Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
19-08-2017
Studie VUB: robots kunnen nu ook eigen beschadigingen herstellen - HLN.be
Studie VUB: robots kunnen nu ook eigen beschadigingen herstellen - HLN.be
Net zoals mensen een snee in hun handen, een breuk of een spierscheur zelf verzorgen en herstellen, kunnen robots nu ook zichzelf helen. Dat blijkt uit de studie "Self-healing soft pneumatic robots" van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Op deze manier zullen robots in de toekomst langer en zelfstandig kunnen werken.
Het onderzoek richt zich op "soft robots" die gemaakt zijn uit flexibele en zachte materialen. Door hun flexibiliteit worden de soft robots ingezet voor talloze toepassingen zoals het grijpen van delicate en malse voorwerpen te grijpen in de voedselindustrie of in de minimaal-invasieve chirurgie.
Door hun zachte materialen garanderen ze veilig contact met mensen, maar zijn ze tegelijkertijd ook kwetsbaarder voor contact en schade door scherpe voorwerpen of overmatige druk. Het project aan de VUB gaf een grijper, een robothand en een kunstmatige spier in hun programmatie daarom een zelfhelende functie.
Nadat de prototypes gecontroleerd beschadigd werden, bleek dat het wetenschappelijke principe ook in de praktijk werkt. Realistische schade kon volledig worden hersteld, zonder zwakke plekken achter te laten. Zo konden de "soft robots" nadien hun taken weer volledig opnemen, terwijl ze in de realiteit vaak door mensen hersteld moeten worden of zelfs in de vuilnisbak belanden.
"Robots kunnen niet alleen lichter en veiliger gemaakt worden, maar kunnen straks ook langer zelfstandig werken zonder telkens gerepareerd te moeten worden", vertelt professor Bram Vanderborght.
De resultaten van de studie werden vandaag gepubliceerd in het vaktijdschrift Science Robotics.
Recent onderzoek werpt nieuw licht op de oorsprong van de eerste dieren. Daarin spelen reuzengletsjers een hoofdrol. Tijdens de periode van de 'Sneeuwbalaarde' verpulverden die gletsjers hele bergen en de daaropvolgende periode waarin de Aarde spectaculair opwarmde zou hebben bijgedragen tot complex leven. Daarmee was de dominantie van bacteriën voorbij.
Dit voltrok zich over een periode van miljoenen jaren: hele bergketens werden tot stof vermalen door gigantische gletsjers die de hele Aarde bedekten en daarna luidde een drastische klimaatverandering een nieuw biologisch tijdperk in.
Volslagen mysterie Tot zowat 650 miljoen jaar geleden werd het leven op Aarde gedomineerd door eenvoudige bacteriën, tot complexere levensvormen het overnamen. Waarom dit gebeurde, was tot voor kort een volslagen mysterie.
Australische en Duitse wetenschappers stellen nu dat ze het keerpunt hebben vastgepind waarop het leven op Aarde begon te evolueren naar een gevarieerd dierenrijk: van insecten tot dinosaurussen en mensen.
Deze "revolutie van ecosystemen" begon 700 miljoen jaar geleden, toen onze planeet de 'Sneewbalaarde' werd en zowat het hele aardoppervlak met ijs bedekt was.
Levensnoodzakelijke voedingsstoffen
Gigantische gletsjers vermaalden bergketens tot poeder, waarbij levensnoodzakelijke voedingsstoffen zoals fosfaten vrijkwamen. Daarna, tijdens een "extreme opwarming van de Aarde", smolt de Sneeuwbal en voerden rivieren die voedingsstoffen naar de oceaan.
Het nieuwe gematigde klimaat en de plotse toestroom van voedsel schiepen de perfecte omstandigheden voor het eerste complexe leven. Denk daarbij niet aan gewervelde dieren, laat staan zoogdieren. Het ging toen om algen, ons aller voorouders.
Hoe de onderzoekers dat uitvogelden? Professor Jochen Brocks, van de nationale universiteit van Australië, verklaart dat ze bewijzen hebben gevonden door gesteente uit die periode te verpletteren en er zo 'molecules van oude organismen' aan te onttrekken. "Die molecules leren ons dat het 650 miljoen jaar geleden interessant werd. Dat was een revolutie van ecosystemen, de opkomst van de algen".
Basis van voedselketen De bacteriën die tot dan de oceanen domineerden, werden weggedrongen door deze complexere levensvormen. "Deze grote en voedzame organismen lagen aan de basis van de voedselketen en zorgden voor de energie die nodig was voor de ontwikkeling van complexe ecosystemen waarin steeds grotere en complexere dieren, zoals de mens, konden floreren", stel Brocks.
De restanten van die oude organismen werden aangetroffen in afzettingsgesteente uit Australië dat dateert uit de periode net na het smelten van de Sneeuwbalaarde. Daarin werden tekenen van moleculaire fossielen gevonden. "Toen wisten we meteen dat we een baanbrekende ontdekking hadden gedaan, namelijk dat de Sneeuwbalaarde betrokken was bij de ontwikkeling van grote en complexe levensvormen", stelt professor Amber Jarrett van dezelfde universiteit.
Het onderzoek werd gepubliceerd in het vakblad Nature.
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VEEL BUITENAARDS CONTACT BOVEN NEDERLAND ( VIDEO )
VEEL BUITENAARDS CONTACT BOVEN NEDERLAND ( VIDEO )
Sommige mensen schijnen heel gemakkelijk contact te kunnen maken met beschavingen van andere planeten of dimensies, terwijl anderen nooit iets zien.
Dat ze er zijn, laten ze op alle mogelijke manieren weten zoals tijdens een nieuwsuitzending op de Amerikaanse zender FOX waarbij ze prominent voor het Capitool langs vliegen.
Het is toch wel mooi om te zien hoe zelfs tijdens mainstream nieuwsuitzendingen UFO’s door het beeld scheren, alsof ze draak steken met de wereldwijde doofpot rondom dit onderwerp.
Zo komt er tijdens een FOX nieuwsuitzending waar beelden van het Capitool in Washington worden uitgezonden, opeens een UFO door het beeld.
Het is dus ook geen klein onbeduidend bolletje wat dit keer over het scherm vliegt.
Maar, zoals gewoonlijk ziet het merendeel van de mensen het niet of doen degenen die het wel zien, net alsof het niet bestaat. Als we net doen alsof er niets is, dan is er ook niets.
In de volgende korte clip zie je aan het eind de beelden van het Capitool en de UFO die van links naar rechts door het beeld vliegt.
Maar, niet alleen in Amerika hebben ze bijzondere dingen, ook in ons land komen best spectaculaire dingen voor. En net zoals met bovenstaande nieuwsuitzending, zijn er maar heel weinig mensen die het echt zien.
Enkele maanden geleden publiceerden wij een paar UFO opnames van een dame die deze met de regelmaat van de klok waarneemt en filmt.
We hebben echter geen idee wie het is of zelfs waar die opnames worden gemaakt. Maar, ze verschijnen nog steeds zo goed als iedere dag en wat het ook is dat ze vastlegt, het is duidelijk dat het geen vliegtuigen of drones zijn. Alhoewel, op sommige dagen vliegen er ook wel eens vliegtuigen door het beeld, maar die zijn dan te herkennen aan de verlichting die ze voeren en het feit dat ze een bepaalde koers volgen.
Uit het patroon en de koers van de enkele vliegtuigen die langskomen is af te leiden dat ze niet ver van een vliegveld woont, want de toestellen die je zo af en toe waarneemt, lijken een pad en een koers te volgen die wijzen op een landing.
Op de meeste dagen zijn er echter geen vliegtuigen waar te nemen en het lijkt erop dat een soort afspraak heeft met die UFO’s.
Zoals de volgende die ze enkele dagen geleden heeft gemaakt:
Een andere aanwijzing dat er wellicht iets meer achter zit dan alleen maar “geluk” dat die objecten net opduiken op het moment dat zij staat te filmen, zie je in de titel van de volgende video, eveneens enkele dagen geleden opgenomen: “UFO´s vandaag mooi prachtig om te horen stem van alien op camera apart”
Het lijkt alsof zij één van die mensen is die bewust of onbewust contact hebben met bewoners van andere planeten/dimensies dan de onze en dat deze zich op bepaalde tijden aan haar laten zien en horen.
Vooralsnog blijft het een raadsel hoe iemand, ergens in Nederland, er in slaagt om dag na dag bijzondere opnames te maken van onbekende objecten in de lucht.
Nazis. Has there ever been a greater villain or evil force out there? Throughout history they have not only served to be the perpetrators of horrific acts, but also the target of numerous, countless conspiracy theories and strange tales. They really manage to fit whatever the creepy story calls for, and there are many such stories. Among the many are the rumors that the Nazis had a secretive, cover base in the cold depths of the continent of Antarctica, a tale which in itself has spread out to cover many facets of the weird. Yet there is one accounting particular that I feel is particularly surreal and odd. It is a harrowing and horrific tale of soldiers out in the frigid elements, fighting not only the landscape itself, but unknown entities dwelling within it. In short, it is the perfect story of Nazi bizarreness.
Before beginning, it is first perhaps best to first understand a little of the history surrounding the legends of secret Nazi bases buried in Antarctica. The Nazis did indeed come to this bleak, remote wasteland of a continent, but officially only once. The expedition in question was carried out from December 1938 to April 1939, and involved a small contingent sent to Antarctica aboard the vessel Schwabenland. While this all sounds rather ominous, the expedition was mostly exploratory in nature, involving marine science, collection of specimens, surveying, mapping in the region, in particular the western part of Queen Maud Land, and it also had the intention of staking a claim to whaling rights in the region, which were being monopolized by Britain and Norway at the time. The expedition went about its work and left, with no real evidence that they ever even began to build any sort of permanent base there, and this was the only time they went to Antarctica at the time, with further planned expeditions apparently scrapped with the coming of World War II. The next time the Germans would ever set foot in Antarctica was with a Russian expedition in 1959. Officially anyway.
Some of the original Nazi expedition to Antarctica
Of course since this is the Nazis we are talking about here, conspiracies of a German Antarctic base were immediately flying around even at the time, with the facility being claimed to be a gathering place for German occultists, scientists, and various members of shadowy groups such as the Illuminati. Such tales were only fueled by cryptic alleged statements made by German naval admiral Karl Dönitz, who would go on to be president of Germany in the wake of Hitler’s death, who said that they had just such a base, claiming it was an “invulnerable fortress, a paradise-like oasis in the middle of eternal ice,” as well as alleged reports from Argentina in 1945 that a German U-boat had been captured there that was found to be responsible for ferrying Hitler and other high ranking officlas from Germany to Antarctica. From here the legends and myths of a Nazi Antarctic base really took off, and covered the full spectrum of wild conspiracy theories, with claims ranging from the Nazis experimenting with UFO technology, to discoveries of ancient civilizations, to alien lizard people living under the ice, to stashing stolen artwork there, to claims that Hitler had been whisked away to the base for his own protection rather than dying, to the idea that it was meant to be the launching point for a shadowy, sinister new world order.
One of the events that really cemented the idea of a Nazi base in Antarctica into persistent lore was a very real operation called Operation Highjump, a 1947 American led military mission which was to be the largest scale expedition to the continent ever mounted, involving 4700 men, 33 aircraft, and 13 ships. The official reason for this massive operation was to train troops for fighting and test vehicles and equipment in extreme cold and icy conditions in case a war broke out with Russia in the Arctic, as well as to establish a U.S. presence in Antarctica to counter any Russian activity there. Of course, with such a large military expedition to the continent and rumors already swirling of a Nazi base there, it was not long at all before conspiracies were drawn to it like moths to a flame.
The main idea behind these theories was that the U.S. actually went there to hunt down and destroy any remaining German troops stationed at their Antarctic base. Despite the fact that the Germans had already surrendered and the war was over, the Nazis were claimed to still be operating in secret in Antarctica, and it was thought that Operation Highjump was sent to wipe them out once and for all. The theory really takes a sharp right turn into weirdness with claims that the U.S. force met resistance from Germans utilizing “flying saucers” and other assorted alien weaponry, forcing the Americans to resort to annihilating them with nuclear bombs. Although there is no evidence at all that this ever happened, and despite the fact that not only was Operation Highjump carried out nowhere near anywhere the Germans had ever been to, but that none of the 11 journalists embedded with the operation made even the faintest reference to such an outlandish event, this conspiracy has remained stubbornly entrenched in the spooky lore. Only adding to the whole conspiracy was the persistent presence of British troops in Antarctica in the years after World War II, which were seen as there specifically to fight the remaining Nazis, often teaming up with the Americans to do so.
Regardless of their many permutations, rumors of secret Nazi base in Antarctica refused to die, and only picked up speed in the years after the war, helped along by an array of rumors and hearsay. In a bizarre book in 1962 by an Albert Bender, called Flying Saucers and the Three Men, the former Air Force veteran claimed that he had been abducted by aliens and taken to a secret Antarctic base, which was populated by the descendants of the reptilian beings who had originally built the facility. These aliens told him that after World War II the Germans had also been there and that they had shared their technology with them. It is all very strange to be sure, but it and other stories like it served to spark far-out conspiracy theories even further.
Stories of a Nazi base in Antarctica have continued right up to the present. Although they have consistently been debunked, they just refuse to go away. It is all bizarre to say the least, and there is certainly more to it than I have gone over here, but this is just a brief history, and the purpose of this article is not to focus merely on the idea of a Nazi Antarctic base but rather a damn strange story connected to the legend, which was originally published in Nexus Magazine, Vol. 12, #5; August-September 2005, and which involves Nazi bases in Antarctica, British SAS special forces, and Bigfoot.
The story is related by a person who claims to have been an SAS officer, who states that in October of 1945 he was called to participate in a mission so secret that even his commanding officer had no idea what was really going on. After a stop at Gibraltar, he was then whisked away with a special unit to the Falkland Islands, during which time the troops were ordered to complete silence, forbidden from talking amongst themselves or speculating about why they were there. Upon arrival at the Falkland Islands, they then for one month engaged in intensive, grueling combat training in cold winter conditions and arctic warfare, under a Norwegian who had once served in the Norwegian Resistance.
At the end of this hellish training regiment, the group was finally properly briefed on their true purpose, bing told that they had been recruited for a ultra top-secret mission to investigate anomalous activity reported at the time from a British base in Antarctica at Maudheim, in eastern Antarctica, as well as wipe out the supposed German base lying there deep under the ice, which was referred to as “Britain’s Secret War.” They were told about the secret German base located near the British Maudheim base, and briefed on the various German activities and movements in the region, as well as on the numerous German officials who had supposedly been sequestered away in the subterranean compound.
Things steadily got weirder as the briefing continued. The group was told that the original scientists stationed at the base and their armed entourage had claimed that they had found a tunnel leading beneath the ice, followed by rantings over the radio talking of “Polar Men, ancient tunnels and Nazis,” but that shortly after this contact with the British base had then been lost after an ominous last transmission that allegedly proclaimed “The Polar Men have found us!” The special forces that were gathered there were told that they were first to investigate why radio contact had been lost with the base and who the “Polar Men” were, which all sounded like a rather spooky proposition that no one present felt comfortable about. They were also told that great pains were being taken to make sure that the Americans and the Russians did not get wind of the existence of a Nazi base in Antarctica. The unit was then flown over the icy, bleak landscape of Antarctica to a remote drop-off point located around 20 miles from the British Maudheim Base, all under complete radio silence. Once on the ground, they were on their own, the only assistance provided being some snow tractors left for them to use. They then stalked their way through the icy, inhospitable terrain, ever wary of an enemy attack, until they reached the supposed entrance to the abandoned base. Although they expected the place to be bristling with activity, it was found to be oddly silent, even devoid of life. The witness would described what happened then thus:
Instantly, our suspicions were roused, but, just like all the previous campaigns I had fought during the War, we had a job to do and so our personal fears could not shroud our judgement. As we split up to search the base, a trip wire was detonated and a siren sounded, destroying the silence and startling the whole force. A shout was soon heard, demanding us to identify ourselves, but the voice could not be targeted. With our guns raised the Major introduced us to the voice, and then, thankfully, the voice was given a body. The voice belonged to a lone survivor, and what he divulged made us more anxious and had us wishing that there were more troops amongst our ranks.
What this lone survivor told them was that there was another survivor in “Bunker One,” where he was trapped within with one of the beastly “Polar Men” they had heard about. The unit decided to try and make their way to this Bunker One and try to open it, much to the objections of the survivor they had found. They warily approached the door to the isolated bunker, wondering what sort of horrors might lie within, and argued amongst themselves over who would be the first one to enter. The witness would say of what transpired next:
Fortunately, I was not selected to enter; that honour was bestowed on the youngest member of our unit. He proceeded inside, hesitating slightly as he struggled with the door. Once inside, a silence descended across the base, followed moments later by two gunshots. The door was opened and the Polar Man dashed to freedom. None of us was expecting what we saw, and the Polar Man had fled into the surrounding terrain so quick that only a few token shots were fired. Out of fear and awe at what we had seen, we all decided to go into the bunker. Go in we did, and two bodies were found. The soldier who had pulled the short straw was found with his throat ripped out, and, more heinous, the survivor had been stripped to the bones.
The death of one of their own so soon after arrival unsettled and angered the unit, and they relentlessly grilled the survivor they had found for more answers. They asked him why the dead man they had found had been stuck in the bunker in the first place, and the frightened survivor chose to tell the tale from the beginning. It turned out that the area they were in was one of Antarctica’s “dry valleys,” devoid of ice and snow, which had facilitated the discovery of the “ancient tunnel.” After that, personnel were sent to see where the tunnel led, and it turned out to stretch for miles underground before ending in a vast cavern which was supposedly warmed considerable, perhaps by geothermal action.
The deeper the expedition had gone into the cavern, the more discoveries they had made. It seemed that the Nazis had been there, as they had set up artificial lighting and built hangars and docks for U-boats in the subterranean lakes that were found strewn about, as well as inscrutable excavations down in the dark with unknown purposes. Some Nazis had apparently still been roving about, as they proceeded to capture and kill several of the survivor’s expedition. The remaining expedition members fled and tried to block the tunnel, and this was when the Polar Men had descended upon them, generating that eerie last message. The creatures in question were described as being heavily built, hairy creatures with a mix of ape and human features and possessing supernatural strength and speed.
The unit managed to retreat and make their way back to their base, but they had then split up into separate bunkers. One of these survivors had then managed to lure one of the Polar Men into his bunker and lock it in, which had later led to his death and the destruction of his radio gear. The stammering survivor then cryptically told the SAS unit that these Polar Men were the result of Nazi experimentation, although no further details were forthcoming. This revelation was immediately shot down by the unit’s scientist as hogwash, but the others gave it weight and wanted to know what the “Polar Men” wanted, which was meant with the sinister response of to “wait, watch and wonder just how different we taste.” With this alarming revelation, a guard detail was allegedly set up to keep watch, and the next day they were ordered to investigate the tunnel for themselves. They made their way to the entrance in the dry valley which the survivor had told them about, and the witness would say:
Upon arriving in the dry valley we were all amazed, for we had been told that Antarctica was completely ice-bound and yet here we were in a valley that reminded me of being back in the North African Sahara. We were forbidden from even approaching the tunnel until the temporary base camp had been erected; and whilst the men constructed the base, the scientist and Major investigated the tunnel.
After a few hours, they returned to the now complete camp to chronicle what they had seen and what our next plan of action was to be. The tunnel was not an ancient passageway at all, claimed the scientist, although the Major added that the walls were made of smooth granite and looked infinite. We were informed that we would be able to make our own minds up after we had rested for the night.
Unfortunately, that night these strange creatures would come to them in the darkness, and one of them was apparently shot and killed when it ventured too close. The team scientist ascertained that the thing was some sort of hairy, cold adapted human, and the corpse was purportedly put on ice for further later study. When morning arrived, the Major and the survivor went on into the tunnel with a small contingent of men as the others waited behind to guard against further attacks and keep the mysterious corpse safe. They eventually reached the cavern the survivor had spoken of, which was artificially lit just as described, and they had to be careful to stay in the shadows and hide from the various Nazi forces that were buzzing about as they slowly went about laying mines and explosives. The unit was apparently spotted and pursued by both Nazi soldiers and the ape-like Polar Men, and the witness would describe the next part of the tale thus:
Upon reaching the tunnel, we needed to put an obstacle in the way to slow down our enemy long enough for the mines to detonate. Some mines were placed at the entrance to the tunnel, and when the explosions were heard we were hopeful that not just the base had been comprehensively destroyed but so, too, the enemy forces giving chase. We were wrong. The mines did indeed close the tunnel, but, for those Nazis and Polar Men behind, the chase was still on. In a fighting retreat, only three of the 10 escaped the tunnel: the Norwegian, the scientist and myself. The rest had fallen gallantly in making sure that some of the party survived.
The unit supposedly managed to escape to the entrance of the tunnel and close it for good with explosives, leaving little evidence that it had ever been there at all. The unit was subsequently disbanded and sent their own ways, after being told that they were strictly forbidden from ever discussing what they had seen. The team’s scientist would go on to try and explain it all away, saying that the Polar Men had merely been “unkept, insane soldiers,” but the rest of the group knew better. The mission in the meantime was swept under the rug and never made official.
It is all a very dramatic report and full of quite cinematic imagery, but it was truly reported as happening in just this way, and I have not embellished it at all. I have to say it is one of the more far-out accounts I have ever seen, and you can read a fuller transcription of this account here. It could be a completely fabricated story or just another of the many, many outlandish Nazi tales out there, but it certainly is quite an entertaining read. Make of it what you will. As ridiculous as this report may sound, it serves to add yet another twisted, very odd tale to the pile of Nazi lore out there already. Nazis just have a way of drawing such tales to them, and they have made the perfect villains and conspiracy targets for decades. Among all of the weird tales and conspiracies, I would have to say captive Bigfoot-like creatures at a secret base in Antarctica has to rank up there on the meter of the bizarre.
An ominous “cloud tsunami” rolls in along the coast of Sydney, Australia, on Friday, signaling the coming of severe storms for the area.
The massive formation, actually called a shelf cloud, stunned Australians, with a flurry of photos hitting social media.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the area with possible threats of large hail storms, heavy rains and forceful winds.
Powerful thunderstorms hit parts of Australia throughout the past week.
Meanwhile, New Yorkers and their neighbors enjoyed an unseasonably warm day on Friday, with record highs in the Big Apple, as well as in Connecticut.
The National Weather Service reported temps of up to 75 degrees in New York City, a high for Nov. 6 ( via nypost.com ).
amanda_knaptonJust been standing on the sheer cliff face with the sun setting amongst those epic clouds above me and whales breaching beneath me - intensely beautiful!
At first look the obscure cloud resembles a meteorite trail or tornado, frozen in time, seconds before the impending doom. At second glance,it looks more like a freakycloud formation.
João Paulo Magalhães captured the cloud in all its glory at 5pm in the city of Teixeira de Freitas, in the extreme south of the Brazilian state of Bahia.
Magalhães said while the “very unusual” cloud remained only about four minutes, people were worried it would form a tornado.
“It really looked like the entrance to a meteorite or something,” he said.
Other residents posted pictures of the freaky phenomenon, some calling it the “work of God”.
UFOs hidden in clouds - Flying Saucer emerging from cloud formation
UFOs hidden in clouds - Flying Saucer emerging from cloud formation
Many people throughout the world have captured images of strange looking UFO-shaped clouds.
The impressive thing is that, while in most cases the weird phenomenon can be explained as ordinary clouds, there are special clouds that seemed to be made artificially.
UFO-hunters are convinced that UFO’s are hidden inside these special cloud formations to monitor us.
The video below is an interesting compilation of UFO’s who have camouflaged their self inside unnatural looking cloud formations, including a flying saucer emerging from a cloud.
For any Mars exploration plans, surviving on the Red Planet is as important as getting there. This is why NASA is looking forward to its Mars 2020 Rover mission, which would include a test for making oxygen on the Red Planet's surface.
SMALL STEPS FOR MAN
Getting to Mars is the biggest space project this generation will ever see, that is until we actually land people on the red planet. Such a bold endeavor has a cornucopia of nitty-gritty details to iron out, in one way or another, before proceeding with a manned mission. The most obvious is the need to build rockets and spacecraft able to ferry probes and people. For NASA’s mission to Mars, this also entails the construction of a lunar space station that’ll serve as a jump-off point to the rest of the solar system.
Speaking to Futurism after the successful launch of SpaceX’s CRS-12 mission on Monday, NASA Acting Chief Administrator Robert Lightfoot, Jr. explained how getting to Mars requires small, incremental steps. “When you look at our plans today [for getting to Mars], we use the International Space Station as much as we can…for example, our life support systems, we test them up there.” He added that the Moon would be the next logical step in this process.
But getting to Mars and surviving there are two disparate yet equally important aspects of the same mission. “We try and make sure that, when we do a science mission or a human spaceflight mission, that we have a cross between the science and the human exploration,” Lightfoot explained.
MAKING LIFE POSSIBLE
Now no one wants to fly to Mars, land on the ground, yawp “I did it!”, turn around and head home. Space exploration is more than symbolic pretense. We want to stay on Mars and install a colony. Of course, the eventual plan is to terraform Mars, but that could take thousands of years to accomplish — if it’s at all possible. So, in Lightfoot’s mind, we ought to start small, and there’s nothing more basic for survival on Mars (or anywhere) than having a secure source of air to breathe. “The next lander that is going to Mars, Mars 2020, has an experiment where we are going to try and actually generate oxygen out of the atmosphere on Mars, clearly that’s for human capability down the road,” Lightfoot said.
The Mars 2020 Rover. Image credit: NASA
What we know is that the Red Planet’s atmosphere is thinner than Earths, with some 95.32 percent carbon dioxide, 2.7 percent nitrogen, 1.6 percent argon, and about 0.13 oxygen, plus a bunch of other elements in even smaller amounts. By contrast, the Earth’s atmosphere has 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen. Water won’t be much of a problem, though.
Is it possible to make oxygen from Mar’s atmosphere? NASA’s had plans for this since 2014, when it first revealed the Mars 2020 Rover. It involves bringing some microbial life to Mars, perhaps bacteria or algae, that would would use Martian soil as fuel and then pump out oxygen as a product. The oxygen could then be harnessed and made available for breathing and also to make rocket fuel for return flights to Earth.
It may sound like science fiction right now, but lab experiments have shown that it’s possible. That’s why the Mars 2020 Rover mission is crucial. Other efforts to make Mars habitable include plans of building a magnetic shield around the planet, similar to Earth’s, building a nuclear reactor, as well as growing potatoes like in Matt Damon in The Martian.
Accounts of close encounters of the third kind, in which human beings are directly confronted with alleged beings from another world, are by nature already quite bizarre and otherworldly enough as it is. There is no denying that this is an area that has pushed out and stretched against the boundaries of the strange and then some, yet there are some cases among these that truly rocket out into the outer fringes of the surreal and the deeply weird. From space goblins to floating brains, to amorphous blobs from beyond and spacemen that can fit in the palm of your hand, here we will look at the strangest of the strange when it comes to supposed contact with aliens from another world.
One of the earlier, weirdest, and indeed more famous of accounts that seem almost too bizarre to possibly be true is the infamous case of what have become known as the the Hopskinsville Goblins. The story begins at a remote, rural farmhouse in the wilds of Christian County, Kentucky, on Old Madisonville Road near the town of Hopkinsville on the night of August 21, 1955. On this quiet evening the Sutton family had a guest over by the name of Billy Ray Taylor, as well as his wife, June, and at at some point Taylor went outside to get some water from the well at around sundown. As he made his way to the well, he allegedly saw a bizarre sight in the air above, which looked like a streaking light that was spewing multicolored sparks and flames all over the place. The light passed overhead and then seemed to drop down into a nearby gully around 300 yards away, after which the humid night was infused with an eldritch glow, and the startled Taylor ran back to the safety of the house.
Once inside, he excitedly told everyone about what he had just seen, but at the time no one really believed him and they thought he was just messing around, despite his obvious fear and insistence that he had really seen it. However skeptical the rest of the family was, they would soon have a change of heart when the dog began to start barking wildly at some unseen trespasser outside in dark. Looking outside it was noticed that what was at first thought to be just a faint light that was seemingly bobbing about and approaching the house, and as it drew closer it was found to be one of the strangest looking creatures anyone present had ever seen or even imagined.
There hovering in the air was a small glowing humanoid figure around 3-feet in height wearing a metallic suit of some sort. It was described as having greenish skin, bulging eyes, and an oversized bald head with bat-like ears and a large, lipless mouth that stretched between them. The body was thin, and its arms were long, tapered and spider-like, tipped with what looked like talons. The frightened Suttons quickly did the human thing, gathering up a rifle and shotgun as the thing hovered around outside, and when it was close enough they fired upon it. Although they thought they had hit it, the creature merely flipped over and retreated into the shadows. Shortly after this, the head of another, either the same creature or another, peeked in through one of the windows, prompting another volley of fire that once again failed to do any noticeable damage to whatever it was, merely blowing out the window in a spray of shards of glass as the strange monster ran off.
Curious as to whether they had hurt the thing or not, Taylor and the Sutton father, John Charley Sutton, warily crept outside, guns at the ready, and took a furtive glance around. At first there was nothing, but then Taylor let out a scream as a clawed hand purportedly reached down from the eve of the back door and grabbed at his head, managing to gain a fistful of hair as Sutton dragged his friend back inside and slammed the door. The oldest Sutton son, 24-year-old Lucky Sutton, then opened the door to take a potshot at the roof with his shotgun, after which the creature floated down to the ground, apparently unhurt, and scampered off.
As bizarre and terrifying as this all was, there soon appeared other entities similar in appearance to the original one they had seen out in the night, and it became apparent that they were under siege by a whole group of the creatures, an estimated 10 to 15 of them. For the next three hours the sounds of the rural Kentucky night were punctuated by the staccato blare of gunfire as the mysterious floating monsters made passes at the house as the family cowered within and took shots at them. For the most part the bullets whizzing out into the murk either failed to hit their mark or were ineffectual, with the few that did hit occasionally letting out metallic pings, like “a coin hitting a metal bucket,” as if the creatures were made of steel. All of this happened against the backdrop of a faint green haze glowing from somewhere in the distance, perhaps the location where the “spaceship” had gone down in the gully.
Since the home had no phone service, the family were at the mercy of the monsters lurking outside, unable to call anyone for help and slowly running out of ammunition. At some point the activity died down, and the creatures’ relentless, seemingly aggressive yet ultimately inscrutable passes at the house ceased. Seeing this as a chance to get out of there, the family and their guests piled into their cars and sped away towards town, where they promptly informed rather bemused police of what had happened to them. As skeptical as they were, officers nevertheless made their way out to the farm to take a look, but found no sign of the reported “goblin” creatures other than the damage inflicted by all of the gunfire. In some accounts, Air Force personnel also came to the farm to investigate the strange occurrence, although it is unclear if they found anything of note.
The police left without incident and the family returned to their home, but soon after a second attack would occur, as glowing faces began to bloom out of the darkness once again, much to their horror. Once again the bizarre beasts came at the farmhouse, floating about, popping up to peer into windows, and scurrying around on the roof as the family once again opened fire, and this went on until dawn, when whatever the strange intruders were stalked off and this time did not return. From the very following day the dramatic, spooky encounter was splashed all over newspapers of the area, fanning out to become national news as reporters and the curious converged upon the farm. Faced with reporters and monster hunters camping out on their property hoping to see the creatures for themselves and the relentless, never-ending media attention focused on them, the family sold their farm and moved off.
It seems like something out of a horror movie, just so incredibly dramatic and bizarre in nature, and it has remained one of the oddest UFO accounts ever. To this day, the Hopkinsville Goblin incident has been picked apart and written of countless times, and has become one of the weirdest and most well-known alien encounters out there. What happened to these people and what was it that came down to seemingly attack them? What did these things want? Were they ever even real at all? If they were, then whatever they were, one things seems clear; they certainly seemed to have not received the warmest welcome to Earth.
Other such inexplicably bizarre alien encounter reports were made throughout the 1950s as well. In 1957, a retired teacher named Mary Starr allegedly woke up in the middle of the night in her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, in the U.S., to see a piercingly bright light outside of her bedroom window. The object was described as floating over her yard, and seemed to be a large craft of some type with rectangular windows on its sides. Fascinated by what she was seeing, Starr then supposedly gazed into one of the windows and could see two decidedly bizarre entities moving about within, which were about 4-feet tall. According to the witness, they had translucent cubes for heads holding within them bright red cores, rubbery bodies that were like “skirts,” and handless appendages akin to tentacles. After a moment of observing the outlandish beings, the windows then apparently vanished as if they had never been there, and an antenna or protrusion of some sort came out of the craft, after which the whole thing began to glow before silently shooting straight up into the night sky.
The following year, in 1958, there was a weird account from Sweden, in which witnesses Stig Rydberg and Hans Gustafsson claimed to have been driving along a remote road through a thick fog at around 3 AM when they spotted a UFO measuring around 12 feet across and ringed by four “jelly bags” that were blue in color and which jumped wildly about through the air around the main craft. As the two men stopped their car to look on at the unusual sight, the four entities then reportedly descended and attacked them, demonstrating some sort of suction power with which they grabbed the witnesses and began pulling them up to the craft. The two horrified witnesses claimed that they had tried to struggle to get away, but that their arms and legs merely sank into bodies composed of gelatinous ooze that smelled like “ether and burnt sausage.” Somehow Rydberg managed to squirm free, after which he laid on the car horn and this apparently startled the creatures enough for them to drop the other man and retreat into their ship to take off into the night at astronomical speeds. The two men would say that they felt sick for days after the encounter with the “space blobs.”
The 1970s really brought a wealth of such incredibly bizarre apparent alien encounters, and some of the best can be found in this era. On August 19, 1970 there was a curious encounter in the country of Malaysia. On this day, six children were apparently playing in a forested area when a tiny UFO measuring around 3 feet across came down to land in a clearing, after which five miniature, 3-inch tall humanoids descended out of the vehicle wearing odd blue spacesuits and one in a yellow helmet adorned with spikes. The diminutive beings then marched over to a tree and seemed to be busying themselves with installing some sort of mechanical device to a tree. One of the kids apparently went over and tried to grab one of the little creatures, and it promptly shot at him with a “ray gun,” injuring his thigh. Interestingly, there have been many other such sightings of mini UFOs and humanoid beings in Malaysia as well, with the witnesses typically being children.
The following year, on August 17, 1971, there was a perhaps even stranger alien encounter from Palos Verdes, California. Witnesses John Hodges and Pete Rodriguez were allegedly headed to their car at 2 AM when they saw off through the trees a faint, mysterious glow emanating from beyond. They got into their car, switched on the headlights, and their suspended in the beams of light from their vehicle were what were described as two large, blueish entities that looked just like disembodied human brains, hovering right in the middle of the road and surrounded by clouds of vapor that seemed to cling to them. The larger one of the “brains” was described as having a prominent red eye set within it, and this is the one that began to move towards the vehicle for purposes unknown.
The two terrified men understandably got out of there as fast as they possibly could, and it was later noticed that they had 2 hours of missing time. In 1976, Hodges would undergo hypnotic regression after years of being plagued by nightmares and wondering what had happened to them out on that lonely road. Under hypnosis, Hodges revealed that he had dropped Rodriquez off at home and arrived at his own house to find the larger brain waiting for him there, which had then telepathically spoken to him. He claimed that he had then been taken into the brains’ ship to some sort of “control room,” where it was revealed that they were merely telepathic tools being used by other aliens, this time more akin to the “grey” aliens typically described in more mainstream reports, although in this case they stood over 7-feet tall.
These master aliens then apparently showed Hodges various images of nuclear war and destruction as they explained that the human race had grown too powerful for its own good. He was also shown another planet that had been completely destroyed by another race that had met the same fate, and was admonished that humankind would be the “instruments of their own fate,” telling him, “Take the time to understand yourselves. The time draws near when you shall need to!” Hodges then says that he felt a potent buzzing sensation in the back of his head and found himself back in his own car. In the years after, he became convinced that these aliens had implanted him with what he called a “translator cell,” and that he received frequent telepathic communications from them through this device, in which they made dire predictions such as an apocalyptic war in the Middle East and the future widespread use of nuclear weapons. Whether you think this story and its “space brains” has any truth to it at all or not, you have to admit it is a damn strange tale all the same.
Also quite unusual is the encounter reported by Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, who on October 11, 1973, were fishing on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. As they cast their lines out they suddenly began to hear a series of strange hissing, whirring noises coming from behind them. When they turned around to look, they apparently came face to face with an egg-shaped spacecraft hovering over the river not far away, and a door then opened to regurgitate forth baffling creatures that really defy any easy classification. There standing in the doorway of the craft were three 6-foot tall beings with grey leathery, wrinkled skin and thin, carrot-like protrusions jutting out of their heads. The hands and feet were said to be fused into pinchers, and the eyes and mouths were just slits.
Just as they were reeling from the shock of seeing such a thing, the men realized that they had been somehow paralyzed by an unseen force, which kept them glued to where they were. Stuck as they were, the two witnesses made easy pickings for the bizarre aliens, who plucked them up and dragged them aboard their unearthly vessel. Hickson would later claim that he was brought aboard the ship and brought to a room with a blinding light, in which he was subjected to an examination by an oval shaped robotic probe of some sort. After around 20 minutes, the two were deposited back onto the bank of the river and the mysterious craft floated off. Hickson then claimed that he had found Parker on the riverbank as well in a rather disheveled state, crying and praying to God.
The two went back to their car and sat there in shock for an undetermined amount of time, before heading home. They would later contact the Kessler Air Force Base and the local sheriff with their bizarre tale, which went about as well as you would expect. No one really took the eyebrow-raising story seriously, but the whole case inevitably became splashed about local newspapers soon after. Hickson in particular went on to entertain questions on the matter and even help publish a book about the whole incident called UFO Contact at Pascagoula, while Parker ducked out of the limelight, and eventually moved out of state to avoid the constant media attention. For is part, Parker claimed that he had passed out at the beginning of the ordeal and only come to after it was over, only recalling bits and pieces under hypnosis.
The case was picked apart by some of the most eminent UFO researchers at the time, who for the most part agreed that the men at least really believed that what they had seen was real. The case of the Pascagoula aliens has since been met with a good amount of skepticism. It has been called everything from a shared hallucination to a flat-out lie, which has only been made more complicated by the fact that Hickson’s account only seemed to get more and more bizarre and complex as time went on. It has been suggested that they had a shared imaginary experience, that they were drinking, or even that they were just tripping balls on LSD at the time, but no one really knows what happened except the two witnesses themselves.
Moving on into 1977, there is the weird account of 19-year-old Lee Parish, who on January 27, 1977, claimed that he spied a rectangular UFO hovering in the sky before he was whisked into the air by a beam of light while driving home. He then found himself upon some sort of spacecraft, where he was presented to three very bizarre beings. One of the entities was described as being like a black “tombstone” 20-feet high, with a robotic arm extending from its front. Another of the things was smaller and looked like a red prism of some kind, while yet another was 6-feet tall and described as being a motionless white prism with two robotic arms and a “wedge-like” head, which produced strange noises like teeth being brushed.
At the time, Lee had the strong feeling that the white one was the leader, although he did not know why he had this impression. During the encounter, the red one was seen as the most anxious, seemingly afraid of their human guest and hiding behind the others, although it did at one point extend a robotic looking arm to try and touch him, which produced a vague, unsettling sensation of coldness and pain. Eventually, the three beings lined up and seemed to merge together, after which Lee felt a warmth permeate his body and soon found himself back in his vehicle, along with 38 minutes of missing time. It is all rather odd to say the least.
Moving on to 1977 we come to Paciencia, Brazil, where 33-year-old bus driver Antonia La Rubia was allegedly walking to work when he spied a rather strange object shaped like an “enormous wide hat” sitting in a field Soon after he noticed the mysterious craft, it lashed out with a thin, bright beam of light, which caught La Rubia and whisked him away to a room of pure white. Within this room were various mechanical-looking beings with bright scales and arms like tentacles, as well as egg-shaped bodies and heads adorned with what appeared to be antenna. Instead of legs, the strange creatures reportedly sat upon rigid pedestals of some sort.
After this initial meeting, the frightened La Rubia claims that he shouted at the creatures, which seemed to have the effect of making them cower in fear. He lost consciousness again, and when he awoke he says that he was now subjected to a series of images projected onto the wall, including various surreal scenes such as a dog being melted and a train entering a tunnel, the meaning of which could not be discerned. At one point during this screening of oddities and grotesqueries one of the robot beings apparently reached out to draw blood from one of La Rubia’s fingers, after which it splashed it across a wall to form a pattern of three circles and an “L” shape. At this point, La Rubia claims he lost consciousness once more, and when he awoke he was purportedly back in his car, vomiting and dizzy from the whole puzzling ordeal.
In Italy the following year there was the case of Pier Zanfretta, of Italy. On December 6, 1978, Zanfetta was working as a security guard doing his rounds when he apparently saw four bright lights approaching him. He went out to investigate with pistol drawn and saw that the source of the lights were reptilian being standing 10-feet tall, with green, saggy looking skin, heads adorned with spines, and in place of a mouth a strange breathing apparatus. Upon noticing him, these entities purportedly shot out some sort of heat beam, which sent Zanfretta running in terror. He would later be found by another security detail passed out on the ground. When the area was checked there were found to be a series of large footprints imprinted into the ground and scorched branches in the trees, lending some credence to the dramatic story the witness would weave.
Zanfretta would go on to outline several more encounters with the lizard-like beings, in which he would be brought aboard their spacecraft and experimented upon. They would also introduce themselves as beings from the planet “Teetonia.” During his last visitation in December of 1980, the aliens supposedly brought him to a mothership fashioned of a crystalline substance and shown aliens resembling frogs which were being held captive in tube-like structures and which the reptile aliens claimed were an enemy species. Other captured alien specimens in the menagerie aboard the ship were shown as well, including bird-like creatures, tiny reptilian saurian beasts, and some sort of troglodyte that looked somewhat like “a caveman.”
These are just some of the weirdest reports of alien encounters I have come across, and there are certainly others as well. What are we to make of such cases? These are creatures that do not fit at all into the traditional reports of UFO occupants, and one wonders just what this could all mean. Are these different species or races? Something from another dimension? Are they shapeshifters that just take whatever form they want, regardless of how outlandish? Or are these just the result of hallucinations, psychosis, hoaxes, tall tales, or just the effects of drugs and alcohol? Whatever the answer to these questions may be, such insanely bizarre reports certainly add color to the already colorful world of close encounters, and hint that this is a phenomenon that is perhaps even stranger and more inscrutable than anyone can guess.
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Will truth about aliens soon be known? UFO sightings TRIPLE in just 16 years
Will truth about aliens soon be known? UFO sightings TRIPLE in just 16 years
THE number of reported UFO sightings across the United States has more than tripled since 2001, it has emerged.
The statistics are compiled in a new book written using the databases of two of the world's biggest organisations dedicated to logging UFO and alien reportings and encounters across the globe.
UFO Sightings Desk Reference,” written by Cheryl Costa, 65, and wife, Linda Miller Costa, 62, from Syracuse, New York, used 121,036 eyewitness accounts across the states recorded separately by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) between 2001 and 2015 to chart the increase.
The book looks at the timing and location of incidents and types of UFOs seen which include flying circles, spheres, triangles, discs, ovals, and cigars. According to Cheryl, a former military technician and aerospace analyst, and Linda, a librarian at Le Moyne College and a former librarian at the National Academy of Sciences, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency, MUFON and NUFORC decided most sightings were explainable, but a small amount can still not be explained.
The key findings from the book were that overall numbers of UFO sightings more than tripled by 2015, from their average levels in 2001.
Harvard scientists have suggested that methane on ancient Mars may explain why it was once warm enough to support liquid water on its surface. The findings are published in Geophysical Research Letters.
What made Mars warmer in its history is a bit of a mystery. Previous theories have leaned towards carbon dioxide, which, as we know from Earth, is a decent greenhouse gas. But even though CO2 makes up 95 percent of the thin Martian atmosphere today, it can’t account for a much thicker atmosphere necessary to support significantly warmer temperatures in the past.
So, the team modeled how methane might behave in the atmosphere of Mars billions of years ago, when the Sun was 30 percent fainter than it is today (known as the faint young Sun paradox). Various geological processes are thought to have been releasing much more methane into the atmosphere back then than today.
This methane would have been slowly converted to hydrogen and other gases, a process that is sort of happening on Saturn’s moon Titan today. When the effects of methane, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide were combined, the team found they did a better job at warming early Mars than carbon dioxide alone by trapping incoming solar radiation.
“This research shows that the warming effects of both methane and hydrogen have been underestimated by a significant amount,” said Robin Wordsworth from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in a statement.
In 1977, the late astronomer Carl Sagan suggested Mars could have been warmed by hydrogen in its past. But this is the first time we’ve got a good estimate of the effect it might have had, alongside methane.
And we might get a better insight into methane on Mars soon, too. ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is currently in orbit around the Red Planet, with the goal of working out where the methane in the Martian atmosphere is coming from. And this may have implications for life existing on other planets.
“Early Mars is unique in the sense that it’s the one planetary environment, outside Earth, where we can say with confidence that there were at least episodic periods where life could have flourished,” said Wordsworth. “If we understand how early Mars operated, it could tell us something about the potential for finding life on other planets outside the Solar System.”
We met at Mike’s Place, the greasy spoon near Kent State with the X-Wing parked out front. It seemed appropriate – it was fifty years ago, this week, that James Evans’ father chased some kind of spacecraft into Pennsylvania. They seated us inside the converted school bus near the back of the place. He ordered biscuits and gravy and told me about what his old man saw, back in 1966.
“He didn’t like to talk about it,” James said. “And when he would, he always said, ‘I wished I’d never seen it.’”
Dale Spaur was a deputy Sheriff for Portage County in 1966. Big dude – 6’7”. Wicked sense of humor. Former gunner on a B-51 in the Korean War. He was known on the force for having a bit of a lead foot, reprimanded for taking turns too fast in his cruiser on Main Street in Ravenna. He worked the night shift with his partner, Wilbur Neff, known as “Barney” to friends. Spaur was a good cop with a good family – a wife and two boys at home. But everything changed the morning of April 17, 1966.
Spaur and Neff were called out to an abandoned vehicle on the side of State Route
224, near the town of Atwater, at about 5 a.m. It was an isolated stretch of country road, lined with trees.
They got out of their cruiser to investigate and that’s when Spaur spotted a glowing craft rising out of the woods. It reached treetop level and then began to move toward them, according to an article that appeared in the Record-Courier the following day. It was shaped sort of like an ice cream cone tipped on its side, a little pointed end sticking up in the back, and it made a sound like “an over-loaded transformer.” When it came close, they could feel the heat baking off of it. Slowly, it started east, down 224.
The two deputies returned to their cruiser and radioed in to dispatch. The sergeant on duty told them to follow it. The chase was on.
The faster Spaur pursued in his cruiser, the faster the object accelerated. Soon they were speeding east down old Route 14 into the rising sun, the odometer edging past 100 mph. Occasionally they’d have to stop for lights or traffic, though, and when they did the craft slowed down, too, like it was playing a game of “cat-and-mouse,” Spaur would later explain.
Along the way, Spaur and Neff were joined by East Palestine police officer, Wayne Huston, who followed in his own car. They chased the UFO all the way into Pennsylvania, where Spaur was finally forced to stop for gas. Another cop – Frank Panzanella – was already waiting at the service station. The four officers watched the UFO dart straight up into the sky and disappear.
By the time Spaur made it home, the local newspapers had the story. The national news picked it up and within three days, they were getting calls from Japan. At the station, Spaur and Neff were ridiculed. Neff took it in stride but it really got to Spaur, who lost twenty pounds from the stress of it all. Then men from Project Blue Book – the military’s Cold War UFO-investigation department – arrived. After interviewing everyone, they determined that the object the four police officers saw that morning was the planet Venus refracted through fog.
By all accounts, Spaur suffered an emotional breakdown after this. Within six months, he’d lost his job. His wife left with the children. In October, a Plain Dealer reporter found him living out of a motel, subsisting on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. “Thirty-four years old and what do I have? Nothing,” he said. “Who knows me? To everyone, I’m Dale Spaur, the nut who chased a flying saucer.”
James didn’t know who his real father was until he was thirteen – after the divorce, his mother remarried and James was adopted by his stepfather. He was watching Good Morning America with his older brother, Dale Jr., when a tall man was invited on the program to talk about flying saucers.
“My mother came in and said, ‘That’s your dad.’” The boys wanted to meet him so Daneise called the television station and the show’s producers passed along her message. Two weeks later, Dale Spaur pulled into the driveway in a big pickup truck. “I remember watching him get out,” said James. “It was like he unfolded out of the truck when he stepped out, he was so big.” During his visit, he told his boys about his adventures since leaving Portage County.
It had taken time, but Spaur had finally gotten his life back together. Not long after that reporter found him at the motel, Dale moved to West Virginia, where he worked in the mines. He had a terrible accident there, falling seventy feet down a shaft, breaking his back. He lay in a coma in the hospital for several days, eyes wide open but completely out of it. “A nurse was supposed to sit with him the whole time,” said James. “But she only lasted a couple hours. I guess she came running out of the room, screaming, ‘This man is possessed by an alien!’”
When he recovered, Spaur moved back to Ohio and settled in Rocky River. He remarried, opened a bar called the Avenue at West 65th and Detroit Road in Cleveland, and on rare occasions told stories about the UFO he called “Floyd,” which he claimed visited him sometimes when nobody else was around.
Later, he did a little consulting for Stephen Spielberg’s movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but walked off set in a huff after he found out the main character was not a cop, said James. The film opens with a police officer chasing a UFO shaped kind of like an ice cream cone on its side.
Spaur died on April 4th, 1983, never recovering from severe pneumonia after catching the flu. James remembers an endless stream of people he’d never seen before at his father’s funeral. He never knew his father had so many friends. “I look up and five Eskimos are standing there. Where did they come from? How did they know my father?”
I asked James what he thinks after all these years. What did his father see in the skies above Portage County fifty years ago?
“He believed what he saw was extra-terrestrial,” said James. “I believe him. Nothing we made could fly like that. In Pennsylvania, it hovered over his car. He could feel the heat coming off it. Then it went straight up and disappeared. Poof. Gone! And remember, my father served in the Air Force. You couldn’t put a bird up there he doesn’t recognize.”
If there’s definitive proof, the military has it. Spaur and Neff kept a camera in the cruiser. They took dozens of photographs. But when Blue Book came to town, the G-men confiscated the negatives. They have never been released.
A video was submitted to a UFO investigation organization showing something zipping in front of the camera during a shot of the U.S. capital building on Fox News.
The video was submitted earlier today to the Mutual UFO Network’s (MUFON) UFO reporting database. The witness did not have much to say. The report simply says, verbatim: “It flew infront of the capital building while I was watching Fox News.”
A video and a screenshot from the video were also included. The witness did indicate the sighting took place in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, presumably the city where the witness lives.
Screenshot of video provided by the witness.
(Credit: MUFON)
In the video, the object appears to be cylindrical and shiny. It moves quickly and steadily from the bottom left of the screen to the upper right. The shape of the object might not indicate the true shape and size of whatever passed in from of the camera. The object was likely close to the camera, making it seem very large. Since it was moving so quickly, the object’s shape could also appear more elongated than it actually is.
Closeup of object in video.
In many cases such as this, birds and bugs are mistaken for something more mysterious. Motion blur cause the object to appear elongated and large, like a giant flying saucer. However, often in those cases wings flapping cause the object to look like it has ridges or multiple appendages. That effect cannot be seen in this video. I uploaded a version of the video slowed down to 10%, seen above.
So what is it? I dunno. I suppose it could also be a hoax or maybe a yellow frisbee. Take a look at the video yourself and let us know what you think.
A video was submitted to a UFO investigation organization showing something zipping in front of the camera during a shot of the U.S. capital building on Fox News.
The video was submitted earlier today to the Mutual UFO Network’s (MUFON) UFO reporting database. The witness did not have much to say. The report simply says, verbatim: “It flew infront of the capital building while I was watching Fox News.”
A video and a screenshot from the video were also included. The witness did indicate the sighting took place in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, presumably the city where the witness lives.
Screenshot of video provided by the witness.
(Credit: MUFON)
In the video, the object appears to be cylindrical and shiny. It moves quickly and steadily from the bottom left of the screen to the upper right. The shape of the object might not indicate the true shape and size of whatever passed in from of the camera. The object was likely close to the camera, making it seem very large. Since it was moving so quickly, the object’s shape could also appear more elongated than it actually is.
Closeup of object in video.
In many cases such as this, birds and bugs are mistaken for something more mysterious. Motion blur cause the object to appear elongated and large, like a giant flying saucer. However, often in those cases wings flapping cause the object to look like it has ridges or multiple appendages. That effect cannot be seen in this video. I uploaded a version of the video slowed down to 10%, seen above.
So what is it? I dunno. I suppose it could also be a hoax or maybe a yellow frisbee. Take a look at the video yourself and let us know what you think.
On the modern battlefield, it appears drones are here to stay — and the latest development may see them bearing arms far more precise than a bomb or grenade.
Duke Robotics, a private company that specializes in military technology, announced the TIKAD last week, an eight-rotor drone platform capable of carrying and shooting infantry small arms. The TIKAD is one of the small drones to carry direct-fire weaponry like rifles and grenade launchers. Although the company appears to be in the first stages of development, it represents a new force on the battlefields of the future.
Smaller military drones, like the U.S. military’s fixed-wing RQ-11 Raven, are usually used for observation, not direct combat (with the exception of small, kamikaze drones). While guerrilla forces in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, and other battlefields have utilized commercial quadcopter drones to drop bombs and spy on enemy positions, firing a projectile weapon like a gun from a small airborne platform is incredibly difficult. The recoil of a typical infantry rifle would heavily distort any shot the drone could take, which the TIKAD claims to solve with a complicated rig that it claims “takes the full force of the weapon’s recoil” and readjusts its aim to fire again.
Duke says it has already supplied an early version of the system to the Israeli military, which used it in combat, according to Defense One. They also report the Israeli military has agreed to purchase several TIKAD units.
Duke Robotics was founded by Lt. Col. Raziel “Razi” Atuar, a 20-year veteran of the Israeli military and a reservist in the Israeli Special Forces, who told Defense One he wanted the flying weapons system to address the challenges of precision targets in a dense, urban battlefield. For instance, a larger drone, helicopter, or artillery system can take out hostile forces on top of a building but usually not without significant destructive force.
“You have small groups [of adversaries] working within crowded civilian areas using civilians as shields,” Atuar told Defense One. “But you have to go in. Even to just get a couple of guys with a mortar, you have to send in a battalion and you lose guys. People get hurt. The operational challenge, it bothered us.”
The company’s promotional video — it’s still openly trying to attract investors — features a few shots of a weapon firing from the platform. It’s clear it still has a lot to address to make it a viable weapon (accurate sustained fire at range is important, the video does not show that), however.
Merkwaardige witte dwerg is mogelijk het restant van een mini-supernova
Merkwaardige witte dwerg is mogelijk het restant van een mini-supernova
Tim Kraaijvanger
De witte dwergster LP 40-365 reist op hoge snelheid door de Melkweg en heeft een vreemde samenstelling. Onderzoekers beweren dat deze witte dwerg mogelijk het restant is van een supernova-explosie.
De witte dwerg bevat geen koolstof, helium en waterstof. Waarschijnlijk is de witte dwerg het overblijfsel van een type Iax-supernova. “Een supernova van het type Iax is eigenlijk een mini-supernova,” vertelde onderzoeker Ryan Foley in 2013. “Het is het onderdeurtje van de supernova-familie.”
Er zijn twee soorten supernova’s, namelijk type Ia en type II. Bij een type II supernova spreken we over de explosie van een zware ster. Een type Ia ontstaat in een dubbelstersysteem. Een witte dwerg die rond een rode reus cirkelt, kan materie van die rode reus naar zich toetrekken. Hierdoor neemt de massa van de witte dwerg toe. Wanneer de massa van de witte dwerg te groot wordt (en de Chandrasekhar-limiet overschrijdt) stort de witte dwerg ineen, waarna deze explodeert.
Toch is er nog een derde variant, waarbij de witte dwerg de explosie overleeft. Zo’n mini-explosie kan op twee manieren ontstaan. Mogelijk ontbrandt de buitenste laag helium eerst, waardoor er een schokgolf door de witte dwerg gaat. Een andere optie is dat de witte dwerg door de druk van de laag helium eerst ontploft. Eén ding staat wel vast: in veel gevallen overleeft de witte dwerg het geweld – in tegenstelling tot witte dwergen van het type Ia – wel. “De ster is gehavend, maar blijft bestaan.”
LP 40-365 zou wel eens zo’n restant kunnen zijn. Er missen namelijk elementen die bij een type Iax-explosie inderdaad verloren gaan, zoals helium. Daarnaast is de witte dwergster erg licht en vliegt het object op grote snelheid door ons sterrenstelsel. Ook dat zijn twee aanwijzigingen dat de ster het overblijfsel is van een mini-supernova.
Burgerwetenschappers Gerald Eichstädt en Seán Doran hebben data van de Juno-ruimtesonde gebruikt om een fantastische foto van Jupiter te maken.
Op deze foto is het noorden links en het zuiden rechts. De Grote Rode Vlek verdwijnt bijna uit beeld, terwijl de zuidelijke wolkenbanden rechts in beeld verschijnen. De foto is gemaakt op 10 juli 2017 op een afstand van 16.535 kilometer van de wolkentoppen van de grootste planeet van het zonnestelsel.
NASA biedt de data van Juno aan op deze website. Iedereen kan deze gegevens downloaden. Zo maken sommige burgerwetenschappers mooiste kunstwerken, zoals de onderstaande foto van Isabela de Gois Laufer met de titel ‘Van Goghs nachthemel’. Rechts zie je de vier onbewerkte foto’s die De Gois Laufer heeft samengesmolten.
De foto van Eichstädt en Doran is net zo spraakmakend. De 16.350 kilometer brede Grote Rode Vlek spat haast van het scherm. In het echt ziet deze eeuwigdurende storm er qua kleur iets minder fel uit. De Grote Rode Vlek is een storm die al meer dan 350 jaar woedt.
Sinds juli 2016 draait de Juno-ruimtesonde om Jupiter. Dankzij deze ruimtemissie hebben onderzoekers al veel geleerd over de gasplaneet. “We zijn veel te weten gekomen over de kern, compositie, magnetosfeer en polen,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Scott Bolton anderhalve maand geleden. “Daarnaast zijn we veel nieuwe foto’s rijker.”
Forse aardscheerder schiet op 1 september langs onze planeet
Forse aardscheerder schiet op 1 september langs onze planeet
Tim Kraaijvanger
De 4,4 kilometer grote planetoïde Florence vliegt over twee weken langs de aarde. De afstand bedraagt op 1 september zeven miljoen kilometer.
De afstand tussen de aarde en Florence is dus gelukkig veel groter dan tussen planetoïde 2012 TC4 en de aarde. Planetoïde 2012 TC4 schiet op 12 oktober op zo’n 44.000 kilometer langs de aarde. Toch is het appels met peren vergelijken. 2012 TC4 is een brokstuk met een doorsnee van slechts zestien meter. Florence is een forse jongen van 4,4 kilometer. Dat is toch wel andere koek! Stel, Florence zou botsen op de aarde, dan zou dit grote gevolgen hebben voor onze planeet.
“Sinds we zijn begonnen met het volgen van aardscheerders is er nog nooit zo’n grote planetoïde als Florence zo dicht in de buurt van de aarde gekomen,” zegt manager Paul Chodas van NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. Dit biedt natuurlijk ook veel mogelijkheden. Zo gaan allerlei observatoria foto’s maken van Florence, waardoor onderzoekers veel meer te weten komen over deze planetoïde. Zo gaat het Arecibo-observatorium radarbeelden maken, waardoor details op Florence zichtbaar zijn van slechts tien meter groot.
De planetoïde is in maart 1981 ontdekt door Schelte Bus van het Australische Siding Spring-observatorium en is vernoemd naar de Britse verpleegkundige Florence Nightingale. Gelukkig hoeven we niet bang te zijn dat de planetoïde binnenkort tegen de aarde knalt. De baan van de planetoïde is goed vastgelegd. Tot het jaar 2500 komt de planetoïde niet dichterbij de aarde dan zeven miljoen kilometer. Dat is toch wel een geruststelling.
Eerste private maanlander zet mogelijk pas in 2018 voet op de maan
Eerste private maanlander zet mogelijk pas in 2018 voet op de maan
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De deadline van de Google Lunar X Prize is – wederom – een beetje opgeschoven: naar maart 2018.
Het zou in 2017 enorm spannend worden rond en op de maan. Maar liefst vijf private partijen zouden proberen om vóór 31 december 2017 de maan te bereiken en zo de Google Lunar X Prize (zie kader) in de wacht te slepen. Maar alles wijst er nu op dat het dit jaar niet meer gaat gebeuren, nu de wedstrijdorganisator de deadline – opnieuw – heeft uitgesteld. De private partijen hebben nu tot 31 maart 2018 de tijd om voet op de maan te zetten.
In 2007 werd de Google Lunar X Prize aangekondigd. Wie er voor het eerst in slaagde om voor 2015 een rover op de maan te zetten, deze rover minimaal 500 meter op de maan te laten afleggen, foto’s en filmpjes op de maan te maken en naar de aarde te sturen, wint een slordige 25 miljoen euro. Hoewel velen enthousiast aan de slag gaan, blijkt de deadline van 31 december 2015 te ambitieus. En dus wordt deze opgeschoven naar 31 december 2017. Maar ook dat blijkt nu dus niet haalbaar.
De partijen Op dit moment zijn nog vijf private teams in de race voor de hoofdprijs: SpaceIL, MoonExpress, Synergy Moon, TeamIndus en Hakuto. Alle partijen hebben inmiddels een raket weten te vinden die hun rover kan lanceren. Maar blijkbaar zijn er toch enige twijfels of dat wel op tijd gaat lukken. En dus is de de deadline nu wat opgeschoven. De private partijen moeten hun missie nu uiterlijk op 31 maart 2018 hebben afgerond. In theorie kan er nu dus ook in 2018 nog gelanceerd worden.
Nieuwe prijzen En dat niet alleen. De wedstrijdleiding heeft nog twee Milestone Prizes toegevoegd die de partijen kunnen winnen. De eerste is de Lunar Arrival Milestone Prize. Deze is weggelegd voor partijen die een baantje rond de maan trekken of dat overslaan en direct op de maan landen. De prijs? 1,75 miljoen dollar. De tweede prijs is de Soft Landing Milestone Prize. Om deze prijs – zo’n 3 miljoen dollar – te kunnen innen, moet een partij vanaf het maanoppervlak data naar de aarde versturen en zo bewijzen dat deze zachtjes op de maan is geland. Deze – en andere Milestone Prizes – worden verdeeld onder alle partijen die de mijlpalen voor 31 maart 2018 weten te bereiken.
De allereerste maanlanding lijkt dus nabij, maar wel ietsje verder weg dan we tot begin deze week dachten. Dat is misschien wat teleurstellend, maar laten we niet vergeten dat hier vijf partijen bezig zijn om geschiedenis te schrijven. En dat kost tijd als je het goed wilt doen.
Na de Google Lunar X Prize Voor de meeste teams die nog in de race zijn voor de hoofdprijs is de Google Lunar X Prize niet het einddoel, maar de opmaat naar meer. Zo hoopt MoonExpress op termijn bijvoorbeeld mijnbouw te gaan bedrijven op de maan.
In kwalsterrenstelsels – die gekenmerkt worden door lange ‘tentakels’ – gebeurt iets bijzonders.
De processen die leiden tot het ontstaan van deze ‘kosmische kwallen’ blijken er ook voor te zorgen dat gas het centrale deel van de kwalsterrenstelsels – waar zich een zwart gat bevindt – kan bereiken. Dat schrijven astronomen in het blad Nature. Ze deden hun ontdekking met behulp van het MUSE-instrument op de Very Large Telescope.
Kwalsterrenstelsels De onderzoekers bestudeerden met de telescoop zeven kwalsterrenstelsels. Deze sterrenstelsels worden gekenmerkt door ‘tentakels’ (slierten gas) die soms wel tienduizenden lichtjaren lang zijn. Deze tentakels ontstaan door zogenoemd ram pressure stripping. Door onderlinge zwaartekrachtswerking duiken sterrenstelsels met flinke snelheid in clusters vol soortgenoten. Onderweg stuiten ze op heet, dicht gas dat dienst doet als een soort krachtige tegenwind en ervoor zorgt dat de stelsels lange gasstaarten achter zich laten.
Veel actieve zwarte gaten Wat astronomen nu ontdekt hebben, is dat maar liefst zes van de zeven bestudeerde kwalsterrenstelsels een actief superzwaar zwart gat hebben. En dat is heel opmerkelijk. Want normaliter heeft minder dan tien procent van de sterrenstelsels een actief superzwaar zwart gat. “Dit sterke verband tussen ram pressure stripping en actieve zwarte gaten was niet voorspeld en is ook nooit eerder gemeld,” vertelt onderzoeker Bianco Poggianti. “Het lijkt erop dat het centrale zwarte gat zich kan voeden doordat een deel van het gas niet wordt weggeblazen, maar het centrum van het stelsel bereikt.” En dat zou betekenen dat onderzoekers een nieuwe manier ontdekt hebben waarop zwarte gaten van brandstof worden voorzien.
Een kwalsterrenstelsel.
Afbeelding: ESO / GASP collaboration.
De kip of het ei? Maar hoe weten ze nu zo zeker dat de ram pressure stripping leidt tot actieve zwarte gaten en dat het niet andersom is: dat een actief zwart gat leidt tot het ontstaan van slierten weggeblazen gas? Natuurlijk hebben onderzoekers ook die mogelijkheid onderzocht. Maar ze achten het zeer onwaarschijnlijk dat het zo zit. Ze wijzen er bijvoorbeeld op dat de bestudeerde kwalsterrenstelsels zich bevinden in een deel van de cluster waar de kans dat heet, dicht gas van het intergalactische medium een sterrenstelsel aan lange tentakels helpt, het grootst is. En dus is het volgens de onderzoekers minder aannemelijk dat een actief zwart gat de tentakels veroorzaakt.
Belangrijke ontdekking “Deze MUSE-waarnemingen wijzen erop dat er een manier bestaat waarop gas naar de omgeving van het zwarte gat kan terugstromen,” vertelt onderzoeker Yara Jaffé. “Dat is een belangrijke ontdekking, omdat de verklaring van de slecht begrepen verbanden tussen superzware zwarte gaten en hun moederstelsels hiermee een stapje dichterbij is gekomen.”
De onderzoekers zetten hun studie naar kwalsterrenstelsels voort. En hopen uiteindelijk te weten te komen “hoeveel en welke gasrijke sterrenstelsels die clusters binnendringen een periode van verhoogde activiteit in hun kernen doorlopen,” vertelt Poggianti. “De astronomie worstelt al lang met de vraag hoe sterrenstelsels ontstaan en veranderen in ons uitdijende en evoluerende heelal. Kwalsterrenstelsels zijn een sleutel tot een beter begrip van de evolutie van sterrenstelsels, omdat zij bezig zijn met een dramatische transformatie.”
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