White Biological Life Forms Seen During Shuttle Mission STS 134, NASA Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of video: May 16, 2011

Location of video: Earths Orbit, STS 134 

Source: NASA Youtube Account

 

A reader here has asked me to look into a video about the shuttle Endeavour mission. He pointed out the video below posted by UFOorbs of Youtube. It was suspicious...but when I went to the official NASA youtube account and found the original...they matched. At 4:52 into the official STS 134 NASA video, we see a massive white object, as big as the empty fuel tanks falling to Earth from the shuttle. Nothing could be as big as those tanks...nothing, unless the shuttle itself exploded, which it did not. 

These white objects are not moving with the tank, but instead, they are being passed by as the tank moves faster than them, passing them one by one. Now, I have heard about such UFOs which are white and seen by an astronaut when he orbited the Earth...John Glenn reported to newspapers back in Feb of 1962 that he saw tiny white butterfly like glowing flakes moving in a swarm around his orbiting craft, landed on it, he banged on the hull, they flew off and away. I believe these are the same biological creatures, but here we see them in different sizes, holding onto one another to become bigger. This still has my head whirling...remember the last video has many of these objects in it. PLEASE WATCH IN FULL SCREEN TO SEE. 
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

Below is the OFFICIAL NASA video. 

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14-01-2017 om 17:18 geschreven door peter  

Sting Ray UFO Over Family Celebration In New Zealand On Jan 13, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 13, 2017
Location of sighting:  Gizborne, New Zealand
Source: MUFON #81517

In the above screenshots, one is normal untouched, the other has added light to see the detail of the objet. As you can see, its a sting ray UFO. UFOs often move so fast that the human eye is incapable of even noticing it. This looks like such a case. 
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

Eyewitness states: 

Photo Location was 92 Lavenham Road, Patutahi, Gisborne, New Zealand. Several outdoor photos taken due west from private home after a family celebration. Several photos were taken from cellphone around 8.00 pm, and no sighting of any unusual aerial activity was observed. Within 10 minutes the photos were reviewed and the attached photo contained an unknown object. No other photos contained this object.

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14-01-2017 om 17:10 geschreven door peter  

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: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZoJdZhvadE

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.

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14-01-2017 om 17:07 geschreven door peter  

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: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZoJdZhvadE

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.

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14-01-2017 om 17:07 geschreven door peter  

14-01-2017 om 01:16 geschreven door peter  

Saturn’s North Pole Just Changed Color And Nobody Knows Why

by Kate Ryan

 

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. 

All images via NASA.

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14-01-2017 om 01:09 geschreven door peter  

14-01-2017 om 01:04 geschreven door peter  

GEBOUW ONDER HET IJS ONTDEKT OP  ANTARCTICA 

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. 

Het begint natuurlijk al met de merkwaardige kaart van de Turkse admiraal Piri Reis. 

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.

Onlangs schreven wij het volgende in een artikel:

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.

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13-01-2017 om 23:32 geschreven door peter  

Triangle UFO caught on tape over North Carolina

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 

Author (source: MUFON)

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13-01-2017 om 23:19 geschreven door peter  

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!

Author (source: MUFON)

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13-01-2017 om 23:16 geschreven door peter  

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.

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13-01-2017 om 23:09 geschreven door peter  

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.

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13-01-2017 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

Alien Glow? Brilliant Light Pillars Appear Over Canada

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."

Elzinga said he wasn't aware of this light-pillar phenomenon until he saw it firsthand. [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]

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.

Original article on Live Science.

Editor's Recommendations

• Strange & Shining: Gallery of Mysterious Night Lights
• In Photos: Recording the Crackles and Pops from the Northern Lights
• Earth from Above: 101 Stunning Images from Orbit

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13-01-2017 om 18:29 geschreven door peter  

Alien Glow? Brilliant Light Pillars Appear Over Canada

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."

Elzinga said he wasn't aware of this light-pillar phenomenon until he saw it firsthand. [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]

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.

Original article on Live Science.

Editor's Recommendations

• Strange & Shining: Gallery of Mysterious Night Lights
• In Photos: Recording the Crackles and Pops from the Northern Lights
• Earth from Above: 101 Stunning Images from Orbit

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13-01-2017 om 18:29 geschreven door peter  

Claim aliens visited Cornwall after man sees UFO above Bodmin Moor

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13-01-2017 om 18:15 geschreven door peter  

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.

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.”

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13-01-2017 om 18:08 geschreven door peter  

Fact-Checkers Debunk “Groundbreaking” Chilean UFO Footage

 Brett Tingley

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. 

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13-01-2017 om 17:50 geschreven door peter  

Commercial Pilots Communicate With UFO Using Aircraft Lights

 Paul Seaburn

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?

 TAGS: alien communications, communication, NUFORC, Paranormal, pilot UFO encounters, space, ufo

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13-01-2017 om 17:44 geschreven door peter  

12 Years Later, Scientists Remember Epic Landing on Saturn Moon Titan

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.

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. 

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• Huygens Probe's Titan Landing Revisited By NASA | Video
• Latest Saturn Photos From NASA's Cassini Orbiter
• Saturn Moon Titan's Deep Liquid-Filled Canyons Spied From Above | Video
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13-01-2017 om 17:34 geschreven door peter  

Green Glow from Ancient Galaxies Surprises Scientists

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.)

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.) 

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.

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• The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
• Images: Peering Back to the Big Bang & Early Universe
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13-01-2017 om 17:17 geschreven door peter