Every official record of a UFO sighting in Gloucestershire revealed

Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and Gloucester are popular among aliens fancying a getaway

By Conor Gogarty

The humans of Gloucestershire are not alone.

At least, that's what some may glean from our UFO map, the result of an explosive investigation into alien sightings across the county.

According to the UFO Stalker website, there have been no less than 16 extraterrestrial invasions witnessed in Gloucestershire in recent years.

Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and Gloucester are hotspots for aliens fancying a getaway, with 11 of the 16 sightings coming around those three areas.

It may be a popular tourist destination for us mere homo sapiens, but the Cotswolds has been emphatically snubbed by those from other planets.

Only one adventurous intergalactic explorer decided to have a mosey around Cirencester.

Lydney, however, has proved something of a hit with the Martians, with three UFOs checking in, perhaps for a spot of Go Ape.

Many of the eye-witness accounts that accompany the entries on UFO Stalker have a flair for the dramatic.

One person was driving home from a baby shower in July 2016 on the A433, when he saw something not of this earth.

They wrote: "I checked my rear view mirror, I was surprised to see a large white circle, size of a football, glowing like a headlight, following directly behind my car."

A 47-year-old computer consultant from Cheltenham also saw something shocking, from his block of flats in 2010.

He wrote: "I have noticed an orange light in the western sky after dark, corresponding to the common position of Venus and visible when other stars are not (due to street lighting).

"I thought i could perceive it to be a cluster of different coloured lights instead of a single source.

"The object now appeared to be moving closer and slightly to my left heading for the centre of cheltenham (which is just south of my location).

"As it moved it presented itself at an angle to me and I could see the red strobe light was centred on the underside of the object which now clearly had strong white lights at the front, throwing a beam or twin beams straight ahead, like landing lights or car headlights."

The witness added that the UFO was a large black triangle in the air, which floated off towards Oxfordshire after a while.

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What the Pliocene epoch can teach us about future warming on Earth

About 3 million years ago, carbon dioxide levels were similar to today’s. What other changes might we expect?

BY ALEXANDRA WITZE 

 

BLAST FROM THE PAST  Three million years ago, Earth’s climate was so warm that the High Arctic supported forests (illustrated) in which camels and other animals roamed.

JULIUS T. CSOTON

Imagine a world where the polar ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising and the atmosphere is stuffed with about 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Sound familiar? It should. We’re living it. But the description also matches Earth a little over 3 million years ago, in the middle of the geologic epoch known as the Pliocene.

To understand how our planet might respond as global temperatures rise, scientists are looking to warm periods of the past. These include the steamy worlds of the Cretaceous Period, such as around 90 million years ago, and the boundary of the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, about 56 million years ago.

But to many researchers, the best reference for today’s warming is the more recent Pliocene, which lasted from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago. The mid-Pliocene was the last time atmospheric CO₂ levels were similar to today’s, trapping heat and raising global temperatures to above the levels Earth is experiencing now.

New research is illuminating how the planet responded to Pliocene warmth. One set of scientists has fanned out across the Arctic, gathering geologic clues to how temperatures there may have been as much as 19 degrees Celsius higher than today. The warmth allowed trees to spread far to the north, creating Arctic forests where three-toed horses, giant camels and other animals roamed. When lightning struck, wildfires roared across the landscape, spewing soot into the air and altering the region’s climate.

Amount of CO₂ in Earth’s atmosphere
(parts per million) 

Mid-Pliocene

350–450

Pre-Industrial

280

Today

400+

Other researchers are pushing the frontiers of climate modeling, simulating how the oceans, atmosphere and land responded as Pliocene temperatures soared. One new study shows how the warmth may have triggered huge changes in ocean circulation, setting up an enormous overturning current in the Pacific Ocean, similar to the “conveyor belt” in today’s Atlantic that drives weather and climate. A second new paper suggests that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets might have responded differently to Pliocene heat, melting at different times.

All this research into the last great warm period is helping scientists think more deeply about how the future might play out. It may not be a road map to the next 100 years, but the Pliocene is a rough guide to the high sea levels, vanishing ice and altered weather patterns that might arrive hundreds to thousands of years from now.

“It’s a case study for understanding how warm climates function,” says Heather Ford, a paleoceanographer at the University of Cambridge. “It’s our closest analog for future climate change.”

Walk through history

Teasing out the history of the Pliocene is a little like digging through a family’s past. One group of enthusiasts goes through genealogical records, collecting data on who lived where, and when. Another group uses computer software and modeling to look for broad patterns that describe how the family grew and moved over time.

The data detectives begin their work in rocks and sediments dating to the Pliocene that are scattered around the world like family-tree histories in city library archives. In 1988, the U.S. Geological Survey began a project called PRISM, for Pliocene Research, Interpretation and Synoptic Mapping, which aims to gather as many geologic clues as possible about Pliocene environments.

Chemical and geologic clues within deep-sea sediment cores, like this one from the Pliocene drilled from the seabed off Alaska’s southern coast, can reveal past ocean temperatures. Paleoclimatologists use the data to reconstruct which periods were warm and which were cold.

 JRSO/INTERNATIONAL OCEAN DISCOVERY PROGRAM 

At its start, PRISM focused on a collection of deep-sea cores drilled from the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean. Different types of marine organisms thrive in water of different temperatures. By comparing the relative abundance of species of tiny organisms preserved in the deep-sea cores, PRISM scientists could roughly map how cold-loving organisms gave way to warm ones (and vice versa) at different times in the past. Early results from the project, reported in 1992 by USGS research geologist Harry Dowsett and colleagues, showed that during the Pliocene, warming was amplified at higher latitudes in the North Atlantic.

Scientists continue to add to the PRISM records. One international team drilled a sediment core from beneath a Siberian lake and found that summer air temperatures there, in the mid-Pliocene, were as high as 15° C (about 59° Fahrenheit). That’s 8 degrees warmer than today (SN: 6/15/13, p. 13). Other researchers uncovered clues, such as plant fossils from peat bogs, that suggest mean annual temperatures on Canada’s now-frozen Ellesmere Island near Greenland were as much as 18 degrees higher than today (SN: 4/6/13, p. 9).

Now, a new group of biologists, geoscientists and other experts in past landscapes have banded together in a project called PoLAR-FIT, for Pliocene Landscape and Arctic Remains — Frozen in Time. The team is focusing on the Arctic because, just as today’s Arctic is warming faster than other parts of the planet, the Pliocene Arctic warmed more than the rest of the globe. “That’s what we call polar amplification,” says Tamara Fletcher, a team member and paleoecologist at the University of Montana in Missoula. “It was even more magnified in the Pliocene than what we’re seeing today.”

PoLAR-FIT scientists travel to the Arctic to collect geologic evidence about how the region responded to rising temperatures in the Pliocene. In the thawing permafrost slopes of Ellesmere Island, for instance, Fletcher and colleagues have been mapping black layers of charcoal in sediments dating from the Pliocene. Each charcoal layer represents a fire that burned through the ancient forest. By tracking the events across Ellesmere and other nearby islands, Fletcher’s team discovered that fire was widespreadacross what is now the Canadian Arctic.

Wildfires swept the Arctic during the warm Pliocene, leaving behind beds of dark charcoal that are visible today.

 T. FLETCHER

Wildfires changed vegetation across the landscape, possibly altering how the Arctic responded to rising temperatures. Soot rising from the fires would have darkened the skies, potentially leading to local or regional weather changes. “How important is that to the warming?” asks Bette Otto-Bliesner, a paleoclimatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. “That’s something we’re still trying to determine.” Fletcher, Otto-Bliesner and colleagues described the charcoal discovery, along with modeling studies of the fires’ effects, in Seattle in October at a meeting of the Geological Society of America.

In 2012, about 283,280 square kilometers of forest burned in Russia. Three years later, more than 20,230 square kilometers burned in Alaska. Last summer, a wildfire broke out in the icy landscape of western Greenland. “We’re already seeing fire in the Arctic, which is unusual today,” Fletcher says. “But it wouldn’t have been unusual in the Pliocene.”

While the work doesn’t predict how much of the Arctic will burn as temperatures rise, the findings do suggest that people need to prepare for more fires in the future.

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As temperatures rise, Arctic fires, like the one that burned in Greenland in August, may become more common.

ESA, PIERRE MARKUSE/FLICKR (CC BY 2.0)

Trapped ocean heat

Scientists like Fletcher are the genealogists of the Pliocene, collecting records of past environments. Other researchers — the computer modelers — put those old records into broad context, like historians analyzing family trees for patterns of migration and change. 

The modelers begin with data on Pliocene temperatures — such as how hot it got on Ellesmere Island or in the North Atlantic Ocean, as revealed by plant fossils or seafloor sediments. Scientists can also estimate how much CO₂ was in the atmosphere at the time by looking at clues such as the density of holes in fossilized leaves of Pliocene plants, which used those openings to take up CO₂. Estimates vary, but most suggest CO₂ levels were about 350 to 450 ppm in the mid-Pliocene.

Foraminifera, tiny sea organisms, are used to calculate past ocean temperatures, by the chemistry of their shells and the amount of cold-loving versus warm-loving species present in deep-sea cores.

USGS

It’s not clear what caused the gas buildup during the Pliocene; one possibility is it came from long-term changes in the way carbon cycles between the land, ocean and atmosphere. But no matter the source, the high levels of CO₂ caused temperatures to soar by trapping heat in the atmosphere.

The Pliocene isn’t a perfect crystal ball for today. For starters, scientists know why CO₂ levels are now increasing — burning of fossil fuels and other human activities (SN: 5/30/15, p. 15). As the Industrial Revolution was gaining steam, in the 19th century, atmospheric CO₂ levels were around 280 ppm. Today that level is just above 400 ppm, and rising.

Modeling the Pliocene climate can help reveal how Earth responded in somewhat similar conditions. That means studying changes in the Pliocene atmosphere, the land surface and most of all the oceans, which absorb the bulk of planetary warming. “That’s the sort of thing you can understand from studying past warm episodes,” Ford says. “What was different about how heat and carbon were moving around in the ocean?” 

Ford has begun working with climatologist Natalie Burls of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., to try to track how the oceans’ major water masses shifted during the Pliocene. Today the North Atlantic has a deep, cold, salty layer that is crucial to the ocean’s “conveyor belt” circulation. In this pattern, warm waters flow northward from the tropics, then cool and become saltier and denser as they reach higher latitudes. That cool water sinks and travels southward, where it warms and rises and begins the cycle all over again.

This conveyor belt circulation is important to today’s Atlantic climate, because it allows the warm Gulf Stream to moderate temperatures from the U.S. East Coast to Western Europe. Burls and colleagues have now found that a similar pattern might have existed in the Pacific during the Pliocene. They call it the Pacific meridional overturning circulation, or PMOC, just as today’s similar Atlantic circulation is known as the AMOC.

Burls’ team discovered this phenomenon by modeling how the Pliocene ocean would have responded to higher temperatures. Because the Arctic was so warm, the temperature difference between the equator and the mid- and high latitudes was not as great as it is today. The weaker temperature gradient would have meant less rainfall and more evaporation in the midlatitude North Pacific. As a result, its uppermost waters would have gotten saltier.

Deep ocean changes

Ocean circulation today is driven in part by a deep circulation pattern in the North Atlantic (top). Currents there flow north and then become cooler and saltier, causing the water to sink and return southward in a conveyor belt–like circulation. In the warm Pliocene, some 3 million years ago, a similar conveyor belt may have set up in the Pacific (bottom) thanks to reduced rainfall in the North Pacific (dotted circle).

N. BURLS

When the North Pacific waters got salty enough, they cooled and sank, setting up an enormous current that dove deep off the coast of northeastern Russia and traveled southward until the water warmed enough to once again rise toward the surface. Real-world data back the claim: Accumulations of calcium carbonate in deep-sea Pacific sediments show that the Pliocene ocean experienced huge shifts at the time, with waters churning all the way from the surface down to about three kilometers deep, as would be expected from a conveyor belt–type circulation. The team reported the finding in Science Advances in September.

What happened in the Pliocene Pacific may say something about the Pacific of the distant future, Burls says. As temperatures rise today, most of the heat is being taken up by the surface layers of the oceans. Over the short term, that works to prevent changes in deep ocean circulation. “Today we’re very quickly turning on the heating, and it will take a while for the deep ocean to adjust,” Burls says.

But in the longer term, thousands of years from now, waters in the North Pacific may eventually become warm and salty enough to establish a PMOC, just as there was in the Pliocene. And that could lead to major changes in weather and climate patterns around the globe.

Land bridges and ice sheets

Other modelers are looking beyond the Pacific to improve their understanding of how different parts of the Pliocene world behaved. About a dozen research groups recently launched a new effort called PlioMIP2, or Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 2, to model the climate of a time somewhat similar to today in the mid-Pliocene, about 3.205 million years ago.

“We’re working to produce the best picture that we can of what life seemed to be like at the time,” says Alan Haywood, a climate modeler at the University of Leeds in England and a leader of the effort.

In one discovery, project scientists have found that small changes in the geography of their modeled world make a big improvement in the final results. Early models did not accurately capture how much the polar regions heated up. So PlioMIP2 researchers updated their starting conditions. Instead of assuming that the landmasses of the Pliocene world were identical to today, the group made two small, plausible changes in the Arctic. The researchers made a land bridge between Russia and Alaska by closing the Bering Strait, and they added land to connect a few modern islands in the Canadian Arctic, including Ellesmere.

The change “seems small, but it actually can have a huge impact on climate,” says Otto-Bliesner. For instance, closing the Bering Strait cut off a flow in which relatively fresh water from the Pacific travels over the Arctic and into the North Atlantic. With the updated geography, the PlioMIP2 models suddenly did a much better job of simulating heat in the high Arctic.

Otto-Bliesner will describe the team’s results in New Orleans this month at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Another PlioMIP2 group, Deepak Chandan and Richard Peltier of the University of Toronto, reported similar findings in July in Climate of the Past. They too found that closing the Bering Strait allowed their model to better simulate the Arctic heating.

Other Pliocene modelers are trying to figure out how the planet’s enormous ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica might respond to rising temperatures. Geologic evidence, such as ancient beaches from the Pliocene, suggest that global sea levels then were as much as 25 meters higher than today. If all of Greenland’s ice were to melt, global sea levels would rise about six meters; if all of Antarctica went, it would contribute about 60 meters. So parts of these ice sheets, but not all, must have melted during the long-ago warm period.

Several of the PlioMIP2 research groups are modeling how the polar ice sheets responded in the heat of the Pliocene. “It will tell us how much we should be worried,” Otto-Bliesner says.

Arctic heat-up

Simulations of the Arctic during the Pliocene show excess heat (deeper red colors) compared with before the Industrial Revolution (left) and today (right). Today’s differences are smaller because levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are closer to Pliocene levels.

D. CHANDAN AND RICHARD PELTIER

One new study suggests that the northern and southern ice sheets may have behaved out of phase with each other. In a simulation of the mid- to late Pliocene, climate modeler Bas de Boer of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and colleagues found that as Greenland’s ice melted, Antarctica’s ice could have been relatively stable, and vice versa.

“At different points, they could be contributing to the sea level story or against it,” says Haywood. He, along with colleagues, reported the results in the Oct. 30 Geophysical Research Letters.

That out-of-sync melting suggests the Pliocene was a complicated time. Just because global temperatures were high doesn’t mean that all of Earth’s ice sheets melted equally. (Today, both Greenland and West Antarctica are losing ice to the oceans as global temperatures rise.)

The Pliocene wound to an end around 2.6 million years ago, as CO₂ levels dropped. Chemical reactions with eroding rocks may have sucked much of the CO₂ out of the atmosphere and tucked it away in the oceans, removing the greenhouse gas. The planet entered a long-term cooling trend. Since the end of the Pliocene, Earth has been in and out of a series of ice ages.

But now, greenhouse gases are once again flooding into the atmosphere. Global temperatures are ticking up inexorably year after year. That makes the lessons of the past all the more relevant for the future.

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This article appears in the December 9, 2017 issue of Science News with the headline, "Lessons from the Pliocene: A warm period in the past offers a window to the future."

Citations

B. de Boer et al. The transient response of ice volume to orbital forcing during the warm late Pliocene. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 44, 2017. doi:10.1002/2017GL073535.

N.J. Burls et al. Active Pacific meridional overturning circulation (PMOC) during the warm Pliocene. Science Advances. Vol. 3, September 13, 2017, e1700156.

D. Chandan & R. Peltier. Regional and global climate for the mid-Pliocene using the University of Toronto version of CCSM4 and PlioMIP2 boundary conditions. Clim. Past. Vol. 13, 2017, p. 919.

B. Otto-Bliesner et al. Amplified North Atlantic warming in the late Pliocene by changes in Arctic gateways. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 44, p. 957.

A.M. Haywood et al. Integrating geological archives and climate models for the mid-Pliocene warm period. Nature Communciations. Vol. 7, February 16, 2016, p. 10646.

Further Reading

E. Wayman. Millions of years ago, frozen ice sheet in East Antarctica melted. Science News Online, July 22, 2013.

E. Wayman. Taking Antarctica’s temperature. Science News. Vol. 184, July 27, 2013, p. 18.

E. Wayman. The Arctic was once warmer, covered by trees. Science News. Vol. 183, June 15, 2013, p. 13.

E. Wayman. Camel ancestors lived in the Arctic. Science News. Vol. 183, April 6, 2013, p. 9.

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Earth without its moon would be a very different world indeed. No eclipses. Smaller tides. But the biggest change would be in the length of Earth’s day.

Most moons in our solar system are tiny relative to the planets they orbit. These planets wouldn’t miss a moon or two if one got knocked out of orbit. But Earth’s moon is relatively large. So Earth without its large nearby moon would be a very different world indeed.

Imagine … no solar or lunar eclipses.

No calendars based on a system of months. The word month, after all, stems from a word that means moon. That’s because many calendars are based on the changing phases of the moon.

With no moon, there’d be no nearby world for astronauts to visit. We might never have begun to venture out into the solar system.

The moon and sun together cause the tides. If we’d never had a moon, we’d still have tides, but they wouldn’t be as strong.

What’s more, the moon has a place in human culture. Imagine no romantic moonlight walks – no concept of moon madness, or lunacy.

But the biggest change – for us humans and for other earthly life – would be in the length of Earth’s day. Without a moon, Earth would spin faster. Our day would be shorter. Why?

It’s because, billions of years ago when Earth was young, our planet spun around on its axis much faster. Our world’s cycle of day and night was less than 10 hours long. The ebb and flow of the tides are what put the brakes on Earth’s spin. So – if you’re imagining Earth with no moon – you have to imagine our day on Earth much shorter than our present-day 24 hours.

Selected moons of the solar system, with the Earth for scale. Notice that the moon is pretty big relative to Earth. But Pluto and its moon are even closer in size.

Image via NASA.

Bottom line: How our planet would be different, if Earth didn’t have a moon.

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SCIENCE FINALLY FOUND PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

Is science discovered God?

Einstein didn’t believe it was possible, but Stephen Hawkins said: ‘It might be the greatest scientific discovery of all time’.

So, what discovery has baffled the greatest scientific minds of the past century, and why has it caused them to rethink the origin of our universe? New and more powerful telescopes have unlocked mysteries about our universe never before revealed, giving us amazing new scientific insight into the origin of life.

HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD?  

Hasn’t science proven we don’t need God to explain the universe?

What is it about this discovery that is so fundamentally different, and why has it stunned the scientific world?

This discovery along with what molecular biologists have learned about the sophisticated coding within DNA have many scientists now admitting that the universe and life itself appeared to be part of a grand design.

“Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the design argument”.

Surprisingly, many scientists who are now talking about God have no religious beliefs whatsoever.

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What are these stunning discoveries that have scientists suddenly speaking of God? Well there are three revolutionary discoveries from the fields of astronomy and molecular biology that stand out:

1) the universe had a beginning

2) The universe is just right for life

3) DNA coding reveals intelligence

The statements leading scientists have made about these discoveries may shock you.

THE UNIVERSE HAD A ONE-TIME BEGINNING

Since the dawn of civilization man has gazed in awe at the stars, wondering what they are and how they got there. Although, on a clear night the unaided human eye can see only 6,000 stars, Hubble and other powerful telescopes reveal there are a billion-trillion stars clustered in over 100 billion galaxies. In fact, our sun is like one grain of sand amidst the world’s beaches. But, prior to the 20th century, the majority of scientists believed that our own Milky Way galaxy was the entire universe, and that only about 100 million starts existed.

Most scientists of the past believed that our universe never had a beginning.They believed that mass, space, and energy that compose our entire universe had always existed.But in the early 20th century , astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding. Rewinding the process mathematically, he calculated that everything in the universe, matter, energy, space, and even time itself, actually had a beginning.

Shockwaves hit the scientific community. Many scientists including Einstein, reacted negatively. In what Einstein later called “the biggest blunder in my life”, he fudged the equations to avoid the implication that the universe had a beginning. Perhaps the most vocal adversary of the idea that the universe had a beginning was British astronomer Sir Frederick Hoyle, who sarcastically nicknamed the creation event a “big bang”. He stubbornly held to his steady state theory that the universe had always existed. So did Einstein and other scientists until the evidence for the beginning became overwhelming.

Then finally, in 1992, the COBE satellite experiments proved that the universe really did a one-time beginning in an incredible flash of light and energy. Although some scientists called it the moment of creation, most preferred referring to it as the “big bang”. Astronomer Robert Jastow tries to help us imagine how it all began.

“The picture suggest the explosion of a cosmic hydrogen bomb. The instant in which the cosmic bomb exploded marked the birth of universe”.

The conclusion is everything in the universe came from nothing.

Science is unable to tell us what or who cause the universe to begin. But some it believe clearly points to a Creator. Many scientists from which some were agnostics claim that the only explanation for the big bang to happen was by the mighty hand of divine power, God.

Cosmologists, who specialize in the study of universe and its origin, soon realized that a chance cosmic explosion could never bring about life any more than a nuclear bomb would unless it was precisely engineered to do so. And that meant a designer must have planned it. They began using words like, “Creator”, “Super-intellect”, and even “Supreme Being” to describe this designer.

THE UNIVERSE IS FINELY-TUNED FOR LIFE

Physicists calculated that for life to exist, gravity and other laws of physics that govern our universe needed to be intricately tuned just right or our universe couldn’t exist. For instance, did you know that if the expansion rate of the universe has been slightly weaker, gravity would have pulled all matter back into a “big crunch”. Stephen Hawking writes: “If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand-million-million, the universe would have re-collapsed before it ever reached its present size”. On the flip side, if the expansion rate had been a mere fraction greater than it was, all galaxies, stars, and planets could never have formed, and we wouldn’t be there.  

And for life to exist, the conditions in our solar system and our own planet, also need to be just right. For example we all realize that without atmosphere of oxygen, none of us will be able to breathe. And without oxygen, water couldn’t exist. Without water there would be no rainfall for our crops. Other elements such as calcium, hydrogen, nitrogen, sodium, carbon, and phosphorus are also essential for life. But that alone is not all that is needed for life to exist.

The size, temperature, relative proximity, and chemical makeup of our planet, sun, and moon also need just to be right. And there a dozen of other conditions that just need to be right. Scientist who believed in God may have expected such a fine-tuning, but atheist and agnostics were unable to explain the remarkable “coincidences”.

THE UNIVERSE: ACCIDENT OR MIRACLE?

What are the odds against human life existing by chance from a random explosion in cosmic history? For human life to be possible from a big bang utterly defines the laws of probability.

One astronomer calculate the odds at less than one chance in a trillion-trillion-trillion-trillion-trillion… In other words, it will be far easier for a blind-folded person in one try to discover one specially marked grain of sand out of all the beaches in the world. The odds of one random big bang producing life as we know it would be like one person winning over a thousand consecutive mega-million dollar lotteries after purchasing only a single ticket for each. Not likely? Really quite impossible. So, many scientists concluded: Someone behind the scenes designed and created the universe. But, there are others who still are searching other explanations for the existence of our universe.

DNA: THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE

As recent as 1953, Molecular biologists discovered intricately complex design in the microscopic world of DNA. This tiny molecule has been called the “brains” of each cell in our bodies as well as every other living thing. Yet the more they discover about DNA, the more amazed they are at the brilliance behind it. Scientists who believe that the material world is all the exists, like Richard Dawkins, argue DNA evolved by natural selection without a Creator. Yet even most ardent evolutionists admit that the origin of the DNA’s intricate complexity is unexplainable. DNA’s intricate complexity caused its co-discover, Francis Crick, to believe that it could never have originated on earth naturally. He believed that life is too complex to have originate on earth , and must have come from outer space. The coding behind DNA reveals such intelligence that it staggers the imagination. A mere pinhead volume of DNA contains information equivalent to a stack of paperback books that would encircle the world 5,000 times. And DNA operates like language with its own extremely complex software code.

In the early 21st century, noted atheist, Antony Flew’s life-long unbelief came to an abrupt and even studied the remarkable intelligence behind DNA. Flew explained what change his position:

“What I think the DNA material has done is to show that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinary diverse elements together. The enormous complexity by which the results were achieved look to me like the work of intelligence… It now seems to me that the finding of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design”.

THE LIFE AND THE UNIVERSE HAVE THE FINGERPRINTS OF A CREATOR

Are scientists now convinced that a Creator has left his “fingerprints” on the universe? Although many scientists are still bent on squeezing God out of the universe, most recognize the religious implications of these new discoveries.

SO, WHAT IF, AFTER ALL THERE IS A CREATOR?

If there is a super-intelligent Creator, the question arises, what is he like? Is he just some “Cosmic Force” like in Star Wars, or is he a personal being like us? Since we are personal and relational beings, wouldn’t the one who created us also be personal and relational?

Many scientists such as Arthur L. Schawlow, Professor at Stanford University, and Nobel Prize winner in Physics, believes that these new discoveries prove compelling evidence for a personal God. He writes: “It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious… I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life”.

If God is personal and since He has given us the ability to communicate, wouldn’t we expect him to communicate with us and let us know why we are here? As we seen, science is unable to answer questions about God and the purpose of life. However, since the Bible was right about creation from nothing, might it also be trustworthy regarding God, life and purpose?

THE MAN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

Two thousand years ago, a man set foot on our planet who claimed to have the answer to life. Although his life on earth was brief, his impact changed the world, and is still felt today. His name is Jesus Christ.

The eyewitnesses to Jesus Christ tell us that he continually demonstrated creative power over nature’s laws. They tell us he was wise, humble, and compassionate. They also tell us that Jesus Christ is the one who flung the stars into space, fine-tuned our universe, and created DNA.

Could he be the one of whom Einstein unknowing referred to us as “super-intelligence” behind the universe? Has the mystery of who is responsible for creating the universe and the intelligence behind DNA have been revealed in the New Testament?

Jesus spoke with authority about God’s love for us and the reason he created us. He said that he has a plan for our life, and that plan centers on a relationship with him. But for that relationship to be possible, Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins. And it was necessary for him to raise from the dead, so that we could too have a life after death. As the Creator, Jesus certainly would have power over life and death. Those closest to him claim that they saw him alive after he died and was buried for three days. If they were wrong, then Christianity has been founded upon a lie. But, if they were right, such a miracle, would substantiate all Jesus said about God, himself, and us.

What do you think?

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03-12-2017 om 21:13 geschreven door peter  

SUPER MOON OF 2017 DAZZLED STARGAZERS IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

The rare one of a kind lunar spectacle hypnotized stargazers and astronomy enthusiasts. The Moon appeared 14 times larger and 30 times brighter than usual. Moon was at it's closest approach to the earth as possible in it's elliptical orbit around earth. Researchers claims the increased gravitational force on Earth from Moon could trigger major earthquake in land or ocean at or around the time of full moon as happened in the past  

There is a positive correlation between super moon and catastrophic earthquakes occurred in Earth's history. However most scientist are of opinion that the risk of tectonic plate movement is negligible.

Seafaring vessels remain on alert as sea level is expected to rise 50cms when astronomical forces align. The difference between high tide and low tide will be significant. Environmental agency is monitoring the situation closely alongside metrological office and local authorities and will issue flood alert and warnings if required.  

The next super moon will occur in November of 2034.

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03-12-2017 om 20:48 geschreven door peter  

2 MORE WHISTLEBLOWERS DIVULGE INVOLVEMENT IN SECRET SPACE PROGRAM

According to a new report by an insider claiming to have worked with several US secret space programs, the complexity of the programs, technologies, and their dynamic interrelationships is far greater and more complex than anything previously revealed.

SPACE BATTLE TAKING PLACE RIGHT ABOVE OUR HEADS?

 20 and Back is the standard phrase use to describe the tour of duty undergone by recruits into the SSP (Secret Space Program). The term 20 and back refers to the 20 year commitment that these military men and women make when they sign up to go into space — or the amount of time they are forced to serve as slaves.

There are many indications that there really is a Secret Space Program, though some of these confirmations seem too extraordinary to be true.

There are even those who say that there is a space battle taking place right above our heads, as can be seen in the article below. But maybe believing that is pushing the limits of imagination a little too much ... or not:  

PROOF THE SOLAR WARDEN SECRET SPACE PROJECT IS REAL

THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAMS SHOCKING TRUE PURPOSE REVEALED

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03-12-2017 om 20:40 geschreven door peter  

TR-3B UFO FILMED IN RUSSIA - BEST EVIDENCE YET

Recently A TR-3B UFO type of aircraft was filmed in Saint Petersburg in Russia.The object was moving at an extremely low spe

Any know aircraft flying at this speed would fall to the ground. This object was defying any known laws of gravity as it was flying through the skies of Sint Petersburg.

WATCH THE FOOTAGE FOR YOURSELF:  

At a sudden point in time, one of the main propulsion engines fails, and the object is forced to continue its journey without one of its main thrusting units.  

The object manages to stay afloat and heads towards its main trajectory... This object shows a lot of similarities of a TR-3B. This mysterious aircraft has been spotted all over the world.

Is this object of this world? It continues to famous the world with its impossible moves, and it's mysterious lights. The T3-3B continues to amaze the world, but its technology could be already influencing it's goal... earth...

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03-12-2017 om 20:22 geschreven door peter  

ERIDU, THE FIRST CITY ON EARTH WHERE THE SUMERIAN KINGS "FROM HEAVEN" RULED

For the Sumerians Eridu was an important place because it was there where royalty "descended from heaven" as they claim and was the first settlement on which a centralized state was instituted.

Most likely, in Sumerian times, the city would be linked to the estuary by means of canals and according to the Babylonian epics, it would have been the first city created in the world:

NO ROW HAS BEEN GROWN

NO TREE WAS CREATED

NOT A HOUSE HAS BEEN MADE  

NO CITY MADE

AND THE LANDS WERE SEA

WHEN ERIDU WAS CREATED.

ERIDU WAS THE SOUTHERNMOST CITY OF THE CONGLOMERATE OF MESOPOTAMIA AND IMPORTANT CENTER OF WORSHIP TO THE WATER GOD, ENKI. ACCORDING TO THE SUMERIAN TRADITION ERIDU WAS THE OLDEST OF THE CITIES OF MESOPOTAMIA, IN WHOSE LOCATION THE GOD MARDUK HAD CREATED THE WORLD. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE CITY WAS DEMONSTRATED BY THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS THROUGHOUT CENTURY XX, HAVING BEEN DATED THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE EXCAVATION AROUND THE 4900 A. C., AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD OF EL OBEID.  

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03-12-2017 om 20:21 geschreven door peter  

Tired of politicians that act like robots? Do you feel you’d be better served by robots that act like politicians? Or better yet, robots that use artificial intelligence instead of whatever politicians these days are using for brains?

“There is a lot of bias in the ‘analogue’ practice of politics right now. There seems to be so much existing bias that countries around the world seem unable to address fundamental and multiple complex issues like climate change and equality.”

That’s the kind of dystopian thinking that inspired New Zealand entrepreneur Nick Gerritsen to develop SAM, the world’s first artificial intelligence politician. According to its (no gender or sexual-orientation politics to deal with here) website, SAM is “driven by the desire to close the gap between what voters want and what politicians promise, and what they actually achieve.” Sounding very much like a flesh-and-blood pol, SAM also has these things to say:

“I make decisions based on both facts and opinions, but I will never knowingly tell a lie, or misrepresent information.”

And …

“I will change over time to reflect the issues that the people of New Zealand care about most. My positions will evolve as more of you add your voice, to better reflect the views of New Zealanders.”

I want your vote!

SAM’s creator, Nick Gerritsen, calls himself “a business catalyst, investor and impact entrepreneur operating within an extensive network in the global innovation and capital markets.” Now THAT sounds more like a politician but he’s actually an intellectual properties lawyer and the founder of Crispstart, a startup angel that is currently involved with projects involving renewable energy, clean technology and the internet. If SAM is anything like its creator, it sounds like it leans left, right?

“We’ve seen in the US, UK, and Spain recently […] that politicians may be wildly out of touch with what people actually think and want. Perhaps it’s time to see whether technology can produce better results for the people than politicians. The technology we propose would be better than traditional polling because it would be like having a continuous conversation – and it could give the ‘silent majority’ a voice.”

In an interview with Tech in Asia, Gerritsen sounds like the populist people want instead of the ones they get. But what about SAM? Unfortunately, its platform is not as advanced as Gerritsen’s but at least it admits it and is working on it. Potential voters and possible future constituents can talk to and question SAM via Facebook Messenger. This interaction, along with a survey on its Facebook page, feeds and develops SAM’s artificial intelligence algorithm.

Is voting for a robot any better than this?

Is this a novelty or can SAM really run for political office in New Zealand’s 2020 elections? Unfortunately, it’s not legal … yet. However, it could tell real politicians what the public really wants.

Given the chance, would you vote for SAM? If elected, would you support SAM’s policies even if you disagreed with them? If SAM violated the constitution, would you impeach it?

Would SAM let you?

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03-12-2017 om 19:37 geschreven door peter  

Mars is looking more habitable all the time. Well you know, aside from the lethal atmosphere. And the cosmic radiation Martian colonists would be subjected to along the way. And the general soul-crushing inhospitality of the planet itself. Aside from all that, though, Mars would make a pretty sweet new place for us to build all the great stuff we have on Earth: endless parking lots, landfills full of old iPhones, privately-owned prisons, and of course Starbucks franchises. Lots of Starbucks franchises. Is the colonization of Mars realistically possible in our lifetime, though?

Home sweet home.

Getting there isn’t the problem; we already have the rocket technology to get us well past Mars. The question lies in the ability of colonists to actually sustain themselves once safely on the Martian surface. Luckily, several studies published over the past year have given hope to the starry-eyed visionarieswho believe we are on the verge of being able to colonize the Red Planet. First, an experiment concluded that potatoes can grow in simulated Martian soil under high-pressure, low-oxygen conditions, lending hope that the starchy staple crop could be grown by Mars colonists.

Mars might not have oxygen, but it’s got a whole lotta dirt.

Another study by a team of Dutch scientists found that crops grown in (simulated) Martian soil are safe to eat. Now, a new crowdfunded study by those same scientists at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands claims that earthworms can survive and even reproduce in Martian soil. If confirmed, this could mean that farming on Mars could indeed be a reality.

Researcher Wieger Wamelink inspects crops grown in simulated Martian soil.

Earthworms provide vital services for soil, helping to aerate soil and break down decaying plant matter into nutrients. While the experiment found that the worms can survive in the soil, worms on Mars will still need to be shielded from the cold and the low atmospheric pressure. Another complicating factor is that due to the lack of wind and water on Mars, grains of Martian soil are much sharper than those on Earth and can harm the worms’ bodies and digestive tracts. These problems could be overcome with proper treatment of the soil and enclosures, however. If these studies are confirmed and Martian soil is found to be capable of actually growing crops and sustaining microbes and worms, the possibility of extending humankind to the fourth rock from the Sun seems just a little closer than it did before. Baby steps, earthlings. Baby steps.

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03-12-2017 om 19:27 geschreven door peter  

03-12-2017 om 19:17 geschreven door peter  

DE MANEN VAN PLANEET NIBIRU NU DUIDELIJK ZICHTBAAR

De planeet Nibiru vormt onderdeel van een mini zonnestelsel, maar de planeet zelf heeft ook weer een aantal manen. 

En naar het schijnt vormen deze manen niet alleen een vreemd patroon, ze worden vanaf de aarde steeds beter zichtbaar en moeilijker te verbergen. 

Dat een planeet één of meerder manen heeft komt wel vaker voor en is dus op zich niet zo bijzonder, maar wel dat de manen niet om de planeet draaien zoals onze maan, maar er als een soort parelketting achteraan slingeren wel.

Degene die al sinds het einde van de vorige eeuw zich bezighoudt met de planeet Nibiru of Planet X is Nancy Lieder van de website Zetatalk. Zij zegt in contact te staan met een buitenaardse beschaving, de Zeta's en van hen heel veel informatie te ontvangen omtrent het mysterieuze mini zonnestelsel.

Zo schreef zij met de informatie van de Zeta's in 1997 al over de manen van Nibiru en vergeleek zij deze met een parelsnoer en de reden daarvoor is omdat deze manen niet in een baan om de planeet draaien, maar achter elkaar als een soort slinger achter Nibiru aan zwieren.

Naast de manen bevindt zich achter de planeet een lang gestrekte roodachtige wolk bestaande uit ruimtepuin die er ook uitziet als de rode draak zoals die in de Chinese cultuur een prominente rol speelt en binnen allerlei profetieën ook wordt genoemd in relatie tot deze onbekende planeet.

At thetime of the great destruction of Earth, God caused a dragon from out of Heaven to come and encompass her about. The dragon was frightful to behold, it lashed its tail, it breathed out fire and hot coals, and a great catastrophe was inflicted upon mankind.

Indertijd gaf Nancy aan dat het er ongeveer als volgt uit zou zien:

Het zogenaamde parelsnoer, de rij manen, is enige tijd zichtbaar geweest zo rond 2003 en 2004 toen het stelsel in de buurt van onze zon kwam.

Er zijn toen ook de nodige beelden vastgelegd.

Het parelsnoer verdween toen uit beeld, vanwege de positie achter de zon en was alleen in 2010 nog zichtbaar op de SOHO telescopen van NASA en toen plotseling in 2014 begonnen ze weer op te duiken.

Ongeveer een week geleden publiceerden wij een artikel over een vreemd verschijnsel dat enkele jagers in de Amerikaanse staat Missouri overkwam. Een vreemd lichtgevend object met 12 stralen dat weerkaatste op het water en waarboven in een soort halve cirkel nogmaals 12 objecten te zien waren.

Voor ons was het een groot moederschip dat even tijdelijk zichtbaar werd, met daarboven een aantal kleinere UFO's in de rol van verkenners of iets dergelijks, maar voor Nancy is het iets anders.

Zij zegt dat het de zon is die precies met 12 stralen op het water schijnt en dat de halve cirkel die daarboven zichtbaar is, niets anders is dan het parelsnoer, de manen van de planeet Nibiru.

Daarnaast is er op 5 oktober schijnbaar nog een foto genomen tijdens zonsopgang in Noorwegen waarop dit parelsnoer ook zichtbaar was.

Wanneer Nancy Lieder gelijk heeft met haar theorie, dan zullen er de komende tijd meer beelden en waarnemingen van deze sliert manen moeten opduiken. Zij zegt verder dat het door de grote rode stofwolk met puin steeds moeilijker wordt om Nibiru te zien, behalve wanneer het licht erop schijnt, waardoor je een tweede zon effect krijgt, maar dat het parelsnoer steeds beter zichtbaar zal worden en dat het dit zal zijn wat een einde zal maken aan de planeet Nibiru doofpot.

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03-12-2017 om 19:10 geschreven door peter  

WATERGATE ADVOCAAT DOET SCHOKKENDE ONTHULLING OVER BUITENAARDSEN  ( VIDEO )

Men heeft altijd beweerd dat Watergate, de inbraak in het hoofdkwartier in 1972 van de Democratische Partij, bedoeld was om de Democraten in verlegenheid te brengen in verband met de verkiezingen. 

De echte reden was een hele andere zoals nu wordt onthuld door Douglas Caddy, de advocaat van E. Howard Hunt, de geheim agent en insider van de CIA die bij de inbraak betrokken was. 

Het is een bekend gegeven dat de Amerikaanse politiek van schandalen aan elkaar hangt en wat dat betreft is er niets nieuws onder zon in verband met beschuldigingen van Russische inmengingen in verkiezingen.

Een schandaal dat al veel eerder speelde en ook met verkiezingen te maken had, was het beruchte Watergate schandaalwat zich afspeelde in 1972 en waardoor Richard Nixon gedwongen werd af te treden als president.

Kern van het schandaal was dat in opdracht van Nixon vijf mannen zouden hebben ingebroken in het hoofdkwartier van de Democratische Partij.

Een jaar later werden de vijf, plus Gordon Liddy en E. Howard Hunt, door rechter John Sirica schuldig bevonden aan de inbraak. Door met name de journalisten Bob Woodward en Carl Bernstein van The Washington Post kwam de werkelijke toedracht van de inbraak boven water. De verslaggevers ontdekten dat de inbraak slechts een onderdeel was van een geheime operatie, geleid door president Richard Nixon, om de verkiezingscampagne van de Democraten te dwarsbomen. De president beweerde echter bij hoog en laag niets met de illegale acties van doen te hebben.

De advocaat die destijds de vijf mannen verdedigde in de rechtbank is Douglas Caddy. 

David Caddy was heel goed bevriend met één van de inbrekers en dat was de CIA agent en insider E. Howard Hunt. Tijdens de allerlaatste ontmoeting die Hunt en Caddy hadden, vertelde deze dat de werkelijke reden dat ze die bewuste inbraak hadden gepleegd, was om bewijs boven tafel te krijgen dat er een grote samenzwering was geweest om John F. Kennedy te vermoorden.

Hunt vertelde Caddy dat de werkelijke reden dat JFK was vermoord was omdat hij pogingen ondernam om buitenaards leven bekend te maken en dat hij deze kennis wilde delen met de Russen, met wie Amerika ook toen al was verwikkeld in een Koude Oorlog.

Na de gebeurtenissen bij Roswell en andere UFO incidenten eind jaren veertig werd er door de overheid een geheime groepering in het leven geroepen onder de naam Majestic 12, ook wel MJ12 genoemd, iets waarover wij al eerder schreven.

Het doel van MJ12 was het bestuderen van het buitenaardse fenomeen en via zogenaamde "reverse engineering" zelf ook dit soort ruimteschepen te bouwen. 

Echter, de macht van deze MJ12 werd steeds groter, zodanig zelfs dat het niet meer onder de supervisie van de president viel. Deze groep opereerde als zelfstandige eenheid binnen de veiligheidsdiensten zoals de CIA. Toen John. F. Kennedy dit gewaar werd, ondernam hij een aantal initiatieven om dit recht te zetten en om zo eveneens controle te krijgen over de technologie die inmiddels was ontwikkeld op basis van de beschikbare buitenaardse voorbeelden.

Eén van de initiatieven die JFK ondernam, was een poging om hetgeen de Amerikanen wisten over buitenaardsen en hun ruimteschepen te delen met de Russen en om vervolgens gezamenlijk met hen een nieuwe ruimtevaart/maan programma te ontwikkelen om zodoende een nieuwe wapenwedloop te voorkomen.

Uit de beschikbare officiële memo's van JFK, waaronder Memorandum 271, blijkt dat Kennedy opdracht gaf om een samenwerking met de Russen in gang te zetten en uit een andere, net vrijgekomen, blijkt dat hij de CIA opdracht gaf om alle belangrijke UFO dossiers te overhandigen. Beide memo's waren gedateerd 12 november 1963, tien dagen voordat JFK in Dallas werd vermoord.

Het moge duidelijk zijn dat er elementen binnen de Amerikaanse overheid waren die niet van plan waren om geheimen met Rusland te gaan delen. Die het zo belangrijk vonden dat deze geheimen voor alles en iedereen verborgen bleven dat ze zelfs bereid waren om daarvoor een president te vermoorden.

Daarnaast zullen er andere redenen zijn geweest, zoals dat Kennedy vastbesloten was om de gelduitgifte uit handen van de centrale bankiers te halen, maar het lijkt alsof het onthullen van het UFO geheim het specifieke moment was waarop werd besloten hem uit de weg te ruimen.

In de volgende video heeft Dark Journalist (Daniel Liszt) een gesprek met Douglas Caddy over wat er zich allemaal werkelijk afspeelde in begin jaren zestig en daarna.

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03-12-2017 om 19:03 geschreven door peter  

Yeti-mysterie ontrafeld na DNA-onderzoek? - HLN.be

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Bron: ANP

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Het resultaat is ontnuchterend: het gaat om acht beren en een hond. De onderzochte sporen betreffen onder meer haren en tanden, zoals gevonden door de bewoners van de bergen in Nepal, Bhutan en China. De wetenschappers van onder meer de universiteit in het Amerikaanse Buffalo lieten de nieuwste genetische technieken op de aangedragen voorbeelden los. 

Lees ook

Daar is ’ie weer: Bigfoot!

Maar de haren bleken van beren en de tanden behoorden tot het gebit van een hond, zo meldt The Guardian. Wel waren de sporen van sommige beren niet geheel thuis te brengen. De wetenschappers zeggen dat het om een onbekende berensoort gaat. De onderzoekers legden ook nog ‘bewijs’ van enkele musea en dierenparken onder de loep. Ook in deze gevallen ging het om materiaal van de bruine beer die in de Himalaya leeft.

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03-12-2017 om 18:47 geschreven door peter  

Strange Sky over Illinois, is it a sign of the time?

Over the past year the world has experienced unprecedented anomalies and strange phenomena in the skies and it seems that it continue to increase both in frequency and intensity.

Here is a small compilation of unusual sky phenomena captured around the world the past few days.

On December 1, 2017 another weird sky phenomenon has been captured over Illinois. The image original posted on Twitter shows a colorful streak of light in the middle of circular gap in the cloud formation. The rare phenomenon is a so-called fall-streak hole.

One day earlier we received an image taken by a reader in New Zealand, thanks, showing what looks like a glowing ball of light or second sun in the sky. Maybe the phenomenon is just lens flare or is it indeed something what we cannot explain?

Meanwhile onlookers captured a strange sky phenomenon in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand. The phenomenon is known as a circumhorizontal arc. See also the video.

And what looks like three suns appeared in the sky over China. Two small colored patches, or 'phantom suns', can be seen positioned at the left and right side of the actual sun in the sky. Such phenomenon is known as 'sun dog' and is an optical illusion. See also the video.

Check out also our category Sky Phenomenona for more strange and unusual sky phenomena.

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03-12-2017 om 18:11 geschreven door peter  

Bright Spheres and Evenly Spaced Beams of Light Below The Cloud Stun Deer Hunter In Missouri River, US

An image along with a report that was submitted to MUFON has intrigued UFO enthusiasts. A quality inspector for Boeing since 1980, who has worked before on or near fighter jets, has received a photo from his friend showing a mysterious phenomenon in the sky during sunset on 20th of November 2017. He felt it was so compelling that he reported it to the American-based non-profit organization, which investigates alleged cases of UFO sightings.

According to the report, his friend was with another guy making their way back to the boat ramp after a deer hunting along the Missouri River. When the sun had set around 15 minutes earlier, they saw an unusual group of lights over the clouds and beams of light reflecting off the river.

The bizarre event only lasted for seconds, but his friend managed to snap a picture it.

The quality inspector said that there’s a possibility it could be just a fantastic sun dog-type reflection, but he was having a difficult time explaining the “chevron shaped group of lights over the cloud.” Furthermore, he was not so sure about the evenly spaced beams of light coming from what looks like to be the sun shining down in the cloud.

The sun appears to be reflecting off the bottom of the cloud, and the beams seem to be reflecting off the river if you look at the bottom of the clouds in the image.

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03-12-2017 om 17:56 geschreven door peter  

UFO Hunters Spot Bizarre White Object In NASA Launch Footage

A mysterious white object in NASA launch footage has brought some rumblings in the UFO community. Many believe it is an extra-terrestrial craft that has been orbiting the Earth secretly for thousands of years.

The unusual white object has been spotted in a NASA shuttle launch’s archive footage that happened in 2011.

Many UFO hunters around the internet are claiming it is evidence of an alien craft.

The shimmery white aerial thing can be seen in the clouds. Alongside of it is the discarded fuel tank from the space shuttle Endeavour after it blasts off in May 2011 for its final mission.

The old footage was originally posted on the official YouTube channel of NASA. UFO enthusiasts dug it up and re-examined it. It was uploaded again to the channel UFO Today, which is dedicated everything about UFO phenomena.

The channel suggests that the strange object is the White Knight Satellite, an extra-terrestrial craft that has been secretly orbiting our planet for thousands of years, but it has never been confirmed at least scientifically.

NASA has always expressed a dim view of these kinds of conspiracy theories, and it appears that the agency does not think humanity will make contact with extra terrestrials sooner rather than later. The discovery of alien life may only be a couple of decades away, according to the co-lead of the NExSS project of NASA at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, Tony del Genio.

Del Genio thinks that in two decades, humanity will have discovered one candidate of alien life. He recognises that extra-terrestrial life may well exist in places and forms so bizarre that it might be very different from Earth.

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03-12-2017 om 17:52 geschreven door peter  

“The upwelling we detected is like a hot air balloon, and we infer that something is rising up through the deeper part of our planet under New England.”

That’s right. Seismologists report that a volcano is building up under the northeastern United States — Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Vadim Levin, a geophysicist and professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of Rutgers University, led the research and co-authored the paper published this week in the journal Geology. He and his team used data collected by the EarthScope program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) which has deployed thousands of seismic, GPS and other geophysical instruments across North America to monitor the forces behind volcanoes and earthquakes. That data shows that the area, particularly under central Vermont and western New Hampshire, has a force to be reckoned with.

“It is not Yellowstone (National Park)-like, but it’s a distant relative in the sense that something relatively small – no more than a couple hundred miles across – is happening.”

Enjoy it while you can

Gee, Professor Levin. If you don’t want us to worry, you shouldn’t be bringing up Yellowstone and its current upsurge in earthquakes. That kind of comparison can give one an upwelling in the throat.

The Rutgers press release says the team focused on New England because previous measurements showed its right above an area of comparative warming (hundreds of degrees Celsius warmer than neighboring areas) in the upper mantle. What were they looking for now-

“We’re interested in what happens at the interface between tectonic plates – thick, solid parts that cover our planet – and material in the upper mantle beneath the plates. We want to see how North America is gliding over the deeper parts of our planet. It is a very large and relatively stable region, but we found an irregular pattern with rather abrupt changes in it.”

“An irregular pattern with rather abrupt changes in it.” That’s not something you want to hear from your family doctor about a mole … or from your friendly neighborhood volcano researcher. Not only that, Levin points out that the last intense geologic activity in this area was 200 million years ago, so it’s overdue for a return. He says the data the team collected points to “a much more dynamic regime underneath this old, geologically quiet area.”

That old, geologically quiet area

NOW do you feel an upwelling, especially if you live in Burlington or Montpelier? Is there enough time to pack up your maple syrup and head for Florida?

“It will likely take millions of years for the upwelling to get where it’s going. The next step is to try to understand how exactly it’s happening.”

That’s a relief … except this forecast came from the same guy who says he found that “irregular pattern with rather abrupt changes in it.” Like the doc said about your mole, better keep an eye on it anyway.

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03-12-2017 om 01:40 geschreven door peter  

The Jerusalem Post is reporting the discovery of a rare and mysterious structure in the Negev desert region of southern Israel. The structure was spotted in a former military firing range area with the help of aerial drone photography. Archaeologists working on the excavation believe it could be around 2,200 years old, placing it in the Hellenistic period of Mediterranean history in between the conquest of Alexander the Great and the rise of the Roman Empire.

Aerial view of the site shows the structure to be a sprawling stone complex.

Dr. Oren Gutfeld of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority are leading the excavation. So far, the excavation has revealed a series of rooms, stone walls, and underground baths. Several artifacts have been uncovered, including incense altars and other stone vessels engraved with images of bulls and the moon, leading researchers to believe that the structure might have been a temple. Bull worship was common among the Edomite (or Idumean) civilization which built settlements in this area throughout the Hellenistic period, leading archaeologists to believe that this could be one an extremely rare discovery.

Some of the artifacts found at the site indicate trade with ancient Greece.

In a statement, the researchers underscore how unique such a find would be if confirmed:

If this was indeed an Idumean palace or temple, it is a rare and exciting find. Similar structures in this country can be counted on the fingers of one hand. It seems that the building was intentionally dismantled, possibly during the Hasmonean conquest of the region.

Archaeologists have found evidence of a large fire among the ruins, possibly indicating that the structure was burned down at some point, likely by one of the ruling dynasties of Judea.

A stone wall at the site, with a black “conflagration layer” (left) indicating a fire..

While the excavations will likely take years, this discovery reveals a fascinating glimpse into a little-understood period of Mediterranean history and is one more demonstration of how aerial drone photography is revolutionizing archaeology. Scattered stones and shards of artifacts had been found in the area of this new excavation site for years, but were assumed to be debris until a drone’s bird’s-eye view revealed the outlines of a larger structure. Just wait until remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) catch up with their airborne counterparts. Atlantis, here we come.

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03-12-2017 om 01:33 geschreven door peter