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...
Conflicting reports about the supposed loss of a secret spy satellite have begun to swirl after a seemingly successful mission. SpaceX contends that it fulfilled its duty without a hitch.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Conflicting reports are surfacing after SpaceX’s seemingly successful launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with a secret government payload, code-named Zuma. While it appeared that the launch went off without a hitch, the full launch and separation of the nose cone, which surrounded the secret satellite, was not streamed as it normally is, due to the classified nature of the mission.
Reports coming from the Wall Street Journaland Bloomberg are claiming that Zuma burned up upon reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere. These reports are partially based upon a briefing supposedly given to lawmakers and congressional staffers indicating that the satellite did not separate from the rocket as planned.
SpaceX did not report any problems with the launch; however, while the company usually announces a successful launch regardless of the classification of the payload, no confirmation was given by SpaceX or Northrup Grumman, the company that manufactured the secret satellite.
Futurism reached out to SpaceX and obtained the following statement from Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX, “For clarity: after review of all data to date, Falcon 9 did everything correctly on Sunday night. If we or others find otherwise based on further review, we will report it immediately. Information published that is contrary to this statement is categorically false. Due to the classified nature of the payload, no further comment is possible.”
STICKING THE LANDING
To confuse matters further, the Falcon 9’s first stage was able to successfully landback on Earth, indicating that the rocket was still fully operational.
Even more so, the US Strategic Command added an entry to its Space-Track catalog of artificial objects orbiting the planet, indicating that the new satellite was able to make at least one orbit. That was before another confusing piece was added: their spokesman Navy Captain Brook DeWalt stated that Strategic Command had “nothing to add to the satellite catalog at this time.” This could either indicate that there is nothing to add in addition to the new satellite entry, or that the Zuma satellite is no longer in orbit.
The conflicting reports, coupled with the seemingly incongruous aftermath, are adding a rocket-load of mystery to an already mysterious launch.
Yet SpaceX seems confident that it played its part in the Zuma mission well, and the company does not foresee this mission disrupting its schedule. According to Shotwell, “Since the data reviewed so far indicates that no design, operational or other changes are needed, we do not anticipate any impact on the upcoming launch schedule.”
She continued: “Falcon Heavy has been rolled out to launchpad LC-39A for a static fire later this week, to be followed shortly thereafter by its maiden flight. We are also preparing for an F9 launch for SES and the Luxembourg Government from SLC-40 in three weeks.”
It’s rarely a good sign when things unexpectedly fall from the sky. It’s worse when those things are living or recently dead creatures. It’s probably a sign of extremely unusual weather when some of the creatures are frozen while others are cooked alive. Is it climate change? Or something worse? During a week of freaky hot and cold spells, residents of Florida saw icy iguanas dropping from the sky while people in Australia were bombarded by fried flying foxes boiled to death by the heat. Worried yet?
A number of news sources in southern Florida reported about people finding rigid iguanas in their yards or around their pools during the sub-40 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures caused by the recent so-called ‘bomb cyclone’ that iced the east coast of the U.S. One reporter covering the phenomenon was hit by a falling iguana while driving. The lizard came back to life and ran off, leaving a huge crack in the reporter’s windshield.
Which one doesn’t belong?
Social media posts showed people carrying stiff iguanas by the tail – a practice quickly rejected by wildlife experts who warned that these non-Floridian invaders were merely in a state of hibernation due to the cold and would not be happy when awaked upside down with a human on their tail or when they find bruises due to falling frozen from trees. It’s better to use this opportunity to trap them, according to Kristen Sommers, who oversees the nonnative fish and wildlife program for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. She told CBS News:
“This provides an opportunity to capture some, but I’m not sure it’s going to be cold enough or long enough to make enough of a difference. In most cases, they’re going to warm back up and move around again, unless they’re euthanized.”
Meanwhile, in the air down under where it’s summertime … (Australia)
The Campbelltown-Macarthur Advertiser reports that 111.5 degrees Fahrenheit (44.2 degrees Celsius) temperatures in Campbelltown, New South Wales, knocked a colony of flying fox bats out of their trees near the town’s train station. The flying foxes are favorites of locals, so Kate Ryan, the colony manager, organized volunteers to help rescue them.
“They basically boil. It affects their brain — their brain just fries and they become incoherent.”
Over 200 of the flying foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus), which can have wingspans over a meter (3.3 feet) and weigh over 1 kg (2.2 lbs.) were found dead on the ground, with more caught in the trees. Ryan said most of the dead were babies whose smaller bodies were unable to regulate their temperature. Fortunately, the heatwave has dissipated and the flying foxes are back to eating insects and pollinating fruit trees.
Until the next mysterious crisis (is it really that mysterious?) knocks the iguanas and the flying foxes out of the sky again.
Workers repair a power line near the wall of a local zinc plant which was damaged by a shockwave from a meteor in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, on Feb. 15, 2013.
(Oleg Kargopolov/AFP/Getty Images)
A blazing light turned night into day over much of Russia on Jan. 8, sparking speculation that North Korea was launching a nuclear attack, —or that the Russian government was testing a new weapon.
Not so, said members of the government and the scientific community. it was just a common meteor.
Many Russian citizens who saw—and felt—the incident are not convinced.
Artyom Russkikh saw the flash, and also felt a shock wave.
“We saw this while driving—there was a vibration and the sound of explosion in the sky. Awesome,” he told The Siberian Times.
“What was it? A meteor, a rocket from space, UFO, North Korea?”
Another witness, Firaya Zaripova, opined: “Probably it was the testing of some military weapon, if even the ground was shaking.”’
The epicenter of the explosion seemed to be over the Ural mountains, in the areas of the Udmurtia, Bashkortostan, and Tatarstan.
Ilnaz Shaykhraziev told the Daily Mail, “I saw the flash in Menzelinsk. There was also the sound of an explosion and then a vibration, I felt it.”
Menzelinsk is about 250 miles north of Kazakhstan and 500 miles east of Moscow, and about 150 miles east of Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan.
One reason residents of the trans-Ural region might suspect a man-made source for this explosion, is that this is not the first. There have been many extremely bright flashes and explosions through the past several years over west-central Russia.
A meteor exploded over Central Russia in February of 2013, injuring about 1,200 people. That blast was centered over Chelyabinsk, a city about 950 miles east of Moscow, Reuters reports.
Another flash was seen in February 2014, over the Kola peninsula, about 600 miles north of Moscow. According to Military.com, the flash was seen around 2:10 a.m. on Feb. 21, and was silent—there was no sound and no shock wave.
This astronomical object lit up the skies on April 19, 2014.
November 14, 2014 several people in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia, also in the Ural Mountains, filmed the night sky bursting into a bright orange-red fireball that quickly dissipated.
Just a Meteor
Astronomers from Kazan Federal University claim that there was nothing man-made about the phenomenon—it was a simply a meteor which exploded in the atmosphere.
“This was a bolide, when all substance burns in atmosphere and doesn’t reach Earth,” Dr. Sergey Golovkin, of Kazan University’s Physics Institute, told The Siberian Times.
“It is accompanied by a loud bang.
“It could have been a fragment of a spacecraft that burnt, but normally it takes them more time to enter the atmosphere, thus they can be observed for longer.
“This was a bolide that burnt in the dense layers of the atmosphere which is why it was seen over such a big territory. We didn’t register the flash because there was strong blizzard on this night.”
Yet not all Russia’s scientists agreed.
Yuri Nefefyev, director of the Engelhardt Astronomical Observatory, said the apparent explosion was, in fact, a massive discharge of atmospheric electricity.
“There are a huge number of effects linked to atmospheric electricity, many of which are not properly studied because of how rarely they occur,” he told The Siberian Times.
One witness, Denis Rozenfeld, told the Daily Mail that he agreed with the scientists.
“A meteor burned out, not reaching the lower layers of the atmosphere. Before this, it exploded and split into many small pieces. That is why there was such a sound, which came to us in a few seconds.”
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Classified documents reveal base was site for secret spy plane programs
If you’re passionate about the high skies, UFOs and top secret activity, put in your two weeks’ notice: the opportunity of a lifetime has officially arrived. As of Jan. 8, the U.S. government is looking to staff flights run by the U.S. Air Force that reportedly travel to Area 51.
According to a new job posting on AECOM, flight attendants are needed on planes that will depart from Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport, apparently taking government and contract employees to the highly classified area located in the middle of the Nevada desert, Travel + Leisure reports.
The duties are not for the faint of heart, however — the job description details that candidates “must be level-headed and clear thinking while handling unusual incidents and situations” such as severe weather conditions, weather or mechanical delays, hijackings or bomb threats. Moreover, candidates must be able to operate aircraft doors weighing up to 80 lbs., administer first aid, and brief passengers on standard procedures, ensuring that safety protocol is followed.
In addition to holding a high school degree, state issued driver’s license and be skilled in jet aircraft emergency training, requirements also specify that the crew member must “qualify for and maintain a top secret government security clearance and associated work location access.” In other words, “active top secret clearance” from the government is “highly desired.”
Nevertheless, former British Ministry of Defense UFO investigator Nick Pope told the Daily Mail that though Area 51 is certainly part of a military testing range, the new hires will likely not have any extraterrestrial responsibilities in the mysterious region.
“The UFO and conspiracy theory community think it's the place where crashed UFOs are kept and where the U.S. military are trying to back-engineer this alien technology,” Pope said of Area 51. “Sadly, despite the rumors, I've seen no evidence that we've recovered any extraterrestrial technology.
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UFO Legacy: What Impact Will Revelation of Secret Government Program Have?
UFO Legacy: What Impact Will Revelation of Secret Government Program Have?
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Believers in aliens visiting Earth's friendly skies via Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) couldn't ask for more: A secretive government group backed by federal "black money," a talkative former U.S. military intelligence official, fighter-jet video of odd objects doing out-of-this-world maneuvers and a space mogul purportedly housing leftovers of unidentified aerial craft.
It all has the feel of sliding open a top drawer in a new "X-Files" TV episode.
Yes, "the truth is out there," a maxim made all the stranger by reports last month by both The New York Times and Politico Magazine of the secretive Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, or AATIP for short. Along with the reporting, a video was released by the Department of Defense showing a 2004 encounter near San Diego involving two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object. [UFO Watch: 8 Times the Government Looked for Flying Saucers]
Behind the scenes
AATIP was originated by then-United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who garnered taxpayer dollars to start the program in 2007, along with the support of the late senators Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).
But behind the scenes is Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace, a Harry Reid political donor in Nevada. A hefty chunk of the AATIP's $22 million budget over five years was reportedly given to Bigelow's company to hire subcontractors and carry out research for the program.
Now toss into the mix Luis Elizondo, the former intelligence officer who ran the AATIP, which initially was under the wing of the Defense Intelligence Agency. He resigned from the job last October, advising CNN post-departure that it was his personal belief "that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone."
Elizondo also told CNN that the craft studied by AATIP "are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the U.S. inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of." [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]
Turning point
Jan Harzan, the executive director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), sees the eye-opening reporting as a "turning point in the study of UFOs." He said his organization is excited about the events beginning to unfold "and feel[s] the public and everyone on this planet should be as well."
MUFON has been investigating and researching the UFO phenomenon since 1969, Harzan said. The group's analysis of over 100,000 UFO reports over the past five decades has shown three things to be true, he has stated:
1. UFOs are real
2. UFOs represent extremely advanced technology
3. Tremendous breakthroughs will happen if we make it safe for our scientists and engineers to study this phenomenon unimpeded. These breakthroughs involve the fields of propulsion, energy, communication, biology and consciousness, to name just a few.
The recently released fighter-jet camera video of craft off the coast of San Diego "is just the tip of the iceberg," Harzan said. "Our military vaults are full of such videos and data on these objects. Now that the spill gates have been opened a little, it is time for the rest to come out in an orderly fashion," he added, "and in so doing make it safe for our scientists and engineers to study this phenomenon without fear of ridicule or retribution, but with funding provided by Congress and private industry." [UFO Watch: 8 Times the Government Looked for Flying Saucers]
Reported UFOs take on all shapes and sizes.
Credit: UK National Archives sightings chart circa 1969.
No national security threat
The new revelation about the AATIP is evidence that the U.S. government has been researching and taking this issue seriously for decades, despite claiming no interest in the phenomenon since 1969, said Alejandro Rojas, spokesman for the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU).
Indeed, between 1952 and its termination in 1969, the U.S. Air Force's official UFO-investigation program, known as Project Blue Book, came to the following set of conclusions: No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security; there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles.
Advanced technology
Rojas endorses the scientific study of the UFO phenomenon and believes that all information regarding unidentified aerial objects should be released so that the data can be properly analyzed by the scientific community.
"Remember, the 'U' is for unidentified, not alien," said Rojas, who is also director of operations for Open Minds Production.
"We don't know what these things are," Rojas told Space.com. "Just because we get uncomfortable with the idea of aliens does not mean we should not investigate when the people who pilot our most advanced technology say they encounter something that outclasses their aircraft. It would be highly negligent not to investigate."
Another striking point in the recent disclosure, Rojas added, is that the incidents "are very similar to events that have been recorded by the U.S. Air Force and other governments for decades."
Tone of evidence
There is one head-scratcher: Why release this information now? Some see it as a trial balloon to take the pulse of citizens' reactions. Is the public being set up for the really big news about alien visitors?
"I can't say I know why things are coming out at this time," said Stanton Friedman, a retired nuclear physicist and a long-time investigator and lecturer on the UFO phenomenon.
"I appreciate the courage of those former officials who came forth," Friedman said. He criticized debunkers who advocate listening for alien signals "but ignore the tone of evidence of alien visitors."
Small program, little to show
Robert Sheaffer is a writer and one of the leading skeptical investigators of UFOs.
In his summary of recent events, Sheaffer notes that Robert Bigelow has been a strong believer in UFOs and alien visitors all his life. He was a campaign contributor to Sen. Reid and some of Reid's causes and persuaded Reid that the military budget ought to include funds for the study of UFOs.
The AATIP is a small program by Pentagon standards, Sheaffer said; it ultimately spent just $22 million over five years.
"Who knew it apparently only takes three senators to set up a secret Pentagon project?" Sheaffer said.
Funding for the AATIP activity was discontinued in 2012, Sheaffer said, "because it was not producing any results, just reams of paper, although the investigation is reported to still be continuing, but without funding, if that is possible."
"They have only released two very blurry infrared videos of objects that appear to be distant jets, without sufficient information to do a really good analysis of them," he added. "So, ultimately, all you have are a few UFO believers in and outside government who were able to get away with funneling a few million Pentagon dollars to themselves for UFO research, and have very little to show for it." [Ten Alien Encounters Debunked]
Bigelow Aerospace president Robert Bigelow has a long-standing interest in UFOs.
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
UFO artifacts
Sheaffer said that what is really interesting is the statement in The New York Times story that, under Bigelow's direction, the aerospace company "modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena."
If that's true, Bigelow supposedly has actual artifacts from UFOs, Sheaffer said, "and in fact has such a large quantity that he needs to modify his buildings to accommodate them? That is just utterly bizarre. We need an explanation of exactly what buildings were modified at federal expense, and what do they contain?" he said.
Purpose of the program
"Threat identification is obviously an important task," said Steven Aftergood of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, D.C.
"But the fact that this program was initiated at the request of Senator Reid — not the Air Force — suggests that national security was not the paramount motivation here," Aftergood said. This impression, he said, is reinforced by the fact that a constituent of Sen. Reid (Robert Bigelow) received funding through the program.
"It is somewhat dismaying to see how quickly 'unidentified' aerial phenomena are publicly interpreted and portrayed as UFOs of possibly extraterrestrial origin," Aftergood concluded. His advice: "Collectively, we should all be becoming more intelligent and more perceptive, not more stupid and gullible."
Serious study
"It is complicated, and I am still trying to make sense of things," said Mark Rodeghier, president and scientific director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago, Illinois.
The center was started by Hynek, who served as the astronomical consultant to Project Blue Book. Hynek himself was initially dubious of the whole UFO business, but after culling through hundreds of reports by witnesses, he became convinced UFOs were worthy of serious study.
In broad terms, the outing of the AATIP and its investigation of military UFO sightings "confirms something that has been believed for many years … that these sightings are still happening," Rodeghier said. "We just were not learning about them."
Blip in UFO history?
Rodeghier said he hopes the core of AATIP information that has been gathered can be released to the public and made available for scientific analysis.
"It would be extremely disappointing and frustrating if these reports are not released for scrutiny. We need high-quality data about UFOs to do better science," Rodeghier said.
"If those reports are never released, all of this is going to be blip in UFO history," he added. "But even if it's only a blip in history, it's still a darn interesting blip."
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.
A mysterious bright flash turned night into day over a huge area of Russia - sparking fears the US had launched a strike on North Korea.
The explosion of light accompanied by the 'ground shaking' was also blamed on a UFO visitation or a meteor exploding in the atmosphere.
The phenomenon was seen and felt over thousands of miles in Russia, but was especially evident in three regions Bashkortostan, Udmurtia, and Tatarstan.
Russian officials and scientists immediately denied that there had been a Russian missile test or any reported space rock crashing to earth.
A mysterious bright flash turned night into day over a huge area of Russia, prompting fears the US had launched a strike on North Korea. This was the scene in the region of Tatarstan as the sky turned blue in the middle of the night
The explosion of light accompanied by the 'ground shaking' was also blamed on a UFO visitation or a meteor exploding in the atmosphere. Pictured: The sky over Tatarstan during the mysterious explosion of light
Videos show how for a few moments the dark night sky - just after midnight in the Urals - was lit up, turning a vivid blue as if on a bright summer's day.
'It lit the night sky from side to side, making it look brighter than daylight,' said one account.
'We saw this while driving - there was a vibration and the sound of explosion in the sky, awesome,' said Artyom Russkikh, a reported by The Siberian Times, which collected witness statements of the flash on the night following Russian Orthodox Christmas Day this week.
He asked: 'What was it? A meteor, a rocket from space, UFO, North Korea?'
Firaya Zaripova commented on the light show in the early hours of Monday morning: 'Probably it was the testing of some military weapon, if even the ground was shaking.'
But there were denials Vladimir Putin had ordered any military tests that could have produced this dramatic scene.
Videos show how for a few moments the dark night sky - just after midnight in the Urals - was lit up, turning a vivid blue as if on a bright summer's day
There were denials Vladimir Putin had ordered any military tests that could have produced this dramatic scene
Ilnaz Shaykhraziev said: 'I saw the flash in Menzelinsk. There was also the sound of an explosion and then a vibration, I felt it.'
Another witness Denis Rozenfeld said: 'A meteor burned out, not reaching the lower layers of the atmosphere.
'Before this it exploded and split into many small pieces. That is why there was such a sound, which came to us in a few seconds.
'It's a funny coincidence that such a rare phenomenon for our region has happened right over Christmas.'
Reports of similar flashes have occurred three times in 12 years in Russia. Yet experts were split on the cause of the flash.
Reports of similar flashes have occurred three times in 12 years in Russia. Yet experts were split on the cause of the flash
Astronomers from Kazan Federal University in Tatarstan insisted there was a space link
Yuri Nefefyev, director of the Engelhardt Astronomical Observatory, claimed atmospheric electricity was behind the eerie night-to-day explosion of light.
'There are a huge number of effects linked to atmospheric electricity, many of which are not properly studied because of how rarely they occur,' he said.
Astronomers from Kazan Federal University in Tatarstan insisted there was a space link.
'This was a bolide, when all substance burns in atmosphere and doesn't reach Earth,' said Dr Sergey Golovkin, of the university's Physics Institute.
'It is accompanied by a loud bang. It could have been a fragment of a spacecraft that burnt, but normally it takes them more time to enter the atmosphere, thus they can be observed for longer.
'This was a bolide that burnt in the dense layers of the atmosphere which is why it was seen over such a big territory.
'We didn't register the flash because there was strong blizzard on this night.'
If you were excited about the signs of life reportedly spotted on Mars, it’s might be time to reign in your expectations. The tube-like structures identified by Curiosity were probably formed by geology, not biology, mission team members say.
The troublesome structures captured by Curiosity on Jan. 2, 2018, using its Mars Hand Lens Imager. The tubular structures were likely created by crystalline growth, mission team members said.
Image credits NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
News that Curiosity stumbled upon fossilized traces of life took the Internet by storm a few days ago. And I get it — Mars is just so tantalizingly right for our first encounter with extraterrestrial life, no matter how dead the latter may be. The planet’s dry as a brick now, but we know it used to have water and a proper atmosphere. It’s relatively close-by, enough so that we actually stand a chance of getting there in the mid-future, but it’s still largely unexplored and mysterious as of now. I too, if I may use a cliche, want to believe.
NASA however, as they tend to do, comes to nip those hopes in the bud. The tubular structures spotted on Mars were probably formed by growing crystals, not burrowing creatures, members of the Curiosity mission said.
“When we looked at these things close up, they’re linear, but they’re not tubular in the sense of being cylinders; they’re actually quite angular,” said Ashwin Vasavada of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
“They have kind of a square or a parallelogram sort of cross section and form at angles to each other when there’s multiple of them together. And all of that’s pretty reminiscent of crystalline growth.”
The team suspects that the structures are either crystals or molds left in the rock when sediments hardened around pre-existing crystals. While that’s less exciting than finding life, it’s not an inconsequential find at all — both scenarios (the second one a bit more) would require quite a lot of liquid water, suggesting that the area Curiosity is roaming around right now was abundantly wet in Mars’ past. The whole area, a flank of the towering Mount Sharp, is pretty elevated as well — over 300 meters (1,000 feet) vertically above the rover’s initial landing site on Gale Crater.
Curiosity found ample evidence for the existence of a (now dry) groundwater network and an ancient lake-and-stream system on the crater’s floor and along the mountain’s lower slopes. The team is confident that evidence of Mars’ transition from a warm and wet world to the cold, dry place it is today remained locked in the mountain’s rocks. The rover is still to find that transition zone, however, and will continue its ascent until it does so.
Everything considered the chances that this will be our first taste of alien life look slim. It’s not impossible that the tubes are trace fossils of life on Mars, it’s just not very likely given what we know so far. And, as someone who’s gone fossil-hunting in the field, I can confirm that it’s really hard to distinguish trace fossils from weird, but random, shapes left over as geology does its stuff. So making a bullet-proof case that these really are fossils would be extremely difficult on Mars.
“We just, unfortunately, may not have the ability with Curiosity to tell that,” Vasavada said.
The rover has two instruments it can use to analyze the structures. The first is a laser-touting ChemCam, supplemented with the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS). These devices can be used to gauge the little tubes’ chemical make-up, but they’ve proven themselves difficult targets. The structures are only about 1 millimeter (0.04 inches) wide by 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) long. Still, Vasavada is confident we’ll have the results within the next week, and with them, we could get the answers we so crave.
Untill then, as the rover tweeted, science continues.
Meanwhile, back on Mars... I’m checking out these stick-like figures. Each is about a quarter-inch long. Maybe they're crystals? Or they could be minerals that filled spaces where crystals dissolved away. Stay tuned! Science continues.
U.S. Cargo Spacecraft Set for Departure from International Space Station
U.S. Cargo Spacecraft Set for Departure from International Space Station
The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft is pictured attached to the Harmony module of the International Space Station after it arrived on Dec. 17. 2017.
Credits: NASA
After delivering more than 4,800 pounds of science and supplies to the International Space Station, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft will depart the orbiting laboratory on Saturday, Jan. 13. NASA will provide live coverage of Dragon's departure beginning at 4:30 a.m. EST.
On Friday, Jan. 12, flight controllers will use the space station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to detach Dragon from the Earth-facing side of the station's Harmony module. After Dragon is maneuvered into place, a ground-controlled command will release the spacecraft as NASA’s Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Joe Acaba and Scott Tingle monitor its departure at 5 a.m. Saturday.
Dragon’s thrusters will fire to move the spacecraft a safe distance from the station before SpaceX flight controllers in Hawthorne, California, command its deorbit burn. The spacecraft will splash down about 10:36 a.m. in the Pacific Ocean, where recovery forces will retrieve Dragon and approximately 4,100 pounds of cargo, including science samples from human and animal research, biology and biotechnology studies, physical science investigations and education activities. NASA will not provide coverage of the deorbit burn and splashdown.
NASA and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the nonprofit organization that manages research aboard the U.S. national laboratory portion of the space station, will receive time-sensitive samples from experiments conducted aboard the station and begin working with researchers to process and distribute them within 48 hours of splashdown.
Dragon, the only space station resupply spacecraft capable of returning science and cargo to Earth, launched Dec. 15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and arrived at the station Dec. 17 for the company’s 13th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station.
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A 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object.
Photo: NYTU.S DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
A group of former US defence officials and aerospace engineers have set up their own group to investigate UFOs.
Hey, Mr. Spaceman, Won’t you please take me along? I won’t do anything wrong. Hey, Mr. Spaceman, Won’t you please take me along for a ride?
So sang the Byrds in 1966, after strange radio bursts from distant galaxies called quasars had excited people about the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence.
I recalled those words recently when reading the account of a pair of Navy pilots who were outmaneuvered and outrun by a UFO off the coast of San Diego in 2004. Cmdr. David Fravor said he had no idea what he had seen.
“But,” he added, “I want to fly one.”
His story was part of a bundle of material released recently about a supersecret $22 million Pentagon project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, aimed at investigating UFOs. The project was officially killed in 2012, but now it’s being resurrected as a non-profit organisation.
Disgruntled that the government wasn’t taking the possibility of alien visitors seriously, a group of former defence officials, aerospace engineers and other space fans have set up their own group, To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science. One of its founders is Tom DeLonge, a former punk musician, record producer and entrepreneur, who is also head of the group’s entertainment division.
For a minimum of $200, you can join and help finance their research into how UFOs do whatever it is they do, as well as telepathy and “a point-to-point transportation craft that will erase the current travel limits of distance and time” by using a drive that “alters the space-time metric” — that is, a warp drive going faster than the speed of light, Einstein’s old cosmic speed limit.
What we know
While there is a lot we don’t know, there is also a lot we do know. We know that when physical objects zig and zag through a medium like air, as UFOs are said to do, they produce turbulence and shock waves. NASA engineers predicted to the minute when the Cassini spacecraft would dwindle to a wisp of smoke in Saturn’s atmosphere last fall.
UFO investigations are nothing new. Most UFO sightings turn out to be swamp gas and other atmospheric anomalies, Venus, weird reflections or just plain hoaxes. But there is a stubborn residue, a few percent that resist easy explication. But that’s a far cry from proving they are alien or interstellar.
As modern psychology and neuroscience have established, the senses are an unreliable portal to reality, whatever that is. The New York Times News Service
A 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object.
Photo: NYTU.S DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
A group of former US defence officials and aerospace engineers have set up their own group to investigate UFOs.
Hey, Mr. Spaceman, Won’t you please take me along? I won’t do anything wrong. Hey, Mr. Spaceman, Won’t you please take me along for a ride?
So sang the Byrds in 1966, after strange radio bursts from distant galaxies called quasars had excited people about the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence.
I recalled those words recently when reading the account of a pair of Navy pilots who were outmaneuvered and outrun by a UFO off the coast of San Diego in 2004. Cmdr. David Fravor said he had no idea what he had seen.
“But,” he added, “I want to fly one.”
His story was part of a bundle of material released recently about a supersecret $22 million Pentagon project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, aimed at investigating UFOs. The project was officially killed in 2012, but now it’s being resurrected as a non-profit organisation.
Disgruntled that the government wasn’t taking the possibility of alien visitors seriously, a group of former defence officials, aerospace engineers and other space fans have set up their own group, To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science. One of its founders is Tom DeLonge, a former punk musician, record producer and entrepreneur, who is also head of the group’s entertainment division.
For a minimum of $200, you can join and help finance their research into how UFOs do whatever it is they do, as well as telepathy and “a point-to-point transportation craft that will erase the current travel limits of distance and time” by using a drive that “alters the space-time metric” — that is, a warp drive going faster than the speed of light, Einstein’s old cosmic speed limit.
What we know
While there is a lot we don’t know, there is also a lot we do know. We know that when physical objects zig and zag through a medium like air, as UFOs are said to do, they produce turbulence and shock waves. NASA engineers predicted to the minute when the Cassini spacecraft would dwindle to a wisp of smoke in Saturn’s atmosphere last fall.
UFO investigations are nothing new. Most UFO sightings turn out to be swamp gas and other atmospheric anomalies, Venus, weird reflections or just plain hoaxes. But there is a stubborn residue, a few percent that resist easy explication. But that’s a far cry from proving they are alien or interstellar.
As modern psychology and neuroscience have established, the senses are an unreliable portal to reality, whatever that is. The New York Times News Service
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Un gigantesque OVNI largue des orbes dans le ciel californien
Un gigantesque OVNI largue des orbes dans le ciel californien
Un gigantesque OVNI largue des orbes dans le ciel californien
De terrifiantes images ont récemment émergé sur Internet. Celles-ci nous montrent un énorme OVNI accompagné de petits orbes qui semblent se disperser dans le ciel. Pour certains, il s’agirait véritablement d’un « vaisseau-mère ».
Dans cette vidéo, on peut voir un grand objet lumineux blanc qui flotte dans le ciel bleu. Le cameraman s’interroge sur ce qu’il est en train de filmer. Et, il n’a apparemment aucun idée de quoi il s’agit.
Quelques instants plus tard et sans raison apparente, trois objets bien plus petits semblent être lâchés par le plus grand des vaisseaux.
Puis, cette mystérieuse formation se met à former un triangle avant de partir à une vitesse extraordinaire au loin.
Ces images ont été prises en Californie et ont été mises en ligne sur YouTube par « UFO Invasion ». La vidéo était accompagnée de la description suivante :
« Étaient-ce des orbes ou un type de spores extraterrestres comme dans le film ‘Invasion of the Bodysnatchers’ ? »
La vidéo a déjà été visionnée plusieurs milliers de fois.
Un internaute spécule : « Cette vidéo est très impressionnante ! Pour moi, cela ressemble à une ouverture de trou de ver que des orbes ou des OVNI utilisent pour entrer dans notre atmosphère … c’est juste une supposition. »
Un autre n’est pas tellement convaincu par l’hypothèse d’un engin alien : « Peut-être une sorte de drone ? Peut-être un MQ-25 équipé d’un réservoir ? J’ai vu d’autres vidéos similaires, mais à cette distance, il est difficile d’en juger. »
Ces derniers temps, il a été noté une augmentation inhabituelle du nombre d’observations d’OVNI.
En ce début du mois de janvier 2018, les images diffusées en direct par SpaceX d’Elon Musk ont été interrompues après qu’un OVNI ait été malencontreusement filmé.
In the clip, we see a large white glowing object floating high in the blue sky.
“Woah, what the f*** is that thing?” The cameraman questions.
Then, for no apparent reason, three smaller orbs seem to be dropped by the larger object.
“Wow, holy s***,” the bloke adds.
They then seem to rush off into the distance in a triangular formation, before the video ends.
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ALIEN INVASION? Orbs were spotted leaving a 'UFO mothership'
Captured in California, the footage was uploaded to YouTube channel UFO Invasion with the description: “Are they orbs or some type of alien spores like the Invasion of the Bodysnatchers film?”
The clip has clocked up over 1,000 views already with a number of concerned comments.
One read: “That's some serious s***!”
And another speculated: “This is very cool footage! To me this looks like a wormhole opening with orbs or crafts coming into our atmosphere.... just a guess.”
A third wasn’t so convinced though, adding: “A UAV carrier of some sort? Maybe the MQ-25 with some sort of drone drop tank? I have seen other videos similar to this, but at this distance it is hard to judge.”
It comes after a recent surge in the number of reported UFO sightings.
Earlier today, it was reported that Elon Musk’s SpaceX live feed was cut after a UFO appeared on the screen.
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TR-3B Anti Gravity Spacecraft Fleet againts Ufo in South America
TR-3B Anti Gravity Spacecraft Fleet againts Ufo in South America
This is everything you ever expected not to see when talking about the TR3B! A fleet of Tr_3b filmed in South America, Brazil coupled with other alien ship.The TR-3B, a triangular anti-gravity flying platform, powered by nuclear power, appears to be the new aerospace technology craft designed and created by the (CMITF) Military and Industrial Technology Complex in the US aerospace, this aircraft until recently Top Secret was developed and created by the Aurora Program in conjunction with the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) and sponsored with a black budget.
The following document is the translation of the description of this artifact that Edgar Rothschild Fouche saw in Nevada in 1998.
Mr. Fouche has worked on Government Programs in the Defense Industry for the past 30 years, including Area 51, the Air Force base of Groom Lake and Nellis for several years, also on top secret projects.
Fouche describes the TR-3B propulsion system as follows: "It is a circular, plasma-filled accelerator ring called Magnetic Field Disrupter, (MFD or Magnetic Field Switch) that surrounds the crew's revolving cockpit, is far beyond any technology imaginable ... The plasma, based on mercury, is pressurized to 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin, and accelerated to 50,000 RPM to generate a superconducting plasma with the result of the interruption of the force of gravity.
The MFD generates a magnetic field vortex, which interrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on any mass that is in the vicinity, in a percentage of 89%. This means that the "G" force is reduced by 89%. The MFD that owns the TR-3B causes that the vehicle is extremely light and can carry out maneuvers that no other airplane could ... My sources say that the possibilities are only limited by the physical resistance of the human pilots. Which is a lot really, considering the reduction of 89% of the mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%. The crew of the TR-3B could comfortably support up to 40G ... reduced by 89% the occupants would only feel 4.2Gs.
Did Something Happen to Secret Zuma Spacecraft After SpaceX Launch?
Did Something Happen to Secret Zuma Spacecraft After SpaceX Launch?
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the secret Zuma spacecraft for the U.S. government launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Jan. 7, 2018.
Credit: SpaceX
The U.S. government's hush-hush Zuma satellite may have run into some serious problems during or shortly after its Sunday (Jan. 7) launch, according to media reports.
Zuma lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Sunday evening — a launch that also featured a successful landing back on Earth by the booster's first stage.
Everything seemed OK at the time. But on Monday (Jan. 8), rumors began percolating within the spaceflight community that something had happened to Zuma, Ars Technica reported.
"According to one source, the payload fell back to Earth along with the spent upper stage of the Falcon 9 rocket," Ars Technica's Eric Berger wrote.
To be clear: There is no official word of any bad news, just some rumblings to that effect. And the rocket apparently did its job properly, SpaceX representatives said.
"We do not comment on missions of this nature, but as of right now, reviews of the data indicate Falcon 9 performed nominally," company spokesman James Gleeson told Space.com via email.
Space.com also reached out to representatives of aerospace company Northrop Grumman, which built Zuma for the U.S. government. "This is a classified mission. We cannot comment on classified missions," Northrop Grumman spokesman Lon Rains said via email.
Classified indeed. Pretty much all we know about Zuma is its vague destination — low-Earth orbit. It's unknown what the satellite will do, or even which government agency is charged with operating it.
If we hear anything else about Zuma's status, we'll let you know.
Zuma is widely regarded as a national-security mission. Before Sunday, SpaceX had launched just two national-security payloads — the NROL-76 satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office in May 2017 and the Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane this past September.
The news cycle on this latest revelation that the Department of Defense (DoD) had a project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) that looked into UFOs – remember the U is for “unidentified” not aliens – seems to be coming to a close. Dozens of interviews were conducted, many, if not all, can be seen at this link, and many more stories written. But it seems with all that was learned, many more questions remain to be answered.
On December 16, 2017, The New York Times posted an article that may have forever changed how the general public views the UFO topic. Luis Elizondo, who had previously claimed to work for a UFO project for the DoD, and The New York Times, shared much more detail about the project. The news made worldwide headlines and set off a weeks long media frenzy with interviews with Elizondo, jet fighter pilots who chased UFOs, and retired Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who took the lead on securing funding for the program.
The article that started it all.
However, now that we are almost a month out, the media cycle seems to be coming to an end and the story seems to be fading. But it most likely will not stay that way, because for as many questions that were answered, many more have come to light.
For example, Elizondo said he was able to get permission to release three videos of objects they were unable to identify. So far, only two of those have been released, and even these two warrant further scrutiny. One of the better-known videos was from a case that a few UFO researchers had already been examining. This was a sighting of what has been referred to as a Tic Tac shaped UFO by crewmen in the Nimitz aircraft carrier group. The sighting was in November of 2004 near of San Diego.
Robert Powell, a UFO researcher with the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU), has been working with the Navy on a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request he had made on the case. He outlined his research thus far in a previous article on OpenMinds.tv. Investigative documentarian Jeremy Corbell had also been researching this case.
Most had heard of the case from a blog post made by one of the pilots who witnessed the event. An alleged video from the event was also leaked. Now it has been confirmed the video is from the Nimitz UFO encounter, but we do not know how that video got out to the public in the first place. This was the focus of another recent OpenMinds.tv article by contributor Andreas Muller from Germany. It is video from an advanced infrared camera on an F-18. Not the kind of thing that normally makes its way to YouTube.
Although some detail about this event has made it out to the public, the reports and files on the investigation of this UFO are still under lock and key. Powell has not received any of this, despite his requests. He is hopeful now that it has been revealed AATIP looked into this case more documentation will be released.
The second video, referred to as the GIMBAL video, was released with very little information as to its origins or the situation in which it was acquired. According to the To the Stars Academy (TTSA) website, an organization Elizondo now works for, the video “was captured by a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet using the Raytheon AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pod.” However, the date, time and location are still kept under wraps. No doubt there is a stack of FOIA requests on this one.
So why release these videos without supporting documentation, and when will we see the third? We don’t know.
The Washington Postwrote: “Elizondo, in an internal Pentagon memo requesting that the videos be cleared for public viewing, argued that the images could help educate pilots and improve aviation safety. But in interviews, he said his ultimate intention was to shed light on a little-known program Elizondo himself ran for seven years…”
Luis Elizondo
(Credit: To the Stars Academy)
This seems to imply Elizondo was able to get the videos released under false pretense. However, I have been told that this statement by The Washington Post is inaccurate, and this is not how the videos got released. Well then, how did he get permission to release them, and what was the rationale behind it? We do not know.
There are a host of other questions. What other cases did AATIP look into? Do they have more video? Are these three the best they have? How many cases did they investigate and how many remain unknown? Even more exciting, how many of these objects do they believe exhibit technology much more advanced than what we Americans, or humans for that matter, have?
Then there is the case of the mysterious metals. The New York Times wrote: “Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.”
WTF? Were these metals analyzed? If so, by whom and what did they find? If the phenomena that produced these metals are still unexplained, does that imply any analysis done thus far was inconclusive? What sort of properties do these metals have? Are they extraordinary? This is kind of a big deal, but we have no answers, and the media is not even asking these questions…yet.
Does this tweet by Tom DeLonge, President and CEO of TTSA, posted two days before The New York Times article, have anything to do with these metals?
After mentioning the metals, The New York Times continued, “Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes.”
Physiological changes? Did they find any?
The phrase “who said they had” implies this may have been just anecdotal in nature. This brings to mind a recent case where this claim was made in a long and wild story of a man by the name of John Burroughs, who says he came close to a UFO that appeared to land in a forest outside a base in the UK on lease to the United States Air Force. At the time, he was working security at the base and along with others, approached the object. Years later, in a declassified study on UFOs done by the British government, it was speculated that these men might have suffered some physical effects from the object.
Burroughs did have health issues he believed stemmed from this incident and had to hire a lawyer to get veterans benefits. Incidentally, Burroughs’ efforts lead him to discover the section in the classified UK report that referred to his encounter and other yet to be released UK UFO files despite the fact that the UK had claimed to had released all of their UFO files. For his research, John Burroughs was awarded the UFO researcher of the year award at the 2015 International UFO Congress. DeLonge won that very award in 2017, and his video acceptance went viral early last year. You can read more about Burroughs’ efforts here.
The reason I went off on this tangent is because this case is well known. Is this the case that is being referred to in regards to studying “people who said they had experienced physical effects?”
It feels like we learned a lot in the last few weeks. The media seems to have boiled it all down to the idea that the government has taken UFOs seriously and perhaps it is a more credible topic than previously thought. That is a good takeaway.
However, there are many more questions that need to be answered, and it is likely more revelation will be forthcoming. I would venture to guess some of those revelations will be coming very soon.
Do you have some questions I did not include here? If so, let us know what they are below.
The first-ever World Fly-In Expo was held recently in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. The air sports extravaganza was co-hosted by the FAI, the world governing body for air sports, and the Aero Sport Federation of China.
This global aviation event featured hundreds of aircraft, including jets, helicopters, hot-air balloons, auto-gyros, and ultra-light planes. More than 1000 pilots, athletes, coaches and referees from 37 countries participated in this mega event organized by the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone.
Three big international competitions took place at the expo:
The China International Hot Air Balloon Tournament
The International Para-motor Invitational Championship
The International Skydiving Championship
Another highlight of the event was the creation of a new Guinness World Record, involving 100 hot air balloon weddings.
But the stars of the event were the drones
Chinese-made remote-controlled flying machines stole the show. The drones drew massive crowds at exhibition booths. The tiny propeller-driven flying machines performed in tight formation, high above the ground and competed with each other in events like delivering parcels and spraying plumes of mock pesticide.
An artist's concept of a hot Jupiter, a cloudy Jupiter-like planet orbiting very close to its star.
Credit: T. Pyle (SSC)/ASA/JPL-Caltech
A group of astronomers is using a new method to search for hard to spot alien planets: By measuring the difference between the amount of light coming from the planets' daysides and nightsides, astronomers have spotted 60 new worlds thus far.
The researchers used data from NASA's Kepler space telescope to apply their technique. After training computers to hunt for the worlds, the researchers released the machines on over 140,000 stars. For their first dive into the data, the scientists targeted only stars with no known planets (although some of the systems are suspected to host planets). The computer program looked for changes in the amount of light coming from the star system that could be caused by the telescope alternately seeing a close-orbiting planet's dayside and then its nightside.
"We're searching for the light that the planets reflect from their host stars," Sarah Millholland, a graduate student at Yale University and a co-author of the paper, told Space.com by email. She and her co-author Greg Laughlin, a professor of astronomy at Yale, are using their program to identify exoplanets that otherwise would have been missed in the Kepler data. [7 Ways to Discover Alien Planets]
Normally, Kepler detects exoplanets via the transit method. As a planet passes between its star and the sun, the amount of light Kepler observes drops sharply because it has been blocked by the distant world, and rises again once the planet moves on. The researchers' new method also examines how starlight is changed by a passing planet, but in a whole new way.
"This [new] method of planet hunting uses the same kind of data as transits … but it involves looking for a different kind of signal in the data," Millholland said.
Glowing worlds
Traditionally, scientists have relied on a handful of methods to hunt for planets. One technique, called the radial velocity (RV) method, was the first to reveal a distant world, tracking how a massive planet can cause its parent star to wobble. And using another technique, called the direct imaging method, researchers snap photos of exoplanets, but that method can be applied only to large worlds orbiting far from their stars.
But thanks to the Kepler space telescope, the transit method rules the exoplanet roost. Over the course of its primary mission, which lasted about four years, Kepler revealed thousands of potential and confirmed worlds. (The Kepler spacecraft is now being used for a secondary mission, dubbed K2.) The spacecraft has a numbers advantage: Whereas instruments capable of searching for planets via the direct imaging and RV methods can focus on only one star at a time, Kepler can collect light from thousands of stars simultaneously.
But the transit method of searching for exoplanets also has limitations. For a planet to block the light of its star, it must orbit along the line of sight between Earth and the parent star. For every planet Kepler has spotted, there are likely another 99 that it couldn't see, according to an estimate by astronomy blogger and astrophysicist Ethan Siegel. That's an awful lot of missed worlds.
Millholland and Laughlin weren't content to leave all of those planets hidden. They used the Kepler data to look for worlds lit up by their parent stars, just like the sun lights up the face of the moon and the planets in our solar system (which is why planets in our solar system look like "stars" in the night sky). When an alien planet is on the near side of its star, it radiates a dim light from its nightside (from retained heat), and when the exoplanet is on the far side of the star, it reflects light from its parent star (the dayside). If those variations appear in the Kepler data, they can reveal a planet's presence.
After ensuring that the program could identify already-known, hot gas giants by their glow, the researchers turned their program loose on over 140,000 Kepler stars. The new technique turned up 60 previously unidentified gas giant candidates that don't transit their sun.
Due to limitations in its precision, Kepler can hunt only for the glow of close-in gas giant planets — the so-called hot Jupiters. Future instruments with increased precision could extend the method to smaller worlds, Millholland said.
Compared to the dazzling searchlight glow of a star, the glow from a planet is extremely faint. Stellar activity, such as sunspots and flares, have the potential to give false positives in the search for planets. That's why, Millholland said, any detections made with the new method should be followed up with RV-method measurements; they have not yet used RV to follow up on the 60 detections reported in the new study.
"RV observations are necessary to confirm the planet candidates," she said. (Many "objects of interest" detected by Kepler are also confirmed using RV measurements.) "Close-in giants produce large RV signals, so they should be readily detectable," Millholland said.
Millholland and Laughlin started out with stars with no known or suspected planets, but eventually, they plan to use the method to search for gas giants in systems already known to host small worlds.
Prior to the first discoveries of planets around other stars, planetary evolution models — which were based on Earth's solar system — set the birth of gas giants far from their stars, similar to where Jupiter and the other giant planets orbit the sun. So when the first exoplanet hunts revealed hot Jupiters, scientists were startled. The leading hypothesis became that these massive gassy worlds had migrated inward after forming at a distance.
But several years ago, some scientists proposed that hot Jupiters might have formed closer to their star. Laughlin is among those who question the migration model. Following another line of research, Laughlin predicted that hot Jupiters born near their stars would have small-mass sibling planets with orbits that are not aligned with the parent star's orbital plane. (In Earth's solar system, the eight planets orbit in a kind of flat disk around the sun.) Soon, he and Millholland plan to turn their attention toward known collections of rocky worlds with strange orbital alignments, in hunt of hidden gas giants.
The research was published in The Astronomical Journal on Aug. 4, which is the end of the Northern Hemisphere observing season for the Kepler field, Millholland said. She said several groups of scientists in the Northern Hemisphere plan to begin their hunt for the glowing worlds next spring.
"If we use this technique to find systems with hot Jupiters and misaligned small planets, it would be evidence toward this theory of hot-Jupiter formation," Millholland said. In the near future, the pair plans to use the method to probe stars that host oddly aligned rocky planets, after the 60 new worlds have been confirmed using the radial-velocity method.
"It would be best to study those systems separately," she said.
Theory of Evolution in Extraterrestrials? Makes sense?
Theory of Evolution in Extraterrestrials? Makes sense?
After reading this news from the Public Newspaper, in which scientists used Evolution Theory to explain what life forms would look like on other planets, I have to say that I agree in part with what has been described.
I agree that extraterrestrial life forms do not have to be based on a human model, ie head exchange, and members, nor have the same atomic constitution. The forms of alien lives may have another type of physiognomy and atomic constitution.
For me, they can even have a physical form and be what we consider spiritual entities.
I do not agree with the Theory of Evolution in this respect, just as I do not agree with it in our world. Creationism has a view, in my opinion, smarter than the facts and arguments that make the most sense to me.
Why this? Imagine you have all the ingredients of a cake in a closet. Suddenly there is an explosion and all those ingredients are scattered. However, they began to mix until they were a homogeneous mixture and with the heat of the explosion they baked and made a beautiful chocolate cake. Do you believe that?
Of course not? You know that it is impossible, in the same way, I believe it is impossible that after an explosion such as the Big Bang, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur, have gathered and mixed by taking advantage of the heat of explosion to become life.
It's too complex so everything has happened from an explosion. How would life come from a primordial soup? Have you ever seen some chickens come out of your chicken soup? Should not you leave as there are molecules of the bird and are receiving heat?
From this, extraterrestrial species cannot originate from a cellular evolution, but from a careful process of creation, such as the whole Universe. Because it is impossible that the whole Universe has arisen with all this order by the simple chance of an explosion.
Of course, you may disagree with me, my opinion is based on theories and fruit of what makes sense to me. For others, my opinion will no longer make sense and I just have to respect it.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a brief history
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a brief history
Is there anybody out there? If we don't listen for the answer, we certainly won't hear it. Over at the Planetary Society, Jason Davis posted an excellent survey of the past, present, and future of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It begins in 1959 with Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison's historic paper "Searching for Interstellar Communications" and Frank Drake's Project Ozma, the first scientific SETI search:
One year later, the National Academy of Sciences hosted an invitation-only meeting at Green Bank to discuss how to go about conducting further SETI research. The eclectic, interdisciplinary group included Drake, Cocconi, Morrison, the biochemist Melvin Calvin (who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry during the meeting), Bernard Oliver, who was the vice president of research and development at Hewlett-Packard, the young Carl Sagan, and the scientist John Lilly, who had recently published a controversial book arguing dolphins were an intelligent species.
With a nod to Lilly's book, the participants dubbed themselves "The Order of the Dolphin." One product of the meeting was the Drake equation, which attempts to predict the number of advanced civilizations in the Milky Way able to contact Earth. The equation includes variables such as average star formation rate, the number of habitable planets per star, and the number of planets where intelligent life could evolve.
For the rest of the 1960s, SETI research remained mostly dormant, aside from a few searches in the Soviet Union. Starting in 1971, two Project Ozma follow-ups named Ozpa and Ozma II used bigger dishes and listened to more stars.
In 1973, another SETI search began, using a radio telescope called Big Ear at Ohio State University. Big Ear was a flat, aluminum dish three football fields wide, with reflectors at both ends.
On the night of August 15, 1977, Big Ear picked up a signal from the constellation Sagittarius that was 30 times stronger than the cosmic background noise, right at the 1,420 megahertz hydrogen line frequency. No one noticed it for a few days, until a volunteer sifting through the previous week's data circled the signal and wrote "Wow!" in the margin.
Jill Tarter is a legendary SETI scientist. She's the Bernard Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and is the inspiration for protagonist Ellie Arroway in Contact, played by Jodie Foster in the film adaptation.
Tarter told me Big Ear's automated search program had no built-in logic to stop and focus on the Wow! signal. Furthermore, there was no confirmation system such as a second telescope located elsewhere, which could help determine whether the signal was local to Earth or truly from the stars.
Despite decades of follow-up searches, the Wow! signal was never heard again. To this day, Tarter favors SETI programs that can process data in real time, rapidly follow-up on detections, and rule out local interference.
I asked her if the Wow! signal still haunts the SETI field. "Well, it haunts me," she said.
Les sceptiques utilisent d'innombrables excuses, scientifiques ou pas pour soit disant expliquer les Ovnis. Tout est bon pour nier le phénomène ovni. On peut analyser cela d'un côté psychologique et sociologique. De nombreuses personnes ont peur de l'hypothèse extraterrestre, ils vont donc exprimer cet état d'esprit dans leur propre "étude du phénomène". C'est à dire qu'ils vont tenter de se rassurer en formulant des hypothèses tirées par les cheveux. Ainsi on constatera un discours classique du genre " toutes les réponses même le plus absurdes sont valables sauf bien sûr l'hypothèse extraterrestre" trop destabilisante.
Le Comité Condon (comité d'étude scientifique des ovnis, 1968)
“ En 1958, […] il y aura quelques 200 apparitions authentiques d'objets volants non identifiés. Le Pentagone réussira à démontrer qu'il y en avait 210 de fausses. ”
Cette remarque savoureuse, extraite de l'éditorial du magazine Life du 6 janvier 1958, si elle ne permet pas de se faire une opinion sur les ovnis, permet en revanche de situer la façon dont on appréhende souvent ce problème : cette volonté farouche d'expliquer au risque d'en faire trop ; cette volonté d'en appeler à des explications spécifiques — que l'on n'oserait pas servir pour d'autres problèmes — parce qu'il ne faut surtout pas que le cadavre puisse se rétablir. Derrière cet excès de zèle anti-soucoupique, on trouve l’idée, partagée par les universitaires comme par le grand public, qu’il faut être irrationnel, anti-scientifique pour accepter l'existence des ovnis. Comment peut-il se faire que 30% des français (et plus de 50% des américains) croient aux ovnis (sous entendu, malgré l'évidence de leur inexistence) ? Les soucoupes ne seraient pas un phénomène normal à propos duquel on pourrait se contenter de parler d'erreur avant de les oublier et de passer à autre chose. Non, on croit nécessaire, indispensable même, de déployer à leur sujet tout un attirail rhétorique bien précis.
Ne nous y trompons pas même des gens qui ne se disent pas sceptiques fonctionnent comme cela et il y a bien souvent une conviction religieuse, politique et dogmatique sous-jacente qui dicte la conduite.
Les Sceptiques "Rationalistes"
Toutes les observations sont réductibles pour eux à des phénomènes physiques simples et connus, ou à des canulars. Le caractère apparemment inexplicable de certains cas "mystérieux" vient du fait que nous n'avons pas suffisamment de renseignements précis sur les conditions et le contexte de l'observation. Dès qu'il y a suffisamment de détails précis, alors on peut toujours trouver une explication connue qui soit certaine, ou au moins possible. Le fait que cette observation "pourrait être" expliqué ainsi simplement, suffit à rejeter toute autre explication faisant appel à des hypothèses plus "extraordinaires" (voyageurs extraterrestres par exemple).
Donald menzel
Liste (non exhaustive) des causes connues pouvant expliquer une observation d'ovni :
En France les trois principales associations rationalistes luttant activement contre les charlatans et les "para sciences" en général, et les ovnis en particulier sont :
L'Union Rationaliste, l'Association Française pour l'Information Scientifique (AFIS), les Zététiciens
Ailleurs dans le monde les plus connus sont :
Canada : Les sceptiques du Quebec (Claude Lafleur) USA : le CSIOP (Committee for scientific investigation on Claims on Paranormal), auxquel contribuent les 2 debunkers les plus célèbres de la planète : Philipp J Klass et Robert Schaeffer. Belgique : le comité Para http://www.comitepara.be/
Généralement, lorsqu'ils sont interrogés sur le sujet, la majorité des scientifiques se rallient à cette thèse. De manière assez amusante les sceptiques rationalistes sont l'image dans le miroir des "ufologues ultra-croyants" qu'ils pourfendent. Comme eux ils sont "spécialistes en tout" et combattent non seulement les ovnis mais également tous les phénomènes réputés paranormaux ou inexpliqués. Et ce, avec autant de ferveur aveugle et de superficialité, que leurs opposants mettent à défendre ces mêmes thèses.
Ils défendent un dogme rassurant et "excommunient" tous ceux qui prétendraient explorer des domaines de connaissance inconnus, fusse avec une démarche et une rigueur toute scientifique.
En témoigne par exemple la devise apparaissant sur la page d'accueil du site Rationaliste Belge : "Comité Para" :
Bienvenue à ceux qui nous rejoignent sur le site du "Comité Para". Ils y trouveront le réconfort de la rationalité et de la vérité scientifique, celle qui se trouve à la base de tout événement ou phénomène naturel.
Quel aveu accablant dès la 2ème phrase de la page d’accueil.
1. Ces sceptiques Belges offrent avant tout du « réconfort ». A toutes les personnes que les choses étranges, nouvelles, non explicables a priori dans l’instant par une cause naturelle simple, choqueraient, cette association propose un « calmant » un « tranquillisant » : n’ayez pas peur, tout va bien, la Science sereine et immuable a réponse à tout…On frise le concept sectaire …
2. Leur périmètre est restreint aux évènements et phénomènes « naturels » ! Sous entendu : toute explication présupposant une intervention intelligente (qu’elle soit extra-terrestre , humaine (complots, armes secrètes), ou autre) est exclue d’office.
La Girafe n'existe pas un exemple significatif
par Jacques Bergier, 1965
La science contre les mythes
Pour un esprit bien rompu aux méthodes scientifiques modernes, la vraie démonstration de la non-existence de la girafe réside dans le fait que la girafe n'existe pas. Ce genre de raisonnement est appelé « la méthode de Lavoisier » : on sait que le fondateur de la chimie avait démontré de cette façon l'inexistence des météorites en déclarant « qu'il ne peut pas tomber des pierres du ciel, parce qu'il n'y a pas de pierres dans le ciel ».
Dans les temps modernes, cette méthode a été brillamment employée par M. Simon Newcomb qui démontra que les avions ne peuvent pas voler parce qu'un aéronef plus lourd que l'air est impossible et M. Imbert Nergal, qui démontra que les phénomènes parapsychologiques n'existent pas parce qu'il n'y a pas de phénomènes parapsychologiques. D'autres savants ont exercé la même besogne de salubrité, ce qui fait qu'un Américain appelé Charles Fort a pu faire tout un volume, intitulé « Le livre des Damnés », consacré aux faits ainsi expulsés à juste titre du corps de la Science.
Parmi ces faits damnés, la légende de l'animal appelé « girafe » est particulièrement frappante.
Le voyageur arabe Al Kwraismi a, pour la première fois, décrit cette bête mythologique au cou extrêmement allongé. Depuis, de nombreux voyageurs ont prétendu avoir vu ou même photographié des girafes. Et la revue Planète n'a pas hésité, pour abuser ses lecteurs trop confiants, à accréditer ce mythe pernicieux, en dépit des mises en garde du grand savant André Parinaud.
Il est donc intéressant d'examiner comment une telle légende peut avoir pris naissance. Plusieurs explications sont possibles :
1 - L'explication optique :
On sait que les déserts, où l'on a signalé des girafes, sont également les lieux de nombreux mirages. Ces mirages sont dus au phénomène d'inversion. Ce phénomène consiste en ceci : pour des raisons bien connues des météorologistes, il arrive qu'une couche d'air froid se trouve superposée à une couche d'air chaud qui aurait dû se trouver au dessus de la couche d'air froid. La différence de densité des deux couches d'air produit alors une courbure des rayons de lumière et un mirage. Un objet est alors vu à un endroit où il n'est pas, ou sous une forme modifiée. Très fréquemment l'inversion fait apparaître un objet sous une forme allongée comme les miroirs déformants des foires. Il est donc parfaitement admissible qu'un animal tout à fait ordinaire et bien connu, une licorne par exemple, puisse apparaître à l'explorateur sous une forme invraisemblable et allongée et donner ainsi naissance à la légende de la girafe.
2 - L'explication par la soif :
Le mirage qui a donné naissance à la girafe peut également être d'une origine purement psychologique. Perdu dans le désert et assoiffé, l'explorateur peut, dans un état de semi-conscience, rêver qu'il a un cou extrêmement long lui permettant d'atteindre l'oasis la plus proche. Quoi de plus naturel que de le voir aussi imaginer un animal impossible qui a justement le cou d'une longueur invraisemblable ?
3 - L'explication psychanalytique :
Un psychanalyste allemand éminent, Herr Professor Hegebur, dans son ouvrage « Prolégomènes à l'introduction d'une approche de la connaissance de la girafe », fait observer très justement que le long cou de la girafe n'est autre qu'un symbole phallique. C'est là également une explication plausible du mythe de la girafe. On sait que c'est de la même façon qu'on a réfuté la naïve superstition de certains sauvages selon laquelle le suc du champignon penicillium notatum pouvait avoir une action curative sur les maladies. Ce champignon est de toute évidence un symbole phallique. L'existence d'un produit extrait du penicillium notatum appelé « pénicilline » et auquel on attribue des vertus curatives merveilleuses est, bien entendu, pure superstition.
Nous voyons ainsi que le mythe de la girafe peut parfaitement trouver son explication dans des considérations soit optiques, soit de physiologie, soit de psychanalyse.
La méthode scientifique moderne n'aura pas de difficultés à démentir aussi les autres affirmations saugrenues d'excentriques dans le genre de Charles Fort.
Il est bien connu qu'il ne peut pas y avoir de faits qui n'aient été déjà décrits dans les nombreux et excellents ouvrages publiés par l'Union Rationaliste (16, rue de l'école Polytechnique). Tout fait non décrit dans ces ouvrages peut certainement être réduit à des illusions ou à des hallucinations collectives.
Signalons, pour terminer, un fait curieux qui montre à quel point la sagesse populaire rejoint la méthode scientifique. Un fermier américain à qui on avait montré un dessin représentant la prétendue girafe s'est écrié : « Il n'y a pas d'animal comme ça ! » N'est-ce point merveilleux de voir à quel point le gros bon sens populaire rejoint ainsi la rigueur de la méthode scientifique ?
Remarques
Ne voyez dans cette page qu'une ironique analyse du conformisme stérile, de la courte vue, de l'intégrisme pseudo-intellectuel, du mental sclérosé, de la myopie psychologique, du misonéisme, de la mauvaise foi, des préjugés doctrinaires et politiques et de la simple peur animale de l'inconnu des unions rationalistes, heureusement moribondes pour la plupart, étouffées par leur médiocre suffisance de censeurs mineurs. C'est également un hommage à ces hommes, mandarins mondains et superstitieux à leur manière, englués dans leurs poncifs, coincés entre leurs arrières-pensées et leur pensée arriérée, castrés intellectuellement, illustres par ailleurs, morts sans audace avant que le ridicule ne les achève, moins méchants que paresseux, et qui, par des déclarations fermes ont montré les limites de leur imagination. Restent les mieux-nommés : les "sceptiques", petits groupes associatifs d'autruches qui brunchent périodiquement en pérorant du fond de leur fosse homonyme, seulement éclairés par leur "brillant obscurantisme" (Hé oui, ils ne sont pas à une contradiction près).
Je n'évoquerai pas ici la farce zététique pour des raisons de salubrité publique.
La caractéristique commune et principale fonction des groupuscules évoqués ci-dessus ? Alors qu'ils se voudraient être des aiguillons, ce ne sont malheureusement, la plupart du temps, que des lénifiants intellectuels dont la fonction dormitive empêche les soubresauts de cerveaux moins figés que les leurs (bilan de leurs réflexions) ! Je trouve cela bien dommage ! Par pitié, j'adopterai finalement l'analogie suivante : ces pauvres êtres ne sont que des nourrissons qui, encore accrochés au sein de leur mère, sont terrifiés par la "dure" réalité )
Quelle plus belle dédicace que cette citation de Pauli ? "La vérité ne triomphe jamais, mais les imbéciles finissent par mourir !"
Et Chesterton avait beaucoup de bon sens quand il disait : Eloignez-vous des hommes qui prétendent répondre à toutes les questions. Ce sont des ignorants ou des imbéciles.
Et pour être moins acerbe, je terminerai par celle-ci, d'actualité pour l'éternité :
C'est une sotte présomption d'aller dédaignant et condamnant pour faux ce qui ne nous semble pas vraisemblable. Michel de Montaigne, écrivain français du 16ème siècle
Les Ovnis mais bien sûr c'est à cause des "lutinoïdes"
Les ufologues français Dominique Becker et Fabrice Kircher, ce dernier donnant comme qualifications pour la véracité de la théorie qui suit qu'il est un thérapeute titulaire d'un certificat en Naturopathie et d'un certificat en phyto-aromathérapie, ont écrit que les OVNIS sont causés par les lutinoïdes.
Ils écrivent qu'un développement complet de cette théorie exigerait plus de 500 pages et ils la récapitulent donc en environ 50 pages:
D'abord, observent-ils, 80% de l'humanité est attaquée par des parasites, particulièrement les femmes.
Ces parasites causent le spasmophilie, les dermatoses telles que le psoriasis, les désordres obsessifs-compulsifs, mais également les maladies infectieuses, les allergies et même la rage de dents.
Ils disent qu'après des années d'études, ils ont démontré que ce parasite est un organisme vivant, précédemment inconnu, du type parasite, agissant au niveau moléculaire ou submoléculaire, très résistant, et d'un instinct de survie développé à l'extrême.
Il est semblable aux prions, et peut également induire la toxoplasmose, ou une mononucléose infectieuse en association avec le virus d'Epstein-Barr, et le complexe de foetus manquant, l'asthénie, la folie, les problèmes de vue, des douleur dans les muscles, l'insomnie, la mort, des saignements aux oreilles, l'agoraphobie, la phobie des animaux ressemblant aux Petit Gris c'est à dire les daims et les hiboux, l'hypersomnie, les cauchemars, la panique, les impulsions de fermer les portes, et des visions de Men-in-black.
Leurs études, disent-ils, ont révélé que ce sont des bactéries anaérobies et méthanogènes, qu'ils ont appelées "lutinoïdes" parce qu'elles sont si petites que personne me les a encore vues.
Ils font remarquer qu'aucune théorie n'a encore réussi à expliquer tous les rapports d'observations d'OVNIS et tous les phénomènes paranormaux d'un coup. Mais leur théorie, disent-ils, explique non seulement tous les rapports d'observations d'OVNIS, mais aussi tous les phénomènes paranormaux et plus encore, en une théorie unique:
La cause en est les lutinoïdes. Les lutinoïdes parasitent le cerveau des gens et les font avoir des hallucinations et voir des choses comme des OVNIS, des extraterrestres, la Vierge MArie et autres choses de cette sorte.
Parfois, les lutinoïdes soignent les maladies des gens, ceci expliquant pourquoi il y a des témoins d'OVNIS qui sont guéris d'une maladie après une rencontre OVNI.
Dans un chapitre intitulé:
"PREUVES DE L'ASSERTION DE L'EXISTENCE DES LUTINOIDES"
Ils disent:
"Nous nous trouvons, en quelque sorte, dans la situation de l'astronome qui calcule à l'aide des mathématiques l'orbite d'une planète invisible, car il n'existe aucune preuve expérimentale de résultats de laboratoire etc., la science ne disposant pas, à l'heure actuelle, des moyens adéquats de détection."
Ils ajoutent que les ésotériques du passé avaient remarqué que la glande pinéale était plus développée dans le passé qu'elle ne l'est aujourd'hui, une autre preuve que les lutinoïdes colonisent lentement les cerveaux des humains.
Ils continuent comme cela; ce que vous pouvez lire dans leur livre:
"Enquêtes sur les Insaisissables", Volume 1, livre par Dominique Becker et Fabrice Kircher, Ramuel éditeur, 1998, 276 pages, ISBN 2-910401-79-0
Poitiers: la vérité sur les Soucoupes et les Martiens
par l'Abbé LARGEAC
L'article ci-dessous est paru dans le quotidien Le Libre Poitou, France, le 27 octobre 1954.
Faut-il croire aux soucoupes volantes?
- C'est pour répondre à l'émotion générale, en même temps qu'à la demande des Recherches scientifiques, que j'écris ces lignes documentaires.
Les phénomènes stellaires, atmosphériques et même telluriques sont tellement nombreux et parfois fréquents [sic!] sous la calotte des cieux, qu'il ne faudrait pas s'imaginer que les soucoupes et marmites volantes sont une invention exclusive de notre siècle atomique.
Il y a eu, à toutes les époques - quelques noms qui leur soient donnés - des feux célestes, plus ou moins développés, étincelants et parfois terrifiants, qui, descendant en trajectoires verticales ou obliques [redondance] ont attiré les regards stupéfaits des hommes, en prenant dans leur chute sur le globe terrestre les formes les plus sensationnelles et les plus fantastiques, très capables de troubler l'opinion publique.
La Librairie Celtique de Paris nous a fait connaître récemment dans un ouvrage des plus documentés, ce qu'étaient au Moyen Age, en Bretagne, les apparitions de poêlons volants.
C'étaient des phénomènes célestes qui se multipliaient autant au dedans de l'imagination des hommes que dans la réalité, et auxquelles la frayeur populaire attachait des présages de mort et de catastrophes [météores et comètes].
Ces phénomènes lumineux éclataient surtout dans les nuits très sombres, prenant la forme de cierges flamboyants [l'auteur est éclésiastique] qui s'allumaient, s'éteignaient, s'envolaient et disparaissaient mystérieusement.
Tantôt ils prenaient la forme de chandelles brillantes qui se plantaient et flottaient sur un étang [feux follets]; tantôt ils ressemblaient à des cierges vacillants qui brûlaient la tête en bas.
Mais ces cierges n'étaient que de petites lueurs en comparaison des "étavas" aux flambeaux énormes, brillant comme des étoiles, et qui avaient la forme sphériques de grandes poêles à frire [météores].
Leur lumière était d'un bleu verdâtre ou d'un jaune de safran, ou encore d'une rouge violacé, s'unissant aux couleurs assombries [?] de l'arc-en-ciel.
Leur forme se confondait souvent, avec celle du disque des poêlons munies d'une queue, et cette queue [la traînée des météores] elle-même semblait briller d'étincelles stellaires, comme la queue d'une comète.
De l'apparition des disques lumineux aux phénomènes planétaires, il n'y avait qu'un pas, facile à franchir.
Aussi l'opinion publique y voyait très rapidement des avertissements du ciel et des présages de malheur.
Il me suffira d'avoir évoqué ces visions de jadis pour faire comprendre qu'il y a eu de tout temps des phénomènes célestes lumineux, d'une forme souvent troublante, qui ont défrayé les conversations et effrayé les esprits crédules.
On peut ajouter qu'il se forme, à ces époques, de véritables épidémies de voyants qui, dans leur trouble plutôt que dans la possessions d'eux-mêmes, sont portés à transformer les disques lumineux qu'ils peuvent apercevoir en poêles, en cierges, en flambeaux, en cigares, en marmite et même en chariots volants.
Du chariot on passe facilement à la conception d'un conducteur, même accompagné de camarades, comme dans la soucoupe volante, nécessairement moins volumineuse [!], on prétend avoir vu quelque petit nain, d'un autre monde.
C'est ainsi qu'il y a mille ans et plus, les poêlons lumineux étaient dirigés occasionnellement par des pygmées poilus, aux yeux effrayants de lumière étincelante.
Donc, peu de changements parmi les voyants d'aujourd'hui, dont quelques-uns se vantent d'avoir vu des Martiens, bardé de fer blanc ou d'aluminium, qui parlent russe, espéranto ou congolais.
Il semble bien par conséquent que notre siècle l'emporte quand même sur les époques précédentes par les susdites apparitions, ou plutôt par les conceptions imaginaires de spectateurs facétieux. Tant il est vrai que l'homme malgré lui, se tourne obstinément vers le surnaturel [la notion de visiteurs martiens ne relève pas du surnaturel] en raison de cette parole d'Alfred de Musset: "l'infini nous tourmente!"
Il est temps de voir ce que recèlent de vrai ou de faux tous les récits de soucoupes volantes du XXe siècle [ufologie].
J'extrais de l'amalgame les histoire les plus abracadabrantes, qui nous ont été rapportées par les gazettes, quelques exemples qui suffiront [erreur] à nous permettre d'analyser à souhait la valeur intrinsèque ou extrinsèque des engins lumineux qui nous sont présentés.
Premier cas. -- Trois ouvriers agricoles ont vu, dans le ciel de l'Allier, un énorme cigare volant qui après diverses évolutions montantes et descendantes, s'est abattu en flèche sur le sol pour éclater, à la manière d'un obus, dans un nuage de poussières. Vision classique [non].
Deuxième cas. -- Deux automobilistes ont aperçu tout près d'Orléans sur l'heure de minuit, un disque lumineux qui semblait tout d'abord se balancer à travers les nuages, apparaissant et disparaissant, pour prendre tout à coup la verticale et venir éclater au sol en merveilleux feu d'artifice. Autre exemple classique [non], très vraisemblable.
Troisième cas. -- Un cycliste rentrant chez lui à deux heures du matin, l'autre dimanche, s'est rencontré avec un Martien qui l'a figé sur place, en lui sautant au cou et en lui donnant l'accolade de ses lèvres d'aluminium, pour s'enfuir en un coup de vent sur la propre bicyclette de notre homme médusé. -- Burlesque et ridicule, pour ne pas dire absurde [certes, typique d'inventions et d'inventions journalistiques comme celle-ci par l'auteur de l'article lui-même, qui fabrique complètement ce cas à partir de l'histoire Mazaud et quelques autres!].
Quatrième cas. -- Cet exemple est le bouquet humoristique [choisi justement pour cela], qui l'emporte sur toutes les imaginations!
Un Mosellan, Pierre Bardou, des environs de Metz, ouvrier d'usine, ouvrait sa porte, au début d'octobre, vers cinq heures du matin, pour se rendre à son travail lorsqu'il a été on ne peut plus surpris d'apercevoir devant lui ... un joli petit clerc en soutane (tombé de la lune en soucoupe volante) qui lui chantait de sa voix cristalline, sur l'air très connu:
"-Au clair de la lune, Mon gentil Pierrot, Prête-moi ta plume Pour écrire un mot. Dans ma sphère volante Je suis effondré. J'écris à ma tante Que j'suis enterré! ...
Le petit lunaire disparut, et le Mosellan s'évanouit de stupeur!
Nouvelle géographie: Mais aux environs de Marseille! [?]
Conclusion. -- Il y a certainement des observateurs d'occasion qui regardent, admirent, et voient des choses se rapprochant des réalités lumineuses possibles.
Mais il en est d'autres qui voient certainement, les yeux fermés, afin de mieux faire parler toutes les conceptions de leur imagination et leurs plaisanteries tartarinesques. Voilà le résumé de toutes [non] les histoires de soucoupes volantes, les unes vraisemblables [Certes.], les autres complètement imaginaires [certes.].
De quoi s'agit-t-il donc? [discussion venant après la conclusion.] Quelle peut être la base des véritables disques lumineux - qu'ils portent un nom ou un autre - qui semblent apparaître la nuit [non] à diverses époques?
Lisez bien. Il est au-dessus de nos têtes une voûte immense [non] appelée le firmament.
Ce firmament est parsemé d'astres, de planètes et d'étoiles.
Les astres sont d'énormes corps célestes lumineux [!], dont la photographie nous donne une idée. Mais le mot astres se rapporte aussi à des corps lumineux du firmament. Il se dit même de la Lune:
"Et l'astre de nuit Dont les faibles rayons nous guident sous l'ombrage."
(C. Delavigne)
Mais on dit plus scientifiquement [!] du soleil:
"Sur les flots agités par les vents et l'orage, L'astre brillant de jour ne peint pas son image."
(Delilla)
Les planètes sont des corps célestes qui n'ont pas de lumière propre, la recevant du soleil autour duquel elles gravitent [Certes.].
Les huit grandes planètes visibles à l'oeil nu sont, à partir du Soleil: Mercure, Vénus, la Terre, Mars, Jupiter, Saturne, Uranus et Neptune. [M. l'Abbé dit vrai.] Il y a un certain nombre également de planètes secondaires.
Les étoiles, à l'encontre des planètes, sont des astres fixes, qui brillent d'une lumière propre: Sirius est une des plus brillantes parmi les étoiles qui peuvent, à leur tour, comme le soleil, être le centre d'autres systèmes planétaires. Leur nombre est indéfini [En effet; il y a plus de 100 000 000 000 étoiles dans notre galaxie.].
L'article ci-dessous est paru dans le quotidien Le quotidien de la Haute-Loire, France, 19 septembre 1954.
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M. Haffner, professeur d'astronomie à l'université de Hambourg a publié dans l'hebdomadaire Die Zeit, un article dans lequel il déclare que toutes les soucoupes volantes qui ont été vues jusqu'à maintenant peuvent être classées en quatre groupes: 1) Les hallucinations; 2) Illusions d'optiques trompant même l'objectif de l'appareil photographique. Les prétendues photographies de soucoupes volantes sont des reflets souvent constatés quand on prend des photos à contre jour; 3) Ballons météorologiques; 4) Objets volants inconnus. Tous les objets de la quatrième catégorie peuvent être expliqués par ce que l'on sait des boules de feu produites par la foudre. Ce phénomène se produit rarement et l'on ne possède que deux ou trois photographies. La majeure partie des boules de feu produites par la foudre sont observées à moins de 200 mètres de hauteur et ont un diamètre de 20 à 100 centimètres. Mais une plus grande quantité d'énergie se trouve libérée quand les éclairs éclatent à haute altitude, et naturellement plus les boules de feu sont grandes. On en a vu ayant 200 mètres de diamètre et à dix kilomètres d'altitude. Le professeur Haffner ajoute qu'en raison de leur rotation les boules de feu sont souvent aplaties. Or les descriptions de soucoupes volantes parlent d'objet ayant la forme de disques ou de cigares et précisent que les objets tournaient sur eux-même. Les boules de feu émettent souvent des rayons lumineux très brillants, ce qui correspond encore aux récits des gens qui disent avoir vu des soucoupes. De même elles peuvent changer de forme et de direction en moins d'une seconde, tout comme les soucoupes. Ces changements de direction s'expliquent aisément par l'influence des champs magnétiques. Enfin les boules de feu se désintègrent toujours brusquement, parfois silencieusement, parfois avec une forte détonation.
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