16-11-2017 om 18:35 geschreven door peter  

DE MEEST SPECTACULAIRE UFO FOTO'S OOIT GENOMEN OP EEN BEKENDE UFO HOTSPOT

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16-11-2017 om 18:29 geschreven door peter  

We hebben net boodschap verstuurd naar mogelijk buitenaardse leven op ‘superaarde’ en over 26 jaar kunnen we al antwoord hebben - HLN.be

Koen Van De Sype 

Bron: Newsweek, Tech Insider

WETENSCHAP & PLANEET 21 juni 2043: dat is de dag dat wetenschappers van Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) aan hun ontvangers gekluisterd zullen zijn, in de hoop bericht te krijgen van een buitenaardse beschaving op GJ273b. Dat is een superaarde op 12,4 lichtjaar – 70.000.000.000.000 kilometer – van onze aarde. Exact een maand geleden verstuurden ze daartoe enkele boodschappen.

Dat gebeurde op 16, 17 en 18 oktober. De wetenschappers gebruikten radiogolven en lieten de berichten op negen verschillende momenten horen, om de kans te vergroten dat ze worden opgepikt. In totaal werd er elke dag voor 11 minuten uitgezonden.

Lees ook

Nieuwe planeet dicht bij aarde ontdekt met “mogelijk beste kans op leven ooit”

Muziekstukken

De boodschap zelf bestaat onder meer uit 18 muziekstukken van 10 seconden, voorbeelden van wiskunde en technologie én uitleg over de manier waarop we de tijd bijhouden. Aan de hand daarvan legden de wetenschappers ook uit wanneer we zouden luisteren voor een mogelijk antwoord.

Het bericht werd niet zomaar lukraak gestuurd, maar naar een nabijgelegen exoplaneet GJ273b. Die draait rond de Ster van Luyten – een rode dwerg – en wordt door astronomen ook wel omschreven als een ‘superaarde’. De massa is iets groter dan die van onze planeet en hij bevindt zich op een afstand van zijn ster die leven er mogelijk kan maken.

Controversieel

Het is de allereerste keer dat de mensheid een boodschap verstuurt die gericht is op een antwoord op een specifiek moment. Het uitsturen van boodschappen naar mogelijk buitenaards leven zodat het ons kan vinden, is overigens controversieel. Onder meer de vermaarde wetenschapper Stephen Hawking waarschuwde al voor de gevaren daarvan. “Als dergelijk buitenaards leven ons bezoekt, dan zal het er ongeveer aan toe gaan zoals toen Columbus in Amerika landde. En we weten allemaal hoe dat afliep voor de oorspronkelijke bevolking”, zei hij al. (lees hieronder verder)

Douglas Vakoch van METI relativeert. “Als er een buitenaardse beschaving bestond die in staat was om naar de aarde te reizen met het doel ons kwaad te doen, zou die al veel eerder al onze radio- en tv-signalen opgepikt hebben en naar hier gekomen zijn. Onze atmosfeer geeft overigens al 2,5 miljard jaar bewijs af van leven door de zuurstof in de lucht.”

SETI

METI is de tegenhanger van SETI – Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – dat ook vindt dat we actief moeten zoeken naar buitenaards leven, maar dan door te proberen boodschappen van anderen op te vangen in plaats van ze zelf te versturen. Voor het project werkte METi samen met het Instituut voor Ruimtestudies van Catalonië (IEEC) en het Spaanse muziekfestival Sónar.

“Hopelijk krijgen we antwoord”, aldus Vakoch. “Maar de kans bestaat dat we het experiment nog een aantal keer zullen moeten herhalen in de richting van andere planeten voor we geluk hebben. Ik zie het eerder op langere termijn. We moeten daarbij een systeem ontwikkelen waarmee we niet één maar vele tientallen, duizenden of zelfs miljoenen planeten tegelijk proberen te bereiken. Alleen zo kunnen we onze kansen vergroten om ooit een respons te ontvangen.” 

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

After all of the recent predictions of a collision between Planet X/Nibiru and Earth have come and gone, a little announcement from a credible source sneaks in with actual sightings of a real exoplanet that’s not only near to Earth but may support life and it and its star may be on a collision course with Earth and the Sun. Should we celebrate, panic or both?

The announcement comes from the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics which published a report from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) whose scientists used ten years of data from the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) in Chile on Ross 128, a small red dwarf in the constellation Virgo (named for American astronomer Frank Elmore Ross) that’s a mere 10.89 light years from our solar system. That data showed a wobble in Ross 128 indicating that something is speedily orbiting it every 10 days. That something is an exoplanet with some special characteristics.

“The new world has the designation Ross 128 b and is now the second-closest temperate planet to be detected after Proxima b. It is also the closest planet to be discovered orbiting an inactive red dwarf star, which may increase the likelihood that this planet could potentially sustain life.”

The High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher

(HARPS)

Ross 128 b is about the same size as Earth and, despite being 20 times closer to its star, has an Earth-ish surface temperature raging between –60°C and 20°C (–78°F and 68°F). Couple that with the fact that its dim red sun can’t fry it with radiation either and Roth 128 b becomes a better candidate for life than Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri. ESO astronomers will know more in 2025 when they’re able to look for oxygen biomarkers using the new Extremely Large Telescope.

2025? What about the collision? Will we still exist by then?

“Although it is currently 11 light-years from Earth, Ross 128 is moving towards us and is expected to become our nearest stellar neighbour in just 79 000 years — a blink of the eye in cosmic terms. Ross 128 b will by then take the crown from Proxima b and become the closest exoplanet to Earth!”

That’s disappointing news to Planet X fans but hugely exciting for astronomers, since 79,000 years is a blink of an eye for them, especially when you consider this is the time it will take for Ross 128 and Ross 128 b to travel seven light years – from 11 light years to less than Proxima b’s 4.2 light years away.

So Ross 128 b is not Planet X, but it does prove that a star and its planet(s) could be moving quite fast through the galaxy … giving a tiny bit of credence to the theory that Planet X is orbiting the Sun’s binary sibling and they’re on a fast path to collision. Then again, if astronomers can see Ross 128 and Ross 128 b at 11 billion light years away, shouldn’t they already be able to see Planet X and its star?

Anyone?

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16-11-2017 om 17:06 geschreven door peter  

The subject of UFO research is filled with cases that positively reek of high strangeness. And they don’t get much stranger than a very weird incident which occurred in August 1955, in the vicinity of Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Depending on whose version of events you accept as the truth, either aliens landed or a band of marauding circus monkeys – painted silver, no less – were on the loose! Kelly was, and still is, a small, rural town which is situated just short of ten miles from Hopkinsville. It was the night of August 15 when absolute chaos broke out. It all went down at the farmhouse of the Sutton family, who had visitors in from Pennsylvania: Billy Ray Taylor and his wife. Around 7.00 p.m. Billy Ray left the farmhouse to fetch water from the family’s well. And what a big mistake that was.

In mere minutes, Billy Ray was back, minus the water. Terrified Billy Ray told the Suttons and his wife that as he headed towards the well he saw a significantly sized, illuminated, circular-shaped object come to rest in a nearby gully. As the group tried to figure out what on earth (or off it…) was going on, they mused upon the possibilities of shooting stars, meteorites, and good old leg-pulling. By all accounts, it was none of those. In just a few minutes, the Sutton’s dog began to bark, growl, and snarl in aggressive, uncontrollable fashion – after which it raced for cover underneath the porch. Clearly, something strange was going down. Exactly how strange, soon became very apparent.

Intent on making sure they were in control of the situation, Elmer Sutton and Billy Ray Taylor armed themselves with a shotgun and headed out into the darkness. In no time, they were confronted by something terrifying: a small, silvery, creature – in the region of three feet tall – that was scurrying towards them with its long, ape-like, arms held high in the air. Sutton did what most folk might do when confronted by a strange, dwarfish thing after sunset: he blasted the beast with his shotgun. To the consternation of both men, the gun had no effect, aside from causing the creature to do a quick, impressive back-flip, after which it disappeared into the darkness – for a while.

Rather wisely, Elmer and Billy Ray raced for the safety of the farmhouse and locked the doors behind them. In mere moments, the same creature – or, at least, a very similar one – was seen peering through one of the windows. Elmer’s son, J.C., took a shot at it. The only damage was to the window. The small beast scurried away at lightning speed. Elmer Sutton and Billy Ray took a tentative walk outside to see if they could see the creature – or creatures. That was a very bad move: as they prowled around the property, a clawed hand came down from the roof and seized Billy Ray’s hair and head.

Terrified Billy Ray pulled away, screaming, to see the creature charge across the roof. To their horror, a second creature was staring at them from the branch of a nearby tree. A second shoot-out achieved nothing, aside from the remarkably weird sight of the creatures floating – rather than leaping or falling – to the ground and then racing into the darkness. The tumultuous events continued throughout the night, with guns firing, and the creepy little beasts seemingly doing their very best to create as much havoc and mayhem as was conceivably possible.

Realizing that the situation might very well go on all night, the group decided there was only one option available to them: they had to flee the farmhouse, which they did in two cars, making their speedy way to the sheriff’s office in nearby Hopkinsville. The sheer, collective state of fear into which the Suttons and the Taylors had been plunged, pretty much immediately convinced the sheriff that whatever had happened, it was no drunken prank.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on one’s perspective), by the time the sheriff and the family arrived back at the farmhouse, the creatures were gone – they did, however, put in a reappearance in the early hours, and conveniently after the police had left. In no time at all, the media got onto the story, as did the U.S. Air Force – the latter coming up with a very bizarre explanation as its staff sought to lay matters to rest.

Before we get to the matter of that explanation, it’s important to have a full understanding of the physical appearance of the creatures, drawn from the memories and recollections of the players: the Suttons and the Taylors. All of the strange entities were near-identical: long arms, skinny legs, large ears, and yellow eyes. As for their gait, they moved in a strange, pivoting fashion. And, there was the fact that they were all silver in color. Cue the Air Force’s best estimate of what really happened.

With absolutely nothing solid – at all – to back up its claims, the Air Force suggested the culprits were monkeys, painted silver, and which had escaped from a traveling circus! As cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard notes, it’s “a theory more ridiculous than the notion of invading aliens.” Nevertheless, the Air Force stuck to its guns, with Major John E. Albert being the major proponent of the circus escapee/painted monkeys theory.

Ufologists did not just accept this theory without question. One of the most respected of all UFO researchers was Dr. J. Allen Hynek. He said (in The Hynek UFO Report), of his investigation of the Air Force’s claim: “I did make an attempt to find out whether there had been any traveling circuses in the area from which some monkeys could have escaped. The monkey hypothesis fails, however, if the basic testimony of the witnesses can be accepted. Under a barrage of gunfire from Kentuckians, over a somewhat extended period, it is unthinkable that at least one cadaver would not have been found. Furthermore, monkeys do not float down from trees: they either jump or fall. And, anyway, I was unable to find any trace of a traveling circus!”

The 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville saga remains unresolved to this day. The fact that the incident began with the sighting of what may well have been a UFO, has led flying saucer sleuths to conclude a mini-alien invasion briefly broke out in rural Kentucky. On the other hand, is it possible that the Air Force was, at least, partly on the right track? Could the creatures have been monkeys, after all? They are questions that, decades later, still endure.

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16-11-2017 om 16:56 geschreven door peter  

Fireballs in the sky over the US and Europe all captured on November 14, 2017

Several meteors lit the sky over the United States and Europe on Tuesday night.

Fireballs were captured over Phoenix, over Southern Ohio and later in the night two meteors crossed over France and the other over Germany which was seen as far away as Italy and Switserland.

Although it seems that these fireballs were at least somewhat related with the Tuarids and with the comet Encke, the fireballs that occurred in Arizona and France are not related to the Tuarids due to their origin and direction, the fireballs over Ohio and Germany were probably Tuarids.

Below videos show the fireball that flew across the Phoenix sky and captured by the Phoenix city Cam and the fireball over Southern Ohio uploaded by J. Verrico on the American Meteor Society Website.

The American Meteor Society has noted before that there has been a dramatic increase in fireball /meteor activity since the last two years.

  

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16-11-2017 om 16:47 geschreven door peter  

UFO Secrets

Coast To Coast AM – November 10, 2017 UFO Secrets & Open Lines with Jimmy Church

Author Peter Levenda joined Jimmy Church (Fade To Black) to discuss his collaboration with Tom DeLonge, and his work speaking with officials who hold secrets to some of the most intriguing questions about UFOs and our universe. Open Lines followed in the latter half of program.

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16-11-2017 om 16:42 geschreven door peter  

'We can only say that it was not an aircraft': Mysterious 'fireball' spotted in the sky in Germany leaves citizens worried and police clueless

• German citizens left concerned after 'fireball' spotted in the sky
• The flash of light was spotted as far away as Switzerland and Italy
• Local police say they cannot explain the origins of the UFO 

By Karen Gilchrist For Mailonline

A mysterious 'fireball' has been spotted speeding through the sky above Germany.

The UFO was seen as far away as Italy and Switzerland and has prompted German police to speculate that it was a 'celestial body'. 

A video shows the glowing object flying across the town of Hochen in the west of Germany.

It is seen initially as a small white light before growing larger and changing to a blue-green glow.

The light then appears to decrease and fade to a white as it drops and once again is obscured.  

A police spokesman told German newspaper Stuttgarter-Zeitung that they received a number of calls about the fireball.

The video shows a moving light, seen on the far right. Initially the 'fireball' is small and white

However, they could not explain its origins.

German air traffic control spokesman Christian Hoppe added: 'We can only say that it was not an aircraft.' 

The majority of the UFO sightings came from the German states of Saarland, Baden-Wuerttemberg and the southern part of Hesse, but it was also spotted in Switzerland and on the other side of the Alps at Italy's Lake Garda.

As the light moves across the sky, it changes colour to a blue-green and grows in size and brightness

Eventually the glow of the light begins to fade out as it returns to a white colour and drops through the sky

The sighting comes at the height of the Leonid meteor shower, which peaks in mid-November. 

If the object was a meteor, it is unclear whether it crashed somewhere or burned out in the sky.

The police said they had received no reports of damage.

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16-11-2017 om 01:24 geschreven door peter  

Do YOU live in an alien hotspot? Interactive UFO sighting map of America revealed

• The map uses data from Kaggle UFO Sightings to compile reports dating back to 1995 all around the US
• It shows that areas such as the New York metropolitan area have a high conentration of sightings
• It also shows UFO sightings tend to occur in the summer months, with nighttime in July being popular 

By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com

‘A stable bright light, larger than anything practical shined into my room on the second floor, not making any noise; it disappeared.’

It’s one of nearly 60,000 unsettling stories revealed in a new map of the contiguous United States, compiling UFO sightings from every state, dating back to 1995.

While these mysterious encounters may largely have slipped out of the public eye after the Cold War-era UFO craze died down, the map shows reports have steadily grown in the last two decades, hitting a mid-summer peak each year.

Scroll down to try the interactive map

The map shows these reports are concentrated in major cities and dense population hubs, making places like New York and the surrounding metropolitan area hotspots for UFO sightings, along with southern and central California. The Great Lakes region also had a high concentration of UFO sightings

The new map of reported UFO sightings in the US was created by Data Solutions Engineer Adam Crahen of the Data Duo, using data from Kaggle UFO sightings.

There's little doubt that the internet has played a role in the growth of UFO reports in recent years, though most can be explained by natural or human-caused phenomena.

The image of UFOs in America is often associated with sparsely populated rural settings; a mysterious object hovering over a field of crops, or crashing in a remote expanse of desert land, likely fueled by the famous 1947 Roswell crash in New Mexico.

But, the map shows these reports are actually concentrated in major cities and dense population hubs, making places such as New York and the surrounding metropolitan area hotspots for UFO sightings, along with southern and central California.

The map was created by Data Solutions Engineer Adam Crahen of the Data Duo , using data from Kaggle UFO sightings. Click each green circle to see the details of the report, including a description of the sighting and the shape of the UFO

One account, from Fresno, claims: ‘Brilliant flashing light giving off a star affect traveling at an incredible rate of speed, from north to south.’ 

Another report, from September 2, 1995, says: ‘Two males leaving a concert in Central Park witness strange moving light close to E. horizon. Moved very precisely, turned, vanished.’

The Great Lakes region also had a high concentration of UFO sightings.

In one report from Ohio, a worker even claimed he could not account for half an hour of his night after a bizarre encounter.

The map also organizes the sightings by month, year, and day, showing when the reports were most frequent.

Most sightings appear to occur in the summer months, with night-time in July being the most popular.

But, these unusual reports have occurred all over the country, and at all different times of the year.

The image of UFOs in America is often associated with sparsely populated rural settings. But the map shows they often occur in major cities.

Stock image 

‘I saw a large fireball pass over my house at about 1000 feet – no noise, traveling about 15 mph’,’ one person, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, claimed on December 25.

Another, from Tillamook Oregon, said they saw ‘One mother ship with four smaller destinct [sic] satellite objects moving randomly,’ on January 18, 2009.

There are countless practical explanations for strange lights appearing in the sky or even in photos captured in space.

Weather is often to blame, or phenomena such as meteor showers and aircraft tests.

And, often, it’s just a trick of the light.

Of bizarre UFO sightings spotted around the International Space Station, for example, a NASA spokesperson explained in the past, 'Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artifacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.' 

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16-11-2017 om 00:57 geschreven door peter  

UFO Spotted? Burst of Light Flashes Across Phoenix Sky (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

A streak of light that lit up the Phoenix night sky was caught on camera around 8:30 p.m. local time Tuesday night, and observers quickly took to Twitter to speculate about aliens or as for “rational” explanations.

The strange bright bursts showed up a few days before the mid-November Leonid meteor shower is expected to take place, suggesting that the fireball is more likely to be a meteor than an alien spacecraft or military test vehicle.

The fireball was seen across the American Southwest. "The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 85 reports so far about this event that occurred over Arizona. We didn't receive reports only from Arizona but also from California, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. This event has been caught on at least two dash cams shared via the AMS Fireball report," the organization wrote on their website.

General W.R. Monger @connorfog

If there is a ufo sighting or meteorite crash landing in North Phoenix I'm calling it I'm not a crazy person yet I saw it don't let them take me alive I know how to survive.

4:33 AM - Nov 15, 2017

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"The Leonid meteor shower is active in November, and is expected to peak later this week. It's not clear whether this flash was related to that meteor shower," Arizona 12 news reported.

Ilse Martinez @Labrujaxbonita

It's not a meteor, it's a UFO. Arizona is no stranger to alien and other worldly activity. https://twitter.com/LRonanC/status/930647447046467584 …

7:27 AM - Nov 15, 2017

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The Leonids are named as such because they radiate constellation Leo, the Lion. Some of the most stunning meteor showers ever witnessed have been Leonids.

Tim Sylvester @tsylvestermusic

Saw what definitely looked like a plane crash 3 hrs ago in Phoenix. Not the only one who saw it, but can't find anything online outside of crazy UFO sightings. Rational explanations please reply. #PlaneCrash

7:55 AM - Nov 15, 2017 · Tempe, AZ

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According to NASA, you are most likely to see the meteors if you "orient yourself with your feet towards east, lie flat on your back, and look up, taking in as much of the sky as possible."

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16-11-2017 om 00:35 geschreven door peter  

‘It’s no aircraft’: UFO over western Germany baffles Twitter (VIDEO)

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IMO Meteor Org. @IMOmeteors

Huge fireball over Western Germany observed tonight (Nov 14, ~16h50 UT) from Germany, Eastern France, Italy and Switzerland. More than 200 reports received in 3 hours! If you observed, recorded, or photographed it, please report! Thanks in advance!http://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2017/4299?org=imo …

9:45 PM - Nov 14, 2017

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The International Meteor Organization (IMO) received around 1,450 reports of sightings of the unidentified flying object from the public, with the most vivid coming over the German provinces of Bayern and Baden-Württemberg and the French region of Grand Est. Those who spotted the fireball from the ground posted pictures to social media using the hashtag #Sternschnuppe, meaning “shooting star.”

An analysis of the object by former IMO president Dr Jürgen Rendtel of the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam linked the event to the forthcoming Taurid Meteor Shower, which occurs every three years. The shower brings remnants of the comets Concke and 2004 TG10 into the Earth’s atmosphere, where they can burn up in bright streaks.

A spokesman for German air traffic control told Stuttgarter-Zeitung: “We can only say that it was not an aircraft.”

READ MORE: Fly by night: Fireball streaks across Phoenix sky (VIDEO)

Other fireballs have been spotted over Bordeaux in France and the US state of Arizona but they have been ruled as unrelated to the Taurid event due to their steep trajectory. Video of the Arizona event has, too, been posted online.

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16-11-2017 om 00:18 geschreven door peter  

Dramatic 'fireball' in the sky prompts anxious Germans to call POLICE during mysterious UFO alert

A crashing Chinese space station, a meteor or an alien spacecraft were among the possibilities put forward

By Dave Burke

A dramatic 'fireball' seen speeding through the sky above Germany has sparked alarm.

The UFO was seen by worried citizens as far away as Italy and Switzerland, prompting German police to speculate that it was a 'celestial body'.

Mysterious video shows the bright object speeding above the town of Hoechen, sparking questions about what it shows.

It seems to get brighter and gives out blue and green light before fading into the distance.

A police spokesman told Stuttgarter-Zeitung that the force received a number of calls about the fireball, but said: "We could not tell you what the bright light was."

And German air traffic control spokesman Christian Hoppe told the newspaper: "We can only say that it was not an aircraft."

Anxious witnesses took to Twitter to share their theories on what they had seen.

A crashing Chinese space station, a meteor or an alien spacecraft were among the possibilities put forward.

Most sightings of the UFO came from the German states of Saarland, Baden-Wuerttemberg and the southern part of Hesse, although it was also spotted in Switzerland  and even the other side of the Alps at Italy's Lake Garda.

The latest sighting comes at the height of the Leonid meteor shower, which peaks in mid-November.

The Leonids get their name from the location in the constellation of Leo from which they seem to appear.

If the object was indeed a meteor, it is not known if it crashed somewhere or burned out completely in the sky.

Police say there were no reports of any damage from a meteorite impact.

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15-11-2017 om 23:50 geschreven door peter  

Qu’est ce que le TR3B ?

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

UFO sightings visualization competition held by data crunchers

Posted by: Alejandro Rojas

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.

{http://www.openminds.tv/ }

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

New documentary takes look at Mothman legend

By DAVE LAVENDER

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

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

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

By Samhati Bhattacharjya

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

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Photo of UFO over Columbia sets social media abuzz

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Making a Moon Base With 'Artemis' Author Andy Weir

In Andy Weir's "Artemis" (Crown, 2017), the lead character is drawn into a crime caper on a lunar city. Weir is known for "The Martian" (Crown, 2014) which described in realistic detail how someone would survive being stranded on Mars. In "Artemis," Weir brings a similar realism to the moon as the ultimate tourist destination.

"Artemis" was released today (Nov. 14) as a novel and audiobook featuring Rosario Dawson.

Space.com talked with Weir about the world of "Artemis"; creating its lead character, Jazz; and how "the moon is basically made of moon bases, with some assembly required." [How Moon Bases and Lunar Colonies Work (Infographic)]

Space.com: Can you talk about how the idea for "Artemis" first developed?

Andy Weir: I wanted to design a city on the moon. I wanted to come up with a city on the moon and a reason for there to be a city on the moon. I came up with the city and how it was built and what its economic foundation was and everything long before I came up with the story or characters to take place in it. I guess that's kind of — world-building and making settings is fun. The actual writing part is no fun. That's kind of where the original idea came from.

Space.com: What kinds of stories did you try to set in that city before you finally settled on one?

Weir: I went through a few revisions. "Artemis," as it is right now, was kind of my third attempt at a story, and that's the one that stuck. The first two revisions just weren't very good. I may steal elements of them someday, so I'm not really telling people what they are. But in the first revision, Jazz — who is the main character in "Artemis" — Jazz was a very minor, tertiary character. I just needed a comedy smuggler type, and so I invented her for that. And I didn't like the plot that had developed, and in the next revision of story, Jazz was much more prominent, but still not the main character, and then I realized, well, the fun part here is Jazz anyway, so why not write a story about her? So that's how I landed on the current plot.

Space.com: What drew you to writing about Jazz in particular?

Weir: In every version and as it went forward, she was the one who got all the funny lines. She's the smart-ass. Shes kind of the lovable rogue archetype. I really like that type of character, and so I had fun writing her.

Space.com: How did you come up with the technology that made a moon base possible?

Weir: The cool thing is, everything in "Artemis" is actually technology that already exists. Really, it was more research than developing technology, although trying to figure out the most efficient way to build a city on the moon was kind of cool. Like, how do you build a city on the moon when you want to absolutely minimize the amount of mass you send to the moon. Well, cities are big, and they weigh a lot, so you're going to want to make the city with materials that are present, not ship it over in its entirety. That's why they would smelt the anorthite [the material the lunar highlands are made of] into aluminum, and that also gives you oxygen.

It's really cool, actually — the moon is basically made of moon bases, with some assembly required. In the lunar highlands, which is the part of the moon that is not smooth — if you look at the moon, you see the smooth parts and the bumpy bits. The lunar highlands are the bumpy bits — 85 percent of the rocks just lying around on the ground are anorthite, which is a mineral, and you can smelt that into aluminum, oxygen, silicon and calcium. That gives you aluminum to make your moon city out of and oxygen to fill it. And by the way, if you want glass or windows, it also gives you silicon, and there's a bunch of oxygen still. Silicon and oxygen makes glass, and — yeah. It's really cool. It's like it's just there, just waiting for us. If we could just get there.

And so, the conceit of the story is that the commercial space industry has driven the price of low-Earth orbit down to the point that middle class people can afford to go to space. And Artemis' economy is based on tourism. For me, one thing is when I'm reading a book I get hung up on the economy of fictional environments. I'm like, wait a minute, why does this city exist? Why would people live there? Why wouldn't they go somewhere else? Stuff like that. For a lunar city, the thing I came up with was tourism. If middle class people can afford to go to the moon, even if they had to get a second mortgage to afford it, I think a lot of people would.

Space.com: And you calculated exactly how much it would cost, given those conditions, to transport objects and people to the moon, and therefore developed what the society there would be like.

Weir: I came up with this whole economic thing — I actually wrote a paper on it, and we're going to try to get that out there via an outlet later. 

I don't describe any of that in the book; that's what I came up with in advance. What we learned from "The Phantom Menace" — don't start a science fiction story with a description of supply-side economics. But it's important to me that that work out.

Space.com: Would you rather live on the moon or Mars, assuming both of them had equivalent infrastructure?

Weir: I'd rather live on Earth, all things considered. I write about brave people. I'm not one of them. If I had to choose between the moon or Mars, I would choose the moon, even if they had the same infrastructure, if they both had cities and stuff. Just on the grounds that the moon is still safer, because if things go really, really bad, you can leave and go to Earth. On Mars, if things go bad, you're on your own.

To put it in perspective of how much further away Mars is than the moon, imagine you're on a football field, and you're at one goal line and Mars is at the other goal line. The moon would be about 4 inches [10 centimeters] in front of you. [Dazzling 'Museum of the Moon' Exhibit Celebrates 'Artemis' in NYC]

Space.com: How was the experience of writing a different lead character and voice than "The Martian"?

Weir: Well, I still got to use the first person, smart-ass narrative style, so it wasn't that big a change. I guess the real change was — first off, I did my best at writing a female lead, but in the end, I'm not a woman, so I'm sure there's lots of places where she ends up sounding like a guy. I ran it by as many women as I could, in my inner circle, people I can trust with a manuscript before it releases, and got feedback from all the women, and gave it my best shot.

And also, Jazz is a much more nuanced and flawed character than Mark Watney. Mark Watney — you can't help but like him, he's just this guy that's in a terrible situation that's not really his fault, whereas Jazz's problems are mostly self-inflicted. She's made a lot of bad decisions, and makes additional bad decisions during the book. The way I like to say it is, Mark Watney is based on the idealized version of me. He's everything I wish I were. He has the qualities of myself that I like and none of my many flaws, and he doesn't have any of my neuroses. Jazz is a little bit more like the real me. Flawed, has bad decisions in her past, makes mistakes. Smart, but doesn't always apply that correctly. Jazz is actually a lot more like the real me, so it's always kind of sad when I read a review that says, "Oh, I didn't like Jazz much." I'm like, "Awww."

Space.com: I also wanted to talk about those crazy "hamster balls" visitors can use to tour the Apollo 11 landing site.

Weir: It'd be fun, wouldn't it?

Space.com: How did you think of those?

Weir: I was trying to think about, how could you have a completely untrained person do an EVA [extravehicular activity, or spacewalk]. And then I came up with the hamster ball idea and said on your backpack is a thing that manages the air inside the ball. And there's a little bit of fictionalization in there in that I'm not sure what that ball is made of, but it can hold in a fifth of an atmosphere, and it's clear, and it's flexible. 

But you've got to get into it and seal it somehow. It just seems like that would be an awesome thing, because you have the freedom of movement. Basically, I don't think that an untrained person, like a tourist or something, could handle being in an EVA suit. First off, it's really clunky, and it takes astronauts months and months of training to learn how to move at all in them, and it's like, you can't scratch your face. It's really inconvenient. But here, they'd have the freedom of motion of their own human body, and then they can do whatever they like in the ball. [Evolution of the Spacesuit in Pictures (Space Tech Gallery)]

Space.com: Assuming you were already on the moon, would you go out in one of those?

Weir: Yeah … I guess if I was already there. I'd be like, eh, you know…

Space.com: How does world-building and plot fit together when you're writing something like "Artemis"?

Weir: I started with the world-building and said, "OK, this is the world it takes place in, and I'm not really willing to change the world to save the plot, except for if I can come up with something incredibly awesome. For the most part, I'm just like, well, here's the problem, and here's what they're doing, and here's the setting. Now what?

Ultimately, [the city] Artemis … lends itself to all this interesting stuff, [and that's] actually not because it's on the moon, but because it's so far away from everything else. You could have similar plots just take place on an isolated island in the Pacific or something like that, where basically help is too far away, and there's really no infrastructure in place for strong authorities.

I think that's one of the main reasons Artemis ends up with these avenues of excitement. Human civilization is all about getting rid of those. OK, in order to prevent our entire city from being destroyed, we're going to make fire departments, police departments — so we do. But frontier towns don't have that luxury, so that's where the interesting stuff happens.

This interview was edited for length. You can buy "Artemis" and its audiobookon Amazon.com.

Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com. 

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