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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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...
02-02-2018
Evansville aliens? Witnesses report UFO sighting
Evansville aliens? Witnesses report UFO sighting
By: Sam Knef
"There wasn't any rhyme or reason for it happening. They just appeared."
Two witnesses, a man and a woman, were driving near Harmony Way and Cave Avenue on Evansville’s west side Saturday. They’ve chosen to remain anonymous.
“I just saw them in the sky, go what is that? And he looked up and he goes, oh,” the woman said.
"I stopped the van, got my phone out, and put it on the video,” said the man.
They say eight orbs of light making no noise were flying over the Evansville sky.
"And they were moving pretty fast, yeah."
Neither person knew what they were seeing, but tried to describe the phenomenon.
“They were dropping out of the clouds and going across the sky, and it was quite a spectacular site,” the man said. “It's really hard to explain your emotion. I didn't have any negative feelings at all. I didn't have any feelings of like being in danger, or that they were here to harm us in any way.”
They pair contacted the Mutual UFO Network, an organization that claims to be one of the largest UFO groups in the world.
"They’re unidentified flying objects,” the man said. “I think it validates the situation here, so keep your eyes to the sky."
They also claim a military aircraft followed the orbs before they shot back up into the sky. Unfortunately, that part wasn't captured on camera.
"People are gonna believe what they want to believe,” the woman said. "Something's out there. We can't be the only ones on this universe, you know."
UPDATE:
A representative of MUFON says the case is still under investigation and cannot confirm if the objects seen in the footage are UFOs, and that the group is based out of Irvine, California, and not Cincinnati as previously reported.
For the latest breaking news and stories from across the Tri-State, follow Eyewitness News on FacebookandTwitter.
(This story was originally published February 1, 2018)
Nick Pope, a former investigator of the UFO phenomenon for the British MoD, was reacting to claims made by experts that recent "UFO" footage released by the US Government was probably just a plane.
Yesterday, Express.co.uk revealed that in a radio podcast of the Big Picture Science Skeptic Check, produced at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, a panel of experts looked at the shocking radar video footage and the consensus was the object shown was just infrared heat from plane engines misidentified by US Navy pilots.
The US-based SETI Institute is a collective of scientists looking for evidence of alien life in the cosmos.
However, Mr Pope argued the footage should not be dismissed by SETI so readily.
He said: "I saw the SETI Institute's sceptical comments about the Pentagon UFO videos and thought I'd chip in, as I think they've misunderstood or failed to take account of something fairly important about this.
"While I agree that the videos themselves don't prove anything, I think the criticism of them is based on a misunderstanding. What many people don't seem to appreciate is that these videos haven't been illegally leaked - they've been declassified and legitimately placed into the public domain.
"Self-evidently, therefore, there's nothing in them that the US government, military or intelligence community regards as particularly sensitive.
YouTube
Does the US Government have crystal clear UFO images like this digital fake?
The detailed results of these analyses, perhaps including enhanced, crystal clear images of what the pilots encountered, haven't yet been made public, and may never see the light of day.
Nick Pope
"Yes, it's a big deal that military jets were chasing these objects, but while they weren't able to catch or identify them, the videos in and of themselves don't prove the pilots encountered extraterrestrial spacecraft.
"The real issue relates not to the grainy imagery that's been released to the world, but to the classified analyses that will have been undertaken by intelligence staff.
"When I worked on the MoD's UFO project we received a steady stream of photographs and films from the public, and from time to time, over the years, RAF pilots encountered UFOs and sometimes managed to get some gun camera footage.
"We'd send this material to the Defence Intelligence Staff and to a unit called the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (now subsumed within the Defence Geospatial Intelligence Fusion Centre at RAF Wyton).
"These imagery analysts are very bright people and have tremendously sophisticated tools at their disposal to enhance and analyse photos and videos.
"This is exactly what AATIP and other US intelligence community personnel will have done with these UFO videos, using their own IMINT (imagery intelligence) specialists.
"The detailed results of these analyses, perhaps including enhanced, crystal clear images of what the pilots encountered, haven't yet been made public, and may never see the light of day.
"In summary, sceptics may not be impressed by the blurry videos that have been made public - and I take their point - but somewhere in the US intelligence community there will be considerably more impressive material.
"However, whether any of this can be declassified and made public remains to be seen."
The video made global headlines in December, when a New York Times article revealed the existence of a top-secret US Department of Defense department which investigated the UFO phenomenon for five years from 2007 to 2012.
The Advanced Aerial Threat Identification program (AATIP) had a £16million budget to investigate any threat posed by unidentified objects observed by the military.
It was headed by Luis Elizondo, who resigned from the DoD last October to help set up the To The Stars Academy with former Blink 182 singer Tom DeLonge to further UFO research privately.
The article also revealed the radar camera footage from a US Navy aircraft flying off the coast of San Diego in November 2004, which was said to show a UFO that "defied physics."
This footage was part of the so-called Nimitz UFO incident, in which several US Navy personnel reported seeing several tic-tac shaped UFOs over the sea, a case that was investigated by the AATIP.
Mr Elizondo later went on record to say the case, and others looked at by the AATIP, showed "there was very compelling evidence that we are not alone”.
Other debunkers have agreed it could well be a plane.
UFO believers discussing the SETI broadcast on debate website Reddit.com were not amused by the claims.
One posted today: "So our naval pilots are not trained or experienced enough not to be surprised and shocked by what are almost certainly distant jet exhausts?
"Also, he said 'the apparent strange movement of the object was just the camera itself moving, and the banking of the plane in pursuit.'
"Likely story, guys! Our military pilots are just ignorant potatoes in those cockpits with zero training? We just trust them to operate the most advanced and expensive aircraft known to man, but it's Idiocy up there apparently according to this guy. Give me a break."
Humanity has pondered the existence of alien life for centuries. However, it has been in just the past 100 years or so that modern science has backed some of this thinking. Scientists of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s believed that objects appearing on the surface of Mars were canals constructed by aliens. Particularly, astronomer Percival Lowell believed this concept and promoted it in works such as the book Mars As the Abode of Life (1908).
This belief in the scientific community led to a huge amount of pop culture based around the concept of extraterrestrials. This has resulted in some people even believing in the existence of aliens like the ones in the movies. Who knows? They could be out there. But some wonder how probable their existence is.
With aliens constantly being depicted in entertainment, even after the Martian alien canal hypothesis was busted, scientists considered communicating with otherworldly life forms. The first scientists looking for a close encounter believed the best bet was to use radio waves as the communication medium. The first of such proposed experiments was conducted in 1960 by astronomer Frank Drake.
One of the most eye-opening quotes about extraterrestrial alien life comes from the book Time for the Stars by Alan Lightman. The author states, “Are we alone in the universe? Few questions are more profound… Extraterrestrial contact would forever change the way we view our place in the cosmos” (Lightman 21).
Drake would definitely not be the last scientist to attempt to summon a response from an alien. But this was the first modern example of tests which would now be referred to as part of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In 1980, to bring more of a public interest to SETI, the legendary astrophysicist, astronomer, and astrobiologist Carl Sagan and several others formed The Planetary Society. In more recent years, other programs with goals similar to SETI’s have been established such as METI, messaging extraterrestrial intelligence.
Apart from radio waves, humans have tried other ways of communicating with hypothetical aliens. One example is a plaque which was attached to the Pioneer 10 probe in 1972. This plaque would be a unique kind of “message in a bottle,” except the ocean it was doomed to drift in was far more vast than any sea on Earth. It was inquired of Carl Sagan about sending such a message several months before the scheduled departure of the craft. So Sagan went to work, and assisting him with this undertaking was none other than Frank Drake, the man who had conducted the first modern SETI tests in 1960. The fruit of numerous labors and laborers, the Pioneer 10 plaque that was sent into space depicted a man and a woman and several objects. Through the imagery, the scientists were trying to give any aliens who might see this plaque an idea of what humans are like and where Earth is located.
This could be the first big mistaken researchers are making. They are looking to make contact. They are putting their faith in a sci-fi movie concept. What these scientists are attempting to do is call up and have a conversation with an alien or, better yet, a race of aliens. This is not to say that SETI is pointless, but it might not be the most opportune method for seeking alien life.
Perhaps scientists should strive to discover life in its simpler forms. As Lee Billings of Scientific American states in a recent article, if you were able to travel to another planet it is likely “you would find a planet dominated by microbes rather than charismatic megafauna.” Many scientists are now suggesting microscopic organisms could be more plentiful throughout the cosmos than macroscopic creatures.
Microbes Are a Realistic Form of Alien Life.
Source: Joi Ito’s PubPub.
A specific search for such minuscule life forms is not a new practice. Bacteria are, of course, microbes. Astrobiologists like Richard Hoover and Dave McKay have examined certain meteorites. Some of the microscopic structures found embedded in or on the space relics resemble bacteria. They have released their findings in past years. They have admitted that even though the fossilized structures appear to be remnants of bacteria there is still some skepticism as to whether those structures are alien in origin. This is because bacteria from Earth could have been attached to the meteorites once they entered our atmosphere.
So how do scientists narrow down the search for alien life even further? Billings’ piece may give us the best idea available at the moment. He informs his readers that one of oxygen’s properties is that it tends to descend from an atmosphere in the form of mineral oxides. It does not remain in its gaseous phase for long. Because of its nature, in an atmosphere such as Earth’s, the oxygen has to be reinstituted on a regular basis.
Astrobiologists have to accept oxygen may be one of the least familiar elements they come upon when studying potential life-supporting bodies. For example, atmospheric chemist David Catling has said the atmosphere of a world dominated by microscopic life could be largely comprised of methane and carbon dioxide gases. Keeping this in mind, this will hopefully narrow down the most likely planet candidates for life.
As the universe is unimaginably expansive and constantly growing, there’s pretty much no chance we everyday Earthlings will never get to see the majesty of deepest space firsthand. Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), however, have given us a very compelling alternative.
Along with the Swedish Planetarium design company SCISS, researchers with the museum helped to develop a computer program called UniView that lets non-astronauts zip through the universe at light speed. It even lets you stop by your favorite planets or moons in the solar system.
On Wednesday, Jackie Faherty, an AMNH senior scientist who worked on the program, demoed the visualization software at the Inverse Lunar Eclipse Party and Science Fair at Caveat in New York City. To put it mildly, it blew our collective minds.
“The layers that you’re seeing, those are images taken by spacecrafts so we didn’t make a lot of what you’re seeing up,” Faherty tells Inverse. “I can fly us completely out of the solar system, out of the Milky Way, and even to the edge of the known universe.”
Faherty showed onlookers what UniView could do by flying to Saturn and showing us the gas giant’s huge ring systems. She couldn’t resist taking a pit stop at her favorite celestial object in the solar system along the way, which is one of Saturn’s many moons — Enceladus.
Jackie Faherty at her booth at the Inverse Science Fair. Via @shazthephotog.
“Enceladus is covered with this icy crust and there are these cracks that are all over it,” Faherty explained. “What’s happening is that Enceladus has geysers that are blowing off material from an underwater ocean and they’re polluting the one of the planet’s ring systems, it’s dumping material onto the other moons. It explains so much of what we saw going on in the moon system.”
All of the data that brings this universe inside your computer to life is curated and updated by the AMNH’s own repository, a version of which is available online on the museum’s website.
The galaxy is at your fingertips, space-nerds. Travel safely.
I-Team: Man who headed up secret government UFO study speaks out
I-Team: Man who headed up secret government UFO study speaks out
By: George Knapp
LAS VEGAS - A secret Pentagon program to study unknown aerial objects -- otherwise known as UFOs -- may not be finished after all.
The civilian contractor for the program was Bigelow Aerospace, based in Las Vegas. Their contract ended in 2012, but the man who managed the program inside the Pentagon thinks it is still operating.
His name is Luis Elizondo, and most of us first heard his name last October when he stood on a stage with rock star Tom DeLonge and other government insiders.
Elizondo said he had spent 10 years as the head of a secret study of unidentified aerial objects. He also was instrumental in the release of official UFO videos recorded by military pilots.
The I-Team sat down with him earlier this week to ask, among other things, why the Pentagon considered UFOs to be a potential threat.
"Is it a threat? And if it's a threat, is it the Russians or Chinese? These are the normal questions, whether dealing with terrorism or weapons of mass destruction or you'd ask for any national security issue de jour, and yet here we are with something that....."
Reporter George Knapp: "Doesn't fit."
Luis Elizondo: "That doesn't fit, doesn't fit."
Elizondo has spent most of his adult life protecting his country, on active duty in combat hotspots, handling terrorists at Guantanamo, and at the Pentagon, where he was the point man for AATIP, the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program. That program collected and analyzed information about encounters between the U.S. military and spectacular but unknown technology, what some would call UFOs.
"My job in the government at the time with AATIP was two-fold, to determine what it was and how it worked, not really focusing on who was behind the steering wheel or whatever. If we can answer the first two things, everything else we will be able to explain later," Elizondo said.
He says that even his immediate supervisor in the Pentagon was unaware of the program. Only a small list of people scattered in different branches and agencies had a need to know. The word threat is built into the name of AATIP, and even though the unidentified craft being reported by pilots and others didn't launch an Independence Day type attack on humanity or zap major cities with death rays, the defense department had to consider the possibilities.
The so-called Tic Tac UFO, for instance, was detected over several days in 2004 by personnel with the U.S.S. Nimitz battle group off the coast of San Diego. It didn't attack, but it demonstrated vast superiority over America's most advanced defense systems.
"I think if you were to take this issue that we've seen and we have something coming into our air space that we control that has a Russian star on the tail or a North Korean tail number, I think people would have a much different reaction and response because there's something we can identify and say, this is in our air space and shouldn't be here," Elizondo said. "You DOD, you CIA, you DHS, have the responsibility of protecting us, how did this happen? And yet, here we have the same scenario but there are no flags or numbers on the tail. In fact, there may not even be a tail on some of these things, and yet it's crickets. Nobody wants to have that conversation."
In 2007, a small group of senators led by Nevada's Harry Reid, initiated a program to change the culture surrounding UFO reports. Reid was motivated, in part, because of classified reports he'd read about UFO encounters over U.S. nuclear bases in which atomic weapons were somehow disabled.
"The communications in the missile defense installation was shut down. It didn't happen once. It happened more than once," former Senator Harry Reid said. "We have things in ships at sea, things in the water. What is that?"
Reid says he was also concerned that if adversaries like Russia or China could master the technology displayed by the Tic Tac or other UFOs, the U.S. military would be at a great disadvantage. Elizondo agrees.
"I think it is ridiculous to presume that other nations that are very sophisticated, very capable, aren't looking at this as well. I cannot go into detail about why I think that, but I am very confident they are aware," Elizondo said.
The program set up by the Pentagon to assist AATIP was housed at Bigelow Aerospace in southern Nevada. The contract ended in 2012, but Elizondo believes some version of the study is ongoing. Elizondo thinks it makes sense to study Tic Tacs and other UFOs and compares it to how you might react if someone pierced your home security system.
"The first thing you do, you come down your stairs as you look in your living room, you see muddy boot prints in your living room on the carpet that weren't there the night before. Nothing has been taken out of your house, nothing has been disturbed, no one has been harmed and yet every night, despite you locking the front door, closing the windows and turning on the alarm, there are muddy boot prints that keep showing up on your carpet. now, is that a threat?"
So, what about those Pentagon videos? Are they legit? And when will we get to see more of them released?
Tonight at 11 p.m., Luis Elizondo will tell us more about those dramatic encounters, why he left the pentagon, and what his new job will be, working with other former insiders at something called To The Stars Academy.
Man die geheime Pentagon-studie naar UFO’s leidde spreekt zich uit. Bekijk hier het interview
Man die geheime Pentagon-studie naar UFO’s leidde spreekt zich uit. Bekijk hier het interview
Het geheime Pentagon-onderzoek naar UFO’s loopt waarschijnlijk nog steeds. Dat zegt althans de man die jarenlang aan het hoofd stond van dat onderzoek.
Luis Elizondo leidde 10 jaar lang een geheime studie naar ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten. Hij was ook betrokken bij het naar buiten brengen van beelden van UFO’s die waren gemaakt door legerpiloten.
“Het was mijn taak binnen de overheid om vast te stellen wat het waren en hoe ze werkten, niet zozeer door wie ze werden bestuurd,” legde hij uit.
Heel zeker
Hij zei dat zelfs zijn baas in het Pentagon niet op de hoogte was van het bestaan van het UFO-programma. Slechts enkelen mochten weten dat het bestond.
Overheidsagentschappen willen hier niet over praten omdat ze ons moeten beschermen, maar deze objecten niet kunnen verklaren, aldus Elizondo.
“Het is belachelijk om te veronderstellen dat andere landen hier geen onderzoek naar doen,” zei hij. “Ik kan niet in detail treden, maar ik ben er heel zeker van dat ze zich hier bewust van zijn.”
Andere vorm
Elizondo merkte op dat het programma in 2012 officieel is beëindigd, maar denkt dat het in een andere vorm is voortgezet.
Het Pentagon bevestigde na berichtgeving van de New York Times dat het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie jarenlang in het geheim onderzoek heeft laten verrichten naar UFO’s.
Out of all the anomalous things falling out of the skies lately, one of the most terrifying is perhaps the unexplained giant chunks of ice which have been plummeting to the ground around the world. A pair of the mysterious ice balls fell in California in December and damaged the roofs of two homes, while another one fell in Florida in June 2017 out of a completely cloudless sky. The most recent case of a so-called “megacryometeor” happened in Alliston, Ontario when a six-pound (2.7 kg) ball of ice fell just feet from a home. Luckily nobody was hurt, but the case adds to the growing mystery of these anomalous ice balls which seem to be occurring with increasing frequency lately.
A Spanish megacryometeor from 2007.
“I had just stepped out the door. I had my towel, my phone to plug it into the hot tub and walking along here I heard this loud crash” says Alliston’s Kate Bearse whose home avoided certain catastrophe last week. “How lucky are we that it fell directly between two houses and not on the sidewalk where the kids were out playing,” she told local news. After hearing the noise, Kate and husband George found a 17-inch (45 centimeter) chunk of ice lying in a shallow dent in the ground. The Bearses called Environment Canada, but the agency is stumped. Environment Canada senior meteorologist David Phillips told CTV Barrie he’s heard of similar megacryometeors, adding “they’re very rare, but they’re always mystifying.”
George Bearse shows off the chunk of ice which would have meant certain death for him or his family had they been in its path.
(Beatrice Vaisman/ CTV Barrie)
A similar case a few months ago in Scotland when a piece of ice large enough to leave a sizeable crater fell mere yards away from a home with children. While the go-to explanation is that they must have fallen from aircraft overhead, many cases happen in locations far from flight paths, not to mention that accounts of similar so-called megacryometeors predate the invention of aircraft. Transport Canada is looking into this case. Aside from the aircraft theory, it is believed megacryometeors could be some sort of rare meteorological event which occurs under unique and specific atmospheric conditions, but data is scarce due to the rarity and unpredictability of their events and the fact that most samples melt before they can be collected.
These chunks of ice share some features with hailstones, but are formed under distinctly atmospheric conditions from those associated with causing hailstorms.
Could these megacryometeors be merely yet another symptom of the planet’s changing climate, or might there be increased aircraft activity overhead we don’t know about? Could these be related to the unexplained booms being heard around the world with terrifying regularity lately? Perhaps they’re simply natural weather phenomenon we’re only becoming aware of thanks to the information-sharing capabilities of the internet. Or maybe they’re just big hailstones. Until more study can be done, these deadly ice missiles remain a mystery.
From now on, when you Google “This is why we can’t have nice things,” a copy of this story should come up first. On January 27th, 2018, a truck driver ignored numerous warning signs and drove his semi-trailer over three of the 2,000-year-old geoglyphs better known to the world as the Nazca lines. Reports say that the truck made “deep scars” in the ground, causing severe and irreparable damage to the lines. What could have possessed him to do this?
From now on, when you Google “cheap truck drivers,” a copy of this story should come up first. According to Clarin, Jainer Jesús Flores Vigo claimed he was lost but actually drove off the Pan American highway at kilometer 424 to avoid paying a toll. The Peruvian Culture Ministry reported that the damaged area measured 50 by 100 meters ( (104 by 328 feet) and covered parts of three geoglyphs.
Well, at least they caught the driver. Knowing how much Peruvians love their Nazca lines, the court sought to throw more than a book at this guy — the Culture Ministry demanded nine months of preventive detention and a $1,550 fine while the investigation continued. He probably got it, right?
From now on, when you Google “what the hell is wrong with our courts,” a copy of this story should come up first. According to Peru21, a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to prove that the driver acted with intent and he was released. An appeal is pending.
Is there any good news? That depends on your definition of “good.” Let’s put it this way, if you Google “good news,” this story won’t come up for a few thousand pages. The damage was done to three straight lines. While they can never be returned to their original state, at least the driver didn’t do donuts over the rest of the 450 square kilometers of figures. However, if you believe that the lines were made by aliens as part of an elaborate map and landing strip, you may want to go along the border of the area and scratch a “We’re really sorry about this” message in giant letters in the dirt … along with some birds and lizards.
In the meantime, the Culture Ministry plans to beef up security around the lines and use drones for nighttime surveillance. Will it help? An archeologist for the lines told the media that incidents like this occur “daily” and the only reason this one got publicity is that someone was there to take pictures and post them on social media. (video here)
From now on, when you Google “stupid people the aliens should abduct and not return,” a copy of this story should come up first.
Peruvians were left terrified after villagers found three mysterious objects that fell from the sky engulfed in flames.
Residents in the Larancahuani community, in the Andean region of Puno, Peru, feared a meteorite impact after the spheres crashed to the ground on January 27.
Earlier in the day, social media lit up as spectacular pictures and footage of a huge ball of fire soaring through the sky was seen over the cities of Tingo Maria and Pucallpa – which are some 115 miles from each other.
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Peruvians were left terrified after villagers found three mysterious objects that fell from the sky engulfed in flames
But on Tuesday, the Peruvian Air Force said the incident may have been the re-entry of the SL-23 rocket – and the three objects were fuel tanks from a satellite.
Peruvians had thought the fireball, also seen in the Brazilian state of Acre, was a meteorite falling to Earth.
Romulo Barros, the chief of the fire service in the Brazilian municipality of Cruzeiro do Sul, said that the local Navigation Centre had said the object was probably a meteorite.
He added that he believed the object had landed in the border region between the Acre and Peru.
Residents in the Larancahuani community, in the Andean region of Puno, Peru, feared a meteorite impact after the spheres crashed to the ground on January 27
The Peruvian Air Force said the incident may have been the re-entry of the SL-23 rocket – and the three objects were fuel tanks from a satellite
Barros confirmed there had been no international flights in the airspace at the time of the incident.
However, Meteorologist Alejandro Fonesca, from the Universidade Federal do Acre, stated that no meteorites had been predicted to fall in the area.
He suggested the ball was more likely made up of space debris, a term used to describe defunct man-made objects, such as old satellites, that are left in space.
'When the debris enters the atmosphere it comes under intense friction and this causes it to set on fire. That is what could have happened,' he said.
Drie mysterieuze metalen bollen vallen uit de lucht in Peru. Dit ging eraan vooraf
Drie mysterieuze metalen bollen vallen uit de lucht in Peru. Dit ging eraan vooraf
Peruanen stonden voor een raadsel nadat op 27 januari drie mysterieuze objecten uit de lucht waren gevallen, schrijft de Daily Mail.
Inwoners van Larancahuani in de regio Puno waren bang dat er een meteoriet was ingeslagen.
Eerder die dag circuleerden er op sociale media spectaculaire beelden van een enorme vuurbal in de lucht boven de steden Tingo Maria en Pucallpa.
Dinsdag liet de Peruaanse luchtmacht weten dat het mogelijk ging om brandstoftanks van een satelliet en dat de vuurbal was veroorzaakt door de verbranding van een raket.
Meteoriet
Peruanen dachten dat de vuurbal, die tot in de Braziliaanse deelstaat Acre werd gezien, een meteoriet was die richting de aarde viel.
Brandweerchef Romulo Barros van Cruzeiro do Sul in Acre zei dat hem was verteld dat het object waarschijnlijk een meteoriet was.
Hij voegde toe dat het object volgens hem was geland in het grensgebied tussen Acre en Peru.
Ruimtepuin
Meteoroloog Alejandro Fonesca van de Federale Universiteit van Acre zei echter dat er geen meteorieten verwacht werden in het gebied.
Hij suggereerde dat het waarschijnlijk ging om ruimtepuin. “Als puin de atmosfeer binnenkomt ontstaat er frictie waardoor het in brand vliegt. Dit is wat er kan zijn gebeurd,” zei hij.
Mysterious Light Beam Appears in the Sky over Chucashia, Russia
Mysterious Light Beam Appears in the Sky over Chucashia, Russia
A mysterious bright beam of light stretching from the ground to the sky is seen in Chucashia, Russia and the photographer who took images of the phenomenon is not convinced that it was a natural phenomenon.
On February 1, 2018 in Chuvashia, Russia, Eduard Vazhorov noticed an enormous light pillar coming from the upper edge of the sun disk. The beam of light appeared at sunset and was visible for about 15 minutes before it gradually faded away.
Eduard interrupted his work and quickly grabbed his camera and ran to the common inter-storey balcony to capture the amazing spectacle.
After taking the photos he was looking for an answer for the unnatural looking phenomenon in Wikipedia. Now according to Wikipedia, a light pillar is one of the most frequent halo species, a visual atmospheric phenomenon an optical effect that is a vertical strip of light that stretches from the Sun during its sunset or sunrise.
Despite the explanation that the sun pillar is one of the most frequent halo species, Eduard is not convinced because he personally, not only observed the phenomenon, but he saw it for the first time which he believes it was just not a frequent halo species.
Very strange luminous phenomenon appears in the sky over Brazil
Very strange luminous phenomenon appears in the sky over Brazil
On January 30, 2018 a very strange intense colorful phenomenon appears in the sky over Ribeirão Claro in Paraná, Brazil.
The phenomenon seems like it is floating in the air with no direct contact to the surrounding clouds.
It is said that the phenomenon is a so-called cloud iridescence but it looks more like an earthquake light, which is a luminous aerial phenomenon that reportedly appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions.
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If you’re one of those folks who thinks the truth is out there, or if you’ve ever had a close encounter of any kind, an upcoming gathering of like-minded questioners could be for you.
The 27th annual International UFO Congress takes place Feb. 14-18 at the We-Ko-Pa Resort and Conference Center in Fort McDowell.
The event is a pretty big deal. In fact, the Huffington Post reported that Guinness declared the 2014 gathering the world's largest UFO conference. It was the first time that category appeared in the Guinness records.
This year's congress will feature a film festival, social events, a night-sky watch and five days of expert speakers on topics related to UFOs and extraterrestrial encounters.
Unexplained Arizona events
Who knows: Maybe someone will be able to shed light on the mystery of the Phoenix Lights or the Phoenix Forgotten.
The Phoenix Lights is the name given to an eerie sighting of lights in a large “V” formation that traveled 300 miles across Arizona's sky on the night of March 13, 1997. Thousands of people, including then-Gov. Fife Symington, saw, well, something, according to The Arizona Republic. Later that night, orbs of light hung on Phoenix’s southern horizon.
The Air Force claims responsibility for the lights but some people aren't convinced.
Horror film is based on the Phoenix Lights incident of 1997. Wochit
The Phoenix Forgotten are three local teens who went into the desert seeking answers to the Phoenix Lights phenomenon and are never heard from again. They were the subject of a movie released in 2017.
UFO discussions, films
Among the featured speakers is Stephen Bassett, founder of the Paradigm Research Group that lobbies for the release of government information on extraterrestrial life. Bassett will talk about the prospects of disclosure of UFO-related information.
William Birnes, of the 2008-2009 History Channel program "UFO Hunters," will lead a discussion on what U.S. presidents know about UFOs.
Rev. Michael Carter, a minister from North Carolina, will talk about the spiritual transformation of people who have had extraterrestrial encounters.
Cheryl Costa, co-author of "U.F.O. Sightings Desk Reference," will share information about statistical studies on UFO sightings and reports.
Sociologist Susan Palmer will speak about the phenomenon of when people who have been contacted by extraterrestrials start cults.
In addition to the conference, there will be a free film festival. Seven short films and three feature-length films will be presented starting Feb. 13. Winners of the film festival will be announced on Feb. 17.
International UFO Congress
When: Feb. 14-18. The film festival runs Feb. 13-17.
Where: We-Ko-Pa Resort and Conference Center, 10438 N. Fort McDowell Road, Fort McDowell.
Admission: Registration for the full conference is $349. Passes to hear the speakers only are $309. Weekend passes are $119.
In 1896, newspapers throughout the United States began reporting accounts of mysterious airships flying overhead. Descriptions varied, but witnesses frequently invoked the century’s great technological achievements. Some sources reported dirigibles powered by steam engines. Others saw motorized, winged crafts with screw propellers. Many recalled a flying machine equipped with a powerful searchlight.
As technologies of flight evolve, so do the descriptions of unidentified flying objects. The pattern has held in the 21st century as sightings of drone-like objects are reported, drawing concern from military and intelligence officials about possible security threats.
While puzzling over the appearance of curious things overhead may be a constant, how we have done so has changed over time, as the people doing the puzzling change. In every instance of reporting UFOs, observers have called on their personal experiences and prevailing knowledge of world events to make sense of these nebulous apparitions. In other words, affairs here on earth have consistently colored our perceptions of what is going on over our heads.
Reports of weird, wondrous, and worrying objects in the skies date to ancient times. Well into the 17th century, marvels such as comets and meteors were viewed through the prism of religion—as portents from the gods and, as such, interpreted as holy communications.
By the 19th century, however, “celestial wonders” had lost most of their miraculous aura. Instead, the age of industrialization transferred its awe onto products of human ingenuity. The steamboat, the locomotive, photography, telegraphy, and the ocean liner were all hailed as “modern wonders” by news outlets and advertisers. All instilled a widespread sense of progress—and opened the door to speculation about whether objects in the sky signaled more changes.
Yet nothing fueled the imagination more than the possibility of human flight. In the giddy atmosphere of the 19th century, the prospect of someone soon achieving it inspired newspapers to report on tinkerers and entrepreneurs boasting of their supposed successes.
The wave of mysterious airship sightings that began in 1896 did not trigger widespread fear. The accepted explanation for these aircraft was terrestrial and quaint: Some ingenious eccentric had built a device and was testing its capabilities.
But during the first two decades of the 20th century, things changed. As European powers expanded their militaries and nationalist movements sparked unrest, the likelihood of war prompted anxiety about invasion. The world saw Germany—home of the newly developed Zeppelin—as the likeliest aggressor. Military strategists, politicians, and newspapers in Great Britain warned of imminent attack by Zeppelins.
The result was a series of phantom Zeppelin sightings by panicked citizens throughout the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in 1909, then again in 1912 and 1913. When war broke out in August 1914, it sparked a new, more intense wave of sightings. Wartime reports also came in from Canada, South Africa, and the United States. In England, rumors that German spies had established secret Zeppelin hangars on British soil led vigilantes to scour the countryside.
In the age of aviation, war and fear of war have consistently fueled reports of unidentified flying objects. A year after Nazi Germany’s surrender, Sweden was beset by at least a thousand accounts of peculiar, fast-moving objects in the sky. Starting in May 1946, residents described seeing missile- or rocket-like objects in flight, which were dubbed “ghost rockets” because of their fleeting nature. Rockets peppering Swedish skies was well within the realm of possibility—in 1943 and 1944, a number of V-1 and V-2 rockets launched from Germany had inadvertently crashed in the country.
At first, intelligence officials in Scandinavia, Britain, and the United States took the threat of ghost rockets seriously, suspecting that the Soviets might be experimenting with German rockets they had captured. By the autumn of 1946, however, they had concluded it was a case of postwar mass hysteria.
The following summer, a private pilot by the name of Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen nine flat objects flying in close formation near Mt. Rainier. Looking back on the event years later, Arnold noted, “What startled me most at this point was the fact that I could not find any tails on them. I felt sure that, being jets, they had tails, but figured they must be camouflaged in some way so that my eyesight could not perceive them. I knew the Air Force was very artful in the knowledge and use of camouflage.”
Given the name “flying saucers” by an Associated Press correspondent, they quickly appeared throughout the United States. Over the following two weeks, newspapers covered hundreds of sightings.
News of these reports circled the globe. Soon, sightings occurred in Europe and South America. In the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic bomb tests, and tensions between the United States and the USSR, speculation ran rampant.
Finding themselves on the front line of the Cold War, Germans on both sides of the Iron Curtain considered the United States the most likely culprit. West Germans thought the discs were experimental missiles or military aircraft, while Germans in the communist Eastern bloc considered it more likely that the whole thing was a hoax devised by the American defense industry to whip up support for a bloated budget.
Others had more elaborate theories. In 1950, former U.S. Marine Air Corps Major Donald Keyhoe published an article and book titled The Flying Saucers Are Real, in which he contended that aliens from another planet were behind the appearance of the UFOs. Based on information from his informants, Keyhoe contended that government authorities were aware of this, but wished to keep the matter a secret for fear of inciting a general panic.
Such a claim about UFOs was new. To be sure, at the turn of the century during the phantom airship waves, some had speculated that the vessels spotted might be from another planet. Already at that time, people were deeply interested in reports of prominent astronomers observing artificial “canals” and structures on Mars. Evidence of Martian civilizations made it seem conceivable that our interplanetary neighbors had finally decided to pay us a visit. Still, relatively few bought into this line of reasoning.
But by going further, Major Keyhoe struck a chord in a timely fashion. In the aftermath of World War II and over the course of the 1950s, it seemed that science and engineering were making remarkable strides. In particular, the development of guided rockets and missiles, jet airplanes, atomic and hydrogen bombs, nuclear energy, and satellites signaled to many that there were no limits—not even earth’s atmosphere—to technological progress. And if our planet were on the verge of conquering space, it would hardly be a stretch to imagine that more advanced civilizations elsewhere were capable of even greater feats.
But all this raised a question. Why were the extraterrestrials visiting us now?
Keyhoe believed that aliens had been keeping us under observation for a long time. Witnessing the recent explosions of atomic weapons, they had decided the inhabitants of planet Earth had finally reached an advanced enough stage to be scrutinized more closely. Still, there was no reason for alarm. “We have survived the stunning impact of the Atomic Age,” Keyhoe concluded. “We should be able to take the Interplanetary Age, when it comes, without hysteria.”
The flying saucer era had begun. Not everyone would remain as sanguine as Keyhoe. As concerns over global nuclear annihilation and environmental catastrophe grew during the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, claims about UFOs took on ever more ominous tones.
Times changed. And so, again, did the UFO phenomenon.
SHOW LOW —The world’s oldest and largest group of Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO, investigative and research organizations has a new chapter locally in Show Low. MUFON — the Mutual UFO Network — began 47 years ago.
The new Show Low chapter is led by Dave Loomis and a group of 120 people. They met at their first meeting on Saturday, Jan. 20 at the City Gym on E. McNeil St. Loomis said he was encouraged to have that many people, considering it was wet and snowy that day.
“I think there’s enough interest that come summertime, we should be having meetings of a couple hundred people because a lot of people on the Mountain are interested in this stuff,” Loomis said.
He said the group plans to have small meetings about every other month with maybe one guest speaker and he plans to save up money so he can have one big meeting annually with several guest-speakers.
“It all depends on how many people get involved,” Loomis said.
The guest speaker on the first day was, appropriately, a local living legend in the UFO enthusiast community. Travis Walton, of Snowflake, is, whether he wanted to be or not, the most-likely-to-be-true abductee of a UFO encounter in the world. His case is the most documented and investigated case of an abduction in UFO history. Walton wrote a book afterward and it became a popular movie, “Fire in the Sky.”
Many people showed up for the occasion. Some were there out of curiosity and others showed true excitement to gather and hear Walton speak. But first some history:
The disappearance
Walton, as many locals familiar with the case know, was cutting wood on a crew Nov. 5, 1975, for a U.S. Forest Service contract with several co-workers on the day he was allegedly abducted. Walton was then 22 years-old. The crew was working long hours and had finished at dusk south of Heber in the Sitgreaves National Forest.
While driving homeward, the crew — riding in a crew-cab pickup in the dark — saw some lights they thought might have been hunters on a ridge or a low-flying aircraft. Upon investigation, there was a disk-shaped craft hovering about 20 feet over the ground nearby.
Walton quickly left the vehicle to check it out and his co-workers yelled for him to come back. As Walton describes it, he crouched under the object as he got under it and when he stood up, he thinks the proximity of getting too close must have set something off with the visitors. As he stood up, a blue beam, as witnessed by the rest of the crew, hit Walton hard, throwing him back about 10 feet, but held him airborne, just a few feet off the ground in the beam with his arms spread backward.
The rest of the crew got scared, started screaming and took off in the truck. They thought Walton was dead as his body looked lifeless to them.
Walton remembers thinking he was in a hospital-type room being the subject of medical procedures.
The investigation
Five days of investigation, including polygraphs and separate interviews, each turned up the same description from the witnesses. Each were threatened with murder charges as the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office and more than 100 people searched the area for Walton’s body. But nothing turned up from the searches, including a body to make charges.
The re-appearance
Five days later, Walton describes that the craft returned him to a street in Heber where, as he came to, from some kind of trance, he saw the craft above him, leaving in about a second and going straight up. Walton saw a light in the distance that turned out to be a gas station in Heber, so he began walking toward it He called his brother for help from a payphone. He thought he’d only been missing for an estimated two hours.
Walton to this day, still describes the same events in the same detail, but says the movie ‘Fire In The Sky’ was fictionalized and “took some liberties with what actually occurred,” so Walton has a new movie called ‘Travis,’ which has many clips from witnesses from back when it happened. The 80-minute movie was shown to the crowd following an introduction of Walton where he spoke briefly. He did a Q&A session following. Travis and the crew all lost their jobs in the immediate aftermath of the ordeal and were all treated like they were a bit off.
But hearing Walton speak he doesn’t sound like he’s crazy. He eloquently philosophizes his thoughts of what an alien civilization might do if they wanted to investigate the human race and Earth.
“They’re not going to come down here and land on the White House lawn, if that’s what you think,” Walton says. “Scientists like Michio Kaku say that these other civilizations, if you look out into the night sky, based on these star systems out there; there could easily be millions of years ahead of us. And if you stop and think about all the technology we have here on Earth at this time- — it has all happened in the last 200-300 years, so if we have done that in 200-300 years, how far do you think these other civilizations would have progressed over hundreds of thousands of years, or even a million?” says Walton.
“There are probably civilizations out there traveling that may have been around for at least 200-300 years before we even had any technology, or maybe they are even a million years ahead of us, we don’t know.” Walton points out that they are most-likely smart enough to know, like Star Trek’s Prime Directive suggests, not to influence other civilizations with technology ahead of their time. The aliens probably know that if they or their technology were captured by the United States, Russia, or China, it would upset the balance of our planet and cause wars and severe disruption if not total chaos. “I don’t think we have much to be worried about from them. I mean, if they wanted to have the Earth they would have just taken it,” said Walton.
MUFON, being an investigative group has a mission statement: The Scientific Study of UFO’s For The Benefit of Humanity. To learn more or join the club, contact Loomis or visit their website, www.showlowmufon.com.
Incredible photos show UFO-like clouds near Cheyenne
Spoiler alert: These are lenticular clouds.
Author:Allison Sylte
A 9NEWS viewer sent us photos Monday of a series of three clouds that sort of looked like UFOs near Cheyenne, Wyoming.
“I’ve never seen clouds like this,” viewer David Smith wrote via Your Take.
One of the best parts about working at 9NEWS is the fact that we have meteorologists at our disposal to explain the science behind cool cloud photos (apparently, most offices do not have this perk)
A view of lenticular clouds near Cheyenne Wyoming.
Here’s what 9NEWS Meteorologist Cory Reppenhagen had to say about the photos:
These get called flying saucers or UFOs a lot, not only because of their lens shape, but since they also appear to hover. The wave in the air that is causing these lenticulars is maintaining a crest in a constant location. So, lenticulars stand in one place for a period of time.
You don’t see the mountain range in the shot, but that is likely what is causing this. High winds out of the west and northwest hit the mountains or other obstruction, and causes a disruption in the flow of air, making a wave downstream of the obstruction.
A smooth cloud forms at the crest of the wave where the air meets the dewpoint, and as the air falls down the other side of the wave, evaporation occurs.
Lenticulars can form at any level of the atmosphere, but this variety is altocumulus.
There have been very strong winds in Wyoming the last couple days. There is a High Wind Warning in parts of Wyoming Tuesday with 35 to 45 mph sustained winds and gusts near 70 mph.
So there you go – these aren’t UFOs but rather lenticular clouds caused by a unique combination of wind and the mountains.
Do you have an awesome photo to share or a science question we can solve? Email us at yourtake.9news.com.
Muna, “place of soft or tender water,” is a small town with just over 11,000 inhabitants, mainly of Mayan origin.
Located in the southern part of Yucatán, very close to the archaeological site of Uxmal (UN Cultural Heritage Site), Muna will delight your senses.
Coming from Mérida, drive towards the Umán highway, through Yaxcopoil and Abalá until you get to Muna, only a 67 km drive. In this peaceful small town you can start your visit at the local market and have breakfast at one of the food stands located along the side; in this market you can find a wide array of typical Yucatecan fruits such as guanabana, pitaya (dragon fruit), carambola (star fruit), orange, lime, zapote, chicozapote, mamey and more.
Chapel “La Asunción” in Muna. (Photo: Niccolo Brooker, found in mexico.photium.com)
In Muna you can visit the “highest” hill in the state of Yucatan, from which you can observe the beautiful Mayan jungle, with the magnificent pyramid of Uxmal in the background! Besides, you can visit the six colonial chapels dedicated to San Bernardo, San Mateo, San Sebastián, La Soledad, Santa María and San Andrés which are famous for their colonial architecture.
The “Mirador de Muna,” is a must… located on the old highway to Uxmal and on the highest point of the surrounding hills, from this lookout point, you will have a breathtaking view of the forest known as “bosque bajo de Yucatán” (Yucatáns low jungle). With Uxmal’s “Adivino” pyramid in the background, it is an amazing panorama!
You can also take a tour of the cenotes in the area, the tour starts with a guided walk through the jungle, until you get to the entrance of the cenote, where you can swim and relax in its clear waters.
Muna is also famous for its handcrafts: embroidered textiles, clay and wood items carved by the magical hands of the Muna artisans.
The Muna cenote where residents saw a flying object getting into the water, emerging seconds later to disappear in the sky. (Photo: SIPSE)
Additionally, Muna is also uknown among UFOlogists, for frequent UFO sightings. In fact many locals claim to have seen “strange things in the sky”…
One of the most important Muna’s UFO sightings took place in 2004, as a group of locals say that they saw a flying object, landing on top of a nearby cenote, where it remained for a few seconds, and then disappeared into the sky at high speed.
Even though Muna residents were used to see these objects in the sky, that particular time, the whole thing happened very close to the ground, near the population, and many people claim to have seen this thing falling into the cenote and then flying out of it, in broad daylight (even a group of local taxi drivers witnessed the event).
For more information on this UFO sighting check the following link (in Spanish): sipse.com
These planes could jet you around the world at hypersonic speed
These planes could jet you around the world at hypersonic speed
Aerospace firms aim to usher in a new era of supersonic travel.
by Kate Baggaley
Boeing's concept for a jet-powered hypersonic aircraft.
Boeing
Commercial airliners haven’t broken the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired in 2003. But now some aerospace firms hope to usher in a new era of supersonic air travel. Boom Supersonic, for one, plans to build 1,451-mile-per-hour planes that would be able to make the trip from New York to London in 3 hours and 15 minutes starting in 2023.
Other firms aren’t content with supersonic flight. They’re designing so-called hypersonic aircraft capable of flying five times the speed of sound, or around 3,800 miles per hour. These ultra-fast planes would likely first be used by the military for strike and reconnaissance missions. But experts say hypersonic technology could make its way into commercial jets. It would then be possible to fly anywhere on Earth in under three hours.
“It’s certainly within the realm of possibility,” says Dr. Kevin Bowcutt, senior technical fellow and chief scientist of hypersonics for Boeing Research & Technology. “I think we have the technology now where we could actually do it.”
BUILDING A FASTER JET
It’s no easy task to create a plane that can slice through the air at hypersonic speed.
A few aircraft have flown that fast, including Boeing’s experimental X-51A WaveRider. But all hypersonic planes built so far have been powered by rocket engines or used rocket boosters. Rockets are powerful but heavy because they have to carry the oxygen needed to burn fuel with them. “Rocket motors are great for going to space and powering missiles, but they’re less than ideal for carrying people,” Bowcutt says.
That’s why Boeing and Lockheed Martin are working to develop jet-powered hypersonic aircraft. So far, information about these incredibly fast aircraft is sparse; Lockheed Martin declined to provide details on their plane.
Boeing unveiled a new design earlier this month at a conference in Orlando, Florida. At low speeds for takeoff and landing, the sleek plane would be powered by a turbine engine, much like a regular commercial plane. But for the main portion of flights, it would switch over to an engine called a dual-mode ramjet that can only operate at speeds above Mach 3.
A regular turbine uses whirling fan blades to suck air into the engine and other blades to compress the air so more oxygen can come in contact with the fuel. But this equipment would melt if used at hypersonic speeds. The ramjet instead uses the shockwaves created by traveling at such high speeds to squeeze incoming air.
Flying at such high speeds creates an incredible amount of friction, so a hypersonic aircraft would have to be made out of heat-resistant materials such as a nickel alloy, Bowcutt says.
A hypersonic aircraft using this technology could be available within 10 to 20 years. What would it feel like to fly on one? You’d be pushed back into your seat as the plane accelerates to take off, just as with a regular passenger jet. “The only difference with a hypersonic plane is that the feeling of takeoff would persist for a few minutes until you got up to speed and altitude,” Bowcutt says. “Then it would feel no different than any other airplane.”
You’d be traveling at 90,000 to 100,000 feet. That’s much higher than today’s airliners, which typically fly at altitudes around 35,000 feet, and high enough to see Earth’s curvature below and the blackness of space above. To strengthen the fuselage, the plane might substitute virtual windows for real ones. Cameras mounted on the plane’s exterior would feed video to the virtual windows, recreating what you’d see if you actually looked out of the plane.
A SPEEDY FUTURE
Both supersonic and hypersonic flight face many hurdles before they can be used for commercial air travel. One hurdle will be dealing with the environmental impacts of emissions at such high altitudes. Another will be finding enough of a market for this ultra-fast form of travel; to support its supersonic speed, the Concorde demanded four times as much fuel per passenger as other jets, which drove up ticket prices.
When it comes to hypersonic passenger travel, "It's hard for me to see, at least in the next 15-20 years, that it's going to be so cost competitive that it's going to compel the airlines to take a stab at it," John Plueger, president and CEO of Air Lease Corporation, a company that leases aircraft around the world, told CNBC.
And then there’s the sonic boom that is created by aircraft traveling faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms can startle humans and wildlife on the ground; to avoid that, the Federal Aviation Administration has forbidden supersonic flights over land. The Concorde used to go supersonic only over the ocean, limiting the routes it could fly.
But engineers are hard at work on ways to quiet the sonic boom. NASA is hoping to create a supersonic plane that can fly quietly enough to convince the FAA to lift its ban, opening the door for airlines to offer supersonic commercial flights over land.
The agency selected Lockheed Martin to create the preliminary design for its QueSST (Quiet Supersonic Technology) aircraft. The plane’s shape would scatter the shockwaves produced at intense speeds so they couldn't combine to form a loud sonic boom. Instead they will create a soft thump, like the sound of a neighbor closing their car door.
“If you were at a barbeque and there’s people out there and you’re chatting and there’s potentially some music, you would never hear it,” says Peter Iosifidis, the QueSST program manager at Lockheed Martin.
Hopefully, this will inspire the FAA to update its rules around 2025, he says, allowing supersonic travel to become widespread within a few years.
Supersonic speed would cut many journey times in half. But hypersonic flight could make commercial air travel still faster and more convenient. International day trips around the world could eventually become routine. You could travel from New York to London in about an hour. Or you might wake up and eat lunch in Los Angeles and then spend two hours flying to Tokyo. “You have a meeting, maybe grab a bite to eat, come home and you sleep in your bed,” Bowcutt says.
MANY WORLDS Alternate universes with different laws of physics could still host galaxies, stars and planets, a new study suggests.
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Not all fundamental forces are created equal. An alternate universe that lacks the weak nuclear force — one of the four fundamental forces that govern all matter in our universe — could still form galaxies, stars, planets and perhaps life, according to calculations published online January 18 at arXiv.org.
Scientists have long thought that our universe wouldn’t exist, or at least wouldn’t support life, without certain physical laws. For instance, if gravity were much stronger than it is, most matter would collapse into black holes; if it were weaker, the universe wouldn’t form structures such as galaxies or planets. The strong nuclear force holds atomic nuclei together, and the electromagnetic force carries light across the universe.
“Those three forces, gravity, strong and electromagnetic, are part of the deal,” says theoretical physicist Fred Adams of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. But the weak nuclear force — responsible for making neutrons decay into protons, electrons and neutrinos — might not be so essential (SN: 4/29/17, p. 22). “That’s the only one you can get rid of entirely without messing everything up,” he says.
A previous study had argued that a universe lacking the weak force could exist. Some physicists think our universe is just one in an infinite multiverse, where many different cosmoses exist side-by-side, possibly governed by different physical rules. We live in this one simply because we couldn’t live anywhere else(SN Online: 10/10/14), some scientists say.
“People talk about universes like they’re very fine-tuned; if you changed things just a little bit, life would die,” Adams says. But “the universe and stars have a lot more pathways to success.”
In the new research, he and his colleagues simulated how matter was created in the Big Bang and then condensed into stars, but without the effects of the weak nuclear force. In our universe, one consequence of neutron decay is that most of the universe is made of hydrogen, which consists of a single proton and electron. Stars, in their hot cores, fuse protons into helium and heavier elements and then scatter them into space, helping to create everything from planets to physicists. But with no weak force, a universe would be filled with neutrons that didn’t decay — a dead end for building heavier elements.
The only way such a universe could create complex matter would be to have started out with fewer neutrons and more free protons than our universe did. That way, neutrons and protons could link up and make deuterium, also called heavy hydrogen. So Adams and his colleagues tweaked the simulated universe’s initial neutron and proton content, too.
Stars fueled with deuterium would still shine, the simulations showed, but the objects would look different. Burning deuterium is more efficient than burning hydrogen, so these stars would be a little hotter, larger and redder than our stars. But the stars could still create all the elements of the periodic table up to iron, and stellar winds could carry those elements out into space.
Any planets that formed would have water made with deuterium instead of hydrogen, which is toxic to life in our universe. “But if life had to evolve with deuterated water … it might be OK,” Adams says.
Adams and his colleagues are some of the first to explore the consequences of a “weakless” universe seriously by tweaking the numbers, says Martin Rees of the University of Cambridge, who was not involved in either study.
The paper does not help figure out if the multiverse is real, though. “We hope that eventually we’ll know,” Rees says, but “I’m not holding my breath.”
Wednesday’s Super Blue Blood Moon was seriously showing off this morning, and rightfully so. The tangerine spot in the sky delighted many stargazers, as evidenced by some unreasonably gorgeous photos of it on social media.
Sure, the moon wasn’t “blue,” as its name suggests. Its color comes from the careful arrangement of the sun, moon, and Earth during a lunar eclipse. As Inversepreviously reported, when the moon passes through Earth’s shadow, our atmosphere scatters more blue light than red, causing observers on our planet to see a copper moon.
No matter what color it is, one things for sure: the Super Blue Blood Moon is pure internet magic. Gaze upon the moon’s splendor in these spectacular photos, unless you have actual stuff to do, like work, or feeding your cat:
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Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.