Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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16-11-2017
Mystery of Pluto's Super-Cold Weather Solved
Mystery of Pluto's Super-Cold Weather Solved
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Layers of haze above Pluto, as seen by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
The more we learn about Pluto, the more interesting the little world becomes.
Hydrocarbon particles in Pluto's atmosphere are responsible for the dwarf planet's surprisingly low temperatures, a new study suggests.
Pluto is therefore the only planetary body known whose temperatures are driven more by haze particles than by gas molecules, study team members said. [Amazing Photos of Pluto and Its Moons]
"This is kind of a new regime of the climate of planets," lead author Xi Zhang, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, told Space.com. "We never saw this before."
Colder than expected
Modeling work based on Pluto's atmospheric composition had predicted that temperatures there would hover around minus 280 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 173 degrees Celsius). So it was a head-scratcher when, during the probe's epic flyby of Pluto in July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft measured temperatures that were about 53 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) lower than that.
New Horizons also spotted multiple layers of haze extending high above the dwarf planet, which scientists hadn't known about before. This stuff is likely created by chemical reactions in Pluto's upper atmosphere, where ultraviolet radiation from the sun interacts with nitrogen and methane to form small hydrocarbon particles, mission team members have said.
Similar reactions are thought to occur high up in the atmosphere of Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, which sports haze so thick that it obscures views of the surface.
Pluto's haze is key to keeping the dwarf planet supercool, Zhang and his colleagues said. They performed some modeling work of their own, using data New Horizons gathered about the distribution of gas molecules and haze particles.
The team found that Pluto's haze absorbs solar energy efficiently, but also emits a great deal of that energy back out into space in the form of infrared radiation (heat). The study's modeling results match up quite well with Pluto's observed temperature profile, Zhang said.
"The atmosphere is composed of gas, of course," he said. "But gas temperature is not controlled by the gases themselves — it's actually controlled by the haze particles."
This is true up to an altitude of about 435 miles (700 kilometers), beyond which the dominant process is plain old heat conduction, the researchers wrote in the new study, which was published online today (Nov. 15) in the journal Nature.
The new results are exciting, but they don't represent the last word on the subject, according to Robert West, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
"The case is not yet closed on our understanding of Pluto’s atmospheric temperature," West, who was not a member of the study team, wrote in an accompanying "News and Views" commentary in the same issue of Nature.
"For instance, there are no observational constraints on the composition of Pluto’s haze, which means that the authors’ calculated heating and cooling rates are highly uncertain," West added. "Without constraints, modellers are free to consider many possible haze compositions that have a wide range of optical constants — quantities that characterize the optical properties of a material."
Such questions could be settled soon. If Pluto's hazes are indeed radiating lots of heat out into space, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which is due to launch in 2019, should be able to detect it, Zhang said.
Is Pluto special?
Pluto is likely so haze-driven in large part because it's so cold: Gases at such temperatures are mostly condensed and therefore cannot contribute much to the cooling process, Zhang said.
It's too early to say whether Pluto is unique in this respect, or if other objects are similarly haze-dominated, he added.
"We're actually investigating that," Zhang said. "We think maybe on some other planetary bodies, in part of the atmosphere, the haze could dominate as well. But people just didn’t think about it in this way before."
HEAT SHIELD Layers of haze in Pluto’s atmosphere, shown here in an image from the New Horizons spacecraft, could radiate heat away from the dwarf planet and cool it down.
SWRI/JHUAPL/NASA
Blame Pluto’s haze for the dwarf planet’s unexpected chilliness. Clusters of hydrocarbons in the atmosphere radiate heat back into space, keeping the dwarf planet cool, a new study suggests. Pluto may be the only world in the solar system whose atmospheric temperature is controlled by solid particles, rather than gas, researchers report in the Nov. 16 Nature.
Most planets’ temperatures are set by the gas content of their atmospheres, since certain gases trap heat from the sun more efficiently than others (SN Online: 6/8/15). Based on the nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide in Pluto’s atmosphere, scientists predicted the dwarf planet’s upper atmosphere would be a brisk –173° Celsius.
But when the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, the probe found temperatures closer to –203° — with no obvious explanation.
The spacecraft found another surprising feature: Pluto’s atmosphere is separated into about 20 distinct haze layers. Solid hydrocarbon particles tens of nanometers wide clump together in the atmosphere to form the haze before eventually settling onto Pluto’s surface (SN: 4/15/17, p. 14).
This haze could be what’s keeping the atmosphere cool, Xi Zhang of the University of California, Santa Cruz and his colleagues say. The team calculated that those hydrocarbon clumps could absorb heat from the sun as well as from gases in the atmosphere and radiate it back into space. Ultimately, the haze would cool the atmosphere instead of warming it.
That makes Pluto unique in the solar system, the researchers say. Other hazy worlds, like Saturn’s moon Titan, still have temperatures that are mostly determined by gas.
“On Pluto, almost the whole game is haze,” says planetary scientist Robert West of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who wrote a commentary on the new work, also published in the Nov. 16 Nature. “That was a real surprise.”
West thinks Zhang and colleagues’ argument “sounds convincing.” But he’s reserving judgement until the James Webb Space Telescope, due to launch in 2019, can see if Pluto glows brighter than expected in infrared wavelengths, a sign that the planet is wrapped in a radiating haze. “That will make it a closed case.”
A ‘Second Earth’ found 11 light years away could be our best bet for Alien life
A ‘Second Earth’ found 11 light years away could be our best bet for Alien life
Could this be our galaxy’s best bet for extraterrestrial life? Astronomers have recently spotted an alien world the same size and temperature as our own, a mere ’11 light years away’ and claim it may be the ‘closest known home for alien life’.
Astronomers from the University of Grenoble in France have discovered an alien world named Ross 128b, orbiting a red dwarf star, some 11 light years away. According to experts, this not-so-distant planet may be our best bet yet, for finding alien life.
The recently discovered planet is believed to be the same size as Earth, and also an eerily similar surface temperature. Scientists believe this planet may the ‘the closest known comfortable abode for possible life,’ according to a new study.
Despite the fact that it would take us nearly 141,000 years to travel to the planet using our current spaceships, the planet is located relatively close in cosmic terms, only 11 light years away, which makes it the second closest Earth-like planet in our close proximity.
The red dwarf star Ross 128 sits in the constellation Virgo, the virgin. Image Credit: Sky Survey 2.
Experts have said that despite the fact that its located 11 light years away from us, the planet is actually moving towards us and is expected to become our closest cosmic neighbor in around 79,000 years.
The planet was spotted by astronomers collaborating with the European Southern Observatory’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument, located at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.
Astronomers report that the low-mass exoplanet orbits its star, a weak red dwarf every 9.9 days.
The planet which has already been dubbed as ‘the second Earth’ is believed to be temperate and have a surface temperature very close to Earth.
Ross128 is considered the quietest nearby star to host such a planet.
This discovery is based on more than a decade of HARPS intensive monitoring together with state-of-the-art data reduction and analysis techniques. Only HARPS has demonstrated such a precision and it remains the best planet hunter of its kind, 15 years after it began operations,’ said Study co-author Dr. Nicola Astudillo-Defru, of the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
Lead author Dr. Xavier Bonfils, of Université Grenoble in France, said in an interview with National Geographic: “There wasn’t a ‘eureka’ moment here where we were able to suddenly say, wow, we have a planet. We accumulated data over many years, and only gradually the signal built up and became significant.”
The discovery of Ross128 raises hopes that mankind will soon discover whether or not we are alone in the universe.
The discovery of Ross128 comes after NASA researchers have claimed that mankind will most likely find alien life within the next 20 years.
In a recently published video—How to Find a Living Planet—NASA explains that the discovery of water on distant alien worlds may be a key to finding alien life.
The Space Agency explains in the video that: “No matter where we look, whether it’s a desert or Antarctica or the deepest parts of the ocean or the deepest parts of Earth’s crust that we’ve explored, as long as there’s a tiny speck of liquid water, there’s life.
Interestingly, astronomers are now working to find out whether or not Rss128b is located within its stars habitable zone. The habitable zone of a star is a region in space within which a planetary surface can support liquid water given sufficient atmospheric pressure.
Plutonian landscapes in twilight, under a hazy sky.
Credit: NASA/JHU APL/SwR.
Orbiting the sun over 40 times farther away than the Earth, it’s no wonder that Pluto is so incredibly cold. But when New Horizon made its historic flyby of the dwarf planet, NASA scientists were dumbfounded to find Pluto was even colder than expected — about 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) colder. A new hypothesis suggests that a haze of solid hydrocarbons might be regulating Pluto’s temperature. If this hypothesis is confirmed, it would signify a new regime of planetary climate; something that’s never been witnessed before.
Pluto might not be a planet but at least it’s still cool
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, led by planetary scientist Xi Zhang, believe they’ve found the culprit for Pluto’s anonymously cold atmosphere. The New Horizons spacecraft revealed that the dwarf planet is surrounded by 20 or so layers of haze arranged like the skin of an onion. The haze is made of soot-like solid particles.
Scientists had known for decades that Pluto has an atmosphere and that it might be hazy, but it wasn’t until recently that they began to comprehend this stunningly complex atmospheric mechanism.
Zhang and colleagues devised a mathematical model that investigated whether or not the nanoparticles could be influencing Pluto’s atmospheric temperature. Indeed they can, the model suggested, whose results were almost a perfect match with New Horizon’s empirical observations.
The particles are no bigger than 150 nanometers in diameter and are thought to consist of hydrogen cyanide, acetylene, and other organic compounds, similar to the ones found around Saturn’s moon Titan. These particles might have a significant cooling effect on Pluto by absorbing infrared radiation, thereby reducing atmospheric temperature.
“Basically, we needed a strong coolant to explain why Pluto is so cold,” Zhang toldNew Scientist. “We found that the abundant haze particles can strongly cool the atmosphere by re-emitting infrared radiation to space, a process not considered in previous theories.”
“In the infrared range of radiation, a slightly larger amount of energy is radiated back to space by the haze particles, cooling the atmosphere overall,” he added.
From six billion miles away, Earth-based detectors aren’t sensitive enough to identify Pluto’s near-infrared radiation, which could be one of the reasons why the haze wasn’t discovered sooner. Fortunately, the James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in 2019, will be equipped with the proper tools to investigate Pluto’s infrared radiation.
If the researchers’ hypothesis holds water, this would make Pluto the only solar system planetary body whose temperature isn’t principally controlled by gases.
A gorgeous new animation published by NASA depicts sea salt, dust, and smoke movements in the atmosphere during this year’s hurricane season.
Because air is so hard to see, NASA uses aerosol particles to track movements in the atmosphere. By combining raw satellite data with mathematical models of atmospheric phenomena, NASA researchers can see how smoke, dust, and sea salt are transported across the globe — allowing the agency a glimpse into weather patterns that would otherwise remain hidden to our view.
For example, tracking how sea salt (blue-white) evaporates from oceans will showcase the evolution of all of 2017’s hurricanes. The animation also captures the massive wildfires in the Pacific Northwest on the smoke layer of the simulation (gray). Particles released in these fires made it all the way from Oregon to Washington, though the south, eventually reaching the UK (in early September).
Dust (brown) also makes an appearance, most notably piggybacking on storm systems out of the Sahara and towards the Americas. Unlike sea salt, however, it doesn’t last too long in the eye of the storm. Here, dust particles are captured by cloud droplets and rain down on the ocean.
Advances in computing speed allow scientists to include more details of these physical processes in their simulations than ever before. So in time, they’re only going to become more complex and will more closely reflect reality.
It was a busy night for the AMS and IMO (International Meteor Organization) that started early around 16:50 Universal Time (UT) with a fireball in the skies over Germany. Over 1180 witnesses reported to the AMS/IMO database within the first few hours of the event. Les than five hours later, near the weastern shores of France witness reported another significant fireball at 21:30 UT.
While excited fireball observers in Germany, France, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg and Italy were filling out their forms, two significant fireballs fell over the United States during the hours of 01:40 and 03:30 UTC. The first over Arizona and the second over Ohio.
In total the AMS/IMO collected, grouped and analyzed over 1320 witness reports spanning these 4 fireballs in the 10 hours that followed the events.
If you want to learn more about Fireballs: read our Fireball FAQ.
Taurid or not Taurid: that is the question
Are the events related or simply coincidence. Could these events be part of the Taurid meteor shower which peaked this past Saturday? Associated with the comet Encke, the Taurids are actually two separate showers, with a Southern and a Northern component. Both branches of the Taurids are most notable for colorful fireballs and are often responsible for an increased number of fireball reports from September through November.
The first analysis conducted by former IMO president Dr. Juergen Rendtel of the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam from the raw data shows that the events that occurred over Arizona and France cannot be linked to the Taurids: the Arizona event was moving from North-West to South-East while the French event was moving from North-East to South-West. However, the events over Germany and Ohio fit the Taurids direction (East->West) and the low inclination angle at the time of the sightings! Note that the East-West direction is related to the Taurids only because the fireball occurred in the local evening. Later in the night or towards the morning the direction is different, of course.
Nov 14th 16:48 UT – Blue Fireball over Germany
The fireball that flew over Germany on Nov 14th around 16:48 UT is the most reported fireball event from Europe since the AMS and the IMO launched the international version of the AMS fireball form. Translated in 31 languages, this form potentially allows the whole population of the globe to report such events. So far, we received over 820 reports about this event from at least 7 different versions of the form: not only from the AMS and the IMO versions but also from the forms we customized for local organizations such as the French Networks Reforme and Vigie-Ciel, the Swiss organization Fachgruppe Meteorastronomie, the german organization Arbeitskreis Meteore e.V. and even from the Italian Network PRISMA.
Below is the 3D trajectory of the event (available in KML format from the Event#4299-2017 page):
The French event occurred over the city of Bordeaux (West of France) and it has been reported so far from about 20 witnesses. This event has been caught on cam by the french camera network FRIPON that is a member of the citizen science project Vigie-Ciel and by the French allsky amateur network BOAM.
We should receive more details about this event anytime soon. As stated above, this event doesn’t seem like being part of the Taurid Meteor Shower. The event has been caught by 10 cameras of the French Network (Toulouse, Angers, Talence, Sabres, Carcassonne, Aurillac, Hendaye, Saint Bonnet Vert, Coulounieix-Chamiers and Mauroux).
The 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:
As stated above, the first estimated 3D trajectory doesn’t make this fireball a good candidate for the Taurid Meteor Shower. Traveling from North-West to South-East, the visible path of the fireball ended somewhere east of Happy Jack, AZ.
We received 34 reports so far about this event that occurred over Ohio but was also reported from Michiga, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Just like the German event, this fireball was travelling East to West. The first estimation of the 3D trajectory shows that the visible path of the fireball ended somewhere over Greenfield, OH.
Unfortunately, we didn’t receive any photo or video of this event yet. If you witnessed one of this event and/or if you have a video or a photo, please
He was on duty as a police officer in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, and had been sent out to locate some loose cattle.
However, he ended up tracking down something he insists was more out of this world when he saw a flying saucer in Burnley Road.
Mr Godfrey lost around 15 minutes and remains convinced to this day, after undergoing regression, that he was abducted by alien occupants of the craft.
At the time he was interviewed on prime time TV news shows, and to this day it remains the UK's best-known alien abduction account.
Yet, UFO researcher Russ Callaghan, may have found a more earthly explanation for what went on.
Mr Callaghan has discovered something from the history of Todmorden, that was there at the time of the incident, was mobile, but has been over looked by other investigators.
More importantly, he said, it resembles the description given by Mr Godfrey of his "flying saucer."
According to a black and white image of the Todmorden futuro home, with a woman stood next to it, it matches the 20 feet across dimension given by Mr Godfrey in sketches.
Mr Godfrey said he saw "a metallic disc with a dome and a row of windows at the top."
However, he also insists that moments later, as he tried to sketch it, there was a burst of light, and he then found himself driving 100 yards farther up the road, with the UFO now gone.
However, Mr Callaghan discovered that since 1971 there had been a UFO inspired Futura home in Todmorden, and it was still there in 1980.
The plastic-built home resembled a UFO, with several large oval windows around it on the top half.
What's more, the building was mobile, and was transported around the town on the back of a truck.
Waterside Plastics
The Todmorden futuro home in the Watersides Plastics brochure dated 1969.
Mr Callaghan argued that, as it would have been dark at the time of the sighting, it could have been the futura home being moved on a truck that he saw, and mistook for an alien craft.
Mr Callaghan said: "Alan is a great guy, and I know he believes what he says he saw.
"I'm not saying Alan made this up."
However, he said it was a plausible theory that further up the road the futura building was being carried on a lorry, making it appear to be above the road.
Waterside Plastics
A sketch of the UFO Alan Godfrey saw, which Russ Callaghan says resembles the futuro home.
He said: "That is how they moved the building. Does it or does it not look like a flying saucer?
"The futura buildings were small liveable houses, but the documentary makers (about Alan Godfrey's abduction) never remember to mention it was there at the time.
"But it was there and we have got a photo of it, and we have not got a photo of what Alan saw in Burnley Road."
Futurohouse.com is a website dedicated to the quirky futuristic homes, which features a section on the one at Todmorden, which confirms it was moved on a lorry.
Malcolm Stroud said of it: "The house was made by Waterside Plastics in its Waterside Mill, Rochdale Road, Todmorden.
YouTube•WATERSIDE PLASTICS
CASE CLOSED? Did Alan Godfrey see and sketch a futura home (inset)?
That is how they moved the building. Does it or does it not look like a flying saucer?
Russ Callaghan
"The Futuro house was a one off and I understand they only made one. It was exhibited in Todmorden in 1971 for the town's centenary.
"The company went out of business in 1990.
"The house was exhibited outside the Abraham Omerod medical centre (now closed), in the town, near the railway viaduct.
"I have also been told that it functioned as offices for Waterside Plastics for some years."
He said there was a photo of it "peeping out" between Victorian mill buildings when it was being moved on a lorry.
Mr Callaghan also considered if Mr Godfrey just saw a bus with its lights on and got confused in the early-morning darkness.
This was because busses ran along that route at the time, and Mr Godfrey had initially said "I thought I were looking at a bus."
He also considered if it was a council road sweeping vehicle with flashing lights, also mistaken by Mr Godfrey for a UFO, before resting on the futura house theory.
Mr Callaghan was quizzed by other ufologists about what could account for Mr Godfrey's burst of light, missing time, and abduction claims.
Jon Austin
CASE CLOSED: Russ Callaghan delivering his theory at a UFO conference in Hull.
He pointed out that Mr Godfrey's vivid descriptions of what went on inside the craft had only come out after he was regressed by Jenny Randles, a prominent UFO and alien abduction investigator.
He said: "There was no mention of these prior to hypnosis.
"Under hypnosis, he came out with seeing alien beings with light bulb heads, and a black entity.
"But, before in a book, he also tells you he can't say if what he said under hypnosis was real or if he made it up because he has no recollection of these things prior to hypnosis."
BBC
Alan Godfrey interviewed by Frank Bough on BBC Breakfast at height of the media storm.
However, some believe the mystery remains as there were two independent sightings of something strange that morning.
A driver who was on Burnley Road, three miles further out at Cliviger, told of seeing a brilliant white object at the time of Mr Godfrey's sighting, and even contacted Todmorden police.
On top of this, a police patrol from nearby Halifax, searching for stolen motorbikes on Calder Valley moors saw a brilliant blue-white glow descending into the valley towards Todmorden shortly before Mr Godfrey experienced his close encounter.
Mr Godfrey insists what he saw was a flying saucer, and he has recently told all in the new book Who or What Were They?, in which he claims he was hounded from the force over the case.
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Nieuwe aardachtige planeet ontdekt met de beste kans op leven ooit. Dit is ‘m dan
Nieuwe aardachtige planeet ontdekt met de beste kans op leven ooit. Dit is ‘m dan
Sterrenkundigen hebben een nieuwe planeet ontdekt waar mogelijk leven is. Ross 128b staat op slechts 11 lichtjaar van de aarde en is ongeveer even groot als onze planeet.
De exoplaneet, waar de temperatuur ongeveer gelijk is als op aarde, is ontdekt met behulp van een zeer geavanceerde telescoop.
De gemiddelde temperatuur op Ross 128b ligt tussen -60 en 20 graden Celsius. De planeet is 1,35 keer zwaarder dan onze aarde.
Meest nabije
Wetenschappers van de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht (ESO) gaan de samenstelling van de exoplaneet verder onderzoeken. Ze gaan onder meer speuren naar de aanwezigheid van zuurstof en vloeibaar water.
Geschat wordt dat de planeet ongeveer vijf miljoen jaar oud is. Ross 128b is na Proxima b de meest nabije gematigde planeet die tot nu toe is opgespoord.
Het is bovendien de meest nabije planeet die om een inactieve rode dwergster cirkelt, wat de kans vergroot dat zich leven in stand kan houden.
Heel geschikt
“Deze ontdekking is gebaseerd op meer dan 10 jaar intensief onderzoek,” liet coauteur Nicola Astudillo-Defru van de Universiteit van Genève weten.
Rode dwergen zijn de koelste en zwakste, maar ook de meest talrijke sterren in het heelal. Dit maakt hen heel geschikt voor de zoektocht naar exoplaneten.
Bij deze sterren laten kleine, koele soortgenoten van de aarde zich gemakkelijker opsporen dan bij sterren die meer op de zon lijken.
Aangename verblijfplaats
Veel rode dwergsterren, waaronder Proxima Centauri, produceren soms opvlammingen waarbij de planeten die om hen heen cirkelen met dodelijke straling worden bestookt.
Ross 128 lijkt een veel kalmere ster te zijn en dus zouden zijn planeten weleens de meest nabije aangename verblijfplaats voor leven kunnen zijn.
De ster staat zoals gezegd op 11 lichtjaar, maar beweegt in onze richting. Naar verwachting zal hij over minder dan 80.000 jaar onze meest nabije buurster zijn.
Dan verdringt Ross 128b dus ook Proxima b als meest nabije exoplaneet.
Bekijk ook onderstaand filmpje over de ontdekking:
Geheime afgesloten doorgang ontdekt onder Mexicaanse piramide. Wat bevindt zich erachter?
Geheime afgesloten doorgang ontdekt onder Mexicaanse piramide. Wat bevindt zich erachter?
Experts hebben onder een eeuwenoude Mayapiramide een geheime doorgang ontdekt die leidt naar een met water gevulde grot, een zogeheten cenote.
Archeologen hopen dat de afgesloten doorgang onder de piramide van Kukulcan in Chichen Itza de ‘heilige geografie’ van het complex zal onthullen.
Het team van Guillermo de Anda doet al enkele maanden onderzoek bij het bouwwerk. De cenote werd twee jaar geleden ontdekt met behulp van speciale apparatuur.
Zinkgat
In 2015 onthulde een team onder leiding van Rene Chavez van de Nationale Autonome Universiteit van Mexico het bestaan van het zinkgat waarop de piramide was gebouwd.
Nu lijkt archeoloog De Anda de ingang naar de cenote te hebben ontdekt.
“Via het ossuarium kunnen we de grot onder het bouwwerk binnengaan en daar hebben we een afgesloten doorgang ontdekt,” zei hij tegen de krant El Universal.
Ingang
“De doorgang is waarschijnlijk afgesloten door de oude Maya’s zelf,” voegde hij toe.
“We zullen de doorgang proberen te openen om te kijken of hij ons zal leiden naar de ingang van de cenote onder El Castillo,” zei de archeoloog in een interview.
Bewezen
Eerst moet bewezen worden dat de geheime doorgang bestaat. “We hebben nu alleen de afbeeldingen,” zei de onderzoeker. “We moeten zelf gaan kijken.”
Het team hoopt op den duur een 3D-kaart te maken van de ondergrondse grotten en tunnelcomplexen onder Chichen Itza.
UFO verschijnt boven marinebasis in Californië. Is dit bewijs voor buitenaards bezoek?
UFO verschijnt boven marinebasis in Californië. Is dit bewijs voor buitenaards bezoek?
Op de foto is een vreemd object te zien in de lucht boven de woestijn in Californië. De afbeelding is gemaakt door een man die het pseudoniem Keith Bradshaw gebruikt.
Hij zegt naar het Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake te zijn afgereisd nadat een vriend hem had verteld over het vaartuig.
Hij heeft de foto’s naar eigen zeggen in 2007 gemaakt, maar durfde ze niet naar buiten te brengen, schrijft de Daily Mirror.
Geen geluid
“Dit ding bleef dicht bij de grond hangen, het was erg instabiel,” zei hij. “Het bleef stil hangen, ging omhoog en bleef weer enkele minuten helemaal stil hangen.”
“Het maakte voor zover ik weet geen geluid,” voegde hij toe.
Keith zei dat hij ongeveer 10 minuten naar het object heeft gekeken. Hij claimt ook dat een aantal legervoertuigen in de buurt van de zilverkleurige UFO geparkeerd stonden.
Debat
Er vloog zelfs een legerhelikopter rond, aldus de man. “Ik denk niet dat er iemand in zat, maar ik kreeg het idee dat de helikopter het op de één of andere manier bestuurde.”
Met het vrijgeven van de foto’s hoopt Keith een debat op gang te brengen over de vraag of we zijn bezocht door buitenaardsen of dat het een experimenteel toestel van het leger was.
Meest controversiële UFO-foto’s
Hij gaf de foto’s aan de 54-jarige UFO-onderzoeker Philip Mantle, die zei dat hij in de 40 jaar dat hij hier onderzoek naar doet nog nooit zoiets heeft gezien.
Mantle sprak van ‘de meest controversiële UFO-foto’s ooit’. Hij voegde toe dat experts nog niet met zekerheid hebben kunnen vaststellen of de foto’s echt zijn.
DE MEEST SPECTACULAIRE UFO FOTO'S OOIT GENOMEN OP EEN BEKENDE UFO HOTSPOT
DE MEEST SPECTACULAIRE UFO FOTO'S OOIT GENOMEN OP EEN BEKENDE UFO HOTSPOT
De Mojave woestijn in het zuiden van Californië wordt al decennialang een hotspot genoemd voor bijzonder UFO en buitenaardse waarnemingen.
Daar zijn nu een aantal spectaculaire foto's bij gekomen die door sommigen worden omschreven als de beste UFO opnames ooit.
Een bijzonder verhaal is net naar buiten gekomen via Tyler van Secureteam. Het betreft het verhaal van een getuige die tien jaar geleden iets heeft gezien en gefotografeerd, maar zo bang werd dat hij al die tijd zijn mond heeft dichtgehouden.
De man die bekend staat als Keith Bradshaw had in 2007 een vriend die werkzaam was op een Amerikaanse legerbasis die hem vertelde dat daar bijzondere dingen gebeuren. Die basis was de Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake. Deze basis bevindt zich in de Mojave woestijn in Californië.
Keith ging op een goede dag op pad om zelf te onderzoeken of er inderdaad iets bijzonders gaande was en toen hij in de buurt van de basis kwam, zag hij een zwarte helikopter in de lucht hangen.
Het was pas toen hij dichterbij kwam, dat hij ook een vreemd diamantvormig object zag hangen.
Het schijnt dat de man zo schrok van dit alles dat hij zijn shirt uittrok om minder op te vallen in het landschap, terwijl hij er in slaagde om nog wat foto's te maken.
Het is inderdaad een heel bijzonder object dat er, wanneer je het vergroot, als volgt uit ziet:
Bradshaw vertelde verder dat het object geen geluid maakte en soms heen en weer wiebelde, waarna het een stukje hoger ging en dan weer terug om vervolgens op dezelfde plek te blijven hangen.
Talloze experts hebben ondertussen de foto's bekeken en de meningen zijn verdeeld. Er zijn erbij die dit de beste UFO foto's ooit vinden en er zijn er die de nodige twijfels hebben omdat er zoveel nepfoto's en video's zijn over juist dit onderwerp.
Waar echter geen enkele twijfel over bestaat, is dat de Mojave woestijn een UFO hotspot is.
Al decennialang zijn er verhalen over vreemde gebeurtenissen in die woestijn, zoals in 1985, toen de Britse piloot David Hastings daar vloog samen met een collega in een Cessna Skymaster.
Ze zagen op een gegeven moment een stip aan de horizon die heel snel groter werd, tot er op een gegeven moment een grote schaduw over hun vliegtuig ging. Ze hoorden geen geluid en er was ook geen verdere turbulentie.
Hastings slaagde erin om een foto te maken vanuit de cockpit, waarop duidelijk een sigaarvormig object is te zien. Wat je linksboven op de foto ziet, is de vleugel van het vliegtuig.
Vier jaar later gebeurt er weer iets heel opmerkelijks in die woestijn. Wederom een gebeurtenis waarbij een sigaarvormige UFO een rol speelt.
Het staat bekend als het Mojave Incident en het betreft de ontvoering van Steve en Dawn Hess.
Dit stel was aan het kamperen in de woestijn toen ze een vreemd licht waarnamen wat boven de berg verscheen en daarna weer verdween. Er ging een soort elektrische schok door hem heen en hij herinnerde zich datzelfde licht uit de tijd dat hij nog een kind was.
Pal daarop zagen ze een formatie van negen lichten verschijnen in de lucht in de vorm van de letter M. Even later verschenen er twee grote sigaarvormige objecten die als het ware de wacht hielden bij de camper waar de kampeerders in waren gevlucht.
Weer wat later verscheen er een enorm moederschip met wat een kleiner schip er pal onder. De camper was even later omsingeld door klassieke Gray aliens en daarmee begon de bizarre ervaring die ze omschrijving als een psychologische marteling die urenlang duurde.
Dit hele verhaal komt ter sprake in de volgende video waar bovendien uit blijkt dat er misschien door het Amerikaanse leger wel geheime experimenten worden uitgevoerd, maar dat er zich daar ook wel degelijk buitenaardsen bevinden.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET21 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.
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)
RVDouglas Vakoch van METI.
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.”
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
A reported UFO sighting over Minnville, Oregon, is pictured above
CIA RELEASES ITS OWN 'X-FILES'
Last year, the CIA released a glimpse into its own set of 'X-Files,' a small compilation of documents pulled from its expansive UFO collection, dating back to the 1940s.
The agency said that these documents appeal to both skeptics and believers – the Scullys and Mulders of the world – who seek to prove scientific explanations, or confirm the existence of extraterrestrial activity.
One of the documents among the CIA's 'X-Files' is from East Germany in 1952, where agents were called to investigate what witnesses described as a 'huge flying pan'.
The object was said to have a diameter of about 15 meters, according to the document.
Similar flying saucers were also spotted in North Africa and Spain, the report said.
'The picture [of the object] shows a diagonal stripe of diminishing width and lighter in shade than the sky over the dark bulk of a building cornice,' it was noted.
Included with some of the documents were three pictures of the alleged extraterrestrials.
One of the photos - taken by British student Alex Birch in 1962 - claimed to show a group of flying saucers flying over the city of Sheffield in the UK.
Also contained in the files is the case in Socorro, New Mexico in 1964, when police officer Lonnie Zamora spotted a large flame rise from the ground and pierce the sky above a remote patch of desert.
Upon investigation, he found a shiny object the size of a sedan perched on the hilltop, which was oval in shape and aluminium in color.
The object then began to rise into the air and then sped away from him over the mountains and disappeared.
An explanation for this case has never been determined.
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.
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‘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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UFO Spotted? Burst of Light Flashes Across Phoenix Sky (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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
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."
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 …
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.”
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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