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In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
20-02-2017
CIA UFO Files: The Horrific Revenge of the Extraterrestrial – Siberia Incident
CIA UFO Files: The Horrific Revenge of the Extraterrestrial – Siberia Incident
The UFO attack on a military unit in Siberia where 23 Russian soldiers lost their lives. The CIA describes this event as a “horrific picture of revenge on the part of extraterrestrial creatures, a picture that makes one’s blood freeze”.
The snow has been incredible at the Winter Park Ski Area in Colorado with 216 inches on the year, which could be probably the reason why Director of Public Relations Steve Hurlbert is wearing a shiny, aluminum foil hat.
Hurlbert said that they know from their research that aliens love snow very much.
Snow-loving aliens could be the reason some claim a spaceship was observed on Winter Park webcam flying above the ski area in November of last year.
Alien visitation with an excellent snow is a fantastic combination in the Winter Park. Hurlbert said that someone who monitors their cloud seeding had seen on the webcam a black dot that interestingly looks like an alien spaceship.
The black dot is reportedly not a plane or helicopter, but there are some who think it maybe some dirt or perhaps a spaceship.
According to some conspiracy theorists, it could be a craft from or to a secret alien base. It is being reported that the Winter Park area is the home of an alien base and this would not be a surprise for Hurlbert since the area has been known for years of being an excellent destination for second home owners.
The reported UFO has not been reported again, and Hurlbert is yet to see one of the alien ships himself in the Winter Park, but in case he sees one, he is always prepared with his ET mind control prevention aluminum hat.
Area 51 is a popular but not-so-affectionate moniker used to denote a remote Edwards Air Force Base detachment located in the Nevada Test and Training Range. More specifically, Area 51 lies inside Nevada's southernmost region, about 83 miles north-northwest of Las Vegas. A large military field is also located in its center near Groom Lake's southern edges. First acquired by the U.S. Air Force in 1955, the site's then stated main purpose was to serve as a testing facility for Lockheed U-2 aircraft. All this information was revealed in CIAdocuments that were declassified in 2013.
Area 51 true purposes are top-secret
Although the U.S. Armed Forces contend that Area 51's primary on-site activities and functions are classified, certain historical data reportedly suggest its most probable use as an experimental aircraft and weapons development and testing facility. Interestingly enough, the U.S. government has never declared it a secret base, but does classify all Area 51 events and research as Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information.
Regardless of what's really going on in Area 51, its intensely secretive aura has sparked widespread conspiracy theories and made the base an integral feature of UFO folklore. Quite fittingly, areas in the immediate vicinity with very close proximity to Area 51 are collectively known as "Extraterrestrial Highway." A nearby town named Rachel is also reportedly a popular tourist attraction for precisely the same reason.
Area 51's entire border is plastered with conspicuously posted signs designed to warn the public that, "photography is prohibited," and the "use of deadly force is authorized," pursuant to 1950 McCarran Internal Security Act provisions. Likewise, all surrounding areas near Groom Lake are officially deemed as permanently off-limits to civilian and regular military aircraft. Personnel security clearances are frequently verified and even military pilot trainees at nearby NAFR face swift, severe discipline if they stray so much as a fractional millimeter into an "exclusionary box" around Groom Lake's airspace.
Furthermore, declassified government documents pertaining to the Nevada Test Site or Groom operations must be redacted to remove all references to Area 51. The sole known departure from this long-standing official practice was a Memorandum issued in 1967 by then CIA Director Richard Helms that mentioned "Three OXCART aircraft and ... necessary task force personnel will be [dispatched] to Kadena from Area 51." That verbiage was apparently overlooked by redacting editor(s).
Following nearly a full decade of persistent requests for disclosure pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by George Washington University National Security Archives Director Jeffrey Richelson, the CIA finally released an official history of OXCART and U-2 projects. That "simple" act was a historical event by itself, as it was the first official CIA acknowledgement that Area 51 even existed.
Area 51 inculcation into environmental litigation
Five private civilian contractors and two deceased contractors' widows filed suit against the U.S. Air Force and Environmental Protection Agency in 1994. Plaintiffs' legal counsel was George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, who claimed that his clients or their late spouses were present during the burning of a very large volume of unidentified chemicals in open pits on Groom.
Besides monetary compensation for serious bodily injuries like severe liver, skin and respiratory damage, plaintiffs demanded full disclosure of details about specific toxins to which they were allegedly exposed. However, government agency defendants refused to comply for various reasons that were reportedly stated so vaguely as to self-prove nothing more than thinly-veiled evasive tactics to conceal egregious negligence. Such blatant official disregard for the law sparked widespread theories of governmental conspiracies with much greater far-reaching implications than legal issues subsumed in the instant litigation.
One widely cited prominent example was a live interview televised by 60 Minutes, during which Congressman and former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Lee H. Hamilton publicly accused the U.S. Air Force for "classifying all [data] about Area 51 ... to protect [itself] from a lawsuit."
When the presiding federal judge rejected a government petition to exempt requested documents from mandatory FOIA disclosure, U.S. President Bill Clinton issued a Presidential Determination. That executive proclamation had the practical effect of exempting all requested documents from legally compelled disclosure. Consequently, the same federal judge who initially denied a government request to exempt relevant documents from forced disclosure was himself forced to dismiss the lawsuit for lack of legally competent supporting evidence.
Turley appealed to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Appeals Court on grounds of governmental abuse of vested power to classify information. Then incumbent Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Sheila Widnall filed an opposing legal memorandum that argued against mandatory disclosure on grounds that it could jeopardize the scope or nature of military operations. Ninth Circuit Court judges rejected Turley's appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari, thereby leaving plaintiffs with no legal recourse to pursue recovery for alleged damages.
In 2005, an Air Force website published a non-classified official memo with details about safe handling procedures for the same materials that plaintiffs previously requested but the government denied on grounds that it was classified. Soon after investigative journalists discovered it, the very damaging post suddenly disappeared.
Final remarks about Area 51
Based on above-reported findings, this author remains undecided as to whether Area 51 is legitimately classified or merely provides the feds with a convenient deeply shrouded "safe haven" for dirty secrets. In either case, one fact is certain. Human nature has long proven to spend at least ten times more thought on mysteries than known facts. Given that immutable timeless truth, the U.S. government might be best advised to jettison all cloak-and-dagger secrecy and just let whatever chips may fall simply land wherever they may. This recommendation stems from a second well-known reality that mere appearances can be far worse than case-specific factual circumstances that reside just beneath shallow surfaces.
On the other hand, public officials with sole discretion and exclusive possession of data with potentially vital import to public interests have strong disincentive to disclose information that may expose their own malfeasance. Hence, each reader must reach their own conclusions by using their own best judgment of all relevant facts reported.
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NASA DISCOVERED PROOF OF PORTALS OPENING UP ALL AROUND EARTH'S ORBIT
NASA DISCOVERED PROOF OF PORTALS OPENING UP ALL AROUND EARTH'S ORBIT
Portals have long been considered fictional, but it appears that NASA has gathered conclusive evidence of such doorways linking distant places in our solar system.
"We call them X-points, or electron diffusion regions,” explained plasma physicist Jack Scudder of the University of Iowa. “They’re places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, creating an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the Sun’s atmosphere 93 million miles away.”
As improbable as this may sound, it is all based on real science. These ‘X-points,’ as they were dubbed, are openings in space and time that connect all cosmic bodies with a magnetic field.
They were probably called X-points instead of wormholes to not draw too much attention to them.
At the moment, NASA and other space agencies are struggling to figure out a way to send material objects through these portals, as only energetic particles are known doing this before.
The new Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) will return high resolution images of these anomalous spots. In February 2017, the probes began a three-months journey into a higher orbit, reaching from middle to High Earth orbit, which is twice as far as previously flown.
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Onderzoekers wijzen 'nieuw' continent op aarde aan
Onderzoekers wijzen 'nieuw' continent op aarde aan
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het continent heeft de naam Zealandia gekregen en bevat onder meer Nieuw-Zeeland en Nieuw-Caledonië.
Geologisch gezien telt de aarde op dit moment officieel zes continenten: Eurazië, Afrika, Noord-Amerika, Zuid-Amerika, Antarctica en Australië. Maar het lijstje is niet compleet, zo stellen onderzoekers nu in het blad GSA Today, een uitgave van de Geological Society of America. Er hoort een zevende continent in het lijstje: Zealandia.
De eisen Ze trekken die conclusie nadat ze de eigenschappen van het vermeende continent vergeleken met de vier criteria waar een continent – wil het die naam mogen dragen – aan moet voldoen. Allereerst moet het continent “in vergelijking met regio’s die bedekt zijn met een oceanische korst hoger gelegen zijn,” zo schrijven de onderzoekers. Daarnaast moet het een breed scala aan gesteenten bezitten (stollingsgesteenten, metamorfe- en sedimentaire gesteenten) en de aardkorst moet dikker zijn dan de oceanische korst. En ook moet het continent relatief groot zijn en duidelijk begrensd zijn.
Zealandia in volle glorie. Het grootste deel van het continent ligt onder water. Wat verder opvalt, is dat dwars door het continent een breuklijn loopt. Dat hoeft echter geen reden te zijn om Zealandia als een verzameling micro-continenten in plaats van één groot continent te zien. Er zijn immers wel meer continenten waar een breuklijn doorheen loopt. We zien dat bijvoorbeeld bij India dat ondanks de breuklijn toch tot Eurazië wordt gerekend. Dit plaatje laat ook heel goed zien dat Zealandia – hetzij nipt – los ligt van Australië en dus een op zichzelf staand continent is.
Afbeelding: GSA Today / doi: 10.1130/GSATG321A.1.
Aan alle eisen voldaan De onderzoekers stellen vervolgens dat Zealandia aan al deze eisen voldoet. Zo ligt het onder meer hoger dan de omringende oceanische korst. Ook is de continentale korst dik genoeg en zijn de drie typen gesteenten aanwezig. Het spannendst is nog het laatste criterium: de omvang van het continent. Want is Zealandia wel één geheel? Of is het meer een verzameling van kleine continentjes? Pas de laatste decennia zijn gegevens verzameld die gebruikt kunnen worden om deze vraag te beantwoorden. En dat hebben de onderzoekers ook gedaan. Ze moeten concluderen dat Zealandia geen verzameling micro-continenten, maar één geheel is. Dat geheel is zo’n 4,9 miljoen vierkante kilometer groot en onderscheidt zich duidelijk van het dichtstbijzijnde andere continent: Australië. Hoewel de twee continenten tegen elkaar aan gevlijd liggen, zit er toch nog zo’n 25 kilometer afstand tussen en daarmee is Zealandia toch een op zichzelf staand continent.
Jongste Het zou betekenen dat de aarde niet zes, maar zeven continenten telt. Zealandia is dan het jongste en dunste continent dat de aarde bezit. Daarnaast is er geen enkel ander continent dat voor zo’n groot deel door water bedekt wordt als Zealandia.
Net als India, Australië, Antarctica, Afrika en Zuid-Amerika maakte Zealandia ooit deel uit van Gondwana. Aan het eind van het Krijt zou Zealandia zich van Gondwana hebben afgescheiden. De ‘ontdekking’ van het continent is belangrijk, zo stellen de onderzoekers. Niet alleen omdat daarmee het lijstje met continenten compleet is, maar met name omdat het continent meer inzicht kan geven in de “cohesie en het uiteenvallen van de continentale korst”.
Organisch materiaal gevonden op dwergplaneet Ceres
Organisch materiaal gevonden op dwergplaneet Ceres
Tim Kraaijvanger
NASA’s Dawn-ruimtesonde heeft voor het eerst organisch materiaal gevonden op de dwergplaneet Ceres. Dit materiaal is gevormd op Ceres zelf en komt dus niet van buitenaf.
Het zijn zogenoemde alifatische verbindingen, oftewel bouwstenen van koolstof die mogelijk belangrijk waren voor de vorming van leven op aarde. Er zijn onvoldoende gegevens verzameld om de samenstelling van het organische materiaal vast te stellen. Toch lijken de materialen op teerachtige mineralen, zoals asfaltiet.
De onderzoekers denken dat het organische materiaal op Ceres zelf is gevormd. Als het materiaal van buitenaf is gekomen, dan kan dit maar op een manier: dankzij een meteorietinslag. Alleen zou de temperatuur dan zo hoog zijn, dat de organische verbindingen direct weer vernietigd zouden worden. Daarnaast zijn er op het oppervlak geen tekenen van een inslag te zien.
Het is aannemelijk dat het materiaal in het binnenste van Ceres is ontstaan. Ceres vertoont namelijk tekenen van hydrothermale activiteit, dus het binnenste van de dwergplaneet is nog niet helemaal afgekoeld. Bij de Occator-krater is een heldere vlek te zien, die rijk is aan carbonaatmineralen. Onderzoekers denken dat deze mineralen uit het binnenste zijn gesijpeld. Wellicht geldt dit ook voor het organische materiaal rondom de Ernutet-krater.
“Eerder vonden we al carbonaatmineralen, waterijs en zouten op Ceres”, vertelt onderzoeker Dr. Simone Marchi van het Southwest Research Institute. “Dankzij de nieuwe ontdekking van organisch materiaal op Ceres beschikt de dwergplaneet over de belangrijkste ingrediënten van leven.”
Stromatolites, like those found in the World Heritage Area of Shark Bay, Western Australia, may contain cyanobacteria, which were most likely Earth's first photosynthetic organisms.
Credit: Rob Bayer/Shutterstock
The earliest evidence for life on Earth arises among the oldest rocks still preserved on the planet.
Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, but the oldest rocks still in existence date back to just 4 billion years ago. Not long after that rock record begins, tantalizing evidence of life emerges: A set of filament-like fossils from Australia, reported in the journal Astrobiology in 2013, may be the remains of a microbial mat that might have been extracting energy from sunlight some 3.5 billion years ago. Another contender for world's oldest life is a set of rocks in Greenland that may hold the fossils of 3.7-billion-year-old colonies of cyanobacteria, which form layered structures called stromatolites.
Some scientists have claimed to see evidence of life in 3.8-billion-year-old rocks from Akilia Island, Greenland. The researchers first reported in 1996 in the journal Nature that isotopes (forms of an element with different numbers of neutrons) in those rocks might indicate ancient metabolic activity by some mystery microbe. Those findings have been hotly debated ever since — as, in fact, have all claims of early life.
Still, the fact that suggestive evidence of life arises right as the rock record begins raises a question, said University of California, Los Angeles, geochemist Elizabeth Bell in a SETI Talk in February 2016: Is the timing a coincidence, or were there earlier forms of life whose remnants disappeared with the planet's most ancient rocks?
These cone-shaped structures discovered in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks in Greenland, about the size of a quarter, may be fossilized colonies of microbes and the earliest fossils of life on Earth, researchers say.
Credit: Allen Nutman/Nature
The period that occurred before the rock record begins is known as the Hadean. It was an extreme time, when asteroids and meteorites pummeled the planet. Bell and her colleagues said they might have evidence that life arose during this very unpleasant time. In 2015, the research team reported discovering graphite, a form of carbon, in 4.1-billion-year-old crystals of zircon. The ratio of isotopes in the graphite suggested a biological origin, Bell and her colleagues wrote in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"There is some skepticism, which is warranted," Bell told Live Science. Meteorites or chemical processes might have caused the odd carbon ratios, she said, so the isotopes alone aren't proof of life. Since the publication of the 2015 paper, Bell said, the researchers have found several more of the rare-carbon inclusions, which the scientists hope to analyze soon.
From what is known of this period, there would have been liquid water on the planet, Bell told Live Science in an interview. There might have been granite, continental-like crust, though that's controversial, she said. Any life that could have existed would have been a prokaryote (a single-celled organism without membrane-bound nuclei or cell organelles), Bell added. If there was continental crust on Earth at the time, she said, prokaryotes might have had mineral sources of nutrients like phosphorus.
A different approach to the hunt for Earth's early life suggests that oceanic hydrothermal vents may have hosted the first living things. In a paper published in July 2016 in the journal Nature Microbiology, researchers analyzed prokaryotes to find the proteins and genes common to all of these organisms, presumably the final remnants of the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) — the first shared relative from which all life today descends.
The research team found 355 proteins shared by all archaeal and bacterial lineages. Based on those proteins, the researchers reconstructed a view of LUCA's genome, hinting that it lived in an anaerobic (oxygen-free), hydrothermal environment. If that's the case, Earth's first life (or at least the first life that left descendants) would have resembled the microbes that cluster around deep-sea vents today, the researchers said.
Winston Churchill on Aliens: 1939 Essay Discovered
Winston Churchill on Aliens: 1939 Essay Discovered
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Staff Writer
Winston Churchill (shown here at his daughter's wedding in September 1935) wrote an essay on alien life in 1939 when Europe was on the brink of war, shortly before he became prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Credit: Fox Photos / Stringer
Winston Churchill was known for his leadership during World War II, but a newfound essay on alien life reveals another side of him, one that was deeply curious about the universe.
"I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures," he wrote in the newly uncovered essay, "or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time."
Besides being prime minister of the United Kingdom during the tumultuous years of World War II, the British statesman was also a prolific writer and proponent of science. In fact, he was the first prime minister to have a science advisor. Those traits converged in the newfound 11-page essay about the search for alien life, discovered at the Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri. It was first written in 1939 and was slightly revised in the late 1950s. [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
The museum's director, Timothy Riley, showed the document to astrophysicist Mario Livio, who described the work and Churchill's approach to science in an article published today (Feb. 15) in the journal Nature. Churchill's essay was titled "Are We Alone in the Universe?".
"I was amazed to see the title of this article, first of all," Livio, head of the Institute Science Division at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told Space.com. "And then I read it and was even more astonished, because I saw that this great politician is musing about a real scientific topic, an intriguing scientific topic, [and] he is reasoning about this in the same way that a scientist today would go about it."
Churchill was not a scientist, and when the politician composed the essay, Europe was on the brink of war, Livio said.
"And yet, at that time, he finds the time to contemplate such issues and think about things so clearly," Livio added.
Evaluating the likelihood of life
In the essay, Churchill first set out to define life, characterizing the most important quality as the ability to reproduce. He chose to consider "comparatively highly organized life," which Livio said is probably multicellular life. Churchill likely did this to avoid ambiguity for things like viruses, which are able to replicate but exhibit other characteristics that aren't terribly lifelike, Livio said.
Then, Churchill discussed where to look for life: in places with liquid water (or where liquid water can persist, which is what scientists now call the "habitable zone" around stars).
"Then, he says, OK, once we've defined life, what are the necessary ingredients for life to exist? And he identifies liquid water as one such ingredient," Livio said. "And that's exactly what we do today. Our searches for life in the universe today are primarily guided by liquid water."
In his essay, Churchill considered the solar system, deciding that only Mars and Venus could have fulfilled those conditions. The outer planets are too cold, Mercury is too hot on one side and too cold on the other, and the moon and asteroids have gravity too weak to trap the atmosphere, Livio wrote, summarizing Churchill's argument.
Then, Churchill discussed the possibility of planets outside the solar system — exoplanets — which had not yet been discovered. The model he considered, described by astrophysicist James Jean in 1917, predicted that planetary formation is very unlikely to occur. (The theory, which proved incorrect, described planets forming by the gas torn from a star when another star passes by it.)
"But the beautiful thing is, then he says, But wait! Maybe this theory is wrong! Why should we think that this theory is correct?" Livio said. Churchill added that the abundance of double stars suggests that planetary systems could form commonly.
In the article, Livio quoted Churchill's essay: "I am not sufficiently conceited to think that my sun is the only one with a family of planets." Churchill went on to posit that a large fraction of those planets would be the right size to keep water on their surface and maybe an atmosphere, and that some would be at the right distance from their stars to maintain a life-friendly temperature.
Livio said Churchill saw value in science, but the statesman took a nuanced approach. He understood that science was necessary to win the war effort, but also established an atmosphere in which science was important in its own right, and he wanted it to be used to improve the world.
"As a result of that, in the 1950s, came all these great discoveries," Livio said, citing milestones like finding the structure of DNA and developing radio astronomy, which stemmed from work on radar. "Once you generate the framework and the infrastructure for science to thrive, then a variety of discoveries come."
But Churchill also emphasized that science should work to advance humanity, Livio said.
"Later in life, he also understood that one cannot do the science in what he would call a moral vacuum," Livio said. "You need to embed all the scientific research and discoveries also in the context of human values, and an understanding of the human condition."
Livio emphasized that today, science has serious problems to address, particularly regarding food resources, climate change and disease. Churchill's approach to science is necessary, Livio said.
"All of those [concerns] require serious scientific input, so there must be the mechanisms in place to get that scientific input, and the correct scientific input — which means science advisors at high levels, and involvement of scientists in a variety of decisions concerning some of those challenges," Livio said. "It certainly doesn't help to shun sciences; some of these problems can turn into disasters if nothing is done."
As for the likelihood of life on other planets, over the past 20 years, scientists have discovered thousands of planets orbiting other stars and have made large strides in determining these worlds' characteristics remotely. But researchers have yet to discover definitive signs of life elsewhere in the universe, or to visit other planets in person to hunt for life. However, Churchill didn't want to put bounds on what advancing science or technology might bring, Livio said.
"When he discussed the possibility of traveling to other planets and things like that, he says, well maybe this isn't possible today but, he says, 'It is rash to set limits to the progress of science,'" Livio said. "Things that are not possible today, you shouldn't think that they would not be possible in the future."
Capture of an Orb/Disk Shaped Object During Air Display Show Puerto Varas, Chile 16th February 2017
Capture of an Orb/Disk Shaped Object During Air Display Show Puerto Varas, Chile 16th February 2017
Published on Feb 17, 2017
Interesting Capture of an Orb/Disk Shaped Object During Air Display Show in Puerto Varas, Chile 16th February 2017.
This fascinating Short piece of Video footage Appears to have captured an Orb/Disk Shaped Object, travelling at high Velocity dangerously close to a Stunt Display Aircraft, as it was carrying out a difficult Air Manoeuvre. During Air Displays worldwide there is a strict no Fly-Zone put in place around any Aircraft to protect it while carrying out its Display. I have inverted and filtered the source footage to enhance the detail.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft has spotted organic molecules — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it — on Ceres for the first time, a study published today (Feb. 16) in the journal Science reports.
"Because Ceres is a dwarf planet that may still preserve internal heat from its formation period and may even contain a subsurface ocean, this opens the possibility that primitive life could have developed on Ceres itself," Michael Küppers, a planetary scientist based at the European Space Astronomy Centre just outside Madrid, said in an accompanying "News and Views" article in the same issue of Science.
"It joins Mars and several satellites of the giant planets in the list of locations in the solar system that may harbor life," added Küppers, who was not involved in the organics discovery.
Data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show a region around Ceres' Ernutet crater where organic concentrations have been discovered (labeled "a" through "f"). The color coding shows the strength of the organics' absorption band, with warmer colors indicating the highest concentrations.
The $467 million Dawn mission launched in September 2007 to study Vesta and Ceres, the two largest objects in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Dawn circled the 330-mile-wide (530 kilometers) Vesta from July 2011 through September 2012, when it departed for Ceres, which is 590 miles (950 km) across. Dawn arrived at the dwarf planet in March 2015, becoming the first spacecraft ever to orbit two different bodies beyond the Earth-moon system.
During its time at Ceres, Dawn has found bizarre bright spots on crater floors, discovered a likely ice volcano 2.5 miles (4 km) tall and helped scientists determine that water ice is common just beneath the surface, especially near the dwarf planet's poles.
The newly announced organics discovery adds to this list of achievements. The carbon-containing molecules — which Dawn spotted using its visible and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument — are concentrated in a 385-square-mile (1,000 square km) area near Ceres' 33-mile-wide (53 km) Ernutet crater, though there's also a much smaller patch about 250 miles (400 km) away, in a crater called Inamahari.
And there could be more such areas; the team surveyed only Ceres' middle latitudes, between 60 degrees north and 60 degrees south.
"We cannot exclude that there are other locations rich in organics not sampled by the survey, or below the detection limit," study lead author Maria Cristina De Sanctis, of the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Space Planetology in Rome, told Space.com via email.
Dawn's measurements aren't precise enough to nail down exactly what the newfound organics are, but their signatures are consistent with tar-like substances such as kerite and asphaltite, study teammembers said.
Organics probably native
"The organic-rich areas include carbonate and ammoniated species, which are clearly Ceres' endogenous material, making it unlikely that the organics arrived via an external impactor," co-author Simone Marchi, a senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said in a statement.
In addition, the intense heat generated by an asteroid or comet strike likely would have destroyed the organics, further suggesting that the molecules are native to Ceres, study team members said.
The organics might have formed via reactions involving hot water, De Sanctis and her colleagues said. Indeed, "Ceres shows clear signatures of pervasive hydrothermal activity and aqueous alteration," they wrote in the new study.
Such activity likely would have taken place underground. Dawn mission scientists aren't sure yet how organics generated in the interior could make it up to the surface and leave the signatures observed by the spacecraft.
"The geological and morphological settings of Ernutet are still under investigation with the high-resolution data acquired in the last months, and we do not have a definitive answer for why Ernutet is so special," De Sanctis said.
It's already clear, however, that Ceres is a complex and intriguing world — one that astrobiologists are getting more and more excited about.
"In some ways, it is very similar to Europa and Enceladus," De Sanctis said, referring to ocean-harboring moons of Jupiter and Saturn, respectively.
"We see compounds on the surface of Ceres like the ones detected in the plume of Enceladus," she added. "Ceres' surface can be considered warmer with respect to the Saturnian and Jovian satellites, due to [its] distance from the sun. However, we do not have evidence of a subsurface ocean now on Ceres, but there are hints of subsurface recent fluids."
An artist’s impression of a Sun-like star close to a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole, with a mass of about 100 million times the mass of our sun. Credit: ESA/Hubble, ESO, M. Kornmesser
Our love of black holes continues to grow as our knowledge of these celestial bodies expands. The latest news is the discovery of a rare "middleweight" black hole, a relative newcomer to the black hole family.
We already knew that some black holes are just a few times the mass of our Sun, while others are more than a billion times as massive. But others with intermediate masses, such as the one 2,200 times the mass of our Sun recently discovered in the star cluster 47 Tucanae, are surprisingly elusive.
So what is it about black holes, these gravitational prisons that trap anything that gets too close to them, that captures the imagination of people of all ages and professions?
'Dark stars'
As far back as 1783, within the framework of Newtonian dynamics, the concept of "dark stars" with sufficiently high density that not even light can escape their gravitational pull had been advanced by the English philosopher and mathematician John Michell.
Almost immediately after Albert Einstein presented his theory of general relativity in 1915, which supplanted Newton's description of our Universe and revealed how space and time are intimately linked, fellow German Karl Schwarzschild and Dutchman Johannes Droste independently derived the new equations for a spherical or point mass.
Although at the time the issue was still something of a mathematical curiosity, over the ensuing quarter of a century nuclear physicists realised that sufficiently massive stars would collapse under their own weight to become these previously theorised black holes.
Their existence was eventually confirmed by astronomers using powerful telescopes, and more recently colliding black holes were the source of the gravitational waves detected with the LIGO instrumentation in the United States.
A dense object
The densities of such objects is mind-boggling. If our Sun were to become a black hole, it would need to collapse from its current size of 1.4 million km across to a diameter of less than 6km. Its average density within this "Schwarzschild radius" would be nearly 20 billion tonnes per cubic centimetre.
The increasing strength and pull of gravity as you get closer to a black hole can be dramatic.
On Earth, the strength of the gravitational pull holding you to its surface is roughly the same at your feet as it is at your head, which is a little bit farther away from the planet.
But near some black holes, the difference in gravitational pull from head to toe is so great that you would be pulled apart and stretched out on an atomic level, in a process referred to as spaghettification.
In 1958, the American physicist David Finkelstein was the first to realise the true nature of what has come to be called the "event horizon" of a black hole. He described this boundary around a black hole as the perfect unidirectional membrane.
It's an intangible surface encapsulating a sphere of no return. Once inside this sphere, the gravitational pull of the black hole is too great to escape – even for light.
In 1963, the New Zealand mathematician Roy Kerr solved the equations for the more realistic rotating black holes. These yielded closed time-like curves that permitted movement backwards through time.
While such strange solutions to the equations of general relativity first appeared in the 1949 work of Austrian-American logician Kurt Gödel, it is commonly thought that they must be a mathematical artefact yet to be explained away.
A video simulation of two black holes merging.
Black and white holes
In 1964, two Americans, the writer Ann Ewing and the theoretical physicist John Wheeler, introduced the term "black hole." Subsequently, in 1965, the Russian theoretical astrophysicist Igor Novikov introduced the term "white hole" to describe the hypothetical opposite of a black hole.
The argument was that if matter falls into a black hole, then perhaps it is spewed out into our universe from a white hole.
This idea is partly rooted in the mathematical concept known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge. Discovered (mathematically) in 1916 by the Austrian physicist Ludwig Flamm, and re-introduced in 1935 by Einstein and the American-Israeli physicist Nathan Rosen, it was later termed a "wormhole" by Wheeler.
In 1962, Wheeler and the American physicist Robert Fuller explained why such wormholes would be unstable for transporting even a single photon across the same universe.
Fact and fiction
Not surprisingly, the idea of entering a (black hole) portal and re-emerging somewhere else in the universe – in space and/or time – has spawned countless science fiction stories, including Doctor Who, Stargate, Fringe, Farscape and Disney's Black Hole.
Ongoing productions can simply claim that their characters are travelling to a different or a parallel universe to our own. While it appears to be mathematically feasible, there is of course no physical evidence to support the existences of such universes.
But this is not to say that time travel, at least in a limited sense, is not real. When travelling at great speed, or perhaps falling into a black hole, the passage of time does slow down relative to that experienced by stationary observers.
Clocks flown quickly around the world have demonstrated this, displaying time lags in accordance with Einstein's theory of special relativity.
The 2014 movie Interstellar played on this effect around a black hole, thereby creating a sense of travelling forward in time for astronaut Cooper (played by Matthew McConaughey).
Despite the strangely endearing name, the phrase "black hole" is perhaps somewhat misleading. It implies a hole in space-time through which matter will fall, as opposed to matter falling onto an incredibly dense object.
What actually exists within a black hole's event horizon is hotly debated. Attempts to understand this include the "fuzzball" picture from string theory, or descriptions of black holes in quantum gravity theories known as"spin foam networks" or "loop quantum gravity."
One thing that does seem certain is that black holes will continue to intrigue and fascinate us for some time yet."
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Follow all of the Expert Voices issues and debates — and become part of the discussion — on Facebook, Twitter and Google +. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. This version of the article was published on Space.com.
Huge Alien Craft decloaks in weird shaped rainbow cloud over Washougal, WA
Huge Alien Craft decloaks in weird shaped rainbow cloud over Washougal, WA
The following images taken with a cell phone on July 9, 2016 show a decloaking UFO in a weird shaped rainbow cloud over Washougal, WA.
The photographer of the amazing images states: There are two witnesses including myself: Both professional and credible, one an engineer with academics US Air Force Academy (engineering) and Washington (Seattle), the other from University Of California.
One hour before the event we noticed some weird clouds so we decided to take some pictures. We then went to store and on return an hour later we noticed the weird clouds again but now from a marina 5 miles away.
We stopped to take more pictures as now two short and strange colored rainbows were a part of the scenarios. One rainbow is easily visible in the images.
Started taking pictures and within a 2 second window the clouds open up (cloak lost?), and you see what we saw...one witness almost fainted.
In person you could see that object was huge, and that pictures might only be seeing the bottom half of this "pyramid” on a side with sharp edges, but we could see relief and contours (vents, windows, appendages, etc.).
It was about 5 miles away, seemed like 5 miles wide by 8 miles long, the visible part, and there are no mountains even close to this area like that.
We watched for 15 minutes and it soon became cloaked again 20 minutes later but we did not see that actually occur. Mufon case 82110.
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UFO almost collides with plane of Chilean Air force during air show over Puerto Varas, Chile
UFO almost collides with plane of Chilean Air force during air show over Puerto Varas, Chile
A fast unidentified flying object seems to pass very close to a plane of the high aerobatics squad “Halcones Fach” of the Chilean Air Force during a full flight demonstration held in the city of Puerto Varas, Chile.
The object which comes very close to the plane crosses it’s path at high speed. Then the object makes a turn and disappears.
Several witnesses stated they saw several other unidentified flying objects close to the planes during the demonstration.
After the strange event happened on February 10, 2017, the unknown object has been the subject of much speculation (UFO, meteorite, bird or other plane) on social media.
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NASA investigation mysterious Ancient Geoglyphs seen from Space
NASA investigation mysterious Ancient Geoglyphs seen from Space
NASA scientists found one group of geoglyphs so interesting they have decided to study it from space.
The space agency officially investigated the Steppe Geoglyphs, a group of more than 200 giant squares,lines, rings and a swastika formed by dirt mounds in the Turgai area of northern Kazakhstan.
Left: The Ushtogay Square is at 50.832933°N 65.326276°E.
Right: The Turgay triradial is at 50.102778°N 65.360833°E.
NASA teamed up with Digital Globe to study the formations, the joint effort produced 50 to 60 images of the glyphs which measure about 300 to 1300 feet across.
These geoglyphs are thought to have been made by the Mahandzhar culture between seven and nine thousand years ago which would make them older than any other such geoglyphs, including the famous Nazca Lines of Peru, which date to between 200 B.C. and A.D. 500.
Close encounters in Canada: UFO data reveals unexplained alien sightings
Close encounters in Canada: UFO data reveals unexplained alien sightings
Graham Slaughter
"Most of the time it's just a strange cloud formation, or the reflection of light, a rocket launch, an unusual view of a planet, most likely Venus—or it could be outright fraud."
A pair of orange fireballs streaking across the dark horizon. A mysterious object crashing into Lake Winnipeg. A nighttime visit from a “being with blonde hair and blue skin.”
These are among 1,267 reported UFO sightings across Canada in 2015, the second-biggest year for unexplained alien activity in the last 30 years.
The detailed Canadian UFO Survey released Monday by the Winnipeg-based group Ufology Research includes accounts of where, when and precisely what Canadians claim they saw in the sky last year.
The trove of strange stories includes dozens of unexplained lights, aircraft shaped like discs and diamonds, silently hovering UFOs and a few close encounters of the third kind.
In one case from Quebec, someone reported seeing three short “humanoids” with heads too big for their bodies and “big, black slanted eyes.” They then heard a high-pitched hum and woke up the next morning.
The stories may sound unbelievable, and researchers admit that many don’t hold up. Only about 12 per cent of the reports were classified as “unexplained.”
“The ridicule factor is quite certainly there, but we’re not saying the little grey guys are here. This is simply what people are reporting,” Winnipeg-based UFO researched Chris Rutkowski told CTV News Channel on Tuesday.
The data was collected from 17 sources across the country including Transport Canada, Canada National Defense, the National UFO Reporting Center and YouTube.
Witnesses included pilots, police officers and “other individuals with reasonably good observing capabilities and good judgement,” researchers wrote.
The only year with more UFO sightings than 2015 was 2012. Researchers believe that may have related to reports of a supposed “end-of-days” phenomenon from the Mayan calendar.
“We do know that the UFO reports continue to be made in growing numbers every year and this is just indicative that people are paying attention to what is in the sky. They’re not just looking down at their cellphones,” Rutkowski said.
Quebec led the country with 35 per cent of all UFO reports in 2015 -- a notable jump from previous years when that figure wavered between five and 15 per cent.
“It could be (that) the media are a little more attentive to the UFOs in Quebec,” Rutkowski said.
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland all had an increase in UFO sightings in 2015. In terms of major Canadian cities, Montreal had the most reports with 97, with 78 sightings in Toronto and 69 in Vancouver.
The average sighting lasted about 16 minutes.
Ufology Research has collected the reports on a yearly basis since 1989. Since then, they’ve compiled 16,905 sightings.
Many strange lights, few alien beings
By and large, Canadians mostly reported seeing strange lights in the night sky. They came in a variety of colours (pink, orange, “brilliant white”) and shapes (orbs, triangles), and some moved in curious zigzagging or stop-and-go patterns.
The data becomes particularly strange is in several isolated reports of one-on-one contact with alien beings.
In Montpellier, Que., a “humanoid” reportedly approached a house after lights were seen. In Kentville, N.S., an alien reportedly entered a person’s bedroom and held their shoulders. In Oshawa, Ont., someone reported being abducted aboard a spaceship (a note indicates “photos that don’t show anything.”)
In an attached essay on the data, researchers ponder what, if not proof of alien life, underlies the eyewitness reports.
“Is this phenomenon psychological, sociological, cultural, and/or physical? Is it our contemporary culture’s storytelling? Is it our collective psychological and social mythology generating what myths have generated since ancient times, answers to our desires, visions of our nightmares, and insights into what our future may hold? Or is the phenomenon something else? Physical objects created by our species or another form of life we cannot begin to understand?”
Canadians more open to discussing UFOs
The steadily rising reports of UFOs could be linked to several factors: the popularization of drones, camera phones, laser pointers, at-home strobe lights. But Rutkowski suggests that the increase likely relates to the country’s collective curiosity.
“People are more interested. I think other people will talk to each other at a party or in school or university, and these are the types of topics people are interested in,” he said.
He added that, as writers like Stephen Hawking continue to pen popular books on outer space, humankind will continue to question the existence of extra-terrestrial life.
“Because space is so much in the public eye, I think people are paying a little more attention to the possibility that we are not alone.”
Edmonton came fourth in UFO sightings in 2015, according to Ufology Research.SUPPLIED
Edmonton’s fascination with flat, round objects doesn’t stop with pizzas.
Sure, the city came in eighth in the battle for the world’s best pizza, but the Canadian UFO Survey released this week says Edmonton had the fourth-highest sightings of UFOs of any city in Canada.
The city followed Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
Among the provinces, Alberta also came fourth. Of Canada’s 1,267 sightings in 2015 – the second-highest number on record-, Quebec had a whopping 450 , Ontario 314, and 224 in B.C.
By comparison, wild rose country had a paltry 101 reported UFO sightings last year.
Edmonton’s 36 UFO reports included orange and green orbs, blinking red and white and fuzzy lights moving across the sky, a “large blurry cloud,” and a “bright round light,” moving slowly, which “seemed to flatten in shape.”
On May 12 last year, a “large green fireball” broke into six pieces and mysteriously disappeared in the city.
About a month later, on July 20, “several discs” in the sky “appeared to change colour and come in and out of focus.” That report was one of only a handful accompanied by photos or video.
The survey was compiled by Canadian-based Ufology Research, which gathers sightings “to provide data for use by researchers trying to understand this controversial phenomenon.”
Like Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Alberta had more reported UFO sightings this year than last.
Before you get excited about a visit from alien friends or foes, only 12 per cent of all UFO reports were classified as “unexplained” phenomenon.
The number of reported UFOs here did not, unfortunately, bring Alberta onto the list of Most Interesting Canadian “Unknowns” in 2015. You’ll have to look east to Saskatchewan or west to B.C. to find those.
Take a January incident in the town of Lumsden, Sask., in which several aircraft reported “a very large object with a small white light in the middle, surrounded by a halo, moving northbound in the vicinity” of the community.
About a month later in Vancouver, someone reported a “strange object” which ”appeared to be a cliché flying saucer” floating above the roofs of highrise apartments.
If you’ve ever looked up in the sky and noticed something odd flying by, you’re not alone.
Every year, thousands of Canadians report spotting an unidentified flying object, better known as a UFO, soaring through our airspace. Most of these objects are later identified, but about 17 per cent of all sightings are relegated to the category of “unexplainable.”
Manitoba seems to be the province where the most UFOs are spotted, by a fairly wide margin (even though Canada’s UFO landing pad is located in St. Paul, Alberta — fail). Sightings in the area date all the way back to 1792, before Manitoba was even a province. But there have been just over 2,000 reports of suspicious flying objects in the past 200 years alone. Are all these people wrong? Or has Canada actually been visited by extra-terrestrial life?
While he believes in the possibility that some of the sightings could be valid, he does caution that some of them could be attributed to military exercises or increased internet access (hoax videos, anyone?), the CBC reports. A big part of the reason Manitoba is considered Canada’s UFO capital is because no other province has conducted the same kind of extensive search of its recorded sightings. In other words, Manitoba is the UFO capital by default.
Still, we reached out to Transport Canada for some answers as to why these sightings of strange flying objects persist, since the agency regulates most of the bizarre things you’d find in the sky, from commercial airliners to tiny consumer drones. They pointed us to a report which included mentions of UFOs, but there was some fine print.
“It is important to remember that in [Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System] reports, the term ‘UFO’ can include many things, including sightings of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs or drones), balloons, meteors, weather phenomena, and birds,” Senior Communications Advisor Mélany Gauvin wrote in an email. “It should not be interpreted to mean something of extraterrestrial origin. The department cannot comment on data collected by other organizations or individuals.”
As far as Transport Canada is concerned, our country hasn’t been visited by any extra-terrestrial life. But the people in Manitoba must be seeing something in the sky, after all, since the sightings have persisted for more than 200 years. Rutkowski even reports that he receives about three alerts per day of UFO sightings from across the country.
Ah well. Guess we’ll file those under the category of “unexplained.”
IN DEEP Samples from fluid pockets in crystals inside Mexico's Naica mine in Chihuahua revealed life-forms that may have been trapped in the minerals for up to 50,000 years.
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BOSTON— Microbes found stowed inside giant crystals in caves in Chihuahua, Mexico, may have survived there for tens of thousands of years. The microorganisms, which appear to be vastly different from nearly all life-forms found on Earth, offer a good indication of how resilient life can be in extremely harsh environments, including those found on other planets.
“These organisms are so extraordinary,” astrobiologist Penelope Boston said February 17 during a news conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are not close to any known genus scientists have been able to identify, said Boston, director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute in Moffett Field, Calif. Their closest relatives live in caves halfway around the world or in volcanic soils or thrive on compounds such as toluene.
For eight years, Boston and her colleagues have been studying microbes deep inside the Naica lead, silver and zinc mine. Some microorganisms were discovered trapped in fluid pockets inside massive crystals of calcium sulfate. Analysis suggests that the microbes may have been tucked away in these tiny time capsules for 10,000 to 50,000 years and may have been dormant for some or all of that time. But they “remained viable in some fashion and were able to be regrown,” she said. Her team reawakened the microbes in the lab and studied their genetic material, along with genetic material from other organisms found in the walls of the cave and other areas near the crystals.
The microbes found inside the crystals appear to be similar but not identical to those living outside, on the cave walls and other nearby areas, Boston said. That leaves Boston and her team fairly confident that the samples were not contaminated with other microbes and that their age estimates for the crystal-trapped microbes is solid. The team has not yet published the result. If confirmed, the microbes would represent some of the toughest extremophiles on the planet — dwelling at depths 100 to 400 meters below Earth’s surface and enduring temperatures of 45° to 65° Celsius.
“Any extremophile system that we’re studying actually allows us to push the envelope of life further,” Boston said. “We add it to this atlas of possibilities that we can apply to different planetary settings.”
Studies like these show that some microbes are hardy creatures, willing to turn just about any habitat into a home. That’s promising for the hunt for life beyond Earth. It’s problematic, however, as researchers start to think about sending probes to potentially habitable worlds, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Boston’s discovery is a reminder of how little scientists know about the microbes on Earth. And that means there are unknowns about what life-forms could stow away on spacecraft sent to other worlds, says Cassie Conley, NASA’s planetary protection officer.
“If you took some of these organisms from Earth and put them elsewhere, they may do just fine,” she says. That’s not so great for studying any native life that might be there. The Earth-based life could take over and contaminate those worlds.
VIDEO FOOTAGE OF A UFO APPEARING AFTER IT GOT HIT BY A LIGHTNING STRIKE
VIDEO FOOTAGE OF A UFO APPEARING AFTER IT GOT HIT BY A LIGHTNING STRIKE
During a thunderstorm a UFO appeared right after a lightning strike. It's unclear wether the UFO got hit by the lightning or that it generated the lightning strike in order to travel into this dimension. It appears after the strika and it hoovers above a little town. After 30 seconds there is a second lightning strike and the UFO disappears. It's interesting to see the UFO lights up the area when it's hoovering above it.
NASA has been accused of covering up an alien sighting after a video surfaced showing six UFOs passing the International Space Station live-stream seconds before the feed is cut and replaced with images from a camera showing the inside of a briefing room.
Conspiracy theorists claim the clip shows a fleet of unidentified objects flying by the ISS moments before the agency's live-stream goes dead.
The 31 second video appears to focus on the outside of the American station and within seconds, 'six large' glowing orbs crept past the camera.
Objects fly by the International Space Station
The sighting was originally spotted by YouTuber Streetcap1, who then shared the clip with SecureTeam 10.
'He has discovered what some are calling a fleet of unidentified flying objects moving in the distance behind the International Space Station,' Tyler from SecureTeam said.
'We have about six UFOs passing behind, and judging from the distance, I would guess that the size of these objects, whatever they are, would be fairly large.'
'Much larger than NASA's typical excuse of ice particles, we must be looking at icebergs.'
Tyler explained that suspiciously NASA cut the live feed and replaced it with feed from camera showing the inside of a briefing room.
The video shows the outside of the lit up International Station (ISS) floating in the dark abyss of space.
And at the six second mark, the first 'floating orb' appears in the frame - with the rest of the fleet following shortly after.
Although alien hunters are sure these balls of light are UFOs, a former NASA employee has a more scientific explanation.
The 31 second video shows the outside of the lit up International Station (ISS) floating in the dark abyss of space
And at the six second mark, the first 'floating orb' appears in the frame - with the rest of the fleet following shortly after. Although alien hunters are sure these balls of light are UFOs, a former NASA employee has a more scientific explanation - 'space dandruff' or ice
Conspiracy theorists claim to have spotted a fleet of unidentified objects flying by the International Space Station moments before the agency's livestream went dead
A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION
In 1996, the NASA STS-75 shuttle blasted off on a 15 day mission, with a mission to transport a tether with a satellite at the end that could conduct electricity.
Unfortunately, the tether broke, leading to the loss of the satellite.
However, the strangest sequence was a cloud of ice crystals floating ahead of and around the tether, almost like dandruff, that many believed were UFOs - which could be what was seen in the latest sighting by the International Space Station.
An article posted on Atlas Obscura, explains some of James Oberg's reasons behind sightings like this one.
Oberg, who was employed at NASA in the late 1990s, calls this type of occurrence a result of 'space dandruff'.
In 1996, the NASA STS-75 shuttle blasted off on a 15 day mission, with a mission to transport a tether with a satellite at the end that could conduct electricity.
Unfortunately, the tether broke, leading to the loss of the satellite.
However, the strangest sequence was a cloud of ice crystals floating ahead of and around the tether, almost like dandruff, that many believed were UFOs.
Although experts have there explanations of what these objects could be, there are still many alien hunters who beg to differ.
Another sighting near the ISS occurred in January, when John Craddick, from Wolverhampton, told the Sun he teaching a friend how to use the NASA live feed when he spotted an object float by the station.
'I've been watching it for years but never seen any UFOs on it before,' he said.
'At first it was really small and then it grew bigger, lasting for about 25 seconds.'
Mr Craddick said 'there's nothing human which can fly that high', which he took as evidence it was a UFO.
While it is not always possible to determine exactly what these objects are during the brief period they appear in the stream, there are a number possible explanations for these types of sightings.
'It is astonishing how many UFOs are seen buzzing around the ISS, but like this video there is usually a simple explanation for them,' Nigel Watson, UFO expert and author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline.
'This could well be a lens reflection that appears and then goes as the light changes, giving the impression of an extraterrestrial space coming into view and then cruising out of sight.
'Many UFOs caught by the ISS's cameras can be also be explained as images of space junk or satellites in the distance, and even very small flecks of paint or particles can appear like UFOs when caught by the bright light from the sun.'
Is this the moment a UFO appears above Earth before flying away?
BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES? YOU'RE PROBABLY A NARCISSIST
People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking, according to a study earlier this year.
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and negative psychological traits.
Writing in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the team explained: 'Previous research linked the endorsement of conspiracy theories to low self-esteem.'
In the first study, a total of 202 participants completed questionnaires on conspiracy beliefs, asking how strongly they agreed with specific statements, such as whether governments carried out acts of terrorism on their own soil.
Alongside this, they were asked to complete a narcissist scale and a self-esteem assessment.
The results showed that those people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
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