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
WERE US ASTRONAUTS ORDERED NOT TO REPORT UFOS & ALIENS?
WERE US ASTRONAUTS ORDERED NOT TO REPORT UFOS & ALIENS?
Written By Douglas Herman 4-8-6
“At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.” – Scott Carpenter
Buzz Aldrin is a brilliant man. Not simply remarkable for his intellect but a deeply spiritual man. Long since retired, Colonel Aldrin now orbits the innermost dimensions of his mind, a secretive universe as deep and mysterious as the far reaches of the moon.
As a young airman, my path took me into a close encounter with Colonel Aldrin, more than 30 years ago. As a chauffeur with a radio-operated staff car, I served at Lackland AFB when Colonel Aldrin was undergoing a series of tests there. One afternoon my radio crackled that colonel Aldrin would need a ride to Wilford Hall, the large base hospital. Sadly my car wasn’t chosen. I’ve often wondered since then whether the “nervous breakdown’ this remarkable astronaut suffered was due to the government pressure or not. I think it was.
Why did Colonel Aldrin suffer a “nervous breakdown’ at that time? The weight of sudden celebrity, certainly. Deification by the adoring press and masses. But there was something more.
According to Fred Steckling, author of the book, We Discovered Alien Bases on the Moon II, Aldrin might have wanted to proclaim the truth of what he saw. Very likely, Pentagon and White House officials, fearful as always, would have cajoled, convinced or threatened him not to do so.
According to Steckling:
“The following list of facts I have learned from several individuals who are working or who have worked or been linked with NASA in some way over the years. For obvious reasons I will not now use their real names. The list below represents some of the information from three people: one is currently working in DOD missions for NASA; another started working with NASA & DOD when JSC (Johnson Space Center) was built. The third is a scientist who has worked at NASA and other facilities(and with) Edward Teller.’
There are buildings on the Moon.There is mining equipment on the Moon.
Photos, NASA photos, do exist which clearly show both of these. Hundreds, but probably thousands, of NASA photos have been tampered with. Specifically, by careful use of an airbrush, flying saucers and other UFOs can be removed, and then the photo is released to the public and/or press.
Film taken by astronauts clearly show UFOs, IFOs, Alien Vehicles, etc. The NSA screens all photos before release to the public. Everything that NASA has launched has been closely monitored by at least one ‘alien’ culture.
NASA knew about ‘alien’ activity on the Moon before Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins ever set foot on it. Edwin Aldrin at one point found evidence that we were NOT THE FIRST to arrive on the moon. After first seeing and then taking photographs of footprints in the lunar soil (Aldrin) then saw the beings that made the footprints (the report and transcripts of conversations between the astronauts were not clear if Aldrin had physical and/or mental contact with the entities).
“Alien Vehicles flew within 50 feet of a U.S. space vehicle for one full Earth orbit and then the AV departed; again while Aldrin was present. ‘Buzz’ Aldrin had a nervous breakdown because of these events and the pressure not to talk. There have been 22 deaths (many ‘suicides’) at JSC in Houston. No astronaut who has seen AVs or ETs is allowed to talk about it, even amongst themselves. If they do and are caught they may be fined, publicly humiliated, imprisoned, or have all pensions and future salaries taken away.'(my emphasis)
How much of the above account is fictional and how much fact? Only those who went to the moon and back know for certain. There are many second-hand accounts and alleged conversations, (Google UFO Sightings by Astronauts) where both Aldrin and Armstrong state, in no uncertain terms, they saw huge ships and other signs of alien occupation of the moon.
Return to Earth, Aldrin’s autobiography, tells of his struggle with depression and alcoholism following his long and dedicated USAF and NASA career. Did NASA, CIA and the Pentagon compel Colonel Aldrin (and every other astronaut) to conceal what they saw on the moon? How much did this contribute to Aldrin’s mental problems?
Some time ago the Science Channel aired a program called “First on the Moon: The Untold Story.’ One segment described a UFO encounter that Apollo 11 astronauts witnessed during flight to the moon. Aldrin spoke of something he saw.
‘To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that Buzz Aldrin, an Apollo 11 astronaut, had ever publicly recounted any UFO experience associated with the Apollo 11 moon mission,’ wrote Dave Stone.
Buzz Aldrin remarked, “There was something out there that, uh, was close enough to be observed and what could it be?…Mike (Collins) decided he thought he could see it in the telescope and he was able to do that and when it was in one position, that had a series of ellipses, but when you made it real sharp it was sort of L shaped.’
“NASA knew very little about, um, the object reported by the Apollo 11 crew. It was obviously an unidentified flying object,’ said Senior NASA scientist, Dr. David Baker. “But such objects were not uncommon and the history of even earth orbit space flights going back over the previous years indicated that SEVERAL CREWS SAW OBJECTS” (emphasis mine).
“Now, obviously, the three of us were not going to blurt out, ‘Hey Houston we got something moving along side of us and we don’t know what it is,’ observed Aldrin. “We weren’t about to do that, cause we know that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and who knows what somebody would have demanded that we turn back because of Aliens or whatever the reason is, so we didn’t do that but we did decide we’d just cautiously ask Houston where, how far away was the S-IVB?’
The S-IVB served as the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB. It had one J-2 engine. For lunar mission it was used twice: first for the orbit insertion after second stage cutoff, and then for the trans lunar injection (TLI). Now NASA reported the separated stage 6,000 miles behind. Obviously they didn’t detect any UFO.
Aldrin replied: “And a few moments we decided that after a while of watching it (UFO), it was time to go to sleep and not to talk about it anymore until we came back and (went through) debriefing.”
Perhaps one day, a living astronaut, a once-and-future hero, will come forward and frankly say what he saw and experienced. “One of these guys—sooner or later—has to go public,” observed one prominent UFO researcher.” This is a cosmic cover-up of the highest order.”NASA scientist, David Baker said, “There were a lot of people within the program who went off later and became convinced that UFOs existed and that led to some concern on NASA’s part where they got the agreement of the crew never to publicly talk about these things for fear of ridicule.”
A galaxy cluster warps space and time to create a circle of light, a new study reveals that illicit drug use rose during the 2017 total solar eclipse and researchers looked at a growing dark zone on an ice sheet in Greenland. These are some of this week's top stories from Space.com.
Photo Credit: H. Avenhaus et al./ESO/DARTT-S collaboratio
1. Astronomers spot planetary 'cribs' around young stars
New imagery from a European Southern Observatory (ESO) instrument reveals dusty disks around young nearby stars in never-before-seen detail. The disks are made of gas, dust and planetesimals which could merge to form new planets, and they are "wildly different in size and shape" from each other, according to ESO officials. These regions could offer insights about planet formation and are also of interest to scientists because their young stars are particularly close to Earth, between 230 and 550 light-years away.
NASA officials announced this week that Jim Green will be the space agency's next chief scientist, starting May 1. Green, who is currently head of NASA's Planetary Sciences Division, will serve as the main advisor to leaders in NASA science programs, policy and planning. In addition to representing the agency, Green will be tasked with communicating NASA's research goals and achievements to a broader scientific community.
3. Dark-colored algae bring attention to important ice sheet
A new study offers an explanation for the growing dark zone on the western edge of a Greenland ice sheet. Researchers in Norway found that a layer of dust and black carbon is providing nutrition to algae with dark pigmentation there. NASA is also monitoring the ice sheet because of the potential impact its melting could have on the world: If climate change liquifies this entire ice sheet, which is about three times the size of the state of Texas, global sea levels would rise about 23 feet (7 meters).
Photo Credit: Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE and HMI science teams
4. Solar wind flowed towards Earth, created auroras
Early this week, strong solar wind streamed toward Earth from a massive hole in the sun's outer atmosphere, called its corona, with the potential to create stunning auroras. The U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center issued a geomagnetic storm watch for April 10 and 11, and data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory revealed the large, dark region on the star's surface that caused the solar wind's increased flow.
5. New theory says dark matter is made up of mini black holes
A new theory attempts to explain the composition of dark matter, the mysterious mass in the universe that exerts a gravitational pull but emits no light. The theory states that small, ancient black holes born during the Big Bang could be what composes dark matter. While an intriguing idea, some physicists are skeptical about it, adding that even if it's in part true, the primordial black holes are unlikely to explain all the dark matter in the universe.
6. Air Force wants help for space surveillance telescopes
The U.S. Air Force Space Command is looking for help operating space-observing telescopes for 16 hours a day, seven days a week. Known as the Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System (GEODSS), these facilities operate from three sites across the world and deliver about 80 percent of all geosynchronous observations. The 21st Contracting Squadron at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado released a notice and responses are due April 23.
7. Mostly-metal world is focus of future NASA mission
A NASA mission, set to launch in 2022, will use a Mars flyby to shoot itself towards the 124-mile-wide (200 kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche. When the spacecraft arrives in early 2026, the Psyche mission will study the world that some scientists believe is 95 percent metal. This endeavour could improve scientific understanding about how Earth and rocky planets evolved, according to a recent video by the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center.
8. Locals and tourists got high for 2017 solar eclipse
In rural Kentucky, researchers tested sewage for active ingredients and metabolites of several illicit drugs. The results, published last month, suggest that there was a roughly 60 percent increase in amphetamine use during the total solar eclipse of August 2017. This technique to monitor drug use is rarely used in the United States, but has the potential to complement other sources of data in drug research.
The Mars 2020 rover is starting to come together. NASA technicians have officially started the mission's ATLO phase of development (the assembly, test and launch operations) at the Spacecraft Assembly Facility High Bay 1 at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The engineering team will work on the Red Planet rover for the next year and half, and so far the project is on track for a 2020 launch, NASA officials said.
10. Light-bending gravity creates an 'Einstein ring'
Hundreds of individual galaxies are bound together by gravity inside the galaxy cluster astronomers have labelled SDSS J0146-0929. A new Hubble Space Telescope image displays how extremely large the mass of this galaxy cluster is: You can see it warping space and time. Light from a background galaxy forms a perfect circle shape, known as an Einstein ring, as it gets distorted on its path towards Earth.
Flying Saucers Exist! Look at these Authentic 1950s Photographs
Flying Saucers Exist! Look at these Authentic 1950s Photographs
Two old black and white original photographs that came from an old hermit show very detailed flying saucers in the sky over Starks, Maine.
Since the images have been taken in the 1950s, it is always the question whether these flying saucers are real alien craft or man-made UFOs fabricated based on the knowledge obtained from former German scientists who have worked on the Nazi UFOs, like the Haunebu type. Mufon case 91403.
Triangle UFO Seen Following Space Station In Earths Orbit On Live Cam, April 14, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Triangle UFO Seen Following Space Station In Earths Orbit On Live Cam, April 14, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:April 14, 2018 Location of sighting: International Space Station (ISS) This UFO is going to blow your mind! I mean it just shows up as a single glowing orb. Then it divides into about 4-6 flashing orbs! During this time the UFO is revealed partially, meaning its not 6 UFOs, but one large UFO of about 300 meters diameter. As you can see in the above photo, the UFO has a more TR3B shape....meaning its a triangle! To see the triangle UFO, pause the video at 1:12 to see it. The TR3B UFO is known as an alien craft that the USAF has modified to be flown by humans. This appears to be one of those top secret government ships. Such a craft has the capability to fly from Earth to the moon in under a minute. Its not light speed, but its fast. Scott C. Waring
The surface of Canada’s Devon Ice Cap. Two lakes likely lie over 2,000 feet below.
(Credit: Anja Rutishauser)
These days it’s hard to find a place on Earth where humans haven’t interfered in some way. Venture to the most remote jungle or the depths of the Mariana Trench and you’ve likely been preceded by some emissary of humanity, whether that’s chemicals carried on the wind or something more tangible.
But there are places where our long shadow has never reached, where the events of the past 100,000 years might as well have never happened. Locked deep below gargantuan sheets of ice thousands of feet thick in Canada, researchers have discovered what they believe to be two lakes, saturated with salt and closed off from rest of the world for millennia.
A Different World
Subglacial lakes aren’t anything new — hundreds lie beneath Antarctica, and one, Lake Vostok is estimated to be the sixth-largest in the world by volume. For many, their contents have remained pristine by virtue of isolation. Scientists often see them as time capsules, snapshots of global conditions at the time they were closed off.
But some function almost as alternate realities. Samples from some of these lakes, such as Vostok, indicate that microbial communities are alive and well under the ice, even without sunlight. These organisms exist, and have existed, entirely separate from the flora and fauna that teem across the Earth — they might as well live on another planet.
And that’s why these environments, particularly those recently discovered in Canada, are so interesting to researchers. As we think about where in our solar system (and beyond) life might exist, researchers are looking to Earthly environments for inspiration. Chile’s Atacama desert, for example, might resemble Mars; hydrothermal vents under the sea might have close analogues elsewhere in the solar system.
At the moment, Jupiter’s moon Europa looks to be a solid candidate for finding extraterrestrial life. The moon likely has a large, salty ocean beneath an icy crust, which satisfies one of the most basic requirements for life. The water probably interacts with the bedrock, which would allow for crucial chemical reactions to take place. Sadly, sending a mission to Europa, especially one that would actually bore into the ice, would be fairly difficult and isn’t likely to happen anytime soon.
Water Under Ice
And that’s where these subglacial lakes come in. Researchers from the University of Alberta and the University of Texas at Austin were conducting radar scans of the terrain underlying Canada’s Devon Ice Cap, which lies north of the Arctic Circle near Greenland, when they noticed some unusual signatures. Bedrock normally scatters the signals, but they saw two areas where the signal was reflected with an odd amount of precision. The only explanation that made sense was that two bodies of water, roughly two and three square miles in area respectively, lay deep below, the researchers say.
Given the water lies under enormous pressure, with an average temperature well below freezing, the researchers say that it must be highly saline to remain in a liquid state. Based on models of the glacier at that depth, salt levels must be around four or five times that of the oceans, according to the researchers. They published their research Wednesday in Science Advances.
The salt probably comes from the bedrock the lakes are in contact with, they say, making them an outlier even among subglacial lakes. Just one other hypersaline lake, under Taylor glacier in Antarctica, is known to exist, and these newly discovered lakes may be even saltier.
While the researchers have no set plans at the moment to sample water from the lakes for microbes, the environment makes it an ideal model for other salty oceans in the solar system. If life exists in such environments here on Earth, it’s an indication that it could do so elsewhere as well.
The surface of Canada’s Devon Ice Cap. Two lakes likely lie over 2,000 feet below.
(Credit: Anja Rutishauser)
These days it’s hard to find a place on Earth where humans haven’t interfered in some way. Venture to the most remote jungle or the depths of the Mariana Trench and you’ve likely been preceded by some emissary of humanity, whether that’s chemicals carried on the wind or something more tangible.
But there are places where our long shadow has never reached, where the events of the past 100,000 years might as well have never happened. Locked deep below gargantuan sheets of ice thousands of feet thick in Canada, researchers have discovered what they believe to be two lakes, saturated with salt and closed off from rest of the world for millennia.
A Different World
Subglacial lakes aren’t anything new — hundreds lie beneath Antarctica, and one, Lake Vostok is estimated to be the sixth-largest in the world by volume. For many, their contents have remained pristine by virtue of isolation. Scientists often see them as time capsules, snapshots of global conditions at the time they were closed off.
But some function almost as alternate realities. Samples from some of these lakes, such as Vostok, indicate that microbial communities are alive and well under the ice, even without sunlight. These organisms exist, and have existed, entirely separate from the flora and fauna that teem across the Earth — they might as well live on another planet.
And that’s why these environments, particularly those recently discovered in Canada, are so interesting to researchers. As we think about where in our solar system (and beyond) life might exist, researchers are looking to Earthly environments for inspiration. Chile’s Atacama desert, for example, might resemble Mars; hydrothermal vents under the sea might have close analogues elsewhere in the solar system.
At the moment, Jupiter’s moon Europa looks to be a solid candidate for finding extraterrestrial life. The moon likely has a large, salty ocean beneath an icy crust, which satisfies one of the most basic requirements for life. The water probably interacts with the bedrock, which would allow for crucial chemical reactions to take place. Sadly, sending a mission to Europa, especially one that would actually bore into the ice, would be fairly difficult and isn’t likely to happen anytime soon.
Water Under Ice
And that’s where these subglacial lakes come in. Researchers from the University of Alberta and the University of Texas at Austin were conducting radar scans of the terrain underlying Canada’s Devon Ice Cap, which lies north of the Arctic Circle near Greenland, when they noticed some unusual signatures. Bedrock normally scatters the signals, but they saw two areas where the signal was reflected with an odd amount of precision. The only explanation that made sense was that two bodies of water, roughly two and three square miles in area respectively, lay deep below, the researchers say.
Given the water lies under enormous pressure, with an average temperature well below freezing, the researchers say that it must be highly saline to remain in a liquid state. Based on models of the glacier at that depth, salt levels must be around four or five times that of the oceans, according to the researchers. They published their research Wednesday in Science Advances.
The salt probably comes from the bedrock the lakes are in contact with, they say, making them an outlier even among subglacial lakes. Just one other hypersaline lake, under Taylor glacier in Antarctica, is known to exist, and these newly discovered lakes may be even saltier.
While the researchers have no set plans at the moment to sample water from the lakes for microbes, the environment makes it an ideal model for other salty oceans in the solar system. If life exists in such environments here on Earth, it’s an indication that it could do so elsewhere as well.
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ET Won't Phone Home: Psychologists Say SETI Has Faulty Alien Contact Methods
ET Won't Phone Home: Psychologists Say SETI Has Faulty Alien Contact Methods
by Staff Writers Moscow (Sputnik)
ET is calling the wrong number.
A group of psychologists say scientists will never make contact with aliens because aliens are likely to use communications based on unknown physical principles. They also say scientists are prone to so-called inattentional blindness.
A group of psychologists from the University of Cadiz in Spain has published an article criticizing alien-seeking scientists involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, saying they will never make contact with extraterrestrial civilizations.
According to the article, published in Acta Astronautica, the scientists involved in SETI are concentrating solely on searching for radio signals when aliens are likely to use other forms of communication, including those based on undiscovered physical principles. Therefore, humanity will not be able to recognize those signals.
The psychologists also say scientists are prone to so-called "inattentional blindness." This psychological phenomenon means a human can miss an object in his sight because his attention is focused on other objects. According to the psychologists, the scientists are concentrating on radio signals too much instead of watching for other forms of communication, too.
The shrinks proved their point with a cognitive test that involved 137 volunteers. The test comprises several stages: the first stage evaluated a person's ability to solve a kind of task, a quick and intuitive answer to which would be incorrect; after that, the psychologists showed the volunteers aerial images of natural and man-made objects. Some photos included a photoshopped image of a man in a gorilla suit.
It turned out that people prone to quick and intuitive answers noticed the gorilla-man more often than people who tend to give well-thought-out, analysed answers. The psychologists say these results show that the scientists are likely to miss different evidence of extraterrestrial life that may be both right in front of them and plainly obvious.
The psychologists also criticized the so-called Kardashev scale used to classify civilizations in space based on their power usage. According to the Kardashev scale, first proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964, civilizations rated at "I" use all the resources of their own planet; civilizations rated "II" use all the energy of their parent star and civilizations rated "III" can utilize the energy and resources of their whole galaxy. The psychologists instead offered their own kind of scale built on the ability of a civilization to alter its environment.
Humanity is still dependent on the natural conditions of the Earth, vulnerable to global catastrophes and still subject to the governing rules of biological evolution. At the same time, humans are relatively close to becoming space colonists and using the fruits of genetic engineering and nuclear physics. This makes humanity stuck between the first and the second stage of their scale.
A type II civilization should have control over quantum and gravitational energy, space-time and the ability to explore galaxies, while a type III civilization would be made up of exotic, immortal beings with the power to traverse multiple dimensions and manipulate dark energy and matter, the paper says.
Therefore, looking for radio signals only makes it possible to contact civilizations in the first stage of their scale, the psychologists say.
A few weeks ago a story about a UFO encounter by pilots over Arizona and New Mexico made headlines. While this encounter was impressive, the journalist who broke that story has a much more exciting case involving many more pilot witnesses and the scrambling of jets. He also was able to obtain multiple audio files, radar data and other information from the FAA regarding this unusual incident.
Tyler Rogoway (Credit: The Drive/The War Zone)
Tyler Rogoway is a defense writer for the website The Drive. He writes for a section called The War Zone. Rogoway often writes about advanced aircraft developed by militaries all over the world. However, in an interview on Open Minds UFO Radio, he shared that he also has an interest in the rare occasions in which a high-performance aerial vehicle cannot be identified. In other words, UFO cases.
“I’ll tell you, anyone that is in the aerospace world and journalism and tell you that they have no interest in the legacy of UFOs and the whole history that goes along with it is lying to you,” Rogoway recently told Open Minds UFO Radio. “It is an interesting thing, even for the sake of lore and intrigue. So I have followed it very closely.”
Rogoway explained that when people see things in the sky, they cannot identify, it might not be a craft from outer-space, it may be something the government is working on they are keeping secret. This makes it essential for him to keep an eye on the UFO phenomenon. He says he has never seen anything he could not explain himself. He has also been to many of the bases that are alleged to have alien bodies or crashed alien spacecraft, and he has never seen anything out of place.
However, because of the recent revelations that the Department of Defense (DoD) has had a project that takes UFOs seriously, he has felt more emboldened to write about unusual cases he has come across. It should be noted; however, his first story on the Oregon incident was posted on November 15, 2017, a month before the shocking DoD revelations.
The sighting over California and Oregon took place on October 25, 2017. According to his first article on the incident, Rogoway first found out about the sighting from “friends in the aviation world.”
He says at first he felt it was most likely a case of a misidentification, which he says happens every day. Then he found an interesting post on Reddit that seemed to be referring to the sighting.
Reddit user Duprass wrote: ”Just landed in Seattle coming from the bay area. Beginning over Southern Oregon we kept overhearing Seattle Center attempting to track an airplane with no transponder who wasn’t talking. A handful of crews were able to track it visually…”
Duprass also mentioned that he heard Seattle Center, an FAA air traffic control center, was having trouble tracking the object on radar. This was when they asked pilots to see if they could get a visual sighting of the object. Among other details, Duprass also said he heard jets were scrambled.
Rogoway then found audio files at LiveATC.com that seemed to be related to the incident. Although Rogoway provides links to the audio in his story, the links no longer work. He says air traffic control and the pilots discussed the object for about half an hour.
Rogoway quickly sent a request for information to “the 142nd Fighter Wing based at Portland International Airport, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and the FAA.”
He writes:
NORAD’s reply was quick and clear. An incident involving multiple airline crews, air traffic control, and F-15Cs from the 142nd Fighter Wing based out of Portland did occur. According to the limited information NORAD supplied, airliner pilots were asked by FAA air traffic controllers to help track and possibly identify a “white aircraft” traveling in the flightlevels nearby—roughly between 35,000 and 40,000 feet based on the radio recordings. NORAD also said that the incident did result in F-15s from Portland being scrambled to investigate, but by the time they got up and ‘looked around’ the mystery aircraft couldn’t be found.
This answer intrigued Rogoway even more. He says the 142nd Fighter Wing’s F-15Cs are upgraded with some of the best radar and long-range targeting systems in the world. He writes, “The fact that they ‘didn’t find anything’ is surprising to say the least.”
An F-15 Eagle from the 142nd Fighter Wing takes off from Portland Air National Guard Base in Oregon during an operational readiness inspection on Wednesday, June 14.
(Image credit: U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman John Hughel)
Rogoway says the FAA confirmed the event occurred, but said they had nothing further to add to what he already knew. The 142nd Fighter Wing did not respond at all.
Rogoway found another Reddit post from someone who claimed to be an air traffic controller. Reddit user The Flying Beard claimed that the situation was being investigated. The Flying Beard wrote: “I think the FAA is pursuing this at higher levels. From a safety standpoint, if the military is running super secret test stuff in the NAS [National Airspace], that’s bad. If I were one of the pilots that had a sighting, I’d definitely be filing a NASA form and any other official reports that you can…”
Rogoway’s initial article on this story added a lot more detail and some intelligent analysis. He also said he submitted a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) to the FAA for more information.
On February 15, 2017, Rogoway posted a follow-up story regarding his investigation of this incident. He writes, “Now, through the Freedom of Information Act, we present what could be one of the most insightful instances of official documentation surrounding such an encounter that had already been confirmed to have occurred by both the FAA and the USAF. These materials include fascinating audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made as the incident was unfolding, as well as pilot interviews, and conversations between FAA officials made in the aftermath of the highly peculiar incident.”
Rogoway and The War Zone put together videos with the audio synced with the radar information they received. The first video covers the initial spotting of the object. It was first seen over Northern California traveling “very fast at 37,000” feet at about 4:30 pm PST. The object then took a turn to the north where it came into the vicinity of nearby air traffic. The craft had no transponder, never communicated with air traffic control, and somehow could disappear from radar.
Soon after being first caught on radar, it dropped off of the radar. That is when nearby aircraft were asked to get a visual. Over the next half hour, and hundreds of miles, several airline crews, shared their visual sightings.
Rogoway writes, “The exchanges between nearby pilots and air traffic control regarding the unidentified aircraft were constant in the audio, with the same description coming back time and again—that of a white aircraft cruising at around 37,000 feet that is too far away to tell the type or if it has markings of any kind on it.”
Jets were scrambled about 30 minutes into the incident. However, Rogoway notes that the jets headed south from the last known location of the unidentified craft. According to the pilot reports, the object headed north.
Besides air traffic control audio, Rogoway was also able to obtain phone calls made by the FAA regarding the incident. Names are bleeped out for privacy, and Rogoway notes that there is no way to know if any of the audio has been redacted.
Rogoway also explains some of the terms heard in the audio. “DEN” is an acronym for the Domestic Events Network, which he explains is a hotline for the FAA to reach federal authorities. The term “WADS” and “Bigfoot” are also used. WADS is an acronym for Western Air Defense, which is a part of NORAD that monitors airspace over a large part of the U.S and Canada. Bigfoot is their nickname.
In the phone calls, FAA managers can be heard discussing how to handle the situation. They contemplate having civilian aircraft scheduled to land in Portland stay airborne so they can keep an eye on the unidentified aircraft. They decide against this because they say they are not sure “if [the unidentified object] are equipped with anything.” Presumably meaning they are not sure if they would be putting the civilian craft in danger. They conclude there is something out there and that military involvement was the best idea. There is also some debate over procedure as to who should have contacted the military and requested the scrambling of the jets.
The calls also include deliberation over how to report the incident. One controller says, “I have a feeling someone is going to go through this with a fine-tooth comb.”
The audio files also included interviews with pilots. The most interesting, Rogoway writes, is an account from a Southwest pilot.
He writes:
The call with the pilot of Southwest 4712 was by far the most interesting. He immediately notes how strange the encounter was and how he has never seen an incident like it in nearly 30 years of flying jets. The pilot noted, “if it was like a Lear (private jet) type airframe I probably would not have seen it this clear. This was a white airplane, and it was big. And it was moving at a clip too because we were keeping pace with it, it was probably moving faster than we were… It was a larger aircraft yeah.” He also said they watched the object from Northern California all the way to their descent into Portland.
The final FAA calls confirmed the incident occurred, and just how “weird” the event was. Rogoway points out that the conversations demonstrate just how rare these sorts of events are. One FAA official says the event was “a weird enough thing that there is not a set procedure… It’s not often we hear about an unknown guy up at that altitude.”
The entire incident is fascinating, and the amount of material Rogoway obtained is incredible. Rogoway says he was also surprised how much information he received. In his Open Minds UFO Radio interview, Rogoway says it has crossed his mind that the FAA was more forthcoming after the news of the DoD UFO program. He certainly felt they seemed more willing to share recently than they were in November when he first broke the story. However, he does not know for sure if the DoD news has anything to do with it.
In the end, the FAA never found out what the unidentified aircraft was. They concluded it was large and fast. They state that it seemed to be flying faster than a nearby 737. 737s have a cruising speed of just over 500 mph. It had no transponder and somehow seemed to be able to evade radar. Although it dropped off the radar, it could still be seen visually. Another important mystery is why the F-15s could not find the aircraft after the commercial airlines visually tracking the object landed in Portland. Rogoway says he believes the high-tech equipment on those F-15s should have been able to find it.
Read more about the entire investigation on The Drive’s The War Zone here.
Header image credit: Maintainers from the 142nd Maintenance Group, {the F-15 Eagle for a training mission from the Air Dominance Center, Savannah Ga., Jan. 28, 2017. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Shelly Davison, 142nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs)
Originator and former host of late-night American radio talk show “Coast to Coast AM,” Art Bell died at the age of 72 on Friday at his Nevada home surrounded by his family. The news of Bell’s death was confirmed by Nye County, Nevada, Sheriff’s Office.
The last time Bell hosted an edition of "Coast to Coast AM" was in the year 2010. In the recent years, he was more involved in the creation and production of an overnight talk show named “Midnight in the Desert” on the Dark Matter Digital Network.
The current host of his former show “Coast to Coast AM,” George Noory also made an announcement about Bell’s death during his show at 1:20 a.m. local time (2:20 a.m. EDT) Saturday. The cause of Bell's death was yet to be revealed.
Born June 17, 1934, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, to Arthur Bell, Jr., a United States Marine Corps captain, and Jane Gumaer Bell, a Marine drill instructor, Bell also served in the U.S. Air Force as a medic during the Vietnam War and in his free time operated a pirate radio station at Amarillo Air Force Base, where he played anti-war music that was not aired on the American Forces Network.
He was an American Broadcaster and author and the original host of the paranormal-themed show “Coast to Coast AM,” which was broadcasted on hundreds of radio station in U.S. and Canada. He also created and hosted its companion show “Dreamland.”
Former radio host Art Bell dies at 72. In this photo, a deserted studio at French radio station RTL radio's historical headquarters at Bayard Street, in central Paris, March 16, 2018.
Photo: Getty Images / Ludovic Marin
He semi-retired from the show in the year 2003 and hosted a lot of weekend programs on primetime networks for the following four years. Bell finally announced his retirement in July 2007 but even after that, on occasions, served as a guest host through 2010.
According to his bio, when Bell was asked the reason for his retirement, he said he wanted to spend more time with his wife and their daughter, who was born in May 2007.
But even after announcing his retirement, Bell returned to radio July 20, 2015, with a new show called “Midnight in the Desert,” which is available online on TuneIn and on some terrestrial radio stations. However, he retired again in December 2015 citing security concerns at his home.
Bell said he and his family were subject to repeated intrusions at his home in Pahrump, Nevada, including gunshots.
Fearing for his family’s safety, Bell finally decided to go off the air due to the attention that comes with living in the public life because he believed the intruder(s) wanted him to leave the shows.
In addition to his TV shows, Bell was also the original owner of a Pahrump-based radio station, KNYE 95.1 FM and both his broadcast studio and transmitter were located near his home in Pahrump itself.
Bell also lived in the Philippines from June to December 2006 and returned back in March 2009 after having difficulties in obtaining a visa for his wife. He is survived by his wife Airyn and their daughter.
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.
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