Pupils saw a UFO over Wawne Primary School

A UFO investigator is seeking witnesses to a 'flying saucer' reportedly seen by a group of children above an East Riding primary school.

On Friday, November 18, 1977, about 20 pupils of Wawne Primary School - aged six and seven - said they had seen a strange object.

The sighting featured on the front page of the Hull Daily Mail, with head teacher Michael Yates saying at the time: "I was talking to my wife when three children from her class rushed in and said they had seen something silvery in the sky."

by Taboola 

Mr Yates had suggested that the children went away to draw or paint the object from memory.

"They decided to make Plasticine models," said Mr Yates. "And the odd thing is that these look very similar although the children had no opportunity to copy from each other."

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The models depicted an upside plate with a mound on top - a classic flying saucer.

Now, Chris Evers, editor of the UFO magazine Outer Limits, is investigating the sighting, and is appealing for help from Mail readers.

He said: "I am trying to contact any of the witnesses to this event, as this year is 40 years since they experienced this sighting."

Mr Evers is particularly interested in hearing from a Lisa Pattison, who was then aged seven and of Church Crescent, Wawne, Claire Swift, Michael Yates and his wife Joyce.

INTRIGUED: Chris Evers wants to hear from those who spotted the strange object in the sky

"I do realise, of course, that the teachers may no longer be with us," he said.

Mr Evers said the sighting may feature in a convention, called 70 Years of the Modern UFO Era, that will take place on September 9 at the Freedom Centre, in Preston Road, east Hull.

His interest in all things extra-terrestrial was sparked in February 1974, when he saw strange light patterns, also in the skies above Bransholme.

"I saw two, bright lights leapfrogging each other in the sky," he previously told the Mail. "At that time, you'd often see aircraft flying over Bransholme - but they didn't move like an aircraft."

Anyone who can help shed light on the 1977 sighting is asked to call Mr Evers on 07962 397209.

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02-03-2017 om 20:42 geschreven door peter  

Tom Delonge is about to reveal an alien conspiracy, Blink-182 singer suggests after receiving UFO award

Andrew Griffin 

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The singer has previously suggested that he has met aliens near Area 51, and that he is being hunted by authorities because of the work he has been doing in investigating extraterrestrials and an apparent cover up. He has said before that he has had his phone tapped, for instance, because he has sources in the US government and has spoken to people who knew Nazi scientists.

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Clinton campaign manager consulted with Tom Delonge about aliens

He made reference to that work in the video, during which he also teased a revelation that would be made in the next 60 days. The mainstream press could miss the full significance of that revelation, he said, but he implored those watching the video who are a part of the UFO-hunting community to take "read between the lines" of what is announced.

There’s a lot that I can’t say, but there’s some that I can," he said in the speech. And I’m so appreciative that I’ve been acknowledged for this stuff, but I’m not done.

"I’m just like you guys. I spent 20 years up all night, reading about Roswell, Dulce, Serpo, Churchill, the crashes here, Nazis building craft there, Antarctica, what’s on Mars, what’s on the back of the moon, anomalous structures. I mean, I’ve done it all. I know it all. I read all the same authors as you guys, hundreds of books. I look at all the same sites. I listen to all the Coast To Coast stuff that you guys do. I’m the same.

"But I kind of used some of my notoriety to try to do something pretty ambitious, and it worked," he said, apparently referencing the upcoming announcement.

"I came out and told you guys about a book I was writing called Sekret Machines, and I said a bunch of stuff, that I was working with some people. Well, I think a lot of people doubted it, and they thought it was crazy that this musician would have this kind of access. And then the WikiLeaks thing happened, and you guys saw that I’m into some serious shit, and I’m making really good progress."

Those WikiLeaks emails brought much of Mr Delonge's work to the fore, and showed that he had consulted with Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta on his work. Mr Delonge said in the messages that he had been talking to high-ranking officials in the US government.

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02-03-2017 om 20:29 geschreven door peter  

MASSALE EVACUATIES VAN BURGERS OP ANTARTICA ( VIDEO )

Er is waarschijnlijk nog niet eerder in de recente geschiedenis zoveel aandacht geweest voor het bevroren continent Antarctica dan het afgelopen jaar. 

Ook nu gonst het weer van de geruchten en berichten over een mogelijke massale evacuatie van burgers uit Antarctica, maar waarom? 

Er zijn feiten en je hebt verhalen, berichten en geruchten. In die laatste categorieën is het op dit moment wereldwijd heel druk en doen de meest wilde verhalen de ronde. 

De vraag is of het ook inderdaad allemaal geruchten zijn of dat er misschien toch een kern van waarheid in zit omdat men niet wil dat dit aan de grote klok wordt gehangen. 

Enkele dagen geleden verscheen er een bericht van iemand op het bekende Godlike Productions forum die vertelde dat hij werkt voor een aannemer op het gebied van geavanceerde elektronische apparatuur die ze hoofdzakelijk verkopen aan het Amerikaanse leger. 

Hij vertelt verder dat hij vorige week zaterdag een biertje aan het drinken was, toen hij plotseling teruggeroepen werd naar zijn werk. Toen hij daar aan kwam zag hij een aantal hooggeplaatste militairen, iets dat hij daarvoor nog niet eerder had gezien. Hij zegt dan ook dat toen hij die kolonels daar zag op zaterdagavond hij wist dat er iets mis was. Volgens hem zagen ze er nogal paniekerig uit. 

De man wilde verder niet zoveel vertellen, maar wel dat ze in sneltreinvaart zeer geavanceerde apparatuur moesten verschepen naar Antarctica. Daarnaast vernam hij dat alle burgers met sneltreinvaart uit Antarctica zouden worden geëvacueerd. 

Probleem met dit soort berichten is altijd dat ze er nooit hun naam bij vermelden, dus je weet nooit of het verhaal klopt of niet. 

Wat wel een feit is, is dat Britse wetenschappers met grote spoed East Antarctica moeten verlaten vanwege een enorme ijsscheur die vlakbij hun basis aldaar verscheen. 

 

Het plan was om het wetenschappelijk station te verplaatsen naar de locatie Halley VI, maar ook dat is alweer van de baan vanwege nog eer enorme ijsscheuren die nu optreden. De wetenschappers die daar dit jaar zouden overwinteren, worden nu in deze maand, maart en aanvang van de winter in Anarctica, geëvacueerd.

Opvallend is ook dat de Russen veel worden gesignaleerd in Antarctica, het afgelopen jaar, maar ook dit jaar weer. Het gebied waarop zij zich concentreren bevindt zich rondom de Lazarev Zee en dat ligt weer pal voor Neuschwabenland, het gebied dat door de Duitsers voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog uitgebreid werd bezocht en verkend. 

Dezelfde Duitsers van wie het welhaast zeker is dat zij nog steeds een basis hebben ergens in dat gebied, hetzij bovengronds, hetzij ondergronds. 

Een kenner van Duitsland en hun geheimen denkt het volgende over de hernieuwde activiteiten op Antarctica en de reden dat er een aantal hoogwaardigheidsbekleders vorig jaar op bezoek zijn geweest. (In het volgende stukje bedoelt hij waarschijnlijk John Kerry in plaats van Obama. Obama bezocht samen met 2 andere voormalig VS presidenten Afrika een paar jaren eerder en dat lijkt een bezoek van tegengestelde aard te zijn geweest). 

Volgens mij lijkt het er meer op dat Obama, Aldrin en de rest op verzoek van de Rijksduitsers (niet verwarren met de politieke macht in de illegale Bundesrepublik Deutschland) naar Antarctica afgereisd zijn om met eigen ogen te zien hoe het ook kan (homogene geweldloze hightech maatschappij), hen te verzoeken de NWO te stoppen, de derde wereldoorlog af te blazen en de wereld eindelijk de waarheid over ons en onze wereldgeschiedenis te vertellen. 

Aangezien Obama in zijn laatste dagen nog snel wat provocaties richting Rusland heeft gedaan, lijkt het er niet op dat deze verzoeken zin hebben gehad. Kennelijk durven de marionetten het niet aan hun meesters aan te pakken, bang dat hun eigen beerput open gaat? Bang dat ze eindigen als Micha Kat, Snowden, of nog erger? 

Hij zei ook al eerder in een eerder artikel op deze site het volgende:

Een ander feit is dat het land wat op Antarctica tijdens de Neu Schwabenland expeditie van Kapitein Alfred Ritscher in '38/'39 verkend en afgebakend is, volgens het toen geldende volkenrecht officieel onderdeel van het Derde Rijk is geworden. "Operation High Jump" van Richard E. Byrd was een vergeefse poging de afzetbeweging te overmeesteren. 

Het was ook Admiraal Byrd die na Operation High Jump in een interview met Lee van Atta van de El Mercurio krant uit Santiago in Chili een zeer opmerkelijke verklaring aflegde op 5 maart 1947.

Het volgende stond in de krant: 

Admiraal Byrd verklaarde vandaag dat het absoluut noodzakelijk was voor de Verenigde Staten om onmiddellijk te beginnen met het versterken van haar defensie tegen vijandelijke regimes. Verder verklaarde Byrd dat hij niemand onnodig bang wilde maken, maar dat het een bittere werkelijkheid was dat in het geval van een nieuwe oorlog de Verenigde Staten zouden worden aangevallen door vliegende objecten die met onvoorstelbare hoge snelheden van pool tot pool kunnen vliegen. 

Als die Duitsers inderdaad beschikten over UFO's die in een oogwenk van pool tot pool kunnen vliegen, dan hebben de zeer bijzondere foto’s die in de zomer van 2015 boven water kwamen hier misschien ook mee te maken. 

De beelden zijn door een anonieme bron gegeven aan UFO onderzoeker Alex Mistretta. Deze ontdekte later dat de foto’s ook zijn gepubliceerd door een Frans paranormaal tijdschrift met de titel Top Secret. 

Samen met John Greenwald van de website TheBlackVault.com probeerden ze meer informatie over deze opnames te krijgen. 

Klaarblijkelijk zijn ze genomen in 1971 vanaf een Amerikaanse onderzeeër die in het gebied tussen IJsland en Jan Mayen eiland voer.

Bovenstaande foto’s werden in maart 1971 genomen vanaf de Amerikaanse onderzeeër de USS Trepang. Het schijnt dat de Trepang deze vliegende objecten eigenlijk per ongeluk tegenkwam en de meeste foto’s zijn door een officier met de naam John Klika genomen via de periscoop. 

Kortom, er spelen veel dingen op beide uiteinden van de aarde en zoals het er nu uitziet, zullen er vast binnenkort meer spannende ontwikkelingen volgen. 

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02-03-2017 om 20:06 geschreven door peter  

Living Rocks Found Evenly Spaced Apart On Mars In Many Places, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: March 1, 2017
Location of discovery: Mars

I have been observing this phenomenon for several months now and am gladStreetcap1 noticed it too. These soft rounded shell like black objects are seen in different places. Often a few near each other, but always evenly spaced apart. Now there can only be two logical reasons for such space. One I like, and one I don't. First, these were moved by some kind of lifeforms, intelligent or not, but its also possible that they move themselves...a living rock that chews at the surface of the soil to make its body, and absorbed the heat of the sun to make more food like a plant. The second thought is that NASA has made a stage set area and set up the area with evenly spaced rocks in the area. You choose which is real, I choose to believe the first is due to the data of the yellow living stones that were removed from the ship in Delporte crater during Apollo 20 mission...they were rocks that bleed liquid. Maybe a medicine of some sort. 

Below the video I will place some photos from two I found just not to show you. This one below was examined close by the Curiosity rover just this week. 
Scott C. Waring

Streetcap1 states:
If these are some sort of fossils, I would not be surprised. Even some scientists think Mars once had life. Notice on a couple of shots they are sitting in a group or semi-circle quite evenly spaced apart. This immediately caught my eye because of the unusual look. Streetcap1.

 The rock above was in a different Mars photo from the one below, the two below are from the same photo. 

Source: http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/196063

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02-03-2017 om 19:40 geschreven door peter  

Shapeshifting Alien Orb Caught Near Window On Security Camera, Australia, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 1, 2017
Location of sighting: Geelong, Australia

This orb was caught for one reason only, and thats because it was visiting and got caught on a infrared security camera. Infrared can catch anything that is cloaked, and that is why so many military planes and helicopter have it. Here the orb was coming from over the house, slowing down as it passed the window. It was watching. This looks like an entity itself that can change forms when it wants. A changling if you will, but it prefers to move about as an orb to stay invisible. It can take human form if it wishes. This I learned from data about orbs at the ECETI ranch. (click here to visit).
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

This was filmed in Geelong, Australia in our back yard thoughts??

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02-03-2017 om 19:35 geschreven door peter  

UFOs filmed over Mesa, Arizona 1-Mar-2017

Here’s one interesting footage of a bright unidentified lights flying in the night sky above Mesa in Arizona. This was filmed on 1st March 2017.

UFOs over Mesa, Arizona – March 2017 by justa4t

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02-03-2017 om 19:24 geschreven door peter  

Rock Star Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 Honored With UFO Award

Did not know Blink – 182 guitarist Tom DeLonge had a thing for aliens? DeLonge has earned accolade for his passion for finding proof of extraterrestrial existence, including running a news site for UFO research.

It now turns out that even rock stars believe in little gray men from other planets.

Blink-182 former frontman and guitarist shared last year that he has been working with people from the highest levels of the military, NASA and the Department of Defense.

DeLonge’s passion for unidentified flying objects might be news to some, but it is not just an unusual hobby for the musician. He’s willing to know everything about the past and present UFO sightings, as well as any research about ET phenomenon done by respected scientists, military personnel, and NASA officials.

DeLonge has written non-fiction and fiction books about aliens and even created a website To The Stars to inspire a newfound appreciation of UFOs, aliens, research and entertainment that for him build hope, positivity, and community.

The group of so-called UFOlogists of the International UFO Congress honored DeLonge’s for his work on the subject with the 2017 UFO Researcher of the Year Award on February 22.

DeLonge could not accept the award in person but made a video acceptance speech for IUFOC attendees.

In the video, DeLonge says he’s not done yet after spending 20 years reading about Nazis building craft, the UFO crashes, what’s on the back of the moon and Mars, Churchill, and Roswell. He adds that he uses his notoriety to something ambitious, and he’s making good progress.

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02-03-2017 om 19:21 geschreven door peter  

UFOs Caught On Cam Making A Triangle Formation Over Remote Farm

Footage showing three UFOs forming a sustained triangle formation has brought excitement among UFO investigators. The incident reportedly happened over a remote U.S. farmland in Everett, Washington.

The sighting of these unidentified flying objects was reported to Mutual UFO Network, which currently investigating the case.

According to the account filed in the MUFON’s witness reporting database, the strange event occurred at 7:20 in the morning on January 16 when the witness was walking through fields to assess tide flats for duck hunting.

The unnamed witness claimed to have seen three white, blinking lights to the south in a triangular formation. He managed to take photos and videos, which he submitted to MUFON together with his report for further investigation.

Tim Ward, MUFON Washington state section director, is currently investigating the case.

The witness said that the lights could be aircraft, but he was not very certain about it. He expected the formation to break, but it remained intact longer than any planes.

The report was submitted to MUFON on February 20. MUFON communications director Roger Marsh reminded everyone that most UFO sightings could be explained as something human-made or natural.

Some skeptics believe that planes circling and waiting to land can sometimes appear to have created a formation.

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02-03-2017 om 19:18 geschreven door peter  

This Woman Filmed A "UFO" In The Sky And Now People Are Screaming About Aliens

Experts have said it’s definitely not an alien.

Brad Esposito

Lee-Anne Peters from Hobart was looking out her window in the early hours of Tuesday morning when she saw what looked like a fireball streaking across the sky.

Lee-Anne Peters / Storyful / Via youtube.com

“I set my alarm to wake up early because it was my daughter’s 16th birthday,” she told BuzzFeed News. “My kitchen window has a great view of the eastern sky… Looking out the window while cooking I saw the object.”

Lee-Anne lives near an airport and at first thought the object was a plane, however she soon believed it was too high in the sky for that to be the case.

As her daughter grabbed a pair of binoculars, Lee-Anne got her video camera and zoomed in to film the whole thing.

After Lee-Anne posted the video to Facebook it was shared over 1,000 times. Then people began the debate about what exactly the object was.

Some thought it was an alien…

Some thought it was a plane…

And some wanted to be VERY CLEAR that it definitely was not a plane.

However Chris Arkle, an astronomer at Launceston Planetarium, told ABC News it was “definitely a high flying aircraft”.

“The length of time that the object was visible for, and its apparent speed, both support this hypothesis,” he said.

Of course, that’s probably exactly what the aliens would want you to be believe.

FOX

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02-03-2017 om 01:31 geschreven door peter  

By Foti Kallergis

 

HOUSTON (KTRK) --The Mutual UFO Network in Houston reports about 80 suspected UFO sightings a year.

That's not including the ones that are seen but not reported.

One top UFO expert, Fletcher Gray, explains why so many of the sightings aren't UFOs. But, he also says there is one case that he still can't figure out.

FOTI KALLERGIS DEBUNKS HOUSTON UFO SIGHTINGS

Foti Kallergis and a top UFO investigator analyzed several recent sightings.

Just above the Katy area an orange light is spotted, seen floating around. Down below, sightseers are convinced it's a UFO.

Gray went back to Katy with Eyewitness News to investigate.

"It's flickering as it moves through the night sky," Gray says.

He says if it was a true UFO, the light would not be flickering. He does tell us what he thinks the light is.

"It's probably going to be some type of aircraft or a lantern," he says. Case closed.

PHOTOS: UFO sightings in Texas

The MUFON UFO stalker map shows a great trend in sightings along the Katy Freeway. (MUFON)

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WHY IS THE KATY FREEWAY ATTRACTING UFOs?

The Katy Freeway into downtown Houston appears to be a hot zone for UFO activity.

Gray shows us another reported sighting, this photo taken from a building in downtown Houston.

Is that light a UFO or something else? "That's lens flare," Gray says.

That's right-lens flare- that highway light giving that off through the glass window.

What about an image of a white object, high in the daytime sky?

"You see that tail over there? That black line right there. That's an airplane," Gray said.

SEE ALSO: Did Houston have its own Area 51?

Film clips from the early 60's show saucers, rockets and jet cars

What Gray says most often in UFO reports happens near airports, like Hobby, Bush, Ellington Field and Sugar Land.

Real UFO sightings are rare, he says. But, he says they do happen.

"The universe is too big for us to be alone," Gray says.

Many sightings turn out to be aircrafts, weather balloons, or lanterns. But one sighting still puzzles Gray to this day.

This is an artist rendering of the UFO that is still confounding Houston's top MUFON investigator

Traveling down Highway 1960 near Dayton, Gray shows us the spot where a man told him he saw an aircraft that defied gravity.

"It spanned all the way to that tree line over there," he said.

A photo of what the aircraft may have looked like confounds Gray to its size.

The eyewitness told Gray the aircraft could be seen hovering. And then, it disappeared.

"I spent 27 years in law enforcement. I know when a person is lying, leading me on," Gray said. "I don't think he was."

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This photo was taken by Alfonso Servin on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. He said he is convinced it is a UFO.

Gray says most sightings reported to MUFON in Houston can be explained.

Gray says UFOs are real, and told us what he thinks they want from our planet.

"They're seeking out and learning our planet, if that's the case," Gray said. "It could be something they are doing research with, something that has antigravity capabilities."

"If it's a UFO, it's a baffler."

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CIA releases hundreds of documents on UFO sightings

A photo released by the CIA shows unidentified flying objects in the skies over Sheffield, England on March 4, 1962. (www.cia.gov)

RELATED: Man releases 130K pages of Air Force UFO reports

(U.S. Air Force, via The Black Vault)

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02-03-2017 om 01:22 geschreven door peter  

Why are the number of UFO sightings increasing worldwide?

02-03-2017 om 00:58 geschreven door peter  

ANCIENT LIFE

The Oldest Life on Earth Has Been Discovered in Canada's Arctic

 BRYSON MASSE

It's an estimated 4 billion years old.

About 35 kilometers south of Inukjuak, an Inuit village in the far North of Quebec, lies an unusual rocky outcrop. Known as the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, it's mostly made up of grey-green rock, laced with veins of red. If you took the arduous trip there, and weren't a geologist, you might not realize what you were standing on. These rocks are thought to have formed billions of years ago under a prehistoric ocean, near ancient hydrothermal vents. And now they've yielded signs of extraordinarily ancient life, rewriting our planet's history.

In a new paper in Nature, an international team of researchers say these rocks are between 3.8 and 4.3 billion years old—the oldest rocks ever found on the planet. But that's not all. Their bizarre structures are signs of the presence of ancient microorganisms, making them the oldest "microfossils" ever found, and the oldest record of life on Earth.

The Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt showing a few of Nunavut's Nastapoka Islands in the background.

Image: D.Papineau

Our planet is just over 4.5 billion years old. Back in the era when these rocks were formed, not much more than a few hundred million years after Earth cooled and the oceans formed, it had a mostly toxic atmosphere and conditions that wouldn't be considered suitable for pretty much any sort of life we know of today. (Our planet's earliest time period, the Hadean Eon, which dated from about 4.5 to 4 billion years ago, was so hellish that it's literally named after Hades.) 

That's one reason discoveries like this are important: If life could spring up on our primitive planet, chances look better that it might have emerged on other planets, too.

Haematite tubes from the NSB hydrothermal vent deposits that represent the oldest microfossils and evidence for life on Earth.

Image: Matthew Dodd

Geochemist Dominic Papineau, who is from Quebec, made a field expedition to the northern part of the province in 2011. It took three flights in small "propeller planes" to get to the site, he told Motherboard in an interview, as well as a three-hour boat ride.

Papineau wasn't expecting to find fossils, mostly because the rocks were all heavily metamorphosed (meaning they had undergone changes under immense pressure and heat beneath the Earth's crust, a process thought likely to destroy any possible signs of life).

Layer-deflecting bright red concretion of haematitic chert, which contains microfossils. A dark green volcanic rock in the top right represents hydrothermal vent precipitates on the seafloor. Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt.

Image: Dominic Papineau

So it was curious, he said, that bright red-banded iron formations were spattered among the grey-green landscape. "One hypothesis about these rocks is that there was biological involvement in their formation," said Papineau, who is a professor at University College London (UCL). 

Certain types of bacteria that exist today are able to harvest nutrients from iron through a chemical reaction. Papineau began to wonder if similar organisms existed some 4 billion years ago.

"I was intrigued by the occurrence of these rocks, so I sampled them," said Papineau. "But what really gave me a hint that something important might be preserved in there is that I found concretions [mineral deposits formed by microbes] of jasper in the field."

Read More: Why Is This Weird Glacier Yellow? The Answer Could Help Find Alien Life

Deposits of hematite (an iron mineral) found embedded in the quartz-like jasper formed a wide variety of structures resembling tubes and filaments, granules and rosettes. Although this implied a possible biological origin, it still wasn't a slam dunk. There are ways the structures could be created through non-biological interactions, so Papineau and the other scientists had to look further. One interesting characteristic of the formations were the layers of other minerals around them.

"The rosettes that we documented are composed of carbonate along with apatite and graphitic carbon," he said. "Carbonate with apatite is really the stuff of bones."

Microscopic iron-carbonate rosette with concentric layers of quartz inclusions and a core of a single quartz crystal with tiny inclusions of red hematite from the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt.

Image: M.Dodd

In other words, here was more organic matter that could have originated from microfossils.

At UCL, he and lead author Matthew Dodd used microscopy and spectroscopy to continue to investigate these rocks. Eventually, they concluded there was evidence for microfossils of ancient iron-oxidizing organisms.

There are only a few other places around the world where you can find rocks of this age.

One is the stromatolites of Greenland. In 2016, scientists announced they'd discovered fossils there dating back 3.7 billion years. At that point, they were the oldest known.

These were produced within the same geological period as those described in the new study in Quebec, and were made by oxygen-producing microorganisms. That means that not only was there life in the very early stages of the planet—it was relatively diverse.

"If there were oxygen producing microbes then, [as well as] microbes that were oxidizing iron near hydrothermal vents, we have quite a significant diversity, because these are somewhat distantly related microorganisms today," said Papineau.

An Inuit-made inukshuk.

Image: J.O͛Neil

The implications of finding two distinct branches of life so early in the planet's history has implications for finding life on other planets. If two separate species of bacteria were able to evolve this early on Earth, could they also be found near hydrothermal vents in Mars' ancient seas, or within Europa's possible subsurface ocean? Scientists have already found hematite concretions on Mars, in the form of "blueberries" discovered by the Opportunity rover.

Papineau choose Quebec as his target because, after learning about the work in Greenland, he knew similar samples could be found closer to home. "This is my home province. This is my home country," he said. Now, by exploring the ancient rocks of its northernmost reaches, he and his collaborators have rewritten the history of life on Earth.

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02-03-2017 om 00:48 geschreven door peter  

Truth about aliens will soon be revealed - and it will be key to saving Earth, says expert

AN ALIEN hunter claims the truth about extraterrestrials visiting Earth will soon seep out - and once it does it will mean we can finally save the planet.

01-03-2017 om 23:44 geschreven door peter  

EXCLUSIVE: Truth about the mysterious 'black cube UFOs' seen 'draining energy from Sun'

AS UFO claims go it has been one of the most bizarre - black cubes bigger than planets found in NASA images of the Sun, that some conspiracy theorists claim are monster alien craft draining solar energy.

01-03-2017 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

Changes in Lovejoy comet's water 'fingerprint' discovered by NASA researchers

The research team focused at the water (H2O) present on Lovejoy and calculated the water it released while producing heavier form of water (2H2O) known as deuterium oxide

Nupur Jha

01-03-2017 om 23:03 geschreven door peter  

Mars Colonisation: NASA joins hands with an astronomical engineer to colonise Mars using 3D printing!

Power grids, landing pads as well as construction plants need to be set up prior to the human migration to the cold planet.

Nupur Jha

 

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01-03-2017 om 22:53 geschreven door peter  

Tasmania stunned as 'UFO' streaks across the sky; watch the video and decide what it really was!

"There's a pretty big fireball meteorite moving towards the eastern sunrise. I got it on video I'll share soon. SE Tasmania" Lee-Anne Peters posted on Facebook.

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Lee-Anne Peters, a resident of Tasmania, spotted a "fireball meteorite" just before sunrise on Tuesday and shared the video on her Facebook page.

"There's a pretty big fireball meteorite moving towards the eastern sunrise. I got it on video I'll share soon. SE Tasmania" she posted on the social networking site at 6:44am. Half an hour later, she posted the video on Facebook with the caption:

"A spectacular plane coloured by the rising sun. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Spotted here in Sorell just after 6.30am Tuesday 28th Feb 2017," she wrote, along with the video, which has already received over 88,000 views, 900 reactions, 1,400 shares and 650 comments.

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People actually thought that the "fireball" was a meteorite or a chemtrail, or an UFO!. Several commented on the status message.

"I read it was a UFO and sightings of landing with police sectioning the area off. Very hush hush stuff. Potential alien encounter," a user commented suggesting that it might be an airplane.

"The aliens are coming," said another user.

"It's a plane. I looked it up because I thought it was moving too slowly. It's the orange glow of the contrails due to the sunrise. Spectacular footage nonetheless, but not a fireball," one user commented.

However, several were of the opinion that the "fireball" was not a plane. "It looks like a plane to start with. But it's so dense up close to the wings," a user said.

Another said, "Haha not a plane.. since when does a plane fly pretty much straight down towards the earth?"

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Johanna Paterson The "fire" trail is actually the jet stream with the sunrise glowing through it. There is no fire or burning, it's literally an optical illusion and it was a plane

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According to ABC News, Australian Airservice spokesperson confirmed that it was nothing but an aircraft since it moved over Australian airspace.

Mashable also reported that the object was an Emirates flight EK448 flying over Hobart, Tasmania, at 6.30 am.

Sydney's Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences explained on its blog as to how the aircraft appeared to be so beautiful: "If the trails are seen around the time of sunrise or sunset they can take on a wonderful golden colour and if seen off in the distance making them look low near the horizon they can look just like the common misconception of a comet."

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01-03-2017 om 22:38 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers Find a Tatooine-Like, Two-Star System

Neel V. Patel

Planets

Luke Skywalker gazing off at the horizon with the setting of two suns in Star Wars is one of the most iconic images in cinema. As the world would soon learn in the next few decades, a real-life version of Tatooine is possible — binary star systems could very well develop planets — but scientists had yet to stumble upon a planet which was made up of more than just a massive swirl of gas. Life needs a solid rock to stand on, dammit!

So a recent discovery of a Tatooine-like star system 1,000 light-years away, reported in the journal Nature on Monday, is not much of a shocker, but it does raise hopes that the universe of Star Wars is not just limited to science fiction. The system, called SDSS 1557, is comprised of a white dwarf star and a brown dwarf star. A team of astronomers using the Gemini Observatory South telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, both located in Chile, found a dense accretion of shattered asteroid remains orbiting the system.

It’s the first time asteroid debris and pollution has been observed around a binary star system. Although the likelihood of planets rocky planets currently residing in the region is very low, the results throw support to the notion of a binary star system possessing a rocky planet — perhaps even a potentially habitable one if conditions are right.

The first evidence of rocky planet formation in a Tatooine-like system has been found.

The birth of a planet around a star is a messy business. Basically, a star needs to possess enough of a gravitational pull to coalesce a disk of dust and gas around its orbit. After several million years, that dust and gas might settle into solid objects that we refer to as planets.

Up until now, scientists have only ever found binary stars with gas giant planets (like Jupiter and Saturn). The new findings don’t break that trend, but they are an encouraging sign that a rocky planet like Earth could form around a two-star system.

It should be emphasized, however, there aren’t currently planets forming around SDSS 1557. “In its current state the system is almost certainly uninhabitable,” Steven Parsons, an astronomer at the University of Sheffield and a coauthor of the study, tells Inverse. “Rather than planets forming, in this system they are being destroyed. What we see are the chunks of former asteroids and planets that have gotten too close to the central binary stars. Also, although we don’t detect it, there is likely to be at least one large Jupiter-like planet orbiting the binary farther out. It is the gravitational affect of this large planet that has flung these smaller rocky objects inward towards the stars.”

The white dwarf in this system is actually the corpse of a deceased star which passed away 33 million years ago. However, its former life is thought to be similar to the sun, so “there is certainly the possibility that life could have existed on the planets around the original system,” says Parsons.

“What’s really nice here,” he says, “is that we know that there were rocky objects around the original binary, not just big gas giant planets like those currently known around binary stars.”

The proto-planetary material forming around SDSS 1557 is pretty high in metallic content like silicon and magnesium, and seems to step from an asteroid which was about four kilometers in size. The sign of a formerly large asteroid suggests a solid planet may have once formed in the SDSS 1557 system.

Naturally, the next step to confirming the hype is to conduct follow-up studies, and the research group is planning to make new observations using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Perhaps scientists can learn whether a long time ago, in a star system far away, a tiny Skywalker was sitting on the surface of a planet in the system, staring off at two suns setting in the distance.

Now to find out if there’s a Mos Eisley Cantina, too.

Photos via ucl.ac.uk

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01-03-2017 om 22:25 geschreven door peter  

How SpaceX Plans to Fly Two People Around the Moon

Neel V. Patel

SpaceX

SpaceX will launch a pair of private citizens into space for an orbital flight around the moon in late 2018, the company announced Monday. The launch will involve the Falcon Heavy rocket system, which will be the world’s most powerful rocket by the time of its first flight test this summer.

Humans have not been to the moon since 1972, but the logistics of such a mission are certainly not beyond current technology and engineering. Moreover, the SpaceX mission will simply circumnavigate the moon and return directly to Earth afterward.

The two-person crew will fly to the moon aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon (or Dragon 2) capsule — the first iteration of Dragon designed to carry people into space. Dragon 2, in spite of several delays, is a key part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program — in which the agency will contract private companies (SpaceX and Boeing so far) to send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. After an uncrewed test mission to the ISS later this year, SpaceX and NASA will send a crew aboard Dragon 2 to the ISS sometime in mid-2018.

Which means the Dragon 2 lunar mission will occur hot off the heels of SpaceX’s first human mission into space.

Dragon 2

The plan, as of now, calls for Dragon 2 to launch from Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A — the historic site that which saw the liftoff of the Apollo missions. This fact is certainly not lost on the company.

The similarities to the Apollo missions don’t end there. While details on the launch are still slim, Musk told reporters on Monday the trip will last about one week. Passengers will basically cover a 300,000 to 400,000-mile distance as the spacecraft loops around the moon and heads back.

It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon’s orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

There’s no doubt the mission will be extremely useful in testing out the Dragon architecture for deep space missions in the future — especially in the context of flying to Mars later on. For now, however, it’s still unclear what the specific mission will entail. The company has over a year to provide some more color on this surprise endeavor.

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01-03-2017 om 22:18 geschreven door peter  

If We Find A Planet and It’s Populated By A Species That Is Not Yet Space Faring. What Do We Do?

What do we do?  Officially, we leave them alone.  Unofficially, they will be sampled, abducted, their natural resources plundered and their planet contaminated with Earthly microbes.  Even if we never set foot upon their planet, and they don’t even know we’re there, we’ll pollute them.

What the governments of Earth say is legal and what enterprising individuals do are entirely different.  There’s no proof that humankind will change from how it has operated for the last 2 million plus years.  So, I’d bet on the first contact by an agency like NASA being non-invasive, and then prompt exploitation and collateral damage contamination from private entities.

History always repeats.

The very similar thing happened in the early years of the discovery of the Americas. We kidnapped a Native American and brought him back to Europe to showcase him with a group of his kinsmen, and they never returned home.

We traded with the native populations, gaining their trust with trinkets and alcohol, then be fought with them over disagreements about who’s land it was, and who should control its resources. We oppressed the native populations, pushing them off their ancestral lands onto small reservations, and we tried in earnest to eliminate their culture and erase their teachings and way of life from the face of this Earth.

Maybe things would be different if we ever encounter non-terrestrial life.

Actually, this discovery of alien life could happen. Hard to say the probability, – and maybe not on a planet but a moon. Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid water ocean which is thought to be rich in oxygen – produced by the radiation from Jupiter splitting the surface water ice into hydrogen and oxygen and the oxygen then makes its way down many kilometers into the ocean.

It’s currently thought to be the most likely place to find complex life – perhaps as complex as squids. Their best guess is, not as much biomass probably as Earth, but roughly similar to the populations of the hydrothermal vents in the ocean floors of Earth’s ocean.

So, it could have complex life, such as perhaps squids. But if that’s possible, is it not also possible that over billions of years, it could also produce intelligent life like us?

Here, their civilization is pretty much bound to be at least millions of years old, maybe billions of years old. It would be such a remarkable coincidence as to be almost impossible that they develop technology at exactly the same time as us. So if they don’t have the technology it is for fundamental reasons such as living in an ocean or not having hands, or some such. I think the scenario you get in science fiction of extraterrestrials in e.g. early stone age or whatever level of technology is pretty much impossible.

So then, if there was intelligent life there, as close as Europa, we wouldn’t be able to communicate with them yet.

Living in an ocean, even if they are very clever and also have hands – or tentacles – still – there is no access to fire, at least not easily (maybe occasional underwater eruptions). They might well not develop technology at all, even in a billion years old civilization. At least not much more than, maybe, building dwellings of some sort and tools that to us would be primitive but the most complex things they can make in their environment.

And what we must do, surely, is to take great care. Not to introduce Earth life to start with, because that could make them extinct – it would be like releasing a genetically engineered totally artificial lifeform into the wild on Earth. Not safe, not unless you thoroughly understand what you are doing – and even then you’d doubtless get a lot of debate and some people who are not sure if the scientists involved have thought through everything and do totally understand what they are doing.

What we could learn from them could be of tremendous value. It’s what I like to call a “super positive” outcome. Something so positive that even if there is only a tiny chance of it happening, it’s worth going to a lot of care to give the best chance of it to happen.

Any form of alien life would be of tremendous interest, to learn about a biochemistry different from our own.

But imagine actually meeting an ET that’s been living for billions of years within the Europa ocean?

And – we do learn from our past mistakes. Slowly, but we do learn. For instance, after making the dodo and the passenger pigeon extinct, we now do try to preserve species – a couple of centuries ago then nobody would even think about trying to preserve anything. Now many people try hard and put a lot of effort to preserve species.

Back a couple of centuries ago, slavery was considered to be acceptable and normal in parts of the US, until 1865. Now it is totally unacceptable. Apartheid was considered normal in South Africa until the 1990s.

So we do learn and move on and things change. If you lived in South Africa in the 1970s, say, you might think that Apartheid was never going to end. But it did eventually.

We have also developed standards of human rights that weren’t present in saying the nineteenth century – there are many violations – but still, many places that do uphold those standards. And that we call them violations rather than accept them as normal is a big step forward.

Also, equality of women – in many countries,  not all of course.

Our times are still very inadequate in many ways – so much still to do. But if you look back, even as little as just a century or two back – we have also come a long way. So we can change, and do change, and will continue to change. What will the situation be, say, two centuries from now?

So – when you look back at the way that native peoples have been treated in the past – we don’t have to behave in the same way in the future. Again there is much to be done there but at least we’ve established the principle that native people do have rights, and there are places where those rights are protected, though other places where they are not.

Hopefully, we have moved forward a fair bit more in the future. Indeed I think that unless we become much more peaceful as a civilization than we are now – competition, healthy competition in sports, science, etc – but managed to find a way to a future without warfare and exploitation – at least in space – unless we can achieve that, I don’t see how we can have large numbers of people in space.

Because the technology available in space by then would be too powerful to be used in any way except peacefully. If there are millions of people in space, that means millions of people with easy access to spacecraft able to travel at kilometers per second, probably more capable than any ICBM, living in habitats that by comparison are fragile as a soap bubble. For this to work, they must be peaceful, however, that is achieved. Well, that’s what I think anyway.

As for the near future, then they are protected by our planetary protection policy, which prohibits contaminating other places that are possible habitats for Earth life. Which we apply for reasons of protecting our own science interests – it would be a huge anticlimax to go to Europa or anywhere else and only find the life we brought there ourselves. So for that reason alone then we need to prevent the introduction of Earth life. But some who write on this subject say we also have a duty to protect lifeforms on other planets for themselves, over and above this obvious reason of protecting them because of their scientific value to us. You could also say we need to protect them for their science value to future humans thousands of years from now.

But for intelligent lifeforms or complex lifeforms that could evolve intelligence, or that have lives of their own, you could also say that they have rights themselves of one sort or another. After all, if an advanced alien were to contact Earth – would we not say that we have intrinsic rights in that encounter over and above our value as beings of scientific interest to them?

So surely the other way around, alien lifeforms also can have rights too. We may some day draw up some guidelines of rights of extraterrestrial species similar to our human rights.

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01-03-2017 om 22:00 geschreven door peter