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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
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01-07-2017
The X-Files season 11: release date, news, comic, cast and everything you need to know
The X-Files season 11: release date, news, comic, cast and everything you need to know
Good news, everyone! The X-Files season 11 is a sure thing, because Fox have actually properly officially confirmed it and so we're off to the woods to get abducted by aliens in celebration.
But before we do that, we're going to tell you everything you need to know about the next season of our very favourite FBI-investigates-creepy-stuff-while-the-two-leads-have-insane-chemistry show. We'll be updating this article as we gather more titbits from our Pentagon sources.
The X-Files season 11 release date: When is it on?
"Iconic characters, rich storytelling, bold creators – these are the hallmarks of great TV shows. And they are some of the reasons why The X-Files has had such a profound impact on millions of fans worldwide," Fox president David Madden said in April, following up on this brilliant announcement tweet.
"Chris' creativity, along with the brilliant work of David and Gillian, continue to propel this pop-culture phenomenon, and we can't wait to see what fresh mysteries Mulder and Scully uncover in this next chapter of The X-Files," Madden said.
Production is due to start this summer, with an air date set for in the 2017-2018 season.
It can't come soon enough – we NEED a resolution for season 10's deeply disturbing cliffhanger, please.
Since the announcement, we've have a few news pieces leaking out of that big warehouse where Fox keeps all of their secrets.
Producer Glen Morgan will be writing two episodes (he only knows what one of those two will be, but he will do another), and his brother Darin will also be getting back into action for the show.
"You know, we want do to mythology stories and stories that connect with each other, but I think we're still interested in doing standalone stories.
"I think the second episode I do will be more of a standalone story, and the first one will have some connections to the mythology, but not as connected as Chris's episodes."
WHICH IS VERY EXCITING ISN'T IT?
We also now know the show will run for 10 episodes, which is a definite improvement on 10's six-episode season.
We're sure there's plenty of writers who'll be pitching stories about skateboarding werewolves or whatever for the remaining six episodes that haven't been taken by Morgan and Wong.
The X-Files season 11 comic
Slightly confusingly, The X-Files season 11 already exists and you can "watch" it right now… as long as you're prepared to pretend that a comic book is a television.
Yep, when it looked unlikely that the show would ever come back to TV screens, IDW decided to create comic-book season sequels.
In that universe, season 11 revolved around Fox Mulder being turned into a Edward Snowden-style figure by the US government, and going on the run as a result.
It also saw a return for chess prodigy Gibson Praise as the season's big bad.
Do not expect to see any of these elements in the proper telly version, mainly because the comic wasn't very good – it's not going to appear on any best-of lists any time soon.
The X-Files revival doesn't work without Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny), so, yeah, they're definitely coming back.
We'd also expect our old pals Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), 'The Cigarette Smoking Man' (William B Davis) and the 'Lone Gunmen' (Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, and Bruce Harwood) to drop in.
Season 10 had plenty of guest stars, including Joel McHale, Annabeth Gish, Rhys Darby and Kumail Nanjiani, so we'd expect equivalent names to turn up on the season 11 cast list. (Gillian Jacobs, Katey Sagal, Jemaine Clement and TJ Miller?)
Behind-the-scenes, the writing team has now been confirmed, with Chris Carter joined by classic series writers Glen Morganand James Wong ('Squeeze') and Darin Morgan ('Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose') — all of whom worked on last year's revival miniseries.
Glen Morgan is expected to write two episodes after penning the sublimely creepy 'Home Again' last year.
Newcomers to the writing room will be the sci-fi show's former writing assistants Gabe Rotter and Benjamin Van Allen as well as Chris Carter's own former personal assistant Brad Follmer.
Keep coming back to this page for all the latest X-Files season 11 news, because the truth, gossip and rumours will be out there, and then in here.
In UFO conspiracy theories, Majestic 12 (or MJ-12) is the code name of an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. PresidentHarry S. Trumanto facilitate recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft. The concept originated in a series of supposedly leaked secret government documents first circulated by ufologists in 1984. Upon examination, the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) declared the documents to be “completely bogus”, and many ufologists consider them to be an elaborate hoax. Majestic 12 remains popular among some UFO conspiracy theorists and the concept has appeared in popular culture including television, film and literature.
The story of how the original MJ-12 papers came to light is an interesting look into the mindset of some of the leading UFO researchers, and an excellent example of the quality of UFO evidence that is acceptable to some people.
The concept of “Majestic Twelve” emerged during a period in the 1980s when ufologists believed there had been a cover-up of the Roswell UFO incident and speculated some secretive upper tier of the United States government was responsible. Their suppositions appeared to be confirmed in 1984 when ufologist Jaime Shandera received an envelope containing film which, when developed, showed images of eight pages of documents that appeared to be briefing papers describing “Operation Majestic Twelve”.
In December, 1984, Jaime Shandera, a Hollywood movie producer and UFO researcher, received an unusual package through the post. Inside was just one roll of undeveloped 35mm black and white film. There were no accompanying letter or return address, the only clue to where the package came from was by the postmark which was Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Once developed, the film contained negatives of what appeared to be an eight page briefing paper, prepared on 18th November, 1952, for president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower. A warning on the first page read, ‘This is a TOP SECRET – EYES ONLY document containing compartmentalized information essential to the national security of the United States’. On page two was a list of 12 influential US scientists, military leaders and intelligence advisors. It was not until viewing page three that the subject of the papers became clear, ‘the recovery of a crashed flying saucer and alien bodies near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947’.
The final page of the briefing paper was a memorandum, dated 24th September,1947, from President Harry Truman to his secretary of Defence, James Forrestal. In it, Truman instructs Forrestal to proceed with ‘Operation Majestic-12’, but gives no hint at what that might be.
Alone, the Forrestal memo was meaningless. But when read next to the 1952 briefing paper, the story behind them became clear: in July 1947, a ‘flying disc-shaped aircraft’ crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico, and ‘extra-terrestrial biological entities’ (EBEs) are recovered by the military. When President Truman is informed about the crash, he authorizes Defence Secretary Forrestal to set up a committee to investigate and deal with the situation.
In 1952, when Eisenhower becomes President-elect, he is briefed on Operation Majestic-12. The briefing paper lists the 12-man committee and gives details of the saucer crash. The final paragraph stresses the need to ‘avoid public panic at all costs’, confirming that the government is covering up the truth about UFOs.
The Majestic-12 documents consisted of an eight page briefing paper to President Eisenhower detailing a UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, another crash at El Indio, Texas in 1950, and listing the members of the government’s special Majestic-12 or “MJ-12” UFO group. It was dated “18 November, 1952”, and it named “Admiral” Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter as the briefing officer. There was also a memo from President Harry S Truman to Secretary of Defense Forrestal that authorized the creation of the MJ-12 group.
However, what is often ignored, glossed over, or has just been lost to obscurity, is the fact that the first mention of MJ-12 was in a document that was alleged by Richard Doty, an ex-special agent for the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), to have been created as disinformation. He says he gave the document to UFO researchers while he worked for AFOSI, and was order to do so by his superiors. He says this was only one incident in acampaign that lasted years.
Hesitant to take his word for it, I requested documents related to his claims from AFOSI via the Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA). The documents I received supported some of what he said, but told a different story. They do document the interactions with AFOSI and one UFO researcher, but do not include passing him disinformation. In fact, they say two New Mexico state senators requested information about the nature of their interaction with the UFO researcher, to which AFOSI replied they received his information, but did not engage in any sort of formal investigation.
The documents purported to reveal a secret committee of twelve, supposedly authorized by United States President Harry S. Truman in 1952, and explain how the crash of an alien spacecraft at Roswell in 1947 had been concealed, how the recovered alien technology could be exploited, and how the United States should engage with extraterrestrial life in the future.
Shandera and his ufologist colleagues Stanton T. Friedman and Bill Moore say they later received a series of anonymous messages that led them to find what has been called the “Cutler/Twining memo” in 1985 while searching declassified files in the National Archives. Purporting to be written by General Nathan F. Twining to President Eisenhower’s assistant Robert Cutler and containing a reference to Majestic 12, the memo is widely held to be a forgery, likely planted as part of a hoax. Historian Robert Goldberg wrote that the ufologists came to believe the story despite the documents being “obviously planted to bolster the legitimacy of the briefing papers”.
Moore, Shandera, and Friedman altered the appearance of the MJ-12 documents in their first release of the Focus newsletter to give the appearance of government censorship. They later had to admit that they did it themselves.
At the ON UFO Symposium Proceedings, “MJ-12 and Phil Klass: What are the facts?” by William L. Moore and Stanton T. Friedman: They included a reproduction of the mail packet addressed to Jaime Shandera. The bottoms of the postmarks were blackened out on all three postmarks. This would have shown the state and city that the mail packet was mailed in. In the presentation, Moore and Friedman stated the package “bore no return address”.
In reality, there was a return address. It was Albuquerque, NM! Guess who lived in Albuquerque, NM. Richard Doty- associate of William Moore! If the address had been shown, people might have started checking more on Doty. But Moore and Friedman stated that the package bore no return address.
Aside from the suspicious origins of the Majestic-12 papers, there are several problems with the documents themselves.
The Date: Military documents were formatted using strict guidelines, including the structure of dates. At the time the MJ-12 briefing was alleged to have been written, the format was day month year. No commas, no place-holding zeros. But the date in the MJ-12 document used a day month (comma) year format. This brief was supposedly generated at the very highest level of the military; a level that would not have made such a fundamental error in format.
Hillenkoetter’s Rank: The document refers to “Admiral” Hillenkoetter, when his true rank was REAR Admiral. In casual speech or among civilians this error might occur, but a military man would never make such an error. It was the military that wrote the brief.
Verbiage: Two terms used in the document were not in use during the 50’s. The word “media” to refer to the Press did not appear until the 70’s. Likewise the term “impacted”.
Security: The Cutler-Twining memo is stamped “Top Secret Restricted Information”. There was no such classification in 1954. Not until the Nixon era was this classification used.
Code Word MAJIC: This appears to be the code name assigned to this project. However, this would constitute a major violation of the code naming scheme used by the military for well over a decade.
Secure projects are assigned code names from a one-time use list that is shared by all parts of the military and civilian government bodies. Just prior to WWII, the code name MAGIC was assigned to the effort to break the high security Japanese diplomatic code. The project was still under the wraps of Top Secret in the early 50’s so it could not be “re-used”. Yet, here we have the term MAJIC being applied to the Majestic-12, an assignment that clearly could not happen.
MJ-12 proponents point to the different spelling, but the code list was constructed to avoid phonetic similarities that could cause confusion in oral communications. It would appear that the author(s) of the Majestic briefing papers were conscious of the newly de-classified story of the MAGIC operation when this was concocted.
There are several other points that one might accurately call minor, but when you take all these errors together in one set of documents, the coincidence level redlines.
The most spectacular new MJ-12 document was posted in 1994 to Don Berliner, a longtime UFO investigator and science writer. The anonymous roll of film contained 23 pages of a ‘Majestic-12 Group Special Operations Manual’, dated April, 1954. It was a detailed instruction manual entitled ‘Extra-terrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal’.
Because most of the MJ-12 documents are on film, the original paper or ink cannot be analysed. However there are many factual details that can be checked, such as the background of the 12 members of the committee, the dates of meetings, the style and format of similar documents, and the validity of the signatures. Clearly, MJ-12 had an all-star cast, as well as Secretary of Defence Forrestal, there were the first three Directors of Central Intelligence, an Air Force General, an Army General, the Secretary of the Army and five of the US’s most influential scientists. This was the cream of the US’s military, scientific and intelligence communities. If there was to be a top-secret government group investigating UFOs, this would have been it.
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Microbotjes halen bacteriën uit het water
Microbotjes halen bacteriën uit het water
Tim Kraaijvanger
Vervuild water kan gefilterd worden met behulp van microbotjes.
In een nieuw paper beschrijven wetenschappers hoe de techniek werkt. Ieder botje bestaat voor de helft uit magnesium. Hierdoor ontstaan waterstofbellen in het water, waardoor de botjes door het water bewegen. De andere helft is gemaakt van verschillende laagjes goud en ijzer met daar bovenop zilveren nanodeeltjes. De bacteriën komen vast te zitten tussen de ijzeren en gouden lagen, waarna ze gedood worden door de nanodeeltjes.
Des te meer microbotjes er in vervuild water worden losgelaten, des te effectiever wordt het water gefilterd. De onderzoekers beweren dat de botjes in twintig minuten tijd tachtig procent van de E. coli-bacteriën in vervuild water kunnen doden.
Magnetisch Uiteraard kan het water niet gedronken worden met de microbotjes er nog in. Dit is de reden dat ieder microbotje voor een deel uit ijzer bestaat. Hierdoor kunnen de botjes met een magneet uit het water worden gehaald.
Geen elektriciteit Het grote voordeel is dat deze microbotjes geen elektriciteit nodig hebben om te werken. Toch is het de vraag hoe deze microbots daadwerkelijk ingezet gaan worden, want het lijkt ons alsnog een dure operatie om zakken vol microbotjes te vervoeren. Ook is tachtig procent nog geen honderd procent. Dan is deze filtermethode pas echt effectief.
Toekomst De onderzoekers beloven hun microbots verder te verfijnen. Als de botjes goed werken, dan kunnen zij de kwaliteit van leven voor 663 miljoen mensen verbeteren. Dit zijn mensen die geen toegang hebben tot schoon drinkwater. Maar dat niet alleen! Deze microbotjes gaan in de toekomst misschien wel medicijnen afleveren in ons lichaam.
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Het Wow!-signaal: een mysterie dat al veertig jaar standhoudt
Het Wow!-signaal: een mysterie dat al veertig jaar standhoudt
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het is bijna 40 jaar geleden dat het sterke radiosignaal gedetecteerd werd. En nog altijd is het in nevelen gehuld.
Het is 15 augustus 1977. Met behulp van het Ohio State University Radio Observatory speuren astronomen de hemel af op zoek naar radiosignalen afkomstig van buitenaards leven. Astronoom Jerry Ehman buigt zich over de gegevens die de radiotelescoop in de afgelopen dagen verzameld heeft, wanneer zijn oog valt op een sterk, smalbandig radiosignaal. Het intrigeert hem meteen. Hij omcirkelt het signaal en schrijft er in de kantlijn in zijn enthousiasme ook nog eens het veelzeggende ‘Wow!’ bij. Het Wow!-signaal was geboren.
Hier zie je de radiotelescoop die het Wow!-signaal in 1977 detecteerde. De telescoop – bijgenaamd Big Ear – is uitgerust met twee ‘oren’. Normaliter werd een radiosignaal eerst door het ene oor opgevangen en zo’n 70 seconden later door het andere. Maar het Wow!-signaal vormt hierop een uitzondering. Dat werd alleen door het eerste oor opgevangen. Dat wijst erop dat het radiosignaal vrij abrupt werd afgebroken.
Onverklaarbaar Inmiddels zijn we veertig jaar verder en is het Wow!-signaal nog steeds zo af en toe het gesprek van de dag. Astronoom Ignas Snellen, verbonden aan de Universiteit Leiden, denkt wel te weten hoe dat komt. “Het is het enige signaal waarvan SETI (het onderzoeksinstituut dat met radiotelescopen zoekt naar signalen van intelligente buitenaardse wezens, red.) beweert dat niet te verklaren is waar het vandaan komt. Als je kijkt naar alle signalen die SETI in de afgelopen vier of vijf decennia heeft opgepikt, is dit eigenlijk het enige signaal dat we niet goed begrijpen.” Volgens astronoom Seth Shostak, verbonden aan het Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (kortweg SETI-instituut) zijn er de afgelopen decennia wel meer van dit soort eenmalig waargenomen, mysterieuze radiosignalen opgevangen, maar springt het wow!-signaal er vooral uit vanwege die opmerking in de kantlijn, waar het uiteindelijk naar vernoemd is. “Het wow!-signaal is beroemd, omdat het zo’n bijdehante naam heeft,” vertelt hij aan Scientias.nl.
EEN TERECHTE ‘WOW!’?
Hadden Shostak en Snellen wanneer zij het Wow!-signaal voor het eerst onder ogen hadden gekregen er ook een enthousiaste ‘Wow!’ bijgeplaatst? “Ik had het signaal zeker onderstreept, denk ik,” stelt Shostak. “Het signaal is opmerkelijk en sterk.” Ook Snellen kan zich het enthousiasme van Ehman wel enigszins voorstellen. “Het signaal was niet alleen heel sterk, maar werd ook nog eens aangetroffen in een stukje hemel waar je geen radiostraling verwacht.”
Eenmalig Dat we na veertig jaar nog altijd niet met zekerheid kunnen zeggen waar dit signaal zijn oorsprong vond, lijkt misschien verbazingwekkend. Maar astronomen stuiten in de zoektocht naar de bron van het radiosignaal continu op hetzelfde probleem: het signaal is slechts één keer gedetecteerd. “We hebben het sinds augustus 1977 nooit meer gezien,” vertelt Shostak. “Je moet je voorstellen dat je op een avond in de kamer zit en een geluid hoort in de kelder. Je staat op om te gaan kijken, maar wanneer je de kelder binnengaat, hoor je het niet meer. Het is op dat moment onmogelijk om vast te stellen wat de bron van het geluid is.” En zo is het ook met het Wow!-signaal: zolang het geen tweede keer waargenomen wordt, is het onmogelijk om vast te stellen waar het vandaan kwam.
Een aards signaal? En dus zijn onderzoekers – en het publiek – al bijna vier decennia naar de bron van het signaal aan het gissen. Sommigen schrijven het signaal toe aan een buitenaardse beschaving. Anderen houden het wat dichter bij huis. “Meestal is dit soort signalen het resultaat van menselijke activiteiten die de waarnemingen van de telescoop verstoren,” stelt Shostak. Snellen is het met hem eens. “We hebben hier te maken met een heel sterke radiobron op een heel nauwe frequentieband, wat betekent dat het signaal een heel specifieke golflengte heeft,” vertelt Snellen. “Dergelijke signalen komen normaliter niet uit de ruimte, maar zijn afkomstig van de aarde en worden bijvoorbeeld veroorzaakt door elektrische apparaten of straaljagers.” Maar hoe aannemelijk het ook lijkt dat het Wow!-signaal het resultaat is van een op aarde gecreëerde verstoring: het is niet te bewijzen. “Er zijn manieren om dergelijke aardse verstoringen uit te filteren en dat is in het geval van het Wow!-signaal ook gebeurd,” legt Snellen uit. “En dan lijkt het signaal toch weer afkomstig te zijn uit de ruimte. Maar zeker weten doe je het niet. Daarom willen we het signaal ook graag nog een keer zien.”
DE EQUIVALENT VAN HET WOW!-SIGNAAL
Zijn er recent nog equivalenten van het Wow!-signaal aangetroffen? We vroegen het Shostak. “Het gebeurt niet vaak meer dat we een onverklaarbaar signaal tegenkomen,” stelt Shostak. “Als we nu een vreemd signaal detecteren, checken we het meteen nog een keer.” En meestal levert dat voldoende data op om wilde verhalen nog voor hun ontstaan te ontkrachten en de bron van het signaal te identificeren. Dat er in Ohio in 1977 niet meteen een tweede blik op het vreemde signaal werd geworpen, is te wijten aan de techniek van toen, die de nodige beperkingen kende.
Kometen? Terwijl Snellen en Shostak hun geld op een aardse verstoring zetten, zijn er ook onderzoekers die er heel andere ideeën op nahouden. Antonio Paris bijvoorbeeld. Hij beweerde recent nog dat het Wow!-signaal veroorzaakt werd door kometen. Snellen kan er heel kort over zijn: “Ik vind dat een heel raar verhaal.” Shostak is nog duidelijker over het werk van Paris. “Het is gewoon fout.” Er is geen hard bewijs dat kometen in staat zijn om zo’n radiosignaal te produceren. En zelfs als kometen in staat zouden zijn om zo’n radiosignaal te produceren, dan zou Big Ear dat met beide oren moeten hebben opgevangen. Het is namelijk ondenkbaar dat een komeet binnen anderhalve minuut (de tijd die verstrijkt tussen het moment waarop het eerste en tweede oor van Big Ear een radiosignaal detecteren) uit het gezichtsveld van de radiotelescoop verdwijnt. “Die hele theorie (van Paris, red.) werkt gewoon niet,” merkt Shostak op.
Loslaten En zo blijven we dus in een kringetje ronddraaien. “Zonder nieuwe data zal het heel lastig worden om dit mysterie op te lossen,” denkt Shostak. Wordt het dan misschien tijd om het mysterie los te laten? “Als je er elke maand uren over nadenkt en je persoonlijke relaties eronder gaan lijden, zou ik zeker zeggen: ‘Get over it‘,” merkt Shostak lachend op. Hoe je je precies over zo’n mysterie heenzet, lijkt Shostak – die nog regelmatig over het Wow!-signaal schrijft op de SETI-website, er regelmatig over spreekt met de grote media en nog altijd hoopt dat de SETI-telescopen het Wow!-signaal een tweede keer waarnemen – ook niet precies te weten.
“IK DENK DAT WE IN DE KOMENDE TWINTIG JAAR BUITENAARDS LEVEN GAAN VINDEN”
Ondertussen zoeken de radiotelescopen van SETI niet alleen naar het Wow!-signaal dat veertig jaar geleden werd waargenomen, maar speuren ze vooral de hemel af op zoek naar een echt Wow!-signaal: een signaal dat we wel herhaaldelijk kunnen waarnemen en dat (op termijn) onomstotelijk toegeschreven kan worden aan aliens. Wanneer dat signaal zich aandient, is koffiedik kijken. Maar het zal zeker niet nog eens veertig jaar duren, denkt Shostak. “Ik denk dat we in de komende twintig jaar buitenaards leven gaan vinden,” stelt hij. Snellen is het met hem eens, maar verwacht niet dat radiosignalen ons op de aanwezigheid van aliens gaan wijzen. “De kans dat een buitenaardse beschaving zich zo dichtbij bevindt dat we de radiostraling ervan kunnen zien, is echt heel klein.” Hij ziet meer in het bestuderen van de atmosfeer van exoplaneten. “Als we van een afstandje naar de atmosfeer van de aarde kijken, zien we dat deze zuurstof bevat. En dat zit in de atmosfeer, omdat er leven is. Over een jaar of tien kunnen we met nieuwe instrumentatie – zoals de Extra Large Telescope die in Noord-Chili wordt gebouwd – ook de atmosfeer van exoplaneten bestuderen en mogelijk aantonen dat daar leven is. Eigenlijk kunnen we dus pas over een jaar of tien goed gaan zoeken naar buitenaards leven en het is natuurlijk nog maar de vraag of we het gaan vinden. Maar als het er is, lijkt het me heel redelijk dat we het binnen een jaar of 20 vinden.”
Recent studies suggest that the ocean that's sloshing beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus, seen here in a photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, may be a potentially habitable environment.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
NASA is not preparing to drop an alien-life bombshell, despite what you may have heard.
Last week, the hacking group Anonymous posted a video on YouTube suggesting that the space agency is about to announce the discovery of life beyond Earth. The video has made a big splash online — so big that NASA science chief Thomas Zurbuchen addressed the rumor today (June 26).
"Contrary to some reports, there's no pending announcement from NASA regarding extraterrestrial life," Zurbuchen said via Twitter, where he posts as @Dr_ThomasZ.
"Are we alone in the universe? While we do not know yet, we have missions moving forward that may help answer that fundamental question," he added in another tweet today.
Anonymous' video focuses not on hacked documents but rather on testimony Zurbuchen gave back in April during a hearing of the House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. (The 12-minute video also touches on some other topics, including the seven Earth-size planets circling the star TRAPPIST-1 and several supposed UFO sightings.)
During the April 26 hearing, which was called "Advances in the Search for Life," Zurbuchen laid out the progress NASA has been making in the hunt for life in the cosmos. He cited, among other things, the thousands of exoplanets spotted by the agency's Kepler space telescope, the recent discovery of hydrogen in the geysers blasting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus, and the possible detection of water-vapor plumes emanating from the Jovian satellite Europa.
"Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are specifically searching for evidence of alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history," Zurbuchen said during the hearing.
In the recent video, Anonymous takes the second half of this sentence and runs with it.
"NASA: 'Mankind is about to discover extraterrestrial life,'" an Anonymous spokesman wearing the group's famous Guy Fawkes mask intones, with a digitally altered voice, at the beginning of the video.
This interpretation isn't strictly wrong. But "on the verge" is a far cry from "has found evidence," and anyone expecting an Earth-shattering announcement from NASA in the next few weeks or months is bound to be disappointed.
Liquid water exists in two different forms, new research reveals. Here, an illustration of the water molecule in front of an X-ray pattern from high-density amorphous ice, created by creating high pressures and low temperatures.
Credit: Mattias Karlén
Liquid water comes in two forms — low density and high density, scientists have found.
The findings add to the anomalous properties of this ubiquitous, life-giving liquid, which is like no other on Earth.
"The new remarkable property is that we find that water can exist as two different liquids at low temperatures where ice crystallization is slow," Anders Nilsson, a chemical physicist at Stockholm University in Sweden, said in a statement. [The Mysterious Physics of 7 Everyday Things]
Essential element for life
Water is essential for life (at least on Earth). And wherever liquid water exists — whether it's in icebound lakes or scalding hydrothermal vents — tiny microbes have been found. That is why scientists have been excited by the possibility of salty water flows and other evidence of ancient water on Mars — it means there may well have been life early on in the Red Planet's history.
It turns out that water has strange physical properties found in no other liquids known to scientists. For one, it can exist in all three phases at Earth-like temperatures and pressures. For another, its molecular configuration — two hydrogens mated to an oxygen molecule — creates strong polarity, or a highly positively charged region and a highly negatively charged region. That, in turn, allows almost any substance to be dissolved in it; in that way, substances such as calcium ions can travel (dissolved) within water into and out of a cell, for instance, Brian Glazer, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who has studied astrobiology, previously told Live Science. Already, scientists have identified 70 properties of liquid water that differ from other liquid substances.
Researchers have long known that ice can exist in two solid forms: a highly ordered, crystalline form with individual molecules neatly lined up in a repeating pattern, and an amorphous version, where the molecules are scattered more haphazardly. In fact, this amorphous ice is the most abundant type on our planet, and can transform between both a low- and high-density version.
Two phases of liquid water
Scientists wondered whether a similar transition may occur in liquid water. To find out, Nilsson and his colleagues used X-rays to track the distance between individual molecules of H20 at low temperatures. Using this technique, they watched as the water transitioned from an amorphous, glassy, frozen liquid state (essentially, uncrystallized ice), to a viscous liquid, and then almost immediately to another, more viscous liquid with a lower density, the researchers reported today (June 26) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The findings shed new light on the bizarre behavior of liquid water.
"The new results give very strong support to a picture where water at room temperature can't decide in which of the two forms it should be, high or low density, which results in local fluctuations between the two," study co-author Lars G.M. Pettersson, a theoretical chemical physicist at Stockholm University, said in the statement. "In a nutshell: Water is not a complicated liquid, but two simple liquids with a complicated relationship."
New Conspiracy Theory: Children Kidnapped for Mars Slave Colony
New Conspiracy Theory: Children Kidnapped for Mars Slave Colony
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist’s illustration of (non-enslaved) astronauts on the surface of Mars.
Credit: NASA/JSC
Even in this age of free-flying conspiracy theories, this one's a doozy.
On Thursday (June 29), a guest on Alex Jones' radio show named Robert David Steele claimed that Mars is inhabited — by people sent to the Red Planet against their will.
"We actually believe that there is a colony on Mars that is populated by children who were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20-year ride, so that once they get to Mars, they have no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony," Steele told Jones, the founder of the controversial InfoWars website. [25 Space Conspiracies That Just Won't Die]
It's unclear why this "ride" would last two decades; it takes just 6 to 9 months to reach Mars using current propulsion technology. Perhaps Steele believes that the kidnapped children return to Earth, as adults, 20 years after being spirited away?
Whatever the details may be, Jones seemed open to the possibility.
"Look, I know that 90 percent of the NASA missions are secret, and I've been told by high-level NASA engineers that you have no idea," Jones told Steele, who the show billed as a "CIA insider." "There is so much stuff going on."
Jones went on to add that "clearly, they don’t want us looking into what is happening; every time probes go over, they turn them off."
The Daily Beast did some due diligence on Steele's assertion, contacting NASA for a comment.
"There are no humans on Mars. There are active rovers on Mars. There was a rumor going around last week that there weren’t. There are," Guy Webster, a spokesman at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who specializes in the agency's Mars-exploration activities, told The Daily Beast. "But there are no humans."
Alex Jones has supported and promulgated conspiracy theories in the past. He has claimed, for example, that the December 2012 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut — in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 27 people, including 20 first-graders — was a hoax. Mars has proven to be fertile ground for conspiracy theorists over the years as well. There's the famous "face on Mars," of course. And more recently, UFO enthusiasts have claimed that NASA's Curiosity rover has captured images of a variety of Red Planet animals that resemble rats, lizards, squirrels and crabs.
Asteroid Day Rocks! Here Are Some of the Cool Events Happening Worldwide
Asteroid Day Rocks! Here Are Some of the Cool Events Happening Worldwide
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
The star Vega, like Earth, has a rocky asteroid belt. On Asteroid Day, scientists around the world consider how Earth could defend itself from such celestial bodies.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Today is Asteroid Day, when colleges, museums and observatories across the globe are striving to raise awareness about the wonders and potential dangers of asteroids. From online broadcasts and lectures to hands-on activities, a number of events are happening worldwide.
Here is just a sampling:
The University of Arizona will host a weekend-long event with members of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return team.
At Kennedy Space Center in Florida, former NASA astronaut Tom Jones will examine the potential dangers asteroids.
Imperial College London will utilize a 3D projection system to study astronomical images
The National Autonomous University of Honduras will present asteroid art and impact simulations.
At the Brockton Public Library in Massachusetts, there will even be asteroid cookies!
The first Asteroid Day kicked off in 2015, after astrophysicist Brian May, best known as a guitarist for the rock band Queen, introduced director Grigorij Richters to the B612 Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit advocacy agency with the goal of protecting Earth from asteroid impacts through early prevention. Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Danica Remy — founder and chief operations officer of B612, respectively — joined May and Richters as co-founders of Asteroid Day. [Near-Earth Asteroids: Famous Space Rock Flybys and Close Calls (Infographic)]
"The more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it became that the human race has been living on borrowed time," May noted on the official Asteroid Day website. "Asteroid Day would [be] the vehicle to garner public support to increase our knowledge of when asteroids might strike and how we can protect ourselves."
Every day, Earth is bombarded by tons of dust-size particles that burn up in the atmosphere. According to NASA, an automobile-size asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere about once a year, burning up before it reaches the ground. A larger object that would be capable of threatening the planet's civilizations collides with Earth once every few million years, the agency estimates.
To prepare for the risk of catastrophe, NASA has developed a Planetary Defense Coordination Office. Other space agencies have developed similar programs. On NASA's Planetary Defense FAQ, the agency writes that deflecting an asteroid would require changing its velocity by less than an inch per second years in advance of a potential collision. NASA is working to develop a so-called kinetic impactor, which would hit an asteroid slightly with an object to slow it, and a gravity tractor, which would put a large mass near an asteroid whose gravity would tug at it enough to change its path.
Both systems would require knowledge of an asteroid's deadly trajectory years in advance. "An asteroid on a trajectory to impact Earth could not be shot down in the last few minutes, or even hours, before impact," NASA officials wrote in the FAQ. "No known weapon system could stop the mass because of the velocity at which it travels — an average of 12 miles per second [19 kilometers per second]."
Because changing the course of a deadly asteroid requires advance notice, stopping a disastrous collision requires spotting the threat early on. International Asteroid Day was established to raise public awareness of the potential danger and how to avoid it.
"Early warning is the essential ingredient of planetary defense," Schweickart said.
Another way to prevent collisions is for scientists to gain a better understanding of the properties of asteroids and how they move. In 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission to the asteroid Bennu. Set to arrive in August 2018, the spacecraft will orbit the asteroid, studying it for two years before scooping up a sample of dust and pebbles that will return to Earth in 2023. While it will be NASA's first asteroid sampling mission, it won't be the world's first; Japan's Hayabusa mission returned an asteroid sample to Earth in 2010.
Together, these initiatives should help scientists and engineers prepare for potential dangers from asteroids. You can prepare by attending one of the many Asteroid Day events, found on the website here. But don't despair if you can't attend. The site will be broadcasting video clips, panels and even a movie all day today. And Space.com has a slideshow of asteroid movies you might enjoy.
GTA Online Hackers Activate Secret Alien Mission Early
GTA Online Hackers Activate Secret Alien Mission Early
Zack Zwiezen
After years of hunting, digging through the code and searching every inch of the game, GTA V fans have finally found life from beyond the stars. And because this is GTA, of course the discovery is tied to digital theft and murder.
A few weeks back, the Gunrunning Update added some new weapons, vehicles and massive underground bunkers to GTA Online. Buried deep in the new update were a series of files and code that seemed to hint at an alien UFO crashing just outside the Zancudo military base. Players were excited at the prospect of figuring out a long-standing mystery involving an alien egg, which was tied to the suspected event.
Members of Team Guru, a GTA V modding and mystery hunting group, spent weeks digging and searching for a way to activate these bits of alien coding. After many sleepless nights, they used a tool created by Guru member Polivilas to switch in-game variables until they were able to activate an alien supply mission by force:
Until GTA Online updates and this mission activates properly, we have no idea if this is the final version of the event, or if it will ever be put into the game officially. But this is conclusive evidence that Rockstar was indeed doing something recently with the idea of aliens crashing in GTA Online.
The actual mission is a bit underwhelming. Players are told to head to a location and steal some supplies—that’s where the alien egg comes in. When they arrive, they find a large UFO crashed in the swamp and dead scientists and soldiers. Once players have the alien egg, a small group of extraterrestrials spawns in and the player has to kill them. As missions go, it’s not incredibly exciting or different. But after years of searching it’s cool to finally see the theorizing and hard work materialize into something concrete.
While some players are happy that aliens were found, others are disappointed. Many mystery hunters wanted a big single-player easter egg or reward that could justify years of searching. Some are actually hopeful this new alien mission is just the start of something bigger, perhaps eventually involving the long sought-after jetpack.
For now, at least the citizens of Los Santos know they aren’t alone in the universe. And that these alien beings aren’t bulletproof.
Zach Zwiezen is a a writer living in Kansas City, Missouri. He has written for Gamecritics, Killscreen and Entertainment Fuse.
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Mars Opportunity rover has image of unidentified metallic object, puts internet in a frenzy
Mars Opportunity rover has image of unidentified metallic object, puts internet in a frenzy
Left Panoramic Camera Non-linearized Full frame EDR acquired on Sol 348 of Opportunity's mission to Meridiani Planum at approximately 12:45:41 Mars local solar time, camera commanded to use Filter 7 (432 nm).
NASA/JPL/Cornell
It's shiny. It’s sharp. It’s on Mars. It must be aliens! What appears to be a chunk of metal photographed by the Opportunity Rover has UFO buffs in a spin.
The high contrast infra-red image, published by the Mars Exploratino Rover Mission (Opportunity: Panoramic Camera: Sol 348) was uploaded by the Opportunity Rover on March 17.
It shows an unusually shiny, and jagged, object sitting neatly on top of the grainy surface of Mars’ Meridiani Planum.
But at least in this case the resolution is reasonably crisp. Not a blurry morass like most UFO ‘evidence’.
“Looks like light glimmering off of a genuine spaceship on an alien planet in outer space,” one commentator noted.
But, for that to be true, there’s the small matter of scale. At that distance from the Opportunity Rover, any inhabitants would probably have to be no larger than ants.
A more down to Earth (though admittedly this is Mars we’re talking about here) suggestion was that it could be a piece of debris from the rover itself, or a heat shield from the craft that delivered it.
Earthly trash is increasingly common on the Red Planet, especially after a string of mission failures in recent decades. Satellites have gone awry. Landers have crashed.
But even successful projects litter the landscape with debris as they plough through the thin atmosphere.
Looking for a lone signal from some far-flung alien civilization is one thing --- looking for its handiwork on galactic scales is quite another. But a handful of astronomers are still hopeful that if hyper-advanced extraterrestrial civilizations can survive through cosmic time, they might choose to macro-engineer whole galaxies in ways that would be detectable in the electromagnetic spectrum.
“If a civilization has engineered half a galaxy, some fraction of the energy being used should glow in the infrared,” James Annis, an astrophysicist at Fermilab, told me. Annis and colleagues conducted the first such search for KIII civilizations in 1999.
Stars are bright in the optical, and any civilization that uses or engineers the stars will eliminate starlight or change its natural appearance, says Annis.
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: Ray A. Lucas (STScI/AURA)
A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual ring galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view of the galaxy's ring of stars.
“We assume that the majority of visible galaxies are natural,” said Annis. “So, we look for galaxies that are different from the majority. Usually this is easily explained as an ongoing galaxy merger.”
In 1964, Soviet physicist Nicolai Kardashev first put forth the idea that an extraterrestrial civilization’s level of technological advancement could be divided into three tiers --- from KI to KIII. We would qualify as a few decades away from being a KI civilization. That is, a civilization capable of harnessing all of its star’s incoming solar radiation. A KII civilization would be capable of directly harnessing its parent star’s energy, usually via a mechanism such as a Dyson’s sphere.
Such hypothetical artificial spheres were put forth by physicist Freeman Dyson as a means for completely encompassing and capturing all of a given star’s energy. Thus, such spheres would mostly be detectable via their waste heat leaking into the infrared spectrum. A full-scale KIII civilization would be capable of directly harnessing all the energy in their host galaxy or galaxies. They might possibly use billions of such Dyson spheres --- or some other means of harnessing their galaxy’s energy that would be impossible for us to even imagine.
Orange whorls of star-warmed dust fill the Andromeda galaxy's spiral arms in this false-color mid-infrared image from NASA's WISE space telescope. Such images could also potentially reveal the waste heat from galaxy-spanning advanced civilizations. Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
If the radiated starlight of the entire galaxy is collected, in the optical spectrum it will look abnormally dark, but will emit waste power in the thermal infrared, Brian Lacki, an astronomer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, told me.
In a recent paper, Lacki used data from the European Space Agency’s Planck spacecraft to look for microwave sources with a spectrum expected of waste heat. Lacki says he calculated that a very cold KIII structure that shrouded a grand spiral galaxy like the Milky Way would be detectable out to about 2 billion light years.
“If a galaxy had many of its stars [surrounded by] swarms of giant structures, you would expect it to appear dimmer,” Jason Wright, an astronomer at Penn State University, told me. “At mid-infrared wavelengths, we would expect to see all that blocked light.”
A couple of years back, Wright and colleagues searched for excess thermal emission from 100,000 galaxies in the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) all-sky source catalog.
“We did not find any, but our sensitivity was very low, and we hope to do more sensitive searches in the future,” Wright told me.
In a separate search, Lacki also looked for very cold structures that would cloak entire galaxies.
We would then see a bubble hundreds of millions of light years wide, he says, where all the galaxies are invisible in the optical, but shine in the infrared or microwave spectrums.
“We don't see such bubbles, so they must be very, very rare,” said Lacki.
On the other hand, Lacki says if aliens chose to simply rearrange their galaxy’s stars instead of shroud them, such galaxies would have bizarre shapes. However, such macroengineering projects might also involve rearranging the stars in a given galaxy.
Hoag’s Object, classified as a peculiar ring galaxy some 600 million light years away in the constellation of Serpens has been proposed by some as being a potential macro-engineering project. Yet Annis says that it’s more like simply the merger of two galaxies.
The Galaxy Zoo Project, Lacki notes, also had volunteers classify nearly a million galaxies, all of which seemed to be natural.
It’s hard to fathom what would motivate such civilizations to conduct what by Annis’ estimate would be a 100 million-year project.
But Lacki says they might use such collected energy to power computation on unimaginable scales. Or even for hyper-advance particle physics experiments.
To experiment with physics on its most fundamental (Planck) scale, Lacki says one has to build a particle accelerator as bright as a galaxy, using energies at the yotta electron volt (YeV) level. That’s about 100 billion times the Giga electron volt (GeV) energies achieved at the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, which is currently humanity's highest-energy particle accelerator.
However, in a recent paper published on the online astrophysical site ArXiv, Lacki was able to show that these galactic accelerators are fairly rare.
What’s needed to further the search for such exo-technology?
More data mining of a variety of astronomy surveys, and searches for anomalies and transient, short-term sources, says Dan Werthimer, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley, told me. He notes that the idea is to look for glitches in astronomical data from existing and future sky surveys.
When most people think about searching for extraterrestrial intelligences, they imagine someone like Ellie Arroway searching the skies for radio transmissions. But what about looking in other ways? Perhaps a highly advanced alien civilisation might build structures large enough for us to see.
Over many trillions of years, Lacki says there may be no choice but to become a KIII civilization. As the expansion of the universe continues to accelerate, Lacki says most galaxies will lose contact with each other and the gas between galaxies will dilute away.
Thus, if a galactic society wants to prepare for the deep future, Lacki says, it might build up a reserve of galactic molecular gas. That way, the civilization could ensure that its galaxy had a steady and wide-ranging supply of stars that would continually generate metals and other elements that can’t be made artificially.
“Societies that learn to work on galactic scales may be the only ones left trillions of years from now,” said Lacki.
Image: Artists impression of a Dyson sphere, composed of a swarm of smaller satellites. Credit: Vedexent/Wikimedia Commons
Columnist Cheryl Costa continues her three-part series of articles on Project Blue Book.
A little after 11 a.m. on Sept. 10, 1951, a U.S. Army radar station at Fort Monmouth detected an unknown, low-altitude target. The signal corps operator and an Army officer in the radar clocked the target with an approximate speed of about 700 miles per hour. The tracking station lost contact with the high-speed target as it neared New York City.
The radar tracking event resulted in a great deal of interest, as well as somber military trepidations. For in that era, military jets didn’t fly anywhere near 700 miles per hour. While there were test aircrafts that had brief periods of that sort of speed performance, nothing the military had could fly and maintain that speed.
This incident resulted in the Air Force being severely criticized by the other branches of the military. At issue was the Air Force’s dismal handling of investigations related to a potential threat to national security, namely UFOs.
In a knee-jerk reaction to the threat to national security criticism, the Air Force appointed intelligence officer Captain Edward Ruppelt to assume command of the UFO investigation project. The effort was renamed “Project Blue Book.”
Captain Ruppelt took his new task seriously and put great effort into reorganizing and streamlining the internal reporting processes. In the spring of 1952, under Captain Ruppelt’s guiding hand, intelligence officers at all U.S. airbases were given clearance to file UFO reports to Project Blue Book via normal military communication channels.
This improved reporting system turned out to be fortuitous in the July 1952, when the “Great Washington, D.C. UFO Flap” occurred. From July 12-29, Washington, D.C. was inundated with UFO sightings. They flew individually and in formations right over the Capitol.
Air traffic radar controllers at the Washington National Airport tracked distinctive blips on their radar screens over several consecutive weekends.
The nearest Air Force facility was Andrews Air Force Base, but its runways were under repair. The nearest airbase that could respond was a base in New Castle, Delaware. F-94 jets were scrambled to intercept the lights in the sky and the blips on radar.
When the fighters got into D.C. air space, the bright UFO lights had “winked out,” and the pilots reported they didn’t see anything. Of course, after they left the D.C. air space, the UFOs came back and again appeared on National Airport’s radar screens.
On another UFO sighting occasion, scrambled fighter jets chased the elusive lights. Air Force pilot William Patterson told investigators during a debriefing, “I was at my maximum speed, but ... I ceased chasing them because I saw no chance of overtaking them.”
Naturally the press had a field day with the news. The Washington Post headline read: ‘Saucer’ Outran Jet, Pilot Says; Air Force Puts Lid on Inquiry.
Another newspaper in D.C. at that time, the Washington Daily News, commented on the Air Force’s lame explanations for the UFO sightings: “Recent attempts to explain ‘saucers’ as optical illusions have been shaken by recent radar sightings. Illusions don’t show up on a radar screen.”
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.
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Finally ... another UFO spotted over Darwin
Has Tony Waldron snapped a extraterrestrial visitor?Picture: TONY WALDRON
Finally ... another UFO spotted over Darwin
JUDITH AISTHORPE, NT News
TONY Waldron was relaxing on his boat when he accidentally captured the latest out-of-this-world visitor to the NT.
The smaller disc-like shape just to the left of the bright moon is the object in question.
Mr Waldron captured the object while taking a photo of the night sky because it looked interesting due to the clouds and smoke illuminated by the full moon. He took the photo from his boat in Bayview earlier this month and didn’t take too much notice of it at the time. It wasn’t until a few days later he realised he had captured something out of this world. “It was like ‘oh what’s that thing,’ and I had a closer look,” he said.
“It doesn’t look like something on the lens because of the reflection of the moon and the clouds are sort of in front of it.” His only explanation was that it could be a weather balloon, but he wasn’t convinced on that idea.
While he isn’t a extraterrestrial fanatic he hasn’t ruled their existence out.
“I don’t disbelieve. It’s hard to think that we’re the only ones in the universe,” he said.
And if there are aliens, it’s not hard to imagine them choosing to visit the Territory during the Dry.
It’s not hard to believe that NASA isn’t telling us everything about what goes on in space or that it may already know of the existence of other life forms but is covering it up. It’s a stretch to believe that NASA staged the moon landings in a studio and is currently doing the same out in some desert for the Martian rovers. However, it’s incredulous to consider a claim that for at least 20 years the agency has been kidnapping children and sending them to Mars to work in slave camps. What’s even more unbelievable is that NASA felt it had to publicly deny this accusation after it was made on the home of unbelievable claims … Alex Jones’ InfoWars.
“There are no humans on Mars. There are active rovers on Mars. There was a rumor going around last week that there weren’t. There are. But there are no humans.”
Not real
Guy Webster, a spokesperson for Mars exploration at NASA, was compelled to immediately speak to the Daily Beast, a media company that’s part of Newsweek, to officially deny a slew of incredible and offensive claims made on InfoWars by Robert David Steele, an alleged CIA operative, an activist for open-source intelligence and a presidential candidate for both the Reform Party and the Libertarian Party – he didn’t get either nomination. However, that didn’t stop Jones from booking him on the show to make statements like this:
“We actually believe that there is a colony on Mars that is populated by children who were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20-year ride. So that once they get to Mars they have no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony.”
Really? If NASA has the ability to cover up something like that, the CIA should be using NASA scientists as operatives instead of people like this guy. While he correctly points out that video feeds from rovers and the ISS seem to cut away just as the cameras are approaching something unusual, his commentary deteriorates into the depths of depravity with these accusations:
“It goes straight into terrorizing them to adrenalize their blood and then murdering them. It also includes murdering them so that they can have their bone marrow harvested as well as body parts.”
Sadly, this show and its host apparently command such an audience that NASA, rather than shaking its collective heads and walking away, felt it had no choice but to respond to these claims with vehement denials.
Yes, there are cover-ups. Yes, there are top secret files. But a story about sending kidnapped children to slave camps on another planet for the purpose of harvesting their bone marrow is horror porn, not news. The news is that we’ve sunk so low that this moved a government agency to actually address it.
What have we become?
01-07-2017 om 13:08
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DUITSE VLIEGENDE SCHOTEL GEVONDEN OP ANTARCTICA?
DUITSE VLIEGENDE SCHOTEL GEVONDEN OP ANTARCTICA?
Als er ergens een plek was waar je een gecrashte Duitse vliegende schotel zou verwachten, dan is het wel op Antarctica.
Een onderzoeker heeft een object ontdekt dat nog voor een deel onder het ijs ligt, maar wel verdacht veel lijkt op de bekende Duitse Haunebu schotel.
Soms vinden mensen die gebruikmaken van programma’s zoals Google Earth hele interessante zaken.
De eigenaar van een website die zich specialiseert in UFO’s en gerelateerde zaken, vond via Google Earth een vreemd object op de helling van een berg op King George Island, net voor de kust van Antarctica.
Dit eiland ligt als het ware tussen Antarctica en het meest zuidelijke puntje van Zuid Amerika.
En daar op die helling ligt het volgende object:
Dit object lijkt veel op een UFO en het vreemde is dat dit object niet voor komt op de afbeeldingen van Google in 2004, maar wel in 2005.
Het object heeft een diameter van ongeveer 16 en een hoogte van 3 meter, waarbij er vanuit wordt gegaan dat het grootste deel zich nog steeds onder het ijs bevindt.
Wanneer je er vanuit gaat dat het hier inderdaad een UFO betreft en je vergelijkt die met de modellen zoals de Duitsers die hadden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, dan ontdekt je dat er veel overeenkomsten bestaan met het type zoals de Haunebu.
Deze had, net zoals de meeste Duitse UFO’s, ramen in het bovenste gedeelte.
Is het daarom misschien mogelijk dat we hier te maken hebben met een neergestort Duits toestel? Een die misschien nog tot ver na de Tweede Wereldoorlog is gebruikt en nu vanwege het smeltende ijs langzaam zichtbaar begint te worden?
Wie zelf dit object wil bekijken op Google Earth of Maps, kan dit doen via de volgende coördinaten: 61°57'51.64"S 58° 3'42.73"W
Eerder dit jaar zagen we ook al een prachtig voorbeeld van dit type UFO, maar dan nog steeds vliegend en boven een Mexicaanse vulkaan.
Via een lezer (dank!) ontvingen wij een prachtige opname van een klassieke retro UFO bij één van de Mexicaanse vulkanen. Dit beeld is al wat ouder, maar hij laat heel goed de vorm zien van wat wij de klassieke of retro vliegende schotel noemen.
Dit ontwerp UFO wordt ook veelvuldig in verband gebracht met de Duitse varianten aan het einde en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Eén van hun meest bekende ontwerpen, de Haunebu, zag er als volgt uit:
Just short of Fourth of July, which is only a few days away, man-made auroras have been spread across the skies, causing much amazement along the east coast and parts of Virginia.
This amazing display of auroras, a rare sight, was due to a long-delayed launch of the terrier-improved Malemute rocket which had encountered many obstacles just before its launch, having been delayed an astonishing ten times before it finally launched just before Independence Day.
The rocket was launched to just above 100 miles above Earth, where the rocket discharged small canisters containing colorful chemicals that burst in the atmosphere to create an artificial aurora. However, that was not the main point of the experiment.
NASA’S ‘FAKE SPACE CLOUDS’ LOOK SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE A FLEET OF UFOS
NASA was actually researching on a deeper purpose and meaning: getting a better understanding of our Earth's atmosphere, vital to life on Earth and the health of the people and animals living on Earth. The second main point is to test equipment which will be used to study the auroras over Norway, an anomaly in our atmosphere that is vital for us as a species to understand it, such that we will be able to know how mother nature truly works, and the wonders it can do.
NASA has always ventured further, and above much of what humanity can truly do, in the vastness of our skies and beyond. Now, we can only hope that experiments are continued such that it can help our environment - and preserve it better.
Sadly, some parts of the east coast were robbed of the wonderful display as overcast skies blocked the view of the aurora. Let us hope that more chances will arise that will allow this spectacular view.
PURPLE RAIN -Incredible pictures show Nasa’s ‘fake space clouds’ that look suspiciously like a fleet of UFOs
PURPLE RAIN -Incredible pictures show Nasa’s ‘fake space clouds’ that look suspiciously like a fleet of UFOs
The space agency shot blue-green and red vapour into the sky to form artificial clouds visible from New York to North Carolina
By Margi Murphy
NO, YOU’RE not looking at an alien invasion.
These incredible pictures show Nasa’s fake clouds that lit up the sky over the US this morning.
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Christopher Becke captured this image from Williamsburg, Virginia
The space agency launched a Malemute sounding rocket from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in the early hours of the morning.
During the eight-minute flight, ten canisters about the size of a soft drink can were shot into space.
The canisters spewed out blue-green and red vapour that formed artificial clouds which were visible from New York to North Carolina.
The fake clouds create a sky-high portrait of the movements in aurora winds – so scientists can better understand how a phenomenon like the Northern Lights affects Earth.
There were more than 2,000 reports and photos of the cloud sightings after its launch at 4.24am ET.
Scientists at the flight centre breathed a sigh of relief after the rocket was delayed several times over the past month, soared to 188 miles into the sky.
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The canisters dispensed barium, strontium and cupric oxide, which interacted to form blue-green and red vapours visible from New York to North Carolina. According to the space agency, the chemicals don’t pose any health hazards
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The Malemute sounding rocket was successfully launched at 4:25 a.m., Thursday, June 29, from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
The cloud vapours were formed using barium, strontium and cupric oxide.
Nasa assured the public that the chemicals don’t pose a health hazard.
These fluctuations could make the Earth more vulnerable to devastating solar blasts and cancer-causing cosmic rays, according to researchers at the University of Reading.
The phenomenal light is one of Iceland’s biggest selling points, but the very north of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland get treated to a display every now and again.
BRITAIN'S X-FILES -UFO files reveal Cold War spy plane crew’s horror as mysterious craft ‘covered in 20 flashing lights’ closed in at 35,000ft
BRITAIN'S X-FILES -UFO files reveal Cold War spy plane crew’s horror as mysterious craft ‘covered in 20 flashing lights’ closed in at 35,000ft
Ministry of Defence dossier reveals a terrifying UFO encounter that took place 35,000 feet above the Mediterranean
By Margi Murphy
A TERRIFYING Cold War near miss witnessed by an entire crew of a US Air Force spy plane has been laid bare in a UFO dossier.
The once top secret file was released by the Ministry of Defence last week, along with several other declassified documents.
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An F-14 Tomcat was involved in a mysterious – and apparently unexplained – UFO incident during the Cold War
They include the gripping account of an unexplained incident on 19 October 1982 when a USAF RC-135 plane snooping on Soviet military activity was buzzed by “a big object” over the Med.
British troops stationed at RAF Troodos – a base on Cyprus – listened in as the American crew called for help as a UFO cloaked in “a multitude of flashing lights, 20 at a time” zoned in.
During the 90 minute incident, two US Navy F-14 fighters were scrambled and an RAF Phantom was diverted from a flying exercise to tail the intruder spotted on the south of the island.
As the three jets approached the American crew watched the UFO turn away and head toward the African coast, but nothing was seen by the fighter pilots.
An investigation was opened into the bizarre sighting and sent to the US defence bods, documents show.
Radar film, tapes and transcripts of the distress call were also analysed by intelligence officers – but removed from the files.
The incident happened in the Med, South of Cyprus
This undated diagram of a strange craft looks suspiciously similar to the latest toy trend – a fidget spinner
An RAF worker puts forward a suggestion, writing: “We have a strong suspicion that the “UFO” was a mirage effect from lights on the coast of Israel or Lebanon”.
But the results of the joint US and UK investigation do not appear in the file.
Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University's department of journalism, said the incident was "a fascinating and puzzling encounter that was obviously taken very seriously by the US and UK military authorities".
An undated UFO sighting from a flight out of Heathrow which was released in 2013
The Ministry of Defence previously claimed that several of the files had been stored in a building contaminated with asbestos and could never be made available to the public over health and safety fears.
But following the insistence of the general public and the help of the likes of Dr Clarke, some of the files were eventually released in 2009 and 2013 can be found online.
Of these, 18 were withheld – sparking conspiracy theories that the government was holding something back.
But last week the MoD quietly made all but three of these missing files available.
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Several of the Ministry of Defence files on UFOs were released in 2009 and 2013
Dr Clarke said that the disclosure prompted as many questions as it answered.
He said: "like many of the more puzzling UFO incidents in the MoD files, mystery surrounds what happened to the evidence.
"Once again, we have a few tantalising pieces of paper but nothing else.
"Where is the recording and transcript of the tape and where are the images from the radar film, referred to in the file?
"I suspect they have been destroyed like many of the other records of these puzzling incidents.
"Not because they were trying to hide evidence of ET visitors but because they did not put any value on UFO records.
"If something was not of Soviet origin but could not be explained, then best ignore it and shred the evidence.
The most recent stash of UFO files reveal credible witness reports which the MoD investigated, including the Tornberry Vor incident
"Unfortunately by adopting this policy the MoD have created a stick for conspiracy theorists to beat them with."
The files are filled with mysterious eyewitness accounts as well as questionable doodles sent in from the general public, including depictions of fidget-spinner style spacecraft and flying saucers drawn by schoolkids.
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Alien Covenant: Prop & Costume Exhibition
Alien Covenant: Prop & Costume Exhibition
Check out this sneak peek at some of the props and costumes from the upcoming Alien: Covenant…
As a lover of practical effects in his movies, it’s clear that Scott’s passion for his Alien series has culminated in the creation of this beautifully designed film, which is echoed in the careful design of each of the props and costumes.
Earlier this month, Prop Store’s very own Stephen Lane was lucky enough to be invited to an Alien: Covenant pre-release prop and costume mini-exhibition (and was even given a sneak peek at the first ten minutes of the film!). From spacesuits to cryo pods to an animatronic Xenomorph head, he was able to get up close and personal with a number of the iconic props and costumes from Ridley’s latest Alien series film – check out some of the pictures below…
ECO All World Systems Survival Suit
Alien: Covenant Costume Designer Janty Yates
Alien Xenomorph Creature Forms and Animatronic Head
Alien Ovomorphs and Animatronic Facehugger
IVA Internal Spacesuit
Alien: Covenant Costume Designer Janty Yates
Covenant Cryogenic Hyper-Sleep Chamber
Alien: Covenant Artwork
If this tickled your fancy, and you love alien as much as we do, then make sure you check out our amazing collection of props and costumes from the Alien film series and see if you can find your very own piece of movie history!
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EXCLUSIVE: British Area 51? Claims secret ALIEN research base uncovered in Farnborough
EXCLUSIVE: British Area 51? Claims secret ALIEN research base uncovered in Farnborough
PARANORMAL investigators claim to have rumbled a top-secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) alien research centre hidden deep underground in a UFO hotspot.
The British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society (BEAMS) has released a bizarre 109-page report, following a “special investigation” into the former MoD Defence Evaluation and Research Agency site now run by specialist defence, security and aerospace developer Qinetiq.BEAMS claims Farnborough has had high UFO sighting and alien abduction activity for years and thinks this might be connected to the alleged secret base. The group is convinced there is as much underground as above and what goes on there involves aliens, UFOs, intergalactic defence and futuristic flight development.Their bizarre theory is based upon cryptic alien symbols they have “discovered” within the site, alleged intelligence service whistleblower testimonies, and the responses from psychic researchers, the report claims.
The BEAMS website says it was set up in 1991 as as a non profit-making studies group into the paranormal.
It said: “We have set up a network of active investigators who relay their gathered information through to our HQ.
“As reporters of the truth, duties of the BEAMS Team include research, interviewing, photography and journalism.”
Investigator Kenneth Parsons superimposed onto mock-up picture of a Farnborough ‘big’ alien sightingReport co-author Hilary Porter claims to have been abducted by aliens a number of times
Two of its key researchers, chairman Kenneth Parsons and his “alien abductee” partner Hilary Porter, carried out the “inquiry” and said evidence of the underground areas came from government whistleblowers.But they said the smoking gun evidence for the secret base were cryptic signs in the building and on site.The couple concluded that part of the site’s road system has been made to look like an alien being depicted in ancient Aboriginal paintings in Australia, as a sign of the base’s significance.On top of this they said part of the building has been made to look like a flying saucer.The report said: “As with the top-secret Area 51 in Nevada, and how that officially did “not exist” for decades…if what we are about to expose ‘does not exist’ either (as it is bound to be claimed), then our Government/military have absolutely nothing to fear from us talking about it – do they?”
The pair claimed the Qinetiq site was the biggest of three secret underground facilities, also in the UK, including two other suspected ones.
Case closed: The ‘smoking gun’ evidence for Qinetiq site being UK Area 51Drawing by Hilary Porter of one of her UFO sightings in Farnborough
Their report said Government whistleblowers had revealed: “Officers at Chicksands regularly simulated possible outcomes of nuclear war with their counterparts operating from an underground command centre beneath Qinetiq in Farnborough.“One source (who holds a sensitive government post) says that he knows several people currently employed at British underground facilities where acquired alien technology and genetics programmes are being carried out.”The couple said the Cody technology park was also under tight security with armed guards and secret cameras.But the clincher, in their opinion, was the roundabout system near the main building.
Referring to an aerial slide of the roadways on site, which highlighted this roundabout, the report said: “We suggest that this is a stylised, diagrammatic representation of a grey/reptilian figure – just like the Aboriginal supreme creator paintings attempted to portray – which is only visible like this from the air.”
Posing the question “why was it there?”, the report said: “Why incorporate a massive image of an alien, or supreme creator within a top secret subterranean military site – somewhere so sensitive that it is virtually our own British equivalent of the Area 51 complex in Nevada.”
They surmised that the powers behind the site were confident the public would never see through their cryptic code, but “those” who needed to would recognise it instantly.
Besides, if the roundabout did not do the trick, there was more.
The couple concluded the roof and canopy of the main building had purposely been designed in the shape of a flying saucer just to hammer home the purpose of the secret base to those in the know.
They said the existence of the “underground” parts of the site described by “sources” were further proved by Qinetiq’s involvement in mining coupled with a strange rumbling noise they allegedly heard a cross Farnborough over the last 15 years, which they deduced was it being secretly expanded.
The highway to the real Area 51 in Nevada, USATop Security? QinetiQ base entrance from the report
Three so-called psychic remote viewers given the name of the site, but no more details, as part of the research, also came back with descriptions of a highly technological and disturbing underground base, they claimed.Not convinced? Neither are some other UFO investigators.Nigel Watson, author of the UFOs: The Nazi Connection, said: “It sounds like they are trying to bring a lot of separate things to make (something) whole.”
But he added that “the idea” of alien or flying saucer bases being underground was “nothing new”, dating back to at least 1962, when Albert Bender, founder of the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB) in Bridgeport, Connecticut, claimed that alien beings took him to an underground HQ in Antarctica.
He said: “Sceptics think such stories are the product of malicious disinformation or fantasies, yet that doesn’t stop people believing in their existence. Perhaps if we all go under that flying saucer ‘shelter’ we might all believe.”
An MoD spokesman said: “We do not comment on UFO matters.”
Express.co.uk contacted Qinetiq to comment on the strange suggestions and awaits a further response.
A spokesman said: “We’re taking a look at the very detailed dossier and working on a response.”
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