravity completely, moving through the sky at speeds up to 120mph. But more interestingly, at one point, the UFO seems to dive into the water without slowing down. what kind of aircraft can do that?
The laws of physics that govern over man-made aircraft have little effect over this UFO which seems to ignore gravity completely, moving through the sky at speeds up to 120mph, while performing turns and maneuvers our aircraft are not capable of. Interestingly, at one point, the UFO seems to dive into the water without slowing down. What kind of aircraft can do that?
The video was revised by the Scientific Coalition for Ufology, a group of people who have an extensive and long background in science have teamed up to study evidence which points to otherworldly visitations.
The following Unidentified Flying object was recorded on video by a thermal imaging camera on a DHS aircraft, in the sky over Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. Ufologists believe that this is the best evidence of UFOs monitoring our activity on planet Earth. You can check out the full report here.
Researchers analyzed the video and came to the conclusion that the object in question exhibits characteristics that defy the laws of physics as we know them. It simply cannot be catalogued as a drone, military aircraft or natural phenomena.
The second video –equally bewildering— was recently declassified and filmed in 2014.
The incident occurred on November 11, 2014, when a Chilean Navy helicopter (Airbus Cougar AS-532) was on a routine patrol, west of Santiago, flying north.
The Unidentified Flying Object was followed and recorded for 9 minutes and 12 seconds. The crew tried several times to contact the UFO using the multi-national, civilian bandwidth designed for this purpose but received NO answer. The Navy Captain stated that the object was a “flat, elongated structure” with “two thermal spotlights like discharges that did not coincide with the axel of motion.” The technician described it as “white with a semi-oval shape on the horizontal axis.”
Furthermore, reports state that the pilot tried numerous times to communicate with the UFO, using the multinational, civilian bandwidth designed specifically for his purpose.
He received NO reply. Simply put, unbelievable.
Videos like these are precisely what is needed for society to understand that there are some things out there that conventional explanations do not satisfy.
Another equally amazing sighting was recorded on March 05, 2004, when the Mexican Air Force witnessed 11 flying objects flying along side of them during an air patrol of a drug smuggling.
Strangely, the unidentified flying objects were only visible through the military plane’s IR-system (infrared), and could not be seen with the naked eye. According to reports, the equipment was operated by highly skilled Air Force officers and analyzed by the Department of Defense.
Neither the crew nor ground personnel could see the 11 UFOs on radar.
The Mexican Department of Defense ruled out all mundane explanations for the sightings. The atmospheric conditions were nearly perfect. There was no temperature inversion in the area and winds were light at less than 20 mph. There was a complete absence of lightning, seismic activity, or volcanic activity. Venus was not visible at the time.
There are some skeptics who have dismissed this UFO encounter as an oil platform burn-off flares, but the Mexican military pilots said that the elevation of the lights was clocked at a higher altitude than theirs.
Furthermore, the Mexican Air Force stated they were chasing something, and it disappeared right as the lights appeared.
But, UK UFO expert Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, believes he knows what is causing the crop in sightings - and it is from outer space.
Venus has been visible in the night sky since the start of the new year and he believes it is the planet which is behind the huge rise in claims.
Mr Watson said: "The latest crop of UFO videos in the UK and Europe might well be due to the current brightness and visibility of Venus in our night skies.
"It not only looks strange to human observers but when videoed can appear even odder due to lens reflections, autofocusing and the motion of the camera that can give the illusion a stationary object is darting about."
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The green UFO filmed in Salento, Italy, that may just be Venus.
He pointed to a video on YouTube entitled "A Real Huge, Silent, Triangular UFO Hovering Nr Bitterne, Southampton, Hants, UK" which was posted this month.
He said: "It looks impressive but could well be Venus and reflections on a window."
Mr Watson also looked at footage of a green UFO taken in Salento, Italy, at around 8pm on January 9 by Lucio Margiotta and posted on Facebook.
He said: "The light in the sky that turns into a ring of light looks impressive, but much of the mystery was probably caused by the smartphone used to video this event.
"It is noteworthy that the distant light only turns into a halo when Lucio Margiotta zooms in on it, which suggests that the autofocus system of the camera is distorting the light to produce this unusual effect.
"Other independent witnesses said they also saw this light, but without further details we can only assume at this stage that the video is just a product of the smartphone technology rather than the product of aliens intent on surveying our planet in preparation for the day they finally reveal themselves to us."
There have also been reports in local media of people believing there as a spaceship over Watford earlier this month, when Venus was visible near the moon.
Mr Watson's theory appears to be backed by an Express.co.uk report from September 2015.
Then we reported how a man recorded a series of bizarre shapes when he zoomed in on what he knew to be Venus over New York.
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ZULLEN ( DUITSE ) UFO'S STRAKS INGRIJPEN ( VIDEO )
ZULLEN ( DUITSE ) UFO'S STRAKS INGRIJPEN? ( VIDEO )
Er zijn de laatste weken regelmatige berichten over grote sigaarvormige UFO’s die worden waargenomen.
Zo werd er één boven Chili gefilmd en via een lezer ontvingen wij een prachtige opname van een grote sigaarvormige UFO boven de Bahama’s.
Van een lezer die samen met zijn vrouw ergens op de Bahama’s woont, ontvingen wij het volgende bericht (dank!):
Mijn echtgenote gaat iedere morgen naar het strand in South Andros, Bahamas, om foto's te maken van de opkomende zon. Gisteren was ik haar eerste foto aan het bekijken en vond ik een interessant anomalie op de foto.
Vanmorgen heeft ze er 2 gezien maar haar iPad memorie was vol.
Waarschijnlijk kun je meer verwachten want ze ziet ze regelmatig, en telkens met de zonsopgang verdwijnt de UFO!!!
Ook boven Chili werd onlangs een vergelijkbaar object waargenomen:
Onlangs schreven wij over een andere waarneming van dit type UFO boven Cyprus en de mogelijke connectie met Duitse UFO technologie:
UFO’s zijn er in alle soorten en maten, van de klassieke zogenaamde retro UFO tot de ronde witte of oranje bollen.
UFO’s die niet zo dikwijls worden waargenomen, zijn de zogenaamde sigaarvormige, die de vorm hebben van een cilinder.
Afgelopen week is er een zaak ingediend bij Mufon onder nummer 81145 over een foto die al is genomen in 2009 op het eiland Cyprus.
De fotograaf wilde mooie opnames maken van een berg in combinatie met de maan die ook zichtbaar was, maar op het beeld verscheen ook wat anders.
En dan zie je rechts van de berghelling duidelijk een groot sigaarvormig object:
En wanneer je goed kijkt, zie je boven de sigaarvormige UFO nog een kleinere:
Natuurlijk is het mogelijk dat het hier een buitenaards schip betreft, maar veel waarschijnlijker is dat we hier te maken hebben met een zogenaamd Andromeda Gerät, compleet met een aantal kleinere UFO’s.
No, this exquisite photo is not from LG’s new paper-thin OLED TV; it’s a snapshot of a planetary nebula with a strange square shape, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
The image you see here is a composite of several images from the Hubble Space Telescope, created in 2002, of a nebula called IC 4406. When we view it from Earth, we are looking at it from the side. But, if we could fly over it we would find it resembles more of a donut.
The reason it seems to be confined to such strict lines is because the gravitational force from the dying star keeps the dust and gas swirling around it in perfect alignment, making for a beautiful image.
This square nebula is the result of hot gas and dark dust being forced out from the star.
The bright colors come from hot gas flows on the inside of the donut that are ionized by light shining from the star. When the light hits oxygen atoms it turns blue, when it hits hydrogen it turns green, and when nitrogen is struck, it turns as red. The final image shows the differences in concentration of these three gases in the nebula.
Another interesting detail within the nebula is the dark black lines criss-crossing about within the dusty ring. They are also made up from the gas being emitted from the nebula but the density of this gas is so great compared to the rest of the ring, that it shows up as a veiny silhouette throughout the formation.
It’s called a planetary nebula because when the first astronomer to discover this type of object, William Herschel, saw it through his telescope, he mistook it for a planet because of it’s round shape. Here’s an image of a planetary nebula from the center of the ring.
Planetary Nebula
This is the last stage of a nebula’s lifespan before it goes dark, like a farewell celebration. In just a few million years it’ll be nothing more than a white dwarfdrifting around the universe. Poor thing!
Titan, the largest of Saturn’s many moons, is one of the most fascinating bodies in the solar system, and scientists think there could just be some sort of strange life living in the moon’s liquid methane lakes. Now, NASA has shared an absolutely amazing video of this alien world taken from a probe as it landed on Titan’s surface.
The probe, Huygens, landed on Titan back in 2005. Huygens, which was named after Titan’s discoverer, Christiaan Huygens, separated from NASA’s Cassinispacecraft on Christmas eve in 2004 and entered the moon’s atmosphere 20 days later. As the probe began its descent, it passed through Titan’s thick atmosphere, revealing a stunning landscape underneath.
“The Huygens images were everything our images from orbit were not,” said Carolyn Porco, the leader of the Cassini imaging team.
Instead of hazy, sinuous features that we could only guess were streams and drainage channels, here was incontrovertible evidence that at some point in Titan’s history — and perhaps even now — there were flowing liquid hydrocarbons on the surface. Huygens’ images became a Rosetta stone for helping us interpret our subsequent findings on Titan.
On its way down, Huygens sampled the atmosphere and took hundreds of pictures, the last few of which even showed the shadow of the probe’s parachute as it floated down on Huygens after it landed. The probe, which was created by the European Space Agency, still holds the record for being the most distant landing of any craft that mankind has ever achieved.
NASA and the ESA, who worked together on the Cassini-Huygens mission alongside the Italian Space Agency, are highlighting Huygens 12-year-old landing with this astounding video because Cassini’s own mission will soon draw to a close. After two decades in space, Cassini has begun its final series of orbits grazing the Saturn’s rings. On September 15, Cassini will dive into the gas giant’s atmosphere, and that will be the end. One can only imagine, for now, what Cassini will see, but you can check out Huygens view of Titan in the video above.
The Russian billionaire-funded, Stephen Hawking-backed Breakthrough Initiatives project, whose goal is to find extraterrestrial life, has been pretty rapidly enlisting the world’s most powerful telescopes to listen to the sky for signs of intelligent aliens. But the project just managed to finalize something a bit more exciting an agreement with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile to use its optical instruments to look for signs of aliens in Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth.
Breakthrough, and its benefactor Yuri Milner, are obsessed with Alpha Centauri. The Starshot project is already looking to develop low-cost, ultra-fast spacecraft that could make it to the star system in about 20 years and look for potentially habitable worlds and extraterrestrials. There are strong reasons to believe life could survive and make a home for itself in Alpha Centauri — just 4.37 light-years away.
But it’s going to be a very long time before Starshot finally launches its nanocraft off into space (if ever. Instead, we ought to use some of the tools we have here on Earth to see if we might be able to spot something in Alpha Centauri earlier. Though we have reason to believe it’s habitable zone could support life, we actually have no idea whether any planets actually exist in Alpha Centauri’s neighborhood.
That’s what Breakthrough wants to use the VLT for — pinpointing potential objects that deserve increased, detailed study. In this way, not only can use better technology to get a better view of these planets and determine whether they possess any signs of life, but we’ll have actual targets to shoot the Starshot nanocraft towards when the time comes.
Because Alpha Centauri is so close to us, the brightness obscures our view and keeps us unable to really study whether there are any planets in its orbit. The VLT, however, has some instruments that can employ different techniques to reduce stellar light — if they can be upgraded. Breakthrough’s new agreement means it will pay a large portion for those necessary upgrades.
Furthermore, the new agreement lays a precursor framework for a future collaboration with ESO’s upcoming Extremely Large Telescope — which Breakthrough may be interested in using for studying exoplanets are greater distances.
The new partnership means those upgrades should be completed within the next few years, and the telescope will allocate search time to the Alpha Centauri region in 2019. In two years’ time, we may have some answers about whether there are potentially habitable worlds we’ll be traveling to one day.
On Monday, an asteroid zoomed past the Earth, coming closer to our home planet than the moon orbits around it. The asteroid, which was about the size of a 10-story building, didn’t hit the Earth — which is a pretty good thing since astronomers didn’t even know it existed until Saturday — just two days earlier.
The asteroid, 2017 AG13, is between 36 and 111 feet long. It flew by the Earth at 7:47 a.m. EST, coming within about half of the distance from the Earth to the moon (around 100,000 miles) at its nearest point. The asteroid was traveling pretty fast too, zipping through the solar system at a spritely 9.9 miles per second.
The University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey only discovered 2017 AG13 on Saturday. This asteroid travels around the sun in an elliptical orbit, according to scientists, and on this pass, it crossed the orbits of both Earth and Venus. Experts could be forgiven for not spotting this one until the last minute, though. there are millions of asteroids out there, and we only have tabs on a few thousand of them — luckily, we’re tracking the biggest, most apocalyptic ones, and they’re not about to hit us. (Or at least we hope we’re tracking all of them).
Had 2017 AG13 hit Earth, we would’ve been fine. As Business Insider notes, Purdue University’s Impact Earth simulator predicts that an asteroid even on the larger side of 2017 AG13’s range would’ve exploded about ten miles above the surface, assuming it entered the atmosphere at a 45-degree angle. That would’ve released about 700 kilotons of energy, but at that height, all folks on the ground would have to deal with would be a loud, harmless boom.
Amateurarcheologen stuiten op ‘Siciliaans Stonehenge’
Amateurarcheologen stuiten op ‘Siciliaans Stonehenge’
Een groep vrienden is op Sicilië op een vreemde verzameling stenen gestuit, die het ‘Siciliaanse Stonehenge’ is gedoopt.
Experts hebben ontdekt dat het gaat om een prehistorische zonnewijzer die dateert uit de bronstijd.
“Het doen van een archeologische ontdekking is op zichzelf al een belangrijke gebeurtenis, maar deel uitmaken van één van de meest sensationele vondsten in jaren vult me met trots,” zei Giuseppe La Spina, één van de groepsleden.
La Spina en zijn collega’s troffen de stenen aan terwijl ze bunkers uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog aan het onderzoeken waren.
Zonnewendes
De Italiaanse professor Alberto Scuderi, die regionale archeologische groepen aanstuurt, stelde voor om experts naar de stenen te laten kijken.
De professor, die gespecialiseerd is in archeoastronomie, heeft de vondst drie maanden bestudeerd. Hij legde zijn bevindingen voor aan het archeologisch museum van de stad Gela.
Op 21 december, de winterzonnewende, bevestigden deskundigen dat de zonnewijzer gebruikt werd om de seizoenen en zonnewendes te bepalen.
Stonehenge
Experts maakten gebruik van camera’s, een kompas en een drone met een camera om uit te vogelen hoe de zonnewijzer precies werkte.
Het ‘Siciliaanse Stonehenge’ dateert uit 6000 tot 3000 voor Christus en bevindt zich vlak bij de prehistorische necropolen van Grotticelle, Ponte Olivo en Dessueri.
Het spannende is volgens La Spina dat de vindplaats mogelijk nog meer archeologische schatten zal prijsgeven, die waarschijnlijk ‘nog spectaculairder zijn dan de zonnewijzer zelf’.
UFO Does 180 Degree Turn On Live GoPro Space Station Cam! Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Does 180 Degree Turn On Live GoPro Space Station Cam! Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 5, 2017
Location of sighting: Earths orbit at ISS
This amazing footage was shot from an astronauts GoPro while outside the space station this week. The GoPro was hooked up directly with the live Internet link for all to see.
How do I know this is a UFO? Watch and see how this does a perfect 180 degree turn in the sharpest possible way that even an F16 could not match. It knew that it was coming to close and might come into view, so it did a quick U turn by doing a upside-down 180 and returned to where it came from. No meteor or lost tools could do a 180 degree turn and accelerate while doing it!
Awesome live International Cam Footage caught by Youtuber Just Gaz...please click this link and give him the thumbs up for support. Excellent evidence that the space station is not only being visited, but is under 24/7 watchful eyes of aliens...as well as UFO researchers.
UFO Lights Up Sky Over Willis, Texas On Jan 11, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Lights Up Sky Over Willis, Texas On Jan 11, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 11, 2017 Location of sighting: Willis, Texas, USA Source: MUFON #81488 This UFO looks really high up and is below the clouds cover. The UFOs that the person described are the same as the Denver, Colorado descriptions of UFO reports and the same as we saw in the many video of the Dome of Rock in the old city of Jerusalem. The exit...how the UFO left straight up, was exactly the same as the Dome of Rock UFO back in 2011. I will include a video of the event below. Some CIA operatives have tried to spread rumors that the Dome of Rock was faked...don't believe it. I will bet my life on it. Thats how confident I am about it. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Backyard, laying on lawn chair listening to wind in the trees, watching shadows race across the moon, lights appeared out of nowhere, bright almost lumescent. Object moved back and forth over mile radius in literally 2 seconds flat, then descended instantly, out of sight, reappeared 3 seconds later, then ascended straight up into sky and was gone. So fast.
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