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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Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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03-05-2017
Gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen blijkt verrassend schoon te zijn
Gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen blijkt verrassend schoon te zijn
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Wetenschappers staan voor een raadsel: hoe kan het dat dit stukje ruimte vrijwel stofvrij is?
Ruimtesonde Cassini dook vorige week voor het eerst in het 2000 kilometer brede gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen. Onderzoekers hadden verwacht dat de sonde daarbij heel wat stofdeeltjes tegen zou komen. Om te voorkomen dat die deeltjes de ruimtesonde zouden beschadigen, werd de vier meter brede antenne van de sonde als schild gebruikt. Maar dat was niet nodig geweest, zo moet NASA nu concluderen.
Grote leegte “Het gebied tussen de ringen en Saturnus is blijkbaar een grote leegte,” stelt Cassini’s projectmanager Earl Maize. Slechts enkele keren botste een stofdeeltje op Cassini. En de weinige stofdeeltjes die Cassini ontmoette, waren bovendien klein: niet groter dan 1 micron (een duizendste deel van een millimeter).
DE FOTO’S
Bekijk hier de foto’s die Cassini maakte toen deze voor het eerst in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen dook.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Een van de vele onbewerkte foto’s die gisteren is gemaakt. De atmosfeer van Saturnus ziet er in ieder geval spannend uit.
Nog een foto van de atmosfeer van Saturnus.
Veilig Blijkbaar is het gebied tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen veel veiliger dan gedacht. En dat is goed nieuws. Want NASA heeft nog 20 duikvluchten in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen gepland staan (exclusief de tweede duikvlucht die vanmorgen heeft plaatsgevonden). Vier van de 20 resterende duikvluchten voeren Cassini mee naar de binnenste randen van Saturnus’ ringen. Tijdens die duikvluchten zal Cassini wel wat stof tegenkomen en wordt de antenne sowieso ingezet om de sonde te beschermen.
Terwijl wetenschappers proberen te achterhalen hoe het kan dat het gebied tussen Saturnus en de stoffige ringen vrijwel stofvrij is, hult Cassini zich – net als tijdens de eerste duikvlucht – in radiostilte. Pas morgen worden de eerste onderzoeksgegevens en beelden die Cassini tijdens de duikvlucht van vanmorgen heeft gemaakt, naar de aarde verstuurd. En wat mogen we daarvan verwachten? Tijdens deze duikvlucht heeft Cassini de ogen gericht op de ringen van Saturnus. Ook bestudeert de sonde Rhea in de hoop meer te weten te komen over de samenstelling en structuur van het oppervlaktemateriaal van de maan.
Nieuw bewijs dat ster Epsilon Eridani meerdere puingordels bezit
Nieuw bewijs dat ster Epsilon Eridani meerdere puingordels bezit
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het bevestigt dat dit stelsel – bestaande uit een ster en één planeet – heel wat overeenkomsten heeft met ons zonnestelsel.
Er is al aardig wat onderzoek gedaan naar Epsilon Eridani, een ster die op zo’n 10,5 lichtjaar afstand staat. Zo weten we inmiddels dat rond de ster zeker één planeet cirkelt: Epsilon Eridani b. Deze planeet heeft een massa die vergelijkbaar is met de massa van Jupiter. Ook weten we dat er veel overeenkomsten zijn tussen hoe onze zon er in haar kinderjaren uitzag en Epsilon Eridani. Dat laatste is ook de reden dat onderzoekers dit stelsel graag bestuderen: het is het dichtstbijzijnde planetaire stelsel rond een ster die lijkt op de jonge zon en dus de ultieme gelegenheid om meer te weten te komen over de wijze waarop planeten rond sterren zoals onze zon ontstaan.
De stofschijf Eerder onderzoek heeft ook aangetoond dat rond Epsilon Eridani een stof- en puinschijf te vinden is. Dit puin kun je zien als bouwmateriaal dat over is gebleven nadat de ‘bouw’ van Epsilon Eridani b voltooid was. Het puin kan de vorm van gas of stof hebben, maar ook bestaan uit kleine rotsachtige en ijzige brokken. Dergelijk puin kan zich verzamelen in één brede stofschijf, maar ook verspreid zijn over meerdere smalle ringen. Onduidelijk was hoe dat precies bij Epsilon Eridani zat.
KOMT HET BEKEND VOOR?
Doet de naam Epsilon Eridani ergens een belletje rinkelen? Maar weet je even niet waarom? Misschien ken je de naam uit de televisieserie Babylon 5. Het gelijknamige ruimtestation dat in deze fictieve serie centraal staat, bevindt zich nabij deze ster.
Twee ringen Maar een nieuw onderzoek schept nu duidelijkheid. Wetenschappers hebben de ster Epsilon Eridani dit keer bestudeerd met behulp van het Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (kortweg SOFIA). En die waarnemingen tonen aan dat er zeker twee stofringen zijn. “We kunnen nu met veel zekerheid zeggen dat er een scheiding is tussen de binnenste en buitenste puingordel,” vertelt onderzoeker Massimo Marengo. “Dat gat is waarschijnlijk gecreëerd door planeten. We hebben die nog niet gedetecteerd, maar ik zou zeer verrast zijn als ze zich daar niet bevinden.” Mogelijk kunnen we deze planeten met de volgende generatie telescopen opsporen.
Veel overeenkomsten Dat Epsilon Eridani niet één brede, maar zeker twee smalle stofringen bezit, betekent dat dit planetaire systeem veel meer met ons zonnestelsel gemeen heeft dan gedacht. Ook ons zonnestelsel heeft immers twee puingordels: de planetoïdengordel en de Kuipergordel. Aan de rand van de binnenste planetoïdengordel vinden we Jupiter. Aan de buitenste rand van de planetoïdengordel van Epsilon Eridani vinden we Epsilon Eridani b (met een massa die vergelijkbaar is met die van Jupiter). Aan de rand van de Kuipergordel vinden we Neptunus. En deze studie wijst er sterk op dat aan de binnenste rand van de kometengordel van Epsilon Eridani ook een planeet te vinden is (zie ook de afbeelding hieronder). “Het is echt indrukwekkend dat Eri (Epsilon Eridani, red.), een veel jongere versie van ons zonnestelsel, net zo in elkaar steekt als het onze,” vindt onderzoeker Kate Su.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Caltech / R. Hurt (SSC).
Door naar Epsilon Eridani te kijken, reizen we eigenlijk terug in de tijd: naar het tijdperk waarin onze eigen zon nog piepjong was. “We zien een glimp van het verleden van de aarde door in het heden een nabijgelegen jonge zon te bestuderen,” stelt Marengo.
Monsterachtige golf ontdekt in het Perseus-cluster
Monsterachtige golf ontdekt in het Perseus-cluster
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De golf is miljarden jaren geleden ontstaan en 200.000 lichtjaar lang, oftewel ongeveer twee keer zo groot als onze Melkweg.
Het Perseus-cluster is een enorme groep sterrenstelsels die door de onderlinge zwaartekracht bij elkaar wordt gehouden. Het cluster is ongeveer 11 miljoen lichtjaar groot en staat op zo’n 240 miljoen lichtjaar afstand. Het grootste deel van de waarneembare materie in het cluster is superheet gas. Dit gas is zo heet dat het röntgenstraling afgeeft.
Golf Wetenschappers hebben het gas in het Perseus-cluster nu bestudeerd met behulp van röntgenobservatorium Chandra. Daarbij ontdekten ze allerlei structuren in het gas, waaronder een reusachtige golf.
Ontmoeting met een ander cluster Grote vraag is natuurlijk: hoe is die golf ontstaan? Om die vraag te kunnen beantwoorden, maakten de onderzoekers gebruik van simulaties. De simulatie die het dichtst bij de werkelijkheid in de buurt kwam, ging uit van een groot cluster met koud gas in het centrum en drie keer warmer gas daaromheen. Wanneer een kleiner cluster op geringe afstand van dit grote cluster langskwam, werd het gas in beweging gebracht. En doordat koud gas een andere snelheid heeft dan warm gas ontstaan golfbewegingen.
Onderzoekers noemen dat ook wel Kelvin-Helmholtz-golven. Dergelijke golven kunnen ontstaan in aardse oceanen, wolken en zelfs op de zon. Het exemplaar dat nu in het Perseus-cluster is ontstaan, is zeer waarschijnlijk echter de grootste Kelvin-Helmholtz-golf die ooit is geïdentificeerd.
De onderzoekers ontdekten verder dat de omvang van deze Kelvin-Helmholtz-golven sterk afhankelijk is van het magnetisch veld van een cluster. Als dat magnetisch veld heel zwak is, worden de golven groter. Is een magnetisch veld heel sterk, dan kunnen de golven helemaal niet ontstaan. Het betekent dat dergelijke golfachtige structuren in het gas van clusters meer kunnen vertellen over de sterkte van het magnetisch veld van deze clusters.
For those familiar with indie space game Stellaris, one of the key moments before encountering ancient intelligent life is finding traces of technology. While the game is a work of science fiction, the concept isn’t outlandish to those behind the real life search for extraterrestrial life (SETI). According to astronomer Jason Wright, discovering traces of advanced technology, termed technosignatures, from alien civilizations is just as important as looking for biosignatures. He outlines his theory in new paper published online, and while he doesn’t claim there’s existing, direct evidence of aliens, he does wonder if we’re just not looking hard enough – or for the right signs.
Contrary to what some have said, Wright’s paper isn’t saying that there’s already evidence pointing to an alien civilization that existed in the solar system before us. Instead, he merely asked whether we’ve exhausted all possible angles in our search for extraterrestrials.
“There is zero evidence for any prior indigenous technological civilizations,” Wright told Gizmodo. “My paper asks, have we completely foreclosed the possibility, or is there a chance that there could be some evidence we overlooked? [And] if we have overlooked something and we find it in the future, what are the chances it could have come from a prior indigenous technological species versus an interstellar one?”
Currently, the hunt for aliens is focused on finding even the smallest signs of life, or mechanisms that could support life (most notably, the presence of water). These are all good, of course, but Wright suggests that we might also start looking for technosignatures from ancient alien civilizations.
“A ‘technosignature’ is evidence of technology,” he said, which potential could have been left behind by some long-gone alien civilization. In his paper, he explained his point further: “We might conjecture that settlements or bases on [rocky moons or asteroids] would have been built beneath the surface for a variety of reasons, and so still be discoverable today.”
Image: NASA, JPL-Caltech
What Are We Really Searching For?
The discovery of a new planet — or even better, a new system in some near or distant galaxy — is always good news for alien hunters. Most recently, the TRAPPIST system presented some possibilities — albeit ones quickly dashed by the intensity of solar flares its planets experience. Another possible candidate is a huge, Earth-like planet dubbed super-Earth LHS 1140b. Inside our own solar system, the planetary satellites of Jupiter and Saturn — particularly Europa and Enceladus — tickle the imagination because of the presence of water. And where there is water, the chance of life is higher.
However, despite the odds seemingly in our favor, we really haven’t found any such example of alien life out there — yet. Fermi Paradox, yes? But, could it be that we’ve been looking at the wrong things? Or are we simply not looking hard enough?
Wright just wants us to explore all possible options: “While all geological records of prior indigenous [extraterrestrial] technological species might be long destroyed, if the species were spacefaring there may be technological artifacts to be found throughout the Solar system.”
What does a void sound like? (Insert the name of your least favorite cable news channel here.) Now that we’ve had our fun, NASA has provided us with the sound of an actual void and you’ll probably find it eerie, yet in most cases preferable to cable news.
On April 26th, the Cassini spacecraft passed between Saturn and its innermost ring and NASA engineers turned on a recording instrument. Believe it or not, they were hoping to capture the sounds of – cue Simon & Garfunkel – silence. Noise would be an indicator that the void isn’t an actual void but a corridor filled with dust or larger particles … and that would not be good for Cassini, which is scheduled to make many more passes through the area prior to its eventual death plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere in September.
While not a deal-breaker – or in this case, a dive-breaker – an abundance of dust would force NASA engineers to turn the craft so that its 13-foot-wide antenna would shield instruments from a particle bombardment, since even tiny ones can wreak havoc on them and there’s no electronics store nor robotic repair person around to fix them.
As you can hear in the audio, the Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument picked up something.
RPWS detected the hits of hundreds of ring particles per second when it crossed the ring plane just outside of Saturn’s main rings, but only detected a few pings on April 26.
Is that good or bad news? William Kurth, RPWS team leader at the University of Iowa, gave the answer.
It was a bit disorienting – we weren’t hearing what we expected to hear. I’ve listened to our data from the first dive several times and I can probably count on my hands the number of dust particle impacts I hear.
In other words, the so-called void is really void of dangerous — at least to Cassini — dust particles. The RPWS detected very few radio and plasma waves to convert into the sounds of pops and cracks that would indicate particles. That means Cassini gets the go-ahead to keep on diving like Greg Louganis going for the gold. Twenty more dives are scheduled, including one on May 2 whose results were not available as of this writing.
Project Manager Earl Maize listening to the sounds from Cassini
While the sounds — or lack of them — from Saturn will probably not inspire any songs, they’ve inspired NASA engineers to keep on analyzing the data to figure out why a planet with so much stuff orbiting it has a such a big circle of nothing inside the innermost ring. As Cassini Project Manager Earl Maize of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a press release:
The region between the rings and Saturn is ‘the big empty,’ apparently. Cassini will stay the course, while the scientists work on the mystery of why the dust level is much lower than expected.
The Big Empty … sounds like the perfect description for cable news.
Max Planck astrophysicist René Heller proposed a novel and innovative way to explore the stars.
Instead of just relying on the actual distance, Heller proposed using the light form a star to propel photon ships faster.
The bright lights could just draw you in
NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STScI), and M. Barstow (University of Leicester)
THE QUICKEST ROUTE
You’ve heard it said that the quickest route from point A to point B is the straightest path. Nowhere more does this apply than in space, where distances are measured by the direction that light travels, which is fairly straight. However, astrophysicist René Heller from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany thinks there’s more to interstellar travel than just a straight path.
Heller and his colleagues, in a recently published article, argued that traveling to a star isn’t just a function of distance, but also of how bright the star is. The concept is called a photogravitational assist. Simply put, the light emitted by a star powers photon or light sails (remember Count Dooku’s ship?) traveling in space.
Their calculations initially surprised Heller, he told New Scientist. However, the math is simple and sound: the time that it takes to travel to the nearest star is a function of distance divided by the square root of a star’s luminosity.
CHANGING OUR STELLAR TRAVEL SCHEDULE
Following these calculations, this means that we could get to Sirius faster than we could to any star in the Alpha Centauri system simply because it’s 18 times brighter, despite being twice as far as Proxima Centauri. We could reach Sirius in just 69 years, compared to the 140 years it would take to reach Proxima Centauri.
To do this, “We need a very light, solid, temperature-resistant, and highly reflective sail material that can span an area of several hundred meters squared,” Heller said. It could be graphene-based and coated by some metamaterial.
A similar effort by Breakthrough StarShot proposes using light sails to travel to Alpha Centauri. According to their calculations, it would take them only 20 years to make the journey. However, they only computed for a flyby mission that would last a couple of seconds, which wouldn’t allow them to observe that much. So, while it would present a unique and incredible opportunity to explore the Universe farther than we ever have before, it wouldn’t allow scientists to collect a lot of data.
In this case, Heller’s unusual route presents an advantage. “If this works out, then humanity can really go interstellar,” he said.
he Phoenix Lights incident 20 years ago is still seen as unexplained by some UFOers.
The National UFO reporting Centre (NUFORC) based in the US has been inundated with witness accounts about a series of UFO sightings on April 25 over parts of Florida.
Peter Davenport, NUFORC director, said: "Approximately a dozen high-quality sighting reports were submitted in rapid sequence by witnesses in multiple locations in Florida.
"Three adult witnesses in Largo reported having had a disc-shaped object descend out of nearby clouds, and hover briefly near their residence in the night sky.
"They report that the object suddenly darted back into the same area of the sky from which it had first come, disappearing again into the clouds."
The first report came from Bradenton at 8.40pm when three orange lights were seen in a triangle formation.
There were 11 further reports of odd airborne activity between 11pm, when at Jupiter, "something travelling in a straight line leaving a trail of fire or sparks" was seen for two to three minutes, and 1.47am, when, in Orlando, "eight spherical balls of light” emerged from the clouds.
The spectacle went on for three to four minutes when they "whipped back and forward across the sky in a straight line, then stopped and formed a circle and began to rotate around each other and form different shapes", according to a witness report.
Eight of the events took place in the 15 minutes between 11.45pm and midnight.
There was another sighting at 12.27am at Pinellas Park, when for 15 seconds, a "plane with a red blinking light seemed to be pulling what looked like a sparkler."
It reportedly went into a cloud and stayed stationary".
NUFORC says it usually receives just a fraction of actual UFO sightings, so expects many more people to have seen something and urges them to come forward.
The infamous Phoenix Lights incident happened on March 13 1997, when five lights were seen in a formation by thousands of people over three hours from 7.30pm to 10.30pm.
The sightings took place a cross a 300-mile area from Phoenix to Tucson.
It is considered one of the world's biggest ever mass UFO sightings, but was later blamed by officials as military flares at the time.
Eerder deze week had het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA laten weten dat de ruimte tussen de ringen van Saturnus en de planeet verrassend leeg is, nu is dat ook met geluid gestaafd. Die leegheid is vastgesteld door de Amerikaanse sonde Cassini.
De NASA pakte vandaag uit met twee audiofragmenten. Het eerste dateert van 18 december 2016 toen Cassini zijn 253 baantjes rondom de planeet maakte. Wat men hoort, is te omschrijven als een symfonie van een knetterend kampvuur en een zwaar beschadigde vinylplaat.
Op de video hieronder zijn de audiofragmenten van 18 december 2016 te horen:
Groot is het contrast met een audiofragment van 26 april jongstleden, toen de sonde een eerste duik in de ruimte tussen de ringen en Saturnus maakte. Er is enkel een aanhoudende ruis te horen zoals wanneer het beeld op televisie uitvalt. Het zwelt soms wat aan, er is een zeldzaam piepje en er zijn wat Morse-signaalachtige geluidjes te horen.
Op de video hieronder zijn de audiofragmenten van 26 april 2017 te horen:
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Mysterieus iets gevonden op Google Earth. Onderzoekers staan voor een raadsel. Enig idee wat dit is?
Mysterieus iets gevonden op Google Earth. Onderzoekers staan voor een raadsel. Enig idee wat dit is?
In 2007 zocht een amateurarcheoloog op satellietbeelden naar vindplaatsen toen zijn aandacht werd getrokken door een vreemde figuur in de woestijn.
De foto’s waren gemaakt boven de steppe van Noord-Kazachstan. De geogliefen die werden ontdekt waren zo opvallend dat ze zelfs de aandacht trokken van NASA-wetenschappers.
Met behulp van satellieten onderzochten ze het woestijnachtige gebied. Ze ontdekten al snel meer vreemde symbolen in het landschap.
Indruk
In Kazachstan zijn honderden vreemde geogliefen ontdekt. Ze bestaan uit kruizen, stippen, ringen of lijnen.
“Ze zijn prachtig, enorm en laten zien dat de mens dingen kan doen die zelfs vanuit de ruimte indruk maken,” zei Amanda Marchetti van DigitalGlobe, die de foto’s analyseerde, in het programma What On Earth?
Onontdekt
Onderzoekers die naar het gebied afreisden kwamen tot de ontdekking dat de patronen bestaan uit heuvels van aarde. Ze lijken bovendien veel ouder te zijn dan gedacht.
Door hun enorme omvang zijn ze duizenden jaren onontdekt gebleven. Ze zijn enkel zichtbaar vanuit de lucht. Door en voor wie zijn ze gemaakt?
Artist's illustration of the Epsilon Eridani system showing Epsilon Eridani b
(Credit:NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook)
The number of planetary systems discovered seems to grow on a daily basis, but most of them are wildly different to our own solar system. Now a team of University of Arizona researchers led by Kate Su have used NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) flying observatory to take a closer look at a system 10.5 light years away and discovered it has a familiar general structure.
The star in question is Epsilon Eridani (ε Eri) in the southern hemisphere of the constellation of Eridanus. Its previous claims to fame were as the setting for the sci fi television series Babylon 5 and the disputed location of Star Trek's planet Vulcan. It's also been the subject of several early studies seeking extrasolar planets and was even monitored in the 1960s by Project Ozma as a possible source of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Previously, Epsilon Eridani was found to have a debris disk made of gas, dust, and perhaps asteroids circling it, as well as a planet with about the mass of Jupiter and orbiting the young star at a comparable distance to that which the gas giant orbits the Sun.
None of this is very remarkable by today's standards, but when Su's team examined images from SOFIA, a different story emerged. SOFIA is a 100-in (2.5-m)-diameter telescope mounted inside a Boeing 747SP jetliner that operates out of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center's Hangar 703, in Palmdale, California.
Much of the previous work on Epsilon Eridani involved the Spitzer Space Telescope, but SOFIA is over twice the size of Spitzer, has three times the resolution, and can operate in the infrared at wavelengths between 25 and 40 microns. What this meant was that SOFIA could discern much smaller details, especially from warm materials, than before, which suggested an alternative model to the one provided by Spitzer's data.
What the University of Arizona scientists found was that Epsilon Eridani's inner system is clear of debris with a narrow debris ring just inside the orbit of the Jupiter-like planet. Beyond this is another clear region with another debris ring about where Neptune would be in our solar system. In other words, it's a lot like the inner Solar System, asteroid belt, Jupiter, the outer Solar System and the Kuiper Belt.
"The high spatial resolution of SOFIA combined with the unique wavelength coverage and impressive dynamic range of the FORCAST camera allowed us to resolve the warm emission around eps Eri, confirming the model that located the warm material near the Jovian planet's orbit," says Su. "Furthermore, a planetary mass object is needed to stop the sheet of dust from the outer zone, similar to Neptune's role in our solar system. It really is impressive how eps Eri, a much younger version of our solar system, is put together like ours."
Artist's illustration of the Epsilon Eridani system showing Epsilon Eridani b. In the right foreground, a Jupiter-mass planet is shown orbiting its parent star at the outside edge of an asteroid belt. In the background can be seen another narrow asteroid or comet belt plus an
outermost belt similar in size to our solar system's Kuiper Belt.NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
Man's quest to know more about the vast universe received a shot in its arm after a new planetary system was discovered by NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a flying observatory.
Kate Su, who is an associate astronomer at the University of Arizona and the university's Steward Observatory, is the lead author of this study.
SOFIA is a Boeing 747SP jetliner which has been altered to carry a 100-inch diameter telescope which possesses a diameter of 100 inches (2.5 meters); the diameter is bigger in comparison to the Spitzer space telescope whose diameter is equal to 33.5 inches (0.85 meters). With the help of SOFIA, the researchers could study the details that were three times smaller; this wouldn't have been possible with Spitzer.
The planetary system discovered is located at a distance of 10.5 light years away in constellation Eridanus' southern constellation. A Sun-like star named Epsilon Eridani, aka eps Eri, which is believed to be less than a billion years old, was believed by astronomers as capable to reveal more about our solar system. The location is very apt for the astronomers to research about planet formations around Sun-like stars.
"Additionally, SOFIA's powerful mid-infrared camera called FORCAST, the Faint Object infraRed CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope, allowed the team to study the strongest infrared emission from the warm material around eps Eri, at wavelengths between 25-40 microns, which are undetectable by ground-based observatories," a NASA statement said.
The data collected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was studied by the researchers in 2009 in order to explain about the eps Eri's debris disk which was formed from the remains of the space rock collisions and planet formations. The researchers revealed that this debris disk comprised different belts of asteroids, just like the Kuiper and asteroid belts of our solar system.
This space dust can be in the form of dust, gas and also tiny rocky and icy bodies. Further details revealed that a planet having a mass similar to that of Jupiter orbits the eps Eri star at a similar distance at which the gas giant Jupiter orbits the Sun.
Marengo revealed that the findings are crucial as they confirm epsilon Eridani is a good model of the early days of our solar system and can provide hints at how our solar system evolved.
"This star hosts a planetary system currently undergoing the same cataclysmic processes that happened to the solar system in its youth, at the time in which the moon gained most of its craters, Earth acquired the water in its oceans, and the conditions favourable for life on our planet were set," one of the co-authors Marengo stated in a summary of the project, as reported by Phys.org.
"The high spatial resolution of SOFIA combined with the unique wavelength coverage and impressive dynamic range of the FORCAST camera allowed us to resolve the warm emission around eps Eri, confirming the model that located the warm material near the Jovian planet's orbit," said Su.
"Furthermore, a planetary mass object is needed to stop the sheet of dust from the outer zone, similar to Neptune's role in our solar system. It really is impressive how eps Eri, a much younger version of our solar system, is put together like ours," Su said.
Finding existing extraterrestrial life would undoubtedly be one of the crowning achievements of the human race, but with so much talk of the potential for life on exoplanets many light-years away, one astronomer is asking why we aren’t looking harder for evidence of aliens right here in our own solar system. Penn State astronomy professor Jason Wright has written a paper suggesting that maybe we need to shift our focus from the deep cosmos and simply take a closer look in our own celestial backyard.
In his writings, Wright implores scientists to consider the idea that evidence of extraterrestrial life might be right under our noses. Wright, who doesn’t take a stance on whether or not he believes intelligent life indeed existed in our own solar system or abroad before humanity, says that looking for the leftovers from technological species who resided here might actually be easier to find than biological evidence including microbes.
“Searches for alien artifacts in the Solar System typically presumes that such artifacts would be of extrasolar origin, even though life is known to have existed in the Solar System, on Earth, for eons,” Wright notes. “But if a prior technological, perhaps spacefaring, species ever arose in the Solar System, it might have produced artifacts or other technosignatures that have survived to present day.”
Wright flags Venus and Mars as potential locations where intelligent life might have spawned, developed, and then gone extinct or simply left, and even suggests that Earth might hold secrets of an ancient but advanced civilization that has since been lost to the shifting of continents, plate tectonics, and erosion.
LISTEN TO THE EERIE SOUNDS INSIDE SATURN'S RING RECORDED BY NASA
LISTEN TO THE EERIE SOUNDS INSIDE SATURN'S RING RECORDED BY NASA
Space exploration has unearthed, or "un-saturned" actual sounds recorded during ongoing space voyages by NASA, the national institute of Scientific advancement. New findings show that NASA scientists have procured genuine audio recordings emanating from the massive planet Saturn! What did NASA find in space aboard the exploration vessel known as the Cassini?
The Cassini is a modern marvel of the human species, a spacecraft that NASA is currently using to explore, record, and orbit the behemoth known as Saturn. Not just any planet, Saturn happens to be the second largest gas ball in the solar system. Hovering delicately around this massive formation are awe-inspiring rings, large oval-shaped rings, and tiny delicate groups of ringlets. What sounds did the Cassini record? It was the sound of vastness and echoes displayed by a sensitive gauge- specifically called a Radio and Plasma Wave Science Instrument (RPWS). As the Cassini traveled thru the glorious rings of Saturn, microscopic ring bits were detected and sounds of these nanoparticles bouncing off the RPWS were recorded! Findings reveal the audio evidence, actual photos show the digital print-out of the sounds of Saturn. These images display the density and strength of the waves, similar to the print out of an EKG.
The actual sediment that the gauge picked up on is called “dust particles” and “ring particles” by researchers involved in the Cassini mission. Please be advised- the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument is not a sound recording device. As the name suggests, this tool reads radio and plasma waves- technicians then transcribe the radio and plasma waves into readable sound data.
Finally hearing sounds from a huge, strange planet might sound like headline news. Ponder this…. Sounds from space have been documented before. Almost a year ago to the day, space explorers from NASA were able to record sounds from Jupiter, another gas giant of the solar system. A photo of the Jupiter recording is present in NASA research archives, Juno is the name of the aircraft that participated in that event.
NASA and Cassini have propelled the imagination of civilization to another level, another orbit. Hopefully, the youth of this nation will be inspired, motivated to continue space flight with exploration. And what of the actual space vessel, Cassini? Sadly, Cassini will have just four more months of robotic life. Cassini will be commanded to do a kamikaze death mission to end its project- flying and crashing to its demise on Saturn, spawning instant combustion on impact.
In 2004, a selection of NSA documents was given the all clear for public disclosure. However, in an unexplained move, the security agency chose not to release the documents, collected under the intriguing title of “Key to the Extraterrestrial Messages” for a full seven years afterward.
The NSA were finally pushed into publishing the information on their website following legal intervention, and it can still be viewed today. But what does it actually say?
The documents, which have been described as a veritable ‘treasure trove’ by extraterrestrial enthusiasts, contain an incredibly compelling report which was compiled for the NSA’s internal journal. The documents first appeared in the NSA Technical Journal Vol XIV No 1 with FOIA Case number 41472 and were authored by the esteemed cryptologist Dr. Howard Campaigne. The topic of this fascinating report concerns twenty-nine coded messages intercepted by the Sputnik satellite which is believed to derive from an extra-terrestrial origin.
Dr. Campaigne is one of the most renowned cryptologists in the world who has spent decades of his life working for various governmental agencies such as the Naval Security Group, Army Security Agency, National Security Agency among others. He was selected to examine the exciting messages along with a team of other accomplished NSA cryptologists.
However, the documents suggest that they had limited success in decoded the presumed alien communications. Dr. Campaigne said that some of the words of the messages were able to be translated but that there were many elements of the communications that the team had still not been able to properly comprehend. He also said that while the team had a hazy grasp on the alien grammar that they had been unable to thoroughly understand the vocabulary.
This astonishing report, which was released with no fanfare, raises some interesting implications. It is well known that various intelligence agencies from all over the globe were deeply invested in examining the extraterrestrial phenomenon in the recent past, but the governments of the world have been loath to admit that their agencies are still involved in these activities in the present day.
However, this document reveals that despite their reticence in speaking publicly about belief in extraterrestrials that the American government is still taking intelligent contact from alien beings seriously. This raises questions about what they have discovered about intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and why they are so cagey about releasing this kind of information into the public domain.
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PLAYING GOD: SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO BUILD SYNTHETIC HUMAN DNA
PLAYING GOD: SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO BUILD SYNTHETIC HUMAN DNA
Scientists Plans For Building Synthetic DNA Of Humans Goes Public Leading To Tension Flares.
Manipulating the fundamental building blocks of life is one of science`s biggest ethical debates, and tensions are about to flare up once again as scientists have revealed a controversial and rather ambitious plan to write the human genome from scratch. They want to synthesize DNA and then put it into mammals, with human cells perhaps being only four or five years away.
SCIENTISTS WANT TO WRITE HUMAN GENOME FROM SCRATCH
Almost 200 genetic researchers along with researchers in bioengineering will be heading to New York next week to a meeting that will discuss the stages to follow of what has been called the Genome Project-write, also known as GP-write. This is a venture costing US$100 million to engineer, research and test a living system of model organisms, which are said to include human genome.
THE NEW PROJECT TAKES UP WHERE THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT ENDED
The new project is said to be the follow-up to the Human Genome Project which reached an end in 2003 following research that spanned over 13 years and which mapped out the human genetic code. The new project is said to be the next logical step forward so that scientists can learn how to synthesize animal, plant and human DNA cost-effectively.
The GP-write coordinator Nancy J. Kelly said that HGP had allowed scientists to read the genome, however, at the moment it isn’t completely understood. The scientists involved want to portray the project as being an international collaboration that has been designed so that scientists can further their understanding of genome science. The project brought about a lot of controversy during the first meeting, a year ago, which had been conducted in secret with only a hand-selected group of experts invited to talk behind closed doors.
DETAILS OF THE PROJECT REVEALED IN PAPER
Since that time researchers have become more candid and have announced the details of the new project in a paper along with releasing a white paper which gives the outline of the timeline and goals. Jef Boeke, biochemist, and geneticist is one of the leading scientists on GP-write and he said that the approach has been to consult with the scientific community to steer and frame the research as it develops.
He went on to say that the plan was not to start off with human genome; there is a four to five year period during which there is lots of time to talk about the wisdom of it, if the resources should be put into that direction or if another should be taken. He said that whenever it’s human genome people will have an opinion and they will speak out and want their voice to be heard and the scientists want to know what they have to say about the matter.
Of course, while conversations may be ongoing, the science is continuing to develop. Boeke gave details about a project that is related which he is working on. In the project he is working with hundreds of scientists all working together to try to synthesize artificial yeast genome, this project is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
While there is a big difference between being able to synthesize the DNA of yeast and the creation of human DNA from the drawing board, the overall goal remains the same, to find out how to synthesis comparatively simple genetic code before then moving on to the final goal. Boeke said that in the end, a synthetic genome is just a new engine for allowing learning of new information. GP-write is the parent project encompassing the core area of Human Genome Project-write, with a focus on human genome synthesis, either in whole or in part.
COST OF ENGINEERING GENOMES NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT DOWN
Along with synthesizing animal, plant and human DNA, the project`s goal is to bring down the cost of engineering genomes. At the moment it is said to cost around 10 US cents just to synthesize a base pair of nucleobase molecules making up the DNA. When you take into account that human beings have 3 billion pairs, it is expensive. The scientists hope to bring down the cost by over 1,000-fold in 10 years.
If the costs can be brought down and expenses loved for synthesizing DNA, it may unlock many kinds of potential medical treatments, which may be able to target cancer or genetic diseases, which may help the body in better accepting organ transplants, along with boosting learning about gaining immunity to viruses.
Before this happens, the organizers of GP-write will have to raise around US$100 million in funds, a topic which is going to be discussed in another meeting. It is exciting, but there is sure to be a lot more controversy as the project goes ahead.
This is an awesome shot of a UFO. This UFO is similar to one that was seen over the Statue of Liberty just last week. Australia has had an overwhelming amount of sightings this years. They are increasing their exposure to the public little by little. Scott C. Waring
News states: A local seven-year-old boy has snapped a photograph of an unidentified flying object. The suspicious object was spotted flying over Tarro on Friday evening. Halo Galli is fascinated with the Roswell UFO incident, where a spaceship was said to have crashed in America in 1947. He is convinced his photograph is proof of an alien spaceship closer to home. “He was in the yard with his dad and four-year-old sister when he asked his dad for his iPhone,” mother Tanya Beasley said. “All evening he pestered me to look at his sighting and when he showed me the one and only photo he took of his spaceship, low and behold he actually had captured something.” Halo insisted the photograph be sent in to the newspaper.
Death Valley’s ‘sailing stones’ are able to move thanks to unique environmental conditions.
Have you ever seen a rock move? I mean move independently—not, like, roll after someone kicked it or knocked it over—just sliding across a flat surface of its own accord. With the exception of certain psychedelic experiences, I'm going to guess you haven't. But these rocks exist, and they stumped scientists for decades.
The Racetrack Playa is a wide, flat, desert basin in the middle of Death Valley National Park. It's surrounded by tall, rocky hills and, hundreds of years ago, was filled with water, but these days it's just a dried up lakebed. It's one of the hottest, driest, and lowest places in North America, and it's home to the "sailing stones:" rocks that move along the playa on their own. It took until 2014 for scientists to conclusively uncover how the stones get from one place to another: an unusual, and unique combination of ice, wind, and sun.
For a more detailed story behind the sailing stones, listen to this week's episode of Science Solved It:
It's rare to see the stones in motion, but there's a clear sign that they've been on the move. Behind the rocks are long, sometimes winding trails in the dirt. Scientists have used GPS units to track to stones' movements, and have proven that they're mobile. They were first publicly documented in the early 1900s, but for decades, nobody could explain how they moved, according to Richard Norris, an oceanographer at University of California San Diego, and one of the researchers who finally solved the mystery of the rocks.4
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"The first scientific study was done 1948 and then there was a succession of scientific papers," Norris said. "Every ten years or so somebody published a new paper on the Racetrack, but nobody is basing their scientific career on this kind of work. It's just a really fun sort of mystery."
Norris became aware of the stones when he was just a kid. His uncle, a geomorphologist at UC San Diego, would take class trips out to the playa, and Norris and his cousin would tag along. As adults, and both scientists themselves, Norris and his cousin decided they ought to take a stab at solving how the rocks moved, so they designed an experiment.
Previous research had produced hypotheses about how the rocks moved. Some thought it was exceptionally heavy winds, others believed ice formed around the rocks and caused them to be buoyant. There were also some less scientific theories, such as acoustic levitation—the belief that sound can cause heavy objects to levitate.
To figure it all out, Norris and his cousin attached specially-designed GPS units to the back of rocks they had brought into Death Valley (the National Parks Service wouldn't let them mess with the rocks that were already there). They also installed a weather station, and then...they waited.
It took two years, but finally, the rocks moved. Norris and his cousin, completely by chance, actually got to witness them in action. The researchers discussed their findings in a paper published in PLOS One. They found that when enough rain fell on the playa to pool, and the temperature dropped, the water would freeze into huge, thin sheets of ice around the rocks—which tumble onto the playa from a nearby hillside. As the morning sun began to melt the ice, if a gentle breeze blew, it could move the ice, which dragged the rocks along with it.
"The ice is like the thickness of a window pane," Norris told me. "And although it's very thin, it's a huge, huge sheet of ice. It's sort of being moved sort of inextricably by these breezes and it can shove around really big things—and a lot of rock."
The results shocked Norris and many other scientists, but it's a phenomenon that's since explained similar moving rocks around the globe. Though it wasn't the paranormal explanation that so many people had hoped for, the truth was even more tantalizing.
Researchers discover 11 'strange' signals using telescope
Researchers discover 11 'strange' signals using telescope
However, none of these signals are believed to be extraterrestrial life.
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Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner-backed Breakthrough Listen is an initiative that is dedicated to exploring extraterrestrial signals in the universe in search of life beyond Earth. A team of researchers from Breakthrough Listen have now released its first results after analysing three 5-minute observations of 692 stars.
The researchers found 11 “strange” signals during their study. However, none of these signals are believed to be extraterrestrial life. The team has submitted the analysis paper, which they hope will act as a “launch pad” for future investigations.
Breakthrough Listen has been gathering data with the Green Bank Radio Telescope in West Virginia, Lick Observatory’s Automated Planet Finder on Mt Hamilton in California and the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, reported DailyMail.
The project, led by researchers based in California scans billions of radio channels in search for intelligent source outside our solar system.
The latest findings will be discussed at the Breakthrough Discuss conference tomorrow.
“With the submission of this paper, the first scientific results from Breakthrough Listen are now available for the world to review,” said Dr Andrew Siemion of BSRC. “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,” he added.
A mean-looking alien on the attack in Ridley Scott’s upcoming prequel “Alien: Covenant.”
In 1979, Ridley Scott presented “Alien,” the first of six films in a seriesthat would continue into 2017. This science-fiction horror franchise has produced nearly 40 years of sequels and prequels, numerous books, toys and video games.
On May 19, the second prequel, “Alien: Covenant,” debuts under Scott’s direction, and not only is he promoting the film, he’s also ― very cleverly ― letting it be known that he thinks aliens really exist and we should fear them.
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Filmmaker Ridley Scott speaks on stage during AFI FEST 2015 on Nov. 11, 2015, in Hollywood, California.
“I believe in superior beings,” Scott, 79, told the international news agency Agence France-Presse. “I think it is certainly likely. An expert I was talking to at NASA said to me, ‘Have you ever looked in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we are it?’ That’s ridiculous.”
“The experts have now put a number on it, having assessed what is out there,” Scott continued. “They say that there are between 100 and 200 entities that could be having a similar evolution to us right now. So when you see a big thing in the sky, run for it!”
Here are some other astronomical numbers that can make your head figuratively explode like Scott’s aliens often explode out of the stomachs of their unfortunate human victims.
According to Space.com, astronomy experts estimate that there’s a range of “between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies” throughout the universe.
And those galactic numbers will most likely go up as newer, more powerful telescopes are built and sent into space to reach out to the cosmos.
Part of the magnitude of these numbers is the fact that typical galaxies have a lot of stars. Our Milky Way is home to about 300 billion stars, reports Sky & Telescope.
Just last week, three planet-hunters were included on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. One of those scientists, Natalie Batalha of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, made a mind-blowing statement that would probably cause Scott’s hair to stand on end.
She said, “You know, we look up in the sky and instead of seeing stars, we see other solar systems, because now we know that every star in the sky has at least one planet.”
Scott’s 1979 movie “Alien,” which started his entire franchise, had the tag line: “In space, no one can hear you scream.”
He told Agence France-Presse that earthlings would probably be better off if we show any aliens a little respect. “Because they are a lot smarter than we are, and if you are stupid enough to challenge them, you will be taken out in three seconds.”
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From “Alien: Covenant,” an extraterrestrial is about to emerge from its comfortable pod to wreak havoc with the unlucky human visitors to its planet.
Scott certainly has aliens on his mind. He’s also listed as a producer for “Phoenix Forgotten,” a film that debuted in April and uses what are known as found-footage sequences to tell the story of events surrounding the appearance of mysterious lights over Phoenix in 1997.
It’s considered one of the most famous UFO sightings in history, primarily because so many people saw it. Though the military tried to explain it away as flares in the sky during an exercise over the city, there have been lingering doubts, especially from the man who was governor of Arizona at the time, Fife Symington.
One of the interesting things about “Phoenix Forgotten” is how remarkably similar it is on almost every level to another movie, “Phoenix Incident,” that came out a year ago. Both movies tell of groups of young people who vanished forever while trying to investigate the “flares” out in the desert.
Maybe Scott feels more comfortable presenting aliens on another planet.
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Filer’s Files #18 -2017 UFO Shot Down - PART I
Naperville, Illinois a suburb of Chicago on April 24, 2017.
Filer’s Files #18 -2017 UFO Shot Down - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: In special reports, this week’s files cover: French Minister of Defense UFOs Exist, Peru – Crashed UFO Was Likely Shot Down, India – Vimana UFOs Flew in 4,000 B.C., Dr. Bruce Cornet Reports, Mars Tree Stump, China Moves 150k Troops to North Korea Border
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Columbia, India, Philippines, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
George A. Filer III
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Robert Galley, French Minister of Defense states, “I must say that if listeners could see for themselves the mass of reports coming in from the government’s airborne gendarmerie, from the mobile gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie charged with the job of conducting investigations, all of which reports are forwarded by us to the National Center for Space Studies, then they would see that it is all pretty disturbing.
I believe that the attitude of spirit that we must have is an open mind to vis-a-vis this phenomenon, that is to say that it doesn’t consist in denying a priori, as our ancestors of previous centuries did deny many things that seem nowadays perfectly elementary.” M. Robert Galley, French Minister of Defense, interviewed on radio by Jean-Claude Bourret, February 21, 1974.
Peru – Crashed UFO Was Likely Shot Down
Marine Corps Lance Corporal John Weygandt, who was part of the Disclosure Project, was sent to Peru in March 1997, to provide perimeter security for a radar installation that he was told tracked drug traffic aircraft in Peru and Bolivia. He states, “About midnight, while I was on guard duty, Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson told me, an aircraft crashed and they need us to go and secure the crash site.” Early that morning we drove six Hummers close to the crash site just when it started to get light. Well, we found the area real easy because there was a huge gash in the land where something had crashed. Everything was burned and it was like something had almost cut warm butter with a knife. It was like something on fire or had some kind of energy like a laser had cut it. It was really strange. I was in the front with Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson and we were ten or twenty meters ahead of everyone else. We were the first ones to see this thing. It had gone up the hill and then off in the side of the ravine and ridge. This was a 200-foot ridge, of solid rock. A huge craft was buried at a 45-degree angle in the side of the cliff there at the ridge.
The craft was dripping a greenish-purple syrup-like liquid. The liquid was everywhere and fluctuated like it was alive and changing to a different shade of greenish purple. The craft was humming like a bass guitar and had a slowly turning light. Most of the craft seemed buried into the cliff but vents, like a fish gill were on the back. The liquid got on my clothes and ate holes in them and burned off some the hair on my arms. There were three holes in the ship that may have been hatches that were not flush with the main body of the craft. There was another hatch the same width and diameter of the top hatch and it was kind of crooked to the side and it was half open. I didn’t see any lights or anything coming out of it but I felt this… presence. It is real strange. I think the creatures calmed me. It was weird and I think they were trying to communicate with me, telepathically. The Corporal estimated the craft was ten meters in width and about 20 meters in length and shaped like something between an egg and a teardrop. The skin of the craft had bumps and notches and appendages on it. It was really organic and almost like art. It looked like something that could be made in a shop. It looked like it could have been handmade but out of what materials I do not know. It was definitely nothing like titanium. It looked like metal but there was no reflection. The sun was shining on it and I could see the different shades of the craft and it didn’t reflect anything. Suddenly the Sergeants were yelling at me to get the hell out of there.
After we climbed back up, the Department of Energy people were there. I was arrested and cuffed, both hands down. I had all my gear taken from me by men in black cammies who threatened me and subdued me and put me on a cot. They had no name tags. At the crash site there were about thirty of these guys wearing hazard suits.
I had been told aircraft were flying in and out of the atmosphere at mach ten plus. When you have objects that reenter the atmosphere and then stop on a dime and then turn around and go exactly the opposite direction – that is kind of strange. Meteors don’t do that. The craft was not from Earth. I knew that when I looked at it. I wondered if those facilities were built for the intent to track UFO’s and their cover was to track drug aircraft. They had laser range finders and all kinds of high tech stuff that I have never seen before. I couldn’t really explain it. They [the laser range finders] that looked like big telescopes and some sort of Command Center manned by a multi –national force. So these craft were tracked from this particular radar and were logged. I’m confident that when I saw the aircraft, it had been hit by something, perhaps by a Patriot Missile System or laser weapons. Something had taken it out.
Editor’s Note: Corporal Weygandt described a craft damaged by enemy action, either ours or an opposing alien force. His testimony on Page 274 of “Disclosure: Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets” by Steven Greer M.D. is excellent and indicates lethal deadly force was being used against alien intruders during the Clinton Administration. We can assume this war continues.
India – Vimana UFOs Flew in 4,000 B.C.
According to Dr. V. Raghavan, retired head of the Sanskrit department of India’s prestigious University of Madras, contends that centuries-old documents in Sanskrit (the classical language of India and Hinduism) prove that aliens from outer space visited his nation. “Fifty years of researching this ancient works convinces me that there are livings beings on other planets, and that they visited earth as far back as 4,000 B.C.” The scholar says. “There is a just a mass of fascinating information about flying machines, even fantastic science fiction weapons, that can be found in translations of the Vedas scriptures, Indian epics, and other ancient Sanskrit text.”
“In the Mahabharata (writings), there is notion of divine lighting and ray weapons, even a kind of hypnotic weapon. And in the Ramayana writings, there is a description of Vimanas or flying machines that navigated at great heights with the aid of quicksilver and a great propulsive wind. “These were space vehicles similar to the so-called flying saucers reported throughout the world today. The Ramayana even describes a beautiful chariot which ‘arrived shining, a wonderful divine car that sped through the air’. In another passage, there is mention of a chariot being seen ‘sailing overhead like a moon.’
“The references in the Mahabharata are no less astounding: At Rama’s behest, the magnificent chariot rose up to a mountain of cloud with a tremendous din. Another passage reads: “Bhima flew with his Vimana on an enormous ray which was as brilliant as the sun and made a noise like the thunder of a storm.” In the ancient Vymanka-Shastra (science of aeronautics), there is a description of a Vimana: “An apparatus which can go by its own force, from one place to place o globe to globe.”
Photo courtesy of Commander Graham Bethune.
Dr. Raghavan points out, “The text’s revelations become even more astounding. Thirty-one parts of which the machine consists are described, including a photographing mirror underneath. The text also enumerates 16 kinds of metal that are needed to construct the flying vehicle: “But only three of them are known to us today. The rest remain untranslatable.” Thanks to the India Daily.
Contact in the Desert
Moon Disc
As an attempted cure for insomnia I have been photographing Jupiter which is extremely bright in the night sky. It is actually the brightest object next to the moon. Last week while photographing the moon April 17, 2017, I obtained something strange. I usually do three shot bursts (like the military) but in photography it’s called bracketing. #82 contains the object – a small dot in the center. The blow up seems to show a disk like object similar to speculated “space planes”. The color of purple similar to Jupiter’s moons located 480 million miles away. I don’t think this is a bug – we have had very few insects recently during the day and this was at 2:00 AM. Regards Robert M Stiles
Temple of Karnak, Egypt
There is an overwhelming about of evidence that some ancient Egyptian leaders were aliens, and the tomb of Senmut and the astronomical signs are further proof. If we had to build the ancient pyramid today, it would never get built. The blocks were too big, and the seams between them were too perfectly sealed without cement, not to mention even with today’s technology, this would be an almost impossible task. Scott C. Waring
In the tomb of Senmut, the architect of Queen Hatshepsut, a panel of the ceiling represents the celestial sphere, the signs of the zodiac, and the other constellations, with an inverted orientation of the southern part of the firmament (1). Senmut supervised the quarrying, transport, and erection of twin obelisks, at the time the tallest in the world, at the entrance to the Temple of Karnak. Senmut, was a Grand Vizire, architect, and chief of the national and religious calendar, He was the mightiest person in Egypt next to Pharaoh
A characteristic feature of the Senmot ceiling is the astronomically false orientation of the South panel. The center of this panel is occupied by the Orion-Sirius group, in which Orion appears to the west of Sirius, instead of being to the East as it might be seen from a different planet. It appears that at the time the cosmic map was created the stars were positioned in a different perspective. Many believe that it’s because an Earthly catastrophe that happened 12.000 years ago, which caused a change in inclination of the ecliptic plane. The mystery of the cosmic ceiling of the tomb of Senmut! http://www.disclose.tv/news/
Bruce Cornet Reports
Ellen Crystall, three other watchers, and I chased this Boeing 707-shaped craft down country roads at 60 mph, and caught up to it. It stopped, hovered, turned 180 degrees “on a dime,” and then flew back over us. A full Moon behind cloud cover produced a silver-screen effect, and we could make out its shape clearly well below the clouds.
A couple months later, that same airplane-like craft met me on my way home before sunset, and followed me home. It flew below 200 feet above ground at highway speeds.
The crafts occupant’s singled out Cornet for its performance, and allowed Cornet to photograph it so many times, indicates both intent and purpose. The military mindset does not include parading its top secret or new and advanced technologies before the public, let alone before an unsecured camera. Consequently, either this performance was for the purpose of a covert human experiment with a strong psychological objective or it was an overt non-human experiment with a strong awareness objective. The first explanation is easier for skeptics to accept, even if it is not strongly supported by the evidence. Whatever followed Cornet home that evening was not
a standard Boeing 707. The fact that it flashed its headlights and flew in front of Cornet seven times that evening certainly qualifies Cornet as the target of this performance. The energy patterns on its belly and the loops it performed before his camera indicate an exotic form of propulsion and lift. Its slow speed indicates that this AOP did not require wings to fly. Thus, its resemblance to a Boeing aircraft either indicates that this was an experimental aircraft using a new type of propulsion system, or that its resemblance was intended as camouflage or for deception.
: 23 June 1992. Time: 11:12 pm. Place: West Searsville Road next to the Wilde farm, northwest of Montgomery, NY. Witnesses: Bruce Cornet and five other people. On that night they witnessed a cigar-shaped craft possessing multicolored lights rising slowly and silently to the west of their location. This B&W photograph is the first of two taken of this AOP (Anomalistic Observational Phenomena) before it unfolded wings and turned on sound like that of a conventional jet.
Figure 3 the second of two time exposures showing the lights on a cigar-shaped AOP as wings unfolded, they moved apart, and the sound of a conventional jet was heard for the first time. The group of witnesses then jumped into their cars and gave chase down country roads, and caught up to this AOP after it stopped and hovered, apparently waiting for them. As they watched, this object, which now resembled an all black Boeing 707 without engines, swiveled around and flew over them back in the direction it came.
Was this the same AOP that followed Cornet home? These were the only two days Cornet saw this all black AOP that resembled a Boeing 707: Once on 23 June 1992 and again (seven times) on 24 September 1992.
Bruce was the Deputy Administrator of NIDs.
NIDS came out with a report leaning in favor of Black Triangles as being our military hardware. Bruce took reports on the phone of people seeing Black Triangles (BT) taking off from Naval and other military air bases. The Administrator Dr. Colm Kellener had made a map using only the NIDS database, and a statistically high percentage of BT sightings occurred between Air Force Bases. So he concluded that BTs are our technology.
But he needed to test his theory, and convinced Bigelow to purchase the Hatch and MUFON databases. When those data were included, a completely different picture emerged. At the May 2004 SSE Convention in Las Vegas, he gave a talk on his new results. He said the composite map falsified his original theory, and showed that BTs were too widespread to be only military craft. He even suggested we might be witnessing the First Wave of an alien invasion.
If you look at the attached graph, with the addition of the NUFORC database, it shows a rapid increase in BT sightings between 1997 and 2003, while sightings around Pine Bush N.Y. declined.
But since then other types of UFOs have been seen, and Filer’s Files indicate a significant increase in disc-shaped UFOs. So, is the BT threat over? I don’t know. Perhaps if the frequency of BTs during the first four years of the Millennium was part of a military experiment to see how people would react. Then their frequency dropped, because the experiment was over?
A friend at JPL tells me that the Secret Space Program (SSP) is real and has a budget dozens of times larger than that of NASA and JPL combined. He says there has been exponential progress in vehicular technology in the last 20 years. Could this in part explain our burgeoning National debt since 2000?
Question becomes: How much of the exponential rise in BT sightings is due to this technology, and why would black projects be surveying US cities and major highways (populated areas) using these platforms? Couldn’t the Intelligence Community do this the conventional way?
Examine the attached NIDS map and graph showing rapid increase in sightings since the Belgian encounters in 1989-1990.
So, if this is our technology, why was I given so many personal demonstrations between 1992 and 1997? Is the objective to convince people this new technology is not ours? Will our national adversaries buy that concept and deception also?
If this steady and dramatic increase in sightings since 1992 is because of our Visitors, what would be their objective or intent? Dr. Colm Kelleher (Administrator of NIDS) said at the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) convention in May 2004 in Las Vegas that this could be the first wave of an alien invasion. Might you agree? I don’t know what to think, but your contribution to documenting sightings around the country and world is very important. Keep up your efforts. I will help you however I can. Cheers, Bruce Cornet
Mars Tree Stump on Right
: Paranormal Crucible makes a hypothesis that this could be an ancient tree stump on Mars photographed April 2017. It’s a good assumption since NASA themselves said Mars was Earth-like when a solar explosion hit the planet, striping the atmosphere and oceans from its surface. Thanks to Scott C. Waring
Paranormal Crucible states: Intriguing object found by the curiosity rover, this time a possible tree stump. This object definitely looks out of place and in my opinion could be the petrified remnants of a Martian tree. Object is around 3 feet in height, and with numerous discoveries of plant and animal life on mars, it would be logical to assume, that a variety of tree either existed, or still exists on this enigmatic planet. Source NASA photo:
China Moves 150k Troops to North Korea Border
The North Korean propaganda outlet released a video showing a mock attack on the White House, declaring “the enemy to be destroyed is in our sights.” Images of the White House and aircraft carriers marked by cross hairs are shown in the 2½-minute video, released by the Meari, or Echo, website of North Korea.
It is not know how accurate the North Korean nuclear tipped missiles are and their range. Some intelligence indicates they could reach Hawaii or Alaska and hit the US carrier task force. The already precarious political situation surrounding the relationship between North Korea and the United States has once again become escalated, this time by China’s actions of moving 150,000 troops to the North Korean border.
The Chinese have stated that the move is in preparation for ‘unforeseen circumstances’, in other words in case a conflict breaks out between North Korea, and South Korea and the United States.
The question is whose side is China supporting in the possible conflict? Recent actions on both sides seem to suggest that a conflict is becoming inevitable, with China now adopting a new policy of economic sanctions against North Korea. Allegedly North Korean ships were turned back before arriving in China, worsening their isolation and economic problems further. While previous American regimes seemed happy to leave the Hermit nation to its isolation, Donald Trump seems more determined to remove the growing threat Kim Jong Un presents.
North Korean Anti-ship Missiles
This more aggressive and less tolerant stance from American can seemingly only have two conclusions. Either North Korea will have to back down and stop antagonizing the West for the seemingly little gain to themselves, or there will eventually be a conflict of some sort. The troops moving towards the border with China, anti-missile defense systems being transported into South Korea and warships being redeployed closer to the peninsula from the United States are all signs of the latter. North Korea would almost certainly be annihilated if they were ever to start a war with the US and South Korea. In a war artillery aimed at Seoul could cause heavy destruction
The United States and South Korea similarly have nothing to gain from a war with the North. http://www.disclose.tv/news/escalation_china_deploys_150000_troops_to_north_korean_border/138505
David Twichell We Are Not Alone.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, passed away on February 4, 2016. We were fortunate to have had him on this show on October 5, 2016. In honor of Dr. Mitchell, that interview will be re-aired on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 from 1-2 PM. Dr. Mitchell recounts his historic moon walk, family history and we are not alone in the universe. Remember after the broadcast this show is available as a podcast. Go to http://whfr.fm/: click on Talk Shows–Tuesday Forum–(select date).
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