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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THAT IS AN AVERAGE OF 400GUESTS PER DAY.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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...
15-10-2017
Invasion: Film to explore Bigfoot, UFO sightings along the Chestnut Ridge
Invasion: Film to explore Bigfoot, UFO sightings along the Chestnut Ridge
By Olivia Goudy ogoudy@heraldstandard.com
Invasion: Film to explore Bigfoot, UFO sightings along the Chestnut Ridge
Promotional artwork for “Invasion on Chestnut Ridge", which will be releases on DVD yje 20Th octobre
Stan Gordon appears in “Invasion on Chestnut Ridge"
Southwest Pennsylvania has long been the home of unusual and unexplained phenomenons with a number of residents reporting sightings and experiences with bizarre activity over the years.
Recently, an award-winning film company took interest in the unexplained in the small towns along the Chestnut Ridge recently. Next weekend, their film “Invasion on Chestnut Ridge,” will be released.
“We do these around the country — we use small small-town rural creature cases and typically focus on one monster story or legend and the impact its had on the community,” said Seth Breedlove, a filmmaker for Small Town Monsters.
Other productions in STM’s filmography include “Minerva Monster” based in eastern Ohio, “Beast of Whitehall” in upstate New York and “The Mothman of Point Pleasant” based out of West Virginia.
“What excited me about (Invasion) is that it isn’t just one case. We focused more on the entire region — the Chestnut Ridge range — instead of just one town,” Breedlove said.
The film helps to tell “the true story of one of the more bizarre places in America...and the unusual activity that has taken place there for decades,” according to a press release.
“Delving into one of the most intriguing and unusual regions this side of the Bermuda Triangle, the film will tell the tale of the Kecksburg UFO crash, the Uniontown Bigfoot/UFO sightings, encounters with a large, prehistoric bird in Keystone State Park and much more,” the release said.
The 60-minute film opens with the early history of the region, particularly in the Kecksburg area. Local enthusiasts Stan Gordon and Eric Altman appear in the film, recalling their earliest days of being in the paranormal field.
“For decades, researchers of the strange and unknown have journeyed back to Chestnut Ridge in search of answers,” as narrated in the film.
“Kecksburg, to me, seems like it was almost the catalyst for people becoming comfortable enough to share their experiences,” Altman said in the film.
On-scene filming and recreations of explained experiences are depicted in the film with a hazy, uneasy undertone that mimics the bizarre and unexplained phenomenons of the region.
Breedlove said he was most excited for the storytelling process when it came to this film in particular.
“That aspect excited me more so than any one particular element of the story,” he said. “It was a challenge to figure out a way to put all the stories together in one narrative, though.”
He noted that viewers might be surprised to learn of some of the stories in the film.
“None of the stories are very well known other than the Kecksburg UFO crash. I feel like the whole movie is going to be a little surprising,” Breedlove said.
Overall, though, Breedlove said you don’t have to believe in the reality of the stories or subject. Rather, the film is about the “preservation of local history.”
“It’s about the local history in the towns, and the human element connected to the bizarre stories. It’s not just a cool monster story — more than anything, it’s about the preservation of history behind the stories,” Breedlove said. “We’re capturing these stories in a bottle.”
“’Invasion on Chestnut Ridge’ will be the first feature film to document this hotbed of paranormal activity,” the press release states. “Is the ridge a magnet for strange and mystifying forces? A beacon to visitors from beyond? you be the judge when the film is released on Oct. 20.”
The film will be available on DVD and on Amazon. Breedlove said they’re also streaming the film in Cambridge, Ohio, and are looking for areas to possibly screen it in Pennsylvania.
Former Blink-182 singer and guitarist Tom DeLonge is taking his fascination with/conspiracy theories about UFOs to their logical conclusion point: He's partnering with former government officials on a public benefit corporation studying "exotic technologies" from Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) that the consortium says can "revolutionize the human experience."
To The Stars Academy says it strives to be a powerful vehicle for change and that its members will have the "freedom to explore exotic science and technologies with the infrastructure and resources to rapidly transition them to products that can change the world." Phew. The Academy will focus on three pillars: science, aerospace and entertainment.
For science, DeLonge and Co. want to study consciousness, brain-computer interfaces, UAPs and telepathy. That's in addition to a proposed human ultra-experience database that they hope will collect "supranormal experienced, with the goal of creating proprietary algorithms to find detailed patterns and correlate them with other academic research." Sure.
As far as the other pillars go, To the Stars wants to further develop the tech needed to launch small satellites into orbit using ground-based lasers. Entertainment includes plans to develop a feature film, further expand Delonge's Sekret Machines novel and move into animation and short films.
To The Stars is raising money via crowdfunding and currently has pulled in $265,605 from 535 investors.
"The public interest in the outer edges of science and the understanding of phenomena has always been suffocated by mainstream ideology and bureaucratic constraint," the pitch page says. "We believe there are transformative discoveries within our reach that will revolutionize the human experience, but they can only be accomplished through the unrestricted support of breakthrough research, discovery and innovation."
Sounds pretty normal right? Buckle up.
"The team members all share a common thread of frustration and determination to disrupt the status quo, wanting to use their expertise and credibility to bring transformative science and engineering out of the shadows and collaborate with global citizens to apply that knowledge in a way that benefits humanity. Without the restrictions of government priorities."
The bold text and italics are exactly how they appear on the fundraising page. The idea of unchecked science is a bit concerning. After all, we have BioShock to look to for evidence of how poorly that can go. I guess this is growing up?
Local UFO photos fascinated Air Force; farmer wanted to forget them: Throwback Thursday
Local UFO photos fascinated Air Force; farmer wanted to forget them: Throwback Thursday
Paul Trent's first UFO photo.
(Oregonian archive)
BY DOUGLAS PERRY
Evelyn Trent started yelling for her husband at about 7:45 that evening. She was feeding their rabbits in the yard of the couple’s Dayton farm when she saw it -- “like a good-sized parachute canopy without the strings, only silver-bright mixed with bronze.”
“It was as pretty as anything I ever saw,” she recalled later.
She ran into the house, found her husband -- and their camera -- and they raced back into the yard. Paul Trent spotted it too -- “a round, shiny, wingless object” hovering in the sky.
The 43-year-old farmer managed to take two photographs before the flying object disappeared into the evening mist.
They’re the most famous photos ever to come out of Yamhill County.
The McMinnville Telephone Register and The Oregonian published the images in June of 1950, a month after Paul Trent took them. (He had to finish off the roll before getting the images developed. The final three photos he took were of a family picnic on Mother’s Day.)
Life magazine followed the Oregon newspapers, offering its national audience a gander at the unidentified flying object. Soon, a U.S. Air Force investigator came to the Trent farm outside McMinnville. “The object was coming in toward us and seemed to be tipped up a little bit,” Paul Trent told the officer. “It was very bright -- almost silvery -- and there was no noise.”
The investigator had heard such stories before. This was the Golden Age of UFO sightings. But while most alien-craft tales were easily debunked -- they were discovered to be weather balloons or private planes or obvious hoaxes -- that wasn’t the case with the Trents’ photos.
In 1967, the Air Force commissioned prominent nuclear physicist Edward U. Condon to lead an exhaustive UFO study. The 950-page report, titled “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects,” easily dismissed most of the reported sightings, but, it stated, “at least one, showing a disk-shaped object in flight over Oregon, is classed as difficult to explain in a conventional way.” The study determined that the photos were genuine and the Trents truthful.
“This is one of the few UFO reports,” the study declared, “in which all factors investigated -- gemetic, psychological and physical -- appear to be consistent with the assertion that an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disk-shaped, tens of meters in diameter and evidently artificial, flew within sight of two [credible] witnesses.”
Paul Trent's second photo of the UFO.
(Oregonian archive)
The Condon report reached this conclusion even though Evelyn Trent had a history of spotting strange objects in the sky. She had told The Oregonian in 1950 that she’d seen flying saucers at the coast three separate times, “but no one would believe me.”
On this occasion, however, her husband backed her up and never wavered about what he saw, though he admitted, The Oregonian wrote, that he had “no idea what the object was, how fast it was flying, how high it was nor where it came from.”
Eventually, McMinnville embraced the sighting, with McMenamins launching a popular annual UFO festival in the city. The 19th event will take place next May.
Kim Spencer, granddaughter of UFO photographer Paul Trent, in 2000.
(The Oregonian)
Paul Trent -- who died in 1998, a year after his wife -- eventually just wanted to put the whole UFO thing behind them. When two Oregonian reporters asked for recollections some 40 years after the sighting, he chafed at Evelyn’s willingness to talk again about what they had seen. “I told you to forget all about that,” he said.
Evelyn nodded at her husband, and then continued her story, telling the reporters about the "magnificent disc hurtling toward the house.”
Betty and Barney Hill are best known as the first alien abductees to garner worldwide attention and media coverage of their 1961 close encounter with a UFO and subsequent abduction by non-human beings.
Betty (1919-2004) was social worker for the State of New Hampshire and Barney (1922-69) was civil service worker for the U.S. Post Office. The encounter transpired when the couple was returning to their Portsmouth, New Hampshire home on September 19, 1961 from a short vacation in Niagara Falls and Montreal. Hurricane Esther was whirling up the coast and threatening to strike New Hampshire’s Seacoast, so the Hills decided to cut their trip short. This decision would require a nighttime drive with an expected 2:00 a.m. arrival time, but Barney was up for the challenge as he was well rested from the night before and was accustomed to working the night shift.
Betty and Barney Hill
At the time neither had any particular interest in UFOs. Betty, however, was more open-minded about the possibility that UFOs may exist while Barney was convinced otherwise. The events of that fateful evening forever changed the couple’s lives when they experienced an unknown phenomenon superior to anything known on Earth. Both made confidential reports of the event to the appropriate authorities, but were troubled by a two-hour time lapse and physical evidence that they couldn’t account for. Hoping to break through the apparent amnesia, a little more than two years after the close encounter, Betty and Barney contacted renowned Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Benjamin Simon. Both recalled the traumatic details of being seized and subjected to physical examinations by non-human beings.
Much to their dismay, a breach of confidentiality led to the public disclosure of the Hills’ story in October 1965. The worst thing that could have happened to the Hills was for their story to become public knowledge because they felt they had much to lose and nothing to gain. Soon their tale emerged in popular culture as a fascinating chronicle of alien abduction; the topic of intense scientific interest; and the prime target of debunkers, who continue to attack it today.
Attempts to Discredit the Hills
As a social scientist, UFO researcher, and the niece of Betty and Barney Hill, it came to my attention, long ago, that mainstream publications were not very accurate in regards to the facts of the Betty and Barney Hill close encounter and abduction case. For example, the March 7, 1993 PARADE article by Carl Sagan entitled “Are they coming for US? What’s Going On?” led its readers to believe that Betty observed only a “bright star-like UFO” that seemed to be following them. Carl would have us believe that it remained a bright distant dot in the sky throughout the Hills’ journey through New Hampshire’s White Mountains on September 19, 1961. The fact is that it followed the Hills for approximately an hour and progressively closed in on them. The following day, Betty and Barney sketched pictures of the lighted, disk-shaped craft that hovered silently approximately 100 feet above their vehicle. Barney’s sketch showed figures standing in the windows. They reported their close encounter to the director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), Donald Keyhoe, and were interviewed for six hours by NICAP investigator Walter Webb, an astronomy lecturer at the Hayden Planetarium in Boston. The close encounter is part of the official record.
Marker commemorating the location of the Betty and Barney Hill incident. (Credit: Kathleen Marden)
Next, according to Carl, Barney left the main highway for “narrow mountain roads” because he feared they might be harmed. This is an outright fabrication but it conveniently explains the time lapse that the Hills and investigators couldn’t account for even after the investigation. The fact is that at no time did Barney intentionally turn off the main highway. The fact is that he wanted to stay on the highway because he was closer to human contact and because he wanted to report his close encounter to a police officer.
Carl continues, “They arrived home two hours later than expected” and Betty read a book (by Donald Keyhoe), claiming they were “spaceships from other worlds.” Next, we learn about Betty’s series of nightmares in which she and Barney were abducted. Donald Keyhoe’s book didn’t contain any information about UFO abductions or any of the details in Betty’s dreams, but Carl’s careful crafting leads us to believe that Keyhoe’s book provided the information in the five dreams/nightmares that occurred about two weeks after her close encounter. It is important to note that in reality Betty’s dreams about the abduction contained information for which she had conscious recall. Additionally, the abduction she recalled in hypnotic regression was markedly different than that of her dreams.
Carl’s article was intent upon debunking all UFO abduction claims by convincing his readership that experiencers are having nothing more than lucid dreams and sleep paralysis involving aliens found in popular culture. He bolstered his contention by declaring that none of the so-called evidence has been substantiated and no eye witness testimony carries much weight, even multiple witness testimony by reliable reporters. The truth is that people have been convicted in a court of law based upon the degree of evidence that suspected abductees have produced: physical trace evidence, radar evidence, photographic evidence, multiple witness lie detector testing, testing normal on psychological evaluations and personality disorder screenings, physiological evidence, multiple witness testimony, etc. But Carl informs us that all of this is completely inadequate and unreliable.
Carl Sagan with a model of the Viking lander.
(Credit: NASA)
Returning to the Hill case, Carl bounded into another leap of faith when he stated that Barney overheard Betty describing the details in her dreams to friends and UFO investigators, and under hypnosis with Dr. Benjamin Simon several years later (it was only twenty-nine months later), he confabulated Betty’s dream information into his own abduction story. The truth is that Dr. Simon couldn’t bring himself to accept the possibility that the Hills had been abducted, although he stated several times that the first experience, the close encounter, came out clearly in both Betty’s and Barney’s hypnosis and probably was a real experience. His statement to Barney with regard to several hypotheses was “All of these things can happen. Anything can happen when you come right down to it.”
On the Hills’ hypnosis tapes, Barney swore that although he had overheard some of the information in Betty’s dreams, they were obviously dreams, not reality in his opinion. He rejected them. Dr. Simon probed the possibility that Barney might be lying or even that a telepathic transfer of information had occurred between Betty and Barney. In the October 1967 issue of Psychiatric Opinion, Dr. Simon wrote, “I had to be continually on the alert for distortions honestly made by them and had to test their revelations against the continuum of the entire picture. Even when they appeared to be lying, they were telling the truth if one could work out the general semantics of the situation.” As for telepathic communication, Dr. Simon rejected this hypothesis early on with the exception of Betty’s star map. He later stated that if science proved that Zeta Reticuli had planets with intelligent life, we must assume that Betty had acquired this information telepathically. Dr. Simon had only one viable option to explain the Hill UFO case. Because he had been informed that alien abduction was impossible, his only option was that Betty must have somehow transferred the content of her dreams/nightmares to Barney. In turn, he thought that Barney had simply reiterated the information in Betty’s dreams during his own hypnosis sessions.
Dr. Benjamin Simon
Dr. Simon repeatedly returned to what he considered was the only viable option—the dream hypothesis. He explored the possibility that Betty’s dreams were relived during her hypnosis sessions and that Barney had merely absorbed and repeated the content of her dreams in his own recall. The hypnosis tapes made it abundantly clear that the Hills made a convincing argument against Dr. Simon’s hypothesis. Betty stated that that her captors bore no resemblance to those in her dreams. Their appearance and mode of communication was completely different. The dream aliens had a southern European appearance and were dressed in blue military cadet uniforms and spoke with their mouths, not telepathically. In contrast, in hypnotic regression she described truly non-human aliens in appearance and communication. She stated that she understood them in English although their mouths didn’t move. Additionally, she recalled an extraordinary amount of experiential details that were not in her dreams. Barney too was convinced that his hypnotic recall had accurately explained the period of apparent amnesia and missing time.
All of the documented evidence available to me indicates that Dr. Simon remained retrospective about the Hills’ experience until the movie The UFO Incident, starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons which aired on NBC on October 20, 1975. On the October 25, 1975 Today Show, Dr. Simon stated publically for the first time that he believed the abduction was largely a dream. When asked directly if he had concluded that the memory of being aboard a spaceship was a fantasy, he replied “A fantasy. In other words it was a dream.” On November 24, 1975 he and Betty appeared on the Larry Glick show and he repeated his opinion stating, “Their story was fantastic and unreal and had to be accepted or rejected…If I this were real I’d have to believe these beings were from outer space.” Dr. Simon rejected that notion; after all, he had an outstanding reputation to protect.
It is telling that Dr. Simon incorrectly recalled much of the information on the hypnosis tapes. His memory appears to have been failing. For example, he stated that Betty’s abduction experience and her dreams were exactly alike except for the description of the ramp to the craft. As I noted above, Dr. Simon’s memory was inaccurate and wrong. He spoke about Barney’s increasing fear throughout the trip and its escalating intensity after the object was sighted. The fact is that Barney was sometimes concerned about the possibility of racial discrimination, but didn’t encounter it. It was only a periodic concern, not an overwhelming obsession. He did remove his gun in the wilderness area because he was outside at night in an area inhabited by bears—a very real concern. And he did become increasingly fearful as the silent, hovering, unconventional craft approached closer and closer. His fear reached an apex when he observed beings on the craft were “somehow not human,” as stated in Walt Webb’s NICAP report, and felt that he would soon be captured. It is not unreasonable for any well-adjusted human to have a strong emotional response to this kind of stimuli.
Dr. Simon correctly noted a difference between the Hills’ two stories, as did I. It is apparent that Betty sometimes abandoned her veridical memory of the event and escaped to some of her dream memories. Barney did not. His physical exam was nearly identical to that described by male abductees in subsequent abduction reports although they were not privy to Barney’s information. It is apparent that Dr. Simon didn’t examine Betty’s and Barney’s independent statements in detail vis-à-vis her dream account. He challenged Betty and Barney to explain why Betty knew everything about Barney’s experience on the craft but he knew nothing of hers. But that was an empty statement. Betty knew very little about Barney’s experience on the craft and certainly Barney knew nothing of Betty’s experience.
Setting the Record Straight
Unfortunately, Dr. Simon and Carl Sagan didn’t live long enough to read my book Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, coauthored by scientific ufologist/nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman. Nor were they around to read my comparative analysis of the hypnosis tapes versus Betty’s dream transcripts. The detailed information that she and Barney independently offered would have dispelled that myth. The Hills gave detailed correlating information that was not in Betty’s dreams and could not have been passed from one to the other.
Kathleen Marden holding her books, Science Was Wrong and Captured!
(Credit: Alejandro Rojas)
Returning to Carl’s article, I made the naive assumption in 1993 that Carl simply didn’t have his facts straight and I wrote to him listing his errors and the correct information. But I didn’t receive a reply, or more importantly a retraction. It was only later that I learned that Carl had sent a review copy of his article to Stanton Friedman, more than two months before the PARADE article was published. Stanton replied in a twelve-page letter giving detailed commentary on Carl’s inaccurate statements and supplying the correct information. Nevertheless Carl chose to misrepresent the facts.
In my new book with Stanton Friedman, Science Was Wrong, I question why Carl would knowingly misrepresent the Hill case to millions of readers and viewers of his Cosmos series and his PARADE article. Since that time I have been searching for the answer to my question. I recently found a clue in a letter written by Carl to debunker Philip Klass praising his Skeptical Inquirer review of the Condon study, an infamous committee established to study UFOs in the 1960s. Carl wrote, “I also take credit for convincing the O’Brien Committee of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, of which I was a member, to recommend a major academic skeptical study of UFO’s.” Notice that he did not use the word “unbiased.” As most readers probably know, the Condon study was both skeptical and biased. What you might not know is that Robert Low, the project coordinator, maintained a close relationship with Klass throughout the study, exchanging frequent letters and confidential information. It is not unfair, in my estimation, to say that Carl Sagan and Phil Klass had a vested interest in dispensing of the entire UFO problem. It would certainly let the U.S. government off the hook.
16x bewijs voor het bestaan van aliens. Worden we bezocht?
16x bewijs voor het bestaan van aliens. Worden we bezocht?
Al eeuwen wordt gesproken over het bestaan van aliens, maar tot op heden ontbreekt waterdicht bewijs.
Toch zijn er genoeg aanwijzingen te vinden voor het bestaan van leven buiten de aarde, meldt nieuwssite MSN. Een overzicht.
Toen de Amerikanen op de maan landden met de Apollo 11 werd door de astronauten een ongeïdentificeerd object gezien. Wat het object was, is nog altijd een mysterie.
Onbekend signaal
Op 1 augustus 1966 berichtte Erie Morning News dat er een UFO was gezien in Pennsylvania. Betty Klem zag een fel licht dat op enkele honderden meters afstand van haar landde.
Astronomen die radiosignalen naar Mars stuurden kregen in 2004 een onbekend signaal terug dat steeds sterker werd. Mogelijk waren het aliens die contact zochten.
Onze Melkweg bestaat uit ruim 400 miljard sterren waarvan de meeste ook planeten hebben. Astronoom Frank Drake maakte een vergelijking over de mogelijkheid dat er leven is op die planeten.
Deltavormig object
Een piloot zag recentelijk een deltavormig object op zijn vliegtuig afkomen en nog voordat hij kon reageren was het al weer verdwenen.
Het Office of Outer Space Affairs van de VN (UNOOSA) houdt zich bezig met de ruimte. Het heeft de eer om buitenaardse bezoekers te begroeten en is verantwoordelijk voor het contact met andere planeten.
In de atmosfeer van Mars wordt veel methaan gevonden. Omdat dit wordt geproduceerd door levende organismen zou je denken dat er leven is op Mars.
Vreemde signalen
Recentelijk ontdekten Russische onderzoekers een micro-organisme dat niet bestaat op aarde. Ze zijn ervan overtuigd dat het van Mars afkomstig is.
In 1977 pikten wetenschappers van de Ohio State University vreemde signalen op van een bron op 200 miljoen lichtjaar. Het mysterie rond deze signalen is nog altijd niet opgelost.
Op Antarctica zijn stenen gevonden met fossielen van bacteriën. Er wordt gespeculeerd dat de stenen miljarden jaren geleden naar de aarde zijn gekomen en hier leven naartoe hebben gebracht.
Venus
De Russische wetenschapper Leonid Ksanfomaliti claimde op foto’s die ruimtesonde Venera 13 in 1982 van Venus heeft gemaakt een schorpioen-achtige diersoort te hebben ontdekt.
Uit recent onderzoek blijkt dat er mogelijk bacteriën en andere levensvormen op Jupitermaan Europa kunnen leven.
Britse wetenschappers vingen in 2013 in de stratosfeer levende organismen op. Ze waren ervan overtuigd dat deze wezens uit de ruimte kwamen.
Hiërogliefen
In het Schotse dorp Bonnybridge, ook wel de UFO-hoofdstad van Schotland genoemd, worden ieder jaar 300 UFO-meldingen gedaan.
Er zijn al geregeld Egyptische hiërogliefen gevonden met daarop afbeeldingen van UFO’s. Mogelijk hebben de oude Egyptenaren bezoek gehad van aliens.
In de schedel van Napoleon Bonaparte vonden onderzoekers een vreemd voorwerp. De Franse heerser zei zelf dat hij in 1794 door vreemde mannen was ontvoerd toen hij dagenlang verdween.
DREIGING YELLOWSTONE SUPERVULKAAN VEEL GROTER DAN GEDACHT
DREIGING YELLOWSTONE SUPERVULKAAN VEEL GROTER DAN GEDACHT
Misschien wel de meest misplaatste arrogantie ooit van de mensheid is dat ze denken het klimaat wel even te kunnen beheersen.
Terwijl de aardbevingen rondom Yellowstone blijven toenemen, haalt Nederland het in haar hoofd om een minister van Klimaat te benoemen.
De afgelopen jaren is het publiek regelmatig in slaap gesust door de Amerikaanse Geological Survey (USGS), die verzekerde dat ondanks dat er zich steeds vaker series kleine aardbevingen voordeden rondom het gebied van de Yellowstone Supervulkaan, dit helemaal niets was om ons zorgen over te maken.
Een supervulkaan die, wanneer deze wel tot uitbarsting zou komen, zal zorgen voor mogelijk honderdduizenden dodelijke slachtoffers.
Sinds ongeveer het midden van de maand juli van dit jaar hebben zich in het Yellowstone gebied ongeveer 2.500 kleine aardbevingen voorgedaan, het hoogste aantal in een serie ooit. De aarde onder de vulkaan is aan het verschuiven en dit kan betekenen dat er magma is gaan stromen naar de belangrijkste magmakamer.
Dit proces dat leidt naar een uitbarsting had volgens eerdere voorspellingen van de geologen van de USGS nog duizenden jaren moeten duren.
Wanneer dit monster uitbarst, kan er meer dan 1.000 kubieke kilometer as en gruis de atmosfeer in worden geblazen, ongeveer 2.500 keer meer materiaal dan tijdens de uitbarsting van de Mount Saint Helens in 1980, waarbij 57 doden vielen. Wanneer Yellowstone daadwerkelijk uitbarst, zal niet alleen Noord Amerika worden bedekt met een dikke laag as, maar zal de wereld te maken krijgen met een vulkaanwinter.
Wetenschappers staan eigenlijk op dit moment een beetje met hun mond vol tanden, want nooit hadden zij verwacht dat het gehele voorbereidende proces dat zich voltrekt voordat de vulkaan daadwerkelijk uitbarst, zou kunnen plaatsvinden in een tijdsbestek van één mensenleven.
Wij schrijven al heel lang dat er iets bijzonders gaande is rondom Yellowstone supervulkaan, maar ook dat werd door velen afgedaan als een complotter-verhaaltje. Nu blijkt dit dus wel degelijk te kloppen, hetgeen maar weer eens bewijst dat je voor het echte nieuws bij de alternatieve media moet zijn, want volgens de mainstream was ertin het geheel niets aan de hand bij Yellowstone.
Net zoals wij al heel lang schrijven over andere fenomenen die veel heftiger zijn dan de mainstream ons willen laten geloven, zoals onlangs over de schrikbarende toename van het aantal aardbevingen dat volkomen onder de pet wordt gehouden.
Slapende vulkanen die overal ter wereld wakker worden, sinkholes die overal ter wereld verschijnen, aardbevingen die in aantallen stijgen naar een recordhoogte. Al deze dingen hebben totaal niets te maken met de gedragingen van de mens en (niet bestaande) opwarming van de aarde.
We worden voorgelogen op een enorme schaal. Zoals we onlangs schreven wordt het klimaat op aarde voornamelijk bepaald door de zon en dan lijkt het erop dat we weer richting mini ijstijd gaan. Dit gekoppeld aan het feit dat er temperatuurdalingen kunnen ontstaan door grote vulkaanuitbarstingen betekent dat er helemaal geen sprake is van klimaatopwarming. Daarnaast is CO2 iets dat onze planeet heel hard nodig heeft en door het bestrijden daarvan doen we onszelf als mensheid de das om.
In plaats van dat onze overheid zich concentreert op het beter voorbereiden van de bevolking op mogelijk roerige tijden en deze leert hoe ze in barre tijden zoals een vulkaanwinter kunnen overleven, gaan ze een Minister van Klimaat aanstellen.
Er schuift vanaf november elke vrijdag een beklagenswaardige, nieuwe figuur aan tafel in de Trêveszaal voor de ministerraad. Het is de Klimaatminister, waarschijnlijk van D66-huize, met een oneindig vertrouwen in de toekomst. Want deze man of vrouw wordt opgezadeld met een hondsmoeilijke opdracht, waarvan het resultaat pas duidelijk is als Rutte III en zijn Klimaatminister bijna zijn vergeten.
Kijk naar bovenstaande, waaruit wederom blijkt dat wij al jarenlang gelijk hebben en dat de situatie rondom de Yellowstone vulkaan veel kritischer is dan men ons wilde doen geloven. Kijk naar de mainstream media die daar jarenlang over hebben gelogen zoals ze over alles liegen.
Kijk en huiver hoe de paljassen in Den Haag een minister van klimaat gaan aanstellen. Alsof ze dezelfde macht zouden hebben als een God. De mens controleert het klimaat op aarde niet, hoe hard ze het ook proberen, en dat is een van de de grootste leugens die ooit aan een slapende bevolking is verteld.
De zon en eventueel de invloeden van enorme (magnetische) krachtvelden van andere planeten bepalen het klimaat hier op aarde en niet de mens.
Conspiracy Theorists Claim Top UFO Researchers Are Being Murdered One After Another
Conspiracy Theorists Claim Top UFO Researchers Are Being Murdered One After Another
The government killing off anyone who gets near to the truth about UFOs may be just a perfect conspiracy theory, but some people sincerely believe it. As proof, they referred to growing list of people who had died due to alleged accidents and suicides.
John Ventre, one of the researchers at the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), says that 137 people died in the field of UFO investigation in a ten-year period.
Paranormal investigator Max Spiers died last year after claiming to have survived a secret super soldier programme of the government. Conspiracy fans pointed the finger at secret government agencies.
Believers say that killings may have been arranged to stop them from revealing the truth about UFOs back as far as 1947. They believe that JFK assassination may be one of those killings.
YouTuber Tyler of SecureTeam 10 claims that he has had threats and phone calls. He says that the danger from the government or people who want to keep them silent grows monumentally as UFO enthusiasts like him have grown into prominent positions in the field of UFO research. Tyler adds that he is starting to believe that those concerns are justified.
UFO author Nigel Watson says the conspiracy theory implies that there is some form of conspiracy and organisation behind the killings.
Triangle-shaped craft seen by 20 witnesses over Thornhill, Canada 9-Oct-2017
Triangle-shaped craft seen by 20 witnesses over Thornhill, Canada 9-Oct-2017
Check out this really interesting video of a triangle-shaped craft hovering in the sky above Thornhill, Canada. This was filmed on 9th October 2017.
Witness report:
We were at our friends house in the backyard for thanksgiving when I noticed something glimmering brightly in the sky. This was observed by 20 people. We were at a friends house for thanksgiving in the background with 20 people including kids. I initially had something catch my eye in the south east sky around 1,000 feet at an angle of around 50 degrees to the ground. We initially thought it was maybe some silver balloons as we could see three round shiny objects. It became apparent that it was actually one object triangular in shape with three bright lights. The object hovered and moved around slowly making no sound at all. We could see this object move behind a cloud and then back again. It began to climb to around 2,000 plus feet. We thought maybe it was a drione but the object was much larger than any drone I’ve seen and was metallic. We did not observe any strobe pattern or flashing lights just the three solid lights which did increase and decrease in intensity. I did manage to capture a couple of still shots and it can be seen that this is clearly a triangular shakes object with 3 equally spaced bright white lights. We watched this object for around 30 minutes until it climbed to 3,000 feet and above and made its way into the south east sky. During its movement it appeared that this object was moving and spinning slowly. I immediately began to film it with my iPhone.
As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets and life beyond Earth, yet it links many seemingly unrelated worlds in surprising ways.
“NASA science activities have provided a wave of amazing findings related to water in recent years that inspire us to continue investigating our origins and the fascinating possibilities for other worlds, and life, in the universe,” said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist for the agency. “In our lifetime, we may very well finally answer whether we are alone in the solar system and beyond.”
The chemical elements in water, hydrogen and oxygen, are some of the most abundant elements in the universe. Astronomers see the signature of water in giant molecular clouds between the stars, in disks of material that represent newborn planetary systems, and in the atmospheres of giant planets orbiting other stars.
There are several worlds thought to possess liquid water beneath their surfaces, and many more that have water in the form of ice or vapor. Water is found in primitive bodies like comets and asteroids, and dwarf planets like Ceres. The atmospheres and interiors of the four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — are thought to contain enormous quantities of the wet stuff, and their moons and rings have substantial water ice.
Perhaps the most surprising water worlds are the five icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn that show strong evidence of oceans beneath their surfaces: Ganymede, Europa and Callisto at Jupiter, and Enceladus and Titan at Saturn.
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently provided powerful evidence that Ganymede has a saltwater, sub-surface ocean, likely sandwiched between two layers of ice.
Europa and Enceladus are thought to have an ocean of liquid water beneath their surface in contact with mineral-rich rock, and may have the three ingredients needed for life as we know it: liquid water, essential chemical elements for biological processes, and sources of energy that could be used by living things. NASA’s Cassini mission has revealed Enceladus as an active world of icy geysers. Recent research suggests it may have hydrothermal activity on its ocean floor, an environment potentially suitable for living organisms.
NASA spacecraft have also found signs of water in permanently shadowed craters on Mercury and our moon, which hold a record of icy impacts across the ages like cryogenic keepsakes.
While our solar system may seem drenched in some places, others seem to have lost large amounts of water.
On Mars, NASA spacecraft have found clear evidence that the Red Planet had water on its surface for long periods in the distant past. NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover discovered an ancient streambed that existed amidst conditions favorable for life as we know it.
More recently, NASA scientists using ground-based telescopes were able to estimate the amount of water Mars has lost over the eons. They concluded the planet once had enough liquid water to form an ocean occupying almost half of Mars’ northern hemisphere, in some regions reaching depths greater than a mile (1.6 kilometers). But where did the water go?
It’s clear some of it is in the Martian polar ice caps and below the surface. We also think much of Mars’ early atmosphere was stripped away by the wind of charged particles that streams from the sun, causing the planet to dry out. NASA’s MAVEN mission is hard at work following this lead from its orbit around Mars.
The story of how Mars dried out is intimately connected to how the Red Planet’s atmosphere interacts with the solar wind. Data from the agency’s solar missions — including STEREO, Solar Dynamics Observatory and the planned Solar Probe Plus — are vital to helping us better understand what happened.
Understanding the distribution of water in our solar system tells us a great deal about how the planets, moons, comets and other bodies formed 4.5 billion years ago from the disk of gas and dust that surrounded our sun. The space closer to the sun was hotter and drier than the space farther from the sun, which was cold enough for water to condense. The dividing line, called the “frost line,” sat around Jupiter’s present-day orbit. Even today, this is the approximate distance from the sun at which the ice on most comets begins to melt and become “active.” Their brilliant spray releases water ice, vapor, dust and other chemicals, which are thought to form the bedrock of most worlds of the frigid outer solar system.
Scientists think it was too hot in the solar system’s early days for water to condense into liquid or ice on the inner planets, so it had to be delivered — possibly by comets and water-bearing asteroids. NASA’s Dawn mission is currently studying Ceres, which is the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Researchers think Ceres might have a water-rich composition similar to some of the bodies that brought water to the three rocky, inner planets, including Earth.
The amount of water in the giant planet Jupiter holds a critical missing piece to the puzzle of our solar system’s formation. Jupiter was likely the first planet to form, and it contains most of the material that wasn’t incorporated into the sun. The leading theories about its formation rest on the amount of water the planet soaked up. To help solve this mystery, NASA’s Juno mission will measure this important quantity beginning in mid-2016.
Looking further afield, observing other planetary systems as they form is like getting a glimpse of our own solar system’s baby pictures, and water is a big part of that story. For example, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has observed signs of a hail of water-rich comets raining down on a young solar system, much like the bombardment planets in our solar system endured in their youth.
With the study of exoplanets — planets that orbit other stars — we are closer than ever to finding out if other water-rich worlds like ours exist. In fact, our basic concept of what makes planets suitable for life is closely tied to water: Every star has a habitable zone, or a range of distances around it in which temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist. NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler mission was designed with this in mind. Kepler looks for planets in the habitable zone around many types of stars.
Recently verifying its thousandth exoplanet, Kepler data confirm that the most common planet sizes are worlds just slightly larger than Earth. Astronomers think many of those worlds could be entirely covered by deep oceans. Kepler’s successor, K2, continues to watch for dips in starlight to uncover new worlds.
The agency’s upcoming TESS mission will search nearby, bright stars in the solar neighborhood for Earth- and super-Earth-sized exoplanets. Some of the planets TESS discovers may have water, and NASA’s next great space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, will examine the atmospheres of those special worlds in great detail.
It’s easy to forget that the story of Earth’s water, from gentle rains to raging rivers, is intimately connected to the larger story of our solar system and beyond. But our water came from somewhere — every world in our solar system got its water from the same shared source. So it’s worth considering that the next glass of water you drink could easily have been part of a comet, or an ocean moon, or a long-vanished sea on the surface of Mars. And note that the night sky may be full of exoplanets formed by similar processes to our home world, where gentle waves wash against the shores of alien seas.
There’s a giant egg floating in our solar system with a ring around it
There’s a giant egg floating in our solar system with a ring around it
Some of the most exciting new discoveries in space come from far, far away, thanks to telescopes capable of detecting exoplanets that are so distant we’d likely never be able to actually visit them, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still some pretty interesting stuff here in our own Solar System. Take, for example, the dwarf planet Haumea, a large egg-shaped body that hangs out beyond Neptune in the far reaches of our little planetary neighborhood, which researchers just discovered also happens to have a ring around it. Man, space is weird.
The research, which was published in the journal Nature, reveals that the oddly-shaped object is a real oddity, even among dwarf planets. Haumea’s oblong shape isn’t the only weird thing about it, as it also has an extremely fast rotational speed, leading to a full revolution once every 3.9 hours.
This older depiction of Haumea lacks the rings but shows the dark red spot that scientists identified on the dwarf planet’s surface.
Credit: SINC/José Antonio Peñas
Haumea is one of only five officially recognized dwarf planets, with the others being Ceres, Eris, Makemake, and of course the onetime planet Pluto. Along with its egg shape and rapid rotation, it sets itself apart thanks to its pair of moons and of course it’s newly-discovered debris ring.
Rings around planets like Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are well-studied and, for the most part, understood. But a dwarf planet boasting a ring of its own is definitely pretty weird, if only because it’s the first with a confirmed ring.
Interestingly, the many oddities that make Haumea such a strange dwarf planet might be related. Past research suggested that the dwarf planet experienced a collision with another object in the Kuiper Belt — the thick circle of debris that lies past Neptune — and it’s entirely possible that the impact not only caused the dwarf to spin wildly, sending debris into its orbit. That debris could have been the material that eventually formed its moons, with the rest of the dust falling into orbit and creating its ring.
US AIR FORCE’S 1950S SUPERSONIC FLYING SAUCER DECLASSIFIED
US AIR FORCE’S 1950S SUPERSONIC FLYING SAUCER DECLASSIFIED
The aircraft, which had the code name Project 1794, was developed by the USAF and Avro Canada in the 1950s. One declassified memo, which seems to be the conclusion of initial research and prototyping, says that Project 1794 is a flying saucer capable of “between Mach 3 and Mach 4,” (2,300-3,000 mph) a service ceiling of over 100,000 feet (30,500m), and a range of around 1,000 nautical miles (1,150mi, 1850km).
As far as we can tell, the supersonic flying saucer would propel itself by rotating an outer disk at very high speed, taking advantage of the Coandă effect. Maneuvering would be accomplished by using small shutters on the edge of the disc (similar to ailerons on a winged aircraft). Power would be provided by jet turbines. According to the cutaway diagrams, the entire thing would even be capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL).
These images (two more at the end of the story) come from the US National Archives, which is tasked with preserving important records and documents — including declassified military documents. It isn’t clear why it has taken some 64 years for Project 1794 to be declassified, though it does follow on from the declassified news in 2008 that the US government has been monitoring UFO activity for more than 30 years. There are apparently two whole boxes of Project 1794 documents — but only the four images shown here have been digitized.
Without a deeper look inside those boxes, we can’t be sure that Project 1794 ever made it off the ground. It’s worth noting that Avro Canada also worked on the VZ-9 Avrocar, though — which is basically the same as Project 1794, but a lot smaller. The Avrocar was originally specified for a max speed of 300 mph and a service ceiling of 10,000 feet — but in practice, it never got more than three feet off the ground or flew faster than 35mph.
Despite the Avrocar’s failures, it is clear that the US government was indeed working on aircraft in the 1950s that resembled flying saucers. Suffice it to say, the US might also have been working on flying saucers back in the ’40s, around the same time as the Roswell UFO incident.
Ultimately, though, the fact that we use fixed-wing aircraft today is a good indicator that flying saucers, while cool, just aren’t that functional. If flying saucers were somehow faster or more efficient or capable of lifting heavier loads, we would almost certainly see them in a commercial setting. Sadly, while some UFO sightings may have indeed been Project 1794, it’s unlikely that they were anything more than experiments carried out by humans, not aliens.
The hunt for an alleged mysterious ninth planet (no, not Pluto, the other one) keeps taking strange turns. It all began when astronomers began detecting unexplained anomalies in the orbits of distant planets and objects in our Solar System. These anomalies implied that an unknown massive object was exerting gravitational forces on these objects, prompting astronomers to search for and identify several possible candidates for an alleged Planet 9 (or Planet X, depending on who you ask).
Planet 9/X has become one of the most intriguing astronomical mysteries of our time.
While the possible existence of such a planet is still up in the air, that hasn’t stopped conspiracy theorists from launching all sorts of speculation about the role of such a planet in apocalyptic doomsday events. As usual, though, the proposed dates for such a planetary collision have come and gone several times without incident.
Or maybe it already has collided with Earth and launched us into a hellish the current dimension/timeline we seem to have found ourselves in.
Now, the hunt for the mysterious ninth planet has gone a step further as a pair of astronomers and bona fide Planet X hunters believe they have found some of the most tantalizing evidence yet for the planet’s existence. The California Institute of Technology’s Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin of the University of Côte d’Azur published the first evidence of Planet X in early 2016, and they’ve continued their search ever since.
Brown, left, and Batygin: Planet hunters extraordinaire.
Their latest study was actually a meta-study, meaning it analyzed and examined every other study and piece of evidence concerning Planet 9/X. After poring over every bit of data out there, Brown and Batygin now believe that Planet 9 not only exists, but is key to explaining some of the essential features of our Solar System:
There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine. If you were to remove this explanation and imagine Planet Nine does not exist, then you generate more problems than you solve. All of a sudden, you have five different puzzles, and you must come up with five different theories to explain them.
In their mind-bogglingly-technical recent publication, Batygin and Brown specifically state that a ninth planet might be the only known phenomenon that could explain the tilt, or obliquity, of the Sun:
While a multitude of processes could have contributed to the observed obliquity of the sun, the gravitational influence of Planet Nine provides the only dynamical mechanism that is directly testable.
Of course, it will take many more years of scanning the cosmos before any of these hypotheses can be confirmed, or we might need better instruments that have yet to be invented. Just as we look back upon the first telescopes and star charts as early steps in a long process leading us to today’s technology, future astronomers will chuckle with adoration at our current space telescopes and probes once future astronomers discover methods of transportation and data collection beyond the wildest dreams of today. Who knows what other wonders we’ll uncover right here in our own cosmic backyard?
The Apollo 15 moon mission began on July 26, 1971, and ended on Aug 7, 1971. After three orbits of Earth, the command module traveled to the Moon under the direction of Command Module Pilot Alfred M. Worden, who then orbited the Moon 75 times while Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin spent three days on the lunar surface. This was Worden’s first (and only) space mission and, when his orbit took him to 2,235 miles from the surface, he set a record (at the time) for being the farthest away from any other human beings.
Commander Dave Scott, Command Module Pilot Alfred Worden, Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin
Worden called it “three wonderful days in a spacecraft all by myself” and apparently used that time to do a lot of thinking about those even-farther-away humans on Earth and how they got there.
He finally opened up about his thoughts in a recent interview on Good Morning Britain when he said this:
“I’ve been asked that question hundreds of times … are there, do you believe in aliens? That I say yeah, have you ever seen one, I say yeah, I have. Well how have you seen him? Well I said I look in the mirror every morning. That’s what we are … we are the aliens but we just we just think we’re saying we just think there’s somebody else but we’re the ones who came from somewhere else because, because somebody else had to survive and they got in a little spacecraft then he came here and they landed and they started civilization here. That’s where I believe.”
“Somebody else had to survive” so they got into a spacecraft and moved here, where they were alone like Worden circling the Moon, except they got to land and procreate and populate the planet with their race that Worden and the rest of us call ‘humans’. That sounds like something right out of graphic novels and would be discounted as such if it weren’t coming from one of the handful of humans who have actually done the same thing … left their home planet.
In fact, Worden says that humans in the future will have to – if you believe his first premise – leave their home planet AGAIN and move to another orb that can sustain us. Nothing in our solar system (sorry Elon) fits the bill, so Worden says:
“We got to develop the capability to go someplace where there is another earth and we know that they’re out there, there’s no question of that, they are out there, but there are a little ways out, maybe 3.2 light-years is the nearest one, which means we got to build a machine it goes a little faster than the speed of light and that’s gonna be the big key.”
Al Worden
Wow. Is that the kind of insight 75 trips around the Moon can give you? Well, that and:
“And if you don’t believe me, go get books on the ancient Sumerians and see what they had to say about it, they’ll tell you right up front.”
Ah, the Sumerians and their ancient aliens. So Worden got the psychological and celestial thrills that all lunar astronauts talk about, and combined them with ancient alien theories. No seeing secret cities on the dark side of the Moon, no abandoned flying saucers, no psychic communications, no billboards with pictures of grey aliens warning that “Loose lips sink spaceships.”
Nonetheless, Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot Alfred M. Worden has been there. Until we send more humans to the Moon and beyond, he deserves to be listened to.
An artist's illustration of a possible ninth planet in our solar system, hovering at the edge of our solar system. Neptune's orbit is shown as a bright ring around the Sun ESO/Tom Ruen/nagualdesign
A mysterious planet might be lurking on the edge of our solar system.
It's even stretching out the orbits of some planets, and might be tilting over our entire solar system. Scientists have suggsted that in the long distant future it might even be responsible for destroying it.
But it's certainly not Nibiru, and it doesn't mean any of the internet conspiracists claiming that planet is about to wipe us out are correct. Instead, it's just an interesting – entirely physical and explained, if mysterious and uncertain – planet.
Nibiru has been blamed for a variety of things – strange events on Earth, days of darkness where the sun won't rise, and even the potential destruction of Earth. One man has said, repeatedly, that the planet is going to cause the apocalypse on Earth – changing the date when that doesn't become true.
Of course, any planet that Nasa discovered almost certainly won't have any of the attributes that believers in Nibiru ascribe to it. It won't be heading to Earth to destroy us all – at least not any time soon – and it doesn't have any mystical powers.
But those talking about Nibiru are right about one thing: there might in fact a planet on the edge of our solar system, and scientists really aren't sure whether it exists or not. Scientists say that it's now more likely that it does exist than it doesn't.
"There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine," said Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech in Pasadena, California, whose team could be about to find the planet. "If you were to remove this explanation and imagine Planet Nine does not exist, then you generate more problems than you solve. All of a sudden, you have five different puzzles, and you must come up with five different theories to explain them," he said in a new Nasa statement.
Professor Batygin alongside astronomer Mike Brown claim to have found a range of different, indirect pieces of evidence for the planet. It seems to be tilting our universe, for instance, in a way that makes scientists think there must be something out on the edge disrupting things.
Now astronomers are looking deep into the sky using advanced telescopes to try and see the planet itself. Doing so is difficult, given it is so distant, hidden and dark – but they are now using the Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, described as the "best tool" for the job, to try and spot them.
When they do that, they'll be more likely to find out where it was. And, unlike the myths Planet X or Nibiru, its origin won't be the inside of someone's head.
Meerdere bewijzen voor mysterieuze planeet aan rand zonnestelsel. Dit bericht publiceerde NASA zojuist over Planeet X
Meerdere bewijzen voor mysterieuze planeet aan rand zonnestelsel. Dit bericht publiceerde NASA zojuist over Planeet X
Aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel houdt zich een mysterieuze planeet schuil die in een langgerekte baan om de zon draait en mogelijk zelfs het hele zonnestelsel doet kantelen.
Het gaat niet om een planeet die op de aarde botst en de mensheid wegvaagt. De planeet die hiermee in verband wordt gebracht, Nibiru, is door complottheoretici gelinkt aan vreemde gebeurtenissen op aarde en de vernietiging van onze planeet.
De planeet stevent niet op de aarde af, zal ons niet vernietigen – althans niet in de nabije toekomst – en beschikt niet over mystieke krachten.
Meerdere bewijzen
Mensen die praten over Nibiru hebben gelijk over één ding: er bevindt zich een planeet aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel.
Wetenschappers zeggen nu dat hij hoogstwaarschijnlijk bestaat. “We hebben nu meerdere bewijzen voor het bestaan van Planeet Negen,” zei Konstantin Batygin van Caltech in een verklaring van de NASA.
“Als je stelt dat Planeet Negen niet bestaat, creëer je meer problemen dan je oplost,” voegde hij toe.
Kantelen
“We hebben vijf verschillende puzzels en moeten vijf verschillende theorieën bedenken om ze op te lossen,” aldus Batygin.
Professor Batygin en astronoom Mike Brown beweren een aantal indirecte bewijzen te hebben waaruit blijkt dat de planeet bestaat.
De planeet lijkt ons zonnestelsel bijvoorbeeld te doen kantelen. Ergens aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel moet een planeet staandie de orde verstoort.
Geavanceerde telescopen
Astronomen proberen de planeet nu met behulp van geavanceerde telescopen waar te nemen. Dat is lastig omdat het hemellichaam ver weg staat en verborgen is.
De Subaru-telescoop op Hawaï lijkt hiervoor het meest geschikt te zijn.
Net als het bekende figuur uit de Griekse mythologie at ook de ster Kronos zijn eigen kroost op.
Astronomen ontdekten dat de ster HD 240430 in het verleden het equivalent van vijftien aardes heeft verorberd. “Zelfs al zou onze zon alle vier binnenplaneten (Mercurius, Venus, Aarde en Mars, red.) verslinden, dan nog zou de ster niet in de buurt komen van wat HD 240430 heeft opgeslokt”, zegt auteur David Hogg.
De ster heeft de bijnaam Kronos gekregen. Dat klinkt iets makkelijker dan HD 240430, maar is ook nog eens toepasselijk. Kronos is een figuur uit de Griekse mythologie. Hij was de zoon van Ouranos en Gaia. Omdat zijn ouders hadden voorspeld dat een van zijn kinderen hem zou onttronen, besloot hij om zijn kinderen met huid en haar te verslinden. Hestia, Demeter, Poseidon, Hades en Hera kwamen zo aan hun eind. Alleen Zeus werd gespaard, omdat moeder Rheia hem in het geheim baarde. De uitkomst is natuurlijk al bekend: Zeus nam de heerschappij over van Kronos.
De ster Kronos is 350 lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd en vormt een duo met ster HD 240429 (Krios). Wanneer onderzoekers kijken naar dubbelsterren, dan zien ze er chemisch gezien vaak hetzelfde uit. Logisch, want de sterren zijn in dezelfde stellaire kraamkamer ontstaan. Toch blijken Krios en Kronos te verschillen.
De onderzoekers hebben allerlei mogelijke verklaringen hiervoor onderzocht. Is een van de sterren ouder dan de ander? Zijn de sterren toch in twee verschillende gaswolken ontstaan? Of waren elementen in de gaswolk niet goed gemixt? De astronomen beweren dat deze verklaringen niet kloppen, omdat ze in dezelfde omstandigheden zijn ontstaan.
Veel zware elementen De enige logische verklaring is dat Kronos veel materiaal heeft opgeslokt. Hierdoor heeft Kronos meer zware elementen, zoals ijzer, silicium, magnesium en lithium. Deze elementen zijn ook terug te vinden op onze eigen planeet. De zwaardere elementen zijn terug te vinden in de buitenste lagen van Kronos en zijn dus niet goed gemixt. Dit is sterk bewijs dat de ster pas een miljard jaar na zijn geboorte deze elementen ontving.
Scheerde een andere ster langs Kronos? In het verleden zijn er vaker planetenverslindende sterren gevonden, maar het equivalent van vijftien aardes is toch echt wel een record. De onderzoekers vermoeden dat Kronos in het verleden vlak langs een andere ster scheerde, waardoor de banen van planeten werden gewijzigd. De planeten kwamen hierdoor op ramkoers te liggen met de ster. Een triest einde voor dit systeem. Toch gebeurt dit wel vaker. Wist je dat over 1,3 miljoen jaar er ook een andere ster door ons zonnestelsel reist? De gevolgen voor de aarde zijn gelukkig klein, maar deze ster verstoort mogelijk wel de banen van objecten in de Oortwolk. Met alle gevolgen van dien.
Kuipergordelobjecten De astronomen leidden het allemaal af uit de banen van een handvol Kuipergordelobjecten die door de planeet beïnvloed zouden worden. De Kuipergordelobjecten in kwestie hebben allemaal elliptische banen, maar volgen dezelfde richting in de fysieke ruimte. “De kans dat dit toeval is, is slechts 0,007 procent,” aldus astronoom Mike Brown. “Kortom: het kán haast geen toeval zijn. Er moet iets zijn dat de koers van deze objecten bepaalt.” En dat ‘iets’ is volgens Brown en collega Konstantin Batygin dus Planeet X.
Nog meer Kuipergordelobjecten Computersimulaties van het zonnestelsel wezen vervolgens uit dat er meer Kuipergordelobjecten beïnvloed moesten worden door Planeet X. Het baanvlak van deze Kuipergordelobjecten zou onder invloed van de grote planeet loodrecht op het baanvlak van de andere planeten in het zonnestelsel staan. En zulke Kuipergordelobjecten zijn er! De afgelopen jaren zijn er een handvol ontdekt. En het zijn dus bewijsstukken voor het bestaan van Planeet X.
Schuin baanvlak Maar onderzoekers kwamen met nog meer bewijs op de proppen. Zo zijn er aanwijzingen dat Planeet X verantwoordelijk kan zijn voor het feit dat het omloopvlak van de acht planeten in ons zonnestelsel ietsje schuin staat ten opzichte van de evenaar van de zon. Dat schuine baanvlak konden onderzoekers lang niet verklaren. Maar gooi een negende planeet in het zonnestelsel en opeens is het allemaal heel logisch!
Tegendraadse Kuipergordelobjecten En dan het vijfde en laatste bewijsstuk: tegendraadse Kuipergordelobjecten. Het gaat hierbij om objecten die zich in de Kuipergordel bevinden, maar die precies in tegenovergestelde richting bewegen als de rest van de hemellichamen in het zonnestelsel. Heel vreemd en onverklaarbaar. Tot – je raadt het al – we Planeet X erbij betrekken. Want die planeet kan het tegendraadse gedrag verklaren.
Planeet Y Inmiddels zijn er voorzichtige aanwijzingen dat er naast een negende ook nog een tiende planeet in ons zonnestelsel verstopt zit. Lees er hier alles over.
Vijf raadsels, één oplossing? Daarmee zijn er nu dus vijf heel sterke aanwijzingen voor het bestaan van de planeet. “Er zijn nu vijf verschillende observationele bewijslijnen die wijzen op het bestaan van Planeet Negen,” aldus Konstantin Batygin. “Als je deze verklaring weg wilt nemen en je voorstelt dat Planeet Negen niet bestaat, dan genereer je meer problemen dan je oplost. Plots zit je dan met vijf verschillende raadsels en moet je vijf verschillende theorieën bedenken om ze te verklaren.”
Het bewijs lijkt overweldigend. Maar daarmee is het bestaan van de planeet nog niet bewezen. Pas als de planeet wordt waargenomen, weten we zeker dat deze bestaat. Geen wonder dat er momenteel met man en macht naar Planeet X gezocht wordt. Daarvoor wordt gebruik gemaakt van de Subaru Telescope op Hawaii, volgens onderzoekers het beste instrument voor een dergelijke zoektocht.
Mochten we Planeet X daadwerkelijk aan de rand van het zonnestelsel aantreffen, dan is daarmee direct een ander mysterie opgelost. Het meest voorkomende type planeet rond andere sterren is de superaarde: een planeet die groter is dan de aarde, maar kleiner dan Neptunus. Gek genoeg vinden we in ons zonnestelsel helemaal niet zo’n superaarde. Tenzij Planeet X bestaat. Want met de geschatte omvang zou dat toch een mooie superaarde zijn.
Brown vertelde vorig jaar aan Scientias.nl te verwachten dat Planeet X binnen een jaar of vijf wel wordt ontdekt. En dan zal ook eindelijk duidelijk worden waar deze planeet precies vandaan komt. Is ‘ie uit het binnenste van ons zonnestelsel geschopt of heeft de zon de planeet van een ander stelsel gestolen? Ook in ons zonnestelsel valt duidelijk nog genoeg te ontdekken en onderzoeken…
ESO komt maandag met 'ongekende ontdekking': wat kan het zijn?
ESO komt maandag met 'ongekende ontdekking': wat kan het zijn?
Caroline Kraaijvanger
En waarom houdt het LIGO-Virgo-samenwerkingsverband op exact hetzelfde moment óók een persconferentie?
Complete verwarring onder wetenschapsjournalisten. Gisterenmiddag vielen er namelijk twee persuitnodigingen op de mat. De eerste was van het LIGO-Virgo-samenwerkingsverband en kopte “Wetenschappers bespreken nieuwe ontwikkelingen in de zwaartekrachtsgolven-astronomie“. Bij een beetje wetenschapsjournalist loopt het water dan al in de mond.
En toen kwam ESO Maar een uurtje later werd het nog gekker. Nu viel er een persbericht van ESO binnen met een minstens zo gekmakende titel: “Persconferentie op ESO-hoofdkwartier kondigt ongekende ontdekking aan”.
Dezelfde ontdekking? Een beetje rekenen en schuiven met tijdzones wijs uit dat beide instanties hun baanbrekende ontdekkingen komende maandag tegelijkertijd (16.00 uur Nederlandse tijd) uit de doeken gaan doen. En dat doet toch een beetje vermoeden dat beide persberichten over dezelfde ontdekking handelen. Maar wat zou er dan gevonden kunnen zijn?
Baanbrekende observaties en extreme gebeurtenissen ESO heeft het in het persbericht over “baanbrekende observaties van een astronomisch fenomeen waar we nog nooit eerder getuige van zijn geweest”. LIGO-Virgo is nog iets cryptischer: “De bijeenkomst begint met een overzicht van nieuwe ontdekkingen van LIGO, Virgo en partners wereldwijd, gevolgd door details van telescopen (wellicht een verwijzing naar instrumenten van ESO?, red.) die samenwerken met LIGO en Virgo om extreme gebeurtenissen in de kosmos te bestuderen.”
Speculatie Dan weet je in feite dus nog niks. En dus kunnen we alleen speculeren. En dan grijpen we toch weer terug op de geruchten die al sinds eind augustus rondzingen. Die geruchten vertellen dat er voor het eerst zwaartekrachtsgolven – rimpelingen in de ruimtetijd – zijn gedetecteerd die ontstaan zijn tijdens het samensmelten van neutronensterren. De geruchtenmolen kwam op gang toen een Amerikaanse astrofysicus deze tweet de wereld in slingerde:
Met dat in ons achterhoofd verwachten wij komende maandag dat LIGO-Virgo ons gaat vertellen dat er zwaartekrachtsgolven zijn opgevangen die het resultaat zijn van samensmeltende neutronensterren. Het zou een enorme primeur zijn. Tot op heden zijn slechts vier keer zwaartekrachtsgolven gedetecteerd en elke keer waren ze het resultaat van samensmeltende – onzichtbare – zwarte gaten. Maar als nu zwaartekrachtsgolven zijn gedetecteerd die ontstaan zijn door het samensmelten van neutronensterren, viel er wellicht voor ESO ook iets te zien. Of we het bij het juiste eind hebben? Dat moet maandag blijken. Dan vallen om 16.00 uur Nederlandse tijd alle puzzelstukjes in elkaar. We houden je op de hoogte!
En het is een flinke: de ring zou zo’n 70 kilometer breed zijn.
Dat schrijven astronomen in het blad Nature. Het is een bijzondere ontdekking: Haumea is de eerste planetoïde die niet tot de Centaurs wordt gerekend waarbij een ring is ontdekt.
Over Haumea
Haumea is een dwergplaneet voorbij Neptunus. Het is één van de snelst roterende grote hemellichamen in ons zonnestelsel: elke vier uur voltooit de dwergplaneet een rondje rond zijn as. Door dat snelle gedraai heeft de dwergplaneet – die grofweg net zo groot is als Pluto – de vorm van een ei gekregen. De dwergplaneet heeft twee manen: Hi’iaka en Namaka.
De ontdekking Onderzoekers ontdekten de ring toen ze twaalf telescopen op Haumea richtten terwijl deze voor een ster langs bewoog. De observaties onthulden dat de dwergplaneet geen atmosfeer bezit, maar dus wel omringd wordt door een 70 kilometer brede ring. Die ring heeft een diameter van zo’n 4574 kilometer.
Evenaar Als je van opzij naar Haumea kijkt, zie je dat de ring ter hoogte van de evenaar ligt. Ook ligt de ring op dezelfde lijn als het omloopvlak van één van Haumea’s manen: Hi’iaka.
Afbeelding: IAA-CSIC / UHU.
Draaien Net als de manen draait de ring om Haumea heen. De omlooptijd is ongeveer drie keer langer dan de rotatietijd van de dwergplaneet.
Chariklo en Chiron Tot enkele jaren geleden waren we ons alleen bewust van ringen rond grote planeten zoals Saturnus. Maar toen ontdekten onderzoekers een ringensysteem rond Chariklo: een dwergplaneet die tot de Centaur-populatie wordt gerekend. En inmiddels zijn er sterke aanwijzingen dat ook de Centaur Chiron ringen bezit. Haumea is echter het eerste kleine hemellichaam dat niet tot de Centaurs wordt gerekend waar ringen rond zijn aangetroffen.
Het onderzoek naar Haumea resulteert overigens niet alleen in de ontdekking van de ring. De waarnemingen stellen onderzoekers ook in staat om de dichtheid van de dwergplaneet vast te stellen (tot 1885 kilogram per kubieke meter). Ook kunnen onderzoekers op basis van hun studie uitsluiten dat Haumea een atmosfeer heeft.
Verrassing: het jasje van de maan is heel anders dan dat van de aarde
Verrassing: het jasje van de maan is heel anders dan dat van de aarde
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Minder olivijn, meer orthopyroxeen.
“De mantel van de aarde bestaat voornamelijk uit een mineraal dat olivijn wordt genoemd,” vertelt onderzoeker Jay Melosh. “En over het algemeen wordt aangenomen dat alle planeten zijn zoals de aarde.” En ook van de mantel van onze eigen maan werd gedacht dat deze sterk vergelijkbaar was met die van de aarde. Maar Melosh en collega’s vegen die aanname nu van tafel. In gesteenten diep onder het oppervlak van de maan domineert olivijn namelijk niet. In plaats daarvan maakt orthopyroxeen de dienst uit.
Krater Melosh en collega’s trekken die conclusie nadat ze de grootste en diepste inslagkrater op de maan bestudeerden: het Zuidpool-Aitken-bekken. De krater zou zijn ontstaan toen een enorme planetoïde op de maan klapte. Door de botsing kwam het gesteente dat de mantel van de maan vormt, bloot te liggen. Daarnaast werd een deel van dit mantelgesteente tijdens de inslag weggeslingerd. Kortom: een heel geschikte plek om meer te weten te komen over de samenstelling van de maanmantel.
Gereflecteerd zonlicht Om de samentelling van de mantel te kunnen bestudeerden, keken onderzoekers naar gereflecteerd zonlicht. Wanneer het zonlicht de maan raakt, gaat het de interactie met de materialen op het oppervlak aan. En omdat verschillende materialen verschillende golflengtes licht reflecteren, kunnen onderzoekers aan de hand van het gereflecteerde zonlicht vaststellen welke materialen op het maanoppervlak rusten.
Simulaties Voor onderzoekers conclusies konden trekken over de samenstelling van de maanmantel moesten ze eerst natuurlijk wel zeker weten dat ze materialen bestudeerden die tijdens de inslag waren weggeslingerd en dus uit de maanmantel afkomstig waren. Daarom werden er eerst simulaties van de inslag uitgevoerd. Als het bovenste deel van de maanmantel voornamelijk uit olivijn bestond, zouden we dat olivijn moeten aantreffen in de krater en de omringende hooglanden. Maar vervolgonderzoek wees uit dat we aldaar helemaal geen grote hoeveelheden olivijn aantreffen. In plaats daarvan domineert orthopyroxeen.
En daarmee is de maanmantel eigenlijk precies het tegenovergestelde van de aardmantel. In de mantel van onze planeet domineert namelijk olivijn en zijn kleine hoeveelheden orthopyroxeen te vinden. Het onderzoek heeft onder meer implicaties voor de theorieën die er momenteel zijn omtrent het ontstaan van de maan. Waarschijnlijk moeten die – op basis van de nieuwe bevindingen – enigszins worden aangepast om te kunnen verklaren waarom de maan een ander jasje heeft dan de aarde.
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