Wetenschappers vinden bos van 260 miljoen jaar oud op Zuidpool - HLN.be

Bron: ANP

WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Op de Zuidpool zijn sporen gevonden van een bos dat er meer dan 260 miljoen jaar geleden groeide, nog voor de dinosauriërs op aarde rondliepen. Hoog in de bergen van Antarctica vonden wetenschappers de fossiele resten van dertien bomen.

De aarde bestond 260 miljoen jaar geleden uit twee werelddelen: Gondwana in het zuiden en Laurazië in het noorden. Antarctica maakte deel uit van Gondwana, met onder meer Zuid-Amerika, Afrika, India en Australië, en was veel warmer en vochtiger dan nu. Het gebied was waarschijnlijk bedekt met mossen, varens en planten, waar vooral kleine dieren leefden.

Ondanks de temperaturen moesten de bomen extreme omstandigheden overleven. In de zomer ging de zon niet onder en was het ook midden in de nacht licht. In de winter bleef het juist donker. Uit de fossielen concluderen de wetenschappers dat de bomen snel omschakelden van zomer naar winter. Hun ‘herfst’ duurde hooguit een maand.

De universiteit van Wisconsin heeft de bevindingen nu naar buiten gebracht. Wetenschappers van de instelling hebben tussen november en januari onderzoek gedaan op de bevroren hellingen van het zogeheten McIntyre-voorgebergte, diep in de binnenlanden van de Zuidpool. Toen was het daar ‘zomer’, hoewel ook dan de temperatuur tientallen graden onder nul blijft. Komende maanden gaan ze weer, op zoek naar nieuwe sporen.

Vulkaanuitbarstingen

Ongeveer 250 miljoen jaar geleden, dus zo’n 10 miljoen jaar nadat de gevonden bomen leefden, stierven vrijwel alle vroege dieren- en plantensoorten uit. Dat kwam waarschijnlijk door vulkaanuitbarstingen in Siberië. Die vulden de dampkring met giftige gassen. In de lege wereld die achterbleef kwamen langzaam de voorlopers van de dino’s op.

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11-11-2017 om 15:37 geschreven door peter  

11-11-2017 om 15:17 geschreven door peter  

300,000-year-old skulls that look shockingly like ours could rewrite the human origin story

Erin Brodwin, Business Insider

Precisely when and where did our species emerge? Anthropologists have struggled with that question for decades, and scattered clues had suggested the answer lay somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa about 200,000 years ago.

But new evidence outlined in two papers published in the journal Nature challenges that hypothesis. Instead, the authors describe recently discovered remains that suggest the first Homo sapiens showed up more than 100,000 years earlier than we thought in a place many experts didn't suspect.

The fossils could represent the earliest known examples of H. sapiens ever found (if confirmed by further research), and they serve as evidence that members of our species lived beyond sub-Saharan Africa.

Skulls in the dust

Anthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin showing off one of the finds, a crushed human skull whose eye orbits are visible just beyond his fingertip.

(Shannon McPherron, MPI EVA Leipzig)

In 1961, a crew of miners was plowing into a dense wall of limestone in a hilly region west of Marrakesh when they struck a soft patch. The hardened beige surface gave way to a mound of cinnamon-colored dirt. Peeking out of the earth was a sliver of human skull.

A bit more digging revealed a nearly-complete skull, which the miners turned over to their field doctor. As word about the discovery spread, researchers flocked to the area. They uncovered more remains, including several pieces of jaw bone and a fragment of an arm. At the time, scientists pegged the fossils as roughly 40,000 years old, a few thousand years before our extinct European relatives, the Neanderthals, were thought to have vanished.

But they hadn't dug deep enough.

The Jebel Irhoud site in Morocco.

(Shannon McPherron, MPI EVA Leipzig)

Roughly 40 years later, anthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin and his team from the Max Planck Institute excavated the half-dozen layers of soil beneath the land where the skull and arm bones had been discovered. There, the team found remains that they say belong to at least five individuals, along with a set of flint blades which had likely been burned, perhaps by nearby cooking fires. 

Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000-350,000 years ago. 

"These dates were a big wow," Hublin said on a recent call with reporters.

Still, the biggest discovery didn't come until the team looked more closely at the skulls.

A striking resemblance

When Hublin peered into the cavernous eye sockets of one of the skulls, he was astonished.

Instead of the robust features he was accustomed to seeing on the faces of an ancient human ancestor like Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis, this face bore a striking resemblance to his own. Where an erectus skull had a single, protruding brow ridge, these individuals had smaller, separated ones. Rather than a large face and a flattened skull, these people had small faces and rounder skulls.

"The face of these people is really a face that falls right in the middle of the modern variation," said Hublin. "They had a skull that is more elongated than most of us, but I'm not sure these people would stand out from a crowd today."

Their braincase (shown below in blue) also seemed to fall somewhere between what one might expect in an ancient human ancestor and a modern human, albeit slightly more similar to those of our archaic ancestors.

(Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig)

This unique combination of advanced and archaic features suggests something profound, Hublin said -- he's convinced the Moroccan specimens "represent the very root of our species."

In other words, all of the Homo sapiens ever found -- including those uncovered far beyond Africa -- may trace their ancestral linkages to the land that is today's Morocco. 

That suggestion contradicts the prevailing anthropological logic that our species evolved somewhere deep in sub-Saharan Africa, in what some researchers have referred to as a "Garden of Eden," then gradually moved out to other parts of the world. Instead, Hublin and his team argue that Homo sapiens could have been living in terrain across Africa.

According to Sonia Zakrzewski, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton, Hublin's discovery could encourage other archaeologists to change the way they think about human origins. "It really sets the world alight in terms of the possibilities for understanding the evolution of Homo sapiens," she said. "It certainly means that we need to rethink our models."

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11-11-2017 om 15:16 geschreven door peter  

Alien Evidence – The Mysterious UFO Landing At Socorro, New Mexico

The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO close encounter which occurred on Friday, April 24, 1964, at about 5:50 p.m., on the outskirts of Socorro, New Mexico.

This is a fascinating look from the inside out of the Air Forces investigation of this case, which today is still classified as an “Unknown”.

This UFO case has been researched for years now and there is an impressive amount of new data, including footage and audio recording from original witnesses.

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11-11-2017 om 14:56 geschreven door peter  

Did The American Pilot Die After Seeing A Flying Cone In The Sky?

The mysterious crash in 1970 involved the disappearance of Captain William Schaffner, 28, an American pilot.

The incident took place nearly 50 years ago but created a conspiracy theory that persists until today.

The official conclusion of the unforgettable event regarding the American fighter jet that went down off Britain’s coast was that a tragic accident caused the plane piloted by U.S. Air Force pilot Captain William Schaffner to go down.

However, apparent sightings of flying transparent spheres and mysterious blips on the radar fueled intrigue, mystery, and speculation that UFOs downed the fighter jet XS894.

Adding to the enigma, the body of the pilot was missing after the aircraft was found on the seabed with its canopy closed weeks later.

Captain Schaffner was declared dead, but his body has never been found.

According to RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, during the Cold War, the pilot took off on the night of September 8, 1970, into the skies over Grimsby. The 28-year-old pilot then headed out over the North Sea on the way to Flamborough.

But shortly after 10:30 pm, the aircraft ditched into the sea, five miles south of Flamborough Head. Local newspapers covered the air and sea search and rescue operation.

It was revealed on October 7, 1970, that the plane was discovered by Royal Navy divers onboard the HMS Kedleston that sailed to Flamborough but they returned empty-handed as they still did not provide answers.

The plane stayed on the seabed, but the pilot’s body was still missing.

It was only in December that year the submerged plane was brought to the surface. To everyone’s surprise, the cockpit was empty, and the canopy over the cockpit was closed. Immediately rumors started to circulate.

In October 1992, a series of articles written by Pat Otter and published by Grimsby Telegraph brought life to the story with the incident being described as The Riddle of Foxtrot 94.

The writer claimed that there was evidence that out of this world was the cause of the downing and disappearance of the pilot.

Mr. Otter cited unnamed military sources who claimed they had observed UFOs across Grimsby, Flamborough and beyond.

Captain Schaffner was on Quick Reaction Alert duty during this period. He was dispatched to see what was the blips on the radar.

One newspaper report said that the pilot reported spotting a flying cone and a transparent sphere flying around his aircraft, causing malfunctions to his equipment.

In July 1994, the Grimsby Telegraph reported that the cat and mouse chase between Schaffner and the unidentified craft resulted in the death of the captain.

A team at RAF Binbrook said that it was their job to investigate the crash, but they were stalled, and their instruments had disappeared.

Until today, the case remained a mystery despite many things had happened since that day.

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11-11-2017 om 14:40 geschreven door peter  

Watch Alleged U.S. Navy Footage Seemingly Shows A UFO That Defies Physics

An unidentified flying object that defied physics is claimed to be in a leaked U.S. Navy video footage, which has emerged after a former Area 51 insider shared about the encounter.

Several F-18 pilots are said to have outmaneuvered by extraordinary UFO during the terrifying encounter. Former U.S. national security chief Chris Mellon, who claimed to have spent time at Area 51 military base, said that U.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS Nimitz recorded the UFO on video during the seven-hour encounter.

Mr. Mellon claimed that he served for nearly 20 years in the U.S. federal government in several national security roles under the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

The former national security chief was reportedly on a committee with oversight of all special access programs in Department of Defense. He also said to have spent ten years on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Mr. Mellon is one of the ex-senior government insiders who has gone forward after joining former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge’s alien truth-seeking organization To The Stars Academy.

Mr. Mellon, who also had accessed on classified projects at the highly-secretive military facility in Nevada, detailed the bizarre incident that said to take place off the San Diego coast in broad daylight.

Now, a video has surfaced, claiming to be the footage recorded in 2004. It has been released anonymously and recently doing the rounds on social media.

The clip shows a mysterious object hovering in the skies.

It seems to show one of the F-18’s crosshairs lining the UFO up, but the bizarre thing speeds out of sight.

Many UFO experts believe that the craft disappeared with supersonic speed.

UFOlogist Tyler said that it looks like legit F-18 footage, which has been corroborated by men that were in the incident.

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11-11-2017 om 14:35 geschreven door peter  

UFOs over Oklahoma caught on video with cell phone

Three videos were submitted with a UFO report submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) on November 9, 2017. The report came from Moore, Oklahoma, and the alleged sighting occurred the same day.

The witness claims to have seen the objects at around 5:15 pm while picking up a child after school. The videos were captured by cell phone. The objects were described as square and dark, and tumbling as they rise higher into the sky. The report was titled, “Two objects floating in the air.”

The witness reported, verbatim:

I was picking my son up from after care at his School in Moore Oklahoma around 5:15pm or so. We came outside and saw two dark objects rising in the air. They were tumbling as the floated up in the air. They kept going up. The look square and dark. I took some videi (sic) with my cell phone.

The objects appear to be silently rising into the air and tumbling as they gain altitude. They do also appear to be square shaped. Although balloons are typically round, party balloons can come in all shapes and sizes. Could these be balloons that have gotten loose?

Still image of the objects seen in Oklahoma.

(Credit: MUFON)

The vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain. MUFON conducts investigations on sightings submitted to their website, and if they share their conclusions, we will let you all know. Meanwhile, others will likely chime in and we will try to keep you up to date with any discoveries. Please feel free to share your thoughts on this sighting in the comments below.

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11-11-2017 om 01:35 geschreven door peter  

Is this the original video of the 1942 ‘Battle of Los Angeles UFO Sighting’?

The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to an incident in Los Angeles, California, in which, after city-wide alarms went off due to an alleged enemy attack, the US antiaircraft defenses touched off a massive barrage of anti-aircraft fire, with some 1400 shells shot into the skies over Los Angeles during the frantic evening.

The incident occurred less than three months after the United States joined the Second World War as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and a day after the Ellwood Bombing on February 23.

Initially, it was thought that the barrage of anti-aircraft fire was in response to an attack from the Japanese air force, but speaking at a press conference shortly afterward, US Navy Secretary Frank Knox described the incident as a “false alarm”.

The newspapers of the time published a series of reports and speculated about cover-ups.

Some ufologists have had even claimed that a massive barrage of anti-aircraft fire did not target Japanese bombers, but alien spaceships.

But, as it seems that all ‘good UFO sightings’ are nothing more than weather balloons, in 1983, the United States Air Force History Office attributed the event to a case of “nerves of war” likely triggered by a lost weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries.

Representative Leland Ford of Santa Monica called for a Congressional investigation, saying, “…none of the explanations so far offered removed the episode from the category of ‘complete mystification’ … this was either a practice raid, or a raid to throw a scare into 2,000,000 people, or a mistaken identity raid, or a raid to lay a political foundation to take away Southern California’s war industries.”

However, based mainly on an image, published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942, Ufologists around the globe believe that the US military did not shoot at a weather balloon or Japenese bombers on the late hours of 24 February to early 25 February, but a real saucer-shaped UFO.

Ufologists assert that the photo clearly shows searchlights focused on an alien spaceship.

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11-11-2017 om 01:28 geschreven door peter  

11-11-2017 om 01:18 geschreven door peter  

ONE OF THE MOST MIND-EXPANDING DOCUMENTARIES YOU WILL EVER WATCH JUST REACHED 80 MILLION VIEWS

11-11-2017 om 01:12 geschreven door peter  

11-11-2017 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

Inquest into the unexplained death of a British conspiracy theorist who died after vomiting two litres of black blood in Poland is mysteriously delayed AGAIN

• Father-of-two Max Spiers, 39, was found dead in Poland in October last year
• He had travelled to the country to talk about conspiracy theories and UFOs
• His mother said he was 'digging in dark places and somebody wanted him dead'

By Amie Gordon For Mailonline

Max Spiers was found dead in an apartment in Poland in October 2016

An inquest into the mysterious death of a British conspiracy theorist who died after 'vomiting black liquid' on a trip to Poland has been postponed.

The sudden death of Max Spiers, 39, remains shrouded in suspicion after a friend discovered his body during a trip to Poland.

His inquest opened in December 2016 and the court heard he vomited two litres of black blood before he died.

It was due to resume this Thursday in Maidstone, Kent, but has now been adjourned again with no explanation for the delay and little prospect of it happening this year.

The father-of-two, from Canterbury, had become world-famous in the shadowy world of conspiracy theories and allegedly made many 'enemies' in his investigations.

Shortly before his death, Mr Spiers was said to have been probing the lives of well-known figures in politics, business and entertainment.

At the time his mother Vanessa Bates, 63, said she feared the worst.

She said: 'I think Max had been digging in some dark places and somebody wanted him dead.'

Authorities in Poland, where Mr Spiers was attending a conference, initially concluded the sudden death was due to natural causes.

Mr Spiers was said to have been probing the lives of well-known figures and his mother Vanessa Bates (pictured) said: 'I think Max had been digging in some dark places and somebody wanted him dead'

Max was due to appear at the Bases 2016 International Conference into conspiracy theories and the supernatural (right)

Mr Spiers was known as a 'supersoldier' by his followers and those in the conspiracy and supernatural community, and went to school with the actor Orlando Bloom. 

After his body was repatriated to the UK, doctors at a Margate hospital were unable to determine the cause of his death.

Kent Police then launched a joint investigation with Polish police into the conspiracy theorist's death.

At an inquest opening in Canterbury in December 2016, the court heard how the 39-year-old had been visiting Poland to speak at a conference after holidaying with a friend in Cyprus.

In a statement, coroner's investigations officer Caroline O'Donnell said: 'When they returned, Mr Spiers became ill with a high temperature and was weak.

'The following day, Mr Spiers vomited two litres of black fluid. The friend called a doctor who attempted resuscitation before pronouncing him dead.' 

Mr Spiers was known as a 'supersoldier' by his followers and those in the conspiracy and supernatural community, and went to school with the actor Orlando Bloom

Max's mother (pictured with her son), is hopeful the investigation will shed light on his mysterious death

His mother is hopeful the investigation will shed light on the mysterious death.

'It's been a long time coming, but I'm just relieved that at last something is happening and there is a proper investigation and inquest,' she added.

Her theory was shared by many online, with other conspiracy theorists, UFO investigators and bloggers calling the circumstances of Mr Spiers' death suspicious.

At the time, Coroner Alan Blunsdon told the court he was still awaiting a report from Polish authorities, adding that the workload of Kent Police may delay forensic analysis of Mr Spiers' phone and computer.

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11-11-2017 om 00:55 geschreven door peter  

11-11-2017 om 00:44 geschreven door peter  

OUDE OPNAMES VAN BUITENAARDS WEZEN ONTDEKT ( VIDEO )

Ergens diep verborgen op het zogenaamde "dark web" vond een UFO-onderzoeker oude filmopnames die in 1992 gemaakt zouden zijn in Zwitserland. 

Op de beelden is te zien wat niet anders omschreven kan worden als een buitenaards wezen. 

Het verhaal staat uitgebreid in een grote Engelse krant en het betreft opnames die zouden zijn gemaakt van een zogenaamde EBE in 1992 in Eiger in Zwitserland.

De afkorting EBE staat voor Extraterrestrial Biological Entity, hetgeen betekent dat het een buitenaards wezen is.

Dat er ongeveer zo uit ziet.

Degene die de beelden heeft gepubliceerd zegt hij dat deze per ongeluk tegenkwam op het dark web. (Het dark web is een onderdeel van het wereldwijde web dat niet rechtstreeks vindbaar is voor de zoekmachines.)

Volgens de uploader van de video lijkt het erop dat er destijds videobeelden zijn gemaakt van foto's.

De beelden tonen inderdaad een wezen dat je kunt omschrijven als een soort stereotyp buitenaards wezen, met een groot hoofd en ogen en lange dunne armen.

En dan ontstaat natuurlijk de discussie of beelden echt zijn of nep.

Hierna volgt de video zoals die is verschenen op Youtube. In het Engelse krantenartikel wordt melding gemaakt van mensen die het een hoax vinden en daarom hebben zij contact opgenomen met het betreffende Youtube kanaal, Ufo Today, waar men volhoudt dat deze opnames inderdaad zijn gevonden op het dark web en dat er, door hen althans, niets mee is gedaan.

De volgende video is wat langer en is gemaakt door iemand die veel opnames heeft gezien van vooral nepaliens en volgens zijn/haar eerste analyse konden de beelden wel eens echt zijn.

Dat zou natuurlijk prachtig zijn na de vele nepbeelden die in de loop der jaren op het internet zijn verschenen. Echter, het is nog te vroeg om te juichen, want misschien zullen er andere ontdekkingen worden gedaan, waardoor misschien ook deze opnames niet echt blijken te zijn, maar vooralsnog lijken ze authentiek.

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11-11-2017 om 00:37 geschreven door peter  

VERDWENEN ZIEKENHUISPATIËNT DOOD TERUGGEVONDEN IN PLAFOND

In Zuid Afrika gebeuren soms vreemde dingen, waarvan men zegt dat deze te maken hebben met voodoo rituelen en teleportatie. 

Dat is een mogelijke verklaring voor een 61-jarige patiënt die na een operatie plotsklaps verdween uit zijn bed en twee weken later dood in het plafond werd teruggevonden. 

We weten al via Dr. Roel dat een ziekenhuis een gevaarlijke plek is om te verblijven en hóe gevaarlijk blijkt ook uit het volgende verhaal dat zich afspeelt in Zuid Afrika in de plaats Stellenbosch.

Begin oktober onderging de 61-jarige Teteteke Gqotsi een operatie. De vader van zes kinderen doorstond de operatie goed en werd vervolgens naar de zaal gebracht om verder te herstellen. De verpleging was er dan ook van overtuigd dat de patiënt voorspoedig zou genezen.

Op 5 oktober lag Gqosi dan ook normaal in zijn bed toen een verpleegster 's morgens vroeg de kamer binnenkwam. Alles was normaal en de verpleegster verliet de kamer enkele minuten om schoon beddengoed te halen en toen ze terugkwam, was het bed leeg.

En daarmee begint het grote mysterie rondom Teteteke Gqotsi.

Volgens de broer van Gqotsi was de patiënt niet in staat om te lopen omdat hij net daarvoor een operatie had ondergaan.

En toch is de man binnen een tijdsbestek van enkele minuten volkomen verdwenen. 

Vervolgens gebeurt er een dag helemaal niets en krijgt de familie op 7 oktober een telefoontje van het ziekenhuis met de vraag of ze Gqotsi kunnen spreken. De familie antwoord daarop dat ze niet bij hen moeten zijn omdat hij in het ziekenhuis ligt.

Uiteindelijk wordt ook de politie erbij gehaald en begint men met zoeken, maar helaas zonder enig resultaat. 

Het is 13 dagen later, wanneer het lichaam van Gqotsi wordt aangetroffen in het plafond van het ziekenhuis. Niet in het plafond van de zaal, maar van een deel van het ziekenhuis waar renovatiewerkzaamheden worden uitgevoerd.

Nog steeds is het een mysterie hoe het lichaam van een geopereerde patiënt van het ene op het andere moment kan verdwijnen uit zijn ziekenhuisbed om weken later dood boven water te komen in het plafond.

Niet zo vreemd dan natuurlijk dat er druk wordt gespeculeerd over hoe dit heeft kunnen gebeuren. En omdat dit Afrika is, komen er al snel theorieën naar boven over voodoopraktijken en zelfs teleportatie.

Volgens de autoriteiten loopt het onderzoek nog steeds, maar zijn ze net zover als ze waren toen ze begonnen.

Is het toch een "gewone" moord, waarbij de dader erin slaagde om binnen enkele minuten Qqotsi ongezien uit zijn bed te sleuren zonder ook maar enig lawaai te maken, te vermoorden en dan op klaarlichte dag het lichaam in het plafond te verstoppen óf is er inderdaad sprake van geheimzinnige voodoopraktijken?

Hoe dan ook, de moraal van het verhaal is duidelijk:

Als het even kan, blijf weg uit ziekenhuizen en je kunt om je gezondheid te helpen dan bijvoorbeeld nog even snel gebruikmaken van de Orjana aanbieding voor Niburulezers deze week, die we hierna nog even zullen herhalen: 

Wat wel iedereen kan doen, roker of niet roker, is gebruikmaken van de Orjana aanbieding van deze week voor lezers van Niburu om de door Mike Adams van Natural News als beste geteste bio-chlorella met tien procent korting aan te schaffen. Als je dat wilt, voer dan bij het afrekenen de code "10alg" in en bedenk dat je voor de prijs van een paar pakjes sigaretten je lichaam een groot plezier doet. En bovendien helpt om van gifstoffen af te komen, wat dubbel fijn is als je inderdaad stopt. De actie is geldig t/m zondag 12 november 2017.

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11-11-2017 om 00:32 geschreven door peter  

Given the opportunity to pick one science fiction technology from Star Wars to implement in the present day, death rays and laser cannons on aircraft would certainly be near the top of most military wish lists. Some Air Force general must have been rubbing his magic lamp really hard because Lockheed Martin has committed to providing laser weapons for fighter jets by 2021. Did you hear that, Chewy?

Illustration showing a tactical fighter jet with a high energy laser weapon system blasting something in

“It’s a completely new and different challenge to get a laser system into a smaller, airborne test platform. It’s exciting to see this technology mature enough to embed in an aircraft.”

Too big to put on a jet

In a press release this week, Dr. Rob Afzal, senior fellow of laser weapon systems at Lockheed, described what the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) will get in return for a $26.3 million contract for a high power fiber laser. The technology is based on Lockheed’s 60 kW-class laser that can be mounted on land vehicles and has been swatting drones like annoying missile-firing flies in tests. However, putting that same technology on an aircraft is not easy as just checking it in as a carry-on bag upon boarding.

“We have developed innovative fiber lasers, sophisticated beam control and auxiliary technologies. Combined with expert platform integration, these advances enable offensive and defensive capabilities against a growing range of threats to military forces and infrastructure.”

The fiber laser technology is the key to the Air Force’s Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) program, which will integrate the laser (Laser Advancements for Next-generation Compact Environments or LANCE) into a beam control system for directing the laser (SHiELD Turret Research in Aero Effects or STRAFE) and a special pod to keep the laser cool while firing (Laser Pod Research & Development or LPRD). This also puts Lockheed at the forefront of clever acronym development, which includes Accelerated Laser Demonstration Initiative (ALADIN), Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) and Area Defense Anti-Munitions (ADAM).

Is this next?

In an interview with CNBC, defense analyst Daniel Goure describes the benefits of airborne lasers:

“You get a low cost per shot — much cheaper than a missile in almost every case. One of the things we find in a lot of our systems — land, sea and air — is that we run out of shots particularly on the defense. You just run out of bullets or missiles. And if you have laser, it avoids having to reload.”

Even at low settings, LANCE will be able to blind or stun enemies like a giant laser pointer.

Will this death ray be installed on the TR-3B Black Triangle? Or is this just a clever smokescreen to hide the fact that it’s already there?

11-11-2017 om 00:19 geschreven door peter  

Unknown anomaly near the sun captured during stunning sunrise over Guadalajara, Mexico

A live footage from the webcamsdemexico taken on November 5, 2017, location Guadalajara, Mexico shows a stunning sunrise at 6.57 am but one hour before sunrise a massive fog/cloud formation covers the whole area and there are multiple unknown light sources all passing over where the sun was due to rise.

Also there is a volcano in the background, which could have created the foggy appearance, but if you noticed as the sun rose all traces miraculously disappeared, also the volcano itself did not seem to be very active.

According to Expitaly here we are seeing the tell-tale signs of geoengineering to cover all areas around the sun especially around the times of sunrise/sunset to hide unknown objects near the sun.

In the video he underlines his thoughts by pointing out that there is a planet in the background that is clearly visible when the video is slowed down. Then what we see is that the next thing that happens is that they laid out a black chemtrail as a smokey emergency action until they could get a regular jet up in the air in that particular area.

Regardless of whether his analysis is right or wrong, it remains an amazing sunrise above Guadalajara in Mexico.

  

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11-11-2017 om 00:04 geschreven door peter  

Secret Base Hidden In Mysterious 150-Mile Anomaly, Conspiracy Theorists Claim

A theory of a secret Nazi UFO base has arisen after the discovery of a mysterious anomaly in the Antarctic.

A team of UFO hunters claims that Nazis created secret bases in Antarctica that were designed for UFOs during World War 2.

The so-called anomaly stretches around 150 miles across with an estimated depth of 850 meters. It is discovered in Wilkes Land, a frozen wasteland in Antarctica.

SecureTeam10 said there’s something alien-related thing buried deep under this thick ice shelf and scientists have no idea about it to this day. They further stated that the continent had been covered in mystery for years now.

In their video, the team claimed that images are showing several entrances designed with a saucer shape and at a very high altitude in the side of the mountains. It seems that these openings were intended for something that could fly with a saucer shape.

The group also shared the possibility of the US Navy leading a mission to look into the anomaly. They claimed that the mission was called Operation High Jump, which they believe an attempt to discover an entrance to a hidden world beneath the Earth.

The NASA satellite imagery first discovered the strange shape beneath Antarctica in 2006. Some researchers suggested the anomaly was the result of an asteroid impact twice the size of the one that made dinosaurs extinct.

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10-11-2017 om 01:07 geschreven door peter  

UFO caught on tape over Vancouver, Canada 7-Nov-2017

Here’s one new UFO video of a bright object in the sky above Vancouver in Canada. This was filmed on 7th November 2017.

Witness report: 

looked initially like a shooting star was why i started to grab my camera to film. Then all sudden bright light and flew diff direction
I was coming back from work. Saw it look like a shooting star so I began to take out my phone to film the shooting star. However, it started to stop and brighten up and then began to move in a different direction and thats when I began recording. I was too confused and assume its a plane so I just ignored it till I got home and looked at it again and thought maybe it could be something else?

Author (source MUFON)

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10-11-2017 om 01:04 geschreven door peter  

I have always been rather fascinated by the fact that strange tales, ominous curses, and inexplicable deaths or vanishings can revolve around some of the more gorgeous of locales. There seems to be some disconnect between the awe-inspiring beauty to be found here and the often very dark legends and unsolved mysteries that pervade them. It is strange to think that coursing under the veneer of such natural splendor there is a dark current of the unexplained and perhaps even evil. Such places can be at once achingly saturated with beauty yet also imbued with a sense of inexplicable dread and an unsettling quality of doom. One such place is the world famous Yosemite National Park of California, in the United States. It is a hauntingly beautiful expanse which simultaneously seems to be actually haunted, and ground zero for a slew of strange vanishings as well.

Sprawled out across 747,956 acres (1,168.681 sq. mi) of wilderness in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California, in the United States, is the majestic Yosemite National Park. Known throughout the world for its amazing vistas of pristine mountainous wilderness, glaciers, towering giant sequoia trees, looming granite cliffs, unique geologic formations, breathtaking waterfalls, wildlife, and incredibly clear lakes and streams, Yosemite has been registered as a World Heritage Site and draws in around 4 to 5 million visitors every year from every corner of the globe. It would seem at first glance that such natural splendor would be one of the last places where one would expect to find dark mysteries and the supernatural, but the park has a surprising amount of such phenomena, including curses, hauntings, and bizarre unsolved vanishings.

One of the most persistent locations of strange legends and mysterious occurrences within Yosemite National Park is a place called Tenaya Canyon, which runs from Tenaya lake to meander through the landscape in a series of picturesque deep pools, waterfalls and flowing cascades to its final destination of a stark drop into another deep canyon at the granite mountain called Cloud’s Rest, situated right next to the iconic and spectacular Half Dome. A stunningly beautiful yet treacherous spot, Tenaya Canyon has been shrouded in myth and strangeness since just about as long as humans have been in the area, and it is also steeped in a rather dark and violent history that has given rise to rumors of a sinister curse hanging over the area.

Yosemite National Park

When white settlers arrived in Yosemite Valley they encountered a tribe of Native Americans called the Ahwahnee, who were a peaceful people but also prone to occasionally poaching livestock from their new neighbors. In the 1850s, the whites decided that they had had enough of sharing the land with the troublesome natives, and sought to relocate the Ahwahnee to a reservation off in Fresno, California. The normally peaceful Ahwahnee, led by a Chief Tenaya, did not go perhaps as compliantly as was expected, actively and vocally defying the order to get out. Eventually, the white settlers sent in a contingent of armed men led by a Captain John Boling to forcibly remove the tribe, and things went just about as well as you would expect.

Instead of fleeing in fear, as was expected of the usually apparently docile natives, the Ahwahnee instead opted to stubbornly stand their ground and fight. During the ensuing violence, Chief Tenaya’s son was among the dead, which sent him into a profound rage in which he invoked a curse on the valley against the white man. The chief supposedly blared out this curse as he was confronted by an armed captain during the battle, saying:

Kill me, sir captain! Yes kill me, as you killed my son; as you would kill my people if they were to come to you! You would kill all my race if you had the power. You have made me sorrowful, my life dark; you killed the child of my heart, why not kill the father? You may kill me sir captain, but you shall not live in peace, I will follow in your footsteps, I will not leave my home but be with the spirits among the rocks, the waterfalls, in the rivers and in the wind; wheresoever you go I will be with you. You will not see me, but you will fear the spirit of the old chief, and grow cold.

Chief Tenaya of the Ahwahnee

Since then, the chief has allegedly been true to his words, and in the years since that fateful day Tenaya Canyon, and by some accounts the whole Yosemite Valley, has been said to be plagued by all manners of freak accidents, strange deaths, mishaps, and unexplained phenomena such as unexplained noises and shadowy apparitions. There are supposedly far more incidents of rock climbing and hiking accidents and fatalities in the Tenaya area than other places in the park, and so many people have gone missing here that it has garnered itself the ominous nickname of “The Bermuda Triangle of Yosemite.” Even the legendary naturalist and extremely experienced mountaineer John Muir was not immune to this supposed curse, when he met with a near-fatal accident while exploring the canyon in 1873, which he later wrote of in his 1918 book Steep Trails, saying:

I was ascending a precipitous rock front, smoothed by glacial action, when I suddenly fell—for the first time since I touched foot to Sierra rocks. After several somersaults, I became insensible from the shock, and when consciousness returned I found myself wedged among short, stiff bushes… I could not remember what made me fall, or where I had fallen from; but I saw that if I had rolled a little further, my mountain climbing would have been finished, for just beyond the bushes the canyon wall steepened and I might have fallen to the bottom.

Of course, considering that the terrain here is notorious for being some of the most hostile and forbidding in the entire park it may not be surprising that there should be so many disappearances, deaths, and accidents at Tenaya Canyon. Here there are numerous sharp drops, sheer rock walls, uneven, often slippery footing, and precarious climbs daunting to even the most experienced of hikers. It is a place of natural danger, and indeed the 10-mile trail along its length harbors numerous warning signs proclaiming the perils of continuing, and the official park trail guide map marks the hike in stark red with a disclaimer reading, “Hiking in Tenaya Canyon is dangerous and strongly discouraged.”

Tenaya Canyon

Whether the canyon is truly cursed or not, there are certainly a lot of supposedly haunted places around Yosemite Park as well. One of the most notorious of these is the former Ahwahnee Hotel, spookily named after the previously mentioned doomed tribe. Opened in 1927 just a short distance from Half Dome, the Ahwahnee Hotel at the time was a big deal in that it was a large, luxurious hotel in an area known for mostly camping and small lodges, and its elegant yet rustic, organic feel and the majestic grandeur of its scenic surroundings quickly made it a popular destination for the many tourists who pour into the area every year. It has also become well-known for being rather intensely haunted.

There are numerous ghosts said to inhabit the hotel, such as that of a woman named Mary Curry Tressider, who had been part of the hotel’s design and opening and who lived and died in her private apartment here in 1970. Her spirit supposedly lingers on the 6th floor, where her room was located, and sightings of her ghost are frequently reported by staff and guests alike. The entity is said to be prankish more than frightening, and is known for tucking in visitors as they sleep, folding clothes, and misplacing items around rooms, as well as calling out to guests.

Another spirit said to inhabit the Ahwahnee Hotel is connected to a rocking chair kept in the room that former U.S. president John F. Kennedy stayed in during a visit in 1962. At the time the chair had been put in the room at the president’s request, as he had claimed that he had been having back pain, and he reportedly spent a lot of time sitting there calmly rocking away. The chair was removed from the room when he left, but oddly enough since his death a spectral rocking chair has often been reported moving on its own in rooms and halls throughout the hotel’s 3rd floor, which is where Kennedy’s room had been, and especially in the actual room itself. Although these are the two most well-known of the hotel’s phantoms, the entire premises have provided their fair share of accounts of anomalous noises, disembodied footsteps, and apparitions, and the Awahnee hotel helped to inspire the look and design of the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick’s classic horror film The Shining.

The Ahwahnee Hotel

Another haunted hotel in Yosemite National Park is the Sierra Sky Ranch, and considering its historical pedigree it is perhaps no surprise at all that ghosts should call this place home. Originally built in 1877, the Sierra Sky Ranch started its life as a sanitarium for housing and quarantining victims of tuberculosis, who lived mostly in squalor forgotten by society and many of whom died here, including children. In later years the premises became a home for veterans of World War I, after which it went on to become the modest, 29-room hotel it is today, where guests constantly report a range of weird paranormal activity.

One of the most common types of ghostly occurrence at the Sierra Sky Ranch is that of phantom children, who are said to run up and down stairs and halls, and who can be heard giggling, whispering, or talking when no one is around or in the very walls themselves. These spectral children are reportedly most often sighted in the media room and the main living room area of the hotel, and are blamed for some of the anomalous poltergeist activity reported from here, such as lights, faucets, or appliances turning on or off by themselves, doors opening or slamming shut when no one is around, and guests’ clothes being tugged by unseen hands. Other ghosts said to inhabit the Sierra Sky Ranch are a woman who supposedly lurks about the main house and library and who smells of perfume, a ghostly bar patron who kisses bar visitors and bartenders on the cheek, and the more sinister entity of a scowling, angry looking man who paces about on the hotel veranda and is known to violently knock over furniture.

Besides hotels, some natural landmarks of Yosemite are also said to be haunted. One of the most famous ghosts of the park is said to lurk in Grouse Lake, and was first officially reported in 1857 by Galen Clark, who was to later become Yosemite’s very first park ranger in 1867. Clark had his strange experience as he was out on a hike to the small alpine lake, and he claimed that as he walked along its shores that he had heard a chilling, unearthly wail seeming to come from the water itself and sounding like “a puppy when lost.” The unsettled Clark would later ask some Native Americans of the area what kind of animal it was that he had heard or if they had a dog that could have made the noise, and they proceeded to tell him that it was no animal or dog, but rather the spirit of a tribal boy who had tragically drowned there years ago and who did not take kindly to visitors. It was even claimed that he would attack anyone who set foot in the water. Clark would write of this:

They replied that it was not a dog—that a long time ago an Indian boy had been drowned in the lake, and that every time anyone passed there he always cried after them, and no one dared go into the lake, for (the boy) would catch them by the legs and pull them down and they would be drowned. I then concluded that it must have been some unseen waterfowl that made that cry, and at that time I thought that the Indians were trying to impose on my credulity, but I am now convinced they fully believed the story they told me.

There is also the haunting of perhaps Yosemite’s most famous waterfalls, Bridalveil Fall, which cascades 617 feet down a sheer granite cliff. The Ahwahnee tribe believed that the fall was the haunt of an evil spirit called Pohono, who was known to try and lure unsuspecting victims over the precipice to their deaths. The method by which the spirit was said to do this varied, in some cases using hypnotic rainbows in the mist to draw people closer and in other cases calling out to use curiosity against victims or even appearing as an apparition to beckon people closer, after which a strong gust of wind would fling them over the fall. Indeed, there have been a few recorded deaths of people being blown over the fall or slipping and falling to the rocks far below, and the winds are said to be very unpredictable at the top. Campers in the area have also reported hearing strange voices or sounds coming from the direction of the fall at night. Whether this is the doing of an evil spirit or not, in present day there are many railings in place to keep people from getting too close.

Bridalveil Fall

A strange case I found of a possible ghost roaming the wilderness of Yosemite concerns a 26-year-old Christopher Thompson, who claims that during one camping trip to the park he came across something very strange indeed. He says that as he went out to get some firewood he spied an old Native American man standing by his tent, who wore some sort of bell around his neck that rang out every time he moved. The mysterious man then allegedly asked Thompson for a ride out to the main road because he had gotten lost. Thompson decided to drive him all the way to the ranger’s office as it was getting dark outside, and when they reached his truck the witness claims that the old man insisted on sitting in the back seat.

So far, so weird, but it would get stranger still. Thompson claims that as he got into the truck he caught a glimpse of the old Native man in the side mirror, and that he was swaying and muttering some sort of chant in some alien language. After this, Thompson panicked and drove off on his own to the ranger’s office, where he reported the whole creepy encounter. He would later find that the mysterious figure had left something rather odd behind in the form of an animal skin pouch that was found to contain strange stones and herbs, which locals informed him were cursed. Thompson would say, “I’m still haunted by dreams where I’m paralyzed and I can still hear him muttering that chant.” It is an odd tale to be sure, and one wonders just who or what he encountered out there in those woods.

Besides curses and hauntings, Yosemite has been the location of a fair number of inexplicable disappearances as well. By far the most oft-discussed and hotly debated mysterious vanishings to have occurred at Yosemite National Park is the disappearance of 14-year-old Stacy Ann Arras in 1981. On the afternoon on July 17, 1981, Arras was on a camping trip with her father and 6 others at the Sunrise Sierra Camp, a small cluster of cabins for people passing through on hikes along the popular “mountain chalet” loop. Arras had arrived on horseback with her group, and she soon expressed interest in taking some photos of a nearby lake. Since it was not far her father did not deem it necessary to go with her, but another member of the group, a 72-year-old man, decided to go with her.

As they approached the lake, the man reportedly sat down to take a rest as Arras went on ahead. In the meantime, other members of the group looked down on the whole thing from a ridge, and watched as Arras disappeared into some trees. When she did not return within a reasonable length of time the group went off looking for her but would find only the lens of her camera and no other trace of the girl whatsoever. An extensive official search of the area using helicopters and tracker dogs would have no further luck, and eventually it was called off with no evidence at all of what had happened to Stacy Arras or where she had gone. Park superintendent Robert Binnewies would say at the time, “She just seems to have disappeared.”

The strange disappearance of Stacy Ann Arras gained a fair amount of publicity and gained a cult following among researchers of the paranormal and unexplained, and the case has gained quite a lot of notoriety through the work of David Paulides, a famous author on mysterious vanishings who has written numerous books on the matter, in particular on those which have occurred within U.S. national parks. Paulides added some sinister intrigue when he claimed that from the beginning of his investigation of the Arras case park officials were evasive and reticent to release any information on it when faced with a request under the Freedom of Information Act, even going as far as to allegedly deliberately withhold, obfuscate, and flat-out hide facts relating to it. Indeed, Paulides has repeatedly accused national park officials as being corrupt and suspiciously secretive on such mysterious disappearances. Is there something sinister going on behind this case? It is hard to say, and the Arras disappearance has gone on to become widely discussed and picked apart all over the Internet with no solution in sight.

Stacy Ann Arras

More recent disappearances include the 2005 vanishing of 51-year-old Michael Allen Ficery, who was an avid, experienced hiker and backpacker. On June 15, 2005, Ficery headed out on a hike along the north end of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, but at some point changed his mind and went up to the Pacific Crest Trail. This would be the last time anyone would see him. When he did not return after his wilderness permit expired a search was carried out, but all that could be found was a backpack containing a topographical map, a camera and a bottle of water. A massive search involving personnel from five counties utilizing aircraft and tracker dogs were unable to find any trace of the missing hiker, and his case remains utterly unsolved.

In June of 2011 there was the case of 30-year-old George Penca, who was out hiking at the Upper Yosemite Falls with his church group. During the hike, Penca fell behind the group and proceeded to completely vanish off the face of the earth. Despite extensive searches of the area, no sign of him was found. Strangely, Yosemite National Park unceremoniously and discreetly took down his missing persons page in the coming weeks. Perhaps even stranger still is the disappearance of 35-year-old Allen Martin, of Modesto, California in February of 2016. On the evening of February 9, 2016, Martin visited the Chicken Ranch Casino and left the premises at approximately 4:08 PM. Security footage captured him walking across the parking lot and he then apparently walked right off the face of the earth. Martin has not been seen since.

Yosemite National Park is a place of great beauty, but it is also one of great mystery. From ancient Native curses, to ghosts, to mysterious disappearances, it is fascinating to see how a locale of such natural splendor can also harbor such dark secrets. Do some areas hold close to them some force or presence that creates this aura of sinister energy? Is there some unique quality to these locations that invites the weird and the paranormal? Or are these just the product of over-active imaginations and the perilous terrain inherit to such places? Whatever the answer may be, Yosemite National Park continues to be one of the most beloved national parks in the United States, and also one of the most mysterious.

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 peter2011 : in september 2017 I have visited Yosemite Parc and I saw nothing abnormal; only a very gorgeous and amazing nature... I'll give this article just because I want to let all visions to bid come on this forum!

10-11-2017 om 01:00 geschreven door peter