Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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.
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06-02-2018
Aliens schakelen al sinds de jaren zestig kernraketten uit. Dit interview werd onlangs uitgezonden op de Russische tv
Aliens schakelen al sinds de jaren zestig kernraketten uit. Dit interview werd onlangs uitgezonden op de Russische tv
Aliens schakelen al sinds de jaren zestig kernwapens uit op aarde. Dat heeft Stephen Bassett, oprichter van de Paradigm Research Group, gezegd op de Russische tv.
“Er is bewijs voor, maar de media willen hun vingers er niet aan branden,” zei hij.
Hij noemde gevallen waarbij ‘aliens in een vaartuig boven een kerninstallatie hangen en vervolgens alle raketten uitschakelen’.
Ook in Rusland
“Het personeel kon ze pas weer inschakelen nadat het schip was vertrokken,” zei hij. “Dit gebeurt al lange tijd in de VS en er zijn veel getuigen die zich hierover hebben uitgesproken.”
Volgens Bassett gebeurt het ook in Rusland.
Op de vraag waarom aliens zich met onze kernwapens bemoeien antwoordde hij: “Denk je dat andere beschavingen in het sterrenstelsel zullen toelaten dat wij deze wapens meenemen de ruimte in? Dat gaat niet gebeuren.”
Eerste staatshoofd
In het interview, dat werd uitgezonden op REN TV, zei Bassett te denken dat de Russische president Poetin het eerste staatshoofd zal zijn dat officieel gaat erkennen dat er aliens op aarde zijn.
Bekijk het fragment hieronder:
Zender KLAS-TV meldde eerder dat meer dan 150 Amerikaanse legerveteranen, officieren en beveiligers claimen dat ze UFO’s boven kerninstallaties hebben gezien.
“Het waren vliegende schotels,” zei een fotograaf die werkzaam was in een testgebied voor atoombommen.
Ingegrepen
“UFO’s houden onze kernwapens al decennia in de gaten en hebben zelfs ingegrepen,” zei schrijver en onderzoeker Robert Hastings, die er een documentaire over maakte.
Uit vrijgegeven documenten van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Energie blijkt bovendien dat UFO’s zijn waargenomen boven alle grote kernwapeninstallaties.
In één geval zagen legerfotografen hoe een UFO een raket uitschakelde die vanaf vliegbasis Vandenberg was gelanceerd.
OBJECTEN NAAST DE ZON EN VREEMDE LICHTEN STRAND EGMOND AAN ZEE, NEDERELAND ( VIDEO )
OBJECTEN NAAST DE ZON EN VREEMDE LICHTEN STRAND EGMOND AAN ZEE, NEDERELAND ( VIDEO )
We schrijven vaker dat wanneer je je ogen openhoudt en regelmatig naar de lucht kijkt, je soms bijzondere dingen ziet.
In het volgende geval is het niet alleen het zien van bijzondere dingen in Egmond aan Zee, maar ook het horen van vreemde geluiden.
Wij mogen ons gelukkig prijzen met zeer oplettende lezers en regelmatig verrassen zij ons met interessante zaken.
Zoals het volgende bericht dat wij ontvingen van een lezer (dank!).
Bijgaand een foto die mijn dochter van 9 op zondag 21 januari heeft genomen. De foto is genomen op het strand van Egmond aan Zee ter hoogte van de vuurtoren. Ze kwam hier pas een paar dagen geleden mee aan bij. "Papa!?, kijk deze foto". "Ik zag de hele tijd 2 lichtjes boven de zee en die hingen stil maar het was geen vliegtuig en het maakte ook geen geluid". "En opeens vloog het heeeeeeel hard weg naar rechts"(noordelijk).
Grappig is als je de foto vergroot het wel hartjes lijken. De foto is onbewerkt. Geen filters o.i.d.
Daarnaast heb ik eindelijk ook het mysterieuze geluid gehoord. De "sonic booms" van een paar geleden heb ik al meermaals gehoord en en vind al 4 jaar lang in september plaats. Nu hoor ik al vanaf vrijdag avond 10 uur het geluid van die hoorn. Om twee uur viel ik slaap dus weet niet hoe lang het door is gegaan.
Je hoort het gewoon in de huiskamer. Eerst dacht ik nog wat heeft de buurman de muziek hard aan maar die waren op vakantie. bedacht ik me al snel. Om de circa 10 minuten een raar geluid wat ik niet thuis kan brengen en ook niet iets waar je het echt goed mee kunt vergelijken. Een hoorn, een industrieel geluid van staal op staal wat over elkaar heen schuift o.i.d. en ik heb ook al een gelezen over walvissen. Die zitten hier wel af en toe in Egmond maar dat is het zeker niet. Het geluid komt uit "de ruimte". Ben er voor naar buiten gegaan. Vrijdag was het een heldere avond dus waren het ook geen misthoorns van schepen voor de kust. Daarnaast, de laatste tijd veel mist, woon al 18 jaar in Egmond, maar nooit misthoorns gehoord al die tijd.
Afgelopen nacht was het geluid er ook maar was het zachter en leek het verder weg. Het is absoluut in de atmosfeer.
Omdat ik de eerste 30 jaar van mijn leven bij schiphol heb gewoond (letterlijk onder de zwanenburgbaan in Zwanenburg) ken ik ook het geluid bij bepaalde weersomstandigheden als er een vliegtuig overvliegt dat je een minuut er na de lucht dicht hoort trekken. Heel hard gesuis vergelijkbaar op de eerste oude platen van de synthesizervirtuoos Jean Michel Jarre. Hier lijkt het geluid in de atmosfeer in de verste verte niet op.
Vorig jaar had ik een rare ervaring op het strand, ook in Egmond. Het was een mooie onbewolkte dag met een vaag laagje waardoor het net niet een mooie knalblauwe lucht was. Wij weten inmiddels wat dat betekent maar ik noem het woord niet. Opeens een heel luid gebulder van straalmotoren. Het leek op het geluid dan van een opstijgend vrachtvliegtuig, maar veel harder. Je zag ook iedereen naar de lucht kijken om een vliegtuig te zien maar het was niet te zien. Wel kwam er een schaduw van een vliegtuig over het strand. Je zag mensen ook duidelijk even verward rondkijken, zo van heh? hoe kan dit? Wat was dit? maar daarna ging men gewoon weer verder met waar ze mee bezig waren.
Ik stuur apart nog een filmpje en foto wat ik in maart/april heb gemaakt. Ook in Egmond. Ik weet niet of het wat is maar lijkt een planeet of lichtbron naast de zon. Het feit dat ik het film is op zich al veelzeggend want ik zie hier elke dag de lucht. Het was ook in een periode dat er heel erg veel Chemtrails waren.
Op het filmpje kun je duidelijk zien dat het geen lensflare is want die zie je op een andere plek door het beeld gaan.
AP & SpaceXDe krachtigste draagraket staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform. Aan boord ook de rode Tesla van Elon Musk. Als de lancering lukt, zal de auto járen in de ruimte zweven.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Eindelijk, klinkt het bij diegenen die er al maanden naar uitkijken: rond 19.30 uur vanavond wordt de krachtigste raket sinds maanraket Saturn V de ruimte ingestuurd. Aan boord: de rode Tesla van Elon Musk. Hij houdt dus woord.
Je weet maar nooit wie binnen miljoenen jaren ons zonnestelsel met een bezoekje vereert. Al staat één ding vast: ze zullen in de baan om de zon plots een rood voertuig zien cirkelen. Een Tesla Roadster, met uitneembaar glazen dak. “De snelste wagen ter wereld in 2017, toch volgens de oprichter van Tesla, Elon Musk”, zullen ze op het internet (?) zien verschijnen wanneer ze op zoek gaan naar wat meer informatie. “In de ruimte gestuurd op 6 februari 2018.”
Vandaag dus. En wat al maanden als grap wordt bestempeld, blijkt nu toch waar. Elon Musk - ook oprichter van ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX - postte gisteren nog een foto op sociale media: z’n auto zit vastgegespt boven in de Falcon Heavy-raket. Die staat intussen kaarsrecht in haar lanceerplatform Apollo 39A op Cape Canaveral in Florida. Klaar om rond 13.30 uur plaatselijke tijd de ruimte in te gaan, bij ons vanaf 19.30 uur. De plek ademt trouwens geschiedenis uit, want ook Neil Armstrong werd vanaf deze basis naar de maan gestuurd.
In april 2011 al maakte SpaceX bekend dat “the world’s most powerful rocket” een lanceerdatum had. Al kwam het bedrijf niet verder dan ‘eind 2013 of 2014’. Die datum bleek veel te optimistisch. De raket is pas in het tweede deel van december vorig jaar geassembleerd, waarna het gevaarte goed een maand geleden rechtop werd gezet. Tot de kortstondige shutdown van de Amerikaanse overheid roet in het eten gooide. Op 24 januari volgde eindelijk de eerste test waarbij alle 27 motoren tegelijkertijd ontbrand werden - een huzarenwerk.
En dus wordt vandaag ook een absoluut nagelbijtmoment. Na jaren uitstel en het feit dat het productieproces “veel moeilijker” bleek dan gedacht, volgt de maiden trip. Die voor Musk al geslaagd zou zijn “indien de Falcon Heavy ver genoeg van haar lanceerplatform afkomt, zodat het niet beschadigd raakt”. “Dat zou ik eerlijk gezegd zelf al als winst beschouwen”, liet hij eerder optekenen.
Infografieken Nederland
Wat de Heavy nu zo speciaal maakt? In feite is hij het sterkere broertje van de Falcon 9 met nog eens twee extra stuwmotoren, die aan weerszijden zijn gemonteerd. De Falcon Heavy heeft dus in totaal 27 raketmotoren, drie keer zoveel als waar de Falcon 9 over beschikt. De Heavy wordt zo de krachtigste raket sinds de maanraket Saturn V, die sinds 1973 niet meer heeft gevlogen. En heeft meer dan tweemaal de vrachtcapaciteit van de krachtigste raket op de huidige markt (voor de specialisten: de Delta IV Heavy, goed voor 28,8 ton). Ook andere huidige operationele raketten komen lang niet in de buurt van de stuwkracht van de Falcon Heavy. De in 2011 door de NASA uit dienst genomen Space Shuttle bijvoorbeeld kon een vracht van 24.000 kilo in een lage baan om de Aarde brengen. Volgens SpaceX kan hun tuig 63.800 kilo aan. Op een reis naar Mars zou dat 16.800 kilo zijn.
AFPDe Falcon Heavy staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform.
SpaceX zet trouwens de commerciële lanceermarkt op zijn kop, want doel van de Heavy: de komende twee jaar ruimtetoeristen naar de maan en Mars laten vliegen. De raket die de lucht in moet gaan, zal echter vooral gebruikt worden voor vrachtmissies waarbij satellieten in een baan om de Aarde worden gebracht, bijvoorbeeld de zwaardere exemplaren van de Amerikaanse overheid.
En oh ja, ook David Bowie pikt een graantje mee vanavond: bij de lancering zal zijn nummer ‘Space Oddity’ weerklinken. “Een fantastische publiciteitsstunt”, zeggen experts erover. Afwachten dus dat de raket niet ontploft.
photo_newsEen illustratie die toont hoe het oppervlak van een van de planeten er zou kunnen uitzien.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET“Op de zeven planeten rondom de dwergster TRAPPIST-1, die niet zo lang geleden ontdekt werden, is in theorie leven mogelijk.” Dat hebben wetenschappers - ook Belgische - die de verre wereld bestuderen, vandaag bekendgemaakt. De planeten, op veertig lichtjaar van ons, zijn gesteente-achtig en sommigen zouden ook water hebben.
“Alle op dit ogenblik bestudeerde signalen staan op groen”, zei astronome Amaury Triaud van de Universiteit van Birmingham die mee de maandag verschenen studies schreef. “Op dit moment wijst niets erop dat zij niet ‘levensvatbaar’ zijn”. Op 22 februari 2017 maakten astronomen bekend dat bij de weinig heldere en koude dwergster TRAPPIST-1 zeven planeten ontdekt werden. Qua grootte gelijken ze op de onze. Drie ervan, Trappist-1 e, f en g, omcirkelen in de levensvatbare zone hun ster, wat betekent dat er vloeibaar water op hun oppervlak zou zijn.
Sindsdien beschikken de astronomen over meer informatie met betrekking tot de ster, haar planeten en hun atmosfeer. De wetenschappers konden hun metingen van omvang en massa van de planeten verfijnen om vast te stellen dat zij vooral uit gesteente bestaan en dat bij sommigen tot vijf procent van hun massa uit water kan bestaan.
AFPDe planeten Trappist-1 e, f en g, omcirkelen in de levensvatbare zone hun ster, wat betekent dat er vloeibaar water op hun oppervlak zou zijn.
Vijf procent water
Ter vergelijking: slechts 0,1 procent van de massa van de Aarde bestaat uit water. Aangaande de kans dat de planeten leven zouden herbergen, zei Triaud tegenover het Franse persbureau AFP “in dit stadium niets te kunnen zeggen omdat ze erg van elkaar verschillen van de enige planeet waar leven is (de onze). “Maar ze hebben ook de geëigende kenmerken en vormen tot op vandaag de beste plaats buiten ons systeem om te zoeken naar signalen van levensvatbaarheid en van leven”.
“In termen van grootte, dichtheid en hoeveelheid straling van haar ster lijkt de vierde planeet het meest op de Aarde. Het lijkt erop dat het de meest gesteente-achtige planeet is, zelfs als de aanwezigheid van water niet is uitgesloten”, aldus een communiqué van het Franse CNRS dat deelnam aan het onderzoek. Het is gepubliceerd in de wetenschappelijke vakbladen Nature Astronomy en Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Er namen ook Belgische vorsers aan het pas gepubliceerde onderzoek deel zoals Julien De Wit van het prestigieuze Massachusetts Institute of Technology, alsmede een reeks wetenschappers van de Luikse universiteit Valérie Van Grootel, Michaël Gillon, Artem Burdanov, Laetitia Delrez en Emmanuël Jehin van de Luikse universiteit.
AFP
De wetenschappers konden hun metingen van omvang en massa van de planeten verfijnen om vast te stellen dat zij vooral uit gesteente bestaan, en dat bij sommigen tot vijf procent van hun massa uit water kan bestaan.
Those who were excited about the Super Blue Blood Moon last week probably don’t live in Venice, where the pull of the Moon at its closest approach to Earth further dried up the canals already mysteriously on the edge of being bone dry. And, while the lunar eclipse that turned the Moon blood-red didn’t cause it, frustrated Siberians angry after a local river mysteriously turned the same color may swear at it anyways … at least until they get an explanation. What’s going on?
Better days in Venice
Let’s start with the canals. No matter what color they are, they’re the lifeblood of Venice, so any problems with them – and disappearance is definitely a big one – affect virtually everyone living in or visiting the beautiful city. Photographs taken last week (shown here and here) show gondolas resting in dry canal beds. Unfortunately, ‘dry’ doesn’t mean ‘empty’ as the pictures also reveal the garbage and debris that the waters normally hide.
A water-covered city knows its tidal calendar, so Venice was prepared for the low waters due to the Super Blue Blood Moon. This is also the third year in a row that droughts have contributed to extremely low – although not bone dry – water levels. However, experts are still mystified because the city continues to sink, which should make it prone to flooding – in Venice, that’s a good thing … or at least a better-than-no-water thing. Is the City of Canals destined to become the City of Great Places to Skateboard?
Will we ever see this again?
Meanwhile, a different problem is causing the residents of the Siberian city of Tyumen to avoid the Molchanka River because of what the media is calling … well, you can read it yourself:
“Experts say they so far cannot pinpoint the cause of what state news agency Itar-Tass called a ‘Biblical bombshell’.”
The “biblical bombshell” is a river that mysteriously and quickly turned red (more pictures here) and has not changed its hue in over a week. Tyumen is the home of many oil and gas companies, so the first inclination is to point fingers at them, not the bible. However, local officials doubted that explanation.
“Team of experts examining the area found no trace of sewage discharges. Extra water samples were taken. Laboratory results will be ready by the end of this week.”
That was on January 31st and no results have been released as of this writing, days after the “end of the week.” Meanwhile, the water isn’t moving, some residents say it’s getting redder and the Russian environmental watchdog group Rosprirodnadzor (The Federal Service for Supervision of Use of Natural Resources) isn’t making anyone feel better with comments like this:
“We have never dealt with this before so we are waiting for the results of tests.”
Hey, at least they have an environmental watchdog group.
While many people today (including news agencies) are quick to use the terms “biblical,” apocalyptic” and “end times” (like the story today about birds falling from the sky), the real problem is that our waterways and oceans are being affected constantly by humans (yes, the moon influenced the tide in Venice but humans built the city in spite of it) and watchdog groups are becoming an endangered species.
Are songs like “Watching the River Flow” and “Blue Bayou” destined for extinction too?
It’s never good news when birds – or any other animals for that matter – fall from the sky … dead or alive. Get ready for some bad news from Draper, Utah, and Rome, Italy, where hundreds of dead starlings covered the ground recently. Pollution? End times? Something worse?
The Times reports that the dead starlings began appearing the weekend of January 27th at the Porta Pia gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. Residents reported the ground being covered with corpses, blanketing walkways and roads with dead, and eventually flattened, birds (photos here). This is migration season, so Romans are used to seeing the sky and tree branches covered with starlings summering in the city and eating the local olives. Unfortunately, something has made life the pits for these birds this year. But what?
“We found they were in good health but suffering from the trauma and broken bones you would associate with collisions, either with each other or with cables.”
Francesca Manzia, head of a hospital run by the Italian League for the Protection of Birds (there’s an idea other cities should adopt), had no answer. Fatal bird collisions when there’s millions of them aloft can be caused by a predator, a loud noise or some other disturbance, leading to lemming-like processions of crashes into buildings, trees or each other. Is Rome no longer big enough for the starling migration? Could the birds have been stunned by an electromagnetic or other unseen forces?
If they’re looking for a different warm migration stopover, they need to scratch Draper, Utah off of the list. Located 20 miles south of Salt Lake City in the north central portion of the state, Draper is home to many Native Americans, a state prison and, on January 30th, thousands of dead starlings.
“As I was driving, these birds were just falling out of the sky. They were all on the ground right around here and on the roadway. They were just falling out of the sky like leaves.”
Resident Lacey Brown told a local news station that there were so many starlings on the ground, she stopped to help a man shovel them out of the road to avoid making a feather, bloody mess. Unfortunately, Sergeant Chad Carpenter with the Draper police, saw more carnage.
“It was just one of those freak things where the birds were just flying along, crashed into the side of a large vehicle and boom.”
Draper Animal Services helped with the cleanup and found some starlings still alive, lending credence to the theory that these birds were also startled into a mass collision.
Again, what could have startled the starlings to their deaths? The beautiful twisting formations they fly in are called murmurations and bird experts are unable to explain how millions of birds can make tight turns so close together without colliding … which makes the rare times they do collide even more mystifying. Sadly, they may have more opportunities to study the phenomena since it seems to be happening more frequently.
Starlings are highly social birds and their survival depends on the ability to fly together. If their mysterious deaths are not a sign of the end times, can we at least see them as a sign that not living and working together is a bad thing?
Recent news revealing the Pentagon’s secret UFO program has reignited the general public’s curiosity about the possibility of extraterrestrials in our skies. There has always been a blurry line between the topic of UFOs and the realms of fantasy and science fiction. Skeptical UFO historian Martin Kottmeyer has documented how virtually every detail witnesses report about alien encounters can be found in earlier science fiction stories, or in legends and mythology.
It’s also a fact that our books, TV shows, and movies have used UFO reports for inspiration, which in turn has helped spread fantastic concepts of extraterrestrial visitors. A cultural feedback loop exists between the real and unreal. Let’s take a look at a few of the most powerful examples.
The Early Days
In the 1870s, Earth’s telescopes detected dark, linear features on Mars, which were interpreted by some as canals produced by a civilization older and more advanced than our own. This inspired one of the most influential of all science fiction novels, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.
When Orson Welles (no relation) adapted The War of the Worlds in 1938 for CBS radio using a faux documentary style, the tale of an attack by Martian invaders was heard by thousands. Some of those listeners (but not as many as you might think) were persuaded the story was true and panicked. The reaction to the broadcast made headlines, and to capitalize on the sensation, Universal studios quickly recut their movie serial Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars into the feature-length Mars Attacks the World. It’s kinda-sorta the first UFO movie, produced to exploit the public’s interest in extraterrestrial visitors. Like the radio play, it also preyed on the flip side of hope — fear. If our rockets were beginning to reach into space, what if someone out there had a big head start?
In June of 1947, newspapers broke the story of how aviator Kenneth Arnold had spotted a formation of unknown disc-like aircraft moving at speeds beyond those of our fastest jets. The U.S. Air Force began an investigation into the sighting, and the explosion of flying saucer reports that followed it. By late 1949, the Air Force’s investigation, later known as Project Blue Book, determined that saucers were not a secret project by the U.S. itself, the Soviets, or anyone else. They tried to shut down the saucer fever, but science fiction had greased the skids. If these UFOs were real craft, they came from somewhere else, and that somewhere must be Mars or another planet.
Saucer reports dwindled, but radio and newspapers found that covering them made for hot filler material. In 1950, two best-selling books emerged that would shape the belief in UFOs and influence the films made about them.
Retired Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe’s The Flying Saucers Are Real debuted, and his key ideas would become canon: UFOs are ships from outer space, the U.S. government knows it, and there’s a big cover-up. Keyhoe reached some far-out conclusions, but he relied on the word of credible sources working in the government saucer investigation. However, there was another guy with a saucer story, a far more fantastic tale, and it became the biggest one of all time when rebranded as the Roswell UFO crash.
Frank Scully was a columnist for the show biz magazine Variety, where he first introduced his story which was later expanded into a book, Behind the Flying Saucers. Scully told how scientists revealed that a saucer had crashed in the New Mexico desert, the U.S. military recovered the disc, the alien technology, and the small deceased humanoid bodies found inside, then hid and denied everything. (Scully’s tale was exposed as a hoax in 1952, when his source, the “scientists” Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer, were convicted as swindlers, but that’s another story.)
With the phenomenal success of the 1950 Keyhoe and Scully books, many people went from asking if flying saucers were real to accepting that they were. Hollywood was ready to capitalize on the saucer craze, but they needed more stories. They turned to science fiction for material.
John W. Campbell, Jr’s story “Who Goes There” from Astounding Science Fiction, August 1938, was adapted into the 1951 movie The Thing from Another World. The first change was to make the spaceship in the story into a flying saucer,although it’s only as an indistinct shape through ice except for its tail fin. The Thing bears a resemblance to the premise of Frank Scully’s saucer book, the military mission to recover a crashed flying saucer, and it also gets in a few jabs at government denials. The extraterrestrial in the movie is truly alien, a throwback to Wells’ monstrous Martians, out to survive at the cost of human life.
The Day the Earth Stood Still,also released in 1951, was loosely based on Harry Bates’ story from the October 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, “Farewell to the Master.” Again the spaceship was swapped for a flying saucer, and it’s a major set piece, almost a co-star. As for the aliens, the giant Gort is as enigmatic as the ship. Klaatu seems human, benevolent, almost angelic, bringing a message of peace, love, and understanding – but carrying a stern warning that mankind will not be allowed to spread its warlike ways to the people of other planets. The Day the Earth Stood Still was not influenced by genuine saucer stories, but it became a tremendous influence on those that followed. George Adamski and his cult concocted the hoax of an angelic Klaatu-like visitor from Venus here to warn of the dangers of nuclear war, as chronicled in the 1953 book Flying Saucers Have Landed. Following Adamski’s fame, a legion of imitators dubbed “Contactees” surfaced with tales of meetings and flights with the Space Brothers. This kind of friendly visitor from the stars wasn’t good movie material until Stephen Spielberg revived the idea in the 1970s.
Invaders from Mars (April 1953) delivered the goods, an original story with a flying saucer full of aliens here for the business of abducting, controlling minds, and conquering. Due to its hasty production, it has the distinction of being the first UFO film in color, so we get to see the saucer, the green-skinned Martians, and their strange little tentacled, big-headed leader in all their glory. Invaders also depicted a number of elements that would come to be staples of later UFO tales — alien abductions and medical implants.
When The War of the Worlds finally made it to the movies, it was influenced by flying saucers as well, with the Martian war machines’ tripods eliminated, updated into sinister saucer-like aircraft.
Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956) was the first try at a docudrama. It’s historically important for being the first film to be factually based on UFO cases, including real witnesses and saucer footage. Unfortunately, in striving so hard to be realistic, it did the unbelievable – it almost made saucers seem dull. Still, the ads and posters for UFO promised something far more sensational.
In 1961, after New Hampshire couple Betty and Barney Hill observed a star-like object in the sky, they started having nightmares. Under hypnosis, an abduction story surfaced, one reminiscent of Invaders from Mars. The Hills story was portrayed in the 1975 TV movie The UFO Incident, which may have in turn inspired other abduction dreams and stories that followed.
Travis Walton’s alleged abduction near Snowflake Arizona came shortly after the broadcast of the Betty and Barney Hill TV movie. What makes Walton’s case noteworthy is that he appears to have been the first guy kicked off a flying saucer for fighting.
All the truly influential things happened in the first 20 years or so of flying saucers – both the sightings and in the movies. With rare exceptions, after 1980, films were either toying with the established memes or were just remakes, remixes, and rip-offs of what had come before.
The year 1977 for saucer buffs, at least in the cinema. George Lucas’ film Star Wars was more about reviving Flash Gordon-style fun than anything else, but it’s worth a passing mention, since it featured a Bigfoot co-piloting a flying saucer.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was inspired by real UFO cases, but copied and pasted bits of them together, adding a mothership-sized dose of Disneyesque melodrama, with a side order of Adamski’s message of the aliens’ love from above. Real-life UFO expert Dr. J. Alien Hynek served as a consultant on the film and made a cameo appearance during the finale.
Stephen Spielberg scuttled the idea of a direct sequel to CE3K and went for another story of cuddly aliens in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in 1982. Spielberg inspired many other friendly aliens, like those featured in Mork & Mindy, Starman, Cocoon, ALF, The Abyss, and others.
Hangar 18 (1980) can be seen as a marker in the UFO topic’s turn toward the dark side. It was (very loosely) based on Scully’s crashed aliens story and it also featured a sinister government conspiracy to cover it up. The huge advertising push for Hangar 18 helped prepare the public to swallow the retconned Roswell story that surfaced around the same time, bit it didn’t catch fire in the mainstream until September of 1989, when it featured on the NBC TV show, Unsolved Mysteries, as “Legend: Roswell Crash.”
For the Roswell conspiracy story to be true, there must be a massive cover-up, and a mythology sprang up to serve as the story’s super-villain, a secret government cabal known as MJ-12. The idea of benevolent ETs was again pushed aside, replaced with spooky tales of government treaties with aliens to allow abductions, cattle mutilations, and human-hybrid breeding programs at Area 51 and secret underground bases.
When Travis Walton’s abduction story was turned into a movie, 1993’s Fire in the Sky, Hollywood considered his 1950s-style aliens outdated. The producers insisted on a jazzed-up more horrific version of the aliens and abductions like those that became fashionable in the 1980s.
The X-Files (1993) television show came to define UFOs in the ’90s, but most viewers were unaware of the source of the stories. The alien content on the show was “ripped from the headlines,” but from tabloids and crackpot UFO magazines about those dark, dubious ’80s encounters. An early and enduring UFO conspiracy belief was that the truth about aliens would shock and panic the populace, but the public could adjust gradually to the idea as introduced through entertainment.
Independence Day (1996) incorporated a stew of lore, the Roswell incident, the government UFO cover-up, abductions, and more, with the fight against the aliens based at Area 51. Some imagined that Hollywood’s UFO movies and The X-Files were part of the acclimation program. To them, seeing an old story resurface on screen was “confirmation” that it was genuine.
Men In Black (1997) was also based on an old UFO legend via a little-known comic book. The MIB were first made famous in Gray Barker’s 1956 book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, and further embellished by John Keel. Thing is, the MIB were made up by Barker and his friends to exploit the paranoia of many UFO buffs who thought that the government was operating a “Silence Group” to cover up UFO reports.
In 2008, The History Channel brought us UFO Hunters, but had far better success with Ancient Aliens. It was based on the second- and third-hand notions popularized by Erich von Däniken, that extraterrestrials were the gods of myth, and that there is abundant alien evidence in archeological remains. The success of the show served to demonstrate that the public’s interest in UFOs and aliens remains strong. However, recent incidents that make for good evidence – or good entertainment – are quite rare. They literally had to dig up the past for story material.
The UFO concepts have become so familiar, they blend in, nestled almost unnoticed into the premises of hit movies such as The Transformers or Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers series. Recently, UFOs themselves as a central topic have made a comeback, both in the news and on the entertainment screen, with several movies, documentaries and TV shows in production. You can expect AMC’s 10-episode docudrama, Blue Book, starring Aidan Gillen as J. Allen Hynek, to continue the circle on TV screens soon.
WHAT WAS IT? Two 'experienced skywatchers' saw UFO on BOTH sides of Atlantic last night
WHAT WAS IT? Two 'experienced skywatchers' saw UFO on BOTH sides of Atlantic last night
ALIEN investigators have been independently contacted by two "experienced skywatchers" who claim to have seen an unusually slow-moving UFO last night on both sides of The Pond.
The US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which investigates and records UFO and alien sightings across the globe, was today contacted by amateur astronomers in Ireland and the USA with reports about two separate sightings.
One witness, in Olancha California, whose name has not been released by MUFON, sent in a video of a bright object crossing the night sky which was captured by an "all-sky night camera."
In a report to MUFON, they ruled out it being a satellite or meteor.
The report said: "Our all-sky night camera caught this unusual bright object pass overhead, Highway 395 Inyo county, heading west over the Sierra Nevada.
"It was too late at night to be a satellite (plus satellites don't travel E to W) and too slow for a meteor.
It initially appeared not to be moving but I soon realised it was moving considerably slower than an aircraft or way slower than a satellite and space debris.
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"An aircraft might be possible, but normally aircraft at night flying high are almost totally dark and invisible, this thing got near magnitude -6 at the high point, with multiple colors white, green, pink.
"Unlikely to be aircraft headlights, since it got brightest when it was nearly overhead, not when approaching, so would be looking right at the object's side when brightest.
"This is a rural area with no nearby airports. Was indoors at the time, so can't say if it made any sound or not. No loud sound."
The Republic of Ireland is eight hours ahead of California, but neither witness gave a time of their sighting, so it is impossible to tell which was first.
The second witness, who has also not been named, was in Westport, in County Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland.
Their report said: "I'm an experienced sky watcher in the West of Ireland and know very well what aircraft look like.
"I live on a busy air corridor from the US to Europe.
"I also know what a satellite and space debris looks like.
"Tonight I saw a strobe-like flash in the sky to the north west from the corner of my eye and again several seconds later."
They said they locked onto it and counted 13 seconds between single white strobe like flashes.
They added: "It initially appeared not to be moving but I soon realised it was moving considerably slower than an aircraft or way slower than a satellite and space debris.
"It took over an hour to cross the sky and seemed to be at great altitude or in orbit."
The witness said they checked flight radar websites and several satellite tracking apps, which "revealed nothing."
They added: "I tried to capture a video but my phone wasn't up to the job. I watch the sky on a nightly basis and have seen loads of strange stuff which I could explain but this was very different from any thing I've seen."
MUFON is investigating both cases.
It cautions, however, that most suspected UFO sightings can be explained as natural phenomena or man-made aircraft.
"They were just falling out of the sky like leaves.”
Sgt Chad Carpenter with the Draper City Police Department insists the incident was a freak accident.
He said: “It’s one of the rarest things I’ve ever heard of.”
Popular conspiracy YouTube Channel SecureTeam10 says the mass death of the birds was likely done by an alien attack.
In a video, the narrator of the channel says: “Last year, and especially the year before, we were having these just mass events of these birds just falling from the sky all over the world.
“Regardless of what you think, if there’s a supernatural cause – many people have said that there was some sort of cloaked object in the sky that they maybe flew into – but in many of these instances in the past, it was found that none of these birds suffered any blunt trauma.
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Some suspect it was due to a UFO attack
“They hadn’t hit anything in the sky.
“The trauma we’re talking about is different from them hitting the ground because many of the birds that landed in bushes and things like that had no trauma whatsoever.”
Sgt Carpenter moved to calm any fears that an alien invasion was imminent.
He said: “No aliens, no cloaking device.
“No poison, it was just one of those freak things where the birds were just flying along, crashed into the side of a large vehicle and boom."
Luis Elizondo led the US Department of Defense Advance Aerial Threat Identification Program (AATIP) which ran from 2007 to 2012 at a cost of £16 million.
In October, after resigning from the department to join a UFO research group he was behind the release of two videos caught on US Navy pilot radar cameras.
He pointed out that the “inexplicable craft” moved in ways which defied physics.
One of the military radar videos was filmed off the coast of San Diego in November 2004 by US Navy pilots who described seeing several while UFOs shaped like the sweet Tic-Tacs.
The case became known as the Nimitz UFO incident.
However, the video has since been branded a wrongly identified plane by several skeptics – prompting Mr Elizondo to reveal there is more to come, including video recordings of encounters with "unknown technology that is far more advanced than anything in the US military."
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Luis Elizondo says more shock UFO footage will be released from the US Government.
When he tells you, he's seen something go from a near hover or something over the water going 450 knots and all of the sudden it takes off over the horizon in two seconds, you'd better believe he is telling you something he has seen.
Luis Elizondo
Speaking about his former role, he said: "It was in this position that I learned the phenomena is indeed real."
Speaking to Las Vegas Now, Mr Elizondo said the first releases were official.
He said: "The Department of Defense made the decision to release them.
"Released at the unclassified level through the DOD, approved the release for exactly the reason why the request was made. So, it was completely on the up and up."
He hit back at those who claimed they showed planes.
He added: "When he tells you, he's seen something go from a near hover or something over the water going 450 knots and all of the sudden it takes off over the horizon in two seconds, you'd better believe he is telling you something he has seen.
"And by the way that's backed up by three other individuals that were also on that same flight and were backed up by three other individuals that were on the same flight in two other aircraft and then layered by radar operators.
"It frustrates me when someone says, oh, that's an IR glare or IR fuzz, you know, that's atmospheric conditions.
"You cannot lock radar onto, I'm sorry, it's not atmospheric or IR fuzz."
Investigators are said to have interviewed 18 witnesses to the Tic-Tac case, all declaring it "an unknown."
Mr Elizondo added: "I think even more compelling, if this was a Tic-Tac we saw in 2004, that would have been extremely advanced technology and capabilities for 2004.
"I think everyone agrees it is considered extremely exotic technology today, let alone 2004 but these observations match with previous observations going well before that.
"The Nimitz is an example of one case, one of many that we looked at.
"When it continues to happen as a pattern, that's when we get to the point where we're increasingly concerned, because it is not an anomaly, now it's a trend."
He said about 24 other UFO videos are being declassified for release to the public in the coming months.
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DNA Results Show The Elongated Paracas Skulls Are Not Native American
DNA Results Show The Elongated Paracas Skulls Are Not Native American
“The Paracas were an incredibly complex ethnic mix of people… There are a number of different haplogroups that were found in the DNA tests of the Paracas elongated skulls and these haplogroups, which is your genetic ancestry, they don’t fit in with the history of Peru in any shape or form…”
According to a group of experts dealing with the Paracas skull phenomenon, recent DNA results have revealed that the elongated skulls of Paracas, Peru, are not native to the region.
During the 1920’s, a Peruvian archaeologist by the name Julio Tello discovered a series of tombs in Paracas Peru. The contents of the tomb left experts stumped as countless elongated skulls were recovered from the tombs. Since then, more elongated skulls have been found in the region, raising numerous questions about these mysterious people.
For more than five years have experts like Brien Foerster tried solving the mystery behind the elongated skulls. While much progress has been made in understanding them, the journey has been very difficult.
The analysis of this elongated skull, which has reddish hair, shows that it has a mitochondrial haplogroup U2e, which may signify it originated somewhere in the Caucasus… far from Paracas.
After countless studies and research, we have begun finding out more about these mystery skulls. Some DNA analysis has shown that the elongation present on the Paracas skulls was not the result of artificial cranial deformation but by genetics. Some of the Paracas Skulls have a cranial volume which is up to 25% larger and 60% percent heavier than conventional human skulls. While ‘head binding’ can alter the shape of the skull, it cannot alter its volume.
At the end of last week, a Symposium was held in Los Angeles where experts announced new results of testing performed on the elongated Skulls.
The main speakers of the event were L.A. Marzulli and Brien Foerster.
As reported by Megalith Marvels, Foerster, author of several books on the subject and a recognized expert of the Paracas Skulls, published the following information on the aforementioned DNA results.
“The DNA results actually were incredibly complicated… It’s going to take me some time to actually figure out what the results mean. What it does show for sure is that the Paracas elongated skull people were not 100% Native American. They were a mix or even you could say, in some ways, a hybrid of different people.”
More question than answers…
Foerster explains that “Their blood types are very complicated as well, they should be blood type “O” if they’re 100% Native American and that’s not the case. We are likely looking at a sub-species of humanity as regards to the Paracas… Seems to be a lot of DNA evidence from extreme eastern Europe and extreme western Asia. More specifically I’m talking about the area in between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea where ancient elongated skull people lived I think about 3000 years ago.”
What Makes Jupiter's Great Spot Red? It's Still a Mystery
What Makes Jupiter's Great Spot Red? It's Still a Mystery
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
A close-up of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot taken by the JunoCam instrument on NASA's Juno probe, and color-enhanced by citizen scientist Jason Major.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Jason Major
Jupiter's Great Red Spot has swirled for hundreds of years, but the source of its distinctive color remains a mystery. New laboratory experiments are working to produce that color — and others found in Jupiter's stormy cloud tops — here on Earth, and researchers have found that radiation and temperature play key roles in changing the color of some of the transparent material found in the clouds.
A primary suspect in coloring Jupiter's clouds is ammonium hydrosulfide, a type of salt. Formed by ionized ammonium and bisulfide, it quickly decomposes at typical atmospheric conditions and temperatures on Earth, making it challenging to investigate its properties.
"Models predict that ammonium hydrosulfide is the third most abundant cloud component [on Jupiter], behind ammonia and water," Mark Loeffler, an astrochemist at Northern Arizona University, told Space.com by email. Loeffler worked with fellow chemist Reggie Hudson, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, to attempt to re-create the color of Jupiter's clouds in the laboratory. [Jupiter's Great Red Spot: An Iconic Monster Storm in Pictures]
The scientists have run about 200 experiments on ammonium hydrosulfide in an attempt to match the color of the Great Red Spot. After hitting the salt with simulated cosmic rays, they compared them to observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
"This work took a bit because there is not much published on this compound, and there appeared to be a lot going on in the sample," Loeffler said.
The Great Red Spot's great mystery
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, imaged by the Voyager 1 probe in 1979.
Credit: NASA
With winds as high as 400 mph (644 km/h), Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been brewing for at least 150 years. Astronomers in the 1600s identified a blurry feature on Jupiter that may have been the spot, but scientists aren't certain that it was the same storm. In recent years, the storm has shrunk to the width of a single Earth. Previously, it was estimated to be three Earths wide. At the same time, observations showed that the color of the spot has been changing, suggesting that its composition may also be shifting.
Though ammonium hydrosulfide is present in Jupiter's atmosphere, Loeffler said, it doesn't exist as a gas. Instead, it must be condensed as grains of salt that are mixed with or coat another material.
By itself, ammonium hydrosulfide is transparent and colorless. But in Jupiter's clouds, the salt doesn't sit in isolation. Cosmic rays, the high-energy radiation traveling through space, bombard the planet and its clouds. These rays, which come from outside the solar system and even outside the Milky Way galaxy, can change the color of many salts, as previous experiments have revealed.
To determine how ammonium hydrosulfide reacted to radiation, Loeffler and Hudson first had to cool the sample holder to temperatures where the salt would remain stable as a solid. Then, they sprayed ionized ammonia and hydrogen sulfide into the sample holder, where the two components reacted to produce the salt. Next, the researchers used a particle accelerator to bombard the sample holder with protons to represent cosmic rays impacting the cloud. Throughout the process, the researchers monitored the ice and collected images in both visible and ultraviolet light. Most of the nearly 200 iterations of that experiment took what Loeffler called "a long day," though some ran overnight.
Loeffler summed up the process in a single word: "fun."
The researchers found that varying the temperature of the "cosmic rays" affected the color of the salt. At low temperatures of minus 263 degrees Celsius (minus 505 degrees Fahrenheit) and minus 223 degrees C (minus 370 degrees F), the salts became orange or reddish orange. At higher temperatures of minus 153 degrees C (minus 244 degrees F) and minus 113 degrees C (minus 172 degrees F), the salts turned green. The researchers attributed that greenish tint to sulfur. Only a small fraction of sulfur has been identified in the clouds, however, at smaller ratios than those found in the salts produced in the lab.
Samples of ammonium hydrosulfide hit by simulated cosmic rays vary in color from red to green. From leftTop left,: S sample at 10 Kelvin; top right, sample at 50 Kelvin; bottom left, sample at 120 Kelvin; bottom right, sample at 160 Kelvin.
Credit: Mark Loeffler/Cosmic Ice Laboratory, NASA GSFC
That provides an interesting challenge, Loeffler said, because the Great Red Spot is thought to have a temperature closer to those that produce the greener salts, though the clouds clearly are red.
"It would be nice if the red colors we see at low temperatures could be [responsible for] the Great Red Spot, but those are probably too cold," Loeffler said.
So what role does ammonium hydrosulfide play in coloring Jupiter's legendary storm? The researchers still aren't certain. The visible color of the ammonium hydrosulfide (whether red or green or something in between) is determined by the wavelength of light that the compound emits, but the full profile of light coming from the compound includes wavelengths beyond just that visible range.
So the researchers are comparing that full wavelength profile of ammonium hydrosulfide at different temperatures and doses with the full profile of light coming from Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Although the ammonium-hydrosulfide ice at low doses and low temperatures makes a "reasonable match" to what has been observed on the planet at some wavelengths, it doesn't match all the wavelengths scientists have seen in Jupiter's storms. Ices irradiated at higher temperatures make a better overall match, but the wavelengths that create the greenish color are obviously a mismatch with what Hubble has seen.
"After comparison with this new low-temperature data, it seems evident that the best fit of a single [ammonium sulfide] ice is one that has been irradiated and warmed up to higher temperatures so as to remove the [sulfur] radical," the researchers said.
Pointing to a 2016 study he worked on, Loeffler said warming the green samples to temperatures matching those found in the cloud layer of clear, unirradiated ammonium sulfide gets rid of the unattached sulfur ions and the greenish color. That study, along with another paper from 1976, focused on only a single temperature when the sample was irradiated. Along with the new research, which will appear in the March 1 issue of the journal Icarus, these are the only papers that report the results of laboratory work on ammonium hydrosulfide, according to the authors of the new study.
That's because the instability of the salt makes it a challenge to work with, Loeffler said.
"Also, the material smells bad — think rotten eggs and cleaning solution," he said. "For safety, all the excess material has to be vented out of the room, so no one breathes it."
Even worse, he said, the samples destroy lab components. "It really is not the best material to work with," Loeffler said.
But that doesn't deter the scientists. Now that they've studied how ammonium hydrosulfide changes over a range of doses and temperatures, the pair plans to include other compounds in their experiments that could contribute to the coloring of the Great Red Spot.
Is this proof aliens are watching us? UFO crosses paths with Epsilon 3 rocket launch travelling at 25,000mph
Is this proof aliens are watching us? UFO crosses paths with Epsilon 3 rocket launch travelling at 25,000mph
Conspiracy theorists believe a UFO overshadowed the launch of the Japanese rocket
A £255million satellite that will monitor the Earth's atmosphere has successfully launched into space.
But conspiracy theorists believe something overshadowed the 'perfect' launch on Kyushu Island in Japan.
They claim an unknown 'mysterious craft' passed closely by the rocket as it travelled at 25,000mph - and some think it could be aliens monitoring our technological advances.
Thousands of people gathered to watch Japanese Space agency Jaxa launch its Epsilon 3 rocket at 6.06am on January 18.
Video shows that shortly after the craft engaged its secondary boosters a UFO , allegedly flying at the same altitude as the rocket, appeared.
The object was made up of three white lights and a red blinking beacon that appear to swoop close to the rocket.
Thousands of people gathered to watch Japanese Space agency Jaxa launch its Epsilon 3 rocket(Image: UFO Today)
Many viewers have pointed out that the lights look like they belong to a plane.
But conspiracy theorists insist a no-fly zone was in place during the launch.
UFO Today posted footage of the launch on its YouTube page.7
Conspiracy theorists believe something overshadowed the 'perfect' launch on Kyushu Island(Image: UFO Today)
The caption read: "Many will say this is an airplane, but the area had a no fly zone at the time of the rocket launch.
"The launch went perfectly, but during the launch a strange mysterious craft was filmed. This UFO was flying at the same altitude as the rocket.
"It was moving along with the rocket as it started it's orbit around earth. What was this object?"
A 'mysterious craft' passed close to the rocket as it travelled at 25,000mph(Image: UFO Today)
But not everyone was convinced the lights were extra-terrestrial in origin.
One viewer wrote: "It's got an FAA light blinking...so....it's human made."
ASTRONAUT LEROY CHIAO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS 2005 UFO SIGHTING
ASTRONAUT LEROY CHIAO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS 2005 UFO SIGHTING
In 2005, astronaut Leroy Chiao was commander of the International Space Station for six and a half months. During a spacewalk with cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, the two were installing navigation antennas. They were 230 miles above Earth, traveling at over 17,000 miles per hour, when something unusual caught Chiao’s eye.
“I saw some lights that seemed to be in a line and it was almost like an upside-down check mark, and I saw them fly by and thought it was awfully strange,” Chiao told The Huffington Post.
Chiao’s fellow spacewalker, Sharipov, hadn’t seen the lights because he was facing the opposite direction.
This experience, recreated in the above video (and still image below), launches “NASA’s Unexplained Files,” one of several programs presented as part of Science Channel’s week-long “Are We Alone?” series, beginning March 2.
A down-to-Earth explanation is offered for Chiao’s sighting: the bright lights of a fishing boat hundreds of miles below him. But is that the only possible interpretation of what the astronaut saw?
It’s easy for many to have no doubt that he witnessed an intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. But Chiao doesn’t believe there’s ever been any tangible evidence that someone else is visiting Earth or has done so in the past.
“I’m skeptical of claims that we’ve been visited by aliens from another planet or other dimension, but I don’t rule it out 100 percent. I have an open mind and I do believe there’s other life in the universe.
“If there is life out there that’s so much more advanced than we are and they know either how to travel great distances in short amounts of time, or they’re able to come from a parallel universe into ours, why don’t they just come and show themselves?”
“NASA’s Unexplained Files” episodes highlight possible out-of-this world UFOs either seen or photographed by astronauts over many years.
An alleged photographic piece of UFO evidence occurred on the 1972 Apollo 16 moon mission when astronauts returned to Earth with several film cannisters, one of which showed something intriguing above the lunar surface — something that looks very much like a “classic” flying saucer.
Throughout the week, “Are We Alone?” targets both believers and skeptics with tantalizing presentations of:
“NASA’s Unexplained Files” — exploring unusual discoveries and possible UFO sightings.“Close Encounters” — focusing on unsolved UFO stories and reports from around the world.
“Alien Planet Earths” — zeroing in on the ongoing, exciting search for Earth’s twin planets that may harbor life.
“Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman” — seeking answers to the question “Is God An Alien Concept?”
ANNOTATION:
Astronaut Leroy Chiao contacted this writer to clarify the fishing boat theory about what he saw in 2005: “One minor point is that it wasn’t just one fishing boat, but a line of them strung out along the South American coast. That’s why it looked like five lights from the ISS.”
“Are We Alone?” week premieres on the Science Channel, Sunday, March 2 at 10:00 p.m. Check your local listings.
Map are among the oldest firms of human communication, far from purely scientific instruments, they are almost always bound with history, mythology, and religion. The earliest maps were created long before first alphabets were invented. People have always been fascinated by maps and their power to represent –and misrepresent – our world. From prehistoric rock carvings to the latest computer-generated imagery, mapmakers have used cartography to chart every aspect of the world – and to alter our perception of it.
The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity (6th to 5th centuries BCE) but is there anything that could pulverise that age limit? What if the world’s oldest map is at least ten times older than that putative onset of abstract thought. How about a map that is anywhere from half a million to one million years old?
Amateur archeologist David King has been researching one site at the head of the Colne Valley in England, within two decades, he has collected over 10,000 paleolithic artefacts in the area.
The map in question seems to be engraved on a 4.5-inch tall pebble. It takes only a small leap of the imagination to recognise the coastlines of Europe in the shapes incised into the stone. But matching the mapwork with the object’s supposed age – up to a million years, Mr. King contends – is several bridges too far for current science. And for most scientists.
Mr. King has had the map stone for over a decade, but in all those years was unable to have ‘official’ palaeontologists concede that it might be a man-made artefact.In fact, Mr. King contends, the stone surface presents “an accurate,detailed and concise map of the coastlines,lakes and river systems from north Europe all the way down to South Africa.”
1 – World’s oldest urban landscape
An engraved object recently found at the site of Moli del Salt in Spain and dated to the end of the Upper Paleolithic, about 13,800 years ago, may show a hunter-gatherer campsite.
The world’s first piece of landscape art may have been discovered in Spain, depicting what appears to be a Stone Age hunter-gatherer campsite 13,800 years ago. Landscapes and images of everyday life were “scarcely represented” in Paleolithic art, with those featuring huts and campsites particularly rare.The slab has seven engraved semi-circular motifs on with internal lines arranged in two rows. Analysis of motifs and composition together with archaeological records led authors to come to the conclusion it depicts a campsite. Scientists suggest it may be be the earliest image of human habitation ever discovered.
The Moli del Salt slab is now housed in the Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Tarragona, Spain.
2 – Forma Urbis Romae
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Forma Urbis Romae, or Severan Marble Plan of Rome is enormous map, measuring ca. 18.10 x 13 meters (ca. 60 x 43 feet). It was carved between 203-211 CE and covered an entire wall inside the Templum Pacis in Rome. It depicted the groundplan of every architectural feature in the ancient city, from large public monuments to small shops, rooms, and even staircases. For more information about the map itself. It is composed of 150 marble tiles built to a scale of 1 to 240. The Forma Urbis Romae was ripped down—most likely to be used to make lime cement. Today, only 10 percent of the original map remains. The first pieces were rediscovered in 1562. A section recently discovered in Palazzo Maffei Marescotti allowed researchers to connect three chunks of the ancient puzzle. The newfound piece has shed new light on the present-day ghetto, an area which once dominated by the Circus Flaminius.
3 – Danish map stones
Image Credit: Bornholms Museum/Skalk Magazine
A set of broken stones covered with etchings of lines and squares, discovered at a 5,000-year-old sacred site in Denmark, may be some of humankind’s earliest maps, according to archaeologists.
The researchers think the inscribed stones are symbolic maps of local landscapes, and were perhaps used in rituals by Stone Age farmers who hoped to magically influence the sun and the fertility of their farmlands.
4 – Turin Papyrus
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The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map that is generally considered to be the oldest surviving topographical and geological map of the ancient world – there are some older maps from outside Egypt, thought these have been described as rather crude, and more abstract in comparison with the Turin Papyrus Map. The Turin Papyrus Map is believed to have been made during the reign of Ramesses IV, around the middle of the 12th century BC. Investigations have shown that the map was made by Amennakhte, son of Ipuy, who bore the title ‘Scribe of the Tomb’.The map is believed to have been prepared for one of the quarrying expeditions sent by the pharaoh to Wadi Hammamat for the quarrying of bekhen-stone, a greyish-green type of stone highly prized by the ancient Egyptians. The purpose of its creation, however, is less clear.
5 – Piri Reis map
The Piri Reis map shows the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of Antarctica. The northern coastline of Antarctica is perfectly detailed. The most puzzling however is not so much how Piri Reis managed to draw such an accurate map of the Antarctic region 300 years before it was discovered, but that the map shows the coastline under the ice. Geological evidence confirms that the latest date Queen Maud Land could have been charted in an ice-free state is 4000 BC.
6 – A star map carved into Japan’s Kitora Tomb
A star map carved into Japan’s Kitora Tomb may be the world’s oldest astronomic chart. 68 constellations with gold leaf stars cloaks the ceiling. Three circles track the movement of celestial bodies—including the Sun. The pole star dominates the center. The detailed map depicts the horizon, equator, and star courses. This is not the first depiction of the night sky. Lascaux Cave contains a 17,300-year-old image of the subject. However, it lacks astronomical observations.
Researchers determined that the sky as depicted in the Kitora Tomb chart was seen from China, from locations such as modern-day Xi’an and Luoyang.
7 – Oldest Map of New York
Image Source: Daniel Crouch Rare Books
The map, which was created by a Genoese cartographer named Vesconte Maggiolo in 1531, is one of the first depictions of America’s eastern seaboard and is now worth $10 million. It’s also the first (extant) map, ever, to show New York harbor.
Image Source: Daniel Crouch Rare Books
The ancient chart even follows Magellan’s circumnavigation, making it a true world map. 6.7 feet wide and 3 feet tall, the map is made of nearly indestructible goatskin.
8 – Buache Map
The Buache Map is an 18th century map commonly claimed to accurately depict the continent of Antarctica before it was buried by ice. By extension, it has been claimed that this map is evidence that an ancient civilization had mapped Antarctica when it was free from ice, and that it was based on this source that the Buache Map was drawn. However, t ere are arguments against this interpretation of the Buache Map, and the claim that the continent of Antarctica was known to a highly advanced ancient civilization long before it was ‘re-discovered’ by modern man in the early part of the 19th century.
Photo credit: Philippe Buache
Christopher Columbus may have consulted a mysterious map from 1491 before setting sail across the Atlantic Ocean one year later. Made by Florence-based cartographer Henricus Martellus, the map synthesizes Claudius Ptolemy’s observations about the circumference of the world with Marco Polo’s observations and Portuguese Africa explorations. The map does not show the Americas. When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas he believed he had reached Japan, which is where Martellus’s map had him located.
Analysis revealed hidden messages on the map. The secret notes contain place names and 60 written passages. The 6-by-4-foot map was photographed under 12 light frequencies—including several beyond human visibility. Latin descriptions reveal facts about far-flung peoples like the “Balor” of Northern Asia who live without wine or wheat and subsist on deer meat. The detail of southern Africa is extremely accurate, suggesting it was derived from native sources rather than Europeans.
9 – Ancient Babylonian Conservative Map
The Babylonian Map of the World is a dramatic labeled depiction of the known world from the perspective of Babylonia. The map is incised on a clay tablet, showing Babylon somewhat to the north of its center; the clay tablet is damaged, and also contains a section of cuneiform text.
It is usually dated to the 5th century BC. It was discovered at Sippar, southern Iraq, 60 miles (97 km) north of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates River, and published in 1899. The clay tablet resides at the British Museum. It is conjectured that the island locations, though possibly referring to real areas, may also represent a mythological interpretation of the world.
The map depicts the world as a disc surrounded by water. Seven mythical islands lie beyond and connect the earth to the heavens. Cuneiform text explains the mysterious beasts and heroes that inhabit these islands. Seven dots represent seven cities of the ancient world. A “Great Wall” symbolizes winter. The back of the tablet describes mythic beasts that inhabit the heavenly ocean. Experts believe these are constellations.
10 – Hereford Mappa Mundi
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is unique in Britain’s heritage; an outstanding treasure of the medieval world, it records how 13th-century scholars interpreted the world in spiritual as well as geographical terms.
The map bears the name of its author, ‘Richard of Haldingham or Lafford’ (Holdingham and Sleaford in Lincolnshire). Recent research suggests a date of about 1300 for the creation of the map.
Superimposed on to the continents are drawings of the history of humankind and the marvels of the natural world. These 500 or so drawings include of around 420 cities and towns, 15 Biblical events, 33 plants, animals, birds and strange creatures, 32 images of the peoples of the world and 8 pictures from classical mythology.
HE WAS HUNTING A TIGER WHEN HE FOUND THIS STRANGE CAVE, AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT’S INSIDE…
HE WAS HUNTING A TIGER WHEN HE FOUND THIS STRANGE CAVE, AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT’S INSIDE…
In April of 1819, British officer John Smith was pursuing a tiger through the jungle outside of Mumbai when he stumbled upon a strange cave entrance hidden in the brush.
Something seemed oddly deliberate about the cave entrance and so he decided to abandon his hunt to investigate further. He soon discovered what appeared to be ornate carvings in the rock. Little did he know that was just the beginning.
In 1819, British officer John Smith was hunting a tiger in the forest outside of Mumbai when he stumbled across a strange cave.
Inside were what appeared to be man-made carvings. But that was just the beginning.
Further investigation revealed an entire system of shrines and monuments carved directly into the rock.
And 30 different caves.
Experts believe that they were constructed around 200 BCE as a retreat for Buddhist monks during the terrible monsoon season.
Each of the caves is unique, with its own intricately designed entrances and interiors.
The caves were largely abandoned by the 7th century, but remained a sacred place for locals.
Many of the carvings depict the life of Buddha and his many incarnations.
There are also a large number of paintings, many of which are remarkably well-preserved.
It’s amazing how much color and detail still remains after all those years.
One of the more popular theories surrounding the caves is that they were built to align with the solstices and other cosmological events.
Caves 19 and 26 do actually align perfectly with the winter and summer solstices, respectively.
On their designated days, the sun shines straight through holes in their roofs, illuminating the religious displays within.
Even after centuries, the interiors are still absolutely stunning.
The effort and precision required to build these elaborate structures is truly mind-boggling.
Especially considering they had to do it with comparatively limited tools.
We may never know exactly how they managed to build these incredible caves.
Simply amazing. It really makes you wonder what other secrets may still be hiding out there, waiting to be discovered by adventurous souls!
For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Find Planets In Another Galaxy
For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Find Planets In Another Galaxy
Astrophysicists have discovered a group of planets in a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away Getty
For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a set of planets in a galaxy, far beyond the Milky Way. Until now, scientists had never found evidence of planets existing outside the Milky Way Galaxy. The newly-found set of planets are located in a galaxy 3.8 billion light-years away.
Eureka! Astrophysicists at the University of Oklahoma have discovered the first population of planets outside of our galaxy.
The groundbreaking discovery was made possible thanks to a revolutionary technique called microlensing, which allowed astrophysicists to spot celestial objects in galaxies that are located too far away to be observed directly.
Prior to this discovery, astronomers had no evidence of alien planets outside the Milky Way Galaxy.
Astrophysicists note that this discovery indicates that there are around 2,000 planets ranging in size from the moon to Jupiter mass per main-sequence star. As of January 2018, there are more than 3,500 confirmed planets outside of our solar system.
Prior to this finding, researchers had never found evidence of planets existing in other galaxies. This is because detecting alien planets is hard due to vast distances involved. In fact, it’s not easy to find planets even within the milky way. The farthest planets discovered inside the Milky Way are SWEEPS-04 and SWEEPS-11, two alien worlds located about 27,000 light-years from Earth, which is curiously only about a quarter of the width of the Milky Way.
By using microlensing techniques, which take advantage of distortions of light from a background source much like a magnifying glass to see distant objects, astronomers spotted a family of planets. Massive objects like black holes for example literally curve the fabric of space-time so much that it bends any light passing by it.
“We are very excited about this discovery. This is the first time anyone has discovered planets outside our galaxy,” Xinyu Dai, professor in the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, OU College of Arts and Sciences.
“These small planets are the best candidate for the signature we observed in this study using the microlensing technique. We analyzed the high frequency of the signature by modeling the data to determine the mass.”
Image of the gravitational lens RX J1131-1231 galaxy with the lens galaxy at the center and four lensed background quasars. It is estimated that there are trillions of planets in the center elliptical galaxy in this image. Credit: University of Oklahoma
Cool science
Until now, microlensing techniques were only used to detect alien worlds inside the Milky Way Galaxy.
“This is an example of how powerful the techniques of analysis of extragalactic microlensing can be. This galaxy is located 3.8 billion light-years away, and there is not the slightest chance of observing these planets directly, not even with the best telescope one can imagine in a science fiction scenario,” said OU postdoctoral researcher Eduardo Guerras.
“However, we are able to study them, unveil their presence and even have an idea of their masses. This is very cool science.”
Researchers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to make the discovery.
Life On Titan? Scientists Find Signs That Life “Breathes” Cyanide On Saturn’s Moon
Life On Titan? Scientists Find Signs That Life “Breathes” Cyanide On Saturn’s Moon
Caves and Sinkholes Found on Saturn's Moon Titan
Don’t get too excited but… we may just have found the necessary conditions for alien life to exist on Saturn’s moon Titan.
Scientists at NASA have recently confirmed the existence of vinyl cyanide in Titan’s atmosphere. Vinyl cyanide is an organic compound which may potentially provide the cellular membranes for microbial life to form in Titan’s vast methane oceans reports Phys.org.
Titan: Gigantic Moon or Dwarf Planet?
If true, it could prove that life can flourish without the ubiquitous H2O.
Here on Earth, cell membranes are composed of phospholipids: molecular chains with phosphorus-oxygen heads and carbon-chain tails that join together to form a flexible membrane in water.
Alternative form of life?
If Methane-based life should exist in the solar system, it would need an alternative to Earth’s phospholipid-based existence and would open up a much wider range of planets and moons to the possibility of extraterrestrial life—and one such possible alternative is vinyl cyanide.
So, how do we know there’s vinyl cyanide on Titan?
Diagram of the internal structure of Titan according to the fully differentiated dense-ocean model.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
The Cassini spacecraft was one of the first to suggest there might by vinyl cyanide on Titan after its Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) picked it up as the spacecraft was orbiting Saturn. However, to confirm vinyl cyanide was really there, scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in the desert of Chile.
Maureen Palmer, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of an article describing the research in Science Advances, collected data from the ALMA and verified the presence of vinyl cyanide in the atmosphere of Titan, at altitudes above 200 kilometers, with its highest concentrations in areas above the south pole of Titan.
Speaking about the discovery Palmer, said: “If membranes can be made in a lab with a simulation of Titan’s ocean conditions, it would make us more optimistic about them really forming on Titan.”
Artist’s impression of Saturn View from Titan / iasos.com
She adds Titan is “an interesting chemical laboratory to study the boundaries of possible biochemistry for creating life”.
Titan is home to freezing temperatures which reach a staggering minus 179 degrees Celsius. In these low temperatures organic molecules in the atmosphere form droplets that rain down to fill methane lakes in a weather cycle similar to that of Earth’s water cycle. There, they could potentially create simple, microscopic life forms.
Palmer and her colleagues demonstrated that there is enough vinyl cyanide in Ligeia Mare, Titan’s northern lake, to form about 10 million cells per cubic centimeter, which is roughly 10 times more than the bacteria in Earth’s coastal oceans.
However, we still have to prove Vinyl cyanide can produce life, but an exciting study by Cornell University researchers that was also published in Science Advances made it an intriguing prospect.
Since 2006, levels of heat-trapping methane in Earth’s atmosphere have risen sharply. A new study settles a disagreement about the source.
The video above – released in January 2018 – is based on data from NASA satellites and shows global patterns and cycles of biomass burning. According to NASA, emissions from both wildfires and prescribed burning turned out to be a key in solving the puzzle of the sharp increase in methane in Earth’s atmosphere in recent years. John Worden of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory led the new analysis of satellite and ground-based data, with the goal of more accurately pinpointing the sources of methane.
The study is published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications.
Methane is a greenhouse gas. It absorbs the sun’s heat and helps warm Earth’s atmosphere. The amount of methane in Earth’s air has sharply increased since 2006, and scientists want to understand why. NASA explained that various teams of scientists have had different explanations for the puzzling increase in methane:
Some teams have published evidence showing that emissions from biogenic [living] sources is driving the increase. Wetlands, ruminants, and rice paddies — all home to methane-producing microbes — are some of the major sources of biogenic methane.
Other teams have argued that a simultaneous increase in atmospheric ethane, a key component of natural gas, implies that fossil fuels are the culprit. Extracting and transporting fossil fuels add both ethane and methane to the atmosphere via leaks in wells, pipes, and other infrastructure.
Worden’s new analysis suggests that both fossil fuels and biogenic sources (wetlands and agriculture) are the primary drivers of the increase.
The key to this new understanding by Worden and team was a new calculation of the role played by emissions from global biomass burning.NASA explained:
Worden’s team calculated that fossil fuels have contributed about 12 to 19 teragrams of methane to the atmosphere each year since 2006. They found biogenic sources contributed 12 to 16 teragrams per year. At the same time, emissions from biomass burning — wildfires and prescribed burning — decreased by 4 to 5 teragrams per year.
The key to pinpointing these numbers was the calculation of a new estimate of emissions from biomass burning.
In the past, researchers relied on ‘bottom up” estimates of methane emissions based on output from the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED), a model that estimates emissions based on satellite observations of burnt area, vegetation type, and other factors.
Worden’s group supplemented the GFED estimates by incorporating satellite measurements of methan
m the Measurements of Pollutants in the Troposphere (MOPITT) sensor on the Terra satellite and the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
e and carbon monoxide actually in the atmosphere. The “top-down” observations came fro(TES) sensor on Aura.
Because methane is a powerful, heat-trapping greenhouse gas, scientists want to understand exactly why it’s been increasing in Earth’s atmosphere since 2006.
The video at the top of this article – based on data from GFED – shows land fires burning around the world between 2000 and 2015. The data show that the area burned each year decreased by about 12 percent between the early 2000s and the more recent period of 2007 to 2014.
The logical assumption would have been that methane emissions from fires would decrease by roughly the same percentage as the change in burned area. But, NASA said, that’s not what happened. Instead:
… the observations from TES and MOPITT made clear that the decrease in methane emissions was almost twice as much as that assumption would suggest.
Armed with this new understanding, Worden’s team was able to point with confidence both to fossil fuels and to biogenic sources (wetlands and agriculture) as primary drivers of the methane increase since 2006. Worden commented:
A fun thing about this study was combining all this different evidence to piece this puzzle together.
John Worden of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Bottom line: Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas. A new study lets scientists understand with better precision the sources of the increase in methane in Earth’s air since 2006.
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