Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
29-09-2017
Flaming object streaking across the sky releases escape pod over Santiago, Chile?
Flaming object streaking across the sky releases escape pod over Santiago, Chile?
The following footage of a strange moving flaming object was caught on camera by Francisco Garcia on September 25, 2017 19.30 local time over Santiago, Chile.
While the object streaking across the sky it suddenly releases something what looks like an escape pod sparking theories that it could be a UFO.
Others suggest that the flaming object is the effect of a large plane as it’s cuts through a cloud layer but I’m not sure if that is the case because it does move in a way that doesn’t suggest clouds.
So, the object is a UFO ejecting an escape pod or is it more likely that the object is something like a meteorite, space junk or a man-made reentry vehicle reentering the atmosphere and breaking up?
COUPLE SAW ’40 UFOS’ HOVERING OVER BRITISH BEACH BEFORE MAJOR MILITARY OPERATION
COUPLE SAW ’40 UFOS’ HOVERING OVER BRITISH BEACH BEFORE MAJOR MILITARY OPERATION
The couple’s bizarre claims concern the night of September 14 2009 at 11pm.
They lived in one of 30 flats that overlook the sea at Wilsthorpe.
The pair decided to go to bed, however, as the woman went to turn off the lights, she saw a glow outside.
Mr Sinclair said “something told her to look outside” before she opened the front door and looked out to sea where she was amazed to see several glowing UFOs above the coast.
Mr Sinclair said she described them as 15-feet long and eight-feet wide “spaceships over the sea”.
He said: “She said there was a huge circle of boomerang-shaped craft.
“She said there were loads – 30 to 40 and the sea below was bubbling, banging and crashing.
“They were silent, but there was electricity going into the sea.
“Ron (her husband) said it was like a blue and white Christmas tree over the sea. He was frightened and left after ten minutes and put his head under the pillow for the night.
“But, she told me she was not frightened and knew she was never going to see anything like it again in her life.”
She stayed for around half and hour before the objects began to “lift out of the circle in pairs at a 45 degree angle until just two were left which shot off straight up.”
Two Chinook helicopters full of RAF personnel landed at the beach by the remote hamlet.
Mr Sinclair also spoke with a man who runs a bait shop at Bridlington Harbour, who told him his bait diggers had seen “triangle” craft enter the sea in 2009 over the same period.
He said two of his bait diggers had been on Wilsthorpe Beach the day the couple saw the military operation.
They told of seeing “triangles entering the sea” and later “being surrounded by soldiers.”
Separately a man working on a boat at Blythe Park boat compound also confirmed the military presence, he said.
Mr Sinclair submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to find out why the operation took place on September 15.
However, the response he eventually received, said it was just a “routine military exercise” and few other details were provided.
The reply said “no live ammunition was used” and “any explosions heard were controlled detonations of simulated ammunitions.”
The response added that it was “one of a number of regular exercises” as part of work to defend the UK, and new locations would often be used with landowners’ consent.
Mr Sinclair continues to investigate the case and is trying to obtain historic coast guard reports from the period.
He believes it is connected to a high level of reported UFO activity along a 25-mile stretch of the East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire coast from Brandesburton in East Yorkshire to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, between May and September 2009.
High levels of military aircraft flying low and circling near his home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, were also recorded that September.
Mr Sinclair said the case did not yet prove a UFO presence, but: “I think the military arrived because of the objects.”
In a post on his Truth Proof Facebook page about the case, he wrote: “Nothing found can prove with any certainty the UFOs were over the sea as an elderly couple claim, or that the black triangles entered the sea in September 2009 like the bait diggers described.
“All I can do is stack the evidence for and against, either side of the scale.”
Elf jaar geleden maakte de eerste maanorbiter van de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie SMART-1 een geplande, maar allesbehalve zachte landing op onze natuurlijke satelliet. Met een snelheid van zo’n twee kilometer per seconde stuiterde deze over het maanoppervlak. “Er waren in die tijd geen andere ruimtevaartuigen in een baan rond de maan om close-upbeelden van de inslag te maken en het vinden van de exacte locatie was meer dan tien jaar een ‘cold case’,” vertelt SMART-1-projectonderzoeker Bernard Foing. Want hoewel de op aarde gevestigde Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope de lichtflits die tijdens de inslag ontstond, vastlegde, bleef de exacte locatie van de inslag in nevelen gehuld.
Gevonden! Maar die cold case kan nu gesloten worden. Want Foing heeft de laatste rustplek van SMART-1 gevonden, zo vertelde hij tijdens het European Planetary Science Congress. “Voor deze Crash Scene Investigation gebruikten we alle mogelijke getuigen op aarde, observaties en computermodellen om de exacte plek te vinden en uiteindelijk vonden we de littekens.”
De littekens Want de inslag is ook de maan niet in de koude kleren gaan zitten, zo blijkt. Op beelden van de inslagplek is een twintig meter lange en vier meter brede geul te zien die dwars door een oudere krater loopt. Aan het einde van de geul treffen we ejecta aan – maanmateriaal dat tijdens de inslag is weggeslingerd – dat richting het zuiden is uitgewaaierd. “De hoge resolutie-beelden van de Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiterlaten sneeuwwitte ejecta van het eerste contact (met de maan, red.) zien, vervolgens is door het ruimtevaartuig een kanaal dat van noord naar zuid loopt, uitgekerfd voor deze ging stuiteren.”
De laatste rustplaats van SMART-1.
Afbeelding: P Stooke / B Foing et al 2017 / NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University.
Als het aan Foing ligt, gaan we de littekens die SMART-1 heeft achterlaten nog eens van dichterbij bekijken. “De volgende stap is het sturen van een robotische onderzoeker die de resten van SMART-1 – het lichaam en de ‘vleugels’ bestaande uit zonnepanelen – gaat onderzoeken.”
Wonderschone Saturnusnevel vastgelegd door ESO's Very Large Telescope
Wonderschone Saturnusnevel vastgelegd door ESO's Very Large Telescope
Tim Kraaijvanger
Deze planetaire nevel heeft qua silhouet iets weg van de planeet Saturnus, maar is wel een totaal ander object.
De Saturnusnevel is zo’n 5.000 lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd en is te vinden in het sterrenbeeld Waterman. Ooit was deze nevel een lichte ster, vergelijkbaar met de zon. Aan het einde van zijn bestaan dijde het object uit tot een rode reus en begon het zijn buitenste gaslagen af te stoten. Deze gaslagen zijn weggeblazen door krachtige sterrenwinden en vervolgens verlicht door de ultraviolette straling van de ster.
Het resultaat is dat er nu een kleurrijke nevel te zien is. Deze foto is gemaakt door het MUSE-instrument van ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Dankzij de observatie van de Saturnusnevel leren onderzoekers meer over de complexe structuren binnen een planetaire nevel. Zo ontdekten de wetenschappers een golfachtige structuur in het stof, die nog niet helemaal te plaatsen is. Er is minder stof te vinden aan de rand van de binnenschil van de nevel. Wordt dit stof daar vernietigd? Zo ja, komt dit door de uitdijende schokgolf of verdampt het stof door de hitte?
Nevel NGC 7009 met annotaties. Voor het eerst is het stof in de nevel vastgelegd.
In het midden van de nevel is een ster te zien, die langzaam transformeert in een witte dwerg. In deze ster vinden geen kernreacties meer plaats. Wel is de ster zeer dicht. Zo heeft een gemiddelde witte dwerg een straal van enkele duizenden kilometers, terwijl een kubieke centimeter witte dwerg-materiaal een paar honderd ton weegt. Als je op een witte dwerg zou staan, zou je direct in elkaar worden gedrukt door de zwaartekracht. Het zwaartekrachtsveld is namelijk honderdduizenden malen sterker dan op het aardoppervlak.
Ook onze zon wordt ooit een witte dwerg. Zo’n witte dwerg koelt heel langzaam af. Pas na tientallen miljarden jaren – en mogelijk nog langer – is de ster volledig uitgedoofd en blijft er een zwarte dwerg over.
NASA Satellites Detect MASSIVE, 150-mile anomaly in Antarctica
NASA Satellites Detect MASSIVE, 150-mile anomaly in Antarctica
A bizarre anomaly of around 250 km has been found in Antarctica thanks to satellite images provided by NASA.
A bizarre, new theory claims that a mysterious anomaly discovered beneath the ice in Antarctica may be a sort of secret base.
UFO hunters are convinced that not only did the Nazi’s built secret bases on the north and south pole but that there are several bases on Antarctica that were used not only by humans but by otherworldly visitors as well.
The massive Antarctica anomaly encompasses a distance of nearly 250 kilometers across and reaches a maximum depth of 850 meters below the surface.
The anomaly was discovered in an area known as Wilkes Land on Antarctica.
Speaking about the discovery, Secureteam10 says: ‘To this day, scientists have no idea or way to discover exactly what is buried deep under this thick ice shelf. This continent has been shrouded in a mystery of its own for years now.’
‘There is some evidence of this coming to light in recent years, with images purporting to show various entrances built into the side of mountains, with a saucer shape and at a very high altitude. This begs the question: how would you enter these entrances without something that could fly and was the same shape as the hole itself?’
You only need one such discovery, and a conspiracy is at hand.
Furthermore, it is believed that the US Navy led a mission to investigate such anomaly.
The recon mission was dubbed ‘Operation Highjump.’ Operation Highjump included a staggering 13 ships, aircraft escort, aircraft carrier, a submarine, two destroyers and a total of 4,700 men with full battle gear in what was officially called an ordinary ‘training exercise.’
Operation Highjump was curiously terminated six months earlier than expected. An excerpt from February 19, 1947 describes Admiral Byrd’s arrival over the pole at 1000 hours:
We are crossing over the small mountain range and still proceeding northward as best as can be ascertained. Beyond the mountain range is what appears to be a valley with a small river or stream running through the center portion. There should be no green valley below! Something is definitely wrong and abnormal here! We should be over Ice and Snow! To the portside are great forests growing on the mountain slopes. Our navigation Instruments are still spinning, the gyroscope is oscillating back and forth!
The odd anomaly was first found by NASA satellites in 2006.
However, not everyone is willing to go with the conspiracy theory of secret bases located hundreds of meters below the Antarctican ice.
Others believe that the bizarre anomaly isn’t so bizarre after all, and that it is in fact the result of an asteroid impact twice the size of the one which exterminated the dinosaurs.
‘This Wilkes Land impact is much bigger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs, and probably would have caused catastrophic damage at the time,’ said Ralph von Frese, who was a professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University when he discovered the crater in 2006. All the environmental changes that would have resulted from the impact would have created a highly caustic environment that was really hard to endure. So it makes sense that a lot of life went extinct at that time.’
Dusk is falling outside the Alien Research Center, and I’m ready to go home. But Mikayla, our photographer, wants to capture some final shots of the metal alien while the light is good. The sun is flat on the horizon, turning the desert, the highway, the alien and everything else gold. The pros call this moment “magic hour.” I shuffle around the empty lot and snap a few phone pics of a street sign that warns: Open Range Next 110 Miles.
From out of nowhere, a rushing engine and flying dirt. Could it be a UFO? Nope. It’s a jalopy, nearly hitting me. A young man and his father have driven all the way from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to explore the interplanetary hot spot that surrounds state Route 375, aka the Extraterrestrial Highway. They’ve already visited the gate to Area 51, but they’re too late for the Alien Research Center. The gift shop is closed.
Meeting an extraterrestrial would be the coolest thing ever, the son, Jeremy Richter, tells me. He spins intricate histories of aliens, and I wonder aloud what he’ll do if he actually meets one.
His answer? A question: “What do you think about our species? In my opinion, our species is half idiotic and half insane.”
What is it about humanity and our insatiable need to be judged? Thousands of years of advancement and we still desire some Egyptian god—or Ancient Alien—to weigh our souls against a feather.
In Rachel, Nevada, polite European tourists have mostly replaced the true believers. This town is famous for interstellar travel, yet it doesn’t even have a gas station. But it does have the Little A’Le’Inn, which serves surprisingly delicious “World Famous Alien Burgers.” Inside, the waitress wears flying saucer earrings and a branded T-shirt. Also, the wall of old UFO photos has been encased in plexiglass, and the owner has grown suspicious of camera-wielding journalists.
There, Mikayla and I buy enamel souvenir pins and a 33-cent map of Area 51. We use the latter to find the famous “black mailbox,” which an annoyed local rancher constructed to corral all the letters people sent to aliens. It has come and gone and even changed color over the years. Right now, it’s located at the dirt-road turnoff to Area 51.
It’s also surrounded by an ad hoc collection of trinkets. I look and see the future: One day, after the robots revolt, the zombies attack and the few human survivors regroup into sad little bands that scour a scorched and despoiled Earth, this will be what passes for a religious temple. Even now, it feels holier than Parisian cathedrals. The items could be mistaken for the flotsam and jetsam of a single-use society, except for the thoughtful way it has all been arranged: painted rocks, a Star Wars-themed sunshade, a Hawaiian lei, mason jar shrines, business cards, foil food wrappers, water bottles, a pink glowstick, a brunette hairdresser’s mannequin ... and, above it all, an American flag taped to a broken lawn chair.
The black mailbox is stuffed, and the letters are all dated within the past few weeks. They’re written on whatever scrap people had with them: valet parking tickets, a Utah church comment card and a Styrofoam cup. Most are ironic or funny or fishing for social media likes. But Mary Staunton’s letter to “E.T.” sticks with me: In neat script, the Irish woman explains how her late husband had wanted to meet an alien: “He always said that we have enough room in our garden for a ship to land. Maybe he’s with you now. I still miss him so much.”
The scene outside the Little A’Le’Inn is equal parts Mayberry and Twilight Zone. Two middle-aged tourists from the Midwest relax out front, enjoying the shade of a rare tree. Begrudgingly they admit their fascination with UFOs, like it’s an embarrassing medical condition. They have a healthy sense of skepticism, but still, they’ve seen some freaky stuff. To their credit, invisible planes buzz overhead—circling and circling, like motorcycles in a cage. Also, right on the side of the road, there’s a big government testing device that tracks the amount of nuclear contaminants in the air. It’s higher here than in Vegas, but Vegas isn’t at zero radiation, either.
These men understand the ambient creepiness but also stand outside it. Like the way we enjoy Vegas kitsch: It’s that double appreciation where you get the joke but also fall for it at the same time. Just as Mikayla and I are searchers, even though we pretend not to be.
Once I start looking for them, I see aliens everywhere. A Hoover Dam gift shop called the Flying Saucer stocks a collection of used and rare books and DVDs about aliens. A green figurine rides a model train at the Railroad Museum in Boulder City. A bunch of cute, alien-themed school supplies are on clearance at the local big box. Bumper stickers, tattoos, emoji and trendy hipster patches. Turns out Alien Tequila is owned by George Harris, who also owns the Alien Research Center. He’s planning to build a museum in the back.
If what we seek can be found, Mikayla and I discover it in the array of alien-themed gift shops and jerky stands scattered around our desert landscapes. Here, decades of human ambition, fears and scientific discoveries have been distilled to a shelf of refrigerator magnets and bouncy balls. I’m sincerely inspired when I see the vast selection of memorabilia. Together it tells the story of who we are and who we want to be: from the optimism of Star Trek’s Prime Directive to the deadpan cool of Men in Black to the suspicion and distrust at the heart of The X-Files. Are aliens as ubiquitous in older places, where trees and skyscrapers crowd out potential UFO landing spots? Or just in the desert Southwest, where the Wild West serves as a runway to the Final Frontier?
As part of the festivities at the recent UFO Rendezvous, James and Sally Neiman were some of the stars of the parade and costume contest.
LEW FREEDMAN
Devils Tower, near Hulett, Wyoming, became the first national monument in 1906 and is also is the focal point of the UFO movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
LEW FREEDMAN
At the recent UFO Rendezvous in Hulett, Travis Walton told the story of his 1975 alien abduction.
LEW FREEDMAN
Giraffe Girl, Lit Eimi, was an enthusiastic participant in the alien-themed parade at Hulett’s UFO Rendezvous near Devils Tower.
LEW FREEDMAN
Jeanna Wiley, Chris Campbell, Sandra Mooney, and Kile Tarrant model their alien pants at the Devils Tower Visitors Center gift shop.
LEW FREEDMAN
Jim Gruehl, operator of the Devils Tower Trading Post, offers 40 different alien items for sale.
LEW FREEDMAN
Laurie Tucker, an organizer f the 1st Annual Devils Tower UFO Rendezvous, shows off her UFOs Wyoming license plate.
LEW FREEDMAN
Christine Edwards was the winning entry in the mashed potato Devils Tower building contest.
LEW FREEDMAN
Just that morning as the first annual Devils Tower UFO Rendezvous revved up a few miles down the road, Jim Gruehl conducted inventory and counted 40 different alien items for sale at the Devils Tower Trading Post in Hulett.
Rubbery masks, socks, stickers, magnets, T-shirts, plush toys, feet-tall plastic green men, mugs, shot glasses and signs seemingly channelling messages from afar were in stock.
“Send More Tourists, The Last Ones Were Delicious,” read one sign. “Spaceship Parking Only,” was another
This may be the center of the universe for alien memorabilia.
“It’s absolutely because of ‘Close Encounters,’” said store general manager Gruehl.
Devils Tower, the signature character in the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” owns the horizon in this eastern region of Wyoming, a unique monolith of symmetrical rock standing 5,112 feet above sea level .
It emanates the same magnetic attraction as it did 40 years ago when “Close Encounters” made its debut, and in 1906 when President Theodore Roosevelt designated it the first National Monument.
More than 500,000 accounted-for people visit each year along with an uncounted number of aliens.
Some of the gravitation was sparked by the Steven Spielberg movie released in 1977 and re-released for a 40th anniversary this month.
For a few days in mid-September, Planet Hulett, population 383,
located in the shadow of Devils Tower, was transformed by true believers in unidentified flying objects, becoming the epicenter of the ongoing search for intelligent life in the universe.
The Sept. 14-16 program was organized by Laurie Tucker and others and included lectures on “UFOs Are Real” and “Alien Abduction.”
Tucker, who owns vehicles with Wyoming license plates “C-UFO” and “UFOS,” ensured the agenda featured a community parade with alien theme, a costume contest and a Devils Tower mashed potato sculpture contest. This was a tribute to a movie scene when a UFO-obsessed Richard Dryfuss shaped Devils Tower at the dinner table.
“I take it more seriously,” Tucker said of UFOs, “but I also have fun with it.”
Tucker said a tentative reach-out to Dreyfuss was aborted when she heard he commands $70,000 an appearance.
That’s a lot of mashed potatoes.
In another “Close Encounters” homage, the Main Street Civic Center played the 135-minute movie when the heavens did not cooperate and an outdoor show was rained out.
Frieda Dent, 93, ran the movie. She remembered filming in the 1970s and how some Hulett residents were extras in a panic scene as government officials cleared the Devils Tower area.
“Every time I see it, I see something different,” Dent said.
The locals’ attitude seemed to be, “Hey, who are we to say there’s nobody else out there?”
Science or science
fiction
UFOs have long fascinated, perplexed, tweaked imaginations, been pshawed, or described as fabrications of the crazy.
The debut of American UFO consciousness, as well as Exhibit A of accusations of government conspiracy to hush up spaceships penetrating U.S. air space, basically dates to Roswell, N.M., in 1947.
A crashing flying saucer was reported in the July 8 edition of the Roswell Daily Record. The mysterious “flying disc” was taken into custody on a ranch by the U.S. military and soon after was identified as “a weather balloon.”
Seven decades later in Hulett, the weather balloon theory still didn’t fly.
Scientists say the earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago. Since it presupposes a visiting alien culture would be more advanced technologically than humans, it was suggested aliens may have checked out earth long ago with only mild interest and UFO sightings could be periodic reconnaissance follow-ups.
During a panel discussion it was noted many scientific ideas or inventions were dismissed as harebrained long before being proven.
When Columbus set off to sail the ocean blue in 1492, a large segment of the population still believed his ship was going to drop right off the edge of the flat earth.
How many people living in 1850 envisioned the jet plane, putting a man on the moon via rocket ship or the cell phone?
“I don’t think we can actually think of anything that’s impossible,” said astronomer Marc D’Antonio, whose presentation was titled, “The Real Science of E.T.”
Generally, in science fiction movies aliens are portrayed as looking quite different from the human race. They are either good guys who wish to make friends, such as in the 1982 “E.T-The Extraterrestrial,” or guys who want to annihilate everyone, such as in the 1996 “Independence Day.”
Speaker Richard Beckwith, former city attorney of Rock Springs, gave a talk titled “UFOs Are Real.”
“It’s not a belief system, it’s science,” Beckwith said. “If you can’t say what an object is, you can’t say what it is not. It’s a big universe.”
With such a massive universe, traveling across it for millions is an issue of relevance. In some films astronauts are placed in suspended animation for years as they hurtle towards destinations.
“Light speed is the speed limit of the universe,” D’Antonio said of the 186,000 miles-per-second measurement.
That could be an obstacle for reaching Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy – the nearest one – 662 trillion kilometers – from Earth.
D’Antonio said aliens may have, or humans might someday, make “an end run around it.”
Have Americans been conditioned for that in “Star Trek” by “Beam me up, Scotty?”
“That’s exactly right,” D’Antonio said.
Speaking of movies, the new version of “Close Encounters” had been available for just a week, but when asked, about half of the 50 listeners said they had already seen it.
Many participants made pilgrimages to Devils Tower; one of them being Alejandro Rojos of Arizona, a first-time viewer who said, “It’s incredible.”
Rojas, a host for “Open Minds” radio, and a science and entertainment blogger for the Huffington Post, talked about “Close Encounters,” “E.T” and “Gremlins,” saying Spielberg was probably influenced by a highly publicized UFO incident in Kelly, Ky., in 1955.
Five adults and seven children in a farmhouse where no alcohol was drank attested they spent four hours employing gunfire to hold off little men from a spaceship that landed on the property.
The aliens were described as 2-to-4 feet tall with claw-like hands and later “little green men” was appended to the narrative. Subsequently, little green men became a somewhat standard look for aliens in the media.
Alien abduction
The movie “Fire In The Sky” differs considerably from Spielberg’s work.
Based on the book of the same name by Travis Walton, who was played in the 1993 film by D.B. Sweeney, it is purported to be the true story of a mind-bending alien abduction. Despite being a better-documented incident than others, Walton ever since has been derided as crazy.
“It never goes away,” said Walton as he began telling his spell-binding tale.
The Arizona logger, then 22, and six other crew members, were driving out of a national forest on Nov. 5, 1975. They halted when they saw a bright light through some trees and stopped to investigate. Walton, on the passenger side, jumped out of the truck.
“There was a clearly defined metallic disc outlined against the sky,” Walton said. “It was frightening and beautiful.”
Feeling entranced, Walton began walking toward the UFO as his co-workers yelled to get back in the vehicle.
A beam of light lasered Walton with “a stunning sort of force.” He was hurled 20 feet and knocked unconscious. Convinced Walton was dead, his friends fled to report to authorities.
Walton, weak and scared, woke in a strange room surrounded by aliens. When left alone he made a run for it through the craft, but was re-captured. Eventually released, he staggered sobbing to a phone booth to call relatives.
Walton had been missing for five days and a widespread manhunt was conducted. Fellow loggers were interrogated and suspected of murder, though they passed polygraph, drug and sobriety exams. So did Walton.
Despite the passage of years, at times Walton teared up in his telling. No one has shaken his or the other loggers’ story, with multiple lie detector tests passed. But the incident is still called an elaborate hoax.
“I’m certain I’m not the only one,” Walton said of being abducted by aliens. “It’s very common for things we fear to become the butt of jokes.”
Walton was asked if he had emerged from merely being lost in the woods for five days having likewise lost 10 pounds from lack of food and water, whether he might not have been declared a hero for surviving.
Walton paused. “It might have been completely different,” he said.
The Tower
Devils Tower is completely different. It cannot be mistaken for any other rock formation.
Square-like, with striations on its sides, its composition is molten rock. But its origins are as mysterious as UFOs.
Devils Tower is considered sacred in Cheyenne and Arapahoe oral traditions long predating “Close Encounters.” Visitors pause for reflection on benches at its base, necks craning upward, perhaps scanning for aliens still hovering from the movie.
A National Park Service ranger was asked how often she is quizzed about the movie laughed, and said, “Hundreds of times a day.”
Four female workers at the visitors center gift shop wore matching lycra alien-design pants and hobnobbed with a few-foot-tall alien modeling a Devils Tower zip-up sweatshirt. A new sticker reading, “Hello, my name is Lloyd” was slapped on his chest.
There were numerous Lloyd-lookalikes at the cold, but not rained-on Hulett parade. Jude Talaba of Boulder, Colo., like a ventriloquist held an alien in her arms, and said, “He was born just three days ago.” As in purchased.
Andy Bears drove a golf-cart disguised as a spaceship. Strapped in, he said, “I can’t get out.” Another alien abduction.
Ivy Flores manufactured a Devils Tower for her float consisting of a barrel covered in tinfoil and sprayed brown, with stones and foliage around the base, like the genuine article.
Smaller rocks and greens were available when others shaped mashed potato Devils Towers like build-your-own sundaes.
Giraffe Girl, Lit Eimi, claimed to be an alien from “everywhere” who parachuted in. Her full giraffe outfit included a tail.
“I do like humans,” she said. “I love humans. All of them.”
Her age, Eimi said, is “Infinity. But they tell me I was born on July 18, 1991.”
James Neiman, 87, and wife Sally, 83, love to dress up and she ordered spiffy alien duds online. Yet the senior-citizen aliens lost out in the costume contest to a 9-year-old from the wrong movie.
In impeccable character imitation wearing a red, hooded sweatshirt, pushing a bicycle with an E.T. doll in a basket perched on the handlebars, Ben Harrison as Elliott won the crowd applause.
Devils Tower beckoned, but prepared to pedal skyward, Harrison could not gain l }ift-off because the chain busted on his bike during the parade.
Ray Santilli, 58, claims the grainy image is a still from "genuine original footage" he based the fake 1995 film on.
He says it is proof that the 1995 hoax film, which initially purported to show an autopsy being carried out on a dead alien recovered from the supposed Roswell UFO crash site in 1947, WAS based on REAL original footage which came to light.
Express.co.uk is publishing the image, which appears to show three slides from a real of film, for the first time after being sent it by Mr Santilli.
It is suggested the slides show a dead alien, recovered from the Roswell crash, on an operating table.
Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Mr Santilli said the "alien autopsy" film he released in 1995 was not a hoax but a "restoration or recreation."
Mr Santilli, who is CEO of Orbital Media Group, said: "It was certainly not a hoax."
YouTubeALIEN AUTOPSY? Ray Santilli claims this is a still from a 1947 video of the "Roswell incident".
His 1995 release showed men in white coats apparently dissecting an alien, leaving UFO hunters convinced it was the smoking gun evidence they were looking for of the Roswell incident.
Truthers have been searching for proof since it was first claimed aliens crashed a flying saucer in the New Mexico desert near Roswell in July 1947 before the US Government covered up the evidence by storing the flying saucer and dead bodies in a secret military base.
It remains one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories, but to the disappointment of alien hunters the 1995 footage was later branded an elaborate hoax.
Asked if the image said to be from the original film depicted an alien, Mr Santilli initially said: "Of course it does."
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ALIEN AUTOPSY: A scene from the 1995 Ray Santilli film which was done using actors.
He then said: "Let me just be clear. I was not there in 1947, so I can't say for sure if it is an alien, but it is the original camera footage."
Mr Santilli said the original footage came to light in 1992 when he was asked by Polygram, now Universal, do do a comprehensive documentary about Elvis Presley.
He said: "We placed ads in local papers in the Eastern Seaboard of the US for anyone who had seen Elvis in 1954 who had still images or footage.
"We listed the hotels we would be in and said to meet us and we would look at it and buy for cash.
"We came away with the largest collection of Elvis assets brought together on one occasion, it was a remarkable achievement.
"During the trip a cameraman in Cleveland asked if we were interested in anything else.
"At the time we had no knowledge of Roswell or aliens, but he claimed he was the cameraman working for the army airforce and explained the whole alien autopsy story."
Mr Santilli said it tool two years of exchanges to reach an agreement to buy the footage.
"By the time we got back it had deteriorated to a certain extent and we were not able to use it and recreated a fair section."
However, when the recreated footage was released, Mr Santilli and his team did not make it clear it was a remake of poor original footage, which there was no mention of.
He still maintains that was the right thing to do.
He said: "If you look at the great works of art - these works of art are over 200 or 300 years old and have been restored with people working on them many times.
"they have very little bearing on the original image.
"We did the same thing with the moving image of the alien autopsy."
He said that the recreated film was given to broadcasters "for free" who were told to "make a documentary and investigate the authenticity" of the footage.
Mr…reportedly made millions from the footage.
He did not confirm an amount, but said the money his team made was from "home video" rights to the documentaries that broadcasters then made.
He maintained it was the right way to go about it.
He said: "We were not there in 1947 so did not want to misrepresent the event.
"It was not a hoax - Fox put up a million dollar reward for someone to come forward and say it was fabricated and it was 20 years before anyone spoke.
"If it was a hoax someone would have come forward a lot sooner."
Philip Mantle
Real alien? Ray Santilli in his office at the time he met with UFO researcher Philip Mantle.
Let me just be clear. I was not there in 1947, so I can't say for sure if it is an alien, but it is the original camera footage.
Ray Santilli
So where is the original footage now?
He says he still has it, but some of the frames are missing.
He may release it in full at a later stage.
Mr Santilli also said full background checks were carried out on the cameraman, but he is not currently prepared to identify him, to kill off the doubters.
Mr Santilli contacted Express.co.uk after we reported on how Spyros Melaris, who was hired by Mr Santilli and film producer Gary Shoefield to make the black and white film, told the story of his involvement in a one-man West End show.
Mr Melaris revealed how the video was produced inside a north London flat, thousands of miles from the secret US base it was purporting to be in.
He explained how the "dead alien" in the 17-minute film, which has been viewed by millions of people across the globe, was created by a sculptor called John Humphreys, who was a special effects expert who had worked on the sets of Dr Who.
Mr Melaris said 1940s surgeons’ outfits and medical equipment were supplied from prop providers in the UK and USA.
The two pathologists were his brother and then girlfriend, he said.
Cow and lamb organs from a butcher were used to represent those of the extraterrestrial, and raspberry jelly was planned to be used for the brain, but it turned out to be "too dark".
The 16mm film was then spliced with an original Pathe newsreel of a 1947 college baseball match in Roswell to help convince experts from Kodak it could be real, he said.
Mr Santilli said: "I refute the Spyros Melaris's version of his involvement in Alien Autopsy. If anything Spyros was part of a team.
"He felt there should been more acknowledgement for his work or the artistic side.
"We followed a plan, laid out by a sequence of events, they all did a remarkable job.
"There was original film, an original concept or story, and no one person was responsible for everything."
Gareth Watson, who played the doctor observing the procedure in the fake footage, appears to confirm what Mr Santilli says about there being original footage that was recreated.
He took part in an email question and answer session with veteran UFO researcher Philip Mantle earlier this year.
Mr Watson said: "I was led to believe there was original footage of poor quality and this was 'a recreation', not a hoax.
"I was shown by Ray Santilli and Gary Shoefield a VHS copy of very grainy poor quality footage of an alleged alien autopsy.
"They decided it was not of commercial value in its current state hence the 'recreation'.
"So I left with impression that what I saw was the original footage. I have no idea where that is now or what Ray Santilli did with it.
"The original footage was of very poor quality to the point I could have been looking at the yeti."
Mr Mantle does not believe any original footage existed, and it was all just a hoax.
He said: "There are however a few people who still believe that Ray Santilli is telling the truth and there was original authentic film.
"One such gentleman in the UK is Colin Woolford. Colin and I disagree but we have remained on friendly terms."
Mr Woolford tours the country giving lectures at UFO conferences where he argues the original footage is likely to exist.
Social media users first reported the sighting of the four large lights at the bottom of the famous volcano, which last erupted in 2013.
And some even believe it's proof that aliens exist after claiming they were UFOs .
There were reports that three of the lights disappeared all at once, after which the fourth appeared to enter the crater of the volcano.
The remaining light was said to move with a trajectory and ease 'unlike that of a helicopter or plane'.
Four large lights appear at the bottom of the San Miguel volcano in El Salvador(Image: CEN)
But others have criticised these theroies.
John Jimenez dismissed the idea of the lights being UFOs and highlighted El Salvador’s high crime rate, saying: "People are delirious from so much crime."
The San Miguel volcano, also knowns as Volcan Chaparrastique, is 2,130 metres (6,990 feet) in height and last erupted on December 29, 2013.
Reports say the lights moved with an ease 'unlike that of a helicopter or plane'(Image: CEN)
Last year, residents in El Salvador were baffled after they heard 'strange noises' in the sky that lasted three hours.
Reports of odd sounds in San Salvador, the capital, sparked a huge debate over whether it was the work of aliens.
A recent video also appeared to show an unidentified flying object near the active volcano of Popocatepetl in Mexico.
Lights believed to be 'UFOs' near the active volcano of Popocatepetl(Image: CEN)
The UFO book that seems to be gathering interest and momentum at the moment is ‘UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up’ so I have taken this opportunity to interview the book’s author, Irena Scott PhD. 2017 will see the 70th anniversary of flying saucers and debate has raged on ever since and there seems no sign of it stopping anytime soon.
PM: Please tell us something about your background. Who is Irena Scott PhD?
I have a PhD, have had a professorship and have worked in scientific research for most of my life. My life began on an Ohio farm. We lived under quite primitive conditions, such as farming with horses. This background enables me to consider things from both a heartland farmer and a scientific viewpoint. Despite our lack of books and media, I became interested in astronomy at a very young age. I worked my way through college with an astronomy major, but found that I couldn’t be employed in that field because it was male-only in those days (which also enabled me to see scientists as less logical than normally presented). So, I went into one of the closest fields that females were allowed in, satellite photography. I worked at the Aerospace Center in St. Louis, Missouri, where they sent me to six months of cartography school, which was equal to a master’s degree. I later transferred to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington D.C. in the field of photointerpretation and photogrammetry. Here I received some of the highest clearances in the government and learned not only about this field, but also government secrecy and cover-up, and now think the government has much more ability to cover-up than people expect.
Later I married and moved to Nevada, because my husband had a position there after a previous position that included working in Area 51. I began working for the University of Nevada, earned free tuition, and later transferred and received a PhD from the University of Missouri School of Veterinary Medicine in physiology (a combination of chemistry and biology). After doing post-doctoral research at Cornell University, I became an Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University. Other positions included research and teaching at The Ohio State University, the University of Missouri, and at Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle). I have also been a volunteer astronomer at the former Ohio State University Radio Observatory, been stationed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), and have taken flying lessons.
I have a variety of publications including books, research published in scientific journals, and in newspapers and magazines–such as having been a correspondent for Popular Mechanics magazine with byline articles and photographs in the science and technology sections. My listings as a scientist include: Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in the Midwest, and Who’s Who in Frontier Science and Technology. One of my recent books, Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue published by the Purdue University Press, is on a historical subject.
In the 1990s, I joined several UFO groups. I served on the MUFON Board of Directors (1993 to 2000), was a MUFON consultant in physiology and astronomy and a field investigator for both MUFON and the Center for UFO Studies. I co-edited eight MUFON symposium proceedings, have been a State Section Director for Ohio MUFON, was a founding member of the Mid-Ohio Research Associates (MORA) and its journal editor, and have published UFO material in books and magazines–including scientific journals. As an investigator, I conducted many studies and in these I met numerous fascinating people with amazing accounts.
PM: How and when did you first become interested in the UFO phenomenon?
I have always slightly paid attention to the subject because of a number of events that happened in my family from an early time. For one example, an aunt in West Virginia would write letters to my mother describing UFO events. Some events happened even before we had heard of UFOs–in one case, an aunt in West Virginia talked about small glowing objects that sometimes flew through their house. However my parents were conservative, Middle–American, farmers and did not allow us to even speak about the subject, thus, any interest was repressed. This made me a little sensitive to the idea of government cover-up, also.
I was also quite fortunate in the places I lived – such as Ohio, Nevada, and Washington DC – have been heavily involved in the UFO scene. For example, in Ohio are WPAFB and Battelle where the best-known studies took place. The DIA has been important in UFO study and some think that is the agency that began to investigate UFOs after Project Blue Book was closed.
PM: Have you ever had a personal UFO sighting at all?
Several events have drawn my attention. For one, I sometimes visited people who lived in the Davis Mountains in Texas that overlooked Marfa, which is known for the Marfa Lights. One night I saw and videotaped for about half an hour a large bright light over the town of Marfa that would turn on and off. Later I called the airport and they had nothing to report, but they would have been closed that late at night.
In another instance, while living in Missouri, my Mother in Ohio called to ask if I had just heard a strange sound. I thought this was quite odd and asked if my parents had just developed dementia. Later when I moved back to Ohio, I found information about this October 11, 1973 event. Not only had there been a strange noise, but a sudden wave of UFO reports happening at the same time. With the help of the State of Ohio seismologist Mike Hansen, I studied the noise. It was extremely widespread and much larger than a sonic boom or similar event. I was able to publish information about this sound in a peer-reviewed scientific journal (“Investigation of a Sound Heard over a Wide Area,” Ohio Journal Science 87(2), 1987: 11). I still don’t know what caused the sound. I also wondered why my parents had the strange mental reaction to it and wondered if others did.
PM: Has being an academic helped you in your research of the UFO phenomenon?
Yes, for example a Battelle co-worker and I were the first to show smoking gun evidence that UFO materials research may have taken place there. I also make some smoking gun discoveries while working in other places, for example at the DIA and at WPAFB. Being in the scientific field has made this possible. I worked in several of the institutions that were the most involved in UFO research, the DIA, Battelle, and WPAFB.
Being an academic has helped me in other ways. For example, I have been able to publish pieces about UFOs in scientific journals, and think this helps to establish the credibility of UFO study. I’ve spent much time interviewing not only witnesses, but people at random. In one case, after a sighting had been reported in the newspapers, I began to interview other people in that general location and published the results, “Survey of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Reports in Delaware County, Ohio.” Ohio Journal of Science 87.1 (1987): 24-26. One impressive result was that there appeared to be many more possible sightings than reports. Unfortunately, because of the difficulty of reporting these events, UFOlogy has been slow to advance and is still the subject of ridicule.
In addition, having training in statistics and experimental methods, I am able to evaluate the scientific experiments that have been done. It has helped me in interviewing witnesses, because I can ask questions that might be useful in scientific understanding. It makes me more aware of what might be called hard evidence and how to collect it, also.
PM: Could you explain how your new book UFOs TODAY first came about.
I joined several UFO groups in the 1990s and began to investigate sightings. I also became an editor of such publications as the MUFON symposium proceedings, and a local publication, the Ohio UFO Notebook. My field investigations gave me more of a perspective on UFOlogy than I would have from simply reading books. I discovered that the sightings that contained the most detail, often did not necessarily match the general idea of flying saucers as disc shaped craft. There were all kinds of unusual sightings, which along with my childhood exposure to the subject, made me think that the phenomena is much more complex than generally presented. I reported on many of these odd instances, thus, I already had them written up. Later the idea of writing a book struck me.
PM: Whilst compiling your research for your new book is there any one piece of evidence that for you really stands out?
Some of the most amazing to me have been ones that included interaction and ones such as lengthy events where authorities were notified, came, and even took part in the sightings. The authorities were often as mystified as the observers. For example, one sighting near Logan, Ohio, was of objects above a cornfield. These would blink on and off and move around. They were interactive with people. One followed a car. Authorities were notified, the event was reported on newscasts and TV, and police and other people came out to watch. Airplanes began to fly over in a grid pattern, although no one knew where they came from–the agency didn’t contact anyone. The objects remained interactive and one flew up to an airplane. A second sighting occurred the very night after another investigator and I had interviewed the witnesses.
Others have been abduction events, such as several that were linked with the October 11, 1973, sound that I investigated.
Dr. Irena Scott
(Credit: Irena Scott/Philip Mantle)
PM: What do you say to those that remain skeptical with regards to the UFO subject?
The term UFO carries considerable baggage. People generally link it with little green or gray men in space ships, or even the Loch Ness Monster. People ask each other whether they believe in it. This is because in general the idea is associated with alien visitation; people are asking whether they believe UFOs come from space. However the phenomena actually consists of many credible empirical observations such as of balls of light that can change to different forms; objects that appear and disappear, go through walls, merge and separate; and groups of lights that come together to form humanoid appearing entities. Others include objects of incredible size and speed, poltergeist-like activity, large and small UFOs, magnetic and radiation effects, abduction phenomena, thought control, and telepathy, for a few. Because of this, the phenomenon often doesn’t fit the profile of pilots and space ships, but of something vastly different from us. Such observations suggest that this data also might be investigated using different paradigms than our nuts and bolts ideas of space ships, such as by using quantum mechanical theories, or the idea that the phenomena might not be molecular as we are, or other ideas. I think new ways and different paradigms of science are needed to study it.
Another reason for the skepticism is that government has deliberately created it. Not only does it cover up, but it appears to use brainwashing techniques that produce skepticism rather than scientific examination. For example, there is some evidence that in even the very earliest reports some form of cover-up may have been active. The government has manipulated the results scientific studies, such as the one done by Battelle, to show that they found noting when in fact they did. In other cases it has set up panels that purported to scientifically examine the subject, but instead used them to debunk the phenomena, such as those of Robertson and Condon. It has actively set up debunking campaigns to plant outlandish UFO claims in the media to make UFO reports sound ridiculous. The Condon Report summary cautioned teachers to discourage any interest of pupils in UFOs, because such study would be harmful to their development. So if UFOs do not exist, how would an interest in them harm pupils and why should pupils be brainwashed? Why expend large amounts of money to lie and cover-up the phenomena, if it doesn’t exist. Such activities would certainly help the UFO phenomena by causing people to not take it seriously, thus helping it to hide its activities. In addition, UFO phenomena may be quite complex, thus one even wonders exactly what governments are covering up.
PM: In your opinion, how do we keep moving forward with UFO research?
I think numerous observations indicate this important phenomenon is much more complex that just space ships. I think it would be well to have statisticians go over the best UFO event data with the best developments in statistics to see what treads, or even significant results, can be found. I also think that as knowledge of people’s family trees and genetic studies are improving that one might search to see if there are any genetic similarities in people having sightings. Also people may not really understand what the phenomena is and that it might be much more complex that space ships from other worlds. Thus, I think that examining it for proof that we have visitors from space, or studying the propulsion systems and that sort of thing may not be as valuable as thought. For example, in both scientific experiments and in many reports there are mental aspects that are very difficult to understand. I think people need ways to study this element. I also think that people are interpreting the phenomena using Newtonian physics ideas, but need to study the possibility that the quantum theory elements may be involved in the phenomena. Other methods might be those of Dr. Harley Rutledge, who set up a study area with observing stations in an area of many sightings. His design may have resulted in the best scientific study ever done. He was even able to examine interactive behavior. Moreover, numerous reports have shown that the phenomenon is interactive, or even seems to put on a show, but witnesses in general are not directly contacted. This should also be studied.
END.
One of the most controversial aspects of this book has of course been the testimony of former US Deputy Sheriff Charles Forgus (deceased). He claims that he was a witness to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947. There is no way this can be verified of course and his testimony is simply being put into the public domain for further scrutiny. In my opinion the author is to be congratulated on treating such possibly controversial testimony in an open and honest way. Obviously efforts are continuing to try and obtain more information about Charles Forgus and his testimony with a variety of researchers involved and organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. It will be interesting to see what they uncover.
Christelijke numeroloog stelt de apocalyps uit. Het einde der tijden vindt nu op deze datum plaats in Universum 28 september 2017 19:00 11 Reacties 1,153 Bekeken
Christelijke numeroloog stelt de apocalyps uit. Het einde der tijden vindt nu op deze datum plaats
De christelijke numeroloog die suggereerde dat de wereld op 23 september zou eindigen, heeft nu gezegd dat de apocalyps is uitgesteld.
Tegenover de Washington Post verklaarde David Meade, die claimde dat een mysterieuze planeet in botsing zou komen met de aarde, dat die datum slechts het begin van de eindtijd markeert.
“De wereld eindigt niet, maar de wereld zoals we die kennen zal eindigen,” lichtte hij toe. “Een groot deel van de wereld zal rond het begin van oktober niet meer hetzelfde zijn.”
Geen toeval
Meade voorspelde dat de planeet Nibiru op 23 september op de aarde zou botsen en tot een aantal rampzalige gebeurtenissen zou leiden.
Volgens hem zijn de recente zonsverduistering in de VS en de reeks verwoestende orkanen geen toeval.
Nibiru zou 33 dagen na de totale zonsverduistering te zien zijn, aldus de numeroloog. “Ik heb het hier over astronomie, over de Bijbel,” vertelde hij aan de krant.
Teken
Een andere christelijke groep, die zichzelf Unsealed noemt, claimde dat er een ‘teken’ aan de hemel te zien zou zijn op 23 september.
Een video die de groep over dit proces maakte is al ruim vier miljoen keer bekeken.
Eind augustus zei Meade dat Nibiru tussen 20 en 23 september zichtbaar zou worden. Hij zei dat aanwijzingen hiervoor op de Egyptische piramides en in de Bijbel zijn geschreven.
15 oktober
Hij focust zich nu op een andere datum: 15 oktober 2017. “Dat is de belangrijkste datum van deze eeuw en van dit millennium,” schrijft hij op zijn website.
“Het begin van het einde start nu,” voegt hij toe. “De wereld gaat zeven jaar ellende tegemoet. Er zullen zeven jaar lang catastrofale gebeurtenissen plaatsvinden.”
“Wacht maar tot midden oktober,” klinkt het nog. “Ik denk niet dat je teleurgesteld zult zijn.”
When we think of space travel, or the exploration of the cosmos in general, we are inundated with grandeur notions of enormous spacecraft, thriving multi-planetary civilizations, and awe-inspiring extraterrestrials. Popular culture and exciting research has thus molded our perception of space into one of unbridled and relentless optimism (which I love). We see Mars and other Earth-like planets as organic cradles of life, and as we get lost in the amazement of doing so, we trivialize a very difficult reality – our need to colonize and assimilate into a new world.
Being cooped up in an air-locked dome for months and eating freeze-dried food for every meal engenders immense psychological and social changes, ones which we haven’t come to fully appreciate. Thankfully for us, six brave research subjects have committed themselves to the very same reality; they spent eight months in isolation in a Mars-like habitat to better understand the long-term psychological impacts of a manned mission to the red planet. What did they eat? How did they live with each other? How did they retain their sanity? Was it eight months of hell? What follows is a fairly unorthodox set of human experiences, but one that fully underscores the importance of space travel’s most unappreciated dimension.
The crew of four men and two women was quarantined below the summit of the Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano. They left their dome in space suits, and all communications were purposefully delayed by 20 minutes – the time/signal delay between Earth and Mars. Moreover, their outfits were laced with sensors to track proximity to others and noise levels. Most importantly, however, their purpose extended beyond the geological studies to simply gauge whether or not it was possible to maintain a self-sufficient habitat on Mars. During the eight months in isolation, mission biology specialist Joshua Ehrlich managed to grow vegetables, even in the hard-rock soil of the volcano’s summit.
Obviously, we are deeply limited by our capacity to re-create such a reality for the researchers. That being said, the NASA-backed project has taken every reasonable measure to do so, and across their team of biologists, tech specialists, and psychologists, they’ve formed a representative environment to conduct a traditionally disregarded type of study.
If there’s any takeaway from this research project, it’s that we now have an empirical study on the psychological implications of space exploration. Now, keep in mind that this kind of stuff isn’t new – my issue arises in the fact that we let Sci-Fi blockbusters and spaceship launch videos take precedence over these kinds of studies. We become giddy at the prospect of leaked rocket designs, but fail to make ourselves aware of Mars simulation projects that may not actually get us to the red planet, but will fully determine the longevity of a potential civilization there.
I strongly feel that if we begin to understand human interaction in limited spaces and different environments, we can center our designs for structures and technologies that will ensure our health and well-being in an exogenous civilization. This gets into a field known as HCD (Human Centered Design) that seeks to build great resources only after fully accepting the needs, sentiments, and desires of their users. These research projects help collect the data required for the creation of such intelligent designs. Ultimately, Mars simulation projects play a monumental role in the development of living structures and other survival technologies that will come to define the length of our stay away from Earth, and we should revere the purveyors of such studies just as much as those who are building machines to help get us there.
'We are emphasizing the essentials of math and physics'
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Perhaps they just came up woefully empty in their search here on Earth, but scientists are hunting for intelligent life in outer space – and they plan to begin sending messages to aliens in 2018.
While astronomers have long scanned the stars with radio telescopes, hoping to detect some life form in the great beyond, alien hunters in a network known as Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or METI, are ready to take the search to the next level.
Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International
By chatting with aliens, of course.
Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International, is leading a research group that’s determined to send messages to extraterrestrials.
Vakoch’s team has faced opposition from some in the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, community. In February 2015, 28 top SETI scientists published a letter warning of the dangers of reaching out to alien life forms.
“Intentionally signaling other civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy raises concerns from all the people of Earth, about both the message and the consequences of contact,” the 28 scientists wrote. “A worldwide scientific, political and humanitarian discussion must occur before any message is sent.”
Specifically, the scientists are concerned that:
An alien’s “reaction to a message from Earth cannot presently be known.” Earthlings know nothing about the space inhabitants, their intentions, their capabilities or whether they’re benign or hostile.
Because Earthlings are so far behind when it comes to space communications, “it is likely that other communicative civilizations we encounter will be millions of years more advanced than us.”
The scientists worry that Earthlings are still decades away from “creating a comprehensive search for radio signals similar to those produced by our own technology. They warn, “As a newly emerging technological species, it is prudent to listen before we shout.”
They say nearby advanced space inhabitants may have already detected Earth’s radio transmissions, “such detections are far more difficult than detecting a focused radio or optical signal sent from a large telescope.”
In fact, they argue, it’s not even necessary to send powerful electromagnetic signals into space to study interstellar communication or develop a plan to respond to alien messages sent to Earth.
Finally, they warn, “Opponents of METI would vocally condemn METI transmissions, confusing the public about, and imperiling funding for, bona fide scientific endeavors related to extraterrestrial life.”
E.T.
But Vakoch and his team of METI researchers aren’t too concerned with the warnings.
“One of the reasons people are so afraid of METI is that it seems riskier to do something than to do nothing,” Vakoch told CNet’s Daniel Oberhaus. “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.”
Both the SETI and METI communities agree that any language transmitted to aliens should be rooted in math and science.
Yoda in ‘Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith’
“Some of the most prominent messages of the past have tried to cover everything,” Vakoch told CNet. “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 METI International team will begin by blasting the messages to nearby stars, particularly ones that have planets in habitable zones.
Vakoch told the site his team is determined to learn how to communicate with aliens so Earthlings aren’t left in the dark once the space beings try to talk to us.
Sigourney Weaver in ‘Alien’
“Many of our most severe problems on Earth today are due to a focus on immediate gratification,” Vakoch said. “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.”
The news of the scientists’ 2018 transmissions sparked dozens of online comments, including the following:
This will not end well for Earth.
Yeah, I’m thinking that is a bad idea. We are going to get our a–es handed to us if anyone comes.
This is akin to the Mayans or the Aztecs sending an invitational message to Spain.
Threat of nuclear war, religious terror, racial strife, arguments over climate change, globalism vs. nationalism … The message: We still need a few years to figure out our own s–t, K?
Yes, let’s send them messages right away. Give the death star something to home in on.
Bad idea. We should passively listen until we know what we are dealing with. If aliens are anything similar to humans, things may turn bad. Throughout history, what have humans done when new lands were discovered? We conquer and pillage the land from the indigenous (less advanced) people. Advertising our whereabouts is not smart in an unknown universe.
Lack of signs? Maybe there has been an old, old master race eradicating civilizations once they are discovered so it doesn’t have to share the cosmos. … Selfishians.
Unfortunately, the transmission will be received by the XzgyddllIax, a binary race, which will read only the null values in the transmission, and interpret it to read, “Eat Us! We’re chewy on outside with delectable crunchy center.”
How the Dawn Space Mission Unveiled the Asteroid Belt
How the Dawn Space Mission Unveiled the Asteroid Belt
Happy launch-iversary, Dawn.
Dawn Science Team/NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC
By Marc D Rayman, NASA
More than a thousand times farther from Earth than the moon, farther even than the sun, an extraordinary extraterrestrial expedition is taking place. NASA's Dawn spacecraft is exploring dwarf planet Ceres, which orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The probe has just reached the closest point it ever will, and is now beginning to collect its most detailed pictures and other measurements on this distant orb.
Ceres is a remnant from the dawn of our solar system nearly 4.6 billion years ago. All the data Dawn is now sending back will provide insight into Ceres' history and geology, including the presence of water, past or present. Scientists believe that by studying Ceres, we can unlock some of the secrets of the epoch in which planets, including our own, formed.
But this mission isn't only for scientists. Discovering the nature of an uncharted world is a thrill that can be shared by anyone who has ever gazed up at the night sky in wonder, been curious about the universe and Earth's place in it, or felt the lure of a bold adventure into the unknown.
I happen to fall into all those categories. I fell in love with space at the age of four, and I knew by the fourth grade that I wanted to earn a doctorate in physics. (It was a few more years before I did.) My passion for the exploration of space and the grandeur of scientific discovery and understanding has never wavered. It's a dream come true for me to be the mission director and chief engineer on Dawn at JPL.
Although Ceres appeared as little more than a fuzzy blob of light amidst the stars, scientists determined that it's the behemoth of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter – nearly 600 miles in diameter. Its surface area is more than a third of the area of the continental US. Before Dawn's arrival, Ceres was the largest object between the sun and Pluto that a spacecraft had not visited.
Since well before Dawn, we've had telescopic evidence that Ceres harbors water. While it's mostly in the form of ice, scientists have good reason to believe an underground ocean once circulated. The question of whether reservoirs still lurk beneath the alien surface remains open. Dawn's studies of Ceres may even provide hints about how Earth acquired its own supply of that precious liquid billions of years ago.
Dawn en route to Ceres
In 2007, we launched Dawn from Cape Canaveral, and it will never again visit its erstwhile planetary home. In 2011, it became the only spacecraft ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, devoting 14 months to scrutinizing protoplanet Vesta. Dawn showed us this second most massive resident of the belt is more closely related to the terrestrial planets (including Earth) than to the much smaller chunks of rock that are typical of asteroids.
The unique capability to travel to worlds beyond Mars, enter orbit and maneuver extensively and then depart for yet another destination is achieved with advanced ion propulsion. The technology spent much of its history in the domain of sci-fi, including Star Trek and Star Wars. (Darth Vader's TIE Fighter is named for its twin ion engines.) But what may have seemed only science fiction is science fact. Without its three ion engines (note that Dawn does the TIE Fighters one better), Dawn's mission wouldn't be possible.
The ion engines use xenon gas, a chemical cousin of helium and neon. With electrical power from Dawn's large solar panels, the xenon is given an electrical charge in a process called ionization. The engines use high voltage to accelerate the ions. They're then shot out of the engines at up to 90,000 mph. When the ions leave the spacecraft at this fantastically high speed, it's pushed in the opposite direction. Dawn's ion propulsion system is exceptionally efficient – 10 times as efficient as conventional spacecraft propulsion. It's comparable to your car getting 250 miles per gallon.
Dawn drops into Cerean orbit
Finally, after a journey of more than seven years and three billion miles, our interplanetary ambassador reached Ceres on March 6 2015, and gracefully entered the dwarf planet's permanent gravitational embrace.
Mission controllers at JPL then piloted the craft to three orbits at successively lower altitudes, so we could first obtain an overview and then gain better and better views of this vast unexplored territory. And Dawn has just performed the penultimate act in its grand celestial choreography. It's spent the last seven weeks maneuvering to its lowest altitude. Orbiting now about 240 miles above the exotic terrain of rock and ice, Dawn is closer to Ceres than the International Space Station is to Earth.
Dawn brings Ceres into focus
Included in the spacecraft's suite of sophisticated sensors is a camera that has already taken 10,000 pictures of alien landscapes on Ceres. Following from Ceres' own name, features Dawn discovers are named for agricultural deities and festivals from around the world.
We see rugged terrain and smooth areas, sometimes with streaks of material that's flowed across it. There are craters large and small, created by billions of years of assaults in the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of the asteroid belt. We see mountains and valleys, huge fissures in the ground and bright spots that glow with a mysterious luster, reflecting much more sunlight than most of the dark surface.
The most striking of these shining regions, inside the 55-mile-wide Occator Crater (named for the Roman deity of harrowing), is so bright that the Hubble Space Telescope detected a hint of it a decade ago. Dawn's pictures to date have been more than 200 times sharper than Hubble's. The images we're starting to get back now will be even better, revealing 850 times the detail that Hubble had provided.
Dawn has shown us a mountain named Ahuna Mons that towers more than 20,000 feet in an otherwise unremarkable area, comparable to the elevation of North America's tallest peak, Mt Denali. (Ahuna is a celebration of thanksgiving for the harvest among the Sumis of northeast India.) Bright streaks seem to suggest some unidentified material once flowed down the steep slopes of Ahuna Mons. While scientists have not yet determined what forces and processes shaped this conical mountain, it doesn't take a geologist to notice its resemblance to terrestrial volcanic cones. Imagine what it might have been like to witness an eruption of some strange combination of water and other chemicals on this cold, distant world.
Beyond photos, Dawn will take a great many other measurements from its new orbital perch before its mission concludes in 2016. It will measure radiation to help scientists determine what types of atoms are present on Ceres. It will use infrared light to identify the minerals on Ceres' surface. And it will gauge subtle variations in the gravitational field to reveal the interior structure of the dwarf planet.
Once the spacecraft exhausts the small supply of conventional rocket propellant it squirts through thrusters to control its orientation in the zero-gravity, frictionless conditions of spaceflight, it will no longer be able to point its solar arrays at the sun, its antenna at Earth, its sensors at Ceres or its ion engines in the direction needed to travel elsewhere. But the ship will remain in orbit around Ceres as surely as the moon remains in orbit around Earth and Earth remains in orbit around the sun. Its legacy in the history of our efforts to reach out from our humble home to touch the stars is secure. Dawn will become an inert celestial monument to humankind's creativity, ingenuity, and passion for exploring the cosmos.
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article here.
The little ones then stop and hold up glasses with their outstretched arms waiting for them to be filled.
But then things turn a little strange.
A spaceship , coloured like a Friesian cow , suddenly opens its port and a giant cow's udder flops out, swinging high above the children's heads.
The UFO hovers overhead with the udder hanging down(Image: AsiaWire/Youtube)
Viewers have asked for the advert to be changed(Image: AsiaWire/Youtube)
Even the children look confused(Image: AsiaWire/Youtube)
As the shots pans out, white milk is then shot down from the craft to the children's glasses.
The advert by Rakunoh Mother’s milk company has caused controversy in the country with many users taking to social media to express their views on the bizarre milky downpour.
One said: "This is madness!", while another added: "Shouldn’t that be pixelated when it appears onscreen?"
The advert has come in for criticism(Image: AsiaWire/Youtube)
The advert by Rakunoh Mother's milk company has caused controversy(Image: AsiaWire/Youtube)
Another user wrote: "That’s one long nipple right there", while another netizen joked: "I never knew this sort of thing happened in Kumamoto."
ROSWELL SHOCK: Hoax alien autopsy film 'WAS recreation of REAL ET post mortem footage'
ROSWELL SHOCK: Hoax alien autopsy film 'WAS recreation of REAL ET post mortem footage'
EXCLUSIVE: A "hoax alien autopsy" film that fooled the world in 1995 was a recreation of genuine footage of a post mortem on an extraterrestrial found at the Roswell UFO crash site, it has sensationally been claimed.
A still from the 1995 "hoax" footage - now said to have recreated a genuine video.
British businessman Ray Santilli, 58, who was responsible for distributing the hoax autopsy film, contacted Express.co.uk after we reported on the video yesterday.
Mr Santilli, who is CEO of Orbital Media Group, maintains the 1995 film is based on genuine footage.
He said: "I maintain the original film was real and as stated we restored and recreated elements of the film."
He said not everyone involved in the production of the film was aware of the alleged genuine footage, which is understood to have been discovered in Florida.
Mr Santilli said: "The team used were employed on a need to know basis and were never privy to the entire story.
"They only knew what they were commissioned to work on. The team were all the very talented and best in their field."
Yesterday, we reported on how Spyros Melaris, who was hired by Mr Santilli and film producer Gary Shoefield to make the black and white film, told his story of his involvement in a one-man West End show.
The film showed men in white coats apparently dissecting the alien, leaving UFO hunters convinced it was the smoking gun evidence they were looking for of the Roswell incident.
Truthers have been searching for proof since it was first claimed aliens crashed a flying saucer in the New Mexico desert near Roswell in July 1947 before the US Government covered up the evidence by storing the flying saucer and dead bodies in a secret military base.
It remains one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories, but to the disappointment of alien hunters the 1995 footage was later exposed as an elaborate hoax.
Mr Melaris revealed how the video was produced inside a north London flat, thousands of miles from the secret US base it was purporting to be in.
He explained how the "dead alien" in the 17-minute film, which has been viewed by millions of people across the globe, was created by a sculptor called John Humphreys, who was a special effects expert who had worked on the sets of Dr Who.
Mr Melaris said 1940s surgeons’ outfits and medical equipment were supplied from prop providers in the UK and USA.
The two pathologists were his brother and then girlfriend, he said.
Cow and lamb organs from a butcher were used to represent those of the extraterrestrial, and raspberry jelly was planned to be used for the brain, but it turned out to be "too dark".
The 16mm film was then spliced with an original Pathe newsreel of a 1947 college baseball match in Roswell to help convince experts from Kodak it could be real, he said.
Musician Mr Santilli made millions, after claiming it had been shot by a US military official after the Roswell incident, and obtained by him years later, according to Mr Melaris.
Yet, Mr Santilli insists there is an original reel the film was based upon.
Mr Santilli told Express.co.uk: "I refute the Spyros Melaris's version of his involvement in Alien Autopsy. If anything Spyros was part of a team."
Gareth Watson, who played the doctor observing the procedure in the fake footage, appears to confirm what Mr Santilli says about there being original footage that was recreated.
I maintain the original film was real and as stated we restored and recreated elements of the film.
Ray Santilli
He took part in an email question and answer session with veteran UFO researcher Philip Mantle earlier this year.
Mr Mantle asked him: "Have you anything you would like to add about the alien autopsy film hoax that perhaps you have never shared with anyone before?"
Mr Watson said: "I was led to believe there was original footage of poor quality and this was 'a recreation', not a hoax."
He went on to say that he viewed what was described as the original footage.
Mr Watson said: "I was shown by Ray Santilli and Gary Shoefield a VHS copy of very grainy poor quality footage of an alleged alien autopsy.
"They decided it was not of commercial value in its current state hence the 'recreation'.
"So I left with impression that what I saw was the original footage. I have no idea where that is now or what Ray Santilli did with it.
"The original footage was of very poor quality to the point I could have been looking at the yeti."
A brother and sister alien hunting team have discovered a “UFO highway” across America along which hundreds of unexplained events have taken place - from cattle mutilations to alien abductions.
Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer have spent years travelling across the US investigating hundreds of UFO sightings and other paranormal occurrences.
It was during one cattle mutilation investigation that Chuck realised that many of the unexplained events he had looked into had taken place on the 37th latitude.
He called his sister - who noticed the same with her investigations in Missouri - and the pair began researching the phenomenon, discovering that there are clusters of unexplained events taking place across the same latitude line.
The pair believe that the 37th latitude line is a kind of UFO or paranormal “highway” along which extra terrestrial craft enter and exit the earth.
Their theory is now the subject of a book called the 37th Parallel - and is about to be made into a Hollywood blockbuster in the next few months.
Chuck told Sun Online: “Back in 2006 I was looking at my cattle mutilation investigations - there were huge similarities between them all - most of them were laying on their right side, they’re laying east to west and then I noticed that lots of them were on the 37 degree latitude.
“I called my sister at midnight and I said, ‘Didn’t you have cattle mutilations on the 37 degree latitude in Missouri?'
"And she said, 'Yes' and we started looking more into it. We soon realized it wasn’t just cattle mutilations – there were all kind of events.
"We we're up until 2:30 in the morning going through all these cases and started seeing these amazing patterns.”
The 37th latitude line runs from California through Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and across to Virginia.
Examples of cases along the line include the Joplin Spook Lights - unexplained balls of light that have been appearing in Hornet, Missouri since the 19th century; The Aztec, Nevada incident of 1948 when a flying saucer allegedly crashed; and Piedmont, Missouri where 500 people reported UFO sightings in 1973.
The infamous Area 51 in Nevada - and the Dulce Base - an alleged underground alien base - are also located on the line.
"For the next month or so I start looking at all these cases and I had all this data," Chuck explained.
"All these GPS co-ordinates, everything from Native American sites to underwater caves.
"I released it all on my website and I mentioned it during an appearance on the Science Channel's Unexplained Files - then for the next season of that show they asked me to expand on the theory so I did a whole episode on it for them.
"The bottom line is the 37th latitude is like a UFO highway or paranormal highway across the continent.
"We seem to think that this highway is a major highway that these crafts use - they seem to exit and enter here."
After his appearance on the Science Channel a Hollywood producer got in touch and told Chuck his theory would be a great idea for a book and movie.
The book 37th Parallel, by New York times best selling author Ben Niezrich, came out last year - and a screen play is currently being written.
"In 2015 I signed a life-rights contract with Flint Pictures - it got picked up by New Line Cinema - Warner Brothers before the book was even written - just on the idea," Chuck said.
"The book came out last year. The screen play is being written by a Hollywood screenwriter who has written movies for Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Robert Downey Jr and should be ready in the next month.
"We’ll know in October if the movie is going ahead but they already have some big name actors following the project already."
Debbie said she is now investigating what incidents have occurred on the 37th latitude around the world - particularly over water.
Athens, Greece, sits on the line - and it's also the the dividing line between North and South Korea.
Debbie has even witnessed UFOs herself on the 37th latitude after a party at her family's lake house near Farmington, Missouri - which lies on the line - last year.
"I have an app on my phone that you can use to look up and it tells you what planets and constellations are visible," she said.
"And then all of a sudden we saw four stars in a formation. They were small stars which kept getting brighter and brighter - so apparently whatever it was was coming into the atmosphere then the one on the top left hand corner shot fast, straight up, and the top right and bottom left did the same - and the bottom right one went right across the horizon.
"I spoke to other experts to see if we have any military or government projects that could do that and they said no - they had no idea what it could be."
Chuck and Debbie say they have investigated hundreds and hundreds of paranormal cases - and it's not just UFOs - the pair also investigate ghost and Bigfoot sightings.
"I get three or four people a week getting in touch with me through my website - sightings, photos and videos - I always have a backlog," Chuck said.
"We started off as crash retrieval investigators but then you gather all this equipment like geiger counters, Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF) instruments, night vision goggles and then people get in touch.
"Lots of Bigfoot sightings are associated with UFO sightings - and ghost investigations started coming up because I had all this equipment.
"We use EMF instruments to look for trace evidence to look for crafts or entities because they leave electronic signatures - well it turns out ghosts leave electronic signatures too.
"Sometimes where they have had ghost sightings the orbs they see might not be ghosts but UFOs.
It’s been almost two weeks since NASA’s Cassini spacecraft plunged itself into Saturn, becoming one with the longtime object of its fascination. While that chapter of Cassini’s mission has closed, the spacecraft left behind volumes of photos to inspire and evoke new questions, including a spellbinding final portrait of Saturn and its rings.
The image — featured Tuesday on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) — is actually a composite of 36 photos taken on September 12th, fastidiously rearranged by citizen scientist Mindaugas Macijauskas. The result shows Saturn in its most hauntingly beautiful form, as our Sun illuminates the planet’s northern hemisphere from outside the frame. According to NASA, this shadow position “cannot be imaged from Earth” and we won’t see it again until another spacecraft visits Saturn.
Feel free to drink it all in:
Cassini's final view of Saturn and its rings
While NASA hasn’t released any formal plans for another trip to the gas giant, scientists — including Cassini project manager Earl Maize — are already itching to return. Some former Cassini team members want NASA’s next sojourn in the Saturnian system to be a dedicated hunt for alien life, which would seriously up the ante on an already incredible voyage.
“We left the world informed, but still wondering, and I couldn’t ask for more,” Maize said at a press conference on September 13, just before mission end. “We’ve got to go back — we know it.”
While Saturn might not be as thicc as its celestial neighbor Jupiter, the gas giant remains a cornucopia of unsolved mystery. We still don’t know how oldits famous rings are, or how long a day on the planet actually is. But perhaps the most often-overlooked Saturnian mystery is that it has been secretly harboring “kittens” in its F Ring, according to data from NASA’s Cassini.
Of course, these features aren’t actually baby cats — if they were, I would have jetted out of here long ago. These 60-some odd “kittens” are actually baby moons — or moonlets — which form after particles within the ring collide and clump together. These kittens — which were first spotted by researchers from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft back in 2007 — influence the shape of the F ring so that it’s constantly changing its structure.
For some reason, Saturn’s kittens remained under the radar for many years. A spokesperson from NASA tells Inverse that the kittens are suddenly back in the public consciousness after a reporter asked about naming Saturnian features after pets during a post-mission briefing on Sept. 15. According to NASA, the baby moons were named kittens — and even given individual cat names like “Mittens” and “fluffy” — because “they appear to come and go unexpectedly over time and have multiple lives.” Apparently, some dog people weren’t happy about the name change, but were ultimately overruled.
“This was an appropriate nomenclature for temporary features, and I favor using feline names in other applicable situations,” Larry Esposito, principal investigator of the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) experiment on the Cassini, tells Inverse. Esposito — who is credited with discovering Saturn’s F Ring back in 1979 — was chiefly in charge of naming the kittens.
“These ‘kittens’ show us clumps now forming in Saturn’s F ring, a disk of material like the original protoplanetary disk around our Sun, like when the Earth and the other planets formed 4.5 billion years ago,” he said.
Prometheus and Saturn's F Ring
The great thing about these kittens — besides the obvious — is that they reveal how utterly mysterious Saturn still is, even after Cassini. To be fair, if any planet were secretly serving as a kitty utopia, it would almost certainly be Saturn.
“Saturn’s rings look so serene from a distance, but then when you get up close there is SO MUCH dynamic activity taking place,” Summer Ash, an astrophysicist at Columbia University, told Inverse. “From spiral waves to vertical structure to spokes, and now moonlets! It’s bananas. These moonlets are yet another aspect of Saturn’s rings that shows how little we understand about the system, even after a 13-year mission at the planet.”
Earth was not destroyed by Planet X last weekend, so we can now turn our attention back to more important things, like the three-fingered, potentially-alien Peruvian mummies. The last time we heard from the “researchers,” they had announced the finding of at least 20 mummies by a ‘guy named Mario’ and someone – possibly Mario – saw live creatures running away when the mummies were discovered in a Peruvian cave. One of the mummies appeared to be pregnant with eggs, leading to more speculation that the creatures are aliens and possibly reptilian. Meanwhile, the World Congress on Mummy Studies doubts all of the conclusions and is upset with the profiteering use of the Peruvian creatures – whatever species they may be — and the Peruvian government agrees. Seems like it’s time for a diversion, right? That came this week with the long-promised DNA tests of the mummies and the long-awaited announcement of the findings. The results of the tests are in, and the creatures were found to be …
Let’s pause here for a moment. What do you think the mummies are?
As in the past, the go-to source for all things on the 3-fingered Peruvian mummies is Express.co.uk, which claims to have viewed all of the videos from Gaia.com, the group allegedly in possession of the mummies, conducting the research and sending the samples to laboratories for further studies. It identified the lab which performed the test as the Paleo DNA laboratory at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada, and said that the report on the mummies’ DNA was available online, but no links were provided and searches turned up no further details on the report. The Gaia.com website has a short preview of its latest video, which is available for a fee. There also appears to be no updates from journalists Steve Mera and Barry Fitzgerald, who are said to be conducting their own investigations on the mummies.
So-called baby mummy
(youtube/gaia.com)
That’s enough prefacing. The wait is over. The DNA test results are in on a 3-fingered hand and some brain matter and the mummies are … humans! Express.co.uk quotes the report:
“The evidence suggests the source of DNA from the biological material from the cranial brain and the bone extracted from the hand belongs to homo sapiens (humans).”
Specifically, a male homo sapien. Let the back-pedaling begin.
“Because we know that now we have three types of human like creatures. It is Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon like ourselves, and Denisovan. Now, at next level, they have to make much more detailed analysis, and much more complicated analysis, so they will create a library of genes, and then they will be able to compare it with database of human subjects. Then, we’ll see whether it is exactly human like, or it is little bit different.”
“Human like” says Dr. Konstantin Korotkov, who claims to have been working with Gaia.com since the discovery of the mummies, in a response video. He and others say more DNA testing is needed.
Is it time to wrap up these mummies and return them to the people of Peru?
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