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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
28-03-2018
NASA receives response from Voyager 1 spacecraft 13 billion miles away after 37 years of inactivity
NASA receives response from Voyager 1 spacecraft 13 billion miles away after 37 years of inactivity
The thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft just did what we thought was impossible. After 37 years of inactivity, NASA just received response from spacecraft 13 billion miles away, NASA said in a statement on its website. Voyager 1 is NASA’s farthest and fastest spacecraft. It was launched on September 5, 1977. Having operated for 40 years, 6 months and 14 days as of March 19, 2018, the spacecraft relies on small devices called thrusters to orient itself so it can communicate with Earth. These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, or “puffs,” lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet. Now, the Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since 1980.
In a statement on its website, NASA said: “The Voyager team assembled a group of propulsion experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to study the problem. Chris Jones, Robert Shotwell, Carl Guernsey and Todd Barber analyzed options and predicted how the spacecraft would respond in different scenarios. They agreed on an unusual solution: Try giving the job of orientation to a set of thrusters that had been asleep for 37 years.”
“With these thrusters that are still functional after 37 years without use, we will be able to extend the life of the Voyager 1 spacecraft by two to three years,” said Suzanne Dodd, project manager for Voyager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
“The Voyager flight team dug up decades-old data and examined the software that was coded in an outdated assembler language, to make sure we could safely test the thrusters,” said Jones, chief engineer at JPL.
In a further testament to the robustness of Voyager 1, the Voyager team completed a successful test of the spacecraft’s “trajectory correction maneuver” (TCM) thrusters on November 28, 2017. The last time these backup thrusters were fired up was in November 1980. Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd anticipates that successful utilization of the TCM thrusters will extend the Voyager mission by an additional “two to three years”.
Voyager 1’s extended mission is expected to continue until around 2025 when its radioisotope thermoelectric generators will no longer supply enough electric power to operate its scientific instruments.
Verstopte president Nixon een tijdcapsule met topgeheime informatie over aliens? Politieke insider doet boekje open
Verstopte president Nixon een tijdcapsule met topgeheime informatie over aliens? Politieke insider doet boekje open
Politiek insider Robert Merritt heeft in een interview met de Dark Journalist gezegd dat hij meerdere ontmoetingen heeft gehad met president Richard Nixon op een locatie onder het Witte Huis.
Tijdens één van de ontmoetingen zou Nixon hem een brief hebben voorgelezen die hij daarna in een tijdcapsule zou hebben gestopt.
De brief bevat volgens Merritt informatie waaruit blijkt dat de VS een buitenaards wezen in haar bezit heeft.
Veel kennis
Wetenschappers van het Los Alamos National Laboratory leerden te communiceren met het wezen en wisten op die manier veel kennis te vergaren, aldus de insider.
Hij zei dat Nixon hem vroeg een pakketje met daarin de brief te overhandigen aan toenmalig nationaal veiligheidsadviseur Henry Kissinger.
De president benadrukte dat verder niemand wist dat de brief bestond en dat hij niet in de handen mocht vallen van de FBI of CIA.
Verstopt
Merritt maakte deel uit van het Huston Plan, een geheim programma waarbij politieke vijanden van Nixon werden bespioneerd.
Hij moest onder meer materiaal verzamelen om senatoren en congresleden te chanteren. Hij stond in de spotlight tijdens de Watergate-hoorzittingen en verscheen later in de New York Times.
Merritt is ervan overtuigd dat de tijdcapsule nog op de plek ligt waar Nixon hem in 1972 heeft verstopt.
Wetenschappers hebben ontdekt dat er een soort snelweg is in ons lichaam waar vloeistof onder de huid loopt en langs heel wat organen passeert. In een artikel op de wetenschapssite Scientific Reports wordt zelfs gesproken over een “nieuw orgaan”. Volgens de ontdekkers zou het netwerk verantwoordelijk kunnen zijn voor de verspreiding van kanker in ons lichaam, wat natuurlijk bijzonder belangrijk is in het onderzoek naar kanker en hoe we het kunnen bestrijden.
It’s rare to see a UFO. It’s more than doubly rare to see two UFOs at the same time, especially if they seem to be flying in tight formation. It’s extremely rare for the event to occur in the daytime, be seen by multiple witnesses and get caught on video. Now that we have those odds set, what are the odds that two UFOs in tight formation apparently flying past a rescue helicopter in France are alien spacecrafts?
A photograph of the incident has come to light after being included in the recently published book, “UFO Photos: Computer Analysis Of Worldwide UFO Images Through The Decades” by Jason Gleave, who says he is ex-Royal Air Force, British Aerospace Airbus Division, with expertise in civilian and military aircraft, experience in computer analysis and an avowed UFO researcher. The photograph is a capture from a video of a 2014 rescue of the crew on the Luno, a cargo ship carrying fertilizer that crashed into a seawall at Anglet on the southwestern coast of France. In his capacity as author and UFO researcher, Gleave had this to say after reviewing the video (seen here) taken by local media covering the rescue operation:
“Upon analyzing the footage, the twin objects pass to the rear of the helicopter at high velocity and dangerously close. Other theories as to what they could be are possible drones or even birds, but unlikely drones because they would not normally operate in such a close dangerous proximity to the rescue helicopter, due to the volatile unpredictable weather conditions. Upon closer analysis of the video frames, the two objects stay together in flight, in a tight compact formation not deviating from each other.”
High velocity? Yes. Dangerously close? Well, the camera was focused on the helicopter, so it’s hard to tell if the twin blurs are dangerously close to the chopper or the camera operator … or “dangerously close” to anything at all. So, if they were drones, it’s difficult to determine if they were “dangerously close” to the helicopter. And, if they really were drones observing the incident, why would they be flying at a “high velocity” rather than hovering or slowly rubbernecking the scene?
What else flies in tight formations? If you said “birds,” you’re our skeptic-of-the-day. Yes, the blurs don’t look anything like birds, but they really don’t look like anything else either – which means you can’t eliminate anything, despite the comments in various Britishmedia outlets by ufologist Nick Pope :
“Jason has been involved in researching and investigating UFOs and other mysteries (like many experts in this field, he uses the phrase ‘high strangeness events’ to describe a lot of this) for many years, but his particular area of expertise is imagery analysis. Jason has skill and experience in carefully examining photos and videos, sorting out the fact from the fiction.”
Yes, the twin UFOs were high, strange and events. So are appearances by Snoop Dogg. Unfortunately, that observation doesn’t bring us dangerously, or even safely, close to identifying them.
How can there still be organs left in the human body to discover? Well, judging from the history of science, it’s because our our methods for analyzing and identifying the many different systems and networks within the body have improved. Think about it: we’ve only been chopping up and poking at the human body for a few centuries. Well, in a scientific sense anyway, not in the destroy-your-enemies-and-eat-their-dismembered-bodies sense. The discovery of DNA is less than a century old, while imaging technologies like magnetic resonance imaging are only a few decades old. Put into context, these relatively recent but groundbreaking advances show how we’re still only beginning to understand the complexities of the human body.
Even more mysteries lie within the folds of the human brain.
Case in point: a team of physicians has just published a studyof what they claim is an organ of the human body which has been completely ignored by medical science until now. They’re calling the organ the interstitium, and describe it as a dense layer of connective tissues found throughout and surrounding nearly the whole body, or a “widespread, macroscopic, fluid-filled space within and between tissues.” The organ was discovered through analyzing frozen body tissues, allowing this fluid-filled layer to retain its form unlike the flat, desiccated samples used in microscopy:
Freezing biopsy tissue before fixation preserved the anatomy of this structure, demonstrating that it is part of the submucosa and a previously unappreciated fluid-filled interstitial space, draining to lymph nodes and supported by a complex network of thick collagen bundles. We observed similar structures in numerous tissues that are subject to intermittent or rhythmic compression, including the submucosae of the entire gastrointestinal tract and urinary bladder, the dermis, the peri-bronchial and peri-arterial soft tissues, and fascia.
If confirmed, the intersitium would become the 80th known organ of the human body. The researchers believe the interstitium serves as a sort of ‘shock absorber’ which helps cushion muscles and organs from impacts or compression due to the movement of the body, while also playing a much more negative role in allowing cancers to metastasize more quickly since the interstitium is connected to the lymphatic system.
Illustration by Jill Gregory, Mount Sinai Health System, licensed under CC-BY-ND.
On a strange note, the researchers claim the interstitium generates a small electrical current as the body moves, which they note might explain the effects of acupuncture. Will the discovery of this new organ lead to new forms of therapy?
Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man, wonder if he’ll ever know He’s in the best selling show Is there life on … Earth?
Is there a David Bowie-ish starman writing songs in the sky while staring not at Mars but at Earth? If so, unlike Bowie, he (or she or whatever) doesn’t have to wonder if there’s life on Earth anymore. All they have to do it tap into a space probe designed to find life elsewhere that was turned towards Earth and found some on the blue planet. Was it intelligent?
At last week’s Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, the culmination of this clever and surprisingly eye-opening experiment was presented by Dante Lauretta from the University of Arizona in Tucson. He’s the principal investigator on OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer), a NASA spacecraft launched on September 8,2016, and destined to orbitally study asteroid 101955 Bennu, then get close enough to extend a robot arm holding s shovel, scoop up a surface sample and return it to Earth on or about September 24, 2023.
OSIRIS-REx
If the name “Bennu” sounds familiar, it’s because this asteroid is a Near Earth Object (NEO) that keeps getting closer to Earth on every orbit, with a 1 in 24,000 chance of impact on September 25, 2175; a 1 in 11,000 chance on September 24, 2196; and a cumulative 1 in 2,700 chance of an impact between 2175–2199. That’s one of the reasons it was chosen for the OSIRIS-REx mission, along with the chance to study its pristine carbonaceous material that is from the birth of our solar system.
Yeah, yeah, yeah … what about the signs of life on Earth?
It turns out this experiment was conducted once before by none other than the late great astronomer Carl Sagan. When the Galileo spacecraft swung around Earth in 1990 to get momentum to carry it to Jupiter, he suggested it search for life on our own planet first. Not surprisingly, it found high levels of methane and oxygen indicating that photosynthesis was occurring on this blue orb. It also picked up radio signals unknown in nature – definite signs of life.
Galileo
On October 2, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was a mere 17,237 km (10,710 miles) above Earth, so Lauretta and his team exercised its instruments – cameras, visible and infrared spectrometers, thermostats – by pointing them at there place or origin. They registered water vapor, carbon dioxide, molecular oxygen and methane in the atmosphere and OSIRIS-REx agreed with fellow spacecraft Galileo that Earth had signs of life.
The bad news came when the two sets of data were compared. OSIRIS-REx measured 12 percent more methane content and 14 percent more carbon dioxide than Galileo. That means air pollution has increased drastically on this blue sphere in the last few decades and shows no sign of going down.
So, there’s your answer. Earth definitely has life … but it’s not too intelligent.
Two UFO's Crossing Private Aircraft Dangerously Close In Mid-Flight
Two UFO's Crossing Private Aircraft Dangerously Close In Mid-Flight
Argentine pilot surprised by two UFO's which buzzed his aircraft dangerously close in mid-flight.
A veteran civilian Argentine pilot filmed out of his cockpit windscreen of his private aircraft flying through dense clouds when two UFOs crossed in front of his aircraft at high speed ‘twice’ in both directions (port to starboard and return direction) before immediately disappearing out of sight at high velocity.
Jason Gleaves, Ufonly, who has analyzed the interesting footage says: it is difficult to determine the actual shape and structure of the two objects, either cylindrical or disk shaped, due to the quality of the original source footage which had been taken on a mobile phone device and the angle the footage was taken (end elevation-side view of the UFOs).
This UFO was in Yahoo news, but it was not a current sighting.
Now here is an interesting video of a UFO over South Korea, however I feel that I have already seen either this video, or a similar craft a few years ago on video.
Wait, I got it, this was something I reported back in 2012. Its a real video, and it is Busan, South Korea, it just that its not new, its from back in July 26, 2012. Below this video, I will place the real video from back in 2012 as proof. You compare. Don't be angry at the reporter, its an easy mistake with noobs on Youtube steal and repost old videos as new. Can happen to anyone.
Captured Strange Tower In Moon And Triangle UFO Taking Off, March 26, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Captured Strange Tower In Moon And Triangle UFO Taking Off, March 26, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 26, 2018
Location of sighting: Earths moon
I was recording the moon when I got home on the 26th and was using a Sony HD Handycam 55X zoom, when I noticed two odd objects poking out of the darkness along the moons edge. They seem to be structures, towards of some sort strategically placed in a location where they can continually observer earth 24/7.
I was having a bit of trouble capturing video of them, because the moon was straight up, and my tripod does not have that area of sight, so I had to hold the camera, which hurts the arms, but managed to capture what I saw.
Also below one of the towers there was a crater and something pinkish white triangular shaped coming out of it and was just slightly smaller than the crater. Almost didn't try that night, was tired after work.
Glowing UFO Caught On Live Internet Cam Flying Around Colima Volcano
Glowing UFO Caught On Live Internet Cam Flying Around Colima Volcano
Many people have been observing the Colima live cam in hopes to record UFOs themselves. YouTube user Tenshi Mex recorded the latest UFO sighting that many consider one of the best around Colima.
The UFO seems coming from below the ground through a passage in the lower centre of the volcano that is not visible to the public. It appears to hover a little bit as it moves from the side of the volcano. It then makes a sudden 180-degree turn moving over and passing the volcano’s mouth.
Many believe that it is one of the best evidence of the existence of UFOs and that the governments of the world should acknowledge it.
Colima has been considered to be a UFO hotspot with an alien base below its surface. Many UFO enthusiasts believe that the latest UFO sighting video around the volcano is just one of much indisputable evidence.
The Ministry of Defence official was visiting friends in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, when he spotted the object in the sky.
He claims to have found no explanation despite years spent professionally tracking the night sky, Express.co.uk reports.
The witness said: “I rather doubt that I am easily deceived by aerial phenomena.
“My distinct impression is that I perceived an event for which no ready explanation is possible in wholly conventional terms.
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UNCOVERED: His report was given to the Ministry of Defence
“Astronomical phenomena are, I think, ruled out by the extensive cloud cover as well as by the very regular, triangular formation of the three lights seen.
“And aircraft lights seem a very unlikely explanation.”
His report – given to the Ministry of Defence – says the lights moved south-west while he was stood in a friend’s garden.
The UFO supposedly hovered under cloud cover for two to three minutes.
“I rather doubt that I am easily deceived by aerial phenomena”
RAF navigator
The man served in the MoD from 1949 until 1977 and was in the RAF from 1941 to 1946.
The results, which have been making headlines, are a reminder that the truth may well be out there — but it isn’t aliens. A series of discoveries this past year make it clear that, sadly, it never is.
SAD BUT TRUE
Scientists have struggled to explain why this mummy, known as Ata, is the size of a fetus and yet has bones as developed as those of a six- to eight-year-old child, Science reported in 2013. The new analysis of Ata’s DNA, published last week in the journal Genome Research, reports mutations in seven genes key for human growth.
These mutations could explain why Ata’s bones developed so quickly, Gary Nolan, an immunologist at Stanford University and co-author of the study, told National Geographic. He suspects that the story is much sadder and more human than an extraterrestrial visitation: someone gave birth to a stillborn fetus several decades ago and buried her in the desert. “The alien hype was silly pseudoscience promoted for media attention,” paleoanthropologist and anatomist William Jungers told National Geographic. “This paper puts that nonsense and poor little Ata to bed.”
A BIZARRE DEEP SPACE SIGNAL
In the summer of 2017, astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory picked up a strange radio signal that seemed to be coming from a small red dwarf star called Ross 128. But the source of the signal was a mystery: a solar flare on Ross 128 might have produced it, but the frequency of the radio waves didn’t quite fit that theory. Could it have been a deep space call for ET? No such luck. The astronomers discovered a week later that the signal originated much closer to home — most likely from satellites in high geostationary orbit in the same part of the sky as Ross 128.
The Arecibo Observatory. Photo: H. Schweiker / WIYN and NOAO / AURA / NSF
JUST DUST
The wild flickerings of star KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby’s star, suggest that something occasionally passes in front of it and blocks out as much as 20 percent of its light. The flickerings have no clear pattern, and whatever is blocking the star’s light probably isn’t a celestial body like a planet. Some have suggested alien megastructures or some sort of extraterrestrial solar panel might be passing in front of the star instead.
But in January 2018, a team of astronomers reported that something much more ordinary is probably to blame for the star’s unusual behavior: a bunch of dust could be surrounding the star and filtering its light. “Weird stars that have dust coming from somewhere isn’t as much of a headline grabber,” Jason Wright, an astronomer at Penn State University and one of the study’s authors, told The Verge’s Loren Grush at the time. But there’s still some mystery left: we don’t know where exactly the dust is coming from.
An artist’s rendering of KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby’s star. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt (IPAC)
THE GREAT PYRAMID’S GIANT VOID
In November 2017, scientists reported the discovery of a vast empty cavity inside the Great Pyramid at Giza. Using a kind of souped-up X-ray, an international team of researchers tracked subatomic particles called muons that plummet to Earth at nearly the speed of light. Since muons can pass through the air more easily than they can travel through dense stone, the researchers were able to discover previously unknown cracks and cavities — like the 100-foot-long cavern they called the “Big Void.”
The researchers still don’t know the precise shape of the cavity or why it’s there, but study co-author Mehdi Tayoubi said in a press briefing that they suspect that this cavity was built on purpose (by humans). Because, friends: it’s never aliens.
The UFOs and helicopter were seen when 12 people were rescued from a cargo ship, named the Luno, after it hit a seawall in Anglet, breaking into two pieces.
The ship was carrying fertilizer when its engine failed in the choppy Atlantic Ocean.
The UFOs flew in formation close to the chopper as if keeping watch on the rescue operation.
Jason Gleave, 46, who has studiedthe film of the UFOs, believes the objects are not drones or seagulls.
The former Royal Air Force member said: “Upon analyzing the footage, the twin objects pass to the rear of the helicopter at high velocity and dangerously close.”
“Other theories as to what they could be are possible drones or even birds, but unlikely drones because they would not normally operate in such a close dangerous proximity to the rescue helicopter, due to the volatile unpredictable weather conditions.”
“Upon closer analysis of the video frames, the two objects stay together in flight, in a tight compact formation not deviating from each other.”
Nick Pope, who ran the UK Ministry of Defense’s “UFO desk” for three years, backed Gleave’s research.
He said: “Jason has been involved in researching and investigating UFOs and other mysteries (like many experts in this field, he uses the phrase ‘high strangeness events’ to describe a lot of this) for many years, but his particular area of expertise is imagery analysis.
“Jason has skill and experience in carefully examining photos and videos, sorting out the fact from the fiction.”
A retired Ministry of Defence (MoD) official and WW2 RAF navigator has spoken about the time he was left puzzled by an array lights coming from what he claims was a UFO hovering over Borehamwood.
The witness, whose name cannot be disclosed, was visiting friends in Cowley Hill at around 9pm on Friday May 24, 1985, when a triangular set of lights appeared overhead.
His report to the MoD, now declassified and stored in the National Archives, recounts what he saw in great detail – and he could offer no explanation despite decades spent professionally tracking the night sky.
How would you react to seeing a UFO?(Image: dennisvdw / Getty Images)
The observer, who had also been a member of the British Astronomical Association and regularly scanned the stars by telescope, said: “I rather doubt that I am easily deceived by aerial phenomena.
“My distinct impression is that I perceived an event for which no ready explanation is possible in wholly conventional terms.
“Astronomical phenomena are, I think, ruled out by the extensive cloud cover as well as by the very regular, triangular formation of the three lights seen.
“And aircraft lights seem a very unlikely explanation.”
UFO sightings in Herts
The mid-80s seemed a busy time for UFO sightings over the county. The following three sightings were reported in the eastern side of Hertfordshire:
1) A Hertford resident reported watching a bright, white light hovering over the town for two hours.
The witness reported a clear sky disturbed by a UFO, which loitered over the town centre, occasionally moving north.
2) On May 4, 1986, a telecom worker in Hoddesdon reported a white and orange ball with a tail flying over Dobbs Weir.
3) A husband and wife reported seeing a small and silvery object with a red top and bright yellow bottom mostly hovering still but also darting back and forth at high speed in Hitchin.
The objected was watched for at least 45 minutes and could still be seen at the time of their report in May 1985.
From his friend’s garden, he reported seeing a “triangular array of lights” in the direction of Elstree shining in white and yellow with an elevation of 30 to 40 degrees, heading south-west.
He said he heard no sound and saw no movement from the UFO, which lingered still below cloud cover for around two or three minutes.
His report described an equilateral triangle with three lights but could not confirm if power lines were near the UFO, adding the distance “must remain a matter of speculation”.
A statement on the MoD’s report notes the observer was “very keen” to make the report but “only did so after much consideration”.
According to the department’s report, he was grateful for the chance to “unburden” himself.
The witness served in the MoD from 1949 until 1977 and contributed to the war effort at the RAF from 1941 to 1946.
Hertfordshire police have received ten calls alleging UFO sightings in the county over 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Is there anyone else out there? It's a question plenty of people have asked, but no one has been able to answer—yet. But scientists think that may change, and sooner rather than later.
One of those scientists is Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute research center in California. Tarter has spent her career working on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and during a speech she presented in Florida last week, she hinted at a timeline for the next big discovery.
"I think that in this century we are going to be finding life beyond Earth," Tarter said during the talk, according to Florida Today. "We’re really working on an ancient human question. And that’s very, very rewarding. We might, within the 21st century, have the answer to whether there is life beyond Earth. And we’ve been asking that question for a very, very long time."
Tarter was speaking at a conference about cross-cultural management, and she wanted to give the attendees a greater context for solving the big problems that face us. She suggested that searching for alien life could be a sort of practice project—one that is less divisive but requires the same big-picture thinking as challenges like food shortages and climate change.
"[The search for extraterrestrial intelligence] as an endeavor may, in fact, need to be multi-, multi-generational before we figure out the right thing to look for," she told Newsweek. "This cosmic perspective is really something that we all need to adopt."
For Tarter, the 2100 date reflects a prediction made in a 2004 scientific paper that science of this century would be dominated by biology, just as the one prior was dominated by physics. "I think we see that already playing out in spades," she said—and she says taking that beyond Earth itself is only natural.
An artist's portrayal of the Kepler Space Telescope, a major development in the hunt for extraterrestrial life, spotting exoplanets.
NASA/JPL
But there's a big if: Tarter says the biggest challenge is securing the funding needed to see a field through multiple scientific generations. That's been particularly hard for scientists looking for technological signals, rather than focusing on simpler, single-celled life. She thinks success will also depend on adopting new technologies that could revolutionize how scientists search, like using neural networks to process data in new ways.
"Instead of us telling the computers what artifacts and signal types to look for, the machines will be smart enough and fast enough to tell us what's in the data that isn't noise," Tarter said. "It's a big ocean and we're just sticking our toe into it, but it's clearly the way to go."
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An Edmonds Kind of UFO? Local attorney heads up group investigating sightings
An Edmonds Kind of UFO? Local attorney heads up group investigating sightings
Michael Hall of Edmonds shows off the photos he took in January 2012 of a UFO over his home in Edmonds.
Michael Hall grew up in the community, opened his law practice here in 1988 and served a stint on the Edmonds City Council. His mom, Laura Hall, served as Edmonds mayor between 1992 and 1995. Semi-retired now, Hall still practices law, still in Edmonds. But today other interests are taking center stage. And these extend beyond the borders of Edmonds, and beyond even the known universe.
Hall heads up the UFOiTeam (or on Facebook here), a group he describes as “paranormal field investigators who follow up on UFO sighting reports.”
“I’ve always been interested in the paranormal,” he explains. “And the recent uptick in reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the fact that the U.S. government is finally officially ‘disclosing’ their existence is giving these sightings a new legitimacy.” (UAP, by the way, is fast replacing UFO as the preferred term to describe these types of sightings.)
Hall is referring to a December 2017 front-page expose in the New York Timesdocumenting the long-running efforts of the Defense Department’s multi-million dollar program to study, investigate and document UFO sightings and reports.
According to Hall, this knowledge has been there for decades, but has been kept under wraps and only recently is coming to the fore.
“Most folks have heard about the 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico, that reportedly found parts of downed alien craft and even bodies of alien life forms” Hall explained. “But what many don’t know is that earlier that same year there were two sightings right here in Washington state, one on Maury Island involving six donut-shaped craft, and the other over Mount Rainier where nine crescent-shaped craft were seen flying in formation.”
It got personal for Hall on a clear chilly January evening in 2012.
“It was about 9:30 p.m. and I was coming home from the monthly parent-teacher meeting at Maplewood School,” he recalls. “As I was walking into my house I couldn’t help noticing the bright, clear moon. I took out my iPhone and snapped a few photos of it. The next day I looked closely at the photos on the big computer screen, and saw a strange red dot in the corner by the moon.”
Using several photo-enhancing apps, Hall zeroed in on the dot and what emerged was nothing short of amazing.
One of the enhanced images taken on January 10, 2012 by Michael Hall showing a cone-shaped UFO in the skies over Edmonds.
“I saw a cone-like shape just below the moon that just didn’t seem to belong there,” he said. “Now I don’t like loose ends. As a naturally curious individual, I found myself driven to get to the bottom of this.”
And the deeper he got, the stranger things became.
All iPhones keep a photo stream folder, where photos are stored in sequence based on the time they were taken. Examining the photo stream folder in his phone, Hall was amazed to discover that his moon photos were out of sequence. Specifically, according the file metadata, they were taken not at 9:30 p.m. when he actually took them, but 17 hours earlier, shortly after 3 a.m. that morning, when the moon was in an entirely different position in the sky.
Following the trail, he sent the photos to Bruce Maccabee of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), for further analysis. MUFON has access to sophisticated analytic tools that can determine a wide array of information from an image, including the exact coordinates, altitude and direction.
The results only deepened the mystery.
According to Hall, Maccabee found that the photo appears to have been taken from inside a vehicle that was hovering approximately 40 feet above his backyard, showing the image of a second vehicle as seen through a window of the first.
So how did these images get on Hall’s iPhone?
“I can’t explain that,” he confesses. “As far as I know I was asleep at the time. But the images are unequivocally there, and metadata doesn’t lie. Right now the only explanations that fit involve some sort of intercession by others employing knowledge and techniques beyond our current understanding. And it’s a good bet that these others are not of this world.”
With increasing reports of similar incidents coming in from around the globe, and the disclosure by the U.S. government of the existence of these phenomena, “the whole question of whether these exist is fast becoming moot,” says Hall.
“Think of the implications,” he continued. “We could gain access to superior technologies that could solve our terrestrial problems of energy supply, clean air and water, aging, cures for diseases and more. Things that could benefit our everyday lives, cure famine or even cure Aunt Betty of cancer.”
Hall invites anyone interested in learning more or becoming part of this adventure to drop in at any weekly UFOiTeam meeting (meetings are held Wednesday evenings 6-8 p.m. at the Lynnwood Denny’s, 4109 196th St. S.W.), visit the UFOiTeam website or Facebook page or contact him directly by phone at 425-245-4661 or email at michaelhall3200@gmail.com.
UFO sightings should be reported to the National UFO Reporting Center, 206-722-3000. Visitors to their website can also view data on recent sightings and reports.
Asteroid-bound spacecraft finds signs of life—on Earth
A camera onboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Pacific Ocean, Baja California in Mexico, and parts of the southwestern United States. The dark lines are missing data caused by short exposure times.
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Asteroid-bound spacecraft finds signs of life—on Earth
Nearly 30 years ago, the Galileo spacecraft flew past Earth on its journey to Jupiter, prompting astronomer Carl Sagan to develop a novel experiment: to look for signs of life on Earth from space. The spacecraft found high levels of methane and oxygen, suggestions that photosynthesis was occurring on Earth’s surface. Now, astronomers have repeated the experiment, this time with an asteroid-bound spacecraft that swung around Earth in late 2017. It also found Earth to be teeming with life, but with an unsettling corollary: Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and methane were far higher than they were during the Galileo flyby.
“It’s a challenging intellectual enterprise,” says Dante Lauretta, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson and principal investigator of NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission. “I really tried to channel Carl Sagan.”
The main goal of OSIRIS-REx is to return samples from Bennu, an asteroid as big as the Empire State Building. But during the Earth flyby—which brought the spacecraft 22 times closer to our planet than the moon—scientists pointed its instruments toward home.
The team spotted hurricanes Maria and Jose, and its spectrographs—used to detect gases based on the absorption of specific wavelengths of light passing through the atmosphere—recorded levels of methane, oxygen, and ozone far higher than values expected from a lifeless world. That implies that biological processes were creating these compounds, the team reported last week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. The researchers also found that visible light was being absorbed by Earth’s landmasses, a clear sign of photosynthesis.
And in an update to Galileo’s findings, OSIRIS-REx recorded methane and carbon dioxide values that were 12% and 14% higher, respectively, than they were in 1990. That’s not surprising, Lauretta says. Twenty-seven years ago, the world contained 2 billion fewer people and far fewer sources of pollution.
These OSIRIS-REx observations are an important test of what a habitable, life-filled planet looks like from afar, says Sarah Stewart Johnson, a planetary scientist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the project. “These images and spectra underscore the dazzling possibilities for exoplanets.” But as scientists begin to comb through observations from distant worlds for signs of life, they’ll want to remember some sage advice from the Galileo team: Any measurements that suggest the existence of life must always be carefully scrutinized for other possible explanations. As they wrote, “Life is the hypothesis of last resort.”
APEen ruimteveer met aan boord de Tiangong-1 werd in 2011 gelanceerd. Sinds 2013 is het ruimtestation oncontroleerbaar.
WETENSCHAPDe verwachte terugval op Aarde van het eerste Chinese ruimtestation, de Tiangong-1, zal tussen 31 maart en 4 april plaatsvinden. Dat heeft het officiële Chinese persbureau Xhinhua op gezag van het Chinese Engineeringbureau voor Bemande Ruimtevaart gemeld.
Op 29 september 2011 lanceerde Peking zijn eerste ruimtestation, de Tiangong-1 (‘Hemels Paleis’). Ondertussen heeft China de controle over het meer dan acht ton wegende ruimteschip, dat sinds 2013 niet meer operationeel was, verloren.Het ding komt dus sowieso naar beneden. Dat zal tussen 31 maart en 4 april gebeuren. Naar verwachting zal het ruimteschip volledig opbranden in de atmosfeer.Op 25 maart draaide de Tiangong-1 een baan met een gemiddelde hoogte van 216,2 km. Het embryonale ruimtestation was toen nog intact.
Het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA voorziet de terugval tussen 30 maart en 2 april, al is dit volgens zijn Bureau voor Ruimteschroot “zeer variabel”. De terugkeer zal plaatsvinden tussen 43 graden noorder- en 43 graden zuiderbreedte. ESA waarschuwt dat het nooit het exacte tijdstip en exacte plaats zal kunnen inschatten.
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MEDISCHWetenschappers hebben een ophefmakende ontdekking gedaan in het menselijk lichaam: een soort snelweg voor vloeistof die onder de huid en langs veel organen loopt. In een artikel in Scientific Reports noemen ze dat netwerk van vochthoudende compartimentjes samen voor het eerst een “nieuw orgaan”. Ze hopen dat de ontdekking helpt begrijpen hoe kanker zich door ons lichaam verspreidt.
De lagen van het ‘interstitium’, zoals het netwerk wordt genoemd, werden lang beschouwd als dicht bindweefsel, maar nu blijken het minuscule reeksen vochthoudende kanaaltjes. Die zitten onder de huid, maar ook langs darmen, longen, bloedvaten en spieren. Samen vormen ze een netwerk dat ondersteund wordt door een raamwerk van sterke, flexibele eiwitten. De onderzoekers vermoeden dat de compartimentjes kunnen dienstdoen als schokbrekers die lichaamsweefsel beschermen tegen schade, en dat ze samen ongeveer een vijfde van het lichaamsvocht bevatten.
Levend weefsel
Hoe is het in godsnaam mogelijk dat dit nu pas wordt ontdekt? Dokters David Carr-Locke en Petros Benias van het Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York stootten erop tijdens een kijkonderzoek van het galkanaal van een patiënt, waar ze aanwijzingen zochten van kanker. De camera gaf lichaamsweefsel vergroot weer, waardoor de artsen op patronen stootten die ze nog niet eerder hadden gezien. Zij namen vervolgens contact op met patholoog Neil Theise van de New York University.
thinkstockDe galblaas zit naast de lever.
Maar het ging dus om een levende patiënt, terwijl traditioneel onderzoek dood lichaamsweefsel bestudeert waaruit vloeistoffen verwijderd zijn. De kanaaltjes werden dus doorgaans aanzien als een simpele laag bindweefsel, maar Theise ontwikkelde een techniek om het verwijderde weefsel in leven te houden. Dat is meteen ook zijn grote verdienste, zegt professor Patrick Pauwels, hoofd van de dienst Pathologische Anatomie van het UZ Antwerpen. Aan de VRT-nieuwsredactie legt hij uit dat de vloeistofstromen wel degelijk al langer gekend waren, maar dat het nu de eerste keer is dat ze in levend weefsel in detail bestudeerd werden mét het circulerende vocht erin.
Kanker
Theises team analyseerde nog stukjes galkanaal van twaalf andere patiënten en stelden vast dat de laag uitmondt in het lymfevatenstelsel, het netwerk van organen, vaten en weefsel waarin lymfe en lymfocyten zitten en getransporteerd worden. Dat is betrokken bij het afweersysteem van ons lichaam.
De onderzoekers vonden aanwijzingen dat kankercellen van tumoren via het interstitium in het lymfesysteem kunnen belanden. Het netwerk zou zo een rol kunnen spelen bij de verspreiding van kanker doorheen het lichaam, waardoor wetenschappers mogelijk nieuwe testen voor kanker zouden kunnen ontwikkelen.
Pilots on two separate aircraft reported an unidentified flying object high over southern Arizona last month.
One of them, a commercial pilot flying a passenger jet for American Airlines, said the object was above 40,000 feet and “had a big reflection.”
The Feb. 24th incident began when the pilot of a Learjet reported an object to Albuquerque Center air traffic control while flying over the desert in southeastern Arizona.
“I don’t know what it was. It wasn’t an airplane but it was, the path was going in the opposite direction,” the pilot said.
Air traffic controllers asked the pilot of a nearby American Airlines passenger jet traveling from San Francisco to Dallas to let them know if anything passes over the aircraft.
“If anything passes over us?” the pilot asked, somewhat incredulously.
A few minutes later, he saw it ― whatever “it” was.
“Something just passed over us, like a, don’t know what it was, but it was at least two, three thousand feet above us,” he said. “Yeah it passed right over the top of us.”
The American Airlines pilot said he couldn’t make out what the object was but it “had a big reflection” and was going in the opposite direction.
Two months later, it’s still not clear what was up there.
“We don’t have any comment beyond what you hear,” FAA spokesperson Lynn Lunsford told KOB, the NBC station in Albuquerque. “Other than the brief conversation between two aircraft, the controller was unable to verify that any other aircraft was in the area.”
The reported altitude would put the UFO well above the range of consumer drones. Yet the vague nature of the sightings doesn’t completely rule out balloons or experimental aircraft.
The sightings occurred near the Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, and about 100 miles from Luke Air Force Base. Several other bases are within 500 miles. However, Lunsford implied that air traffic controllers would likely know if there was military aircraft in the air.
“We have a close working relationship with a number of other agencies and safely handle military aircraft and civilian aircraft of all types in that area every day, including high-altitude weather balloons,” Lunsford was quoted as saying.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
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