Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Straight Out of Sci-Fi: Hoverbike 'Surfs' Through the Air in Test
Straight Out of Sci-Fi: Hoverbike 'Surfs' Through the Air in Test
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
The hoverbike prototype, dubbed Scorpion-3, is capable of lifting itself and a driver into the air.
Credit: Hoversurf/YouTube
Think of it as half drone, half motorcycle: A new hoverbike prototype aims to make flying as simple as riding a bike.
Hoversurf, a Russian drone startup, recently unveiled its Scorpion-3 hoverbike in a test- flight video — making it the first manned quadcopter that has undergone testing, reported Futurism, a science and technology news website.
The Scorpion-3 combines quadcopter-drone technology with a traditional motorcycle design, resulting in an electric-powered hoverbike that can lift itself and a pilot into the air. According to Hoversurf's website, the hoverbike can be flown by both professionals and amateurs, because the bike's custom software allows for both manual and automated control. [Hyperloop, Jetpacks & More: 9 Futuristic Transit Ideas]
"[The] Scorpion platform is the next step in accessible amateur flying developed to inspire athletes, engineers, scientists and inventors around the world," Hoversurf officials said on the company's website. "[It] is equipped with a safety system powered by state of the art flight controllers, special logical programing and passive elements with computer aided speed and altitude limiting."
While the Scorpion-3 could offer new mass transportation options, like Dubai's recently announced passenger drone, Hoversurf said it designed the hoverbike with extreme sports in mind. A compact dirt bike inspired the hoverbike's sport-utility frame, and the pilot's uniform (seen in the video and on the website) is reminiscent of a motocross driver. The company describes the hoverbike's ride as "surfing through the air."
Scorpion-3 is not the only hoverbike to take to the skies. Beyond the autonomous "taxi drone" that is scheduled to launch in Dubai, there are both private and public prototypes of similar high-tech modes of transportation in the works. According to Futurism, the U.S. military partnered with Malloy Aeronautics to build a hoverbike that could help soldiers in the field.
Aerofex, a California-based aerospace engineering company, is also developing a passenger drone. The company's so-called Aero-X is described as "a hovercraft that rides like a motorcycle," Live Science has reported, and can fly at 45 mph (72 km/h) up to 10 feet (3 meters) off the ground.
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20 Years After Dolly the Sheep, What Have We Learned About Cloning?
20 Years After Dolly the Sheep, What Have We Learned About Cloning?
By Stephanie Bucklin, Live Science Contributor
Dolly the Sheep in a field at The Roslin Institute.
Credit: Photo courtesy of The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the announcement of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. Her creation left a lasting impact on both the public and the field of developmental biology, experts say.
At the time, other researchers had managed to clone mammals by splitting embryos in a test tube and implanting them in adults. However, none had successfully used an adult somatic (body) cell to clone a mammal. Researchers at the Roslin Institute in Scotland were finally able to produce Dolly — cloned from the udder cell of an adult sheep — after 276 attempts, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
"For a developmental biologist, the ability to clone an advanced mammal was thought to be impossible," Lawrence Brody, director of the Division of Genomics and Society at the NHGRI, told Live Science.
Although Dolly was born in July 1996, Researchers announced Dolly's existence on Feb. 22, 1997. The delay in the announcement was due to the time needed to amass sufficient data on the project, check the data, write and get the manuscript published, said Bruce Whitelaw, the head of the Division of Developmental Biology at the Roslin Institute. [5 Fascinating Findings About Stem Cells]
Although British biologist John Gurdon had cloned frogs from the skin cells of adult frogs in 1958, researchers after him had failed to clone mammals such as mice, rats and pigs, despite trying for decades, Brody said. He added that many researchers began to feel there had to be "something different about mammals in the way their genome and genetic blueprints are packaged," and that cloning them would be impossible.
Dolly with Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, who led the research which produced her.
Credit: Photo courtesy of The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh
However, Dolly's creation "told us that was all wrong," Brody said.
That breakthrough would be crucial in the years to come. "It is rare that a single scientific story can have such a rapid, then sustained, impact" on science, Whitelaw said. Dolly had a massive scientific impact, especially through driving stem cell research and therapy, Whitelaw told Live Science.
Ian Wilmut, the scientist who led the team that created Dolly, similarly told Live Science that research on Dolly led to both unexpected and very important results. "The birth of Dolly and the new understanding of the opportunity to change the functioning of cells made researchers consider other possible ways of modifying cells," Wilmut said. Later, in 2006, researchers in Japan found that introducing a set of four proteins into these skin cells led to a portion of them to "become very similar to embryo stem cells," where they had the ability to then differentiate into different adult cell types, Wilmut said.
"The whole stem-cell investigation was really stimulated by the fact that Dolly was able to be born, and stem cells still are quite promising as a means to be able to repair human tissues when they're damaged," Brody said. "We're obviously not there yet, but it is something that could be traced back to the success of Dolly."
There is also a link between the Dolly experiments and the so-called CRISPR technologies that allow scientists to edit genomes, Brody said: Both are breakthroughs of enormous magnitude, and could help researchers figure out ways to repair damaged or diseased tissues, he said. [Unraveling the Human Genome: 6 Molecular Milestones]
Dolly the Sheep with her first born lamb, called Bonnie.
Credit: Photo courtesy of The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh
Another important result of the Dolly experiments is that they put science in the spotlight. "Dolly captured the world's imagination and allowed the world to hear about science," Brody said. "It's rare that the general public gets enamored [with] science, and it was clearly enamored with Dolly". The creation of Dolly also brought up important conversations about the ethical limitations of manipulating human cells and embryos, laying the groundwork for similar conversations today, Brody said.
Dolly died in February 2003, at age 6. (A typical life span for a sheep is about 10 to 12 years.) She had both offspring and clone "sisters," which were derived from the same batch of cells as Dolly. However, none of her offspring are alive today, Wilmut told Live Science. (Whitelaw also mentioned that the Roslin Institute no longer keeps sheep, as the funding for this program has run out.)
Since Dolly's creation, numerous other mammals have been cloned successfully, including mice, cattle, deer, horses and rats, according to the NHGRI.
Some conspiracy theorists claim the Moon is a hollow artificial satellite.
The favoured official scientific explanation is that the Moon broke off from the Earth's crust after it was struck by a massive Mars-sized object, and then remained in our orbit.
Many pseudo-scientists and conspiracy theorists have latched onto claims that the moon's existence and relationship with Earth defies physics, to brand it an artificially-created object.
They have taken the giant leap from this to claim aliens from billions of years ago created the structure and it may even be occupied inside, in a similar way to the infamous Death Star from the Star Wars movies.
The latest supporter of the conspiracy theory has devoted an entire article to the claims on his website.
UFO researcher JP Robinson says the fact that the moon "rings like a bell or gong when struck" means it must be hollow and artificially constructed, despite being coated in rock.
Mr Robinson wrote: "It appears that the moon itself shouldn’t actually be where it is, and all the data regarding the moon’s size and its distance from the sun and from the Earth, have confounded scientists and researchers alike."
It is true that scientists have been divided on how the moon formed, with some suggesting its existence defies physics itself.
Many scientists agree the size of the Moon is one of our solar system's biggest anomalies.
Physics has been unable to explain why a planet the size of Earth has a Moon of such a large size in comparison.
Our Moon would be expected to be about 40 miles in diameter, but is closer to 2,000 miles.
Other supporters of the hollow moon theory include conspiracy theory king David Icke and Scott C Waring, editor of ufosightingsdaily.com.
Mr Robinson added: "The Moon revolves at exactly one hundredth of the speed that the Earth turns on its axis.
"It is also precisely 400 times smaller than the Sun and exactly 400 times closer to the Earth.
"Patterns and number sequences are consistent when looking at all of the Moon’s major aspects, contrary to the inconsistencies of all other planets and moons in our solar system.
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David Icke is a supporter of the hollow moon theory.
It appears that the moon itself shouldn’t actually be where it is, and all the data regarding the moon’s size and its distance from the sun and from the Earth, have confounded scientists and researchers alike.
JP Robinson
"If you divide the circumference of the Sun by that of the Moon and multiply by 100 you get the polar circumference of the Earth.
"In fact, so precise are the measurements and correlations between the Earth, Sun and Moon that any differentiation in the figures would inevitably lead to vastly visible changes. "Take the solar eclipse for example; the Sun would no longer be able to conceal itself so perfectly behind the Moon.
"That astoundingly perfect fit that we take for granted would cease to be."
It was also confirmed by NASA that the moon does ring like a bell when struck.
During Apollo 12 the shock waves made by the lunar module ascent were recorded by seismic equipment and showed that "Moonquake" tremors lasted for 55 minutes.
Vibrations caused by the impact of Apollo 13’s Saturn rocket booster, which was equivalent to 11 tons of TNT going off, left the Moon shaking for three hours and 20 minutes, the same equipment showed.
Mr Robinson added: "There are many theories doing the rounds regarding the enigmatic nature of Earth’s Moon.
"Many claim that the moon is an artificial satellite rather than a natural object.
"It is hollow, which should be impossible were it a natural planetary object.
"As noted astronomer Dr Carl Sagan wrote in 1966, 'A natural satellite cannot be a hollow object'.
"So, if the Moon is a hollow artificial construct as the facts lead us to understand, who built the Moon, how did they get it into its present orbit and why did they put it there? "How is it that our moon remains stationary in Earth’s orbit, never revealing the dark side to us?
"Such questions will certainly not be answered overnight but the initial realisation that our Moon is not a natural object behaving naturally would raise a few eyebrows were it common public knowledge."
International astronomers – led by Michaël Gillon and largely funded by the EU – have found a solar system with seven Earth-sized planets, three of which are close enough to the star to host life.
The star, dubbed TRAPPIST-1, is located 40 light years away in the constellation Aquarius, practically neighbors to Earth by astronomical standards. The planets that orbit TRAPPIST-1 are roughly Earth-sized and close enough to the star to retain liquid water, a requirement researchers have set for extraterrestrial life.
“The discovery gives us a hint that finding a second Earth is not just a matter of if, but when,” NASA chief scientist Thomas Zurbuchen said at a news conference on Wednesday.
The Commission-funded European Research Council (ERC) backed the project with €1.96 million with its Starting grant. From this point forwards, researchers hope to follow-up the discovery by scanning the planets for clear chemical indicators of life.
Although NASA announced its part of the findings first, the ERC and Commission were quick to point out their substantial contribution.
“This spectacular discovery illustrates that once again success can be achieved when researchers from different countries and the importance of support from the European Union,” said EU chief spokesperson Margaritis Schinas during a press briefing on Thursday.
The TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. This artist's concept appeared on the cover of the journal Nature on Feb. 23, 2017.
The seven potentially habitable exoplanets discovered orbiting the ultra-cool dwarf star Trappist-1 are said to be our best chance at finding evidence of alien life in the near future.
Announcing the discovery in the journal Nature, the team of scientists said three of these planets, Trappist-1e, f and g, have the potential to have a liquid ocean covering them.
To support life (as we know it), these rocky planets would also have to develop the right atmosphere – something we should be able to establish in the coming years.
Without actually visiting the planets or receiving a message from any advanced civilisation that might have emerged, we could never be completely of the presence of life. But if it had evolved – what would it be like?
Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, has written two papers currently under review that look at what conditions might be like on the Trappist-1 worlds, and what lifeforms they may support.
"Trappist-1 now holds the record for the most rocky planets in the habitable zone – our solar system only has two – Earth and Mars. Life is a definite possibility on these worlds, but it might look different because there's likely to be very high ultraviolet radiation flux on the surface of these planets," she said.
Artist impression of what it would be like to stand on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f.NASA/JPL-Caltech
She said one of the papers looks at the scenario that the planets have a high UV environment. Different atmospheres would result in different life, she said. "We find that if the star is active, as indicated by the X-ray flux, then planets need an ozone layer to shield their surface from the harsh UV that would sterilise the surface. If the planets around Trappist-1 do not have an ozone layer (like a young Earth), life would need to shelter underground or in an ocean to survive and/or develop strategies to shield itself from the UV, such as biofluorescence."
In the paper, currently being reviewed by the Monthly Notices of the Royal Society, Kaltenegger said that if a dense Earth-like atmosphere that has a protective ozone layer exists, environments would be similar to what we have on Earth. For this reason, she said if ozone is detected in any of the atmospheres, they would make for good target planets in the search for alien life.
But this does not rule out the possibility that life can emerge beneath the surface of a planet that is highly exposed to UV. "Certain radiation-tolerant species have demonstrated an ability to survive full solar UV in space exposure experiments; however, they achieve this by entering a dormant state. Therefore, although life may be able to survive on highly UV-irradiated surfaces like this, it would likely not be able to actively metabolise and complete a life-cycle," the study reads.
"Life could shelter subsurface on such planets, e.g. in an ocean, which would make it harder to detect remotely. If photosynthetic life developed on a highly UV-irradiated planet, the UV defences it would need to employ, such as living under soil layers or underwater, would mean that surface features like the vegetation red edge signature would not exist in surface reflectance spectra.
"However, there may be other detectable surface biosignatures that would be associated with high UV surface environments. Some biological UV-protection methods, such as biofluorescence, could make such a biosphere detectable."
While we will not know if alien life exists on these planets for some time, study author Amaury Triaud discussed what the view might be like from the surface. "Think of the light you see at the end of a sunset, brighter than the moon but dimmer than the sun. However, you would still feel warm because you still get energy from the star," he said.
"The spectacle would be beautiful because every now and again you would see another planet maybe twice as big as the moon in the sky – depending on which star you are on and which you are looking at. On 1f, the star has a diameter that is three times that of the sun seen in the sky. We had a debate about the colour. Originally we thought it would be extremely red like a deep crimson. But in the end the star is so red that most of its light is in the infrared, so we would see something more salmon coloured."
This artist's conception shows what the Trappist-1 planetary system may look likeNASA/JPL-Caltech
An artist’s concept of the surface of exoplanet Trappist-1f, located in the Trappist-1 system in the constellation Aquarius. Note: No aliens.
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When NASA began teasing a major announcement earlier this week about a great discovery “beyond our solar system,” it was clear that it was going to be something exciting. And in space, the most exciting thing is obvious: aliens.
It’s not aliens.
The space agency disclosed the discovery of Trappist-1, a system of seven Earth-size exoplanets orbiting a star about 40 light-years away. The scientists say it’s possible that all of those planets—the first-known and largest system of such worlds around a single star—could contain water, though it’s most likely on the three found in the habitable zone.
A detection including such terms as “Earth-size,” “habitable,” and “water” all contribute to the idea that we are getting ever closer to finding life elsewhere. And that means maybe aliens, right?
Technically, yes, it means maybe aliens. But not aliens where you think: As Quartz’s Akshat Rathipoints out, it’s less likely that we find life on these specific planets anytime soon, but that this will help scientists learn how to better search in the future. Finding a bunch more planets of the right shape, size, zone, and temperature would greatly increase the odds of finding water—and life.
As Rathi writes:
The reason this is a big deal is not because scientists have found so many Earth-like planets at once. We’ve already discovered hundreds of those. Nor is it because Trappist-1 is so close. The star Proxima Centauri is only four light years away, and it too has an Earth-like planet in its orbit. The Trappist-1 solar system is a big deal because it’s going to be the test bed for accelerating our search for alien life.
What about this discovery will help us do that? For one, the (actual) star in this announcement is an ultracool dwarf that is about the size of Jupiter, much different than our star. Finding such a similar planetary system like ours around a (literally) cool star like this one—there are clues that the planets are rocky and tidally locked to the star—signals that scientists may want to start looking away from sun-like stars for extraterrestrial life.
A comparison of the Trappist-1 system to our solar system. The close orbits of the Trappist-1 planets are reminiscent of Jupiter and its system of orbiting moons.
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Furthermore, scientists often discover the existence of exoplanets by observing how stars might dim as planets cross by in their orbits. Trappist-1’s star is much dimmer than most stars, which makes it easier to see the chemical signatures of these planets—like water or oxygen—using instruments like the ultrasensitive James Webb Space Telescope, which is set to launch in fall 2018.
So, not aliens yet. Of course, that doesn’t stop NASA from capitalizing on the thrill of the idea: The press release is accompanied with fantastic imagined sketches of the newly discovered planets. But don’t expect anything more Earth-like on them to pop up anytime soon.
Interestingly though, Sam has observed that spotting of flying saucers have been on the downturn, despite the rise in sightings over all.
Maybe extraterrestrials have just upgraded?
In terms of geography, Sam says that the US seems to be the most prone to UFO sightings all year round.
The States actually report 300 times as many sightings than the the global average, according to his calculations.
Picture: Sam Monfort
If you want to look at all Sam's awesome data, head over to this website, where there are also breaks downs of sightings by State and other great graphs.
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When is Alien Covenant out? UK release date, cast, trailer, watch Last Supper prologue
When is Alien Covenant out? UK release date, cast, trailer, watch Last Supper prologue
ALIEN: Covenant is Ridley Scott’s latest movie in the acclaimed Alien franchise and a sequel to 2012’s Prometheus. Watch the trailer and Last Supper prologue here and find out here all about the release date and cast.
Alien: Covenant is coming to UK cinemas this year, find out below about the release date and cast
Despite mixed reviews, Prometheus secured itself enough success at the box office to warrant a sequel.
The story does not pick up directly at the end of the prequel, but rather follows a new team of space explorers looking for planets across the galaxy.
The film’s plot will lead directly into the first cult-horror film Alien, from 1979, which starred Sigourney Weaver as the iconic Ripley aboard the Nostromo.
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The cast of Alien: Covenant includes James Franco, Michael Fassbender, and Noomi Rapace
Who are the cast of Alien: Covenant?
Prometheus ended with almost the entirety of the cast dead, save for Michael Fassbender’s android David and Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth.
Fassbender will feature with a double credit, playing the dual role of android David and android Walter, in the new film.
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Michael Fassbender will reprise his role of Android David, but also play android Walter
The stars will however play second fiddle to an entirely new cast of actors who will step into the spotlight.
James Franco will lead in the role of Branson, captain of the Covenant spaceship, with actress Katherine Waterston, and Billy Crudup under his command.
Comedy actor Danny McBride will star as the cowboy pilot of the ship.
What the heck is this mysterious object flying during a Chilean Air Force flight demonstration held at Puerto Varas, Chile on February 10, 2017?
If this was a fireball, it was enormous!
Another witness filmed the same event from a different angle and reports: “I have more videos of that same day recorded from another place and you see several foreign objects flying very close to the plans.”
Here a few pictures of the unexplained sky event:
This mysterious light in the sky appeared during an Chilean Air Force flight demonstration in Chile on February 10, 2017. via Youtube videoUFO? Fireball, other planes? What was this mysterious light in the skiy of Chile on February 10, 2017?
What do you think this was? A bright meteor? SOme other airplanes on which the sun reflected? Or just another UFO?
Our world is filled with mysterious happenings, curious oddities and things that are just, well….strange. From the impressive to the downright weird, sometimes nature surprises the eye and bewilders the mind.
1. Moeraki Boulders
Found on the Otago coast along Koekohe Beach near Moeraki, New Zealand, the Moeraki Boulders were originally formed on the ancient sea floor roughly 60 million years ago. Numbering near 50, the diameter of the boulders range between half a metre (1.6 ft) and approx 2.2 metres (7.3 ft). According to Maori legend, the boulders are the remnants of eel baskets which washed ashore after legendary canoe, Araiteuru, was ship-wrecked.
2. Light Pillars
Simply a visual phenomenon created by the reflection of light from ice, Light Pillars (or columns) are most frequently formed when light from the sun or moon is reflected by ice crystals in the air. In order for the pillar effect to occur, the ice crystal must be horizontal so that the reflection can be made vertically. Due to the ambient appearance of the pillars, this phenom has been known to produce many false UFO reports. Have you seen lights in the sky on a freezing cold night? You may have just seen a light pillar.
3. The Sailing Stones
Found in the dusty, dried out plains of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, California, the Sailing Stones have defied scientific explanation to this day. No conclusion has yet been offered as to explain why these mysterious stones leave long, stretching, tracks every two or three years, although it is popularly believed that the unique weather conditions which occur here in March every year play a vital role.
4. Blue Holes
Although not quite as cool as a black hole or anywhere near as mind-boggling as a worm-hole, blue holes are much easier to observe. Technically giant underwater sink-holes, blue holes were formed at some time during past ice ages, when the sea level was roughly 110 metres lower than it is today. The deepest blue hole in the world is Dean’s Blue Hole, just west of Clarence Town in the Bahamas, and is recorded at 202 metres. The widest blue hole is the Great Blue Hole (pictured), and is 300 metres in diameter.
5. Columnar Basalt
Looking more like a discarded scene prop from 2006’s Superman Returns (the less said, the better), Columnar Basalt occurs in the wake of thick lava flow. When the lava flow cools, an extensive network of fractures develops, resulting in the formation of hexagonal columns. If the cooling is rapid, smaller columns will be observed, and alternatively, slow cooling renders large colomns.
6. Blue Neon Waves
Unfortunately, the Blue Neon waves, which were observable from the San Diego shoreline, have ceased, but that doesn’t make them any less of a natural wonder. The nocturnal opposite to the city’s “Red Tide”, the Neon waves were a spectacle of colour brought on by an over abundance of a certain kind of plankton. The “neon” effect which was evident in the surf, was the result of the bio-luminescence of the millions of dead plankton being washed ashore.
7. Moroccan Tree Climbing Goats
Okay, so perhaps these guys don’t quite fit in with the rest of this list, but nothing says “weird and wonderful” quite like goats in trees. And the reason for the farmyard favorite’s vertical endeavor: food. The berries of the Argan tree are a food source in Morocco, and are one of the few in relative abundance. The escapades of these wily creatures are a testament of nature adapting to survive.
Tell us about your favourite “weird wonders of the natural world” in the comments below!
The exoplanet discoveries just keep getting better and better. An international team of astronomers, equipped with a gamut of state-of-the-art ground and space telescopes, have stumbled upon the presence of a staggering seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a star 40 light-years away — including three which exhibit a strong chance of possessing water and being habitable to life.
The incredible new results, published in Nature on Wednesday, are the most exciting exoplanet discovery since the detection of Proxima b — the closest exoplanet to Earth, orbiting nearby Proxima Centauri at 4.25 light-years away — and raise hopes of finding another planet similar to Earth which could be inhabited by future generations which have mastered interstellar travel, or perhaps already be home to extraterrestrial life.
“With the right atmospheric conditions, there could be water on any of these planets,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, at a press conference on Wednesday. “These planets are among the best of all the planets we know to follow up” for study in life-bearing atmospheres and biosignatures.
Indeed, the findings are a far cry from just a couple of decades earlier, when astronomers believed there were very few planets outside the solar system, and certainly even smaller odds that there could have been planets with the potential to sustain life.
The star system in question is governed by an ultracool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1, named after the TRAPPIST telescope which found it, located at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. TRAPPIST-1 is just 8 percent the mass of the sun — hardly bigger than Jupiter — and is comparably quite dim.
For that reason, the planets would need to be much closer to the host star in order to stand a chance of developing the kind of temperatures and compositions necessary to sustain life as we know it. Fortunately, as explained by lead study author Michael Gillon, an astronomer at the University of Liege in Belgium, TRAPPIST-1 and its planets retain such a tight configuration.
“If you were on the surface of one of these planets, you would be able to see the others,” he said. “You would see them really as we see the moon [from Earth. You could see structures…it would be a wonderful view.”
The new findings, made using TRAPPIST, the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal in Chile’s Atacama Desert, and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, collectively confirmed the existence of three previously found exoplanets in the system, plus an additional four which had never been observed before. The planets, named TRAPPIST-1b, c, d, e, f, g, and h in order of increasing distance from the star, all have sizes similar to Earth.
The key to discovering this exoplanet family has to do with the tried-and-true formula of observing stellar transits: watching the light glowing off a star dim on a regular interval as evidence that an object or series of objects are orbiting it. The TRAPPIST telescope is basically the “little telescope that could” in the world of exoplanet research — it was originally designed as a prototype to test out the technology for a larger project, but has managed to punch way beyond its weight and help lead to a groundbreaking discovery like this one.
As surprisingly useful as TRAPPIST is, it has its limits, and that’s why the VLT and Spitzer Space Telescope were also used to better observe the stellar transits in the TRAPPIST-1 system by honing in on more detailed spectral and chemical analysis. The research team was able to use the new data to make more accurate characterizations of the new planets’ sizes, compositions (the innermost six are most likely rocky), and distances from the star.
All seven planets might possess water — the single most essential trait to allowing life to thrive on another world — but it’s TRAPPIST-1e, f, and g which are particularly compelling. They reside in the host star’s Goldilocks zone: the original region in which is not too hot or too cold for surface water to pool up. The temperature and climate are just right for life to potentially evolve, or for life from another planet (raise your hands!) to potentially make a home for themselves.
The TRAPPIST findings add to the already growing list of over 3,500 confirmed exoplanets, including 44 potentially habitable worlds. However, the biggest impediment to really confirming if any of these planets resemble Earth and could foster life — terrestrial or alien — is the fact that it’s extremely difficult to study the atmospheres of these distant worlds. That could change with the new generation of instruments being constructed right now, like NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ESO’s European Extremely Large Telescope. Developing more technology that can pinpoint the present of biosignatures, like methane and oxygen, is critical to the search for habitable planets and extraterrestrial life.
“You really have to wait till we can assess the atmospheres” before making conclusions about life, explained Sara Seager, an astrophysicist at MIT. And part of that means just hoping for optimal conditions in order to make such observations. “We have the capability to find signs of life elsewhere, but nature has to deliver.”
When those instruments finally go online, expect the TRAPPIST-1 system to be one of the first regions of space studied in closer detail, but it certainly won’t be the last. “This is a search that will go on for many generations,” said Seager. “With this amazing system, we know there must be many more potentially life-bearing systems waiting to be found.”
“Finding a second Earth,” said Zurbuchen, “is not just a matter of if, but when.”
National Geographic | Exploring the Universe - Documentary 2017 HD 1080p
National Geographic | Exploring the Universe - Documentary 2017 HD 1080p
Published on Feb 22, 2017
This program describes the most remarkable, perspective changing discoveries in the field of cosmology in the last 100 years. Each discovery was made by scientists working with a radically new telescope.
Seven Earth-sized planets have been found orbiting an ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years away
The planets are temperate, meaning they could have liquid water
The researchers believe this is the best place outside of our solar system to look for life
(CNN)Astronomers have found at least seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the same star 40 light-years away, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The findings were also announced at a news conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
This discovery outside of our solar system is rare because the planets have the winning combination of being similar in size to Earth and being all temperate, meaning they could have water on theirsurfaces and potentially support life.
"This is the first time that so many planets of this kind are found around the same star," said Michaël Gillon, lead study author and astronomer at the University of Liège in Belgium.
The seven exoplanets wereall found in tight formation around an ultracool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1. Estimates of their mass also indicate that they are rocky planets, rather than being gaseous like Jupiter. Three planets are in the habitable zone of the star, known as TRAPPIST-1e, f and g, and may even have oceans on the surface.
The TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultracool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it.
The researchers believe that TRAPPIST-1f in particular is the best candidate for supporting life. It's a bit cooler than Earth, but could be suitable with the right atmosphere and enough greenhouse gases.
If TRAPPIST-1 sounds familiar, that's because these researchers announcedthe discovery of three initial planets orbiting the samestar in May. The newresearch increased that number to seven planets total.
"I think we've made a crucial step towards finding if there is life out there," said Amaury Triaud, one of the study authors and an astronomer at the University of Cambridge. "I don't think any time before we had the right planets to discover and find out if there was (life). Here, if life managed to thrive and releases gases similar to what we have on Earth, we will know."
Life may begin and evolve differently on other planets, so finding the gases that indicate life is key, the researchers added.
"This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "Answering the question 'are we alone?' is a top science priority, and finding so many planets like these for the first time in the habitable zone is a remarkable step forward toward that goal."
And as we've learned from studying and discovering exoplanets before, where there is one, there are more, said Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Seager and other researchers are encouraged by the discovery of this system because it improves our chances of finding another habitable planet, like Earth, in the future, by knowing where to look.
What we know
The planets are so close to each other and the star that there areseven of them within a space five times smaller than the distance from Mercury to our sun. This proximity allows the researchers to study the planets in depth as well, gaining insight about planetary systems other than our own.
The seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 compared with Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
Starting closest to the star and moving out, the planets have respective orbits from one and a half to nearly 13 Earth days. The orbit of the farthest planet is still unknown.
Standing on the surface of one of the planets, you would receive 200 times less light than you get from the sun, but you would still receive just as much energy to keep you warm since the star is so close. It would also afford some picturesque views, as the other planets would appear in the sky as big as the moon (or even twice as big).
On TRAPPIST-1f, the star would appear three times as big as the sun in our sky. And because of the red nature of the star, the light would be a salmon hue, the researchers speculate.
The researchers believe the planets formed together further from the star. Then, they moved into their current lineup. This is incredibly similar Jupiter and its Galilean moons.
Like the moon, the researchers believe the planets closest to the star are tidally locked. This means that the planets always face one way to the star. One side of the planet is perpetually night, while the other is always day.
What the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like.
Based on preliminary climate modeling, the researchers believe that the three planets closest to the star may be too warm to support liquid water, while the outermost planet, TRAPPIST-1h, is probably too distant and cold to support water on the surface. But further observation is needed to know for sure.
How the discovery was made
TRAPPIST-1 barely classifies as a star at half the temperature and a tenth the mass of the sun. It is red, dim and just a bit larger than Jupiter. But these tiny ultracool dwarf stars are common in our galaxy.
Photos:Weird and wonderful planets beyond our solar system
They were largely overlooked until Gillon decided to study the space around one of these dwarfs.
The researchers used a telescope called TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) to observe its starlight and changes in brightness. The team saw shadows, like little eclipses, periodically interrupting the steady pattern of starlight. This is called transiting. The shadows indicated planets, and further observation confirmed them.
In July, the team was able to determine that two of the closest planets to the stars had atmospheres that were more compact and comparable to those of Earth, Venus and Mars by observing starlight through the planets' atmosphere.
By using a global network ground-based telescopes like TRAPPIST and space-based telescopes like Spitzer, the researchers continued looking toward the TRAPPIST system and were able to determine the orbital periods, distances from their star, radius and and masses of the planets.
What's next
Over the next decade, the researchers want to define the atmosphere of each planet, as well as to determine whether they truly do have liquid water on the surface and search for signs of life.
Although 40 light-years away doesn't sound too far, it would take us millions of years to reach this star system. But from a research perspective, it's a close opportunity and the best target to search for life beyond our solar system.
"If we learn something now, it can determine if we looked in the right place," Gillon said.
In 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will launch and be positioned 1 million miles from Earth with an unprecedented view of the universe. It can observe large exoplanets and detect starlight filtered through their atmosphere.
The researchersare also searching for similar star systems to conduct more atmospheric research. Four telescopes named SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) based in Chile willsurvey the southern sky for this purpose.
This star system will probably outlive us because this type of star evolves so slowly. When our sun dies, TRAPPIST-1 will still be a young star and will live for another trillion years, Gillon said. After we are gone, if there is another part of the universe for life to carry on, it may be in the TRAPPIST-1 system.
"This is the most exciting result I have seen in the 14 years of Spitzer operations," said Sean Carey, manager of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California. "Spitzer will follow up in the fall to further refine our understanding of these planets so that the James Webb Space Telescope can follow up. More observations of the system are sure to reveal more secrets."
You Find A Crashed Alien Space Craft Filled With Advanced Technologies. What Should You Do With It?
You Find A Crashed Alien Space Craft Filled With Advanced Technologies. What Should You Do With It?
One day you are out exploring the vast untouched wilderness of the Canadian north-west. Trees for as far as the eyes can see. Miles upon countless miles of virgin forest. You are inspired by the clean air and unspoiled nature. You are hiking on land untouched by human hands or feet. Your mind wanders as the breeze blows. You are utterly alone with your thoughts. As you walk in primal bliss…slowly the sounds of nature recede. Unnoticeable at first. The sounds of the birds, crickets, and woodpeckers evaporate into utter silence. Even the cool breeze you took for granted is a no show. You wonder when did it get silent. Was it you?
Off through a slight opening in the trees you see something shiny. A glint of sunlight in an otherwise pastel living backdrop. You approach and the shiny increases. You know no one else has ever set foot this deep in the uncharted forest. Is that a soda can? A piece of snack wrapper from some adventurous litterer. What is it?
You approach closer. You feel a trickle of sweat down the small of you back. Your mind is playing tricks on you. You get closer and closer…it’s not a soda can. Pupils dilate, pulse quickens, adrenaline gushes into your system. Your brain recoils in disbelief. Half buried in the soft undergrowth is what looks like a classic UFO. A la George Pal in “Earth vs. The Flying Saucers”. You half expect to see Klatu milling around. Nothing moves. All you can hear is your pounding heartbeat. You kick into discovery mode. It looks old. It has been here a very long time judging by the forest overgrowth. Silver-ish in color. The only explanation is that this is a genuine alien aircraft. You feverishly take your GPS coordinates.
Should you spirit the craft away in your barn in the woods, garage in the meat-packing district, or abandoned subway station. One of the three. Take care to prevent being followed! Prepare to live paranoid. No men in black yet…that is a good sign.
Being science-minded you consider the idea of something like this crashing in the first place. Paradox!
You understand the only option any alien race would have for travel through the unfathomably enormous distances and durations of space-time. To get here with any hope of doing whatever it is you might posit they intend to do they would have to bend space-time.
Ok. So they are folding space and unfolding at their will to travel without any relativistic side effects and without, as such, taking any time to do it. They are essentially popping into existence at will. I know what they are not doing – they’re not flying around in our atmosphere like aircraft. They are not accidentally losing control “in the air” and crashing down in a forest like infant-superman. Their ships don’t have “wings”, they don’t hover over farm houses, probe your ass, kill your cows, fly in formation, or dart through the sky in any way. I would go so far as to say they can be invisible to any spectrum at will. If anything happened they could just pop back instantly home.
Above all else, they don’t crash. They have complete control over what they do. Why? Because all the capabilities I describe above are side effects of being able to fold space at will. The notion of crashing and the notion of bending space-time are incompatible. So something else is afoot.
Now what?
Call a lawyer. Preferably one that is skilled in the law of salvage? Under maritime and aviation law, you may be able to get legal title to whatever is on the alien spacecraft, including intellectual property. This could be extremely valuable. With the help of the lawyer, find reliable witnesses. With them watching, document it in every possible, non-intrusive way — still pictures, audio, and video recordings. Have them provide sworn affidavits as to its existence — this in case someone takes it away from you. Store an encrypted copy of the documentation someplace safe that is nowhere near you.
Could It Be Dangerous?
The technologies contained inside the ship easily has the potential to push humanity into a post-scarcity existence.
Scientists have confirmed that microbes from Earth survived the decontamination process on Earth, survived orbit, and then survived reentry because they were recovered after all that. So your crashed alien ship definitely has alien life on it, of the single-celled variety. Should you torch the thing? But it’s already been sitting on the ground, so anything it’s got has already contaminated the area. Therefore, the human race’s top experts on the dangers of infectious disease should be told about the unprecedented ground zero that just appeared. If anything exotic is found…you should probably take a minute to set your affairs in order because you’re gonna be quarantined indefinitely.
Your mind rushes to a sea of dollar signs. This thing could hold a copy of the Encyclopedia Galactica. Untold technological advances could be yours.
Imagine you are one of the brightest minds in Victorian England. A nuclear submarine is transported back in time – so obviously you start messing around to find what makes it tick. You extract the control rods / drums from the nuclear reactor. You just exposed an active highly radioactive core. No more London – because no one knew about radioactivity back then. It gets worse if we are talking about invasion grade nano gray goo, or terra-forming goo, or Cthulu forbid something like a Kerr black hole energy storage. And that’s just stuff we already know it’s possible. The only place you should experiment with alien technology is past the orbit of Pluto, on an airless rock wired to the biggest, baddest bomb you can imagine and rigged to go off if something as much as twitches. Oh, and the rock should be on an escape trajectory from the solar system. But, that would be the smart thing to do, us humans rarely do the smart thing.
But it can be clearly and unmistakably identified as an alien craft, it does at least prove that we are not alone in the universe, which is an enormously important insight in itself. Your task should be, not to use or reverse-engineer the ship, but to make its very existence known.
Document it in every way possible before going public with your discovery. Photographs, films, reliable witnesses etc. etc. It is inevitable that the authorities will snatch the wreck as soon as they learn about it, but make sure they will never be able to put a lid on the story and pretend the whole thing never happened. They may not even try, despite the whole Roswell mythology about how the government will “always” suppress evidence of ET, but with a discovery of this magnitude, you shouldn’t take any chances. The authorities will try to study and reverse-engineer the ship, but as noted, this is almost certainly a futile pursuit. In any case, it is a job best left to the greatest scientists that can be found, not something you should attempt on your own.
What You Should Really Do.
Start by anonymously sharing very basic information about it with possible media outlets, scientists, and businesses. Be careful to maintain your anonymity, and do not mention aliens. Grab a digital camera and start taking as many detailed pictures as you can, ensure all of your pictures are in RAW and JPEG. Ensure that your pictures contain landmarks as well as evidence of the crash site itself there can be no question surrounding either the authenticity or providence of these pictures. Now you have 2 choices. Upload them all, RAW and JPEG, to somewhere they will be disseminated quickly and won’t be able to easily be taken down or removed by fraudulent DMCA notices (perhaps Reddit), or encrypt them and find a way to get them along with a written statement to some reputable journalist before the US Government shows up on your doorstep and you disappear (a la Edward Snowden).
Get feedback from all of those sources to figure out what your options are and who seems to be willing to interact with you in a safe way.
Then, it depends on whether you can separate any part of the craft to show the technology to people to get additional feedback and a sense for where a bigger reveal might land you. If you can’t, then share information carefully. Also, have an online lockbox with evidence and some kind of tracker on the craft that will provide information to your friends. So that in case someone kidnaps you or something else happens, you have some leverage or chance of being saved.
Or… If that’s too complicated, you could do some research on what researchers at a big university would be interested in and able to analyze unknown technology. And then very publicly take it to that university and tell everyone along the way to get a lot of attention, and so that there are a ton of cell phone videos and postings on the net. That way, too many people know about it for an easy cover up.
If you don’t do these simple things…Beg for your life. Seriously. Start begging. You aren’t begging to the aliens. You are begging to the very nice men and women who are about to show up in the SUVs with tinted windows. They WILL take it from you. They will take any photos or other evidence that you try and keep. And lastly, they will take you.
If you are lucky you will undergo days of interrogation while being in quarantine and to liven up your days it will be interspersed with vigorous invasive medical testing.
After all that your choices are slim. 6-foot hole. 8 by 10 cell. Comfy padded room. Best case scenario, nondisclosure agreement, and release. Worst case scenario your body turns up in a ditch the victim of an apparent suicide.
You have to be smart about all this. Your life will never be the same. It is completely up to you if it will be a long and fruitful life or not.
VIDEOOp een drukbijgewoonde persconferentie heeft de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA deze avond bekendgemaakt dat er zeven aarde-achtige planeten zijn ontdekt rond de dwergster Trappist-1. Drie van die planeten bevinden zich dicht genoeg bij de warmte van de ster om leefbaar te zijn en lijken qua omvang op de aarde. "Buitenaards leven is dus mogelijk", klonk het. "De vraag is niet of we een tweede aarde zullen vinden, maar wel wanneer."
De ontdekking is uniek, want nooit eerder werden zoveel exoplaneten - planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel - rond één ster gevonden. Bovendien lijken de planeten qua omvang op de aarde en bevinden ze zich op nog geen veertig lichtjaren afstand van onze planeet, en dat is in ons heelal "om de hoek".
De vondst heeft een Belgisch kantje, want het zijn Luikse astronomen die de vier op de aarde lijkende exoplaneten rond de dwergster Trappist-1 hebben ontdekt, nadat ze vorig jaar de eerste drie exoplaneten al hadden ontdekt.
Een team onder leiding van astronoom Michaël Gillon, verbonden aan de universiteit van Luik, had eind 2015 immers al een nieuw planetair systeem waargenomen. De ster werd Trappist-1 gedoopt en is veel kleiner en kouder dan onze zon. Gillon gebruikte hiervoor de 'TRAnsiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST)' in Chili, maar de naam is evenzeer een knipoog naar ons land.
Rotsen en water Rond de ster werden toen ook al drie exoplaneten ontdekt, die qua temperatuur en omvang vergelijkbaar zijn met de aarde. Nu hebben de astronomen met behulp van NASA-telescoop Spitzer dus nog vier andere planeten rond Trappist-1 ontdekt, die eveneens qua afmeting vergelijkbaar zijn met onze aardbol. De in totaal zeven planeten werden, afhankelijk van hun afstand tot de ster, Trappist-1b, c, d, e, f, g en h gedoopt. Drie van die zeven bevinden zich volgens de wetenschappers in de "bewoonbare zone", namelijk op een afstand waar een rotsachtige planeet grote hoeveelheden vloeibaar water zou kunnen bevatten.
"Ter vergelijking, ons zonnestelsel telt twee planeten met omvang van de aarde. Slechts één daarvan, onze planeet, bevindt zich in een bewoonbare zone. Met drie planeten die aan die voorwaarden voldoen, lijkt Trappist-1 een ongelooflijk rijk planetair systeem te zijn", zegt Gillon.
De onderzoekers zullen hun observaties voortzetten. Ze hopen binnenkort meer informatie te krijgen over de massa van de planeten en over het bestaan en de grootte van hun atmosfeer (lees verder onder de video).
U hebt allicht al moeten gniffelen bij de naam die aan de ster gegeven werd, maar ze werd inderdaad - naar analogie met de astronoom die ze heeft ontdekt - vernoemd naar een Belgische delicatesse, het trappistbier.
En er is nog meer opvallends. Ook het project zelf verwijst naar een Belgische lekkernij: de speculoos. Want Gillons onderzoek naar exoplaneten heet officieel 'Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl-Stars', of SPECULOOS.
Onder meer de Amerikaanse krant 'The Washington Post' liet zich al op een grapje betrappen: "Like Trappist beer, speculoos cookies are a Belgian delicacy. His next effort will have to be called WAFFLES" of "Hoe zal de volgende ontdekking worden genoemd: 'Wafels'?
Welke naam de zeven nieuwe planeten zullen meekrijgen, is nog niet geweten. Gillon zelf opperde tijdens de persconferentie ze te vernoemen naar Belgische bieren.
Gigantisch aantal In de afgelopen jaren zijn bijna 3.500 planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel ontdekt. Daarnaast zijn er bijna 4.700 potentiële exoplaneten. Van al die planeten zitten er 44 in de leefbare zone. Maar wetenschappers zijn pas net begonnen met zoeken en tellen. Het werkelijke aantal exoplaneten ligt waarschijnlijk veel hoger. Alleen al in onze Melkweg zijn naar schatting honderden miljarden sterren, en er zijn honderden miljarden sterrenstelsels in het heelal. En waarschijnlijk hebben vrijwel al die sterren planeten om zich heen draaien.
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Collection of UFO Sightings By Streetcap1 Over The Years, Feb 23, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Collection of UFO Sightings By Streetcap1 Over The Years, Feb 23, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Unknown Location of sighting: Space station Here is a great collection of the best UFOs caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube. It has some very interesting sightings near the space station that have always gone unanswered by NASA. For some reason, NASA will not respond when asked about these UFOs near the space station and probably never will. To talk about it is to bring attention to it. Thats the opposite to what they want. They want you to ignore it, but thats not going to happen. Scott C. Waring Streetcap1 states:
This is a selection of ufos I have uploaded in the past. They had very little views and I feel that people need to see them. The final picture ( also thumbnail ) was uploaded a few years ago on a small video with a NASA link. Within 12 hours, the picture had been changed and a different photo of the moon, without huge object had replaced it. Of course I was accused of fraud by trolls as it did not show in the linked photo. I eventually removed the video. I am uploading a section of it today, it's up to you if you believe that an object this big, preceded the moon landings by two years. Streetcap1.
Edges Of UFO Appear During Thunderstorm On Feb 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Edges Of UFO Appear During Thunderstorm On Feb 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 2017 Location of sighting: Unknown This UFO is seen because the energy from the thunderstorm is gathering around the edge of the disk, allowing us to see the outer edge. This is not a ring UFO, but a disk UFO. Unfortunately the guy recording shakes like he just ran to the top of a hill or something to get a better view...its hard to say for sure, but its irritating. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
During a recent thunderstorm in the US a UFO appeared. It's not clear whether the UFO got hit by the lightning strike or whether it was using the lightning for it's energy. After the lightning strike the UFO becomes visible for a 30 seconds and illuminates the sky and the surrounding area. Then a second lightning strike is heard and the UFO dissappears. When the UFO disappears the area turns dark again. I made a short video analysis of the footage to explain what happened.
Glowing White Orb Over Cypress, Texas On Feb 22, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing White Orb Over Cypress, Texas On Feb 22, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:February 22, 2017 Location of sighting: Cypress, Texas, USA Source: MUFON #82278 This video is short but shows the glowing object in the sky over Texas this week. The UFO is very bright and has an orb shape to it. I only wish he had recorded more so we could see it move. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was out riding my Harley and saw a strange light in sky. Pulled over and noticed it was very bright and no flashing lights. No stars visible in sky plus this was too close. Filmed and took pictures for about 45 minutes. It never moved very much. It was spinning and had structural design. Very similar to ufo's on tv. I felt very curious about it. Called my wife, she went outside and saw it too. I was also with my friend who witnessed it also. I have many more photos and lots of video that wouldn't upload. This was taken with an iPhone 7 plus with a telephoto camera. It was still there when we got home and I don't know when it left.
Amazing sighting caught on tape over Nevada – near Area 51
Amazing sighting caught on tape over Nevada – near Area 51
This interestin UFO video was caught on tape over Summerlin, Nevada back in July 2015, but it was just posted online recently. What do you think about this footage?
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.
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(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.
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