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...
09-07-2017
TR3B SPACECRAFT FILMED IN RUSSIA – DARK GOVERNMENT TEST FLIGHT
TR3B SPACECRAFT FILMED IN RUSSIA – DARK GOVERNMENT TEST FLIGHT
Ever since the Roswell UFO crash in 1947, there have been rumors about alien technology that was reverse engineered to develop a manmade spacecraft that uses anti-gravity technology. These projects are funded through dark government agencies who operate below the radar and have access to unlimited resources.
Sounds farfetched? People need to realize that back in the 60’s, the NSA already had access to computers that run at a clock-speed of roughly 650 megahertz. Only after 35 years, this type of technology was accessible to the general public. Imagine the technology that is currently being developed and will enter everyday live in 35 years…
One of these secret projects has been the TR3B, a spacecraft that is capable of entering space. There is no official confirmation of this project, but during the last 2 decades, numerous UFO sightings could be attributed to this craft.
It started in the late 80’s with the Belgium UFO flap. Thousands of witnesses reported seeing a black triangular craft with 3 distinct light. The Belgian General Wilfried de Brouwer stated during a press conference that the movements of this aircraft (radar confirmed) were not feasible for manmade airplanes at the time.
Recently a video from Russia emerged that shows the TR3B spacecraft flying through the sky. The craft is flying at a speed that is impossibly slow for regular airplanes. This might be the best video evidence of the existence of the TRB3 ever recorded.
Astronomers Observe Strange Quantum Distortion in Empty Space for the First Time Ever Henning Dalhoff/Science Photo Library IN BRIEF Vacuum birefringence has been observed by a team of scientists for the first time ever using the European Southern Obser
Astronomers Observe Strange Quantum Distortion in Empty Space for the First Time Ever
Henning Dalhoff/Science Photo Library
IN BRIEF
Vacuum birefringence has been observed by a team of scientists for the first time ever using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT).
The team observed neutron star RX J1856.5-375, which is about 400 light-years from Earth, with just visible light, pushing the limits of existing telescope technology.
A LITTLE LESS STRANGE
Vacuum birefringence is a weird quantum phenomenon that has only ever been observed on an atomic scale. It occurs when a neutron star is surrounded by a magnetic field so intense, it’s given rise to a region in empty space where matter randomly appears and vanishes.
This polarization of light in a vacuum due to strong magnetic fields was first thought to be possible in the 1930s by physicists Werner Heisenberg and Hans Heinrich Euler as a product of the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED). The theory describes how light and matter interact.
Now, for the first time ever, this strange quantum effect has been observed by a team of scientists from INAF Milan (Italy) and from the University of Zielona Gora (Poland).
Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), a research team led by Roberto Mignani observed neutron star RX J1856.5-375, which is about 400 light-years from Earth.
Neutron stars are rather dim, yet they are 10 times more massive than our sun. As such, they have extremely strong magnetic fields permeating their surface and surroundings.
Vacuums are supposedly empty spaces (according to Einstein and Newton, at least) where light can pass through uninhibited or unchanged. But, according to QED, space is full of virtual particles continually popping in and out of existence. Very strong magnetic fields, like those surrounding neutron stars, can modify such spaces as vacuums.
Using the FORS2 instrument on the VLT, the researchers were able to observe the neutron star with just visible light, pushing the limits of existing telescope technology.
Credits: ESO
BETTER TELESCOPES
Studying VLT data on the star, the researchers saw linear polarization occurring at a significant degree of around 16%. This is very likely due to vacuum birefringence in the area surrounding RX J1856.5-375.
“The high linear [polarization] that we measured with the VLT can’t be easily explained by our models unless the vacuum birefringence effects predicted by QED are included,” said Mignani.
Given the limited technology used, Mignani believes that future telescopes can discover more about similar strange quantum effects by studying other neutron stars. “[Polarization] measurements with the next generation of telescopes, such as ESO’s European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT), could play a crucial role in testing QED predictions of vacuum birefringence effects around many more neutron stars,” he said.
“This measurement, made for the first time now in visible light, also paves the way to similar measurements to be carried out at X-ray wavelengths,” researcher Kinwah Wu said.
A young Canadian couple visiting Toronto’s Harbourfront area on Canada Day spotted a mysterious “white shining disk” flying over the area and recorded a video of the sighting. The bright UFO appeared and disappeared several times in the blue sky as if its brightness was fluctuating.
The couple reported the sighting and submitted their video (see below) to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a U.S.-based organization that documents and investigates reported UFO sightings and related phenomena — including alleged alien sightings — from around the world.
The intriguing video shows a shiny disk- or saucer-shaped UFO that has what looks like a dark central bulge or a cut section in the center, like a vinyl record, according to Open Minds-TV. The mysterious UFO is shown in the video flying over the Harbourfront area and near the iconic CN Tower. It appears and disappears multiple times as it flies across blue, cloudless sky.
According to the witness, he and his girlfriend were celebrating Canada Day at Toronto’s Harbourfront area, when he looked up and noticed the white, shining, disk-shaped UFO in the sky. He drew his girlfriend’s attention to the object flying across the sky and both agreed after a brief debate that it was likely a kite or a drone.
The witness proceeded to film and watch the object (see video below).
However, after watching and filming it for some minutes, the couple began to doubt that it was a kite or a drone. The UFO was very bright. It shone in the sky with a powerful, dazzling glare, and it appeared to spin as it flew across the blue sky in the direction of some white clouds. As the UFO flew across the sky, it appeared and disappeared mysteriously multiple times. Then after it reached the clouds, it disappeared.
The couple stood watching for several minutes after the object disappeared when it reached the clouds. They continued watching the sky, hoping that it would reappear, but they never saw it again until they left the Harbourfront area. However, as they watched the sky, hoping that the strange UFO would reappear, they saw a lone black helicopter flying across the sky in the same direction as the UFO, as if trying to catch up with it.
“I noticed the glaring shininess of the disk…and how it was moving across in a circular motion.”
“We then witnessed a black helicopter and thought maybe it was following it?” the witness said. “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.”
MUFON investigators noted that the witnesses could be right that the object was not a drone. Drones, according to the investigators, have appendages that hold the rotors and they move fast through the air unlike the UFO shown in the video which does not appear to have rotors.
Some viewers suggested that the mysterious object might have been a balloon released to float across the sky as part of the ongoing Canada Day celebrations. However, they were unable to account for the ability of the object to appear and disappear. There were no visible clouds, objects or shadows that could have blocked the object from sight.
“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,” the MUFON investigator noted. “However, this balloon is high in the sky and it does not appear anything could cause shadows at that height.”
Although MUFON investigators were unable to explain the mysterious sighting, the organization warned viewers to not jump to the conclusion that the UFO was of extraterrestrial origin. MUFON warned that 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.”
NOBEL PRIZE WINNING CO-DISCOVERER OF DNA SAYS OUR GENES WERE BROUGHT HERE BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS
NOBEL PRIZE WINNING CO-DISCOVERER OF DNA SAYS OUR GENES WERE BROUGHT HERE BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS
Francis Crick (8 June 1916 — 28 July 2004) was an English scientist who was most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 alongside James D. Watson.
Francis Crick Watson and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology for Medicine “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.”
He was clearly a brilliant scientist who unfortunately, like many other brilliant minds who came up with theories that challenged the accepted frameworks at the time, wasn’t given much ‘press.’
In his book published in 1982, Life Itself, he argues that there is no possible way that the DNA molecule could have gotten its start here on Earth and that it had to have come here from somewhere else. Within the mainstream scientific community, the generally accepted theory is that we are the result of a bunch of molecules accidentally bumping into each other, creating life. However, according to Francis, we are the result of what is now known as Directed Panspermia. Crick and a British chemist, Leslie Orgel, published their paper on it in July of 1973.
Their theory explains that, “organisms were deliberately transmitted to earth by intelligent beings on another planet. We conclude that it is possible that life reached the earth in this way, but that the scientific evidence is inadequate at the present time to say anything about the probability. We draw attention to the kinds of evidence that might throw additional light on the topic.” (source)
As far as Crick’s thoughts on the theory that we are the result of accidentally bumping into each other, he thinks this was as likely as the assembly of a jumbo jet hit by a hurricane in a junk yard. In other words, he thought the theory held little to no credibility.
When it comes to Crick’s theory, there have been some who expanded upon his work and have actually found evidence of it. Perhaps Crick had some evidence or he was able to connect some dots? After all, theories like this aren’t just born out of nowhere and this gentleman won the Nobel Prize for the study of DNA. Thoughts like this should not be taken lightly and evidence should be examined to see if it’s a plausible hypothesis.
Please keep in mind while reading this article that, although we’ve discovered much, we have yet to identify the biological functions of large portions of our DNA. There is so much mystery wrapped in what could possibly hold the answer to life itself and the origins of the human race.
A few years ago, Chandra Wickramasinghe, the Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham in the U.K., published a paper regarding their supposed findings of the first-ever evidence of extraterrestrial life found in a celestial body.
At the time, Wickramasinghe pointed out to Huffington Post how, in 1962:
“Hoyle and I pioneered the theory of carbon grains in space to replace the old ice grain theory. This was vehemently resisted by the astronomical community at the outset, but with the dawn of infrared spectroscopy, the ice grain theory gave way to the carbon dust theory. Over a few years, after a great deal of model-fitting, we came to the conclusion that material similar to biomaterial fitted all the available data in astronomy. We considered the possibility that microbiology had a universal character, and no observations in astronomy or new information from biology has provided contrary evidence.If only ideas that are considered orthodox are given support through award of grans or publication opportunities, it is certain that the progress of science will be stifled as it was throughout the middle age.”
English Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle and Wickramasinghe are considered co-developers of the panspermia theory. In another paper that Wickramasinghe co-authored in 2012 titled “Non-terrestrial origin of life: a transformative research paradigm shift,” he points out that, “For nearly five decades, evidence in favour of a non-terrestrial origin of life and panspermia has accumulated which has not been properly assessed. A point has now been reached that demands the serious attention of biologists to a possibly transformative paradigm shift of the question of the origin of life, with profounds implications across many disciplines.” (source)
It’s interesting to think about, isn’t it? We are indeed, as Author Graham Hancock noted, like species with amnesia. We still don’t completely know where we came from and how we got here.
What About The Fact That We Are Probably Not Alone & That We Are Probably Being Visited?
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubbishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source)
The quote above comes Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, the former Chief of the Defence Staff and 5 star Admiral of the Royal Navy. That’s the highest possible rank of the British Royal Navy, similar to General Dwight Eisenhower’s 5 star rank in the United States. He was also Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. These are definitely positions to be ‘in the know’ about what is going on, at least to some extent.
If you are unaware, there have been hundreds of witnesses carrying impressive backgrounds that have been in the position to ‘know’ about these things. To compliment this testimony, we also have evidence in the form of documents from several different government/military/intelligence agencies.
Personally, when I think of all of the evidence that’s surfaced within the past few years alone, it’s mind-altering. If you’re interested, you will have to do your own research. If you don’t, next time somebody brings up the subject, it’s good to keep an open mind and at least acknowledge that yes, this is actually a strong possibility.
I’ll leave you with this last clip from the Thrive documentary, of the late great Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former NASA astronaut, one of many astronauts who has spoken out enthusiastically about this subject and the evidence behind it. My apologies if you’ve already seen it, as I’ve used it numerous times in previous articles.
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America
As World War II ended, the race was on with the Soviet Union to seize as many German scientists as possible in anticipation of the Cold War. The full story has remained elusive until now. Operation Paperclip, by Annie Jacobsen, provides perhaps the most comprehensive, up-to-date narrative available to the general public. Her book is a detailed and highly readable account of the program. Jacobsen compiled extensive primary and secondary sources, duly annotated in over 100 pages of notes and bibliography. In it are many new sources, among them US government records (President Clinton’s “Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act”), German archival records, first-person accounts, memoirs, and letters. The book also contains a useful index and biographies of the principal players.
Jacobsen offers a detailed chronology of events related to Operation Paperclip. Because of its scope and the introduction of so many characters, the narrative could have been improved if the author had focused on a shorter list than the 89 individuals profiled and maintained more topical continuity. Nevertheless, the book is a compelling work with interesting historical and personal revelations, for example:
One of the most notorious cases of WMD proliferation occurred on 15 May 1945, when the German U-234 submarine, bound for Japan, was captured off Newfoundland by the USS Sutton. The U-boat carried Dr. Heinz Schlicke, Director of Naval Test Fields at Kiel, and the cargo included plans for the Hs293 glider bomb, V-1 glide bomb (forerunner to cruise missiles), V-2 rocket (forerunner to the SCUD missile), Me262 fighter aircraft (the first combat jet fighter), low observable submarine designs, and lead-lined boxes filled with 1,200 lbs. of uranium oxide, a key ingredient of atomic bombs. Schlicke, who claimed to be an electronic warfare expert, became a prisoner at Ft. Meade, MD.
Sarin was produced at Dyhernfurth (Dyhernfurth later fell into Russian hands). Its name derives from the initials of its developers: Gerhard Schrader and Otto Ambros from the infamous IG Farben chemical company—maker of the killing gases used at concentration camps—and from the names of two German Army officers.
Schrader tells the story of inventing “tabun,” a nerve agent named after the English word “taboo.” The Germans called it 9/91 and, after their defeat at Stalingrad, seriously considered using it on the Russians.
Henry Wallace, former vice president and secretary of commerce, believed the scientists’ ideas could launch new civilian industries and produce jobs. Indeed, German scientists developed synthetic rubber (used in automobile tires), non-running hosiery, the ear thermometer, electromagnetic tape, and miniaturized electrical components, to name a few.
Werner von Braun is well known to those who remember the Apollo moon landing. During the Ford administration, von Braun was almost awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—until one of Ford’s senior advisors, David Gergen, objected to his Nazi past.
Less well known is that another 120 fellow German scientists, engineers, and technicians developed the Saturn V launch vehicle, or that the Launch Operations Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was headed by Kurt Debus, an ardent Nazi. The Vertical Assembly Building—bigger in volume than the Pentagon and almost as tall as the Washington Monument—was designed by Bernhard Tessmann, former facilities designer at the German missile launch facility at Peenemuende.
Dr. Hubertus Strughold, who played an important role in space medicine by developing space suits and other life-support systems. In June 1948, he put a rhesus monkey named Albert in the pressurized nosecone of a V-2 rocket in a pressurized nose cone, the first step in the effort to send humans to space.
General Reinhard Gehlen, former head of Nazi intelligence operations against the Soviets, was hired by the US Army and later by the CIA to operate 600 ex-Nazi agents in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany. In 1948, CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter assumed control of the so-called Gehlen Organization.
German biologist Dr. Kurt Blome was hired to develop offensive and defensive capabilities to counter Soviet biological warfare activities.
In 1949, the CIA created the Office of Scientific Intelligence. Its first director, Dr.Willard Machle, traveled to Germany to set up a special program to interrogate Soviet spies. The CIA believed the Russians had developed mind-control programs and wanted to know how US spies would hold up
against this capability if caught. He also aimed to explore the feasibility of creating a “Manchurian candidate” through behavioral modification. Thus, Operation Bluebird was born. Bluebird, later called MKULTRA, was a research activity experimenting in behavioral engineering of humans. The Nuremberg Code prohibits experimentation with humans without their consent. During this program, Dr. Frank Olson, a US Army biological weapons researcher, was given the drug LSD without his knowledge, leading to his death by leaping from a building. DCI Richard Helms ordered much of the documentation destroyed, and the circumstances of his demise remain controversial to this day.
Although she understandably questions the morality of the decision to hire Nazi SS scientists, Jacobsen balances her judgment with an understanding of the perceived threat of the Soviet Union under Stalin and the communists’ dialectical determination to prepare for total war with the West. The Soviets similarly captured and used German scientists for their own defense programs. That side of the story is not covered in this book.
Jacobsen provides insights on joint intelligence coordination and cooperation among US services and Allies; operational deconfliction; document and foreign materiel acquisition and exploitation; interrogation techniques; active tracking; production of foreign intelligence; surveillance and countersurveillance methods; and negotiating the sometimes conflicting objectives of the judiciary and the Intelligence Community (i.e., “hang them” vs. “hire them!”).
All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed in this journal are those of the authors. Nothing in any of the articles should be construed as asserting or implying US government endorsement of their factual statements and interpretations. Articles by non-US government employees are copyrighted.
Flight into the furnace of Mercury could bring us closer in hunt for alien life
Flight into the furnace of Mercury could bring us closer in hunt for alien life
Investigation will give clues about where to look for habitable planets
The BepiColombo probe at the ESA’s space centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Photograph: Michael Kooren/Reuters
Atiny world that is battered by intense radiation and incredible heat, Mercury is one of the most inhospitable places in our solar system. Zinc would melt on its surface. Yet this scorched planet is set to play a crucial role in one of science’s most important quests: the search to find life on other worlds in our galaxy.
Astronomers believe that Mercury’s proximity to the Sun could provide them with crucial insights about the prospects of finding worlds that can support living organisms. And they hope these insights will be revealed by BepiColombo, a European-Japanese probe that was unveiled to the public last week at the European Space Agency’s research and technology centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
The 7-metre-long, 4-tonne spacecraft is one of the most complex space missions ever built and one of the most expensive. It cost €1.6bn (£1.4bn) to construct and is set for launch in October 2018, when it will begin a seven-year voyage to reach its target and begin its study of this mysterious world.
The importance of its task was underlined by Mark McCaughrean, the European Space Agency’s senior adviser for science and exploration. “We have detected planets – known as exoplanets – that are in orbit around other stars in our galaxy, and some have been found to lie in potentially habitable zones that we think are not too cold and not too hot to support life,” he said. “Crucially, however, most of these promising exoplanets are in orbits that take them very close to these very cool stars. In terms of heat, you could safely orbit close to a cool star, but there may be other dangers lurking there. And that is why Mercury is so important – it is much closer to the Sun than any other planet in the solar system. It should have very important lessons to teach us.”
Mercury’s proximity to the Sun – its orbit carries it, on average, about 57m kilometres from the Sun compared with Earth’s 149.6m – is a key issue, astronomers stress. Until they understand conditions that affect planets that orbit very close to stars, they cannot be sure about their potential to support life. In particular, other forms of radiation could still pose a problem for such planets – such as ultra-violet radiation.
This point was made by G Murakami, of the Japanese space agency Jaxa, which collaborated with European space engineers in the building of BepiColombo. “Ultra-violet radiation could be much stronger in these worlds and we need to study a planet in such circumstances, and Mercury fits the bill for that perfectly.”
An artist’s impression of the BepiColombo’s planetary orbiter and magnetospheric orbiter above Mercury.
Photograph: ESA
The crucial point, McCaughrean said, is that scientists cannot be sure just how habitable an exoplanet is until they understand conditions on a world that orbits near a star. Hence the importance of Mercury. However, the little world – the most cratered planet in the solar system – offers other important goals for science.
Another mystery that astronomers hope to solve is the puzzle of Mercury’s magnetic field. It is the only planet in our solar system, other than Earth, that has one, though it is about 100 times weaker than ours. However, studies by the US probe Messenger – which orbited Mercury between 2011 and 2015 – discovered that this field is offset from the planet’s centre by about 500 kilometres, an astonishing amount for a little planet.
“In fact, most theories about the formation of our solar system suggest that a tiny world like Mercury should not have a magnetic field at all, so we are facing a real mystery,” said McCaughrean. “We cannot claim we understand how our solar system formed if we cannot explain why Mercury possesses such an anomaly. We have real theoretical issues to resolve, and hopefully BepiColombo will let us do that.”
In addition, BepiColombo will seek out regions, in high latitudes, where its predecessor Messenger found evidence of water ice inside the unlit walls of craters. Their existence is another of the puzzles that astronomers have uncovered on this little planet.
Designing and building a craft that can achieve these goals has not been easy. BepiColombo – named after the 20th-century Italian mathematician and engineer Giuseppe Colombo – is actually a twin spacecraft: a European planetary orbiter that will study the planet and a Japanese craft that will study the planet’s magnetic field. Both will be carried to their target by a propulsion module known as the Mercury transfer module.
The mission was approved in 2000 by the European Space Agency in collaboration with Jaxa. However, the complexities of flying a probe so close to the Sun forced design delays that raised costs from several hundred million euros to the probe’s current estimated price tag of about €1.6bn. It also triggered years of delay in building the satellite. Indeed, the project came close to termination when several member states, including Britain, urged that no extra funds be made available after costs over-ran to several hundred million euros. It took weeks of complex negotiations to save the project.
The main problem facing BepiColombo was that the mission’s principal orbiter has to be flown so that it hovers over the searing hot surface of Mercury while the Sun beams down on it. “Solar radiation is 10 times the level on Mercury than it is on Earth because the planet is so close to the Sun,” said Mauro Patroncini, of Thales Alenia Space Italia, which built much of the probe. “At the same time, Mercury’s surface is so hot – about 430C – that it generates a massive flux of infrared radiation and heat of its own.” Essentially the satellite will be grilled on both sides: the Sun on one and Mercury on the other.
“We thought we could deal with that with conventional techniques when we were designing the craft, but realised in 2006 that we would have to develop new technologies, including temperature-resistant coatings and insulated instruments, to stop the craft overheating violently,” said Patroncini. “That is what caused the delays and cost over-runs.”
The danger of overheating was endorsed by ESA project manager Ulrich Reininghaus, who also stressed the problems that lay ahead for the mission. “We’re flying into a pizza oven. We had to test materials at different, very high temperature regimes, sometimes with very unwanted results.” Hence the delays in launch.
Constructing a craft that can endure such hellish conditions has proven to be a gruelling business. There were tears of frustration over the delays, and a great deal of sweat was expended in redesigning a craft that has pushed engineers to the limit of their abilities, said McCaughrean. Then there was the construction race after all the delays.
“BepiColombo has sheets of tough insulating material that has had to be sown, by hand, into position in its sun shield and other parts,” he said. “A colleague went into the probe’s assembly area one morning and found blood spattered beside it. Another member of staff had stabbed themselves with a needle overnight as they stitched up the thermal blankets. So you could easily say that blood, sweat and tears were expended in getting this mission ready for launch.”
FANTASTIC VOYAGE
BepiColombo is a probe of many parts: a massive sunshade, a planetary orbiter, a second orbiter that will study the planet’s magnetic field, and a transfer vehicle that will carry these various components to Mercury after the mission’s launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in October 2018.
The craft will weigh more than 4 tonnes, including 1.4 tonnes of propellant that will be used to power it on a complex journey round the solar system en route to Mercury. The trip will take seven years and will involve making one flyby of Earth, two of Venus and six of Mercury in order to position the craft when it reaches its destination in 2025 in a way that makes it easy to slip into orbit around the planet.
“We could fire BepiColombo straight at Mercury and it would get there in a few months, but we would have to use all our fuel decelerating to reach the planet at a reasonable speed,” said Mark McCaughrean, the ESA’s senior scientific adviser. “That is why we are taking the slow way.”
Once in orbit round Mercury, the transfer vehicle will release its two orbiters. The European craft will map Mercury while the Japanese craft will hover further from the planet and study its magnetic field. BepiColombo is designed to operate for one year, but with the option of running for a second. Privately ESA officials hope they will get up to three or four years out of the craft.
Aliens and UFOs are among the most enigmatic mysteries that yet haven’t been solved by humanity.
Who are these aliens? How do they look like? Nobody knows but thousands of people see UFOs and aliens every year.
So why don’t our governments disclose this information? Why they hide aliens from us? We still have no answer. But a lot of people have!
This is not a fake! Get ready to see real UFOs caught on tape. Even if you never believed in UFOs and aliens this video will convince you to believe in their existence! Get ready and share this article among others!
Aliens and UFOs are among the most enigmatic mysteries that yet haven’t been solved by humanity.
Who are these aliens? How do they look like? Nobody knows but thousands of people see UFOs and aliens every year.
So why don’t our governments disclose this information? Why they hide aliens from us? We still have no answer. But a lot of people have!
This is not a fake! Get ready to see real UFOs caught on tape. Even if you never believed in UFOs and aliens this video will convince you to believe in their existence! Get ready and share this article among others!
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PROJECT SERPO – THE EXCHANGE PROGRAM BETWEEN HUMANS AND ALIENS
PROJECT SERPO – THE EXCHANGE PROGRAM BETWEEN HUMANS AND ALIENS
In 2005, an anonymous source sent a series of emails to a UFO Discussion Group led by former U.S. Government Employee Victor Martinez.
These emails detailed the existence of an Exchange Program between the U.S. Government and the Ebens – alien beings from Serpo, a planet from the Zeta Reticuli Star System. The program was thus called Project Serpo.
The source identified himself as a retired employee of the government, claiming he had participated in a special program.
The program’s origins lay with the two UFO crashes in New Mexico in 1947, the famous Roswell incident and another one in Corona.
He claimed one extraterrestrial survived the crash and was transferred to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The other six deceased extraterrestrials were placed in a freezing facility in the same laboratory.
Establishing communications with the scientists and military personnel, the survivor provided them with the location of its home planet and continued to cooperate until its death in 1952.
The alien provided information regarding the items found inside the crashed UFOs. One of the items was a communication device that it was allowed to use, contacting its home planet.
A meeting was set for April 1964, when an alien craft landed near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Upon retrieving the bodies of their dead comrades, the extraterrestrials engaged in an information exchange that was carried out in English, thanks to the aliens’ translation device.
One thing led to another and in 1965, the aliens accepted to take a group of humans back to their planet as part of the exchange program.
Twelve military personnel were carefully selected for a ten year stay on Serpo. The ten men and two women were specialists in various fields and their task was to gather as much information as possible, regarding all aspects of life, society and technology on the alien planet.
They were three years late and four people short when they finally returned in 1978. Two men had died on the alien planet. One man and one woman had decided to stay. The journey to Serpo, located 37 light years from Earth, took only nine months aboard the alien craft.
They had learned that Serpo was a planet similar to our own, albeit smaller. It orbited around a binary star system and had an atmosphere similar in composition to the one on Earth.
However, the two suns meant there were higher levels of radiation and the twelve humans had to resort to protection at all times. Two of them died from complications. The heat was extreme and it took the remaining humans several years to adjust.
Another problem was the food. The crew had taken enough food to last them for two and a half years but eventually had to resort to eating native Eben food. Anyone who’s traveled abroad knows about the serious gastrointestinal implications posed by eating local food but the human crew eventually adjusted.
Another problem was the length of the day on Serpo, which was 43 Earth hours long. Also, it never got fully dark as their night skies were dimly lit by the smaller sun. The crew had complete freedom to explore the alien planet and they were not hindered in any way.
The geology of the alien world was different; there were few mountains and no oceans. Several types of plant-like life existed but mostly near the polar area, where it was cooler.
There were also types of animal life and some of the larger ones were used by the Ebens for work and other tasks but never as food sources. They produced their food through industrial processes, of which they had many.
The inhabitants of Serpo lived in small communities led by a large city. They lacked a central government but seemed to be doing fine without it.
The Ebens had leadership and an army but the Earth team noticed they never used weapons of any type and violence was virtually unheard of. They had no concept of money or commerce. Every Eben was issued items in accordance with their needs.
The planet’s population was about 650,000 individuals. The human crew noted the Ebens were disciplined in all aspects of their lives, working on schedules based on the movements of their suns. There were no other civilizations on Serpo except the Ebens.
Their method of reproduction was similar to our own but it had a much lower success rate. Therefore, their children were highly isolated.
In fact, the only problem the human crew had was when they intended to photograph Eben children. They were escorted away by the army and asked not to attempt that again.
Upon returning to Earth, the remaining eight members of the expedition were quarantined for a year. During this period, they were debriefed and the complete account amassed around 3,000 pages.
All members of the expedition have since died from various complications due to radiation exposure. The fate of the two people who chose to remain on Serpo is unknown. The Ebens have not contacted Earth since 1985.
Seventy years ago, on 24 June 1947, flying saucers were spotted ‘invading’ planet Earth. It was a reported as a modest formation of nine unusual objects flying at high speed over Mount Rainier, Washington, USA.
The witness was Kenneth Arnold, who was not a jet pilot, astronomer or scientist, but a civilian fire systems salesman who was flying from Chehalis to Yakima.
Just before 3pm, he was just turning his CallAir A-2 aircraft eastwards, when his attention was caught by powerful flashes of light coming from the north of Mount Rainier.
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At a distance of about 23 miles he saw nine convex shaped objects flying erratically, like saucers skimming across water.
In a confidential statement to Army Air Force Intelligence dated 12 July 1947, he said:
I am convinced in my own mind that they were some type of airplane, even though they didn’t conform with the many aspects of the conventional type of planes that I know.
Not long afterwards he was interviewed by local newspaper reporters who found him articulate and credible. The original stories referred to the objects as saucer-like but this soon turned into the term ‘flying saucer’ that we know and love today.
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His sighting was a sensation at the outbreak of the Cold War, when tensions between the USSR and USA were quickly escalating. People wondered if Arnold had seen Soviet remote controlled missiles or some new U.S. weapon being secretly tested. Speculation was rife but no one then, or since, has come up with the ultimate explanation for his sighting.
The inability to find a satisfying explanation led to thoughts that these new fangled flying saucers were being controlled by extraterrestrial aliens. As time has passed the term flying saucer has been supplanted by the more scientific term Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
Whatever, the terminology the subject of ufology has come to embrace everything from lights in the sky to alien abductions and government conspiracy.
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Only a few days after Arnold’s sighting, on 8 July 1947, the Roswell Army Air Base publicly announced that they had recovered the remains of a crashed flying saucer from a nearby ranch.
The wreckage was sent to Wright Patterson Air Base and it was quickly announced that it was the remains of a conventional weather balloon.
The Roswell case was largely forgotten or at best dismissed as a footnote in UFO history until the late 1970s, culminating in the publication of The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William Moore in 1980.
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Since then it has encouraged all manner of ‘eye-witnesses’ (or friends of friends of eye-witnesses) who saw the debris and dead alien bodies being retrieved and held in storage by the U.S.A.F.
To some Roswell is the ultimate proof that the U.S. government has concrete evidence of an alien presence; to others it is a myth that has been inflated out of all proportion to the facts.
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Rather than being a spaceship, UFO author John Keel claimed that a Japanese FUJI balloon, launched during World War II had finally returned to Earth, causing the Roswell crash.
Another explanation was that this was a balloon used by Project Mogul; a top secret US project used to spy on the USSR. Due to public pressure, internal investigations were launched by the General Accounting Office to disclose the truth of the matter. Their first report, in 1995, confirmed that the wreckage was of a Project Mogul balloon.
In 1997, their second report looked at the rumours and stories about recovered alien bodies. This concluded that they were a combination of rumours, and half-forgotten memories of missions involving the recovery of injured pilots or anthropomorphic dummies used in experimental projects unconnected with UFOs.
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These reports did little to dent the enthusiasm for speculation about the Roswell crash. Indeed, in 1995 more fuel was added to the flames when Ray Santilli, a British entrepreneur, released film footage, which showed a graphic autopsy of a recovered alien from the Roswell crash.
Several years later, he admitted that this was a reconstruction of the autopsy as the ‘genuine’ film footage had been lost.
In 2011, Roswell hit the headlines again when a book by journalist Annie Jacobsen - Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base - claimed that the aliens recovered from Roswell were actually genetically mutated 12-year-old children.
They were sent by the Soviet Union to the USA in a remotely piloted aircraft to promote hysteria in the American population.
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Several years earlier, a similar theory was put forward by Nick Redfern, who claimed that the Roswell crash was caused by a balloon based on Japanese technology.
The balloon was used to launch a glider that had a pilot and crew consisting of handicapped people. The object of this and other missions was to study the effects of radiation and high altitude on the human body.
In 2015, pictures of the alleged Roswell alien were given worldwide publicity. They soon proved to be images of a mummy in an exhibition case, once again the gullibility of UFO experts and our wish to believe in aliens from outer space.
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With the 70th anniversary of the Roswell incident, a number of new pieces of evidence have just come to light. One of the most intriguing is a 47-page top secret dossier of 1950s vintage, which details the recovery of 327 fragments of the Roswell craft and four decomposing alien bodies.
It was the tentative conclusion (November 30 1947) that although these aliens are generally human-like in appearance, the biological and evolutionary factors responsible for their development has apparently been quite different from those observed in home-sapiens (Earth humans).
Slightly more credible is the testimony of a former U.S. Deputy Sheriff, Charles H. Forgus published in a newly published book UFOs Today: 70 Years of Lies, Disinformation and Government Cover-Up by Dr Irena Scott.
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Forgus said he was travelling from Texas to Roswell, and heard about the crash on the radio and made a detour to see it. He says he saw about four hundred soldiers using a crane to put a 100ft diameter craft on the back of a truck, and hauling away four, 5ft tall, brownish coloured, humanoid aliens that seemed to be dead.
It does seem odd that the military didn’t block off the road to the crash site, and just allowed someone to openly view these activities without being stopped or questioned.
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Joe Nickell and James McGaha have even put forward the concept of the Roswellian Syndrome, which has five main stages:
1. The Incident. This is the event that initially triggers the crash retrieval rumours.
2. Debunking. The recovered wreckage is quickly given a mundane explanation.
3. Submergence. The story lingers in the fading memories and speculation of the local population.
4. Mythologising. As time passes faulty memory, exaggeration and deliberate hoaxing comes into play.
5. Re-emergence and Media Bandwagon Effect. The story resurfaces in the media and takes on a life of its own.
Kenneth Arnold’s sighting triggered the whole UFO saga, but he is largely forgotten and overshadowed by the power of the Roswell myth. Or is that what ‘they’ want us to believe? Is the real evidence of Roswell and flying saucers tucked away in Area 51 or some other government facility?
Will the truth ever emerge or will we still be asking similar questions in 70 years time?
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Close Encounters: Why UFOs Are Having a Moment
Close Encounters: Why UFOs Are Having a Moment
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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XCOR Aerospace Lays Off Remaining Employees
XCOR Aerospace Lays Off Remaining Employees
By Jeff Foust, SpaceNews Writer
XCOR Aerospace suspended work on the Lynx, a two-seat reusable suborbital spaceplane, in 2016.
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WASHINGTON — XCOR Aerospace, a company developing rocket engines and a suborbital space plane, has laid off its remaining employees but is continuing efforts to raise funding to maintain at least some of its projects.
In a statement provided to SpaceNews July 5, Michael Blum, a member of the company's board of directors who is also serving as acting chief executive, said some "critical" employees would be retained as contractors as the company attempts to stay alive.
"Due to adverse financial conditions XCOR had to terminate all employees as of 30 June 2017," Blum said in the statement. "XCOR management will retain critical employees on a contract basis to maintain the company's intellectual property and is actively seeking other options that would allow it to resume full employment and activity." [Meet Lynx: XCOR Aerospace's Space Plane (Gallery)]
Blum did not disclose how many employees were laid off or how many would be kept on as contractors. In May 2016, XCOR laid off nearly half of its 50 to 60 employees as it devoted its resources to a liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen engine the company was developing under contract with United Launch Alliance.
At that time, XCOR said it was suspending work on Lynx, a two-seat suborbital space plane the company had been working on for several years to serve the space tourism and research markets. Company officials said earlier this year that XCOR had not entirely abandoned the Mark 1 prototype vehicle that had been under construction at its Mojave, California, facility.
"Although we have advanced the program with much of our recent efforts, completion of the prototype is funding-dependent," Marco Martinez-Venturi, head of astronaut relations at the company, told SpaceNews in March.
With its employees laid off, company sources say management and investors are working to save at least some of XCOR's products, keeping the company from folding entirely.
XCOR's decision to lay off its remaining employees could also jeopardize a $10 million financial incentive package it received in 2012 to move the company to Midland, Texas. Brent Hilliard, chairman of the board of the Midland Development Corporation, which provided the incentive package, told the Midland Reporter-Telegraph that the board will meet with XCOR July 6 to discuss the company's status.
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.
Martian conditions may be unfriendly to life, North Korea tests a missile, two supermassive black holes circle and country music royalty serenades space station astronauts — this and more in Space.com's top stories for this week.
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1. Mars: not great for microbes?
Chlorine compounds on Mars are triggered by the sun's radiation, which could kill microbes.
Researchers found that bacterial cells die within minutes when exposed to the compound in Mars-like conditions.
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2. North Korea test-launches ballistic missile
North Korea test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday, July 4. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement that the United States strongly condemns the launch, and some scientists say that while the maximum range of the missile would not pose a threat to the lower 48 states or Hawaii, it could reach Alaska.
The Intelsat 35e satellite successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday July 5 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The satellite will provide commercial broadband communications services in the Caribbean, and services in the African continent.
The Trump administration will heavily emphasize crewed missions to the moon and Mars, according to Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday, July 6. While he did not offer a time frame or a budget for the expeditions, Pence cited partnerships with commercial companies as key.
Scientists have visually imaged a pair of supermassive black holes orbiting each other for the first time ever. While it remains uncertain how big each black hole is, the data that astronomers do have suggests that one black hole is two to four times the size of the other.
6. Twenty years ago, a new chapter in astronomy began.
NASA's Pathfinder mission landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, bringing a small rover called Sojourner to the Martian surface! In the past two decades, eight other NASA robots have reached the red planet; five remain active today.
7. Telescope inaugurated to seek visible source for gravitational waves
Gravitational-wave detectors will coordinate with a new telescope in Spain's Canary Islands to pinpoint the wave's sources, such as merging black holes or massive supernovas. The Gravitational-wave optical Transient Observer (GOTO) was officially inaugurated on July 3, and can hopefully act as an intermediary between LIGO in the U.S. and powerful telescopes to investigate those sources. [Full Story:Optical Telescope Will Seek Sources of Gravitational Waves]
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8. Astronauts get country music serenade
Country music legends Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sang to space station astronauts during a visit to NASA's mission control in Houston on June 29. The couple sang into the telephone that links voice communications between the ground and the space station.
After a nearly five-year journey through deep space, the Juno probe arrived to the gas giant Jupiter on July 4, 2016. With the data Juno retrieves, scientists should be able to get a better understanding of Jupiter's evolution and structure.
New Horizons performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto in July 2015, and its next target may actually be a cluster of objects rather than just one. The target, called 2014 MU69, lies about 1 billon miles beyond Pluto's orbit, and might possibly be small remnants from the formation of the solar system.
Chris Becke captured this video of the sounding-rocket launch from Williamsburg, Virginia.
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When NASA finally launched its long-awaited sounding-rocket mission from Wallops Island, Virginia, early-bird viewers along the U.S. East Coast were treated to a spectacular show of glowing, multicolor clouds drifting through the sky.
Photographers woke up early to see the colorful display on several occasions, only to learn that the launch had been repeatedly delayed due to weather conditions. But when the mission finally blasted off on Thursday (June 29) at 4:25 a.m. EDT (0825 GMT), some persistent photographers finally had their chance to capture some incredible photos of the artificial clouds.
Chris Bakley photographed the sounding rocket launch from Stone Harbor, New Jersey.
In Stone Harbor, New Jersey, photographer Chris Bakley had been waiting for weeks to shoot the colorful vapor clouds after NASA's sounding-rocket launch. "To be honest I wasn't expecting much from the launch but to see a whole sky full of glow-in-the-dark clouds," Bakley told Space.com in an email. "I was really impressed, to say the least."
About 5 minutes after the rocket lifted off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, it released barium, strontium and cupric oxide into the sky. When those chemicals interacted, they formed blue-green and red clouds that slowly faded to purple as they dissipated in the morning sky.
Harrison Jones captured the colorful vapor clouds all the way from Hanover, Pennsylvania.
Harrison Jones was up "bright and early" to get some photos of the launch from Hanover, Pennsylvania, he told Space.com in an email. Jones managed to get some zoomed-in shots of the multicolored clouds from about 200 miles (320 kilometers) northwest of the launch site in Wallops Island.
And in Williamsburg, Virginia, photographer Chris Becke had an excellent view of the sounding rocket's colorful vapor clouds. "I had received some prior information on the launch angle and release height of the canisters as well as the range of possible drift. Using this information, I did some trigonometry calculations to predict the necessary field of view to capture the launch and subsequent vapor trails," Becke told Space.com in an email.
Colorful vapor clouds disperse in front of star trails in this image captured by Chris Becke in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Becke went to "a reasonably dark site" called Little Creek Dam, located about 81.5 miles (131 km) from the launch site. There, he captured I captured 20-second exposures of the launch up until about 24 minutes after launch, "when the vapor trails had drifted out of the field of view," he said.
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How Can A Lake In Iceland Give Clues About Life On Jupiter’s Moon?
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How Can A Lake In Iceland Give Clues About Life On Jupiter’s Moon?
Andrew Follett
Energy and Science Reporter
A lake in Iceland is giving scientists clues about how alien life could develop on Jupiter’s moon, according to new research published Friday.
Researchers with Iceland’s science institute Matís sampled Skaftárkatlar lake and discovered several strains of bacteria previously unknown to scientists. The finding suggests life may be a lot more likely to develop on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, than previously thought.
“Our preliminary results reveal new branches of life here,” Dr. Gregory Farrant, a lead investigator at Matís, said in a press statement. “It’s tricky to analyse DNA of microbes that are totally new to science because there’s no prior knowledge about them. We’re dealing with a lot of unknowns.”
Skaftárkatlar lake resembles the geology of the distant moon, and offers a unique opportunity for scientists to study how life might evolve in Europa’s subterranean ocean. Farrant’s team concluded microorganisms can survive on sulphur-rich water deep in the lake.
Europa probably has a watery and salty oceans similar to those of Earth’s below the ice, likely kept warm by complex gravitational interactions and the planet’s core. Life could exist in the ice-covered ocean — perhaps in an environment similar to the deep-ocean hydrothermal vents where life on Earth may have emerged.
NASA approved a new robotic mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa after a major internal review. NASA began preliminary design and testing in February, and the space agency intends to launch a probe sometime in the early 2020s. The Europa Clipper probe will investigate the icy moon’s potential for human colonization and alien life.
NASA previously used the Hubble Space Telescope to find evidence for water ice plumes jetting off Europa, leading the agency to suspect the moon has an icy shell on top of an ocean of liquid water. NASA has also found evidence of clay-like minerals associated with organic matter on the icy crust of Europa.
This month is the 70th anniversary of… something in Roswell, New Mexico. Officially, a balloon being tested for the monitoring of Soviet nuclear tests crashed. But curiously, the military’s own initial press release said the crash was of a flying disk. A brief UFO craze resulted from the events of the summer of 1947. And there the story ended—until the late 1970s, when an alternative story began to emerge. It wasn’t a balloon after all: it was a spacecraft whose remains, including alien beings, had been kept secret since.
Today, “Roswell” usually indicates an inside joke and/or the site of a vast conspiracy. Popular culture has made the town a household synonym for aliens, secrecy, and decades of cover-ups, thanks to Unsolved Mysteries, The X-Files, Alien Autopsy, Independence Day, and Roswell. Meanwhile, the “Roswell Incident,” as it is termed, is marketing gold: Roswell features “aliens” painted onto the globe streetlights, a McDonalds shaped like a flying saucer, and UFO welcome mats for sale at the tourist information center.
Pilgrims collect the holy dirt both at Roswell, New Mexico and at a Catholic shrine site in Chimayó, Mexico.
But the Roswell phenomenon is also something else, as Jeremy R. Ricketts explains. For “the truth is out there” believers, the New Mexico city has become a sacred space, a place to visit and commune with multiple alleged crash sites. Ricketts compares Roswell, now the site of the International UFO Museum and Research Center, and the village of Chimayó, also in New Mexico, and the location of a famous Catholic shrine. He argues both places “straddle a space between the sacred and the profane, and between the commercial and the spiritual.” Such sacred spaces, he argues “can act as screens upon which tourist-pilgrims project their hopes and desires.”
But these places don’t just happen. They are “largely social constructions created by interpretive communities that work to re-enchant believers and tourist-pilgrims who seek deep meanings in sacred geographies.” Ricketts details how both Chimayó and Roswell sites have been built up over the years. At both places, for example, pilgrims collect the supposedly holy dirt.
Ricketts dates the apotheosis of Roswell to 1980 and the publication of The Roswell Incident, which “served as a new creation myth that began the canonization of Roswell as the pilgrimage destination for UFO enthusiasts.” As at Chimayó, “a coherent and unified genesis is not necessary to sustain powerful belief.” Of course, not everybody has the same agenda in Roswell. The Chamber of Commerce, conspiracy buffs, evangelicals, and New Agers don’t necessarily mix, but as at Chimayó, syncretism, the blending of differing political/philosophical/theological concepts, proceeds apace.
Ricketts argues that the contemporary world is in a state of “disenchantment” (the term is from Max Weber), drained of meaning and spiritually vacant. Little wonder seekers converge on New Mexico, branded as the “Land of Enchantment.” There, ancient native legends and Spanish Catholic religious traditions converge at Chimayó, while Space Age/New Age optimism about aliens mingles with conspiracy and paranoia in Roswell.
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PROJECT BLUE BOOK
PROJECT BLUE BOOK
In June 1947, while flying his small plane, businessman and civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine objects moving at high speeds through the skies over Washington’s Mount Rainier. Widely publicized reports of Arnold’s experience, followed by an increasing number of reported UFO sightings, led the U.S. Air Force to begin an investigation into the sightings, called Operation Sign, in 1948. The initial investigation resulted in the formation of Project Blue Book in 1952; that project became the longest running of the U.S. government’s official inquiries into UFO sightings, compiling reports on more than 12,000 sightings or related events from 1952 to its dismantling in 1969.
EARLY SIGHTINGS
Though reports of mysterious flying objects–often attributed to spirits, angels, phantoms, ghosts or other supernatural phenomena–have existed for centuries, World War II and the accompanying development of rocket science marked a new level of interest in what would officially become known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The first well-known UFO sighting occurred in June 1947, when civilian pilot and businessman Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine objects, glowing bright blue-white, flying in a “V” formation at speeds of up to 1700 mph in the skies over Washington’s Mount Rainier.
After news of Arnold’s experience hit the media, a rash of similar sightings were reported across the United States, including a highly controversial report of what appeared to be a crashed UFO near a U.S. Army base in Roswell, New Mexico. (The Army claimed the object in question was the wreckage of a weather balloon, claims that conspiracy-minded “ufologists” would later dispute.) In response to the increasing number of UFO-related reports, the U.S. Air Force launched Operation Sign in 1948. Among the initial theories of the project’s participants was that some UFOs were actually Soviet aircraft (this was the Cold War era, after all), although they also posed the hypothesis that some might be extraterrestrial spacecraft.
FORMATION OF PROJECT BLUE BOOK & THE ROBERTSON PANEL
The Air Force’s UFO-related inquiries took place against a backdrop of frenzied popular interest in the strange flying objects, which reached its peak soon after Project Blue Book began in 1951. Headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, Project Blue Book would become the longest running of the U.S. government’s official inquiries into UFOs. Alarmed by the striking number of UFO sightings reported in 1952, the administration of President Harry S. Truman feared an outbreak of hysteria over the issue. In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) responded to these fears by assembling an expert panel of scientists, headed by physicist H.P. Robertson of the California Institute of Technology, to discuss the UFO issue.
The Robertson Panel met for three days, during which they interviewed military officers and Blue Book officials and reviewed photos and film of supposed UFOs. The panel concluded that there was no basis for the so-called extraterrestrial hypothesis, and that UFOs posed no security threat. Fully 90 percent of the sightings, according to the Robertson Panel, could be attributed to astrological or meteorological activity, or to man-made causes such as balloons or searchlights. The panel’s findings were not fully declassified until 1979, feeding suspicions that a government conspiracy was in the works.
THE CONDON REPORT
Over the next 17 years, Project Blue Book would compile reports of 12,618 UFO sightings or related events. Similarly to the Robertson Panel, Blue Book would eventually classify more than 90 percent of these as “identified,” meaning they were caused by a known astronomical, atmospheric or artificial (man-made) phenomenon. The remaining 700 incidents remained “unidentified”; these included cases in which there was insufficient information to assign the event a known cause.
In 1966, the Air Force had requested the formation of another committee to look into the details of 59 UFO sightings investigated by Project Blue Book. The committee, headed by Dr. Edward Condon and based at the University of Colorado, released its “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”–better known as the Condon Report–in 1968. According to the Condon Report, the sightings they examined showed no evidence of any unusual activity, and recommended that the Air Force stop investigations into UFO-related incidents. In 1969, in response to the Condon Report as well as a declining number of UFO sightings, Project Blue Book was officially brought to an end; among its conclusions were that of the sightings categorized as “unidentified,” there was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that they were the result of technology beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge or that they were extraterrestrial vehicles.
“UFOLOGY” CONTINUES
Despite the dismissive attitude expressed by the Condon Report and the subsequent dismantling of Project Blue Book, civilian investigations into UFOs continued, as many “ufologists” were dissatisfied with the government’s conclusions. In 1974, the astronomer J. Allen Hynek, who had served as an adviser to Project Blue Book, created the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). This organization continues to look into UFO sightings and to weigh the hypothesis that they could be evidence of extraterrestrial activity.
In addition to UFO investigations conducted in the United States, similar work has been done over the years in other countries all over the world, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Greece and Sweden. In January 1979, the British House of Lords even held a three-hour-long debate on the subject of UFOs and a motion (eventually defeated) that the British government should make public what it knew about them.
A UFO expert explains what his theory behind mysterious lights seen in Skegness.
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A UFO expert has shed light on a mysterious UFO sighting over Skegness in 1996.
It was recently revealed in "Britain's X Files" that mysterious lights were seen over the coast for up to seven hours but the RAF were told to ignore it - as it was "overruled at the highest level".
The incident happened on October 5, 1996, where red, white and blue lights were seen and radar readings were also recorded.
Nigel Watson, who has written the Haynes UFO Investigations Manual, believes there may be an explanation for the incident at Skegness.
He said: "It looks like a combination of factors where there has been radar returns and sightings, but the two don't match up together.
"There are three separate locations where the light had been seen and this didn't match with radar data and that's the problem with the case.
UFO spotted in Lincolnshire. File Photo
"What seems to have occurred is the lights in the sky were probably Venus.
"A bright planet can look quite stunning in the sky.
"Radar returns were probably a return from a local church spire which may have caused the signals."
Mr Watson added that the RAF justified not scrambling to the incident.
He said: "The RAF concluded they were right not to scramble jets that night and that 'research has not revealed evidence that alarming or extraordinary events were being witnessed'."
He added that psychology also has a role to play within sightings of UFOs.
Five strange lights spotted over Lincoln
He said: "I think over the years there is a lack of solid evidence - there are eyewitness accounts but no one has come across a flying saucer, or it has been retrieved by the government and taken away. So you begin to think it's more to do with psychology and social setting.
"There was a fear of enemy invasion when people started talking about UFOs.
"The Skegness incident sounds like an important one as it has the relatively rare element of simultaneous visual and radar sightings.
"Like many such incidents, the situation can be very confusing at the time and a combination of factors can make people think we are on the verge of an alien invasion.
"In the cold light of day the nation was not at risk, but it does show that when people are looking out for UFOs, an innocent star or planet will fill their imaginations."
Incredible 1989 Nashville UFO Photographs Provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy
Incredible 1989 Nashville UFO Photographs Provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy
The photographs of these UFOs were provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy. He obtained these photographs of a FS-143 saucer from a close friend who claimed to have rendezvoused with another intelligence and requests anonymity. These photographs were allegedly taken on September 27, 1989, near Nashville, Tennessee and used to build a model for theatrical events.
The photographs show strong circular columns of light shining down from the craft that suddenly stop in mid-air. Our spotlights do not function in this manner.
The Photographer’s Story
nashville3An experienced photographer was driving in a remote area near Nashville, Tennessee on the night of July 14, 1989. He saw a light behind the trees on top of a mountain several miles away at about 9:00 PM. He stopped his car, opened the trunk, picked up two cameras, a Canon AE-1 and a Canon T-90, that had previously been loaded with film. He started walking toward the bright light.
The light came over the mountain several miles away and he started taking pictures with the cameras. He noticed a coronal discharge from around the perimeter of the object. It appeared to be materializing and coming into his vision. The bright light continued moving toward him. He aimed the camera at the light and started taking photos. His first photo was taken about 30 degrees above the horizon. When the object stopped he was shooting at about 50 degree up with the object still about four to six miles away. The photographer states, “I had a feeling that the craft was behind the mountain waiting for me and when it appeared it felt like I was in another world, the sounds were far, far away.” He looked at the object but could not see any definition, the light was far too bright and too far away. When he looked through the lens the craft was sharp and vivid. The craft was visible for more than five minutes, but less than ten. It seemed like forever. He changed the lens package from the T-90 to the AE-1 camera and continued shooting using all his film.
He felt he was not in control of what was happening. He remembers constantly pushing the buttons on the back of the T-90, each time he made a change it sharpened the image. The T-90 Canon with his lens package cost $3,400.00 It has four computer chips and at the time was one of the most professional cameras you could buy when purchased in 1985.” There were other witnesses, but they have been reluctant to come forward. They also were taking pictures, but the field around the craft interfered with the film as the craft moved away. They did not have high magnification lens so there was not enough definition to make the craft identifiable. The photographer has had a recent heart attack and an auto accident and does not want his name revealed. The Canon T-9- was set up pled3with a spacer, two 2-2 X multipliers and 500 mm mirror lens with five filters. The lens package was 2000 mm plus. The speed of the film using the film push process is close to 3000. The camera was set up to take scenery at a distance. The computerized camera with computer chips was set to open the aperture as wide as possible. Commander Graham Bethune. was told by Bill Sherwood of Kodak that the object photographed with this package used on the camera was about five miles distant and would be 100 feet in diameter.ASA Kodak 400 or above film was used. Push processing was ordered when developing the film.
Film Analysis
Analysis of the film shows unusual colors not normally seen in any lighted object. The colors indicate a coronal discharge similar to the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights.) The photographs show a craft with approximately 32 red, white and blue perimeter lights. These lights are not used in normal aircraft configuration. At times they appear all red. At other times they are all white. Sometimes outer perimeter lights appear mixed in color indicating they may have the ability to change color.
Inside the outer perimeter lights are panels of lights. These also appear to have the ability to change color. Although they are predominantly white they are sometimes seen as partially red or black. Assuming the craft is 100 feet in diameter these outer panels take up about 40 feet or 20 feet on each side. Below the center of craft there appears to be a crystal or lights with crystal like appearance. Generally these lights appear blue. craft appears to rotate in the photos. Graham gave me his word that these were authentic photographs of an actual flying craft to the best knowledge. He has known the photographer for 24 years and the man worked for him for ten years. He has always been know to tell the truth and was of high character.
National UFO Center Note: I have observed a UFO at close distance.
The colors of the smoke probably a coronal discharge were similar to what I saw. The lights themselves have an unusual depth of color. When you look at a colored light it is normally a white light covered by a lens of red, yellow, green, blue etc. The lights on the craft appear as if the light contain the actual color. There is a vividness of color that is difficult to describe that appears to be in these photos. The fog or plasma is penetrated by the powerful lights shining downward. The lights extend down for an estimated seventy-five feet to one hundred plus feet and seem to stop abruptly. Duplication of this capability is exceptionally difficult to accomplish with any normal lights. I have never seen lights that have these properties except on a UFO, nor have I seen comparable photography. I have over 5000 hours flying time and taken thousands of photographs. I would be very interested in any similar photographs or videos of a comparable craft.
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