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...
Back in 1991, UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield published his then-latest of many reports on crashed UFOs. I had read all of Stringfield’s earlier reports, booklets and books, but this one stood out for me. The reason being that it referenced the alleged crash of a UFO, in 1964. The location was an area of woodland and fields near the Staffordshire, England market-town of Penkridge. It’s a town only a short drive from where I grew up as a kid. At the time, however, I was down in the south of England, in Harlow, Essex. But, I made a note to look into the affair next time I was back in the Staffordshire area.
As for Stringfield’s story, it was an intriguing one. Unfortunately, and as was the case with so many of Stringfield’s informants, the name of the person who provided the story was not listed. Or, rather, it was, but in the form of a pseudonym: “S.M. Brannigan.” According to the story, back in early 1964 “Brannigan” was serving in the US military aboard “…a specially rigged LST, a flagship that was attached to a naval amphibious force at an unspecified point in either the Caribbean or the Atlantic…”
Stringfield’s source informed him that it was his job to intercept and translate Soviet military transmissions. One such transmission – of early 1964 – stood out. Reportedly, the US Navy monitored Soviet chatter concerning the tracking and spiraling to Earth of nothing less than a UFO. Supposedly, the malfunctioning UFO split into two segments: one coming down somewhere in Germany and the other in a wooded/field area near to Penkridge. There were rumors of “remains” and of “bodies” hastily and secretly recovered by UK and German forces.
Well, it was quite a story! But, it lacked a real name for “Brannigan.” And it also lacked solid data, back-up sources, and a specific date. Nevertheless, I have found myself faced with less material to work with – and on more than a few occasions, too. I looked into it for a while, but I could not find a single piece of data to support the story. Now, we move on to 1995. That was the year in which a woman with a deep interest in UFOs, Irene Bott, established the Staffordshire UFO Group. One year later, in September 1996, Irene had a first anniversary SUFOG conference in the area, at which I spoke.
During the booze-quaffing session after the gig, I told Irene about the 1964 affair and she found it all very interesting. To the extent that she made mention of it in the local (but now defunct) newspaper, The Chase Post (which covered the towns and villages in and around Staffordshire’s Cannock Chase). It was an article that led an elderly man named Harold South to contact Irene with a startling story. According to South, he was on-site shortly after the 1964 crash occurred and while hordes of British military personnel were racing around, closing roads through a particular part of the Cannock Chase, and loading a small, delta-shaped vehicle (or parts of it) aboard a large, transporter vehicle.
South also claimed he was later visited by local police, who, he believed, had seen him as he drove close to the makeshift cordon and tracked him down by the license-plate of his vehicle. He also said they confiscated his camera, which he eventually got back, minus the film – which allegedly showed shots of the crash-site. Well, that was quite as story, too! It was not until December 1996 that me and Irene were able to arrange to meet with South in person – which we did, at his small apartment in the town of Brownhills. We called him, around the end of November, to see if one particular date was suitable. It was. Then, on the morning of that particular date (December 11, 1996), we called him again, just to make sure a meet was still cool. Yes, it was.
Well, that was all good. Or, at least, we thought it was. When we got to South’s apartment, his entire demeanor had changed. He didn’t want to talk to us – at all. He was clearly a worried man. He did, at least, invite us in. If nothing else, that was something positive. We asked South what was wrong and, for a few moments, he hemmed and hawed. Finally, however, he told us about the reason for his sudden change of heart. According to South, in between us phoning him and arriving at his home he had received a phone call from the British Ministry of Defense, warning him not to talk to us!
Yes, you know what I’m going to say: that was quite a story too! I have heard a lot of similar such controversial claims over the years, many of which led nowhere. This one, however, was a bit different. We asked South if anyone had called since the MoD phoned. He replied, “No.” So, we asked if we could use his phone and dial 1471. It’s a UK service that allows the caller to obtain the number of the previous, incoming call. Providing, that is, it’s not withheld by the caller.
Sure enough there was a number. We dialed it as South looked on, not unlike someone awaiting a firing squad or castration without anaesthetic. Or both. Not only did we dial, but someone answered. It was a woman who was very cagey about identifying herself by name. We were, however, able to prove the number had taken us to an operator-service that was run by the military. It was responsible for channeling calls to and from military establishments in the West Midlands and Staffordshire regions of the UK. In other words, the call to South could have come from any number of military bases in the area. But, all we had was the operator-number that called South, rather than the originating source that was connected to South by the operator.
Needless to say, it didn’t take us anywhere. But something did. South added that as well as the Ministry of Defense warning him not to speak with us, rather oddly they gave him a number to call in the event that he “might want to speak with” them again. So, we asked for the number and dialed it. This one took us to an office of the Ministry of Defense Guard Service at Whittington Barracks, near the city of Lichfield.
The voice on the other end of the line was cordial (throughout the brief conversation the man at the other end genially called Irene “flower”), but careful about what he said. He gave up nothing at all and the conversation was soon ended. He clearly reacted when we phoned though, since he wanted to know how we had got an internal number at the Guards Service, rather than their main-line. Well, he told us nothing, so we did likewise and said our goodbyes. “Bye, flower,” he said to Irene.
Over the next couple of years, Irene got a few more snippets of data, which collectively suggested there may have been some truth to the story that originally surfaced via “S. M. Brannigan” and Leonard Stringfield, and which was later expanded on by Harold South. It’s an episode that I still occasionally think about, nineteen years after we met that worried old man. Of course, none of what happened on that freezing cold, winter’s morning in December 1996 confirms aliens crashed near Penkridge 51 years ago. All I can say for sure, is that we were able to 100 percent prove that on the day in question – when we were due to speak with him about his crashed UFO claims – Harold South had a call directed to his home from a military operator-based service, and he was given an internal number at the MoD Guard Service, in case he might “want to speak” with someone about his experience.
All of this begs a couple of questions: (A) why was it made so easy for me and Irene to find the military operator’s number via the 1471 service? And (B) why was South even given a number at Whittington Barracks at all? Irene and I wondered if we had a hidden whistle-blower somewhere in our midst. One who was feeding us a few snippets of data (in the form of odd but easily traceable phone calls), in an attempt to try and convince us of the validity of the 1964 crash. But, in a way that didn’t compromise his or her identity.
Admittedly, I have no firm opinion on what went down on that day in December 1996, except to say it was very strange, deeply memorable, and extremely intriguing. Beyond that? Nothing but a mass of questions that are unlikely to ever be answered.
UFO spotters in Swansea are looking for people who have witnessed unexplained flying objects in our area to take part in a special conference next month.
Whatever you experience – from seeing bright lights in the sky to believing you have come face to with an interplanetary traveller – the Swansea UFO Network wants to hear from you.
The event will take place in the Pembrokeshire seaside village of Broad Haven the scene of, 40 years ago to the day, one of the most infamous UFO sighting Wales has ever seen.
An Evening Post reader sent this image of an unidentified object hovering in the sky over Swansea in 2014.
Emlyn Williams, of Swansea UFO Network, said: "We are holding a special conference in Broad Haven to mark the 40th anniversary of a famous UFO sighting when on Saturday, February 4, 1977, a whole class of school children from Broad Haven Primary School saw a landed craft in a field next to the school, including a figure walking about.
"The case was extensively investigated at the time and sparked world-wide interest in what turned out to be the start of a major series of sightings in the area - dubbed The Welsh Triangle.
"We are looking for witnesses to UFO sightings in South-west wales during the 1977 flap to tell us what they saw and experienced."
A series of keynote speaks and UFO experts have been lined up to appear at the event.
Mr Williams added: "The speakers confirmed so far arew Neil Spring (The Watchers), David L Richards (UFO Wales) and by special video link will be Peter Paget, author of the Welsh Triangle and UFO-UK. We hope to have witnesses present too."
Swansea UFO Network was founded last year by Emlyn Williams and Steve Drewson to document and investigate sightings.
The group has been collecting strange sightings across the bay in the hope that one day, something may come of it all. Among their collection is an "alien" spotted in St Thomas, Swansea, and an object resembling a jellyfish seen over Langland Bay.
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VLIEGTUIG DONALD TRUMP BEGROET DOOR UFO'S
VLIEGTUIG DONALD TRUMP BEGROET DOOR UFO'S
Het lijkt dat buitenaardsen bijzondere belangstelling hebben voor de nieuwe Amerikaanse president Donald Trump.
Toen hij in Air Force Two onderweg was van New York naar zijn inhuldiging in Washington werd het vliegtuig begroet door verschillende UFO’s.
Afgelopen vrijdag werd iedere stap die de nieuwe Amerikaanse president Donald Trump deed nauwlettend gevolgd.
Alles werd op beeld vastgelegd, zo ook zijn korte vliegtrip van New York onderweg naar de inhuldiging in Washington.
Voor het vervoer werd niet gebruikt gemaakt van de eigen Boeing van Donald Trump, maar van het regeringsvliegtuig Air Force Two, het vliegtuig dat normaal gesproken door de Vice president wordt gebruikt.
Je kunt in de onderstaande videoclip van Fox News het vliegtuig volgen vanaf de startbaan en dan op 1 minuut 50 in de video zie je plotseling een witte UFO onder het vliegtuig doorschieten.
Dan op 2 minuut 55 komt er van links een donkere UFO die met enorme snelheid langs het vliegtuig schiet.
Zijn twee incidenten met een UFO op zo'n korte vlucht op het moment dat Donald Trump onderweg is naar zijn inhuldiging als president nog toeval te noemen?
Dit is trouwens niet de eerste keer dat UFO’s bijzondere belangstelling aan de dag leggen voor Donald Trump.
In september 2015 werd een UFO waargenomen naast de helikopter van Donald Trump en de inmiddels bij ons bekende ufoloog Scott Waring schreef toen dat wanneer buitenaardsen dergelijke belangstelling tonen voor Donald Trump, hij zeker de verkiezingen zal winnen.
Waring schreef dat op een moment dat volgens de officiële mediakanalen Trump geen schijn van kans had om ooit de verkiezingen te winnen van Hillary Clinton.
Wie weet waren het dus wel buitenaardsen die de Amerikaanse verkiezingen hebben beïnvloed in plaats van degene die daar (onbewezen) nog altijd de schuld van krijgt: Poetin.
Area 51, Facts, Secrets, Things You Did Not Know About
Area 51, Facts, Secrets, Things You Did Not Know AboutUpdated October, 2016
AREA 51 FACTS & SECRETS
With all the secrecy shrouding Area 51, it's time for some light to be shed. Learn more about the nicknames, entertainment, food, spy planes, and rumors surrounding this infamous site. On August 15, 2013 the CIA finally acknowledged the existence of Area 51. After repeated freedom of information request made by George Washington University the CIA lifted the veil of secrecy on Area 51. On December 8, 2013 President Obama makes an off hand comment about Area 51, becoming the first President to publicly acknowledge its existence. This does not mean they are talking openly about UFOs and military secrets but it does open the door for lawsuits and additional freedom of information request from the public.
The name ‘Area 51’ derives from its marking on 1950’s Nevada Test Site maps. Today, the official name of Area 51 is Air Force Flight Test Center, Detachment 3, or AFFTC Det. 3 for short. For years even our own government denied its existence until Soviet pictures confirmed what many knew all along. The base did exist. The facility was originally designed for the testing of U-2 spy planes, and ultimately Stealth technology would be born there. The secret site has grown to many times its original size. The USAF took over command of Area 51, and its airspace in 1970.
Area 51 was also referred to as Groom Lake (the name of the dry lake Area 51 was built around), Paradise Ranch (a half-serious way to entice employees to accept positions at the remote, rustic base), Watertown (the official name of the test site, given in 1956), and Dreamland (after an Edgar Allan Poe poem).
Area 51’s nickname DREAMLAND was allegedly derived from an Edgar Allan Poe poem by the same name. It admonishes that “the traveler, traveling through it, may not-dare not openly view it; Never its mysteries are exposed, to the weak human eye unclosed.”
The first known use of the area was the construction in 1941 of an auxiliary airfield for the West Coast Air Corps Training Center at Las Vegas Air Field. Known as Indian Springs Airfield Auxiliary No. 1, it consisted of two dirt 5000' runways.
Under President Dwight Eisenhower the Groom Lake facility was put in the hands of the CIA for Project Aquatone, for the development of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft in April 1955.
This mysterious fortress and its surrounding grounds are strictly off-limits. What secrets are kept inside this highly guarded facility? The rumors abound. Yes, there have been pictures of craft doing amazing maneuvers over these guarded skies and pictures and video smuggled from inside have become legend. These smuggled articles show living and dead aliens, spacecraft of futuristic design, but still the government denies these claims.
Helen Frost, whose husband Robert died in 1988 from the fumes, filed a lawsuit against the government in 1996 but the case was dismissed by the judge because the government could neither confirm nor deny the allegations, and it was also stated that the base is exempt from any environmental laws.
During the 70's and 80's the workers at Area 51 were exposed to jet fuel toxins like JP7. Supposedly old computer parts were also burned in trenches. The workers were ordered to go into the trenches and mix up the material and were only allowed to wear protection up to their waist.
The A12 Oxcart
When Area 51 was chosen as the testing site for the A-12 OXCART, a new, 8,500-foot runway had to be built. So as not to draw attention, contractors worked under cover of night.
Flying at 2,200 mph, it took OXCART pilot 186 miles just to make a U-turn. To accommodate the plane, an additional 38,400 acres of land around the base had to be withdrawn from public access and the restricted airspace expanded to create a 440-square mile box.
Early on, the only entertainment at Area 51 consisted of a single cement tennis court and a small bowling alley. There was no television, and radio signals only made it through the surrounding mountains in the evening.
The Area 51 mess hall sometimes served lobsters and oysters. Once a week it was steak night.
There is a sliver of truth to the conspiracy theory that the moon landing was staged at Area 51. Various space equipment – including land rovers and life support systems – were tested by the astronauts at the adjoining nuclear testing grounds.
Area 51 has not been spared by the downturn in the economy, it is estimated that there are 1600 to 2000 employees working at the military facility involving at least a dozen defense contractors as of 2013. This is down by 200-400 employees since 2012.
A recent poll showed that 70%+ of Americans believe that UFOs are real.
After an increase in UFO sightings in 1952, the CIA concluded that “there is a remote possibility that they may be interplanetary aircraft,” and that it was necessary to investigate each sighting.
90% of reported UFO sightings could be easily debunked, while the other 10% were “a number of incredible reports from credible observers.”
Over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights (namely the U-2) over the United States, virtually all originating from Area 51.
The A-12 OXCART required special fuel in order to fly at such extreme speeds and heights. The fuel was made to withstand extremely high temperatures and would not ignite even if someone threw a match into a barrel full of it.
The OXCART cruised at 2200 miles per hour, but because the plane was secret it was kept out of official speed competitions.
The A-12 OXCART consisted of more than 90% titanium. It was the world’s first titanium plane.
An A-12 spy plane was used when the USS Pueblo was captured by North Korea to photograph the area and determine the ship's location.
The OXCART's engines acted as vacuum cleaners, sucking up any debris left on the runway. So personnel would vacuum the runway before each test flight.
The Air Force has acknowledged the existence of the Nellis Range Complex near the Groom Dry Lake for many years now. There are a variety of activities, some of which are classified, throughout the complex.
The range is used for the testing of technologies and systems training for operations critical to the effectiveness of U.S. military forces and the security of the United States.
Some specific activities and operations conducted on the Nellis Range, both past and present, remain CLASSIFIED and cannot be discussed.
The A12 - Spy Plane could travel at 2200 MPH
Suspended upside down, a titanium A-12 spy-plane prototype is prepped for radar testing at Area 51 in the late 1950s.
But pushing the limits came with risks—and led to the catastrophic 1963 crash of an A-12 based out of Area 51.
After a rash of declassification's and the acknowledgement of the existence of Area 51, details of Cold War workings at the Nevada base, are coming to light—including images of an A-12 crash and its cover-up pictured publicly for the first time in May.
Remnants of a crashed A-12 spy plane—including two engines and the shattered rear fuselage—litter the ground near Wendover, Utah, in a 1963 picture recently declassified by the CIA and published here for the first time.
After pilot Ken Collins had parachuted to the ground, he was stunned to be greeted by three civilians in a pickup, who offered to give him a ride to the wreckage of his plane. Instead, Collins got them to give him a ride in the opposite direction, by telling them the plane had a nuclear weapon on board—a prearranged cover story to keep the Area 51 craft a secret.
Nearly undetectable to radar, the A-12 could fly at 2,200 miles (3,540 kilometers) an hour—fast enough to cross the continental U.S. in 70 minutes. From 90,000 feet (27,400 meters), the plane's cameras could capture foot-long (0.3-meter-long) objects on the ground below.
You won't find it on any geological or aeronautical maps and yet like a place in the Twilight Zone, flights to it leave Las Vegas' McCarran Airport every day. Some say alien aircraft are stored there and reverse-engineered to create new aircraft and weapons, or it's the site of genetic testing or other diabolical plots. Others say it's just a very secret aircraft development site. No matter, what it is, Area 51 remains shrouded in mystery.
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Why Are Aliens Visiting Earth? The Answer May Surprise You
Why Are Aliens Visiting Earth? The Answer May Surprise You
UFOs Have Been Visiting Earth For a Long Time, Why?
While many acknowledge the presence of extraterrestrials in our world they are at a complete loss to explain why they are here. As with most things in life the explanation is fairly straightforward and not that difficult to comprehend. Understanding the primary motive for extraterrestrials visits will help explain theUFO Phenomena.
Most people believe that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth to monitor the progress and behavior of humanity. To a certain extent that might be true, but it is much more likely that they are periodically coming here to examine the health of Planet Earth. After all, even our scientist are beginning to come around to the idea that Planet Earth is a living sentient being. In the greater cosmos, human and extraterrestrial life may be fairly common. On the other hand what little we know about other planets, and the universe at large, indicate that our home planet is an extremely desirable and rare occurrence within the cosmos.
People have wondered for a long time why ET has not made their presence known. If we are not the primary reason why they are here, why would they disclose their existence. The survival of mankind is probably very far down their list of priorities. For that matter survival of humanity may not even be on their list of priorities. Have you ever stopped to consider that Planet Earth has more value to an alien race if there were no humans inhabiting the planet.
Everything we need to sustain life has been provided for us on Planet Earth. We are blessed with an abundance of water, sunshine, breathable air, enough land and food to house and feed 7 billion people. We share Earth with millions of species of plant, animal and insect life, each playing an important role in the ecosystem, that in itself is remarkable. It makes our planet an astonishing place, a very rare and unusual gem among the stars.
Those that follow UFOs closely, know the largest wave of UFO sightings in modern time coincided with the discovery of splitting the atom and the use of Atomic Energy during WWII. In other words, when we discovered how to manipulate nuclear energy we triggered an unprecedented wave of UFO sightings.
There are well documented cases of UFOs hovering over nuclear military facilitiesin both the United States and Russia. Reliable witnesses state that the craft were tampering with the nuclear armament control systems. This behavior by UFOs and their occupants was not an accident and it was clearly a message to humanity.
Many people 'want' to believe that if things get out of control and WWIII gets under way our extraterrestrial brethren will step in and save humanity, nothing could be further from the truth. ET may step in and save Planet Earth, but they will have little time and no admiration for a species that never understood how good they had it in the first place.
There is little doubt that Earth's oceans, forest and species of plants and animals are worth saving. The living, breathing, self-regulating sentient being that we are living on is at the core of their mission.
UFOs have a long and documented history of appearing just after natural or man-made catastrophic events. There is not much question that they are keeping their eye on the prize we call Earth.
Last week the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released 13 million previously classified Top Secret documents, including detailed investigations of UFO activity.
Available now via the CIA online library, the declassified documents include reports on: investigations into UFOs; top secret cables from government executives; the agency’s behaviour control program, MK-ULTRA; and reports from experiments carried out with renowned TV psychic and ‘spoon bender’, Uri Geller.
While many of the reports have sensitive information blacked out, there is still a surprising amount of detail that outlines events, locations and people.
Little grey men
UFO conspiracy theorists have long held that governments around the world are covering up evidence of the existence of aliens and UFOs, and even collaborating in secret with beings from another planet.
Ideas such as this entered the public mind decades ago, with the supposed crash landing of a UFO at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
Legend has it the US Air Force moved the crashed flying saucer and its occupants to a testing facility near Groom Lake, called Area 51 – a site the US government has denied existed until 2013.
Stories like this were then popularised in the 1990s, in television series like The X-Files – a science-fiction drama where FBI Special Agents Fox ‘Spooky’ Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigate unsolved cases of a paranormal nature, with UFOs, aliens and government conspiracies playing the central role in the series.
While the declassified CIA documents don’t provide any definitive evidence of alien encounters or alliances, they do show the very real acknowledgement that UFOs were a source of concern.
One document, dated January 2000, declared that:
Since 1947, approximately 1500 official reports of sightings have been received and, of these about 20% remain unexplained.
Ignoring the 17 years since that report, that’s 300 events a government agency with an annual budget of around $US15 billion is unable to explain.
Scene of one of the most speculated about alien stories in history. Photo: Getty
Threat analysis
Many of the declassified reports explore the security issues posed by UFOs to the United States, with a number concluding that secret scientific advisory panels, committees and ad hoc research groups be convened to draw up proposals for yet more secret scientific advisory panels, committees and ad hoc research groups.
Ultimately, there were a number of scientific advisory groups who determined that UFO phenomena posed “no direct threat to national security”, and that they “did not find any evidence that related the objects sighted to space travel”. Sorry to disappoint you, Spooky.
Incidentally, there are a number of documents on Area 51, but, sadly, these are nothing more than attendance records and staffing reports. Apparently, it was hard to get good help at super-secret airforce bases in1963.
There is no spoon
It appears the CIA also enjoyed a brief period of fascination with Uri Geller – a television illusionist and self-proclaimed psychic who came to public attention in the 1970s.
Despite being the focus of numerous lawsuits, accusations of fraud and very public debunkings, Geller volunteered his psychic services to the CIA, who performed various interviews and practical experiments to determine his authenticity.
The CIA were fascinated with Uri Geller’s abilities. Photo: Getty
The newly-declassified experiments show Geller demonstrated inconsistent psychic abilities. In one experiment, the psychic was asked to determine the result of a six-sided dice roll – Geller guessed correctly roughly half the time.
In another report, Geller successfully copied various line drawings contained within sealed envelopes, despite some of his productions being mirror images of the original.
Ultimately, it was stated: “There is serious doubt that Geller’s accomplishment transcends the range of activities of a skillful magician can perform …”
Geller was passed off as a very talented magician and mentalist, and sent back to a life of luxury and lawsuits.
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Pink UFO Caught During Sunset Over Slovakia On Jan 11, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Pink UFO Caught During Sunset Over Slovakia On Jan 11, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 11, 2017
Location of sighting: Slovakia
This pink disk was caught over Slovakia this week. Its a bit out of focus, but I noticed that as it passed behind this one bush, it suddenly jumped into perfect focus for a few seconds. It is a disk, perfectly round and has the appearance of a pink cloud that moves incredibly fast. The ship is incredibly beautiful and looks pink because it was caught during sunset. The eyewitness who filmed it says its a Pleiadian ship, which are often a pinkish orange in color.
Four UFO Disks Sucking Data Over Communication Towers In Mexico, Photo, UFO Sighting News.
Four UFO Disks Sucking Data Over Communication Towers In Mexico, Photo, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 2-5-2006
Location of sighting: Mexico
Source: MUFON #81662
I think I report more UFO sightings from Mexico than any other country in the world. Here is a UFO report that came in today, but occurred back in 2006. Look closely, you can even see into the clear dome on top of the ships. Four glowing green disks were recorded near some telecommunication towers. The UFOs were obviously recording data and information being sent around the globe from those towers. One photo caught them, but by the time the second photo was taken, the UFOs self monitoring systems had already detected the person and camera and altered their cloaking shields to once again appear invisible. AI probably runs these functions on their ships so it can react lightening fast. All photos are untouched, original. At first, the UFOs might be mistaken for a reflection, but in all actuality, the UFOs were revealed by the powerful lights below, some of which contain infrared lights which can see at night, and it was night, so this caused them to become visible to the camera for a few moments until shield harmonics were altered to hid them. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Take a photograph with a long exposure of the telecommunications towers, about 800 m away, seeing the photograph in my house I discovered those lights, the exhibition was 3 minutes. Return to the following week and take another with the same parameters and this time did not appear anything.
This looks like a plane, flying away from the camera considerably higher than the helicopter (somewhere around 15,000 to 25,000 feet), that briefly creates an aerodynamic contrail.
Based on analysis by @Trailblazer, @Trailspotter, myself, and others, There were only two planes possibly 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.
While this seemed like a good fit just based on this overhead view, subsequent 3D analysis revealed that IB6830 (a four engined A340) is actually a perfect match. IB6830 left earlier, and was climbing out more to the south, nearer to the helicopter. 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)
Initially I had to extract the data for the track from Planefinder, but then I located the FlightAware GPS track. Using this, multiple other examples of IB6830's departure, and the official departure charts, I was able to create a track in google earth using actual GPS coordinates (blue) and estimated positions (orange).
Since we have timestamped GPS locations, we can now geolocate IB6830 and LA330 in Google Earth, and create views of frames from the helicopter video using the coastline and mountains to get the exact heading.
IB6830 is in exactly the right position. We can position both the planes and the chopper precisely with the GPS data, match the camera direction from the wide shot, and the position of IB6830 then matches exactly.
The two large blobs are flared images from the heat of the engines (much smaller in reality). You can see this effect with some candles if you view them from a distance with an IR camera. I used the FLIR ONE to do this:
We can see how large the flares look at various stages of the path.
The flaring is more apparent if you look at it uninverted. The engines appear as two very bright lights
The aerodynamic contrail starts ands stop in a similar way to the trail in this video (not a "chemtrail" though, this just a regular aerodynamic contrail)
There are a few different relevant images from the video:
This is a close-up of the object early in the video:
This shows that the plane is banked at this point - i.e. it is turning to the right. This matches the part of the track for IB6830 where it turns to the north, based on the time.
Compare it with this video of a plane taking off. It is much closer, however at the end of the video you see the two engines tilted at about the same angle as the "UFO" while the plane turns right.
At one point (9:08) they switch between the IR camera and a regular (visible light) camera. you can see the trail qute distinctly. It looks very like a contrail.
Why is it showing up as warmer? Aerodynamic contrails are essentially clouds, and at this altitude they will be ice clouds, below below freezing. They show up as darkly colored for the same reason that other clouds in the scene show up dark. It's simply the camera adjusting the exposure for the very cold sky. The engines are small so they don't effect the exposure much (and hence they flare). So the net result is that anything warmer than radiation coming from clear sky will appear dark.
A few seconds later
It also seems a bit odd that there is very little change in the heading and elevation angles in the video. This becomes clear if you look at the angles and distances involved
The thin white lines here connect the chopper and the plane at equal times, as you can see the heading angle between them does not change much.
The altitude of the plane varies from ~5000m to 9000m, while the distance varies from 70km to 170km, the chopper is about 1400m, we can draw a diagram to see the angles
As you can see there is very little change from the start (2.93°) to the end (1.94). Basically it should vary from about 3° to about 2° (appearing to be descending faster at the start)
[Note: this top post will be updated with information from the discussion below, so some of what follows may seem repetitive]
Q: If it was a plane then why did it not respond to hailing A: A pilot familiar with Santiago departure responds:
Q: Why did it not show up on radar? They were looking for a low flying object south of the airport about 35 miles away, by the time they looked it was at a high altitude and 65 miles away. The plane actually does show up on radar in data supplied by CEFAA
Q:How can it be a contrail cloud if it's as hot as the engine? A: It's not as hot as the engines, it's a similar color in the IR to other clouds in the images. It's just a dense cloud which is a lot warmer than the far background sky. Even if they were dumping boiling water it would have been atomized by the 300 mph wind into a cloud and cooled to ambient temperature in seconds.
Q: Don't contrails only form above 30,000 feet? A: That's where exhaust contrails are most frequent. However this appear to be a semi persistent aerodynamic contrail which often form on climbing aircraft between 20,000 to 30,000 feet (and sometimes lower).
Q: Why did you change from LA330 to both IB6830 and then to just IB6830? There were only every two possible planes. LA330 looked better when simply viewing the tracks from above. But later 3D recreation showed that IB6830 (flying a similar path) was a better fit. LA330 still looked like a good fit for the final shot, but more detailed analysis of the path eventually showed it could only be IB6830
Q: Why should we trust your theory over the experts? A: I could argue I'm an expert too (at identifying planes and contrails), or that the CEFAA lacks expertise in some areas, or that even experts make mistakes. However let's drop that "Argument for authority", and look at facts you can verify yourself.
We have some very solid verifiable evidence in
The helicopter video with timestamps and GPS coordinates.
The IB6830 and LA330 ADS-B tracks with timestamps and GPS coordinates.
1 matches 2 in every way
IB6830 is in the right place at the right place
IB6830 is going in the right direction
IB6830 banks when the "UFO" banks,
IB6830 would create a visual thermal signature the same size as in the video.
IB6830 engine configuration matches the flares seen in the banking
The size of IB6830's thermal signature shrinks proportional to its distance, matching the video.
Contrails derived from the IB6830's track would have the same apparent size as in the video.
This is not my theory. These are verifiable facts that I (and others) simply discovered. Unless there was a UFO flying between the plane and the helicopter, mimicking the motion, the banking, the size and and the thermal signature of the plane, then it's a plane.
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School Children Witness Non-Human Beings & A Large Craft Landing
School Children Witness Non-Human Beings & A Large Craft Landing
School Children Witness Non-Human Beings & A Large Craft Landing
One of the most intriguing/astonishing UFO mass witness cases comes from a supposed encounter with over sixty schoolchildren in the town of Ruwa, Zimbabwe, on September 16th 1994.
The children ALL claim to have seen multiple hovering objects, that resembled what we ‘adults’ can only describe as spaceships’.
Please do remember, unidentified objects have been tracked on radar scores of times – and at the same time have been visually confirmed even by military pilots (and more) from all over the planet. Dozens of governments have already disclosed the existence of UFOs.
What is so very much intriguing about these disclosures is the fact that these unknown objects perform extraordinary manoeuvres that defy our current understanding of physics….
“Until this day, he has never stopped talking about it.” – Mother of one of the children
What did the children see!?
So What Actually Happened?!
Just like title of this post states, over sixty school children were playing outside at recess when they all stated that they saw a large craft, and multiple small crafts land in a field nearby to them. The Children also stated that they saw multiple “beings” that they described as most definitely ‘non-human’.
This famous UFO story has been very well documented, is taken very seriously, and was actually studied by various different researchers. One of them being Harvard University psychologist Dr. John Mack. Dr John Mack interviewed these children personally, as well as many others. This story spread around the world very quickly and his interviews with the children were conducted shortly after the incident.
There is footage (in the videos linked within this article) of interviews with the children many years after the incident.
Some of the children who witnessed this bizarre/surreal event were so taken back by this experience that they ran back into the school crying!
The most remarkable thing about this whole story is that all of the children told exactly the same story, precisely, as if confirming what had happened really did happen; they were all completely sincere about their scary experience. Another incredible fact about this exciting yet scary case is that the children’s drawings of what they saw were also extremely consistent with one another (please see below). They were, as Dr. Mack points out, clearly telling a story as if it had definitely happened – they believed exactly what they were saying was a 100% true, and there was no evidence of psychosis or any delusion!
“After researching this case and others, I have no doubt that these children were being completely sincere, and that what they said happened really did occur” Dr.John Mack
Below is quite a shocking clip of some of the children talking to Dr. Mack about what they saw, as well as drawings (left) and some footage with school teachers and administrators. Anybody who has any type of experience with children will know that these children believe what they are saying, and anybody who feels the same way as I do about children would know that something big probably happened here. What adds even more validity to the story is the fact that these children are on a very long list of (completely normal) people who have had real, genuine unexplained encounters.
“They came running up here in such a panic, and even if we staged it they could have not all run together like that. They came up here like a living snake, we were in a staff meeting and we just heard them screaming and screaming… A child cannot make that up.” – Teacher from the school (video below)
“I was very skeptical in the beginning as well, I believed that they had seen something, but I wasn’t prepared to accept that it was anything supernatural, but I think the consistency of what’s been going on indicates that it was more than I was prepared to admit in the beginning.” – A second teacher from the school (video below)
As stated before, the children in the video above are described as being completely mentally stable, and there are no indications that they were in any shape or form distorting the truth or were confused, or otherwise unable to make an account of what they saw that day!
“They describe these events like a person talks about something that has happened to them. I can tell that these are people of sound mind telling me something…” (quote continued in the video) –Dr. John Mack, professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
A lot of the children who witnessed this incredible event were asked what they got from this strange experience. One of them had answered that they were here to tell us that “we don’t look after the planet properly.” This makes us wonder that perhaps these extra-terrestrial beings from another world were trying to get children to think about what damage we are doing to Planet Earth? Out of the many extra-terrestrial encounters that have been reported previously, this type of theme is extremely common among those who have claimed to have had contact with extra-terrestrial beings. This was in no way a joke of any kind, some of the children were stricken with a horrible feeling and vision that the world might end, that “all the trees would go down and nobody would be able to breath.” (quote taken from video above)
20 Years After The Event!
One of the drawings off the children
The video footage in the above also includes footage from some of the children 20 years later from the event speaking about their experience that day. All of them are able to communicate maturely and clearly about what happened. We just wanted to re-iterate that here, as it is some important footage of them from another perspective speaking about their experience, years after the event occurred. There is also some more great footage which can be found – HERE. We found some quotes (below), taken from the same children in their mature adult years. Again, you can find some footage of some of the other kids that were also involved in the incident shortly after the event occurred, as well as many years later in the video above as well.
“All of a sudden it was just like imaging going through my head, a message, telepathic communication.”(source)
“We met up on many occasions after that, hugged and shook our heads and said that was the most amazing experience of our lives wasn’t it?” (click HERE)
When you have more than sixty children doing it with such accuracy, it’s difficult to believe that something extraordinary didn’t happen here, It’s not uncommon for a child to make something up, but this simply cannot be the case with this event!
“I must say that if your listeners could see for themselves the mass of reports coming in from airborne gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie charged with the job of conducting investigations, all of which reports are being forwarded by us to the CNES (National Center for Space Studies), then they would see that it is all pretty disturbing.” – Former French Minister of Defense, Robert Galley (Dolan, Richard. UFOs For the 21st Century Mind: New York: Richard Dolan Press, 2014.)
There is obviously no official documents at hand that actually prove the existence of extra-terrestrial life, or that intelligent extra-terrestrial life is operating these unusual crafts. But then again on the other hand, we do have an awful lot of evidence lending belief to the idea that some of these craft could indeed be controlled by a non-human intelligence, and this specific case in Zimbabwe is one of many supposed encounters that has so many people believing that we are not alone, and that intelligent extra-terrestrial life is, and has been, visiting us for a VERY long time now.
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (click HERE) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic Western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.” (click HERE) – Dr. Brian O’leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor
“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.” – Former Canadian Defense Minister, Paul Hellyer (click HERE)
Please see below some more pictures that the children drew;
U.I.P Summary
Quite a scary thought for a child to bear aye!? Can you imagine how your child would react at seeing this!?….Perhaps just perhaps the Alien Beings accidentally came upon these children? OR Perhaps they meant to? Maybe they were there for other reasons that are unknown!? The fact that all of the adults were in a staff meeting is also extremely intriguing….did these beings purposefully make an appearance, timing it perfectly for when there were no adults around? What do you think the purpose for such an encounter could be?
There are way too may question marks against this story to come up with a clear cut answer, but doesn’t it seem very coincidental that after this event many schools around the world have had ‘practise drills’ with staged UFO landings in school playgrounds (SOURCE)…..No coincidence at all, they are trying to prepare the children for what could happen and for what’s to come!
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CIA files: Uri Geller has real powers
CIA files: Uri Geller has real powers
Following a CIA document dump, it is revealed that the CIA experimented with Uri Geller's psychic abilities, and discovered that he is 'unequivocally' psychic; more to be released soon.
Uri Geller
The CIA has published the first of 13 million top-secret documents following a freedom of information act.
The documents include, amongst other things, research documents, intelligence briefs, UFO sightings, psychic experiments, and others.
Among the documents there are records of Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, hundreds of thousands of pages of intelligence analysis, and other scientific studies. There are also documents from the "Star Gate" program, which dealt with mental powers and extrasensory perception.
Uri Geller (Photo: Dana Koppel)
According to the papers, scientists from Stanford University tested Israeli mentalist Uri Geller in 1973. Geller was already famous all over the world by this point.
The scientists said of Geller that he had “proven his supernatural perception unequivocally.”
The CIA's drawings, right, with Geller's drawings, left
A 2013 documentary claimed that the CIA asked Geller to use his powers, but that he refused the request once he was instructed to stop pigs’ beating hearts. He worried that he will be requested to do this on a human. Geller said that he refused to do several other “dark” experiments, and only would do positive tasks.
Some of the other tasks requested of Geller were to levitate plates, and to recreate a drawing drawn by researchers in a separate, closed room. Geller, having never seen the drawings, was able to reproduce them to a high degree of accuracy.
A UFO sighting was reported in 1973 by at-that-time future president president Jimmy Carter. It didn't attract much attention at the time. I began investigating the case in 1976, when Carter was running for president. However, there was no accurate information available to make it possible to find out what Carter saw. I began making various inquiries, looking for someone who might be able to provide some facts on the case. Finally, someone suggested that I contact Hayden Hewes, director of the International UFO Bureau, who had written a brief piece on the Carter sighting for Argosy UFO [Nov., 1976]. I reached Mr. Hewes by telephone at his home in Oklahoma City, and it was he who provided the first significant lead. When brief press reports appeared during the big UFO flap of 1973 to the effect that Governor Carter had previously spotted a UFO, the International UFO Bureau mailed a UFO sighting report to Carter at the State Capitol in Atlanta. Carter apparently filled out the form in some haste, his handwritten replies brief and not easily legible. He then mailed it back to Oklahoma. Mr. Hewes was kind enough to lend me a photographic transparency of the 1973 report in Carter's own handwriting.
It turns out that the sighting occurred in Leary, Georgia, about forty miles from Carter's home town of Plains, on the evening of January 6, 1969. (Carter mis-remembered the date as sometime on October, 1969, but I contacted the Lions Club headquarters in Illinois, which established the date as January 6). The future president was then the local district governor of the Lion's Club, and had come to Leary to boost the local chapter. While standing outdoors at approximately 7:15 pm, waiting for the Lion's Club meeting to begin, Mr. Carter reported seeing a single "self-luminous" object, "as bright as the moon," which reportedly approached and then receded several times. A reporter taped Carter's exact words in 1973 describing the UFO sighting. Carter said,
There were about twenty of us standing outside of a little restaurant, I believe, a high school lunch room, and a kind of a green light appeared in the western sky. This was right after sundown. It got brighter and brighter. And then eventually it disappeared. It didn't have any solid substance to it, it was just a very peculiar-looking light. None of us could understand what it was. I've never made fun of people who've seen other things of that kind (From the documentary recording Factual Eyewitness Testimony of UFO Encounters, Chicago: Investigative Research Associates, Inc., 1978).
A copy of Carter's hand-written UFO sighting report, that I obtained from Hayden Hewes.
Although Carter reports that "ten members" of the Leary Lion's Club also witnessed the event, attempts to locate ten other witnesses proved fruitless. No one else seems to have paid much attention to the "UFO." While most Leary residents I interviewed did recall Mr. Carter's visit, even those who attended the meeting had no recollection or knowledge of any unidentified object being sighted.
I began making inquiries of various UFO researchers, looking for someone who might be able to provide some facts on the case. Finally, someone suggested that I contact Hayden Hewes, director of the International UFO Bureau, who had written a brief piece on the Carter sighting for Argosy UFO [Nov., 1976]. I reached Mr. Hewes by telephone at his home in Oklahoma City, and it was he who provided the first significant lead. When brief press reports appeared during the big UFO flap of 1973 to the effect that Governor Carter had previously spotted a UFO, the International UFO Bureau mailed a UFO sighting report to Carter at the State Capitol in Atlanta. Carter apparently filled out the form in some haste, his handwritten replies brief and not easily legible. He then mailed it back to Oklahoma. Mr. Hewes was kind enough to lend me a photographic transparency of the 1973 report in Carter's own handwriting.
Mr. Carter reports that his "UFO" was in the western sky, at about 30 degrees elevation. This almost perfectly matches the known position of Venus, which was in the west-southwest at an altitude of 25 degrees, azimuth 237 degrees. It was shining brilliantly at Magnitude -4.3, brighter than anything else in the sky. Weather records show that the sky was clear at the time of the sighting. Given the long history of Venus as "Queen of the UFOs," it seemed that we had the clear solution on hand. I wrote in The Humanist magazine (then edited by Paul Kurtz), July-August, 1977 (p.46)
President Carter's "UFO" Is Identified as the Planet Venus
President Jimmy Carter's widely-reported "UFO sighting," which he made public while Governor of Georgia, was in fact a misidentification of the planet Venus. Several errors of identification within Mr. Carter's report demonstrate that the eyewitness testimony of even a future president of the United States cannot be taken at face value when investigating UFO sightings.
The incident occurred in Leary, Georgia, about forty miles from Plains, on the evening of January 6, 1969. Mr. Carter was the local district governor of the Lion's Club, and had come to Leary to boost the local chapter. While standing outdoors at approximately 7:15 pm, waiting for the Lion's Club meeting to begin, Mr. Carter reported seeing a single "self-luminous" object, "as bright as the moon," which reportedly approached and then receded several times. Mr. Carter reports that his "UFO" was in the western sky, at about 30 degrees elevation. This almost perfectly matches the known position of Venus, which was in the west-southwest at an altitude of 25 degrees. Weather records show that the sky was clear at the time of the sighting.
No other object generates as many UFO reports as the planet Venus. Venus is not as bright as the moon, nor does it actually approach the viewer, or change size and brightness, but descriptions like these are typical of misidentifications of a bright planet. Every time Venus reaches its maximum brilliance in the evening sky, hundreds of "UFO sightings" of this type are made. At the time of the Carter UFO sighting, Venus was a brilliant evening star, nearly one hundred times brighter than a first-magnitude star.
And for the most part, serious UFO researchers accepted this identification. After all, Jacques Vallee, who is certainly no debunker, had written,
No single object has been misinterpreted as a "flying saucer" more than the planet Venus. The study of these mistakes proves quite instructive, for it shows beyond all possible dispute the limitations of sensory perception and the weakness of accounts relating shapes and motions of point sources or objects with small apparent diameters. (Challenge to Science, 1966, p. 110).
The southwest sky as seen from Leary, Ga, at 7:15 PM January 6, 1969. The Bull's Eye shows the calculated position where a barium cloud might have been visible, quite close to Venus. (Sky chart generated using the free open-source program Cartes du Ciel.)
So there the matter stood for forty years. Then just a week ago, an associate of space writer and skeptic James Oberg contacted him, suggesting the possibility that what Carter might have seen was a bright barium space cloud from a NASA rocket, launched to study the behavior of the upper atmosphere. In fact, this possibility was discussed in episode 561 of the popular skeptics' podcast Skeptics Guide to the Universe on April 9, 2016, although neither Oberg nor I was aware of this. I was familiar with such launches, and even saw one in the 1970s when I was living in Maryland. (Frankly, the one I saw was not all that bright or spectacular.)
James Oberg made this map, showing the location of Leary, Georgia, and the path of the rockets.
It turns out that there were in fact two rocket launches from Eglin AFB in the Florida panhandle on the evening of January 6 that might possibly have been seen from Leary. The first one was launched at 6:41 PM, and contained Barium, which would usually appear red. The second was launched at 7:35 PM, and contained Tri-methyl aluminum (TMA), which would appear white or blue. Each would have become visible about 3-4 minutes after launch, and might have remained visible for 30 minutes or more. Carter said that he was "Outside waiting for a meeting to begin at 7:30 PM." If that information is correct, it would seem to rule out them seeing the second launch. However, the cloud that became visible about 6:45 PM might still be visible at 7:15. And that cloud would have been right next to the brilliant Venus!
Supporting the Barium cloud hypothesis are Carter's statements that the object "Seemed to move tow(ard?) us from a distance - Sto(p?) move partially away Return then depart Bluish at first - then reddish - Luminous - not solid.
Against the Barium cloud hypothesis is Carter's statement that the object was "sharply outlined."
More research needs to be done before we can conclude that a Barium space cloud was definitely responsible for this famous sighting. But it seems an intriguing possibility.
André SkondrasIs it true, as some skeptics proclaim, that most UFOs are IFOs caused by the planet Venus, ice crystals, clouds and other atmospheric phenomena? Is this substantiated from the sightings statistics?Bekijk vertaling
André SkondrasI just received a reply from a highly skeptical researcher: "Skeptics and debunkers cannot provide any Venus IFO stats. I challenged a Belgian UFO researcher a few years back and he had nothing, in fact could not even find a single recent case on his UFO reporting group's sighting list." ;)Bekijk vertaling
André SkondrasAnd this highly skeptical researcher went on to say: "The Carter sighting has been nailed as the rocket barium cloud and here we find Sheaffer trying to oppose it with nitpicking and pleas for open mind because it explodes his Venus theory." ;)Bekijk vertaling
Marsrover Curiosity heeft mogelijk sporen van opgedroogde modder in het vizier
Marsrover Curiosity heeft mogelijk sporen van opgedroogde modder in het vizier
The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)
By 1983, the fundamental elements of American stealth innovation were at the point of being public knowledge.
After the war, the latest scientific improvements prompted the idea of planning an airframe that could sidestep radar. It was found that a jet-powered, flying wing design, just like the Horten Ho 229 will have a little radar cross-area to traditional contemporary twin-motor aircraft. This is because the wings were merged into the fuselage and there were no extensive propeller disks or vertical and horizontal tail surfaces to give a locatable radar signature.
Reimar Horten said he blended charcoal dust with the wood paste to soak up electromagnetic waves (radar), which he accepted could shield the aircraft from identification by British early warning ground-based radar that worked at 20 to 30 MHz (the top end of the HF band), which is called Chain Home radar.
Engineers of the Northrop-Grumman Corporation had a great interest on the Ho 229, and a few of them went to the Smithsonian Museum’s office in Silver Hill, Maryland in the 1980s to learn about and study the V3 airframe. A group of engineers from Northrop-Grumman did some electromagnetic experimentation the V3’s multilayer wooden middle-area nose cones.
The cones are 3/4 of an inch (19 mm) thick and made up of thin sheets of veneer. The group inferred that there was surely some type of conducting element within the paste, as the radar signal lessened extensively as it passed through the cone.
So it turns out Hitler was far along with developing a plane that was far ahead of its time!
The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)
The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)
Marsrover Curiosity heeft mogelijk sporen van opgedroogde modder in het vizier
Marsrover Curiosity heeft mogelijk sporen van opgedroogde modder in het vizier
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De rover heeft gesteente met daarop kleine richeltjes ontdekt die mogelijk een heel interessant verhaal vertellen.
Wat nu richeltjes zijn, waren in een grijs verleden waarschijnlijk scheuren in opgedroogde modder, zo stelt NASA. De opgedroogde modder met daarin de scheuren zou zo’n drie miljard jaar geleden met sedimenten bedekt zijn. Veel later werden die sedimenten door toedoen van erosie verwijderd. Materialen die de scheuren in de modder gevuld hadden, konden die erosie beter hebben dan de opgedroogde modder eromheen. Vandaar dat we de scheuren nu als hogergelegen richeltjes aantreffen. NASA heeft de plek waar de vermoedelijke sporen van opgedroogde modder zijn aangetroffen Old Soaker gedoopt.
Old Soaker. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.
Curiosity doet onderzoek in de Gale-krater en heeft diverse aanwijzingen gevonden dat deze krater in het verleden gevuld was met water. Maar Old Soaker suggereert dat dit meer ook periodes van droogte kende, zo stelt NASA. Eerder zijn in gesteentelagen die lager liggen dan Old Soaker sporen gevonden van een oud meer. Hetzelfde trof de ruimtevaartorganisatie aan in gesteentelagen die jonger zijn dan Old Soaker. Die gesteentelagen – die elk uit een andere periode in de geschiedenis van Mars stammen – lijken van elkaar gescheiden te worden door een gesteentelaag die getuigt van een periode van droogte. Blijkbaar varieerde de diepte en omvang van het meer van tijd tot tijd en verdween het meer zelfs zo af en toe compleet. “We zien meer bewijs voor droge perioden,” stelt onderzoeker Ashwin Vasavada.
Onderzoekers zullen de komende tijd gebruiken om de gegevens die Curiosity over Old Soaker heeft verzameld te analyseren. De rover heeft Old Soaker inmiddels weer verlaten. De rover zoekt het nog altijd hogerop op Mount Sharp, de berg in het hart van de Gale-krater. Binnenkort zou Curiosity één van de gesteentelagen die deze berg rijk is nader moeten bestuderen met behulp van zijn boor. Onderzoekers kijken momenteel hoe de rover dat het beste aan kan pakken, aangezien er vorige maand een probleem met de boor ontstond.
Hoe zou een landing op dwergplaneet Pluto eruitzien? NASA heeft meer dan honderd New Horizons-foto’s gebruikt om een bijzondere video te maken van een afdaling op de ijskoude dwergplaneet.
In werkelijkheid is New Horizons natuurlijk niet geland op Pluto. Het ruimtevaartuig schoot in de zomer van 2015 langs de dwergplaneet en is nu op weg naar Kuipergordelobject 2014 MU69.
Om het gevoel te geven van een landing op Pluto hebben wetenschappers beelden naadloos aan elkaar geknipt. Het resultaat spreekt voor zich! “Het is grappig om een keer mee te maken hoe het voelt om op deze dwergplaneet te landen”, zegt Alan Stern, de hoofdonderzoeker van de New Horizons-missie.
'Het leven is mogelijk meerdere keren op aarde ontstaan'
'Het leven is mogelijk meerdere keren op aarde ontstaan'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Voordat onze voorouders ontstonden, leefden er wellicht andere complexe levensvormen op aarde die het uiteindelijk niet gered hebben.
Aangenomen wordt dat het ontstaan van complexe levensvormen op aarde heel bijzonder was en in de lange geschiedenis van onze planeet maar één keer plaatsvond. En wel nadat de hoeveelheid zuurstof in de atmosfeer rap was toegenomen. Maar nieuw onderzoek trekt die aanname nu ernstig in twijfel. De studie toont namelijk aan dat de hoeveelheid zuurstof in de atmosfeer niet één keer, maar zeker twee keer rap toe nam.
Kleine kans “Er is fossiel bewijs voor complexe levensvormen die tot zo’n 1,75 miljard jaar geleden leefden,” legt onderzoeker Roger Buick uit. “Maar het oudste fossiel is niet per se het oudste organisme dat ooit geleefd heeft, omdat de kans dat een organisme fossiliseert vrij klein is.” Onderzoek wijst nu uit dat de hoeveelheid zuurstof in de atmosfeer meer dan 1,75 miljard jaar geleden al eens sterk toenam om vervolgens – ongeveer een kwart miljard jaar later – weer af te nemen. “Dit onderzoek laat zien dat er nog voor het fossiele bewijs (voor complex leven ontstond, red.) genoeg zuurstof in de atmosfeer zat om de evolutie van complexe cellen mogelijk te maken. Het betekent niet dat dat ook echt gebeurde, maar het kan wel zijn gebeurd.”
Sedimenten Buick en collega’s trekken die conclusie nadat ze 2 tot 2,4 miljard jaar oude sedimenten bestudeerden. Ze richtten zich daarbij met name op het element seleen dat door de aanwezigheid van zuurstof beïnvloed wordt. Het onderzoek wijst uit dat er lang voor de oudste meercelligen waarvan resten zijn teruggevonden leefden, een periode was waarin de hoeveelheid zuurstof op aarde sterk toenam. En die hoeveelheid bleef ook een lange tijd hoog. Dat is belangrijk. Want de evolutie van complexe levensvormen vereist tijd. En dat was ze gegund in de eerste periode waarin de hoeveelheid zuurstof op aarde rap toenam.
Uniek Grote vraag is natuurlijk waarom de hoeveelheid zuurstof in de atmosfeer rap toenam om vervolgens een kwart miljard jaar later weer af te nemen en dus de ondergang in te luiden voor eventuele complexe levensvormen die dankzij de hogere zuurstofconcentratie waren ontstaan. Onderzoekers weten het niet. “Het is onbekend waarom het gebeurde en waarom er een einde aan kwam,” stelt onderzoeker Eva Stüeken. “Zoiets hebben we nooit meer in de aardse geschiedenis meegemaakt,” voegt Buick toe. “Als je kijkt naar de seleenisotopen door de tijd heen, dan is het een unieke interval: zowel ervoor als erna is alles anders.”
Het onderzoek vertelt niet alleen meer over de geschiedenis van de aarde, maar heeft tevens implicaties voor de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven. “De erkenning van deze periode in het verre verleden van de aarde waarin er bijna net zoveel zuurstof in de atmosfeer zat als nu het geval is, maar de bewoners heel anders waren, kan erop wijzen dat de detectie van een zuurstofrijke wereld niet direct bewijst dat er sprake is van een complexe biosfeer,” stelt onderzoeker Michael Kipp. Want hoewel het goed mogelijk is dat er meer dan 1,75 miljard jaar geleden meercellige organismen ontstonden, was deze eventuele meercelligen niet genoeg tijd gegund om te diversificeren.
Wolf 1061c is een interessante kandidaat voor buitenaards leven. De mogelijk leefbare exoplaneet is slechts veertien lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd en bevindt zich in de leefbare zone om de rode dwergster Wolf 1061.
De exoplaneet Wolf 1061c is vier keer zwaarder dan de aarde. De planeet is gehuisvest in de zogenoemde Goldilocks zone. Dit is een gebied om een ster waar water in vloeibare vorm voor kan komen. Ook de aarde bevindt zich in de Goldilocks zone van de zon. Mars bevindt zich net buiten deze zone: hier is het te koud, waardoor water bevriest. Op Venus is het weer te warm, waardoor hier water direct verdampt. De Goldilocks-zone is nooit op dezelfde plek. Bij een grote reuzenster is deze leefbare zone verder verwijderd van de ster, dan bij een kleinere dwergster als Wolf 1061.
Astronoom Stephen Kane van de staatsuniversiteit van San Francisco en zijn collega’s hebben de leefbare zone om Wolf 1061 uitgebreid onderzocht. De resultaten verschijnen in de eerstvolgende editie van de Astrophysical Journal.
Binnengrens Volgens Kane bevindt Wolf 1061c zich dicht bij de binnengrens van de leefbare zone. Dit vergroot de kans dat de exoplaneet minder leefbaar is dan we denken. Misschien lijkt Wolf 1061 meer op Venus: een overhitte broeikasplaneet waar het veel te warm is voor buitenaards leven.
Razendsnel van ijstijd naar interglaciaal Een andere conclusie is dat de baan van Wolf 1061c om zijn moederster onregelmatiger is dan die van de aarde om de zon. De aarde is soms verder verwijderd van de zon dan op andere momenten. Deze variaties zorgen op aarde voor klimaatveranderingen, zoals het ontstaan van een ijstijd. Dit proces duurt op onze aarde vele duizenden jaren. Omdat de baan van Wolf 1061c sneller verandert, geldt dit mogelijk ook voor het klimaat van de exoplaneet. Te snelle fluctuaties (van ijstijd naar interglaciaal en weer terug) zijn mogelijk niet gunstig voor buitenaards leven, omdat leven zich ook moet aanpassen aan veranderende omstandigheden.
Onzeker Terugkomend op de vraag bovenaan dit artikel: is er leven op Wolf 1061c? De onderzoekers kunnen deze vraag niet beantwoorden. Dankzij toekomstige telescopen – zoals de James Webb-telescoop – leren we mogelijk meer over de omstandigheden op het oppervlak van deze mysterieuze exoplaneet.
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