Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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1962 UFO Crash at Nellis Air Force Base Outside of Las Vegas, NV
1962 UFO Crash at Nellis Air Force Base Outside of Las Vegas, NV
April 18, 1962 UFO Incident Facts & Figures
Date: April 18, 1962
Time:Between 8:15 and 8:19 PM Local Time, though the incident in its entirety lasted 32 minutes as the object, tracked by NORAD, crossed a total of ten states.
Location:The incident actually began on the east coast, first spotted in Oneida, New York, just outside of Syracuse. It crossed ten states, including Kansas, Colorado and Utah, before disappearing from Nellis Airforce Base radar at 10,000 Feet.
Response:The Air Defense Command was alerted after the object was tracked by NORAD. The object apparently landed at one point, confirmed by an Air Force Spokesman. During the 42 minutes it was on the ground, all power was lost from a nearby power station. Power was restored once it left, at which time it was pursued by jet interceptors summoned from Phoenix and Stead Field in Reno, NV.
Outcome:Jets pursued the object until it exploded over the Mesquite Range in Nevada "in a brilliant glare that was visible over five states."
Witnesses:Having crossed from the east to west coast, the object was seen by literally thousands of people.
It has been described as a red or blue fireball; a red-flaming sword across the sky; an object resembling a tadpole; a very bright, white light was a smoke trail behind it with twenty-to-thirty explosions.
Witnesses in Utah claimed it was no more than 500 feet above their truck, causing it to nearly stall at the time.
According to Captain Herman Gordon Shields, who was interrogated at Hill Air Force Base by Douglas M. Crouch, the chief of the criminal investigation sections:
"It had a long slender appearance comparable to a cigarette in size, that is, the diameter with respect to the length of the object. The fore part, or the lower part of the object was very bright, intense white such as a magnesium fire. The second half, the aft section, was a clearly distinguishable yellowish color. I would say the object was just about divided in half, the fore part being intensely white, the aft section having a more yellow color to it."
Air Force Intelligence Report - April 24, 1962: [1b]At 0319& on 19 April 1962 a brilliant mid-air Illumination appeared over Nephi, Utah, visible in Idaho, California, Arizona and Kansas. One violent explosion and 20-30 sharp explosions followed illumination.
AF pilot in area reported clearly defined white object falling toward ground after illumination.
Resident of Lynndyl, Utah, stated a bright white object passed over him traveling north-west at 3OO-5OO feet altitude, having bright white trail, turning to smoke trail after object passed.
Observers at Jericho, Utah, (39 ^5M, 112 11W) stated object passed east of Jericho in north-west direction.
Observer 3 miles south-west of Eureka, Utah reported object passed over in northwest direction, alternately emitting gasping sound, retarding forward movement, and surging ahead three or four times, before flame at tail of object turned from bright yellow to blue. Observer stated object arced over and estimated that object landed in vicinity of M6.
[2]At 06202 on 19 April 1962 Captain Herman O. Shields, Troop Carrier Squadron, a reserve AF pilot and civilian Attorney at Law was interviewed at Bill AF3, with a tape recording being made of the interview. The following information and answers received to questions...
15a(l) Shape - A long cylinderical shape like a cigarette.
15a(2) Sisse - At the distance object appeared to be the size of a cigarette.
15a(3) Color - The forward or lower part of object was a bright intense white. the after half was a clearly distinguishable yellow color.
Conclusion:Apparently only one newspaper initially covered the incident, The Las Vegas Sun.
Dr. Robert Kadesch, an associate professor of physics at the University of Utah, dismissed it as probably being a "Bolide," an extremely bright meteor.
The radar sighting at Nellis Air Force Base initially reported the object as "unidentified," but later changed it to "Insufficient Data For Scientific Analysis."
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The Crop Circle Mystery: A Closer Look
The Crop Circle Mystery: A Closer Look
THE PHENOMENON OF crop circles is one that we regard as being a relatively recent mystery, but strange patterns have actually been appearing in fields for over three hundred years. Sometimes occurring ins and, ice or even snow, five thousand of these beautiful geometric shapes have manifested themselves in over forty countries across the globe. However, Man is still no closer realising their significance. Some are undoubtedly hoaxes but what do the steersman? Are they messages from space, Mother Earth, or perhaps another dimension?
Over the years,
those who live in the country side, particularly those who live along Ley lines and channels of natural energy, have come to regard the circles as part of rural life and a few witnesses have actually seen them made. They say an invisible line snakes its way at high speed through a field, pushing the stalks of crops aside. When it reaches a certain point it begins to spin round, pushing the crop down radially, as would the hands on a clock.When it has turned the full 360 degrees the force just vanishes, leaving the crop perfectly matted on the field floor.
No stalks spring up,and no stalks are crushed, they are all carefully and permanently bowed.The question as to who or what actually determines that the patterns should be made is still up for debate. Tales of UFOs and delights above fields the night before new formations appear are common. Similarly,there are a substantial proportion of hoax circles, but these are often easily discernible as they have trampled, crushed crops rather than gently bent stalks. Many people are convinced freak weather conditions such as mini, localised whirlwinds cause the patterns.
There is also a continuing study into the scientific qualities of cropcircles ,where investigators hope a rational, serious approach will reveal the truth.Perhaps the most popular explanation for the appearance of cropcircles is connected with earth forces. The great majority of good,reputable patterns in England appear in Wiltshire, around historic areas of high natural energy. They also often occur close to ancient forts, burial mounds, standing stones and fertility symbols therefore suggesting an affiliation with Britain’s traditional heritage.Indeed, many people are convinced the ancient forces of Mother Earth have a hand in their creation.One aspect of cropcircles’ character that is not questionable is the effect they have on electronic equipment. Tape recorders are known to speed up once inside a circle and then slow down again outside.
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video equipment malfunctions without good cause, and even ordinary photographic cameras have produced severely distorted images. A rather ironic reaction circles have is on farm machinery. Not only are good crops flattened during a circle’s production,but many farmers have witnessedtheir harvesting equipment refusing to work anywhere near the circles.The circles have striking effects on humans. Some experts suggest that stepping inside certain patterns can cause extreme emotion change.
Some people feel an improved physical well-being and vitality in certain circles, whilst in others feelings of nausea, migraine, fatigue and light-headedness can be brought about. Just by sitting inside stone circles people with a longstanding medical conditions are said to have been significantly improved or even cured;the effect of a crop circle’s power on animals is equally impressive. Horses and cats in particular become agitated near patterns, and often refuse to enter them.
Flocks of birds have been seen flying straight towards a crop formation, only to drastically steer around them at the last minute, whilst some dogsfeel compelled to bound right into the centre of some circles, only to drop down asleep when they reach it.It seems a shame that some people do create hoax cropcircles. Of all unexplained phenomena, they are one of the most deserving of scientific study.
Unlike the fleeting images of monsters, aliens and ghosts, cropcircles are their own record of some unknown power. Whatever causes these formations undoubtedly leaves a trace of its inexplicable force. Country folk are well aware that, for centuries, something with which they have grown to live has been going on in their fields, but it is still something they do not quite understand.....
Manhattan reported more UFO sightings than any other borough
Manhattan reported more UFO sightings than any other borough
ByDean Balsamini
Houston Street, we have a problem.
Manhattan has gone from Studio 54 to Area 51, leading the five boroughs in sightings of unidentified flying objects over the last two years, data from the National UFO Reporting Center reveals.
Otherworldly tourists have included travelers in a “round orange orb,” a crew in a “cigar-shaped” craft and even “an unknown creature” that rudely “teleported” into one New Yorker’s back yard, according to reports made to the Washington-based group.
One Manhattan true believer claimed a close encounter — just by looking outside the gym window.
“It was rotating like a drill as it was also moving off axis and in a line towards the east,” the person explained. “As it rotated, you would be able to see four lights that would only be on one side and seen after it fully rotated. It has to be hundreds of feet long. Then after it appeared, four other smaller craft appeared that were to me saucer or spherical that blipped in and out.”
In all, there have been 27 spacey sightings in Manhattan since 2016, with Brooklynites close behind, reporting 24 strange objects — from a “very bright, round-shaped light in the sky” to a “fireball” of lights.
Queens denizens described 20 unexplained episodes, with a particularly impressive arrival last June.
“Group of about 7 UFOs, with a leader to the side, and a cluster to its north,” one witness reported.
Just eight mysterious incidents originated out of the Bronx, while Staten Island residents got interstellar a paltry six times.
“Surprised a UFO that was hovering silently above me, then it shot away,” one Staten Islander shrugged last January.
The reports include time and general place of occurrence, but can be painfully short of detail. Last May 3, someone in Brooklyn simply reported, “UFO.”
The center’s director is confident that the truth is out there.
“Do I believe in UFOs? I absolutely believe . . . I believe what the data says,” Peter Davenport insisted. “Read the cases and you come to the realization that these objects we’ve been calling UFOs for 70 years are being seen across the country and around the world on a daily basis.”
The most common claim the center receives is “lights in the sky that they can’t identify.” Davenport noted that, since May 2012, “we started seeing a type of report of clusters of red, orange, amber, yellow or gold lights.”
“Good photos, reliable photos” of UFOs are “scarce” because people have just seconds to capture “objects capable of moving at tremendous speeds,” he explained.
The group says it has catalogued more than 128,000 mysterious sightings worldwide since 1974, with most in the United States — 13,033 — originating in California. New York has collected just 4,500 in that time.
“There’s this sense that this is New York . . . there can’t be a UFO,” Davenport said. “Or they just don’t want to get involved.”
The space rock, named Asteroid 2017 DR109, is expected to hurtle past the planet at a hair-raisingly close distance on Saturday February 24, NASA has warned.
At around 5.18am on Saturday, DR109 will come within 0.007AU of Earth, the distance between the US and China 85 times over.
Flying at speeds of 16,553mph, the asteroid will shoot by the planet at a minimum distance of more than one million km away.
However, the asteroid only measures a tiny 11 metres in diameter, meaning its impact on Earth would be negligible.
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CLOSE SHAVE: Asteroid 2017 DR109 is set to brush past Earth on Saturday February 24
NASA does not consider 2017 DR109 to be a Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) – a space object that makes an exceptionally close approach to Earth.
PHAs are larger than 100 metres in diameter and come within 0.05 AU – approximately 19.5 lunar distances – to Earth, according to NASA’s classification.
NASA monitors all asteroids that come within close range of planet under its Near Earth Object programme.
Using Sentry – a highly automated collision monitoring system – NASA keeps a handle on celestial objects threatening to smash into Earth within the next 100 years.
Ancient civilisation used sound energy to 'LEVITATE and contact aliens' – shock claim
Ancient civilisation used sound energy to 'LEVITATE and contact aliens' – shock claim
ARCHAEOLOGICAL findings suggest previous civilisations used circular structures as energy-generating devices to create man-made portals in time, according to boffins online.
The research – which extended over a two-year period – suggested that human beings from thousands of years ago produced natural sound harmonic frequencies produced from the surface of the Earth.
In the clip, the narrator explains that the Sumerian civilisation may have inhabited parts of southern Africa thousands of years ago.
The Sumers are one of the earliest known civilisations known to walk the Earth.
They are said to date back to 3,000BC.
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The technology they apparently used is said to be similar to the way we use laser technology today.
Some of the frequencies recorded are believed to reach more than 380 gigahertz – much greater than any levels used today.
The discovery has left many confused as to what this previous society could possibly have done with the energy they created and whether they could have possibly known more about our planet than we do today.
The video was uploaded to YouTube channel UFOmania yesterday, and has already racked up more than 5000 hits.
And viewers suggested that previous societies have been in contact with extraterrestrial life.
One comment read: “Sound is one of the most abundant forms of free energy on the planet.
“It is the primordial source of all things and is the common denominator of all creation.
“With that being said, if an extraterrestrial race wanted to harvest energy from the planet, it could create such energy with sound.
“Sound was used as energy to levitate objects in order to create the monuments that opened vortices which allowed spacecraft to come and go."
And another added: “I always thought that many ancient rock carvings show a spiral, which could be some kind of sound wave.
“This is something they can only draw and couldn't put into words.
“Many petroglyphs around the world show a spiral of some kind I think it's some kind of sound energy that we cannot understand at this point in time.”
Researchers find ancient rock art with paintings of whales and sharks in the desert
Researchers find ancient rock art with paintings of whales and sharks in the desert
A dramatic scene has been found by experts exploring the Atacama Desert in Chile as they have come across hundreds of pieces of stunning 1,500 year-old-rock art, depicting the slaughter of whales, turtles and even sharks.
In the north of Chile, located right between the Pacific Ocean and the beginning of the vast Atacama Desert is the archaeological site of El Médano. North of it, researchers have discovered a new archaeological site with more than 300 ancient paintings.
The archaeological site of El Médano features a valuable set of rock paintings which were discovered in 1918 by an amateur archaeologist named Augusto Capdeville.
But, now, a team from the University of La Sorbonne, has located in the vicinity, new previously unknown rock art.
The new site called Izcuña, located a few miles north of Médano depicts drawings which are approximately 1,500 years old.
There, using strokes of red color, the ancient inhabitants of the region made rock art depicting the hung of whales, swordfish, marlin, squid, sea lion, turtles, and sharks.
All the paintings were made with a pigment of a red color and show the harpooned animals, but not their hunters.
Scientists explain how these hunting scenes are based on the everyday experiences of the ancient inhabitants living near Chile’s coastline.
The same scenery was present in the rock art researchers discovered at the beginning of the 20th century, although those paintings recreated hunting scenes of terrestrial animals.
The value of this finding is enormous because it helps document how the inhabitants of the area extracted a large part of their resources from the ocean, and also what techniques they used for it.
As noted by experts, the ancient inhabitants had advanced fishing and hunting technologies that included fish hook built from shell, bone, cactus spines, copper, and even rafts made of sea lion skin.
As noted by the Daily Mail, archaeologists have discovered around 328 paintings at Izcuña, on 24 blocks of rock.
“Archaeological evidence attests to a society specialized in marine resource exploitation. Its sophisticated fishing and hunting technology included fish-hooks made from shell, bone, cactus spines and copper, and cotton lines, nets, stone weights, harpoons and rafts made of sea lion skin,” explained researchers in the study.
“This specialization and the resource-rich Pacific coast allowed the inhabitants to be hugely productive, thereby facilitating permanent residential camps located near water springs and on natural jetties. From here, small groups could explore vast territories.”
Disclosure Time? Unpublished Project Blue Book Documents Released To The Public
Disclosure Time? Unpublished Project Blue Book Documents Released To The Public
One of the officers working on the Blue Book Project dared to rescue photographs, books, texts, documents, letters and trash memos, when the government-funded-initiative, project Blue Book; the study of UFOs was completed in 1969.
Now, thanks to researcher Rob Mercer and John Greenewald founder of The Black Vault, previously unknown documents have been digitized and posted online for the world to see.
The documents—which have all been declassified—were found behind a pile of firewood at a garage auction that took place in Fairborn, Ohio.
The Wright-Patterson Air Base, home of Project Blue Book and rumored to be the place where the remains of the ET ship that crashed in Roswell were taken to, is also located in Fairborn.
This last fact motivated investigator Rob Mercer, who immediately suspected that there was a possibility that the documents were genuine and decided to acquire them.
The investigation to determine the veracity of the find led Mercer to one officer responsible for having saved the archives instead of destroying them: Carmon Marano, a US Air Force lieutenant who worked at Project Blue Book, one of the US government’s attempts to explain the UFO phenomenon and, many times, debunk it before the public.
The Documents, already verified as genuine, have been posted online by John Greenewald, founder of The Black Vault.
Marked with a circle, Lieutenant Carmon Marano. Beneath him, in the center, Hector Quintanilla, the last director of Project Blue Book.
Project Blue Book was a series of studies on UFOs by the United States Air Force (USAF).
The objective of Project Blue Book was to determine if UFOs were a potential threat to national security.
Thousands of UFO reports were collected, analyzed and archived.
This has been the last USAF project related to UFOs that have been made public so far.
According to investigations, towards the end of 1951, several influential high ranking generals of the USAF were so dissatisfied with the state of UFO investigations of the Air Force that they dismantled the so-called Project Grudge and replaced it with Project Blue Book in early 1952.
During the time that Blue Book lasted, which was completed in 1969, 12,618 UFO reports were collected. Experts at the time had concluded that most ‘sightings’ were misinterpretations of natural phenomena (clouds, stars, etc.) or conventional aircraft.
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A few sightings were considered frauds.
701 cases—approximately 6%—were classified as unexplained.
The reports were archived and are available under the Freedom of Information Act, but the names of the witnesses and other personal information have been removed.
The decision to terminate Project Blue Book was based on several factors, such as the evaluation of a report written by the University of Colorado entitled “The scientific study of UFOs”, the review of this report by the National Academy of Sciences, the UFO cases previously studied and the experience of the Air Force, which investigated UFO reports between 1940 and 1969.
As a consequence of these investigations, studies, and experiences, the conclusions of the Project Blue Book were:
1) No UFO which the Air Force investigated ever posed a threat to National Security.
2) The Air Force has not found any evidence that the observations classified as “unidentified” represent objects or technological principles that go beyond the scientific knowledge of the time.
3) There has been no evidence to indicate that the observations classified as “unidentified” were extraterrestrial vehicles.
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Controversial Study Claims: Man Began Using Words 1 Million Years Ago
Controversial Study Claims: Man Began Using Words 1 Million Years Ago
According to a new study, ancient man began using words around One Million years ago, as experts believe without ‘speech,’ ancient humans would not have been able to build boats and sail the planet in order to populate the planet.
“What is the greatest technology we have ever had as a species, the answer is language. Who invented it? Homo Erectus, about one million years ago or more.”
Experts may have just solved the riddle as to how and when ancient humans began speaking.
A controversial new study claims that speech was invented to help them organize, and build boats to populate the world.
Without ‘speech’ ancient man would not have been able to build boats and populate the world, say, researchers.
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
If we take a look at human origins, we will find that our earliest known ancestor, Homo erectus took a huge leap forward by starting to walk upright, more than one million years ago.
However, while he could walk like we can today, researchers have not been able to find evidence that he could talk. As noted by experts, language was not something that Homo erectus was capable of.
All of this is based on anatomy, as scientists believe Homo erectus did not have a bone called the Hyoid, which is a bone that helps anchor the tongue. Homo Sapiens did have it.
Therefore, experts suggest that Hom erectus wasn’t really capable of speech, he was only capable of howling.
This means that language is believed to have arrived together with Homo Sapiens.
However, a new controversial study forces us to rethink human origins, saying that Homo erectus must have had the ability to speak.
Researchers now claim that without language, Homo erectus would have never been capable of building the boats needed to travel across Earth’s vast oceans.
Furthermore, experts note that if Homo erectus had not developed speech, he would not have been able to sail across the globe in large numbers populating the planet.
What is the greatest technology we have ever had as a species, the answer is language. Who invented it? Homo erectus, about one million years ago or more. Those are controversial claims. Everybody talks about Homo erectus as a stupid ape-like creature, which of course describes us just as well, and yet what I want to emphasize is that erectus was the smartest creature that had ever walked the Earth,” says Daniel Everett, Professor of Global Studies, at Bentley University, Massachusetts.
Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, professor Everett explained: “Oceans were never a barrier to the travels of erectus.”
Homo erectus was able to travel all over the world. He traveled to the Island of Flores, across one of the greatest ocean currents on Earth.
“They sailed to the island of Crete and various other islands. It was intentional they needed craft and they needed to take groups of twenty or so at least to get to those places. And this is the consensus of the archaeological evidence. Erectus needed language when they were sailing to the island of Flores. They couldn’t have simply caught a ride on a floating log because then they would have been washed out to see when they hit the current,” explained Professor Everett.
“They needed to be able to paddle. And if they paddled they needed to be able to say ‘paddle there’ or ‘don’t paddle. You need communication with symbols not just grunts. They accomplished too much for this to simply be the sort of communication that we see in other species without symbols,” he added.
Countless Maya Artifacts And Human Remains Found In World’s Largest Underwater Cave
Countless Maya Artifacts And Human Remains Found In World’s Largest Underwater Cave
Researchers have found sacred Maya relics together with a 10,000-year-old Human skeleton in an underwater cave in Mexico.
In what is considered the world’s most important underwater archaeological site, experts have discovered sacred ancient Maya relics, together with human remains and Ice Age Animal Bones. So far, experts have discovered a total of 198 objects, including walls, altars and a Mayan burial site with human remains. Some of these objects date back more than 10,000 years and belonged to the first settlers of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
The team in charge of the Great Maya Aquifer Project found a human skeleton which is believed to be 10 thousand years old, in what is considered the largest cenote in the world, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico.
The recently found bone structure is the fourth skeleton found so far, of what are believed to be the first settles in the area.
Image Credit: INAH
Lead Archaeologist Guillermo De Anda reported in a press conference the discovery of a cenote with stairs and altars dedicated to Ek Chuah, the God of war and commerce.
“I think it’s overwhelming. Without a doubt, it’s the most important submerged archaeological site in the world. It is very unlikely that there is another site in the world with these characteristics. There is an impressive amount of archaeological artifacts inside, and the level of preservation is also impressive.”
It is assumed that this space was used as a pilgrimage point by Mayan merchants.
Image Credit: INAH
Archaeologists found a large number of pottery remains and a mask representing the Ek Chuah.
The land routes used by the Maya for trade needed points of “ritual pilgrimage,” according to De Anda.
“On their way inland, they had to make stops at altars and in sacred places to make an exchange with the gods and, in some way, this is one of the traces they have left,” he said.
The so-called Cave of the God of Commerce has a temple and a stairway that allows access to the cave.
Image Credit: INAH
Throughout 347 kilometers of tunnels under the soil of Quintana Roo, archaeological and paleontological remains are concentrated in 198 places.
The team researching the world’s most important underwater archaeological site has the support of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and National Geographic to explore the flooded galleries, where unique elements have been found so far, such as a cave with remains of Pleistocene fauna embedded in the walls.
Experts have uncovered a total of 198 objects in the cave system.
As noted by De Anda, the remains found could account for “a catastrophic event” that allowed these bones to remain in that place.
“We still need to determine what these bones belong to, but the project is integrating a resident paleontologist to understand these contexts and take care of them as they should,” he concluded.
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME In September 2016, an amateur astronomer was looking at spiral galaxy NGC 613 (shown), located about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor, and caught a supernova exploding.
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Víctor Buso spotted the supernova from his rooftop observatory in Rosario, Argentina, on September 20, 2016, when he aimed his telescope straight overhead at spiral galaxy NGC 613 to test a new camera. To avoid letting in too much light from the city sky — Rosario is a city of about 1.2 million people — he took a series of about 100 images that were each exposed for 20 seconds, spanning about an hour and a half.
Over the last half-hour of Buso’s observations, the supernova appeared and then doubled in brightness. In 2013, astronomers spotted a supernova within hours of its explosion (SN Online: 2/13/17), but this is one of the first to be spotted before it exploded.
Because there is no way to predict when and where a supernova will go off, this sort of observation is extremely rare, says astrophysicist Melina Bersten of the National University of La Plata in Argentina, who reports details of the supernova in the Feb. 22 Nature.
NOW YOU SEE IT The black spot toward the bottom right of this image is a supernova going off near galaxy NGC 613. An amateur astronomer in Argentina captured the explosion in nearly 100 images taken with a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor camera.
VÍCTOR BUSO AND GASTÓN FOLATELLI
“This is completely unusual, and was something that many people were searching for around the world without success,” Bersten says. “It was incredible.”
Bersten and her colleagues analyzed the light from the supernova and found that it matches models of the first phase of a supernova called the shock breakout phase, in which a shock wave from a massive star’s collapse ricochets back from the star’s core and pushes stellar material outward.
Photo NewsDe superstorm Winston in 2016 richtte voor vier miljard euro schade aan in Oceanië.
WEERNIEUWS Tropische superstormen zijn door opwarming van de aarde zo sterk geworden dat de huidige categorie-indeling van kracht 1 tot 5 niet meer voldoende is. Volgens klimaatwetenschappers op een congres in Nieuw-Zeeland is het daarom nodig een nieuwe categorie toe te voegen: schaal 6. Voor windsnelheden vanaf 320 kilometer per uur.
Tropische stormen of cyclonen worden al naar gelang hun kracht ingedeeld volgens de schaal van Saffir-Simpson. Bedoeling daarvan is bewoners in bedreigde gebieden voor te bereiden op de verwachte schade en risico’s. Een orkaan van categorie 2, 3 en 4 is bijvoorbeeld tien, vijftig, honderd keer zo verwoestend als een zwakke orkaan van categorie 1. Tot nu toe is categorie 5 het gevaarlijkst. Dan gaan de daken eraf van de meeste huizen en bedrijven. Bij een stormvloed langs de kust wordt de meeste laagbouw weggespoeld en kunnen de golven tot wel vier kilometer landinwaarts gaan.
Volgens klimatoloog Michael Mann van Pennsylvania State University dekt categorie 5 niet langer de lading. Een nieuwe categorie 6 zou een betere aanduiding zijn om de werkelijke kracht aan te geven van stormen van 320 kilometer per uur”, zegt hij in de Britse krant The Guardian. Uitbreiding van de schaal zou volgens hem benadrukken dat er wel degelijk een klimaatverandering gaande is die stormen krachtiger maakt dan ooit.
Aanpassing is ook nodig omdat het schadebeeld vertekend is, aldus Mann. Sinds de schaal van Saffir-Simpson werd opgesteld, in 1969, is er veel verbeterd in de stevigheid van bouw en infrastructuur. Dat er desondanks gebouwen omwaaien, zegt wat over de toegenomen kracht, aldus de wetenschapper. Recente stormen als de orkaan Patricia in 2015 met geschatte windstoten van tegen 400 kilometer per uur (8 doden, bijna 400 miljoen euro schade) en orkaan Winston in 2016 (44 doden, 4 miljard euro schade) passen volgens Mann in een nieuwe buitencategorie. Volgens de Nieuw-Zeelandse klimaatminister James Show zou orkaan Winston zeker een zes hebben gekregen ‘als die categorie had bestaan.’
WETENSCHAPEr is één kans op 10 tot 100 miljoen en het is de droom van elke astronoom. De Argentijnse amateur-sterrenkundige Victor Buso won de kosmische jackpot door (het begin van) een supernova te zien, zo staat in het jongste nummer van het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature.
“Beroepsastronomen zoeken al lang naar een dergelijk evenement”, (de start van) een ontploffende ster, schreef Alex Filippenko van de Universiteit van Berkeley. “Het is zoals de ‘kosmische jackpot’ winnen”, “uitzonderlijk”. “De metingen van Victor Buso vormen een geheel van data zonder voorgaande”, weet Federico Garcia van het Franse Commissariaat voor Kernenergie.
Op 20 september 2016 beslist de door sterren gepassioneerde Argentijn een nieuw fototoestel op zijn telescoop te testen. Hij had de telescoop zelf gebouwd op het dak van zijn huis in de stad Rosario, ten noorden van Buenos Aires. Hij kiest voor zijn eerste foto’s sterrenstelsel NGC 613, op ongeveer tachtig miljoen lichtjaar van ons, in het sterrenbeeld Beeldhouwer. Bingo: een enorme ster beleeft de laatste uren van haar leven in een cataclystische ontploffing die bekendstaat als een supernova.
Spectaculair fenomeen
De fenomenen die daarmee gepaard gaan, zijn hevig. Want volgens de theorie wordt de materie van de ster aan snelheden van duizenden kilometer per seconde uitgespuwd. Vanwege de ongelooflijke hoeveelheid uitgestoten energie is het evenement helder en is het van op onze planeet te zien. Maar het is een zeldzaam en vooral niet te voorzien evenement. Astronomen ontdekken het in het algemeen pas na enkele dagen en nooit sinds het begin. Dat geluk had Victor Buso wel.
Hij sloeg alarm via de Amerikaanse vereniging van waarnemers van variabele sterren AVVSO en bracht een kettingreactie op gang. Een batterij astronomen en natuurkundigen richtte zijn instrumenten op het fenomeen. Sommigen observeren het vervolg gedurende meer dan twee maanden. Volgens de studie in het Britse Nature laten de nieuwe data toe beter de fysieke structuur te begrijpen van een ster vlak voor ze ontploft, alsmede de natuur zelf van de explosie.
Eén kans op tien miljoen
De ploeg wetenschappers kon uitmaken dat de initiële massa van de ster ongeveer twintig keer die van onze Zon was. Ze zagen ook de helderheid van de supernova spectaculair toenemen. Op minder dan een half uur tijd verveelvoudigde die met factor 3, zegt de Franse universiteit Paris Diderot. Volgens Melina Bersten van het Instituut voor Astrofysica van La Plata in Argentinië had Victor Buso “maar één kans op tien miljoen of zelfs 100 miljoen” om het spektakel te kunnen aanschouwen.
TwitterDe Argentijnse astronoom bouwde deze telescoop zelf op zijn dak.
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Mysterious Bright Object falls from the sky over Bahia, Brazil
Mysterious Bright Object falls from the sky over Bahia, Brazil
Residents of Salvador, the capital of Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, reported a bright object falling from the sky with a huge flash before it exploded at low altitude on February 20, 2018.
Residents of Monte Gordo, in the district of Camaçari in the metropolitan region of Salvador heard the explosion too.
Credit image: Canal TV Noticias - Juliana Almirante – G1.Globo.
Land owner Edinei da Silva Almeida said that he was burning vegetation when he heard the explosion. Then Mr. Edinei da Silva Almeida accompanied by his neighbors started looking in the direction of the explosion and soon they found a strange object in an area of vegetation near a material store. The object looks like iron and weighs about 2.9 kg and is 15 cm in size.
Credit images: Juliana Almirante – G1.Globo.
While most of the experts believe that it was a small piece of a meteorite that fell to the ground, the Brazilian Meteorological Monitoring Network (Bramon) suggests there is also the possibility that a part of a rocket, which was sent by Russia to the International Space Station, may have come loose and have fallen in Bahia reports Globo.1.com.
Whatever it may have been remains a mystery for the time being.
This unique case remained unknown to the public until May 2004, when a comic book about UFOs published the case. This introduced the meeting to the new generation of UFO enthusiasts, starting something similar to a cult in Japan.
LAS VEGAS - When it comes to UFO stories, all roads lead to Las Vegas, right?
Recent revelations about a secret Pentagon study of UFOs raised many questions, including this one --do government scientists have a piece of a flying saucer? According to a New York Times story, scientists in southern Nevada had a chance to study a piece of mystery metal which had some unusual properties.
When Nevada Senator Harry Reid and a few colleagues quietly found the funding back in 2007 for a serious Pentagon study of unknown aerial intruders, otherwise known as UFOs, one goal was to move the subject beyond the long shadow of the so-called Roswell crash, the controversial tale about a mysterious object that crashed in New Mexico in 1947.
"If you're here to find out where the little men from New Mexico at the end of World War II, are stored in some vault some place, you want to spend time talking about flying saucers that took people some place, I'm not into that," former Sen. Harry Reid said.
When the New York Times broke the story in December, and an organization called To The Starsreleased Pentagon videos of encounters with unknown craft, a separate line of inquiry was also unleashed. Was there, as the Times reported, a piece of metal or material that could not be identified by scientists?
For three years, a private organization named BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies), headquartered at Bigelow Aerospace in North Las Vegas, collected and analyzed UFO files and data on behalf of the defense intelligence agency, DIA.
Company founder Robert Bigelow built special secure facilities inside his plant to house the program, its files, and according to news reports, a piece of unknown material, reportedly a compound with special properties. Senator Reid, for one, said he is unaware of any such exotic materials.
"I don't know anything about exotic materials but (there's been) a lot of talk about it."
The subject isn't new in UFO circles. The properties of supposedly recovered mystery metals have been debated online for years. Rock star turned UFO investigator Tom DeLonge speculated last year about possible anti-gravity effects of one alloy. Nick Pope, a former official with the British Ministry of Defense study of UFOs said he believes such material does exist. But what about the point man for the Pentagon's UFO program?
"So, now we can theoretically warp space time in a way that we can go from A to B a little faster," said Luis Elizondo.
I-Team Reporter George Knapp: "Do we need special materials?"
Luis Elizondo: "Well, special materials are important no matter what you do. On a car, you might want titanium. Everything requires special materials."
Elizondo is the person most directly responsible for the public release of the now ubiquitous videos, the so called gimbal UFO and the Tic Tac encounter. He thinks these craft are able to bend space and time with a technology beyond anything known on earth. But, is the technology dependent on mystery metal, and did the U.S. have a piece of it at the Bigelow plant?
"Sadly, I can't discuss that. You would have to ask the U.S. government. But I've said before, when you are collecting special data, there are always tell-tale signs on how something works by its signature," Elizonda said.
Some who read the story speculated that the material contains an unknown element. Not true, say those who worked on the program, but multiple sources have confirmed to us that there was a weird piece of something at the Bigelow plant.
Physicist Dr. Hal Puthoff was one of the chief scientists for the BAASS study. He confirmed last month that he had a look at "unusual material" that was "very complex." Puthoff implied that it was engineered by unknown means, layered, he says, in ways that produced unusual characteristics. But that's as far as he would go.
Pentagon UFO Study Jan. 28, 2018, Coast to Coast hosted by George Knapp
Dr. Hal Puthoff said:
“Detailed proof that crashes had happened would be so highly classified piece of data. There has been one leaked document — how it got leaked, I’ll never know — which is out there, that talks about some crashes, that we were able to verify … it was a real document. My opinion is there are probably at least materials. Now, it wouldn’t necessarily have to be crash of an entire craft, but it could be a piece blown off, whatever, by a lightning strike or a missile or whatever. So I am not surprised to find out that there’s discussion of material being available. We’ve had an opportunity to look at some unusual material, and I think that is a big area that will become more significant as time goes on. And the interesting thing about it was that I couldn’t figure out a very complex material. When you talk to people that are doing this kind of research … [we know about] all the elements on the periodic table, so you are not finding some new element that you didn’t realize is on the periodic table. No, it’s more like putting together layers of various kinds of materials that you wouldn’t expect to be able to be layered, and the result at the end of the day is that it has certain unusual characteristics that you wouldn’t have predicted in advance, so that is the kind of thing that, to a physicist, is the most interesting.”
Elizondo gave one other tantalizing clue.
"You may call it material or meta-material but if something is left behind or recovered or retrieved, you'd want to study it just like at a crime scene," he said.
No one would say on the record how the piece of material was obtained, or where it was taken once the Las Vegas study ended back in 2012.
Illustration of three THEMIS satellites and Earth's magnetosphere. Credit: NASA
Sometimes on a dark night near the poles, the sky pulses a diffuse glow of green, purple and red. Unlike the long, shimmering veils of typical auroral displays, these pulsating auroras are much dimmer and less common. While scientists have long known auroras to be associated with solar activity, the precise mechanism of pulsating auroras was unknown. Now, new research, using data from NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms—or THEMIS—mission and Japan's Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace—shortened to ERG, or also known as Arase—satellite, has finally captured the missing link thought responsible for these auroras. The answer lies in chirping waves that rhythmically pulse the particles that create the auroras.
Earth's magnetic bubble—the magnetosphere—protects the planet from high-energy radiation coming from the Sun and interstellar space, but during particularly strong solar events, particles can slip through. Once inside, the particles and the energy they carry are stored on the nightside of the magnetosphere, until an event, known as a substorm, releases the energy. The electrons are then sent speeding down into Earth's upper atmosphere where they collide with the other particles and produce the characteristic glow.
Pulsating auroras, however, have a slightly different cause. The magnetosphere is home to a type of plasma wave known as whistler mode chorus. These waves have characteristic rising tones—reminiscent of the sounds of chirping birds—and are able to efficiently disturb the electrons. When these waves make their appearance within the magnetosphere, some of the electrons scattered by the wave careen down into Earth's atmosphere, causing the pulsating auroras.
Illustration of the ERG satellite in orbit. Credit: ISAS/JAXA
While scientists have long believed this mechanism to be responsible for pulsating auroras, they had no definitive proof until now. The multipoint observations from the ERG satellite and ground-based all-sky cameras from the THEMIS mission allowed scientists to pinpoint the cause and effect, seeing the event from start to end. The results were published in the journal Nature.
Research done with NASA's ground-based camera and Japan's spacecraft in the near-Earth laboratory has applications further afield. Chorus waves have been observed around other planets in the solar system, including Jupiter and Saturn. Likely, the processes observed around Earth can help explain auroral features on these gas giants as well as on planets around other stars. The results also help scientists better understand how plasma waves can influence electrons—something that occurs in processes across the universe.
After just yesterday we wrote that Jupiter’s emblematic Giant Red Storm was quieting down, Neptune’s own giant storm is about to suffer the same fate.
Dark spot on Neptune full color (left) and blue light (right).
Although not as famous and easily visible as the Great Red Spot, Neptune’s Great Dark Spot (creative names, I know) has its own remarkable history. Also an anticyclonic storm, the first Dark Spot was first observed in 1989 by NASA’s Voyager 2. It was big enough to cover the entire Atlantic, from the US to Europe’s West Coast, but unlike Jupiter’s storm, it had a much shorter lifespan. I say “the first” Dark Spot because, since its discovery in 1989, several others have appeared and disappeared, and the initial one is long gone. Hubble discovered two dark storms that appeared in the mid-1990s and then vanished. The current storm was first observed in 2015, but it’s already shrinking.
We don’t really know that much about Neptune. The farthest planet from the Sun (sorry Pluto) remains largely a mystery, with most of our information coming from remote observations or from the Voyager days. The way it was discovered says a lot about this: Neptune was the first and only planet in our Solar System found by mathematical predictionrather than by empirical observation. Astronomers believe that Neptune has a solid rock core, a mantle consisting of water, ammonia and methane ices, and an atmosphere. The top of the atmosphere is covered by top clouds, while the rest consists of hydrogen, helium, and methane The Dark Spot is interesting because it allows astronomers to indirectly deduce certain aspects about Neptune’s atmosphere.
The Great Dark Spot is thought to represent a hole in the methane cloud deck of Neptune, generating large white clouds made of frozen methane. The dark spot itself might also contain hydrogen sulfide, a substance commonly found in crude petroleum, natural gas, volcanic gases, and hot springs.
It seems a bit strange if you think about it — why would white clouds, including ice, create a dark spot? Well, it isn’t that they’re necessarily dark, just that they’re less bright than the rest of the atmosphere. Joshua Tollefson from the University of California at Berkeley explained.
“The particles themselves are still highly reflective; they are just slightly darker than the particles in the surrounding atmosphere.”
This series of Hubble Space Telescope images taken over 2 years tracks the demise of a giant dark vortex on the planet Neptune. The oval-shaped spot has shrunk from 3,100 miles across its long axis to 2,300 miles across, over the Hubble observation period. Image credits: NASA, ESA, and M.H. Wong and A.I. Hsu (UC Berkeley).
But other than this, we don’t really know much about the nature of these storms. We don’t know why or how they form, and no missions other than Voyager and Hubble are able to visualize them.
“We have no evidence of how these vortices are formed or how fast they rotate,” said Agustín Sánchez-Lavega from the University of the Basque Country in Spain. “It is most likely that they arise from an instability in the sheared eastward and westward winds.”
Unlike Jupiter’s storms, Neptune’s storms don’t last as long. Neptune doesn’t have atmospheric conveyor belts, which keep the storm trapped, and it doesn’t have the proper atmospheric conditions to fuel the storm. So quite soon, the Dark Spot will fade away — but another one will eventually rise up to take its place.
“It looks like we’re capturing the demise of this dark vortex, and it’s different from what well-known studies led us to expect,” said Michael H. Wong of the University of California at Berkeley, referring to work by Ray LeBeau (now at St. Louis University) and Tim Dowling’s team at the University of Louisville.
My recent 2-part article on the Roswell affair of July 1947 (part-1here and part-2 here) provided a couple of reasons why, in my opinion, nothing of an extraterrestrial nature came down on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico. But, something definitely came down. And it wasn’t a weather-balloon or a Mogul balloon. And there wasn’t a crash-test-dummy in sight. Not a single one. My down-to-earth views on what reallyhappened at Roswell are well-known by those who follow the controversial saga of “The R-Word.” But, those same ufologists have little time for theories that blow the E.T. angle out of the water. Too bad that when it comes to Roswell the “I want to believe” factor is so dominating. But, if one day, the truth really does surface – to an undeniable degree – and it’s found that Roswell had nothing had to do with aliens, how will the UFO research community react? I’ll tell you.
What Really Happened at Roswell ? The Truth will shock you!
When Roswell topples (as it will, one day) there will be a fair degree of denial. Probably a huge degree of denial. No aliens at Roswell? Ridiculous! Nonsense! That will be followed by a sudden increase in the sales of comfort-blankets – and prescriptions for anything and everything that will lessen anxiety and lower blood-pressure. Should all of that happen, the small numbers of people like me won’t suffer. I will be knocking back the beer and the brandy – thus ensuring an entire week of head-spinning celebrations and an endlessly revolving-door of babe-tastic strippers. Those who will suffer are those who cannot accept that Ufology’s number-one case will become a rotting, stinking corpse. And, you know what we do with them: we bury them or burn them.
There is also the matter of how the extermination of Roswell will have a spiraling effect on various other aspects of Ufology. Let’s face it, whatever happened at Roswell, the majority of UFO researchers accept the alien angle. But, if Roswell – perceived as the best crash case on record – does collapse, what does that say about all of the other crash cases? Not at lot, that’s what! The December 1965 affair at Kecksburg, PA is seen as a good, solid UFO case by many. But, if Roswell goes belly-up, then it’s all but inevitable that people will soon develop doubts about the second-best case (or third, or fourth, depending on your personal perspective).
If aliens didn’t die on, or over, the Foster Ranch then the tale of Philip J. Corso – and his “back-engineering” schemes of alien technology – completely falls apart. That would then make people question the back-engineering-based claims of Bob Lazar, too. If there were no aliens at Roswell, then that means no extraterrestrial corpses were secretly taken to what is, today, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. That will provoke questions about whether or not there were ever any such corpses at the base.
This gets us to the heart of the big problem with Roswell: it supports so many aspects of what pro-Roswell UFO researchers believe and want to hear. And when the case crumbles, all of those related aspects – the back-engineering, the Wright-Pat legends of “dead aliens on ice,” and the other crash-based cases – will plummet to the ground.
Few people ever give much thought at all to just how much of present-day Ufology is so deeply plugged-in to Roswell – directly or indirectly. If Roswell was seen as just another case – but, admittedly, a high-profile one, wherever it leads – then it could be explored and investigated without the issue of it holding up the whole damn subject. But, when you have one, single case which is loudly championed as the incident to beat all other incidents, you are on dangerous and rocky ground.
To a degree, though, and when it comes to Roswell, most people in Ufology will deny any and all kind of disclosure than the one they want to hear. No E.T.s at Roswell? It must be disinformation. No dead aliens at Wright-Pat? “They” secretly transferred the bodies to somewhere else. No back-engineering? It all got moved from Area 51 to the Dugway Proving Ground. Roswell completely and utterly dictates Ufology. Which is a terrible and unfortunate thing.
National Geographic: Area 51 The CIA's Secret Files
Dying sucks. It’s a sad fact of human existence. When you’re young, the inevitability and permanence of death are hard to conceptualize, but experiencing the deaths of loved ones sure makes it real in a heartbeat – or lack thereof. Despite our impotence in the face of what is surely an inescapable fate, humans have been trying to find ways to avoid death since time immemorial. Modern medicine and digital media have come a long way, but the fact remains that we’re all just going to rot in the ground someday – that is, unless one of these kooky scientists proclaiming the advent of human immortality turns out to be right. This week, yet another self-proclaimed “futurologist” has issued his prediction for the strange, immortal future humanity likely has in store. Will we really soon be able to cheat death with the help of technology?
The bigger question is why the future is always depicted in blue and orange.
These latest predictions were made by engineer and futurologist Ian Pearson who has been a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society and a fellow of both the World Academy for Arts and Science and the World innovation Foundation. He claims his predictions have been shown to have “about 85% accuracy when looking 10-15 years ahead.” In an interview with The Sun, predicts humans will be able to cheat death by the year 2050. Well some humans, anyway. The rich ones. The really, really rich ones:
One day your body dies – maybe you get hit by a bus or a nasty disease – but it doesn’t matter, because your mind will still be there. You’ll be able to use an android body instead of the organic one you just lost. For normal people on everyday salaries, it’s more likely that you’ll have to wait a little longer. By 2060, people like you or I will be able to buy it, and by 2070 people in poor countries on modest incomes will be able to buy it.
In his prediction about human immortality, Pearson cites three emerging technological trends which have the potential to indefinitely extend the human lifespan, or at least the lifespan of human consciousnesses: rejuvenating body parts with anti-aging gene therapies or swapping out body parts for lab-grown replacements; digitizing the human consciousness and downloading it into biohybrid android sleeves à la Altered Carbon; or developing technologies which will allow our consciousnesses to exist forever in virtual realities. I don’t know about you, but that last one sounds the best to me.
We might one day look at swapping out body parts the same way we look at getting a haircut.
While these kinds of transhumanist predictions are great material for sci-fi and surely have led to some generous research grants, I can’t help but wonder if these are merely some kind of new techno-religious belief system emerging. These kinds of technological immortality sound a lot like concepts of the afterlife, reincarnation, or the soul tossed around by many world religions. Will we really ever be able to digitize the human consciousness? Do we really want to? Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
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UFO Spotted by Air Traffic Control Over Oregon, Recordings Reveal What Happened
UFO Spotted by Air Traffic Control Over Oregon, Recordings Reveal What Happened
By Cathy Zhang
F-15 fighters were unable to locate the UFO over Oregon on Oct. 25, 2017.
(Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR)
On Oct. 25, 2017, a mysterious aircraft was spotted, in broad daylight, near a busy flight route over the state of Oregon. U.S. Air Force jet fighters were then launched to investigate. But found nothing.
Originally reported by The War Zone blog from auto news site The Drive, the unidentified aircraft was initially picked up on radar at around 4.30 p.m. The object was traveling at high speeds through Northern California at 37,000 feet, according to the site.
There was no flight path recorded for the aircraft, and it did not respond to radio calls. Neither did it appear on any nearby aircraft Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems.
The object then turned north and merged with nearby commercial air traffic, before disappearing from radar.
Shortly after, several pilots radioed into air traffic control to report sightings of a white aircraft flying at 37,000 feet, but at distance too far to make an identification. This occurred for a period of half an hour and over hundreds of miles.
US Air Force F-15 interceptor fighters were then scrambled from Portland. But despite their speed and radar capability, the fighters could not locate the mystery aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), and the U.S. Air Force both confirmed to War Zone that the event did occur.
Recently, War Zone obtained, via a freedom of information request, audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made by FAA staff during and after the event.
The recordings paint a fuller picture of what happened as authorities struggled to determine what they were dealing with.
In a recording after the initial spotting by air traffic control, a controller reported an object traveling “very fast at 37,000,” before remarking: “That’s crazy.”
When the F-15 fighters enter the scene, they can be heard calling air traffic control asking for an update. The controller responds that the aircraft “must be in stealth mode or something.”
Phone interviews with the pilots who saw the UFO conducted after the event provide further details about the craft.
The pilot of Southwest 4712 noted that he had not seen anything like this in his nearly 30-year flying career.
“If it was like a Lear [private jet] type airframe I probably would not have seen it this clear. This was a white airplane and it was big,” he said. And it was moving at a clip too, because we were keeping pace with it, it was probably moving faster than we were… It was a larger aircraft yeah.”
Online users on Reddit have speculated that the object may have been a drug smuggling aircraft or a secret military stealth plane. However, it was a test run for a new stealth craft, flying through a commercial carrier route during daylight hours would seem to be an odd move.
A news.com.au writer conjectures that Russia and China, which also have developed aircraft stealth technology, could also be capable of a flyover such as this.
Whatever theories we may have about the strange white aircraft, the recordings show that even the officials didn’t have a clue.
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