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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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One very scary phenomenon that has captured the imagination, instilled fear, and generated a large amount of unsettling reports over the years is that of the menacing, extremely creepy Black Eyed Kids, also called simply BEKs, along with their counterparts the Black Eyed Adults. While each and every case is truly bizarre and unnerving, others go even farther, showing that not only are these mysterious entities good at scaring us, but that they on some occasions kill. Scattered amongst the many, many reports of encounters with Black Eyed Kids are those that seem to show a rather malevolent tendency for witnesses to meet with tragic misfortune and death, further casting a wicked shadow over them.
Black Eyed Kids have been reported for decades, and generally follow a certain frightening pattern. The children, usually in pairs but not always, appear mostly in rural or sparsely populated areas. They typically appear as normal children from afar, but a closer inspection will reveal that they have a sickly, pale pallor to them, and that their eyes are completely dark pools of black, without any discernible iris, akin to the eyes of a shark. Although the tales may vary in their details, these mysterious entities are almost always described as exuding an intense wave of dread and panic, and their eyes are said to have a certain disturbing, sinister, and hypnotic quality to them.
Almost every report of BEKs involve the children begging to be let into homes or vehicles. These requests often start out innocent and polite enough, usually innocently asking for a ride or to use a phone, but not surprisingly due to their off-putting black eyes and clinging aura of fear the homeowner or driver will be reluctant to comply. This will cause the strange kids to become increasingly demanding, desperate, and foul-tempered, sometimes even violent, such as banging or scratching on house or car doors. Some witnesses claim that the Black Eyed Kids have the ability to sow confusion and addle the minds of their victims, possibly to make them more suggestible and inclined to bend to their wishes. One commonality to every report is that they cannot force their way in unless specifically invited, and in most cases when the menacing children eventually give up and leave the victim is left exasperated, confused, and with the profound sense that they have just avoided some sort of dire fate.
While this may all seem terrifying enough, the victim is usually left in one piece and none the worse for wear, but this is not always the case, and some more chilling accounts seem to point to these enigmatic creatures having the potential ability to do great harm. For instance, there are reports that seem to answer the question of just what exactly happens if one is to actually give in to their demands and let them in. One such report was apparently e-mailed by a frightened woman in a quiet, rural town in Vermont to the website Week in Weird, in which she claims to have let the kids inside, with disastrous consequences.
The woman claimed that in 2015 she had been sleeping at home with her husband one night when there was a sudden, very loud knock on the front door of the small rural home at approximately 2 a.m. The woman at first thought it was possibly someone who had broken down or gotten stuck on the nearby unpaved road, as there was a snowstorm raging outside at the time. A look outside the window showed that the house’s motion triggered light was on and that there were indeed footprints in the snow, but there was no sign of any car on the road nor even any evidence that any had recently driven by.
The woman woke her husband and they went downstairs to investigate, where they saw that someone was casting a shadow from outside of the front door. Still thinking it was someone in trouble, they warily opened the door to see two young children of around 8 years of age, a boy and a girl, standing in the snow outside. The two children were described as not at all dressed for winter and sporting outdated, odd- looking haircuts, and both were gazing down at the ground. Interestingly, rather than worry for them and offer help, the couple immediately felt deeply unnerved and somewhat repulsed, and rather than letting them in out of the cold merely asked where their parents were, to which the two creepy kids replied “They’ll be here soon.”
Despite the unnerving quality of the kids and their odd demeanor, the woman and her husband nevertheless became convinced that they must have gotten lost in the woods, and considering that they were woefully inappropriately dressed for the increasingly frigid weather, the husband and wife guided them in out of the snowstorm despite a strong nagging instinct at the back of their minds not to do so. Once inside, the kids were prepared something hot to drink and asked about what had happened to them and where they had come from, but every question was responded to with the kids simply saying, “Our parents will be here soon.” The woman began to notice that their voices had a sort of strange melodic quality to them, and also that for such young children they seemed to be not perturbed or nervous in the slightest to be in a stranger’s house, which somehow added to a growing sense of menace and fear she was feeling. There was also the fact that the family’s cats, normally very friendly, were now hiding, and when she went to pet one of them it hissed and growled at her. The witness described what happened next thus:
When I walked back into the living room the kids were sitting on the couch as still as can be but my husband was holding his head in his hands. I asked him what wrong and he just said that he felt very dizzy all of a sudden but that he was fine. I turned back to the children to give them their cocoa, but when they looked at me I gasped. It took everything inside of me not to drop the mugs and run away. When they looked at me their eyes were completely black. They had no whites just giant black pupils.
When they saw that I was scared they stood up and asked if they could use the bathroom. I tried to be as composed as I could be and showed them down the hall. They went into the bathroom together and I hurried back to my husband to ask him if he had seen their eyes. He had seen them too and said that it looked like his brothers badly bruised eyes after a car accident. We were in the middle of talking about whose children they could be when my husbands nose started to bleed. He’d never had nosebleeds as long as I had known him. I just knew inside myself that this had something to do with the kids in the bathroom and I started crying while I ran to get [my husband] some tissues.
At this point the woman claims that the power in the house abruptly cut out left them in darkness, which provoked a short scream from the husband. She then ran back towards the living room and was startled to see the two kids standing motionless in the hallway. After a moment of heavy silence, one of the Black Eyed Children announced “Our parents are here,” after which they went to the front door, opened it, and walked back out into the snowstorm without closing it behind them. Looking outside, the woman could see through the snow a dark car out on the road with two tall men dressed all in black, who stared at the house before getting into their vehicle and driving off. The power would blink back on not long after.
Although this is already quite disturbing, things would only get worse for the couple. In the ensuing months three of their cats went missing without a trace and another was found one day dead in a pool of blood in the middle of the living room floor, apparently killed by some sort of massive internal hemorrhaging. Even worse, the husband became afflicted with constant mysterious nosebleeds and was also diagnosed with a rare form of very aggressive and terminal skin cancer. The woman herself also claimed that she was experiencing frequent nosebleeds that had no discernible cause as well as sudden spells of dizziness, and that her health had dramatically deteriorated since her meeting with the Black Eyed Kids. She ends the mail with a haunting message, saying:
I know that all of this is because I let the Black Eyed Children into my home. We’ve told everyone we could about the strange kids that showed up that night but no one else saw them and some laugh at how scared we were of the “Mennonite kids” but we know what we saw. I wish my husband had never opened the door. Feel free to publish this as a warning to others about the Black Eyed Kids. My advice would be to lock your doors, call the police, and wait for morning. Don’t make the same mistake that I did.
This particular report spurred other people to come in with their own reports of Black Eyed Kids causing physical harm or death. In one of the accounts, it is claimed that a friend had taken a road trip to Arcata, California to visit a friend and along the way he had stopped at a bar to have a drink before retiring to his hotel. While he was there, he allegedly struck up a conversation with an attractive woman working at the bar, who ended up inviting him back to her place at the end of the night. He ended up leaving his car there at the bar and going with the woman to her rather secluded house, which caused him to get a little nervous as he had no idea where he was and the area seemed rather remote and surrounded by wilderness.
Nevertheless, he went through with going into the residence and the two of them had sex. However, at some point during the night the man got up to go to the kitchen for a glass of water and claims that he saw several “small, frightening-looking children” milling about and wandering around aimlessly, and that he had been startled to see that they all had pitch black eyes. In the morning, the woman from the night before kicked the man out and made him walk the whole way back to where he had left his car. In addition to being quite understandably unsettled by the whole bizarre experience, the previously healthy and athletic young man then allegedly was diagnosed with severe bladder cancer and died within 6 months. According to the one who gave the report, the friend had insisted up to the end that the Black Eyed Kids he had seen and that mysterious woman, possibly their caretaker, had been to blame for his condition.
Black Eyed Kids have apparently been responsible for other mysterious deaths as well. In 1998 there was a report by a man named Jon Northwood, who claims that he was on his way to his car in a parking garage after a meeting, when one of the other men who had been at the meeting, named Doug, begged him to drive him around the block a few times. Jon asked Doug why he was so desperate to go drive around the block, to which the visibly shaken man claimed that there was a group of weird looking kids hanging around his own car and he wanted to go away until they left. Apparently they had asked for a ride earlier, but Doug had refused and they had not left since. Despite the oddity of his request, Jon let Doug in and when they approached the car in question there was indeed a group of three decidedly creepy looking kids milling about it dressed in what appeared to be gothic style clothing. There was also an abrupt feeling of stifling panic and irrational fear that overcame them, as if something terrible was about to happen.
Oddly, as they passed Jon claims that he had the sudden, uncontrollable compulsion to stop his car. When he did so, the youngest of the kids, a girl who appeared to be around 10 years old, came right up to the vehicle and said innocently “It’s scary out there all alone, and we just wanted a ride home.” It was at this point that they could see that the kids had eyes that were solid pitch black, which was jarring enough to snap Jon out of his trance. He launched into action, putting the car in reverse and reportedly sending the vehicle squealing back to get away from them as the kids gave chase. They sped through the parking garage and managed to make it to the first floor, where they allegedly found that one of the kids had inexplicably managed to make it there ahead of them. They managed to roar past the boy and go tearing off down the road, after which the strong sense of suffocating dread they had felt subsided.
A short while later, they got up the courage to go back and see if the kids were still there or not, and pleasantly found them to be nowhere to be seen. Doug thanked Jon and got into his car to head home, pulling out to drive off with Jon right behind him. At this point he claimed that the insidious sensation of menace came crashing down upon him once again, and when Doug rushed through a yellow light his car was apparently hit by a speeding truck, killing him. When Jon looked back he said he could see the three Black Eyed Children standing not far away in the shadows, as if watching the whole deadly spectacle.
Sometimes it’s not the Black Eyed Kids, but rather Black Eyed Adults that kill, and another witness claims that these entities killed her boyfriend. The woman, who calls herself Esme, claims that in 2012 she had been living in a rural part of Bristol, England with her boyfriend. One day she claims that they had headed out for work at around 10:30 a.m. and were walking along a secluded path when they came across 4 very odd looking people coming towards them. Three were very pale, with totally black eyes, and skin that “didn’t seem to fit them,” while another was reported as being a very beautiful black woman with normal eyes. One of them, a young man of around 18 years of age, was described as having a “troll-like underbite” with what looked like protruding fangs. Oddly, the strange group was managing to completely avoid stepping in any puddles from a recent heavy rain even without looking down at their feet. Esme would say of the surreal sight:
The troll-like teenager looked dead ahead with a really angry expression on his face, and the girl looked happy but vacant, like she was hypnotized, just staring into space walking in front of him. Their clothes were modern, waterproof coats and walking boots. Apart from the girl who wasn’t wearing walking boots like she’d intended to come to the woods, she was wearing flat pumps which nobody in their right mind would wear on that path in flood season. When they had passed us we looked at each other immediately and said at the same time, “that was so weird!”. We both felt the strangeness emanating off of them, like a total sense of foreboding.
Esme goes on to claim that exactly one year after this strange encounter, her boyfriend died by drowning in a flooded part of the river adjacent to the path they had been on. According to police, apparently the boyfriend had gone in to save a girl he called “Sally,” even though no one else was there. Some locals tried to help him, but he had purportedly refused to be rescued until he rescued the girl. He would eventually drown, and when authorities searched they found only one body and no sign of this “Sally” he had been looking for, concluding that he had probably hallucinated her since he was a known drug user. Was this a vision implanted in his head by those strange entities they had encountered the previous year or merely a drug-induced hallucination? We will probably never know.
What are the Black Eyed Kids and What do they want? There have been many ideas on their nature, such as that they are some sort of demons, aliens, ghosts, or even vampires. Others think they have a connection with the equally enigmatic Men in Black, perhaps even being their children, or that they are something else totally beyond our comprehension. Still others think it is all mere urban legend or spooky lore. No one really knows for sure, but one thing we do know is that creepy reports of encounters with the Black Eyed Kids keep coming in and show no sign of waning. As disturbing and freaky as many of these accounts are, it is interesting to note that sometimes they are even more threatening, leading to disease and death. We may never know just what lies behind the Black Eyed Kids phenomenon, but deadly accounts such as these show that if they are real then they are possibly even more sinister than they already seem.
In 1958, a rather atypical horror film appeared before moviegoing audiences. It featured no vampires, wolf men, or creatures strewn together from the parts of the deceased, brought back to life by mad science.
No, this monster was just a mound of carnivorous jelly from space… and the more it ate, the bigger it got.
The Blob, which features what is still regarded as one of the most unusual movie monsters of all time, tells the tale of an alien gob of jelly from space that begins to feed on the citizens of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, growing larger throughout the film. Originally titled The Molten Meteor, it is said that one of the film’s actresses, Kay Linaker, was overheard referring to the film’s extraterrestrial subject simply as, “the blob”, and apparently the name stuck.
But where, precisely, did the idea for the film come from?
According to Den of Geek, “Accounts seem to vary as to who came up with the idea for The Blob.” One story attributes its conception to Irvine H. Millgate, who according to Kim Newman, wanted to “make a movie monster that is not a guy dressed up in a suit… some kind of a form that’s never been done before.”
Or in the case of “The Molten Meteor”, perhaps something with no definite form whatsoever!
After several days of brainstorming, the idea finally emerged that a mineral that “can absorb your flesh” would be a good idea, and the rest, as they say, is history.
There is, however, an interesting real-life Fortean connection here, which bears remarkable similarity to the story outlined in The Blob and its successive remakes over the years.
In Welsh folklore, there had been an unusual phenomenon known as “pwdre ser” (meaning, essentially, “rot from the stars”). This, according to some accounts, was believed to be the literal star-stuff that fell to Earth after a meteor was seen streaking through the sky, after which a gelatinous slime would occasionally be found in fields amidst grass and undergrowth.
Star Jelly?
Reports of this “star slime” date back to at least the 14th century, and although many descriptions describe it as apparently being an earthly substance, in its various names it nonetheless appears to associate the the mystery jellies with shooting stars; English names used since the Middle Ages include star-falling (also “star-fallen”), star-jelly, star-shot, star-slime, star-slough, star-slubber, and star-slutch.
The unusual, and often sudden appearances of large amounts of “mystery slime” have been the stuff of Fortean fodder for decades, with a number of notable incidents involving strange deposits of slimy material of unknown origin over fairly large areas. Whether this is the same phenomenon as the “pwdre ser” of yore is uncertain, as many of the modern “slime rains” and other anomalous falls are often attributed to industrial activities in the general vicinity of the incidents.
One notable example occurred in 1979 near Frisco, Texas, when Sybil Christian found several purplish colored mounds of jelly on her lawn (interestingly, this discovery was made coinciding with the height of the Perseid meteor showers that year). The explanation behind the blobs on Christian’s lawn, it was believed at the time, lay behind a variety of caustic soda used to clean lead impurities at a battery processing plant nearby; however, some have contested this explanation, asking how mounds of the soda-byproduct would have made their way all the way from the factory outside town, and onto Christian’s lawn.
While even some of the more famous “mystery blob” reports like the Frisco, Texas incident appear to have been connected loosely with meteors, the question remains: did any of these real-life reports of “molten meteors” help inspire the making of The Blob?
According to a 2009 San Francisco Gate article, there is indeed a more definitive connection between the so-called “pwdre ser” and The Blob films:
Gelatinous meteors, also known as the Pwdre Ser phenomenon, are rare but not unknown. On September 26, 1950, Patrolmen John Collins and Joseph Keenan saw one of these things land at the corner of Vare Boulevard and 26th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The light-emitting blob was also observed by Sgt. Joseph Cook and Patrolman James Cooper and was seen oozing its way up a telephone pole. This incident became the basis for Steve McQueen’s 1958 horror movie, The Blob.
Although the article quoted here (featured as part of a regular column called “UFO Round Up”) was taken offline, an archived version can be found here.
If accurate, the incident it describes does seem to confirm what many suspected all along: that one of the weirdest sci-fi monsters of all time has further history in the annals of Ufology and Forteana. With little doubt, old Charles Fort himself probably would have found this little historical footnote rather amusing.
Spotting aliens can be tricky, but heading to the ET hot spots will give someone the best chance of getting a close encounter.
Some people would not want to meet extraterrestrials, but others consider reaching to beings beyond Earth a lifelong dream.
The following are places known for UFO sightings.
Area 51 in Neva, U.S.
Many UFO enthusiasts believe that the remains of a UFO involved in the famous Roswell Incident are hidden inside Area 51, a highly classified Air Force base.
The Nullarbor, Australia
Many travelers in this Australian Outback have claimed UFOs chased them while driving down the remote area’s empty roads.
The Molyobka Triangle in Russia
Also known as the M Triangle, the place is one of the UFO hotspots in the world with locals in the area have claimed to notice strange lights and symbols in the sky as well as seeing translucent beings. The M Triangle is located in the Ural mountains of Russia.
Roswell, New Mexico in the U.S.
UFO spotting has never been exciting than in Roswell for most alien enthusiasts. The site is where an alleged alien spaceship had crashed in 1947. Shady government officials allegedly transported the remains and debris of the incident to Area 51.
Warminster, England
The place boasts the mysterious stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge in Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. In the 1960s and 1970s, Warminster got the attention of the world when strange sounds were heard in the area. UFO fanatics from around the world visited the area, which has also become famous recently with unexplained crop circles.
El Enladrillado in Chile
After a flurry of alien sightings had taken place in El Enladrillado, Chile’s tourist board formed the first UFO trail of the country. The 30 km trail passes through the Andes, from where it spotted until it allegedly landed at El Enladrillado.
Wycliffe Well in Australia
Many called the Wycliffe Well as the UFO capital of Australia. Locals have been claiming to have spotted lights in the sky frequently.
Bonnybridge, Scotland
UFO experts have been calling the location of Bonnybridge as The Falkirk Triangle, which is located between Stirling, Fife and the outskirts of Edinburg. More than 300 sightings are reported each year around this area.
The US Military's Secretive X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts
The US Military's Secretive X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts
Credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Introduction
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane has been zipping around Earth since May 2015 while it performs a number of hush-hush activities. The current mission is the fourth for the robotic X-37B, which is also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). The other three OTV flights launched in April 2010, March 2011 and December 2012. Here are a few surprising facts about the military space plane.
Credit: Boeing
1. It's tiny
The X-37B looks a lot like NASA's iconic space shuttle, but the two types of vehicles don't resemble each other in size. The X-37B is just 29 feet (8.8 meters) long, with a wingspan of 15 feet (4.6 m). The now-retired space shuttle orbiters, by contrast, were 122 feet (37 m) long, and measured more than 78 feet (24 m) from wingtip to wingtip. Two X-37Bs could fit inside the shuttle's cavernous payload bay. Indeed, the X-37B's designers originally envisioned the shuttle carrying the smaller space plane to orbit but ultimately decided that launching the X-37B atop a rocket would be more economical. The X-37B currently rides to orbit aboard United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket. Like the space shuttle, the X-37B lands on a runway, plane-style, but does everything autonomously (in contrast to the piloted shuttle, which usually carried a crew of seven astronauts).
Credit: United Launch Alliance/Boeing
2. Its missions are classified
Although the Air Force has disclosed some of the payloads that have flown to orbit on the X-37B, most of the space plane's onboard gear is classified, as are the details of its orbital activities. This secrecy has led to some speculation that the vehicle is some sort of space weapon, perhaps one designed to take out or capture satellites. However, the Air Force has always denied this notion, insisting that the X-37B is just testing out technologies for future spacecraft, and carrying various experiments up to space and back. Some of these technologies being tested may be sensors and other equipment for future spy satellites, outside experts have said.
Credit: Boeing
3. It has NASA roots
The X-37 program started in 1999 with NASA, which initially planned to develop two separate vehicles: an Approach and Landing Test Vehicle (ALTV), and an Orbital Vehicle (OV). But NASA transferred X-37 development to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2004, at which point it became a classified program. In 2006, the Air Force announced it would develop its own X-37 vehicle, which it dubbed the X-37B, or OTV. The design of the space plane was based heavily on the original OV, which was never built. (DARPA did construct and test the ALTV, however.) Boeing has been the primary contractor for the X-37B program dating back to its inception in 1999. To date, the company has apparently built two X-37B space planes for the Air Force. (Two different vehicles have flown the program's four space missions.)
Credit: United Launch Alliance
4. The missions are incredibly long
The Air Force's X-37B fact sheet states that the space plane is designed to spend up to 270 days in orbit at a time. However, the vehicle has already zoomed past that limit multiple times. The first X-37B mission, known as OTV-1, stayed aloft for just 225 days. But OTV-2 and OTV-3 lasted 469 days and 674 days, respectively. OTV-4 circled Earth for a record-shattering 718 days before it landed on May 7, 2017. This longevity may be a key part of the X-37B. After all, engineers testing technologies for future satellites want to see how this gear behaves in the space environment for long periods of time, experts have said.
Credit: Kevin Fetter
5. You can see it from the ground
Though the Air Force doesn't disclose the X-37B's precise orbit, keen-eyed amateur astronomers have managed to track the vehicle from the ground — and so can you, thanks to their efforts. Check out Space.com’s satellite tracker to see where the X-37B is overhead during a mission. The view won't be dramatic; the space plane usually looks like a star of middling brightness moving across the sky.
Credit: AIAA/Grantz/Boeing
6. Future versions might be coming
The current version of the X-37 may not be the last to reach space. In 2011, Boeing representatives announced that they were considering developing a larger variant called the X-37C, which could carry up to six astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). In addition, an engineering team led by former NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson has proposed using a modified version of the X-37B as an ISS emergency-evacuation vehicle. But this is just a concept at the moment, and there's no indication that Boeing is investigating this "astronaut ambulance" variant.
Big Milestones for SpaceX, Cassini and Virgin Galactic: The Week's Top Space Stories
Big Milestones for SpaceX, Cassini and Virgin Galactic: The Week's Top Space Stories
By SPACE.com Staff
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-76 spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 1, 2017.
Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX successfully launched its first national-security mission (and landed the rocket to boot), Virgin Galactic's new SpaceShipTwo tested its "feathering" re-entry system for the first time, and NASA's Cassini probe made a surprising discovery at Saturn. Here are the most interesting things that happened in the universe this week.
SpaceX launches first mission for U.S. military
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday (May 1) to boost a classified spy satellite into orbit for the U.S. military — the first national-security mission for SpaceX. The rocket's first stage then turned around and touched down at a nearby landing pad. [Full Story: SpaceX Launches US Spy Satellite on Secret Mission, Nails Rocket Landing]
New SpaceShipTwo tests out re-entry system for first time
Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo took to the skies over Mojave, California on Monday (May 1) for the first test flight of the craft's atmospheric re-entry system, which was modified after a fatal test flight in 2014 destroyed the original ship. [Full Story: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes 1st Test Flight of Revamped Re-Entry System]
Cassini finds the gap between Saturn and its rings is eerily silent
Researchers monitoring the Cassini spacecraft were surprised to find almost no dust and debris in the previously unexplored zone between Saturn and its rings during the spacecraft's first dramatic dive through the 1,200-mile-wide (2,000 kilometers) gap. You can hear the strange lack of impacts in a new NASA video. [Full Story: Hear Saturn's 'Big Empty' from Cassini, Which Just Made 2nd Ring Dive]
The Breakthrough Starshot project aims to send tiny robotic probes zooming past nearby alien worlds to hunt for signs of life and gather other data. But the scientific return would be even greater if some of the fast-moving 1-gram spacecraft actually slammed into their target worlds, some researchers said. [Full Story: Kamikaze Starshot: Will Some Interstellar Probes Slam into Their Target Planets?]
A long-overdue fiscal year 2017 spending bill unveiled May 1 will provide NASA with $19.65 billion, more than $600 million above the original request for the agency by the previous administration. [Full Story: NASA Receives More Than $19.6 Billion in 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill]
Why 'Star Wars' still has a hold on us 40 years later
A long, long time ago — 40 years ago this month, actually — an initially small group of theatergoers was transported to a galaxy far, far away, heralding the birth of the "Star Wars" universe. [Full Story: Why the Force Is Still Strong with 'Star Wars' Fans]
As Star-Lord and his team head to the big screen this weekend to guard a galaxy in the Marvel universe, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope remind us that there are far more galaxies in our own universe without any superheroes to protect them from villains. [Full Story: Paging Star-Lord! Hubble Spies Hundreds of Galaxies That Need Guarding]
Vorig jaar augustus werd in het Engelse graafschap Wiltshire bij het plaatsje Ansty misschien wel één de mooiste graancirkels ooit ontdekt.
Geeft deze cirkel ons de boodschap dat de wederkomst van Jezus aanstaande is en dat hij zal arriveren met een ruimteschip?
Van de ene op de andere dag verscheen er een complexe cirkel waar tot op de dag van vandaag mensen proberen een uitleg aan te geven.
De cirkel zag er als volgt uit.
Natuurlijk is er nog een deel van de bevolking die gelooft dat dit soort complexe constructies midden in de nacht ongezien worden gemaakt door mensen met plankjes onder de voeten die niets beters te doen hebben.
Anderen zien het als constructies gemaakt door buitenaardsen en dan vooral met een bepaalde bedoeling, namelijk dat ze ons een boodschap willen geven.
De kunst is om die boodschap eruit te halen en wij hebben gevraagd aan onze trouwe lezer en occult specialist Bert wat zijn gedachten waren/zijn bij het zien van deze cirkel.
Hierna volgt wat hij denkt dat de cirkel betekent (dank Bert!):
Wat mij direct opviel was de ogenschijnlijk metatron cube.
Als je er rustig naar kijkt ontvouwt de cubus zich, je ziet dit ook bij de hoge luchtfoto van de graan cirkel. Waar staat de metatron cube voor?
BALANCING ENERGY
The cube is an image of God's energy flowing through Metatron to all the many parts of creation, and Metatron works hard to ensure that the energy flows in the proper balance so that all aspects of nature will be in harmony, believers say.
"Metatron’s Cube helps us realize the harmony and balance of nature," writes VanDen Eynden in "Metatron." "Since it depicts an equilibrium in the six directions represented within it. ... Metatron’s Cube can be used as a visual focal point to connect with the archangel, or it can be used as a concentration tool for meditations that promote peace and balance. Place an image of the cube anywhere you wish to be reminded of the archangel’s loving, balancing presence."
Velen zeggen dat de archangel niemand minder is dan Enoch en dat hij metatron is.
Nu hebben we nog de drie grote en drie kleine bladeren die in feite boven op de metatron cube liggen. Dit kan de representatie zijn van de waarheid, de vorm van de bladeren is in het verlengde van de link zeer interessant, de vorm geeft namelijk aan dat het om groen gekleurde bladeren gaan, duidelijk aangegeven in het verhaal van de link.
We zijn nu aan gekomen bij de twintig "symbolen", sla ik eerst over.
De buitenste ring telt 33 afzonderlijke streepjes, misschien een tijdsaanduiding, 33 jaar. Het kwaad gebruikt de 33 zeer veel, free masons en noem maar op. Dit doen ze omdat Jezus 33 jaar is geworden. Volgens mij hebben jullie er zelfs een artikel over geschreven. In het geval van deze graancirkel neig ik naar het positieve. Op de een of andere manier heb ik bij graancirkels altijd het gevoel dat dit de goeie rikken zijn. Dit is hun enige manier dat ze met ons kunnen en mogen communiceren en dan ook nog op een wijze alsof je een puzzel aan het oplossen bent. In deze context kunnen de 20 symbolen staan voor 20 verschillende namen voor Jezus.
Samenvattend:Ik zie de fig tree in bloei en de metatron cube staat voor een van de twee getuigen, beschreven in de bijbel, die in de laatste generatie terug zal keren naar de aarde. Het is Enoch. De andere getuige is Mozes, zij zijn namelijk de enige mensen die hebben gewandeld met God. De graancirkel geeft aan dat de second comming aanstaande is en ik schrik er niet van dat dit ruimte schepen zullen zijn waar Jezus uit komt. Het nieuw Jeruzalem is niets anders dan een hele grote gouden kubus.
Gek verhaal?! Twee dagen geleden heeft de band Imagine dragons een nieuw nummer gelanceerd, Thunder, Als je de clip ziet valt je bek er weer bij open. De drie lichtstralen brengen de drie "unclean spirits who look like frogs" naar de aarde. Dit is het kwaad wat ons verteld dat de tijd bijna is aangebroken. Het is allemaal een stom spelletje en onze ziel is de inzet.
We vroegen hem vervolgens naar naar de tekentjes (20 stuks) in de buitenring, waarop het volgende kwam.
Loop nog tegen een hele goede clip over the metatron cube. Bij 3.40 komt naar mijn mening ons antwoord op de 20 symbolen, ze vormen tezamen de icosahedron. de 20 cornerstones.
Het draait uiteindelijk om de creatie van alles.
Heeft dat niet met de bladeren in de graancirkel te maken ook denk je? Refererend aan die sequence.
Dat van de fibonacci sequence is heel goed mogelijk en mijn uitleg vloeit vaak voort uit een gedeelte parate kennis en een gedeelte op gevoel in welke richting ik het moet zoeken. Uiteindelijk zie ik natuurlijk iets vanuit mijn perspectief. Een ander kan er misschien wel weer heel andere zaken in zien. Ik begin nu wel steeds meer in te zien dat de spirituele wereld zoveel groter is dan onze zichtbare wereld. Ik schrik er niet van dat het universum een ontwerp is van uit de vijfde dimensie.
Fijne dag en nog bedankt voor de graancirkel, ze zijn voor mij nog een van de weinige dingen die een positieve boodschap brengen en dat zegt ook weer heel veel over onze realiteit. En dan als laatste toevoeging:
In Londen zien we nu een 1 miljard dollar kostende Amerikaanse ambassade en je raad nooit hoe het eruit ziet. Dit is de satanische elite die juist weer misbruik maken van de geheime geometry. Een enorm glazen kubus geplaatst in een cirkel, hetzelfde als de graancirkel van gisteravond.
Last week, we told you about the secret tunnels on the moon. Is it possible that aliens built these structures? Secureteam10, a YouTube channel that discusses UFOs and other alien-related phenomena, seems to think so.
And now this popular conspiracy theorist believes that there are UFOs flying over France. One of his many followers emailed him a video of the sighting.
It appears to be a cigar-shaped spaceship with blinking beams of light. Tyler Glockner, the man who runs the channel, posted a video discussing the sighting. Then Glockner posted a follow-up video to about the similarities between the sightings in France and two other countries.
Watch the video for yourself below (or click here to see it). Do you think it's a hoax or something else?
As Glockner stated, the 2010 incident in China shut down an airport. Some Chinese people believe it was a U.S. missile or some other man-made device. The media picked up the story but the investigations didn't provide conclusive answers. The sighting in Austrailia was a report from 2014 that Glockner posted when he started the channel.
What do you think? You have to admit, the structures that flew over France, China and Austrailia all look very similar. Is this a sporadic hoax that has been going on for the past seven years? Or are these actual sightings of aliens?
This large fish may have been a visiting alien species that wanted to mingle with a species similar to its own, only to get caught and eaten as food. The species has a sign of intelligences...tattoos covering 100% of its body. Normal non intelligent animals do not. I can see fern like designs, and a shield and a strange creature on top. This style of design if more European than the tribal designs of the Philippines. The shield and creature is like a coat of arms, which identifies the honor of the family and what its famous for. Below these coat of arms are usually latin and yes, the writing below does have similarities to ancient lateen (the backwards E). Also note, the creatures head is at the top of the shield, its hind quarters like a lion on the right side of the top of the shield, its two hands and arms...one on each side of the shield...as indicated in the photo directly below.
Sadly, if this was an intelligent alien visiting Earth, its first contact with humans didn't end well. Aqua intelligent species would be very difficult for humanity to communicate with, let alone believe in, but they do exist. Stories of mermaids almost a thousand years old? Stories that last the test of time, always have some truth too them. Scott C. Waring
News states: A fish with strange yet intricate tattoo designs in its body was found by the fishermen in Mindanao. TATTOO – A fish was discovered by the fishermen of Mindanao and found out that there were strange and bizarre tattoos on its body. Accordingly to the post of GMA News on their Facebook page, the fish was caught by the fishermen from Lopez Jaena in Misamis Occidental. The photo of the strange fish went viral and sparked different theories and conclusions from the people of the online community. Whatever may the reason be as to how the fish got the design on its body, nobody knows. But maybe, it is a sign perhaps that something is wrong with our ocean.
Sky Cam Records UFO Over Maryland On May 2, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Sky Cam Records UFO Over Maryland On May 2, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 2, 2017
Location of sighting: White Hall, Maryland, USA
Source: MUFON #83582 This UFO was seen on a sky cam and it was seen for over 5 minutes. Such sky cams are extremely good tools for observing to see if there is a UFO in the frame. I too go through live sky cams, as I did this morning, looking for UFOs. Its fun, its easy, and sometimes you get lucky. Not to mention, you can be in a 100 different places in just a few minutes. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Viewed object in 2 frames spanning a 5 minute period, so it was not a plane. One frame shows that it was reflecting light. This sky cam has been offline since seeing this object.
Some conspiracy theorists claim UFOs exit the ocean from undersea bases.
UFO investigators are now calling for more witnesses to come forward after the shock report was made to a specialist organisation.
The UFO sighting allegedly happened last Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles southeast of New Orleans, and reported two days later.
The report was made to the US-based National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), which keeps a database of sightings and investigates cases.
One unnamed crew member, who was the chief engineer of the OSV, said the UFO was five times bugger than the 240 feet oil rig supply ship they were on.
The report said: "At close to 7pm on March 21, just before dusk, myself and four of the crew members aboard our vessel saw a craft that appeared to be five times our 240 feet vessel in length.
A NUFORC spokesman said: "We spoke via telephone with this witness, and he seemed to us to be unusually sober-minded.
“We suspect that he is a very capable, and very reliable, witness. He estimates that upwards of perhaps 50 people, who were aboard nearby vessels, may have witnessed the event, as well.
"We would urge those other witnesses to submit reports of what they had witnessed.”
Many conspiracy theorists claim that aliens do visit Earth and have secret undersea bases for their flying saucers.
No firm evidence for this being the case has come forward.
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UFO Photographed Hovering Over Statue of Liberty in New York
UFO Photographed Hovering Over Statue of Liberty in New York
Speculation of an alien arrival resembling an Independence Day movie came to life after an image surfaced online showing an alleged UFO hovering above one of the famous landmarks in the world – Statue of Liberty.
The image seemingly shows a glowing disc emitting light.
An unnamed witness who was onboard a boat passing through the Hudson River reportedly taken the picture on Wednesday afternoon.
As the image was taken through a window, experts suggest that the UFO could be just a reflection of light on glass, meaning there was nothing outside the window.
Suspected UFO photographs have often been linked to reflections of lights on glass, especially when the photographer admitted that they saw nothing at the time of taking pictures. The photographers often say they only noticed alien UFOs when reviewing the photos.
In this case, the photographer did not notice the strange object until later that day when he looked back on their pictures.
However, many UFO enthusiasts don’t want to accept the explanation. They believe it was a visit by space alien tourists who wanted to see several American traditions. Others were amazed to know that USAF jets did not intercept the massive object hovering over New York. They suggested it only indicates that most army radars are not designed to detecting the aliens.
VIDEO SHOWS HORROR VISION OF OUR FUTURE DOMINATED BY AN AI MILITARY ARMY
VIDEO SHOWS HORROR VISION OF OUR FUTURE DOMINATED BY AN AI MILITARY ARMY
A video has been released for the Lukas Haas and Michelle Rodriguez movie with the name of 2031. The Movie takes on a militant robot uprising. But as automation technology and AI advance, could this be the harrowing future that Earth is heading towards?
WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT ROBOTS TAKE OVER THE WORLD BY 2031?
This is the age of automation and artificial intelligence and robots have been known to take over the jobs of people and leave them redundant. By 2030 it has been suggested that millions of jobs may be automated, leaving people out of work, but 2031 The Movie highlights other fears, the existence of humans.
The trailers opening scenes reveal that 1 in 50 soldiers in Afghanistan are automated in 2031 and this gives hints about the prevalence of artificial intelligence in society and more to the point, the warfaring capabilities of robots with artificial intelligence.
A FUTURE THAT IS HARROWING MAY BECOME REALITY
In the short film Lukas Haas and Michelle Rodriguez, perhaps better known for her role in the Fast and Furious movie, get together to help to put an end to the eradication of humanity, Rodriguez plays an ex-solider, while Haas plays an engineer. The pair has to work side by side to make use of the information they have to ensure that the world is not taken over by robots.
The video does paint a picture of a future of Earth where artificial intelligence in robots are not just replacing jobs of checkout clerks, lawyers, and business professionals, in the future they are an oppressive mechanical force that is superior to human beings that makes organic humans obsolete. It is a harrowing vision of what Earth might look like in 2031 as technology, and in particular, artificial intelligence is fast improving and getting better.
2031 The Movie shows robots, very similar to those envisioned in The Terminator movies, walking around the streets with guns tackling crime. They are positioned on street corners and walking among the general public when the robots begin behaving strangely, shooting down a helicopter. Once again Rodriguez takes on a tough girl image, being an ex-solider, to take on the artificially intelligent robots, which come in all shapes and sizes, from totally eradicating human beings on planet Earth. It is food for thought, is this how the world will end when humans have designed the technology to give life to the robots, will they wipe out their creators and take over?
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ACTA ASTRONAUTICA: 'WE ARE NOT READY FOR CONTACT WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE'
ACTA ASTRONAUTICA: 'WE ARE NOT READY FOR CONTACT WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE'
Are humans ready to make contact with alien intelligence?
Project scientists at SETI are known for tracking what may be extra-terrestrial signals, but now it looks as though they are thinking about sending messages to aliens and giving them the position of humans of Earth. But are humans ready for making contact with aliens?
RESEARCHER ASKS STUDENTS WHETHER THEY ARE READY TO GREET ALIEN LIFEFORMS
One researcher from the Spain’s University of Cadiz has questioned the idea after gathering results from a survey taken by students at the University, which revealed ignorance in general about the cosmos along with the influence of religion when it comes to dealing with these matters.
The SETI project, Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence was an initiative that started out in the 70s after funding was given from NASA. Today it has evolved to the collaboration of many millions of users on the internet for processing data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, home to the space tracking.
STEPHEN HAWKING WARNS OF RISKS OF SENDING OUT EARTH INVITATION TO ALIENS
The project is controversial. However, members want to go a step further and not only search for possible signs of extra-terrestrial life but send messages out from Earth to try to find possible alien civilizations. Stephen Hawking, astrophysicists, has warned about the risks of making such a search poses for humanity, as it may favor any arrival of aliens with technology that is advanced and dubious intentions.
Gabriel G. De la Torre, a professor at the University of Cadiz, has analyzed the sociological and ethical implications of the proposal to send out a signal telling alien lifeforms where Earth and humans are located. He asked if a decision such as this could be taken on behalf of the planet. He went on to ask what might happen if it was a success and alien life did receive the signal, would the people on Earth be ready for contact.
STUDY REVEALED HUMANS ARE NOT READY FOR CONTACT WITH ALIENS
The professor wrote and sent out a questionnaire to 116 university students of American, Spanish and Italian origin. The survey looked into their knowledge of astronomy along with levels of perception of the physical environment, the opinions of the place that things occupy in the cosmos along with religious questions. One question posed asked whether the students believed that God had in fact created the universe and the likelihood that humans could contract alien lifeforms.
The results, published in the journal ‘Acta Astronautica’, from the study suggested that humans are not ready to contact an extra-terrestrial civilization as they lack knowledge along with being unprepared. Due to this SETI researchers have been recommended to look for different strategies.
“This pilot study demonstrates that the knowledge of the general public of a certain education level about the cosmos and our place within it is still poor. Therefore, a cosmic awareness must be further promoted – where our mind is increasingly conscious of the global reality that surrounds us – using the best tool available to us: education,” De la Torre emphasised. ”In this respect, we need a new Galileo to lead this journey”.
It was said that the pilot study had shown that the general public’s knowledge of a certain education level when it came to the cosmos and the place of humans within it, was poor. Cosmic awareness needs to be promoted further where the human mind is conscious of the global reality that is surrounding us, using the best tool that is available, which is education De la Torre said.
It was found from the questions asked, which are going to be made available for everyone on the internet, that university students along with the rest of society, on the whole, lacks awareness about astronomical aspects, despite the progress of technology and science of today. It was said that many people think about the subjects based on religious beliefs and they may reply on politicians if there was a big crisis on a global scale that needed resolving.
So it does look like the people on Earth are not ready to welcome alien civilizations with open arms, even if SETI were to find them.
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NASA May Have Found Alien Life in Our Own Solar System
NASA May Have Found Alien Life in Our Own Solar System
NASA recently announced there could be alien life in our own solar system. Their space craft Cassini recently gathered data on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s 62 moons, and was able to confirm that its icy oceans contain all the necessary ingredients that allow the formation of life.
Een experimenteel Amerikaans ruimtetoestel is vandaag na bijna twee jaar geland in Florida. De onbemande Boeing X-37B bracht ruim 700 dagen door in een baan om de aarde, waar het een geheime missie uitvoerde.
Het toestel, dat oogt als een kleine versie van een spaceshuttle, landde bij het Kennedy Space Center.
De ongeveer 9 meter lange X-37B bracht niet eerder zoveel tijd door in de ruimte. De langste van drie eerdere missies met zo'n onbemande mini-shuttle duurde 22 maanden.
Het ruimtetoestel van de luchtmacht is met raadsels omgeven. Zo is onduidelijk wat voor prijskaartje aan de X-37B hangt. De luchtmacht stelde zondag in een e-mail dat de toestellen onder meer kunnen worden gebruikt om ruimtevaarttechnologie te testen.
De Verenigde Staten beschikken over twee van de onbemande toestellen, die zijn ondergebracht in hangars die ooit werden gebruikt voor spaceshuttles. De luchtmacht is van plan later dit jaar weer een X-37B de ruimte in te sturen.
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Take a look at pictures from some of India’s most iconic UFO sightings
Take a look at pictures from some of India’s most iconic UFO sightings
Over the Taj Mahal, along a coastal road, in Ladakh - India has a dramatic and much-debated history of Unidentified Flying Objects.
UFO sightings in India are more sporadic than in the US, but we still have iconic images such as this one taken near the Taj Mahal in Agra. “We don’t know who clicked the Taj Mahal photo, but it’s become famous in Indian UFOlogy circles,” says Hitesh Yadav, 21, a BTech student from Gurgaon, an active UFO investigator and editor of UFO Magazine India.
Over the Taj Mahal, along a coastal road, in Ladakh - India has a dramatic and much-debated history of Unidentified Flying Objects. Here’re some eerie examples:
The unidentified object spotted in Banswara, Rajasthan, in 2008. Eight locals reported seeing an unfamiliar craft in the afternoon sky. They described the UFO as a hat-shaped object with a bright underlight.
A photograph taken in Kannur, Kerala, by Divya Sebastian and army officer Major Sebastian Zachariah, while on vacation.
In 1964, Billy Meier – one of the world’s most infamous UFO researchers – travelled to India and shot a series of photographs that allegedly show UFOs over Delhi’s skies. Above are three of them.
Technology is now aiding the search for answers. Some ufologists are using satellite imagery, apps and online tools to zero in on odd phenomena, such as these ‘urban crop circles’ in Tirrupur, Tamil Nadu.
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25 Space Conspiracies That Just Won't Die - PART I
25 Space Conspiracies That Just Won't Die - PART I
Credit: NASA/Getty
INTRO: Space Conspiracies
On the internet, you need to be a skeptical reader these days. Claims of aliens and UFOs, Mars being abnormally big, or the moon turning green are the kinds of things you should check out carefully. Here are some of the biggest space myths that just won't go away.
Credit: NASA
1. The Apollo moon landings were faked.
Twelve NASA astronauts walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has since released new photos of the landing sites. In the decades since Apollo 11 astronauts first set foot on the moon, many theories have been put forward claiming that the whole Apollo program was staged. Why are there no stars in the sky in the moonwalkers' photos? Why are the U.S. flags fluttering on the surface? Why do you see footprints in the pictures, but no marks from the lunar modules that landed there?
The answers to those questions are simpler than you may think. There are no stars in the sky for the same reason you don't see stars during the day on Earth: The bright glow of daylight on the surface washes them out. U.S. flags planted into the lunar soil had metal rods sewn in them to appear as though they were moving. Without these wires, the flag would have hung straight down, making for a pretty lackluster photo prop. And the lunar modules, though heavier, didn't put prominent marks in the surface in some places because their mass was more evenly distributed than the astronauts' weight was in their boots. [Top 10 Apollo Hoax Theories]
Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
2. NASA is a lie.
Some folks actually believe NASA's whole function is not to explore space, but to generate space-related hoaxes. (The Apollo moon landing is a famous example that we'll explore in the next slide.) People who believe this conspiracy, sometimes flagged with the hashtag "#NASAhoax" on social media, will say that amazing space pictures of Mars, Pluto and even Earth are fake, computer-generated imagery (CGI). [Video: NASA Employees 'Welcome' You to the Space Agency]
In reality, NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes," according to the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, which then-president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law shortly after the start of the space race against the Soviet Union. Since then, NASA has launched hundreds of satellites into orbit around Earth, the moon and several other worlds. In fact, NASA spacecraft have orbited, flown by or landed on every planet in the solar system. NASA also sends astronauts into orbit, where they conduct research at the International Space Station (ISS).
Not convinced? Try watching a rocket launch for yourself, or see the space station and other satellites with your own eyes with the help of a satellite tracker.
Credit: NOAA/NASA
3. The Earth is flat.
This myth is so popular that there is even a group named after it: the Flat Earth Society. Members of the organization argue that the horizon is always at eye level, which they say would not be possible if the Earth were round. They also say there is no full movie of the Earth rotating from space — which is not true, as NASA has published multiple videos taken from satellites, including a live video of Earth from the ISS, which orbits our planet 16 times per day.
One way of demonstrating to yourself that the Earth is round is to consider how orbits of satellites work. Satellites constantly "fall" around the Earth as they are pulled around by our planet's gravity; they just need to be traveling fast enough at a high enough altitude to not slam into the atmosphere. Or, you can look at the amazing pictures taken by astronauts at the ISS.
In April 2016, the New York Post tweeted, "A newly discovered planet could destroy Earth as soon as this month." The newspaper was referring to Planet Nine, a theoretical planet at the edge of the solar system. An accompanying video also claimed that the new planet would be throwing all sorts of asteroids and comets at Earth, which would supposedly end up pummeling our planet.
Although the planet's existence has not been confirmed, astronomers are actively looking for it to explain motions of some objects in the icy Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy objects beyond Neptune. If the planet is actually found, the California Institute of Technology's Mike Brown (who is one of the original backers of the Planet Nine theory) says the planet will pose no threat to us.
The 1996 movie "Independence Day" is one of the sources of the Area 51 hoax, which claims that aliens and their technology — recovered from crashed flying saucers — are being studied secretly at a classified military base about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas in the Nevada desert. Some people in the area around the base claim that they have seen strange flights out of this area.
While Area 51's true focus is classified, the U.S. government has acknowledged its existence (although the CIA officially calls it "Homey Airport" or "Groom Lake"). A part of Edwards Air Force Base, the area was a known location for high-technology airplane flights in the 1960s and 1970s. It first served as a proving ground for Lockheed U-2 and A-12 OXCART spy planes as early as 1955. UFO sightings reported in the area were indeed unidentified objects, but only because the planes were top-secret — not because they were flown by aliens.
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6. There is a killer planet known as "Nibiru."
Conspiracy theorists say another dangerous planet is Nibiru, which was first mentioned in the 1976 book "The Twelfth Planet," by Zecharia Sitchin. In the book, Sitchin translated ancient Sumerian cuneiform and claimed that the text is proof of a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru that orbits the sun every 3,600 years.
Years later, self-proclaimed psychic Nancy Lieder claimed to have communicated with extraterrestrials who said Nibiru would collide with Earth in 2003. When that didn't happen, the date was moved to 2012 (and linked, of course, with the 2012 doomsday predictions). Of course, the collision never occurred, the world didn't end in 2012 and no astronomer has ever found a planet on a collision course with Earth.
Credit: NASA
7. There is a face on Mars.
In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft took a picture of what appeared to be a face on Mars. Immediately, some people said there must have been aliens on the Red Planet that left that face behind as evidence of their existence. NASA, however, pointed out that the suspected face is really just a pile of rocks casting shadows that resemble face-like features.
NASA followed up with better-resolution pictures taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Mars Global Surveyor in 1998 and 2001, respectively. These new images made it quite clear that the "face on Mars" is nothing more than a trick of light and shadows on a completely normal Martian mound.
Credit: NASA
8. The moon Iapetus is an alien Death Star.
Iapetus is a moon of Saturn that looks somewhat like the infamous Death Star in the "Star Wars" franchise, with a large crater that resembles the fictional weapon's superlaser focus lens. The Death Star is a planet-killing machine that destroys entire worlds with its outrageously powerful laser. It was prominently featured in the 2016 movie "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," as well as in 1977's "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope."
A Daily Mail article published in May 2016 claimed Iapetus is an artificial object crafted by aliens. As "evidence," the article cited a photo taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2004. In the photo, there's a line around the moon's equator that resembles the equatorial trench around the Death Star. But this line isn’t nearly as interesting as the Death Star's trench, which houses the battle station's engines, thrusters and docking bays. That line is nothing more than a mountain ridge, and Iapetus is actually just made up of boring old rock and ice. Cassini has flown by the moon to take pictures several times without being blasted by deadly alien lasers.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University
9. Saturn's hexagon is alien technology.
Saturn's hexagon was first spotted when NASA's Voyager spacecraft flew by the giant, ringed planet in 1980. The bizarre, six-sided structure on the round planet's north pole caused quite the stir, because straight lines and polygons are not so common in nature.
Immediately after the Voyager returned its first images of Saturn's strange feature, even stranger theories arose to explain it, including that it was somehow related to alien technology, or perhaps even was a gateway to hell. The hexagon is not artificial, but rather a weird-looking hurricane at Saturn's pole. NASA has done several flybys of this region with the Cassini spacecraft, studying the haze particles and other features of the storm, to try to learn more about its weird properties.
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10. Mars is as big as the moon.
Originating in 2003, the infamous Mars hoax asserts that Mars was closer to Earth than it had been in the 60,000 years prior, and that the planet will appear as large as the full moon. What started out as a misconstrued email turned into a recurring rumor that gets reshared every August and, naturally, has spread to social media as it became more popular. [Quiz: Mars Myths and Misconceptions]
Although Mars is indeed relatively close to Earth in a cosmic sense, it will never be as large as the full moon. It will appear as a red dot in the sky, just as the ancient astronomers saw it. If you'd like to see Mars magnified, take out a telescope or look at one of NASA's spectacular Mars pictures.
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11. The moon will turn green.
In spring 2016, there was a rumor that the moon would turn green because several planets had aligned and caused an eerie glow. This was supposed to happen on April 20 and again on May 29 for the first time since 1596, the rumor alleged.
The moon never actually turned green, although it can appear red during a lunar eclipse, when the moon passes through Earth's shadow. In the same way sunsets often appear red, sunlight is scattered as it passes through Earth's atmosphere, casting a reddish shadow on the moon's surface.
Skywatching columnist Joe Rao debunked this green-moon myth. He pointed out that a full moon actually took place on April 22, 2016, and speculated that the April 20 date of the "green moon" might have to do with "National Weed Day," popularly known as 4/20. Considering that the last green moon supposedly happened 420 years ago as well, this doesn't appear to be a coincidence.
As we all know, Earth did not actually experience that much darkness that year. (The article claimed that the alleged darkness was partly due to a Jupiter-Venus conjunction, which actually took place more than 500 million miles apart.) Darkness occurs when the Earth rotates, causing the sun to "set" on the local horizon. Brief periods of darkness can also happen when the sun is totally obscured during total solar eclipses, which occur rarely in any particular spot on Earth. But even during an eclipse, Earth is never completely in the dark.
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13. Zero-gravity day will make you weightless.
If you ever wanted to leap into the sky and soar like Superman, this hoax is for you. In late 2014 and early 2015, a widely shared story claimed that on Jan. 4, 2015, everyone on Earth would experience weightlessness due to a rare alignment of the planets. A doctored image of a purported tweet from NASA's Twitter account that went around on social media fooled a lot of people into believing the hoax.
But, of course, nobody floated off the surface of Earth that day. Earth's gravity is too strong for people to become weightless. The only way to experience weightlessness without going to space is to ride aboard a plane that performs parabolas, with some including a few seconds of weightlessness. This is sometimes nicknamed the Vomit Comet.
14. Alien spacecraft caused a mysterious explosion.
Back in 2004, an expedition of Russian researchers working in Siberia claimed to have discovered "an extraterrestrial device" close to where the mysterious Tunguska explosion occurred. Scientists still aren't sure exactly what it was that blew up in the sky over Siberia that day in 1908, but the leading theory is that it was a large meteorite or an asteroid.
The Tunguska incident flattened hundreds of square miles of forest, and signs of the destruction were visible even decades afterward. At the time, news reports claimed that evidence of aliens was found at the site, but this claim was never substantiated. "The Russian team stupidly stated long before they went to Siberia that the main intention of their expedition was to find the remnants of an alien spaceship," Benny Peiser, a researcher at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K., told Space.com. "And bingo! A week later, that's what they claim to have found."
25 Space Conspiracies That Just Won't Die - PART II
25 Space Conspiracies That Just Won't Die - PART II
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INTRO: Space Conspiracies
On the internet, you need to be a skeptical reader these days. Claims of aliens and UFOs, Mars being abnormally big, or the moon turning green are the kinds of things you should check out carefully. Here are some of the biggest space myths that just won't go away.
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15. UFO was caught "refueling" at the sun.
NASA has a fleet of sun-gazing spacecraft that keep an eye on space weather, especially during solar eruptions. In 2012, telescopic images appeared to show something in the shadows. On YouTube, some viewers said this could be a UFO that was refueling by using the solar plasma.
However, NASA pointed out that the feature is actually something called a "prominence," which has cooler and denser plasma than the outer atmosphere of the sun, or the corona. Scientists are still trying to figure out how solar prominences develop, but they're pretty sure it has nothing to do with aliens.
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16. There is a ______ on Mars!
With NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity rovers regularly taking pictures of the Martian surface, viewers have the chance to check out what they're doing in almost real time. NASA puts the raw images online for the public to see. But over the years, some weird shapes have cropped up. In 2008, for example, the Opportunity rover appeared to photograph a female figure. Other photos have shown things shaped like animals, spoons or other items.
You can imagine that, with all of the rocks available on Mars, some of them would happen to look like familiar objects. In fact, the human brain tends to perceive meaningful images in random patterns — a phenomenon known as pareidolia.
When evaluating the claims, consider that the Martian environment is extremely harsh to life as we know it; the surface is baked with radiation, the "air" is mostly carbon dioxide and there's not much atmospheric pressure.
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17. I just saw a bright UFO!
It's a familiar trope for police stations and astronomy writers. From time to time, somebody will call (or write) in to say they just saw a UFO in the sky. They spotted a bright light around sunset, or saw a light moving around in an unfamiliar way.
While every situation is different, one common explanation for "UFOs" is actually another extraterrestrial object: Venus. Venus can be extremely bright when it's at its closest, because it's relatively near Earth. The planet is also extremely reflective because the sun's light bounces off the clouds. So before calling to say you've spotted a UFO, check your sky charts! [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]
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18. NASA can travel faster than light.
If you've seen the "Star Trek" clips that show the Enterprise spaceship warping into another sector, you might have wondered how fast NASA is making progress on being able to move at the speed of light. The EmDrive has created years of speculation, with some breathlessly saying NASA must be on the verge of breaking the famed barrier.
In reality, NASA is downplaying the reports. The engine in question is a prototype that is producing some interesting results, such as appearing to create thrust when there was no reason for this to happen – and thereby violating Newton's Third Law of Motion. That said, NASA has not yet verified the results from these tests, and the engine has not been widely discussed in peer-reviewed research. [Superfast Spacecraft Propulsion Concepts (Images)]
With the advent of high-resolution, miniature cameras, several people have decided to strap these cameras on to high-altitude balloons and take pictures from up high. They've caught glimpses of blackness and, at times, taken interesting tiny passengers along (such as these Lego pieces and a Canadian flag in 2012). So they must be in space, right?
There's no way a balloon can get into space, and simple physics explains why. When a balloon rises into the sky, the air inside will expand in response to the dropping atmospheric pressure and eventually pop. Even Felix Baumgartner's stunning high-altitude balloon jump in 2012 was not actually from space, but from the stratosphere, which extends to roughly 31 miles (50 kilometers) above the Earth's surface. At that altitude the air is thin enough to see the blackness of space, but thick enough to support special high-altitude balloons. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space is about twice as high as the upper limits of the stratosphere. [World View's Near-Space Tourism Balloon Rides in Pictures]
Credit: Tom Ruen, Eugene Antoniadi, Lowell Hess, Roy A. Gallant, HST, NASA
20. There are canals on Mars.
Author Percival Lowell became one of space's first popularizers when he wrote many books for the general public back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In these books and other writings, he said there were canals on Mars built by an intelligent civilization, perhaps to move water into desert-stricken areas. He claimed to have seen the canals in his own telescope, and produced several sketches that are still available on the internet today.
There are no artificial canals on Mars. Several spacecraft have flown by the planet or orbited it, and not one has caught signs of aliens from orbit. What they have seen, however, are smaller channels that were created by nature – likely from water, ice or other processes that cause erosion. [Photos: Water on Mars]
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21. A star is flinging comets at Earth.
A long-standing theory known as Nemesis supposes that there is some sort of "death star" on the outer edge of the solar system, whose orbital motions perturb comets in an icy region of objects known as the Oort Cloud. According to the myth, the star's gravity throws these comets toward the inner solar system, and these comets collide with Earth and cause mass extinctions once every 27 million years.
However, 2011 study concluded that this idea is unlikely, because the comet strikes in recorded history haven't happened with any regularity. The pattern that was recorded in the hoax is actually a statistical artifact, or the result of researchers trying to find patterns in nature where they do not exist, the study's authors found.
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22. There's life on Venus.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet Union sent several uncrewed missions to study Venus. Ten of these Venera probes landed on the surface of Venus and were able to transmit data and images for a few minutes before succumbing to the planet's extreme atmosphere. In 2012, the Russian news service RIA Novosti reported that Leonid Ksanfomaliti, a scientist who worked on the Venera missions, suggested that the photographs showed living objects moving around on the planet's surface. (RIA Novosti ceased operations in 2013.) [Photos of Venus, the Mysterious Planet Next Door]
These alleged life-forms on Venus are just an example of "letting your mind see patterns in low-resolution data that simply aren't real," Jonathon Hill, a research technician who processes images taken during NASA's Mars missions, explained to Space.com's sister site, LiveScience, in 2012. According to NASA, the objects that appeared to be moving were actually camera-lens covers that automatically popped off of the cameras after landing LiveScience reports. These half-circle objects were seen in images from Venera-13 and Venera-14, two identical spacecraft that landed about 590 miles (950 km) apart. Both had two identical cameras — one in the front and one in the back — so it makes sense that the covers would appear in different places. Another photograph that Ksanfomaliti said was a scorpion is actually a blur in the image.
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23. An asteroid is about to crash into Earth.
This recurring rumor claims that a threatening "doomsday" asteroid is about to slam into our planet. An example from 2015 had an asteroid purported to hit Earth in late September, when it would supposedly wreak devastation from its impact point near Puerto Rico. NASA quickly dismissed the reports — which turned out, as usual, to be false. But that's not to say that asteroids will never hit our planet.
NASA and a network of monitoring telescopes across the world are cataloging all known asteroids wider than 459 feet (140 meters) across in line with a 2005 congressional mandate. (Smaller asteroids, if found, are also cataloged.) Of the space rocks discovered so far, NASA has not found a single asteroid that has a high probability of hitting Earth in the foreseeable future. [Gallery: Potentially Dangerous Asteroids]
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24. Aliens landed in Roswell, New Mexico
On a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico, so the story goes, an alien spacecraft crashed in 1947. While the accounts of exactly what happen vary, the legend claims that a disc or some sort of spacecraft was found on a ranch, and that the government quickly covered up the evidence.
While rumors of aliens circulated, some people speculated that the crash was just a plain old weather balloon that might not have been recognized by the local community. The U.S. military has since acknowledged the "spacecraft" was actually a weather balloon sent aloft as part of Project Mogul, which involved flying microphones on high-altitude balloons to listen for sound waves generated by possible Soviet Union nuclear tests.
Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation
25. Climate change isn't real.
Earth is on an abnormal warming trend. Arctic ice is melting, the sea level is rising and temperatures are going to extremes in many locations around the world. Why is this happening? Anti-climate-change conspirators have many explanations: solar activity, radiation, the Earth's (and sun's) movements around the Milky Way, among other theories.
While there are many components of climate change, the fact that humans have contributed to it is indisputable. Temperature graphs show that the climate has not warmed this much, this quickly in all of Earth's history (as seen in geological records), and that the increase correlates with increased industrialization. [The Reality of Climate Change: 10 Myths Busted]
ALIEN ABDUCTION? THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF BRUNO BORGES
ALIEN ABDUCTION? THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF BRUNO BORGES
Bruno Borges, the son of the local contractor Athos Borges has recently disappeared from his family home in the province of the Brazilian Acres.
According to his parents, the young man has been remarkably intelligent and has always shown a keen interest in what some might call "forbidden knowledge."
Before his disappearance on 27 March, Bruno had retained its house locked during a month. During this period he covered many pages to write cryptic and then covered the walls, floor, ceiling and the furniture in his room with said pages.
He had also worked on 14 Manuscripts, all written in the same figure. His mother has admitted that he once told him the books have the power to change humanity in a positive way.
"It is informed," said the mother of Bruno local press. "At school, he was always differentiated, a born leader, with a high power of persuasion. It is a good boy, who has given of the things of the House and others, such as the T-shirts and trousers. This is not because he is my son, I speak of love Bruno, who sees the soul of the people."
Freedom of Thought also characterized Bruno Borges, which is adorned with alchemical symbols mysterious and spotless has symmetry.
On the inside of the House of Bruno there is evidence not only of esoteric knowledge generally outside the scope of the average Joes but also a foreigner in a short period of time, his case has attracted the interest of the local media and a small part of one of his manuscripts has already been translated into Portuguese.
"For thousands of years the human being has tried to find answers to questions such as "What is the meaning of life"? The philosophy that is all indicates, seems to have been undertaken with stories of Miletus in the middle of 700 before J.-C. It aims to find the remains of questions without answers.
Deep Search of the absolute truth comes from the philosophy, and when we are talking about respect of paths easy or difficult, we are referring to this type of theorem. It is easy to accept what you have been taught since childhood and that which is evil. It is difficult when you are an adult to understand that you have been taught since to wrong you suspect that you have been correct.
In other words, if you adapt to certain stimuli including the one from the Environment has determined a certain behavior for you, making you the store of beliefs already provided and well established in the dogmas and rituals, with a mass of people in it; or allowing you to be compliant, the acceptance of the concept of happiness and meaning of life in the media and society, then it is clear that it is part of the easy access to the research of the absolute truth. Does it fit in the second option, that is to say, that which suspected each set of beliefs that is rooted in him, then he has everything to be a researcher sincere in the things around him, the seizure of a path more complex, where a minority of companies or of the faces of courage …"
This mystery develops. By its own admission, Bruno had stumbled on something that reflects the true meaning of life and that it was determined to follow. In its own words, it is launched in a "path complicated" in search of the truth.
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NIKOLA TESLA - ELECTRICAL INVENTOR AND VISIONARY GENIUS. FULL FEATURE BIOGRAPHY!
NIKOLA TESLA - ELECTRICAL INVENTOR AND VISIONARY GENIUS. FULL FEATURE BIOGRAPHY!
This documentary presents the story of Nikola Tesla, the great scientist, visionary, and inventor who gave the world alternating current electricity, as well as being the father of the radio.
The film tells the story of this man's astonishing genius, his visions, and inventions. Tesla's scientific and autobiographical writings, as well as archival photographs and reenactments, are used to tell the story. A native of Austro-Hungary, Tesla came to America in 1884. Working first with Edison, the two inventors fell out over Edison's insistence on using direct current.
Tesla took his alternating current vision to Westinghouse. His New York address was renowned for the bolts of lightning emanating from it, as Tesla worked to unlock the secrets of energy and electricity. His quest took him to Colorado.
The film follows Tesla's exploits and eccentricities, which made him a darling of the press. Included is the well-known and touching story of his devotion to a certain white pigeon. Largely forgotten today in spite of the great debt the modern world owes him, the film pays tribute to this overlooked genius.
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