Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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Britain’s UFO files to be RELEASED confirms Government: ‘These are the REAL-life X-Files’
Britain’s UFO files to be RELEASED confirms Government: ‘These are the REAL-life X-Files’
BRTIAN’S top secret UFO files are set to be released within months shedding lighting on alien encounters across the UK, the government have confirmed.
UFO FILES: Alien documents compiled by the MoD will be released by the National Archives
The government has confirmed classified documents detailing evidence of UFO sightings and abductions contain nearly 50 years of information about alien experiences.
Spooks have kept the files under wraps for the past five decades – but now UFO hunters are rejoicing as the files are on the verge of release.
The National Archives have confirmed the UFO document dubbed the “real life X-files” will be released after the General Election on June 8.
It will contain information relating the the Rendlesham Forest incident – Britain’s most infamous UFO encounter – which has been likened to the UK”s Roswell.
Military men at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk experienced “alien” activity over a number of nights and encountered a “triangle shaped craft” in the woods.
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ALIENS: UFO hunters are hopefully the MoD files will reveal life from space
Conspiracy theorists have claimed the delays in releasing the files have been a cover-up – but archivists have been unable to publish them due to the election.
Documents were meant to be released in 2013, but a number of the files were withheld for release in March.
But their release has been delayed again due to Prime Minister Theresa May calling an election.
While UFO hunters are waiting with baited breath for the files, experts have downplayed their release.
Nick Pope, an expert who worked as the Ministry of Defence's UFO investigator for 15 years, said: "There’s no smoking gun in these files that will confirm the existence of aliens, but there are plenty of fascinating UFO reports and MoD policy documents, so these really are the real-life X-Files.”
He told the Mail: "The delay has been a comedy of errors though, I think it’s more bureaucracy than conspiracy.”
A spokesman for the National Archives told UFO news website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell: “Due to the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to the government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.”
Scientists have never proved the existence of alien-life – but remain hopeful with new discoveries such as Earth-like planet Proxima B.
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Secret Government UFO dossier ‘will only be released after General Election’
Secret Government UFO dossier ‘will only be released after General Election’
Charles White for Metro.co.uk
UFO’s have held an especial fascination for some (Picture: Getty)
Secret papers collected by the government will be declassified after 50 years – but only after the election.
The UFO sightings dossier will expose what the Government knows – and what it doesn’t.
Many who do not believe the official story on extra-terrestrial life have said they expect ‘Britain’s Roswell’ to be solved.
The Rendlesham Forest incident has been kept under lock and key by successive British governments since the 1980s.
UFO experts believe the documents will be from 1971-76, 1996-2000 and 2004.
People still flock to Rendlesham forest at Suffolk (Picture: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group/Getty)
They would have been collected by the Ministry of Defence, which used to have a specific desk dedicated to investigating extra-terrestrial life.
However, the desk was closed down in 2009 because it served ‘no defence purpose’.
The so-called X Files have been held back by the National Archives in 2013.
It was rumoured that there were 18 documents that were not allowed to be released.
The Government has pushed back the release date twice after it was initially scheduled for a release in March.
Don’t expect something like this, critics cautioned (Picture: Getty)
But the confusion in Theresa May’s leadership caused by Brexit apparently stopped the release.
A spokesman for the National Archives told German website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell: ‘Due 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.’
It is hoped the the dossier will explain the Rendlesham Incident.
But it’s not the Holy Grail for alien conspiracy theorists.
What is the Britain's Roswell?
A UFO sign at Rendlesham Forest (Picture: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group/Getty)
The Rendlesham Forest incident is one of the most famous of British UFO theories and has yet to be cracked.
Strange lights were reported near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge during a period of three nights. Between December 26-28 in 1980.
It was first exposed on voice recordings from senior American soldiers, who also drew disturbing pictures of the object they saw at the British forest.
‘While in Rendlesham Forest, our security team observed a light that looked like a large eye, red in colour, moving through the trees,’ Colonel Charles Halt said.
‘After a few minutes this object began dripping something that looked like molten metal.’
Another claimed to have telepathically ‘received’ a binary code, which has never been deciphered.
Some of the ‘marks’ left at the site have either been used as evidhttp://metro.co.uk/news/ence of UFOs or simply rabbit holes.
But it certainly has left an impact on the conspiracy theorist community.
‘Even today ufologists squabble over what really happened at Rendlesham Forest in late December 1980. Did an alien spaceship land here?’ Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said.
‘Were the US airmen who saw the UFO fooled by the light from a nearby lighthouse? Was it a smokescreen to hide a nuclear incident or some other type of covert operation? Or was it a hoax?’
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, was cautious about what was truly on offer with the release of the new documents.
‘Getting the majority of the documents into the public domain was a slow process, which was mainly due to the efforts of Dr David Clarke, Prinicipal Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University,’ he told MailOnline.
‘I’m reliably informed that these remaining files contain duplicates of documents already made available to the public.
‘It seems very unlikely they will contain anything like the type of evidence UFO supporters yearn for, like crashed saucers or interviews with aliens.’
The National Archives told Metro.co.uk that they were a non-ministerial government department, and added that they had made the decision to publish the documents after the election because of ‘purdah’ rules and said there was ‘nothing more to it’.
A dossier of files kept secret by the UK government for almost 50 years could be released after June's general election.
The documents will be published by the National Archives and are believed to contain details of sightings of UFOs over almost five decades.
And alien hunters are hoping they will reveal evidence of a cover-up of a number of high profile incidents they believe are related to extra-terrestrials, including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed 'Britain's Roswell.'
A dossier of files kept secret by the UK government for almost 50 years could be released after June's general election that shed light on a number of high profile UFO sightings (artist's impression pictured), including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980 (stock image)
THE PAPERS
The National Archives has previously released huge swathes of material gathered by the Ministry of Defence.
The files still to be published are believed to date from 1971-76, 1996-2000 and 2004.
The papers were originally meant to be released in 2013 alongside thousands of others which did see the light of day, but 18 specific documents were withheld.
The latest publication date was set for March this year, but this passed by with no news forthcoming.
But German paranormal news website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell reported on Friday this delay was down to Brexit.
The National Archives has previously released huge swathes of material gathered by the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) UFO Desk, thought to number in the thousands.
The files still to be published are believed to date from 1971-76, 1996-2000 and 2004.
The papers were originally meant to be released in 2013 alongside thousands of others which did see the light of day, but 18 specific documents were withheld.
This prompted claims of a conspiracy to cover-up the existence of alien life among some theorists and another delay in publication last year added to this speculation.
The latest publication date was set for March this year, but this delay passed by with no news forthcoming.
But German paranormal news website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell reported on Friday this was down to Brexit.
A spokesman for National Archives reportedly told the site: 'Due 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.'
Conspiracy theorists are hoping the files may shed light on the notorious Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980, dubbed Britain's Roswell.
Strange lights were reported by servicemen in the forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge.
The disputed sightings, over three nights between December 26-28, occurred when Britain and the West were on high alert during the Cold War.
But not everyone is convinced that the documents will prove to be the smoking gun alien hunters are hoping for.
Strange lights were reported by servicemen in the forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. Hundreds of people visit the UFO trail at Rendlesham Forest every year after the infamous sightings provoked a flurry of interest (stock image)
In an email to MailOnline Nick Pope, who worked for the MoD investigating UFO sightings until 2009, said: 'There's no smoking gun in these files that will confirm the existence of aliens, but there are plenty of fascinating UFO reports and MoD policy documents, so these really are the real life X-Files.
'The delay has been a comedy of errors though, I think it's more bureaucracy than conspiracy.
'I understand the frustration of people who were expecting these files to be released by now.'
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'Getting the majority of the documents into the public domain was a slow process, which was mainly due to the efforts of Dr David Clarke, Prinicipal Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University.
'I’m reliably informed that these remaining files contain duplicates of documents already made available to the public.
'It seems very unlikely they will contain anything like the type of evidence UFO supporters yearn for, like crashed saucers or interviews with aliens.'
THE RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT: BRITAIN’S ROSWELL
Strange lights were reported by servicemen in the forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge.
The incident came to be known as 'Britain's Roswell' after the UFO sightings in New Mexico.
Soldiers investigated what the lights were, including Staff Sgt Jim Burroughs, Airman First Class Edward Cabansag and Airman First Class Larry Warren.
The disputed sightings, over three nights between December 26-28, occurred when Britain and the West were on high alert during the Cold War.
Retired US Air Force officer Steve Longero broke a 36 year silence, in December 2016, to reveal he also saw something in the night sky.
Mr Longero said the UFOs looked like red and green fluorescent lights hovering over treetops.
The Ministry of Defence has said there was no proof of any UFO landings at Rendlesham Forest (the woodland's UFO trail pictured)
He also dismissed one theory that the lights had been caused by a lighthouse.
The incident became a topic of fascination in the UK after a group of servicemen went into Rendlesham Forest to investigate the mysterious lights and came out convinced they had seen seen an alien spacecraft.
The Suffolk sightings resurfaced claims from those living in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 when an unexpected crash was alleged to have been the remains of a spacecraft and alien bodies.
But this was rejected by the U.S. military following a close investigation into the wreckage.
The British Ministry of Defence has also dismissed the claims regarding Rendlesham.
It said there was no threat to national security and the UFOs were likely to be caused by a series of nocturnal lights.
Saarbrucken (Germany) – 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-researchers 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, Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de (GreWi), a German newsblog on frontier science and the paranormal, has asked back at the British National Archives and presents now again exclusively the latest explanation for the ongoing delay.
The early United Kingdom general election called by Theresa May for 8 June 2017, also delays the release of the last secret UFO-files by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD). Copyright: Foreign and Commonwealth Office / (via WikimediaCommons) CC BY-SA 2.0
As a spokesperson of the National Archives explained to GreWi-editor Andreas Müller, the current delay is due to the Brexit-related United Kingdom general election which takes place on 8 June 2017.
“(…) Due 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.”
Part of the yet to be released UFO-documents are filed under the title “UFO-Policy” and date from 1971-76 and 1996-2000. Three other files cover June-December 2000, December–March 2004 and March 2004. Furthermore the MoD also confirmed that some files cover topics like “Air Traffic Controll Low Flying UFOs” as well as so-called “ADGE UFO Reports”, which experts assume that they are UFO related documents from the radar unity “Air Defence Ground Environment”.
Some observers even anticipate that parts of the files will include also new information about the so-called Rendlesham Forest Incident, when in December 1980 staff of the military RAF-bases Bentwaters and Woodbridge (used at the time by the U.S. Air Force) allegedly observed the landing of an unidentified flying object at close range.
Background
Contrary to its claim in 2013 that now all of its formerly classified UFO-files were released to the public via the National Archives, in 2014 the MoD had to confirm that 18 of such UFO-files were still held back. However, a publication of this files was initially announced for 2015 – but the date was delayed into early 2016, then to summer 2016 and then again into August. In August it was said that the release was again rescheduled and that the files would not be published before early 2017.
After a review in The New York Times, a book by a couple in Syracuse, U.F.O. Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015 has drawn attention to the phenomena of people seeing things in the sky they can’t immediately identify, a.k.a. unidentified flying objects. The book is a statistical analysis of reports made to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). Here are select sightings from the Hudson Highlands, edited for brevity.
Cold Spring, July 15, 1966
In 1966 I was 8 years old and at sleepaway summer camp at Surprise Lake. That night in our bunk, there was a light shining through the window. We figured a counselor must have set up a flood light. That night I dreamed two figures were standing over me looking down at me, one a typical grey with almond-shaped eyes. On the right, a round-headed, round-faced and round-eyed dude with a mouth stuck in the position like he was saying “Ooooh.” The grey inserted a probe into my forehead.
I pulled the covers over my head. I figured it was a dream. The next evening the counselors transformed an indoor basketball court into a “spacecraft.” A lot of kids were screaming in terror. In retrospect I realize that the whole encampment — 19 kids and five teenaged counselors — had been abducted by the light, and the counselors subconsciously reenacted the whole event.
A grey alien from the TBS comedy “People of Earth,” which is set in Beacon and has been renewed for a second season that begins later this year.
Garrison, June 1974
I was about 15 and was walking with a friend on Manitou Road west of Route 9D at about midnight. We were walking with our backs to the highway and noticed the sky light up. We turned and saw an object in the sky, about 1,000 feet up and half a mile south of us. I saw a white, glowing disk that stood still and made no sound.
After a second or two, the disk moved closer and covered a half-mile almost instantly, stopping on a dime. After another second or two, it veered off to the east, in the area of South Mountain Pass. I have been encouraged by books like Night Siege to think that sightings in the Hudson Valley have not been unusual.
Cold Spring, 1975
I was looking out the window of my elementary school classroom. Against the backdrop of the mountains on the other side of the river, I saw a bluish-grey metallic oval object. It zipped around at high speeds at various angles, then would pause and shoot off. I watched for at least 15 minutes, I remember looking at the school clock, as I was starting to get bored watching it (hey, I was a kid).
When I’d finally made up my mind to tell someone about this, it was gone. I can’t possibly have been the only one who saw this, yet I have never heard of anyone else who admits to having seen anything unusual.
Cold Spring, July 15, 2002
I was in a cabin near the woods. About 10:30 p.m., outside of my window, I saw a gigantic gold circle with flashing blue, red, and yellow lights. It was at least half a mile away. Other people in cabin saw it, too. It was moving sideways and up.
Garrison, Oct. 26, 2002
About 9:30 p.m. I saw an array of hovering red lights through the woods behind my house. Some were blinking. There was no sound. There is no tower or any houses for miles. I watched for about 10 minutes. I’m a nurse and have never seen a UFO and am not even sure they exist.
Cold Spring, March 15, 2004
I was watching The Tonight Show when the cat jumped up to the corner of the window and pushed the drape aside. Curious, I looked out and saw what looked like a 747 going very slow. I went outside to get a better look. The craft was about 300 feet long, going 25 to 35 mph, no noise, maybe 600 to 1,000 feet up.
A UFO photographed in Carmel at 9:10 p.m. on April 18 (MUFON)
Beacon, Feb. 2, 2005
As I stepped outside to the front of my house at 6 p.m. I saw what I thought was the radio tower of Mount Beacon. It started to move slightly, and I thought it was a helicopter. I tried to look through binoculars on a steady point and the object kept on moving around and I am unable to get a clear look. This is going on as I type this.
Cold Spring, June 2, 2008
I was walking my dog at about 10:30 p.m. and noticed a bright light in the northeastern sky. It was too bright to be a plane and there was no sound. This was a bright light resembling a bright star and it was moving in a curving direction. I watched it for about one minute and it disappeared.
Beacon, June 4, 2011
I was driving on the Newburgh-Beacon bridge toward Beacon about 10:10 p.m. when I noticed a strange object. What caught my eye were the lights; they were positioned differently than on a plane. As I approached the toll booth I noticed that it was in the same place it had been while I was on the bridge, hovering in place.
Once I got through the toll, I went to turn around so I could try to get a video on my phone, but by then it had vanished. It was triangular, and not much bigger than a small passenger plane.
Beacon, Dec. 28, 2011
I didn’t want to be the first person to talk about this sighting so I’ve been scanning the internet for two months hoping someone would post about it. This kind of thing makes you doubt your sanity. About 3 p.m. I was driving east on I-84 when I saw something strange. It almost looked like a derby hat hanging in the sky (I know it’s goofy but that’s what it reminded me of). I could see the bulge in the middle and then what sort of looked like a brim sticking out at the sides.
I was doing 75 mph and it quickly passed in and out of my field of vision because of mountains and hills that the road cuts through. I came around that bend and there in the sky right above the highway was a massive object. As I went underneath, it looked almost diamond shaped and a matte gray. After I passed, I looked in my mirror but it was gone. This all transpired in about 30 seconds. People in other cars around me were also looking up.
When I got to the tollbooth, I asked the collector if she had seen it. Beaming, she said, “I finally saw one.” The weirdest thing, it looked aquatic, almost like a manta ray and had two black circles underneath that looked empty, like holes. It was completely still and silent, and freaked me out. I wondered if it wasn’t a military craft, but the woman at the booth seemed positive it was a UFO. I tried to snap a picture but all I got was the roofline of my car.
Beacon, Oct. 12, 2014
Spotted a reddish orange light over Newburgh as I was driving down my street about 7 p.m. It was somewhat stationary and glowed with a slight pulse. It was quite high up. I had watched it for two minutes or so when the red glow faded from a round shape to a triangle with three sections, like looking at an airplane prop. It changed to dull orange like a highway flare glow, then went out. Maybe it was a balloon with a flare attached, of a parachute flare, but I never seen one this high in the sky and I am familiar with flares.
Beacon, March 11, 2015
About 10:45 p.m., I couldn’t make out the shape of the aircraft but the lights were in a cross shape, red and white light and some were blinking. It was flying east to west, about five or six lights on the front and two or three on the back. No noise whatsoever. I have been living in Beacon for four months now and have never seen anything fly that low.
Cold Spring, July 4, 2015
After the fireworks at about 10:30 p.m., while in the municipal parking lot, we noticed an orange glowing object moving north slowly over West Point. At one point it remained stationary. Several times it emitted smaller glowing lights from its rear and bottom that appeared to fall and disappear. The object disappeared and reappeared several times over 8 to 10 minutes.
Cold Spring, July 23, 2015
I was driving to work at 11 p.m. and saw a slow plane and a fast plane. The slow plane was too slow, in my opinion. All of a sudden it got brighter and larger, like an extremely bright star about the size of a golf ball. Then I lost it behind the trees and couldn’t find it again.
Cold Spring, Aug. 3, 2016
As I was driving home north on Route 9D, across from West Point, at about 11 p.m., my friend and I noticed a bright light moving slowly. It wandered overhead and looked almost like a hovering rocket. When we turned around further down the road, the craft had vanished.
UFO photographed in Beacon, Aug. 10, 2016
Beacon, Aug. 10, 2016
At about 2:10 p.m., I was taking photos for landscaping paintings. When I was looking through my photos that evening, there was an object I didn’t recognize. It didn’t appear to be a bird. Many professional photographers said I should submit the photo to UFO experts.
Beacon, Feb. 24, 2017
I was walking into my kitchen at about 11:45 p.m. and noticed an unusually bright white light over Mount Beacon. A series of smaller multi-color lights (red, blue and orange) began moving around the white light. This went on for over an hour, with the lights growing much larger, moving, dancing, and finally disappearing. There’s definitely something happening there.
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The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.
Fantastic Specimen
The herbivorous nodosaur was covered with protective, bony spikes.
Credit: Copyright Royal Tyrrell Museum
A spiky, tank-like dinosaur discovered in a Canadian mine is so well-preserved, it looks as if the fossilized creature were frozen in time for 110 million years.
When the dinosaur died, Alberta was as warm as South Carolina is today, and sat on the coast of a shallow inland seaway that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. It's unclear if the dinosaur drowned in the seaway or died on land and then got swept out to sea, Brown said. Either way, the carcass would have undergone a phenomenon called "bloat and float" as the body decomposed and filled with gases. [Read more about the spiky tank.]
Cosmic Memories
A free mobile app will allow anyone to follow the track of the spacecraft holding the human remains, a trek that is expected to last two years.
Credit: Elysium Space
If a celestial memorial seems fitting for a deceased loved one, you may consider sending their ashes into the heavens aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Here's how the mission will work: Once a person signs up for the memorial, they will receive a capsule, into which they will scoop a portion of the cremated remains, according to Elysium Space. Once Elysium receives the capsule in the mail, they will transfer it to a compartment within one of the spacecraft's modules. [Read more about the strange cargo.]
Rising Binges
Millions of Americans say they engage in extreme binge drinking — or downing at least eight to 10 drinks containing alcohol on a single occasion — and the behavior appears to be on the rise in the U.S., according to a new report.
The researchers analyzed information from more than 36,000 Americans ages 18 and older who completed a survey about their alcohol consumption in 2012 to 2013. The researchers asked the participants to report the maximum number of alcoholic drinks they consumed on a single day in the past year. [Read more about the dangerous new pastime.]
Winged Serpent
The newly identified snake species, Zilantophis schuberti, lived about 5 million years ago and bore broad wing-shaped projections on the sides of its vertebrae.
Credit: Steven Jasinski
Inside a 5-million-year-old sinkhole in Tennessee, at a spot dubbed Gray Fossil Site, scientists have unearthed the fossilized remains of an ancient "winged serpent" among hundreds of other snake bones.
The wing-shaped projections on the vertebrae's sides were likely where back muscles attached to the spine, according to the researchers. [Read more about the strange fossil.]
Forecasting Evolution
The new series "Year Million" on National Geographic Channel explores what humanity may look like in the year 1 million.
Credit: National Geographic
In the year 1 million, Earth's continents will look roughly the same as they do now and the sun will still shine as it does today. But humans could be so radically different that people today wouldn't even recognize them, according to a new series from National Geographic.
A look at what life was like 1 million years in the past provides an idea: At that time, modern humans didn't exist yet, and the most technologically advanced things on the planet were fire and the hand axe. (Picture trying to explain an office job to Homo Erectus, whose day was spent hunting and gathering wild foods.) [Read more about the future of humanity.]
Uninhabited yet Trashy
Plastic pollution covers East Beach on Henderson Island, an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean that is considered one of the world's most remote.
Credit: Jennifer Lavers
A tiny, uninhabited piece of land in the South Pacific Ocean, called Henderson Island, is considered one of the most remote islands in the world. But now, researchers say it has earned a much more worrisome new title: the world's most polluted island.
With as many as 671 pieces of debris per square meter (about 62 pieces per square foot), Henderson Island has the densest plastic pollution ever recorded anywhere on Earth, the researchers said. [Read more about the remote pollution.]
Mysterious Flashes
Sun glints off of ice crystals high in the Earth's atmosphere in images taken from the satellite DSCOVR. The orange circle shows one of the sun glints.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
The "pale blue dot" has been twinkling like a brilliant diamond in satellite images, and scientists may have finally solved the mystery of why.
A powerful camera aboard the DSCOVR satellite has been taking pictures every hour since 2015 from its spot between the sun and the Earth. While skimming through these hourly images, Alexander Marshak, DSCOVR deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, first noticed these sparkling lights over the oceans. [Read more about the strange sights.]
Clean Air and Energy
Polluted air enters through a tube on one side, is purified in the middle and exits the other tube as clean air.
Credit: UAntwerp/KU Leuven
A small innovation could have a big impact on air pollution. In Belgium, researchers have engineered a device that uses sunlight to purify polluted air and produce hydrogen gas that can be stored and used for power.
Now, two teams have merged their expertise to create this newest device, which could purify fouled air and produce energy at the same time. [Read more about the double-duty device.]
Celebrity Awareness
Actor Charlie Sheen in April 2013
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Actor Charlie Sheen's disclosure that he is HIV positive appears to have had a striking effect on sales of home HIV testing kits, a new study suggests.
In fact, the researchers estimated that sales of home HIV testing kits were nearly eight times greater around the time of Sheen's announcement, compared with sales around the time of World AIDS Day (December 1), one of the most high-profile HIV awareness campaigns. [Read more about the uptick in sales.]
Swarms of Clay
EAT ME. A Plasticine caterpillar glistens with moisture while waiting for a predator to strike, in the forest of Tai Po Kau, Hong Kong.
Credit: Chung Yun Tak
An international team of researchers attached thousands of diminutive clay caterpillars to plants in 31 sites across six continents, from the Arctic Circle to Australia. The faux caterpillars were designed to tempt insect-eating predators in a study of global feeding patterns.
An international team of researchers attached thousands of diminutive clay caterpillars to plants in 31 sites across six continents, from the Arctic Circle to Australia. The faux caterpillars were designed to tempt insect-eating predators in a study of global feeding patterns. [Read more about the strange science.]
Big Milestones for SpaceX, Cassini and Virgin Galactic: The Week's Top Space Stories
Big Milestones for SpaceX, Cassini and Virgin Galactic: The Week's Top Space Stories
By SPACE.com Staff
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-76 spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 1, 2017.
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SpaceX successfully launched its first national-security mission (and landed the rocket to boot), Virgin Galactic's new SpaceShipTwo tested its "feathering" re-entry system for the first time, and NASA's Cassini probe made a surprising discovery at Saturn. Here are the most interesting things that happened in the universe this week.
SpaceX launches first mission for U.S. military
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday (May 1) to boost a classified spy satellite into orbit for the U.S. military — the first national-security mission for SpaceX. The rocket's first stage then turned around and touched down at a nearby landing pad. [Full Story: SpaceX Launches US Spy Satellite on Secret Mission, Nails Rocket Landing]
New SpaceShipTwo tests out re-entry system for first time
Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo took to the skies over Mojave, California on Monday (May 1) for the first test flight of the craft's atmospheric re-entry system, which was modified after a fatal test flight in 2014 destroyed the original ship. [Full Story: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes 1st Test Flight of Revamped Re-Entry System]
Cassini finds the gap between Saturn and its rings is eerily silent
Researchers monitoring the Cassini spacecraft were surprised to find almost no dust and debris in the previously unexplored zone between Saturn and its rings during the spacecraft's first dramatic dive through the 1,200-mile-wide (2,000 kilometers) gap. You can hear the strange lack of impacts in a new NASA video. [Full Story: Hear Saturn's 'Big Empty' from Cassini, Which Just Made 2nd Ring Dive]
The Breakthrough Starshot project aims to send tiny robotic probes zooming past nearby alien worlds to hunt for signs of life and gather other data. But the scientific return would be even greater if some of the fast-moving 1-gram spacecraft actually slammed into their target worlds, some researchers said. [Full Story: Kamikaze Starshot: Will Some Interstellar Probes Slam into Their Target Planets?]
A long-overdue fiscal year 2017 spending bill unveiled May 1 will provide NASA with $19.65 billion, more than $600 million above the original request for the agency by the previous administration. [Full Story: NASA Receives More Than $19.6 Billion in 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill]
Why 'Star Wars' still has a hold on us 40 years later
A long, long time ago — 40 years ago this month, actually — an initially small group of theatergoers was transported to a galaxy far, far away, heralding the birth of the "Star Wars" universe. [Full Story: Why the Force Is Still Strong with 'Star Wars' Fans]
As Star-Lord and his team head to the big screen this weekend to guard a galaxy in the Marvel universe, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope remind us that there are far more galaxies in our own universe without any superheroes to protect them from villains. [Full Story: Paging Star-Lord! Hubble Spies Hundreds of Galaxies That Need Guarding]
Over the weekend, the so-called "alien megastructure" star or Tabby's Star resumed its unusual behavior. Astronomers hope that new data from this recent dips in light would help explain this bizarre phenomenon.
A SERIES OF EXCITED TWEETS
When astronomers turn to Twitter to ask everyone who has access to a big enough telescope to look at the sky, you know something is up. Indeed, something was up this past weekend, as one of the Universe’s most mysterious stars reignited some baffling behavior. Tabby’s Star, also known as KIC 8462852, once again started the unusual pattern of dimming its lights, a behavior first observed in 2015.
“As far as I can tell, every telescope that can look at it right now is looking at it right now,” Tennessee State University astronomer Matt Muterspaugh told Loren Grush at The Verge. Mutterspaugh, like fellow astronomer Jason Wright from Penn State University, noticed the dip in KIC 8462852’s light emissions this past weekend.
“[W]e are officially on alert and we are asking astronomers on telescopes … to please take spectra (light measurements) of the star,” Wright told CNet. As early as Friday, he already observed that Tabby’s Star had dimmed by three percent in just a couple of days.
Discovered in 2009, KIC 8462852 came to be known as Tabby’s Star because a team of astronomers, led by Tabetha Boyajian from Yale University, noticed the unusual way its light dims. It’s not uncommon for a stars’ light to dim when planets orbiting around it pass in front of it relative to Earth. Tabby’s Star, however, didn’t follow the usual pattern of such dips in light, suggesting no periodic orbiting of planets or other cosmic bodies.
STILL PROBABLY NOT ALIENS
Naturally, such a phenomenon tugged on the curiosity of astronomers, and a number of possible explanations have been suggested. The most common, and perhaps popular among these — you guessed it — is that something alien is the cause. One astronomer thinks that a Dyson Sphere is causing the strange dips, thereby nicknaming Tabby’s Star as the “alien megastructure” star.
However, as much as we’d (maybe) love to find aliens at the root of this strange obvservation, other astronomers have found, and are developing, other explanations. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider,” Wright told The Atlantic back then. Though, it doesn’t hurt to be on the lookout.
Some think that comet swarms, debris from a devoured planet, or possibly even space dust floating around the star are causing the unusual light emissions. Still, others suggest that it could all just be flawed data, which is why nothing conclusive has been said yet about Tabby’s Star. Simply, there wasn’t enough data from two years ago to say anything definitively.
Latest data. Image Credit: David Kipping/Twitter
“We were kind of stuck in a spot where we couldn’t do anything,” Boyajian told The Verge. “We had all the data we could, and to learn anything more, we needed to catch it in action again.”
Now, there is now a lot more data to use, but it would take time for researchers to fully consider what the information could tell us about Tabby’s Star. It’s also possible that the new data won’t result in anything definitive, but it’s worth a shot. Some data is better than no data at all. At the very least, it’ll help us to better understand curiosities in the cosmos like KIC 8462852.
In case you haven’t yet figured it out on your own, the word “Brexit” is a portmanteau of “Britain” and “exit” and refers to Britain exiting the European Union. The upcoming so-called Brexit Election on June 8 is seen as British Prime Minister Theresa May’s way of giving her the authority she needs to make it happen. But, for many people both in the UK and the rest of the world, it means something else.
(…) Due 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.
“The files” referred to in that statement from a spokesperson of the National Archives to the German newsletter Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de (GreWi) are eighteen confidential UK government reports on UFO sightings – popularly called “British X-Files” – whose release has been repeatedly delayed since 2014 when it was learned that they were mysteriously not included in the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) release in 2013 of formerly secret UFO files. Why?
British Prime Minister Theresa May not holding the 18 secret files
The release of the UFO files has been scheduled and rescinded a number of times – most recently in March 2017 – with the general explanation that they contain sensitive information which exempts them from normal British Freedom of Information Act rules. As a result, they’ve been sent back to the MoD for re-examination and redaction. Now the latest scheduled release in June 2017 has been withdrawn, allegedly due to the Brexit election. What do these files have to do with Britain exiting the EU?
Good question. The MoD has confirmed that the withheld files, dating back to the early 1970s, have to do with UFO sightings or detections by air traffic controllers and by the Air Defence Ground Environment (ADGE) which is part of NATO. That sounds like a military concern that could be tied to the EU due to security issues, even though the files in question are generally from before 2004.
Brexit wouldn’t seem to have anything to do with the 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident, which a number of experts believe the 18 files contain information on … unless that information includes proof of the existence of extraterrestrials. In that case, Theresa May would definitely want to be the world leader who breaks the news. Then again, she’s been prime minister for almost a year. Why is she waiting?
Aliens or not, will the files finally be released after the Brexit election on June 8 or will another excuse be found to keep Britain and the world in the dark about the missing British X-files? We only have a few more weeks to wait.
In 2003, the South American country of Chile was hit by a spate of reports of traumatic and terrifying encounters with flying monsters. One particularly fantastic incident occurred on the night of July 23. That was when three boys, Jonathan, Diego, and Carlos were having a sleepover at Diego’s grandfather’s house, which was situated near San Pedro de Atacama. They were woken from their sleep by the sound of scratching against the outside of the door to the yard. Tentatively, the brave trio got out of their beds and tiptoed to the door, carefully and quietly opened it, and peered into the darkness.
To their eternal horror, they were confronted by a horrific-looking beast standing at a distance of around fifty feet and staring directly at them. It was humanoid in shape, beaked, and around five feet in height. It had large bat-style wings that extended to a combined length of around eleven feet, and talons instead of toes. And its head was crested. As for its color, it was black and shiny, almost wet-like. It wasn’t a local.
It’s interesting – and probably not coincidental – to note that a few days earlier a man by the name of Juan Acuqa contacted police to tell them of his trauma-filled, late night encounter with a pair of strange animals in the Chilean town of Parral. “They were both dog-faced and had wings,” Acuqa told the responding officers. And it wasn’t just a sighting that Acuqa had: as he walked home, the monsters attacked him out of the sky and out of the blue, something which forced Acuqa to leap into a nearby canal to try and shake them off. Fortunately, it worked; although, he was briefly hospitalized for gashes inflicted by the flying, nightmarish things.
Around a month or so later, what were very possibly the same two creatures – along with another pair – were seen by the entire Abbett family, as they drove through Chile’s Pampa Acha region. Such was the sheer weirdness of the appearance of the flying things, the family could only describe them as “dog-faced kangaroos” and as “gargoyles.” Thankfully, the family was not attacked and the creatures swept by, above the road, with barely a glance in their direction. It was, to be sure, a most lucky escape.
It should also be noted that when the details of the 2003 wave in Chile became publicly known, more than a few investigators of strange creatures and paranormal activity suggested that Puerto Rico’s infamous Chupacabra was clearly on the move and had made its way to Chile. It’s not an unreasonable thing to muse upon. After all, some of the initial reports of the Chupacabra – and particularly those seen in the island’s massive El Yunque rainforest – described seeing animals that had monkey-like bodies, that hopped like kangaroos, and which had large, leathery wings.
Of course, no-one was able to offer a viable explanation for how the Chupacabra had made it from Puerto Rico to Chile. The fact remains, however, that the Chilean monsters and those of Puerto Rico were astonishingly similar in appearance.
Ons heelal groeit steeds sneller. Deze controversiële theorie verklaart hoe dit kan
Ons heelal groeit steeds sneller. Deze controversiële theorie verklaart hoe dit kan
Natuurkundigen denken één van de grootste raadsels van de natuur te hebben opgelost: wat zorgt ervoor dat ons heelal versneld uitdijt?
Als we inzoomen op het universum wordt duidelijk dat de ruimtetijd is opgebouwd uit minuscule, voortdurende fluctuerende gebiedjes.
“De ruimtetijd is niet statisch, maar beweegt constant,” zei student Qingdi Wang van de Universiteit van Brits-Columbia.
Nulpuntsenergie
In 1998 ontdekten astronomen dat ons heelal steeds sneller uitdijt, wat erop wijst dat de ruimte niet leeg is en in plaats daarvan gevuld is met donkere energie die materie wegduwt.
De beste kandidaat voor donkere energie is vacuümenergie (nulpuntsenergie), omdat die de energie van de lege ruimte beschrijft.
Volgens de kwantummechanica bestaat zelfs in het absolute vacuüm altijd een kans op het spontaan verschijnen van deeltjes en antideeltjes.
Weggelaten
Als natuurkundigen de kwantummechanica toepassen op vacuümenergie, voorspelt deze theorie dat er een ongelooflijke hoeveelheid vacuümenergie bestaat, veel meer nog dan de totale energie van alle deeltjes in het heelal.
Op basis van Einsteins relativiteitstheorie hebben natuurkundigen berekend dat het universum hierdoor zou exploderen. Dat gebeurt echter niet; het universum dijt langzaam uit.
Wang en zijn collega’s hebben echter ontdekt dat in eerdere berekeningen belangrijke informatie over vacuümenergie is weggelaten.
Compleet ander beeld
Hun berekeningen schetsen een compleet ander beeld van het universum. De ruimte waarin we leven blijkt volgens het team wild te fluctueren.
Het heelal dijt uit en trekt tegelijkertijd samen. Deze twee effecten heffen elkaar bijna op. Het netto-effect is dat het universum steeds sneller uitdijt.
Maar als ruimte en tijd fluctueren, waarom kunnen we dat niet voelen?
Piepkleine schaal
“Dit gebeurt op piepkleine schaal, miljarden en miljarden keren kleiner nog dan een elektron,” zei Wang.
STRAALJAGERPILOOT DOOR UFO ONTVOERD BOVEN NOORDZEE...
STRAALJAGERPILOOT DOOR UFO ONTVOERD BOVEN NOORDZEE...
Eén van de meest mysterieuze verdwijningen ooit is die van de Amerikaanse piloot William Schaffner die in september 1970 een UFO achtervolgde boven de Noordzee.
Drie weken later wordt zijn vliegtuig gevonden op de bodem van de zee en enkele maanden later geborgen, bijna volledig intact, met de kap gesloten, maar geen spoor van Captain Schaffner.
Niet alleen vandaag de dag gebeuren er allerlei dingen die door overheden verborgen worden gehouden voor het publiek. Ze doen het al heel lang en voor hen is het eigenlijk de gewoonste zaak van de wereld om de gewone burger met een kluitje in het riet te sturen.
Schaffner was piloot bij de Amerikaanse luchtmacht en gestationeerd op de basis Binbrook in het Engelse Lincolshire. Hij was op 8 september 1970 stand-by toen er plotseling een vreemd object op de radar werd gesignaleerd.
In grote haast vertrok Schaffner rond tien uur ’s avonds met zijn toestel, een Ligthing XS894.
Zijn roepnaam (call sign) voor deze vlucht was Foxtrot 94. Het toestel was bewapend met twee luchtdoelraketten en Schaffner vloog parallel aan de kust, terwijl men hem volgde op het radarscherm.
Op een gegeven moment komt Schaffner in de buurt van het object en meldt dat het draait en recht op hem af komt, waardoor hij wat ontwijkende manoeuvres moet maken. Dan opeens wordt het stil.
Niets meer, het is een compleet mysterie wat er met het toestel en Captain Schaffner is gebeurd.
Drie weken later wordt het vliegtuig gevonden op de bodem van de Noordzee en dan duurt het nog enkele maanden voordat het wrak wordt geborgen. En dan volgt er een enorme verassing.
Want, wanneer het toestel boven water komt, blijkt het vrijwel volledig intact, is de kap gesloten en ontbreekt Captain Schaffner.
De verdwijning van Schaffner vond plaats in een periode dat er erg veel UFO waarnemingen waren aan vooral de Engelse oostkust. In de jaren 1970-71 was het gebied voor de kust van Lincolnshire een zogenaamde UFO hotspot, voornamelijk geconcentreerd rond de stad Cleethorpes.
Nooit is er een spoor gevonden van William Schaffner, die 29 jaar oud was toen hij verdween.
Later zijn er talloze pogingen gedaan om dit incident weg te poetsen, zoals de piloot zou een fout hebben gemaakt, afgeleid zijn geweest en had daardoor te laag gevlogen.
Er is geen enkele steekhoudende verklaring gekomen voor wat die UFO nu eigenlijk was, terwijl het een feit is dat deze door meerdere radarstations werd waargenomen. Dit was tenslotte ook de reden dat Schaffner op pad werd gestuurd.
Zelfs ver weg werd dit object waargenomen zoals op de Thule Air Base in Groenland en door de Amerikaanse radarbasis in het Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
Feit is dat er op diverse radarstations een onbekend object werd waargenomen, waardoor Schaffner op onderzoek uit ging. Ook uit de conversatie tussen Foxtrot 98 en Flight Control blijkt dat er een onbekend object is wat op het toestel af komt, waarna deze vervolgens compleet verdwijnt.
En dan misschien het meest mysterieuze van alles is de gesloten kap, iets waarvoor men tot op de dag van vandaag zelfs niet geprobeerd heeft een verklaring voor te vinden.
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT — ALIEN DEVICE OR DIVINE ARTIFACT?
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT — ALIEN DEVICE OR DIVINE ARTIFACT?
The ancient Israelites made the Ark of the Covenant according to the design and command of God, and it was a sacred chest that was said to protect the Ten Commandments that were written on two stone tablets along with texts from the Hebrew Bible, a pot of manna and Aaron’s rod.
DOES THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HAVE DIVINE OR EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGINS?
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HAD VALUABLE ROLE TO PLAY IN SALVATION OF MAN
The Book of Exodus says that the Tables of the Law contain the Ten Commandments that God gave to Moses upon Mount Sinai and the date is said to be 1440 BC. The Bible is known for the numerous lessons it holds and one the saying “Look but do not touch.”
An Israelite with the name of Uzzah defied this, and he touched the Ark of the Covenant and was said to have been struck down by God. However, in 1933, a professor of engineering said that the cause of death would have due to a lightning bolt of 10,000 volts of electricity. The Ark is said to have played a valuable role in the salvation of man on Earth that has continued until today.
There have been two spellings associated, these are Ark and Arc, Ark was typically associated with Noah’s Ark, it has been suggested that Noah did not make an escape along with his family and two of every animal species on a boat; rather he made an escape through the Arc of the Covenant in the Great Pyramid. There had been a flood previously in which a boat had been made, so some say that the story about Noah’s Ark was partly fabricated so as to hide the Arcs, true meaning. However, the story was said to have been based on truths to help the people who were being deceived to believe it.
The first book of Samuel, Chapter 3: 3 gives, even more, proof about the functions of the Ark when it was said that the Ark had spoken directly to Samuel. It was said that the lamp of God had gone out in the Lords temple, which was where the Ark of God was located and in which Samuel was sleeping. The Lord called to Samuel, and he answered and ran into Eli and said that he had come because he was called and he had not lain down again. This occurred twice and eventually, Eli realized that it was the Lord that was talking to Samuel through the Ark and he told this to Samuel and on the fourth time Samuel had a conversation with the Lord through the contrivance.
There were only Eli and Samuel in the house at the time and so it was proof that it was the Ark of the Covenant that had spoken to Samuel.
SOME SAY ARK IS AN ALIEN INVENTION
It was said that this gave fuel to the argument that the Ark, was an alien invention, an unseemly tool for the all-powerful and true God of the Universe. The great one would not need technological devices such as a weapon of destruction, three-in-one communication device or a religious receptacle.
The Ark of the Covenant was said to have all of these uses, at all times of communication with God along with times of battles that were great, the Ark had been present. Legends, a tradition in North Africa and common knowledge, along with regions of the Middle East have said that the tables have supernatural powers. It was around legends such as these that included the obsession by the Nazis with relics and the occult, which led to one of the most famous missions of fabled treasure hunter Indiana Jones.
Following the destruction of the Solomon Temple in Jerusalem, the Ark of the Covenant disappeared, and no one knows where it went as it was said to have disappeared without a trace. Assuming that the Ark of the Covenant managed to survive the temple`s destruction, the whereabouts of it have remained a mystery to this day.
ARK OF THE COVENANT MAY BE IN SAINT MARY OF ZION CHURCH IN ETHIOPIA
Even so, around 45 million Orthodox Christian Ethiopians will swear that the Ark of the Covenant had been taken to Aksum in northern Ethiopia around 3000 years ago. Many believe that the Ark has been guarded there by monks and that it is lying in a small humble church by the name of Saint Mary of Zion.
Ethiopian legend suggests that Queen Sheba made a promise to King Solomon not to take away anything from his home but when he went to bed and placed a bowl of water close to the chamber of Queen Sheba, she was thirsty and drank from it. The king then said that she had broken the oath. Still, they went on to have a son with the name of Ibn-al-Malik, who went on to become the founder of the Ethiopian Solomonic Dynasty.
THE ARK MAY HAVE BEEN STOLEN
When he was twenty-two, he went to Jerusalem with Azariah, the son of the high priest, and he said that before he went he had a dream that he should take the Ark of Covenant with him. Azariah was said to have stolen the Ark of the Covenant and put a copy in place of it. However, it was found out, and King Solomon along with his army followed them. It was also said that Moses had stolen the Ark from Egypt and the Pharoah did everything possible to get it back.
Theorists have claimed that the Ark of the Covenant is a complex system of the production of energy, the energy that may be used as a weapon along with it being a way of telecommunication. The power is said to come from reading the instructions related to the assembly of the tabernacle, where the ark had been guarded, and the rules for accessing it are inside so as to protect human lives.
Finding the Ark of the Covenant has been the ultimate goal of archaeologists and adventurers and Steven Spielberg brought it onto the big screens in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Up to now, no one knows where the Ark is, or those who do know are not saying.
CHEMICAL EVIDENCE REVEALS WE MIGHT ALL BE MARTIANS
CHEMICAL EVIDENCE REVEALS WE MIGHT ALL BE MARTIANS
People have wondered if there is life on Mars or ever has been but a new report suggests that we might all be Martians.
COULD LIFE REALLY HAVE STARTED ON MARS, NOT EARTH
Reports have suggested that there is evidence building up that life on Earth may have begun on Mars. Steven Benner from the Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology thinks that life may have arrived on Earth onboard a meteorite. But just what might have brought this odd conclusion to light?
Scientists had found an oxidized type of molybdenum, an element which might have been a crucial factor in the origin of life on Earth, which was most likely on the surface of the Red planet a long time ago when it was on Earth.
EARLY EARTH DID NOT HAVE MUCH OXYGEN, BUT MARS DID
Benner said that it is when the molybdenum becomes highly oxidized that it can then have an influence on how early life is formed. The type of molybdenum might have been around on Earth when life began as three billion years ago the surface of the Earth did not have much oxygen, while Mars did. This is another piece of evidence that seems to make it likely that life actually began on Mars and arrived on Earth thanks to a Martian meteorite, instead of life actually having started on Earth.
Organic compounds are said to be the building blocks of life, however, to turn the molecules into a substance like tar they need energy. This is when the oxidized molybdenum comes in, and Boron would be able to accomplish that.
Benner went on to say that recent analysis of a meteorite from Mars revealed that there was Boron on Mars and scientists believe that molybdenum in oxidized form was also there too.
EARLY EARTH WAS MOST LIKELY COVERED WITH WATER
There is another factor that seems to support the theory, and this is that early on Earth was most likely covered completely with water, while on ancient Mars there were many dry regions. The liquid on Earth would, therefore, have made it extremely difficult for boron to have formed in concentrations that would have been high enough when life was evolving at first. Water also causes corrosion to RNA, and this was thought to be the first genetic molecule.
Benner concluded that it was lucky that life did end up on Earth as it has been better than Mars for being able to sustain life. He said that if hypothetical ancestors had stayed on Mars, we might not have survived to tell the story.
UFO’s have held an especial fascination for some (Picture: Getty)
Secret papers collected by the government will be declassified after 50 years – but only after the election.
The UFO sightings dossier will expose what the Government knows – and what it doesn’t.
Many who do not believe the official story on extra-terrestrial life have said they expect ‘Britain’s Roswell’ to be solved.
The Rendlesham Forest incident has been kept under lock and key by successive British governments since the 1980s.
UFO experts believe the documents will be from 1971-76, 1996-2000 and 2004.
People still flock to Rendlesham forest at Suffolk (Picture: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group/Getty)
They would have been collected by the Ministry of Defence, which used to have a specific desk dedicated to investigating extra-terrestrial life.
However, the desk was closed down in 2009 because it served ‘no defence purpose’.
The so-called X Files have been held back by the National Archives in 2013.
It was rumoured that there were 18 documents that were not allowed to be released.
The Government has pushed back the release date twice after it was initially scheduled for a release in March.
Don’t expect something like this, critics cautioned (Picture: Getty)
But the confusion in Theresa May’s leadership caused by Brexit apparently stopped the release.
A spokesman for the National Archives told German website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell: ‘Due 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.’
It is hoped the the dossier will explain the Rendlesham Incident.
But it’s not the Holy Grail for alien conspiracy theorists.
What is the Britain's Roswell?
A UFO sign at Rendlesham Forest (Picture: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group/Getty)
The Rendlesham Forest incident is one of the most famous of British UFO theories and has yet to be cracked.
Strange lights were reported near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge during a period of three nights. Between December 26-28 in 1980.
It was first exposed on voice recordings from senior American soldiers, who also drew disturbing pictures of the object they saw at the British forest.
‘While in Rendlesham Forest, our security team observed a light that looked like a large eye, red in colour, moving through the trees,’ Colonel Charles Halt said.
‘After a few minutes this object began dripping something that looked like molten metal.’
Another claimed to have telepathically ‘received’ a binary code, which has never been deciphered.
Some of the ‘marks’ left at the site have either been used as evidence of UFOs or simply rabbit holes.
But it certainly has left an impact on the conspiracy theorist community.
‘Even today ufologists squabble over what really happened at Rendlesham Forest in late December 1980. Did an alien spaceship land here?’ Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said.
‘Were the US airmen who saw the UFO fooled by the light from a nearby lighthouse? Was it a smokescreen to hide a nuclear incident or some other type of covert operation? Or was it a hoax?’
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, was cautious about what was truly on offer with the release of the new documents.
‘Getting the majority of the documents into the public domain was a slow process, which was mainly due to the efforts of Dr David Clarke, Prinicipal Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University,’ he told MailOnline.
‘I’m reliably informed that these remaining files contain duplicates of documents already made available to the public.
‘It seems very unlikely they will contain anything like the type of evidence UFO supporters yearn for, like crashed saucers or interviews with aliens.’
The National Archives told Metro.co.uk that they were a non-ministerial government department, and added that they had made the decision to publish the documents after the election because of ‘purdah’ rules and said there was ‘nothing more to it’.
Space experts believe we could be living a massive lie in a vast Matrix-esque virtual world dreamed up by advanced artificial intelligence.
Supporters of the seemingly madcap theory include SpaceX boss Elon Musk, celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and theoretical physicist Brian Greene.
Telsa cars founder Mr Musk, who wants to put humans on Mars, appears to be the theory's most avid supporter that humankind lives in a simulation.
He said the chance of mankind NOT living in a simulation is “one in billions”.
If true, it would mean everything we experience is just lines of code in an advanced programme – in the same way virtual worlds created in computer games are just projections of data.
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A genuine scientific theory suggests we could all be in a Matrix-like virtual world.
If in the future there are more digital people living in simulated environments than there are today, then what is to say we are not part of that already?
Rich Terrile
Musk argues technology is advancing so quickly it will only be a matter of time before we are capable of conjuring hyper-real virtual worlds and someone before us could have got there first unbeknown to humans.
There are other top minds supporting the theory.
Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson said he thinks the likelihood is “may be very high” our lives are just a computer simulation.
He said: "I’m saying, the day we learn that it is true, I will be the only one in the room saying, ‘I’m not surprised.’”
He said humanity “would be drooling, blithering idiots” in the presence of a potential higher being controlling the supposed simulation.
He even claims we should look out for “glitches” in the world which could be proof of a simulated reality.
Rich Terrile, a scientist at NASA, is also interested in the theory.
He said technology is increasing so fast that “very quickly we will be a society where there are artificial entities living in simulations that are much more abundant than human beings".
He said: “If in the future there are more digital people living in simulated environments than there are today, then what is to say we are not part of that already?
"If we are not living in a simulation, it is an extraordinarily unlikely circumstance” and suggested it could have been created by our 'future selves'."
Theoretical physicist Briane Greene says the idea sounds “nutty”, but said is also “mind boggling” could even be true.
He said it was “easy” to conceive of beings being able to "create an electronic world and thus there would be so many more simulated universes than real ones."
But, Havarad scientists Lisa Randall said the theory was mere speculation with “no real evidence”.
And, Max Tegmark, a professor of physics at MIT, questioned whether it was “logically possible” to prove we are living in a simulation.
Rendlesham shock: 'CIA showed up after UK UFO sighting and witnesses were never the same'
Rendlesham shock: 'CIA showed up after UK UFO sighting and witnesses were never the same'
CIA officers mysteriously turned up after the infamous Rendlesham UFO sighting, and afterwards three key witnesses were never the same again, it has sensationally been claimed.
Col Charles Halt returned to the scene of the Rendlesham UFO incident nearly 37 years on.
Colonel Charles Halt, a fourth witness to the mysterious event, made the shock statement as he returned to the site near Woodbridge in Suffolk nearly 37 years on.
The Rendlesham legend has been dubbed Britain's Roswell - after the mystery UFO crash which was said to have happened outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.
The UK alien sighting n the Suffolk forest is said to involve three USAF officers based at RAF Bentwaters who claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980.
The three airmen - John Burroughs, Bud Steffens, and James Penniston - who first saw the lights and then a UFO "on the floor" could not account for a 40 minute period while searching in the woods when their communication systems went "off air", it is claimed.
The three later told of feeling "static" as they observed the object's flashing lights and hieroglyphic-like markings.
Mr Halt became involved on the evening of December 27 1980 after officers had shouted: "It's back, the UFO's back."
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Charles Halt showing a photo of the missing plaster cast of one of the indentations at a conference.
The mysterious sighting was later explained away by the MoD as light beams from nearby Orford Ness lighthouse, but believers claim this is a ludicrous explanation.
Mr Halt, who as deputy commander of the Bentwaters and nearby Woodbridge bases is one of the US's former most senior military men to go public on UFOs, told the East Anglian Daily Times: “Whatever we saw was under intelligent control.
“The story has become muddied over the years."
He revealed that after the first night of sightings, officials from the US CIA were sent over and suggested they may have interfered with the three airmen.
He added: "I still don’t know why the CIA turned up here after the first night – and what was done to the three airmen, who have never been the same.”
In 2015, Mr Burroughs won compensation for illnesses he blamed on exposure to radiation from the event.
I still don’t know why the CIA turned up here after the first night – and what was done to the three airmen, who have never been the same.
Col Charles Halt
He went to investigate with a team who found three 1.5inch "impact holes," damage to the canopies of trees and "higher radiation levels" in the "landing" area.
A plaster cast was later taken of one of the holes, but mysteriously disappeared from a box it was stored in.
He said soon after they saw a mysterious object in a field between the woods and a farmhouse with "a red light moving".
He said: "It came towards us into the forest, moving, bobbing up and down in the trees. It was oval, about 100 to 150 yards away, with a dark centre and red around it."
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Charles Halt photographed at the time of the incident
He claimed there were "sparks" coming from it and after a minute it "exploded and disappeared".
They then spotted objects in the sky, 3,000 to 4,000ft up.
One was "elliptical", but became a "full circle".
Also on the visit was Gary Baker, a radar operator at RAF Neatishead from 1978-1980.
Mr Baker, from Ipswich, returned from leave at the end of 1980 and got caught up in the aftermath of Rendlesham.
He says there was an attempt at a cover up, and was told “this never happened” by RAF officers.
He also claims that radar tapes and bridge logs from the night mysteriously vanished.
He said: "Whatever the radar picked up, it wasn’t a subject of interest for interceptor aircraft because it didn’t come from the east – this was the height of the Cold War.
“It would have been sensible to quash any evidence. If something had happened, and it wasn’t picked up, it would have showed we weren’t capable of dealing with something from ‘above’.
“Later, I read the MoD said the radar had been switched off at the time, which is a load of rubbish.
“I’m no UFO nut, but something extraordinary happened here – outside the parameters of manned aircraft.”
Rendlesham remains one of the world's most perplexing unsolved UFO cases.
Investigators hope 18 confidential files set for release by the MoD will be able to shed more light on the case.
Asked how many were investigated, the force said: “Based on the graded response/log none of the calls were investigated”.
No other details were available but the Midlands has been a hotbed of potential UFO sightings over the years.
In January 2015, the Birmingham UFO Group spoke to a mum from Selly Oak who recalled rushing into her three-year-old son’s bedroom to find him screaming: “Spaceman” repeatedly.
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Later, when shown a picture of a classic image of an alien with grey skin, a bulbous head and large eyes – known by researchers as a Grey – her son immediately repeated the same word and began crying.
In the Black Country , numerous sightings of a triangle-shaped UFO have been reported over Dudley.
Its most recent appearance was in Quarry Bank in 2011, when a man smoking in his garden saw a mysterious object with flashing lights - which was then chased away by another strange craft.
In Tipton in 2010, two young men saw an “amazing fast-moving and silent craft in the shape of a triangle fly across the sky at a mind-boggling speed.”
And in April, 2009, builders at West Midland Safari Park were stunned to see a UFO floating above them.
Market trader Michele Bardsley filmed mysterious lights over her home in Kingshurst, Solihull in May 2014.
She said the lights were “just hanging there” as she watched from the back door while having a cigarette break from decorating upstairs.
She filmed the lights on her phone and, when the footage was shown on her big TV screen, she could see much more activity among the cluster of UFOs, as some appeared, disappeared and suddenly zoomed.
In 2012 an off-duty police officer claimed he witnessed a UFO speeding across the sky near Birmingham Airport.
And in 2010, two fighter jets were filmed whizzing over the M5 in the West Midlands, apparently in pursuit of a UFO.
The term UFO was officially coined by the American air force in 1953.
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Secret dossier on UFO sightings in Britain to be released after the election
Secret dossier on UFO sightings in Britain to be released after the election
A dossier of secret government files believed to contain evidence of UFO sightings and cover-ups, which has been kept secret for almost 50 years, is set to be released after June’s general election.
According to German paranormal news website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell, the documents will reveal sightings of UFOs over almost five decades, from the 1970s, and be published by the National Archives.
Alien hunters hope the files will show a number of high-profile incidents have been covered up, including an alleged UFO sighting in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed ‘Britain’s Roswell.’
A number of servicemen reported seeing lights in the forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. The disputed sightings, which are said to have lasted for three nights in December of that year, occurred when Britain was on high alert during the Cold War.
At the time, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the event posed no threat to national security, and it was therefore not investigated.
The secret papers were meant to be released in 2013, but 18 documents were withheld.
The latest publication date was set for March this year, but that date passed with no information given.
A spokesperson for the National Archives told Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell: “Due to the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to the government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.”
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Nick Pope, who worked for the MoD investigating UFO sightings until 2009, said: “There’s no smoking gun in these files that will confirm the existence of aliens, but there are plenty of fascinating UFO reports and MoD policy documents, so these really are the real-life X-Files.
“The delay has been a comedy of errors though, I think it’s more bureaucracy than conspiracy.”
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It’s X-Files time with 16 UFO sightings reported to police
It’s X-Files time with 16 UFO sightings reported to police
UFO's have been spotted on 16 occasions across the Midlands in the last four years, new police findings show.
The ‘Dudley Dorito’, the nickname given to the bright lights spotted in the sky
West Midlands Police received 12 reports of UFO sightings between 2013 and 2016.
Meanwhile West Mercia Police received four reports across Shropshire in the same time frame.
The figures have been revealed following Freedom Of Information requests to both police forces.
It comes as two high-profile UFO sightings have occurred across the region in the last three decades.
Shropshire's most notorious 'X-File' incident took place at RAF Cosford in 1993 where an MoD police patrol saw bright lights in the sky. The sighting - dubbed the Cosford Incident - took place on March 31, at 1.15am. Dozens of triangular shaped UFOs were spotted moving at speed in the sky across western Britain at around the time.
In the Black Country, numerous sightings of a triangle-shaped UFO have been spotted over Dudley since the start of the millennium. The numerous reports of the bright lights have gave way to the nickname the 'Dudley Dorito'.
A break-down of the stats from West Midlands Police show the most UFO reports came from Birmingham, with three being made since 2013.
There were two reports in Dudley and Sandwell, and one report from Wolverhampton and Walsall.
Police revealed some of the sightings were described as 'lights', 'objects' and 'objects with lights'. But none were investigated by police officers.
In Shropshire, West Merica Police revealed four UFO sightings took place across the rural county since 2013.
An 'object with lights and flames' was seen flying the low before landing in a tree in Donnington, Telford, on November 11, 2013. The sighting took place in the early hours and was reported at 3.47am.
Around 10 months later, an object was seen 'moving erratically in the sky' over Bridgnorth. It had lights and was doing '90 degree turns'. Police received the report on September 25, 2014, at 4.23am. Police closed the log into the incident pending further enquiries.
A 'UFO' with 'lots of lights and loud screaming' was seen around 30 to 40 feet from the ground in Mickleton, Gloucestershire. The incident was reported to West Merica Police on February 25, 2016 at 19.32pm, but officers passed it onto Gloucestershire Police.
The most recent UFO sighting reported to police in Shropshire took place in Shrewsbury. Strangle lights were reported on March 7, 2016, at 1.17am. But the sighting was established as a helicopter and no police deployment was made.
The term UFO was officially coined by the American air force in 1953 and has since become widespread.
Allied pilots described such sightings as 'foo fighters' during the Second World War.
Staffordshire Police said it was unable to respond to an FOI request regarding UFOs because it would be too costly to investigate.
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