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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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...
Just what on Earth - or perhaps Mars or Jupiter - is this?
This apparently intergalactic lightshow was filmed above Gloucester.
The mysterious orb was first spotted by Rob Wheatman in Elmbridge in March and he had a powerful enough camera to zoom right in on it.
Rob Wheatman captured this on camera above Gloucester
Rob said: "I saw it as a sparkling 'star' from the garden in Elmbridge, due south. What alerted me was an orange light that came from it and travelled at speed north east.
"I grabbed my video and luckily it has a 40x zoom and that's when I got the images of the bizarre light you saw."
Another video was taken showing a 'UFO' in the skies above Gloucestershire at around the same time.
It was taken by Ryan Gribbon in Hucclecote.
It is the second video showing strange lights in the sky above the city.
We don't know what the lights are, but we are sure you, our readers, have a lot of suggestions.
Ethan Dunn, 10, spotted the unfamiliar object from his house floating high in the sky over the Sooke Basin while he was eating dinner last week.
Taken on the morning of June 4 by a resident in Hope of a “strange blurry object.” (ufosnw.com)
“It almost looked like a dinner plate,” Dunn said. “It was shiny and silver and flying much higher than a plane would go.”
Two weeks ago Sooke resident Ann Talbot reported a similar object near the same location.
“I didn’t know what it could be, it was interesting. I didn’t think it was a meteorite, because it would have had a trail. I couldn’t hear a thing, no buzzing, no whooshing sound, nothing,” Talbot said.
Talbot also described the UFO to be bright and perfectly round. Both Sooke residents said the object floated higher than a drone would be able to, and moved faster than a plane could cross the sky.
“I saw it and wondered if it correlates to what other people had seen,” Dunn said. “It looked much larger than a drone so I don’t think it could have been that.”
He described the UFO to be “fairly large” but found it hard to compare to anything because it was too far away.
Dunn said the object stayed in sight for around 10 seconds before he lost sight of it.
“It was like it vanished into thin air,” he said. “One second it was there and the next it had disappeared.”
One thing’s certain, whatever the objects may have been, they weren’t military, said Greg Menzies, a media spokesperson at CFB Esquimalt.
“We have no drones flying around, and we don’t participate in exercises in the Sooke Basin.”
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO,is a fine city that boasts a small museum, a picturesque state park, a gorgeous wildlife refuge, and all kinds of shopping. Not that it mattered to the 15,000 or so people who visited last weekend. All they cared about were aliens.
It's been that way since 1947, when a rancher named William Brazel stumbled upon some strange debris in the desert 30 miles north of town. The US Army Air Force declared it the wreckage of a flying saucer, but upon closer inspection said, no, wait, it's a weather balloon.
Too late. The legend was born. For 70 years now, people have believed ET landed in this corner of southeastern New Mexico. That's prompted no end of conspiracy theories and outlandish stories, not to mention a thriving business in UFO-themed gift shops, museums, and restaurants.
And, of course, the four-day UFO festival. True believers came from as far away as Vermont for last weekend's 22nd annual extraterrestrial extravaganza, and WIRED sent Angie Smith to take it all in. “Everywhere you looked you saw neon green,” she says.
Alien aficionados roamed Main Street, gobbling delectable desserts called Martian turds, buying kitschy alien eggs and other mementoes, and generally getting more than a little out there. A woman decked out in glittery blue paint with pipe cleaner "antennae" in her hair told Smith she attended the festival to “lift everyone’s vibrations.”
The truly inquisitive listened to experts hold forth during panels addressing topics like “Are Aliens Demons? Evidences That Suggest ‘Yes’” and "Why Defending UFOs with the Bible is a Bad Idea.” Afterward they lined up for pictures with UFOlogists like Travis Walton, who claims he spent five days with aliens in 1975, an experience that inspired the 1993 film Fire in the Sky (call him weird, but more than half of all Americans believe in aliens).
You don't have to believe in aliens to appreciate the playful, bizarre spirit of the event captured in Smith’s photos. “It’s fun and fascinating," she says, "whether or not you believe in it." Should aliens ever truly land in Roswell, they'll have a lot to live up to.
Tourists snap a selfie in front os a UFO sculpture just outside Roswell, New Mexico
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An attendee poses for a portret with Travis Walton, who claims to be abducted bybAliens in 1975.
If an alien lands on the Earth and there’s no attempt by the government to cover it up, is it really interesting? Apparently not, because in these five documentaries, extraterrestrials and conspiracy theories go hand in hand.
1. UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)
The good news is that UFOs: It Has Begun is narrated by Rod Serling, which automatically makes it cooler, if not necessarily more credible, than other documentaries about aliens. The bad news is that Serling died in 1975. Originally released in 1974 as UFOs: Past, Present and Future, this documentary was rereleased under its new name in 1976 and 1979; you have to watch it on YouTube. But the film’s strength (besides Serling) is its complete reliance on source material from NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, which adds instant gravitas to an often over-the-top subject. —Allison Gorman
2. Out of the Blue (2003)
This made-for-TV documentary is narrated by actor Peter Coyote. Pulling a respected actor onto the project was a smart move for James Fox, the young filmmaker, especially since he was plumbing a subject famous for attracting nutcases, and ridicule. Out of the Blue acknowledges that dynamic; in an interview, Fox has admitted he “dismissed … as a crackpot” the friend who first told him about Area 51, only to have his own UFO experience there and face similar skepticism from his own family. In this film, he and co-filmmakers Tim Coleman and Boris Zubov counter the skeptics with some big-name witnesses, including American presidents and astronauts. —Allison Gorman
3. I Know What I Saw (2009)
James Fox is back, and this time he brought an army (or air force). The maker of Out of the Blue, who incorporated some of that documentary into this one, organized a 2007 forum at the National Press Club, bringing in government and military officials from several countries to offer personal testimony supporting the theory of alien life and high-level coverups. Their accounts, which form the bulk of this film, are left to stand on their own merits—or, more accurately, on the merits of the speakers’ credibility. That said, some are pretty far out, but they’re worth a listen for entertainment value alone. —Allison Gorman
4. The Day Before Disclosure (2010)
The Day Before Disclosure puts forth the idea that decades of flying saucer sightings by pilots, military personnel and ordinary citizens, plus supposed evidence of alien life on Earth going back thousands of years or more, are finally coming to a head. Through video footage of UFOs and interviews with eyewitnesses, including some who claim to have been abducted by aliens, Norwegian filmmaker Terje Toftenes asserts that the U.S. and other governments have been suppressing what they know about extraterrestrials—but with much of that information now publically available, their secret won’t be safe for long. —Allison Gorman
5. Mirage Men (2013)
A British documentary based on Mark Pilkington’s book by the same name, Mirage Men takes the standard conspiracy theory about extraterrestrials and doubles it back on itself. Rather than asserting that the government has been trying to cover up evidence of alien life, it sets out to prove that the U.S. Air force and intelligence services have been pushing ET/UFO mythology—“weapons of mass deception”—to make believers look crazy, and to deflect attention from its own high-tech doings. Maybe it’s all hooey, but in our new world of alternative facts, this four-year-old film suddenly seems rather timely. —Allison Gorman
Prey’s Typhon monsters are seriously creepy. Whether it’s a run-in with a duplicitous mimic, a stalking phantom or those eerie, confounding telepaths, you’re likely to come out unnerved by the encounter. Their gooey dripping profiles and low roaring static background noises make them distinctly uncomfortable to be around. (Which is a real pain if you like using the Mind Jack or Phantom Genesis Neuromod abilities). Whether it’s in games, films or literature, for a monster to succeed at frightening an audience, it must feel otherworldly, uncanny and unknowable. Prey’s employment of this aesthetic feels inspired by some of the great monster films of the past few decades, though it ultimately creates something new and unique from the wealth of available source material. Below are a few of the films that share Prey’s sense of the grim, alien and mysterious in the design and execution of their monsters.
1. Alien
So much of modern sci-fi creature design draws inspiration from H.R. Giger’s ghastly creations. Preyis no exception. The tricky mimics that populate Talos I’s labs and office spaces reflect the springlike potentiality of face huggers. Walking up and examining a suspicious coffee mug’s shimmering edges might reward you with a face full of twisted black limbs, just as John Hurt’s Kane got a shocking surprise in the egg chamber back on LV-426. To be fair to Prey, one could hardly be blamed for falling for the clever antics of mimics, whereas a hundred space trucker pensions couldn’t convince me to invade the personal space of an unfolding alien egg sac.
2. Attack the Block
Attack the Block’s creatures are “blacker than black” according to Franz Drameh’s Dennis. They share with Giger’s Alien a lack of eyes and a threatening maw, though they are much more purposefully obscured, with a spiky profile encircling a pitch black body. This design allows them to maintain a sense of mystery even as they openly bound around the screen. They seem forever hidden in shadows even under the bright fluorescent lights of the tower block’s halls. Disrupting recognition also falls within Prey’s wheelhouse. We require light to judge the world around us and to identify what is or isn’t a threat. A creature that rejects light, and thus identification, is inherently menacing. Prey’s Typhon are built around deception—they multiply, mimic objects and teleport. Even their profiles are in constant flux: expanding in anger and shrinking into small heaps of snakelike coils in death.
3. Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow’s Mimics share not only a name with the Typhon menace, but a startlingly close physical resemblance. Instead of skin and bone they’re both composed of a swirling miasma of coiling particles. A low staticky roar is emitted from deep within both, as if a million chemical reactions are happening all at once. Like the midnight black creatures from Attack the Block, their form defies easy identification. A snapping electric cable broken free during a thunderstorm or a wildfire crackling in fits and bursts feels like a better analogy to the Typhon or Edge of Tomorrow’s Mimics than any Earth-bound flesh and blood creature.
4. The Thing
Prey is at its tensest during the early hours of the game where, underpowered, you creep through each level, hoping to avoid mimics and other biological landmines. The tenseness of each encounter is inevitably lessened as your character levels up and unlocks the ability to scan each room for hidden enemies. The unlucky research crew in The Thing don’t get to make it that far. Like Prey’s Typhon, the Thing is a creature which is capable of confounding our ability to distinguish friend from foe. Like Talos I, the Antarctic research station the film is set in is cramped and claustrophobic, probably the worst place you want to be trapped in alongside a dissimulating boogie-man. Worse still, is when that menace builds itself up off the corpses of allies who quickly become enemies once your back is turned. That the friendly and familiar can so swiftly transform into the strange and dangerous is at the heart of why horror works as a genre.
5. Arrival
When I wrote about Arrival earlier this year it was in respect to the film’s message that urged embracing the alien and the strange, despite how much it might frighten you. And Arrival’s Heptapods are truly meant to make for a frightening first contact. Their massive Lovecraftian forms disappearing into the mist confuse and bewilder the film’s characters and audience alike. We can barely discern if we’re looking at feet, heads or bodies, since the enormity of their existence is rarely shown. There is always a little more hinted at, hidden out of sight. Encountering something so inconceivably large in scope may be frightening, but for many it’s also an irresistible prospect. It infects the imaginations of Prey’s scientists just as it does for many of the characters on this list. It’s a lucky thing for Amy Adam’s Louise and the rest of her team that embracing the Heptapods did not result in similar outcomes.
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The "Niagara Falls Of Mars" Were Made Of Lava Not Water
The "Niagara Falls Of Mars" Were Made Of Lava Not Water
Those long streaks are actually "frozen waterfalls of lava streaming into a crater.
NASA
Hawaii’s Kilauea is the most active volcano in the world. Erupting continuously since 1983, it has created a cornucopia of beautiful alien features, from overflowing lava lakes and waterfalls to anastomosing rivers of lava at the surface and the dragon-like lava tubes snaking through the ground beneath them.
Once upon a time, Mars was a lot like Kilauea – a volcanic landscape with a grand mosaic of strange hellish features. Now, thanks to a new series of NASA images, scientists think that they’ve spotted some ancient lava waterfalls draped across the surface of the Red Planet.
Unlike Kilauea, Mars is no longer volcanically active, so these waterfalls aren’t fresh ones. Rather, they’re frozen monuments to an age of fire long past – and they’re huge.
Snapped by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), these lava drapes are spread out across the rims of a volcanic crater 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) across. So how did they form?
When they first formed, the "waterfall" would have looked a little like this. Alexey Kamenskiy/Shutterstock
This crater, found in the once highly active Tharsis region, initially looks like it could have contained a lava lake similar to the one at the heart of Kilauea: a bubbling mass of molten rock that is continually churning, listing, rising, and falling.
When the hotspot beneath lava lakes manages to melt more of the upper crust than usual, the lava lake sometimes rises up to such a height that it overflows and cascades down the crater rim. This can be seen on a semi-regular basis on Hawaii, and perhaps the same phenomenon happened on Mars.
However, in this case, the lava is doing something weird. It’s actually coming from outside the crater and surrounding it. At some point, the lava flow was so extensive that it ran up the crater slopes and cascaded down into it.
As the lava breached the crater rim, it encountered a series of rocky “steps” created by previous periodic eruptive episodes. This meant that the lava flow you can see here essentially moved down a volcanic staircase, a bit like pouring fresh glaze over a multi-tiered cake. Its extent has earned this aesthetically pleasing feature a new moniker by NASA – the “Niagara Falls of Mars”.
The lava flow was so extensive that it entered the crater at four separate locations to create four unique lava "waterfalls". NASA
Although active for billions of years, the heat sources at the heart of Mars – its primordial heat left over from its formation and the heat released by radioactive elements – were extinguished, and these huge lava flows were no more. It’s a shame, really, because Mars once had some seriously cool volcanoes.
Its lack of plate tectonics meant that its gigantic hotspots produced the most massive volcanoes in the Solar System, and there was once an eruption so extensive that it caused the planet to tip over on its axis by 20°.
Strange 'dome' and 'pyramid' spotted on Mars, say alien hunters
Strange 'dome' and 'pyramid' spotted on Mars, say alien hunters
The 'dome' and 'pyramid' features on the surface of Mars (Google Earth/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, G. Neukum)
Mysterious ‘dome’ and ‘pyramid’ structures have been spotted on the surface of Mars, according to alien hunters.
The purported anomalies on the surface of Mars were featured on the ArtAlienTV YouTube channel after they were spotted by a researcher scanning the surface of Mars with the Google Earth tool.
“We have a clear 50 foot dome or sphere in a Mars Crater with large pipes coming out of it on the left. Also a triangular pyramid shaped structure about 500 feet away from it that is 120 ft wide,” explains ArtAlienTV in a post accompanying the video. “These features look artificial in nature and are clearly visible on Google Mars with no enhancements.”
The area where the ‘dome’ and ‘pyramid’ are located between Mars’ Oyama Crater and Mawrth Vallis, a valley on the planet that has been identified as a possible landing site for the joint European Space Agency/Roscosmos ExoMars rover mission in 2020.
In the video ArtAlienTV says that many of the potential domes found on Mars have turned out to be sand dunes.
Features on the Red Planet’s surface continue to be a source of fascination. Alien hunters, for example, recently claimed that a mysterious ‘stone circle’ has been spotted on the surface of Mars.
Earlier this year, it was also claimed that an image taken by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover shows an ancient tree stump on the surface of the Red Planet.
In 2015, UFO hunters said they had identified a mysterious woman-like shape in a picture taken by the Curiosity Rover.
Have alien-hunters discovered an ancient pyramid on Mars? Anomalies spotted on red planet
Have alien-hunters discovered an ancient pyramid on Mars? Anomalies spotted on red planet
A YouTube user known as ArtAlienTV posted a video online showing what he called "anomalies" on NASA satellite images of the surface of the planet.
BY RACHEL O'DONOGHUE
Alien-hunters claim they have found what appears to be a pyramid and bizarre dome structure on Mars.
A YouTube user known as ArtAlienTV posted a video online showing what he called "anomalies" on NASA satellite images of the surface of the planet.
Explaining the dome, the conspiracist claims they look "artificial" and says he has not enhanced the images in an way.
"We have a clear 50 foot dome or sphere in a Mars Crater with large pipes coming out of it on the left. Also, a triangular pyramid shaped structure about 500 feet away from it that is 120 ft wide," he wrote.
An alien-hunter spotted the bizarre 'structures' on the surface of Mars(Image: ArtAlienTV - MARS ZOO/Youtube)
It appears to be a dome-like structure on Mars(Image: ArtAlienTV - MARS ZOO/Youtube)
According to ArtAlienTV, the find was made by fellow alien-hunter William Benton.
He added: "These features look artificial in nature and are clearly visible on Google Mars with no enhancements.
"The structures are between the Mawrth Vallis region and Oyama Crater in an area that was short listed for a Mars Rover to explore for possible signs of life before Gale Crater was eventually chosen.
"It is not hard to find."
Alien-hunters regularly study NASA images of the Red Planet(Image: ArtAlienTV - MARS ZOO/Youtube)
But claims by so-called "truth-seekers" searching for evidence of extraterrestrials on Mars is nothing new.
In March, netizens scouring pictures from NASA's Curiosity rover uncovered what they claimed were "alien bones".
The rover is currently exploring the rocky surface of the distant planet and makes all its images free to view in the public domain.
A pair of shots caught the interest of the alien-hunting community after appearing to show decaying bones lying in Mars' red dust.
Although NASA has growing ambitions to visit the red planet in the near future, it is certain there is no longer any intelligent life left on the planet.
(Image credit: Amanda Smith, Institute of Astronomy)
Rare hypervelocity stars tearing through the Milky Way galaxy are runaway suns that have escaped neighbouring galaxies, according to research presented at this year’s National Astronomy Meeting in Hull, England.
Hypervelocity stars are travelling between 300 and 700 kilometers (186 and 435 miles) per second faster than our galaxy’s escape velocity. Only 20 cases have been confirmed so far, most of them late B‑type stars that are larger than our sun.
There has been some debate around the origin of these breakaway stars. Scientists believed a portion of them might have been lobbed from the Milky Way’s central rotational center.
But a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in March makes the argument that all the hypervelocity stars are actually foreign objects. The research was presented at the National Astronomy Meeting in Hull on Wednesday.
The idea is that these ultra-fast stars were part of a binary system and escaped their original home – the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a neighbouring satellite galaxy. A supernova explosion made the orbit between both stars unstable, and the schism caused the smaller one to be booted far away like a ball in a slingshot.
A group of researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK dug into data taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to build computer simulations of runaway stars escaping from the LMC to the Milky Way.
They started by modelling the stellar evolution of the birth and death of stars in the LMC over the past two billion years, and focused on every runaway star. The gravitational interactions between these stars were also simulated so that they could reproduce and track the trajectory of the stars. They predict that there are 10,000 runaway stars spread across the sky.
There should also be about a million runaway neutron stars or black holes, since some of the massive blue stars reach the end of their lives on their way out of the LMC. They should collapse to neutron stars or black holes that continue zipping through the Milky Way.
Only half of the simulated stars that escape the LMC are fast enough to escape the gravity of the Milky Way, making them hypervelocity stars. If the confirmed hypervelocity stars are runaways, it would also explain their position in the sky.
'Hypervelocity stars did not satisfy me'
“Earlier explanations for the origin of hypervelocity stars did not satisfy me,” said Douglas Boubert, lead author of the paper and a PhD student at Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy.
“The hypervelocity stars are mostly found in the Leo and Sextans constellations – we wondered why that is the case.”
The closer stars in a binary system are, the faster they orbit one another, and they’re more likely to reach speeds fast enough to become hypervelocity stars. Runaway stars starting out in the Milky Way are too slow to become hypervelocity stars because the blue B‑type stars can’t orbit close enough to their companion star in the binary system without merging, the researchers argue.
But fast-moving galaxies like the LMC could give rise to these swift stars. The LMC also has 10 per cent of the mass of the Milky Way, so the fastest runaways can easily escape the galaxy’s pull.
Like a bullet fired from a moving train, the speed of these escaping stars would be the velocity they were booted at plus the velocity of the LMC. This boost increases the likelihood that these stars become hypervelocity ones when they stream through the Milky Way.
“These stars have just jumped from an express train – no wonder they’re fast,” said Rob Izzard, co‑author of the paper and a Rutherford fellow at the Institute of Astronomy. “This also explains their position in the sky, because the fastest runaways are ejected along the orbit of the LMC towards the constellations of Leo and Sextans.”
“We’ll know soon enough whether we’re right,” said Boubert. “The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite will report data on billions of stars next year, and there should be a trail of hypervelocity stars across the sky between the Leo and Sextans constellations in the North and the LMC in the South.”
Another independent group of researchers are also hoping to study hypervelocity stars by trying to find more specimens through data with the help of artificial neural networks. ®
A new biography on scientist Dr. J. Allen Hynek shows that we might be on the verge of another cluster of UFO sighting reports
A new biography on Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a scientist who became convinced that we truly could not identify some objects in our skies, opens up new questions about UFOs. Everett
When the unassuming turn of phrase "unidentified flying object" was coined in the 1940s, it was intended to suggest that the objects in question were nothing more mysterious than a rogue weather balloon or an unfamiliar aircraft. UFOs have since become synonymous with aliens, from cartoon flying saucers, to abduction stories, to X-Files-style conspiracy theories – in the popular imagination their mystery has been solved, UFOs equal aliens, whether you're a true believer or not. This unshakable association came to be despite the diligent work Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a scientist who became convinced that we truly could not identify some objects in our skies, and kept pushing throughout his life for a scientific explanation, while keeping open every possibility, some of them way further out there than little green men.
Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs, a new book by Mark O'Connell, serves as a biography for both the modern UFO phenomenon and for Hynek, an astronomer and professor at Northwestern University who died over 30 years ago, but whose ideas make him one of the most surprising scientific figures of the 20th century. The book reveals an academic committed to rigorous, methodical study, but whose deep intellectual curiosity also harbored a mystical side, intrigued by Rudolf Steiner's concept of "supersensible knowledge" and the idea of a universe composed of many dimensions. By the time of his death in 1986, he was much more interested in the idea that UFOs might be evidence of interdimensional overlap or proof of a Jungian collective conscience, than the comparatively quotidian concept that they are vehicles carrying visitors from faraway planets.
Hynek's struggle to properly inform the public through a dedication to the scientific method, while also embracing the very edges of what is possible strikes a chord today, in an era rife with deep mistrust of the government and of mainstream science. Conspiracy theories have moved from the fringe since we stopped agreeing on what constitutes a basic scientific fact, and there are more than a few big ones involving the coming alien takeover and of course, NASA, which sits at the intersection of science, government and outer space.
Just last week a NASA spokesperson told The Daily Beast, in all seriousness, that the agency does not have child slaves laboring on Mars, in response to an InfoWars segment claiming otherwise. The Disclosure movement believes that governments around the world have already been in contact with alien intelligence and have suppressed this information from the public, and no, Trump would not be tweeting about it because the President is kept out of the loop in this scenario, says O'Connell. This is deep state stuff. Even the ever-pragmatic Hillary Clinton vowed to release classified information on UFOs and aliens while being interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel last year during her campaign. The unknown and how we go about knowing it is very much on our minds as a culture.
Though he would be dismayed to see that the orthodoxy of personal belief in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary has persevered, even flourished in the 21st century, Hynek would certainly find our present appetite for conspiracy and for polarized debate familiar, from climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers to the Disclosure crowd. Over his long career he learned that "It's very, very easy to disappoint people by telling them the truth," O'Connell tells Rolling Stone. "Everyone wants to believe that the next case is the big one, the one that finally proves that these are spaceships from another world and unfortunately, up to now that's never been the case, but the hope just doesn't die."
Born a few days before Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet in 1910, Hynek died just a few months after traveling through the comet's wake again in 1986. He spent the interceding years as an astronomer who changed the field of celestial imaging by developing a high-altitude telescope and video telescope, founded the Corralitos Observatory in New Mexico, led a team that devised the first tracking system for satellites before there were any man-made objects in orbit, and reassured a nervous American public after the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, which put him on the cover of Life magazine.
Hynek was also one of the first scientists to evaluate UFO sightings for the U.S. Air Force, working on a series of classified projects in the 1950s and 1960s. Though he started out a skeptic, he went on to found the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, landing a cameo in Steven Spielberg's 1977 hit, Close Encounters of the Third Kind after contacting the director when he learned that the film’s working title was drawn from his work.
Even more than 30 years after his death, Hynek remains a controversial figure in UFOlogy, mainly because of his refusal to choose a side. O'Connell, a screenwriter and UFO history expert who writes the blog High Strangeness, has already had some of Hynek's legacy rub off on his own reputation, which he takes as a sign that he is following in Hynek's footsteps as an unbiased, open-minded researcher, rather than writing for one camp or another.
"Just based on what little some people know about the book and the interviews I've been doing, I already have some UFO establishment figures accusing me of being a skeptic, which is really dirty word in UFO circles," he says. "The labeling has already begun."
Hynek proved to be a thorn in the government's side when it came to investigating UFO reports, refusing to dismiss the unexplainable as the product of mass hysteria or unreliable witness testimony. Indeed, a great number of the seminal 20th century sightings that convinced Hynek that UFOs were worth further study involved highly credible witnesses, including airline and military pilots, law enforcement officers and Delbert Newhouse, a navy photographer who caught such an object on film in the Utah desert in 1952. Hynek though, refused to say that the strangeness of UFOs and UFO sightings proved they were alien spacecraft, which made him unpopular on the other side of the debate as well. An intellectual independent, he ended up sandwiched between the government, which demanded mundane explanations for sometimes fantastic sightings, and a public convinced that aliens walked among them.
"The inability for ambiguity to exist is a powerful force in UFO research," O'Connell says. "You have to go one way or the other, there's no middle ground."
Throughout the heyday of UFO sightings, significant incidents, including reported contact with alien entities and their aircraft, frequently popped up in clusters, referred to as "flaps" by Hynek. Though the last flap occurred after Close Encounters of the Third Kind debuted in 1977, UFOs are having a moment right now, too. This year Spielberg’s film celebrates its 40th anniversary, and the 1947 sighting of "flying saucers" over the Cascade mountains in the Pacific Northwest by pilot Kevin Arnold, which is widely noted as the beginning of the modern UFO phenomenon, marks 70 years of celestial intrigue. The History Channel just picked up a scripted series about Project Blue Book, the UFO investigation project that Hynek led for the government in the 1950s and 60, with Robert Zemeckis as executive producer. And of course, there's the matter of NASA's secret slaves on Mars. Are we headed for a new flap?
O'Connell is not so sure. "You would think that this amazing advance in technology, in photo imaging would have delivered us with the perfect UFO photo by now," he says. "You would think that but it hasn't happened and it's hard to decide exactly why. You can definitely argue that there are more people watching the sky with cameras in hand than ever before in human history."
What he's most interested in, beyond seeing Martin Freeman cast as Hynek – though he was amused by the thought of David Duchovny donning the professor's signature goatee – is an embrace of Hynek's balance of rigor and open-minded curiosity. Like Hynek himself, O'Connell wants to reposition the conversation about UFOs, as well as an agreement to adhere to the scientific method itself, back into the mainstream and plumb what might be possible, rather than single-mindedly trying to prove, or disprove the existence of aliens.
He finds some of Hynek's heady combination of scientific rigor and mysticism in the work of quantum physics and astronomers who are working on exoplanets right now. "Both of those fields involve, in my opinion, leaps of faith, leaps of intuition," he says. "We've shifted very dramatically from this idea that life on other planets must be exceedingly rare to this space where now where we're talking in terms of life in the universe being unbelievably abundant because we keep on finding all these goldilocks planets with our high powered space telescopes. Those are the two areas where I see that same kind of thinking that same kind of approach to science coming back to the way that Hynek saw things."
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Mars is een giftige bal
Mars is een giftige bal
Een visualisatie van de donkere pekel op Mars. Zowel die pekel, maar ook de ‘gewone’ bodem, bevatten perchloraten die heel erg giftig kunnen zijn. Foto: REUTERS
Bacteriën maken geen schijn van kans aan de oppervlakte van de planeet Mars, zo bevestigen experimenten.
Toen ruimtevaartorganisatie Nasa twee jaar geleden met veel bombarie aankondigde dat er water gevonden was op Mars, steeg meteen ook de hoop om leven te vinden op de rode planeet. Maar dat water, gevonden in de vorm van vloeibare pekel en zichtbaar als bruine strepen, is net de meest onbewoonbare omgeving aan het Mars-oppervlak. Dat blijkt uit experimenten die deze week gepubliceerd zijn in het vakblad Scientific Reports.
De pekel bestaat namelijk in grote mate uit natriumperchloraat en magnesiumperchloraat, zouten die uitermate dodelijk zijn voor bacteriën. Niet op zich, integendeel. Van perchloraten wordt gedacht dat ze een energiebron kunnen zijn voor groeiende bacteriën. Maar het is in combinatie met UV-straling dat de perchloraten omgezet worden in uiterst reactieve oxidanten. Dat konden wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Edinburgh achterhalen door de bacterie Bacillus subtilis bloot te stellen aan zowel perchloraten als aan de dosis UV-straling die de bodem van Mars bereikt. Bacillus subtilis is een beweeglijke bacterie die op Aarde meestal in de grond voorkomt en vrij extreme omstandigheden kan verdragen. Het is ook een van de micro-organismen die vaak meereist met ruimtetuigen.
Giftige cocktail
De onderzoekers benaderden in hun laboratorium zo veel mogelijk de omstandigheden van Mars. De experimenten werden uitgevoerd bij een temperatuur die - afhankelijk van de plek en het moment van de dag - ook op Mars bereikt wordt. In bijkomende proeven voegde men stoffen toe die net als de perchloraten alomtegenwoordig zijn in de bodem van onze dichtste planeet. Wat bleek: in combinatie met ijzeroxiden en waterstofperoxide waren de perchloraten nóg dodelijker. Na 60 seconden bleef er bijna niets van de bacteriën over.
De studie lijkt slecht nieuws, maar is vooral oud nieuws. Dat de bodem van Mars een giftige cocktail vormt, werd al langer vermoed en is nu bevestigd. Bovendien moeten we nu wellicht niet vrezen dat we Mars ‘besmetten’ met micro-organismen van de Aarde, een bezorgdheid die vaker geuit wordt. Dat bacteriën ‘in hun blootje’ doodgaan op Mars, hoeft overigens niet te beletten dat er ooit mensen in ruimtepak rondwandelen. Het is zelfs niet uitgesloten dat er alsnog leven is op Mars: de perchloraten zijn giftig in combinatie met UV-straling, maar zoals gezegd niet zonder straling. Het kan dus best dat er dieper onder de grond wel martiaanse micro-organismen leven.
Several recent developments have made it clear that space has become the latest front in whatever strange new Cold War is brewing. Just this week, it seems that the war might have gone from ‘cold’ to ‘shooting’ with the news that several satellite-tracking agencies have spotted a European-contolled communications satellite breaking apart in space. The satellite’s operator? A private agency which provides satellite services for the U.S. Armed Forces, NASA, and NATO, among others.
It’s currently unclear what could have damaged the satellite, but a deliberate attack has not been ruled out.
The story began on June 17th when the Luxembourg-based satellite firm SES S.A. lost control of its AMC-9 satellite which reportedly provides data and broadcast services over the U.S. and Mexico. Shortly after, operators watched helplessly as the satellite began to drift and then break apart.
It’s currently unknown what might have happened to the satellite. Leading theories include a collision with debris or a malfunction, although the possibility remains that the satellite could have been attacked by the new weaponized satellites many world superpowers have been putting into orbit recently. Doug Hendrix, CEO at aerospace technology firm ExoAnalytic Solutions, told ArsTechnica that his company watched the AMC-9 satellite break apart, but even they aren’t sure what the cause was:
We have seen several pieces come off of it over the past several days. We are tracking at least one of the pieces. I would hesitate to say we know for sure what happened.
There are concerns now that debris from the satellite might damage others in the same orbit, which is heavily populated with communications satellites. It’s been known for years that satellites will become both the next weapons and the next targets in the wars of the future; disrupting an entire geostationary orbit with debris would be a perfect way to distract one’s adversaries.
The next war will happen far above our heads. Invest in umbrellas. Strong ones.
Noting that a war might be brewing in space isn’t purely conjecture; the U.S. Armed Forces have made several recent announcements regarding the creation of new space weaponsand space-oriented leadership posts in what has been described as a pivot to the upcoming battlefield that is space. Couple that with the news that Russia is waking up its mysterious “killer satellites,” launching unidentified new satellites from secret Arctic bases, and that U.S. intelligence agencies are launching their own mysterious satellites which have been displaying some rather strange behavior lately, and it seems as if a shadowy space conflict might already be underway.
During the course of last week’s 70th anniversary festivities in Roswell, New Mexico – specifically following my lecture on the legendary crash of July 1947 – the subject of the controversial “Ramey Memo” surfaced. For those who don’t know, the memo is one of the most intriguing pieces of Roswell-based documentation in existence. In fact, it’s one of the very few, real documents pertaining to Roswell (forget about all that MJ12 documentation). It’s a single piece of paper and can be seen in a black-and-white photograph taken of Brigadier General Roger Ramey. In 1947, he was the head of the 8th Army Air Force, which operated out of Fort Worth, Texas. Ramey is a key part of the story, as he is holding the memo in question in his left hand; a memo which says something about Roswell. But, what? That’s the issue UFO researchers are unable to agree upon. What we know for sure is that the photo was taken at Fort Worth on July 8, 1947 by a man named J. Bond Johnson. At the time, he worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper. The controversy over what the memo shows began years ago, but it gained far more momentum in the 2015-2016 period.
Yes, the memo can certainly be seen in the photo, with the text pointing outwards, albeit in slightly folded fashion. A number of attempts have been made to decipher the memo. The first real attempt of any major significance was undertaken on behalf of the U.S. Air Force. In their massive 1994 report on the Roswell affair, the USAF stated that it sent the photo-collection to what was only referred to as a “national-level organization for digitizing and subsequent photo interpretation and analysis.” The results, however, were disappointing, as that same unnamed organization informed the Air Force, on July 20, 1994, that even after careful digitizing, “the photos were of insufficient quality to visualize either of the details sought for analysis.” It’s interesting to note that, to this day, the Air Force refuses to identify the aforementioned “national-level organization.” On top of that, the Air Force states that the relevant documentation generated by the organization cannot now be found.
With the turning of a new century, Ufology undertook its very own attempts to solve the mystery of the Ramey Memo and what, exactly, it says. One of those was UFO investigator David Rudiak, who has a particular interest in deciphering the memo, and whose research into its contents continues to this day. Rudiak says of his work in this particular arena: “There is very little doubt that the memo includes the words ‘in the ‘disc’ they will ship.'” Far more controversially, Rudiak concludes from his analysis that the words “operation at the ranch” and “the victims of the wreck” can also be seen.
Of the memo itself, Kevin Randle said in 2015: “The only point of dispute is what the memo actually says. Parts of it are easily read and others are obscured to the point where it is sometimes just a best guess. If the memo could be completely deciphered it might provide a clue about what fell near Roswell and would be some of the best documentation available.” Randle also noted in 2015: “While ‘Victims of the wreck’ might not take us immediately to the extraterrestrial, it would certainly start us on the path.”
Then, in 2016, there was this from Kevin: “Several have suggested that the word is not ‘victims’ but is ‘viewing.’ It does contain the right number of letters and it does begin with a ‘V,’ but it also alters the importance of the Ramey Memo if that is correct.”
There is no doubt that the Ramey Memo is extremely thought-provoking, specifically in terms of what it might say, and in relation to the events which occurred in 1947-era New Mexico. A careful study of the text does suggest that the word “victims” could actually be the correct one. As Kevin Randle notes, however, “viewing” is an equally good candidate, too. The latter makes sense, considering the fact that the debris was on show for J. Bond Johnson to photograph. And for Johnson to view. Kevin is also right on target when he states that if the real word is “viewing,” then it most definitely lessens the importance that is generated by the word “victims.” After all, if there were victims, then the object which came down was clearly neither a weather-balloon nor a Mogul balloon. And no-one of a sane mind would ever describe a crash-test dummy as a victim.
There is, however, an issue that seldom gets discussed when it comes to the matter of the Ramey Memo. The full-on “Roswell was E.T.” believer would most likely say that a reference to “victims” is the smoking-gun we have sought for so long; a smoking-gun which makes a reference to the aliens found on-board the wrecked UFO, or somewhere else on the huge Foster Ranch. But, does it, really? Well, it certainly could; but I suggest not. And I will tell you exactly why.
I find the use of that specific word – “victims” – to be both odd and potentially revealing. I would have thought that terms like “the crew,” “the pilots,” “the spacemen,” or “the beings” would have been far more appropriate when it came to describing strange-looking entities that arrived from another world with no warning. “Victims” suggests something else. In fact, I would go so far to say that just the word “victims” itself has an undeniable human, even emotion-filled, quality attached to it, rather than something we might apply to a definitively unearthly alien.
Let’s take a look at the definitions for “victim” that Merriam-Webster provides. They include: (A)“one that is acted on and usually adversely affected by a force or agent;” (B) “one that is injured, destroyed, or sacrificed under any of various conditions;” (C) “one that is subjected to oppression, hardship, or mistreatment;” and (D) “one that is tricked or duped.”
If the “human experiment” angle for Roswell is the correct one – as I believe it to be – then the terminology used by Merriam-Webster to define a “victim” is most apt. Finally, but still on the matter of that controversial sentence in the Ramey Memo, there is the issue of the word “wreck.” It seems very strange that such a word would have been used to describe what the military was assuring the media was just a flimsy weather-balloon. It’s equally odd terminology to use for a Mogul balloon – the theory the Air Force came up with in 1994. “Wreck” implies something pretty physically substantial that has been significantly damaged, rather than the torn and scattered remains of a balloon, whether large or small. So, while the Ramey Memo is not the ultimate smoking-gun that proves any particular theory, there’s no doubt that it keeps the Roswell flame burning, whatever the answer.
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Overheid gebruikt EU-wetgeving om dossier over UFO’s geheim te houden. Wat hebben ze te verbergen?
Overheid gebruikt EU-wetgeving om dossier over UFO’s geheim te houden. Wat hebben ze te verbergen?
Het gewone volk zal mogelijk nooit achter de waarheid komen over recente UFO-waarnemingen in de lucht. Dat heeft allemaal te maken met Europese wetten, zo blijkt.
Piloten maken ieder jaar geregeld melding van vreemde objecten in de lucht. Die meldingen komen in Groot-Brittannië terecht bij de burgerluchtvaartautoriteit (CAA).
De CAA is de grootste Britse overheidsorganisatie die nog UFO-waarnemingen bijhoudt, maar zij heeft besloten om documenten over incidenten die tussen 2011 en 2017 hebben plaatsgevonden niet vrij te geven.
Achter slot en grendel
Normaal gesproken kan iemand middels een Wob-verzoek toegang krijgen tot dit soort documenten, maar de CAA gebruikt een Europese wet uit 2014 om ze achter slot en grendel te houden, schrijft The Sun.
De wet heeft onder meer tot doel om de identiteit van piloten die vreemde objecten in de lucht hebben gezien te beschermen.
Dat is vreemd, aangezien namen en adressen in documenten die via een Wob-verzoek zijn opgevraagd, doorgaans netjes zwart worden gemaakt.
Stomverbaasd
Dr. David Clarke van de Sheffield Hallam University kreeg eerder toegang tot de stukken, maar was stomverbaasd toen zijn Wob-verzoek eerder dit jaar werd afgewezen.
Hij vertelde aan The Sun dat de CAA al sinds 1976 informatie over vreemde incidenten in het luchtruim bijhoudt.
“Jarenlang heeft de CAA deze informatie vrijgegeven,” zei Clarke. “In 2012 gaf de baas van de Britse luchtverkeersleiding, Richard Deakin, tijdens een interview met BBC Radio 4 toe dat zijn agentschap iedere maand UFO-meldingen binnenkrijgt.”
Lastig te verklaren
“Nu gebruiken ze een Europese wet om publieke toegang tot deze stukken te blokkeren,” voegde hij toe.
Clarke vermoedt dat de luchtvaartindustrie niet wil toegeven dat piloten geregeld dingen in de lucht zien die lastig te verklaren zijn.
In de kaart
Door deze documenten achter slot en grendel te bewaren speelt het agentschap de complottheoretici in de kaart, aldus Clarke.
De CAA liet in een reactie weten dat de stukken beschikbaar zijn, alleen niet voor journalisten of het publiek.
5000 jaar oude graftombes van ongewoon lange mensen ontdekt in China. Waar kwamen deze ‘reuzen’ vandaan?
5000 jaar oude graftombes van ongewoon lange mensen ontdekt in China. Waar kwamen deze ‘reuzen’ vandaan?
Archeologen zijn in het oosten van China op een begraafplaats gestuit waar 5000 jaar oude ‘reuzen’ liggen, meldt persbureau Xinhua.
Deze mensen torenden uit boven vele van hun tijdgenoten. De skeletten zijn gevonden in het dorp Jiaojia, nabij de stad Jinan in de provincie Shandong.
Veel van de mannen die in het kerkhof zijn gevonden waren 1,8 tot 1,9 meter lang en zouden 5000 jaar geleden door de gemiddelde Chinees zijn aangezien voor reuzen.
Beter voedsel
Eén van de mannen was langer dan 1,9 meter.
“Dit is gebaseerd op de botstructuur,” zei Fang Hui van de Universiteit van Shandong. “Als hij nu zou leven, zou hij langer dan 1,9 meter zijn geweest.”
Archeologen zeggen dat de grote tombes erop wijzen dat het gaat om personen die machtig waren. Individuen met een hoge status die toegang hadden tot beter voedsel dan de gemiddelde Chinees.
Lichaamsbouw
Maar hoe kan het dat ze zo lang waren? “Mensen hadden in die tijd al toegang tot gevarieerde en rijke voedselbronnen waardoor hun lichaamsbouw veranderde,” legde Fang Hui uit.
Mannen die vandaag de dag in de regio leven zijn gemiddeld 1,753 meter lang. Het landelijke gemiddelde ligt op 1,72 meter.
Longshan-cultuur
Archeologen hebben op het kerkhof een aantal voorwerpen gevonden die toebehoren aan de Longshan-cultuur uit de jonge steentijd.
In het dorp zijn het afgelopen jaar ruïnes van 104 huizen, 205 graven en 20 offerplekken blootgelegd, meldt China Daily.
STRONGEST EARTHQUAKE IN DECADES ROCKS YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
STRONGEST EARTHQUAKE IN DECADES ROCKS YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
An earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Lincoln in Montana.
The M5.8 earthquake is the largest earthquake in years hitting the region of Yellowstone National Park in Montana. It was felt in Oregon and Washington state.
The strong M5.8 earthquake was followed by two moderate quakes of M4.5 and M3.9
If the preliminary magnitude holds, it will be the strongest earthquake to hit Montana since June 1975, when a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Yellowstone National Park. A 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Idaho in 1983 was also felt in Montana.
HERE A FEW REPORTS ABOUT THE STRONG SHAKING:
Seeley Lake, Montana / MMI V (Moderate shaking): House shaking, fixtures moving,heard structure making cracking noise,pet bird would not calm down in her cage. Mild Aftershock.
Whitefish (217.9 km NNW from epicenter) [Map] / MMI V (Moderate shaking): Lasting about a minute.
Missoula, Mt / MMI IV (Light shaking): Thought my buddy was shaking the bed, light rumble then a few good jolts, nothing compared to the nisqually quake but enough to grab your attention.
Placerville Idaho / MMI IV (Light shaking): Shook bed. Moved bed enough to disconnect a plug-in. Outside deck moved and creaked. Felt slight aftershocks. Stevensville / MMI V (Moderate shaking): Strong rolling shake with strong afterquake shortly after ( via strangesounds.org ).
Nu al bijna 1000 aardbevingen in 2 weken. Gaat deze vulkaan binnenkort uitbarsten?
Nu al bijna 1000 aardbevingen in 2 weken. Gaat deze vulkaan binnenkort uitbarsten?
Sinds 12 juni hebben zich een slordige 900 aardbevingen voorgedaan in Yellowstone National Park, zo zeggen experts.
In het park bevindt zich één van ’s werelds meest gevaarlijke supervulkanen. Vanwege de recente activiteit denken sommigen dat de supervulkaan op uitbarsten staat.
Als de Yellowstone-vulkaan uitbarst, zou de eruptie duizend keer krachtiger zijn dan de uitbarsting van de Mount St. Helens in 1980, claimen experts, toevoegende dat het risico nog ‘laag’ is.
Zwaarste
Volgens de Amerikaanse geologische dienst USGS is de kans dat de supervulkaan het komende jaar uitbarst 1 op 730.000.
In twee weken tijd zijn er 878 aardbevingen geregistreerd rond Yellowstone.
De zwaarste beving deed zich op donderdag 15 juni voor. De schok had een kracht van 4,4 op de schaal van Richter.
Het ging om de zwaarste aardbeving in het gebied sinds maart 2014.
Geen bewijs
“Aardbevingszwermen in Yellowstone komen geregeld voor,” zei professor Jamie Farrell van de Universiteit van Utah tegen Newsweek.
“Gemiddeld worden er jaarlijks rond de 1500 tot 2000 aardbevingen geregistreerd in Yellowstone,” voegde hij toe. “40 tot 50 procent daarvan maakt deel uit van aardbevingszwermen.”
Volgens Farrell is er geen bewijs dat de activiteit gerelateerd is aan magma dat onder het oppervlak beweegt.
Verwoestende uitwerking
De supervulkaan barst niet vaak uit. In de afgelopen twee miljoen jaar zijn er maar drie grote erupties geweest. De laatste ‘superuitbarsting’ deed zich 640.000 jaar geleden voor.
Als de vulkaan ooit weer uitbarst, zullen de lava, as en rook volgens waarnemers waarschijnlijk een verwoestende uitwerking hebben op de VS en de rest van de wereld.
The JUno space probe (pictured) will fly over Jupiter's red spot.
The Juno space probe is set to orbit a 10,000 mile-wide storm on Jupiter on July 10, after a year of circling the gas planet.
A NASA spokesman said: "This will be humanity's first up-close and personal view of the gigantic feature - a storm monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years."
Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said: "Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter.
"This monumental storm has raged on the solar system's biggest planet for centuries.
"Now, Juno and her cloud-penetrating science instruments will dive in to see how deep the roots of this storm go, and help us understand how this giant storm works and what makes it so special."
The data collection of the Great Red Spot is part of Juno's sixth science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops.
Perijove, the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter's centre, will be on Monday, July 11, at 2:55am (BST).
At the time of perijove, Juno will be about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometres) above the planet's cloud tops.
Eleven minutes and 33 seconds later, Juno will have covered another 24,713 miles (39,771 kilometres) and will be directly above the coiling crimson cloud tops of Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
The spacecraft will pass about 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometres) above the Giant Red Spot clouds. All eight of the spacecraft's instruments as well as its imager, JunoCam, will be on during the flyby.
Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter. This monumental storm has raged on the solar system's biggest planet for centuries.
Scott Bolton
The spacecraft has chalked up about 71 million miles (114.5 million kilometres) in orbit around the giant planet in 12 months.
Rick Nybakken, project manager for Juno from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said: "The success of science collection at Jupiter is a testament to the dedication, creativity and technical abilities of the NASA-Juno team.
"Each new orbit brings us closer to the heart of Jupiter's radiation belt, but so far the spacecraft has weathered the storm of electrons surrounding Jupiter better than we could have ever imagined."
Juno launched on August 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
During its mission of exploration, Juno soars low over the planet's cloud tops - as close as about 2,100 miles (3,400 kilometres).
During these flybys, Juno is probing beneath the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and studying its auroras to learn more about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.
Early science results from NASA's Juno mission portray the largest planet in our solar system as a turbulent world, with an intriguingly complex interior structure, energetic polar aurora, and huge polar cyclones.
European legislation has blocked the British public from knowing about the number of UFO sightings
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is said to have blocked public access to documents which reveal a number of strange sightings to impede their “curiosity”.
The CAA has been using European law from 2014 to block access to the public records of sightings or incidents between 2011 and 2017, the Sun reports.
The law reportedly states: “Occurrence information can only be used for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety, and the release of occurrence information to the general public or the media, including in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests, is not permitted.
They seem surprised that curious individuals might want to see details of these incidents
Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University
“However, if you require occurrence information for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety you are able to make an application to the CAA.”
Although the EU protests that the information is accessible via application, a university professor suggests otherwise.
Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University was previously granted access to the files.
But was shocked when his FOI requested was refused earlier this year.
He told the Sun Online: “These have been collected and logged by the CAA since at least 1976.
“For many years the CAA has released this information under FOI without any evidence that commercial secrets or safety have been harmed or compromised.
“Indeed in 2012 the chief executive of Britain's National Air Traffic Control Services, Richard Deakin, admitted in a BBC Radio 4 interview that his agency received reports of UFOs from civil aircrew somewhere in the world every month.
GETTY
British public do not know how many UFO's spotted
GETTY
The UK Public are completely unaware of how many UFO's are spotted
“But then they seem surprised that curious individuals might want to see details of these incidents using Open Government legislation.
"Now they are using a piece of European Regulation to block public access to these records.
"The only conceivable reason for this change of policy is embarrassment on the part of the aviation industry. It does not want to admit that its pilots do occasionally report things in the sky that are difficult to explain.
"To improve public confidence in air safety, the authorities should be proactively promoting open access to records of this type."
The authority reportedly claimed that public access had been blocked because the identity of pilots needed to be maintained.
A CAA spokesman said: "The Mandatory Occurrence Reporting (MOR) scheme requires individuals and organisations within the aviation industry to report safety occurrences to the CAA, with the intention that these reports are used to constantly improve safety levels.
“Information held by the CAA under the MOR system may be made available, for the purpose of improving aviation safety, subject to completing this application form."
Did you see a bright, fast-moving light over Adelaide last night?
Did you see a bright, fast-moving light over Adelaide last night?
UPDATED: SOUTH Australians have reported seeing a strange bright light across the sky in Friday night. But what was it? And did you see it?
Greg Barila
A BRIGHT “fast-moving” light with a green trail across the sky Friday night has captured the imaginations of at least a few locals who are this morning trying to get to the bottom of what it is they saw - or think they saw.
Advertiser.com.au has received and read a smattering of reports about the strange light, which one expert says could have been a meteor or space junk re-entering the earth’s atmosphere.
A Reddit user reported seeing “what I can only guess was a meteor” pass over Henley Beach.
“Saw it from the city, fast moving bright light, green trail, bright flash.”
Southern Lights Adorn Starlit Skies Over Tasmania
Another Reddit user responded that the same phenomenon was witnessed by “a lot of people” on the Eyre Peninsula.
Salisbury East man Bradley Cousins said he was driving home from work in Tanunda around midnight when he looked up at the moon because it “looked strange”.
“I was halfway along the road when all of a sudden, this orange/red light appears suddenly in the sky and it quickly got bigger,” Mr Cousins said.
“At first I thought it was a meteor or something because of how it was getting bigger and travelling so fast, as a reflex I put on my brakes.
A fireball captured over Mt Ives station south of Lake Gairdner by the Desert Fireball Network at 11.56pm on Friday night, which they say is possibly the brightest they've photographed.
“Then all of sudden it instantaneously goes bright green, gets smaller and completely disappears without evidence of it hitting the ground.
“I know this sounds crazy and I sound crazy but I can’t explain it.”
Paul Curnow, lecturer at the Adelaide Planetarium at the UniSA’s Mawson Lakes campus didn’t see the light for himself but says he woke to several reports confirming sightings on the Eyre Peninsula.
“People have seen a meteor or something over Port Lincoln and so it must be a fairly big and bright one that’s come across,” Mr Curnow said adding that they were “not unusual”.
“What I don’t know is whether it’s a piece of returning space junk.”
“It could be something like that but I mean there’s a lot of rock that comes in from space and we call those meteors and if they make their way to the surface of the earth we call them meteorites.”
Mr Curnow said it might be possible to work out exactly what occurred if people happened to record the light via a dashcam or security camera.
“That’s where we’re getting more and more footage of these things.
“That would give it some sort of direction.”
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