t’s on! Scientists have managed to verify, for the first time, a technique to induce lucid dreaming.A technique to induce lucid dreaming has been independently verified for the first time. More than half of the participants had lucid dreams during the scientific experiment. The structures sighted through Google Earth appear to have a pyramidal shape, such as those temples that lie just over a thousand kilometers to the west, in Mayan and Aztec lands allegedly…

The structures sighted through Google Earth appear to have a pyramidal shape, such as those temples that lie just over a thousand kilometers to the west, in Mayan and Aztec lands allegedly.

Recently, Dr. Denholm Aspy, of the University of Adelaide, conducted a study with 169 participants who had to learn different techniques to induce lucid dreams.

He told IFLScience this exceeds any previous study conducted without interventions such as masks that shine lights in people’s eyes on detecting REM sleep.

One of the techniques, called “reality check,” sought to make the individuals in the experiment take the habit of making sure they were actually asleep.

In addition, it was combined with the Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (or ‘MILD’), where an alarm went off every five hours, after which the subjects were to wake up and recite the following: the next time I’m dreaming, I’ll remember that I’m dreaming “; then they went back to sleep imagining what it would be like to have a lucid dream.

These two techniques led to 53% of individuals having lucid dreams during the experiment, with a 17% who stood out for having them every night.

He told IFLScience this exceeds any previous study conducted without interventions such as masks that shine lights in people’s eyes on detecting REM sleep.

Aspy reports, these results exceed any previous studies conducted with instrumental assistance.

“The MILD technique works on what we call ‘prospective memory’ – that is, your ability to remember to do things in the future. By repeating a phrase that you will remember you’re dreaming, it forms an intention in your mind that you will, in fact, remember that you are dreaming, leading to a lucid dream,” says Dr. Aspy, Visiting Research Fellow in the University’s School of Psychology.

“Importantly, those who reported success using the MILD technique were significantly less sleep deprived the next day, indicating that lucid dreaming did not have any negative effect on sleep quality,” he says.

“These results take us one step closer to developing highly effective lucid dream induction techniques that will allow us to study the many potential benefits of lucid dreaming, such as treatment for nightmares and improvement of physical skills and abilities through rehearsal in the lucid dream environment,” Dr. Aspy says.

Approximately 55% of people have had a lucid dream at some point in their life, but for most, it is a rare occurrence. In fact, the researcher who carried out the recent experiment became interested in the subject after having had a lucid dream during his childhood and another just the night before starting his doctorate.

According to IFLScience, Aspy is looking for volunteers to do future studies that will not last more than a week. The short time of the exercises will seek that the developed techniques will be applicable later in treatments for different disorders.

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25-10-2017 om 20:47 geschreven door peter  

Traces of a lost civilization? Researchers find HUNDREDS of mysterious structures in the Amazon

Archaeologists have uncovered hundreds of enigmatic structures located in the Amazon, believed to have been built over 2,000 years ago. These mysterious structures have remained concealed for centuries by the Amazon and reveal that the Amazon isn’t as untouched as we believed in the past.

The fascinating ancient structures were most likely built by an unknown civilization.

The traditional idea many historians share is that before the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese in the fifteenth century, and unlike conventional history in the Andes, there weren’t any advanced civilizations in the Amazon region. But, given the fact how deforestation has revealed much of the hidden secrets of the area, scholars are confident that an advanced civilization inhabited the area in the distant past. The numerous aerial and satellite images are revealing, a complex network of structures, roads, and even possibly settlements that until now had remained hidden under the impenetrable layer of the Amazon.

These remarkable earthworks have been uncovered due to rapid deforestation which has allowed experts to uncover over 450 massive geoglyphs in the rainforest.

While their size and complexity has taken archaeologists by surprise, experts are still unsure as to what their exact purpose was, however some authors speculate that the massive enclosures may have been used sporadically as ritual gathering places.

Traces of a lost civilization? Researchers find HUNDREDS of mysterious structures in the Amazon | Ancient Code

According to phys.org, the structures are unlikely to be villages as archaeologists have recovered very few artifacts during excavations. Furthermore, the layout of the structures suggests they weren’t defensive structures.

The massive structures—eerily similar to Stonehenge— occupy around 13,000 square kilometers in Acre, in the western Brazilian Amazon.

Scientists from the UK and Brazil have said that these structures prove the Amazon isn’t as untouched as we believed in the past.

“The fact that these sites lay hidden for centuries beneath mature rainforest really challenges the idea that Amazonian forests are ‘pristine ecosystems,” said Dr. Jennifer Watling, a post-doctoral researcher at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, University of Sao Paulo.

“We immediately wanted to know whether the region was already forested when the geoglyphs were built, and to what extent people impacted the landscape to build these earthworks.”

Researchers have managed to ‘look into the past’ by reconstructing 6000 years of vegetation and fire history in the vicinity of two of the archaeological sites using state of the art methods, revealing HEAVY alterations by the ancient culture that inhabited the area.

Scientists say that the ancients modified the bamboo forests for millennia, constructing small temporary clearings in order to erect these mysterious structures.

Experts found that instead of burning large parts of the forest, the ancients were able to transform their environment by concentrating on economically valuable tree species such as palms, creating a kind of ‘prehistoric supermarket’ of useful forest products.

Dr. Watling said: “Despite the huge number and density of geoglyph sites in the region, we can be certain that Acre’s forests were never cleared as extensively, or for as long, as they have been in recent years.

“Our evidence that Amazonian forests have been managed by indigenous peoples long before European Contact should not be cited as justification for the destructive, unsustainable land-use practiced today. It should instead serve to highlight the ingenuity of past subsistence regimes that did not lead to forest degradation and the importance of indigenous knowledge for finding more sustainable land-use alternatives”.

Source: Impact of pre-Columbian “geoglyph” builders on Amazonian forests, PNAS, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

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25-10-2017 om 20:37 geschreven door peter  

CONTROVERSIAL THEORY CLAIMS HUMANS WITH BLOOD TYPE RH NEGATIVE BELONG TO AN ALIEN LINEAGE

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25-10-2017 om 20:10 geschreven door peter  

ALIEN TERROR? Man 'stared at by crew of bizarre triangle UFO hovering over crop field'

A MAN has told how "time stopped" after he locked eyes with the crew of a bizarre triangular UFO he claims to have seen hovering over a field.

25-10-2017 om 19:27 geschreven door peter  

ALIEN COVER UP? Police officer ‘hounded from force’ after reporting UFO encounter

A FORMER police officer claims he was hounded from the force after he reported seeing a UFO and being abducted by aliens.

25-10-2017 om 18:14 geschreven door peter  

Do agencies of government take note of millennia-old mysteries, tales of ancient astronauts, and archaeological anomalies? Well, yes, albeit to a degree. The CIA, for example, has taken an interest in the tales of Noah’s Ark – or as the agency refers to it, “The Ararat Anomaly.” The late Miles Copeland – who held a significant position in the Central Intelligence Agency – told an intriguing story concerning the CIA and the Dead Sea Scrolls. And, then, there’s the matter of a man named George Van Tassel.

In the early 1950s, Van Tassel claimed interaction with extraterrestrials out in the desert near Joshua Tree, California. Van Tassel’s visitors from the stars were said to have been: (a) extremely human-like and (b) highly demanding, when it came to getting across their space-laws and regulations. At the time of the encounters Van Tassel was living in the desert region of a small town called Landers – actually in a large, converted cave beneath a gigantic rock that, unsurprisingly, is called Giant Rock.

Van Tassel claimed the aliens told him that the Human Race had been molded, guided and manipulated for thousands of years – by extraterrestrials who posed as gods. Such was the fascination that the public had with his claims, Van Tassel was prompted to establish a yearly UFO conference at Giant Rock that – at its height, in the mid-1950s – attracted audiences in excess of ten thousand. The word was spreading. It even reached the FBI, who opened a file on Van Tassel in 1954.

Documentation declassified by the FBI demonstrates that George Van Tassel was periodically monitored well into the 1960s. As were Van Tassel’s statements concerning ancient aliens and the saga of the Ten Commandments. An FBI report – on a lecture Van Tassel gave at the Phipps Auditorium in Denver, Colorado, in 1960 – states the following: “The major part of his lecture was devoted to explaining the occurrences in the Bible as they related to the space people. He said that the only mention of God in the Bible is in the beginning when the universe was being made. He said that after that all references are to ‘out of the sky’ or ‘out of heaven.'”

The FBI agent present at the gig also reported: “He said that this is due to the fact that man, space people, was made by God and that in the beginning of the world the space people came to the earth and left animals here. These were the prehistoric animals which existed at a body temperature of 105 degrees; however a polar tilt occurred whereby the poles shifted and the tropical climates became covered with ice and vice versa. After the polar tilt the temperature to sustain life was 98.6 degrees, which was suitable for space people, so they established a colony and left only males here, intending to bring females at a latter date on supply ships. This is reflected in Adam not having a wife. He said that Adam was not an individual but a race of men.”

And there was more: “[Van Tassel] said that this race then inter-married with ‘intelligent, upright walking animals,’ which race was EVE. Then, when the space people came back in the supply ships they saw what had happened and did not land but ever since due to the origin of ADAM, they have watched over the people on Earth. He said that this is in the Bible many times, such as MOSES receiving the Ten Commandments. He said the Ten Commandments are the laws of the space people and men on earth only give them lip service. Also, the manna from heaven was bread supplied by the space people.”

Also contained in the FBI’s file is the following, which covers that same 1960 lecture in Denver: “[Van Tassel] also stated that this can be seen from the native stories such as the Indians in America saying that corn and potatoes, unknown in Europe were brought here by a ‘flaming canoe.’ He said that this can be shown also by the old stories of Winged Chariots and Winged white Horses, which came from out of the sky. He said that JESUS was born of MARY, who was a space person sent here already pregnant in order to show the earth people the proper way to live. He said the space people have watched over us through the years and have tried to help us. He said they have sent their agents to the earth and they appear just as we do; however, they have the power to know your thoughts just as JESUS did. He said this is their means of communication and many of the space people are mute, but they train a certain number of them to speak earth languages.”

Those reading this article and hoping to learn that the FBI has an office devoted to the secret investigation of ancient astronauts will be deeply disappointed. No such office exists. And, no such office has ever existed. Certainly, the FBI listened to what Van Tassel had to say about alleged alien visitations to Earth in the distant past, but they were not at all impressed by what they saw or heard. An April 12, 1965 FBI document refers to Van Tassel as “an eccentric, self-ordained minister of a quasi-religious organization.” A further FBI document refers to Van Tassel as – and I quote exactly – “a mental case.”

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25-10-2017 om 17:52 geschreven door peter  

“All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist.”

Are you reading this? Good. That means the world’s greatest scientists using the world’s greatest scientific instruments are wrong. Or are they? Researchers at CERN in Switzerland recently made the most precise measurements ever of the magnetic force of protons and antiprotons and found them to be exactly the same … except for an opposite sign. The means the idea that scientists have danced around for centuries is still making them waltz – the Big Bang created equal amounts of matter and antimatter which should have annihilated each other and left nothing behind … including the universe and us. So, why are we still here?

Image: CERN, Maximilien Brice and Julien Ordan

A better question might be: “How did the CERN Physicists manage to experiment with the magnetism of matter and antimatter without annihilating the universe for real?” In a word … slowly. In 2014, they were able to measure the magnetic moment – how much a proton resists magnetic force – by trapping an individual proton in a magnetic field, then spinning it with another magnetic field.

That part was easy – at least protons don’t annihilate when they come in contact with any matter. Antiprotons are – no pun intended – another matter. After creating antiprotons in 2015, they had to create an antimatter chamber to store them in. They started with a Penning trap – a cylindrical container that traps charged particles between a magnetic field and a quadrupole electric field (apologies to physicists for this overly simple explanation). These Penning traps are imperfect and the antimatter can leak out (not a good thing – if you’ve been paying attention), so the CERN physicist used two and kept the antimatter extremely cold. This allowed them to store the antimatter for 405 days, more than enough time to do the magnetic moment measurements.

BASE Penning trap system to measure magnetic moment of the antiproton. Credit: Stefan Sellner, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan

And the answer is … −2.7928473441 μN. (μN is a nuclear magneton). Not only was this exactly the same – except for the minus sign – as the magnetic moment of a proton, it’s accurate to nine digits or nearly perfect. Would you expect any less from CERN?

Christian Smorra, the physicist at CERN’s Baryon–Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) collaboration who observed that the universe should not actually exist, was excited at the results, published this week in Nature, but still puzzled.

“An asymmetry must exist here somewhere but we simply do not understand where the difference is.”

Are we really sure these are the people we want experimenting with antimatter? As Chief Engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott once said to Mr. Spock:

“Those few seconds will not make any difference, Mr. Spock, because you and I and the rest of the crew will no longer be here to bandy it back and forth. This thing is going to blow up, and there’s nothing in the universe can stop it.”

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25-10-2017 om 17:43 geschreven door peter  

Within the domain of the alien abduction phenomenon, there are a number of accounts of people reportedly taken on-board UFOs and submerged into mysterious liquids, or gels – as in completely submerged. Very oddly, and as the abductees state, the liquid does not prevent them from breathing normally. Researcher Helmut Lammer – in an article titled “New Evidence of Military Involvement in Abductions” – tells the story of a woman who he refers to as “Lisa,” and who found herself in just this precise situation. Lisa was an alien abductee, but she was also someone who was subjected to what have become known as Milabs – or “military abductions.” It was in this latter context that Lisa had a very traumatic experience, as Lammer shows.

Lammer says Lisa was taken against her will to what turned out to be a below-surface facility, in which she “…saw naked humans floating in tubes. Lisa claims that she was forced by humans into some type of pool filled with a golden yellow bubbly fluid, while other humans looked at her. Lisa has traumatic recollections that her kidnappers tried to make her and other victims able to breathe in the liquid. In two of the before mentioned cases the abductee was forced to breathe the liquid like Lisa. The hypnosis transcripts reveal that the liquid breathing experiences were traumatic for the abductees. Both abductees where totally immersed in the liquid and both reported that they could breathe the fluid.”

Then, there is this from another abductee: “I found myself inside a clear glass cylinder, totally submerged in some kind of warm fluid, thicker than water, thinner than oil. To my surprise, I was able to breathe this warm fluid without discomfort. I could also open my eyes without a problem. The solution was clear, of a greenish color and the container was softly lit. I remember, still fully submerged in this solution, that I slowly began to recall the abduction that had taken me away from my bedroom, minutes, maybe hours before.”

There is also this one: “…I woke up again, this timer naked in a funnel shaped pool filled with a greenish black gel type liquid. The pool had to be 20 yards wide all around. And pretty deep. The pool was made of some kind of shiny metal. With the gel it made the surface very slippery and you would slip under the gel if you tried to get out. I then realized something very odd at that time. I wasn’t alone. There were at least 15 other humans with me. All of them screaming and panicking…”

There is a good reason why I mention all of this now. Just a few days ago I received a Facebook message from a woman who I’ll call “Andrea” and who lives in Minneapolis. Andrea’s main reason for contacting me was because on several occasions, back in the 1980s, and after experiencing classic abduction phenomena – missing time, nightmares, and a sense of being subjected to stressful and terrifying medical experimentation – she was visited by a Man in Black. And, yes, it was the same MIB over and over again, which is intriguing, since such repeat visits by the very same MIB are not too common. The MIB was of the typically weird kind: tall, skinny, pale-faced, and with slightly larger than normal, staring eyes. And, of course, he was dressed in a black suit and an old style fedora. On each occasion Andrea was warned not to talk about her experiences.

It was only after recently reading my 2015 book, Men in Black, that Andrea decided to share her experiences, chiefly because one of the MIB described in the book sounded eerily like her very own Man in Black. But, there was more: I asked Andrea if we could chat via Skype and she agreed. During the course of talking with Andrea, something interesting came out: Andrea told me that on every occasion she was abducted by the familiar, dwarfish, black-eyed entities of UFO lore, she was immersed into a “bathtub”-like environment of what looked like water, but which was slightly thicker. It had an overwhelming odor that was not unlike that of nail polish.

On the first occasion, Andrea was terrified that she would drown. In seconds, though, she found she could “breathe the liquid” with no problem at all. During subsequent abductions, Andrea felt that her abductors were testing how long she was able to comfortably remain immersed. On one occasion, she felt a pressure on her body, which led her to suspect that the craft she was in had suddenly taken to the skies and that what she was experiencing were the effects of G-Forces.

Phys.org stated in March 2017: “Liquid ventilation – breathing a liquid instead of air – has long been the stuff of science fiction, and despite experimental clinical use, its potential for treating severe pulmonary or cardiac trauma, and use in deep diving and space travel, it is still not widely used or understood.” They note too that research into this area is moving ahead and in notable fashion, as you will see from this link.

Maybe unearthly creatures have developed the kinds of technology that we are still working to perfect…

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25-10-2017 om 17:33 geschreven door peter  

You’ll never see a more touching film about a 72-year-old alien experiencer

Love & Saucers: David Huggins has an unremarkable life—well, minus lifelong alien affairs.

25-10-2017 om 17:21 geschreven door peter  

25-10-2017 om 17:02 geschreven door peter  

Huge unknown object takes off outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico

While driving on the highway 15 miles outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico on October 23, 2017 the witness noticed a huge strange object standing in a field.

Surprised by what he witnessed he tried to capture the object on his camera but as soon as he started recording it took off.

According to the witness, he has no idea what he has recorded and wonders whether it was a so-called ‘dust-devil’ or something that cannot be explained?

  

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25-10-2017 om 16:48 geschreven door peter  

SCIENCE

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Scientist proposes wild explanation for why we haven’t discovered aliens yet

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25-10-2017 om 01:46 geschreven door peter  

'NOT A HOAX' Nazca 'mummified aliens are not fake,' claims scientist

ALLEGED mummified remains of "non-human beings" said to have been found in Peru are not a hoax, according to a scientist who has investigated the bodies.

25-10-2017 om 01:32 geschreven door peter  

Exoplanets With Alien Life: Solar Storms May Kill Off Habitable 'Water Worlds'

25-10-2017 om 01:13 geschreven door peter  

 The Alien Observatory --"Strange, Saturn-Sized Alien Moon May Be a Harbinger of Habitable Worlds"

In a series of papers published in 2013, Heller and his colleague Rory Barnes from the University of Washington and the NASA Astrobiology Institute tackled some of the big-picture problems to habitability posed by the relationship between exomoons and their host planets. Heller and Barnes have proposed a circumplanetary "habitable edge," similar to the well-established circumstellar "habitable zone." This zone is the temperature band around a star within which water neither boils off or freezes away on a planet's surface – not too hot, not too cold, thus earning it the nickname "the Goldilocks zone.

 

This past July, 2017 reports New Scientist, evidence emerged of the first discovery of a moon around a planet beyond our solar system that might prove Heller's 2013 prediction above correct. Although the exomoon’s existence has yet to be confirmed, new results from Kepler Data show that the world may look stranger than anyone thought and may also have been created through some unknown mechanism.

David Kipping at Columbia University, New York, has spearheaded an effort to comb through Kepler spacecraft data in search of hidden moons since 2012 sifting through data from the Kepler space telescope on more than a thousand planets and their moons orbiting distant stars. Back in July, he and his graduate student Alex Teachey announced they had found signs of the colossal exomoon that might orbit a gas giant roughly 4000 light years away. A moon, says Kipping, could also make its host planet more likely to harbor life. Some models suggest that the presence of our moon might have helped make Earth a nice place to live. The same could be true for other moon-planet partnerships.

So Kipping’s search, dubbed the "Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler," gets at the fundamental nature of our place in the universe: Are we alone? By early next spring, astronomer David Kipping hopes to know if the object he’s spent his early career searching for is really there.

In late October, 2017, Kipping and colleagues will use the Hubble Space Telescope to find out if they’ve caught their first quarry. The possible candidate is a Neptune-sized object orbiting the planet Kepler 1625b. If the candidate turns out to be a genuine exomoon (Kipping is quick to point out that similar hints have fizzled before) he will no doubt solidify his reputation as “the moon guy.”

“His signature projects are quite risky, but with obvious large payback,” says Dimitar Sasselov, director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative, who worked with Kipping in his postdoc research at Harvard University.

There’s a reason Kipping’s team has found only one exomoon candidate so far: There aren’t many out there big enough for Kepler to see, according to his statistical work. “Because he’s doing such a careful job, it probably means something,” Sasselov adds. The systems the team has checked that show no moons most likely aren’t hiding any.

Although the moon is still hypothetical – and Kipping has watched many previous candidates vanish into thin air – the discovery would mark a new chapter in our search for life in the cosmos, causing many to wonder what that world would look like.

Heller, still at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, speculates that based on calculations from the Kepler data, that the moon could be anything from a small gaseous body the size of Earth to an ocean-covered rocky world as big as Saturn, but most likely scenario, is a Neptune-like world larger than any moon that exists in our solar system, which means that its formation mechanism would be A mysterY.

WORLDS AROUND WORLDS Exomoons — satellites of planets that orbit other stars — could be one of the best places to look for life outside the solar system. But first, astronomers have to find the moons.

Heller argues that it's size can’t be explained by what we currently know about how moons form in our solar system, where Earth's moon was created when a giant impact carved the satellite from our planet, and Jupiter’s moons formed around the developing planet from the thick debris of gas and dust that once persisted throughout the solar system. Neptune’s moon was actually captured by the planet’s gravity.

If Kipping's exomoon is validated, it would pose “an exquisite riddle for formation theorists to solve”, Heller says. “It is not clear to me from the Kepler data and from what we know in the solar system, which channel it would have formed through.”

“If it’s there, awesome, have at it,” Teachey says. “But if not, well, we’d feel badly about other people having spent time studying a phantom.”

“I think the conclusion is, ‘this is a strange system,’ and we agree,” Teachey says. Both he and Kipping have argued that the unusual size of the moon is reason to be agnostic about it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean astronomers should rule out its existence. “The universe is very good at surprising us,” Teachey says.

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25-10-2017 om 00:53 geschreven door peter  

A CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

Photo: M. Kornmesser Observatory in southern Europe / Agence France-Presse

In August 2016, european researchers have announced the discovery of an exoplanet the size of Earth located in the habitable zone of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.

Sara Seager has promised to devote the rest of his life to the search for a new Earth among the billions of stars in the cosmos.

“This is our goal : to find life up there,” said the astrophysicist in toronto a tone of commonplace, as if it described a single shipment up at the corner store.

The scientist of international fame believes that this goal is finally at hand — and it is well-placed to know.

“40 years ago, those who sought exoplanets were the object of ridicule, she says in reference to the planets which are outside of our solar system. It was felt that it was very marginal, so it was difficult […] But the line that demarcates what is crazy is moving ever. “

Ms. Seager teaches at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of technology and one of the world’s leading experts in the field of exoplanets. It has been the subject of reports by the New York Times, CNN and Cosmopolitan magazine, and she received a scholarship MacArthur ” genius.” In the world of astronomy, it is a feature.

Ultimately, his work could answer some of the most pressing issues of humanity. His mission to find life elsewhere in the universe, like something from a science fiction, but recent advances in astrophysics give reason for optimism in this astrophysicist.

Before the 1990s, only two planets – Uranus and Neptune – had been discovered since that the Babylonians had observed the comings and goings of the celestial bodies, there are 4400 years old. Pluto was identified in 1930, but she was demoted to the rank of dwarf planet in 2006.

A monumental breakthrough occurred in 1995, when two astronomers in switzerland have announced the discovery, outside of our solar system, a first planet in orbit around a star. The existence of 51 Pegasus B was demonstrated by its severity, which was maintained its star.

Then in 2014, the Kepler space telescope, the us space agency (NASA), has discovered Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet of a similar size to that of the Earth, inside the box, goldilocks (Goldilocks zone).

“It is when a planet is neither too hot, nor too cold, just right for life,” said Seager.

The improvement of technology has led to the discovery of more than 3600 exoplanets for the past 30 years. Only 52 of them, however, are in the habitable zone, where liquid water could exist. But an exoplanet the size of Earth that is located within this zone hosts not automatically the life.

“As long as we are not able to examine the atmosphere of the planet [ … ], we will not know really anything about it,” said Ms. Seager. It does really say nothing as we can’t take a better look. “

This is not as easy as one might think : most exoplanets are too far from Earth to be observed directly. But in August 2016, european researchers have announced the discovery of an exoplanet the size of Earth located in the habitable zone of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, our next door neighbor in heaven more close at only 4.2 light years from here.

This is some 40 000 billion kilometers, but it is still 480 times closer than Kepler-186f.

“IT was really the next door, but very difficult to find, said Ms. Seager. In astronomy, the proximity is very important. “

But to observe a planet relatively small pasted on a star that is very large, it is necessary first of all to block the intense light given off by that star. This is why Ms. Seager collaborated on the project Starshade NASA : the top of 15 floors, the device would be deployed in space and its “petals” would block the light that aveuglerait otherwise the telescope that came with it.

“This is my favorite project, she said. One of my goals in life would be to contribute to the realization of the Starshade. “

With Starshade, Ms. Seager wants to look at the atmosphere of exoplanets in search of gas, such as oxygen, that could be evidence of the presence of life.

“When I help to find these planets, the goal is to […] look for signs of life through the use of gas [like oxygen] which should not be there,” she says. We will not be certain 100% that they are produced by the life… And if this is the case, we won’t know if these are intelligent beings or simply a deposit sticky. “

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25-10-2017 om 00:42 geschreven door peter  

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25-10-2017 om 00:16 geschreven door peter  

Former US Intelligence officer claims UFOs are REAL and we are not ALONE

Is this another step towards disclosure? A former US Senior Intelligence officer who worked for the DoD has gone on record claiming that UFO’s are real, and we may not be alone in the universe.

A man called Luis Elizondo claims to have also worked fro the US army, the National Counter-intelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence, as well as carrying out extremity sensitive espionage and terrorism investigations around the globe.

Elizondo was revealed as a key member of a brand new organization—To The Stars Academy—founded by former Blink 182 front-man Tom DeLonge.

According to statements made from Mr. Elizondo, before he retired, he was in charge of a “sensitive aerospace threat identification” program that focuses on “unidentified aerial technologies”, aka UATs, another name for unidentified flying objects.

“By far the most exciting effort I was concerned with was the topic of advanced aerial threats. For nearly the last decade, I ran a sensitive aerospace threat classification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies. It was in this position I learned that the events are indeed real,” said Mr. Elizondo.

According to Mr. Elizondo’s profile on dpo.tothestarsacademy.com, Mr. Elizondo “is a career intelligence officer whose experience includes working with the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence. As a former Special Agent-In-Charge, Luis conducted and supervised highly sensitive espionage and terrorism investigations around the world. As an intelligence Case Officer, he ran clandestine source operations throughout Latin America and the Middle East. Most recently, Luis managed the security for certain sensitive portfolios for the US Government as the Director of the National Programs Special Management Staff. For nearly the last decade, Luis also ran a sensitive aerospace threat identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies. Luis’ academic background includes Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, with research experience in tropical diseases. Luis is also an inventor who holds several patents.”

What do you think this object is? It was photographed by the Gemini X mission.

To The Stars Academy—the leading organization perusing disclosure?

According to Mr. Elizondo, the organization will soon release never-before-seen footage of Unidentified Flying Objects recorded by the government.

Mr. Elizondo added: “We are also preparing to present never before released footage from real US government systems, not blurry amateur photos but real data and real videos.”

In the last 10 years, we’ve come a long way in our understanding of our place here in this cosmos. There are physics that we don’t quite yet understand, but that does not mean that they’re not real, it just simply means that we don’t have the ability to understand those physics. I think it’s in our nature to go out and explore and report back what we see,” added Mr. Elizondo.

But as with everyone who comes forward claiming to know something society does not, skeptics pop-up by the minute.

This also happened with Mr. Elizondo as it didn’t take long for his name and his story to appear on theparacast.com.

Luckily, Mr. Elizondo decided to join the debate and responded to those who doubt by saying:

“The fact that there are things in this universe that are beyond our understanding is indeed real.

“We have the physics and we have the scientific observations to prove the phenomena.”

I guess that after all, the truth IS out there.

Read More: HuffPost

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24-10-2017 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

US Navy filmed UFO that DEFIED Physics claims former senior US national security chief 

US Navy filmed UFO that DEFIED Physics claims former senior US national security chief

Another shocking claim has been made about UFO’s after a former US national security chief—who worked at Area 51—said that the US Navy had filmed a UFO that ‘defied the laws pf physics’ and outmaneuvered various F-18 fighter jets during a ‘terrifying’ encounter.

According to former senior US national security chief Chris Mellon, UFOs are real, and the government has evidence to support their existence.

Mr., Mellon has sensationally claimed that US Navy personnel aboard the USS Nimitz even filmed the UDO during a terrifying encounter that lasted four a couple of hours.

The statement made by Mr. Mellon is just one of the many that have been made in the last couple of years after a great number of former military personnel, astronauts, and government officials who have come forward openly speaking about the existence of otherworldly beings and technology, not from Earth.

Mr. Mellon, who served nearly 20 years in the US federal government in various highly ranged positions had access to information others did not.,

The ex-national security chief served during the mandates of Bill Clinton and George W Bush.

Mr. Mellon had access to high-level clearance while working in the committee with oversight of all Department of Defense special access programs and spent a decade on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Mr. Melons is also one of the many who persons of interests who joined the UFO truth-seeking organization “To The Stars Academy,” founded by former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge.

Mr. Mellon is believed to have worked on a number of classified projects at controversial military facility ‘Area 51’.

Mr. Mellon claims that an astonishing incident was witnessed by a number of military personnel off the coast of San Diego when a UFO was seen in broad daylight.

The encounter occurred as the USS Nimitz was escorted by the USS Princeton, an Aegis-class cruiser.

“Imagine these ships engaging in a routine training exercise when an unidentified aircraft with a small radar cross-section appears on the radar heading directly towards the battlegroup,” said Mr. Mellon.

“The aircraft has no transponder does not respond to radio calls. The Princeton contacts two F-18s already aloft to intercept the target as the two F-18s approach the four aviators see that the object has no wings or exhaust.

“It is white, oblong, some 40 feet long and perhaps 12 feet thick.”

The pilots chased the UFO.

Mr. Mellon explains the incredible sighting:

“The pilots are astonished to see the object suddenly reorient itself toward the approaching F-18.

“In a series of discreet tumbling maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of physics.

“The object takes a position directly behind the approaching F-18.

“The pilot’s capture gun camera footage and infrared imagery of the object.

“They are outmatched by a technology they’ve never seen.”

After the UFO chase, the pilots eventually returned to the Nimitz, but the object remained visible to radar for a couple of hours.

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Mr. Mellon added:

“At one point the object soars to 80,000 feet, hovers then drops at supersonic speeds coming to a full stop a mere 50 feet above the ocean where it resumes hovering. More F-18s are dispatched but with similar results.”

“As before the engagement occurs in broad daylight in the secret machine easily evades the F-18s. Dozens of military personnel aboard the various planes and ships involved are privy to these interactions. Clearly, this is not an experimental US aircraft, but whose is it?”

“How did it accomplish these feats?”, asks Mr. Mellon.

Mr. Mellon considered the event of extreme importance and even suggested that the United States Congress should further investigate the occurred.

The chairman of the Armed Services Committee and his counterparts and other congressional oversight committees can easily request a briefing to confirm the veracity of this story and the existence of other events of a similar nature.

“Congress has every right to review the documents generated by this event and request briefings by the military personnel involved. If the oversight committees have not already been briefed on this event and others like it, they clearly should be. How else can they adequately assess threats to our forces and our military requirements?” concluded Mr. Mellon.

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24-10-2017 om 23:23 geschreven door peter  

First 2 Taurid fireball photos we’ve seen this year, but we’re expecting more. These 2 photographers, 100 miles apart, likely saw the same bright meteor.

Taurid fireball on the evening of October 21, 2017 – 10:27 p.m. – from Joanne West at Gold Canyon, Arizona.

As the Orionids were peaking this past weekend, at least two members of the EarthSky community caught bright meteors in the long-lasting Taurid shower. The two meteor photos on this page appear to show the same bright meteor, although these photographers were separated by about 100 miles. Joanne West, whose image is above, said she caught her fireball at 10:27 p.m. on October 21 and wrote:

Had camera aimed at eastern sky in dark desert area near Superstition Mountains in Gold Canyon. I had been making 20-second exposures continually for about 30 minutes. Grace was with me as my camera shutter happened to be open when this fireball came out of the sky from the Taurus constellation.

Nikon D750, 20mm Nikon lens. Processed the raw file to adjust the foreground brightness and darken the highlights of the meteor.

Thanks, Joanne! Meanwhile, some 100 miles (about 150 km) to the south, Eliot Herman in Tucson, Arizona also caught a bright Taurid fireball at 10:27 p.m. on the evening of October 21 …

Taurid fireball caught on the evening of October 21 – 10:27 p.m. – by Eliot Herman in Tucson, Arizona.

It appears he and Joanne saw the same fireball. As reports from the American Meteor Society often show, a bright fireball can be seen across several states nearly simultaneously.

Eliot wrote on his Flickr page:

Captured in Tucson, Arizona foothills using a Nikon D810 and Sigma 8mm lens at iso 2500 for 15 secs on a stationary tripod. Surprisingly, no smoke trail followed for this fireball.

Quite a night three bright meteors and more than a dozen others captured.

Here’s an all-sky movie of the entire night: this meteor is at edge of image frame 467.

The Taurids – known for producing a significant number of fireballs, or very bright meteors – are a long-lasting shower that will continue throughout November. Eliot – who follows meteor showers carefully and records many thousands of images of them with his automatic camera set-up – told us he’s heard the Taurids may produce a good display in 2017.

The Taurid meteors consist of two streams, the South Taurid and North Taurid meteors. Both streams appear to originate from the constellation Taurus the Bull. Read more: Watch for Taurid fireballs

Bottom line: At least two members of the EarthSky community caught bright Taurid meteors last weekend. In fact, they likely caught the same bright meteor, although they were separated by about 100 miles.

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24-10-2017 om 23:11 geschreven door peter