Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
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14-02-2018
NASA Wants to Build a Super Quiet Supersonic Jet
NASA Wants to Build a Super Quiet Supersonic Jet
By Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer
A NASA rendering shows an early vision of what the quiet supersonic X-plane might look like.
Credit: NASA
A very quiet plane could be coming very fast.
The recent 2019 NASA budget request was, as Live Science sister site Space.com reported, light on science and funding for the International Space Station but heavy on commercialization and space exploration. In this proposed budget, President Donald Trump's administration also announced its intention to fully fund a new experimental supersonic airplane.
The aircraft, the latest addition to the X-series dating back to Chuck Yeager's sound-barrier-breaking craft, the X-1, will be designed to be much quieter than previous faster-than-sound jets.
The plane, called the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator, would make its first flight in 2021 if the budget line is approved and the craft's development goes according to plan. It's meant as a test bed for technologies that could one day show up on commercial planes, the budget states. It would allow for faster-than-sound travel without the glass-shattering booms that characterize supersonic fighter jets and that enraged Queens, New York, residents during the era of the supersonic New York-to-Europe Concorde jet.
Here's the problem the quiet supersonic craft could solve: When a plane moves slower than sound, the jet's sound waves arrive on the ground in pretty similar shape to how they left the engine (with perhaps a little distortion and pitch-shifting thanks to things like the Doppler effect.) But — as Pennsylvania State University's NoiseQuest lab explained on its website — when planes move faster than sound, they outrun their own engine noise, with the vibrations spreading out behind them through the air in a kind of invisible wake. [Supersonic! The 10 Fastest Military Airplanes]
That wake crashes into the ground as a powerful shock wave, with all the vibrations of a supersonic engine's approach compressed together. They all arrive at each spot that they reach within moments of each other, so instead of the drawn-out whine of an aircraft approaching, observers below hear a single, teeth-rattling boom.
People don't generally like normal airport noise, as the NoiseQuest lab notes, and people definitely don't like when that sound arrives in a series of shocking crashes. That's led to the 1973 Federal Aviation Administration regulation §91.817, which prohibits civilians from engaging in supersonic flight over land in the United States. No supersonic civilian jets have operated since the Concorde was retired in 2003, NASA wrote in a statement accompanying the budget. (The Concorde only flew at subsonic speeds overland in US territory.)
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a preliminary budget to build the new quiet X-plane. The company aims, according to earlier reporting by Bloomberg on the project, to reach a NASA target of 60 to 65 decibels per boom (at least as heard from the ground) by designing a low-sound airframe shape and using engine placement that reduces noise. This would be much quieter than existing supersonic jets.
In this statement, NASA said that the goal is a sonic boom "so quiet it hardly will be noticed by the public, if at all … like distant thunder [or] the sound of your neighbor forcefully shutting his car door outside while you are inside."
NASA is also requesting funds for research into "hypersonic" aircraft, machines that go many times the speed of sound. As Space.com reported, such planes have possible applications as weapons or for space travel.
In a quote printed alongside the requests, Vice President Mike Pence put these goals in the context of a rose-tinted, Manifest Destiny-inflected vision of American history:
"Like the railroads that brought American explorers, entrepreneurs and settlers to tame the Wild West, these groundbreaking new technologies will open untold opportunities to extend the range of American action and values into the new worlds of outer space," the vice president said. "And by fostering much stronger partnerships between the federal government and the realm of industry, and bringing the full force of our national interest to bear, American leadership in space will be assured."
Monday saw the seventh orbital launch of the year by China, with a Long March-3B/YZ-1 orbiting a new pair of navigation satellites. The launch took place at 05:03 UTC from the LC2 Launch Complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan province. It took over four hours to complete the mission.
It is expected that the Beidou-3MEO3 (Beidou-28) and Beidou-3MEO4 (Beidou-29) satellites were onboard. The MEO satellites are the Medium Earth Orbit component of the third phase of the Chinese Beidou (Compass) satellite navigation system. The satellites are part of a fleet that will expand the system to a global navigation coverage.
The satellites are using a new bus that features a phased array antenna for navigation signals and a laser retroreflector, with a launch mass 1,014 kg. Spacecraft dimensions are noted to be 2.25 by 1.0 by 1.22 meters. Usually, the satellites reside in a 21,500 – 21,400 km nominal orbit at 55.5 degrees.
The previous launch on the series took place on January 12th, when the Long March-3B/Y1 (Y45/Y5) launch vehicle orbited the Beidou-3MEO7 (Beidou-26) and Beidou-3MEO8 (Beidou-27) satellites. On November 5, 2017, the Long March-3B/Y1 (Y46/Y4) orbited the Beidou-3MEO1 (Beidou-24) and the Beidou-3MEO2 (Beidou-25) satellites.
BeiDou-3 satellite, as rendered by J Huart.
In March another Long March-3B/Y1 launch vehicle should orbit the Beidou-3MEO5 (Beidou-30) and the Beidou-3MEO6 (Beidou-31) satellites.
The Beidou Phase III system includes the migration of its civil Beidou 1 or B1 signal from 1561.098 MHz to a frequency centered at 1575.42 MHz – the same as the GPS L1 and Galileo E1 civil signals – and its transformation from a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation to a multiplexed binary offset carrier (MBOC) modulation similar to the future GPS L1C and Galileo’s E1.
The Phase II B1 open service signal uses QPSK modulation with 4.092 megahertz bandwidth centered at 1561.098 MHz.
The current Beidou constellation spacecraft are transmitting open and authorized signals at B2 (1207.14 MHz) and an authorized service at B3 (1268.52 MHz).
Real-time, stand-alone Beidou horizontal positioning accuracy was classed as better than 6 meters (95 percent) and with a vertical accuracy better than 10 meters (95 percent).
The Compass Navigation Satellite System (CNSS) is China’s satellite navigation system, approved by the Chinese government in 2004, capable of providing continuous, real-time passive 3D geo-spatial positioning and speed measurement.
The Chinese navigation system is being developed and deployed in three phases. Phase 1 (starting in 2003), consisted of an experimental regional navigation system, BeiDou-1, which provided active navigation service.
Phase 2 (started in 2012), consisted of a reduced satellite constellation and provides open service over China. This phase aimed at deploying a system with passive positioning and timing capability over a regional area.
Phase 3 aims for full operational capability by 2020 with a constellation of 27 MEOs plus 5 GEOs and the existing 3 IGSOs satellites of the regional system. CNSS would provide global navigation services, similarly to the GPS, GLONASS or Galileo systems.
CNSS is expected to support two different kinds of general services: RDSS and RNSS. In the Radio Determination Satellite Service (RDSS), the user position is computed by a ground station using the round trip time of signals exchanged via GEO satellite. The RDSS long-term feature further includes short message communication (guaranteeing backward compatibility with Beidou-1), large volume message communication, information connection, and extended coverage.
The Radio Navigation Satellite Service (RNSS) is very similar to that provided by GPS and Galileo and is designed to achieve similar performances.
The long-term goal is to develop a global navigation satellite network similar to the GPS and GLONASS by 2020 eventually consisting a constellation of 35 vehicles, including 27 MEO (21,500 km orbits) satellites, three IGSO satellites (inclined at 55 degrees) and five GSO satellites.
The system will be dual-use, based on a civilian service that will provide an accuracy of 10 meters in the user position, 0.2 m/s on the user velocity and 50 nanoseconds in time accuracy; and the military and authorized user’s service, providing higher accuracies. The first phase of the project will involve coverage of the Chinese territory. However, the future Compass constellation will cover the entire globe.
This mission is also the second flight of the Long March-3B/YZ-1 (Chang Zheng-3B/YZ-1) version of the Long March-3B.
Long March 3B – via ChinaNews.com
The launcher was developed from the Chang Zheng-3A. The CZ-3B features enlarged launch propellant tanks, improved computer systems, a larger 4.2 meter diameter payload fairing and the addition of four strap-on boosters in the core stage that provide additional help during the first phase of the launch.
The rocket is capable of launching an 11,200 kg satellite to a low Earth orbit or a 5,100 kg cargo to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
The CZ-3B/G2 (Enhanced Version) launch vehicle was developed from the CZ-3B, increasing the GTO capacity up to 5,500kg. The CZ-3B/E has nearly the same configurations with CZ-3B bar its enlarged core stage and boosters.
On May 14, 2007, the first flight of CZ-3B/G2 was performed successfully, accurately sending the NigcomSat-1 into pre-determined orbit. With the GTO launch capability of 5,500kg, CZ-3B/G2 is dedicated for launching heavy GEO communications satellite.
The rocket structure also combines all sub-systems together and is composed of four strap-on boosters, a first stage, a second stage, a third stage and payload fairing.
The first two stages, as well as the four strap-on boosters, use hypergolic (N2O4/UDMH) fuel while the third stage uses cryogenic (LOX/LH2) fuel. The total length of the CZ-3B is 54.838 meters, with a diameter of 3.35 meters on the core stage and 3.00 meters on the third stage.
Long March 3B
On the first stage, the CZ-3B uses a YF-21C engine with a 2,961.6 kN thrust and a specific impulse of 2,556.5 Ns/kg. The first stage diameter is 3.35 m and the stage length is 23.272 m.
Each strap-on booster is equipped with a YF-25 engine with a 740.4 kN thrust and a specific impulse of 2,556.2 Ns/kg. The strap-on booster diameter is 2.25 m and the strap-on booster length is 15.326 m.
The second stage is equipped with a YF-24E (main engine – 742 kN / 2,922.57 Ns/kg; four vernier engines – 47.1 kN / 2,910.5 Ns/kg each). The second stage diameter is 3.35 m and the stage length is 12.920 m.
The third stage is equipped with a YF-75 engine developing 167.17 kN and with a specific impulse of 4,295 Ns/kg. The fairing diameter of the CZ-3B is 4.00 meters and has a length of 9.56 meters.
The Yuanzheng-1 (“Expedition-1″) uses a small thrust 6.5 kN engine burning UDMH/N2O4 with a specific impulse at 3,092 m/s. The upper stage should be able to conduct two burns, having a 6.5 hour lifetime and is capable of achieving a variety of orbits.
It will be adapted for use on the CZ-3A/B/C series mainly for direct MEO/GEO insertion missions (mostly for the navigation satellites of the Beidou GNSS).
A previous Long March 3B launch via the control center.
The typical flight sequence for the LM-3B launch vehicle in a standard GTO mission starts with the ignition of the first stage engines together with the ignition of the four liquid strap-on boosters. General launch profile sees the launch vehicle doing the pitch over maneuver at 10 seconds after leaving the launch platform. At two minutes 27 seconds into the flight, boosters shutdown occurs and separation follows one second later.
First stage shutdown takes place at 2 minutes 25 seconds, and stage separation two seconds later with the second stage ignition. The separation of the fairing occurs 3 minutes 35 seconds into the flight.
Second stage main engine shutdown takes place 5 minutes and 25 seconds into the flight and second stage Vernier engines shutdown takes place five seconds later, followed by the separation between the second and the third stage, and third stage first ignition.
This will end at 10 minutes 16 seconds into the flight. At this time begins a coast phase that ends 20 minutes 58 seconds after launch with the second ignition of the third stage. This ends three minutes later, starting then a 20 seconds velocity adjustment phase. Separation of the cargo usually takes place 25 minutes 38 seconds after launch.
The Xichang Satellite Launch Centre is situated in the Sichuan Province, south-western China and is the country’s launch site for geosynchronous orbital launches.
Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
Equipped with two launch pads (LC2 and LC3), the center has a dedicated railway and highway lead directly to the launch site.
The Command and Control Centre is located seven kilometers south-west of the launch pad, providing flight and safety control during launch rehearsal and launch.
Other facilities on the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre are the Launch Control Centre, propellant fuelling systems, communications systems for launch command, telephone and data communications for users, and support equipment for meteorological monitoring and forecasting.
The first launch from Xichang took place at 12:25UTC on January 29, 1984, when the Chang Zheng-3 (CZ3-1) was launched the Shiyan Weixing (14670 1984-008A) communications satellite into orbit.
Once again, due to the location of the launch site, locals had to dodge the expended stages. Dramatic photos of the booster impacting a local village are now online, although there are no reports of casualties.
A new satellite in the Ludikancha Weixing series should be riding into orbit at the end of February from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
The Ludikancha Weixing satellites are very high-resolution earth observation satellites. Operating in 500 km polar orbits, the satellites are possibly military in nature.
The next launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center should take place on March 15 with a Long March-3B/G2 orbiting the APStar-6C communications satellite.
Gigantische lavakoepel op Japanse zeebodem blijft maar groeien en dat baart onderzoekers grote zorgen
Gigantische lavakoepel op Japanse zeebodem blijft maar groeien en dat baart onderzoekers grote zorgen
De Kikai Caldera
FOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS: SATSUMA IWOJIMA IWO DAKE
Wetenschappers hebben na nieuwe onderzoek het gevaar van de gigantische lavakoepel ontdekt in Kikai, een onder water gelegen krater bij de Japanse Osumi-eilanden. De vervormingen op het oppervlak suggereren namelijk dat de koepel groeit en dat kan dodelijk zijn: als de aardkorst barst, ontsnapt een enorme massa lava met een ‘vulkanische winter’ en tsunami’s tot gevolg.
Wereldwijd zijn er meer dan 1.500 vulkanen actief. De Etna in Italië, de Eyjafjallajökul en andere onuitspreekbare vulkanen in IJsland, de Pinatubo in de Filipijnen en Mount Agung in Bali: het zijn slechts enkele voorbeelden. Die laatste is momenteel erg actief en veroorzaakte al massale evacuatie, maar het kan erger: als de supervulkaan bij de Osumi-eilanden in het zuidelijkste punt van Japan uitbarst, kunnen er miljoenen mensen sterven.
Uitbarsten zonder waarschuwing
De studie, uitgevoerd door onderzoekers van het Kobe Ocean-Bottom Exploration Center (KOBEC), bevestigde dat er zo’n 7.300 jaar geleden een gigantische lavakoepel ontstond na de uitbarsting van de Kikai-vulkaan. Maar ze ontdekten ook iets nieuws: de veranderingen in het oppervlak. Dat zou kunnen betekenen dat de vulkaan zich voorbereidt op een comeback.
FOTO: NATURE
De lavakoepel is momenteel ongeveer 10 kilometer breed en 600 meter lang, en zou zo’n 32 kubieke kilometer magma bevatten, en dat onder water. De wetenschappers geloven nu dat er een uitbarsting van de koepel zit aan te komen, zonder waarschuwing, en dat het een dodelijke ‘vulkanische winter’ zou kunnen veroorzaken.
‘Vulkanische winter’ en tsunami
Supervulkanen zijn anders dan bovengenoemde actieve stratovulkanen. Ze zijn zeldzamer, maar des te gevaarlijker. Als ze uitbarsten zijn de gevolgen vaak catastrofaal en vooral mondiaal. Als de enorme massa lava, die borrelt onder het oppervlak van de lavakoepel in Zuid-Japan, uit de oppervlakte barst, kan het de planeet voorgoed veranderen.
Een zogenaamde vulkanische winter is een fenomeen dat alleen supervulkanen kunnen veroorzaken. Hun as komt dan in de stratosfeer terecht, waardoor de zon wordt geblokkeerd. Dat zorgt dan weer voor een grote temperatuurdaling. In 1816 was een dergelijke uitbarsting van de vulkaan Tambora in Indonesië de aanleiding voor ‘het jaar zonder zomer’: in Amerika vroor het nog in juni, in Europa stierven toen naar schatting zo’n 200.000 mensen.
De superuitbarsting kan ook verwoestende tsunami’s veroorzaken die zuidelijk Japan en de kusten van Taiwan en China treffen, om dan zelfs de kust van Noord- en Zuid-Amerika te bereiken.
1% kans binnen 100 jaar
“Veel van deze supervulkanen herhalen hun superuitbarstingen, ook al is dat na miljoenen jaren”, klinkt het in het rapport. Het is niet de eerste studie van Kikai: sinds KOBEC in 2015 werd opgericht, heeft het al drie studiereizen uitgevoerd. De lavakoepel steeg al tot 600 meter boven de zeebodem en is nu nog maar ongeveer 30 meter van het oppervlak verwijderd. De ontdekte veranderingen op het oppervlak van de koepel, doen de onderzoekers geloven dat lava zich onder de koepel ophoopt en de massa stilaan stuwt.
Het team deed de observaties met onderwaterrobots, stalen en analyses van de gesteenten met behulp van onderwaterseismografieën en elektromagnetometers. De onderzoekers zijn van plan om terug te gaan. Dan gebruiken ze seismische reflectie en onderwaterrobots om het vormingsproces van de krater verder te onderzoeken.
10% bevolking leeft bij vulkaan
Japan zit bovenop vier verschillende tektonische platen, waardoor het een van de meest seismisch actieve regio’s van de aarde is. Waarom blijven daar dan zoveel mensen wonen? “Zo’n 10% van de bevolking leeft in vulkanisch gebied”, zegt vulkanoloog Sam Poppe aan onze krant. “De voordelen wegen vaak op tegen de nadelen. Zo is de vruchtbaarheid van de grond er erg goed, waardoor ze uitstekende landbouw kunnen verrichten. De gevaren die het met zich kan meebrengen, worden genegeerd of kennen ze gewoonweg niet.”
De kans dat die mensen een uitbarsting meemaken in hun leven, is dan ook klein. “Maar als er echt 1% kans is op een superuitbarsting binnen dit en 100 jaar, is dat geen kleine kans”, zegt hij verwijzend naar de huidige ontdekking in Japan. Mogelijk weten we in maart meer, wanneer het team verder op onderzoek gaat.
Chinese Rocket Booster drops from Sky and smashes on top of a Building
Chinese Rocket Booster drops from Sky and smashes on top of a Building
On February 12, 2018 we saw the seventh orbital launch of the year by China, with a Long March-3B/YZ-1 orbiting a new pair of navigation satellites. The launch took place just after 05:00 UTC from the LC2 Launch Complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan province. It took over four hours to complete the mission.
While American rockets fall into the ocean, China keeps dropping expended rocket boosters on land.
Although, they try to calculate these drop zones very carefully to avoid inhabited areas or in some places they evacuate an area or even a complete town, sometimes these expended rocket boosters come very close to populated areas.
And not surprisingly the Chinese sat launch has again dropped rocket boosters and this time over a populated area in Tianlin county, Guangxi where rocket parts smashed near and on top of a building.
They have evacuated the people before hand, but of course it is crazy that they still drop the rocket boosters over inhabited areas.
Bright UFO flying towards Cessna during Flight over Nebraska
Bright UFO flying towards Cessna during Flight over Nebraska
The video was taken during a cross-country flight in eastern Nebraska on February 11, 2018. The videographer did not notice anything during the flight but looking at the video he noticed the strange visual at 00:34 seconds.
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1: Full video clip (44 seconds; UFO at 34 seconds) 2: Regular speed replay of the UFO 3: Four ultra slow-motion clips of the UFO 4: Two regular speed repeats of the UFO
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Filer’s Files #6 – 2018 Trillions of Exo-planets - PART I
One of Seven Earth like Exoplanets Surrounding Trappist =1
Filer’s Files #6 – 2018 Trillions of Exo-planets - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Bigelow Aerospace Claims ET Is Here, Black Triangle Sightings The Nephilim Roamed the Earth, English Megalithic Circles, , Children of the Aliens, Railgun Weapon, MUFON Records 690 UFO Sightings in January.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Russia, Thailand, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Bigelow Aerospace Claims ET Is Here
On 60 Minutes Bigelow Aerospace president Robert Bigelow said “there has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence” on or around Earth. “I’m absolutely convinced. That’s all there is to it,”Bigelow told Lara Logan.
Bigelow, whose company has partnered with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test their immense, expandable spaceship habitats, inflated in orbit, has been a believer in UFOs as extraterrestrial phenomena since his grandparents reported encountering a craft that “sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car.”
Through his now-defunct National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), Bigelow collected hotline reports of UFO sightings and worked with MUFON and developed the Black Triangle report below. When Logan asked if he’s risking anything by taking a public stance that UFOs are visiting Earth, Bigelow said, “I don’t give a damn. I don’t care.”“It’s not going to make a difference. It’s not going to change reality of what I know,” he said. “You don’t have to go anywhere… it’s just like right under people’s noses.”
Black Triangle Sightings
Leonard David of Space.com writes, “They have become legendary in UFO circles; these huge, silent-running “Flying Triangles have been seen by ground observers creeping through the sky low and slow near cities and quietly cruising over highways.”
The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), now defunct has catalogued the Triangle sightings, sifting through and combining databases to take a hard look at the mystery craft. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, NIDS was privately funded by Robert Bigelow science institute with a strong research focusing on aerial phenomena. The results of the study have been released and lead to some unnerving, still puzzling conclusions.
The study points out: “The United States experienced a wave of Flying Triangle sightings that may have intensified especially towards the latter part of the 1990s. The wave continues. The Flying Triangles are being openly deployed over and near population centers, including in the vicinity of major Interstate Highways.”
Covert operations?
A key NIDS conclusion is that the actions of these triangular craft do not conform to previous patterns of covert deployment of unacknowledged military aircraft. Furthermore, “neither the agenda nor the origin of the Flying Triangles are currently known.”
The years 1990-2004 have seen an intense wave of Flying Triangle aircraft, the study observes. Sifting through reports by hundreds of eyewitnesses, the NIDS assessment states that the behavior of the vehicles “does not appear consistent with the covert deployment of an advanced DoD [U.S. Department of the Defense] aircraft.”
Rather, it is consistent with (a) the routine and open deployment of an unacknowledged advanced DoD aircraft or (b) the routine and open deployment of an aircraft owned and operated by non-DoD personnel, suggests the NIDS study.
“The implications of the latter possibility are disturbing, especially during the post 9/11 era when the United States airspace is extremely heavily guarded and monitored,” the NIDS study explains. “In support of option (a), there is much greater need for surveillance in the United States in the post 9/11 era and it is certainly conceivable that deployment of low altitude surveillance platforms is routine and open.”
Open, even brazen
According to Colm Kelleher, NIDS Administrator, the newly completed quasi “meta-analysis” of Flying Triangles melds three major U.S. databases: NIDS, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and data collected by independent researcher, Larry Hatch, the creator and owner of one of the largest and most comprehensive UFO databases in the world.
Kelleher said, the analysis indicates that deployment of Flying Triangles is open, not covert, and involves low-flying, brightly lit aircraft routinely deployed over populated areas including cities and Interstate highways.
“However, I cannot say whether these are U.S. Air Force aircraft. We simply don’t know,” Kelleher told SPACE.com . “But it does not appear to be consistent with the covert patterns of deployment we saw with the F-117 and B-2 prior to their acknowledgement. This is open, even brazen,” he stated.
Stealth aircraft
For example, a perfunctory look at the how past DoD stealth aircraft programs were kept from public eye — although eventually came to light — is different from the patterns for the Flying Triangles. Prior to acknowledgement of the F-117 and B-2 aircraft, only rare night time sightings occurred in the sparsely populated sections of Nevada, California and a few other states. Flying at low altitude over populated areas was rarely reported for the F-117 or B-2.
“In contrast, the Flying Triangle deployment, especially during the 1990s, appears more consistent with the open and public operation of these aircraft,” the study explains. The trend of open deployment of the Flying Triangles is not consistent with secret operation of an advanced DoD aircraft.
No attempt to hide
The database-driven study of the Flying Triangle shows the following patterns:
— Sightings take place near cities and on Interstate highways — They are seen at low altitude in plain sight of eyewitnesses — They fly at extremely low speed or hover in plain sight of eyewitnesses — The vehicles sometime fly with easily noticeable bright lights — either blinding white lights, or have “bright disco lights” that usually flash combinations of red, green or blue.
The NIDS study emphasizes that the flying of these vehicles may be more in harmony with an attempt to display or to be noticed. There appears to be little or no attempt to hide. That finding has led to a modification of an earlier NIDS hypothesis that the Triangles are covertly deployed DoD aircraft such as the TR-3..
While it is too early to dismiss the previously published NIDS correlation between Triangle sightings and a subset of U.S. Air Force Bases, the apparent association with centers of population may point away from a covert program. “Rather, it is consistent with routine and open deployment of an advanced aircraft,” the NIDS study concludes.
Clustered on both coasts
During the ensuing years (2000-2004), NIDS received hundreds of reports from people in the United States and Canada reporting large triangular aircraft, often silent and often flying at very low altitude and at low air speed. In many cases, the objects were brightly lit. NIDS files also include reports of Flying Triangles from remote areas.
In mid 2004, NIDS reviewed its database that contains the locations of the Triangle sightings in the United States. The sightings of Triangles appear primarily adjacent to population centers and along Interstate Highways, with sightings clustered on both coasts.
NIDS has amassed almost 400 separate sightings of triangular/boomerang/wedge-shaped objects. Many of these craft are brightly lit, low flying, and traveling at unexpectedly low air speeds.
In earlier reports, NIDS outlined a tentative correlation between reported sightings of Triangles and the locations of Air Mobility Command and Air Force Materiel Command bases in the United States.
Like a Star Trek “uncloaking”
According to ground observers, the features of a Black Triangle are indeed impressive.
For example, the NIDS study includes the observation of a Port Washington Wisconsin person who encountered a large object that flew over her home at 500 feet altitude in October 1998. Her eyeing of the clear starry night was interrupted as the craft came into her field of view.
“Suddenly this monstrosity came out of the ‘blue’, just like a Star Trek ‘uncloaking’, no kidding…so quiet I couldn’t believe it and so huge…no more than 500 feet or so up, and big enough to take up my field of sky vision,” she reported.
Crude mathematics, the witness recounted, would make the vessel about 200 feet wide and 250 feet long.
Two camps
In wrapping up its look at the burgeoning number of Flying Triangle sightings in the United States, NIDS also took into account the work of writers and researchers delving into the topic both in the United States and abroad.
Those analyses fall into two camps: The Triangles are human-made, while the other says they are not.
“In 2004 it is extremely difficult to distinguish between these two possibilities since the former option overlaps heavily with legitimate national security concerns, while in the absence of much more physical evidence, the latter option is not testable,” the NIDS assessment concludes. Thanks to Space.com’s September 2004.
Editor’s Note: We may have been given an alien craft and used the technology in our copies. Here on the East Coast the military was building large radar facilities in the 90s. These programs were suddenly closed. Large blimp like triangles could be fitted with radar similar to that carried by Aegis naval ships. The flying radars could be moved into position to track drug dealers and conduct long range surveillance of enemy missiles and aircraft. The craft could provide a moving target difficult for an enemy to destroy, Triangles have also been observed in Europe and England flying low over the coasts suggesting they might track aircraft or ballistic missiles. Further study next week.
The Nephilim Roamed the Earth
. Genesis 6:4, “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown.” The giant offspring of this union between the sons of God and the daughters of men were called the Nephilim.
Books like Enoch, Jubilees, and many others. the verse in Genesis 6 about the sons of God taking human females as mates is the key, these were the Watchers who polluted the gene pool, It is our opinion that the “sons of God” were fallen angels (demons) from the planer heaven who mated with human females or possessed human males who then mated with human females. These unions resulted in offspring, the Nephilim, That’s why there was a flood and now their way of doing this is part of the UFO phenomena. These fallen angels were part of the rebellion in heaven where one third chose to follow Satan, and who left there first estate or habitation who now are on the earth or bound in Hades till the Apocalypse. This book “The Nephilim Chronicles” to my huge collection on this subject and after 40 years of study feel like I can share this with anybody. This book takes the leap from mythology to science to discover that the Nephilim were the last vestiges of primitive species; who were known for their gigantic height.
A race of giants once roamed the Biblical lands, Europe and North America? Over 300 historical accounts of giant human skeletons are presented in the book. Massive human skeletal remains, burial mound types, symbolism, etymology, numerology and ceremonial centers are compared in the Biblical Levant, the British Isles and the Ohio Valley with stunning similarities. They spread from the Biblical Lands to the British Isles and to the Ohio Valley and South America. Their open-air earthen and stone temples and burial mounds, containing the remains of giants have stood the testament of time; leaving an indelible mark upon our soil.
Herein are the historical accounts of the giant skeletons that have been discovered within burial mounds and subsurface tombs in the Biblical Lands, the British Isles and Europe and North America. Discover for the first time.
Who Built Stonehenge and many archeological sites, the Earthworks in the Ohio Valley. Discover a giant race called the Dinaric whose remains have been found in Jerusalem, in burial mounds at Stonehenge and the Ohio Valley. Discover the ancient Amorite Babylonian symbols that are evident at Stonehenge and the many henges in the Ohio Valley. Discover the evidence of advanced mathematics discovered by the Amorites and how it is evident at Stonehenge and within the earthworks in the Ohio Valley.
Across the Ohio Valley landscape are the ruins of ancient burial mounds and geometric earthworks aligned to solar, lunar and astrological events. Within many of the burial mounds were the skeletal remains of an ancient race of giants with primitive-looking skulls. Within numerous mounds are hundreds of flint discs similar to flying saucers. The geometric earthworks reveal that complex mathematics were used in their construction. The solar temples, best described as henges, are identical to those found in the British Isles and Germany that were constructed by the Beaker People. Their conical burial mounds, like those in Ohio, were surrounded by an earthwork or moats. Archaeologists cannot deny that the mound builders are real. What they deny are the things sometimes discovered inside the mounds. Over the past century and a half it’s been revealed again and again that some of the mounds – and the small pyramids – are the burial grounds of huge men often eight feet or taller that had a very sophisticated culture. Some of the giants have been found wearing intricate leather armor and have been buried with swords.
Premium, author and researcher Fritz Zimmerman compares burial mound types, earthworks and giant skulls from the British Isles and the Ohio Valley. Also, Early and Middle Age Bronze weapons technology from Mesopotamia and the Great Lakes Copper Culture are examined and compared showing similar and simultaneous advancements. A numerical codex called Gematria is also evident within the lengths of many of the Ohio works that is not believed to be a serendipitous coincidence. Wiltshire Mound (Barrows), England
Fritz will also highlights some of largest burial mounds and earthworks in the Ohio Valley that have been listed as “Address Restricted” by archaeologists. This veil of secrecy has been removed in his “Travel Guide,” making the location of these ancient sites public for the first time.
Fritz Zimmerman is the author of “The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley“ Ten years of fieldwork exploring over 700 mound and earthwork sites in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Michigan, resulting in the discovery of 222 locations where these ancient ruins can be visited.”
If you are interested in the real history of North America you must read this book! The author Fritz Zimmerman has done his homework! He has collected hundreds of newspaper stories and archeological and ethnological reports from the 19th and early 20th centuries to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Amorite giants roamed the Americas from coast to coast. This history has been deliberately hidden and obscured by archeologists and institutions for years–they don’t want you to know the truth–that thousands
of years ago an ancient race of giants migrated to the Americas, established complex societies, and mined copper from the Great Lakes Region.
Author Gary Vaynerchuk explains how early explorers to America witnessed these giants firsthand, including Sir Francis Drake, John Smith and even some of the early presidents; Legends and myths talk of red-haired giants; strange inscriptions, metal armor, mummified remains, and sophisticated technologies buried with the skeletons; How secret societies such as the Rosicrucian’s, Freemasons and Theosophists all claim the existence of theses giant humans in the past as historical fact in their literature; hundreds of excavations of giant mummies and skeletons across the United States, corresponding directly with Native American accounts of red-haired giants. He also examines reports from famous explorers such as Magellan, and Desoto of their encounters with giants on the North American continent.
Patrick Chouinard explains how the giants passed their sophisticated culture and civilization on to humanity before being nearly wiped out in the great age of cataclysms. Ten and twelve foot humans do not fit dogmatic theories. Usually when giant skeletons are found they’re laughed off as hoaxes. Unfortunately orthodox science has too much to lose by investigating the mounds thoroughly.
English Megalithic Circles
Maria Wheatley writes from England, “Set amid the rolling valleys and mountains of Cumbria, Swinside Stone Circle is more than just a beautiful circle, as it is the best preserved stone circle in
England. The stones of Swinside have a great Spirit of Place making this stone circle one of the most energetically active and alive in the British Isles. It is also one of the most COMPLETE stone circles in England. Out of the 60 standing stones, 55 remain and 32 still stand. Each stone is only 5 feet apart making the energies between the stones especially strong and condensed.
In comparison, Stonehenge’s bluestone circle also had 60 stones, although only 6 stand upright and nine survive just a stumps reported Professor Atkinson in the 1960s, testifies to its wanton destruction. It is speculated the giants made many of the stone circles to study the heavens.
Guardian Stone In the north stands the tallest stone, stalwart and proud at 7 feet 6 inches high. Facing the mid winter sunrise the entrance encourages the flow of solar energy into the womb of the site. This stone feels like a Guardian of the Stones and is associated with the north south Hartmann Grid lines. Imagine earth radiations rising vertically from the ground like invisible energetic walls and you can visualize the energy grid, which is said to be associated with the Earth’s magnetic field. The lines measure between 8 and 12 inches in width. Spaced about 6 feet apart in the north-south direction and around 10 feet apart in the east-west direction gives you a rough estimation regarding the square-like grid. But these values can vary depending on your geographical location. They are said to be harmless but ‘double crossing points’ can be problematic as the north – south lines are Yin that are linked to cramps, arthritis’s and rheumatism. Whereas, the east – west lines are Yang and linked to inflammations and heat. However, some dowsers are saying that with the advent of Wife, transmitters etc, the grid in built up areas can be toxic, so bear that in mind.
Megaliths can act as Energy Converters and negate any toxic effect caused by the Hartmann Grid system bringing transmuted yin and yang grid energy to the site. Yin Yang energy is the focus of this circle that like a giant looking glass can magnify the energy and sends this energy outwards as if irrigating the landscape with balancing energy is one primary action of this divine circle.
Megalithic Vortex Energy
At Swinside we will explore Vortex energy at one of the stones. David Webb’s ionic experiments with me at Avebury show how a particular type of Vortex energy is intimately associated with the emissions of negative ions compared to a control location. These energies transform the air we breathe. I showed him the exact place and said test this! The ancients thousands of years ago cut these stone circles that appear to help mark the movement of the stars and planets. The ancients seem to have known about the vortex energy of the stones that may have been used for healing and possibly communication.. [mariawheatley=aol.com@mail1.suw15.mcsv.net
Kidnapped by Aliens
Several abductees and contactees including those in South America give us a sober reminder that we are headed for an awakening like in Mario Rangel’s book “Sequestros Allenignas.”
Speaking to the tall Grey after seeing images of world destruction on UFO Television screens, Bret wrote:
I turned to the tall one and asked, “Why are you showing me this?”
“This is what is going to happen to your planet in the future”, he said. “Your species will destroy your planet”, he continued. I realized he was telling me this to observe my reaction to these prophetic statements. “No!” “You’re wrong“, I exclaimed! “I know you would never let this happen to Earth. You will stop us from doing this before it is too late.” There was silence that seemed to go on for minutes. I wasn’t sure what was happening or what the consequences of what I had said to him were going to be. He seemed to be rationalizing whether or not to continue with this “mind game”. Then he finally spoke. “You are correct.” “It is not in our best interest to let your kind destroy itself and your planet.” I felt a slight sense of retribution. I had beaten them at their own game.
From what I had learned through all of my readings I knew and understood the law of cause and effect. I understood the balance of the universe and how important that balance is to all that there is. My instincts told me that they too believed and understood these basic principles. The destruction of the Earth would have fire consequences for the entire universe. Not only would the Earth be destroyed but so would the natural balance of the universe because of it. (Oldham, 2013: p.45-46). Stay alive to see how all of this unfolds.
A Trillion Exoplanets
The study, published February 2 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, gives the first evidence that more than a trillion exoplanets could exist beyond the Milky Way.
Using information from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and a planet detection technique called microlensing to study a distant quasar galaxy , scientists at the University of Oklahoma found evidence that there are approximately 2,000 extragalactic planets for every one star beyond the Milky Way. Some of these exoplanets are as (relatively) small as the moon, while others are as massive as Jupiter. Unlike Earth, most of the exoplanets are not tightly bound to stars, so they’re actually wandering through space or loosely orbiting between stars.
Last year astronomers spotted seven Earth-size alien planets orbiting one dim red star, and a lot of other strange exoplanets — ranging from an Earth-size ice ball to the hottest planet ever found and many more, plus a star that seems to have gobbled up something like 15 rocky worlds.
The TRAPPIST-1 family
A view from one of the seven planets found orbiting TRAPPIST-1, with several other planets visible closer to the star.
Credit: N. Bartmann/spaceengine.org/ESO
Seven newly discovered, Earth-size planets surround the cool red star TRAPPIST-1, which is slightly larger than the planet Jupiter. Researchers first spotted a few members of its planetary entourage in May 2016 with the Transiting Planets and Planeteslmals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile. Additional data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that rather than three planets, there were seven, all roughly the size of Earth, but orbiting together in a space smaller than Mercury’s orbit around the sun. The fastest and innermost planet, TRAPPIST-1b, whips around the star in just 1.5 days, and the outermost, TRAPPIST-1h, likely takes about 20 days.
Three of the planets orbit close enough to the star — in what is called the habitable zone — for liquid water to perhaps linger on its surface (but not so close it would have boiled off), but any atmospheres may have been stripped away by the star’s intense radiation.
A real scorcher
The hottest planet found to date, KELT-9b.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Astronomers also discovered in 2017 — the Jupiter-like KELT-9b. The planet orbits so close to its star, KELT-9, that it completely circles the star in 1.5 days, and it is tidally locked to the star — meaning the same side is always facing inward. Researchers spotted the planet passing in front of its star with the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) at Winer Observatory in Arizona.
On that “day side” of the planet, temperatures can reach 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit (4,300 Celsius) — hotter than the surface of a dwarf star, and just 2,200 degrees F (1,200 degrees C) cooler than the surface of the sun. (However, the sun’s outer atmosphere is even hotter.)
KELT-9 is larger and hotter than the sun, and its constant radiation makes KELT-9b’s atmosphere balloon up until it’s half the density of Jupiter. Someday, it may evaporate the planet entirely, researchers said — or, if the planet has a rocky center, boil it down to just the core. Observation with the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, as well as the future James Webb Space Telescope, could reveal the planet’s ultimate fate.
Home close to home
The planet Ross 128b is just 11 light-years from Earth, is the closest planet yet found orbiting in the habitable zone of a quiet star.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
The alien world Ross 128b, first spotted this year with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, is just 11 light-years from Earth. And although it orbits much closer to its star than Earth does to the sun, the star is cool enough that it could still lie in the habitable zone, if it has a thick enough cover of clouds to reflect away some of the light. Ross 128b is the closest Earth-mass planet potentially in the habitable zone of a quiet star, scientists say — our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, blasts out powerful flares to roast its potentially Earth-size planet,
New solar-system rival
Kepler-90i is the eighth planet newly found circling Kepler-90, which rivals the solar system for number of planets.
Credit: NASA
Using Google’s machine-learning techniques, found an eighth planet orbiting the star Kepler-90, marking the second eight-planet star system ever found (after Earth’s system, which has eight official planets. Kepler-90i is located 2,545 light-years from Earth, it’s likely rocky, and it’s the third world from its star — but unlike Earth’s 365.26-day orbit, it circles its star in 14.5 Earth days, and is much too close and hot for liquid water to remain on its surface. The planet’s average surface temperatures could reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius). Thanks toSarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
United States Air Force’s Scientific Research wing is now developing the electromagnetic airborne Railguns which will be fitted to the C-5B aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin. They are also taking Airbus A380 Freighter into consideration for using the Railgun.
The C-5B aircraft can reach an altitude of 50,000 ft and can fire payload into space using the Railgun attached to it. The projectiles would be designed to have a mass ranging from 1 kg to 10 kg at most. The C-5B is ideal due to its ability to reach the upper parts of the atmosphere. For the payloads to reach the planet’s orbit, the Railgun must have a muzzle velocity over 7 Km/S thus the projectiles will experience immense thermal load if launched from the lower parts of the atmosphere. A 64 MJ Railgun will destroy any target in its way with an incredible speed of Mach 5 thereby bringing destruction upon any potential enemy. Thanks to USAF
MUFON Records 690 UFO Sightings in January
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In January 2018 there were 690 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
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Filer’s Files #6 – 2018 Trillions of Exo-planets - PART II
Filer’s Files #6 – 2018 Trillions of Exo-planets - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Triangle
Kingman — Was driving a transit bus to be delivered to Los Angeles and took a snapshot of the sunset about 70 miles east of Kingman, AZ on Interstate I-40 at about 7:15 PM local time [when I had posted it to my Facebook account]
I did not notice anything at the time- only I noticed it on February 4, 2018, when someone commented on the photo asking specifically where it was taken. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Phoenix — Coming home from a restaurant n February 6, 2018, I saw a hazy point of light in the night sky to the west. It did not appear to move at first but then it became clear that it was moving slowly. It got a bit brighter when it hit the southernmost point it got really bright. It looked like a missile test, but it traveled across the sky really slowly. The conical trail it made vanished but the point of light that it the cone originated from kept going for a bit and faded out. I’m not really sure how long it was up there before I first spotted it.
California Object
Olancha— Similar to last night’s over flight, but this very bright object passed N to S this time on February 5, 2018. It was pulsating/ about once a second, but very bright for the several minutes it passed. After it “disappeared”, I caught one more frame 3 minutes later, where it was very bright at the extreme southern horizon. It must have been exceptionally bright at that later moment, to register on the motion sensor when just a few degrees elevation, and heading far away. There was no satellite passing this bright on this path, according to heavens-above.com, The object was uniformly bright as viewed from both its front and its back. I called local police, Navy as well as China Lake Naval station and Edwards AFB, and they did not acknowledge any activities in my area. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Orb
Macon — I was outside and felt kind of strange and looked up to notice the round sphere bright reflecting metallic type surface hovering over a cloud. It’s shadow can be seen on the cloud beneath it. I kind of felt informative, but it would come clearly to mind. I sensed some kind markings are on it but I just dismissed it for some reason and recorded this footage.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Cylinder
Malegaon— 1. We were on an open ground observing an asteroid or a meteor that we had been tracking for many days. We sighted that object on 6th Jan, 15th Jan, 18th Jan, 21st Jan, 23rd Jan, 26th Jan and 28th Jan. On all dates we took photos and videos and found three UFOs around the bright light. 2. The UFO has a reflective surface and a shadow at its bottom. It moves with a great speed which cannot be seen with naked eye. It path is not in a straight line. 3 We were stunned to see the pictures on 6th Jan. Then we decided to take videos and photos of that meteor or plane around which we saw these objects. We informed every person in our contact to the same and almost in every picture taken from different parts of the city we found the object. 4 We never saw it with naked eye but for sure it’s not a camera glitch. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Orb
Las Vegas — I was videotaping two birds on the fence in my backyard around 7am on February 7, 2018. Later on I viewed the tape and found the unknown flying object on the video. I further checked the other photos I took. I found the white unknown object in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Lights
Glassboro — I was going to pick up someone from Mullica Hill NJ. I was driving on Route 55 heading south, all the sudden I saw 3 lights in triangle like pizza slice on February 5, 2018.
I pulled over and start videotaping the lights. I was talking to my friend and I told him, “What the hell is this?” One light disappeared before I start the camera. By the time I start videotaping them only two lights left. After 16 second the lights disappeared one by one. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Disc
Garrettsville — This photo was taken by my dad at Nelson ledges State Park in Ohio on October 23, 2011. He was fishing and decided to take a couple pictures for memories. He realized later on while looking at the pictures noticed this odd looking object. He says that when he was shooting the pictures he didn’t notice anything strange. My guess is whatever it was had to be moving really fast and was caught on film at the right moment. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Orbs
San Antonio — I see many things in the sky I would like to share, odd shapes, things that are explainable, and things that just freak me out. These pictures were taken by me with my camera or my phone. They are real unedited photos. The objects were dot sized. I annotated the photo showing the location of the objects.
Note: The meta data with the photo file says that the above photo was taken on July 28, 2017. The witness stated that the photos were taken on Jan 31, 2018. The date needs to be confirmed. The witness has been contacted, but no response has been received. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Orb
Brisbane — I heard a commercial airliner behind me and observed the plane travel south while sitting beside the pool on January 20, 2018. I also observed several Ibis birds circling very high that were gliding on the warm air currents. Behind the Ibis I noticed an orb/ball hovering in the sky that started to move north. It occasionally slowed to a stop before starting to move in a straight line.
Canada Object
Toronto — I was flying west from Toronto to Edmonton on October 19, 2017. We took off from Toronto around 3pm and had been flying for an hour when I looked out the window and saw this object shining in the distance. i took a bunch of pictures with my s8, the object then disappeared to the east and that was it. No trails behind it, just gone. I checked our flight path and it took us down to the us Canada border so this object would have been over Minnesota airspace at 40,000 feet. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Object
Weilerbach— I stood on my terrace to smoke when I saw in the sky this brightly pulsating disc hovering over Weilerbach Rhineland-Palatinate, I ran back into the house to get my camera. I zoomed in on the object and squeezed off. The object suddenly flew off very fast and made extraordinary maneuvers. It flew so fast that I could hardly follow it with the eye and it was not visible anymore. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Japan Object
During the recorded launch of a Japanese rocket, a UFO was seen flying past the rocket at high altitude on January 18, 2018.
This being a no fly zone to keep aircraft safe is further proof that this was an alien craft. If you compare the size of the UFO with that of the rocket, you will see the UFO is over 20X the size of the rocket. That’s big! Thanks to Scott C. Waring
Russia UFOs
Kirensk— I was in Irkutsk Oblast, my friend and I were hiking when we heard a buzzing noise and felt the ground vibrating. We looked up and saw about 5 or 6 of the UFOs. They were moving slowly at first, and some were stationary. They stayed like this for a minute or so, and then they moved west together in a formation. They stopped an started moving multiple times. Some of the lights were blinking. The UFOs also flew in a circular motion around our position for a few seconds, as if they could see us. They then sped off quickly, and immediately we felt sick and vomited. and mentally shaken. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Thailand Lights
Trang— Whilst photographing the Blood Moon at 8:15pm, on January 31 2018, There was UFO activity for approx 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours SE of the moon about 25 degree elevation. I estimate the location of the objects to be off the coast, in the direction of Satun. There were 3 other witnesses to this event. To the naked eye, only the larger craft Blue pulses were visible. The object moved around an area perhaps 10×10 the size of the moon, changing direction abruptly and at speed, traceable by the blue pulses. The object was still visible after nearly two hours, coinciding with the Blood moon event.
The original video footage taken on a Sony HX400V camera clearly shows two craft in sync maneuvers with the smaller orb craft returning a white flash to the blue pulse emitted from the larger craft. The Youtube videos “Blood Moon 2018 UFO footage, Mothership and White Orb craft Comms in sync.”
UK/ England Lights
Southampton – I saw a line of 4 lights close together much brighter than stars on February 4, 2018. The lights were mainly white but also had a green or blue tinge. They did not move for over an hour that I observed until I needed to go to bed. After observing for 40 minutes another set of lights were observed which were closer to the horizon and somewhat dimmer. I took photo with my phone but it does not show the lights as points but as a smear. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Co Durham — I caught this on cctv on February 1, 2018, at 12.07 am on Saturday.
I have pictures and footage on this but I don’t know much about it.
It stayed from birth to death for 17 minutes. I wish I could help more,
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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In the footage, a narrator explains how a number of art pieces have been revealed.
Discovered in Charama, India, the images appear to show aliens and UFOs, similar to scenes of a sci-fi movie.
According to local archaeologist JR Bhagat it is unclear as to what the images reveal.
SG/THE LOST HISTORY CHANNEL
ALIENS? The government have asked NASA for help
He said: "The findings suggest that humans in prehistoric times may have seen or imagined beings from other planets which still create curiosity among people and researchers.
“Extensive research is needed for further findings.
“Charama presently doesn't have any such expert who could give clarity on the subject.“
He also revealed that some of the features of the paintings were unclear and the characters appeared to be wielding weapons.
He added: "The paintings are done in natural colours that have hardly faded despite the years.
“The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features.
“Specially, the nose and mouth are missing.
“In few pictures, they are even shown wearing space suits. We can't refute possibility of imagination by prehistoric men but humans usually fancy such things.”
The video was uploaded to YouTube channel The Lost History Channel on Sunday and has already received more than 7,000 views.
One comment read: "Evidence is everywhere, we need opened eyes, that's all."
And another claimed: "We dont need to find aliens, they are already here all around us."
The archaeologists have contacted NASA and ISRO to help solve the mystery.
We all know that supernovas, the titanic explosions caused by the death of a massive star or the catastrophic nuclear ignition of a white dwarf, are some of the most fantastic fireworks nature has to offer. Releasing an enormous amount of energy in a single blast, one supernova can outshine an entire galaxy — that's a few hundred billion stars, for those keeping track — for a few weeks or even months. When they occur close enough to our own sun, they're even visible as a bright pinprick of light during the day, a feat no other star can hope to accomplish.
But they're peanuts. Barely a festive sparkler. A faint glimmer compared to the awesome power of the armed and fully operational battle sta — sorry, got carried away there. My point is that supernovas are chumps compared with something far mightier: the quasar. [Supernova Photos: Great Images of Star Explosions]
A supermassive feast
There are giant black holes sitting in the centers of almost every galaxy in the universe. It seems weird to say it, but over the past couple decades it's become a firm observational reality. Our Milky Way galaxy has its very own black heart; we even gave it the name Sagittarius A*, for the region of the sky it sits in. It's no threat to us, sitting tens of thousands of light-years away, but it's truly a whopper, weighing in at more than 4 million times the mass of the sun.
This giant (or more technically, supermassive) black hole is currently comparatively placid, only sipping on a thin soup of gas and dust surrounding it. Still, that minimal activity is enough to make it an incredibly loud source of radio emission, first noticed by Karl Jansky in the 1930s.
Decades later, radio astronomers noticed many other sources of loud radio emission dotting the sky. Their origin was a mystery until an optical telescope could lock on to one of those targets, revealing what at first appeared to be a star. It was only a single point of light, but its spectrum was off. All the familiar elements were present, but shifted deep into the red, implying an incredibly fast-moving — and distant — object. So, not a star in our Milky Way, but something almost impossibly far-flung, and almost impossibly bright.
A radio source that kind of looked like a star. A quasi-stellar radio source. A quasar.
Whatever quasars were, they had to be small. Variations in brightness over the course of, say, a week, meant that the source could be no larger than a light-week across (otherwise all the gas couldn't coordinate itself to emit at the same temperature in that amount of time). And it had to be massive, proving enough raw gravitational energy to power the blasts of radiation.
Then theorists made the leap: We have a giant black hole in the Milky Way, with the infalling gas emitting radio waves. These quasars were emitting radio waves. Perhaps they're powered by giant black holes?
The power of the swirl
Indeed, they are. Quasars turned out to be black holes even bigger than Sagittarius A*, reaching into the billions and even tens of billions of solar masses.
It's not the black holes themselves emitting all the radiation — they are "black," after all. Instead, as countless tons of material fall into the black hole, it compresses as it all tries to squeeze through the relatively narrow door of the event horizon together. That compression, plus friction, plus the release of all the gravitational potential energy, brings the temperature of the gas up to incredible highs. And it's that hot, compressed has that emits the copious amounts of radiation.
A single supernova outshines an entire galaxy for a few weeks. A single quasar can outshine 10,000 galaxies for millions of years. Take that, supernovas, you chumps.
Quasars are by far the most powerful engines found in the universe. The energy released is only topped by galaxies themselves merging. But there's more to the quasar story than just gas falling helplessly into a black hole. As the gas falls in, if it has any rotation whatsoever (and it will, by sheer random chance), that spin will amplify due to conservation of angular momentum. As the gas continues to rotate and collapse, it will form an accretion disk.
Accretion disks are crazy places, full of twisting and whirling magnetic field lines. Most of the time those lines just sit in the background, following the lead of the swirling gas. But accretion disks also lend themselves to dynamo actions, amplifying magnetic fields well beyond their normal magnitudes
Then it gets crazy. In some cases, the magnetic fields twist and wrap around the black hole, funneling gas away from the event horizon at the last moment and sending it rocketing in two long, thin streams, blasting away from the black hole. These jets can stretch for tens of thousands of light-years, flinging material beyond the confines of the host galaxy itself.
Blazing away
These jets will point in any old direction, and by pure random chance some have our solar system in their line of sight. When this happens, we get an especially expressive blast as the gas, traveling at close to the speed of light, hurls radiation ahead of it. An effect called relativistic beaming shapes its emission into a forward-facing cone, giving any hapless observer (e.g., us) an especially breathtaking blast of radiation.
These are the blazars, the most powerful member of the quasar family (and the even larger active galactic nucleus clan, but that's another article). Immense beasts of raw power, converting the collapse of material onto a giant black hole into lighthouses that can be seem from the other side of the universe — easily.
Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador and member of The World At Night and the official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, he specializes in astronomical "Skyscapes" that connect both Earth and night sky. Join Miguel here as he takes us through his photograph "Lunar Corona above Town Hall in Grand Place."
This cityscape shows a colorful lunar corona at the left side of the Town Hall building in the city of Brussels, home to many central institutions of the European Union (EU).
A lunar corona is formed while bright moonlight is diffracted by water droplets in thin clouds that drift in front of the lunar disk. The beautiful building in the foreground is the Town Hall building, a Gothic building from the Middle Ages — built between 1401 and 1455.
The building's main tower is topped by a statue of Saint Michael slaying a demon. It is located on the famous Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
"The Grand Place testifies in particular to the success of Brussels, mercantile city of northern Europe that, at the height of its prosperity, rose from the terrible bombardment inflicted by the troops of Louis XIV in 1695," according to the UNESCO website.
To see more of Claro's amazing astrophotography, visit his website: miguelclaro.com.
These Are the Most Out-of-This-World Photos Ever Taken — Literally
These Are the Most Out-of-This-World Photos Ever Taken — Literally
By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor
The New Horizons spacecraft's imager (called the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) captured these false-color images in December 2017 of Kuiper Belt Objects 2012 HZ84 (left) and 2012 HE85. These are, for now, the farthest images from Earth ever captured by a spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
The photos don't look like much: blurry green splotches against pixelated blue. But they're arguably among the most amazing photographic images ever.
That's because they were taken from the farthest point from planet Earth of any images ever captured, snapped by a spacecraft just over 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers) from its home planet. That spacecraft is New Horizons, a NASA starship that zipped past Pluto in 2015 and is scheduled to fly by an object in the icy Kuiper Belt at the outer reaches of the solar system in January 2019.
New Horizons snapped these two farthest-out shots, of Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) 2012 HZ84 and 2012 HE85, on Dec. 5, 2017. Just 2 hours before, the spacecraft had officially claimed the title of spaciest photographer by capturing a camera-calibration shot of a far-off star cluster known as the Wishing Well. It was a fleeting record, because 2 hours later, the two KBOs were imaged. [Earth from Above: 101 Stunning Images from Orbit]
Prior to New Horizons' star shot, the image taken farthest from Earth was one of the Blue Marble snapped by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990. That image, known as the "Pale Blue Dot," was taken from 3.75 billion miles (6 billion km) away.
For a couple of hours, this New Horizons image of the so-called Wishing Well star cluster, snapped on Dec. 5, 2017, was the farthest image ever captured by a spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
New Horizons is headed toward a KBO dubbed 2014 MU69, one of more than 20 far-off chunks of rock and ice NASA hopes to observe during the spacecraft's mission. The Kuiper Belt is a disc-shaped expanse past the orbit of Neptune, about 2.7 billion to 9.3 billion miles (4.4 billion to 14.9 billion km) from the sun, that contains thousands of icy objects, comets and dwarf planets. (Pluto is one of these dwarf planets.) 2014 MU69 is nearly a billion miles beyond Pluto, which itself is 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion km) beyond Earth. To get there, New Horizons is trucking: It travels more than 700,000 miles (1.1 million km) a day.
So how does New Horizons send back images, even blurry ones, through all that space? According to Johns Hopkins University, where the scientists in charge of the spacecraft's data communications are based, it's not easy. Data is stored in a solid-state recorder (the only moving parts in these flash memory devices are the electrons) on New Horizons and is then transmitted via radio waves. Needless to say, the signal strength is low — the antenna transmits at a power of 12 watts and receives signals at 1 million billionth of a watt — so the data transmission rate is painfully slow. The transmission rate for New Horizons is only about 2 kilobits per second. Even old dial-up internet moved data at a rate of 56 kilobits per second.
For the two record-breaking Kuiper Belt object images, it took about 4 hours to transmit each image and 6 hours for the data to travel to Earth, Alan Stern, the principal investigator on the New Horizons mission, told Live Science.
On Earth, NASA's Deep Space Network antenna dishes catch the faint signals coming from New Horizons and reassemble the raw data into a usable form. For now, New Horizons won't be sending home any snapshots. According to NASA, the spacecraft is in hibernation mode until June 4, when mission controllers will bring it back online to start preparing it for its visit with MU69.
La sonde New Horizons a envoyé quelques photos d'objets de la ceinture de Kuiper. Ce sont les clichés les plus éloignés pris par un engin terrestre.
La sonde New Horizons a photographié deux petits objets de la ceinture de Kuiper.
NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
En 1990, la sonde Voyager 1 prenait une photo de la Terre qui apparaissait comme un point bleu pâle (Pale Blue Dot)sur le cliché, selon l'expression rendue célèbre par l'astronome Carl Sagan et qui a inspiré son livre éponyme. Ce cliché a été réalisé alors que la sonde voguait à 6,06 milliards de kilomètres (40,5 unités astronomiques) de la Terre, ce qui en a fait la photographie la plus lointaine jamais prise (1). Un record qui a tenu 27 ans jusqu'à ce que New Horizons, en décembre 2017, mette en boite une image d'un groupe d'étoiles surnommé "Wishing Well", situé à à 40,9 unités astronomiques de la Terre. Et comme la sonde continue à s'éloigner de nous, chaque nouvelle image qu'elle enverra constituera un nouveau record ! Ainsi ces deux petites photos ci-dessus qui ont été saisies deux heures après les "Wishing Well" et qui représentent deux petits objets de la ceinture de Kuiper, 2012 HZ84 (à gauche) et 2012 HE85 (à droite) détiennent désormais le record, à un peu plus de 40,9 unités astronomiques (New Horizons se déplace à environ 50.000 km/h).
3.79 billion miles from Earth, #NewHorizons snapped these images of a pair of Kuiper Belt objects, making them the farthest images ever taken by a spacecraft!
La ceinture de Kuiper est une vaste zone en forme d'anneau composée d'une myriade de petits corps et de plusieurs planètes naines dont Pluton. Elle est située au-delà de l'orbite de Neptune entre 30 et 55 unités astronomiques. Gigantesque et quasi inexplorée, cette partie du Système solaire recèle pourtant bien des secrets : c'est un réservoir de comètes périodiques qui abrite des astres probablement contemporains des débuts du Système solaire, tandis que d'autres ont pu s'y former puis migrer secondairement et se rapprocher du Soleil. C'est sans doute le cas de Cérès et de Triton (une lune de Neptune). C'est pour mieux connaître cette ceinture qu'a été conçue la sonde New Horizons qui a déjà exploré Pluton et sa Lune Charon et qui se dirige maintenant vers l'astéroïde 2014 MU69 qu'elle survolera le 1er janvier 2019.
Cliché du groupe d'étoiles "Whishing Well" pris par New Horizons.
Crédit : NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
En attendant ce prochain rendez-vous, New Horizons a été placée en "hibernation" fin décembre 2017. La sonde conservera ce statut, qui permet de sauvegarder ses batteries, jusqu'au 4 juin 2018. Elle devrait livrer les premières photographies de sa cible à partir du mois d'août et aura la possibilité d'effectuer d'ultimes corrections de trajectoire à partir du mois d'octobre.
(1) La sonde Voyager 1 est aujourd'hui bien plus éloignée, plus que tout autre engin humain envoyé dans l'espace, mais hélas ses caméras ont été éteintes peu après la photo du Pale Blue Dot.
The Argument from Ignorance – Trapping UFO Enthusiasts for Decades
The Argument from Ignorance – Trapping UFO Enthusiasts for Decades
I recently saw a hashtag from a UFO enthusiast on Twitter that said #ProveTheyDontExist. It really got my gears going. You know why? This same logical fallacy has been used to justify all sorts of crazy nonsense for decades. Normally a staple of religious zealotry, the Argument from Ignorance has infected the fields of science, medicine, mental health, and just about every other academic thought pool. It’s also made its way into UFOlogy.
The center of the earth is made of cheeseburgers. I know this is true. I know because mankind has yet to prove that the center of the earth is not made of cheeseburgers.
The above statement should seem preposterous to you. Not only is it highly unlikely that cheeseburgers exist at the center of the earth, humans have yet to explore the center of the earth to find out exactly what it contains. Sure we can make educated guesses based on our understanding of science, but until we actually drill down, we’ll never know for sure.
Now look at this next example:
Aliens built the great pyramids. We don’t know definitively how humans might have done it, so it must have been aliens.
See anything familiar? While it might be a bit more subtle than claiming the center of the earth is comprised of cheeseburgers, it’s just as logically errant. One could replace the word aliens in that statement with just about anything else and it would be just as untrue. In fact, the Ancient Alien theory resembles a religion more than science or archaeology.
Now, read this:
I saw an object in the sky that wasn’t a bird or a plane, or anything else I know of. Therefore, it must be an alien-controlled spaceship.
This one really hits close to home because so many people I know have taken this position. And this statement is at the crux of many UFO claims. But here’s the thing – if you saw an unidentified flying object, it makes zero sense to follow that statement with an identification because it’s unidentified. This statement is, in fact, no less ludicrous than the center of the earth being made of cheeseburgers.
Absence of an Explanation is Never Equivalent to Proof
Does this make you uncomfortable? It should. And there is a good reason. The charge that alien life is visiting our planet is extraordinary and, as a result, must require extraordinary proof.
Credibility, Credibility, Credibility
One of the primary complaints of UFO researchers and enthusiasts is that they aren’t taken seriously by mainstream science. But when you look at some of the most popular thought-processes exhibited by them, it’s pretty easy to understand why.
In order to gain respect from the scientific community, UFOlogists must illustrate that they are credible. A researcher must be able to exercise solid and valid logic when making conclusions. Those conclusions must be drawn from the actual evidence, not a lack thereof. Similarly, they must also exercise the same logic when sharing dubious news stories and articles with questionable sources.
Researchers need to spend the energy searching for the truth of each sighting, not the validation of that which they wish to be true. Recognizing the Argument from Ignorance is the first step in this process. UFOlogists can make great changes by learning to filter out claims that use the proof of nonexistence as a requirement.
Cette carte des ovnis en Bretagne est un travail personnel de collecte de données d'observations d'ovnis commencé en 2013.
Elle comprend 346 cas signalés depuis 1901, mais tous les cas ne s'y trouvent pas, de plus, il manque ceux antérieurs au XXème siècle.
J'ai mis des icônes différentes par décennie et des icônes spéciales pour les cas qui m'ont étonnée ou qui me semble significatifs (avion, bateau,chiens qui sont dérangés par l'objet, évocation de tornade) -l'icone marque de préférence l'endroit où le témoin situe le phénomène qu'il a remarqué. -Une icône formé de petits carrés disposés en triangle marque quatre mégalithes remarquables par leur taille imposante, ça m'a amusée de constater qu'ils semblaient marquer les frontières de la péninsule.
-Les périmètres de la forêt de Paimpont et des Mont d'Arrée sont voilés légèrement de blanc pour marquer d'éventuelles coïncidences avec les lieux mythiques.
-J'ai mis l'indication du passage des failles géologiques importantes du sol breton pour rappeler que certaines observations seraient peut-être d'origine tectonique.
C'est en découvrant la carte de Base de données PAN/OVNI en Moselle (57) d'Eric B. également connu sous le pseudo Polyèdre,que j'ai eu l'idée de comparer les manifestations du phénomène Ovni avec ceux qui avaient été observés en Bretagne.
Ces deux régions m'avaient frappée par leurs différences : Toutes les deux se trouvaient chacune à un bout opposé de l'Hexagone - l'une à l'Ouest, péninsule excentrée plus reliée que séparée par la mer à l'Irlande, la Grande Bretagne et l'Espagne, l'autre situé à l'Est, important axe de communication au coeur de l'Europe avec une frontière commune avec le Grand Duché de Luxembourg et l'Allemagne, la Lorraine voisinant aussi avec la Belgique - L'une dont l'environnement a été influencé par l'industrialisation lourde liée aux gisements de fer de Lorraine, l'autre longtemps à vocation rurale et maritime. Enfin, la carte de Polyèdre était déjà bien fournie. Et d'une manière plus sentimentale, l'une de mes arrières grand-mères vient de Moselle.
Je me demandais si le phénomène s'exprimait de la même manière, voir si on ne pouvait pas constater des déplacements à des dates proches d'ovnis d'une région à l'autre.
Mais pour établir une carte des ovnis en Bretagne, il me fallait des témoignages spécifiques à la péninsule. J'avais déjà connaissance depuis longtemps de plusieurs cas dont deux très étranges. L'un m'avait beaucoup impressionnée et on en parlait encore dans les années 60. Ces deux cas se trouvent l'un à Gâvres près de Lorient l'autre à Loctudy dans le Pays bigouden.
J'ai retrouvé dans le livre de Jean François Boëdec et dans la Revue Lumière Dans la Nuit ces cas bien plus détaillés que ce qui m'en avait été raconté.
Les voici :
*Le 5 octobre 1954 vers 4 h, l'ouvrier boulanger est occupé à puiser de l'eau dans la cour de la boulangerie. Il aperçoit soudain, à quelques mètres de lui, un engin circulaire posé au sol. Eberlué, il en voit sortir un humanoïde de 1 m 20 de haut qui s'approche et lui touche l'épaule en prononçant des paroles incompréhensibles. Le témoin réussit à garder son sang-froid et regagne le fournil où l'inconnu le suit. A la lumière, le témoin peut dévisager l'étrange visiteur. C'est un être de 1 m 20 de haut, couvert de poils sombres, avec des yeux énormes "de la grosseur d'un oeuf de pigeon ", le visage ovale. Le jeune homme appelle son patron. A ce moment l'être étrange bat en retraite, monte à bord de son appareil qui décolle aussitôt. Lorsque le patron, attiré par ses appels, arrive, l'objet a disparu. Ce même jour, à 30 kms vers 4 h du matin un camionneur devait observer pendant 10 minutes l'évolution de soucoupes volantes lumineuse au-dessus de Fouesnant. une semaine plus tôt, le mécanicien et le chauffeur d'une locomotive aperçurent un engin circulaire qui s'élevait des marais à St Nicolas de Redon.
15 jours plus tard, à Gâvres(56) a 63 km à vol d'oiseau de Loctudy(29s) en suivant le littoral sud, le 20 octobre 1954
* Il est 18h, Une jeune femme est en train de fermer ses volets lorsqu'elle voit une lumière rouge orange venir stationner au-dessus de la route toute proche. De cette lumière émane alors un faisceau lumineux très puissant dirigé verticalement vers le bas juste sur la chaussée de la route. Cinq petits êtres de forme humanoïde apparaissent alors en bas de ce faisceau et se dirigent vers le domicile du témoin. La porte de sa maison s'ouvre et les humanoïdes entrent dans la maison. La femme dira qu'ils ont des tailles variant entre 1m et 1m20 et que leur corps est entièrement recouvert de poils roux à l'exception de leur tête qui est doté d'une sorte de nez "comme celui des cochons." Les humanoïdes se déplacent l'un derrière l'autre et tous les cinq font ensemble trois tours autour du témoin qui reste abasourdie et se met à crier. Ils filent ensuite vers le faisceau de lumière où ils étaient apparus à l'origine et y disparaissent, le faisceau lui même disparaît et le témoin entend un sifflement aigu qui en provient. Au moment où ce sifflement se fait entendre, une bouteille que la jeune femme tenait à la main se brise en deux au niveau de son goulot, il sera plus tard constaté que la coupure est aussi nette que si elle avait été réalisée avec une scie. Le mari se trouvait pendant ce temps en train de faire des courses à l'épicerie voisine à tout juste une trentaine de mètres de distance. Quand il entend son épouse hurler, il court vers son domicile et découvre son épouse presque évanouie et très choquée. Il appela tout de suite un médecin, et celui-ci décida d'expédier la jeune femme à l'hôpital de d'Hennebont, où elle fit une fausse couche, alors quelle était enceinte d'un bébé de deux mois. Depuis l'incident, elle est devenue extrêmement angoissée par la hantise de rencontrer à nouveau les cinq humanoïdes.
Etait-ce une conséquence de la rencontre de Marius Dewilde avec des entités à Quarouble qui se produisit le 10 Septembre dans le nord de la France donc l'écho serait parvenu par la radio ou les journaux toujours présents dans les foyers même modestes et aurait influencé nos témoins ? Il est bien hasardeux de le penser.
Ces cas font donc partie de la première importante vague d'observation d'Ovnis ayant déferlé sur le territoire national en 1954. La presse française se fait l'écho de ce phénomène totalement nouveau : l'observation de machines volantes d'origine inconnue. Partout sont décrits des engins aux formes les plus variées. Des dizaines d'observation, d'atterrissage, de rencontre avec des petits êtres sont rapportées tous les jours durant les mois d'août, septembre, octobre et novembre.
Mais c'est surtout vers la fin septembre que la Bretagne fut touchée par cette vague avec un pic en octobre comme partout dans l'Hexagone mais cependant, un cas à la fin du mois d'Août avait déjà attiré l'attention :
Un soir, un campeur sur la lande dans les environs de Quimperlé (29s), entend un fort grondement puis voit une boule orange allant du nord au sud puis 10 à 15 minutes plus tard, un nouveau grondement et, cette fois, il voit une boule violette et, après un laps de temps identique à la précédente, un troisième grondement et cette fois c'est une boule verte qui passe..elles vont toutes les deux dans la même direction que la première.
Ce déferlement d'ovnis sur l'Hexagone incita l'Etat français à tenir une réunion
regroupant Emmanuel Temple, Ministre de la Défense Nationale et aux Forces Armées ainsi que 3 secrétaires d'Etat (à la Guerre, Henri Caillavet à la Marine et l'Air) au sein du cabinet de Pierre Mendès-France, Président du Conseil (équivalent du 1er ministre) et donna lieu à la création d'une commission secrète afin d'enquêter: le SEMOC (Section d'Etude des Mystérieux Objets Célestes) qui sera officialisé au Journal Officiel du 12 janvier 1955. Sous la tutelle de l'Etat Major de l'Armée de l'Air (EMAA).
Le SEMOC sera le premier service démontrant l'intérêt que porte le gouvernement français aux manifestations OVNI. Dirigé par le Lt.-Col. Richard Martin, ses moyens lui permettront de centraliser les observations en collaboration avec la Gendarmerie et la Défense Aérienne du Territoire (DAT).
Ce phénomène s'apaisa en trois mois mais ne s'éteignit pas car en effet,
Dans les années 60, Les spécialistes de l'armée de l'air ne furent pas en reste pour rapporter leur observation et on garde encore le souvenir à Lorient de ces fameuses "apparitions"
Dans les années 70, une nouvelle vague d'ovnis se répandit dans la péninsule où un nouveau cas d'apparition d'entité se fit connaitre à Riec-sur-Belon dans le Finistère sud
*le 29 septembre 1974 à 0h45. Un sergent dans l'armée de l'air à Montmorency arrive chez lui quand se produit une forte averse. Il rentre dans sa cuisine quand retentit un fort coup de tonnerre. Il observe alors une lueur fugitive jaune orangée et pense à l'éclairage d'une maison voisine. Il va alors dans sa chambre et voit aussitôt par la fenêtre un halo de couleur rouge. Pensant à un incendie il prend ses jumelles et observe alors une sorte de socle horizontal surmonté d'un habitacle en forme de cône tronqué dans lequel se découpent trois rectangles de couleur rouge vif surmontés de volets rabattables. De plus, trois masses lumineuses blanc phosphorescent sont visibles. L'objet fait environ 4 m de haut de couleur grise. Les formes blanches apparaissent brusquement et disparaissent amorçant un arc de cercle comme si elles contournaient quelque chose. Soudain trois silhouettes de la taille d'1m 70 environ sont visibles. Elles sont de forte constitution, les jambes et la têtes bien visibles... Le témoin réveille ses parents
Non loin, dans le voisinage proche, un couple est couché quand ils entendent un bruit sec d'explosion qui fait trembler les vitres de la maison. Le mari veut débrancher la télévision, mais il n'y a plus d'électricité. Il ressent alors une sensation de chaleur intense. Il observe alors une lueur comparable à un tube néon qui filtre par les volets. Quelques jours plus tard le témoin découvre trois traces rectangulaires de 90cm sur 60 où l'herbe est complètement brûlée, ces traces forment un triangle de 8m par 5 par 4,50. ET à 190 km de là , 20 minutes plus tard, quatre témoins observeront un objet elliptique d'environ 10 m de long sur 6 mètres de haut qui se posent dans le parc de la Gaudinière à Nantes à environ 150 m d'eux. On relèvera des trace triangulaires le lendemain.
L'affaire de Riec-sur- Belon est l'un des cas les plus extraordinaires, les mieux documentés et les moins contestés que nous ayons en France. Je ne comprends pas pourquoi, à ma connaissance, il semble n'avoir été fait aucune étude confrontant tous ces cas de RR3 en Europe.
Dans les années 80, c'est l'aéroport de Brest Guipavas qui eut des inquiétudes :
Aéroport de Brest-Quipavas en 2007
*Le 22 novembre 1981 entre 7h 40 et 8h, plusieurs personnes se trouvent sur la route périphérique au terrain d'aviation. Le jour n'est pas totalement levé mais la visibilité est bonne. Soudain ils aperçoivent une boule couleur rouge-orange qui reste immobile au-dessus du champ situé juste avant le terrain d'aviation. Cette boule de la grosseur d'un ballon de football disparaît brusquement et semble être tombée dans le champ ; à aucun moment les témoins ne perçoivent un bruit particulier. De service ce matin là, deux gendarmes vont également apercevoir vers 8h, une boule lumineuse orangée qui s'avance sur la piste comme pour un atterissage alors qu'un avion sur cette même piste s'apprête à décoller. Au fur et à mesure que la boule descend, elle prend une forme plus imposante. Immédiatement le pompier avertit la tour de contrôle mais l'objet disparaît instantanément. Aucun bruit ne sera entendu par les témoins et aucune trace dans le champs ou sur la piste ne sera trouvée. Néanmoins le CRNA signalera un spot visible sur le radar entre 7h50 et 8h 04. Ce phénomène reste inexpliqué
Pour en revenir à ma carte ,
j'ai commencé par les données du Geipan et avec les deux ouvrage de Jean François Boëdec :
- Ovnis en Bretagne - Anatomie d'un Phénomène** éd. Fernand Lanore 1978 - Les Apparitions de Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non Identifiés dans le Finistère - Fantastiques rencontres au bout du monde. Ed.Le Signor (1ère et 2ème édition)
Mais qu'en est-il exactement pour la base de données relayées par Jean François Boëdec dans ces deux ouvrages ?
Le 17 mars 1973, La Commissioon Nationale des Recherches sur les O.V.N.IS(C.N.R) et le groupement d'Etude des Phénomènes Aériens (G.E.P.A) que préside Monsieur René Fouéré ont organisé à Quimper un symposium qui a rassemblé plus de cinq cent personnes. Cette manifestation s'est tenue dans une région où certains disent avoir recensé une cinquantaine d'O.V.N.I depuis ces dernières années dont un "triangle volant" en février dernier au-dessus de Quimperlé(29), trois soucoupes au-dessus du chantier de l'Ile Longue(29) en Août 1970, six sphères lumineuses au-dessus de Riec-sur-Belon en septembre 1970.
Monsieur Christian Sévère, secrétaire de la C.N.R. sur les O.V.N.I a souligné dans une allocution d'ouverture le conformisme de notre société qui rejette ce genre de phénomène. Ensuite, Monsieur René Fouéré cita plusieurs déclarations d'astronomes croyant aux O.C.N.et lança un appel : "n'est-ce pas limiter la Science que d'affirmer que ce que nous ne comprenons pas n'existe pas ? souvenons de l'histoire de Galilée " (Le Figaro" Lundi 19 mars 1973) Du côté de Lorient, une section vient d'être créée à la même époque, une section du "Centre for UFO strudies" dirigée par Monsieur Jean-Louis Brochard situé à Port Navalo.
Ainsi, c'est grâce a ces petit groupes d'enquêteurs : Christian sévère, Rémy Gueguen, Georges Le Gac, Michel Lejan, Christian Choaler, Jean Yves Nicolas et Robert Gelci, grâce à leurs d'enquêtes relayées par Jean François Boëdec dans ses ouvrages, que j'ai pu commencer ma carte avec aussi la base de données du Geipan.
De ces associations privées, le GEPAN pris le relais comme organisme officiel de la République française sur le sujet des Ovnis. Il fut placé très logiquement au sein du Site du Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales et il est amusant de constater que son fondateur et premier directeur, Claude Poher est d'origine bretonne et que son patronyme évoque une région où fourmille les ovnis.
Voici le dernier cas breton classé D1 qui fut publié sur le Site du GEIPAN ayant pris le "I" d'information.►ICI
Un cas curieux à Etrelles(35) que l'on pourrait expliquer comme ayant été le passage d'un météore et pourtant non...souvent, il y a ce petit quelque chose qui empêche l'explication d'une observation d'ovni.
Nom de Dieu ! Qu’est-ce que c’est que ça ? » Deux secondes pour une éternité. Dimanche 1er juin 2014, des gendarmes effectuent une patrouille de surveillance zone du Piquet, à Étrelles, près de Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine).
« Il fait nuit. Les conditions météorologiques sont bonnes, le ciel est étoilé, le croissant de lune ne se trouve pas dans notre champ visuel. Le vent est faible, il n’y a pas d’orage ni de pluie », raconte un témoin à l’époque. Des bonnes conditions qui permettent encore moins aux gendarmes d’expliquer ce qu’ils pensent avoir vu : un ovni. Car cette patrouille de routine ne se passe pas comme prévu. Il est 23 h 07. « Soudain, depuis l’habitacle, à travers le pare-brise, nous observons dans le ciel au-dessus de notre véhicule une masse sombre stationnaire à environ 1 000 mètres d’altitude », livre-t-il à ses collègues le lendemain à l’aube.
Aujourd’hui encore, il se souvient de chaque détail. "J’étais conducteur du véhicule. Mon collègue l’a vu arriver de la droite. Moi, je l’ai vu uniquement lorsqu’il était au-dessus de nous."
« J’ai d’abord pensé qu’il s’agissait d’un aéronef mais cet objet se déplaçait à une vitesse incroyable en provenance de l’ ouest et en direction de l’est, témoignait-il encore en 2014. "L’objet volant a encore accéléré et a changé de trajectoire.» Avant de disparaître brusquement. « A une vitesse ahurissante et dans un silence de mort », « comme s’il s’était évanoui dans la nature en un millième de seconde ». Selon lui, cette masse, « approximativement de la taille de deux véhicules Renault Espace », masquait les étoiles. Aussitôt, un dilemme se dresse devant les deux militaires. « Devait-on en parler ? Car on allait s’exposer aux moqueries. » Ils contactent finalement le Geipan, le Groupe d’Etudes et d’Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non Identifiés, basé au Centre national d’études spatiales de Toulouse.
"Ils nous ont interrogés séparément.Autour de moi, j’en ai très peu parlé. Même mon épouse n’est pas au courant !" Avec le recul, le gendarme n’explique toujours pas ce qu’il a vu.
"Nous avions demandé à un responsable de l’entreprise Thales si leurs caméras extérieures avaient pu filmer la scène. Mais cela n’avait rien donné. Aujourd’hui, je reste sceptique parce que je suis quelqu’un de très terre à terre. Oui, j’ai vu un ovni. Mais je n’ai jamais parlé d’extraterrestres. Pour moi, il s’agit d’un phénomène scientifique encore non défini, qu’on pourra peut-être expliquer dans plusieurs centaines d’années." Le passage d’un météore a bien été enregistré le jour dit, précisément à 23 h 12 mn 30 s heure locale. Mais cela correspond mal avec le phénomène aérospatial non identifié d’Étrelles. A la fois dans l’espace et dans le temps.
En conclusion, le Geipan persiste et signe : « Il s’agit d’un PAN (phénomène aérospatial non identifié) observé par deux témoins de grande fiabilité, dans des conditions d’observation idéales. » Un cas classé D1 car inexpliqué. Le rendu de l'enquête ici :►ICI
Dans l'ensemble, le phénomène OVNI se retrouve sur tout le territoire français, presque tout le territoire car il y a des zones vides d'observation. mais chaque cas présente une spécificité bien à lui...il n'y a pas un témoignage semblable à l'autre mais une homogénéité indiscutable dans les caractéristiques de base du phénomène. En ce qui concerne les témoins, toutes les classes sociales et toutes les générations sont représentées.
J'ai également très largement puisé dans :
BASE OVNIS FRANCE de Luc CHASTAING: Bases de données d'observations en France
Et évidemment, dans le forum Les Mystères des Ovnis, Les journaux comme le Télégramme, Ouest France et la Liberté, le GREPI, ANAKINOVNI, LDLN et diverses sources au cours de mes recherches en plus de celles qui me sont personnelles où qui m'ont été données par mon entourage.
Les témoignages dont j'ai parlé se sont produits de 1954 à 2008 et évoquent des boules lumineuses (une bonne moitié des observations) des entités ( 12 sur ma carte ) et des d'observations d'engins de toutes les formes qui semblent pour le témoin bien matériel. Sur la carte vous découvrirez le cas de Landévennec et de Port Kerdruc en Nevez dont les traces sur les végétaux et sur le sol furent dûment analysées et envoyées au Ministère de la Défense qui les transmettra au Ministère de l'Industrie.
Les méprises sont certainement fort nombreuses. Certaines observations sont incontestablement des bolides comme celui de ce mardi 19 juillet 2011 qui se serait désintégré de façon spectaculaire au-dessus de la forêt de Paimpont
Photo extraite d'une vidéo surveillance
des planètes comme Vénus, des étoiles particulièrement brillantes, la lune sous une forme inhabituelle, des rentrées atmosphériques de satellite, des lanternes thaïlandaises, des ballons sondes ou festifs, des oiseaux, des avions vus sous un angle inhabituel , des fusées éclairantes..la liste est longue.
La proximité des bases militaires de Lann Bihoué et de Landivisiau, les autres aéroports pourrait permettre des méprises la nuit dues aux feux de signalisation des avions, (quoiqu'en général, il est difficile de faire des confusions avec les Mirages et les Rafales car ils font trop de bruit ),Nous avons également des drônes de plus en plus perfectionnés et de plus en plus nombreux. Les vidéos et les photos ajoutent à la confusion.
ou bien....... on ne sait pas ce que c'est !
Mais en consultant ma carte, vous verrez qu'un grand nombre présente les caractéristiques originales bien spécifiques attribuées aux Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non Identifié ou OVNIS
Ce sont des cas troublants que même le Geipan, dans sa propre base de données, n'a pas réussis à identifier et il ne faut pas oublier ce grand nombre d'observations écartées de tout espoir d'explication en raison de l'insuffisance d'éléments ou en raison du manque de sérieux des témoins...et on peut s'interroger sur le fait que le pourcentage de cas inexpliqués (classement D) est établi en intégrant le nombre de ces témoignages ne pouvant être étudiés (classement C).
De plus, les ovni sont vus par un seul témoin ou en groupe ce qui complique la tâche concernant la crédibilité car peu nombreux sont les témoins indépendants, mais il y en a et il a été possible de suivre un ovni sur une longue distance grâce des témoins qui se trouvaient sur son passage comme celui-ci :
*26 février 1970, un gigantesque engin survola le côté sud de la Bretagne, de Fontenay-le-Comte en passant par Nantes et le Morbihan. Plusieurs dizaines de personnes dont 12 agents de police l'aperçurent. A Nantes, 2 gendarmes l'observèrent à 400 mètres de distance seulement. "C'était énorme et presque incroyable" s'exclamèrent-ils D'autres témoins la signalèrent. Cette soucoupe mesurait environ 50 mètres de diamètre et 120 mètres avec l'anneau lumineux qui l'entourait. Elle devait être observée jusqu'à Scaër 29 au terme d'une course folle de près de 200 km au-dessus de la Vendée et de la Bretagne trajectoire Sud-Est/Nord-Est. Voir aussi l'observation de Pluzunet: Engin oval entouré....-.8/0/68. -Coupures de Presse Ouest-France et Presse Océan -lettre manuscrite de M. Jean Tyrode qui enquêta sur place à l'époque -Confirmation manuscrite du Gendarme Maurice Thierry de la Brigade de Nantes
En tout cas, Cette carte donne un bon aperçu du phénomène Ovni en Bretagne et elle fourmille de récits tous aussi surprenants.
Et nous revenons à mon projet initial : la comparaison du phénomène Ovni en Moselle avec la carte de la Base de données PAN/OVNI en Moselle (57) et aussi la carte des observations d'Ovnis en Lorraine, Alsace et pays limitrophes d'Eric B. ou Polyèdre qui se trouve sur ce site, avec la carte des Ovnis en Bretagne
Je ne peux m'empêcher de penser que notre travail est peut être un modeste écho à ce passage, page 205 de la seconde édition du livre Ovni sur le Finistère (50 ans d'enquêtes 80 cas inexpliqués inexpliquées) de Jean François Boëdec 2ème édition les Montagnes noires
Le docteur Harley Dean Rutledg, président de l'Académie des sciences du Missouri(USA) a suivi attentivement les recherches faites sur les ovnis dans le Finistère de 1980 à1894
"Encore une fois vous ,français, avez donné à nous autre un modèle, une leçon pour montrer comment ces choses sont faites, pour parler sans circonlocution, cette étude est excellente. Nettes dans ses intentions et qui marche tout droit pour les réaliser. Si nous possédions de telles données pour chaque région, quelle vision panoramique aurions-nous sur ce phénomène ! et quelle base de données comparatives"
Il est l'un des rares scientifiques (avec jacques Vallée) à avoir compris très tôt l'importance de l'étude territoriale du phénomène dans une recherche fondamentale encore naissante. Il créa au sein de la Southeast Missouri University une structure nommée "PROJECT IDENTIFICATION" chargé de suivre l'évolution du phénomène dans l'Etat du Missouri. En 1983, Harley Dean Rutledge envoya même un courrier au directeur de 'Université de Bretagne Occidental à Brest pour lui suggérer d'ouvrir d'un département identique. Nous sommes en 2018, La réponse se fait-elle toujours attendre comme se fait désirer le scientifique ayant pignon sur rue qui s'engagera sérieusement à exploiter les données que nous leur présentons sur une carte de France ?
Prochainement, nous nous pencheront sur l'étrange faculté des ovnis à se transformer sous les yeux des témoins.
A couple of scientists from the well-respected Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics recently wrote an astrophysics paper that is so awesome, it will make you want to read an astrophysics paper. The scientists have been puzzling over some weirdly strong radio wave bursts in space, and they've come up with an explanation: aliens.
“An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking,” said Avi Loeb, an Israeli-American professor who worked on the study.
It all started when an astrophysicist was combing through the archives in Australia's Parkes Observatory, and he noticed a mysterious spurt of radio activity. It was short but intense. Really intense. Like, 500 million times the power of the sun intense.
Space is full of weird light, so that's no big deal, right? Wrong, apparently. Scientists have been trying to figure out what the burst could be for 10 years, and they still don't know. Some think it's a massive, particularly weird star that collapsed into its core. Or maybe it's a solar flare that somehow managed to travel across the known universe. Or ...
Yep. Aliens. At least, that's what the Harvard-Smithsonian scientists are proposing. You can start freaking out now.
Here's the theory: There's a faraway alien civilization that uses artificial beams to power spaceships with light sails. They harness energy from a star and cool their beam machine with planet-sized buckets of water.
Cool, right? We're not talking about boring, single-celled aliens here. We're talking about an advanced civilization, way more advanced than, you know, us. Our sail-related ships are limited to the kind that stay in water.
“Deciding what’s likely ahead of time limits the possibilities,” said Loeb, an alumnus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “It’s worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge.”
It's still a theory, but we at From the Grapevine are definitely rooting for it. Discovering alien life would mean a total change in how we view reality. Plus, we could do so much cool stuff with aliens. Like discover new things about the universe and have alien romances.
The dinosaur-murdering asteroid maybe also triggered an underwater volcano meltdown
The dinosaur-murdering asteroid maybe also triggered an underwater volcano meltdown
The cataclysmic asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs might have also triggered massive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ocean, new research says. It’s yet another way the extraterrestrial impact could have killed off more than 70 percent of life on Earth — that is, if the timing isn’t just a coincidence.
Roughly 66 million years ago, a 6-mile-wide asteroid crashed into Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula — causing a massive, worldwide earthquake. That Earth-shaking impact might have made underwater volcanoes spit up magma even more ferociously than usual, according to a study published today in the journal Science Advances. These events might have added to the asteroid’s apocalyptic aftershocks — which include wildfires, global cooling, and acid rain — that caused the mass extinction of roughly three quarters of Earth’s species, including dinos.
The findings back up earlier reports of more intense volcanic eruptions in India also roughly 66 million years ago. But other scientists are skeptical about the link between the asteroid and the underwater volcanic eruptions, because the paper doesn’t propose exactly how they happened. “Why would that much earthquake energy cause eruptions like that?” says Sean Gulick, a geophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin who did not participate in the study. “It’s an interesting idea, but where’s the model that backs up the physics that would allow that to happen?”
For decades, scientists have been arguing about whether volcanoes or an asteroid caused the massive climate shifts that spelled doom for the dinosaurs. The evidence supporting the asteroid hypothesis kept mounting. But then, a few years ago, scientists at UC Berkeley asked, why pick one flavor of apocalypse? Both might have been on the menu 66 million years ago: the asteroid, for instance, might have intensified eruptions from a particularly volcanic region in India called the Deccan Traps. So Earth scientists Joseph Byrnes at the University of Minnesota and Leif Karlstrom at the University of Oregon went looking for more signs of ancient eruptions, in easy-to-spot stretches of the seafloor.
Gaps in the Earth’s crust called mid-ocean ridges weep magma to create the ocean floor, churning out material at a pretty even pace of up to several inches each year. That allowed Karlstrom and Byrnes to pinpoint the sections produced roughly 66 million years ago. But searching for signs of volcanic eruptions isn’t as easy as looking for bumpy tracts of hardened lava on the bottom of the ocean. “It’s hard to get to the sea floor because the ocean is sitting on it,” Byrnes says. Instead, the team turned to satellite maps of the peaks and valleys in the ocean’s surface. These bumpy spots produced by, say, an underwater volcano belching out magma have more mass, and therefore a bigger gravitational pull, than valleys or flat regions. So underwater peaks pull more ocean around them, creating wrinkles in the surface that can be seen from space.
Karlstrom and Byrnes found two bumps in stretches of the Earth’s crust in the Pacific and Indian Oceans that were produced within a million years of that 66 million-year-old impact. These bumps were made up of between 23,000 and 240,000 cubic miles (100,000 to 1 million cubic kilometers) of magma, Byrnes says — which means that the mid-ocean ridges had suddenly started erupting more intensely than at any other point in 100 million years. “No normal process makes those bumps, otherwise we’d see it more than once,” he says. ”If it’s just a random burp of magma, it happened at a very coincidental time.”
Byrnes and Karlstrom suspect that when the infamous asteroid crashed into the Yucatán, it hit the Earth like the clapper on a bell. The impact sent powerful vibrations ringing through the Earth at roughly the intensity of a magnitude 10 or 11 quake. This massive jolt might have made these mid-ocean ridges squirt out more magma, the authors say — although the exact mechanisms remain a mystery.
“It validates our prediction that other magma systems were affected, too — which is kind of cool!” says Paul Renne, a planetary scientist at UC Berkeley who co-authored a paper about those intense eruptions in India 66 million years ago. His team proposed that the seismic shakeup from the asteroid’s impact could have made magma fizz out of volcanoes “kind of like when you shake a can of coke,” he says.
But Gulick isn’t as convinced. For one thing, the dates are a little fuzzy — the increased volcanic activity the study reports happened within a million years of when the asteroid touched down in the Yucatán: that could have been before the impact, or long after. “So how do we really know that something within those million years is directly related to an event that happened on a specific day?” Gulick says. “The resolution isn’t good enough to say that.” He also wishes the study had been clearer about exactly how the asteroid’s impact increased volcanic eruptions at these mid-ocean ridges. “It’s an interesting observation, but I’m a little skeptical.”
Byrnes says that’s a fair critique. But, he adds, they only see the evidence of increased eruptions at one point in time. “And it just so happens it lines up with the impact’s age,” he says. In the future, he and Karlstrom intend to investigate how these eruptions may have caused changes in ocean chemistry. But for now, they’re excited by the responses to the research they’ve been getting from the rest of the scientific community. “You get really good at failing and bouncing back from that,” Karlstrom says. “But every now and then when something does work, it’s nice to see that people are also excited about it.”
A video shared widely since mid-Jan 2018 purports to show a Vertical UFO Alien Spotted Over Mexico. Interestingly, the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was shown as first ‘Alien sighting’ of 2018. The flying object seen in the video was in fact not identified, but the claim that it belongs to Aliens is certainly not true.
Vertical UFO Alien Spotted Over Mexico
Origin of Video – Vertical UFO Alien Spotted Over Mexico
The video shows a driver capturing on camera an upright object flying in the air over sky in Mexico. YouTube channel Virality TV shared the video as first UFO sighting in Mexico, suggesting Alien watch. However, Facebook user Ufologo Pedro Ramírez, who calls himself UFOlogist, shared it in early Jan 2018. As a matter of fact, he suggested the tubular UFO hovering over Mexican sky is a proof of Aliens watching our activity in space.
Not Alien
Firstly, the vertical UFO object was captured on camera from a moving vehicle. So, it gives a false impression that the object is flying fast in sky. Once the video became popular online, YouTube user Louis aguilar posted a video showing similar object flying in San Antonio, Texas.
Intrigued viewers suggested the UFO in Mexico could be a drone in the US border region, a weather balloon or a man testing some kind of Jet Pack. As you can see in the images, the shape of the UFO remains same through the flight in the first place. Likewise, it resembles the shape of a Stormtrooper Helium Balloon, which are widely available as novelty gifts. In the video below, you can see couple of such balloons flying in sky. Furthermore, it was new year time, so it is probably the case.
Fake Science Paper About 'Star Trek' and Warp 10 Was Accepted by 'Predatory Journals'
Fake Science Paper About 'Star Trek' and Warp 10 Was Accepted by 'Predatory Journals'
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeil) and Capt. Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) suffered the consequences of travel at Warp 10 in the "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Threshold."
Credit: Paramount
In the "Star Trek" universe, the fantastic speed of warp 10 has remained annoyingly out of reach. However, a recent paper in an open-access journal describes an experiment that attempted to break that boundary.
The fact that the "experiment" described in the paper wasn't conducted in a real-world laboratory, but in an episode of the sci-fi TV series "Star Trek: Voyager," reveals just how easy it is to publish fake science in some so-called "predatory journals."
The paper's author, a biologist for 30 years and a fan of "Star Trek," wrote up a research paper based on the "Voyager" episode. He submitted it to 10 open-access journals known or suspected of charging authors publication fees without providing the editorial services associated with legitimate journals, such as careful peer review and vetting of the paper's claims. Four accepted it, though only one, the American Research Journal of Biosciences, published the paper.
These so-called predatory journals have low or non-existent scientific standards and a willingness to print any papers submitted.
"Predatory journals aim only to make money from researchers," Jeffrey Beall, a research librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, told Space.com by email. Beall has long worked to expose predatory journals. At one point, he maintained an online list of them, though ongoing harassment against Beall, his employer and his colleagues resulted in him taking it down last year. The list has been reposted at various sites on the web.
Of the four predatory journals that accepted the paper, none recognized the blatant falsification, even those providing peer review. The paper's author, "BioTrekkie," identified himself to Space.com but asked to remain anonymous, as the journals could potentially seek legal retribution because he sent fabricated results. (The journal declined to respond to questions from Space.com.)
BioTrekkie said he was motivated by a similar "Star Wars" experiment, in which a paper on the fictional midichlorians behind the Force was published by an open-access journal. That paper was a sting operation by the so-called Neuroskeptic, who blogs pseudonymously for Discover Magazine. According to Neuroskeptic, the purpose was to expose predatory journals that claim to offer peer-reviewed open-access publications but will publish anything for a fee.
"Midichlorians are sometimes criticized as one of the most ridiculous elements of the 'Star Wars' universe, so I thought I needed to even things out by picking what is arguably one of the scientifically worst episodes of 'Star Trek,'" BioTrekkie told Space.com by email.
"I was also curious what sort of responses I might get by the subset that reviewed the paper," he said.
A fictional experiment
BioTrekkie's research follows "Voyager" Episode 32, "Threshold," where Lt. Thomas Paris rigs an experimental shuttle to cross the warp 10 boundary. (This concept involves ships going faster that the speed of light and has absolutely no remotely similar real-world analogy.) After a successful trip, the now-deranged Paris kidnaps Capt. Kathryn Janeway for a second trip. After crossing the transwarp boundary, both find themselves rapidly evolved into what is apparently humanity's future amphibious state. By the time the crew finds the pair, they have had several children. Eventually, both Paris and Janeway are returned to their human form. [Star Trek Captains, Ranked From Worst to Best]
The paper describes the plot of the episode as research. The paper uses the word "celerity," which means extreme speed, in its title, but further down BioTrekkie parenthetically describes the theoretical maximum celerity as "warp 10." Despite this and other fictions, including those involving the author and affiliation, the paper was published as legitimate research.
"Many of the predatory publishers are based in Asia or Africa and their owners may be unfamiliar with the 'Star Trek' characters," Beall said, when asked how editors could have overlooked such obvious jargon.
Because the characters were returned to their human forms by the end of the episode, BioTrekkie suggested that the sudden mutations wouldn't necessarily stop the crew from breaking warp 10 in the future.
"Seemingly everything in our future can be fixed with a damper or compensator," BioTrekkie told Space.com. These fixes are common in the "Star Trek" universe.
The paper calls for future studies on the impact of warp 10 on human genetics and physical changes.
Speaking as though the experiment were fact instead of fiction, BioTrekkie said, "Given we now know what to expect, we can impose the intense antiproton burst regiment treatment early— we can build it into the shuttle as a metamorphosis compensator."
Warp 10 has surprising and devastating morphological consequences in "Star Trek: Voyager."
Credit: Paramount
"Very little direct science substance"
Academic journal subscriptions can be costly, which keeps their research out of reach for some scientists and the public. In recent years, publishers have founded open-access journals that allow anyone to read their publications, no cost required. These journals make their money by charging author fees to those whose papers have been submitted for publication.
But some journals can take this too far. So-called predatory journals focus more on the fees and less on the scientific accuracy.
Predatory journals "are not selective in what they publish," Beall said. "They are essentially counterfeit journals, mimicking the look and feel of legitimate online journals, but with the singular goal of making easy money."
BioTrekkie's "research" isn't the first to target predatory journals. The enormous amount of spam that researchers receive by email may have prompted the submission of one paper that repeats its title phrase, "Get Me Off Your F---ing Mailing List," for 10 pages straight, as reported by Vox.
Inspired by recent stings, and motivated to get "Star Trek" published alongside the earlier "Star Wars" "research," BioTrekkie published his new paper, which listed six "Star Trek: Voyager" crewmembers as authors. All six were affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Starfleet Academy. The contact was given as a Gmail address.
Of the 10 open-access journals he selected, only one noted that Starfleet Academy appeared to be a fictional affiliation. No one noticed the "Star Trek" references, despite the fact that the research used the recognizable phrase "'warp 10."
Five journals did not respond to the paper.
"That's a high rate, so I'm thinking at least some of them figured it was a fake," BioTrekkie said.
Four others accepted the paper pending some minor revisions. The fifth remaining journal, which had identified the fictional affiliation, rejected the paper because it had already been published online in the American Research Journal of Biosciences.
"Among the four that accepted it, two provided no reviewer feedback at all, and the other two did each provide a supposed peer review," BioTrekkie said. [Medical Journal Retracts Jesus Miracle Paper]
Peer review is a staple of academic research, with scientists not involved in the research reviewing the methods and asking for clarifications. The process helps to ensure experiments are repeatable when possible, along with evaluating whether the results support the author's interpretation. The peer review provided by the two journals was not up to par.
"There was very little direct scientific substance," BioTrekkie said. "The reviews were of the kind I might expect from someone with some basic undergraduate background in biology or statistics."
According to BioTrekkie, reputable open-access journals nearly always charge a hefty publication fee, which they will occasionally waive for authors without funding. Non-open-access journals sometimes have very low or no fees, especially if the author is a member of the society publishing the journal. While reputable journals exist to exchange scientific information, predatory journals focus on profits.
"For that reason, most predatory journals are open-access, so they can make money," he said.
All four journals that accepted that paper had hefty publication fees initially, he said. Only one agreed to waive the fee completely when he said he had no dedicated grant funds, but that one went silent after the paper was submitted. Others were willing to drop the fee, though not completely.
"The one in which I ultimately published the paper — which was also one of the ones that did provide a peer review—did so for $50, when the original invoice was $749," he said. He paid that money out-of-pocket.
Because he was paying the fees himself, he opted not to publish the paper in the other three journals.
So why would a journal whose only goal was to make money lower its fee?
"For marketing purposes, predatory journals often waive fees or offer discounts to attract article submissions, especially when they are first starting out," Beall said. The goal is to fill up their journal with published articles, giving it an appearance of legitimacy.
"Empty journals are suspicious, but journals full of papers look like successful journals to some," Beall said.
The ten journals BioTrekkie submitted the new research to seem to be following that strategy successfully. The author said a quick look at just a couple of the papers revealed the journals' willingness to publish whatever they were sent. In most cases, other published papers were "insubstantive, poorly described, poorly supported," he said.
On the other hand, some of the papers seemed legitimate, leading him to wonder if the authors knew they were submitting to sketchy journals. It's possible that some researchers considered that submitting to such a journal was better than remaining unpublished.
"Despite working in my science field for decades, no one else I know personally has intentionally sent their works to one of their journals — it would reflect quite poorly on their résumé, I think — even as a last resort, so I think that's quite rare," BioTrekkie said.
UFO? The strange object was seen in pictures taken on a fishing trip.
The picture, taken in Nelson ledges state park in Garrettsville, Nelson, Ohio, USA, has a strange torpedo-shaped object in the top-left corner above a lake and trees.
Investigators at the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) were sent the image for analysis.
MUFON is the world's largest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research and it keeps a global database of sightings, many of which are investigated.
A son of the man, who has not been named by MUFON, sent in the image with a report.
But the organisation has previously admitted that it does get inundated with hoax footage by pranksters and other individuals, which in some cases have to undergo initial assessment, tying up investigators.
The organisation accepts that this is one of the pitfalls of being an organisation dedicated to such research.
MUFON investigator Peter Davenport said on the website: "One of the greatest burdens that UFO investigators have to bear, in the course of their collecting and investigating sighting reports submitted by members of the public, is the deluge of apparently false reports and cases of mistaken identity that have to be waded through, and eliminated from, the stream of incoming data.
"What prompts people to create and submit bogus reports is unclear, save for the apparently widespread lack of self-discipline, and lack of concern for others, that seems all too common in mankind.
"However, the fact remains that such deception takes place constantly, and that it probably will continue in ufology, and elsewhere, until long after we have finally laid to rest the mystery of UFOs."
Scott Brando runs debunking website Ufoofinterest.org.
He believes it was a genuine picture and not a hoax, but not evidence of aliens.
He said: " I don't think it's a hoax. The sender says his dad was fishing and decided to take a couple pictures for memories.
"He realised later on while looking at the pictures noticed this odd object.
"That object could be something launched in the water during the fish, like a stone.
"It's hard to identify it but I'd like to see the original picture, not a cropped image."
Sorry for that tabloid-y headline but it’s exactly what happened. A mummy called the “Screaming Mummy” because its face was preserved in a picture of agony has been removed from storage and put on display this week at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo for the first time since it was moved there for safekeeping. The exhibition coincides with a definitive revelation as to the reason behind the mummy’s scream.
‘The gruesome mummy of Unknown Man E, also known as the “Screaming Mummy,” has long puzzled scholars. Such unusual mummification has perplexed Egyptologists and no one has succeeded in knowing the story behind such a mummy until the launch of the Egyptian Mummy Project several years ago under my direction to create a complete database of forensic information related to the mummy collection at the Egyptian Museum.”
Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, the former Minister of Antiquities who led the Egyptian Mummies Project, told Al-Ahram Weekly(more pictures here) what the researchers have found after more detailed studies of its skin and a new analysis of its DNA.
Deir el-Bahari
But first, a little background.
In 1881, a tomb-robber named Abd el-Rassul claimed to have discovered a cache of mummified remains and funeral artifacts in a tomb next to Deir el-Bahri, in the Theban Necropolis (later research shows it may have been found 10 years earlier). After realizing it was a royal tomb, he and a brother plundered it until being caught selling the artifacts on the black market. Egyptologist were brought in and performed a different kind of plundering – they quickly (within 48 hours) removed the mummies and artifacts from the tomb (now called TT 320) without recording their placements, damaging much in the process.
By far the strangest discovery in TT 320 was the screaming mummy or “Unknown Man E.” Initial analysis showed that the body had been embalmed quickly without the standard removal of its brain and internal organs. The cedar coffin appeared to have been roughly widened to fit the body, suggesting the family had some reason to bury it quickly. What was it?
According to Hawass, the body was wrapped in sheepskin, symbolizing that the person was considered to be impure. Its hands and feet were tied with leather straps. In fact, it was not even mummified – the body was merely dried, then had resin poured into its open mouth, preserving the scream look. The biggest discovery was marks around the neck — evidence that the person died by hanging.
Those marks, coupled with the DNA analysis showing that the Screaming Mummy was closely related to Ramses III, a conspiracy story detailed in the famous Harem Conspiracy Papyrus (on display at the Museo Egizio in Turin) and the disgraceful way the body was preserved and buried convinced Hawass that Unknown Man E was indeed Prince Pentawere, the son who plotted the murder of his father Ramses III and was sentenced to death for his role in the conspiracy which was led by his mother, Tiye, who hoped to make him pharaoh instead of Ramses IV. While it’s now known that Pentawere died by hanging, it’s not evident if it was by execution or by suicide.
Unlike his tomb, the case appears to be airtight that the Screaming Mummy is Prince Pentawere. And yes, Prince Penteware and the Screaming Mummies would be a great name for a band.
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