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...
This past weekend I spoke at the annual Greater New England UFO Conference, in Leominster, Massachusetts. It was a good gig, with an attendance of a couple of hundred. I gave two presentations: one on my 2016 book, Women in Black, and the other on my latest book, Shapeshifters. Although the books are – for the most part – very different, they do have one thing that links them together. Namely, predatory, supernatural entities that invade bedrooms in the dead of night and provoke terror, hysteria and paranoia. One group that falls into this particular category is the Shadow People.
Jason Offutt is an expert on the Shadow People, and the author of a 2009 book on the subject titled Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us. He says there are eight different kinds of Shadow People – at least, they are the ones we know about. He labels them as Benign Shadows, Shadows of Terror, Red-Eyed Shadows, Noisy Shadows, Angry Hooded Shadows, Shadows that Attack, Shadow Cats, and the Hat Man. Regarding the Hat Man, imagine a silhouetted character that had stepped out of a 1940s / 1950s-era piece of black and white film-noir, and you’ll have a good idea of what he / it looks like. That he is entirely shadow-like in nature only adds to the menace. Heidi Hollis is an expert on this topic, too, having penned a 2014 book on the subject titled The Hat Man: The True Story of Evil Encounters. She has collected literally hundreds of reports of encounters with this particularly dangerous shadow-thing.
All of which brings me back to the Leominster gig. I had five people come up to me during the course of the weekend and share with me their experiences with the Shadow People, which was pretty strange, I have to admit. Without doubt, the most fascinating account came from a guy from nearby Boston who had a story to tell that had a direct bearing on my series of articles published recently on the links between Mothman, the city of Chicago, and nightmares of the nuclear war variety.
I sat and listened at my table as he told me how, back in July of this year, he had three experiences with the Hat Man – and which were pretty much all identical – and which were very familiar to me. He woke up in the early hours of the morning to a horrific vision: the outside wall of his bedroom was displaying a terrifying image of a large city on fire, with significant portions of it in ruins. It was none other than Chicago. The sky was dark and millions were dead. Circling high above what was left of the city was a large, human-like entity with huge wings. And stood next to the guy, as he watched this apocalyptic scenario unravel from his bed, was the Hat Man, his old-style fedora hat positioned firmly on his head. The doomsday-like picture lasted for a minute or two, making it clear to the witness that a Third World War had begun. On two more occasions in the same month, a near-identical situation played out. It’s hardly surprising that the man was still concerned by all this when we chatted at the weekend.
The other accounts given to me were no less traumatic, but in very different ways. One came from a woman who lived in Worcester County and who told me how she had encountered the Hat Man in her early teens (which was in the late 1960s). The experiences were all the same: she would wake up to find the Hat Man choking her, as he loomed over her. Interestingly, this is not the first time I have heard stories of the Hat Man (and the MIB too) choking his victims – that is, until he suddenly vanishes, leaving his target shaking and terrified.
A twenty-something man told me how he had seen the Hat Man a couple of years ago. Not in his dreams, but – bizarrely – in his bathroom mirror. On several occasions, while shaving, he had seen reflecting in the mirror a smoky, silhouetted form behind him, but which could not be seen outside of the mirror. It’s hardly surprising he was immediately plunged into a state of fear. Whether it was connected or not, he thought it relevant to bring up the fact that he had then-recently started working on an occult-based adventure novel in which the central character was to be Aleister Crowley. The witness had no specific reason for bringing up the Crowley issue (so far as I could tell, at least), but he felt that he should at least mention it, since it had been on his mind – and it still was.
The two final cases were somewhat similar: both witnesses were women, one I would estimate to be in her thirties and the other in her forties. Both had seen the Shadow People while in states of sleep paralysis. One lived in Boston and the other was born in Boston but had moved to Leominster in 2007. What particularly interested me was not just the nature of the experiences, but that over the course of less than two full days I should have been given a cluster of such cases – all concerning the Shadow People and the Hat Man. And, all involving people who lived relatively close to each other. I have mentioned these weird cluster-style events previously at Mysterious Universe, all of which revolved around the likes of the Men in Black, the Hat Man and similar bedroom invaders. It’s hard to know what to think about all of this. So, for that reason, I share the data with you, the readers. Thoughts, anyone?
The Phantom Time Hypothesis: Currently we are living in the year 1720!
The Phantom Time Hypothesis: Currently we are living in the year 1720!
In 1986, German historian Heribert Illig started developing the Phantom Time Hypothesis. Illig claims that he has archaeological evidence that can prove that the years AD 614 - 911 do not actually exist and the Gregorian calendar is nothing but a lie.
According to Illig, the three world rulers, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII entered into a conspiracy to change the Anno Domini dating system retrospectively, so that it placed them at the special year of AD 1000, and to rewrite history to legitimize Otto's claim to the Holy Roman Empire.
Heribert Illig believed that this was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation, and forgery of documentary and physical evidence.
Could Illig's theory be true? Could we be living in the 18th Century?
Unknown lights hovering above Seattle, Washington 9-Oct-2017
Unknown lights hovering above Seattle, Washington 9-Oct-2017
Here’s one new footage of an unknown orbs in triangular formation. This happened over Seattle, Washington.
Witness report:
Three hovering lights that I saw move and change places in the sky. I was going my homework in a building and saw three lights across the water and over the trees but didnt think much of it until i noticed that they weren’t going away and just hovering and changing places. I watched them and recorded them for a good half hour. the three lights would change places and disapear, but then another light would take its place back in the from of the line of lights. the lights just eventually dissapeared.
Metallic, Shiny Unidentified Object Flying Above Yellowstone National Park
Metallic, Shiny Unidentified Object Flying Above Yellowstone National Park
Alien hunting community went into frenzy anew after a UFO was spotted moving above Yellowstone Volcano. The video of the UFO sighting has surfaced on YouTube showing an apparent craft darting above the active volcano.
The metallic and shiny-looking object darts across the left of the screen of the video that was reportedly taken on June 9 but it was uploaded online only recently. The YouTube video has a caption describing the UFO near the Yellowstone Volcano as impressive.
The area of the active volcano that spans from Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho has long been known as a UFO hotspot.
Just last year, the video of a mysterious, small object over the super volcano went viral. The video titled “Things R flying all over – overnight” was uploaded by the name Jeanetta Foresta who claimed that she saw more than four UFOs at the beginning.
In September, a UFO as bright as a bolt of lightning was spotted close to a home. Jack Holdsworth, 21 and Trent Mason, 22 were stargazing when they noticed the strange orange object floating above the Yorkshire Dales, changing colours, and moving around the sky for over two hours.
Chinese or sky lanterns are often misidentified as UFOs. These three were part of a large group of lanterns that was the main event of the 2013 Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in Taiwan on Feb. 24, 2013.
(Getty)
More Chinese Lanterns, aka UFOs
These candle-lit Chinese lanterns can rise high into the sky and are often mistaken for UFOs.
(China Photos / Getty Images)
2. Kentucky UFO -- Oct. 16, 2012
Amateur astronomer Allen Epling captured video and images of a cylindrical object in the sky above his Virgie, Ky., ho me on Oct. 16, 2012. This is one of the images he took, which led many to believe the object was a high-flying solar balloon.
(Allen Epling / YouTube)
3. Manufactured UFO -- 2011
Pictured is a quad copter -- a deliberately manufactured UFO created by special effects wizard Marc Dantonio for a National Geographic special, "The Truth Behind: UFOs," which aired in December 2011. On the left is what the small device looks like resting on the ground, measuring 4 feet in circumference. At right, is how it appeared behind a tree in the night sky.
(Marc Dantonio / FX Models / YouTube)
4. Boomerang UFO composite images -- 10-5-12
This is a composite of images shot by two eyewitnesses of a boomerang-shaped UFO they reported seeing over their Burbank, Calif., home on Oct. 5, 2012. Mutual UFO Network photo/video analyst Marc Dantonio concluded the object was likely "a balloon, floating on the wind that has collapsed in half."
(Mutual UFO Network)
5. Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2013
This is a composite image of how three alleged UFOs maneuvered about in the sky over Melbourne, Australia, in early February, 2013. The final verdict isn't in yet on whether they're birds, aircraft, balloons, bugs or something truly unidentified.
(FindingUFO / YouTube)
6. Exploding Weather Balloons, Not UFOs
On Dec. 20, 2012, a bright, circular object (pictured at the top of this composite image) was videotaped exploding in the skies above Sacramento, Calif. It wasn't immediately identified, resulting in speculation that it was either an alien spacecraft, military top secret weapon, runaway planet, North Korean satellite, among others. Within a short period of time, it became apparent that this was a weather balloon. The bottom part of this image shows such a balloon as it ascended over Tampa Bay, Fla., on July 2, 2012, and exploded in an identical manner as the Sacramento object, probably much to the dismay of all true ET believers out there.
(CBSNews13 / Sutor 1000 / YouTube)
7. Changing UFO Pattern -- Warren, Mich. 1-10-13
This four-image series of lights in the sky was recorded over Warren, Mich., on Jan. 10, 2013. The lights were seen changing into several patterns. The most logical explanation for these types of UFOs is a series of balloons or lanterns.
(LUFOS.net / YouTube)
8. UFOs Over Earth
This composite image shows four different times that alleged UFO were photographed above Earth by either space shuttles or the International Space Station. The big question is whether or not they are truly unidentified objects or if they are more likely reflections from spacecraft windows, meteors or fast-moving spacecraft-generated debris.
(danielofdoriaa / YouTube)
9. Lens flares Arizona
These two flying saucer-shaped, pink-colored lens flares were created by the Google Maps camera as it drove through locations in Sedona, Ariz. (left) and Flagstaff, Ariz. (right). The images were snapped in April 2009. Submitted to HuffPost by trenna.
On the night of Sept. 28, 2012, a group of strange-looking lights appeared in the sky near Cincinnati, Ohio. First there was one, then, two, then three lights, slowly descending. It turns out, however, that these lights were originating from a group of skydivers performing a pyrotechnics jump at the La Salle High School homecoming event.
(Galuyasdi / YouTube)
11. Weather Phenomenon
Some UFO sightings may be due to a natural phenomenon known as sprites, like this one shown from 2006. "Lightning from [a] thunderstorm excites the electric field above, producing a flash of light called a sprite," said geophysicist Colin Price.
(ILAN Science Team / Space.com)
12. Clouds
Clouds: Saucer-shaped or "lenticular" clouds that form at high altitudes have been confused with UFOs.
(Getty Images)
13. Blimps or Advertising Balloons
Blimps or advertising balloons: These can look like flying saucers from some angles, especially at night.
(Lars Baron, Bongarts / Getty Images)
14. Sunken Ship in the Baltic Sea
On June 19th the Swedish-based diving company Ocean Explorer discovered something they've never quite seen before. They were exploring in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland looking for sunken treasures when a very unusual image suddenly appeared on the sonar. A 197 feet diameter cylinder shaped object was discovered at the depth of approximately 275 feet which resembles the Millennium Falcon from the movie Star Wars.
(www.oceanexplorer.se / Everett Collection)
Baltic Sea UFO 1
An image released on June 15, 2012, shows a close-up view of the unidentified object sitting on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
(Expressen.se / YouTube)
15. Antarctic UFO -- Aug. 10, 2012
A circular UFO hovers above the Neumayer-Station III research facility in Antarctica on Aug. 10, 2012. Theories ranging from a simple weather balloon to a more elaborate ship from another planet have run the Internet gamut. The next slide shows a closeup of the object.
(myunhauzen74 / YouTube)
Antarctic UFO Closeup -- Aug. 10, 2012
This is a closeup of the UFO from the previous slide. No official explanation has been offered about the object.
(myunhauzen74 / YouTube)
16. Cincinnati Skydivers NOT UFOs Sept. 28, 2012
On the night of Sept. 28, 2012, a group of strange-looking lights appeared in the sky near Cincinnati, Ohio. First there was one, then, two, then three lights, slowly descending. It turns out, however, that these lights were originating from a group of skydivers performing a pyrotechnics jump at the La Salle High School homecoming event.
(Galuyasdi / YouTube)
17. Meteors
Meteors: Space debris can create a spectacular light show when it burns through the Earth's atmosphere, and sometimes reported as UFOs.
(Ethan Miller, Getty Images)
18. Civilian or Military Aircraft
Civilian or military aircraft: Planes can look mysterious at night or in certain light conditions, thus confusing an observer.
The public rarely hears about interactions between military personnel and unexplained aircraft — especially during wartime.
As time goes on, however, UFO stories stuck behind red tape begin to see the light of day. The Vietnam War saw its share of UFO activity in the 1960s.
One close encounter, in 1968, involved the crew of an American patrol boat that reported two glowing circular craft following them in the demilitarized zone that separated North and South Vietnam (see depiction below).
The crew aboard a second patrol boat later reported seeing the UFOs over the first boat and a flash of light, followed by an explosion that completely destroyed the boat. These Vietnam reports included close observation of the unknown aerial craft which appeared to house pilots (see recreation image at the top of this story).
Wartime UFO stories are recreated in the premiere episode of the second season of History’s “Hangar 1: The UFO Files.” The accounts are drawn from tens of thousands of UFO cases in the archives of the Mutual UFO Network, the world’s largest UFO investigation group.
“The military was interested in [UFOs] because they had capabilities far above anything that we had, and they wanted to find out what the technology was and, frankly, who they belonged to,” according to former Air Force intelligence officer, Capt. George Filer.
While in Vietnam, Filer — who had a top secret clearance — gave daily briefings to Gen. George S. Brown, deputy commander for air operations in Vietnam.
“Frequently, the Vietcong or North Vietnamese would be attacking an outpost and I would explain that, and we would have ground-air support, particularly at night where we’d go in there with these gun ships, and I would give briefings on all of that,” Filer told The Huffington Post. “Some of the time, there would be unidentified craft over the DMZ.”
Filer described a typical report that he’d receive and which he included in his briefings to Brown:
“You’d have an aircraft flying along, doing around 500 knots and a UFO comes alongside and does some barrel rolls around the aircraft and then flies off at three times the speed of one of the fastest jets we have in the Air Force. So, obviously, it has a technology far in advance of anything we have.
“I would be told this unofficially. People tell you a lot of things that they don’t put in writing or sign their name to. There was always this part of UFOs that, if you got too interested, it could mess up your career. And this is true today even with commercial pilots. I’ve also heard from people serving in Afghanistan saying they’ve seen UFOs, and the Iranian news carries UFO reports pretty regularly.”
During a 1973 press conference, five years after the patrol boat UFO encounters, Brown — as USAF chief of staff — was asked about the Air Force’s position on UFOs:
I don’t know whether this story has ever been told or not. They weren’t called UFOs. The were called enemy helicopters. And they were only seen at night and they were only seen in certain places. They were seen up around the DMZ in the early summer of ‘68. And this resulted in quite a little battle.
And in the course of this, an Australian destroyer took a hit and we never found any enemy, we only found ourselves when this had all been sorted out. And this caused some shooting there, and there was no enemy at all involved, but we always reacted.
Always after dark, the same thing happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands in ‘69.
Many stories about battling UFOs have emerged throughout history.
One early account of UFO warfare was supposedly seen by the citizens of Nuremberg, Germany, in 1561. On a morning in April, the Nuremberg Gazette reportedly described an aerial battle between large “cylindrical shapes from which emerged black, red, orange and blue-white spheres that darted about... All these elements started to fight one against the other.”
An artist, Hans Glaser, created a woodcut of the spectacle, seen below:
During World War II, also in Germany, Allied aircraft pilots often reported mysterious glowing, fast-moving, circular lights, which were dubbed Foo Fighters. The New York Times reported it as “military slang for flying saucers.”
Filer — who documents his sightings and other UFO news at the National UFO Center site — was one of several military eyewitnesses to something extraordinary in the sky over England. It was 1962, and he was the navigator on a refueling tanker.
“We were out over the North Sea when London Control called and asked if we would be willing to intercept an unidentified that was over Oxford and the Stonehenge area. We had just finished up our refueling mission, so we said sure, and they cleared all the traffic around us and gave us top priority as we descended towards the UFO. All they really had was a very large radar return, but it was much bigger than a normal aircraft.”
Filer (pictured at right) recalled how his radar scope indicated the UFO was as big as the huge Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland that he and his crew often used as a regular navigation point.
“The ‘thing’ was at 1,000 feet and we were descending from 32,000 feet. We picked up this huge radar return while we were still about 30 miles out. It was dark out and when we got much closer to the object, we saw lights around it, outlining the shape of a cylinder, like a cruise ship. It then just quickly rose and went up into space.
“We were pretty sure we’d just seen a UFO.”
Filer also told HuffPost that he has heard from air traffic controllers who claimed they were told to “always divert aircraft away from UFOs and deny that it existed. I think they want this whole situation to go away, and I think [the policy] is coming from the National Security Council — they’re at the highest level. It sounds funny, but presidents don’t always know what their National Security Council is doing.”
Upcoming episodes of “Hangar 1” over the next 12 weeks will focus on folks who’ve held military positions and are willing to come forward and tell their stories.
One of those (hold onto your hats) is a man who claims he was in the Marines (wait for it...) and that he was stationed on Mars for several years. That’s right: the red planet Mars. He’ll describe being part of an off-planet military force. Let’s not pass judgment...yet.
There’s also the story of a retired Army sergeant who says he was assigned to UFO crash and retrieval cases where both ships and ET bodies were supposedly recovered — some dead, some alive.
In case you were wondering, Hangar 1 is an actual hangar where MUFON, for a long time, stored all of its archives. At one point, all of the organization’s files were housed in this airport hangar somewhere in the middle of the country. The images of Hangar 1 that appear in the series are of the real hangar.
“Hangar 1: The UFO Files” is on the History channel on Friday nights. Check your local listings for exact times.
Most Unidentified Flying Objects aren’t unidentified at all. Here’s a list of natural and human-made objects in the sky that people frequently mistake for UFOs.
An experimental rocket test over Scandinavia in 2009, which triggered many UFO reports. Read more about this photo.
If a really strange or unexplained object were to appear in the sky, common sense says it would probably be detected first by the people who spend time looking at the heavens: astronomers. But professional and amateur astronomers don’t often see UFOs. Because they look at the sky so often, they’re able to identify most sightings of objects and events in the sky, no matter how strange they may look. Here’s a list of sky objects people frequently mistake for UFOs.
1. Rocket launches.On the morning of September 2, 2015, many people in Miami, Florida looked up to catch a glimpse of the strange moving light seen above. Some labeled it as a UFO when posting photos to Twitter or Facebook, but others knew it was an Atlas V rocket launched from Cape Canaveral.
Some observers have seen a slow moving object displaying a strange single or double trail, which may even change its appearance over the moments you observe it. This can occur if an observer is fortunate enough to see a spacecraft just after being launched; you may be seeing one rocket stage separating from another, or the ignition of a new stage.
Take a look at the video below. It’s the same 2009 failed rocket launch as that shown in the photo at the top of this post. Experts have said it was the failure of a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile test:
2. Used rocket bodies
– tumbling objects orbiting our planet – also produce flashes in our night sky. After launching a satellite, most rocket bodies continue to orbit Earth for weeks, months or even years. As a rocket body tumbles in orbit, it may be visible as a dim moving “star” that might produce bright flashes as various sides of the tumbling object are exposed to sunlight.
An interesting sighting of this kind is a flash that appears to come from a static point in the sky. How is this possible? Geosynchronous satellites need to be placed in a very high orbit, some 22,200 miles (35,727 km) above Earth’s surface. After the launch of this sort of satellite, the rocket body that carried the satellite to orbit will also remain orbiting our planet. Instead of having a circular orbit it will have a highly elliptical (elongated) orbit. It might produce some peculiar flashes, which might be visible from Earth. How does it happen? Depending on the location and perspective of the observer, the erratic flashes of the rocket body from a geosynchronous satellite might appear to originate from an apparent static place in the sky. This rare occurrence is possible if the reflecting rocket body is more or less moving towards, or more or less departing, Earth as it pursues its stretched-out (elliptical) orbit. This is the same principle that occurs when a distant airplane appears to be static as it moves towards you. To the unaided eye, the subsequent flashes may give the impression that they are originating from the same area of the sky. If you are fortunate enough to witness this kind of flash in the sky, grab your binoculars! Magnification may confirm that the object is indeed moving slightly instead of remaining static
An apparent static bright dot that was visible in daylight, was later confirmed to be a globe. A view using a telescope revealed it was this globe from Google’s Project Loon. Image via Eddie Irizarry.
3. Atmospheric balloons.
Some observers reporting UFOs describe
… an apparent planet or stationary bright object seen in broad daylight.
Large, round objects in the sky can be strange-looking. They may not appear to be moving. Different types of balloons and globes are being launched by various groups trying to do various things – for example, study Earth’s weather or atmosphere – and although these objects are slowly drifting on the wind, their distance from an observer might cause them to appear stationary in the sky. An example is Google’s Project Loon, listed by MIT Technology Review as one of 10 breakthrough technologies of 2015. Project Loon is launching a network of globes to test internet coverage with the goal to provide access to remote areas. They can gain an altitude of 60,000 feet (18,300 meters) or twice as high as commercial aircraft. Those balloons are reflective, and they appear bright in the sky. They can cause reports of UFOs sightings.
Vince Babkirk captured this flare from an iridium satellite on July 22, 2016. He wrote: “There were lots of fast moving clouds tonight, but the Iridium 59 satellite was supposed to appear … [the clouds] parted just in time for me to capture the flare.” Read more about iridium flare satellites.
4. Earth-orbiting satellites.
Satellites are easily visible to the unaided eye one or two hours before sunrise and after sunset. We see them then because their high-altitude orbits let them receive and reflect sunlight, even if it is dark at the observer’s site. Satellites generally appear as slow-moving “stars” that may disappear as they pass into Earth’s shadow. Some satellites, including the Hubble Space Telescope, sometimes reflect sunlight in an optimum way for a brief time, causing a bright flash or flare. Iridium satellites, which provide cellular communications to remote areas, have very reflective antennas that produce very intense flashes as bright as -8 magnitude! That’s much brighter than the brightest planet, Venus. It’s bright that it might appear as a huge spotlight from up there for one or two seconds.
Some satellites orbit in groups of two or three, as seen in this video:
Especially when they’re seen in the west around sunset, jet contrails can look like falling objects. Image via Contrail Science.
5. Contrails from jet aircraft.
Contrails are often confused with “slow-moving meteors” or “unannounced comets”, or other sorts of strange UFOs (in this case, often unidentified falling objects) by casual observers. These vapor or condensation trail are produced by high-altitude aircraft. They look impressive, especially when visible in the direction west around sunset. A contrail being illuminated by the setting sun appear as a slow falling, burning, meteor-like object from the sky. Of course, it’s not falling or burning at all. It’s just jet exhaust released into the atmosphere. Still, its distance from an observer can cause it to look slow-moving. Just know that these are not UFOs; they’re ordinary jets. They’re also not comets, by the way, which are detected and announced well in advance, usually many weeks or months before they become visible to the unaided eye (if they ever do). Comets are visible for many days or weeks, not for a few minutes. So, do not confuse contrails with comets…or any falling spacecraft.
6. Chinese lanterns.
These sky lanterns or small hot air balloons are made of translucent paper and may look very curious from distance. People launch those colored lanterns at festivals, parties and other activities. Observers see a slow moving light high in the sky, and as soon as the small candle or the waxy cell is spent, the bright colored light that was seen in the sky “disappears”. Its bright light can be visible for several minutes in the sky. When a group of lanterns is launched, wind can send them at slightly different heights and directions, but a trio of Chinese lanterns is enough to cause reports of a formation of UFOs!
Smoke trail from a bright fireball, whose sightings were centered on Arizona, on June 2, 2016. Image via David Adkins via American Meteor Society. Later, a team from Arizona State University found the meteorite from this event.
7. Bright meteors.
A meteor – or piece of debris from space – might leave a strange-looking trail as seen in the photo above. Or a bright meteor that happens to be moving toward you might appear as a short, bright light, which then disappears.
Some meteors – called fireballs – can be so bright that can lit up the night sky in such a way that can briefly turn the night into day. They’re actually pretty common, if you consider Earth as a whole. View the fireball logs from the American Meteor Society.
Why stars twinkle fiercely – sometimes even appearing to move around in the sky – when you see them near the horizon.
Atmospheric turbulence or different temperature layers in the atmosphere can make a bright star, especially a star low in the horizon, to show an erratic movement. Experienced observers see this frequently. It’s merely an effect of Earth’s atmosphere and is gradually reduced or eliminated as the star gets higher in the sky, and as the light from the star passes through less of Earth’s atmosphere (see the photo above).
An erratically moving object – a great candidate for being considered a UFO – typically turns out to be a bright star seen low in the sky.
Which brings us to what is perhaps the all-time most reported UFO …
Photo taken October 2, 2015 by Mohamed Laaifat Photographies in Normandy, France.
9. Planet Venus.
Venus is the brightest planet, and the third-brightest object in Earth’s sky after the sun and moon. If and when you see Venus, it’ll always be bright, much brighter than any other starlike object in the sky. And there are special times in the orbits of Venus and Earth around the sun when Venus looks even brighter than usual. These times of greatest brilliancy for Venus occur when the planet is about to pass between us and the sun, and, at such times, Venus typically looms low in our sky and shines with an eerie brilliant light. UFO reports always increase around then!
There are likely other objects that can be added to this list. If you know of any, tell us in the comments below.
Just know that – while some UFO sightings may be temporarily or indefinitely unexplained – most can be explained.
And don’t get too excited or scared if you ever see some rare object in the sky. If you see something in the sky that initially seems strange, there’s no better way to investigate quickly than taking a closer look with optical aid. Keep a pair of binoculars handy!
Bottom line: A list of natural and human-made objects in the sky that people frequently mistake for UFOs.
Private spaceflight company Stratolaunch Systems brought the world’s largest airplane (by wingspan) out of its hangar for the first time recently.
Called the Stratolaunch, the massive aircraft successfully tested out all six of its Pratt and Whitney turbofan engines, each weighing 8,940 lbs. (4,000 kg), at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
Here are some of the mind-boggling specifications of the Stratolaunch:
Boasting a wingspan longer than a football field, Stratolaunch is one of the world’s largest aircraft today.
It weighs approx 500,000 lbs. without any cargo.
Its maximum takeoff weight of 1.3 million lbs.is among the heaviest in the world.
The aircraft can carry over 500,000 lbs. (230,000 kg) of payload.
Stratolaunch has 28 wheels and will require a runway at least 12,000 ft. (3,700 meters) long.
It is designed to carry rockets between its two fuselages.
Stratolaunch will be used as a launch platform to send rockets into orbit from an altitude of 30,000 feet (9,100 meters).
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen founded Stratolaunch Systems in 2011 with a vision to “provide convenient, reliable and routine access to low-Earth orbit.”
The Stratolaunch will undergo numerous ground tests and engine runs before making its first flight in 2019.
ALIEN ENCOUNTERS IN NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES – THE LEGACY OF ‘STAR PEOPLE’
ALIEN ENCOUNTERS IN NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES – THE LEGACY OF ‘STAR PEOPLE’
Throughout the past one can find ethnicities with a profound comprehension of metaphysical planes of existence. In the present, they pass on the tales of their ancestors that speak about ancient times during which many people had regular interaction with creatures from the stars.
From the reports of the first colonialists that set foot in the new world, what they discovered there was astonishing. The indigenous people were not just savages as it was convenient for them to believe. What they found was people with a system of beliefs different from the traditions of the European colonialists. Something significantly more intriguing was the fact that they had extraordinary ancient knowledge.
This complete divergence from the belief systems of the European colonists triggered a complete extinguish and erasure of any trace of the old knowledge of the natives. However, through time, the ancient concepts survived and manage to give us, today, a glimpse of their beliefs.
Throughout the past one can find ethnicities with a profound comprehension of metaphysical planes of existence. In the present, they pass on the tales of their ancestors that speak about ancient times during which many people had regular interaction with “people from the stars”.
Petroglyph at Legend Rock close to the Thermopolis, Wyoming
Tribes which have survived tell stories of ancient travelers coming from the stars. These they called “Star People”, as they were supernatural beings originating from other worlds. “The Star People” came to the Earth in order to give their knowledge to any of the Earth’s inhabitants that they thought worthy of such wisdom.
Throughout the heritage of the tribes we can easily discover a variety of evidence that implies that they had, indeed, established contact with diverse species of superior extraterrestrials. Those cultures speak about sophisticated technologies and flying objects. The details they describe are so comprehensive that most of them get confused with elements of their tribal magic.
Richard Wagamese of the Wabaseemoong First People writes:
“My people tell of Star People who came to us many generations ago. The Star people brought spiritual teachings and stories and maps of the cosmos and they offered these freely. They were kind, loving and set a great example. When they left us, my people say there was a loneliness like no other. If Star people did come to the Ojibway, where did they go?
Where did they come from?
Who brought teachings to them?
What scientific magic did they own that allowed them to make such an incredible journey – and is it possible for us?”
Did the vast majority of the traditional cultural heritage of the Hopi Indians, handed down by their forefathers originated from the Pleiades?
Could it possibly be most of these myths to contain a lot more truth than fiction?
Hopi petroglyphs displaying Star People and their “flying shields”hovering above their heads. image: pintrest.com
The Lakota people speak about celestial entities seen as luminous orbs of light. Orbs which are shields wrapped around them. In this group of tribes we also have the Dakota people which believe they know the exact star system from which their ancestors originated.
In the Cree people we found the same beliefs as the Dakota tribes except they knew not only from where they came but from what they described, when they first arrived on the Earth hey were in spirit form. It took years for them to materialize into human beings.
Native Americans never categorized them with words such as aliens or extraterrestrials but they explain their experience in more spiritual viewpoint. As the author of Plains Cree Stephane Wuttunee explains:
“[My people] give far greater attention to the seeking of the spiritual understanding of things rather than going after ‘the truth’ as people from dominant cultures do. This is part of the reason why we tend to stand back and view or listen at first, rather than bare in with questions or take the hard, direct approach.”
In his article Wuttunee further acknowledges:
“Far from being anything to be feared, Star People was just another term i grew up around. I remember listening in awe and fascination at the thought of us having relations that lived off and outside our world, and sometimes spoke to them in my silent moments at night. I wanted to know who they were and what they looked like, if they had families like us and so on.”
“It wasn’t until my later teens that I discovered that people from the dominant culture were talking about the same ‘people’ as my elders did, though each sides’s sense of perception of these people seemed radically different from one another.”
Could it be possible for Wuttunee’s words to describe the reality of a people that had experienced seeing “flying shields” or perhaps it’s just an imaginative tale of the elders?
An Oglala Sioux mystic, referred to as Black Elk (1863/1950), described one of his encounters with these celestial beings. He stated that they weren’t just isolated events but were also embedded into the fabric of the everyday life of indigenous Americans:
“So, when I went to vision quest, that disk came from above. The scientists call that an unidentified flying object, but that’s a joke, see? Because they are not trained, they lost contact with the wisdom, power and gift.”
“So that disk landed on top of me. It was concave, and there was another on top of that. It was silent, but it lit and luminance like neon lights…Then these little people came, but each little group spoke a different language.
“They could read minds, and I could read their minds. I could read them. So there was silent communication. You could read it, like when you read silent symbols in a book. So we were able to communicate…They are human, so I welcomed them. I said, ‘Welcome, Welcome…”
Native American tribes knew their bond with the Planet Earth. They always referred to her as Mother Earth, and they knew how to take care of her. According to them the bond between the earth and her children has been disrupted by our modern way of life and that is the exact reason why it’s hard for us to establish connection with “Star People” too.
They found the key that would unlock the secrets of ancient knowledge left by the supernatural beings in the form of a shift in conciseness and a global awakening which will make us worthy, one again, in the eyes of these ancient beings to receive their knowledge.
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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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
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