Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
14-07-2017
Cloverdale UAP Project: Investigating the “Spooklights” UFO phenomenon in Alabama
Cloverdale UAP Project: Investigating the “Spooklights” UFO phenomenon in Alabama
Most ufologists are keenly aware of the frequent reports of what people often refer to as “orbs” which lacks much clarity. The term is often used to describe objects that turn out to be everything from Chinese lanterns, to ball plasma, and even navigation lights on aircraft. The term is also used to describe lens flares created from pointing cameras towards a bright light source, an out of focus light, and is also a dust particle that floats in front of a camera with a bright light seen in ghost investigations.
There exists another class of objects that science has yet to fully explain which seem to be a naturally recurring phenomena that are seen in certain geographic areas with increased frequencies (almost nightly) than the objects previously mentioned. In 1973, Piedmont, Missouri experienced a rash of sightings of luminous phenomena and documented by Dr. Harley Rutledge in his book, Project Identification. Dr. Rutledge had a team conduct a field study over a period of years, capturing scientific data, video and photographic evidence in the hopes of learning more about its nature. His summary report of these lights are consistent with other observations in other areas.
Missouri was not the only location that experienced this phenomena in 1973. In Cloverdale, Alabama, a small town located in the northwestern part of Alabama, similar lights were being seen almost nightly and appeared to be balls of luminous lights of varying colors. Residents saw these objects so frequently that they just ignore them – “it’s those dang lights again”. The Cloverdale phenomena continues to appear even today. Wyatt Cox, a former native of the area, now residing in South Carolina has documented and classified many hundreds of sightings that him a friend observed in his book, Spooklights, The Amazing Cloverdale, Alabama Spooklight Mystery.
Wyatt has done an excellent job in creating a classification system for the variations seen (e.g., colors tend to be blue, yellow/orange, white). The lights vary in size, speed and duration based on the colors noted. White lights are generally seen during warmer months, where yellow/orange lights tend to be seen during cooler months (October through April). The Spooklights, now referred to as “Earthlights” by Wyatt, tend to be 8 foot in diameter (the blue and white ones are 2-4 feet in diameter), travel in straight line paths (east to west or reversed), and can be at ground level and rise to altitudes of several thousand feet. They move at 20 mph, but can also stop and then proceed in their path. The lights can go out and then come back on as they proceed on their path and they generally disappear by fading out.
Wyatt Cox
Every serious UFO researcher and field investigator needs to get a copy of the books mentioned here along with the works of William Corliss on Luminous Phenomena. Corliss has done an excellent job of categorizing, referencing and even illustrating the myriads of types of luminous phenomena observed on the earth. Both Corliss as well as Cox see these objects as naturally occurring phenomena, not alien spacecraft. They are very similar to the lights in Hessdalen, Norway, the Marfa Lights, the Paulding Lights, Crossett Lights, Gurdon Lights and dozens of other areas around the globe and it this author’s opinion that it can explain a vast number of UFO sightings even outside of these geographic areas reported by witnesses as “orbs”.
One of many time-lapsed photos of an Earthlight.
Similar to the field study conducted by Dr. Rutledge, a scientific field investigation is being planned for the Cloverdale area this fall. We are seeking to secure the best equipment possible (spectroscopes, gravimeters, magnetometers, cameras capturing images in multiple parts of the EM spectrum, and other data collection tools) along with trained users of that equipment to see what we can learn. Plans include the possible use of a drone to see if we can get close-ups of the lights, equipped with sensors. The outcome will be to deliver a report on our findings and sharing our data collected. We have already begun collecting geological data, earthquake zone data, and weather data for the area.
For further information or interest in the study, please contact this author by writing him at ufoxprt@gmail.com.
Witness allegedly captures military UFO chase video
Witness allegedly captures military UFO chase video
A California witness at Landers reported that a group of people at a UFO conference watched and videotaped a military jet “chasing” two lights sources that may have been two independent objects, according to testimony in Case 84123 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The sighting occurred about 10 p.m. on May 21, 2017, at the conference in Joshua Tree, CA, that included one participant shooting video with night vision goggles.
“Luckily one of my participants caught this and many of our other sightings (from all three nights no less), with his black-and-white night vision video camera,” the witness stated. “His additional footage of some of the other incredible sightings will be posted at a future date once they are compiled.”
The witness described the event.
“At just before 10 p.m. (did not note exact time), some of my participants and I saw a large, amber-colored light low to the horizon just behind Giant Rock from where my whole group of about 50-plus people were gathered and using 15 pair of night vision goggles. A contingency of about 20 of us ran to get a better view of it. To the naked eye it appeared to be a large, orangish (amber) light, that, quoting some of the 20 people; ‘flew like a bumble bee.’”
Image from witness video allegedly showing a UFO on left and military aircraft on right.
(Credit: MUFON)
One of the guests had a good look.
“One guest came running with a pair of the goggles in hand and got a good look at it. She said that through the goggles it looked like ‘a large diamond-shaped UFO.’ She drew a picture of it, attached here. This object then flew behind a small hill right behind the entire Sky Watch larger group. As those of us who ran off walked back to join the others, three military jets flew over in the direction of the object now gone from sight behind the hill. Some of us commented that if they were following it, meaning the jets, they were a few minutes too late.”
The group then heard the sound of a low flying jet from behind the hill.
“Suddenly clearing the top of the hill and right over our heads, came a very fast military jet chasing a faster, large, red-glowing light. The military jet had both red and white blinking strobe lights and glowing afterburners and was very loud as it flew directly above our heads. The large red light had no blinking lights and no sound at all. It became clear to all 50-plus witnesses, this was no jet. Those folks present who looked with the aid of the goggles said they were seeing either two lights, or one object with two light sources on it.”
Image from witness video shows UFO.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness reviewed the video.
“After extensive review of the footage, I am nearly certain it shows two UFOs (fast moving lights), flying in perfect, locked tandem with one another. It appears you can see stars between them in the background, suggesting that these are two separate objects. As is usually the case, this footage, while incredible, does not do the sighting justice. The video is in black-and-white night vision, not full-color, naked-eye vision, and does not have any sound, so you are unable to hear the palatable excitement of 50-plus witnesses screaming and cheering.”
California MUFON Chief Investigator Earl Grey Anderson is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
NASA bekent: we hebben het geld niet om mensen op Mars te zetten
NASA bekent: we hebben het geld niet om mensen op Mars te zetten
Caroline Kraaijvanger
En daarom is er dus nog geen datum geprikt voor die allereerste bemande Marslanding.
Dat de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie droomt van een bemande Marsmissie is geen geheim. Maar wanneer die dan precies plaats moest vinden? Dat bleef eigenlijk altijd een beetje vaag. Je zou je dan ook bijna af gaan vragen of NASA het eigenlijk wel kan: mensen op Mars zetten.
Met dit budget gaat het niet Tijdens een bijeenkomst van het American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics kwam Bill Gerstenmaier, dé man als het gaat om de bemande ruimtevaart binnen NASA, met een ontnuchterende reactie op dat vraagstuk. Nee. NASA kan met de huidige budgetten geen mensen op Mars zetten.
Verrassend Misschien komt dat een beetje als een verrassing. Want NASA heeft ons lang voorgespiegeld dat een bemande missie naar Mars prima mogelijk was. Als het budget jaar na jaar – in lijn met de inflatie – een beetje bleef stijgen en het gloednieuwe Space Launch System en ruimtevaartuig Orion in gebruik zouden worden genomen, gold: the sky is the limit. Dan moesten we mensen op Mars kunnen zetten en weer heelhuids terug kunnen brengen.
Landen Maar Gerstenmaier zet nu dus een streep door die optimistische beweringen. Hij doet dat in reactie op een heel redelijke vraag die tijdens de bijeenkomst van het American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics vanuit het publiek komt: Waarom heeft NASA nog geen datum geprikt om mensen op Mars te zetten? “Ik kan daarvoor geen datum prikken en de reden is dat we – met het beschreven budget dat dus grofweg elk jaar 2% stijgt – geen oppervlaktesystemen voor Mars kunnen bouwen,” aldus Gerstenmaier. Het is met deze budgetten dus prima mogelijk om Orion en SLS af te maken en uiteindelijk naar Mars te vliegen. Maar de atmosfeer van Mars binnengaan, afdalen in die atmosfeer en vervolgens heelhuids op het oppervlak van de rode planeet landen: dat is – met het voorgespiegelde budget – een brug te ver.
Marsrover Curiosity op het oppervlak van Mars.
Afbeelding: NASA.
Marsrovers zijn anders Misschien vraag je je af waarom dat zo lastig is: NASA heeft in het verleden toch al verscheidene Marsrovers heelhuids laten landen? Correct. Maar dat is niets in vergelijking met het laten landen van een bemande ruimtesonde, legt Gerstenmaier uit. “Als je kijkt naar de rovers die op Mars geland zijn, dan zie je dat ze grofweg 1 metrische ton wegen.” Een bemande lander zou ongeveer 20 keer meer wegen. “En dat is de minimale massa die we op het oppervlak van Mars moeten kunnen zetten.” En NASA weet nog niet hoe dat moet. Natuurlijk kun je dat uitvogelen, maar: dat kost geld. En dat geld is er dus niet. En daarom is het lastig om een datum te prikken voor een bemande landing op Mars.
Moeten we de rode planeet dan voorlopig maar helemaal uit ons hoofd zetten? Zeer zeker niet. Want het krap zittende NASA is niet de enige die droomt van een missie naar Mars. Ook bijvoorbeeld SpaceX en Blue Origin zien zo’n bemande Marsmissie wel zitten. En Elon Musk (SpaceX) durfde daar eerder wel al een voorzichtige datum voor te prikken: ergens in 2025 zou het moeten gaan gebeuren.
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"AIAA" De afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door NASA / John Frassanito and Associates
Moon Express wil in 2020 al materialen van de maan gaan halen
Moon Express wil in 2020 al materialen van de maan gaan halen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het bedrijf ziet de maan als het achtste continent dat – in navolging van de zeven op aarde – zo snel mogelijk moet worden uitgebuit.
Moon Express is voornemens nog dit jaar een lander op de maan te zetten en zo de Google Lunar X Prize in de wacht te slepen. Maar terwijl de voorbereidingen voor die allereerste private maanlanding nog in volle gang zijn, kijkt het bedrijf ook alvast verder. Want Moon Express is niet van plan om het bij die ene landing te laten.
De lander die de zuidpool van de maan ergens tussen 2017 en 2020 moet gaan verkennen.
Naar de zuidpool Dat blijkt uit de nieuwe plannen die het bedrijf op de site bekend heeft gemaakt. Kort nadat de eerste commerciële maanlander voet op de maan heeft gezet, wil Moon Express de allereerste commerciële expeditie naar de zuidpool van de maan opzetten. Tijdens deze expeditie zal opnieuw een lander voet op de maan zetten. Die lander moet onder meer uitzoeken welke waardevolle mineralen de zuidpool van de maan herbergt.
In 2020 wil Moon Express materiaal van het maanoppervlak halen en naar de aarde brengen.
Sample return In 2020 is het dan vervolgens tijd voor het echte werk. Tijdens deze derde expeditie zal wat materiaal van het oppervlak van de maan worden gehaald en naar de aarde worden gebracht. Het belooft de allereerste commerciële sample return mission te worden. En als die missie volgens plan verloopt, lijkt niets Moon Express nog in de weg te staan om ook de kostbare grondstoffen die de maan herbergt naar de aarde te halen.
Moon Express heeft er nooit een geheim van gemaakt dat het erop uit is om elementen die op aarde schaars (en dus duur) zijn van de maan te halen en op aarde te gaan verkopen. Maar dat het bedrijf dat al zo snel wil gaan doen, is verrassend. Het is tenslotte zo 2020. Maar laten we niet teveel op de zaken vooruit lopen. Eerst maar eens zien of het bedrijf er later dit jaar in slaagt om die lander heelhuids op de maan te krijgen. Overigens is Moon Express natuurlijk niet het enige bedrijf dat dit jaar nog naar de maan wil. Er zijn nog vijf teams in de race voor de Google Lunar X Prize. Lees er hier alles over!
Ook extreme TNO's suggereren dat planeet X echt bestaat
Ook extreme TNO's suggereren dat planeet X echt bestaat
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Ook de banen van extreme Transneptunische Objecten wijzen op de aanwezigheid van een negende planeet.
Begin 2016 beweerden twee astronomen dat ons zonnestelsel niet acht, maar negen planeten telt. Ze baseerden zich op zes Kuipergordelobjecten. De banen van deze objecten leken beïnvloed te worden door een zwaar object aan de rand van het zonnestelsel: planeet X. Deze planeet zou tien keer groter zijn dan de aarde en twintig keer verder van de zon verwijderd zijn dan Neptunus.
Twijfels Een opwindende ontdekking. Maar wel eentje die direct in twijfel werd getrokken door sommige onderzoekers. Deze onderzoekers wezen erop dat er gemakkelijk sprake kon zijn van een ‘observational bias‘. Hierbij denken astronomen een patroon te zien in de bewegingen van hemellichamen dat eigenlijk helemaal niet bestaat. Zo’n ‘bias’ zou in dit geval kunnen zijn ontstaan, doordat astronomen nog maar een zeer beperkt aantal Kuipergordelobjecten geobserveerd hebben.
Extreme TNO’s En zo blijft dus een beetje onduidelijk of planeet X nu wel of niet bestaat. Een nieuw onderzoek probeert iets meer duidelijkheid te scheppen. Spaanse onderzoekers zijn in het zonnestelsel op zoek gegaan naar bewijs voor het bestaan van planeet X en hebben daarbij gebruik gemaakt van een methode die veel minder vatbaar is voor een ‘observational bias‘. Ze richtten zich op een speciaal type Transneptunisch Object (TNO): de extreme TNO’s. Deze bevinden zich gemiddeld op een afstand van de zon die 150 keer groter is dan de gemiddelde afstand tussen de zon en de aarde en kruisen de baan van Neptunus nooit.
NOG EEN TIENDE PLANEET?
Recent stelden onderzoekers dat ons zonnestelsel mogelijk tien planeten telt. Ze hadden aanwijzingen gevonden dat op zo’n negen miljard kilometer van de zon een nog onontdekte planeet ter grootte van Mars cirkelt. De La Fuente Marcos is onder de indruk van hun theorie en hoopt ook die in de nabije toekomst met nieuw bewijs te kunnen staven.
Knopen De onderzoekers bestudeerden 28 van deze extreme TNO’s en stelden vast hoe groot de afstand van hun knopen tot de zon was. De knopen zijn twee punten in de baan van de extreme TNO’s. Deze punten bevinden zich op de plekken waar de baan van de extreme TNO’s het omloopvlak van de planeten die rond de zon draaien, raakt. Het is ook op dit punt waar de kans op een interactie met andere objecten het grootst is. Vandaar dat je op deze punten ook de grootste veranderingen in de baan van de hemellichamen zou verwachten. “Als er niets is dat ze (de extreme TNO’s, red.) verstoort, zouden de knopen van deze extreme TNO’s uniform verspreid moeten zijn, aangezien er niets is om te vermijden, maar als er één of meer verstoorders zijn, kunnen twee dingen gebeuren,” aldus onderzoeker Carlos de la Fuente Marcos. “Eén mogelijkheid is dat de extreme TNO’s stabiel zijn en in dit geval zijn hun knopen ver verwijderd van het pad van de mogelijke verstoorder. Maar als zij onstabiel zijn, gedragen ze zich als de kometen die de interactie aangaan met Jupiter en wiens knopen vaak juist dicht bij de baan van de hypothetische verstoorder liggen.”
Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat er waarschijnlijk wel een planeet is die invloed uitoefent op de knopen van deze extreme TNO’s. “We geloven dat wat wij hier zien niet toegeschreven kan worden aan een observational bias.” Een observational bias hangt namelijk samen met de manier waarop geobserveerd wordt. Maar de afstand tussen knopen en de zon is afhankelijk van de omvang en vorm van een omloopbaan: en dat zijn parameters die nauwelijks door een observational bias beïnvloed worden.
Daar zijn ze! De allereerste close-upfoto's van Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek!
Daar zijn ze! De allereerste close-upfoto's van Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek!
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Ruimtesonde Juno scheerde begin deze week over de gigantische storm die al meer dan 350 jaar op de gasreus woedt.
“Honderden jaren hebben wetenschappers Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek geobserveerd, zich over de vlek verwonderd en er theorieën over bedacht,” vertelt onderzoeker Scott Bolton. “En nu hebben we de beste foto’s ooit van deze iconische storm.”
Afbeelding: NASA / Kevin Gill.
Scheervlucht Ruimtesonde Juno maakte de foto’s afgelopen maandag. De zevende scheervlucht langs Jupiter voerde de sonde over de Grote Rode Vlek. Op het moment dat Juno over de storm heen vloog, was de afstand tussen de ruimtesonde en de wolkentoppen slechts zo’n 9000 kilometers.
Afbeelding: NASA / Gerald Eichstädt.
Breder dan de aarde Op de foto’s zien we de machtige, roodkleurige storm, die doorweven is met donkere wolken. De storm is zo’n 16.350 kilometer breed en daarmee net iets breder dan de aarde. Wetenschappers houden de storm al sinds 1830 in de gaten en gaan ervanuit dat deze al meer dan 350 jaar woedt.
Afbeelding: NASA / Jason Major.
Op het moment dat Juno over de Grote Rode Vlek vloog, was niet alleen zijn camera actief. Ook alle andere wetenschappelijke instrumenten aan boord van de sonde hebben hun werk gedaan. De resulterende onderzoeksgegevens zullen de komende tijd bestudeerd worden. “Het zal wat tijd kosten om niet alleen de data van JunoCam, maar ook die van Juno’s acht wetenschappelijke instrumenten te analyseren en een nieuw licht te werpen op de geschiedenis, het heden en de toekomst van de Grote Rode Vlek,” stelt Bolton.
While UFOs may be the most democratic of all unexplained mysteries –it can be experienced by both rich men or poor, illiterates or academicians, in developed countries or the 3rd World– UFO witnesses on the other hand are not regarded in such egalitarian terms; some are given more credibility than others depending on either their physical or mental aptitudes, training and professional career. For better or for worse, what one does for a living and how many years one spent inside a class room, determines whether others will take seriously your testimony of an encounter with something extraordinary.
Such is the case with police officers. Overall we consider them to be of above average moral integrity because we entrust them with the enforcement of the Law for the safekeeping of civilian citizens, hence their word can determine whether a suspect goes to jail or not. They have to be fit to fulfill their duties, have received instruction in firearm use and observation; but above all they have to be psychologically prepared to face any kind of situation, and be willing to put their lives at risk on a regular basis.
When a cop admits he or she saw a UFO, we inevitably pay closer attention.
The story I’m about to share with you, fellow Coppertops, also involves a police member –a military police, no less!– but is not widely known in the English-speaking UFO circles. And yet it is so unique and steep in high strangeness, it almost makes the aforementioned examples sound too… conventional.
But before we get down to business, there’s another thing that distinguishes UFO encounters involving police officers, which we shouldn’t forget to mention: Cops tend to have more to lose when they go on the record with a UFO encounter. Their reputations and/or personal lives tend to be perennially marred by that one episode, no matter how many years pass –as was the case with several of the witnesses in the cases previously mentioned.
J.J. Benítez. Spanish UFO hunter extraordinaire
Which is why when Spanish UFOlogist (and my long-time hero) Juan José Benítez met with a member of the Civil Guard –the military force in charge of police duties in Spain– on a local café in his home town of Barbate during the summer of 1980, he was asked absolute discretion and never to reveal his real name or rank without permission. The guard was accompanied by a partner of his, who was also a long-time friend of Benítez and had arranged the meeting with the seasoned investigator, so he could hear a first-hand account of what could very well be one of the most confounding cases in his long UFOlogical career.
The event, the witness told Benítez –who included it in his book ‘The Tip of the Iceberg’– had happened in July of 1974. The man was 24 years old at the time and lived in the city of Jerez de la Frontera –one of the municipalities in the province of Cádiz. He hadn’t joined the Civil Guard yet, and worked instead at an auto-repair shop; he was a motorcycle enthusiast and loved to cruise in his Puch mini-cross through the local country roads and highways, which he knew like the back of his hand.
That night, like many others, the young Jerezano went to the neighborhood of San Juan de Dios to see his girlfriend. The weather was warm and pleasant, so the couple went walking to a nearby field, not too far from the National Road IV, to probably do the kind of things young people in love like to do away from prying eyes, on a nice summer’s eve.
Map of Jerez de la Frontera, where the encounter took place.
At around 11:30 pm the couple noticed a strange light behind some cinder blocks nearby. It was round and amber in hue, like the color of a traffic light, and it slowly flew directly overhead at an altitude of around a thousand feet in complete silence. The astonished youngsters observed in amazement how the luminous object crossed the road, and seemed to land on top of a low hill some 1.8 miles away (3 kilometers).
“I didn’t think it twice,” said the guard to Benítez. With a fierce determination to find out what was it they had just witnessed, he took his girlfriend back to her home and then sped on his motorcycle toward the hill; but before reaching it and without any warning, the light disappeared.
Unfazed, the young motorist continued his trek to the hill. There, at its base he found a moped parked at a ditch. Suddenly he saw two male teenagers frantically running downhill toward him; they were the owners of the moped, and excitedly told him they had just witnessed a round apparatus with a dome on top, through which they had managed to observe two ‘shadows’ inside.
“I asked them to accompany me to the top, but they flat-out refused.” The terrified teens fled to Jerez as fast as their little moped permitted it.
Puch mini-cross motorcycle, similar to the one owned by the witness
Tenaciously, the young man rode his bike to the summit at full throttle. He reached the top and everything was in complete darkness, the night only disturbed by the nervous barking of dogs from a nearby shack. He searched around and saw that the orangish light was again airborne, flying slowly away towards the crossing of the roads to Sanlúcar and Trebujena. The man felt anger, thinking he had just missed the landed object for a matter of seconds.
Fortunately for our intrepid chaser, the light took ground once more on the steepest side of another nearby hill, some one and a quarter miles away from where he was. The game, as Sherlock Holmes might say, was still afoot.
Not taking the light out of his sight he charged toward the second hill, both his bike and his heart at full speed. But when he was no more than 650 feet away, the tricksterish luminescence faded away once more; whether it had disappeared or it just ‘shut down’ he couldn’t say. The motorized UFO hunter slowed down and felt outplayed in this bizarre cat-and-mouse situation. It was then when he first took notice of two most peculiar details: Not only was the entire zone enveloped in an eerie blanket of utter silence –“as heavy as lead,” the witness explained to Benítez– but also during the following minutes he never managed to see any type of vehicle transit in both directions, something totally uncommon on these heavily-transited highways.
It was as if someone had pushed a cosmic PAUSE button on the entire region of Jerez.
Fed up and on the brink of giving up, the motorcyclist gave the pursue one final shot. He rode in the direction of Trebujena, where there was a slope which he could use as a vantage point to better scout the whole area. With any luck, he thought, he might be able to track the elusive light one last time –which by now he was convinced it was no conventional aircraft.
But without any warning and before he could reach the slope a moving truck appeared heading directly in front of him. Its color was blue and had big red lights on the top of its cabin, a seemingly mundane vehicle –despite the fact it was the first one he had spotted in quite a while– if not for one small yet disturbing detail: When it crossed to his left, the guard explained to Benítez, he realized the truck did not make any noise whatsoever!
He didn’t even feel the expected rush of wind produced by its wake!
“It can’t be!” he thought to himself as he abruptly put on the brakes and changed direction, now in pursuit of the silent truck, which continued its unperturbed trajectory toward Jerez. It moved at an approximate speed of 37 miles per hour (60 km/hr) which made catching up with it easy enough, and the motorist began tailing it and keeping a close distance of no more than 165 feet.
The chase now continued through a zone of steep loops in the highway, and no sooner than the young motorist emerged from a left curve, he astonishingly realized the phantom vehicle had vanished from his sight; “something materially impossible,” he was adamant in his exposition to Benítez, “because at that point the curve gave way to a narrow, straight line of more than half a mile in length.” There was simply no place in which the truck could have pulled over without being spotted by the young man, nor an alternative road or detour it could have taken to lose sight of its biking pursuer.
The disappearance of the “ghost truck” was the last straw for the intrepid UFO hunter, and the totality of the strangeness he had experienced so far began to take its toll on his nerves. He decided to call it a night and return to Jerez, but the very moment he switched his motorcycle’s high beam, the road ahead was illuminated by a different source…
There, in front of him, was the amber light he had recklessly pursued like a motorized Ahab in hunt of and otherworldly white whale, shining all across the entire width of the lonely highway. He now could distinctly perceive a shiny-looking dome on top of it, which looked to him “like the glass in a bathroom” –perhaps because it was not entirely opaque. He knew it was the same object which had previously terrified the two teenagers in the moped.
Without knowing why, the witness began to make light signals to the object, switching from the low beam to high beam of his bike. But the object was unresponsive to the improvised communications attempt.
Just to make sure he wasn’t suffering from some sort of hallucination, the civil guard confessed to Benítez 6 years after his close encounter, he reached out and touched the escape pipe of his minicross. The throbs from the burned flesh in his right hand confirmed what his mind was frantically trying to reject: This wasn’t a dream.
This was REAL.
Maybe it was the burning pain what managed to rekindle the young man’s indomitable spirit. Maybe, if true, this is the account of the bravest UFO witness who’s ever lived to tell his tale. Whatever the case, the motorist knew he had no choice but to finish what he’d started. So, in a final push of courage, he revved his faithful bike and sped toward the flying saucer at full speed. Don Quixote couldn’t have felt more proud of this modern giant slayer mounting his mechanized Rocinante.
“But no sooner had I started to run in the direction of the object,” the guard told Benítez, “when in the blink of an eye the amber-like light, the domed object and all of that ‘turned off’, disappearing from my sight. And in their place appeared the lights of two automobiles!”
J.J. Benítez was just as incredulous as you might be by now, my dear Coppertops. He kept pushing the Civil Guard into explaining and re-explaining this last point of his incredible story. No, the police officer insisted, there hadn’t been any perceived lapse between the ‘dematerialization’ of the UFO and the ‘materialization’ of those two cars, parked one in front of the other on the right side of the highway with their headlights on. It had all happened completely simultaneously.
Confused, but still as curious and brave as ever, the young motorist slowly approached the parked vehicles, which appeared to him as big sedans (Mercedes or Dodge, he couldn’t really say) of a gray, shiny color –“almost as if they had just been car-washed.”
Not knowing what drove him to do it, he told Benítez, the witness stopped his bike near the driver’s door of the first sedan, which had its window down. Something told him these were no ordinary automobiles, despite the seemingly flawless disguise. He peered inside the car, which didn’t have any inner lights on, and saw that behind the wheel was a man with silvery hair who seemed to be around 50 years of age, and yet looked tall and athletic behind his impeccable ashen-gray suit, complete with a white shirt and a dark tie.
The driver wasn’t alone in the car. Next to him and on one of the back seats were two more individuals, and directly behind him was a tall, younger woman with long blond hair, dressed in a tailor suit which left her neck exposed. Despite the lack of light our young witness could tell she was very beautiful, aside from her serious expression.
The second car was no more than 3 feet away from the first, and although the young man was certain there was someone inside, it was too dark to tell.
“Buenas noches,” the middle-aged driver greeted the young motorist. “Please, where is the direction of the National Road IV?”, he proceeded to ask in impeccable Spanish without any hint of a strange accent. His eyes and appearance looked completely normal, and yet the witness felt there was just something odd in the features of these ‘lost tourists’ he couldn’t quite put his finger on –“their faces weren’t national nor foreign… they were just strange.”
The other three passengers never opened their mouths.
The young motorist started to explain to the driver how to get to the road he asked for. After a few minutes he realized that, even with the directions he was providing, finding the National Road IV at this ungodly hour of the night would be no easy task –this was, after all, during the ‘dark ages’ before Google Maps and Waze. Incidentally, during his brief inspection of the car’s interior the witness didn’t see any maps which the ‘tourists’ could use to orient themselves; so he diligently offered to escort the two cars to the road.
“Very well,” was the only thing the silver-haired man uttered as a way to thank the young Good Samaritan. The motorcycle ran ahead and the cars made a u-turn and followed behind. The roles had now been absurdly switched: The previous pursuer was now leading the ‘materialized’ cars into the city of Jerez, which were just as devoid of any normal sound as the blue moving truck preceding them, or the amber flying saucer which had started the whole thing.
The young motorist kept riding while keeping a close watch of the sedans with his rear-view mirror. The three vehicles crossed under a bridge –again, no sound coming from the cars bounced off of it– and once they entered the city and reached the zoo, the witness slowed down and stopped. The two sedans did the same.
The witness turned and reached the first vehicle, again from the side of the driver’s window, to talk to the silver-haired conductor. “Now you just follow straight ahead, and turn to the first right…” he started to explain to the elderly man in the gray suit. “Very well, thank you” was his stark reply, without letting finish the motorcyclist’s indications. Not once did he offer any smile or sign of appreciation for the young man’s service.
Either the young man now felt some sort of responsibility toward these ‘tourists’ –despite their obvious lack of cordiality– who could still find it hard to reach the National Road IV, or maybe something in the back of his mind deduced this was just a big ruse. “Do you want me to take you directly to the road?” he offered.
“No, thank you!” said the driver with great conviction.
“Hey, it’s no trouble at all…”
“No. THANK. YOU!” the man repeated. The tone of his voice and the force in his stare were crystal clear.
The young motorist bid them good night, turned 180 degrees on his bike and rode back home. The two cars moved through the street he had indicated them, and he lost them out of his sight, never to see them again.
Benítez had been listening to the Civil Guard’s astounding account, refraining from interrupting him too much, and only making a few occasional clarifying questions. The two officers –the witness and his partner– had gone uncomfortably quiet and so had he, sitting on that little café in the small coastal town where he had lived most of his life, when he wasn’t chasing after those elusive flying saucers all over the globe. He didn’t know what to make of the young man’s tale, other than he felt he was being totally sincere in his recollections –the fact that he rejected any kind of publicity being evidence of it.
Finally, Benítez ventured one final question, and he urged the witness to think carefully before he replied:
“When you approached those two cars for the first time, saw the occupants and spoke with the driver… did you note or perceive any special sensation?”
It didn’t take long for the military man to answer: “Yes. I felt they were expecting me.” [Emphasis mine]
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Officers of the Spanish Civil Guard wearing their traditional uniform
Benítez concluded that first interview, and in subsequent days he contacted the witness again to fill in a few minor details. The officer added that soon after the strange incident he’d lived that summer of 1974, he started to complain from a strange ‘pressure’ in his temples. He went to see a doctor but it was simply diagnosed as a ‘nervousness.’ He lost his job at the auto repair shop, and enrolled in the Civil Guard two years later, where he’d had a very good career.
As it’s his custom, Benítez accompanied the guard to the place where the event took place, to take notes and make measurements. One detail lacking in the account made by the seasoned investigator in his book ‘The Tip of the Iceberg’, is any mention of possible burn marks or physical traces left by the UFO during its multiple landings. After 6 years the chances that any mark left by the object could still be found in the highway’s tarmac are very slim –after all, transited roads coming in and out of a city have to be regularly repaired and maintained. But what about the two hills where the ‘light’ took ground during the first stage’s of the chase?
Either it was something omitted by the witness in his testimony, or there simply wasn’t any physical evidence to be found.
One little thing Benítez does mention, however, might be more revealing than any sample of scorched material: When he parked his car –a small Renault 18 he owned at the time– in the same spot where the witness saw the gray sedans for the first time, and he tried to turn to reconstruct the exact itinerary followed by the cars as they were escorted by the motorcycle to the city, he was forced to back up at the edge in order not to hit the ditch, because the road was not wide enough for a complete u-turn.
And yet, the witness did not recollect seeing the two cars make the same corrective maneuver from his rear-view mirror. Something simply impossible considering the length of the sedans –or at least as possible as two big combustion-engined vehicles from the mid-1970s being able to cruise without emitting ANY sound…
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Borderlands is the name of a book written by Mike Dash, dealing with all sorts of high-strangeness cases he’s investigated, like the one we’ve just discussed –the book has been commented by Ben and Aaron on past MU episodes.
Borderlands is also the name of a popular video game series, in which players are free to explore an alien planet and embark on different adventures at their leisure. There are several ways to move around the planet: Walking, which is slow and boring (not to mention dangerous); Teleporting, which you can only do once you find one of the few ‘Fast Travel’ terminals scattered across the game field; or, if you feel like cruising around the landscape, there’s always the option to ‘Catch-A-Ride’, which is the name of stations that instantly materialize a fully-customized four-wheel vehicle for you.
Catch a riiiiiiiide?
What makes the ‘Catch-A-Ride’ particularly fun is because it lets you customize your vehicle in many different ways; changed your mind about the paint color or think you want to trade the machine gun for a rocket launcher? No problem! You push the station button and your ride is switched in the blink of an eye.
For a videogame player, there’s nothing special about watching a full vehicle appear out of thin air. It’s what you expect from a make-believe cybernetic universe in which you can move around strange worlds, shoot guns, die and reborn as many times as you want. Just 1’s and 0’s running through the game’s code, right?
But what happens when similar capabilities are observed in what we think is the ‘real world’? Is it a hint that all of us are nothing but synthetic characters embedded in a universal sandbox for the benefit of god-like users?
If the story of the anonymous Civil Guard is true –and to be fair, there seems to be no further circumstantial evidence to corroborate it– then it is disturbing because of its encompassing implications. During all this time ‘conventional’ UFOlogists –read ‘nuts-and-bolters’— have operated under the assumption they are dealing with a tangiblephenomenon; something, however exotic or foreign, that has nevertheless defined properties like a given mass or occupying a finite space. Something that could be measured, if having the luck of being at the right place and the right time.
What our young motorized hero claimed to have witnessed throws that out of the window though, because it seems to implicate a power capable of assuming whatever shape it suits it best: From a bonafide flying saucer to a large moving truck, and then even ‘splicing’ into two separate vehicles. We can only assume those ‘morphing’ abilities can also be applied to whatever possible intelligences control that power.
The ‘simulation’ was not 100% perfect though, as hinted by the lack of sound emitted by the multiple manifestations of the phenomenon. One wonders what would have happened if our intrepid UFO chaser would have dared to reach out and grab the arm of that mysterious ‘man in gray’ driving the mirage car…
Does this denote a limit to the phenomenon’s reach, the same a video game has to limit the ‘polygon count’ of every synthetic model generated in its cyber-space? Or perhaps it simply didn’t care to create a flawless deception to fool just one stubborn kid on a bike…
Or maybe the ‘flaw’ was also part of the ruse all along, to keep luring the witness into that absurd cat-and-mouse chase. Because surely a power capable of manipulating its shape could also make itself invisible to the human eye –the way the light ‘shut down’ just as the motorcyclist was about to catch on with it.
Whatever the case, the story of the ‘morphing flying saucer’ coaxes us to reframe our assumptions –see what I did there?– about what exactly we are dealing with, even if we’re still so far away to understand its true motives.
Perhaps no place on Earth has held quite as much mystery and intrigue as the famous Rapa Nui, formerly (and still popularly) known as Easter Island, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. A world heritage site since 1995, its unique location and appearance, thanks in part to archaeological remains in the form of the “moai” statues found on the island, have contributed to the wonder and appeal it has instilled in our minds in modern times.
There have long been a number of mysteries about the remote island, and the origins of the people who first settled it. Recognized as a territory of Chile today, it is believed that Polynesian settlers were likely the first to have arrived on the island, who once represented a thriving culture known today as the Rapa Nui civilization, who lived well despite the island’s isolated location in the pacific.
It has long been suspected that the downfall of the Rapa Nui resulted from the destruction of natural resources over time, which led to deforestation and extinction of indigenous species, as a result of overpopulation the likes of which affected other ancient cultures, including the Mayan Civilization. While numbering only in the thousands by the time of its discovery in the early 1700s by Europeans, the island once had an estimated population of 15,000.
However, despite the prevalence of what many have called the “ecocide” theory of Easter Island’s historic past, new evidence suggests that human influence on the environment and depletion of natural resources may not have caused the widespread population decline as once thought.
Researchers at Birmingham University, in cooperation with State University in New York have found evidence from recent soil analysis that suggests the Rapa Nui were far more skilled at improving soil fertility and improving environmental conditions than once thought, which, in addition to a large degree of subsistence off of marine resources, counters the traditional narrative involving environmental decline.
Carl Lipo, a Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University, commented on this in a university press release:
”One of the resources that they supposedly used up was trees that were growing on the island. Those trees provided canoes and, as a result of the lack of canoes, they could no longer fish. So they started to rely more and more on land food. As they relied on land food, productivity went down because of soil erosion, which led to crop failures…Painting the picture of this sort of catastrophe. That’s the traditional narrative.”
Analysis of samples from the island involved carbon and nitrogen isotopes, as well as certain amino acid and isotopic analyses which studied collagen present in the samples. This helped determine which had origins in terrestrial sources, versus those from the surrounding ocean. The samples included human, animal, and plant remains retrieved from multiple archaeological sites on the island.
Popular Archaeologyreports that, “Results of carbon and nitrogen analyses independently show that around half the protein in diets from the humans measured came from marine sources; markedly higher than previous estimates. These findings point to concerted efforts to manipulate agricultural soils, and suggest the prehistoric Rapa Nui population had extensive knowledge of how to overcome poor soil fertility, improve environmental conditions, and create a sustainable food supply.”
“That supports the argument we’ve made in our previous work,” Lipo says, “that these people came up with am ingenious strategy in enriching the soils by adding bedrock to the surface and inside the soil to create, essentially, fertilizer to support their populations, and that forest loss really isn’t a catastrophe as previously described.”
Earlier studies at Birmingham University carried out by Lipo have similarly addressed the idea that the islanders, as resources declined, waged war against one another, effectively destroying the Rapa Nui civilization. Earlier this year, the university reported that an analysis of artifacts found at Easter Island determined that they were general purpose tools, rather than spearpoints as once believed.
“When you can compare [the tools] to European weapons or weapons found anywhere around the world when there are actually objects used for warfare, they’re very systematic in their shape.” Lipo argued that such tools “have to do their job really well. Not doing well is risking death.”
“We found that when you look at the shape of these things, they just don’t look like weapons at all.”
The ongoing research into Easter Island, its history, and mysterious decline can be read about at Birmingham University’s website.
A group of people attending a UFO conference in Washington State say they spotted a large opening near the top of Mt Adams and some claim it’s an opening for alien spaceships to depart and enter. With the history of UFO and orb sightings in this area, anything is possible. But an alien hangar?
The discovery occurred at the 2017 ECETI (Enlightened Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence) conference held annually at the ECETI Ranch in Trout Lake, Washington. The ranch was founded as a mountain retreat in 1986 by James Gilliland, an author, teacher, ufologist and spiritual counselor. After a near-death experience, Gilliland left the business world to help other embark on their own spiritual journeys.
Mt. Adams would seem to be an ideal place for a spiritual retreat … and more. The dormant volcano, along with Mt. Hood and Mt. St. Helens, form the “smoking mountains” that appear in many Native American legends. It also played a part in the famous 1947 UFO sighting when pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed he saw nine UFOs fly past Mount Rainier at an estimated 1,200 miles an hour (1,932 km/hr) before disappearing at Mt. Adams. Since then, there’s been speculation that Mt. Adams is hiding a secret spaceship base.
Gilliland believes there’s a dimensional portal in the vicinity, has seen thousands of UFO – including one he boarded – and says he’s encountered aliens. However, the apparent opening in Mt. Adams was found not by him but by Jimmy Church, a paranormal radio and television host (Fade to Black) who was participating in the conference. In his video, he shows before (June 29th) and after (June 30th) images of Mt. Adams and points out when the hole appeared and seemingly stayed open while over 150 people were said to have seen the 500 by 150 foot dark spot.
What did they see? The media reports and the Fade to Black YouTube video scream “UFO hangar door” because … well, it’s Mt. Adams. It certainly looks more like a hole or a cave opening than a shadow, but not much like a door for sophisticated spacecraft flown by an advanced civilization. James Gilliland does not seem to have anything to say about it in the video, but he has many of his own videos and corroborating witnesses of what he says are UFOs passing through the “interdimensional door” to a base. Church’s video also show a UFO but it wasn’t using the hole.
The most frequent comment about the video is “Send in the drones!”, which seems like a reasonable suggestion since the spot is so clearly identified … unless the hole closes up. Of course, someone could also climb up and knock.
Is this the smoking gun in the smoking mountain that will prove the existence of an alien UFO base … or just smoke? Church, Gilliland and ECETI have a year to find something whole about the hole for the 2018 conference.
Chinese wetenschappers hebben met succes een object vanop Aarde de ruimte in geteleporteerd, meldt de MIT Technology Review. De doorbraak plaveit de weg voor meer ambitieuze en futuristische projecten. 'Beam me up, Scotty!'
Concreet gaat het om een fotondeeltje dat naar een satelliet werd gezonden die op een kleine 500 kilometer afstand in een baan om de Aarde draait. De techniek die de wetenschappers gebruikten heet 'kwantumverstrengeling', een "vreemd fenomeen, dat optreedt wanneer twee kwantumobjecten, zoals fotondeeltjes, op hetzelfde moment en punt in de ruimte ontstaan en zo dezelfde existentie delen", aldus het blad van MIT.
Een jaar geleden slaagden wetenschappers er voor het eerst in een object te teleporteren buiten een labosetting. "In het verleden waren experimenten met teleportatie beperkt tot afstanden van zo'n 100 kilometer", zeggen de onderzoekers aan het MIT-blad.
Het onderzoek betekent een doorbraak op de weg naar meer ambitieuze doeleinden. "We slaagden erin de eerste verbinding te leggen voor betrouwbare kwantumteleportatie over een lange afstand. Dat is een essentiële stap in de richting van een kwantuminternet op wereldschaal", aldus de onderzoekers.
Volgens het MIT-blad toont de verwezenlijking bovendien dat China een overduidelijke dominantie en pionierspositie tentoonspreidt in het onderzoeksgebied, die tot voor kort nog op het conto van Europese en Amerikaanse onderzoekers werd geschreven. "Hoe het Westen hierop zal reageren, is een belangrijke kwestie", stelt het blad.
Voor een kwantumverstrengeling-voor-dummies uitleg kan u bij onderstaand filmpje terecht.
RUIMTEVAARTDe NASA is al lange tijd bezig met plannen om mensen te landen op Mars, maar dat blijkt op dit moment niet mogelijk te zijn, zegt de ruimtevaartorganisatie.
NASA kondigde aan dat het op dit moment niet betaalbaar is om mensen te landen op de rode planeet. Wel blijft het wellicht mogelijk om astronauten naar Mars te laten vliegen, maar landen is een heel andere zaak, zo klinkt het.
"Ik kan geen datum plakken op wanneer mensen Mars zullen kunnen betreden", aldus William Gerstenmaier, NASA's hoofd van de menselijke ruimtevaart, aan Ars Technica. De mededeling is opvallend omdat de ruimtevaartorganisatie in het verleden nogal geheimzinnig en vaag communiceerde over dit onderwerp.
"Met de huidige budgetsituatie, inclusief de verhoging van zo'n twee procent, hebben we geen oppervlaktesystemen beschikbaar voor Mars", aldus nog Gerstenmaier. Volgens het NASA-hoofd is het dalen, landen en toetreden tot de planeet "een grote uitdaging".
Het Space Launch System en het Orion ruimtetuig, die naar verwachting een toekomstige Mars-landing mogelijk maakten, bleken heel duur om te bouwen. Als gevolg daarvan kon NASA nog niet eens landingsvoertuigen bouwen die op Mars zouden landen.
'Het is een feit dat de Amerikaanse bedrijven pioniers zijn wat ruimtevaart betreft'
Amerikaans vicepresident Mike Pence
Veel alternatieven om de kosten te drukken zijn er niet. Er is wel de optie om veel meer te vertrouwen op gedeeltelijk of volledig herbruikbare lancering en in-space transportsystemen die worden gebouwd door bedrijven zoals SpaceX, Blue Origin en United Launch Alliance. Politiek gezien is tot op heden elke afhankelijkheid van commerciële bedrijven voor diepe ruimteverkenning echter not done in het Amerikaanse congres.
Maar dat kan misschien veranderen nu vicepresident Mike Pence de deur op een kier houdt voor commerciële partnerschappen binnen de NASA. "Het is een feit dat de Amerikaanse bedrijven pioniers zijn wat ruimtevaart betreft", liet Pence zich al ontvallen.
NASA zelf houdt intussen de deur open voor nieuwe missies op de maan. "Als we erachter komen dat er water op de maan is, en we willen uitgebreidere operaties op de maan doen om dit te verkennen, hebben we de mogelijkheid om met Deep Space Gateway een uitgebreid maanoppervlakprogramma te ondersteunen," zegt NASA-hoofd Gerstenmaier. "Als we ons meer willen concentreren op Mars, kunnen we dat wel behouden", besluit hij.
"I was in Joshua Tree, totally sober, let me preface -- completely f---ing sober ... I think people would be like, 'She was on acid' or something. I wasn't. I was on nothing. I was a totally sober Sally, just a lady in the desert," Kesha told Billboard. "I look up in the sky and there's a bunch of spaceships."
As a result of her experience, Kesha's new album, "Rainbow," which is set to be released on August 11, has a bit of an extraterrestrial theme to it. Not only are there spaceships on the cover, but there is also a song, aptly-named "Spaceship."
Kesha described her experience with the unidentified flying objects, stating there were between five and seven of them and the objects were cruising in the night sky, manuevering about.
“I swear to God, there were like five to seven, and I don’t know why I didn’t like try to take a picture of it — I just looked at it," the singer went on to say. "I was sitting on a rock, and I was like, ‘What in the hell is that?’ I was trying to figure it out, and then they went away. And then they came back.”
UFO sightings have surged in recent years, according to data from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), which tracks such sightings.
The first recorded sighting was in 1905, but by 2010, there were nearly 105,000 reported sightings, including 45,000 in 2010 alone. Since then, there have been no less than 300 reported sightings per month. July 2014 saw 1,103 sightings, the highest number ever recorded.
Zangeres zag ruimteschepen in de woestijn. In dit interview doet ze een boekje open
Zangeres zag ruimteschepen in de woestijn. In dit interview doet ze een boekje open
In een interew met Billboard zei de Amerikaanse popzangeres Kesha (echte naam: Kesha Rose Sebert) dat ze UFO’s heeft gezien.
“Ik was in Joshua Tree, volstrekt nuchter, toen ik naar de lucht keek en een aantal ruimteschepen zag,” zei ze.
Deze ervaring heeft zoveel indruk op haar gemaakt dat haar nieuwe album Rainbow een buitenaards tintje heeft gekregen.
Vijf tot zeven
Er staan niet alleen ruimteschepen op de cover, maar het album bevat ook een nummer getiteld ‘Spaceship’.
Tijdens het interview ging Kesha dieper in op haar ervaring met de ongeïdentificeerde objecten. Zo zei ze dat ze er vijf tot zeven zag.
“Ik zweer dat het er vijf tot zeven waren,” zei ze. “Ik weet niet waarom ik niet probeerde om er een foto van te maken, ik kon er alleen maar naar kijken.”
Aliens
“Ik zat op een steen en dacht bij mezelf: Wat is dat in hemelsnaam? Ze vlogen weg en kwamen vervolgens weer terug,” aldus de zangeres.
“Ze kwamen in een andere formatie weer terug,” zei ze. “Ik zei tegen mezelf: Dat zijn aliens. Het waren ruimteschepen!”
In mei plaatste Kesha een foto over UFO’s op haar Instagram-pagina. “UFO’s bestaan echt. Ik heb ze gezien. Geen grap.”
People around the world have been left baffled by menacing black rings appearing in the sky, sparking theories they could be alien portals.
The bizarre black ring-shaped UFOs, which can be hundreds of feet wide, have been dubbed 'smoke vortexes'.
The most recent strange 'smoke vortex' was spotted above the M62 near Birkenshaw in Yorkshire.
Last year a black ring was spotted above Disneyland in California and in 2015 eerie footage emerged of a 320 feet-wide (100 metre-wide) ring of smoke floating over clear skies in Kazakhstan.
But one expert has revealed the latest black ring was simply the byproduct of cannon fire of a battle reenactment at the nearby Yorkshire Wartime Event.
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The black ring-shaped UFOs, which can be hundreds of feet wide, have been dubbed 'smoke vortexes'. The most recent one was filmed floating above the M62 near Birkenshaw (pictured). The ring was a byproduct of cannon fire of a reenactment at the Yorkshire Wartime Event
WHAT ARE THEY?
The latest ring was the byproduct of cannon fire of a battle reenactment at the nearby Yorkshire Wartime Event.
The event nearby involved more than 500 Military Vehicles and 50 reenactments, many involving canon fire.
Canon fire can create smoke rings because it produces a sudden disturbance in the surrounding air, and as a result, creates a circular vortex.
The air is displaced around the ring while the air within the vortex circles within the ring.
Similar smoke rings have been formed at music festivals such as Burning Man.
'Smoke rings in the sky like this one look very spooky and unusual', Nigel Watson, author of 'UFOs of the first World War' told MailOnline.
'In this case it isn't an extraterrestrial spacecraft from planet Zog sent by evil aliens, but the byproduct of cannon fire of a battle reenactment at the nearby Yorkshire Wartime Event.'
Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFOs and other mysteries for the Ministry of Defence, also debunked the phenomenon.
He said: 'Despite exotic theories about UFOs, aliens, or portals to other dimensions, I believe there's a decidedly down-to-earth explanation here.
'A so-called smoke vortex can arise when you have a blast through a circular structure like a smokestack.
'So these weird effects can be caused by accident - or indeed by design.
The 'smoke vortex' was spotted above the M62 near Birkenshaw in Yorkshire last weekend.
Kimberley Robinson spotted it while in the car with her roofer boyfriend Danny Cooper, 26, when she looked up and saw a mysterious black ring.
The 22-year-old photographed the black mark on her Samsung phone.
The circle resembles a giant smoke ring but West Yorkshire Fire Service say there had been no reports of fire at the time of the sighting on Sunday just after 1.30pm.
'Smoke rings in the sky like this one look very spooky and unusual', Nigel Watson, author of 'UFOs of the first World War' told MailOnline.
'In this case it isn't an extraterrestrial spacecraft from planet Zog sent by evil aliens, but the byproduct of cannon fire of a battle reenactment at the nearby Yorkshire Wartime Event.'
The Yorkshire Wartime Event taking place nearby involved more than 500 Military Vehicles and 50 reenactments.
Canon fire can creates these smoke rings because it produces a sudden disturbance in the surrounding air, and as a result, creates a circular vortex.
The air is displaced around the ring while the air within the vortex circles within the ring.
Similar smoke rings have been formed at music festivals such as Burning Man.
Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFOs and other mysteries for the Ministry of Defence, also debunked the phenomenon.
He said: 'Despite exotic theories about UFOs, aliens, or portals to other dimensions, I believe there's a decidedly down-to-earth explanation here.
'A so-called smoke vortex can arise when you have a blast through a circular structure like a smokestack.
'So these weird effects can be caused by accident - or indeed by design.
'I realise that by debunking this I'll probably be accused of working for the Illuminati or something, but I genuinely think we can close the case file on this one.'
The Met Office said that the ring did not appear to be weather-related.
While there appears to be a simple explanation, Miss Robinson was baffled by the ring.
She described the circle as 'the weirdest thing I have ever seen'.
She said: 'Me and my boyfriend were driving today and noticed a black flying ring in the sky.
'It looked a bit smokey but the shape was a solid ring.'
People around the world have been left baffled by menacing black rings appearing in the sky The Met Office said that the ring did not appear to be weather-related
The circle resembles a giant smoke ring but West Yorkshire Fire Service say there had been no reports of fire at the time of the sighting on Sunday just after 1.30pm
A spokesperson for the Met Office said: 'We have had a look at it and cannot think of anything metrological that would have caused such a phenomenon.
'It looks reasonably clear, with fair-weather cloud that looks like it has bubbled up. There is a little bit of rising air in the atmosphere', he said.
'It does not appear to be anything at ground level that is causing the smoke to rise.
'It looks as if it's a small feature rather than something several miles across.'
On 27 April 2016 a video showed the bizarre cloud-like phenomena hovering above the Magic Castle at the popular theme park in California.
Baffled visitors watched it float by, yelling: 'What is that?' while a conspiracy theorist said it would cause families to worry of an alien invasion.
In the footage witnesses were heard exclaiming in shock as the mysterious ring floated above them.
The sighting (pictured) is the latest in a string of strange sightings with one filmed floating over Disneyland in California just last year
Full-time mum Miss Robinson described the circle as 'the weirdest thing I have ever seen'. She said: 'Me and my boyfriend were driving today and noticed a black flying ring in the sky
On 27 April 2016 a video showed the bizarre cloud-like phenomena hovering above the Magic Castle at the popular theme park in California
The film maker, Kyle Hawkins, said: 'No idea what this could be... Walking up main Street at Disneyland, following the parade.
'It was a windy night, couldn't have been a smoke ring.
'Everyone watched it in fear/confusion. I half expected an alien portal to open up through this ring as we were gazing up in disbelief...The strangest thing I've ever seen.
In 2015 eerie footage emerged of a 100 metre-wide (320 feet-wide) black ring of smoke floating over clear skies in Kazakhstan
'I yanked my phone out to record as soon as I saw this thing, then immediately uploaded to YouTube. This is raw footage, apologise for shakiness.'
In 2015 eerie footage emerged of a 100 metre-wide (320 feet-wide) black ring of smoke floating over clear skies in Kazakhstan.
It was seen 40 miles north of the capital Astana and hovered in the sky for 15 minutes before suddenly vanishing without trace.
In 2014 one was spotted above Warwick and stayed in the sky for three minutes. It was believed to be smoke from the pyrotechnics used at Warwick castle.
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Meteorologists are baffled by this giant ‘smoke ring’ - but UFO expert isn’t
Meteorologists are baffled by this giant ‘smoke ring’ - but UFO expert isn’t
Weather experts have been left baffled by a solid black ring which appeared in the sky over West Yorkshire.
Kimberley Robinson was in the car with her roofer boyfriend Danny Cooper, 26, when she looked up and saw a mysterious black ring.
The 22-year-old photographed the strange black mark near Birkenshaw on the M62 on her Samsung phone.
The circle resembles a giant smoke ring but West Yorkshire Fire Service say there had been no reports of fire at the time of the sighting on Sunday just after 1.30pm.
The Met Office said that the ring did not appear to be weather-related.
But Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFOs and other mysteries for the Ministry of Defence, thinks he may have debunked the phenomenon.
He said: “Despite exotic theories about UFOs, aliens, or portals to other dimensions, I believe there’s a decidedly down-to-earth explanation here.
“A so-called smoke vortex can arise when you have a blast through a circular structure like a smokestack.-
“So these weird effects can be caused by accident - or indeed by design.
“On this latter point, they can be created as a sort of pyrotechnic effect, and it would be interesting to know if there were any outdoor festivals being held in the area concerned.
“I realise that by debunking this I’ll probably be accused of working for the Illuminati or something, but I genuinely think we can close the case file on this one.”
Full-time mum Miss Robinson described the circle as “the weirdest thing I have ever seen”.
She said: “Me and my boyfriend were driving today and noticed a black flying ring in the sky.
“It looked a bit smoky but the shape was a solid ring.
“We hadn’t ever seen anything like this before do we have looked into it and no one knows what it is.”
The pair were travelling back home to Bury from Norfolk after spending the night at an RAF base to see Mr Cooper’s godson.
A spokesperson for the Met Office said on Monday: “We have had a look at it and cannot think of anything metrological that would have caused such a phenomenon.
“It looks reasonably clear, with fair-weather cloud that looks like it has bubbled up. There is a little bit of rising air in the atmosphere.
“It does not appear to be anything at ground level that is causing the smoke to rise.
“It looks as if it’s a small feature rather than something several miles across.”
Alien autopsy performed in London’s old mail rail tunnels
The UK’s first alien autopsy was performed last night in front of astounded guests in the subterranean lair of London’s old mail rail tunnels.
Members of the public were invited to the yet-to-be-opened Postal Museum in the spooky Mount Pleasant sorting office for the event hosted by Audible, to launch X-Files: Cold Cases.
They were joined by former Ministry Of Defence UFO expert Nick Pope who has been described as a ‘real life Fox Mulder’.
With Pope on hand to oversee, the autopsy was carried out in a similar way to if a real life invasion was to happen.
Other than a hoax alien autopsy video which was submitted to the Ministry of Defence in 1995, this could be the closest as we have come to performing an actual autopsy.
Pope said: “If we were to conduct an autopsy with The Flukeman from X-Files, I’d advise finding out all about its DNA, taking multiple samples to profile to help build an idea around what the Flukeman’s weaknesses are – so we can be prepared for any future attacks.
“One possible danger to bear in mind is the impact a possible alien autopsy would have and the threat of intergalactic war.
“Think of it this way – if a soldier from another country came to the UK and we chopped him apart his country wouldn’t be best pleased.
“Therefore if Aliens came to earth to find the soldier they sent down to test the waters had been experimented on, it would create tensions which could turn nasty.”
Pope researched and investigated UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles and other strange phenomena to determine their defence significance for the Ministry from 1991 to 1994.
Having been lucky enough to work on the real-life X-Files at the Ministry of Defence, he said there are some spooky parallels with the fictional world in which Mulder and Scully are involved in.
And when it comes to the potential threat of alien invasion, he says government has no set plan.
Speaking at The Investigation Bureau event, Nick Pope said: “Recently the National Archives released some files from the now-disbanded UFO project, detailing once highly classified documents covering UFO sightings, alien abductions, crop circle appearances, animal mutilations and even a government project to try to recruit psychics!
“It’s these parallels between fact and fiction that show why The X-Files is still as relevant as ever.”
Alien autopsy performed in London’s old mail rail tunnels
The UK’s first alien autopsy was performed last night in front of astounded guests in the subterranean lair of London’s old mail rail tunnels.
Members of the public were invited to the yet-to-be-opened Postal Museum in the spooky Mount Pleasant sorting office for the event hosted by Audible, to launch X-Files: Cold Cases.
They were joined by former Ministry Of Defence UFO expert Nick Pope who has been described as a ‘real life Fox Mulder’.
With Pope on hand to oversee, the autopsy was carried out in a similar way to if a real life invasion was to happen.
Other than a hoax alien autopsy video which was submitted to the Ministry of Defence in 1995, this could be the closest as we have come to performing an actual autopsy.
Pope said: “If we were to conduct an autopsy with The Flukeman from X-Files, I’d advise finding out all about its DNA, taking multiple samples to profile to help build an idea around what the Flukeman’s weaknesses are – so we can be prepared for any future attacks.
“One possible danger to bear in mind is the impact a possible alien autopsy would have and the threat of intergalactic war.
“Think of it this way – if a soldier from another country came to the UK and we chopped him apart his country wouldn’t be best pleased.
“Therefore if Aliens came to earth to find the soldier they sent down to test the waters had been experimented on, it would create tensions which could turn nasty.”
Pope researched and investigated UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles and other strange phenomena to determine their defence significance for the Ministry from 1991 to 1994.
Having been lucky enough to work on the real-life X-Files at the Ministry of Defence, he said there are some spooky parallels with the fictional world in which Mulder and Scully are involved in.
And when it comes to the potential threat of alien invasion, he says government has no set plan.
Speaking at The Investigation Bureau event, Nick Pope said: “Recently the National Archives released some files from the now-disbanded UFO project, detailing once highly classified documents covering UFO sightings, alien abductions, crop circle appearances, animal mutilations and even a government project to try to recruit psychics!
“It’s these parallels between fact and fiction that show why The X-Files is still as relevant as ever.”
Area 51 has been the focal point of alien conspiracy theories in America for decades. The remote military base in the Nevada desert has a lot of history, and has been associated with aliens almost since its inception. Here's why. Following is a transcript of the video:
In the early 1950s, US planes were conducting low-flying recon missions over the USSR. But there were constant worries of them being spotted and shot down.
So … in 1954, President Eisenhower authorized the development of a top secret, high-altitude recon aircraft Dubbed Project Aquatone. The program required a remote location that wasn't easily accessible to civilians or spies. Area 51 fit the bill perfectly.
It was in the Nevada desert near a salt flat called Groom Lake. No one knows exactly why it's called Area 51, but one theory suggests it came from its proximity to the Nevada Nuclear Test Sites. The Nevada Test Site was divided into number-designated areas by the Atomic Energy Commission. The location was already familiar territory for the military, as it had served as a World War II aerial gunnery range.
In the summer of 1955, sightings of "unidentified flying objects" were reported around Area 51. That's because the Air Force had begun its testing of the U-2 aircraft. The U-2 can fly higher than 60,000 feet. At the time, normal airliners were flying in the 10,000 to 20,000 feet range. While military aircraft topped out around 40,000 feet. So if a pilot spotted the tiny speck that was the U-2 high above it, they would have no idea what it was. And they would usually let air traffic control know someone was out there. Which is what led to the increase of UFO sightings in the area. While Air Force officials knew the UFO sightings were U-2 tests, they couldn’t really tell the public. So they explained the aircraft sightings by saying they were "natural phenomena" and "high-altitude weather research."
The testing of the U-2 ended in the late 1950s; but, Area 51 has continued to serve as the testing ground for many aircraft, including the F-117A, A-12, and TACIT BLUE.
No one knows for sure what Area 51 is up to these days. The government never even publicly acknowledged the existence of the base until 2013, with the release of declassified CIA reports. But if you’re ever at the Las Vegas airport, keep an eye out for some small, unmarked, passenger planes in a fenced-off area. They're how Area 51 employees get to work from their homes in Vegas.
Bizarre footage showing what appears to be a flying saucer-like UFO hovering above a town has sparked an online controversy.
Stunned eyewitnesses filmed the phenomenon with their smartphones in the small town of Progreso de Madero in the Quecholac municipality of central Mexico's Puebla state.
The footage, which shows a huge black ring hovering in the sky, left local residents baffled.
Some were convinced that it was a flying saucer while others, pointing out that it was partially enveloped in cloud, thought it was a weather-related phenomenon.
Some believe the huge black ring was a flying saucer
Eyewitnesses can be heard in the background of the video trying to explain the apparition.
One woman asks: "What is that?", and a man replies: "A flying saucer?"
Another woman speculates: "It's a rain formation", but the man counters: "No, it's not, it's a black wheel", and the woman notes: "It's going up."
The black ring quickly disappeared from view and there is still no official explanation for it.
Netizen 'Alejandro Lopez Robles' was convinced he had seen something otherworldly, commenting: "It's a flying saucer."
Others dismissed the UFO as a weather phenomenon
But 'Xavior Burns Red' felt there was a more natural explanation, adding: "I have never seen a whirlwind before. Impressive."
There have been a number of reported sightings of UFOs above Mexico in recent months.
Motorist Carlos Arriola filmed a black disc in the sky above the city of Morelia in state of Michoacan in central Mexico in April.
And a 'fleet' of seven or eight shining lights were seen flying over the US/Mexico border at Tijuana in January.
Chuck Lehneis, of Valley Center, who, one night in 1976 says he saw three UFOs flying near Bates Nut Farm (see story.)
It was my intention with this series to delve further into the history of George Adamski’s contribution to the UFO phenomenon, when I got a phone call from a longtime VC resident, Chuck Lehneis, who had a remarkable story to tell about a night in 1976 where the Milky Way was spilling out onto the sky above Bates Nut Farm.
Lehneis, who is 70, and a disabled Vietnam War vet, had moved to Valley Center the year before. That was in the days when the Valley barely had 5,000 people and the skies were pristine and filled with diamonds. It was a night right out of the film classic “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
Lehneis was living on Cool Water Ranch Road, right after the Wood Valley Kampground, and on a house overlooking Bates Nut Farm. He had rented a house on the highest part of the road, with a big sliding glass door facing to the east.
“It was a perfectly clear night.” Lehneis recalls, although he doesn’t remember what time of year it was.”
At about 2 a.m. he woke up and saw three “stars” way to the east. He had a TV with rabbit ears, and he used the rabbit ears to sight the objects, so that he could tell if they were moving or not.
“I realized that they weren’t stars because they had movement,” he said. Holding his hand out towards the horizon it appeared that the stars were above three inches above it—in relative terms.
He woke his girlfriend of that time and they went outside onto the patio. It wasn’t cold, he recalls.
“They were zipping back and forth. As we watched them, they were zipping in different directions, a foot in my vision. They got into a formation and came straight down to line up straight where the chicken ranch is on Woods Valley & North Lake Wohlford. They came up Woods Valley Road.”
Lehneis describes the lights as “upside down saucers with lights underneath. They were pretty close together and in a line, like ‘one, two, three.’ They went by us at no sound at all.”
The saucers crossed south and out of sight, concealed by a hill or something, and then came out into view. “They went straight up into the sky, like at a forty-five-degree angle, and took off straight up and out of sight.”
Lehneis and his girlfriend broke up soon after that (nothing to do with the UFOs, he said) and about 15 years later they decided to get together to catch up.
“As I walked into the door, she said, ‘Do you remember . . .?”
“I knew you were going to ask me this, Colleen,” he replied.
They walked each other through the story and it was an exact recollection, he says.
“The crazy thing is the next day [after the sighting] a newspaper had a story about lights at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. It wasn’t much of a write up.”
All these years later he still remembers them vividly. “I think about it just exactly as I saw it. In a line, one two three, with not one bit of noise. The lights were multiple colors, red and yellow. You would think of flying saucers and these were upside down.”
At the time, he talked to someone at The Roadrunner and “nobody was much interested.”
A couple of years later, after he and his new wife had purchased a home on Mirar de Valle. They were sitting outside and his wife saw something that seemed like a moving object to her.”
“She called the Adamski people [who were operating in Valley Center at that time] and they said it was Sirius, the star. They were pretty informative.”
However, regarding the lights he saw on that night overlooking Bates Nut Farm, “I have absolutely no doubt that they were not stars.” Nevertheless, he never reported his sighting again to anyone else until he called The Roadrunner this week.
Lehneis lived in Valley Center from 1976-90 and then moved to Sacramento and Pismo Beach. He moved back to Valley Center two years ago.
The Roadrunner contact Cheryl Costa, who has published a database about all of the UFO sightings in the U.S. and asked her about 1976, and the possibility of a sighting at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
“My database is only 21st century data 2001-2015,” she wrote back, but added, “I did peek at the Raw NUFORC DB [National UFO Reporting Center Data Base] for 1976; only three San Diego, UFO sightings listed none mention an animal park.”
The archives for the old Times-Advocate and the San Diego Union aren’t available without going to a bit more trouble than I was willing to undertake this time, so we will just have to assume that Chuck Lehneis’s memory about reading about such a sighting is accurate.
Costa’s database for 2001-2015 shows that for that period there have been four official recorded sightings of UFOs in Valley Center. Palomar Mountain and Pauma Valley each had two. I can attest to have written about quite a few more “unofficial” sightings over the years. There were 98 in Escondido. As we further explore this subject, I’m sure we will hear more about others.
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