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...
15-04-2018
Soar Over Jupiter's Monster Polar Storms with This Stunning NASA Video
Soar Over Jupiter's Monster Polar Storms with This Stunning NASA Video
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The massive cyclones that swirl near Jupiter's north pole glow like lava in a gorgeous new 3D flyover video captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
The Juno science team put together the 80-second video using infrared imagery gathered by the probe's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument during a flyby in early 2017. Juno loops around Jupiter on a highly elliptical orbit, making such close polar passes once every 53.5 days.
"Before Juno, we could only guess what Jupiter's poles would look like," Juno co-investigator Alberto Adriani, from the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology in Rome, said in a statement. "Now, with Juno flying over the poles at a close distance, it permits the collection of infrared imagery on Jupiter's polar weather patterns and its massive cyclones in unprecedented spatial resolution." [Photos: NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter]
Those cyclones are indeed massive. The eight that surround the central polar vortex range in diameter from 2,500 miles to 2,900 miles (4,000 to 4,600 kilometers), NASA officials said.
This infrared 3D image of Jupiter's north pole was derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM
The storms' resemblance to lava in the newly released video is of course superficial; we're seeing swirling air here, not melted rock. And that air is pretty frigid. The warmest parts depicted in the video — the deeper-down bits that glow yellow — top out at 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 13 degrees Celsius), NASA officials said. The darker regions are even chillier; the coldest spot is about minus 117 degrees F (minus 83 degrees C), they added.
The Juno team presented the new video Wednesday (April 11) at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria. Mission scientists also unveiled another data product at the conference — an animation providing the first detailed look at the "dynamo" that powers Jupiter's intense magnetic field.
"We're finding that Jupiter's magnetic field is unlike anything previously imagined," Juno deputy principal investigator Jack Connerney, of the Space Research Corporation, Annapolis, Maryland, said in the same statement. "Juno's investigations of the magnetic environment at Jupiter represent the beginning of a new era in the studies of planetary dynamos."
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. The solar-powered probe is studying the gas giant's structure, composition and magnetic and gravitational fields. Its observations should help scientists better understand how the planet formed and evolved, mission team members have said.
Juno will perform its 12th science flyby of the gas giant's poles on May 24. If all goes according to plan, many other close passes will follow.
"Juno is only about one-third [of] the way through its planned mapping mission, and already we are beginning to discover hints on how Jupiter's dynamo works," Connerney said. "The team is really anxious to see the data from our remaining orbits."
No, the Rapture Isn't Coming on April 23 Because of Nibiru (Which Doesn't Exist)
No, the Rapture Isn't Coming on April 23 Because of Nibiru (Which Doesn't Exist)
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Artist's conception of the fictional rogue planet Nibiru, or Planet X. Nibiru does not exist, so don't be fooled.
Credit: gilderm | sxc.hu
Here we go again: Fresh reports claim that the end of the world is nigh. Forgetting that we were all a little burned out by the 2012 end-of-Maya-calendar debacle, outlets such as the Daily Express are claiming that the Rapture — the end-time event when Christians are said to ascend to heaven at the second coming of Christ — is coming April 23 and we should get ready for it. In case you were inclined to jump on the Armageddon bandwagon, know this: The reports are bogus, and the celestial bodies aren't even in the predicted position for this supposed doomsday to occur!
According to the Daily Express' claims, the position of the planets on April 23, 2018, echoes language in the Bible from Revelation 12:1-2. The New International Version of that passage (according to BibleGateway.com) says, "A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant, and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth."
The Daily Express's source says this passage refers to the second coming of Jesus Christ and the beginning of the Rapture. Further, they say the passage refers to Virgo, a woman from Greek and Roman mythology. Virgo also is represented in astrology (which is not a science, by the way) and as a constellation. [What's the Draw of Dystopian Sci-Fi?]
"On April 23, the sun and moon will be in Virgo, as will Jupiter, which represents the Messiah," the Daily Express report says. "Experts at first dismissed this claim when they discovered this alignment happens every 12 years. However, the conspiracy theories claim another planetary alignment, representing 'the Lion of the tribe of Judah', will make this time the Rapture."
The moon, Jupiter and the sun are nowhere near Virgo on April 23 — the least of the many reasons we're not on the verge of the Rapture.
What planet is responsible for this alignment? It's Nibiru, a mythical world supposedly orbiting the sun in an extremely long, eccentric orbit that has been debunked again and again by NASA — but it somehow keeps popping up in forecasts of doom. In the latest prediction, Nibiru is supposed to pass by Earth this October, causing volcanic eruptions as the gravity of this massive world disturbs our own.
Nibiru has been implicated in all sorts of planetary trouble, going back as far as 1995, when there were nasty predictions that it would collide with Earth. NASA, however, reassured us a few years ago that "No giant, rogue planet has been found in the outer solar system to play the role of Nibiru."
Astronomy popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson also tackled the subject back in 2009, addressing the claim that Nibiru was supposed to disturb our planet during an alignment of Earth, the sun and the center of the galaxy on Dec. 21, 2012. "What the [conspiracy web]site doesn't tell you is that [alignment] happens every year on December 21," Tyson said. "They left that out of the account." In a more charitable moment, he referred to the doomsday prediction as "a marvelous work of fiction."
Some people may argue that "Planet Nine," a hypothetical large world that could be causing disturbances in the Kuiper Belt, is Nibiru. But again, NASA has emphasized that no one knows for sure if Planet Nine exists — and, even if it does, it's disturbing only small, icy objects far away from Earth.
"The existence of this distant world is only theoretical at this point and no direct observation of the object nicknamed have been made," reads a web page about Planet Nine from NASA, which makes no mention of any collision or encounter with Earth. "The mathematical prediction of a planet could explain the unique orbits of some smaller objects in the Kuiper Belt," the agency noted, but that's far from home — way beyond the orbit of Neptune.
And here's the kicker: The sky arrangement is totally wrong. Jupiter is actually in Libra all day and night on April 23, while the moon is between Leo and Cancer. (The sun, out of view when Jupiter and the moon are in the sky, is over by Pisces.) None of those bodies is in Virgo, and again, even if they were, astrology is not real science.
So, we feel safe in saying there will be no apocalypse on April 23. On that cheerful note, since the world isn't ending this month, it's best to file your taxes this weekend as planned.
Nieuwe Marsorbiter opent de jacht op eventuele Marsmannetjes
Nieuwe Marsorbiter opent de jacht op eventuele Marsmannetjes
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Deze orbiter kan uitvogelen of er methaan producerende aliens op Mars huizen.
De ExoMars-orbiter zal de jacht op die aliens binnen enkele weken aanvangen, zo heeft ESA bekend gemaakt. De orbiter kwam al in 2017 bij Mars aan, maar is bijna een jaar druk geweest met het bereiken van de juiste omloopbaan. Dat is nu gelukt: de orbiter voltooit elke twee uur een rondje rond Mars en bevindt zich op zo’n 400 kilometer afstand van het oppervlak. De orbiter is volgens ESA dan ook “klaar om vanuit een baan rond Mars op zoek te gaan naar sporen van leven”.
Atmosfeer De ExoMars-orbiter zal met name onderzoek gaan doen naar de atmosfeer van Mars. De instrumenten aan boord van de sonde zijn gevoelig genoeg om zelfs heel zeldzame gassen in die atmosfeer op te sporen. De focus zal daarbij liggen op methaan. Eerdere onderzoeken hebben al aangetoond dat dit gas in de atmosfeer zit, maar niemand weet waar het vandaan komt (zie kader). ExoMars moet dat gaan onthullen en bovendien uitzoeken hoeveel methaan er nu precies in de Martiaanse atmosfeer zit.
Onderzoekers verwachten dat methaan in de atmosfeer van Mars maar kort meegaat: rond de 400 jaar. Dat komt onder meer doordat het eenmaal in de atmosfeer wordt afgebroken door ultraviolet licht van de zon. Dat we nu in de atmosfeer van Mars methaan aantreffen, wijst er dan ook op dat dit methaan vrij recent op Mars is geproduceerd.
Vulkanen of leven? Als het gaat om de productie van methaan op Mars zijn er verschillende opties. Zo kan het ontstaan door vulkanische en hydrothermale activiteit. Maar op aarde wordt het grootste deel van het atmosferische methaan gegenereerd door…levende organismen. En onderzoekers sluiten dan ook niet uit dat ook op Mars biologische activiteit aan het methaan ten grondslag ligt.
Natuurlijk houdt Mars Express zich niet alleen bezig met de atmosfeer van Mars. De sonde zal ook op zoek gaan naar waterijs dat onder het oppervlak van Mars verstopt zit. Daarmee kan de sonde weer richting geven aan nieuwe Marsmissies door interessante potentiële landingsplekken aan te wijzen. Bovendien zal de orbiter in aanloop naar de aankomst van Marslander InSight dienst gaan doen als doorgeefluik en de communicatie tussen de aarde en twee Marsrovers van NASA – Curiosity en Opportunity – op zich nemen. Vanaf 2021 moet deze ook het contact tussen de nieuwe ExoMars-rover en de aarde mogelijk maken.
NASA presenteert: de maan in een duizelingwekkend hoge resolutie
NASA presenteert: de maan in een duizelingwekkend hoge resolutie
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Zo mooi is onze natuurlijke satelliet in 4K!
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft een prachtig filmpje vrijgegeven van de maan. Het is een re-make van een filmpje dat in 2011 is vrijgegeven en gebaseerd was op de data die de Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in aanloop naar dat moment had verzameld. In de afgelopen zeven jaar is daar natuurlijk veel meer data bij gekomen. En dat resulteert nu in een nieuw filmpje, in een veel hogere resolutie.
Onder de beelden uit het filmpje in 2011. Boven de beelden uit het nieuwe filmpje. De verbeteringen zijn te danken aan data die LRO in de tussenliggende jaren heeft verzameld. Afbeelding: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.
In het filmpje scheren we over een aantal bekende en een aantal minder bekende plekken op de maan. Zo zien we landschappen die zich aan de voorzijde van de maan bevinden en dus ook vanaf de aarde prima zichtbaar zijn. Maar er zijn ook landschappen in het filmpje opgenomen die alleen vanuit de ruimte te bewonderen zijn. Enjoy!
Bronmateriaal:
"Tour of the Moon 4K Redux" - NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: NASA
First, look for a rainbow when the sun is behind you, and there are raindrops falling in front of you.
Second, know that – when making the rainbow – sunlight is emerging from many raindrops at once. A rainbow isn’t a flat two-dimensional image on the dome of sky. It’s more like a mosaic, composed of many separate bits … in three dimensions. More about the three-dimensional quality of rainbows below. Just know that your eye sees rainbows as flat for the same reason we see the sun and moon as flat disks, because, when we look in the sky, there are no visual cues to tell us otherwise.
Third, rainbows are more than half circles. They’re really whole circles. You’ll never see a circle rainbow from Earth’s surface because your horizon gets in the way. But, up high, people in airplanes sometimes do see them. Check out the photo below.
View larger. | Full circle rainbow was captured over Cottesloe Beach near Perth, Australia, in 2013 by Colin Leonhardt of Birdseye View Photography. He was in a helicopter flying between a setting sun and a downpour. Used with permission.
Ready for some rainbow physics? When making a rainbow, sunlight shining into each individual raindrop is refracted, or split into its component colors. And the light is also reflected, so that those various colors come bouncing back.
One key to rainbows is that the light leaves the collection of raindrops in front of you at an angle. In making a rainbow, the angle is between 40 and 42 degrees, depending on the color (wavelength) of the light. Physicsclassroom.comexplained it this way:
The circle (or half-circle) results because there are a collection of suspended droplets in the atmosphere that are capable of concentrating the dispersed light at angles of deviation of 40-42 degrees relative to the original path of light from the sun.
These droplets actually form a circular arc, with each droplet within the arc dispersing light and reflecting it back towards the observer.
So why are rainbows curved? To understand the curvature of rainbows, you’ll need to switch your mind to its three-dimensional-thinking mode. Cecil Adams of the newspaper column The Straight Dope explained it this way:
We’re used to thinking of rainbows as basically two-dimensional, but that’s an illusion caused by a lack of distance cues. The cloud of water droplets that produces the rainbow is obviously spread out in three dimensions.
The geometry of reflection, however, is such that all the droplets that reflect the rainbow’s light toward you lie in a cone with your eyes at the tip.
It takes an intuitive leap to see why this should be so, but let’s give it a crack. Water droplets reflect sunlight (or any light) at an angle of between 40 and 42 degrees, depending on the wavelength …
The sun is low and behind you. All the sunbeams head in, strike the cloud of water droplets ahead of you and bounce back at an angle of [approximately] 40 degrees.
Naturally the beams can bounce 40 degrees any which way — up, down, and sideways.
But the only ones you see are the ones that lie on a cone with a side-to-axis angle of 40 degrees and your eyes at the tip.
Rainbows don’t exist! They are nowhere in space. You cannot touch them or drive around them. They are a collection of rays from glinting raindrops that happen to reach our eyes. Raindrops glint rainbow rays at an angle of 42 degrees from the point directly opposite the sun. All the drops glinting the rainbow are on the surface of a cone with its point at your eye. They can be near and far. Other drops not on the cone also glint sunlight into rainbow colours but their rays do not reach our eyes. We only see those on the cone. When you look down the cone you see a circle. So rainbows are circles!
Mohamed Laaifat Photographies in Normandy, France caught the waxing gibbous moon below a rainbow on March 28, 2018.
Culpeper, Virginia. Image via Janet Furlong.
Rainbow reflected at sunset, via Fotograf Göran Strand. He captured this image in Vansbro, Sweden, over a river known as the Västerdalälven. More about this image here.
Jüri Voit in Estonia caught this double rainbow and lightning flash on July 18, 2017. Image via Jüri Voit.
Rainbow over the Brooklyn Bridge. Photo via Jennifer Khordi.
Eliot Herman wrote to EarthSky: “This one is my fav ground-hugging rainbow, right out my front door … A final last thunder storm and as the day was ending it cleared and the low angle sun lit up this ground hugging rainbow on the adjacent hillside.”
Nevada, after heavy monsoon rain. Photo via RN Misha.
Grand Canyon rainbow. Photo via Anne McLellan Swan.
Niagara Falls. Photo via Bob Lennartz.
Photo via Jean Marie Delaporte in Normandy, France
The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program and the To the Stars Academy equate to a major cultural advance for the UFO field: from ridicule to respect. What they have done, and are doing, is ‘Confirmation’ that the UFO Phenomenon is ‘real’ as opposed to ‘Disclosure’ of ET presence.
Former Blink 182 singer, Tom DeLonge was chosen by figures within the United States governmentas their spokesman tasked with communicating UFO knowledge they provide him with. DeLonge states that he has been ‘briefed’ and that it caused him to lose sleep “for multiple days on end”. http://wapo.st/2CKAF4r
Three days after DeLonge’s tweet (above) he was proven right with the Pentagon’s confession that it had studied the UFO Phenomenon over a five year period and that UFO’s are real. The five year study was conducted from 2007–12. It was called ‘The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program’ (AATIP). It was a highly secretive United States government investigation into the reality of UFO’s. Senator Harry Reid was the initiator of AATIP. He convinced billionaire businessman, Bob Bigelow that it was justified. Bigelow agreed and the study commenced in the Pentagon’s C Wing. It was led by the Intelligence official, Luis Elizondo. Elizondo has now resigned from the investigation in order to establish a new group called ‘To the Stars Academy’. The ‘To the Stars’ (TTS) team is highly professional. For example Jim Semivan is the co-founder and Vice President of TTS. He has previously worked at “senior management positions in CIA headquarters” and spent 25 years in the CIA’s “National Clandestine Service”. http://bit.ly/2oEnVrl
Dr. Hal Puthoff is another member of TTS team. He has written many published papers on “electron-beam devices, lasers and space propulsion and has patents in the laser, communications, and energy fields.” http://bit.ly/2zgfab8
Steve Justice is another member responsible for some very interesting duties. He is “leading the effort to examine the possibilities of emerging sciences and technologies. This team will work to define advanced systems exploiting radical technologies, prototypes promising concepts, and develop operational systems that shatter conventional thinking.”
Dr Gary Nolan is another player who has “published more than 220 research articles and is the holder of 20 U.S. patents, has been honoured as one of the top 25 inventors at Stanford University”.
The full list of the TTS team can be read at the TTS link provided above.
The UFO Phenomenon should never have been ridiculed. Now, the UFO Phenomenon is no longer being laughed at. On the contrary, it is a field of study that is worthy of huge respect as it offers the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the world.
In this article, I will argue that the TTS team are carrying out ‘Confirmation’ as opposed to ‘Disclosure’.
“Like I said before if this was a court of law, we are beyond reasonable doubt.”
- Luis Elizondo, former Pentagon Intelligence Officer.
Arguing the case for Confirmation of Multiple Witness Close Encounters that possess a Modus Operandi (MO)
For years I have believed that the UFO Phenomenon is real. This is due to the fact that there are countless multiple witness close encounters and that there is a pattern to what is observed. I do not think that you need to be an airline pilot to qualify as a reliable witness if what is seen is right infront of you (so that you could touch it) and if what you describe is entirely consistent with decades of reports from other close encounter witnesses.
Many people who are interested in the UFO Phenomenon go one step further than I have done and say that what controls these craft equates to biological extraterrestrial intelligence. Those people argue for Disclosure of the ET Presence. I do not possess a hypothesis. If it is ET then I would suspect its non biological as 21st century humans are expected to go beyond our biology and merge with our technology. Alternatively the intelligence behind the UFO’s could be super human intelligence that is relatively split off from society. This would make them an elite in terms of a specific type of scientific knowledge, non-conformist and Nikola Tesla-like in their brilliance! Such a group would have refused to conform to scientific norms thus going beyond the laws of physics resulting in teleportation, anti-gravity technology and time travel abilities. Still another theory is that the intelligence behind the UFO’s equates to our Simulators. The Simulated Universe theory is popular in Silicon Valley, popular with technological Singularitarians and popular with the infamous Elon Musk. Surely the most difficult theory for people to come to terms with is Remo Roth’s psychophysical hypothesis. Roth is a post-Jungian who goes far beyond the consulting room. He was mentored by Marie Louise von Franz, who herself was a very close collaborator of Jung’s. Roth goes beyond just saying that the UFO Phenomenon is about consciousness. He really goes into detail about how this is so. He says “In my theory, aliens are defined as entities living in psychophysical reality. The latter is space-, time- and mass-less, and thus gravitation-less. In this way the characteristic of aliens is what I call psychophysically nonlocal: in the moment of encounter and abduction […] UFOs are the “tools” of the aliens existing in psychophysical reality, in the intermediary realm of Hermetic alchemy. They represent living matter existing in the intermediary world”. http://bit.ly/1och1rC The Canadian UFO researcher, Grant Cameron views UFOs as tied in with various other phenomena, such as Near Death Experiencers and says that it’s all about consciousness. http://bit.ly/2CLYk4u However, Elizondo thinks that we have practically cracked the UFOs capabilities within known cutting-edge science (see later in this paper) hence if that is so there could be a split within ufology. That is assuming that Elizondo and TTS have not managed to unify technology and consciousness. If they have achieved such unification, or if they think they can do so, then that is quite remarkable.
I certainly think the UFO researchers have been (and are) right in general and thus ‘Confirmation’ is entirely justified. But I am suspicious of exact narratives that have long sought to explain exactly who the intelligence are and exactly what their motives are.
My ideas are the same as Luis Elizondo’s openly stated position. Elizondo is now a key figure in this field and therefore it is worth noting in some detail what he is saying. But first, I want to ram home the point that this phenomenon has been going on for at least seven decades. I also want to touch upon the run-up to where we are now, so I will also refer to the Podesta emails before getting to the heart of the matter concerning the excellent place we now find ourselves in. My view is that we know the UFO Phenomenon is real due to countless close encounter cases whereby what the witness describes is entirely consistent with what countless other witnesses have described. There is a Modus Operandi (MO) within the UFO close encounter that proves that the UFO Phenomenon is real. I cannot go further than this because I only see the pattern in the witness testimonies. That pattern does not tell me what the intelligence behind the UFO is. It merely tells me that the pattern is real. But it appears this has long been known. Indeed, as far back as 1947 we have official documentation, the ‘Twining Memo’ that said the following: “The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious”. http://bit.ly/2owvUXS
And in 1959 the famous psychologist Carl Jung wrote Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of things seen in the Skies… and in that text he wrote that UFO’s are sometimes witnessed “shooting to enormous altitudes for inexplicable reasons or performing acrobatic evolutions before the noses of exasperated pilots.” http://bit.ly/2osKGyO I note that Jung quote as something worthy of comparing with the detailed description of the video that accompanied the NYT UFO story (see later). Hence, as I said (above) the UFO Phenomenon has been known to be real for decades. What is new is that it’s now coming from the top, from people who would have previously been considered as debunkers. Now, rather than saying that we do not investigate UFOs… they are doing the opposite: they are running the show. With a team of people whose credentials are indisputable, Ufology will be given the respect it deserves as something worthy of investigation.
Podesta/Hillary/DeLonge/Wikileaks
Now fast forward to 2016.
Hillary Clinton openly (without even hinting at any sarcasm) told the Breakfast Club Radio Show that “there are enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up”. http://bit.ly/2FAOvt8 True, UFO researchers had been aware of the Clinton’s interest in UFO’s for a couple of decades. But now Hillary was opening up within the context of a Presidential Election Campaign.
John Podesta was the chairman of her campaign. He openly advocates more openness and transparency in government. And he particularly likes to focus on UFO’s. Maybe then, he could use this as a consolation prize for Wikileaks leaking his emails that exposed just how much he was involved in the UFO field. Podesta seems to have agreed to use rock star Tom DeLonge as a spokesman for the truth. So the emails to Podesta are largely DeLonge keeping Podesta updated with progress. Here is a particularly interesting email message from DeLonge describing a General who had helped him put together a team of advisors to promote disclosure:
January 25th, 2016: “General McCasland” Email from DeLonge to Podesta:
He mentioned he’s a “skeptic”, he’s not. I’ve been working with him for four months. I just got done giving him a four hour presentation on the entire project a few weeks ago. Trust me, the advice is already been happening on how to do all this. He just has to say that out loud, but he is very, very aware — as he was in charge of all of the stuff. When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of that exact laboratory up to a couple years ago. He not only knows what I’m trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team. He’s a very important man.
McCasland has an impressive biography. This is extracted from his bio page on the U.S. Airforce Website:
“Maj. Gen. William N. McCasland is the Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He is responsible for managing the Air Force’s $2.2 billion science and technology program as well as additional customer funded research and development of $2.2 billion. He is also responsible for a global workforce of approximately 10,800 people in the laboratory’s component technology directorates, 711th Human Performance Wing and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research”. http://bit.ly/2ETRNusNote that McCasland is no longer openly working on the DeLonge TTS team. Nevertheless he is one of many establishment figures or professionals that have got the snowball well-and-truly rolling. DeLonge’s email about McCasland even discusses Roswell. A momentary glance at that email is enough to demonstrate that DeLonge views himself as ultimately a Disclosure supporter. Presumably he is not alone among TTS members concerning being closer to a Disclosure mind-set than a Confirmation mind-set. Bigelow, who funded AATIP advocates the extraterrestrial hypothesis. (ETH) and thus is ultimately wanting Disclosure. http://nyti.ms/2CmEnWbHowever, the TTS team are currently running a ‘Confirmation’ style investigation. Therefore they are analogous to a centre right political party that is running on an agenda that is a little closer to the centre than some of their politicians would ideally like… or ditto, analogous to a centre left party that is running on an agenda that is a little closer to the centre than some of their politicians would ideally like. Whether a UFO team or a political party, they do this to stay relatively in-tune with what would appear to be acceptable to the public.
December 2017: The New York Times Article
“The Revelations concerning the Pentagon’s AATIP program are extraordinary. For years, the U.S. government denied any interest in the UFO phenomenon, and claimed that sightings weren’t investigated. Now, it turns out that was incorrect. Not only was there a program, but some of the work seems to have been contracted out to Bigelow Aerospace.”
-Nick Pope (personal correspondence, 23rd February 2018)
Now let’s forward to December 2017. This is the time that events got much more voluntarily open rather than Wikileaks forcing things into the open.
On 16 December 2017 the New York Times (NYT) ran a front page headline titled “Glowing Auras and Black Money: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O Program’.
This finally gave the UFO issue the openness and transparency that it needed and deserved because it was front and centre of arguably the most famous mainstream newspaper publication on earth. The NYT effectively ran a UFO Confirmation Story and they even backed it up later in a follow-up report by Ralph Blumenthal who stated the following:
“Our readers are plenty interested in unidentified flying objects. We know that from the huge response to our front-page Sunday article (published online just after noon on Saturday) revealing a secret Pentagon program to investigate U.F.O.s. The piece, by the Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper, the author Leslie Kean and myself — a contributor to The Times after a 45-year staff career — has dominated the most emailed and most viewed lists since. So how does a story on U.F.O.s get into The New York Times? Not easily, and only after a great deal of vetting, I assure you”.http://nyti.ms/2C63ZWP
Basically, the NYT checked out the credentials and biographies of those they were to write about. They checked out brilliantly… thus the NYT felt obliged to run the story and probably felt simultaneous shock that the credentials checked out.
The original NYT story demonstrated that a number of Pentagon personnel had between 2007–12 worked on a UFO Program called ‘The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program’ (AATIP). The online NYT page included an accompanying video to the original story. This had previously been leaked without the fanfare. It was discussed two months earlier, in October 2017, in a Huffington Post report, written by Leslie Kean. And what is quoted from the Post article below, i.e., the Nimitz Case (2004) is reminiscent of Jung’s 1959 comment about UFO’s “shooting to enormous altitudes for inexplicable reasons or performing acrobatic evolutions before the noses of exasperated pilots”.
“Two F-18’s approach, the four aviators see that the object has no wings or exhaust — it is white, oblong, some 40ft long and perhaps 12 ft thick. One pilot pursues the craft while his wingman stays high. The pilots are astonished to see the object suddenly reorient itself towards the approaching F-18. In a series of discrete tumbling maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of physics, the object takes a position directly behind the approaching F-18… At one point the object went from hovering at 80,000 feet to dropping at supersonic speeds, and came to a complete stop at 50 feet above the ocean. More F-18s are dispatched but with similar results… The secret machine easily evades the F-18s. Dozens of military personnel aboard the various planes and ships involved are privy to these interactions.” http://bit.ly/2znFbWm
Luis Elizondo
Luis Elizondo, the former intelligence official who has committed himself to TTS, is not only bringing clarity, acceptance and respect to the field, but also the prospect of designing a UFO!
Elizondo: We will build a UFO
Elizondo does not possess a theory about what the intelligence behind the UFO amounts too. Indeed, that is the ultimate question that he would like to find out as Elizondo is passionate about truth. But finding that out is not the aim of TTSA, at least not for the foreseeable future. The current aim of the TTSA seems to be to take advantage of the phenomenon and to actually replicate the UFO by designing one ourselves. Given that the aim of TTSA is to “build the very things that we are seeing […] to the benefit of mankind” (Elizondo http://bit.ly/2Ge32xU) we can be sure that TTSA possess all of the data required that would give them the realistic opportunity to do this. It also proves that the former debunker theories were nonsense. Elizondo takes a pop at one of them. He says the ‘atmospheric anomaly’ theory is wrong because “radar returns do not track atmospheric anomalies”, “Pilots don’t see atmospheric anomalies moving at hypersonic speeds above the water”, “An atmospheric anomaly isn’t going to effect and disturb the water the way these things are doing”. (ibid). Indeed the object is intelligent.
Elizondo: Nimitz UFO possessed foresight
We touched on this case when referring to the Huffington Post article (above).
The USS Nimitz case (2004) equates to one of the three videos that have been released and hence is now well documented. In this case the UFO does the usual toying with the military pilots (as Jung stated in 1959, i.e., an acrobatics show for them), and then for good measure the unknown intelligence adds something to the show. When it blinks out of existence it blinks back into existence at the specific location where the F18’s are heading. (Elizondo http://bit.ly/2Ge32xU). Moreover, even in this one case, there is more to it than just the acrobatics and the foresight. The military had been “tracking these things for the past week.” (ibid). When Elizondo says “these things” he is meaning “sometimes up to twenty of them”. (ibid). All of this always seems to me to be the intelligence ensuring that the witnesses cannot deny it, so that everything is well and truly clear in terms of the reality of the phenomenon. Yet the intelligence behind the phenomenon also knows that we will be mystified about what they are. It seems to force onto the serious person that the phenomenon is real in terms of being intelligent but what the intelligence is remains unknown.
Elizondo: The Modus Operandi of the UFO
1) “Sudden and instantaneous acceleration. These are objects that are moving in a manner that if there was a biological system inside it, it should not be able to withstand those type of sudden G-forces”. (ibid)
2) “… not just supersonic but hypersonic [velocities]. An object moving well above the limitations of supersonic speed and objects moving in a way that don’t have any apparent signature related to that. So there’s no heat trail coming out of the object that’s moving very fast through the atmosphere. There’s no sonic boom. So things that would traditionally be associated with objects moving at very fast speeds, even though we can see them moving that fast, we don’t see a signature.” (ibid)
3) “Low Observability”. We try to figure out what these things “look like”. But “unfortunately what we are getting as a return seems a-bit nonsensical.” [For example] radar returns coming back nonsensical despite having the best of the best radar […] our radars get either turned off or radar can’t pick something up.” (ibid)
4) “An object that has the ability to move in the various layers of the earth’s atmosphere, possibly even in outer space and possibly even through water seemingly even without any type of normal resistance associated with friction associated with objects moving in that manner.” (ibid)
5) “The most important, ‘Positive Lift’. […] An object apparently resisting the natural effects of earth’s gravity, yet without the normally associated aerodynamic structures that would require an object to either to have lift or thrust. So no visible engines. No visible engine exhaust plumes, no wings, no rudders, no ailerons, no fins. Yet able to move in a very precise manner.” (ibid)
Elizondo: if the intelligence is human and foreign
I was delighted that when pondering the thought that these craft may amount to foreign human intelligence, that Elizondo said that he is open to that but if that theory is correct then “whoever has this technology has had this technology for a very long time which is even more alarming [than the point that a potential adversary has technological craft that is so futuristic]. (ibid). Later in the interview Elizondo adds that he wants to know if it’s another countries. “Because these things are real. This is reality. And what we are seeing is unquestionable and undeniable.” (ibid).
Elizondo’s views in one paragraph
A neat summary of Elizondo’s views can be outlined as follows… the UFO Phenomenon is real. There’s intelligence behind the UFO’s. However we do not know the origins of the intelligence. Nevertheless the intelligence uses advanced physics. The Modus Operandi of the UFO is exactly the pattern that tens of thousands of witnesses have reported over several decades. (e.g., blinking in-and-out of existence). While it would be fantastic to know the origins of these things we (at TTSA) will invest all of our efforts to build a UFO for the benefit of mankind.
Personally, I have always viewed the UFO Phenomenon as real in the sense of it being intelligently controlled. So I am very happy with the work of TTSA and I am empathic with Elizondo.
Jung, Vallee, Hynek have all noted Patterns in the Data
The patterns that I refer to as the UFO Modus Operandi, were briefly referred to by Jung, and have been referred to over and over again by Jacques Vallee. Moreover, in 1975 Vallee’s colleague, J. Allen Hynek expressed the physical pattern in the UFO MO when he said “The UFO’s are capable of producing physical effects: they are reported to leave “landing marks” or other physical evidence of their proximity, such as rings or other types of imprints on the ground; plant life is often reported withered or blighted or scorched […] Humans have reported physiological effects, such as temporary paralysis and blindness, headaches and nausea, etc…” http://amzn.to/2EUYMndWhen the pattern combines with the close encounter then I think the UFO Phenomenon can be scientifically studied because pattern recognition over many years within an undeniable context amounts to scientific study.
TTS have noted the pattern. And they have the personnel to replicate the technology. To what extent they can do that depends on exactly how advanced it is. If consciousness is inextricably linked to the technology then this complicates their work to an extent that would require a worldview paradigm shift. If it’s all within our current knowledge as Elizondo thinks it is, then its game on. If our scientific knowledge is so advanced that we have unified physical and consciousness then that is, as said, remarkable.
The Near Future
“I think we’ve come very close to understanding the physics of how it works, and that’s very exciting. For the first time, we have a compelling picture that what we are seeing is explained in our current understanding of physics, advanced physics, and quantum mechanics… perhaps all these observables that we have been seeing, for example: sudden and extreme acceleration, hypersonic velocities, low observability, trans-medium travel and last but not least, positive lift, or anti-gravity, is really a manifestation of a single technology. So it’s not five exotic technologies we’re trying to figure out how it works. It’s one and we think we know that one too.”
Elizondo says TTS is not about guessing “where these things originated but rather, how they worked” (ibid) That then is ‘Confirmation’, not ‘Disclosure’.
Now in the present day, we can expect more scientific study and more revelations. DeLonge says that there are twenty more big reveals to come. http://bit.ly/2EVhzP5 This is good news and suggests relative openness and transparency. Interestingly it also suggests some secrecy even if only temporary secrecy. Because some people may wonder why they do not just reveal everything they know in one go? The answer to that maybe that they require media cooperation and their choices of who covers the stories do not want to turn themselves into UFO publications. Nevertheless, we can expect the scientific study to be ongoing as with any other respected field of knowledge.
In conclusion there are various benefits to the acceptance and respect of the UFO phenomenon. There are technological spin-offs. And progressive increases in knowledge. And acceptance and respect towards experiencers. Overall the UFO Phenomenon has progressed from belief-orientated, from pre-science, and from secretive science, to being (at least) relatively out in the open, openly scientifically studied by professional investigators whose credentials are undeniable. Now let’s build that UFO!
A new planet near the habitable zone around a bright cool star
Scientists report the existence of 15 new planets — including one ‘super-Earth' that could harbor liquid water — orbiting small, cool stars near our solar system. These stars, known as red dwarfs1, are of enormous interest for studies of planetary formation and evolution.
A research team led by Teruyuki Hirano of Tokyo Institute of Technology's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has validated 15 exoplanets2 orbiting red dwarf systems.
One of the brightest red dwarfs, K2-155 that is around 200 light years away from Earth, has three transiting super-Earths, which are slightly bigger than our own planet. Of those three super-Earths, the outermost planet, K2-155d, with a radius 1.6 times that of Earth, could be within the host star's habitable zone3.
The findings, published in the form of two papers in The Astronomical Journal, are based on data from NASA Kepler spacecraft's second mission, K2, and follow-up observations using ground-based telescopes, including the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) in Spain.
The researchers found that K2-155d could potentially have liquid water on its surface based on three-dimensional global climate simulations (see Figure 1). Hirano expresses both excitement and restraint, as he says: "In our simulations, the atmosphere and the composition of the planet were assumed to be Earth-like, and there's no guarantee that this is the case."
A more precise estimate of the radius and temperature of the K2-155 star would be needed to conclude definitively whether K2-155d is habitable. Achieving such precision would require further studies, for example, using interferometric techniques.
A key outcome from the current studies was that planets orbiting red dwarfs may have remarkably similar characteristics to planets orbiting solar-type stars.
"It's important to note that the number of planets around red dwarfs is much smaller than the number around solar-type stars," says Hirano. "Red dwarf systems, especially coolest red dwarfs, are just beginning to be investigated, so they are very exciting targets for future exoplanet research."
For example, while the so-called radius gap4 of planets around solar-type stars has been reported previously, this is the first time that researchers have shown a similar gap in planets around red dwarfs. (See Figure 2.) "This is a unique finding, and many theoretical astronomers are now investigating what causes this gap," says Hirano.
He adds that the most likely explanation for the lack of large planets in the proximity of host stars is photoevaporation, which can strip away the envelope of the planetary atmosphere.
The researchers also investigated the relationship between planet radius and metallicity5 of the host star. "Large planets are only discovered around metal-rich stars," Hirano says, "and what we found was consistent with our predictions. The few planets with a radius about three times that of Earth were found orbiting the most metal-rich red dwarfs."
The studies were conducted as part of the KESPRINT collaboration, a group formed by the merger of KEST (Kepler Exoplanet Science Team) and ESPRINT (Equipo de Seguimiento de Planetas Rocosos Intepretando sus Transitos) in 2016.
With the planned launch of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in April 2018, Hirano is hopeful that even more planets will be discovered. "TESS is expected to find many candidate planets around bright stars closer to Earth," he says. "This will greatly facilitate follow-up observations, including investigation of planetary atmospheres and determining the precise orbit of the planets."
Figure 1. Results of 3D global climate simulations for K2-155d
Surface temperatures were plotted as a function of insolation flux (the amount of incoming stellar radiation) estimated at 1.67±0.38. When the insolation exceeds 1.5, a so-called runaway greenhouse effect occurs, signaling a cut-off point for life-friendly temperatures. If the insolation is under 1.5, the surface temperature is more likely to be moderate.
Figure 2. Distribution of planet sizes
Histogram of planet radius for the validated and well-characterized transiting planets around red dwarfs: The number counts for mid-to-late red dwarfs (those with a surface temperature of under 3,500 K) are shown above those for early red dwarfs (those with a surface temperature of around 3,500–4,000 K). The results show a "radius gap", or a dip in the number of stars with a radius between 1.5–2.0 times that of Earth.
1Red dwarfsAlso known as low-mass stars, red dwarfs are small, cool stars with a surface temperature of less than about 4,000 Kelvin.
2ExoplanetsPlanets that orbit stars outside our solar system.
3Habitable zoneA region that is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water, and hence life, to exist.
4Radius gapHere referring to a reduced occurrence of planets that have a radius of between 1.5 to 2.0 times that of Earth.
15 nieuwe planeten ontdekt rond koele dwergsterren. Op deze superaarde is stromend water mogelijk
15 nieuwe planeten ontdekt rond koele dwergsterren. Op deze superaarde is stromend water mogelijk
Japanse astronomen hebben met behulp van de Amerikaanse ruimtetelescoop Kepler 15 exoplaneten ontdekt rond koele rode dwergsterren.
Waarnemingen met telescopen op aarde hebben bevestigd dat het daadwerkelijk om planeten gaat.
Het zijn vrijwel allemaal superaardes: rotsachtige planeten die een stuk groter zijn dan de aarde.
Stromend water
Bij de ster K2-155, die op zo’n 200 lichtjaar van de aarde staat, zijn zelfs drie van deze superaardes aangetroffen.
De buitenste van de drie bevindt zich mogelijk in de bewoonbare zone van zijn moederster, wat betekent dat op het oppervlak van deze planeet stromend water zou kunnen voorkomen.
Op basis van simulaties zeggen de onderzoekers dat de planeet, K2-155d gedoopt, vloeibaar water kan bezitten.
Veel gelijkenissen
Verder onderzoek naar onder meer de radius en de temperatuur van de moederster moet gaan aantonen of K2-155d bewoonbaar is.
De wetenschappers ontdekten daarnaast dat planeten rond rode dwergsterren opvallend veel gelijkenissen vertonen met planeten die rond zonachtige sterren draaien.
Well, my recent article titled “UFOs: The Paranormal Controversy and Connection” provoked quite a bit of feedback. And the debate on whether or not the world of the paranormal and the subject of UFOs should be seen as parts of a combined, bigger picture is still going on. With that in mind, I thought I would share with you a perfect example of how such seemingly separate phenomena actually have more than a few connections. Pauline W., who I interviewed in 2013, had a very strange experience back in October 1973, when she was living in Pasadena, California. It’s notable, and probably relevant, that a major UFO wave was going on at that time, and across not just the United States, but other parts of the planet too.
While hiking in the California hills one Sunday morning, Pauline encountered a classic, silver-colored flying saucer-style UFO which, at first, at least, was high in the sky. Suddenly, it dropped to around fifty or sixty above her, hanging there in an odd, wobbling fashion. Amazed, Pauline could only stare as the silent craft bobbed around and then shot away at high speed. Pauline raced home and excitedly told her family of what had just taken place. They, apparently, weren’t the only ones who knew what had occurred on the fateful morning in 1973. Three days later, and after sunset, Pauline had a visitor. Not a welcome one, I should stress. It was a Man in Black, a skinny – almost emaciated – old man, dressed in a shabby black suit, looking pale and ill, and wearing an old, 1950s-style fedora hat.
Pauline said that she felt her mind was briefly enslaved, as the MIB near-hypnotically asked her to invite him into her home. In a slight daze, and to her eternal cost, she did exactly that. She retreated to the couch, stumbling slightly and feeling ice-cold. The old man followed her, and stood in the living-room, looming over her, as he warned her – in no uncertain terms – never to discuss her close encounter again. Ever. The MIB then turned around and headed to the door. At that exact same moment, Pauline felt her mental faculties return to normal and she raced after him, just as he exited the door and closed it behind him. Pauline threw the door open wide, only to find the old Man in Black gone. In his place, however, was something else: it was a large, black dog with bright red eyes. It snapped and snarled in Pauline’s direction and in what was clearly a deeply malevolent, dangerous fashion.
She stared in horror as the glowing-eyed monster prowled around the front yard, clearly intent on adding to the malevolent atmosphere that was already firmly in place. Suddenly, and as if out of nowhere, a large, black Cadillac – that looked decades-old in design – appeared and screeched to a halt outside of Pauline’s home. It should be noted, here, that the MIB almost always drive such cars of that particular type, age and color. Pauline watched, shocked and scared, as the back door on the driver’s-side opened and the fiendish black hound bounded across the front yard and leapt into the back of the Cadillac, which shot away at high speed!
Today, Pauline – now a grandmother and someone who is fairly comfortable about sharing her bizarre experience – is of a firm opinion that the MIB and the red-eyed beast were one and the same. As Pauline sees it, something unexplained, but also something which could take on “different disguises.” Of course, many would say that Pauline’s bizarre story is nothing but a fabrication (but, it’s hard to fathom what on Earth might cause someone to concoct such an admittedly weird tale). But, what if Pauline was telling the absolute truth?
With that question in mind, let’s return to the matter of the UFO/paranormal connection. What we have in this case are no less than three mysterious angles, all clearly linked: (A) the UFO sighting; (B) the encounter with the Man in Black; and (C) according to Pauline a case of shape-shifting, no less – into what sounds just like one of the ghostly Phantom Black Dogsthat terrified people throughout the U.K. centuries ago (and which occasionally still do).
Yes, cases like this are controversial in the extreme, but either we dismiss such tales as lies (which I don’t, having met Pauline twice), or we accept that the UFO phenomenon isn’t all that it appears to be. It’s much more.
NASA Releases 4K Video Of The Moon Ending The Moon Landing Conspiracy
NASA Releases 4K Video Of The Moon Ending The Moon Landing Conspiracy
NASA has just released a 4K video tour of Earth’s moon and the footage will make your jaw drop.
Even though Earth’s moon can be viewed in unprecedented detail from Earth, NASA has recently released a video filmed in 4k showing off the surface of the moon in unprecedented close-up detail, and the video will definitely take your breath away.
How can we describe the video footage?
Well, it’s stunning. It’s mesmerizing. It’s Fresh. It offers an entirely new way of exploring the surface of the moon, and you can see all of the most important and prominent features of the Earth’s satellite in the stunning video footage.
The footage dubbed as “virtual tour of the moon” in breathtaking 4K has been collected by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft over a span of nine years.
What a stunning view.
Image Credit: YouTube
“The tour visits a number of interesting sites chosen to illustrate a variety of lunar terrain features,” Ernie Wright of NASA’s Space Visualization Studio explained in a blog post. “Some are on the near side and are familiar to both professional and amateur observers on Earth, while others can only be seen clearly from space.”
Wright explains that this recently published video is, in fact, an updated version of another one released 7 years ago, in 2011.
Despite the fact that the camera path may be the same, the data that has been gathered in 7 years has made it possible for NASA to create a far more incredible and detailed presentation of the moon.
Image Credit: YouTube.
The recently released 4k video displays a number of the moon’s features, combining colors that highlight important or noteworthy data to make sure you not only enjoy the view but learn something new.
One of the most interesting parts of the video is when we have the chance to fly over the Tycho Crater, a lunar formation said to be around 100 million years old.
The most interesting part occurs when you think you’ve seen the best part, the video zooms in unprecedently, focusing on Tycho Crater’s mesmerizing central peak which features an enigmatic 100-meter-wide bolder at the summit, “the origins of which are still a mystery,” the video’s narrator says, adding to the suspense.
In addition to the Tycho crater, you can also fly above the Apollo 17 landing site at the Taurus-Littrow Valley, which as explained in the video, is deeper than the Grand Canyon on Earth.
So, the end of the Moon landing conspiracy…right?
I wonder, does that make the Taurus-Littrow Valley the ‘Grander Canyon’?
Anyway, while exploring the Apollo 17 landing site, the video offers a few overlays that show us the path NASA astronauts took as they spent three days on the surface of the moon in 1972.
You can appreciate the bottom half of the mission’s lunar lander and rover vehicle, items that have remained untouched and undisturbed for the last 46 years.
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4619
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/David Ladd
5 Lost Legendary Cities That Have Never Been Found
5 Lost Legendary Cities That Have Never Been Found
Who doesn’t love a good adventure story? And who doesn’t love Indiana Jones Movies, right? And wouldn’t’ it be awesome to find Atlantis one day?
Despite the fact that Atlantis may be one of the most well-known ‘lost’ ancient cities, there are many other places as mysterious and stunning as Atlantis.
In this article, I invite to join me as we explore five of lost legendary ancient cities that have eluded experts for centuries.
1. The Lost City of Z
In April of 1925 when Percy Fawcett, a British explorer, and archaeologist, was introduced to an adventure in the Brazilian jungle from which he would never return.
Fawcett set out to find a lost city, which he named Z, somewhere in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Fawcett never returned from the trip, and nothing was heard from him or his companions who from Cuiabá went to Alto Xingu, a southeastern tributary of the Amazon River.
The source on which he built the dream of finding a legendary city in the Brazilian jungle, a kind of El Dorado, was Manuscript 512 housed at the National Library of Rio de Janeiro.
Manuscript 512 was a document written by a Portuguese explorer in 1753 in which he had discovered a walled city in the confines of the Mato Grosso region reminiscent of design to cities of Ancient Greece.
It was not the first time that Fawcett embarked on an expedition to find the Lost City of Z but this was his definitive one.
To date, just as Atlantis, the Legendary Lost City of Z remains a profound mystery, and many experts argue it only exists in legend.
2. Shambala
More than just a lost city, Shambala is to be a powerful kingdom.
Sometimes called Shangri-La, Shambala holds an important place in both Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist Traditions.
The kingdom is said to be laid out in precisely the same form as an eight-petalled lotus blossom enclosed by a series of snow mountains. At the center lies the palace of the King of Shambala who governed from the city called Kalapa. Shambhala is also often-called Shangri-La in some texts.
Hindu texts such as the Vishnu Purana (4.24) mention the village Shambhala as the birthplace of Kalki, the final incarnation of Vishnu, who will usher in a new Golden Age (Satya Yuga).
Fall of the ancients – Bluesky images. Image Credit: Leon Tukker. Posted with Permission.
3. Aztlan
The legendary home place of one of the most prominent ancient civilizations from the American Continent, the Aztecs, has never been found.
Aztlan is like an American Atlantis, and some authors have even ventured out and said it might be the Atlantis we are looking for.
Aztlan was the homeland of the Aztecs, from where they left to build their mighty empire with capital in what is now Mexico City.
According to different theories, this lost city is located somewhere in North America, with some authors claiming that Aztlan existed in modern-day Utah.
Aztlan, whose name means “the land to the North” or ‘the place of whiteness,’ has never been found. But the Annals of Tlatelolco place the migration of the Aztecs from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan on May 24, 1064, the first year of the Aztec solar calendar.
4. The Lost City of El Dorado
After Atlantis, I think the legend of El Dorado is one of the best known today.
In fact, the search for the lost city of gold was what motivated many Conquistadores to travel thousands of kilometers through inhospitable terrains in South America, searching for a city that according to accounts, was made entirely of Gold.
The myth of El Dorado was associated with a ruler who bathed in gold every morning and washed at night in a sacred lake, the lake of Guatavita, in which all wealth was deposited.
Although in reality the myth was actually a ceremony of the Colombian Muisca people, carried out since ancient times.
In 1541 Francisco de Orellana was the first European conqueror to cross the Amazon River, flogged by the search for El Dorado.
Later, Sir Walter Raleigh, in 1594, left for the first time in his search and in two of his trips he failed.
No one has found the legendary city, and, just as Atlantis and Aztlan, many believe it is nothing more than a Myth.
5. Camelot
Image Credit: Leon Tukker. Posted with permission.
Camelot is the name of the fortress and kingdom of the legendary King Arthur, from where he fought many of the battles that marked his life.
Just as with other famous cities and places, the exact location of Camelot remains a mystery, and many scholars have argued that Camelot is entirely a work of fiction, and not real.
The stories locate it somewhere in Great Britain and sometimes associate it with real cities, although its exact location is not revealed.
The city was introduced for the first time in French romances of the twelfth century. Arthur’s court at Camelot is mentioned for the first time in Chrétien’s poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, dating to the 1170s, though it does not appear in all the manuscripts.
Camelot eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur’s realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world.
Since the location of Camelot remains a mystery, the truth about it, if it existed, remains an enigma.
Featured image credit: Leon Tukker. Posted with Permission.
Newly Released NASA Footage Raises Speculations That Alien Life Is Monitoring Humanity
Newly Released NASA Footage Raises Speculations That Alien Life Is Monitoring Humanity
The second man to step on the moon Buzz Aldrin and other three astronauts reportedly passed a lie detector test over their claims of UFO being spotted on their way to the moon.
Aldrin together with Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper reportedly took part of a particular study, which left the UFO enthusiasts and experts to be convinced that the signs of alien life were witnessed during the space mission of Apollo 11 on 1969.
It seemed the footage being posted online supported the claim.
The video shows what seems to be a UFO encounter on board a space shuttle mission, which claimed to have taken place in the same year. It reveals the moment when NASA’s mission control received a radio message from a concerned space explorer reporting the sighting.
Mario Runco Jn, who claimed to have taken the video, stated that they were observing the object for quite some time. Mario added that he saw another light passing above it, which he thought to be a star.
However, it appeared that the control team wasn’t interested in the report and even tried to change the subject.
The recording was taken during the 77th Space Shuttle mission of NASA known as STS-77.
The launched was at the year of 1969 from the launch pad 39B at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center and lasted ten days.
YouTube channel UFO Today then uploaded the video, which now has hundreds of views. They believe that NASA is trying to hide something to the public.
Images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express mission revealed an extraordinary feature, but the feature poses more questions than it answers: is it the remnant of an ancient supervolcano, or the crater of a meteorite crash?
Perspective view of Ismenia Patera.
Image credits: ESA.
Back in 2003, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched Mars Express — a mission with the goal of exploring Mars. More than 14 years later, the orbiter is still providing valuable insight into the Red Planet. Now, it has sent astronomers on Earth pictures of an intriguing feature called Ismenia Patera.
Patera means ‘flat bowl’ in Latin, and it’s as accurate a name as any. Measuring some 75 km across, it has a flat central area, surrounded by a ring of hills, blocks, and lumps of rock which seem to have been ejected from the center. The feature lies in a transition area which lies between Mars’ southern mountains and its northern plains.
Supervolcano or meteorite crater? We don’t really know.
The Mars Express view of Ismenia Patera.
The Martian topography is split into two parts: the northern lowland and the southern highlands — the latter being a few kilometers higher. This clear split is an extremely interesting puzzle for researchers, as the cause of this split isn’t really clear. It could be a massive impact, several smaller impacts, tectonic activity, or even supervolcanoes — whatever the reason may be, it remains hidden for now.
Understanding Ismenia Patera could be a much-needed puzzle piece that would allow astronomers to understand the transition area, and ultimately, the geological history of Mars.
Topographic view of Ismenia Patera.
Image credits: ESA.
However, things are not very clear. There are two competing theories: the first one is that it’s a volcano — a supervolcano to be more precise. At some point, the supervolcano would have undergone a massive eruption, which would eject huge quantities of material outwards, collapsing after the magma was thrown out.
The other theory is that it’s actually the site of a meteorite that collided with Mars at some point. So far, the visual data and our limited knowledge of Martian geology are our only clues regarding the nature of this feature. The transitional area shows signs of being the location of an ancient and long-inactive volcanic province. Ismenia Patera does have an irregular shape, low topographic relief, and relatively uplifted rims, which would suggest a volcanic nature. But then again, Mars is also riddled with numerous impact craters, so this remains an open question.
Hopefully, future missions will offer more surface and subsurface data, allowing scientists to finally untangle the planet’s complex and fascinating history.
Space aliens could have died out long ago, scientist says
Space aliens could have died out long ago, scientist says
A new paper argues that any extraterrestrials we hear from are likely to have died out.
by Seth Shostak
This artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun, NASA announced July 23, 2015.
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“He's dead, Jim.”
So sayeth Leonard “Bones” McCoy, the plainspoken doctor in the original "Star Trek" television series, to Captain James Kirk whenever an alien croaks in their high-tech sickbay. Expired extraterrestrials have been frequent players in many sci-fi potboilers, and for obvious dramatic reasons.
This possibility may sound bizarre. After all, how could we possibly tell whether a culture is still around when it’s hundreds or thousands of light-years away? In general we can’t. And yet there are reasons why Grimaldi and his team may be right. In fact, their argument is reminiscent of one I often hear in connection with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the typical globular cluster Messier 80, an object made up of hundreds of thousands of stars and located in the direction of the constellation of Scorpius. The Milky Way galaxy has an estimated 160 globular clusters of which one quarter are thought to be 'alien'. NASA
Since any alien radio message we might receive would have been lumbering through space at the finite speed of light — and since space is big — many folks assume that the signal must have been sent “millions of years ago.” The obvious corollary is that the alien broadcasters may have long since cashed in their chips.
My response to this melancholy logic is to note that most of the star systems examined by SETI scientists are less than a few hundred light-years away. So a signal from one of these wouldn’t be a million years old. And since a few centuries isn’t really much time, I usually offer an analogy: It takes the postal service three days to deliver a letter from my aunt. But it’s unlikely that she died in the interim because three days is brief in comparison to the average lifetime of aunts.
The new paper offers a similar argument, mathematically elaborated. The authors assume a simple scenario in which extraterrestrial societies spring up at random places in the galaxy at random times, and that they broadcast their talk shows (or whatever) into space. You can imagine these transmissions spreading like ripples across the plane of the Milky Way, reaching more and more star systems as time goes on.
A further assumption is that at some point — due to unspecified events (including, one presumes, self-destruction) — the aliens’ transmitters go silent. So each alien society’s radio signature is like an expanding doughnut, with an outer boundary representing the moment their transmissions start and an inner boundary defined by the moment they stop.
Very Large Array Radio Telescope, for picking up signals, New Mexico, United States. MyLoupe / UIG Via Getty Images
Now if your average alien society lasts for a long time — say more than 100,000 years — then its signals can cover the entire galaxy while the aliens are still with us. If this is a typical situation — if Klingon cultures have staying power — there could be many transmissions wafting over the Earth from societies that are still extant.
On the other hand, if the lights go out for most societies relatively quickly, then most signals reaching Earth now or in the immediate future are likely to be from aliens who are dead. If most civilizations transmit for 10,000 years (we earthlings have been transmitting for roughly a century), then 99 percent of all the signals washing over our planet are from expired, or at least silent, societies.
So yes, a SETI detection might come from a fossilized culture. But it’s fair to ask, “So what?” Would we care that the aliens are gone? Obviously, back-and-forth conversations would be out of the question. But conversations would be tedious anyway if the aliens are as much as 100 light-years distant.
And besides, I read Julius Caesar in high school Latin class, and it was interesting even though the “message” was 2,000 years old and the Roman Empire was dead. If we were to receive a message from aliens, the big news wouldn’t hinge on whether we were able to converse with them. It would be simply that someone else was out there.
Any message we receive would come from a society whose technology was far beyond our own. After all, they were able to transmit an intelligible signal powerful enough to reach across the cosmos. And so I believe that whether or not they were still around, what they had to say would be enormously interesting — and possibly useful in ensuring our own long-term survival.
VeryChic Sponsored It stays there for a few seconds, hovering in the sky, before flying off in the flash of a light.
The video comes just weeks after a passenger on a plane traveling to Athens in Greece claimed he captured a UFO flying alongside the aircraft.
In the footage above, you’ll see a dark shape come into the frame, which undoubtedly resembles a UFO.
Photo: Facebook/Ufo Türkiye. Turkey
Kerry Forides, filmed the unidentified object from his plane seat while travelling over the Aegean Sea on March 28.
The footage was then shared on Youtube and on his Facebook page.
"It appears to be flying away at right angles from our commercial jet and somehow without either of us appearing to turn we end up almost following it," he wrote alongside the video.
UFO Appears Over the Aegean Sea During Flight to Athens
VIDEO AN unidentified object has been captured on camera from a plane flying over theAegean Sea.
A video recording of eerie trumpet sounds from Hawaii has gone viral on YouTube, leading some to speculate that the End Times and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ are imminent. Others suggested UFOs, scientific explanations, and even Godzilla. (Watch the video below.)
"Jesus Christ is coming soon. I say it is a trumpet," a YouTube user named "Believer John Seventeen" posted.
Another user agreed. "Christ shall return. If you know Him, then you know His warnings — every eye shall hear and every ear shall hear," posted "Roger Dat." "Be not afraid for you are saved by faith in Jesus. Repent and turn from wickedness. The price was paid at Calvary and as He was risen, so shall His disciples be."
The video itself has no clear religious meaning, however.
Snippins News posted the video, reporting, "Not the first time to be heard, but it's been heard in multiple places all strangely at the same time."
"Unusual and unexplained noises are recorded in various locations around the world from time to time," Snippins News added. "While the specific origins of all such sounds may not yet be known, most scientific research points to natural causes such as tidal waves, methane explosions, underground earthquakes, or shifting sand dunes as explanations for these aural phenomena."
Even so, the YouTube channel remarked that "USGS scientist David Hill says it's also possible some of these noises originate from above."
Multiple users asked to share the video on their own YouTube channels, one with an alien focus. "Can we share this video on our Secureteam UFO channel with full credit and link back to your channel?" the alien-focused Secureteam YouTube channel posted.
Another user, perhaps joking, merely commented, "Godzilla."
User Jeff Suttles twisted the End Times angle into a Trump joke. "Heaven is trying to influence the outcome of the 2020 election by blowing trumpets," he wrote. "I say that Donald is colluding with heaven. Time to call for a special council [sic] and impose sanctions."
Christians believe that Jesus Christ will bodily return and resurrect all the dead for a final judgment. There will be one last great battle between good and evil, and God will create a new heaven and a new earth.
Beyond these general points, Christians disagree on the interpretation of the book of Revelation. Many End Times theorists have attempted to predict the exact time when Jesus will return, but Jesus rather explicitly said that not even He knew "that day or hour."
But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man(Mathew 24:36-39).
The book of Revelation records John's vision that seven trumpets will sound, as part of God's final judgment.
These sounds prove eerie, but some users suggested there would be a scientific explanation — or that the noises could even be a hoax. If these were any of the trumpets in Revelation, hail and fire mixed with blood would burn up a third of the trees on the planet, a third of the oceans would become blood, freshwater sources would be poisoned, the sun would become dark, or even worse things would happen.
The sounds in this video may seem weird, but they likely have no End Times significance whatsoever.
Trompetachtige geluiden vastgelegd in Hawaï. Is dit een teken van de apocalyps?
Trompetachtige geluiden vastgelegd in Hawaï. Is dit een teken van de apocalyps?
Een video met daarin vreemde trompetachtige geluiden in Hawaï is viraal gegaan op YouTube. Sommigen dachten dat de eindtijd was aangebroken, terwijl anderen zeiden dat het een teken is dat Jezus zal terugkeren.
Weer anderen dachten aan UFO’s of kwamen met mogelijke wetenschappelijke verklaringen op de proppen.
Zeven trompetten
Het filmpje werd geplaatst door Snippins News, dat erbij schreef dat het geluid eerder op meerdere plekken tegelijk is gehoord.
Sommige mensen verwezen naar de zeven trompetten in een Bijbelpassage in het boek Openbaring:
Toen nam de engel vuur van het altaar, legde het in de wierookschaal en gooide het op de aarde. Het begon te donderen, te rommelen en te bliksemen en de aarde schudde. Toen maakten de zeven engelen die de trompetten hadden gekregen zich klaar om op hun trompet te blazen.
Wetenschappelijke verklaring
Sommige YouTube-gebruikers suggereerden dat er een wetenschappelijke verklaring is voor de geluiden, of dat het mogelijk gaat om een hoax.
This UFO appeared on live cam and spit out an orb that quickly came closer to the space station. As the orb left the main ship, it was visible. However its systems seem to become activated after it left, because it soon cloaked.
Aliens are not giving up on us, the public. They will continue to send small messages to us all at different locations around the world. When you see a UFO, its probably because they wanted you to see them, so take photos or video and share it, because they would like the public to be aware of them. Its the governments of the world that refuse to let the public know of the existence of aliens.
If you follow the link, then in that recorded ISS video go to the 2:44 mark, the UFO will be visible, then it disappears and the screen becomes green.
Er lijkt maar geen eind te komen aan vreemde verschijnselen op de grond als ook in de lucht.
Zo worden er nu weer vreemde stralen aan de hemel waargenomen op verschillende plekken en niemand weet wat het is of waar het vandaan komt.
Wij leven in bijzondere tijden, want bijna iedere dag is er wel iets ongewoons te ontdekken op de planeet die wij aarde noemen.
Zo was er op 6 april het volgende waar te nemen bij Rockwall in de Amerikaanse staat Texas. Een straal die vanuit de aarde naar de hemel gaat of andersom.
Het is gefilmd vanuit een auto die daar op dat moment reed:
Twee dagen later was het opnieuw raak in de buurt van Phoenix in de staat Arizona en dit keer zag het er zo uit:
In beide gevallen heeft niemand een zinnige verklaring kunnen bedenken en ook van deze lichtstraal bestaat een korte video.
Dit is niet de eerste keer dat dit soort verschijnselen zich voordoen. Het is wat de laatste jaren regelmatig voorkomt en nog steeds heeft niemand er een verklaring voor.
Hieronder een deel uit een eerder artikel van ongeveer anderhalf jaar geleden met vergelijkbare verschijnselen.
Zo zagen de bewoners van een klein plaatsje in de buurt van het Argentijnse Buenos Aires op 30 december een vreemde lichtstraal die naar de hemel wees.
De lichtstraal schijnt te wijzen naar de lucht waar duidelijke een soort tweede lichtbron naast de zon is waar te nemen, precies op de plek waar we de planeet Helion zagen.
Is het dan vergezocht om te denken dat de aarde of iets op de planeet reageert, dat er iets ontwaakt, door de komst van dit zonnestelsel.
De laatste jaren is er sprake van nog meer merkwaardige lichtstralen, die dan voornamelijk van piramides en/of vulkanen afkomstig zijn.
Enkele jaren geleden bijvoorbeeld vreemde lichtstralen boven de beroemde Popocatépetl vulkaan in Mexico.
Ook de oude piramides schijnen wereldwijd weer tot leven te komen en lichtstralen naar de hemel te sturen zoals wij schreven in een eerder artikel:
Ter vergelijking volgen hieronder enkele foto’s van piramides waar energiestralen zijn gefotografeerd.
De eerste is een opname vanaf de Bosnische piramide van de Zon.
De volgende is een opname van 24 juni 2009 toen iemand een foto nam van ChiChen Itza piramide, eveneens in Mexico. Deze straal was niet zichtbaar toen de foto werd genomen, maar werd pas later waargenomen toen de afdruk werd bekeken.
De volgende en laatste opname is al wat ouder en genomen in 2000. Ook hier een merkwaardige energie/lichtstraal afkomstig van de Piramide van de Maan, wederom in Mexico.
Niets van dit alles vind je terug in het mainstream journaal van acht uur, noch in die van tien of zes uur.
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