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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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Astrofysici: Het universum is niets meer dan een groot hologram
Astrofysici: Het universum is niets meer dan een groot hologram
Het is goed mogelijk dat het universum een reusachtig en complex hologram is en dat de driedimensionale wereld om ons heen slechts een illusie is.
Dat zeggen astrofysici die onderzoek hebben gedaan naar de kosmische achtergrondstraling, de warmtestraling die kort na de oerknal is uitgezonden.
De wetenschappers stellen bewijs te hebben gevonden dat ons universum holografisch is.
3D-film
Er is net zoveel bewijs voor deze vreemde theorie dan bewijs voor de traditionele verklaringen, aldus de astrofysici van de Universiteit van Southampton.
Wat we waarnemen in het universum kan worden vergeleken met het kijken naar een 3D-film in de bioscoop.
We nemen diepte waar, hoewel we weten dat de beelden afkomstig zijn van een plat scherm.
Plat oppervlak
Ons universum is mogelijk een overtuigendere versie van zo’n scherm. We kunnen de objecten aanraken en ze zien er echt uit.
In de jaren negentig werd voor het eerst geopperd dat ons heelal een hologram is. Volgens deze theorie is alle informatie opgeslagen langs de rand van een plat oppervlak.
“Stel je voor dat alles wat je ziet, voelt en hoort in drie dimensies in werkelijkheid voortkomt uit een plat tweedimensionaal veld,” zei professor Kostas Skenderis.
Verenigen
Op geld of creditcards staan ook hologrammen, waarbij een echt driedimensionaal beeld gecreëerd wordt via fotografische projectie. Stel je nu eens voor dat het hele universum zo’n hologram is.
Het onderzoek kan de algemene relativiteitstheorie, de beschrijving van de zwaartekracht, verenigen met de kwantummechanica.
Stap
“Wetenschappers proberen al tientallen jaren de relativiteitstheorie van Einstein en de kwantumtheorie te combineren,” aldus Skenderis.
“Sommigen menen dat een holografisch universum de twee met elkaar kan verzoenen,” vervolgde hij. “Ik hoop dat ons onderzoek ons een stap dichterbij brengt.”
CIA: Zes vliegende schotels waargenomen boven India, Nepal en Bhutan
CIA: Zes vliegende schotels waargenomen boven India, Nepal en Bhutan
De CIA houdt waarnemingen van vliegende schotels boven India en haar buurlanden nauwlettend in de gaten, zo blijkt uit de 930.000 documenten die de spionagedienst onlangs vrijgaf.
In een rapport uit april 1968 worden zes waarnemingen van onbekende vliegende objecten genoemd boven India, Bhutan en Nepal.
De CIA en de Amerikaanse luchtmacht namen vliegende schotels zo serieus dat er een speciaal panel in het leven werd geroepen dat het fenomeen moest gaan bestuderen.
Enorm schijfvormig object
Het document verhaalt over ‘felle objecten die gezien zijn boven het zuiden van Ladakh, het noordoosten van Nepal, het noorden van Sikkim en het westen van Bhutan’.
Op 25 maart 1968 werd in Kaski in Nepal een felle vuurbal gezien die ‘uit elkaar viel’.
In het document staat dat in een krater op enkele kilometers van de stad Pokhara een ‘enorm metaalkleurig schijfvormig object werd gevonden’.
Harde knallen
In Ladakh werd op 4 maart 1968 een wit licht gespot, waarna twee harde knallen werden gehoord. Er verscheen ook een rood licht dat witte rook achterliet.
Er werden op 4 en 25 maart ook andere objecten gesignaleerd boven Ladakh. Het object dat op 25 maart werd waargenomen ‘leek op een raket’ en liet op een hoogte van zes tot zeven kilometer een wit-geel-wit spoor achter.
Op 19 februari 1968 werd een helder object gezien dat met grote snelheid over het noordoosten van Nepal en het noorden van Sikkim vloog. Het object ‘veranderde nacht in dag’.
Interplanetaire ruimteschepen
Boven Thimphu, de hoofdstad van Bhutan, werd op 21 februari 1968 een ‘blauwkleurig object’ opgemerkt. Het maakte geen geluid en deed het hele gebied oplichten.
In het rapport wordt niet duidelijk gemaakt wat de experts van de CIA dachten over deze waarnemingen.
Na een aantal UFO-waarnemingen in de jaren veertig en vijftig overwoog de CIA dat het ging om interplanetaire ruimteschepen.
Geen bedreiging
Het panel dat de CIA had gevormd om UFO-waarnemingen te bestuderen, moest vooral nagaan of de objecten een gevaar vormden voor de nationale veiligheid.
In januari 1953 concludeerde het panel dat ‘er geen bewijs is dat deze fenomenen een directe fysieke bedreiging vormen voor de nationale veiligheid’.
Desondanks bleef de CIA UFO-waarnemingen nauwgezet volgen.
In de geopenbaarde stukken wordt gesproken over UFO’s boven Zuid-Korea, Iran, Marokko, Kazachstan, Spanje, Uruguay, Rusland en Frans-West-Afrika.
IS DE AARDE BEZIG UIT ELKAAR TE SCHEUREN? ( VIDEO )
IS DE AARDE BEZIG UIT ELKAAR TE SCHEUREN? ( VIDEO )
Het is bekend dat door het schuiven van de tektonische platen op aarde er dingen gebeuren zoals aardbevingen, maar niet dat overal scheuren ontstaan in de aarde waar je die niet zou verwachten.
En de straling van de zon schijnt wel degelijk veranderd te zijn en is nog veel feller dan wij dachten.
Enkele dagen geleden schreven wij een artikel over hoe de straling van de zon zo intensief geworden schijnt te zijn, dat koraalriffen onder water verbleken evenals nummerborden op auto’s.
Naar aanleiding van dat artikel ontvingen wij een aantal interessante reacties (dank!) met aanvullende informatie.
Hier volgen enkele:
De eerste:
Poeh, het is veel erger dan in jullie artikel van vandaag vermeld staat (over alleen de invloed van UV straling op het Great Barrier Reef).
Kijk maar eens op You Tube naar de kanalen: Higher Truth Channel en ook BP Earth Watch. Met name het eerst genoemde kanaal toont met keiharde, objectieve grafieken aan (dus geen eigen interpretaties!) hoe erg de mensheid dagelijks in toenemende mate gebombardeerd wordt door met name helium en lithium (wat die sterke roze ochtend en avondluchten geeft, ochtend en avondrood bestaat niet meer), beide afkomstig van 'Nemesis'/de bruine dwerg van het zonnestelsel, dat zo'n destructieve invloed heeft (en nog krijgt) op met name onze planeet en op alles wat daarop leeft.
Alsof we met z'n allen iedere dag naar het ziekenhuis gaan voor een X-ray ... Hij legt precies uit hoe dit in z'n werk gaat, in combinatie met de zon en geeft ook adviezen, bijv. om uit de zon te blijven, ook huisdieren, welke supplementen je kunt innemen om de schade zoveel mogelijk te beperken (maar goed, het is toch dweilen met de kraan open, een echte oplossing is er niet voor) etc.. Ga er maar eens voor zitten ...
De tweede:
Naar aanleiding van het artikel over het bleken van kleuren op onze planeet aarde wil ik u graag een korte reactie geven. Ik woon in Bolivia en hier is het een algemeen bekend verschijnsel dat de zon heter wordt! Mensen weten dit en ook de regering maakt er geen geheim van. Het verschijnsel van soms extreem verbleekte kleuren is me al eerder opgevallen. Maar zoals met zoveel dingen, je ziet het en vergeet het daarna weer. Het zijn slechts momenten en het leven gaat verder. Ik vond de video dan ook heel goed. Het verschijnsel benoemen en uitleggen maakt je ervan bewust dat dit proces naar alle waarschijnlijkheid speelt op veel plekken in de wereld.
De derde:
Op deze site is de stijging per dag te vinden. Dit is al een behoorlijke tijd aan de gang. Mensen hebben er last van. De klachten die je dan krijgt zijn bijv. Ik ben zo moe, ik heb al maanden griepverschijnselen. Ik kan niet slapen...... Dit is naar mijn mening het antwoord op jullie stijging van het licht. Spiritueel zien wij dat de mensen aan het veranderen zijn. Gevoeliger, liefdevoller, meer verbonden met elkaar.
Succes met jullie site. Lees hem al jaren met veel belangstelling en maak er veel mensen op attent.
De vierde:
Het stuk over de zon gelezen.
Ik heb al een paar jaar geleden op een ochtend gezien dat de zon totaal veranderd is. De zon was zo vreselijk fel, dat ik haast tegen de grond sloeg toen ik uit een winkel stapte. Ik was echt van slag, maar vervolgens, bij navraag, bleek niemand verder van slag te zijn.
Het gebeurt nu regelmatig zeker in de vroege ochtend zo tussen 9 en 10 uur. De kracht is enorm en de uitstraling niet van deze wereld. Ik bedoel dat je die kleur en kracht normaal niet ziet.
Ik vind de zon in de middag afnemen in kracht vergeleken met een tijd geleden.
Ik neem aan dat het ervaringen zijn, die voor een ieder anders zijn. Mensen, die gevoelige ogen voor kleuren hebben, zullen het wel zien, maar anderen niet. Ook moet de pijnappelklier zijn werk doen.
Ik ben er inmiddels aan gewend en moet soms gewoon gaan liggen, omdat vele kleuren mij te veel zijn. Na een tijdje trekt het weer weg en zie ik normaal. Het heeft geen enkele zin naar een oogarts te gaan, daar ben ik al 14 jaar(voor een andere kwaal), maar die weet het ook niet. Het is meer iets neurologisch zegt zij
Ik zie duidelijk alles verbleken, maar dat komt omdat de kleuren die ik af en toe zie zo levend en warm zijn, dat verder alles er bij verbleekt.
Misschien zijn er meer mensen die er last van hebben?
Tot zover reacties.
Mensen die nog steeds denken dat de aardveranderingen die momenteel plaatsvinden, worden veroorzaakt door de mens, willen wij vragen nog eens goed logisch na te denken over een aantal zaken.
Je komt een eind met de theorie dat de vervuiling van de mens dusdanige gevolgen heeft dat de temperatuur op aarde daardoor stijgt. Die theorie zou waarschijnlijk ook stand kunnen houden, ware het niet dat er natuurlijk nog veel meer tekenen zijn die wijzen op heftige aardveranderingen.
De tektonische platen van de aarde zijn permanent in beweging en daardoor krijgen we ook regelmatig te maken met bevingen en scheuren op plaatsen waar twee of meerdere van die platen elkaar ontmoeten.
Op het volgende plaatje zie je de tektonische platen en de grenzen daarvan in het rood. Dan wordt ook duidelijk waarom er veel aardbevingen voorkomen op de zogenaamde Ring van Vuur en waarom landen rond het Middellandse Zee gebied regelmatig in het nieuws te vinden zijn wat dat betreft.
De plekken waar die tektonische platen samenkomen zijn dan ook de lokaties waar je zou kunnen verwachten dat er zich dingen voor doen zoals scheuren in het aardoppervlak.
Maar, wat als die op plekken voorkomen waar je dat helemaal niet zou verwachten, zoals nu het geval is? Dit zijn dingen die tien jaar geleden niet op deze schaal zich voordeden.
En of we het nu leuk vinden of niet, alles wijst erop dat er krachten werkzaam zijn op aarde die wij niet zomaar kunnen verklaren en dat het niets te maken heeft met wat de mens wel of niet doet.
Of het nu in de lucht is met de zon en de straling of de aarde die op sommige plekken letterlijk uit elkaar lijkt te vallen, een "normale" verklaring is er niet.
Nog niet, misschien wel aan het einde van het jaar als we inderdaad twee zonnen hebben zoals door sommigen wordt voorspeld.
Dark UFO Over California This Week, Jan 30, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Dark UFO Over California This Week, Jan 30, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 30, 2017 Location of sighting: California, USA
Secureteam10 is reporting this dark UFO over California this week. The UFO has sharp edges and is easily hidden in the smoggy sky. The UFO almost looks like a b2 stealth bomber on its back end, but that jet cannot perform such a manoeuvre. Excellent catch. Scott C. Waring
Bigelow Aerospace has created an agreement with NASA to continue its secretive testing of an experimental new module aboard the International Space Station (ISS). While the recent press releases announcing these tests have been made public, the ultimate purpose of the module still remains a mystery. The company has been tight-lipped about the module and its use aboard the space station, only stating they will announce details at a later date. The module is called the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), and is essentially an inflatable orb-shaped space station which can dock onto the ISS. It was flown to the space station aboard a SpaceX Dragon last year.
BEAM modules can easily attach to standard ISS ports.
When the first BEAM/ISS tests were announced, it was stated that no ISS astronauts would enter the module except for four pre-scheduled times throughout each year of its two-year test period in order to ensure that all systems were working properly. With no NASA astronauts allowed on board, it makes you wonder: what could be going on inside the module? With so many UFO sightings occurring in and around the ISS, and given Bigelow’s past UFO-related dealings, it’s not too much of a leap to assume that the UFO-obsessed Robert Bigelow might want to search for UFOs from space.
The BEAM module can be fitted with any number of systems for…uh, you know, space stuff.
See, Bigelow Aerospace has been accused of shadowy, or at least secretive backroom dealings related to UFO research in the past. Those theories were fueled in part by several policy announcements made by America’s Federal Aviation Administration, who have instructed pilots and personnel to direct UFO reports straight to Bigelow’s many research organizations no less than three times:
Persons wanting to report UFO/unexplained phenomena activity should contact a UFO/ unexplained phenomena reporting data collection center, such as Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) (voice: 1-877-979-7444 or e-mail: Reporting@baass.org), the National UFO Reporting Center, etc.
In 2009, Bigelow partnered with MUFON to create a rapid-response unit that could respond to “high value UFO cases” within twenty-four hours of a sighting. While there was much speculation that Bigelow was attempting to capture and de-engineer a UFO, MUFON contends that these accusations were nothing but harmful conspiracy theories:
Unfortunately, dissident UFO buffs quickly came up with nonsense conspiracy theories about the cooperative agreement and spread malcontent and disinformation about it across the Internet.
Those speculative internet writers, when will they learn? Until they do: could this new module be related to the numerous UFO sightings surrounding the ISS and Bigelow’s rapid response UFO team? As with all things Bigelow Aerospace, this one remains a mystery.
Viewers of the ISS live feed constantly spot UFOs in the background beyond the station. Maybe that’s why NASA is phasing out the live feed…or they’re just debris and satellites.
A new UFO sighting took place lately between the US and Mexico border.
YouTube screenshot/ secureteam10
A new UFO sighting was reported along the United States' border with Mexico. Eyewitnesses claim that a fleet of seven to eight UFOs flew right over the border control post at Tijuana.
According to reports, hundreds of people were stunned at the bizarre sight. The crowd also included customs and border protection officers.
"The footage was captured on the Tijuana border, on the Mexican side. The clip captures what can best be described as a fleet, or an extremely large grouping, of UFOs that look like they are stopping traffic or at least slowing it down," said Tyler from UFO monitoring group Secureteam, according to the Sun.
The video of these strange flying objects was uploaded on Instagram, and garnered over 30,000 views and 200 comments. The post has since been removed.
"Even border patrol agents can be seen with their cameras, eyes up, focusing on these objects that seem to be just littering the clouds. This was posted on Instagram, but then the page was removed. The footage has been taken down. This is actually really strange," Tyler added.
Instances of such controversial videos and images are often found to go missing off the internet. On November 28, 2016, a group of UFOs was seen hovering in the skies over Istanbul, Turkey.
The videos and images created quite a stir on Twitter. The hashtag #UFOAttacktoTurkey also started trending on Twitter, but the website tried censoring the incident, which left people infuriated.
Four of these UFOs can be seen aligning taking a rectangular form in this screenshot.
YouTube/secureteam10
Tyler claims that the video is genuine. The footage shows around seven or eight mysterious luminous objects hovering in the sky. Four of these 'UFOs' can be seen aligning into a rectangular form. One of the UFOs emitting light can be seen going dark in the video.
"At first they are random, but towards the end four of them align in a rectangular formation so they can't be balloons. Whatever they are, even the border control agents were focusing on them," Tyler said.
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Area 51 Revisited
Area 51 Revisited
Area 51 goes by a lot of other names these days, such as Dreamland, Groom Lake, Homey Airport, Paradise Ranch, Home Back and Waterland. Area 51 was developed in 1955 primarily for U-2 spy plane testing.
Area 51 is a detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, and is located about 83 miles north, north-west of Las Vegas. It is a restricted area by land and by air.
The use of Area 51 has been dominated by the CIA, along with the Air Force. Over the years, Area 51 has been a testing ground for top-secret aircraft, new weapon systems and foreign technology evaluation.
We used Area 51 to evaluate aircraft that was shot down or captured from USSR. So the tools and ability of breaking something down and finding out what makes it tick, was already built into Area 51.
If the US Government ever captured, or found a UFO, Area 51 is the most likely place it would end up, under the control of the CIA. The amount of information the United States government has been willing to provide regarding Area 51 has generally been minimal.
In July 2013, following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in 2005, the CIA publicly acknowledged the existence of the base for the first time.
Area 51 and the UFO connection
Its secretive nature and connection to classified aircraft research, together with reports of unusual phenomena, have led Area 51 to become a focus of modern UFO and conspiracy theories. For Example:
The storage, examination, and reverse engineering of crashed alien spacecraft.
The study of UFO occupants (living and dead).
The manufacture of aircraft based on alien technology.
Meetings or joint undertakings with extraterrestrials.
The development of exotic energy weapons for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or other weapons programs.
The development of means of weather control.
The development of time travel and teleportation technology.
The development of unusual and exotic propulsion systems related to the Aurora Program.
Activities related to a supposed shadowy one world government or the Majestic 12 organization.
There is so much information about Area 51, much of it conspiracy related.
The one thing I know for sure is that the US Government has a tendency to manipulate public opinion, and anyone who even tries to get at the truth of Area 51 is subject to being publicly ridiculed, and considered at nut-job.
NASA Spin-off Advancements
I am not changing the subject here, because I am considering the fact that NASA has claimed a lot of spin-off technology, based on their advancements in space exploration.
Seems like a lot of it is medical related, such as:
Infrared ear thermometers
Ventricular assisted devices
Artificial limbs
Light-emitting diodes in medical therapies
Invisible braces
Scratch-resistant lenses
Space blankets
Plus a lot more.
Other areas of advancements are in :
Consumer, home, and recreation
Environmental and agricultural resources
Computer technology
Industrial productivity
And a lot more.
Seems to me that if NASA has developed all of these new discoveries and advancements, why then was NASA defunded by Obama? Why would you remove or discontinue something that brings so many advancements into the world? Unless – Maybe these advancements didn’t actually come from NASA.
Maybe they came from Area 51 and the reverse engineering of UFOs or collaboration with aliens. I know how this sounds, but just look at all the advancements during the past 60 years.
Is it my imagination, or did man-kind advance super fast during the last 6 decades. It took us thousands of years to go from riding horses, to the invention of motor powered vehicles. Look where we have gone during the past 60 years. From looking at the moon to visiting the moon.
Did we do that on our own? Or did we have help? I know one thing for sure, if our government did have help, they would never admit it. The question that a lot of UFO conspiracy people have is: How much of this is related to UFO or alien technology?
What I think is going to happen during the next few years.
I think the defunding of NASA will come back to bite the government on the ass. For the history of our country, NASA has been the organization responsible for space exploration. Now private companies are getting into the game, with private launches of satellites.
With virtually everyone having a smart phone that is capable of taking photos and sharing them instantly online. Social Media is giving everyone in the world a voice and connection to others. This is going to make keeping something top-secret, very hard to do.
People are starting to trust Social Media over news outlets. My opinion is this is justified because of news outlets only providing stories that suit their agenda.
I understand that there are a lot of crazy people online, but generally speaking, I tend to trust images, and video that comes from places like Twitter. Twitter, Facebook, You-Tube and other social media platforms gives people the ability to by-pass the news organizations, and government cover-ups.
I think we will discover and accept that we are not alone in the universe, and that maybe we have had visitors in the past. That would explain a lot of things.
If you have comments or ideas about this, I would love to hear them!
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The real story behind Close Encounters
The real story behind Close Encounters
Everyone remembers “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The movie was released in 1977, written and directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss. What you may not know is that the US Air Force and NASA decided not to cooperate on the film. In fact they were totally against the release of this movie.
NASA reportedly sent a 20-page letter to Spielberg, telling him that releasing the film was actually dangerous. The question remains “What were they trying to hide?” Although the movie was created by Spielberg, just the idea of a government cover up made a lot of people nervous.
Maybe it’s because they are really covering up encounters.
During the 1940s a person by the name of Donald Keyhoe investigated flying saucers for True Magazine. Keyhoe believed that flying saucers were from outer space, and were on a scouting mission. Keyhoe claimed that his information came from Air Force and Navy intelligence.
Project Sign, based at Air Technical Intelligence Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and its successors Project Grudge and Project Blue Book were officially tasked with investigating the flying saucers. Keyhoe started a civilian investigation group called NICAP and asserted that the US Government was lying about UFOs and doing everything they could to cover them up. Now on the surface you might think, ok so he found some kooks to agree with him, but where is the real evidence?
Consider this fact: Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter was a Rear Admiral and an influential board member of NICAP, and Hillenkoetter was also the first director of the CIA. You got to ask the question” If this was all BS, then why would the director of the CIA be involved?
Probably the best example of a UFO government cover up was the 1947 Roswell incident. The United States Air Force actually issued a press release stating that a “flying disk” had been recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. This information was quickly withdrawn and replaced by claiming that a weather balloon was simply misidentified.
About a year later, in 1948 an Air Force pilot by the name of Thomas Mantell was killed in an air accident while in pursuit of an aerial artifact he described as “a metallic object…of tremendous size.” The official government story claims that Mantell had been chasing the planet Venus, a conclusion which was met with extreme skepticism, and later changed to a Skyhook balloon.
Over the years there have been many UFO sightings, and each time the government is quick to discredit the story and in some cased even the person who reported the encounter. Even people who have no reason to lie about something like this are quickly discredited. Many airline pilots have spotted UFOs over the years, but very few report it because of ridicule and the possibility of being fired. According to the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena, (NARCAP) there have been over 3,500 documented sightings of “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” by military, commercial, and civilian pilots.
Captain Jim Courant, a commercial pilot for over 31 years spoke to the National Press Club, and said “It is almost astounding how many people are in the know on this subject.” Captian Courant also said “There are many more sightings that are just not reported.” Since Captian Courant was so out spoken and willing to talk to the press, many commercial and military pilots have opened up to him, also claiming to have had encounters with UFOs.
Where did the term “Close Encounter” come from?
The meaning of a close encounter is an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object. This terminology and the system of classification was started by J. Allen Hynek, a astronomer and UFO researcher. It was first suggested in his 1972 book “The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry.” Allen came up with 7 kinds of encounters:
Visual sightings of an unidentified flying object.
A UFO event in which a physical effect is alleged.
UFO encounters in which a creature is present.
A UFO event in which a human is abducted by a UFO or its occupants.
A UFO event that involves direct communication between aliens and humans.
Death of a human or animal associated with a UFO sighting.
The creation of a human/alien hybrid, either by sexual reproduction or by artificial scientific methods.
Hynek’s scale became well-known after being referenced in a 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which is named after the third level of the scale. Posters for the film recited the three levels of the scale, and Hynek himself makes a cameo appearance near the end of the film.
A question that has come up since 2010: With everyone having a video camera with them most of the time, why hasn’t there been more UFO sightings?
I think I can answer that questions. First of all, there are a ton of sightings, many of them have been documented on You-Tube and other social media sites. So why aren’t more people talking about this? I think it’s a matter of trusting the videos. Yes, it’s true, just about everyone has a video camera with them at all times with the use of smart phones, however with the increased technology of these devices, we are also have the ability to fake videos. Anyone can do computer generated Images (CGI) now days.
This means that even though you might be viewing an actual image of a UFO you are more skeptical than ever before. If you go back to those earlier films, back in the 1970s or 80s, it was much harder to fake videos. Most people didn’t have the equipment or ability to fake a video, so the images were more believable.
It seems that we have come full circle. Going back before film, people claimed to see UFOs and their only proof was their word. Now that we have the ability to fake encounters on video, we are going back to someone’s word of honor.
I look at it this way, there are a lot of people who have nothing to gain, and are in a position that commands respect, who are claiming to have encountered a UFO in their past. People like airline pilots, very high-ranking military personnel, astronauts, even the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter claims to have seen a UFO.
At some point you have to admit, something is out there.
The race to become the first private entity to land a robot on the Moon is heating up, as five teams close in on the Google Lunar XPrize. The final heat of candidates were winnowed down from dozens of contenders that couldn’t clear hurdles or meet deadlines for the prize, which included designing and building original spacecraft, meeting flight regulations, and securing a launch contract scheduled to blast off by the end of 2017.
The last groups standing were announced on Tuesday: They are (drum roll) Moon Express, SpaceIL, Team Indus, Hakuto, and Synergy Moon. All five teams are tentatively on track for launches this year.
Established in 2007 by the nonprofit XPrize organization, the Google-sponsored Lunar XPrize is an open challenge to create a robot that can voyage to the Moon, travel at least 500 meters on its surface, and send high-resolution visuals back to Earth. A total of $30 million in prize money is at stake, two thirds of which will be awarded to the first team to successfully meet the contest’s requirements.
The impetus for the Lunar XPrize was to stimulate innovation in the global space community, and by that standard, the contest is already successful. The hopeful companies advancing into the 2017 home stretch have wildly different lunar exploration strategies and goals, plus they hail from all around the world. Here’s a quick rundown of the five penultimate lander concepts.
Animation of MX-1E landing on the Moon. Image: Moon Express
Moon Express: MX-1E Lander
Moon Express, a Florida-based company founded in 2010, is the first private entity to be granted clearance to land on the Moon, an achievement it hopes to build on by putting its MX-1E Lander on the lunar surface as soon as possible. The company has a launch contract with Rocket Lab, a US aerospace venture with launch facilities in New Zealand. Their lander is expected to hitch a ride on that company’s lightweight Electron rocket at some point this year, after the Electron has been adequately flight-tested.
The MX-1E represents a significant departure from the traditional “lab-on-wheels” lunar rovers deployed by the American, Russian, and most recently, Chinese space programs. Instead of driving around, the robot will leverage the Moon’s weaker gravity well by executing controlled hops to various locations on the surface.
"Why crawl when you can fly?"
“Why crawl when you can fly?” a Moon Express spokesperson told me over email. “Although rovers have an important place in planetary surface exploration, our business model is to provide lunar access to a wide variety of locations on the Moon.”
Indeed, Moon Express has long-term aspirations to establish mining operations on the Moon and other celestial bodies, so it makes sense for them to focus on vehicles that can examine and prospect several sites over vast areas.
The Sparrow lander, developed by the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL, takes the cake for the most futuristic design concept in play for the XPrize. With its spindly legs and funnel-shaped bus, the spacecraft looks completely different from past lunar rovers. Like the MX-1E, it is designed to hop from place to place, which team leads say will conserve mass and gas relative to its rival rover concepts.
SpaceIL has brokered a contract with SpaceX, and is on track to be bundled into a Falcon 9 rocket launch at some point in 2017. The project was largely developed and executed by volunteers, and the team leads have pledged to invest most of the XPrize to educational programs should they win it.
Synergy Moon is a diverse collective of specialists spanning 15 nations, and is working on developing “at least one rover” in its Tesla series, illustrated above, according to its XPrize page. The rovers are equipped with two identical cameras that provide stereoscopic vision. Synergy Moon aims to make its high-definition view of the Moon to be accessible to anyone online. The group has arranged its launch through Interorbital Systems’ Neptune rocket.
TeamIndus, a for-profit spaceflight company based in New Delhi, is shooting to land its adorably anthropomorphic 11-pound rover, currently codenamed ECA, in the Moon’s Mare Imbrium region. The team has already won a $1 million Milestone award for its landing technology.
For launch arrangements, the company is joining forces with one of its XPrize rivals, the Japanese group Hakuto. The two teams have arranged to bundle both their landers into the same PSLV rocket, a model developed by the Indian Space Research Organization. The launch is currently scheduled for late December 2017.
Last but certainly not least, meet the Moonraker and Tetris dual rovers developed by the Sendai-based Hakuto. The two-wheeled Tetris is designed to be tethered to the four-wheeled Moonraker like a trailer, which will enable it to be lowered into so-called “skylights” on the Moon. The lunar surface is thought to be riddled with underground caves, tunnels, and basaltic lava tubes, some of which may be accessible through skylight channels. The Hakuto team aims to be the first to explore these tantalizing lunar realms with its unique roving tag-team.
These diverse and innovative concepts herald a crucial turning point in lunar surface operations, which have been on hold since the 1970s (with the notable exception of China’s Yutu rover, deployed in 2013). Previous mobile robots sent to the Moon by the Russia, China, and the US were primarily tasked with studying the alien environment, and to occasionally blast back samples of lunar rock. All of them bundled scientific instruments into a traditional rover design.
The XPrize finalists have broken out of that mould in a few significant ways. Moon Express and SpaceIL may demonstrate that hopping around on alien bodies is a promising alternative transportation method to driving over terrain. This could have big repercussions for future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, especially if hoppers can reliably clear hurdles, like cliffs or extreme terrain, that rovers must avoid.
“Rovers are very slow and cannot travel significant distances,” the Moon Express team told me. “Our robotic spacecraft can re-launch and fly to distant locations for science and exploration diversity. We can deploy rovers in each location—consider the advantage of multiple landings for a single launch.”
"We can deploy rovers in each location—consider the advantage of multiple landings for a single launch."
More broadly, the smorgasbord of objectives and design concepts each team has put forth shows that private groups can greatly diversify avenues of space exploration over a relatively short timespan. Impressively, many of these companies are less than a decade old, and some are based in countries that have never ventured to the Moon before.
It’s difficult to predict which finalist will end up snagging the winning $20 million prize, and at this point, much of it is up to luck. If the novel Electron and Neptune rockets require further testing, or if SpaceX needs to alter its launch manifest for some reason, the teams relying on those vehicles will be held up through no fault of their own.
That said, the fact that these teams have gotten this far distinguishes them all as pioneers. While one of them will likely succeed in cinching the honor of being the first non-governmental group to land on the Moon, explore it, and send back pictures, the runners-up no doubt earn a shout-out in the history books as well.
The Moon may be liberally sprinkled with oxygen created by life on Earth, according to new research published Monday in Nature Astronomy. This opens up the possibility that “the Earth’s atmosphere of billions of years ago may be preserved on the present-day lunar surface,” in the words of the paper’s authors, led by Osaka University planetary scientist Kentaro Terada.
The notion that Earth has been periodically sneezing its sky stuff on the Moon, spraying it with the exhalations of now-extinct lifeforms, is not entirely new. Previous teams have suggested that nitrogen and noble gases embedded in the Moon’s soil originated on Earth.
But Terada and his co-authors are the first to present evidence that oxygen, an essential ingredient and byproduct of terrestrial life, is regularly peppered all over the Moon’s surface.
The team used data collected by the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft in 2008 to show that Earth-brand oxygen ions can make this giant leap during a special five day period in the satellite’s orbit, when Earth is located between the Sun and the Moon.
During this time, Earth’s magnetic plasma sheet protects the Moon from the bombardment of the solar wind, which is a powerful stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun. But our planet’s magnetosphere is filled with its own homegrown energetic particles, and the Kaguya orbiter’s Ion Energy Analyzer (IEA) and the Ion Mass Analyzer (IMA) detected them during those five-day breaks from the onslaught of the solar wind.
“Even when the geomagnetic field was less developed or absent in ancient times, the Earth’s plasma sheets could have existed and led to effective transportation from the Earth’s atmosphere to the lunar surface,” Terada’s team reported. “This mechanism would be enhanced if the distance between the Earth and the Moon was much smaller than today, as it seems it was. A consequence of this finding is that the entire lunar surface can be contaminated with biogenic terrestrial oxygen, which has been produced by photosynthesis over a few billion years.”
If that makes you want to hop on over Moonside in order to excavate the untapped respiratory history of life on Earth, you are not alone (and fortunately, the Moon is becoming a popular destination for landers again).
But the paper’s authors warn that it will be extremely challenging to differentiate between the ions embedded into the lunar soil by the solar wind, and those that came from Earth.
“It is the accumulated oxygen over billions years of both the solar wind and the Earth wind that the lunar soil preserves,” Terada told me over email. “To decipher the accumulated oxygen, we need to distinguish which one is recent, and which one is ancient, even in the single grains.”
In other words, it’s not as if the lunar soil’s oxygen ions come with a clear timestamp, or a paper trail about their origins. But Terada said that drilling into the Moon for a deeper core sample, representing older layers of regolith beneath the surface, might help solve the mystery.
In the meantime, however, Terada’s strategy is to look to other worlds for analogous processes. “Very recently, NASA’s MAVEN mission reported that even non-magnetic Mars also has plasma sheets,” he told me. “So, we predict that ancient Mars’ atmosphere is preserved in [the Martian moon] Phobos’ soil."
“I believe that the JAXA Phobos mission in the near future will prove this hypothesis,” he said. This mission is called Martian Moons eXploration (MMX), and is scheduled to launch to Phobos in 2022, where it will collect samples of the moon to be returned to Earth.
So, there you have it: Earth and Mars may have stashed valuable deposits of information about their atmospheric pasts into the soil of their natural satellites. That’s should give you a premium bump of Sagan-level scientific wonder to start off your week.
SECRET BASE INSIDE VOLCANO? 'TR-3B UFO' flares into warp speed after 'leaving magma mount'
SECRET BASE INSIDE VOLCANO? 'TR-3B UFO' flares into warp speed after 'leaving magma mount'
ALIEN chasers claim a new video appearing to show a "UFO" burst into a ball of light after "leaving a volcano" boosts their theory extra terrestrials have hidden bases under the ground.
The strange event was caught by a camera of www.webcamsdemexico.com, which has a series of livestreams continuously monitoring magma mountains across the central American country.
The footage was taken at around 6.46pm local time on January 24, according to YouTube channel Streetcap 1, which broadcast it in a video entitled "Awesome Weird Light leaves Mexican Volcano".
Alien chasers think it could be evidence of an secret base inside the Popocatépetl Volcano in the Puebla region of Mexico.
Others think it could be a secret military base and the UFO was actually an alleged top-secret triangular spy plane known as a TR-3B which can allegedly hit "warp speed" in a ball of light.
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A still from the video and (inset) a CGI image of an alleged TR-3B.
The footage shows a small bright light appear from behind the volcano in the background of the shot, which then moves closer to the camera.
The image suddenly increases in size and intensity of light before going out of shot.
Some alien chasers claim there is much UFO activity around volcanoes, because there are secret alien bases inside.
There appears to be no actual evidence for this madcap theory, and sceptics say the UFOs are just magma, or ash being ejected from the volcano, or even out of focus birds.
But the latest ball of light in this video has set tongues wagging, with claims it was a TR-3B.
Conspiracy theorists, who also believe world leaders capture flying saucers and reverse engineer them before creating their own hi-tech space craft, claim a mysterious US Air Force TR-3B has been developed.
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The TR-3B, pictured here in a CGI impression, is a legend among UFO seekers.
The TR-3B is alleged to be a secret "black project" spy craft of the US Government that can be flown into space.
Allegations include the crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51 in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.
Others claim they are actual UFOs flown by aliens.
The theory claims they are triangular in shape with lights at the corners and a large circular one in the middle that can blast it into warp speed.
Scott C Waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily, said: "This UFO was caught by Streetcap1 over Mexico coming from a volcano. It starts out far away and quickly grows in size.
"That's one powerfully bright UFO. As you can see from looking at the time, the UFO passes the volcano and then moves behind the camera all in just a few minutes. The moon could not do that."
That's one powerfully bright UFO. As you can see from looking at the time, the UFO passes the volcano and then moves behind the camera all in just a few minutes.
Scott C Waring
Viewers of the video were amazed, with many posting on YouTube: "OMG and WTF.”
One posted: "WTF is that?!! OMG, I'm so scared it’s huge!!!"
Another said: "TR3B 100 per cent. I have done a lot of research, which is freely available.
"I was fortunate to see a similar light above my house, I was gobsmacked, all my research made sense
"It's a plasma ball of light in the craft's middle, you will normally see this on black triangle crafts.
"The plasma light extends to cover all the craft and then will normally disappear cloaking the craft.
"These are facts - God knows how long this technology has been available."
Another commented on the speed, saying: "The video is being played at one frame per second, meaning whatever that thing is it's going at very high speeds."
And, Leandro Murta added: "Just wonder how fast it is from volcano to camera in about 50 seconds, very interesting."
Another poster went back to the alien theory, suggesting: "What if extraterrestrials live in volcanoes because they've got tech that can withstand tremendous heat? It would make a good hiding place, you know."
Scott Brando is a sceptical UFO investigator who claims there has never been any inexplicable UFO video or picture taken yet.
He runs the hoax-busting website ufoofinterest.org.
The expert was not phased by the seemingly extraordinary footage and concluded that the bright light effect was caused by the camera having a long exposure, because it was filming at night.
He said it was likely just a standard plane or helicopter.
He told express.co.uk: "Webcams are often set to take images at night with a long exposure, to capture every small source of light. That object is most likely a plane (or a helicopter) with its navigation/landing lights."
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What REALLY happened? MoD’s 'secret investigation' into mass UFO sightings
What REALLY happened? MoD’s 'secret investigation' into mass UFO sightings
MINISTRY of Defence (MoD) chiefs launched a top-secret probe into one of Britain's most notorious mass UFO sighting cases 40 years ago at the height if the Cold War, it has been claimed.
The MoD carried out a secret investigation into UFO sightings, it is claimed.
The 1977 Broad Haven Triangle sightings are being remembered with a special 40th anniversary event.
An explosive novel revealed details of a declassified MoD document which suggests top-ranking officials carried out a covert inquiry into the 1977 sightings in Wales.
The area was gripped by UFO and paranormal fever after several people saw lights and objects hovering in the sky, a being in a metallic space suit, while poltergeists allegedly plagued one family, animals were seen cowering and ghostly figures reportedly peered into farmhouse windows.
Among the witnesses were 14 children who all drew similar pictures of a craft said to have landed near their school.
The book - The Watchers by Neil Spring - is said to be based on "true events" and claims to reveal the truth about what really happened at remote Broad Haven along a strip of rugged coastline in Pembrokeshire National Park near an RAF base.
Mr Spring, who is a key speaker at the event on Saturday, researched the case through documents sent to the National Archives 30 years after the bizarre happenings and after a new witness came forward.
At the time, MoD officials expressed no interest in the sightings, saying there was no threat to national security.
However, among the documents was a letter from the head of the MoD's S4 wing to the Provost & Security Service, the RAF's internal police force.
The S4 chief wrote "I have not even told the Minister I am consulting you" and called for a "discreet enquiry" after expressing bewilderment at the number of apparently "level-headed" witnesses to the strange activity.
Mr Spring said: "(The new witness’) testimony rocked the very foundations of the British Government.
"I visited Broad Haven a sceptic, and came away convinced that some of the locals knew far more about the mysterious occurrences of 1977 than they are willing to reveal."
I visited Broad Haven a sceptic, and came away convinced that some of the locals knew far more about the mysterious occurrences of 1977 than they are willing to reveal.
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The disclosures prompted Tory peer Lord Black of Brentwood to call for a full explanation from the MoD of what it uncovered.
The Tory peer has been long involved in getting official government files of UFO sightings and inquiries made public.
Lord Black said: "A number of recently released MoD files leave little doubt that a small number of sightings of aerial phenomena - particularly by military personnel, pilots and air traffic controllers - remain unexplained and unidentified.
"There needs to be further examination of these issues in the hope of learning something new."
Three years ago a former US Navy sailor came forward to say that the cause of the silver-suited being was in fact a US military personal wearing their standard fireproof uniform and the UFOs were new harrier gets being flown.
Since disbanding a unit set up to investigate alleged UFO sightings in 2009, the MoD will no longer comment on the subject.
The Swansea UFO Network is holding a Welsh Triangle 40th Anniversary Conference in Broad Haven from 10am to 5pm.
Dubbed the “West Wales flap” of 1977, the incident was second only to the “Warminster Thing” in British UFO history.
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Monday morning fireball sighting in the Mid-South
Monday morning fireball sighting in the Mid-South
By Spencer Denton, Meteorologist
(WMC) -If you saw a bright flash in the sky around 6:16 a.m., it wasn’t lightning. It was a short trail, exploding fireball that lasted around three seconds.
Check out this still image captured by ArkansasSky.com near Greenbrier, Arkansas. They caught a big flash on their camera in the lower part of the sky between 20 and 30 degrees above the horizon.
There were several sightings in Collierville and scattered reports from Louisville, KY to Austin, TX. Check out the map to see all the sightings as of 9:30 a.m.
Did you see it? Go to my Facebook or Twitter page and let me know.
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This artist's rendition shows the Earth-mass planet GJ 1132b circling its parent star. New observations suggest the planet's thick atmosphere may harbor water or methane. Credit:Dana Berry / Skyworks Digital / CfA
For astronomers seeking Earth twins around other stars, the exoplanet GJ 1132 b probably isn’t an identical sibling—but it may be the closest cousin yet found. It weighs in at just over one Earth mass, but circles its star in a warm orbit that could make it more like Venus than our own world. Moreover, its diameter is nearly 50 percent larger than that of Earth, suggesting it possesses a thick atmosphere. Now, after taking the closest-ever look at GJ 1132 b, a European collaboration has confirmed the presence of its atmosphere and found hints it might contain water and methane. The results are currently under review for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
As mere discoveries of exoplanets become routine, efforts to learn more about them—their compositions, climates and histories—are moving to the fore, with studies of their atmospheres occupying center stage. Although astronomers detected the first exoplanet atmosphere more than 15 years ago, they have only managed to observe a handful ever since, mostly for very hot worlds as big as Jupiter or even larger. With their first glimpse of GJ 1132 b’s alien air, astronomers are now entering a new frontier as they examine the atmospheres of smaller, more Earth-like worlds.
“We have shown that an Earth-mass planet is capable of sustaining a thick atmosphere,” says John Southworth, lecturer in astrophysics at Keele University in England and lead author on the discovery paper. “This is one step towards investigating whether a planet could host life.”
Finding the tenuous atmospheres around other worlds strains the limits of current technology. Luckily, GJ 1132 b has the advantage of being relatively easy to study, because it is only 39 light-years away—just a hop, skip and a jump across our cosmic neighborhood. It also orbits an M-dwarf, the smallest and coolest type of star, which allows astronomers to more readily probe the planet’s atmosphere.
“Detecting the atmosphere of Earth-sized planets around M-dwarfs is an essential step in the search for habitable exoplanets,” says astronomer Julien de Wit, postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology unaffiliated with the study. “The concern, however, is that they may not always be able to sustain an atmosphere because of the potential history of strong activity of their star. Finding one with an atmosphere would provide us with hope.”
The team studied GJ 1132 b’s atmosphere using a variation on the “transit” planet-detection method, in which a world traverses the face of its star as seen from Earth. As the planet crosses its star, it blocks a small portion of the star’s total light and casts a planetary shadow toward our solar system. A planet’s atmosphere will absorb a tiny fraction of starlight around the shadow’s edges, filtering out certain wavelengths in accordance with its composition. Gathering enough light to discern this minuscule effect usually requires observing multiple transits using some of the world’s most powerful telescopes.
Using the MPG/ESO 2.2 meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the team monitored nine transits of GJ 1132 b across a wide range of wavelengths, from optical to near-infrared. The measurements allowed them to line up a simple spectrum, which shows the amount of light at each wavelength. Their results showed extra absorption at certain wavelengths—indicating the possibility of water and/or methane in GJ 1132 b’s atmosphere in approximately equal proportions as is found in Earth’s air.
Because astronomers have good measures for both the mass and the size of GJ 1132 b, they can estimate the planet’s density—and thus its possible composition. Given that the atmosphere may contain water vapor, one model suggests the planet could be a steamy space oasis with a substantial envelope of water surrounding a rocky core. Other models with rockier compositions are also possible, however, and the mass measurements are not detailed enough to wholly confirm the exact interior makeup. “Our own observations have shown that it has an atmosphere, but we have not been able to put many constraints on what the atmosphere is actually made of,” Southworth says. “The next step is to take observations with bigger telescopes, and space telescopes, covering a bigger wavelength range at a much better resolution.”
Given the limitations of current instruments, it will fall to the next generation of telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to glean more information about the nature of Earth-size exoplanet atmospheres. “The James Webb Space Telescope will be able to measure the spectra of exoplanets in great detail, and perhaps GJ 1132 b will be one of the more interesting exoplanets to be observed extensively” with the JWST, says Renyu Hu, a planetary scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We will continue to see astronomers pushing the limits, towards better spectra of smaller and perhaps more temperate exoplanets.”
Boasting a mirror some six times the size of the Hubble Space Telescope’s, JWST will be able to efficiently seek out signs of carbon dioxide and oxygen as well as water vapor and methane in some exoplanet atmospheres. Eager planet hunters, however, should not hold their breath for these breakthrough capabilities—JWST will not launch until October 2018, and the telescope has a full docket of other science objectives that will limit any time-consuming observations of exoplanets.
“This is a great start, but we need higher signal-to-noise data and spectral resolution,” Sara Seager, a professor of astrophysics at MIT, says of the results. “We need to await the JWST to make any real progress on small-planet atmospheres.”
Many of us have stories. One night as a kid in the car with my dad in Northampton, Pennsylvania, I remember looking out the window as a beam of light flashed down from the sky, seemingly dissipating as it hit the ground. Unsure if my eyes were deceiving me, I stayed silent for a few moments before my dad looked over from the driver's seat and asked with a hint of anxiety in his voice, "Did you see that?"
For all of our stories of unidentified flying objects, there's one place to put them all together. The National UFO Reporting Center, based in Washington state, has been tracking reported sightings since its founding in 1974.
Before you start conjuring up images of tin-foil hats, it's important to know that NUFORC doesn't just post every submitted sighting of bright lights or floating objects on its website.
Peter Davenport, director of NUFORC, said in an email that for each submission, there is a "somewhat careful reading of each report, and we then compare it to other reports that have come in from the same area, and/or for the same time period."
"I believe that someone who is experienced in reading UFO reports is able to detect out-and-out hoaxes," Davenport said, noting that many completely explainable phenomenas are often reported as UFOs.
NUFORC filters hundreds of reports each year. For 2016, there were nearly 200 reported sightings in Pennsylvania alone, Patch notes.
Using NUFORC's reports, PhillyVoice's managing editor Jon Tuleya mapped out all of the reported 2016 sightings in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
In the below maps, you can click on the location of each reported sighting to get a date and description, which may sometimes includes notes from NUFORC that point out possible hoaxes or potential explanations.
Columnist Cheryl Costa discusses how shapes of UFOs help determine which ones are off-world crafts.
People ask me all the time about the UFOs I report on in stories or talk about in my statistics. They state incredulously “but Cheryl, they can’t all be real!” I always tell them that as Unidentified Flying Objects, they most certain are real. But are they real off-world crafts? That’s the real question My answer to that: The truth is in the UFO shapes.
In the past, people have put out these statistical charts writing off many sightings to common, ordinary things. The numbers these folks use typically denigrate the potentially real off world craft to percentages numbers around 20 percent and as low as 4 percent.
For the past 14 months, my spouse and I have been compiling a book of UFO sighting counts for all 50 states. In that sighting compilation, we’ve taken great care to tabulate the UFO shapes that have been reported from 2001-2015.
For the sake of a new way of looking at UFO sightings, I decided to remove certain classes of UFO Shapes to illustrate a point.
The chart above lists the top-20 UFO shapes for New York state from 2001-2015. The total number of New York sightings for the 15-year period is 5,141. The top-20 shapes represent 95.6 percent of the shapes reported. Let’s take out the obviously vague and hard-to-pin-down shapes: light, unknown, other, star-like, flash and changing. That exercise just removed 35.24 percent of the undefinable sighting shapes or about 1,811 of the 5,141 sightings.
We kept these shapes that in my opinion couldn’t be easily mistaken for conventional aircraft. These shapes are: circle, sphere, fireball, triangle, oval, disc, cigar, cylinder diamond, formation, chevron, egg and rectangle.
This list represents 60.36 percent of the total New York sighting shapes of unusual silhouettes. The remaining 4.4 percent of shapes with well under 1 percent in each category totals about 226 of the 5,141 sightings.
So if 3,103 UFO sighting reports don’t resemble any conventional aircraft, it begs the question: Are these the genuine articles that everybody wants to believe are off-world crafts?
Wikileaks has revealed a leaked diplomatic cable with evidence of a remarkable chapter in UN history – when Grenada’s PM ‘showed evidence of UFOs’.
UFO believers think that there’s a huge international cover-up of extraterrestrial visits – so naturally, they love this 1978 hearing.
Grenadian PM Sir Eric Gairy said that he had come before the UN because of a ‘deep personal conviction’ that UFOs were of ‘worldwide importance and significance.’
He said that the UN needed to ‘come alive to its responsibilities and take a serious look at the UFO phenomenon to which planet Earth has been conspicuously exposed’.
The leaked cable said, ‘As anticipated, Grenadian PM Sir Eric Gairy addressed the special political committee on Agenda Item 126, and introduced a resolution (datafaxed), which would establish an expert group to set guidelines for a UN study of UFOS.
Picture: WikiLeaks
‘He was followed by Dr Friday (Minister for Education) and four other speakers, all of whom argued in favour of a ‘UN clearing house’ for the exchange of data and and coordination of research on UFOs.
‘The speakers were supplemented by a short film which consisted of still and motion pictures spliced together to depict actual sightings of UFOs.
Picture: Open Minds Production/YouTube
Up to 77% of Americans believe that there is evidence aliens have visited Earth, according to a 2014 Harris poll.
Conspiracy theorists believe that the American government has contacted aliens – but has concealed the fact for decades.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, called for the release of UFO files last year, saying, ‘The American people can handle the truth.’
During her campaign, Clinton said, ‘He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out. One way or another. Maybe we could have a task force go to Area 51.’
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Witness spots UFO while waiting for rocket launch
Witness spots UFO while waiting for rocket launch
A Florida witness at Titusville reported watching an oval-shaped object crossing the sky “shrouded in the bright, meteor-like light” while waiting for an Atlas V rocket launch, according to testimony in Case 81674 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The events occurred about 8:15 p.m. on January 19, 2017.
“My husband and I were in the viewing bleachers for the launch of the Atlas V rocket carrying a missile detecting satellite,” the witness stated. “We were in a launch delay. I was standing in the bleachers and others were sitting.”
The witness says she was staring at the sky as she had heard that UFOs sometimes frequent launches.
“I was looking towards the east and suddenly I saw an extremely bright, yellow/green light and it was wide, and it was close. It was horizontal to the ground and it streaked by us. I yelled, ‘Look’ and people in the stands caught a glimpse. It was so fast that many missed it, but some didn’t. The woman behind me who was sitting down and just caught a glimpse said it was a meteor. I said, no, there was something in it.”
The witness saw a light streak by with something metallic in it.
(Credit: Google)
The witness described what she saw.
“Just before the yellow/green steak of light vanished, for a fleeting bit of a second, I saw part of something metallic. It had a seam and a shape that was rounded. But the yellow/green light obscured all but a small part of the object. I know what I saw and there was definitely something in that light.”
“We all got on the buses and left. But I was still filled with excitement as I believe that was a UFO. I checked the web and cannot find any record of a meteor on that night.”
The witness said the light obscured all but a small part of the object. Pictured: Titusville, FL.
(Credit: Google)
Florida MUFON Field Investigator Scott Christopher Schaller is investigating. The witness provided one illustration with the report, which was filed on January 22, 2017. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Editor’s note: The “wayward aircraft” was identified as a Homeland Security plane. That is not to say this is what the witness saw.
Another unidentified flying object was captured on video by NASA’s space cameras. In the video footage, a mysterious object –with a peculiar disk-shaped design—appears to be traveling out of Earth’s atmosphere causing a massive debate on social networks. What was it? Alien vehicle? Space Debris? Optical Illusion, or just Swamp Gas? Some are convinced it is the ultimate evidence Earth is visited by Alien beings while others remain skeptical and still, unconvinced.
Ever since the footage was uploaded to YouTube, it generated great controversy both among those who support the idea that it might be an extraterrestrial object, as among those who are completely skeptical of the subject, and as a joke suggest that “UFO’s that are planning on entering our air space should be registered and pay taxes.”
The truth is that on many occasions only fragments of videos in which these mystery objects are visible are released.
However, the fact that NASA interrupts its live feed transmissions is what arouses more suspicion among those who are eager to find new evidence of the existence of alien life, UFO’s and how we are all part of a massive conspiracy.
One user wrote on YouTube:
“The question isn’t “is this an alien spacecraft?”, but actually “Why NASA didn’t cut or blur this video as they always do with other strange sights?”
According to many people, in today’s era, it isn’t a question anymore whether or not UFO’s are real.
In fact, if we look back into the past we will see numerous fascinating statements made by former astronauts, military officials and scientists about Alien life and the existence of UFOs.
Here are only a few:
“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth now; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking.” – Theodor C. Loder III, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire.
We cannot address the UFO phenomena without mentioning Dr. Edgar Mitchel, one of the best-known Apollo astronauts and the sixth man to walk on the moon; a retired Captain in the US Navy, aeronautical engineer and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) who had much to say about Alien life:
“I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real…Yes, there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe; they have been coming here for a long time.”
Franklin Story Musgrave, an American Physician, retired NASA astronaut who worked on the design and development of the Skylab Program and the only astronaut to have flown missions on all five Space Shuttles had very interesting things to say about life elsewhere in the cosmos:
“Statistically it’s a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligence, life forms out there. I believe they’re so advanced that they’re even doing interstellar travel. I believe it’s possible that they even came here. It’s logical to presume the universe must have other life in it and by virtue of association that we could be visited at some point.”
Two Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating an entirely new substance long believed to be the “holy grail” of physics — metallic hydrogen, a material of unparalleled power that could one day propel humans into deep space. The research was published Thursday in the journal Science.
Scientists created the metallic hydrogen by pressurizing a hydrogen sample to more pounds per square inch than exists at the center of the Earth. This broke the molecule down from its solid state and allowed the particles to dissociate into atomic hydrogen.
The best rocket fuel we currently have is liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, burned for propellant. The efficacy of such substances is characterized by “specific impulse,” the measure of impulse fuel can give a rocket to propel it forward.
“People at NASA or the Air Force have told me that if they could get an increase from 450 seconds [of specific impulse] to 500 seconds, that would have a huge impact on rocketry,” Isaac Silvera, the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University, told Inverse by phone. “If you can trigger metallic hydrogen to recover to the molecular phase, [the energy release] calculated for that is 1700 seconds.”
Metallic hydrogen could potentially enable rockets to get into orbit in a single stage, even allowing humans to explore the outer planets. Metallic hydrogen is predicted to be “metastable” — meaning if you make it at a very high pressure then release it, it’ll stay at that pressure. A diamond, for example, is a metastable form of graphite. If you take graphite, pressurize it, then heat it, it becomes a diamond; if you take the pressure off, it’s still a diamond. But if you heat it again, it will revert back to graphite.
Scientists first theorized atomic metallic hydrogen a century ago. Silvera, who created the substance along with post-doctoral fellow Ranga Dias, has been chasing it since 1982 and working as a professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam.
Metallic hydrogen has also been predicted to be a high- or possibly room-temperature superconductor. There are no other known room-temperature superconductors in existence, meaning the applications are immense — particularly for the electric grid, which suffers for energy lost through heat dissipation. It could also facilitate magnetic levitation for futuristic high-speed trains; substantially improve performance of electric cars; and revolutionize the way energy is produced and stored.
But that’s all still likely a couple of decades off. The next step in terms of practical application is to determine if metallic hydrogen is indeed metastable. Right now Silvera has a very small quantity. If the substance does turn out to be metastable, it might be used to create room-temperature crystal and — by spraying atomic hydrogen onto the surface —use it like a seed to grow more, the way synthetic diamonds are made.
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