A Plane Passenger Flying Around Havasu City In Arizona Captures A UFO On Video

A shining bright light had caught the attention of an aeroplane passenger flying on the 5th of July 2017. The witness, who flies weekly, found the strange light from his corner vision while passing the sky above Lake Havasu in Havasu City, Arizona.

He recorded the bizarre aerial thing on video. The witness describes the light as having a non-reflective gold shine. It was apparently moving in a northwesterly direction. The witness estimated that they were moving at around 484 mph ground speed at approximately 29000 in altitude.

Havasu City has its share of UFO sightings as dozens of witnesses reported their bizarre experience throughout the years.

Videos such as this one are often dismissed as a reflection of light from inside the aircraft. However, many argue on this particular video that the strange light does not appear to be a reflection and in fact moving on its own below the aircraft.

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16-07-2017 om 18:52 geschreven door peter  

American Submarine Captures A UFO

Many people find it hard to trust alleged UFO sightings as much as they want to believe. Photographic evidence of UFO sightings is usually too small and grainy. Clear images are often debunked as hoaxes too.

However, the following story features somewhat believable images. These images may not depict UFOs very well, but the truth may be even more unusual than many would think.

In 1971, an American Navy submarine USS Trepang was on a voyage in the Arctic Ocean to test its weapons under the ice caps.

An anonymous source claims that Klika saw a strange object flying overhead while looking through the periscope. What he did see would be 40 years before it was answered.

The French publication Top Secret printed images in an article in 2015 claiming that an unnamed source provided the photograph.

Beyond the photos, only a little information was provided, but some were officially marked “not to be released” and “Unauthorized Disclosure Subject.” Despite the markings that seem to be warnings, the publication printed 11 pictures; each one shows an apparent massive object hovering above and possibly crashing into the water.

The article of the images says that they are showing a triangular-shaped UFO without a doubt.

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16-07-2017 om 18:48 geschreven door peter  

THE AVELEY ALIEN ABDUCTION: UFOS ABOVE OUR ESSEX COUNTRY LANES

[The following information is sourced largely from renowned British Ufologist Andrew Collins’s report – The Aveley Abduction – compiled January 1978, along with other supporting online sources. At the time Collins called The Aveley Abduction “probably the most important British case ever” and it still gets heralded today as such by those in UFO research communities]

On late Sunday evening October 27^th 1974, a run of the mill Essex family were driving a route between Harold Hill and Aveley to see relatives. The Avis family, consisting of John, aged 32, his wife, Elaine, aged 28, and their three children: Kevin, aged 10, Karen, aged 11, and Stuart, aged 7, were on Hacton Lane about one mile out from Hornchurch with, for them, the roads noticeably quiet even for a Sunday night.

Elaine recalled the car jerking violently as the mist curled around the car

At a point in the journey, it was Kevin, the only one of the children awake, who asked his parents about a light he could see above the country lane houses. Collins reports, “Glancing round, both John and Elaine saw, at an angle of about 25 degrees – 30 degrees above the skyline, an oval-shaped, pale blue iridescent light, like a big star, over the top of the houses to their left”.

The family remembered the “big star” seemed to be travelling in the same direction as the car, stopping and starting as it moved. The light seemed to “stay with them” but for periods where rows of trees on the country lanes would obscure the view, at which times in the early stages they would relax, thinking it may have gone. At first, John and Elaine thought it might be a helicopter light, but it was not long before the family began referring to it as a UFO.

The Avis family cleared the last of the houses, venturing into open countryside, eventually passing the White Hart pub. They were approaching country lanes near Upminster at about 30mph when they had a “terrible feeling that something was wrong”. Suddenly, the engine and tyres went silent and the only sound that could be heard was from their radio.

Then, as they went through a bend on Aveley Road, they could see, no more than 30 yards in front of them and covering the whole road, a thick mist, or fog, described as “dense green and banked about 8-9 feet high”.

Just as the mist was seen by the Avis family, the radio started crackling and smoking, causing John to pull out its wires. Then they were engulfed by the fog, still travelling around 30mph. Elaine recalled the car jerking violently as the mist curled around the car.

With two children asleep and Kevin awake, John and Elaine recall it was “very light” inside the fog and that they “felt very cold”. A tingling sensation was felt, and there was dead silence. They recall being in the mist for “what seemed like a second or two” before they were out. There was a jolt described as “like a car going over a hump back bridge” and the “mist” was gone.

Elaine remembered asking “is everybody there?” with herself and John both feeling very nervous and frightened, although no ill effects were remembered and the two children aside from Kevin still asleep. The couple don’t recall talking a large amount about what had happened and the situation instead provoked a “let’s just get home” atmosphere. The couple expected it to be around 10:20pm when they arrived home, but it was 1am, leaving around three hours the couple could not account for.

The family reported unnerving incidents around the family home after the encounter including an object levitating

There were noticeable changes in the family following the incident, Collins reports. Before Christmas that year John had a nervous breakdown and stopped working, before later taking on a job working with mentally handicapped people, something he had wanted to do for years.

The job “fell into his lap”, a different direction from his usual carpentry and construction work; he would also begin writing poems about life. Elaine started attending college and reportedly grew in confidence. Additionally, John & Elaine stopped eating meat and became far more health conscious in their nutrition, with the taste of meat/fish now making them ill. And whereas before the incident they would “enjoy a good drink”, the couple would now not touch a drop of alcohol.

The couple reportedly also became very environmentally conscious, with John also quitting his “60 to 70 a day” smoking habit. Kevin’s reading age at school reportedly was “well beyond his years” whereas prior to the incident it had been reported as “backwards of his age”. The family reported unnerving incidents around the family home after the encounter including an object levitating, “clicking noises” and the sound of “Morse code”, and young Kevin reportedly seeing a strange figure beside his bed on one occasion, similar in looks to that of a clown.

When questioned by Collins, both John & Elaine would admit to strange dreams in which creatures would examine them on long tables and other visions of that ilk. At this point, Collins sought hypnotist Leonard Wilder to query the couple’s subconscious and see if these dreams were masking real abduction memories. John was first to agree to hypnosis while Elaine declined preferring to try and move on and “forget it” instead. It was decided hypnotising Kevin was not an option due to his age and the impression any memories may leave.

John, the first under hypnosis, began to remember that as the car entered the mist, he found himself in a big room with tall “peaceful” beings, in one-piece colourless suits. John recalled that they had pink eyes and communicated by telepathy. They put him on a table and ran a bar like instrument over his body. He asked where they came from; they showed him “a map but not a map”, and gave an explanation of which he could only remember “Phobos”. They travel, he was told, almost instantaneously. They explained how but he could not understand. A small being was present at the table; it had fur-like covering and made chirping sounds; it served the tall beings. Leonard Wilder remarked to Andrew Collins that John was an excellent subject for hypnosis, and a second session was arranged.

In the second session John remembered that when the car entered the mist, a white beam cut through it, and lifted the car. The next thing he knew was that they were in a very large room. Here, an “examiner,” “smaller than us,” with big eyes and a mouth “not like ours” examined him.

The tall beings had no visible mouths. John understood that their propulsion system used a magnetic “vortex”, though he had begun to mutter somewhat incoherently his responses at this point. He encountered only three of the tall beings, and only one communicated with him.

When John was asked the reason for the beings visit to earth, he replied, “No visit. They are here always.” Asked where they came from, he said “There was no need for them to say,” and that they have no need to return home; “they have more than one base,” he said.

After being brought out of hypnosis, he said that at this point he felt prevented from saying anything more (following questioning surrounding the beings origin). My understanding is that the sessions were stopped there as memories came flooding back naturally outside of hypnosis. Collins reports to have kept in touch with the family and that John & Elaine would later separate with the former moving to Scotland to live with a new partner.

The case is spoken of frequently in UFO circles and if you wish to know more of what happened, or Elaine’s account –check this link of the original report:

Source www.wafflemag.com

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16-07-2017 om 00:41 geschreven door peter  

10 Bizarre Claims Of Alien/Human Hybrids

Of all the alien claims and theories out there, the ones that speak of an alien/human hybrid agenda might be the most outlandish. However, many people do make these claims to the world, and although they themselves sometimes note how crazy they sound, they insist that what they’re saying is real. While it is hard for even the most enthusiastic ufologist or alien researcher to take these statements entirely seriously, they are still very interesting ideas.

10 The Body In The Car

In July 2015, the story of a supposed alien hybrid government agent, who had been found decomposing in a car, appeared on several online media outlets. The man, who was eventually identified as Jeffrey Alan Lash, was found with over a thousand guns, as well as other weapons such as knives, machetes, and a bow and arrows. He also had seven tons of ammunition and cash amounting to $230,000.

In addition to the car he was discovered in—which was designed to be able to drive underwater, no less—he also owned 14 other vehicles.

His fiance, Catherine Nebron, made the off-the-wall announcement of his otherworldly origin through her attorney shortly after his death. She stated that Lash had confided in her several weeks before he died that he was working undercover for several unnamed government agencies. He had left Catherine with instructions to leave his body in the car when he died, and that “government agencies” would come to retrieve it.

Initial background checks on Lash didn’t uncover any sign of criminal activity on his part, and investigators didn’t suspect that he had been the victim of foul play. According to Nebron, he had begun to experience difficulty breathing, but he’d refused to let her call for medical assistance in the hours before his death.

9 Born In A Petri Dish

It wasn’t until Cynthia Crawford was in her ’30s that her father revealed to her that she was the result of a top-secret government program. She was, her father informed her, an alien/human hybrid created in a petri dish, and that as well as carrying human DNA, she had the DNA of two different alien races as part of her genetic makeup.

She claimed that she had encountered what she believed to be alien abductions many times throughout her life—which included medical procedures and impregnation—but that she now realized these experiences were more likely part of the program.

She was told by her father that, as a child, she was taken in the middle of the night to an underground military facility. There, she was regularly tested and examined by government agents there. Despite the many doubters to her story, no DNA testing has been volunteered by Crawford to confirm her claims. She is a regular speaker at numerous UFO and alien seminars across the United States.

8 Miguel Mendonca’s Proof Of Alien Hybrids

Miguel Mendonca is a leading expert on green energy and renewable power sources. He is also convinced that aliens are in the process of helping humans evolve into “higher beings” by implanting their DNA into pregnant women around the Earth.

Mendonca, from Bristol, England, co-authored the book Meet The Hybrids: The Lives and Missions of ET Ambassadors On Earth with respected and experienced UFO researcher, Barbara Lamb. In the book, he claims to have met several alien hybrids, all of whom state they are involved in a mission that will improve the human race.

Mendonca claims that DNA testing would be of little use to help prove his claims, as only human DNA would be detected and anything else would simply be ignored. He also stated that the hybrids themselves are against their DNA being taken for fear that governments would use it to create super soldiers that would be utilized by the military.

Mendonca stated that he went into the project with an open mind, but that he can “feel” the energy of the hybrids when he speaks with them and is convinced of their authenticity. He also states that he is very much an “academic” and has to be “sure of his facts.”

He believes this is why there are so many UFO sightings and that the hybrid agenda is the reason “they” are coming to Earth.

7 Celtic Genes

According to Hilary Porter, who says she has been abducted many times herself by aliens, extraterrestrials are specifically targeting people of Celtic descent in order to install an alien hybrid program. Porter is an experienced ufologist who is a regular speaker at UFO seminars. She even believes that one stretch of road in particular, between Swansea and Cardiff in Wales, is a “hot-spot” for UFO activity. Not only this, she says that the government is fully aware of what is happening, but they are “powerless to stop it.”

Porter believes that aliens are targeting people of Celtic descent as they feel their genes are better suited for creating a human/alien hybrid race, which she says is their ultimate goal.

Porter has conducted extensive research for over four decades which has led her to conclude that the alien hybrid agenda is very real. She also states that this agenda is not for the good of mankind, as many who make similar claims say it is. She says that although she and others have recalled pleasant memories from their experiences, this is nothing more than a “cover” or false memory implanted by the aliens themselves in order to hide the horrific events.

6 Jujuolui Kuita: Star Being

Author and ufologist Jujuolui Kuita claims to have had extraterrestrial experiences since she was five years old, and has since “awakened to her ET identity.” In 2010, she published the book We Are Among You Already, which told of how aliens were “incarnating” and creating alien/human hybrids right here on Earth. She also founded the East Bay UFO contact group the same year.

Kuita states that she is a star being who chose to “incarnate” on Earth as a human being (some are said to choose to do so as animals). According to Kuita, Mother Earth sent out a signal for help into the cosmos many decades ago. She further claims that she originates from the planet Faqui, which she says is in the Andromeda galaxy, and that her people are called Fajans.

Kuita believes her mission is to assist in awakening other star beings and ultimately raise the vibration of planet Earth, which she says is being monitored by countless beings throughout the cosmos.

5 The Indigo Children

There are claims of Indigo Children or Star Children—extremely intelligent and highly sensitive children—all over the world. While these are most likely just normal children who happen to have extremely high intelligence for their young ages, some claim that they are the result of genetic engineering. Two cases in particular appear to stand out

Jason Andrews’s first alien experience occurred on his fourth birthday in Kent, England, in 1987. As a violent storm proceeded to sweep over the area, Jason apparently began to mutter a series of numbers, seemingly in a trance-like state. As the storm took hold, the house the Andrews family lived in began to shake until Jason turned to his parents and calmly stated to them, “They are waiting for me—I have to go!”

The four-year-old boy then went to exit the property before his father wrestled him away from the front door. As suddenly as it had begun, the shaking of the house and the storm ceased, and Jason returned to his normal self. The family appeared to forget about the incident until eight years later, when Jason informed them that since that day, he had been abducted by strange beings that would come into his room and take him to some kind of operating table. His mother, Ann Andrews, along with UFO researcher and author Jean Ritchie, came to the conclusion that Jason was an Indigo Child, and this was the reason that the aliens had an interest in him. Jason himself, now in his thirties, states that he does have certain psychic and spiritual abilities.

Nikki Pattillo claims that her daughter, Maddy, is also an Indigo Child who has claimed several times to her that “her home is in the sky.” Pattillo claims Maddy has developed and shown otherworldly abilities, and she firmly believes that the girl carries alien DNA within her body. Pattillo wrote a book about her experiences titled Children of the Stars and stated that her daughter and many other alleged Star Children are the incarnation of spirits that have been sent to Earth from all over the universe for the benefit of the human race.

4 Hybrid Children And Alien Fathers

In January 2016, a story circulated the Internet regarding two young ladies who claimed they were mothers to multiple alien hybrid children. Bridget Neilson from Sedona and Aluna Verse from Los Angeles both claimed to be just two of many women who were part of the Hybridization Program.

Bridget claims to have 10 alien-hybrid children, while Aluna says that she has three otherworldly offspring. They claim that at the moment, their children are in a state of “suspended” childhood and live with their fathers onboard huge space ships. They hope that one day they can set up a community somewhere far from the city for themselves and other mothers of hybrid children. This they believe will allow their cosmic children to feel safe enough to visit them on Earth.

The aim of the hybridization program, according to Bridget, is to create a “super being” with the best of the genes from humans and aliens alike. Bridget claims to be in regular contact with all 10 of her children and says that hundreds of women around the world are mothers to hybrid children but simply do not realize it.

3 David Jacobs

David Jacobs taught American history for over 30 years at Temple University. He also recently made the claim that aliens had likely been abducting human beings for centuries in order to create alien/human hybrids who not only walk among us right now but are poised to take over the world. Jacobs is now the director at the International Centre for Abduction Research and has conducted interviews and studies of over 150 abductees.

He has also released several well-written and well-received books to make his argument to the wider public—all of which have been published by respected publishers.

He states that abductees, albeit under hypnosis, more often than not recall the exact same obscure details. They all speak of either human-like or insect-like aliens that appear to have a “need” to breed. Many female abductees frequently speak of being impregnated before having the fetus removed surgically, and then being forced to nurse the infant. He also reports that at the time of the alleged abductions, the person is usually genuinely physically missing, with many loved ones reporting the person missing before they suddenly reappear again.

Jacobs said recently that his work will either be “an interesting but nonessential footnote” or that it will prove to be “the most important thing that’s ever happened to humankind.” He says that he suspects that the aliens’ actions are for their benefit and not for ours.

2 Hybrids Created By Reptilians

Alien abductee and UFO researcher James Bartley recently made available online an interview he had conducted with a fellow abductee who had been sent to him by experienced researcher Barbara Bartholic. In the transcript, the abductee is referred to as “PR” to protect his identity.

PR told of his close-up experience with alien/human hybrids, who he said are a creation of the reptilians. Their main goal was to harvest the life force from humans.

Following the interview with PR, Bartley concluded that there are three types of alien hybrids on Earth. There are alien abductees who have had their genetic makeup altered by their abductors. There are “half-grey half-human” alien hybrids that are, according to Bartley, mostly present during abductions. And then there are hybrids that appear for the most part as normal human beings. It is this last type of hybrids that the reptilians have placed in positions of power around the world. Coincidentally or not, this last claim of hybrids is very much in line with author David Icke, who has made similar claims of reptilian hybrid aliens for the last two decades.

1 Eddie Page And The Secret Experiment

After years of confusion that included being arrested as a defector during a tour of Vietnam when he went missing for 11 days, a broken first marriage, and discovering he was adopted, Eddie Page finally discovered the truth about his existence. He was the product of a top-secret government experiment to produce an alien hybrid.

According to Page, his father is actually an alien from the Pleiades star system. He even claims that his official military documents state that he is “not of human origin.” Page states that during 1953 to 1955, there were experiments carried out on US citizens by aliens in exchange for providing alien technology to the US government.

He made the discoveries after he agreed to be hypnotically regressed. He recalled that the missing days he experienced in Vietnam were due to him being wounded on the mission he was on and consequently being taken by aliens and “patched up” before being returned to Earth—800 kilometers (500 mi) away from where he should have been. The rest of his unit died, and he has no doubt he would have died also if it hadn’t have been for their intervention.

Page further discovered that he was one of 32 clones who were part of the experiment—a total of 21 female clones and 11 (including Page) male clones. According to his research, only eight of those clones still alive, of which he is the only male.

Despite Page producing alleged medical records that he states shows his blood group is unidentified, as well as the fact that he has an extra vertebra and rib, the vast majority of people are skeptical of his claims, to say the least.

Source listverse.com

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15-07-2017 om 23:58 geschreven door peter  

Alien Encounters – Lost Disney UFO Documentary

UFO hunter nexus r/UFOs have turned up a Disney documentary about UFOs and aliens that was originally used to promote the “ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter” experience (The Wikipedia page describes the attraction, hilariously, as “theater-in-the-round”) that anchored Disney World’s Tomorrowland from 1994 to 2003. 

While numerous UFO sites are running the Disney documentary as a “lost” film, it has been available on YouTube for several years. Nevertheless, the “lost” Disney UFO documentary is a fascinating glimpse into both mainstream reportage on alien visitation and the modern UFO conspiracy mindset, which views the documentary as existing in a continuum of “disclosure” material designed to prime humans for the eventual reveal of extraterrestrial contact.

You can watch the Disney UFO documentary Alien Encounters: From New Tomorrowland, complete with Mickey Mouse, right here:

Redditor AnotherPint does a nice job characterizing the conspiracy mindset as it relates to this “lost” Disney UFO documentary:

“According to lore, the doc, which weirdly treats UFOs and aliens as virtually established fact, was shown once, without warning, on a few isolated small-market TV stations in quieter parts of the US, then stowed away.

The conspiracists’ view is that this was part of a covert government-Disney collaboration to test public reaction to UFO disclosure. But there is no evidence of this. It was merely a tie-in promotion for a new Disney World attraction.”

It was at a 1979 MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) Symposium when the alien disclosure theories surrounding Walt Disney first exploded into the conspiracist consciousness. 

Some say it was just propaganda to promote the new attraction Tomorrowland. Here’s the IMDb but with little info except a couple reviews. One of which from someone who claimed to work there at the time.

“As someone who worked at Disney/Magic Kingdom/Tomorrowland in the 90’s, I know, without a shadow of doubt (and the reason is was only shown once) is that the ENTIRE THING was a publicity stunt to bring attention to the new ride Alien Encounters. 

If you look at all the younger people being interviewed? They’re all wearing the exact costume that cast members from Alien Encounter wore. Some of the younger, no-name ‘witnesses’ were actually cast members from Opening Crew.

The ENTIRE thing – every second of it – was publicity for the new attraction. 

The only reason it can’t be found now, is because Disney maintains control of it and it’s locked up in their archives. It was only shown in 5 cities, because they were target cities. 

Remember War of the Worlds? Take heed.”

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15-07-2017 om 23:33 geschreven door peter  

WHAT IS THE FERMI PARADOX? THE STRANGE MYSTERY OF WHY WE CAN’T FIND E.T.

15-07-2017 om 23:10 geschreven door peter  

SHOCK CLAIM: Saturn’s huge moon Iapetus is an ‘ALIEN DEATH STAR’

SATURN’S mysterious moon Iapetus is an alien ‘death star’ created by an intelligent extra-terrestrial civilisation, according to conspiracy theorists.

This, according to the narrator of the video, is proof that it has been pieced together.

The video continues: “It looks as if there were two separate pieces and it’s almost as if they were welded together.

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15-07-2017 om 21:00 geschreven door peter  

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15-07-2017 om 20:41 geschreven door peter  

15-07-2017 om 20:33 geschreven door peter  

‘UFOs hiding the rings of Saturn’ Former Nasa chief blows cover

ONE of Nasa’s former top engineers has claimed that there are alien spaceships hiding in Saturn’s rings.

15-07-2017 om 19:59 geschreven door peter  

Aviation mechanic unable to identify sphere-shaped object

An Ohio witness at Mahoning County reported watching and photographing a sphere-shaped object crossing the sky, according to testimony in Case 84308 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Witness image.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness stepped outside at 10:07 p.m. on June 10, 2017, when the incident occurred.

“Went out to grab my cell phone charger out of scooter glove box and saw this object or objects hauling ass across the sky,” the witness stated. “Only had a little bit of time to snap a picture and a bit of video, but appeared to be more than one before I lost sight when the line of trees got in the way.”

Witness image close-up.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness has an aviation background.

“Worked on F-16s and have enough knowledge of planes and helicopters to know it wasn’t a plane and it wasn’t arching like falling space objects.”

The witness provided two images and one short video clip with the report, which was filed on June 10, 2017. Mahoning County, Ohio, has a population of 238,823.

Mahoning County, Ohio, has a population of 238,823.

(Credit: Google)

Ohio MUFON Field Investigator Joseph Pavlansky investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown. 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.

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15-07-2017 om 19:45 geschreven door peter  

The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.

Teleportation Records

Chinese scientists have just shattered a record in teleportation. No, they haven't beamed anyone up to a spaceship. Rather, they sent a packet of information from Tibet to a satellite in orbit, up to 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) above the Earth's surface.

Experiments like this have been done before, but Howard Wiseman, director of the Center for Quantum Dynamics at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, told Live Science in an email that this one expands the possibilities for the technology. [Read more about the big jump.]

A Big Break

The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission detected the huge chunk of ice that broke off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf on July 12, 2017.

One of the largest icebergs ever recorded, packing about a trillion tons of ice or enough to fill up two Lake Eries, has just split off from Antarctica, in a much anticipated, though not celebrated, calving event.

The iceberg was expected, though scientists didn't know when the crack in the ice sheet would finally release the floating chunk. The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf — the fourth-largest shelf in Antarctica — has been around for decades. [Read more about the giant iceberg.]

Nasty Mess

A truck carrying a bunch of slime eels recently crashed on the highway in Oregon, releasing a mind-boggling amount of slime and forcing the highway to close.

It turns out that the creatures aren't truly eels at all, but are hagfish, or primitive, bottom-dwelling fish that use their slime to fend off predators, several experts said. [Read more about the slimy situation.]

Super-Sized Super Soaker

If you're going to challenge someone to a water gun fight this summer, it's best you don't take up arms against Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who has created the world's largest Super Soaker.

The Super Soaker that Rober made with his friends works in a slightly different manner. It would be too cumbersome and difficult to pump up a 7-foot-long pistol, so instead, they installed two tanks — one with high-pressure nitrogen gas and the other with water — in the gun's handle. [Read more about the big gun.]

Water Bears are Tough

The eight-legged micro-animal called a tardigrade could survive nearly all the way until the death of the sun, a new study suggests — long after humans are history.

Tardigrades, which are usually less than a millimeter long (0.04 inches), are nearly indestructible, some of the most resilient forms of life on Earth. They can survive for up to 30 years without eating, and can be frozen, boiled, squished under intense pressure, and exposed to the vacuum and radiation of space without ill effect. [Read more about the extremophiles.]

Surprisingly Big

A still image from a movie that was stored in bacterial DNA. The image on the left is the original, and the image on the right is reconstructed from the data stored in DNA.

If you thought flash drives were small, wait until you see this: Researchers have encoded the data to make a short video into the DNA molecules of bacteria. They also were able to retrieve the information from the genetic code and play back the movie.

Although it may seem like this project would have very limited applications to real life, researchers say they have goals far beyond the scope of the current study. [Read more about the movie.]

Flea Market FindA World-War II era German Enigma 1 machine recently sold at auction for about $51,000.

A German cryptography machine found at a flea market recently fetched $51,000 at auction.

Enigma machines were special encryption machines that were used by the Germans during World War II to send secure messages to their forces. While the initial code was cracked by Polish mathematicians on the eve of World War II, that didn't get them very far. [Read more about the rare machine.]

Finding Amelia

The 1935 Japanese photo book "Umi no seimeisen : Waga nannyou no sugata" has the same photo uncovered by the History channel.

It's not her.

History channel researchers had claimed the image showed Earhart after she had been taken hostage as a suspected spy by the Japanese, who had a military presence in the Marshall Islands, where the photo was taken. [Read more about the photo.]

Beer and Birthdays

Scientists found a cache of letters written in ink on wafer-thin slices of wood.

A cache of secret letters has been unearthed near the site of an ancient Roman fort in the United Kingdom.

The trove of Roman letters was in surprisingly pristine condition, thanks to the oxygen-free, or anaerobic, conditions in which they were buried. As a result, bacteria that normally degrade such items over time have not had a chance to attack the artifacts. [Read more about the birthday wishes.]

Early Animals, Special Powers

Frond-like rangeomorphs were among the first nonmicroscopic life-forms on Earth. These weird animals could be anywhere from a few centimeters to 2 meters (6.5 feet) tall.

Some of Earth's first large animals were shape-shifters, new research suggests.

Now, new measurements of these frondy fossils suggest that these animals, called rangeomorphs, were able to adjust their body size in response to changing ocean conditions. This shape-shifting ability may have enabled them to grow very large, very quickly. [Read more about the shape-shifters.]

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15-07-2017 om 19:31 geschreven door peter  

See Juno Probe's Amazing Up-Close Views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (Photos)

You can now feast your eyes on the first up-close photos of Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot ever taken.

On Monday night (July 10), NASA's Juno spacecraft zoomed just 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometers) above the mammoth storm's cloud tops — closer than any probe had gotten before.

"For generations, people from all over the world and all walks of life have marveled over the Great Red Spot," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement before the flyby. "Now we are finally going to see what this storm looks like up close and personal."

The images that the probe's JunoCam instrument snapped during the close encounter have come down to Earth, NASA announced today (July 12), and the agency is urging anyone who's interested to have a go at processing the photos. You can do so on the mission's JunoCam page.

The Great Red Spot has been swirling for centuries; astronomers have been monitoring it since 1830, NASA officials said. The storm is about 10,000 miles (16,000 km) wide, making it considerably bigger than the entire Earth. (Earth's diameter is about 7,900 miles, or 12,700 km).

But the Great Red Spot used to be even bigger; the storm has been shrinking for decades, though the rate at which this is occurring has slowed recently.

Juno launched in August 2011 on a $1.1 billion mission to investigate Jupiter's composition, interior structure, formation and evolutionary history. The probe reached Jupiter on July 4 of last year, settling into a highly elliptical orbit that takes 53.5 Earth days to complete.

Juno collects most of its data during its closest passes by the solar system's largest planet. The Great Red Spot photos were taken during the latest such encounter — the sixth science flyby Juno has performed. (The spacecraft has actually performed seven close flybys, if you count the one that occurred during its orbital arrival, when Juno's science instruments were off.)

Juno's mission is scheduled to run through at least February 2018.

Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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15-07-2017 om 18:49 geschreven door peter  

MEXICAANSE PILOOT KOMT UFO'S TEGEN TIJDENS LANDING ( VIDEO )

Of er steeds meer UFO’s voor komen of dat ze zich vaker in de buurt van vliegtuigen begeven, is niet helemaal duidelijk, maar ze worden steeds vaker dichtbij vliegtuigen gesignaleerd. 

Ongeveer een week geleden is een piloot van een klein vliegtuig bezig met de voorbereiding voor een landing in de Mexicaanse plaats Toluca wanneer er meerdere vreemde objecten langs zijn cockpitraam vliegen. 

Wanneer je als piloot in een vliegtuig zit en er vliegen onbekende objecten rakelings langs je cockpitraam, dan zit je toch niet echt lekker ontspannen in je stoel. 

Zo zagen die objecten eruit die deze vlieger in Mexico langs zag komen.

Hierna volgen de beelden en als je goed kijkt, zie je meerdere objecten langs het raam van de cockpit vliegen op hele kleine afstand van het vliegtuig. 

 

Wat we niet weten is of deze piloot de volgende dag is gebeld door Marcel Hulspas namens de Stichting Skepsis om hem te vertellen dat hij discolichten heeft gezien. 

Enkele dagen later gebeurt er iets vergelijkbaars, maar nu met een drone in de Engelse stad Manchester. 

De man vliegt met zijn drone boven het Heaton Park met daaraan een camera gemonteerd die opnames maakt. 

Dan zijn er dingen te zien zoals op de volgende afbeelding.

En net zoals met het vliegtuig in Mexico zie je ook hierna in de bewegende beelden diverse objecten langs de drone schieten. 

Voor zover ons bekend heeft nog niemand een verklaring gevonden voor deze vreemde objecten. 

 

Naast vliegende objecten die worden gefilmd vanuit vliegtuig of drone zien we ook regelmatig opnames van UFO’s bij vliegtuigen die vanaf de grond worden gefilmd. 

Enkele dagen geleden filmden en fotografeerden meerdere mensen in Londen UFO's in de buurt van de aanvliegroutes naar vliegvelden en nu is er een vergelijkbare opname uit Slovakije.

Hierna de bewegende beelden en het betreft hier meerdere UFO’s die zich in de buurt van een passagierstoestel ophouden. 

 

Mocht iemand een verklaring hebben voor wat hier allemaal gebeurt, dan horen we dat graag.

Maar, ook in ons land gebeurt wel het nodige zoals het volgende op 11 juli 2017 in Vianen zo tegen middernacht:

fel oranje (het leek vlammend) bollen die in rechte formatie met dezelfde snelheid en dezelfde afstand van elkaar vlogen van richting oost naar west. 

Vanuit arm lengte gezien hadden ze ongeveer de grote van een stuiver.(zie filmpje). 
Ze vlogen op grote hoogte, althans zo leek het en verplaatsten zich sneller dan een vliegtuig zo leek het. 
Ik heb een aantal jaar geleden deze bollen ook al een keer gezien, alleen waren dat er meer (6 stuks in formatie) alleen deze vlogen dynamisch.

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15-07-2017 om 18:43 geschreven door peter  

“Nobody has proven that it is a fraud. We are going to present preliminary evidence that will determine in the eyes of the media, that these are true specimen. And if there are still doubts that this is real, the obligation of Peruvians and the whole world is to preserve these bodies to find a true answer.”

If those three-fingered humanoid mummies allegedly discovered and revealed to the public in Peru over the past two months could count off for roll call, they’d need two hands. At a press conference this week in Lima, mummy spokesperson and journalist Jaime Maussan announced that there are now five confirmed bodies so far – bodies that he and Gaia.com, his partners in the recovery, are calling “The Mummies of Nazca.” Which will they run out of first – mummies or fingers?

During the press conference, Maussan presented a number of X-rays of what he claimed were skeletons inside the mummies which resemble plaster statues more than the more familiar cloth-wrapped mummies of Egypt and movies. As in previous teaser videos for the pay-to-view series from Gaia.com on the mummies, he claims they are over 1,700 years old, which is also the speculated age of the famous Nazca lines, conveniently connecting the two without actually proving it.

Jaime Maussan (Ruptly)

This is the first time that anyone involved with the mummies has revealed how many have been found, possible relationships between them and what species they resemble.

“Apparently the body of a baby with the same characteristics according to the first analysis could be related. However, now it is necessary to perform a DNA test to be able to determine the relationship between the two. Those are two bodies and there are three of which seem to have characteristics that are closer to reptiles than to humans. That is, we have five bodies.”

Five bodies, at least one a baby, and three that look like reptiles. This has Reptilian fans sweaty, while the elongated skulls have the grey believers salivating. No one can explain the tree-fingered hands and three-toed feet, which has prompted some to declare this a new species among aliens as well as humanoids. That body count of five doesn’t seem to include the headless mini-mummy revealed earlier this week, unless that’s the baby.

One thing that has remained the same in all of these teaser videos is some variation of this statement:

“… now it is necessary to perform a DNA test …”

The rest of us knew that from day one. What are they waiting for … other than all four episodes of the series to run first?

Stay tuned and be grateful you can count to 7 without removing your shoes.

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15-07-2017 om 18:32 geschreven door peter  

Are these ancient rock drawing PROOF that aliens visited Earth?

ANCIENT rock art in could prove aliens once visited Earth, according to conspiracy theorists.

15-07-2017 om 01:33 geschreven door peter  

'They're living organisms of some sort'

15-07-2017 om 01:09 geschreven door peter  

Akihiro Ikeshita/JAXA

By Sam Wong

Before there were asteroids, there were giant mudballs hurtling around the solar system.

The most common type of asteroid, called carbonaceous asteroids, may have delivered water and organic molecules to Earth, and could even be the precursors of rocky planets. They are thought to have formed from ice, dust and mineral grains called chondrules in the disc of dense gas and dust that birthed our solar system.

But not much is known about their history, and they have some unexplained characteristics. These rocks appear to have been altered at relatively low and uniform temperatures, so they must have had some way to lose heat from within. Some have proposed that water flowing inside the early asteroids cooled them down, but soluble elements don’t appear to have been moved around, as would be expected if water had been present.

Modelling early asteroids as mud makes more sense, says Philip Bland at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, and his collaborator Bryan Travis at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.

Muddy mixture

When the ice, dust and chondrules came together, they wouldn’t have been compacted under pressure into rock straight away, says Bland. Instead, the ice would have been melted by decaying radioactive atoms present among the dust and gas, turning the mixture into a sludgy mud.

Their model shows that these mudball asteroids likely formed from dusty material left over after the sun’s formation, and that convection would take place, allowing the interior to lose heat easily. Soluble and insoluble elements would be mixed together, preserving the primitive chemistry of the asteroid. “It turns out that that explains many more features of interest than if it’s a rock,” says Bland.

The mud would have turned to rock later on, perhaps aided by gravitational pressure once the asteroid got big enough, or by impacts with other objects.

“I think it’s a very exciting idea,” says Tom Davison at Imperial College London. “From the way they’ve presented it, it’s almost inevitable that this would happen in at least some bodies.”

Matching our meteorites

Sara Russell at the Natural History Museum in London says the mudball model aligns well with what is found in meteorites. “We see from our meteorite collection that chondrules within a single sample are the same size as each other,” she says. That’s difficult to explain without this model, she says.

Two space missions are currently en route to asteroids formed in the early universe that could be former mudballs: NASA’s Osiris-Rex and Japan’s Hayabusa 2 (depicted above). Both of these will map the asteroids in detail and return a sample to Earth, potentially allowing us to test this idea.

Understanding how asteroids formed will help us explain how organic chemistry evolved in the solar system, and could even help in the search for life elsewhere, says Bland. “It will help us make more sophisticated models of where we can look for habitable worlds around other stars,” he says.

Journal reference: Science Advances, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602514

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• asteroids
• solar system

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15-07-2017 om 00:52 geschreven door peter  

NASA/JPL-Caltech

By Mika McKinnon

To detect traces of alien life, try to find their footsteps. The first signs of life on another planet may not be a complex signal captured by an antenna or images of a scampering creature on an alien horizon, but a track left in long-dried mud.

On Earth, palaeontologists study traces left behind when an organism interacts with its environment. A team led by Andrea Baucon at the University of Modena, Italy, suggests that astrobiologists should follow suit and search not just for living and fossilised creatures, but also the traces they may have left behind.

“You have a heck of a lot more chance of finding the trace of an organism than you do the actual organism itself,” says Lisa Buckley, a palaeontologist at Peace Region Palaeontology

Research Centre in British Columbia, Canada. “One animal will leave countless traces in its lifetime, but it’s only ever going to leave one body fossil.”

Expanded search

Baucon says the odds of finding alien life would be increased by hunting for footprints, infilled burrows, excrement or other signs that something living disturbed the sediments of Mars, Saturn’s moon Titan or other solid surfaces in the solar system.

Traces mean that evidence of soft-bodied organisms – which lack a skeleton that can mineralise into fossil – can also be preserved, expanding the types of creatures found in the geological record.

Furthermore, they could reveal the behaviour of extraterrestrial life forms. On Earth, fossilised footprints show the gait of long-extinct dinosaurs and burrows indicate the habits of clams. Traces on other planets could provide hints about how alien organisms interact with their environments.

Traces of life

Baucon and his team tested the concept by hunting for signs of life in high-resolution photography of the solid bodies within our solar system. They didn’t find aliens, but they did discover traces of life: human boot prints on the moon and rover trails meandering over Mars. However, trace fossils won’t always be as easy to identify as solid footprints in lunar dust.

“Just because an organism leaves the trace, doesn’t mean that all traces are beautifully preserved and easily recognisable,” says Buckley. “Unless you actually find the animal dead in its tracks or you actually see the animal making the trace, you can never be 100 per cent sure that specific animal made that trace.”

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It can also be hard to tell if traces are marks left by a life form or merely the relic of a purely geological process. A simpler organism is more likely to leave a simpler trace that can be confused with something that is not biological, like a squiggle or a crack in the rock, says Buckley.

Geological processes like metamorphism, weathering or erosion can also alter the rock, obscuring or altering traces. Definitively identifying traces is challenging enough on Earth without factoring in the many unknowns of an alien environment.

These techniques could open up new ways to discover alien life – if we can spot traces when we find them, that is. Would we recognise a footprint if we had never seen a creature with legs?

Journal reference: Earth-Science Reviews, DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.05.009

More on these topics:

• alien life
• astrobiology

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