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.
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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...
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Canada history: Oct 4 1967: the enduring Shag Harbour mystery
Shag Harbour gets visitors from all over who come to see where an alleged unidentified flying object went in the water back in 1967. Photo Credit: shagharbourincident.wordpress.com/museum
Canada history: Oct 4 1967: the enduring Shag Harbour mystery
It was 50 years ago today that very strange things were seen in the skies over Canada’s east coast province of Nova Scotia.
Canadians across the country report lots of strange things in the skies every year, many classed as UFO’s. The incident that occurred in the tiny fishing hamlet of Shag Harbour, however is among the best documented and with a variety of credible witnesses.
Red pointer indicates Shag Harbour, small red square indicates Mahone Bay
The events may have started around 7:15 pm on a scheduled passenger jet outward bound from Halifax as it flew at 3600 metres over eastern Quebec. The pilot and copilot saw a very strange object flying beside them a few miles away. A few minutes later there was what appeared to be two explosions around the brightly lit craft, the second fading to a blue cloud around the object.
Several other reports that evening from Halifax, Mahone Bay, and fishermen offshore reported a variety of strange objects in the sky.
Then just after 11 pm several people around Shag Harbour including police, reported a large low flying object with flashing lights whoosh over the town and hit the water about 300 metres off shore. It floated awhile as a group onshore watched the “orange ball” bobbing in the waves, and then slipped beneath the surface.
Some don’t believe that, and one UFO investigator claims to have found evidence the Navy traced the UFO to a secret US naval base on the Nova Scotia coast about 25 kilometres away.
Still, 50 years later the well-documented sighting remains a complete mystery. It has benefitted the hamlet of Shag Harbour though, as it has become a bit of a tourist attraction and a UFO festival is being held there on this 50th anniversary.
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Many Unidentified “Airship Incidents” Occurred in 1907, Tennessee
Many Unidentified “Airship Incidents” Occurred in 1907, Tennessee
Theo Paijmans, an infrequent visitor and critic to this blog – one of my favorite human beings – has contributed much to the UFO literature and I found several inserts inside Albert S. Rosales’ Humanoid Encounters: The Others Amongst Us 1900-1929, one in his series of Humanoid Encounters books, which I encourage you to buy and read (Amazon).
Starting on page 60 Theo recounts four airship (balloon) sightings from 1907 cited as The Tennessee Aeronaut Flap of 1907 derived from area newspapers
The accounts, all from different dates in April of 1907, tell of witnesses, in several communities, observing craft that looked like airship balloons with gondolas from which debarked parties of “queer-looking persons [women and men] in strange garb” that gathered around local springs (and in one instance, a well) to seemingly pray.
(In the well incident, one of the party members thrust a wand into the well from which oil was extracted. The wand was then stuck into the ground and became enflamed.)
The “praying” balloon passengers mostly spoke in German and left, saying such things as “Be healthy and pray.”
What are we to make of such reports?
These aren’t instances of mass hysteria – the communities involved are not interconnected except as members of the state (Tennessee).
The stories were presented by newspapers as actual journalistic news items apparently.
What does Theo attribute the accounts to? Are they fictive? Or actual, as related by the press?
The stories came about eleven years after the so-called Airship sightings, elsewhere, in 1896.
The reports intrigue, certainly if true as related and even if they are imaginary tales promulgated for other reasons: mercenary, prankish, space-fillers, et cetera.
I’ll be honest: A lot of the time, I listen to the things people say after allegedly being abducted by aliens, and I think, “Yeah, right.” To me, the stories are just so outlandish — and with so little hard evidence to back them up — that I have a hard time believing them. That said, though, the stories often are chilling to read or listen to… and who knows? Maybe I’m a skeptic purely because I’ve never seen anything myself that suggests that aliens might be among us. I might be wrong, of course. Anything is possible.
Solid data on exactly how many people believe in aliens is a little tough to come by; the most recent reputable survey I’ve found is a Gallup poll from 2005which found that 24 percent of Americans believe “that extra-terrestrial beings have visited Earth at some time in the past.” (For the curious, another 24 percent do not believe it, while 51 percent remain undecided.) A YouGov poll from 2015 found that among Americans, 54 percent dobelieve in extra-terrestrial intelligent life; however, although YouGov believe their polls are some of the most accurate out there, the market research company has also been criticized for not being representative of the population as a whole as well. So, y’know, do with that what you will.
In any event, though, it’s certainly possible to believe in the possibility of alien life without necessarily believing in alien abductions — but for what it’s worth, although I’m a skeptic, I also don’t think the proliferation of alleged alien abduction stories is as simple as people just making stuff up. I don’t doubt that in the wide majority of cases, people believe they experienced something; however, I think there are loads of other reasonable, rational, earthly explanations for these kinds of incidents we should try to rule out before entertaining the idea that it’s aliens.
Either way, though, it’s true that the universe is such a vast place that it seems unlikely that there’s no intelligent life in it other than ourselves. Surely there’s got to be something out there beyond our solar system, right? These folks definitely believe there is — and according to their accounts, it’s closer to us than some of us might like to think.
This story popped up in an AskReddit thread from earlier in 2017 asking folks who believe they’ve been abducted what their experiences were like. There are other explanations for losing time like this, of course (like, for example, a dissociative fugue state) — and, indeed, as u/Pun-Chi notes, they’ve mostly just joked about this experience having been an alleged alien abduction — but even so, this story is still unsettling.
2. “I Started Having These Visions Of Who I REALLY Am”
Near Death Experiment on YouTube
The video here features an 11-minute long interview with a woman named Elizabeth April, who is a frequent speaker at conferences for alien enthusiasts and UFO believers. In the interview (starting at about the 3:40 mark), she tells her alleged abduction story: When she was 18, she went on a 10-day meditation retreat and woke up one night to find a huge, white head hovering above her. Several of the beings that had these huge, white heads — what she calls “Tall Whites,” a species of aliens she claims are about eight and a half feet tall, very skinny, and paper white in color — took her out of her bed and out of her room, she says, at which point they “shot [her] up to their ship.”
While she was up there, she claims they implanted something in her ear with a metal machine — and after the experience, she says, “A whole world of everything new opened up for me.” She continues, “As invasive as that was, and the fact that they put this implant in my ear — regardless of all of that, it still opened me up to the possibilities. It was in my pre-destined contracts to be abducted at that time at that age by that species.”
This, she says, is when she learned that she has ET genetics in her—that she’s basically an alien-human hybrid. “After that,” she went on, “I started getting very vivid flashbacks into other lifetimes where I lived, not as a Tall White, but as other ET species. And I lived through these lifetimes, and after being abducted, I started having this recall, these flashes, these visions of who I really am, not just who I am here and now.”
In the third episode of The X-Files — “Squeeze,” which originally aired on Sept. 24, 1993 — Mulder corrects a fellow agent who asks whether he thinks their current case is “the work of little green men.” “Grey,” says Mulder. “You said green men. A Reticulan’s skin tone is actually grey.” Indeed, Greys, as they’re called, are closely associated with the Roswell incident, as well as with the Betty and Barney Hill abduction. (More on that one in a bit.)
This is all stuff I knew before reading this story, which came from that same 2017 AskReddit thread I referred to earlier. What I did not know is that Greys apparently have a sense of humor. Or at least, these Greys did.
In 2016, Vice France spoke to a bunch of people who claimed they had been abducted by aliens and asked them to draw pictures of what they experienced. One guy, Stephane, described something that had happened to him in 2010 when he was on his way home from working the night shift at the hospital that employed him.
“At about 4 a.m. I drove up to the security gate to go home, when a flash of light blinded me,” he said. “In a split second, I found myself in another place — I was on a mountain, and there was a lake at its foot. Suddenly a huge space ship appeared in the sky, while an even brighter light began to emanate from the ground. That's all I remember.”
And then it got even weirder: “The next thing I know, I am back behind the wheel of my car, passing the security gate,” Stephane told Vice France. “When I got out, I was approached by police who said they had been looking for me. It turned out I had been gone for three days. I have no idea what happened.”
He doesn’t think he saw any aliens, but he did end up with some weird marks on his right hand. There were three of them; they made up a triangle. He said they felt “like a burn that wouldn’t heal” — and that ever since this experience, he feels like he’s being watched at all times.
(There are a lot of super interesting stories in the full Vice piece, by the way— including one from a young woman who broke up with her boyfriend after he wouldn't wake up during her experience. And, I mean, to be fair, "Failed to help prevent my alleged alien abduction" sounds like a legit reason to break up with someone. Head on over there for more.)
The AskReddit thread this story appeared in had only a few comments; indeed, this submission makes up the bulk of the thread. It’s long — this is just an excerpt — so head on over to Ask Reddit to read the whole thing. Suffice it to say that the alleged aliens in this one did not appear to come in peace.
6. “I Knew Something Was Terribly Wrong With My Body"
FindingUFO on YouTube
This interview with Travis Walton — whose story is both one of the most infamous and frequently contested alleged alien abduction cases — is from 2014. Walton was working as a lumberjack in Arizona’s Sitegreaves National Forest in 1975 when he and six coworkers allegedly witnessed a flying saucer descend upon them. Walton said that when he approached it, he was knocked to the ground by a beam of light emanating from the saucer and woke up in a room that looked like some sort of a hospital environment. He was found by the highway five days later.
Still, though, he’s stuck to his guns — and according to him, his alleged experience was incredibly painful. Says Walton in the 2014 interview, “I didn’t know where I was; I didn’t realize the danger and the fearful situation I was in at that point; but I knew something was terribly wrong with my body, especially my inability to get enough oxygen. This feeling of suffocation generated a panic in me that, even through the haze of pain and semi-consciousness, still added to this desperate feeling. Added to that was the feeling that I couldn’t move.” Yikes.
The r/Abductions subredditallows Redditors to share and discuss alleged alien abduction experiences. In this account from the sub dated to about a year ago, Redditor u/MaddyMania recalled a number of odd experiences they had when they were very small — including a number of times when they asked their parents where their “other parents” were. What made u/MaddyMania start thinking that maybe what was going on could be extraterrestrial in nature was the appearance of a location they call “the blue room.” Check out the full story here.
Betty and Barney Hill are often credited with making the first publicized account of an alleged alien abduction experience. In 1961, the husband and wife duo were driving on a highway in New Hampshire when they had what they said was a pretty terrifying-sounding encounter with a UFO. Both Betty and Barney underwent hypnosis several times in an effort to unearth what they believed were lost memories; they got very emotional at various points during these hypnosis sessions, including the moment in which Barney began to panic, yelling, “Run! God, give me strength! I've got to get away! Oh! Oh!”
You can listen to Barney’s hypnosis sessions here, although consider yourselves warned — it can get pretty upsetting to hear.
In 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing in the Pascagoula River in Mississippi when they claimed they encountered a UFO. They described hearing a whirring or whizzing sound, saw flashing blue lights, and witnessed a huge oval object arrive. They said they were taken aboard the oval by three “creatures” and examined before being released.
One of the many times Hickson and Parker recounted their story was in a 1987 article in the Gadsden Times. Said Hickson, “I couldn’t move. I don’t know if it’s because I was so frightened, or what.” Neither of the men could tell how long the “examination” lasted — but eventually they would up back at the river’s edge. Hickson died in 2011, although Parker said in 2013 that the whole incident “turned his life upside down.”
Are aliens real? That's still up for debate. But it's not stopping these stories from being plenty creepy all on their own.
Reports of mysterious assailants who terrorize small groups before melting into the night without a trace, often leave authorities scratching their heads, and the public bewildered. These rare events recently made headlines in Australia, and for several days, captivated the nation. The strange saga began on Monday August 29th, 2016, when the Tromp family of the Melbourne suburb of Silvan, fled their red currant farm and embarked on a frantic trip over hundreds of miles in a desperate effort to evade evil forces who they believed were trying to kill them. It would be five days before all five family members would be accounted for. At that point, Mrs. Tromp (Jacoba) and her daughter Riana, 29, had been hospitalized for severe stress, and 22 year-old Ella was charged with stealing a car. It was reported that the family had ditched their technology, left their credit cards behind and taken a bundle of cash with them, in a scene that resembled a Hollywood movie. Some media outlets have speculated that the Tromps may have been suffering from a collective mental disorder and New South Wales police were worried that they may have been experiencing some type of group delusional schizophrenia. However, there is a very real possibility that the Tromps had simply scared themselves.
From time to time, bizarre news stories appear about a chase or siege involving a family or close-knit group who claim to have been attacked by mysterious assailants whose existence cannot be verified. Upon closer investigation, authorities can find no evidence to confirm their story. Incidents often give rise to speculation that the event was a hoax, that those involved were on drugs, or mentally disturbed. I have collected about 30 such cases of what I term “small group panics.” Most episodes involve normal, healthy people who, as a result of a series of unusual events, grow paranoid and literally scare themselves after growing convinced that their lives are in imminent danger.
During episodes, members become distressed and emotionally unstable, often as a result of prolonged fear, fatigue and lack of sleep. These factors enhance suggestibility and inhibit their powers of critical thinking. Within this atmosphere of fear, members begin to redefine everyday objects and events in a new light. It is within this context that a car backfiring, may be perceived as a gunshot, or rustling in the bushes is mistaken for a monster or hostile gang member.
Most cases begin in an isolated environment, under the cover of darkness. The principal witness – the first to draw attention to the threat, or to panic – almost always holds an influential social position. In each case, a false consensus emerges that the group is under attack, after which a variety of ambiguous stimuli are redefined within popular cultural labels such as space aliens, Yowies or drug dealers. Let’s examine some examples of small group panics from the United States and Australia.
The Kentucky Space Goblins
On the evening of 21 August 1955, a farm family in the state of Kentucky, made international headlines after claiming to have been terrorized by beings from outer space. Members of the Sutton family, comprised of seven adults and three children, were living in the rural, isolated hamlet of Hopkinsville. The episode began at about 7 o’clock, during a visit by their landlord William Taylor, who claimed to have spotted a glowing saucer-shaped object land in a gully near the farmhouse. Family members were incredulous and thought that Taylor had overreacted to seeing a 'falling star.' Soon the two men spotted a three and a half foot-tall creature outside the house. They said it had a huge head, extended arms and large ears. The pair panicked, retreated into the house, grabbed their guns and began firing. Over the next three and a half hours, various family members claim to have glimpsed several creatures either on or near the house, sometimes peering through windows. The occupants responded with intermittent bursts of gunfire.
The Sutton’s didn't have a phone, so at about 11 o'clock, they dashed from the house, piled into two cars and raced to the nearest police station to summon help. Police swarmed on the farmhouse but found nothing unusual. Not long after the last officer left at 2:15 am, the family’s mother claimed to have seen a creature peering into a window and alerted the others. More sightings and sporadic gunfire continued for the next three hours until sunrise. At some point during the ordeal, everyone in the house said they had spotted at least one creature. Again police rushed to the house but found no evidence of space aliens – only a terrified family and a house riddled with bullet holes.
Former police detective Joe Nickell later visited the house, interviewed family members, and concluded that they had seen Great Horned Owls. These creatures stand about 3 and a half feet high, become active at dusk, and are known to be aggressive in defending their nests. They have big heads, large eyes and long ear tufts. After the owls were scared off by the gunfire, fatigue and imagination appears to have taken over and the terrified occupants were soon firing at shadows and rustling in the bushes.
Phantom Drug Siege in Michigan
Between 7 and 8 November 1978, a phantom drug siege took place at a house place near Lowell, Michigan. The first man, ‘Masters,’ was 24 and suspected of being a drug dealer. His companion, ‘Cordell,’ was 29. The pair gradually grew suspicious after a series of mundane events. Each new event fostered more anxiety and snowballing suspicions. On the afternoon of the 7th, great significance was given to the finding of a bubble gum wrapper on the roof, the other half near a wood pile. They also grew certain that people were lurking about the house, peering through the windows.
Near dusk, they thought they may have spotted a ‘kid’ in camouflage gear. Cordell chased after the figure but to no avail. Then he shouted a warning to “the people he felt were hiding but could not see that if the nonsense did not stop somebody was going to get shot.” A short time later they thought they could hear people near a back door. At this point events quickly spiraled out of control as Cordell fired a warning shot to scare away the people he thought were there. Fearful that they might be under siege, Masters telephoned a friend and asked him to bring over a variety of weapons. Soon, a 23-year-old friend, ‘Hamby,’ joined them. The trio kept a watchful eye on the house until about 1:30 am when Cordell and Masters thought they saw shadowy figures near the house and they fired off some 10 shots. Meanwhile, Hamby was adamant that he saw and heard no one.
Over the next three and a half hours, the trio said they heard more noises and distant figures. Then, near dusk, and in a state of physical and emotional exhaustion, the men began firing indiscriminately. Cordell was sure he saw someone hanging in a window and that he shot the figure but later no body or blood were found. Harvard-trained sociologist Ron Westrum interviewed the men and later wrote: “Hamby fired a .44 magnum through a refrigerator – I saw the hole myself – at a person in the kitchen, whom he heard slam against the sink, fall on the floor, and make gurgling noises, as if critically wounded. ...All three were extremely scared; Masters to the point where he was re-loading spent cartridges into the revolver.” Near sunrise, the men phoned the Sheriff’s Department, showing how desperate they had become as one of them was on parole.
One of the men was so anxious to get the attention of a passing police car that he fired a shotgun – inadvertently striking the windshield! He was charged with attempted murder, but it was later reduced to misuse of a firearm. Police conducted a thorough investigation of the scene and found no evidence of any intruders, only a bullet-ridden home littered with empty shell cartridges.
The Nullarbor Plain Incident
On 19 January 1988, Faye Knowles of Perth, Australis, decided to drive her Ford Telstar across the continent to stay with relatives in Melbourne. Accompanying her were three sons: Wayne, Sean and Patrick, ranging in age from 18 to 24. The group had been traveling virtually non-stop for 13-hours when Traveling virtually non-stop for 13-hours when something bizarre happened near the tiny outpost of Mundrabilla in the Nullarbor Desert.
Near dawn and with the rest of his family asleep, Sean noticed a mysterious light in the distance and became convinced it was a ‘spaceship.’ After alerting the others, Sean became terrified that the object was pursuing them. He floored the accelerator and the car began roaring down the remote stretch of highway at about 200 kph, generating fear and confusion among his groggy passengers.
The group later told police that a beam raised the vehicle into the air, then dropped it, causing the tire to burst and the car to become disabled on the roadway. They also said that a loud thud could be heard on the roof, and an eerie grey mist filled the car. Meantime, a foul smell foul odor permeated the vehicle. The nervous occupants changed the tire and drove on to Mundrabilla. Two truck drivers who encountered the family there said they were visibly upset. One of the truckers said that the Knowles car was laden with a strange black ash. They reached South Australia, where police interviewed the family who by now were making global headlines after claiming that their car had been picked up by a ‘UFO.’ South Australian police inspected the car and found only typical road grime. An investigation of the car was conducted by the Australian Mineral Development Laboratory which analyzed the ash and found particles of clay and salt, consistent with what one should expect to find in a vehicle that had recently crossed the sand-laden Nullarbor Plains near the Great Southern Ocean.
As for the strange aerial light that appeared to follow the car, weather records reveal that at the time of the incident, there had been a temperature inversion in the area. Former South Australian meteorologist Allan Brunt later observed that such events in the region are notorious for refracting light and distorting sizes, shapes and colors of objects. Brunt believes that the Knowles family saw the distorted image of the headlights of a truck in the distance, which appeared to them as a UFO.
Given the lack of corroborating physical evidence, and the frightened state of the occupants, it appears that family members, fatigued from a long trip, under the cover of darkness while traveling on an unfamiliar road, mistook an anomalous light for an extraterrestrial space craft that they believed was pursuing them. It is also notable that based on interviews with the family, they were all in an extremely emotional state, “shouting and crying.” Mrs Knowles even said she thought they were going to die.
Further Study Needed
When viewed from afar, small group panics may appear to be a sign of mental disturbance. Yet, they are perhaps best understood through the lens of the famous Thomas Theorem. In the 1920s, American sociologist William Isaac Thomas devised a maxim that is often quoted to this day. He wrote that “If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” Put simply, if you believe that you were being chased by drug dealers or space aliens, in a sense, you really were, because you behave as if you were.
In the absence of any clear evidence of mental disorder among the Tromp family, I am inclined to believe that the most likely explanation for their behavior, is that after a series of unfortunate events, combined with stress and fatigue, they had simply scared themselves.
A UFO attacked a car with a family of Australians This case was investigated by Australian authorities.
After 29 years, the witnesses decided to tell the details of the incident when they were attacked by UFOs, when the family traveled by car to the border of South Australia, reports Rus.Media. This case was investigated by Australian authorities.
Near the small town Mundrabilla the head of the family who noticed an unusual glow white-yellow. The object had a disc shape. Eyewitnesses claim that UFOs began to pursue the vehicle, and soon began to raise the car above the ground, and through the open window into the cabin of the car started to get black smoke. After a few minutes the car was thrown to the ground, and Nole just shocked at what was happening.
The representative of the investigation team, which investigated the incident reported that the vehicle the victims were footprints on the roof, which suggests that it really picks up. In the car traces of black carbon, which was described Nolse. Netizens suggested that the time could be held military exercises or the car was hit by lightning.
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.
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