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, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
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.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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UFO Mysteries: These Sightings Have Never Been Solved
UFO Mysteries: These Sightings Have Never Been Solved
"What people sometimes don't get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained," said an astrophysicist at MIT http://nyti.ms/2oDSel5
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
The shadowy program began in 2007 and was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, who has had a longtime interest in space phenomena.
Crashes in Roswell, New Mexico, and flashing lights over New Jersey — for decades, people around the world have looked up at the skies and reported mysterious unidentified objects (UFOs).
But are these sightings signs of alien visitation? And are they truly unexplained?
A recent New York Times investigation found that the Pentagon had, for years, funded a program to answer just that question. The program found several reports of aircraft that seemed to travel at high speeds and have no signs of propulsion, the Times reported.
While the vast majority of UFO sightings, when investigated, have turned out to be the result of ordinary Earthly phenomena, such as weather balloons, flares or rockets, some still leave experts scratching their heads — and looking to the skies for little green men. From white Tic Tacs to flashing lights, here are some of the most mysterious UFO sightings out there. [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]
Fighter pilot encounter
The Times investigation highlighted one of the most intriguing UFO sightings, which was captured on video. In 2004, two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets (also called Super Hornet or Hornet) encountered a mysterious flying object near San Diego, The New York Times reported. The object seemed to be traveling at high speeds, was surrounded by a glowing halo and was rotating as it moved. According to audio from the event, one of the fighter pilots exclaimed, "There's a whole fleet of them," the Times reported.
One of the Navy pilots who witnessed the bizarre event, Cmdr. David Fravor, recalled that the object looked like "a white Tic Tac, about the same size as a Hornet, 40 feet [12 meters] long with no wings," Fravor told The Washington Post. As his plane approached the UFO, the mysterious object accelerated "faster than I'd ever seen anything in my life," Fravor said.
Fravor, for his part, is convinced that the source of the object was extraterrestrial, he told The Washington Post.
French encounter
In 1981, a 55-year-old farmer in Trans-en-Provence, France, reported hearing a strange, high-pitched sound before seeing a flying saucer nearby. The lead-colored UFO took off almost immediately, he said.
What makes this sighting unique is that the farmer immediately contacted local police, who took soil and plant samples, according to a report of the incident. Experts from France's UFO-investigating body, formerly called Groupe d'Études et d'Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (GEPAN), said the chemical evidence was consistent with heating of the soil and pressure from a heavy object. They also found traces of zinc and phosphate and evidence of abnormalities in the plants nearby.
However, skeptics said the smooshed plants could have been caused by tires, and cars had been heard traveling in the area around the same time as the farmer's sighting. Because there was a military base nearby, another explanation is that the French military was testing an experimental craft.
Sighting by retired astronaut
In general, some of the most reputable or credible sightings come from those who are in the skies all day long: pilots and members of the military. The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) logged one such sighting in 2013, Vice reported. Late in the evening in 2013, the man, a former commercial pilot, fighter pilot and astronaut, was looking at the sky with his family in Athens, Texas, when he noticed what looked like an orange, glowing fireball.
"When I looked up into the sky, I saw a fairly large, orange, glowing orb moving rapidly overhead [at] right about 90 degrees of elevation," the man reported to the NUFORC.
After a few minutes, a group of three similar objects followed the same flight path. Three minutes later, two more objects flew along that same route. The objects gave off no sound and seemed to glow from atmospheric heating, the man reported. He and his family attempted to record the objects using their iPhones, though the grainy, dark video was difficult to decipher, he said.
"They moved much faster than orbital satellites (International Space Station, for example) or airplanes, but much slower than meteors and did not change brightness as a meteor would upon entering the atmosphere," the man said in his call. "I have no explanation for what we saw."
Lights over Mount Shasta
Another report from the NUFORC came from an airline captain who was flying between Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, when he noticed glowing blue lights over Mount Shasta in California that appeared much brighter than the stars typically do in the area.
"The two lights were approximately an inch apart in the windscreen and the size of normal stars," the captain noted in a report. Then, "one of the 'stars' just dimmed out over about a 10-second time span followed by the other one dimming out completely in about 10 seconds also."
"We were flying in crystal-clear skies and were not flying though any clouds whatsoever. These two lights were not following the typical west-to-east orbital path as most satellites do and were just sitting there kind of like ships hiding in plain sight," the captain reported to the NUFORC.
The lights also appeared to be far above the level of the plane, which was flying at 38,000 feet (11,580 m).
Not so U-FOs
For every unexplained sighting, there are dozens that turn out to be military flares, weird cloud formations, weather phenomena or elaborate hoaxes. For instance, GEPAN's database suggests that only 7 percent of all supposed UFO sightings are truly unexplained.
In the 1940s, the U.S. Air Force began investigating UFO sightings, and that program, called Project Blue Book, logged more than 12,000 reported sightings before it was shuttered in 1969. Most of those Project Blue Book sightings were ultimately explained. While a few remained unexplained, the people involved in the program were skeptical that these cases were true alien sightings or completely unknown physical phenomena.
"If more immediate, detailed, objective data on the unknowns had been available, probably these, too, could have been explained," a report in the Project Blue Book archive noted. However, the fact that human factors are involved — in particular, personal impressions and interpretations, rather than accurate scientific data — it's likely impossible to eliminate all unidentified sightings, the report noted.
WHAT IS THE UNIVERSE? REAL PHYSICS HAS SOME MIND-BENDING ANSWERS
WHAT IS THE UNIVERSE? REAL PHYSICS HAS SOME MIND-BENDING ANSWERS
The questions are as big as the universe and (almost) as old as time: Where did I come from, and why am I here? That may sound like a query for a philosopher, but if you crave a more scientific response, try asking a cosmologist.
This branch of physics is hard at work trying to decode the nature of reality by matching mathematical theories with a bevy of evidence. Today most cosmologists think that the universe was created during the big bang about 13.8 billion years ago, and it is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. The cosmos is woven into a fabric we call space-time, which is embroidered with a cosmic web of brilliant galaxies and invisible dark matter.
It sounds a little strange, but piles of pictures, experimental data and models compiled over decades can back up this description. And as new information gets added to the picture, cosmologists are considering even wilder ways to describe the universe—including some outlandish proposals that are nevertheless rooted in solid science:
Will this collection of lasers and mirrors prove the universe is a 2D hologram? (Fermilab)
The universe is a hologram
Look at a standard hologram, printed on a 2D surface, and you’ll see a 3D projection of the image. Decrease the size of the individual dots that make up the image, and the hologram gets sharper. In the 1990s, physicists realized that something like this could be happening with our universe.
Classical physics describes the fabric of space-time as a four-dimensional structure, with three dimensions of space and one of time. Einstein’s theory of general relativity says that, at its most basic level, this fabric should be smooth and continuous. But that was before quantum mechanics leapt onto the scene. While relativity is great at describing the universe on visible scales, quantum physics tells us all about the way things work on the level of atoms and subatomic particles. According to quantum theories, if you examine the fabric of space-time close enough, it should be made of teeny-tiny grains of information, each a hundred billion billion times smaller than a proton.
Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind and Nobel prize winner Gerard ’t Hooft have each presented calculations showing what happens when you try to combine quantum and relativistic descriptions of space-time. They found that, mathematically speaking, the fabric should be a 2D surface, and the grains should act like the dots in a vast cosmic image, defining the “resolution” of our 3D universe. Quantum mechanics also tells us that these grains should experience random jitters that might occasionally blur the projection and thus be detectable. Last month, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory started collecting data with a highly sensitive arrangement of lasers and mirrors called the Holometer. This instrument is finely tuned to pick up miniscule motion in space-time and reveal whether it is in fact grainy at the smallest scale. The experiment should gather data for at least a year, so we may know soon enough if we’re living in a hologram.
The universe is a computer simulation
Just like the plot of the Matrix, you may be living in a highly advanced computer program and not even know it. Some version of this thinking has been debated since long before Keanu uttered his first “whoa”. Plato wondered if the world as we perceive it is an illusion, and modern mathematicians grapple with the reason math is universal—why is it that no matter when or where you look, 2 + 2 must always equal 4? Maybe because that is a fundamental part of the way the universe was coded.
In 2012, physicists at the University of Washington in Seattle said that if we do live in a digital simulation, there might be a way to find out. Standard computer models are based on a 3D grid, and sometimes the grid itself generates specific anomalies in the data. If the universe is a vast grid, the motions and distributions of high-energy particles called cosmic rays may reveal similar anomalies—a glitch in the Matrix—and give us a peek at the grid’s structure. A 2013 paper by MIT engineer Seth Lloyd builds the case for an intriguing spin on the concept: If space-time is made of quantum bits, the universe must be one giant quantum computer. Of course, both notions raise a troubling quandary: If the universe is a computer program, who or what wrote the code?
The universe is a black hole
Any “Astronomy 101” book will tell you that the universe burst into being during the big bang. But what existed before that point, and what triggered the explosion? A 2010 paper by Nikodem Poplawski, then at Indiana University, made the case that our universe was forged inside a really big black hole.
While Stephen Hawking keeps changing his mind, the popular definition of a black hole is a region of space-time so dense that, past a certain point, nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Black holes are born when dense packets of matter collapse in on themselves, such as during the deaths of especially hefty stars. Some versions of the equations that describe black holes go on to say that the compressed matter does not fully collapse into a point—or singularity—but instead bounces back, spewing out hot, scrambled matter.
Poplawski crunched the numbers and found that observations of the shape and composition of the universe match the mathematical picture of a black hole being born. The initial collapse would equal the big bang, and everything in and around us would be made from the cooled, rearranged components of that scrambled matter. Even better, the theory suggests that all the black holes in our universe may themselves be the gateways to alternate realities. So how do we test it? This model is based on black holes that spin, because that rotation is part of what prevents the original matter from fully collapsing. Poplawski says we should be able to see an echo of the spin inherited from our “parent” black hole in surveys of galaxies, with vast clusters moving in a slight, but potentially detectable, preferred direction.
The universe is a bubble in an ocean of universes
Another cosmic puzzle comes up when you consider what happened in the first slivers of a second after the big bang. Maps of relic light emitted shortly after the universe was born tell us that baby space-time grew exponentially in the blink of an eye before settling into a more sedate rate of expansion. This process, called inflation, is pretty popular among cosmologists, and it got a further boost this year with the potential (but still unconfirmed) discovery of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves, which would have been products of the rapid growth spurt.
If inflation is confirmed, some theorists would argue that we must live in a frothy sea of multiple universes. Some of the earliest models of inflation say that before the big bang, space-time contained what’s known as a false vacuum, a high-energy field devoid of matter and radiation that is inherently unstable. To reach a stable state, the vacuum began to bubble like a pot of boiling water. With each bubble, a new universe was born, giving rise to an endless multiverse.
The trouble with testing this idea is that the cosmos is ridiculously huge—the observable universe stretches for about 46 billion light years in all directions—and even our best telescopes can’t hope to peer at the surface of a bubble this big. One option, then, is to look for any evidence of our bubble universe colliding with another. Today our best maps of the big bang’s relic light do show an unusual cold spot in the sky that could be a “bruise” from bumping into a cosmic neighbor. Or it could be a statistical fluke. So a team of researchers led by Carroll Wainwright at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been running computer models to figure out what other sorts of traces a bubbly collision would leave in the big bang’s echo.
Tech: An alien hunter explains why extraterrestrial visitors are unlikely — despite the US government’s UFO evidence
Tech: An alien hunter explains why extraterrestrial visitors are unlikely — despite the US government’s UFO evidence
BY ROTHSCHILD JOBI
Astronomer Seth Shostak is skeptical about alien visitation: "It is a little odd that aliens would come hundreds and hundreds of light-years to do nothing."
The Department of Defense reportedly funded a program to investigate unidentified flying objects (UFOs), according to The New York Times and Politico.
One of the program's contractors said he is "absolutely convinced" that aliens frequently visit Earth.
However, scientists who look for extraterrestrial life say the published videos and other materials don't prove aliens were here.
Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, gives several basic arguments for his skepticism about extraterrestrial visitation.
On Saturday, The New York Times and Politico independently published stories confirming that the US government had quietly funded a program to study UFOs for years.
The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program "collected video and audio recordings of reported U.F.O. incidents," including one of an undated encounter with "an aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed and rotating as it moves," the Times wrote.
AATIP reportedly started in 2007 to study potential unknown military threats, and was funded by nearly $22 million of Department of Defense "black money".
DoD officials told The Times and Politico that it shut down the program in 2012. But Luis Elizondo, a military intelligence official who ran the research effort, allegedly continued its efforts after that.
Elizondo reportedly resigned in protest of the secrecy surrounding the program in October, and he now helps run a startup to research UFOs called the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
"These aircraft … are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory, nor in any foreign inventory that we're aware of," Elizondo told CNN on Monday. "My personal belief is that there's very compelling evidence that we may nto be alone. Whatever that means."
But Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, is not convinced — despite making a bet that we'll detect aliens within 20 years.
"If you see something in the air that you don't understand, and you're the guy in charge of the Air Force, you want to know what that is. It doesn't have much to do with aliens, necessarily," Shostak told Business Insider of AATIP's purpose. "But despite more than a half-century of this, the really good evidence that we're being visited still has failed to surface."
Traveling hundreds of light-years 'to do nothing'?
But that isn't the only reason Shostak is skeptical of alien visitation claims.
For one, the distances in space are mind-bogglingly vast. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, for example, is leaving the solar system at a clip of 38,000 miles per hour. If the probe was aimed at Proxima Centauri — the closest star to Earth besides the sun — it'd take nearly 75,000 years to reach that system, since it's roughly 4.24 light-years away from us.
Shostak said that alien civilizations would know about our existence if they're within about 35 light-years of Earth, since we haven't been sending signals into space for very long.
"The only way they could know that is to pick up, for example, signals from our transmitters — television, radio, radar, all that stuff. But those signals have been going out only since the second World War," Shostak said. "So if they're more than 35 light-years away, there hasn't been enough time for our signals to get to them, and for them to decide, 'Well this is worth the money to go down there and fly around.' Because they can't go faster than the speed of light, and they probably can't go the speed of light."
Within a generous 50 light-years, there are only about 1,400 star systems.
"That sounds like a big number, but it's a very small number if you're looking for intelligent beings," Shostak said. "Unless they're the next star system over, which is statistically rather unlikely."
Assuming that aliens regularly visit Earth defies logic in other ways, too. In nearly all credible reports of UFO sightings, there's no interaction with the witness (aside from claims of alien abductions, which evidence suggests are hallucinations caused by episodes of sleep paralysis).
"They're the best house guests ever. Because if they're here, they're not doing anything, except for occasionally puzzling pilots. … They don't help us. They don't hurt us. They don't do anything, just sail around." Shostak said. "It is a little odd that aliens would come hundreds and hundreds of light-years to do nothing."
Shostak compared this to Europeans discovering America, but not troubling any Native Americans: "They don't try and take any of their land, they don't bring any disease, they don't do anything; they just sort of walk around at the fringes of their settlements, leading to puzzling sightings, but that's it."
On top of this, Shostak thinks the reasons to visit Earth aren't very convincing.
"I always ask, 'Why are they here now?' They weren't visiting the founding fathers in the late 1700s, they're visiting us," he said. "The Romans weren't troubled by the aliens visiting. It doesn't make very much sense why they're here now."
Rooting out the nature of UFOs
Shostak rejects the notion that the news about AATIP and the Pentagon's footage constitute any proof of aliens.
About 90% of UFO sightings have explanations, he said, and that still doesn't mean the other 10% are aliens.
"It just means they're unexplained," he said. "It isn't that one shouldn't look into these — of course, if there really is something here, it'd be extraordinarily interesting to find out. But the fact that there are cases that are hard to explain and that sound rather convincing would be true no matter what the premise."
Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at MIT who hunts for signs of habitable planets, echoed this idea in the Times' story, telling the newspaper "what people sometimes don't get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained."
Another area of skepticism for Shostak is that AATIP contracted out much of its work to Bigelow Aerospace in Nevada. The real-estate billionaire Robert Bigelow runs that startup and is friend of former Nevada senator Harry Reid, who started AATIP — in part, according to the Times, due to persuasion from Bigelow. Shostak said he's met Bigelow, and describes him as a "very likable guy" who is a passionate believer in alien visitations, but "not a scientist."
"If you were investigating some phenomenon that you're not sure whether it's for real or not, but it would be extraordinarily important if were real … you would want somebody sort of impartial, I would think," Shostak said. "Giving this case to somebody who already knows what the answer is is maybe not terribly objective."
And then there are the sightings themselves, which likely have far simpler explanations than alien visitations. For example, sightings tend to spike in the summer for a variety of reasons.
Issues with camera hardware, unfamiliar optical effects, atmospheric phenomena, bright stars and planets, and the presence of unmanned aerial vehicles are all common explanations.
Though AATIP's unmasking has vindicated many claims by the UFO community that the government is covering up its research, it "may be a situation where they should have been careful what they wished for," Shostak said. "The government said, 'Well, yeah — we did have a program, and we did cover it up, but we didn't find anything.'"
Indeed, an anonymous senior intelligence official told Politico that AATIP began mostly to root out the existence of unknown Chinese and Russian military technologies. But after a couple of years, "the consensus was we really couldn't find anything of substance," the official said. "They produced reams of paperwork. After all of that there was really nothing there that we could find."
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Have Attempts to Scan Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua Awoken Aliens Inside?
Have Attempts to Scan Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua Awoken Aliens Inside?
Matthew Loffhagen
Image credit: YouTube
The recent arrival and subesequent departure of our solar system's first known visitorfrom outside the sun's own creative sphere has given scientists a lot to talk about.
Nick Pope, former specialist with the UK Military of Defense, warns that in scanning the visiting rock, we may have awoken some kind of ancient life forms that dwell within what some are already speculating is a spaceship in disguise.
"While nothing has been found yet, there's another intriguing possibility: If this ship is an alien probe, it's possible that our scans will awake the intelligence inside.... "Simply put, any alien ship searching for life may go into a dormant mode until it gets close to an inhabited planet."
Speaking with UK supermarket tabloid The Sun, Pope goes on to explain how he believes that an alien race might design a probe by strapping sensors to an existing asteroid and then hurling it out into space. According to Pope, this is a genuine possibility that experts are taking very seriously, although he fails to elaborate on which actual experts he's spoken to.
It's worth pointing out that in the grand scheme of things, The Sun newspaper does not exactly have a high reputation within the UK press. The tabloid is known primarily for featuring photos of topless women on its inside page, and it's safe to say that the paper isn't exactly The Guardian when it comes to original research.
Pope himself isn't exactly an expert in extra-terrestrial research, being best known as a television personality—albeit not a particularly famous one. Pope is generally good for a quote that can feed a scary quote about an ancient alien race, but not exactly a reliable source of accurate predictions about a floating cigar-shaped rock in space.
As unlikely as it is that 'Oumuamua is any kind of alien transport, what is interesting is that the rock does potentially contain biological matter that could one day prove to be influential in creating the spark of life.
A new theory about the formation of life on our planet suggests that fertile material which allowed our very first ancestors to thrive was created as an asteroid was exposed to cosmic rays in space, essentially creating the building blocks for organic life that then crashed down onto our planet. It could be that 'Oumuamua contains similar cosmic flotsam, and that if, one day, it crashes onto a suitable planet, it could help to create single-celled organisms to begin populating that distant world.
While we're probably not looking at an artifact from an ancient alien race when we observe 'Oumuamua, there's a possibility, however slim, that we're glimpsing the beginning of a new alien race that could form in thousands of years from now when the asteroid finds a home on the surface of a distant world.
VIDEOS. Le Père Noël ? Un ovni ? Un missile ? Le lancement d'une fusée de SpaceX offre un spectacle troublant dans le ciel californien
VIDEOS. Le Père Noël ? Un ovni ? Un missile ? Le lancement d'une fusée de SpaceX offre un spectacle troublant dans le ciel californien
La société américaine SpaceX a lancé vendredi dix nouveaux satellites de communication de la société Iridium avec sa fusée Falcon 9, le quatrième lancement sur huit prévus par SpaceX pour le compte de cette entreprise.
Une fusée Falcon 9 lancée par la société américaine SpaceX dans le ciel de Californie (Etats-Unis), vendredi 22 décembre 2017. (SOCIAL MEDIA / REUTERS)
"Ca va faire flipper tellement de gens à Los Angeles." "Regarde comme ça brille ! Oh mon dieu !" "Waouh !" Smartphones et caméras à la main, les témoins n'en croient pas leurs yeux : lancée par la société américaine Space X vendredi 22 décembre, une fusée Falcon 9 a illuminé le ciel du sud de la Californie, aux Etats-Unis.
Une trainée blanche dans la nuit, qui s'étire et s'allonge pour prendre la forme d'une méduse fumeuse parmi les étoiles... Le spectacle, visible jusque dans l'état voisin de l'Arizona, a intrigué de nombreux internautes, comme le rapporte le magazine Time. En effet, ceux qui n'étaient pas au courant du lancement prévu par SpaceX ont pu s'imaginer une invasion extraterrestre.
"Les extraterrestres existent et s'en est fini de l'espèce humaine", a tweeté un témoins, tandis que d'autres s'interrogeaient sur la possibilité qu'il s'agisse tout simplement du Père Noël.
Heureusement, une simple passage sur les réseau sociaux a pu rassurer les internautes. Et nombreux étaient ceux à savoir qu'il s'agissait simplement d'une fusée.
Si certains ont eu un peu peur, d'autres ont préféré en rire, mettant en doute la version officielle - le lancement prévu de SpaceX - afin de propager une théorie du complot. "SpaceX est une couverture pour les extraterrestres", a ainsi lancé un internautes, sur Twitter. "Il s'agissait bien d'extraterrestres", a même confirmé Elon Musk, le patron de SpaceX.
Et ce dernier d'ajouter, ironique : "Un extraterrestre nucléaire en provenance de Corée du Nord."
In its last launch of the year, on Friday, December 22, SpaceX successfully sent a communications satellite into orbit and created a stir on social media.
(Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post)
The people of Los Angeles can be forgiven if they were a little quick to jump to extraterrestrial conclusions.
So, it’s perfectly logical that Angelenos gazing into a darkening sky around 5:30 p.m. Friday would assume their city was in the midst of an alien invasion as they saw this:
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who ultimately wants to put people on a space-bound Megabus, fanned the flames by saying on Twitter that the jellyfish-like shape in the sky was a “nuclear alien UFO from North Korea.”
Southern Californians and other people out West, well, freaked out.
Jan Brewer, whose Twitter profile succinctly identifies her as “Arizona’s 22nd Governor” tweeted that she was wondering what the lights over Phoenix were. For some reason, she tagged President Donald Trump.
And many, many others pointed their smartphone cameras skyward, capturing what they assumed was the first sign of the alien apocalypse — or something — and musing about the vapory lights in the sky.
There was, of course, a perfectly reasonable explanation.
Musk’s SpaceX had launched an Irdium-4 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California — about 150 miles from the City of Angels.
According to the Los Angeles Times, officials had warned that people would be able to see the launch across Southern California and elsewhere on the western half of the country. There was even a live webcast for those with more than a passing interest in rockets.
The moment a SpaceX rocket launch produced a shining, billowing streak in the sky over California
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 10 satellites into orbit, left behind a trail of mystery and wonder as it soared into space after lifting off in the setting sun from coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
If you liked tonight’s launch, you will really like Falcon Heavy next month: 3 rocket cores & 3X thrust. 2 cores return to base doing synchronized aerobatics. 3rd lands on droneship.
What we know — and don't know — about aliens and UFOs
The Post's Cleve Wootson explains why a recent admission from the government is like pouring kerosene on UFO conspiracy theories.(Video: Monica Akhtar/Photo: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
'UFO invasion' in California was a nuclear alien sent by North Korea, claims Elon Musk
'UFO invasion' in California was a nuclear alien sent by North Korea, claims Elon Musk
DRAMATIC footage that illuminated the night sky with a luminous blue trail could be a “nuclear alien UFO” sent by “North Korea” according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
Cosmic Filament Probes Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole
Cosmic Filament Probes Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole
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The center of our Galaxy has been intensely studied for many years, but it still harbors surprises for scientists. A snake-like structure lurking near our galaxy’s supermassive black hole is the latest discovery to tantalize astronomers.
In 2016, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Northwestern University reported the discovery of an unusual filament near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy using the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). The filament is about 2.3 light years long and curves around to point at the supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), located in the Galactic center.
Now, another team of astronomers has employed a pioneering technique to produce the highest-quality image yet obtained of this curved object.
“With our improved image, we can now follow this filament much closer to the Galaxy’s central black hole, and it is now close enough to indicate to us that it must originate there,” said Mark Morris of the University of California, Los Angeles, who led the study. “However, we still have more work to do to find out what the true nature of this filament is.”
The researchers have considered three main explanations for the filament. The first is that it is caused by high-speed particles kicked away from the supermassive black hole. A spinning black hole coupled with gas spiraling inwards can produce a rotating, vertical tower of magnetic field that approaches or even threads the event horizon, the point of no return for infalling matter. Within this tower, particles would be sped up and produce radio emission as they spiral around magnetic field lines and stream away from the black hole.
The second, more fantastic, possibility is that the filament is a cosmic string, theoretical, as-yet undetected objects that are long, extremely thin objects that carry mass and electric currents. Previously, theorists had predicted that cosmic strings, if they exist, would migrate to the centers of galaxies. If the string moves close enough to the central black hole it might be captured once a portion of the string crosses the event horizon.
The final option is that the position and the direction of the filament aligning with the black hole are merely coincidental superpositions, and there is no real association between the two. This would imply it is like dozens of other known filaments found farther away from the center of the Galaxy. However, such a coincidence is quite unlikely to happen by chance.
“Part of the thrill of science is stumbling across a mystery that is not easy to solve,” said co-author Jun-Hui Zhao of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. “While we don’t have the answer yet, the path to finding it is fascinating. This result is motivating astronomers to build next generation radio telescopes with cutting edge technology.”
Each of the scenarios being investigated would provide intriguing insight if proven true. For example, if the filament is caused by particles being ejected by Sgr A*, this would reveal important information about the magnetic field in this special environment, showing that it is smooth and orderly rather than chaotic.
The second option, the cosmic string, would provide the first evidence for a highly speculative idea with profound implications for understanding gravity, space-time and the Universe itself.
Evidence for the idea that particles are being magnetically kicked away from the black hole would come from observing that particles further away from Sgr A* are less energetic than those close in. A test for the cosmic string idea will capitalize on the prediction by theorists that the string should move at a high fraction of the speed of light. Follow-up observations with the VLA should be able to detect the corresponding shift in position of the filament.
Even if the filament is not physically tied to Sgr A*, the bend in the shape of this filament is still unusual. The bend coincides with, and could be caused by, a shock wave, akin to a sonic boom, where the blast wave from an exploded star is colliding with the powerful winds blowing away from massive stars surrounding the central black hole.
“We will keep hunting until we have a solid explanation for this object,” said co-author Miller Goss, from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico. “And we are aiming to next produce even better, more revealing images.”
A paper describing these results appeared in the December 1st, 2017 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. CfA scientists, organized into six research divisions, study the origin, evolution and ultimate fate of the universe.
For more information, contact:
Megan Watzke Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics +1 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu
Peter Edmonds Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics +1 617-571-7279 pedmonds@cfa.harvard.edu
Deze reusachtige 2,3 lichtjaar lange structuur in het centrum van de Melkweg stelt astronomen voor een raadsel
Deze reusachtige 2,3 lichtjaar lange structuur in het centrum van de Melkweg stelt astronomen voor een raadsel
Sterrenkundigen hebben een nieuwe opname gemaakt van een vreemde slangvormige structuur die afgelopen jaar in het hart van de Melkweg is ontdekt.
Het reusachtige filament is 2,3 lichtjaar lang en wijst in de richting van het superzware zwarte gat Sagittarius A*, dat zo’n vier miljoen keer zwaarder is dan de zon.
In 2016 werd de ongewone structuur ontdekt door Farhad Yusef-Zadeh van de Northwestern University.
Snelle deeltjes
De astronomen hebben nog altijd geen idee hoe de mysterieuze structuur precies is ontstaan. Ze beschrijven drie mogelijke scenario’s.
De eerste mogelijkheid is dat het filament bestaat uit snelle deeltjes die uit het superzware zwarte gat ontsnappen.
Nog niet waargenomen objecten
Daarnaast kan de structuur een zogeheten kosmische snaar zijn, een keten van nog niet waargenomen objecten die lang en extreem dun zijn en die massa en elektrische stromen kunnen vervoeren.
Wetenschappers hebben eerder voorspeld dat kosmische snaren, als ze bestaan, naar het centrum van sterrenstelsels zouden migreren.
Mysterie
Tot slot is het ook mogelijk dat er geen relatie is tussen het filament en het superzware zwart gat. Maar astronomen achten de kans klein dat er geen verband is.
“Wat wetenschap spannend maakt is dat je op een mysterie kunt stuiten dat niet gemakkelijk kan worden verklaard,” zei coauteur Jun-Hui Zhao van het Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
For just about as long as the UFO phenomena has been around there has been the complimentary anomaly known as the notorious Men in Black. These phantom figures have long been reported to threaten and stalk certain eyewitnesses or those with insider knowledge of UFOs, usually warning them away from sharing what they have seen or know and always freaking them out. Reported from around the world, the Men in Black are typically almost universally described as being individuals, usually male, dressed in black suits or trench coats, often with sunglasses on even at night, mostly at least a bit odd-looking, and always displaying extremely bizarre behavior and mannerisms, and this is a phenomenon which my fellow Mysterious Contributor Nick Redfern has covered in far more detail than I intend to go into here. However, what has always intrigued me are the times when these frightening and creepy specters have actually been allegedly photographed or even filmed, and there are actually a few cases where this has allegedly happened. This is what I plan to delve into here, so let’s take a look.
Perhaps the earliest and best known purported image of a Man in Black comes from 1968, in Jersey City, in the United States, where a UFO researcher named Jack Robinson lived with his wife, Mary. The couple began to notice something strange going on when they would come home to find that their house seemed to have been searched or rummaged through, ransacked even, especially their files of the UFO phenomena, although there was never any sign of forced entry or burglary. Shortly after this, Mary claimed that she began to notice a peculiar stranger dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses lurking and loitering about the area of their apartment, who could sometimes be seen staring up at their window. This was all spooky to be sure, and the creeped out couple told a friend of theirs, Tim Green Beckley, about what was happening. My esteemed colleague Nick Redfern, an expert on the MIB phenomenon and author of numerous books on the matter including The Real Men in Black, talked about this stranger and what happened next in an interview with New Dawn Magazine, saying:
Mary said he had an unsettling look on his face, kind of unemotional and zombie-like. Mary happened to mention this to Tim and Jim, and because the guy appeared three days in a row, they decided to drive over early one morning and see if they could see the Man in Black for themselves. Sure enough, he was there, staring ahead, with the black sunglasses, long black coat, and enigmatic stare.
Beckley allegedly came by one day when the enigmatic man was prowling about and managed to capture a photograph of him before he sauntered off and was gone. Although it is inconclusive to say the least, the resulting photograph is believed to be one of the first and clearest photos of one of the alleged Men in Black. What does this picture show? Is this really one of the Men in Black or just a guy in black clothes hanging out on the street? It is hard to say, and the authenticity of the photograph has been much discussed in UFO circles.
The alleged photo of the Man in Black
Perhaps even more impressive than this is a purported piece of video footage that is said to show two of the Men in Black, which surfaced in April of 2012 from the Aerial Phenomena Investigations Team. The incident allegedly began at a hotel in Canada, when the hotel manager was approached by one of his bellboys, who seemed to be rather unsettled about something and wanted to talk in private. He then claimed that two mysterious men dressed in black suits and trench coats had approached him, and he told the manager:
Something really weird happened here yesterday, and you weren’t here. There were a couple of guys looking for you. Well, this is really hard for me to say, but there were a couple of really strange looking men that were here, and they kind of freaked everybody out, and they were asking questions about you. And I said, “I’m sorry, he’s actually not working today.”
The bizarre strangers were described as being very tall, and of exactly the same height, with very pale skin and generally looking “odd.” It was also noted that they appeared to have the same face, as if they were twins. The bellman claimed that the two strangers had not seemed to really believe that the manager wasn’t in at the time, and proceeded to look around the premises and question other employees, with one other hotel staff member who was approached saying of them:
They asked some questions about you, and they said strange things that I didn’t understand, and they were talking about governments and conspiracies, and none of it made any sense to me, but they were very, very scary. They had no facial hair, none. They had no eyebrows, no eyelashes, nothing. Their hair looked like they had a wig on, like it was attached to their hat, like it wasn’t even real. And the scariest thing, their eyes were so big, and so blue, that they almost hypnotized me a little bit. These men, they didn’t blink. Not once did I see them blink.
The hotel manager was a bit disturbed to hear all of this, but was still skeptical about the whole thing. He claims that he then went through the security footage to check it out and found exactly what had been described, with two strange men dressed in black entering the hotel through the front doors. Is footage this the real deal? If it is not a hoax, then who were these mysterious gentlemen and what did they want? Were these really the legendary Men in Black? We will probably never know.
A still from the footage at the hotel allegedly showing the Men in Black
Even more recent is a case of supposed photographic evidence of the Men in Black that came out in 2014, according to a UFOGrid report. In the report, two witnesses came forward to tell their tale of being harassed by the Men in Black in New Orleans, Louisiana. One of the witnesses was identified by the alias Jack Smith, now in his 50s, who claims that he had been relentlessly stalked by a pair of the mysterious entities wearing identical black suits his whole life, which he surmised was due to encounters he had had with the “grey” aliens back in his youth. He says that ever since, he had been menaced by the Men in Black for decades, saying:
They have let me know that I could be found where ever I was. What was said to me was threatening and they have caused me to live in fear a lot of the time. I know the truth. My good, close friends know the truth, as well.
On April 13, 2014, he claims that he and a friend were followed by the mysterious strangers, and that this time he managed to capture them on video staring directly at them. The day had started with Jack and his friend, Jane, going out for some sightseeing and lunch, and they found themselves waiting for a streetcar at the French Quarter’s Bienville Street station near Jackson Square. It was here where they would notice two weird looking men dressed in stuffy black suits despite the hot weather at the time, standing there milling about at the station, and Jane would say of them and their behavior:
I knew something was wrong immediately. They looked like identical twins. They were slim, and much taller than the average person. They were dressed in identical black suits, white shirts, skinny black ties, fedoras, and black sun glasses. They just looked so odd. They were pale, they were stiff, and they moved eerily in unison. They had oblong faces with a thin line for a mouth. Their whole vibe was cold and creepy. (They were) calm, but like how a reptile can appear calm. Twin lizards in suits. They leaned in simultaneously to communicate with each other. Their mouths opened slightly, but they were not talking. They were communicating something to each other, but not talking!
A still from the footage supposedly showing the Men in Black at Bienville Street station, New Orleans
The two strange men apparently waited there and repeatedly stared at Jack and Jane the entire time, but when the streetcar finally arrived after a 20-minute wait, the two men reportedly turned away and walked over to a shiny black car with a foreign license plate. The two then simply got into the vehicle and drove away. Jack had captured some of the encounter on his cell phone, and he would later relate to Jane what he thought they were, and although she was taken aback she had indeed seen it all herself so there was no denying that these were not ordinary people. Eerily, Jack later sent her the video footage he had taken, but Jane’s phone inexplicably deleted it, as well as all of the data on her SD card, which the cell phone company was unable to explain. The mysterious video also supposedly deleted itself off of another friend’s phone when Jack attempted to send it. Jack would finally send it to UFOGrid, telling them:
The thought of giving (the video) to anybody scares the hell out of me because when I tried to share it before bad things happened. The thought of what could possibly happen to me if I did release this…I honestly do fear for my life. This experience is awful. I can’t even begin to explain to you how awful it is. The very thought of stirring things up scares the heck out of me. I hope it can help someone that is struggling in silence because of MIB harassment. Whatever or whoever uses these [MIBs] to keep us in fear to control us, is despicable.
Again, what does this strange footage show? There are certainly men dressed in black visible, but it is impossible to tell if they had anything off about them or if they are really the Men in Black or not. And therein lies the trouble with capturing photographic or video evidence of these mysterious individuals. They appear as more or less human, albeit creepy looking, and any alleged photograph is difficult to assess, as it could very well just be some weirdo in a black suit. There is absolutely no way we can really know what we are really seeing in such images, nothing to mark it as truly outside of the explainable and so banishing such evidence to the limbo of mere speculation and rumor.
Indeed, it has not even really been ascertained just what the Men in Black are actually supposed to be in the first place. They are surrounded by so much lore and bizarreness that it is hard to say if they are agents from some secretive government organization, a freelance cabal with their own inscrutable agenda, aliens themselves, something more paranormal in nature, or simply an elaborate and persistent urban legend. Reports of the Men in Black help matters little, as they are so varied and absolutely riddled with myriad high strangeness. Just what are we even supposed to be dealing with here? To again quote my colleague Nick Redfern, when asked what he thought they were he has said in the past:
My personal conclusion is that there are at least two things going on. There are the government-originated MIB, and there are the weirder MIB. As for the former, I prove in the book (The Real Men in Black) that some can be traced back to official agencies of at least several governments. As for those stranger MIB, my personal view is that they are paranormal. Of course, much of this depends on how we define the paranormal! My personal view is that the MIB may be the inhabitants of multi-dimensions or extra-dimensions that co-exist with ours, and whose role it is to keep us away from the truth about not just UFOs, but a whole range of strange phenomena too. But as for why, that is the big question still eluding us!
Whatever the Men in Black are, they appear to be here to stay, and they invariably go hand in hand with the UFO phenomenon, whatever that all entails. Who they are, how they are linked to such oddities, and what their capacity is may likely be debated forever, but for those who have encountered them they are at the very least very real. While these figures have mostly been confined to the realm of witness accounts, with very little physical evidence, we are still left with these intriguing images. Are we really seeing the legendary Men in Black here? Is there any clue to be gleaned from these images and videos? It is all at the very least a baffling piece of the Men in Black puzzle.
First they came for our jobs, and we did nothing. Then they came for our board games, and we did nothing.
“They” are AI robots and the board game is chess. An AI robot programmed by engineers at Google was able to learn chess in four hours just by playing against itself. Then it proceeded to demolish the reigning AI chess bot in a 100 game tournament with 28 wins, 72 draws and no losses. If that’s not scary enough, it used moves and tactics never seen in the 1,500-year history of the game. But the most terrifying thing about this AI chess-monster is this … it was developed by Google.
“The ability of a machine to surpass centuries of human knowledge . . . is a world-changing tool.”
No less than Garry Kasparov, regarded by many as the greatest chess player of all time and the grandmaster lost to IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue in 1997, says he was more impressed with the victory, learning speed and strategic creativity of AlphaZero.
AlphaZero began (or should we start saying ‘was born’?) at DeepMind, a UK company that was bought in 2014 by Google for $500 million. It was originally AlphaGo, which in 2015 became the first computer Go program to beat a human professional Go player without handicaps on a full-sized 19×19 board. In October 2017, AlphaGo begat AlphaGo Zero, which had the ability to learn the game on its own from the rules rather than from inputting human games. In December 2017, AlphaGo Zero begat AlphaZero, a generalized version of the AI with the same ability to learn games by playing itself.
Hours after it was given the rules of chess, AlphaZero threw down the rook and challenged Stockfish 8, the greatest chess program ever developed. One hundred games later, there was a new champion.
In a paper published in arXiv, the team of developers explain AlphaZero’s secret ability and it is … intuition! Instead of grinding through ever larger numbers of possibilities like most other chess-playing programs, AlphaZero taught itself to test random lines of play and identify and focus on the most relevant ones. This allowed it to examine about 0.1 percent of the possible moves that Stockfish analyzed. As the chess geeks at chess.com point out, there was nothing chess-specific about how AlphaZero learned, allowing it to try moves that chess players (and programs based on their moves and games) would never consider, like using a King as an attacking piece.
The irony in all of this is apparent in the AI robot’s name … AlphaZero plays more like a human than any other chess-playing AI yet learned this with zero human input – just a set of rules and four hours of playing against itself. What other ‘games’ can it master beyond the ability of humans with just a set of rules and a few hours of computing time? Government? Business? War?
Do we really want this kind of power in the hands of Google? Sure, it’s better than Facebook, but Google?
« Au coeur de l’étrange, OVNI, les nouveaux dossiers secrets »
« Au coeur de l’étrange, OVNI, les nouveaux dossiers secrets »
Depuis quelques temps, le nombre d’observations d’ovnis est en net augmentation et beaucoup se demandent si nous ne sommes pas à l’aube d’une invasion. De plus, nombre de personnes issues des gouvernements commencent à parler de l’existence de dossiers secrets concernant les extraterrestres. Dans ce reportage, vous allez entendre des témoignages plus que troublants sur ce sujet.
Nous commençons ce reportage à Washington, le 29 avril 2013 où plus de 40 personnes de haut rang ont affirmé qu’une civilisation intelligente extraterrestre existait. Stanton Friedman, ancien physicien nucléaire a affirmé que ces preuves existaient réellement. Par ailleurs, John Callahan, ancien responsable de l’agence américaine de l’aviation civile a affirmé que la CIA avait récupéré tous les documents et avait obligé les témoins à garder le silence. Ces différents témoignages sont troublants. Toutes ces personnes veulent que la vérité éclate au grand jour et que les gouvernements arrêtent de nous mentir.
Pour connaitre la vérité, notre enquête commence à Kumburgaz, en Turquie où plusieurs ovnis auraient été aperçus entre 2007 et 2009. Le témoin de ces observations est un gardien de nuit et il a réussi à filmer un étrange engin. Egon Kragel explique qu’on peut y voir un appareil immense. Ces images sont surprenantes. De plus, d’autres témoins ont vu cet ovni et tous accréditent le témoignage et la vidéo du gardien de nuit. Cette affaire a fait la Une des journaux turcs. De ce fait, une enquête a été ouverte pour savoir si cette fameuse vidéo était réelle ou non. Après des analyses très poussées sur les images, tous les scientifiques s’accordent à dire qu’il s’agit d’un engin inconnu et ils le placent dans la catégorie ovnis. Pendant plusieurs jours, le même objet a été vu dans le ciel de Kumburgaz. Par la suite, un ufologue chilien a analysé le film et a mis à jour la présence d’extraterrestres dans ce vaisseau. Encore aujourd’hui, l’ovni turc reste un mystère.
Aujourd’hui et grâce à internet, on trouve ce genre d’image un peu partout dans le monde. Si certaines sont des montages, d’autres sont vraiment troublantes. Pour connaitre la vérité sur certaines vidéos, celles-ci sont montrées à des experts. La première est celle de l’ovni qui est entré dans le volcan Popocatépetl, prise le 25 octobre 2012 et les experts affirment que ces images sont réelles. C’est avec une photo de la Nasa montrant une forme noire sur la lune que les analyses continuent et les experts expliquent que cette forme provient d’un défaut de la lentille de l’appareil. D’autres vidéos leur sont montrées et aucune explication rationnelle ne peut être apportée.
En France, c’est le GEIPAN qui s’occupe de ces observations. Pour la plupart, les scientifiques trouvent une explication, mais une petite quantité résiste pourtant à leur expertise. Celle de l’affaire de la centrale nucléaire de Golfech où une observation a été faite en 2010 fait partie de ces affaires qui restent inexplicables. Le témoin a fait part de ce qu’il avait vu aux gendarmes en illustrant son témoignage par des dessins. Cet homme nous explique que le 6 octobre 2010, au environ de 20h00, il a vu un immense triangle noir entouré de lumières passer tout près de la centrale et à très basse altitude sans aucun bruit. Par ailleurs, il n’est pas seul à avoir vu cet engin et ils ont réussi à le filmer l’engin. Le lendemain, il a fait une déposition à la gendarmerie et son témoignage a été transmis au GEIPAN. Rapidement, ce dernier a conclu que cet ovni était un avion. Pourtant, le témoin est sûr que ce n’en était pas un.
Trois ans plus tard, l’homme a reçu un courrier l’informant que l’enquête était ré-ouverte. De plus, la centrale nucléaire était étroitement surveillée et personne ne comprend pourquoi les vidéos des caméras de surveillance n’ont pas été visionnées au début de l’enquête. Quelques mois après la réouverture de cet enquête, les journaux annonçaient que d’autres centrales nucléaires avaient été survolées par des drones. Pourtant, beaucoup affirment que ces engins n’avaient rien de drones et que leur technologie était beaucoup plus avancée que la nôtre.
Avec ces témoignages, on pourrait penser que les extraterrestres s’intéressent au nucléaire. C’est à partir de 1945, après l’explosion de la première bombe atomique que les apparitions d’ovnis ont considérablement augmenté. Les observations au-dessus de centrale nucléaire militaire ou civile se sont multipliées, comme pour le cas de la base militaire de Malmstrom où en 1967, des ovnis auraient désactivé des lancements de missiles avant de disparaitre. Ce phénomène s’était déjà produit sur d’autres bases.
Si pour certains, les extraterrestres veulent nous exterminer, d’autres pensent qu’au contraire, ils veulent nous protéger de nous-mêmes et de ce que nous pourrions faire avec le nucléaire. Certains témoins affirment même avoir été enlevés par des extraterrestres, comme l’histoire de François Kleindienst. En effet, l’homme explique que le matin du 10 janvier 1998, à Haravilliers, alors qu’il allait rejoindre des amis, il a vu un objet immense et rond passer au-dessus de sa voiture. Par la suite, il a perdu connaissance et ne se souvient de rien. De plus, ses amis qui étaient dans deux voitures différentes ont vécu la même chose. Dans le même temps, plusieurs habitants du village se sont réveillés vers midi alors qu’ils avaient l’habitude de se lever de bonne heure. Quelques temps plus tard, l’un des témoins prénommé Bruno a retrouvé la mémoire et il a affirmé avoir été enlevé par des extraterrestres. Son témoignage est époustouflant et il est difficile de remettre en question son récit, car l’homme a fait partie de l’armée.
Après tous ces témoignages, il est difficile de croire que les extraterrestres n’existent pas. Malgré tout, aucun rapport ne parle de vaisseaux extraterrestres et pour beaucoup, les autorités nous cacheraient la vérité. En effet, beaucoup pensent que les gouvernements en savent beaucoup plus que ce qu’ils veulent bien nous dire. De plus, en 1987 Ronald Reggan a fait une allusion sur une possible menace. D’autres gouvernements ont fait aussi allusions aux ovnis et vont même jusqu’à dire que certains seraient déjà présents sur terre.
Se pourrait-il que l’on nous cache la vérité ? Il semblerait que oui. Je vous laisse profiter de ce reportage édifiant.
NASA is planning the first interstellar journey in history to search for Aliens
NASA is planning the first interstellar journey in history to search for Aliens
NASA has set their sights on Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our Solar System, and wants the mission to take place in 2069 and look for signs of alien life.
After reaching the moon (again) and actually getting to Mars, the American Space agency wants to turn mankind into an interstellar species.
Despite the fact that the ‘mission’ does not have a name yet and most of the technology necessary to take us there does not even exist, the projected launch date would coincide with the centenary of the arrival of mankind to the Moon.
NASA is yet to develop the necessary technology to travel to Alpha Centauri in a reasonable time.
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Initially, scientists say that a spaceship which would need to travel at a minimum of 10 percent of the speed of light would be required to get us there.
The Alpha Centauri constellation is located 4.4 light-years away, and even if one-tenth of the speed of light were achieved, we would be able to visit the star system after a 44-year journey, reaching our nearest neighbor in 2113.
This means we need to ramp up our tech game. In order for mankind to really become an interstellar species, colonize other planets and moons, first in our solar system, we need to develop a technology that’s affordable, reusable, and fast. Really fast.
According to the New Scientist, NASA is considering sending tiny laser-powered probes that, in theory, can travel at a quarter of the speed of light. Other techniques under consideration include the use of nuclear reactions, or through collisions between antimatter and matter.
However, there are other options experts will consider. But, time is ticking so NASA will need all the help it can get to make a trip to Alpha Centauri a reality.
Perhaps the best way to start their journey to our closest cosmic neighbor is by developing a technology that would get us to Mars in a matter of weeks, then days.
Getting to Mars, and creating a transportation system between the two planets could serve as a starting point for further technology in development, and it would make traveling to Mars something routine.
As reported by Newsweek, NASA’s revolutionary mission in 2069 will visit Proxima B, a planet that was discovered not long ago and may be a world very similar to Earth. Interestingly, the manager of the Innovation Foundry at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Anthony Freeman called the entire project “very nebulous.”
Proxima Centauri B is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the closest star to the Sun—the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is in a triple star system. The planet—which has been hailed as Earth’s twin in the past—is located around 4.2 light-years from Earth, which makes it the closest known exoplanet to the Solar System.
In comparison, the only man-made spacecraft that has reached interstellar space is Voyager-1, which is currently traveling at LESS than 1 percent of 1 percent of the speed of life, reports Newsweek.
IF Voyager-1 had the ability to travel at 10 percent the speed of light, it would make it to Alpha Centauri in about 44 years.
The Return of the skull-shaped asteroid: Astronomers say it’s coming back in 2018
The Return of the skull-shaped asteroid: Astronomers say it’s coming back in 2018
The return of the “skull-shaped” asteroid: astronomers calculate when the weirdly shaped space rock will approach Earth.
There are strange things out there in space.
Astrophysicists have warned that our planet will have a new encounter with a strange asteroid that strangely resembles a skull.
The object in question is known as 2015 TB145 and possibly formed from the remains of an extinct comet say, experts.
But don’t worry, astronomers are confident it won’t collide with Earth anytime soon.
Image Credit: NAIC-Arecibo/NS
The asteroid measures between 625 and 700 meters in diameter and has a rotation period of 2.94 hours.
Astronomer Pablo Santos-Sanz, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (Spain), characterized it as „a “dark” asteroid, whose reflectance index is «scarcely superior to that of coal.“
“It is currently 3.7 astronomical units away from Earth; that is, 3.7 times the average distance from the Earth to the sun.”
The skull-shaped asteroid “has a magnitude of 26.5, which means it is only visible from Earth using very large telescopes or space telescopes.”
This celestial body caught the attention of scientists and amateur astronomers during its first approach to Earth, which coincided with Halloween on October of 2015.
Animation showing the rotation of the weirdly shaped space rock.
In 2015, the skull-shaped asteroid passed between a distance of 499,000 kilometers of our planet, traveling at a speed of 125,500 kilometers per hour.
During this ‘close’ encounter, astronomers observed the curious celestial body in order to try and gather as much information as possible.
Thanks to numerous measurements, which included observations with the Pan-STARRS telescope located in Hawaii (USA), scientists modeled the course of the asteroid and predicted it will travel passed Earth in November of 2018.
Thankfully, the mystery shaped asteroid will travel noticeably farther from our planet, with an equivalent distance of about 105 Earth-Moon distances, compared to an approximate 1.3 distances when it zipped passed Earth in 2015.
Despite accurate measurements, NASA scientists have warned the asteroid has an erratic orbit, which means that astronomers aren’t sure where it will end up traveling, but they are confident it will miss Earth in the near future.
Users on social networks discussed what would happen if such an asteroid impacted Earth. Some argue that if an asteroid of about 700 meters in diameter impacted our planet it could wipe out entire cities.
Furthermore, if it were to hit Earth, there is a 71 percent chance that it would hit water, and not landmass. Then, a tsunami is our biggest concern. A fireball product of the impact would have an approximate radius of more than eight kilometers. Such a collision would create numerous earthquakes measuring high 7’s on the Richter scale.
A massive structure, stretching 2.3 light-years at the center of our galaxy puzzles astronomers
A massive structure, stretching 2.3 light-years at the center of our galaxy puzzles astronomers
The gigantic structure of 2.3 light-years in length near a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A * baffles astronomers.
It turns out that at the center of our galaxy, at around 26,000 light years from Earth, lies a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A *, four million times more massive than the Sun.
This cosmic monster is not the only one lurking in that region of space.
Astronomers have discovered another gigantic structure located in close proximity, which measures a stunning 2.3 light-years across.
While astronomers have absolutely no clue what it is, they’ve managed to snap a pretty good picture of the ‘structure.’
In 2016, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Northwestern University reported the discovery of an unusual ‘filament’ near the center of the Milky Way.
Now, a year later, another team of astronomers has used a state-of-the-art technique to produce the highest quality image of this mysterious structure.
A radio image from the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array showing the center of our galaxy. The mysterious radio filament is the curved line located near the center of the image, & the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is shown by the bright source near the bottom of the image.
Image Credit: NSF/VLA/UCLA/M. Morris et al.
“However, we still have more work to do to find out what the true nature of this filament is.”
Despite the fact that astronomers aren’t sure what it is, there are three main theories.
The first is that the massive structure is the product caused by high-velocity particles ejected from the supermassive black hole.
A black hole can produce a vertical rotating magnetic field tower that approaches or even coils in the event horizon, the point of no return for approaching matter.
Within this structure, particles would accelerate and produce radio emissions as they spiral around the lines of the magnetic field and away from the black hole.
Another possibility is that the strange filament is a cosmic chain of theoretically not yet detected objects, that are long and extremely thin and transport mass and electrical currents. Pretty awesome, right?
Previously, scientists had predicted that the cosmic strings, if they existed, would migrate to the centers of galaxies.
If the string moves close enough to the black hole, it can be captured when a part of the string crosses the event horizon.
The third theory is that the position and direction of the filament that lines up with the black hole are just coincidental overlaps, and there is no real association between the two. Basically, there’s nothing there.
This would imply that this structure is similar to dozens of other known filaments that are farther from the center of the galaxy.
However, such a coincidence is quite unlikely to happen by chance say astronomers.
“Part of the thrill of science is stumbling across a mystery that is not easy to explain,” said co-author Jun-Hui Zhao of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. “While we don’t have the answer yet, the path to finding it is fascinating. This result is motivating astronomers to build next-generation radio telescopes with cutting-edge technology.”
The Star of Bethlehem – nowadays often just called the Christmas Star – is a major seasonal symbol throughout the world.
Imagine, if you will, the silhouettes of three regally attired men on camels. They are gazing across gently rolling hills or dunes of white, to a tiny solitary building in the distance. The night is dark, and one exceedingly bright star appears to hover over the small building, sending a bright shaft of light earthward to illuminate its outline. Another light glows gently inside.
Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy: The Three Wise Men” (named Balthasar, Melchior, and Gaspar). Detail from Mary and Child, surrounded by angels, mosaic of a Ravennate italian-byzantine workshop, completed within 526 AD by the so-called “Master of Sant’Apollinare”.
That is the picture most of us have of the Christmas Star, but it’s an image derived more from imagination and greeting cards than from the Bible. In fact, the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament is the only place this “star” is mentioned in the Bible (Matt 2:2, 7-10, King James Version). Even there, information on the star is sparse. The most telling reference is Matt. 2:9:
When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
For anyone inclined to insist on the literal truth of scripture, this verse solves the question. If this verse is literally true, then the Star of Bethlehem could not have been any known natural phenomenon, simply because none would move that way.
However, if we grant the author of Matthew – who assuredly was not an eyewitness at the Nativity – a little artistic license, the “star” might not have appeared literally in the way described. In that case we can consider some natural, astronomical possibilities. In fact, there is some uncertainty about the use of the word for star in the Greek manuscript. Some contend that the word could have meant or implied an object other than a physical star.
Wesley Loftis in Clarksville, Virginia caught this Gemind meteor on the morning of December 13, 2017.
Some artistic depictions show what appear to be a bright meteor or “falling star.” Although exploding meteors, sometimes called bolides or fireballs, can be startling and truly impressive, they last only seconds. They can occur at any time. People far more aware of the night sky than the modern city dweller is likely would not have placed much significance in them. Such transient phenomena could not possibly have “led” the wise men (the Bible never calls them “kings”) to Bethlehem.
There are other astronomical objects or events that might have seemed more significant, but there are problems. First off, we don’t know for sure when Jesus was born. Due to an error by a Church cleric hundreds of years later, the birth of Jesus was thought to be at least 4 years later than it really was. So today we know that the birth was no later than 4 BC, and it could have been a little earlier. And it certainly was not on December 25. The Bible does not say, leaving us few clues. One clue we do have, however, is the reference that shepherds were out in the field “keeping watch over their flock by night” (Luke 2:8), something the scholars say was likely only done in the spring when lambs were born. Thus the birth was likely in the spring, probably between 7 and 4 BC.
Few astronomical records were kept at the time, except by the Chinese and Koreans. They did record what might have been comets in 5 and possibly again in 4 BC. The main problem here is that comets were generally regarded as omens of evil and bad fortune by the Chinese and likely also by the magi-astrologers the New Testament calls “wise men.” Rather than follow such a cometary “star,” they likely would have gone the other way.
Another possibility is that the Christmas Star was a nova or supernova, a previously unseen star that suddenly brightens in a big way. Indeed, one such star was recorded by the Chinese in the spring of 5 BC, and was seen for more than 2 months. However, its position in the constellation Capricornus meant that it likely would not have seemed to “lead” the wise men in the manner implied in the Bible.
For some, the star was not really a star at all, but a planet, Jupiter. Or more precisely, it was the conjunction or close meeting of Jupiter with two other planets, Saturn and Mars. Planets were “wandering stars” to the ancients, and to many they bore great astrological or mystical significance. Astronomers know that there was a series of such conjunctions in 6 and 5 BC, occurring in the constellation Pisces (the Fishes), said by some to be the astrological “sign of the Jews.” To add more credence for later Christian writers such as Matthew, the sign of a fish later became the secret sign for Christians.
Mosaic pavement of a 6th century synagogue at Beth Alpha, Jezreel Valley, northern Israel. It was discovered in 1928. Signs of the zodiac surround the central chariot of the sun (a Greek motif), while the corners depict the 4 “turning points” (“tekufot”) of the year, solstices and equinoxes, each named for the month in which it occurs- tequfah of Tishrei, (tequfah of Tevet), tequfah of Ni(san), tequfah of Tamuz.
Unless some major and indisputable archaeological discovery is found to settle the question once and for all, the mystery of what the Christmas Star was will remain in the realm of faith. Science cannot explain it as any known physical object; history offers no clear record; and religion offers only an untestable miraculous apparition. But although there may be no agreement on the nature of the star or even its actual sighting two millenia ago, all sides can agree on the message the Christmas star heralded: “…on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 2:14)
Bottom line:Possible astronomical explanations for the Star of Bethlehem or Christmas star.
Our Solar System may have been born from bubbles of material hurled from a colossal Wolf-Rayet-type star, according to a theory published Friday.
Scientists studying the origin of our system generally believe – no, wait, sorry. Stop. You know 2017 has been a bonkers year when the New York Times reveals a classified $22m US military program to investigate UFOs – complete with grainy videos of possibly alien spacecraft and claims of finding out-of-this-world alloys – and no one blinks an eye.
Did you miss that report? Quite a few people did. It came out on Saturday. And everyone was distracted by politics, hackers, longing looks at 2018, Christmas shopping, we dunno. Just letting you know.
Where were we? Oh yeah. The Solar System. Scientists generally believe our system formed near a supernova – an exploding dead star that emits shockwaves of energy and a shower of elements that kickstart the formation of a new star. As one of these protostars matures, leftover material in the shape of a disc clumps together to create planetesimals and eventually planets. That's pretty much how boffins think our system was created.
Now, however, a bunch of physicists reckon – look, OK. Sorry. Very cool research, but time out.
This New York Times story. It was written by a couple of Pulitzer Prize winners and one of their colleagues. It feels like it should be significant, but, what are we dealing with here? Blurry video and audio recordings of UFOs spotted by pilots in Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets. Is it just... bollocks, or what? This particular program was scrapped in 2012 after five years. Is it a convenient cash cow for aerospace research companies? Oh sure, we'll take a look at these UFOs, here's our not inconsiderable invoice.
On the surface, this NYT exposé looks exciting, but, just, what exactly was proven by Uncle Sam's classified probe into UFO sightings – anything? The videos look like a bug got stuck on the Navy jets' sensors.
Right, sorry. Real science. Focus. So, these physicists have put forward an alternative scenario for the formation of our Solar System, describing it in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal this week.
They point out that our system has an abundance of aluminum-26 and not a lot of iron-60 compared to the rest of the Milky Way galaxy. If the system was formed from a supernova, it would have a relatively rich amount of both isotopes, yet like a pale nerd, it is iron deficient.
Vikram Dwaradas, coauthor of the paper and a research associate professor in astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago in the US, said supernovae release both aluminum-27 and iron-56. So “it begs the question of why one was injected into [our] Solar System and the other was not."
Hold that thought. Speaking of metals, these mysterious, unknown alien alloys the US government apparently found. It's freaking some people out. We're obviously not talking machined metal, right? Actual alien spacecraft parts landing on Earth. A fucking wing fallen off the back of an intergalactic lorry. No way. Where's the mass panic? No one's batting an eyelid. These alloys have got to be just rocks from space. Flecks of metal from another corner of the galaxy littering our planet. Sorry, it's just too distracting right now.
OK, focus. Actual proper peer-reviewed science.
This lack of iron isotope in our Solar System. The physicists have turned to Wolf-Rayet stars for an answer. These are gigantic hot stars, and are more than 40 times the size of our Sun. As they burn, they produce copious amounts of elements that are spewed across space via a powerful stellar wind.
The key thing here is that Wolf-Rayet stars create lots of aluminum-26 and little iron-60, and their output is therefore a close match to the conditions at the early stages of our Solar System.
So, forget a dramatic supernova. A Wolf-Rayet star likely kickstarted and fueled our system, and is responsible for the nonsense world we live in now, according to this study.
The stellar wind sends ripples through the Wolf-Rayet star’s surrounding debris, causing dense shells of material to form around bubble-like structures. Nicolas Dauphas, coauthor of the paper and a professor of geophysical sciences also at the Chicago uni, said "the shell of such a bubble is a good place to produce stars."
The dust and gas within each sphere can be compressed to form stars. The researchers estimated that between one per cent to 16 per cent of all Sun-like stars could be forged in these environments.
"The idea is that aluminum-26 flung from the Wolf-Rayet star is carried outwards on grains of dust formed around the star. These grains have enough momentum to punch through one side of the shell, where they are mostly destroyed – trapping the aluminum inside the shell," Dwarkadas explained.
The shell collapses inward due to gravity over time, ultimately forming a solar system. The Wolf-Rayet star that may have been our stellar nursery would have burned out and died long ago. The researchers argued that even if it ended its life as a supernova, the iron-60 may not have penetrated the walls of the bubbles nor be equally scattered through the surrounding space. If it collapsed into a black hole, it would also have produced small amounts of iron-60.
Suddenly, the notion that there are alien metals on Earth and all around us in space isn't so crazy. We are all made of stars. Merry Christmas. Now, where's our $22m? ®
There is overwhelming evidence that we are being visited by aliens, says Greater Sudbury's resident UFO researcher and webmaster of noufors.com. Michel Deschamps shares some of this year's sightings. (Supplied)
This is the time of year to witness a strange site in the sky, not an alien spacecraft, mind you, but a chubby guy in a flying sleigh.
But that's not what gets Michel Deschamps' heart racing. Greater Sudbury's resident UFO researcher and webmaster of NOUFORS.com reached out to Sudbury.com this month to share some of the best UFO sightings he received over the past year.
“It has been a while since my last submission to the Northern Life,” Michel M. Deschamps said in an email. “I have been busy adding new sections to my historical UFO-related website, NOUFORS.com, and correcting all the broken links I can find."
But that's not all Deschamps has been doing. For decades, he's been collecting local and area reports of strange objects in the sky and cataloguing them on his website, a somewhat thankless job to which Deschamps has dedicated himself since nearly the dawn of the internet.
NOUFORS.com might retain the look of a website circa the late 1990s, but it is an historical treasure trove of sightings. What it lacks in design esthetic, it makes up for in data.
Here are some of the best sightings reported to Deschamps in the past year, and catalogued on NOUFORS.com.
Date: Monday, Jan. 30 Location: Sudbury, Ontario
A Sudbury resident had a daytime sighting of a large object while riding the Lasalle-Madison bus on Notre-Dame. She watched as it came down out of the sky, somewhere between where she was and the Adanac Ski Hill, and proceeded to "pace" the bus from that distance. She said that it seemed to be submarine-shaped with a segmented top that reminded her of cauliflower. She submitted a sketch of the object and is willing to have her story recorded as an MP3 for my website.
Date: April 14 Location: Sudbury, Ontario
I received the following message from one of my Facebook contacts who said that her mother had seen something unusual in the sky: "My neighbour and I had a fire in the pit. We had been looking up at the sky and I said, 'There's the Little Dipper.' Shortly after that, she said: 'Lynn, what's that?' I looked up and saw something flying in a diagonal formation — four lines — heading from the northeast to the southwest, not white but slightly yellow tinge. The best way to describe it would be like stripes on (the sleeve of a soldier). She kept asking what it was, and I said it's either a UFO or the U.S. testing a new plane. She said, 'What if it comes back?' and I said, 'They're probably over Killarney by now.' But then it came back, this time in a different formation. It came from the southwest to the northeast in sort of a triangle formation, this time. There was the 'nose' and two to the side and then one following at the back. We watched and then they zoomed away and disappeared."
Date: Thursday, May 11 Location: Sudbury, Ontario
A cabby friend of mine sent me the following message at 1:57 a.m., Thursday, May 11: "Just dropped off the crew from Westjet from the airport. They said they saw something when they were coming in to land. They were playing off that it was a drone. I said, 'I doubt it.' It was a bright light they said lit up the cabin. They had the landing gear down.' I asked him about what altitude were they at, and he said: 'I guess maybe 5,000 feet or so.' "
Date: Monday, Oct. 30 Location: Sudbury, Ontario
My girlfriend was headed to the hospital for an appointment, and as she walked towards Van Horne, she looked up at the sky as she usually does, and she spotted a white object moving among the clouds at a very high altitude. She described it as being oval in shape, completely white in color, and moving from the east and heading north. At arm's length, the object was about a quarter inch in size. It had no wings and no tail, so this was not a plane, which she would have been able to identify, even at the distance she was looking from. She submitted a sketch, which is on the 2017 Sightings Reports page of my website. http://noufors.com/2017_sighting_reports.html
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 22 Location: Blind River, Ontario
While at work and on my supper break, I received a short message via e-mail from my friend and contact, Joan Morningstar, which stated that there had been a sighting of seven strange lights traveling in a straight line. They were at a relatively low altitude because of the cloud cover.
UFO sightings are not rare, Deschamps said in his email to Sudbury.com, but things are made more complicated by having Chinese lanterns and personal remote-control drones flying around. But UFO behaviour is different, and once people know what to look for when trying to identify what they are seeing, it becomes easy to "separate the wheat from the chaff," as they say (or in this case, as Deschamps would say).
Deshcamps' next project is to try and collect as many reports from former police officers and make the interviews available as audio files on his website.
“I already have plenty of highly interesting audio files to listen to, and I'm hoping to add a few more,” he said.
Anyone willing to have their stories recorded for the NOUFORS.com audio archive is asked to contact Deschamps via his website, or by phone.
“I've seen how much relief people get when they finally get their stories off their chests,” he said. “They now have the peace of mind that they are not alone in seeing these objects, and that together, we can bring the UFO truth to the surface for all to see.
“But then again, the evidence is overwhelming that we are being visited, the hundreds of thousands of government documents that I have in my possession will attest to that fact.”
USA : Un Marine décrit sa rencontre rapprochée avec un OVNI en 2004
USA : Un Marine décrit sa rencontre rapprochée avec un OVNI en 2004
Un pilote de chasse américain a décrit une rencontre terrifiante qu’il a eu avec un OVNI au-dessus de l’océan Pacifique.
David Fravor était l’une des quatre personnes envoyées dans deux avions de combat pour surveiller un objet volant non identifié après que celui-ci ait été repéré par ses supérieurs sur le porte-avions USS Nimitz en 2004.
Il a dit que cet engin mystérieux faisait littéralement mousser la mer et pouvait radicalement changer de direction à volonté. Cette scène s’est passée au large de la côte de San Diego aux Etats-Unis.
Fravor raconte:
« Il n’avait pas d’ailes. Alors nous avions pensé que c’était un hélicoptère, mais il n’y avait pas de souffle du rotor visible dans l’eau. De plus, quand les hélicoptères se déplacent d’un côté à l’autre, ils ralentissent, puis accélèrent dans l’autre sens. »
« Il était extrêmement brusque, comme une balle de ping-pong qui rebondit contre un mur et qui frapperait et irait dans l’autre sens et changerait de direction à volonté. »
« Ensuite, il était capable de planer au-dessus de l’eau, puis de commencer une montée verticale de zéro jusqu’à environ 12 000 pieds, puis d’accélérer en moins de deux secondes et de disparaître. C’est quelque chose que je n’ai jamais vu dans ma vie. »
Fravor est convaincu qu’il ne s’agissait pas d’un ballon météo ou d’une fusée éclairante.
Il a ajouté :
« Il est facile de décrire ce que nous ne pouvons pas expliquer et ce n’est pas le premier récit de personnes voyant un OVNI. »
« Dans cette situation, il y avait quatre personnes, tous avaient les yeux rivés dessus, et nous avions tous de l’expérience … moi-même j’avais eu plus de 16 ans de vol. »
Les séquences publiées par une « source inconnue » cette semaine nous montrent cette rencontre inexplicable.
L’un des autres pilotes, Chris Mellon, a déjà décrit cette rencontre. Il a dit :
« Imaginez que nous participions à un exercice d’entraînement de routine lorsqu’un aéronef non identifié est apparu sur le radar et se dirigeait directement en direction du groupement tactique. »
« Cet engin n’avait pas de transpondeur et ne répondait pas aux appels radio. »
« Le Princeton a alors contacté deux F-18 déjà en l’air pour intercepter la cible. Alors que les deux F-18 s’approchaient, les quatre aviateurs ils ont remarqué que l’objet n’avait ni d’ailes ni d’échappement. »
As I’ve said before, there’s nothing more both goth than space, and the universe constantly reminds us . On Halloween in 2015, a spooktacular asteroid called 2015 TB145 whizzed by Earth at a distance of 30,200 miles (486,000 km). Apparently, this freaky-looking space thing will be visiting us again next year.
The so-called “Halloween Asteroid” is only about 2,300 feet wide. Though astronomers first spotted it a few years ago, only recently did scientists at the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico notice the asteroid’s more chilling qualities. In certain lights, it resembles a human skull, which is astonishingly on-brand for a “Halloween asteroid.”
Researchers studying the asteroid published their new findings in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics back in February.
Image: J. A. Peñas/SINC
“It is an Apollo-type near-Earth asteroid (NEA),” researcher Pablo Santos-Sanz from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) said in a press release. “The proximity of this small object meant greater brightness, so we decided to study it using various observation techniques: on the one hand, we used optical telescopes from the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Granada, the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería and the La Hita Observatory in Toledo; and on the other, we analysed it in the mid-infrared using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) VISIR instrument at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Cerro Paranal, Chile”.
When the Halloween Asteroid makes its next pass near Earth, it’ll be even fartheraway than it was back in 2015 — this time, it’ll be about 105 lunar distances from us. And it won’t even be stopping by for Halloween — researchers say it’s expected to visit in November 2018.
It's the Halloween Asteroid! (Image: NAIC-Arecibo/NSF)
Still, that doesn’t mean 2015 TB145 won’t come back for Halloween ever.
“The next slightly more exciting encounter will be around Halloween’s day in the year 2088, when the object approaches Earth to a distance of about 20 lunar distances,” researcher Thomas G. Müller from the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, said in a statement. “The encounter on Halloween’s day 2015 was the closest approach of an object of that size since 2006, and the next known similar event is the passage of 137108 (1999 AN10) on August 7, 2027. Later, 99942 Apophis will follow on April 13, 2029 with an Earth passage at approximately 0.1 lunar distances.”
Scientists will continue to monitor this strange asteroid as it makes its way back to Earth. Clearly, this is no phony goth — and it’s NOT A PHASE, MOM.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
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