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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Many UFOs Near Japanese Cargo Craft Docking At Space Station, Dec 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Many UFOs Near Japanese Cargo Craft Docking At Space Station, Dec 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 13, 2016 Location of sighting: Space station, ISS Original NASA video:
I was watching the official NASA Youtube channel trying to catch a UFO near the space station, when I found this video taken Dec 13, 2016. In it I see the Japanese cargo ship arriving at the International Space Station. As it approaches the space station, the camera focuses on the Japanese cargo craft.
This UFO in the above and below photo is the one that almost hit the Japanese Cargo Ship.
Suddenly UFOs started appearing and shooting in all directions. Some were flashing, others were a steady white light. One UFO shot towards the Japanese Cargo craft, so close, I really thought it hit it, but must have skimmed the hull. I got a nice close up of one colourful UFO that was rotating as it moved past the cargo craft, I included it in the video I made.
Now the confusing question, are these alien craft, alien drones or biological entities? They move with intelligence, but only the future will tell us more. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan NASA video states: Loaded with more than four tons of supplies and experiments, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s unpiloted H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-6) arrived at the International Space Station Dec. 13 four days after its launch from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. Dubbed “Kounotori”, the Japanese word for “white stork”, the resupply craft completed its rendezvous to the station and was captured by Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency operating the Canadarm2 robotic arm from the station’s cupola.
UFO Photographs – Kozakai-Cho, Japan – OpenMinds.tv UFO Photo Archive
UFO Photographs – Kozakai-Cho, Japan – OpenMinds.tv UFO Photo Archive
Around 11:30am, on June 22, 1977, thirty-nine-year-old Yukio Ishida was driving along the bank of the Toyokawa Canal in Kozakai-Cho, Aichi Prefecture, when he noticed a strange object flying above a building alongside the canal.
Just when you thought our planet had enough doomsday problems to grapple with, Saturn went ahead and changed colors on us. Specifically, Saturn’s north pole—a hexagonal vortex that Gizmodo claims could swallow our planet whole. While no one knows for certain how Saturn’s north pole came to be this way, scientists have been tracking its shifting hue thanks to the Cassini Imaging Team, a probe that has been circling the planet since 2004.
Based on images beamed back from Cassini, the hexagonal pole was blue back in 2012; since then it’s progressed into bright gold. Based on the images, which were released by the Cassini Imaging Team last week, scientists theorize that accumulating haze particles could be sparking this startling change. While it may seem bizarre for a vast swath of a planet to change colors so rapidly, there was a time between 1995 and 2009 when Saturn’s north pole grew increasingly dark. This, scientists deduced, was a result of diminishing photochemical reactions (i.e., less sunlight reached the planet to react with the atmosphere’s molecular components).
Now that the northern pole is tipping back toward the sun, increasing amounts of light are igniting more of these photochemical reactions, and in turn, producing more bright gold haze. As NASA put it in a statement released on Friday,
“The color change is thought to be an effect of Saturn's seasons. In particular, the change from a bluish color to a more golden hue may be due to the increased production of photochemical hazes in the atmosphere as the north pole approaches summer solstice in May 2017.”
As alarming as these color changes may seem from our tiny marble, we may just be getting a better feel for Saturn’s natural seasonal cycles—something that will take decades, maybe centuries to understand completely. In the meantime, we can appreciate Saturn as the biggest mood ring in our solar system.
Vancouver, BC– Exclusive new video published to social media on January 13, 2017, purports retired United States Marine Corps General James N. Mattis appeared eager to direct a Mars military program during yesterday’s senate defense secretary confirmation hearing. When discussing threats to the United States, the prospective Trump cabinet member is shown to have uttered a mirror-encrypted message citing a “Mars mission”.
Scientists are now said to be awaiting news of the president-elect’s plans for NASA with looming changes to policy, budgets and diplomacy involving international space partners (including Russia). These changes are expected in an era when rights to privatized space research and exploration are being claimed by private corporations including SpaceX and Mars One.
According to the space agency, NASA is not a part of the Department of Defense or of any other Cabinet-level department. If confirmed as SecDef, James Mattis can look forwards to steering strictly military missions to their completion. Attempts to identify origins and meanings of the Mars mission message therefore shift to mythological and archetypal invocations to the Roman god of war. At further outreaches along the investigative continuum we recognizes claims of a supposed US secret colony on Mars, a topic covered by Wired in 2012 and widely attested to in the alternative and Exopolitical press.
An entrenched “I-went-to-Mars” cottage-industry pop subculture claiming secret interplanetary missions involving time travel, President Barack Obama and members of the second Bush administration has dominated alternative media and Exopolitical discourse in recent years. The claims of this movement reinvigorate discussions of “Alternative 3,” a 1977 British television science fiction broadcast that cited secret joint US/Soviet visits to Mars in the early 1960s. President Obama’s White House responded to the second wave Mars Colony whistleblowers in 2012 via a limited hangout published to Wired in which then-National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor offered his denial of the president’s involvement.
Notable witnesses who claim personal knowledge of/experience in a secret United States military program on Mars include Andrew D. Basiago (now a political candidate running for president in 2020) and Laura Magdalene Eisenhower (great-granddaughter of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower). Their extensively detailed claims are the subject of both voluminous celebratory interviews and searing criticism appearing online as well as in terrestrial media.
Perhaps this newly-discovered leak concerning a secret military mission to Mars involving the United States Secretary of Defense provides an experiential link for audiences who can’t time travel and haven’t yet visited the red planet to directly evaluate the integrity of witness testimonies for themselves. Perhaps the citation of a “Mars mission” emerging from a retired general during yesterday’s confirmation will embolden further witnesses who can one day facilitate greater more experiential “show-me”-oriented disclosure in the interests of public education and transparent governance.
Suggestions of how the United States is preparing for real life star wars surrounded revelations of former extradition target Gary McKinnon, the Scottish sysadmin accused of perpetrating what was once described as “the biggest military computer hack of all time.” Said to be motivated in 2001 by the Disclosure Project, Gary McKinnon told the press how he secured unauthorized access to NASA, US military and Pentagon computers while searching for evidence of UFOs, antigravity technology, and the suppression of “free energy” over a two-year period.
The UK hacker still claims he found logs of troop transfers between non-seagoing warships (said to be a secret space fleet) and saw the screen image of a cigar-shaped UFO hosted on one of the computers during his incursions. A US attempt to extradite Gary McKinnon to face charges and potential lengthy overseas imprisonment was blocked by the British government in 2012 on grounds of human rights concerns.
The following is a partial transcript of United States Marine Corps General James N. Mattis’ remarks during yesterday’s senate defense secretary confirmation hearing held in Washington, D.C., preceded by the secret message encrypted backwards therein. Discussion of methods and philosophy guiding this practice can be found throughout this reporter’s previous related coverage discussed in links below.
Bring Mars mission:
“Sir, I would consider the principal threats, to start with, Russia. And it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or I would call it unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them. That sort of thing. And at the same time, as the chairman’s pointed out, we face now an era where we’re going to be fighting the terrorist threat. I mean, that’s simply a reality. We’re going to have to address that one.”
Er zijn steeds meer aanwijzingen die erop wijzen dat er niet altijd sneeuw en ijs heeft gelegen op Antarctica en dat er ooit een menselijke beschaving heeft gewoond.
Nu zijn er op een satellietfoto duidelijk de contouren van een ovaal gebouw diep onder het ijs waar te nemen.
Naast de huidige belangstelling voor Antarctica, is het continent ook interessant vanuit historisch oogpunt.
Als er zich daar namelijk inderdaad gebouwen onder het ijs bevinden, kunnen wij onze geschiedenisboeken herschrijven.
In 1929 vonden een aantal historici een verbazingwekkende kaart. Hij was getekend op de huid van een gazelle door de beroemde Turkse admiraal Piri Reis die rond 1500 leefde. Hij had toegang tot de bibliotheek van Constantinopel dat tegenwoordig Istanbul heet.
Achter op de kaart had Reis aantekeningen gemaakt waaruit bleek dat hij hem gemaakt had gebaseerd op onderzoek in de bibliotheek. Hij had hierbij gebruikgemaakt van bronnen die dateerden uit de vierde eeuw voor Christus en nog ouder.
Op de kaart van Piri Reis is de westkust van Afrika te zien, de oostkust van Zuid Amerika en de noordkust van Antartica. De details van de noordkust van Antartica zijn absoluut perfect. Niet alleen is het verbazingwekkend dat hij dat continent wist aan te geven, 300 jaar voordat het werd ontdekt, maar dat het bovendien de kustlijn laat zien zoals die zich onder het ijs bevindt.
Volgens geologen was de laatste periode dat er geen ijs lag in dat gebied ongeveer 4.000 jaar voor Christus. Meer recente onderzoeken hebben echter aangetoond dat die ijsvrije periode 6.000 jaar voor Christus eindigde. Dit was voordat volgens de geschiedenisboeken de eerste primitieve beschavingen zich op aarde vertonen. Waar heeft Reis die informatie vandaan gehaald om een kaart te maken die wij pas tegenwoordig met behulp van moderne technologieën kunnen maken?
Nu is er echter een satellietfoto opgedoken die een soort ovale constructie onder het ijs laat zien. Het lijkt een doorsnede van ruim 100 meter te hebben en heeft alle kenmerken van een door mensen gemaakt gebouw.
Als dit inderdaad wordt bevestigd, kunnen de geschiedenisboeken op aarde worden herschreven, want dan blijkt duidelijk dat er hoogstaande beschavingen op aarde waren, voordat dit volgens onze huidige geschiedenisboeken het geval was.
Volgens de hoofdarcheoloog Ashoka Tripathi van de Universiteit van Calcutta, zijn de afbeeldingen duidelijk bewijs van vroegere menselijke nederzettingen onder de dikke laag ijs.
Hij zei, “Dit zijn duidelijk kenmerken van bepaalde door mensen gemaakte structuur. De patronen laten níets zien van wat wij normaal gesproken zouden verwachten bij een natuurlijk gevormde formatie. Wij hebben hier ontegenzeglijk bewijs van menselijke constructie”.
“Het enige probleem dat we hebben, is dat deze foto’s zijn genomen in Antarctica, onder een twee kilometer dikke ijslaag. Dat is duidelijk een puzzel waar we op dit moment geen verklaring voor hebben”.
Wetenschappers dachten eerst dat er sprake zou zijn van een zogenaamde sastrugi, een natuurlijk fenomeen dat wordt veroorzaakt door jarenlange blootstelling aan sterke, ijskoude wind en zware sneeuwval.
Maar deze sastrugi hebben altijd een bepaalde vorm, gebaseerd op de windrichting en doen zich eigenlijk nooit voor in een ovale vorm zoals het beeld op de bewuste satellietfoto.
Onlangs kwamen er beelden tevoorschijn, waarop duidelijk piramides te zien zijn die omhoogsteken uit de sneeuw op Antarctica.
Eén van de tekenen die Cayce geeft voor het echt beginnen van die aardveranderingen is het beginnen van het “afbreken van condities” in de Zuid Zee. De Zuid Zee als zodanig bestaat niet, maar algemeen wordt aangenomen dat hij de Zuidpool Zee of Zuidelijke Oceaan bedoeld.
Dan zien we in het nieuws hoe een bijna 130 kilometer lange scheur in het ijs van de Larsen C ijsplaat op Antarctica grote gevolgen kan hebben.
Niet alleen zal dat enorme gevolgen kunnen hebben voor de stijging van de zeespiegel, maar wie weet wat voor andere geheimen daardoor ook worden blootgelegd.
Here’s one new UFO video, unfortunately in bad quality, of a bright triangular craft flying across the sky above North Carolina. This was filmed on Thursday, 12th January 2017.
Witness report:
I was out side feeding my dogs and I herd a loud humming noise I looked to my right and there was a air craft like I’ve never seen before it was shaped like a triangle with three bright lights but had no color I got a video of it and then it was like it just disappeared it was weird
Amazing footage of bright orbs flying over Canton, Mississippi 9-Jan-2017
Amazing footage of bright orbs flying over Canton, Mississippi 9-Jan-2017
Check out this amazing footage of a bright orbs flying in the sky above Canton, Mississippi. This happened on 9th January 2017.
Witness report:
I was standing outside, talking to a neighbor, when I saw this orb start flying around. It disappeared then when it reappeared, it came back with 15 more. It swirled above us for a few seconds then disappeared. This is not the first time that I’ve seen UFOs and this is the second time that I’ve summoned them. Thanks to Robert Bingham’s video, I know how to do it. The first time I did it, I saw the orbs but then they morphed into a bird like creature with white bodies and black tipped wings but continued to glow. They swirled above me and my neighbor, flew into a formation and then disappeared. I googled a description into Google search (orbs that shape shift into a bird like creature)and found a few pictures and a video that looked exactly like what I saw. One word to describe this is….AWESOME!
UFO Sighting Video Shows A UFO With Green Halo Of Light Over Italy
UFO Sighting Video Shows A UFO With Green Halo Of Light Over Italy
A video of a mysterious bright green spherical object has created speculations of a UFO in the sky over Italy. The strange thing in the four-minute video appears to change shape and color. It was reportedly captured on camera in Salento this week. The video is said to be genuine and untampered.
Music teacher Lucio Margiotta of Music Academy of Salento posted the footage on Facebook. He reportedly noticed the strange light in the sky at around eight in the evening local time on January 9, 2017.
The footage shows a bright white, spherical object that seemingly changes shape, size, and color. The bizarre thing turns bright green and transforms into a ring – like a smoke ring – at one point.
The ball then splits into two before fading away. The video was recorded using a smartphone at maximum zoom. According to Lucio, no effects or filters were used.
Some viewers suggest that the UFO is the result of autofocus that distorts the image especially prevalent when recorded with a smartphone.
Some UFO investigators explain that the light turns into a halo when Lucio apparently zooms on it, which may suggest that the camera autofocus system distorts the light and produces the strange effect.
The witness did not mention whether he saw the light transformed into a halo, or he just saw a distant light.
Some Facebook users propose another idea. They say the unusual phenomenon may just be the Venus. They explain the planet becomes highly visible from 7:30 pm to 8 pm. The sighting reportedly took place at 7:38 p
m. The planet is more visible if there’s a little haze, they say. They further explain that the visible circle is the result of image distortion from zooming in.
However, others say that it is one of the sphere beings that regularly visit the area. They say that these beings often respond with a bright flash if someone speaks to them as friends and wave.
Mothership UFO Appears To Send Out Secret Signals For An Approaching Smaller Craft
Mothership UFO Appears To Send Out Secret Signals For An Approaching Smaller Craft
Some enthusiasts claim that a mothership UFO was caught on camera flashing signals to an approaching smaller aircraft. The footage was allegedly taken on the night of January 2, 2017, Monday. It apparently shows a strange shimmering UFO over the sea off the southeast coast of England’s Isle of Wight.
According to the UFO enthusiasts, the video is the latest evidence supporting claims from different parts of the world of unusual UFO activity involving mothership UFOs seemingly dropping smaller ones to Earth or getting them back on board.
These UFO enthusiasts further claim that multiple videos showing mothership UFOs with smaller aircraft or dropping smaller aircraft suggest that a secret alien invasion of Earth is in progress. UFO hunters argue that a new video of the Isle of Wight in England depicts a mothership UFO giving off signals to retrieve a landing craft it unloaded earlier.
According to UFO enthusiasts, the so-called latest evidence video shows a shimmering mothership UFO floating over the sea, off the Shanklin coast on the Isle of Wight. The unidentified flying object in question is apparently flashing secret signals to a smaller craft that looks to appear a few seconds into the footage. The video also shows the smaller landing craft that seems to respond to the signals by flying toward the mothership and boarding it.
The 22-year-old James Ward took the footage with two video clips before 9 pm on Monday, January 2, 2017. The witness was in his car close to this home in Lake, on the English Isle of Wight. He was looking toward Shanklin beach when he saw the mothership UFO. According to the witness’ report, the giant UFO hovered in the dark sky while flashing signals in different colors. Moments later, a small UFO came with a bright white light flying towards the giant UFO. Ward took videos and pictures of the strange aerial activity with his phone.
Despite appearances, aliens have not descended upon a snowy scape in Ontario, Canada. Rather, an Earthly phenomenon is the cause of a ring of brilliant shafts of pastel-colored lights, captured in the wee hours of the morning by Timmy Joe Elzinga using his smartphone camera.
It was 1:30 a.m. local time in northern Ontario on Jan. 6 when Elzinga spotted the phenomenon.
"When I first saw these light beams shooting through the sky from my bathroom window, I was sure they were the northern lights," Elzinga told Live Science in an email. "I was able to capture these images both because the lights were so bright and pronounced and because I'm a bit of an amateur photographer." That experience, he said, led him to use "the manual settings on my phone to adjust the time the aperture was open to 8 seconds."
Ice from high altitudes explains the pillars that Elzinga saw, NASA said. During some cold, wintry nights, flat ice crystals that normally reside higher up in the atmosphere come fluttering closer to the ground, according to NASA. These whimsically wobbling ice crystals are sometimes referred to as crystal fog. When the crystals reflect ground lights from nearby cars and other bits of civilization, the result can be glorious: columns of light called "light pillars."
"The pillars are not physically over the lights or anywhere else in space for that matter — like all halos, they are purely the collected light beams from all the millions of crystals, which just happen to be reflecting light towards your eyes or camera," said Les Cowley, a retired physicist and atmospheric optics expert, on his site Atmospheric Optics.
The light pillars are so strange-looking that people often mistake them for UFOs, according to EarthSky.org. "There are said to be a lot of UFO reports caused by light pillars over Niagara Falls, where the mist from the rush of descending water interacts with the city's many upward-facing spotlights," EarthSky reported.
The beams resemble so-called sun pillars, which appear as columns of light extending from the sun due to light reflecting off ice crystals in the upper atmosphere, according to NASA.
And Elzinga saw quite a show.
To capture the northern Ontario pillars, Elzinga said he got creative.
"I also opened the window and removed the screen so I could get an unobstructed view, and I used the ridges in my bathroom window's track as a make shift tripod so I could avoid motion blur," he said. "I ran outside to see if I could get some more images and even went for a drive, but the light pillars seem[ed] to look best right from my area of town."
After 45 minutes or so, the lights were too dim for Elzinga to see them, he said.
Despite appearances, aliens have not descended upon a snowy scape in Ontario, Canada. Rather, an Earthly phenomenon is the cause of a ring of brilliant shafts of pastel-colored lights, captured in the wee hours of the morning by Timmy Joe Elzinga using his smartphone camera.
It was 1:30 a.m. local time in northern Ontario on Jan. 6 when Elzinga spotted the phenomenon.
"When I first saw these light beams shooting through the sky from my bathroom window, I was sure they were the northern lights," Elzinga told Live Science in an email. "I was able to capture these images both because the lights were so bright and pronounced and because I'm a bit of an amateur photographer." That experience, he said, led him to use "the manual settings on my phone to adjust the time the aperture was open to 8 seconds."
Ice from high altitudes explains the pillars that Elzinga saw, NASA said. During some cold, wintry nights, flat ice crystals that normally reside higher up in the atmosphere come fluttering closer to the ground, according to NASA. These whimsically wobbling ice crystals are sometimes referred to as crystal fog. When the crystals reflect ground lights from nearby cars and other bits of civilization, the result can be glorious: columns of light called "light pillars."
"The pillars are not physically over the lights or anywhere else in space for that matter — like all halos, they are purely the collected light beams from all the millions of crystals, which just happen to be reflecting light towards your eyes or camera," said Les Cowley, a retired physicist and atmospheric optics expert, on his site Atmospheric Optics.
The light pillars are so strange-looking that people often mistake them for UFOs, according to EarthSky.org. "There are said to be a lot of UFO reports caused by light pillars over Niagara Falls, where the mist from the rush of descending water interacts with the city's many upward-facing spotlights," EarthSky reported.
The beams resemble so-called sun pillars, which appear as columns of light extending from the sun due to light reflecting off ice crystals in the upper atmosphere, according to NASA.
And Elzinga saw quite a show.
To capture the northern Ontario pillars, Elzinga said he got creative.
"I also opened the window and removed the screen so I could get an unobstructed view, and I used the ridges in my bathroom window's track as a make shift tripod so I could avoid motion blur," he said. "I ran outside to see if I could get some more images and even went for a drive, but the light pillars seem[ed] to look best right from my area of town."
After 45 minutes or so, the lights were too dim for Elzinga to see them, he said.
A St Austell man says he believes Cornwall was visited by aliens after he spotted a UFO hovering in the sky above Bodmin Moor.
The man was on his way home from work in the early hours of the morning when he saw the giant black triangle floating soundlessly in the sky.
He said he was in no doubt about what he saw – and it wasn't of this Earth.
"It was really weird. It was something like out of Star Trek. I think it was something from somewhere else in space and time. I have never seen anything like it before," he said.
"It wasn't from this planet."
Watch: Dave Gillham of Cornwall UFO Research Group, talk about UFO sightings in the county
He said he was driving back home from a night shift and as he drove up the hill gained a clear and far reaching view of Bodmin Moor.
However, he suddenly saw a black triangular object in the sky and his first thought was this it was a cloud.
"Then I thought, clouds don't have straight lines like that," he said.
"It was very big, the size of a few football pitches. It was a clear morning and I had a very clear view. I would say it was a few miles away when I saw it.
"I kept my eye on it while I was driving and it just hung there. There was no noise. It was moving like it was gradually turning.
The object was seen hovering above Bodmin Moor
"It seemed to have a tail fin type thing on top and underneath there were two other things that were attached, but I don't know what they were. Then it suddenly sped off."
The man, who was in his 40s when he spotted the phenomenon in summer 2009, told his wife as soon as he got home.
However, he has never spoken of it publicly for fear of being ridiculed and has asked CornwallLive to withhold his identity.
"I got home and told the wife and she was surprised but accepted what I said.
"But I didn't mention it to anyone else because I thought people would think I was mad or something. They would probably say it was just because I was tired after working a night shift or that I had had a drink.
Cuforg
A map compiled by Cuforg showing sightings of UFOs
"But I know what I saw."
He has recently reported it to the Cornwall UFO Research Group (Cuforg), which documents sightings and whose member, Lionel Fanthorpe, has identified a triangle of UFO activity which runs from Land's End to Falmouth Bay to St Ives Bay.
He found figures which revealed more than 60 reported sightings of UFOs in Cornwall compared to a national average of 40 sightings for comparable areas.
Last month, CornwallLive reported new newly revealed sightings of flying saucers in the skies above Cornwall which have a remarkable similarity to the one at Bodmin Moor.
Watch: Dave Gillham of Cornwall UFO Research Group, talk about UFO sightings in the county
The sightings include two of a giant black floating triangle, with one man seeing the object emerge from the depths of St Ives Bay and another describing how it traced the journey of their car on the Lizard.
Dave Gillham, founder of Cuforg, said he dealt with around 30 to 40 reports of flying saucers every year and though most had a rational explanation, some remained a mystery.
He said: "We get a lot when the space station goes over, but you can easily go online and pin that down. Sometimes the UFO sighting can be explained by drones, or laser pens, which can be quite powerful, or even Chinese lanterns."
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WATCH: Police footage of a circular object in the sky - is it a UFO?
WATCH: Police footage of a circular object in the sky - is it a UFO?
A strange object in the sky was caught on camera by officers back in September
A UFO expert based in Holme Valley has criticised police as he investigates an incident of a suspected UFO spotted by one of their helicopters.
Footage emerged in September of a circular object in the sky, caught on an infra-red camera from a police helicopter in South Wales.
Scholes-based Gary Heseltine, editor of UFO Truth magazine, says he has since been submitting numerous Freedom of Information requests to South Wales Police to shed light on the incident.
Gary, who runs annual UFO conferences in Holmfirth which attract people from across the country, claims police have not been “transparent” about the encounter.
Strange object filmed by FLIR infrared camera on board the police helicopter
He said: “I’ve waited until now to see how much information I could obtain from the police via the FOI requests I’ve submitted. What I can say is that in my opinion the police have not been as open and transparent as they could have been.”
Gary says he has requested logs from the force in relation to the helicopter that captured the UFO footage, including flight maps and audio from the cockpit.
He claims the case bears a resemblance to another case in Chile where a Navy helicopter captured a UFO on infra-red.
Gary added: “I believe this British case is a major UFO event and should be the subject of a scientific enquiry.”
Strange object filmed by FLIR infrared camera on board the police helicopter
After the Chilean Navy released the footage from its two-year investigation of a strange UFO caught on camera by one of its helicopters, the internet lost its mind for a few days. The Huffington Post’s UFO investigator and conspiracy watcher Leslie Kean first broke the story, which soon went viral. While many not-so-skeptical outlets have been hailing the footage as the first definitive footage of an alien spacecraft, others aren’t so convinced.
The mysterious object left two separate plumes behind it, sparking the usual chemtrail claims.
Naturally, many reddit discussions sprung up to examine the footage, with many users claiming that the object resembles a U.S. military helicopter or even the thermal signature of a commercial jet. According to the Chilean Navy’s investigation, however, there were no other known aircraft in the vicinity its helicopter’s location which could have been misidentified as the UFO in the footage. Furthermore, according to the investigation reports, the Chilean Navy’s radar picked up no aircraft in the area. Some outlets have claimed the footage to be a hoax, as Leslie Kean and the Chilean Navy have been known in the past to over-hype some rather dubious UFO claims.
To complicate the conversation surrounding the UFO claims further, fact-checking site Metabunk.org has published a comprehensive examination of the Chilean Navy’s footage along with flight traffic data from the area on the date of the sighting and comparisons of other infrared heat signatures.
Flight data from a nearby airliner on the date of the sighting.
Image credit: Metabunk.org.
According to the post, written by Metabunk administrator Mick West, the object in the footage can be explained away as simply the aerodynamic contrails left by one of two possible commercial airliners:
Based on analysis by @Trailblazer, @Trailspotter, myself, and others, There are likely TWO planes involved IB6830 and LA330. The plane that initially seems to fit best is LA330, a two engined A320, which was reported to be climbing through 20,000 feet at that exact visual position at 14:01:39.
The post includes flight path data of the two flights, showing that they were approximately 65 miles (100 km) away from the helicopter, and West claims the distance could be the reason the object did not appear on the helicopter’s radar. The post goes on to compare images of normal jet thermal signatures against those in the footage, and the resemblance is indeed quite apparent.
Comparison of a commercial jet’s thermal signature with that of the object in the video.
Image credit: Metabunk.org
West’s final conclusion is that the helicopter’s infrared footage is merely picking up on the temperature fluctuations of the aerodynamic contrail left by a commercial aircraft out of range of the helicopter’s radar. According to their website, Metabunk.org is “dedicated to the art and pastime of honest, polite, scientific investigating and debunking.” The site is mainly concerned with debunking contrail claims and 9/11 conspiracy accusations, but will occasionally report on UFO matters.
Despite a few well-publicized instances of flying-under-the-influence, most people have a high regard for pilots, where they be military, space or commercial pilots. That – plus the fact that they spend most of their on-the-job time in the air scanning the skies – is why UFO reports by pilots are taken more seriously than others. On December 26th, 2016, two commercial pilots claim to have had a 10-minute encounter with a UFO off the U.S. coast near Atlantic City, New Jersey, and attempted to communicate with it using the lights on their plane. Is this smoke or the smoking gun?
I looked up I saw a very large and bright flashing light, which I brought to the other pilot’s attention. His response when seeing it was pretty much the same as mine…. “What in the hell?”… “What is that?”
According to their report to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), a UFO investigation organization based in Davenport, Washington, the pilots were on a flight from New York to Miami on a clear night with unlimited visibility. The sighting occurred 100 nautical miles east of Atlantic City over water between 2130-2200 EST (9:30-10:00 pm). They described it as being 3-5 times as big as the brightest star they could see and moving from the horizon to 35 degrees up.
At first sight the light was approximately at our 1 o’clock position. It moved to 12, 10, 11, back to 12. At that time, the light appeared to move North, then south at a pretty rapid rate.
Rather than a solid light, the pilots said the UFO was flashing and one noticed an orange/red flash in between the white flashes.
We did flash our lights at it a few times, and the other pilot believes it flashed back in sequence; I felt the return flashes were probably coincidental, but possible. Neither one of use have ever seen and/or heard of an occurrence like this.
This sounds like something that should be reported to air traffic control, doesn’t it?
We were going to report it to ATC, but mutually decided to let it be. I have no explanation for what we saw, nor does the other pilot. We did try to video the incident, but it wasn’t possible.
While there are many UFO sightings by pilots, they are reluctant to report them – especially using their real names – for fear of ridicule or job loss or – in the case of commercial flights – fear of lawsuits from passengers.
Andrew Danzinger – a pilot who saw a UFO but waited years to reveal it publicly
Did these two pilots see more on December 26th than they’re willing to disclose, even anonymously? Did any of their passengers see it? Was their communication with the UFO something more than coincidental? Time may tell. Commercial pilot Andy Danzinger waited 25 years to talk about his UFO encounter publicly. Had he revealed it before, would he have been hired to pilot President Obama’s plane during his campaign?
Are there any other reasons these pilots might be afraid to reveal their UFO sightings?
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12 Years Later, Scientists Remember Epic Landing on Saturn Moon Titan
12 Years Later, Scientists Remember Epic Landing on Saturn Moon Titan
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
As NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft begins its final eight months of operation, scientists are looking back at one of the mission's most dramatic moments: the landing of the piggyback Huygens probe on the huge moon Titan.
Huygens touched down on Titan's frigid surface on Jan. 14, 2005, three weeks after separating from the Cassini mothership. It was a landmark moment in planetary science, mission team members said.
"The Huygens descent and landing represented a major breakthrough in our exploration of Titan as well as the first soft landing on an outer-planet moon," Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. "It completely changed our understanding of this haze-covered ocean world." [Huygens Probe's Titan Landing Revisited 12 Years Later (Video)]
Cassini and Huygens launched together in October 1997 and reached the Saturn system in July 2004. On Dec. 24 of that year, Huygens separated from the Cassini orbiter to begin a 20-day voyage toward the lander's final destination.
The Huygens lander revealed a never-before-seen world in the landscape of Saturn's moon Titan. This view was created using images taken during the probe's descent, from an altitude of about 6 miles (10 kilometers).
At the time, little was known about the 3,200-mile-wide (5,150 kilometers) Titan; dense atmospheric haze kept the moon's surface features shrouded in mystery. To an extent, the Cassini mothership has been able to use radar to peer through the haze from orbit, but Huygens' up-close photographic views were a revelation, mission scientists said.
During its 2.5-hour descent, the lander captured hundreds of images of the moon's surface, revealing bright highlands cut by steep ravines and channels. Huygens also took photos of its surroundings after touching down, on a dark granulated surface that resembled a dry lake bed. (The lander operated for a few hours before ending its mission.)
"The Huygens images were everything our images from orbit were not," Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said in the same statement.
"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," Porco added. "Huygens' images became a Rosetta Stone for helping us interpret out subsequent findings on Titan."
Titan is the only solar system object aside from Earth known to harbor stable bodies of liquid on its surface. But Titan's seas contain liquid ethane and methane, not water.
Huygens also sampled the atmosphere of the huge moon while passing through, measuring winds and analyzing the organic chemistry of the unusual world.
In the dozen years since Huygens touched down on Titan, Cassini has continued studying the moon from Saturn orbit during a series of flybys. The spacecraft has examined the clouds in the moon's atmosphere and analyzed the satellite's climate and seasonal changes. Cassini has probed the variation in surface features, including lakes, rivers, channels and reservoirs. Bizarre "magic islands" have been observed appearing and disappearing over time in one of Titan's northern lakes. The moon also shows signs of potential cryovolcanism, low peaks that may permit cold lava flows on the surface.
"Cassini and Huygens have shown us that Titan is an amazing world with a landscape that mimics Earth in many ways," said Cassini scientist Alex Hayes, of Cornell University in New York.
"During its descent, the Huygens probe captured views that demonstrated an entirely new dimension to that comparison and highlighted that there is so much more we have yet to discover," Hayes added. "For me, Huygens has emphasized why it is so important that we continue to explore Titan."
The $3.2 billion Cassini-Huygens mission is a collaboration involving NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
The venerable mission is nearing its end. In April, the Cassini mothership will begin its "Grand Finale" phase, a series of 22 dives between Saturn's cloud tops and the planet's innermost ring. Then, on Sept. 15, the probe will perform an intentional death plunge into Saturn's atmosphere, to ensure that microbes from the craft don't contaminate Titan or the icy moon Enceladus, two worlds that may be capable of supporting life.
Green Glow from Ancient Galaxies Surprises Scientists
Green Glow from Ancient Galaxies Surprises Scientists
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
This image shows the results of a deep field survey by the Subaru Telescope. A new analysis used a Subaru deep field image to identify the location of nearly 1,300 distant galaxies. The analysis then combined the UV radiation from those galaxies to learn about their composition. A few bright supernovas can also be seen in the image.
Credit: Subaru Telescope, NAOJ
GRAPEVINE, Texas — The galaxies are greener on the other side of the universe, it seems: A new analysis reveals that some of the most distant galaxies ever observed are radiating green light, a finding that could deeply affect developing models of those early galaxies.
"It’s a very distinctive, intense green light that these galaxies are just pouring out," Matt Malkin, a professor of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, who led the new research, said on Dec. 8 during a news conference at the 229th American Astronomical Society meeting.
Researchers have seen this same kind of green light coming from a few galaxies in the nearby universe, but, according to Malkin, the "shocking" part of the new analysis is in the number of galaxies involved: The green light that researchers observed in the new study appears to be coming from most or all of the galaxies that formed in the first 1 billion or 2 billion years of the universe. The finding is further evidence that scientists don't fully understand many of the characteristics of stars and galaxies that existed in this early period of the universe's lifetime. Thankfully, that's an era that a few upcoming telescopes are going to illuminate. [The History & Structure of the Universe (Infographic)]
Being green
Green is a not a typical color for a galaxy. Most galaxies that scientists observe tend to be whitish in color, with a few subtle deviations — some may have a red, orange or yellow hue if they contain a lot of cool, red stars; others appear bluish-white if they contain a lot of hot, short-lived blue stars. Regions with a lot of hot gas can have strong, distinct colors, as well. For example, regions of recent heavy star formation, like the Orion Nebula, may radiate a pinkish glow created by the presence of hydrogen. (Thanks to a technique called spectroscopy, scientists can look at the light from an object and figure out what chemicals are present.)
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the compact green pea galaxy J0925+1403. The diameter of the galaxy is approximately 6,000 light years, and it is about twenty times smaller than the Milky Way.
Credit: NASA
But there are a few exceptions in the relatively nearby universe: a sprinkling of dwarf galaxies with high rates of star formation known as "green pea galaxies" that were identified through the citizen scientist project Galaxy Zoo. The greenish tint comes specifically from oxygen atoms that have had two of their electrons ripped away (the symbol for this type of oxygen atom is O++).
For a star to produce enough energy to doubly ionize oxygen atoms, it would have to have a temperature of around 50,000 Kelvin, according to Malkin; the hottest known stars in the universe reach temperatures of 50,000 or 60,000 Kelvin. It could be that these green peas have an unusually high number of very hot stars that send their energy through oxygen-rich gas clouds and deliver a solid wallop to the oxygen atoms therein, removing two electrons from the atoms. But a full explanation for how green-pea galaxies produce such a large amount of these specific types of oxygen atoms is still a matter of debate, according to a statement from UCLA about the new work.
Green peas make up less than one hundredth of 1 percent of known galaxies. The galaxies that Malkin and colleagues studied are all very, very far away, and because light takes time to travel through space, that means that astronomers are seeing those galaxies the way they were a long, long time ago. The light from the galaxies that Malkin and his team are studying was emitted about 11 billion years ago, when the universe was only about 2 billion or 3 billion years old.
Those early galaxies were a little less chemically cluttered than modern ones. The furnace at the heart of a star fuses atoms together, creating stuff like carbon, iron and oxygen. When massive stars die, they explode and spread those elements out into space, and those explosions can also compress and heat material to create more heavy elements. After more than 10 billion years of star formation and star death, modern galaxies are a rich stew of heavy elements (astronomers characterize these stars as having "high metallicity") — a condition that wasn't present in those young galaxies.
When those heavy elements are inside a star, they tend to absorb the energy coming from the star's internal furnace, so stars in the modern universe (where there are more heavy elements) tend to be cooler than stars in the early universe. In other words, lower metallicity stars tend to be hotter and release more high energy radiation, Daniel Stark, an assistant professor of astrophysics at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the new analysis, told Space.com. Modern galaxies may certainly display a little bit of the green light indicative of O++ atoms, according to Malkin, but that light doesn't dominate the color of the galaxy.
If early galaxies didn't contain quite so many heavy elements, then there should be more of those very hot stars. That energy could pass through oxygen-rich interstellar gas clouds, and potentially create a stronger O++ green glow. Models of those early, massive stars indicate that this is likely the case, but the new finding shows that the green light is a factor of two more intense than what the models predict. Malkin said the models "depend on a lot of unknown parameters" and are currently fairly simplistic, but he estimates that the light from the O++ atoms is "four or more times stronger" than the pink light from gaseous hydrogen; most models predict that the signature of hydrogen should be equal or stronger than O++. (A study released earlier this year confirmed the presence of oxygen in one equally distant galaxy).
Malkin's new results highlight how underdeveloped those models are, Stark said.
"We can study the massive stellar populations in the Milky Way in great detail. But stars that are present in the early universe are likely to have much lower metal content," Stark said. "The massive stars in such low metallicity systems remain very poorly understood."
It's possible that the stars are actually "somehow much hotter, more energetic than even the hottest energetic stars we're familiar with today," Malkin said during his presentation at AAS. "So they're not just emitting UV photons, they're emitting extreme, high-energy UV photons. They're practically X-rays, coming out of these stars."
For comparison, the surface temperature of the sun is around 5,000 or 6,000 Kelvin and thus the central body of our nearest star is not hot enough to produce X-rays or knock two electrons off an oxygen atom. (The surrounding corona reaches temperatures of up to a million Kelvin, and can produce X-rays.)
This image shows a planetary nebula — a very hot star near the end of its life. The greenish tint arises from the presence of oxygen atoms with two electrons removed.
Credit: Bruce Balick (University of Washington), Jason Alexander (University of Washington), Arsen Hajian (U.S. Naval Observatory), Yervant Terzian (Cornell University), Mario Perinotto (University of Florence, Italy), Patrizio Patriarchi (Arcetri Observatory, It
Greenlighting new telescopes
One of the reasons models of ancient galaxies aren't very robust is because those galaxies are incredibly far away, and thus they're incredibly difficult to study; there's simply not a lot of observational data to go on. Malkin and his colleagues could not see the green glow from the individual galaxies they studied; by themselves, the galaxies are too faint. But by combining the observations from the Subaru Deep Field of 1,294 galaxies (a technique called "stacking"), Malkin and his colleagues were able to see the general characteristics of these galaxies. They were shocked when they saw that the green light they observed was so much stronger than what their models anticipated; in fact, it's the strongest emission line emitted by these galaxies, which means that even though hydrogen should be the most common element in these galaxies, the light they're emitting is dominated by this doubly ionized oxygen.
According to Malkin, the signal is so strong that it can't easily be explained by a few outliers; it appears that most of the young galaxies that existed at that particular point in the universe's evolution were emitting this green light.
A new generation of telescopes will be needed to answer major questions about these stars and galaxies, both Malkin and Stark said. Right now, scientists can't see the very high-energy UV light that these galaxies might be emitting. But the James Webb Space Telescope will be sensitive to the green light that Malkin and his colleagues detected; the instrument will also very quickly provide a resolution that's high enough to study those distant galaxies individually.
If that strong O++ green glow is truly characteristic of most galaxies from that time, then scientists could use that doubly ionized oxygen signal to help date the age of distant galaxies, and confirm the detection of new galaxies from that period in the universe's history.
The results of the new analysis by Malkin and his colleagues are currently undergoing review for publication.
« Les civilisations avancées de l'espace utiliseront un jour les signaux de télévision pour contacter l'humanité », prédisait, en 1975, le grand astronome et astrophysicien américain de l'Université Stanford, le Dr Ronald N. Bracewell (1). Et d'ajouter: « A mon avis le message nous sera envoyé par l'entremise de la télévision parce qu'il est plus aisé d'échanger des idées par des signes et des images. Ce seront probablement des signaux géométriques que les extra-terrestres enverront comme test pour savoir s'il existe de la vie intelligente sur la Terre ». L'ennui, chez les scientifiques, fussent-ils aussi illustres que le Dr Bracewell (1921-2007), c'est qu'ils sont certes les champions en matière de prospective technologique et les maîtres dans le domaine de la futurologie à long terme, mais ils demeurent bassement anthropomorphiques dès qu'il s'agit d'imaginer des comportements, des intentions, des lignes de conduite émanant d'intelligences autres que la nôtre. Dans le cas précis qui nous occupe, il est question de déterminer quelle forme pourrait prendre le message que des êtres « étrangers » auraient décidé de transmettre par le biais de la télévision. Et là l'idée de l'astronome américain, à savoir un message formé d' « images géométriques », paraît simpliste pour ne pas dire naïve. Beaucoup plus grisante est la démarche qui consiste à se demander comment « ils » interféreraient avec nos propres émissions pour se signaler à notre attention sans déclencher la vague de panique si souvent redoutée. Cette manière de raisonner est d'autant plus féconde qu'elle permet d'envisager que de tels messages aient pu déjà nous parvenir sans que quiconque, sur Terre, ne les ait reconnus comme tels ! Plutôt que d'ajouter foi à quelques relations peu crédibles selon lesquelles des entités étrangères seraient apparues sur des postes TV isolés et y auraient transmis un message - le cas se serait produit, selon le St Petersburg Times du 28 Novembre 1977, à Southampton (Grande Bretagne), penchons-nous ici sur le cas d'une anomalie TV observée autour des années soixante, oubliée depuis, mais qui pourrait constituer la manifestation du message tant attendu et pas assez explicite pour emporter la conviction des spécialistes. Du Texas à l’AngleterreVoici les faits, en un premier temps. Jusqu'en 1950, il y avait à Houston, Texas (USA) une station de télévision dont la marque d'identification était constituée par le sigle de 4 lettres: KLEE. C'est sur le même principe que nos trois chaînes TV françaises sont désignées respectivement par TF1, A2, FR3 et autre M6. Comme il est coutume, pendant les périodes creuses ou la station ne diffusait aucune émission (2), elle transmettait tout de même une mire destinée aux réglages que doivent nécessairement effectuer les professionnels en dehors des heures de programmes. Ainsi, la mire de la station comportait-elle, en grosses lettres sur l'écran, l'inscription KLEE TV. En juillet 1950, la station texane fut revendue à un groupe concurrent qui la débaptisa en « KPRC TV ». Automatiquement, la mire marquée « KLEE TV » fut remplacée et alors, selon toute logique, elle n'aurait plus dû jamais réapparaître en direct ou autrement sur aucun appareil récepteur de télévision et ceci au Texas, certes, mais aussi ailleurs, à plus forte raison. Or, justement de façon tout à fait imprévue - voire impossible - des images de cette mire furent captées plusieurs années plus tard, non seulement dans la banlieue de Houston, mais dans des lieux aussi éloignés que le Wisconsin, le Connecticut, le New Jersey, l'état de New York et même en Angleterre ! C'est ainsi que des particuliers tels que Charles W. Batley de Londres, H. C. Taylor de Morecambe, Lancashire, spécialiste des réceptions TV longue distance et des professionnels de l'Atlantic Electronics Ltd de Lancaster, signalèrent le fait à plusieurs reprises à l'automne 1953 et au début de 1954.
Une photo du signal parasite
Et des photos d'écrans affichant le sigle « KLEE TV » furent même envoyées à Paul Huhndorff, ingénieur en chef à la KPRC.Pas de doute, bien qu'ayant subi certaines distorsions, les lettres étaient tout à fait reconnaissables et leur disposition correspondait exactement à celle qu'elles occupaient sur la mire de KLEE transmise jusqu'en 1950 et qui n'avait plus été diffusée depuis plus de 3 ans!
Le phénomène continua à être rapporté pendant plusieurs mois... même des années puisqu'en février 1962, une téléspectatrice de Millwaukee (Wisconsin) vit apparaître sur son écran la fameuse inscription KLEE TV. Mrs Rosella Rose, c’était son nom (!), relata : « C'était le matin, entre 7 et 7 h 30, avant de partir au travail, je tentais de capter une émission sur ma télé. Soudain, sur l'écran, apparut l'inscription KLEE TV. Or, je n'avais jamais entendu parler de cette station et je ne savais pas d'où cela pouvait provenir. L'image clignota plusieurs fois et disparut ». Un « différé » de plus de 11 ans totalement incompréhensible. Une « absurdité technique selon les techniciens britanniques de la BBC et ce, à plus d'un titre. Absurdité technique ?Tentons d'expliquer simplement pourquoi la réception différée d'un signal de télévision sur ainsi plusieurs années, et à une telle distance de l'émetteur, peut constituer « une des plus étranges énigmes des temps modernes » ; une « impossibilité technologique », surtout à une époque où aucun satellite de communication n'était officiellement installé dans le ciel et où les liaisons transatlantiques étaient laborieuses. Tout d'abord, la nature même des ondes TV dites de hautes fréquences (longueur 1 à 10 m, fréquence 30 à 300 mégahertz selon les pays) exclut complètement l'éventualité d'un « signal vagabond » ricochant sur les couches supérieures de l'atmosphère; l'hypothèse évoquée d'un train d'onde errant à réflexion multiple est donc une utopie. Les ondes TV se propagent, en effet, en ligne droite et traversent normalement l'atmosphère, s'échappant directement dans l'espace, si bien que, compte tenu de la rotondité de la terre, il a fallu les rabattre vers le sol afin d'atteindre et « arroser » une plus vaste zone ; comme, ainsi, au delà de l'horizon optique le champ décroît très vite, on a dû disposer sur le territoire visé de hautes antennes relais pour augmenter la portée de la diffusion et, plus tard, placer des satellites en orbites destinés au même effet. En 1950, il n'y en avait pas que je sache. Qui n'a pas, par ailleurs, remarqué que les ondes porteuses de TV ont un champ de transmission extrêmement limité et qui n'en a jamais pâti (3), à l’époque héroïque des premières réceptions TV, en suivant un film où les images étaient désagréablement déformées ? Bien que les ondes TV soient plus pénétrantes que les ondes radio -lesquelles ont de plus grandes longueurs d'onde -, elles butent sur les obstacles matériels solides, créant de véritables « zones d'ombre ». C'est bien connu. Et la propagation indirecte par réflexion, peu importante au demeurant, ne peut pas être exploitée techniquement, sauf cas particuliers, à cause des effets d'échos ou de distorsion. C'est pourquoi les relais sont de complexes systèmes récepteurs- réémetteurs et non pas de simples miroirs réfléchissants. Quant à la réflexion des signaux TV sur les couches gazeuses de l'ionosphère, elle ne se produit pratiquement pas, contrairement à celle des ondes radio qui, elles rebondissent dessus et peuvent ainsi faire le tour de la Terreplusieurs fois de suite, provoquant de la sorte des messages « errants ». Ce type de phénomène de ricochet est donc totalement exclu en télévision. De la sorte, les ondes TV traversent la coquille gazeuse de l'atmosphère terrestre et se perdent alors dans l'espace. C’est ainsi qu’on a pu dire que d’éventuels extraterrestres sont avisés de nos programmes de télé depuis plus d’un demi-siècle. Pour expliquer le retour incongru du signal KLEE TV, on a bien émis l'hypothèse que les ondes porteuses avaient pu être renvoyées vers la Terre dans des conditions atmosphériques particulières. De l'avis des experts, c'est possible mais peu probable. De cette manière, justifierait-on par des circonstances climatiques exceptionnelles que le fameux sigle eût pu être réceptionné à une distance aussi lointaine du point d'émission que l'Angleterre ? Difficile déjà à admettre. Problème du décalageMais le mystère reste entier pour ce qui est du « décalage temporel » enregistré entre le moment de la dernière diffusion (1950) et celui de la première « réception impossible » en 1953 ! Car une autre propriété des ondes TV, c'est qu'elles se propagent à une vitesse proche de celle de la lumière ; donc, même si elles subissaient des réflexions successives autour du globe terrestre - et les chances en sont naturellement infinitésimales, on l’a vu -, elles seraient captées avec un retard qui ne saurait excéder quelques dixièmes de seconde ! Par conséquent, que le dernier signal KLEE TV ait pu errer entre ciel et terre de façon captive, pendant trois ans et même plus, répercuté alternativement au sol et sur les couches supérieures de l'atmosphère comme une mouche enfermée dans une bouteille, relève de la pure utopie ou plutôt de la plus grande stupidité. D'ailleurs, si par extraordinaire cela s'était produit, la mire aurait dû être régulièrement interceptée entre 1950 et 1954 ; or, elle ne l'a pas été... Ce retour à l'envoyeur fortuit après tant de déviations aurait dû aussi générer des déformations telles qu’elles auraient rendu la mire non identifiable. Une autre conjecture avancée en la circonstance pour solutionner le problème posé est que les ondes TV porteuses du fameux message KLEE TV aient traversé l'ionosphère (comme toute onde TV qui se respecte), se soient échappées dans l'espace normalement et réfléchies accidentellement sur « un corps céleste inconnu » propice à cela, situé à quelques années lumière de distance de la Terre. On peut toutefois et on doit se demander lequel. Et là les réponses ne se bousculent pas au portillon. A propos de KLEE, un ingénieur de la BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) déclarait : « Il est physiquement impossible que ces ondes de télévision soient allées rebondir par hasard sur quelque obstacle céleste situé à une si grande distance. Nous sommes confrontés à un phénomène qui défie complètement nos connaissances actuelles sur les transmissions TV ». Autre impossibilité !Mais il y avait pire que cela pour inscrire cette énigme au livre de l'amphigourique. Car, quand bien même la réflexion aurait eu lieu sur un corps inconnu de l'espace, il était de surcroît hors de question à l'époque que, émis par une station TV américaine, le message puisse être capté et rendu « télévisuellement » directement par un appareil récepteur britannique puisque les deux pays n'utilisaient pas le même système de transmission. Les caractéristiques techniques des images transmises par l'un et l'autre des pays étaient totalement incompatibles : polarité, balayage horizontal et vertical (nombre de lignes), fréquence, amplitude de modulation, etc. Même aujourd'hui, lorsque des émissions américaines en direct sont relayées par satellite pour être diffusées sur le continent européen, cela nécessite une opération intermédiaire effectuée par un convertisseur électronique pour les rendre compatibles et intelligibles à nos appareils européens. La tendance actuelle (4) est à la vente de postes TV qui fonctionnent selon les deux systèmes (PAL et SECAM) mais, en 1955, ils n'étaient pas encore inventés ! Restait alors la seule solution admissible cadrant réellement avec les faits qui semblent indubitablement établis, à savoir dernière émission du sigle KLEE TV en juillet 1950 et réception à partir de 1953 dans différentes régions de la planète : la récupération par « quelqu'un » du signal KLEE pendant la durée de son émission, son enregistrement, son stockage quelque part pendant plusieurs années et sa réémission en différé, reconverti ou non. Mais dans quel but et par qui ? Telles sont les questions clés sur lesquelles repose désormais le mystère. Deux possibilités ont été évoquées: les plaisantins et le contact extra-terrestre. Canular ?La première - et c'est malheureusement celle à laquelle s’arrêtèrent les autorités, bien embarrassées par cette histoire - ne voit dans l'affaire du message retardé qu'une farce de radio-TV amateur isolé ou non. Le fait que la réception pirate signalée à Milwaukee ait eu lieu à peu près à la date où les stations TV non professionnelles - locales dirions-nous aujourd'hui - obtenaient l'autorisation d'utiliser les ultra-hautes fréquences (UHF) pour leurs diffusions aux USA, a largement conforté cette idée. Une diapositive de la mire KLEE TV avait-elle été gardée en souvenir par un opérateur, TV amateur à ses heures, et n'avait-il rien trouvé de plus intelligent que de la réémettre histoire d'enflammer les imaginations de ses contemporains ? La malignité humaine, certes, n'a pas de limites et personne ne peut savoir où elle va se loger. Mais dans ce cas, le jeu en valait-il la chandelle ? D’autre part, l’idée d’un seul bouc émissaire a été contestée parce qu’il a fallu disposer d'un matériel fort onéreux pour réussir cette tromperie et on voit mal ce qu'elle a pu rapporter à son auteur ; on a parlé d’un groupe anglais (non identifié) qui, à l'époque, aurait tenté ainsi de faire homologuer l'invention d'un système (lequel ?) de transmission TV longue distance. Sinon la satisfaction de constater avec quel sérieux l'affaire fut considérée par les meilleurs spécialistes anglo-saxons en matière de détection de signaux suspects en provenance de l'espace. Surtout s’il s’agissait d'une pub pour la marque KLEE… NEX) ! Il y avait, en effet, encore une autre hypothèse pour expliquer la réception différée du sigle KLEE TV et elle est directement en rapport avec les déclarations de R. Bracewell, rapportées ci-dessus mais fut traitée beaucoup plus confidentiellement. Message extraterrestre ?N'est-ce pas excitant de penser que ce « message TV impossible » ait pu constituer le test psychologique d'intelligence évoqué par l'astronome américain ? En tout cas, il dénoterait une subtilité de jugement sans égale à celle qui consisterait à nous envoyer « des signaux géométriques » en guise d'examen probatoire de mesure de notre QI. L'absurdité d'un tel retour décalé dans le temps et l'espace, selon les lois communes de la transmission d'images sans fil, serait franchement un moyen génial de jauger le niveau de nos capacités mentales. Ce raisonnement pourrait paraître gratuit si l'on ne savait pas qu'à l'époque où le message KLEE TV fut reçu en Grande Bretagne, un enquêteur américain important fut dépêché sur les lieux.
C'était le Dr Frank Drake, de l'observatoire astronomique de Green Bank et fondateur du projet OZMA, une des premières tentatives élaborées par les Etats Unis dans le dessein de détecter les signaux intelligents émanant de l'espace. Le Dr Drake, à l'époque reconnu comme le plus grand expert du monde sur ces questions de contacts interstellaires, fut l'hôte ni plus ni moins du ministère britannique de la Défense. Pour parler, en autre, du mystèreKLEE ? Finalement, le rapport de Frank Drake sur cette affaire, autant qu'on puisse en savoir, conclut à la mystification en une variante de ce qui a été indiqué plus haut. Selon Drake, les auteurs de cette farce seraient « deux hommes d'affaires anglais qui auraient voulu faire croire que les images TV pouvaient traverser l'Atlantique ». A quelle fin ? Cela n'a pas hélas été divulgué. Bien entendu, jamais personne ne fut informé des éléments qui avaient amené F. Drake (5) à conclure dans ce sens. De son côté, le projet OZMA fut ajourné sans aucun résultat positif. D'autres opérations similaires furent lancées et elles avortèrent toutes. Le projet SETI - search for extraterrestrial intelligence = recherche d'intelligences extra-terrestres - est toujours en cours, n'ayant encore rien donné à ce jour (2009). Il est de plus en plus contesté dans sa forme plutôt que dans son principe : les extraterrestres ne seraient pas forcément des accrocs de la communication électromagnétique ! N'avons-nous pas reconnu le message contenu implicitement dans le retour vers la Terre de la mire KLEE TV? Les responsables de cet écho insolite - mais pas unique - basés à quelques années lumière de la Terre, ont-ils placé trop haut la barre d'intelligence susceptible de retenir leur attention (périphrase qui peut cacher des intentions plus inquiétantes) et ainsi, en ont-ils conclu que notre planète est encore sans intérêt pour eux, les créatures y vivant étant incapables d’identifier et de déchiffrer la signification de leur subtil appel ? C'est une éventualité cocasse qui me plaît énormément et que j'aimerais voir envisager avec le plus grand sérieux même si celle-ci heurte quelque peu notre orgueil d'Homo Sapiens...
Notes et références :
1/ Auteur, notamment, de The Galactic Club ; Intelligent Life in Outer Space, Stanford Alumni Association, Stanford, Californie, 1974. 2/ Les chaînes de l’an 2000 diffusent aujourd’hui tant de programmes enregistrés et de rediffusions que l’on ne voit plus guère les « mires ». 3/ Je parle d’un temps que les moins de 50 ans ne peuvent pas connaître ! Quand, par exemple, mon père devait se rendre au fond du jardin de la maison familiale pour modifier l’orientation de l’antenne TV afin que nous puissions continuer à suivre une émission !! 4/ Dans les années 1990. 5/ Frank Drake, consacre 5 pages à l’affaire KLEE dans le chapitre 12 qu’il a écrit pour le livre collectif UFO A Scientific Debate, édité par C. Sagan et T. Page, aux Cornell University Press, Ithaca et Londres, en 1972. Chapitre sur les « capacités et les limitations des témoins » (sic) des phénomènes ovnis et similaires ! A noter qu’il omet de mentionner son implication personnelle dans l’affaire, ce qui dénote une mentalité disons assez équivoque.
Paru initialement in LE MONDE INCONNU, N°82, avril 1987 (mensuel disparu en 1993). Republié en abrégé dans DIMANCHE SAÔNE & LOIRE, 29 juillet 1990. Dernière mise à jour le 3 décembre 2009.
Le mystère des « échos à long retard » (E.L.R.) apparut quasiment simultanément dès les premières expériences de transmission radio longue distance, dans les années 20 du siècle dernier.
Il est intéressant, selon moi, de les examiner comme des indices qui pourraient accréditer l’idée que des extraterrestres, autres êtres pensants que nous-mêmes vivant ailleurs dans l’univers, auraient tenté un jour, en les provoquant, de faire un test sur notre capacité d’intelligence. Histoire de détecter notre niveau intellectuel! Hélas, il se pourrait bien que nous ayons été bel et bien recalés à l’examen.
C'est en juillet 1927 qu'un jeune radioamateur norvégien, Jorgen Hals, en essayant d'intercepter sur son poste à ondes courtes des messages en provenance d'une station radio hollandaise, signala qu'il enregistrait des « échos » inexplicables.
Professeur C. Strömer
Aussitôt, il en parle au Professeur Carl Strömer (1874-1957), de l'Université de Oslo, qui vérifie le phénomène et s'étonne du fait que des signaux, émis les uns après les autres (toutes les 5 secondes dans le cas précis), même s'ils rebondissent sur un obstacle céleste, ne mettent pas toujours le même temps pour en revenir. Car, en effet, les « échos » ne sont pas réguliers et leur retard varie de 3 à 30 secondes. Aucune explication d'échos classiques n'est satisfaisante, à moins de supposer que le miroir réfléchissant se situe entre 500 000 et 5 millions de kilomètres et se déplace entre ces bornes à une vitesse quasi infinie. A titre indicatif, une répercussion radio sur la Lune induit un écho décalé de 2,5 secondes. De plus, les échos norvégiens qu'on corrobore en 1928 à Oslo, Londres et Eindhoven, ont une autre caractéristique absurde: ils ne s'atténuent pas avec le retard. C'est même le contraire qu'on constate.
B. Van Der Pol
Tous ces problèmes n'empêchent pas le Professeur C. Strömer et son collègue B. Van Der Pol (1889-1959) de publier la théorie lénifiante selon laquelle c'est un phénomène naturel qui crée les échos, à savoir des courants de particules chargées, soumis à l'influence du champ magnétique terrestre (?).Et, bien qu'observés encore en 1929 par des Français en Indochine, lesquels constatent une cessation complète des E.L.R. durant une éclipse de Soleil et par O. G. Villard, de l'Université américaine Stanford en 1932, le mystère est oublié pendant plus de 30 ans.
Un break de trois décennies
Jusqu'en 1960, date à laquelle la question de la vie extra-terrestre devint d'une brûlante actualité avec le démarrage de la conquête spatiale. C'est alors que l'illustre Professeur R.N. Bracewell (1921-2007), de Stanford, lui aussi, exhumant le rapport de Strömer sur les E.L.R., suggéra audacieusement que ce pouvait être une sonde interstellaire stationnaire présente quelque part dans le système solaire qui était responsable des échos. Elle aurait été mise là par une civilisation lointaine pour contrôler les signes d'intelligence sur la Terre. Sans égard à la notoriété de son auteur, cette hypothèse ne souleva pas l'enthousiasme de la communauté scientifique. Il fallut qu'un Ecossais, Duncan Lunan, astronome (amateur ?) et écrivain de science-fiction (!), prenne l'idée de Bracewell au sérieux, qu'il affirme avoir décodé le message des E.L.R. et qu'il vienne exposer ses résultats devant les membres médusés de la Société Interplanétaire Britannique (BIS), pour secouer la somnolence des esprits. L'interprétation du message était résumée en ces termes: « Je viens de l'Etoile Epsilon du Bouvier, à 103 années lumière de votre planète autour de laquelle je tourne depuis 13 000 ans. Répondez ! »
Malgré son côté exceptionnel
- n'était ce pas l'annonce du premier contact avec une civilisation extra-terrestre ? - cette traduction du message des E.L.R., selon D. Lunan, parut « très convaincante » à beaucoup d'astronomes.
C'est que D. Lunan avait fait un travail remarquable et ingénieux de décryptage à partir des séquences de retard des échos de 1928-29. Elles lui avaient permis de reconstituer la carte stellaire de la constellation du Bouvier.Et il concluait que c'était de là que venait la sonde émettrice d'échos et qu'elle faisait partie d'une flottille d'engins similaires, envoyés vers « des soleils prometteurs », afin d'y chercher une preuve de vie et surtout un « nouvel habitat », la planète d'origine devenant inhospitalière du fait d'un soleil défaillant. La proposition de Duncan Lunan (1) était de reproduire les séquences d'échos sur Terre « et la sonde, reconnaissant le code, se mettra à communiquer véritablement avec nous ». Il s'agissait ni plus ni moins que de répondre au S.O.S. d'une civilisation E.T. en détresse. Plusieurs prétextes s'opposèrent à ce projet. Tout d'abord, il n'est pas certain que la population terrienne aurait pris le risque de réagir à un tel appel au secours. Ensuite, parce que les données astronomiques de l’époque infirmèrent que la distance à la Terre d'Epsilon du Bouvier, pierre angulaire des diagrammes de Lunan, était bien de 103 années lumières. On trouva 203 ! Et aujourd’hui, on la situe à 209,75. De plus, des chercheurs indépendants prenant pour bases d'autres séquences de E.L.R. trouvèrent, qui une carte de la constellation du Lion située à l'opposé du ciel (Ilyev), qui aucune carte céleste du tout (Lawton), ce qui redonna de la vigueur aux partisans de l'explication naturelle. Et on en resta là. Le hasard avait bien servi le petit astronome écossais ou plutôt « trop d'imprécisions et de degrés de liberté », terme édulcoré pour dire qu'il s'était fourvoyé. Et les E.L.R. étaient dus, comme on l'avait subodoré, à des ricochets sur des nuages de gaz fortement ionisés de la basse atmosphère qui se comportent comme de « gigantesques tubes ampli radio ». Certaines mauvaises langues trouvèrent curieux, tout de même, que si les E.L.R. étaient si naturels que cela, on envoie copie du rapport final d'étude de Crawford/Sears & Bruce (2) à tout l'état-major des armées américaines et au ministère de la Défense nationale. De toute façon, il n'y avait donc plus à s'étonner des E.L.R., même si 92 radioamateurs les mentionnèrent entre 1968 et 1971. Quant à la sonde, soit elle n'existait que dans l'imagination de Duncan Lunan, soit elle attend toujours notre réponse, croyant que la Terre est peuplée de créatures obtuses et myopes puisqu'elles regardent si loin en négligeant une évidence rapprochée (3).
Pour en savoir plus :
1/ Duncan Lunan, A l’écoute des galaxies, Les énigmes de l’Univers, Robert Laffont, 1976. A noter qu’un curriculum vitae de Duncan Alasdair Lunan datant de 2007 (lui-même est encore en vie étant né en 1945), qu’on peut trouver sur Internet, ne donne même pas la référence de ses écrits sur le message E.L.R. qu’il avait prétendu avoir décodé. Il faudrait se procurer une « revisitation » de cette affaire qu’il a effectuée dans le numéro de mars 1998 de Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 118 n°3, titré : « Epsilon Boötis Revisited », ce que je m’apprête à faire à la date de la remise à jour de ce texte. Depuis, ce travail été effectué avec l’aide de D. A. Lunan lui-même et publié dans LE MONDE DE L’INCONNU de février-mars 2011 (n° 48). Cette revue est encore disponible à l’achat version papier sur http://www.zepresse.fr. 2/ F. W. Crawford, D. M. Sears, R. L. Bruce, « Possible observations and mechanism of very long delayed radio echoes », Journal of Geophysical. Research, section A = Space Physics, vol. 75, no. 34, pages 7326 à 7332, décembre 1970. 3/ Ce constat n’est-il pas applicable au phénomène ovni ?
Publié in LE COURRIER DE SAÔNE & LOIRE DIMANCHE du 25 mai 1986.
Black hole at centre of galaxy spitting out PLANET-sized objects towards Earth
Black hole at centre of galaxy spitting out PLANET-sized objects towards Earth
THE BLACK Hole at the centre of the Milky Way is spitting out planet-like objects that are much bigger than any celestial body in our solar system and they are Earth-bound, researchers have warned.
An artist's impression of the objects being flung from a black hole
Astronomers have discovered that supermassive black holes which usually occupy the centre of galaxies are propelling planet size object out into space.
While the objects have yet to be discovered, researchers strongly suspect, through computer algorithms, that these “spitballs” could be as much as several times the size of Jupiter – by far the biggest planet in our solar system.
When stars wander too close to a black hole, the intense gravitational pull of the black hole has the power to completely shred the star.
The new research shows however that that is not the end of the story.
The objects could be three times the size of Jupiter
The gas from the star then gathers itself into a massive planet-sized object which is then flung out into space.
Lead author Eden Girma, an undergraduate student at Harvard University, said: "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.”
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Black holes are riping up stars and spitting them back out
From the centre of the Milky Way, the researchers say that these object could whizz past us just a few hundred light years away.
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There is a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
However, other galaxies, like the nearby Andromeda, is firing these “spitballs” at us.
Co-author James Guillochon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said: "Other galaxies like Andromeda are shooting these 'spitballs' at us all the time.”
Despite being similar in stature to planets, the mysterious objects are made up of the same stuff as stars and do not have a rocky core.
They are also formed in just a year, whereas planets can take millions, even billions, of years to form.
Once they have been flund out of the black hole, travelling at speeds of 20 million miles per hour, it would still take them about one million years to reach this part of the Milky Way.
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