Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
18-09-2017
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.
Farewell, Spacecraft
The Cassini spacecraft has plunged into Saturn, sending back its final communications before burning up in the ringed planet's atmosphere.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
And just like that, it was gone.
The final stream of data from Cassini was received at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in southern California. The spacecraft communicated with Earth via the Deep Space Network, a series of telescopes around the world that keep contact with spacecraft that fly beyond the moon. The Deep Space Network is managed from JPL. [Read more about the end of Cassini.]
Intelligent Laughter
What brings together Nobel Prize winners, unconventional research, a mini-opera about incompetence, and not one, but two barrages of paper airplanes? The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, of course.
Credit: M. Weisberger/Live Science
Many important questions are asked in the pursuit of science, but here's one that isn't heard very often: Why so serious?
At the 2017 Ig Nobels, held in the Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, researchers representing five continents made an appearance to acknowledge the dubious achievement of acquiring an Ig Nobel. [Read more about the funny research.]
One Extreme or the Other?
Two pages of the 240-page Voynich Manuscript.
Credit: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The story was tailor-made for headlines: The indecipherable Voynich Manuscript that once stumped the best code breakers of World War II had finally been cracked, and it was a simple health-and-wellness guide for medieval women.
Hurricane Harvey stranded a mysterious fanged eel on the beach in Texas, leaving the animal to die, rot and bloat. But despite its untimely end, the creature has since become an internet star.
Illustration by Evald Hansen based on the original plan of grave Bj 581 by excavator Hjalmar Stolpe; published in 1889 (Stolpe, 1889)
Credit: Evald Hansen/American Journal of Physical Anthropology
A high-status Viking warrior who was thought to be a man turns out to be a woman, a new DNA analysis finds.
One of the graves was that of a presumed Viking warrior, whose remains were buried with a range of warlike weapons. For decades, however, researchers assumed that the burial was that of a high-status male officer. [Read more about the new find.]
SpaceX Videos
Successful rockets are all alike, but every unsuccessful rocket is unsuccessful in its own way.
Credit: SpaceX/YouTube
Get ready for out-of-this-world fiery blasts on "How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster," a new SpaceX blooper reel produced by Elon Musk, the company's founder and CEO.
The conflagrations really are like no other, and Elon insists that they're "just a scratch" or a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" in some cases. [Read more about the bloopers.]
To the Rescue!
Two territorial hippopotamuses foiled a crocodile that tried to wrestle a wildebeest into a water hole, as seen in a dramatic video of the encounter. [Read more about animal superheroes.]
Endangered Peoples
Uncontacted Indians in the Brazilian Amazon, filmed from the air in 2010.
Credit: Survival International
Brazilian authorities are investigating reports that gold miners killed about 10 members of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon rainforest.
The indigenous rights group Survival International warned that such an attack could mean that a large percentage of the tribe has been wiped out. [Read more about the story.]
War toys
Archaeologists in England are excavating the ruins of the fort of Vindolanda, which was once at the northern edge of the Roman Empire.
Credit: The Vindolanda Trust
Military brats of ancient Rome probably played soldier to pass the time.
Birley's team discovered the toys after lifting the stone foundations from a more recent renovation of the fort. They found damp, black, oxygen-free soil sealed underneath —good conditions for preserving artifacts. [Read more about the toys.]
Coolin' Off
A new technique pushes the limits of how cold molecules can get to a tiny fraction of a degree above absolute zero. [Read more about absolute zero.]
Giant, Scorching-Hot Alien Planet Is Darker Than Asphalt
Giant, Scorching-Hot Alien Planet Is Darker Than Asphalt
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist’s illustration showing the exoplanet WASP-12b, which is as black as fresh asphalt in optical wavelengths.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Exoplanets come in pretty much all colors, including pitch black.
The huge, blistering-hot alien world WASP-12b has a reflectance, or albedo, of just 0.064 at most, a new study reports.
"This is an extremely low value, making the planet darker than fresh asphalt!" lead author Taylor Bell, a master’s student in astronomy at McGill University in Montreal, said in a statement. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
For perspective, the moon's albedo on the same scale is 0.12, and Earth's is 0.37. The icy Saturn satellite Enceladus, the most reflective object in our solar system, clocks in at 1.4, study team members said. (These numbers are the "geometric albedo" of these objects. Another commonly used albedo scale, the Bond scale, goes from 0 to 1.)
WASP-12b lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. The exoplanet is about twice the size of Jupiter and completes one lap around its star every 1.1 Earth days.
This super-close orbit has made the planet a bizarre and hellish world. The powerful gravitational tug of its parent star has pulled WASP-12b into an egg shape, and temperatures on the planet's dayside reach about 4,700 degrees Fahrenheit (2,600 degrees Celsius), study team members said. (Close-orbiting planets like WASP-12b tend to be tidally locked, always showing the same face to their star, just as the moon always shows its "near side" to Earth.)
WASP-12b has been studied extensively since its 2008 discovery. But Bell and his colleagues took another look in October 2016, investigating the "hot Jupiter" with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph instrument aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
The low albedo came as a surprise, Bell said.
"There are other hot Jupiters that have been found to be remarkably black, but they are much cooler than WASP-12b," he said in the same statement. "For those planets, it is suggested that things like clouds and alkali metals are the reason for the absorption of light, but those don't work for WASP-12b because it is so incredibly hot."
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It's so hot, in fact, that molecular hydrogen — the familiar H2 — gets broken apart into atomic hydrogen in WASP-12b's skies. The team's work suggests that the planet's atmosphere is mostly atomic hydrogen and helium, and that this composition leads to the pitch-black profile.
WASP-12b is just the second exoplanet to have its albedo measured spectrally in this manner. The other — a fellow hot Jupiter, HD 189733b — appears to be deep blue.
"The fact that the first two exoplanets with measured spectral albedo exhibit significant differences demonstrates the importance of these types of spectral observations and highlights the great diversity among hot Jupiters," Bell said.
Though WASP-12b reflects virtually no light, it does emit some: The planet is so hot that it glows red like molten metal, researchers said.
Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) intends to send messages into space in 2018 in an attempt to contact alien life. METI president Douglas Vakoch doesn't want fear to slow us down, saying we should build a foundation for future scientists to keep looking.
METI, an offshoot of SETI comprising those who wish to actively seek out alien life instead of waiting, has been met with substantial opposition to its plans since it was formed. Few are against the idea that alien life exists in our universe, but a significant number have wondered if humanity should be the ones letting other species know we’re here. The concern is that such new life wouldn’t be friendly to us or very understanding, and the interactions could eventually lead to our subjugation or extinction.
Douglas Vakoch, president of METI, isn’t worried about these worst-case scenarios. Speaking with CNET, Vakoch argues that our negative expectations of aliens are not to be taken at face value; just because violence is the first thing we think of, it doesn’t inherently mean it will become reality.
“One of the reasons people are so afraid of METI is that it seems riskier to do something than to do nothing,” he said in the interview. “When we try to evaluate the risks and benefits of an unknown situation where we have little or no actual data, we fall back on the most vivid images that come to mind.”
SPEAKING THROUGH MATH AND PHYSICS
We have come up with ways to communicate with a species hundreds of light-years away that doesn’t speak our language, but there are many challenges to this feat. Aside from the time it would take for a message to travel, there’s the issue that comes with trying to craft a message that, by sight, can be identified as harmless but still be valuable.
Vakoch believes that past messages have tried to cover too many things at once. METI’s messages, however, will focus on math and physics — something SETI agrees with, since math and physics could be the only two things we have in common with any alien life.
It takes a while for things to travel through space, though, so regardless of when new messages are sent, we’re still in for a bit of a wait. People have proposed that alien contact will occur anywhere from within a few years to thousands of years from now. But as long as people hold onto the will to keep trying, Vakoch thinks that perseverance in itself will benefit humanity.
“Many of our most severe problems on Earth today are due to a focus on immediate gratification,” Vakoch said to CNET. “If future generations of SETI researchers are looking for replies to today’s transmissions, committed to a multigenerational scientific project, the very act of continuing to look will be a success in itself, whether or not they ever find life out there.”
METI planning to contact alien life in 2018 -- Representational ImageREUTERS/NASA/Handout via
A group of alien searchers is gearing up to send out cosmic messages in 2018 in order to look for the existence of extraterrestrial life, according to a report in CNET.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), which brought a number of alien hunters together, led to the scanning of cosmos with massive radio telescopes, but despite 50-odd years of efforts, we're still looking out for the solid signs of alien life. With the efforts of astronomer Frank Drake, the SETI began in 1960.
Now, a specific group of astronomers within the SETI community has grown tired of waiting and is prepping to send out messages to the unknown, if they exist somewhere in the cosmos. The research group, which calls itself Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligences (METI) International, is working on cosmic messages, hoping to send them out sometime in 2018.
However, the question that arises here is that they will send the messages to where. The cosmos is practically endless and the number of planets in the habitable zone (at the right distance from its host star) is increasing continuously.
Douglas Vakoch, the president of the group, addressed this concern by telling CNET that they will go for nearby stars, specifically those with planets in the habitable zones.
It's also worth noting that they'll have to devise a message which extraterrestrial species could understand easily. There have been some ways in the past – mathematical languages, rudimentary chatbots, music, or pictograms – but METI will specifically focus on maths and physics.
"Some of the most prominent messages of the past have tried to cover everything," Vakoch said. "We're taking the opposite approach. Rather than trying to communicate everything [about math, science, and life on Earth], we are focusing on saying a few things very clearly. For our first messages, we are emphasizing the essentials of math and physics."
The idea of proactively reaching out to the extraterrestrials seems fair, but not many are in favour of the prospect. Why? Because aliens could ATTACK! Many prominent scientists, including Stephen Hawking, believe contacting the unknown could not only lead them to us but also increases the chances of a potential attack if they're hostile.
Still, METI is moving ahead with their plan, looking forward to finding alien life. "One of the reasons people are so afraid of METI is that it seems riskier to do something than to do nothing," Vakoch said. "When we try to evaluate the risks and benefits of an unknown situation where we have little or no actual data, we fall back on the most vivid images that come to mind. But just because the first images of alien contact that come to mind are horrific, that doesn't mean they're realistic."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Object on August 30, 2017
Filer’s Files #37 -2017 UFO Reports - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Kurt Russell Sees UFO, Clark McClelland NASA Engineer Reports on UFOs, Comparing Climatic Cycles, Chinese Pyramids, and Unacknowledged Movie on Netflix.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Canada, Hawaii, Mexico, New Zealand, and Thailand, Wales in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
Kurt Russell Sees UFO
Kurt Russell, the movie star, claims he saw UFOs over Phoenix. And not just any UFOs, but the ones that have become celebrities in their own realm: the Phoenix Lights.
Russell, during an interview on the British Broadcasting Company, said he was flying his private plane into Phoenix on March 13, 1997, when he spotted the phenomenon that came to be known as the Phoenix Lights.
Russell, a licensed pilot, reported the lights to the control tower at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and may have been the first person to officially log the sighting.
The lights have been the subject of speculation and debate in the 20 years since they appeared. That was aided by the fact that rational explanations for the lights did not surface until July. By that time, the notion of them being mysterious objects had already taken root. Russell stars in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” with Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana. Most people who witnessed the lights reported seeing a V-shaped formation fly from north to south over the city, roughly following the path of Interstates 17 and 10, starting around 7 p.m.
Television stations showed footage of a later sighting: a series of orbs hovered in the sky to the west of the city, disappearing at random intervals.
The lights created a murmur of coverage locally when they happened. But that June, USA TODAY put an artist’s rendering of the lights on the front page. National news outlets followed up with their own stories and a star UFO sighting.
Clark McClelland NASA Engineer Reports on UFOs
There was some very interesting validation of the Bill Tompkins material by the return of Clark McClelland (former NASA Apollo Engineer who had direct, longtime access to Dr. Kurt Debus the Director of NASA to the Jeff Rense program. Both Dr. Debus and Dr. Von Braun had been key Nazi rocket scientists. Much more will be revealed regarding the Aldebaran connection. One of Clark’s final comments about giving notice – upon his passing – that his remains are to be returned to the Planet Aldebaran was fascinating!
Clark had confided much more info about these matters that he has not yet let go public.
Dr Kurt Debus and Dr Von Brawn
Bill Tompkins told me that Dr. Debus was indeed telepathic and was in touch with the Nordic Navy women that were working alongside him inside the secret think tanks. Debus really bonded with Tompkins having him chair three project missions and participate in design work and consulting for 7 mission projects. Tompkins said that when he was tasked with presenting the original design concept for the Apollo Program on a Monday morning at the Redstone Arsenal (outside Huntsville) AL to Dr. Debus, Von Braun and the entire team of German scientists assigned to the project – after the one hour presentation was completed Debus approached Tompkins, took him into his office.
Again, Debus bonded immediately with Tompkins, introduced him to all the other German scientists working there, asked Tompkins to both lunch and then much later dinner where they discussed extreme details of the Apollo Program and the overarching master plan of the program. At the end of that first evening Debus asked Tompkins to remain at Redstone as his personal guest for the balance of the week – of course Tompkins did so and he had the full approval of Douglas Aircraft to pursue this endeavor. Tompkins said it was an amazing week in his life – much was confirmed to him by Debus regarding the info gained by the German operatives debriefed during WWII.
Astronaut Story Musgrave Saw Disc in Space
Former NASA engineer Clark C. McClelland writes, “Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-80 took a crew of five astronauts into a 17 day, almost 16 hour mission around the earth, the longest flight in the history of this vehicle. During this lengthy flight a very strange event occurred that even had crewman Dr. Story Musgrave unable to explain what he observed from the shuttle windows. A large disc shaped object appeared below the shuttle Columbia.”
The disc was first observed to miraculously appear from out of nowhere, flying through the clouds below and progressing from right to left as the astronauts stared in utter amazement. The outer rim of the craft appeared to be rotating counter-clockwise. It was very large (compared to common space junk and breakaway ice), approximately 50 to 150 feet in diameter.
Astronaut Dr. Story Musgrave, a Payload Specialist on the STS-80 Mission, was interviewed following the flight. As he viewed a videotape of the incident which showed lightning flashes in the atmosphere, the city lights of Denver, Colorado and other earthbound sights, he stated: “I don’t know what it is. Whether it’s a washer, debris, ice particles, I don’t know. But it’s characteristic of the thousands of things which I’ve seen. What is not so characteristic is it appears to come from nowhere. You would think that if it’s facing the dark side or facing a side towards you which is not reflecting the sun, you would think that you would see something there. It’s really impressive.”
During an earlier interview, Dr. Musgrave stated, “I attempted to communicate with ET life forms during each of his six missions.” He actually asked them to take him with them. Now that’s an astronaut with a lot of courage. Dr. Musgrave retired after this flight from NASA. Since then he’s been spreading his considered opinion that alien life exists. When Musgrave speaks of this, it’s no great leap for one to assume he’s admitting knowledge of alien life. As the final slide of a “Grey” ET was shown during a recent astronomy presentation by Dr. Musgrave, he made this surprising comment: “These guys are real… I guarantee it!” Dr. Musgrave does know the truth. This author guarantees it!
Consider that carefully. These are world renowned scientists making statements almost beyond belief. Dr. von Braun and others of his stature have the courage to disclose “sensitive” information, but obviously the leaders of the US and the world do not. If billions could find a way of coping with the overwhelming threat of atomic annihilation for half a century, it is reasonable to assume we can cope with the knowledge of these “Other Intelligence’s” from the stars. We can cope with the fact they are visiting earth, and have been since the beginning of history. “Those still asleep must open their eyes. We Are Not Alone.” Thanks to Clark C. McClelland, former ScO, U.S. Space Shuttle Fleet, KSC, Florida 1958 to 1992.http://stargate-chronicles.com/shop/ Thanks to Frank Chille
Comparing Climatic Cycles
Dr. Bruce Cornet writes, “Because Egyptologist have been blinded by mythological labels and stories, and by a failure to understand where this advanced knowledge of historical climatology and celestial mechanics came from (for further understanding read Fingerprints of the Gods, by Hancock, 1995; Hamlet’s Mill, by de Santillana and von Dechend, 1969; and The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt, by Sellers, 1992), they could not see or recognize that those Egyptians knew more about the causes of glaciations and interglacial’s than we do today! Aliens likely gave us technology to move large objects, but they found us too violent and decided to cause the floods or they just occurred causing to lose the technology.” I published a study on ResearchGate under:
Comparing Notes between Triassic-Jurassic Milankovitch Climatic Cycles
Precession cycles are part of Earth’s climatic history, and cause/modulate changes in Ice Ages versus Interglacials. The Precession Cycle (Wobble)
Next is precession, or wobble. This cycle occurs every 26,000 years. This gyroscopic wobble of the earth’s axis is driven by tidal forces which are influenced by our sun and moon. The Earth is actually not perfectly round so the gravitational pull tugs the axis over time creating the wobble cycle. Now there’s a technical term for you.
This wobble can cause a difference in the types of seasons one polar hemisphere will experience over the other. The hemisphere at perihelion (closest to the sun) will enjoy an increase in summer solar radiation but a cooler winter, while the opposite hemisphere will have a warmer winter and a cooler summer.
Currently the southern hemisphere is at perihelion, so they are enjoying warmer summers, but cooler winters, which likely contributes to snowfall in the hemisphere.
The ancient Egyptians were given information by “those who moved great stones with ease”, information which dates back 25 thousand years before the first Egyptian Dynasty. But Egyptologists failed and continue to fail to recognize the charts and graphs as scientific data, and were given hieroglyphic and mythological explanations by Dynastic Priests. Only with the data from Antarctic Ice Cores did these graphs become meaningful and recognizable to me as information passed on to humans after the Meltdown. The positions of the south and north celestial poles appear to move in circles against the space-fixed backdrop of stars, completing one circuit in approximately 26,000 years.
The Egyptians recognized the three major components of Earth Precession, which are only influenced by the Moon, and the sun coupled with the Earth’s Chandler wobble: 21,600 yrs, 108,000 yrs, and 432,000 yrs.
Dr/ Cornet described and studied 28 thousand feet of these cycles in Late Triassic cores during the early 1990s under the Newark Basin Coring Project by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. They appear to be caused by the wobble of our Sun, and the alignment vs non-alignment of Earth’s orbit with the Sun’s Accretion Disc.
I attach two of the Egyptian scientific diagrams with mythological labels to show that records were kept by someone many tens of thousands of years before the first Egyptian Dynasty in 3100 BC.
Our news media and scientists are thinking within a narrow box, numerous other countries have a belief in life in space; paranormal capabilities and that we are being visited. China has a million ufologists and the average person is aware of visitation.
Bob writes, I watched a Youtube video on the Giza pyramids. Later, came up to a red light, and looked at the car in front of me. The license plate was GZA 313. Immediately I knew what the license plate meant. It was a reference to the fact that the pyramids and Pharaohs statues were created with help of the same beings who flew over Arizona on March 13, 2017. At the moment that this happened, I was listening to the part in which the video showed that one Egyptian sculpture of a Pharaoh was so symmetrical that it could not have been done by hand. In fact, the symmetry of the face is so exact that I’m at a loss to explain how something could be done without a computer. My training is in automation and CNC milling machines. I use a milling machine at work. I understand how 3-d objects are created and how modern machinery would be used to create such an object. I’m at a loss to understand how something such as that could be created without advanced machining. These stone monuments are messages through time. Consider how could it be possible that the FOE could be created over 100 thousand years ago, and that the creators knew that a river would be diverted as a canal through its mouth! It’s all mind-boggling. –Bob
Note: This image is from Mars indicating a civilization once existed on Mars.
Chinese Pyramids
Once we thought pyramids only could be found in Egypt but then we discovered that they exist all over the world. So if all these ancient cultures were building pyramids yet they had little to no contact with each other then why were they all building pyramids about the same time?
Additionally, the pyramid of Emperor Wu (Shown) was built in 53 years which is interesting to note. It is possible the ancient Egyptians built their pyramids in about the same amount of time but perhaps using more laborers. Egypt’s Great Pyramid is 140 m (450 feet) high while Emperor Wu’s is 50 m (155 feet) high making it about 1/4 the size as the one in Egypt. China has almost 200 pyramids. Mars as well as Earth has numerous pyramids and statues carved into the side of mountains like on Earth. Thanks to NASA
Unacknowledged Movie on Netflix
Now available on Netflix Worldwide with Major George Filer, Paul Hellyer Canadian Defence Minister, and Dr. Richard Greer etc
Unacknowledged, LLC is thrilled to announce this historic deal with Netflix which reaches over 108 million subscribers thru the streaming service. Dr. Greer and The Orchard worked closely with Netflix to bring Unacknowledged to a wider audience and disclose the shocking issues around UFO secrecy. If you’re a subscriber on Netflix you can now access the film in all countries with subtitles.
“Unacknowledged” focuses on the historic files of the Disclosure Project and how UFO secrecy has been ruthlessly enforced-and why. The best evidence for extraterrestrial contact, dating back decades, is presented with direct top-secret witness testimony, documents and UFO footage. From briefings with the CIA Director, top Pentagon Generals and Admirals, to the briefing of President Obama via senior advisor John Podesta, chairman of the Hillary Clinton Campaign, we take the viewer behind the veil of secrecy and into the corridors of real power where the UFO secrets reside. The viewer will learn that a silent coup d’état has occurred dating back to the 1950s and that the Congress, the President and other world leaders have been sidelined by criminal elements within the military-industrial-financial complex.
Author:Bob from Arizona It was brave of them to put this together, they have brought a lot of attention onto some very unscrupulous individuals. Personally I choose not to be quite as audacious as Greer in mentioning the names and locations of specific strategic installations and operations pertaining to the E.T. presence, electromagnetic weapons platforms, military abduction assets, crash and retrieval teams, A.R.V. storage hangers and the working parts of the related psychological warfare/deception programs. But I will say this, they exist, they are well funded and the people involved in these USAPs are some of the most ruthless people on the planet.
There is presently a massive active psychological warfare operation which involves using assets in Hollywood exert influence in the interest of putting out stories that portray real world events in a fictional medium as to marginalize and sensationalize the subject matter. These operations present factual information in a medium (such as sci-fi) which strains credibility and dissuades serious discussion and investigation of said subject matter. There is also a related counter-intelligence operation which is aimed at portraying off world beings in a very xenophobic and frightening way as to shape the psychology of the masses and their attitudes towards interstellar visitors. These operations have been very effective in dissuading, distracting, and confusing people preventing them from taking very serious and important issues seriously.
I was surprised at the precision in the details Greer was able to share in this film (him not being a military man) but the information he presented is indeed accurate and actionable. To all the everyday citizens out there I tell you this; the people and operations this film exposes are the single most dangerous element on earth which threatens the possibility of a better and more equitable future for your children. These covert elements and black operations can only continue to exist if you keep allowing them to through your ignorance and passivity. Pay attention and choose to act, the time is now.
Conspiracy fact with hard evidence to boot!
Author:cody-93996 from Pasadena, California Am I ever glad I made time to go see this Premiere! It connected the dots for me and made things clear in a way I did not expect. What this man and his team have discovered and exposed gave more evidence to what I have suspected was true. While researching military spending over the past decade for my thesis I came across an Associated Press investigation that was finished in 2009 which found at least $4.7 billion was spent by the pentagon the during the previous year on psychological warfare operations aimed at its own citizens. The Department of Defense admitted to this massive operation paid for by tax dollars which employs between 27,000 and 30,000 government and military employees. They described these ongoing operations as efforts to “sway public opinion” and according to Department of Defense budgets and other documents this budget would continue to increase (from 4.7 annually to almost double) in coming years. That’s almost as much as the government spent on body armor for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2006. Imagine that, you are literally paying your government to brain wash you.
This documentary exposes where all that money along with more “dirty money” is being spent year after year.
Wikipedia defines Psychological warfare as having been known by many other names or terms, including Miso, Psy Ops, COINTELPRO, Political Warfare, and Propaganda. The term is used “to denote any action which is practiced mainly by psychological methods with the aim of evoking a planned psychological reaction in other people.” Various techniques are used and are aimed at influencing a target audience’s value system, belief system, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior. It is used to induce confessions or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator’s objectives, and is sometimes combined with black operations or False Flag tactics. Target audiences can be government, groups, organizations, and individuals, and is not just limited to soldiers. Civilians can also be targeted by technology and media so as to cause an effect”.
Recently declassified documents (dating back as far as 1953) show that the CIA made significant investments into establishing a foothold in Hollywood (along with major news media outlets) to ensure that the CIA is in the position to use that footing for their psychological warfare value. Many films were produced to help the public realize UFOs are here.
This film exposes what most people may not realize, the fact that some of the things they watch in movies or on TV represent intentional efforts to psychologically manipulate them in order to achieve a specific intended goal. These “Psy Ops” are being paid for and orchestrated by specific compartments of their own government.
Most intelligent people realize that the mainstream media is more about PR for the current dominant institutions and government than about real journalism, but how much of what we watch on TV and in Movies is specifically tailored as to illicit an intended psychological response in the audience? How many of the depictions we see on the big screen are not merely fictions to entertain, but rather represent strategic attempts on the part of the global intelligence communities to shape the perspectives and opinions of a malleable population in order to perpetuate the status quo?
There are documents now available to the public which show clearly that in the 1950s the CIA contracted Disney studios on several occasions to write stories that were intended to shape public perception of specific issues. In the age of information, in an era of a vast globalized military industrial complex, there is a war being waged for the hearts and minds of humanity in which truth is the most likely casualty. This war is not fought with bullets or bombs, but their weapons of choice do lay in most people’s living rooms.
This documentary is unprecedented in its honest attempt to shine light onto the vast array of psychological warfare tactics utilized by the intelligence community (especially in relation to the ET presence and “free energy”).
I suggest that we should exercise caution when we open our hearts and minds to the onslaught of images, ideas, and stories that are projected to us by the mainstream corporate media and the internet. Even more so, it would be prudent to have our eyes wide open when watching those depictions presented to us under the guise of “entertainment” because many times it is anything but. This ground- breaking documentary, “Unacknowledged” shows us that the system (military industrial complex) is now desperately seeking to justify its own existence and perpetuate the lies and fear that keep it alive. In this time of universal deceit, Discernment is Key. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6400614/reviews
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Filer’s Files #37 -2017 UFO Reports - PART II
Filer’s Files #37 -2017 UFO Reports - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Alabama Light
Ranburne— My wife and I were watching fireworks on July 4th when we noticed these strange lights doing unnatural things. We videoed them on my iPhone and on her Lg G3 smart phone. We knew this was not an airplane or fireworks or a drone. We were excited and confused so that’s why we documented the event. After several times of it disappearing and reappearing it finally stopped. We were at home and started videoing around 9:00 pm central time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Elk Grove — It happened on September 5, 2017, at 7:46 pm, my wife “DJS” has the psychic power to uncloak. Time after time, she has proven to me that she can feel a UFO or even a portal in the sky and take a photo of the UFO that will appear in the photo. In one photo, she actually captured a portal in the sky over Copperopolis. The one that really struck a chord with me was the story of the mysterious eye and her account of an alien abduction. She got the impulse to snap a photo and she captured 3 UFOs in a V formation.
During our investigations together we were connected to the UFOs by using two crystal skulls. She asked the UFO to “power up” and that is exactly what the UFO did and was witnessed by others. Other people who may have had the psychic power to uncloak UFOs were: Ed Walters, and Eduard Albert Meier. My wife “D” has the psychic power to uncloak UFOs and does it have a connection to her alien abduction? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Triangle
Augusta– On September 1, 2017, a series of photos were taken of a triangle shaped craft over Augusta that could be the US experimental TR-3B;
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois 7 Oval Shaped Objects
Glendale – On August 31, 2017, the witness called and reported his sighting via a voice-mail message. I called the witness and interviewed him later. The witness couldn’t sleep so he took a walk to a gas station about 1.5 miles from his house. He noticed a light hovering to the east. He at first thought it was an aircraft, but realized that it wasn’t because it kept silent, hovering and was too large for an aircraft. He snapped one photo of the oval shaped object that was 250 yards in diameter. There were blinking white, blue and green lights around the perimeter and on the bottom corners. He then noticed seven other similar objects gradually appeared 25 miles from Chicago O’Hare Airport. Upon arrival at the gas station he saw two police officers and they also were observing the sky. One policeman said that the object was an “airbus.” The other officer was baffled. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Indiana Object
Mentone — My deer camera has 4 pictures that look like a rod of light taken on September 8, 2016. They are hours apart and the closest one people say look like a grain auger and the farther away Ones look like glowing rods with a slight bend in them. The confusing part is it looks like it takes off from my neighbor’s house then the next picture it’s above my house. I went and talked to neighbor and now he’s confused. The people in my area are curious to what might have made these forms in the air.
Kansas Lights
Wichita — I was out looking for UFOs when I noticed what looked like a star that was moving real slowly on July 13, 2017. So I tried to record it. The ship had scramblers that made my phone go crazy. After about 45 minutes, I finally manipulated the ships scramblers so I was able to record this massive ship with little ships flying in and around it. We were at my brother’s house in Wichita and it looked like a huge diamond in the sky that scared me. It was like the movie “Independence Day.” It was in the sky for already 5 hours watching earth before we even realized the star was moving. I tried to record, but it wouldn’t let me. Then we noticed ten UFOs all around it and one Lil UFO shoots of in space like Superman. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Orb
Bourne — I was sitting on my deck on September 1, 2017, and saw a giant orange ball of light heading south across sky. I immediately called my husband out when it first appeared and he observed it also. Five minutes later another orange ball flew south across the sky. Neither of us could identify the ball of light. I was able to take two pictures of 2nd sighting. I waited but did not see it again.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Object
Absecon — I awakened at 4:48 am with a feeling of being wide awake and a feeling of gently swaying sensation left to right as I lay in bed on September 8, 2017. I could feel the swaying pressure going from left to right like I was floating on a big wave ever so gently. I had a slight head fog with the feeling of slight pressure building in my head like driving up to the mountains. I got up to see the sunrise in the east and the moon was high in the south western sky. Then I started taking pictures of the moon as some birds were flying,
When I got into my vehicle to drive home I felt like I was in a slight drunk state but did not consume alcohol. I had to force myself to be extra alert when driving. I noticed the object in my picture once I downloaded it into my computer I zoomed in and it does not look like anything I ever saw before. Appears to be black with what looks to be a light of hole in middle. It could be a drone but I just never seen a drone like this before. I saw nothing when I was looking in the direction of the moon. I did feel a slight drugged like feeling a light headed fogginess. Maybe it’s the atmosphere and climatic changes, and magnetic field or gravitational pull that’s doing something to make me feel this way. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Disc
New York City— I was walking, so very happy talking to a friend from California on the phone, when something told me to take a picture on January14, 2017….. I noticed a white object on the front, and a flying craft in the back ground. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Object
Philadelphia — On August 30, 2017, I looked out of my 3rd floor window and saw 8 objects fly over my city from west to east. At first from a distance maybe 1-2 miles I thought they were soaring vultures. Redtails are common but not that many at once so that drew my attention. I went back to my work the objects were much closer and were not birds but were very smooth looking objects and resembled a manta ray. The way they flew was very controlled and not just with the wind, they would bank and change altitude, dip and bank. I ran back inside to grab my camera to snap two photos before they flew out of sight.
The building that blocked my view so they had to be very low. I looked out of my 3rd floor window and saw about 8 objects fly over my city from west to east. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina Triangles
Myrtle Beach – I discovered 3 triangle UFOs high resolution photos that I don’t remember taking. In the phone details, it says that I took it through my camera at 8:02 pm on March 27th, 2017. I don’t even know where this church is. My wife and son were at a function that night but we cannot account for where I was. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Triangle
Atoy— I left a friend’s house, headed home, driving the same route I always drive at about 2ish in the morning on June 1, 2017. Not driving fast the sky flashed blue as if lightning flashed but there were no clouds. There was no moon and very little light pollution except for my headlights. What was odd about the light/flash was that it was bluish in color and seemed to flash over the top of my truck. The only thing I can equate it to is when someone is welding, the light that it gives off is not like a lightning flash or other sorts of light fixtures. It flashed for about 3 or 4 flashes, fast but long enough to look up and still see it going on through the windshield. This light lit up the whole sky, like I said, like lightning would have. There was no sound like a rumble of thunder that should have followed if it had been lightning. As I looked up, it moved from the rearview mirror to the steering wheel and disappeared over the trees southwest. It did not move fast, about 30 mph or so. It was triangle shaped on an acute triangle, there were about 6 or 7 lights on my side of the object, The lights lit it just enough to see the object was a dark color but flat colored. The object could have been the shape of a stealth fighter but seemed thicker and longer. It seemed thin as it flew over the road ahead of me. It was 100 yards above me and disappeared about 125 yards in front of me. I was traveling south along F.M. 1210 towards Atoy. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Port Orchard— Working on Pasture fence on my farm on July 23, 2017, I didn’t notice it at the time.
Only after I looked at the game camera footage did I notice it. Perhaps it was a large bird.
We do have Eagles and Canadian geese in the area. It was circular shape and possibly metallic silver. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Orb
Ensenada — I tell you that I was in a park with my daughter taking pictures on August 21, 2017, when it occurred to me to take one in the sun seeing that it looked bigger than usual. I didn’t remember it was eclipse of the sun day. When I look at my encounter with the orb that I could only see in the photo or through the camera not to the naked eye, I have serious doubts that it is not the reflection of the camera or the lens. During the days prior to this I always looked towards that same direction as if expecting something. The curious thing is that this same phenomenon happened on August 19, 2017, two days before, I do not know if it disappeared and then I went home without being sure that it is a UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Sphere
Scarborough, Ontario — On Friday, September 1, 2017, I took this series of photographs.
We had a ‘prelude ‘ to the CNE’s Air show at around 1:09 pm today
Thanks to Paul Shishis
Hawaii Red Marks
Kekaha Kauai– I was worried about the red marks that my dad noticed when we are in the living room. He looked at it and wiped with alcohol because he thought it was only a stain from my bed or from my shirt, the alcohol did not remove the marks. What should I do?
Response to Investigator Questions: I live here in the USA in state of Hawaii. We noticed the marks on August 30th, 2017. I don’t have exact time, but my dad noticed it around 7 PM. The night before I got the mark I had two dreams, but I can’t remember them. I was really tired after work and fell asleep around 5 PM naked. I woke up and went into the living room with my parents. I was sitting in the living room and my dad noticed something on my back. I told him maybe it was just dirt. I was so irritated at my dad when he kept telling me about it so I went inside the bathroom and saw this red mark in my back. We took alcohol and cotton to try to wipe it out, but I couldn’t get it out. I know that it’s not a regular mark because it should be fading already. I gave my mom an ice cube and she rubbed it on my back… Ice, alcohol, water couldn’t remove the mark and I have no symptoms and it’s not itchy. I’m got stressed thinking about where I got the red marks, There are similar patterns of articles and pictures on the web. Missiles were launched at around 1 AM that night and I live close by to the base.
Note: I have received several reports of similar “red marks in grid pattern” in the last year few years. The cause of these marks has not yet been determined. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Mexico Orbs
During our stay in Mexico City my girlfriend and I visited the Templo Mayor Site and museum. We did not see anything strange that day in the skies of Mexico City. When we returned home from our vacation I downloaded from my girlfriend’s I-phone pictures from that day had white orbs in the sky. This photo was taken by her from inside the Templo Mayor museum. The photo captures glowing disc shaped and orb like objects and a non-glowing disc shaped object hovering above Mexico City. If the picture is magnified you can see the non-glowing dark/grayish disc shaped object. The glowing object between the domes of the cathedral seems to be to far away to be a reflection of a light from within the museum. The non-glowing disc shaped object does seem to be neither a reflection nor dirt. What are they? Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Object
I took this picture with my IR camera in the early morning hours on September 3, 2017. I don’t know what it is, but that pic shows what might be a UFO, with a blue orb next to it. Can someone please tell me what this is? If that’s a blue UFO next to it, then the ufo might be 10 meters across. Then it roughly shows the size of it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Thailand Light
Bangkok — I was stuck in traffic and since I like watching the sky at Twilight time I saw the light that I thought was a Northern star. I drive home in that direction every day, and never see a single star.
Then I saw it so bright but not moving. It’s also the brightest star I’ve ever seen. I was screaming in my car with shock and happiness. I’m just about to grab my camera and then it disappeared, right in front of my eyes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/Wales Light
Barmouth — Standing on our caravan holiday plot in Talybont, when myself and 3 friends noticed 4 ‘puffy’ like clouds directly in front of us over the sea. My friend’s and I took photos on our camera phones. When checking the photos we noticed the orb quickly and took other photos. The orb was only visible when looking through the camera phone, not with the naked eye. The orb moved in fast upward and downward movements on the phone. A third friend took photos but no orb was visible. We thought it could have been a trick of the light as we were shooting into the sun. After approx 10 minutes we forgot about the orb so don’t know when or if it disappeared. My friend phoned me tonight to say that orbs had been seen over Dyffryn which is a very short walk away. It was very exciting reading the reports on the internet of these sightings and felt I would like to report ours. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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A video uploaded to popular conspiracy channel, SecureTeam10, on YouTube shows the strange disc which was unearthed by the Russian miners.
The team, who were part of the Kuzbassrazrezugol mining company, were mining in the remote region of Volgograd when they found the ‘UFOs’ some 40 metres underground.
The disc is around 1.2 metres in diameter and weighs roughly 440 lbs – or 31 stone.
The narrator of the video claims that the object was “found to have been coated in a metal known as tungsten … this is a metal that has typically been used in technology that belongs to the military”
“Tungsten has one of the highest melting points and is commonly used in things that are put up in space due to the fact that they can withstand the extremely high temperatures that occur when an object enters the atmosphere.”
The narrator of the video says that theories are spreading that “these objects actually hold the remains of extra-terrestrial beings.
“They obviously look artificial, they’re all in the shape of a flying saucer … not to mention the fact they were found deep underground in a mine.”
YOUTUBE
The 'UFO' is 1.2 metres in diameter
Excavator Boris Glazkov, who found the object, said: "I have to say it wasn't hard to see as it was really distinctive and large.
"I've never seen anything like this object, which is obviously man-made, out here in the middle of nowhere before. It is a real mystery.”
His colleague, Arthur Presnyakov, added: "There were actually two similar objects, but the first one broke as it was being pulled out of the ground by the excavator bucket.
YOUTUBE
“They obviously look artificial, they’re all in the shape of a flying saucer"
"We thought we saw something sure, because it broke into pieces, but then when the second one appeared we stopped work and carefully removed it from the bucket.”
However, commenters on the video were not as convinced.
One person wrote: “Looks like a type of a mill stone.”
Another said: “How could anyone possibly think that is a UFO just because they are saucer shaped.”
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UFO that ‘lit up like a bolt of lightning’ SPOTTED during camping trip in Yorkshire
UFO that ‘lit up like a bolt of lightning’ SPOTTED during camping trip in Yorkshire
A COUPLE of friends claim to have been mesmerised by a mysterious UFO that was as bright as a "bolt of lightening”, while camping in the Yorkshire Dales.
The object reportedly changed colour from white to orange
Trent Mason, 22, and Jack Holdsworth, 21, were stargazing when they reportedly saw an eerie object change colour and move around the sky for more than two hours.
They were said to be shocked as the object made circular and triangular patterns in the sky and changed colour from white to orange.
The two friends were camping near to the Ribblehead railway viaduct when they claim the object appeared.
Mr Mason said: "It just popped up on the horizon, then disappeared back where it came from. I was not sure if I saw it but looked at Jack and his face was white
"It was there one minute, then next it lit up like a bolt of lightening. It was like a flash and whoosh, it was gone. If I'd blinked I would have missed it.
"It was absolutely incredible. The stars were dots in the night sky and this was the size of a 5p. It was hard to judge how far away it was but it was definitely higher than the hills."
CASCADE NEWS
The friends were camping near to the Ribblehead railway viaduct when they claim the object appeared
The Yorkshire Dales area is said to attract thousands of hikers every year.
Yorkshire based UFO researcher Philip Mantle, a former director of investigations for the British UFO Research Association, said: "For decades now UFO sighting reports have come across my desk from areas in and around the Yorkshire Dales national park and surrounding areas.
“It therefore comes as no surprise to learn of the sighting by Mr Mason and Mr Holdsworth over the world famous Ribblehead viaduct.
"Over the last few years UFO sighting reports in this area have been few and far between, however, for whatever reason, 2017 has seen a sharp upturn in reports in this area.
"Why this is, I have no idea, but the sighting reported by these two gentlemen fits with other sightings I have had from this general area in the past."
For those who like to drive, nothing is quite as inviting as a freshly-applied (and dried) blacktopped road. Do space travelers feel the same way about a completely black planet that is dark enough to disappear and absorbs everything its nearby star shines at it? What fresh hole in space is this? Has an alien civilization invented a planetary cloaking device?
The discovery of the lack of light on the dark exoplanet was announced this week by NASA and the European Space Agency. The obsidian orb is WASP-12b and it was actually discovered in 2008 orbiting WASP-12, a magnitude 11 yellow dwarf star located approximately 1400 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. While WASP-12 is about the size of our Sun, WASP-12b is what NASA calls a “hot Jupiter,” which sounds like an astronaut exclamation (Hot Jupiter, Spock! Who cares if she’s green … she’s gorgeous!”) but is slang for a large (in this case, twice the diameter of our Jupiter), hot, gaseous planet (also called a roaster planet) with a quick orbit – WASP-12b makes its circuit in just 10 days. That makes it so incredibly hot (2600 degrees Celsius on its daylight side) that its star’s pull is able to mold the exoplanet into an egg shape.
Astronomers discover dark past of planet-eating 'Death Star'
An artist’s impression of WASP-12b (NASA)
Astronomers from McGill University, Canada and the University of Exeter, UK, used the Hubble space telescope to observe WASP-12b during an eclipse (theirs, not ours) when it passed behind its sun. Taylor Bell, a Master’s student in astronomy at McGill University and lead author of the report, explains what they saw:
“The measured albedo of WASP-12b is 0.064 at most. This is an extremely low value, making the planet darker than fresh asphalt!”
Hot Jupiter, Taylor! What’s an albedo?
Latin for “whiteness,” albedo is a measurement of reflection. While other colder exoplanets have low albedos due to clouds or surface alkali metals, WASP-12b’s extreme heat means it has neither of these. Its super-low albedo is caused by its super-hot temperature which breaks down its hydrogen molecules into hydrogen atoms, allowing WASP-12b to reflect almost no light – it eats 94% of it. This gives this hot Jupiter a dark red hue, contrasting it to another hot Jupiter, HD 189733b, which has a higher albedo, making it deep blue and causing astronomer Bell to wax philosophically:
“The fact that the first two exoplanets with measured spectral albedo exhibit significant differences demonstrates the importance of these types of spectral observations and highlights the great diversity among hot Jupiters.”
An artist’s impression of a normal hot Jupiter
Does that dark color make WASP-12b an attractive asphalt roadish planet just begging for a landing? Would the first crew to touch down paint white stripes or parking lot lines? Would that make the residents on the cooler side yell “Hot Jupiter! Why didn’t we think of that!”
At 1400 light years away, we’ll probably never know.
The topic of Unidentified Flying Objects is one that’s currently gripping the attention of many, so much so that it looks like the United States will be releasing some of its UFO files in the near future, according to longtime White House insiderJohn Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and several other sources from where the ‘official’ announcement will most likely come. Although it’s hard to expect any sort of full truth about this topic to be fully disclosed in the mainstream, ‘official’ files from several different governments and intelligence agencies from around the world already confirm the existence of UFOs (links below), so don’t get your hopes up for any type of new information that another country hasn’t already disclosed, but who knows?
You can read more about ‘official government disclosure’ and what we have to be cautious of i it does ever happen in an article published earlier this month, here.
It’s interesting that this topic is getting so much attention right now in the mainstream, especially with Hillary Clinton making her comments about it as of late (article on that linked above). That being said, as mentioned above, it’s important to recognize that we’ve been ‘bamboozled’ by the government and corporate media for so long, with so many different examples ranging from the war on terror to the war on drugs, that it’s hard to expect any type of honest revelation about what’s really going on. For anybody who has researched the topic of UFOs in depth, it’s quite clear that this issue goes well beyond government parameters. It appears, to me at least, that politicians are simply told what to say on most topics; they too have ‘bosses’ and those they take instruction from. So, keep that in mind when the government decides to disclose the ‘truth.’
This thing has gotten so highly-classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.
– Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (source)(source)
Although the files (of which there are thousands) that have been made available for public viewing d0 contain some eye-opening details, most notably objects of unknown origin performing maneuvers and travelling at speeds no known aircraft can, they contain no hard evidence that states the objects are extraterrestrial in origin, but, there is, as former NASA astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor Brian O’leary puts it, “abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time.” (source)
If you’d like to see some of these files, you can read THIS article—it’s heavily sourced and includes a number of examples of what happens when the military tracks a UFO on radar. Yes, the military tracks UFOs on radar, and the objects are also confirmed by the pilots who are sent to take a closer look. Official pictures have also been released; here’s one of many examples in Canada. Not only are they tracked on radar, but they disrupt critical instrumentation and communications within our military jets.
Dr. Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information centre for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, also published a paper in the Journal of Scientific Explorationtitled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Ariel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” (source)(source) This also details other phenomenon associated with this craft.
Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.
What’s the point? The point is that UFOs have been confirmed as real by these previously classified files, as well as by hundreds of military personnel of every rank over the past few years. Some of the cases described in these files are truly amazing, and now that thousands of them have been officially declassified, the people involved in these incidents have no more fear of coming forward and sharing their stories.
For a quick 10 minute summary video to get you up to speed on the topic, you can watch THIS clip taken from a Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, given in front of several former U.S. congresspeople, by people from within the military realms, political realms, and the world of academia.
Before going into the story below, it’s important for readers to recognize the ‘seriousness’ of this issue and the concerns that people are having, and have had for years.
One of these people is a now retired Navy commander pilot Graham Bethune who held a top-secret clearance. He was a VIP Plane Commander who flew most of the high-ranking officers and civilians from Washington, DC. In his testimony below, he explains how he was flying a group of VIPs and other pilots into Argentina, Newfoundland, when every single person on the plane witnessed a 300 foot object that traveled 10,000 feet straight up in a fraction of a second toward their plane. As you can see from the video below, he has documented the event extensively.
Below are some very interesting quotes taken from the interview. The interview was conducted by Dr. Steven Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project, which has interviewed hundreds of military personnel of all ranks.
To access the official files pertaining to this particular case, you can visit the government’s ‘Project Bluebook’ files to read them. You can find those links and the files for this case at the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomenon.
And I was flying at that time, Admiral McCormick who had relieved Eisenhower. Admiral McCormick was the NATO commander…(15:44) There was quite a few that knew about this so this is where I learned a lot that really was not official.
I do know that we did bring some of the craft back from Germany after World War II.
Then we knew that it was a friendly encounter, we knew it knew we were there, we knew it came out to see us. We watched it for a while.
Since then I’ve learned from the boys upstairs why we saw different colours as it was coming toward us. The colours were around the perimeter. And it turned from a yellow to an orange to almost a fiery red and then almost a purplish-red. And they said that that had to do with the amount of energy being used or dissipated. It had to do with the UFO power settings. When it slowed down, close to us, in a fraction of a second, it was back to the yellow range. And it was foggy around it or a plasma mist.
On the flight line where we parked our plane, most of the time, we weren’t too far from what looked like a hangar. Every time my boss and I went by there, he could not understand why I was not interested in going and looking at what was behind the metal wall…And he told basically that they had a craft back there and he told me basically that they did have bodies there…
The last quote you see above the video is one example of why the extraterrestrial hypothesis as an explanation for some of these UFOs existing. Sure, we have files that basically confirm the existence of UFOs, but the extraterrestrial part comes from stories like this one. Another example is former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, who told the world that visitors from other planets have been coming here for years, and that global militaries are aware of this (source).
The 6th man to walk on the Moon, the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell, told us that “yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered” and that he happens to be “privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.”
The list literally goes on and on of why the extraterrestrial hypothesis exists, another great example comes from a school in Zimbabwe, where more than 60 school children witnessed a large craft landing and intelligent humanoids around it. You can read more details about that case here.
The evidence to examine the UFO topic, and the extraterrestrial hypothesis, is huge, and would take thousands of pages to present.
Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, ETs, etc…They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking.
– Theodor C. Loder III, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)
Again, to access the official files pertaining to this particular case, you can visit the government’s ‘Project Bluebook’ files to read them. You can find those links and the files for this case at the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomenon.
This is a topic that will leave no aspect of humanity untouched. From science, history to technology and consciousness. This is a major paradigm shift moment for our species, and it’s only a matter of time.
Vips zien 100 meter grote UFO die in een oogwenk 3000 meter aflegt. Deze marinecommandant was erbij
Vips zien 100 meter grote UFO die in een oogwenk 3000 meter aflegt. Deze marinecommandant was erbij
Graham Bethune is een gepensioneerde marinecommandant die toegang had tot topgeheime informatie.
Het was zijn taak om hooggeplaatste legerfunctionarissen vanuit Washington D.C. naar andere legerbases te vliegen.
Fractie van een seconde
In onderstaande video vertelt Bethune dat hij op een dag een groep vips en andere piloten naar Argentia op het eiland Newfoundland bracht, toen iedereen aan boord plotseling een UFO van 100 meter zag die in een fractie van een seconde meer dan 3000 meter omhoog schoot in de richting van het vliegtuig.
Bethune heeft het voorval uitvoerig gedocumenteerd. Het onbekende vliegende object was voorzien van een koepel met daaromheen een gele waas.
De marinecommandant zei over het voorval:
Ik vloog op dat moment admiraal McCormick, die Eisenhower had vervangen. Admiraal McCormick was de NAVO-commandant.
Goede bedoelingen
Velen van ons wisten hiervan en ik kreeg veel informatie die niet naar buiten werd gebracht. Ik weet dat we een aantal vaartuigen na de Tweede Wereldoorlog uit Duitsland hebben meegenomen.
We wisten dat de inzittenden goede bedoelingen hadden, we wisten dat zij wisten dat wij er waren, we wisten dat het ons in de gaten hield.
Nadien kreeg ik van de hoge bazen te horen waarom we verschillende kleuren zagen terwijl het vaartuig op ons afkwam. Het object was eerst geel en daarna oranje, rood en vervolgens paars.
Energie
Ze zeiden dat dat te maken had met de hoeveelheid energie die werd gebruikt. Het had te maken met de energie-instellingen van de UFO.
Toen het vlak bij ons in een fractie van een seconde afremde was het weer geel. Rond het object was een mistige plasma te zien.
Niet ver van de plek waar wij ons vliegtuig parkeerden stond iets wat op een hangar leek.
Lichamen
Iedere keer dat mijn baas en ik er langs kwamen snapte hij maar niet waarom ik niet wilde weten wat er achter die metalen muur verborgen lag.
Hij zei dat ze daar een schip hadden en dat ze daar ook lichamen bewaarden.
Op diverse plaatsen zijn er de afgelopen tijd weer vreemde objecten waargenomen, waaronder een zwerm van ongeveer 50 onbekende objecten boven Rotterdam.
Verder is er een wel heel spectaculaire opname gemaakt van een formatie van vijf UFO's die verschenen boven de Amerikaanse staat Florida ten tijde van de ramp met orkaan Irma.
Omstreeks 22.00 was ik uit het raam aan het kijken naar de maan die vrij laag stond en een mooie kleur had. Ineens naast de maan uit het niets verschenen 3 felle rode lichtbollen in een driehoek formatie. Ik pakte mijn telefoon en filmde en maakte een paar foto, s van het verschijnsel. Toen ik even stopte met filmen en op balkon ging staan verschenen er wel ongeveer 50 rode lichtbollen.
De objecten waren vrij hoog in de lucht en fel van rode kleur. Ze gingen aan en uit en verwisselde van positie maar ook hingen ze vrij stil. Alle rode bollen hadden dezelfde felheid van licht. Na ongeveer 10 minuten bewogen ze zich richting Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel. Ik heb dit nog nooit eerder gezien. Ben benieuwd of iemand weet wat dit verschijnsel is.
Afgelopen maandag veroorzaakte de orkaan Irma de nodige schade in de Amerikaanse staat Florida. En zoals je wel vaker ziet bij rampen zoals aardbevingen of vulkaanuitbarstingen duiken er UFO's op.
Zo ook in Florida waar een prachtige opname werd gemaakt van een kleine formatie UFO's die zich geluidloos door de lucht voortbewogen.
Aan de commentaren is te horen dat de getuigen erg onder de indruk zijn van wat ze in de lucht zien.
Vraag is dan natuurlijk of we hier te maken hebben met nieuwsgierige buitenaardsen of objecten van de geheime ruimtevloot die komen opnemen hoeveel schade de door hen gemaakte orkaan heeft veroorzaakt.
En vervolgens gaan we weer terug naar Nederland waar een onbekende dame op een voor ons onbekende locatie iedere keer weer opnieuw UFO's weet vast te leggen.
Het is voor ons een raadsel hoe ze dit iedere keer voor elkaar krijgt. De opnames lijken echt, dus wie weet heeft zij wel een speciaal contact met buitenaardsen.
Mochten er mensen zijn die hier meer over weten dan horen we het graag.
The five 1,700 year-old mummies are more reptilian than human. New images of the "alien mummies" were unveiled during a press conference called "The mummies of Nazca" in Peru by Mexican ufologist and journalist Jamie Maussan.
This included X-rays of the mummified remains so Maussan could banish claims that they were fake or made of plaster.
Maussan alleges that of the five bodies discovered, three of them had "characteristics that are closer to reptiles than humans."
If their findings are correct than this is yet another astonishing discovery with the potential to completely alter our shared view of history.
Secret UFO Society: Why Footage is A Proof of Alien Existence
Secret UFO Society: Why Footage is A Proof of Alien Existence
Seeing a real-life Alien is an experience you are unlikely ever to forget. In fact, it can even change one’s life. The bizarre footage shows a mysterious light hovering over the sky of Sydney, Australia. UFO & Paranormal Research Society of Australia is a secret agency that regularly meets to discuss the likes of UFO sightings, alien abductions, and other bizarre phenomena. Once a month, the group is hosted by guest speakers at the Campbelltown Arts Centre. While the members are made up of students, lawyers, and retirees, they all believed that the truth is out there.
With aliens now fully credited due to the many sightings, the real danger for the government is they pick up a clear signal. According to the secret society, instead of having to pull over their eyes by the government, humans have to know what’s going on in this world. Pilots and astronauts are now coming out of the woodworks. According to the Sydney public servant, she has been visited by aliens since nine-years-old. Even though former lawyer Moira believes in the existence of extraterrestrial life, she still admits that a proof for many extraterrestrials hard to prove.
In her book, she explains that those who are abducted by aliens are frequently chosen for their intellectual capacities. The UFO enthusiast revealed the countless reports from people about aliens and men in black with an oriental appearance. He emphasized that they need to believe that anything is possible, but they also retain a big dose of skepticism due to the lack of evidence. As a precaution against this possibility, the government pressured the community into agreements that strange objects would have to undergo prolonged scrutiny by the agencies before it could be announced to the world. Despite certain precautions, the government cannot hinder the people from presenting evidence or sharing stories.
The UFO Mystery Revelation: Astronaut Breaks With Conclusive Proof
The UFO Mystery Revelation: Astronaut Breaks With Conclusive Proof
Unidentified Flying Object has always been the most debatable subject owing to its lack of judgment. While people relate them to aliens, it does not necessarily mean extraterrestrial invasion or visitation. It simply means any type or kind of object that is not readily identifiable. For the first time, a former NASA astronaut has publicly spoken about the world’s infamous cases that took place 20 years ago, saying he has a conclusive proof to resolve the mysteries. Tom Jones is a veteran of 11 years in four space shuttle missions. Before he joined the US space agency, he pondered on alien mystery saying that he can solve such 1996 UFO Tether occurrences.
The encounter involves a satellite breaking off. This satellite was believed to be tethered to the space shuttle. When the astronauts later filmed the incident, it shows hundreds of aliens appearing like organisms in a sea. Despite his evidence, conspiracy theorists are still unsatisfied with his conclusive proof. In an interview with the Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, the discussion was about the old question about whether or not he or the astronauts has been a real alien vessel during their visitation in orbit.
Conspiracy theorists believe that there are proofs seen by NASA personnel and astronauts. In fact, there are those that blown the whistle. For those who opened spoken is Mr. Mitchell, but his testimony does not convince Jones. According to him, astronauts do not have alien proof. The reports have turned out to be pure ice crystals, lightning flashes, drifting orbital debris, or meteors streaking on the dark atmosphere underneath. It has been held that their search for extraterrestrial existence and some other civilizations ended up the proofs of alien civilizations. Many people think that aliens were a threat to the Earth, but this has not been proven at all.
Het zou zomaar kunnen, nu blijkt dat de Marskorst een veel lagere dichtheid heeft dan werd aangenomen.
Nieuw onderzoek suggereert dat de korst van Mars een gemiddelde dichtheid heeft van 2582 kilogram per kubieke meter. Daarmee is de Marskorst qua dichtheid vergelijkbaar met de korst van de maan. En dat is een verrassing. Onderzoekers dachten namelijk altijd dat de Marskorst een dichtheid had die minstens net zo groot was als die van de aarde (2900 kilogram per kubieke meter).
Het suggereert dat de Marskorst in ieder geval deels relatief poreus is. Een alternatieve optie is dat de Marskorst een andere samenstelling heeft dan gedacht of veel dunner is dan werd aangenomen. Hoe dan ook: de Marskorst verrast. En dat kan implicaties hebben voor het beeld dat we momenteel van de evolutie van de rode planeet hebben. “De korst is het eindresultaat van alles wat tijdens de geschiedenis van een planeet is gebeurd,” legt onderzoeker Sander Goossens uit. “Dus een lagere dichtheid kan belangrijke implicaties hebben voor de totstandkoming en evolutie van Mars.”
De onderzoekers hebben deze kaart vrijgegeven, die de verschillen in de dichtheid van de Marskorst aanduidt. Overigens wijst het feit dat de gemiddelde dichtheid van de planeet lager uitvalt dan gedacht, erop dat de verschillen van plek tot plek niet zo groot zijn als werd aangenomen. Dus het verschil tussen de gebieden met een dikke korst (rood op deze kaart) en een dunnere korst (blauw) is kleiner dan gedacht. Op deze afbeelding kijken we recht op het enorme klovensysteem Valles Marineris. Links – waar de rode vlek te zien is – treffen we Tharsis Montes aan. Dit is een vulkanisch plateau. Onder vulkanen is de dichtheid van de Marskorst groter.
Afbeelding: NASA / Goddard / UMBC / MIT / E. Mazarico.
De onderzoekers trekken hun conclusies op basis van een model. Daarbij lieten ze zich leiden door zwaartekrachtsmetingen die Marsorbiters door de jaren heen hebben gedaan. Of het model van Goossens en collega’s ook daadwerkelijk een goed beeld geeft van de Marskorst kan al op korte termijn duidelijk worden. Naar verwachting kan de Marslander InSight ons daar namelijk veel meer over vertellen. De lander wordt volgend jaar gelanceerd en zal op het oppervlak van Mars metingen verrichten die niet alleen meer inzicht kunnen geven in de korst van Mars, maar tevens kunnen onthullen hoe het binnenste van de planeet in elkaar steekt.
Dit zijn de allerlaatste foto's van Cassini [update]
Dit zijn de allerlaatste foto's van Cassini [update]
Tim Kraaijvanger
OP 15 september eindigde de Cassini-missie. Het ruimtevaartuig verbrandde net na het middaguur in de atmosfeer van de atmosfeer van de ringenplaneet. De allerlaatste foto’s kun je hier zien.
Naar verwachting gaat het contact om 12.31 uur verloren. De laatste kreet van de ruimtesonde zal zo’n 83 minuten later op aarde arriveren. “Het laatste signaal van de sonde is als een echo,” legt projectmanager Earl Maize uit. “Het zal bijna anderhalf uur nadat Cassini al weg is door het zonnestelsel galmen. Hoewel we weten dat het lot van Cassini dan al beslist is, is de missie hier op aarde nog niet over zolang we nog een signaal van Cassini ontvangen.” Gisteren schreef Caroline een uitgebreid artikel over de laatste dag van Cassini.
Cassini duikt met een snelheid van 113.00 kilometer per uur in de atmosfeer van Saturnus. Dertig seconden nadat Cassini het contact met de aarde verbreekt, spat de sonde – door de enorme wrijving die deze in de atmosfeer ondervindt – uiteen. Kort daarna verbrandt het ruimtevaartuig en is er dus helemaal niets meer over.
Vandaag ontvangen wetenschappers nog veel foto’s van Cassini. Wij plaatsen hieronder de mooiste beelden. Dit artikel wordt in de loop van de dag verder uitgebreid. Je kunt ook de site van NASA bezoeken en de laatste vrijgegeven beelden bekijken.
De maan Enceladus in beeld. Deze foto is 13 september gemaakt en gisteren gearriveerd.
Een ruwe foto van Titan. Woensdagmiddag gemaakt en deze kwam gisteravond binnen op aarde.
Foto van de ringen van Saturnus. Dit is een onbewerkte foto, die gistermiddag is gemaakt. Vanochtend om 5:26 uur kwam de foto binnen bij het Cassini-team.
Foto van de ringen van Saturnus. Vanochtend gedownload om 8:06 uur Nederlandse tijd. Deze foto is gisteravond door Cassini gemaakt.
Nog eentje van de ringen.
Een foto van de atmosfeer van Saturnus. Ook deze foto is gisteravond gemaakt. Er is helaas niet veel te zien.
Dit is de allerlaatste foto die gemaakt is met de camera’s op de Cassini-ruimtesonde. We zien hier de nachtkant van de planeet. Het weerkaatste licht van de ringen is nog goed te zien. De foto is gemaakt op 14 september om 22:00 uur Nederlandse tijd. Op dat moment was Cassini 634.000 kilometer van Saturnus verwijderd.
Op deze foto is te zien waar Cassini is verbrand in de atmosfeer van Saturnus.
NASA legt laatste hand aan Marslander die kijkje in de rode planeet gaat nemen
NASA legt laatste hand aan Marslander die kijkje in de rode planeet gaat nemen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Volgend jaar mei moet Marslander InSight het luchtruim kiezen.
De afgelopen zomer is er hard aan de lander gewerkt, zo laat NASA weten. En inmiddels is deze bijna klaar voor lancering. “De lander is af en de instrumenten zijn erop gemaakt,” vertelt Stu Spath, namens NASA. Dat betekent dat de lander nu uitgebreid getest kan gaan worden: de laatste grote hindernis alvorens deze gelanceerd wordt.
GEDULD
InSight heeft ons geduld aardig op de proef gesteld. Oorspronkelijk zou de lander vorig jaar al gelanceerd worden, maar problemen met de seismometer gooiden roet in het eten. Die problemen zijn nu opgelost, zo verzekert NASA. Maar dat heeft wel tijd gekost. En een hoop geld. Zo moest er meer dan 153 miljoen dollar extra in de missie worden gestopt.
Mei 2018 Enige haast was ook wel geboden. Want de lanceerdatum komt steeds dichterbij. NASA wil de lander ergens in mei naar Mars sturen. De lander zal daar dan eind november 2018 arriveren.
De missie Onderzoekers hebben hoge verwachtingen van de lander, die iets compleets nieuws gaat doen op Mars. Zo is de lander uitgerust met sensoren die straks in Mars gehamerd zullen worden, om vervolgens op drie meter diepte of meer onderzoek te doen naar de hoeveelheid energie die uit het binnenste van de planeet komt. Ook beschikt de lander over een seismometer die zelfs piepkleine ‘Marsbevingen’ kan detecteren en meer kan onthullen over de binnenste lagen van de planeet. Daarnaast moet de sonde ook verstoringen in de rotatie van de rode planeet kunnen opvangen en zo meer kunnen vertellen over de omvang van de kern van Mars.
Binnen enkele weken na de landing op Mars zal InSight zijn robotarm gebruiken om twee instrumenten op de rode planeet te plaatsen: de siesmometer en een warmtesonde die zichzelf vervolgens in de rode planeet zal hameren.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
Het werk van InSight geeft niet alleen meer inzicht in Mars, maar in alle rotsachtige planeten die ons zonnestelsel rijk is, zo denkt hoofdonderzoeker Bruce Banerdt. “Omdat het binnenste van Mars in de afgelopen drie miljard jaar veel minder omgeroerd is dan dat van de aarde, is bewijs omtrent de kindertijd van rotsachtige planeten in deze planeet wellicht beter bewaard gebleven.”
Hubble suggereert dat buitenste TRAPPIST 1-planeten nog water herbergen
Hubble suggereert dat buitenste TRAPPIST 1-planeten nog water herbergen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
En dat geldt dus ook voor de drie exemplaren in de leefbare zone.
Eerder dit jaar maakten onderzoekers bekend dat rond de ster TRAPPIST-1 maar liefst zeven planeten ter grootte van de aarde cirkelen. Een unieke vondst: we kennen namelijk geen enkele andere ster die zoveel aardachtige planeten herbergt. De ontdekking spreekt enorm tot de verbeelding. Onder meer omdat maar liefst drie van de planeten zich in de leefbare zone bevinden. Er wordt direct druk gespeculeerd over de leefbaarheid van dit systeem en sommige onderzoekers fantaseren zelfs al over aliens die van de ene naar de andere TRAPPIST-1-planeet ‘hoppen’.
Hubble Maar is er daadwerkelijk leven mogelijk in dit systeem? Ook daar is al veel over gezegd en geschreven. En nu doet ook ruimtetelescoop Hubble een duit in het zakje. Met behulp van de telescoop gingen wetenschappers na hoeveel ultraviolette straling elke planeet rond TRAPPIST-1 ontvangt. “Ultraviolette straling is een belangrijke factor in de atmosferische evolutie van planeten,” vertelt onderzoeker Vincent Bourrier. “Net als in onze eigen atmosfeer – waar ultraviolet zonlicht moleculen splitst – kan ultraviolet sterrenlicht waterdamp in de atmosfeer van exoplaneten splitsen in waterstof en zuurstof.” Energierijkere ultraviolette straling kan bovendien de bovenste laag van de atmosfeer van een planeet verwarmen, waardoor de resulterende waterstof en zuurstof uit die atmosfeer kan ontsnappen.
WAT IS EEN LEEFBARE ZONE?
Een planeet bevindt zich in de leefbare zone als deze niet zo dicht bij zijn ster staat dat eventueel water op het oppervlak verdampt, maar ook niet zo ver van de moederster verwijderd is dat eventueel water op het oppervlak bevriest.
Leefbaar Waarnemingen met Hubble suggereren dat met name de binnenste planeten van het systeem aan flinke hoeveelheden UV-straling zijn blootgesteld en door de tijd heen waarschijnlijk ook gigantische hoeveelheden water zijn kwijtgeraakt. Over een periode van acht miljard jaar mogelijk meer dan twintig keer meer water dan in de aardse oceanen zit. Anders is dat voor de buitenste planeten, waaronder TRAPPIST-1e, -f en -g, die zich in de leefbare zone bevinden. De Hubble-waarnemingen suggereren dat zij veel minder water zijn kwijtgeraakt en dat op het oppervalk mogelijk nog water te vinden is.
Of deze planeten echt nog water herbergen, is met de huidige telescopen helaas niet vast te stellen. Daarvoor zullen we een beroep moeten doen op de volgende generatie telescopen, zoals de James Webb.
Zo gaan de laatste dagen van ruimtesonde Cassini eruit zien
Zo gaan de laatste dagen van ruimtesonde Cassini eruit zien
Caroline Kraaijvanger
NASA onthult draaiboek voor Cassini’s kamikazeduik in de atmosfeer van de onvergeeflijke Saturnus.
Bijna twintig jaar nadat Cassini – een missie van NASA, ESA en de Italiaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie – gelanceerd werd, zit het erop. De sonde stopt ermee. En nee, Cassini gaat niet rustig met pensioen, maar eindigt met een klapper: een duik in de atmosfeer van Saturnus. De doodsduik levert mogelijk – op de valreep – nog waardevolle informatie op, maar is vooral bedoeld om te voorkomen dat de manen van Saturnus hun ongerepte karakter verliezen (zie kader).
NASA heeft er heel bewust voor gekozen om de Cassini-missie met een duik in Saturnus’ atmosfeer te laten eindigen. De ruimtevaartorganisatie wil zo voorkomen dat de sonde stuurloos in het Saturnus-systeem gaat ronddolen en neerstort op één van Saturnus’ potentieel leefbare manen. “Zo blijven zij ongerept voor toekomstige verkenning,” aldus projectmanager Earl Maize.
Het draaiboek De laatste dagen van deze fantastische missie zijn dus aangebroken. Maar hoe zien ze er precies uit? NASA doet dat nu uit de doeken. Op 9 september zal de sonde voor de laatste keer in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen duiken. De sonde passeert de wolkentoppen van de gasreus tijdens deze snoekduik op een afstand van zo’n 1680 kilometer. Twee dagen later, op 11 september, zal Cassini een scheervlucht maken langs Saturnus’ maan Titan. Hoewel de ruimtesonde de maan op een afstand van een slordige 119.000 kilometer passeert, zal de zwaartekracht van Titan er toch voor zorgen dat Cassini iets wordt afgeremd (hierdoor zal Cassini een paar dagen later diep in de atmosfeer van Saturnus duiken). Op 14 september werpt Cassini dan een laatste blik op Saturnus en zijn manen. Het resulteert in foto’s van de manen Titan, Enceladus, de zeshoekige straalstroom op de noordpool van de planeet en de ringen. Een dag later, op 15 september, is het dan toch echt tijd voor de duik in Saturnus’ atmosfeer. Terwijl Cassini in die atmosfeer duikt, blijven de instrumenten aan boord van de sonde zo lang mogelijk data verzamelen en zolang het Cassini lukt om de antenne op de aarde gericht te houden, zal die data ook naar de aarde verstuurd worden. Heel lang houdt de sonde dat waarschijnlijk niet vol. Al snel zal de dichte atmosfeer van Saturnus de sonde in zijn greep krijgen. Waarschijnlijk gebeurt dat wanneer de sonde zo’n 1510 kilometers van Saturnus’ wolkentoppen verwijderd is. Op dat moment lukt het Cassini niet langer om de antenne op de aarde gericht te houden en zal de communicatie stilvallen. Een paar momenten later zal de sonde – door de enorme wrijving in de atmosfeer – als een meteoor uiteenvallen.
Projectmanager Earl Maize noemt het einde van Cassini “schrijnend, maar passend en nodig.” Met de duik in Saturnus’ atmosfeer komt een einde aan een missie die bijna 20 jaar geleden begon. Cassini werd in oktober 1997 gelanceerd en arriveerde in 2004 bij Saturnus. Inmiddels doet de sonde al zo’n dertien jaar onderzoek naar de gasreus en zijn manen. En dat heeft heel wat verrassende ontdekkingen opgeleverd. Bovendien trakteerde Cassini ons regelmatig op spectaculaire foto’s.
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