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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23-02-2017
Roswell UFO expert challenges a review of Area 51 book
Roswell UFO expert challenges a review of Area 51 book
I rarely review other people’s reviews except of my own books. But I think I need to make an exception. Two very scholarly sounding experts have reviewed at great length Annie Jacobsen’s strangely inaccurate and misleading book “Area 51” on their site Washington Decoded. It supposedly tells all about the mysterious highly classified base not far from Las Vegas, In addition it provides an entirely new and totally unsubstantiated and unbelievable explanation for the Roswell Incident. I ,too, reviewed the book in one of my monthly columns and could frankly find nothing to support her extraordinary claim that beings manipulated by Joseph Mengele (in cooperation with Joseph Stalin) somehow piloted a German Horton Brothers flying wing vehicle to crash near Roswell to panic America..
In this instance two very formidable sounding professionals, Dr. Robert S. Norris and Dr. Jeffrey T. Richelson, recently published a very lengthy negative review of her book and also managed to somehow demonstrate the intellectual bankruptcy of the pseudo science of anti-ufology. They correctly note that she made no reference to a host of directly applicable sources and made loads of factual mistakes re Area 51 related matters. Then, amazingly, they commit many errors of omission and commission about Roswell and surprisingly some other items and also libel me. And frankly I am angry.
Area 51 book cover
I was surprised at some gaps in their knowledge. For example, they noted that Annie three different times falsely referred to a hero of mine, Dr. Vannevar Bush, as head of the Manhattan Project. That distinction fell to General Leslie Groves for the Army Corps of Engineers and the technical director, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. But then they refer to Bush only as “Science Adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt and as such was chairman of a 3 member oversight committee known as the military Policy Committee, that usually rubber stamped decisions that Groves had already made.”. Their major source about Bush was G. Pascal Zachary, “Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century”. Zachary was a reporter for the Wall Street journal and as far as I could tell did not know much about Bush’s highly classified activities. One would think that the fact that VB was head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war might have been noted. Thousands of engineers and scientists worked on projects funded by the OSRD. These included such important developments as that of the proximity fuse, radar, and indeed the Manhattan Engineering District. Their description is a bit like referring to Harry Truman as a Missouri haberdasher and ignoring his service in the US Senate and as US President.
They refer to only 3 Roswell books,(and touted debunkers like Phil Klass) none of them by serious researchers who searched for and interviewed first hand witnesses, visited archives and crash sites, etc There is no mention of such books as “The Roswell Incident” by Charles Berlitz and William Moore and to which I was a major contributor;“The Truth about the Roswell Incident” and ”The Real Truth about the Roswell Incident”, by Don Schmitt, and Kevin Randle, “Crash at Corona”,by Don Berliner” and myself and “Witness to Roswell” by Don Schmitt and Tom Carey .etc. They were aware of my existence as shall be noted later, but misrepresented my background and ignored a bunch of papers which I have published besides my books. They are upset that Annie repeats a nice comment about me by Larry King, but obviously couldn’t be bothered checking out me or my publications.
Vannevar Bushµ
(image credit: U.S. Library of Congress)
They state “Strewn throughout her story, moreover are numerous mistakes and questionable claims”. That is certainly true. But it is true of them as well. They blindly accept the 2 big Government Roswell volumes seemingly accepting everything in them as Gospel though many errors have been described for many years.
Here is how they describe the Roswell Incident ”… refers to some metallic debris that was found on 7 July 1947 at a ranch approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. The rancher who discovered it contacted the local sheriff who contacted Roswell Army Air Field. Several Intelligence officers were sent and collected portion of the debris and took it to Roswell AAF that evening. The next day, the public information officer released a statement saying that a flying disc had been recovered. The front page headline of the July 8 edition of the Roswell Daily Record was “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region”. The debris was then flown to 8th Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF in Texas and inspected. The conclusion was that the debris was the remnants of a weather balloon”. Later they said it was a balloon… since when are balloons made of metal??
The facts indicate that this is much less than accurate. In the first place the rancher had found the debris within a few days prior to Saturday, July 5, when he went to Corona and showed some to friends at the General Store there. The Rancher did not get a newspaper and had no phone and had not heard about flying saucers until the people in Corona told him about them and that there was a reward out for pieces. They suggested he go to the Sheriff in Roswell. He took a small portion of what was on the huge debris field to Sheriff Wilcox on July 6. The sheriff contacted RAAF and spoke with Major Jesse Marcel who actually handled the wreckage and was ordered by his boss Colonel William Blanchard to take a Counter Intelligence officer with him and follow the rancher to his place out miles from any road. They spent the night, viewed the debris field the next day, and brought back a small portion in their vehicles. Colonel Blanchard then ordered Major Marcel to have one of their B-29s take him and the wreckage to Wright field making a stop at their headquarters in Fort Worth. Somehow not only are the dates and sequence fouled up, but no mention is made of the fact that the Roswell group, the 509th was the most elite military group in the world having dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 and 2 more during Operation Crossroads in 1946. Blanchard went on to receive 4 more promotions and was a 4 star general serving as Vice-chief of Staff of the USAF when he died of a massive heart attack at the Pentagon. He had served as Operations office for the Strategic Air Command when it had thousands of nuclear warheads at its disposal. Marcel was the intelligence officer of this most elite group. Both Marcel and Blanchard were very familiar with weather balloons since they were launched every day at the base,and would have immediately recognized the wreckage as such. Marcel handled the strange wreckage in Roswell. He would never have been sent out without noting that the material was very strange. Norris and Richelson praise highly, “The Roswell Report: Truth Versus fiction in the Roswell Desert” (by Disinformation specialist Colonel Weaver) without noting all the fiction supplied by the Air Force. For example, it claims it was Project Mogul, a Top Secret Program, launched 4 June. The fact is that the original newspaper accounts (the story appeared and grew in evening papers from Chicago West.) say the wreckage was found “last week” .The rancher had been in the area just days before. Outstanding research by Dr. David Rudiak showed it could not have been that Mogul launch. The program was not TOP secret. Only the purpose was TS. If it had been TS, there would have been a chase plane along at each launch and the balloons and equipment would never have been allowed to remain in the desert.
The foolish claim was made that the huge report was a declassification effort. It was a propaganda effort.
Norris and Richelson foolishly state the balloons were made of special material. They were standard neoprene weather balloons. They speak very enthusiastically of the Air Force report and seem not to have caught any of its many mistakes. For example it states a National Enquirer article about Marcel appeared in 1978. It was actually in 1980 and was a result of my putting outstanding journalist Robert Pratt in touch with Jesse Marcel because the first Book “The Roswell Incident” was due to be published.
The report makes it sound as though I worked separately from Berlitz and Moore and got my ideas from the Enquirer, when I actually worked very closely with Moore for years. I told Moore about Roswell. They mention a strange grossly misleading book by three professors which also insinuated that Marcel was paid by the Enquirer. Of course none of these debunkers give any information about my background. To the USAF I am a UFO researcher. To Norris and Richelson I am “a UFO conspiracy Theorist.” No mention that I am a nuclear physicist, that I worked on classified advanced technology programs for 14 years for GE,GM, Westinghouse, Aerojet General Nucleonics etc. or that I have visited 20 different Archives , many times they claim that any ”positive reputation Friedman has is apparently restricted to those who believe in UFOs and Extraterrestrials.”
No source is given for these nonsensical charges. They might have mentioned that I belong to the American Nuclear Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Physical Society. No mention that I have lectured on topics such as “Flying Saucers ARE Real” and or “Flying Saucers and Science” to more than 700 colleges and professional groups in all 50 states, all 10 Canadian provinces and 18 other countries. I have had loads of favorable comments from these institutions. Are all of these “believers in UFOs and Extraterrestrials?” There is no mention of all the evidence I have provided such as dozens of TOP Secret almost completely blacked out CIA UFO documents, or 156 almost completed whited out NSA UFO documents. Seemingly they are unaware of the comments made by USAF General Carroll Bolender “Reports of UFOs which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or USAF Manual 55-11 and are NOT part of the Blue Book System” and “Termination of Project Blue Book would leave no official federal office to receive reports of UFOs. However, as already stated, reports of UFOs which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose.” I located and spoke with General Bolender. I would bet these guys never heard of him. Obviously the USAF has been lying ever since his October 20, 1969, memo which resulted in the closure of Project Blue Book. The USAF has since then falsely claimed there is no national security concern with UFOs and they have been doing nothing about them. They don’t mention the Congressional UFO Symposium of July 29, 1968, which involved 12 presentations by scientists including me, or the biggest study ever done for the USAF, Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14. Of course, like Jacobsen they are guilty of “authorial malpractice.”
Norris and Richelson also buy into the 2nd foolish USAF volume “The Roswell Report: Case Closed”. “The aliens observed in the New Mexico desert were probably anthropomorphic test dummies that were carried aloft by high altitude balloons. Some 43 high altitude balloon flights were launched and recovered throughout NM between June 1954 and February 1959.” Considering that the Roswell Incident occurred in July 1947 (Time travel, I guess) and the bodies, one of whose pictures is in the USAF Report, were 6’ tall and weighed 175 pounds, and was in a uniform and could not possibly have morphed even with time travel into a 4’ tall alien with a big head, one is astonished at their naivety. I talked to the head of the program, Colonel Madsen. Of course, he isn’t mentioned by them, nor did the USAF talk to him though they showed an old picture of him and one of the dummies.
In short, we have erudite people saying false and misleading things. I, of course, cannot know whether it is out of laziness, bias, ignorance or because they were conspiring to protect the reputation of the USAF. They owe us all an apology.
UFO-spotters ontdekken iets mysterieus in video van Duitse straaljagers
UFO-spotters ontdekken iets mysterieus in video van Duitse straaljagers
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Mogelijk sporen van donkere materie ontdekt in Andromedastelsel
Mogelijk sporen van donkere materie ontdekt in Andromedastelsel
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Gammastraling kan erop wijzen dat zich in het hart van het Andromedastelsel donkere materie ophoudt.
Het is een spannende ontdekking, vindt onderzoeker Pierrick Martin. “We verwachten dat donkere materie zich in de binnenste regionen van de Melkweg en andere sterrenstelsels verzamelt, daarom is het vinden van zo’n compact signaal heel opwindend.” Het compacte signaal waar Martin over spreekt, werd gedetecteerd met behulp van ruimtetelescoop Fermi. De telescoop speurt naar gammastraling en vond in het hart van het Andromedastelsel een bijzonder signaal.
Gammastraling Gammastraling ontstaat doordat kosmische straling de interactie aangaat met gaswolken en het licht van sterren. De laatste gegevens van Fermi laten zien dat de gammastraling overvloedig aanwezig is in het hart van het Andromedastelsel. Die ongebruikelijke distributie van de gammastraling zag Fermi eerder ook in het hart van ons eigen sterrenstelsel: de Melkweg. En het kan erop wijzen dat in het hart van deze sterrenstelsels donkere materie huist.
Hier zie je de overvloed aan gammastraling (in geel en oranje/rood) in het hart van het Andromedastelsel.
Afbeelding: NASA / DOE / Fermi LAT Collaboration & Bill Schoening / Vanessa Harvey / REU program / NOAO / AURA / NSF.
Pulsars? Helemaal zeker weten de onderzoekers dat dus niet. De gammastraling kan namelijk ook afkomstig zijn van een groot aantal pulsars in het hart van M31. Deze draaiende neutronensterren zijn ongeveer twee keer zo zwaar als de zon en hebben een ongelofelijk grote dichtheid. Omdat het Andromedastelsel zo’n 2,5 miljoen lichtjaar van ons verwijderd is, is het lastig om individuele pulsars in het hart van het stelsel te vinden. Toch zijn onderzoekers voornemens om uit te zoeken of pulsars de bron van de gammastraling kunnen zijn. En wel door onze kennis over pulsars in de Melkweg los te laten op nog te maken röntgen- en radio-observaties van het Andromedastelsel.
Mysteries Of donkere materie nu verantwoordelijk is voor de distributie van donkere materie in het Andromedastelsel of niet: onderzoekers zijn in hun nopjes met de ontdekking. Met name omdat het signaal in het hart van het Andromedastelsel vergelijkbaar is met dat in het hart van onze eigen Melkweg. Het betekent namelijk dat onderzoekers deze informatie kunnen gebruiken om mysteries in het Andromedastelsel én de Melkweg op te lossen. Zo blijkt bijvoorbeeld dat de grote schijf van het Andromedastelsel – de plek waar de meeste sterren ontstaan – relatief weinig gammastraling afgeeft. Het suggereert dat zich daar weinig kosmische straling ophoudt. Maar kosmische straling wordt doorgaans in verband gebracht met stervorming. Hoe zit dat dan? Het wijst erop dat het Andromedastelsel op een andere manier kosmische straling produceert of dat de kosmische straling sneller aan dit stelsel weet te ontsnappen. “We begrijpen niet helemaal welke rol kosmische straling in sterrenstelsel speelt of hoe de straling door deze sterrenstelsels reist,” vertelt onderzoeker Xian Hou. “M31 (het Andromedastelsel, red.) laat zien hoe kosmische straling zich gedraagt onder omstandigheden die anders zijn dan de omstandigheden in ons eigen sterrenstelsel.”
Dat er overeenkomsten zijn in de distributie van gammastraling in de Melkweg en het Andromedastelsel suggereert bovendien dat we door het Andromedastelsel te bestuderen, meer te weten kunnen komen over onze eigen Melkweg. En dat is goed nieuws. Want niet alle delen van de Melkweg zijn vanuit het sterrenstelsel zelf goed te bekijken. “Ons sterrenstelsel lijkt zo sterk op het Andromedastelsel dat we er echt baat bij hebben om het (Andromedastelsel, red.) te bestuderen, omdat we zo meer kunnen leren over ons sterrenstelsel en de totstandkoming ervan,” vertelt onderzoeker Regina Caputo.
Zeven 'aardes' ontdekt rond dwergster die hier 40 lichtjaar vandaan staat
Zeven 'aardes' ontdekt rond dwergster die hier 40 lichtjaar vandaan staat
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De zeven planeten zijn qua grootte vergelijkbaar met de aarde en drie ervan bevinden zich bovendien in de leefbare zone!
Dat hebben astronomen zojuist bekend gemaakt. Ze ontdekten de zeven planeten met behulp van telescopen in de ruimte en op aarde, waaronder de Very Large Telescope (VLT) en ruimtetelescoop Spitzer.
IN DE OVERGANG
Wanneer de zeven planeten – gezien vanaf de aarde – voor TRAPPIST-1 – langs bewegen, neemt de helderheid van de ster iets af. Voor astronomen is het observeren van dergelijke ‘planeetovergangen’ heel interessant, omdat ze tijdens zo’n overgang meer te weten kunnen komen over de afmetingen, omloopbanen en samenstellingen van de planeten. Zo ontdekten ze niet alleen dat zes van de zeven planeten rotsachtig zijn, maar ook dat deze qua temperatuur aan de aarde doen denken.
TRAPPIST-1 Het draait allemaal – letterlijk – om de ultrakoele dwergster TRAPPIST-1. Deze ster is slechts 40 lichtjaar van ons verwijderd en blijkt dus zeven(!) planeten te bezitten. En alle zeven planeten zijn qua grootte vergelijkbaar met de aarde (zie kader). Zes van de planeten (de binnenste exemplaren) zijn zeer waarschijnlijk rotsachtig en ook qua temperatuur vergelijkbaar met de aarde. Drie ervan bevinden zich bovendien in de leefbare zone. “Dit is een verbazingwekkend planetenstelsel,” vindt onderzoeker Michaël Gillon. “Niet alleen omdat we zoveel planeten hebben ontdekt, maar ook omdat ze stuk voor stuk ongeveer zo groot zijn als de aarde.”
Lekker dichtbij De planeten hebben de namen TRAPPIST-1b, -c, -d, -e, -f, -g en -h gekregen. TRAPPIST-1b staat het dichtst bij de ster, TRAPPIST-1h is het verst van de ster verwijderd. De planeten draaien in een nauwe baan om de ster heen: hun omloopbanen zijn veel kleiner dan die van Mercurius, de planeet die in ons zonnestelsel het dichtst bij de zon staat. Je zou misschien denken dat het snikheet is op de planeten, omdat ze zo dicht bij hun ster staan. Maar vergeet niet dat TRAPPIST-1 geen zonachtige ster is. Het is een ultrakoele dwergster. De ster is nauwelijks groter dan de planeet Jupiter en geeft lang niet zoveel energie af als onze zon. Het betekent bijvoorbeeld dat de planeten TRAPPIST-1c, -d en -f ongeveer net zoveel energie opvangen als Venus, de aarde en Mars (in die volgorde).
De omloopbanen van de zeven planeten in vergelijking met de omloopbanen van de vier grote manen van Jupiter. De omloopbaan van Mercurius is nog zes keer verder van de zon verwijderd dan TRAPPIST-1h van TRAPPIST-1 verwijderd is.
Afbeelding: ESO / O. Furtak.
Water Het brengt ons natuurlijk op de volgende interessante vraag: is er op deze zeven planeten dan misschien water te vinden? “De energieproductie van dwergsterren als TRAPPIST-1 is veel geringer dan die van onze zon,” vertelt onderzoeker Amaury Triaud. “Om water op hun oppervlak te kunnen hebben, moeten planeten veel kleinere omloopbanen volgen dan we in ons zonnestelsel gewend zijn. Gelukkig lijkt TRAPPIST-1 door precies zo’n compacte configuratie van planeten omgeven te zijn.” Het betekent niet dat op alle planeten vloeibaar water te vinden is. Zo zijn TRAPPIST-1b, -c en -d waarschijnlijk te heet om vloeibaar water te bezitten. TRAPPIST-1h is waarschijnlijk weer te koud (waardoor eventueel water bevriest). Helemaal zeker weten de onderzoekers dat laatste echter niet. Ze kunnen namelijk niet uitsluiten dat op deze planeet alternatieve warmteprocessen optreden. Een voorbeeld van zo’n warmteproces is getijdenopwarming. Hierbij warmt de planeet op doordat deze door toedoen van de zwaartekracht van de ster van vorm verandert. Ook een waterstofrijke atmosfeer zou het warmteverlies van de planeet zodanig kunnen beperken dat deze warm genoeg is om vloeibaar water te bevatten. Dergelijke capriolen hoeven de planeten TRAPPIST-1e, -f en -g waarschijnlijk niet uit te halen. Zij bevinden zich namelijk in de leefbare zone: een denkbeeldige zone rond TRAPPIST-1 waarin de temperaturen hoog genoeg zijn om te voorkomen dat eventueel vloeibaar water op het oppervlak van de planeten bevriest, maar niet zo hoog dat eventueel vloeibaar water verdampt. Op deze drie planeten zouden in theorie dus oceanen te vinden kunnen zijn.
Hier zie je de omloopbanen van de zeven planeten. De omloopbaan van TRAPPIST-1h is nog niet helemaal bekend. Het grijze vlak staat symbool voor de leefbare zone. Waar de grenzen van de leefbare zone liggen, is niet helemaal duidelijk. Daar zijn verschillende theorieën over. De streepjeslijnen die je in dit grijze vlak ziet staan, zijn alternatieve grenzen van deze leefbare zone die op andere theoretische aannames gebaseerd zijn.
Afbeelding: ESO / M. Gillon et al.
Leven? Het moge duidelijk zijn dat onderzoekers niet kunnen wachten tot ze een gedetailleerder beeld krijgen van deze zeven planeten en dan met name van de drie exemplaren in de leefbare zone. Want is er op deze planeten wellicht ook leven? “Eerst zullen we moeten onderzoeken of deze planeten überhaupt een atmosfeer hebben,” vertelt professor Ignas Snellen, niet betrokken bij het onderzoek, aan Scientias.nl. “Als een planeet voor de ster langstrekt sijpelt er ook een klein beetje sterlicht door de planeetatmosfeer heen, waardoor er in sommige kleuren absorptie optreedt. Door deze kleuren precies te meten kunnen we achterhalen wat voor gassen er in de atmosfeer voorkomen. In de dampkring van de aarde zit bijvoorbeeld zuurstof dat hier alleen maar zit omdat het door plantenleven wordt aangemaakt – zonder leven geen zuurstof. Zo zou een detectie van zuurstof op een andere planeet ook een eerste aanwijzing voor biologische activiteit kunnen zijn.”
Dit plaatje laat zien hoe groot TRAPPIST-1 in vergelijking met de zon en Jupiter is. De ster heeft ongeveer 1/8 van de massa van onze zon en is qua grootte vergelijkbaar met Jupiter. Ook de omvang van de planeten worden vergeleken met de omvang van enkele planeten in ons zonnestelsel en de manen van Jupiter.
Afbeelding: ESO / O. Furtak.
Meer tijd Dat de ster waar deze planeten omheen draaien anders is dan onze zon hoeft in feite geen belemmering te zijn voor het ontstaan van leven op de planeten. Sterker nog: het kan een voordeel zijn. “Kleine rode dwergsterren worden enorm oud – 1000 keer ouder dan de zon,” vertelt Snellen. “Dus er is in ieder geval wel veel meer tijd om leven te vormen.”
De zon vergeleken met TRAPPIST-1.
Afbeelding: ESO.
Bijzonder Of er nu leven is of niet: TRAPPIST-1 heeft ons in ieder geval versteld doen staan. Want het overvolle planetenstelsel is in meerdere opzichten bijzonder. Zo is er nog niet eerder een stelsel ontdekt dat zoveel planeten telt die qua omvang vergelijkbaar zijn met de aarde en zich ook nog eens in de leefbare zone bevinden. Wat ook bijzonder is, is dat er nog nooit zoveel exoplaneten ontdekt zijn die vrijwel in resonantie zijn met elkaar. Wat betekent dat? De onderzoekers keken hoe de omlooptijd – de tijd die een planeet nodig heeft om een rondje rond de ster te voltooien – van de verschillende planeten zich tot elkaar verhield. Uit dat onderzoek blijkt dat de verhouding tussen de omlooptijden van de binnenste zes planeten uit te drukken is in gehele getallen (bijvoorbeeld 5:3 en 3:2). Het suggereert dat de planeten op grotere afstand van de ster zijn ontstaan en later naar de ster toe zijn gereisd. Als dat inderdaad het geval is, zou het kunnen betekenen dat de planeten veel vluchtige stoffen bevatten en is er een gerede kans dat ze omringd worden door een atmosfeer en water (of ijs) op hun oppervlak hebben liggen. Op de vraag wat Snellen het meest verrast heeft aan dit stelsel, antwoordt hij: “Dat het stelsel zo veel op Jupiter en haar manen lijkt – maar dan in massa 80 keer zwaarder is zodat de manen aard-massa planeten zijn, en Jupiter een kleine dwergster. Het lijkt erop dat het Jupiter-systeem en TRAPPIST-1 op dezelfde wijze gevormd zijn.”
Een artistieke impressie van het planetenstelsel. Je ziet de ster TRAPPIST-1 op de achtergrond staan. Op de voorgrond de planeten. Uit het plaatje blijkt ook dat de binnenste drie waarschijnlijk te warm zijn om vloeibaar water te bezitten. De andere planeten – op de buitenste planeet na, want die is waarschijnlijk te koud – lijken de juiste temperatuur te hebben om vloeibaar water te bezitten.
Afbeelding: NASA / R. Hurt / T. Pyle.
Met de ontdekking van dit planetenstelsel zijn ons weer een aantal nieuwe aardachtige planeten bekend. Maar het tweelingbroertje van de aarde hebben we nog steeds niet gevonden. Dat kan ook nog wel even duren, denkt Snellen. “Met de huidige telescopen lukt dit niet, maar waarschijnlijk wel met PLATO-missie van ESA welke in 2024 gelanceerd gaat worden. Deze kan planeetovergangen van rotsachtige planeten in aardbanen gaan zien rond zonachtige sterren.” TRAPPIST-1 is dan ook zeer waarschijnlijk niet het laatste wereldnieuws dat uit de koker van astronomenkomt.
Hoe zien de planeten rond TRAPPIST-1 eruit? Dat blijft gissen. Maar misschien wel zo! Hier zie je de zeven planeten op rij, met daaronder hun omlooptijd, de afstand tot hun ster (1 AU is de afstand tussen de aarde en de zon), hun straal en massa.
Was Gary McKinnon right? ‘SECRET space fleet filmed at US Airforce base’
Was Gary McKinnon right? ‘SECRET space fleet filmed at US Airforce base’
A UFO hunter who claims to have filmed activity at a top-secret US Airforce base for THREE YEARS, claims space craft are regularly flying out from there.
Steven Barone has scores of videos on his YouTube channel, UFOs in the USA, that he suggests are alien UFOs or top secret US space vehicles hovering over the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
The base, like top-secret Area 51 in the Nevada desert, is alleged by conspiracy theorists to be where the US authorities hide the remains of crashed flying saucers and dead aliens, and where secretive technology is developed and tested.
Some even claim that visiting aliens have been allowed to use the bases to keep them from public view.
But, Mr Barone claims to be on to the secret via his YouTube channel.
He says he may have filmed space craft developed at the air base on numerous occasions.
His latest footage was filmed on February 19 near the base.
He wrote about the video: "If you haven't heard of the USA space fleet I highly suggest you look up Solar Warden or Gary McKinnon.
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This is part of a secret space fleet over Nellis USAF base, claims Steven Barone.
"He was the Scottish hacker that penetrated the computers at NASA and the Johnson Space Center.
"He wasn't trying to do any harm but wanted to know more about UFOs and what the USA knew about them.
"What he found far exceeded anything he was expecting. He found evidence of a secret space fleet that had been in existence since the 1980s.
"It is said that the USA has at least eight tubular motherships and nearly fifty smaller ones.
"What really blew him away was a list of non-terrestrial officers and ship to ship transfers.
"If you believe this then you have to ask where this secret space fleet is based.
"Where better than Area 51 and Nellis Air Force Base.
"This is just a theory of mine and I cannot prove it but based on everything I have seen and filmed over a nearly three-year period it is the only thing that makes sense."
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Steven Barone thinks that there is a secret space fleet over Nellis US Airforce base.
This is just a theory of mine and I cannot prove it but based on everything I have seen and filmed over a nearly three-year period it is the only thing that makes sense.
Steven Barone
Asperger's Syndrome sufferer Mr McKinnon, who avoided extradition to the US over his hacking exploits after a high-profile campaign, reported seeing details of non-terrestrial officers on a database.
Conspiracy theorists claim this must mean a secret fleet of space officers, but sceptics point out it could mean standard airforce or even naval officers.
However, Scott C Waring, editor of ufosightingsdaily.com, believes there are actually aliens based at Nellis Airfocebase.
In response to Mr Barone's latest video, he blogged: "Here is a great sighting that took place just a few days ago in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"It was over Nellis AFB which has over 1,000 square miles of land... but people never question why they need so much land.
"It's because the Tall White aliens moved in.
"The USAF let the Tall Whites build their own underground base behind the old firing range.
"An alien race thats lives up to 800 years and is highly arrogant and aggressive."
But, a UFO debunker claims Mr Barone is mistaken, and is simply filming car headlights descending down a mountain road in the distance on each occasion.
A declassified Central Intelligence Agency document reveals that in 1984, the CIA employed a psychic “remote viewer” to look at a region of Mars as it was approximately one million years ago. The remote viewer, who was not aware that the coordinates given were on the planet Mars, described seeing pyramids, futuristic technologies and a very tall human-looking civilization facing impending environmental calamity.
Small part of the Cydonia region, taken by the Viking 1 orbiter and released by NASA/JPL on July 25, 1976
What makes the CIA documentremarkable is that the coordinates provided to the unknown remote viewer were of the Cydonia region as depicted in a series of Viking Orbiter images of Mars in 1976. Cydonia became famous after a succession of researchers claimed that the region contained a face, ruins of a city, and pyramids.
The first reference to artificial structures found in Cydonia date to an October 25, 1977, National Enquirer article titled “Did NASA Photograph Ruins of an Ancient City on Mars?” It’s worth pointing out that the Enquirer was a tabloid run by Gene Pope, a CIA asset who was trained in psychological warfare.
Pope and the National Enquirer’s chief purpose was to hide the truth in plain sight by releasing it in sensationalized news stories with questionable sources that would be widely ridiculed by the general public. Subsequently, any academics or scientists prepared to investigate such sensational claims faced ridicule from their peers and ruining their professional careers.
Nevertheless, competent researchers did turn their attention to the now controversial Viking Orbiter images and found that they indeed did appear to show an artificially created “Face on Mars”, nearby ruins dubbed “Inca City”, and even pyramids.
The first objective analysis of the Viking data was published in 1982 in Omni Magazine by the researchers Vincent DiPietro, an electrical engineer, and Gregory Molenaar, a computer engineer. Their 1982 Omni article was an extract of their 77-page book, Unusual Martian Surface Features, also released that year. They were soon followed by other independent researchers such as Richard Hoagland who in 1987 authored The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever.
What this short review of the history of the Viking images of Cydonia tells us is that while researchers such as DiPietro, Molenaar and Hoagland were widely ridiculed by their scientific peers for their analyses and conclusions, the CIA was paying very close attention.
Declassified CIA documents confirm that remote viewing was taken very seriously by the Agency and other intelligence services. Significant funding went into studying the usefulness of remote viewing as an intelligence gathering tool.
The conclusion was that remote viewing had sufficient accuracy to be utilized for field work as the following declassified CIA document dated May 9, 1984 clearly states.
Among the most accurate of remote viewers described in the CIA documents was the famed psychic Ingo Swann. In his 1998 book, Penetration, Swann described at length how the CIA utilized his remote viewing skills.
One assignment in 1975 was to spy on secret bases on the Moon, which were run by one or more extraterrestrial civilizations. In chapter five, Swann opens by describing his remote viewing of the Moon for Axelrod/Axel, a CIA officer:
Given the earlier off-planet locations assigned to top remote viewers like Swann, it is not surprising that the CIA employed a remote viewer to learn about the origins of the pyramids and other artificial Mars structures in the Cydonia region.
The protocol used for the session is described on page 2 of the CIA document, which is dated May 22, 1984:
The rest of the CIA document (pp. 3-9) is a transcript of the remote viewer responding to questions about different locations and time periods given to him (in 1984, all known remote reviewers were men). The remote viewer is referred to as “SUB.,” while the questioner is “MON.”
This is what the remote viewer reports after being given his first question:
The coordinates are for the Cydonia region, and immediately the remote viewer describes some kind of pyramid sitting in a valley. This is remarkable corroboration for the multiple researchers who have identified pyramids in the Viking images of this exact region of Mars.
Next, the remote viewer responds to a serious of questions concerning the population living in the region shortly before planet-wide geological disturbances that occurred approximately one million years ago. He describes the population as very tall and thin, and looking to escape the disturbances which included very violent storm activity:
The Martian civilization is dying and the population knows about it:
The Martians are waiting to travel elsewhere to survive. Some are able to escape to distant regions, presumably off-planet, as the following quote suggests:
Next, the remote viewer describes what clearly appears to be a spacecraft taking survivors to another planet over a million years ago:
The above description is very suggestive of what Earth may have looked like at the time. So did escaping Martians travel to Earth approximately a million years ago leaving behind them pyramids and other ruins in the Cydonia region, which were observed by the Viking orbiter in 1976 and the CIA’s remote viewer in 1984?
The remote viewing of Mars revealed in a May 22, 1984CIA document gives details of a planet wide-catastrophe that led to many refugees leaving in spacecraft to safer locations over a million years ago. This leads to the intriguing possibility that a flash-frozen civilization recently found in Antarctica with cannibalized spacecraft nearby was the remnants of a colony originally established by Martian refugees.
Such a scenario is consistent with the claims of Secret Space Program whistleblower Corey Goode who says that extraterrestrial refugees have been finding sanctuary on Earth for at least five hundred thousand years, and that preparations are currently underway to officially disclose excavations of a flash-frozen Antarctica civilization.
Back in March 28, 2016, Goode described various insider sources that had told him about the influx of refugees from other planets during Earth’s history:
And it seems that more recent information that I’ve gotten is telling us that the Earth received refugees, at different points in history, from a couple of different planets, at least, in our solar system where the planets failed and inhabitants left and came to Earth as refugees.
Goode said that Mars was one of the planets from which the refugees originated. The Martians were highly advanced technologically with antigravity spacecraft. They engaged in aggressive warfare that led to planetary catastrophe and refugees leaving for Earth. Goode relates what he was told by inhabitants of the “Inner Earth”:
And the people in the Inner Earth Council stated that the different inhabitants of the planets in our solar system were extremely advanced technologically and extremely aggressive, and that they destroyed their civilizations and had to be relocated here as refugees by other ET races that came in.
According to Goode, Mars in particular was hit by a series of environmental catastrophes that were related to devastating wars with the inhabitants of a nearby “Super Earth”, around which both Mars and our current Moon orbited up to 500,000 years ago. The “Super Earth” orbited the sun in the area of the asteroid belt as it exists today between Mars and Jupiter.
Mars at the time had abundant water and oxygen rich atmosphere to host a large population on its surface. The existence of abundant water and oxygen on Mars in its distant past has been recentlycorroborated by scientists.
The events that led to the Super Earth’s destruction also wiped out much of the surface population on Mars, and removed the bulk of its atmosphere according to what Goode read on “smart glass pads”, which he had access to during his 20 year secret space program service.
It was postulated that Mars was most likely a moon of that Super Earth, and that it was damaged heavily on one side by massive impacts. And that most likely also stripped away its main atmosphere at the time, and it never recovered.
The force of the Super Earth’s destruction propelled Mars into its present planetary orbit.
So was there a Super Earth that was destroyed in a titanic battle, which resulted in one of its moons being sent into Earth orbit, and another being sent into its present orbit as the planet Mars?
The first major scientist to seriously research the possibility that the asteroid belt is the remains of a former planet is Dr. Thomas Van Flandern, who was the chief astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory. He wrote several academic papers on what he described as the “Exploded Planet Hypothesis”, which suggested that the main asteroid belt in our solar system arose from the destruction of a large planet around which Mars once orbited:
Putting all this evidence together, we have strong hints for two original planets near what is now the main asteroid belt: hypothetical “Planet V” and “Planet K”. These were probably gas giant planets with moons of significant size, such as Mars, before they exploded… The above summarizes evidence that Mars was not an original planet, but rather a moon of a now-exploded planet occupying that approximate orbit. Many of these points are the expected consequences of having a massive planet blow up nearby, thereby blasting the facing hemisphere and leaving the shielded hemisphere relatively unscathed. Especially significant in this regard is the fact that half of Mars is saturated with craters, and half is only sparsely cratered.
Van Flandern’s Exploded Planet Hypothesis lends scientific support to Goode’s claims about both the Moon and Mars being two former moons of a Super Earth. The CIA’s remote viewer’s claims of the history of Mars is therefore supported to varying extents by both Goode and Van Flandern’s information.
The remote viewer, as discussed in part one, described a planet with violent storms and volcanic activity that was very green. This certainly sounds like Earth, which at the time was likely the only planet in our solar system that would fit such a description. This leads to the question of whether the escaping Martians established colonies on Earth, at least one of which was in Antarctica.
In the remote viewers’ description of Mars, he described them as very tall and thin, and also possessing spacecraft used to transport refugees to the safe location – Earth. This is consistent with what Goode claims to have encountered when he was taken to Antarctica in early January 2017 to see first-hand what was being secretly excavated.
In a January 24 private briefing, Goode confirmed his earlier reports about a “Pre-Adamite civilization” found flash-frozen in Antarctica which was very tall and thin. He described three 30 mile long oval-shaped spacecraft nearby that appeared to have been cannibalized.
Artist Depiction of Pre-Adamites. Permission: Sphere Being Alliance
Such large ships would have been ideal space arks carrying many thousands of fleeing Martians as described by the remote viewer.
In earlier interviews, Goode described being taken into the interior of Antarctica, well under two miles of ice, and witnessed that it was volcanically very active, and that abundant thermal energy was available to be used as a power source. In the following graphic illustration of what he witnessed at a secret Antarctica base, the steam vents show the intense thermal energy used as a power source.
Permission: Sphere Being Alliance
Goode’s description of continued volcanic activity in Antarctica is supported by abundant scientific evidence. For example, on February 19, an NPR report discussed NASA scientists conducting experiments around Mount Erebus due to flowing lava under its icy exterior, which they believe is similar to what is likely to be encountered by NASA probes on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
Mt Erebus, Antarctica
Also, a second volcano was discovered under half a mile of Antarctic ice which is also still active and can erupt at any time.
Goode’s accounts of what he witnessed in Antarctica during separate visits is consistent with the scenario described by the CIA’s remote viewer. The Martians had to flee their dying world on spacecraft to another planet – Earth – that was volcanically very active at the time. Apparently, Antarctica, if it was chosen as a safe location for a colony of the refugee Martians, was located in a more tropical location that was both very green and volcanically active approximately one million years ago.
The descendants of the Martian refugees living in Antarctica were apparently caught off-guard by a sudden “pole shift” that happened approximately 12,000 years ago and led to them being flash-frozen.
Goode has said that major announcements about discoveries in Antarctica are forthcoming which are expected to release some but not all of the truth about the discovered flash frozen civilization. His claim is supported by internet mining expert Cliff High whose “predictive linguistics” model led him to conclude in January that major announcements about Antarctic discoveries are forthcoming.
If refugee Martians did flee to Earth a million years ago and settled in Antarctica, official disclosure of these events would revolutionize our understanding of world history. The digital release of declassified CIA documents detailing remote viewing experiments do contribute in an incremental way to the disclosure process. The truth about historic events in Antarctica would help significantly in our global civilization avoiding a similar fate to what prior civilizations have encountered on Earth and elsewhere in our solar system.
UFO IN WICHITA, KANSAS MAKING SOME PRETTY STRANGE MOVEMENTS
UFO IN WICHITA, KANSAS MAKING SOME PRETTY STRANGE MOVEMENTS
A Redditor posted a time lapse from the skies in Wichita (Kansas). When he reviewed the footage at home, he saw a strange pattern of lights appear on his photographs.
His initial thought was that it must be a regular plane, except, the object makes some pretty unbelievable turns. Also the acceleration of the object is astounding. Note that the timelapse exists out of 8 seperate images and all images were taken in about 14 minutes in total. This is almost 2 minutes per photo.
If you look up other plane trails in the night sky, you'll be bombarded with them. But not one is making the same kind of steep turn.
The creator of the video (not the Redditor who posted the time lapse) estimated that he was facing the city of Wichita and thus the Air Force base.
Could this just be an F-16 stationed at the air force base or is this a UFO?
"La recherche du vivant sur une autre planète est aujourd'hui à portée de main" : une équipe de scientifiques a annoncé, mercredi 22 février, la découverte de sept exoplanètes rocheuses de la taille de la Terre, orbitant autour d'une même étoile. Trois de ces planètes sont situées dans une zone "habitable", c'est-à-dire à la distance idéale de leur étoile pour que leur température rende possible l'existence de la vie. Mais selon la Nasa, les sept planètes pourraient toutes abriter de l'eau liquide, "sous les bonnes conditions atmosphériques".
La découverte est l'oeuvre d'une équipe internationale de cherchurs, dirigée par un astronome de l'Université de Liège (Belgique), Michaël Gillon. Leur étude a été dévoilée dans la revue scientifique Nature, mercredi.
Une étoile naine, peu lumineuse et ultra froide
"C'est la première fois que l'on détecte autant de planètes de taille terrestre dont trois potentiellement 'habitables',pour lesquelles une étude poussée est possible avec la technologie actuelle, y compris la détermination de la composition atmosphérique et la recherche de traces chimiques de vie", estime-t-il.
Les sept planètes, qui pourraient avoir des températures assez proches de celles de la Terre, tournent autour d'une toute petite étoile peu lumineuse et ultra-froide, TRAPPIST-1, située dans notre galaxie, à "seulement" 40 années-lumière de nous.
"A présent, nous avons la bonne cible" pour rechercher la présence de vie éventuelle sur des exoplanètes, a déclaré Amaury Triaud, de l'Université de Cambridge, coauteur de l'étude.
Les caractéristiques de ces planètes doivent encore être étudiées plus en détail. En août 2016, des scientifiques avaient annoncé la découverte de l'exoplanète potentiellement habitable la plus proche de la Terre. Mais après plus d'études, ils avaient conclu, en février, que celle-ci ne pouvait probablement pas abriter de la vie.
STRANGE ENCOUNTERS: Chris Evers will be putting on the UFO convention this year
UFO enthusiasts will converge in east Hull for a convention being organised by man who saw "bright lights leapfrogging" over Bransholme.
Since his extra-terrestrial 'encounter' in February 1974, Chris Evers has been hooked on all things out of this world.
Mr Evers' convention, called 70 Years of the Modern UFO Era, will take place later this year and will feature talks from UFO enthusiasts.
Chris talking about the convention
He said: "Thirty years ago the only planets that we knew about were in our solar system. Since then, at least five or six thousand planets, not in our solar system, have been discovered. Based on these figures, there must surely be intelligence life forms out there."
Mr Evers has turned his passion into a career, and is editor of his own free online magazine, Outer Limits, that is read in 57 countries.
His interest was sparked by a chance encounter as a young man in Bransholme.
"I saw two, bright lights leapfrogging each other in the sky," he said. "At that time, you'd often see aircraft flying over Bransholme - but they didn't move like an aircraft."
SPOOKY: Chris Evers saw 'leapfrogging lights' over Bransholme
Five speakers are booked for the all-day convention, including local historian Mike Covell, who has conducted extensive research into UFO reports, and Paul Sinclair and Russel Callaghan, who have both written extensively on the subject. It will take place on September 9 at the Freedom Centre, in Preston Road.
Mr Evers, now of west Hull, said: "Mike will be looking back to 1801, when the region's first UFO sighting was recorded in Hull."
The common misconception is that UFO sightings began in America in 1947, when Kenneth Arnold saw unidentified objects flying over the Cascade Mountains, Mr Covell previously told the Mail. The famous Roswell incident – when an alien craft supposedly crashed in New Mexico – happened the same year.
However, in 1801 Hull and the Humber featured in the local and national press, as well as science periodicals, when a fiery object appeared in the sky, bathing the city in blue light.
SIGHTING: An extract from a Hull Packet report from 1801
According to a report in the Hull Packet, a precursor to the Hull Daily Mail, after its initial disappearance, the UFO reappeared "looking like the face of the moon", before splitting into five circular balls of light.
One of the strangest cases centered on a report that a UFO landed in a park on the city's Longhill estate. Mr Covell's research reveals that on November 15, 1967, a group of Hull children saw a cigar-shaped craft descend and hover over the park, leaving burn marks on a hill.
Two police officers visited the 'landing site' and noticed burn marks on the hill but no sign of any such craft, according to Mr Covell. Initially they thought the children had been up to no good but their stories were said to have been very consistent.
Tickets cost £10 and are available directly from Mr Evers on 07962 397209.
Miles outside of the town of Roswell in 1947, something crashed. One-third of Americans believe it was a UFO.
UFO researcher Dennis Balthaser is trying to preserve the history of the infamous incident. But Balthaser is seeing his research hampered by witnesses dying, and his tour of the city impacted by the removal of old buildings with direct connections to the incident.
Over the three decades he has worked this mystery, he's had contact with many direct players in the drama. As the city if Roswell embraces the commercial appeal of the alleged alien saucer crash, this old guard UFOlogist is finding it hard to preserve the actual sites in town and continue his quest for what he feels is the truth.
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Wisconsin witness sees UFO move out of water
Wisconsin witness sees UFO move out of water
A Wisconsin witness at Little Suamico reported watching a triangle-shaped object move out of Green Bay that appeared to be 100 to 150 feet in length, according to testimony in Case 80998 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness watched the object emerge out of Green Bay.
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The incident occurred at 2:10 a.m. on November 28, 2016, as the witness was outside stargazing with several friends and neighbors. The case was investigated by Wisconsin MUFON Susan Birttnen and closed as an Unknown.
“He reports they witnessed a triangular-shaped object fly out of the water ofGreen Bay, traveling at approximately 35 knots,” Birttnen wrote in her report.“It was so close that they could hear a muffled jet sound. As it came out of the water it turned on its side as it traveled west and gainedelevation.”
The object appeared to be 100 to 150 feet long. Pictured: Suamico, Wisconsin.
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The witness provided a description of the object.
“The color was dark and it had blue flashing lights,” the witness stated.“The elevation wasat 500 feet and the distance was less than 1,000 feet. The side of the triangle was between100 to150 feet.”
The witness believes the object may be something operated by the U.S. Air Force.
“I believe they are investigating the saucers and the orbs in some joint effort,” the witness stated.
The city of Little Suamico is located in Oconto County and is on the Bay of Green Bay. It is in the northeastern part of Wisconsin and part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Austin Straubel International Airport is 16 miles away.The Outagamie County Regional Airport is 39 miles away.
The moved to an altitude of just 500 feet. Pictured: Suamico, Wisconsin.
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“Based on the evidence and the data provided by the witness,” Birttnen wrote,“I conclude thatthis case is in the Unknown UAV Category.”
Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Aliens have always been bound to sci-fi, because a lot of things need to go right in order for extraterrestrial beings visiting us to be possible. The two main criteria we can think of are they would have to be close enough to travel to Earth, and they would need to live on a planet that’s conducive to supporting life. It turns out that may be more possible than we previously thought, as NASA just discovered that orbiting a star 40 light-years away are seven planets that just might be livable (via Vox).
Trappist-1 is a dwarf star that’s about a tenth the mass of our Sun and a thousandth as bright. That makes it pretty cool (in temperature, not swag), meaning that planets can orbit it pretty closely while remaining in a habitable zone. By “habitable,” we mean that there’s great potential for liquid water to exist on their surfaces.
Three of the planets—e, f, and g, as labeled above—are in the most habitable zone, meaning water could most likely exist on them. Water may be possible on the other four planets as well, depending on the composition of their atmospheres, NASA astronomers said. This solar system seems very different from our own, mostly in its size: The distance between Trappist-1 and its most distant orbiting planet isn’t much greater than that between Jupiter and Callisto, its most distant moon.
Naturally, as we established from the very beginning, habitable planets have us very excited about the possibility of aliens, and even those in the scientific community share our fan-like enthusiasm. Weekly science journal Nature has already published a sci-fi story that stars a space adventurer on one of Trappist-1’s planets.
In the paper announcing the discovery, the scientists said we can expect to know a lot more about these planets “in a few years,” but until then, let’s leave our imaginations unbridled as we envision alien societies on these neighboring planets, and the peace, conflict, and adventure that exists among them.
You can watch the whole press conference right here!
Searching for Life on 7 Nearby Alien Worlds: How Scientists Will Do It
Searching for Life on 7 Nearby Alien Worlds: How Scientists Will Do It
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The hunt for signs of life on seven nearby exoplanets will likely begin just a few years from now.
An international research team announced today (Feb. 22) that seven roughly Earth-size alien worlds orbit the small, dim star TRAPPIST-1, which lies just 39 light-years from Earth. (For perspective: Our Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light-years wide. The closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.2 light-years away.)
Three of these planets appear to be in TRAPPIST-1's "habitable zone," the range of distances where liquid water (and, by extension, life as we know it) could potentially exist on a world's surface. And all seven may be capable of harboring water, given certain atmospheric conditions, study team members said. [Images: The 7 Earth-Size Worlds of TRAPPIST-1]
This combination of proximity and potential habitability makes TRAPPIST-1 an inviting target in the search for E.T.
"Looking for life elsewhere, this system is probably our best bet as of today," study co-author Brice-Olivier Demory, a professor at the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern in Switzerland, said in a statement.
Characteristics of the seven TRAPPIST-1 worlds, compared to the rocky planets in our solar system.
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechFollow-up investigation of the TRAPPIST-1 worlds has already begun. For example, last year, observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed that the two innermost planets do not possess large, puffy atmospheres, suggesting that the worlds are rocky rather than gaseous. (The discovery team announced in May 2016 that TRAPPIST-1 hosts three roughly Earth-size planets; the new study, which was published in the journal Nature, identifies a total of seven worlds orbiting the star.)
The team continues to study the TRAPPIST-1 system with Hubble. But such work can characterize atmospheres only in a relatively broad sense; the hunt for possible signatures of life such as oxygen and methane will require new instruments, the researchers said.
Luckily, such gear will be online soon. NASA's $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is scheduled to launch in late 2018, and three huge ground-based instruments — the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) — should start observing the heavens by the early to mid-2020s.
Indeed, the TRAPPIST-1 system will likely be one of the first targets for JWST once the telescope is operational, Nikole Lewis, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and co-leader of the 2016 Hubble study, said during a press briefing today. JWST's observations should allow astronomers to get a good handle on the TRAPPIST-1 planets' atmospheres by the early 2020s, Lewis added.
JWST, E-ELT, GMT and TMT will all be capable of sniffing out "biosignature" gases, their builders have said. (The big ground-based scopes will also be able to image a number of exoplanets directly, but the TRAPPIST-1 worlds aren't good candidates for such photography because they're so close to their parent star, study team members said.)
Detecting either oxygen or methane by itself in a planet's atmosphere wouldn't be compelling evidence of alien life, because both of these gases can be produced by abiotic as well as biotic processes, astronomers have stressed. Finding the two of them together, however, would be a different story.
"They destroy each other," Shawn Domagal-Goldman, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in 2014 during a NASA panel discussion about ancient Earth and habitable exoplanets. "If they're both there together, you know someone is bringing the methane in an atmosphere rich in oxygen, so that's what you're looking for. The most likely explanation is, it's life that's bringing the methane and oxygen to the party."
Artist's illustration of the surface of a planet in the TRAPPIST-1 system, which hosts seven roughly Earth-size worlds.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
So astronomers will likely search for methane, oxygen and other gas combos in the skies of the TRAPPIST-1 worlds when JWST and the big ground scopes become operational. But even success on this front would not necessarily provide universally accepted, slam-dunk evidence for life, said Michaël Gillon of the University of Liège in Belgium, leader of the new TRAPPIST-1 study.
"We will never be 100 percent sure until we go there, or get something," Gillon told reporters Tuesday (Feb. 21). (By "get something," he meant a signal from an alien civilization.)
A robotic probe won't be zooming through the TRAPPIST-1 system anytime soon, but this prospect is not out of the question. Last year, a team of scientists and engineers announced the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot project, which aims to develop the technology required to blast tiny, sail-equipped probes through space at up to 20 percent the speed of light using powerful lasers.
If Breakthrough Starshot pans out, such spacecraft could conceivably make it to the TRAPPIST-1 system about 200 years after lifting off.
Everything You Need to Know About NASA’s Epic 7-Planet Discovery Today
Everything You Need to Know About NASA’s Epic 7-Planet Discovery Today
NASA
IN BRIEF
NASA has discovered more than 2,000 exoplanets that could potentially be home to some sort of life – but we know very little about them. Today, that all changed, as NASA unveiled a solar system with a staggering 7 Earth-like planets that are similar in size and density to our own.
ALIEN WORLDS
It wasn’t too long ago that we thought Earth was the only habitable planet in the universe. But recent advancements in space technology have led to the discovery of one exoplanet after another, leading to the conclusion that life must exist outside of Earth.
To date, astronomers have identified a few alien planets that could potentially support life. For example, five exoplanets that are particularly promising are Wolf 1061C, a rocky exoplanet about the size of the Earth that is 13,8 light years away; Gliese 832C, a larger planet dubbed a “super-Earth;” Gliese 667Cc, which is 22light-yearss away in the Scorpius constellation; TRAPPIST-1d located in the Aquarius constellation; and Gliese 163C in the Dorado constellation.
These five are some of the closest Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of their parent star, but they are by no means the only ones that have been identified. NASA has actually discovered more than 2,000 planets that could be home to alien life – but for the most part, we know very little about them.
Today, everything changed.
NASA just held a press conference announcing the discovery of a solar system that has a host of Earth-sized planets. Three of these are located firmly in the habitable zone, meaning that they very likely have liquid water and could host life.
Here’s everything you need to know about these finds.
REDDIT AMA
According to NASA’s Reddit AMA, this discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. Here are the other highlights:
How long would it take with current technology to get to this solar system?
NASA: Right now, there is no current technology that can get us to the new planetary system. That’s why we will use space-based telescopes to “remotely” investigate by observing the planets from afar. To see fledgling efforts to send tiny space craft to a different star (with one known planet) see this link.
Do we know the gravity, compared to Earth or Mars, on those 3 planets that could have water in them?
NASA: Determining the surface gravity requires knowledge of both the radius and mass. The uncertainties on the mass measurements are large, but our best guess is that the surface gravity of most of these planets is similar to that on Earth. One exception is planet f. It has the same radius as Earth but 68% the mass. That means the surface gravity will be 68% lower than on Earth.
What is the protocol if you do find any signs of life on any of the exoplanets? How long would it probably take from time of discovery to an actual announcement to the public?
NASA: We do not yet have a protocol. Most likely, we will make a tentative discovery that will take longer to confirm. But that is a great question, and something that has been thought about a lot by many different organizations. There is a great article on this by SETI scientist Dr. Duncan Forgan, which looks at many different scenarios in the age of 24-hour news and social media
Can we expect to have the technology in the next 20-30 years that we could see, for sure, that there would be life in those planets in form of vegetation?
NASA: In order to see vegetation and any other surface features (e.g. oceans, continents), we’ll need future telescopes beyond JWST [the James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch in 2018] that will be able to directly image exoplanets. JWST will observe planets transiting their host stars. Transits are when the planet passes between us and its star, and from these transits, we can observe how gasses in the planet’s atmosphere interact with starlight passing through the atmosphere. Unfortunately, this technique doesn’t allow us to see the surfaces of exoplanets. To do that, we’ll need future technology that may become available in the coming decades that will allow us to block out the star’s light and observe the planets directly. Examples of these technologies are starlight suppression tools called coronagraphs and starshades. The planets we observe directly with these starlight suppression techniques will not be spatially resolved: they will literally be single points of light, but don’t despair because we can still learn a lot from single points of light!
When should we expect the data/results around atmospheric composition to be released or published?
NASA: The first observations of the newly discovered planets are underway, as soon as the results successfully pass through the scientific peer review process we will be able to share what we are learning. Stay tuned this system has lots more exciting things to teach us.
How well can Kepler spacecraft detect planets around TRAPPIST-1 compared to Spitzer spacecraft?
NASA: Kepler can observe for about 80 days consecutively and will, therefore, provide a very important time series and information on the gravitational interactions between the planets which cause timing variations. It is possible that there may be additional planets not seen by Spitzer in 20 days which Kepler could uncover. Kepler and Spitzer have comparable capabilities for the detection of planets around the TRAPPIST-1 system.
Pics and video NASA has discovered a mini solar system of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a small cool dwarf star, including three within the Goldilocks zone where liquid water is possible.
Last year, a telescope in Chile – dubbed the TRAPPIST aka the TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope – spotted two planets orbiting an ultra-cool white dwarf star. This diminutive star has about eight per cent of the mass of our own Sun.
After refocusing the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes on the dwarf system, the astroboffins identified seven distinct planets. Today they've gone public with their findings.
"The seven wonders of TRAPPIST-1 are the first Earth-size planets that have been found orbiting this kind of star," said Michael Gillon, lead author of a paper detailing the discovery, and the principal investigator of the TRAPPIST exoplanet survey at the University of Liege, Belgium. "It is also the best target yet for studying the atmospheres of potentially habitable, Earth-size worlds."
Cool dwarf stars are more common than our own type of star, but they weren't considered good candidates for spotting exoplanets because they don't put out much visible light. They do, however, put out a lot of ultraviolet light. This was perfect for Spitzer and enabled the telescope to measure the planets as they were passing in front of the star. The system has been named TRAPPIST-1 after the Chilean telescope.
Of the three planets in the system's habitable zone, the innermost, TRAPPIST 1e, is the closest in size to Earth and would get around the same level of sunlight from its dwarf as we do from our Sun. Planet 1f is slightly larger than Earth, has a nine-day orbit and gets about as much light as Mars, while Trappist 1g is the largest of the seven – about 113 per cent of the size of Earth.
How we measure up ... the seven Earth-ish-sized planets in the TRAPPIST system. Click to enlarge (Source: NASA)
All of the planets are very close to the dim star they orbit, which means they are tidally locked like our Moon and so have one side in permanent darkness. They should also be water-rich, since they would have formed much further away from their sun and then fallen inwards, Gillion said.
The embarrassment of riches around TRAPPIST-1, and the type of star itself, has raised hopes that there may be many more Earth-like planets in habitable zones than first thought, said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters.
"While only three of the planets are in the right zone for liquid water, you could also find liquid water on any of the seven, with the right atmospheric conditions," he said. "Finding a second Earth is not just a matter of if, but when."
Next year, when the much-delayed James Webb telescope finally lifts off, it will have TRAPPIST-1 as one of its first targets. The enormous power of the telescope will enable astronomers to see into the atmospheres of the planets and look for evidence of oxygen, ozone and methane – considered possible signs of life – and will also calculate their temperatures.
Because the planets are so close together, if you were to stand on the surface of one, you'd see the other six looking as large or larger than our moon. NASA has designed a travel poster for the system just in case – but getting there to check out the view could take a while.
The system is located about 39 light years away from Earth, so we won’t be seeing a probe there in our lifetimes, even if the Starshot program is successful. Nikole Lewis, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, pointed out it would take 44 million years to get there at the speed of a standard jet aircraft.
In the meantime, there's always Proxima Centauri, around which there is an Earth-style planet in orbit. It is just 4.25 light years away, and is the first Starshot target. But getting people out that far is a "100 miracle project," Zurbuchen said. ®
Researchers working worldwide have been fascinated with exoplanets for a long time now. Today (as announced in an earlier post) scientists at a NASA conference announced some great new discoveries that were made. The search for life beyond Earth has continued for a long time and the researchers have made a breakthrough discovery in which they have found a planetary system with a number of Earth-sized planets. These planets discovered could potentially host liquid water and as I’ve said before, where liquid water is present life usually follows.
Potential life forms may exist beyond our Solar System
The scientists working with telescopes at the European Southern Observatory and NASA announced an entire system of Earth-sized planets. Knowing that they are Earth-sized is not enough, what’s more intriguing is the fact that density measurements of the planets indicate that six innermost are Earth-like rocky worlds.
If you’re still not excited then this is just the beginning, three of the planets discovered lie in a star’s habitable zone. The term might be familiar to some of you, but if it isn’t then the habitable or goldilocks zone as it is sometimes called, is the region around a star where a planet would be able to have liquid water. This essentially means that three of these alien planets may have entire oceans of water and this brings us back to the theory of increased probability of life forms in liquid water filled areas.
This system has the largest number of Earth-sized planets
Other planets discovered may not have oceans of water but the team of researchers stated that liquid water is still a genuine possibility on those planets. The lead author, Michaël Gillon, stated that this newly discovered system has the largest number of Earth-sized planets ever found. In addition to this it also has the largest number of worlds that could support liquid water:
“This is an amazing planetary system — not only because we have found so many planets, but because they are all surprisingly similar in size to the Earth!”
The co-author of the search, Amaury Triaud, stated that the star in this system is an “ultra-cool dwarf,” he also clarified what this means relating to the planets:
“The energy output from dwarf stars like TRAPPIST-1 is much weaker than that of our Sun. Planets would need to be in far closer orbits than we see in the Solar System if there is to be surface water. Fortunately, it seems that this kind of compact configuration is just what we see around TRAPPIST-1.”
Just 40 light years away
The newly found system is just 40 light years away, before anyone starts stating the obvious we know that this is too far to reach with current technology. But still there’s hope that future technology might get us there a lot faster and safer. We can’t reach those Earth-like planets right now but at least we know they exist, and we know that there is potential for life out there.
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The Hubble Space Telescope is being used to look at atmospheres around the planets while the TRAPPIST-1 is of sheer importance for future study of these exoplanets. Another researcher, Emmanuël Jehin, remarked how future telescopes could allow us to actually see this planetary system a lot more in depth than we can now, he stated that:
“With the upcoming generation of telescopes, such as ESO’s European Extremely Large Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, we will soon be able to search for water and perhaps even evidence of life on these worlds.”
PLANETARY LINEUP Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the star TRAPPIST-1 with short periods, from 1.5 to 20 Earth days. This artist’s illustration shows potential differences in the planets’ surfaces and sizes.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA
A nearby ultracool star harbors seven Earth-sized planets, three with orbits that potentially put them in a habitable zone. That makes the system, around a star called TRAPPIST-1, a prime target in the search for signs of alien life. Its discovery also hints that many more cousins of Earth may be out there than astronomers thought.
“It’s rather stunning that the system has so many Earth-sized planets,” says Drake Deming, an astronomer at the University of Maryland in College Park. It seems like every stable spot where a planet could be, there is an Earth-sized one. “That bodes well for finding habitable planets,” he says.
Michaël Gillon, an astrophysicist at University of Liège in Belgium, and colleagues announced last year that they had found three Earth-sized planets around TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool dwarf star previously called 2MASS J23062928−0502285 (SN: 05/28/16, p. 6). The star, about the size of Jupiter and much cooler than the sun, is 39 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. Follow-up observations with ground-based telescopes and the Spitzer Space Telescope now reveal that the third planet is actually four additional Earth-sized ones, three of which could be habitable. If those planets have Earthlike atmospheres, they may even have liquid water oceans on their surfaces, Gillon and colleagues report online February 22 in Nature. Data also revealed signs of a seventh outer planet in the system.
All seven planets were detected by watching how their star dims as the planets pass in front of it from Earth’s vantage point. Calculations of the amount of starlight blocked by each transit indicates that all seven have roughly the same radius as Earth. These dips in starlight can also reveal how fast the planets orbit the star: The innermost one makes a round trip in 1.5 Earth days, while it takes the outermost one about 20 days.
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SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA
SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA
SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA
SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA
SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA
SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA
SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA
To calculate the planets’ masses, which range from about half to 1.5 times that of Earth, researchers looked at the way the six inner planets tug on each other. The mass and size data together then allowed the team to calculate the planets’ densities, suggesting that the inner six are rocky.
The length of each planet’s day may sync with its stellar orbit, so the innermost planet’s day lasts 1.5 Earth days and the outermost planet’s day lasts about 20 Earth days. That’s like Earth rotating once in 365 days instead of in 24 hours. Such a spin means the same side of a planet faces the star throughout the planet’s orbit, giving it a day side and a night side. Astronomers feared that would make the planets too hot on the day side and too cold on the night side to be habitable. But if they have Earthlike atmospheres, TRAPPIST-1e, TRAPPIST-1f and TRAPPIST-1g would be warm enough all over to have liquid water, making them ripe for life. The seventh planet, TRAPPIST-1h, is probably icy, Gillon says, maybe like Jupiter’s moon Europa.
EARTH’S COUSINS Detecting seven Earth-sized planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star is exotic. This video describes some of the data collected to make the discovery and what the analyses are revealing about these foreign worlds.
Finding these seven planets suggests that Earth cousins may be more common than expected. “We are on the right angle to see this system and its Earth-sized planets,” says Deming, who was not involved in the study. “For every system we see, there are dozens more that we don’t.” Stars like TRAPPIST-1 with Earth-sized planets are probably not rare, he notes. If they were, it would have taken many more observations to find them. The fact that Gillon and colleagues’ pilot project to study ultracool dwarfs spotted planets so quickly indicates that it may be the norm for these stars to harbor planets similar to Earth.
Studying the atmospheres of such planets could reveal if they have life, especially if gases such as methane and oxygen are detected. It could be possible to study the planets’ atmospheres with the Hubble Space Telescope or its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, slated to launch in 2018. Deming is cautious, however, about how easy these atmospheric studies of the planets will be. Ultracool dwarfs’ starlight can vary, he notes. There are also atmospheric effects from the stars that astronomers don’t yet understand. Both could make it difficult to decipher what gases are in the planets’ atmospheres.
Didier Queloz, a study coauthor and an astronomer at the University of Cambridge, is a bit more optimistic. “We have no idea what these planets look like now. They could be wet or dry. We just don’t know,” he says. “But for the first time since the first exoplanet was discovered 25 years ago, we may be able to answer the question about life beyond our solar system.”
Andre Milne says Area 51 is used for exploring Russian fighter plane technology.
The top-secret US Airforce facility hidden away in the Nevada desert is so classified that it was only in 2013 that the US Government openly admitted it existed.
And, last year Hillary Clinton vowed to send in a task force to find out just what goes on inside it if she made it to the White House as part of her election campaign.
Theories about what Area 51 is used for range from the development of classified aircraft to a storage facility for recovered UFOs and alien body parts after alleged flying saucer crashes.
Armed private security guards are authorised to use "lethal force" on anyone foolish enough to enter the site unannounced.
Last year, Express.co.uk ran a poll asking readers if they believed evidence of alien visitations of Earth was being hidden in Area 51.
There were 7,139 votes, and a remarkable 66 percent thought there was an alien cover up under way inside Area 51.
But, industry insider Andre Milne, founder of defence technology firm Unicorn Aerospace, which describes itself as "the world's leading developer of advanced navigation technology", claims this is not the case.
He says one of Area 51's main purposes is to test Russian warplanes to ensure the US stays one step ahead of its Cold War rival.
Mr Milne claimed the US Airforce (USAF) uses Area 51 to study Russian fighter jets - something that used to be done by The 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron at various locations until it was formally disbanded in July 1990.
He said: "An operational priority of the USAF is to fully understand the maximum endurance combat threshold of any potential adversaries primary front line military fighter aircraft.
"Following the official disbandment of The 4477th Test & Evaluation Squadron that was tasked with actively studying Russian fighter jets, Area 51 is now the unofficially designated base that does the exact same work as The 4477th.
Area 51 is a highly secured aerospace facility tasked with a wide variety of objectives to ensure the United States maintains a cutting edge of tactical air superiority against any potential threats.
Andre Milne
"Hopefully this helps in quashing the nonsensical myth that Area 51 is intertwined with some fictitious alien technology conspiracy.
"Area 51 is a highly secured aerospace facility tasked with a wide variety of objectives to ensure the United States maintains a cutting edge of tactical air superiority against any potential threats."
Last month Expresss.co.uk revealed pictures taken by a photographer of a mock dog fight between a US F-16 and a Russian Sukhoi SU-27 taking place in the skies above Area 51, before the fighters returned to base..
Mr Milne said that was an example of the work at Area 51 he has told of being underway.
He has previously told how so-called "Black Projects" are also underway inside Area 51.
Black Projects is a conspiracy theory name for the top-secret development of new experimental military aircraft.
Mr Milne says this is also ongoing at Area 51.
He said: "Area 51 is a very well secured US Air Force base that is mandated to test and evaluate the performance of experimental and or classified US military aircraft.
"The whole alien question being run out of Area 51 is complete nonsense."
According to its website, Unicorn Aerospace is "committed to development of advanced aerospace technologies in order to maximise revenue stream growth potential into the respective markets of the private commercial and public military sectors.".
Express.co.uk has contacted the United States Department of Defense for comment.
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Russian soldiers zapped by aliens after shooting down UFO, declassified CIA report claims
Russian soldiers zapped by aliens after shooting down UFO, declassified CIA report claims
RUSSIAN military shot down a UFO before they were attacked and killed by the surviving aliens, it is sensationally claimed in a declassified CIA report.
The shocking report, which includes claims that 23 soldiers were turned into stone by the aliens in the UFO after they transformed into a ball of light, was buried among thousands of declassified files published online by the US intelligence agency.
The report in question, created on March 27 1993, is a translation by the CIA of a report from the Ukrainian newspaper Ternopil vechirniy.
The newspaper report said that after Mikhail Gorbachev lost power in 1991, many KGB files made their way to the CIA, including an alleged 250-page dossier on the bizarre UFO attack, which included pictures and witness testimonies.
The report suggested that a low flying flying saucer had appeared over a military unit in training in Siberia, before one of the soldiers fired a surface to air missile, bringing it down.
GETTY
The UFO was said to have been shot down by Russian soldiers.
CIA
The now declassified CIA report with the extraordinary claims.
It said: "Five short humanoids with large heads and large black eyes got out.”
Two soldiers are said to have survived, who described how, after emerging from the debris, the five beings merged into a brilliant white spherical ball of light that buzzed and hissed.
It then exploded, and as it did 23 soldiers who stood watching were turned into stone, the report claimed.
The two survivors had been in a shaded area, it said.
Five short humanoids with large heads and large black eyes got out.
CIA report
The report said: "The KGB report goes on to say that the remains of the 'petrified soldiers' were transferred to a secret research institution near Moscow.
"Specialists assume that a source of energy still unknown to Earthlings instantly changed the structure of the soldiers living organisms, having transformed it into a substance whose molecular structure was no different to limestone.
"A CIA representative stated: 'if the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case.
"The aliens possess such weapons and technology that go beyond all our assumptions'."
It is not explained in the document why the CIA held a translation of the Ukrainian newspaper report on file.
However, the translated newspaper report contained in the declassified CIA file said the source of the information had come from the Canadian Weekly World News, which was known at the time for publishing outlandish and fictional news headlines.
According to UFO website anf YouTube channel Lionsground, "you have to be careful about what the CIA publishes online, as it could be misinformation."
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