Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
Columnist Cheryl Costa shares a World War II encounter between a Navy floatplane and an invisible UFO.
This World War II UFO encounter story involves a United States Maritime cargo vessel, a Navy Cruiser and a Navy floatplane that hit an invisible UFO.
In 2004, a man named Frank in his mid-80s described himself as a World War II veteran. He tells us that during the war he was a U.S. Army infantry officer.
Frank explained that he was onboard the MS Sea Witch, a pre-war U.S. maritime cargo vessel that was anchored in the Fiji Islands. An accompanying navy vessel, a heavy cruiser, the USS Chicago CA-29, was among the ships in the anchorage.
The Chicago was equipped with four Curtiss SOC Seagull scout-observation floatplanes. Several times a day, the Chicago would launch one of its observation aircrafts to perform surveillance of the surrounding area. On the morning in question, Jan. 18, 1943, one of the observation floatplanes was lifted off the heavy cruiser and launched on its reconnaissance sortie.
About an hour later Frank and about 25 witnesses on the Sea Witch were watching the observation floatplane as it returned from its morning surveillance mission. The floatplane had descended to about 600 feet preparing to make its water landing. He said all the observers were stunned as the aircraft appeared to fly into an invisible object.
“Tank explained it was obvious to everyone who witnessed the event that the pilot and observer were killed in the collision. The USS Chicago mounted no recovery effort. To this day, he remembers this odd event like it was yesterday and has wondered what it was that floatplane hit.
Aftehat plane simply stopped flying for an instant and fell vertically into the ocean as a ball of tangled metal,” Frank said.
Frr the war, the MS Sea Witch was sold many times to numerous foreign owners until it was eventually scrapped in Sweden.
The USS Chicago met with a more dramatic fate just a few weeks later. On Jan. 27, 1943, she sailed from Nouméa to escort a Guadalcanal convoy. On the night of Jan. 29, the convoy came under attack by Japanese aircrafts during the Battle of Rennell Island.
Various fires caused the attack upon the convoy. This gave the Japanese torpedo bombers the light they needed to target and drop torpedoes toward the heavy cruiser. Two torpedoes hit the Chicago and caused severe flooding and loss of power. Despite valiant damage control efforts by Chicago’s experienced crew, the ship was lost. The Chicago had a complement of 1,130 officers and men and miraculously only 61 perished during the attack.
Interestingly, the loss of Chicago wasn’t reported to the general public for some time. It’s been said that Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander in chief of Allied Pacific forces, threatened to “shoot” any of his staff who leaked the ship’s loss to the press. Details of the horrendous battle started to emerge in U.S. newspapers in the middle of February 1943.
Richard Beckwith – Wyoming’s UFO Hunting Lawyer – October 3, 2017
Richard Beckwith – Wyoming’s UFO Hunting Lawyer – October 3, 2017
Open Minds UFO Radio: Richard has been with MUFON for more than ten years and presently serves as the State Director for Wyoming and on the Board of Directors. He has been a practicing attorney for more than 22 years and possesses a Juris Doctorate from the University of Wyoming College of Law, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Wyoming. He wrote for the Land and Water Law Review and published his first novel in 2016. He presently serves as the Assistant City Attorney for the City of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
In this interview, we talk to Richard about how he got involved with UFOs and MUFON, and how his colleagues have reacted to his UFO interests. We also cover some interesting Wyoming UFO cases.
Will Vladimir Putin reveal aliens are here? The 'real reason' why Donald Trump won't do it
Will Vladimir Putin reveal aliens are here? The 'real reason' why Donald Trump won't do it
EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump and his predecessors have not admitted to the world that aliens exist and are HERE on Earth, because it would "breach the US Constitution" and risk the "collapse of the global economy", it has shockingly been claimed.
Aliens have been working alongside the US and other world governments since at least 1947, when the infamous Roswell UFO crash happened in New Mexico, according to conspiracy theorists.
Steve Bassett, chief executive of the Paradigm Research Group (PRG), is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the issue of "alien and UFO disclosure".
He and many others are convinced the US government has been secretly working with alien visitors since 1947 on developing new technologies, but it has been kept hidden under a worldwide "truth embargo".
He believes this is because of fears on the impact on religion, the rule of law, and the fossil fuel economy.
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ALIEN DISCLOSURE? Will Vladimir Putin reveal the ET truth?
Mr Bassett believes no US officials will ever admit the truth embargo is in place because it will "expose a constitutional breach" that has been going on for years.
He has taken his mission to Russia in the hope that Vladimir Putin will break the embargo and finally admit that "aliens are here".
Mr Bassett was given major air time on Ren TV, one of the most watched networks in Russia with a viewer base of 120 million, after being extensively interviewed in Moscow in May.
The interview, which has just been screened by Ren TV, was conducted by journalist Natalia Pryguina.
Excerpts from the interview, dubbed in Russian, have now been aired on the program Most Shocking Hypotheses (самые шокирующие), a paranormal and alternative documentary series hosted by Russian celebrity Igor Prokopenko.
A PRG spokesman said the group was hopeful the interview and further work Mr Bassett is carrying out with Russian activists might prompt President Putin to make world news by announcing the truth about aliens.
The spokesman said: "Bassett covered a broad range of topics including various considerations that might prompt Russian President Vladimir Putin to make the first formal acknowledgment by a head of state regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.
"PRG believes this to be the first time anyone has made this argument on Russian media inside or outside Russia."
Jon Austin
ALIEN PROOF? Steve Bassett at the Daily Express office in London.
While in Moscow Mr Bassett took meetings with a number of groups addressing the extraterrestrial phenomena issues in Russia.
The spokesman added: "These groups included a number of former Soviet and Russian military and agency officials.
"There has always been a considerable, open engagement of extraterrestrial-related phenomena within Russia and the Soviet Union by the public and the government."
In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk earlier this year, Mr Bassett said he and many others believe aliens have shared UFO "anti-gravity flight technology" with the US Government, and, if it became public, it would mean the end of the fossil fuel economy.
Some programs were removed from the jurisdiction of the White House and Congress, and are being worked on somewhere, very, very deep, in a 'black manner'
Steve Bassett
In the US, the most secretive operations are called Unacknowledged Special Access Projects (USAP), and he said the alien collaborations were carried out as these.
He said: "They do not even acknowledge the existence of these projects, even the president, White House, and Congress, may not know they are going ahead, but this is a major constitutional breach, and so to admit to it now, would expose years of this breach."
Mr Bassett believes this is why it is so difficult to get a US alien announcement, and he has turned to Mr Putin.
In the Russian documentary Mr Prokopenko says: "Researchers assert that they know the reasons why the US authorities conceal information about UFOs. If evidence about UFOs is disclosed, the entire world economy will crash.
"Bassett shared the results of his investigation with us in the exclusive interview.
"His main point: America already possesses ET technologies.
"The technologies are concealed. They are not accessible to masses and human civilisation because they fall under the truth embargo."
Mr Bassett said on camera: "These craft that appeared en mass in 1947, which are usually talked about as 'saucers', they do not use oil, gasoline, or gas, or coal.
"They have another system of energy. Without a doubt, much more complicated and deeper system, anti-gravitational.
"Some programs were removed from the jurisdiction of the White House and Congress, and are being worked on somewhere, very, very deep, in a 'black manner'.
"Only the people engaged in it know about this. This is a direct violation of the Constitution.
"I can assure you that when a head of state will finally admit this fact formally, and will present the evidence, people will be worried, they will want to learn more.
"But at the same time, religion will continue its existence. And the economy, even if it stops its development, it will have new opportunities opened up.
"Everything will be OK with it. People and countries will exist."
There is, as yet, no confirmed evidence that intelligent aliens exist and are on Earth, or that UFOs are alien craft.
However, Mr Bassett and many others say the evidence is "absolutely overwhelming" and are convinced it has been happening for years.
According to PRG more than 50 percent of people in the US also believe this to be the case.
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Poetin moet de waarheid over aliens vertellen. Deze lobbyist doet onthullingen op Russische tv
Poetin moet de waarheid over aliens vertellen. Deze lobbyist doet onthullingen op Russische tv
Stephen Bassett van de Paradigm Research Group mocht op de Russische tv komen vertellen waarom hij vindt dat Poetin de waarheid over aliens moet vertellen.
REN TV, dat door zo’n 120 miljoen mensen wordt bekeken, zond een interview uit met Bassett dat in mei was opgenomen.
De lobbyist besprak tijdens het interview diverse onderwerpen die de Russische president Vladimir Poetin er mogelijk toe aanzetten om als eerste staatshoofd te erkennen dat er contact is met een buitenaardse aanwezigheid, zo zei een woordvoerder.
Achterhouden
In Moskou sprak Bassett met een aantal groepen die onderzoek doen naar buitenaardse fenomenen in Rusland. Tot deze groepen behoren ook een aantal oud-militairen en -overheidsfunctionarissen.
Fragmenten van het interview werden uitgezonden tijdens een programma van tv-bekendheid Igor Prokopenko.
“Onderzoekers stellen dat ze weten waarom de Amerikaanse autoriteiten informatie over UFO’s achterhouden,” zei Prokopenko tijdens het programma.
Massaal
“Als bewijs voor UFO’s naar buiten wordt gebracht, zal de hele wereldeconomie instorten,” vervolgde hij.
Hij zei daarna dat Bassett beweert dat Amerika al beschikt over buitenaardse technologieën en dat die geheim worden gehouden.
“Buitenaardse schepen, die doorgaans schotels worden genoemd, verschenen in 1947 massaal,” zei Bassett tijdens het interview.
Antizwaartekracht
“Ze gebruiken geen olie, benzine, gas of kolen,” vervolgde hij. “Ze beschikken over een ander systeem dat gebaseerd is op antizwaartekracht.”
Alleen de mensen die hierbij betrokken zijn weten hiervan, aldus Bassett, toevoegende dat dit in strijd is met de grondwet.
“Als een staatshoofd dit eindelijk officieel toegeeft en het bewijs presenteert, zullen mensen bezorgd zijn en meer willen weten,” zei hij.
Overweldigend
“Tegelijkertijd zal religie blijven bestaan en zullen zich nieuwe economische kansen aanbieden,” voegde hij toe.
Volgens Bassett is er overweldigend bewijs dat we al jaren worden bezocht. Hij hoopt dat Poetin dit bewijs naar buiten zal brengen.
The Reality of our Holographic Universe and Astral World: A Never Ending Cycle!
The Reality of our Holographic Universe and Astral World: A Never Ending Cycle!
An astral projection is an out-of-body experience achieved either awake or via lucid dreaming or deep meditation. During such an experience you are consciously aware of things you encounter while out of your physical body.
In fact your spirit or astral body has left your physical body and travels in another dimension the so-called astral world whereby the Pineal Gland or the ‘third eye’ operates as a cosmic antenna, which not only aids the transfer of signals between the different dimensional planes and worlds but it has also the ability of visionary capacity to see beyond space-time during an astral travel.
Many people dismiss the astral world as little more than a mind-altering experience but a recently released CIA document suggests that the astral world in its entirety exists.
During their investigation the CIA did a so-called Reverse Event Horizon experience and discovered not only the excistence of the astral world but they also discovered that our universe is holographic and constantly creates and destroys itself in a never ending cycle, whereby one part encodes the whole, allowing them to explain the mechanism for human consciousness.
Holograms: Energy creates, stores and retrieves meaning in the universe by projecting or expanding at certain frequencies in a three dimensional mode that creates a living pattern called a hologram.
According to the study, the human mind is also a hologram which attunes itself to the universal hologram by the medium of energy exchange thereby deducing meaning and achieving the state into a two dimensional mode which we call consciousness.
So, it means that our reality is nothing more than a hologram created by thought projection (consciousness) into the physical gird whereby our physical body is nothing more than the temporary housing of our astral body which can travel infinite in other dimensions without boundaries?
If that should be the case then indeed there is life after death but only as an astral body that (sometimes) temporary return into a new physical body (reincarnation)….as the document indicates, the whole process is a never ending cycle.
UFO SIGHTINGS: FILES EXPLAIN WHY MOD CLOSED DOWN SPECIAL DESK
UFO SIGHTINGS: FILES EXPLAIN WHY MOD CLOSED DOWN SPECIAL DESK
An official MoD statement from the time said the department had “no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial life”.
It went on: “In order to make best use of defence resources, we have decided that from December 1 2009 the dedicated UFO hotline answer-phone service and email address will be withdrawn. [The] MoD will no longer respond to reported UFO sightings or investigate them.”
Living with an alien’
Among the 4,400 pages of documents released are:
A letter from a school child in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, to the MoD, dated January 2009, asking if aliens exist after she had seen some strange lights, and including a drawing of an alien in a UFO waving
A report received via the UFO hotline by someone who had been “living with an alien” in Carlisle for some time
A report from a man from Cardiff who claimed a UFO abducted his dog, and took his car and tent, while he was camping with friends in 2007
“Green, red and white lights” reportedly seen over the Houses of Parliament in London in February 2008
“Discoid” shapes in photographs of Stonehenge, in an email dated in January 2009
Photographs taken at Blackpool Pier which show an aircraft that had not been seen at the time the picture was taken in October 2008
The files show the number of UFO sightings reported to the MoD trebled in the year the desk was closed.
The letter from a school child was sent after she saw strange lights
According to a briefing in the files, during the years 2000-07 the ministry received an average of 150 reports per year.
But by November 2009, it had already received 520 reports that year, as well as 97 Freedom of Information requests on UFOs.
Possible reasons for the increase included the rising popularity for releasing Chinese lanterns during celebrations.
Dr David Clarke, author of the book The UFO Files, said the “last pieces of the puzzle” had been revealed with the insight into the final days of the UFO desk.
“The last files from the UFO desk are now all in the public domain. People at home can read them and draw their own conclusions about whether ‘the truth’ is in these files or still out there,” he said.
Police managed to snap a strange being on a mobile phone in Corrientes, Argentina after terrified teenagers alerted them of an unusual behaviour.
When the police arrived in the area, the teen witnesses pointed them towards a park where a strange creature was spotted.
Then the officers lost track of it after the bizarre being fled the scene and went to a nearby river.
Conspiracist Terry Larch said that the photograph is incredible and may be one of the best pieces of evidence showing that aliens have been living among us.
According to the report, the police wandered over slowly as they approached the strange thing. They realised later that the being did not look like a human, but something else entirely. It appeared to them as a mythical looking other-worldly creature, typically an extra-terrestrial depicted in movies and drawings.
Larch noted the features of the alleged alien and its striking appearance. He said that the shape and size of the mysterious creature were rather remarkable to see. He added that its head was oval and the eyes were almond dark. Larch also noticed the three fingers of the alien that were protruding outward.
However, debunkers believe that it is a CGI hoax. They explain that the alien in the picture is an edited version of an alien from Spanish horror movie Ovni or from the ET film Signs that starred Mel Gibson.
Two Witnesses in Different Location Notice Two Very Similar UFOs
Two Witnesses in Different Location Notice Two Very Similar UFOs
The skies of Brazil and the island state of Saint Lucia became the centre of the news after two very similar UFOs were reportedly spotted for two days.
According to eyewitnesses, an air force helicopter was observed circling in the area where UFOs were spotted around 15 minutes earlier in Goiania, Brazil. Interestingly, the same thing had happened in St. Lucia where an air force helicopter was also seen 20 minutes after the appearance of a strange flying object.
Goiania is a Brazilian city and municipality. It is the capital of the state of Goiás and part of the Mesoregion Centre of the state of Goias. It is also part of Agglomeration Goiania and Goijani economic-statistical micro-region.
The eyewitness, who photographed the strange event, was on the balcony of his apartment in a building with multiple storeys. The witness, who did not want to be named, was left stunned after seeing the unusual object in the sky.
Meanwhile, the other witness was on vacation in St. Lucia when she thought of getting photos of the sunset from the balcony. The unnamed witness noticed a strange object on the pictures.
Saint Lucia is an island nation in the Windward Islands of the West Indies. It lies between the islands of Martinique and Saint Vincent. It is a sovereign island country in the Caribbean.
Update for Oct. 3, 2017: The historic discovery of gravitational waves of September 2015 has won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Half of the prize goes to physicists Kip Thorne and Barry Barish of Caltech, with half going to Rainer Weiss for their roles in the discovery.
Gravitational waves are the "smoking gun" of the Big Bang.
Predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity in 1916, a massive object like Earth distorts space-time around it like a bowling ball dropped on a trampoline. The larger the object, the more space-time is distorted by it. If a marble were circling around the bowling ball on the dimpled trampoline, it would fall inward, toward the bowling ball, like a rock in space circling a planet. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that travel outward from a source. [VIDEO: Gravitational Waves Simply Explained With a Cube and a Marble]
This illustration shows the gravitational waves thought to be produced by two orbiting white dwarf stars in a binary system called J0651, according to an August 2012 study.
Credit: NASA
Scientists think that powerful gravitational waves are created when two extremely dense objects — like a pair of neutron stars or a black hole and a neutron star — orbit one another in binary pairs. The interaction of those two objects swirl space-time, creating ripples that theoretically can be measured using powerful instrumentation. [See images of gravitational waves]
Background noise
In 2014, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found a faint signal in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). They announced that the signal signified the first direct evidence of gravitational waves ever discovered. Gravitational waves were the last untested part of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Unfortunately, the signal detected by their research could be explained by dust in the Milky Way.
However, the announcement highlighted one method for spotting gravitational waves. The rapid expansion of the universe (called inflation) right after the Big Bang nearly 13.8 billion years ago could have produced ripples in the CMB — the cosmic fog that fills the universe and represents the earliest detectable radiation. If spotted in the future, such ripples would further support the idea that the universe went through a huge period of inflation a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
CMB radiation came into existence about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Scientists have mapped the CMB across the sky and found that it is a uniform temperature, evidence that bolsters cosmic inflation theory.
"Why the cosmic microwave background temperature is the same at different spots in the sky would be a mystery if it was not for inflation saying, well, our whole sky came from this tiny region," Chuck Bennett, principal investigator of NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mission, told Space.com in 2013. "So the idea of inflation helps answer some of these mysteries, and it explains where these fluctuations came from."
Smoking gun
In 2016, the Advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) announced its first (and then its second) clear detection of gravitational waves. The discovery was met with excitement by both the general public and the scientific community.
The first announcement, made in February 2016, revealed the historic confirmed detection made in September 2015. A pair of black holes, weighing in at 29 and 36 times the mass of the sun, merged into a single object, producing the ripples in space-time that LIGO detected. The September signal was the first detection of binary black holes.
The LIGO team announced a second gravitational wave signal, which the pair of instruments detected on December 26, 2015. Like the first, the signal is thought to have come from a pair of colliding black holes.
The crashing twin pairs are far from the largest black holes. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way weighs in at over 4 million times the mass of the sun. The intermediate mass black holes are more challenging to explain than their larger siblings.
"The 29 and 30-plus solar masses come as an unusual surprise. If you look at most binary stars in [the Milky Way] galaxy, given the composition of the stars, we don't expect black holes of this mass," black hole scientist and LIGO team member Vicky Kalogera told Space.com soon after the first discovery.
"The higher mass tells us that these binary black holes formed from a particular environment [with a] metallicity that is different than [the sun's] metallicity."
As LIGO continues to study space-time, and as more detectors come online (such as one proposed by India), scientists will improve their understanding of intermediate black holes and black hole pairs.
"For every combination of masses and spins of black holes, you get a different [signal]," LIGO spokesperson Gabriela Gonzalez said during the 228th American Astronomical Society meeting in San Diego, California in June 2016.
In 2012, California Institute of Technology emeritus professor of physics Kip Thorne, a leading proponent of LIGO, predicted that the instrument would reveal a bounty of gravitational waves.
"We expect to see black holes colliding at a rate of perhaps somewhere between once an hour and once a year," Thorne said.
Gravitational waves are different from gravity waves, which are ripples created in the atmospheres of planets by the interactions of winds whipping over geological features on the planet's surface.
Additional reporting by Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com contributor.
Enorme vulkanen van Mars groeien ont-zet-tend traag
Enorme vulkanen van Mars groeien ont-zet-tend traag
Caroline Kraaijvanger
In 1.000.000 jaar worden ze hooguit 70 centimeter hoger.
Op Mars vinden we de grootste vulkanen van ons zonnestelsel. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan de reus op de foto bovenaan dit artikel: Olympus Mons. Deze joekel is zo’n 25 kilometer hoog!
Mantelpluimen Hoewel de vulkanen op Mars veel hoger zijn dan op aarde, ontstaan ze wel op een vergelijkbare manier. Namelijk door toedoen van mantelpluimen die door de korst heen prikken. Op aarde beweegt die korst over de mantelpluim heen, waardoor een rits aan vulkanen ontstaat (zoals je bijvoorbeeld op Hawaii ziet). De korst van Mars beweegt niet, waardoor vulkanen dus gedurende ontzettend lange tijd op dezelfde plek kunnen uitbarsten en ook uitzonderlijk groot kunnen worden.
Trááág Maar dat groot worden gaat dus niet zo snel. Sterker nog: het gaat zo’n 1000 keer langzamer dan op aarde, zo schrijven onderzoekers in het blad Nature Communications.
Meteorieten De onderzoekers trekken die conclusie op basis van verschillende meteorieten die afkomstig zijn van Mars en op aarde zijn geland. Alle meteorieten bleken afkomstig te zijn van dezelfde vulkaan op Mars en zo’n 10,7 miljoen jaar geleden tijdens een inslag op de rode planeet te zijn ontstaan. Door de leeftijd van de meteorieten te bepalen, konden de onderzoekers de groei van die vulkaan reconstrueren.
Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat deze vulkaan elke 1 miljoen jaar ongeveer 40 tot 70 centimeter groter werd, dankzij vier duidelijk van elkaar te onderscheiden uitbarstingen die over een periode van 93 miljoen jaar plaatsvonden. Het zou betekenen dat de vulkanen op Mars veel trager groeien dan gedacht. En dat wijst er weer op dat de rode planeet – afgaand op de enorme vulkanen die we er nu vinden – al veel eerder vulkanische actief was dan werd aangenomen.
Even huilen mag: deze kant van Saturnus zullen we de komende 15 jaar niet meer zien.
Ruimtesonde Cassini maakte de prachtige foto begin juni. Op dat moment was de sonde zo’n 1,21 miljoen kilometer van Saturnus verwijderd en keek deze naar de nachtzijde van de gasreus.
Het resulteert in een fantastische foto die alleen een ruimtesonde als Cassini had kunnen maken. Want hoe krachtig de telescopen op aarde ook zijn: hiervandaan kunnen we alleen de dagzijde van Saturnus bewonderen. Het betekent dat we echt afscheid moeten gaan nemen van dit soort uitzichten. Want Cassini is dood. De sonde stortte zich half september in de atmosfeer van Saturnus en spatte kort daarna uiteen. Wat overblijft is een schat aan onderzoeksgegevens en kiekjes die we ongetwijfeld nog lange tijd zullen koesteren. Want een opvolger heeft Cassini (nog) niet. En dus is die mooie tijd waarin Saturnus continu – en uit alle mogelijke hoeken – bespied werd, voorbij.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Het goede nieuws is dat er wel voorzichtige plannen zijn voor een vervolgmissie. Deze zal zich waarschijnlijk richten op Titan: één van de spannendere manen van Saturnus (zie kader hieronder). Maar zelfs als die missie groen licht krijgt, zal de lancering pas halverwege het volgende decennium plaatsvinden. Tel daar nog een paar jaar reistijd bij op en voor je het weet is het 2030 voor we weer een frisse stroom aan adembenemende kiekjes van Saturnus kunnen verwachten. Zoals gezegd: even huilen mag.
Saturnus heeft zo’n 65 manen en Titan is – met een doorsnede van 5150 kilometer – de grootste. Maar deze maan is om meer redenen bijzonder. Zo bezit Titan heuse zeeën en meren (waar je overigens niet op kunt surfen). Ook bezit de maan een dikke atmosfeer waarin complexe organische moleculen, oftewel bouwstenen van leven, te vinden zijn. Bovendien sluiten onderzoekers niet uit dat onder de ijzige korst van de maan een oceaan zit die bestaat uit vloeibaar water.
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"Goodbye to the Dark Side" - NASA Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute
When aliens arrive in the movies, they typically come from distant galaxies. Extraterrestrial life, however, could exist right here in our own solar system, nestled in briny oceans under the surface of icy worlds close to home.
Multiple moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn have proven to hold, or once held, liquid oceans. Of these, Saturn’s moon Enceladus has emerged as the most promising candidate for life in recent years, thanks to the discovery of hydrothermal plumes gushing from beneath its frozen surface. The vents these plumes emanate from could foster an an ideal environment for the emergence of organic life, pumping in crucial compounds and energy. To find out if that might be the case, Laurie Barge travels to other worlds in her lab—here on Earth, of course.
Otherworldly Stalagmites
Barge is an astrobiologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and she and her team have spent the last few years growing tiny mineral plumes in beakers to model conditions on different moons and planets. Just a few inches tall, the crooked spires serve as miniature simulations of much larger features—some over a hundred feet tall—found deep in the ocean. Fed by hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and sustained by the heat they emit, whole ecosystems flourish beyond the sun’s reach in these aquatic high-rises. It’s thought that life may have actually originated around these plumes on Earth, and the same process could be playing out in the depths of Enceladus.
An iron hydroxide plume in a beaker simulating early Earth conditions.
(Credit: Erika Flores)
Hydrothermal plumes provide a crucial source of chemical energy in vast, dark oceans. Before the evolution of photosynthesis, the sun’s energy was beyond reach, and life needed alternative forms of sustenance. Near the vents, this comes in the form of ions leaching from beneath the ground and reacting in the hot environment with seawater. Each underwater plume represents a chain of reactions that yield nutrient chemicals, some of which can sustain simple lifeforms.
Hence, the mini mineral mountains in Barge’s lab. You can think of each one as a kind of alternate reality, testing out what would have happened had the oceans been more acidic, less oxygenated, hotter, colder, or any of a number of variables. Barge starts with a liquid similar in composition to the seas on Earth billions of years ago—lacking oxygen, rich in iron and carbonate—and experiments with different mixtures. She’s looking for reactions that may have led to early organisms, the crucial moment when chemical reactions became something more. By testing a range of situations, she hopes to narrow down the set of conditions that could have led to life.
“The best we can do is look back at what early Earth would have been like and then try to understand what life today tells us about the first life (the common ancestor) and then use those top-down, bottom-up approaches to figure out what kind of processes could have led to the origin,” Barge says.
An iron sulfide chimney in “ocean world” seawater.
(Credit: Laurie Barge and Ryan Cameron)
Educated Guesses
Scientists are already interested in Enceladus, but there’s a catch: We don’t fully know what the oceans on Enceladus look like, and we also don’t have complete data on what’s going on beneath the surface. The Cassini mission provided some clues when it dove through some of the plumes hanging high in the atmosphere of Enceladus and detected water vapor, carbon dioxide and organic compounds. Subsequent observations confirmed that a large ocean exists beneath the ice. This is where Barge’s planet-in-a-beaker experimentscould be helpful, as they allow researchers to work through many different scenarios to find those that best fit observations. The findings will inform future missions, and the experiments can be updated accordingly once more data comes in.
Enceladus wouldn’t necessarily need to be geothermally active for these vents to exist. Some hydrothermal plumes on Earth form as a result of chemical interactions between sediments and seawater. They can reach temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and give rise to chemical reactions that could also have sparked life. Whether such vents are found on Enceladus — and what kind actually do exist there — will have to await future missions. Finding out what the seafloor on Enceladus looks like would be a big help, Barge says, as it would hint at what kinds of reactions are taking place.
Translating what she finds in the lab to the real world could take even longer still, though.
“Just because you can do something in a lab doesn’t means it’s going to be easy to detect with a planetary mission,” she says.
Huge UFO activity happens all around the globe but seems that it comes to an end because of the latestactivities. All these sightings have one common: the dropping of lights to the ground. What are these lights? Some kind of transport mechansim?
A video interview with the late Charles Forgus, a deputy sheriff of Big Springs in Howard County, Texas, emerged in June, in which he said he and his senior saw the crash site of the alleged Roswell UFO in July 1947.
Mr Forgus described in detail to a private investigator how he saw a crashed flying saucer and dead aliens being removed from it before the pair were told to leave the scene.
The account filmed in 1999 was released in the book UFOs TODAY, 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up by Dr Irena Scott in June.
British UFO investigator Philip Mantle, who published it, says he was criticised by others in the field for releasing the video, amid claims it was a "false testimony".
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UFO crash site? Charles Forgus pictured with his wife.
However, Mr Mantle says further inquiries have vindicated the release and suggested Mr Forgus was telling the truth.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since July 1947 when the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to a mysterious top-secret military base.
There have been claims and counter claims, including that the bodies were crash test dummies and it had been a top-secret balloon spying on the Russians.
All the confusion means it is one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories to this day.
Mr Forgus described hearing about the crash site on police radio while he and Sheriff Jess Slaughter were enroute near Roswell to pick up a prisoner.
He said the pair took a detour to view it and saw a flying saucer on the ground and mysterious bodies being removed.
Yet, another investigation by the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) concluded he may have witnessed a crash six years later involving a US Air Force training flight and nothing to do with aliens.
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DEAD ALIENS? A CGI impression of the UFO crash site.
After the book was released MUFON, the world's largest UFO research group, also investigated the testimony.
Due to timescale discrepancies, it was deduced he may have seen a different crash.
It was found that Mr Slaughter, the sheriff named by Mr Forgus, was not the sheriff in 1947. He took on the role in the 1950s.
And Mr Forgus did not become deputy until 1953, records show.
Articles in the Big Springs Weekly Herald were found that had been published about Sheriff Slaughter and Deputy Forgus in 1953.
MUFON investigator Robert Spearing was not convinced Mr Forgus saw the Roswell UFO crash, but may have been at the site of a US Air Force crash in 1953.
He noted that the private investigator in 1999 never even asked Mr Forgus for a date or even year of the incident, or even the precise location, despite saying in her introduction it was the July 1947 Roswell crash.
Mr Spearing found an article in the Reno Evening Gazette dated August 28, 1953, which said 11 airmen had survived a crash in a B-50 bomber which landed wheels up on gently rolling plains 35 miles southwest of Tatum, New Mexico.
Mr Spearing said in a MUFON investigation report: "This would coincide with their westward trip shortly before they turned north to Roswell."
However, he said this crash conflicted with the account of Mr Forgus as it was not disc shaped and there were no dead bodies.
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UFO CRASH? A possible crash site near Roswell as described by Charles Forgus.
Mr Spearing speculated that the crash as reported could have been a cover story for an experimental craft crash in which people died, and that was what Mr Forgus actually saw.
He concluded: "It seems highly unlikely that Mr Forgus was forging a story from untruths.
"His time frame is off but it seems likely that he came across something unusual in the desert along with Mr Slaughter.
"It also seems more likely that the event occurred in 1953 when the US military was experimenting with Vertical Take Off Landing (VTOL) disc shaped craft some of which were 100 feet in diameter and probably piloted by one or two airmen.
I can tell you, he is not a person who would have fabricated this story.
Nephew of Charles Forgus
"This makes it unlikely that this was the Roswell crash of July 1947, so 1953 or later is the best time frame for the incident."
However, MUFON was unable to speak to any relatives of Mr Forgus.
But, after the story broke in June, Mr Mantle and Dr Scott were able to track down Mr Forgus' son, Glen Lee Forgus.
Mr Forgus junior revealed that his dad had previously talked about seeing the crash on around four or five occasions.
Mr Mantle said: "He spoke about it to Glen when Glen was young.
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UFO TRUTH? The account was revealed in book UFOs Today.
"It was Glen’s opinion that Charles thought it was the Roswell crash."
However, his son said his father didn’t talk about seeing bodies.
Mr Mantle added: "At first, he did not necessarily think it was a UFO, Glen said that at that time he may have had no idea what it was.
"Charles might have not thought about UFOs when he first saw the crash, because he hadn’t been exposed to much or even any information about UFOs.
"Later when he heard in the media about UFOs and Roswell, he thought this might have been what it was."
Mr Mantle added: "Glen also said that he thought that when Charles made the trip to Roswell that he didn’t go with Sheriff Slaughter but with a different person, who might have been another deputy.
"He could not recall the name of the person that Charles had travelled with or who was sheriff at that time.
"Thus, the crash might have happened in 1947, which was the time that Deputy Forgus recalled that it was.
"Glen said that Charles was a very straight arrow and not impressed by false knowledge. He was a no-nonsense type of person, having been in law enforcement. He had been a police officer and in the military.
"Thus the possibility exists that deputy Charles Forgus did see the crash in the time frame that he reported."
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Philip Mantle
In July a nephew of Mr Forgus had also come forward.
He said his uncle never mentioned the crash, but added: "I can tell you, he is not a person who would have fabricated this story."
Mr Mantle said: "He was very straight laced and no nonsense type of person... that's why he was in law enforcement.
"One well-known Roswell researcher simply labelled the testimony from Deputy Forgus as a lie. Now, we have information from a nephew and the son of this witness the latter of whom supports his late father’s story."
UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up is available from Flying Disk Press and Amazon.
Studies over buitenzintuiglijke waarneming (Extra Sensory Perception (ESP)) worden vaak gemarginaliseerd. Dat komt niet zozeer door het ontbreken van empirisch bewijs, maar meer door het gebrek aan theoretische ondersteuning.
Buitenzintuiglijke waarneming kan door middel van de traditionele definities van perceptie en cognitie niet gemakkelijk worden begrepen.
De kwantummechanica kan wel deuren openen naar uitgebreidere ESP-modellen. Sinds het midden van de twintigste eeuw zijn experimenten uitgevoerd om de aard van ESP te onderzoeken.
Wetenschappelijk bewezen
Vandaag de dag is ESP met behulp van moderne experimentele methoden en meta-analytische technieken wetenschappelijk bewezen ondanks de conventionele neurowetenschappelijke aannames.
Parapsychologen hebben het bestaan van ESP tussen 1974 en 2008 aangetoond in 108 publicaties. Het onderzoek is gedaan in laboratoria over de hele wereld.
Waarom wordt dit belangrijke empirische bewijs niet benoemd door iedere grote nieuwszender of krant? ESP wordt om twee redenen niet geaccepteerd door de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap.
De reguliere wetenschap meent dat dergelijk empirisch bewijs niet bestaat
Hoewel wordt geaccepteerd dat er mogelijk enig bewijs bestaat, meent de reguliere wetenschap dat de experimenten niet kunnen worden herhaald
In december 2010 onthulden Patrizio E. Tressoldi en zijn collega’s in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift NeuroQuantology dat deze overtuigingen onjuist zijn, dat bewijs voor ESP wel degelijk bestaat en dat de waarnemingen herhaalbaar zijn.
Bron en het gehele paper Extrasensory Perception and Quantum Models of Cognition: Psy.unipd.it
ESP is te leren
Nu aangetoond is dat ESP gewon bestaat is het interessant om te weten dat het gewoon te leren is. Net zoals je kunt leren autorijden kun je leren om buitenzintuiglijk waar te nemen. Omdat de buitenzintuiglijke waarneming via met menselijk onderbewustzijn plaatsvindt, kun je met een hypnosesessie het vermogen om buitenzintuiglijke signalen waar te nemen activeren en verbeteren.
Michel Lejeune van Trancewerk.nl heeft een speciale hypnosesessie om ESP te activeren ontwikkeld. Hiermee zijn vele honderden mensen buitenzintuiglijk gaan waarnemen.
Onlangs maakte Lejeune een korte video over ESP en hoe iedereen het kan leren.
Het mysterie van de tweede Sfinx ontrafeld. Gaat dit boek de geschiedenis herschrijven?
Het mysterie van de tweede Sfinx ontrafeld. Gaat dit boek de geschiedenis herschrijven?
In een nieuw boek wordt geclaimd dat er een tweede Sfinx begraven ligt in Gizeh. Het boek zou weleens de geschiedenis kunnen herschrijven.
De vooraanstaande historici Gerry Cannon en Malcolm Hutton baseren zich op een theorie dat de Sfinx van Gizeh een tegenhanger had, meldt Egypt Today.
Sfinxen staan op oude afbeeldingen namelijk altijd in paren. Ze stonden voor de dualiteit, met name voor het mannelijke en het vrouwelijke.
Vreemd
Ze stonden symbool voor de overgang van de zon naar de maan. De oude Egyptenaren geloofden dat de zon door de aarde reisde en vervolgens tevoorschijn kwam als de maan, aan beide zijden bewaakt door een sfinx.
Dit maakt de Sfinx van Gizeh zo vreemd, omdat hij alleen is. De twee historici denken te weten waar de tweede Sfinx begraven ligt.
Ze vermoeden dat de vrouwelijke tegenhanger begraven ligt onder een heuvel bij één van de Piramiden van Gizeh.
Bewijs
Egyptoloog Bassam El Shammaa gelooft ook in deze theorie. Hij heeft het bouwwerk meer dan 10 jaar bestudeerd en is tot de conclusie gekomen dat een tweede Sfinx heeft bestaan, maar in de loop der jaren is vernietigd.
Hij wees er tegenover Daily News Egypt op dat de droomstele van koning Thoetmosis IV twee sfinxen toont, wat volgens hem bewijs is voor de theorie.
Ouder
Cannon en Hutton stellen ook dat de sfinxen veel ouder zijn dan wordt gedacht en dateren uit een tijd waarin het oude Egypte een tropisch klimaat kende, kort na de IJstijd.
Dit zou betekenen dat de Egyptische piramiden en sfinxen tenminste 12.500 jaar oud zijn.
The 1947 Roswell UFO incident is the godfather of alien spaceship stories and conspiracy theories in more ways than one. It’s generally regarded as the first major, heavily-publicized, alleged UFO crash encounter and, to paraphrase a famous quote from one of the Godfather movies: when you think it’s over, it keeps pulling you back in.
Last week, the infamous “alien autopsy” film supposedly depicting what happened to the dead body taken from the Roswell crash was confirmed by one of the people who released it to the public to be a fraud. The director, Spyros Melaris, said in a new one-man show in London that their story that it was a re-creation of a real film was false – there was no real alien autopsy film. Now Ray Santilli, the man who produced the fraudulent reproduction and has stuck by his claim that he saw the real film, has come forward with a photograph he claims is from the ‘actual’ autopsy. What next’s next in this soap opera? Will the evil twin of the alien return to take vengeance on those who disparage the memory of his brother?
The ‘new’ old photograph (express.uk.co)
If it’s actually from the original film, one thing Santilli has said is true – it’s quality was too poor to show anything convincingly. The grainy, blurry photo he sent to Express.uk.co is one of those “squint and say ‘alien’ three times’ types of photos that wouldn’t hold up in court, but may convince some of the wanna-believe public. The experts who reviewed the photo for the Express generally agree that it looks like a negative from the 1995 reproduction that has been altered to look deteriorated beyond use. Santilli’s story may be deteriorating beyond use as well. When asked for more details on the photograph, Santilli said “1947” and had no further comments.
Not surprisingly in this “As The Alien World Turns” soap opera, Spyros Melaris DID have something more to say to the Express:
“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.”
Squint hard. Can you see it? (express.uk.co)
How will this fight between frauds end? A good soap opera would milk it for years – bringing in relatives, ex-girlfriends, hit men and more evil twins or clones. However, this one has already been going on for 50 years and the ratings are dropping rapidly. Express.uk.co hopes to get a few more episodes out of it by giving Santilli and Melaris lie detector tests, which it says both have agreed to.
Will the tests put an end to the “Alien Autopsy” story? Did Fonzie jumping over the shark on a motorcycle put an end to Happy Days?
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
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