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, 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...
Last week I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled “Mind-Games At Area 51? 30 Years Later.” It was a look at the theory that famous UFO whistle-blower Bob Lazar may have been used and manipulated out at Area 51, in the latter part of 1988. Mind-controlled, maybe. In other words, there’s a distinct possibility that Lazar was used as a patsy in an operation to spread UFO disinformation – and with Lazar being oblivious to what was really going on around with him. As I noted in the previous article:
“If you take a look at all of the controversy surrounding Lazar’s claims, you will see that people – for the most part – fall into two specific categories. There are those who think Lazar’s claims are real and there are those who think it’s all a pile of crap. Few people ever give much thought to a third possibility. On this very point of another angle, I’m quite open to the idea that Lazar told the truth as he saw it, but the truth wasn’t what Lazar believed (and still believes) it to have been. Indeed, there are certain indications that Lazar was set-up.”
There is another issue that makes me think that Lazar had his mind played with. It revolves around certain briefing papers that Lazar said he read at Area 51’s S-4 facility and which were focused on startling, alleged secrets concerning an alien presence on Earth. One of those briefing papers, said Lazar, told a strange and almost sinister story of a violent confrontation between security personnel at Area 51 and a group of aliens that were in residence and working at S-4, alongside a scientific team. It was a confrontation that reportedly resulted in more than a few deaths.
According to Lazar, the deadly confrontation occurred at some point in 1979, in the S-4 facility. Lazar said: “I don’t remember exactly how it was started, but it had something to do with the security personnel. The aliens were in a separate room. I think it had something to do with the bullets [the security guards] were carrying, and somehow they were trying to be told that they couldn’t enter the area with the bullets, possibly because it was hazardous – the bullets could explode, through some field or whatever.”
Lazar continued that despite the warning, one of the security guards did enter the room with the bullets – something which resulted in a violent and lethal response from the aliens. Lazar recalled that the papers he read described how the security personnel were all quickly killed by “head wounds.” The same fate befell a group of scientists on the program, too.
It’s important to note that there is a variation on this story. Not from Lazar, who stuck to the story which he read out at S-4. But, from a man named Paul Bennewitz, who in the late 1970s began digging into claims that an alien base existed below the New Mexico town of Dulce. From intelligence personnel at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, Bennewitz learned of a story of a fatal encounter between hostile aliens and a security team in the lower levels of the Dulce Base. The different location given to Bennewitz is just about the only difference between what Lazar was told and what Bennewitz was told. It’s very important to note that there is very little doubt that Bennewitz was fed disinformation and not the real deal. Moving on…
Lazar also claimed to have read various papers out at S-4 which told how we, the human race, were the product of ancient extraterrestrials who had performed various “corrections” to early humans. On top of that, there were the papers that Lazar read at S-4 which said the aliens refer to us as what we would call “Containers.” But, containers of what? Well, that’s where things get really controversial: Lazar suggested it might have been the human soul that was of interest to the aliens. Lazar told KLAS-TV’s George Knapp that “religion was created so we have some rules and regulations for the sole purpose of not damaging the containers.”
George Knapp was not the only person who Bob Lazar spoke to on this issue of aliens, containers and souls. Michael Lindemann is the author of a 1995 book, UFOs and the Alien Presence. He also questioned Lazar on this controversy-dominated aspect of the story of Lazar and those papers he read at Area 51’s S-4. Lazar added a bit more to the story, when speaking with Lindemann. Lazar said the containers were “extremely, extremely unique” and that they were “very difficult to find.”
This is not the time to debate on UFOs, aliens and human souls. Rather, it’s time to address the matter of why, exactly, Lazar was shown this allegedly highly-classified material at all. Secrets within the fields of government, the military, and the intelligence community are successfully kept hidden because of what is termed “need to know.” In other words, if you’re working on a top secret program, you’re only told what you need to know to get your part of the job done. That’s how and why the Manhattan Project of the Second World War was so shrouded in secrecy. And so successfully too: people were briefed on matters relevant to their part of the job. And that’s it.
So, with that in mind, why on Earth would someone spill the whole can of UFO beans to Lazar? Given that he was said to have worked on matters relative to the power sources of the UFOs held at S-4, why share with Lazar all of the U.S. Government’s supposed UFO top secrets, such as matters relative to religion, the human soul, and “gunfight”-type confrontations with deadly ETs? Such data would not be in any way relevant to Lazar’s work undertaken on the extraterrestrial power-plants. It goes absolutely against tried and tested practices of the government to throw away its “need to know” approach. Yet, with Lazar we’re expected to believe that this then-young guy, then-recently brought into the program, should have been so extensively briefed on such incredible matters of – we should assume – national security proportions.
Unless, that is, someone decided to deliberately expose Lazar to faked alien-themed documents, hoping that he would go public with the content of those same documents – which, by the way, is exactly what he did.
Something strange is going on in Earth's upper atmosphere and a new mission aims to learn more about them.
Launched to the International Space Station on April 9, 2018, the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) will observe the strange electrical phenomena that occur above thunderstorms.
Known as Transient Luminous Events (TLEs), these unusual features, called as jets, elves or sprites were first spotted by accident in 1989 and by using the ASIM, scientists hope to determine where in the cloud this phenomenon originate.
In the following amazing video you can see such a bizarre transient luminous event as seen from the International Space Station.
Orange UFO Taking Off From Mountains of Las Vegas, Nevada April 9, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Orange UFO Taking Off From Mountains of Las Vegas, Nevada April 9, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 9, 2018
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
This video shows a Tall Whites UFO taking off from an underground base at Nellis AFB. The US gov exchanged land for technology a decade back and US gov has no regulation over them. They are superior in intellect and in ego. They are fearless and do not care if they are noticed by humans or not.
Aliens Beam People And Supplies To Underground Base In Texas, April 6, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Aliens Beam People And Supplies To Underground Base In Texas, April 6, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 6, 2018
Location of sighting: Texas, USA
Here is a great example of alien beaming in or out people, supplies and data to their underground base. Aliens do not always have patience and if they had waited and done this during a brighter day, they would have gone unseen. However aliens had to do it immediately, which makes me believe it was transporting people to the underground base.
Scott C. Waring
Video states:
On April 6, 2018 an unknown beam of light coming from the sky near Rockwall, Texas and it is almost impossible but two days later on April 8 another beam of light coming from the sky in Phoenix.
Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART I
Crescent Lake U.S. National Park craft captured on March 30, 2018
Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files covers: Hypersonic Flight, Spiritual Warfare. Pilots Report UFO Sighting Near Tucson. Arizona, Royal Canadian Mint Releases UFO Coin, A UFO and the Greatest Miracle of the Bible, Mexican Government Assists Central Americans Headed for US, Mexican Cartels Killing 50,000+ US Citizens Each Year,
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, India, Mexico, Mexico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book, and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Bruce Cornet writes, Yes, David, your explanation makes sense. You asked about evidence for distance, and I give you the full image below. Also, the Russians experimented with plasma lights at the nose of their jet aircraft, but apparently the energy cost increased weight and maneuverability that reduced the advantage of eliminating the sonic boom.
David Mathes writes, Bruce, think of the plasma in front of the craft as a virtual aerospace that creates a detached shock wave to reduce aerodynamic and wave drag. One should be able to use the picture you have to show the distance from the craft. Drag reduction and overpressure suppression permit up to 10 times normal velocity which possibly explains going hypersonic (mach 5).
Normally, the craft would go from 380 mph (Mach 0.5) at higher than 20k ft to Mach 5. One would like to go faster and lower. By using an IR laser to create a channel and a focal point out front of the craft and then sending HV electricity down the channel, one is simply blasting away at the atmosphere in front.
So atmospheric supercavitation is being used by the craft to make a moving hole, reducing drag, and inducing only local turbulence effects.
The “plasma lights” are not headlights; they are a byproduct of the path clearing process that makes a hole or bubble in the atmosphere in which the craft can travel through.
By clearing the path ahead of molecules through ionization by laser-induced plasma heating, a lower density can be continuously created reducing the drag and permitting higher velocities.
However, the drawback is no turns and no maneuverability. That is, no aerodynamic traction by the craft. If one looks at hypersonic torpedoes, we see that traveling within the bubble permits velocities much higher than normal with the distinct disadvantage that steering is extremely challenging. The change in velocity from 30 mph to over 300 mph is a tactical game changer.
Military examples of aerospace technology include Trident C-2 and later
models as well as F-106 Delta Dart.
If UC Santa Barbara (Lubin) technology of a single laser source feeding distributed parallel amplifiers and array focus were applied using IR lasers, one could create a brilliant hole in front of a craft of lower density.
Bruce Cornet writes, Paul is correct. Why do these craft use plasma lights? If our ancestors saw what we are seeing today, they would have called the lights fire, even though they were produced by atmospheric ionization. Plasmas need gas to ionize. Nitrogen and Oxygen combine in our atmosphere to produce an orange-brown glowing gas.
In the Book of Enoch, he described what could be a chemical rocket launch, because he was taken up in a tower (gantry) to enter the crew cabin. The launch incinerated locals who got too close, even though warned to stay distant.
Then again, St. Anthony, a desert Egyptian ascetic living in a cave (2nd century CE), told of having his path blocked by a silver disc that landed in front of him. So perhaps there were more than one group visiting Earth, and the technologies they possessed were different. Many of the performances I was given near the UFO hot spot in Orange County, NY, would have appeared like FIRE IN THE SKY.
The rockets of old were contrived, designed and built by maturing civilizations evolving to higher levels of get-off-the-ground technologies. I agree with you about there being ancient civilizations capable of getting into space, going back 30K to 130K years ago. There were also wars both on Earth, in space, and on Mars (cf. Brandenburg) that involved atomic weapons. In our current cycle, WMD and chemical rockets came from war, not peace.
Check out my discovery of the original Face on Earth (FOE) with remnants of the Cydonia monuments on Mars in New York State. If my evidence and calculations are correct, the Cydonia Complex on Mars is a duplicate built as a Template intended for future survivors discovering our ancient history once we reach Mars again. This duplicate was built 118,500 years ago just before the Wisconsinian Ice Age began, based on plate tectonic drift (see explanation in FF#15 – 2017). That means there was an advanced space-faring civilization on Earth during the last Sangamonian (Eemian) Interglacial, capable of not only building giant pyramids on Earth, but also on Mars. I recently resurrected my original The Cydonia II Report, because it is time that the truth comes out. Bruce Cornet – The Cydonia II Report, Home Page
Spiritual Warfare
Bill Bean is in the trenches conducting spiritual warfare and currently travels all over America performing exorcism / spiritual deliverance for many who are in need. He also is a life-coach and helps people world-wide. “The Connection” will show you how to transform your life through a strong personal relationship with GOD (YAHWEH) and His son Jesus Christ.
In “The Connection,” Bill stresses the importance of seeking and solidifying a strong connection with God in every aspect of our life. He draws the literal connection between the past events of his life and his present 24/7 Spiritual Warrior life-style and that connection is God.
Read these pages, not just with an open mind, but an open heart, spirit, and soul. Connect with God and see God do great things in, to, around, and for you and your loved ones.
Author, lecturer, and spiritual warrior Bill Bean discussed what he has learned from years of fighting evil and after performing hundreds of exorcisms as part of his deliverance ministry. He shared stories and cases from the world of demon possession as well as chatted about other paranormal topics, including UFOs and the Mandela Effect. “People really do suffer in horrific ways at the hands of these demonic manifestations,” he said, noting how he felt called by God to help victims struggling against evil forces.
According to Bean, possessions by demonic entities around the world are on the increase. One of the most widely-held religious beliefs in the world is demon possession. Most religions claim that humans can be possessed by demonic spirits (the Bible, for example, recounts six instances of Jesus casting out demons. He suggested experiments at the particle physics laboratory at CERN may have opened portals to other realms and are likely to blame for the rise in possessions as well as other strange phenomena, such as bat-like creatures spotted in the Chicago area and UFO activity. “Something has been opened that has really loosed more and more of these demons on the Earth,” he speculated.
Bean recounted his frightening first case of demonic possession in the late-1980s involving a female family member. “It still is the most disturbing case that I have every experienced,” he recalled. Bean remembered the victim entering a deep trance state and seeing a tall black entity in a doorway. After she awoke, her eyes were totally black, a sound like a rattlesnake emanated from her body, and she spoke in a deep masculine voice that questioned Bean’s faith and mocked his knowledge of the Bible, he revealed.
A woman hovering above the bed during an exorcism from the movie “The Exorcist”
Bean explained how the woman, who only weighed 135 pounds but seemed endowed with superhuman strength, ripped a cross off his neck, grabbed his throat with an unbreakable grip, and could only be restrained after nine people held her down. He also described an incident involving the priest who was called to the scene. The priest probably weighed 300 pounds and was sitting in a heavy chair when an invisible force flipped him out of his seat and onto the floor, Bean reported. “I’ll never forget the look of sheer terror on that man’s face,” he said. http://www.billbean104.com/news/77532-the-connection-by-bill-bean-now-available
So Lucifer also known as cor the Devil was cast down from the planet Heaven to Earth, and some of the angels followed him by resisting God’s omniscient power and authority. Revelation 12:7-8 says, “And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.” Satan, with his army of fallen angels and demons, are determined to corrupt and destroy all that is good and godly. We are warned, “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8). But God gives us authority over the evil of this enemy as Jesus tells us in Luke 10:19-20.
Newsweek Magazine reports if there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you going to call? Certainly not the Vatican—the Holy See’s switchboard is jammed with people wanting exorcisms. But fear not: you can now order an exorcism online from independent service providers.
There has been a three-fold increase in the number of people resorting to exorcism because of demon problems, reported Italy’s Vatican News.
There are at least 10-reasons-why-certain ET aliens-are-actually-fallen angels/demons such as invisibility. Though aliens are said to be advanced, it seems they need us for their survival just as fallen angels need human beings to prey on. There are various accounts of aliens taking sperm and tissue samples from humans, probing them, or impregnating women. A primary reason for maintaining high classification of the phenomenon.
The church is trying to train up more of its priests to cast out the demons.
In Italy alone there are 500,000 requests for exorcisms every single year, claims one Vatican-sanctioned trainer of exorcist-priests called Friar Benigno Palilla, whose job it is to tool up the clergy in their fight against demonic possession.
His book “Rescued from Satan” 14 People Recount their Journey from Demonic Possession.
“A self-taught exorcist certainly meets errors,” the friar told Vatican News. “I will say more: it also requires a period of apprenticeship, as happens for many professionals.” It follows a call from one Irish priest and exorcist for more help from the Vatican in his fight against demons amid a sharp rise in demand for his ghoulish services. “It’s only in recent years that the demand [for exorcisms] has risen exponentially,” Father Pat Collins said, adding that anyone who doesn’t see the need for more exorcists is “out of touch with reality.”
Collins wrote an open letter to Irish bishops asking them to begin training more priests to deal with exorcisms, and he cited the International Association of Exorcists’ belief that demonic activity has increased substantially in recent years. But for those who don’t have a Vatican-sanctioned exorcist nearby, there’s a sort of black market for ghost busters. One of those offering services is “The Sacred Order of Saint Michael the Archangel-Order of Exorcists”—and you can even order an exorcism online via a simple contact form, which they encourage the “family or person needing help” to use, reported PJ Media.
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Certainly not the Vatican—the Holy See’s switchboard is jammed with people wanting exorcisms.
But fear not: you can now order an exorcism online from independent service providers.
There has been a three-fold increase in the number of people resorting to exorcism because of demon problems, reported Italy’s Vatican News. The church is trying to train up more of its priests.
In Italy alone there are 500,000 requests for exorcisms every single year, claims one Vatican-sanctioned trainer of exorcist-priests called Friar Benigno Palilla, who trains clergy in their fight against demonic possession.
“A self-taught exorcist certainly meets errors,” the friar told Vatican News. “I will say more: it also requires a period of apprenticeship, as happens for many professionals.” It follows a call from one Irish priest and exorcist for more help from the Vatican in his fight against demons amid a sharp rise in demand for his services.
“It’s only in recent years that the demand [for exorcisms] has risen exponentially,” Father Pat Collins said, adding that anyone who doesn’t see the need for more exorcists is “out of touch with reality.”
Collins wrote an open letter to Irish bishops asking them to begin training more priests to deal with exorcisms, and he cited the International Association of Exorcists’ belief that demonic activity has increased substantially in recent years.
But for those who don’t have a Vatican-sanctioned exorcist nearby, there’s a sort of black market for ghost busters. One of those offering services is
A pilot told air traffic control it was “doubtful” it was a weather balloon, according to The Drive, an aviation website owned by Time Inc.
Lear Jet
TUCSON, AZ – One pilot seeing an unidentified flying object is often not hard to dismiss but two pilots in separate plane becomes a little more difficult. That’s what happened on February 24 in the air not far from Tucson as the two planes flew over Arizona and New Mexico.
One was a pilot for American Airlines and the other was a pilot of a Lear Jet..
The Lear jet pilot was the first to report something around 3:30 that afternoon, according to a report in The Drive, a website owned by Time, Inc. that reports on aviation issues.
He contacted the air traffic control tower in Albuquerque, New Mexico, asking them if they had tracked any traffic flying above him.
The tower said no, prompting the pilot to reply, “something’ did,” according to audio of the conversation posted by The Drive.
Another pilot can be heard saying,”UFO” and the pilot says, “yeah.”
Soon after, air traffic control contacts the pilot of the American Airlines plane, which is some distance behind the Lear Jet, telling him that another plane (the Lear) had seen something.
Had the American pilot seen anything?
“Something just passed over us,” the plot replies a few minutes later. “I don’t know what it was…. It passed right over the top of us.”
Asked if it could be a weather balloon, the pilot replies: “Doubtful.”
Arizona is no stranger to UFO sightings.
In 1997, it was the site of perhaps the largest mass sighting of a UFO ever recorded when thousands from Phoenix to Sonora reported seeing six lights flying in formation.
The FAA says that they have no record of any other craft being in the area. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Royal Canadian Mint Releases UFO Coin
OTTAWA—The Royal Canadian Mint is releasing a limited-edition $20 coin to commemorate the unusual story of a Manitoba man’s close encounter with a flying saucer.
The one-ounce silver coin being released Tuesday immortalizes Stefan Michalak’s experience in Whiteshell Provincial Park, east of Winnipeg, more than 50 years ago.
Michalak said he suffered burns when he came across an unidentified flying object in what became known as the Falcon Lake incident in May 1967.
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Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART II
Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART II
A UFO and the Greatest Miracle of the Bible
After a series of startling events Pharaoh’s son dies and in his grief Pharaoh gives permission for Moses to lead the Exodus of hundreds of thousands of Hebrew slaves away from Egypt in 1446 BC.
The exodus population were sustained by miracles: A Pillar of fire provided light; a cloud provided shelter from the sun and water (Isa 4:4-6); manna was provided for food, their clothes and shoes did not wear out; (Deut 8:4. )
17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” 18 But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle. And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. 21
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. 22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.
Crossing the Red Sea
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ 4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.
5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” 6 So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, 7 and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. 8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly. 9
The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.
10 When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord. 11 They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” 13 And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
15 The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. 16 Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.17 And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. 18And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
19 Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, 20 coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night[b] without one coming near the other all night.
21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.23
The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, 25 clogging[c] their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”
26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” 27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw[d] the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. 28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained. 29 But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
After crossing the Red Sea, the Bible says they encountered the mountain of God or Mount Sinai which is in Saudi Arabia. The beach at Nuweiba is extremely large and could have accommodated a large number of people at the time of Moses and is the likely site for the crossing of Red Sea.
Interestingly, an underwater land bridge of comparatively shallow water exists at the crossing point.
King Solomon probably the greatest King of Israel had columns erected on both coasts 400 years after the miracle of the crossing of the Red Sea. King Solomon’s sea port was at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba at Eilat (I Kings 9:26) and he was very familiar with the Red Sea crossing site, as it was in his neighborhood. The Bible even mentions this column! Isaiah 19:19, “In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, (possible Pyramid) and a pillar to the Lord at its border.” You can visit the beaches today and see the columns in person.
I suggest the pillar to the Lord was what we call a UFO cylinder. Dozens of chariot wheels and other parts covered with gold were found in the sea at the crossing point. bible-archeology-red-sea-miracles – Bible.ca
Mexican Government ‘Assists Central Americans Headed for US
Cathy Burke reports, “National Border Patrol Council Union Chief Brandon Judd on Sunday condemned the Mexican government for turning a blind eye to a massive caravan of Central American refugees headed for the U.S. border”.
In remarks to Fox & Friends Sunday, Judd responded to a BuzzFeed News report on the caravan. According to BuzzFeed, some 1,200 Central Americans, organized by volunteers who call themselves Pueblos Sin Fronteras, have crossed immigration checkpoints, military bases and police in a march toward the United States unimpeded by Mexican authorities.
“First off, you have got a Mexican government entity that is assisting these individuals that are coming up to the United States,” Judd charged. “These individuals do not have passports or legal documents to be in Mexico, yet you got an agency that’s helping them get to our [U.S.] border.”
“Once they [the migrants] enter the country, even if we [border patrol agents] are standing at the border with our hands out saying, ‘Don’t enter, don’t enter,’ all they have to do is cross one foot into the border and we have to take them into custody. If they ask for asylum or say, ‘I fear to go back to my country,’ then we have to process them under ‘credible fear’ which allows them to be released into our country.”
Judd also decried the continuing “catch-and-release” program for illegal immigrants.
“When they cross the border legally the reason that they openly do it is because they know that the catch and release program continues today,” he said, asserting “they’ll never see those deportation proceedings.” He said Immigration Customs Enforcement agents “process them and they’ll release them with a notice to appear in which they’re supposed to present themselves before an immigration judge about two years from now. But they never show up for their deportation proceedings,” he said.
A new report claims the President has cancelled the catch and release program immediately.
Judd said there was a drop in illegal entries after President Donald Trump’s election — but no longer.
Mexican Cartels Killing 50,000+ US Citizens Each Year
Millions in Illegal drugs captured crossing border
2017 DEA Drug Threat Report: has been made public and Mexico is the greatest heroin source with most coming across our border with Mexico from 6 major cartels. The 182 page comprehensive report covers twenty sections. Heroin-involved overdose deaths more than quadrupled between 2010 and 2015, with the most recent data indicating that heroin alone was involved in more than a thousand deaths of mostly young people a month.
Note: I have yet to see our National TV fake news mention Mexican Cartels controlling the drug traffic.
Security analysts and cartel sources agree that a key factor in the transformation of underworld rivalries into a full-throttle war has been the cartels’ recruitment of elite soldiers. The scale of the problem remains unclear – not least because the Mexican government has been unwilling to release data, said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor at George Mason University and author of “Zetas Inc.” A book about Mexico’s most feared criminal organization dominating important smuggling routes from Central America into the United States
It is interesting the US news media is opposed to building a wall that brings in Mexican carnage that kills over 50,000 American citizens a year and 80 billion in profits. Mexico is the provider of 70 % of the heroin to the United States.
Mexican-based transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) dominate the supply and wholesale distribution of most illicit drugs in the United States. Approximately 70% of all illicit drugs consumed in the United States are trafficked through Mexico, TCOs, and have expanded their control over the drug-trafficking conducted by criminal street gangs in their respective territories. Zetas: Juan Gerardo Treviño-Chávez is leading the cartel. BLO: Fausto Isídro Meza-Flores, alias Chapo Isidro remains a subgroup with BLO, and BLO subgroups depend on alliances with CJNG, Zetas and Juárez to access drug corridors.
Mexican TCOs maintain the greatest drug trafficking influence in the United States, with continued signs of growth and expansion. By controlling lucrative smuggling corridors, primarily across the Southwest Border, Mexican TCOs export significant quantities of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and fentanyl into the U.S. annually. Once these illicit drugs are smuggled into the U.S., they are delivered to user markets through transportation routes and distribution cells that are managed d by Mexican TCOs.
Illegal immigrants are often forced to bring drugs into the US by the Cartels that control the border. Over the past several years, Mexican TCOs have expanded their sphere of influence into every region of the United State Almost all the opioid deaths are from illegal drugs manufactured in Mexico including crystal methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine. Mexican TCOs grown heroin, A veritable war on drugs has erupted in Mexico with the Calderon government attempting to rid the country of organized crime. The result has been incredible violence with 46,000 Mexicans being killed in this internal conflict last year,
Most Significant Mexican TCOs Currently Active in the United States
As of 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) assesses the following six Mexican TCOs, as controlling the drug trafficking in the on the U.S making an estimated 80 Billion dollars in profits each year to buy politicians, police and judges.: Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cartel Jalisco Nue a Generación, or CJNG), Juarez Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas Cartel, and Beltran-Ley a Organization. Each of these TCOs maintains drug distribution cells in cities across the U S that report directly to TCO leaders in Mexico. Drug Cartel Areas in Mexico Cartels Controlling Illegal Immigration
Heroin Overview-The most deadly threat is due to fentanyl
Heroin poses a serious public health and safety threat to the United States. Overdose deaths, already exceed a thousand+ young Americans per month. The increasing adulteration of heroin with analogues of the highly-potent synthetic opioid fentanyl and other synthetic opioids has exacerbated this situation. Poppy cultivation and heroin production levels in Mexico, the primary source of heroin for the U.S. market, continue to increase. The heroin supply in white powder markets in the eastern U.S, is highly pure, inexpensive, and increasingly adulterated with fentanyl.. While the size of the heroin user population is smaller than other major drugs, heroin is highly deadly to its users. Heroin is now commonly adulterated with fentanyl, making it even more deadly to its user population.
The Drug poisoning of Americans continues to increase
The United States has seen substantial increases in heroin availability in the last seven to 10 years, which has allowed the heroin threat to expand to unprecedented levels. Rapid increases in heroin production in Mexico since 2015 have ensured a reliable supply of low-cost heroin. The DEA field divisions with the highest percentage of respondents choosing heroin as the greatest drug threat are: Philadelphia FD (84.2%), New Jersey FD (84.2%), New York FD (76.9%), New England FD (65.0%), Detroit FD (64.2%), Chicago FD (54.6%), and Washington FD (47.2%). Seattle FD 46.1%) :Law enforcement agencies indicates heroin availability continues to increase throughout the United States.
Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US in 2016, with 52,404 deaths .Additionally, many killings and robberies are tied to the desperate need for money to buy the drugs. By the end of his presidency on January 20, 2017, Barack Obama had exercised his constitutional power to grant executive clemency—that is, “pardon, to 1,927 individuals convicted of federal crimes. Most individuals granted executive clemency by Obama had been convicted on drug charges. Many of the illegal immigrants are forced to bring in heroin by the Mexican Cartels, An estimated 84,000 deaths from drug overdose occurred in 2017.
In comparison the U.S. first invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. US military deaths over sixteen years of fighting in the War in Afghanistan as of October 2017 have now reached.1,834 about ten deaths per month as the result of hostile action. Roughly the number lost in Philadelphia drug overdoses each year. The Mexican drug war is not covered by the news media and kills thousands of young people each month. Perhaps we are fighting the wrong war with a news media controlled by six companies that fail to care?http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/11/2017-drug-threat-reportrcq-leads.htmlabout
March UFO Sighting Reports
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In March 2018 there were 640 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
United States 446,
Canada 66,
United Kingdom 42,
France 11,
Mexico 7, µBrazil 6.
National UFO Reporting Center had 200 reports in March.
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Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART III
Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART III
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arkansas Object
Don Torcuato— Mr. Miguel Shimizukawa , a relative of mine, took that photo on September 17, 2017,
After a few months, while revising his flash cards, realized of this craft above the airplane. The plane appears to have only one engine?
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Green Spaceship
Evergreen— Caught in a photo of the full moon, I could not see it with the naked eye on March 31, 2018.. But when I was looking at photos, there was this strange green spaceship looking thing, with a purple exhaust coming out the bottom. And it is in a few different photos. I was facing east.
And in the photos there was a rainbow around the moon with some clouds below the moon. The green spaceship starts to descend threw the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orbs
Orlando Airport — I waited for my mom’s flight on March 28, 2018, and took two pictures of aircraft for the children. When I reviewed them seconds later I saw 3 objects. No reflecting lights on the window inside the building and not visible when I took the photos through the camera. Not going to jump the gun on it as a ufo but would like someone to assess the photo to determine if the objects are actually in the sky. They appear to be in motion from my take on it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Light
Traverse City — My girlfriend took a photo, driving down the road January 28, 2018. She was unaware of the object at the time.
After reviewing her photos later that day, she saw this object with lights beaming down, like it was scanning the ground. I have another amazing happening. Unreal.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexican Orbs
Deming — Traveling to Las Cruces took a picture of the sky.
I observed the picture later and saw 4 objects in the sky. I can’t explain it. to me it looks like two air planes without wings, 1 tractor trailer (weird) and 1 huge helicopter.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Diamonds
Honeoye Falls— We were looking for deer or fox out our kitchen window on March 30, 2018, 2. There was an extremely bright large light hovering behind two large pine trees. You couldn’t help but notice it. 3. We had never seen any light like it hovering there, so we used binoculars. 4. The object was extremely large diamond with rounded points. The entire surface was covered with thousands of small very bright white lights. It reminded us of the New Year’s Eve Ball in Times Square in NYC. Just then the UFO began to move slowly forward, ascending to just above the trees and split into two diamond shapes covered with red and white lights. They then turned into 3 circles. then into four, and finally into a triangle with small white yellow, green, and red lights along the edge. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Lights
Columbus– The photographer captured lights in the sky in the rough shape of a triangle.
The lights were captured on April 3, 2018 with a video camera.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Object
Fort Worth Dallas Airport — I was grilling and taking a video to send to my family on March 21, 2018, and my family member told me about the UFO when I slowed the video I saw two UFOs fly by at very high speeds.
The video was longer I cut it to the beginning where the two UFOs flew by.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Crescent Lake U.S. National Park craft captured on March 30, 2018
Crescent Lake — I am a climate scientist working as a consultant. I monitor air quality conditions via a web site run by the U.S. National Park office. This web site contains data, and it also has photos taken every 15 minutes for verification of visibility and conditions. I use this web page frequently, and seldom see anything out of the ordinary.
I captured an image from one of these cams on March 30, 2018, that cannot be explained. This I believe is a true an accurate photograph. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sightings Around the World
Australia
Sydney – A iPhone video taken in slow motion of electrical storm at Sydney’s northern end on April 2, 2018. Upon review of footage I noticed lightning bolts connected several times with a dark geometric shape. When sheet lightening happens it illuminates the clouds and the same cube shape and a second oval shape become momentarily visible, but only on video, not at the scene. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Star
Moncton — This “star” seemed to really want to get my attention. The flashing lights were very noticeable against the night sky so I thought it would be interesting to try out my new camera. As I zoomed in, it was apparent that the star was changing shape as well as color. I didn’t observe any movement other than the rapid flashing of lights. I was able to capture this on video but unfortunately I didn’t have a tripod which resulted in camera shake. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Orb
Six Fours — The sighting happened on October 18th, 2017, about 10:30 pm, when I saw a luminous ball. It was orange glittering abnormally that seemed to attract my gaze. I stood on the horizon just above the sea. This ball flew towards me at a slow speed. My girlfriend took my cell phone to film the scene. There was clearly a silent black triangle with three white lights at each point of the triangle and one at the center flashing red color Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Circle of Lights
Jaipur, Rajasthan — We were at an annual religious processions and there were many fancy lights that I wanted to record on March 31, 2018. It was while making a boomerang video only that I realized that I had captured something that I did not remember seeing in the sky while recording it. I’m attaching a clip in which you can see 4 disc like objects hovering in a pattern in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexican Orb
Cabo San Lucas International Airport — I was sitting at a window seat on March 28, 2018, on takeoff and filmed an orb with my iPhone 8. Later, I noticed the orb like object following in front of the left wing about two feet forward. It appeared to be stable in relation to the wing throughout the turning of the plane onto the runway, acceleration of the plane and take off. Also this object did not seem to move as I panned to the wingtip and forward a few times. There are obvious reflections from the window pane that remained constant. It then all of a sudden disappeared. I cannot understand what it is. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Red Orbs
London — I was walking home at about 8:15 pm, on January 26, 2018. I live in a small town about 25 miles east of London. As I walked along the pavement, something in the night sky caught my eye. I saw a string of small, bright red orbs rising up into the sky at an angle. They were as many as 20 small red orbs, all the same size, all constantly moving at the same speed, close together like a string of red Christmas tree lights. The orbs were bright red spherical shape, moving fast. They were maybe 10 miles away moving much faster than planes. As I watched, they rose up from 30 to 60 degrees. then moved in a circular motion swirling around above East London area. The 20 red orbs were much bigger than aeroplane lights moving fast. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The new picture snapped by the Hubble Telescope and analyzed by NASA scientists is jam-packed with galaxies — and among them, there’s an even more spectacular feature: a so-called Einstein Ring.
Image credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA / Judy Schmidt.
This charming part of the universe is called SDSS J0146-0929, a galaxy cluster which features a great variety of spiral and elliptical galaxies presented to us at different angles — some are face-on, some are angled, but all are locked together by the inescapable tug of gravity. But here, gravity does even more than just hold the galaxies together: it bends light in a way that creates a ring-like feature, a so-called Einstein Ring.
Einstein’s ring occurs when light coming from a bright source is bent by the gravitational effect of a very large structure or object — in this case, SDSS J0146-0929. The phenomenon is called gravitational lensing and requires that the three participants (the light source, the massive structure, and the observer — which is Earth) be aligned in a straight-line configuration of called a syzygy.
In this sense, an Einstein Ring is a special case of gravitational lensing, caused by the exact alignment of the source, lens, and observer. This results in a symmetry around the lens, causing a ring-like structure. NASA’s Karl Hille describes the image:
“In this image, the light from a background galaxy is diverted and distorted around the massive intervening cluster and forced to travel along many different light paths toward Earth, making it seem as though the galaxy is in several places at once.”
Einstein predicted this phenomenon back in 1912, even before his theory of general relativity. However, Einstein didn’t think we’d ever be able to observe one because our technology wasn’t capable of it. Well, our technology has progressed way beyond what Einstein thought possible and today, hundreds of gravitational lenses are currently known. In recent years, astronomers have used gravitational lensing to zoom in on extremely distant parts of the universe.
Just a few days ago, scientists published a study in which they described the farthest start ever observed, and in late 2017, a different team found a planet so big that it might not be a planet after all.
If you think this is awesome (and it is), I’ve got something even more amazing: a few years ago, Hubble snapped a spectacular image of a double Einstein’s ring — an extremely unlikely scenario which astronomers were lucky to witness.
2018 UFO Researcher of the Year Award and Acceptance - International UFO Congress
2018 UFO Researcher of the Year Award and Acceptance - International UFO Congress
This year’s UFO Researcher of the Year Award went to journalist and author Cheryl Costa! This video reviews her background and the reasons she received the award.
Megalithic Mystery: The Enigmatic Dragon Houses Of Greece
Megalithic Mystery: The Enigmatic Dragon Houses Of Greece
Located on the Greek Island of Euboea lies a true archaeological mystery: 25 massive structures called Drakóspita or Dragon houses. Erected using supermassive limestone blocks forming a pyramid-shaped roof, the mysterious dragon houses are a true ancient enigma. Experts are unsure who built them, how they were built, but most importantly, experts have no idea when they were built.
The dragon houses (in Greek Drakospita) are 20 large buildings spread across the south of the island of Euboea, the sixth largest in the Mediterranean, located off the eastern coast of mainland Greece.
The so-called Dragon houses are rectangular constructions composed of huge stones, built in a cyclopean style, placed one above the other without any type of mortar.
The spaces between them are filled with other smaller stones, and the roof is covered with equally large stone plates leaving a gap for the entrance of light.
The best preserved Dragon houses are those located on Mount Ochi , in the southeast of the island. Three other Cyclopean Dragon Houses can be found at Palli-Lakka and in Kapsala.
Despite the fact that they are called Dragon houses, the massive structures don’t really have anything to do with these mythological creatures.
They are dubbed Dragon houses because the local tradition attributed to their creators unknown superhuman powers, given the size of the stone blocks used in the building process. Ordinary people could not have built these massive structures, right?
However, experts are still unable to agree on their date, and the lack of materials surrounding the massive structures has made the job more difficult.
The Dragon houses were ‘found’ by British geologist John Hawkins, who ascended Mount Ochi (1,398 meters of altitude) on October 21, 1797.
There, he found a construction that he inspected and from which he drew sketches, concluding, based on their design that the massive structures should be older than classic Greek temples.
After word got out of the existence of massive structures in the Mediterranean, many others ventured out to Greece to see the ‘Dragon houses’ for themselves.
In the following years after Hawkins discovered them, numerous archaeologists visited the site, such as Heinrich Ulrichs, who published a monograph about the structures in 1842.
In more recent times the main researchers are those of the Americans Jean Carpenter and Dan Boyd.
The enigmatic Dragon Houses of Mount Ochi are located at an altitude of 1386 meters of and have an average dimension of 12.7 by 7.7 meters, with a door in the center of the south wall, 2 meters high by one wide and crowned by a huge 10-tonne lintel protruding above it, as well as small windows on the sides.
The walls have an average thickness of 1.4 meters, suitable to support the heavy stone roof, and the interior rises to an average height of around 2.4 meters.
The surface of the construction is 48 square meters and the entire floor is covered with stone panels.
Dragon-House Palli-Lakka building North near Styra/Euboia/Greece.
As noted by experts, the three Dragon Houses of Palli-Lakka are very similar in dimensions to that of Mount Ochi, but the walls are less thick, only 1.1 meters on average.
The stone blocks used are smaller and, in general, the style is more rustic, less elaborate and possibly even older.
The strange things is that, despite their supermassive size and intricate design elements, there is absolutely no reference to these buildings in the ancient sources, so all the available information comes from the legends and folklore of the area where they were built, as well as details of explorers who have visited the structures in more recent times.
In 1959, excavations were carried out on the structures of Mount Ochi which brought to light ceramic fragments which have been dated to the Hellenistic period.
Archaeologists also found various reinforcements, on one of which they fund a small text written in an unknown script, which is now kept at the archaeological museum of Karystos.
An Otherworldly Connection?
The Night Sky and the various constellations.
Interesting details were discovered in 2002 and 2004 when researchers from the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Athens studied the orientation of the Dragon Houses on Mount Ochi. Experts came to the conclusion that the Dragon Houses were oriented to the Sirius star system around 1100 BC., suggesting that the mysterious Cyclopean structures may have been used as some sort of astronomical observatories.
However, due to the lack of more exhaustive data, the Greek Dragon houses continue to be an enigma for archaeologists
As noted by some authors, the mysterious structures could well be the key to understanding the evolution of later Greek architecture.
Whatever their purpose was, it remains a mystery as to how the massive structures were built, how they have remained standing, and most importantly their exact age.
ARABIAN POINTER A human finger fossil found in a Saudi Arabian desert dates to between 95,000 and 86,000 years ago, researchers say. This find, shown here from different angles, strengthens the view that ancient humans expanded into Asia via Arabia.
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A single human finger bone from at least 86,000 years ago points to Arabia as a key destination for Stone Age excursions out of Africa that allowed people to rapidly spread across Asia.
Excavations at Al Wusta, a site in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud desert, produced this diminutive discovery. It’s the oldest known Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa and the narrow strip of the Middle East that joins Africa with Asia, based on dating of the bone itself, says a team led by archaeologists Huw Groucutt and Michael Petraglia. This new find strengthens the idea that early human dispersals out of Africa began well before the traditional estimated departure time of 60,000 years ago and extended deep into Arabia, the scientists report April 9 in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
“Although long considered to be far from the main stage of human evolution, Arabia was a stepping stone from Africa into Asia,” says Petraglia, of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.
Don’t be misled by the vast deserts that dominate the Arabian Peninsula today. Geologic evidence indicates that Al Wusta lay within a well-watered, human-friendly area between around 95,000 and 86,000 years ago, the estimated age range for the human finger fossil, Groucutt and Petraglia’s team says. Dating relied on measures of the decay of a radioactive form of uranium in the human fossil and a nearby hippo tooth. Those results were combined with a measure of exposure to natural doses of radiation in the tooth. Another technique estimated the time since the finger bone and adjacent finds were buried by sediment.
FAR-FLUNG FINGER Excavations at Saudi Arabia’s Al Wusta site produced a human finger fossil dating to at least 86,000 years ago. This discovery provides the first fossil evidence for ancient human excursions from Africa to Arabia.
M. PETRAGLIA
The 2016 Al Wusta find is probably the middle bone from an adult’s middle finger, suspects Groucutt, of the University of Oxford. It’s unclear whether the bone came from a man or a woman, or from a right or left hand.
It’s definitely human, though. To establish the fossil’s identify, the researchers compared a 3-D image of the ancient finger bone with corresponding bones of present-day people, apes and monkeys, as well as Neandertals and other ancient hominids.
How humans moved into Arabia is uncertain. Along with the finger, Al Wusta yielded 380 stone tools and 860 nonhuman animal fossils from the same time. Some of those animals, including hippos and gazelles, originated in Africa and no longer inhabit the Arabian Peninsula. Ancient groups of hunter-gatherers followed these grazing animals from North Africa into Arabia as climate fluctuations periodically turned deserts into grasslands with lakes and rivers, Petraglia proposes. When those landscapes dried out every 20,000 years or so, people could have returned to Africa or headed farther into Asia.
Al Wusta’s ancient human fossil — combined with comparably ancient stone tools found at other Arabian Peninsula sites (SN: 4/4/15, p. 16) — challenges the view that humans left Africa in one or a few major migrations, says paleoanthropologist María Martinόn-Torres. Instead, small groups of African H. sapienscontinually traveled into Arabia and beyond starting nearly 100,000 years ago or earlier, suggests Martinόn-Torres, who directs the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain. Periods of increased rainfall may have provided “windows of opportunity” for human movements into Arabia, she adds.
Al Wusta stone tools differ in some ways from those at slightly older sites in Israel. Paleoanthropologist Donald Henry of the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma interprets those differences to mean culturally distinct African populations took a southern route into Arabia. To reach Al Wusta, East African travelers could have crossed a narrow sea channel from the Horn of Africa to Arabia’s southwestern corner before heading up to Al Wusta, Henry suggests in a comment published with the new report.
Petraglia doubts that scenario. Ancient humans could easily have followed grazing animals up the Nile River Valley into the Middle East and then south into Arabia, he says, adjusting their tools to new settings along the way.
Residents of Rockwall near Texas were baffled when a mysterious beam of light was seen on the horizon which illuminated the stormy dark sky to the east on 6 April 2018.
Numerous Reasons Might Have Caused Mysterious Beam of Light
There were many reasons given as to why people saw the strange sky phenomenon bear Rockwall in Texas. The official version for the beam of light was that the sun was shining through a hole in the clouds in the sky. However, if this was the case then the beam of light should have spread to the horizon and it did not according to witnesses.
A photo of the mysterious light was shown on Facebook and the photograph had been taken through the windshield of a car. Some people suggested that the light was a shadow on the windshield on the vehicle. But then this could not be the cause as the beam of light is seen in the background with other vehicles in-between it and the windscreen of the car. It was even said that perhaps it was a tornado but the beam of light was not changing shape nor moving.
If the strange light was a natural phenomenon then perhaps it is what is known as an anticrepuscular ray. This is a ray that is sharp at the horizon and then spreads out and widens as it goes up. If man made it could be a business spotlight or laser beam that has shown up against the dark background of the storm or a searchlight or fog light.
Some people even said that it was related to the Dark Book of Shadows by S. M. Brennan, a tale of dark witchcraft and sorcery. They said that perhaps the gates had finally been opened up and the ancient Gods had been set free upon the world along with the Dark Flame of Satanas. Others have suggested that it might be aliens and a UFO is about to land.
The latest photos from NASA’s Juno orbiter are getting up close and personal with Jupiter. Known as Perijove 12 – because it’s this mission’s 12th encounter with the giant planet – the images only add to the recent mysteries that have emerged regarding the Great Red Spot.
Since Juno first entered a polar orbit of Jupiter on July 5, 2016, the mission continues to change everything scientists once thought about the planet. Jupiter’s magnetic field is significantly stronger than scientists had expected, and Juno’s observations have revealed new insight on the stability of the planet’s storms. Juno’s most recent drive by of Jupiter was on April 1, and this new crop of photos succeed in raising even more questions about Jupiter’s giant storm.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot from Juno's Perijove 12
Juno’s mission is to provide data regarding Jupiter’s magnetic field and internal composition. After every perijove session, the images taken on Juno’s camera are sent back to Earth, where astronomers and photo editors are hired to process.
Not only does NASA share the raw images, but the agency invites photo editors to download them and add their own enhancements. NASA then shares some of the images, which have been cropped and highlighted to showcase specific planetary features.
Jupiter from Juno's Perijove 12
The Great Red Spot has been in the spotlight lately and new information regarding its size has sparked debate. A study published in The Astronomical Journal last month suggests that the Great Red Spot might be getting taller as it shrinks, meaning it’s not losing as much mass as scientists once thought.
Juno’s close encounters with Jupiter come every 54 days, which means the next batch of photos from Perijove 13 can be expected around May 24. Juno’s mission is scheduled to conclude after Perijove 14 in July and the spacecraft is slated to be intentionally de-orbited into Jupiter’s atmosphere. However, given how many unanswered questions come with each Juno encounter, the mission could receive an extension.
The evidence that aliens exist has been slowly mounting for decades and 2017 marks the most convincing year yet for the belief that life must exist beyond our planet.
And believing in the extraterrestrial is no longer reserved for conspiracy theorists in tinfoil hats. Nearly half of humanity believes aliens are out there, according to a recent study, and in June, the European Space Agency signed off on a $668 million mission that will hunt for other life forms 932,000 miles into space. Meanwhile, scientists continue to be baffled by a bunch of mysterious signals that keep emanating from faraway galaxies.
Here are five stories that prove it’s only a matter of time before we meet our celestial neighbors.
Scientists have long presumed that if we’re going to find life on other planets, we’re going to find them in the “Goldilocks zone” — spots throughout the universe where conditions are just right for water to exist.
The intergalactic search for our neighbors grew more promising in 2017 with dozens more “super-Earth” discoveries.
And even though we don’t yet have the technology to reach these planets, 2017’s “super-Earths” have included:
Wolf 1061c: Discovered in January, located 14 light years away
LHS 1140b: Discovered in April, located 40 light years away
Ross 128b: Discovered in November, located 11 light years away
K2-18b: Discovered in December, located 111 light years away
In June, NASA’s Kepler telescope found 10 “Goldilocks-zone” planets and in October, the telescope found 20 more “hiding in plain sight.”
“Are we alone?” Kepler scientist Mario Perez asked at a news conference following NASA’s June discovery. “Maybe Kepler today has told us indirectly, although we need confirmation, that we are probably not alone.”
2. Reported UFO sightings are at their highest ever
Sam Manafort, who’s studying Human Factors and Applied Cognition at George Mason University, crunched numbers from the National UFO Reporting Center. In his report, he found that since the first recorded UFO flew over Portugal in 1905, there have been at least 104,947 sightings.
But the number of yearly sightings has spiked dramatically from about 5,000 in 1980 to about 45,000 in 2010. In the US alone, there are 2,500 sightings per 10 million people — something Manafort attributes to the fact that most of the US has access to the internet.
Most of the sightings have come from the West and Northwest, an area that lines up with America’s “UFO highway” — a latitude line across the US that a pair of sibling alien hunters believes is an entrance for extraterrestrial spacecraft.
The duo, whose book “37th Parallel” is being made into a movie, state that during years-long travels across the US, the most bizarre paranormal phenomenon took place along the 37th latitude line.
This line stretches from California through Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and across to Virginia.
3. Life may already be hanging out in our own solar system
Dubbed Trans-Neptunian objects, these celestial bodies might benefit from tidal heating. This means that these icy planets have moons with enough gravitational pull to create energy beneath the planet’s surface — which generates heat and allows a sub-surface ocean to exist. The findings were published in Icarus.
“These objects need to be considered as potential reservoirs of water and life,” Prabal Saxena of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said in a press release. “If our study is correct, we now may have more places in our solar system that possess some of the critical elements for extraterrestrial life.”
The space agency was looking to hire a planetary protection officer — someone in charge of making sure that spacecraft and astronauts don’t contaminate other worlds and don’t bring back anything that could contaminate our own.
“NASA maintains policies for planetary protection applicable to all space flight missions that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth organisms and organic constituents to the planets or other solar system bodies and any mission employing spacecraft, which are intended to return to Earth and its biosphere with samples from extraterrestrial targets of exploration,” the job description stated.
The job, which pays between $124,406 and $187,000, is only one of two full-time posts in the world. It became available after Catherine Conley, the former planetary protection officer, accepted a different position inside NASA.
NASA first created the position following the signing of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 — a UN-approved agreement that outlines international space law.
The application closed Aug. 14 and there’s been no update on who landed the extraterrestrial gig.
In November, a NASA scientist at Goddard Institute For Space Studies said he believes we’ll find alien life within the next 20 years.
In December, the Pentagon released footage of Navy pilots seemingly coming into contact with UFOs. The eerie clip from 2004 shows a glowing white orb rotating while the F/A-18F fighter jet pilots try to figure out if what they’re looking at is a drone or something more… universal.
The footage, which was taken off the coast of California, was released after the Pentagon acknowledged the existence of the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. This program, which costs $22 millionbetween 2008 and 2012, was set up to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects. Some officials have said that parts of the program have continued. “It was a real object, it exists and I saw it,” Cmdr. David Fravor, one of the pilots who saw the UFO,told the Washington Post.Fravor said the object resembled a white Tic Tac and was “something not from the earth.”
It used to be thought that the world was flat. That beyond the horizon lurked a bottomless void, measureless to humans. As our ships got better and our navigators more confident, vessels that disappeared over one horizon began returning triumphant from the other. The Earth was curved, a sphere with no edges. We didn’t fall off because a mysterious force called gravity kept everyone and everything stuck to the planet’s surface.
Then Albert Einstein came along and told us that space itself was curved. Now we realise that if we sail off into the sea of curved space we call the Universe, there are indeed bottomless voids that the unwary traveler can fall into – and they are measureless to humans. They lurk on the other side of their own dark horizons, and we call them Black Holes.
FATAL ATTRACTION
A black hole is an astronomical contradiction – a dark star, an invisible nothing, a prison of light. Its boundary is marked by the so-called Event Horizon, a sphere of darkness that shrouds the inside and defines the point of no return. There is no solid surface beyond, just a bottomless gravitational whirlpool so strong that it sucks everything – even light – relentlessly inward. Oblivion waits at the centre in the form of the Singularity, Gravity’s fatal attractor.
Hidden eternally from view, the Singularity marks the spot where an immense gravitational force has been concentrated. All the mass, light and energy that has ever fallen into the black hole is compressed by its own overwhelming gravity into a point that is infinitely small and infinitely dense. The more a black hole swallows, the heavier it gets, yet the singularity never changes. Space has been squelched out of existence and Time has been squeezed to a stop. Step over the event horizon and for all intents and purposes you’ve fallen off the edge of the universe.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GRAVITY
The concept of Gravity, this unseen force that dominates our lives and pulls us eternally towards the ground, has long challenged the greatest human minds. Even in Galileo’s day, the tower at Pisa had a good lean to it – perfect for dropping things off. Galileo wondered why no matter how heavy or light objects were, they all took the same amount of time to fall to Earth. He puzzled too about why the planets moved they way they did. His conviction that they orbited around the sun led to house arrest for heresy. He was still trying to put the gravity puzzle together when he died in Florence in 1642.
On Christmas Day that same year, the gravity baton was handed to Isaac Newton, born weak and premature in a Lincolnshire farmhouse. Twenty three years later, Newton returned to Woolsthorpe Manor to sit out the plague sweeping southern England. With 18 months quiet thought in the countryside he discovered calculus, unravelled the nature of light, and began formulating laws for the motion of the planets: discoveries that still underpin most of modern physics. One day when he was having a short break with a cup of tea, a falling apple interrupted his thoughts and led him to ponder gravity itself.
The reason the apple fell straight down was that it was trying to fall to the centre of the earth where gravitational attraction was focused. And the Earth wasn’t the only object that had gravity, so did the moon, the sun and the planets. In fact, Newton reasoned, every object in the universe – including ourselves – has gravity. The bigger and heavier, the greater it’s gravitational force. We are glued to the surface of the Earth – and not the other way round – only because it is has so much more mass. The Earth orbits around the sun for the same reason. Finally, Newton had found a reason for the heavens to move the way they do.
DARK STARS
In 1784, John Michell, Rector of Thornhill Church in Yorkshire and great forgotten 18th Century scientist, became intrigued with the idea of escape velocity – the minimum speed with which you need to travel upwards from a star or planet to escape its gravitational clutches. He knew that gravity depended upon mass and he knew the speed of light was fast but finite. How heavy, he wondered, would the sun have to become before its gravity would become so great that even light (which travels at 299,792 km/second) would be held back at its surface? The answer, Michell reasoned, was that if the sun was the same size but weighed 500 times more, the light from the Sun would not escape the Suns own gravity. The Sun would simply disappear from view. A few years later the great French mathematician Laplace came to the same conclusion independently. The concept of the Dark Star was born.
A UNIVERSE OF HOLES
Black holes remained an ignored theoretical curio until a young clerk in a Swiss patent office published his General Theory of Relativity in 1915. Albert Einstein realised that the universe was a fundamentally different place to the clockwork universe of Newton and commonsense. The three dimensions of space could not be separated from the fourth dimension of time. Together they form the ‘Spacetime’ continuum, a kind of invisible scaffolding that defines existence. Spacetime, though, is not an absolute, fixed thing. It can be warped, bent and curved.
Spacetime is ‘straight’ only when it doesn’t have anything in it. Wherever there is mass, there is gravity. Wherever there is gravity, space is curved. The curvature of space dictates how an object will move through it. The object will dictate how space bends around it. Gravity, according to Einstein, is the curvature of space.
Einstein’s thought experiment was to imagine space and time being squashed flat like a 2D rubber sheet. Put a massive object like the sun on the sheet and it will bend. The more dense an object is, the deeper the depression it makes in Spacetime and the stronger the gravity. Eventually a point is reached when the walls of the depression are stretched so steeply that nothing can climb out of it. It is, quite literally, a hole in the universe.
A STAR IS BORN
To understand the very large in the universe, you need to start with the very small. With the unlocking of the secrets of nuclear energy, scientists finally got a clue to how black holes might form in nature. Stars are born when enormous clouds of cosmic dust and hydrogen begin to clump and condense under their own gravitational weight. Gravity grows stronger by the hour as the increasing density of the protostar curves space more strongly. Faster and faster, the hydrogen gas falls in upon itself in the condensing core. The more it collides the hotter it grows. When the core reaches 10 million degrees, the hydrogen protons begin to fuse into helium. Some of the mass disappears, having being turned into energy and light. Like a giant cosmic light bulb, the star has switched itself on.
Every star we see in the heavens has a giant nuclear reaction raging at its core. It’s what makes a star like our sun shine so hot and bright. Gravity is still trying to pull the star’s gas tighter and tighter but is matched now by the energy pouring outwards from the nuclear reaction in the core. The star settles into a precarious balance that gravity will always win in the end.
THE BIG SQUEEZE
The ultimate fate of a star depends upon its mass. Our sun is middle-aged. It switched on 5 billion years ago and has enough fuel to burn for 5 billion more. But when, in that far distant future, the spent heart of the sun sheds its outer layers and shuts down, gravity will squeeze the core so tight it cannot be squeezed any more. It will become a ‘white dwarf’, a feeble ember the size of the earth but a hundred thousand times more dense.
The more massive the star is, the faster it burns its fuel and the shorter its life expectancy. A star 10 times as massive as the sun may survive only millions, not billions, of years. As it starts to collapse, the crush of in-falling matter slamming into the iron core sends the temperature rocketing to 50 billion degrees. The core has only seconds to respond – and it does so Supernova-style.
A supernova is a massive explosion. Huge quantities of material are blown into space, but only from the outer regions of the star. Most of the star has actually imploded, with the core being given a gravity bear hug so extreme that the protons and electrons have been squeezed into a ball of superdense subatomic particles called neutrons. The resulting ‘neutron star’ would weigh about one and a half times as much as the sun but would measure only about 20 kilometres across – about the size of Brisbane.
Astronomers can prove that neutron stars exist, because they give off a unique distress signal. Like a lighthouse warning of a dangerous shore, a neutron star sweeps space with a blinding beam of radiation, generated by a magnetic field more than a trillion times greater than the Earth’s. Such a neutron star is called a pulsar. To astronomers, the pulsing beam sweeping the darkness of space is an unmistakable warning that extreme gravity lurks nearby.
GRAVITY’S FINAL TRIUMPH
A neutron star resist the ongoing crush of gravity, only with its neutrons packed in like sardines in a tin. But if the remnants of the star after supernova weigh more than three times the mass of the sun, even neutrons cannot hold back the inexorable force of gravity. The neutrons are squashed into oblivion. The star’s core becomes so dense that gravity overwhelms space itself, distorting it so horribly that it, and time with it, is wrenched off from the outside universe. A darkness forms at the star’s heart and moves relentlessly outwards as the stars brilliance is sucked inwards. This is the hungry, growing maw of a black hole: gravity’s final triumph. There is no escape, no turning back, until the entire mass of the star has been swallowed and its brilliance completely extinguished.
A BLACKNESS BEYOND BLACK
Visible only by its invisibility, the margin of the black hole is marked by the event horizon, so-called because all events beyond are hidden from view. For a black hole like this the event horizon may be only a few kilometres in diameter but the void beyond impossibly deep to measure. The entire mass of the star has been reduced to a singularity – a point of infinite smallness and infinite density at the very centre of this black malevolence.
The singularity is where science ends and speculation begins. Space and time have ceased to exist, replaced by a seething chaotic mass we call quantum foam. This bizarre conjecture is where Einstein’s laws fail. This is where the laws of quantum mechanics fail. This is the realm of something called Quantum Gravity – one of the hottest areas of advanced mathematical research.
It is from a singularity that the Universe is believed to have begun. In many ways the collapse of a star to form a black hole singularity is the reverse of the Big Bang. Is this the way the Universe is going to end? Wilder speculation is that our entire universe might lurk inside someone else’s singularity. or even that universes can bud off from each other like this, like some sort of heavenly breeding organism.
It wasn’t until 1967 that John Archibald Wheeler slipped the term “Black Hole” into his paper at a scientific conference, and into the lexicon of the late 20th Century. They may have become a household name – but are they real?
BLACK HOLE OR WHITE ELEPHANT
Einstein himself couldn’t believe that such an invisible impossibility as a black hole could exist in the real universe beyond his theories. Today, his successors have no such problems. Astronomers not only think they have identified nearly 30 black hole candidates in our own Milky Way galaxy, they are now getting the proof that the holes behave in the relativistic way that Einstein’s theories predict.
A black hole is an elusive quarry with perfect camouflage: total blackness in the blackness of space. Searching for a black hole no bigger than Sydney’s CBD across hundreds or thousands of light years of space demands a sneaky approach. First you have to find a visible star that a black hole has trapped in orbit. Then you have to study how the star wobbles. John Wheeler described it as like looking for a pair of dancers on a dark dance floor. The heavy man dressed in black is invisible, but the bright white dress of a light women is an easy target as she is whirled around. Astronomers look for the bright stars that ‘orbit’ dark partners in the same way.
One of the best candidates is the star called V404 Cygni. Calculations shows V404’s dark partner is twelve times more massive than our Sun, yet totally invisible. But for every black hole orbiting another star, there must be many more solitary ones yet unseen. One of these could lurk quietly much closer to home.
THE COSMIC HOOVER
Although black holes have the power to hoover up anything and everything that strays too close, they can’t hunt. Contrary to popular belief, if you replaced our Sun with a black hole of the same mass the Earth wouldn’t get sucked in, there just wouldn’t be any sunlight. You could even orbit a black hole in a spacecraft just so long as you kept a safe distance.
Get too close though and strange things start happening. Space gets stretched longer and skinnier. You would find your feet being pulled miles away in front of you while your body is squeezed sideways. You will have become a piece of space spaghetti long before you reach the event horizon. Then you’d be ruptured into your own fundamental particles and disappear behind the veil of darkness.
It’d be a spectacular way to go but no-one would see it because time is being stretched as well. The photons carrying the image would struggle harder to leave your body the closer you fell. Even with a few million years to spare, an outside observer will see you slow to a halt above the event horizon, before slowly fading from view.
HEARTS OF DARKNESS
Most astronomers now concede that a black hole heavyweight lurks in the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. Latest estimates are that it weighs in at a whopping 2 million times the mass of the sun – a dwarf in comparison to some of the truly supermassive black holes that may lurk in the cosmos.
By the 1950s, astronomers began turning optical telescopes towards some of the strongest signals that the new radio telescopes were picking up. Source number 3C 273 was found to be a bright star-like object with a ‘jet’ of intense radiation sticking out of it. It was the first of a number of similar objects given the name of ‘quasar’ or ‘quasi-stellar radio source’, but their real identity remained hidden for decades.
Quasars have now been revealed to be the energetic hearts of very active galaxies: brilliant discs of superheated gas and ruptured stars swirling at nearly the speed of light. Great jets of charged particles are blasted thousands of light years into space from above & below – like an axle through a wheel. The central engine that is driving all this activity, though, is hidden deep inside. It has to be small and it must be extraordinarily dense. The mathematics demand that the only beast that can drive such a display of raw power is a supermassive black hole. The heavier the hole, the faster the gases whirl in orbit. Astronomers have observed speeds which tally with black holes weighing up to five thousand million suns.
The theory goes like this: a galaxy evolves from a vast rotating cloud of gas that begins to clump and condense under its own weight into billions of stars arranged like an enormous Catherine wheel, a Mexican hat or a bee swarm. In the centre, where the gas is concentrated, enough matter to make millions or even billions stars has undergone titanic gravitational collapse to make a supermassive black hole. While the hole is still actively feeding on the inner part of the new galaxy it manifests itself as a quasar. Later, when all nearby food has been consumed, the black hole becomes quiescent, leaving a relatively quiet galactic core like the one in the Milky Way. If this theory is correct, then supermassive black holes are present in all but the smallest galaxies.
TOWARDS THE WITHIN
For all their ferocity, these supermassive black holes are surprisingly gentle giants up close. You can fall into one without turning to spaghetti.
Suppose you or I were an astronaut about to step into such an abyss at the edge of the universe. As I approach the event horizon, blackness spreads upwards around me. The Universe shrinks to a bright point directly overhead. As I meet and cross the horizon the universe above disappears in a blinding flash of photons trapped in orbit around the hole.
I am now inside the black hole and falling towards the Singularity. It’s not dark like I expected. I see a ring of dancing light where the singularity should be. It must be spinning so fast that the centrifugal force has balanced out gravity. Now it’s a naked glowing hula-hoop of indeterminate size. Around it I see glimpses of heavens unimaginable to humans, universes within universes, time within time…
But hey! No matter what I might see or experience inside the black hole, I could never send a message out. The secrets I discover will die with me as I achieve oneness with the Universe, at the central Singularity.
Assuming E.T. Can Control Gravity What Other Capabilities Can We Expect Them To Have?
Assuming E.T. Can Control Gravity What Other Capabilities Can We Expect Them To Have?
The actual way that the universe works is the same everywhere, however, every intelligent life form will have a different understanding of it. Not only have our laws of physics changed over time, even today, different people have different interpretations of how things work. The more advanced a civilization becomes the closer their model of reality will match the actual universe.
While eventually any two independently developed set of laws of physics should converge, Their current similarity will depend both on how different they were to start with and how much progress has been made.
We don’t understand how gravity works. We understand the effects. It is an attractive force in three dimensions. The ‘fabric’ analogy is a tool to help us visualize what is happening. Space-Time is not real. It is a tool to help us figure out reality. We say gravity bends space-time because we can understand that. In reality, nothing is bent, there is no ‘fabric’, and so far as we have discovered, there is no actual entity that we call ‘time.’ Time is another tool we use to help us figure out our reality and what is happening in our reality. Neither the time particle/wave nor the gravity particle/wave has been confirmed. It has been recently glimpsed but that is not confirmation. Only the effects have been seen or discovered. Like a shadow, when we see it, we know that there is something blocking the light, but in the cases of time and gravity, when we look, we can not find the actual entity that is causing the effect.
Gravity control and inertia suggest that they might possess some form of reactionless drive. A reactionless drive is a device to generate motion without a propellant, presumably in contradiction to the law of conservation of momentum. The name comes from Newton’s third law, which is usually expressed as, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” A large number of infeasible devices, such as the “Dean drive”, is a staple of science fiction, particularly for space propulsion. To date, no reactionless drive has ever been validated under properly controlled conditions. Since we do not have a theory of quantum gravity it might be possible to construct such drive by an advanced intergalactic intelligence.
Since such feats would require a lot of understanding of basic physical laws we can assume that any race with such capability have a quantum theory of gravity and can exploit it to practical gains.
Having control over gravity permits interesting industrial processes to become possible. Assuming that one has not limitation over it. You can imagine that the aliens could create what is essentially a “matter furnace” using gravity to create something like accretion disk allowing conversion matter to energy – far safer than antimatter power.
To be a master of gravity means you are a master of time as well. Times fiery arrow relentless chugging forward can be stopped in its tracks. Time would be putty in the hands of these advanced intelligences. They could stop time, stretch it and make it their plaything. They may not age and they may be timeless.
To control gravity is to control the Universe at a level at this time we can only dream of. It brings sources of propulsion and energy that would appear as magic to us hairless apes.
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Bewijst leugendetectortest dat astronauten buitenaards leven zagen?
Bewijst leugendetectortest dat astronauten buitenaards leven zagen?
NASADe eerste ruimteselfie ooit werd in 1966 genomen door Buzz Aldrin, de tweede man op de maan
Bestaan er echt buitenaardse wezens? Ook bekende astronauten zijn overtuigd van hun reizen teruggekomen met verhalen over buitenaards leven. Nu zijn de verklaringen van vier astronauten, onder wie de 'tweede man op de maan', Buzz Aldrin, onderworpen aan een leugendetectortest. En blijkt dat ze deze allemaal hebben doorstaan!
Volgens experts laten de resultaten voor 100 procent zien dat de ondervraagden ervan overtuigd zijn tijdens hun ruimtemissies tekenen van buitenaards te hebben gezien of ervaren. Astronauten Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell en Gordon Cooper deden mee aan de test, die tot de nieuwste technologie voor leugendetectie behoort. De test werd onder meer uitgevoerd op basis van stemanalyses.
Buzz Aldrin: 'Ik zag een ruimteschip'
Aldrin heeft altijd volgehouden dat hij tijdens zijn missie naar de maan een ruimteschip heeft gezien. "Er was daar iets dat dichtbij genoeg was om te kunnen zien, het had een beetje een L-vorm," aldus de astronaut. Worden claimt zelfs dat hij echte buitenaardse wezens heeft gezien. Voor de verklaringen van de inmiddels overleden NASA-pioniers Mitchell en Cooper werden oude stemopnames geanalyseerd. Zij claimen UFO’s te hebben gezien, en ook die informatie werd als betrouwbaar geacht.
Kritiek op organisatie
Ook wordt er kritiek geuit op de organisatie die de tests uitvoerde. De technologie die is gebruikt, de Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA), zou zijn aangegrepen om 'new age'-denkbeelden geloofwaardiger te maken. Nick Pope, expert op het gebied van research naar buitenaards leven, noemt het nieuwe onderzoek 'pseudo-wetenschap'.
Nick Pope✔@nickpopemod
Despite claims Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts passed lie detector tests about having seen UFOs, the truth seems to be that a New Age institute is using CVSA (computer voice stress analysis) on old interviews to infer astronaut belief in aliens. Many regard CVSA as pseudoscience
Vier astronauten onderworpen aan ‘leugendetectortest’. Zagen zij echt buitenaards leven?
Vier astronauten onderworpen aan ‘leugendetectortest’. Zagen zij echt buitenaards leven?
Verschillende Amerikaanse astronauten hebben uitspraken gedaan over buitenaards leven. De verklaringen van vier van hen zijn onderworpen aan een leugendetectortest. En wat blijkt? Ze zijn met vlag en simpel geslaagd.
Volgens experts zijn de ondervraagden er 100 procent van overtuigd dat ze tijdens hun ruimtemissies tekenen van buitenaards leven hebben gezien of ervaren.
Astronauten Buzz Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell en Gordon Cooper deden mee aan de test, die onder meer werd uitgevoerd op basis van stemanalyses.
L-vorm
Aldrin heeft gezegd dat hij tijdens zijn missie naar de maan een ruimteschip heeft waargenomen.
“Er was daar iets wat dichtbij genoeg was om te kunnen zien,” zei hij. “Het had een beetje een L-vorm.”
Later zei hij tijdens een vraag- en antwoordsessie dat het waarschijnlijk de reflectie van de zon op één van de panelen was.
“Maar omdat we niet helemaal zeker zijn wat het is, kun je in principe spreken van een ongeïdentificeerd object,” zei hij.
Buitenaardse wezens
Worden beweerde zelfs dat hij echte buitenaardse wezens heeft gezien.
Voor de verklaringen van de inmiddels overleden Mitchell en Cooper, die claimden UFO’s te hebben gezien, werden oude geluidsopnames geanalyseerd.
Er is ook kritiek op het onderzoek. Volgens critici behoort de technologie die is gebruikt, de computer voice stress analyzer (CVSA), tot de pseudowetenschap.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETWetenschappers van de universiteit van Gent gaan vanaf deze week samen met hun collega’s van de universiteit van Bradford en het Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) het terrein op in een zoektocht naar verloren gegane menselijke nederzettingen op de bodem van de Noordzee. Tijdens de IJstijd 10.000 jaar geleden stond die nog grotendeels droog en bestond die uit land met heuvels, valleien, moerassen, rivieren en meren. Bevolkt door onze voorouders en uitgestorven dieren als de mammoet en de wolharige neushoorn.
“Tijdens de IJstijd bevond heel wat zeewater zich in de vorm van ijs op het land en dat maakte dat de zeespiegel ongeveer honderd meter lager lag”, aldus dokter Jan Seys van het VLIZ in een interview op vrt. Dat betekent dat het Europese vasteland in die periode over land bereikbaar was vanuit Groot-Brittannië.
“Onze expeditie wil een 3D-kaart van de zeebodem maken en de interessantste plaatsen vinden om in detail te gaan zoeken naar nederzettingen van onze voorouders”, gaat Seys verder. “Ook toen vestigden mensen zich het liefste aan water – zoals meren en rivieren – zodat ze makkelijker aan voedsel konden geraken. Die zullen we proberen te lokaliseren.” (lees hieronder verder)
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Our best wishes to marine scientists and archeologists on board @HowBigIsBelgica Belgian research vessel, starting a journey to understand our prehistoric past in the #NorthSea, sometimes helped by bones found by fishermen! #Brownbank2018#EYCH2018
Een van de plaatsen die de marine-experts en archeologen onder de loep willen nemen is de Bruine Bank, een 30 kilometer lange zandbank op de bodem van de zuidelijke Noordzee, halfweg tussen de Nederlandse en de Britse kust. Archeologen vermoeden al langer dat het ooit de thuis was van duizenden mensen, op basis van de toevallige vondsten van onder meer vissers.
“Die haalden er al bewerkte stenen en botresten boven”, vertelt dokter Tine Missiaen (VLIZ) vanop het terrein aan onze redactie. “Er werden ook al flink wat fossielen van dieren gevonden en waar dieren zijn, houden zich ook vaak mensen op. Vandaar onze interesse.”
Groot meer
De universiteit van Gent slaagde er ook in om vlakbij een gebied af te bakenen waar een groot meer gelegen moet hebben en een rivierensysteem. Wat het vermoeden dat er ooit ook mensen in de buurt leefden, nog versterkt. “Onze expeditie wil nu de blinde vlekken in kaart brengen in het zuiden van de Noordzee, zodat we een beeld krijgen van het vroegere landschap daar”, aldus nog Missiaen. (lees hieronder verder)
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De zoektocht op de Bruine Bank zal vermoedelijk naar het einde van de week op gebeuren, omdat het weer het voorlopig niet toelaat. Momenteel wordt dichter bij de Belgische kust gewerkt.
Sporen
Als de bodem van de Noordzee over enkele maanden gereconstrueerd is op de interessante plaatsen, zal er geboord worden naar microscopische sporen die duiden op de aanwezigheid van mensen en dieren. Zo kunnen kiezelwieren ons bijvoorbeeld vertellen of er op een bepaalde plaats zoet of zout water voorkwam en ons een beeld geven van wat zich duizenden jaren geleden op een bepaalde plaats afspeelde.
De zoektocht wordt nu pas ondernomen omdat nu pas de technologie voor handen is om de expeditie uit te voeren. “We kunnen in vergelijking met bijvoorbeeld 10 jaar terug steeds beter en gedetailleerder speuren naar sporen op de zeebodem”, aldus nog Seys. “Ook met het oog op de toekomst kunnen we er nog iets van leren. Denk aan de opwarming van de aarde die ook een effect zal hebben op ons milieu en de zeespiegel.”
SpaceX sure knows how to stay in the news. I mean, they’re only reinventing spaceflight for a new age of exploration and commercial travel. It’s not all shiny red Tesla Roadsters and mysterious military launches, though. SpaceX launches all sorts of payloads into space, including scientific instruments for the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon made it into orbit earlier this month carrying a new scientific lab designed to track some of the most mysterious atmospheric phenomena: red sprites, blue jets, and ELVES.
The lab is called the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, or ASIM, and the data it could gather could help shine light on some of the least understood occurrences in the natural world. The ASIM is designed to detect and record upper-atmospheric lightning, also known as transient luminous events or terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. These are a broad category of atmospheric disturbances which include the rare red sprite and ELVES, or Emissions of Light and Very low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources.
These phenomena have been observed for centuries, but it wasn’t until the development of high-speed cameras in the last few decades that they have been able to be photographed. Gamma-ray flashes weren’t discovered until 1994 and remain largely unknown to science aside from a few photographs taken from space.
Among the phenomena ASIM will study are blue jets, some of the least well known atmospheric electrical disturbances.” The jets are not very well studied because they’re very faint,” the University of Bath’s Martin Fullekrug told the BBC, “They’re mainly blue. Also they’re not necessarily associated with lightning. They pop up now and again and they’re very mysterious.” The ASIM will be turned on this Friday, April 13th and is led by the European Space Agency.
Red sprites last only a few milliseconds.
Stories like this always make me wonder what future generations will discover about our planet. Just a few hundred years ago, we hadn’t even mapped the entire globe, and we’ve only been able to observe the Earth from space for a few short decades. Who knows what natural phenomena we haven’t even a clue about yet because we don’t have the tools to observe them?
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