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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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.
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20-08-2017
Top 5 UFO sightings in history: Brit expert's secret X-files that ‘PROVE aliens real'
Top 5 UFO sightings in history: Brit expert's secret X-files that ‘PROVE aliens real'
A BRITISH UFO investigator has revealed his top five secret X-files for the first time.
World-renowned expert and author Philip Mantle, of Pontefract, Yorks., has probed hundreds of close encounters over the years but says these previously unreleased cases are the ones that made him believe extraterrestrial life is real.
They include a mum and six children who saw three aliens in Yorkshire, and an RAF officer who encountered mysterious objects on his radar system.
The former director of investigations of the British UFO Research Association and UK representative of MUFON – the world's biggest UFO organisation – has chosen his top five, cases which have convinced him the truth really is out there.
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WITNESS: Wing Commander Alan Turner
1. Mysterious high-speed objects spotted on three different RAF radar
His first unexplained case involved Wing Commander Alan Turner OBE, who was duty military supervisor at RAF Sopley in 1971.
Mr Turner described seeing objects on radar climbing at supersonic speeds from 3,000ft to 60,000ft, way beyond the capabilities of any aircraft at the time.
The objects appeared 20 nautical miles east of the Salisbury Plain Danger Area, in Wiltshire, in southern England.
A series of six or seven blips moved on a south-easterly track, each being separated by about six miles.
At about 40 miles from where they appeared on radar, they disappeared – and another blip would appear almost immediately back at the starting point.
Mr Turner said they were at about 3,000ft, but climbed so rapidly they were at 60,000ft when they disappeared.
He said: “To climb to such a height in only forty miles was beyond the ability of any fighter aircraft at the time.”
The phenomenon was witnessed by four civil and six military controllers on duty at the time.
Mr Turner called Heathrow Radar to discover that they, also, were seeing a similar picture. The same situation was observed at RAF Neatishead.
The three units used different radars at different frequencies.
Mr Turner said: “I am at a loss to explain what I, and many other people, saw. In those days aircraft could not climb at such a rate.”
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SIGHTING: A UFO spotted in Melbourne, Australia
2. Dad and son’s UFO photo confirmed as genuine
Roy and Ralph Keane captured extremely rare photographs of a UFO in Melbourne, Australia, which have been studied by experts and determined genuine.
The dad and son took the picture in their back garden on September 19, 1995.
Mr Keane said the object was photographed, it hovered then dipped and moved to the left very suddenly.
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GENUINE: An expert has confirmed the photos are real
The pair went round the house to try to see the object but it had disappeared.
The pictures were analysed by photographic expert Winston Keech.
His report said: "Using extreme gamma adjustments and edge detection algorithms, no supporting wires or other linear edge features were found – so the object is not suspended by wire.
“This does appear to be a solid reflective object that is unsupported in mid air.”
3. Lancashire UFO in sight for very long time
In November 1985, Josephine Howard was walking to her car outside her home in Darwen, Lancs., when she saw two round red lights in the sky.
The lights, which were about the size of car headlights, were on the front of a diamond-shaped object about 200 to 300ft in the air.
There were no beams coming from the lights and as they came overhead there was no noise.
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DIAMOND: A drawing of a UFO spotted in Lancashire
She said: “As it moved overhead I could see the underneath of the object.
“It was very large and seemed to be very heavy-looking.
“I kept wondering how something so big and heavy looking could move so slowly and not make a noise.”
The object was “huge” and had round-headed studs underneath, she said.
At the point where it was almost out of sight, it seemed to tilt upwards and shoot off at a great speed and was gone.
The object had been in sight for about eight minutes – a very long time for a UFO sighting.
4. Woman suffers strange injuries after “alien” encounter
The strangest case Mr Mantle ever encountered happened on January 24, 1992, in Mezobbereny, in Hungary.
A 50-year-old woman was at home with her husband when a “dull black egg-shaped object about 120cm in height” shot across her kitchen, making a “rippling” movement.
A loud snorting sound was heard.
The upper part of the object became a blue-grey colour, with a vibrating orange vertical stripe.
Next to this stripe stood a “wonderful-looking woman”, who looked directly at the witness.
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BIZARRE: Strange marks on the body of woman after an alien encounter
The Hungarian woman said she felt well – but was unable to talk.
She followed the strange being into an adjoining room, but when she entered the room the woman had gone.
A few days later, she felt very tired and went to bed at 6.30pm.
Out of nowhere, she heard a woman's voice, which asked her to lift up her arm.
She raised her arm and felt a severe pain in her elbow joint.
Next the witness got up and went outside to the garden, still in her night gown and with nothing on her feet.
In the garden stood a cabin-like object.
She count see anyone in the object, but she felt a “presence” – as if someone was there unseen.
The woman lost consciousness. When she came round, she was back in bed, fully clothed but with a sharp pain in her abdomen.
A few days later, a number of large red marks appeared on the upper part of her abdomen and the lower part of her breasts.
Neither her nor her doctor could find a cause for the strange marks, which didn’t hurt or irritate her.
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SOMBRERO UFO: An artist's impression of a UFO encounter in Yorkshire
5. Whole family sees UFO and alien beings in Yorkshire
Mr Mantle’s number one unexplained case involved UFO craft landing and aliens appearing, witnessed by an entire family.
A woman named Mrs Westerman was at home in Normanton, West Yorkshire, in 1979 when her eight-year-old daughter came in, saying an “aeroplane” had landed in a nearby field.
Mrs Westerman and her six children went out to find a large dull-grey object, “shaped like a Mexican sombrero”.
Around the object stood three very tall “men”, all of whom appeared to be dressed in metallic silver suits, which creased as they moved.
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EXPERT: British UFO expert Philip Mantle
The “men” had dark objects like torches, but without a light, in their hands and were pointing to an instrument on the ground.
The children and Mrs Westerman made their way over the field towards the object and stopped at a fence.
The men walked to the rear of the object and it rose vertically, stopped in mid-air, and then shot off at an angle at high speed.
Mrs Westermen and all six children gave the same account to Mr Mantle when he interviewed them.
Mr Mantle will speak at a major UFO conference organised by Outer Limits Magazine in Hull next month.
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19-08-2017
Giganten op aarde: zeven gigantische dieren die echt op aarde hebben geleefd
Giganten op aarde: zeven gigantische dieren die echt op aarde hebben geleefd
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Van gigantische dinosaurussen tot een King Kong-achtige mega-aap.
1. Gigantische dinosaurus Met een lengte van zo’n 40 meter en een gewicht dat grofweg overeenkomt met het gewicht van tien Afrikaanse olifanten was P. mayorum een flinke jongen. Alleen het dijbeen van de dinosaurus was al ongeveer net zo lang als een mens en vandaag de dag hebben we dan ook serieus moeite om een museumzaal te vinden waar deze dinosaurus helemaal inpast (zie afbeelding hieronder). De dinosaurus leefde een slordige 100 miljoen jaar geleden in Argentinië en onderhield zijn enorme lijf door heel veel bladeren te eten.
Omdat de dinosaurus niet helemaal in de zaal van het American Museum of Natural History past, steekt de kop er een stukje buiten.
Afbeelding: AMNH.
Gigantopithecus in vergelijking met een mens.
Afbeelding: H. Bocherens.
2. Mega-aap Hij wordt ook wel King Kong genoemd en dat is niet zo gek. Want Gigantopithecus, de grootste aap die ooit op aarde heeft geleefd, moet ongeveer net zo indrukwekkend zijn geweest. Naar schatting was de aap tussen de 1,8 en 3 meter hoog en woog deze een slordige 500 kilo. De gigantische aap leefde meer dan 100.000 jaar geleden in zuidoost-Azië. Recent onderzoek suggereert dat de gigantische aap alleen maar planten at en onder meer vanwege zijn kieskeurige eetgedrag uitstierf.
Een artistieke impressie onthult hoe de enorme haai er ongeveer uit moet hebben gezien.
Afbeelding: Mary Parrish / Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
3. Enorme haai Het klinkt als een nachtmerrie. Een haai met tanden die tot wel 18 centimeter lang zijn en een bek die opengesperd zo’n drie meter hoog is. Toch heeft deze haai echt bestaan. Carcharocles megalodon leefde tussen de 23 en 2,6 miljoen jaar geleden en zou ongeveer achttien meter lang zijn geweest. De mega-haai at voornamelijk andere zeedieren, zoals potvissen, zeekoeien en dolfijnen.
Een replica van de enorme slang is te bewonderen in het Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
4. Gigantische slang Wie het niet op slangen heeft, zal blij zijn dat dit exemplaar inmiddels is uitgestorven. Titanoboa cerrejonensis wordt gezien als de grootste slang die ooit op aarde heeft rondgekropen. De slang zou zo’n 14 meter lang zijn geweest en meer dan 1000 kilo hebben gewogen. De slang leefde zo’n 60 miljoen jaar geleden in wat nu Colombia is. De slang moet groot en sterk genoeg zijn geweest om bijvoorbeeld te kunnen jagen op krokodillen.
5. Meganeura monyi Dit moet het grootste vliegende insect zijn geweest dat ooit op aarde heeft rondgevlogen. Het insect doet een beetje denken aan een libelle, maar dan met een spanwijdte van zo’n 70(!) centimeter. Het insect leefde zo’n 280 miljoen jaar geleden en at waarschijnlijk andere insecten, maar ook hagedissen. Dat het insect zo groot kon worden, komt volgens onderzoekers doordat de atmosfeer honderden miljoenen jaren geleden meer zuurstof herbergde dan vandaag de dag het geval is. En dat is gunstig voor insecten die een passief ademhalingssysteem hebben. (Insecten hebben geen longen; zuurstof wordt passief door hun weefsels verspreid middels tracheeën, een stelsel van kleine buisjes met openingen aan de zijkant van het lichaam die elke cel verbinden aan poriën in de huid. Vanzelfsprekend kan zo’n passief ademhalingssysteem in een beperkte tijd maar beperkte hoeveelheden zuurstof bij de weefsels afleveren en wordt de omvang van een insect dus begrensd door de zuurstofaanvoer. In een zuurstofrijkere atmosfeer kunnen insecten groter worden.)
Fossiele resten van het enorme insect.
Afbeelding: Hcrepin (via Wikimedia Commons).
Afbeelding: Acrocynus (via Wikimedia Commons).
6. Grote vogels De olifantsvogel kon wel drie meter lang worden en zo’n 450 kilo wegen. De eieren waren soms wel groter dan 30 centimeter. De vogel leefde tot in de zeventiende eeuw op Madagaskar. Waarom de vogel uitstierf, is niet duidelijk. Vermoed wordt echter dat de mens er iets mee te maken had: mogelijk had deze het te vaak op de eieren van de enorme vogel voorzien. Overigens was de olifantsvogel met zijn enorme omvang niet in staat om het luchtruim te kiezen. Daar maakten in het verleden weer andere giganten de dienst uit, zoals Pelagornis sandersi, met een geschatte spanwijdte van meer dan 7 meter.
7. Arthropleura Tot dit geslacht gehoren de grootste ongewervelden die ooit op aarde hebben geleefd. Deze enorme duizendpoten konden tot wel 50 centimeter breed en 2,3(!) meter lang worden. De enorme duizendpoten leefden meer dan 300 miljoen jaar geleden in wat nu Noord-Amerika en Schotland is. Op sommige plekken zijn zelfs de pootafdrukken van de duizendpoten nog bewaard gebleven! In eerste instantie dachten onderzoekers dat deze duizendpoten echte roofdieren waren, maar nadat ze de maaginhoud van één van deze uitgestorven beestjes hadden bestudeerd, werd duidelijk dat deze alleen maar plantenmateriaal aten. Een geruststellende gedachte, maar toch blijft het idee van een twee meter lange duizendpoot een beetje angstaanjagend, vind je niet?
Een artistieke impressie van Arthropleura. De inzet laat zien hoe de omvang van deze enorme duizendpoot zich verhield tot die van een mens.
Afbeelding: Tim Bertelink (via Wikimedia Commons).
Are these spooky encounters proof aliens are REAL? British UFO expert reveals his most baffling X-files
Are these spooky encounters proof aliens are REAL? British UFO expert reveals his most baffling X-files
From tall men in silver suits standing by a UFO-shaped object in a field to the woman who woke up with bizarre markings on her stomach, these are UFO expert Phillip Mantle's top five secret X-files
BY JOHN JEFFAY
Philip Mantle, a top British UFO investigator, has revealed his top five secret X-Files
(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
Whether you're a believer or not, this is bound to make you shudder.
A top British UFO investigator says he has proof aliens are real - and he has now revealed details of some pretty chilling close encounters .
Philip Mantle, a world renowned expert, has probed hundreds of cases over the years, but these are his top five secret X-files...
Even if you're a sceptic, you'll have to admit that some of these do seem a little bizarre - and downright terrifying.
1. Random flying objects caught whizzing through the air on THREE different radars in 1971
Wing Commander Alan Turner was left stunned by the mysterious objects whirring on the radars(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
Wing Commander Alan Turner was duty military supervisor at RAF Sopley in 1971 when he noticed something amiss in the sky.
He described seeing objects climbing at supersonic speeds from 3,000ft to 60,000ft beyond the capabilities of any aircraft at the time.
It was his duty supervisor who spotted the phenomenon and nobody had ever seen anything like it before.
Mr Turner said: "Emanating from a point some 20 nautical miles east of the eastern extremity of the Salisbury Plain Danger Area were a series of six or seven blips moving on a south-easterly track each being separated from the other by about six miles.
"At about 40 miles from the point they appeared on radar they disappeared to be followed almost immediately by a replacement at the point of origin.
"I put the FPS 6 Height Finder onto some returns to discover that they were about 3,000 feet when they came into radar cover and climbing extremely rapidly so that, by the time they disappeared from radar, they were in excess of 60,000 feet.
"To climb to such a height in only forty miles was beyond the ability of any fighter aircraft at the time."
But he and his colleague were not the only ones to notice the spooky UFOs whirring through the air.
He called Heathrow Radar to discover that they, too, were seeing a similar picture - as were the Fighter Control Operations Rooms at RAF Neatishead.
They were all using different frequencies and the weather forecast in the area was calm and sunny. So what could it have been?
"I am at a loss to explain what I, and many other people, saw. In those days aircraft could not climb at such a rate.
"To be seen on displays by three different ground radars, plus the airborne radar in the Canberra, is also a mystery."
2. Father and son capture rare photographs of a UFO in their back garden in Melbourne, Australia, in 1995
Experts said the photos taken by Mr Keane and his son were not doctored(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
The bizarre encounter is in Mr Mantle's top five secret X-Files(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
The pictures, taken by Roy and Ralph Keen in Kilsyth on September 19, 1995, have been studied are are, in fact, genuine.
Mr Keane said at the time: “Each time the ‘object’ was photographed, it appeared to be moving on a trajectory to our right as we looked up at it.
"Almost immediately after each picture was taken, the flying object seemed to momentarily ‘hover’, then ‘dip’ and move to the left very suddenly. “Each time this occurred, both my son and I rushed around the side of our house in an attempt to see where the object had moved to.
"Each time, on arrival at the front of our house, there was no sign of the object anywhere to be seen in the sky.”
The pictures were analysed by photographic expert Winston Keech whose report said: “Using extreme gamma adjustments and edge detection algorithms - no supporting wires or other linear edge features were found.
"So the object is not suspended by wire - as the cloud contrast is good, this would have been found.
"This does appear to be a solid reflective object that is unsupported in mid air. Due to the high shutter speeds used, it may well be moving at reasonable speed without any discernible image blurring.”
3. The longest reported sightings of a UFO in Darwen, Lancashire, in November 1985
Mrs Howard drew this detailed drawing of her encounter(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
Mrs Josephine Howard, from Darwen in Lancashire, was just "happened to look up" as she was walking to her car one day and spotted two, round red lights in the sky.
Mr Mantle said: "They were about the size of car headlights. Her curiosity aroused and Mrs Howard s topped to take a better look. There were no beams coming from the lights as they came overheard there was no noise."
It was one of the many sightings in the mid-1980s that spanned the borders of both Yorkshire and Lancashire.
Mr Mantle added: “The witness estimated that she had the object in sight for about eight minutes in total which is a long time for UFO sightings.
"It was a ‘diamond’ shape with two lights at the front and it was totally noiseless at all times. She estimated that to her it was 200-300 feet above her.
Mrs Howard described the scene at the time saying: “I could not see the lights as it moved overhead but I could see the underneath of the object.
"This object was very large and seemed to be very heavylooking. I kept wondering how something so big and heavy looking could move so slowly and not make a noise.
"I kept watching and took in as much detail as I could. The object was huge and its underneath had what looked like round-headed studs.
"The object moved overhead and I kept watching it until it was almost out of sight at which point it seemed to tilt upwards and shoot off at a great speed and was gone.”
4. The woman who woke up with strange markings on her stomach after encountering "bizarre" woman in Hungary in 1992
The bizarre marking on the woman's stomach appeared days after she saw a mysterious woman in her house(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
The strangest case he ever encountered which doctors were unable to explain happened in remains in Hungary on January 24, 1992.
The case involved a 50 year old woman from Mezobbereny in Hungary.
She was at home with her husband when a dull, black egg-shaped object around 120 cm in height shot across the kitchen, making a ‘rippling’ movement during which a strong ‘snorting’ sound was heard.
The upper part of the object became a blue-grey colour with a vibrating orange vertical stripe. Next to this stripe stood a ‘wonderful looking woman’ who looked directly at the witness.
The witness felt well, but she was unable to talk. She followed this being into another room but when she entered, the woman had gone.
She told her husband what had happened but he did not believe her.
The weekend passed without any further events but on Monday she felt very tired and went to bed at 6.30 pm. Her husband was in the same room with her watching TV.
Out of nowhere she heard a woman’s voice which asked her to lift up her arm. She raised her arm and felt a severe pain in her elbow joint.
Next the woman got up and went outside to the garden still in her nightdress and with nothing on her feet.
In the garden stood a cabin-like object.
Explaining what happened, Mr Mantle said: “The witness entered the object but did not see anyone else in there but she did feel a presence as if someone was there but could not be seen.
"When she came around she found herself back in bed, fully clothed but with a sharp pain in her abdomen. On Thursday and Friday a number of large red marks appeared on the upper part of her abdomen and the lower section of her breasts.
"These marks were not painful and they did not itch either. The marks were not sensitive to either hot or cold water.
“These ‘close encounters’ were the first in a series events that went on over the next few week."
Neither the lady involved nor her doctor could find a conventional cause for the strange marks on her body.
5. Family watch spacecraft land in a field near a field as men in silver suits survey the area in Normanton, West Yorkshire, in 1979
An artists impression of the Normanton landings(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
Mr Mantle says this case has stayed with him ever since he first investigated it with colleague Mark Birdsall of the Yorkshire UFO Society.
A woman, Mrs Westerman, said she was at home doing the washing one sunny afternoon as he children were outside playing a ballgame in the sun.
It was around mid-afternoon when her eight-year-old daughter suddenly ran into the house shouting and crying, telling her mother to "come quick, and airplane just landed in the field".
The Waterman’s was near to the end of a cul-de-sac, and beyond that, fields which contained electricity pylons.
“Mrs Westerman ran outside and a few hundred yards away, in the fields adjacent to her house, she saw an object on the ground. It was a dull grey colour and had the appearance of a ‘Mexican hat’.
“Around the object stood three very tall ‘men’ all of who, appeared to be dressed in silver suits. These men seemed to be pointing to a dark instrument on the ground. The children and Mrs Westerman made their way over the field towards this object and stopped at a fence.
"The men walked to the rear of the object and it rose vertically, stopped in mid-air, and then shot off at an angle at a high rate of speed.
“Needless to say they were speechless. All six of Mrs Westerman’s children related similar accounts to us.
"There were very minor discrepancies but only as you would have expected to find from different people. All of the children were of the opinion that the dark object the men had in their hands, of which they moved about, looked like a torch but it had no light and gave off no sound."
The ‘uniforms’ the men wore, were metallic silver and would crease when the men moved. All of the witnesses stated quite clearly that both upon landing and departure, this object never made a sound.
Mr Mantle, the former director of investigations of the British UFO Research Association and UK representative of MUFON - the world's biggest UFO organisation, is due to speak about his research for the final time in September.
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Why Brazil’s Night of UFOs Is the Most Legitimate Encounter
Why Brazil’s Night of UFOs Is the Most Legitimate Encounter
Humans tend to interpret every object since they are pattern-seeking creatures. Sometimes, we are correct in our assessments, but many times we just misunderstand, misperceive or misremember. Due to the demanding and challenging nature of the UFOs, it is not uncommon to see and hear the idea of ignoring the thoughts of alien and extraterrestrial enthusiasts. With alien encounters, people usually find that an explanation depends on not necessarily in the skies, but the mentality of every individual.
While the opinions of critics drown out the voices of those who believe the existence of legitimate aliens, some events beguile explanation. The best illustration would be the Brazil’s Night of UFOs. Enthusiasts and locals alike have been amazed to such incident, which is probably the reason why it has become the most legitimate UFO-related encounter in decades. Interestingly, the incident has been easily forgotten despite the comprehensive national coverage of the encounter in the days that followed. Brazil’s Night of UFOs took place on May 19, 1986, and it covered approximately 21 unidentified objects that were seen by the Air Force radars of the country. According to a Redditor, the strange objects were observed by different witnesses in various parts of the country, comprising Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. What was terrific about the Night of UFOs in Brazil was not the number of strange objects that were spotted that night, but the transparency and the reaction of the Brazilian government and military during the incident was notable.
The country’s Air Force night was deployed during the Brazil’s Night of UFOs to investigate and engage with mysterious objects. The aircraft released were capable of soaring at high speeds. However, reports say that strange air vessels outran the military fighters, flying as fast as 2500 mph. The entire rivalry between them has lasted for three hours. According to later reports, the U.S. government got involved, but its full disclosure was never revealed. The incidents released were the usual sceptical explanations regarding what might have taken place during the Night such as the ball lightning, meteor showers, a reflection of the full moon, or an issue concerning the Air Force’s radar system. Without a doubt, interest in the incident died for decades.
A Ring UFO Flies Over Beachgoers and Swimmers In China
A Ring UFO Flies Over Beachgoers and Swimmers In China
A black UFO that flew in the skies over Dalian, China has amazed crowds enjoying the Jinshitan beach. A video recording was uploaded online showing a strange object over the beach in the city. It depicts an unknown floating object among clouds.
The unusual thing moves in the sky over the swimmers and beachgoers as they observe it flies over them.
One of the witnesses Jing Qi says that an oval shape UFO appears in the sky and expands at it comes closer to the crowd.
The ring UFO appears to change shape into a parallelogram before disappearing.
Social media users who saw the video online speculate on the possible origin of the bizarre object on Weibo.
Some say the ring could have been a group of insects flying together and forming such shape. Others say that it could have been special visual effects from a show organised for the public.
However, some other viewers of the video suggest that extraterrestrials have something to do with the UFO.
'Jellyfish' Galaxies Reveal Feeding Habits of Monster Black Holes
'Jellyfish' Galaxies Reveal Feeding Habits of Monster Black Holes
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
Glowing "jellyfish" galaxies have revealed a new way to power some of the most powerful objects in the universe. The same process that feeds the most voracious black holes at the galactic centers may also create dangling "tentacles" of newborn stars, a new study found.
While most galaxies, including the Milky Way, hide massive black holes at their centers, only a few produce enough electromagnetic radiation as they eat to create active galactic nuclei (AGN). AGN shine brilliantly in the universe, and why they form around some black holes and not others has been an ongoing mystery. But jellyfish galaxies may help crack the case.
"When a galaxy enters a galaxy cluster, falling into it at high velocity, the hot, dense gas that fills the cluster — the so-called intracluster gas — acts like a strong wind on the galaxy gas," Bianca Poggianti, lead author on the new study, told Space.com by email. "It strips it away and creates the tails," which give the galaxies their "jellyfish" nickname. [When Galaxies Collide: Photos of Great Galactic Crashes]
A jellyfish galaxy, JW100, captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope.
Credit: ESO/GASP collaboration
This same wind that forms the jellyfish galaxies may also feed growing AGNs, she said.
Poggianti, a researcher at the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Padova in Italy, is part of an international team of scientists using the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the European Space Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile to examine jellyfish galaxies. The researchers found that an unexpectedly high fraction of the tentacled galaxies contain AGN.
"Ours is the first study that systematically searches for [jellyfish galaxies] and tries to have a complete census in different regions of the local universe," Poggianti said.
Solving a mystery
Supermassive black holes constantly feed. As they draw in surrounding gas and dust, they produce intense radiation that can sometimes be seen from Earth, leaving scientists to ponder these objects' food source. While black holes are common, the more powerful and visible AGN are rare.
Poggianti and her team are part of an ongoing program to observe 114 jellyfish galaxies, an order of magnitude more than previously observed in detail, she said. Of the seven galaxies with the longest tails, the researchers found that six housed a supermassive black hole, suggesting a link between the two types of object. Previous studies suggested that the powerful cluster winds stretched the tentacles out for tens of light-years in a process known as ram-pressure stripping. These same winds could feed the supermassive black holes, constantly nourishing them by carrying material to the center of the galaxy.
Another jellyfish galaxy, JW206, imaged by ESO's Very Large Telescope.
Credit: ESO/GASP collaboration
But, the scientists wondered, did the winds feed the black holes, or did the black holes produce the winds?
"In a sense, this is similar to the problem of the chicken and the egg — which one comes first," Poggianti said. "While both effects are probably at work, we have good reason to think that the first effect prevails."
By studying the positioning and velocity of the galaxies, the researchers found that all of these objects lie close to the center of the cluster and have high speeds compared to that of the cluster itself.
"They are in the ideal conditions for ram-pressure stripping to be the strongest," Poggianti said.
On the other hand, if effects from the galactic center formed the massive tentacles, she said, the galaxies would be scattered more randomly.
A jellyfish galaxy like this, called JO204 and imaged with ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, may have helped cracked the mystery of what feeds supermassive black holes.
Credit: ESO/GASP collaboration
Blooming jellyfish
As cluster winds sweep away the dust and gas in a galaxy, the tentacles they create fill with brilliant young stars. These stars shine brightly in optical wavelengths of light, making the objects stand out to researchers who picked through images of over 70 galaxy clusters hunting for tails, Poggianti said. The scientists also found jellyfish outside of clusters, some as part of galaxy groups and others off on their own. Galaxies found in groups tend to lack the spectacular tails of their cluster compatriots, and all of those found with AGN lie in clusters, Poggianti said.
Simulations combining ram-pressure stripping and AGN-hosting galaxies would be both complicated and computationally expensive, requiring significant time and computer power, Poggianti said. That's why no such simulations exist — yet, she said.
"I imagine that, following our discovery, there will be research groups in the world that will attempt to simulate the two processes together," she said. The paper said that such simulations would be valuable for interpreting the new connection.
The seven jellyfish are only part of a larger swarm. Within the GAs Stripping Phenomena in galaxies with MUSE (GASP) program, Poggianti and her colleagues are continuing to investigate over a hundred more of the intriguing galaxies. [Amazing Space Views of ESO's Very Large Telescope (Photos)]
"When all of the observations will be in our hands — I expect [in] about a year from now — we will be able to have a complete picture," Poggianti said. Once the researchers have obtained all of the data, the team will be able to see how features change and evolve. Observing the jellyfish — some at the beginning of gas removal, others with long tails and still others devoid of gas with no fuel to birth young stars — will allow the researchers to investigate the various stages of the jellyfish lifecycle, Poggianti said.
"This is like seeing galaxy evolution happening in front of your eyes from a front row," she said.
The team is planning, and in some case already working, to observe the galaxies at different wavelengths with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, Poggianti said. Such observations will help researchers to understand how gas in the jellyfish galaxies evolve over time, she said.
"This is really great, because these are the most powerful astronomical observational facilities in the world, each in its own field and wavelength," Poggianti said. "Their combination will allow us to study all the different gas phases, [and] how they relate to each other and to the formation of new stars."
This artist's illustration shows Cassini making one of its final five dives through Saturn's upper atmosphere in August and September 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
After orbiting Saturn for more than 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is getting ready to say goodbye.
On Monday (Aug. 14), Cassini made the first of five passes through Saturn's upper atmosphere, kicking off the last phase of the mission's "Grand Finale." After completing those five dives, Cassini will come back around again one last time, plunging into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15.
Cassini will keep sending back data on Sept. 15 until it gets to an altitude where atmospheric density is about twice what it encountered during its final five passes, NASA officials said. At that point, mission controllers will lose contact with the probe because its thrusters won't be able to keep Cassini's antenna pointed toward Earth; there will simply be too much air to push against.
During these last few orbits, Cassini will come so close to Saturn — 1,010 to 1,060 miles (1,630 to 1,710 kilometers) above its cloud tops — that atmospheric drag will be a factor, and the craft will need to use its thrusters to maintain its altitude. Scientists aren't sure how dense the atmosphere is in this region.
Mission controllers can adjust the amount of thrust as needed. If Saturn's atmosphere in this region is denser than the models predict, Cassini's thrusters will "pop up" the spacecraft on the first pass and increase the minimum altitude of subsequent passes. If the atmosphere proves thinner, then the probe can "pop down" and decrease the altitude, NASA officials said.
Cassini's last orbits should deliver a wealth of data, NASA officials said. The spacecraft will study Saturn's auroras and temperature, as well as the vortices at the planet's poles. Cassini's radar will be able to look into the atmosphere and see features as small as 16 miles (25 km) wide, about 100 times smaller than what it could see from its usual orbital positions.
The Grand Finale will include one final swing by Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Sept. 11. Titan's gravity will slow Cassini’s orbit around Saturn and bend its path to send the spacecraft toward its Sept. 15 encounter with the planet.
"As it makes these five dips into Saturn, followed by its final plunge, Cassini will become the first Saturn atmospheric probe," Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. "It's long been a goal in planetary exploration to send a dedicated probe into the atmosphere of Saturn, and we're laying the groundwork for future exploration with this first foray."
10 spacecraft hit by massive solar flare, says ESA
10 spacecraft hit by massive solar flare, says ESA
The space weather event, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), was observed by three satellites operating outside the path of the flare, namely ESA’s Proba-2, the ESA-NASA joint project SOHO and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, in October 2014.
This powerful solar eruption captured by SOHO in October 2014 was tracked through the Solar System by 10 spacecraft
The ESA’s Olivier Witasse had been leading the space agency’s Mars Express, a project examining the effect of the comet Siding Spring on the atmosphere of the Red Planet. During the research, the team detected signs of the CME on Mars and, in the subsequent investigation, accessed data collected by the 10 spacecraft in its path.
“CME speeds with distance from the sun is not well understood, in particular in the outer Solar System,”said Witasse. “Thanks to the precise timings of numerous in situ measurements, we can better understand the process.”
The data gives an indication of the speed, distance and direction of travel of the CME, with the effects of the flare reportedly felt by NASA’s Voyager-2, then at the edge of the solar system approaching Pluto.
After emission, the solar flare travelled at speeds of up to 1,000km per second (6,000 miles per second) before slowing to 500km/sec after reaching the Cassini space probe in November 2014.
Luckily, Earth was not in the CME’s path – a phenomenon that scientists say has potential to be hugely damaging to our way of life.
Experts have warned that a powerful geomagnetic storm would likely knock out power grids, communications and satellite technology, causing trillions of dollars worth of damage to the global economy. They even cite as evidence the 1859 ‘Carrington Event’ in which a solar flare knocked out telegraph systems all over Europe and North America.
Most people believe in at least one conspiracy theory. A conspiracy theory usually contradicts the usual, popularly-accepted version of an event or phenomena. People continue to believe a theory in the hope that they will eventually be proven right.
1. 9/11 was an inside job
The terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 were actually orchestrated by the US government.
The theory is that the jet fuel from the planes was not enough to melt the steel beams of the World Trade Center towers. The buildings were brought down by a controlled demolition.
One reason for the theory’s longevity is that it has been proven that the war in Iraq was justified by using false information about the existence of so called weapons of mass destruction.
2. A secret group controls the world
This elite group is mostly referred to as the Illuminati and it has been controlling the world for centuries. Its end game is to create a New World Order which will dissolve national boundaries and people’s identities while allowing for total authoritarian control.
Other versions of this theory see other groups in a similar position of world domination – the Freemasons, the Jewish people, the Bilderberg Group or the “globalists” that are often invoked in the right wing media. President Trump himself mentions “globalists” and invokes fighting against insidious “elites” as a battle cry for his base.
3. The moon landing didn’t happen
The moon landing did not happen and evidence was orchestrated by NASA and the US government to make them seem superior to the Soviet Union and to boost national pride.
NASA faked the landings to avoid humiliation and to ensure that it continued to get funding.
Moon-landing conspiracists focus heavily on NASA photos. They point to oddities in photos and films taken on the Moon.
Another theory is that Stanley Kubrick, director and producer of 2001: A Space Odyssey was the mastermind behind the fake footage of the moon landing.
4. Roswell, Area 51 and aliens
The remains of an alien spacecraft that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 are stored at Area 51, a top-secret military base about 250 km from Las Vegas where government scientists conduct research on alien technology and time travel.
This theory is partly fueled by UFO sightings in the area and the testimony of a retired army colonel who says he was given access to extraterrestrial materials from Roswell.
The US government’s secrecy about Area 51 and the fact that information about it is classified “for purposes of national security” is further proof that the military is hiding aliens or alien spacecraft.
5. Reptilians are running the world
Famously espoused by David Icke, this is another version of secret groups controlling the world. According to a national survey 12 million Americans believe this theory.
The belief is that the top echelons of governments are controlled by shape-shifting reptilian aliens, who have been wielding power over humans for thousands of years to turn them into mindless slaves.
6. Chemtrails
The lines of clouds in a clear blue sky are actually “chemtrails” – chemicals sprayed by the government to control the population.
The purpose of the claimed chemical release may be solar radiation management, psychological manipulation, human population control, weather modification, or biological or chemical warfare. The trails are causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems.
7. The Holocaust never happened
In spite of a well-documented historical fact that six million Jews were exterminated by German Nazis during the second world war there are people who believe the Holocaust did not happen.
Only about 54 percent of the world’s population has heard of the Holocaust, according to a large 100-country survey by the Anti-Defamation League. Only a third of those who’ve heard of it believe the Holocaust is portrayed correctly
I’m writing this column from my hotel room in Roswell, N.M. Roswell is, of course, famous for the alleged alien crash landing that happened in 1947.
Roswell also happens to be the last leg of my family’s summer vacation. We opted for a two-week vacation instead of our customary one week because we had a lot of places we’ve always wanted to visit.
My husband had absolutely no interest in visiting Roswell and hearing about aliens, but my son and I couldn’t wait to get here. While it’s been a blast hearing about the supposed cover-up at Roswell (and I’ll keep my opinion about that to myself), most of the alien-like sightings we’ve had during this trip haven’t been at Roswell.
They’ve been at the slew of national parks we’ve visited on our trip – places like Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, White Sands National Monument, the Grand Tetons and Lake Mead.
We had planned for months to visit these places, but we only learned right before we left that we qualified for free entry into all national parks we visited because my child had just completed fourth grade. Under a program established by then President Barack Obama, all fourth-graders and their families receive free entry into any of the national parks they visit. Hopefully, this program continues, so more families can experience the natural beauty these parks have to offer.
While we would have visited these places regardless of what we were charged to see them, having free access saved us a bundle.
I think introducing kids who are in middle school to national parks is a great idea because they are at such an influential age. A trip to Yellowstone may put them on a career path they may have never considered.
Plus, it gives them a sense of ownership. My daughter felt like a special guest of the parks we entered. She had her own card that gave us free access, and the employees would ask where our fourth-grader was when we pulled up to the admission gates. She’d wave her hand like a celebrity, and we’d get right in. And now, as our trip is winding down, that card will serve as a unique souvenir of the biggest trip we’ve ever taken together.
It will help her remember the mind-blowing things we saw, the natural landscapes that made us feel like we were the aliens on a whole different planet entirely. That card will remind her of the world-famous geysers we saw at Yellowstone, and the things we didn’t even know existed like the colorful geyser basins and the Dragon’s Mouth formation that hinted at the enormous volcanic pressure under our feet at Yellowstone.
Years from now, that card may spark a memory for her of the half-mile walk we took down into the Grand Canyon – a walk that consisted of a narrow dirt path and no handrails in sight. Although we had all obviously heard of the wonder of the Grand Canyon, hearing about it and seeing it in person are two different things entirely. Walking down that pathway, I felt like a visitor on the planet I have lived on all my life. It was completely foreign from anything I had ever seen.
Another alien-like place we visited was White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. The giant white sand dunes there are completely cool to the touch, unlike beach sand. The dunes are so tall, we rented sleds to slide down them as if it was winter in summertime. I couldn’t let my kids have all the fun so I slid down them too, laughing as I wiped out on the particularly steep dunes. The whole landscape seemed like something you might see in Star Wars movies instead of here on Earth.
But while the landscape we saw may have seemed extraterrestrial, we also saw flashes of human creativity and ingenuity everywhere we went. There were roads built through mountains and tales about people conquering the wilderness of the Grand Canyon long before they had any sort of technology to help them.
We saw a bottle forest in California – a man had created it alongside the highway. For whatever reason when he looked at an empty bottle, he didn’t see it as junk. He saw it as a piece of a glass tree and he built a forest of those trees for people to enjoy at no cost. It might seem like a strange thing to do, but it was a spectacular sight.
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of aliens, ever since I was little. But as it turns out, you don’t have to look to the skies to spot something that looks like it belongs on another world. You just have to explore the places and people that are already on our planet. There’s still plenty of wonder here if you look hard enough.
Shannon Serpette is a freelance writer and a mom of two who lives in Henry, Ill. She can be reached at writerslifeforme@gmail.com.
There appears to have been something in the air in June. According to an international group of alien hunters, the number of UFO sightings doubled last month. High-profile sightings last month included one of a 'flying saucer' UFO which visited Stonehenge
OKLAHOMA CITY – Exactly 14 years to the day, before I was born, when U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy first used the term “missile gap” – a phrase that was later parodied in Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and called a “Doomsday gap.”
In that film, which was scheduled to be previewed by film critics on Nov. 22, 1963 – but was held off because it was the same day Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas – the Russian ambassador explains that his government had heard – via The New York Times! – that it was reported the U.S. was also working on a “Doomsday machine.” An arms race of insanity.
“We were afraid of a Doomsday gap,” the ambassador tells President Muffley (Peter Sellers).
After the assassination, Kubrick and Columbia Pictures opted to hold off screening the anti-war farce until a few weeks later, in early 1964.
But that “Doomsday gap” comment, in retrospect, comes off as a backhanded criticism of Kennedy’s presumed militarism.
It happened on August 14, 1958. The same year Kennedy was re-elected to a second term in the Senate, representing Massachusetts. But he was also planning a run for the presidency in 1960 and began pounding away at President Eisenhower and the Republicans about being “weak on defense.”
Why? The Soviet Union had launched Sputnik in 1957 and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced that the USSR had an ICBM with a range of 8,000 miles and that they were in “mass production.”
Kennedy said: “Our Nation could have afforded, and can afford now, the steps necessary to close the missile gap.”
Naturally, this being the Cold War, there was concern about this and so certain interests wanted to ramp up production of America’s nuclear arsenal in those dark days of the Cold War, leading up to the October 1962 missile crisis – nearly two years after outgoing President Eisenhower warned Americans of the growing “military-industrial complex.”
Nevertheless, Kennedy wanted to appear strong on defense and so initially (and unwittingly) Kennedy used inflated numbers provided to him by U.S. Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.). Symington was a former Secretary of the Air Force from 1947-50, who provided those inflated U.S. Air Force numbers.
Coincidentally, Symington was head of the U.S. Air Force when Project Sign was initiated in 1948 , a government study of the UFO phenomenon, and its follow-up, in 1949, Project Grudge. Sec. Symington likely knew A LOT about the UFO mystery he did not share with his Show-Me State constituents or the rest of the American people.
These would lead up to the launching of the notorious Project Blue Book (1952-69), which was later viewed as a government project designed to actually cover-up real reports of UFOs.
Curiously, Sen. Symington’s cousin, Fife Symington III, was governor of Arizona when the widely-reported “Phoenix Lights” UFO sighting occurred in March 1997.
At the time, due to public pressure and so many witnesses, Gov. Symington said he was going to investigate the mass UFO sighting over Arizona’s capital city, only to later hold a press conference and bring out his chief of staff in an alien costume – making the whole thing a big joke.
But 10 years later, Symington made a major admission, saying he actually saw the UFO himself, calling it a “great mystery.”
“It was enormous and inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too. It was dramatic. And it couldn't have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape.”
KENNEDY & UFOs
So, with the Cold War heating up during Kennedy’s term as president, it is said that he had a serious affair with actress and starlet Marilyn Monroe in the years leading up to her death (allegedly a suicide induced by an overdose of pills)
In a book I read and reviewed – Dr. Donald R. Burleson’s UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe, the author alleges the Kennedy brothers had Monroe killed because she allegedly “knew too much” and had evidence kept in a secret diary. Apparently, Monroe was upset that she was being increasingly left out in the cold by the Kennedys. She felt used and wanted revenge and allegedly planned to hold a press conference about “what she knew.”
Was this about Kennedy’s acknowledgement that the UFO “threat” was real? Classified investigations were taking place during the Kennedy administration as they were during the Eisenhower years, presumably with their knowledge. This was the era when most Americans "trusted" their government. Sure, secret projects were being conducted, many assumed, but with our best interest in mind, right?
As I noted in my review: “Apparently, Marilyn Monroe was aware of not only the crashed Roswell saucer, but of JFK’s plans to kill Cuba’s Fidel Castro.”
And then there was Kennedy's assassination a little over a year later. A lot of high weirdness surrounding that horrific event in our history.
CRISIS MODE
Again, this was in late summer of 1962, just weeks before those 13 days in October, better known as the “Cuban Missile Crisis.” With tensions between the U.S. and USSR at their heightes, particularly over concerns regarding Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba – 90 miles from American shores – the Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted to attack and invade the island nation, controlled by Fidel Castro.
“Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war,” said Ernesto “Che” Guevara , as reported in The Times of London in an article headlined: “Attack us at your peril, Cocky Cuba warns U.S.”
Che Guevara would be executed five years later in remote Bolivia under suspicious circumstances, as we’ve noted before.
Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed back in '62 and a nuclear exchange was avoided. But the nukes never really went away. Many still exist and more countries now have nukes, as North Korea has announced. And with the egomaniacal and crazed Kim Jong-un in power, it seems as though these two bad-haired narcissists are bringing the world ever closer to World War III.
REPEATER
History has a funny – and frightening – way of repeating itself. Look at the tensions between right and left here in the United States. With the U.S. Civil War having ended 152 years ago, we seem to be fighting the same battles again, while addressing issues regarding race and equality that have not been adequately addressed for all these years, as things came to a head last week in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left a 32-year old protester, Heather Heyer, dead - and Nazi sympathizers practically gleeful.
And yet President Trump sends signals to American fascists, racists and Nazi sympathizers that while he may not support them, the anti-fascist groups are equally bad.
A meme making the rounds notes that that is similar to the Star Wars rebels fighting the Empire being compared and on a “level-playing field” with the planet-destroying Death Star.
As author and Dartmouth College lecturer Mark Bray, an expert on “Antifa,” told Democracy Nowthis week: "And, you know, President Trump’s comments that the alt—quote-unquote, "alt-left" and alt-right are equivalent moral forces is really historically misinformed and morally bankrupt. The anti-fascist movement has a global history that stretches back over—about a century. You can trace them to Italian opposition to Mussolini’s Blackshirts, German opposition to Hitler’s Brownshirts, anti-fascists from around the world who had traveled to Spain to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
Over the past four years I have devoted a lot of time studying the history of the Spanish Civil War. While this was a conflict between fascists and anti-fascists in Spain, international help came from around the world, including the United States. People like longtime Dougherty, Okla. resident and congressional candidate Eugene V. "Debs" Poling, who left Oklahoma to fight the Gen. Franco's fascists in the late 1930's, only to be given a hard time - like so many other American anti-fascist volunteers - when we entered World War II, as being "premature anti-fascists."
That, of course, is absurd. Ask yourself: Is there ever a bad time to oppose fascism? Here at Red Dirt Report we have been warning readers for a long time now that fascism would truly take root in this country if Trump was elected president, as we predicted in a December 2015 article "Trumpism and the fascist menace."
But many people, in those months before the election, did not want to believe that Trump truly held such odious views and was not willing to wholeheartedly condemn white nationalists, racists and fascists from the get-go. Here in Oklahoma, some of Trump's most vocal supporters were people like the disgraced State Sen. Ralph Shortey (R-OKC) and Islamophobic legislator State Rep. John Bennett, a Republican from Sallisaw.
Isn't there something to be said about "the company you keep"?
In any event, Trump's ongoing "dog-whistle politics" helped elect him and now he seems to be doubling down as Democrats, and a few Republicans, call for Trump's censure over his repugnant "defense of white supremacists," as House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said in a statement today.
But back to that Democracy Now interview with Mark Bray and the anti-fascists opposing Trump and the growing fascist menace in America:
More recently, modern antifa can largely trace its roots to the anti-fascist movement in Britain in the ’70s, and the postwar period more generally, that was responding to a xenophobic backlash against predominantly Caribbean and South Asian migration, also to the German autonomous movement of the ’80s, which, really, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, had to respond to a really unprecedented neo-Nazi wave—unprecedented in the postwar period, of course.”
We should also note, in regards to the Spanish Civil War template, that international volunteers from around the world have been coming to the northern Syria area of Rojava to help the leftist YPG (People's Protection Units) fight ISIS and other related butchers and madmen running amok in that corner of the world. One wonders if Trump is aware of the egalitarian and anti-fascist YPG and what they actually stand for, considering YPG spokespeople said this week that the U.S. intends to stay in that autonomous region "for decades to come."
KING MIDAS IN REVERSE, WITH NUKES
Meanwhile, back in Washington (and at a few town halls, including here in Oklahoma) you see formerly spineless Republicans starting to back away from toxic Trump, who, despite his mass wealth, is a sort of “King Midas in Reverse" and causing the GOP to sink ever deeper into the shithole of their own making.
And when that is the case, where everything you touch turns to shit, it gets mega-scary when one thinks about the power a president has, particularly when it comes to the threat of thermonuclear war.
Today, in the New York Post, North Korea’s Deputy United Nations Ambassador Kim In Ryong said that if the Trump administration keeps up its “hostile policy and nuclear threat,” they will never put their nuclear weapons program “on the negotiating table.”
And with Trump's administration is full-scale crisis mode and more rats ("the best people!") flee that sinking ship, we can only wonder what horrors and doom lie just around the corner.
I'll end with a "letter to the editor" we received from Oklahoma City resident Frank Silovsky. He has distinct memories of those 13 days in October 1962 when the world was at the precipice of a global thermonuclear war.
Never will I forget that October day in 1962 when I sat in my dorm room "frozen" by the image of President Kennedy announcing to the nation that he had ordered our navy to stop and search every Soviet vessel heading to Cuba for the possibility of finding and removing missile launchers and/or nuclear explosives. Armageddon seemed nigh! That had been my deepest sense of impending doom. Until now.
Khrushchev and Kennedy had both experienced the horror of war so their steady hands averted ultimate war.
We are presently experiencing a very different and even stronger possibility of nuclear war. To our horror, the competing nations this time are led by two absolutely uninformed, bombastic, immature heads of state with no concept of war playing "chicken" with nuclear weapons!
North Koreans are helpless under their mad dictator. However, we have our illustrious Constitution providing ways to prevent "mad leadership" from dooming us. The 25th Amendment could eliminate our half of the madness. Is there time? Is there the courage? "We the people" can determine our fate
Mysterious phenomena one after another have been baffling the citizens in China. After "floating city" and smoke ring incident, another phenomenon stunned the citizens in China.
Bizzare footage showing a rectangle-shaped mysterious object hovering in the sky in China's Jinan city has left the residents baffled. The video, which was taken on August 13, shows the unidentified rectangular object in the night sky.
Several people shared the footage on social media site Weibo wondering what is the mysterious object. Some people said that the object looks like a mobile phone, while some said it is a flying magic carpet. However, several others said that it is just a projection onto clouds.
"It looks like a mobile phone!" one user said.
"The door of heaven is open," another commented.
"Above is a flying carpet."
According to local reports, the mysterious light is nothing but a spotlight projection.
According to local reports, the mysterious light is nothing but a spotlight projection.
This is the second time a mysterious object was spotted in China that left the citizens puzzled. Last week, several beachgoers spotted a mysterious smoke ring over a Jinshitan beach, northeastern China. Hundreds of people recorded the footage before it vanished into the clouds.
"There is an unidentified flying object appearing in the sky. Its oval shape is expanding and it is coming towards us closer and closer," one onlooker said in a video.
People initially thought that it is a mysterious object, but later social media users solved the puzzle and said it is just a visual effect from a performance nearby. Even the spokesperson of the event confirmed that the smoke ring is from the sky.
"Whenever the show started, they shot out a black smoke ring," one commentator said.
Het is een toeristische trekpleister, bekend om zijn onwaarschijnlijke natuurschoon. Maar diep onder het prachtige Yellowstone National Park in de VS loert een potentiële wereldramp: een supervulkaan die, als hij uitbarst, de gehele mensheid kan bedreigen. NASA wil dat vermijden en heeft daarvoor een ambitieus plan.
Onze planeet telt, voor zover bekend, een twintigtal supervulkanen. Gemiddeld barsten zij ongeveer om de 100.000 jaar in alle hevigheid uit. Voor Yellowstone is dat om de 600.000 jaar. Zo'n supereruptie kan catastrofaal zijn voor de mens. In 2012 berekende de VN dat de wereldwijde voedselreserves door de zogenaamde vulkanische winter zodanig zouden slinken dat er slechts genoeg eten voor 74 dagen overblijft. We zouden dus gewoon uitgehongerd worden.
De laatste keer dat de vulkanische hotspot onder Yellowstone tot een desastreuze uitbarsting kwam, dateert inmiddels van ongeveer 600.000 jaar geleden. Toen belandde er 1.000 kubieke kilometer as en lava in de atmosfeer, waardoor de temperatuur op aarde stevig daalde. Niets wijst er voorlopig op dat de vulkaan nieuwe plannen in die richting heeft, ook al is het theoretisch gezien 'weer tijd'.
Voorkomen is alleszins beter dan genezen, denkt ook Brian Wilcox van NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology): "De bedreiging van een supervulkaan is wezenlijk groter dan die van een asteroïde of komeet". Wilcox ziet wel gelijkenissen tussen deze twee mogelijke bedreigingen voor de mensheid en de aanpak daarvan: "De wetenschap moet erin investeren én moet er op tijd aan beginnen."
En dus zoekt NASA al langer naar manieren om een nieuwe allesverwoestende eruptie te voorkomen. De wetenschappers vertrekken van het principe dat de magmakamer onder controle kan gehouden worden door de supervulkaan af te koelen. Die van Yellowstone laat ongeveer 60-70 procent van de uitgestote hitte ontsnappen in de atmosfeer - vandaar de talrijke geisers en warmwaterbronnen in het onmetelijke park. Maar de rest van de hitte stapelt zich ondergronds op en dat maakt een explosie uiteindelijk onvermijdelijk. Er zou daarom méér warmte moeten kunnen vrijkomen.
Een mogelijke middel om voor verkoeling te zorgen is natuurlijk water. Maar het zou niet alleen ongelooflijk duur zijn om een megaconstructie te bouwen die meer water naar de vulkaan brengt, het zou bovendien ook erg moeilijk liggen bij de mensen, die het voor henzelf broodnodige water waarschijnlijk liever niet voor zo'n doel 'verspild' zien.
Het alternatief van NASA bestaat erin om water onder hoge druk tien kilometer diep in de magmakamer op te pompen. Ook niet simpel en, met een kostenplaatje van zo'n 3 miljard euro, ook niet goedkoop. Maar NASA bedacht daarvoor eveneens een oplossing. Het rondstromende water zou terug naar boven komen met een temperatuur van 350 graden Celsius. Zo geeft de vulkaan stelselmatig meer warmte vrij én het is een uitstekende basis voor een geothermische centrale die aan een erg competitieve prijs elektriciteit zou kunnen produceren.
Win-win dus. Of niet? Er zit helaas nog wel een addertje onder het gras. Boren in een vulkaanschacht is niet zonder risico. In het slechtste geval kan je zelfs de eruptie uitlokken die je net wou voorkomen.
Het is in elk geval een werk van erg lange adem: "Zij die aan zo'n project beginnen, zullen nooit de voltooiing ervan zien, of er tijdens hun leven zelfs maar een idee van hebben of het al dan niet succesvol blijkt", zegt Wilcox aan de BBC. Tienduizenden jaren zou de mens nodig hebben om Yellowstone op die wijze helemaal af te koelen. Dat moet wel niet om de bedreiging op zich alvast weg te nemen, maar zelfs dáárvoor zouden we, volgens Wilcox, honderden of zelfs duizenden jaren geduld moeten hebben. Toch moeten we volgens de wetenschapper best op lange termijn denken. En intussen de huidige voordelen ervan meepakken, zoals zo'n nieuwe elektriciteitscentrale, besluit hij.
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.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.