Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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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...
08-07-2017
Ancient Aliens looks at the truth behind The Majestic 12
Ancient Aliens looks at the truth behind The Majestic 12
Ancient Aliens looks at the truth behind The Majestic 12
This week Ancient Aliens examines the mysteries of The Majestic Twelve.
Sometimes known as MJ-12, many conspiracy theorist believe this group was formed back in 1947 by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in order to recover and examine various extraterrestrial objects, including perhaps downed or found UFOs.
The theories stem from a series of documents that were said to have been leaked from inside the government. These contained details of the group, explaining that it was made up of various military expert and scientists.
However, the FBI examined the documents and declared that they were fake. Never the less the theories have remained popular and have made it in to various forms of popular culture.
Even as late as the 1990s new documents emerged claiming to have more information about the 12, but again these were seen to be a hoax.
A few theorists also think the whole thing, including the leaks, were part of a government misinformation campaign.
Ancient Aliens airs at 9:00 PM on History Channel.
The first report of a flying saucer crash landing came in 1947 and was said to have happened near a military base in Roswell. It wasn't long before rumors spread about alien bodies found in the spacecraft.
UFO expert Nick Pope spoke to Inside Edition about the crash in Roswell in the canon of American history and pop culture.
“Roswell is really the ground zero of the UFO phenomenon," he said. "It's the place not just where there was a sighting, here the suggestion was that something crashed, if that's true, the U.S. government has in its hands definitive evidence that we are not alone."
Decades after the unusual sighting, Roswell continues to be invoked in movies like Independence Day, as well as TV shows like The X-Filesand the aptly named Roswell.
Many of the sci-fi films and shows feature Area 51, the Nevada Air Force Base rumored to secretly house the evidence of extra-terrestrial life.
Dave Grohl, who formed the Foo Fighters in 1994, named the group after the military's nickname for UFO. He also named his record label Roswell Records, as an homage to the area.
Through the years there have been all sorts of strange lights in the sky.
Many remain mysterious while others are explained, like a 10-ton meteor that exploded over Russia and caused panic when it hit Earth in 2013.
In 1995, the Roswell incident was back in the headlines when Ailien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? aired on network television. It showed what was believed to be three military doctors performing an autopsy on an alien corpse recovered from the Roswell crash site in 1947. The footage was later exposed as a hoax.
The fascination with beings from outer space continues with a new series UFOs: Uncovering the Truth, which airs Saturday night on Destination America.
“What's fascinating is it's not just a UFO story, it's now firmly a part of American pop culture,” Pope said.
UFO witnesses capture “shinning disk” on video near Toronto Harbourfront
UFO witnesses capture “shinning disk” on video near Toronto Harbourfront
A couple celebrating Canada Day at Toronto’s Harbourfront recorded a video of a mysterious “white shining disk,” according to a UFO report they submitted today to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Along with the report, the couple uploaded their video.
Toronto Harboufront.
(Credit: Wladyslaw/Wikimedia Commons)
Map of Toronto Harboufront.
(Credit: Google Maps)
The video shows a round object with what appears to be a clear or dark center. The object cannot be seen throughout the video, but appears and then disappear several times. The object looks disk-shaped, perhaps even a disk with the center cut out like a vinyl record.
A still image submitted by the witness. Click on the image to see a larger version. (Credit: MUFON)
Me and my girlfriend were celebrating Canada Day weekend at Harbourfront on Sunday July 2nd, 2017. I looked up in the sky for no particular reason….and noticed this circular white shining disk. As you can see on the video, I asked my girlfriend, what do you think that is? She then witnessed it too….and was thinking it was either a kite or a drone, thinking drones are everywhere. But once she started looking at it again…and then saw the video, she realized that it was not a drone. When looking at the object…I noticed the glaring shininess of the disk…and how it was moving across in a circular motion. It then just disappeared in the clouds, we were watching for awhile, but did not see it again. At that point we then witnessed a black helicopter and thought maybe it was following it? I was shocked witnessing this….I was puzzled. My girlfriend was skeptical at first…but realized it might have not been a drone after all.
Drones, often of the quad-copter variety, have appendages that hold the rotors and zip through the sky. This object does not demonstrate that sort of behavior, nor does it appear to have rotors, so the witness is likely right that a drone is not what they filmed. Balloons are often set afloat during celebrations and move with the wind. However, balloons do not appear and disappear as this one does. If the balloon is somehow going into and out of shadows, it might appear as though it is disappearing and reappearing. However, this balloon is high in the sky and it does not appear anything could cause shadows at that height. Still, a balloon might not be able to be ruled out.
The vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain. MUFON conducts investigations on sightings submitted to their website, and if they share their conclusions, we will let you all know. Meanwhile, others will likely chime in and we will try to keep you up to date with any discoveries. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the object in the comments below.
As I have threatened to before, this series on UFOs will rip the scab off the secret history of UFOs in Valley Center, Pauma Valley and Palomar Mountain.
The area does have a fun history concerning Little Green Men and other anomalies. The first king of aliens, George Adamski (1891-1965), made a pretty impressive footprint in the Backcountry in the years just after World War II, which is when reports of UFOs skyrocketed all over the country and the world.
Adamski was special, however. He was sort of a black belt in the Martian arts. He was also so obviously a fraud and a charlatan that he inspires a sort of backhanded admiration from those of us who find scoundrels fascinating. He is so dodgy that he could have easily been a founding father of San Francisco. Instead, if anyone could be said to be a father of the UFO craze, he deserves the honor. He became one of the most famous of the so-called “UFOlogists” when he claimed to have taken photos of spaceships from other planets, and to have hosted and been hosted by friendly aliens.
I’m not going to make any claims about the authenticity of Adamski’s claims. The spaceships he took pictures of may very well have been authentic. But some of them did look an awful lot like pie plates!
I recall a man who used to run the Palomar Mountain Lodge years ago reminiscing about Adamski, who used to hold late night seminars on the big porch that overlooks Pauma Valley from the lodge. He would host groups of acolytes, who usually paid well for the privilege, and they would watch through the spectacular skies above the mountain.
“There’s one!” Adamski would say. When others professed not to have seen the phenomenon, he would nod sagely, point to himself and say with the air of a sage: “You’ve got to have a trained eye!”
Adamski liked to maintain a post office box on Palomar Mountain. The boxes are reserved for residents of the mountain, but Adamski loved the association with what was then the most powerful telescope in the world, Palomar Observatory’s 200 inch Hale telescope. Known to the astronomical world as “The Big Eye.” For used there used to be a mockup of a flying saucer on the property of the Oak Knoll campground—at the foot of Palomar—where Adamski held some of his gatherings.
Valley Center’s historian, Bob Lerner also tells me, that Adamski had a home on Cool Valley Road and that there was an Adamski-related group that was on Miller Road. We’ll find out more about that in subsequent installments of this series.
Meanwhile, I want to hear about you and your experiences. Especially if you have some experiences that aren’t of the “amazing but untrue,” variety. I’m a skeptic, but I’m an open-minded skeptic. I am sure, as they said in “The X-files” that the truth is out there, and sometimes the truth is a little weird.
As Hamlet said, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Let’s find out about the UFOs in our back yard. Contact me at editor@valleycenter.com or call me at 760-749-1112.
In this UFO Sightings video clip: Roswell: A brief look at the Roswell UFO encounter, and the controversy around it. For over 60 years, the debate has raged on. What happened in Roswell? An alien encounter or a government cover-up? Get a closer look at Roswell.
UFOs aren’t a new phenomenon. In fact, humans have been describing unidentified flying objects for millennia, with depictions of disk-like objects and unusual atmospheric objects found in the art and literature of ancient civilizations from the Sumerians and the Egyptians to the Greeks and Romans.
But the modern era of UFOs took off in the middle of the 20th century, right around the time rockets and high-tech aircraft were being devised, often in secret. Coincidence? Paranoia? Perhaps. In any event, these seven UFO sightings certainly occurred, but it’s up to you to decide what explanation you’ll believe in.
1. Kenneth Arnold, 1947
Pilots E.J. Smith, Kenneth Arnold, and Ralph E. Stevens look at a photo of an unidentified flying object which they sighted while en route to Seattle, Washington. (Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)
The origin of today’s fascination can be traced back to civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold. While flying his small aircraft near Washington’s Mount Rainier on June 24, 1947, Arnold claimed to have seen nine blue, glowing objects flying fast—at an estimated 1700 mph—in a “V” formation. He first believed the objects to be some sort of new military aircraft (this was, after all, just two years after WWII and the first year of the Cold War), but the military confirmed that there were no tests being conducted near Mount Rainier that day. When he described their motion as similar to “a saucer if you skip it across water,” the media coined the now-ubiquitous phrase “flying saucer.” Soon, other reports of a group of nine UFOs cropped up across the region, including sightings by a prospector on Mount Adams and the crew of a commercial flight in Idaho. The government never had a true explanation for the sightings—it simply claimed that Arnold had seen a mirage or was hallucinating. But UFO mania had set in, and just a few weeks later, the infamous Roswell sighting would perpetuate the obsession.
2. Roswell, 1947
Roswell UFO Museum Sign. (Credit: David Zaitz/Getty Images)
It’s the mother of all UFO sightings, but no object was actually observed flying in the Roswell incident. In the summer of 1947, rancher William “Mac” Brazel discovered mysterious debris in one of his New Mexico pastures, including metallic rods, chunks of plastic and unusual, papery scraps. When Brazel reported the wreckage, soldiers from nearby Roswell Army Air Force Base were called in to retrieve the materials.News headlines claimed that a “flying saucer” crashed in Roswell, but military officials purported that it was only a downed weather balloon. Ever since, conspiracy theorists have been hard at work trying to prove the wreckage was extraterrestrial, with one gentleman, Ray Santilli, going as far as releasing a video in 1995 of an alien dissection purported to have taken place after the incident. (Santilli would admit in 2006 that it was a staged film, but he maintained that it was based off of actual footage.)
As it turns out, the government was indeed covering something up—but it wasn’t aliens. The crashed weather balloon was, in fact, part of a top-secret military endeavor called Project Mogul, which launched high-altitude balloons carrying equipment used to detect Soviet nuclear tests. The Air Force provided plenty of proof in a 231-page report released in 1997 called “Case Closed: Final Report on the Roswell Crash.” Though the mystery has been thoroughly debunked, interest in the case has only grown, and Roswell’s tourism is heavily based around its famous “UFO sighting.” It’s home to the International UFO Museum and Research Center, a spaceship-shaped McDonald’s and an annual UFO festival, held each summer.
3. Lubbock Lights, 1951
The “Lubbock Lights”, photographed at Lubbock, Texas, by 19-year old Carl Hart, Jr. in 1951. (Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)
On the evening of August 25, 1951, three science professors from Texas Tech were enjoying an evening outdoors in Lubbock, when they looked up and saw a semicircle of lights flying above them at a high speed. Over the next few days, dozens of reports flooded in from across town—Texas Tech freshman Carl Hart Jr., even snapped photos of the phenomenon, which were published in newspapers across the country and Life magazine. Project Blue Book investigated the events, and their official conclusion was that the lights were birds that reflected the luminescence from Lubbock’s new streetlamps. Many people who saw the lights, however, refuse to accept this explanation, arguing that the lights were flying too fast.
4. Levelland, 1957
One of several people who witnessed the UFO in Levelland, Texas in 1957, holding up a drawing of what he saw. (Credit: Carl Iwasaki/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
Have you ever seen the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind? There’s a famous scene where a UFO makes the electronics in a car go haywire. As it so happens, that’s not just a Hollywood invention for the silver screen—there’s real-life precedence. In 1957, dozens of citizens of Levelland, Texas, individually reported seeing a rocket or strange lights that interfered with their vehicles: Engines died, lights cut out. Though the police initially thought the reports were a hoax, they, too, saw the mysterious lights, as they investigated the situation.Project Blue Book, a UFO research group created by the Air Force, was assigned to investigate the case. Their findings? It was an electrical storm and ball lightning that caused the lights and the mechanical malfunctions, despite the fact that there were no reported thunderstorms in the area that night.
The September 19, 1976, incident in Tehran, Iran, started much like many others, with phone calls from concerned citizens reporting a bright light in the sky. An F-4 fighter jet was set out to investigate, but as it neared the object, its instruments blacked out, forcing the pilot to return to base. A second F-4 took its place, and as it neared the unusual light, it achieved radar lock. But then, according to the pilot, the UFO released a glowing object—the pilot assumed it to be some sort of missile headed straight for him. As he prepared to fight back, the pilot experienced malfunctions with his instruments, and he witnessed another bright object released from the UFO that headed straight toward the ground. He safely returned to base, despite the faulty equipment.After the incident, Iran contacted the United States to aid them in an investigation. An unclassified memo by U.S. Air Force section chief Lieutenant Colonel Olin Mooy detailed the events of the night: There are explanations for nearly all of them.
First, the bright light seen by civilians (and possibly the pilots) might have been Jupiter, which was visible in the sky that night. Second, as author Brian Dunning notes in a podcast, the second F-4 jet had a long history of electrical problems, meaning that the instrumentation might have failed regardless of a UFO situation. It also could explain the radar lock—it might simply have been a malfunction. The first F-4, reports Dunning, was never turned in for maintenance following the incident, so there’s no official indication that its instrumentation failed. And finally, as for the “alien missiles,” there was a meteor shower that night, which could easily account for the sightings.
6. Rendlesham Forest, 1980
A general view of disused missile silos at the former RAF Bentwaters base near Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk where an alleged alien interference with US nuclear weapons site took place. (Credit: PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo)
In December 1980, U.S. Air Force members stationed at two British Royal Air Force bases, Woodbridge and Bentwaters, reported seeing strange, colorful lights above Rendlesham Forest, about 100 miles northeast of London. One man who entered the forest to investigate claimed to have discovered some sort of spacecraft there, and the next day, others confirmed damage to nearby trees and a higher-than-normal level of radiation at the site.Several days later, more sightings were reported. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt recorded his observations on an audio tape as he watched the lights, and while not definitive proof, theorists consider this the strongest evidence of the events. But the UK’s Ministry of Defence, which oversaw reports of UFO incidents until the early 2000s, did not find any credible threat to the nation, and thus did not pursue investigations further. As at Roswell, UFO tourism is prevalent in Rendlesham Forest, and there’s even an official Rendlesham UFO trail that visitors can hike, off of which is a model of the reported spacecraft.
7. The Belgium Wave, 1989-90
Flying triangle claimed to have been photographed on June 15, during the 1990 Belgian UFO sighting over Belgium. (Credit: J.S. Henrardi)
At the end of November 1989, citizens of Belgium reported seeing a large, triangular UFO hovering in the sky. But other than these visual sightings, no evidence of the UFO’s existence was to be found—for now. A few months later, in March 1990, new sightings of multiple objects were reported, which were confirmed by two military ground radar stations. Two F-16 fighter jets were sent out to investigate the anomalies, and though the pilots could not see anything visually, they were able to lock onto their targets with radar. But the UFOs moved so fast that the pilots ended up losing them. Some 13,500 people are estimated to have witnessed the incident, making it one of the most widely experienced UFO sightings of the modern era.The Belgian Air Force had no logical explanation for the activity, but it acknowledged that an unknown activity had taken place in the air. The Belgians reached out to the UK’s Ministry of Defence to investigate further, but once they determined that the incident was not a hostile or aggressive one, they stopped the investigation.
Proving UFOs exist is impossible–even fringe, paranoid, silly–or so goes the prevailing attitude in this country. But investigative reporter Leslie Kean’s research on the topic is pretty thorough–and astonishing. A veteran independent reporter for various national and international publications, including The Boston Globe, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Nation, Kean has been featured on NPR, CNN, and The Colbert Report, among others. She has dedicated more than a decade to dissecting the controversial topic, interviewing high-level officials and aviation experts. Her book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record, is a fascinating compendium of their first-hand accounts of sightings.
According to Kean, 5-10 percent of sightings are, in fact, unidentified; a vast majority of aerial phenomena, 90-95 percent in Kean’s estimation, can be explained to be one of the following: “weather balloons, flares, sky lanterns, secret military aircraft, birds reflecting the sun, planes reflecting the sun, blimps, helicopters, planes in formation, the planets Venus or Mars, meteors or meteorites, space junk, satellites, swamp gas, spinning eddies, sundogs, ball lightning, ice crystals, reflected light off clouds, lights on the ground or lights reflected on a cockpit window.” Her book focuses on the former, the events in history that cannot be attributed to any of the latter.
Whether or not you’re a believer, there’s no denying that Kean’s findings are remarkable, and she delivers the facts that support the existence of UFOs without feeding conspiracies as to why, how–or even what might be piloting them. We asked Kean about the evidence she’s collected, along with why the concept of UFOs isn’t more widely accepted, why there’s still isn’t more physical proof, and ultimately if there are steps we can take to understand the issues (including self-protection) more fully.
A Q&A with Leslie Kean
Q: Your book presents incredible evidence—first-hand accounts of sightings and experiences from generals, pilots, NASA-employees from across the globe. Why is the concept of UFOs not generally accepted?
A:The proof is only for some kind of unexplained, physical phenomena that appear to demonstrate technology we don’t have here on earth. But there isn’t proof that these are alien spacecraft–although this is a valid hypothesis. In fact, we don’t know what UFOs are, where they’re from, or why they are here. The issue of non-acceptance by the status quo is a complicated one. We need more data to satisfy the scientific community—and such data is very hard to come by without the participation of these scientists.
“Some may feel that if these crafts have an extraterrestrial origin, they are way more advanced than us, that they could have complete power over us if they wanted to, and that we have no control over them or what they do.”
The topic is taboo: Ridicule has been generated towards this topic since the 1950’s in order to make it go away, and the “giggle factor” has become ingrained in our culture. Some may feel that if these crafts have an extraterrestrial origin, they are way more advanced than us, that they could have complete power over us if they wanted to, and that we have no control over them or what they do. This is frightening, so the reaction is to avoid dealing with UFOs altogether. And, our government’s attitude does not help either.
Q: Of all the accounts you’ve covered, which is your favorite?
A: This is very hard to say. I find all the cases featured to be exceptional. One of the most spectacular was the Belgium Wave of 1989-91, in which sightings of remarkable triangular objects kept repeating themselves over time. These bizarre machines hovered, usually silently, glided, and lit up fields with their brilliant spotlights. Sometimes they accelerated to an incredible speed in a split second. Air Force Major General Wilfried De Brouwer (a colonel at the time) was put in charge of dealing with the “invasion” in restricted Belgian airspace of an unknown flying craft, which was not following aviation rules or communicating, as he describes it. In contrast to how the US government handles such events, the Belgian government became openly involved and worked with a group of outside scientists who collected data on the sightings. They accumulated twenty-five large notebooks of reports, drawings, and other data, and many audiocassette tapes of police officers and others who reported sightings, all of which I studied when I was in Belgium. The Belgian Air Force sent up F-16s to try to get close to the objects, after setting up special radar gear. De Brouwer went to the highest levels of other NATO countries to find out if these were some sort of secret technology test flights by Russia or the United States, and he was told that they absolutely were not. In fact, documents show that United States officials wanted to find out more about these incidents from him. As De Brouwer points out, we still don’t have the technology today that would allow a vehicle to do what these did.
Belgium Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer explaining radar data taken near one of the UFO sightings. Photo courtesy of the author.
Q: Where do you think this resistance to even consider the potential of UFOs comes from?
A:Two pivotal events occurred after WWII that were instrumental in establishing and lending momentum to this resistance. In the early 1950’s, the Air Force established Project Sign, later known as Project Blue Book, to gather information on UFOs and to assess whether they were a threat to national security. Project Sign staff wrote a report concluding that UFOs, already documented as real by the Air Force, were most likely interplanetary. Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg rejected the report for lack of proof—and thereafter, the required political position became that UFOs must always have conventional explanations.
Secondly, in 1953, Cold War fears and the persistence of UFO reports led the CIA to convene a hand-picked scientific advisory group (known as the Robertson Panel) to again assess the UFO question. But participants were shown selected, narrow, and incomplete evidence; the panel’s resulting recommendations, classified at the time, stated that everything from documentary films to advertising to Disney cartoons, should be used to debunk the phenomenon in the eyes of the public. It also recommended infiltrating civilian UFO groups in order to dampen enthusiasm. These recommendations set the stage for the public ridicule of the UFO issue from that point forward.
Q: The accounts you detail are amazing, particularly the waves of sightings over prolonged periods of time with hundreds of witnesses—why isn’t there more video and photographic proof?
A:That’s a good question, which is asked frequently. Imagining beforehand what we would do if we saw something unexplainable turns out to be quite different from what we do in reality. The thought “Oh, I should run indoors and fetch my camera” isn’t how most people respond in the moment. Instead, they report being overcome with intense curiosity, awe, wonder, sometimes fear. The witnesses typically stand immobilized and stare at the object, knowing that it will not be there for long; sometimes they call out for someone nearby to look also. They don’t want to take their eyes off the UFO for one second, so most have not tried to find a camera under those circumstances. For many of the most famous incidents, cell phone cameras did not yet exist, and people didn’t carry cameras around with them. Now that everyone has a cell phone, photos crop up all the time, but so far, most cell phone images of distant objects or lights have been poor quality, not conveying enough information for a proper analysis to be conducted. That said, we do have a number of outstanding, official photos that have been properly vetted–some of these are in my book.
Q: Your work is focused on aircraft and UFOs, but you don’t get into the idea of aliens—do you believe the crafts are piloted?
A:I don’t know if they are piloted. That is a possibility, but we don’t have enough evidence to make a determination. Sometimes the objects do behave as if under intelligent control–that much we know. But first and foremost, we must focus on the objects themselves, for which we have much data. Convincing the scientific community and policy makers of that fact is hard enough—it’s been met with many obstacles.
“First and foremost, we must focus on the objects themselves, for which we have much data. Convincing the scientific community and policy makers of that fact is hard enough—it’s been met with many obstacles.”
Establishing that the objects exist must be the first step; questions about possible pilots have to come later. Members of the “UFO community” aren’t helping when they claim that extraterrestrials are here on earth, communicating with humans; their unfounded claims only make the people we are trying to reach even more resistant. You can’t jump ahead—if we can convince the powers-that-be of the reality of the objects themselves (which has worked in reaching some officials, and has led to UFO government agencies in other countries) by providing concrete data, then we have a chance.
Q:Many skeptics believe UFOs are simply prototypes of aircraft, drones, or top-secret military operations—is there a counter to that?
A:In the very best cases, for which we have adequate data to rule out conventional explanations, this option has already been exhaustively explored by experts. Particularly in the earlier cases, the objects demonstrate fantastic capabilities beyond even today’s technology.
Of course, many sightings can be explained by such prototypes and/or secret operations, but the cases I’m referencing cannot be explained in this way. Examples would be the brilliant diamond-shaped object seen by General Parviz Jafari and others over Tehran in 1976, the objects over Belgium, and the two-mile-long stationary objects seen by Captain Ray Bowyer, his passengers, and another pilot in a different location, and picked up on radar, in 2007 over the English Channel. There are many others, with the earlier cases being the most compelling. However, we can never state with 100 percent certainty that something secret is not at play—we have no way of knowing. But for many of our strongest cases, this does not seem feasible.
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UFO photographed in 1971 by mapping aircraft of the Costa Rican government. Photo courtesy of CEFAA.
Q:You say that 5 percent of UFO sightings are legitimate, in that they are truly unidentified. What does this mean?
A:This means that these cases (and they could be closer to 10 percent) involve adequate data to make the determination that there are true unknowns. Without enough data about the sighting, you have to allow for the possibility that it could be explained by conventional, “normal” phenomena, because you don’t have enough data to rule out all other possibilities. But when all conventional explanations can be ruled out by qualified investigators with access to all the necessary information for a proper and complete analysis, then the sighting becomes one of the truly baffling, well-documented cases. The outstanding cases of this type involve military personnel, government officials, pilots and crews, and police officers. The cases in my book fit these criteria.
Q:From a safety perspective, why is it so important that we take the consideration that there could be UFOs seriously?
A:UFOs have already affected aircraft in various, sometimes alarming ways: They have pulled them off course, disabled communications, and rendered equipment temporarily inoperable. Pilots have had to make sudden maneuvers to avoid collisions with UFOs, and a few times, passengers were injured as a result. These cases are rare, but there is always the possibility of accidents caused by the activity of a UFO near an aircraft. Perhaps pilots and aircrews need to be better informed in case they do encounter a UFO, so it’s not a shock or disorients them in some way. Former FAA head of accidents and investigations John Callahan suggests in my book that we need to adjust our air radar systems, which aren’t configured to pick up UFO activity if the objects are moving too fast, are too large, or if they hover in one place. Pilots need to have reporting forms so that the aviation authorities know when unusual objects appear in the skies.
In addition, UFOs appear to have disabled nuclear weapons, which represents a national security problem. In 1967, at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, all ten nuclear missiles were rendered inoperable within ten seconds of each other when a glowing red, oval-shaped object hovered over a control center at the base. A week earlier, another facility thirty-five miles away had been visited by UFOs, losing all its missiles as well. In total, twenty nuclear missiles went down. The missiles were sixty feet underground, and Boeing engineers checked every possible cause for the failures but were unable to explain them. In 1970, when closing Project Blue Book, the US Air Force released a statement stating that “no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security.” These events occurred during the Cold War; the US Air Force was clearly not telling us the truth. For more information on aviation safety issues, check out the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena.
Q:Your book came out in 2010—has anything of note happened in the intervening years in terms of UFO sightings or research?
A:I have since joined the board of a new, all-volunteer scientific organization called UFODATA which is on the cutting edge of new research. Our goal is to build a large network of automated surveillance stations with sophisticated sensors to monitor the skies 24/7, looking for aerial anomalies. We have spent several years developing our ideas, making plans, and testing relevant technologies with a team of outstanding scientists and engineers from around the world. Our initial prototype station will have a core optical unit with cameras capable of detecting and recording both an image and spectra (visible and invisible waves of electromagnetic radiation), a magnetic sensing unit, instrumentation to detect microwave and other radiation, and other sensors to record atmospheric and local environmental data. Alarm triggers will initiate recording, permitting capture of a broad range of physical data that can then be analyzed. We need high quality, publishable data to take this issue into the scientific world and break that barrier.
Q:Where do you believe UFOs come from? Do you have any theories?
A:Like the government agencies in Chile and France that have documented the UFO phenomena, I am hesitant to speculate about what the origin of UFOs might be. We can’t possibly know where they’re from, specifically. But if we could get some of the best scientific minds on the planet together on this issue, devise a sophisticated methodology for studying the UFO problem—just as with the massive telescopes and particle accelerators to study black holes or minuscule particles—we’d have a chance at finding out. Our best minds are not informed about the issue; it is considered taboo. If the US government changes its attitude on the topic—even slightly—that would invite the scientific community to take it more seriously. I hope that basic curiosity and a desire to solve one of our biggest mysteries will eventually motivate our scientists to take this on.
Richard Branson has confirmed plans to launch people into space in 2018, with the first test flights beginning this year.
In a new interview, Branson said that Virgin Galactic will start performing powered tests of its SpaceShipTwo craft every three weeks, with plans to extend them into space by November or December.
And after his own flight, full commercial passenger operations will start by the end of 2018, he said.
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Richard Branson has confirmed plans to launch people into space in 2018, with the first test flights beginning this year
VIRGIN GALACTIC: THE CRASH
In October 2014, SpaceShipTwo - a plane designed to run the first ever passenger flights into space - split into pieces as it fell to Earth over California's Mojave Desert.
The vehicle broke up after the co-pilot unlocked the craft's tail wing breaking system early, which led to a sudden increase in aerodynamic forces as it passed through the sound barrier.
Investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said no safeguards were built into system to overcome the error of the co-pilot.
While Branson is optimistic about Virgin Galactic's commercial space flights, he said that the huge appetite for space travel leaves room for competitors.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Branson said: 'We will never be able to build enough spaceships. The demand is enormous.'
Branson mentioned that Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin – two of Virgin Galactic's biggest competitors – could fill this gap.
He said: 'There is definitely the demand for all three.
'We can take off at 24-hour's notice, put a couple of satellites up and come back again.
'With ground-based rockets, there's quite a long waiting time. Elon has bigger rockets, so he has advantages there.'
When asked to comment on Donald Trump's views on space travel, Branson said: 'I think myself and Jeff Bezos and Elon are just getting on with it.
'I don't think I've heard of anything majorly exciting that's come out of the administration as far as space is concerned, but maybe they'll surprise us.'
Already 500 potential customers have reserved a spot on one of his trips at a cost of $250,000 (£200,000) each.
Sir Richard Branson's firm has designed SpaceShipTwo, pictured, to take 'space tourists' on short flights into space without going into orbit
Last August the SpaceShipTwo aircraft - which is designed for two pilots and six passengers - received its operating licence from the US Federal Aviation Authority.
'I think I'd be very disappointed if we're not into space with a test flight by the end of the year and I'm not into space myself next year and the progamme isn't well underway by the end of next year', Branson told the Telegraph in April.
'The test programme is going really well, and as long as we've got our brave test pilots pushing it to the limit we think that after whatever it is, 12 years of hard work, we're nearly there', he said.
Earlier this year, Branson also invited Professor Stephen Hawking to come to space on board a Virgin Galactic flight.
The physicist and cosmologist, 75, said he had not expected to have the opportunity to experience space but that the Virgin boss had offered him a seat.
Prof Stephen Hawking has revealed he has been offered a dream trip to space on Virgin Atlantic. Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Hawking said he did not hesitate in saying 'yes' to Richard Branson's offer
Discussing the meaning of happiness on Good Morning Britain, he said: 'My three children have brought me great joy.
'And I can tell you what will make me happy, to travel in space. I thought no one would take me but Richard Branson has offered me a seat on Virgin Galactic, and I said yes immediately.'
Branson had previously suggested that he might be able to complete a flight in 2009, but the plan was thrown off by a range of problems and disasters.
In October 2014, SpaceShipTwo - a plane designed to run the first ever passenger flights into space - split into pieces as it fell to Earth over California's Mojave Desert.
The vehicle broke up after the co-pilot unlocked the craft's tail wing breaking system early, which led to a sudden increase in aerodynamic forces as it passed through the sound barrier.
New experiments on Earth may affect how we search for life on the Red Planet.
Mars Pathfinder and its mini-rover Sojourner (pictured) landed on the Martian surface 20 years ago this week. The planet has been continuously “inhabited” by landers and orbiters ever since. (NASA)
In a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports, Jennifer Wadsworth and Charles Cockell from the U.K. Centre for Astrobiology in Edinburgh, Scotland, report on a series of experiments to test how environmental stresses on Mars would affect bacterial populations. It was already known that the Martian surface is a tough place for microbes to survive, but the new experiments show just how toxic the mix of ultraviolet irradiation, perchlorates in the soil, and iron oxides really is.
Wadsworth and Cockell used for their tests Bacillus subtilis, a common soil bacterium on Earth that normally is quite resilient to environmental stresses. But the Mars-like combination of perchlorates and UV radiation simply was too much. In some cases, stressing the bacteria resulted in complete sterilization of a sample in only 60 seconds!
Of course, we might expect that indigenous life on Mars would be better suited to deal with these environmental stresses than terrestrial life is, because any existing Martian organisms would have had a long time to adapt from a warmer and wetter Mars to current conditions, and may have evolved adaptation strategies. Nevertheless, seeing the devastating effects of the toxic cocktail on a familiar type of bacteria shows how difficult these stresses would be to overcome. It would be a tough hill to climb for any organism.
Does that mean there is no life on Mars? No. We already knew that the Martian surface is a hostile environment, and this new study just provides experimental confirmation of how hostile it really is.
That means we may have to refine our search strategy. If the surface of Mars is toxic, we might expect any indigenous life to thrive in the subsurface, where UV radiation does not reach. The new experiments may motivate us to look a bit deeper below the surface than we had planned to, or focus more on possible niche habitats such as within salt rocks.
This 200-yard-wide pit on Mars, likely a cave entrance, was photographed by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
We also have to keep in mind that Mars is a big planet with different types of soils, rock layers, and environmental conditions. Past rover and lander missions have given us a glimpse of this variety. The so-called Special Regions on Mars are subject to stricter planetary protection guidelines precisely because they could contain life. Particularly promising locations are found below ice crusts or within lava tube caves, where life would find natural protection from UV radiation and a higher availability of water. Regions associated with hydrothermal activity also would be promising, and some of these are likely to be active today.
So despite the new results, the search for life on Mars is by no means over. It will simply become more focused as we learn more about the Martian environment and its variations.
ESA SET TO EXPLORE ‘THE MOST MYSTERIOUS PLANET’ IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
ESA SET TO EXPLORE ‘THE MOST MYSTERIOUS PLANET’ IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
This illustration shows HD 189733b, a huge gas giant that orbits very close to its host star HD 189733. The planet's atmosphere is scorching with a temperature of over 1000 degrees Celsius, and it rains glass, sideways, in howling 7000 kilometre-per-hour winds. At a distance of 63 light-years from us, this turbulent alien world is one of the nearest exoplanets to Earth that can be seen crossing the face of its star. By observing this planet before, during, and after it disappeared behind its host star during orbit, astronomers were able to deduce that HD 189733b is a deep, azure blue — reminiscent of Earth's colour as seen from space.
A double decker spacecraft—which can carry TWO orbiters, one belonging to the Japanese Space Agency and another one from the European counterpart is set to explore one of the most mysterious planets in the solar system, on a mission that will launch in 2018. Scientists want to get as close as possible to the surface of the planet, which is blasted by EXTREME radiation levels around ten times higher than on the sun, and by temperatures that literally melt metal.
The Mission is set to launch on October 5, 2018, from Kourou in French Guinea and will arrive at Mercury, the closest planet in our solar system on December 5, 2025.
Mercury is considered as one of the most intriguing planets in our solar system, and very little is known about it. BepiColombo would be the European Space Agency’s FIRST mission to the closest planet in our solar system.
The ESA has said that BepiColombo aims to “follow up on many of the intriguing results of NASA‘s Messenger mission, probing deeper into Mercury’s mysteries than ever before.”
The mission’s main goal is to research the strange characteristics of Mercury’s internal structure and magnetic field generation, and specifically how it interacts with the Sun and the Solar Wind.
The entire mission cost around 1.3 billion Euros and involves around 33 companies from a total of twelve countries in Europe, as well as companies from the United States and Japan.
The spacecraft has an extremely unusual design carrying two orbiters, one from the ESA and one from JAXA, which will separate upon arrival in order to enter two different but complementary orbits around the closest planet to the sun.
According to the European Space Agency, “BepiColombo is Europe’s first mission to Mercury. It will set off in 2018 on a journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. When it arrives at Mercury in late 2025, it will endure temperatures in excess of 350 °C and gather data during its 1-year nominal mission, with a possible 1-year extension. The mission comprises two spacecraft: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). BepiColombo is a joint mission between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), executed under ESA leadership.”
The mission has already been delayed several times in the past but mission specialists are confident that the launch will definitely take place in Octobre of 2018.
Alvaro Gimenez, ESA’s director of science told reporters at the agency’s center in the Dutch coastal town of Noordwij: Mercury is the ‘most peculiar of all rocky planets.’ And Mercury rightfully is the most mysterious of them all, having a surface governed by extreme temperatures that range from a drastically 450 to -180 degrees Celsius.
However, Mercury is also the ONLY planet in the solar system that has a magnetic field beside Earth. And while Earth’s magnetic field protects us from harmful solar radiation, Mercury’s magnetic field is so weak that it doesn’t provide much protection against solar radiation. The planet orbits the sun just 58 million kilometers away, meaning that it’s bombarded by radiation levels that would destroy life as we know it in an instant.
Mercury is also a planet that is difficult to study from Earth due to its proximity to the sun, as the brightness tends to impede the view.
Furthermore, due to the extreme gravity, the sun has on the planet, it’s very hard to place a spacecraft into stable orbit around the planet.
“We are flying into a pizza oven which is why we had to test materials at a very high and different temperature rates. Sometimes with very unwanted results,” said Ulrich Reininghaus, the ESA BepiColombo project manager.
Mercury has truly been a challenge for space agencies around the globe. So far, only two NASA missions have managed to visit the planet before—the Mariner 10 and the Messenger missions who studied the planet in the 1970’s and 2011 respectively.
The Mercury mission is Europe’s “most complicated ever,” said Gimenez.
“It’s difficult to get there, it’s difficult to work there.”
Mission scientists want to get as close as possible to the surface of the planet, which is blasted by EXTREME radiation levels around ten times higher than on the sun, and by temperatures that literally melt metal.
Both spacecraft are expected to study the planet between one to two years, but experts say the orbiters could last a bit longer before crashing into the surface of the planet.
The name Travis Walton is well known within UFO circles. The (in?)famous abduction story that took place in Arizona’s Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest made international headlines. While the case does have its detractors, a recent soil study of the site has come up with some very strange findings. Perhaps something otherworldly did occur on that November night in 1975.
On the evening of November 5th, Walton and some friends were driving down a quiet road in the forest after a long day of logging. Noticing a strange light, Walton and his buddies went to investigate. As they approached the strange object emitting a bright light, Travis was hit by some sort of beam and thrown several feet into the air. Panic ensued. His friends left him lying on the forest floor, and ran for it. Minutes later, realising they had just left their friend injured or dead, the men returned to the site. The object was gone, and so was Walton. They went to the local Sheriff’s department, reported the incident, and were suspected of murdering Walton. Five days later, Walton found himself on a lonely stretch of highway, tired, hungry and dehydrated. As Walton’s memory slowly began to return, he remembered being aboard a strange craft, odd alien beings, and a life altering event that has totally reshaped his entire grasp of reality.
Travis Walton
A study of soil samples completed by Frontier Analysis Limited last week of the site where the alleged abduction took place has provided some interesting insight into the story, and perhaps has begun to shed some light onto that mysterious event in 1975. Led by Phyllis A. Budinger, an accomplished chemist and scientist, the report details the soil composition of the location directly beneath the strange object Walton saw that night.
According to the report,
The objective of this project is to determine whether the analysis of the soils will detect any anomalies which can be related to an unknown craft (UFO).
Several soil samples were taken from the supposed abduction site itself, along with several more control samples from the surrounding area. While there was not much difference between the site samples and the controls, two anomalies did present themselves.
The report states,
It is revealed that iron containing particulates amounts are higher in the site soils compared to the control soils. Furthermore, there is indication that the levels tend to be higher in the surface soils compared to the sub-surface soils of the site samples….The exchangeable cations (calcium, magnesium, potassium) are significantly higher in the site samples than the control samples. This would indicate some chemical changes in the site samples. The detection of the differences in cationic activity in the soils is intriguing.
While the report suggests that there may be a natural reason for the cationic activity, such as clay deposits influencing chemical changes, the increased amount of iron in the sample is definitely out of the norm.
Images of the cationic samples, courtesy of The Black Vault.
The report engages in some speculation,
…the hovering craft propulsion system has a powerful electromagnetic effect thereby drawing (and concentrating) these iron particulates toward the surface…And, there is indication that while hovering an electronic force field surrounds the craft, causing an ionizing effect to materials in close proximity.
The team behind the report has apparently done similar soil studies in the past of UFO landing sites. However, their conclusions reflect a strong push for more studies.
Clearly the quantitative results for the iron containing particulates need to be further verified. So definitely, more soil sampling is needed from the site and outside the site…
The report argues that additional studies are required, however, this initial report does lay the groundwork for additional scientific study of the UFO question. Whatever a person’s opinion may be in regards to UFOs and the Travis Walton abduction, when real science engages in these events, a few puzzle pieces begin to fit together. While we may never fully understand what occurred on that November night, this study definitely leads us down a path that, like Walton, may begin to shift our perception of the UFO phenomenon.
If the scientific community does choose to engage in more soil sampling of the site, as well as other evidence from the many UFO events in recent years, will humanity generate a better idea of what UFOs are? Is the truth literally buried in the ground beneath our feet?
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Vreemde objecten gespot op Mars. Hebben alien-jagers een piramide gevonden op de rode planeet?
Vreemde objecten gespot op Mars. Hebben alien-jagers een piramide gevonden op de rode planeet?
Op Mars zijn door alien-jagers mysterieuze ‘koepelvormige’ en ‘piramideachtige’ structuren gespot. Dat meldt Fox News.
De onregelmatigheden op het Marsoppervlak werden vertoond op het YouTube-kanaal ArtAlienTV, nadat een onderzoeker de rode planeet met Google Earth had afgespeurd.
“We hebben hier een 15 meter grote koepel of bol in een Marskrater waar grote pijpen uit komen,” legt ArtAlienTV uit.
Kunstmatig
De "koepel" en "pyramide" zichten op Mars
(GOOGLE EARTH/ESA/DLR/FR Berlin, G. Neukum )
“Op 150 meter afstand is een driehoekige, piramideachtige structuur te zien met een doorsnee van ruim 35 meter,” aldus het kanaal.
“Deze objecten lijken kunstmatig te zijn en zijn duidelijk zichtbaar op Google Mars,” klonk het verder.
Het gebied waar de ‘koepel’ en de ‘piramide’ zijn gevonden, bevindt zich tussen de Oyama-krater en Mawrth Vallis, een vallei op de planeet waar de ExoMars-rover mogelijk gaat landen in 2020.
Steencirkel
ArtAlienTV merkt in de video op dat veel van de potentiële koepels die op Mars zijn gevonden, uiteindelijk zandduinen bleken te zijn.
Onlangs nog claimden alien-jagers een mysterieuze ‘steencirkel’ te hebben gevonden op het Marsoppervlak.
Boomstronk
Eerder dit jaar werd daarnaast beweerd dat Marsrover Curiosity van de NASA een oude boomstronk had gefotografeerd op de rode planeet.
In 2015 zeiden UFO-jagers dat ze een mysterieuze vrouw met paraplu hadden ontdekt op een foto die door Curiosity was gemaakt.
Al jaren doen er de meest wilde verhalen de ronde over UFO waarnemingen op de voormalige vliegbasis Soesterberg.
In 1979 werden al de eerste observaties gedaan en nu anno 2017 lijkt het alsof ze zich nog steeds in die omgeving bevinden.
Op de website Weerplaza stond enkele dagen geleden een artikel over de zogenaamde lichtende nachtwolken.
Op zich een heel interessant artikel met daarin een kort 14 seconden durend filmpje met de volgende omschrijving.
Het is een zogenaamde timelapse opname, gemaakt op de voormalig vliegbasis Soesterberg, waarbij de camera met kleine tussenpozen opnames maakte tussen middernacht en 1 uur 's nachts.
Aangezien ze heel bang zijn dat iemand anders hun filmpjes bekijkt op andere plekken dan bij hen hebben ze de instellingen van dat filmpje zodanig gemaakt dat je het alleen daar kunt bekijken.
Wanneer je die 14 seconden bekijkt, zie je eigenlijk ook niet bijzonders. Echter, een lezer (dank!) ontdekte dat er wel degelijk dingen op staan die niemand anders had opgemerkt.
Want helemaal aan het einde zie je een aantal opnames van wat niet anders te omschrijven is dan als UFO’s.
Hierna volgen de drie screenshots zoals wij die ontvingen en omcirkeld zijn de plekken waar de UFO’s zichtbaar zijn.
Op de screenshots zelf zijn ze moeilijk te zien, daarom volgen daarna enkele vergrotingen, waar ze wel heel duidelijk zijn.
En dan hierna enkele uitvergrotingen van de vreemde objecten:
Dit is uiteraard niet de eerste keer dat Soesterberg in het nieuws komt vanwege een UFO waarneming.
De eersten, voor zover ons bekend, gaan terug naar 1979 en vonden plaats op de voormalige vliegbasis Soesterberg. Het relaas van die waarnemingen staat uitgebreid gedocumenteerd op de website Ufowijzer.
Vaak houden mensen die iets bijzonders hebben meegemaakt op het gebied van UFO’s en in militaire dienst waren hun kaken stijf op elkaar omdat ze te maken hebben met geheimhoudingsplicht.
Wanneer ze ouder worden en niet meer in actieve dienst zijn, willen ze toch vaak vertellen wat ze hebben meegemaakt. Zo te zien, valt het volgende verhaal in die categorie.
De waarneming speelde in 1991 en wanneer je het verhaal van de getuige leest, wordt duidelijk waarom dat nu pas naar buiten komt.
De getuige is anoniem en vertelt het volgende verhaal:
In de nacht van 17 februari 1991 liep ik de nachtdienstwacht op de militaire basis Soesterberg in Nederland.
Samen met een andere cadet kwam ik om 3.00 uur in de ochtend aan bij de centrale parkeerplaats en zie een grote cirkel in de lucht, recht boven ons. Het had geen bepaalde vorm, maar alleen felle lichten die langzaam tegen de wijzers van de klok indraaiden. De lichtpunten zelf roteerden niet, maar de kleuren (veranderden) op een soort vloeibare manier.
Ik schat dat het object ongeveer 30 tot 50 meter in doorsnee was. Het eerste dat wij beiden dachten, was dat het hier ging om een luchtschip, een Zeppelin, zo eentje als GoodYear heeft met lichtschermen aan de zijkanten.
Dat dit ding heel erg laag hing en heel stil, maakte dit alles echter vreemd, heel erg vreemd.
Na een paar minuten begonnen de lichten sneller rond te draaien en plotseling steeg het object op met een onvoorstelbare snelheid richting westen.
Een paar seconden later voelden we een harde wind die om ons hoofd blies, zoals dat gebeurt met bijvoorbeeld een helikopter.
Als er een manier zou zijn om de snelheid van dit ding te beschrijven dan zou ik dat doen, maar die is er niet. We hadden een onbelemmerd uitzicht van ongeveer 30 kilometer. Dit ding legde die afstand vanuit stilstand af in ongeveer een tiende van een seconde.
Ik ken de luchtvaart en ik heb zelf vliegervaring en daarnaast ben ik erg technisch. Door dit soort acceleraties zou een mens veranderen in een vloeibare stof.
Jarenlang is dit een onbesproken hoofdstuk geweest in mijn leven. Ik wilde niet over dit voorval spreken omdat direct na het incident de andere cadet en ik om onverklaarbare redenen heel erg ziek werden. Dagenlang hadden we hoge koorts en moesten we overgeven. De ziekte was zo erg dat het hele voorval mij getraumatiseerd heeft en ik er jarenlang niet over heb kunnen praten.
Tot zover het verhaal van de getuige.
Het verslag sluit natuurlijk naadloos aan op de eerdere UFO-waarnemingen boven de voormalige vliegbasis Soesterberg. Voor een uitgebreid artikel hierover verwijzen wij naar Ufo wijzer.
Sommigen kunnen zich misschien nog wel de reportage van RTV Utrecht herinneren over de waarnemingen uit 1979.
Een ding lijkt duidelijk en dat is dat er zich heel wat meer afspeelde rondom deze voormalige NAVO basis dan ons ooit verteld zal worden. En wie weet, misschien komen door bovenstaande wel meer getuigen naar voren.
En anno 2017 lijkt de omgeving van Soesterberg nog steeds in de belangstelling te staan van onbekende vliegende objecten in het luchtruim.
Dankzij een satelliet van de gigantische VLT-telescoop in Chili werd een unieke exoplaneet ontdekt. Dat deelt de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht ESO mee.
De SPHERE van de VLT stootte op een planeet die ongeveer 385 lichtjaar van ons is verwijderd. Ze heeft zes tot twaalf keer de massa van Jupiter. Met een temperatuur van 1.000 tot 1.400 graden Celsius is het hemellichaam behoorlijk warm.
De planeet lijkt te zijn gehuld in een zeer stoffige atmosfeer met dikke bewolking, en draait om een hete, jonge ster die verrassend snel om haar as wentelt. De ster lijkt niet omringd te zijn door een schijf van puin, wat volgens de ESO merkwaardig is voor haar leeftijd. Het ontbreken van deze schijf roept de vraag op hoe de planeet überhaupt is ontstaan.
Dubbelster Eén mogelijkheid is dat de planeet zich heeft gevormd in een schijf van gas en stof, waarna interacties met andere planeten ervoor hebben gezorgd dat ze in haar huidige wijde omloopbaan terechtkwam. Maar het is ook denkbaar dat de ster en de planeet samen zijn gevormd als een soort dubbelster, waarin de zwaarste van de twee zijn lichtere soortgenoot ervan heeft weerhouden om voldoende materie te verzamelen om een echte ster te worden.
De ontdekking van de planeet biedt astronomen de mogelijkheid om de samenstelling en verdeling van wolken in zijn atmosfeer te onderzoeken, en theorieën over het ontstaan, de evolutie en de fysica van exoplaneten te toetsen, zegt de ESO.
De bittere koude, de verschroeiende straling en de dunne atmosfeer maken van Mars een weinig benijdenswaardige plek om te leven. Toch zijn wetenschappers naarstig op zoek naar bewijs van leven op de rode planeet en worden er bemande missies naar Mars voorbereid. Maar de kans om er leven aan te treffen, is dankzij nieuw onderzoek echter een stuk kleiner geworden.
Ooit was Mars een planeet met oceanen, zeeën en rivieren. Het microbieel leven dat toen ontstond, zou volgens wetenschappers op verschillende plaatsen nog aanwezig kunnen zijn. Maar volgens een nieuwe studie zit de bodem van de planeet vol bacteriedodende stoffen. Alle micro-organismen die ooit bestaan zouden hebben, zouden daardoor verstikt zijn.
Perchloraten kunnen een voedingsbron vormen voor bacteriën, maar ze kunnen ook giftig zijn - afhankelijk van de aanwezigheid van UV-straling.
Reeds in 1976 troffen de ruimtetuigen Viking 1 en Viking 2 perchloraten aan in de bodem van Mars. Ook de Curiosity rover, die nog steeds aan het werk is op de rode planeet, bevestigde die ontdekking. Perchloraten kunnen een voedingsbron vormen voor bacteriën, maar ze kunnen ook giftig zijn - afhankelijk van de aanwezigheid van ultraviolette straling en daar baadt Mars helaas in overvloed in.
Om uit te kunnen maken of de perchloraten een goede of een slechte zaak zouden zijn, beslisten postgraduaatsstudent Jennifer Wadsworth en professor Charles Cockell van de Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy om een stukje Mars na te bouwen in een laboratorium.
Ze wilden onderzoeken of de 'bacillus subtilis' - een veelvoorkomende aardse bacterie - er zou kunnen overleven. Wadsworth en Cockell dompelden de bacterie onder in een waterachtige oplossing van magnesiumperchloraat, de soort die het meest voorkomt op Mars, aan een gelijkaardige concentratie. Vervolgens stelden ze de oplossing bloot aan ultraviolette straling op dezelfde golflengte als die Mars over zich heen krijgt.
Vernietigd
De bestraalde cellen in de perchloraatoplossing waren binnen 30 seconden steriel. Cellen die aan het UV-licht werden blootgesteld zonder het perchloraat, deden het ietsje beter: die kolonie werd na 60 seconden van de kaart geveegd.
Uit volgende testen bleek dat de UV-stralen het perchloraat afbreken in andere chemicaliën, namelijk hypochloriet en chloriet, en het zijn deze stoffen die de bacteriën vernietigen.
Giftige cocktail
"Het oppervlak van Mars is dodelijk voor vegetatieve cellen en maakt een groot deel van het oppervlak en regio¿s dicht aan het oppervlak onbewoonbaar."
Jennifer Wadsworth & prof. Charles Cockell, Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy
De wetenschappers onderzochten ook de effecten van ijzeroxides en waterstofperoxide, eveneens terug te vinden in de bodem van Mars. Maar die experimenten brachten nog meer slecht nieuws: wanneer de bacteriën bestraald werden met UV-licht in de aanwezigheid van perchloraten, ijzeroxide en peroxide, stierven ze elf keer sneller dan met enkel perchloraat.
Volgens Wadsworth en Cockell worden de ongastvrije leefomstandigheden veroorzaakt door een "giftige cocktail van oxidanten, ijzeroxides, perchloraten en UV-straling". "Het oppervlak van Mars is dodelijk voor vegetatieve cellen en maakt een groot deel van het oppervlak en regio's dicht aan het oppervlak onbewoonbaar."
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"Het betekent waarschijnlijk wel dat we leven ondergronds moeten zoeken, waar het afgeschermd is van de harde stralingsomgeving aan het oppervlak."
Jennifer Wadsworth
Dat betekent echter nog niet dat alle hoop verloren is. Enkele zaken spelen immers wel in het voordeel van de bacteriën.
De onderzoekers voerden hun experiment uit aan een temperatuur van 25 graden Celsius, maar wanneer ze dat opnieuw deden aan 4 graden Celsius, stierven de bacteriën tien keer minder snel.
Mars is echter nog een stuk kouder: de gemiddelde temperatuur op de planeet is -55°C, met pieken tot 22°C. Ergens tussen de dodelijke koude en de té warme temperaturen, zou er een comfortzone moeten zijn waarin de bacteriën wel kunnen blijven bestaan. Bovendien zijn perchloraten niet overal in een even grote concentratie aanwezig en sommige bacteriën die zich onder het oppervlak bevinden, zouden ook afgeschermd kunnen zijn van UV-straling.
"Ik kan niet spreken voor het leven uit het verleden," aldus Wadsworth, "maar wat het huidige leven betreft: dit [onderzoek] sluit het niet uit, maar betekent waarschijnlijk wel dat we leven ondergronds moeten zoeken, waar het afgeschermd is van de harde stralingsomgeving aan het oppervlak."
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Cold War Spy Plane Encountered Mysterious Craft Covered In 20 Flashing Lights
Cold War Spy Plane Encountered Mysterious Craft Covered In 20 Flashing Lights
British Ministry of Defence released the once top secret file last week, together with several other formerly declassified documents.
The information includes the unexplained incident involving a USAF RC-135 plane and a big object. It took place on October 19, 1982, when the plane was snooping on Soviet military activity. The big object reportedly buzzed the aircraft over the Med.
The American crew called for help to the British troops stationed at RAF Troodos, a base on Cyprus, as a UFO reportedly cloaked in a multitude of flashing lights, 20 at a time, zoned in.
The incident reportedly lasted for around 90 minutes. The UFO was spotted on the south of the island and an RAF Phantom, and two US Navy F-14 fighters were scrambled to chase the so-called intruder.
As the three jets approached, the American crew saw the UFO turned away and headed toward the African coast, but the fighter pilots had seen nothing.
Documents show that an investigation was conducted and sent to the US defence bods. Intelligence officers analysed the transcripts of the distress call, tapes, and radar film, but all of these were removed from files.
A suggestion from an RAF worker says that they have a strong suspicion that the UFO was a mirage effect from lights on Israel or Lebanon coast.
However, the results of the joint UK and US investigation are missing in the file.
Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University was instrumental in the release of those files. He described the encounter as fascinating and puzzling as the US and UK military authorities took it very seriously.
Watch UFO Sighting Video – Plane Flight From New Mexico to California
Watch UFO Sighting Video – Plane Flight From New Mexico to California
UFOs were filmed from a plane over Unsure, New Mexico. Three bright orb-like objects apparently accompanied the Sunday morning flight from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Burbank, California. The three UFOs were videotaped over the very difficult to reach part of the desert, seemingly resting in the middle of nowhere.
The reporting witness recorded them on video. He also claimed that his partner observed the mysterious orbs as well.
It is not the first time UFOs are either filmed or snapped from inside of planes. Sceptics would often suggest that reflections from light sources inside the plane could actually look like UFOs hovering or flying outside.
However, this case involves two individuals that allegedly saw the strange objects.
Check the video out and see whether they are UFOs or not.
Government agencies are finally taking seriously the threat posed by potential asteroid impacts. Surprise near-miss asteroids, official asteroid preparedness plans, and predictions of future encounters have been in the news with regular occurrence lately, and for good reason. Space agencies track tens of thousands of space rocks hurtling through the solar system all around us, while most of us here on Earth are oblivious to the dangers looming above our heads. Aside from collaborating with other federal agencies on what to do in the event of a strike, NASA has finally decided to test an asteroid redirect technology straight from the pages of science fiction.
We’re pretty much surrounded.
The test is being called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, and is slated to take place in 2024. The test gets its name from the fact that the particular asteroid to be redirected is part of a binary system of asteroids, a one-two punch of deadly space projectiles. The system is known as Didymos, composed of Didymos A and Didymos B. Didymos A, the larger of the two, measures in at around 2,560 feet (780 metres) in diameter, while the smaller Didymos B is only about 525 feet (160 meters) in diameter – still plenty to wipe out significant portions of the human population.
The spacecraft will be sent on a collision course with Didymos A.
During the DART test, NASA will fire a refrigerator-sized “kinetic impactor” projectile at Didymos A intended to knock it slightly off its trajectory. Since the asteroid has a ‘twin,’ NASA scientists will have a control against which they can measure the efficacy of the DART spacecraft.
Basically a man-made asteroid.
One of the DART team leaders, Andy Cheng, says the test will be the first experiment to determine how viable such a planet-saving maneuver might be in the event that we are faced with a do-or-die scenario:
Since we don’t know that much about their internal structure or composition, we need to perform this experiment on a real asteroid. With DART, we can show how to protect Earth from an asteroid strike with a kinetic impactor by knocking the hazardous object into a different flight path that would not threaten the planet.
Let’s just hope we don’t need to save the planet before 2024.
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE FILMED IN ORBIT BY INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE FILMED IN ORBIT BY INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
The image captured by the International Space Station is not crystal clear, but the again they never are, but it has enthusiasts arguing that it clearly shows the Black Knight Satellite shape. This is an alien vehicle that is enigmatic and one that has been creating a buzz throughout the last couple of years.
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE CAME TO LIGHT DURING THE LATE 1950S
Earth The Black Knight Satellite is said to be the most famous of space objects that are orbiting planet Earth. The artificial satellite has been the cause of much interest in the media and it has been since the late 1950s. It has also become one of the space objects that have been the most talked about. It was first suggested that the Black Knight Satellite might have been a spy satellite from Russia and it has held the interest of millions of UFO seekers around the world.
The Black Knight first came to light in the media when the San Francisco Examiner and St. Louis Dispatch wrote about the Satellite on 14 May, while Time Magazine went with a story of 7 March 1960. Ufologists have said that the satellite is alien and it has been keeping watch over Earth for 13,000 years.
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE SEEN BY MILLIONS SINCE ISS INSTALLED LIVE FEED
The Black Knight Satellite, along with many other objects that people have said are alien, has been seen by millions of people around the world since the ISS installed a live feed. In the new video, it has been argued that the enigmatic alien vehicles can be clearly seen and it is not a thermal blanket, which is what many skeptics have claimed it to be.
Looking at the photo, the object does look strange and does not seem to look like any object that is man-made, which has been orbiting the planet. One thing is the orbit of the object, which is odd, along with the shape and the design, which is exactly what people would expect an alien spacecraft to look like.
Hunters searching for UFOs have said that the object does not have any solar panels on its main body and this lead to many people suggesting that perhaps it is using and relying on a propulsion system that is unknown.
GORDON COOPER REPORTED UFO FLYING AROUND HIS CAPSULE IN 1963
While NASA generally does not open up about any alleged sightings of UFOs, when they do, the American Space Agency does tend to say that the majority of suspected UFOs are shadows, space debris or lights that have come from the International Space Station. When Gordon Cooper was launched into space in 1963, which was his final orbit, he had reported a glowing green object directly in front of his capsule in the distance and it moved towards his spacecraft.
Cooper reported the object to the Muchea tracking station in Australia, and they picked up the UFO on their radar and reported it as traveling east to west. While this was picked up by NBC and they reported it, when he returned to Earth they were not allowed to ask Cooper any questions about the UFO. The official explanation that had been given about the sightings of Cooper was that he had been subjected to carbon dioxide at high levels and this had brought on hallucinations.
UFO SHADOWED SPUTNIK 1 SPACECRAFT IN 1957
In 1957 an unknown object was said to have been seen shadowing the Sputnik 1 Spacecraft. Reports had said that the UFO had been in Polar orbit at the time. Neither the USA nor the Russians had the technology to maintain any spacecraft in Polar Orbit. The first satellite that was Polar-orbiting had been launched in 1960.
Polar orbits have been used for mapping the Earth along with observing the Earth and capturing it as time passes from one point, along with reconnaissance satellites. This means that the Black Knight is in the category of the observational satellite. However, one of the biggest questions has been who put the Black Knight Satellite into orbit and why did they put it there?
This means something. This is important. This video entitled “This Means Something” was uploaded to the Sony Pictures Entertainment YouTube page on Monday, which just so happened to be World UFO Day. The video features an air traffic control radar animation locating an unidentified flying object targeting one of its planes.
SPACE PROPULSION BREAKTHROUGH: HERE IS THE NEXT-GENERATION PLASMA ENGINE
SPACE PROPULSION BREAKTHROUGH: HERE IS THE NEXT-GENERATION PLASMA ENGINE
Japanese scientists make a breakthrough in the development of next generation space engines.
Plasma engines are considered to be something of a holy grail in the next stage of space exploration. Plasma thrusters are theoretically capable of producing a large enough thrust to propel rockets and satellites into outer space without the vast amount of fuel that current space engines require.
However, the process towards creating viable plasma engines has been beset with difficulties as the science is incredibly complex. As of yet, no designers have managed to produce a plasma engine which is capable of reaching outer space. However thanks to new research from Tohoku University, the world may have been brought one small step closer to this elusive goal.
Plasma is comprised of specially charged particles, which means that it can be directed and manipulated through the use of magnetic fields. Scientists and engineers working on the construction of plasma engines have experimented with magnetic nozzles to manipulate the plasma, but they have run into some problems when it comes to using this method.
The magnetic nozzle is designed to compress the plasma so that it will reach a higher state of energy and therefore a higher state of velocity when it is expelled from the engine. However, they have found that the magnetic field produced by the nozzle is formed in such a way that the plasma does not expel itself as required but instead curves back into the engine resulting in a net thrust of zero.
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, two scientists named Kazunori Takahashi and Akira Ando have outlined how this problem may be fixable. The scientists suggested that it was possible to stretch the magnetic field lines to allow the plasma particles to escape into space in a very specific direction.
Instead of using the magnetic nozzle to achieve this, the scientists came up with the ingenious solution of allowing the plasma to direct itself. When charged particles are in motion, they will generate a magnetic field. This means that plasma itself can create the conditions to allow itself to escape and cause propulsion.
Despite the fact that their lab experiments were only slightly more successful than those carried out using a magnetic nozzle, their research has been hailed as highly significant as it has brought additional information into the pool of human knowledge about the nature of plasma itself. Scientists are aware that the vast majority of matter in space is comprised of plasma, but it is very rare on planet Earth. Therefore, any additional information about the nature of plasma is considered to be highly valuable when it comes to understanding the wider universe as well as bringing humans closer to developing viable plasma engines in the future.
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