Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
23-07-2017
Is this proof aliens exist? Sightings of suspected UFO spotted all over Cornwall
Is this proof aliens exist? Sightings of suspected UFO spotted all over Cornwall
People across the county have been stunned to see the shimmering black object flying overhead
BY LEE TREWHELA
A flying object has prompted speculation a UFO has taken to the skies above Cornwall.
It has been seen over Truro city centre, Carluddon clay tip, Fistral beach in Newquay, over the A30, above Roche Rock and by a surfer above the sea off the Cornish coast.
People have taken to social media in their droves after witnessing the weird object.
The first to spot it was surfer Kiefer Krishnan, who caught it on his Go-Pro camera, which he posted on his Instagram account on Monday.
The mysterious flying object has been spotted all over Cornwall(Image: Cornwall Live)
Photographer Shayne House spotted the weird object, which appears to disappear and rematerialise, over the A30, also on Monday. He filmed it for A30 and even managed a close-up. He declared on Twitter: "What the?! Is this an alien spacecraft over the A30?"
Harry Wild, who works in food marketing, was the next to upload footage of the unexplained object. She saw it over Fistral beach on Monday and asked on Twitter is anyone else had seen it. Many people commented it looked like a swarm of birds or insects.
There were three more sightings on Tuesday. The first was by Trudi, from Kent, who posted footage over Roche Rock, near St Austell, on Instagram. She wrote: "What on Earth is this in the sky? It looks like some kind of craft to me, has anyone else seen this?
People have taken to social media to question what the object is(Image: Cornwall Live)
Dan Goodwin took to Twitter when he captured footage of "this weirdness" at the clay tip near St Austell. His film was retweeted 78 times.
The final sighting, so far, was by a Steph – who goes by the name CocochicBlog – who caught the odd object on her phone above Truro while on the way to a hair appointment.
Cornwall Live has approached various agencies about these sightings but no one has any answers.
The Eden Project has launched its new Journey Into Space attraction on Thursday, July 27, and wondered if these supposed UFOs had anything to do with that.
A spokesman for the attraction said: "It's true we have a galaxy of ways to tell the story of space at Eden this summer. To coin a phrase … 'The truth is out there'."
Multiple sightings of bizarre 'UFO' are captured on video in Cornwall
Multiple sightings of bizarre 'UFO' are captured on video in Cornwall
A mysterious 'UFO' has been filmed several times in skies above Cornwall in recent days.
While some believe the shimmering, translucent, pulsating object is "some kind of craft", others believe it to be swarm of insects or birds - and it has even been suggested it could a publicity stunt for the new 'Journey into Space' attraction at the Eden Project.
Whatever it is, it has turned heads across the Duchy.
Over the last couple of days the strange black shape has been spotted over Truro city centre, Carluddon clay tip, Fistral beach in Newquay, over the A30, above Roche Rock and by a surfer above the sea off the Cornish coast, reports Cornwall Live.
The first to spot it was surfer Kiefer Krishnan, who caught it on his Go-Pro camera, which he posted on his Instagram account on Monday.
Photographer Shayne House spotted the weird object, which appears to disappear and rematerialise, over the A30, also on Monday. He filmed it for A30 and even managed a close-up. He declared on Twitter: "What the?! Is this an alien spacecraft over the A30?"
Harry Wild, who works in food marketing, was the next to upload footage of the unexplained object. She saw it over Fistral beach on Monday and asked on Twitter is anyone else had seen it. Many people commented it looked like a swarm of birds or insects.
There were three more sightings on Tuesday. The first was by Trudi, from Kent, who posted footage over Roche Rock, near St Austell, on Instagram. She wrote: "What on Earth is this in the sky? It looks like some kind of craft to me, has anyone else seen this?
Cornwall Live approached various agencies about these sightings but no one has any answers.
The Eden Project launches its new Journey Into Space attraction on Thursday, July 27, prompting speculation the UFO could be a publicity stunt.
A spokesperson for Eden cryptically told Cornwall Live: "It's true we have a galaxy of ways to tell the story of space at Eden this summer. To coin a phrase … 'The truth is out there'."
Awakening was billed as the place "where ufology and conspiracy meets spirituality and consciousness." I found Flat Earth truthers and Darth Vader instead.
I hadn't even entered Europe's biggest UFO convention before someone handed me a pamphlet linking Satan to aliens, featuring a quote attributed to Jesus that was apparently uttered by the Son of God sometime in September of 1985. I'd gone with my friends, Tom and Matt, to check out Awakening, billed as the place "where ufology and conspiracy meets spirituality and consciousness."
A month or so ago, Tom texted me a link to the event page. I knew I had to go as soon as I saw it—we wanted to challenge our deeply-held beliefs and see if they would stand up to all the ideas and theories we'd read about in obscure corners of the internet. Was the Earth flat? Are politicians actually reptilian humanoids? Why not go in with an open mind?
As Tom finished his cigarette, a man dressed as Darth Vader emerged out of the venue, followed closely by a troop of Stormtroopers. The Bowlers Exhibition Center in Manchester usually plays host to Elvis impersonator concerts and the Great Northern Ska Festival, but I doubted the 84,000 square feet hall had ever encountered this mix of sci-fi enthusiasts, New Age kooks, Flat Earth conspiracy theorists, and people otherwise willing to fork out anywhere between £15 to £100 for a ticket to drink in a Star Wars inspired cantina bar.
When Tom threw his cigarette butt on the ground, a woman handing out pamphlets to asked him to be a good lad and pick it up and put it in the bin. "They'll get ya," she added in a thick Mancunian accent, looking around conspiratorially.
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This was the first Awakening expo, but the packed crowd clearly didn't care that this was its maiden voyage. People stood around the entrance, spinning on their heels and deciding where to go first: the stalls selling everything from Pokémon toys, healing crystals and VHS tapes for 20 pence apiece? The Area 51 mock-up, complete with a UFO guarded by two alien "greys" with bulging, orb-like eyes? As we decided on a plan for the day, Tom nudged me, and I looked up to see a man dressed as Elvis circling the Pokémon stall, talking to a friend.
On our way to a talk titled "The Secret Life of Teas: A Journey Into Plant Intelligence and How It Can Guide Our Personal Evolution," we walked past two men dressed as men in black, complete with sunglasses and earpieces. "Cool costumes," I said to Matt. "Is that what they want you to think?" he replied.
Anne, the founder of Attic Teas, a Bristol-based tea company and cafe, took to the stage in front of about 25 people. Hydration, she informed us, was important to reach a higher state of being, and vibrations were key to reaching this higher consciousness.
We lined up to be served a small paper cup of tea and returned to our seats. According to Anne, it was a blend of Attic Teas' own making; once we'd drunk it, she would help us through a guided meditation routine. I downed mine and enjoyed the slightly herb-y aftertaste as Anne fiddled around with her laptop for a few seconds. "Notice the energy of your breath," a soothing voice radiated from the speakers. "Notice how it feels."
Darth Vader had clearly circled back to the venue; I could hear his distinctive breathing from somewhere in the crowd. Maybe he was a fan of artisanal teas and guided meditation. Despite the distractions, most of Anne's audience kept their eyes closed. I did feel relaxed and kind of spaced out, even though it sounded like Darth Vader was wheezing directly in my ear.
A rapt audience at a talk about how humanity was descended from lizards.
"We will definitely be attending next year," Anne said in an email after the event. "It was right up our street!" When I asked what a tea company had to do with conspiracy theories, and UFOs, she replied that she didn't really like the term "conspiracy theory" because it "sets an 'us versus them' tone."
"We should all be encouraged to question things and discover alternatives," she added. "For me, the power of possibility is what I find intriguing, the invisible world of vibrational energy, intention and ancient wisdom that comes from everything, not just humanity."
On another stage, Flat-Earth truther Darren Nesbit was just beginning a talk with the somewhat protracted title: "A Fixed Plane Earth Presentation. Exposing The Lies of NASA, The World Governments and Media."
Nesbit, a solemn bald man with a beard, admitted that a talk on the flat Earth might seem incongruous at a UFO convention, but explained that it was the perfect setting for it because everyone was here "seeking truth." As the name suggests, Flat Earthers believe that we live on a flat plane, instead of a round, sphere-like planet. (You might think that any number of NASA pictures would be enough to dissuade them, but Flat Earthers also believe that NASA is in on the conspiracy.)
The talk began with an image from The Truman Show (1998) featuring Jim Carrey ascending the stairs at the edge of his film set world, about to discover the truth of what lies behind his life. Its caption read: "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented."
Nesbitt's talk went down a storm: All the seats were taken, and people had lined up at the back to listen to him speak. After the event, he said that getting the Flat Earth message out was usually a lot harder. "I try to look for the right opening to bring it up, normally with humor," he said on email. "It's easier if you start with money, politics—things that people are familiar with and know there's something dodgy about to begin with."
According to its organizers, Awakening was a "phenomenal success"—tickets for their 2018 expo have already been released. The 2,500 people that walked through its doors, they said, were proof that "more and more people are seeking answers to the biggest questions of mankind and our true origins." One thing I do know is that I came out with more questions than when I went in, but maybe next year I'll just go for the tea.
MYSTERY surrounds a possible UFO sighting photographed by people on the northern beaches this month.
Narrabeen’s Gus Medero captured a close-up shot of the bizarre object and he was one of several witnesses at a loss to explain it.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has also described the object as “a mystery”.
Mr Medero was taking sunrise photos at Avalon’s Bangalley Head on July 5, about 7am, when his camera also captured a large white dot in the sky above the sun.
Gus Medero can take a mean UFO photo.
Medero said the unidentified object looked to have “four jet streams coming out” of it.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Mr Medero said.
“I can’t really give you a definitive answer (on what it was).”
A shot of the object above the sunrise at Dee Why. Picture: Blake HirstThe mysterious image in the sky. Picture: Blake Hirst
Mr Medero said the object — which was moving in upwards — was most likely a satellite, if he had to guess.
Cromer’s Blake Hirst also took photographs of the object, from Dee Why Beach.
He, along with others at the beach at the time, said he noticed the object move from one side of the rising sun to the other before it disappeared upwards into the atmosphere.
“It’s the strangest thing I’ve ever seen,” he said.
A different sighting on an object in the sky, in 2014. Taken at Dee Why. Picture: Don Jeffery
“I’m not one to believe in UFOs or ghosts or anything like that but it makes you wonder. Some guy made a joke that it was the North Koreans sending a missile.”
Asked if he thought it could have been a drone or a plane, Mr Hirst said: “The way it took off and shot up to space, it could have been a drone ... but I don’t know.
“It seemed it was going way too fast to be a drone — it was going faster than an aeroplane.”
Mr Hirst said it looked like lights were “flashing on and off” from the object.
Don Jeffery took a strange light hovering in the sky in 2014. Picture: Annika Enderborg
Belrose woman Bernice Camf also saw the object from her home and believed it was “space junk”.
A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority viewed photos of the object and said it was a mystery as to what it was.
At that time of the morning the light often makes things look different than they are,” he said.
LAS VEGAS - A computer hacker says he's seen evidence that suggests the United States military has its own secret space program, separate from NASA's space effort.
Gary McKinnon, a computer whiz from the United Kingdom, says he will talk about it at a Las Vegas symposium the weekend of July 21nd-23rd. According to McKinnon, in 2001, while he was searching online for evidence about UFO's, he accessed classified NASA computers a total of 13 times. But instead of evidence of UFO's, McKinnon found files about a secret space program operated by the U.S. Navy, he said.
McKinnon says he even found the names of the off-planet crew members. The president of the Mutual UFO Network, which meets in Las Vegas this week, told the I-Team what McKinnon uncovered.
"Basically, Donna Hare, who had worked for NASA, told him about specific buildings where they were airbrushing UFOs out of photographs before releasing them to the public for NASA, said Jan Harzan, of the Mutual UFO Network. "He wanted to go find that stuff, and in his search for that information, this is what he stumbled upon; literally a secret space fleet within the US Navy."
Mckinnon was arrested for the computer break in, and the U.S. tried to extradite him for trial, but after an 8-year legal battle, the British government refused to turn him over. Saturday at noon, McKinnon will speak via skype to the Mutual UFO Network Symposium, which meets in Las Vegas Friday through Sunday. Several other speakers will address different aspects of the alleged secret space program. For more information on the event go here.
A video filmed in the east end of Glasgow on Monday has attracted debate online over whether or not it captures a UFO.
The clip, uploaded by David Rhodes, shows a bright circular light in the distance.
Rhodes said in a comment posted online: “It disappeared right after the video ended and the sky was clear - spooky.”
Amateur photographs and videos of UFOs have a huge following, with the town of Bonnybridge, near Falkirk, being a mecca for enthusiasts from all over the world.
Earlier this year pictures of an UFO spotted near the Kelpies went viral.
Heather McEwan, from Falkirk, took some shots of the famous landmark in May and later spotted a strange object in the image she had taken.
Heather said: “I came home and it wasn’t till the following day when I was showing my daughter the pictures that she spotted a strange object.
“Curious I took the camera to Asda and had the picture blown up. I contacted UFO website BEAMS (The British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society) and sent the picture.
“They were very interested and asked me to send the original files which I did. After examining the files they have agreed that it is not a plane or drone, nor is it a reflection from a camera and have now put it up as a UFO on their website.”
I have a confession to make. If I were a member of Congress, I would ask serious questions like Al Franken and Elizabeth Warren do, but I'd also ask questions like the one that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher threw at Ken Farley on Tuesday. Farley is a Mars specialist from NASA. Rohrabacher is a congresscritter from California. The following dialogue ensued, from Ars Technica.
"You have indicated that Mars was totally different thousands of years ago. Is it possible that there was a civilization on Mars thousands of years ago?"
"So the evidence is that Mars was different billions of years ago. Not thousands of years ago."
"Well, yes." "And, umm, there would be, there's no evidence that, uhh, I'm aware of," Farley continued.
"Would you rule that out? See, there's some people... Well, anyway."
"I would say that is extremely unlikely."
Admit it. You'd ask about stuff like this, too. Hell, Bill Clinton wasn't in office for six months before he was asking the Air Force about UFOs. Hillary Rodham Clinton talked about them while running in 2016. One of the least damaging revelations by WikiLeaks that came out of the hack of John Podesta's account was Podesta's abiding interest in the same subject, via NBC News:
Podesta also got multiple emails from Blink-182 guitarist and UFO enthusiast Tom DeLonge. They revealed that Podesta took part in a documentary about extraterrestrials by DeLonge was producing. And they revealed that DeLonge was interested in introducing Podesta to people who shared their UFO obsession. "I think you will find them very interesting, as they were principal leadership relating to our sensitive topic," DeLonge wrote in an Oct. 26, 2015 email. "Both were in charge of most fragile divisions, as it relates to Classified Science and DOD topics." "Just looking to have a casual, and private conversation in person," the email states.
Also, I'd advise you all not to elect me president, because I would go completely bananas on this kind of stuff.
UFO in de lucht boven Groot-Brittannië houdt gemoederen flink bezig. Wat is dit?
UFO in de lucht boven Groot-Brittannië houdt gemoederen flink bezig. Wat is dit?
Groot-Brittannië was deze week in de ban van UFO’s. In het Engelse Cornwall is door verschillende mensen een vreemd vliegend voorwerp gefilmd, schrijven diverse media.
Veel mensen denken dat het een publiciteitsstunt was van Project Eden, een lokale toeristische attractie. Anderen geloven dat aliens het graafschap hadden bezocht.
Fotograaf Shayne House legde de UFO vast boven de A30. Op Twitter schreef hij: “Is dit een buitenaards ruimteschip boven de A30?”
Op dinsdag waren er meer waarnemingen. Beautyblogger Stephanie wist het mysterieuze object op de gevoelige plaat vast te leggen toen ze op weg was naar de kapper.
Ze twitterde: “Ik heb dit in Truro gefilmd voordat ik naar de kapper ging. Kan iemand dit alsjeblieft uitleggen?”
EEN WEEK VAN VREEMDE WOLKEN, UFO'S EN DIMENSIEPORTALEN ( VIDEO )
EEN WEEK VAN VREEMDE WOLKEN, UFO'S EN DIMENSIEPORTALEN ( VIDEO )
Naast alle andere vreemde verschijnselen in de lucht is het nu zo langzamerhand overduidelijk dat er ook intelligente activiteiten boven onze hoofden plaatsvinden.
In slechts enkele dagen tijd zijn er een aantal verschijningen van vreemde wolken met daar omheen vliegende UFO’s.
Voor wie zijn ogen openhoudt, valt er veel te ontdekken in de lucht. De meeste mensen raken begrijpelijkerwijs al opgewonden wanneer ze een onbekend vliegend object ontdekken, maar vaak is er nog veel meer te zien.
Daarom vandaag wat voorbeelden die door mensen grotendeels niet worden opgemerkt.
Zoals de volgende opname die enkele dagen geleden is gemaakt in Veliki Novgorod, een stad halverwege tussen Moskou en Sint Petersburg in Rusland.
Zo op het eerste gezicht lijkt het op een eenzame UFO in de nachtlucht, maar schijn bedriegt hier. Wanneer je goed kijkt naar de beelden hieronder, dan zie je weer een voor ons bekend patroon.
Links een donkere wolk die eigenlijk niet in het landschap thuis hoort en al met al zie je twee UFO’s die om de wolk heen dartelen. Iets dat we al veel vaker hebben gezien en ons ook door getuigen is verteld.
Eveneens een paar dagen geleden filmt een inwoner uit Kazachstan vreemde lichten die uit een wolk tevoorschijn lijken te komen.
Ook hier lijkt het weer als je naar de bewegende beelden kijkt, alsof de lichten thuis horen in de dikkere wolk. Ook hier zie je hetzelfde soort verschijnsel van ronddartelende lichten alsof het verkenners zijn.
Dan een vreemde, minder vaak voor komende UFO en wolk opname die op 18 juli genomen schijnt te zijn bij Jacksonville in de Amerikaanse staat Florida.
Vanuit de hemel zie je een heel vreemdsoortige, diamant-vormige wolk als het ware naar beneden hangen, met aan de rechterkant daarvan een UFO.
Maar, hier wordt het nog veel vreemder. Ook hier zie je de UFO een beetje rond de vreemde wolk vliegen, maar aan het eind van het iets minder dan anderhalve minuut durend filmpje, zie je de vreemde wolk naar boven opstijgen.
Alsof het geen wolk is, maar een gecontroleerd ruimteschip, wat het waarschijnlijk ook is.
Dan een ander fenomeen dat eveneens deze week gebeurde, in het Engelse Cornwall. Dit gebied is gelegen aan de uiterste zuidwest punt van Groot Brittannië en talloze getuigen hebben opnames gemaakt van iets dat er als volgt uit ziet:
Het beweegt ook en heeft in eerste instantie wel iets weg van een grote groep vogels die soms ook wel hele vreemde patronen in de lucht kunnen maken, maar men schijnt het erover eens te zijn dat het hier geen vogels betreft.
Wat is het dan wel? Zijn we hier getuige van weer een soort dimensieportaal in een wolk of is het iets totaal anders?
Naast alle andere verschijnselen die zichtbaar zijn in de lucht en waar we eerder over schreven, is nu toch zo langzamerhand wel overduidelijk dat er meer, voor de gemiddelde mens onbekende, beschavingen actief zijn op aarde.
Er zijn aardig wat voorspellingen gedaan die te maken hebben met de maand september van dit jaar. Zijn wij getuige van de aanloop daar naartoe?
It’s a mighty big universe, but ET hunters are zeroing in on these prime candidates, reports Andrew Masterson.
For all the hope and expectation, it is sobering to recall that, despite the best efforts of scientists and engineers, there is still no evidence that life exists anywhere beyond our own planet. There are, however, some planetary prime suspects. Here are the five places astronomers and astrobiologists think are the best chances for harbouring ET.
An artist’s impression of “rocky super-Earth” LHS 1140b and its red dwarf host.
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1. LHS 1140b
News of this planet, a “rocky super-earth”, was announced in the journal Nature in April. Orbiting a red dwarf 39 light-years from Earth, the planet sits in its star’s habitable zone and has an estimated mass almost seven times that of our own planet, leading to the assumption that it comprises rock encasing a solid iron core. According to Jason Dittmann of the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Massachusetts, US, LHS 1140b’s density means it might have survived the runaway global warming thought to denude many red dwarf planets. If so, it might now boast a stable atmosphere and liquid water. “This is the most exciting exoplanet I’ve seen in the past decade,” he said. “We could hardly hope for a better target to perform one of the biggest quests in science – searching for evidence of life beyond Earth.
Brightly illuminated Enceladus.
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2. Enceladus
Thanks to data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, Saturn’s moon Enceladus has emerged as every ET-hunter’s favourite target – mainly due to the strong likelihood that it features a subterranean ocean. In April this year, a team of scientists from the South West Research Institute (SWRI) in Texas, US, revealed a plume of hydrogen erupting from the moon’s surface. The plume may well be evidence of hydrothermal vents in the subsurface ocean – the same type of vents that support extremophile life on earth. “The discovery of hydrogen gas and the evidence for ongoing hydrothermal activity offer a tantalising suggestion that habitable conditions could exist beneath the moon’s icy crust,” says principal investigator Hunter Waite.
Artist’s impression of the planet orbiting Proxima Centauri.
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4. Proxima-b
This planet, discovered in August 2016, orbits the star Proxima Centauri, 4.2 light-years away from our sun, and is the nearest candidate beyond the solar system for hosting ET. Research in May’s Astronomy & Astrophysics journal found the chances of life existing on the planet may hinge on its orbital speed. Astrophysicists at the University of Exeter calculated that if Proxima-b rotates on its axis three times for every two times it orbits its sun, then the chances of it being habitable are substantially improved.
TRAPPIST-1 planet lineup
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5. Trappist-1
The announcement of the Trappist-1 system in February, with seven rocky planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star, sent ripples of excitement through astrobiologists everywhere. At least three of the planets looked like they were within the star’s habitable zone. The latest analysis, by Eric Wolf from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, US, has somewhat dampened expectations, suggesting that only one of the group has life-sustaining potential. But never mind: one chance in seven is still better than no chance at all.
This article appeared in Cosmos 75 - Winter 2017 under the headline "The five top places to look for extraterrestrial life"
No one who saw the objects had any idea what they were
"When I looked up I saw two large objects in the sky. They were jet black underneath. They were quite big and quite high up. They were sort of rolling over and over in the sky. At first I thought they were bits of a large balloon but they didn't move like that.
"Then I wondered if they were bits of plastic that had got up into the sky but they were moving faster than the wind which didn't make sense. One was almost a cylinder shape and the other was longer. It was very strange.
"There is no way they were aeroplanes. At this point I rushed indoors to get my camera and when I came back they had moved a bit further away but I managed to get a few snaps.
The objects were said to be moving 'faster than the wind'
"I have never seen anything like it before. I have no clue what they were. They seemed to be almost linked together as they kept at roughly the same distance apart the whole time.
"I watched them move off into the distance as they headed towards the cricket ground but then I lost sight of them. I wouldn't like to say what they were, I really have no idea."
The man has since showed the photos to "six or seven" people and no one has been able to hazard a guess at what they might be.
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Alien ships near Saturn? Ex-NASA scientist claims of their existence
Alien ships near Saturn? Ex-NASA scientist claims of their existence
AN ENGINEER who previously worked at NASA Ames Research Center has claimed UFOs are hiding in the rings of Saturn.
UFOs are hiding in the rings of Saturn.
A FORMER NASA engineer at the Ames Research Center claims aliens are in our solar system and they are creating rings around planets like Saturn.
Dr. Norman Bergrun, who previously worked at NASA Ames Research Center has recently made comments that UFOs are hiding in the rings of Saturn.
According to conspiracy theory channel, SecureTeam10, which obtained Bergrun’s comments, the alien ships have been here for some time.
“Alien spacecraft are proliferating in our solar system and around these ringed planets,” Bergrun is quoted as saying on the video.
Bergrun also noted the aircraft are by the other ringed-planets in the solar system, including Jupiter and Uranus.
SecureTeam 10, which has nearly 900,000 YouTube subscribers, often runs conspiracy theory-based videos. The organisation describes itself as the “source for reporting the best in new UFO sighting news, info on the space cover-up, and the strange activity happening on and off of our planet.”
Bergrun wrote the 1986 book entitled Ringmakers of Saturn. The book highlights that there are massive alien ships around Saturn (which Bergrun dubs “ring makers”), including ones which have actually created some of the rings around the gas giant.
Maybe there is intelligent life out there, but it’s napping at the moment.
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After decades of searching, we still haven’t discovered a single sign of extraterrestrial intelligence. Probability tells us life should be out there, so why haven’t we found it yet?
The problem is often referred to as Fermi’s paradox, after the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Enrico Fermi, who once asked his colleagues this question at lunch. Many theories have been proposed over the years. It could be that we are simply alone in the universe or that there is some great filter that prevents intelligent life progressing beyond a certain stage. Maybe alien life is out there, but we are too primitive to communicate with it, or we are placed inside some cosmic zoo, observed but left alone to develop without external interference. Now, three researchers think they think they may have another potential answer to Fermi’s question: Aliens do exist; they’re just all asleep.
According to a new research paper accepted for publication in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, extraterrestrials are sleeping while they wait. In the paper, authors from Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and the Astronomical Observatory of BelgradeAnders Sandberg, Stuart Armstrong, and Milan Cirkovic argue that the universe is too hot right now for advanced, digital civilizations to make the most efficient use of their resources. The solution: Sleep and wait for the universe to cool down, a process known as aestivating (like hibernation but sleeping until it’s colder).
Understanding the new hypothesis first requires wrapping your head around the idea that the universe’s most sophisticated life may elect to leave biology behind and live digitally. Having essentially uploaded their minds onto powerful computers, the civilizations choosing to do this could enhance their intellectual capacities or inhabit some of the harshest environments in the universe with ease.
Once you’re living digitally, Cirkovic explained, it’s important to process information efficiently. Each computation has a certain cost attached to it, and this cost is tightly coupled with temperature. The colder it gets, the lower the cost is, meaning you can do more with the same amount of resources. This is one of the reasons why we cool powerful computers. Though humans may find the universe to be a pretty frigid place (the background radiation hovers about 3 kelvins above absolute zero, the very lower limit of the temperature scale), digital minds may find it far too hot.
But why aestivate? Surely any aliens wanting more efficient processing could cool down their systems manually, just as we do with computers. In the paper, the authors concede this is a possibility. “While it is possible for a civilization to cool down parts of itself to any low temperature,” the authors write, that, too, requires work. So it wouldn’t make sense for a civilization looking to maximize its computational capacity to waste energy on the process. As Sandberg and Cirkovic elaborate in a blog post, it’s more likely that such artificial life would be in a protected sleep mode today, ready to wake up in colder futures.
If such aliens exist, they’re in luck. The universe appears to be cooling down on its own. Over the next trillions of years, as it continues to expand and the formation of new stars slows, the background radiation will reduce to practically zero. Under those conditions, Sandberg and Cirkovic explain, this kind of artificial life would get “tremendously more done.” Tremendous isn’t an understatement, either. The researchers calculate that by employing such a strategy, they could achieve up to 1030 times more than if done today. That’s a 1 with 30 zeroes after it.
But just because the aliens are asleep doesn’t mean we can’t find signs of them. Any aestivating civilization has to preserve resources it intends to use in the future. Processes that waste or threaten these resources, then, should be conspicuously absent, thanks to interference from the aestivators. (If they are sufficiently advanced to upload their minds and aestivators, they should be able to manipulate space.) This includes galaxies colliding, galactic winds venting matter into intergalactic space, and stars converting into black holes, which can push resources beyond the reach of the sleeping civilization or change them into less-useful forms.
Another strategy to find the sleeping aliens, Cirkovic said, might be to try and meddle with the aestivators’ possessions and territory, which we may already reside within. One way of doing this would be to send out self-replicating probes into the universe that would steal the aestivators’ things. Any competent species ought to have measures in place to respond to these kind of threats. “It could be an exceptionally dangerous test,” he cautioned, “but if there really are very old and very advanced civilizations out there, we can assume there is a potential for danger in anything we do.”
Interestingly, neither Sandberg nor Cirkovic said they have much faith in finding anything. Sandberg, writing on his blog, states that he does not believe the hypothesis to be a likely one: “I personally think the likeliest reason we are not seeing aliens is not that they are aestivating.” He writes that he feels it’s more likely that “they do not exist or are very far away.”
Cirkovic concurred. “I don’t find it very likely, either,” he said in our interview. “I much prefer hypotheses that do not rely on assuming intentional decisions made by extraterrestrial societies. Any assumption is extremely speculative.” There could be forms of energy that we can’t even conceive of using now, he said—producing antimatter in bulk, tapping evaporating black holes, using dark matter. Any of this could change what we might expect to see from an advanced technical civilization.
Yet, he said, the theory has a place. It’s important to cover as much ground as possible. You need test a wide set of hypotheses one by one—falsifying them, pruning them—to get closer to the truth. “This is how science works. We need to have as many hypotheses and explanations for Fermi’s paradox as possible,” he said.
Plus, there’s a modest likelihood their aestivating aliens idea might be part of the answer, Cirkovic said. We shouldn’t expect a single hypothesis to account for Fermi’s paradox. It will be more of a “patchwork-quilt kind of solution,” he said.
And it’s important to keep exploring solutions. Fermi’s paradox is so much more than an intellectual exercise. It’s about trying to understand what might be out there and how this might explain our past and guide our future.
“I would say that 90-plus percent of hypotheses that were historically proposed to account for Fermi’s paradox have practical consequences,” Cirkovic said. They allow us to think proactively about some of the problems we as a species face, or may one day face, and prompt us to develop strategies to actively shape a more prosperous and secure future for humanity.“We can apply this reasoning to our past, to the emergence of life and complexity. We can also apply similar reasoning to thinking about our future. It can help us avoid catastrophes and help us understand the most likely fate of intelligent species in the universe.”
O’Connell, who teaches screenwriting at DePaul University, wrote several episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (including the fan favorite “Who Mourns for Morn?”).
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Mark O’Connell (Credit: Lori Compas)
Below, an edited Q&A with the author.
Chicago Tonight: Has this been a lifelong interest for you?
O’Connell: Absolutely. My first conscious memory is from when I was about 3 years old, 1963, and for some reason my mom tuned in this new TV show call “The Outer Limits” and I remember being scared to death by the space aliens in the premiere episode, and that sort of set the theme for my entire life.
Also, my mom was a librarian at our village library [in Big Bend, Wisconsin] and she would take me in with her a lot of times. When she worked I always gravitated toward the UFO bookshelf.
Did Hynek’s feud with Carl Sagan lead Hynek to create the Center for UFO Studies [CUFOS]?
It’s hard to draw a direct line between the two, but I think it was definitely a factor, because Dr. Hynek’s first public announcement about the formation of CUFOS took place on national TV on “The Dick Cavett Show” right after Carl Sagan had just finished ridiculing all the UFO witnesses on the panel, and he [Hynek] basically waits for a quiet moment toward the end of the show and says “Well, I’m starting a research foundation,” which probably meant nothing to the people watching the Cavett show but it meant a lot to Sagan, because it indicated that Hynek had scientific support for his work.
Video: “Wild Chicago” visits the Center for UFO Studies in October 1990.
CUFOS is no longer in a storefront on Peterson Avenue in Chicago. Where is Hynek’s research currently?
Hynek’s career as a UFO researcher is in a bunch of beat-up old file cabinets scattered around between two basements and an attic in Chicago and Skokie. So it’s kind of a sad state of affairs. The people who are taking care of the files are very dedicated and sincere people but there’s only so much they can do, because there’s no money.
Were his inquiries into UFO research met with controversy in the academic circles of Northwestern University and elsewhere?
He was a superstar professor at Northwestern because in his heyday, during the ‘70s especially, he was just on TV constantly – he was on Tom Snyder’s “Tomorrow Show,” “The Tonight Show,” Dick Cavett. So Northwestern loved the attention that he brought to the university, but they didn’t always love being attached to the idea of UFOs. It was a complicated relationship.
Below, an excerpt from “The Close Encounters Man.”
THE INTOXICATING MIX OF FEAR AND FASCINATION
that defined the public’s infatuation with science and with Earth’s heavenly neighbors reached a crescendo with the approach of Halley’s Comet in the spring of 1910. Here was a scientific phenomenon that nearly every human being on Earth could see with his or her own eyes in the night sky—the ultimate shared experience— and that a great many human beings feared. For while the exact time and location of a comet’s appearance could, by 1910, be accurately predicted by science, its actual nature and purpose was still clouded in myth and superstition.
It was established fact that Halley’s Comet appeared in our skies about every seventy-six years and established lore that its appearance—the appearance of any comet, for that matter— brought about certain calamity and suffering. In 1066, most famously, Halley’s Comet foretold the Battle of Hastings and the violent struggle for the British throne that ensued, and after that even Shakespeare submitted that the comet was a bad sign for a sitting monarch. This proved to be the case again in May 1910, when King Edward VII succumbed to failing health and passed away only days before the comet’s nearest approach.
Even worse, scientists discovered that all humanity was at risk of following Edward to his doom. Not only was it determined that Earth would be passing directly through the comet’s tail for a six-hour period on the night of May 18–19, but astronomers at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, utilizing the new technique of spectroscopy to determine the temperature and chemical composition of a luminous body by analyzing the spectrum of light it emits or reflects, found the tail to contain a deadly substance: poisonous cyanogen gas. French astronomer Camille Flammarion was distressed enough by the Yerkes findings to declare that “the cyanogen gas would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.”
Finding themselves stalled out and stranded on a celestial railroad crossing with an express freight hurtling toward them, the people of Earth gave way to fear and prepared for the end. “Some people took precautions by sealing the chimneys, windows, and doors of their houses. Others confessed to crimes they had committed because they did not expect to survive the night, and a few panic-stricken people actually committed suicide,” reported science writers Gunter Faure and Teresa Mensing.
The most gullible bought “comet pills,” “comet umbrellas,” and gas masks, while the most faithful gathered nervously in houses of worship, prepared to meet their maker. Some, intent on going against the grain, were gripped by an inexplicable end-of- the-world euphoria: “A strangely frivolous mood caused thousands of people to gather in restaurants, coffee houses, parks, and on the rooftops of apartment buildings to await their doom in the company of fellow humans.”
One of those rooftops was in Chicago, Illinois, although its viewing party took place almost two weeks ahead of the global deathwatch of the eighteenth, and the guest list was rather small. On the night of May 5, Joseph and Bertha Hynek took their five-day-old son, Josef, to the roof of their West Side home to bask in the light of the comet. What the mood was on that rooftop, one can scarcely guess, but it must have come as some relief to Joseph and Bertha that they and their newborn son survived the fallout of the comet’s tail thirteen nights later. Nonetheless, little Josef, who was to be their only child, may have gotten a sprinkling of comet dust that night, because for the rest of his life, his path would be marked, and sometimes defined, by the appearance and movements of unusual heavenly bodies.
Destined to become a trusted spokesman for the space race, a paradigm-shifting pioneer in astronomical imaging, an authority on the study of UFOs, both lauded and reviled, and an unexpected cultural touchstone in the world of science fiction, Josef Allen Hynek could not help but spend much of his life and career out on a limb, reaching for the lights in the night sky. Born into a world where cunning and intelligent Martians built thousand-mile canals and spied on us through giant eyes, where scientific destruction could rain down on us from the skies without warning, where impossible flying ships could crisscross the skies with impunity, and where a spaceman was laid to rest in a small cemetery in north Texas after crashing his flying ship into a windmill, Hynek would, fittingly, grow up to embody the contradictory nature of scientific inquiry and investigation in the twentieth century, with its simultaneous dependence on and rejection of imagination and wonder.
It wasn’t just a boy who was born on May 1, 1910, to Joseph and Bertha Hynek. He was a spaceman.
Excerpt reprinted with permission. Dey Street Books, an Imprint of William Morrow.
Have you ever seen something you can’t explain in the night sky? According to a new book, 105 people have reporting seeing something unusual in the skies above Oneida County.
Syracuse-based authors Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa have put together a new reference book that takes a look at all the UFO sighting data in the United States since 2001 through 2015, and, spoiler alert: there are a LOT.
According to a press release, Cheryl Costa is a columnist for the Syracuse New Times in Syracuse, NY, retired aerospace industry information security professional, and a combat veteran who served in both the U.S. Air Force and Navy. Linda Miller Costa, M.L.S, worked in scientific research and publishing at The National Academies of Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency. She is currently employed by LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY.
According to their new book:
There were more than 121,000 eyewitness accounts during those years.
California led the nation in reports, at 15,836.
Florida, Texas, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York, Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio round out the top 10 states for reported eyewitness sightings.
They drilled down into the data to get really specific about Central New York sightings:
There were 105 UFO sightings in Oneida County, 23 in Madison County, and 31 in Herkimer County.
The City of Utica was responsible for 38 reports, while Rome made 19.
Sightings are more common in the months of June through October.
There were 468 UFO sightings in CNY, and 5141 in New York State.
I wonder why folks in Utica saw more? Is it because some of the buildings are a bit taller and we’re able to see a little farther? Or maybe it has something to do with the bars down on Varick Street and Saranac Thursdays…hmmm.
The Costas suggest, in a New York Times interview, that most sightings can be explained by some earthly phenomena but a few are truly inexplicable.
According to the New York Times article, entitled “People Are Seeing U.F.O.s Everywhere, and This Book Proves It”:
One of the most intriguing occurred on the afternoon of Sept. 17, 2011, when a man on the roof terrace of the New Museum on the Bowery photographed a fast-moving diamond-shaped object with windows and flashing blue and red lights against the TriBeCa skyline.
Are aliens real? All the evidence, sightings and conspiracy theories on whether extraterrestrials exist
Are aliens real? All the evidence, sightings and conspiracy theories on whether extraterrestrials exist
FROM Roswell to Rendlesham Forest in the UK, these are the most notorious stories of “alien encounters”.
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Children eye a model of an alien on display inside the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell.
DO aliens exist? The question has baffled people for centuries.
From Roswell to the Rendlesham Forest incident in the UK, these are the sightings and conspiracy theories which UFO hunters reckon are proof of extraterrestrial life.
How many alien and UFO sightings have there been?
Numbers of UFO sightings are currently flying at an highest, according to data cruncher and blogger Sam Monfort.
This woman says she can speak to alien
The alien “expert” reckons there have been nearly 105,000 recorded UFO sightings in the past 100-plus years. And Sam is far from the only believer on our planet.
From an ‘alien autopsy’ video dating back to 1995 to a video of fighter jets apparently chasing a UFO over the M5, there are hundreds of videos which people claim are proof of alien life.
There’s even a clip of a UFO supposedly attacking a Taliban compound, as well as ‘sightings’ in Peckham and Warminster.
Most of the videos have been debunked by experts. In the M5 clip, for example, the motorway lorries look like models.
While the Peckham UFOs were “almost certainly Chinese lanterns”, former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Nick Pope told The Sun.
He added that “true believers wouldn’t be dissuaded” by evidence the videos are fake.
Meanwhile, popstar Peter Andre claims to have seen “several UFOs” on a family trip to the Nevada desert.
The desert is also the site of America’s famous Area 51 — a highly classified military base at the centre of alien conspiracy theories, because of scores of sighting of UFOs in the area.
And artist Dave Huggins believes he lost his virginity to a busty alien called Crescent — and has fathered 60 ‘hybrid’ babies.
Some people even believe this picture of Jesus’ crucifixion — which hangs on the walls of the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Georgia — is proof of alien life thousands of years ago.
A still image from TV documentary "The Roswell Incident: Aliens Revealed".
Source:AFP
What is the Roswell UFO incident?
The Roswell UFO incident is a world-renowned conspiracy theory about the existence of aliens.
In the summer of 1947, a farmer discovered unidentifiable debris in his sheep fields just outside Roswell, New Mexico.
A local air force base claimed the debris came from a crashed hot air balloon, but many people reckon it’s really the remains of a flying saucer.
The debate rumbles on, with people continuing to make claims about “leaked US government documents”, which supposedly prove it was a cover-up.
What happened at Rendlesham Forest?
Dubbed the ‘British Roswell’, a similar incident happened in Rendlesham Forest in 1980.
On December 26, Military personnel from RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, in Suffolk, saw strange lights in a nearby forest — and three of them were sent out to investigate.
Two of them encountered a small, triangular shaped craft — which they later drew images of.
One man, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object.
Two nights later, Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and his team also encountered the UFO — and were left baffled by the entire experience.
A newspaper report about the Roswell saucer.
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Are there any other alien conspiracy theories?
Marilyn Monroe’s death remains shrouded in mystery, and a new conspiracy theory claims the actress was murdered by the US government — after threatening to reveal top-secret information about aliens.
The bonkers theory was revealed in UFO documentary Unacklowedged.
It is claimed that Marilyn made the threats after having affairs with both President JFK and Bobby Kennedy, and was seeking revenge as they both simultaneously ended things with her.
What is Britain’s secret UFO dossier?
An official government UFO dossier, referred to as Britain’s X Files, contains a cache of 15 unusual incidents in British skies.
It has now been released by the Ministry of Defence but, in news which is sending believers wild, they’re making it very difficult to get hold of.
Sun Online exclusively revealed that Freedom of Information requests in relation to the dossier could be blocked, because it is hushed up by EU law.
The University of Manchester and Breakthrough Initiatives are currently running their own £77 million hunt for alien life — but experts are yet to find any concrete proof.
There is certainly no shortage of alien hunters.
Source:News Corp Australia
What have NASA said about aliens?
NASA are the experts in space activity, but they remain notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to alien life.
However, they were recently forced to deny claims from hacking group Anonymous — that an alien announcement was imminent.
They have also rejected bizarre claims from former CIA case officer Robert David Steele — who said NASA are running a child sex slave colony on Mars.
To date, there is no evidence of life beyond Earth — but, when it comes to unexplained events, the finger is often pointed at alien activity.
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‘A civilization on Mars thousands of years ago’: Congressman stuns NASA scientists
‘A civilization on Mars thousands of years ago’: Congressman stuns NASA scientists
A California congressman baffled a panel of space experts testifying in Washington when he asked if it was possible that Mars was home to an ancient alien civilization. The panel told him that there was “no evidence” and it would be “extremely unlikely.”
A hearing before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on Tuesday was interrupted when Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) requested additional time to ask the panel of scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) if there was any evidence of archaic extraterrestrials living on the red planet.
“You have indicated that Mars was totally different thousands of years ago,” said Rohrabacher, who is the vice chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee and a member of the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee since he first entered Congress in 1989.
“Is it possible that there was a civilization on Mars thousands of years ago?” he asked.
Kenneth Farley, a professor of geochemistry at California Institute of Technology who worked on the Mars 2020 rover mission, fielded Rohrabacher’s question by first clarifying that “the evidence is that Mars was different billions of years ago, not thousands of years ago.”
“Billions… Well, yes,” Rohrabacher responded.
“There’s no evidence that I’m aware of,” Farley added before Rohrabacher interrupted.
“Would you rule that out? See, there’s some people… Well, anyway,”Rohrabacher said before being interrupted by Farley.
“I would say that is extremely unlikely,” Farley responded.
While it is unclear what Rohrabacher meant by “some people,” NASA recently had to respond to comments made by an InfoWars guest who claimed that there was a colony of kidnapped child slaves on Mars. NASA denied that there are any humans on the red planet.
Twitter erupted on Tuesday with many ridiculing Rohrabacher over his question.
That moment when you're not sure if the ancient Martian civilization question is a joke or if your agency's funding depends on your answer pic.twitter.com/Nh4Yxl6Sce
Some Twitter users were even able to combine Rohrabacher’s comments on Mars to previous comments he made that have led some to accuse him of being soft on Russia.
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Hypercivilisations and the primitive extraterrestrial hypothesis
Hypercivilisations and the primitive extraterrestrial hypothesis
More and more specialists admit that life is everywhere in Universe and three-four billion years of favourable conditions, lasting on a planet, ensures the emergence and development of intelligent beings and eventually the birth of a “technological civilization”, capable of building spaceships, for travelling to other inhabitable planets. These conditions, though rare, are found in many places in the immensity of the universe. On this basis, the extraterrestrial hypothesis became the easiest way to explain the UFO phenomenon.
On the other hand, prestigious ufologists, including Dr J. Allen Hynek or Jacques Vallée, questioned this explanation. They, along with die-hard sceptics, have mentioned, among others, that the distances between civilizations are too large for such cosmic travelling. But, as I have argued in my recent book “UFOs over Romania”, if we make an appropriate approach, we will discover that the most important distances between cosmic civilisations are not those in space but those in time.
I have estimated that in the history of our Galaxy could have come into being a number of technological civilisations, of which, maybe a few hundred survived the childhood diseases (that we face now on Earth) and still exist. But these civilisations have not arisen simultaneously. For example, in July 2015 it was announced the discovery at 1,400 light years from Earth, of the exoplanet Kepler 452b. It is similar to Earth, orbiting in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. That solar system is one billion years older than ours. That means that life and a possible technological civilisation could have appeared here one billion years earlier than on Earth. More generally, the first technological civilisations in the Milky Way could appear a billion years ago, or even earlier. Consequently, we understand that the possible civilisations in the Cosmos are far apart from each other not only in space, but also in time. In our Galaxy, these several hundred surviving civilisations, estimated above, have appeared, most likely, one in a several million years. Therefore, in the Milky Way there is no civilisation close to our level.
What will become of our civilisation (if it will survive) over millions (or billions) of years? It is impossible to imagine. We do not forget that we are not able to predict our future, even in a perspective of just several hundred years. How would the inhabitants of a civilisation that has outstripped us with millions of years look like? Maybe they became immortal, maybe time and space do not matter to them, they may have moved into a pervasive virtual reality, in other dimensions and so on. But the real answer is almost certainly even much more complex and defies our logic and imagination. We can accept however that they have been transformed into something else, beyond our understanding; into something we can name as a “hypercivilization”.
If somebody considers that we were too optimistic and the intelligent beings are much scarcer, we should add that our Milky Way is only one of at least 150 billion, more or less similar, galaxies of the Universe accessible to our instruments. And we have strong reasons to believe that there are other Universes too, maybe “parallel” ones, maybe from other states of matter, or parts of a “Multiverse” etc.
Schooling and science fiction, but not only, set our minds on patterns ignoring completely the possibility of hypercivilisations. Consequently, we face two “extraterrestrial hypotheses”: the first is what we might call the “primitive extraterrestrial hypothesis”, the other that of hypercivilisations.
The “Primitive Extraterrestrial Hypothesis” assumes that all cosmic civilisations are more or less at the same level of evolution. Therefore it nurtures some false preconceptions as: very long and difficult cosmic voyages, wish to land on the lawn of White House, equal rights, conversation, invasion, intervention, aid and so on.
This primitive view is completely implausible. If hypercivilisations exist (and they exist, with a probability of 99.999999%) they exploited, in the smallest detail, our Galaxy, millions of years ago, so they have known, for a long time, about our existence. This reasoning led Enrico Fermi, when he said, in 1950: “they should be here; where are they?” But neither he, nor many others, did consider that representatives of hypercivilisations could be here, among us, but could look so different from our expectations that we cannot recognise them. What prevents us to see them is, also, a set of widespread and deeply rooted prejudices, such as those below.
The preconception of equal rights. A difference of millions of years, or even hundreds of millions, is as huge as between us and a lizard or even an ant. If they are here (as it is highly probable), they can examine us, monitor our evolution, even contact us in some form, but they will never put them at the same level with us.
The preconception of conversation. As far back as 1959, Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison argued that if the difference between two civilisations is of millions of years, the probability that they could exchange ideas is zero. We interact sometimes with a lizard; but this will never be a conversation, they said.
The temporal provincialism (term used by Dr J. Allen Hynek). It states that, in opposition with the previous dark centuries, the last three-four hundred years brought us finally to the light of real truth and science. In this light, now we can decide what facts can be accepted and what will never be possible. If one hundred years ago or so we started to use the radio, some believe it will last as the best means of communications forever. If one hundred years ago Einstein postulated that the speed of light is a limit, no other physical law will be discovered until the end of times to avoid this limit and so on. As a peculiar example, we have the SETI preconception. According to it, even if the radio signals need thousands of years from one inhabited world to other, the cosmic civilisations will consider that signalling by radio waves will be, forever, the most appropriate means of contact and that we should spend money to search for them.
The preconception of invasion. For many people it should be normal if a cosmic civilisation arrives on Earth, it will attempt to conquer us by force. But the hypercivilisations probably knew, millions of years ago, that we are here; therefore they could invade us at any time and, in a certain sense, probably we are already invaded by them, for millions of years. Some “out-of-place artifacts” could be a hint of that.
The preconception of intervention and of aid. Some hope that the ET will help us (or at least some “chosen”) to overcome future catastrophes. But even us, if we discover a valuable piece of land, which has escaped from the human intrusion, we try to declare it a reservation, permitting only a very limited intervention, for scientific reasons. This attitude seems to be strengthening in time. A hypercivilisation observing the Earth and the human technological civilisation should act in a similar manner, avoiding to interfere in our evolution, but taking samples, making some experiments, having very limited contacts (not at all officially or as between equals) with only some individuals, selected upon their and not our criteria.
Therefore no settlement, no destruction, on one hand and no official contact, conversation or substantial help, on the other hand, are to be expected from highly advanced cosmic civilisations, even if they are here now.
The difference between a hypercivilisation and us could be as high as that between us and ants. Some entomologists who would propose to study the life of an anthill will try to disturb, as little as possible, its life. They could of course make experiments, examining or modifying some ants, or even taking them in remote laboratories, trying to create new “races” and so on. They will certainly try to find out, as much as possible, about the life of the anthill, but will not “present credentials” to the queen of the ants. If the entomologists have the technology, they will create some robot ants, sending them in to the hill and watching from a safe place, for example “on the computer screen”, the data transmitted by them. And if a robot ant would be lost in that mission, the incident would add a bit to the costs of research, without being a tragedy.
Artist’s rendition of the Milky Way’s billions of planets.
(credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO)
We can speculate that a hypercivilisation could attempt to realise, using genetic materials from the Earth, new races, with greater brain, with higher intelligence, adapted for some special tasks, etc. Therefore, many “races” described by the alleged abductees (the greys, the tall blonds etc.) can be such artificial human races or even bio-robots derived from the human species. They can be “produced” for example in reservations or bases somewhere outside the Earth. In the same manner we make new varieties of wheat from the traditional ones. Sometimes, the perfect variety of wheat became sterile or exposed to new diseases. At that moment the agronomists will try to find some appropriate genes in the pool represented by the primitive species of wheat, to improve the “perfect” variety. What if humans on Earth are the “wild pool” of genes, suitable to improve some artificial races elsewhere? In this case it will be no problem of compatibility between the visitors and us, as in some of the reported UFO abduction and hybridisation stories, but also, for example, in the biblical note: “In those days, divine beings and human daughters had sexual relations and gave birth to children. These were the ancient heroes” (Genesis, 6, 4). Some people suppose even that there is an ongoing external intervention in the evolution of the human race in order to improve it.
But obviously the comparison above – of mankind with an anthill – is slightly forced, as mankind is, nevertheless, a potential future hypercivilisation. The arising of a technological civilisation could be a very rare event in our Galaxy, occurring probably once in several millions of years. So it is normal for us to be of interest to the higher intelligences. But what could they expect from us?
A hypercivilisation will behave elusively and will not give us its knowledge and technologies; even more, it will forbid that. This is not, only, because of human aggressiveness and xenophobia, making from all new technology new weapons, nor only to avoid a “cultural shock”, which could virtually destroy all our social, economical, political, military, scientific, religious and cultural structures. I can speculate they have also some other reasons for that. Hypercivilisations could wait (and maybe harvest even now) our original ideas, viewpoints, creations (in art, science, philosophy, ethics etc.), produced as a result of millions of years of our independent evolution. And all that expected crop could be destroyed by a premature contact.
Some old, apparently absurd, stories may be an indication of such an attitude: the punishment for the apple of the forbidden tree of knowledge, the chaining of Prometheus, or the fallen angels (from Book of Enoch), thrown into a pit full of fire, because they were taught earthlings some skills.
Many abductees or contactees spoke about ethereal light balls as “deposits of knowledge and intelligence”, recording “everything in the Universe”, among others, the life of all (or of the most interesting) individuals. We have some hints for this when we speak about: the “Book of Life”, “Akashic Records”, “collective unconscious”, or even “morphogenetic field” etc. That “super-memory” could be written on a “spiritual” support, or on something around us we are not yet able to imagine. Sometimes, some people, under certain conditions, could gain access to this data warehouse. In that way we can explain: channelling, “xenoglossia”, “walk-ins”, “reincarnation”, ghosts, etc. In such a virtual reality, time is different. We can travel in the past, live events, without changing the real past, or we can see scenarios of the future (sometimes apocalyptical), without accepting fatality.
Of course, all the above is not a proof that the hypercivilisations are the explanation for everything strange and particularly for UFOs. It is only one hypothesis; but – I think – one which cannot be easily discarded.
A Michigan witness at Lennon reported watching and videotaping “three, massive, triangular-shaped crafts” that hovered under 100 feet off the ground, according to testimony in Case 84251 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Stretch of Corunna Road in Lennon, MI, where the incident occurred June 8, 2017.
(Credit: Google)
The reporting witness was in a vehicle moving along Corunna Road when he had the feeling he was being watched on June 8, 2017.
“As we broke the tree line, I noticed three lights in the sky from this distance I was at,” the witness stated. “It looked to be no more than 70-80 feet between the three lights. As we drove by, my mother stopped the vehicle to gain a better view. I began feeling mortified and terror consumed me. The craft hovered ominously, making no sound, pulsating a flurry of colors.”
Investigation illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness yelled for his mother to begin driving again as he did not feel safe.
“As we drove, another five minutes or less had passed, and I began feeling I was being watched again. This time, another craft had appeared over the tree line shinning blue-green very intensely. It then changed shape as it got closer, still making no sound. I began feeling the dread again.”
Investigation illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
They slowed down to get a better view of the craft.
“As it hovered, it stayed in position as we drove past. As with the previous craft, another five minutes or less had passed, then off in the same direction a small, white light from the horizon had grown from a dim white light to a star-sized object with red and blue and green and white flashing lights while still making no sound. We were the only ones on the road, so there was no background noise or disturbance. The two previous craft were a football field’s length away from us as we saw them no more than 50 to 100 feet above the ground hovering over trees.”
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness included this video clip with the report, which was filed on June 8, 2017.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
Michigan MUFON Chief Investigator Daniel Snow and Field Investigator Susan Gerberding investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown. Lennon is a Michigan village, population 511. 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.
Telescopen in Argentinië hebben een eerste glimp opgevangen van de volgende bestemming van ruimtesonde New Horizons.
Kijk goed naar de ster in het hart van deze beelden. Het ene moment zie je ‘m. Het andere moment niet. En daarna duikt de ster weer op. Hoe kan dat? Simpel: er beweegt iets voor langs. En dat ‘iets’ is 2014 MU69: de volgende bestemming van ruimtesonde New Horizons.
Deze beelden zijn begin deze week vanuit Argentinië gemaakt. Afbeelding: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI.
Het zijn bijzondere beelden. We zien hier een Kuipergordelobject dat meer dan 6,5 miljard kilometer van ons verwijderd is voor een ster (die nog verder van ons af staat) langs bewegen. En dat gaat allemaal razendsnel. Tussen de frames waaruit bovenstaand ‘filmpje’ bestaat, zit slechts 0,2 seconden.
Sterbedekking levert schat aan informatie op Wetenschappers gebruiken de beelden van deze sterbedekking om meer over 2014 MU69 te weten te komen. En dat is geen overbodige luxe. Tot voor kort was alleen ruimtetelescoop Hubble er maar in geslaagd om MU69 te spotten en zelfs die krachtige telescoop slaagde er niet in om de omvang en vorm van het Kuipergordelobject vast te stellen. Om toch te achterhalen hoe groot het object is, welke vorm het object heeft en hoe de directe omgeving eruit ziet (want dat wil je natuurlijk weten voor je er een 700 miljoen dollar kostende ruimtesonde langs laat scheren), hebben onderzoekers een slimme aanpak bedacht. Ze besloten 24 draagbare telescopen op enkele sterren te richten waarvan bekend was dat MU69 er voorlangs zou bewegen. Vervolgens probeerden ze – in juni vanuit Zuid-Afrika en begin juli vanuit Argentinië – die sterbedekking te vereeuwigen. Dat viel nog niet mee, onder meer omdat de sterbedekkingen maar van korte duur zijn. Toch is het onderzoekers gelukt om met meerdere telescopen de sterbedekkingen te spotten. “We hebben voor het eerst de vorm en omvang van 2014 MU69 kunnen zien (…) Dankzij dit succes kunnen we de komende scheervlucht met veel meer zekerheid gaan plannen,” aldus onderzoeker Alan Stern.
De komende weken zullen de gegevens die tijdens de sterbedekkingen verzameld zijn, verder geanalyseerd worden. Op 1 januari 2019 moet New Horizons langs het Kuipergordelobject scheren.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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