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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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.
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06-03-2017
Scientists Have Turned Cooking Oil Into a Material 200 Times Stronger Than Steel
Scientists Have Turned Cooking Oil Into a Material 200 Times Stronger Than Steel
UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences
IN BRIEF
Researchers have discovered a way to make soybean oil into the super-strong material graphene. The material has a wide variety of potential uses and can revolutionize electronics.
The material could be used to make cell phone batteries last 25 percent longer, make more effective solar cells, and even filter fuel out of air.
DEEP FRIED HIGH-TECH
Researchers have found a way to turn cheap, everyday cooking oil into the wonder material graphene – a technique that could greatly reduce the cost of making the much-touted nanomaterial.
Graphene is a single sheet of carbon atoms with incredible properties – it’s 200 times stronger than steel, harder than diamond, and incredibly flexible. Under certain conditions, it can even be turned into a superconductor that carries electricity with zero resistance.
That means the material has the potential to make better electronics, more effective solar cells, and could even be used in medicine.
But these applications have been limited by the fact that graphene usually has to be made in a vacuum at intense heat using purified ingredients, which makes it expensive to produce.
Until we can find a cost-effective way to mass produce the over-achieving material, it’s pretty much limited to labs.
But scientists in Australia have now managed to create graphene in normal air conditions, using cheap soybean cooking oil.
“This ambient-air process for graphene fabrication is fast, simple, safe, potentially scalable, and integration-friendly,” said one of the researchers, Zhao Jun Han from Australia’s CSIRO.
“Our unique technology is expected to reduce the cost of graphene production and improve the uptake in new applications.”
The team has called the new technique ‘GraphAir’ technology, and it involves heating soybean oil in a tube furnace for about 30 minutes, causing it to decompose into carbon building blocks.
This carbon is then rapidly cooled on a foil made of nickel, where it diffuses into a thin rectangle of graphene that’s just 1 nanometre thick (about 80,000 times thinner than a human hair).
Not only is this technique cheaper and easier than other methods, it’s also a lot quicker – to create graphene in a vacuum takes several hours.
Not only that, but it offers a more sustainable option for recycling waste cooking oil.
“We can now recycle waste oils that would have otherwise been discarded and transform them into something useful,” said one of the team, Dong Han Seo.
The question now is whether this new technique can be scaled up – finding a cheaper way to make graphene is awesome, but the graphene film produced so far was only 5 cm (1.9 inches) by 2 cm (0.8 inches) in size.
The team says that the largest film they can make using the technique right now is around the size of a credit card.
To really make graphene fit for commercial use, researchers will need to produce films that are a whole lot larger than that.
“The potential’s enormous,” David Officer, a graphene expert from the University of Wollongong in Australia, who wasn’t involved in the study, told the ABC.
“[But] the question will be whether you can economically scale a method like this, where they’ve sealed it inside a furnace tube, to create and handle metre-sized films.”
The team is now looking for commercial partners to pursue this goal.
But they’re not the only researchers working on it – last week, a team from Kansas State University patented a simple technique that creates graphene using only hydrocarbon gas, oxygen, and a spark plug. No vacuum required.
Time will tell if they can use it to effectively make large films of graphene in one go, but it’s nice to know that researchers around the world are working on finding a way to take this incredible material out of the lab and into our lives.
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20 Underwater Wonders of Our Blue Planet- PART I
20 Underwater Wonders of Our Blue Planet- PART I
Over 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water and this huge area contains some of the most amazing wonders on the planet. Shockingly, huge portions of the world’s oceans have yet to be discovered but the areas that have been explored have already provided some incredible sights; from huge shipwrecks thousands of metres deep, to enormous underwater springs that create a giant Jacuzzi effect. The planet’s oceans and lakes provide a rich selection of different treasures. The following are 20 of the greatest underwater wonders of the world.
20. Deep Sea Vents. Ecuador
Until relatively recently, the deepest depths of the ocean floor couldn’t be reached by humankind. This may go some way to explaining why it took until 1977 for the incredible deep sea vents off the coast of Ecuador, to be discovered. The hydrothermal vents were discovered to the east of the Galapagos Islands, some 2,400 metres below the surface. The vents were formed due to two tectonic plates diverging, causing sea water to shoot out at incredible speeds and high temperatures (around 400 degrees centigrade). Before the deep sea vents were discovered, it was thought that life couldn’t exist at such depths, due to the lack of sunlight. Scientists found a number of marine animals around the vents though, living off the nutrients that they expelled. These incredible underwater volcanoes really are one of the underwater wonders of the world.
19. The Great Barrier Reef. Australia
The Great Barrier Reef is not only the world’s largest coral reef system, it is also the world’s largest single structure made by living organisms. The reef is located off the northeast coast of Australia and is so large it can even be seen from space! The area stretches an incredible 1,400 miles (2,300km) and is made from millions of tiny living organisms, known as coral polyps. The reef also supports a huge variety of different marine species; from whales, sharks and dolphins, to turtles, stingrays, sea horses and millions of different species of fish. The area is unsurprisingly an incredibly popular location for scuba diving and was even named by CNN as one of the “Seven natural wonders of the world.
It was thought that the ancient Egyptian city of Heracleion had been lost forever when it sank into the sea over 1,500 years ago, but in 2000 the first remains of the city were discovered off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt. French archeologist, Dr Franck Goddio, came across the underwater archaeological site and, following further investigation, divers discovered sphinxes, statues, columns, temples and even the foundations of a palace that may have belonged to Cleopatra herself! Further investigations also unearthed coins and other everyday objects, as well as a number of ships, suggesting that the site was indeed the location of the 8th century BC city. Many of the objects recovered from the sea floor were also still in excellent condition, making the discovery even more incredible!
17. Lake Baikal. Russia
It is little surprise that Lake Baikal has made it on to this list and there are a many number of reasons why it is one of the underwater wonders of the world. The lake is located in the south of Siberia and is believed to be the oldest lake in the world, estimated at around 25 million years old. Baikal is also the world’s largest freshwater lake and contains an incredible 20% of the planet’s unfrozen freshwater. It is also the deepest freshwater lake in the world and is one of the clearest lakes on the planet. If that wasn’t impressive enough, Baikal also contains around 1,700 different species of animals and plants, of which two thirds of these (around 5,650) cannot be found anywhere else on the planet! The lake’s location also means it experiences a huge temperature change between the summer and winter months and spends much of the winter in a crystalized, frozen state. A truly spectacular sight!
16. The Yongala Shipwreck. Australia
Many ships have been lost to the deep depths of the ocean, but one of the most incredible wreck dives in the world can be found off the coast of Queensland in Australia. The Yongala was a steel passenger and freight steamer that sank in 1911, after being hit by a cyclone, which killed all 122 people on board, as well as a racehorse and a bull. The ship had no telegraph facilities onboard, so could not be warned of the terrible weather ahead. The remains of the ship were not discovered until 1958, but the wreck is now a popular location for scuba divers. The Yongala is one of the most popular shipwreck dives in the world, with the chance of seeing bull and tiger sharks, manta rays, octopuses and turtles, as well as the beautiful coral that adorns the side of the boat.
15. Jellyfish Lake. Palau
If you want to experience the truly exotic, then Jellyfish Lake in Palau should not disappoint. The lake is located on the island of Eil Malk, which is part of the Rock Islands in Palau’s Southern Lagoon. The secluded lake is connected to the ocean through small tunnels in the ancient Miocene reef and is home to a huge army of golden jellyfish that migrate across the water on a daily basis. The lake is also open to tourists, who have the opportunity to snorkel with the jellyfish for a $100 pass. Although the jellyfish do contain stinging cells, they are very weak and not powerful enough to cause serious damage to human skin. Jellyfish Lake is a truly unique location and undoubtedly one of the underwater wonders of the world.
14. Dean’s Blue Hole. Bahamas
A blue hole is the term used for a sinkhole that has an entrance under the surface of the water, with many of these holes opening up into underwater caverns. Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas is the deepest ocean sinkhole in the world. The popular dive site has a diameter of around 25-35 metres at the entrance and opens up into an incredible 100m wide cavern below. The cavern plunges to a breathtaking depth of 202 metres (663ft) and is easily the deepest ocean blue hole in the world. When you consider that the maximum known depth of other ocean sink holes is around 110 metres, you realise just how unique and large the Dean’s Blue Hole is.
13. Chuuk Lagoon. Micronesia
In February 1944 the USA launched an attack on Chuuk Lagoon that devastated Japan’s main WWII South Pacific base and sunk 12 warships and 32 merchant ships in the process. The majority of these ships are still located on the lagoon’s floor today and make Chuuk Lagoon “the biggest graveyard of ships in the world.” Many of these ships are also still in excellent condition and attracts thousands of divers each year, eager to explore the incredible site. The huge war ships also house the remains of fighter aircraft, torpedoes, motorcycles railroad cars and tanks. Chuuk Lagoon really is an underwater WWII museum and one of the most incredible dive sites in the world.
12. Douglas Dakota DC-3. Turkey
From the photo above it may look like the passengers on this paratrooper plane met a disastrous end, but this Douglas Dakota DC-3 didn’t crash into the sea during the Second World War. The plane was actually intentionally sunk in 2009 in order to create a unique playground for divers to explore. The aircraft, which was used as a transporter for a Turkish paratrooper regiment in WWII, was sunk in the waters of Cas, off the coast of Turkey. It lies 21 metres beneath the surface of the Mediterranean Sea and can now be freely explored by divers and is home to numerous schools of tropical fish.
11. Lion City. China
A real life version of Atlantis can be found at the bottom of a man-made lake in China. In 1959, the Chinese Government decided that they wanted to build a new hydro-electric power station and so made the call to build a huge lake in the Eastern Provence of Zhejiang. The lake was built between the Five Lion Mountain and the ancient city of Shi Cheng (Lion City), that was flooded in order to make way for the power station. The city has been untouched for over 50 years. A dive team has recently rediscovered the remains of the city but there are now plans to turn it into a dive site. Incredibly, the dive team said that nearly every structure in Lion City was still intact, even after lying underwater for over half a century!
10. Zhemchug Canyon. Bering Sea
The Grand Canyon may attract millions of visitors each year but the underwater Zhemchug Canyon in the Bering Sea would actually fit the whole Grand Canyon inside it, with room still to spare. The incredible underwater ravine can be seen from space and sits an incredible 2.6km deep (compared to the Grand Canyon’s 1.8km). Zhemchug is officially the biggest canyon in the ocean and is home to a number of different species of animals, including the Northern Fur Seal, the short-tailed alabatross, the snow crab and a number of different species of whales.
9. Belize Barrier Reef. West Indies
The Belize Barrier Reef may not be able to match up to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in terms of size but it certainly makes up for it in beauty. The incredible stretch of ocean is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. The reef stretches an impressive 190 miles (300km) long and is part of the Mesoamerican barrier reef system, which is the second largest coral reef system in the world. The Belize Barrier Reef is home to over 500 species of fish, 70 hard coral species and 36 soft coral species. Perhaps most impressive of all though, is the fact that around 90% of the area still needs to be researched, suggesting that so far only 10% of all the species in the coral reef have been discovered!
The waters off Cocos Island in Costa Rica are a scuba divers dream and they are rich with a variety of marine life. The deep waters that surround the island, some 340 miles from the coast of Costa Rica, are teeming with rays, dolphins, turtles and, most impressively, large schools of sharks. The coral reef that surrounds the island attracts a large variety of wildlife, which in turn, makes the waters the ideal hunting ground for sharks. Cocos Island, also known as ‘Shark Island,’ is home to Whitetip reef sharks, whale sharks and hammerheads. The scalloped hammerhead shark is the most common visitor to the island’s shores and, during the wet season (June- Oct), schools of hundreds of hammerheads can be seen in the waters. A truly spectacular sight and undoubtedly one of the underwater wonders of the world.
7. The Northern Red Sea. Between Asia and Africa
The Northern Red Sea has been described as “the underwater Garden of Eden” and it is easy to see why. The stretch of water between Asia and Africa is home to some of the most beautiful coral reefs in the world and some of the most exotically coloured fish. The Northern Red Sea covers 169,000 square miles and is home to over 70 species of hard coral, 30 species of soft coral and more than 500 different species of fish. The area is a hugely popular site with scuba divers, who are attracted by the chance of diving in the warm tropical waters, witnessing the beautifully coloured coral reefs and spectacular assortment of exotic fish.
6. Battle of the Egadi Islands. Sicily
In November 2013, one of the most incredible underwater discoveries was found off the coast of Sicily. The remains of battering rams, helmets, armour and weapons were recovered from the sea floor, believing to date back to a naval battle that took place over 2,000 years earlier. The artefacts are thought to be from the Battle of the Egadi Islands, which took place in 241 BC. It was part of the Punic War, between the Romans and the Carthaginians, which lasted 20 years and was the beginning of the Roman’s european wide domination. It was believed that 50 Carthaginian ships were sunk in the fighting and their remains stayed at the bottom of the ocean for over 2,000 years!
5. Mauna Kea. Hawaii
Although Mount Everest may be the highest mountain on land, it pales in comparison to Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The peak of Mauna Kea is the highest point above land in Hawaii but much of the dormant volcano actually sits below sea level. Measured from its oceanic base, the tip of Mauna Kea would actually measure 10,100m, much more than the height of Mount Everest and officially the highest mountain in the world! The volcano is estimated to be around one million years old and is without doubt one of the underwater (and overwater) wonders of the world.
4. Bronze Age Sewn Boat. Croatia
In March 2014 one of the oldest boats ever constructed was found at the bottom of Zambratija Cove, in Croatia. Marine archaeologist, Giulia Boetto discovered the Bronze Age sewn boat, which dated all the way back to 1,200 BC. The vessel was a type of wooden boat that was sewn together using rope, roots and willow branches. The relic measured 7 metres in length and 2.5 metres in width and was still in remarkable condition, with some stitching still visible. A remarkable achievement, especially considering it.
3. Underwater Ruins. Japan
One of the most hotly debated underwater discoveries dates back to 1995 and is still producing differing theories today. A wayward diver stumbled across the ancient ruin site off the southern coast of Yonaguni, Japan. The site appeared to show huge stone blocks cut into the shape of stairs, paved streets and crossroads. The discovery is estimated to be around 10,000 years old, with many scientists believing it to be the remains of an ancient sunken city. Not everyone agrees though and some experts believe the large blocks are naturally formed and the result of tectonic movement. Whatever the answer may be, it is undoubtedly one of the greatest underwater wonders of the world.
2. Hot Springs. Iceland
Iceland sits on highly geologically active ground and has a number of active volcanoes. This volcanic ground also provides one of the country’s most famous attractions, hot springs. There are a number of natural hot springs in Iceland where both natives and tourists go for a dip in the warm volcanic water. This water is geothermally heated by the volcanic rocks below and warmed to temperatures between 37-39 degrees centigrade. The springs not only provide a pleasant place for people to take a dip, the water is also thought to obtain natural healing abilities, soothing aches and pains as well as helping with many different skin conditions.
1. The Dead Sea. Jordan
The Dead Sea may not have the nicest of names but the location is a truly spectacular sight. The Dead Sea is actually a salt lake and borders Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. The shores of the Dead Sea lie 423 metres below sea level, making it the world’s lowest elevation on land. The lake is also one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world and has a 34.2% salinity, that’s 9.6 times saltier than the sea! This high salt count means there is very little marine life that can survive in the water, hence the name “Dead” Sea. The high salinity also means that swimming in the lake is more like floating and many visitors travel here every year to test out the waters. The Dead Sea was also one of the world’s first health resorts, used by Herod the Great over 2,000 years ago, and is still used for its health benefits today, due to the high nutrients and mineral content in the water.
5,000-YEAR-OLD EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS FOUND IN AUSTRALIA PROVE HISTORY IS WRONG
5,000-YEAR-OLD EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS FOUND IN AUSTRALIA PROVE HISTORY IS WRONG
History is thrown into turmoil as 5,000-year-old Egyptian hieroglyphs are found in Australia. Either plate tectonics have shifted so drastically over the last 5,000 years, or what we knew of the ancient Egyptians may be severely lacking. Either way, it seems that history has been giving the wrong story.
5,000 YEAR OLD EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS IN AUSTRALIA
What is even more disturbing is that this has not been the first discovery that debunked current historical records, and that the records seem to need a severe overhaul.
EGYPTIANS TRAVELLED THE WORLD BEFORE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS OR ZHENG HE
There are of course die-hard sceptics who would never acknowledge the fact that 5,000-year-old Egyptian hieroglyphs were indeed discovered in Australia. It would not be foolish to think so as current historical records does indeed suggest that the Egyptians do not have the capability for trans-continental oceanic voyages.
Thus, it may come as a shock to many to discover that ancient Egyptians may have contact with ancient American civilisations. The discovery was made back in 1992 when a German scientist was performing a series of tests on some very old Egyptian mummies. Test results revealed traces of hashish, tobacco, and cocaine lodged within the hair, skin and bones of the mummies. This may even suggest that the ancient Egyptians knew about the uses of these plants way before anyone else did.
Tobacco and cocaine grew only in the continent which makes up modern America. The question is, how did any of these plants arrive in ancient Egypt long before any Europeans discovered the Americas.
These discoveries are groundbreaking, as they evidently point out that the ancient Egyptians did have the capability for transoceanic travel. This not only means that our current recorded history may be wrong, but also the possibility that there could be other ancient cultures that have developed the capability for long-range sea travel, or even developed other forms of technology or capabilities that we may not be aware of in the history texts.
THE GOSFORD GLYPHS
Upon studying the ancient hieroglyphics, many researchers believe in the authenticity of the glyphs. The glyphs also use a form of ancient Egyptian sentence and grammatical structuring that were only recently discovered.
The glyphs are located within the compounds of the Brisbane Water National Park, Kariong. These hieroglyphic texts could shatter publicly known history and rewrite thousands of historical records.
Known as the Gosford Glyphs, they were actually discovered in the early 1900s, and the roughly 250 stone carvings have been an integral part of the local culture and folklore for about a century.
The writing style of the glyphs is what makes them so unique. They appear to be extremely ancient and used an archaic form of sentence and word structuring that was only used in very early Egyptian dynasties. In fact, the Gosford Glyphs were used so way back that very little records exist, thus attempts to study them have yielded little progress. Most Egyptologists do not even have the ability or knowledge to translate these glyphs.
Francis Crick (8 June 1916 — 28 July 2004) was an English scientist who was most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 alongside James D. Watson.
Francis Crick Watson and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology for Medicine “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.”
He was clearly a brilliant scientist who unfortunately, like many other brilliant minds who came up with theories that challenged the accepted frameworks at the time, wasn’t given much ‘press.’
In his book published in 1982, Life Itself, he argues that there is no possible way that the DNA molecule could have gotten its start here on Earth and that it had to have come here from somewhere else. Within the mainstream scientific community, the generally accepted theory is that we are the result of a bunch of molecules accidentally bumping into each other, creating life. However, according to Francis, we are the result of what is now known as Directed Panspermia. Crick and a British chemist, Leslie Orgel, published their paper on it in July of 1973.
Their theory explains that,
“organisms were deliberately transmitted to earth by intelligent beings on another planet. We conclude that it is possible that life reached the earth in this way, but that the scientific evidence is inadequate at the present time to say anything about the probability. We draw attention to the kinds of evidence that might throw additional light on the topic.” (source)
As far as Crick’s thoughts on the theory that we are the result of accidentally bumping into each other, he thinks this was as likely as the assembly of a jumbo jet hit by a hurricane in a junk yard. In other words, he thought the theory held little to no credibility.
When it comes to Crick’s theory, there have been some who expanded upon his work and have actually found evidence of it. Perhaps Crick had some evidence or he was able to connect some dots? After all, theories like this aren’t just born out of nowhere and this gentleman won the Nobel Prize for the study of DNA. Thoughts like this should not be taken lightly and evidence should be examined to see if it’s a plausible hypothesis.
Please keep in mind while reading this article that, although we’ve discovered much, we have yet to identify the biological functions of large portions of our DNA. There is so much mystery wrapped in what could possibly hold the answer to life itself and the origins of the human race.
A few years ago, Chandra Wickramasinghe, the Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham in the U.K., published a paper regarding their supposed findings of the first-ever evidence of extraterrestrial life found in a celestial body.
At the time, Wickramasinghe pointed out to Huffington Post how, in 1962:
“Hoyle and I pioneered the theory of carbon grains in space to replace the old ice grain theory. This was vehemently resisted by the astronomical community at the outset, but with the dawn of infrared spectroscopy, the ice grain theory gave way to the carbon dust theory. Over a few years, after a great deal of model-fitting, we came to the conclusion that material similar to biomaterial fitted all the available data in astronomy. We considered the possibility that microbiology had a universal character, and no observations in astronomy or new information from biology has provided contrary evidence.If only ideas that are considered orthodox are given support through award of grans or publication opportunities, it is certain that the progress of science will be stifled as it was throughout the middle age.”
English Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle and Wickramasinghe are considered co-developers of the panspermia theory. In another paper that Wickramasinghe co-authored in 2012 titled “Non-terrestrial origin of life: a transformative research paradigm shift,” he points out that,
“For nearly five decades, evidence in favour of a non-terrestrial origin of life and panspermia has accumulated which has not been properly assessed. A point has now been reached that demands the serious attention of biologists to a possibly transformative paradigm shift of the question of the origin of life, with profounds implications across many disciplines.” (source)
It’s interesting to think about, isn’t it? We are indeed, as Author Graham Hancock noted, like species with amnesia. We still don’t completely know where we came from and how we got here.
What About The Fact That We Are Probably Not Alone & That We Are Probably Being Visited?
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubbishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source)
The quote above comes Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, the former Chief of the Defence Staff and 5 star Admiral of the Royal Navy. That’s the highest possible rank of the British Royal Navy, similar to General Dwight Eisenhower’s 5 star rank in the United States. He was also Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. These are definitely positions to be ‘in the know’ about what is going on, at least to some extent.
If you are unaware, there have been hundreds of witnesses carrying impressive backgrounds that have been in the position to ‘know’ about these things. To compliment this testimony, we also have evidence in the form of documents from several different government/military/intelligence agencies.
Given this evidence, the possibility that this is happening is very real and if you’d like to read/learn more about this topic, you can start off by visiting the exopolitics section of our website. There you will find our most recent articles on the subject, dated back to the very first one we ever wrote.
Personally, when I think of all of the evidence that’s surfaced within the past few years alone, it’s mind-altering. If you’re interested, you will have to do your own research. If you don’t, next time somebody brings up the subject, it’s good to keep an open mind and at least acknowledge that yes, this is actually a strong possibility.
I’ll leave you with this last clip from the Thrive documentary, of the late great Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former NASA astronaut, one of many astronauts who has spoken out enthusiastically about this subject and the evidence behind it. My apologies if you’ve already seen it, as I’ve used it numerous times in previous articles.
Ik heb me vaak afgevraagd over het waarom van de Voyager sonde stillegging en deze video vat de meeste van onze zorgen hierover samen. Toen het zichzelf uitschakelde, dachten velen van ons opeens terug aan de Star Trek 1979 film waar V’ger terugkeerde na het maken van contact met buitenaardse wezens. Laten we hopen dat er niets zoals dat gebeurt, maar als dat zo is, zullen we hopelijk klaar zijn om ermee te communiceren als Voyager terugkeert en ervan leren over de uitheemse soorten die gevonden zijn.
– Scott C. Waring
De omschrijving bij de video luidt als volgt:
Schokkend!!! NASA geeft toe: VOYAGER is gehackt door aliens!
2016, NASA geeft toe: Iemand nam de controle over van onze ruimtevaartuigen, we ontvingen berichten in een onbekende taal via de Space probe “Voyager 2” die tijdens zijn reis door de ruimte een bericht naar de basis op de Aarde stuurde in een vrij onbegrijpelijke taal.
NASA na meer dan zes jaar wisten ze niet de reden, maar ze weten wel dat het geen toeval kan zijn. “Voyager 2” is het eerste ruimtevaartuig om het zonnestelsel te verlaten in 2010 en het was in de momenten dat het ruimtevaartuig de interstellaire ruimte betrad dat er iets vreemds gebeurde waardoor NASA concludeerde dat “iemand of iets” de controle had overgenomen. “Op een afstand van ongeveer 15 miljard kilometer van de aarde, begon de sonde plotseling met het versturen van gegevens in een taal die ze nooit konden begrijpen,” zei NASA expert Kevin Baines, tegen Physics Astronomy. ‘Iets of iemand veranderde het communicatiesysteem van de ruimtesonde Voyager 2, “voegde Baines toe.
Een Australische wetenschapper die jarenlang onderzoek heeft gedaan naar graancirkels, met name in Groot-Brittannië, is tot een opmerkelijke conclusie gekomen.
Dr. Horace Drew stelt dat graancirkels het werk zijn van tijdreizigers.
Drew werkte 23 jaar als moleculair bioloog voor het CSIRO, het belangrijkste wetenschappelijke instituut van Australië.
Olie
Hij claimt in 1965 een buitenaards vaartuig te hebben waargenomen in Florida, waarna hij zich besloot te richten op wetenschappelijk onderzoek.
Hij zegt dat buitenaardse technologie kan worden gebruikt om allerlei problemen op aarde op te lossen.
“We leven in een wereld die afhankelijk is van olie,” vertelde hij aan de Australische Daily Telegraph. “Die olie beschadigt onze planeet.”
Geheim gehouden
“Niet-vervuilende buitenaardse technologie die deze problemen kan oplossen wordt geheim gehouden,” vervolgde hij.
De moleculair bioloog wil het UFO-fenomeen op een wetenschappelijke manier gaan benaderen.
Volgens hem is er bewijs dat graancirkels kunnen worden gelinkt aan tijdreizen. “Er is overvloedig bewijs voor graancirkels.”
Ontstaan
“Ik ben zeven keer afgereisd naar plekken in Groot-Brittannië waar bewijs kan worden gevonden voor de manier waarop graancirkels zijn ontstaan,” legde hij uit.
Dr. Drew roept mensen op te kijken naar het bewijs en op basis daarvan hun eigen conclusies te trekken.
Hij gaf onderstaande lezing op 3 september vorig jaar in Nieuw-Zuid-Wales:
Former President George W. Bush appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week and the host, just as he did with both Clintons and with former President Obama, asked:
When you were in office, did you go through the secret files – the UFO documents?
Bush answered:
Maybe. You know, it’s funny, my daughters asked the very same question. But I’m not telling you. I’m not telling you nothing.
According to a new poll released coincidentally on the same day as the interview, 55 percent of Americans believe the government would try to keep it secret if there was any contact with an alien species. Even though, as Kimmel pointed out, Bush is no longer part of the government, the former president answered yes when asked, “are there really great secrets that you know that you can’t share with people?”
While he won’t talk about it, W. definitely knows some things about UFOs. On the morning of November 3rd, 2003, radar picked up a UFO in restricted space around the White House. Two fighter jets were called to the area but no craft was found. On the morning of April 27, 2005, another UFO was spotted heading from Reagan National Airport towards the White House at up to 120 miles per hour. The president was rushed into the protective underground bunker and three helicopters (one military and two police) came to the location but no craft was seen.
Then there was the UFO at the president’s ranch in Texas. On January 8, 2006, numerous sources reported that over a dozen people saw a 300 meter (985 foot – although some said “mile-long”) silent UFO with bright lights that was flying low over Stephenville towards the president’s ranch in Crawford … followed by USAF jets. The president was not at the ranch at that time. Some witnesses said it stopped and hovered. MUFON noted that the object was seen on radar but the reports were heavily redacted. The military at first denied the reports, then admitted that an “error was made regarding the reported training activity of military aircraft” and that “10 F-16s from the 457th Fighter Squadron were performing training operations in the Brownwood Military Operating Area.”
Would President George W. Bush know more than these scant details about these (and other) incidents? Of course he would. He was constantly in competition with his father, the former president and former CIA director George H. W. Bush, and would have wanted to top his dad in this area as well. While CIA director, George H. W. Bush turned down requests from incoming President Jimmy Carter for UFO information, even though he later admitted, “I know some. I know a fair amount.” Did he later turn down requests from a president from his own party? A president with the same name? Is blood thicker than party affiliation? UFO disclosure?
While there have been UFO sightings around Washington and around the presidents during other administrations, including the current one, reports during the single term of George H.W. Bush are scant. Did they suddenly disappear or did Bush keep them tightly top secret, as he later bragged, “I am very careful in public life about dealing with classified information.”? In either case, the younger Bush was a constant presence in that administration, the Reagan administration when his father was VP and the CIA year. He was also a former pilot who would have had an interest in UFOs and a rogue competitive son who used his father’s past and current positions to his advantage.
Is his laughter about UFOs a cover?
George W. Bush laughed when Jimmy Kimmel asked him about UFOs. Then again, he was known to laugh about most subjects.
George W. Bush was exposed to UFO incidents and information more than any other president, through three administrations and a CIA directorship.
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NASA Seeks Payload Ideas for Mystery Satellite
NASA Seeks Payload Ideas for Mystery Satellite
By Jeff Foust, SpaceNews Writer
The Intelsat 603 satellite during a 1992 shuttle repair mission. That satellite is based on a bus similar to one that an unnamed government agency, perhaps the NRO, is offering to NASA.
Credit: NASA
WASHINGTON — NASA is soliciting concepts for payloads that could fly on a mysterious satellite it is in discussions to inherit from another government agency.
The RFI, issued by NASA's science mission directorate, solicits ideas for payloads, including remote sensing instruments and technology demonstrations, which could fly on the spacecraft. The RFI offered few details about the proposed mission, noting NSTP-Sat could fly "to low Earth orbit, geostationary equatorial orbit, medium Earth orbit, Earth-Moon L1, or lunar orbit in the 2021 timeframe."
The RFI, which remains open until March 17, seeks ideas for how this spacecraft could be used to meet NASA's science and technology development goals. The RFI states that NASA will use the responses to determine "whether there are science opportunities for new uses of this spacecraft" and "whether a solicitation for proposals is warranted to enable such opportunities." [Satellite Quiz: What's Up There?]
The RFI offered few details about the spacecraft itself. "The NSTP-Sat is a spacecraft platform that has become available to NASA as excess Government property through an interagency agreement," it stated. It added the spacecraft was a "Boeing GEO spinner bus" that could launch on an EELV-class rocket or as a secondary payload on a Space Launch System mission.
NASA and other organizations involved with NSTP-Sat have been reticent to provide additional details about how NASA gained access to the satellite bus. Alan Zide, a program executive in NASA's heliophysics division and the point of contact listed in the RFI, did not respond to email messages with questions about the satellite.
A diagram of the satellite bus being offered to NASA from the NASA RFI issued in February.
Credit: NASA
NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown said March 1 that NASA is in discussions with the U.S. Air Force to obtain the bus. "NASA and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) are in discussions concerning the transfer of a satellite bus that the USAF has determined does not meet current or projected Air Force mission requirements," he said.
U.S. Air Force spokeswoman Capt. AnnMarie Annicelli said March 2 she was not familiar with the satellite and was looking into it, but has not provided any additional information. When asked who the original customer was for this Boeing-built satellite, Addrian Brooks, a spokesman for Boeing Network and Space Systems, said March 2 that the company was "unable to disclose this information."
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who specializes in space history, notes the dimensions for the satellite provided in the RFI are consistent with two versions of satellites built by Hughes Space and Communications. One, the HS-389, was used for the Intelsat 6 series of satellites, while the HS-393 was sold to other commercial customers. Those satellites were built and launched in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Boeing acquired Hughes Space and Communications in 2000.
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), he noted, is thought to have used the same bus for a series of data relay satellites operating under the code name QUASAR, also known as the Satellite Data System (SDS). Four such satellites launched from 1989 through 1996.
Spin-stabilized satellites have fallen out of favor, having been replaced by three-axis stabilized satellites. The last Boeing-built commercial spin-stabilized satellite, a Boeing 376 spacecraft called e-BIRD, launched in 2003.
McDowell said a later generation of QUASAR satellites, launched from 1998 to as recently as 2014, were also assumed to be three-axis stabilized. However, he noted there’s little known about this series of satellites, leaving open the possibility it also used the same bus as the earlier spacecraft.
"It's possible that some other NRO program also used this bus, but QUASAR/SDS is definitely the most likely," he said in a March 3 email.
If the satellite in question is indeed from the NRO, it would not be the first time NASA inherited spare hardware from that intelligence agency. In 2012, NASA announced it was taking possession of two 2.4-meter mirror assemblies from the NRO. The mirrors were reportedly built for NRO's Future Imagery Architecture program, and became surplus when the NRO cancelled the optical portion of that program in the mid-2000s.
NASA, after taking possession of the mirrors, solicited ideas from the scientific community on how to use what it called Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets. NASA decided to use one of the mirrors for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), which originally planned to build a much smaller mirror. WFIRST is planned for launch in the mid-2020s.
Phillip Swarts contributed to this story.
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.
Weather satellite captured disc-shaped UFO floating above a cloud formation
Weather satellite captured disc-shaped UFO floating above a cloud formation
An image taken by the weather satellite GOES-16 on March 2, 2017 apparently shows a huge disc-shaped UFO floating above clouds somewhere in between Russia and Italy.
Myunhauzen74 who discovered the object points to a shadow on the clouds which indicates that the object is moving above the clouds.
Although the object resembles a UFO we should also consider whether it might be a rare rock formation or a tall circular building rising from the clouds.
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Ancient VIMANA UFO revelations and the ten million year old secret!
Ancient VIMANA UFO revelations and the ten million year old secret!
Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt interviews the influential author of Forbidden Archaeology Michael Cremo on his controversial research into the dating of human origin, ancient civilizations and the potential widespread impact of Extraterrestrial cultures on human development.
Cremo's diligent investigation into the subject of Prehistory turned up a series of anomalies that strongly suggest a much older date for the advent of humanity, including finely manufactured spheres uncovered in South Africa that date all the way back to a staggering two billion years!
Scientific Cover-Up.
Cremo strongly disagrees with mainstream scientific and archaeological assertions that human beings got their primitive start as cave dwellers around 200,000 B.C. and have only had relatively high culture for six thousand years.
He has catalogued shocking artifacts and physical evidence for over two decades that show not only was there an advanced pre-diluvian culture that existed far before recorded history, but that it was predated by 10 million years by the legacy of a sophisticated human society.
He sees a massive cover up in scientific circles as their focus has steadily moved towards a limited scientific materialism in the last two hundred years.
The UFO Enigma and Ancient Sanskrit Accounts of Vimanas.
Cremo has pieced together from early Sanskrit accounts the devastating impact of a high tech flying machine that existed in antiquity called a 'Vimana' by the ancients.
According to the Ramayana and other Sanskrit accounts, vimanas were capable of projecting themselves into multiple places at once, in what today could be described as quantum super positions.
They were thereby impossible to defend against. This fascinating flying marvel was responsible for the devastation of Dwarka, an ancient paradise that resembles Plato's description of the legendary Atlantis.
The striking similarity between modern day UFO Sightings and the detailed ancient descriptions of the Vimana lets us know that whatever the UFO Phenomena represents it has been with humanity for a very long time.
This man claims he can summon ALIENS: Watch as 'two UFOs appear before him'
This man claims he can summon ALIENS: Watch as 'two UFOs appear before him'
TWO alien space crafts allegedly appeared in the sky after being summoned by a group led by one of the world's most well-known UFO investigators, it is shockingly claimed in a video.
Video of the "alien contact" session held by Dr Steven Greer shows the appearance of one, and then a second, orange, glowing ball of light above the ocean at Vero Beach, Florida.
Mr Greer, a former medical doctor, has been at the heart of a disclosure project to try to get the US Government to release all files it has on aliens and UFOs and admit that aliens have visited Earth.
In 2001 he helped organise congressional hearings that brought several witness before congress to debate the issue.
He also founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), said to be an "international scientific research and education organization dedicated to the furtherance of our understanding of extraterrestrial intelligence."
Mr Greer, who claims he can get alien craft to appear by meditating, tells the group the two objects contained "beings on board them" and that they are communicating with them.
In the footage the two orbs are there for several minutes, before one and the the other disappear.
Video subtitles described it as "extraterrestrial contact captured during an advanced consciousness training"
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UFOs allegedly appeared above Vero beach, but was it a military operation?
Mr Greer claims to use "coherent thought" and "meditation practices" to summon aliens to appear - something he calls CE-5 protocols.
He has previously claimed during a UFO seminar to have taken part in a similar session to contact aliens with serving members of the French Ministry of Defence.
The French MoD refused to comment to Express.co.uk on his claims.
In the video he says to the group of students, who are being taught the alleged technique: "What is that orange object - oh my God. Wow.
"You see that colour?"
Someone asks if it is just a flare, but he replies: "Oh no, no. Thank them for coming.
"Oh here they come, there are two look at this how gorgeous.
"I'm looking at the night scope and there is no smoke, no trails - these are not flares.
"Let's welcome them here."
Mr Greer mixes his alleged techniques with new age practices.
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Steven Greer (pictured) claims to contact aliens through meditation.
He pointed to a thread on Reddit by user Solarslave which said: "There was a massive naval training exercise known as COMPTUEX involving hundreds of aircraft, dozens of ships and thousands of sailors and marines going on off the coast of Florida, including Vero Beach at the time of Greer's "UFO summoning" event.
"These training exercises included flares and live fire. Case closed. Nice try Greer."
Mr Brando, also provided a link to a YouTube video showing such military lights going off.
He said: "Those lights were artillery illumination rounds related to a naval exercise known as COMPTUEX with aircrafts and ships going on off the coast of Florida, including Vero Beach.
"Mr Greer is known in our UFO Community for his sensational claims, but he never produced any evidence to back anything up."
“The largest ever sample of high-energy cosmic-ray electron and positron events”
Scientists
Boffins used the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope spacecraft to try and solve the mystery of the cosmic rays.
But despite the mountain of data they have not even been able to workout the direction the rays are coming from as they hit Earth.
While some of the rays come from stars exploding in supernovas, there are others scientists admit cannot be accounted for and are believed to come from another galaxy.
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NASA: Scientists are baffled as the origin of the cosmic rays
The scientists’ findings were published in Physical Review letters detailing the “largest ever sample of high-energy cosmic-ray electron and positron events since the beginning of its operation”.
Cosmic rays travel at near the speed of light and are theorised to be a potential source of energy.
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Stephen Hawking: Alien Contact Could Be Risky
Stephen Hawking: Alien Contact Could Be Risky
By KI MAE HEUSSNER
Discovery Channel
The world-famous astrophysicist theorizes that alien life will not be friendly.
Alien encounters may seem like sure-fire winners to Hollywood, but one of the world's most famous scientists thinks they may be "too risky" be be worth seeking.
"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," he said. "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."
In the new program, "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking," he speculated that aliens' capabilities "would be only limited by how much power they could harness and control, and that could be far more than we might first imagine."
He said it might even be possible for aliens to harvest the energy from an entire star.
"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach," Hawking said.
Humans Only Recently 'Tapped Into Our Cosmic Neighborhood'
But don't start worrying quite yet. It's unlikely that those traveling troublemakers will visit us anytime soon, said space watchers.
Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Life) Research at the SETI Institute, said that her center uses radio telescopes and optical telescopes to listen for signals of technology from extraterrestrial life. So far, after more than 40 years, there has not been a peep.
She said SETI's technology is advanced enough that it can detect signals from up to 1,000 light-years away. There are about one million stars in that zone. A signal could have been sent 1,000 years ago, before that civilization had any knowledge of Earth.
"It's quite reasonable that we might be on someone's transmission list," she said.
She emphasized, however, that though it's an effort worth considering, SETI doesn't actively transmit messages to space. So far, it has only listened.
"The question of whether or not we should transmit is a question that deserves a global conversation, and we're trying to figure out how to have that," Tarter said.
Ian O'Neill, space producer for Discovery News, an ABC News partner, said that humans didn't start leaking transmissions into space until the first radio broadcasts about 100 years ago. Given that our galaxy alone is 100,000 light years across, relatively speaking, he said, those signals haven't traveled too far.
"We've only tapped into our cosmic neighborhood recently," he said."That time scale is huge."
He also said that though scientists believe that life exists across the universe, there's no actual evidence of it yet. It could be hundreds, if not thousands, of years, he said, before human messages get an extraterrestrial response.
And if aliens do visit Earth, who knows what they would be like, he said.
"This is all complete specuation," he said. "[Hawking's] point is very much one-sided. There's an equal chance of meeting a friendly race, like our own."
Tarter, asked about Hawking's vision of aggressive aliens, said there's a "huge range of possibilities and lots of speculation."
"Stephen's is one and [though] he's a brilliant man, I'm not quite sure that his opinion has any more authority over mine or anyone else's," she said. "It's just a question. We don't know the answer."
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Ovnis : un Sherlock Holmes brise les rêves des
Ovnis : un Sherlock Holmes brise les rêves des "croyants" avec un logiciel
François Louange est ingénieur de formation et spécialiste de l'analyse des images. En collaboration avec le Cnes, il a développé un logiciel pour enquêter sur les phénomènes inexpliqués. Les pieds sur terre.
François Louange, le 27 février 2017 au Fresne (Eure). Cet ingénieur a développé un logiciel pour analyser les photos François Louange. (FABIEN MAGNENOU / FRANCEINFO)
Une chasseuse d'orages filme le ciel bourré d'éclairs, sur le flanc de la colline du Fort de Six-Fours-les-Plages (Var). Vers 18 heures, le 3 février, en rentrant chez elle, la jeune femme découvre une image furtive. Un flash rectiligne fend le ciel électrique, puis rebondit comme un vulgaire galet (à environ 0'11" dans la vidéo ci-dessous). Coloration rouge. Un tiers de seconde au total. "Mais quel est cet étrange phénomène ?", s'interroge le quotidien Nice-Matin. Fox Mulder étant indisponible, voici une enquête pour François "Sherlock" Louange, ingénieur à la retraite, spécialiste de l'analyse d'images.
Une foule de paramètres pour "interroger" l'image
Direction Le Fresne, un village normand situé à 950 kilomètres de là. Peluche à l'effigie d'ET, lampe en forme de soucoupe... "Ma fille me bombarde de ces trucs pour me chambrer", sourit François Louange, face à deux écrans. Fasciné par les ovnis – ou Pan ("phénomène aérospatial non identifié") – ce scientifique a développé Ipaco, un logiciel d'analyse photo et vidéo. Consultant pour la Défense, puis pour le groupe d'observation dédié aux Pan – rattaché au Cnes – le retraité poursuit sa quête, depuis son bureau de l'Eure. Déjà, l'ingénieur affûte ses hypothèses.
Méthodique et volubile, François Louange joue sur la vidéo avec les contours, l'orientation... Ce qu'il nomme "les conditions de visualisation". Il peut également extraire des séries de trames pour examiner davantage les images. "Je superpose les sept trames où le flash est visible, et je règle la brillance et le contraste. Là, on dirait que 'ça tape' loin, dans la mer ou sur le sol." L'image est sombre. François Louange cale l'image au moment d'un éclair, pour distinguer le paysage et localiser précisément le site sur Google Earth.
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Il décortique également la technique. La scène est tournée avec un iPhone 5C, un modèle déjà enregistré dans la base de données d'Ipaco. François Louange connaît donc la longueur focale, 33 mm. En traçant des segments à la souris sur l'image, il procède à des mesures angulaires des objets, c'est-à-dire un rapport entre la taille et la distance. Ce qui lui permet de connaître la vitesse potentielle de ceux-ci.
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Chaque hypothèse est patiemment examinée
L'ingénieur tente de comprendre l'origine du phénomène lumineux. Première option : un trucage vidéo. "Cela consiste à inscruster des objets ou des traces. Il y a des outils vidéo pour le faire sans problème." Mais, dans cet exemple, François Louange écarte l'hypothèse – "j'ai fouillé les structures de pixels, les métadonnées... Ce n'est pas trafiqué". Son logiciel, prolongement d'Ocapi, qu'il a lui-même développé pour l'armée dans les années 1980, permet de lire les balises suspectes sur les photos et de déceler d'éventuelles retouches.
François Louange poursuit les hypothèses. Une météorite ? Les réseaux de détection Fripon et Boam n'ont rien enregistré ce jour-là. "Et puis, leur chute n'est pas autant en biais, à l'approche du sol", ajoute François Louange. Quoi d'autre alors ? Une balle traçante ? "Il y a un fort militaire derrière, mais ce ne sont pas des forcenés ! Ces projectiles atteignent 900km/h. D'après la mesure angulaire, la balle serait alors passée à 50 mètres de la photographe", or elle n'a rien entendu. Foudre en boule ? "J'ai contacté un spécialiste de la question, Raymond Piccoli, qui est catégorique". Des cendres incandescentes provenant d'une cigarette ? "La fille était seule."
Un vol de nuit à tire-d'aile
Les chasseurs d'orages filment dans l'obscurité : il suffit d'une faible lumière pour qu'un objet apparaisse très constrasté. "C'est de l'optique adaptative, l'histogramme s'adapte au noir." Deux projecteurs installés sur le fort militaire de Six-Fours, justement, se trouvent dans le dos de la photographe. Et pourquoi pas un insecte ? Type de vol, fréquence du battement des ailes, taille, vitesse… François Louange et son coéquipier Antoine Cousyn ont fini par trouver le suspect le plus plausible : le sphinx colibri. Ses caractéristiques de vol ? "Une vitesse de 50 km/h, des lignes droites sur des périodes supérieures ou égales au quart de seconde..."
La mesure angulaire est appliquée à la taille du papillon, 4 centimètres. D'après les calculs de l'ingénieur, l'insecte se trouverait donc à trois mètres de distance de la caméra, avec un vol à environ 53 km/h. Cohérent. Par ailleurs, l'alternance de rouge et d'ombre sur les images correspond, en fréquence et en couleur, au battement des ailes, qui laisse deviner une tache rouge caractéristique de l'insecte. Un papillon de lumière sous les projecteurs, donc, pour paraphraser la chanteuse Cindy Sanders. Après un jour et demi de travail, le dossier a été classé "B" : "probablement expliqué".
Quand c'est flou, il y a... parfois une poussière
Analyse quantitative de l'image, reflets optiques... Sans décrocher les yeux de l'écran, François Louange détaille ses nombreuses méthodes de résolution et prend un autre exemple résolu en 2007, qui s'appuie, cette fois, sur les lois de la diffusion atmosphérique.
Un objet noir apparaît noir quand il est proche, mais gris foncé, puis gris clair, quand il est distant. François Louange mesure donc le pixel le plus sombre de l'ovni (valeur 25 ; 0 est le noir absolu), situé en haut à gauche de cette image prise lors d'un rassemblement de montgolfières. La valeur est de 14 pour l'aéronef de droite (marqué d'un S rouge), 35 pour celui le plus à gauche (multicolore). L'objet se trouve donc à mi-distance.
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Grâce à la mesure angulaire et au diamètre (15 mètres) des montgolfières, il calcule leur éloignement et déduit celui de l'ovni : environ 300 mètres et 80 cm de long. Quelques semaines plus tard, après un témoignage, le scientifique est conforté dans ses conclusions : ce jour-là, un enfant avait laissé s'envoler un gros ballon de baudruche dans le ciel.
Ainsi, François Louange reçoit des demandes variées. "Les gens, en majorité, sont incapables d'évaluer les distances, les durées, les détails… Même de bonne foi." L'armée chilienne l'a même contacté, après avoir observé un phénomène étrange, en novembre 2014. François Louange a conclu à la présence d'un avion en phase d'atterrissage. Une conclusion sans doute prosaïque pour le Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (CEFAA), qui a boudé cette étude.
En attendant, les logiciels photo et les appareils numériques font bondir les faux témoignages d'ovni. "C'est comme le dopage dans le sport : les dopés ont une longueur d'avance." Un nouveau logiciel serait même capable d'effacer toutes les métadonnées des images –"Mais j'ai la parade", assure François Louange.
La Lune, les insectes, les avions sont souvent pris pour des ovnis, quand ce n'est pas la prise de vues elle-même qui pose problème. "Un objet net se trouve dans la profondeur de champ. S'il est flou, c'est qu'il est en deça (ou au-delà, mais c'est rare avec le numérique), explique François Louange. Cela arrive avec des poussières, parfois prises à tort pour des orbes [cercles lumineux paranormaux] ou je ne sais quoi."
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L'ingénieur a aussi développé un outil pour faire un sort aux lanternes volantes, de plus en plus à la mode lors des mariages. Ces ballons à air chaud, semblables à de petites montgolfières, stimulent décidément l'imagination des témoins. "On est submergé par ces témoignages !", soupire François Louange. Du menu fretin.
"Pour certains 'croyants', un substitut de religion"
Toutes ces enquêtes lui valent parfois de solides inimitiés. "Vous savez, je suis mort si je vais à Mac Minville", plaisante l'ingénieur. Célèbre dans le monde entier depuis la diffusion d'un cliché en 1950 montrant ce qui pourrait ressembler à une soucoupe volante, cette petite ville américaine voue toujours un culte aux ovnis. Sauf que François Louange soutient que l'objet en question est suspendu par un fil, invisible à l'image.
"Un type m'a même menacé de procès pour atteinte à la mémoire des témoins", après une étude sur un autre cas signalé en 1952 au lac Chauvet (Puy-de-Dôme).
Certaines personnes sont dans une telle projection, une telle réalisation de soi, qu'elles ne peuvent pas accepter de retomber sur terre. C'est vous qui passez pour un menteur. Une majorité des gens qui s'intéressent aux ovnis le font par croyance ou substitut de religion.
François Louange
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Parfois, François Louange tend lui-même le bâton pour se faire battre. En 2013, il est l'invité d'honneur du Mufon, un congrès ufologique à la rigueur très relative. "J'ai servi de caution scientifique, je le sais bien. Les conférences ont viré sur les reptiliens et les corps d'extraterrestres, des conneries quoi. J'ai arrêté de les suivre." Rebelote à Sofia (Bulgarie), où un astronome "croyant" rêve d'une structure officielle, à la manière du Geipan(groupe d'étude des phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés) français. "Les débats allaient très loin dans le psychique, le métapsychique [il siffle] : presque des sectes."
François Louange consulte peu les forums d'ufologie – "les croyants y sont très costauds, sous couvert d'anonymat". Mais l'ingénieur dénonce également l'autre pôle, celui des "débunkers", dont l'objectif serait de contrer, coûte que coûte, les superstitions des"croyants". "Il y a des milliers de témoignages et d'enregistrements dans l'atmosphère qu'on n'explique pas. Ce qui me motive, c'est de trouver des explications". Et tant mieux si ces enquêtes lui procurent tant de "satisfaction intellectuelle".
"Il faut un service officiel sur ces questions"
Toute sa vie, François Louange a milité pour la création d'une structure officielle dédiée à ces questions. Spécificité française, le Geipan est créé en 1977. Le Service d'expertise des phénomènes de rentrée atmosphérique (Sepra) lui succède en 1988, mais bat de l'aile. En 2000, François Louange est chargé d'un audit sur ce service rattaché au Centre national d'études spatiales. "Il y a d'abord une raison scientifique : expliquer ces phénomènes. Et une raison civique : ce problème existe et la population se pose des questions."
L'Etat doit faire un choix. Ou bien il agit, et met un service, même minimum, capable de répondre aux questions. Ou il ne fait rien, au risque de laisser la place à Raël, aux sectes et à ce genre de choses.
François Louange
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Le Geipan a succédé au Sepra en 2005, assurant la pérennité du service. "Nous avons besoin d'un service officiel, ne serait-ce que pour obtenir les données de l'aviation civile, de l'armée, de la gendarmerie." Mais ces arguments ne convainquent pas tous les scientifiques. "Le Sepra est (...) une contamination mystique au cœur de la science",tonnait l'Association française d'information scientifique (Afis), à la période de l'audit.
Divers objets dans le bureau de François Louange, le 27 février 2017 au Fresne (Eure). (FABIEN MAGNENOU / FRANCEINFO)
Dans cet article, l'Afis dénonce notamment la présence de François Louange à un séminaire entre chercheurs "croyants" et scientifiques, financé par Laurance S. Rockefeller en 1997, à Pocantico (Etats-Unis). Dans les années 90, déjà, il était apparu sur les plateaux des frères Bogdanov et de Jacques Pradel, dans des émissions parfois gourmandes en récits farfelus. "Je ne leur en veux pas, mais je pense qu'il ne faut plus d'émissions télé sur ces sujets".
"Ce qui est troublant, c'est de passer des dizaines d'années à tenter de comprendre quelque chose, et de ne pas avancer du tout", résume François Lange, compréhensif avec les réactions parfois hostiles de confrères. Lui peaufine encore son outil, qui intéresserait désormais le gouvernement argentin. Pour le convaincre, il compte s'attaquer à un nouveau monument de l'ufologie : une "soucoupe" aperçue dans un lac du Costa Rica, en 1971, lors d'une mission de cartographie. Sherlock Holmes garde la tête dans les étoiles. On ne sait jamais.
Astrobiologists Claim to Have Found Extraterrestrial Life Form in Earth’s Stratosphere
Astrobiologists Claim to Have Found Extraterrestrial Life Form in Earth’s Stratosphere
British astrobiologists are claiming to have found alien life form in the Earth’s stratosphere. They collected a small diatom frustule that could have come from space after sending a balloon to 27 km into the stratosphere during the recent Perseid meteor shower.
This image shows a diatom frustule, possibly a Nitzschia species, captured on a stud from a height of 25 km in the stratosphere. Image credit: Milton Wainwright et al.
“Most people will assume that these biological particles must have just drifted up to the stratosphere from Earth, but it is generally accepted that a particle of the size found cannot be lifted from Earth to heights of, for example, 27 km. The only known exception is by a violent volcanic eruption, none of which occurred within three years of the sampling trip,” explained Prof Milton Wainwright from the University of Sheffield, who is a lead author of a paper reporting the discovery in the Journal of Cosmology(full paper).
“In the absence of a mechanism by which large particles like these can be transported to the stratosphere we can only conclude that the biological entities originated from space. Our conclusion then is that life is continually arriving to Earth from space, life is not restricted to this planet and it almost certainly did not originate here.”
“If life does continue to arrive from space then we have to completely change our view of biology and evolution. New textbooks will have to be written!”
The balloon was launched near Chester, UK, and carried microscope studs which were only exposed to the atmosphere when the balloon reached heights of between 22 and 27 km.
The balloon landed safely and intact near Wakefield, UK. The scientists then discovered that they had captured a diatom fragment and some unusual biological entities from the stratosphere, all of which are too large to have come from Earth.
The team is hoping to extend and confirm their results by carrying out the test again in October 2013 to coincide with the upcoming Haley’s Comet-associated meteorite shower when there will be large amounts of cosmic dust. It is hoped that more new, or unusual, organisms will be found.
“Of course it will be argued that there must be an, as yet, unknown mechanism for transferring large particles from Earth to the high stratosphere, but we stand by our conclusions. The absolutely crucial experiment will come when we do what is called ‘isotope fractionation’. We will take some of the samples which we have isolated from the stratosphere and introduce them into a complex machine – a button will be pressed. If the ratio of certain isotopes gives one number then our organisms are from Earth, if it gives another, then they are from space. The tension will obviously be almost impossible to live with!” Prof Wainwright said.
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Bibliographic information: Milton Wainwright et al. 2013. Isolation of a diatom frustule fragment from the lower stratosphere (22-27 km) – evidence for a cosmic origin. Journal of Cosmology, vol. 22, pp. 10183 – 10188
Milton Wainwright. Biological entities isolated from the stratosphere (22-27 km): case for their space origin. Conference 8865: Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XVI, Aug. 27, 2013, San Diego, CA, USA. Paper 8865-28
Man spends $50,000 on over 100 procedures to transform into a ‘genderless’ ALIEN
Man spends $50,000 on over 100 procedures to transform into a ‘genderless’ ALIEN
Vinny Ohh, 22, from Los Angeles in California, has had over 110 procedures
He wants to transform into a ‘genderless’ extra-terrestrial
The make-up artists believes he’s neither male nor female
A man has spent $50,000 (£40,000) on plastic surgery to become an alien – and could soon have his genitalia removed.
Vinny Ohh, 22, from Los Angeles in California, has had over 110 procedures to transform into a ‘genderless’ extra-terrestrial.
The make-up artist believes he’s neither male nor female and so his extreme look is a way to mirror how he feels inside.
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Make-up artist Vinny Ohh, 22, from Los Angeles in California, has plans costing over $160,000 ((£130,000) to become a genderless alien. He has already spent $50,000 (£40,000) on plastic surgery to become an alien
Vinny has had two rhinoplasties at 19 and 21 to fix his nose and over 90 procedures to become an alien
He started with lip fillers at the age of 17, before having two rhinoplasties, multiple cheeks and brow bone fillers and more. The part-time model also wears large blackened contact lenses, alien like talons and unusual hair dye colours.
Now he plans to fork out another $160,000 (£130,000) on surgery to have his genitalia, nipples and bellybutton removed.
Vinny said: ‘I want to be a sexless alien being, I want my outside to reflect how I feel on the inside.
‘The overall image I want to do is an alien. I want to be a hybrid, not male or female.
‘I’ve wanted to be sexless and genderless since I was 17, I’ve been going to doctors to see if it’s possible but had no luck.
‘I don’t want people to think I’m trying to change into a woman. I could live without sexual organs so why should I have a penis or a vagina.
The make-up artists believes hes neither male nor female and so his extreme look is a way of mirroring how he feels inside
‘I don’t see why I shouldn’t have my genitals completely removed and have nothing down there.
‘So far, I’ve had $50,000 in skincare and procedures including two rhinoplasties, facial fillers in my lips, cheeks and brow bone all to look extra-terrestrial.
‘I do kind of look like a Martian, I have a really big head, no eyebrows and I’ve just been connecting with that.
‘When people ask me how I’d label myself, I tell them an “extra-terrestrial, hot mess, self-obsessed” it’s becoming my slogan.’
Vinny started cosmetic procedures after feeling like an outcast while growing up.
Speaking about his look, he said: ‘I do kind of look like a Martian, I have a really big head, no eyebrows and I’ve just been connecting with that’
Vinny’s nose before surgery. He has had two rhinoplasties in his quest to become an alien
When out in public he draws much attention, which he believes is down to some of his unusual standout features and dress sense
He became an LGBT+ activist and feels like his look now represents his beliefs that ‘people shouldn’t be labelled.’
Vinny said: ‘Over the years, I’ve realised I’m not gay, bi, trans or any of these things, I just want to be me.
‘I do it to inspire the world in a certain way, I want people to stop labelling others or putting them in boxes.’
When out in public he draws much attention, which he believes is down to some of his unusual standout features and dress sense.
Vinny added: ‘My large black contact lenses are a necessity, it’s like my pearl necklaces, I wear them to walk around everywhere I can.
‘They make my eyes look super massive, some people call it demonic but I think it looks beautiful like an animal.
Vinny is joining the agency and TV show Plastics of Hollywood. He is pictured with producer Marcela Iglesias
Vinny is joining the agency and TV show Plastics of Hollywood. He is pictured on the steps with producer Marcela Iglesias and Patrik Simpson
‘Also, my make-up is focussed around looking sex-less, I play with colour a lot, there’s no shade I wouldn’t experiment with.’
Vinny has found the public are split on his look, with some adoring his unusual appearance and others hurling abuse or trying to physically hurt him.
He said: ‘Some people absolutely love me see me as a celebration and give a lot of compliments.
‘I don’t look real and people love it. Some people have said they want their kids to be like me and that I’m an inspiration for children who don’t feel like they belong.
‘Other times I’ve had shopping carts chucked at me or I’ve been considered a sexual object by men and woman, I’m used to not fitting in.
VINNY’S 110 SURGERIES TO LOOK LIKE AN ALIEN SO FAR
35 whole body and face laser treatment
12 cheek fillers
2 brow fillers
15 lip fillers
10 fillers for random wrinkles
5 botox sessions
5 nose procedures
1 botox under eye
5 facial peels
20 cryo facial freezing
‘Even when I was 16, I was wearing full body suits and eight inch platforms going outside in the day, so it feels very normal to me.’
Vinny is set to appear on The Plastics of Hollywood, a show that will house real life plastic surgery addicts together in attempts to nurture their talent.
He said: ‘My goal is to change everyone’s mind about human dolls.
‘I’m trying to wake people up to show them that gender roles in society do not matter and show them that we need to be better human beings and nicer to one another.’
The TV show, which is set to be released in America, will follow a talent agency that tries to help them achieve Hollywood Fame without relying on their looks.
Marcela Iglesias, producer and presenter, said: ‘Vinny is an alien new generation of new people who want to look different, in 15 years, hundreds of people will want to look like him.
‘We’re in an era where there’s people who want to look like lizards, those who implant horns into their skulls and people with full-face tattoos like the guy in Suicide Squad who are working.
‘We want to be the first agency who will treat these human dolls, alien dolls and cartoons as a normal part of the society that we’re living in now.
‘We have all these people, the freaks, weirdos and we want to make society understand them.’
VINNY’S $160,000 (£130,000) SURGERY PLANS TO BECOME AN EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
VIDEO:The giant humanoid shape was spotted above Mukuba Mall in Kitwe
VIDEO:The giant humanoid shape was spotted above Mukuba Mall in Kitwe
Zambian locals ran away in terror when they saw a strange human-like figure appear in the clouds above a shopping centre.
Photographs show a large humanoid head and torso, tailing into the sky and it is thought to have measured more than 100 metres
The figure hung in the sky for about half an hour and some thought it was a manifestation of God.
A witness said: ‚We were shocked to see images that looked like a human in the clouds for close to 30 minutes. The dense black shape looked like it was made from a different material from the clouds.
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