Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
09-02-2018
New Horizons Captures Record-Breaking Images in the Kuiper Belt
New Horizons Captures Record-Breaking Images in the Kuiper Belt
With its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), New Horizons has observed several Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and dwarf planets at unique phase angles, as well as Centaurs at extremely high phase angles to search for forward-scattering rings or dust. These December 2017 false-color images of KBOs 2012 HZ84 (left) and 2012 HE85 are, for now, the farthest from Earth ever captured by a spacecraft. They're also the closest-ever images of Kuiper Belt objects. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
“New Horizons has long been a mission of firsts — first to explore Pluto, first to explore the Kuiper Belt, fastest spacecraft ever launched,” said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. “And now, we’ve been able to make images farther from Earth than any spacecraft in history.”
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image – and made history.
The routine calibration frame of the “Wishing Well” galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth – making it, for a time, the farthest image ever made from Earth
New Horizons was even farther from home than NASA’s Voyager 1 when it captured the famous “Pale Blue Dot” image of Earth. That picture was part of a composite of 60 images looking back at the solar system, on Feb. 14, 1990, when Voyager was 3.75 billion miles (6.06 billion kilometers, or about 40.5 astronomical units [AU]) from Earth. Voyager 1’s cameras were turned off shortly after that portrait, leaving its distance record unchallenged for more than 27 years.
LORRI broke its own record just two hours later with images of Kuiper Belt objects 2012 HZ84 and 2012 HE85 – further demonstrating how nothing stands still when you’re covering more than 700,000 miles (1.1 million kilometers) of space each day.
For a short time, this New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) frame of the "Wishing Well" star cluster, taken Dec. 5, 2017, was the farthest image ever made by a spacecraft, breaking a 27-year record set by Voyager 1. About two hours later, New Horizons later broke the record again. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwR
Distance and Speed
New Horizons is just the fifth spacecraft to speed beyond the outer planets, so many of its activities set distance records. On Dec. 9 it carried out the most-distant course-correction maneuver ever, as the mission team guided the spacecraft toward a close encounter with a KBO named 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019. That New Year’s flight past MU69 will be the farthest planetary encounter in history, happening one billion miles beyond the Pluto system – which New Horizons famously explored in July 2015.
During its extended mission in the Kuiper Belt, which began in 2017, New Horizons is aiming to observe at least two-dozen other KBOs, dwarf planets and “Centaurs,” former KBOs in unstable orbits that cross the orbits of the giant planets. Mission scientists study the images to determine the objects’ shapes and surface properties, and to check for moons and rings. The spacecraft also is making nearly continuous measurements of the plasma, dust and neutral-gas environment along its path.
The New Horizons spacecraft is healthy and is currently in hibernation. Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, will bring the spacecraft out of its electronic slumber on June 4 and begin a series of system checkouts and other activities to prepare New Horizons for the MU69 encounter.
ECONOMIE / RUIMTEVAART: Na de vlucht op grote hoogte volgde een pijnlijke crash voor Elon Musk. Tesla heeft een recordverlies in de boeken geschreven. Spectaculaire beelden van een elektrische wagen in de ruimte kunnen daar niets aan veranderen. Tenslotte loopt de productie van het langverwachte Model 3 nog altijd voor geen meter.
Een dag lang leek het alsof Elon Musk over bovennatuurlijke krachten beschikte. De lancering van een rode Tesla Roadster met de krachtigste raket ter wereld - de ‘Falcon Heavy’ van zijn andere bedrijf SpaceX - was een ongezien succes. Maar de resultaten die de CEO woensdag presenteerde, veroorzaakten een knalharde landing. De baas van Tesla zag het verlies afgelopen kwartaal nog verder oplopen tot ruim 675 miljoen dollar, nadat in het derde kwartaal al het grootste verlies ooit was neergezet. En daar zit de sputterende productie van het Model 3 voor veel tussen.
AP & SpaceXDe krachtigste draagraket staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform.De rode Tesla van werd met de krachtigste draagraket de ruimte ingeschoten.
Het zit Tesla al langer tegen bij de productie van Model 3. Dat is de nieuwe auto die in juli geïntroduceerd werd als de ‘elektrische auto voor de massa’. De autobouwer heeft fors geïnvesteerd in allerlei robots, assemblagelijnen en andere zaken die nodig zijn voor de bouw. Voorlopig steekt de levering ervan echter nog af bij de andere, duurdere modellen.
In oktober, november en december werden in totaal nog maar 1.550 exemplaren van de Model 3 gebouwd. Tesla zag zich in januari daarom al genoodzaakt de productiedoelstellingen nog verder voor zich uit te schuiven. Het bedrijf denkt nu niet voor halverwege dit jaar 5.000 wagens per week te kunnen afleveren van het type. In totaal leverde Tesla in het vierde kwartaal 29.870 voertuigen af.
EPATesla Model 3
Worst
De CEO repte met geen woord over de datum waartegen de oorspronkelijk beoogde capaciteit van 10.000 stuks per week zou moeten worden bereikt. “We zijn nog een eind verwijderd van de productiedoelstellingen”, zei hij. “Maar als we een Roadster naar de planetoïdengordel kunnen sturen, kunnen we hopelijk ook de productieproblemen met Model 3 oplossen.”
Musk liet verder niet in zijn kaarten kijken. Hij vergeleek de productie van Model 3 met worst. “Wanneer men dol is op worst, vraagt men zich ook beter niet af hoe die lekkernij wordt gemaakt.”
EPATesla CEO Elon Musk
Lichtpuntje: de opbrengsten van Tesla gingen op jaarbasis wel vooruit, van 2,3 miljard naar 3,3 miljard dollar. En Musk heeft aan beleggers laten uitschijnen dat de verliezen weldra tot het verleden gaan behoren. Men verwacht dat het bedrijfsresultaat “ergens in 2018” definitief positief zal worden. Van de S- en X-modellen zullen er dit jaar ongeveer 100.000 worden verkocht, voorspelde de Tesla-baas.
Speculaties
In het verleden deden speculaties de ronde als zou Musk op het punt staan om Tesla de rug toe te keren om zich te kunnen focussen op het organiseren van ruimtereizen. Gezien het enthousiaste gejuich over zijn raketlancering, zou het behoorlijk verleidelijk zijn om de verliesrapporten van Tesla aan een ander over te laten. Zeker om dat zijn contract die mogelijkheid voorziet.
Musk heeft echter verzekerd dat er “geen actieve zoektocht naar een nieuwe CEO plaatsvindt”. “Maar op een gegeven moment kan een geweldige persoon van binnen of buiten het bedrijf die functie op zich nemen - en dat is oké voor mij.”
NASA2018 CB scheert omstreeks 11.30 uur langs de aarde.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETEen asteroïde van 15 tot 40 meter breed scheert vandaag langs de aarde op een afstand die dichter is dan die van de aarde tot de maan. Dat meldt NASA.
Het hemellichaam, dat 2018 CB werd gedoopt, is de tweede asteroïde die deze week voorbij onze aarde zoeft, schrijft CNN. De planetoïde werd op 4 februari ontdekt en zal rond 11.30 uur Belgische tijd zijn dichtste punt met de aarde bereiken, aldus NASA.
Asteroïden van deze omvang naderen niet vaak onze blauwe planeet, zegt Paul Chodas van het Amerikaans ruimteagentschap.
Volgens NASA zal 2018 CB de aarde veilig passeren op een afstand van ruim 60.000 kilometer, wat volgens ruimtevaartnormen vrij dichtbij is. Ter vergelijking: de afstand van de aarde tot de maan telt ongeveer 384.000 kilometer.
Eerder deze week kregen we al bezoek van 2018 CC. Die asteroïde werd eveneens op 4 februari ontdekt en zoefde dinsdagavond op een afstand van 184.000 kilometer langs de aarde.
Two asteroids, one week. The 1st of this week’s close-approaching asteroid s happened Feb. 6 at 3:10pm ET at a distance of ~114,000 miles. The 2nd asteroid will safely pass by Earth on Fri. at 2:30pm at a distance of ~39,000 miles. Get the details: http://go.nasa.gov/2En3dpN
In November 1957, three men witnessed a red light falling from the skies above Silpho Moor in northern England near Royal Air Force Fylingdales. The men got out of their car to investigate after their car mysteriously stopped and discovered a strange object lying on the ground. The object was roughly eighteen inches across, saucer-shaped, and quite heavy for its size. The object changed hands a few times, and was allegedly opened at some point, at which a rolled ‘booklet’ of copper sheets embossed with unidentifiable hieroglyphs or symbols was found.
The object, top, and the ‘booklet’ of hieroglyphs.
What followed became one of the strangest UFO mysteries in England, described in detail here by Mysterious Universe’s Nick Redfern. Like many supposed UFO artifacts, the Silpho Moor object was eventually lost to history, it’s whereabouts unknown for the last six decades. However, a London museum is now reporting the discovery of archival documents which detail how the objects were studied in the years following their discovery. According to the Yorkshire Post, documents found in the archives of London Science Museum seem to suggest that pieces of the Silpho Moor object were sent to the museum in 1963 for expert analysis.
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Yorkshire Post headline from 1957
The documents state that the artifacts sent to the museum included a section of the metal plastic outer casing, a short length of copper tubing, and several shards of foil from the “booklet” found inside. The artifacts were studied by the Natural History Museum Gordon Claringbull, described as a meteorites and explosives expert. The documents state that analyses of the objects revealed they were likely of Earthly origin, and many of the museum staff who examined them believed them to be an elaborate hoax. Still, others like Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding who led the RAF forces at the Battle of Britain in WWII claimed to have personally examined the object and believed it to be of extraterrestrial origin.
Bomb squad technicians examining the object.
Despite the divided opinions in the documents, some ufologists believe these archival rechods vindicate claims that the Silpho Moor object could be the UK’s most significant UFO incident. Author and paranormal researcher Andy Roberts called the discovery of these documents “an amazing breakthrough,” claiming “it’s incredible to hear that all this time pieces of this mystery object have been sitting in a museum archive.” Sure, I guess. While these documents add some credibility to the story in general, they still don’t definitively explain what the Silpho Moor object could have been, where the object was for those six missing years, or what has happened to it ever since. What exactly fell on the moors in late 1957? Debris from a Russian satellite? New technology being tested at the nearby RAF base? Or a genuine alien artifact?
Accounts of UFO encounters are inherently bizarre, and seem to cover a wide array of disparate unexplained phenomena associated with them. One very odd occurrence that seems to hang over some cases is instances of alleged teleportation of witnesses, sometimes individually and sometimes more than person, as well as objects and even whole vehicles and their occupants. With regards to UFOs this is sometimes referred to as “teletransportation,” and it can happen instantaneously or over the course of minutes or even hours, all ending with the common factor of UFO witnesses being in one place one moment, and in another the next, often very far away from where they started and without any idea of how they have covered the distance, nor any memory of what has happened. It all sounds rather outlandish, and it is, but there are numerous reports of this happening, and it seems to be a recurring unusual characteristic in an already unusual field.
In September of 1979, the Richmond Virginia Times-Dispatchreported on the strange case of truck driver Harry Turner, who was driving from Fredericksburg from Winchester, Virginia, in the United States, when his car was without warning enveloped by a blindingly bright light, which he at first had taken to be the headlights of an incoming truck. His truck was then surrounded by a “palpably thick white light,” and he noticed that the steering wheel had taken on a life of its own, no longer under his control. Turner then found that his truck was actually floating over the landscape, and before he could adjust to this precarious new predicament he claims that the door was suddenly ripped open by an unknown invisible entity, as another seemed to scramble about on the roof of the vehicle. It was then that the creature at his door reached in to grab him in an iron grip.
Fortunately for Turner, he had been carrying with him a revolver, which he instinctively drew and fired wildly at where he perceived the mysterious unseen being to be, but this seemed to have little effect. That was when he says he blacked out completely, and the next thing he remembers is being in a warehouse parking lot in Fredericksburg, far from where he had last been. In his hand he still gripped the pistol, and there were spent shells littering the vehicle all about him. Bizarrely, it was 3 AM in the morning according to the warehouse clock, whereas his own watch read 11:17 PM, and as far as his truck’s odometer was concerned he had only traveled 17 miles, when the trip to Fredericksburg should have been more like 80.
Although his memory was hazy at first, Turner would later recount how he had been taken aboard a craft and encountered strange beings “dressed in white, like doctors, with white caps on their head,” which he believed to be “ultra-terrestrials,” more or less inter-dimensional beings. In later days he would report more oddities, such as being confronted by a band of six of the creatures, five of which he reportedly knocked to the ground in his fight against them. On another occasion, he says that he suddenly became soaking wet for no discernible reason at all. In the meantime, animals seemed to be uncomfortable around him, and he often had ringing in his ears and suicidal thoughts. On one occasion he says that one of the creatures appeared there in his car with him as he drove along, which freaked him out and sent him into a mad dash that would culminate in him being pulled over and charged with two counts of reckless driving and two counts of failing to heed a siren and flashing lights. The alien was gone at this point. Turner has said of his thoughts on the matter thus:
Ever since it all began, I’ve just been sitting here going over and over it in my mind, trying to piece things back together. I’d feel pretty good if I could just figure out where I’ve been. Twenty years from now I’ll still probably never know what happened that night.
Also from 1978 is a perplexing case from the South American country of Chile, which involved two race car drivers named Miguel Angel Moya and Carlos Acevedo during the first Rally de la Vuelta de America del Sur in September of that year, and which was printed by researcher Guillermo Roncorconi in UFO Press No. 9, October 1978. The drivers departed from the city of Buenos Aires on August 17, 1978, embarking on the first leg of their exhausting month-long rally, which would take them thousands of kilometers to Caracas Venezuela and back down to where they had started.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
During their last 1,000 kilometers of the rally, on September 23 at around 3 AM, the drivers left the main road of Route 3 and began driving along a secluded rural road just past the town of Carmen de Patagones, which would lead them to a town called Cardenal Cagliero. At this time Carlos was at the wheel, and in his rearview mirror he suddenly noticed a bright light with a strange quality he described as “dense and yellowish,” which he at first thought to be perhaps headlights of another vehicle and which seemed to be growing closer and brighter at a rapid pace. Carlos pulled the car over to the side of the road, still thinking that this was another car or truck and thinking he would let it pass. Allegedly at that moment the entire vehicle was suddenly completely bathed in a breathtaking brilliant white light. Carlos would say of the bizarre events that followed thus:
Light flooded the passenger compartment and I couldn’t see beyond the hood of the car. It was a dense, brilliant light, yellow in color with some violet hues. I thought I’d lost control of the car at the moment. I looked through the window and saw were nearly two meters over the asphalt surface. I suddenly thought we had jumped over a speed bump and braced myself on the steering wheel, waiting for the moment we’d hit the surface again.
After a few seconds, I don’t know, maybe some 5 or 10, I reacted and realized that something completely abnormal was going on. I wanted to look out the window again, but all I could see was that dense light. I remember I started screaming ‘what’s going on?’ but Moya wasn’t answering. When I looked to my right, my companion wasn’t there, or at least I couldn’t see him. I couldn’t even see the dashboard. I could only see that dense light that looked liquid, I don’t know, sort of viscous.
Meanwhile, the other passenger, Miguel Angel Moya, was there, and was described as being completely terrified by the situation, which to be fair was probably the correct response to such a completely otherworldly series of events. Miguel would later recall of the surreal situation:
Initially I also thought it was a speed bump, and was scared at the thought of the vehicle overturning, but when I noticed that the car appeared to float in the air and wasn’t coming down, I became even more frightened. It was a situation I couldn’t really understand. I looked at Carlos and I saw him completely stiff, clutching the steering wheel with his arms outstretched and staring forward. It seemed like he was screaming but I couldn’t hear anything. I could see everything as if through a yellow fog, as if I was distant, somewhere else. I think my first reaction was to try and flee from there, but when I tried to open the door it wouldn’t budge, as if welded shut. I noticed the temperature was rising, although it could have been the result of my state of fear. Suddenly the light covered everything and I couldn’t see a thing, not even my hands, nothing.
The car then shuddered violently as it descended to hit the road, and the almost unbearably bright light began to dim and dissipate as the object was witnessed to travel off into the distance, and it was said to look like “a cone of yellow light, but one that didn’t end in a tip.” When their eyes had adjusted to the sudden dark, they realized that they had been deposited on the shoulder of the road facing the opposite direction of where they had been headed when the whole strange incident had started. They then watched the curious light travel off to the West, and Miguel would say of it:
It might have measured some five meters at the base and two or three at the cusp, measuring some six or seven meters in height. The base lit the ground, although you really couldn’t see what it was lighting, that is to say, you couldn’t see through the light. A few seconds later, the light…how can I explain it? …retracted itself or drew up like a curtain, from bottom to top, and all that remained in view was an oval, whitish-yellow light that kept heading west until it vanished in the distance.
The two shocked drivers reportedly sat there in awe and fear for a few minutes, trying to gather their wits about themselves, after which they went tearing off down Route 3 to get out of there as fast as they could. They would soon after reach a town called Pedro Luro, which was about 123 kilometers from where they had started and where the bizarreness would continue. Looking at the dashboard, they noticed that it said they had traveled just 52 kilometers from the city of Viedma to Puerto Luro, when in fact the actual distance it should have been was 127 kilometers. Somehow they had jumped a portion of that distance which had not registered on their vehicle. Even stranger still was that a look at a clock showed them that nearly 2 and a half hours had passed, when that journey should have only taken a little over an hour at the speeds they had been going, and adding to all of this it seemed that their backup gas tank was completely empty, despite the fact that they had just filled it up shortly before leaving Route 3. Although they at first thought about keeping the whole baffling event to themselves, they ended up going to the police with their story, after which it went on to become big news at the time.
Also from South America is a more recent case from May of 2017 in the location of the town of Hernandarias, in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina. According to the report, which was carried on Planeta UFO and CN Digital, a family gathered for dinner at their home on the night of May 22, 2017, and their 13-year old son was sent off on an errand to get something. The boy found that one of the doors was stuck, so another family member helped with trying to open it, but as he did this he allegedly turned around to find the boy was nowhere to be seen.
This wasn’t really so weird at this point, as the adult figured he had just returned to the dinner table, but it would soon become apparent that he had not, and that no one had seen the boy since he had left. The concerned family began searching the whole property and the street outside, but there was no sign where he had gone. At this point, one of their cell phones rang and on the other line was the missing boy, who sounded quite confused and purportedly told them that he was at a taxi stand but was not sure where it was or how he had gotten there.
When police were notified and finally located the boy, he was around a kilometer and a half away from the house. Questioning him did not do much good, as he seemed to have very little memory of what had happened to him after he had left the dinner table. All he could say was that he had seen a blinding light and heard a “snapping noise,” after which he found himself suddenly and inexplicably at the taxi stand. The boy was found to be completely healthy and with no sign of any physical injuries, and no one else in the area seems to have witnessed the light he speaks of. The odd case has been investigated ever since, with some UFO researchers holding it up as a case of abduction, some saying it is a case of spontaneous teleportation. UFO researcher Gustavo Fernández, who wrote of the event in an article entitled “Argentina: The Hernandarias Event – UFO Teleportation or Abduction,” which was translated to English by Scott Corrales of the Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU) believed that it is the latter, saying of the case:
This then is the description of the facts – accepting its likelihood, ratified by Diego Wasinger, the local police chief – allows us to suppose the existence of another phenomenon, a parapsychological one with considerable background: teleportation. This is the name given to a spectacular but documented phenomenon consisting in the dematerialization of a person from a given location and their reappearance at another. Why speculate about an intervention by alien craft? This would be so if the protagonist had described having been taken into a spacecraft, or if other witnesses had seen this. But here, the youth only sees “a light” and this does not suffice to tag it as a UFO.
In fact, as I often say: we say a shining light behaving abnormally in the sky and we say: “Oh! a UFO!”. We see a bright light behaving strangely at a graveyard and we say: “Oh! It’s a ghost!”. The only certainty in both cases is that we have seen a light behaving oddly. The “explanation” is simply our own speculation.
Argentina seems to be a veritable hotspot of such cases, and there is even a whole road that is known for having a high concentration of these strange incidents. Supposedly, the stretch of National Route 5 connecting Trenque Lauquen and Santa Rosa is absolutely plagued by reports of phenomena such as UFOs, instances of lost time, and teleportation. One commonly reported anomaly is startled drivers suddenly transported from the kilometer 460 marker to the kilometer 580 marker in the blink of an eye, a phenomenon often said to be accompanied by an inexplicable fog that comes from nowhere or mysterious unidentified lights in the sky.
According to UFO researcher Diego Sánchez, one very strange case along Route 5 involved a car mechanic named Carlos Colón, who was driving along the road on August 25, 1999, when his ears were assaulted by a deafening “buzzing sound.” The puzzled driver allegedly pulled over to the side of the road to try and figure out what was going on. He reported that as he had sat there in the car he noticed a group of mysterious humanoid figures creeping through the dark to approach the vehicle. Terrified, Carlos began to exit his car, and at that point the figures apparently vanished and he instantaneously found himself standing out of the vehicle several meters away. At the time the witness says he was overcome by an odd pain emanating from all over his body, as well as profound exhaustion, and dizziness.
In another case, a man was driving along near Buenos Aires when he saw a strange purple light off in the distance, after which an unseasonable fog purportedly enveloped his vehicle. The next thing he knew he was lying on the ground in an unfamiliar location with his car nowhere to be seen. When he flagged down a passing vehicle he learned that he was in Salta, a full 1800 kilometers away from where he had been. His car would be found back where he had first seen the light, its engine still idling. UFO researcher Luis Burgos has said of Route 5 and its strange phenomena thus:
Route 5 and the communities located in the province of La Pampa are, without a doubt, prone to a variety of UFO experiences, of which teleportations are one of the most interesting episodes. One is atemporal teleportation, in which the protagonist takes minutes, even hours, in regaining awareness in a location far removed from the one he or she was in before. The other is instantaneous teleportation, which is the kind that usually occurs on Route 5 when drivers are not even aware that they have experienced the phenomenon, suddenly becoming aware when they see a mile marker or road sign that tells them they have traversed an unexpected distance in a matter of seconds.
Speaking of Argentina, one of the most bizarre, spectacular, and controversial cases of UFOs and teleportation ever comes from here. In May of 1968, a Dr. Geraldo Vidal and his wife Raffo de Vidal allegedly headed out from Buenos Aires on a trip to join a family gathering at the city of Chascomus, which lies around 120 kilometers away. After the get-together, they took a detour on the way back home, deciding they would visit some friends in the town of Maipu, lying around 150 kilometers from Chascomus. They would never arrive at their destination, no trace of their whereabouts could be found, and friends and family became increasingly worried. 48 hours after this mysterious disappearances, some friends were startled to receive a call from Dr. Vidal, but the really strange thing was that he was calling from the Argentinean consulate in Mexico City, some 6,400 km away.
When the Vidals were back in Argentina, a deeply strange story began to emerge as to why they had ended up so far away. Dr. Vidal would say that on the evening of their vanishing they had been driving along a stretch of road when their vehicle had been inexplicably surrounded by a thick, white fog, and this would be the last thing they remembered before they woke up in the daytime on an unfamiliar rural road. Astonishingly, all though they remembered nothing of how they had gotten there a look at a calendar showed them that a full 48 hours had passed. Physically they felt fine, but they reported that their necks ached and they had perceived a certain heaviness throughout their bodies, as if they had slept too long.
Getting out of the car they discovered that the vehicle had strange scorch marks all down its sides, as it someone had taken a blowtorch to it, but the car otherwise worked fine. When they were able to ask some locals where they were, they were surprised and not a little unsettled to learn that they were actually now in Mexico, far from where they had just been, for them, moments before. Allegedly the Vidals drove over to Mexico City, where they explained the whole bizarre tale to a Rafael Lopez Pellegrini at the Argentine consulate. In an ominous turn of events, they were warned not to tell of what had happened to them to anyone, and their car was whisked away to the United States for analysis.
Despite this, the Vidal story was soon all over the news and it has gone on to become a classic, widely-known UFO case, reported on and written of countless times. Unfortunately, in later years the case has come under scrutiny as perhaps being a hoax. It turns out that not long before the strange incident an Argentinean science fiction film titled Che OVNI was in production. Directed by Anibal Uset, the film’s story of a couple who are teleported in their car displayed many of the same beats and details of the Vidal case, and even the car used in the film, a white Peugeot 403, is the same as the Vidals’.
Uset would even end up eventually admitting that he had created the whole Vidal story to promote and drum up interest in the movie, and because no first-hand witnesses to the incident had ever been directly interviewed, as well as the fact that there was scant evidence to prove that the Vidals had ever even been real people at all, this all pointed to the whole thing being a sham. Weirdly, despite this revelation there have been many who believe that Uset’s admission is a cover-up, and there are plenty of people who have claimed that they have met the Vidals and that their tale is actually true. So strong was the backlash against Uset’s admission that at one point the director himself started to think that maybe it was real after all and that his version of events was wrong. He would say of this to journalist Alejandro C. Agostinelli:
So many people approached me to say that they had known the Vidals that I began to have doubts. What is more, the confusion was such that I began to think that our story coincided with something that had really happened.
The supposed hoaxer having doubts? What is going on here and where does this leave us? Was the Vidal case a hoax or not? Was Uset’s admission that he had created the story real or was it a cover-up to discredit a true account? If it was real did his lie somehow mysteriously mirror a real event? Agostinelli has himself said of his opinion on Uset and the Vidals:
At the time, the fact that he (Uset) questioned his own creation startled me. But I think that this helps to understand how UFO stories are built along with many other modern myths. If even a hoaxer can be led to doubt, this means that mysteries are able to overcome any denial. That’s why I think myths are indestructible. Countless teleportation cases have occurred in Argentina and around the world, but the Vidal Case was a lie.
Nevertheless, the Vidal case continues to generate a fair amount of debate and discussion, it remains a classic case, and there are many who still think that it is a genuine event. Whether the case is real or not, one intriguing detail is the type of damage they supposedly found on their car, as if it had been subjected to some scorching heat, and this is a curious detailed in another bizarre case, in which one supposed UFO teleportation event seems to have apparently been stopped in the middle of the process. The witness claims that she had been driving through Chicago, Illinois, one evening in November of 2008 when she suddenly heard a series of loud thuds and bangs on her vehicle, as if someone were hammering at it from outside. These impacts became steadily stronger, to the point where some caused the whole car to shudder, with one particularly powerful tremor sending her into another lane.
When the incessant bangs stopped the understandably frightened woman pulled over to investigate any damage that had been caused to her car. Strangely, although there was no sign of dents or scratches that would have been caused by a collision or strike, the ides of the car looked as if they had been partially melted as if by an intense heat. It has been speculated that the woman had possibly been in the process of being sucked into some sort of portal, and the sounds that she had heard were perhaps it opening and closing around her, although why this all abruptly stopped is anyone’s guess.
Are any of these stories true, or are these hoaxes and tall tales? If they are genuine, then what is it that is happening to these people and who or what is behind it and for what purpose? Nobody knows. What we do know is that the UFO phenomenon is rife with the strange, the otherworldly, the surreal, and the downright insane, with seemingly no end to the wellspring of bizarreness that comes forth from it. With cases such as we have seen here we can add teleportation and teletransportation in some form or other to the long list of baffling details and clues already orbiting UFOs and their purported abilities, one more piece of weird to add to the considerable pile.
Of we het nu leuk vinden of niet, we gaan een nieuw tijdperk binnen waarbij technische snufjes die eerst sciencefiction leken, werkelijkheid worden.
Waar overal veel geld in wordt geïnvesteerd in zelf rijdende auto's, heeft Airbus besloten om een nieuw soort taxi drone te ontwikkelen die je snel en veilig van A naar B brengt.
Onze wegen raken overvol en dus is het logisch dat we wat meer naar het luchtruim kijken om te zorgen dat we niet straks met z'n allen permanent in een file staan.
Tegelijkertijd zal dit uiteraard worden aangegrepen om bij de mens nog wat meer vrijheden weg te halen omdat men straks niet zelf meer mag rijden, maar dit alleen nog zal gebeuren door zelf rijdende auto's die vanuit een centraal punt worden bestuurd. Dit is ook handig voor de autoriteiten, want als die je willen spreken, rijdt je auto plotseling niet meer naar een bestemming die jij hebt uitgekozen, maar bijvoorbeeld linea recta naar een belastingkantoor waar je een hele hoop lastige vragen moet beantwoorden omdat "een goede Nederlander" heeft gemeld dat jij nog steeds contant geld gebruikt.
En waarschijnlijk moet de ontwikkeling van een zogenaamde taxi drone door Airbus in hetzelfde licht gezien worden. Het is in feite een variant van de zelf rijdende auto, maar dan in de lucht.
Twee jaar geleden is Airbus begonnen met de ontwikkeling van deze drone die als projectnaam Vahana heeft meegekregen; Sanskrit voor voertuig. Deze grote drone kan verticaal landen en opstijgen, waardoor het op alle plaatsen mensen kan oppikken en afzetten. Was het twee jaar geleden nog een vaag ontwerp, nu is bekend geworden dat de eerste testvlucht inmiddels is uitgevoerd.
Het doel van deze drone is dat er in plaats van zelf rijdende auto's ook zelf vliegende voertuigen komen voor forensen en andere mensen die regelmatig reizen. De kosten wil men zo laag mogelijk houden en zullen te vergelijken zijn met bestaande vervoermiddelen zoals trein en auto.
De Vahana moet minstens vier keer sneller de passagiers van A naar B kunnen brengen dan de conventionele concurrenten en de actieradius zal rond de 80 kilometer liggen.
Toekomstige toepassingen van deze drone zullen liggen op het gebied van vrachtvervoer, ambulancediensten of taxivervoer. Airbus gaat door met testen en het is nog niet duidelijk hoelang het zal duren voordat je via een app een dergelijke drone kunt bestellen om bij je schoonmoeder op theevisite te gaan.
Maar dat ze over niet al te lange tijd een vertrouwd beeld in de lucht zullen zijn, zoveel lijkt welhaast zeker.
At a very steady rate, unstable carbon-14 gradually decays to carbon-12. The ratio of these carbon isotopes reveals the ages of some of Earth’s oldest inhabitants.
Cosmic rays bombard Earth’s atmosphere, creating the unstable isotope carbon-14. This isotope lets scientists learn the ages of once-living things.
Radiocarbon dating is a technique used by scientists to learn the ages of biological specimens – for example, wooden archaeological artifacts or ancient human remains – from the distant past. It can be used on objects as old as about 62,000 years. Here’s how it works.
What is an isotope?
To understand radiocarbon dating, you first have to understand the word isotope.
An isotope is what scientists call two or more forms of the same element. If you could peer at the atoms of two different isotopes, you’d find equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in the atoms’ nucleus or core.
So there’s a difference in the relative atomic masses of two isotopes. But they still have the same chemical properties. A carbon atom is a carbon atom is a carbon atom …
Although an element’s number of protons cannot change, the number of neutrons can vary slightly in each atom. Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons are called isotopes. Here’s an example using the simplest atom, hydrogen. Radiocarbon dating uses isotopes of the element carbon.
Radiocarbon dating relies on the carbon isotopes carbon-14 and carbon-12. Scientists are looking for the ratio of those two isotopes in a sample.
Most carbon on Earth exists as the very stable isotope carbon-12, with a very small amount as carbon-13.
Carbon-14 is an unstable isotope of carbon that will eventually decay at a known rate to become carbon-12.
Cosmic rays – high-energy particles from beyond the solar system – bombard Earth’s upper atmosphere continually, in the process creating the unstable carbon-14. Carbon-14 is considered a radioactive isotope of carbon. Because it’s unstable, carbon-14 will eventually decay back to carbon-12 isotopes. Because the cosmic ray bombardment is fairly constant, there’s a near-constant level of carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratio in Earth’s atmosphere.
Organisms at the base of the food chain that photosynthesize – for example, plants and algae – use the carbon in Earth’s atmosphere. They have the same ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 as the atmosphere, and this same ratio is then carried up the food chain all the way to apex predators, like sharks.
But when gas exchange is stopped, be it in a particular part of the body like in deposits in bones and teeth, or when the entire organism dies, the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 begins to decrease. The unstable carbon-14 gradually decays to carbon-12 at a steady rate.
And that’s the key to radiocarbon dating. Scientists measure the ratio of carbon isotopes to be able to estimate how far back in time a biological sample was active or alive.
This plot shows the level of carbon-14 in the atmosphere as measured in New Zealand (red) and Austria (green), representing the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, respectively. Aboveground nuclear testing almost doubled the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere. That’s why aboveground nuclear testing was banned. The black arrow shows when the Partial Test Ban Treaty was enacted that banned aboveground nuclear tests.
Image via Hokanomono via Wikimedia Commons.
A special kind of radiocarbon dating: Bomb radiocarbon dating.
As we mentioned above, the carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratio in the atmosphere remains nearly constant. It’s not absolutely constant due to several variables that affect the levels of cosmic rays reaching the atmosphere, such as the fluctuating strength of the Earth’s magnetic field, solar cycles that influence the amount of cosmic rays entering the solar system, climatic changes and human activities. Among the significant events that caused a temporary but significant spike in the atmospheric carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratio were above-ground nuclear test detonations in the two decades following World War II.
Bomb radiocarbon dating is a term for radiocarbon dating based on timestamps left by above-ground nuclear explosions, and it is especially useful for putting an absolute age on organisms that lived through those events. In The Cosmic Story of Carbon-14 Ethan Siegel writes:
The only major fluctuation [in carbon-14] we know of occurred when we began detonating nuclear weapons in the open air, back in the mid-20th century. If you ever wondered why nuclear tests are now performed underground, this is why.
Most radiocarbon dating today is done using an accelerator mass spectrometer, an instrument that directly counts the numbers of carbon-14 and carbon-12 in a sample.
Britain’s most mysterious UFO sightings revealed for first time
Britain’s most mysterious UFO sightings revealed for first time
Harley Tamplin
Is the north of England a UFO hotspot?
(Picture: Getty)
Three eyewitness accounts of mysterious UFO sightings that have never been explained have emerged for the first time.
Never-before-heard reports describe the close encounters, all of which happened in the north of England in the 1980s.
UFO researchers including investigator Philip Mantle looked into all three cases at the time – but they were left to lie on file as no explanation for them could be found.
While most sightings are quickly and easily identified by experts, the three cases left Mr Mantle ‘scratching his head’.
He said: ‘No aircraft, balloons or meteorological phenomenon could account for them and this is a time long before Chinese lanterns.
‘There are of course some similarities in these sightings the most notable one being the lack of any noise made by the objects. Whether this is relevant or significant is debateable but it’s a curiosity nonetheless.
‘The one thing that is for certain is that UFOs were the last thing on the mind of any of these witnesses prior to their observations.’
Darwen, Lancashire, in November 1985
The woman who saw the object later provided this drawing of it
Over the span of eight minutes – an unusually long time for a UFO sighting – a woman claimed she saw a diamond-shaped object in the sky about 200-300 feet above her.
She told the researchers that she saw two round red lights as she walked to her car at 7.30pm, adding that there was no noise as the object moved through the air.
Describing the scene, she said: ‘I could not see the lights as it moved overhead but I could see the underneath of the object.
‘This object was very large and seemed to be very heavy looking. I kept wondering how something so big and heavy looking could move so slowly and not make a noise.
‘I kept watching and took in as much detail as I could. The object was huge and its underneath had what looked like round-headed studs.
‘The object moved overhead and I kept watching it until it was almost out of sight at which point it seemed to tilt upwards and shoot off at a great speed and was gone.’
Bonsall Moor, Derbyshire, in December 1986
A couple described seeing a ‘star-shaped’ object
John Stoddard and his family were about to leave the cottage where they had spent a holiday on New Year’s Eve, 1986.
He was gazing at the stars at 7.22am when he noticed one of the ‘stars’ moving – in the direction of the family from over hills in the distance.
By the time Mr Stoddard was joined by his wife – who also reported seeing the same object – it was just above some trees in a nearby field.
The couple described the object flying up to them at a low speed of about 5-10mph, and opening up into a giant triangle with white lights surrounding it.
Mr Stoddard, who said it was the size of a double-decker-bus, said both he and his wife were excited but also scared by what they saw.
The object moved slowly out of view of the family over the moors.
Rochdale, Lancashire, in August 1987
A dog walker saw these flying objects, before they disappeared after 10 seconds
A dog walker gave an extremely detailed description of unidentified objects of ‘tremendous’ size that flew through the night sky at more than 100mph.
John Doherty was on one of his late night dog walks at about 10pm when he first noticed shimmering lights in the distance, through broken clouds.
µHe claimed to have seen them passing in and out of the clouds, and said they may have been rotating, causing them to ‘shimmer’.
Mr Doherty added that each object had three bright lights on its underside, that were so powerful they shone through the clouds.
He watched them until they disappeared after about 10 seconds.
By Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet Managing Editor
This Chandra X-ray photograph shows Cassiopeia A (Cas A, for short), the youngest supernova remnant in the Milky Way.
Credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/UMass Amherst/M.D.Stage et al.
A blindingly bright star bursts into view in a corner of the night sky — it wasn't there just a few hours ago, but now it burns like a beacon.
That bright star isn't actually a star, at least not anymore. The brilliant point of light is the explosion of a star that has reached the end of its life, otherwise known as a supernova.
Supernovae can briefly outshine entire galaxies and radiate more energy than our sun will in its entire lifetime. They're also the primary source of heavy elements in the universe. According to NASA, supernovae are "the largest explosion that takes place in space."
History of supernova observations
Various civilizations recorded supernovae long before the telescope was invented. The oldest recorded supernova is RCW 86, which Chinese astronomers saw in A.D. 185. Their records show that this "guest star" stayed in the sky for eight months, according to NASA.
Before the early 17th century (when telescopes became available), there are only seven recorded supernovae, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
What we know today as the Crab Nebula is the most famous of these supernovae. Chinese and Korean astronomers recorded this star explosion in their records in 1054, and southwestern Native Americans may have seen it as well (according to rock paintings seen in Arizona and New Mexico). The supernova that formed the Crab Nebula was so bright that astronomers could see it during the day.
Other supernovae that were observed before the telescope was invented occurred in 393, 1006, 1181, 1572 (studied by famed astronomer Tycho Brahe) and 1604. Brahe wrote about his observations of the "new star" in his book, "De nova stella," which gave rise to the name "nova." A nova differs from a supernova, however. Both are sudden outbursts of brightness as hot gases are blown outward, but for a supernova, the explosion is cataclysmic and signifies the end of the star's life, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
The term "supernova" was not used until the 1930s. Its first use was by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky at Mount Wilson Observatory, who used it in relation to an explosive event they observed, called S Andromedae (also known as SN 1885A). It was located in the Andromeda Galaxy. They also suggested that supernovas happen when ordinary stars collapse into neutron stars.
In the modern era, one of the more famous supernovas was SN 1987A from 1987, which is still being studied by astronomers because they can see how a supernova evolves in the first few decades after the explosion.
Star death
On average, a supernova will occur about once every 50 years in a galaxy the size of the Milky Way. Put another way, a star explodes every second or so somewhere in the universe, and some of those aren't too far from Earth. About 10 million years ago, a cluster of supernovae created the “Local Bubble,” a 300-light-year long, peanut-shaped bubble of gas in the interstellar medium that surrounds the solar system.
Exactly how a star dies depends in part on its mass. Our sun, for example, doesn't have enough mass to explode as a supernova (though the news for Earth still isn't good, because once the sun runs out of its nuclear fuel, perhaps in a couple billion years, it will swell into a red giant that will likely vaporize our world, before gradually cooling into a white dwarf). But with the right amount of mass, a star can burn out in a fiery explosion.
A star can go supernova in one of two ways:
Type I supernova: star accumulates matter from a nearby neighbor until a runaway nuclear reaction ignites.
Type II supernova: star runs out of nuclear fuel and collapses under its own gravity.
Type II supernovae
Let's look at the more exciting Type II first. For a star to explode as a Type II supernova, it must be at several times more massive than the sun (estimates run from eight to 15 solar masses). Like the sun, it will eventually run out of hydrogen and then helium fuel at its core. However, it will have enough mass and pressure to fuse carbon. Here's what happens next:
Gradually heavier elements build up at the center, and it becomes layered like an onion, with elements becoming lighter toward the outside of the star.
Once the star's core surpasses a certain mass (the Chandrasekhar limit), the star begins to implode (for this reason, these supernovae are also known as core-collapse supernovas).
The core heats up and becomes denser.
Eventually the implosion bounces back off the core, expelling the stellar material into space, forming the supernova.
What's left is an ultra-dense object called a neutron star, a city-sized object that can pack the mass of the sun in a small space.
There are sub-categories of Type II supernovas, classified based on their light curves. The light of Type II-L supernovas declines steadily after the explosion, while Type II-P's light stays steady for a time before diminishing. Both types have the signature of hydrogen in their spectra.
Stars much more massive than the sun (around 20 to 30 solar masses) might not explode as a supernova, astronomers think. Instead they collapse to form black holes.
Type I supernovae
Type I supernovae lack a hydrogen signature in their light spectra.
Type Ia supernovae are generally thought to originate from white dwarf stars in a close binary system. As the gas of the companion star accumulates onto the white dwarf, the white dwarf is progressively compressed, and eventually sets off a runaway nuclear reaction inside that eventually leads to a cataclysmic supernova outburst.
Astronomers use Type Ia supernovas as "standard candles" to measure cosmic distances because all are thought to blaze with equal brightness at their peaks.
Type Ib and Ic supernovas also undergo core-collapse just as Type II supernovas do, but they have lost most of their outer hydrogen envelopes. In 2014, scientists detected the faint, hard-to-locate companion star to a Type Ib supernova. The search consumed two decades, as the companion star shone much fainter than the bright supernova.
Caught in the act
Recent studies have found that supernovas vibrate like giant speakers and emit an audible hum before exploding.
In 2008, scientists caught a supernova in the act of exploding for the first time. While peering at her computer screen, astronomer Alicia Soderberg expected to see the small glowing smudge of a month-old supernova. But what she and her colleague saw instead was a strange, extremely bright, five-minute burst of X-rays.
"Our observations and modeling show this to be a rather unusual event, to be better understood in terms of an object lying at the boundary between normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts," Paolo Mazzali, an Italian astrophysicist at the Padova Observatory and Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, told Space.com in a 2008 interview.
Additional reporting by Elizabeth Howell and Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com contributors
Sahara voor de tweede keer dit jaar bedekt onder laag sneeuw. Ook zeldzame sneeuwval in deze andere woestijn
Sahara voor de tweede keer dit jaar bedekt onder laag sneeuw. Ook zeldzame sneeuwval in deze andere woestijn
Begin deze week werd de Sahara tot verbazing van lokale bewoners opnieuw bedekt onder een laag sneeuw. In een Algerijns plaatsje in de woestijn sneeuwde het voor de tweede keer dit jaar.
In december 2016 sneeuwde het voor het eerst in 37 jaar tijd in Ain Sefra. Sindsdien heeft het er in twee jaar tijd al vier keer gesneeuwd.
Net buiten het plaatsje speelden kinderen in de sneeuw, terwijl anderen poseerden in het witte goedje om het zeldzame tafereel vast te leggen.
Chaos
Afgelopen maand viel er voor de derde keer in bijna 40 jaar sneeuw in Ain Sefra. Kinderen maakten sneeuwpoppen en gleden met hun slee van de duinen.
In 2016 zorgde hevige sneeuwval er voor chaos. Wegen werden glad waardoor voertuigen van de weg gleden en passagiers strandden.
Daarvoor werd op 18 februari 1979 voor het laatst sneeuw gezien in Ain Sefra. Toen sneeuwde het er slechts een half uur.
Erg zeldzaam
Sneeuwval in het gebied is erg zeldzaam aangezien het er in deze tijd van het jaar normaal gezien zes tot 12 graden boven nul is.
Hoewel de Sahara vandaag de dag erg droog is, verwachten experts dat de woestijn over zo’n 15.000 jaar weer groen wordt.
Saudi-Arabië
Eind vorige maand viel er ook al sneeuw in de woestijnachtige regio Tabuk in Saudi-Arabië. Dit komt maar sporadisch voor, waarna het vaak snel weer smelt.
Het zeldzame tafereel trok veel bekijks en velen plaatsten filmpjes en foto’s op sociale media.
Mysterious Lights Spotted in Japan Spark Alien Sighting Rumors
Mysterious Lights Spotted in Japan Spark Alien Sighting Rumors
Image credit: YouTube
Japan isn't known as a hotspot of UFO activity, making widely reported sightings quite rare. That's why a recent flurry of social media posts by residents of the Japanese island Kyushu have attracted the attention of hunters and truth-seekers across the globe.
Last Thursday morning, residents posted pictures of thin, swirling clouds that radiated light, the sort of phenomenon that the conspiracy community calls chemtrails, which they believe are of remnants biological agents left in the sky by planes that are deliberately sprayed on the general public for classified purposes.
The sighting does line up with Japan's Epsilon-3 Rocket launch, which took place in the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture at 6.06 am on Thursday. Taking this into account, it's wholly possible that the mysterious lights could be moisture in the air reacting to fumes from the rocket's launch.
"JAXA launched Epsilon-3, the third Epsilon launch vehicle which encapsulates NEC Small radar satellite "ASNARO-2", from the JAXA Uchinoura Space Center," JAXA said in a statement. "The launch occurred on time."
Epsilon-3 successfully put into orbit the ASNARO-2 commercial satellite at a height of about 500 kilometers. The rocket is at the vanguard of aerospace tech because it cuts back considerable time, equipment, and human resources required to launch.
Japanese residents ought to get used to seeing more strange events in the sky, as Japan continues to step up its space exploration game. Last year, a private Tokyo-based firm raised $90 million from major Japanese corporations and investors to send a spacecraft into orbit in 2019 that will land on the moon the following year. Funded with the promise of moon colonization, the firm says that by 2021, 1,000 people will be living on the Moon, and with their help, 10 times as many will visit each year.
Last fall, JAXA also uncovered a moon cave that it says will be an ideal location for a base. Its Selene spacecraft discovered an "echo pattern" at the tube opening in the moon's Marius Hills, found using radar technology, which provides solid evidence that a hollow area exists underneath. This is just one of the many lava tubes that may be housing large repositories of ice beneath the lunar surface.
Despite the seemingly endless reports of UFO sightings, ghost encounters, Bigfoot videos, strange hums, falling fish and other paranormal occurrences, there are days when it seems that nothing out of the ordinary is happening (we exclude politics from consideration, unless a UFO is involved). When all other countries or geographical areas fail, Peru always seems to come through. Within the past week, that fine country has provided stories about a truck driver destroying some Nazca lines and a DNA analysis of the mysterious Paracas elongated skulls. The paranormal riches of Peru paid off once again today, with the report that an ongoing investigation of the three-fingered mummies found in a Nazca cave has determined that they were once definitely alive. Muchas gracias, Peru!
Here’s a quick update. The chalky-covered three-fingered-and-toed, big-headed, small-bodied mummies were allegedly found in a Nazca cave and revealed to the public in 2017 by Gaia.com. Since then, there have reports of one being pregnant, another carrying eggs, the total reaching 20, a guy named Mario taking credit for the discovery, a possible sighting of live ones, DNA tests showing they’re human or human-like and more. Now, a video has surfaced with new insights from a member of the team.
“Each of three small specimens has been analysed and bone density belong to that of a living being. The preservation is amazing, it is really surprising, especially the bone parts of these small creatures. “You see that, the base of the skull has its own characteristics. We can scientifically prove the skull of these creatures have a cranial cavity similar to humans, but they have some strong differences.”
It was reported this week by express.co.uk that radiologist Dr. Raymundo Salas Alfaro, a new name in these three-fingered mummy reports, made those observations after claiming to see CAT scans of the mummies. A video dated October 2017 shows Alfaro discussing the mummies but an English translation was not provided. That’s too bad because, in the express.co.uk account, Alfaro seems to disagree with the DNA report by saying that the skull does not look human. (Did he look at the fingers?)
“Here another image you see the soft tissue – a big surprise about these small creatures. Of course they have existed this is not a fake.”
Alfaro then addressed the most famous of the three-fingered mummies – the one the team has named Maria – and said this:
“We are scientifically proving that this is a real body that was once alive.”
So Dr. Alfaro seems to be refuting those who claim this is an elaborate and morbid hoax perpetrated by someone who pieced together the mummies from human body parts. However, the evidence he presents is still just the CAT scan and the DNA test. That isn’t enough to convince skeptics, which includes the World Congress on Mummy Studies and the Peruvian government, which doesn’t like foreigners messing with any of its mummies, real or otherwise.
Sorry Maria, Dr. Alfaro and the rest of the three-fingered mummies and researchers. The needle on this case is still stuck between ‘Skeptical’ and ‘Hoax’. However, we’re leaving it open in the likely event there’s another slow paranormal news day.
Image credit: YouTube/Unsplash
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In the paranormal business, the cure for a slow news day is to see what’s cooking in Peru. Last week, we had the truck driver plowing his vehicle over the ancient Nazca lines, destroying portions of these famous and unexplained geoglyphs in the name of avoiding to pay a toll. It’s been a while since we heard anything about the three-fingered mummies but there’s nothing new to reports. Fortunately, the elongated skulls came to the rescue!
“This could re-write history as we know it.”
Yes, it was another “This changes everything” moment over the weekend when the Elongated Skulls Symposium was held in Los Angeles. Hosted by author, lecturer and film maker L.A. Marzulli, it brought together a variety of speakers on the subject of the Paracas skulls, including videographer Richard Shaw, forensic expert Chase Kloetske, archaeologist Mondo Gonzales, 3D forensic artist Marcia K. Moore, anthropologist Rick Woodward, medical doctor Dr. Michael Alday, and chiropractor Dr. Malcolm Warren. However, the big news on DNA testing of the skulls came from Marzulli and Brien Forester of Hidden Inca Tours.
If those last two names sound familiar, it’s probably because they had a similar “this changes everything!” moment in 2016 when DNA tests were reportedly conducted on the Paracas elongated skulls of Peru. At that time, they revealed that the test results showed the skulls were not from Peru but were not alien either. The humans were believed to have come from Europe and Mesopotamia, especially Syria. That was interesting and certainly added a twist to which humans first arrived in the Americas, but not a game-changer. Was the Elongated Skulls Symposium?
“The DNA results actually were incredibly complicated… It’s gonna 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.”
Wait a minute … this sounds familiar. That’s when Forester adds a new twist.
“It appears that the largest elongated skulls on the planet have been found, “A” in Paracas, Peru and “B” in the Caucasus area in between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea… so my theory is that there was a sub-species of human which we are going to be eventually calling Homo-Sapiens-Sapiens-Paracas, and they were living in the area in between the Caspian and Black Sea.”
And …
“They were invaded by somebody… and so they were forced to flee.”
Forester lays out a path for this sub-species to sail from the Persian Gulf to Peru. That’s where he believes, and says some of the other speakers agree, that these naturally long-skulled people settled and flourished for a time.
“ … because of the abnormalities found with some of the Elongated Skulls from the Chongos cemetery in Peru they have no other choice but to state that some of these ancient Paracas were a sub-species of humanity… it had to be genetic, they had to be born with these abnormalities. They had dark red hair… the royal Paracas were the ones with elongated heads, not the common people… the royal family of the Paracas, they lived in subterranean underground houses and I think the reason for that is that they had light-colored skin, probably sensitive eyes because of the extreme sunshine…”
So, Forester believes the long skulls are a genetic abnormality, not the result of binding, and those with them were regarded as leaders and superiors. The key word is “believes,” not proves. This certainly reinforces the idea that the genetic makeup of Native South Americans is truly a varied mix. It also continues to disappoint those who want to believe the elongated skull beings are aliens. However, it doesn’t prove how the Paracas could be a separate sub-species while all other elongated skull cultures are not.
Let’s hope the next ‘this changes everything’ DNA tests come during another slow news week.
The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness is the new book from Michael Brein and Rosemary Ellen Guiley. It’s a book which is filled with literally dozens and dozens of cases of the ufological kind. Those cases cover such issues as crop circles, alien abductions, pilot encounters, Men in Black, UFO landings, and much more. But, it’s very important to note that this is not just a collection of events and incidents. Rather, the emphasis is on how the experiences impacted on the witnesses themselves. This is a good, solid and refreshing way of demonstrating to the reader the way in which the UFO phenomenon can affect people – and not always in a positive way. The same goes for their families and friends. Ridicule, fear, denial, amazement, and paranoia are just some of the results of the close encounter cases in The Road to Strange. Let’s take a look at the content.
As far as the accounts are concerned, they are split into four categories: “I Know What I saw,” “Mystery Lights and Craft,” “Alien Encounters,” and “High Strangeness.” One of the intriguing issues that surfaces in certain events described in the book is the “Why me?” factor. As Guiley and Brein note, in profound UFO cases witnesses sometimes develop a sense that the phenomenon deliberately targeted them, that there was a specific reason for the encounter, that there was more to the sighting than just something unusual of a random nature. It’s this “Why me?” aspect which provokes anxiety in some, fear in others, and a sense of wonder in those who see the matter in a positive light. One of the weirder aspect of the UFO enigma revolves around how one person can see a UFO, but someone standing right next to them sees nothing at all. Again, there is the matter of “Why me?”
Seeing how people deal with such matters – or don’t – makes for revealing reading. As for the reaction of family members, well, at one end of the spectrum there is the sense that their relative is mistaken, lying – or, of course, telling the truth. At the other end of the spectrum, though, there’s the tragic story of T.L. Murdock who, as a child in 1931, was “backhanded” with “full force” by his mother for claiming an encounter with something strange in the sky. This, of course, was long before the dawning of the flying saucer era in 1947.
As for that aforementioned matter of ridicule – or the concern of it becoming an issue – it surfaces on several occasions. Again, the impact that this has on the witness is as significant as it is eye-opening. As an example, we have the words of the late Graham Sheppard, who was a captain and pilot with British Airways. Sheppard, who died in 2005, had a couple of profound UFO encounters. One such case, from the 1960s, is described by Sheppard in his own words: “When we were over the Midlands of England we got a radar alert about an object traveling at high speed directly in the airway. We saw this disc coming towards us! It was about 30 feet across, and it looked as if it was going to come extremely close to us.”
Sheppard noted the reluctance on the part of colleagues to talk about UFO encounters, “even though I knew other pilots and flight engineers had seen UFOs.” Sheppard tells a fascinating story of how, decades ago, he was aware of a kind of unwritten code of silence among air-crews when it comes to UFOs. Again, we get to see- first-hand – how the phenomenon of the UFO alters lives and directs their beliefs and approach to the mystery.
One of the most interesting stories revolves around a bizarre encounter with dwarfish humanoids floating in self-illuminated “pods of light” in the direct vicinity of Wiltshire, England’s famous Silbury Hill. It’s one of those cases which is hard to fit into any particular category. Fear, denial and and an attempt to rationalize the incident by suggesting it was connected to a “military exercise” or “a projector” are all part and parcel of a story that undeniably changed lives.
Silsbury Hill
High-strangeness in the heart of crop circles is an important aspect of the book and our authors note that those visiting the formations experience drowsiness, a feeling of “cosmic connection,” and “mystical rapture.” Men in Black of a clearly supernatural nature pop up, too – in a North Carolina library, and who appear to have the ability to affect electrical equipment. The menacing MIB reports and the crop circle cases demonstrate just how weird certain UFO-themed events can become – and they too are shown to profoundly affect those in close proximity. Add to that stories of missing time, alien-human hybrids, strange “holes” in the sky, an incident at Area 51, and much more and you have a book that makes for absorbing reading.
I have often said that the most important people in the field of the unknown are not the writers, the authors, the radio-show hosts, or those who appear on TV shows. The most important people are the witnesses. A great deal can be learned from studying them, their reactions, their words, and how their lives have been changed, altered and even scarred. The Road to Strange does a great job of getting right to the heart of what it means to be a UFO witness.
Pas un jour ne se passe sans que les enthousiastes repèrent de mystérieux objets d’origine extraterrestre, mais le mystère de la base américaine Andrews, liée au mystère de Roswell, imprègne toujours l’esprit des ufologues. Cher lecteurs, êtes-vous prêts à plonger dans cet endroit sinistre?
Le groupe d’ufologues, baptisé UFO Seekers («Chercheurs d’extraterrestres»), a filmé le territoire de la base militaire américaine Andrews dans le désert du Nevada, connu sous le nom de Zone 51. L’objectif: vérifier les nombreuses théories du complot qui affirment que cette base est utilisée pour garder les ovnis qui se seraient écrasés dans la région à la fin des années 40.
Les aventuriers ont réussi à filmer une partie de la Zone 51, notamment la piste d’atterrissage et des véhicules de l’armée qui se déplaçaient sur le territoire de base. À la grande déception du groupe, aucune soucoupe volante, aucun extraterrestre, ni
L’incident de Roswell reste toujours férocement débattu par les historiens, ufologues et amateurs de théories du complot depuis la fin des années 1970. Bien que les spécialistes aient opté en faveur de la théorie du phénomène extraterrestre, l’affaire de Roswell est aussi le cas le plus réfuté par les sceptiques, ces derniers s’appuyant notamment sur les nombreuses incohérences relevées dans cette affaire.
En tout cas, 70 ans après l’incident, personne n’a jamais trouvé de débris des ovnis ou de corps des extraterrestres dans cette base.
France : Un OVNI sphérique et très lumineux observé dans le Lubéron
Sommet du village de Lacoste sur lequel se trouve les ruines du château du marquis de Sade, pillé à la Révolution
Le 13 octobre 2017, un gros OVNI sphérique et très lumineux a été observé au-dessus du village de Lacoste, dans le Vaucluse, au sud de la France. Ce n’est que récemment que le témoin a décidé de raconter son aventure.
Sommet du village de Lacoste sur lequel se trouve les ruines du château du marquis de Sade, pillé à la Révolution
Témoignage :
« J’étais dans mon jardin sur ma terrasse au Sud pour fumer une cigarette vers 20H, le vendredi 13 Octobre 2017. Il faisait nuit et le ciel était très bien dégagé. J’ai vu arrivé de derrière les arbres, à une bonne centaine de mètres de ma maison, très silencieusement, une boule très lumineuse (blanc doré jaune orangé) un peu plus petite qu’une pièce de 1 centime, vu du sol. Mais certainement très grosse, vu l’altitude.
Elle était plus haute qu’un avion de ligne et d’ailleurs absolument pas dans le couloir aérien habituel Nord/Sud (mais dans la direction perpendiculaire Ouest/Est) mais bien plus basse qu’un satellite pourrait l’être.
Aucun bruit de réacteur ou autre bruit de moteur.
Elle venait de la direction de Ménerbes (84) à l’Ouest, au dessus du petit Lubéron et s’est dirigée en direction de Bonnieux ou Lourmarin (Sud Est) en passant au dessus de Lacoste.
Sa vitesse n’était pas très rapide vu du sol, mais plus rapide qu’un avion (car beaucoup plus haut) et beaucoup moins qu’une météorite.
Difficile d’estimer sa vitesse à cause de la hauteur, mais sur une route plate, on pourrait la comparer à une voiture roulant à 5 kms/h.
Cette sphère a mis environ 1mn pour effectuer sa trajectoire.
J’ai appelé ma compagne après une dizaine de secondes d’observation qui est sortie presque aussitôt. Elle a observé en même temps que moi cette boule lumineuse, semblant planer régulièrement, sans accoue et sans changement de direction. Aucune trainée derrière elle comme pourrait le faire une étoile filante ou une météorite rentrant dans l’atmosphère.
Elle a disparu de notre champ de vision derrière le Lubéron, au niveau de la combe, entre le petit et le grand Lubéron.
J’ai cherché sur internet dans les jours suivants si d’autres avaient vu cette sphère,si il y avait des témoignages ou si il y avait eu une météorite ce soir là. Mais rien sur ce soir du 13 Octobre 2017… »
A secret study of Unidentified Flying Objects was made public last year. Much of the analysis was done in southern Nevada, and a main purpose of the study was to figure out how UFOs work.
The I-Team interviewed the man who ran the program at the Pentagon to ask about the physics of flying saucers.
"Look at that thing," one Navy pilot said.
You can tell from the voices of the navy pilots that the encounter with the so-called Gimbal UFO was hardly ordinary. It happened back in 2015, and it wasn't in the sky alone.
"There's a whole fleet of them," the pilot said. "Look at the ASA. My gosh, they are going against the wind. The wind is 120 knots."
The pilots wondered if it might be a drone, but an advanced sensor system showed the unknown object had no detectable propulsion system, seemed oblivious to the powerful winds at that altitude, and slowed to a near stop before rotating.
"Like I said before if this was a court of law, we are beyond reasonable doubt," said Luis Elizondo, former Pentagon Intelligence Officer.
Until last October, Elizondo was the point man in the Pentagon's secret study of unknown aerial objects. AATIP was the acronym for the study authorized by senators including former United States Senator from Nevada, Harry Reid, with the analysis conducted by a civilian contractor, Bigelow Aerospace of Nevada. The primary goal of the study, Elizondo said, wasn't to guess where these things originated but rather, how they worked.
"I think we've come very close to understanding the physics of how it works, and that's very exciting," Elizondo said. "For the first time, we have a compelling picture that what we are seeing is explained in our current understanding of physics, advanced physics, and quantum mechanics.
Elizondo left the Pentagon, in large part, because he felt the issue wasn't getting the attention it deserved. The military is still collecting and studying UFO data, according to Elizondo. The analysis by Bigelow's team ended in 2012. The now, famous Tic Tac UFO case from 2004 is an example of how things worked. The case sat in a file at the Pentagon until it was resurrected during the study. An abbreviated video clip was released last year.
After seeing weird radar returns for days, advanced warplanes attached to the U.S.S. Nimitz Battle Group off the coast of San Diego went to take a close look. F-18 pilot Dave Fravor, the commander of the Elite Black Aces, wrote in an initial report that the pilots detected a huge object, the size of a 747 just under the surface of the ocean. A 40-foot "Tic Tac" shaped object hovered above it. Fravor flew around then closed in on the object, which turned to face his plane, then displayed its full capabilities.
"It takes off like nothing I've ever seen. Poof, it's gone," Fravor said.
Fravor said he believes the Tic Tac is not of this world, but he also said he sure would like to fly one. Elizondo says there have been multiple other Tic Tac encounters with the U.S. military both before and since. Scientists now think a single technology explains the amazing things these aircrafts can do.
"We do believe all these observables we've been seeing, sudden and extreme acceleration, hypersonic velocities, low observability, trans medium travel, and last but not least, positive lift, anti-gravity -- is really the manifestation of a single technology, Elizondo said. "So it's not five exotic technologies we're trying to figure out, it's one. and we think we know that one too."
One of the scientists who helped figure it out is a physicist named Dr. Hal Puthoff. He wrote the proposal that helped Bigelow land the contract to study UFOs, and in a recent radio interview, he said he commissioned 38 scientific papers during the study to explore exotic propulsion ideas, including what he calls space-time metric engineering. In essence, the idea that the Gimbal and Tic Tac craft can create their own space-time bubbles.
"We believe it has to do with a high amount of energy and the ability to warp space-time, not by a lot, but by a little," said Elizondo.
Elizondo first went public back in October, when he was on a stage with rock star Tom Delonge, who formed something called "To the Stars Academy. Dr. Hal put off is part of the team, along with Steve Justice, the former top engineer at Lockheed's skunkworks, who says he wants to build something that can do what the Gimbal can do.
For Elizondo, the question is no longer an 'if' question, it's a 'when' question.
Luis Elizondo confirmed that special materials would likely be needed to manipulate space-time. The I-Team will have more on that in a future report.
To hear an extra excerpt from the interview about how space-time distortion works go here.
NASA is hard at work trying to get a robot on Titan. To find out exactly what it would be up against, the agency has built a tiny, freezing methane ocean at the Washington State University.
Composite image of Titan seen in near-infrared. Image credits NASA / JPL.
Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system, only more modest in size than Jupiter’s Ganymede. However, it’s a spot that NASA has been itching to visit for quite some time now, as it is the largest body after Earth to harbor stable, liquid oceans. But put the snorkel away, because this is by no means an ocean you’d want to take a dip in. Titan isn’t covered in water, it’s covered in methane — frigid, liquid methane.
To coldly go where nobody has gone before
NASA plans to send an autonomous submarine to poke around Titan’s seas and oceans some time in the next 20 years. So far, they’ve been designing the mission and the craft based on data beamed back by the Cassini mission. However, environmental conditions on the moon are so dramatically different and extreme compared to those we’re used to, that the agency believes we need more experimental data to check the bot against.
As such, they’ve teamed up with scientists at Washington State University to recreate the moon’s methane ocean in a laboratory.
The WSU researchers built a test chamber filled with a “liquid mixture at very cold temperatures to simulate the seas of Titan,” a press release from the University details. “They added a two-inch, cylinder-shaped cartridge heater that would approximate the heat that a submarine would create”. The project was led by Ian Richardson, a former WSU graduate who interned at NASA on an unrelated research project.
“My research just took a right turn, and I went with it. It’s a crazy experiment, and I never thought I would have had this opportunity. It’s been a very fun and challenging experimental design problem,” he said.
The make-believe ocean has revealed two hurdles that researchers will have to overcome when designing the sub-to-be: the formation of gas bubbles and recording video at the freezing temperatures.
NASA released this design for the Titan sub back in 2016. Image credits NASA.
If the submarine is powered by a heat-generating mechanism, it would cause nitrogen bubbles to form in the very cold liquid on Titan (which is mostly made up of a methane-ethane mix at roughly -185° Celsius (-300° Fahrenheit). These bubbles have shown that they can severely hinder the submarine’s mobility and make it difficult for onboard sensors to collect data.
Even if such bubbles fail to materialize, snapping images and videos of the sub’s surroundings will be a challenging task — mostly because it’s a really cold, pressurized environment (comparable to being under 30 meters/100 feet of water).
One piece of good news is that the nitrogen fraction in the mix lowers the freezing point of Titan’s oceans from about -185° to roughly -200° Celsius (-297° to -324° Fahrenheit).
“That’s a big deal. That means you don’t have to worry about icebergs,’’ Richardson explains.
The team says they worked around the temperature and pressure problems and developed a device that allowed them to shoot video footage in the liquid and snow methane-ethane mix inside the chamber. In the future, all measurements and data recorded in this experiment will be used to ” to aid in thermodynamic modeling of the Titan seas as well as the design of the Titan Submarine,” he added.
The paper “Experimental PρT-x measurements of liquid methane-ethane-nitrogen mixtures.” has been published in the journal Fluid Phase Equilibria.
In 2017, there were 169 UFO sightings reported directly to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world's oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body.
FOX 17 dug into the data, examining hundreds of local reports while getting a good look at viewer submitted videos of possible UFOs flying over the skies. This, after a former Pentagon official revealed a government program allegedly researching UFO's for years.
In December of 2017, the world learned that the Pentagon spent $22 million on a program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, according to Luis Elizondo, who led the Pentagon effort. Elizondo told The New York Times he resigned from the Department of Defense in October in protest what he called excessive secrecy surrounding the program and internal opposition to it after funding for the effort ended in 2012. The footage below was released by Elizondo following his resignation.
Footage shows an encounter between U.S. fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles.”
(To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science)
However, you don't have to go far to find first-hand accounts of extraterrestrial encounters. Of 151 reports of UFOs documented worldwide by MUFON in 2018, six were reported in Michigan.
MUFON was founded in 1969 to investigate the growing UFO phenomenon through a team of investigators and researchers. The Michigan MUFON chapter meets five times a year outside of Flint, where like-minded people come together and share their personal stories about what they've seen in the sky.
"People are seeing things they can't understand on a regular basis," said MUFON state director Bill Konkolesky. "When people can come together and talk face-to-face about what they've seen and what their theories are on everything, that's real."
Konkolesky says the organization is big into investigating the UFO phenomenon based on evidence. Michigan has three "licensed investigators" who collect data and keep it organized and open to the public. You can even track UFO sightings worldwide in real time here. However, Konkolesky admits that 97% of the time, a sighting is not a UFO.
"We had 410 sightings a few years ago, and that was the year when Chinese lanterns were all the rage," Konkolesky said. Other identified sightings are drone or some sort of meteorological event like the recent Bolide/meteor sighted across the state in January. The other 3% remains unknown.
The UFO Center, operated out of Washington state by Peter Davenport, also takes reports of UFOs on a daily basis. Davenport says people should do their own research before making up their minds about whether or not they "believe" that UFOs exist.
"I think it’s important that people see things with their own eyes before they believe them or accept them," Davenport said. "Biblical scholars, for example, should be included in the UFO debate and research process, because they might have some input that would be significant."
The UFO Reporting Center has received more than 150 cases in 2018. That number is rising every day. Davenport believes it's because people are starting to "believe what they're seeing."
Here are a number of historically-head scratching cases that have happened in Michigan:
1) 1975, Konkolesky says there was a large UFO sighting over Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Iosco County, Michigan.
2.) March 8th, 1994: hundreds of witnesses reported seeing flickering lights resembling a string of Christmas lights or a group of airplanes flying close together near Holland. Below are 911 calls and testimony from the National Weather Service, (MUFON).
3) March, 1966: hundreds of Michigan residents saw colorful, strange lights across the sky. Konkolesky said the US Air Force came out to investigate but claimed that residents were seeing no more than swamp or marsh gas.
"So I like to joke that Michigan is not only the Great Lakes State, but we’re also the swamp gas state," Konkolesky said. "Michigan has a rich history when it comes to UFO sightings."
It's important to note there has not been an actual sighting of a UFO confirmed by any governing agency. UFO enthusiasts encourage the general public to do their own research before coming to any conclusion.
De planeten die rond dwergster TRAPPIST-1 draaien hebben een veelbelovend geheim prijsgegeven: sommige kunnen voor maximaal vijf procent uit water bestaan. Dat is ongeveer 250 keer zoveel als de oceanen van de aarde.
In theorie is er leven mogelijk, zo hebben wetenschappers die de verre werelden bestuderen bekendgemaakt.
“Alle op dit ogenblik bestudeerde signalen staan op groen,” zei astronoom Amaury Triaud van de Universiteit van Birmingham. “Op dit moment wijst niets erop dat zij niet ‘levensvatbaar’ zijn”.
Vloeibaar water
In februari vorig jaar maakten astronomen bekend bij de dwergster TRAPPIST-1, op veertig lichtjaar van ons, zeven planeten te hebben gevonden. Qua grootte lijken 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.
Gesteente
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 sommige tot vijf procent van hun massa uit water kan bestaan.
Ter vergelijking: slechts 0,02 procent van de massa van de aarde bestaat uit water.
Aangaande de kans dat de planeten leven zouden herbergen, zei Triaud ‘in dit stadium niets te kunnen zeggen omdat ze erg verschillen van de onze’.
Beste plaats
“Maar ze vormen tot op vandaag de beste plaats buiten ons zonnestelsel om te zoeken naar signalen van leven,” klonk het.
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