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Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
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01-04-2017
He used to be one of the biggest rock stars of the ’90s. Now he studies UFOs.
He used to be one of the biggest rock stars of the ’90s. Now he studies UFOs.
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, D-Mass, center rear, his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry, listen to Tom DeLonge, the lead singer of the rock band, Blink 182, left, as he talks to a rally at the University of Pittsburgh Friday April 16, 2004 in Pittsburgh. GENE J. PUSKARAP
BY BEN GUARINO
The Washington Post
Of all the pop-punk bands to emerge in the 1990s, few achieved success like Blink-182. Massive hits like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" fueled its distinct brand of cheery-cum-snotty adolescence. By October 2001, the band could draw 15,000 eager fans to Maryland's Merriweather Post Pavilion. There the crowd watched as Blink-182, then composed of Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge, performed in front of a giant four-letter word set ablaze.
But all flaming swear signs must burn out. The band went on hiatus between 2005 and 2009. In 2015, four years after the New York Times declared that, "no punk band of the 1990s has been more influential than Blink-182," guitarist and vocalist DeLonge walked away. Hoppus and Barker, in a statement to Rolling Stone, said that DeLonge had left Blink-182 "indefinitely." The band continued without him.
A different kind of stardom - space, and the aliens who lived there - seduced DeLonge.
Now 41, DeLonge has found success in his post-punk pursuit. In February, the Arizona-based International UFO Congress, which each year holds the largest convention of UFO investigators in the world, awarded DeLonge its UFO researcher of the year award. In March, DeLonge published a book, "Sekret Machines: Gods, Man, & War," with occult historian Peter Levenda. The book, DeLonge said, marked the first nonfiction entry in a sweeping project that includes science-fiction novels, concept albums and movies.
All of those works are related, in one way or another, to a subject DeLonge calls "the Phenomenon."
More than 20 years of research and reflection led to the new book. DeLonge's perspective turned to the heavens in early adolescence, he told The Washington Post in a recent phone interview, after witnessing the conflict between his mother, a devout Christian, and his father, who was "not religious at all." He began to wonder if something sinister was at work.
"I realized early on there was something odd with the human life experience," Delonge said. "There's all these wars. I had a really difficult, broken family. I got kicked out of high school."
DeLonge's phenomenon is a grand unified theory of extraterrestrial encounters. It encompasses virtually all aspects of human culture, including religion, technology, media and science. "It is the UFO phenomenon, to be sure, but that is a box too small to contain it in all its glory," DeLonge and Levenda wrote in their new book, "as no two experts can agree on what it is." In "Sekret Machines," a metaphor for the phenomenon emerges: the human experience as cargo cult.
During World War II, indigenous tribes in the South Pacific, who rarely interacted with outsiders, observed planes airdropping food and medicine. "To this day there are religions based on worshiping those planes," DeLonge said, "because they did not know what they were."
There is no question that cargo cults have existed on our planet. One group of villagers in the Vanuatu islands honor a holy savior named John Frum, the spirit of an American who lives in a nearby volcano. (It has been speculated that the name John Frum came from World War II soldiers who greeted the villagers, saying, "I'm John from America.")
"John promised he'll bring planeloads and shiploads of cargo to us from America if we pray to him," one village elder told a Smithsonian magazine reporter who visited the island in 2006. "Radios, TVs, trucks, boats, watches, iceboxes, medicine, Coca-Cola and many other wonderful things."
Similar events happened on an interplanetary scale, DeLonge said. "Whether it is Joseph Smith meeting an angel and forming the Mormon religion, or it's the star of Bethlehem or light hovering over a manger," he said, "what happens is, is people see these things and they create religions off of them. We wanted to say, 'Well, hey, we are all some form of a cargo cult.' The question is, why?"
DeLonge's book will not convince any skeptics about the reality of aliens. Sufficient evidence already exists, DeLonge told The Post, citing the scale of the universe. "There are trillions of galaxies," he said. "There's trillions of planets within each galaxy, and people go, 'Are we alone?' " DeLonge dismissed his own question with a word Blink-182 once set on fire.
He also had little time for those who doubt whether aliens had visited Earth. "It's all out there already," DeLonge said. "It's so frustrating when people say they're waiting for some big person to say something. Well, there's been a hundred books, national press events in District of Columbia, meetings in Congress and multi-star generals on the record."
There is no evidence of contact between aliens and humans, according to scientific consensus. "At the moment, life on Earth is the only known life in the universe, but there are compelling arguments to suggest we are not alone," astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote in 2003.
When Bill Clinton was president, he denied that the White House had proof of aliens. "No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947," Clinton said during a 1995 speech while in Ireland, responding to a letter sent by Ryan, a 13-year-old resident of Belfast. "And Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know."
(As recently as Monday, scientists publicly dismissed the idea. "I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth," said Alan Bean, 85, the fourth person to walk on the Moon, to an Australian newspaper.)
In his search for information, DeLonge said he made his way into upper echelons of the American government. In October, the Wall Street Journal reported that DeLonge corresponded with John Podesta, the chair for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, according to emails WikiLeaks had released; Podesta, for his part, has frequently advocated for the United States to declassify any information regarding Area 51 or other UFO incidents.
It took DeLonge a year, but he managed to set up "very high level meetings" with members of the Defense Department, he said. "And I got to the people that are in charge of this stuff." He declined to confirm to The Washington Post whether he had met with Podesta or any specific government officials. "I can't comment on who I met with," he said, "or what those meetings were about."
A Defense Department spokesman said in an email to The Washington Post that neither the Defense Department's Community Relations nor the Air Force had records of such a meeting. The spokesman "did see one open source story that named generals who supposedly worked with Mr. DeLonge." Both of the generals mentioned had retired, the representative said, the first in October 2013 and the other in June of 2014.
Several scientists involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, are optimistic that any alien life advanced enough to happen upon Earth would also be benevolent. "I doubt aliens would drop what they're doing to come over here and wipe out Clapham Junction - why would they do that?" Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, told the Guardian in July. "They probably have what we have at home - except for our culture, maybe they are big Cliff Richard fans or like our reality television."
But DeLonge's air of secrecy - and the government's - stemmed from the danger that alien contact posed, the former Blink-182 guitarist said. It was a pessimistic view of alien intelligence, a fear shared by physicist Stephen Hawking (though Hawking still supports SETI initiatives such as Breakthrough Listen). DeLonge had been "briefed on things" that caused him to lose sleep "for multiple days on end," he said. "Because it really, really threw me down the stairs."
DeLonge's view was not completely dour, however. Far from it. He said that exposing the phenomenon as a malevolent extraterrestrial influence would persuade humans around the world to cooperate. He likened current global conflicts to someone incorrectly fighting a fire. "When I was in high school, I wanted to be a firefighter. I learned that y ou spray the base of the flame. You squirt water on the fuel, not the flame itself," DeLonge said.
"I feel that lot of the fighting taking place across the world, when we drop bombs - that's spraying on the flames. The fuel of all these wars are our belief systems. And the sooner we attack that," he said, "that we've been duped about our belief systems, maybe we'll start to realize we're much more connected."
Annual Canadian UFO report released with only 4 per cent of sightings unexplained
Annual Canadian UFO report released with only 4 per cent of sightings unexplained
In total, there were 1,131 sightings of unidentified flying objects reported across Canada in 2016.
Chris Rutkowsky is a science writer and research coordinator at Ufology Research, which publishes the annual Canadian UFO survey. He said that the record-low unexplained sightings are likely the result of more careful scrutiny of raw report information available. (CHRIS RUTKOWSKY)
By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG—Bright lights, airplane near-misses and light-fingered aliens with a penchant for cool shades are all part of the annual report on UFO sightings in Canada.
The 2016 Canadian UFO Survey produced by Winnipeg-based Ufology Research was released this week. In total, there were 1,131 sightings of unidentified flying objects reported across Canada.
In a first for the 28 years the study has been conducted, only 4 per cent of the sightings could not be explained. Study author Chris Rutkowski said that record-low rating is likely the result of more careful scrutiny of raw report information available.
Summer is the big time of year for UFO sightings and mostly they were simply lights that people saw in the sky.
The provinces with the largest populations had the most reports, so Quebec led the country with 38.5 per cent of the sightings, while Ontario had 26 per cent and British Columbia had 17 per cent.
The most popular shape of UFO reported in 2016 was a simple point source of light (57 per cent). Other shapes reported were triangle (4 per cent), ball (9 per cent), cigar (3 per cent) and fireball (5 per cent). The classic “flying saucer” was only reported 48 times.
As for what the study calls “unknowns,” they included such cases as the “gigantic, disc-shaped object with searchlights” that was seen moving over the mountains in North Vancouver and the boomerang-shaped “cluster of stars” that moved across the sky near St. Thomas, Ont.
There was also the commercial airplane over Toronto that had a near miss with an object while on a routine flight on Nov. 14.
“The flight crew noticed an object directly ahead on their flight path. The object appeared to be solid, approximately five to eight feet in diameter and shaped like an upright doughnut or inner tube,” said the study.
“Cabin crew members received minor injuries when evasive action was taken. While the object was not likely a balloon and was suggested to be a drone, it was noted that drones could not fly at that altitude and distance.”
The study said the Transportation Safety Board ruled the incident as “a near collision with an unidentified airborne object.”
Close encounter cases are in the minority, but high on the strangeness scale.
Those included a man in Cornwall, P.E.I., who reported that a thin, six-foot-tall, long-fingered white alien in a black suit spoke to him in his bedroom before leaving by walking through a wall.
A man in Lanaudiere, Que., said he was transported into a field of plants and plunged into a bathtub “where he was surrounded by three green, big-eyed humanoid creatures who communicated with him telepathically.”
Not all close encounters are so dramatic, however. One person in Tecumseh, Ont., reported that an alien stole his sunglasses and belt, while someone from Rimouski, Que., filed a report which read simply: “They contacted me!”
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NASA IS READY TO ANNOUNCE ALIEN LIFE: ALL PROTOCOLS ARE SET UP
NASA IS READY TO ANNOUNCE ALIEN LIFE: ALL PROTOCOLS ARE SET UP
In a universe that is practically infinite, it would be extremely egocentric of anyone to suggest that life on earth represents the only intelligent life in the universe. Many people, researchers included, pose the argument that in all these years of technological prosperity of the human civilization, no sign of life has been found in outer space despite the best efforts of organizations like SETI. This problem is further propounded with Drake’s Equation.
The Drake equation estimates, roughly, how many planets may be inhabited by intelligent life. It seeks to quantify the question, “Are we alone?” So far, the conclusion of the equation is that with so many habitable planets out there, it is astonishing that no contact has been established with extraterrestrial life in all of human history. Therefore, one must conclude that there is no intelligent extraterrestrial life in the universe.
There is one problem with the Drake Equation. The equation overestimates the human being’s competency in collecting data from space. Scientists, despite their admirable persistence and best efforts, have only been able to explore an infinitesimally small volume of the universe. The conclusion that humans have not discovered aliens yet means there are no aliens is analogous to the someone scooping up the ocean water in a glass and saying there are no whales in the ocean because none are swimming in their glass. With the recent discovery of the exoplanet system TRAPPIST - 1, the odds of finding life on other planets have never been higher. The question now arises about how one should contact an alien civilization if and when the presence of intelligent life has been established. The book by NASA titled ‘Archaeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Communication’ focuses on this scenario. It would be difficult to determine whether the aliens are peaceful or barbaric; whether they are conquerors or explorers; whether they relish human meat or not.
The “Hollywood scientist” Neil Degrasse Tyson posits that the human body is made up of the same matter that is abundant in the universe and it is unlikely that intelligent life did not come into existence on other planets. When coming in contact with such a civilization, the very first impediment is to find a common “language.” One can reasonably assume that aliens do not speak the tongue of humans. They might not use sound as their method of communication at all. The book by NASA tackles this issue and proposes some ways in which human beings could communicate with the aliens.
The question of whether or not we are alone is as old as time itself. The question should now be restated as whether or not we are going to ever come in contact with an alien civilization. And if we do, would we have found in them an ally or a foe?
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NASA Admits: We’re in Contact With No Less Than 4 Different Alien Species (Just Forgot to Mention It)
NASA Admits: We’re in Contact With No Less Than 4 Different Alien Species (Just Forgot to Mention It)
Yes, you got that right – NASA admits that it’s in contact with alien species. They just forgot to mention it! Weird, right? Well, not really. Just take a look at the article below to find out more about this. According to the recent reports, Trish Chamberson, an official spokesperson from NASA has confirmed the existence of extra-terrestrial life and has claimed that aliens have been visiting planet Earth for thousands of years.
NASA SPOKESWOMAN CONFIRMS THE EXISTENCE OF ALIENS
This is how the story goes – during the two-hour briefing, Trish Chamberson, an official spokesperson from NASA, confirmed that a number of theories which had previously been dismissed as groundless speculation from fringe enthusiasts are actually grounded in reality. Trish Chamberson, an official spokesperson from NASA, also made various sensational allegations in the course of the interview, claiming that the alien species known as the Greys have been visiting Earth for thousands of years and that they may have had a hand in the construction of megastructures such as the ancient pyramids of Giza and various other buildings dotted around the world.
ALIEN CONTACT?
“There are so many films, documentaries and TV programs on aliens, that we thought everyone was aware of them by now.”
And, after that, Trish Chamberson went on to confirm various theories about alien mining operations in the solar system. She also says that one of the mines was on the far side of the Moon and that various planets in the solar system were being assessed for minerals. Trish also said that aliens have begun to mine Jupiter, which is why observers have been able to see several apparently new rings appearing around the gas giant.
“Sorry. We just kinda assumed everyone knew about it.”
This is also very important for you to know – she also alleged that NASA is in regular contact with no less than four different and entirely separate alien species from various locations in the galaxy. Trish Chamberson also mentioned that all contact with the alien species has been amicable. While the aliens have raised no serious bone of contention with humanity, she has alleged that they have expressed concern about the proliferation and testing of nuclear weapons which has serious consequences not only for life on Earth but for races of peoples all over the galaxy.
“The aliens are actually harmless and only interested in the planet’s natural resources.”
But, she didn’t confirm that alien species are responsible for the abductions of human beings. Yes, Chamberson mentioned that the aliens are completely harmless, and their only interest in Earth relates to the planet’s natural resources.
“We were so busy back-engineering their technology, we simply forgot all about it. They even have a base on the far side of the moon, and are currently mining several planets in our solar system for minerals. They’ve only started on Jupiter recently, hence the new rings around it. It’s all good though, they’re a nice enough bunch. They don’t talk much though, but always complaining about our Nuclear weapons, claiming they affect parallel universes every time they’re triggered.”
Franz Bauer of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago said: "Ever since discovering this source, we’ve been struggling to understand its origin.
“It’s like we have a jigsaw puzzle but we don’t have all of the pieces.”
The X-ray source, located in a region of the sky known as the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S), has remarkable properties.
Prior to October 2014, this source was not detected in X-rays, but then it erupted and became at least a factor of 1,000 brighter in a few hours.
After about a day, the source had faded completely below the sensitivity of Chandra.
Thousands of hours of legacy data from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes helped determine that the event likely came from a faint, small galaxy about 10.7 billion lightyears from Earth.
For a few minutes, the X-ray source produced a thousand times more energy than all the stars in this galaxy.
We may have observed a completely new type of cataclysmic event.
Kevin Schawinski
Two of the three main possibilities to explain the X-ray source invoke gamma-ray burst (GRB) events.
GRBs are jetted explosions triggered either by the collapse of a massive star or by the merger of a neutron star with another neutron star or a black hole.
If the jet is pointing towards the Earth, a burst of gamma rays is detected.
As the jet expands, it loses energy and produces weaker, more isotropic radiation at X-ray and other wavelengths.
Possible explanations for the CDF-S X-ray source, according to the researchers, are a GRB that is not pointed toward Earth, or a GRB that lies beyond the small galaxy.
A third possibility is that a medium-sized black hole swallowed a white dwarf star.
Co-author Ezequiel Treister, also of the Pontifical Catholic University, said: "None of these ideas fits the data perfectly.
“But then again, we’ve rarely if ever seen any of the proposed possibilities in actual data, so we don’t understand them well at all.”
The mysterious X-ray source was not seen at any other time during the two and a half months of exposure time Chandra has observed the CDF-S region, which has been spread out over the past 17 years.
Moreover, no similar events have yet to be found in Chandra observations of other parts of the sky.
If the X-ray source was caused by a GRB triggered by the merger of a neutron star with a black hole or another neutron star, then gravitational waves would also have been produced.
If such an event were to occur much closer to Earth, within a few hundred million light years, it may be detectable with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).
A paper describing this result appears in the June 2017 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is available online.
Scientists are investigating if the most simplistic forms of alien life developed in vast oceans that once covered the Red Planet.
They believe if they did, there may still be survivors in water that has remained beneath the surface.
NASA made the announcement as it unveiled the results of studies into what exactly stripped Mars of its atmosphere which meant it could no longer hold the oceans like they are here on Earth.
The study found it had been systematically stripped of its atmosphere by solar winds in the early years of our solar system.
The research, published in journal Science today looked at data collected by the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) space probe which is orbiting the planet.
A NASA spokesman said: "It's possible microbial life could have existed at the surface early in Mars’ history.
"As the planet cooled off and dried up, any life could have been driven underground or forced into rare surface oases."
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Simplistic forms of life could be hidden in underground water on Mars.
As the planet cooled off and dried up, any life could have been driven underground or forced into rare surface oases.
NASA spokesman
Elsayed Talaat, MAVEN Program Scientist, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said: "This discovery is a significant step toward unraveling the mystery of Mars' past environments.“ “In a broader context, this information teaches us about the processes that can change a planet’s habitability over time.”
The researchers found that solar winds stripped Mars of noble gas argon and carbon dioxide (CO2).
The spokesman added: "CO2 is of interest because it is the major constituent of Mars' atmosphere and because it's an efficient greenhouse gas that can retain heat and warm the planet.”
The team made its estimate using data from the Martian upper atmosphere, which was collected by MAVEN's Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS).
This analysis included measurements from the Martian surface made by NASA's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on board the Curiosity rover.
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DID ALIENS DISCOVER A NEW VACATION HOTSPOT? UFO REPORTS TAKE A DIP
DISCOVER A NEW VACATION HOTSPOT? UFO REPORTS TAKE A DIP
Illustration by Raphael Terra
by Roger Marsh
Could those pesky aliens have discovered better beaches on another planet? Maybe there was a galaxy-wide UFO recall and everyone’s in the shop getting upgraded flux capacitors. Domestic UFO reports for the first quarter 2017 are down a staggering 32 percent as compared to the previous five years, according to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Director of Research Robert Powell.
The MUFON witness database at mid-day March 31, 2017, is showing 992 UFO reports where the case occurred during January, February or March. During the five-year period 2012 through 2016 within the same three months, MUFON averaged receiving about 1,460 cases – showing a 32 percent dip in UFO reports.
“We have no current explanation on why the drop in UFO reports,” Powell said Friday afternoon. “One can speculate that people are seeing fewer UFOs or that they are just not reporting them.”
Powell pointed out the fact that mobile devices like tablets and smartphones recently overtook computers near the end of 2016.
"James Titcomb reporting for the Telegraph," Powell said, "reports that our mobile devices finally tipped the scale as far as how people are viewing and engaging with websites. The way people are viewing our UFO reporting document is now very challenging and must be upgraded to keep up with technology."
National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) Director Peter Davenport confirmed today that his witness database is experiencing the same drop.
"NUFORC averaged about 1,402 cases during the first quarters 2012 through 2016," Davenport said. "The first quarter 2017 is showing just 954 cases – about a 32 percent drop as well."
The two UFO databases often follow the same patterns.
“Peter and I have traded stats over the years,” reports MUFON Communications Director Roger Marsh. “If he calls and says he’s having a surge in reports in general, or with one particular shape, that wave is always mirrored in the MUFON database. While some people report into both databases, most reports are actually unique to the database. We’ve seen dips and highs in the past, and they usually run in two to three-month cycles.”
No one is ever quite sure why the rise and fall in UFO reports.
“There is a direct correlation between UFO television programming and UFO reporting,” MUFON Executive Director Jan C. Harzan said. “The shows apparently make people aware that they have a place to file a report. When one of our “Hangar 1” episodes is playing on the History channel – there is always an increase in reporting - although that surge does tend to be people recalling older cases.”
The top five reporting shapes in 2017 to date are Sphere (186), Star-like (106), Circle (100), Triangle (73) and Disc (64).
The top row are screen grabs from a video taken in January 2017 of a reported UFO over Liverpool, UK. The bottom row shows a very similar reported UFO in March 2017 over Gloucester, UK.
If some British tabloids are to be believed, UFOs have been lighting up the British skies these days, as if the night skies were an immense Christmas tree.
As reported in The Express, “thousands of people across the globe are seeing mysterious shape-shifting UFO.”
Of course, an unidentified flying object typically turns out to be something other than an ET spacecraft once we take a closer look. In this instance, on March 12, Rob Wheatman, a resident of Gloucester, captured an odd aerial phenomenon on video, as seen below.
“I saw it as a sparkling ‘star’ from the garden in Elmbridge, due south,” according to GloucesterLive. “What alerted me was an orange light that came from it and traveled at speed north east. I grabbed my video and luckily it has a 40x zoom and that’s when I got the images of the bizarre light you saw.”
While there doesn’t seem to be any outward appearance of fakery going on here, there tends to be an immediate attitude either on the part of individuals who offer alleged UFO videos or from media sources that have a tendency to stretch the idea of credulity with descriptions like “[t]his apparently intergalactic lightshow was filmed above Gloucester last night, and it’s got us, and the cameraman, baffled. What it shows is anyone’s guess...We’re pinning our money on aliens. Definitely aliens.”
Once again, let’s offer this reminder: The vast majority of UFO sightings are eventually explained as natural or man-made objects.
We consulted a photo analyst who was unimpressed with the sightings.
“In this Gloucester video, I noticed first that the object was not in focus. That’s why it looked like a diamond shape. This is a common appearance of out of focus objects with some cameras,” according to Marc D’Antonio, chief photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network.
“In that video, the cameraman stated he was looking ‘due south.’ I believe that, due south at some point during the night, you will see Sirius, the brightest star in the northern sky. Because a star is ever only a point source, the slightest disturbance to the air between the camera and edge of the atmosphere in the direction being imaged will cause the image to dance around. This is called atmospheric scintillation,” D’Antonio told The Huffington Post.
In addition to his work as a video analyst, D’Antonio is CEO of FX Models, where he builds miniature versions of classified objects for his clients that include the U.S. Navy, Congress and the joint chiefs of staff. He knows a thing or two about things that are real, faked or simply misidentified.
HuffPost asked D’Antonio to look at another reported UK UFO video from January. This video begins with an object over Liverpool looking remarkably like the object in the first video above from Gloucester:
”In the second video, I noted that the object was out of focus at times. The cameraman stated that the object didn’t move, yet it absolutely did, moving over time from a position to the right and above a branch to a position just off the tip of that branch,” D’Antonio said.
“It had changed direction to reveal its nature ― it was an aircraft, landing lights on when it turned on final approach to a nearby airport. Landing lights can be seen up to 90 miles away and will persist for up to 4-5 minutes, then fade out as the aircraft makes its final turns. In my opinion, the first video showed an astronomical object ― likely Sirius ― and the second video showed a likely aircraft on landing approach.”
Incidentally, the objects in question in these two videos are quite similar to a diamond-shaped “UFO” videotaped in 2015 over another UK town, Tynemouth. In that case, it was determined that the object was, in fact, the bright star Sirius.
If you happen to spot something in the night sky that, at first, seems out-of-this-world and tempts you to consider that you’re lucky enough to witness visitors from far away, remember that you’re more than likely seeing something that is truly astronomical in nature.
The top row are screen grabs from a video taken in January 2017 of a reported UFO over Liverpool, UK. The bottom row shows a very similar reported UFO in March 2017 over Gloucester, UK.
If some British tabloids are to be believed, UFOs have been lighting up the British skies these days, as if the night skies were an immense Christmas tree.
As reported in The Express, “thousands of people across the globe are seeing mysterious shape-shifting UFO.”
Of course, an unidentified flying object typically turns out to be something other than an ET spacecraft once we take a closer look. In this instance, on March 12, Rob Wheatman, a resident of Gloucester, captured an odd aerial phenomenon on video, as seen below.
“I saw it as a sparkling ‘star’ from the garden in Elmbridge, due south,” according to GloucesterLive. “What alerted me was an orange light that came from it and traveled at speed north east. I grabbed my video and luckily it has a 40x zoom and that’s when I got the images of the bizarre light you saw.”
While there doesn’t seem to be any outward appearance of fakery going on here, there tends to be an immediate attitude either on the part of individuals who offer alleged UFO videos or from media sources that have a tendency to stretch the idea of credulity with descriptions like “[t]his apparently intergalactic lightshow was filmed above Gloucester last night, and it’s got us, and the cameraman, baffled. What it shows is anyone’s guess...We’re pinning our money on aliens. Definitely aliens.”
Once again, let’s offer this reminder: The vast majority of UFO sightings are eventually explained as natural or man-made objects.
We consulted a photo analyst who was unimpressed with the sightings.
“In this Gloucester video, I noticed first that the object was not in focus. That’s why it looked like a diamond shape. This is a common appearance of out of focus objects with some cameras,” according to Marc D’Antonio, chief photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network.
“In that video, the cameraman stated he was looking ‘due south.’ I believe that, due south at some point during the night, you will see Sirius, the brightest star in the northern sky. Because a star is ever only a point source, the slightest disturbance to the air between the camera and edge of the atmosphere in the direction being imaged will cause the image to dance around. This is called atmospheric scintillation,” D’Antonio told The Huffington Post.
In addition to his work as a video analyst, D’Antonio is CEO of FX Models, where he builds miniature versions of classified objects for his clients that include the U.S. Navy, Congress and the joint chiefs of staff. He knows a thing or two about things that are real, faked or simply misidentified.
HuffPost asked D’Antonio to look at another reported UK UFO video from January. This video begins with an object over Liverpool looking remarkably like the object in the first video above from Gloucester:
”In the second video, I noted that the object was out of focus at times. The cameraman stated that the object didn’t move, yet it absolutely did, moving over time from a position to the right and above a branch to a position just off the tip of that branch,” D’Antonio said.
“It had changed direction to reveal its nature ― it was an aircraft, landing lights on when it turned on final approach to a nearby airport. Landing lights can be seen up to 90 miles away and will persist for up to 4-5 minutes, then fade out as the aircraft makes its final turns. In my opinion, the first video showed an astronomical object ― likely Sirius ― and the second video showed a likely aircraft on landing approach.”
Incidentally, the objects in question in these two videos are quite similar to a diamond-shaped “UFO” videotaped in 2015 over another UK town, Tynemouth. In that case, it was determined that the object was, in fact, the bright star Sirius.
If you happen to spot something in the night sky that, at first, seems out-of-this-world and tempts you to consider that you’re lucky enough to witness visitors from far away, remember that you’re more than likely seeing something that is truly astronomical in nature.
The top row are screen grabs from a video taken in January 2017 of a reported UFO over Liverpool, UK. The bottom row shows a very similar reported UFO in March 2017 over Gloucester, UK.
If some British tabloids are to be believed, UFOs have been lighting up the British skies these days, as if the night skies were an immense Christmas tree.
As reported in The Express, “thousands of people across the globe are seeing mysterious shape-shifting UFO.”
Of course, an unidentified flying object typically turns out to be something other than an ET spacecraft once we take a closer look. In this instance, on March 12, Rob Wheatman, a resident of Gloucester, captured an odd aerial phenomenon on video, as seen below.
“I saw it as a sparkling ‘star’ from the garden in Elmbridge, due south,” according to GloucesterLive. “What alerted me was an orange light that came from it and traveled at speed north east. I grabbed my video and luckily it has a 40x zoom and that’s when I got the images of the bizarre light you saw.”
While there doesn’t seem to be any outward appearance of fakery going on here, there tends to be an immediate attitude either on the part of individuals who offer alleged UFO videos or from media sources that have a tendency to stretch the idea of credulity with descriptions like “[t]his apparently intergalactic lightshow was filmed above Gloucester last night, and it’s got us, and the cameraman, baffled. What it shows is anyone’s guess...We’re pinning our money on aliens. Definitely aliens.”
Once again, let’s offer this reminder: The vast majority of UFO sightings are eventually explained as natural or man-made objects.
We consulted a photo analyst who was unimpressed with the sightings.
“In this Gloucester video, I noticed first that the object was not in focus. That’s why it looked like a diamond shape. This is a common appearance of out of focus objects with some cameras,” according to Marc D’Antonio, chief photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network.
“In that video, the cameraman stated he was looking ‘due south.’ I believe that, due south at some point during the night, you will see Sirius, the brightest star in the northern sky. Because a star is ever only a point source, the slightest disturbance to the air between the camera and edge of the atmosphere in the direction being imaged will cause the image to dance around. This is called atmospheric scintillation,” D’Antonio told The Huffington Post.
In addition to his work as a video analyst, D’Antonio is CEO of FX Models, where he builds miniature versions of classified objects for his clients that include the U.S. Navy, Congress and the joint chiefs of staff. He knows a thing or two about things that are real, faked or simply misidentified.
HuffPost asked D’Antonio to look at another reported UK UFO video from January. This video begins with an object over Liverpool looking remarkably like the object in the first video above from Gloucester:
”In the second video, I noted that the object was out of focus at times. The cameraman stated that the object didn’t move, yet it absolutely did, moving over time from a position to the right and above a branch to a position just off the tip of that branch,” D’Antonio said.
“It had changed direction to reveal its nature ― it was an aircraft, landing lights on when it turned on final approach to a nearby airport. Landing lights can be seen up to 90 miles away and will persist for up to 4-5 minutes, then fade out as the aircraft makes its final turns. In my opinion, the first video showed an astronomical object ― likely Sirius ― and the second video showed a likely aircraft on landing approach.”
Incidentally, the objects in question in these two videos are quite similar to a diamond-shaped “UFO” videotaped in 2015 over another UK town, Tynemouth. In that case, it was determined that the object was, in fact, the bright star Sirius.
If you happen to spot something in the night sky that, at first, seems out-of-this-world and tempts you to consider that you’re lucky enough to witness visitors from far away, remember that you’re more than likely seeing something that is truly astronomical in nature.
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The Mysterious Washington D.C. UFO Sightings
The Mysterious Washington D.C. UFO Sightings
As hard as it is to imagine now, there was once a time when UFOs were given serious, front-page coverage in US national news, and when the Air Force would hold press conferences at the Pentagon to brief the public on what it knew.
All of this began to change after a highly-publicized pair of UFO sightings over the nation’s capitol in the summer of 1952.
Nog niet eerder zagen we het silhouet van de dwergplaneet in zo’n hoge resolutie!
New Horizons scheerde in juli 2015 langs Pluto. Het leverde fantastische foto’s en een schat aan informatie op. Eenmaal voorbij Pluto keek New Horizons nog een keertje achterom en maakte enkele ‘afscheidsfoto’s’. Op die foto’s zien we het silhouet van Pluto en trekt de dunne, blauwkleurige atmosfeer van de dwergplaneet de aandacht.
Hoge resolutie We hebben al een paar van die afscheidsfoto’s van New Horizons mogen bewonderen. Maar NASA heeft er nu eentje vrijgegeven die de kroon spant. Het is eigenlijk een mozaïek dat bestaat uit zes foto’s die New Horizons maakte toen deze inmiddels zo’n 200.000 kilometer van Pluto verwijderd was. Nog niet eerder konden we volgens NASA het uitzicht dat New Horizons tijdens het afscheid van Pluto had in kleur en in zo’n hoge resolutie bewonderen.
Het silhouet van de dwergplaneet.
Afbeelding: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.
De nevels Zoals gezegd trekt met name de atmosfeer van de dwergplaneet de aandacht. Die atmosfeer wordt gekenmerkt door spectaculaire uit lagen opgebouwde blauwe nevels. Onderzoekers denken dat deze ontstaan doordat zonlicht reageert met methaan en andere moleculen in de atmosfeer van Pluto. Daarbij ontstaan deeltjes die met name blauw licht reflecteren.
Wat deze foto ook bijzonder maakt, is dat bepaalde oppervlaktekenmerken in het oog springen. Zo zie je enkele bergen (linksboven, op elf uur ongeveer) die afsteken tegen de nevel. Voor een grotere versie van de foto (waarop de bergen heel goed te zien zijn) klik hier!
Vier kandidaten voor planeet X: zit 'ie er tussen?
Vier kandidaten voor planeet X: zit 'ie er tussen?
Tim Kraaijvanger
De burgerzoektocht Planet 9 heeft vier kandidaten opgeleverd voor planeet X. Astronomen gaan deze objecten verder onderzoeken. Wie weet is de negende planeet van het zonnestelsel eindelijk gevonden.
De afgelopen drie dagen hebben 60.000 mensen beelden van de SkyMapper-telescoop in Australië geanalyseerd. In totaal zijn er circa vijf miljoen classificaties gedaan. Een van de vrijwilligers, Toby Roberts, heeft zelfs 12.000 classificaties gedaan.
“We hebben daarbij ook planetoïden als Chiron en Comacina opnieuw ‘gevonden’, wat aantoont dat deze aanpak werkt”, zegt hoofdonderzoeker Dr. Brad Tucker van de Australische Nationale Universiteit. “Als planeet X bestaat, kunnen we het object op deze manier vinden.”
WAAROM DENKEN ASTRONOMEN DAT PLANEET X BESTAAT?
Het bestaan van een mogelijke planeet X is op 20 januari 2016 onthuld door astronomen van Caltech. De planeet beïnvloedt de banen van veel Kuipergordelobjecten. De kans dat deze Kuipergordelobjecten ‘toevallig’ op dezelfde wijze om de zon draaien is slechts 0,007 procent. “Kortom, het kán haast geen toeval zijn”, aldus Brown. “Er moet iets zijn dat de koers van deze objecten bepaalt.”
Planeet X Volgens onderzoekers Mike Brown en Konstantin Batygin is planeet X tien keer groter dan de aarde en bevindt de planeet zich op een afstand van ongeveer negentig miljard kilometer van de zon. Dat is twintiger keer groter dan de afstand van Neptunus tot de zon. “We kunnen in ieder geval uitsluiten dat er een object ter grootte van Neptunus bestaat op een afstand tot 350 keer de afstand van de aarde tot de zon”, zegt Dr Tucker. Dit klopt, want volgens berekeningen van Brown en Batygin is planeet X verder verwijderd.
Vier kandidaten De grootschalige zoektocht heeft geleid tot de vondst van vier onbekende bronnen. Deze kandidaten worden nu verder onderzocht. Misschien gaat het wel om planeet X, al is het te vroeg om dit te zeggen.
Binnen vijf jaar Zit planeet X er niet tussen? Dan gaat de zoektocht gewoon door. Vorig jaar vertelde wetenschapper Mike Brown dat de planeet binnenkort ontdekt gaat worden. “De kans is heel, heel groot dat we planeet X gaan vinden binnen een periode van vijf jaar”, zei Brown tegen Scientias.nl. Onder het artikel uit januari 2016 staan veel voorspellingen. De meeste Scientias-bezoekers verwachten dat planeet X in 2017 gevonden gaat worden.
According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC):
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was created as an independent agency by Congress in 1974 to ensure the safe use of radioactive materials for beneficial civilian purposes while protecting people and the environment. The NRC regulates commercial nuclear power plants and other uses of nuclear materials, such as in nuclear medicine, through licensing, inspection and enforcement of its requirements.
Over the years, many UFO reports have surfaced regarding unidentified craft being seen over sensitive nuclear installations. It only makes sense, that the NRC would be a prime target under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for documents relating to the phenomena.
The documents were received relatively quickly. They were requested by The Black Vault on February 27, 2017, and were declassified and released to me on March 23, 2017.
Most surprising, there is new information never-before-seen within these records. It is revealed that a former security guard of the Cooper Nuclear Station witnessed a UFO sometime between the years 1986 and 1989. The report described the UFO encounter as the following:
While posted at the intake structure one night, he observed an “unidentified flying object” fly down the Missouri River about 150 feet in the air and hover in front of the intake. He observed it for a few moments and then contacted a fellow security officer who also observed it (he could not recall the individual’s name exactly but his first name was [REDACTED] and his last name was either [REDACTED ]. After they together observed the UFO, it turned and went back up the river and did not come back that shift. He and the other officer shared their observation with their peers who did not believe them.
The next evening he again was posted at the intake and observed the UFO return again. This time he didn’t call anyone until the UFO had traversed into the protected area and hovered above the protected area just north of the Reactor Building. He said it was roughly triangular in shape with a circle of rotating lights on the bottom. He could not hear any propulsion noise from the UFO. He believes that it was roughly 1/3 the size of the Reactor Building. Once the UFO hovered in the protected area. He called the security break room and most of the officers on shift observed the UFO.
Interestingly, after the report was taken by the NRC, the documents were compiled and sent to Cooper Nuclear Station in 2010. Although no formal response was requested, Cooper Nuclear Station was told only to tell employees there that were on a “need to know” basis.
The declassified records also include reports submitted by the public to the NRC about UFO activity, and even alien technology. The NRC gave the standard response to all of the letters sent in, that the NRC mission did not include the topics they were writing about.
The declassified documents can be seen below, in their entirety. They are unedited and appear exactly how they were received by The Black Vault from the NRC.
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Exclusive full interview of former Arizona governor discussing his Phoenix Lights UFO sighting (Video)
Exclusive full interview of former Arizona governor discussing his Phoenix Lights UFO sighting (Video)
In 2006, former Arizona governor Fife Symington admitted to being a witness to Arizona’s most famous UFO sighting, and that he believed it to be of extraterrestrial origins. His statements made worldwide news. In association with the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Phoenix Lights UFO event, James Fox, the documentarian that first obtained Symington’s confession shared never before seen footage from the interview during his presentation at the 2016 International UFO Congress. Now, with Fox’s permission, we present the interview here for our readers.
Fife Symington discussing his Phoenix Lights UFO sighting.
(Courtesy: James Fox)
In the newly released footage, Symington says he believes the UFO sighting was escalated up the chain of command.
“Issues like this go up the chain of command all the way to the Pentagon,” explains Symington. “We called the Pentagon…I think they knew there had been sightings, but they weren’t talking about it.”
As for the official Air Force response that the UFOs were flares, Symington says that is “total bunk.”
“I have seen high altitude flares before. There is no way they were flares.”
When it comes to what flew over Phoenix in March of 1997, Symington says, “It has never been explained.”
James Fox presenting at the 2017 International UFO Congress in February.
(Credit: OpenMinds.tv)
What is now referred to as “The Phoenix Lights,” was a flap of UFO sightings on March 13, 1997. It has kept Arizona buzzing ever since. Over 1000 witnesses reportedly came forward, including former Arizona Governor Fife Symington.
Symington first admitted to seeing the object during this interview with Fox. Fox provided Symington with testimony from several witnesses who were disappointed with the way Symington dealt with the incident in 1997. Symington then admitted to Fox he had also seen the object, and he agreed it was unworldly. Fox was not expecting this response.
After the interview, news of Symington’s confession leaked and he was asked to share his experience with CNN and other news outlets.
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Close encounter cases are in the minority
Close encounter cases are in the minority
Bright lights, light-fingered aliens: all part of annual report on UFO sightings
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Bright lights, airplane near-misses and light-fingered aliens with a penchant for cool shades are all part of the annual report on UFO sightings in Canada.
The 2016 Canadian UFO Survey produced by Winnipeg-based Ufology Research was released this week. In total, there were 1,131 sightings of unidentified flying objects reported across Canada.
In a first for the 28 years the study has been conducted, only 4% of the sightings could not be explained. Study author Chris Rutkowski said that record-low rating is likely the result of more careful scrutiny of raw report information available.
Summer is the big time of year for UFO sightings and mostly they were simply lights that people saw in the sky.
The provinces with the largest populations had the most reports, so Quebec led the country with 38.5% of the sightings, while Ontario had 26% and British Columbia had 17%.
The most popular shape of UFO reported in 2016 was a simple point source of light (57%). Other shapes reported were triangle (four per cent), ball (nine per cent), cigar (three per cent) and fireball (five per cent). The classic “flying saucer” was only reported 48 times.
As for what the study calls “unknowns,” they included such cases as the “gigantic, disc-shaped object with searchlights” that was seen moving over the mountains in North Vancouver, and the boomerang-shaped “cluster of stars” that moved across the sky near St. Thomas, Ont.
There was also the commercial airplane over Toronto that had a near miss with an object while on a routine flight on Nov. 14.
“The flight crew noticed an object directly ahead on their flight path. The object appeared to be solid, approximately five to eight feet in diameter and shaped like an upright doughnut or inner tube,” said the study.
“Cabin crew members received minor injuries when evasive action was taken. While the object was not likely a balloon and was suggested to be a drone, it was noted that drones could not fly at that altitude and distance.”
The study said the Transportation Safety Board ruled the incident as “a near collision with an unidentified airborne object.”
Close encounter cases are in the minority, but high on the strangeness scale.
Those included a man in Cornwall, P.E.I., who reported that a thin, six-foot-tall, long-fingered white alien in a black suit spoke to him in his bedroom before leaving by walking through a wall.
A man in Lanaudiere, Que., said he was transported into a field of plants and plunged into a bathtub “where he was surrounded by three green, big-eyed humanoid creatures who communicated with him telepathically.”
Not all close encouters are so dramatic, however. One person in Tecumseh, Ont., reported that an alien stole his sunglasses and belt, while someone from Rimouski, Que., filed a report which read simply: “They contacted me!”
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More than 1,000 UFO sightings in Canada in 2016: Report
More than 1,000 UFO sightings in Canada in 2016: Report
(mscornelius/Getty Images)
BRAD HUNTER, TORONTO SUN
A light-fingered alien stole one man’s hat and sunglasses.
Another man reported he found himself in bathtub in a field “surrounded by three green, big-eyed humanoid creatures who communicated with him telepathically.”
Break out the tinfoil hats, the annual UFO report has landed.
The 2016 Canadian UFO Survey — produced by Winnipeg-based Ufology Research — was released this week. In total, there were 1,131 sightings of unidentified flying objects reported across Canada last year.
Study author Chris Rutkowski said for the first time in the 28 years the study has been conducted, just 4% of the sightings could not be explained.
He said the record-low is likely the result of more careful scrutiny of raw report information available.
In addition to the usual claims by astro-nuts, there was at least one legitimate unexplained encounter with the unknown.
There was also the commercial airplane over Toronto that had a near miss with an object while on a routine flight Nov. 14.
“The flight crew noticed an object directly ahead on their flight path. The object appeared to be solid, approximately five to eight feet in diameter and shaped like an upright doughnut or inner tube,” the study reported.
“Cabin crew members received minor injuries when evasive action was taken. While the object was not likely a balloon and was suggested to be a drone, it was noted that drones could not fly at that altitude and distance.”
The Transportation Safety Board ruled the incident as “a near collision with an unidentified airborne object.”
Among the study’s other findings:
- Summer is when most UFO sightings occur
- Quebec and Ontario had the most sightings, with 38.5% and 26% respectively
- the most popular shape for UFOs were a simple point source of light (57%)
But it’s the personal, er, encounters that top the weird scale, the study found.
A man in Cornwall, PEI, reported that a thin, six-foot-tall, long-fingered white alien in a black suit spoke to him in his bedroom before leaving by walking through a wall.
Someone from Rimouski, Que., filed a report which read simply: “They contacted me!”
Because Jupiter's moon, Europa, has oceans lying beneath its surface, it said to be one of the most likely places in the solar system for life to thrive – researchers just have to burrow through miles of ice to find out.
Now, NASA has unveiled a team of robotic prototypes equip with special tools to penetrate the frozen terrain and search for signs of living microbes.
The squad of 'icebots' includes a machine that tunnels through the icy surface, a folding boom arm, an ice gripping claw and a projectile launcher capable of grabbing samples up to 164 feet away.
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The team of 'icebots' includes a machine that tunnels through the icy surface, a folding boom arm, an ice gripping claw (pictured) and a projectile launcher capable of grabbing samples up to 164 feet away
NASA'S ICEBOTS
NASA has unveiled a set of robotic prototypes that it said could one day travel to Europa.
One prototype was inspired by so-called 'melt probes' used here on Earth – dubbed the ice-gripping claw.
A rotating saw blade on the bottom of the probe slowly turns and cuts through the ice.
The robot tosses the pieces back onto its body, where they melt due to the plutonium and pumped out behind it.
Researchers looked at the use of robotic arms, which are essential for reaching samples from landers or rovers.
The folding boom arm, when unfolded, extends almost 33 feet (10 meters).
For targets that are even farther away, a projectile launcher was developed that can fire a sampling mechanism up 164 feet (50 meters).
Also designed a rover with lightweight commercial wheels fixed to a rocker bogey suspension system.
Since 2015, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has been developing new technologies for use on future missions to ocean worlds.
The new prototypes were created as part of the Ocean World's Mobility and Sensing study, a research project funded by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate in Washington.
And each of the technologies are specifically designed to gather samples from and below the surface of an icy moon.
'In the future, we want to answer the question of whether there's life on the moons of the outer planets - on Europa, Enceladus and Titan,' said Tom Cwik, who leads JPL's Space Technology Program.
'We're working with NASA Headquarters to identify the specific systems we need to build now, so that in 10 or 15 years, they could be ready for a spacecraft.'
The team has conducted extensive research to understand the harsh elements these robotic helpers would face millions of miles away.
This includes temperate reaching hundreds of degrees below freezing and rovers crossing icy terrain that behaves like sand.
'Robotic systems would face cryogenic temperatures and rugged terrain and have to meet strict planetary protection requirements,' said Hari Nayar, who leads the robotics group that oversaw the research.
'One of the most exciting places we can go is deep into subsurface oceans - but doing so requires new technologies that don't exist yet.'
Now, NASA believes they are headed in the right direction with their latest set of robotic tools, which could one day make their way to Europa.
NASA tests robots that can drill through and collect ice
Brian Wilcox, an engineering fellow at JPL, designed a prototype inspired by so-called 'melt probes' used here on Earth - which the team calls, ice gripping claw
These probes have been used to melt through snow and ice to explore subsurface regions since the late 1960s.
However, the machine's downfall is that it does not use heat efficiently.
Europa's crust could be 6.2 miles deep or it could be 12.4 miles deep (10 to 20 kilometers) and if a probe doesn't manage its energy, it would have to cool down until it stopped frozen in the ice.
Brian Wilcox, an engineering fellow at JPL, designed a prototype inspired by so-called 'melt probes' used here on Earth - which the team calls, ice gripping claw These probes have been used to melt through snow and ice to explore subsurface regions since the late 1960s
The robot would toss the pieces off ice back onto its body, where they would be melted by the plutonium and pumped out behind it. Removing blocks of ice would ensure the probe drills at a steady pace through the ice without being blocked
But Wilcox believes he has solved the issue with a capsule insulated by vacuum - the same way a thermos bottle is insulated.
Instead of radiating heat outwards, it would retain energy from a chunk of heat-source plutonium as the probe sinks into the ice.
He suggested adding a rotating saw blade on the bottom of the probe, which would slowly turn and cut through the ice.
The robot would toss the pieces off ice back onto its body, where they would be melted by the plutonium and pumped out behind it.
Removing blocks of ice would ensure the probe drills at a steady pace through the ice without being blocked.
After deployment from a boom arm or a projectile launcher, the claw could anchor itself using heated prongs that melt into the ice and secure its grip. This ensures that a drill's bit is able to penetrate and collect a sample
OCEANS ON EUROP
A Hubble spotted giant plumes of water 125 miles high erupting from the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, raising hopes it could hold life in a vast underground ocean engulfing the moon, NASA revealed last week.
Alien ocean: NASA's mission to find water on Europa
The new images 'indicate a global saline liquid water ocean engulfs the moon at the present time hidden under miles of ice,' NASA said.
It increases the possibility that missions to Europa may be able to sample Europa's ocean without having to drill through miles of ice.
The flyby is expected to help scientists map its composition and work out the makeup of its icy shell and ocean.
The space agency is now planning two meetings to discuss the Europa Lander report, which will take place on 19 March and 23 April.
The ice water could also be sampled and sent through a spool of aluminum tubing to a lander on the surface.
And once there, the water samples could be checked for biosignatures.
'We think there are glacier-like ice flows deep within Europa's frozen crust,' Wilcox said.
'Those flows churn up material from the ocean down below.'
'As this probe tunnels into the crust, it could be sampling waters that may contain biosignatures, if any exist.'
Researchers also looked at the use of robotic arms, which are essential for reaching samples from landers or rovers.
For targets that are even farther away, a projectile launcher (pictured) was developed that can fire a sampling mechanism up 164 feet (50 meters). Both the arm and the launcher could be used in conjunction with an ice-gripping claw
On Mars, NASA's landers have never extended beyond 6.5 to 8 feet (2 to 2.5 meters) from their base.
And for a longer reach, you need to build a longer arm.
However, the JPL team though of using a folding boom arm, which when unfolded, extends almost 33 feet (10 meters).
For targets that are even farther away, a projectile launcher was developed that can fire a sampling mechanism up 164 feet (50 meters).
Both the arm and the launcher could be used in conjunction with an ice-gripping claw.
JUPITER'S ICY MOON EUROPA
Jupiter's icy moon Europa is slightly smaller than Earth's moon.
Europa orbits Jupiter every 3.5 days and is tidally locked - just like Earth's Moon - so that the same side of Europa faces Jupiter at all times.
Unlike on Earth, Europas ocean is deep enough to cover the whole surface and being far from the sun, the ocean surface is globally frozen over
It is thought to have an iron core, a rocky mantle and a surface ocean of salty water, like Earth.
Unlike on Earth, however, this ocean is deep enough to cover the whole surface of Europa, and being far from the sun, the ocean surface is globally frozen over.
Many experts believe the hidden ocean surrounding Europa, warmed by powerful tidal forces caused by Jupiter's gravity, may have conditions favorable for life.
This claw could someday have a coring drill attached to it and if scientists want pristine samples, they'll need to bore through up to eight inches (about 20 centimeters) of Europa's surface ice - which is thought to shield complex molecules from Jupiter's radiation.
After deployment from a boom arm or a projectile launcher, the claw could anchor itself using heated prongs that melt into the ice and secure its grip.
This ensures that a drill's bit is able to penetrate and collect a sample.
This coming July will mark a 20-year legacy of NASA rovers traveling across Martian desert.
Researchers found that granular ice in cryogenic and vacuum conditions behaves more like sand dunes, with loose grains that wheels can sink into. JPL researchers turned to designs first proposed for crawling across the moon's surface
And although it would see the agency has gained the experience in designing rovers for missions, building one for an icy moon is different from any others before.
Places like Saturn's moon Enceladus have fissures that blow out jets of gas and icy material from below the surface.
They'd be prime science targets, but the material around them is likely to be different than ice on Earth.
Instead, tests have found that granular ice in cryogenic and vacuum conditions behaves more like sand dunes, with loose grains that wheels can sink into.
JPL researchers turned to designs first proposed for crawling across the moon's surface.
AI SET TO FIND ALIENS
NASA has developed an AI that will be used to power submarine-like drones through extraterrestrial water worlds - specifically Jupiter's moon Europa.
The technology would let these unmanned machines plot their own course, based on what is detected in the water around them. During test, the fleet of drones showed it can seek out changes in temperature and salinity.
To plot their routes, forecasts of t hese ocean features were sent to the drones from shore. The drones also sensed how the ocean actively changed around them.
Experts believe the technology should be used to look for fissures in a planet's surface known as hydrothermal vents when it explores alien worlds.
Because these are found on ocean basins, he believes it is our best changes of finding a planet that can support life.
They tested lightweight commercial wheels fixed to a rocker bogey suspension system that has been used on a number of JPL-led missions.
Each of these prototypes and the experiments conducted with them were just starting points.
With the ocean worlds study complete, researchers will now consider whether these inventions can be further refined.
A second phase of development is being considered by NASA.
Those efforts could eventually produce the technologies that might fly on future missions to the outer solar system.
A Great Britain witness at Gosport reported watching and videotaping three lights that at times formed a triangle low in the sky and made random movements before all disappearing from view, according to testimony in Case 81450 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Object image created from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness stepped outside at 10:50 p.m. on January 9, 2017, to dispose of rubbish bags in his work as a cleaner.
“I noticed three green lights at around a 30-degree angle northwest of my position,” the witness stated.“Distance and height were too difficult to estimate from my position, but after checking on Google maps there are mostly only fields in that direction. The postcode I observed from was PO13 0HR.”
The witness described the lights.
“The lights were evenly spaced in a large triangle formation with one more forward than the others when I first noticed them. They then all turned purple and started to move. You can observe in the video how they moved. I had full zoom using a phone camera so quality isn’t great, but they were all bright purple in color and didn’t change again. They seemed to move in a random manor, moving side-to-side and up and down very quickly and turning very sharply. They would pass each other to swap sides, sometimes coming back to form triangles for a few seconds before moving again.”
Object image created from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness stated that several times it looked as though one moved into another and became one light before breaking apart again.
“They disappeared below the houses several times so that I couldn’t see from my position what they were doing until the final time when I waited several minutes before giving up that they wouldn’t appear again. So whatever it was possibly landed because they didn’t appear above the houses again.”
The witness went back inside the building onto the second level to view from a higher angle and could see one light again just above the house, but it quickly disappeared downwards.
“That was the last I saw of them. They never went higher than the initial height I observed them at. There were no other aircraft I noticed in the area, although there is a small airfield behind my position. The weather was dry (although rain earlier in the day), the sky seemed clear, stars were visible overhead but none visible at the angle/height of these lights, presumably because of light pollution. When I left where I was 30 minutes later, the sky around the area where the lights were was a hazy red color. The rest of the sky in the surrounding area was black, but this area specifically was a different color. I thought this might be some kind of heavy light pollution in that direction, but according to Google maps, there are mostly just fields there, nothing that would give off unusual light pollution.”
Object image created from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
Gosport is a town and borough on the coast of Hampshire in southern England, population 82,622. Great Britain National Director Jack Turnbull investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
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