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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
14-06-2017
WHAT IS THE DRAKE EQUATION?
The Drake Equation, a mathematical formula for the probability of finding life or advanced civilizations in the universe. Credit: University of Rochester
Is there life out there in the Universe? That is a question that has plagued humanity long before we knew just how vast the Universe was – i.e. before the advent of modern astronomy. Within the 20th century – thanks to the development of modern telescopes, radio astronomy, and space observatories – multiple efforts have been made in the hopes of finding extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI).
And yet, humanity is still only aware of one intelligent civilization in the Universe – our own. And until we actually discover an alien civilization, the best we can do is conjecture about the likelihood of their existence. That’s where the famous Drake Equation – named after astronomer Dr. Frank Drake – comes into play. Developed in the 1960s, this equation estimates the number of possible civilizations out there based on a number of factors.
Background:
During the 1950s, the concept of using radio astronomy to search for signals that were extra-terrestrial in origin was becoming widely-accepted within the scientific community. The idea of listening for extra-terrestrial radio communications had been suggested as far back as the late 19th century (by Nikolai Tesla), but these efforts were concerned with looking for signs of life on Mars.
Frank Drake standing before his famous equation on a white board. Credit: SETI.org
Then, in September of 1959, Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison (who were both physics professors at Cornell University at the time) published an article in the journal Nature with the title “Searching for Interstellar Communications.” In it, they argued that radio telescopes had become sensitive enough that they could pick up transmissions being broadcast from other star systems.
Specifically, they argued that these messages might be transmitted at a wavelength of 21 cm (1420.4 MHz), the same wavelength of radio emissions by neutral hydrogen. As the most common element in the universe, they argued that extra-terrestrial civilizations would see this as a logical frequency at which to make radio broadcasts that could be picked up by other civilizations.
Seven months later, Frank Drake made the first systematic SETI survey at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Known as Project Ozma, this survey relied on the observatory’s 25-meter dish to monitor Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti – two nearby Sun-like stars – at frequencies close to 21 cm for six hours a day, between April and July of 1960.
Though unsuccessful, the survey piqued the interest of the scientific and SETI communities. It was followed shortly thereafter by a meeting at the Green Bank facility in 1961, where the subjects of SETI and searching for radio signals of extra-terrestrial origin were discussed. In preparation for this meeting, Drake prepared the equation that would come to bear his name. As he said of the equation’s creation:
“As I planned the meeting, I realized a few day[s] ahead of time we needed an agenda. And so I wrote down all the things you needed to know to predict how hard it’s going to be to detect extraterrestrial life. And looking at them it became pretty evident that if you multiplied all these together, you got a number, N, which is the number of detectable civilizations in our galaxy. This was aimed at the radio search, and not to search for primordial or primitive life forms.”
The meeting, which included such luminaries as Carl Sagan, was commemorated with a commemorative plaque that is still in the hall of the Green Bank Observatory today.
The 85-foot (26 m) Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope at NRAO used in Project Ozma. Credit: Z22/WIkipedia Commons
The Formula:
The formula for the Drake Equation is as follows:
N = R* x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L
Whereas N is the number of civilizations in our galaxy that we might able to communicate with, R* is the average rate of star formation in our galaxy, fp is the fraction of those stars which have planets, neis the number of planets that can actually support life, fl is the number of planets that will develop life, fiis the number of planets that develop intelligent life, fc is the number civilizations that would develop transmission technologies, and L is the length of time that these civilizations would have to transmit their signals into space.
Limits and Criticism:
Naturally, the Drake Equation has been subject to some criticism over the years, largely because a lot of the values it contains are assumed. Granted, some of the values it takes into account are easy enough to calculate, like the rate of star formation in the Milky Way. There are an estimated 200 – 400 billion stars within our Milky Way, and modern estimates say that there between 1.65 ± 0.19 and 3 new star form every year.
Assuming that our galaxy represents the average, and given that that there are as many as 2 trillion galaxies in the observable Universe (current estimates based on Hubble data), that means that there are as many as 1.5 to 6 trillion new stars being added to the Universe with every passing year! However, some of the other values are subject to a great deal of guess work.
For example, estimates on how many stars will have a system of planets has changed over time. Currently, it is estimated that the Milky Way contains 100 billion planets, which works out to about 50% of its stars having a planet of their own. Furthermore, those stars that have multiple planets will likely have one or two that lies within their habitable zone (aka. “Goldilocks Zone”) – where liquid water can exist on their surfaces.
Now let’s assume that 100% of planets located within a habitable zone will be able develop life in some form, that at least 1% of those life-supporting planets will be able to give rise to intelligent species, that 1% of these will be able to communicate, and that they will able to do so for a period of about 10,000 years. If we run those numbers through the Drake Equation, we end up with a value of 10.
In other words, there are possibly 10 civilizations in the Milky Way at any time capable of sending out signals that we could detect. But of course, the values used for four parameters there – fl, fi, fcand L – were entirely assumed. Without any real data to go by, there’s no real way to know how many alien civilizations could really be out there. There could just be 1 in the entire Universe (us), or millions in every galaxy!
The Fermi Paradox:
Beyond the issue of assumed values, the most pointed criticism of the Drake Equation tend to emphasize the argument put forth by physicist Enrico Fermi, known as the Fermi Paradox. This argument arose in 1950 as a result of conversation between Fermi and some colleagues while he was working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. When the subject of UFOs and ETI came up, Fermi famously asked, “Where is everybody?”
This simple question summarized the conflict that existed between arguments that emphasized scale and the high probability of life emerging in the Universe with the complete lack of evidence that any such life exists. While Fermi was not the first scientists to ask the question, his name came to be associated with it due to his many writings on the subject.
In short, the Fermi Paradox states that, given the sheer number of stars in the Universe (many of which are billions of years older than our own), the high-probability that even a small fraction would have planets capable of giving rise to intelligent species, the likelihood that some of them would develop interstellar travel, and the time it would take to travel from one side of our galaxy to other (even allowing for sub-luminous speeds), humanity should have found some evidence of intelligent civilizations by now.
Naturally, this has given rise to many hypotheses as to how advanced civilizations could exist within our Universe but remain undetected. They include the possibility that intelligent life is extremely rare, that humanity is an early arrival to the Universe, that they do not exist (aka. the Hart-Tipler Conjecture), that they are in a state of slumber, or that we are simply looking in the wrong places.
The “Great Filter” Hypothesis:
But perhaps the best known explanation for why no signs of intelligence life have been found yet is the “Great Filter” hypothesis. This states that since that no extraterrestrial civilizations have been so far, despite the vast number of stars, then some step in the process – between life emerging and becomes technologically advanced – must be acting as a filter to reduce the final value.
According to this view, either it is very hard for intelligent life to arise, the lifetime of such civilizations is short, or the time they have to reveal their existence is short. Here too, various explanations have been offered to explain what the form the filter could take, which include Extinction Level Events (ELEs), the inability of life to create a stable environment in time, environmental destruction. and/or technology running amok (some of which we fear might happen to us!)
Alas, the Drake Equation has endured for decades for the very same reason that if often comes under fire. Until such time that humanity can find evidence of intelligent life in the Universe, or has ruled out the possibility based on countless surveys that actually inspect other star systems up close, we won’t be able to answer the question, “Where is everybody?”
As with many other cosmological mysteries, we’ll be forced to guess about what we don’t know based on what we do (or think we do). As astronomers study stars and planets with newer instruments, they might eventually be able to work out just how accurate the Drake Equation really is. And if our recent cosmological and exoplanet-hunting efforts have shown us anything, it is that we are just beginning to scratch the surface of the Universe at large!
In the coming years and decades, our efforts to learn more about extra-solar planets will expand to include research of their atmospheres – which will rely on next-generation instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope and the European Extremely-Large Telescope array. These will go a long way towards refining our estimates on how common potentially habitable worlds are.
In the meantime, all we can do is look, listen, wait and see…
“This survey will enable new lines of research in exoplanet study, which looks at planets outside our solar system.”
NASA
The discoveries will come from the team at the Kepler space telescope which looks for habitable worlds outside the Solar System.
The telescope searches for Earth-sized planets in the “habitable zones” of nearby stars – and has found thousands of planets which could harbour life.
Speculation is mounting about the announcement by NASA – which is set for 3pm on Monday, June 19.
NASA
NASA: The Kepler space telescope is constantly searching for alien life
GETTY
LIFE: Alien planets outside our solar system could be teaming with life
Last year, NASA announced the incredible find of nine planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1.
Three of the planets were believed to be in the star’s habitable zone and capable of harbouring life.
Scientists are launching a new satellite – the James Webb Telescopes – to study seven of the new worlds.
A spokesman for NASA said: "The latest Kepler catalog of planet candidates was created using the most sophisticated analyses yet, yielding the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds to date.
"This survey will enable new lines of research in exoplanet study, which looks at planets outside our solar system.”
Searches for alien life in our solar system have been focused on Mars, Venus and the moons of Saturn and Jupiter.
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UFO emerges from strange looking cloud over Colorado
UFO emerges from strange looking cloud over Colorado
A UFO arrived via a portal from a parallel universe? Or there is an explanation for the event happened in the sky over Colorado when out of a clear sky suddenly a UFO appears leaving a strange looking cloud.
Witness states: I went outside to relax and saw a strange cloud shape in the sky. It was unusual so I took a couple of quick pictures with my camera phone.
I do not recall hearing a sonic boom however, it is possible that is why I was drawn to look up. It would not be unreasonable to think this was a plane breaking the sound barrier.
Later when looking at one of the photos I noticed a brown looking object above the cloud. It was either the object that made the cloud or it kinda looks like something may have flown through the cloud in pursuit of what ever made the cloud.
Insect, bird, UFO? I can't tell what it is. Maybe you all can make something of it. Let me know. Mufon case 84360.
Flightradar24 shows NASA’s SOFIA monitoring Yellowstone Super Volcano!
Flightradar24 shows NASA’s SOFIA monitoring Yellowstone Super Volcano!
Currently NASA put’s their SOFIA every day in the air. SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) is built into a converted Boeing 747SP.
SOFIA’s 2.5-meter (8.2-foot)-diameter infrared telescope will make it the world’s largest and most sensitive airborne observatory. Flying at 39,000 to 45,000 feet, it will enable scientific observations that are impossible for even the largest and highest of Earth-based telescopes.
Already four days during sunrise/sunset NASA is monitoring the sun but yesterday, June 12, 2017 flightradar24 shows that they monitoring Yellowstone National Park too.
Remember the Massive Lake of Molten Carbon the size of Mexico recently found under Yellowstone?
The molten carbonate sits beneath Yellowstone National Park, which in and of itself is a super volcano with the power of a massive eruption. The last major eruption was 640,000 years ago at Yellowstone, however if the super volcano did erupt it could cause the US to go into a volcanic winter.
If NASA puts its SOFIA in the air it's important. This Bird of Prey doesn't go 'hunting' unless there is something TO hunt, they watching something, bet on it!
Astronomen breken zich het hoofd over mysterieus ruimtesignaal. Is het dan tóch veroorzaakt door aliens?
Astronomen breken zich het hoofd over mysterieus ruimtesignaal. Is het dan tóch veroorzaakt door aliens?
Een signaal dat in 1977 is opgevangen uit de ruimte is waarschijnlijk veroorzaakt door aliens. Dat zeggen wetenschappers nu, schrijft de Daily Caller.
Dr. Jerry Ehman ontdekte het Wow!-signaal in augustus 1977 met een radiotelescoop. Het signaal was zo bizar dat Ehman het omcirkelde en er ‘Wow!’ bij schreef.
In april publiceerde dr. Antonio Paris van het St. Petersburg College in Florida een studie waarin hij stelde dat het mysterieuze signaal waarschijnlijk afkomstig was van een waterstofwolk rond een komeet.
Extreem sceptisch
Paris claimde het Wow!-signaal te hebben gedebunked, maar SETI-astronomen zeggen nu dat ze extreem sceptisch zijn over zijn uitleg.
“Wij geloven niet dat de kometentheorie het Wow!-signaal kan verklaren,” zei Ehman tegenover nieuwssite Live Science.
Paris kon het oorspronkelijke signaal niet volledig herhalen. “Je zou verwachten dat de bron in drie minuten tijd twee keer doorkomt: een respons die 72 seconden duurt en een tweede respons die na 1,5 minuut volgt,” zei Ehman. “Die tweede hebben we niet gezien.”
Sterkste bewijs
Ehman claimt dat dit alleen kan zijn gebeurd als het signaal werd afgekapt. Een komeet zou zich niet op deze manier gedragen, maar een buitenaardse intelligentie wel.
Wetenschappers zien het Wow!-signaal als het sterkste bewijs voor een hoogontwikkelde buitenaardse beschaving.
Vaak wordt gespeculeerd dat mysterieuze signalen uit de ruimte afkomstig zijn van aliens, maar meestal blijkt de bron een onbekend fenomeen te zijn.
Pulsar
In 1967 ontdekte een student een vreemd radiosignaal dat de naam LGM-1 (little green men) kreeg.
Sommigen dachten een signaal van aliens te hebben opgevangen, maar het bleek uiteindelijk te gaan om de eerste pulsar.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a constant source of conspiracy theories and UFO conjectures. NASA operates a live feed of cameras aboard the ISS, and it seems like a new video appears on YouTube every week purporting to show proof UFOs or a NASA coverup. While most of these turn out to be baseless conjectures or doctored footage, the ISS seems to be the source of some recent somewhat verifiable strangeness. NASA recently detected unknown microbial colonies growing on the walls of the ISS. While some level of biological contamination should be expected on the inside where astronauts’ disgusting human bodies float around stinkin’ up the joint, finding possible life on the outside of the space station is much more unexpected – yet that’s exactly what Russia’s state space agency, Roscosmos, is reporting.
“Definitive proof of alien contact!” says every YouTube UFO channel any time orbital debris or lens flares are seen on ISS live streams.
In 2014, Roscosmos cosmonauts collected cosmic dust samples from the outside of the ISS and analyzed them for any signs of extraterrestrial life. According to Russian state-owned news agency Tass, Roscosmos scientists now believe the samples may contain “biomaterial” that is not of this planet:
The micrometeorites and comet dust that settle on the ISS surface may contain biogenic substance of extra-terrestrial origin in its natural form,. The ISS surface is possibly a unique and easily available collector and keeper of comet substance and, possibly, of biomaterial of extra-terrestrial origin.
Tass explains that the ISS spends much of its time orbiting in the wake of dust streams and other “substance flows” trailing off of the backs of comets, which have been claimed to spread organic and biological material throughout the universe. NASA has yet to issue a comment on the reports. Most likely, any microbial life on the exterior of the space station could be terrestrial in origin and could have come into contact with the space station through incidental means. Still, it’s worth looking into – if Roscosmos actually has found organic material on the exterior of the ISS, that is. Strangely though, another development this week hints that something odd might indeed be going on at the International Space Station.
The ISS had a close encounter this week.
On May 1st this year, commercial aerospace firm SpaceX launched a mysterious spy satellite into orbit on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office. The exact nature and purpose of satellite NROL-76 is unknown, and SpaceX cut the live feed of the satellite’s launch just as the rocket entered its second stage. Sure, spy satellites and commercial rockets launches are relatively commonplace today, but it’s the satellite’s behavior that has skywatchers befuddled.
Looks like SpaceX got itself a cushy defense contract.
According to satellite tracking blog SatTrackCam, the NROL-76 passed within just a few kilometers of the ISS on June 3rd, just outside of its collision avoidance zone. The satellite then circled the ISS before entering its own orbit.
Satellites rarely pass this close to other objects or craft in orbit – especially so soon after their launch.
SatTrackCam’s Marco Langbroek claims that this type of activity is an anomaly, and should certainly attract some suspicion in the international aerospace community:
I am struggling to understand why the NRO allowed this close approach to happen, if it was not intentional. This event was bound to attract attention and that harms the classified character of the mission. It is also an extremely sloppy thing to do because this close an approach to a high profile object like ISS is politically risky. As the ISS is an international cooperation which includes two parties (the United States and the Russian Federation) that are currently geopolitically on an uneasy footing, sending your military payload so close to the ISS as one party is eyebrow raising.
On another satellite tracking site, SatObs.org, Ted Molczan writes that “I am inclined to believe that the close conjunctions between USA 276 and ISS are intentional, but this remains unproven.” The announcement by Roscosmos of possible alien life on the outside of the ISS is unusual given the timing of this satellite fly-by. Could the two be related? Who knows. But put this mysterious development alongside the unexplained nuclear activity being detected in the Arctic and the anomalous “killer” satellite activity seen in Russian satellites, and it’s possible that Cold War 2.0 is already getting interesting.
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On April 11, 2017 a UFO sighting was reported in York County. It is under investigation by the Mutual UFO Network. Sean Heisey, York Daily Record
The universe is a big place.
It is vast beyond our imagination – at least if your imagination is somewhat less active than that wheelchair guy – and it is ever expanding, creating new space for new planets and solar systems and galaxies and strip malls, a kind of cosmic sprawl.
It would be solipsistic of us to believe that we are the only beings in the universe who have built great cities, tamed and then destroyed our environment and domesticated the dog to the point where we exist as a support system for canines. (If aliens ever visit, they will immediately try to talk to our dogs to learn about our culture. The dogs are clearly in charge. I mean, we follow them around and pick up their poop.)
There has to be intelligent life out there somewhere because, as Monty Python once opined, "there's bugger all down here on Earth."
These are notions to ponder as we delve into the news, kind of, of a close encounter of some kind that may have occurred somewhere around here.
According to a report received by the Mutual UFO Network, called MUFON, for short, the person who witnessed it was inside watching TV when the person, who was not identified, saw two bright lights in the distance.
At first, the witness believed it was a new cell tower, but it wasn't. The witness reported to MUFON that the lights did not move for a while, and after a few moments, a smaller light detached from the larger one and hovered below it.
The witness then reported that the larger of two objects, described as a large craft, moved toward the witness and passed, low, over the witness's house. "It was diamond shaped and had a rectangular light underneath it," the witness was quoted as saying. "In that rectangle was a red light, then a white light, and then a green light. The lights were not flashing. The UFO was humongous and made a humming noise."
It hovered and then both things began to move, the witness reported. "When it took off, the small thing that came out of it went straight up," the report continued. "When the light came out of the right corner or what would have been the right corner (the only thing I could see at that point were the two huge lights) it seemed that the small thing came off that light. Almost like it was poured out of that light."
The witness reported, "Anyway, it scared me a lot, and I have looked for a hovering jet picture on the net, but did not see any that looked like it. And why would a hovering jet be spitting out a small craft like that? Before it took off, it had stayed unmoving for at least 10 minutes, maybe longer, before I noticed it. In relationship to its size, it was huge. I watch planes in the distance from my backyard and the little thing that came out of the big UFO would have been the size a commercial airplane like I see all the time going toward Harrisburg airport. So the big UFO was really, really big."
So, aliens? Little green men? Are they the kind of docile, kind aliens of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"? Or are they huge tentacled insects bent on world domination and killing off the human race as in "Independence Day"? Or are they the really tall mutes who want to eat us, as featured on "The Twilight Zone"?
Or are these craft part of a fleet of intergalactic airliners that took a wrong turn around Albuquerque?
Who knows?
Well, Bill Weber might know.
Bill Weber is MUFON's chief investigator for Pennsylvania and Delaware, and as such, the report from York was funneled to him. Weber declined to release either the name of the witness or the location of the sighting, saying the organization maintains confidentiality with those who report things like this. The closest city was York was all he would say about it.
He said he has assigned an investigator and will await the results of whatever he comes up with.
Typically, he said, the investigators interview the witness, search the area for corroborating witnesses, review any photographs or video, stuff like that. In some cases, they file Freedom of Information Act requests with the Federal Aviation Administration for radar data and analyze that.
In many cases, he said, there is an explanation for whatever witnesses think they saw. It could be a terrestrial aircraft – as opposed to an extraterrestrial aircraft – or it could be birds or bats, or it could be something else entirely, maybe a drone or something. Some reports are hoaxes and MUFON's investigators can easily debunk them, he said.
Weber estimates that between 80 and 85 percent of the cases the organization investigates conclude with a logical explanation. "It's only about 15 percent that we tend to classify as unknown," he said. That doesn't mean it's an alien craft, only that "we can't figure out what it is."
Among those reports investigators apparently figured out was another from Pennsylvania, reported in 1997 and published on MUFON's website.
It reads: "It was like a spinning top but the bottom was not pointed, lots of multicolored lights, lots of see-through window at top. At least 15 or 20 aliens unlike the standard look, they were half human and half standard look, full bodies, beautiful looking creatures all moving about and communicating whatever. All had the same colored outfits and all the lights constantly moving. All windows seem to be moving or turning separately from the bottom. The bottom then had a long yellow light dropping to the ground and a small stepside Ford or Chevy pickup lowered slowly to the ground and disappeared over the hill ahead and then the UFO disappeared. I followed to find it and could not find it, but at the bottom of the hill daylight stunned me and it was 6:30 a.m. I don’t know where the night went."
Aliens in a pickup truck? Were these some kind of interstellar migrant workers? Are we going to have to build a bigger wall? And what's "standard look"?
Well, we may never know.
Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us? is a rarely seen 1999 documentary on the UFO phenomena.
Reach Mike Argento at 717-771-2046 or at mike@ydr.com.
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UFO Disappears Into Portal Above Colorado?
UFO Disappears Into Portal Above Colorado?
A video that has been viewed millions of times on social media appears to be fake.
CLAIM
A UFO was seen disappearing into a portal over Colorado.
RATING
UNPROVEN
ORIGIN
On 17 April 2017, a video was posted to the Facebook page “I’m From Denver”, showing what appears to be an unidentified flying object. The video, which came with a claim that it was spotted over southern Colorado, was shared more millions of times:
Because the page doesn’t say exactly where in southern Colorado the video was allegedly filmed, we can’t check with local authorities to verify whether residents actually saw something that looked extraterrestrial in the night sky and caused alarm. However because the video shows something rather outlandish happening, one would expect it to have been covered by the local news media — and there are no reports in Colorado matching the description of such a sighting (although the southern Colorado region known as San Luis Valley is an apparent hotspot for UFO sightings).
This video, in fact, didn’t originate in Colorado, but was initially reported in March 2017 with people claiming they had seen it somewhere over Sonora, a Mexican state that touches the United States border:
Humans have no known contact with extraterrestrials; however, we aren’t sure whether the video was computer generated or the result of a light trick. There are tabloid media reports out of Mexico that claim residents saw the object and were frightened by it, but they don’t quote any sources. Meanwhile the use of drones using LEDs to createlightshows (or troll the credulous) is a well-known pastime.
Gabe Hash, a Spanish-language YouTube personality who delves into unexplained phenomena, claimed he could explain the video with the help of two computer-savvy volunteers who were able to recreate the effect in less than a day using a program called Adobe After Effects:
In the video, Hash casts doubt on the idea that the lights seen in the video were real as opposed to computer generated. He says (in Spanish):
The post says that the object was seen by residents. But that’s not true, since there is no other proof besides this video and no official mention of the event. Secondly, the video is only 30 seconds long and nobody is talking while the person is recording it, meaning that it meets all the characteristics of an animation. Most of the video is blurry and as I’ve said below, this is done to camouflage the animation… In conclusion, in our opinion the video is fake and just an animation rendered via computer. Judge for yourselves.
However, since this video is impossible to prove or disprove without knowing more about what and where it is supposed to be, we can only rate it as Unproven.
An artist’s conception of TRAPPIST-1. (Credit: ESO)
If we detect alien life on a planet in the TRAPPIST solar system, there’s a chance they’ve already spread to one or more of the other six planets orbiting this ultra-cool, ultra-tiny star some 40 light-years away.
In May 2016, scientists made headlines when they discovered three, Earth-size, rocky planets (in February scientists announced they found four more) orbiting a red dwarf star that’s roughly the size of Jupiter. Planets in this system huddle around their home star in tightly packed orbits—TRAPPIST-1b circles its star once per day. And since red dwarfs are cooler than our sun, it’s thought that several of these planets could be habitable, despite close proximity to their star.
This tightly packed solar system begs a tantalizing question: Are these planets exchanging life via space rocks? There are theories that life on Earth may have come from Martian rocks. And if that’s the case, Harvard University researchers Mansavi Ligam and Abraham Loeb argue that the odds of the same thing occurring in the TRAPPIST-1 system are magnitudes higher.
Sowing Seeds
The panspermia hypothesis, credited to Big Bang skeptic Fred Hoyle, underlies all of this life-exchanging talk. Basically, it states that asteroids, comets and meteorites laden with microbes crash into virgin planets, and the surviving microbes sow new life. A few years ago, scientist Steven Benner threw out a provocative idea during a geochemistry conference: Perhaps life on Earth began with organisms clinging to rocks from Mars.
Billions of years ago, conditions on Earth were far too hellish for life to take root. But perhaps a major impact sent Martian rocks flying into space on a course toward Earth. The rest, as they say, is history. It’s still a theory, but there are organisms that can survive the ravages of space—ahem, tardigrades.
In a study published Tuesday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ligam and Loeb built a mathematical model, borrowing from theoretical ecology, to see how the panspermia hypothesis might play out in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Based on their analysis, if Mars could send life to Earth, it’s far more likely that the same thing would happen at TRAPPIST-1.
If you boil down the math, their results are intuitive: The distance between two planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system is tens of times less than the distance between Earth and Mars, which increases the efficiency of material exchanges. Thus, there’s a higher chance TRAPPIST planets are throwing life-seeds back and forth.
An Exciting Theory, But a Theory Nonetheless
Of course, there’s no telling what kind of organisms, if any, would be hitching a ride on TRAPPIST-1 rocks, so it isn’t possible to know if TRAPPIST organisms would survive the trip. Their model is also very simplified, because we just don’t know much about TRAPPIST-1. When did the planets settle into their orbits? Are there a sufficient number of meteorites slamming into planets to launch life-seeding rocks through space (a.k.a. cause spallation)? These are just a few Ligam and Loeb raise in their work.
Looking forward, we first need to determine if life indeed exists in TRAPPIST-1. Telescopes that will be launched in the coming years will be able to probe planets’ atmospheres in the system to detect biosignatures associated with life as we know it on Earth. Scientists could also search for “red edge” spectral signals that hint at the presence of vegetation.
If life exists, researchers could then theoretically verify the panspermia hypothesis, as well. If “red edge” signals are the same on various TRAPPIST-1 planets, that would indicate life sprung forth from a singular source.
Life as we know it relies on “left-handed” amino acids and right-handed sugars, for example. If organisms on TRAPPIST-1 planets all adhere to the same chirality rules, that’s a good sign that life hopped from planet to planet. But if the rules were different on each planet, it would be an indication that life evolved in isolation.
Extraterrestrial life will always capture even the most casual stargazer’s imagination, and these theories about TRAPPIST-1 are certainly titillating. Unfortunately, patience will be the mantra for years to come, as we’ll need to wait for new, technologically advanced telescopes to come online before putting hypotheses to the test.
1977 'Wow!' Signal Was Not a Comet, Could Have Been Aliens
1977 'Wow!' Signal Was Not a Comet, Could Have Been Aliens
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A mysterious radio signal detected in deep space 40 years ago was not from a comet and might have been from alien life, according to a new theory.
Dubbed the "Wow! signal because of a note scribbled on a printout of the signal by the man who detected it, the cosmic sound lasted 72 seconds and has puzzled astronomers for years. A new paper claims it was from a comet, but that insistence is being debunked by another expert.
Senior astronomer Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute told Live Science the frequency of the transmission detected by astronomer Dr. Jerry Ehman is telling.
"I don't think anyone ever found such emission from comets," Shostak told Live Science.
What the signal might have been, according to experts, was some sort of transmission from an extraterrestrial life form.
Ehman also disputes the claim that a comet was the source of the transmission, telling Live Science, "We should have seen the source come through twice in about 3 minutes: one response lasting 72 seconds and a second response for 72 seconds following within about a minute and a half. We didn't see the second one."
Astronomers have not seen the same radio transmission since it was detected in 1977.
In 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman discovered a mysterious signal when working with Ohio State’s “Big Ear” telescope in Delaware. When Ehman first saw the signal on a printout, it was so large and unusual that he circled it and wrote “Wow!”, thus giving the signal its name. It’s also been passed around as possibly the best evidence in support of those who believe alien life is out there.
The Wow! Signal was 30 times stronger than usual background radiation and was broadcast at the same frequency with which hydrogen glows. Some astronomers believe this is the best frequency to look for alien signals, leading conspiracy theorists to claim that the Wow! Signal is in fact a message from extraterrestrials.
Astronomers at the time knew the signal could not have come from Earth, and they believed the signal had come from a region of space near the constellation Sagittarius.
Since the signal’s discovery in 1977, scientists have attempted and subsequently failed to explain its origins, however, recent evidence from Antonio Paris, an astronomy professor at St. Petersburg College, suggests the signal was due to passing comets — not life beyond our planet.
The Center for Planetary Science, which Paris helps run, previously suggested a passing comet and its cloud could be the origin of the Wow! Signal. A comet known as 266/P Christensen was, in fact, in the sky in 1977 when the signal was recorded, however, this was unknown to astronomers at the time.
Using a 10-meter radio telescope, Paris and his team observed the comet as it was passing. The team found that both comet 266/P Christensen and comet P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) were passing through the particular region of the sky Ehman was observing in 1977. These comets were not known to scientists until 2006. When the radio telescope was moved even 1 degree from the comet in 200 trials by Paris and his team, the signal faded.
Paris admits that it is not entirely proven whether these comets in particular were responsible for the signal, but his team has acknowledged the 1977 Wow! Signal was indeed a natural phenomenon generated by a comet.
An unusual picture taken in daylight somewhere in Leitrim has been recorded by Filer's research Institute, the US based National UFO Center. The image which looks like the moon was reported in Leitrim (exact location not recorded) on May 7 this year by an anonymous observer.
The person who reported the UFO said “There was no movement or sound. I turned to call my wife and it was gone at 2.15pm. It was weird and a tad spooked in truth.” The sighting could be a plasma ball or it could just be the moon!
While Leitrim is not a well known location for unusual objects in the sky, we are located close to a “hotspot” for UFOs. The area around Lough Key and Boyle is believed to be located where an orbital track intersects. Boyle has been the focus of UFO sightings in Ireland with Dr Eamonn Ansboro astronmer conducting research from his Kingsland Observatory for 20 years.
According to reports the most recent UFO sighting was just over a month ago from a man in Boyle who was driving on the N4 to Sligo. He saw two balls of light about 50 meters in front of him.
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UFO FOTO OP TELEFOON , GENOMEN OP MOMENT DAT MAN LAG TE SLAPEN
UFO FOTO OP TELEFOON , GENOMEN OP MOMENT DAT MAN LAG TE SLAPEN
Nog steeds hebben wij eigenlijk geen flauw benul over wat er allemaal bij ons de lucht rondvliegt en wat de gevolgen zijn voor sommige mensen.
Het enige dat we zeker weten, is dat er vreemde verhalen de ronde doen, waarbij mensen zich verbijsterd afvragen hoe zoiets mogelijk is.
Begin jaren zestig zijn er voor het eerst verhalen van mensen die door buitenaardsen zouden zijn ontvoerd en meegenomen naar ruimteschepen.
De eerste keer dat de wereld eigenlijk kennismaakte met dit fenomeen was in 1961 met de ontvoering van Barney en Betty Hill in 1961.
Dit getrouwde stel was op 19 september van dat jaar onderweg van Canada naar huis in New Hampshire toen ze ’s avonds rond een uur of tien een vreemd licht door de lucht zagen bewegen. Ze werden duizelig en bleken later compleet de tijd kwijt te zijn en konden zich niets meer herinneren. Later bleek uit uitgebreide hypnose sessies dat ze waren ontvoerd en meegenomen naar een buitenaards ruimteschip. Wie dit fascinerende verhaal wil lezen, kan dat hier doen.
Op dit moment doet een ander interessant verhaal de ronde dat onder andere door Secureteam wordt gebracht alsof het iets is dat gisteren gebeurd is en dat is het verhaal van een vreemde foto, waarbij de eigenaar van de camera zich niet kan herinneren dat hij die bepaalde foto heeft genomen.
Het verhaal is wel echt, maar het gebeurde al in 2015 en speelde zich af op het bekende forum Reddit.
Een man plaatste daar een foto met de boodschap dat hij deze had gevonden op zijn telefoon en geen flauw benul had wie deze had genomen want hij was het zelf niet geweest.
Op de foto zie je een paar felle lichten in de lucht die doen denken aan de film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Het verhaal wordt nog vreemder, want niet alleen kon de man zich niets herinneren, toen hij keek naar de tijd dat de foto de vorige avond was genomen stond daar 22:51:22. Een tijd dat hij in bed lag te slapen.
Vervolgens heeft een andere gebruiker op Reddit de foto zodanig bewerkt dat de donkere gedeeltes wat meer zichtbaar werden.
En dan wordt het nog veel interessanter want op de foto zien we een man staan die naar het vreemde object in de lucht staart. Wat nog vreemder is, is dat de man op de foto niet de eigenaar van de camera is die het bericht op Reddit heeft geplaatst.
Het enige dat de man bekend voor komt is de bomenrij. Die ziet eruit zoals aan de voorkant van zijn huis.
Talloze theorieën werden naar voren gebracht zoals dat hij zou hebben geslaapwandeld of de lichten zouden een reflectie zijn van de flits van de camera, maar ook dat hij misschien ontvoerd zou zijn geweest in het ruimteschip op de foto en dat ze daarna zijn geheugen hebben gewist.
De bekende Dr. Steven Greer heeft gezegd dat alle ontvoeringen die tot nu hebben plaatsgevonden op aarde door “buitenaardsen” feitelijk zijn uitgevoerd door het Amerikaanse leger.
Kortom, verwarring alom en niemand die het er fijne van weet. Daarom zouden wij graag vernemen of er mensen zijn die een vergelijkbaar iets hebben meegemaakt als hierboven omschreven of die weten dat ze zijn ontvoerd en meegenomen.
‘Bizarre UFO clearly rising into portal in sky' seen by one million in shock video
‘Bizarre UFO clearly rising into portal in sky' seen by one million in shock video
A SENSATIONAL video that shows what appears to be a bizarre-looking UFO disappear into a "portal in the sky" has been viewed by more than one million people.
The video, which was posted on the Facebook page “I’m From Denver”, claimed the flying object was spotted over southern Colorado.
It shows an odd shaped cluster of lights rising before a square portal opens in the night sky and disappears.
If a true recording, the video would be one of the most compelling pieces of video evidence of UFO activity.
However, it has now been exposed as likely to be a fake made using CGI technology.
Fact checking website Snopes.com investigated the release.
In an article branding it fake, it said: "Because the page doesn’t say exactly where in southern Colorado the video was allegedly filmed, we can’t check with local authorities to verify whether residents actually saw something that looked extraterrestrial in the night sky and caused alarm.
"However because the video shows something rather outlandish happening, one would expect it to have been covered by the local news media — and there are no reports in Colorado matching the description of such a sighting (although the southern Colorado region known as San Luis Valley is an apparent hotspot for UFO sightings.”
Snopes went onto say that the video did not even originate from Colorado, and was first reported in March this year as being Sonora, a Mexican state on the US border.
They did find Mexican tabloid media reports about some residents witnessing it.
However, Gabe Hash, a Spanish YouTuber said it had been possible to recreate the video using a program called Adobe After Effects.
He said two tech volunteers took less than a day to recreate the film.
We can’t check with local authorities to verify whether residents actually saw something that looked extraterrestrial in the night sky and caused alarm.
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Translated from Spanish, he said there were no official accounts of the sighting.
He added that at just 30 seconds long, with no-one talking, it had the hallmarks of CGI animation.
He said: "Most of the video is blurry and as I’ve said below, this is done to camouflage the animation… In conclusion, in our opinion the video is fake and just an animation rendered via computer."
Snopes.com concluded the case was unproven, adding: "Since this video is impossible to prove or disprove without knowing more about what and where it is supposed to be, we can only rate it as unproven."
The same phenomenon has been recorded on cameras across the globe.
The strange phenomena, described as an orb of light inside a disk-shaped purple haze, continues to make headlines worldwide after being captured on camera.
In the latest case, The Irish Sun reported that a "bizarre UFO" was pictured in daylight above County Leitrim, which it said was a UFO hotspot.
The newspaper website described it as an "eerie snap of a UFO," and said it had been recorded as a sighting by the Filer’s Research Institute, the US-based National UFO Center, run by Major George A. Filer, who spent 20 years in the Air Force working as an intelligence officer, and is now convinced aliens exist.
The Irish Sun warded of sceptics, saying: "Before you dismiss it as a picture of the moon at night – the image was taken in broad daylight."
It called on astronomer Eamonn Ansbro of Kingsland Observatory in Boyle, Co Roscommon, for his view.
He said he thought the latest sighting could be a new form of light known as a plasma ball.
He said: "There’s a similar ball of light that has been seen in a place called Hessdalen in Norway.
“I know the people who operate there and they have automated instrumentation that has recorded them, and we’ve had recordings here as well.
“It appears to be a new form of light in physics that we don’t know about yet, so we’re putting the physics to it to see what it’s about.”
But, Express.co.uk can reveal that the object in question is actually a common form of lens flare - meaning there was nothing outside the camera when the snap was taken.
Lens flares occur when a camera is pointed towards strong sunlight or artificial lights.
It causes light to refract inside the camera before the anomaly in question then appears on the final image.
Despite this countless pictures showing the lens flare are sent to UFO investigation databases across the globe, and few ever appear to get removed or confirmed as lens flares.
Witnesses usually say in their report that they saw nothing at the time, but spotted the object when reviewing the images later.
This is because there was nothing in the sky at the time.
In the latest case the anonymous photographer in County Leitrim said: "The purple haze was not there or visible to the eye. I’m confused in truth.”
The US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) holds the worlds largest database of UFO sightings.
I think MUFON should have a section with typical FAQs to help people to identify correctly their alleged UFO sightings.
Scott Brando
It is regularly sent images showing the same lens flare, but it rarely updates its website to say they have been dismissed as such.
MUFON usually receives 20 plus reports, often including photographs or video, from people around the world each day.
We found scores of alleged UFO pictures sent in by members of the public to MUFON that were clearly or likely to be just lens flares.
In most of these cases the person filing the report said they saw nothing at the time, but spotted the "object" after later reviewing the picture.
In many situations the lens flare only appeared in one or two of a series of images.
In one case the photographer, a man from Los Gatos California, said: "As soon as we looked at the pictures, to our amazement, we had captured a strange orb with layers of colour around it in a couple of the shots."
MUFON
Similar lens flares that have been reported to the MUFON database.
Despite the high volume of red-herring reports with the potential to be easily solved, MUFON lists the majority of them as still unresolved.
Although there is reference to lens flares on the MUFON website, there is no specific article highlighting the different types which people could refer to before sending in images.
We showed the County Leitrim "UFO" to Scott Brando, a forensic UFO investigator behind the website ufoofinterest.org which exposes hoaxes and false UFO sightings.
He said: "Well, this picture cropped shows just a lens flare."
He provided examples of the same lens flare produced by cameras pointed at the sun."
He said: "I think MUFON should have a section with typical FAQs to help people to identify correctly their alleged UFO sightings.
"Of course this means people will learn to identify a 'flying object' before sending a report to MUFON."
Jupiter is de oudste planeet van ons zonnestelsel. Dat hebben planeetwetenschappers van de Universiteit van Münster in het jongste nummer van het vakblad Proceedings van de Amerikaanse Academie voor Wetenschappen (PNAS) bericht.
De onderzoekers zeggen erin geslaagd te zijn de ouderdom van de grootste planeet van ons stelsel te benoemen. Eerder waren er enkel schattingen.
Volgens de wetenschappers had de gasreus een miljoen jaar na het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel, ongeveer 4,6 miljard jaar geleden, al twintig keer de massa van onze Aarde. Jupiter had nog eens drie miljoen jaar nodig om "volwassen" te worden.
Onze planeet heeft ongeveer 100 miljoen jaar nodig gehad voor haar ontstaan.
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Wetenschappers staan op het punt buitenaards leven te ontdekken. Deze expert onthult waar
Wetenschappers staan op het punt buitenaards leven te ontdekken. Deze expert onthult waar
We gaan binnen 10 tot 15 jaar buitenaards leven ontdekken. Dat zegt astronoom Chris Impey van de Universiteit van Arizona in gesprek met Futurism.
Volgens hem staan wetenschappers op het punt microben te ontdekken op een andere planeet. Vooral Jupitermaan Europa is een goede kandidaat.
Experts zeggen dat we in de komende twee decennia buitenaards leven gaan ontdekken, vooral aangezien nieuwe instrumenten zoals de James Webb-telescoop onze kansen verbeteren.
Meeste kans
“Ik denk dat we binnen 10 tot 15 jaar microbieel leven gaan vinden,” zei Impey. Hij voegde toe dat we in ons eigen zonnestelsel de meeste kans maken om buitenaards leven te vinden.
Als er leven op Mars is, bevindt het zich waarschijnlijk onder de grond, waardoor het lastig te vinden is.
Op de rode planeet zijn mogelijk nog wel sporen van oeroude organismen te vinden op plekken die makkelijker te bereiken zijn, vertelde hij aan Futurism.
Vrijwel alle ingrediënten
Impey verwees ook naar de maan Europa, waar wetenschappers onlangs hun vizier op hebben gericht. Die maan heeft een kern van ijzer en een oceaan met zout water.
NASA en ESA hebben onlangs aangekondigd de mysterieuze waterwereld nader te zullen bestuderen.
Eerder dit jaar onthulden wetenschappers dat Saturnusmaan Enceladus beschikt over vrijwel alle ingrediënten die nodig zijn om leven mogelijk te maken.
Superaardes
Ook zijn er verschillende superaardes ontdekt in de buurt van ons zonnestelsel waar mogelijk leven is.
Zo draaien er rond Trappist-1, een ster op 39 lichtjaar van de aarde, tenminste zeven aardachtige planeten, waarvan drie bewoonbaar kunnen zijn.
When you call yourself ‘The UFO Capital of Australia’ because of the hundreds of sightings there since World War II but you’ve had none in the past year, you tend to get worried. When there’s nothing else in your town to attract tourists besides a single restaurant, a park and a roadhouse selling gas, beer and souvenirs, you begin to wonder what you did to offend the aliens. That’s the situation right now in Wycliffe Well, Northern Territory, considered to be – until last year – one of the top five UFO hotspots in the world. What happened?
Scientists say the sky is full of Ley Lines, which act like highways for the UFO’s to travel along. But these energy lines must meet somewhere and one of those crossroads or intersections lies directly above the middle of Australia. That’s why we see so many here.
Lou Farkus is the owner of the Wycliffe Well Holiday Park and depends on that alleged Ley Lines intersection about 400 km north of Alice Springs for his survival. Wycliffe Well popped up as a watering point along the stocking route for the 3200 km Overland Telegraph Line which connected Darwin with Port Augusta in South Australia in 1872. It was a market center for troops during World War II, but after the war only two soldiers remained to keep the market open for stores in Alice Springs … and UFOs.
UFO sightings are so common, that if you stayed up all night looking, you would be considered unlucky not to see anything, rather than lucky to see something.
A binder containing descriptions and records of the sightings has been kept at the park since it opened, but the original was stolen and the current version only dates back to the 1990s. The walls of the restaurant are covered with newspaper clippings for those wishing more details.
Why Wycliffe Well? One reason might be because it’s location is completely flat and there’s no city lights to distort the 360-degree view of the nighttime sky. Another reason might be the Woomera Prohibited Area – a.k.a. Australia’s Area 51 or Area 52 – which is south of Wycliffe Well on the Stuart Highway. The 122,000 sq km (47,000 sq mile) weapons testing range – the world’s largest — has been in operation since … you guessed it …. World War II, for testing of secret aircraft and rocketry for the Royal Australian Air Force.
Are all of the UFO sightings actually secret RAAF aircraft? “Of course not!” say the people whose lives depend on UFO tourism, like Lou Farkus.
Sure the RAAF do flyovers from time to time, but once you seen their Jets going at Mach-1, There’s no comparison with the speed that these other things travel at. Sometimes the UFO’s travel so fast you’d literally blink to miss it. I’ve only heard of one case of someone seeing an Alien form, it was from an Aboriginal woman who said she saw a flashing object descend into the trees and then sighted three beings.
Whether they believe it’s UFOs or secret aircraft, everyone is puzzled by the sudden disappearance of bright unidentified objects in the Wycliffe Well night sky, especially when UFO sightings are on the rise elsewhere in the world. The RAAF doesn’t appear to be talking and neither are the aliens.
Columinst Cheryl Costa looks at the UFO sighting numbers for 2016.
I had a request from a magazine editor who contacted me last Friday. She was seeking the national UFO sighting numbers for 2016. Alas, I’ve been so focused on the release of our book, UFO Sightings Desk Reference, which focused on 2001-2015, that I hadn’t bothered to compile the 2016 numbers, nor my home state’s UFO sighting numbers.
Nationally, the UFO sighting trend is up 9.2 percent from 2015 but down from 2012, 2013, and 2014.
To be honest I really thought that 2012 and 2014 spikes were flukes. I felt that the UFO sighting trend was due for its six- to seven-year hump cycle and would be taking a downward trend (shown in red). Then the 2016 numbers were tallied, and the classic downward trend seems to be taking a more gradual slope (shown in green).
A third possibility is that 2010-2015 (shown in red) is the six year hump and 2016 is the first indication of the next upward cycle. The truth is we won’t know for sure until the 2017 UFO sighting numbers are tallied.
On the home front here in New York state, the numbers offered a unique surprise in terms of sighting totals. In 2016 the state’s UFO sightings of 414 had dropped 23.5 percent from 542 in 2015. The 414 statistic is clearly at a six-year low for New York state.
The other big surprise in New York state was a significant change in the monthly season pattern.
Typically northern states of similar latitude to New York state have a monthly pattern while the peak UFO sightings are in the warmer months of summer.
2016 was really strange! Note the unusually high number of sightings in January, February and March, despite the uncharacteristic downward trend. It’s been suggested that it was a warmer winter in the first quarter of 2016. Perhaps it was something else. Perhaps there was a disturbance in the force or a glitch in the matrix. After all, the Chicago Cubs won the series. Who knows?
If you are interested in joining a monthly UFO discussion group in the Onondaga County area, drop Cheryl an email at Blogger@CherylCosta.com. If you have a UFO sighting to report, you can use either one of the two national database services:nuforc.org or mufon.com. Both services respect confidentiality. Follow me on Twitter @American_Skies.
Attention, Central New York residents: Join a monthly MUFON-sponsored speakers presentation and discussion group in Syracuse. Regularly held the last Saturday of the month, it runs from April 29 through October 28, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m, May Memorial, 3800 E. Genesee St. Plenty of off-street parking is available.
A Louisiana witness at Lafayette County reported watching two, disc-shaped objects with binoculars that disappeared into a dark cloud, according to testimony in Case 84059 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was outside looking at clouds at 5 p.m. on May 27, 2017, at a 45-degree angle to the north using binoculars.
Still image from the witness animation video.
(Credit: MUFON)
“And as soon as I got the focus, there they were – two UFOs,” the witness stated. “One on top the other and in close proximity to each other. The one underneath the other was moving left to right from side-to-side in a straight pattern, while the other one hovered above it.”
The witness had a feeling the objects were trying to communicate.
“I kind of got the feeling the bottom one was using the craft to wave at me, as to say, ‘Hey, here we are!’ As it was moving side-to-side as in someone would move their hand to wave.”
Still image from the witness animation video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness described the objects.
“These were both saucer-shaped and were a black or dark gray color and both had lights in the front that pulsated back and forth like the Knight Rider car, but only much slower. The color of the lights from my perspective was red on the left, blue in the middle and either yellow or white on the right. I couldn’t make out the size because I couldn’t see them with the naked eye, only through the binoculars. I was using a Redfield brand that was 10 x 50. But they were clear as day to see the shape, color and what they were doing.”
Watch the animated video the witness produced to depict the sighting.
The witness put the binoculars down to see if he could see them with his eyes, but they were too far away.
Still image from the witness animation video.
(Credit: MUFON)
“But as soon as I looked back in the binoculars, I could see them again. I was hoping to get video footage, as I kept watching for about 30 seconds, a dark cloud was moving toward that area where they were. That’s when I told my wife to go inside and hurry to grab my phone. I was going to try and film it through the binoculars, but by the time the dark cloud got to where they were, I couldn’t see them anymore. The cloud seemed to stay there for a while, which I found strange and maybe even thought something was behind the cloud like a mother ship using a cloud cloaking device, because after it finally cleared up in that area, I couldn’t see the other craft again. I stayed out all that day and hooked up my phone to record through the binoculars, but didn’t see them again.”
Lafayette County is a parish in Louisiana, population 221,578. Louisiana MUFON is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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