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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!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
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!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
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Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
21-05-2017
Government Investigates Taxpayer Funding of UFO Group
Government Investigates Taxpayer Funding of UFO Group
Who is Australia’s Fox Mulder? Or in this case, who is Australia’s John Podesta? Social Services Minister Christian Porter — whose department is responsible for Australian government social services like mental health, families and children’s policy and support for careers for seniors and people with disabilities – wants to know why almost $6000 AUD (over $4400 US) of his department’s funds are going to a UFO Group. Are they all over 60?
The minister’s office has been advised that this group was previously funded under the Labor government in 2013 and that some of this grant goes to the transport costs of volunteers with a disability. However, the minister is somewhat surprised at the nature of this particular volunteer group being funded through this grant program and he has instructed his department to hold the transmission of funds pending a re-examination of the application.
Hold on a minute, says Social Services Minister Christian Porter
According to the group’s description on Yahoo, the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group on the NSW Central Coast was formed in 2009 to “share experiences about UFOs, ET contact and information related to those subjects” with “monthly meetings, special guest speakers, movie days and BBQ & Nightwatches” to support – without discrimination – “a common goal of seeking more understanding about ETs and UFOs.” While not an official membership list, the group’s Facebook page is said to have 822 members.
The group’s substantial membership may be due to the large number of UFO sightings reported in the NSW’s Central Coast area, including the famous 1994 Gosford UFO incident when numerous witnesses reported a “huge ball-shaped object with bright lights on the bottom” sucking water from Brisbane Water, and police later claiming to have chased a “strange metallic craft” until it shot upward and disappeared.
Minister Porter isn’t buying it … nor paying for it either, at least not for now.
It’s very hard to unpack cause and effect; you tend to find a lot of sightings when you’re funding UFO sighting groups. But we’ll see what they’re all about. I’m sure they’re very nice people and there are lots of volunteers who are getting something out of it but looking at it from my perspective – representing taxpayers – it didn’t seem to me to pass a commonsense test.
Aren’t the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group members taxpayers too? Aren’t they doing good work for their community? A spokesperson explained it to the Central Coast Gosford Express Advocate.
We have elderly people we pick up and take to meetings, where we need projectors and microphones so everyone can see and hear what’s going on. We also have outings out at night checking for unusual activity.
Given the opportunity, the members of the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group could easily find other taxpayer-funded groups they don’t believe should be receiving their tax money. Unfortunately, the budget is limited and the needs are vast. A continuation of funding doesn’t look good for the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group.
Then again, Social Services Minister Christian Porter might want to think twice about dealing with a group who quite possibly has connections with aliens who could easily modify their water-sucking equipment to inhale politicians.
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20-05-2017
DR. STEVEN GREER EXPLAINS HOW ETS MAKE THEIR SHIPS AND HOW THEY CONTROL THEM
DR. STEVEN GREER EXPLAINS HOW ETS MAKE THEIR SHIPS AND HOW THEY CONTROL THEM
Dr. Steven Greer once said: "Anyone with knowledge of this stuff would have a bullet with their name written on it.”
Steven Macon Greer (June 28, 1955) is an American retired medical doctor and ufologist who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Disclosure Project, which seeks the disclosure of allegedly suppressed UFO information.
When it comes to theories on how life began on Earth, there’s quite a high degree of disagreement. Aside from the belief that some glowing bearded man or flying spaghetti monster blinked His eyes and made everything suddenly appear, many scientists are now looking into the panspermia hypothesis. This theory suggests that life came to Earth on a meteorite, asteroid, or other planetoid that crashed into our planet and seeded Earth with living organisms or at least the building blocks necessary for the evolution of organisms.
There are several variations of the panspermia theory, the most popular being lithopanspermia – the theory that the original organic molecules or organisms were embedded into meteorites which crashed into Earth.
Many microorganisms have indeed recently been found to be able to survive the harsh conditions of outer space for long periods of time, lending some credence to the panspermia theory. Of course, there are still other problems to address before this theory can be confirmed, but that’s where a new experiment suggested by NASA-funded scientists comes in. At the recent Breakthrough Discuss conference, several Breakthrough Starshot scientists discussed plans to send human DNA throughout the universe in hijacked bacteria to test the panspermia theory. You might know Breakthrough Starshot as the group planning to propel postage-stamp-sized spacecraft throughout the galaxy by shooting lasers at them.
Breakthrough Starshot wants to send thousands of their nanocraft throughout the galaxy to survey surface features of other planets.
At a panel titled “Scientific Goals and Instrumentation for a Flyby of the Nearest Stars,” Breakthrough Starshot developer Philip Lubin says that human DNA could fly to other worlds on such a craft and that his team already has NASA funding for their panspermia project:
A part of our program — at least on the NASA side, because we haven’t cleared this with Breakthrough yet — is actually to put organisms to sleep, in stasis mode. And there are certain organisms known as C. elegans, which we’re going to embed human DNA into and send them out and then awaken them on arrival. However, I expect that will be a highly controversial thing to do.
Uh, yeah. It will. NASA and other space agencies are very careful not to contaminate other worlds with Earth germs, going so far as to slam their spacecraft and satellites into other planet’s atmospheres in order to incinerate them once they’ve reached the end of their lifespans. By proposing to send our DNA throughout the cosmos, these scientists essentially want to play at being gods.
What could go wrong?
I find some serious problems with this suggestion. First of all, who are we to say that our DNA should propagate throughout the universe? Such an experiment could have completely unknown side-effects that could be disastrous for other worlds. Maybe our DNA will take hold and (over eons) create another race of beings which will wipe out the indigenous life on whatever piteous planet it lands on. Or, that DNA could just spend eternity hurtling through the cold, empty vacuum of space only to burn up in some alien world’s atmosphere. The point is we don’t know. Which means this experiment is probably better suited to the domain of science fiction.
Over the past couple of weeks I have been busily promoting my latest book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy. Taking into consideration the fact that I dismiss the idea that aliens crashed outside of Roswell in the summer of 1947 (I go down the dark and disturbing “human experimentation” path), it’s not surprising that more than a few people within Ufology have taken me to task for daring to suggest that Ufology’s Sacred Cow is nothing of the sort. The same thing happened when I wrote my 2005 book, Body Snatchers in the Desert – the new book being the sequel to Body Snatchers. Back in 2005, some people screamed and ranted (I ranted back at them – I don’t do screams). Others complained that I was causing problems for Ufology. My reply: “So what?”
In light of all the above, I expected a near-identical response to the new book. This time around, however, things are a bit different. Far more people – twelve years after Body Snatchers provoked raised blood-pressures in Ufology – have been willing to give the “human experimentation” angle for Roswell serious consideration. And there is something else, too. It’s something which was also pretty much absent in 2005. Namely, ufologists turning on ufologists, all as a result of their attempts to try and keep the E.T. flag flying for Roswell. I’ll explain what I mean by that.
Several people in the “aliens crashed at Roswell and no other theory is acceptable” camp asked me how I could even consider Roswell as a non-UFO event. Two of them cited the many references to “alien bodies” found on the Foster Ranch, New Mexico in July 1947. In response, I pointed out – correctly – that in his latest book on the Roswell affair, titled Roswell in the 21st Century, Kevin Randle now dismisses most of the claims/sources relative to such extraterrestrial corpses. This provoked various messages and emails to me, suggesting that Kevin didn’t know what he was talking about, or that he had been “gotten to,” as one worded it. So, for the ranters, not only am I the enemy, but now Kevin – who certainly does not rule out the E.T.-angle – is the enemy too. Matters don’t end there.
In The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, I include a chapter on John keel’s research into Roswell and his theories of a Japanese connection to the case. This led one fairly well-known Ufologist to inform me that anything provided by “that half-baked demonologist” could be considered completely useless. Another said much the same, suggesting that Keel’s words on Roswell were not even worthy of comment. I also mentioned in the book how the late UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield had been given the “Japanese bodies” angle way back in 1991. Stringfield suddenly became the bad guy to one “I want to believe”-driven soul who phoned me out of the blue. Ironically, there was probably no bigger believer in crashed saucer tales than Stringfield!
Then, there are the notorious Majestic 12 documents. After my interview on Greg Bishop’s Radio Misterioso, I got an email from a guy in San Diego who said that I was talking nonsense. How did he know? Because the Majestic 12 documents state that aliens crashed at Roswell, that’s how. I pointed out that – thirty years after the initial batch of papers first surfaced publicly – very, very few people in Ufology now believe the documents to be the real deal. I gave a few names of those researchers who seriously doubted the papers (Kevin again, and several more) and yet again the attack went away from me and was directed at the pro-UFO Roswell research community.
On top of this issue of pro-Roswell/E.T. Ufologsist turning on pro-Roswell/E.T. Ufologist (all specifically in the name of keeping the case “alive”), I detect a sense of panic. A fear that perhaps aliens didn’t crash at Roswell, after all. A worry that all those years of work might be worthless. But, also a determination to try and avoid even having to deal with such an unthinkable possibility. Interesting times…
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'Styrofoam' Planet Discovery Will Help Us Find Habitable Planets and Alien Life
'Styrofoam' Planet Discovery Will Help Us Find Habitable Planets and Alien Life
By Nancy Atkinson, Seeker
An artist's rendering of KELT-11b, an exoplanet with Styrofoam-like density.
Credit: Walter Robinson/Lehigh University
Since the largest exoplanets are the easiest to spot and study, it makes sense that distant worlds with large "puffy" atmospheres would provide the best and most abundant information about the envelope of gases surrounding these faraway planets. But the challenge comes in finding planets with such large atmospheres.
Enter KELT-11b.
According to researchers at Lehigh University, KELT-11b has by far the largest atmospheric scale height of any ever studied, including our own solar system. Scale height describes the height at which an atmosphere "hugs" a planet, and while the scale height of Saturn's atmosphere is about 60 km (37 miles) and Earth’s is about 8 km (5 miles), KELT-11b's is a whopping 2,763 km (1,716 miles).
And the oddities of KELT-11b don't stop there. The planet itself is one of the most puffy and inflated planets in the known universe, with the density of a Styrofoam ball — the kind that students use to simulate planetary bodies in classroom presentations.
"It is highly inflated, so that while it's only a fifth as massive as Jupiter, it is nearly 40 percent larger, making it about as dense as Styrofoam, with an extraordinarily large atmosphere," said Joshua Pepper, astronomer and assistant professor of physics at Lehigh University, who led the study.
Pepper called KELT-11b an "extreme" version of a gas planet. It is orbiting very close to its host star, circling it in less than five days. The star, KELT-11, has started using up its nuclear fuel and is evolving into a red giant, so the planet will eventually be engulfed by its star and not survive the next hundred million years.
But this star is extremely bright — the brightest known transiting exoplanet host that can be seen from the southern hemisphere — and is the sixth brightest transit host to date. Such a bright star allows for precise measurements of the planet's atmosphere.
The team wrote in their paper that all "these attributes make the KELT-11 system a valuable target for follow-up and atmospheric characterization and it promises to become one of the benchmark systems for the study of inflated exoplanets."
Pepper also said that KELT-11b is "an excellent testbed for measuring the atmospheres of other planets," and that it will help astronomers develop the best tools to see the types of gases in atmospheres, specifically for assessing habitability or possible life on distant exoplanets.
"We don't know of any real Earth-like planets or stars for which we can measure their atmospheres, though we expect to discover more in future years," Pepper said. "These [giant gas] planets are the gold standards or testbeds for learning how to measure the atmospheres of planets."
Another unique aspect of this exoplanet is that it was found with the help of citizen scientists. In fact, 40 amateur scientists from 10 countries contributed directly to the discovery of KELT-11b and are listed as co-authors on the paper.
The KELT (Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope) survey uses two small robotic telescopes in Arizona and in South Africa. The telescopes scan the sky every night, measuring the brightness of about five million stars. Like the exoplanet-finding "champion," the Kepler space telescope, KELT looks for stars that seem to dim slightly at regular intervals, which can indicate a planet is orbiting that star and eclipsing it, called a transit.
But most of the planets found by Kepler orbit faint stars, making it difficult to measure the planets' properties precisely.
"The KELT project is specifically designed to discover a few scientifically valuable planets orbiting very bright stars, and KELT-11b is a prime example of that," Pepper said.
KELT specifically looks for gas giant planets orbiting bright stars, but the team didn't expect to find planets with such low mass and large sizes.
"We were very surprised by the amazingly low density of this planet," Pepper said. "It's extremely big for its mass. It's got a fifth of the mass of Jupiter but is puffed up into this really underdense planet."
They hope that further study of this world by the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes will provide additional information about the mechanism that causes inflated planets.
While exoplanet researchers are anticipating the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, both scheduled to launch in 2018, Pepper and his fellow researchers feel that small, ground-based telescopes still have a special niche to fill in exoplanet studies.
"Notably, the population of transiting planets discovered by the ground-based surveys tend to be large planets with short orbital periods orbiting bright stars," the team said in their paper. "These planets, unlike the vast majority of the Kepler planets, offer great potential for detailed characterization of the atmospheres of exoplanets. For that reason, the ongoing discoveries from ground-based transit surveys will continue to provide great value."
Cassini: de tien hoogtepunten van een fantastische missie
Cassini: de tien hoogtepunten van een fantastische missie
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Met pijn in het hart nemen we in september afscheid van een ruimtesonde die ons beeld van Saturnus en zijn manen voorgoed veranderd heeft.
In oktober 1997 wordt ruimtesonde Cassini vanaf Cape Canaveral gelanceerd. Na een scheervlucht langs Venus, de aarde en Jupiter arriveert de sonde zeven jaar later – in 2004 – bij zijn eindbestemming: Saturnus. Inmiddels zijn we dertien jaar verder en cirkelt Cassini nog altijd rond de gasreus heen. Maar niet lang meer. Na een missie van bijna 20 jaar begint de brandstof van Cassini op te raken. En daarom krijgt deze in september opdracht om zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren. Een duik die de sonde al na korte tijd fataal zal worden. Met de snoekduik in de turbulente atmosfeer van Saturnus komt een einde aan een lange ruimtemissie die gekenmerkt wordt door grootse ontdekkingen. De tien belangrijkste hebben we voor je op een rij gezet.
1. De lovehandle van Iapetus Cassini heeft zich eigenlijk nog maar net in een baan rond Saturnus genesteld als deze tijdens een scheervlucht langs Saturnus’ maan Iapetus op een verrassing stuit. Ter hoogte van de evenaar blijkt de maan een flinke bergkam te bezitten. De richel is zo’n 20 kilometer breed en dertien kilometer hoog. Vervolgonderzoek wijst uit dat het gebergte (letterlijk!) uit de lucht is komen zetten. Waarschijnlijk is Iapetus in het verleden in botsing gekomen met een ander object waarbij een ring van puin rond de maan is ontstaan. En dat puin is uiteindelijk weer naar beneden komen zetten.
De bergrug op de evenaar van Iapetus.
Afbeelding: NASA.
2. Huygens In 2005 slingert Cassini de Huygens-lander richting het oppervlak van Titan. En met succes: de lander overleeft de reis door de dikke atmosfeer en landt heelhuids op het oppervlak. Voor het eerst kunnen we dat oppervlak – dat anders schuilgaat onder de dikke, nevelige atmosfeer van Titan, van heel dichtbij bekijken. Het levert spectaculaire beelden op. Zo’n 72 minuten nadat Huygens op Titan is geland geeft deze de geest: de batterij is leeg.
3. Er is vloeibaar water op Enceladus! Een paar jaar na aankomst bij Saturnus doet Cassini misschien wel de belangrijkste ontdekking uit zijn carrière. De sonde fotografeert geisers op het oppervlak van Saturnus’ maan Enceladus. En het lijkt erop dat deze geisers vloeibaar water in de lucht spuiten. Wetenschappers zijn door het dolle heen. Want waar vloeibaar water is, is wellicht leven. Inmiddels weten we dat het water dat de geisers uitspugen afkomstig is uit een wereldwijde oceaan die onder de ijskorst van Enceladus schuilgaat. Of er in die oceaan daadwerkelijk leven te vinden is, is nog altijd onduidelijk. Maar hoe meer onderzoek er naar de maan gedaan wordt, hoe aannemelijker het lijkt te worden dat het een vrij prettige plek is voor aliens. Enkele weken geleden verscheen bijvoorbeeld nog een onderzoek dat aantoont dat Enceladus hydrothermale bronnen bezit die de ondergrondse oceaan verrijken met een potentiële energiebron voor leven.
De geisers op Enceladus.
Afbeelding: NASA.
4. Titan heeft meren! En een paar maanden later doet Cassini weer een grootse ontdekking. Op Saturnus’ maan Titan treft de ruimtesonde verschillende meren aan. Sommige zijn slechts 1 kilometer breed. Anderen meten wel 30 kilometer. In de meren vinden we geen water, maar vloeibaar methaan en ethaan. Naast meren heeft Titan trouwens ook heel aardige bergen: de hoogste blijken meer dan 3300 meter hoog te zijn. En de maan heeft diepe valleien die gevuld zijn met vloeibaar methaan.
Meren op de noordpool van Titan.
Afbeelding: NASA.
5. En nog een maan..en nog één..en nog één Herhaaldelijk ontdekt Cassini tijdens zijn reisjes in de omgeving van Saturnus nieuwe manen. Methone en Pallene bijvoorbeeld. Maar ook de in Saturnus’ G-ring verstopte maan Aegaeon. Het laatstgenoemde hemellichaam is – met een gemiddelde straal van zo’n 300 meter – de kleinste maan die Saturnus rijk is.
De dunne en nauwelijks zichtbare ringen die Cassini enkele jaren na aankomst bij Saturnus ontdekte.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
6. Saturnus heeft meer ringen dan gedacht Naast manen heeft Cassini ook enkele nieuw ringen ontdekt rond Saturnus. De sonde spotte de ringen toen deze in de schaduw van Saturnus verbleef en de ringen in tegenlicht kon bestuderen. De ene ring is zo’n 2500 kilometer breed en bevindt zich tussen de E- en G-ring, in de baan van Pallene. De andere bevindt zich tussen de heldere hoofdringen en de G-ring, is zo’n 5000 kilometer breed en bevindt zich in de baan van de manen Janus en Epimetheus. Aangenomen wordt dat de ringen bestaan uit deeltjes die tijdens inslagen van het oppervlak van Janus, Epimetheus en Pallene zijn weggeslingerd. Dat die deeltjes zo’n mooie ring vormen, verbaast onderzoekers.
7. Storm verslikt zich..in zichzelf In 2010 en 2011 zien onderzoekers – via de ogen van Cassini – iets heel bijzonders gebeuren op Saturnus. In december 2010 ziet een enorme storm het levenslicht op de gasreus. Kort nadat de storm ontstaan is en richting het westen begint te bewegen, creëert deze een tegen de klok indraaiende vortex. De vortex beweegt veel langzamer dan de storm, waardoor een langgerekte monsterstorm ontstaat. Die storm wordt groter en groter en in het voorjaar van 2011 heeft deze zich – op 33 graden breedte – bijna helemaal rond Saturnus gewikkeld. In juni 2011 is het dan echt zover: de snel bewegende kop van de storm stuit op zijn veel trager bewegende staart. En daarop valt de storm stil. Het is voor het eerst dat onderzoekers er getuige van zijn dat een storm zichzelf op zo’n manier ‘consumeert’. “Zelfs de reusachtige stormen op Jupiter consumeren zichzelf niet zo, wat maar weer eens laat zien dat de natuur heel wat indrukwekkende variaties kent en ons keer op keer kan verrassen,” stelt onderzoeker Andrew Ingersoll daar in 2013 over.
De enorme storm op het noordelijk halfrond van Saturnus.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
8. Dione en Rhea hebben een atmosfeer In 2010 ontdekt Cassini dat maan Rhea een dunne atmosfeer heeft. De atmosfeer bevat zuurstof en koolstofdioxide. En een paar jaar later blijkt ook maan Dione een zuurstof bevattende atmosfeer te hebben. Ook Dione’s atmosfeer is maar dunnetjes. Maar het maakt de ontdekking niet minder interessant. “We weten nu dat Dione, net als de ringen van Saturnus en de maan Rhea een bron van zuurstofmoleculen is,” stelde onderzoeker Robert Tokar in 2012. “Het laat zien dat moleculaire zuurstof best veel voorkomt in het Saturnussysteem en versterkt het idee dat het kan voortkomen uit een proces waarin leven geen rol speelt.”
Een prachtige foto van Saturnus en enkele van zijn manen. Op de voorgrond zien we Rhea (1528 kilometer groot). Rechtsachter pronkt Enceladus (504 kilometer groot) en links achter Dione (1123 kilometer groot).
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
9. Magische eilanden Toch weer even terug naar Titan. Want daar ontdekt Cassini in 2014 iets heel bijzonders: magische eilanden. In Ligeia Mare – één van de grotere meren die Titan rijk is – ziet Cassini een 260 vierkante kilometer grote vlek verschijnen en weer verdwijnen. Tot op de dag van vandaag is onduidelijk wat het precies is geweest. Golven? Drijvende vaste stoffen? Of bubbels misschien?
Een magisch eiland.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASI / Cornell.
10. Bergen op de ringen van Saturnus Wie denkt dat de ringen van Saturnus plat zijn, heeft het mis. Cassini onthulde dat de ringen ook verticale structuren kennen. Op de foto hieronder zie je ze aan de rand van de B-ring. Ze torenen tot wel 2,5 kilometer boven het ringvlak uit. De structuren ontstaan mogelijk door toedoen van kleine maantjes (tot 1 kilometer groot) die het ringmateriaal omhoog dwingen.
Foto: NASA / JPL / SSI.
Het is zomaar een greep uit het veelbewogen werkzame leven van Cassini. En stiekem hopen we natuurlijk dat daar de komende maanden nog wat hoogtepuntjes bij komen. Dat zou niet heel verwonderlijk zijn, want de sonde duikt momenteel herhaaldelijk in het gat tussen Saturnus en de ringen. En dat is onontgonnen gebied en levert hoogstwaarschijnlijk behalve spectaculaire beelden ook spectaculaire inzichten over Saturnus en zijn ringen en manen op.
Astronomers scramble to probe 'alien megastructure' star
Astronomers scramble to probe 'alien megastructure' star
Tabby's Star fluctuates in brightness so much, and at such irregular intervals, that scientists can not work out what causes it.
Image:This illustration of Tabby's Star was released by NASA. Pix: JPL-Caltec
Astronomers are scrambling to point their telescopes at one of the weirdest stars ever observed after it mysteriously dimmed again.
KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, has been monitored for several years after it was noticed that its brightness changed significantly and at irregular intervals.
A range of theories have been put forward for this strange behaviour, including one hypothesis which suggests an alien megastructure may have been built around the star to harvest its energy.
Although the star was first discovered in the 1890s, it was not until observations between 2009 and 2013 when scientists first noticed something particularly odd about it.
It was subsequently named after Louisiana-based astronomer Tabetha Boyajian, who wrote a paper about its strange behaviour.
Professor Boyajian noticed that at one point Tabby's Star's brightness had dropped by 22%, which can not be explained by any properly understood phenomenon.
Image:Artist drawing by NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
Last month scientists noticed what appeared to be another slight dimming of the star - but that accelerated significantly on Friday, causing a scramble for additional observations.
Jason Wright, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University, told a web chat: "One of the difficulties here is that most telescopes are scheduled weeks, months in advance.
"We can't just jump on a telescope and take a spectrum typically. So we need to have a network of people around the world."
Tabby's Star is in the constellation Cygnus and is approximately 1,275 light years from Earth.
Scientists hope they might be able to work out what is causing the star to dim by analysing its full spectrum of light. But to do this, they need to know when that dimming is going to occur.
Astronomers do not believe it is being caused by a planet passing in front the star as this would not cause such a significant change in brightness, and it would be more predictable.
A number of other theories have been put forward. One suggests there may be a large cloud of dust and debris around the star.
Another suggestion is that it is recovering having been hit by a planet and a third theory suggests a swarm of comets may be responsible.
The most unusual suggestion - but one which scientists can not yet dismiss - is that an alien megastructure has been built around the star to harvest its energy.
The concept, which sounds like it comes straight out of science fiction, is actually referred to as as Dyson Sphere.
It is named after British-born scientist Freeman Dyson who, in the 1960s, hypothesised that advance civilisations would seek to power their worlds in this way.
Above: Prey is a sci-fi action game from the same studio that made Dishonored.
Image Credit: Bethesda
An alien-infested space station isn’t the best place to question your life’s purpose. As Morgan Yu learns in Prey, the existential struggle is just as real as the deadly creatures lurking in the shadows.
Arkane Studios faced similar questions about identity (but with much less bloodshed) while making its sci-fi thriller. Out now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, Prey is an action role-playing game where you have to fight an alien species known as the Typhon. It’s a premise we often see in pop culture, let alone in games. What makes Prey stand out is the story behind its development, where an unproven team resurrected a dormant franchise in a genre that’s difficult to master.
Arkane’s game is a reboot of the original Prey, a story-driven first-person shooter that Human Head Studios released in 2006. That company was working on a promising sequel until publisher Bethesda Softworks killed the project in 2014. Then after years of rumors, Prey resurfaced at last year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow, where Bethesda unveiled a much different takeon the franchise.
But aside from the name, Arkane’s game doesn’t share anything with Human Head’s sci-fi universe. According to lead designer Ricardo Bare, the core idea for Prey had been percolating at the studio ever since they finished the last of Dishonored’s add-on content in 2013.
“Even before we had the name, we wanted to make a game like this: a game that takes place on a space station with aliens that has our signature Arkane-style game mechanics,” Bare said in an interview with GamesBeat. “The opportunity to use the name came afterwards.
“In fact, Arkane has made a game like this before. The first game that Arkane made was called Arx Fatalis, and it was structurally very similar to [2017] Prey. It was a fantasy game that took place underground in a dungeon. So we call the space station our ‘space dungeon’ now.”
Above: Arkane’s first game was Arx Fatalis.
Image Credit: Bethesda
The rise of Arkane Austin
Founded in 1999, Arkane consists of two teams: one group is in the headquarters in Lyon, France, and the other is in Austin, Texas. Bare, a veteran designer who previously worked at Ion Storm (Deus Ex) and Midway Games (Blacksite: Area 51), joined the U.S. branch in 2009. At the time, it only had a handful of people, including creative director Harvey Smith and Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio. It soon grew to around 20 employees.
But the majority of the company (more than 60 people) were in France. Both sides worked together on several games, with the developers frequently traveling back and forth between the two offices.
After Dishonored’s release in 2012, Arkane decided to split the team so it could work on multiple games at the same time. Lyon took charge of Dishonored 2, swelling in size to accommodate the sequel’s bigger ambitions and the arrival of the PS4 and Xbox One consoles. Austin underwent a similar transformation as it began working on the project that would later become Prey.
Above: Prey lead designer Ricardo Bare at GDC 2017.
Image Credit: Giancarlo Valdes/GamesBeat
“On the Austin side, we started to incubate this new IP [intellectual property], this new game, as well as expand the team massively,” said Bare. “We switched consoles, we got a new game engine, a new IP, and a brand new team all in the same dev cycle, which is kind of ridiculous.”
Though the Lyon team helped out from time to time, Prey was very much Austin’s baby. The U.S. team grew to 70 people over the course of development, many of whom were new to the company. While this hasn’t created any rivalries between the studios — Bare said they’re incredibly supportive of each other — it did add some pressure for the newcomers, who felt like they had to prove themselves to the folks in Lyon.
“They wanted to impress their Lyon colleagues by doing a really good job. … They wanted to show that they can make a compelling and beautiful world as Dunwall from Dishonored,” Bare said. “I think they did.”
A believable sci-fi world
Prey’s Morgan Yu is a scientist who is also the main test subject of a mysterious experiment. When the Typhon break loose, it’s up to Morgan to stop them — but the character isn’t your typical space marine badass. One big difference is that Yu is Asian, a rarity among gun-toting heroes in big game releases.
Arkane Austin turned to a lot of science fiction for inspiration. The team studied Solaris, Moon, and other films that explore what it’s like to be alone in space. Bare also read old stories from sci-fi author Robert Heinlein, such as “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”
“Me and some people on the team also just did a lot of actual scientific reading. Even though the game gets wild … we tried to at least start it at a place that was very grounded,” said Bare.
“So we did a lot of reading about neuroscience — learned a lot about the brain [laughs], which was super fun — a lot about the space technology industry. It’s really cool that we live in an age where this private space industry is happening.”
Above: The Talos I lobby.
Image Credit: Bethesda
Prey’s version of 2035 imagines what someone like SpaceX founder Elon Musk would’ve done had he started his ambitions earlier in history. In this alternate timeline, the Cold War space race led to the discovery of the Typhon and the construction of a large space station to contain it. Later, a powerful company called the TranStar Corporation takes over and transforms the vessel into the skyscraper-sized Talos I.
Another example of Prey’s grounded roots is the Neuromod, a tool that you use to learn the Typhon’s powers and enhance your human abilities (such as hacking computers or repairing equipment) by altering the chemistry of your brain. It’s loosely based on real-world experiments where scientists can manipulate neurons by making them sensitive to light.
But instead of lasers, Prey’s device uses needles. Big ones. To unlock the upgrades, you have to stick the Neuromod’s needles into your eyeball.
Above: Would you stab your eye just to get a few supernatural powers?
Image Credit: Bethesda
Like Dishonored, Prey encourages you to experiment with your weapons and powers. You can use the Typhon’s Mimic Matter — which transforms you into everyday objects — to possess one of the space station’s automated gun turrets or to hide from the aliens. With Lift Field, you can either launch your enemies high into the air or use it to propel yourself to hard-to-reach places.
The powers you collect can have consequences outside of combat as well. The turrets, for example, can be a valuable ally because they automatically target any aliens around them. But if you harvest too much Typhon DNA, they’ll turn on you. The other human survivors on Talos I will also react to you differently.
However, you can avoid that by simply not learning any of the alien abilities. It’s possible to finish the game without them.
Lessons from Dishonored
The mix of Typhon powers, tools, and conventional weapons offer a degree of freedom and flexibility that isn’t seen in many games. But that’s not a signature of Arkane’s treatment of Prey. These complex and unscripted interactions are an intrinsic part of immersive sims, which first emerged with PC classics like Ultima Underworld, Thief, and System Shock. The seminal System Shock series from Looking Glass Studios was a huge inspiration for Prey in terms of creating a tense sci-fi setting.
Though Arkane tried to make other types of games before, it keeps coming back to immersive sims. Everything in its catalog, from Arx Fatalis to Prey, have detailed worlds with interlocking mechanics that leave room for the player to improvise. The studio most recently demonstrated this with Dishonored and its sequel.
One of the lessons the Austin team learned from working on that series is the importance of easing players into these digital playgrounds, especially for those who haven’t tried an immersive sim before.
Above: Prey also takes you outside the space station.
Image Credit: Bethesda
“Unless the game invites players to do so, it’s not always obvious that [for example] you don’t have to find the key to this door,” said Bare. “You can look around and find an alternate way, or you could hack the door. Maybe you could blow the door up. I think lots of other games train players [to think], ‘There’s only one solution to this problem. And you have to try to discover what the designer had in mind.’
“Whereas we’re like, ‘No, there isn’t one solution. You can improvise a solution to this.’ You might be able to come up with something we don’t even know about because of all the systems interacting together. Part of the challenge is letting players know that it’s possible. That was challenging on Dishonored. And it’s still challenging on Prey. But we learned we have to present [those possibilities] to the player very early on.”
Yet Arkane didn’t want to overwhelm players with too much information. So the developers decided that for the first few hours, you’ll only have access to your human abilities. Eventually, the story introduces more nuanced tools like the Neuromods and the Psychoscope (a device that scans the different Typhon enemies for their powers and weaknesses).
Above: The Mimics can transform into different objects.
Image Credit: Giancarlo Valdes/GamesBeat
However, planning for what abilities a player might combine in any given situation (and thus rewarding them for their curiosity when it works) is an impossible task. The best Arkane can do is just spend a lot of time playing through the game to identify any interesting combos it should support.
“And the things that don’t [seem cool], we cut and get rid of,” explained Bare. “You know you’re in a good place when different people on the team are arguing about things like, ‘This power is the best!’ and ‘This other power is useless!’ And the other person is saying the opposite. … That means different people are finding different ways to play.”
Ideally, the goal is to make players feel like the only limit is their imagination.
“The best feeling is feeling like you’re playing a game where anything is possible, even if it isn’t literally true,” said Bare.
Above: The Typhon come in different shapes and sizes.
Image Credit: Bethesda
Creating a ‘sublime experience’
If you look through forum threads or YouTube videos about Prey, it’s clear some fans still mourn the loss of Human Head’s Prey 2. That put Arkane in an awkward place when it came to managing people’s expectations for the game.
“It’s tricky because, admittedly, the original Prey was a really interesting game. And the pitch and demo of [Prey 2] was cool, too,” said Bare.
But the designer reminded GamesBeat that the company really only makes one type of game: immersive sims. That specialization is one of the reasons he joined Arkane in the first place. It’s a genre few developers try to tackle.
“For one thing, [immersive sims] are really hard to make because they’re so complicated. But they’re also super rewarding, and they ask a lot of players,” said Bare. “If you’re playing a linear shooter where your instructions are just to keep moving forward and shoot everything that moves, that game doesn’t ask a lot of you, right? It doesn’t demand a lot of the player.
“But playing a game like Dishonored or Prey is a little bit like playing a musical instrument. The game asks a lot of you, but it also rewards you tremendously, more than the other kind of game that I’m talking about.”
Above: The GLOO gun traps the Typhon in a hardening foam.
Image Credit: Bethesda
From Arkane’s point of view, these types of games always have at least two things in common.
“They always have a strong sense of place — that’s where the ‘immersive’ part comes in the word immersive sim,” Bare added. “They always feel like a very cohesive, well-built world where you can look around and deduce the story of the place and [figure out] what happened. Everything has depth.
“It’s like an iceberg: You see the tip, but you know there’s so much more below the surface in terms of world-building. You believe that you’re in a real place. And the second part is those layered, super-rich game mechanics, which just translate to the player feeling like, ‘I can do anything in this world. There are these rules and systems, and I can understand them and make a plan. And when it works, I feel this magical, almost sublime experience.’”
The new Prey can never live up to the promise of the cancelled Prey 2. Instead, Arkane is carving a new identity for the beleaguered franchise (whose origins actually stretch back to 1995), one that builds on the beloved immersive sims that came before it. If the reboot is successful, it’ll further cement the studio as a top-tier developer — and maybe even give the Austin team something to brag about to the Lyon office.
As for why they chose to use the Prey name, Bare said the reason was simple: It’s a great title for a video game, and “naming video games is hard.”
Artist's illustration showing a cloud of comet fragments blocking light from a star—one of the possible explanations for the strange, occasional dimming of KIC 8462852, also known as “Tabby’s Star.” Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The star often called the most mysterious in the galaxy has begun darkening again. Scientists are now rushing to watch the event with as many telescopes as they can muster to attempt to understand what is causing its bewildering fluctuations of light.
The star, called KIC 8462852 and nicknamed “Tabby's Star” after Yale University astronomer Tabetha “Tabby” Boyajian, first made news in 2015 when researchers discovered something odd about its light, whose strange brightenings and dimmings have even caused some to speculate it might host alien megastructures around it. The star is an otherwise-normal F type star—slightly larger and hotter than our sun—located about 1,480 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. When astronomer Boyajian and her colleagues analyzed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, however, they found dozens of strange instances of KIC 8462852 darkening up to 22 percent.
These dimming events are far too substantial to be caused by planets crossing the face of the star, so scientists looked for other explanations. Some have even suggested that it might host signs of intelligent alien life—specifically, a Dyson sphere, a hypothetical megastructure built around a star to capture as much of its energy as possible to power an advanced civilization.
In order to solve this mystery astronomers have been planning to analyze the full spectrum of light from Tabby's Star as it darkens via spectral measurements that split light into its constituent wavelengths. Because different materials absorb different wavelengths of light, spectra from the star could reveal what is causing its light fluctuations. “We’ve been waiting to catch another dip in light,” Jason Wright, an astronomer at The Pennsylvania State University, said in an online chat May 19.
Now scientists have discovered Tabby's Star is dimming again, and are racing to get as many telescopes as they can to watch it in as many wavelengths of light as possible, Wright said. “All week there's been some indication that something might be up,” he said. “Sure enough, at about 4 A.M. this morning [Pacific time], I got a phone call from Tabby [Boyajian] saying that Fairborn Observatory in Arizona had confirmed the star as 3 percent dimmer than it normally is. That's enough to say that it’s absolutely no statistical fluke, and we’ve now confirmed it with multiple observatories.”
Astronomers have proposed several possible reason’s for Tabby’s Star’s strange behavior, and each would create a different spectral signature. If clouds of dust are causing the dimming, they usually absorb bluer wavelengths of light, making stars look redder whereas comets passing close to a star would heat up and emit infrared light, Wright said. If interstellar clouds of gas are responsible, those are usually rich in sodium, hydrogen and calcium. And if the dimming is a phenomenon intrinsic to Tabby's Star itself, the spectra will show no signs that anything is absorbing the star's light. If an alien megastructure is the cause, it is difficult to predict what it might look like—if it is solid, “we might see the star getting dimmer overall,” Wright said.
In 2015 Boyajian and her colleagues predicted a dimming event might happen in May 2017. Based on the Kepler data, they suggested dimming of Tabby's Star might follow a roughly 750-day cycle. “It’s right on schedule,” Wright said. Boyajian herself demurred as to the accuracy of the estimate, noting “the prediction was a long shot—we cast a net of several hundred days.”
Among the telescopes Wright said researchers now hope to use to catch this dimming event in the act:
—The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope
—The Automated Planet Finder at Lick Observatory near San Jose, Calif., a robotic optical telescope
—Both telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, which operate in optical and near-infrared wavelengths
—The MMT Observatory in Arizona, an optical telescope
—NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, which operates in gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet and optical wavelengths
‑Las Cumbres Observatory, a worldwide network of robotic optical telescopes
—Fairborn Observatory in Arizona, which operates in optical wavelengths
—The Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, which operates in optical and near-infrared wavelengths
—The Hobby–Eberly Telescope in Texas, an optical telescope
“Our plan is to observe the star in as many wavelengths as we can,” Wright said. “This could be the weekend that we take the data that solves the puzzle.” Even more telescopes may also join in. “It's been a crazy 18 hours, and it’s going to be a really exciting weekend,” he said.
It remains unknown how long this dimming might last. “Most dips in the Kepler data take two to seven days,” Wright said. “So if this is a deep dip, it might be going on for a week. If it’s a shallow dip, it could be gone soon. Hopefully it’s a deep dip.” The data from Kepler does suggest such dimming events happen in clusters.
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Scientists Have Just Discovered Evidence That Parallel Universes Exist
Scientists Have Just Discovered Evidence That Parallel Universes Exist
Scientists have discovered a mysterious ‘Cold Spot’ in space that could prove our universe is just one of an endless string of realities.
The Cold Spot is an area of space 13 billion-years-old and 1.8 billion light years across, which is 0.00015 degrees Celsius (0.00027 degrees Fahrenheit) colder than its surroundings – and this unfathomable mass ‘might be taken as the first evidence for the multiverse.’
Astronomers have been unable to explain the cause of this massive supervoid – and a new study conducted by Durham University claims it couldn’t possibly exist at all.
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The co-author of the study, Professor Tom Shanks said:
We can’t entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model [of particle physics]. But if that isn’t the answer, then there are more exotic explanations.
Perhaps the most exciting of these is that the Cold Spot was caused by a collision between our universe and another bubble universe. If further, more detailed, analysis … proves this to be the case then the Cold Spot might be taken as the first evidence for the multiverse.
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The new study suggests galaxies in the Cold Spot cluster around smaller voids that spread over the region like bubbles, and that there is only a two per cent chance that it formed randomly.
If Shanks’ assertions are true, the Cold Spot indicates that our cosmos contains an infinite number of parallel universes which, in turn, contain an infinite number of realities.
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But this theory isn’t straight off the pages of sci-fi, as astronomy expert Dr Stuart Clarke wrote in the Guardian:
These uncountable realms sit side by side in higher dimensions that our senses are incapable of perceiving directly. Each alternate universe carries its own different version of reality.
There will be one where you wrote this column and I read it… even a really weird one in which Donald Trump uses twitter to spread nothing but amusing cat videos.
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Brilliantly sassy and politically-motivated astronomers aside, this news could mean that somewhere out there, Rick and Morty are truly travelling through parallel dimensions and eating Szechuan sauce and that, on another realm, you could play Matthew McConaughey’scharacter in Interstellar.
The possibilities are endless and this is truly the most fascinating timeline.
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Carl Sagan Knew UFOs Are Real, Confidant Reveals
Carl Sagan Knew UFOs Are Real, Confidant Reveals
But Sagan kept his viewpoint quiet to avoid losing academic funding
ZNN – Renowned astronomer and astrophysicist Dr. Carl Sagan revealed to Dr. J. Allen Hynek that he believed UFOs were real but avoided any public statements to prevent the loss of academic research funding. Sagan’s once powerful influence on mainstream science to play-down the reality of UFOs is now in question.
“My recollection is that Hynek said it was backstage of one of the many Johnny Carson Tonight shows Sagan did. He basically said [to Hynek] in 1984, ‘I know UFOs are real, but I would not risk my research [College] funding, as you do, to talk openly about them in public.’’ “
This startling revelation about Carl Sagan, one of this century’s most esteemed scientists and writers, has now been made public by Paola Leopizzi-Harris, a former associate of Dr. Allen J. Hynek who worked with him from 1980 to 1985.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek served as a civilian scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book from 1952 to1969, initially taking a very critical and skeptical position on anything related to the reality of UFOs. In one of his own reports he stated:
“I had started out as an outright ‘debunker,’ taking great joy in cracking what seemed at first to be puzzling cases. I was the arch-enemy of those ‘flying saucer groups and enthusiasts’ who very dearly wanted UFOs to be interplanetary.” Hynek, J. Allen. “The Hynek UFO Report”. Dell Publishing Co. 1977
After leaving Project Blue Book – the U.S. Air Force’s pseudo-investigatory public relations scheme on UFOs, Hynek later wrote:
“Now, however, documentation which puts the UFO- U.S. government controversy in quite a new light has become available. The [UFO] authors have made revealing use of documents released through the mechanism of the Freedom of Information Act and other data which have been made available to them… which show that the CIA and NSA protestations of innocence and lack of interest in UFOs are nothing short of prevarication.”
Hynek went on to say: “For the government to continue to maintain that UFOs are nonexistent in the face of the documents already released and of other cogent evidence presented in this book is puerile and in a sense an insult to the American people.”“The UFO Cover-Up.”(Fireside books, Simon & Schuster 1984)
Hynek’s credentials are indeed impressive, having consulted on the Stephen Spielberg movie Close Encounters. As well he presented a paper on UFOs at the UN in 1978. (All Experts)
Sagan’s link to UFOs and possibly to Dr. Hynek occurred in 1966 when Sagan was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book. This committee concluded that the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book had been lacking as a scientific study, and recommended a university-based project to give the UFO phenomenon closer scientific scrutiny.
In scientific circles much of Sagan’s notoriety came from debates conducted under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 1969 he challenged J. Allen Hynek on whether investigations of unidentified flying objects should be considered serious. Hynek argued yes Sagan no. (NNDB)
Sagan was a prolific writer of some 20 books including Contact – eventually made into a movie staring Jodie Foster. Sagan also hosted the brilliantly crafted and highly popular series COSMOS: A Personal Voyage. In Episode 12: “Encyclopedia Galactica”, Sagan explored UFOs and alien abductions while also including ‘refutations’ on UFOs.
“As I understand what the committee would like from me, is a discussion of the likelihood of intelligent extraterrestrial life… clearly it is the hypothesis that unidentified objects are of extraterrestrial origin which the committee must have in mind. I’m delighted to tell about contemporary scientific thinking along these lines, but let me begin by saying that I do not think the evidence is at all persuasive, that UFO’s are of intelligent extraterrestrial origin…”
Sagan’s confidential conversation with Dr. Hynek in 1984 appears to not only contradict this statement to the House Committee in 1968, Sagan’s new found view – that UFOs were real – clearly did not play any role in Sagan’s later highly successful public work.
This revelation by Paola Leopizzi-Harris appears to raise serious scientific discrepancies concerning Sagan’s public verses private beliefs about the nature of UFOs and Extraterrestrial life.
It appears, therefore that Carl Sagan presumably embarked upon his many television appearances, consulting on major television and Hollywood feature productions as well as his own academic writing while professing one public scientific point of view, yet maintaining a significantly contradictory personal belief – “I know UFOs are real…” as told to Dr. J. Allen Hynek in 1984 according to Paola Leopizzi-Harris.
In later years Sagan also heavily promoted SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, which discounts UFOs as an ET reality – advancing the theory that listening for signals from deep space may help locate intelligent ET civilizations. [Ed.note – SETI officials were contacted by ZlandCommunications for a comment on this matter – however at the time of publication no response had yet been received.]
It is unknown how long Sagan held this personal view or when and what changed his mind – future disclosures may reveal this. That Sagan presented much of his finest and most popular work outside the context of his personal belief that UFOs were real remains a salient incongruity for a man of Sagan’s stature, obvious integrity and celebratory contributions to humanity and science.
One can only speculate upon why, during the period between Sagan’s initial statement in 1968 and all during his now legendary writings and media productions, Sagan continued to espouse critical views on the reality of UFOs. Why did his views change so dramatically? Did funding issues alone motivate him not to come forward publicly to declare his change-of-mind?
This revelation made to Paola Leopizzi-Harris by a well-respected scientific figure like Dr. J. Allen Hynek alters if not the magnificent quality of Sagan’s work but re-constructs his considerable scientific influence on the mainstream scientific theories about the universe, the intelligent nature of UFOs and Extraterrestrial life.
How will mainstream science respond knowing now that a corner stone of modern science and one of its most revered members is now recognized as to have conceded – UFOs are real?
Two conclusions emerge –
One of the 20th Century’s most renowned space gurus and scientific leaders, appears to have inadvertently shattered the prevailing notion among the scientific community and the so-called experts, that UFOs are fictitious and that issue is does not merit further study.
The second conclusion – short of full disclosure by government of the UFO/ET reality, this revelation most assuredly represents the most serious damage yet to the wall of secrecy and the truth embargo surrounding the Extraterrestrial presence so ardently maintained by government officials and bolstered by mainstream science.
Notably this information also comes at a time when Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Minister of National Defence has publicly admonished another pillar of mainstream science, Professor Stephen Hawking, for contributing to misinformation about advanced Extraterrestrial civilizations. Hellyer’s admonishment is timely. It puts all scientists on notice that ponderous changes to their entrenched belief about the universe and Extraterrestrial life are about to occur.
The Sagan story also arrives on the eve of the X-Conference 2010 – the largest annual American UFO/ET Disclosure event coordinated by Stephen G. Bassett Director of PRG – the Paradigm Research Group at the National Press Club in Washington DC, just down the street from the White House and a President that recognizes the need for grave global change.
When asked to comment PRG Director Stephen G. Bassett said,
“Carl Sagan and J. Allen Hynek perfectly represent the intellectual and political dilemma faced by the human race during the second half of the 20th century. Both helped to radically change our view of the world… Yet one must be profoundly wrong on the most important historical event in human history.”
Ironically, a cloistered conversation between to academicians behind the curtain – backstage on the set of the Johnny Carson Show in 1984 seems to have changed science and with it, the paradigm beliefs of an entire planet – we are not alone.
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Could megalithic stone circles be used for alien communications?
Could megalithic stone circles be used for alien communications?
Written by David Montana
What if megalithic stone circles were electromagnetic receptors for alien telecommunication? What if they are still been used for this purpose?
Daniel Montana daniel.montana.paranormal@gmail.com
Abstract
This article presents evidence suggesting that ancient stone circles may have been used as electromagnetic receptors for alien communications similar to what is known today as satellite antennas. This evidence corresponds to anomalies of radio and microwave radiation found in the center of the Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle, United Kingdom.
Could megalithic stonecircles be used for extraterrestrial communications?
Introduction
The idea that extraterrestrial individuals were in contact with ancient civilizations was introduced in the science fiction narrative at the beginning of the nineteenth century (see for example Wilkins, 1946). Later on, this idea was popularized in the 1970s as a formal hypothesis by Eric von Däniken in his book Chariots of the Gods. This author offered arguments suggesting that a number of remains and narratives related to ancient societies (e.g. megalithic remains, miracles of the Bible, ancient Baghdad electric batteries, etc.) were associated with extraterrestrial technology (Von Däniken, 1973).
Nowadays the hypothesis of extraterrestrial contact with ancient civilizations is referred to as the Ancient Astronauts Theory and has attracted the attention of a number of investigators who claim that evidence supporting this theory can be found in archaeological remains, ancient art and iconography, among others (Dennett, 2008). For example, it has been argued that the Nazca Lines of Peru were a type of alien airport were alien spaceships landed and took off (Mason, 2009; Rutkowski, 2010).
In relation to megalithic remains, followers of the Ancient Astronauts Theory have introduced a number of arguments suggesting that these remains were built by aliens, or at least under their influence. Some of these arguments are based on the fact that these remains are too big to be created by ancient human technology (Alford, 1988; Penczak, 2007; Roberts, 2016). Other key facts that have been considered as proof of alien assistance are the astronomical and mathematical precision of the monuments design; the ancient alignment to planets and stars; and the similarities of megalithic across continents. For example, the megalithic stone site near Giza at Nabta in Egypt is aligned to the star Sirius and the constellation of Orion suggesting that they were used as navigation markers for UFOs (David, 2010). Likewise, it has been suggested that the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built by aliens who had advance knowledge of electromagnetic forces because these structures were designed to capture cosmic radiation (La Tulippe, 2016).
In spite of these facts, the scientific community remains skeptical, and the dominant academic view is that there is no actual evidence supporting the Ancient Astronaut and related theories (arguments against these theories can be found in Harrold and Eve, 1986; Hines, 1988; Elitzur, 1991; Patrick, 1994; Feder, 2015).
The disagreement between proponents of the Ancient Astronauts Theory and the orthodox scientific community has not prevented the former from exploring potential links between megalithic remains and alien intervention. On the contrary, an increasing interest has been placed on several local monumental remains that have been subject to much less coverture than the famous megalithic such as the great pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, and statues of Easter Island, among others. A clear example is Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle located in Shropshire, UK. It corresponds to stones (the tallest 1.9 meters high) arranged in a rough circle with a diameter of about 28 meters. This monument was built during the Bronze Age approximately 3,000 years ago and contained initially thirty stones of which only fifteen have survived until today.
A significant number of UFO sightings of discs and triangles have been reported over the years around the area of Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle. It is argued that these sightings are related to the alignment of this site with the general area of Montgomery ley line(*). It is claimed that this alignment is used by extraterrestrial spacecraft as a point of navigation – or to refuel by tapping into the energy (Perks, 2012; UFO Centre, 2017; Rainford, 2017).
The objective of this article is to offer an alternative interpretation of stone circle monuments that apparently has not been proposed so far. That is, it is suggested the idea that these monuments were actually used as electromagnetic receptors for alien telecommunication similar of what is known today as satellite antennas. In order to support this possibility, evidence from an experiment carried out in Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle is presented. The results of this experiment revealed that Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle has the ability to channel radio and microwave radiation.
Methodology
The methodology adopted in this investigation was designed to identify two potential electromagnetic anomalies in Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle that we would expect to find in a modern satellite antenna: (1) microwave radiation anomalies; and (2) EVP (Electronic voice phenomenon) anomalies. They are explained as follows.
Microwave anomalies
As explained in the introduction, the aim of this article is to present evidence supporting the idea that stone circle monuments were used as ancient alien satellite antennas. If this was true, then the types of electromagnetic radiation that would be employed by alien spacecraft would be the ones that can go thought Earth’s atmosphere. Clearly a good candidate is microwave radiation because microwaves have short wavelengths and allow them to pass through the Earth’s atmosphere (Capmany and Novak, 2007). In considering this fact, the methodology adopted in this investigation consisted of measuring microwave anomalies in the site by means of a portable microwave radiation meter. Two approaches were employed for this purpose and are explained as follows.
The first approach consisted of measuring microwave radiation of a mobile phone connected to the Internet across the area of the site using a portable digital microwave radiation meter. The latter was located near the ground and the mobile phone was located 1.5 meters over the microwave radiation meter. The idea behind this approach is to explore whether stone circles were used as a sort of parabolic satellite antennas for space navigation. If this was the case, then the phone devise would play the role of electromagnetic receptor. In this case, higher levels of microwave radiation would be detected in the center of the monument.
The second approach consisted of measuring microwave emission using the same portable microwave radiation meter but without the mobile phone. This approach was employed to determine whether the stone circle needed an electromagnetic receptor to be functional.
EVP anomalies
The EVP phenomenon has traditionally been attributed to dead people voices that are identified from a recording system (Baruss, 2001; Townsend, 2007; Sabol, 2013). It has also been argued that the origin of EVP phenomenon can be natural and it can be caused by radio interferences (i.e. radio transmissions) that are accidentally recorded by a recording system (Leary and Butler, 2015). If the latter interpretation was correct and if stone circles were a type of electromagnetic antenna, then radio interferences would be expected to be found in the site under study. To test this possibility, a digital recorder was employed in different parts of Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle area. Later on, the recordings were filtered and analyzed using the Audacity software.
Results
The experiment was conducted on 12 August 2017, at 20:00 British time. The first activity consisted of measuring microwave radiation in the ground of site and the stones. No radiation anomaly was identified by the portable digital microwave radiation meter. The second activity consisted of measuring microwave radiation of the mobile phone across the area of the site and the stones. In this case, the portable digital microwave radiation meter detected a significant microwave radiation from the mobile phone in the center of the monument. However, this emission disappeared when measures were carried out in places other than the center. This impressive finding suggests that the stone circle has the ability to channel microwave radiation as it would be expected in a satellite antenna.
On the other hand, digital recordings (i.e. EVP) were carried out in different parts of the site. After filtering and processing the recording, a voice was identified only in the recording carried out in the center. This evidence, again, suggests that the monument has the ability to channel electromagnetic radiation, a fact that may have been used for telecommunication.
This experiment was filmed and can be seen at the following link:
Conclusions
The results of this investigation revealed that the stone circle under study has the ability to channel electromagnetic radiation that is normally used in telecommunication. The monument does not emit radiation itself. However, the microwave radiation received and emitted by a mobile phone was significantly strong in the center of the monument. In addition, the EVP result revealed that the center can also channel other types of radiation that may be attributed to radio interferences.
In considering this evidence it is suggested in this article that stone circles played the role of alien satellite and telecommunication antennas. This does not mean that they worked as modern satellite antennas. It appears that the stone circles were markers of sites that have a natural ability to channel radiation. This is consistent with the alternative view that megalithic were located in ley lines with high levels of energy. What is novel in this investigation is the claim that these sites not only may be related to ley lines, but also have the property of channeling microwave and radio radiation useful for alien telecommunication. This can explain why a significant number of UFO sightings have been reported in the area of the Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle and other similar monuments: these monuments are still been used as satellite antennas by alien spaceships.
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(*) Ley lines correspond to invisible hypothetical alignments of magnetic energy that connect ancient sites and it is argued that extra-terrestrial craft use them as a point of navigation.
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Bizar gedrag alien megastructuur. Hoe kan een ster dit doen?
Bizar gedrag alien megastructuur. Hoe kan een ster dit doen?
Eén van de vreemdste sterren in ons sterrenstelsel is weer actief. Op vrijdag werd Tabby’s ster plotseling zwakker.
Astronomen richten nu zoveel mogelijk telescopen op de ster, die zich op 1300 lichtjaar van de aarde bevindt, om het vreemde signaal te ontcijferen.
In 2015 ontdekte een team sterrenkundigen onder leiding van Tabetha Boyajian van de Yale-universiteit dat de ster KIC 8462852 periodieke helderheidsdipjes vertoonde.
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De ster werd tot wel 22 procent zwakker om vervolgens weer normaal te worden.
In 2016 bleek uit een analyse van oude beelden dat KIC 8462852 tussen 1890 en 1989 in totaal 14 procent zwakker is geworden.
Met behulp van de Kepler-telescoop is ontdekt dat in de afgelopen vier jaar nog eens vier procent van het licht van de ster is weggenomen.
Vreemd object gespot op Google Earth. Is dit een gecrasht ruimteschip op Antarctica?
Vreemd object gespot op Google Earth. Is dit een gecrasht ruimteschip op Antarctica?
Het internet is weer in de ban van een ‘vondst’ op Antarctica. Er gaat momenteel een filmpje rond van een Russische UFO-jager die een ‘ruimteschip’ op het continent meent te hebben ontdekt.
Valentin Degteryov besloot beelden van het object, dat volgens hem al die tijd onontdekt is gebleven omdat het was bedekt met sneeuw, op internet te zetten nadat hij op een donkere vorm was gestuit op Google Earth.
De UFO-jager uit Nizjni Tagil, een stad in het Aziatische deel van Rusland, zegt dat het object bijna 600 meter lang is.
Smelten
Hij vermoedt dat het nu pas zichtbaar is geworden vanwege het smelten van de ijslaag op het meest zuidelijke continent.
Een filmpje dat dinsdag door Degteryov op YouTube is gezet, is inmiddels al honderdduizenden keren bekeken.
Bergtop
De meesten kunnen zich echter niet vinden in zijn theorie en zijn van mening dat het object een bergtop is.
De plek waar volgens Degteryov miljoenen jaren geleden een ruimteschip is neergestort, is te vinden door de volgende coördinaten in te voeren: 73°13’55.09″S,71°57’12.98″W.
Earlier this week, a newspaper in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia reported that an event planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of Canada’s most famous UFO incidents was in jeopardy due to funding. The event is being organized by the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society (SHUFOIS), who had hoped to secure a grant offered by Canada’s Department of Communities, Culture & Heritage. Unfortunately, they were not approved for the grant, putting the event’s future in question. However, according to SHUFOIS, an anonymous donor has come forward to fund the event, and the festivities are now back on.
The Shag Harbour Incident Society Museum.
(Credit: Shag Harbour Incident Society)
Shag Harbour is a small fishing village with around 500 residents. Their claim to fame is a UFO incident that occurred on October 4, 1967.
A website setup by the Canadian Library and Archives describes the UFO event:
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia
October 4, 1967
On the night of October 4, 1967, officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and six civilians witnessed an incredible, yet unexplainable, sight. Earlier in the evening, the RCMP had received many phone calls from residents reporting that an airplane had crashed into Shag Harbour. Both the RCMP and locals had rushed to the shore of the harbour, but what they encountered there was far from a conventional aircraft.
Witnesses reported seeing an object 60 feet in length moving in an easterly direction before it descended rapidly into the water, making a bright splash on impact. A single white light appeared on the surface of the water for a short period of time. The RCMP, with help from local fishermen and their boats, endeavoured to reach the object before it sank completely.
Local fishermen remember travelling through thick, glittery, yellow foam to get to where they saw the object. Bubbles from underneath the surface of the water appeared around the boats. The crews attempted to search the area for evidence of survivors, but found no one.
The Department of National Defence (DND) conducted an underwater search of the area, but failed to locate any evidence of an object.
The crashing of the unidentified flying object into Shag Harbour is still discussed today, with many articles appearing on the Internet. There is no trace of the RCMP reports of this sighting in the files. The Department of National Defence has identified this sighting as unsolved, and the only documentation that exists in the files is a DND memo.
Canadian UFO report linked to in the Shag Harbour UFO Incident summary.
(Credit: Canada Library and Archives)
The incident is famous in UFO circles, and often referred to as Canada’s Roswell. However, SHUFOIS members say they have not received the support they feel they deserve.
Brock Zinck, vice-president of SHUFOIS , told the Shelburne County Coast Guard, “We can’t get a lot of love here in Shag Harbour; they won’t even give us a (Highway 103) sign.”
“Maybe the government doesn’t want to know we are there,” Zinck added.
Inside the Shag Harbour Incident Society Museum.
(Credit: Shag Harbour Incident Society)
Their hearts were further broken when they were denied the grant.
“We were really counting on the grant…we were excited,” Zinck said. “It does throw a wrench in our preparations. We had big plans to take it to the next level.”
However, in a press release OpenMinds.tv received this morning, Zinck writes: “We are back on track to make this the most epic Shag Harbour UFO Incident Festival ever. It’s going to be outta this world!”
Zinck says that a civilian, who is involved with the study of UFOs and “related phenomenon,” read about the lack of funding and, as Zinck puts it, “to our complete shock, offered a significant donation.”
Gazebo and sign outside of the Shag Harbour UFO Incident museum.
(Credit: DiscoverShelburneCounty.com)
Zinck says the donor wished to remain anonymous, but did provide a public statement.
Although there is much I can’t reveal, without any hesitation I can say the Canadian Government (and the International Community it answers to) appears to be concealing what happened in and around the waters of Shag Harbour, Canada on Oct 4th, 1967. People with the connections, notoriety, and finances are working hard to challenge how we view the world around us. Shag Harbour is one of the smoking guns that will be used to achieve this.
Mysterious, to say the least.
The weeklong festival will be held September 29 to October 1 later this year. There will also be an event on October 4, marking the actual anniversary of the event.
A Wisconsin witness at Sawyer County reported watching “three stacked orbs” hovering at a nearby tree line for 45 minutes, according to testimony in Case 83015 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness observed three hovering orbs from his deck in Sawyer County, WI.
(Credit: Google)
The witness and his mother contacted Wisconsin Field Investigator Chad Laibly, who completed the report.
“The witness was having a cigarette at 11:50 p.m. when he walked out onto his wrap-around deck, came around a corner, and immediately noticed a bright object out of his peripheral vision,” Laibly stated in the report.“It scared the heck out of him.”
The witness immediately went to get his mother and she too noticed the object.
“As it was fairly cold, she only observed the phenomenon for 10 minutes. He watched it steadily for 45 minutes straight. Went inside, came out two hours later and it was gone.”
The object he observed quite well consisted of three orbs stacked on top of each other with an aura-type force sparkling force field surrounding them.
The edges of the object were observed to sparkle. Pictured: Sawyer County, WI.
(Credit: Google)
“The orbs were 12-15 feet wide, making the object about 36-45 feet tall. It was observed hovering above a tree line that was approximately one football field away and two football fields high. The orbs were solid, not transparent. The bottom was all white with a smear of pink. The middle was aqua-marine in color. The top was white/yellow to gold in color. All three orbs were surrounded by an unbroken, fuzzy ‘force field’ outline existing about a foot away from the edges of the objects – giving the objects the look of a full peapod.”
The objects were described as brighter than any other observable star. The witness identified the North Star as being to the east and not the object.
“He did not think it could be a drone or Chinese lantern in any way. It made no noise. It did not move slowly as time went on. It hovered silently and stayed about 35-degrees above the horizon with several houses and a golf course beneath. It did not dim. It did not waiver. The edges kind of sparkled, like a sparkler.”
The object hovered over several houses and a golf course for 45 minutes. Pictured: Sawyer County, WI.
(Credit: Google)
The witness says there were no negative effects related to the sighting.
“No missing time noted. No clouds, a very light wind at 5mph present. About 30-35 degrees in temperature he believed. He has no glasses and sees, hears, and smells fine. He has a phone, but knows from experience he can’t take pictures of stars at night because they never turn out. He’s quite often on his porch and has tried to do so in the past. He was quite shocked, watched it intently for a long time, is certain of his observation as described, and says it has changed his entire outlook on life. He will buy some color pencils and attempt to sketch a likeness.”
Sawyer County, WI, has a population of 16,557. No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on April 7, 2017. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com
Because church attendances worldwide are falling and that the percentage of individuals who identify as atheist or as not following a religion is increasing, it is generally increasingly becoming an accepted view that God does not exist.
The idea of a god of some kind isn't necessarily in a rapid decline, rather how people tend to think of God and the idea of organized religion.
It has long been established that the various Christian disciplines contain numerous contradictions not to mention revisions and portions of the Bible hidden from the public by the Vatican City.
The Catholic sect has experienced scandal after scandal over the last few years while the Muslim faith is gaining a worldwide negative reputation due to the continued actions terrorists using their scriptures as justification for their actions.
While religions are self-imploding, the view that most people have of the world and their understanding of the universe and our place in it is also changing.
As recently as a few decades ago people could easily deny the possibility of life on other planets as no other potentially life-bearing planets had been discovered. Similarly, the sheer size and scale of the universe and how tiny and insignificant humankind and the earth are was not known.
While the old ideas of a god being an omnipotent presence who watched over us die off, however, belief in a universal God is increasing. This is a god who does not care what we do, know we even exist or have any interest in being worshiped. More the idea that the universe started from somewhere and as scientific knowledge increases the one defining start point of the universe is increasingly unknown.
This suggests that while a deity as most people think of one doesn't exist, a god of some description becomes more likely. The more questions that science can answer, the more puzzling the fundamental questions become, and the more the answer can only be a deity of some kind.
Other examples of reasons for the existence of God include the spontaneous development of different forms of religion at various points in history, or the constant reemergence of different life forms after mass extinctions.
What are they hiding? Brexit blamed for latest delay in release of UK UFO 'X-Files'
What are they hiding? Brexit blamed for latest delay in release of UK UFO 'X-Files'
THE Pre-Brexit general election has been blamed for yet another delay to the release of British classified UFO files that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) appears reluctant to let go of.
Conspiracy theorists claim the Government is stalling and using any excuse to stop the release of the files as they may contain a smoking gun piece of evidence about alien visitations of Earth.
Last year the 18 files were sent to the National Archives for release to the public, but then mysteriously sent back to the MoD for further censure.
The latest release date was set to be this March, but, again they failed to materialise.
Now, the National Archives has blamed the upcoming general election - called to give Theresa May a mandate for Brexit - for further delays, according to Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de.
They are believed to date from 1971-76 and 1996-2000, and 2004.
It is also hoped there are further files from the December 1980 Rendlesham Forest UFO incident that will shed more light on the bizarre case, when US military officer claim to have seen a UFO land.
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The delay to the release of the UFO files has led to cover-up claims.
A National Archives spokesman spoke to the German frontier science and the paranormal news blog.
He said: "Due to the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.
"We are working to ensure that the files are ready for release as soon after this period as is possible: hopefully around the middle of June."
In 2013, the MoD claimed to have released all of its UFO related formerly classified files, after beginning declassification in 2008, but it later emerged in 2014 it had held back the 18 still to be released.
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UFO hunters hope the files will hold smoking gun evidence of alien visitations.
I understand people's frustration and can see why this delay is generating conspiracy theories. I hope the release of the last files can be fast-tracked after the election.
In a blog about the delay, Andreas Müller, editor of Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de, wrote: "Since it became known in Autumn of 2014 that contrary to the claim that the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has released all of its formerly secret UFO-files already back in 2013, still 18 files of the MoD’s former UFO-Bureau files were held back.
"UFO-researches as well as historians look forward to the release of those files, that has been postponed repeatedly since then.
"As even the latest release date given – March 2017 – has passed."
Nick Pope, who was formerly employed by the MoD to investigate the UFO phenomenon, until 2009, told Express.co.uk: "As a former civil servant I understand the reasons for this, but the UFO community will doubtless be suspicious of this latest delay.
"When I made the official announcement of the declassification and release of these UFO files in May 2008, the thinking was the the release project would take two or three years.
"Now, over nine years later, I understand people's frustration and can see why this delay is generating conspiracy theories.
"I hope the release of the last files can be fast-tracked after the election."
It’s almost certainly not aliens, but once again, Tabby’s Star is acting hella weird. The star that first became our planetary obsession back in the fall of 2015—when astronomer Jason Wright suggested its weird flickering behavior might be the result of an alien megastructure—is, once again, flickering. But unlike previous stellar glitches, astronomers are now prepared to study it in the act.
The world was first alerted to a alien signal mysterious change in the star’s light output in a tweet from Wright this morning.
As reported by Popular Science, Fairborn Observatory in Arizona confirmed that the star’s light output has recently dimmed by approximately 3 percent. As with previous dimming events, this can’t be easily explained by any ordinary stellar behavior. Past explanations for the star’s fits and starts include a swarm of cometary fragments, a recently-annihilated planet (full disclosure: my brother, an astronomer at Columbia University, came up with that one), and, every true believer’s favorite, an alien megastructure.
Tabby’s Star, or KIC 8462852 as it was first identified in the Kepler space telescope database, has confounded astronomers since its unusual light curve was first spotted by citizen scientists. Over four years of Kepler observations, the star’s light output intermittently tanked, dropping by roughly 20 percent on one occasion. The more astronomers looked at the star, the weirder things got. An analysis of old photographic plates hinted that the star’s light output diminished a whopping 19 percent over the 20th century, and a subsequent analysis of Kepler’s data seemed to confirm long-term dimming. It was soon decided that the only way to solve the mystery would be to observe the star in the act of dimming across the electromagnetic spectrum. Following a successful crowdfunding campaign by star-discoverer Tabetha Boyajian last spring, that’s exactly what astronomers have been gearing up to do.
Now, they’re wasting no time. A call is currently open for telescopes around the world, including amateur astronomers, to point their eyes at Tabby’s Star and watch how its light curve changes over the course of the ongoing dimming event. “Right now, we’re organizing lots of different telescopes,” Wright said in an interview with UC Berkeley’s SETI program, noting that observers on both Keck telescopes in Hawaii were going to look at Tabby’s Star tonight, along with, hopefully, folks at several other observatories elsewhere in the United States and around the world. “It should be a really exciting weekend.
As I’ve explained previously, Kepler’s data on Tabby’s Star consisted of a smear of white light. More precise measurements at different wavelengths could help us zero in on whatever material is actually occluding it. A spectra with high absorption in blue and ultraviolet wavelengths, for instance, could point to a giant blob of dust around the star, while an excess of infrared radiation may support the comet hypothesis.
But what would support the theory of a vast alien construction project? Only the most extraordinary evidence—although at this point, as long as the star continues to defy natural explanations, the nerds in the room can dream on.
Exciting stuff! I’ve reached out to Boyajian and Wright for comment on what the next steps are, and I’ll update this post if I hear back. If you’re keen to learn more right now, SETI’s hour-long conversation with Wright today, embedded above, is chock full of additional information.
'Alien Megastructure' Star Is at It Again with the Strange Dimming
'Alien Megastructure' Star Is at It Again with the Strange Dimming
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
An artist's illustration of Boyajian's star, which experiences unexplained changes in brightness. One hypothesis is that a planet has broken up around the star, and the debris is block the star's light.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech
The perplexing cosmic object known as "Boyajian's star" is once again exhibiting a mysterious pattern of dimming and brightening that scientists have tried to explain with hypotheses ranging from swarms of comets to alien megastructures.
Today (May 19), an urgent call went out to scientists around the world to turn as many telescopes as possible toward the star, to try and crack the mystery of its behavior.
"At about 4 a.m. this morning I got a phone call … that Fairborn [Observatory] in Arizona had confirmed that the star was 3 percent dimmer than it normally is," Jason Wright, an associate professor of astronomy at Pennsylvania State University, who is managing a study of Boyajian's star, said during a live webcast today at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT). "That is enough that we are absolutely confident that this is no statistical fluke. We've now got it confirmed at multiple observatories, I think.
Star KIC 8462852, or Boyajian's star (also nicknamed "Tabby's star," for astronomer Tabetha Boyajian, who led the team that first detected the star's fluctuations), has demonstrated an irregular cycle of growing dimmer and then returning to its previous brightness. These changes were first spotted in September 2015 using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which was built to observe these kinds of dips in a star's brightness, because they can be caused by a planet moving in front of the star as seen from Earth.
But the brightness changes exhibited by Boyajian don't show the kind of regularity that is typical of a planet's orbit around its star, and scientists can't see how the changes could be explained by a system of planets.
Scientists have hypothesized that the changes could be due to a swarm of comets passing in front of the star, that they're the result of strong magnetic activity, or that it's some massive structure built by aliens. But no leading hypothesis has emerged, so scientists have been eager to capture a highly detailed picture of the light coming from the star during one of these dimming periods. This detailed view is what scientists typically call an object spectra. It can reveal, for example, the specific chemical elements that are in a gas. It can also tell scientists if an object is moving toward or away from the observer.
"Whatever's causing the star to get dimmer will leave a spectral fingerprint behind," Wright said during the webcast, which took place in the Breakthrough Listen laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. "So if there is a lot of dust between us and the star … it will block more blue light than red light. If there is gas in that dust, that gas should absorb very specific wavelengths and we should be able to see that. And so, we've been eager to see one of these changes in one of these dips of the star so we can take some spectra."
But the scientists couldn't predict when the next dimming event would occur or how long it will last. (Dips detected by Kepler lasted for between two and seven days, according to Wright.) Professional-grade telescopes typically schedule observing time weeks or months in advance, so Wright and his colleagues knew their observations would have to come at the behest of colleagues who were already using the telescopes for other projects.
"We need to have a network of people around the world that are ready to jump on [and observe it]," Wright said. "Fortunately, Tabby's star is not too faint and so there are a lot of observers and telescopes … that have graciously agreed to take some time out of their science to grab a spectrum for us [tonight]."
Wright said the call had gone out to amateur as well as professional astronomers to observe Boyajian's star during this dimming period. The largest and most powerful telescopes that will heed the call are the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W.H. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The team is working to gain observing time on at least three other large telescopes on the U.S., according to Wright.
The Breakthrough Listen initiative, which searches for signs of intelligent life in the universe, has also taken an interest in the star and will be observing it with the Automated Planet Finder telescope at Lick Observatory in California, according to Andrew Siemion, director or the Berkeley SETI Research Center, said in the webcast.
"It's Super Bowl Sunday," Siemion said of the atmosphere at the during the webcast. "There's a palpable tension."
Breakthrough and the Berkeley center are now trying to get some observing time on the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia, according to Siemion.
Boyajian was the astronomer at Yale University who led the team that initially spotted the star's brightness fluctuations. It was Boyajian who called Wright at 4 a.m. to confirm that the star is dimming.
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