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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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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Astronaut deed tijdens solovlucht in 1963 opzienbarende ontdekking die hij 40 jaar geheimhield - HLN.be

    Astronaut deed tijdens solovlucht in 1963 opzienbarende ontdekking die hij 40 jaar geheimhield - HLN.be

    Bron: Fox News, Parade.com, news.com.au

    © Discovery Channel.

    NASA-astronaut Gordon Cooper heeft 40 jaar lang een geheim bewaard dat hij ontdekte tijdens een solovlucht rond de aarde in de jaren 60. Toen hij naar buiten keek, merkte hij een eigenaardigheid op in het Caraïbische gebied en die heeft nu een ware schattenjacht op gang gebracht.

    Het was in mei 1963 dat Cooper op missie vertrok. Het zou de laatste keer zijn dat een Amerikaanse astronaut helemaal alleen in een baan rond de aarde werd gebracht. Cooper moest tijdens zijn vlucht elf wetenschappelijke experimenten uitvoeren. En het was tijdens zijn 22 omwentelingen aan boord van de Mercury-Atlas 9 dat hij een vreemde ontdekking deed. (lees hieronder verder)

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    Astronaut Gordon Cooper. © ap.
    © rv.

    Het was de periode van de Cubaanse raketcrisis en het land had de wereld enkele maanden ervoor op de rand gebracht van een nucleaire oorlog. Cooper had daarom speciaal materiaal aan boord waarmee hij vanop grote hoogte clandestiene nucleaire installaties kon detecteren over de hele wereld.

    Donkere vlekken
    Toen hij inzoomde op het zuiden van het Caraïbische gebied, zag hij plots donkere vlekken in het ondiepe water. Het konden geen nucleaire silo's zijn, daarvoor hadden ze niet de juiste vorm. Toen hij ze beter bestudeerde, begon hij te vermoeden dat het scheepswrakken waren. In totaal detecteerde hij er zo'n honderd. Hij fotografeerde ze en noteerde de coördinaten. En hij dacht dat de verloren vloot van Christopher Columbus er wel eens bij zou kunnen zijn. (lees hieronder verder)

    © rv.
    © rv.

    Terug op aarde ging hij de coördinaten vergelijken met eerder gedane research en werkte hij in het geheim aan een kaart waarvan hij geloofde dat ze de weg leidde naar miljarden euro's aan onderwaterschatten. Daar was hij decennialang mee bezig. 

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    En het is die kaart die nu een ware schattenjacht op gang heeft gebracht in het Caraïbische gebied, zo blijkt uit een nieuwe documentaire die vanaf deze week wordt uitgezonden op Discovery Channel in de Verenigde Staten. Cooper liet de kaart na zijn dood in 2004 achter aan zijn kameraad Darrell Miklos. "Ik denk dat hij wist dat zijn einde naderde", vertelt die. "Hij gaf me alle informatie die hij al had verzameld en liet me beloven dat ik zijn onderzoek zou afwerken als hij er niet meer was."

    Darrell Miklos aan zijn onderzoekstafel. © Discovery Channel.

    Miklos nam dat ter harte om zijn vriend en mentor te eren. En om de verloren gegane schatten op de bodem van de zee te vinden. Hij stelde een team van archeologen en onderzoekers samen en ging op jacht. En daarbij wilde hij de dikke vissen als eerste boven halen. 

    Waarde
    "Gordon duidde plaatsen aan die speciale aandacht verdienden omdat hij vermoedde dat er schepen waren vergaan met een erg grote lading aan boord", gaat Miklos verder. "Daar focussen we dan ook als eerste op. Want als we die vinden, zullen we meteen ieders aandacht hebben. We vermoeden ook dat we dingen zullen vinden die een grote historische waarde hebben."

    © Discovery Channel.

    Miklos weet waar hij mee bezig is. Hij komt uit een familie van schattenzoekers, die al talloze missies tot een succesvol einde bracht in de jaren zestig en zeventig. Het was via zijn vader dat hij Cooper leerde kennen. De man ging onder meer op zoek naar gebruikte lanceerraketten van het Apollo Programma van de NASA en hij nam zijn zoon in 1978 mee naar een tv-show waar de astronaut ook te gast was. Cooper en Miklos ontmoetten elkaar achter de schermen en dat was het begin van een lange en diepe vriendschap. 

    Schatten
    "Van het midden van de jaren negentig tot zijn dood praatten we regelmatig over schatten, maar het was pas in 2002 dat hij me over zijn geheime onderzoek vertelde", aldus Miklos. "Ik ben de enige die de documenten gekregen heeft. In 2014 heb ik Gemini Marine Exploration opgericht, met als doel het lokaliseren en ophalen van artefacten uit gezonken schepen. En momenteel zijn we bezig met enkele veelbelovende projecten in de Caraïben." 

    'Cooper's Treasure' wordt eerst uitgezonden op Discovery Channel in de Verenigde Staten, maar zal daarna ook op andere plaatsen ter wereld te zien zijn.

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    20-04-2017 om 22:49 geschreven door peter  

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    7 Essential Flying Saucer Flicks

    Phoenix Forgotten is like Blair Witch with UFOs.

    Phoenix Forgotten is like Blair Witch with UFOs.

    Flying saucers carrying mysterious visitors are one of the classic sci-fi motifs. But there are visitors and there are visitors. Some aliens, like Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), land their saucer on the Mall in Washington, D.C., then walk right out backed up by his badass robot Gort and sternly tell the human race to clean up our act.

    Then there are visitors of the sort we see in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), who pilot the death-ray-vomiting crafts of the title, and eventually lay waste to Washington D.C.

    But then there are the sort of visitors who prefer to keep on the down-low, the sort whose saucers are only witnessed accidentally, out in the boondocks, where, as Jay Leno used to put it, “Bob Bookey and his Cousin Weenie” are fishing. Leno’s theory was that these visits were bathroom breaks: “If you’re traveling the universe, coming to Earth is like stopping at Stuckey’s.”

    Anyway, movies and TV shows in this category are the true UFO movies, heavy on the “U.” They exploit not only the thrill of an encounter with otherworldly beings, but also the isolation of being disbelieved, or the paranoid terror of being at odds with a government cover-up.

    A new entry in this UFO genre opens this weekend: Phoenix Forgotten, a found-footage chiller inspired by the famous Phoenix Lights phenomenon of March 13, 1997 — sort of a sci-fi spin on The Blair Witch Project. So to welcome it, let’s take a look at some of its more memorable predecessors.

    1. The Flying Saucer
    The term “flying saucer” was popularized in the wake of pilot Kenneth Arnold’s reported sightings in 1947, and gradually came to be applicable to any UFOs, even if they weren’t actually saucer-shaped. This low-budget 1950 melodrama was probably the first to cash in on the craze, but — spoiler alert! — the vehicle in question turns out to be of earthly origin: a secret experimental aircraft developed by a scientist, and coveted by Commie agents. It is, however, a pretty cool retro-looking saucer, sort of like a metallic horseshoe crab. Producer-director-star Mikel Conrad, who also concocted the story, added a note in the credits suggesting the film was showing something classified: “We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of those in authority who made the release of the ‘Flying Saucer’ film possible at this time.”

    2. Invasion of the Saucer Men
    Paul Fairman’s short story “The Cosmic Frame” was about aliens who frame a guy for a hit-and-run in order to discredit his account of their presence on Earth.This tongue-in-cheek 1957 screen adaptation features iconic, bulbous-brained, irritable-faced little aliens — creations of the great ‘50s-era monster designer Paul Blaisdell — shooting their witnesses up with alcohol from their pointy fingers, thus either killing them or rendering them too drunk to believe.

    3. The Bamboo Saucer
    The title craft isn’t made of bamboo, but it’s hidden in a remote temple in China, so, you know, bamboo. It could as well have been titled The Kung Pao Saucer. Even though it is an alien spaceship in this 1967 effort, the conflict still derives from the Cold War. The aliens who brought it to Earth are already dead, and American and Soviet scientific-military teams are competing to get their hands on it. There’s a thawing of international relations as the two sides team up, and the studly U.S. pilot (John Ericson) and the hottie Soviet scientist (Lois Nettleton) fall in love. The highlight of the dialogue comes when the scientist, having activated the saucer’s gravitational field, cries out “Ve vill be skvooshed, like bugs!”

    4. The Invaders
    This TV series (ABC, 1967-1968), created by Larry Cohen for Quinn Martin Productions, had a particularly seamless conspiracy-theory premise: In the first episode, hero David Vincent, lost on a lonely country road, sees a flying saucer land near an abandoned diner. It turns out be part of a fleet belonging to the title aliens, refugees “from a dying planet” who have taken human form to infiltrate human society, in order to take over Earth. Whenever an individual invader was killed, its body would vaporize, thus destroying the evidence. Vincent thus becomes an itinerant hero, a la David Janssen in The Fugitive, traveling from one set of guest stars to the next every episode, now and then convincing a few people that he’s right. The Invaders are imperfect human knockoffs, however. Most of them have a “tell”: their pinky fingers are rigid! There’s something marvelous about the idea that the aliens have perfected not only interplanetary travel but human duplication, yet they find it tricky to bend the pinky finger.

    5. UFO: Target Earth
    Shot in Georgia, this 1974 low-budgeter features a young researcher (Nick Plakias) who makes contact with a spaceship submerged in a remote lake. The pure-energy aliens therein are depicted via electronic special effects reminiscent those near the end of Kubrick’s 2001, though more primitive — many of them now look like Spirograph designs. Also like Kier Dullea in 2001, our hero here ages rapidly under the influence of the aliens, ultimately looking very peaked indeed. Make no mistake, this is a terrible, slow-moving film, but having seen it at a theater when I was 12, I can attest that it has a strange, creepy atmosphere that can stick in your head. For decades. Maybe it has to do with the spooky, pretty Mystic-Tides-ish theme song, “Between the Attic and the Moon.”

    6. Liquid Sky
    It’s pretty likely that no UFO movie has ever had quite as much hipster cred as this 1982 indie, a hilarious but also harrowing take on the drug-fueled ‘80s New York club-fashion scene from Russian expat director Slava Tsukerman. The dinner-plate-sized flying saucer that lands on the roof of a Manhattan apartment building contains an alien — represented by electronic effects similar to those in UFO: Target Earth — attracted to areas with lots of heroin. The alien pilot starts observing a resplendent club model (Anne Carlisle) and feeding on the opiate-like brain secretions of her lovers during orgasm, causing the orgasmic person to die of a crystal spike to the head. After this their bodies disintegrate, like in The Invaders. “Orgasms are dangerous,” concludes one observer.

    7. The Search for Simon
    The searcher is David, a fortyish, unemployed “ufologist.” Simon is the younger brother, absent since they were kids, who David is convinced has been abducted by aliens. David’s spent his whole adult life, and most of a substantial lottery windfall, traveling the world to supposed UFO hotspots from Denmark to Utah, or paying shady-seeming contacts for supposed leads to Simon’s whereabouts. He’s tried repeatedly, without success, to get into Area 51. His few friends, hopeless geeks themselves, are sick of his fixation, as is his careworn mum. David is played, well, by Martin Gooch, who also co-wrote and directed this low-budget Brit comedy of 2013. Gooch freely mixes a Monty Python/Douglas Adams/Simon Pegg style of silliness with a poignant backstory. The poignancy wins here, partly because the variable quality of some of the acting dulls the edge of the comic timing in the ensemble scenes, but also because — spoiler alert! —said backstory is really quite sad. Python alumna Carol Cleveland, playing David’s mother, is given full-on tragic exposition to deliver, and does a creditably touching job of it. But the seriousness of this side of the material gives an uneasy tinge to the jolly side.

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    20-04-2017 om 22:25 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.More Evidence That Aliens Aren't Trying To Communicate With Us

    More Evidence That Aliens Aren't Trying To Communicate With Us

    Some SETI researchers believe the best way to detect aliens is to search the skies for their laser beams. In the largest survey of its kind, astronomers scanned 5600 stars in search of these optical signals — and they found... absolutely nothing. Nada. Zilch. Here's what that means to SETI and the ongoing hunt for alien intelligence.

    The "Sombrero Galaxy". (Image: Hubble)

    In a new study accepted for publication at the Astronomical Journal, SETI astronomers Nathaniel Tellis and Geoffrey Marcy from the University of California Berkeley report that they were unable to detect optical signatures of advanced extraterrestrials in over 67,000 individual spectra produced by nearly 5600 stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Revealingly, around 2000 of these stars are suspected of hosting warm, Earth-like planets, suggesting that advanced civilisations either don't get into the habit of transmitting powerful laser beams across the cosmos, or they simply don't exist. More practically, it means we should look for optical signals elsewhere, and expand our search to include an assortment of other potential alien signatures. Simply put, we aren't done searching for ET.

    Listening for radio signals is so old school. All the cool kids are now searching for laser beams.
    (Image: Contact)

    That said, the null result is undeniably discouraging. Laser signals would be an effective, cheap and easy way for an advanced civilisation to get our attention. Using technology similar to what we have today, aliens could deliberately transmit artificial infrared, visible or ultraviolet emissions at our star. These directed signals could attract our attention by being continuous and abnormally powerful, or by containing tell-tale signs of artificiality, such as unexplained pulsing, or a string of binary data expressing some kind of mathematical phenomena (for example, prime numbers or pi).

    Prior to this study, SETI researchers had evaluated around 20,000 stars in search of optical signals at Harvard's Oak Ridge Observatory, spending about 10 minutes on each object. Clearly, if the laser blinking frequency is longer than that, or if ET's laser transmission station is temporarily out of service, we're out of luck. Not surprisingly, nothing interesting has been detected thus far.

    In an effort to conduct a more thorough review of the heavens, Tellis and Marcy analysed a trove of data collected by the Keck 10-metre telescope and its high resolution spectrometer, HIRES, between 2006 and 2016 as part of the California Planet Search (CPS). The 5600 stars included in the study, the majority of which are located within a distance of 300 million-light years, produced 67,708 individual stellar spectra, averaging 96 spectral signals per star.

    "This study leverages the huge amount of data collected by the Keck telescope over decades, mostly as part of planet-hunting projects," explained Penn State astronomer Jason Wright, who was not involved in the study, in an interview with Gizmodo. "That makes it sensitive to relatively low laser powers from thousands of the most nearby and interesting stars. It's a great example of how SETI can 'piggyback' off of other science, looking for signals that might have been overlooked or thrown out because they were not expected or they look very similar to known sources of noise."

    Armed with this data, the researchers then set about the task of searching for spectral signatures that, in the words of the authors, "would be expected from extraterrestrial optical lasers." The power of these lasers ranged from 3 kW to 13 MW, which isn't extreme by any measure. Unlike radio signals, which dissipate over vast distances, laser light manages to hold its integrity as it travels through space. "We may imagine that beings more technologically advanced than humanity would be capable of constructing... laser launchers with power levels at least as high as those detectable here, for any of the 5,600 star systems we surveyed," explained the researchers in their study.

    An example of a false positive in a signal. This extraterrestrial laser candidate was found in an observation of TW Hydrae. The blip turned out to be heated gas in the protostellar disk around the star. (Image: Tellis and Marcy, 2017).

    To analyse this decade's worth of data, Tellis and Marcy developed an algorithm that was (at least in theory) able to discern a possible alien signal within the natural spectra of a star. If an artificial signal was directed towards Earth, it would be detectable as an unusually high number of protons compared with the background emissions of the star. The algorithm was configured to flag any occurrence of three consecutive pixels that exceeded the researchers' thresholds.

    "We searched our spectra for 'brightenings' of the star, relative to the light it is already emitting, that were both tight in wavelength and in space," Tellis told Gizmodo. "Finding a signal that matched the instrumental profile of Keck HIRES would have almost unequivocally meant we were seeing laser light, as the normal stellar spectra contain only thermally broadened emission lines. This is one of the key advantages to using Keck, as it has high enough spectral resolution to distinguish the two."

    The thresholds were very liberal, resulting in an initial batch of 5023 candidates. The researchers manually parsed these results (literally eyeballing the data), pruning the list down further and further as they pinpointed the source of each false positive. The most common sources of these false positives included cosmic rays, gamma rays, radioactivity from the observatory, molecules in Earth's atmosphere, and emissions from the parent stars. Eventually, Tellis and Marcy had to concede defeat.

    "We found no such laser emission coming from the planetary region around any of the 5,600 stars," conclude the researchers in their study.

    This result would seem to strike a blow to the suggestion that advanced civilisations might last for thousands or millions of years, all the while sending hello messages to up-and-coming neighbours. If even a small fraction of the 2000-or-so systems with potentially Earth-like planets surveyed had technological civilisations who took the time to deliberately beam megawatt-lasers towards us, we should have detected them by now.

    "These results put an upper bound on the number of civilisations transmitting lasers at us while we were observing," said Tellis. "It is only one type of communication, but we believe that for targeted communication, lasers are highly efficient." That said, he admitted that lasers as a communication medium seem good to us at this time due to our relative youth, and that his team's strategy relies on serendipity. "We have to 'catch' their broadcast," he said. "Nevertheless, we believe it is a valuable result that the galaxy is apparently not teeming with such bright lasers."

    So either advanced alien civilisations don't behave in this way (for example, they hide their presence or engage in other activities), or they don't exist. It's also possible that technological civilisations are exceptionally rare in the galaxy (both in time and space), greatly limiting the ability of the researchers to detect a signal. As the authors of the new study admit, "We may begin to wonder if arguments along the lines of the so-called Fermi paradox have some merit." Indeed, the eerie silence of space is getting louder with each new attempt to detect alien intelligence.

    Undaunted, the researchers are planning on an expanded search. As part of the $US100 million ($133 million) Breakthrough Listen effort, they will now turn their attention to stars that were overlooked in the study, including brown dwarfs and other odd astronomical phenomena. In addition to optical signals, SETI researchers can look for other potential signs of alien intelligence, such as microwave or neutrino emissions, Dysonian megastructures, industrial waste signatures, transiting space habitats, and so on.

    If the aliens are out there, we'll find them. Eventually.

    [The Astronomical Journal (preprint available at arXiv)]

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    20-04-2017 om 21:42 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Searching for ET: Breakthrough Listen initiative publishes initial results

    Searching for ET: Breakthrough Listen initiative publishes initial results

    Analysis of Green Bank Telescope observations made public, including 11 events ranked highest for significance

    Date:
    April 20, 2017
    Source:
    Breakthrough Initiatives
    Summary:
    Breakthrough Listen -- the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe -- has released its 11 events ranked highest for significance as well as summary data analysis results. It is considered unlikely that any of these signals originate from artificial extraterrestrial sources, but the search continues.
    The Milky Way (stock image).
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    Breakthrough Listen -- the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe -- has released its 11 events ranked highest for significance as well as summary data analysis results. It is considered unlikely that any of these signals originate from artificial extraterrestrial sources, but the search continues. Further, Listen has submitted for publication (available April 20) in a leading astrophysics journal the analysis of 692 stars, comprising all spectral types, observed during its first year of observations with the Green Bank Telescope.

    Breakthrough Listen has so far acquired several petabytes of data using the Green Bank Radio Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, Lick Observatory's Automated Planet Finder on Mt. Hamilton in California, and the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia. The Breakthrough Listen science team at the University of California, Berkeley's SETI Research Center (BSRC) designed and built an analysis pipeline that scans through billions of radio channels in a search for unique signals that might indicate the presence of technology developed by civilizations outside our Solar System.

    Initial results from deploying this pipeline on the first year of Breakthrough Listen data taken with the "L-band" receiver at GBT (covering frequencies from 1.1 -- 1.9 GHz) have been submitted for publication in one of the world's leading astronomy journals. Snapshot data has been released for the 11 highest ranked events that rose above the pipeline's threshold for significance, as well as summary results from the complete analysis. Data is available at breakthroughinitiatives.org/OpenDataSearch, and BSRC Director Andrew Siemion will be on Facebook Live presenting the results at 3:10pm PT this Thursday, April 20 at the Breakthrough Discuss conference.

    "With the submission of this paper, the first scientific results from Breakthrough Listen are now available for the world to review," said Dr. Siemion. Although the search has not yet detected a convincing signal from extraterrestrial intelligence, these are early days. The work that has been completed so far provides a launch pad for deeper and more comprehensive analysis to come."

    The software used for the analysis in these papers has been made available in a github repository1, along with associated documentation2. This enables programmers and machine learning experts (even those with no prior astronomy knowledge) to join the search for artificial signals, by developing increasingly sophisticated algorithms to comb through the datasets that continue to flow not just from GBT, but from the other participating telescopes.

    Data Analysis

    The basics of searching for signatures of extraterrestrial technology3 are quite simple. Artificial signals can be distinguished from natural processes through features like narrow bandwidth; irregular spectral behavior, pulsing, or modulation patterns; as well as broad-band signals with unusual characteristics. However, human technology emits signals (known as radio frequency interference) similar to the ones being searched for. This means that algorithms must be designed to ensure that signals are coming from a fixed point relative to the stars or other targets being observed, and not from local interferers (including Earth-orbiting satellites).

    The Berkeley SETI Research Center Breakthrough Listen science team examined data on 692 stars from the primary target list from GBT, consisting of three five-minute observations per star, interspersed with five-minute observations of a set of secondary targets. By performing an analysis of thresholded frequency channels, as well as a Doppler drift search (for details see: github.com/UCBerkeleySETI/breakthrough/blob/master/GBT/README.md) the pipeline identified channels where radio emission was seen for each target (referred to as "hits"). The pipeline produced millions of hits for the sample as a whole, of which the vast majority are almost certainly radio frequency interference from human technology. Eleven events rose above the pipeline threshold for significance, but further detailed analysis indicates that it is unlikely that any of these signals originate from artificial extraterrestrial sources.

    For each star sample, the team searched through the entire database of events, looking for radio channels where events occurred only at one or a small handful of positions on the sky. While these stars have unique radio "fingerprints," this is by no means convincing evidence that they host planets inhabited by extraterrestrial civilizations. However, the search for signals that are localized on the sky and appear unusual in some way provides an excellent way to select promising targets for follow-up observations.

    The BSRC team continues to develop more and more sophisticated algorithms, and plans to release updated analyses of Listen data approximately once every six months. The Berkeley team also seeks continued and expanded engagement with signal processing and machine learning experts to help mine the Breakthrough Listen dataset in the search for evidence of signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.

    Project Leadership

    • Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, Fellow of Trinity College; Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Cambridge.
    • Pete Worden, Chairman, Breakthrough Prize Foundation.
    • Frank Drake, Chairman Emeritus, SETI Institute; Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz; Founding Director, National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center; Former Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University.
    • Ann Druyan, Creative Director of the Interstellar Message, NASA Voyager; Co-Founder and CEO, Cosmos Studios; Emmy and Peabody award winning Writer and Producer.
    • Dan Werthimer, Co-founder and chief scientist of the SETI@home project; director of SERENDIP; principal investigator for CASPER.
    • Andrew Siemion, Director, Berkeley SETI Research Center.

    Story Source:

    Materials provided by Breakthrough InitiativesNote: Content may be edited for style and length.

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    20-04-2017 om 21:28 geschreven door peter  

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    Low flying Ohio UFO described as square

    An Ohio witness at Xenia reported watching a square-shaped object moving over his home under 500 feet, according to testimony in Case 83058 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

    A Xenia, Ohio, witness watched an object move over his home under 500 feet. Pictured: Xania, Ohio. (Credit: Google)

    A Xenia, Ohio, witness watched an object move over his home under 500 feet. Pictured: Xania, Ohio.

    (Credit: Google)

    The witness and his son were outside at 10:10 p.m. on April 8, 2017, when the incident occurred.

    “I witnessed a square-shaped UFO fly over our neighborhood in Xenia last night,” the witness stated. “It flew right over our home coming from the Spring Valley area straight towards Fairborn – which is where Wright Patterson Air Force Base is located about 9 miles from us.”

    The object appeared to have flames come out of it. Pictured: Xania, Ohio. (Credit: Google)

    The object appeared to have flames come out of it. Pictured: Xania, Ohio.

    (Credit: Google)

    The witness described the object.

    “It was square-shaped when overhead, but from a distance it was flatter from top to bottom. It appeared to have flames coming out of the rear of it and had no wings or other visible lights other than the flames and orange glow about it.”

    There were no visible lights on the object. Pictured: Xania, Ohio. (Credit: Google)

    There were no visible lights on the object. Pictured: Xania, Ohio.

    (Credit: Google)

    The witness was hoping for more witnesses.

    “I shouted for my girlfriend to come look, but she only saw it as it was flying from a further distance and not overhead. I tried to videotape it, but couldn’t get my phone fast enough.”

    Xenia is a city in and the county seat of Greene County, Ohio, population 25,719. MUFON Ohio Chief Investigator Ron McGlone is investigating. 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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    20-04-2017 om 21:20 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.WHAT IS IT? Sinister giant black ring 'portal' in sky sparks fears of alien attack

    WHAT IS IT? Sinister giant black ring 'portal' in sky sparks fears of alien attack

    ONLOOKERS were left terrified after a mysterious giant black ring appeared floating in the sky.

    Stunned witnesses in Novosibirsk city, Russia, are heard calling out to each other at the sight of the eerie ring which remained in the sky before disappearing into clouds.

    It was filmed above the Siberian Mall shopping centre and footage of the event has gone viral online after it was uploaded to social media.

    One viewer wrote: "This looks like some kind of creepy warning."

    Another commented: "It's a kind of supernatural power flying across the city!"

    And a third replied: "Aliens are coming to get us! Scary!"

    UFO-Ring

    YouTube

    The dark ring sparked fears of an alien invasion but was likely to be from a firework.

    An actual witness speculated that it was a weather event.

    They said: "The smoke ring is nothing but a soliton.

    "Black hydrocarbon with the vortex making up a ring and lifting it into the air."

    But a weather expert, who remained stumped about what the black ring was, did not agree.

    Renad Yagudin of the Siberian Hydrometeorological Centre said: "There is no such definition in meteorology as a soliton.

    It's a kind of supernatural power flying across the city!

    Online viewer

    "This is not a meteorological event."

    However, UFO hoax buster Scott Brando, who runs website ufoofinterest.org appears to have cracked the case.

    There have been a number of similar rings reported across the globe in recent years, including one over Disneyland, California, in June.

    He said they are caused by a giant smoke ring firework which leaves the black ring hanging in the air after being set off.

    He pointed to footage he used to expose the hoax last June which shows the ring being created after one is set off.

    20-04-2017 om 21:14 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFO spotted on NASA feed from ISS amid fears of 'alien cover-up'

    UFO spotted on NASA feed from ISS amid fears of 'alien cover-up'

    UFO hunters have spotted an “alien cylinder” on the NASA camera from the International Space Station.

    By Henry Holloway 

    UFO-ISS

    NASA

    Three of the 'UFOs' ringed as seen in the clip.

    Alien fans are always trawling space footage in a bid to discover proof of ETs.

    NASA cameras on the ISS are prime sources of UFO sightings according to space watchers.

    Latest footage seized by alien enthusiasts shows a huge “UFO cylinder” looming into view.

    The UFO was partially cloaked, which made it look transparent

    Alien hunter

    Video shows the edge of the ISS – which was constantly manned by astronauts from NASA, Roscosmos and the ESA.

    Out in the darkness a huge shape appears to move slowly across the blackness of space.

    Hanging in space, the shape moves across the Earth’s skyline before eventually fading from the NASA camera.

    UFO sighted from ISS

    NASA/GETTY

    UFO: Alie
    n spacecraft are often claimed to be spotted from the NASA feed on the ISS

    NASA

    NASA: UFO hunters claim this is an 'alien cylinder' sighted from the ISS

    Self-proclaimed UFO expert Scott C Waring uncovered the footage and testified to its legitimacy.

    He said: “The UFO was partially cloaked, which made it look transparent.

    “In the deep blackness of space, blending into the environment means you will be safer from other alien species that may not be so friendly.”

    Other UFO fans hailed the clip, saying it appeared to be a “very large object”.

    Another space watcher claimed it could be a “gas formation”, but Mr Waring rebutted this claiming the “ISS is moving too fast for it to be gas”.

    NASA weighed in on “alien cover-up” claims earlier this year as UFO hunters continue to trawl the space agencies live feeds.

    The existence of life in space outside Earth has never been scientifically proven.

    A new “super Earth” discovered outside our Solar System was hailed as the “best chance” to find aliens.

    Mysterious UFOs were caught on camera above Devon earlier this week.

    http://www.dailystar.co.uk/ }

    20-04-2017 om 21:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.SHOCK CLAIM: Three UFOs made circles in field of rapeseed as they ANALYSED CROPS

    SHOCK CLAIM: Three UFOs made circles in field of rapeseed as they ANALYSED CROPS

    THESE three crop circles were created by aliens who landed in UFOs to investigate the genetic make-up of the rapeseed being grown, it has astonishingly been claimed.

    Video of the crop circles found in the field of rapeseed in Tarlton, Gloucestershire, yesterday has been uploaded to YouTube.

    The clip has been seized upon by UFO investigator Scott C Waring, who runs website ufosightingsdaily.com.

    He claimed that there were three UFOs involved - a main craft and two smaller orbs.

    He wrote on his website: "This crop formation was found this week and has some marks in the field that I believe were made by a space ship landing in it to analyse the genetic make up of the crop.

    "Also we see two orb smaller ships that move with it. 

    "Have you ever seen a glowing orb in the sky, then noticed on film it looked like it has a spinning moon orbiting it every second or two? 

    "Well, these marks are from those smaller orbs."

    Crop-Circle

    YouTube

    The crop circle appeared next to two smaller ones.

    This crop formation was found this week and has some marks in the field that I believe were made by a space ship landing in it to analyse the genetic make up of the crop.

    Scott C Waring

    Crop circles have long been alleged to be caused by alien visitations.

    However, Mr Waring is known for making statements of fact in connection with alleged UFO evidence based on his own speculation.

    There is nothing in the video uploaded to YouTube by the channel Mr Gyro, which features many crop circles and other scenes filmed from the air by cameras on drones, to suggest a connection to aliens.

    Crop circles, which often appear in the south west of England, were exposed as elaborate hoaxes during the 1990s when many pranksters came forward to show how they made the often intricate designs using wooden planks.

    Despite this exposure, some alien chasers still believe they are left as signs by aliens or are even the landing marks of a UFO.

    20-04-2017 om 20:19 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Cylinder UFO Seen On Live NASA Camera At Space Station On April 19, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

    Cylinder UFO Seen On Live NASA Camera At Space Station On April 19, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.



    Date of sighting: April 19, 2017
    Location of sighting: Earths orbit at ISS

    I noticed a UFO in the distance that was coming closer and closer to the space station. The UFO was partially cloaked, which made it look transparent. In the deep blackness of spaces, blending into the environment means you will be safer from other alien species that may not be so friendly. Bob Lazar said in Area S4 (inside Area 51) that he read documents that said that the USAF knew of 56 space faring species. 

    Scott C. Waring

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    20-04-2017 om 20:04 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFO Over Cleveland Disgused As Blimp To Confuse The Public, April 17, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

    UFO Over Cleveland Disgused As Blimp To Confuse The Public, April 17, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

    Date of sighting: April 17, 2017
    Location of sighting:  Cleveland, USA

    As you can see in the above screenshot, this is no blimp. This UFO was recorded byOrlando Bosco of Youtube this week. I want to suggest that this is not a blimp, but something more devious. Its a "fake blimp" such as in the past you may have heard about fake planes...which are UFOs disguised to confuse people who look at it into believe its just a plane. Well, this is one that is disguised as a blimp. Such UFOs have done this for almost a hundred years and I can show you a photo below of a UFO taken back in 1870 in Mount Washington, that shows it does look like a blimp. This photo below is said to be the 1st UFO photo ever taken. 

    Scott C. Waring





    Eyewitness states:

    Some see the UFOs of San Diego parade military of an invading alien army. Others, a parade of models of aircraft prototypes that aliens exhibit as a catalogue for sale. But the "Cleveland airship" is unique, matchless, a gift from the future Americans to win the war... the Trojan Horse that will be taken to the gardens of the White House...

    http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/ }

    20-04-2017 om 19:54 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Watch the First Crop Circle Formation In 2017

    Watch the First Crop Circle Formation In 2017

    2017-crop-circle

    On April 16, 2017, the first crop circle of the year has been discovered at Cherhill White Horse and Landsdowne Monument on an oilseed field in Wiltshire. The ring measures about 250 feet long.

    Conspiracy theorists have referenced the crop circle formation to an upcoming cosmic event when earth, moon, sun and Venus are aligned, which happens simultaneously with a solar eclipse on August 21 of this year.

    Interestingly, researchers point out that the latest crop circle has the same symbol with the 5,000-year-old Cochno stone in West Dunbartonshire of Scotland. According to investigators, the Cochno stone represents an ancient cosmic map.

    Cochno stone

    The latest crop circle is not the first of its kind to match a symbol found on the Cochno Stone. Similar symbols were also found in other crop circles in the past.

    Some think that the answer to crop circle symbols with an astronomical interpretation can be consulted on the Cochno Stone.

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    20-04-2017 om 19:46 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Roswell, UFOs and Secret Experiments – New Book

    Roswell, UFOs and Secret Experiments – New Book

    Numerous pro-UFO books have been written on that certain, controversial incident which occurred on the Foster Ranch, New Mexico in early July 1947. It has become far better known as the Roswell UFO crash. Those aforementioned books include Roswell in the 21st Century by Kevin Randle, The Children of Roswell by Tom Carey and Don Schmitt, The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William Moore, and The UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt.

    As for the U.S. Air Force, it has now published two reports on Roswell – one in 1994 and the other in 1997. Neither report endorses the alien angle. The conclusion of the USAF, today, is that the Roswell wreckage came not from a weather-balloon, as was claimed back in July 1947, but from a huge “Mogul” balloon-array utilized to secretly monitor for Soviet atomic bomb tests in the latter part of the 1940s. As for the reports of alien bodies found at the crash site, it is the Air Force’s opinion that they were crash-test-dummies used in high-altitude parachute experiments. There is, however, another theory for what happened outside of Roswell in early July 1947. In some ways, it’s a theory that is more controversial than the idea that aliens crashed and died on the ranch.

    Mogul weather balloons

    In June 2005, Simon & Schuster published one of the most controversial books I have written. Its title: Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story. It’s a book which suggested that what crashed outside of Roswell, New Mexico in early July 1947 was not an alien spacecraft, after all. Instead, it was one of a handful of definitively terrestrial vehicles which were secretly test-flown in various parts of New Mexico. And, all over the course of several, specific months in the year in which (a) the flying saucer was born, (b) the CIA was created, and (c) the passing of the National Security Act went ahead. We’re talking about 1947.

    All of the flights ended in disaster, and particularly so for the people on-board. This was something which ensured that the tales, revelations and rumors of more than a few “crashed flying saucers and dead aliens,” in the Land of Enchantment, and in the late-1940s, became intertwined and confused. To the extent that they are now popularly recognized under one banner, that of the “the Roswell incident.”

    The overwhelming secrecy surrounding the flights was due to the fact that certain controversy-filled pacts had secretly been put into place. They were designed to allow a large number of Axis scientists to avoid prosecution for their Second World War-era war-crimes. Instead, those scientists secretly went to work in New Mexico – and that included working on the craft that crashed to earth outside of Roswell, New Mexico and which led to the infamous legend of the UFO crash. Some of those craft were piloted. Others had human guinea pigs on board. They were strapped into gondolas and lifted high into the sky by huge balloon arrays, chiefly to further expand the scope of controversial work in the field of high-altitude exposure and early rocketry.

    In other words, had the truth of Roswell surfaced back then, the floodgates would almost certainly have opened wide, and a controversial treaty – with Axis scientists who had no qualms at all about using innocent people in nightmarish experiments – would have reared its ugly head. No one in officialdom wanted that to happen, so it was a case of burying the dark and disturbing truth of the diabolical human experimentation among a mass of tales of aliens from other worlds and flying saucers. Destroy all of the records. Deny everything that needs denying. Silence those who know too much. Create as many false leads as possible. Couldn’t be done? As I write these words in April 2017, I can say with confidence that that approach has worked all too well for the last seventy years.

    Despite the words of the naysayers, and those who hope and pray I am wrong, the fact is there exists a large body of material that strongly supports the “secret experiment” theory. Such was the controversial and incriminating nature of the files and the experiments, they were buried decades ago – and they remain buried. Or, maybe, as I have suggested, all of that same incriminating data has been relegated to the furnace and the shredder. But, that doesn’t prevent a case from being made.

    Although pro-UFO researchers and investigators make a big fuss about the discoveries on the Foster Ranch, they seldom highlight the fact that, prior to the events of early July 1947, rancher Mack Brazel found the remains of two weather balloons on the property. That is an important thing to note, as is this: there is no doubt that much of the material scooped up by Brazel was very balloon-like. And, we know that balloons had fallen on the ranch previously. Military balloonsTwice. If that doesn’t strike you as being notable, well, it sure as hell should.

    In light of all this, few can deny that military devices – of varying degrees of secrecy – were dropping from the skies over New Mexico, in the late 1940s. Let’s see what else is on the table.

    Also in 1947, we have the following, found in FBI files declassified under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act: “Special Agent S. W. Reynolds of the Liaison Section, while discussing the above captioned phenomena with Lieutenant Colonel Garrett of the Air Forces Intelligence, expressed the possibility that flying discs were, in fact, a very highly classified experiment of the Army or Navy [italics mine]. Mr. Reynolds was very much surprised when Colonel Garrett not only agreed that this was a possibility, but confidentially stated it was his personal opinion that such was a probability. Colonel Garrett indicated that a Mr. [name deleted], who is a scientist attached to the Air Forces Intelligence, was of the same opinion.”

    Twelve years after Body Snatchers was released, there is a sequel from me. Its title: The Roswell UFO Conspiracy: Exposing a Shocking and Sinister Secret. It’s coming very soon. As are startling revelations.

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    20-04-2017 om 01:31 geschreven door peter  

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    Are Spy-Planes Afoot? The Latest on Reports of Unconventional Aircraft

    For a number of years, a wide variety of reports that involve alleged “mystery aircraft” have continued to surface. While bearing certain characteristics that distinguish them from typical military aircraft, the aircraft in these reports are a cut above your typical “flying saucer” or UFO type object reports.

    First, let’s recall the aircraft that were observed, and even photographed over Wichita Kansas, as well as the Texas Panhandle, back in the middle of 2014. Described as a “flying Dorito”, the flying wing aircraft were photographed on a few different occasions, leading to theories about a possible classified manned penetrating reconnaissance aircraft being utilized by the USAF or some other military body.

    However, while the talk of various spy planes remains the dominant theme in the midst of all this, there are occasionally reports that surface which bear more unusual characteristics, at least in relation to the kinds of aircraft and recognized technologies involved.


    Could this be a top-secret US spy plane?

    I received a report on April 6, 2017, describing a possible sighting of such an aircraft, which was seen over Kansas City, as described by the witness below:

    I stepped out around midday to get a coffee for a pick-me-up and was able to see a B-2 bomber flying around the area.  At one point it appeared to have stopped in the air for a moment and then shoot off quickly toward the horizon.  In your efforts to find a prosaic explanation regarding black triangles, seeing the B-2 appear to stop in the air and then take off quickly immediately reminded me about the various reports of the black triangle sightings.  Perhaps what is being seen by people who report about black triangles are really updated versions of the B-2.  I could see the bomber clearly because it was a beautiful day and the plane was on a blue sky background.  It was incredible to see the bomber as clearly as I did and was unable to get any pictures.  But imagining the idea of a newer, more capable, version of a B-2 (perhaps a B-3) with the ability to hover does not seem impossible in my mind and is a very plausible explanation for some of the black triangle sightings.

    Barring any optical illusions that might have caused the B-2 observed by this witness to appear as though it had been hovering, it is intriguing to suppose that there might be, as the witness suggests, “updated” versions of certain aircraft that possess sophisticated features. Indeed, could such an aircraft (or an updated version of an existing one) account for certain reports of unidentified triangle-shaped objects, especially those observed at night, and under less-than-optimal visual conditions?

    As far back as the early 1990s, there has been speculation about a number of supposedly classified aircraft. Almost without question, the most famous of these has been the Aurora, alleged to be a successor to the SR-71, which remained in service until 1998.

    Throughout the 1990s, the Federation of American Scientists had also been featuring a number of updates on sightings of mystery aircraft in their Secrecy and Government Bulletin, overseen by Steven Aftergood. In the January, 1993 edition of the bulletin, an interesting report appeared that discussed the legitimacy of such sightings:

    The evidence supporting the existence of something like Aurora, a classified follow-on to the SR- 71 “Blackbird,” is surprisingly diverse, though hardly conclusive. At the same time, the evidence against its existence, derived from budget data, official pronouncements, and related policy decisions can not easily be dismissed. (This evidence is compiled and evaluated in an updated, August 1992 version of the FAS report “Mystery Aircraft.”) Most recently, Air Force Secretary Donald B. Rice insisted vigorously that no such secret program exists within the Air Force or anywhere else (Washington Post, 12/27/92, p. C6).

    If it were true, as reported, that a classified hypersonic aircraft is in operational service, the deepest significance of this fact would not be the existence of the aircraft, but rather the magnitude and audacity of the deception that had been perpetrated to conceal it.

    Whether or not the descriptions collected throughout the 90s by the FAS represent a legitimate classified aircraft which has never been revealed on the public level is still a matter of debate. With continuing reports of aircraft today that resemble known varieties, though possessing “enhanced” capabilities such as hovering and other unusual flight behavior, it is hard to rule out the possibility that there could be more in our skies than most are aware of… and that such aircraft, and their unique technological applications, may also have existed far longer than many would expect.

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    Scientific analysis reveals ANOMALIES on terrain where Alien abduction occurred

    “…This laboratory speculates that the hovering craft propulsion system has a powerful electromagnetic effect thereby drawing (and concentrating) these iron particulates toward the surface. This has been observed in the analysis of soils from other sites where UFOs landed or hovered close to the ground…


    The Travis Walton abduction is perhaps one of the most famous UFO cases of all. Travis was part of a logging crew on November 5, 197, in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. The abduction site is in the east central Arizona mountains and is accessed only by old logging roads. After calling it a day, and with the sun going down, the crew of seven got in the truck to head home.

    As they traveled down the road, a UFO was spotted hovering off to the side. Travis got out, approached it, and was hit by a beam. The crew panicked and drove off, but quickly returned to find Travis missing. He was gone five days.

    Now, a scientific analysis of the terrain where the incident occurred has produced surprising results.


    An image of the Exchangeable cations

    Curiously,  it is one of the most famous cases of alien abductions, and in addition, it’s one of few cases of alien abductions with corroborative eyewitnesses that could not be denied. Walton could not be found but reappeared after five days of intensive searches.

    According to the story, the night Walton was abducted, six crew members including Walton (Mike Rogers, Ken Peterson, John Goulette, Steve Pierce, Allen Dallis and Dwayne Smith) were driving back to their homes after an arduous day of work.

    On the way, they encountered an intense luminosity that they believed was a fire, but as they approached they saw that it was a saucer-shaped object floating off the ground some 30 meters. What followed became one of the most important and interesting UFO cases in the history of our planet.



    Interestingly last week, Frontier Analysis Limited analyzed samples of the ground where the abduction allegedly took place.

    The results obtained shed some light on the event and prove that something strange definitely happened that night of 1975.

    Signed by the chemist Phyllis A. Budinger, the report (Click here) provides details on the composition of the soil where the UFO was located according to Walton.

    As noted by the report, “though the event happened 40 years ago, soil samples were collected from the site, along with nearby control samples. It should be noted that besides 40 years of weathering, a massive forest fire occurred in 2002 which devastated the area. Still, it was hoped that if a permanent change was made to the soil due to the UFO’s proximity, it would be detected.

    Several soil samples were taken from the site where Walton was abducted, as well as other control samples taken from the surrounding area. According to the scientists, the differences between the two samples were not many, although, to their surprise, they found two interesting anomalies that caught their attention.



    Research revealed that compared to the surrounding terrain, samples from the abduction site have a higher level of iron particles. Exchangeable cations (calcium, magnesium, potassium) are also significantly higher. This suggests some kind of chemical change occurred in the ground where the alleged alien UFO was spotted.

    Even though the report indicates that there may be a natural explanation for cationic activity, such as clay deposits that generate chemical changes, the large amount of iron is definitely out of the norm wrote experts.

    According to the scientific study: “It is revealed that iron-containing particulates amounts are higher in the site soils compared to the control soils. Furthermore, there is indication that the levels tend to be higher in the surface soils compared to the sub-surface soils of the site samples. This laboratory speculates that the hovering craft propulsion system has a powerful electromagnetic effect thereby drawing (and concentrating) these iron particulates toward the surface. This has been observed in the analysis of soils from other sites where UFOs landed or hovered close to the ground.1 It was more specifically noted that sample 2 contains fewer particlulates compared to the other site samples, but slightly more than the controls. Soil 2 is approximately where Travis landed after the beam hit him. Perhaps this suggests that the UFO was not influencing the metal content as much at this location.


    Source: Analysis of Soil Samples from the Travis Walton Abduction Site (ApacheSitgreaves National Forest, Near Heber Arizona)

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    Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Marks 700 Days in Orbit

    The U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane has now been circling Earth for 700 days on its latest hush-hush mission.

    That mission — known as Orbital Test Vehicle 4, or OTV-4 — began on May 20, 2015, with a liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

    As the name implies, the current mission is the fourth for the X-37B program. These orbital jaunts have been getting progressively longer: OTV-1 launched in April 2010 and spent 224 days in space, OTV-2 lifted off in March 2011 and orbited Earth for 468 days, and OTV-3 began in December 2012 and operated for nearly 675 days. [The Most Dangerous Space Weapons Ever]

    Artist's illustration of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane in orbit.
    Artist's illustration of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane in orbit.
    Credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

    Most X-37B payloads and activities are classified, so it's unclear what exactly the space planes are doing as they zoom around our planet. But there's nothing nefarious going on, Air Force officials have stressed.

    "The primary objectives of the X-37B are twofold: reusable spacecraft technologies for America's future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth," Air Force officials wrote on an X-37B fact sheet.

    A recovery team processes the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane after its touchdown at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Oct. 17, 2014, which marked the end of the vehicle’s third mission.
    A recovery team processes the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane after its touchdown at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Oct. 17, 2014, which marked the end of the vehicle’s third mission.
    Credit: Boeing

    Interestingly, that same fact sheet states that the X-37B is designed to operate for 270 days in orbit — a duration mark that the most recent three missions have blown past.

    The Air Force is known to own two X-37B vehicles, both of which were built by Boeing. Each solar-powered space plane is just 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 9.6 feet (2.9 m) tall, with a payload bay the size of a pickup truck bed. (For comparison, both X-37Bs could fit inside the payload bay of one of NASA's now-retired space shuttle orbiters.) Each of the two X-37Bs has flown two missions to date.

    The X-37B launches vertically atop a rocket and comes in horizontally for a runway landing. All four missions have launched from Cape Canaveral, and the first three landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

    But OTV-4 may buck this latter trend and land in Florida. The Air Force has modified the old Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, which is next door to Cape Canaveral, to accommodate the X-37B. And Air Force officials have said that they aim to consolidate the program's launch and landing activities on Florida's Space Coast.

    The SLF last hosted a touchdown in July 2011, when the space shuttle Atlantis landed there to wrap up its STS-135 mission — the final one for the iconic shuttle program.

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    Giant Peanut-Shaped Asteroid to Pass Harmlessly by Earth Today

    Giant Peanut-Shaped Asteroid to Pass Harmlessly by Earth Today
    The asteroid 2014 JO25 will fly safely past Earth April 19, coming within 1.1 million miles (1.8 million km) of the planet — about 4.6 times the distance between the Earth and the moon. This map shows the asteroid's locations as it passes through the sky April 19 to April 22 — it will appear bright in the sky for small telescopes for a few days after closest approach. Its position will vary from location to location.
    Credit: Gianluca Masi (Virtual Telescope Project)/TheSkySixPro

    A huge, shiny, peanut-shaped asteroid will safely swing by Earth tomorrow morning (April 19), coming within a distance of 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers) of the planet — about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon.

    The bright asteroid 2014 JO25   is coming toward Earth from the sun's direction and should be visible in the sky in small telescopes for a few days afterward as it fades from view. It will be at its closest point to Earth at 8:24 a.m. EDT (1224 GMT). You can see a video animation of the asteroid's orbit here.

    Asteroid 2014 JO25 was first spotted in May 2014 by astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, and measurements from NASA's NEOWISE mission suggested it was about 2,000 feet (650 meters) across, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Radar observations from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico suggest it could be as big as 4,270 feet (1.3 km) at its widest point.

    The asteroid's surface reflects about twice as much light as the moon. Its approach marks the closest an object this large has come to Earth since the gigantic asteroid 4179 Toutatis tumbled by in 2004, within 4 times the distance from the Earth to the moon.

    The Aricebo Observatory caught this radio image of the asteroid 2014 JO25 on April 17, 2017, as the large, peanut-shaped asteroid neared its closet approach to Earth.
    The Aricebo Observatory caught this radio image of the asteroid 2014 JO25 on April 17, 2017, as the large, peanut-shaped asteroid neared its closet approach to Earth.
    Credit: Aricebo Observatory/NASA/NSF
    Wednesday's approach is the closest 2014 JO25 has come in at least 400 years, and there's no known close approach coming through at least the year 2500. Although the asteroid's approach poses no risk to Earth — with a 0 percent impact probability — the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center still classified it as "potentially hazardous" because of its size and nearness to Earth. Researchers will have to keep an eye on it to see if it drifts closer over the centuries, the Minor Planet Center wrote.

    Astronomers around the world will study asteroid 2014 JO25 during and after its approach, including skywatchers at Arecibo and NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California, JPL officials said in the statement — making observations that can potentially reveal features just a few meters across.

    "Using radar, we can illuminate a near-Earth asteroid and directly measure its features,"astronomer Edgard Rivera-Valentín, a planetary scientist with the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) at the Arecibo Observatory, said in a separate statement. That's how scientists pinned down the asteroid's peanut shape, he added.

    The next close approach of a known giant asteroid will happen in 2027, when the half-mile-wide (800 m) asteroid 1999 AN10 passes by at about the distance from the Earth to the moon.

    You can watch asteroid 2014 JO25's journey live on the Slooh online observatory's website starting at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) April 19. You can also seek it out in the sky using the celestial map above and a small telescope (although its position will vary, depending on your location).

    While you're looking, keep an eye out for the comet PanSTARRS (C/2015 ER61), which will be visible in the dawn sky to observers with binoculars or a small telescope as it makes its closest approach of 109 million miles (175 million km).

    Editor's note: If you capture a photo of asteroid 2014 JO25 through a telescope and would like to share it with Space.com, please send images and comments in to: spacephotos@space.com.

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    Scientists Just Discovered an Alien Planet That’s The Best Candidate for Life As We Know It

     
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    Scientists have located an exoplanet that's the best candidate for life as we know it. They believe it may prove to be an even more important target for the future characterization of planets in the habitable zone than Proxima b or TRAPPIST-1.

    SUPER-EARTH LHS 1140B

    Only a few decades ago, the thought of any alien planets existing in the reaches of space were just hypothetical  ideas. Now, we know of thousands of such planets – and today, scientists may have discovered the best candidate yet for alien life.

    That candidate is an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth—what the international team of astronomers who discovered it have deemed a “super-Earth.” Using ESO’s HARPS instrument and a range of telescopes around the world, the astronomers located the exoplanet orbiting the dim star – LHS 1140 – within its habitable zone. This world passes in front of its parent stars as it orbits, has likely retained most of its atmosphere, and is a little larger and much more massive than the Earth. In short, super-Earth LHS 1140b is among the most exciting known subjects for atmospheric studies.

    Other Earths: The Best Exoplanet Candidates for Life [INFOGRAPHIC]
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    Although the faint red dwarf star LHS 1140b is ten times closer to its star than the Earth is to the Sun, because red dwarfs are much smaller and cooler than the Sun is, the super-Earth lies in the middle of the habitable zone and receives around half as much sunlight from its star as the Earth does.

    *5* Scientists Just Discovered an Alien Planet That’s The Best Candidate for Life As We Know It
    Artist’s impression of the super-Earth exoplanet LHS 1140b. Credit: ESO

    LIFE AS WE KNOW IT

    To support life as we know it, a planet must retain an atmosphere and have liquid surface water. When red dwarf stars are young, they emit radiation that can damage the atmospheres of planets around them. This planet’s large size indicates that a magma ocean may have existed on its surface for eons, feeding steam into the atmosphere and replenishing the planet with water until well within the time the star had cooled to its current, steady glow. The astronomers estimate the planet is at least five billion years old, and deduce that it has a diameter of almost 18,000 kilometers  (11,185 mi)— 1.4 times larger than that of the Earth. Its greater mass and density implies that it is probably made of rock with a dense iron core.

    Two of the European members of the team, Xavier Delfosse and Xavier Bonfils, stated in the release: “The LHS 1140 system might prove to be an even more important target for the future characterization of planets in the habitable zone than Proxima b or TRAPPIST-1. This has been a remarkable year for exoplanet discoveries!”

    Scientists expect observations with the Hubble Space Telescope will soon allow them to assess how much high-energy radiation the exoplanet receives, and further into the future — with the help of new telescopes like ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope and the James Webb Telescope — detailed observations of the atmospheres of exoplanets will be possible.

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    How Would NASA Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Enceladus?

    How Would NASA Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Enceladus?
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    As NASA's Cassini spacecraft prepares for its grand finale at Saturn, scientists have uncovered the first evidence of a potential energy source for extraterrestrial microbial life. 

    The detection of hydrogen inside an ice plume jetting off from Saturn's ocean-bearing moon Enceladus means that hot water is interacting with rock, creating a potential chemical kitchen for microbial life that doesn't rely on photosynthesis to survive.

    On Earth, these types of microbes flourish around hydrothermal vents on the sea floor. Scientists wonder if the same might be true 790 million miles away on Enceladus, an ice-capped inner moon of Saturn's that is just 500 miles in diameter.

    "The fact that there is molecular hydrogen there — and a lot of it — can be interpreted in two different ways with regard to life," Cassini scientist Hunter Waite, with the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, told Seeker. "One is that there is so much hydrogen because there are no microbes there to eat it... The more positive way is that there is H2 there, there is plenty of food for them, but there's probably some other limiting growth factor so that there is excess H2 in the system."

    RELATED: NASA: Saturn's Ice Moon Enceladus Might Be Capable of Supporting Life

    "If you saw this [hydrogen detection] coming up from Earth, you'd say, 'Ah, there's potential food for microbes in the interior ocean.' But you wouldn't say necessarily that there are these microbes in the ocean," he added. "There is every reason to believe we're moving toward Enceladus's ocean being habitable, but we're not making any claims at this point about it being inhabited."

    The discovery of molecular hydrogen in Enceladus's plumes was reported by Waite and his colleagues in this week's issue of the journal Science.

    An image taken survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus.
    An image taken survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus.
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    Cassini, which has been circling Saturn and its entourage of moons since 2004, will end its mission in September with a suicidal plunge into Saturn's atmosphere to avoid any chance of contaminating potential life on Enceladus. But even if Cassini could carry on for years, it was not designed to search for life.

     "We've come as far as we can go, so it remains for a future mission to detect life at Enceladus," Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told reporters on Thursday.

    Ideally, scientists would like to drill through Enceladus's ice cap and sample its underground ocean. An easier, lower-cost mission, however, would be to do what Cassini did, which is to fly through the plumes of material that continuously shoot out into space from the moon's southern polar region.

    RELATED: NASA Prepares to Crash Cassini Probe Into Saturn for Mission's 'Grand Finale'

    Besides measuring the ratio of hydrogen to carbon dioxide, which Cassini was able to do, there are several different chemical relationships that would be evidence of potential food sources for microbial life. A laundry list of those processes would be one of the things that a follow-on mission would look for, Waite noted.

    Other options are to look for ratios of amino acids and structural patterns in fatty acids that are indicative of biology.

    "There'd be a whole host of tests, and if you got green lights on all of them, then you'd have a pretty good idea that you had a high probability that life exists," Waite said.

    In the 2020s, NASA is planning to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa, which, like Enceladus, has a salty ocean beneath its icy surface. The US space agency has not yet planned any follow-on missions for Enceladus, but it could be selected as the destination for a current or future round of planetary missions in the New Frontiers program. Proposals are due April 28.

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    Forget About Terraforming Mars. Here's Why.

    Forget About Terraforming Mars. Here's Why.
    A combination of low air pressure, high radiation and a lack of oxygen in the atmosphere makes the surface of Mars hostile to life.
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

    If you want to terraform a planet, you can do so virtually in a new video game called "Mass Effect: Andromeda." The main character voyages to planets that are uninhabitable to life as we know it for various reasons, including sulfuric water, immense cold, or a thin atmosphere. It's then your task as a player to fix up these planets, in part by using alien technology.

    Could we terraform a planet for real, though?

    For decades, one of the top targets for terraforming was Mars. It's relatively close to Earth and we have reams of research showing that water flowed there in the ancient past. Perhaps the Red Planet, if it was warm enough, could host life as we know it again — although there is the ethical problem of potentially wiping out evidence of past life, or viability for present life.

    NASA has deployed a spacecraft called Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) to watch the atmosphere from above and try to figure out the rate of gas loss. Scientists think that Mars had a thick carbon dioxide (CO2) atmosphere early in its history that allowed liquid water to exist, but most of the atmosphere was lost to space. When the atmosphere thinned, so the theory goes, water could no longer flow on the surface.

    "The rate of loss of gas today is very low — slow enough that it would take billions of years to remove the equivalent amount of gas that is in the atmosphere," principal investigator Bruce Jakosky said in an email. There is some CO2 left in the polar ice and in carbon-bearing materials, he added, but not nearly enough to warm the temperature significantly if it somehow was put back in the atmosphere.

    "There isn’t a source of CO2 that could replenish the atmosphere — even outgassing of CO2 from volcanoes has got to be incredibly slow today," Jakosky added. "If we wanted to put enough CO2 into the atmosphere to raise temperatures significantly, it would take something like 10 million kilometer-sized comets (if they were all made entirely of CO2). This is just not feasible."

    RELATED: How Mars Went From Warm and Wet to Cold and Dry

    MAVEN revealed new information about how much CO2 was lost, by looking at isotopes of argon-36 and argon-38. Unlike CO2, argon is removed by only one process: sputtering, which occurs when charged particles (ions) in space are picked up the solar wind because they have an electrical charge. Some ions accelerate into the Martian atmosphere and knock molecules into space, including argon and CO2.

    The new analysis indicates that about 2/3 of the argon that was ever in the Martian atmosphere was lost to space through sputtering. Because CO2 can be lost through other processes, the investigators concluded that a larger fraction of the CO2 was removed.

    "In total, this means that the majority of gas in the atmosphere has been lost to space," Jakosky said.

    He added that terraforming is often seen as a panacea for humans; if we somehow mess up our own climate on Earth, we can always just try again on Mars.

    "But that ignores the obvious point that, if we knew enough about climate to control the Mars climate, we also could control the Earth’s climate and either keep from mucking it up in the first place, or repair it after we’ve damaged it," Jakosky said.

    Originally published on Seeker.

    19-04-2017 om 23:38 geschreven door peter  

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    A Nearby Rocky Planet Is the Newest Possible Home for Alien Life

    This new, big, dense planet is rocky, like Earth, and has the right temperatures for water.

    M. Weiss Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

    Astronomers have found yet another planet that seems to have just the right Goldilocks combination for life: Not so hot and not so cold. It's not so far away, either.

    This new, big, dense planet is rocky, like Earth, and has the right temperatures for water, putting it in the habitable zone for life, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature .

    It's the fifth such life-possible planet outside our solar system revealed in less than a year, but still relatively nearby Earth. Rocky planets within that habitable zone of a star are considered the best place to find evidence of some form of life.

    "It is astonishing to live in a time when discovery of potentially habitable worlds is not only common place but proliferating," said MIT astronomer Sara Seager, who wasn't part of the study.

    The first planet outside our solar system was discovered in 1995, but thanks to new techniques and especially NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope, the number of them has exploded in recent years. Astronomers have now identified 52 potentially habitable planets and more than 3,600 planets outside our solar system.

    The latest discovery, called LHS 1140b, regularly passes in front of its star, allowing astronomers to measure its size and mass. That makes astronomers more confident that this one is rocky, compared to other recent discoveries.

    In the next several years, new telescopes should be able to use the planet's path to spy its atmosphere in what could be the best-aimed search for signs of life, said Harvard astronomer David Charbonneau, a co-author of the study. If scientists see both oxygen and some carbon in an atmosphere, that's a promising sign that something could be living.

    Outside astronomers have already put this new planet near the top of their must-see lists for new ground and space-based telescopes.

    "This is the first one where we actually know it's rocky," Charbonneau said. "We found a planet that we can actually study that might be actually Earth-like."

    Make that super-sized, because it belongs to a class of planets called super-Earths that are more massive than Earth but not quite the size of giants Neptune or Jupiter.

    Compared to Earth, the new planet is big, pushing near the size limit for rocky planets. It's 40 percent wider than Earth but it has 6.6 times Earth's mass, giving it a gravitational pull three times stronger, Charbonneau said. A person weighing 167 pounds would feel like 500 pounds on this planet.

    While many super-Earths are too big to have the right environment for life, 1140b is just small enough to make it a good candidate. Thirty-two of the potentially habitable planets found so far are considered super-Earth sized.

    The new planet was found using eight small telescopes in Chile and help from an amateur planet-hunter, Charbonneau said.

    In the constellation Cetus, it is 39 light years or 230 trillion miles away. So are a group of seven mostly Earth-sized planets in or near the habitable zone found circling a star called Trappist-1 earlier this year, but it in a different direction. And in August, astronomers found that the nearest planet to Earth outside our solar system, only 25 trillion miles away, also could have the right temperature for life, but astronomers can't get a peek at its atmosphere.

    "If you picture the Milky Way as the size of the United States, then these systems are all within the size of Central Park," Charbonneau said. "These are your neighbors."

    The latest discoveries have their founders at odds over which of the planets are the most promising. Charbonneau said recent studies show that the Trappist planets may not be rocky like Earth, while Trappist discoverer Michael Gillon said the newest planet has such intense grav ity that its atmosphere may be smooshed down so telescopes can't get a good look at it.

    Seven outside astronomers said the Milky Way is big enough for all the discoveries to be exciting, requiring more exploring.

    Yale astronomer Greg Laughlin, who wasn't part of any of the teams, praised all the new findings but said the Trappist planets seem too light and the new one too dense for his taste: "I wouldn't book a trip to any of these planets."

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