Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
09-03-2018
Triangle-Shaped UFO Spotted by Astronomers On The Moon’s Surface Sparks Conspiracy
Triangle-Shaped UFO Spotted by Astronomers On The Moon’s Surface Sparks Conspiracy
Earth’s moon is a strange place… apparently.
From mysterious alleged structures on the moon’s surface to stories that Apollo never landed on the moon, countless ‘controversial’ theories have emerged in recent years.
But even before crazy theories about structures on the moon started appearing in recent years, two Russian scientistsMikhail Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, published in July of 1970, an article in the Soviet journal Sputnik called “Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?”
The paper proposed by the two experts offers arguments that would explain the countless enigmas surrounding the moon and its creation. Shcherbakov and Vasin proposed that massive machines were used to melt rock and form long cavities within the Moon, spreading the molten refuse onto the lunar surface.
Their study marked what many ufologists the beginning of countless theories that proposed the moon was heavily connected to advanced alien life.
Now, astronomers have spotted a mysterious triangle-shaped craft on the moon, which conspiracy theorists claim originated from a secret base on the moon’s surface.
The video and images of the mysterious craft show an unidentified object moving on the moon’s surface, and ufo hunters claim, it cannot be ignored by skeptics.
The footage was captured with a high-powered telescope, the shots appear to show a gigantic, black, triangular shape against the backdrop of the moon’s rocky surface, reports the Daily Mail.
The video of the mystery craft was posted on YouTube by Secure Team 10, a YouTube account that explores mysterious occurrences on the moon, as well as UFO footage.
‘You can tell that this is a shadow because you can see the shadow wrapping around the craters’, the narrator of the footage said.
‘This was emailed to me by not only an amateur astronomer but a guy who was the CEO of a corporate jet fleet in Texas.’
Skeptics have already come forward trying to explain the mysterious triangle-shaped craft, arguing that the enigmatic object is nothing more than the shadow cast by a craggy formation on the surface.
However, UFO believers argue that this explanation does not solve the mystery as to how the object is moving.
Other theories suggest that the triangle-shaped object is just a telescope anomaly or even a flaw within the telescope’s lens.
However, and yet again, the theory does not explain how the object is moving between the images.
This footage is just one of the many strange finds that UFO hunters and amateur astronomers have spotted on the moon.
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Reveals What Lies Beneath Jupiter’s Clouds In Stunning Images
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Reveals What Lies Beneath Jupiter’s Clouds In Stunning Images
Since the time of Galileo, the observers of the stars have looked at Jupiter and wondered what lies beneath the striking clouds that cover the Gas giants atmosphere.
The analysis of the latest data from the Juno probe, published in March of 2018, will help answer that question. The scientific papers also help understand what lies beyond Jupiter’s thick envelope of gases and whether there is a nucleus that was formed from rock, which could help astronomers answer one of the biggest mysteries about the origin of the Solar System.
According to the latest mission reports and a series of scientific studies, NASA’s probe observes huge storms, detected winds more than 3,000 kilometers below the clouds that cover its atmosphere and details about an almost unknown nucleus.
An image of the North polar region of Jupiter.
Photograph: MSSS/SwRI/JPL-Caltech/NASA
Jupiter has more mass than the rest of the planets of the Solar System together.
Jupiter has the shortest days of all the planets in our Solar System. Since Jupiter is a gas planet, it does not rotate as a solid sphere. Jupiter’s equator rotates a bit faster than its polar regions at a speed of 28,273 miles/hour (about 43,000 kilometers/hour). This makes the Gas Giant the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System rotating on average once in just under 10 hours.
With these characteristics, its gravitational field should be uniform, but for some reason, it is not, there are areas where the giant’s pull is greater, and until now researchers had no idea why.
However, four studies published in Nature provide an explanation for this phenomenon and describe what the interior of the planet is like.
This composite image, derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter, shows the central cyclone at the planet’s north pole and the eight cyclones that encircle it.
Scientists analyzed data obtained by NASA’s Juno probe and have found that ‘odd Gravity and rapid jest streatms lie around 3,000 kilometers below the surface of the clouds that cover the planet.
Furthermore, experts have found that at each pole on Jupiter exists a cyclone which is thousands of miles in diameter. The study also explains how these cyclones appear to be surrounded by a polygonal arrangement of storms — eight in the north and five in the south.
“Before Juno, we had no idea what the weather was like near Jupiter’s poles. Now, we have been able to observe the polar weather up-close every two months,” said Alberto Adriani, Juno co-investigator from the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Rome, and lead author of the paper.
“Each one of the northern cyclones is almost as wide as the distance between Naples, Italy and New York City — and the southern ones are even larger than that. They have very violent winds, reaching, in some cases, speeds as great as 220 mph (350 kph). Finally, and perhaps most remarkably, they are very close together and enduring. There is nothing else like it that we know of in the solar system.”
The discoveries reveal unprecedented details about Jupiter’s interior and could help experts finally understand the dynamics that exist inside the gas giant’s atmosphere and other similar planets across the galaxy.
“These astonishing science results are yet another example of Jupiter’s curve balls and a testimony to the value of exploring the unknown from a new perspective with next-generation instruments. Juno’s unique orbit and evolutionary high-precision radio science and infrared technologies enabled these paradigm-shifting discoveries,” said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio.
“Juno is only about one third the way through its primary mission, and already we are seeing the beginnings of a new Jupiter.”
“Juno’s measurement of Jupiter’s gravity field indicates a north-south asymmetry, similar to the asymmetry observed in its zones and belts,” said Luciano Iess, Juno co-investigator from Sapienza University of Rome, and lead author on a Nature paper on Jupiter’s gravity field.
This computer-generated image is based on an infrared image of Jupiter’s north polar region that was acquired on February 2, 2017, by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard Juno during the spacecraft’s fourth pass over Jupiter.
“Galileo observed the stripes on the Gas Giant more than 400 years ago,” said Yohai Kaspi, Juno co-investigator from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and lead author of a Nature paper on Jupiter’s deep weather layer.
“Until now, we only had a superficial understanding of them and have been able to relate these stripes to cloud features along Jupiter’s jets. Now, following Juno’s gravity measurements, we understand how deep the jets extend and what their structure is beneath the visible clouds. We are basically going from a 2-D picture to a 3-D version in high definition.”
The result was a huge surprise for the Juno mission scientists because it indicated that the weather layer of Jupiter was more massive, extending much deeper than previously thought. The Jovian weather layer, from its very top to a depth of 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers), contains about one percent of Jupiter’s mass, which is approximately 3 Earth masses.
“By contrast, Earth’s atmosphere is less than one-millionth of the total mass of Earth,” said Kaspi “The fact that Jupiter has such a massive region rotating in separate east-west bands is a surprise.”
The finding is important for understanding the nature and possible mechanisms driving these strong jet streams.
In addition, the gravity signature of the jets is entangled with the gravity signal of Jupiter’s core.
The scientific studies:
The measurement of Jupiter’s asymmetric gravity field:
Exposing Puma Punku: 50 Unbelievable Facts About The Mysterious Ancient Ruins
Exposing Puma Punku: 50 Unbelievable Facts About The Mysterious Ancient Ruins
One of the most mysterious ancient sites composed of supermassive megaliths and stones that appear to be worked with laser-like tools was built thousands of years ago in modern-day Bolivia.
Located not far from another amazing site—Tiahuanaco—the ruins of Puma Punku have puzzled experts for decades.
Some 45 miles west of the city of La Paz in Bolivia, we find an ancient site that is unlike any other on Earth.
Shattering traditional views on ancient cultures, the archaeological site of Puma Punku features incredibly precise stones, precision cuts, and polished surfaces on stones that have defied explanation for centuries.
Some of the stones at Puma Punku were so finely polished that they appear smooth as glass.
Only a few places on earth display this type of stonework.
It’s as if thousands of years ago, an unknown culture used advanced tools to shape and form massive andesite stones. Some of these rocks have been cut with such precision that they fit together perfectly and are interlocked with each other without the use of mortar.
Even more fascinating is the fact that not a single sheet of paper can fit between some of these stones.
In this article, we take a look at Puma Punk and its history, bringing you 50 incredible facts about one of the most mysterious archaeological sites on the surface of the planet.
The ancient ruins of Puma Punku are located in modern-day Bolivia.
Puma Punku is located near Tiahuanaco, in fact, it’s less than a quarter-mile northeast of Puma Punku.
Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco may have been in fact one massive complex.
Tiahuanaco’s most distinctive feature, other than the wall of faces, is the Gate of The Sun.
It is believed that, because of certain markings on stones found at Puma Punku, the Gate of the Sun was originally part of Puma Punku.
Puma Punku has a length of 116.7 meters and a width of 167.36 meters.
The archaeological site of Puma Punku consists of an unwalled western court, a central unwalled esplanade, a terraced platform mound that is faced with stone, and a walled eastern court.
Tiahuanaco may have been an ancient metropolis according to experts, as more than 40,000 inhabitants called it home.
Tiahuanaco features a massive wall which, according to some authors, displays all the races of mankind, even elongated skulls, people wearing turbans, people with broad noses, people with thin noses, people with thick lips, people with thin lips.
At its peak, the Tiwanaku culture dominated the entire Lake Titicaca basin as well as portions of Bolivia and Chile.
In the vicinity of Tiahuanaco, experts excavated a mysterious object called the Fuente Magna Bowl. The Ceramic bowl has Sumerian cuneiform and Proto-Sumerian hieroglyphic written on it.
Since Puma Punku is of great interest to scholars, the area within the kilometer separating the Puma Punku and Kalasasaya complexes have been surveyed using ground-penetrating radar, magnetometry, induced electrical conductivity, and magnetic susceptibility.
In Aymara—an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes—Puma Punku’s name means “The Door of the Puma.”
The archaeological site is a treasure of ancient history located deep within the Andean mountain. Puma Punku is located at an altitude of nearly 13,000 feet.
Given the fact that Puma Punku lies at an altitude of almost 13,000 feet, it means that the ancient site is above the natural tree line, which in turn means NO trees grew in that area.
The fact that no trees grew in the area challenges the idea that the ancient builders used wooden rollers to transport massive stones from where they were quarried.
Mainstream scholars argue that the massive stones used in the construction of Puma Punku were transported thanks to a large labor force.
Another theory suggests that the ancient builders of Puma Punku made use of the llama skin ropes and the use of ramps and inclined planes.
Researchers have found no evidence whatsoever that the ancient builders of Puma Punku knew about the wheel.
Despite the fact that Puma Punku is believed to have been built around 500 AD, many researchers claim that this ancient site, just as Tiahuanaco, could predate the Inca themselves.
The Ancient Inca denied having anything to do with the building of Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku.
This means that the culture that built these sites existed INDEPENDENTLY of the Inca, predating them as well.
Puma Punku is not isolated. It is part of a massive complex of temples, plazas and even pyramids, and is believed to have belonged to the ancient Tiahuanaco culture, which predates the ancient Inca by millennia.
Puma Punku features massive stones. But the fact that there are so many of them make makes Puma Punku’s stones amongst the largest found on the planet.
Puma Punku consists of a mixture of andesite and red sandstone.
Despite having been researched, analyzed, and studied by experts around the globe, not a single researcher has managed to explain how the ancient builders of Puma Punku managed to cut, polish and transport the stones at the site.
Modern day engineers argue that the base of the Puma Punku temple was constructed using a technique called layering and depositing.
Oral legends indicate that the first inhabitants of Puma Punku were unlike ordinary humans.
These ‘early people’ had the ability to ‘carry’ megalithic stones through the air with the use of SOUND.
The eastern edge of the Puma Punku is occupied by what is called the Plataforma Lítica.
The so-called Plataforma Lítica consists of a stone terrace that is 6.75 by 38.72 meters (22.1 by 127.0 feet) in dimension.
This terrace is paved with multiple enormous stone blocks.
One of the largest stones at Puma Punku is 7.81 meters long, 5.17 meters wide, averages 1.07 meters thick.
The estimated weight of this massive rock is 131 metric tons.
But this isn’t the only one. Another massive rock at Puma Punku is 7.90 meters long, 2.50 meters wide, and averages 1.86 meters thick. Its weight has been estimated to be 85.21 metric tons.
Both of these stone blocks are part of the Plataforma Lítica and composed of red sandstone
Puma Punku’s H Blocks are the best-known feature of the site.
The H blocks at Puma Punku have approximately 80 faces each.
Some authors suggest that given the precision cuts and incredible angles seen on Puma Punku’s blocks, it is possible that the ancient builders made use of prefabrication and mass production, technologies far in advance of the Tiwanaku’s Inca successors hundreds of years later.
Experts note that the precision with which these angles have been used to create flush joints is indicative of a highly sophisticated knowledge of stone-cutting and a thorough understanding of descriptive geometry.
As noted by researchers, many of the joints are so precise that not even a razor blade will fit between the stones. Much of the masonry is characterized by accurately cut rectilinear blocks of such uniformity that they could be interchanged for one another while maintaining a level surface and even joints.
One of the closest stone quarries used by the builders of Puma Punku was located some 10 km away, near Lake Titicaca.
The furthest identified quarry is believed to have been located near Copacabana Peninsula about 90 km away from and across Lake Titicaca.
According to archeological investigations, Puma Punku’s H blocks match each other with such an extreme precision that the architects most likely used a system of preferred measurements and proportions.
While it is amazing what the ancients achieved thousands of years ago in terms of transportation, design, and logistics, the ancient engineers that built Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco were also adept at developing a civic infrastructure at this complex, constructing functional irrigation systems, hydraulic mechanisms, and waterproof sewage lines.
Despite the fact we see ruins today, Puma Punku is thought to have been “unimaginably wondrous,” adorned with polished metal plaques, brightly colored ceramic and fabric ornamentation, and visited by costumed citizens, elaborately dressed priests, and elites decked in exotic jewelry.
There are some still unfinished stones found near Puma Punku.
Experts say that the unfinished stones show some of the techniques that were used to shape the blocks.
Experts say that Puma Punku’s blocks of stone were initially pounded by stone hammers, which can still be found in numbers on local andesite quarries, creating depressions, and then slowly ground and polished with flat stones and sand.
Excavations have documented “three major building epochs, in addition to small repairs and remodeling”.
A series of four papers using data from NASA’s Juno mission reveals intriguing information about Jupiter, including its gravitational field, its atmospheric flows, its interior composition and its polar cyclones.
Jupiter’s winds are tightly connected to the planet’s gravitational and magnetic fields. Image credits: NASA / ESA / UC Berkeley.
When the Juno mission was successfully launched in 2011, astronomers worldwide were thrilled. The shuttle had the potential to reveal valuable information about Jupiter and its satellites — and that potential has been thoroughly fulfilled. The new papers are the latest in a long chain of remarkable findings about the most massive planet in our solar system, adding some much-needed pieces to the puzzle.
In the first paper, researchers led by Luciano Iess of the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy used Doppler data to study Jupiter’s gravitational field. The data allowed researchers to measure Juno’s velocity down to 0.01mm/s accuracy, even while the shuttle is traveling at speeds of up to 70 km/s in orbit.
Jupiter’s gravitational field is famously asymmetrical, which is unusual for fast-rotating and oblate (squashed at the poles) gas giants. This gravitational asymmetry is caused by hydrogen-rich gas is flowing asymmetrically deep in the planet, and Juno was able to study this process.
This picture of the Jupiter’s South Pole is a mosaic of many images acquired by the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper on board the Juno shuttle. The images have been taken in different times while Juno was leaving the planet after the closest approach. What you see here is the heat (measured as radiance) coming out from the planet through the clouds: yellow indicates the presence of thinner clouds and dark red the thicker ones. Credit: NASA/SWRI/JPL/ASI/INAF/IAPS
Two other papers looked at different physical parameters of Jupiter. A team led by Yohai Kaspi of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel used another asymmetry, that of Jupiter’s magnetic field, to calculate the depth of Jupiter’s atmosphere, finding that the mass of the atmosphere amounts for about 1% of the planet’s total mass. Meanwhile, Tristan Guillot and co-authors report that at depths greater than 3,000 kilometers below cloud level, Jupiter’s deep interior is made up of a fluid mixture of hydrogen and helium, rotating as a solid body. They also found that the speed of the above-mentioned winds extend some 3,000 km beneath the cloud level, dropping in intensity with altitude.
Even with all this information, we’re still just barely scratching the surface of what we know about Jupiter.
“We’re at the beginning of dissecting Jupiter,” says Juno mission leader Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
However, there’s also a downside to the Juno mission: it offered so much valuable data that it’s gonna be very hard to top it. In an accompanying News&Views article, planetary scientist Jonathan Fortney of the University of California Santa Cruz praised the work, writing:
“The work demonstrated here is extremely robust,” Fortney wrote in his editorial. “I do not foresee another leap in knowledge on Jupiter’s interior after the Juno mission ends, unless astronomers are able to study the planet’s internal oscillations, as has been done for the Sun.”
Fortunately, Juno will remain in orbit for at least a couple of years, so we’ll certainly have more to learn about Jupiter.
Journal References:
Measurement of Jupiter’s asymmetric gravity field. Corresponding Author: Luciano Iess (Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy). DOI: 10.1038/nature25776. http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature25776
Jupiter’s atmospheric jet streams extend thousands of kilometres deep. Corresponding Author: Yohai Kaspi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel). DOI: 10.1038/nature25793. http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature25793
A suppression of differential rotation in Jupiter’s deep interior. Corresponding Author: Tristan Guillot (Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France). DOI: 10.1038/nature25775. http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature25775
Clusters of cyclones encircling Jupiter’s poles. Corresponding Author: Alberto Adriani (INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Rome, Italy). DOI: 10.1038/nature25491. http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature25491
We may not be on Mars yet, but new research has made sure that when we get there, we’ll know exactly where to settle.
You don’t know this yet but those blue areas? They mean food! Image credits Wieger Wamelink, Line Schug / Wageningen University & Research
What would life be without food? Well, for starters, really short; but also quite unpleasant. Precisely because of that, colonists going to Mars in the future will need to settle in a place that’s good for agriculture — as good as can be, on a planet with almost no atmosphere.
To their aid comes a study from the Wageningen University & Research, which has identified the areas on Mars which are favorable for the growing of plants. Even though the crops will be grown indoors, local factors still play a part — chief among them being the presence of regolith and ice deposits, both of which will be used to sustain the crops.
Mars’ cropspots
In order to estimate which areas of the planet would be most suitable, the team combined data on Martian geography and geology to create a 3D, Mars-wide landing map, showcasing the best spots for agriculture. The datasets included information about mineral content — relating to calcium and heavy metal content in the soils, for example. Other important element ‘maps’ were those for potassium, chloride, iron, and silicon. The team also mixed in data pertaining to climate, terrain altitude, and radiation exposure.
That’s a lot of data, and several scientific bodies — including the JPL, the Arizona State University, and NASA — pitched in.
“Without them this endeavour would not have been possible”, says Wieger Wamelink, one of the two researchers who created the map.
That’s because each of these elements has a hand to play in the suitability of each area for agriculture. They needed all this data to control for as many factors as possible — and any missing piece could have drastically reduced the work’s applicability. All the maps were merged and, based on the data each contained, were used to calculate a ‘score’ for every area — with high scores marking the best sites, just like in a video game.
Some factors, naturally, were more decisive than others:
“High levels of heavy metals in the soil and strong radiation make a location unsuitable for establishment,” explains Line Schug.
The map revealed that the Mars Pathfinder and Viking 1 landed at ‘hotspots’ for colonies, while the MSL Curiosity and Viking 2 crafts landed on less favorable spots.
The research is part of the larger “Food for Mars and Moon” project unrolling at Wageningen. It aims to develop a sustainable agricultural system that we can take with us to space. The most important element it relies on is the presence of soils and water, both on Mars and the moon.
The first experiments in the project started in 2013. Researchers used soil simulats supplied by NASA — from a volcano in Hawaii (Mars) and a desert in Arizona (moon) — to try and grow crops. At first, the results weren’t very encouraging. But today the team can grow over a dozen crops. The only species that has stubbornly refused to take the plunge to space-soils is spinach. Chemical analysis showed that the plants are safe for human consumption, but there were fears that the plants would accumulate heavy metals more readily than in Earth soils — that’s why this factor was given more importance when creating the agricultural potential map of Mars.
After they were tested, the veggies were cooked and served to those who supported the project via its crowdfunding campaign. I imagine the attendees considered the food to be “stellar” and “out of this world”.
Cosmic rays hitting Earth are ‘bad and getting worse’ says NASA
Cosmic rays hitting Earth are ‘bad and getting worse’ says NASA
Have you ever been hit by a beam of high energy particles from above? Surely you have since it happens all of the time. And the cosmic ray situation is WORSENING. Cosmic rays hitting Earth are bad and are getting worse. That’s the conclusion of a new paper just published in the research journal Space Weather, showing that radiation from deep space is dangerous and intensifying faster than previously predicted.
Cosmic rays were discovered unexpectedly in 1912. It is now known that most cosmic rays are atomic nuclei. Most are hydrogen nuclei, some are helium nuclei, and the rest heavier elements. The relative abundance changes with cosmic ray energy, with the highest energy cosmic rays tend to be heavier nuclei. Although many of the low energy cosmic rays come from our Sun, the origins of the highest energy cosmic rays remains unknown and a topic of much research. This drawing illustrates air showers from very high energy cosmic rays. Cosmic rays may even be important to Earth’s weather, as common lightning may be triggered by passing cosmic rays. via APOD
The story begins four years ago when Schwadron and colleagues first sounded the alarm about cosmic rays. Analyzing data from the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) instrument onboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), they found that cosmic rays in the Earth-Moon system were peaking at levels never before seen in the Space Age. The worsening radiation environment, they pointed out, was a potential peril to astronauts, curtailing how long they could safely travel through space.
This figure from their original 2014 paper shows the number of days a 30-year old male astronaut flying in a spaceship with 10 g/cm2 of aluminum shielding could go before hitting NASA-mandated radiation limits:
Cosmic rays in the Earth-Moon system were peaking at levels never before seen in the Space Age and the trend is worsening.
In the 1990s, the astronaut could spend 1000 days in interplanetary space. In 2014 … only 700 days. “That’s a huge change,” says Schwadron.
Galactic cosmic rays come from outside the solar system. They are a mixture of high-energy photons and sub-atomic particles accelerated toward Earth by supernova explosions and other violent events in the cosmos. Our first line of defense is the sun: The sun’s magnetic field and solar wind combine to create a porous ‘shield’ that fends off cosmic rays attempting to enter the solar system. The shielding action of the sun is strongest during Solar Maximum and weakest during Solar Minimum–hence the 11-year rhythm of the mission duration plot above.
The problem is, as the authors note in their new paper,the shield is weakening: “Over the last decade, the solar wind has exhibited low densities and magnetic field strengths, representing anomalous states that have never been observed during the Space Age. As a result of this remarkably weak solar activity, we have also observed the highest fluxes of cosmic rays.”
Back in 2014, Schwadron et al used a leading model of solar activity to predict how bad cosmic rays would become during the next Solar Minimum, now expected in 2019-2020. “Our previous work suggested a ~ 20% increase of dose rates from one solar minimum to the next,” says Schwadron. “In fact, we now see that actual dose rates observed by CRaTER in the last 4 years exceed the predictions by ~ 10%,showing that the radiation environment is worsening even more rapidly than we expected.” In this plot bright green data points show the recent excess:
Previous work suggested a ~ 20% increase of dose rates from one solar minimum to the next. In fact, the actual dose rates in the last 4 years exceed the predictions by ~ 10%, showing that the radiation environment is worsening even more rapidly than we expected.
The data Schwadron et al have been analyzing come from CRaTER on the LRO spacecraft in orbit around the Moon, which is point-blank exposed to any cosmic radiation the sun allows to pass. Here on Earth, we have two additional lines of defense: the magnetic field and atmosphere of our planet. Both mitigate cosmic rays.
But even on Earth the increase is being felt
Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus have been launching space weather balloons to the stratosphere almost weekly since 2015. Sensors onboard those balloons show a 13% increase in radiation (X-rays and gamma-rays) penetrating our planet’s atmosphere:
Even on Earth the increase in cosmic rays intensity is being felt. Space weather balloon sensors show a 13% increase in radiation (X-rays and gamma-rays) penetrating our planet’s atmosphere.
X-rays and gamma-rays detected by these balloons are “secondary cosmic rays,” produced by the crash of primary cosmic rays into Earth’s upper atmosphere. They trace radiation percolating down toward our planet’s surface. The energy range of the sensors, 10 keV to 20 MeV, is similar to that of medical X-ray machines and airport security scanners.
How does this affect us?
Cosmic rays penetrate commercial airlines, dosing passengers and flight crews so much that pilots are classified by the International Commission on Radiological Protection as occupational radiation workers. Some research shows that cosmic rays can seed clouds and trigger lightning, potentially altering weather and climate. Furthermore, there are studies linking cosmic rays with cardiac arrhythmias in the general population.
This plot displays radiation measurements not only in the stratosphere, but also at aviation altitudes. Dose rates are expessed as multiples of sea level. For instance, we see that boarding a plane that flies at 25,000 feet exposes passengers to dose rates ~10x higher than sea level. At 40,000 feet, the multiplier is closer to 50x. These measurements are made by our usual cosmic ray payload as it passes through aviation altitudes en route to the stratosphere over California. via Spaceweather
Why are cosmic rays intensifying?
The main reason is the sun. Solar storm clouds such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) sweep aside cosmic rays when they pass by Earth. During Solar Maximum, CMEs are abundant and cosmic rays are held at bay. Now, however, the solar cycle is swinging toward Solar Minimum, allowing cosmic rays to return. Another reason could be the weakening of Earth’s magnetic field, which helps protect us from deep-space radiation.
Cosmic rays will intensify even more in the years ahead as the sun plunges toward what may be the deepest Solar Minimum in more than a century.
The year was 1967 and the Canadian government was super into aliens.
A collection of documents from 1967 found in the national archives give us a hint into just how seriously the government used to take UFO sightings.
The documents outline how the government investigated UFOs—a process that most likely lasted for years afterwards—and breaks down six cases that are “of interest” to the government in detail. The investigations include a man burned by a UFO in Manitoba, some incredibly weird radar sightings by the Department of Defence, an RCMP officer in Nova Scotia who watched a UFO dive below the water and disappear, and a crop circle found in Alberta that was the first investigated by a government.
The documents were found in the national archive by Chris Rutkowski—a man that could probably be best described as Canada’s Fox Mulder—and recently posted to his Ufology blog. Rutowski routinely goes through Canada’s national archives looking for things like this and described the find as “a gem.”
"What we do have in here is rather interesting reports from qualified personnel and qualified sources and investigated by qualified investigators and still there is no explanation," Rutkowski told VICE. "What that tells me is that the UFO phenomena was taking quite seriously by them indeed."
The intro to the document.
Photo via screenshot.
While the government has some of tUFO research readily available online in a database it is still relatively unknown—especially among the general public—how they actually investigated cases and what the bureaucracy was like. This, Rutkowski says, might be “our best snapshot” into this process.
"This is certainly an interesting snapshot because it does show what was happening before and how it was going to move forward and I think it set the stage for how the Canadian military and government were looking at UFOs from that point onward,” said Rutkowski.
The 27 page set of documents—which Rutkowski was kind enough to direct VICE towards—was prepared by Wing Commander Douglas Robertson (a Canadian Forces officer well-known in the UFO community) for someone we do not know in November of 1967. Rutkowski speculates it could’ve been for a newly-appointed Minister of Defence as “the infamous Paul Hellyer [one of the world’s highest ranking alien believers] had left the position a few months earlier.” At the time, as Robertson writes, the National Department of Defence was the body in charge of investigating UFO reports.
The briefing breaks down the seven military categories of UFOs which include hoaxes, mass hysteria, misinterpretations of natural events, advanced military technology, and psychological conditions. However, the seventh and final category is “unusual sightings which the viewer is unable to identify or explain, namely, UFOs.” Hell yeah.
The documents show that the investigation into UFOs was a little bit of a hot potato in Canada as in it was frequently handed off between departments. When a new report came in, researchers would first decide if the object was a meteor or fireball—if so it would be directed to the NRC. If it was something else it would then be put in one of three categories Class A: worthy of investigation Class B: interesting but you don’t need to look into it; and Class C: boring.
Photo via screenshot.
The investigations varied and could be as simple as an interview or as a complicated as getting several other agencies including the RCMP, NRC, Defence Research Board (DRB) or (weirdly) the Department of National Health and Welfare on board. In many of the cases, you can see that post-secondary institutions like the University of Toronto and the University of Manitoba would help out with analysis. The government would also send professionals to investigate the sites in-depth and if the case was intense enough, partner with the United States.
The document was written during an interesting time for UFOs in Canada. As Rutkowski puts it, 1967 was a high water mark for this type of activity in the Great White North. The briefing indicates there was a jump in reports from 1966 to 1967—from about 40 to 167. The case files showcase A) just how strange these occurrences were and B) just how seriously the government was taking the investigations.
Here are breakdowns of the case studies Robertson concludes “may be of interest” to whoever the intended reader of the briefing may be:
Falcon Lake
The first one outlines perhaps Canada’s most infamous “UFO encounter,” the Falcon Lake case. The case revolved around Steven Michalak, a Manitoba man, who says he encountered two UFOs 90 miles east of Winnipeg. While Michalak was analyzing a rock formation he said two flying saucers appeared before him. One flew off at high speed while other landed about 100 feet in front of him. When he reached out and touched the object with his gloved hand, it burned him immediately. The object took off and the exhaust fumes reportedly burned him as well. Michalak was hospitalized for several days as a result.
In the briefing, Robertson writes that soil samples at the site were “analyzed and found to be radioactive to a degree that the samples had to be safely disposed of.” In the briefing, Robertson admits that “neither the DND nor the RCMP investigative teams were able to provide evidence which could dispute Mr Michalak’s story.” Furthermore, the radiologist dispatched to the area was unable to explain why the area was contaminated with radiation. The section ends with “although the investigation has been completed, a satisfactory ending or conclusion is still lacking.”
Many, many things have been written about the Falcon Lake case, including a book Rutkowski wrote with Michalak's son.
Calgary UFO Photo
The second case, again made in 1967, revolves around a famous Canadian photograph taken of a UFO near Calgary. It tells the story of Warren Smith who was out for a hike near Nanton, Alberta.
“A UFO suddenly appeared outside of an area of trees a few hundred feet above the observers,” reads the briefing which goes on to explain how Smith was able to snap two photos of the objects. Smith made prints of these shots, which were then sent to the DND. “The prints were subjected to a detailed analysis by the Photo Intelligence Interpretation Centre. The Centre concluded its investigation by stating, assuming the photos by Mr Smith to be genuine, the UFO fit the description of the objects by Mr Smith.”
Clear Water Bay
The next case outlined in the briefing is focused on a family that was returning to their home in Clear Water Bay by boat when they encountered a UFO. According to the briefing the object appeared about 50 feet away from “Mr. Green” (how he is referred to in the document) and Green decided to investigate it. When he approached the object ripped towards Green and he “immediately retreated using maximum power.” Then the object returned to its original spot.
Green and his family docked the boat and ran to a nearby home to wake all the occupants so they could come and look at the object. They were able to do so for about 15 minutes until it took off. In a nearby home, a neighbour that was interviewed by the government said that while he didn’t see the object he was “listening to his radio at the time the UFO was sighted and received so much static he was forced to turn it off.”
A “detailed investigation conducted by the DND in cooperation with the RCMP” found that Green was a “reliable, competent, and sincere witness with no indulgence tendencies.” They also checked to see if alcohol was consumed at the time, found none, and tested Green’s eyes. Wilted leaves were found at the top of the trees near where the object was allegedly hovering and some were sent to the University of Manitoba for lab testing. The Department of Forestry also checked and found “that they are unable to explain the reason for the wilting.”
The section ends with “the investigation has been concluded without any fixed conclusions or findings being made.”
The RCMP’s Diving UFO
The next sighting was seen by an RCMP corporal out near Barrington Passage, Nova Scotia. The RCMP officer describes seeing an object about 60 feet in length with white lights flying over the water at a low altitude. The object started making a high pitched whistling sound and slammed into the water leaving only one white light visible. RCMP Cpl Wereisky approached the light by boat and it rapidly sank underneath him as he got close. The area was then searched by the Canadian Coast Guard and other boats but nothing was found.
The government conducted a rigorous investigation into this sighting which included an underwater search and wasn’t able to find anything. The government investigation ended, once again, “without finding any fixed findings.”
Department of Transportation Radar Sighting
The next investigation outlined in the briefing is one Rutkowski described as being “very unique.” In July of 1967, the Department of Transportation reported that “an unidentified radar target was tracked through seven sweeps of their radar, witnessed by three controllers, and two technicians some 70 miles east of Winnipeg.”
The target was ripping at intense rate. As outlined in the briefing, it increased from a speed of “720 knots [1,333 km per hour] to 3,600 knots [6,667 km per hour] in one minute and ten seconds.” The briefing explains that the five people who witnessed the radar object are “certain it was a radar target and not something associated with mechanical, electrical, or equipment faults.” On the same day in Kenora, Ontario, a similar object was picked up on the radar.
“The unknown object was under the positive radar for 29 minutes,” reads the briefing about the Kenora sighting. “The object followed Air Canada Flight 405 for a period before disappearing from scope. It reappeared and followed Air Canada Flight 927 for a period of time. DOT are unable to explain these radar returns.”
The DND again did an investigation into this and again were unable to find any conclusions.
Camrose Crop Circle
The final case outlined in the briefing is one in Alberta and, according to Rutowski, contrary to popular belief shows that it was in Canada, not Britain, where a government first investigated crop circles. It occurred outside of Camrose Alberta in August of 1967 when “several deep impressions were made in an unknown object in a pasture.”
The Department of Defence sent out a man who is referred to as “Dr. Jones” in the document to investigate and he found “no physical evidence of any damage to trees or shrubs in the field and no evidence to suggest a deliberate interference or involvement by a person.” Rutowski was able to find further documentation of Dr. Jones investigation and again was kind enough to share them with VICE. In the documents, you can see just how in depth the government got with their investigation.
In the documents, Jones said that he believed it could be a “deliberate hoax” but the hoaxers would “require some equipment and a great deal of determination.” He estimates that in order to do such spherical circles the hoaxers would need two wheels on a 30-foot axle that put pressure of three-quarters of a ton on a pasture. Next Jones has us “consider the UFO possibility” and he breaks down the math behind what size a flying vehicle would need to be in order to produce such marks and comes upon 135 tons.
“This load of 135 tons would be in the right ballpark for a large aircraft, or presumably, small space craft,” ends this section of Jones’ report.
Epilogue
After the case studies, Robertson uses the briefing to discuss possible future plans regarding UFO research in Canada and give several recommendations to our unknown reader. He proposes that the DND hands off the responsibility of investigating UFOs to the National Research Council and that the Director of Operations works as the coordinating agency between the DND units providing field investigations and the NRC.
“It is evident that from investigations conducted by the DND, and from the findings made by prominent and highly qualified personnel, that the primary interest of UFOs lies in the field of science, and to a lesser degree, to one that is associated with national security,” writes Robertson.
Robertson writes that the workload in 1967 regarding UFOs was so large that it was actually becoming detrimental to government workers as it took up so much time. He also writes that the government should be more open with the public about their work in UFOs. This is something Rutkowski—even over 51 years removed—still admittedly agrees with.
"By not being able to comment it made it look like there was something to hide. Of course, this document does show there was some very interesting conclusions, some unexplained cases that should have been made more public,” said Rutkowski. “But when a public relations officer just keeps saying no comment, no comment, it shows that perhaps there is something that is being hidden.
"My reading from this document is that the Canadian Forces didn't really know what to do with UFOs either. It's not that they were hiding everything they just didn't have the expertise in the field and the scientific community didn't want anything to do with it so they were kinda hung out to dry."
The US-funded Aerospace Corporation said there was “a chance that a small amount of debris” could survive re-entry and make contact with Earth.
“If this should happen, any surviving debris would fall within a region that is a few hundred kilometres in size,” the research organisation said in a statement.
The organisation said it was extremely unlikely that a person would be struck by falling debris.
“When considering the worst-case location, the probability that a specific person will be struck by Tiangong-1 debris is about one million times smaller than the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot,” the corporation wrote.
“In the history of spaceflight, no known person has ever been harmed by re-entering space debris. Only one person has ever been recorded as being hit by a piece of space debris and, fortunately, she was not injured.”
However, there is a chance the space station could be carrying a highly toxic and corrosive substance called hydrazine on board.
“For your safety, do not touch any debris you may find on the ground nor inhale vapours it may emit,” Aerospace said.
The Tiangong-1 station was launched in 2011 as one of the great hopes of the Chinese ambitions in space, and as part of a plan to show itself off as a global superpower.
The country’s space agency referred to the station as the “Heavenly Palace” and conducted a range of missions, some of which included astronauts.
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IT expert and so-called hacker Gary McKinnon has claimed in an interview with RichPlanet TV that he came across information relating to UFOs and extraterrestrial life during his infamous foray into NASA’s computer system.
Police said it was a hoax, but James Lawson wasn’t so sure.
The flattened circle in the middle of his sea of corn looked perfect. It looked, if he was being honest, like something had landed on it.
“Whatever it was, it came down from the elements and took off,” he told The Associated Press a few days after discovering the crop circle on his farmland in Milan, Illinois. “I think it’s a UFO landing.”
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Crop circles became a small epidemic in the fall of 1990. About a month after Lawson found the round disturbance tattooed on his land on Oct. 16, Mike Thompson discovered something similar only eight miles away.
A co-worker named Mike Searle had been riding his John Deere through Thompson’s cornfields on Nov. 23 when he unexpectedly came to a clearing: an immaculate 64-foot circle.
“I about ran into it, so I backed out and went around it,” Searle said. “I was surprised. All the corn around it was standing.”
Thompson was surprised, too.
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“People might think it’s crazy,” he said. “But it was there.”
No one disputed the crop circle’s existence. The question was, who made them? For Rock Island County Sheriff Tod VanWolvelaere, the answer was simple.
“We think it’s probably just kids,” he said.
Police said there was plenty of evidence to support the hoax theory. On Thompson’s land, they found a hole that looked like it had once been filled with a wooden stake. That could have been used to mark off the circle so the hoaxers could flatten the crops.
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They also claimed a local newspaper got an anonymous call not long after Lawson’s discovery. The caller warned authorities that another crop circle was coming.
But none of that does much to explain the high number of UFO sightings that plagued Illinois and the rest of the Tri-State that fall.
According to Francis L. Ridge’s book “Regional Encounters: The FC Files,” 1990 was a busy year. Ridge and his team of UFO field investigators based in Mount Vernon, Indiana, handled almost 70 reports, including 21 close encounters. Seven sightings occurred between Oct. 16 and Nov. 23.
The night of Lawson’s discovery, a 23-year-old woman reported a strange craft hovering over Fort Wayne. Two days later in Argos, Indiana, a father and son driving down the road saw a silent aircraft shaped like a bow-tie lingering over the road. They watched it for 15 minutes before it disappeared.
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There were sightings in Culver and Plymouth. The strangest, however, occurred in Louisville, Kentucky.
A woman looking out the 12-floor window of her office building in the middle of a sunny day saw a saucer rise from below her and shimmy through the sky in half-circle loops. Co-workers joined her and watched for 20 minutes. Then a second craft appeared. Shaped like a boomerang, it shot toward the saucer. The two merged and vanished.
Meanwhile, the interest in crop circles was igniting. According to the book “Crop Circle: Exploring the Designs & Mysteries” by Werner Anderhub and Hans Peter Roth, there were at least 60 reports of crop circles in the U.S. in 1990.
The problem was even bigger in the United Kingdom where countless fields were branded with ornate patterns. From the sky, they looked like ancient keys or beautiful sewer grates.
Researcher Colin Andrews spearheaded several investigations, and even claimed to coin the term “crop circle.”
Interest grew so much in the U.S. that Lawson accepted an offer to appear on “Unsolved Mysteries.” But his segment was canceled after two other crop circle victims in North Dakota and Missouri declined to appear.
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By the fall of 1991, a London tabloid thought they had discovered the source of the phenomenon. Two “jovial con men” named David Chorley and Doug Bower took credit. Giggling, they said they created the crop circles with “two wooden boards, a piece of string and a bizarre sighting device attached to a baseball cap.”
Crop circles fanatics, who had given themselves the science-y title of “cereologists,” didn’t buy it. After all, where did the patterns in Canada and Europe and India come from? Were these two 60-year-old men swimming in frequent flyer miles?
And what about Illinois? Searle certainly didn’t have an answer.
“There’s got to be a reason for it,” he told the Associated Press. “When you figure it out, tell me.”
In de VS verschenen in 1990 vele tientallen graancirkels. Tegelijkertijd werden deze vreemde objecten gezien
In de VS verschenen in 1990 vele tientallen graancirkels. Tegelijkertijd werden deze vreemde objecten gezien
In 1990 verscheen er een graancirkel in het weiland van een boer uit Illinois. Het was alsof er iets op de grond was geland.
“Wat het ook was, het kwam uit de lucht en steeg weer op,” vertelde boer James Lawson aan persbureau AP. “Ik denk dat er een UFO is geland.”
In de herfst van 1990 doken overal graancirkels op in het gebied. Een maand na de vondst stuitte collega Mike Searle op enkele kilometers afstand op een tientallen meters grote graancirkel.
Erg verrast
“Ik reed er bijna overheen, ging terug en reed er omheen,” zei Searle. “Ik was erg verrast.”
De politie zei te denken dat het waarschijnlijk het werk was geweest van kinderen.
Op het land van Thompson vonden agenten een gat in de grond ‘waar mogelijk ooit een stok in had gezeten’. Maar dat verklaart niet het grote aantal UFO-waarnemingen in Illinois gedurende die periode.
Vreemd vaartuig
Toen Lawson zijn graancirkel ontdekte, deed een 23-jarige vrouw melding van een vreemd vaartuig in het gebied.
Twee dagen later zagen een vader en zoon in buurstaat Indiana een onbekend object boven de weg hangen. Ze keken er 15 minuten lang naar, waarna het verdween.
De vreemdste melding werd gedaan in Kentucky, een andere buurstaat, waar een vrouw samen met een aantal collega’s 20 minuten lang twee vaartuigen zag vanuit haar kantoor.
Boemerang
Het ene vaartuig, dat eruitzag als een boemerang, smolt daarna samen met het andere en verdween.
In 1990 werden in de VS tenminste 60 graancirkels gemeld. In Groot-Brittannië lag dat aantal nog veel hoger.
"Maar ook viel mij iets anders veel meer verontrustend op. Namelijk een 2e zon. Ik dacht meteen dit kan niet waar zijn."
Naast een planeet nabij onze zon zien mensen ook steeds vaker hele vreemde luchten, waar geen enkele verklaring voor is.
Langzaam maar zeker beginnen er zich steeds meer vreemde zaken voor te doen aan onze hemel. Zelfs de zogenaamde nuchtere mensen vinden het soms moeilijk om hun eigen ogen te geloven.
We beginnen vandaag in de Amerikaanse staat Utah waar iemand rond een uur of één 's nachts richting huis gaat en dan plotseling stopt, want hij ziet een vreemde lucht. Een vreemde oranjekleurige lucht op een moment dat er geen sprake is van een zon.
De man rijdt er iedere dag langs en nog nooit heeft hij zoiets gezien. Wanneer hij gaat zoeken naar een bepaalde lichtbron is er helemaal niets te vinden.
In het begin van de video hoor je, wat wij niet echt mooie muziek plegen te noemen, maar daarna hoor je gewoon de stem van de man die hoogst verbaasd is over wat hij ziet. Van Utah gaan we naar ons land en wel naar de dijk tussen Lelystad en Enkhuizen. Een lezer schrijft het volgende (dank!):
Hierbij stuur ik een foto welke mijn vrouw vanuit de auto door het raam nam van de zon. We reden op de dijk van Lelystad/Enkhuizen, op 20-02-2018. Na het bekijken valt iets op wat we niet kunnen verklaren. Heeft u hierover een mening?
Het is duidelijk dat er zich gedeeltelijk achter de wolken iets verbergt dat heel sterk lijkt op een planeet. Eén die daar normaal gesproken niet hoort te zijn en die zeker niet als een lensflare kan worden uitgelegd omdat er duidelijk wolken zichtbaar zijn die voor het object langs lopen, iets wat niet gebeurt in het geval van een lensflare.
Van Lelystad gaan we naar de andere kant van de wereld en wel naar het Zuid Amerikaanse Ecuador. De volgende video laat een bizar verschijnsel zien in de lucht. Iets dat het midden houdt tussen een soort vreemde wolk, een lichtstraal of iets anders, maar waarvoor ook geen enkele verklaring is.
Soms zijn er vreemde verschijnselen waar misschien wel een heel "normale verklaring" voor is, zoals de volgende foto die gemaakt is door een lezer vanuit de cabine van zijn vrachtwagen. Hij schrijft (dank!):
Ik heb ook even terug zitten zoeken in mijn fotos. Omdat jullie het al een paar keer over paarse/roze luchten hebben gehad.
23 december 2016 dus al meer dan een jaar geleden, kwam ik sochtends rond de klok van 8 ook van die roze luchten tegen. Maar zo duidelijk als mijn fotos heb ik ze nog niet op jullie site gezien.
Locatie in de buurt van Rotterdam ik gokte dat de lucht boven Oud Bijerland hing. Maar als het een tweede zon zou zijn zou het dus over al te zien zijn in Nederland als je richting het noorden kijkt. Als het een ruimteschip zou zijn is die goed te zien alleen plaatselijk. Ik weet het ff niet , jullie?
Zeker weten doen we het niet, maar het zou hier kunnen om de reflectie van de roze/paarsachtige LED lampen die door steeds meer kwekerijen in de buurt van Rotterdam worden gebruikt.
En dan naar de Nederlands/Duitse grens waar zich afgelopen weekend een merkwaardig schouwspel voor deed.
Een lezer schrijft het volgende (dank!):
Afgelopen weekend zaterdag 03-03 was ik bij mijn ouders op bezoek. Deze wonen net over de grens in Duitsland. Tegen het eind van de middag zaten we in de woonkamer en vanuit daar een prachtig zicht over de landerijen. Maar ook viel mij iets anders veel meer verontrustend op. Namelijk een 2e zon. Ik dacht meteen dit kan niet waar zijn. Is het dan toch waarheid. Planeet Niburu. Planet X. Zelf lees ik al enige jaren over dit onderwerp en vind dit een zorgwekkende ontwikkeling. Als het wel de echte waarheid is en dat ons (de mensheid) hier niets over verteld word. Zelf dacht ik steeds eerst zien dan geloven. Ik geloof dat dat moment nu daar is. En dit benauwd mij behoorlijk.
De foto's die ik bijvoeg zijn aan het eind van de middag gemaakt. En vanuit de woonkamer kijk je naar de Nederlandse/Duitse grens.
Hopelijk kunnen jullie hier iets mee. Graag zou ik van jullie horen wat jullie gedachte hierbij is.
Het zijn hoe dan ook uitzonderlijk mooie opnames. Wat ook mooi is in dit geval is dat de getuige in de zitkamer zit en naar buiten kijkt waarbij iets ongewoons opvalt. Dat betekent dan in ieder geval dat het geen lensflare of iets dergelijks is omdat hij het ook met zijn eigen ogen ziet en ja, het lijkt ontegenzeggelijk op een tweede zon, achter onze eigen zon of, wie weet, wel omgekeerd? Dit laatste omdat er berichten zijn over deze planeet waarbij wordt uitgelegd dat deze tussen onze zon en de aarde kan staan op bepaalde momenten.
Wat dan verder opvalt, is dat dit onbekende hemellichaam plots groter lijkt dan in opnames die nog niet zolang geleden werden gemaakt. Dat zou kunnen aantonen dat het object inderdaad veel dichterbij onze aarde staat nu.
On left, a “dark, worm-like shape” hovered midair in a Northwest D.C. neighborhood in October 2016, a witness said. On right, in August 2017, a family was visiting D.C., when one person said they noticed a little black disc to the right of the Washington...
WASHINGTON — Last month, something strange hovered in the sky just a few miles from the Pentagon, a witness reported.
The witness, who took photos, said whatever it was appeared to rotate and then morph into a group of glowing objects that split apart. The photos are hard to make out, but one does seem to show a set of glittering, airborne lights.
Maybe there’s a good explanation, but the incident is one of the most recent UFO sightings reported in the D.C. region to the Mutual UFO Network, also known as MUFON.
MUFON collects reports of sightings worldwide and investigates them. Another organization, the National UFO Reporting Center, or NUFORC, also accepts reports of UFOs.
“Our first credo is believe the witness. At least listen to the witness,” Susan Swiatek, MUFON’s Virginia director said to WTOP. “That’s a big therapeutic thing we can do for people and get their remarks on the record for hopefully a greater whole that will emerge.”
Swiatek said some people are happy to have a strange encounter, while others are definitely not.
“Just seeing something in the sky that they know they can’t explain, that’s enough to really upset people. And if you can just come alongside them and say, ‘It’s OK, we get those reports all the time,’ then that can help. Conversely, I’ve had people get really upset. They’d rather say ‘I’m crazy, give me a pill,'” she said.
There were more than 100 sightings reported in Virginia last year — up 13 from the number of 2016 sightings reported, MUFON reported.
In 2017, Virginia had more sighting reports than Maryland and D.C. combined. There were 65 reports in Maryland and 11 in the District.
Reports can be filed online, and submissions can remain anonymous.
Tony Angiola, assistant state director of MUFON Virginia and an investigator, has appeared on TV’s “NASA’s Unexplained Files” and “Hangar 1: The UFO Files.”
“Our goal is to take ufology to the point where we’re taking information, giving it to scientists at NASA and being able to do something with it,” he said.
In addition to studying new UFO reports, Angiola and Ben Moss, chief field investigator for MUFON Virginia, also reinvestigate some sightings that were made decades ago.
One reason? It’s easier to fake UFO photos and video today.
Swiatek admits good evidence is hard to find.
“It’s pretty scant. We’re holding on to feathers that are kind of blowing in the wind, and it’s a little tough. But we’re trying to perform science where we can and when we can.”
“I think we are getting somewhere,” she added.
Here are some more interesting alleged sightings from the D.C. area that were reported to MUFON:
Christmas night, 2017: From a balcony in Annandale, Virginia, someone reported seeing “an extremely bright light in the sky” that didn’t move or make a sound. But the witness said it stayed there for hours, and at one point more lights appeared and formed a triangular shape near the first light before disappearing. “I go out to my balcony every single night and never saw anything like this,” the witness wrote. A video was submitted with the report.
August 2017: A family visiting D.C. took a series of photos in quick succession of the Washington Monument. While looking at the photos later, they say they noticed something odd in one of them. “The first picture was totally normal, but in the second one, on the right of the Washington [Monument], I saw a little black disc shaped object just hovering next to it,” reported the submitter.
July 2017: A submitter in Ridge, Maryland, reported waking up to “very bright pulsating light outside my window.” The witness went outside and recorded video of it. “The object was larger then (sic) a normal star and seemed to be rapidly evolving/transforming as it moved across the sky. Then in an instant it went from the transforming sphere into a tiny bright dot,” which moved back and forth before disappearing.
October 2016:A person walking home in Northwest D.C. said they saw something weird hanging in midair, 30 to 40 feet up. “It was a dark, worm-like shape and it hovered in the same position for roughly 3 minutes while I was able to take photos. At first I thought it could have been an unusual entanglement of those narrow balloons used to make balloon animals, however, I don’t believe they could have floated in this position with helium,” that person wrote.
April 2016:Someone who took a dramatic nighttime photo of the Washington Monument also reports capturing something unexplained in one image. It looked like four glowing lights floating in formation next to the monument. “I am an amateur photographer and have taken hundreds of night time shots. I know what airplane and satellite trails look like. This is not one of those,” the sighting description reads. “I have no clue what it is nor am I insinuating it is of alien nature. Just strange and thought you might take a look.”
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETIn 2016 verloor China de controle over Tiangong-1, hun eerste ruimtestation. Binnen enkele weken zal het ding op een ongecontroleerde manier op de aarde neerstorten, en experts kunnen onmogelijk vaststellen waar het 8,5 ton wegende gevaarte zal terechtkomen. Onder meer Europa, de VS, Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland liggen in de vuurlinie.
Het Amerikaanse Aerospace Corporation schat dat Tiangong-1 in de eerste week van april opnieuw in onze atmosfeer zal komen. De European Space Agency (ESA) houdt het op ‘ergens tussen 24 maart en 19 april’. Het ruimtestation, dat ’hemelse plaats betekent, weegt meer dan 8 ton, en volgens de Aerospace Corporation is het goed mogelijk dat het niet volledig zal opbranden in de atmosfeer. Het puin zou dan kunnen neerkomen in een gebied van enkele honderden vierkante kilometers groot.
De kans dat dit in België gebeurt is alvast nihil. Volgens de ESA kunnen de brokstukken terechtkomen ‘overal tussen de breedtegraden van 43ºN en 43ºS’. En daar ligt zowat de halve wereld tussen: van Zuid-Frankrijk en Spanje tot Australië, Noord- en Zuid-Amerika. “Op dit moment is een precieze schatting van waar Tiangong-1 de atmosfeer zal binnendringen onmogelijk.” Het kan dus evengoed in de oceaan zijn.
RVHet risicogebied ligt tussen de twee rode lijnen.
Geen reden tot paniek
Maar zelfs als er brokstukken op het vasteland vallen, is dat geen reden tot bezorgdheid. “Zelfs wanneer een locatie wordt getroffen, dan nog is de kans dat een specifiek persoon wordt geraakt ongeveer een miljoen keer kleiner dan de kans om de nationale loterij te winnen”, aldus Aerospace Corporation. “In de geschiedenis van de ruimtevaart is nog niemand slachtoffer geworden van ruimtepuin. Slechts één iemand zou ooit getroffen zijn, en zij raakte niet eens gewond.”
‘Het is pas in de laatste week dat we met meer zekerheid kunnen spreken over een mogelijke crash’
Jonathan McDowell, astrofysicus aan de universiteit van Harvard
Jonathan McDowell, een astrofysicus van de universiteit van Harvard, maant wel aan tot voorzichtigheid. Tegen de Britse krant The Guardian wees hij op fragmenten van een raket van vergelijkbare omvang die in januari in Peru neerkwamen. “Om de paar jaar gebeurt zoiets als dit, maar Tiangong-1 is groot en compact, dus we moeten het in de gaten houden.”
In 2016 gaf China toe dat het de controle over Tiangong-1 had verloren en dat het niet in staat zou zijn om een gecontroleerde re-entry uit te voeren. McDowell stelt dat het ruimtestation de laatste maanden steeds sneller daalt, momenteel aan een snelheid van ongeveer 6 kilometer per week. Het is moeilijk te voorspellen wanneer de module zal neerstorten, omdat de snelheid wordt beïnvloed door het constant veranderende “weer” in de ruimte.
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Some of those Lights up there aren't Stars
Some of those Lights up there aren't Stars
The Canada France Hawaii Telescope observatory hosts a world-class, 3.6 meter optical/infrared telescope. The observatory is located atop the summit of Mauna Kea, a 4200 meter, dormant volcano located on the island of Hawaii.
On March 6, 2018 the observatory’s webcam captured a series of strange lights seemly flying in formation through the sky.
Although it is difficult to determine what these objects are, the lights are certainly not stars.
As I have mentioned here at Mysterious Universe on a few occasions, I’m not a big fan of sci-fi. Violent horror is far more my thing. But, there are a few sci-fi-based TV shows I did like, such as The Invaders, The X-Files (for a while, until it got crap) and Dark Skies. In other words, sci-fi with a lot of conspiracy attached to it is something I like – when it’s done well. As for sci-fi-driven movies, I thought the first installment in The Matrixseries was very good. The two sequels were just “meh.” Dark City was a good one, too. I guess, with the Area 51 conspiracy connection, I should have liked Independence Day. But, no, I didn’t: it was just a bunch of swaggering, high-fiving, kick-ass bullshit. All of which brings me to the matter of two more sci-fi movies with conspiracy aspects attached to them. And both of them were released in the latter part of 1988. There is a specific reason why I mention the date.
Both movies led to rumors that their combined release amounted to a case of “the Government” preparing us for “the truth” behind the UFO phenomenon. Yes, we’re talking about UFO disclosure – another subject that I have no love for. As I have also stated here previously, I’m sick and tired of all the garbage along the lines of, “I have an insider source who tells me that disclosure is coming at noon three weeks from tomorrow. But, if it doesn’t, don’t worry. It will turn up next year. Or the next. Or the…” My words for these people: “Put up, shut up, or just go away and die.” If the latter, preferably slowly. As for those two 1988 movies they were They Live and Alien Nation.
The former was written and directed by John Carpenter (of The Fog and Halloween fame – two of my favorites). They Livestarred Roddy Piper, Keith David and Meg Foster. It’s a witty, watchable movie of how aliens are secretly taking over the planet in a very unusual and alternative way – and how the human global elite is totally selling its collective soul to the ETs. In fact, it’s very much a satire on 1980s-era society and the “greed is good” phenomenon. At first glance, the aliens look just like us. Identical, in fact. Put on a pair of special sunglasses, however, and you’ll see how they really look: like decaying corpses.
As for Alien Nation, it’s Lethal Weapon, but with extraterrestrials instead of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. The leading cast are James Caan, Mandy Patinkin (who is now in the excellent Homeland show), and Terrence Stamp. Set in the early 1990s, Alien Nation tells the story of what happens when more than a quarter of a million ETs – “The Newcomers,” as they are termed – reach the Earth and are assimilated into human society. And with varying degree of success and failiure. There is prejudice, fear and extraterrestrial racism. If you haven’t seen the movie, I won’t spoil things by revealing the plot, except to say that there is an unforeseen conspiratorial angle to the story which ensures you’ll keep watching. So, what does this have to do with UFO disclosure? Well, I’ll tell you.
I started attending UFO/Fortean/paranormal conferences and lectures in the U.K. probably around 1985/1986. Something happened in 1989 onward in the U.K. which I had not seen at conferences before. Namely, parallels with today’s disclosure farce. On at least four or five times at various events around the country, I heard people speculating that the releases of both Alien Nation and They Live – which surfaced in the United States just four weeks apart, the former on October 7, 1988 and the latter on November 4, 1988 – was the work of – who else? – that aforementioned ” the government.”
The truth was just around the corner. People really did want to believe. With the public acclimatized to more and more fictional ET-human interaction (good, bad or somewhere in between), it would surely only be a matter of time before we would finally have the answers. I can recall hearing such rumors throughout the year; the final time – and the most vocal – being at the annual UFO Magazine conference held in Yorkshire, England in September 1989.
Of course, the fact that I’m now writing these words shows that no such disclosure ever came. There was never a plan to use They Live and Alien Nation as a means to initiate disclosure. Thirty years on, though, people are still going on about disclosure and plans to prepare the public. All of these claims and scenarios (in 1988/1989 and now) have one thing in common: they never, ever amount to anything. They didn’t in the late eighties with a pair of fun movies. And they won’t now.
Ever since we as a species have become aware of other stars and planets beyond our own we have let our imaginations run wild with what might lie out there or if we really are alone in the universe upon this spinning rock we call Earth. Are there other creatures or beings inhabiting other stars, and if so we will we ever see them or even talk to them? These are the dreams of our kind, the questions that still loom large across the landscape of our psyche. Is there someone else out there? Further adding to our questions is if there was some other race out there, and we did actually manage to make contact with them across the sea of stars, what would they be like? Would we be able to talk to these alien visitors and perhaps more importantly, what would we say? The conundrum of how we would communicate with extraterrestrials has in recent years been seriously considered, and despite all of the very smart people working on it we are mostly still left in the dark and unprepared for what talking to an alien might actually be like.
If aliens were to come down and greet us, say, tomorrow, we would likely immediately be faced with numerous challenges even beyond language, such as culture, customs, ways of thinking, and even possibly a different concept and perception of reality itself. We might not even recognize them as any type of life as we know it. But if we were to assume that we could just start talking, there would be several potential obstacles right off the bat, not the least of which is that our bodies would likely be completely different, and this could have a lot of possible repercussions.
For one, since language is a representation of our thoughts, which are largely based in how we perceive and interact with the world, human languages reflect the concepts of our senses of sight, smell, touch, and other cues from our physical form, our shared evolution and physical actions and reactions such as laughter or crying. What then happens if an alien race has no eyes or ears or mouth, or experiences the world in a totally different way? What if they do not have the same physical relationship with their as we do with our own? What if they don’t laugh or cry, or emote as we do? They may have no understanding at all of what our concepts of perception are in the first place, a totally different way of experiencing and thinking about time and reality, and so this would reverberate throughout their whole way of thinking and communication, and indeed their very being. This was all rather well-explored in the film Arrival, in which a team of linguists is tasked with deciphering the mysterious language of a decidedly non-humanoid species with a very different language and view of time and space, and within the understanding of which hangs the balance of our survival.
Even within human languages here on Earth we can see how the effects of our sensory abilities, our upbringing, and our perceptions of the world around us can change methods and means of communication. For instance, deaf people use sign language as a means to communicate when the sense of hearing is robbed from them. However, although human languages do all sound very unique and even alien at times, and there are sign languages and whatnot, they are still based on our shared perception of the universe through the same common biology, morphology, anatomy, and physiology, and therefore they follow rules that we can all fathom and which give us at least a chance of reproducing them. With aliens, all bets would be off.
Another important hurdle with differences in physical form would be how we produce and detect sounds, and thereby language, in the first place. For humans we use a vocal tract and our ears, and there is a very finite, set frequency through which we are able to detect the sounds we utter. With aliens they would be working with a whole different set of organs, frequencies, and physiology for speech, that is if they even “spoke” as we know it at all. Their utterances would possibly be made through strange organs for which we have no close approximation or even understanding of, would probably be made at frequencies, vibrations, or cadences that we would not be able to detect or recognize as language, and would be made through a different atmosphere to make it all even worse.
These would be completely non-human sounds, we may not be able to physically discern the distinctions they make, and considering that many animals on our very own planet are thought to be able to speak in language and we are completely in the dark as to what they are saying, this would likely be even more pronounced in something from out beyond the stars. Perhaps impossibly, indecipherably so. Simply put, if we cannot physically detect their sounds and cannot reproduce them, then vocal communication is virtually impossible.
Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that we can get past these obstacles, and that we can hear and be heard by each other in a meaningful way. The problems would still not end there. The very rules of our language and the way they are laid out are all intrinsically linked to our biology and mindset as well. An alien language might not have any of the parts of language that we take for granted, such as verbs, adjectives, and nouns, would possibly not view things such as cause and effect or the passage of time the same as us, and would potentially follow certain internal rules, logic, and structures so different from us that we are unable to even mutually comprehend them. We as humans have shared cognition and linguistic structures, basic psychologies, and features, but aliens cannot be counted upon to do so. Jessica Coon, a professor of linguistics at McGill University in Montreal who was consulted on the film about extraterrestrial communication, Arrival, said of this:
What linguists have discovered about human languages is that even though they can sound very different from one another and their grammars do show a lot of variation…languages tend to fall into certain patterns. Most of the world’s languages fall into one of those patterns or the other. The variation isn’t completely unconstrained. Humans seem to be hardwired for this capacity to learn language. Because it is part of our genetics and part of being human, it’s very unlikely that other creatures would have the same kinds of constraints or show the same kinds of similarities that human languages do. We would just have to hope that we would still be able to recognize patterns and match it up with we’re seeing.
The notable American linguist and cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky has also offered his thoughts on the inherit linguistic problems with trying to talk with extraterrestrial beings with which we have no shared cognitive understanding of how language works. He has said:
If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili. We’re designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language. But we’re not designed to learn perfectly usable languages that violate universal grammar.
The formidable challenge this would present can already be seen even among human languages here on our own planet, where there are sometimes things we have no word for, or a lack of a word for something we take for granted. A tropical people might have no word for “snow,” for instance. Some remote, isolated languages are so alien to others that they do not even have words, concepts or phrases for things most speakers of other languages would likely take for granted. For instance, the Pirahã people of the Brazilian Amazon have no words for counting things. It is either “one” or “more than one,” that’s it. They also have no clear words for certain directions such as “left” or “right,” and this is a daunting challenge to understanding them, even though they are human. Imagine a completely non-human entity with even more outlandish rules of language and grammatical idiosyncrasies and you can see how meaningful exchanges could be a problem. Jesse Snedeker, a Harvard psychologist who studies the development of language in children, has said of this:
We know that every child can learn every possible human language. Every child has to have some sort of internal capacity that allows them to learn language. We have to ask ourselves, ‘Would we have the capacity to learn alien language, and would they have the capacity to learn ours?’ And different people would give you very different answers to that question. On the other hand, there’s the argument that any species that achieves a high level of technology would necessarily understand certain concepts, so that ought to provide a basis for at least a limited degree of communication.
This is where we begin to see that all hope is not necessarily lost, and one thing seen as the key to actually being able to start towards communication with aliens is to find some commonality to use as a starting point. A good way to do this would be to have some sort of key, something like the Rosetta Stone, which helped us to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. This has been an idea tossed around in science fiction before, such as the use of the tones in Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or the use of prime numbers in Carl Sagan’s book Contact. If we could have some common frame of reference and somewhere to start, then there is the chance we could work towards further meaningful communication.
One of the best ways of doing this has been seen in recent years as being to use mathematics or scientific information such as physics as a sort of “universal language” and starting point. After all, as the laws of physics and reality are the same throughout the universe, then it stands to reason that any advanced society would have a grasp of these things in a similar way, regardless of how we ultimately think about them or express them in language. No matter what our physiological differences or deviations in ways of looking at the world and universe, physics are the same everywhere, and so would be a commonality we could use.
Carl DeVito, an emeritus faculty member in the mathematics department at the University of Arizona in Tucson, believes that although this exchange of scientific information is perhaps the key to communication with aliens, it nevertheless still faces some challenges. First is that the idea that it is still reliant on understanding the aliens’ systems of measurement, as well as relying on the supposition that they can count and do arithmetic as we do, that they recognize the same elements of the periodic table, that they have adequately studied the different states of matter, and that they know enough chemistry to carry out chemical calculations in the same way we do. He also points out that even though the physics would be the same, these extraterrestrials might calculate their rules of motion and mechanics based on their own unique geometry. DeVito has said of this:
The mathematics of motion is differential calculus. Can we assume that an alien race shares this with us? Differential and integral calculus are so fundamental in so many areas of science that it is hard to imagine a science without them. But this is, perhaps, a human bias. We, of course, can’t know, but we must be aware that the physics of an alien race, even in a fundamental area like mechanics, might differ in subtle but important ways from our own.
Using mathematics and physics is nevertheless still seen as a potential way of breaking through our communication barrier, to the point that it is used by those organizations seeking to reach out and make contact, such as SETI. However, even if we can express simple messages to each other with math, there are still the intricacies of culture and thinking that would shape how messages and ideas are expressed and interpreted. Doug Vakoch, the president of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, METI, and respected researcher of xenolinguistics, has said of this conundrum thus:
If they can build spacecraft to come to come to Earth, they have to have an understanding of good engineering, physics, science, math. But doing the nitty-gritty work of going back and forth and making guesses at what an alien says, trying to interpret swirls and determining a sentence or concept? It’s hard. Conveying matters. You need flexibility of language with its infinite combinations. Our art and culture — that’s all from language, that’s not from just raw numbers.
In addition to the promise of using math, there is also the hopeful fact that it is possible that the alien’s psyches and physicality are not as different from our own as we may think after all. For instance, on our own planet we can see vastly different organisms that have nevertheless developed strikingly similar ways of dealing with the environment and world around them, such as evolving eyes, ears, legs, wings and similar organs separately across species, often evolving independently or sometimes the same structures multiple times, all in the process called “convergent evolution.”
Perhaps in other areas of the universe extraterrestrials have evolved similarly enough to ourselves, especially an intelligent tool-using one that would have developed communication and technology in the first place, that our mental architectures and languages are not necessarily mutually unintelligible. This theory postulates that there are enough universal elements to how we think and evolve to certain environmental challenges that this would be enough solid ground for us to delve into a basic framework from which further communication would be possible. Making this even more promising still is that with all of the broadcasts we have spewed out into the stars the aliens would potentially have a good enough sampling of our languages and communications to make talking between us easier without having even met us yet, a possibility of which Coon has said:
If you have enough information and enough of the context and the history, I think there’s hope that even without a lot of interaction you could be able to make at least significant progress in understanding the grammar of a language—again depending on how likely we are to be able to understand alien life at all. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if creatures who could make giant spaceships that just show up on Earth could easily figure out our languages from the many broadcasts we put into outer space, and that we might be able to do the same thing with sufficient resources and sufficient information.
One thing that is worth considering is that even if we overcome all of these considerable challenges and are able to communicate, look at us here on Earth. With our different cultures, ways of thinking, values, and linguistic nuances, even communication between us humans can be confusing and difficult, with misunderstandings and gaffes commonplace. How can we hope to resolve these issues with an alien civilization from another star? In the end, we just don’t know. Since we have never made contact with aliens, at least as far as we know, there is no precedent for it, and we cannot possibly know what to expect when such a day comes to pass. It is impossible to know what form these beings will take, how they will think, or how they will communicate. Will it come easy or will we forever remain closed behind mutual doors of incomprehensibility? The answers remain complex, it is all left entirely to speculation and the imagination, and we will only know when we finally make that first contact we have always dreamed of.
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Filer’s Files #9 – 2018 Venus Is Earth Like - PART I
Naples, Florida object moving across the sky on February 28, 2018
Filer’s Files #9 – 2018 Venus Is Earth Like - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: National UFO Reporting Center Director Peter Davenport, Phoenix Lights Incident, Venus a Planet Like Earth, Venus Rising, Demons, Russia’s New Fighter in Syria, and the Kansas City UFO Flaps.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chili, Columbia, France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain.
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.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
National UFO Reporting Center Director Peter Davenport
The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) is an organization in the States that investigates UFOsightings and/or alien contacts. NUFORC has been in continuous operation since 1974. Peter Davenport has been Director for 23 years, It was founded in 1974 by Robert J. Gribble It has catalogued almost 90,000 reported UFO sightings over its history, most of which were in the United States. In addition to record keeping, the center has provided statistics and graphs to assist others looking for information. UFO reports can be accessed, index by state, index by shape of ufo and index by date posted.
The current director, Peter Davenport, has not claimed that any two phenomena are identical, but has catalogued flying saucers, colored lights, and triangles, throughout the years. Davenport describes himself as a UFO believer, but skeptic, and has been praised by many as providing a valuable service in the field.
Peter says the “Phoenix Lights” event! “It was, in my opinion, one of the two or three most dramatic, and well-documented UFO sighting events in the history of Ufology.”
Phoenix Lights Incident
Phoenix — On March 13, l997, many Arizona residents reported that they had been witness to one, or more, apparently very large craft in the night sky.” v the “Phoenix Lights” event! It was, in my opinion, one of the two or three most dramatic, and well-documented UFO sighting events in the history of Ufology.
“In a recent telephone call I had with Peter Davenport the Director of the National Reporting Center, he revealed that several hours after the “Phoenix Lights” event had concluded, he was telephoned by an individual who identified himself as an Airman in the U. S. Air Force, and that he had been involved that night in providing ground support involving an intercept of at least one of the objects over Phoenix. The photograph of the string of lights, in my opinion, may well be a photo of flares, released over the Barry M. Goldwater Firing Range at Gila Bend, AZ, perhaps to serve as a diversion, following the appearance of the immense triangular craft over Phoenix earlier that night. Those lights first appeared well after the original event had long since ended.
The airman from Luke Air Force Base claimed he just helped launch two McDonnell-Douglas F-15c fighter aircraft to intercept the large Phoenix flying object at 2035 hrs.
Peter Davenport writes, The most important parts of that event, in my view, is that two F-15 C’s intercepted one of the 5 or 6 objects that loitered over the Phoenix area. The object was at approximately 9,000 feet AGL at the time, and the object being intercepted subtended an arc of approximately 135 degree, as viewed from the ground, at the moment of intercept. Upon returning to Luke AFB, the lead pilot reported that the object in front of his aircraft filled his canopy and windscreen, extending from his 9:00 o’clock position to his 3:00 o’clock position, and at the end of the intercept, all the lights on the object suddenly dimmed to extinction, and the radar screen on his instrument panel went to “white noise”…it apparently was made totally nonfunctional and useless. The pilots indicated the craft was several miles wide. “I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona.
The two F-15’s returned to Luke AFB at approximately 20:40 hrs. (local), at which time the lead pilot reportedly had to be helped out of his cockpit by members of his ground crew…he apparently was unable to exit the cockpit by himself. As he was being helped by those personnel, the pilot recounted to them what the pilot had just been through during the intercept.
One member of the ground crew was ordered to collect several (six?) videos from both F-15s’ cockpits and LANTIRN-II pods, and race them at a dead run to a T-39 that was waiting nearby, with engines running. The airman tossed the tapes or discs into the T-39, (shown) at which time its loading door was hurriedly closed, and the aircraft taxied to the active runway and took off into the night.
Later that day, the same airman who had first called me, called me again to report that he had just come from his commander’s (colonel’s) office, where he…the airman…had just been informed that he was being transferred to a base in Greenland, and that he would be at his new base within 24 hours.
The caller asserted that he had just been personal witness to an intercept of a very large craft by two U. S. Air Force directly above downtown Phoenix, Arizona, at approximately 2035 hrs. on Thursday, March 13, 1997.
Ten years afterward, the 19th Governor of Arizona from 1991-1997.
Fife Symington wrote on CNN about the Phoenix Lights Story discussing various UFO sightings and incidents. Symington, a former Air Force officer, said it did not look like a man-made object. And he ruled out the Air Force assertion that the object was high-altitude flares. It was truly breathtaking. I was absolutely stunned because I was turning to the west looking for the distant Phoenix Lights,” Symington wrote. “To my astonishment this apparition appeared; this dramatically large, very distinctive leading edge with some enormous lights was traveling through the Arizona sky.” “I was never happy with the Air Force’s silly explanation. There might very well have been military flares in the sky that evening, but what I and hundreds of others saw had nothing to do with that,” he wrote.
“We want the government to stop putting out stories that perpetuate the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth conventional terms.
Venus a Planet is Like Earth
Venus is the second planet from the Sun and our closest planetary neighbor. Similar in structure and size to Earth, Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction most planets do. NASA claims its thick atmosphere traps heat in a runaway greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet in our solar system with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead. Glimpses below the clouds reveal volcanoes and deformed mountains.
Venus is named for the ancient Roman goddess of love and beauty, the counterpart to the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Venus has a central core, a rocky mantle and a solid crust. At the surface, the rocks are different shades of grey, like rocks on Earth, but the thick atmosphere filters the sunlight so that everything would look orange if you were standing on Venus. Venus is one of just two planets that rotate from east to west. Only Venus and Uranus have this “backwards” rotation. It completes one rotation in 243 Earth days — the longest day of any planet in our solar system, even longer than a whole year on Venus. This infrared view of Venus was acquired by the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft’s IR2 camera, which observes—among other things—the “warmth” of the planet’s atmosphere on its nocturnal side. This image of great detail shows what seems to be a turbulent boundary (dark area saw tooth).
Chemtrails are produced on Earth to cool the planet, it seems logical that the 25 mile thick clouds and atmosphere protecting Venus would cause the temperatures to diminish. However, NASA claims the clouds cause temperatures to rise to 800 degrees. Conversely Soviet scientists report temperatures of 30C/86 F. in a polar area and clouds 25 miles thick with heavy water vapor and oxygen in the lower atmosphere..
When visiting the Pentagon for a Joint Chiefs of Staff speaker’s job, I was told there was a alien from Venus staying there and I asked to meet him but was refused. Venusian’s could live underground or the temperatures are closer to that on Earth. There are numerous visitors and humans who claim to have been to Venus. On May 2, 1957 radio signals were picked up from Venus on 3.15 centimeters by Ohio State University that continued on other frequencies and for months.
Venus as the Point of Origin
So how can we be so sure that the majority of these extraterrestrials being witnessed throughout the 1950s actually hailed from the second planet of our solar system? Our sister and cloud-shrouded planet Venus as the origination point of the elusive flying saucers was indicated by the observed beings themselves in many ways. The famous inventor Nicola Tesla claimed to be from Venus has have many lesser known persons.
Alleged drawing of Venus, most quarters are underground
Venus Rising A Concise History of the Second Planet
I spent an afternoon with Raymond Keller PhD who is charming and has surprising knowledge of Venus and its history.
Paranormal expert and popular speaker, Dr. Raymond Keller, brings together the impact Venus has on our culture.
His book Venus Rising explores many facets of conditions and life on Venus in many dimensions from a perspective of conspiracies, history, theosophy, ufology and current events, especially space research. Dr. Keller has lived and worked in 44 different countries and has been writing about UFOs and paranormal activity since 1967. He was the founder and director of the Outer Space International Research and Investigations Society (OSIRIS) of Hilmar, California, as well as the publisher and co-editor of the New Millennial Star, a monthly pre-Internet tabloid newspaper. London Book Festival Honorable Mention Southern California Book Festival Honorable Mention
What People Say
The book is well written and scholarly, with detailed attention to various sources of information. This writer commends the author, Dr. Raymond Andrew Keller, II, Ph.D., for a Big Beautiful Book. Welcome, Dear Reader! May you enjoy the journey. — R. Leo Sprinkle, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Counseling Services, University of Wyoming
The really controversial part of the book is the study of Venus in relation to the UFO enigma and contemporary claims of contact with people from other planets, especially Venus. Most mainstream “scientific” ufologists dismiss the first generation 1950s and 60s contactees as frauds and cultists, but my 40+ years of research into contactee cases indicates that some of these individuals actually were in contact with a group of benevolent alien visitors, trying to influence our culture at a critical time in history. Venus Rising is a comprehensive and exciting scholarly endeavor that can inspire further research into this most fascinating subject. —Håkan Blomqvist, Librarian and co-founder of Archives for the Unexplained (AFU), Sweden
In these pages, Dr. Keller reveals that on a personal level we have probably experienced frequent encounters with Venusians, without even realizing it. He blows the cover off the biggest secret that only a handful of powerful individuals know in the highest echelons of officialdom, that space people from Venus look almost exactly like us, but more beautiful/handsome, have infiltrated human society in all nations and have been visiting the Earth since prehistoric times. If you ever had any questions about Venus or Venusians, you will find the answers in this book.—Michael A. LaRiche, Director, Coast-to-Coast A.M. Radio Discussion Groups Northeast, Ohio
I spent several hours with Dr. Raymond A. Keller PhD from West Virginia University who has spoken to numerous contactees and aliens who claimed to be from Venus. Apparently, Venus could be habitable except NASA claims the temperature is very high. While temperatures on Mars are too cold for life. Actual temperature measurements on Mars near the equator were recorded at 90 degrees Fahrenheit. According to Dr. Keller temperatures on Venus are about 75 degrees.
The Soviet Venero 9 spacecraft landed and took this photo of the surface of Venus on October 20, 1975,. A Venusian named Val Thor claimed most people lived underground in huge lava tubes on Venus.
Collecting Biological Samples
Apparently, the Venusians are interested in collecting samples of the Earth’s rich biodiversity. Perhaps they may have a dual motivation in this. The first motivation may simply be food gathering, as in the case above with the harvesting of berries in Norway. The second motivation may be the collection of diverse plant and other life forms for transport to Venus, where they might be safeguarded and propagated for eventual re-introduction or re-transplant on the Earth, following some expected environmental apocalypse in our future. Let’s hope that my first suggested motivation is the prevailing one.
Another example of such biological reconnaissance occurred just one month later in Portugal, when three aluminum-suited men climbed out of a flying saucer to do some picking among the flowers and shrubs on a mountaintop near the village of Almaseda, located in the Serra de Guardnha range. The alien beings and their craft were seen by local resident Cesar Cardoso and three other men from the village. Cardoso described all three of the UFO occupants to a reporter from Lisbon’s Diario De Lisboa newspaper as being over six feet tall. A few days later, the story was picked up by the Auckland, New Zealand Star newspaper of 29 September 1954. Cardoso said that the three aluminum-suited extraterrestrials were “cutting flowers, shrubbery and twigs and putting them in a shining box.” Cesar Cardoso and his friends from the Portuguese mountain village politely declined the offer for them to step inside the Venusians scout ship. See https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/adamski-venusian-scout-3d-3ds/313047.
Cardoso was the only one in his group of four that dared approach the three alien men. One of them dropped what he was doing in the bushes and came over to talk with Cardoso. The alien asked the Portuguese gentleman, in his own language, “Would you or any of your companions like to enter into our scout ship?”
With that, Cardoso sauntered back over to his friends and asked them, “The visitor wants to know if any of us would like to get aboard the flying saucer.” Shaking in their mountain boots, no one was too keen on the idea.
Moving again into the presence of the extraterrestrial, Cardoso said, “I’m sorry, Sir, but nobody wants to go in there at this time. They are all just too frightened.”
“I can understand that,” said the alien, “giving the way your Hollywood productions generally portray the inhabitants of other planets.”
Cardoso told the Lisbon reporter that the extraterrestrial did not insist, but kindly assured him at that time that, “We aren’t really the monsters you may think us to be. We come to Earth with the purest intentions of love and peace, thinking only of a better future for you and your families. Unfortunately, that future may be some time off.”
He and the others then climbed into their scout ship and “flew off vertically at a terrific speed, emitting a shower of sparks” in the process. (Stay tuned to this website of phantomsandmonsters.com for Part III of Dr. Keller’s “Venusian’ Spaceships Are Landing!” The Venus expert, Cosmic Ray, will explore further Venusian concerns as well as the California connection with more spectacular Venusian contacts. You won’t want to miss it!) Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second Planet
Demons
For thousands of years demons were thought to exist and are prevalent in many religions and in our world. Sconce for years has ridiculed belief in various supernatural entities. A demon is a supernatural and often malevolent being prevalent in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore. In Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the Abraham traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered a harmful spiritual entity, below the heavenly.
In response to an unsettling increase in demand for exorcisms in Italy, the Vatican has announced plans for a new course to better train priests to perform the practice. Often alien entities are described as spirits, so there may be a connection it that some aliens do not have human’s best interests. I have seen exorcisms and the possessed person had strength and knowledge of ancient foreign languages far beyond a normal person.
The week-long event to be held in April was detailed by Italian priest and exorcist Benign Palilla in an interview with Vatican Radio. According to Palilla, requests for exorcisms from the Church have skyrocketed in Italy over the last few years with experts estimating an astounding 500,000 such cases being reported. Although the priest acknowledged that not all of these events are genuinely connected to an actual possession, he cautioned that the jaw-dropping number of exorcisms indicated that there is some sort of sinister surge happening. Additionally, there has been an increase in UFO reports and sightings of alien visitors.
As to what may be behind this spike, Palilla pointed to the popularity of fortune tellers, tarot card readers and other soothsaying mystics in Italy. He warned that partaking in such ‘sorcery’ unwittingly “opens the door to the devil and possession.” Additionally, Palilla expressed concern that the whopping number of exorcism cases in the country has led to inexperienced priests being enlisted to perform the ritual.
New priests are not taught about the phenomenon of possession leaving newcomers overwhelmed when they are called to confront the issue. By holding this new course on exorcism, Palilla hopes to strip away some of the sensationalism surrounding exorcisms and better prepare priests for the various cases they may encounter.
Many criminals claim they are controlled by demons. Interestingly Nikolas Cruz the Florida school shooter claims that on February 17, 2018, ‘demon voices’ told him to slaughter 17. He opened fire on defenseless students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. as cops reveal they were called to his home 39 times.
The New York Post reports, Cruz the deranged gunman told investigators that “demons” told him how to unleash the massacre..
Law enforcement sources told abc news that Nikolas Cruz, 19, said the voices in his head gave him instructions on how to carry out the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Law enforcement sources told ABC News that Nikolas Cruz, 19, said the voices in his head gave him instructions on how to kill Nikolas Cruz stated, ‘I wanna die killing s*** ton of people.”
Cruz suffered from depression for years. I know he did have some issues and he may have been taking medication. [He] did have some kind of emotional problems or difficulties,” His step mother Lynda had sought counseling for Nikolas at a young age and it is felt he was taking prescription drugs. Bill Nelson said on MSNBC that Cruz wore a gas mask and had smoke grenades. “He set off the fire alarm so the kids would come out into the hallways and thus he had the opportunity with a crowded hallway to start picking off people.”
The school resource officer Scot Peterson and three other responding deputy sheriffs did not enter the school while Cruz was shooting the students. Their failure to enter the school to stop the shooter is under investigation. Sheriff Scott Israel said Cruz fired into five classrooms, four on the first floor and one on the second floor, before failing g to shoot out a hurricane strength window where he could have killed many more. He then dropped his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle purchased legally a year ago and fled. He was able to blend in with students running away from the violence.
BenTheBondsman, revealed he had reported to the FBI a comment under one of his previous Cruz videos that read: “I’m going to be a professional school shooter”. The name of the commenter matched Cruz’s. The agency confirmed it was aware of the report. Other comments left by the same account included: “I want shoot people with my AR-15”; ”I wanna die Fighting killing s**t ton of people”; and ”I am going to kill law enforcement one day they go after the good people”. Thanks to ABC. We send our prayers to the families and those involved.
Russia’s New Fighter in Syria
A video has emerged purportedly showing two Su-57s operating from Russia’s Khmeimim Airbase in Syria. If genuine, the video will have documented the fifth-generation fighter’s first combat drill.
A video published on the Facebook group ‘Syrian Military Capabilities’ purports to show the brand new Russian aircraft in the skies over Syria. Although the two warplanes appear to look similar to the Su-57, RT cannot verify the authenticity of the video. Russia on Thursday reportedly deployed its advanced Su-57 stealth fighter to Syria, further complicating an environment that the head of Air Combat Command said was already extremely complex. However, USAF pilots flying in support of Operation Inherent Resolve are prepared for scenarios they might face, ACC boss Gen. Mike Holmes said
New Book Release: The Kansas City UFO Flaps by Margie Kay
Margie Kay, author of Gateway to the Dead, Haunted Independence, and a dozen other publications presents yet another exciting book – The Kansas City UFO Flaps.
Margie presents her investigations of multiple spectacular UFO sightings, close encounters, and possible abductions during the Flaps of 2011-2012, historic UFO cases, and the ongoing infamous Kansas City Lights. Kay personally investigated most of the cases in the book, including a Close Encounter of the Forth kind (CE4 with extraterrestrial involvement), and several Close Encounters of the Third kind.
In the book, Margie presents her Grid Theory, which may explain why there are so many UFO sightings and paranormal events in the area as opposed to others.
The Kansas City UFO Flaps is available at Amazon and other major retailers. More detailed information is on Margie’s website at www.margiekay.com
Contact: Margie Kay, margiekay06@yahoo.com or 816-833-1602 Paperback, 79 pages ISBN-10:0998855812 8.5” x 11” Publisher: Un-X Media,
Biography:
Margie Kay is an author, publisher, and paranormal investigator. She owns and operates a specialty chimney contracting company and forensic investigation company in Independence, Missouri along with Gene her husband. Margie is the author of 13 books including Gateway to the Dead: A Ghost Hunter’s Field Guide, Haunted Independence, The Kansas City UFO Flap, ExtraOrdinary, and Missouri Unexplained. She was the publisher and editor of Un-X News Magazine, host of QUEST Radio show on KRGA 1140 AM in Kansas City for five years, and host of Un-X News Radio on KGRA for two years.
Margie Kay is the Director of UnX Paranormal Investigation Group that is working on a documentary film and book about strange events in Missouri. She is the CEO of UnX Media Publishing Company. Kay is a psychic investigator has helped solve more than 50 crimes in the U.S. and abroad.
Margie and the Un-X team of six have completed over 600 paranormal investigations worldwide including sites in the continental U.S., Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Chile, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Over the years, Kay has also been involved in a number of Bigfoot and animal mutilation investigations, which are sometimes related to UFO sightings. Margie is the Assistant State Director for Missouri MUFON and has completed over 450 UFO investigations. She is the newsletter editor for Missouri MUFON, and a Star Team Investigator.
Kay has spoken at over 100 conventions and meetings. She is a dynamic and entertaining speaker. 816-833-1602 or office@unxmedia.com.
We Are Not Alone show reminder
March 6, 2018: from 1 – 2 PM: Tuesday Forum. We Are Not Alone.
Skeptics and debunkers like to put ghosts, Bigfoot, and the leprechauns, elves and fairies of ancient folklore in the same basket as UFOs in an effort to marginalize the phenomenon. However, researcher Stephen Ward makes a compelling case that all of these things do indeed belong together – not as an attempt to belittle the UFO phenomenon but instead to better substantiate its origin. Tune in to the discussion this Tuesday, March 6 at 1PM. EST. Remember after the broadcast this show is available as a podcast from this website: click on Talk Shows–Tuesday Forum–(select date).
“We Are Not Alone” is a two time award winning radio show on WHFR.FM and is a member of the MUFON Radio Network! The show airs the first Tuesday of each month at 1:00 PM EST with new shows each month. Go to http://streema.com/radios/play/23020 All shows are archived at WHFR’s website. Click on “Talk Shows” then the “Tuesday Forum” button and the date of the show. We Are Not Alone is also archived at my website which is http://www.ufoimplications.com/radio_archive.html
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Filer’s Files #9 – 2018 Venus Is Earth Like - PART II
Filer’s Files #9 – 2018 Venus Is Earth Like - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Sonotia — My son and I were camping at Parker Lake on February 19, 2018, looking for a break in the cloud cover around 6 am. I spotted a light below clouds 3 miles south that moved to less than a mile very quickly. The light pulsed from bright to dark in three phases.
I took 3 photos before my phone failed. It had a grid on the screen that I have not ever seen before. After the light went dark for the last time the phone worked normally. My truck stalled three times when I started it around 10 am to leave. Around home it stalled again and would not start. The fuel pump was affected, I removed it and ran a direct current to it and it started to work again. The object was due south and traveled 3 miles north in an instant.. There were no vehicles moving anywhere. It went from very bright to almost dark. It continued this cycle for 30 minutes before going completely dark at which time my phone began to function normally again. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Fort Bragg— I see these orb UFOs all the time. Since the end of January 2018, I have seen them every clear night. I see between 1 and 10 of these orbs and occasionally will see other crafts. I’ve been keeping a ufo log for the last 6 years. On February 10, 2018, 5 were seen at 6:20 pm. One large orb came from top of Orion. Saw two more small ones. Then from the west at about 7:05 saw very large yellow orb, that came straight at me and flew right over my head!. Got lots photos, It went behind the large trees and disappeared. I saw one every night for 6 days straight.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Object
Naples — Driving north on CR 951, I saw the object moving across the sky on February 28, 2018.
. I thought maybe it was an ad banner or something, but it seemed to change speed and shape. I took pictures while driving then the object disappeared into the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mississippi Cylinder
Olive Branch — On January 2, 2018, my husband (former airline pilot with 22,000 hours) and I were traveling on Lamar Ext. (Hwy. 78), heading to Memphis just before the Tennessee line, I witnessed two cylindrical objects or shadows moving vertically over the face of a full wolf moon. My husband viewed one, and I viewed both. #2 was higher than #1. He was driving and #2 was out of the bright face of the moon and could no longer be seen when he observed #1. Once the objects or shadows were out of the bright face of the moon, they were no longer visible. Other people viewed this I am sure. If they did, I urge them to speak up.” Thanks Peter Davenport www.ufocenter.com
Missouri Lights
Independence— My husband and three young boys were driving home at about 11:30 PM, on February 28, 2015. I happened to look to NW sky to point the moon out to our kids and saw 5 rectangular columns of light below the cloud deck. They were bright but transparent. 1. They seemed to be free standing but not a spotlight beam. There was absolutely NO connecting beam from the bottom of the columns to the ground. 2. The columns of light do not bounce off the cloud deck. 3. In the full hour these were observed, they did not change in size, movement, shape, pulsate, or location.. Later, I went outside to find them in the same place and unchanged. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Lights
Las Vegas — My fiancée and I were driving home after picking up food on February 23, 2018, and noticed 3 lights in the sky which from a distance, at first glance. It appeared to be 3 planes flying in unison. Once the craft came closer and as we got a better view, we saw it was one massive craft. I took my phone out and tried to video it. We were moving so it was difficult to capture. The craft made no noise and at its lowest altitude appeared to be around 1,000 ft. It stopped and hovered abruptly and then continued on its path west towards Red Rock. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Disc
Doug writes he was driving 55 mph on Route 3 and spotted something about a mile away. As I got loser I took out my phone camera and took a photo.
It was a total dry summer day but naysayers claim it it’s a drop of water. But it was a flying disc. Thanks to Doug Auld Artist
Oregon Object
Eugene — I’m in direct contact with these beings. They constantly hover over my apartment complex or wherever I am as they did on February 26, 2018. This particular event I heard it hovering over me and sent my boyfriend out to see what it was. Upon my boyfriend exiting the residence he rushed back inside and told me it was a saucer shaped UFO hovering over us. I could hear it flying away and got it on video. We are living on the top floor of a 3 story apartment complex. As I started recording is when it started picking up speed. I lost sight of it as it flew over buildings and out of sight. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Astronaut Sees Texas Orange Orbs
North Texas — About 10:15 pm on July 5, 2017, my family and I were sitting outside. When I looked up into the sky, I saw a fairly large orange glowing orb moving rapidly overhead right about 90 degrees of elevation on July 1, 2013 . It moved from east to west (retrograde, so was not a satellite) and lasted about a minute. The brightness did not seem to change other than dimming as it moved away from us. The visual angle subtended an arc of about 120 degrees across the sky. About one or two minutes later, we saw a group of three similar objects along the same flight path as the first one. My daughter used an iPhone to take video, but it is fairly dark and hard to distinguish the objects. About 3 minutes later two more objects passed overhead, again on the same flight path. There was no sound from the objects. It appeared as if they were glowing from heating up the atmosphere. They moved much faster than orbital satellites or airplanes, but much slower than meteors and did not change brightness as a meteor would upon entering the atmosphere. I am a retired military fighter pilot, retired commercial airline pilot and former astronaut. I have no explanation for what we saw. ((NUFORC Note: Report submitted by former U. S. astronaut. We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and we suspect that he is a superlative, and highly qualified, witness. PD)) Thanks Peter Davenport www.ufocenter.com
Washington Object
Marysville — I was on my front porch photographing Red tail Hawks on March 1, 2018, and visually scanned the treetops when I noticed a rapidly moving glint way off in the distance between the treetops. I took a photograph. By the time I got my camera to refocus, It was nowhere to be seen. At first I thought it was just another jetliner off in the distance but it left no contrail and it was traveling faster than aircraft fly. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Shadow
Taking pictures of the moon with a Nikon P900, I did not notice until checking the memory card on the computer.
The photo was taken of a strange shadow on moon or near earth on November 27, 2017. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Sphere
Porto Alegre— My name is Marco Solano and I’m sending a photos I took on December 2, 2017. I took 3 photos from the terrace of a 14 story building where a business event was taking place. Between my cell phone and the horizon above other buildings there are no windows. One thing appeared in a photo. Using ZOOM, an “unidentified” “object” appears where there was nothing a minute before as I looking at a building where I lived when single. I used my Samsung J2 Galaxy Prime G532MT.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Orb
Oshawa, Ontario— I have once again witnessed two UFO sightings on February 25,2018. Not sure if it was the same one doing a 180 back and forth. Attached are the picture enhancements of what was witnessed and filmed. Here’s what I observed on Sunday, February 25,2018, while outside on my deck. I was having a tea admiring a clear sky. After some minutes I noticed a very high bright roundish object in amber white light at 4:55 pm. The object came overhead from the east heading westward over Whitby, Ontario. I ran in the house to return outside in 30 – 40 seconds with my camera but it gone!
Four minutes later a bright white glistening object came towards my position from the west that I snapped to film this unknown. It crossed directly above me heading east at 5:00 pm. This is my first UFO sighting for 2018. Thanks to Paul Shishis
Chili Cylinder
Los Lagos — Here are some of our photos, recently captured on January 16th in the interior of the city of Los Lagos, inside the capital of the Region of Los Ríos, city of Valdivia. It happened that taking a batch of photos to upload to the network of rural sector Folilco-Las Huellas, I took a photo twice of the alleged object that can be seen on the right side. This happened at 20:57 seconds so I made a second take 4 seconds later.
My idea was to photograph a cloud at the bottom of the valley that crosses the Las Huellas sector, located 24 km from Los Lagos to Riñihue, entering by sector Folilco. Since I used a XVision table that has only a front camera, I did not see what I was photographing. This was at 2 am and I was so surprised! Thanks to MUFON CMS
China Object
Beijing – – On March 14, 2017, an unknown flying object was seen flying over clear sky at 4:57 PM (GMT +0800). The camera was pointed to the West direction.
The author’s place was around 4-5 kilometers to the center of Beijing city–Tiananmen Square or The Imperial Palace, where air traffic is totally forbidden.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Columbia Object
Manizales Mountains — I was travelling from Manizales to Bogota, at a point of the mountain you could see a spectacular view of the country below. I stopped to take a picture of the landscape on November18, 2017. I took out my phone and recorded a short video, and two quick photos of the scenery. When I got home I saw in the first picture a dark object of an egg shape. The second picture had a more triangular shape. Thanks to MUFON CMS
After seeing this, I continued my journey home, while watching what it was going to produce. The 5th ball was still there while his friends were already gone, then the 5th ball disappeared like a simple snap of a finger, like on a switch turned off.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Disc
Stuttgart— We were at the zoo and apparently there were several round objects around the treetops on October 5, 2017.
Did not notice what we had till recently we were looking at our Germany pictures.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Norway Disc
–Romsdalen Valley— . Hiker filmed mysterious disc-shaped UFO with glowing lights hovering over mountain in Romsdalen Valley,
Photo taken in March 2016. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Objects
Lisbon — I was taking pictures of this fortress called Forte do Guincho, near Cascais, Lisbon. I didn’t notice the object until I saw the picture. I took one in the same place less than a minute before and another a minute after and the object does not appear before and after. When I saw it I thought of a cigar shape UFO. I only can describe it as something clear cigar shape, very high in the sky, grey. I would like to know what can it be…a plane, or UFO? What do you think about it? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Sphere
I was taking pictures of some clouds on February 9, 2018, that formed a storm. When editing on the computer I saw this spherical object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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