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...
09-10-2017
NASA hacker: I found evidence America has Deep Space Warships
NASA hacker: I found evidence America has Deep Space Warships
According to a hacker who is facing a ten-year legal battle after breaking into NASA computers, the United States has a fully operational fleet of Space Warships. Gary McKinnon, firmly believes that he came across the ultimate information that proves the US have a secret space program operated by the navy with fully operational warships that operate in Space.
In a new interview on UFO channel Richplanet TV, McKinnon finally reveals the entire truth about his findings saying: ‘I kept going for months and months. I kept thinking, ‘They’re going to close this door’.
McKinnon said that he used a software called Landsearch which allowed him to search all files and folders of interest to him.
‘I scanned and looked for documents, I found an Excel spreadsheet which said, ‘Non-terrestrial officers’, states McKinnon.
‘It had ranks and names. It had tabs for ‘material transfer’ between ships.
‘I took that to be, they must have a ships based in space – the names started with U.S.S.’
Gary McKinnon is accused of mounting the biggest ever hack in the history of the United States by breaking into the computers of the Army, Air force, Navy and NASA.
During his latest interview, McKinnon describes a conversation from a former NASA whistleblower Donna Hare, who had been told by a colleague that NASA was trying to hide delicate information by “airbrushing” UFOs from their photos.
“There was a colleague, who was in another room — they all had secret clearance but they were on different projects — and she (Hare) was in this chap’s lab or room or whatever it is and he said come and take a look at this,” said McKinnon.
While there are many people who firmly believe this is yet another elaborate hoax, there have been a series of former NASA and government employees who back up the claims made by McKinnon.
According to statements from a former Marine not only have humans made it to Mars in the past, but we have developed a secret space program and flotilla that operates in space. The former US Marine, was posted on the red planet for years and his mission was to protect the five human colonies from indigenous life forms on Mars. According to the former Marine known as Captain Kaye, not only did he spend years on Mars, but he also served aboard a giant space carrier for three years. He worked for the Mars Defense Force (MDF) which is owned and operated by the Mars Colony Corporation (MCC) which is basically a conglomerate of financial institutions, government and tech companies. Kaye and his team were part of a special section of the United States Marines with a highly classified mission, protect and ensure the existence of five newly-established colonies on the surface of the red planet. The Earth Defense Force, another secret military branch has military recruits from countries such as the United States, China and Russia.
Parts of the testimony from Captain Kaye are consistent with that of Michael Relfe, another whistleblower who claims to have served 20 years tour on the red planet. Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, great-granddaughter of former President Eisenhower claims that efforts were made to recruit here onto a human colony on Mars, led by researcher Dr. Hal Puthoff.
According to “Jackie”, there are humans on Mars, and we have been on the red planet for over 20 years. ‘Jackie’, she and six other employees saw the exact same thing, suggesting this might be the evidence that proves that a secret space program did exist (or might even still).
According to ‘Jackie’ while working as part of the team downloading telemetry from the Viking Lander, she saw human setting foot on the surface of the red planet via a live feed from Mars.
In an interview with Coast-to-Coast AM, Jackie talked about humans on Mars, something that has been discussed among other alleged NASA employees for years.
Many Ufologists firmly believe that the statements made by the above individuals is accurate and that this information is being withheld from the general public.
[VIRAL] VIDEO OF AZ PLASMA ENTITY- UFO OR EVIDENCE OF BLUE BEAM HOLOGRAM?
[VIRAL] VIDEO OF AZ PLASMA ENTITY- UFO OR EVIDENCE OF BLUE BEAM HOLOGRAM?
The controversial video was posted to Facebook yesterday and in a very short period, it was viewed and shared thousands of times. According to the uploader, the video was shot this month in Arizona and the comment section proves one thing: people are alarmed about what implications the presence of this plasma entity might have.
The video shows an undisclosed neighborhood in Arizona on an overcast day when suddenly, a streak of electric blue light is seen ascending through the clouds. The ethereal jet appears to be left behind by a capsule-looking object that bursts through the humid atmosphere. Before disappearing from view, the object makes contact with another entity and this could be interpreted as a docking process between two distinct UFOs. But upon closer inspection, things become even more shocking.
When the video is slowed down and zoomed in, the details of the first object become apparent. Its shape is eerily reminiscent of an elongated, extraterrestrial-looking head. The object it comes into contact with bears a striking similarity to an alien hand with fingers that are longer than yours. The ‘hand’ reaches down from above the heavy clouds and grasps the trailing alien head. Both objects then disappear from view as the blue plasma-like ejecta slowly dissipates.
The action takes place at least a few miles above ground, suggesting that both objects are huge. They make no attempt to shield themselves from view and this is an important detail. Whoever or whatever was behind this otherworldly apparition wanted to be seen by those below.
If the objects are indeed extraterrestrial in nature, it must mean they understand and make use of symbolism. An alien hand reaching out and grabbing an alien head and then disappearing from view might signify their intentions of withdrawing from our planet.
It could also mean that they are willing to offer us an unfiltered view of their appearance and that is why they chose elements of their own anatomy. Since they have been studying us for a while, they know the importance of the head and hand in our languages and cultures. These two parts signify intelligence and action and perhaps by employing these symbols, they encourage us to take our intellect into our own hands.
Maybe they chose these elements arbitrarily and to each, his own interpretation works best.
But if this weird occurrence was not the work of aliens but an internal event, things turn much darker.
One of the most popular modern conspiracy theories revolves around the infamous Blue Beam Project and the global changes it would entail. A pet project of the New World Order, Blue Beam will seek to simulate an apocalypse scenario and introduce the world to its new overlords. Most conspiracy theorists agree that Blue Beam will consist of four consequential steps.
The first step would have to do with the breakdown of all accepted knowledge regarding the world’s past and major events that led to the formation of various religions and beliefs. According to Biblioteca Pleyades, this first step will deal with “staging earthquakes at certain precise locations around the planet where supposed new ‘discoveries’ will finally explain that the meanings of the basic doctrines of all the world’s major religions are ‘wrong.’”
The recent increase in worldwide seismic activity seems to prove Step 1 is well underway. Various theorists claim that either HAARP or CERN are behind the recent wave of earthquakes that hit Italy, New Zealand and Japan.
Step II of the Blue Beam Project would involve an enormous space show, generated by advanced holograms and laser projections in all corners of the globe. Hit by its hidden fears, humanity would feel vulnerable, and mayhem would take over major cities as the prophetic visions of the world’s religions would play in the sky above them. Carefully-simulated attacks would rise panic to unprecedented levels.
Steps III revolves around advanced LF (low frequency), VLF (Very Low Frequency) and ELF (Extra Low Frequency) transmissions that would directly interfere with the subjects’ (read: us) brainwaves, leading them into believing their divinity is communicating with them.
Once this maneuver is successful, the world is ready and the stage is set for the introduction of the so-called New Messiah who would establish worldwide peace at the cost of everyone’s freedom.
Project Blue Beam is one of the most hideous scenarios and it’s little wonder people shiver at the mere thought of it happening. The prospect of this recent video being proof that the gears of Blue Beam are set in motion is troubling, to say the least.
Fortunately, we have one weapon at our side. Knowledge. It’s much harder to be fooled when you know you’re being tricked. Keep your eyes open and don’t believe what you’re being told. Pass information through your judgement’s filter and be watchful.
My personal take on this video is this video — like many others before it — shows the activity of an advanced extraterrestrial intelligence. Or it could be fake, that possibility is always there.
Steven Spielberg followed his first major box-office success Jaws with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence.
And it seems like the director behind E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and War of the Worlds was hoping to contact alien life himself while making the much loved Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The movie celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and in a new featurette from the special edition 4K Blu-ray box set, Spielberg reveals he believes we’re not alone in the universe.
Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encouters of the Third Kind.(Image: REX/Shutterstock)
The 70-year-old Hollywood veteran says initially he wasn’t trying to make a sci-fi film when he wrote the script and directed the award winning film.
The premise of the movie revolves around a line worker who feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness after he encounters a UFO
Spielberg jokes that he tried to do the same thing.
Spielberg is convinced there is alien life out there.(Image: REX/Shutterstock)
“If I thought of it as a science fiction film, I wouldn’t have taken so many drives out to Californian deserts hoping to find and actually having a UFO sighting, which I by the way I’ve never had a UFO sighting.
“The one person who deserves to have a UFO sighting, it hasn’t happened yet for me.”
Spielberg’s belief in aliens isn’t all that surprising given his history of space-based movies after Close Encounters of a Third Kind but it is clear it’s what helped him created this highly revered film forty years ago.
Spielberg expects to see a sight like this one day.(Image: REX/Shutterstock)
He continues: “I really believed that there was something up there. I still believe we’re not alone in the universe.
“So I was kind of in those days, thinking 'well there might be something to this.'”
The Close Encounters of the Third Kind 40th Anniversary 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray editions are out on October 9th.
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Juno fotografeert beste kandidaat voor buitenaards leven in ons zonnestelsel
Juno fotografeert beste kandidaat voor buitenaards leven in ons zonnestelsel
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Hallo, Europa!
Terwijl ruimtesonde Juno voor de achtste keer langs gasreus Jupiter scheerde, heeft deze ook even de tijd genomen om twee manen van Jupiter te vereeuwigen. Op de prachtige foto hieronder zien we (van links naar rechts) Europa, Io en een stukje van Jupiter.
Het is een prachtige foto. Zeker als je bedenkt dat deze gemaakt is door een fotograaf die op dat moment meer dan 27.000 kilometer van de wolkentoppen van Jupiter verwijderd was!
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS/ Roman Tkachenko.
Europa Jupiter heeft tientallen manen. Europa en Io behoren tot de wat grotere exemplaren. En met name Europa spreekt tot de verbeelding. Onderzoekers achten de kans groot dat deze maan buitenaards leven herbergt. Sterker nog: de maan wordt gezien als één van de beste plekken in ons zonnestelsel om naar buitenaards leven te zoeken.
Oceaan Die titel krijg je natuurlijk niet zomaar. Maar waaraan heeft Europa die titel te danken? Voornamelijk aan de enorme oceaan die hoogstwaarschijnlijk onder het ijzige oppervlak van Europa rust. De oceaan bestaat waarschijnlijk uit vloeibaar, zout water. Bovendien zijn er sterke aanwijzingen dat in die oceaan allerlei chemische processen plaatsvinden waar eventueel leven bij gebaat kan zijn.
Deze artistieke impressie laat zien hoe een ruimtesonde over Europa scheert.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
Op deze foto zien we die fascinerende wereld als een klein stipje in het immense heelal. Het smaakt naar meer. Onderzoekers staan te trappelen om de maan eens van dichterbij te bekijken. Juno is daarvoor niet zo geschikt: de sonde is ontwikkeld om Jupiter te bestuderen en zit bovendien vastgeroest in zijn huidige baan. Maar er is goed nieuws: er staan al twee missies naar Europa gepland. NASA lanceert in het volgende decennium de Europa Clipper. Het ruimtevaartuig zal – na een lange reis – de ijsmaan twee keer per week passeren. De sonde moet onder meer uitzoeken wat er allemaal onder het dikke pak ijs van de maan gebeurt. En ook ESA stuurt een sonde naar de veelbelovende maan. De missie JUICEmoet in 2022 het luchtruim kiezen en zal acht jaar later bij Jupiter en zijn manen arriveren. En ook deze missie zal deels gefocust zijn op de wellicht leefbare wereld die onder het dikke pak ijs van Europa schuilgaat.
Cassini terugblik: de mooiste 40 foto's van Saturnus en haar manen - PART I
Cassini terugblik: de mooiste 40 foto's van Saturnus en haar manen - PART I
Tim Kraaijvanger
De Cassini-ruimtesonde verbrandde vorige maand in de atmosfeer van Saturnus. Daarmee kwam een einde aan een fascinerende missie. De afgelopen dertien jaar maakte Cassini ontelbaar veel mooie foto’s van Saturnus, de ringen en haar manen. Dit zijn de veertig mooiste exemplaren.
Meer dan 630 bezoekers hebben de mooiste Saturnus-foto’s geselecteerd uit een voorselectie van ruim honderd foto’s. Uiteindelijk hebben veertig foto’s meer dan honderd stemmen gekregen. De allermooiste kiekjes van Cassini laten we in oplopende volgorde zien.
40. Spookachtige spaken – 104 stemmen In de ringen van Saturnus zijn spaken te zien. Dit zijn spookachtige verschijnselen, die al in de jaren tachtig door Voyager 1 zijn gefotografeerd. De spaken bestaan uit waterijsdeeltjes. Veel van de deeltjes zijn zelfs groter dan één micrometer (1/1000ste millimeter). Wetenschappers vermoeden dat de deeltjes door elektrostatische krachten worden opgetild uit het ringvlak. Let op: de twee zwarte lijnen op de onderstaande foto zijn geen spaken.
39. Kwartet – 107 stemmen Hoeveel manen tel jij? Als het goed is, dan zie je er vier. Van boven naar beneden: Telesto, Prometheus, Titan (achtergrond) en Rhea (op de voorgrond).
38. Prometheus – 108 stemmen Prometheus is een herdermaan in de F-ring. Herdermanen zijn manen die door hun zwaartekracht de stofdeeltjes van een planetaire ring bij elkaar houden. Prometheus is de herder in de F-ring en is qua vorm nogal uitgerekt (148 bij 100 bij 68 kilometer).
37. Daphnis – 114 stemmen Ook Daphnis is een herdermaan en dit object houdt de zogenoemde Keelerscheiding open. Deze scheiding is 35 kilometer breed. Daphnis zelf heeft een diameter van acht kilometer. Op de foto zie je duidelijk hoe Daphnis ‘speelt’ met de deeltjes in de ringen van Saturnus. Op de redactie vinden we dat deze foto een beetje laag in de lijst staat. Mee eens?
Hieronder een uitsnede van de bovenstaande foto.
36. Enceladus boven de ringen – 115 stemmen Wie goed kijkt, ziet nog een pluim boven het oppervlak van Enceladus.
35. Rhea – 118 stemmen De donkere kant van Rhea in beeld. Mooi samenspel van ringen en schaduwen.
34. Dione – 122 stemmen De maan Dione is een ijsmaan. Wellicht schuilt er onder de ijskorst vloeibaar water, net zoals de maan Enceladus. De kern van Dione wordt opgewarmd door de getijdewerking met Saturnus.
33. Saturnus van boven – 122 stemmen De ringen vormen hier haast een perfecte cirkel.
32. Aurora – 127 stemmen Met de infraroodcamera van Cassini is deze fraaie foto van poollicht gemaakt. Het was een verrassing voor astronomen om zo’n heldere en grote aurora op Saturnus te zien.
31. Unieke kijk op Saturnus – 128 stemmen Hier zweeft Cassini iets boven Saturnus, waardoor de noordpool goed te zien is. De schaduw van Saturnus valt op de ringen.
30. Spaken – 130 stemmen Nog een foto van de spaken. Op deze zijn de spookachtige verschijnselen nog beter zichtbaar dan op de foto op plek #40.
29. Spel der schaduwen – 131 stemmen Vanuit welke hoek je Saturnus ook bekijkt: het blijft een adembenemende planeet!
28. Tethys in de verte – 142 stemmen Tethys lijkt maar een klein maantje naast de reusachtige planeet Saturnus.
27. Oppervlak van Titan (door Huygens) – 144 stemmen Zo ziet het oppervlak van Titan er uit. Deze foto is gemaakt door de Huygens-sonde, toen deze in 2005 op het oppervlak van de maan landde. De foto is bijzonder, omdat het de eerste foto vanaf het oppervlak van een maan van Saturnus is.
26. Dag Enceladus – 145 stemmen Daar verdwijnt Enceladus achter Saturnus. Een van de laatste beelden van Cassini.
25. Mimas – 146 stemmen Schitterend foto van Mimas met op de achtergrond de schaduw van de ringen van Saturnus op het oppervlak van de ringenplaneet.
24. Familieportret – 151 stemmen Drie manen op een rij, namelijk Titan, Mimas (onderkant) en Rhea (linksboven). Fraai familieportret.
23. Iapetus – 151 stemmen Iapetus is een bijzondere maan en staat met één foto in de top 40. Iapetus is met een diameter van 1468 kilometer één van de grotere manen van Saturnus en draait op een afstand van zo’n 3.561.000 kilometer om de gasreus heen. Daarbij is altijd dezelfde zijde van de maan op Saturnus gericht. Wat de maan zo bijzonder maakt, is dat deze twee gezichten heeft. De ene helft is heel donker (reflecteert minder dan vijf procent van het inkomende licht) en de andere helft is heel licht. Op de foto hieronder is de scheiding goed te zien.
22. Bijzonder mozaïek – 160 stemmen De zon staat achter de ringenplaneet, wat een fraaie foto oplevert. Iets hoger in de lijst staat precies dezelfde mozaïek, maar dan met een andere afstelling qua filters. Die foto vonden jullie nog mooier, want die kreeg twee keer zoveel stemmen.
21. Methaanmeren op TItan – 163 stemmen Het regent methaan op Titan, waardoor er ook grote meren met ethaan en methaan zijn. Op infraroodfoto’s zijn deze meren duidelijk te zien.
Cassini terugblik: de mooiste 40 foto's van Saturnus en haar manen - DEEL II
Cassini terugblik: de mooiste 40 foto's van Saturnus en haar manen - DEEL II
Tim Kraaijvanger
De Cassini-ruimtesonde verbrandde vorige maand in de atmosfeer van Saturnus. Daarmee kwam een einde aan een fascinerende missie. De afgelopen dertien jaar maakte Cassini ontelbaar veel mooie foto’s van Saturnus, de ringen en haar manen. Dit zijn de veertig mooiste exemplaren.
Meer dan 630 bezoekers hebben de mooiste Saturnus-foto’s geselecteerd uit een voorselectie van ruim honderd foto’s. Uiteindelijk hebben veertig foto’s meer dan honderd stemmen gekregen. De allermooiste kiekjes van Cassini laten we in oplopende volgorde zien.
20. Ringen van Saturnus – 167 stemmen Vijftig tinten grijs
19. Close-up van de ringen – 169 stemmen Zo zien de ringen van Saturnus er van dichtbij uit.
18. Moderne kunst – 170 stemmen Dit lijkt wel een kunstwerk. 170 mensen gaven deze foto een duim omhoog.
17. Aankomst bij Saturnus – 172 stemmen Deze foto werd op 9 februari 2004 gemaakt op 69 miljoen kilometer van Saturnus. Op 1 juli 2004 kwam Cassini aan bij de ringenplaneet.
16. Enceladus sproeit water – 173 stemmen Enceladus sproeit water de ruimte in. Hopelijk kunnen we dit water ooit analyseren en achterhalen of er tekenen van leven zijn.
15. Verborgen kant van Titan – 184 stemmen Normaal gesproken zien we van Titan niet veel meer dan een dicht wolkendek. Dankzij infraroodfoto’s weten we nu wat er onder het wolkendek schuilgaat.
14. Noordpool – 185 stemmen Op de noordpool van Saturnus is een gigantische zeshoek te vinden. De zeshoek wordt gevormd door een atmosferische straalstroom, die om de noordpool suist. In deze straalstroom zijn bijzondere structuren te zien, zoals concentrische cirkels en spiralen. De diameter van de straalstroom is twee keer de diameter van de aarde. Hoe de atmosferische straalstroom aan de zeshoekige vorm komt, is onbekend. De foto is op 22 juli 2013 gemaakt op 984.000 kilometer afstand van Saturnus.
13. Contrast – 202 stemmen Een buitengewoon mooie compositie van de manen Titan en Rhea. Het contrast tussen deze buitenaardse werelden is enorm. Titan heeft immers een atmosfeer, terwijl Rhea een dorre wereld is.
12. Afdaling Huygens – 218 stemmen Deze fotoreeks is natuurlijk gemaakt door de Huygens-sonde. Op 25 december 2004 ontkoppelde Huygens zich van Cassini. Op 14 januari 2005 landde de sonde op het oppervlak van de maan Titan. Er zijn 700 foto’s gemaakt tijdens de afdaling, maar de helft is verloren gegaan door een menselijke fout. Cassini luisterde namelijk maar met één kanaal en niet met twee kanalen. Gelukkig bleven de meetresultaten bewaard.
11. X-factor – 238 stemmen De populairste foto van de ringen van Saturnus is dit exemplaar. De ringen van Saturnus snijden het beeld met daarachter de atmosfeer van de ringenplaneet.
10. Poollicht – 239 stemmen Nog een foto van poollicht op Saturnus, alleen is nu de hele planeet zichtbaar. Zo ziet Saturnus er in infrarood licht uit.
9. Hyperion – 263 stemmen Hyperion lijkt net een ruimtespons. De maan heeft een diameter van slechts 266 kilometer en is daarmee het grootste onregelmatige object in het zonnestelsel. Wetenschappers denken dat Hyperion een deel van een groter object is, dat vroeger is afgebroken. De maan bestaat voor een groot deel uit bevroren water.
8. Dione naast Saturnus – 275 stemmen De middelgrote maan Dione valt in het niet naast de grote gasplaneet Saturnus. Deze foto is geliefd onder bezoekers, wat waarschijnlijk komt door de juiste kijkhoek van Cassini. Het ringvlak snijdt recht door het centrum van de foto, terwijl de schaduwen van de ringen op de planeet te zien zijn.
7. De ringen zijn niet vlak – 285 stemmen Dat de ringen van Saturnus niet vlak zijn is goed te zien op de onderstaande foto. Torens van gas en stof werpen een schaduw op de buurringen. Buitengewone foto!
6. Aarde door de ringen van Saturnus – 300 stemmen Een schitterende foto van de aarde door de ringen van Saturnus. Net buiten de top vijf en dat is opvallend, want deze foto was een kanshebber voor het podium.
Zie je de aarde? Nee? Vooruit, dan nogmaals dezelfde foto, maar dan met een pijl. Zo ziet onze planeet er op een afstand van ruim één miljard kilometer uit. Een ‘Pale White Dot’.
5. Storm op de noordpool – 306 stemmen Nee, dit is niet de Grote Rode Vlek op Jupiter. Andere storm, andere planeet, soortgelijke vorm.
4. Titan – 318 stemmen Titan is natuurlijk de grootste maan van Saturnus en schittert op dit kiekje.
3. Zo zag je Saturnus nog nooit – 318 stemmen Deze foto is al in 2006 gemaakt en inmiddels een oude bekende, maar wat blijft het toch een schitterende plaat. De zon staat achter de ringenplaneet, waardoor de planeet dreigend overkomt. Wist je dat dit mozaïek uit 165 foto’s bestaat? Daarnaast zijn beelden van verschillende golflengten (o.a. infrarood en ultraviolet) gecombineerd. Het is dus geen natuurlijke foto van Saturnus, maar wat geeft dat. Leuk detail: binnen de G-ring en linksboven de heldere ringen is de aarde te zien. Een uitsnede daarvan staat op plek zes in de lijst.
2. Gigantische storm – 323 stemmen Deze flinke storm raasde in 2011 op Saturnus. Het is de grootste storm ooit geobserveerd door de Voyager of Cassini-ruimtesonde. De storm had een lengte van 300.000 kilometer, wat vergelijkbaar is met de afstand van de aarde naar de maan.
1. Enceladus: bron van leven? – 417 stemmen En de winnaar is… deze prachtige foto van de maan Enceladus. Stiekem hopen we natuurlijk allemaal dat er snel een nieuwe missie naar deze maan gaat. Onder het oppervlak van deze ijsmaan bevindt zich een oceaan met wellicht microscopisch leven. Hoe ziet dat leven er precies uit? Is het zoals microscopisch leven op aarde of totaal anders? Het blijft voorlopig giswerk. Op de onderstaande foto zijn de scheuren in het bevroren oppervlak duidelijk te zien.
Genoten van deze compilatie? Deel hieronder jouw favoriete Cassini-foto’s die de lijst niet hebben gehaald. En… ben je het eens met de volgorde? Welk foto’s moeten hoger of lager? Alle 630+ bezoekers: bedankt voor het stemmen!
Een spannende ontdekking, aangezien sommigen denken dat het leven op aarde rond vergelijkbare bronnen begon…
Onderzoekers ontdekten de hydrothermale bronnen op Mars met behulp van een ruimtesonde die momenteel rond Mars cirkelt: de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). De orbiter ontdekte enorme afzettingen in een bekken op het zuidelijke deel van Mars. En die afzettingen lijken te zijn gevormd door heel warm water. Dat water werd verwarmd door vulkanische activiteit: magma dat door de korst van Mars sijpelde en uitkwam in een stilstaande zee.
Veel onderzoekers denken dat het leven op aarde begon rond hydrothermale bronnen. Maar helemaal zeker is dat niet. Recent onderzoek suggereert bijvoorbeeld een ander scenario: het leven zou begonnen zijn in warme vijvers.
Implicaties voor aarde “Zelfs als we nooit bewijs vinden dat er leven is geweest op Mars kan dit gebied ons meer vertellen over het type gebied waarin leven op aarde kan zijn begonnen,” vertelt onderzoeker Paul Niles (zie kader). “Vulkanische activiteit in combinatie met stilstaand water zorgde voor omstandigheden die vergelijkbaar waren met de omstandigheden die waarschijnlijk rond dezelfde tijd op aarde speelden, toen het leven hier (op aarde, red.) evolueerde.”
Chemische energie Velen denken dat het leven op aarde dus rond deze hydrothermale bronnen ontstond. Het is geen gekke gedachte als je je de hydrothermale bronnen die tot op de dag van vandaag op aarde voorkomen, voor de geest haalt. Rond de bronnen wemelt het van de levensvormen. En die levensvormen hebben geen zonlicht nodig. Ze leven van de chemische energie die ontstaat door de interactie tussen het water en de gesteenten.
Aangenomen wordt dat onderzeese hydrothermale bronnen ook te vinden zijn op ijzige manen als Europa (rond Jupiter) en Enceladus (rond Saturnus). Beide manen worden bedekt door een dik pak ijs. Maar onder dat ijs bevindt zich een oceaan waarin dergelijke bronnen te vinden zouden zijn.
Enorme zee En nu is dus op Mars net zo’n omgeving ontdekt. Naar schatting zijn de afzettingen die daarop wijzen zo’n 3,7 miljard jaar oud. Ze zouden zijn ontstaan in een zee die zo’n 210.000 kubieke kilometer water herbergde. Dat is is veel: ongeveer net zoveel water als er in een ver verleden in alle andere meren die Mars herbergde samen te vinden was. Al dat water is inmiddels weg. Maar er zijn afzettingen achtergebleven. En in de afzettingen van één zo’n oude zee hebben onderzoekers met behulp van MRO mineralen ontdekt die er sterk op wijzen dat de afzettingen rond hydrothermale bronnen zijn ontstaan. Daarnaast zijn op de plek waar ooit een zee zou hebben gelegen flinke lavastromen ontdekt die lang nadat de zee was opgedroogd, moeten zijn ontstaan. Aanvullend bewijs dat dit gebied ook vulkanisch actief was. “Dit gebied vertelt op overtuigende wijze over een hydrothermaal gebied dat op grote diepte en langdurig heeft bestaan,” stelt Niles. “Het is vergelijkbaar met de hydrothermale bronnen op grote diepte op aarde, vergelijkbaar met omgevingen waarin leven op andere werelden zich kan bevinden (zie kader, red): leven dat geen fijne atmosfeer of gematigde temperatuur nodig heeft, maar genoeg heeft aan stenen, warmte en water.”
Natte omgeving Daarmee hebben onderzoekers weer een heel nieuw soort ‘natte omgeving’ ontdekt op Mars. Eerder werden er al aanwijzingen gevonden dat de rode planeet rivieren, meren, delta’s, zeeën, geisers en grondwater bezat. En ijskappen waaronder vulkanische uitbarstingen plaatsvonden. En nu kunnen we daar dus hydrothermale bronnen aan toevoegen.
Een schematische weergave van hydrothermale bronnen op Mars.
Afbeelding: NASA.
Met de ontdekking hebben onderzoekers bovendien een gebied gevonden dat zeer interessant is voor vervolgonderzoek. In de zoektocht naar sporen van leven op Mars kan dit bekken wel eens heel interessant zijn. Maar zelfs als in het bekken geen sporen van leven worden gevonden, kan het van grote waarde zijn. En wel doordat het bekken ons meer kan vertellen over de omstandigheden die ook op de jonge aarde voorkwamen en wellicht van doorslaggevend belang zijn geweest voor het ontstaan van leven hier. Helaas zijn hydrothermale bronnen op aarde uit de tijd waarin het leven ontstond slecht bewaard gebleven. En misschien moeten we dan ook wel de blik op vergelijkbare hydrothermale bronnen uit dezelfde tijd op Mars richten om meer te weten te komen over de rol die deze hydrothermale bronnen voor het leven op aarde gespeeld hebben.
WHAT HILLARY CLINTON SAYS ABOUT ALIENS IS TOTALLY MISGUIDED
WHAT HILLARY CLINTON SAYS ABOUT ALIENS IS TOTALLY MISGUIDED
In the spring of 1999, a UFO flew over downtown Ithaca, New York. I was standing on the roof of a house near the Cornell University campus and managed to snap a few characteristically crappy pictures of the alien object, which vaguely resembled a flying saucer wearing a top hat.
It hovered above the Ithaca Commons for a minute before turning east and soaring over the Cornell University clock tower. As it flew, the craft made a sound that resembled bacon sizzling in a frying pan. Then, just as quickly as it had appeared on that sunny Saturday afternoon, the UFO vanished. The whole encounter lasted maybe a few minutes.
I would later learn that it wasn’t the first time Ithaca had been visited by a UFO. In fact, sightings were pretty common in the area during the latter half of the 20th century—just as they are in some UFO hotspots around the world, like Area 51 in Nevada, the Welsh Triangle, and Wycliffe Well, Australia. Witnesses tend to use similar language when describing spacecraft shapes, sounds, and the aliens themselves, which ostensibly lends credibility to their testimony. After all, how could so many people be wrong?
Even Hillary Clinton appears reluctant to doubt the sightings.
“There’s enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up,” Clinton said during a recent interview.
Clinton, it seems, has at least one foot inside the UFO spacewagon, and in recent weeks has promised to get to the bottom of what’s really going on at Area 51. She says that if she’s elected in November, she’ll open up as many of those documents as she can (some are already available) and reveal the truth about possible extraterrestrial visits to Earth. Meanwhile, John Podesta, her campaign chair, appears to be piloting that spacewagon. A rabid X-Files fan (as am I, no shame), Podesta tweeted, “Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the U.F.O. files. #thetruthisstilloutthere,” when he left the Obama White House last year.
It’s disappointing that influential people are helping fan the flames of conspiracy theories that refuse to wilt beneath the weight of truth. One hopes it’s just a campaign stunt, meant to increase Clinton’s popularity among a group of people who might be inclined to vote somewhat more conservatively. Yet given Podesta’s and Clinton’s track records on the topic, it seems more likely the pair really believes there might be something to expose.
Perhaps those documents are tucked into a cardboard box stashed in an old railway car, waiting for Clinton and Podesta to arrive with their flashlights. But I’d wager much more than my house that there’s exactly zero credible evidence supporting alien encounters with this planet—and I’d love for warp drives and battlestars to exist as much as anyone would.
After a few minutes, the spacecraft turned east and flew over the Cornell campus*.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NADIA DRAKE
Wait. Didn’t I see a UFO over Ithaca?
Yes, I did see a UFO over Ithaca. I can even tell you exactly what it was made of: an upside-down frying pan with a saucepan lid on top, some fishing line, and a big stick. A classmate and I had manufactured the photos for a course we were taking on the search for life in the universe. Our goal was to win a classroom debate about whether aliens had visited Earth, and step one was proving just how easy it is to fabricate evidence.
This is where Clinton’s reasoning about people sitting in their kitchens making stuff up falls apart. Beliefs are potent. The brain is a powerful tool, and it can lead us to some incredibly wrong recollections and conclusions. And in these situations, assuming there’s safety in numbers is foolish (for more on that topic, start with the Salem witch trials).
During high school, I spent a few summers working alongside my father at the SETI Institute. One of my jobs was to answer letters. This was back in the day when people stuffed paper into envelopes, so I’d start by sorting the letters into two piles. One pile was for correspondence that requested scientific information; the other was for claims of UFO sightings. I’d read these with interest, wondering what it was people thought they saw. Many were convinced that my family had aliens buried in our basement (I’m not saying we do, I’m not saying we don’t**). Often, the reports were incredibly detailed, with one particularly colorful account unfolding over 10 handwritten pages describing how beeping robotic space balls followed a family around.
There’s a familiar saying that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and that evidence—or any proof, really—was never there.
It never is.
So I’d respond with a standard letter explaining what SETI actually does, and include a brochure about the scientific search for extraterrestrial life, which I think is as interesting as the fantasy.
That search began in 1960, when my dad pointed a telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia at a pair of sunlike stars. He was listening for telltale signs of technology broadcasting itself across the cosmos. All he heard was silence. And all we’ve heard since then is silence. But in the intervening half-century, the search for life beyond Earth has moved beyond straining to hear distant cosmic murmurs to looking for evidence of microbial life much closer to home, in our own solar system. Eventually, we’ll take a close look at the atmospheres of faraway planets and keep an eye out for the signatures of living, breathing, biological ecosystems.
And that’s science, which is step three in evaluating alien encounters. It’s true that we don’t know everything there is to know about propulsive technologies, or how the universe works. But we do know that the distances between the stars are so vast, and the energetic requirements for space travel so monumental, that visiting an alien world is far from trivial. It’s not nearly enough to say that alien civilizations might be using technologies we’re completely unaware of. Science demands verifiable proof.
And “proof” of flying saucers and crashed alien spacecrafts amounts to little more than unverified anecdotes.
This is why it’s unhelpful and irresponsible for Clinton and Podesta to be teasing the public as they are. Go ahead and open up the Area 51 files (or at least the ones that don’t compromise national security), but do it in the name of true government transparency rather than uncovering aliens.
* Not really. Please don’t reuse this image without that important caveat.
One of Britain’s strangest UFO flaps occurred on the Welsh coast in 1977. It has been known by various names, including the Dyfed Enigma, the Welsh Triangle case, or the Broad Haven UFO. The story begins with a group of schoolchildren.
The Broad Haven UFO
On February 5 1977, when 15 schoolkids at Broad Haven Primary School ran excitedly into their claiming to have seen a silver-suited spaceman coming out of a metallic cigar-shaped craft land in a field near their school. Perhaps not surprisingly, their teacher didn’t believe them and carried on with the lessons as normal. Yet some of them were adamant that they saw a silver alien with pointed ears emerge from the UFO. On getting out of school, however, they claimed they saw the spaceship again. Needless to say the teachers and parents were skeptical of the reports. So when the left the school grounds, they began to tell their friends, and any who would listen, but no one took them seriously. The next day, the students miffed by the adult inattention, delivered a petition to the police, demanding that they investigate the incident.
All the fuss forced the headmaster to take the children’s UFO sighting a little more seriously than he had before. So he gathered the children involved and asked them to draw what they had seen. Remarkably, the drawings were highly consistent, showing the same saucer-shaped UFO, with a dome on top of it, in their drawings.
This first sighting heralded an extraordinary year of unusual happenings in Wales. As it unfolded, vast numbers of people claimed to see UFOs or to have had bizarre, paranormal experiences of similar kinds as the story gained national headlines, flooding the West Wales coast with reporters and television crews. Consequently the number of UFO incidents in the area increased dramatically. Was it all mass hysteria? Was somebody mischief-making? Was it the work of the military? Or had aliens actually arrived in Pembrokeshire?
The Dyfed Mystery Unfolds
One family, in particular, was very severely affected by it all. The Coombs family, who were employed at the Ripperston farm, had a number of very strange experiences. Among these were sightings of UFOs from their car; a 7-ft silver-suited being with a black visor appearing outside their window; constant mechanical disturbances, including their car and television setrepeatedly breaking down and having to be replaced; and their cows seemingly being teleported from one field to another!
Another of the most famous incidents occurred around the Haven Fort Hotel in Little Haven. The owner of the hotel, a Mrs. Rose Granville, claimed she had seen a saucer-shaped UFO outside of the hotel window. Strange humanoids, wearing whitish boiler suits, emerged from the UFO and walked around for a bit as if gathering something. Mrs. Granville went to fetch other residents of the hotel to show them, but found the UFO and its mysterious occupants gone by the time she returned.
Somewhat distressed by the encounter, Mrs. Granville wrote a letter to her MP who promptly asked the Ministry of Defence to investigate. As a result, Mrs. Granville received a visit from an RAF officer who listened to her story and professed himself mystified by it all.
Some skeptics have claimed that the entire Broad Haven UFO flap was caused by hoaxers. It was noted that silver suits, somewhat resembling those described by the eye-witnesses, were in use at a nearby oil refinery. As happens in almost cases of persistent UFO activity in a specific area, hoaxing does soon enter the picture. Local yahoos see it as a great opportunity to have some fun. The Welsh Triangle flap was no exception. Indeed, some of the hoaxers have now come forward and admitted it publicly. The temptation is to dismiss all of the incidents because of a few fake ones. It’s difficult to see how hoaxers could account for all of the flying objects that were sighted, however, so fakery cannot provide a complete explanation for events in the Broad Haven area as a whole.
The Dyfed Mystery – Conclusion
The Broad Haven UFO flap was one of the most important in British history. The strange events there, which elicited interest from journalists and researchers throughout the country, have still never been satisfactorily explained.
Wycliffe Well is located on the Stuart Highway 130 kilometres south of Tennant Creek and 380 kilometres north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory Australia. It is known as Australia’s UFO capital due to the hundreds of UFO sightings that have occurred there since WWII.
Wycliffe Well began as a watering point along the stock route for the Overland Telegraph Line in the 1860s. During World War II the Well became a market garden centre to service troops, and at the end of the war, two soldiers stayed on to continue selling vegetables and garden products to Alice Springs.
In 1960 a petrol pump was installed to supply fuel to travelers. Since then Wycliffe Well has become a tourist stop over point. The town today essentially consists of the Wycliffe Well tourist park which covers 60 acres of land and includes a recreational lake for fishing and boating, a Bar that has the largest range of beer available in Australia plus three life-size Alien figures and a large model UFO!
UFO Sightings
According to the tourist parks brochure, “UFO sightings are so common, that if you stayed up all night looking, you would be considered unlucky not to see anything, rather than lucky to see something”.
According to local Folklore UFO sightings have occurred in the Well since WWII. Even a binder book containing records of UFO sightings from this era was kept until it was stolen from the tourist parks front counter some years ago. Sightings from the 90’s have since been kept by the tourist park staff.
The local restaurant‘s walls are covered with newspaper clippings written by UFO skeptics and believers alike.
Wycliffe Well is one of the top 5 UFO hotspots in the world that can guarantee a sighting every couple of days.
According to Lou Farkus the parks owner; “Scientists say the sky is full of Ley Lines, which act like highways for the UFO’s to travel along.” He says “But these energy lines must meet somewhere and one of those crossroads or intersections lies directly above the middle of Australia. That’s why we see so many here.”
Lou claims that because Wycliffe Well is one of the flattest places in the region it allows a 360 degree view of the night skies. This allows a great vantage point to see unidentified objects in the sky.
Lou has operated the Wycliffe Well Roadhouse for over 20 years and originally had no interest in UFOs until he moved there. He claims that he has seen so many no longer bothers looking for them and waits for visitors to report them.
He also claims that he has nothing to prove to skeptics and suggests they come and take a look for themselves to make up their own minds.
Lou has also heard many bizarre theories over the years of what the UFO’s may be? One in particular is the theory is that the lights in the sky are Fluorescent birds! “Can you imagine the size of one of those birds?” He laughs.
He also claims there have been many visitors from the UK and Japan who bring with them sophisticated equipment. Only after a few days of taking readings they leave.
Skeptics claim that many UFO sightings are conventional aircraft misidentified. Lou says; “Sure the RAAF do flyovers from time to time, but once you seen their Jets going at Mach-1, There’s no comparison with the speed that these other things travel at.” “Sometimes the UFO’s travel so fast you’d literally blink to miss it.”
UFO descriptions from Wycliffe Well include; Cigar, Square and Rectangular shape. Square shapes morphing into circular. Pulsating and flashing lights. Orange, Green and Red spinning lights. Others that shoot out beams of different colours.
UFOs have also been witnessed hovering above the ground. One case in particular where a “huge’ craft was seen hovering 100m above the parks toilet block that took off at an astonishing speed.
Daytime sightings have occurred, sometimes UFO’s have known to follow cars but seem to generally uninterested in people with claims of abductions being very rare.
Reports of Alien beings are also rare apart from one account. According to Lou Farkus “I’ve only heard of one case of someone seeing an Alien form, it was from an Aboriginal woman who said she saw a flashing object descend into the trees and then sighted three beings.”
It could be speculated that some UFO sightings in Wycliffe Well are attributed to vehicles being tested at the Woomera Prohibited Area which also is located on the Stuart Highway. The WPA is sometimes referred to as Area 52 or Australia’s Area 51.
Initially, the military appeared to confirm this before insisting a few days later it was just an armed forces balloon.
But now conspiracy theorists have claimed this new footage clearly shows what appears to be medical personnel seeming to carry the body of an alien away from the crash site.
The grainy images have been posted to YouTube with the caption Roswell UFO crash new footage of alien body.
New footage has emerged claiming to be from Roswell
Does this prove an alien did crash land?
The footage seems to show scientists gathered around the body, which has a humanoid appearance.
Since the infamous crash, there have been thousands of theories as to what really happened in Area 51.
In the 1990s the US military tried to quell some of the rumours by revealing the military balloon that had crashed was a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul.
This was a top secret project that was designed to detect sound waves generated by Soviet Union atomic bomb tests.
The military wanted to hide the true nature of the project and so claimed it was nothing more than a weather balloon.
The new footage seems to show a creature being carried away
This is one of the most famous images that claims to be of the Roswell alien(Image: Channel 4)
But 30 years after the incident, hundreds of documents emerged that seemed to have been written by people working within Area 51.
They claimed there was evidence that at least one alien spacecraft had crashed near Roswell in 1947.
Since then, there have been countless books written about the supposed alien landing and a number of films and TV series.
The Roswell myth also picked up steam back in 1995 when what appeared to be genuine footage of an alien body inside a huge glass container emerged.
The "leaked" video was later exposed as an elaborate hoax, but the footage had reignited interest in what had happened on that day in 1947.
Spyros Melaris made the black and white film showing men in white coats apparently dissecting the alien.
Millions of people across the world watched the footage, but Melaris has always insisted the 17-minute clip was nothing more than a hoax filmed in a north London flat.
And the myth refuses to die with a new Netflix documentary claiming to lift the lid on the Roswell conspiracy.
Unacknowledged insists it has unearthed fresh evidence to suggest the military DID cover up what really happened.
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1994 Ottawa County UFO sightings remain unexplained
1994 Ottawa County UFO sightings remain unexplained
KEVIN S. COLLIER
Blue, white, red and green lights — sometimes attached to cylindrical objects and sometimes performing unusual maneuvers — were reported.
“I glanced out to the backyard and noticed four bright lights just above the tree line over our horse pasture,” Grand Haven-area resident Cindy Pravda recalled in an interview. “I had been watching the lights for about 10 minutes when one of the lights slowly moved to the left. It looked like it traveled over the highway next to our house and then slowly moved back in formation.”
Pravda, who watched the lights for about 30 minutes, was not sure if they comprised a much bigger object. In 2008, she recounted the event for the History Channel’s television show “UFO Hunters,” in an episode titled “UFO Emergency.”
That night, 911 operators began receiving calls around 9:30 from eyewitnesses who were reporting something that looked like “a string of Christmas lights” in the sky.
It wasn’t just people in Ottawa County reporting these things. Eyewitnesses in counties up and down Lake Michigan phoned in similar reports. Some sources say 300 witnesses, including several police officers, saw the lights.
Scott Ruiter, of Grand Haven, said he saw the lights in Grand Haven Township at 10:30 p.m.
“It looked like about five airplanes following each other fairly closely,” he said in a news report. “One would blink, then the other — right to left.”
There were so many reports coming in that one of the Ottawa County 911 operators decided to call the National Weather Service radar operator at Muskegon. Similar conversations that 911 operators had with the weather bureau operator that evening were taped and later made their way into the media.
On the recordings, the radar operator’s voice could be heard describing abrupt movements of the object and multiple objects appearing on the radar screen. It was reported that what he was seeing could not be precipitation, especially at that height.
One object was tracked moving 20 miles in 10 seconds.
“He said he had three things on his radar, and they were in a triangular shape,” Holland police officer Jeff Vellhouse reportedly stated to the Muskegon radar operator. “He said they hovered over Holland and moved southwest. He said that one would move out of the triangular pattern, then move back in.”
The radar operator also reported there were “three and sometimes four blips,” and they weren’t airplanes. It was noted planes show as pinpoints on the scope, but the returns on radar were the size of half a thumbnail. The objects were said to range from 5,000 to 12,000 feet at times, and in rapid motion. Three were reported to be moving toward Chicago.
The operator claimed he never saw anything like it before.
It was initially said that there were no weather bureau written or taped records of the radar contacts themselves, but Dave Reinhart of BIMUP (Bureau of Investigators of Mysteries & Unusual Phenomena) claimed to have received copies of the NWS radar operator’s report in late 1994.
He also said that he had spoken to an individual referred to as “Fred,” who worked at Area 51, and was claimed to have knowledge of what had occurred on the night of March 8, 1994. Apparently “Fred” said that it was some sort of rendezvous of UFOs from the east, west, north and south.
The National Weather Service later tried to downplay the radar trackings.
“There is no relation between the UFOs and the radar tracks,” Dean Gulezian, the weather service’s area manager for Michigan, was quoted in a published report.
Gulezian relayed that, although the radar did show some echoes, eyewitnesses had seen these objects at tree-top level. He explained radar echoes captured were from an altitude of 10,000 feet or higher.
Serious discussion about the UFOs over Ottawa County continued for several days. A former Ottawa County 911 dispatcher said random calls of UFO sightings continued throughout the summer, but were mostly ignored.
To this day, the sightings were never adequately explained.
A study by researchers has revealed that more than three billion years ago the moon had an atmosphere and it saw a period of volcanic activity that was intense which saw huge amounts of gas in the form of lava seas fill the impact basins.
STUDY COULD CHANGE WAY WE UNDERSTAND
THE MOON When the gases rose above the level of the surface it was said that they accumulated a lot quicker than they were able to escape into space and this led to a lunar atmosphere. The findings might just change the way we understand the moon as it does suggest that the moon has not always been the airless world that we know it to be.
Astronauts of the Apollo 15 and the Apollo 17 missions had explored the boundaries of the lava seas at the basins of Imbrium and Serenitatis. During the excursions, they collected samples and these have revealed that eruptions had taken place many billions of years previously. Now a new analysis of them has shown that the magma in the regions had gas components that included carbon monoxide, which was an ingredient for water and Sulphur along with many other species that were volatile.
ATMOSPHERE COULD HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR 70 MILLION YEARS
A lot of the water vapor that had been released when the eruptions were taking place might have escaped into space, and it is thought that a lot of it could have even made its way to the poles. When the atmosphere had formed the researchers believe that it would have remained in place for as long as 70 million years.
A NASA backed study from the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute saw researchers calculating how much gas might have risen into the air from the lava flows that erupted on the moon many billions of years ago. Experts suggest that the volcanic activity may have peaked about 3.5 billion years ago along with the atmosphere. At this time the atmosphere would have been at its thickest.
SAMPLES REVEALED CARBON MONOXIDE
The samples that were revealed in the magma within the regions were said to contain gas components with one being carbon monoxide. Research Scientist of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Dr. Debra H. Needham, said that the total amount of H20 that would have been released in the emplacement of the mare basalts would be twice that of the volume of water that is in Lake Tahoe. She did go on to say that the majority of it would have been lost in space, while a fraction of it would have found its way to the lunar poles.
This suggests that some of the volatiles of the lunar poles may have originated inside of the moon. Dr. David A Kring from the Universities Space Research Association said that the findings could have a dramatic change in the view of the moon from the rocky and airless body to one that had an atmosphere that was more prevalent than the one that surrounds Mars today.
Yellow Stone National park has been a long-time heralded UFO sighting area for many decades throughout American history.
The mountain in past years and recent news has been declared a ticking time-bomb as it has awakened into an active volcano being able to erupt at any time it should choose.
Recently a visitor was able to capture one of these amazing U.F.O sightings on camera. The Youtube video was taken earlier this past June already has nearly 25 thousand views. Alien hunters and paranormal fans worldwide are beyond excited to view this very credible footage of a typical silvery flying saucer rising beside Yellowstone then shooting across the sky.
This is not the first sighting of an unidentifiable object in the sky near Yellow Stone. In 2016 there too was a sighting of what appeared to be a drone-like object hovering directly above the head of the summit. Footage of this sighting can also be found on the "Jeanette" channel under a video entitled "Things Are Flying All Over The Night Sky! Upper Basin - Overnight!". Is there a possibility that visitors from other planets could share an interest in the earth's natural wonders? Are alien beings somehow involved with the activation of this super-volcano? It is estimated that the volcano last erupted over 700 000 years ago. Many locals feel uneasy knowing that all it might take is just one unexpected earthquake to set it off, immediately killing an estimated 87,000 people and making two-thirds of the United States immediately uninhabitable.
Photographer caught strange orb with sparkling structure inside it over Ambach, Germany
Photographer caught strange orb with sparkling structure inside it over Ambach, Germany
Photographer took an image of a strange orb with a sparkling shimmering structure inside it, over Ambach in Germany.
He took several other images at the same time and checked them to see if the object was dirt on lens or a reflection of the sun, lens flare, but nothing was to see in all the images except the one showing the orb with its interior structure of some sort.
The photographer who took the image with his Samsung Galaxy a5 on October 2, 2017 stated that he has never seen such a thing before and wonders whether someone maybe have already seen such a phenomenon in the sky or not. Mufon case file 87225.
Curious reports of extra-terrestrials pulling Steven Spielberg to Siberian jewel Baikal.
True or not about Spielberg's interest, the lake is perhaps the biggest focus of UFOs in Russia.
Picture: othereal.ru
Since ancient times, the vast Lake Baikal has been known as deeply mysterious, but in the closing years of the Soviet era, and since, it has been the location of a number of alleged sightings of aliens and UFOs.
Initially these were covered-up by the authorities of the USSR, but later they were revealed by the Russian media.
In recent days there have been unconfirmed reports in Russia that American director Steven Spielberg is planning a documentary based on these weird and unexplained accounts. At the time of writing, this appeared to be a hoax, though it was unclear who planted stories in the Russian media.
True or not about Spielberg's interest, the lake is perhaps the biggest focus of UFOs in Russia.
The versions of extra-terrestrial activity at Baikal - edged by mountains and containing one-fifth of the world's unfrozen freshwater - relate to supposed aliens seen by military divers in its depth, and large 'spaceships' hovering over its grey, moody expanses.
Some of the images here show what two photographers claimed were UFOs buzzing the lake, while others are mock-ups from NTV based on descriptions of an incident at Kudara-Somon, in Buryatia, exactly a quarter of a century ago.
A number of sightings also indicate bright 'cigar-shaped' objects in the sky flying over Baikal, as in the top picture.
NTV channel mock-up of 'flying saucer' based on accounts by residents of Kudara-Somon village in 1990.
Pictures: NTV
A case for which there were no images, but an intriguing description, occurred at Kurma, Irkutsk region, in 17 April 1987. The words that follow are from Valery Rudentsov, a local resident of nearby Shida village:
'There was 13 of us. At about 12.20am, one of our guys went out into the yard, a few seconds later runs, and calls all of us out. He stood in the centre of the yard and pointed his finger at the sky.
'Diagonally from his gesture - 150 metres above us - hung a huge flying saucer. From the centre of the plate went a phosphorescent purple ray. And at the edges of the plate were yellow portholes, almost like in our rural houses. The diameter of the plate was 70 metres. We saw it so clearly and for a long time, someone even suggested he throw a stone at it ...
'The weather was amazingly quiet, no sound was heard from the hanging saucer, although behind us was the village of Kurma - there was the noise of a dog barking, the lowing of cows. We were spellbound.
'It was a full moon and the visibility was so clear that no one of us could doubt the reality of what we saw. And then the plate slid smoothly away, sailed along the shore of the bay and further slipped into the hills of Olkhon. Neither before nor after have I ever met such a thing.
'But since that time it has been a kind of sacrilege to me - not to believe in UFOs. My friend Alexander, a hunter, and his colleagues who lived there for 20 years, often see UFOs - and all is fine, he is still alive. So if to speak about glowing balls or 'cigars', we constantly see these on the shores of Lake Baikal. They exist.'
The case highlighted by NTV channel was on 16 May 1990 in the village of Kudara-Somon, in Kyakhtinsky district, some 300 km from Ulan-Ude, capital of the Republic of Buryatia.
Margarita Tsybikova recalls the UFO's visit to Kudara-Somon. Marina Zimireva shows where the 'flying saucer' landed.
Pictures: NTV
Olga Fedorova, a local resident, recalled: 'At some moment everything turned yellow. My daughter came home from school. I looked - her face was yellow.'
The explanation soon became clear, according to accounts from villagers.
Vasily Timofeev spoke of a flying saucer. 'Its diameter was around 30 meters, it shone brightly. But I did not see a clear image of metal or something like this.'
Another resident Margarita Tsybikova said: 'From this dish came down people in shiny, shimmering costumes.' Olga explained: 'There were people, as far as I remember, three people in shining yellow suits. Seems there were people, yes.'
Marina Zimireva, who also says she witnessed this extraordinary sight, said: 'It was some kind of circle, it can be said, it was like a disk. It turned on the edge and and, well, windows were visible.
'I personally decided for myself that they were people. They had some human image. They were the same - straight, slender, they had arms and legs. And their gait was the same as ours. A little lower down there were three in orange suits. They went down from the disk like a man - the steps were very visible.'
Then, as they recounted the strange event, the 'aliens' saw the people watching them. They returned to their spaceship and flew away.
A picture taken by Nikita Tomin, shows three green-shaded lights on a UFO flying above a lakeside resort in Irkutsk region.
Pictures: Baikal Press, NTV
Game warden Gennady Lipinsky also recalls seeing a UFO. 'When I saw it, it was flying low. Until it disappeared over the horizon, I kept looking at it. I call it a fireball, and what it really was - I cannot know.'
The chairman of the Union of Photographers of Buryatia, Sergey Konechnykh, Ulan-Ude, was quoted about a much more recent incident, on 9 July 2009, at around 10pm.
'My son and I went out to the balcony, to see the last of the waning sunset. Suddenly there appeared these two glowing points and they hovered over the water.'
His pictures of this incident are clear yet perhaps raise as many questions as they answer. They show two glows in the night sky, featuring a yellow core with an orange-red surround.
By his account, the mysterious crafts rose and rebased elsewhere on Baikal's surface.
Around the same time, Anna Vinogradova, recalled a different but equally strange sight on the water. 'We were standing with tents on the beach and at night we saw orange-red flashes, as if a huge fires,' she said.
At Listvyanka in July 2010, a picture taken by Nikita Tomin, shows three green-shaded lights on a UFO flying above the lakeside resort in Irkutsk region.
The chairman of the Union of Photographers of Buryatia, Sergey Konechnykh shows the pictures he made in July 2009.
Pictures: NTV, Sergey Konechnykh
'It flew right above us, very low. The object was shining down on us with a green light. We were a bit scared,' he said.
But the accounts also include 'aliens' in the deep waters of Baikal. Interestingly, unlike several other Siberian lakes, Baikal is not seen as home to a Loch Ness-style monster, but rather boasts space-like aliens under its murky surface.
For example, Vyacheslav Lavretevich, a rescuer, recalled an incident but did not give the date. 'We were on a yacht on Lake Baikal, and from under us flew out a huge glowing disk. It blinded us, and for a second flew into the sky.
'We did not even have time to grab any cameras, nor take video, although many of us saw it. It was a huge - and lit up all of our yacht. In diameter it was probably 500-700 metres, a huge disk.
'For three minutes it shone from below (the surface), and then abruptly departed in a second. The spectacle was huge, awesome. Beautiful, and shocking.'
Vyacheslav Lavretevich, a rescuer, recalled an incident on Baikal. Oleg Chichulin saw strange objects near Cape Svyatoi Nos. Pictures: NTV
Oleg Chichulin was also on a boat, training students. Near Cape Svyatoi Nos they saw strange objects.
'There was a ball that glowed. And then this ball started to fade, fade and blush. And it turned into a red ball. This red ball for a while lay on the water, and then began to sink. And all this gradually, gradually went under the water. And it became dark.'
Yet there are even more intriguing accounts of underwater aliens in the vast lake.
In 1977, when Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin, two researchers named V Alexandrov and G Seliverstov, were in a submersible device at a depth of 1200 metres in the lake.
The researchers turned off their spotlights, to explore the depth of penetration of sunlight into the water. Suddenly the scientists were bathed in light from an unusual 'glow'.
Aleksandrov recalled: 'It was so like if our device was lit from above and the side by two strong spotlights. Only a minute later, unknown floodlights went out, and we found ourselves in total darkness.'
In 1977 two researchers named V Alexandrov and G Seliverstov, were in a submersible device at a depth of 1200 metres in the lake and observd strange lights.
Picture: Vokrug Sveta
In 1982, seven military divers were reported to have come across aliens under the waters of Baikal. Alexey Tivanenko, a doctor of history, said: 'At a depth of 50 metres, they met swimmers, around three metres tall, dressed in tight-fitting silvery suits. They did not have any scuba or other devices, just helmets on their heads.
'They received an order to catch the Ihtiander (half-boy, half-shark, from modern Russian folklore) - but they were immediately washed ashore with signs of decompression.
'They had two decompression devices, but one was broken. All seven people could not be put inside, so they put only four of them. And those three people, who were not put in the device, died on the beach.'
Tivanenko has likened the descriptions to ancient petroglyphs seen by some as being aliens visiting Earth. 'I have hundreds of drawings with these 'Sons of the Sky',' he told NTV.
'They are united by the fact that all of them are tall, dressed in suits, all with the helmets on their heads. And there are mechanisms used by astronauts today.'
'I have hundreds of drawings with these 'Sons of the Sky', told Alexey Tivanenko.
Pictures: NTV
Reports surfaced several days ago in the Russian media that Spielberg was expected at Baikal in May, and that he intends to make a documentary entitled Depth 211.
Citing the 'press service' of MUFON - the Mutual UFO Network, a US-based organisation that investigates UFO sightings - news source infobaikal.ru and others reported his trip.
Yet there was no confirmation from the Hollywood director, who has made such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, would be arriving, nor further detail on the reported project.
Later, Komsomolskaya Pravda and IA Teleinform denied the reports but without quoting any sources close to the director.
SHROUDED IN SECRECY: WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN COMPLEX?
SHROUDED IN SECRECY: WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN COMPLEX?
The Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado is said to be a sleeping dragon, and the story has it that the Ute mountain tribe were saved many years back by it.
The Native American story says that the people were punished by a huge flood sent by the Great Spirit but when they decided to repent a dragon was sent to take the water away. When it was filled with drink, it became petrified and turned into the mountain.
CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN HAS BEEN IN OPERATION MORE THAN 50 YEARS
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex has been in operation for more than 50 years and never slept. It became fully operational in 1966, and it has played a role for the Department of Defense that has been vital both in wars and peacetime.
The complex has changed its name many times over the last five decades but the mission has always been the same, and that has been to defend the US along with their allies. It is known today as the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, and today one of the main roles of it is a collection of information from sensors on the ground and satellites around the globe. It also disseminates the data to the US Strategic Command, North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S Northern Command.
CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN WORKS LIKE A HIGHLY TRAINED BRAIN
The AFS deputy director of the Cheyenne Mountain said that the sensors are the nerves sensing information and the nerves all come back to the brain stem and they are the brain stem that puts everything together and makes sense of it and then passes it on to the brain. He is talking about the commander or either NORAD NORTHCOM or STRATCOM, who then decide on what it means. The Cheyenne Mountain puts up a shield around the single place where the correlation and the data come in.
During the 1950s the Department of Defense built the installation to be used as a control center defense or command, and due to this it found itself on the target list of the enemies, and as such, it had been built so that it would be able to withstand a nuclear attack that was direct. There are 15 buildings that sit on over 1,300 springs that are 18 inches from the rock walls of the mountain. This means that they can move about independently should they have to go up against a nuclear blast and seismic event following a blast. Along with this, the EMP had been thought about in the original design and the construction of the Cheyenne Mountain.
GRANITE MAKES FOR A SHIELD AGAINST NUCLEAR BLASTS
It was said that the EMP threat is now more of a threat to the society of today due to the investment in electronics. However, thanks to coincidence since it was designed during the 1950s to withstand a nuclear blast today it remains the number one rated EMP protected facility. One of a unique things about the mountain is the fact that the whole installation was surrounded by granite and this makes it EMP shield that is natural.
The station was built 7,000 feet above the level of the sea, and it opened with the name of NORAD Combat Operations Center. Many people thought that when they moved the main command to the Peterson Air Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain would have closed. However, instead, it became an alternative command center for NORAD.
Cheyenne Mountain AFS Installation Commander, Colonel Gary Cornn said that when he takes visitors to it, they are surprised that the place is still open and many are even more impressed by the original construction of it. More so, when it comes to the construction of the buildings and blasting of the tunnels in the building along with the capability of it. He went on to say that it was strange to see civilians along with senior officers behaving like little children at the site.
25 TON STEEL DOORS CLOSE IN 40 SECONDS IF A THREAT IS DETECTED
The sources and threats may have changed drastically today from when the center was first opened during the Cold War. However, one thing has remained the same, and this is the 25-ton steel doors that can seal off the Mountain in just 40 seconds if there is a threat. There is a city underground the 2,000 feet of granite, and this can offer protection, so it ensures that the station is relevant and is the fortress of America.
The long-time employees of Cheyenne Mountain call themselves mountain men and Russel Mullins, the 721st Communications Squadron deputy director goes back to the era of the Cold War to 1984. While the nuclear arsenal of the Soviet Union used to be the main focus, today the airmen still have the mission of detecting and tracking any incoming threats to the United States.
The attacks of 9/11 added another mission to NORAD and the Directorate of Cheyenne Mountain, the monitoring of airspace in the US and Canada. They are standing ready to help the Federal Aviation Administration along with the Navigation Canada with any threats that come from the air in the US or Canada
Cheyenne Mountain is said to be unique when it comes to ventilation, smoke, and occupancy. It was said that any normal building there would be a fire alarm to pull and the people have to leave. However, inside the mountain, the people depend on Backenberg to be able to get out through a safe route. If a fire should occur within the mountain, then they have to take care of it and get to safety down the half a mile long tunnel.
CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN HAS BEEN IN MANY TV SHOWS AND MOVIES
The Cheyenne Mountain as played a part in many TV series and movies, including Terminator, WarGames, and Interstellar. Occasionally there are trespassers, photographers, and protestors who security has to chase away. Senior Airman Ricardo Pierre Collie said that the part of the day of the security forces is responding to alarms and trying to get used to the fact that when working a 12-hour shift they do not get to see the sun. The security responds at a moment’s notice and the reaction time is always crucial. Collie and the others believe that it is their responsibility to protect what is an American fortress that remains as vital as ever.
A strange, mysterious light has been captured on video over the skies in the Westcountry.
It was seen at Cley Hill in Warminster, which is reputed in Somerset to be a supernatural hot spot.
The top of Cley Hill looking towards Frome
Tasha Colliss and her husband took the video last Friday night, September 29, at around 7.45pm from her kitchen window.
She told SomersetLive.com: “I spotted it from our home in Haygrove Close, Warminster. Our kitchen window overlooks Cley Hill.
“We have never seen anything like this before.”
It is not the first mysterious UFO to have been captured on video circling over Cley Hill.
An unidentified flying object was spotted by Frome resident Jeremy Le Fevre in August. He had been travelling home after performing with the Frome Street Bandits at the Cheese and Grain Rum Festival.
Upon spotting the strange object he took a moment to watch the unusual movements of the light.
He said: “I had never seen anything like it before. It really caught my eye. It went on for quite some time before flying off into the distance towards Longleat.
“It was emitting green and red colours. It looked to me like it could have been fireworks attached to a drone. It’s still very much unidentified though.”
Nigel Vile, a local rambler, regularly goes on walks around the area.
Speaking of the hill, he said: “Some experts have gone as far as to describe the nearby town of Warminster as Britain’s UFO capital on account of a phenomena first encountered in the mid-1960s that became known as the ‘Warminster Thing’.
“Strange noises were heard in the skies above the town, and an equally strange shimmering light was observed in the vicinity.”
Even earlier in the year another UFO had been videoed circling over Cley Hill.
The video showed streaks of light circling over the National Trust owned land in Corsley.
The resident who took the video believed the streak of light could be a UFO.
He said: “I took this video from my house in Frome last night (May 29). It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs.”
AeroSparx are based near Warminster and regularly practice around Cley Hill
It eventually emerged that the streak of light had in fact been created by a stunt plane belonging to nearby acrobatics group AeroSparx.
The innovative display team performs dazzling acrobatic displays with fireworks attached to the tips of their wings.
This could provide some answers to Jeremy’s video. Although the object he videoed remains unidentified.
Stephen Hawking Warns Us to Stop Reaching Out to Aliens Before It's Too Late
Stephen Hawking Warns Us to Stop Reaching Out to Aliens Before It's Too Late
"I am more convinced than ever that we are not alone."
When the potential of intelligent alien civilisations comes up in conversation, it’s usually about the search. How will we find them? Where are they? Are they there at all? What actions should we take if – or when – we find them, or they find us?
Well, according to physicist Stephen Hawking, we should probably stop trying to contact them at all, because reaching out to advanced civilisations could put humanity and Earth in a pretty risky situation. And the bad news is, we've already been broadcasting our location to the Universe for years.
Hawking’s warning comes in a new online film called Stephen Hawking’s Favourite Places, which shows the famed scientist in a CGI spacecraft called the SS Hawking exploring his favourite places in the Universe.
"As I grow older I am more convinced than ever that we are not alone. After a lifetime of wondering, I am helping to lead a new global effort to find out," Hawking says in the film while exploring Gliese 832c, a planet that lies 16 light-years away and might foster alien life.
"The Breakthrough Listen project will scan the nearest million stars for signs of life, but I know just the place to start looking. One day we might receive a signal from a planet like Gliese 832c, but we should be wary of answering back."
Recently, the project announced that it would be turning its attention to the hypothetical 'alien megastructure' that some think is causing a star known as KIC 8462852 to oddly dim off and on.
A more reasonable hypothesis is that the erratic dimming is caused by 'interstellar junk' or a comet swarm, but no one really knows what’s going on there yet.
Despite Hawking’s extraordinary effort to find intelligent life in the Universe, he is one of the most outspoken critics of actually trying to communicate with them, an act that he says would potentially endanger humanity, because a distant alien civilisation might view us as inferior, weak, and perfect to conquer.
"If so, they will be vastly more powerful and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria," he says in the film.
Hawking often uses the example of Columbus’ expedition to the America’s to describe what could happen if an advanced civilisation gets word of our existence, saying that that initial meeting "didn’t turn out so well".
Hawking’s warning is rooted in the idea that an alien civilisation, especially one that can pick up our signals and understand where they’re coming from, has the potential to be billions of years more advanced than us, making us an easy target to overthrow or invade.
Reaching out to the Universe isn’t the only area of scientific pursuit that Hawking says is risky.
A few weeks ago, at a lecture at the University of Cambridge, Hawking said artificial intelligence might prove to be "either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity", a feeling that other experts and leaders – such as Elon Musk – have agreed with.
This fear stems from the fact that AI has the power to learn for itself, making it possible to surpass our human abilities, because we rely on biological evolution – a slow process, to say the least – to become better.
"[Artificial intelligence] would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate," he told Rory Cellan-Jones at the BBC. "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded."
While all of these warnings might seem a bit much, it’s important for us to think about them before we have to. As the saying goes, it’s better to be safe than sorry, especially when world-dominating aliens or AI robots are involved.
Besides offering an ominous warning, though, the new 25-minute film sees Hawking explore other incredible spots in the Universe, such as Sagittarius A* – a supermassive black hole – and our Solar System’s very own Saturn, a planet that Hawking is fascinated with.
Crop circles — strange patterns that appear mysteriously overnight in farmers' fields—provoke puzzlement, delight and intrigue among the press and public alike. The circles are mostly found in the United Kingdom, but have spread to dozens of countries around the world in past decades. The mystery has inspired countless books, blogs, fan groups, researchers (dubbed "cereologists") and even Hollywood films.
Despite having been studied for decades, the question remains: Who — or what — is making them?
Early crop circles
Many people believe that crop circles have been reported for centuries, a claim repeated in many books and websites devoted to the mystery. Their primary piece of evidence is a woodcut from 1678 that appears to show a field of oat stalks laid out in a circle. Some take this to be a first-hand eyewitness account of a crop circle, but a little historical investigation shows otherwise.
A woodcut pamphlet that some claim represents an early crop circle.
The woodcut actually illustrates what in folklore is called a "mowing devil" legend, in which an English farmer told a worker with whom he was feuding that he "would rather pay the Devil himself" to cut his oat field than pay the fee demanded. The source of the harvesting is not unknown or mysterious; it is indeed Satan himself, who — complete with signature horns and a tail — can be seen in the woodcut holding a scythe.
Some claim that the first crop circles (though they were not called that at the time) appeared near the small town of Tully, Australia. In 1966, a farmer said he saw a flying saucer rise up from a swampy area and fly away; when he went to investigate he saw a roughly circular area of debris and apparently flattened reeds and grass, which he assumed had been made by the alien spacecraft (but which police investigators said was likely caused by a natural phenomena such as a dust devil or waterspout). Referred in the press as "flying saucer nests," this story is more a UFO report than a crop circle report.
As in the 1678 mowing devil legend, the case for it being linked to crop circles is especially weak when we consider that the impression or formation was not made in a crop of any kind but instead in ordinary grass. A round impression in a lawn or grassy area is not necessarily mysterious (as anyone with a kiddie pool in the back yard knows). Indeed, mysterious circles have appeared in grass throughout the world that are sometimes attributed to fairies but instead caused by disease.
Modern crop circles
In fact, the first real crop circles didn't appear until the 1970s, when simple circles began appearing in the English countryside. The number and complexity of the circles increased dramatically, reaching a peak in the 1980s and 1990s when increasingly elaborate circles were produced, including those illustrating complex mathematical equations.
In July 1996, one of the world's most complex and spectacular crop circles appeared in England, across a highway from the mysterious and world-famous Stonehenge monument in the Wiltshire countryside. It was astonishing fractal pattern called a Julia Set, and while some simple or rough circles might be explained away as the result of a strange weather phenomenon, this one unmistakably demonstrated intelligence. The only question was whether that intelligence was terrestrial or extra-terrestrial.
Making the design all the more mysterious, it was claimed that the circle appeared in less than an hour and during the daytime — which, if true, would be virtually impossible for hoaxers to accomplish. The circle became one of the most famous and important crop circles in history.
It was later revealed that the circle had in fact been made in about three hours (by three hoaxers) very early that morning. It simply hadn't been noticed until the following afternoon when spotted from an airplane overhead.
People inspect crop circles within a golden wheat field in Switzerland. The photo was taken on July 29, 2007.
Theories & explanations
Unlike other mysterious phenomenon such as psychic powers, ghosts, or Bigfoot, there is no doubt that crop circles are "real." The evidence that they exist is clear and overwhelming. The real question is instead what creates them — and there are ways to investigate that question.
We can look at both internal and external evidence to evaluate crop circles. Internal information includes the content and meaning of the designs (is there anything that indicates that any information contained in the "messages" is of extraterrestrial origin?), and external information, including the physical construction of the crop designs themselves (is there anything that indicates that the designs were created by anything other than humans?)
Crop circle enthusiasts have come up with many theories about what create the patterns, ranging from the plausible to the absurd. One explanation in vogue in the early 1980s was that the mysterious circle patterns were accidentally produced by the especially vigorous sexual activity of horny hedgehogs. Some people have suggested that the circles are somehow created by localized and precise wind patterns, or by scientifically undetectable Earth energy fields and meridians called ley lines.
Others, such as molecular biologist Horace Drew, suggest that the answer lies instead in time travel or alien life. He theorizes that the patterns could be made by human time travelers from the distant future to help them navigate our planet. Drew, working on the assumption that the designs are intended as messages, believes he has decoded crop circle symbols and that they contain messages such as "Believe," "There is good out there," "Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises," and "We oppose deception" (all, presumably, in English).
However, these odd, pseudo-biblical messages undermine the credibility of the crop circles, or at least the meaning read into them. Of all the information that an extraterrestrial intelligence might choose to convey to humanity — ranging from how to contact them to engineering secrets of faster-than-light travel — these aliens chose to impart intentionally cryptic messages about false gifts, broken promises, and hope for mankind (along with what seems to be a reference to a popular "The X-Files" slogan).
Many who favor an extraterrestrial explanation claim that aliens physically make the patterns themselves from spaceships; others suggest that they do it using invisible energy beams from space, saving them the trip down here. Still others believe that it is human, not extraterrestrial, thought and intelligence that is behind the patterns — not in the form of hoaxers but some sort of global psychic power that manifests itself in wheat and other crops.
Another triskelion crop circle. The symbol can be used to represent cycles, progress or competition.
While there are countless theories, the only known, proven cause of crop circles is humans. Their origin remained a mystery until September 1991, when two men confessed that they had created the patterns for decades as a prank to make people think UFOs had landed (they had been inspired by the 1966 Tully UFO report). They never claimed to have made all the circles — many were copycat pranks done by others — but their hoax launched the crop circle phenomena.
Most crop circle researchers admit that the vast majority of crop circles are created by hoaxers. But, they claim, there's a remaining tiny percentage that they can't explain. The real problem is that (despite unproven claims by a few researchers that stalks found inside "real" crop circles show unusual characteristics), there is no reliable scientific way to distinguish "real" crop circles from man-made ones.
Crop circle features
While there are always a few exceptions, virtually all crop circles share a set of common characteristics.
Circles.
Crop circles, as the name implies, almost always involve circles — rarely triangles, rectangles, or squares, though some designs contain straight or curved lines. Perhaps not coincidentally, a circle is the easiest pattern for hoaxers to create.
This design of three flying birds was created on Aug. 3, 2003, in the county of Wiltshire in southern England. The birds, which resemble swallows, have ever-diminishing circles trailing behind their wing tips.
Nocturnal creation.
Crop circles are formed overnight, often sighted by farmers or passersby the next morning. Though there seems no logical reason for extraterrestrials or earth energies to only create patterns at night, it is obviously a great advantage for hoaxers to create the designs under the cover of darkness; full moon nights are especially popular.
Camera shyness.
Crop circles have never been recorded being made (except, of course, for those created by hoaxers). This is a very suspicious trait; after all, if mysterious earthly forces or aliens are at work, there's no reason to think that they wouldn't happen when cameras are recording.
Access to roads.
Crop circles usually appear in fields that provide reasonably easy public access, close to roads and highways. They rarely appear in remote, inaccessible areas. Because of this, the patterns are usually noticed within a day or two of their creation by passing motorists.
There are many theories about what creates crop circles, including aliens, mysterious vortices, time travelers and wind patterns, but they all lack one important element: good evidence. The only known cause of crop circles is humans. Perhaps one day a mysterious, unknown source will be discovered for crop circles, but until the perhaps they are best thought of as collective public art.
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