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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13-02-2017
Filer’s Files #7 2017 – UFO Crash in 1941 - PART II
Filer’s Files #7 2017 – UFO Crash in 1941 - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Alabama Lights
My dad and I were in the car waiting at a stop light. I looked to the west, and I noticed a bulky craft on February 3, 2017.
A split second later it burst into two sections and slowly fell to the ground.
Goodyear — My daughter and I were driving at night in when we noticed four lights that looked very bright above the distant mountains on January 22, 2017. They lined up next to one another and stayed stationary for a few moments before one flew swiftly away. It would reappear and fly above the other three, move left again and then realign with the other four. The UFOs were solid bright white/yellow and were brilliant against the night sky. They flew fluidly and moved great lengths across the sky in an instant. They were much larger than stars. We and our neighbors felt excited and in awe. We have seen them before over the Estella Mountains to the East. They are common in this part of. We see them several times a year. Thanks to MUFON CMS — I was in the downtown area as any other day snapping pictures when I saw the object hovering on February 3, 2017.
I didn’t hesitate so I took a picture. The object seems to a disc or cylinder.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Mark at 11:25 pm on February 2, 2017, and saw objects through the trees. The first object was moving towards me. Thought it was work helicopter, then five seconds later three more objects came behind first one. I hurried and snapped two pictures. Thought then it was drones but objects made no noise and started turning south while ascending to 250-300 feet and snapped another picture. I didn’t see anyone else. Started recording video then fifth object appeared still from east but this one was heading more southwest. Four objects were now heading south and I heard what sounded like a shotgun. Stopped recording, started driving heading south, and objects were now about 500 to 750 feet up. There was no erratic movement, and turned south, Went back into work, showed coworkers pictures and video, asked what they thought, all said not drones or lanterns, or plane or helicopter. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Idaho Light
Idaho Falls— I was meditating in my room when my sister went outside before going to sleep when she saw the flame object through the window and February 4, 2017. I went outside to see what it was and that’s when she saw the object that was coming towards our direction so she ran inside to let us know. My two nephews were outside, one phone camera kept giving him an error when trying to take video, he switched to take pictures and he managed to take four images of the object. When I got outside I saw the intense Red and Orange objects leaving. My nephew said object remained with a sphere shape until t passed over the house then started to change shape. He said: it resembled a Light Sabers from that movie Star Wars. It stretched out to a cigar shape then back to a sphere. There was this wave like pattern of fire and a strange silence. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Disc
Clinton — A 14 year old friend was in my son’s room with two of my sons, one is 14 the other is 9. The nine-year-old was lying on the bed, and saw something weird in the window on January 5, 2017. The nine year said, “What is that”? They observed a slowly rotating black disk shaped UFO. It had big bright blue lights on the side of it and red lights on the top of it in a dome. t. It was behind our house and the disc moved really quick like it was hiding. It zipped on the other side of their house. I had both kids draw what they had seen in separate rooms. The 14 year old was petrified and was crying when I took him home. I don’t know what is going on, but I’m sick of it. These boys are scared! Not for pretend-for real.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Lights
Lusby— I had just stepped outside onto the deck on February 2, 2017, and looked upwards at the very clear sky to observe the moon. I also was looking for the planet that has been around it the past few nights. I think it was Venus, if not Jupiter. I saw a bright light moving on the left of the moon gaining altitude. It flickered randomly and then vanished. The sky was extremely clear so there was no where it could have hid. The only possible explanation is either the lights were turned off, or is fly away so fast that I didn’t see it. This has been my 4th sighting so far and it resembled a glowing orb that I saw in Florida. I know what to look for when spotting UFOs. I stepped out and saw it the exact moment it was visible for perfect timing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Lights
Springfield – About 7:30 PM, I opened my door to get call my cat in and observed a string of orange lights hovering above the apartment complex across the street. They were above the tree line but probably no further south than five. They were traveling in a zig zag pattern like you see on a heart monitor. Some of the spheres however seemed to be clustered in groups of three lights in a formation resembling a triangle. Some of the brighter lights on the triangle seemed to show illumination of being attached to a solid black triangular craft that seemed to be revolving as it flew. All lights were travelling in a steady line heading west ascending in altitude making a faint whirring hum. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Disc
Las Vegas — My aunt, uncle, mom and I took a ride through red rock canyon, where we took these photos of scenery through the windshield of my uncle’s car on March 15, 2016.
Because my phone is an android and I use a Mac I only looked at these photos recently and was shocked to see what looks like a UFO hovering prominently in the sky.
The day I took these photos none of us saw or noticed this object in the sky. It was not visible and appeared only when photographed.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Blue Light
Trenton– A bright blue light was seen over northern Trenton for several hours on Sunday February 5, 2017
A bright stationary white light hovered on February 9, 2017.
A second red light passed by and left the area after the snow storm. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Triangle
Wilson — My sister woke up to some lights in the sky that she saw out of the window. She thought it looked weird due to fact that there were big lights in a triangle shape on the front of the object and smaller lights in the middle and the back.
She took a video and showed me and I was convinced that it had to be a ufo. First time we have seen this!
She began taking a video until it flew over our house and she lost track of it.
Note: No photos for this sighting but similar video was taken over Sweden on February 7 2017.Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Light
Denver — When I first noticed this light I was walking my dog in the back yard of our home on January 31, 2017. I usually look at the stars and was headed back inside and I saw what didn’t belong there. There were no flashing lights like all planes have and it was extremely bright. I stood and watched for a couple minutes and at first it didn’t seem to be moving. Then I noticed it was headed in our direction. I called for my wife to come look at it. She had the same thoughts. The movement was very subtle. It hung around long enough for me to get my binoculars and take video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Thru binoculars I knew it wasn’t a star. We took videos of it on my cell phone. It looked like a spinning donut with colored lights. It morphed in and out of shapes.
I was in the # 1 combat ready in the US and spent most of my life in law enforcement. I am a trained observer and it’s driving me crazy as to what this light is! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Cylinder
Newcastle — I was in the yard out the back looking at the stars on January 29, 2017. The moon had gone down so Venus was prominent. I turned on HDR mode on my phone and tried again with little success. I went back through my images and saw a purple glowing shape in the sky. It wasn’t very detailed and had bad graphics but it was something. I took 20 more pictures to see if it was a trick of light and if I could recreate it. No other images I took resulted in the light. I did not see the object with my bare eyes, only in the split second I took on my phone. I started to ponder whether it could be extraterrestrial but was too afraid to really believe it. After some thought though, I do believe that this could be alien or some unusual object in the sky as creating the ‘trick’ again seemed impossible. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Contrail
Castlegar — I was out on the back porch when my husband pointed out what looked to me like a jet at first on February 2, 2017. It was a quick presumption on my part and due to the cloud like trails it was leaving behind.
But with a bit more observation it became obvious that it was not. It was moving far too slow to be a jet and was falling toward the ground. Looking through the binoculars I could see two bright orbs of light at the leading edge which seemed to separate slightly from one another. The decent was far slower than I imagine gravity would bring a solid object down. It took at least five minutes to get from mid sky to where I could no longer see it behind the trees. My husband saw another one in the sky. This time I thought to grab my camera. It looked and acted almost identical to yesterday’s sighting, a bright circle of light falling at a slow rate of speed leaving two trails behind it. Two very fast jets flew across the sky from west to east in the same area as it descended.
I spotted another one higher up that looks as though it was falling at the same slow rate of speed. This one broke into four segments but all four fell at the same rate. These same types of objects were witnessed on two occasions. I am very curious to know what exactly I witnessed. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Note: Possibly chemtrails spraying by Canadian Airlines
Dominican Republic Light
Santa Barbara De Samana — Myself and girl friend were on vacation at the Grand Bahia Principe Cayacoa, on December 23, 2016. We were downhill from the resort admiring the southern view overlooking the ocean when off in the distance we observed a flashing, pulsating strange green light. My girl friend pointed it out, then turned to light a smoke, and in that time it started to move. The light traveled from south to west of our position. Not too far over the bay, because before I knew it, it had passed directly over our heads with lightning speed. The burr sound which leads me to believe, it was 150 feet over our heads extremely fast towards the resort and makes two right angle turns. It vanished over top of the resort. It sounded like the Jetson’s years back. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Netherlands Boomerang
Leeuwarden — I was looking out the window when I saw lights in the sky on February 3, 2017.
I saw a ufo about a year ago that looked the same as this one. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Disc
Port Motueka – I was at the Samaritas Cafe on February 5, 2017, while waiting for my order, I took a photo of Mt Arthur with the Port Motueka Marina in the foreground. I uploaded some photos from my camera to my laptop today and saw that there was a dark oval shape in the photo in the distance and above one of the yacht masts. The photos taken at different locations before the photo and after the photo did not have a dark oval. As soon as I saw the dark oval in the photo I thought wow that looks like a UFO. I didn’t see anything in the sky at the time the photo was taken. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sweden Triangle
Ljungby— At the time I was studying for a history test on February 7, 2017, and got bored and saw something that blinked and had many lights that where blue, red, and purple. At first I thought that it was a plane but when I ran to the window I saw that it couldn’t be a plane. Instead it had a triangle or oval shape, as it was a very fast UFO.
It kind of looked like if something chased it because it was so fast. I lost sight when it flew away and at the same time my phone had 2% left so I filmed about 30 seconds. My family was downstairs but if I ran down they wouldn’t believe me.
I got a little panic and my breathing got heavier and I was a little chocked. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Lights
Lame– As I was walking home having just got off the bus, I saw a strobbing blue light in front of me and assumed it was an ambulance on February 3, 2017. It was making its way down the hill in the background. I realized that it was actually moving too high for that. It moved in a slow steady motion in a straight path. I got two pictures of it as it approached the house on the corner at an elevation twice the height of the house (but far in the background). I then started shooting a video of it but lost sight of it after 20 seconds or so. It appeared to have blinked out when it just passed to the left of the house. On the video it just seems to blink out. Time is exact, but website would not recognize the fact that I selected exact. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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De top 10 aardachtige exoplaneten van 2017
De top 10 aardachtige exoplaneten van 2017
Tim Kraaijvanger
Op welke buitenaards werelden is de kans het grootst dat we leven tegenkomen? Iedere twee jaar publiceert Scientias.nl de top 10 kandidaten voor buitenaards leven. Dit jaar zijn er slechts twee nieuwe binnenkomers.
De afgelopen jaren worden steeds meer exoplaneten gevonden. Er is nog geen aardachtige exoplaneet gevonden waarvan astronomen met honderd procent zekerheid kunnen vaststellen dat er leven is. Daarvoor zijn telescopen nog niet goed genoeg. Wel weten onderzoekers onder welke omstandigheden het leven op aarde zich ontwikkeld heeft en of deze omstandigheden ook op andere exoplaneten mogelijk zijn. Eigenlijk vergelijken ze exoplaneten dus met onze planeet om vast te stellen of deze leven kunnen bevatten. Zo gaan wetenschappers ervan uit dat een planeet vloeibaar water moet kunnen bevatten wil er leven mogelijk zijn. Dat betekent dat een planeet niet te dicht bij zijn ster mag staan (dan verdampt het water), maar ook niet te ver weg (dan bevriest het water). En zo zijn er nog wel meer factoren die de wetenschap op dit moment nodig acht, wil buitenaards leven op een bepaalde planeet mogelijk zijn. NASA vatte de criteria als volgt samen: “Leefbare omgevingen moeten uitgebreide gebieden met vloeibaar water, omstandigheden die gunstig zijn voor de totstandkoming van complexe organische moleculen en energiebronnen die stofwisseling mogelijk maken, hebben.”
CRITERIA VERANDEREN
Wetenschappers stellen bepaalde eisen aan een planeet, alvorens deze zich ‘leefbaar’ of ‘bewoonbaar’ mag noemen. Of buitenaards leven diezelfde eisen stelt, blijft nog even gissen. Het is best mogelijk dat we door de jaren heen ontdekken dat leven flexibeler is dan gedacht en ook op meer plaatsen dan gedacht kan ontstaan. In dit geval zullen de criteria moeten worden aangepast en zullen waarschijnlijk opeens veel meer planeten het stempel ‘leefbaar’ krijgen. Dat is dus een voortdurend proces van onderzoeken, ontdekken en onze ideeën omtrent buitenaards leven bijschaven.
Inmiddels zijn er meer dan 3.500 exoplaneten gevonden. In 2016 is het bestaan van 1458 exoplaneten bevestigd. Een record! Planeten die mogelijk bewoonbaar zijn, belanden in de Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. In februari 2013 publiceerden we de lijst voor het eerst. In oktober 2015 volgde een update. Dit is de derde keer dat we de tien beste kandidaten op een rij zetten:
10. EPIC 201367065 d (2015: 8e plaats) De hekkensluiter van deze editie is EPIC 201367065 d. De kans is groot dat deze exoplaneet over twee jaar niet meer in de lijst staat. Moederster EPIC 201367065 is een rode dwergster. Om deze ster draaien drie superaardes. De buitenste superaarde bevindt zich in de leefbare zone. Deze exoplaneet is 1,5 keer groter dan de aarde en ontvangt 1,4 keer meer licht dan de aarde ontvangt. Hierdoor is het vrij warm op het oppervlak, maar mogelijk is er wel vloeibaar water te vinden. De exoplaneet EPIC 201367065 d is ongeveer 150 lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd. Dit is relatief dichtbij, dus wie weet gaan we deze exoplaneet in de verre toekomst bezoeken.
EARTH SIMILARITY INDEX
Waar kijken onderzoekers precies naar wanneer ze vaststellen hoe sterk een planeet op de aarde lijkt? Naar verschillende dingen. Bijvoorbeeld naar de straal en ontsnappingssnelheid (de minimale snelheid waarmee een object zonder aandrijving van de planeet moet worden geschoten wil het niet op de planeet terugvallen, maar van de planeet vandaan blijven bewegen). Ook kijken onderzoekers naar de oppervlaktetemperatuur. Overigens tellen lang niet alle factoren die onderzoekers beoordelen, even sterk mee in het eindoordeel. Zo weegt de oppervlaktetemperatuur veel zwaarder dan bijvoorbeeld de straal.
9. Gliese 832c (2015: 7e plaats) Gliese 832c staat een plek hoger en scoort 0.81 op de Earth Similarity Index. Gliese 832c is 5,4 keer zo zwaar als de aarde en doet 36 dagen over een rondje rond zijn ster Gliese 832. Dit is een rode dwergster, die veel minder fel en warm is dan onze zon. Hierdoor ontvangt Gliese 832c ongeveer evenveel energie van die ster als de aarde van de zon ontvangt. Volgens wetenschappers is het mogelijk dat op de planeet aardachtige temperaturen heersen. Ook zouden er grote verschillen zijn tussen de seizoenen. Tenminste: als we ervan uitgaan dat de atmosfeer van de planeet vergelijkbaar is met de atmosfeer van onze aarde. Als de atmosfeer een grotere dichtheid heeft – iets wat onderzoekers eigenlijk van de atmosfeer van superaardes verwachten – kan deze planeet wel eens veel te warm zijn voor leven.
8. K2-72 e (nieuw in de top 10) De eerste nieuwe binnenkomer in de lijst van 2017 is K2-72 e. Het bestaan van deze exoplaneet werd in 2016 bevestigd. K2-72 e draait samen met drie andere rotsachtige planeten om de dwergster K2-72. K2-72 e is met een ESI van 0.82 de meest interessante wereld. De exoplaneet is 1,4 keer groter dan de aarde en doet er 24,2 dagen over om een rondje om zijn moederster te draaien. K2-72 e is niet makkelijk te bezoeken, want de afstand bedraagt 181 lichtjaar.
7. Kepler-452b (2015: 6e plaats) In 2015 is er een aardachtige exoplaneet gevonden die om een zonachtige ster draait: Kepler-452b. Met een ESI van 0.83 is Kepler-452b een kandidaat voor buitenaards leven. De exo-aarde Kepler-452b is 60% groter dan de aarde en draait op een afstand van ruwweg 165 miljoen kilometer om zijn moederster. Dit betekent dat de exoplaneet 10% verder verwijderd is van zijn moederster dan de aarde van de zon. Een jaar op Kepler-452b duurt 385 dagen. Dat komt verrassend dicht in de buurt van een aards jaar. De ster Kepler-452 is 1,5 miljard jaar ouder dan de zon, waardoor de ster en de exoplaneet zes miljard jaar oud zijn. In de eerste vijf miljard jaar kreeg de exo-aarde minder energie van zijn ster dan de aarde van de zon ontvangt, maar dit verschil is nu gelijk getrokken. Dit komt doordat de ster langzaam heter en helderder wordt. Op dit moment is de ster Kepler-452 10% groter en 20% helderder dan de zon. De oppervlaktetemperatuur is gelijk. “Het is verbazingwekkend dat deze planeet zich al zes miljard jaar in de leefbare zone om een ster bevindt”, zegt data-analist Jon Jenkins van het Kepler-team. “Dit betekent dat leven meer tijd heeft gehad om zich te ontwikkelen. Tenminste… als alle ingrediënten voor leven aanwezig zijn.”
Artistieke impressie van Kepler-62e.
6. Kepler-62e (2015: 5e plaats) In 2013 vond NASA’s Kepler-telescoop Kepler-62e. Deze exoplaneet bevindt zich op het binnenste randje van de leefbare zone rondom de ster Kepler-62. Kepler-62e is ongeveer 60 procent groter dan de aarde. “Kepler-62e heeft waarschijnlijk een heel bewolkte lucht en is warm en vochtig, zelfs op de polen,” vertelt onderzoeker Dimitar Sasselov van het Kepler-team. Maar is er ook leven? Misschien! “Het leven op deze planeten zou zich onder water afspelen, zonder gemakkelijke toegang tot metalen, elektriciteit of vuur voor het verwerken van metalen”, zegt onderzoeker Lisa Kaltenegger. “Desalniettemin is het een prachtige blauwe planeet.”
5. Kepler-442b (2015: 4e plaats) Op een flinke afstand van 1.100 lichtjaar van de aarde treffen we de exoplaneet Kepler-442b aan. Een jaar op 442b duurt 112 dagen. Dit is kort, maar dat komt doordat deze exoplaneet om een rode dwergster draait. De planeet is 33% groter dan de aarde en de kans dat de exoplaneet rotsachtig is, is 60 procent. De kans is 97 procent dat Kepler-442b zich in de leefbare zone rondom Kepler-442 bevindt. “We weten niet zeker of deze planeet echt leefbaar is,” benadrukt onderzoeker David Kipping. “Het enige wat we kunnen zeggen, is dat het een veelbelovende kandidaat is.”
Artistieke impressie van Gliese 667C c.
4. Gliese 667C c (2015: 3e plaats) Hoe hogerop we in de catalogus komen, hoe interessanter het natuurlijk wordt. Eén van de interessantere exoplaneten is Gliese 667C c, op zo’n 23 lichtjaar van de aarde. Deze exoplaneet staat al een tijdje in de top 10, maar daalt iedere twee jaar wel een plek. De planeet heeft een straal die 1,9 keer groter is dan die van de aarde. De geschatte oppervlaktetemperatuur doet ook aan aardse temperaturen denken: zo’n 27 graden Celsius. Met al die interessante eigenschappen is het geen wonder dat de planeet goed scoort op de Earth Similarity Index: een 0.84.
3. Kepler-296 e (2015: 2e plaats) De bronzen plak gaat naar Kepler-296 e.Deze exoplaneet heeft een Earth Similarity Index van 0.85. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA maakte het bestaan van deze planeet op 2 februari 2014 bekend. Kepler-296e is een superaarde met een straal die 1,75 keer groter is dan de radius van onze aarde. De planeet draait iedere 34,1 dagen om de rode dwerg Kepler-296. De kans is groot dat er vloeibaar water voorkomt op het oppervlak van deze exoplaneet. Het is wel een eindje reizen: 1.089 lichtjaar om precies te zijn.
2. Proxima Centauri b (nieuw in de top 10) De hoogste nieuwe binnenkomer is Proxima Centauri b. Deze exoplaneet met drie ‘zonnen’ is een interessante kandidaat om te bezoeken. Bezoeken? Ja, de afstand tussen de aarde en deze exoplaneet is slechts vier lichtjaar. Klein genoeg voor een geavanceerd ruimtevaartuig – zoals Breakthrough Starshot van Stephen Hawking – om deze buitenaardse wereld van dichtbij te bewonderen. Hoewel deze exoplaneet in de achtertuin van ons zonnestelsel is gevonden, lijkt Proxima Centauri b niet op de aarde. Zo is Proxima Centauri een rode dwergster, die minder sterk schijnt als onze zon. Proxima Centauri b draait op een afstand van zeven miljoen kilometer om zijn moederster. Dit betekent dat het oppervlak van deze exoplaneet aan meer uv- en röntgenstraling wordt blootgesteld dan het oppervlak van de aarde. Als er water voorkomt op Proxima Centauri b, dan is er sprake van een oceaan op één helft van de planeet of een oceaan rond de evenaar.
Een artistieke impressie van Proxima Centauri b. Afbeelding: ESO / M. Kornmesser.
1. Kepler-438 b (2015: 1e plaats) Kepler 438 b staat nog steeds bovenaan deze top 10. De in 2015 ontdekte exoplaneet heeft een ESI van 0.88. Kepler-438 b heeft 35 dagen nodig om een rondje om een rode dwergster te draaien. De exoplaneet is slechts 12 procent groter dan de aarde. Wetenschappers schatten de kans dat deze planeet rotsachtig is op 70 procent. Kepler-438 b ontvangt wel meer licht dan de aarde, waardoor het onzeker is of er echt buitenaards leven aanwezig is. Daarnaast ontvangt Kepler-438b – net als Proxima Centauri b – meer straling, waardoor er een kans is dat de exoplaneet geen atmosfeer heeft. De ‘dader’ is de moederster Kepler-438b, die gigantische zonnevlammen produceert. Deze zonnevlammen zijn tien keer krachtiger dan de krachtigste uitbarstingen op het oppervlak van onze eigen zon. We komen er ook niet makkelijk achter of er leven mogelijk is op Kepler-438 b, want de potentiële tweede aarde is 470 lichtjaar van ons verwijderd.
De catalogus verandert voortdurend. Zo telde deze in augustus 2012 nog zes planeten. In 2013 telde de catalogus nog negen exemplaren en nu – in 2017 – maar liefst 44 exoplaneten. 15 van deze 44 exoplaneten lijken op de aarde. De andere 29 stuks zijn veel groter. De kans is groot dat de lijst binnen vijf jaar uit honderd exo-aardes bestaat. Overigens zijn niet alleen mogelijk bewoonbare exoplaneten plekken om in de gaten te houden. Ook op diverse exomanen behoort leven wellicht tot de mogelijkheden. Ondertussen worden ook de telescopen steeds beter en worden de kansen om daadwerkelijk sporen van leven te vinden, dus groter. Wellicht kunnen we over enkele jaren dan ook vaststellen of mogelijk leefbare exoplaneten werkelijk bewoond zijn.
Missie naar Jupiters maan Europa lijkt wat concreter te worden
Missie naar Jupiters maan Europa lijkt wat concreter te worden
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Een speciale onderzoekscommissie heeft nagedacht over hoe zo’n missie eruit moet zien en wat de waarde ervan is.
En daar is een fraai rapport uitgerold dat je hier in zijn geheel kunt lezen (maar dat we in dit artikel natuurlijk even bondig voor je samenvatten). Het rapport is inmiddels aangeboden aan NASA.
Buitenaards leven De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie droomt van een missie naar Europa. En dat is ook niet zo gek, want Jupiters maan Europa is waarschijnlijk de beste plek om op zoek te gaan naar buitenaards leven. De maan bezit – hoogstwaarschijnlijk – een ondergrondse oceaan waarin de omstandigheden prettig genoeg zijn voor het ontstaan en in stand houden van levende wezens.
Aangenomen wordt dat onder de 25 kilometer dikke laag ijs die Europa rijk is een vloeibare oceaan te vinden is.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
SDT Kortom: Europa is waarschijnlijk de spannendste maan die ons zonnestelsel rijk is en NASA wil er naartoe. Maar is dat haalbaar? Is onderzoek ter plaatse werkelijk waardevol? En wat moeten we daar dan precies gaan onderzoeken? En welke instrumenten hebben we daar dan voor nodig? Over dat soort vragen heeft een Science Definition Team (kortweg SDT) zich nu gebogen. Het resulteert in een fraai rapport waar je hart waarschijnlijk wat sneller van gaat kloppen, want een missie naar Europa wordt nu wel erg concreet!
Zo zou een lander op Europa eruit kunnen zien.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
Lander In het rapport presenteren de onderzoekers een conceptmissie die bestaat uit een Europa Lander. Deze zou – door de schadelijke straling die het oppervlak van de maan bombardeert – tussen de 20 en 40 dagen actief kunnen zijn. In die korte periode zouden de instrumenten aan boord van de lander drie doelen moeten nastreven: – Zoeken naar sporen van leven op Europa – Ter plekke de leefbaarheid van de maan vaststellen – De kenmerken van het oppervlak en de omstandigheden onder het oppervlak vaststellen voor toekomstige missies naar de maan.Welke instrumenten moeten er dan mee om deze doelen na te kunnen streven? Nou, je moet dan onder meer denken aan instrumenten die microbiële cellen en organische stoffen op kunnen sporen. Met dergelijke instrumenten zouden we leven aan moeten kunnen treffen als het op Europa net zo overvloedig voorkomt als op één van de meest extreme en verlaten plaatsen op aarde: het Vostokmeer.
Grote waarde Dat een dergelijke missie van grote waarde is, staat buiten kijf. “De missie zou onze kennis over Europa als waterwereld – zelfs als we geen overtuigende sporen van leven vinden – enorm vergroten en de basis leggen voor toekomstige robotische exploratie van Europa.”
Europa. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / DLR.
Uitdagingen Het klinkt allemaal heel eenvoudig, maar we moeten wel bedenken dat dit een baanbrekende missie is. We zijn nog nooit op Europa geweest. En we hebben op een ander hemellichaam dan de aarde nog nooit direct gezocht naar leven. Ook de ‘planetaire protectie’ is een puntje van aandacht. Bij een bezoek aan een potentieel leefbaar hemellichaam moeten we natuurlijk oppassen dat we dit hemellichaam niet ‘besmetten’ met microben afkomstig van de aarde. Want die microben kunnen later onterecht aangezien worden als ‘Europees leven’ en/of schadelijk zijn voor eventuele levensvormen op Europa. Aangezien Europa gezien wordt als de beste kandidaat voor buitenaards leven in ons zonnestelsel, is planetaire protectie tijdens deze missie zeer belangrijk. Het betekent dat daarvoor protocollen moeten worden ontwikkeld en zeer goed nagedacht moet worden over methoden om besmetting te voorkomen.
Discussie Al met al moet er dus nog veel werk verzet worden, maar lijkt een missie naar Europa absoluut de moeite waard. Of deze ook werkelijkheid wordt, is afwachten. De komende maanden zal er uitgebreid over het rapport gediscussieerd worden.
Ook de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie werkt aan een missie naar Europa. Lees er hier meer over.
Dat we Europa binnenkort wel van iets dichterbij gaan bekijken, staat vast. Aan het begin van het volgende decennium wil NASA een ruimtesonde in een baan rond Jupiter plaatsen. Deze ruimtesonde zal 45 scheervluchten langs Europa maken. Tijdens die scheervluchten onderzoekt de sonde de leefbaarheid van de maan door te kijken naar diens samenstelling en de kenmerken van de ijslaag en de veronderstelde oceaan daaronder. Ook zal de ruimtesonde detailfoto’s maken van het oppervlak. Die kunnen dan eventueel weer gebruikt worden om een landingsplek te kiezen voor de Europa Lander.
A Leak Has Finally Revealed What Magic Leap Is Working On
A Leak Has Finally Revealed What Magic Leap Is Working On
Magic Leap
IN BRIEF
Magic Leap, the secretive AR company, promises that their technology is going to transform how people experience reality. However, they have, thus far, only offered teasers of their work.
Now, a leaked photo has finally revealed what the prototype of their device looks like, and it still seems to be quite some ways from completion.
WELCOME TO A NEW WORLD
Some time back, Magic Leap raised a staggering $1.4 billion in venture capital in order to make mixed reality our new reality. Since then, a proverbial firestorm of media coverage has swarmed around them. Part of this stems from the secretive nature of the company.
Part of this firestorm stems from the secretive nature of the company. Few people have tried the tech (and ever fewer journalists), so no one really knows what to expect; however, if the teasers are any indication, whatever they develop is going to be pretty fantastic.
TAKE A REAL, HARD LOOK
Now, it seems that we may finally be seeing what Magic Leap has really been up to. Business Insider asserts that an image of a prototype was just leaked to them. Their source said that the device is known as “PEQ0,” which is a stand-in name that was derived from an internal “prototype naming scheme” that Magic Leap uses.
Business Insider tried to reach out to the company for comment and to verify the information, but they didn’t hear anything back by the time the article was released. As you can see in the below image, the prototype
As you can see in the below image, the prototype definitely looks like a prototype. And this is a bit of a problem.
The issue with this is that, in recent months, Magic Leap has been accused of using erroneous and misleading marketing material to make the public (and reporters) believe that the technology is a lot farther along than it truly is.
Specifically, Reed Albergotti published an article in which he alleged that Magic Leap had “oversold” its system, using different tech for the demo than what will be used in the final product. In response, in a memo to employees, CEO Rony Abovitz stated that the company shouldn’t be sidetracked: “Ignore all of this. Focus on what we are doing, and we ship a great product. That will speak loudly and reverberate for many years.”
This leak also comes at a prime time, as there is a board meeting next week that is generally seen as “a milestone in the product’s development.” In short, it is a chance to show, once and for all, that Magic Leap can truly do all that they claim—shrink augmented reality tech so that it is truly portable.
If this prototype is any indication, they have a lot of work to do before next week.
'Superflares' Likely Made Proxima b Uninhabitable Long Ago
'Superflares' Likely Made Proxima b Uninhabitable Long Ago
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The nearby alien planet Proxima b is not a great candidate to host life as we know it, a new study suggests.
Immensely powerful flares from Proxima b's parent star likely stripped some of life's key building blocks from the Earth-size alien world's atmosphere long ago, according to the study, which investigated the life-hosting potential of planets circling the small, dim stars known as red dwarfs.
Red dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way, making up about 75 percent of the galaxy's 1 trillion or so stellar inhabitants. Whereas red dwarfs are substantially cooler than sun-like stars, they tend to be more active, blasting out potent "superflares" more frequently, especially when red dwarfs are young. [Proxima b: Closest Earth-Like Planet Discovery in Pictures]
The new study took such characteristics into account, developing a new model of red dwarf "habitable zones" — the range of distances from a star at which liquid water should be stable on a world's surface — that considers more than just a parent star's heat.
"By the classical definition, the habitable zone around red dwarfs must be 10 to 20 times closer in than Earth is to the sun," study lead author Vladimir Airapetian, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement. "Now we know these red dwarf stars generate a lot of X-ray and extreme ultraviolet emissions at the habitable zones of exoplanets through frequent flares and stellar storms."
This is bad news from a habitability perspective. The team's modeling results suggest that such radiation can strip the electrons off molecules in orbiting planets' atmospheres. These electrons escape into space easily, and they drag the newly created, positively charged ions with them as they go.
Light elements, such as hydrogen, are lost fairly easily via this process. And superflare radiation can kick the "atmospheric erosion" up a notch, driving off oxygen and nitrogen — key building blocks of life — as well, the new study found.
"Considering oxygen escape alone, the model estimates a young red dwarf could render a close-in exoplanet uninhabitable within a few tens [of millions] to a hundred million years," NASA officials wrote in the same statement. "The loss of both atmospheric hydrogen and oxygen would reduce and eliminate the planet’s water supply before life would have a chance to develop."
The team's work suggests that this fate has likely befallen the recently discovered Proxima b, which orbits within the "traditional" habitable zone of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. (This star is the sun's nearest neighbor, lying just 4.22 light-years from Earth.)
"We have pessimistic results for planets around young red dwarfs in this study, but we also have a better understanding of which stars have good prospects for habitability," Airapetian said. "As we learn more about what we need from a host star, it seems more and more that our sun is just one of those perfect parent stars to have supported life on Earth."
Super-Fast Spacecraft Could Slow Down Using Alpha Centauri's Starlight as Brakes
Super-Fast Spacecraft Could Slow Down Using Alpha Centauri's Starlight as Brakes
By Elizabeth Howell, Seeker
Last year, a consortium led by billionaire Yuri Milner and physicist Stephen Hawking announced a plan to get to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth. Called the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, the plan is to send ultra-light "nanoprobes" to the system in 20 years by accelerating them to 20 percent of the speed of light using powerful lasers.
A group of German researchers — while fully supportive of the initiative — worried that without an important tweak, however, the science might suffer. One of these nanoprobes would be able to dash the Earth-moon distance in just six seconds at that speed. With this in mind, the researchers devised some ideas about how to slow the nanoprobes down so they can carry out some observations when they arrive at their destination (rather than zipping through the system at high speed), potentially spotting Proxima Centauri b, a possible habitable planet that orbits Alpha Centauri's oddball red dwarf sibling, Proxima Centauri.
"The solution is for the probe's sail to be redeployed upon arrival so that the spacecraft would be optimally decelerated by the incoming radiation from the stars in the Alpha Centauri system," said scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, led by Rene Heller, in a statement.
"During the approach to Alpha Centauri, the braking force would increase," they added. "The stronger the braking force, the more effectively the spacecraft's speed can be reduced upon arrival. Vice versa, the same physics could be used to accelerate the sail at departure from the solar system, using the sun as a photon cannon."
The plan is for the spacecraft to go to the star Alpha Centauri A at a distance of about four million kilometers, moving at about 4.6 percent the speed of light. Any higher and the probe would go right past the star, rather than being caught in the star's gravitational field.
If the probe goes in at just the right speed and just the right place, the spacecraft would be attracted by the star's gravitational field and could be swung around the star, similar to how spacecraft in our solar system sometimes move between planets. One option here would be to keep the spacecraft in the Alpha Centauri A system to look at its planets, but the scientists would prefer to also include Alpha Centauri B and Proxima Centauri, the other two stars in the system.
"The sail could be configured so that the stellar pressure from star A brakes and deflects the probe toward Alpha Centauri B, where it would arrive after just a few days. The sail would then be slowed again and catapulted towards Proxima Centauri, where it would arrive after another 46 years — about 140 years after its launch from Earth."
The astronomers said they will discuss their ideas with the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative to see if this mission extension could be included — that is, if Breakthrough ever makes it to space at all. The mission is at a very early stage right now and is not guaranteed to fly. The astronomers, for their part, said that they are optimistic that Breakthrough could fly successfully eventually.
"Many great visions in the history of mankind had to struggle with seemingly insurmountable obstacles," Heller said. "We could soon be entering an era in which humans can leave their own star system to explore exoplanets using fly-by missions."
Hubble Has Found the Ancient Galaxies That Gave the Universe Its First Light
Hubble Has Found the Ancient Galaxies That Gave the Universe Its First Light
By Irene Klotz, Seeker
A new technique that removes the light of foreground galaxy clusters is giving astronomers a direct look at a generation of galaxies dating back to the universe's baby years.
The discovery is considered a key piece of evidence for a critical, but poorly understood period of time when the universe switched from being dark to radiating light.
Scientists theorize that energy from first-generation galaxies transformed the dark, electrically neutral universe into ionized and radiating plasma. But these faint galaxies are not easy to find.
This week, University of Texas astronomer Rachael Livermore and colleagues describe a successful hunt thanks to a new technique that combines deep-field Hubble Space Telescope images with what is known as "wavelet decomposition" — a light-masking equivalent of noise-canceling headphones — to computationally remove light from foreground galaxy clusters.
"The wavelet transform allows us to decompose an image into its components on different physical scales. Thus, we can isolate structures on large scales… and remove them, allowing objects on smaller scales to be identified more easily," the scientists wrote in a draft of their upcoming paper, published on arXiv.org.
Ironically, astronomers first have to rely on galaxy clusters, which warp spacetime with their massive gravity, to serve as naturally occurring lenses that boost Hubble's resolving power more than 100 times.
By then masking the light, Livermore, University of Texas astronomer Steven Finkelstein and Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer Jennifer Lotz found 167 galaxies that are 10 times fainter than any previously known, a number that shows "strong support" for how many early galaxies would have been needed to re-ionize the universe.
A more direct detection method will come after Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, is launched next year.
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Dwight David Eisenhower was one of the highest ranking American generals in United States history. He also served as the country’s 34th president, spending eight years in office; before that, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II. His military career was long and extensive, and if anyone knows anything about supposed extraterrestrial beings and the UFO phenomenon, it would definitely be him; he would, after all, be taking the place of Harry S. Truman, who was president while Eisenhower was Supreme Commander, and who, after being asked if he had been briefed on the topic of Unidentified Flying Objects, stated on live television:
Oh yes we discuss it at every conference that we had with the military, and they never were able to make me a concrete report on it. . . . There’s always things like that going on, flying saucers and they’ve had other things, you know.” (source)
If we fast forward to more than 50 years later, one thing has become extremely obvious: UFOs are an international phenomenon, and they have gained the attention of governments, intelligence agencies, and military agencies around the world, particularly since so many military encounters have been recorded.
“The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. Maybe when this group of nations acquires more precise and definite information, it will be possible to release the news to the world.”
– General Carlos Castro Cavero, Spanish Air Force General (a statement given to the world in the 1970s)
Some startling examples of UFO encounters were outlined by Dr. Jacques Vallee, a scientist notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information center for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, in a paper he published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration titled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Aeriel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” (source)(source )
These objects are commonly witnessed by military pilots and tracked on both air and ground radar simultaneously. They are seen performing maneuvers that defy our current understanding of physics. As outlined in the publication above, often when pilots enter the vicinity of these objects, their critical instrumentation and electronics systems all go offline.
One classic example comes from the Iranian Air force, who dispatched two F-4 fighter jets to check out an unexplained flying object. The United States took this encounter very seriously, sending a report of what happened to multiple national security officials and to U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, CIA Director George Bush, and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, among others. Both of the F-4 interceptor pilots reported seeing the object visually, and it was also tracked on their airborne radar. Both planes experienced their critical instrumentation and electronics go offline at a distance of twenty-five miles from the object. Here is an excerpt from the report:
As the F-4 approached a .range of 25 NM he lost all instrumentation and communications (UHF and intercom). He broke off the intercept and headed back to Shahrokhi. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. . . .
The object and the pursuing F-4 continued on a course to the south of Tehran when another brightly lighted object, estimated to be one half to one third the apparent size of the moon, came out of the original object. This second object headed straight toward the F-4 at a very fast rate of speed. The pilot attempted to fire an AIM-9 missile at the object but at that Instant his weapons control panel went off and he lost all communications (UHF and Interphone). (source)
The report also described how a smaller object detached from the bigger object, turned inside the arc of the F-4 itself, and then regained the original object. This incident lasted for several hours.
What’s more, on top of all these files and publications, which number in the thousands, we have files from intelligence agencies like the FBI showing heavy interest from some very high level people about extraterrestrial bodies and space craft.
For example, HERE (on pages 21/22) is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document addressed to “certain scientists of distinction,” to “aeronautical and military authorities,” and to “a number of public officials” regarding a letter from a professor with “several university degrees” and a former “university department head.”
The letter offers details about extraterrestrial bodies and craft, stating that part of the disks carry crews, while others are under remote control; that these visitors are human-like but much larger in size, and that they come from an etheric planet that “students of esoteric matters will understand,” among other details.
Considering the above evidence, combined with the hundreds of statements from high ranking military and political personnel (and more) that are available, it’s difficult to believe there is nothing going on. And if anyone were in a position to know the true story, it would have to be Dwight Eisenhower, which is what makes his story and the supposed meeting he had with extraterrestrials so compelling — provided you keep an open mind when listening.
“Behind the scenes, high ranking air force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” – Former Head of CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960 (source)
The Eisenhowers
When Laura Eisenhower was asked about her great grandfather and his supposed meeting with extraterrestrial beings, she had this to say:
Well I mean we have to understand that the Second World War wasn’t really won, we were dealing with things like project paperclip, we were dealing with, you know Admiral Byrd in 1947 going to Nazi bases in Antarctica and being defeated, so I mean, all these things were going on underneath… It’s like this whole other reality is going on that we don’t hear about. All of a sudden he’s (Dwight Eisenhower) voted into presidency and, you know, this facade of winning the war, um, you know, begins to just take us further and further away from, you know, the extraterrestrial concept, and what that really means and, you know, what is it really about, what is the interaction. So I would say that he was instrumental in warning us about the military industrial complex, and his integrity and I think the imprint that he left has allowed us to look back and open that door up and, you know, and ask these questions that weren’t asked back then. But my intuitive hit is that, and this is what I’ve gained from the work of Corey Goode, and other whistleblowers that have been connected to the secret space programs, is that the Nordics (extraterrestrial race) were connected to the Germans, and it wasn’t this whole, “Oh, you know, he made a deal with the wrong guys,” it was like, there needed to be so much discernment and clarity about the larger picture, that how can you possibly do that, in those times, I mean, this is what we’re trying to sort out now, is these timelines and the deeper history connected to secret societies, connected to, you know, these deeper ET agendas that have been around for thousands of years. So when it presents itself to a world government, or to these power structures, you know, there’s been pieces put into place specifically on purpose in order to create this outer facade which we read in our history books that have nothing to do with the true history of what is actually going on, and so, by the time this other meeting happened they considered it more of a surrender, because they couldn’t really do much, in 1953 is when the UFOs were flown over the white house, and that’s when they made negations with the Nazis, because they didn’t have a choice. . . . (source)
In February of 2010, Laura also posted a long document on the web describing her own contacts with beings from other worlds. Below is an excerpt:
It seemed clear to me that there were both false abductions (more holographic and communicated to the person through chips), and then there were the real ones—the ones I believe my great-grandfather President Eisenhower confronted, which has been a well-known cover-up.(source)
Apparently at this meeting Eisenhower was forced into an agreement with one race of extraterrestrials involving the exchange of ‘their’ technology for the ability to abduct some of us, examine us, and return us safely with no recollection of these events.
So where did the Eisenhower rumours stem from? Well on December 11th, 1984, a television producer by the name of Jamie Shandera received an envelope that had no return address, with two more envelopes inside and a 35 mm roll of film. The first paper within the envelope was a cover sheet labeled “Top Secret/Majic Eyes Only” and titled “Briefing Document: Operation Majestic 12 Prepared for President-Elect Dwight Eisenhower.” It was dated November 18, 1952. Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter (quoted earlier in the article speaking about UFOs) was listed as the briefing officer, along with President Truman, who established the group under executive order. Other names on the document included General Nathan Twinning, who stated in a declassified intelligence document that “the phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and motion which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly air-craft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically, or remotely.” (1)
The MJ 12 documents go on to describe the known details of the extraterrestrial presence; although they cannot be confirmed as completely authentic, they are no doubt intriguing.
William Cooper, who was a close friend to Jamie Shandera, as well as a Navy officer who himself had experience with the UFO phenomenon, wrote a paper titled “The Secret Government: The Origin, Purpose, and Identity of MJ-12” where he made several revelations. He claimed there were at least 16 downed alien craft, 65 bodies, and one live alien retrieved between 1947 and 1952, and at least 10 more UFO crash retrievals during the Eisenhower years. He also claimed that this secret government was dominated by the CIA and the Air Force, but then went into even greater secrecy in 1952 with the establishment of the NSA, which didn’t become known to the general public until 30 years after its creation. (1)
When I think about the above program, I think of former Canadian Defence minister Paul Hellyer stating that pilots were ordered to “shoot first and ask questions after.” (source)
On a side note, the NSA (and other agencies as well) has also recently released some weird documents without any explanation, like this one that reads “Key To The Extraterrestrial Messages.” These documents reveal, at the very least, that these agencies are actively interested in this phenomenon and devoting significant resources to its study.
Another source sharing details of Eisenhower’s meetings with extraterrestrials is Dr. Michael Salla, a former American University professor who now writes extensively in the UFO field. He has also noted that he wrote to Ike’s son, John S.D. Eisenhower, and asked if there was actually an alien encounter with his father. The response, as Salla reported, was “no.” (source)
You can read Salla’s paper regarding the circumstantial evidence surrounding Eisenhower’s supposed meeting with extraterrestrials on his website HERE.
According to Pentagon consultant and UFO researcher Timothy Good, Eisenhower had meetings with extraterrestrial beings on more than one occasion. (source)
Another source is below: a deathbed testimony given to one of the world’s most notable UFO researchers, Richard Dolan.
Who really knows what happened? All we can do is draw conclusions from the evidence at hand, since we don’t have a statement from Eisenhower himself.
“There are objects in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can deploy, that we have no means of stopping them coming here … [and] that there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.”
– Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (source)
To read more of our articles on the topic of UFOs/Extraterrestrials, you can visit the exopolitics section of our website HERE.
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Achterkleindochter president Dwight Eisenhower vertelt over diens ontmoeting met aliens
Achterkleindochter president Dwight Eisenhower vertelt over diens ontmoeting met aliens
Voormalig adviseur van het Pentagon Timothy Good baarde in 2012 opzien met zijn uitspraak dat de Amerikaanse oud-president Dwight D. Eisenhower drie keer een geheime bespreking heeft gehad met buitenaardse wezens.
In het BBC-programma Opinionated zei hij dat de 34e president van de VS de aliens in 1954 sprak op de Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
Eisenhower en enkele hooggeplaatste personen van de FBI communiceerden met de buitenaardsen door middel van ‘telepathische berichten’, aldus Good.
Diepste geheim
Hij vertelde dat de aliens een ‘Scandinavisch’ uiterlijk hadden en dat de ontmoeting in het diepste geheim plaatsvond.
De voorganger van Eisenhower, Harry Truman, zei op tv dat er ‘tijdens iedere vergadering met het leger werd gesproken over vliegende schotels’.
Laura Eisenhower, de achterkleindochter van president Eisenhower, sprak recentelijk over diens ontmoeting met de aliens.
Waarschuwen
Allereerst merkte ze op dat de Tweede Wereldoorlog in 1945 niet echt voorbij was. Ze verwees naar zaken als Project Paperclip en admiraal Byrd, die in 1947 werd verslagen toen hij op Antarctica op zoek ging naar nazi-bases.
Ze vervolgde dat de president een belangrijke rol heeft vervuld door ons tijdens zijn afscheidstoespraak te waarschuwen voor het militair-industrieel complex.
Laura merkte op dat onze geschiedenisboekjes niets van doen hebben met de ware geschiedenis.
Geen keus
Volgens haar waren de aliens met een Scandinavisch uiterlijk nauw verbonden met de Duitsers en waren de ontmoetingen meer een soort overgave omdat de Amerikanen weinig konden doen.
“In 1953 vlogen UFO’s over het Witte Huis en vanaf dat moment begonnen ze te onderhandelen met de nazi’s, omdat ze eigenlijk geen keus hadden,” zei ze.
Vancouver, BC – Exclusive new video published to social media on January 13, 2017, purports retired United States Marine Corps General James N. Mattis appeared eager to direct a Mars military program during yesterday’s senate defense secretary confirmation hearing. When discussing threats to the United States, the prospective Trump cabinet member is shown to have uttered a mirror-encrypted message citing a “Mars mission.”
Scientists are now said to be awaiting news of the president-elect’s plans for NASA with looming changes to policy, budgets and diplomacy involving international space partners (including Russia). These changes are expected in an era when rights to privatized space research and exploration are being claimed by private corporations including SpaceX and Mars One.
According to the space agency, NASA is not a part of the Department of Defense or of any other Cabinet-level department. If confirmed as SecDef, James Mattis can look forwards to steering strictly military missions to their completion. Attempts to identify origins and meanings of the Mars mission message therefore shift to mythological and archetypal invocations to the Roman god of war. At further outreaches along the investigative continuum we recognize claims of a supposed US secret colony on Mars, a topic covered by Wired in 2012 and widely attested to in the alternative and Exopolitical press.
An entrenched “I-went-to-Mars” cottage-industry pop subculture claiming secret interplanetary missions involving time travel, President Barack Obama and members of the second Bush administration has dominated alternative media and Exopolitical discourse in recent years. The claims of this movement reinvigorate discussions of “Alternative 3,” a 1977 British television science fiction broadcast that cited secret joint US/Soviet visits to Mars in the early 1960s. President Obama’s White House responded to the second wave Mars Colony whistleblowers in 2012 via a limited hangout published to Wired in which then-National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor offered his denial of the president’s involvement.
Notable witnesses who claim personal knowledge of/experience in a secret United States military program on Mars include Andrew D. Basiago (now a political candidate running for president in 2020) and Laura Magdalene Eisenhower (great-granddaughter of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower). Their extensively detailed claims are the subject of both voluminous celebratory interviews and searing criticism appearing online as well as in terrestrial media.
Perhaps this newly-discovered leak concerning a secret military mission to Mars involving the United States Secretary of Defense provides an experiential link for audiences who can’t time travel and haven’t yet visited the red planet to directly evaluate the integrity of witness testimonies for themselves. Perhaps the citation of a “Mars mission” emerging from a retired general during yesterday’s confirmation will embolden further witnesses who can one day facilitate greater more experiential “show-me”-oriented disclosure in the interests of public education and transparent governance.
Suggestions of how the United States is preparing for real life star wars surrounded revelations of former extradition target Gary McKinnon, the Scottish sysadmin accused of perpetrating what was once described as “the biggest military computer hack of all time.” Said to be motivated in 2001 by the Disclosure Project, Gary McKinnon told the press how he secured unauthorized access to NASA, US military and Pentagon computers while searching for evidence of UFOs, antigravity technology, and the suppression of “free energy” over a two-year period.
The UK hacker still claims he found logs of troop transfers between non-seagoing warships (said to be a secret space fleet) and saw the screen image of a cigar-shaped UFO hosted on one of the computers during his incursions. A US attempt to extradite Gary McKinnon to face charges and potential lengthy overseas imprisonment was blocked by the British government in 2012 on grounds of human rights concerns.
The following is a partial transcript of United States Marine Corps General James N. Mattis’ remarks during yesterday’s senate defense secretary confirmation hearing held in Washington, D.C., preceded by the secret message encrypted backwards therein. Discussion of methods and philosophy guiding this practice can be found throughout this reporter’s previous related coverage discussed in links below.
Bring Mars mission:
“Sir, I would consider the principal threats, to start with, Russia. And it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or I would call it unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them. That sort of thing. And at the same time, as the chairman’s pointed out, we face now an era where we’re going to be fighting the terrorist threat. I mean, that’s simply a reality. We’re going to have to address that one.”
Vancouver, BC – Exclusive new video published to social media on January 13, 2017, purports retired United States Marine Corps General James N. Mattis appeared eager to direct a Mars military program during yesterday’s senate defense secretary confirmation hearing. When discussing threats to the United States, the prospective Trump cabinet member is shown to have uttered a mirror-encrypted message citing a “Mars mission.”
Scientists are now said to be awaiting news of the president-elect’s plans for NASA with looming changes to policy, budgets and diplomacy involving international space partners (including Russia). These changes are expected in an era when rights to privatized space research and exploration are being claimed by private corporations including SpaceX and Mars One.
According to the space agency, NASA is not a part of the Department of Defense or of any other Cabinet-level department. If confirmed as SecDef, James Mattis can look forwards to steering strictly military missions to their completion. Attempts to identify origins and meanings of the Mars mission message therefore shift to mythological and archetypal invocations to the Roman god of war. At further outreaches along the investigative continuum we recognize claims of a supposed US secret colony on Mars, a topic covered by Wired in 2012 and widely attested to in the alternative and Exopolitical press.
An entrenched “I-went-to-Mars” cottage-industry pop subculture claiming secret interplanetary missions involving time travel, President Barack Obama and members of the second Bush administration has dominated alternative media and Exopolitical discourse in recent years. The claims of this movement reinvigorate discussions of “Alternative 3,” a 1977 British television science fiction broadcast that cited secret joint US/Soviet visits to Mars in the early 1960s. President Obama’s White House responded to the second wave Mars Colony whistleblowers in 2012 via a limited hangout published to Wired in which then-National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor offered his denial of the president’s involvement.
Notable witnesses who claim personal knowledge of/experience in a secret United States military program on Mars include Andrew D. Basiago (now a political candidate running for president in 2020) and Laura Magdalene Eisenhower (great-granddaughter of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower). Their extensively detailed claims are the subject of both voluminous celebratory interviews and searing criticism appearing online as well as in terrestrial media.
Perhaps this newly-discovered leak concerning a secret military mission to Mars involving the United States Secretary of Defense provides an experiential link for audiences who can’t time travel and haven’t yet visited the red planet to directly evaluate the integrity of witness testimonies for themselves. Perhaps the citation of a “Mars mission” emerging from a retired general during yesterday’s confirmation will embolden further witnesses who can one day facilitate greater more experiential “show-me”-oriented disclosure in the interests of public education and transparent governance.
Suggestions of how the United States is preparing for real life star wars surrounded revelations of former extradition target Gary McKinnon, the Scottish sysadmin accused of perpetrating what was once described as “the biggest military computer hack of all time.” Said to be motivated in 2001 by the Disclosure Project, Gary McKinnon told the press how he secured unauthorized access to NASA, US military and Pentagon computers while searching for evidence of UFOs, antigravity technology, and the suppression of “free energy” over a two-year period.
The UK hacker still claims he found logs of troop transfers between non-seagoing warships (said to be a secret space fleet) and saw the screen image of a cigar-shaped UFO hosted on one of the computers during his incursions. A US attempt to extradite Gary McKinnon to face charges and potential lengthy overseas imprisonment was blocked by the British government in 2012 on grounds of human rights concerns.
The following is a partial transcript of United States Marine Corps General James N. Mattis’ remarks during yesterday’s senate defense secretary confirmation hearing held in Washington, D.C., preceded by the secret message encrypted backwards therein. Discussion of methods and philosophy guiding this practice can be found throughout this reporter’s previous related coverage discussed in links below.
Bring Mars mission:
“Sir, I would consider the principal threats, to start with, Russia. And it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or I would call it unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them. That sort of thing. And at the same time, as the chairman’s pointed out, we face now an era where we’re going to be fighting the terrorist threat. I mean, that’s simply a reality. We’re going to have to address that one.”
The extraordinary story of the entire class who claimed to have spotted a 40ft-long UFO in a field near their school 40 years ago… and how mystery still surrounds the sighting
The extraordinary story of the entire class who claimed to have spotted a 40ft-long UFO in a field near their school 40 years ago… and how mystery still surrounds the sighting
In 1977 a class in Broad Haven said they saw a UFO near their school playground
When asked to draw the craft the children produced near-identical pictures
The sighting helped make the seaside town in South Wales infamous for UFOs
Four decades later and the mystery still hasn't been completely solved
One of the pupils, David Davies, still clearly remembers what the craft he saw looked like.
He told the Mirror: 'It was pearlescent silver-grey, approximately 40ft-long, torpedo, cigar-shaped, with an upper domed section that covered the central third of the vehicle which was topped with red pulsating light.'
The craft was described as silver-grey, 40ft-long and topped with a 'red pulsating light'
The spookiest part of the story came when the headmaster decided he'd try to catch the children out.
He sat the classmates down, in exam conditions, and had them draw out the 'craft' they'd supposedly seen.
Remarkably, the drawings were near-identical.
For the 40th anniversary of the sighting UFO enthusiasts made a pilgrimage to Broad Haven.
Author Neil Spring (far left) and this Swansea UFO group remain determined to get to the bottom of the Broad Haven mystery
But the sightings weren't just limited to the schoolchildren, and the area around Broad Haven soon became known for its UFO activity.
Many suspected that the military might have been involved, as there were a number of high-security bases nearby.
Author Neil Spring recently attended a village meeting where they discussed new revelations that there had, in fact, been a military base nearby which could have been launching an experimental airplane.
However members of that original 1977 class still maintain they saw a UFO.
Neil Spring is the author of The Watchers (Quercus Books).
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Zimbabwe school mass UFO sighting – 62 children independently confirm saucer-shaped UFO and alien sighting
Zimbabwe school mass UFO sighting – 62 children independently confirm saucer-shaped UFO and alien sighting
62 Zimbabwe children witness something extraordinary
In what is widely considered to be one of the best “close encounter” cases in UFO history, on September 16, 1994, sixty-two children of various races and ethnic backgrounds witnessed an extraordinary spectacle on the playground of Ariel School in the small farming community of Ruwa, Zimbabwe. Students ranging in age from 5 to 12 years old, described (and drew) the same scenario – a fleet of alien UFOs, one of which touched down near their school playground, and two “small gray men with thin necks and huge eyes” who warned the children that humanity should take better care of their planet – or else. Researchers and psychologists, including a noted Harvard University psychiatrist professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, descended on the scene of the sighting and in the end, ruled that the event “seemed to be what it is”. The children had seen something they could not explain – and it terrified them.
Prelude – September 14, 1994 “meteor”
Two days before the Ariel School mass UFO sighting, on September 14, 1994, thousands of Zimbabweans had witnessed a UFO pass across the clear evening sky. In a culture with no widespread knowledge or media coverage of UFO sightings or alien encounters, many felt the object seen in the sky was a meteor or some sort of crashing space vehicle from the United States (despite the fact that some witnesses claimed to have watched the slow-moving light for 2-3 minutes while others claimed it descended and then changed course, levelling off to “follow the tree line”). One witness noted:
“This thing, whatever it was, was beautiful. It had a circular-shaped bright light as the leader, and behind it were tails of light in beautiful colors: green, orange, and yellow. It moved slowly and looked as if it was just above the house. The amazing thing is that it moved absolutely silently.”
Settling on a scientific explanation for their experience (a meteor), two days later, they would rethink what they saw.
The Zimbabwe Ariel School mass UFO sighting
Ariel School is a private elementary school located in Ruwa, about 20 kilometers from Harare, the capitol of Zimbabwe. At approximately 10:15 AM on the Friday morning of September 16, 1994, while teachers were attending a mandatory weekly teachers’ meeting inside the school, the children of Ariel School were sent outside to play on the school playground. One adult supervised the recess that morning, a physiotherapist (Mrs. Kirkman) who operated a small snack bar for the students, selling soft drinks and candies. A wide variety of students of mixed age and ethnic heritage – over 60 black, white, and Asian students – witnessed what happened next.
As the students frolicked noisily around the playground (it was a beautiful, clear morning), several children noticed three objects in the sky (some reported five) above the school. Described as round, silver, and saucer-shaped with lit portals around the perimeter, the objects seemed to move extraordinarily fast disappearing in the blink of an eye and reappearing in another place in the sky a moment later. Eventually, one of the objects landed on the ground about 100 meters from the children.
The object settled in a brushy, wooded area that was uncleared and ruled unsafe for the children to venture into (some children reported that it “hovered” inches above the ground). One of the researchers on the scene described the geography of the landing area.
“Beyond their playground, which was dotted with several clumps of trees, the rest being mostly cleared ground, there was a bush area. The ground there belonged to the school and although attempts had been made to clear and level it, it really was still rough land: loving grass with thorn and other indigenous bushes, trees growing in higgledy-piggledy fashion, and undergrowth thick and heavy enough to hide a child should he venture there.”
Soon, what the students described as a “small man” could be seen standing on top of the UFO. The occupant of the craft was described as being about one meter (3 ft.) tall, wearing a tight, shiny black and silver one-piece suit (“similar to a wetsuit”), with a slender neck and very large black eyes. Some described the entity as having long hair, a mane, or cape of some sort. It walked down the craft and proceeded in the direction of the children.
As the extraterrestrial entity approached the children, it paused and in an instant, disappeared. Almost at the same moment, another creature (or possibly the same) appeared behind the grounded UFO and then after a brief moment, once again disappeared. Within seconds, the craft lifted off and vanished into the sky above the school.
Many of the smaller children were terrified and began crying for help. The “little man” evoked memories of African legends they had heard about demons and ghosts who ate little children. Some of the children ran to Mrs. Kirkman, who was attending the snack bar, but she did not believe their story, and continued with her duties. A researcher documented the testimony of the first adult witness, the snack shop operator, Mrs. Kirkman.
“Mrs. Kirkman told me that when the children came running into the Tuckshop, talking excitedly about ‘a small man running around with a band around his head and a one-piece suit’, she was totally skeptical. [She later said that she thought the children were playing]”
Upon hearing the children’s story, Colin Mackie, the Headmaster, had the children return to the classroom and sketch what they had seen. By the time researchers arrived on the scene the following day, they had 35 various drawings waiting for them. All of the drawings were similar in their depiction of the UFO and its occupants, illustrating the same disc-shaped craft and small, bug-eyed alien entity.
One of the older girls described the entity she had seen as a creature with a “small nose and a mouth that was a small, straight line” adding that “the eyes were very big and slanting”. Another described the ET as “thin and skinny with a scrawny neck and eyes that were large and oval-shaped”.
Pointing out that the alien entity never spoke to them directly, a few of the older students noted that they had communicated with the craft’s occupants and were informed by the ET that we were destroying Earth by polluting it, and unless we changed our ways, there would be dire consequences.
“Those thoughts came from the man – the man’s eyes.”
Preconceived notions of aliens and UFOs were quickly ruled out – many of the children admitted to never having heard of “UFOs” before the event.
Noted UFO investigator and psychotherapist Cynthia Hind and Harvard psychiatric professor and Cambridge Hospital physician Dr. John E. Mack spent two days interviewing the parents, teachers, and children about their experience. Video of the interviews shows a group of very serious children calmly, and convincingly, explaining what they saw. One witness to the filming of the interviews noted:
“When they were interviewed by Mack, with all his professional skills, it was clear they were telling the truth — their voice, tone, their body language. They were so consistent, they told their stories with such conviction. And they spoke about it in their own language. One child recalled being told by the alien that we should not be so ‘techknowledged’ — why make up something like that?”
Dr. Mack analyzed the interviews and concluded that the children did not experience a mass delusion – what they had witnessed that day was real.
“[The children] experienced a very powerful encounter with these beings and we’re left with a rather disturbing fact that this seems to be what it is and it seems to have no other psychiatric explanation.”
Aftermath
Typically with children’s “tall tales”, experts point out that in almost all cases, the child will eventually admit to the lie. In 2010, the children, who were now adults, were again interviewed about their experience. Sixteen years after the event – not one of the 62 children recanted their story. Here are snippets of what the witnesses, who are now adults, said 16 years after the event.
“It was that face, that craft. It will never go out of my mind.”
“We [the witnesses] met up on many occasions after that and hugged and shook our heads and said ‘that was the most amazing experience of our lives’.”
“It was strange, it was exciting. You don’t see stuff like that every day. That was like a once in a lifetime experience.”
“We *know* we didn’t just make this up. Something definitely was happening. Whether it was UFOs or whether it was who know what else, we can’t say for sure one way or another but definitely there was something that happened there that day and it got the whole school riled up.”
“If there was one experience in my life that I’d like to relive, it would be that particular experience.”
One parent said of her child:
“He never stopped talking about it. He has *never* stopped talking about it. And he has believed all this time that it did happen.”
A teacher professed that she believed the childrens’ story and was convinced that they had witnessed something extraordinary.
“I don’t believe for a minute you could get that many kids to agree to do something like that. I really don’t. I know children well enough, I just don’t think that could happen, so I’m absolutely sure that something did happen there that day.”
Six years after the incident, UFO investigator Cynthia Hind died after a short battle with cancer.
Shortly after the event, Dr. Mack, a tenured professor, was censured by Harvard University. According to BBC, it was the first time in history that a tenured Harvard professor, who was not suspected of ethics violations or professional misconduct, was subjected to such an investigation. He was later cleared and given Harvard’s blessing to continue his research. A few years later, Mack was struck by a “drunk driver” during a visit to London. He died on the scene.
Additional information
Progress of documentary
The South African newspaper The Witness reports on the progress of the John E. Mack Institute’s documentary about the Ariel School Sighting.
April 16, 2008
American film maker Randall Nickerson is currently visiting southern Africa to make a documentary that follows up an incident that happened at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, in 1994, when 62 children aged between eight and 12 reported seeing a UFO and “strange beings” during their morning break.
Those children are now young adults scattered around the globe. Nickerson is tracking them down and interviewing them about the experience. “Their stories have not changed at all,” he says. “Not what you would expect if they had made it all up.”
So what exactly happened on that day in 1994 at the school in Ruwa just east of Harare? “It was morning break and they were out in the school yard playing,” says Nickerson. “They saw one main silver craft that had four others around it,” says Nickerson. “It came down on a hill beyond the school yard that was out of bounds. The boundary was the edge of the school yard, then it was bush and the hill.
“They ran to the edge of the school yard to see what this thing was. They saw this small creature walk around on top of the craft while another came down to check out the children. He was all in black, with a very tight suit. The children said he had big eyes ‘like rugby balls’.
The children had direct eye contact with this creature. There seems to have been some kind of communication with the children about the state of the world — what we are doing to the planet, the destruction we are causing, although not all the children got this message. Some of the children were traumatized, others were excited. The young children were the most traumatized as they were at the front of the group.
“They all went screaming back to the teachers. The teachers didn’t believe them at first. But then they went home and told their parents who came to the school and wanted to know what had happened.”
Soon afterwards the children were asked to draw pictures of what they had seen. “They did this separately. The drawings were all the same.”
A BBC television crew were first on the scene to follow it up. In November 1994, Harvard professor of psychiatry John E. Mack visited the school and filmed interviews with the children. He was assisted by South African producer Nicky Carter who had already made a short documentary on the subject for the SABC. “I had a half-brother at the school,” she says. “He was off sick on the day it happened, but the children told him all about it and he contacted me.”
Carter has no doubt the children were telling the truth. “When they were interviewed by Mack with all his professional skills it was clear they were telling the truth — their voice tone, their body language. They were so consistent, they told their stories with such conviction. And they spoke about it in their own language. One child recalled being told by the alien that we should not be so ‘techknowledged’ — why make up something like that?”
Mack, a Pulitzer prize winner for his biography of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) titled A Prince of Our Disorder, was a highly respected psychiatrist. However, when he began researching the phenomenon of reported alien abductions, his fellow academics looked askance. In 1994, when his book Abduction appeared, a committee was appointed to review Mack’s clinical care and investigation of the people who had shared their alien encounters with him. According to the BBC, “It was the first time in Harvard’s history that a tenured professor was subjected to such an investigation.”
After 14 months of inquiry, Harvard issued a statement stating that the dean had “reaffirmed Dr. Mack’s academic freedom to study what he wishes and to state his opinions without impediment”.
In 2004, Mack was killed by a drunk driver while he was visiting London to lecture at a T. E. Lawrence conference.
Mack was guarded in his interpretation of the abduction phenomenon. To one interviewer who said that Mack seemed “inclined to take these [abduction] reports at face value”, Mack replied saying: “Face value I wouldn’t say. I take them seriously. I don’t have a way to account for them.”
In a BBC interview he said: “I would never say, yes, there are aliens taking people. [But] I would say there is a compelling powerful phenomenon here that I can’t account for in any other way. Yet I can’t know what it is but it seems to me that it invites a deeper, further inquiry.”
Nickerson sees himself as taking that inquiry further after being commissioned by the John E. Mack Institute, along with producer Dominique Callimanopulos, to make a documentary incorporating the interview footage shot in 1994 with follow-up material shot in the present.
“I want to present the story objectively,” says Nickerson. “To show the original raw material. That’s what initially interested me about this case. These children all describing seeing the same thing. You can tell they are not lying. But having seen this footage I thought: I need to go to this place, to talk to people, I need to investigate it for myself. Did this really happen?
“The subject has to be approached as scientifically as possible,” he says. “There are questions that we need to ask. It’s a case of presenting the evidence just like court.”
Despite this rigorous approach, isn’t there a danger he will simply encounter those on the “lunatic fringe”? “I have found those are the people who have all the answers, but people to whom something like this has really happened don’t. They have millions of questions. There is a humility about them, they realize it’s not about them.
At the beginning of the project Nickerson set about contacting those people who had been among the 62 children who had witnessed the sighting. They are mainly students in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Britain.
Tracking them down hasn’t been that difficult. “They are contacting us because of what we put up on the John E. Mack Institute website. What is interesting is that their stories remain the same as in 1994.
“They were affected profoundly,” says Nickerson. “At the time one girl was told by her parents not to talk about it, that she had imagined it all. But then she found other people’s stories on the Internet. She got in touch with them and realized ‘Oh my God, that was real’.
Others I’ve met never doubted it. They say the experience opened up new horizons for them.”
Nickerson cites two students who are now studying in the U.S. “Their father said they would never have done that, but after their experience the children were totally changed, that’s what convinced him that something really happened.”
Nickerson’s first stop during his visit to southern Africa was Ariel School. “I interviewed teachers and workers who were there at the time.” He also came across people from two different schools in the area who had similar sightings on the same day.
Nickerson is now in South Africa trying to track down those living here who were witnesses on that day. He will be here until the end of April following up leads resulting from two radio interviews he has given.
Article from The Cape Times regarding the documentary
August 26, 2008
UFO sighting in Zimbabwe
By Tom Powell
American film-maker Randall Nickerson is in Cape Town this week seeking inspiration for a documentary he is putting together about a UFO sighting in Zimbabwe in 1994.During morning break on September 14 of that year, 62 schoolchildren between the ages of eight and 12 saw a strange craft land 150 metres from the Ariel School in Ruwa, from which two small beings emerged which were described as having “big eyes like rugby balls”.The children’s individual descriptions of the phenomenon were so similar that news of the sighting spread around the globe. Nickerson was approached with footage taken by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Professor John Mack, who travelled to Zimbabwe to interview the children after the event.
Nickerson said: “This is a story the world needs to see. Personally, I think it’s moving. I’ve found hundreds, if not thousands, of people who believe it and couldn’t find anyone who didn’t. It blew my mind when I saw it.” Although Nickerson admits the footage of the event makes it difficult to disprove the phenomenon, he doesn’t want his film to be biased. “I don’t want to steer the documentary in any direction at all. I’d rather present all the evidence and let people make up their own minds.”Refusing to believe so many people can be mistaken, Nickerson is visiting southern Africa to shed light on those events.Having visited the school itself, Nickerson is now in Cape Town to track down some witnesses and investigate some “unearthly” sightings that occurred in South Africa, including two UFO sightings in Port Shepstone and Johannesburg in April. Anyone who saw the event in Zimbabwe can contact Nickerson on 082 815 4731 or by e-mail at rsnick@gmail.comtom.powell@inl.co.za.
Original AFRINEWS report about the incident
Cynthia Hind, UFO AFRINEWS 1994
The Children of Ariel School – Case No. #96. Ruwa, Zimbabwe
UFO AFRINEWS 1994
On Friday 16th September, at approximately 10:15, 62 children from Ariel School, a private primary school in Ruwa (about 20 km from Harare) were in their playing field for the mid-morning break. Suddenly, they saw three silver balls in the sky over the school. These disappeared with a flash of light and then reappeared elsewhere. This happened three times and then they started to move down towards the school with one of them landing (or hovering) over a section of rough ground made up of trees, thorn bushes, and some brown-grey cut grass with bamboo shoots sticking up out of the ground. The children are not allowed in this area although it is adjacent to their playing field and is not fenced off, because of snakes, spiders and perhaps other harmful creatures. One can soon disappear from view while walking here, and there is only one very rough track used by tractors in an attempt to clear this area.
There is a line of electricity pylons and according to one boy, the object followed along this line prior to landing. There is also some controversy as to whether the object _landed_ on the ground or hovered above it. On Tuesday, 20th September, I went out to the school with a BBC reporter and their television equipment, as well as my son and Gunter Hofer, a young man who builds his own electrical equipment, viz, a Geiger counter, a metal detector and a magnetometer, to try and see if the object left any traces behind.
The headmaster of the school is Mr. Colin Mackie, who was most co-operative, and although he had never been involved with UFOs or a believer in them, said that he believed the children had seen what they said they saw.
I was able to interview about 10 or 12 older children and this was recorded for BBC television.
One eyewitness, Barry D., said he had seen three objects flying over, with flashing red lights. They disappeared, and reappeared almost immediately, but somewhere else. This happened about three times. Then they came and landed near some gum trees; Barry said the main one (object) was about the size of his thumb nail held at arm’s length. The reports were similar although some children were more observant than others. The consensus of opinion was that an object came down in the area where they indicated, about 100 metres from where they were at the edge of the school playing field. Then a small man (approx 1 metre in height) appeared on top of the object. He walked a little way across the rough ground, became aware of the children and disappeared. He, or someone very like him, then reappeared at the back of the object. The object took off very rapidly and disappeared. The little man was dressed in a tight-fitting black suit which was ‘shiny’ according to one observant girl (11 years of age). He had a long scrawny neck and huge eyes like rugby balls. He had a pale face with long black hair coming below his shoulders.
I had suggested to Mr. Mackie prior to visiting the school and before the children had been interviewed, that he let the children draw what they had seen and he now has about 30-40 drawings, some of which are very explicit and clear, although some are rather vague. The children’s’ ages vary from 5/6 to 12 years. I have 22 photocopies of the clearer drawings as Mr. Mackie kindly allowed me to page through the pictures and choose those I wanted. Most of the descriptions are similar but some of the craft are very obviously ‘flying saucers’, and I wonder how many of these children have had access to the media. Others are crude but more or less in this saucer shape.
The children vary in cultures: there are black, white, coloured and Asian children. One little girl said to me, ‘I swear by every hair on my head and the whole Bible that I am telling the truth.’ I could see the pleasure on her face when I told her that I believed her. The smaller children from 5-7 years were very frightened at the time and ran shouting ‘Help me, help me.’ When the older children asked why they were saying this, the reply was, ‘He is coming to eat us.’ I should think this applied more to the black African children who have legends of _tokoloshies_ eating children.
Their teachers were in a meeting and did not come out. When I queried the headmaster about this he said the children always shouted and yelled during their playtime and no-one thought there was anything unusual going on. The only other adult available at the time was one of the mothers who was running the tuckshop. When the children came to call her, she did not believe them and would not come out: she was not prepared to leave the tuckshop with all the food and money. Gunter and the men thoroughly examined the ground around where the children had seen the object, but could get no reaction on the geiger counter or any other equipment. If the object was hovering perhaps nothing would show.
I walked, on my own, along the electricity pylons for quite a away, caught up in thorn bushes, trampling blithely over snake holes and discarding all caution. I found no place where some object could have landed and pressed down the foliage. In fact, I should think the bamboo stumps would have been a deterrent. The day was hot, around 33 C (91F)…
Dr John Mack was visiting Zimbabwe at the time of the event, and he spent two days at Ariel School with the children. He also spoke to the Headmaster, Colin Mackie, the teachers and some of the parents. John and his fellow researcher, Dominique Callimanopulos, were able to get through to the parents and teachers and convince them that even if they did not believe the children, it was counter-productive to accuse them of lying. Listen and think about what they were saying, he advised. His particular interest in child psychiatry was also of great use during the questioning and many former hidden memories came to light, something John is sure to make public when he has had a chance to reassess his interviewing.(sic)
There is a lot more to this incident than has been uncovered now and we will report further in UFO AFRINEWS No. 12.
Sources: UFO AFRINEWS Nov 1994, Feb 1995, About.com, John Mack Institute, RANDI, Wikipedia, Reddit, Educating Humanity, Unexplained Mysteries, YouTube interviews of children
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UFO Seen Landed On Side Of Road In Small Town In Kansas, Feb 2, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen Landed On Side Of Road In Small Town In Kansas, Feb 2, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:Feb 2, 2017 Location of sighting: Pittsburg, Kansas, USA Source: MUFON #82017 Here is an interesting report that also seems to have something to do with the UFO on a semi trailer being transported at midnight to Area 51. This person saw a disk on the side of the road with legs on it. It may be possible that this disk was retrieved by the USAF and taken to the top secret Air Force Base. Sadly we don't have better photos of the the disk. I believe the person taking the photos was either embarrassed to be seen taking photos or was feeling frightened by it. This was along the road in Pittsburg, Kansas last week and does look the same size as the UFO disk being transported on trailer. Click here to view last weeks report videos. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
On feb 2, 2017, i was heading east bound on highway 400 in pittsburg, ks. As i was going around the corner, i noticed on my left, parked on side road running parralel to highway 400, what appeared to be a ufo being transported on back of flatbed of semi. To the left of the parked semi, was a highway patrolman parked right next to semi facing highway 400. Around the object, on the ground were orange cones as if it was a construction site. I then turned around and headed west bound to get anotger view just to see if what i thought i seen was true. It appeared to be perfect disc shape and appeared to be so big in size that it was hanging on side of flatbed. I then turned around once again heading east bound again but this time took pictures. This was approximately at 1130 hours cst. I then went to work trying to process what i had just seen. At approximately 2200 hours, i came back the same way to see if the objectbwas still there. It was, however this time it is dark and tge semi lights were on as if they were about to leave.
Also, now there are 2 highway patrolman and there was also a bright flashing light right on side of the object. To someone who has not seen this in daytime, will not be able to see at night because the light was so bright, it made it impossible to see the object at night as if they were hiding something. I started to investigate what i seen and there has been only 2 other reports of this incident. 1 report is supposedly a video from a year ago. Since there were only one legit reporting, they are saying this could be a hoax. It is not. I seen it. Which is why i am sending this. I would like to please know more about this incident if any other reports were made. Attached photos will include 4 photos taken heading eastbound. All photos are sent as they were taken. You will need to zoom in.
Robo-Bees Could Aid Insects with Pollination Duties
Robo-Bees Could Aid Insects with Pollination Duties
By Edd Gent, Live Science Contributor
Mini drones sporting horsehair coated in a sticky gel could one day take the pressure off beleaguered bee populations by transporting pollen from plant to plant, researchers said.
Roughly three-quarters of the world’s flowering plants and about 35 percent of the world's food crops depend on animals to pollinate them, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Now, researchers from Japan said they've taken the first steps toward creating robots that could help pick up the slack from insect pollinators. The scientists created a sticky gel that lets a $100 matchbox-size drone pick up pollen from one flower and deposit it onto another to help the plants reproduce.
"This is a proof of concept — there's nothing compared to this. It's a totally first-time demonstration," said study leader Eijiro Miyako, a chemist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science in Tsukuba, Japan. "Some robots are expected to be used for experiments in pollination, but no one has tried yet."
A happy accident
The key innovation of the new study, published today (Feb. 9) in the journal Chem, is the so-called ionic liquid gel, but according to Miyako it was more down to luck than design. The gel was actually the result of a failed attempt to create electrically conducting liquids and had sat forgotten in a desk drawer for nearly a decade.
But after eight years, it still hadn't dried out, which most other gels would have done, and was still very sticky, Miyako said. Fortunately, this discovery coincided with Miyako watching a documentary that detailed concerns about insect pollinators.
"I actually dropped the gel on the floor and I noticed it absorbed a lot of dust, and everything linked together in my mind," he told Live Science.
The gel has just the right stickiness, meaning it can pick up pollen but is not so adhesive that it won't let the grains go.
The scientists next tested how effectively the gel could be used to transport pollen among flowers. To do so, the researchers put droplets of the material on the back of ants and left the insects overnight in a box full of tulips. The next day, the scientists found that the ants with the gel had picked up far more pollen grains than those insects that lacked the sticky substance.
In a side experiment, the researchers found that it was possible to integrate photochromic compounds, which change color when exposed to UV or white light, into the gel. Scientists stuck this material onto living flies, giving the bugs color-changing capabilities. This, Miyako said, could ultimately act as some kind of adaptive camouflage to protect pollinators from predators.
Real solutions?
But while improving the ability of other insects to pollinate flowers is a potential solution to falling bee numbers, Miyako said he was not convinced, and so began to look elsewhere. "It's very difficult using living organisms for real practical realizations, so I decided to change my approach and use robots," he said.
The hairs that make insects like bees fuzzy are important for their role as pollinators, because the hairs increase the surface area of the bees' bodies, giving pollen more material to stick to. In order to give the smooth, plastic drone similar capabilities, the scientists added a patch of horsehair to the robot's underside, which was then coated with the gel.
The researchers then flew the drones to collect pollen from the flowers of Japanese lilies and transport this pollen to other flowers. In each experiment, the researchers made 100 attempts at pollinating the flower, achieving an overall success rate of 37 percent. Drones without the patch of hair, or with uncoated hair, failed to pollinate the plants.
Miyako said there are currently limitations to the technology, because it is difficult to manually pilot the drone. However, he added that he thinks GPS and artificial intelligence could one day be used to automatically guide robotic pollinators.
Before these robo-bees become a reality, though, the cost of the drone will have to come down drastically and it's 3-minute battery life will need to improve significantly, Miyako said. But he added that he is confident this will happen eventually.
Dave Goulson, a professor at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, said he sees the intellectual interest in trying to create robot bees, but he's skeptical about how practical they are and worries about distracting from more vital pollinator conservation work.Goulson specializes in the conservation of bumblebees but was not involved with the new research.
In a blog post, he wrote that there are roughly 3.2 trillion bees on the planet. Even if the robo-bees cost 1 cent per unit and lasted a year, which he said is a highly optimistic estimate, it would cost $32 billion a year to maintain the population and would litter the countryside with tiny robots.
"Real bees avoid all of these issues; they are self-replicating, self-powering and essentially carbon-neutral," Goulson wrote in the post. "We have wonderfully efficient pollinators already. Let's look after them, not plan for their demise."
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A mysterious object will pass near Earth in 2017.
A mysterious object will pass near Earth in 2017.
A mysterious object will pass near Earth in 2017. Scientists are baffled about its origin!
This mysterious object is known as 1991 VG and it was first spotted in November 1991 by astronomer James Scotti at the University of Arizona. Today, many conspiracy theorists think that this is a genuine “alien probe”, which is deliberately set to fly near Earth in 2017.
The object has confused astronomers ever since it was first spotted, mainly because of its strange rotation and longevity in space. Some people think that this is a section of the Apollo 12 rocket, but according to Scotti it is probably something else:
An artistic depiction of what the “alien probe” may look like. “We looked into all the possibilities for it being man-made. There were a few possible spacecraft and rocket bodies that might be 1991 VG. But, when we looked into each, we were able to eliminate each of them
According to other people, the strange object may also be a secret Soviet rocket from the Space Race era. It is a fact that the Soviets had equally powerful rockets as the American ones and it is quite possible that they launched one to get to the moon and covered it up if things went badly.
This is the orbit of VG 1991. Scotti realised that this object had passed Earth one more time in March 1975.
When 1991 VG was first spotted, it was around 10 metres in diameter, passing 280,000 miles from Earth – around 50,000 miles further than the Earth and the moon. The object showed a rapid rate of rotation and its brightness fluctuated. At that time, this kind of behaviour was not observed at any asteroid of similar size. The object’s orbit was also similar to Earth’s orbit.
After gathering more information about 1991 VG, Scotti realised that this object had passed Earth one more time in March 1975. Again this is something that is not characteristic for an asteroid. They don’t tend to pass twice in the same spot
Duncan Steel, an astronomer at University of Adelaide, suggested it might be an “alien probe observed in the vicinity of our planet.” He only mentioned this theory in order to disprove it. In further interviews, he has stated that he isn’t convinced that VG 1991 is of extraterrestrial origin.
This hasn’t stopped conspiracy theorists from continuing to spread the idea of an extraterrestrial origin of the object. They still keep citing Steele’s work as their main source.
Nostradamus is quoted as saying mankind would discover a machine in space that was sent to us by the WATCHERS! in 2017!
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UFO – corpuscular boat: Unique video filmed in Bulgaria.
UFO – corpuscular boat: Unique video filmed in Bulgaria.
Corpuscular ship is constructed in detail in accordance with the law of God in the form of light energy. Light corpuscular ship is therefore better as a spiritual power manifested corpuscular ships. The ship can move faster than light. When the object moves faster than light, disappearing from sight. Goes into another dimension.
The human eye sees everything that is inside of the light spectrum. When I mention the light spectrum and hit the light spectrum of the sun. With increased intensity of light would blind man. His senses would not notice a higher form of vibration. It can not therefore see the world resulting on a different frequency, although located around beside him. Corpuscular ship can move at high speed. It is therefore invisible to the human eye. By increasing the energy of the corpuscular vessel there is an increase of its speed. If it goes into the vessel by its frequency, it means that moves slower than the maximum speed. This makes it the human eye sees. It manifests itself in the form of light. Reducing the speed to changing light and the human eye, the ship must appear as a solid object. If the moving ship and if it stays on the molecular level, the maximum rate will remain invisible to the human eye.
That they are explained in words that corpuscular ship may be the front door of your house and you will not see it. The ship can come to a man secretly. People of it may remain hidden from man. The people of the corpuscular vessels reduces its frequency to a protein molecule in the cell become visible to the human eye. They therefore come secretly and suddenly appear before you in the form of light and energy. At that moment comes the light source, the energy in the form of spirit. You will be influenced by your spirit will be affected the most energy, which manifested itself around you and you will be allowed contact with corpuscular ships. In contact with them you should not worry. Believe me, it’s something natural. There is nothing mysterious. Only one who manifests the spirit of mentally able to take this energy will be able to experience the transition from one age to another.
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The Search for Life
The Search for Life
Published on Feb 11, 2017
Are we alone in the universe? This is a fundamental question that intrigues us all.
On September 21, 2016, NASA scientists and stakeholders came together at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for a presentation on the agency’s search for life beyond Earth.
“The Search for Life” featured presentations from some of NASA’s leading scientists, including the late former astronaut, Dr. Piers Sellers. Through compelling visualizations, “The Search for Life” takes you on a journey through the solar system and beyond, exploring the possibility of life existing on Mars, the solar system’s outer moons, and exoplanets.
Keynote speakers include: · John P. Holdren, assistant to the president for science and technology, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; · Gavin A. Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and principal investigator for the GISS ModelE Earth System Model; · Jen Eigenbrode, research astrobiologist in the Goddard Planetary Environments Laboratory; · Aki Roberge, research astrophysicist in the Goddard Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory; and · Piers Sellers, deputy director of the Goddard Sciences and Exploration Directorate.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Swarupa Nune
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at:
UFOs Seen Over USAF Missile And Nuclear Facilities
UFOs Seen Over USAF Missile And Nuclear Facilities
George A. Filer
majorstar@aol.com
Director, Mutual UFO Network
Eastern MUFON Skywatch Investigations
Filer's Files #17 SPECIAL REPORT 4-25-2
The Disclosure Project reports that several military and intelligence witnesses who were members of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and other nuclear specialists have come forward with testimony proving that UFOs are real and appear to be concerned about our nuclear weapons. The Project has obtained the firsthand testimony of several such insiders whose documents and corroborating testimony proves that UFOs have monitored sensitive nuclear facilities since at least the 1950s. While the UFOs were not hostile, it was made clear that they were very concerned about human weapons of mass destruction. On one occasion, UFOs over a SAC Nuclear launch area took more than a dozen intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) off line.
Lt. Colonel Dwynne Arneson: US Air Force,.ret. states,:
"I was the top-secret control officer at Malmstom AFB for the 20th Air Division. I happened to see a message that came through my communications center. It said...that 'A UFO was seen near missile silos'...and it was hovering. It said that the crew going on duty and the crew coming off duty all saw the UFO just hovering in midair. It was a metallic circular object and from what I understand, the missiles were all shut down. What I mean by 'missiles going down' is that they went dead. And something turned those missiles off, so they couldn't be put back in a mode for launching."
Captain Robert Salas: SAC Missile Launch Officer [1964-1971]:
"The UFO incident happened on the morning of March 16, 1967, at Oscar Flight one of five launch control facilities assigned to the 490th Strategic Missile Squadron. I received a call from my topside security guard...and he said that he and some of the guards had been observing some strange lights flying around the site and the launch control facility. I said, you mean UFO? He said, well, he didn't know what they were but they were lights and were flying around. They were not airplanes; they were not helicopters, they weren't making any noise... [A little later] our missiles started shutting down one by one. By shutting down, I mean they went into a "no-go" condition meaning they could not be launched. These weapons were Minuteman One missiles and were of course nuclear-tipped warhead missiles...this incident was of extreme concern to SAC headquarters because they couldn't explain it."
Colonel Ross Dedrickson:US Air Force/Atomic Energy Commission, ret.): "
After retiring from the Air Force I joined the Boeing company and was responsible for accounting for all of the nuclear fleet of Minuteman missiles. In this incident they actually photographed the UFO following the missile as it climbed into space and, shining a beam on it, neutralized the missile. I also learned of a number of incidents such as a couple of nuclear weapons sent into space were destroyed by the extraterrestrials. Our government sent a nuclear weapon for explosion on the moon's surface...[And] the ETs destroyed the weapon as it went toward the moon. [Apparently] the idea of any explosion in space by any Earth government was not acceptable to the extraterrestrials, and that has been demonstrated over and over."
Professor Robert Jacobs: Lt. USAF 1369th Photo Squadron:
"...we were testing ballistic missiles that were to deliver nuclear weapons on target...my duty [was] to supervise the instrumentation photography of every missile that went down in that western test range...and into the frame came something else. It flew into the frame and shot a beam of light at the warhead. Now, remember, all this stuff was flying at several thousand miles an hour, so this thing fires a beam of light at the warhead, hits it, The warhead tumbles out of space. The object, the points of light that we saw, the warhead and so forth, were traveling through subspace about sixty miles straight up, and they were going somewhere in the neighborhood of eleven to fourteen thousand miles an hour, when this thing caught up to them, flew in, flew around them, and flew back out."
Mr. Harland Bentley:
"I have been in a graduate program for nuclear engineeringand have been working contracts since 1963: NASA, Department of Energy, and several other electronics firms in the DC area. I was at a facility in California.doing classified workwhich I can't say too much about..Our astronauts were doing a loop around the moon in 1967 or 1968I heard them say they had a bogey [term used to denote UFOs]it was another type of ship. There were portals that they could see into. They could see beings of some sort. They did not describe these beings, they just took photographs. They just said it was a saucer shaped craft. Then they said, 'There they go,' and they [the bogey] went out of sight almost immediately."
The Disclosure Project, a nonprofit research and public interest group, has identified hundreds of military, intelligence, government and corporate witnesses. See: http://www.DisclosureProject.org.
Editors Notes: I have met or talked to many of the witnesses who have impressive UFO knowledge that they obtained while working for the government. Very few UFO investigators have the first hand knowledge these witnesses possess.
Is there anybody or anything out there? It's long been a question that has puzzled and perplexed people, and suspected UFO sightings add to the mystery and the debate as to whether aliens exist.
There have been a number of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in Derbyshire over recent years which have left residents wondering if we really have been visited by extra-terrestrial beings. Here, we take a look back at all of the reported sightings in recent years, including a bright blue phenomenon in Swadlincote.
What was the big blue flash in the skies over Swadlincote?
Some reported issues such as power outages following the dazzling flash on August 25, 2016, and speculation began as to what the cause of the flash was. There were also suggestions that it could be aliens, others predicted it was a UFO, while there was even speculation of a zombie apocalypse – as well as a more simple explanation such as it being a bolt of lightning.
Andrew Dickson of AND Photography has sent in footage of the blue flash captured on his dash cam. The flash can be seen in the distance, clearly lighting up the sky. Mr Dickson said: "I wondered what on earth it was, as it certainly didn't seem like normal lightening."
Flashing lights over Bretby and Newhall
Could this have been visitors from another world? Credit: Sasha Hall
One reader videoed what she thought was a UFO flying over South Derbyshire in June 2015. Sasha Hall spotted these flashing lights in the sky while out and about between Bretby and Newhall.
Ernest Redfern, 85, took this picture from his back garden on The Green in Allestree, while trying to capture a rainbow on the horizon.
His sighting sparked a kerfuffle among paranormal fans last February. He got in touch with out sister paper the Derby Telegraph hoping that readers could explain his strange sighting in the sky, which he captured by accident with his camera.
Was there a big flash in the Derbyshire skies?
Reports of an explosion and a large flash in the skies above Derbyshire sparked debate on social media in April 2015. Social media was abuzz with reports of an "orange flash" followed by a "bang" at around 10pm at night. It later emerged that they were due to a fire at a defence company that makes explosives and pyrotechnics.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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