Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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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...
10-02-2018
Ball of Light caught on Alaska Cam
Ball of Light caught on Alaska Cam
A webcam at a weather station in Alaska captured a strange light in the night sky.
The way the ball of light moves is absolutely impressive, it comes into view from the left, after floating in the same place for a while it then shoots into the air like a flash of lightning.
A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) in record time early Sunday morning (Feb. 11), and you can watch the event live online.
Topped with the Russian Progress 69 cargo resupply ship, the Soyuz will lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:58 a.m. EST (0858 GMT). The Progress spacecraft will then dock at the International Space Station at 7:24 a.m. EST (1224 GMT), completing the rendezvous in a record time of 3 hours and 26 minutes.
A live webcast of the launch will begin at 3:30 a.m. EST (0830 GMT), and you can watch it here on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV. A live webcast of the spacecraft's docking will follow at 6:30 a.m. EST (1130 GMT).
Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, planned to debut this new fast-track route to the ISS with its last cargo launch of the Progress 68 spacecraft, in October. But a last-minute delay forced the agency to resort to the old two-day rendezvous due to the orbital mechanics involved with reaching the ISS. Postponing that launch meant that Roscosmos missed the launch window to try out the new, shorter rendezvous, NASA officials said.
"If any technical issues are identified by Russian flight controllers in the early stage of the flight, the spacecraft will be capable of defaulting to a standard, two-day rendezvous profile," NASA officials said in a statement.
The Progress 68 cargo craft (top left) is currently docked at the International Space Station. It arrived on Oct. 16, 2017, and is scheduled to depart in March.
Credit: NASA
Progress cargo ships look a lot like Russia's crewed Soyuz capsules, and Roscosmos has been using the uncrewed spacecraft to send cargo to the ISS since 2000. In 2013, the agency cut the two-day travel time to just 6 hours for both Progress and Soyuz capsules, making the cramped crewed flights to the ISS a little more bearable for the astronauts and cosmonauts on board.
This uncrewed cargo mission will deliver 3 tons of food, fuel and other supplies to the Expedition 54 crew, NASA officials said. The record-breaking flight comes just one week after the two Russian crewmembers at the ISS, Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov, set a record for the longest Russian spacewalk.
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com, or follow her @hannekescience.
Over the last decade or so I have continually come across new ancient aliens evidence online – it seems to be gathering pace at an astonishing rate! But to most of us geeks it’s not really news – the evidence has always been around us but most choose not to recognize it…..
1. Hailed as Gods
In most of the online (geek) circles that I hang there is one consensus – aliens landed on earth thousands of years ago and were hailed as gods. They put up a pretty good argument and are always able to point to ancient aliens evidence.
They apparently helped shape civilization to the point where we were not throwing spears at each other (or eating each other) any longer!
Is it so hard to believe when less than two hundred miles away from where I sit writing this there is Stonehenge – the origin of which is still pretty much a mystery (no matter what historians TRY and tell you!).
The video below claims to have the answer to Stonehenge but personally I don’t think having a theory is actually solving anything – it’s more of a guess! Anyway the video has some pretty cool moments so check it out (it’s just over two minutes long!).
2. The Nazca Lines
Pick up any book on the Unexplained and you are bound to be confronted with the Nazca Lines in one of the chapters. Are they to be considered ancient aliens evidence?
They are located in Peru, South America and they are pretty damn impressive! They are etched onto the top of a plateau in the Nazca dessert and historians have been baffled by them for decades.
They are truly awe inspiring and beautiful – how were they made so precise? Along with simple lines and geometric shapes, they include drawings of animals, birds and humans. It’s not just the detail it’s the size to – some of them measure well over 500 ft wide!
Check out this short documentary on the Nazca lines released by the BBC:
Their size means each of the designs can only be witnessed from the air. How did the Nazca people, who inhabited the area between 300 B.C. and 800 A.D. manage this? As far as I know they were not that keen on helicopters made out of stone
Many historians believe that the Nazca Lines prove to be ancient aliens evidence because they are old runways. The long stretching lines and pathways that make up the designs are thought to be used for landing ancient spacecraft (a sort of guide and runway combined!).
3. The Moai of Easter Island
The Polynesian island of Easter Island is a very famous one due to the strange ‘head statues’ or ‘Moai’. They line up along it’s coastline as some sort of show of force – as if they are guarding the island from something.
It is thought these massive stone heads are over 500 years old so who on earth made them? Could tools from the same time period create these impressive busts?
The monolithic head statues stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons – did they seriously have the engineering and the know-how to place these heads so precisely along the coastline back then?
Again a lot of theorists turn to them being ancient alien evidence – they were left here for some reason by visitors from the stars!
The video below is entitled Easter Island – The Mystery of the Moai – it covers the subject in a little more detail:
4. Puma Punku
Deep in the Bolivian highlands you will find Puma Punka – a mysterious field of stone made up of very precisely carved rocks.
They are thought to be over 1000 years old and this again begs the question of HOW? How did men of this time manage to carve rocks so precisely with the VERY basic tools they had at the time? Check this out:
Many alien theorists think that aliens actually worked as supervisors when these marvelous stones were being carved.
The strange stones are made out of granite and diorite. Now, granite and diorite are extremely difficult stones to cut – only diamond is harder! How did these stones get shaped in this way? What tools were used?
If you know of any other mysteries that can be classed in the ‘ancient aliens evidence’ category we would love to hear from you. Please leave your contributions in the comment section below…
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Awesome UFOs Disguised As Clouds Pass Undetected By Human Eyes, Feb 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Awesome UFOs Disguised As Clouds Pass Undetected By Human Eyes, Feb 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Here is a great video of some recent sightings found on a weather phenomenon site this week by MrMBB333 of Youtube. He discusses how some of the things on the site do not resemble things found in nature, but instead have qualities that seem more like alien craft. This is the easiest way to hide from human eyes...mimic something that normally is harmless and in nature.
Many UFOs Bigger Than Our Moon Skimming Surface Of Sun, Feb 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Many UFOs Bigger Than Our Moon Skimming Surface Of Sun, Feb 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
At any given time there are hundreds of UFOs in orbit around our sun, but the orbit is so low that they often skim the surface of the sun. It is widely believed that these UFO are searching out rare and valuable particles of energy that humanity still has yet to discover. The UFOs don't just move to the new locations to collect the energy, they leap at light speed. Check out some of the UFOs in this video that TheWatcher252 of Youtube caught this week. Scott C. Waring
Amazing UFO Sightings Compilation February 8-9, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Amazing UFO Sightings Compilation February 8-9, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Here is a great summary of some of the most interesting UFO sightings last week. UFOs often are seen over mountains and hills, because they come out of hidden passages in locations where its difficult for people to access. Their bases are often 4-6km below the surface, and its been said by the W56 aliens in Rocca Pia, Italy that there are over 10,000 alien bases around the world. Scott C. Waring
'Is that aliens?': Black UFO spotted during Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket launch prompting claims of 'cover up'
'Is that aliens?': Black UFO spotted during Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket launch prompting claims of 'cover up'
A dark UFO was filmed hurtling through space from video footage captured on the SpaceX rocket
By Liz Dunphy
A black UFO was spotted during Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket launch which has prompted claims of extraterrestrial life and a supposed 'cover up'.
The billionaire, who owns Tesla motors and founded SpaceX, sparked an international media frenzy when he sent his Roadster car into space strapped to his company's Falcon Heavy rocket.
But some people have spotted a black object in the video recorded from the rocket and have speculated on social media that it may be an actual UFO.
And so-called truthers have also hinted that the presence of an alien craft was covered up when video footage from the spacecraft cut out, the Daily Star reports.
One person wrote online: “My thought was a trans atmospheric skip vehicle, but I could just be hopeful.”
And another breathless enthusiast wrote: “Is that aliens!!! What is this?”
A black UFO was spotted during Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket launch(Image: Space X)
The solid rocket boosters of SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket come back for landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida(Image: REUTERS)
SpaceX founder Elon Musk listens at a press conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket(Image: REUTERS)
But other commenters brought the conspiracy theorists back down to earth, saying the unidentified flying object is probably just some human-made space junk or a satellite.
One commented: “It might even have just been another satellite in orbit. With all the c**p that's up there, it's far more likely that it's debris or something that's been in orbit for awhile than it was something secret.
“Tbh with every launch or space station video there's always a ufo sighting on the video.”
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from historic launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida(Image: REUTERS)
Spectators at Cocoa Beach watch SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket launch from the Kennedy Space Center, FloridaImage: REUTERS)
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has sent his rocket to orbit Mars and he has also declared that humans would walk on the Red Planet in just a few decades.
The successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket this week "puts us in a completely different realm of what we can put into deep space, what we can send to Mars", said analogue astronaut Kartik Kumar.
But the next step to Mars, he said, is to tackle non-engineering problems such as medical emergency responses and isolation.
"These are things I think can't be underestimated," Mr Kumar said.
So Musk's goal of transporting life to Mars remains a dream for now, but truthers continue to watch the skies for signs that life may already be up there.
The triangular aircraft – also known as the Black Manta – has long-been claimed by conspiracy theorists to have been built by the USAF under a black project.
There has never been an official acknowledgement of the plane, only sightings and experiences.
But now, alien enthusiast Steve Barone has posted a video that he says is the best proof yet of the elusive craft, reports Express.co.uk.
The short clip appears to show two UFOs flying in front of a canyon near the Nellis Air Force base in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, US.
“I set my night vision camera up to do a little sky fishing looking at the entrance of Red Rock Canyon,” he said.
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“When I got the video inside and went through it slowly and was amazed towards the end of the video you see two triangle objects fly out of the canyon into the Las Vegas valley.
“If you look really close they look like little triangles and appear to have little half domes on top of them.
“If you look at the snapshots you see the bottom one is clearly a triangle and the top one has a rounded dome on top.
“It is a really good example of what was flying out of that canyon.”
Viewers were quick to offer their own thoughts on what the sighting was.
“This is amazing,” one wrote. “I saw something similar a few weeks ago.”
“It passed over in front of me at a super fast speed from right to left and disappeared. This was after viewing UFO orbs high in the night sky the night before."
Another posted: “You really captured these craft in such a way, that no one could deny their existence.”
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New Images of Ancient Maya Megopolis Reveal Thousands of Lost Pyramids And Monuments
New Images of Ancient Maya Megopolis Reveal Thousands of Lost Pyramids And Monuments
Researchers have made a mind-gobbling discovery neat Peten, deep in the Guatemalan jungle. Using LiDAR technology, researchers have found more than 60,000 previously unknown structures that were once home to a massive pre-Columbian Civilization.
With the help of revolutionary LiDAR technology (short for “Light Detection And Ranging”), modern archeologists are making history. Recently, experts have discovered tens of thousands of ancient structures belonging to the ancient Maya civilization.
The LIDAR TITAN instrument used by the PACUNAM LIDAR initiative penetrates the forest cover and the GPS instrumentation allows researchers to locate each point with millimeter accuracy. This allows the development of more accurate surface maps than with any other technology available today.
Image credit: NCALM
“The LiDAR images make it clear that this entire region was a settlement system whose scale and population density had been grossly underestimated,” said Thomas Garrison, an Ithaca College archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer who specializes in using digital technology for archaeological research.
The massive pyramids, temples, palaces, and causeways were discovered hidden deep beneath the dense Guatemalan Jungle.
The discovery suggests that the ancient Maya built massive self-sustaining cities. Furthermore, the discovery has helped confirm that the Maya civilization was much larger and far more advanced than what was previously believed.
Thousands of Pyramids discovered near Peten suggest Guatemala was the center of the Maya civilization. This image shows Tikal and its massive wall.
Image Credit: PACUNAM / Canuto & Auld-Thomas
As noted by researchers, LiDAR technology has also uncovered ancient engineering works and specialized agricultural areas capable of sustaining a massive population at an almost industrial level, and Jorge Mario Chajon, the general director of the Guatemalan Tourism Institute has said; “These findings reaffirm that Guatemala is the heart of the Mayan world.”
3D view of Tikal from the southeast.
Image credit: PACUNAM / Canuto & Auld-Thomas
Led by the so-called Guatemalan PACUNAM LIDAR initiative, this consortium of more than 30 scientists and archaeologists belonging to leading academic institutions worldwide, organized and funded by the PACUNAM Foundation used state-of-the-art technology to explore more than 2,000 km² of the Guatemalan Jungle north of Peten by air.
Researchers have discovered a new pyramid south of the Plaza Perdido de Tikal.
Image credit: PACUNAM / Canuto & Auld-Thomas
Their discoveries were represented in a number of digital maps and in augmented reality applications that transform the aerial data into a land view, designed exclusively for the National Geographic documentary. Thankfully, all of these stunning discoveries were made without having to cut a single tree.
Discovered thanks to new LiDAR scans, Kunal is an early ceremonial center discovered by the Naachtun Archaeological Project.
Image credit: PACUNAM / Estrada-Belli.
Previously a Mayan population of between 1 and 2 million inhabitants had been proposed by experts, but the new data has shown a population of about 20 million inhabitants that occupied the plains of the Mayan civilization, an amount that represents around half of the European population at that time, occupying an area the size of Italy.
Many archeological monuments remain hidden beneath the jungle and are only visible thanks to new technology. Seen here is the archaeological site of El Zotz.
Image credit: PACUNAM / Garrison / El Zotz Archaeological Project
“This revelation is one of the most important developments in Mayan archeology in the last 100 years,” said Tom Garrison, of Ithaca College, one of the archaeologists leading the project.
“The Mayan wars have been the subject of research for decades and, now, the technology is revealing the physical manifestation of those past conflicts, demonstrating that they were a determining factor of the ancient Mayan culture, probably configuring the emergence and development of some of their bigger cities,” he added.
New research suggests that some 12,800 years ago, an astonishing 10 percent of the Earth’s land surface was consumed by fires, thanks to a cosmic impact.
Image via Jayson Coil
A new study suggests that, on a day about 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, igniting fires across the globe. The large study, of geochemical and isotopic markers from 170 different sites around the world, was published in two papers in the Journal of Geology on February 1, 2018 (here and here).
At the time, the Earth had emerged from an ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated. In a statement, the researchers imagined what it might have been like for humans at the time:
Out of nowhere, the sky was lit with fireballs. This was followed by shock waves.
Fires rushed across the landscape, and dust clogged the sky, cutting off the sunlight. As the climate rapidly cooled, plants died, food sources were snuffed out, and the glaciers advanced again. Ocean currents shifted, setting the climate into a colder, almost “ice age” state that lasted an additional thousand years.
Finally, the researchers said, the climate began to warm again. This world had fewer large animals, evidenced by, for example, completely different kinds of spear points left behind by North American people of that time.
The researchers believe the data suggests the disaster was touched off when Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet that was roughly 62 miles (100 km) in diameter — the remnants of which persist within our solar system to this day.
Adrian Melott, professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of Kansas is a study author. Melott said in a statement:
The hypothesis is that a large comet fragmented and the chunks impacted the Earth, causing this disaster. A number of different chemical signatures — carbon dioxide, nitrate, ammonia and others — all seem to indicate that an astonishing 10 percent of the Earth’s land surface, or about 10 million square kilometers [3.9 million square miles], was consumed by fires.
According to Melott, analysis of pollen suggests pine forests were probably burned off to be replaced by poplar, which is a species that colonizes cleared areas.
The authors suggest that the cosmic impact could even have touched off the Younger Dryas cool episode, a temporary return to glacial conditions, as well as biomass burning, late Pleistocene extinctions of larger species and human cultural shifts and population declines. Melott said:
Computations suggest that the impact would have depleted the ozone layer, causing increases in skin cancer and other negative health effects.The impact hypothesis is still a hypothesis, but this study provides a massive amount of evidence, which we argue can only be all explained by a major cosmic impact.
Bottom line: According to a new study of geochemical and isotopic markers, around 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, igniting fires across the planet.
On Friday, a small asteroid called 2018 CB will safely whiz by Earth, posing absolutely no threat to humanity. It will get pretty close to our pale blue dot, however, giving Earth a much-needed hug.
According to NASA, the asteroid will pass our planet at around 5:30 p.m. Eastern (2:30 p.m. Pacific) at a distance of about 39,000 miles (64,000 kilometers). That’s only one-fifth of the distance between Earth and our moon, making this a pretty close encounter. Still, the asteroid is just a smol boy — it’s likely between 50 and 130 feet (15 and 40 meters) in size. It’s like a flying kitten, minus all the biting and scratching.
“Although 2018 CB is quite small, it might well be larger than the asteroid that entered the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, almost exactly five years ago, in 2013,” Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, says in a press release. “Asteroids of this size do not often approach this close to our planet — maybe only once or twice a year.”
Asteroid 2018 CB
Surprisingly, 2018 CB and another asteroid that passed us this week — 2018 CC — were discovered on Sunday, February 4. Both were spotted by astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) in Arizona.
For those hoping to get whacked in the face by an asteroid: I’m sorry. This tiny asteroid means no harm — it just wants to take a close peek at Earth and then pass onward into the void.
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NASA has been developing a new power source called the kilopower reactor, that could potentially provide energy for use in space.
According to NASA, if the trials are successful they could provide an affordable nuclear power system to enable long-duration stays on other planets.
So, with previous evidence of water existing on mars and now a potential new power source, are we another step closer to living in space? And can we actually buy land there?
NASA have found evidence of water on Mars.
Picture: Getty.
Travelling the distance
While travelling to the moon and Mars were once distant dreams reserved for aspiring astronauts, in the near future, entrepreneurs may be making it a possibility for ordinary cashed-up citizens to hitch a ride to outer space.
Currently, space tourism is a real industry, with four tourists having flown in Russian vessels for a one-week trip to space costing them $US20 million each.
But now, business minds are investing in space airlines, making it possible to fly more people into the cosmos for less money.
Virgin’s Richard Branson and Amazon’s Jef Bezos want to send people to space.
Billionaire and founder of the Virgin Group, Richard Branson, has been building the world’s first commercial airline Virgin Galactic.
With fares costing US$250,000 each, 580 people have already put down deposits for a ride aboard.
Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is also investing in spacecrafts and has priced each trip with his new company Blue Origin at US$300,000.
Bezos says that while short trips and space tourism is a first step, he envisages people one day living in space.
“The long-term vision is millions of people living and working in space. We need a space-faring civilisation,” Bezos said at The Satellite 2017 conference in Washington.
The launch of these vessels may be sooner than you think, with Branson aiming to have his first commercial space flight launched by the end of 2018, and Bezos hoping to launch a Blue Origin ship in the beginning of 2019.
Can you buy a house in space?
Imagine living on another planet.
Picture: Getty.
Although space travel may become more accessible in the near future and we’re continually finding more ways to sustain life outside planet Earth, the question of being able to purchase land in space and live on it is still a grey area.
In 1967 the US and the Soviet Union negotiated the Outer Space Treaty, which states that no nation can own a piece of the moon.
But this hasn’t stopped entrepreneurs from selling acreage on other planets and moons, with some arguing the treaty didn’t technically prohibit individuals or companies from owning it.
Lunar Land is one of the most prominent companies selling extraterrestrial real estate and has reportedly sold blocks to celebrities, NASA employees, past presidents and multinational corporations.
The company was founded in 1980 by an American entrepreneur, Dennis Hope, who registered and copyrighted his business venture with his local US governmental office.
The company is registered to sell land from any planet or moon within the galaxy except Earth and the sun, but has neither been acknowledged or contested by the UN.
According to the website, Lunar Land has sold over one million hectares of land to date, at roughly $US50 per hectare.
Nicole Kidman, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Barbara Walters and two former US presidents, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, have all reportedly purchased land through the company.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise are among the list of stars who Luna Land claims have bought land in space.
Picture: Getty.
Despite their popularity, these online deeds remain controversial; the lack of recognition by the UN or any other international body leaves their legitimacy up in the air.
And while we remain in waiting for an international authority to confirm the legitimacy of extraterrestrial real estate, with billions being invested into the space industry, living on another planet may not be as far away as we think.
WHY ALIEN LIFE WOULD BE OUR DOOM - THE GREAT FILTER
WHY ALIEN LIFE WOULD BE OUR DOOM - THE GREAT FILTER
Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news - or would it? If we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, this probably means our days are numbered and doom is certain.
Extraterrestrial life, also called alien life (or, if it is a sentient or relatively complex individual, an "extraterrestrial" or "alien"), is life that occurs outside of Earth and that probably did not originate from Earth. These hypothetical life forms may range from simple prokaryotes to beings with civilizations far more advanced than humanity. The Drake equation speculates about the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. The science of extraterrestrial life in all its forms is known as exobiology.
Since the mid-20th century, there has been an ongoing search for signs of extraterrestrial life. This encompasses a search for current and historic extraterrestrial life, and a narrower search for extraterrestrial intelligent life. Depending on the category of search, methods range from the analysis of telescope and specimen data to radios used to detect and send communication signals.
The concept of extraterrestrial life, and particularly extraterrestrial intelligence, has had a major cultural impact, chiefly in works of science fiction. Over the years, science fiction communicated scientific ideas, imagined a wide range of possibilities, and influenced public interest in and perspectives of extraterrestrial life. One shared space is the debate over the wisdom of attempting communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Some encourage aggressive methods to try for contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. Others—citing the tendency of technologically advanced human societies to enslave or wipe out less advanced societies—argue that it may be dangerous to actively call attention to Earth.
General
Alien life, such as microorganisms, has been hypothesized to exist in the Solar System and throughout the universe. This hypothesis relies on the vast size and consistent physical laws of the observable universe. According to this argument, made by scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, as well as well-regarded thinkers such as Winston Churchill, it would be improbable for life not to exist somewhere other than Earth. This argument is embodied in the Copernican principle, which states that Earth does not occupy a unique position in the Universe, and the mediocrity principle, which states that there is nothing special about life on Earth. The chemistry of life may have begun shortly after the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, during a habitable epoch when the universe was only 10–17 million years old. Life may have emerged independently at many places throughout the universe. Alternatively, life may have formed less frequently, then spread—by meteoroids, for example—between habitable planets in a process called panspermia. In any case, complex organic molecules may have formed in the protoplanetary disk of dust grains surrounding the Sun before the formation of Earth. According to these studies, this process may occur outside Earth on several planets and moons of the Solar System and on planets of other stars.
Since the 1950s, scientists have proposed that "habitable zones" around stars are the most likely places to find life. Numerous discoveries in such zones since 2007 have generated numerical estimates of Earth-like planets —in terms of composition—of many billions. As of 2013, only a few planets have been discovered in these zones. Nonetheless, on 4 November 2013, astronomers reported, based on Kepler space mission data, that there could be as many as 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs in the Milky Way, 11 billion of which may be orbiting Sun-like stars. The nearest such planet may be 12 light-years away, according to the scientists. Astrobiologists have also considered a "follow the energy" view of potential habitats.
Evolution
A study published in 2017 suggests that due to how complexity evolved in species on Earth, the level of predictability for alien evolution elsewhere would make them look similar to life on our planet. One of the study authors, Sam Levin, notes "Like humans, we predict that they are made-up of a hierarchy of entities, which all cooperate to produce an alien. At each level of the organism there will be mechanisms in place to eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation, and keep the organism functioning. We can even offer some examples of what these mechanisms will be." There is also research in assessing the capacity of life for developing intelligence. It has been suggested that this capacity arises with the number of potential niches a planet contains, and that the complexity of life itself is reflected in the information density of planetary environments, which in turn can be computed from its niches.
Biochemical basis
Life on Earth requires water as a solvent in which biochemical reactions take place. Sufficient quantities of carbon and other elements, along with water, might enable the formation of living organisms on terrestrial planets with a chemical make-up and temperature range similar to that of Earth. More generally, life based on ammonia (rather than water) has been suggested, though this solvent appears less suitable than water. It is also conceivable that there are forms of life whose solvent is a liquid hydrocarbon, such as methane, ethane or propane.
About 29 chemical elements play an active positive role in living organisms on Earth. About 95% of living matter is built upon only six elements: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.
These six elements form the basic building blocks of virtually all life on Earth, whereas most of the remaining elements are found only in trace amounts. The unique characteristics of carbon make it unlikely that it could be replaced, even on another planet, to generate the biochemistry necessary for life. The carbon atom has the unique ability to make four strong chemical bonds with other atoms, including other carbon atoms. These covalent bonds have a direction in space, so that carbon atoms can form the skeletons of complex 3-dimensional structures with definite architectures such as nucleic acids and proteins. Carbon forms more compounds than all other elements combined. The great versatility of the carbon atom makes it the element most likely to provide the bases—even exotic ones—for the chemical composition of life on other planets.
Planetary habitability in the Solar System
Some bodies in the Solar System have the potential for an environment in which extraterrestrial life can exist, particularly those with possible subsurface oceans. Should life be discovered elsewhere in the Solar System, astrobiologists suggest that it will more likely be in the form of extremophile microorganisms. According to NASA's 2015 Astrobiology Strategy, "Life on other worlds is most likely to include microbes, and any complex living system elsewhere is likely to have arisen from and be founded upon microbial life. Important insights on the limits of microbial life can be gleaned from studies of microbes on modern Earth, as well as their ubiquity and ancestral characteristics."
Mars may have niche subsurface environments where microbial life might exist. A subsurface marine environment on Jupiter's moon Europa might be the most likely habitat in the Solar System, outside Earth, for extremophilemicroorganisms.
The panspermia hypothesis proposes that life elsewhere in the Solar System may have a common origin. If extraterrestrial life was found on another body in the Solar System, it could have originated from Earth just as life on Earth could have been seeded from elsewhere (exogenesis). The first known mention of the term 'panspermia' was in the writings of the 5th century BC Greek philosopher Anaxagoras. In the 19th century it was again revived in modern form by several scientists, including Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1834), Kelvin (1871), Hermann von Helmholtz (1879) and, somewhat later, by Svante Arrhenius (1903). Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) and Chandra Wickramasinghe (born 1939) are important proponents of the hypothesis who further contended that life forms continue to enter Earth's atmosphere, and may be responsible for epidemic outbreaks, new diseases, and the genetic novelty necessary for macroevolution.
Directed panspermia concerns the deliberate transport of microorganisms in space, sent to Earth to start life here, or sent from Earth to seed new stellar systems with life. The Nobel prize winner Francis Crick, along with Leslie Orgel proposed that seeds of life may have been purposely spread by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, but considering an early "RNA world" Crick noted later that life may have originated on Earth.
New evidence suggests that both a meteorite and massive volcano eruptions worked together to wipe out the dinosaurs.
An apocalyptic impact
Dinosaurs ruled the planet for over a hundred million years, but their reign came to an abrupt end some 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous. The most popular theory, and the one with the most evidence to back it is that this abrupt end was brought about by a massive asteroid or a comet — the crater of which we call Chicxulub.
The Chicxulub impact crater, as it can be “seen” through geophysical techniques.
Chicxulub lies underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, hidden to the naked eye, visible only through geophysical techniques. The crater, which measures 150 kilometers (93 miles) in diameter and 20 km (12 mi) in depth, indicates an apocalyptic impact. Geologists estimate that the impact had the energy of 10 billion Hiroshima A-bombs, millions of times more powerful than any object mankind has ever detonated. Words can’t do this event justice.
A cloud of super-heated dust, ash and steam spread from the crater at dramatic speeds, as the impact body burrowed underground in less than a second. Virtually all life 5,000 km away was wiped instantly. But the worst was still yet to come.
The impact triggered a massive emission of dust and particles which covered the entire surface of the Earth for several years, possibly a decade, creating a harsh environment for living things. Initially, the shock destruction of carbonate rocks led to a sudden and powerful greenhouse effect, heating the planet. But as time went on, the dust particles blocked the sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth, cooling the surface dramatically.
To top it all off, the impact generated ungodly shockwaves, which in turn caused earthquakes and caused volcanic activity. This is where the new study comes in.
A one-two punch
New oceanic crust is constantly produced at mid-oceanic ridges. Here, red represents the newer crust. This helps geologists get a ballpark figure for dating the rocks. The date is then finessed through direct measurement techniques.
As if all that wasn’t enough, the impact also triggered volcanic activity which helped seal the dinosaurs’ fate.
“We found evidence for a previously unknown period of globally heighted volcanic activity during the mass-extinction event,” said former UO doctoral student Joseph Byrnes.
Byrnes and Leif Karlstrom, a professor in the UO’s Department of Earth Sciences, analyzed a record of volcanism preserved along the mid-ocean ridges — underwater mountain system formed at the edge of tectonic plates.
In order to assess the volcanic activity, they used a geophysical technique called gravity surveying. This approach involves measuring the Earth’s gravitational field using highly sensitive instruments, capable of picking up even minute differences. In this instance, researchers used freely available satellite data.
By mapping the gravity field, they are able to deduct the density of the underlying rocks and thus, they have some information as to what kind of rock they’re looking at (for instance, a volcanic basalt will have a much higher density than a sedimentary limestone). This allows them to identify volcanic regions, and improved dating methods allowed them to place the increased volcanic activity right at the same time as Chicxulub, establishing a strong correlation.
“Our work suggests a connection between these exceedingly rare and catastrophic events, distributed over the entire planet,” Karlstrom said. “The meteorite’s impact may have influenced volcanic eruptions that were already going on, making for a one-two punch.”
So, researchers conclude, it wasn’t the impact itself that wiped out the dinosaurs, but rather a cascade of effects, including massive eruptions of underwater volcanoes. It’s another important reminder that the Earth is a tightly-knit ecosystem, and severe events tend to propagate all around the planet.
However, perhaps it’s important to note that through this catastrophe, and a few similarly devastating events, life still managed to find a way. Dinosaurs themselves, despite popular knowledge, are not exactly extinct. In a way, they’re thriving — as birds. A group of dinosaurs evolved and adapted, becoming the birds we see all around us.
Artistic depiction of the Chicxulub ipact. This painting by Donald E. Davis depicts an asteroid slamming into tropical, shallow seas of the sulfur-rich Yucatan Peninsula in what is today southeast Mexico.
Journal Reference: Joseph S. Byrnes, Leif Karlstrom. Anomalous K-Pg–aged seafloor attributed to impact-induced mid-ocean ridge magmatism. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao2994
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.
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