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 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...
02-10-2017
WILL TRUTH ABOUT ALIENS SOON BE KNOWN? UFO SIGHTINGS TRIPLE IN JUST 16 YEARS
WILL TRUTH ABOUT ALIENS SOON BE KNOWN? UFO SIGHTINGS TRIPLE IN JUST 16 YEARS
THE number of reported UFO sightings across the United States has more than tripled since 2001, it has emerged.
The statistics are compiled in a new book written using the databases of two of the world’s biggest organisations dedicated to logging UFO and alien reportings and encounters across the globe.
“UFO Sightings Desk Reference,” written by Cheryl Costa, 65, and wife, Linda Miller Costa, 62, from Syracuse, New York, used 121,036 eyewitness accounts across the states recorded separately by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) between 2001 and 2015 to chart the increase.
The book looks at the timing and location of incidents and types of UFOs seen which include flying circles, spheres, triangles, discs, ovals, and cigars.
According to Cheryl, a former military technician and aerospace analyst, and Linda, a librarian at Le Moyne College and a former librarian at the National Academy of Sciences, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency, MUFON and NUFORC decided most sightings were explainable, but a small amount can still not be explained.
The key findings from the book were that overall numbers of UFO sightings more than tripled by 2015, from their average levels in 2001.
The book shows that US sightings grew from 3,479 reports in 2001 to 11,868 in 2015.
MUFON and NUFORC say just a fraction of all sightings make their way to them – so there are significantly more.
There is a growing “disclosure” movement in the US that believes that intelligent aliens visit Earth, and the government is not only aware of this, but covers it up.
Disclosure activists, such as Steve Bassett, who runs the Paradigm Research Group (PRG) campaign for an end to this so-called truth embargo.
Mr Bassett believes the fact there are so many more sightings now means the truth will soon come out as the White House will no longer be able to keep a lid on it.
He said: “With this compendium, Cheryl and Linda Costa have reminded the public and the media the extraterrestrial phenomenon continues unabated.”
Cheryl said the pair write the book because: “We wanted to do our bit for disclosure
“It’s something the government should have been doing.
“We’re doing scientific research. What’s crazy is not being willing to look at research.”
Their research found July is the busiest month for UFO sightings, but possibly because more people are outside.
There was a strange spike in sightings in Texas in 2008, and another in New Mexico in September 2015.
So what are their conclusions?
The pair say they have seen UFOs themselves, but draw no firm conclusions from studying the data.
Linda said: “We don’t know, but all these people are seeing these things.”
Sceptics argue that the rise in phone and digital cameras, is responsible for more alleged UFO pictures and videos emerging, and that sharing on social media, makes the subject more well known.
The rise in the use of drones of an array of shapes and sizes, is another explanation offered for the perceived rise in UFO activity.
If Space Aliens Are Looking Our Way, Here's What They Might See
If Space Aliens Are Looking Our Way, Here's What They Might See
Astronomers identify exoplanets that would give E.T. a good view of Earth.
An illustration shows the Earth transiting the Sun as it would appear from the WASP-47 planetary system.
Christopher Burke / SETI
We see them — but can they see us?
Robert Wells, a doctoral student in mathematics and physics at Queens University in Ireland, couldn’t get that question out of his mind.
In recent years, astronomers have discovered more than 2,500 planets orbiting other stars by observing the subtle dimming of light as these exoplanets pass in front of their host stars. Wells wondered if alien scientists on some distant world might be doing exactly same thing but in the opposite direction: pointing a telescope our way and noting the flickering of starlight caused by our very own Earth as it “transits” the sun.
Wells sifted through astronomical catalogs and identified nine known exoplanets in one of the celestial sweet spots from which an Earth transit would be visible.
Alas, it seems unlikely that any of these worlds could be home to alien skywatchers looking our way. Most are Jupiter-sized gas-ball worlds so hot that they’re unlikely to harbor life.
But it turns out there’s more to the story.
ALIGNMENT IS EVERYTHING
We can observe the transit of a faraway planet only if, by pure chance, it and its host sun are perfectly aligned with Earth — what Wells calls “a very low-probability alignment.” Statistically speaking, however, Wells knew there should be a whole crowd of relatively nearby planets in the sweet-spot regions — hundreds of them, probably — just not angled properly from our point of view. They could see us, but we can’t see them.
Image showing where transits of our solar system planets can be observed. Each line represents where one of the planets could be seen to transit, with the blue line representing Earth; an observer located here could detect us. 2MASS / A. Mellinger / R. Wells
Even if the planets are aligned almost right, we could be missing out — staring past cozy, Earthlike exoplanets orbiting alongside those hot Jupiter-sized worlds. Unfortunately for any aliens, they face the exact same challenge. An E.T. astronomer might detect Jupiter while overlooking Earth entirely.
After crunching the numbers, Wells and his collaborators estimated that, in addition to the nine hot gas-ball worlds (and many more similarly unpromising neighbors), there are 10 potentially habitable worlds located where Earth would be visible to any aliens there using the kinds of telescopes and related equipment that we now use.
And experts say there’s no reason to assume that E.T.’s astronomy tools are as primitive as our own.
“An alien civilization is unlikely to be technological lock-step with us,” says David Kipping, a Columbia University astronomer who is known as a leading planet hunter. “Most likely they are either far less or far more technologically advanced. They may have used the transit method for a while but since moved on to more advanced techniques.”
If so, all bets are off about where Earth-spying aliens might be located. They could be watching us from any part of the sky. And depending on the level of their technology, they could know a fair bit about us.
Some scientists have speculated that extraterrestrials could detect industrial chemicals in Earth's atmosphere or the glow of artificial lights at night, revealing that our planet has a technological civilization. If the E.T.s are less than 100 light-years away, our radio broadcasts will have had time to reach them.
“And if the aliens have really huge optical telescopes, it’s conceivable they might see structures such as the highway systems or cities,” says Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute, which is dedicated to the search for intelligent life beyond Earth.
Astronomers here on this planet are working hard to achieve those kinds of capabilities. They’ve proposed building the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. With a mirror up to 32 feet across and specialized technology to single out the dim glow of distant planets, HabEx would be capable of detecting Earthlike worlds around nearby stars and scanning them for signs of water, as well as for potential indicators of life like oxygen and methane gas.
HabEx Vehicle - StarshadeJPL-Caltech
If approved by early next decade, HabEx could launch by the end of the 2030s.
At that point, humans, too, would be liberated from the limitations of transits, capable of finding Earthlike planets all around without relying on the luck of a happy alignment. Even then, though, there’s no guarantee that we’d be able to detect the same aliens who could already be looking at us. Maybe they don’t want to be found.
“Advanced civilizations would have no trouble cloaking even the very signatures of life on their planet from our current telescopes by using a simple laser system,” Kipping says. “Our remote-sensing abilities, impressive as they may seem, could be quite basic and easily thwarted.”
Someday, maybe, extraterrestrials really will make contact. But it may not happen until they like what they see.
Adyson Wright is a UFO researcher and operates a UFO research database.
(Laurel Andrews / Alaska Dispatch News)
NORTH POLE — A few years ago, Adyson Wright was told a story she couldn't believe.
A family member said he'd seen a UFO when he was about 12 years old, driving home one night with his aunt, uncle and brothers.
"As they were driving he sees three metallic saucers in the sky, following their car. His aunt was scared and apparently she floored it," said Wright, sitting in the study at her North Pole home on a recent fall afternoon.
"She gunned it home, crashed through the gate — a newly built gate at their fence, which bugged his parents apparently — and even ran inside and grabbed a shotgun and shot at them," Wright said. "And they zipped away, and that was it."
It was a pretty outrageous story, Wright said.
"My first thought was that he was just telling a tall tale. I said, like, 'there's no way you saw that,' " Wright said.
Wright — who studied environmental monitoring and worked as a forestry field technician before returning to school for computer network security — started doing some research. She says she fell down the rabbit hole.
"Sure enough, the more I tried to prove it didn't happen, the more I found proof that it probably did," Wright said.
Attempts to disprove a family story led to its own unexpected conclusion: the creation of an Alaska UFO research database, which Wright hopes will lend rigor to a field that she says is overlooked by scientific inquiry, and fraught with speculation and poor reporting.
On her website, Distributed UFO Research Repository, Alaska, Wright has been gathering cases, writing papers and coming up with projects to help expand knowledge about UFOs based around solid reporting.
Over the past two years, Wright has built up the website in her spare time, spending at least 15 hours a week on the project.
She's created what she says is a "case deliberation method" — a four-page event description with its own scoring system — to try to weed out reports of balloons, meteors, drones and everything else that passes overhead and might look spooky, but can be explained.
In her various databases, she's cataloged around 1,400 cases globally, ranging back to the 1800s. Of those, around 150 are what she considers "usable," where the anomalies outweigh normal explanation.
Adyson Wright is a UFO researcher in Fairbanks. (Laurel Andrews / Alaska Dispatch News)
Witness accounts that can be verified through instrumentation, like radar, are the most interesting to Wright.
"A lot of people think photographs are the smoking gun evidence, but considering the phenomenon and how difficult it is, how rare it is to observe, radar and spectral analysis and stuff like that is the best information we have," Wright said.
In June, Wright wrote an analysis of Alaska sightings, comparing them to other areas, and found that, unlike many places, Alaskans report seeing UFOs more in the winter than summer.
For her next project, Wright is hoping to get in touch with people working at rural airports. Pilots and air traffic controllers are some of the most reliable witnesses. So she's sending out letters to dozens of airports to "get closer to the communities and compile as many sightings as I can," Wright said.
At home in her study,a telescope sits by the window. Wright says she's always been a "space nut."
Adyson Wright, Fairbanks UFO researcher, has a collection of UFO magazines from different eras. The is the Northern UFO News from 1999.
But what are UFOs? There are plenty of theories — aliens, time travelers, military technology. Some are more outlandish than others. Wright isn't betting on any of them.
"Speculation only gets you so far in this," Wright said.
"The only theory I've subscribed to is that (UFOs)are anomalous and worth studying," she said.
One case she finds interesting is a video taken by Fairbanks man Jared Augustine last year. He was working his shift as a security officer outside of the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center when, around 3 a.m., he noticed a blinking light in the sky.
He saw something drop from the light, so he pulled out his cellphone. His video recorded what appears to be a separate circle drop two more times from the blinking light, around minute 1 and 2:30.
Wright likes this video because it shows apparently anomalous behavior — a second light seemingly emanating from the first — which mirrors other UFO sightings from past decades, and defies many conventional explanations.
Could it be a drone? It's "one of a few likely explanations," Wright wrote in an email later. She said she reached out to organizations that might have had a drone out in the sky that night, but with no success.
Augustine says Wright reached out to him about a month after he posted his video on YouTube. He's happy she's doing the research. Scientific study is "better than tin foil hats," he said.
His YouTube video made some waves when it was first published; he was contacted by a couple of media groups.
Jared Augustine shot a video of a UFO in May 2016. (Laurel Andrews / Alaska Dispatch News)
"A lot of people say that it's fake, but that's why I left it up to them," Augustine said of his video.
Regardless, the video has become an interesting study among Wright's research. And overall, her projects have taken some mystery out of the bizarre things people see in the sky.
"Now I have an explanation for everything and nothing is strange to me. But it sure is exciting when I pull up a good case," Wright said.
Kneeling on his living-room floor, Edwin Fuhr reaches beneath a TV cabinet decorated with angel statues and family photos to insert a VHS tape into his video cassette recorder.
It shows Fuhr smoking a cigarette as he looks over a collection of photos scattered on a kitchen table. They’re intriguing images of strange circular patterns on a field — remnants of Fuhr’s sighting of what he believes were UFOs. Interviews with Fuhr are all over the Internet, but not this one, circa 1988.
A province away, at his Winnipeg home, retired Mountie Ron Morier also has a keepsake from the time when he and Fuhr and a small Saskatchewan town became an international sensation. “UFO Incident: Langenburg, Sask. Sept 1, 1974,” reads the cover of Morier’s black binder.
Lifting that cover feels like opening a secret document that should be stamped “classified” in bold, red letters. It contains a police report, newspaper clippings, faded photographs and letters from scientists with the Canadian government.
Morier jokingly calls it his X-File, a fitting nod to the sci-fi TV show that often focused on aliens, UFOs and the paranormal. It’s a treasure trove any UFO aficionado would covet.
The cover of Ron Morier’s file containing his RCMP report and other memorabilia pertaining to Edwin Fuhr’s 1974 UFO sighting near Langenburg, Saskatchewan.
A business card in the binder bears the name Dr. J. Allen Hynek, hinting at just how seriously the “incident” was taken. One of the UFO field’s most famous researchers, Hynek worked as a scientific consultant for a U.S. government initiative called project Blue Book, investigating UFO phenomena. Hynek weighed in on the Langenburg event in the media, even reportedly sending a representative to study the site, about 230 kilometres northeast of Regina.
First told before the World Wide Web or even VHS tapes, Fuhr’s story today endures in corners of the Net dedicated to UFOs and extra-terrestrial life. A video interview with him on YouTube five years ago had a resurgence in popularity after taking off on the website Reddit. It’s had more than 20,000 views.
And yet, some of the story’s most interesting parts remain strictly analog, existing only in the possession of two men forever linked to the strange event.
There are no concrete answers for what happened on Fuhr’s farm 43 years ago. Just a tantalizing story told by a Saskatchewan farmer, and the RCMP officer who believed him.
A close encounter of the second kind
Seeing a UFO up close is an incredibly rare experience. Most people just see lights in the sky, but Fuhr got closer.
Around 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1974, the then 36-year-old was swathing his fields when he saw five saucer-shaped objects on the edge of a slough.
Thinking they were duck blinds and that someone was playing a joke on him, Fuhr got off of his swather for a closer look, but still kept at least 15 feet back. He says the saucers were hovering a foot off the ground and rotating at a high rate of speed. Their surface looked like highly-polished steel.
Fuhr stopped, backed up and got on his swather. He sat there for the next 15 minutes watching them hover, too scared to move.
“They had me in a trance,” says Fuhr, now 79. “I didn’t even know what to do, cause I sat there and I thought, ‘Well gee whiz.’ ”
According to Fuhr, the objects then took off — emitting a grey vapour from underneath — and disappeared into the sky. They made no sound. The objects flew away so fast that they were gone “like that,” says Fuhr, clapping his hands.
He waited a few more minutes to make sure they were gone, then walked to the edge of the slough where he saw five ring patterns in the field. The grass in the centre of each circle was standing, while the grass surrounding that was flattened in a clockwise circle.
With no idea what he had just seen, Fuhr headed home home for lunch. His wife Karen and his parents could tell something was wrong.
“When he came in he just sat there,” remembers Karen. “All of the sudden we asked him, ‘Is there something wrong?’ And … well then he started telling us.”
The Langenburg incident came at the tail end of a golden age for UFO sightings, when reports of seeing physical craft had tapered off.
Even more tantalizing, the Langenburg UFOs — if that’s what they were — had left behind a physical trace, the circles. This classifies the sighting as a close encounter of the second kind.
Edwin Fuhr indicates where multiple flying saucers landed on his farm in Langenburg, Saskatchewan in September, 1974. (Photo by Don Healy, Regina Leader-Post)DON HEALY / REGINA LEADER-POST
Edwin Fuhr, left, and his wife Karen at the site of his 1974 UFO encounter on July 26, 2017.TROY FLEECE /REGINA LEADER-POST
Investigating the landing site
Later that night, Ron Morier, then a 27-year-old RCMP constable, got a phone call at the Langenburg detachment.
Fuhr’s brother-in-law Carl Zorn asked if the police had fielded any UFO reports. Zorn had heard of Fuhr’s experience in a phone call. Although the cop and the in-law were skeptical, both men thought there was little reason to think Fuhr would make up such a tale.
“He’s the last guy in the world that would. I mean he was a teetotaller. He’s a churchgoer, a very quiet, shy man,” says Morier.
He decided to check it out. Being an RCMP officer in small-town Saskatchewan in the 1970s, he had time. Morier and his colleagues provided what he wistfully refers to as “gold-plated policing.” No job was too small.
“Back in those days, anytime anybody approached us about anything, we responded,” says Morier.
A photo that Ron Morier took of the crop circles in Edwin Fuhr’s farm near Langenburg in 1974.
The next day, he checked out the markings in Fuhr’s field. What caused them? Morier still doesn’t know to this day.
Five circles fit with the same five objects Fuhr saw. Morier’s report says the flattened portion of the circles was approximately 18 inches. The total diameter of two of the circles was 12 feet, while the other three were 10.5 feet.
There was no physical evidence in the area that would indicate someone had driven in and made the circles.
“Whatever made those impressions in his slough there came from the sky and left the same way,” says Morier.
Fuhr was the only person at the farm who saw the UFOs. Despite how fantastic the story was, Morier could not come up with a reason why this quiet farmer would make it up.
“He is a responsible person, and his information is considered reliable,” wrote Morier in his report.
He doesn’t think Fuhr was seeking fame, or even wanted his brother-in-law to tell police about it.
“Why would he want thousands of people coming to his little place there and trampling all over his yard and his fields and all of that?” asks Morier.
The fire in the field
Once the story got picked up by the media, thousands of people flocked to Fuhr’s farm. He says cars were lined up “bumper to bumper” along the road from his farm to Langenburg.
It couldn’t have come at a worse time.
It was harvest time, and people were literally getting in the way of the family’s work. Tourists, UFO enthusiasts and onlookers from all over were trying to get to the site and to Fuhr.
“They were chasing us down in the middle of the field,” he recalls, saying some drove right in front of his combine.
“My brother was getting upset and dad was getting upset,” says Fuhr. “I said, ‘What the heck am I supposed to do?’ ”
He says a plane carrying Australians who wanted to see the site even landed on a field adjacent to his farm.
Hoping to deter onlookers, Fuhr’s father finally set fire to the grass surrounding the slough where the circles were. It didn’t help though, as markings were still visible on the ground. Fuhr thinks they may have been made by legs stretching out from the UFOs.
The phone at the family’s home was also tied up with people from all over the world calling Fuhr. He says one call came from the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong. The two-hour conversation, Fuhr says, involved Armstrong telling Fuhr that astronauts saw UFOs when travelling through space, but were told not to divulge that to the public.
“He said ‘It’s real all right.’ ”
Asked about the possibility of people making crank calls, Fuhr says the conversation convinced him it was indeed Armstrong.
Fuhr never began turning people away, or refusing to pick up the phone. He shrugs, and says he accepted that people were interested.
“I couldn’t do nothing about it. You know how people are,” he says. “Once the public finds out there’s something out there, they’ll all come out and see.”
A farmer made famous
Fuhr and his wife now live a quiet life in a bungalow in Langenburg. He retired from farming in 1989 and runs a landscaping and snow blowing business. To keep his mind occupied, Fuhr does carpentry in his spare time.
And he also enjoys reading books about UFOs.
Some of those books even mention Fuhr’s story, one of North America’s most famous UFO encounters. It was even featured on a History Channel documentary about UFOs. A cheesy dramatization of the sighting was made, with an actor playing Fuhr sitting on what looked more like a backhoe than a swather.
The setting for the video is a poor backdrop for Saskatchewan, with hills and trees in the background rather than fields. When the actor playing Morier arrives on scene, he’s wearing the stereotypical red serge, dress uniform of the RCMP — definitely not what he wore for daily duties.
Fuhr still gets the odd phone call from people curious about his encounter. He’s taken no pains to make himself hard to find, and is happy to oblige anyone who calls and wants to hear the story he’s told countless times.
“To me, it don’t matter. I’ll talk to anybody. If they want the story, I’ll tell them the story.”
He’s friendly, funny, welcoming — and still in surprisingly good spirits about the attention.
The land where the sighting happened still gets its share of visitors. It’s now farmed by Fuhr’s nephew, who tells those searching for the famous site that he has no idea what they’re talking about.
“He doesn’t want nothing to do with it,” says Fuhr.
Edwin Fuhr, a retired farmer, recalls his a close encounter with several UFOs while swathing in his field in the 1970s. His story made international news and is one of the most documented UFO cases in history Canadian history.TROY FLEECE / REGINA LEADER-POST
The most he ever got for sharing his story was a complimentary breakfast from CTV when visiting the studio for an interview. And that’s all right with him. Asked about ever making money from his story, he tilts his head, ponders the prospect, but then shrugs it off.
“To me it don’t matter. It’s out, the story’s out long already.”
Fuhr doesn’t give much thought to his status as a UFO celebrity. “If I had to think about all that I think I’d go bananas,” says Fuhr.
He is so humble about the experience, he doesn’t even like to take credit for it. “It was not my doings. It’s somebody from outer space that’s doing it, not me,” says Fuhr. “I’m a spectator just as well as all the rest are.”
Saskatchewan’s own Fox Mulder
After the Langenburg incident, Morier took his share of ribbing from his colleagues, who sometimes called him Mulder, after the X-Files investigator.
But it never negatively affected his career in the RCMP, which was extensive.
Morier became a composite artist and also trained to reconstruct the facial features of unidentified deceased people using sculpting techniques. During the rise of the computer, he worked on the RCMP’s initiative to begin doing composite sketches digitally.
A photo of Ron Morier from circa 1974.
After retiring from the RCMP with 27 years of service, he travelled all over the U.S. while working as a consultant on the TV show America’s Most Wanted. His last job was teaching at the Northwest Law Enforcement Academy in Winnipeg for 14 years.
Morier occasionally grants interview requests from the media or UFO researchers. But he knows they will inevitably lead to more phone calls.
“I don’t know why I do it cause I know it’s going to come back and bite me in the ass again,” he says.
Years ago, Morier was contacted by an engineer from Japan who wanted to learn more about the sighting. While the subject is a hotbed for conspiracy theories, every person who reached out to him seemed legitimate.
“I didn’t talk to any kooks, I don’t think.”
Morier has never tried to hide from the event. If anything, he’s preserved it with his binder.
“I’m a bit of a collector that way. I’ve got lots of old reports and stuff,” says Morier.
One of the most precious items in the binder is a handwritten letter from the National Research Council to Fuhr. Dated Oct. 4, 1974, just over a month after Fuhr’s sighting, the letter explains how scientists have been unable to find any evidence that aliens landed in Fuhr’s farm, and asks for more samples.
The NRC says it no longer possesses any research on the Langenburg incident. Only one brief record acknowledging Fuhr’s sighting exists at the Library Archives of Canada.
Morier has no ill feelings about the Langenburg incident, or its persistence to keep popping up in his life. He still has fond memories of policing the small community.
“To be honest with you it was the best time of my life,” says Morier.
A page from Ron Morier’s RCMP report on Edwin Fuhr’s UFO sighting near Langenburg in 1974.
I want to believe
Fuhr is convinced what he saw that day was extraterrestrial.
Over the years, he has taken an interest in the subject of UFOs, and is well read on the subject. He refers to government cover-ups, Roswell and popular theories that aliens may be concerned about global conflicts on Earth.
No scientific investigation has ever found evidence that alien craft landed at Fuhr’s farm. There were no other witness reports. The truth comes down to Fuhr.
Edwin Fuhr, a retired farmer, recalls his a close encounter with several UFOs while swathing in his field in the 1970s. His story made international news and is one of the most documented UFO cases in history Canadian history. Fuhr stands in a field near where the encounter was.
Whether his recent YouTube interview, or footage from the old VHS interview in 1988, most of the details are remarkably similar. The fact he has kept it so consistent over the years is one of things that makes it so compelling for Winnipeg-based science writer Chris Rutkowski.
“You’d think that after all these years he might want to embellish the story, but he tends to tell the same story over and over again. The story as of late hasn’t developed into glowing green goo and aliens with almond-shaped eyes and that type of thing,” says Rutkowski, who publishes an annual survey on UFO reports in Canada. “It’s a very straight story, so it’s compelling to think that this probably really did happen as he describes it.”
But is it proof enough?
A more recent photo of Ron Morier, who now resides in Winnipeg, Man. (Photo courtesy Ron Morier)
“I guess the assumption is if it’s not ours, whose is it? But on the other hand we just don’t have the proof to make that quantum jump to say this definitely was proof of alien visitation in Langenburg,” says Rutkowski.
The story was compelling enough to be taken seriously by the federal government. Grass and soil samples were sent to the upper atmosphere research branch of the National Research Council, but no conclusions could ever be drawn.
The scientists were intrigued by a black substance found as a precipitate, especially in a sample that was taken from one of the rings that appeared to be burned. The sample was sent to Simon Fraser University for x-ray fluorescence analysis, but no conclusions could be drawn.
Fuhr doesn’t really care who believes or doesn’t. People have been telling him since the 1970s that it was all in his head.
“I had a guy from Quebec come out, and he figures I was smoking pot,” says Fuhr.
But to this day, Morier still believes Fuhr is being honest about what he saw.
“Why would he just out of the blue make this up?’” says the former officer.
The media ran with Morier’s findings, and in some cases used them as confirmation that flying saucers had landed. A headline from a newspaper in Newfoundland read “RCMP officer convinced UFOs were real.”
While Morier believes Fuhr to be truthful, he doesn’t believe in UFOs or little green men. The uncertainty of the Langenburg incident frustrated Morier because as intriguing as it was, it didn’t yield any answers.
“It bugged me a little that it didn’t confirm or not confirm that they do exist,” he says. “I still don’t know.”
Morier notices Fuhr seems more outspoken in his interviews now than the quiet farmer he knew. He commends him for sticking to his story.
“Good on him. He’ll never know and we’ll never know I guess,” says Morier.
“But boy that would’ve been quite an experience that day to see what he saw.”
Peruvian archaeologists are tired of debunking claims of extraterrestrial influence on human history. In 1968, Swiss author Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods? introduced the mainstream to the theory that the Nazca Lines, the massive geoglyphs in Southern Peru whose shapes are fully visible only from the air, were landing strips for “ancient astronauts.” Archaeologists calmly disagree, positing that they were astronomical designs that turned the desert itself into an observatory, or counter constellations matching the dark spaces in the Milky Way, or, more abstractly, cosmological figures meant to be seen by skyward deities, of which ancient Peru had many. 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull put a new spin on this old tale, including, for good measure, the large-skulled aliens that pepper North American abduction stories.
Now, Peruvian scientists are furious at a new and possibly pernicious permutation of the “ancient astronaut” theory. A web series named Unearthing Nazca purports to depict the investigation of a pre-Columbian and “humanoid” mummy. Archaeologists, who have been denied access to the mummy, worry that it is as old as the series’ creators claim, but that it is actually indigenous and Andean—a real human individual that has been mutilated to look like an alien. They worry that Unearthing Nazca is an archaeological snuff film in disguise.
The series’ success is also of concern. Since the series’ launch in June by Gaia.com—a website specializing in “conscious media, yoga, and more”—the teaser episode of Unearthing Nazca has been viewed 2.35 million times on YouTube alone. It starts with what at first seems to be a typical seated Peruvian mummy, arms wrapped around its knees, like a child waiting for its parent. Its head is elongated like those of other pre-Columbian mummies, whose societies artificially shaped their children’s crania to achieve ideals of beauty or represent group belonging.
“Maria,” the “humanoid” mummy from the Gaia.com web series Unearthing Nazca(Screenshot from Gaia.com)
The resemblance ends there. A Hans Zimmer-esque score throbs, and a Russian-accented expert in “bioelectrography”—who elsewhere claims to have photographed the human soul escaping the body after death—declares the mummy “one of the most important discoveries of the 21st century.” The camera orbits the mummy, revealing that it has only three long fingers on each hand and three long toes on each foot. Its elongated head has no nose, no ears, and large, heavy-lidded eyes. And its skin is an eerie, powdery white.
The video’s experts stop short of the A-word, letting a series of vest-wearing and white coat-clad “experts” claim that x-rays, CT scans, and DNA and carbon-14 tests of the mummy’s flesh reveal that this new “humanoid” or “organic creature,” whom they have dubbed “Maria,” is no fraud. To learn more, viewers were initially encouraged to watch the rest of the investigation behind Gaia’s paywall.
The English- and Spanish-language tabloids and YouTube channels that cover the “discovery” reliably fill in the blanks, guarding journalistic integrity with scare quotes: “The ‘Alien’ Mummies of Nazca,” trumpeted The Sun in mid-July, when the mummy’s most prominent promoter, a Mexican “ufologist” and TV personality named Jaime Maussan, produced photographic and x-ray “proof” of at least four additional more “reptilian” “humanoid” bodies.
Because of course: What else could they be?
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Human beings, and indigenous ones to boot.
In 2015, Maussan tried to promote a photographic slide from the late 1940s that, he hinted, depicted the corpse of an alien child found in the American Southwest. More skeptical ufologists applied de-blurring technology to the “Roswell Slide” when it was released, and found that a previously undecipherable placard next to the body revealed that it was actually the mummy of a two-year-old Puebloan boy removed from the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde in 1894. Returned to a National Park museum in 1938, the boy was repatriated to a local tribe in 2015. Incredibly, Maussan then offered $10,000 for information that might permit the Puebloan boy’s “location and recuperation.”
This inclusion of pre-Columbian Peruvians in science’s supposed cover-up of extraterrestrials echoes the previous collection and study of the indigenous dead. In the 19th century, Anglo-American and European craniologists and scholars who came upon artificially molded skulls in Peruvian tombs hypothesized that they were either the undeformed remnants of a lost and civilized people they named the “Ancient Peruvians,” or artificial deformations of later peoples inspired by those Ancient Peruvians’ natural forms. Archaeologists came to realize that “deformed” Peruvian skulls were bound and shaped from infancy, when cranial bones weren’t yet fused—with no change to cranial capacity and, judging from the monumental societies their elites achieved, without handicap to cognitive ability. But ufology’s rise after the “Roswell incident” of 1947 has resurrected the search for secret ancestors—and its less responsible practitioners have re-enlisted ancient Peruvian skulls as evidence of the presence of large-skulled “Gray Aliens.” They speculate that Peru’s greatest pre-Columbian achievements—including Machu Picchu, according to a theory aired on the History channel program Ancient Aliens—are literally out of this world, the product of a superior, extraterrestrial “race” or their borrowed technology.
Illustration of a mummy collected and unwrapped in 1836 by John Harrison Blake (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology)
The use of the word “race” is telling, as it suggests how the repurposing of older, European collections of non-European bodies and research upon them can reproduce old and debunked theories of racial deficiency: that indigenous Peruvians, in particular, could not have built such advanced, monumental societies on their own. (“Ancient astronaut” theorists claim evidence of extraterrestrial inspiration worldwide, but only indigenous Americans see their bodies and achievements remade as only explicable by alien presence.) From the 18th century on, Northern Europeans have accused the Spanish of exaggerating or misidentifying the origins of the Incas’ achievements. Alexander von Humboldt asserted that the first Incas were actually Chinese. Inca embalming of their dead was attributed instead to natural mummification by the elements or to the diffusion of Egyptian knowledge.
With the rise of specifically racialized science in the 19th and 20th centuries, evidence for Native American otherness was sought in the ancient Peruvians’ very bones. In the 1920s, one German scholar and future SS officer would seek confirmation that the Andes’ most megalithic cultures were actually Aryan or Atlantean, and that their elongated skulls were of a higher, Northern European race. More dismissively, earlier scholars took ancient Peruvian skulls’ distinctive size, shape, and possession of unique interparietal bones as evidence of a similarity to rodents and marsupials, a contradiction that undercut their attributed civilization. In his great assault on racial bias in the scientific estimation of intelligence, The Mismeasure of Man (1981), Stephen Jay Gould famously claimed that the Philadelphia craniologist Samuel George Morton had “plummeted” the average size of Indian skulls in his collection by including a “major overrepresentation of an extreme group—the small-brained Inca Peruvians.”
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Archaeology and museums have come a long way in their study and portrayal of an indigenous past in which Peruvians are proud, and conversations about the repatriation or more ethical study of the indigenous American dead are ongoing. (Simultaneous to Unearthing Nazca’s release, there was massive attendance at a new and decidedly non-extraterrestrial show on the Nazca culture at the Lima Museum of Art.) Gould’s use of Morton as an illustration of racial bias in science has also beendebated—Morton actually used a grouped mean of the groups included among his “Americans,” controlling for the Peruvians’ greater presence so that their inclusion would not plummet the average.
Nevertheless, Unearthing Nazca is support for Gould’s larger warning against describing non-European bodies as deficient, abnormal, or non-human. The Internet in particular has provided a platform for claims of Peruvian skulls’ alien or alt-hominid abnormality that rely on the repetition of old scholarship without grappling with the racist presumptions behind the very metrics they used. Proponents of the idea that elongated Peruvian skulls were naturally occurring, for example, haveembraced the work of Morton and his cohort, such as the Swiss author who compared the ancient Peruvians to marsupials. It also shows how zombified racial science—even when it claims not to be about race—might abuse actual human bodies.
It was for this reason that Unearthing Nazca broke Peruvian archaeologists’ studious reserve. The trouble began late last year, when the Peruvian YouTuber Paul Ronceros got local media to cover an earlier “alien” or “reptilian” mummy and separated three-fingered hand from Nazca, which he claimed were discovered by interested parties other than himself. At some point Ronceros brought that hand and the first “mummy” to a series of museums, including the natural history museum at Lima’s University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the hemisphere. According to that museum’s head of vertebrate paleontology, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi—who is also an investigator affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York—Ronceros changed his story when challenged on the obvious fabrication, claiming that it instead was a pre-Columbian “representation” of alien life, made of a mixture of animal and human bones. Around this time, Maussan and fellow international UFO “experts” got involved, declaring that the mummies in question—they kept multiplying—were fabrications, possibly ancient, but that others were “genuine, non-human biological remains.”
That archaeological human bones may have been used to mount Ronceros’s “reptile” mini-mummy and its accompanying hand was bad enough. But Peruvian scientists held their fire in public until June, when Unearthing Nazcarevealed the previously un-photographed “Maria,” whose dramatic resemblance to actual Peruvian mummies—down to an almost anatomically correct CT scan—suggested that she wasn’t a pastiche of animal and human bones, but an actual pre-Columbian Andean, looted and remade for the sake of a hoax.
From the x-rays of the mummified hands featured on Unearthing Nazca, Salas-Gismondi has proposed that they were part of a pre-Columbian mummy that was subsequently mutilated—two fingers or toes cut from each extremity and redeployed to augment the number of falanges in the remaining three digits to conform to our alien pop culture stereotypes. Its skeletal extremities, Salas-Gismondi observes, are otherwise identical to that of a human being with five fingers, which “makes no evolutionary sense.” To complete the package of “Maria,” her nose and ears may have been sliced away from what was either an unsurprisingly elongated head, or were left off of a recently fabricated one. Evidence of all alterations could easily be covered up with the white, plastery powder that the talking heads on Unearthing Nazca claim is a desiccant. The benefit of using an actual mummy is that the body may be probed for samples of actual pre-Columbian flesh, as some face-masked participants in Unearthing Nazca are seen to be doing in the name of “carbon-14 and DNA testing.” The “experts” later declare that those tests reveals that the mummy was a 1,600–1,800 year-old female “humanoid”—results that have not been verified by outside parties.
Pre-Columbian Peruvian mummy as depicted for the 1851 work Antigüedades Peruanas. (Mariano Eduardo de Rivero / Johann Jakob von Tschudi)
Maria’s guardians have not let her be examined by established mummy experts. In late June, Peru’s Ministry of Culture announced that it was investigating the possibility that the composition of the mummies were the product of looting. And in July, the organizers of last year’s World Congress on Mummy Studies in Lima—Peru’s actual experts on pre-Columbian remains—denouncedUnearthing Nazca, calling upon Peruvian authorities to investigate, find, and prosecute the mummies’ apparent makers for violating Peru’s laws against trafficking in pre-Columbian human remains, which are considered Peruvian cultural patrimony. The Congress’s organizers were particularly galled by the possibility that this assault upon the dignity of an actual pre-Columbian mummy bolstered believers—even in Peru—that Andean culture and achievements owed to “outside help.”
These Peruvian archaeologists and bio-anthropologists have been careful not to say who they believe is responsible for the suspected fraud; the experts on Gaia.com are likewise careful to say that “Maria” was “discovered” by “Mario,” a pseudonymous third party. When reached for comment, Gaia.com’s media representatives say that the organization has only investigated and reported “on facts related to artifacts presented to us,” and “arranged for independent testing including carbon-14 and DNA sequencing.” The on-camera experts involved in the investigation have apparently not been paid, and Gaia.com has never been “in possession of any artifacts.” During this story’s reporting, the paywall for the rest of the episodes of Unearthing Nazca was lowered, releasing them to the open web and possibly helping Gaia answer the charge that it continues to profit from an unraveling story.
But Peru’s mummy experts remain frustrated. In mid-July, one of Peru’s most respected bio-anthropologists, Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao, agreed to debate Maussan and another member of his team—a Mexican naval surgeon whose claims to be a forensic anthropologist have not checked out—live on Peruvian TV.
Maussan took the opportunity to claim that he and his colleagues were being defamed; that they never said it was an ‘extraterrestrial’; that they only sought the truth on whether or not it was a “human being.” But Tomasto-Cagigao wasn’t having it. She laid out the case clearly, patiently, unflappably, observing that no one in Peru’s actual scientific community of mummy experts had been consulted or had seen “Maria” or the actual x-rays other than what was flashed on Unearthing Nazca or in Maussan’s “press conferences.”
“And if they present them tomorrow?” asks the host.
“I’ll eat a cockroach, live, with mayonnaise,” Tomasto-Cagigao replied. “It is not just grave-robbing … Peruvian law says that to extract, alter, or manipulate cultural patrimony without the permission of the state is a crime.”
The interviewer tries to break in.
“I’m not saying that they did it,” she adds, refusing to look at the Unearthing Nazca experts, whose latest episode investigates a mummified pre-Columbian infant whose tiny hands and feet have, or were made to have, three fingers.
SETI Scientist Bets Everyone a Cup of Coffee That We’ll Find Intelligent Life in 20 Years
SETI Scientist Bets Everyone a Cup of Coffee That We’ll Find Intelligent Life in 20 Years
IN BRIEF
A senior astronomer at the SETI Institute believes we are just decades away from confirming the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.
THE SEARCH FOR LIFE
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute has spent decades researching and exploring the mysterious, and often unexplained, phenomena of our universe. The enduring hope being that the search will help us confirm that there is, in fact, life out there. In an interview with Futurism at the Worlds Fair Nano NY, Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, discussed where we currently are in the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life. He began by boldy stating that he “bet everybody a cup of coffee that we’ll find intelligent life within 20 years.”
When asked what science has to say currently about the existence of aliens, Shostak said, “Very little — because we haven’t found any.” Shostak went on to say that while we may not have found evidence confirming extraterrestrial life yet, what we have discovered about our universe, say, over the last 20 years, has not been insignificant. In fact, those findings might mean a lot to our search. One thing we know now that we didn’t know decades ago is that there’s a lot of unexplored cosmic real estate out there.
LIFE BEYOND EARTH
Shostak went on to discuss the likelihood and nature of discovering alien life somewhere out there in the as yet uncharted parts of our universe: “We may find microbial life — the kind you’d find in the corners of your bathtub. We may find that a lot sooner, but that remains to be seen. But it’s gonna happen, I think, in your lifetime.”
While Shostak is confident that, not just eventually but relatively soon, we will discover the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life, making “contact” may not go quite according to what we would imagine. What decades of science fiction would have us believe it would be like. “I don’t know about contact,” Shostak said. “I mean if they’re 500 light years away. . .you’ll hear a signal that’ll be 500 years old, and if you broadcast back ‘Hi we’re the Earthlings, how’re you doing?’ — it’ll be 1,000 years before you hear back from them. If you ever hear back from them. So, it’s not exactly contact, but at least you know they’re there.”
It’s probably safe to say that most people would be pretty interested in humanity making contact with intelligent alien life, but few of us actually dedicate our lives to the search for it. Seth Shostak from the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute does just that, and he firmly believes we’re incredibly close to answering the question of whether or not we’re alone in the universe. In fact, he’s willing to bet that we’re just a couple of decades away from proving that aliens exist.
Speaking with Futurism at a recent event in New York City, Shostak was incredibly bold in his predictions, noting that he’ll “bet everybody a cup of coffee that we’ll find intelligent life within 20 years.”
Humans have explored much of our Solar System, sending probes to Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and soon the Sun, but we’ve yet to discover evidence that life in any form exists elsewhere. At the moment, the most promising possibility is that we’ll discover some kind of microbial life, even invisible to the naked eye, but that’s not really what SETI has its sights set on.
Shostak is quick to point out that while he believes we’ll discover indisputable proof of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe within 20 years, that might not mean we’ll actually meet or even communicate with an alien civilization.
“I don’t know about contact,” Shostak explained. “I mean if they’re 500 light years away, you’ll hear a signal that’ll be 500 years old, and if you broadcast back ‘Hi we’re the Earthlings, how’re you doing?’ it’ll be 1,000 years before you hear back from them. If you ever hear back from them. So, it’s not exactly contact, but at least you know they’re there.”
It’s certainly within the realm of possibility, and scientists are always listening for signals in the noise, but it’s proved fruitless thus far. But if we do discover intelligent life within the next 20 years, perhaps we can ask them to save us from ourselves.
Express.co.uk published the image after being sent it by Ray Santilli, the British music producer behind a hoax "alien autopsy" video that fooled the world in 1995.
Thousands of alien truth seekers believed Mr Santilli had obtained genuine US military footage of the infamous incident, allegedly involving a crashed UFO and alien bodies, said to have happened outside the New Mexico town in July 1947.
To their disappointment, the film was later exposed as being staged using actors.
The hoax was back in the spotlight last week after 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.
However, Mr Santilli hit back saying the hoax was a "recreation" of genuine 1947 footage that he obtained before the fake was made, but was of too poor quality to be screened.
He provided Express.co.uk with a grainy still from what he said was the original, in a bid to prove he is telling the truth.
Ray Santilli
ALIEN AUTOPSY: Is this real or just the latest Roswell hoax?
The image, which we published, appears to show a form, possibly an alien, lying down.
However, debunkers have already seized upon it as "just another hoax".
Scott Brando runs Ufoofinterest.org and forensically examines UFO and alien images and video to see if he can work out what they actually are.
He tweeted Express.co.uk saying the image Mr Santilli provided us looked like a negative of a still from the 1995 hoaxed alien autopsy video.
He compared it to a still from the 1995 film, and said it looked like it had been scuffed to look older.
Alejandro Rojas, host of Open Minds Radio, said of Mr Brando's observations: " He provided the image below, and it does look spot on.
"Mr Santilli claims he may release the entire film at some point in the future, but I would guess it would need to involve a lot of money and that it will be inconclusive in the end."
Mr Santilli claims he may release the entire film at some point in the future, but I would guess it would need to involve a lot of money and that it will be inconclusive in the end.
Alejandro Rojas
Andre Milne, founder of defence technology firm Unicorn who is an avid UFO researcher, also contacted Express.co.uk about the "new 1947 image".
He said: “I ran a forensic comparison of this image against the autopsy 'hoax' film.
"It is a nothing but an after effect negative of a screen shot taken from the autopsy 'hoax' film itself."
We contacted Mr Santilli saying it was suggested the still was just a negative of a still from the 1995 hoax.
On email, he simply replied: "1947".
When asked if he was maintaining it was a still from 1947 original footage, and not a negative from the 1995 remake, he said: "I am driving."
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.
They say the US government then 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.
Mr Santilli said the original footage came to light in 1992 when he was asked by Polygram, now Universal, to do a comprehensive documentary about Elvis Presley.
He said: "During the trip a cameraman in Cleveland asked if we were interested in anything else.
Ray Santilli*Ufoofinterest.org
Scott Brando analysed the new image and concluded it was a negative of a 1995 hoax still (below).
"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 contacted Express.co.uk after we reported on how Mr Melaris revealed in his show how the video was produced inside a north London flat, thousands of miles from the secret US base it was purporting to be in.
After seeing the "1947 still" we published, Mr Melaris hit back at claims the 1995 film was a recreation of some unseen genuine footage, saying “none existed".
He said: “I will also prove that there is no real 1947 footage. There never was. Mr Santilli has called this film a restoration.
“There was never any real film to restore. It isn't even a recreation. It is a work of art.
Both have now agreed to take a lie detector test and Express.co.uk plans to film and publish the results.
REIZEN Elon Musk heeft zijn plannen om Mars te bevolken vandaag verder uit de doeken gedaan. Een bemande missie van zijn ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX naar de rode planeet staat gepland voor 2024. Daarnaast schudde hij nog een plan uit zijn mouw voor gigantisch snelle raketreizen die elke plek op aarde binnen een uur bereikbaar moet maken.
Dat vertelde Musk vandaag tijdens een ruimtevaartcongres in Australië. De eerste onbemande missie naar Mars moet zelfs al over vijf jaar, in 2022, plaatsvinden. Volgend jaar moet de bouw beginnen. De grote droom van de SpaceX- en Teslabaas is om een permanente kolonie op die planeet te stichten. Alle pijlen zijn daarom gericht op het ontwikkelen van de juiste raket, die de codenaam BFR draagt. Die zou staan voor ‘Big Falcon Rocket’, al is ‘Big Fucking Rocket’ de gangbare naam.
Musks eerdere plannen voor de kolonisatie van Mars zijn daarmee weer aardig aangepast. In zijn vorige presentatie had hij het nog over verschillende raketten. Maar om de kosten te drukken focust SpaceX zich nu op één enkele smallere en kleinere variant. “We willen één systeem gebruiken. Als we dat voor elkaar krijgen, kunnen alle middelen toegepast worden op dit ene systeem”, vertelt Musk. “Ik ben er vrij zeker van dat we dit ruimteschip in vijf jaar klaar kunnen hebben en kunnen lanceren.”
EPAElon Musk.
Lanceerplatform
Het ruimtevaartuig is deels herbruikbaar en in staat om direct van de aarde naar Mars te vliegen, met plaats voor 100 passagiers. Diezelfde BFR moet óók nog eens dienst doen op Aarde, als het aan Musk ligt. Want: “Als we naar plekken als Mars gaan, waarom dan ook niet naar plekken op aarde?” Het concept moet elke plek op aarde binnen een uur bereikbaar maken en daarmee de concurrentie aangaan met de commerciële luchtvaart. Een vlucht van New York naar Shanghai zou met de raket slecht een halfuur in beslag nemen.
In een door dramatische muziek ondersteunde animatie is te zien hoe passagiers in New York met een boot naar een lanceerplatform varen en een halfuur later in Shanghai op een ander platform landen. De BFR haalt daarbij een maximumsnelheid van 27.000 kilometer per uur. SpaceX experimenteert al langer - succesvol - met raketten die kunnen landen op drijvende platforms.
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SpaceX is niet de enige die alle zeilen bijzet om Mars met een bemande raket te bereiken. Lockheed Martin onthulde op hetzelfde congres eveneens vergevorderde plannen, in samenwerking met NASA. Het bedrijf wil in eerste instantie geen kolonisatie op de planeet, maar een basiskamp dat in een baan rond Mars vliegt. Daarbij moet een aparte raket vier astronauten van en naar Mars vervoeren. Naar verwachting moet dit rond 2030 werkelijkheid worden.
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UFO INVESTIGATOR CLAIMS HE HAS ANSWER TO ONE OF SCOTLAND’S GREATEST UNEXPLAINED ALIEN ENCOUNTER MYSTERIES
UFO INVESTIGATOR CLAIMS HE HAS ANSWER TO ONE OF SCOTLAND’S GREATEST UNEXPLAINED ALIEN ENCOUNTER MYSTERIES
A UFO investigator believes he may have solved one of Scotland’s great unexplained mysteries.
Forestry worker Bob Taylor reported an incident 34 years ago involving an alleged alien craft and two “robot” attackers. He was left unconscious with ripped trousers in the middle of woods at Dechmont Law, near Livingston.
Despite inquiries by police and ufologists, no plausible explanation has been found and the incident has remained one of Scotland’s highest profile X-Files type cases.
It has featured in several TV specials and books down the years. But local businessman Phill Fenton has just published a report which he feels may hold the key to the mystery.
And Phill believes the UFO he believes he saw could have been a saucer-shaped water tower nearby.
Phill, a 56-year-old sign maker from Livingston, said: “I have always been intrigued by the incident and one day I spotted the dome-shaped object and it struck me that it looked a lot like Robert Taylor’s description.
“The more I looked, the more I thought it was more than a coincidence that something this close matched the description of the so-called UFO nearby.”
He added that chemicals used in such tanks could make people experience the effects which Bob reported and the rips on his clothes matched the shape of a security fence near the tower.
The report, which has been published as an Amazon e-book, suggests Bob may have suffered a mini-stroke and been exposed to harmful chemicals which left him confused and disoriented.
Bob, who had a reputation for being down to earth, reported feeling overcome by a powerful odour which left him choking for breath before he fainted. He died in 2007, aged 88.
Malcolm Robinson, author of the books UFO Case Files of Scotland, is the leading authority on the Livingston incident. He said of Phill’s report: “It’s a very interesting hypothesis which is very well put together. But it’s one I don’t adhere to myself.
“He (Bob) always took investigators to the original site, not to a water tank, and he told us this is where it happened and I saw the marks in the grass myself.”
Another unexplainable video of a UFO sighting has emerged on YouTube last week. The video clip documents a strange but clear view of a cigar-like object hovering in the night skies of “possibly near” Paris, France. Similar footage was recorded in 2014 along the Gold Coast in Australia, and in China in 2010, over an airport that ended up being closed, with out bounded flights grounded and incoming flights diverted.
The new video documenting the strange light shows a suspended elongated object floating in the sky and emitting beams of light. Uploaded to the YouTube channel SecureTeam10, the channel’s creator Tyler Glocker admits he has limited information to explain the video’s appearance. Glocker explained that the video was received via email and that the information accompanying it stated it was recorded near Paris last week. Admittingly, Glocker also says he is dubious about the location and that no time stamp was available.
UFO sightings are becoming frequent in the tech era as citizens capture footage on their phones. However, skeptics are most likely to debunk the latest footage as an elaborate hoax. Meanwhile, for those convinced that alien life exists, the clip provides clear footage.
Is the clip a fabrication, a hoax, or are these objects real? If they are, what are they?
In recent times, lucid accounts of UFO sightings have documented an abundance of evidence existing to support the theory of extraterrestrial life forms and visitations to Earth. Former NASA astronaut and professor of physics at Princeton University (amongst many other titles), Dr Brian O’Leary was one such expert to claim these sightings as valid, shortly before his death caused by cancer.
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, which seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon,” O’Leary said.
Apollo 14’s Edgar Mitchel, the sixth man to walk on the Moon has also spoken out about UFO phenomenon as a real entity, and his knowledge of Roswell.
“The evidence for visiting of other species goes back in historical record. Back past the bible to ancient times. Clearly they have been coming here in more recent times. Governments keep hushing it up. They don’t really want to talk about it,” Mitchel said in an interview with the Observer. “The government and powerful parties may use the technology for profit motives. They want to hold onto everything. Particularly the idea of going off the planet – they want to hold onto it. The monied interest has a hold on it.”
The latest YouTube clip is another documentation of our perplexing world. Whether you believe in UFOs or not, the clip certainly raises some serious questions.
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There is a very strange situation in the world when a lot of eyewitnesses report observing UFOs, seeing these unidentified aircraft not only spray the sky above our planet, but also land and leave those who control them. Usually 100% confirmation of UFO landing and the presence of foreigners at the moment nobody provided.
The explanation for this paradox is that it is that people directly contact the UFOs, who are present at the place of their landing and who come into contact with the crew – they forget that they have a cell phone, a photo apart or a video camera with them. Many remember the contact vaguely and fragmentarily as if someone had erased their memory. Some people were able to take photos or videos confirm their statements, but none of them had time to publish these testimonies. In some cases, these witnesses simply disappeared, in others, suddenly there was an accident.
In this connection, the impression is that some influential forces carefully conceal the facts of the Earth’s attendance by representatives of other civilizations and are taking extreme measures to support this concealment, including the elimination of objectionable witnesses. So – we do not have a photo and video evidence of the presence of foreigners on our planet, but we have enough evidence from people who were involved with government structures and who were not afraid to state that governments of different countries not only direct contact with aliens but also cooperate on different issues.
For example, several years ago Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a former astronaut in the Apollo program and the sixth person who stepped onto the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission, interrupted the conspiracy of silence, and speaking live on the phone on Fox News, said that aliens really exist , and that the government conceals this information from the public.
At the time of this statement, Mitchell was 82 years old and had nothing to lose. He broke the promise of silence and declared. that it’s time to put an end to government secrecy in this area and that the media deliberately discredit the UFO theme.
If contacts with aliens are a reality, then the information about it is stored in seven seals. What prevents them from officially publishing them? In 2009, on the question of a well-known radio journalist about contacts with aliens, whose information allegedly is stored in the Book of Mysteries in a particular Green Room, visited by each newly elected president, Barack Obama replied with a joke: “I would” said that it is written in “The Book secrets “, but then I’ll have to kill you”.
Jokes are a joke, but in 2011 the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations was fully officially confirmed by the FBI, which declassified part of the archives of the UFO disaster in 1947 near the American city of Roswell. Before presenting its archive to the public, the Bureau staff carefully deleted all conclusions and recommendations from there. In many documents, there was only a “hat”, and the text itself was cleaned “for reasons of secrecy.
In fact, the first information about the Earth’s attackers appeared in the press and on TV, when an independent group of British television journalists conducted an investigation into the disappearances of many prominent scientists and talented soldiers in the 1960s. Everyone thought that they had traveled to other countries to make money. Journalists interviewed their friends and relatives and discovered strange things: leaflets and letters to their homeland left the specialists looked like two drops of water. And although the handwriting was all different, the style of writing – one, as if they were ordered to write these texts under dictation. After some time, the connection with these people was completely lost.
For a long time in the concealment of information about aliens accused mainly of US authorities. The most “ufological” rumors were about Duat Eisenhower. They suspected that he was the first of the strongest in the world to enter the “diplomatic relations” with the newcomers. In February 1954, during a vacation in California, Eisenhower suddenly fell out of sight for journalists for several hours. William Milton Cooper (who then served as military advisor to the US government) confirmed the version of the relationship between the president and the newcomers: on April 26, 1989, he sent 536 copies of the “Petition of the Prosecution” to each member of the US Senate and the House of Representatives. It was reported that in 1954, Eisenhower entered into contractual relations with the civilization of “gray” aliens from the planet, rotating around the star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion. Arriving on Earth on spacecraft, which astronomers initially accepted as asteroids, they landed at the Holloman air base, and later – at the base of Edward, where a pre-agreed meeting of Eisenhower arrived with the humanoids. In addition, Cooper argued that the leaders of many states and other influential persons established a strong contact with aliens.
As a result, a “secret world government”, known as the Bilderberg Club, based in Geneva, was formed. It became secret because of the secrecy of information about cooperation with the “occupiers of the Earth”. According to him, this club serves as the supervisor, keeping the humanity in ignorance, for which orders are issued for the destruction and compromise of scientists ahead of their time; inventors who made epoch-making inventions; archaeologists, “not those who excavated”, and contractors, “not with those” came into contact. The “Petition of the Prosecution” contained lists of members of a secret international government, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush, Nelson Rockefeller, and others.
In 1991, the director of the Geneva Institute for Planetary Synthesis, R. Schneider, published the report of the same Milton Cooper, “The Secret Government,” which stated that from 1947 to 1952 about one and a half dozen alien ships landed in only one US territory. Some crashed, others made a forced landing. As a result, in the hands of Americans turned out to be 65 corpses and … one alive alien. The report confirmed the existence of a secret world government, which entered into the agreement with representatives of “other worlds.” Under this agreement, “devoted” received some advanced technology in exchange for allowing people to use for research. Why the question of whether there are aliens on the Earth, the government officials are negative?
Analysts are offered three theories.
1. The purpose of the silence is not to injure the population by realizing the existence of other forms of life in the universe. Within this theory, it is considered that the government has a certain level of technical development of aliens; Correlated it with the terrestrial level, it came to the conclusion that in the military sense we should not fear anything – there should be no conflict with extraterrestrial civilizations.
2. There has historically been a “world government” on Earth that stands above all countries and peoples and controls financial flows. And it knows about UFOs, contacts with aliens at the diplomatic level, receiving some kind of “technical assistance” from them in exchange for a “modest” request for the allocation of their territories for the creation of enclaves and the study of life forms on Earth.
3. Perhaps members of the “world government” do not want to publish the “X-files”, fearing loss of control over people. They believe that the loss of power is due to the needs of people in studying the social structure of aliens and borrowing from them technologies for restructuring the state and society.
According to the test pilot Marina Popovich, the first wife of the astronaut Pavel Popovich, “UFOs will see all the astronauts without exception, but recognized in this unit.”
An American astronaut and test pilot, Gordon Cooper, made two flights to outer space (in 1963 and in 1965), arguing that in 1951, “while flying over Germany, the F-68 fighter personally observed UFOs.” In 1978, Cooper wrote a letter to the UN asking for a special body to investigate this phenomenon.
The head of the FBI, from the beginning of its founding in 1935 and before 1972, Edgar Hoover on the famous 1942 incident (the shooting of flying saucers over Los Angeles): “We must insist on access to these aircraft. In Los Angeles, the military seized the devices and did not allow us to investigate them. ”
In 1955, with an awesome call for the rise of the Cold War, the commander of the Pacific armed forces, Douglas MacArthur, appealed to the military and scientific forces of the nation: “The nations of the world must unite, as the next war will be a war of interplanetary … Nations of the world will have to … create a common front against aliens from other planets “.
Mikhail Gorbachev: “The phenomenon of a UFO exists and it needs to be treated very seriously.”
Richard Nixon, US President from 1969 to 1974: “I still have no right to discuss information about UFOs and the unearthly mind that the government has. Discussion of this issue continues. ”
Heller’s Floor, I’m a former Minister of Defense of Canada: “UFOs are as real as airplanes fly over our head.”
Speaking of UFOs and aliens, it’s worth bearing in mind that all of them do not necessarily have to be the most alien from other planets in our solar system. Facts say that our planet is flown by representatives of other worlds, but also on the planet Earth itself, there is a parallel civilization living an invisible life for us.
Here is the world-famous Evard Snowden: “The higher echelons of the government do not know what to do with UFOs and feed the citizens with an official version that they are all just meteorological probes or natural phenomena. But documents show that UFOs are a reality. The transport ships of this civilization fly not only in the atmosphere of the Earth but were noticed on the seabed, in hydrothermal sources, volcanoes and directly in the solar orbit.
The CIA stores the data of surveillance systems and deep-sea sonars, but they have the status of state secrets, and even scientists have no access to these data about these objects. This kind of smarter Homo sapiens and lives in the mantle of the Earth. This is the only place where conditions have been more or less stable over billions of years. Extremophiles can live at different temperatures, they were able to thrive and develop intelligence at an accelerated pace. Homo sapiens and they evolved at the same speed, but their living conditions in the earth’s mantle protected their civilization from many cataclysms that took place on the surface of the earth.
The president receives daily briefings on the activities of this civilization and the movement of its vehicles – UFOs. Analysts believe their technology has gone so far that we have little chance of surviving in any potential war with them.
The general idea is that we are just ants from their point of view, there is a small chance that they will not continue to pay attention to us. But the military also considers the possibility of aggression and the current plan of action in emergencies includes a plan to undermine nuclear weapons in deep caves to “seal” the enemy in the hope of destroying their communications, which will prevent further attacks from the bowels of the earth. ”
REAL ALIEN? Ray Santilli claims this is genuine footage from 1947 of a Roswell alien autopsy.
Spyros Melaris exclusively told Express.co.uk he would take a lie detector to prove once and for all that the film released in 1995 was a “pure hoax” and not based on any original genuine material.
The film’s producer Ray Santilli claimed yesterday the 1995 film was based on genuine footage.
But his claim has been refuted by Mr Melaris who maintains genuine footage did not exist.
Mr Santilli, who is CEO of Orbital Media Group, claimed yesterday that, although the 1995 film was made using actors, it was a “restoration” of original footage of the Roswell crash site and alien autopsy, that he had obtained, but it was of too poor quality to screen.
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 today hit back at claims it was a recreation of some unseen genuine footage, saying “none existed.”
He said: “I will also prove that there is no real 1947 footage. There never was. Mr Santilli has called this film a restoration.
“There was never any real film to restore. It isn't even a recreation. It is a work of art.
“I would welcome a lie detector test alongside Mr Santilli. I hereby offer myself for such a test.”
The row comes as Mr Santilli claimed he has a still from “original 1947 poor-quality footage” possibly showing a genuine alien from the Roswell UFO crash.
British businessman Mr Santilli, 58, released the image after Express.co.uk reported on a one-man theatre show Mr Melaris is performing, in London in which he explains how the famous hoax was carried out.
In the show, Mr Melaris tells how the video was produced inside a north London flat, thousands of miles from the secret US base it was purporting to be in.
Cow and lamb organs from a butcher were used to represent those of the extraterrestrial.
In a previous interview with UFO researcher Philip Mantle, who exhaustively investigated the autopsy video, Mr Melaris said: “The question is did I make it from original film? And the simple answer to that is no. I’ve never seen any other film.
“Ray maintains that he’s got original film. My question to Ray is how would that film marry with what I made? It can’t. I haven’t actually seen the film.
“The story’s a bigger story if there was a real film. There would be more money in it.
Mr Melaris said that he was shown by Mr Santilli black and white film which appeared to show an alien inside a tent, but it had later emerged this was also shot in the 1990s.
He said: “There was never any original film other than the tent footage.”
He said of the interview with Mr Sington that he was referring to the tent footage, which was also fake.
Mr Melaris said: “I told him about how Santilli invited me to his office to show me the genuine article.
“I explained in detail what I saw… a genuine film… I later discovered this to be the tent footage and I knew this was fake. The excerpts they used were out of context.”
Humanity will find alien life within the next two decades, an astronomer has claimed.
In a recent interview, a senior expert at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute said he 'bet everybody a cup of coffee that we'll find intelligent life within 20 years'.
The SETI Institute has spent decades researching strange and unexplained signals in our universe in the search for intelligent life.
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Seth Shostak, who leads efforts to detect radio signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, says that governments have taken little interest in updating the guidelines, and that more needs to be done
FIRST CONTACT
Basic protocols for our first contact with aliens were put in place in the 1980s, but these are merely guidelines, rather than an action plan for dealing with alien contact.
Dr Seth Shostak, who leads the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute's efforts to detect radio signals from alien civilisations, has previously said a more detailed action plan must be put in place.
In November last year he said our current response to aliens 'would be like the Neanderthals having a plan in case the US Air Force showed up.'
In the 1990s, Dr Shostak chaired a committee that prepared a 'post-detection protocol' for researchers listening for alien transmissions.
But these have remained largely unchanged since then, and are seen as guidelines, rather than a definite plan for dealing with alien contact.
Speaking to Futurism at this year's Worlds Fair Nano in New York, Dr Seth Shostak, who leads efforts to detect radio signals from alien civilisations at SETI, discussed humanity's search for aliens.
'We may find microbial life - the kind you'd find in the corners of your bathtub,' he said.
'We may find that a lot sooner, but that remains to be seen, but it's gonna happen, I think, in your lifetime.'
Dr Shostak said he is confident that humans will discover extraterrestrial intelligent life relatively soon.
But he said that making 'contact' will not be direct due to the immense distances signals will need to travel.
'If they're 500 light years away ... you'll hear a signal that'll be 500 years old, and if you broadcast back "Hi we're the Earthlings, how're you doing?" - it'll be 1,000 years before you hear back from them. If you ever hear back from them,' he said.
'So, it's not exactly contact, but at least you know they're there.'
When asked what science currently has to say about the existence of extraterrestrials, Dr Shostak said 'very little' because we haven't yet found any.
He added that while we have not yet found evidence of alien life, what humanity has discovered about the universe over the last two years is not insignificant.
These findings could mean a lot in the continuing search as, Dr Shostak said.
Stephen Hawking (left) and billionaire Yuri Milner (right) have their sights set on finding alien life. The first results from a $100 million (£75 million) 'Breakthrough Listen' mission to uncover signals from ET were released earlier this year
ALIEN WELCOME MAT
The mat, which is the same size and shape as a regular doormat, sports bold red and blue colouring that fades into violet
Earth's first alien welcome mat was unveiled at the 68th International Astronautical Conference in Adelaide this week.
The mat, which is the same size and shape as a regular doormat, sports bold red and blue colouring that fades into violet.
A red 'amorphous blob' represents 'the alien', and was picked for its lack of similarity to life on our planet.
The blue represents the sky, while the violet represents artificial indoor light.
The hope is that an alien will see the red blob within the other colours, and recognise it has been welcomed in from the outside.
The mat is an art project from philosopher Jonathon Keats and Alice Gorman, a space archaeologist at Flinders University in Adelaide.
They argue that the reason humanity has never made contact with aliens is that they have never felt welcome.
Mr Keats told the Guardian: 'Maybe the reason we’ve never encountered aliens is that they never felt invited.'
For instance, astronomers now know there are many unexplored planets within the habitable zones of distant stars - something we had been unaware of decades ago.
Basic protocols for our first contact with aliens were put in place in the 1980s, but these are merely guidelines, rather than an action plan for dealing with alien contact.
Dr Shostak, who leads SETI's efforts to detect radio signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, has previously said a more detailed action plan must be put in place.
In November last year he said our current response to aliens 'would be like the Neanderthals having a plan in case the US Air Force showed up,'.
Dr Shostak said he is confident that humans will discover extraterrestrial intelligent life relatively soon. But he said that making 'contact' will not be direct due to the immense distances signals will need to travel (stock image)
In the 1990s, Dr Shostak chaired a committee that prepared a 'post-detection protocol' for researchers listening for alien transmissions.
But these have remained largely unchanged since then, and are seen as guidelines, rather than a definite plan for dealing with alien contact.
Mr Shostak told Live Science that the guidelines say: 'If you pick up a signal, check it out ... tell everybody ... and don't broadcast any replies without international consultation.'
But the protocol has no force of law, and Mr Shostak says that the United Nations has taken little interest in updating them.
After Cassini: 14 Epic Planetary Science Missions to Get Excited About
After Cassini: 14 Epic Planetary Science Missions to Get Excited About
By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor
An artistic representation of the Mars2020 rover (operating the SuperCam remote sensing instrument) on the Red Planet.
Credit: NASA
NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its epic 13-year stint at Saturn on Sept. 15, but there are other upcoming planetary science missions to look forward to.
Currently, there are several active missions (led by NASA as well as other space agencies) exploring planets and other rocky objects in the solar system. For example, the Juno probe is studying Jupiter, and the Curiosity rover is exploring Mars. Looking ahead, NASA is reviewing mission proposals that may include returning to Saturn to search for signs of life on ocean worlds, like the planet's moons Enceladus and Titan. Planned missions to Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and other celestial bodies in our solar system and beyond are also in the works.
NASA's Mars 2020 rover will search for signs of past microbial life and possibly habitable conditions that may have once existed on the Red Planet. The rover's basic design resembles that of NASA's nuclear-powered Curiosity rover. The Mars 2020 rover will use a drill to collect core samples of rocks and soils, and then examine those samples on a microscopic level to search for biosignatures, or chemicals that could be indicative of ancient life on the Red Planet. (The Mars 2020 drill will probe much deeper into the Martian surface than the drill on Curiosity.) Samples collected by the Mars 2020 rover could potentially be returned to Earth in a future mission.
The rover is expected to launch in July or August of 2020 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Three potential landing sites have been selected and include an ancient lake bed called the Jezero crater, the edge of the Syrtis Major volcanoes and a hot-spring site called Columbia Hills. Mission scientists hope that, after it touches down on the Red Planet, the rover will explore the Martian surface for two years. This mission offers a unique opportunity to prepare for future human exploration of Mars, mission team members have said.
2. InSight
NASA's InSight Mars lander is expected to launch in May 2018 and arrive at the Red Planet in November 2018. The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission will study the planet's deep interior to gain a better understanding of the processes that helped shaped rocky planets like Mars and Earth.
Once it has landed on the Red Planet, the probe will spend a full Mars year (687 Earth days) surveying its surroundings. (Because it's not a rover, it will have to stay in one spot.) InSight will be equipped with two specialized instruments, allowing it to probe deep beneath the Martian surface and study the planet's internal geologic activity and temperature.
3. ExoMars rover
The European Space Agency (ESA) also has its eye on the Red Planet. The ExoMars rover mission is designed to search for signs of ancient life that may have once existed on Mars. The golf-cart-size rover will be equipped with a drill to collect samples, as well as a panoramic camera system for stereoscopic imaging and ground-penetrating radar to search for ice beneath the Martian surface.
The ExoMars rover is scheduled to launch in the spring of 2020. The rover will reach the Red Planet in 2021, joining the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter — the first phase of the ExoMars mission, which launched toward the Red Planet on March 14, 2016.
4. Europa Clipper
This artist's rendering shows NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is being developed for a launch sometime in the 2020s and will explore Jupiter's icy moon.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Europa Clipper mission will study the possibly habitable Jovian moon Europa. The probe is expected to launch in 2022 and later settle into orbit around Jupiter in 2025. The solar-powered spacecraft will perform about 40 flybys of Europa to learn more about the ocean of liquid water that lies beneath the moon's icy crust and perhaps determine if it is capable of supporting life as we know it on Earth.
5. Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
ESA is also planning a mission to Jupiter in 2022. However, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, also known as JUICE, won't arrive at the Jovian giant until 2029. JUICE will study Jupiter's atmosphere and magnetic environment, and it will also investigate three of the planet's Galilean moons: Europa, Callisto and Ganymede.
6. BepiColombo
ESA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plan to launch a joint mission to Mercury in October 2018. The mission includes a carrier spacecraft called the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) — which supplies electrical power during interplanetary cruising — and two separate orbiters: Europe's Mercury Planet Orbiter and Japan's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter.
The spacecraft will take about seven years to get into orbit around Mercury, using several gravity assists from Earth and Venus. The mission is designed to investigate how Mercury formed so close to a parent star, and to take a closer look at the planet's interior structure, geology, composition and magnetic field.
7. Parker Solar Probe
This artist's rendering show the Parke Solar Probe, which will fly closer to the sun than any previous spacecraft.
Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which is scheduled to launch on July 31, 2018, will travel closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history. The mission will perform 24 close flybys of the sun — some of which will bring the spacecraft within just 3.9 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) of the solar surface.
From this unique vantage point, the probe will be able to measure the sun's electric and magnetic fields, photograph the solar structure and study the solar wind. These findings could help astronomers answer questions about the sun's perplexing outer atmosphere, also known as the corona, and other long-standing mysteries.
8. Chang'e 5
China is planning to launch a sample-return mission to the moon at the end of November 2017. The mission, called Chang'e 5, will be the first to return lunar material to Earth in more than 40 years. The spacecraft will include an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and an Earth re-entry module. Chang'e 5 is one in a series of China's moon exploration missions, which also include Chang'e 4 — a lunar probe set to launch around 2018 and make the first-ever soft landing on the farside of the moon.
9. Google Lunar X Prize
The Google Lunar X Prize is an international challenge to land a robot on the lunar surface, have it travel at least 1,650 feet (500 meters), and send high-definition photos and videos back to Earth. There are five teams still competing for the $30 million prize: Florida-based Moon Express, Israel's SpaceIL, Japan's Hakuto, India-based TeamIndus and the international collaboration Synergy Moon. To qualify for the Lunar X Prize, teams must complete their lunar missions by March 31, 2018.
10. OSIRIS-REx
This artist's concept shows the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft grabbing a sample of an asteroid for return to Earth.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's OSIRIS-REx (short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) mission will study the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The mission launched on Sept. 8, 2016, and is slated to arrive at Bennu in 2018.
OSIRIS-REx will spend approximately two years studying the rocky body in great detail, before collecting a sample to bring home to Earth. Asteroids are leftovers from the formation of planets and carry blueprints of the early solar system. Samples collected from Bennu will therefore help astronomers learn more about the evolution of our solar system and how planets formed. If all goes according to plan, OSIRIS-REx will return to Earth in 2023, marking the first U.S. asteroid sample-return mission.
11. Hayabusa2
JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission is another asteroid-sampling mission en route to its target destination. The spacecraft launched on Dec. 2, 2014, and is expected to arrive at asteroid 162173 Ryugu in 2018. Hayabusa2 follows JAXA's historic 2003 Hayabusa mission, which brought the first pristine samples of an asteroid to Earth in 2010.
This time around, the mission will land a small probe on the surface of the asteroid, as well as a pair of rovers for exploring the asteroid's surface. Hayabusa2 will spend a year studying the asteroid before collecting samples to return to Earth in December 2020.
12. Psyche
NASA's Psyche mission will launch in 2022 to study a bizarre metal asteroid up close. The asteroid, called 16 Psyche, is located in the belt between Mars and Jupiter. Whereas most asteroids are made of rock, Psyche is composed of metallic iron and nickel — the same material found in Earth's core. It's the only known object of its kind in the solar system, leading astronomers to believe that the asteroid is the remnant of what was once a protoplanet in the early solar system. Therefore, learning more about this asteroid will help scientists better understand the cores of Earth, Mars, Mercury and Venus.
13. New Horizons
NASA's New Horizons probe visited Pluto in July 2015, completing a nearly decade-long journey to the distant dwarf planet. The mission provided the first-ever up-close view of Pluto, revealing new details about its icy surface and largest moon, Charon.
Since accomplishing this amazing feat, the probe is still going strong and is set on a new object deeper in the Kuiper Belt, located approximately 1 billion miles (1.6 billion km) beyond Pluto. On Jan. 1, 2019, the spacecraft will fly within just 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) of the distant object called 2014 MU69, allowing the probe to study the rocky body up close. This ancient object is also expected to help paint a clearer picture of what the early solar system was like.
14. Voyager
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft entering interstellar space in 2012. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are still in contact with Earth.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This year, NASA's historic Voyager mission celebrated 40 years in space, and it's not ready to quit anytime soon. The twin spacecraft launched two weeks apart in 1977 — Voyager 2 on Aug. 20 and Voyager 1 on Sept. 5 — with an initial goal to study the planets and explore the outer solar system.
Over the course of the mission, the Voyager probes have captured up-close views of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and many of the moons of these giant planets. In August 2012, Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft ever to reach interstellar space, and Voyager 2 is currently flying through the bubble of solar material that marks the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.
New research into old data suggests that ice may hide around Mars' equator. Here, the Red Planet is seen in a vivid Hubble view.
Credit: Steve Lee (University of Colorado)/Jim Bell (Cornell University)/Mike Wolff (Space Science Institute)/NASA
A new examination of old data suggests that there might be ice hiding in the Martian equator, even though scientists previously thought that the substance couldn't exist there.
Scientists uncovered an unexpected amount of hydrogen when looking at older data from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft dating back to between 2002 and 2009. At higher latitudes, hydrogen generally indicates buried water ice, but this was not believed possible at the equator, according to a statement from NASA.
If there is indeed water there, this would help with a future human mission to Mars, because it could mean the astronauts wouldn't need to bring the substance with them for drinking, cooling equipment or watering plants, researchers said in the statement. Instead, the astronauts could live off the land to an extent, reducing the number of resources that need to be trucked (at higher cost) from Earth. [How The Search for Water on Mars in Pictures]
Mars Odyssey's first major discovery, in 2002, was also linked to water; the spacecraft found buried hydrogen at high latitudes, and the 2008 landing of the Phoenix Mars lander confirmed that there was water ice. However, at lower latitudes, measurements of hydrogen were explained as hydrated minerals (which other spacecraft have also observed). Researchers didn't think water ice was thermodynamically stable in those areas.
For this new study, the researchers analyzed data collected using Mars Odyssey's neutron spectrometer. The instrument is not designed to directly detect water, but by measuring neutrons, it can detect signatures of hydrogen, which can mark the presence of water or other hydrogen-bearing substances.
Researchers' reanalysis of 2002-2009 data from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter gave a clearer view of the hydrogen present around the planet's equator, suggesting that the element is contained within water ice.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
The science team reduced the blurring or "noise" in Odyssey's data using image-reconstruction techniques based on those used for other spacecraft and for medicine, according to the statement. This improved the spatial resolution of the data to 180 miles (290 kilometers), twice the previous resolution of 320 miles (520 km).
"It was as if we'd cut the spacecraft's orbital altitude in half, and it gave us a much better view of what's happening on the surface," Jack Wilson, the study's principal investigator and a postdoctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, said in the statement. Using those closer views, the researchers saw even higher levels of hydrogen, suggestive of water.
Their work focused on equatorial areas, particularly in zones around the Medusae Fossae formation, an area that includes material that is easy to erode. Previous observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter suggested there might be volcanic deposits or water ice just below the surface. Scientists, however, were skeptical that it was water ice, because "if the detected hydrogen were buried ice within the top meter [3.3 feet] of the surface, there would be more than would fit into pore space in soil," Wilson said.
The study's scientists emphasized that more evidence is needed to conclude that the signature indeed comes from water ice. They're not too sure how the water was preserved, they said; perhaps ice and dust flowing from the poles moved through the atmosphere when Mars had a steeper axis tilt than today. However, it's been at least hundreds of thousands of years since those conditions existed, and the water ice deposited back then shouldn't be around anymore, the researchers said. (This would be true even if, somehow, dust or a crust at the surface trapped the humidity underground, the scientists added.)
"Perhaps the signature could be explained in terms of extensive deposits of hydrated salts, but how these hydrated salts came to be in the formation is also difficult to explain," Wilson said. "So, for now, the signature remains a mystery worthy of further study, and Mars continues to surprise us."
Voor het eerst in 16 jaar kunnen we meer te weten komen over de atmosfeer van Triton
Voor het eerst in 16 jaar kunnen we meer te weten komen over de atmosfeer van Triton
Caroline Kraaijvanger
No pressure.
Later deze week moet het gaan gebeuren. Op 5 oktober zal Triton voor het eerst in zestien jaar tijd voor een ver van ons verwijderde ster langs bewegen en het licht van die ster tegenhouden. Het biedt kansen. Want terwijl Triton voor de ster langs beweegt, glijdt een deel van het sterlicht door de atmosfeer van de maan heen. En door dat door Tritons atmosfeer gefilterde licht te bestuderen, kunnen we meer te weten komen over de temperatuur, druk en dichtheid van die atmosfeer.
SOFIA Voor die waarnemingen wordt een beroep gedaan op het vliegende observatorium SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy). Het observatorium heeft daarmee een lastige taak op zich genomen. Want het betekent dat SOFIA zich direct in de schaduw die Triton op de aarde werpt, moet zien te wurmen. En die schaduw haast zich met een snelheid van meer dan 17 kilometer per seconde voort, terwijl ook SOFIA een snelheid heeft van 1050 kilometer per uur.
2014 MU69 Gelukkig heeft SOFIA ervaring met dit soort karweitjes. In 2011 en 2015 werd het observatorium ingezet om meer over Pluto’s atmosfeer te weten te komen terwijl de dwergplaneet voor een verre ster langsbewoog. En recent werd SOFIA gebruikt om op vergelijkbare wijze meer te weten te komen over Kuipergordelobject 2014 MU69 (de volgende bestemming van ruimtesonde New Horizons). De geschiedenis leert ons bovendien dat uit dit soort studies verrassende ontdekkingen kunnen komen. Zo werden er sterke aanwijzingen gevonden dat 2014 MU69 uit twee delen bestaat. En dankzij vergelijkbaar onderzoek ontdekte de voorloper van SOFIA – Kuiper Airborne Observatory – dat Uranus ringen heeft.
De druk om op 5 oktober ook nieuwe ontdekkingen te doen omtrent de atmosfeer van Triton is enorm. Het is namelijk jaren geleden dat Triton voor een heldere ster langs heeft bewogen. Om er alles uit te halen, wordt naast SOFIA ook een beroep gedaan op meer dan dertig telescopen op aarde. Zij worden onder meer ingezet om de vorm van Tritons atmosfeer te achterhalen. Die vorm wordt weer bepaald door Neptunus, waar Triton zeer dicht bij in de buurt staat.
The SETI Institute has spent decades researching and exploring the mysterious, and often unexplained, phenomena of our universe. The enduring hope being that the search will help us confirm that there is, in fact, life out there.
He began by boldly stating that he "bet everybody a cup of coffee that we'll find intelligent life within 20 years".
When asked what science has to say currently about the existence of aliens, Shostak said, "Very little - because we haven't found any."
Shostak went on to say that while we may not have found evidence confirming extraterrestrial life yet, what we have discovered about our Universe, say, over the last 20 years, has not been insignificant.
In fact, those findings might mean a lot to our search. One thing we know now that we didn't know decades ago is that there's a lot of unexplored cosmic real estate out there.
"We may find microbial life - the kind you'd find in the corners of your bathtub. We may find that a lot sooner, but that remains to be seen. But it's gonna happen, I think, in your lifetime."
While Shostak is confident that, not just eventually but relatively soon, we will discover the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life, making 'contact' may not go quite according to what we would imagine. What decades of science fiction would have us believe it would be like.
"I don't know about contact," Shostak said. "I mean if they're 500 light years away ... you'll hear a signal that'll be 500 years old, and if you broadcast back 'Hi we're the Earthlings, how're you doing?' - it'll be 1,000 years before you hear back from them. If you ever hear back from them. So, it's not exactly contact, but at least you know they're there."
This article was originally published by Futurism. Read the original article.
So-called UFO anomaly hunter Mark Sawalha says he found the pyramid on a NASA image taken close to the Eudoxus Crater.
He revealed his findings in a YouTube video entitled "Pyramid on the Moon".
He told Express.co.uk: "Here is a Pyramid looking object in the middle of Eudoxus Crater in a NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) image on the Moon.
"When I started to research this huge LROC map I found this pyramid looking object in Eudoxus crater. My fellow anomaly hunters have also found other objects on the same image."
Mr Sawalha's previous findings include what he thinks could be alien craft, cubes, and other structures on the moon, and even buildings on Venus.
Here is a Pyramid looking object in the middle of Eudoxus Crater in a NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) image on the Moon.
Mark Sawalha
Some conspiracy theorists claims the moon could be occupied by aliens and that is the reason NASA has not returned since the Apollo missions ended in the 1970s.
They suspect findings such as this pyramid and other anomalies could be monuments built by an ancient alien civilisation similar to the pyramids and other structures on Earth.
Similar anomaly hunters have found what they believe could be pyramids on Mars and other parts of the moon.
One popular, but far-fetched, conspiracy theory claims our ancestors who built the pyramids were visited by superior aliens who helped them construct them.
However, sceptics and NASA say the pyramid and other similar findings are just the effects of pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes in patterns or textures such as a rock surface.
This would mean that the new "pyramid on the moon" could just be a misshapen rock.
NASA*ufoofinterest.org
Scott Brando shows how there is no pyramid in another picture of the same crater.
UFO hoax buster Scott Brando told Express.oc.uk there was no pyramid in the crater.
He runs the debunking website ufoofinterest.org.
Mr Brando said that the image used in the video was of lower quality than some avaialble, and it was just an optical illusion.
He provided a link to a clearer official image of the same part of the moon and there was no pyramid visible in the same crater.
‘Oude piramide’ gevonden op de maan. Deze UFO-jager spreekt van een belangrijke ontdekking
‘Oude piramide’ gevonden op de maan. Deze UFO-jager spreekt van een belangrijke ontdekking
Een UFO-jager die archieven doorspit op zoek naar bewijs voor aliens zegt dat hij een ‘piramideachtige structuur’ op het oppervlak van de maan heeft gevonden.
Mark Sawalha zegt op een foto van de NASA een piramide te hebben ontdekt in de krater Eudoxus. Hij deelt zijn bevindingen in een video die hij op YouTube heeft gezet.
“Je ziet op een foto van de Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter van de NASA in het midden van de krater Eudoxus een object dat eruitziet als een piramide,” vertelde hij aan Express.co.uk.
Vreemde objecten
“Toen ik deze foto begon te analyseren vond ik dit piramideachtige object in de krater,” voegde hij toe.
Sawalha ontdekte eerder ook al vreemde objecten op de maan, waaronder iets wat lijkt op een buitenaards vaartuig, kubussen en andere structuren.
Sommige theoretici claimen dat de maan mogelijk wordt bewoond door aliens en dat dat de reden is dat de NASA na de Apollo-missies niet meer is teruggekeerd naar de maan.
Mars
Ze vermoeden dat vondsten zoals deze piramide en andere vreemde structuren zijn achtergelaten door oude beschavingen. Andere UFO-jagers beweren ook piramides op Mars te hebben gevonden.
Volgens één theorie zijn onze voorouders bezocht door hoogontwikkelde aliens, die hebben geholpen bij de bouw van de piramides.
Sceptici en de NASA stellen dat dit soort piramides op de maan het gevolg zijn van pareidolie, het verschijnsel waarbij je gezichten of patronen ziet in alledaagse dingen.
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