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This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.

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    15-11-2017 om 23:40 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFO sightings visualization competition held by data crunchers

    UFO sightings visualization competition held by data crunchers

    A website called The Data Duo held a contest for the best visualization of UFO sightings data. Their data covers UFO sightings from 1960 to 2014 and reveals some interesting info.

    The Data Duo’s third #DuoDare is for the best visualization of UFO sightings. The dataset includes latitude and longitude data, so they were able to produce some cool looking maps. However, there is little to be gleaned from the maps, but there are still other bits of info they obtained.

    The Data Duo, Pooja Gandhi and Adam Crahen, made their best attempts at showing the data, and although I am partial to Pooja’s map, Adam is in the lead when it comes to votes. Previously, I have referred to these sorts of graphics as “infographics,” but the Data Duo refer to them as a “viz.” That is short and cooler. Here are their visualizations (vizs).

    Pooja’s UFO Visualization. Click on the image to see her full interactive visualization.

    (Credit: The Data Duo)

    Adam’s UFO Visualization. Click on the image to see his full interactive visualization.

    (Credit: The Data Duo)

    An article has popped up on Bustle about Adam’s map, and they note the areas where there are more sightings and ask some experts why there might be more sightings in these areas. However, there is a problem with this. If you look at this map and a map of the United States at night, you will see the similarities.

    US at night compilation photo.

    (Credit: NASA)

    As you can see they are very similar. This is because UFO sightings are reported more frequently in areas that have more people. Which makes sense. In order to discover where there are more sightings, it is more accurate to look at the areas that have more sightings per person. I always look at the data both ways. Here is an analysis I did of UFO sightings from the year 2014.

    Top 20 States Reporting UFOs in 2014.

    (Click to enlarge)

    The data used by the Data Duo is from a website called Kaggle. Kaggle provides datasets for data crunchers to analyze. The UFO data Kaggle uses is from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). NUFORC has been receiving UFO reports for years, and they were the first to post them online. NUFORC is not actually a “they.” It is ran by a man by the name of Peter Davenport in Washington. Davenport posts his information raw.

    The organization I use to compile my lists, like the 2014 data above, is from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). They have also been collecting reports for years. They investigate their reports to determine their validity. They find the vast majority to be explainable. MUFON did not get their data online until much later than NUFOC, and getting their data is difficult. In fact, I used to have access to more of it, but now I just have a monthly report they send out. Now that I think of it, I am not sure they even send that out anymore. This is why many media outlets use Davenport’s information. There is also a book out titled UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015 that analyzes MUFON data.

    I downloaded the data from Kaggle that the Data Duo used to pour it up with population data to see where the real hotspots are. Essentially I just divided the number of sightings by the number of people in each state. You can see the places that have more sightings per person are very different that the ones with the most sightings.

    Top states for UFO sightings per population using Kaggle data used by the Data Duo.

    It is important to read the data right. If you were looking to have a UFO experience, and you go to the area with the most reports, you could be lowering your odds. The odds are better if you go to a place having more sightings per person. Or maybe you want to be far away from UFOs, and you think you are going to a state like New Hampshire, which has very few sightings. However, New Hampshire has a lot of UFO sighting per person, so you may inadvertently have ended up smack dab in the middle of UFO country.

    Even though I think the Bustle article is relying way to much on the number of sightings instead of the sightings per person, it is still an article I recommend you read. It has some interesting speculation on where aliens might visit if they were to visit Earth, or why they might be visiting the places they may be buzzing around right now.

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    15-11-2017 om 23:11 geschreven door peter  

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    New documentary takes look at Mothman legend

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    Courtesy of Small Town Monsters "The Mothman of Point Pleasant", a new documentary by Ohio-based production company Small town Monsters, will debut on the SyFy Channel on February 2018

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    Courtesy of Small Town Monsters Seth Breedlove is the procducer and director of "The Mothman of Point Pleasant" and the founder of the film's production company Small town Monsters

    It was Nov. 16, 1966, that the first reports of the sighting of Mothman hit the papers.

    Unlike many local legends that fade away with time, the story of the Mothman - and the high number of bizarre reports of things like UFOs and Men in Black coming out of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, from November 1966 to mid December 1967 - seem to be a story that forever has wings.

    The latest Mothman-themed project is a new documentary film by Small Town Monsters called "The Mothman of Point Pleasant," which features interviews with eyewitnesses such as Faye Dewitt Leport as well as local experts including Jeff Wamsley of the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant and The Herald-Dispatch columnist Dave Peyton, who reported on the Mothman, UFO and Men in Black sightings in the area.

    Released earlier this summer and debuting locally at this fall's Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, the documentary spans from November 1966 to December 1967 when area residents reported witnessing UFOs, strange government and military-related activity and, of course, many sightings of a strange, large, black-winged creature, mostly in the TNT area just north of Point Pleasant.

    Seth Breedlove, producer and director of the film and founder of Small Town Monsters, a film production company based out of Wadsworth, Ohio, (just west of Akron), said he wanted the film to chronologically log the reports.

    Funded through a Kickstarter campaign, Breedlove said he hopes the film engages viewers with unnerving accounts from original witnesses and area residents as well as deliver new information related to the case.

    "Our tagline for the movie is 'The 13 months that changed history,'" Breedlove said in an interview at the Mothman Festival in September. "I have seen a lot of these documentaries and read books and all of that kind of stuff, and there has been a ton of material put out about the Mothman. I was very hesitant to do it, because I didn't know what we would be adding to it, but I realized there had not really been a down-and-dirty documentary with all of the information chronologically from the first sighting to the last, including the bridge disaster, where they didn't try to turn the bridge disaster into sort of ridiculous omen by the Mothman."

    Breedlove said treating the Silver Bridge disaster with its due respect was of utmost importance. The Silver Bridge collapse on Dec. 15, 1967, claimed 46 lives. There were no more reports of Mothman sightings after the collapse.

    "What we wanted to do was simply put out the series of events, the way they transpired over that 13-month span of time, how it impacted people that lived here and include the bridge disaster in a way that was respectful to the victims and the family who are still in the area," Breedlove said.

    Breedlove said his introduction into the paranormal world and the Mothman stories came about in 2002, when he was in his early 20s. He and his buddies hit their neighborhood dollar cinema to check out "The Mothman Prophecies" and then saw it again and again.

    "We went to see that movie many times together, and that was sort of my introduction into the strange and unusual," Breedlove said. "What is cool about that now is that we showed our Mothman movie to the screenwriter of 'Mothman Prophecies,' and he loved it."

    Breedlove and his crew have cut their filming teeth doing Bigfoot documentary films on sightings around Ohio. Those include "Minerva Monster" in 2015 followed by "Beast of Whitehall" and "Boggy Creek Monster" in 2016.

    "I have been into film since I was a kid but started making movies three years ago to actually put them out front of an audience. Prior to that I did short films with my buddies," Breedlove said. "We started on 'Mothman' last year, and it was part of a book proposal I put together in 2013 called 'Smalltown Monsters.' That was the whole genesis for the production company and the series. We have been doing it for three years, but the idea has been percolating for five or six years."

    Breedlove, whose Small Town Monsters production company released the film "Invasion of Chestnut Ridge" - about a possible 1965 UFO crash in rural Pennsylvania - in October, said there are few stories that stand out like Mothman, a story first chronicled in local newspapers (including extensively in the The Herald-Dispatch) and then internationally, thanks to the 1975 book "The Mothman Prophecies" by author John Keel.

    "Before we mostly made movies about Bigfoot, so this was our first step into the truly bizarre stuff," Breedlove said. "I don't know how we will ever top this story, because it is an amazing story. ... this story has so much to it, and a lot of heart and emotion, with the tragedy of the bridge collapse. I am sure we will still tell stories that I love, and I love the one we just told, but as far as the emotional angle of this, nothing compares. Even this morning I went down to the the bridge plaque there where the bridge was, and it is still just so emotional. I think that is what drew me to it, the bridge collapse. I talked to a police officer here last year, Ronnie Spencer, who told me a story about a girl he went to school with who died on the bridge and they planted a tree for her after she died. Something about that really made me want to really tell the story."

    Like anyone who has read Keel's book or who was alive then, the Mothman is just part of the great number of wild stories flying around Point Pleasant during those 13 months.

    "We got into the Men in Black and Indrid Cold stories," Breedlove said. "The really bizarre aspects of it are those little side stories that Keel told in his book, like the zone of fear, which was this area he walked through one night. It was like he was gripped with hysterical fear, and he almost spent the night out in the TNT area just so he didn't have to walk back through what he termed the zone of fear. What was really weird also was that there were people in town hearing voices over their head, and with the UFOs it was not just that people were seeing lights in the sky but they seemed to be communicating with them. There were so much going on at that time that the Mothman seems like the least weird thing that happened during that time."

    Given the film's specific tie to Point Pleasant, Breedlove was ecstatic this year that not only did he get to screen the film at the State Theater during the Mothman Festival, but the screening drew a standing-room-only crowd.

    "I thought maybe we would have 150 come out to see the movie, but we ended up with well over 300," Breedlove said. "There's like 250 seats in there, and people were lined up in the back and sitting on the ground, and people seemed to love it. A lady came up afterwards and gave me a hug and was crying, so the reception has been amazing. I have said that the Mothman movie coming out has changed my life. It has made enough money that my wife (Adrienne) and I can do this full time. That aspect of it has been pretty huge, and I hate to say it is life changing, but it really is true to say the Mothman changed my life."

    And the film's final stops are not yet known. Picked up by Terror Films for wide streaming release, the documentary, which was the No. 1 documentary on Amazon for weeks this summer, has been released on iTunes and Google Play, and will be broadcast of the SyFy network beginning Feb. 2, 2018.

    While other small towns have great legends, Breedlove said few have embraced, celebrated and marketed their legends as well as Point Pleasant.

    "This (the festival) should be taking place in every town that has a monster story," Breedlove said at the Mothman Festival. "It is a piece of their local history that they have embraced in the same way that other towns embrace a historical battle or like a local historical figure. They have done that in the same way but it is celebrating a local legend. Part of what we do is history and preservation, which some people may think is silly because it is story that a lot of people don't believe in. A lot of people believe there is not a Mothman, and I tend to be more on the skeptical side, but I think there is a historical importance to preserving these stories because of the fact that they made a huge impact on Point Pleasant and impacted the culture in a major way here."

    Searching for Mothman

    WHAT: "The Mothman of Point Pleasant," a new documentary by Ohio-based production company Small Town Monsters.

    WHERE: You can buy the film online at http://shop.smalltownmonsters.com, and it is available on

    Vimeo OnDemand, Amazon, iTunes and most major streaming platforms. It will be shown on SyFy on Feb. 2, 2018.

    ON THE WEB: Go online at http://www.smalltownmonsters.com/index.html to check out the new web series called "Case Files" in which Small Town Monsters shows new stories as well as cut scenes from its various films.

    VISIT THE MOTHMAN MUSEUM: Find out more about the Mothman story by visiting the Mothman Museum, 400 Main St., Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Fall and winter hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Cost is $3; $1 for kids 10 and under. Go online at www.mothmanmuseum.com.

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    15-11-2017 om 23:00 geschreven door peter  

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    Fireball streaks across Phoenix sky

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    FIREBALL LIGHTS UP PHOENIX SKY ON NOV. 14Fireball streaks across Phoenix skyline | 0:28

    Video from Phoenix City Hall shows a bright light flashing across the Phoenix skyline. Video credit: City of Phoenix

    Did you catch that bright light that streaked across the night sky Tuesday over the Phoenix area?

    The city of Phoenix captured the illumination on one of its observation cameras and posted it to Twitter.

    In the video, a large, glowing bulb appears in the top-right frame then fades out in three seconds. A smaller light can also be seen in the lower portion of the frame, off in the horizon. 

    It happened around 8:30 p.m.

    The American Meteor Society received 120 fireball reports from Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah on Nov. 14.

    What people saw was almost certainly a meteor, said Laurence Garvie, curator of Arizona State University's Center for Meteorite Studies.

    Specifically, the meteor was a "bolide" — a type of fireball that explodes in a bright terminal flash, according to the American Meteor Society.

    "I’m going to guess about 5 feet across. It broke up quite quickly," Garvie said. 

    It's unclear yet whether the meteor left debris on the ground, he said. 

    Garvie said the meteor isn't related to the Leonids meteor shower, an annual event that peaks this year on Friday night.

    "It's just coincidental," he said, adding that meteors spotted during showers are tiny by comparison, the size of a grain of sand. 

    A moonless sky on Friday should make for good viewing of the meteor shower this year. But it's not an especially plentiful meteor shower. NASA predicts no more than 10 meteors an hour, and some of these will be faint, so you won't be able to see them all. 

    Some viewing tips from astronomers at Arizona State and the University of Arizona:

    • Meteors occur throughout the sky, so you don't need to focus your eyes on one specific area. 
    • Shower activity is the greatest after midnight.
    • Get away from city lights, if you can. If you can't leave the city, find the darkest spot in your yard away from the glare of street and house lights.  
    • You don't need binoculars or a telescope. Using these devices can actually reduce the number of meteors you see because they focus on only part of the sky.  
    • Be patient. Plan to spend at least an hour outside if you want to spot meteors. 

    Video taken from the dashboard camera of Jonah Hirsch shows a fireballstreaking across the Phoenix skyline around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Wochit

    Did you spot the fireball last night? Send us your video to: anne.ryman@arizonarepublic.com.

    Check back with azcentral.com for updates.

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    15-11-2017 om 22:39 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Top 25 cities for UFO sightings: Is your city on the list? [VIDEO]

    Top 25 cities for UFO sightings: Is your city on the list? [VIDEO]

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    UFO

    In recent times, a number of UFO sightings have really created frenzy among people as they are still looking out for those interesting objects every day. Day by day, people are becoming more curious to know about these mysterious objects that can actually lead to a new box of life and they are interested to know about the top UFO hot spots in the world.

    According to "UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015," written by Cheryl and Linda Miller Costa, there is a list of cities which are known for its UFO phenomena in the United States. Published in March 2017, the book compiles "data and analysis for 100,000+ sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by individuals during the first 15 years of the 21st century."

    So, as the UFO fever becomes contagious, IBTimes Singapore brings you the list of top 25 cities that will probably give you a chance to witness one of those mysterious objects soon and if you live in any of these cities, it might be closer than you think.

    Here is the complete list of 25 most sightings across US cities.

    1. Phoenix (929 sightings)
    2. Las Vegas (639 sightings)
    3. Seattle (616 sightings)
    4. Chicago (562 sightings)
    5. Portland (528 sightings)
    6. Los Angeles (525 sightings)
    7. Tucson (480 sightings)
    8. San Diego (477 sightings)
    9. Houston (466 sightings)
    10. Denver (429 sightings)
    11. Austin (426 sightings)
    12. New York City [Manhattan] (418 sightings)
    13. Orlando (390 sightings)
    14. Springfield (380 sightings)
    15. Albuquerque (376 sightings)
    16. Miami (375 sightings)
    17. Philadelphia (338 sightings)
    18. San Antonio (334 sightings)
    19. Columbus (327 sightings)
    20. Jacksonville (326 sightings)
    21. Sacramento (316 sightings)
    22. San Francisco (310 sightings)
    23. San Jose (308 sightings)
    24. Myrtle Beach (305 sightings)
    25. Dallas and Kansas City (294 sightings each)

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    15-11-2017 om 22:23 geschreven door peter  

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    Where Are The Most UFO Sightings In The U.S.? The Hot Spots Are Not At All What You'd Expect

    Fox

    Interestingly, the Pacific region (all along the west coast) is a popular spot for UFO sightings. The three main hot spots seem to be the Pacific Northwest, Southern California, and the northeast — so if you live in those areas, you may be a lot more likely to see a UFO than you thought. Moving inward to the Rocky Mountain region, the southwest, and parts of the midwest, things get fairly quiet. But as you travel further into the midwest, southeast, and northeast, the map lights up like a Christmas tree. If you want your best chances at spotting a UFO, you should definitely head northeast — the area of the map is almost entirely covered.

    The map certainly reveals interesting patterns, and makes us wonder why the aliens seem to enjoy the west and east coasts more than other parts of our beautiful nation.

    Kaggle UFO Sightings

    Is it a mere coincidence that UFOs largely stick to states close to water? Maybe not. Recently, Alan Stern — a former NASA scientist who now works at the Southwest Research Institute in Texas — explained the high likelihood aliens are living below frozen oceans on other planets. The majority of habitable planets, actually, are very likely covered almost completely in water.

    In fact, there is a good chance aliens look more like fish than they do creepy versions of humans. Is it that far-fetched to believe, then, that maybe aliens are house hunting in the areas that more closely resemble the watery environment of their home planet? Water is one of few things vital for life to exist; in fact, when it comes to the search for alien life, researchers and scientists follow a common rule of thumb: "follow the water." Anytime we find evidence of water on another planet, the very next question is typically: could that planet be sustaining life, then? Knowing the importance and value of water, it really isn't all that odd to think that aliens would choose to stick to areas adjacent to good old H20.

    Aside from revealing the best places in the U.S. to see a UFO, Kaggle's data also pointed to another intriguing finding: the sharp increase of UFO sightings in more recent years.  

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    Starting around 2009, activity picked up noticeably; and by 2012, reported aliens were all, "We're going to America!" According to statistician Sam Monfort, reported UFO sightings shot up from around 2,500 in 1980 to 45,000 in 2010.

    But why? There are a few reasons.

    For starters, the answer could be that reported UFO sightings haven't really picked up; but with the rapid advancement of technology and social media, we're simply hearing about it more. Monfort makes a thought-provoking point: at the onset of the rise of the internet, sightings of flying objects, specifically, actually went down, while sightings of mysterious lights went up. Did camera phones make it harder for people to claim to see flying saucers, since we'd have no excuse not to film them? Lights in the sky, on the other hand, are easy to film, debate, and argue as signs of aliens.

    Monfort made another point that forces us to question the significant climb in sightings: understandably, sightings are higher than average on the Fourth of July. This could be because aliens use fireworks to disguise their own aircrafts (spooky!), or because we see fireworks and think they're aliens. But, Monfort says, why did the "Fourth of July effect" only kick in around 2008?

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    Finally, there's this explanation: more and more aliens are visiting earth, plain and simple. They're probably going to land really soon, stop by all of our homes to say hello, and then add us as friends on Facebook. Or maybe... they're already here. Consider all the stories of humans claiming they were abducted by aliens — we don't think every single one of them is a hoax, do we? (No.) Sure, ET enthusiasts might find a way to prove alien life even when it isn't there — like the mysterious ghost lady found on Mars — but that doesn't mean that somewhere out there, fishy looking aliens with giant heads and big eyes aren't walking around studying human behavior and wondering why we take so many selfies.

    If you're a true stargazer and want to increase the odds of finding a UFO, Kaggle's data suggests that July through January are the busiest months (in other words, hurry TF up because it's almost January), and the best time of the week is Saturday night, between 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Happy UFO hunting!

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    15-11-2017 om 21:52 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Photo of UFO over Columbia sets social media abuzz

    Photo of UFO over Columbia sets social media abuzz

    ALEX MACLEAN
    THE UNION DEMOCRAT

    Was it a bird? Was it a plane? A meteor? Space junk? An alien spaceship? Superman?

    Over the past couple of days, photos and videos taken by Robert Neil Moore that show an unidentified flying object soaring through the sky Saturday afternoon above his home off Quail Mine Road in the Big Hill area have captured the imagination of many on social media.

    A picture of the object that Moore posted to the Tuolumne County Incident Feed group on Facebook has generated nearly 300 reactions and more than 60 comments from people offering up their theories that range from playful to apocalyptic.

    Some offered links about recently launched satellites and spacecraft. Others posted memes of Superman, nuclear explosions and aliens.

    But is there a more simple explanation than a precursor to an extraterrestrial invasion, or some sort of a top-secret government conspiracy to turn the population into mindless drones?

    Moore said he had just picked up his daughter-in-law for a family dinner at his home when he first spotted the object about 4:55 p.m. while looking out at the horizon northwest toward Sacramento.

    “We were thinking that thing looks weird,” he said of the object. “It doesn’t look like a normal airplane.”

    Moore, who works for a machining company in Soulsbyville, ran inside to get his phone and started shooting pictures and video about 4:57 p.m. By about 5 p.m. the object was passing directly above his house.

    The object appeared to be headed south toward Los Angeles.

    Private aircraft frequently fly over Moore’s home going to and from the nearby Columbia Airport, but Moore said the object on Saturday appeared to be higher than most other airplanes he’s seen in the nearly two years he’s lived there.

    “I’m always looking up at the sky,” Moore said. “You never know what you’re going to see up there.”

    There was a low rumbling noise and a large plume trailing from the back of the object. Moore said there wasn’t anything breaking off from it, so he doesn’t think it was a meteor entering the earth’s atmosphere.

    Moore said he believes it may have been an experimental aircraft of some kind, but he doesn’t believe it was a commercial jetliner due to how fast it was moving.

    “I’m wondering just like everybody else,” Moore said.

    Benedict Stuth, manager of the two county-operated airports in Columbia and Pine Mountain Lake, commented on the Facebook thread that it could have been a number of commercial jetliners that regularly fly over the area.

    Stuth said in an interview on Tuesday the contrails made by the object match those made by a typical commercial jet traveling at high altitudes. He also said the object could appear orange because of the time of day.

    “When you have an aircraft that high, it’s going to catch the sun’s rays like the clouds do,” Stuth explained. “That’s why you’ll see orange and pink clouds during sunset.”

    The speed in which the aircraft passed overhead also leads Stuth to believe the object was likely just a typical plane. He said a meteor would have passed by in seconds, not minutes.

    Based on the limited photo evidence, Stuth said he would confidently say the object was a airplane.

    “Everything pretty much points to it being an aircraft, in my opinion,” Stuth said, adding that he would still reserve a small chance it could have been something else. “I’ll give anybody the benefit of the doubt, because we don’t have absolute clear pictures showing that it’s x, y, or z.”

    Stuth, who previously worked as a consultant at Los Angeles International Airport, said he’s encountered a number of conspiracy theories over his aviation career that can much more easily be explained by science.

    For example, one that Stuth still receives calls about is a popular conspiracy theory that contrails are really chemical compounds being sprayed by the government to control people’s minds.

    “It’s basically just condensed water that’s reacting to a fast-moving object at high altitude,” Stuth said of airplane contrails. “It’s just a natural occurrence.”

    Stuth pointed to a website called Planefinder.net that uses technology to track airplane flights in real-time across the globe.

    Going back to Saturday between 4:55 p.m. and 5 p.m. shows American Airlines flight AA126 from Hong Kong to Dallas in a Boeing 777-323 flying from west to east above the Big Hill area at 34,975 feet.

    “Going from west to east is a very common flight path from San Francisco that goes right over our area,” Stuth said while looking at the path of the American Airlines on Saturday. “Just about any flights from the Pacific Northwest down south tend to go over our area as well.”

    However, Moore said he saw the object Saturday moving north to south.

    One possible explanation for the contradicting routes is that directions can easily become confusing when looking up at the sky, according to Stuth. For example, he said that he thought a plane on Tuesday was flying over the airport from the north until someone corrected him that it was the west.

    Planefinder.net" target="_blank">dir="ltr">Planefinder.net also says it strives to ensure its live tracking does not compromise national or regional security and will consider requests to block those aircraft from its system for that reason.

    There didn’t appear to be any reports made to the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office regarding the object, Sheriff’s spokeswoman Sgt. Andrea Benson said via email.

    The Union Democrat reached out to NASA in a quest for answers Tuesday, but has yet to receive a response.

    “If it wasn’t a plane, I’m going full on UFO,” Stuth joked.

    Contact Alex MacLean at amaclean@uniondemocrat.com or (209) 588-4530.

    http://www.uniondemocrat.com/localnews/ }

    15-11-2017 om 21:41 geschreven door peter  

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    Making a Moon Base With 'Artemis' Author Andy Weir

    15-11-2017 om 21:30 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.5 ‘controversial’ ancient Books that could shatter the foundations of history

    5 ‘controversial’ ancient Books that could shatter the foundations of history

    Throughout the years, archaeologists have come across incredible discoveries. Some of these discoveries are ancient manuscripts which have been found to portray history from a different point of view. A controversial point of view.

    Nemours ancient books tell a different side of history. A different side of human origins, and a different side of human capabilities. These ancient texts, usually considered mythological in nature oppose nearly everything set forth by mainstream scholars and modern history.

    Some of them are partially accepted, while some of their pages have been dubbed as a myth because they shake the very foundation of what we know about our civilization.

    Regrettably, while these books are real and part of history, the history we’ve been taught throughout the years has ignored them entirely.

    This is why in this article, I’ll take you on a journey and introduce you to five ancient books that are both controversial and fascinating, and could shake the very understanding of human history.

    I find them beyond fascinating.

    1. book of Thoth

    One of my favorite books is the so-called book of Thoth. It is a sacred book that according to ancient Egyptian beliefs, not only offers unlimited knowledge, but legend says that anyone who reads the contents can contain the means to decipher the secrets and master the earth, the sea, the air and the celestial bodies. Historical records tell us that the book was a collection of ancient Egyptian texts which were written by Thoth—the ancient Egyptian god of writing and Knowledge.

    The Book of Thoth appears fragmented in various papyri, the majority pertaining to the second century of the Ptolemaic period.

    2. The Kolbrin Bible

    The Kolbrin Bible is another fascinating ancient book believed to have been written around 3,600 years ago.

    This ancient book is referred to as the first Judaic/Christian document which spells out understanding of human evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. Some scholars argue that this ancient book was penned down at the same time as the Old Testament.

    Various authors participated in its creation, and the Kolbrin Bible is composed of two main parts which make up a total of 11 ancient books.

    3. The Book of Enoch

    The Book of Enoch is another book which many authors have placed into the dubious or controversial category. The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish religious manuscript which is traced back to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah.

    The Book of Enoch is considered by many as one of the most influential non-canonical apocryphal writings.

    Furthermore, this book is believed to have significantly influenced Christian beliefs.

    4. The Book of Giants

    The so-called Book of Giants is believed to have been composed around 2,000 years ago. It was found in the Qumran Caves where researchers came across the Dead Sea Scrolls. Specifically, the Book of Giants speaks about creatures that inhabited our planet in the distant past and how they were destroyed. According to the ancient text, the Giants —The Nephilim—became aware that due to their violent ways, they face an imminent destruction. They asked Enoch to speak on their behalf to God.

    5. The Ars Notoria

    The Ars Notoria is one of the most controversial and mysterious books ever created.

    According to legend, this ancient book is a mixture of mystical, historical and sensational content that promises to teach superhuman abilities to those who follow that which is written. The Ars Notoria belongs to the Lesser Key of Solomon. It is an anonymous grimoire (or spellbook) on demonology. Its one-hundred-forty-four spells were authored in the mid-17th century, mostly from materials centuries older. The Ars Notoria contains a set of prayers and which were written in several languages, including Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.


    Featured image credit: Shutterstock

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    15-11-2017 om 21:08 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.See CRISPR in action in a new video

    See CRISPR in action in a new video

    BY ELENA MOTIVANS 

    CRISPR is a powerful gene editing tool that can accurately add in or take out bits of DNA. There’s a lot of buzz about it because it is cheap, easy, and precise. There is also a lot of mystery surrounding CRISPR, perhaps because of its more controversial uses, such as plans of resurrecting the woolly mammoth or editing human embryos, and more sci-fi uses, like eliminating malaria and other diseases from mosquitoes and growing human organs in pigs. However, right now, it’s causing its biggest revolution in the lab, where scientists are now able to manipulate and control any gene easily.

    CRISPR.

    CRISPR is an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. These are actually just sequences which repeat at regular intervals with spaces in-between them. Bacteria use these spaces to keep a genetic memory of viruses that have invaded it in the past. If that virus dares to show its face again, the system will recognize it and destroy it. The sequences can’t detect and destroy viruses by themselves, but they have two helpers: the enzyme Cas9 and guide RNA.

    Researchers from Kanazawa University and the University of Tokyo in Japan have published a new study in Nature Communications in which they visualized CRISPR-Cas9 in action, cleaving a strand of DNA in two. They visualized the process for a more detailed look at what CRISPR-Cas9 actually does. The technique that they used is called high-speed atomic-force microscopy and uses mechanical probes to get good resolution images and videos down to a nanometer. Now, you can watch the CRISPR-Cas9 complex work in real-time and real-space.

    CRISPR-Cas9 in action (high-speed AFM)

    Single-molecule movie of DNA search and cleavage by CRISPR-Cas9.

    CRISPR-Cas9 is like a hand with scissors. The guide RNA is the hand that directs the scissors to bits of DNA matching info in the genetic memory, leading it to the target. When found, Cas9 are like scissors that cut the DNA and destroy it. In this video, you can see the molecular scissors at work cleaving the DNA at the end of the clip. The original sequence can be destroyed or a new sequence can be patched into the gap.

    It is pretty amazing that we can see exactly what happens when CRISPR-Cas9 is at work.

    Journal reference:

    Shibata, M., Nishimasu, H., Kodera, N., Hirano, S., Ando, T., Uchihashi, T. & Nureki, O. (2017) Real-space and real-time dynamics of CRISPR-Cas9 visualized by high-speed atomic force microscopy. Nature Communications 8, 1430.

    https://www.zmescience.com/ }

    15-11-2017 om 20:47 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Bizarre UFO Hovers Above A Navy Base in California

    Bizarre UFO Hovers Above A Navy Base in California

    ufo-california

    Extraterrestrial enthusiasts have been buzzing about the images that show an unidentified flying object near an American Navy base.

    The photos in question show a flying saucer-shaped craft hovering above the ground with a helicopter flying nearby.

    The five pictures, reportedly taken in the Californian desert, were released by the man known as Keith Bradshaw in a bid to find the truth on aliens.

    The snaps were done in 2007, near the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, but he has been too nervous to show anyone.

    After an old friend who worked on the Navy base shared with him about the mysterious craft, he sneaked out to the desert. According to Mr Bradshaw, he heard the sound coming from the helicopter as he approached the base. Then he saw the silver UFO with several military vehicles parked close by.

    He took off his shirt, blended with his surroundings and spent about 10 minutes watching the flying saucer.

    He saw the UFO wobbling along close to the ground and appearing to be very unstable. Then it would freeze in position, go up and sit at a particular height for a few minutes, added Bradshaw. He said that the mysterious flying object did not make any noise that he could hear.

    Some of the world’s top UFO experts examined the images. British UFO investigator Philip Mantle said that the snaps could turn out to be one of the most controversial on record when it comes to UFO sighting pictures.

    Former RAF and BAE Airbus division employee Jason Gleaves said that they could be genuine but warned that technology and software today may make fake looks authentic.

    Former US Navy Physicist Dr Bruce Maccabee said that the photographs could not prove either way.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    15-11-2017 om 18:53 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.New California telescope aims to catch quickly moving celestial events

    Zwicky Transient Facility team members install the instrument's new camera. 

    Caltech Optical Observatories

    New California telescope aims to catch quickly moving celestial events

    Astronomers in California have taken a telescope built before most of them were born and converted it into a new instrument dedicated to one of the newest and fastest-moving branches of astronomy: spotting objects in the sky that change from one day to the next.

    The new Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), which today opened its eye to the sky, was created by retooling the 1.2-meter Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California, which, starting in 1948, took pictures of the night sky onto specially curved glass photographic plates. The ZTF, named in honor of Fritz Zwicky, the Bulgaria-born astronomer who worked for most of his career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, has been fitted with a new camera made up of 16 charge-coupled device (CCD) detectors. That will enable it to snap single images covering an area more than 200 times the size of the full moon.

    With such a wide field of view—the biggest of any telescope more than 0.5 meters wide—the ZTF can survey the whole northern sky visible from Palomar every night. By doing so, astronomers can spot anything that changes from the previous night’s images, enabling them to identify quickly changing celestial phenomena, including supernovae, variable and binary stars, the active cores of distant galaxies, potentially Earth-threatening asteroids, and the flash of merging neutron stars that could also emit gravitational waves. 

    Although the scientific haul is expected to be high, the ZTF is also a testbed for a larger upcoming instrument, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will begin observing from Chile in 2022. The LSST is expected to be so prolific that researchers will have to automate the process of sifting through observed events to find ones worth following up, and then getting a more detailed spectrum. To build such automated systems, ZTF researchers are involved in efforts to create the necessary data processing systems and robotic follow-up telescopes. “The headline goal is to get [an automated system] working and implemented in a way that astronomers can interact with it and use it,” says Adam Bolton of the National Science Foundation’s National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona.

    Scaling up

    In the past, the discovery of sudden events like supernovae was largely a matter of chance; a fortunate accident while astronomers were looking at something steadier. But in recent years interest in quickly changing phenomena has grown and a range of instruments has sprung up that use small telescopes to scan the sky on a nightly basis. The ZTF continues this trend but with a larger telescope to see fainter and more distant objects.

    A key target will be a particular kind of supernova, known as type Ia, that is an important celestial yardstick because it is thought to always explode with the same luminosity. It was by studying type Ia supernovae that astronomers discovered in the 1990s that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, an effect ascribed to the mysterious dark energy. But what causes these explosions is not known for sure, so lingering doubts hang over their reliability as a measure. With the ZTF expecting to find thousands of type Ias per year, astronomers hope to put those doubts to rest and improve the accuracy of this yardstick.

    The team behind the ZTF—which includes Caltech and partners at other U.S. universities and institutions in Israel, Sweden, Germany, and Taiwan—also expects to see each year more than a hundred superluminous supernovae, extra-bright explosions thought to be linked to gamma ray bursts, and a dozen or so tidal disruption events, flashes that occur when a star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole and is torn apart by its extreme gravity. Only a handful of such events have so far been confirmed, but astronomers hope if they can see more they will illuminate the notoriously camera-shy gravitational giants lurking at the centers of galaxies.

    To achieve this, the team had to create a compact camera with a very wide field of view—47 square degrees. The camera’s 16 CCDs and electronics are enclosed in a cryostat to keep the detectors cold, and all of the gear must be small enough to fit in the center of the telescope at its focal point. The telescope’s drive motors were also changed so that the instrument can slew quickly from one patch of sky to another during observations. “It was amazing to take an old telescope and turn it into a supertelescope,” says Shrinivas Kulkarni, director of Caltech Optical Observatories, which has led the project.

    New era of automation

    Next decade, the LSST is expected to conduct regular surveys that are similar to the ZTF’s, but its 8.4-meter mirror will be able to see much more distant and fainter objects. The LSST is expected to detect as many as 10 million “events”—objects that change or appear—every night. “The ZTF will be an excellent forerunner for the fire hose of data expected from the LSST,” says Jonathan Grindlay of Harvard University, founding chair of the American Astronomical Society’s working group on time-domain astronomy.

    That’s why automating data analyses will be critical. Researchers say stargazing will inevitably join forces with big data approaches, machine learning, and so-called event brokers, programs that can pick out the interesting events and then instruct robotic telescopes to take a closer look and obtain a spectrum so that an astronomer can peruse it later. Researchers at NOAO are working on such a broker system, as are others at the University of Washington in Seattle—who are partnered with the ZTF team—and elsewhere. “This is the best way to get ready” for the LSST, Kulkarni says. “We’ll go live, take data, and start doing things. ZTF will be the laboratory.”

    The third part of the process—automated follow-up telescopes that can obtain spectra so astronomers can characterize events—is perhaps the least well prepared. The ZTF has teamed up with the Las Cumbres Observatory, which runs a worldwide network of 18 robotic telescopes, and the Liverpool Telescope, a robotic scope in the Canary Islands run by Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom. “The challenge is to put all the pieces together so that scientific intelligence can be applied at the right time,” Bolton says.

    If the whole system works, it may herald a new era when astronomers no longer have to spend long nights tending to observations but can simply turn up to work in the morning and have a whole menu of celestial delights waiting for them. Less romantic perhaps but, Kulkarni says: “The most efficient way to do astronomy is to get astronomers out of the dome.”

    *Correction 14 November, 4:15 p.m.: An earlier version of this article misstated where Fritz Zwicky was born. 

    http://science.sciencemag.org/ }

    15-11-2017 om 18:48 geschreven door peter  

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    UNEXPLAINED DISK-LIKE SKY PHENOMENON BLOCKS THE SUN OVER CHILE

    Residents of Chile have witnessed a strange disk-shaped anomaly blocking the sun.

    Arnoldo Liendo Arce from Antofagasta in Chile managed to capture a strange phenomenon that was witnessed by many residents on November 13, 2017.

    MAN FILMING HALO OR SUNDOG ALSO CAPTURES STRANGE DISK SHAPED CLOUD

    The man was out on the streets with other residents and filming what he thought was a Halo or Sundog, and he not only managed to capture the strange iridescent rainbow cloud but also an even stranger cloud formation that had formed inside the Sundog or Halo, and it was a dark disk that blocked out the sun.  

    Sundogs and Halos are an atmospheric optical phenomenon that is caused when the sunlight reflects ice crystals in the atmosphere. However, there is not usually a strange cloud formation covering up the Halo or Sundog. In this instance, the strange disk cloud shape made for an even more spectacular sighting while people went about their day to day business.

    WAS THE RAINBOW CLOUD ASSOCIATED WITH AN EARTHQUAKE?

    The first video showed off the weird cloud formation with the Halo or Sundog, and another video revealed the colorful rainbow cloud that resident’s saw, which was suggested to be an earthquake light or sign that there was going to be an earthquake coming.

    The iridescent clouds were a beautiful sight to witness by the residents of Chile, spiraling out in a circular pattern with the rainbow effect being seen mostly on the outer rim of the circle. The remainder of the sky was strangely clear, which added to the eerie effect. The strange disk-shaped cloud can also be seen blocking out the sun in the middle.

    The second video is the more stable of the two as it does not circle around and this time it shows the stunning rainbow effect in a line or arch, one above and one below with the sun in the middle. Whether it was a Sundog or Halo, there is no doubt that it was a spectacular show for those living in Chile.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.CLOSEST EARTH-LIKE PLANET EVER DISCOVERED: JUST A COUPLE OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY!

    CLOSEST EARTH-LIKE PLANET EVER DISCOVERED: JUST A COUPLE OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY!

    A team of researchers just used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) to discover a low-mass alien planet — also known as an “exoplanet” — orbiting the red dwarf star Ross 128. Notably, this planet has a mass that is similar to Earth’s.  

    In fact, it’s thought that the planet, formally known as Ross 128 b, could be similar to Earth in terms of both its size and surface temperature. And it is just 11 light-years from our solar system, making it the second-closest temperate planet to ever be detected. Ultimately, the little world comes in just after Proxima b.

    “This discovery is based on more than a decade of HARPS intensive monitoring together with state-of-the-art data reduction and analysis techniques,” said Nicola Astudillo-Defru of the University of Geneva, who co-authored the paper outlining the exoplanet’s discovery, in a press release. “Only HARPS has demonstrated such a precision, and it remains the best planet hunter of its kind, 15 years after it began operations.”

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    THIS IS HOW NASA USES STARLIGHT TO DISCOVER EXOPLANETS IN DEEP SPACE  

    STRANGE SIGNALS FROM THE NEARBY RED DWARF STAR ROSS 128

    The team behind the work notes that, while most red dwarf stars experience extreme solar flares — flares that bathe their planets in deadly radiation — Ross 128 is a “quiet star.” As a result, its planets are thought to be the closest comfortable locations for any possible alien life. Thus, the discovery of an Earth-mass world orbiting the star is significant. “Proxima Centauri is particularly active, with frequent, powerful flares that may sterilize (if not stripped out) its atmosphere,” lead author Xavier Bonfils of Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble explained. “Ross 128 is one of the quietest stars of our sample, and although it is a little further away from us, it makes for an excellent alternative target.” READ MORE: http://www.disclose.tv/news/closest_earthlike_planet_ever_discovered_just_a_couple_of_light_years_away/140837

    The team behind the work notes that, while most red dwarf stars experience extreme solar flares — flares that bathe their planets in deadly radiation — Ross 128 is a “quiet star.” As a result, its planets are thought to be the closest comfortable locations for any possible alien life. Thus, the discovery of an Earth-mass world orbiting the star is significant.

    “Proxima Centauri is particularly active, with frequent, powerful flares that may sterilize (if not stripped out) its atmosphere,” lead author Xavier Bonfils of Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble explained. “Ross 128 is one of the quietest stars of our sample, and although it is a little further away from us, it makes for an excellent alternative target.”  

    The orbit of Ross 128 b is 20 times more proximal (20 times closer) than the distance between the Earth and the Sun – but the planet receives only 1.38 times more irradiation, which keeps its equilibrium temperature between -60°C and 20°C (-76°F and 68°F). But while scientists do believe that it is, in fact, a temperate planet, there’s still no confirmation that it lies within the habitable zone, which is the zone surrounding a star in which liquid water is able to exist.

    “Ten years from now, we will be capable, thanks to giant telescopes, to directly ‘see’ the planet and characterize its atmosphere,” Astudillo-Defru told explaiend. “In the meantime, we need to better constrain theoretical models to elucidate if liquid water can be found on Ross 128 b’s surface.”

    As was previously noted, Ross 128 is currently 11 light-years from Earth, but it’s moving toward us and, as a result, it will one day be our nearest stellar neighbor…not for 79,000 years, but in cosmic terms, that is just the blink of an eye ( via futurism.com ).

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    15-11-2017 om 18:26 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.USS NIMITZ UFO VIDEO INTRIGUES RESEARCHERS AROUND THE WORLD

    USS NIMITZ UFO VIDEO INTRIGUES RESEARCHERS AROUND THE WORLD

    Researchers around the globe have been intrigued by a video that was said to have been taken in 2004 from a USS Nimitz based Super Hornet fighter jet.

    FIGHTER JET SCREEN VIDEO SEEMS TO SHOW UFO FROM 2004 

    The video apparently shows an object in the distance that is not acting in any way like a typical aircraft, and as the fighter jet gets closer to it, the strange UFO then veers away out of sight.  

    The video and story about the sighting of the UFO from the jet aircraft came to light in 2015 and it was rekindled recently when Tom DeLonge, the lead singer with Blink-182, brought it up when talking about the creation of the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science.

    USS NIMITZ TIC TAC UFO FLIR FOOTAGE  

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    John B. Alexander from Las Vegas, the author, said that the incident did occur but he has not been able to confirm the authenticity of the video. Alexander has written numerous books on conspiracies and UFOs and he told a news station that he thought the video had come from the US Navy. In an email, he said that he had asked one of the people who was said to have seen it in a classified version. He said that the source was very highly placed. He went on to say that the video was thought to be real but then said do not confirm the authenticity. He also said that other videos would more than likely soon reveal similar incidents that had taken place.

    UFO WAS SAID TO BE 100 MILES FROM SAN DIEGO  

    DeLonge did not show the video, which was said to have occurred during 2004 with the fighter jet coming from the aircraft carrier the Nimitz and recording various UFOs which were said to be about 100 miles from San Diego. However, he did tease that one of the goals of the group was to release video and documents that had previously been classified.

    Since that time what has been said to be a video taken from the display that the pilot was seeing has been seen on many internet sites and YouTube. However, the origin of the video is not certain. Two UFO researchers said that it had first been seen in 2007 on a website in Germany that was run film students.

    VIDEO WAS TRACKED TO ORIGINATE FROM GERMAN FILM MAKER WEBSITE

    Isaac Kol from London is s researcher and he often posts on the Above Top Secret website. Recently he made a post that said in 2007 he had tracked an online copy of the video and it took him back to the German film students. It was said that they specialized in the creation of science fiction movies that had lots of special effects. He said that in 2007 he had been inclined to believe that the video was, in fact, a hoax. He went on to say that he found it interesting that the current talks about the video ignore the provenance of the video.

    In an email to a news station, Kol said that he does not claim to have debunked the footage but that he has shown the place that it originally came from and it raised red flags which needed more investigation and evidence.

    Ufologist Robert Powell from Texas said that the video had been found on a German film site and he was suspicious about it due to that fact. He went on to say that there had not been any proof that the film students had doctored the video. He also said that as far as he knows no one has looked at the video and determined that it has been edited in any way. Powell said that he had filed a request for freedom of information to get the documents related to incidents with the Nimitz which related to November 2004.

    DOES THE PILOTS COMMUNICATION WITH FLIGHT CONTROL EXIST?

    Alexander said that he thinks that the pilot’s communication audio tapes with flight control exist somewhere. The main reason that researchers have found the video intriguing is the fact that the UFOs seemed to baffle the best fighter jets of the navy and their radar systems in 2004.

    A description of the anomalous aerial vehicles dropping down from more than 80,000 feet was put onto a website and this was based on returns from the radar, they were then said to have hovered about 50 feet from the water in only seconds. The objects then moved away at extremely fast speed with turn rates and acceleration that was faster than any known aircraft.

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    15-11-2017 om 18:08 geschreven door peter  

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    Categorie:ALIEN LIFE, UFO- CRASHES, ABDUCTIONS, MEN IN BLACK, ed ( FR. , NL; E )
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.LIGHTNING STRIKE HITS PASSENGER PLANE - BUT WHAT DO YOU SEE ON SECOND 48?

    LIGHTNING STRIKE HITS PASSENGER PLANE - BUT WHAT DO YOU SEE ON SECOND 48?

    A lightning strike at KL743, heading for Lima on November 13. It looks awesome.

    But I'm posting that video because I am confused about what I see on second 48. Is it a bird, or a very fast drone or probe? Or is it something else?

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    15-11-2017 om 17:56 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Shocking UFO sighting above US Navy base in the California desert raises the possibility of alien visitors

    Shocking UFO sighting above US Navy base in the California desert raises the possibility of alien visitors

    The pictures were taken in 2007 but have only now been revealed to the public

    By Jeff Parsons Tech/Science Reporter

    These stunning pictures appear to show an alien spacecraft hovering in the air over the desert and have been seized upon by the UFO community.

    They were taken by a man using the pseudonym "Keith Bradshaw", who says he went out to the desert near the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California after being told about the craft by a friend.

    He snapped the pictures in 2007 - but says he has been too nervous to show them until now.

    “This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable," he told the Daily Star .

    “Then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear."

    Keith said that he watched the craft for about ten minutes. He also claimed he saw the silver UFO while a number of military vehicles were parked nearby.

    There was even a military helicopter flying around at the time.

    “I don’t believe anyone could have been riding on the inside, but I got the idea the helicopter was somehow remotely controlling it," he said.

    “It looked like whoever was controlling it was having fun with it, sometimes because they would do little tricks with it.”

    By opening the pictures up to the world now, Keith hopes to open the conversation about whether we've been visited by extraterrestrials - or whether it was simply some new kind of military hardware that he witnessed.

    He provided the pictures to 54-year-old UFO sleuth Philip Mantle, who says he hasn't seen anything like this in over 40 years of research.

    Mr Mantle has described them as "the most controversial UFO photos on record" and adds experts are unable to agree if the photographs are real.


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    15-11-2017 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Nieuwe planeet dicht bij aarde ontdekt met “mogelijk beste kans op leven ooit” - HLN.be

    Nieuwe planeet dicht bij aarde ontdekt met “mogelijk beste kans op leven ooit” - HLN.be

    Tommy Thijs en Karolien Koolhof 

    Bron: ESO, Gizmodo, Newsweek, Belga, AD.nl

    Een artistieke impressie van hoe Ross 128 b er zou kunnen uitzien.
     ESO
    Een artistieke impressie van hoe Ross 128 b er zou kunnen uitzien.
     Wetenschappers hebben zopas bekendgemaakt dat ze op amper 11 lichtjaren afstand van de aarde een nieuwe planeet ontdekt hebben waar de omstandigheden zo gunstig zijn en die zo hard op de aarde lijkt dat er mogelijk leven op aanwezig is. Ross 128 b, waarschijnlijk een rotsachtige planeet, is 1,35 keer zo groot als de aarde.

    Het gaat volgens de studie die vandaag verschijnt om een mogelijk nog belangrijkere ontdekking dan die van Proxima Centauri b, de aarde-achtige planeet die het dichtste bij de aarde ligt en die enkele jaren geleden werd ontdekt. Ross 128 b ligt met 11 lichtjaren afstand verder weg, maar zou wel betere omstandigheden hebben om er leven te herbergen. 

    De temperaturen zouden er gunstig genoeg zijn, met uitersten van weliswaar -60 graden Celcius, maar ook rond de 15 graden. Daardoor behoort meteen ook de aanwezigheid van vloeibaar water, een noodzakelijke voorwaarde voor de levensvormen die we tot nu toe kennen, tot de mogelijkheden.

    “Gematigde wereld”

    De brede temperatuurmarge weerhoudt de wetenschappers van het European Southern Observatory, die de ontdekking deden, er momenteel nog van de planeet “leefbaar” te noemen, maar de vooruitzichten zijn gunstig. Ze spreken over de “dichtstbijzijnde gematigde wereld rond een rustige ster ooit”.

    De nieuwe planeet werd ontdekt met de HARPS-spectograaf (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) in de Chileense Atacama-woestijn. Ze moesten er tien jaar aan gegevens voor doorspitten. Pas na 157 observaties werd de planeet ontdekt.

    “Bijzonder veelbelovend”

    “Dit is spannender dan de ontdekking van Proxima Centauri b en bijzonder veelbelovend”, zegt Emily Rice van het American Museum of Natural History aan Gizmodo. “De ster rond de planeet is stiller en minder actief.” Het probleem met Proxima Centauri b is dat de ster errond massa’s ultraviolette en X-stralen uitstuurt die leven op de planeet onmogelijk maken. Dat is bij Ross 128 b niet het geval, de ster is een inactieve rode dwergster.

    Proxima Centauri is de ster die zich het dichtst bij ons zonnestelsel bevindt, de planeet Proxima Centauri b bevindt zich op iets meer dan 4,2 lichtjaren afstand van de aarde.

    “Mogelijk explodeert ster vroeg of laat”

    Ook planeetonderzoeker Daphne Stam van de TU Delft is verheugd door de vondst: “Het is een mooie ontdekking, maar het betekent niet dat we meteen allemaal plannen kunnen gaan maken”, zegt ze. Ze verwacht dat de kans op leven niet zo groot is: “Het is een rode dwergster die nu rustig is, maar dat soort sterren staat er om bekend vroeg of laat te exploderen. De deeltjes die dan vrijkomen zijn vaak gevaarlijk voor levende organismen. Daarnaast is het nog maar de vraag of Ross 128 b überhaupt een atmosfeer en dus zuurstof heeft.”

    Volgens Stam levert de vondst vooral veel interessante informatie op. Ze vervolgt: “We deden al onderzoek naar Proxima Centauri b, om te proberen te achterhalen wat voor soort wolken daar voorkomt. Die wolken vertellen namelijk iets over de temperatuur op een planeet. Bij deze nieuwe planeet zouden we dat ook graag doen.” Het feit dat Ross 128 b erg dicht bij de ster staat, maakt het lastig om hem te bestuderen. Door die positie is het volgens Stam namelijk moeilijk om het onderscheid te maken tussen het licht van de ster zelf en dat van de planeet. Stam: “En juist dat licht, en in het bijzonder de richting van de trillingen ervan, kunnen ons iets vertellen over de atmosfeer op een planeet.”

    ‘Dit soort sterren staat er om bekend vroeg of laat te exploderen. De deeltjes die dan vrijkomen zijn vaak gevaarlijk voor levende organismen’

    Daphne Stam, TU Delft

    Komt dichterbij

    Ross 128 b staat twintig keer zo dicht bij zijn ster als de aarde bij de zon, maar de ster heeft ook maar 17 procent van de oppervlakte van de zon. Door de geringe afstand tot de ster draait Ross 128 b er elke 9,9 dagen rond. Bovendien komt Ross 128 b steeds dichter naar ons toe en zal de planeet over slechts 79.000 jaar Proxima Centauri b inhalen en de dichtstbijzijnde exoplaneet worden.

    Bedoeling is nu Ross 128 b te blijven observeren, en te ontdekken waar de atmosfeer uit bestaat. De planeet staat zo dicht bij de aarde dat het relatief eenvoudig moet zijn om met de Extremely Large Telescope van ESO op zoek te gaan naar zuurstof in de atmosfeer.

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    15-11-2017 om 17:29 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Saudi Arabia's 400 ancient 'gate' structures found on the edge of volcanoes are shown in stunning new detail, but archaeologists STILL have no idea why they were built

    Saudi Arabia's 400 ancient 'gate' structures found on the edge of volcanoes are shown in stunning new detail, but archaeologists STILL have no idea why they were built

    • The strange cluster, found in the Harrat Khaybar region, are 'the oldest man-made structures in the landscape'
    • They could only be studied using satellite imagery taken from Google Earth due to restrictions in the country
    • David Kennedy, of the University of Western Australia, was given special permission to fly over the structures 
    • Some are up to 1,700 feet (518 metres) long and built across lava domes that may be thousands of years old
    • Some stone structures have been dubbed 'gates' because they appear to look like field gates from above

    Incredible images shot from the sky have provided a glimpse of some of the 400 mysterious stone structures located in a remote desert area in Saudia Arabia.

    Since the early 1950s, restrictions in the country have stymied further research of the baffling geometric shapes, which experts believe may be up to 7,000 years old.

    With the rise of satellite imagery and Google Earth, tantalising new shots of the elusive earth works were revealed, affording new avenues for investigation.

    Now, a leading archaeologist has been granted special permission to fly over the desolate lava fields of the Harrat Khaybar region, providing the clearest pictures yet of the enigmatic formations

    Incredible images shot from the sky have provided a glimpse of some of the 400 mysterious stone structures located in a remote desert area in Saudia Arabia. A leading archaeologist was granted special permission to fly over the desolate lava fields of the region, providing the clearest pictures yet of the enigmatic formations. This image shows a 'keyhole pendant'

    WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE 'GATES'?

    Some of the stone walls have been dubbed the 'gates' because they appear to look like gates in a field from above.

    The strange cluster 'appear to be the oldest man-made structures in the landscape' and some are up to 1,700 feet long and built across old lava domes.

    The smallest gates are 43 feet (13 metres) in length while the longest are 1,699 feet (518 metres) long. 

    Experts say that thousands of years ago this area would have been much more hospitable than it is now.  

    Dr David Kennedy, of the University of Western Australia, has spent almost 20 years studying the 'Works of the Old Men', as they were named by the area's Bedouin population when questioned in the 1920s.

    After his research hit the headlines in October, Dr Kennedy was given special dispensation by the Saudi government to take to the skies and conduct the first aerial survey in more than half a century.

    There is no obvious explanation of why many of the shapes, which include gate-like structures, kites, pendants and keyholes, were built. 

    In many cases, they are so large that their shape is only revealed when viewed from above.

    But experts believe that new aerial photography, combined with closer inspection on the ground, could one day lead to a breakthrough.

    Dr Kennedy and colleagues used Google Maps to 'pin' some of the sites they were most interested in visiting.

    They then spent three days flying in a Saudi Royal Commission helicopter, from October 27 to October 29, for a total of 15 hours, taking almost 6,000 photographs of around 200 sites.

    Writing for LiveScience, Dr Kennedy said: 'The number of high-resolution "windows" on Google Earth has increased rapidly, especially since the launch of the Landsat 8 satellite in February 2013. 

    Dr David Kennedy, of the University of Western Australia, has spent almost 20 years studying the structures. Since the early 1950s, restrictions in the country have stymied further research of the baffling geometric shapes, like this triangle-shape seen pointing towards a bullseye, which experts believe may be up to 7,000 years old

    Dr David Kennedy, of the University of Western Australia, has spent almost 20 years studying the structures. Since the early 1950s, restrictions in the country have stymied further research of the baffling geometric shapes, like this triangle-shape seen pointing towards a bullseye, which experts believe may be up to 7,000 years old

    After his research hit the headlines in October, Dr Kennedy was given special dispensation by the Saudi government to take to the skies to conduct the first aerial survey in more than half a century. The gate-like shape shown in this image is the fifth largest found so far, at  1,224 by 262 feet (373 by 80 metres)

    After his research hit the headlines in October, Dr Kennedy was given special dispensation by the Saudi government to take to the skies to conduct the first aerial survey in more than half a century. The gate-like shape shown in this image is the fifth largest found so far, at 1,224 by 262 feet (373 by 80 metres)

    WHY WERE THEY MADE? 

    A number of the designs appear to have astronomical significance and were built to align with the sunrise on the winter solstice

    Some, such as 'kites', were believed to have been used to hunt animals.

    Others, like the pendants, often lead from burial sites and may have had ritualistic significance in death rites.

    'Google Earth will remain a useful tool for prospection. It is simple to "pin" and catalogue sites, measure them, sketch them and generate distribution maps for interpretation. 

    'The limitations are equally obvious, however. The imagery is two-dimensional, and even the best resolution can be very fuzzy when enlarged. 

    'Detail is missing, and some sites are effectively invisible for various reasons. And imagery may be months, or even years, old and thus less valuable for routine monitoring.' 

    Built across ancient lava domes, some of these strange features are more than four times the length of a football pitch.

    Some of the stone walls have been dubbed 'gates' because they appear to look like gates in a field from above. 

    Dr Kennedy and colleagues used Google Maps to 'pin' some of the sites they were most interested in visiting. They then spent three days flying in a Saudi Royal Commission helicopter, from October 27 to October 29, for a total of 15 hours, taking almost 6,000 photographs of about 200 sites

    Dr Kennedy and colleagues used Google Maps to 'pin' some of the sites they were most interested in visiting. They then spent three days flying in a Saudi Royal Commission helicopter, from October 27 to October 29, for a total of 15 hours, taking almost 6,000 photographs of about 200 sites

    Some of the stone structures have been dubbed 'gates' because they appear to look like field gates from above. The rectangular shapes in this image are the gates

    Some of the stone structures have been dubbed 'gates' because they appear to look like field gates from above. The rectangular shapes in this image are the gates

    The smallest gates are 43 feet (13 metres) in length while the longest are 1,699 feet (518 metres) long. Remains of lava flows can be seen on top of some of the gates, suggesting that they are older than some of the lava flows

    The smallest gates are 43 feet (13 metres) in length while the longest are 1,699 feet (518 metres) long. Remains of lava flows can be seen on top of some of the gates, suggesting that they are older than some of the lava flows

    The strange cluster of gates (pictured) 'appear to be the oldest man-made structures in the landscape' and some are up to 1,700 feet long and built across old lava domes. Dr Kennedy has said 'no obvious explanation of their purpose can be discerned'

    The strange cluster of gates (pictured) 'appear to be the oldest man-made structures in the landscape' and some are up to 1,700 feet long and built across old lava domes. Dr Kennedy has said 'no obvious explanation of their purpose can be discerned'

    The strange cluster 'appears to be the oldest man-made structures in the landscape' and some are up to 1,700 feet long and built across old lava domes.

    The smallest gates are 43 feet (13 metres) in length while the longest are 1,699 feet (518 metres) long. 

    Experts say that thousands of years ago this area would have been much more hospitable than it is now.  

    Remains of lava flows can be seen on top of some of the gates, suggesting that they are older than some of the lava flows.

    Many of the structures have multiple stone walls that form a rectangular design whereas others - called 'I' type gates - have one stone wall with piles of stones at the ends.

    Most of them were discovered through satellite surveys and archaeological fieldwork has yet been carried out. Previous research has found thousands of stone structures that form geometric patterns in the Middle East

    Most of them were discovered through satellite surveys and archaeological fieldwork has yet been carried out. Previous research has found thousands of stone structures that form geometric patterns in the Middle East

    Experts believe that new aerial photography, combined with closer inspection on the ground, could one day lead to a breakthrough. In this image, there are gates pictured going up the side of this lava dome in the foreground

    Experts believe that new aerial photography, combined with closer inspection on the ground, could one day lead to a breakthrough. In this image, there are gates pictured going up the side of this lava dome in the foreground

    Many have multiple stone walls that form a rectangular design (pictured) whereas others - called 'I' type gates - have one stone wall with piles of stones at the ends

    Many have multiple stone walls that form a rectangular design (pictured) whereas others - called 'I' type gates - have one stone wall with piles of stones at the ends

    The structures were uncovered in the Harrat Khaybar region in Saudi Arabia in the 1920s and were referred to as the 'Works of the Old Men' by the region's Bedouin population

    The structures were uncovered in the Harrat Khaybar region in Saudi Arabia in the 1920s and were referred to as the 'Works of the Old Men' by the region's Bedouin population

    Most of them were discovered through satellite surveys and no archaeological fieldwork has yet been carried out.

    Previous research has found thousands of stone structures that form geometric patterns in the Middle East.

    These include two wheel-shaped patterns date back some 8,500 years.

    A number of the designs, found in Jordan's Azraq Oasis, appear to have an astronomical significance, built to align with the sunrise on the winter solstice, according to LiveScience

    Some types of stone structures such as 'kites', were believed to have been used to hunt animals. 

    Others, like the pendants, often lead from burial sites and may have had ritualistic significance in death rites.

    They were found on top of the gates - suggesting the gates pre-date them.

    Read more:

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    15-11-2017 om 17:16 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Raadselachtige bouwwerken in Saudi-Arabië van dichtbij vastgelegd. Gaan deze luchtfoto’s het mysterie oplossen?
    Raadselachtige bouwwerken in Saudi-Arabië van dichtbij vastgelegd. Gaan deze luchtfoto's het mysterie oplossen?

    Raadselachtige bouwwerken in Saudi-Arabië van dichtbij vastgelegd. Gaan deze luchtfoto’s het mysterie oplossen?

    Er zijn indrukwekkende beelden gemaakt van de 400 mysterieuze bouwwerken in een afgelegen woestijngebied in Saudi-Arabië.

    Vanwege beperkingen die door de autoriteiten zijn opgelegd is onderzoek sinds de jaren vijftig vrijwel onmogelijk.

    Volgens experts kunnen de raadselachtige geometrische vormen tot wel 7000 jaar oud zijn, meldt Live Science.

    Werken van de Oude Mannen

    Dankzij satellieten en Google Earth konden nieuwe beelden worden gemaakt van de bouwwerken.

    Een vooraanstaande archeoloog heeft nu speciale toestemming gekregen om over de lavavelden in de regio Harrat Khaybar te vliegen en foto’s van dichtbij te maken.

    Dr. David Kennedy van de University of Western Australia doet al bijna 20 jaar onderzoek naar de ‘Werken van de Oude Mannen’ zoals ze in de jaren twintig werden genoemd door de lokale bevolking.

    Vanuit de lucht

    Nadat zijn onderzoek in oktober het wereldnieuws haalde, gaf de Saudische overheid dr. Kennedy toestemming om de eerste luchtfoto’s van de patronen in ruim een halve eeuw te maken.

    Het is niet duidelijk waarom deze structuren zijn gebouwd. In veel gevallen zijn ze zo groot dat hun vorm alleen vanuit de lucht duidelijk te zien is.

    Experts denken dat de nieuwe luchtfoto’s en veldwerk op een dag kunnen leiden tot een doorbraak.

    Vier voetbalvelden groot

    Dr. Kennedy en zijn collega’s vlogen tussen 27 en 29 oktober in totaal 15 uur boven het gebied en maakten bijna 6000 foto’s van 200 bouwwerken.

    Sommige zijn zo klein dat ze bijna onzichtbaar zijn, terwijl andere tot wel vier voetbalvelden groot zijn.

    Jordanië

    Eerder werden al duizenden stenen bouwwerken die geometrische patronen vormen gevonden in het Midden-Oosten.

    Het ging daarbij onder meer om wielvormige patronen in Jordanië die zo’n 8500 jaar oud zijn.

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