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...
15-01-2017
The “Anti-Gravity” Machine Could Combat Problems With Living in Space
The “Anti-Gravity” Machine Could Combat Problems With Living in Space
Astronaut in de Lower Body Negative Pressure device on IML-2
IN BRIEF
In order to keep astronauts active in zero-gravity conditions, a horizontal treadmill has been developed to combat the plethora of deleterious effects of being in space.
As space travel is becoming easier and more economical, the number of people in space will be growing in the coming years. Making their stays healthier will undoubtedly help in their goals.
The large vacuum cleaner-like device seals around the astronaut’s waist, creating the impression of weight on the lower body through a powerful suction force.
Photograph: Alan Hargens
THE NEW SPACE WORKOUT
Being in space for extended lengths of time can place a great deal of physical stress on an astronaut’s body. The weightlessness associated with lack of gravity can cause health issues such as skeletal deterioration, back pain, and fluid collection in the upper body. Readapting to the conditions on Earth places even further stress and pressure on the lower body. To counteract these risks and improve overall health, scientists have invented a ‘space suction device’ that allows astronauts to exercise at their normal body weight.
It’s called the Lower Body Negative Pressure (LBNP) device, and its purpose is to create an ‘artificial form of gravity.’ The device itself creates a seal around the person’s waist, giving the sensation of weight on the lower body. A diagram of the device shows the astronaut resting with their back on a support structure, while running on what is, essentially, a vertical treadmill.
Regarding long-distance space missions such as those to Mars, these rehabilitative exercises are required to prevent chronic health conditions. “Crews get very little of this type of loading so their butts and feet are hypersensitive to touch after six to twelve months in space,” stated Alan Hargens, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of California, San Diego, who was responsible for co-developing the LBNP device.
The efficacy of the apparatus was tested during a trial involving 15 sets of identical twins. The experiment lasted for 28 days, where both sets of twins laid horizontally in bed. One set of twins did not exercise, while the others exercised using the LBNP mechanism for 40 minutes a day. After the trial had been completed, the results showed a substantial decrease in back muscle strength within the non-exercise group.
If successfully implemented, Hargens’ vision for the machine in the future would be to include a virtual environment that would allow astronauts to exercise while walking on the beach or in the mountains. A more compact version of the device was also mentioned for the possibility of prolonged Mars missions.
Other space agencies have taken to the test and developed this more compact version for space travel. Roscosmos State Corporation of Russia fabricated and tested their Chibis Suit aboard the International Space Station (ISS), although it could not be used for exercising. The China National Space Administration also invented their own suit that allows users to perform squats inside the compressible tube. Unfortunately, such mechanisms are nearly weightless in space and could cause injury to astronauts. For extended space travel to Mars, for example, these could not prove worthwhile. Even with an LBNP device onboard for Mars missions, there would be no medical facilities on the planet that could assist with physical rehabilitation.
Hargens and his colleagues seem confident in the long-term effectiveness of their apparatus onboard long transits. The next big hurdle is in convincing the space agencies to support their idea.
The Chinese space agency’s version of a vacuum suit. By doing squats the astronaut pumps the device up and down creating their own vacuum.
Mars in Three Days: Here’s the Tech That Could Make It Happen
Mars in Three Days: Here’s the Tech That Could Make It Happen
Artist’s rendition of a solar sail on the announcement of Breakthrough Starshot.
Futurilla/Flickr
IN BRIEF
The vast distances between us and other points of particular interest in space are vast, and the speed limitations of our technology are a significant barrier to exploration.
NASA's DEEP-IN program is working toward a new propulsion system that can get us to Mars in only three days.
RIDING TO THE PLANETS ON A BEAM OF LIGHT
The clever girls and boys at NASA are always dreaming up new ways to circumvent the biggest obstacle to effective space travel: the speed barrier. Space is big, as you might have heard—and it takes a long time to get around.
It’s about three days to the Moon, which isn’t too bad; but Mars is another story altogether. With current methods of chemical rocket propulsion—the same that have been used for some three-quarters of a century—a voyage to the Red Planet would take about five months.
But a team of NASA scientists, headed by Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, have envisioned a different means of getting about space—one that requires nothing more than a beam of light. Called “photonic propulsion,” it requires little more than a solar sail of ultralight material, which is pushed along by energy beamed from an orbital laser array.
A solar sail. By NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Lubin’s team was awarded a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) grant, to the tune of $100,000, to begin the planning and testing phase of the project. It is being called—with a typically NASA-esque acronymic flair (though in this case to a somewhat unfortunate effect)—Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar Exploration (DEEP-IN).
The idea is to yoke a small probe to a solar sail, orbit a laser array, and push the probe toward its destination at speeds far in excess of anything we can attain these days. Lubin estimates a probe weighing only a few hundred pounds could be accelerated to Mars using this method in just three days. Scale the technology up from unmanned probes to manned vessels (no mean feat), and we could be talking about a journey to Mars in a month—one-fifth of the travel time via conventional techniques.
NEW PATHS TO THE STARS
As we begin to seriously prepare for our first journey to Mars, there’s been a flurry of research into novel propulsion methods to help get us there. One very promising avenue leads to the VASIMR nuclear electric thruster, which opens up the possibility of a journey to the Red Planet in only 40 days. The technology is still in development, and has some key challenges—most notably building a space-capable nuclear reactor to power the engine array—but it seems to be one of the most immediately realizable technologies for fast interplanetary travel.
Other ideas have been mooted, including Charles Bombardier’s somewhat fanciful Solar Express concept, which could—theoretically—reach something like 1% of the speed of light. The peculiar “EM drive,” meanwhile, still makes headlines; although, barring a significant contravention of the laws of physics, it seems destined to follow cold fusion into the dustbin of scientific history.
So it seems photonic propulsion is one of the better options we currently have. If the technology can be scaled up and made to endure the rigors of frequent space travel, it might just be our best hope for colonizing the Solar System; when it comes to reaching for the stars, it might just be the only option we have for a very long time.
'PLANET NINE' COULD BE AN ALIEN INTRUDER TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
'PLANET NINE' COULD BE AN ALIEN INTRUDER TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
There are several mysteries in the world we live in and of course in the solar system surrounding us. But perhaps one of the greatest and most compelling mysteries surrounds a planet that wasn't known to astronomer decades ago. This is, of course, the mysterious and elusive planet that has been nicknamed Planet 9. There have been actual reports by astronomers that there have captured the planet and there is film online of it. But unfortunately, these pictures aren't capturing all there is to know about the planet and some still question whether this footage is real because the film isn't too good. There is a reason to be skeptical, after all, if Planet 9 does exist where did it come from and why hasn't it been seen in the past?
PLANET 9: WHERE DID IT COME FROM
There has been much research into the origins of Planet 9 and how it came to be seen in our solar system on occasion. One group of researchers from the University of New Mexico reported their theory of the origins of Planet 9 at the 229th American Astronomical Society meeting that took place in Grapevine, Texas. Their findings are that Planet 9 had come into this solar system due to the gravitational pull of our sun. According to this theory, the planet known as Planet 9 is just one example of stay planets outside our actual solar system that was pulled in temporarily then are pushed out yet again. Which could explain why not everyone seems to be able to find Planet 9 out thee, it could be coming in and out periodically.
PLANET 9: AN ALIEN SPACE PROBE?
But there is another theory that has come out about Planet 9 as well. This one is that Planet 9 isn't a planet at all but an Alien space probe. Given how elusive the planet has become perhaps a theory that is understandable. Especially since no one as of yet has been able to produce any concrete data on Planet 9 and it's atmosphere. So far the only things known about Planet 9 that has been documented is that is around 17 times larger than the earth and yet smaller than Neptune.
Needless to say with so little to go on Planet 9 remains a mystery. But it's a mystery that many astronomers want to unravel. The research into Planet 9, where it came from and what it's composed of continues. There are those who believe that 2017 will be the year that they will uncover the mystery of Planet 9, only time will tell if they are successful.
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In video uploaded by UFO experts Secure 10 and apparently filmed from the ISS, an astronaut can be seen filming the view from outer space. with the earth lit up in the background
But when mysterious moving and glowing lights appear in the distance, the astronaut puts his hand in front of the camera or pans away to cover up the lights.
It's a similar story when a eerie cartwheeling light form is seen zooming across the earth. Once again a white suited hand can be seen covering the view or moving the camera.
Conspiracy theorists say it is proof that we are not alone in the universe and that the government is lying to people.
And the clips have certainly convinced UFO fans and sceptics alike of the existence of extraterrestrial life, who say the video exposes a government cover-up.
One poster said: "These are some incredible clips, I've never seen any of them. How could anyone possibly debunk these?" while a conspiracy theorist said "I bet aliens are actually truthful to their people that we "aliens do exist" while our government lies to us.
Last month a CCTV camera captured a UFO hovering over Sheffield city centre before rising into the night sky. Footage of the supposed alien spacecraft, titled 'UFO in Sheffield', has racked up more than 10,000 views since it was posted on YouTube.
And two weeks ago a Mirror reader shared an incredible video that appeared to show a UFO mothership flashing signals to a smaller craft in Lake, Isle of Wight.
Baboons Vocalizations Hint at Origins of Human Speech:
Baboons use distinct vowel-like sounds in their calls. [Full Story]
3,400-Year-Old Graveyard with Family Crypts Unearthed in Egypt:
The ancient Egyptian cemetery contains large crypts holding the remains of complete families and smaller, simpler tombs holding individuals, including children and infants. [Full Story]
Rusty Patched Bumblebee Declared Endangered:
The rusty patched bumblebee is the first bumblebee species listed as endangered in the United States. [Full Story]
Primordial 'Ice Cream Cone' Creature Finds a Family Tree:
Weird hyoliths, which survived for 280 million years on Earth, have a new place in the tree of life. [Full Story]
Strong, Flexible Spider Silk Created in Lab:
A new, strong spider silk was produced in a lab, solving a problem that has long plagued the bioengineered materials. [Full Story'
Tree Man' Has Surgery: What Causes This Rare Condition?
A 27-year-old in Bangladesh known as the "tree man" recently underwent surgery to remove the extensive, wood-like warts that covered his hands and feet. [Full Report]
Antarctic Science Lab On the Move to Escape Breaking Ice:
A British scientific base in Antarctica is on the move to a new location, to avoid being cut adrift by a crack in a floating ice shelf. [Full Story]
Sorry, Steak Lovers: Red Meat Linked to Gut Condition:
Men who regularly eat red meat have a higher risk of a developing an inflammatory bowel condition called diverticulitis than men who don't have much red meat in their diet, a new study finds. [Full Story]
Ultralight 'Super-Material' Is 10 Times Stronger Than Steel:
A new material is stronger than steel but less dense than a plastic zip-close bag. [Full Story]
AUDIO RECORDING DECLASSIFIED: UFO INCIDENT AT THE EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE IN 1965
AUDIO RECORDING DECLASSIFIED: UFO INCIDENT AT THE EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE IN 1965
On October 7, 1965, at Edwards Air Force Base near Palmdale, California, up to 12 UFOs were spotted and observed by military personnel. A fighter jet was 'scrambled' to intercept and pursue the objects.
The objects were described as having ‘flashing red lights on the bottom and green, glowing lights on top‘ and were reported to be performing extremely unusual flight characteristics (including right angle turns) over the restricted airspace of Edwards -the pilot of an F106 fighter jet sent up to intercept the objects also stated one UFO gained a ‘tremendous amount of altitude’ and ‘appeared to move right out into space’.
The event took place over a five hour period, documented with at least forty hours of communications audio recordings. Of those, only six hours of audio were declassified and released to the public.
The audio has now been synced with the transcript which makes it easier to grasp what is happening.
Interesting facts, at some point during the events, they contac the air force base "UFO officer". There is also an audio part in which they talk to the fighter jet pilot to give him directions on where the UFO was heading.
This case is a true classic!
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NASA Releases New High-Resolution Earthrise Image
NASA Releases New High-Resolution Earthrise Image
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft's vantage point in orbit around the moon.
"The image is simply stunning," said Noah Petro, Deputy Project Scientist for LRO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The image of the Earth evokes the famous 'Blue Marble' image taken by Astronaut Harrison Schmitt during Apollo 17, 43 years ago, which also showed Africa prominently in the picture."
In this composite image we see Earth appear to rise over the lunar horizon from the viewpoint of the spacecraft, with the center of the Earth just off the coast of Liberia (at 4.04 degrees North, 12.44 degrees West). The large tan area in the upper right is the Sahara Desert, and just beyond is Saudi Arabia. The Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America are visible to the left. On the moon, we get a glimpse of the crater Compton, which is located just beyond the eastern limb of the moon, on the lunar farside.
LRO was launched on June 18, 2009, and has collected a treasure trove of data with its seven powerful instruments, making an invaluable contribution to our knowledge about the moon. LRO experiences 12 earthrises every day; however the spacecraft is almost always busy imaging the lunar surface so only rarely does an opportunity arise such that its camera instrument can capture a view of Earth. Occasionally LRO points off into space to acquire observations of the extremely thin lunar atmosphere and perform instrument calibration measurements. During these movements sometimes Earth (and other planets) pass through the camera's field of view and dramatic images such as the one shown here are acquired.
This image was composed from a series of images taken Oct. 12, when LRO was about 83 miles (134 kilometers) above the moon's farside crater Compton. Capturing an image of the Earth and moon with LRO's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) instrument is a complicated task. First the spacecraft must be rolled to the side (in this case 67 degrees), then the spacecraft slews with the direction of travel to maximize the width of the lunar horizon in LROC's Narrow Angle Camera image. All this takes place while LRO is traveling faster than 3,580 miles per hour (over 1,600 meters per second) relative to the lunar surface below the spacecraft!
The high-resolution Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on LRO takes black-and-white images, while the lower resolution Wide Angle Camera (WAC) takes color images, so you might wonder how we got a high-resolution picture of the Earth in color. Since the spacecraft, Earth, and moon are all in motion, we had to do some special processing to create an image that represents the view of the Earth and moon at one particular time. The final Earth image contains both WAC and NAC information. WAC provides the color, and the NAC provides high-resolution detail.
"From the Earth, the daily moonrise and moonset are always inspiring moments," said Mark Robinson of Arizona State University in Tempe, principal investigator for LROC. "However, lunar astronauts will see something very different: viewed from the lunar surface, the Earth never rises or sets. Since the moon is tidally locked, Earth is always in the same spot above the horizon, varying only a small amount with the slight wobble of the moon. The Earth may not move across the 'sky', but the view is not static. Future astronauts will see the continents rotate in and out of view and the ever-changing pattern of clouds will always catch one's eye, at least on the nearside. The Earth is never visible from the farside; imagine a sky with no Earth or moon - what will farside explorers think with no Earth overhead?"
NASA's first Earthrise image was taken with the Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft in 1966. Perhaps NASA's most iconic Earthrise photo was taken by the crew of the Apollo 8 mission as the spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve Dec. 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts -- Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders -- held a live broadcast from lunar orbit, in which they showed pictures of the Earth and moon as seen from their spacecraft. Said Lovell, "The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth."
Look at that spectacular limb! The sharp black outline is from mountains still on the night side of the terminator.
A helicopter pilot at Orlando, Florida claimed to have seen and videotaped a bright craft at approximately 1,500 feet altitude that eventually flew upward and disappeared.
The witness was outside when the incident took place at 5:24 pm on December 18, 2016. He said that he got a feeling to look up as if he needed to when he saw the glowing craft flew from a southerly direction to north. The strange thing was reportedly flying high but below the commercial airplanes flight altitude that were in traffic during that time.
The witness managed to record the UFO in video through his cell phone.
The witness said that he doesn’t know the size of the mysterious craft, but it was flying at around 1,500 feet. He took out his cell phone and recorded it on video as it went inside a very small cloud.
e expected the strange aerial thing to come out in a second, but it did not. He thought it disappeared for good and decided to stop recording it. However, to his amazement, he saw it came out of the same cloud. It turned and flew upward and disappeared, according to the witness.
The witness claimed that he is a certified helicopter pilot and he knows that what he saw and recorded on video was not something known, such as a plane, rocket, meteor, helicopter, birds, blimps, balloons and among other things.
The sighting was reported to MUFON and filed under Case 81052 in the witness reporting database.
Check out more contributions by Jeffery Pritchett ranging from UFO to Bigfoot to Paranormal to Prophecy
Case 1: Flying Saucer over Rangiora, NZ – Mufon case nr. 81538.
2017-01-13 – Witness: I was trying to make my dog jump into the air to get an action shot of her, I do this often and end up with a lot of dud photos.
I was about to delete this off my camera when I noticed what looks like a large rock in the sky with a blue glow. I did not see this with my naked eye but wish I had so I could have zoomed in on it!
Case 2: airplane passenger captured two UFOs over Hawaii islands HI, US – Mufon case nr. 81529.
2017-01-12 – Witness: “This was just seemed on a picture I took out the airplane window and noticed while I was looking at pictures. I never saw this other than in my photos.”
Case 3: Large Orb with five small Orbs inside captured over Illinois – Mufon case nr. 81037.
2016-12-18 – Witness: “Thought it was a star or planet, but then it started flashing and then started moving more to my right, thought it was a satellite, but thought it was too large to be one.”
“I saw a big orb with five little orbs inside. I tried to take a video, but it was too far out there to zoom in on for a video.”
“I kept looking at it through a zoomed picture and it kept breaking up into five smaller orbs, then three, then two, and then reassembled itself into one big orb.”
“I then noticed an orb by it detach itself and then sporadically went left of the orb and then vanished. The object was in my sight for about two hours and then slowly vanished behind the treeline of my house.”
Case 4: UFO at Space Station: Comes out of nowhere, then camera moves.
2017-01-14 – The following video captured by Streetcap1 shows a UFO near the International Space Station.
NASA spotted this appearing and started to move the camera slowly to the right.
Whatever it was it has not reappeared to the best of my knowledge.
Discovered by archaeologist Professor Winwood. The enigmatic symbols suggest an interaction of presumed Aliens or Extraterrestrials with ancient monarchs of this nation. Includes Egyptian characters like Thoth, Orus, and elongated skulls.
THE Strange medallion and coins found in the tomb of the ancient
In the being that is above we can see in his hands, what seem eyes, or holes, also around his head we could say that the sun rises. The object under the Alien-type Being, resembles a ship or galaxy.
The side cylinders that leave the circle look like glass containers with something inside. Inside the central circle there is a sun making a spiral and the representation of two Pharaohs.
At the bottom, on the right and left are two winged angels, who remember by their form the Ark of the covenant. Alongside the winged angels are Isis and Horus.
The archaeologist Professor Winwood. He allegedly stole several objects from the tomb and years later would publish them in a magazine, this English archeologist was arrested and the recovered objects were placed in custody of the museum, objects were called in the so-called forbidden area of archeology.
This area is where objects that are not attached to the protocol hierarchy and to the beliefs of official science, hiding them from the public. In January 2011 after the Egyptian riots, many treasures were removed from the Cairo museum among them allegedly this medallion, which was put up for sale on the Internet black market in 2012.
A group of people who worked on the renovation of a house in southern Egypt found a number of very rare coins.
They are unique in its kind that curiously have no images of a strange human figure. So far no one could explain the origin of these parts. “
The mysterious Vinca figurines; Evidence of extraterrestrial contact thousands of years ago
The mysterious Vinca figurines; Evidence of extraterrestrial contact thousands of years ago
The Mystery of the Vinca figurines. Researchers believe they are depictions of extraterrestrial beings that visited ancient man in the past
Excavations in the vicinity of Belgrade have yielded over 2000 of these mysterious looking figurines
Various styles of zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figurines are hallmarks of the culture the Vinča culture, also known as Turdaș culture or Turdaș-Vinča culture
The Mystery of the Vinca figurines
According to numerous researchers, the ancient Vinca (Vinča) culture depicted extraterrestrial visitors, gods that came from the sky and provided the necessary push for the advancement of civilization and technology among humans.
There has been a lot of speculation about the existence of extraterrestrial beings and the possibility of them interacting in the distant past, with ancient civilizations on Earth. Evidence of such encounters can be found across the world. In every single continent there appears to be evidence recorded in texts, monuments, and artifacts pointing toward the existence and interaction of extraterrestrial beings.
In many ancient depictions we see beings with oval-shaped heads, giant almond-shaped eyes that have specific dark pupils, narrow noses with slightly marked small mouths that most of the mites have no lips. The head is composed out of the specific shape that is in most cases, larger than the rest of the bodies. The color of the creatures ranges from blueish gray colors to light brown.
The depictions of these creatures has been attributed, from the standpoint of rationalistic and materialistic science, to hallucinations due to the ingestion of drugs or alcohol, fantastic projections of the collective unconscious, and hallucinations that are a result of certain brain injuries or diseases. Strangely, these depictions have existed in the distant past, about 7000 years BC in some European countries including the Balkans, former Yugoslavia and Northern Greece.
There is a great amount of evidence and many archaeological findings that have been proven to be authentic. The sequence of the Vinca (Vinča) culture is a set of very well documented items in the Vinca region, in the vicinity of Belgrade – 14 km of Belgrade, Serbia. Excavation in the area have yielded over 2000 of these mysterious looking figurines, the largest number of items of that type discovered in the region.
Putting the puzzle together, this has allowed archaeologists to verify that several centuries ago, human groups that inhabited the region received almost spontaneously a significative impulse that helped them become a civilized society, enabling them to develop a syllabic-alphabetic language and or linear writing system judging by the amount of phonetic signs used in it. All of this occurred several thousand years before the rise of the great ancient civilizations of the Euphrates and the Nile. This according to most researchers is considered as an archaeological anomaly.
Numerous archaeologists who have studied this enigmatic civilization do not have a convincing explanation for this anachronistic culture that was obviously too evolved for a time when most of the cultures of the Old World were still in the Neolithic stage, a time when not a single megalithic monument was erected.
What is perhaps most disconcerting is the fact that along with numerous samples of ceramic-naturalistic paintings and objects, engraved with amazing inscriptions, there are over three thousand ceramic and stone figurines where besides human and animal representations, are mainstream representations of strange humanoid beings whose characteristics fit perfectly into modern-day descriptions of otherworldly beings such as the grey aliens, believed to have visited Earth in the distant past, and even today. The Vinca (Vinča) culture figurines are original and unique items yet resemble art of other cultures in Mesopotamia and the Americas. The question many have asked is, why?
Even though the Vinca culture has had contact with other neighboring cultures, the sculptural art of the Vinca (Vinča) remained markedly different from that of other cultures in the region.
The most distinctive feature of these mysterious figurines are triangular shaped faces, large almond shaped eyes, mouths and noses that are nonexistent in most cases, which strangely seem to resemble animals such as grasshoppers. Some of these figurines mysteriously depict a combination of hybrid beings, half-human half reptile.
Most of these strange humanoid figures are depicted as guardian deities, some of them are believed to have been good while some of them evil. The zoomorphic-anthropomorphic depictions are a mystery that many researchers have not found an answer to.
According to researchers, the most striking sculptures representing the latest development of Vinca art are the monumental heads with a relatively normal size, that have some sort of helmet or mask. The widening of the mask follows the oblique line of the eyes, and its projection goes all the way to the height of what appear to be ears. What was the artists goal upon creating these masks and figurines? Did the artist intend to depict the Gods and deities which brought numerous advancements to their society and other human beings?
The objective here is to go beyond mere classification or identification of objects according to the criteria and principles of methodology of mainstream archaeological research. What caused the ancient Vinca do depict such mysterious creatures? What inspired them to create such sticking figurines, clearly not of human nature? Everything man does is, in one way or another, an imitation of the real world and nature around him. This points to the fact that the depictions of the ancient Vinča culture, are actually what they had seen thousands of years ago.
Is the Vinca culture evidence of prehistorical contact with extraterrestrial beings, around 9000 years ago? Researchers believe that the origin of the strange iconography is not only based on the physical appearance but also on other aspects such as the appearance of advanced linear syllabic-alphabetic writing and language, a form that would reappear several thousands of years later in other advanced civilizations of the mediterranean.
Interestingly, in civilizations of Southeast Europe there are no previous phases in the evolution of the writing system. Writing came to be “suddenly” in a relatively evolved form. It is a destabilizing fact breaking all previously established patterns, breaking the foundations of structures established by scholars of one of the most important marks of ancient civilizations, the writing system. It may not be coincidental that this cultural and so to speak technological leap appears associated with the first depiction of otherworldly creatures that could have been considered as gods thousands of years ago.
Researchers believe we are facing one of the oldest proofs of human contact with extraterrestrial beings that came from other planets or other dimensions. We are faced with depictions of human-like beings obviously not connected or similar to any of the races or species of known hominids. This has led to the conclusion that these depictions are anything but human from a anthropogenic point of view.
Ancient oriental texts and doctrines speak of highly advanced beings which participated in the formation of civilization as we know it today. Depictions and texts about these beings are found in cultures across the globe, in every single corner of the world, yet for some reason, we seem to look past these depictions.
A retired McGill professor is convinced we have been visited by UFOs and extraterrestrial life forms.
In fact, Don Donderi knows people who claim to have been abducted by aliens from outer space.
Donderi teaches a course at McGill University called UFOs: History and Reality. The course, part of McGill’s Community for Lifelong Learning, outlines why “UFOs are real and extraterrestrial.”
Donderi, who holds a PhD in psychology from Cornell University, spoke to the Montreal Gazette about his lifelong interest in UFOs and why he believes aliens exist “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
This interview was condensed for space reasons.
Q. How did teaching this course come about?
A. Well, I’ve been interested in the topic since I was 10 years old. I was certainly literate at 10 and I was following what was going in the papers and magazines in the United States, where I grew up.
And in 1947, there were (UFO) sightings. There was a famous sighting by a guy named Kenneth Arnold who was a private pilot who flew up in the Cascade (mountain range in Washington) and he saw and reported nine silvery objects flying over the mountains. He was very articulate in his report. … The story got into AP (Associated Press) the next day in June of 1947. And the AP headline writer coined the phrase ‘flying saucers’, which is where it all began.
Q. Wasn’t that the same year as the famous Roswell UFO incident in New Mexico?
A. It’s the same year actually, just a few weeks later. The whole Roswell thing came just after the Kenneth Arnold sighting in 1947.
Q. What’s your take on what happened at Roswell?
A. The U.S. government recovered the remains of a crashed unidentified flying object or to be more correct, an extraterrestrial vehicle.
Q. Do you believe aliens were found at the crash site?
A. It is believed that they also recovered bodies of dead aliens.
Q. Why so much silence and secrecy for all these years?
A. Well, that’s a very good question, and I raise it in my course. … The technology involved is extremely advanced; the implications for human society are incredible and possibly upsetting because we are under surveillance by technologically superior beings from other planets. We don’t know how to do what they do. We don’t know what their motives are or their interests are. And at the moment, as far as I know, we don’t have any active defences or preparations to deal with the situation. So it’s obviously upsetting. Secrecy is because when governments, any government, gets hold of new technology, and want to figure out how it works, their first interest is protecting their own turf on this and not sharing it with the world.
Q. How certain are you of life beyond our planet?
A. I’m 100 per cent certain of that. The way I put it in my course and to the public is this: I have three main propositions. One, some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial vehicles. That proposition, I believe, is established beyond reasonable doubt. And if you know your law, you’ll know that’s the standard for a conviction of a felony. Proposition 2 is that some of the extraterrestrial vehicles have ET crews, and proposition 3 is that some of these ET crews ‘catch and release’ humans to study them, so-called alien abductions. Proposition 2, I think, is established beyond a reasonable doubt, and proposition 3 is bound on probabilities.
Q. Do you personally know anyone who was abducted by aliens?
A. I know many people. I’d say 10, at least, who have claimed to be abducted. And in many cases, I respect their claims because I think they’re based on sound evidence.
Q. There are doubters, of course. How do you handle skepticism?
A. Listen, skepticism is absolutely OK. If you pick up my book (UFOs, ETs and alien abductions: A scientist looks at the evidence, 2013) which you probably won’t do, you’ll find I have a great deal of respect for skeptics who are doing their best to make sure what they know and what the world knows is based on reasonable sound evidence. That’s good. I’m a scientist.
Q. With the proliferation of drones, wouldn’t it be easy to fly one above Mount Royal and say: ‘Hey, look up, it’s a UFO!”
A. Exactly. One of my better friends, who is a drone user commercially — takes real estate photos for people — he and I and everyone else in the field knows it’s perfectly possible to fake UFO photographs and experiences.
Q. Have you ever seen a UFO yourself?
A. Only the kind that wouldn’t impress anyone as sound evidence because nocturnal lights, which is a technical term, are a dime a dozen and you couldn’t be sure at a distance what it was.
Q. What are the chances of a UFO landing on Ste-Catherine St. and an alien climbing out to shake my hand?
A. (Laughing) Ah yes, the famous White House lawn landing. I have no idea; I can’t possibly tell you on the basis of anything I’ve learned on the subject. Except that … whoever shows up will go away and not come back here for a while.
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Canadese professor: “Geen twijfel dat we worden bezocht door aliens”
Canadese professor: “Geen twijfel dat we worden bezocht door aliens”
Een gepensioneerde professor van de Canadese McGill-universiteit is ervan overtuigd dat we zijn bezocht door UFO’s en buitenaardse levensvormen.
Don Donderi kent ook mensen die claimen dat ze zijn ontvoerd door bezoekers uit de ruimte.
Donderi geeft op de universiteit het vak UFOs: History and Reality. Hij brengt studenten bij waarom UFO’s volgens hem echt zijn en worden bestuurd door aliens.
Buitenaards ruimteschip
De professor is al van kinds af aan geïnteresseerd in UFO’s.
In 1947 zag piloot Kenneth Arnold negen zilverkleurige objecten boven de bergen. Persbureau AP schreef een verhaal over de waarneming, herinnert Donderi zich.
Datzelfde jaar gebeurde er iets vreemds bij het plaatsje Roswell. “De Amerikaanse overheid heeft daar de wrakstukken van een buitenaards ruimteschip geborgen,” stelt hij in gesprek met de Montreal Gazette.
Geavanceerde technologie
“Er werden ook lichamen van dode aliens geborgen,” voegt hij toe.
Volgens Donderi worden we in de gaten gehouden door wezens van andere planeten. “We weten niet wat hun motieven of belangen zijn,” zegt hij.
“We hebben hier te maken met extreem geavanceerde technologie,” gaat hij verder. “Overheden zijn niet van plan deze technologie met de wereld te delen.”
Degelijk bewijsmateriaal
Professor Donderi is er 100 procent zeker van dat UFO’s buitenaardse vaartuigen zijn. En sommige van die buitenaardse vaartuigen zijn voorzien van een buitenaardse bemanning.
Er zijn ook aliens die mensen ‘vangen en weer vrijlaten’ om ze te bestuderen, zegt hij. Dit zijn de zogenoemde buitenaardse ontvoeringen.
“Ik ken tenminste 10 mensen die claimen te zijn ontvoerd door aliens,” zegt de wetenschapper. “In de meeste gevallen zijn hun claims gebaseerd op degelijk bewijsmateriaal.”
WAT WEET MEN IN HET WITTE HUIS DAT WIJ NIET WETEN? ( VIDEO )
WAT WEET MEN IN HET WITTE HUIS DAT WIJ NIET WETEN? ( VIDEO )
De meeste mensen kennen de dreiging van asteroïden die richting aarde komen alleen uit films zoals Deep Impact en Armageddon.
Het Witte Huis heeft nu echter een uitgebreid plan gepubliceerd over hoe om te gaan met de snel toenemende dreiging van een meteorietinslag.
Het publiceren van een dergelijk plan betekent dat voor de overheid in Amerika de dreiging van onbekende objecten uit de ruimte groter is geworden dan alleen maar iets dat bestaat in Hollywood films.
En hiermee wordt ook maar weer eens aangetoond dat waar wij al jaren over schrijven, de significante toename van het aantal vuurballen in de ruimte oftewel meteorieten, niet iets is dat verzonnen is door aluhoedjes.
Het is iedere keer hetzelfde liedje. De alternatieve media ziet dingen lang van te voren aankomen, wordt uitgelachen en belachelijk gemaakt, en dan opeens blijkt het toch werkelijkheid te zijn. En lijden de meesten plots aan geheugenverlies lijkt het.
Dan is er paniek in de tent, want men heeft geen flauw idee hoe nu precies om te gaan met die enorme toename van asteroïden.
Het document dat nu is gepubliceerd door het Witte Huis houdt zich bezig met een strategie voor het omgaan met wat men noemt NEO (Near Earth Object).
Ondertussen blijft NASA maar verkondigen dat er geen onmiddellijke dreiging bestaat en worden zij zelf keer op keer verrast door objecten die volkomen onopgemerkt opeens in onze atmosfeer verschijnen. Bij NASA zijn ze zo scherp dat ze bekende meteoriet bij Tsjeljabinsk pas opmerkten toen ze het bestaan ervan via Twitter vernamen.
Bij een haastig ingesteld onderzoek in 2014 bleek dat NASA slechts een heel basic systeem had om inkomende objecten waar te nemen. Het feit dat er de laatste tien jaar een enorm toename is geweest van dit soort objecten, is door NASA in ieder geval volkomen genegeerd.
Het lijkt alsof men de verloren tijd wil inhalen, want er wordt volop actie ondernomen zoals oefeningen in samenwerking met de beruchte FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), ruimteschepen werden gelanceerd om informatie omtrent asteroïden te verzamelen en er werden zelfs plannen voorbereid om eventuele dreigingen uit de ruimte te vernietigen met kernwapens.
Ondanks dat er nu miljoenen, zo niet miljarden, dollars worden besteed aan de dreiging van asteroïden en inslaande meteorieten, NASA blijft het publiek vertellen dat er helemaal geen dreiging bestaat. Net zoals ze het publiek vertellen dat de planeet Nibiru een fabeltje is en dat er nooit leven is geweest op Mars.
Wanneer je het document van het Witte Huis leest, zie je dat er met alle mogelijke scenario’s rekening wordt gehouden, inclusief noodprocedures voor wanneer een NEO op aarde dreigt neer te storten.
Nog maar enkele dagen geleden passeerde een asteroïde de aarde op korte afstand, twee dagen nadat deze was ontdekt. Een brok steen ter grootte van een flatgebouw van tien verdiepingen raasde langs de aarde en de meesten onder ons wisten het niet eens. Dit soort dingen is de laatste jaren vaker voorgekomen en al diverse keren is de aarde ternauwernood aan een ramp ontsnapt.
Er zijn op dit moment door wetenschappers ongeveer 10.000 NEO’s ontdekt, waarvan zo'n tien procent groter is dan een kilometer in doorsnede. Ieder van deze objecten zou het einde van het leven op aarde kunnen inluiden, mochten zij neerstorten op onze planeet. Naast die ontdekte NEO’s zijn er uiteraard misschien nog wel veel meer die niet of pas op het laatste moment ontdekt zijn, of helemaal niet worden waargenomen.
Net zoals men de toename van vuurballen zolang mogelijk voor het grote publiek heeft verzwegen, zo gaat het ook met de bekendmaking van het Nibiru mini-zonnestelsel in onze omgeving, dat verantwoordelijk is voor de enorme toename van vuurballen.
Ook wanneer je kijkt naar de waarnemingen van het aantal vuurballen, zie je dat deze sedert eind 2012 sterk zijn toegenomen.
Je hebt natuurlijk vuurballen in alle soorten en maten, maar de voor de mens meest gevaarlijke zijn natuurlijk de wat grotere.
Een bekend voorbeeld daarvan is natuurlijk de gebeurtenis in Rusland in 2013.
Op 15 februari 2013 ontplofte een meteoroïde nabij Tsjeljabinsk in het Russische Oeralgebied. Rond 9.15 uur plaatselijke tijd werden aldaar verschillende explosies gehoord en werd er een vuurbal in de hemel waargenomen.
Meteoren kunnen eigenlijk worden ingedeeld in vier verschillende soorten: vallende sterren, vuurbollen, bolides en superbolides.
Vooral de laatste twee zijn gebeurtenissen die je niet wilt meemaken. Deze ontploffen in de lucht net zoals Tsjeljabinsk met een enorme knal en een bijbehorende lichtflits.
De energie die bij een dergelijke ontploffing zoals Tsjeljabinsk vrij komt, staat gelijk aan 30 keer die van de atoombom op Hiroshima en de lichtflits is 30 keer feller dan de zon. Bij die gebeurtenissen raakten dan ook 7.200 gebouwen beschadigd en 1.500 mensen gewond. Veel van die verwondingen hadden te maken met de gevolgen van rondvliegend glas of brandwonden.
In het algemeen kan je stellen dat hoe meer mensen een vuurbol waarnemen, des te groter en gevaarlijker zal deze blijken te zijn. Masters heeft dan ook als definitie van een enorme vuurbal genomen het criterium dat deze door minstens 100 verschillende mensen moet zijn gemeld.
Wanneer we voor dat soort gebeurtenissen wederom kijken naar een grafiek van wat er na die bewuste decembermaand is gebeurd, dan lijkt verder commentaar overbodig.
Als je kijkt naar de cijfers per maand, dan zie je dat het grootste aantal van dit soort gebeurtenissen zich heeft voorgedaan in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar. Ook Tsjeljabinsk gebeurde in de maand februari.
De conclusie van Masters is dan ook dat de Maya’s wel degelijk wisten dat er rond deze tijd iets bijzonders zou gebeuren en dat die datum een soort laatste waarschuwing was voor de mensheid om serieus voorbereidingen te treffen voor de dingen die gaan komen.
Bovenstaande en nog veel meer wordt door Marshall Masters in de volgende half uur durende video uitgelegd en toegelicht.
I wanted to see the Space X rocket launch and land over the ocean, and this is the most recent video of it happening, but as the rocket entered a low orbit, several glowing UFOs were seen from behind...watching. Then a few seconds later a larger UFO is seen in the clouds on the right side of the screen. Such rocket launches and landings are historical and technological marvels in human history. Its no wonder they are watching this event so closely.
UFOs are often seen near low populated areas, this seems to be the case here. The island is a county in England. It also happens to be an island. UFOs love low populated areas and this look like the famous Dudley Dorito UFO that has been seen since the mid 1980s over England. Awesome catch, and proof that there is a base someone on this side of England under the ocean. Scott C. Waring News states: James Ward, 22, of Lake filmed the mysterious sighting on January 2 and the video went on to be featured around the globe. "It was really cool. I didn’t expect it to get national attention," James said. James said seeing his video on national media outlets was an 'overwhelming experience’. James, a full-time carer, filmed the sighting outside his home in Lake. Some have dismissed the sighting as a drone but James said the behaviour of the object ruled out that possibility. The footage has sparked the interest of UFO hunters and alien enthusiasts nationwide but James does not consider himself an enthusiast. "I just looked up and saw this light and thought 'I better film this’, so I took my phone out," James said. The video shows unidentifiable lights in the sky. "I was mesmerised. It looked like a typical round UFO space craft. "Before, I was 50/50 about whether there was life out there but this to me now is 100 per cent proof they exist. "The sighting has made me believe."
SPACEX FALCON 9 COMES ROARING BACK TO LIFE WITH DRAMATICALLY SUCCESSFUL IRIDIUM FLEET LAUNCH AND OCEAN SHIP LANDING
Picture perfect blastoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 on Jan. 14, 2017, Return to Flight launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying fleet of ten advanced Iridium NEXT comsats to low Earth orbit.
Credit: SpaceX
SPACEX FALCON 9 COMES ROARING BACK TO LIFE WITH DRAMATICALLY SUCCESSFUL IRIDIUM FLEET LAUNCH AND OCEAN SHIP LANDING
Picture perfect blastoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 on Jan. 14, 2017, Return to Flight launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying fleet of ten advanced Iridium NEXT comsats to low Earth orbit.
The primary goal of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch from Space Launch Complex 4E on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California was to deploy the payload of the first ten Iridium Next communication satellites to low Earth orbit on the Iridium-1 mission.
“Thanks @elonmusk – a perfect flight! Loved watching sats deploy with you in the control room,” tweeted Matt Desch, Iridium Communications CEO, soon after receiving full confirmation that all 10 Iridium NEXT satellites were successfully deployed from their second stage satellite dispensers.
“More to go, but now to celebrate!!”
The inaugural ten will serve as the vanguard of a fleet that will eventually comprise 81 satellites.
SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage successfully soft lands on drone ship stationed in the Pacific Ocean off California coast after launching on Jan. 14, 2017, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying fleet of ten advanced Iridium NEXT comsats to low Earth orbit.
Credit: SpaceX
Today’s successful blastoff took place barely four and a half months after another Falcon 9 and its $200 million Israeli commercial payload were suddenly destroyed during a prelaunch fueling test on the Florida Space Coast on Sept. 1, 2016.
Another launch failure would have dealt a devastating blow to confidence in SpaceX’s hard won reputation.
The Sept. 1, 2016 calamity was the second Falcon 9 failure within 15 months time. Both occurred inside the second stage and called into question the rockets reliability.
The 229-foot (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket was rolled out from its processing hangar to the launch pad and raised vertically yesterday.
Picture perfect blastoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 on Jan. 14, 2017, Return to Flight launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying fleet of ten advanced Iridium NEXT comsats to low Earth orbit.
Credit: SpaceX
Today’s entire land, landing and satellite deployment event was shown live on a SpaceX hosted webcast. It offered extremely sharp views of Saturdays on time liftoff at 9:54:34 a.m. PST or 12:54:34 p.m. EST, and unbelievably clear images of the first stage descending back to Earth towards a tiny drone ship.
“Overall a wonderfully nominal mission,” gushed the SpaceX commentator during the webcast.
Since the Iridium 1 mission only had an instantaneous launch opportunity precisely at 9:54:34 a.m. PST or 12:54:34 p.m. EST, there was no margin for any technical or weather delays. And none happened. Although an errant boat had to be quickly escorted out of the exclusion zone less than 20 minutes before blastoff.
Confirmation of a successful deployment of all 10 Iridium NEXT satellites came at about T plus 1 hour and 17 minutes after liftoff from Vandenberg.
“So, so excited – finally breathing again!” tweeted Desch.
“Thanks for all the great vibes – I felt it! All 10 sats deployed; good orbit; good telemetry! WOW.”
“It was a clean sweep of 10 for 10,” said the SpaceX commentator during the live webcast.
In the final moments before the propulsive landing, you could read the lettering on the “Just Read the Instruction” drone ship as the engine was firing to slow the descent and the landing legs deployed.
Really there was no cutout or loss of signal the whole way down. So the world could watch every key moment as it happened in real time.
The first stage softly landed approx. 8 minutes and 18 seconds after the California liftoff.
“First stage has landed on Just Read the Instructions,” SpaceX tweeted post landing.
This was the first launch by SpaceX since last August from the Florida Space Coast, and it came off without a hitch.
Iridium 1 is the first of seven planned Falcon 9 launches to establish the Iridium NEXT constellation which will eventually consist of 81 advanced satellites.
At least 70 will be launched by SpaceX.
The inaugural launch of the advanced Iridium NEXT satellites will start the process of replacing an aging Iridium fleet in orbit for nearly two decades.
SpaceX Falcon 9 poised for Jan. 14, 2017, Return to Flight launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying ten Iridium NEXT comsats to orbit.
Credit: SpaceX
This Falcon 9 was been outfitted with four landing lags and grid fins for a controlled landing on the tiny barge prepositioned in the Pacific Ocean several hundred miles off the west coast of California.
SpaceX Falcon 9 booster from Thaicom-8 launch on May 27, 2016 arrives at mouth of Port Canaveral, FL on June 2, 2016.
Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
Watch this space for continuing updates on SpaceX.
Stay tuned here for Ken’s continuing Earth and Planetary science and human spaceflight news.
IridiumNEXT satellites being fueled, pressurized & stacked on dispenser tiers at Vandenberg AFB for Falcon 9 launch.µ
Credit: Iridium
Mission patch for Iridium-1 mission showing launch of the first 10 Iridium NEXT voice and data relay satellites on SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for Iridium Communications, and planned landing of the first stage on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean.
Twelve years ago today, the Huygens probe landed on Titan, marking the farthest point from Earth any spacecraft has ever landed. While a twelfth anniversary may be an odd number to mark with a special article, as we said in our previous article (with footage from the landing), this is the last opportunity to celebrate the success of Huygens before its partner spacecraft Cassini ends its mission on September 15, 2017 with a fateful plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere.
But Huygens is also worth celebrating because, amazingly, the mission almost failed, but yet was a marvelous success. If not for the insistence of one ESA engineer to complete an in-flight test of Huygens’ radio system, none of the spacecraft’s incredible data from Saturn’s largest and mysterious moon would have ever been received, and likely, no one would have ever known why.
As I detail in my new book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes-Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos,” in 1999, the Cassini orbiter and the piggybacking Huygens lander were on their way to the Saturn system. The duo launched in 1997, but instead of making a beeline for the 6th planet from the Sun, they took a looping path called the VVEJGA trajectory (Venus-Venus-Earth-Jupiter Gravity Assist), swinging around Venus twice and flying past Earth 2 years later.
While all the flybys gave the spacecraft added boosts to help get it to Saturn, the Earth flyby also provided a chance for the teams to test out various systems and instruments and get immediate feedback.
“The European group wanted to test the Huygens receiver by transmitting the data from Earth,” said Earl Maize, Project Manager for the Cassini mission at JPL, who I interviewed for the book. “That’s a great in-flight test, because there’s the old adage of flight engineers, ‘test as you fly, fly as you test.’”
The way the Huygens mission would work at the Saturn system was that Cassini would release Huygens when the duo approached Titan. Huygens would drop through Titan’s thick and obscuring atmosphere like a skydiver on a parachute, transmitting data all the while. The Huygens probe didn’t have enough power or a large enough dish to transmit all its data directly to Earth, so Cassini would gather and store Huygens’ data on board and later transmit it to Earth.
Boris Smeds was head of ESOC’s Systems and Requirements Section, Darmstadt, Germany.
Credit: ESA.
ESA engineer Boris Smeds wanted to ensure this data handoff was going to work, otherwise a crucial part of the mission would be lost. So he proposed a test during the 1999 Earth flyby.
Maize said that for some reason, there was quite a bit of opposition to the test from some of the ESA officials, but Smeds and Claudio Sollazzo, Huygens’s ground operations manager at ESA’s European Space Operation Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany were insistent the test was necessary.
NASA’s Deep Space Network is responsible for communicating with spacecraft. Pictured is the Goldstone facility in California, one of three facilities that make up the Network.
Image: NASA/JPL
“They were not to be denied,” Maize said, “so they eventually got permission for the test. The Cassini team organized it, going to the Goldstone tracking station [in California] of the Deep Space Network (DSN) and did what’s called a ‘suitcase test,’ broke into the signal, and during the Earth flyby, Huygens, Cassini and Goldstone were all programmed to simulate the probe descending to Titan. It all worked great.”
Except for one thing: Cassini received almost no simulated data, and what it did receive was garbled. No one could figure out why.
Six months of painstaking investigation finally identified the problem. The variation in speed between the two spacecraft hadn’t been properly compensated for, causing a communication problem. It was as if the spacecraft were each communicating on a different frequency.
Artist concept of the Huygens probe descending to Titan.
Credit: ESA.
“The European team came to us and said we didn’t have a mission,” Maize said. “But we put together ‘Tiger Teams’ to try and figure it out.”
The short answer was that the idiosyncrasies in the communications system were hardwired in. With the spacecraft now millions of miles away, nothing could be fixed. But engineers came up with an ingenious solution using a basic principal known as the Doppler Effect.
The metaphor Maize likes to use is this: if you are sitting on the shore and a speed boat goes by close to the coast, it zooms past you quickly. But that same boat going the same speed out on the horizon looks like it is barely moving. “Since we couldn’t change Huygens’ signal, the only thing we could change was the way Cassini flew,” Maize said. “If we could move Cassini farther away and make it appear as if Huygens was moving slower, it would receive lander’s radio waves at a lower frequency, solving the problem.”
Maize said it took two years of “fancy coding modifications and some pretty amazing trajectory computations.” Huygens’ landing was also delayed two months for the new trajectory that was needed overcome the radio system design flaw.
Additionally, with Cassini needing to be farther away from Huygens than originally planned, it would eventually fly out of range to capture all of Huygens’ data. Astronomers instigated a plan where radio telescopes around the world would listen for Huygens’ faint signals and capture anything Cassini missed.
Huygens was released from the Cassini spacecraft on Christmas Day 2004, and arrived at Titan on January 14, 2005. The probe began transmitting data to Cassini four minutes into its descent through Titan’s murky atmosphere, snapping photos and taking data all the while. Then it touched down, the first time a probe had landed on an extraterrestrial world in the outer Solar System.
Because of the communication problem, Huygens was not able to gather as much information as originally planned, as it could only transmit on one channel instead of two. But amazingly, Cassini captured absolutely all the data sent by Huygens until it flew out of range.
“It was beautiful,” Maize said, “I’ll never forget it. We got it all, and it was a wonderful example of international cooperation. The fact that 19 countries could get everything coordinated and launched in the first place was pretty amazing, but there’s nothing that compares to the worldwide effort we put into recovering the Huygens mission. From an engineering standpoint, that might trump everything else we’ve done on this mission.”
The view of Titan from the descending Huygens spacecraft on January 14, 2005.
Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
With its ground-breaking mission, Huygens provided the first real view of the surface of Titan. The data has been invaluable for understanding this unique and mysterious moon, showing geological and meteorological processes that are more similar to those on the surface of the Earth than anywhere else in the Solar System. ESA has details on the top discoveries by Huygens here.
Noted space journalist Jim Oberg has written several detailed and very interesting articles about the Huygens’ recovery, including one at IEEE Spectrum and another at The Space Review. These articles provide much more insight into the test, Smeds’ remarkable insistence for the test, the recovery work that was done and the subsequent success of the mission.
As Oberg says in IEEE Spectrum, “Smeds continued a glorious engineering tradition of rescuing deep-space missions from doom with sheer persistence, insight, and lots of improvisation.”
A modest Smeds was quoted by ESA: “This has happened before. Almost any mission has some design problem,” says Smeds, who says he’s worked on recovering from pre- and post-launch telecom issues that have arisen with several past missions. “To me, it’s just part of my normal work.”
For more stories about Huygens, Cassini and several other current robotic space missions, “Incredible Stories From Space” tells many behind-the-scenes stories from the amazing people who work on these missions.
When Huygens landed on Titan, it saw river channels, beaches, islands and swirling fog. So Saturn's largest moon is definitely wet: not from water, but from liquid methane (aka natural gas). And if this methane can fall as rain, it's entirely possible that there could be rainbows, as the Sun's…
CHILEAN GOVERNMENT RELEASES DECLASSIFIED UFO VIDEO
CHILEAN GOVERNMENT RELEASES DECLASSIFIED UFO VIDEO
The term UFO has a way of stirring up speculation and controversy. Even though this bland acronym refers only to an airborne object who’s appearance hasn’t been explained yet – with no references whatsoever to “aliens” or “extra-terrestrials” – one cannot mention it without inspiring talk of little green men and massive conspiracies.
This has certainly been the reaction to a video that was recently released by the Committee for the Study of Anomalous Air Phenomena (CEFAA), the Chilean government agency responsible for investigating UFOs. Originally captured by a helicopter belonging to the Chilean navy two years ago, the release of this 10-minute video coincided with the conclusion of the Committee’s investigation into the anomaly.
Such is the procedure of the CEFAA whenever a UFO – or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) as they call them – comes to their attention. And once an investigation into the sighting is concluded, the details are released to the public. Interestingly, this particular encounter – which took place on November 11th, 2014, in the coastal region between San Antonio and Quinteros – had them stumped.
A Chilean Navy version of the Europcopter Airbus Cougar AS-532, which was being flown by the aircrew that spotted the UFO.
Credit: Wikipedia Commons/Evogol
According to their report, a Chilean navy helicopter (an Airbus Cougar AS-532, like the one pictured above) was conducting a daytime patrol when a technician aboard spotted an object flying in their airspace. The technician then directed the helicopter’s infrared camera towards it and began filming. As the CEFAA recently indicated on their website:
“At 1:52 pm, while filming the terrain, the technician observed a strange object flying to the left over the ocean. Soon both men observed it with the naked eye. They noticed that the velocity and the altitude of the object appeared to be about the same as the helicopter, and estimated that the object was approximately 35 to 40 miles (55-65 km) away. It was traveling W/NW, according to the Captain. The technician aimed the camera at the object immediately and zoomed in with the infra red (IR) for better clarity.”
Further details from the investigation revealed that the officers reported the sighting to the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) in Santiago. The DGAC reported that no air traffic was authorized to be in the region, and that they could detect no trace of the object on their radar. They also confirmed that their attempts to communicate using the standard radio frequencies (which the helicopter crew had also attempted) yielded no response.
What was even more strange was the way the object appeared as two “hot spots”, which looked to be connected. In addition, on two occasions, the object threw off some kind of trail before finally disappearing into the clouds. According to the technician who filmed it, the plume of material appeared to be very hot, which was indicated from the footage that showed how the stream glowed bright in the infrared band.
The route of the helicopter, based on the displayed geographic coordinates displayed on the camera.
Credit: CEFAA
Much like the object itself, the CEFAA investigation was hard-pressed to explain the appearance of these hot plumes:
“Some analysts have suggested the hypothesis that it is a medium-sized line aircraft and that the stelae of the detachable element may be the reserve water inside the apparatus, thrown by the crew. However, meteorology asserts that neither the altitude at which the object moved, nor the ambient temperature of that moment, allowed such a wake of condensation.”
After the encounter, the Chilean Navy submitted the footage to the CEFAA, which has spent the past two years looking into it. However, their investigation proved inconclusive. As General Ricardo Bermúdez, Director of CEFAA during the investigation, told Leslie Kean of the Huffington Post, “We do not know what it was, but we do know what it was not.”
In essence, they ruled that the anomalous object could not have been a military or civilian aircraft. They also ruled out the possibility that the clouds it emitted were caused by the expulsion of waste water, and that the object was too low to emit contrails. In the end, the CEFAA cataloged this object as an UAP, which is standard practice whenever a particular sighting merits that designation.
Image captured from the footage shot by the Chilean Navy helicopter, showing the thermal trail cast by the object, and its two bright spots.
Credit: CEFAA
However, since the video went public, one UFO hoax-buster has come forward with what he believes to be a sound explanation for the sighting. According to Mick West, an administrator at Metabunk.org – a website dedicated to debunking unscientific theories – what was seen in the video was actually the result a four-engine airplane leaving flying out of Santiago and leaving aerodynamic contrails in its wake.
Using online flight records, West tracked down two flights that were in the same airspace at the time – LA330 (from Santiago to La Serena) and IB6830 (from Santiago to Madrid). After examining the flights GPS data and conducting a 3D analysis, West concluded that the four-engine IB6830 was the likeliest culprit. The thermal plumes were engine exhaust, and its failure to show up on radar was because the radar operators were looking in the wrong place.
As West explained in his write-up about the incident:
“At the time this was spotted (the very first sighting on the video, at 13:52:34) IB6830 was actually around 35 miles away. However it would very quickly get further away. By 13:57 IB6830 would be 65 miles away. This explain why it was not seen on radar (IB6830 was on radar, just not where they thought it was).”
Image captured from the video showing two connected white circular lights, or “hot spots”. “Envoltura” means “envelope”, refers to the glow surrounding the two spots.
Credit: CEFAA
In addition to being in exactly the right position (according to West), aerodynamic contrails explains the thermal flare and the two “thermal spotlights” on the object itself (see image above). Basically, the pilots were looking at the plane’s engine glow, which was caused by its two engines on either side of the fuselage glowing hot and giving the appearance of two connected hot spots.
As the plane climbed, its engine exhaust created hot trails that looked like plumes when viewed through an IR camera. Given the fact that the plane was at a higher altitude than originally reported, the presence of contrails would therefore be a possibility, which is something the CEFAA had ruled because the object was believed to be too close to the ground for those to form.
As William of Ockham famously said, “Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.” In this case, it would seem that West’s hypothesis accounts for all the knowns and unknowns in this case, and is therefore the correct one. In the coming weeks and months, the Chilean government may choose to revisit their ruling and reconsider designating this a UAP.
But in the meantime, UFO enthusiasts are likely to interpret this however they want. And many (not all) may indeed see this video as further confirmation that extra-terrestrials are already among us!
Cue the theme music from X-Files! And be sure to watch West’s video explaining his conclusions:
Deep Underground Bases: Military Experiments & UFO Technology
In this fascinating episode Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt interviews Underground Bases Expert Dr. Richard Sauder about his landmark book on the subject of secret underground bases: Hidden in Plain Sight.
Sauder details his decade long research effort to sift through declassified documents and speak with former inside government whistleblowers about their knowledge of these hidden installations. What he discovered in his cutting-edge research will blow your mind with the reality that there is an extensive world that's been built underground of a massive, experimental scientific and military infrastructure designed for deep covert operations. With no public oversight, no budget limits and zero media exposure, these massive facilities exist as an entirely secret world operated by the most covert operators in the Deep State.
UFOs & The Breakaway National Security State The development of deep underground bases goes far back into human history, but more recently got an amazing boost from the advent of two World Wars and the decades of the paranoid Cold War in the 20th century. The early Nazi obsession with developing wonder weapons underground and hiding their industrial base miles beneath the surface gives us a glimpse into the strategic importance of this strategy.
The National Security State Black Budget The US National Security State dedicated massive black budget resources to the development of a sprawling network of secret underground command and control bases ostensibly for the survival of humanity in a doomsday scenario and to set up Continuity of Government operations in the event of a Nuclear War. Beyond this surface explanation there are fascinating reports of massive underground facilities designed specifically to test advanced and exotic UFO Technology obtained by crash retrieval teams with a secrecy ranking that is higher than those set for nuclear classification. This development of this reverse-engineered ET technology may be largely responsible for the massive secrecy surrounding the activities of this global network of deep underground bases.
Controversial, chilling and potentially explosive, don't miss part 1 of this fascinating Dark Journalist episode!
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