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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...
23-04-2018
EN ALWEER SCHEELDE HET NIET VEEL
EN ALWEER SCHEELDE HET NIET VEEL
Wanneer een asteroïde zo dichtbij de aarde komt dat het tussen de aarde en de maan langs vliegt, dan moet je je toch wel wat zorgen gaan maken.
Niet in het minst wanneer het object pas op het allerlaatste moment wordt opgemerkt.
Heel regelmatig horen we berichten over weer een asteroïde die niet of pas heel laat is ontdekt en dat de aarde weer eens aan een ramp is ontsnapt.
Op 15 april vloog een asteroïde die wordt omschreven als een Tunguska klasse asteroïde ter grootte van een voetbalveld rakelings langs de aarde. De afstand waarop deze passeerde was minder dan 200.000 kilometer, hetgeen in ruimtetermen vlakbij betekent.
Dat niet alleen, de asteroïde werd ook pas de dag van te voren ontdekt en dat gebeurde door een observatorium, Catalina Sky Survey, in de Amerikaanse staat Arizona.
De referentie naar Tunguska betekent dat deze asteroïde, wanneer het wel door de dampkring zou zijn gegaan, een effect had kunnen veroorzaken, vergelijkbaar met wat er gebeurde in Tunguska in 1908.
Op 30 juni 1908 vond in Toengoeska (nu Evenkië, hetgeen sinds 2007 bestuurlijk onderdeel is van de kraj Krasnojarsk) in Siberië een enorme explosie plaats bij de rivier de Stenige Toengoeska, die bekendstaat als de Toengoeska-explosie of Grote Siberische Explosie. Als gevolg van de explosie braken in een omtrek van 30 tot 40 kilometer bomen aan de basis van de stam af. Over de oorzaak van de explosie wordt nog veel gespeculeerd, mede omdat deze in een zeer afgelegen gebied plaatsvond; de meest geaccepteerde verklaring is de ontploffing van een meteoriet op circa 8 kilometer boven het aardoppervlak.
De schaarse ooggetuigen in het zeer dunbevolkte gebied zagen een vuurbal uit de hemel neerdalen en in de lucht exploderen. Dit ging gepaard met een zeer harde knal. Door de kracht van de explosie braken bomen in de omgeving af en werden mensen en dieren weggeblazen. De explosie was tot op meer dan 200 km van het bodemnulpunt te voelen.
Ter vergelijking; de asteroïde die de aarde nu heeft gemist, is ongeveer vijf keer groter dan de meteoriet die boven Chelnyabinsk explodeerde in 2013.
Als de asteroïde, die de naam 2018 GE3 heeft gekregen, de aarde geraakt zou hebben, dan zou dit niet het einde van de wereld hebben betekend, maar wel van een stad als bijvoorbeeld Amsterdam. Er was natuurlijk ook nog een kans dat het nooit de grond zou bereiken, maar ergens boven de aarde exploderen.
Wat echt zorgwekkend is, is dat niemand deze dingen ziet aankomen, of als ze het wel doen, pas op het allerlaatste moment.
Uit een eerder artikel uit 2013:
Een voormalig Amerikaans astronaut noemt de situatie op aarde als het gaat over asteroïden, een spel van kosmische roulette
Niemand, maar dan ook echt helemaal niemand, had de asteroïde bij het Russische Chelyabinsk opgemerkt.
In een televisieprogramma destijds waren een aantal experts van NASA te gast, naar aanleiding van de explosie boven Chelyabinsk:
In het programma praat hij met een aantal experts van NASA die toegeven dat ze geen flauw idee hebben over wat er allemaal op ons af komt. De eerste keer dat zij gewaar werden dat er een asteroïde in de vorm van een meteoriet boven Rusland was ontploft, was toen ze dit vernamen via Twitter.
Dat er op diezelfde dag nog een asteroïde rakelings langs de aarde scheerde werd ook niet opgemerkt door NASA, maar wel door een amateur astronoom.
We weten dat de systemen om deze asteroïden op tijd te ontdekken en eventueel maatregelen te nemen zwaar onvoldoende zijn en het beste advies dat NASA kan geven op dit gebied is dan ook: bidden dat het niet gebeurt.
We zijn nu weer een aantal jaren verder en ondertussen zijn er in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar een record aantal waarnemingen geweest van “vuurbollen” in de lucht.
Een trend die zich nu al jarenlang verder doorzet en de indicaties zijn dan ook dat dit jaar het record voor vuurbollen opnieuw zal worden gebroken.
Wanneer je ziet in bovenstaande tabel dat we nu alleen al in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar al bijna op hetzelfde niveau staan als het gehele jaar 2011, dan ziet het er wat dat betreft niet goed uit.
Wanneer al die vele miljarden dollars die worden besteed aan wapensystemen gebruikt zouden worden om een waarschuwingssysteem voor de mensheid te creëren en een systeem wat misschien de koers van gevaarlijke asteroïden zou kunnen wijzigen, dan zouden we een stuk verder komen dan nu.
WETENSCHAPOoit al van de Lagoonnevel gehoord? Het is een gebied in onze Melkweg in sterrenbeeld boogschutter waarvan de NASA nu wonderlijke beelden vrijgeeft. Dat gebeurt naar aanleiding van de 28ste verjaardag van ruimtetelescoop Hubble, die de natuurpracht vastlegde.
De eerste video neemt kijkers mee in het hart van de gigantische en kleurrijke nevel, een slordige 4.000 lichtjaren weg van de Aarde. “Een woeste sterrencrèche vol geboorte en vernietiging”, zo klinkt dat bij de NASA.
In het hart van de ruimtenevel ligt een massieve ‘jonge’ ster, de miljoen jaren oude Hershel 36. “Die schijnt 200.000 keer helderder en is acht maal heter dan onze zon”, luidt het. “De ster hult het gebied in ultraviolette straling en winden die een explosief, golvend fantasielandschap uitkerven van ribbels, holtes en bergen van gas en stof.”
Infrarood
Een tweede video gaat over in een infrarode versie die de gigantische hoeveelheid sterren toont achter het gas en stof.
Denkbeeldige vlucht
De NASA gebruikt de beelden ook in een video die een vlucht doorheen de Lagoonnevel simuleert.
28 jaar
De Hubbleruimtetelesoop werd gelanceerd op 24 april 1990 met ruimteveer Discovery, een gezamenlijk project van de NASA en het Europese ruimevaartagentschap ESA. Een keer per jaar onderbreekt de telescoop, die rond de Aarde draait, zijn normale observatieopdrachten om gedetailleerde beelden te schieten van een specifiek punt in de kosmos.
“De Hubble heeft ons een nieuw beeld van het universum bezorgd en heeft 28 jaar lang alle verwachtingen ingelost en overtroffen”, melden NASA en ESA. De telescoop heeft “een revolutie ontketend in bijna elk gebied van astronomische observatie”.
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Wetenschappers ontdekken waarom Uranus stinkt naar rotte eieren - HLN.be
Wetenschappers ontdekken waarom Uranus stinkt naar rotte eieren - HLN.be
WETENSCHAPDe planeet Uranus heeft een onaangenaam geurtje. De wolken van de planeet bestaan namelijk voor het grootste deel uit waterstofsulfide, dat de geur van rotte eieren veroorzaakt. Wetenschappers vragen zich al lang af waaruit de wolken precies bestaan. Dat mysterie blijkt nu opgelost.
Sommige wetenschappers dachten dat de wolken van Uranus bestonden uit waterstofsulfide, anderen geloofden dat het ammoniak was. Nu heeft een internationaal team een gevoelige telescoop op Hawaï gebruikt om de ‘vingerafdruk’ van de planeet te meten. Daarin is duidelijk waterstofsulfide te zien.
Als er ooit een mens naar Uranus zou gaan, is het de vraag of hij of zij veel van de geur zal merken. “Als een zielige mens ooit door de wolken van Uranus heen gaat, krijgt hij of zij te maken met onplezierige en onwelriekende omstandigheden. Maar verstikking en blootstelling aan 200 graden onder nul met waterstof, helium en methaan zullen veel eerder hun tol eisen dan de geur”, aldus onderzoeker Patrick Irwin van de universiteit van Oxford.
Mogelijk heeft ook de planeet Neptunus veel waterstofsulfide. Jupiter en Saturnus bestaan juist uit veel ammoniak. De studie werd gepubliceerd in het wetenschapsblad Nature Astronomy.
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Cylindrical Luminous Objects Leaving Earth Caught On Camera
Cylindrical Luminous Objects Leaving Earth Caught On Camera
An expert in photography witnessed two cylindrical luminous objects, actually three objects; that seem to leave the atmosphere directing towards space. He took some 8 high-resolution images of the cylindrical objects in the night of April 14, 2018 on the outskirts of the city of Rykkinn, in Norway.
The photographer said: I found the mysterious lights when I checked the sequence of my photos and visible in 21 frames. The camera was outside on my balcony. The shots were made in raw format.
I think that the objects in the frames are very strange, that is, 3 lights almost parallel cross the sky directed towards the space moving the one following the second in front and almost perfectly.
I looked up and I cannot find any satellite that matches the trajectory. I also checked the monitor with the rare satellite crossing but nothing matched these objects. My camera's clock works well. Images are recorded with a Sony 6000 camera in manual mode. Mufon case 91487.
Black UFO Shoots Past Paddle Boarder In Waikiki, Hawaii On Video, April 16, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Black UFO Shoots Past Paddle Boarder In Waikiki, Hawaii On Video, April 16, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 16, 2018 Location of sighting: Waikiki, Hawaii, USA Source: MUFON #91556 Check out this UFO as it shoots past a paddle boarder at such high speed, the human eye can't even keep up with it. However, it was caught on camera and the eyewitness must have found it later while looking at the video. The UFO is too fast to be a lost balloon and its to thick to be a frisbee. This object is a disk shape, thick and is seen on the front and its back as it flips and flies at the same time. Very odd. This UFO does have a similar shape as one recorded on infrared video by the US Navy as the UFO flew over the water. Video below to compare. Why is this UFO here among so many people? To record and better understand the thoughts of humans during when they are involved in a relaxed activity that they enjoy. It is info gathering. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
April 16, 18 I photographed in Hawaii Waikiki If you watch the video, something goes fast in about 2 seconds. Please confirm Thank you.
Below is a UFO recorded by a US Navy jet as the UFO was flying over the ocean.
So says Nick Pope who investigated the strange phenomenon for the Ministry of Defence.
The massive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) also explored reports of flying saucers.
Since it was exposed last year, three videos have shown bizarre enouncters with pilots and inexplicably-fast aircraft.
And Mr Pope believes AATIP could solve the famous Rendlesham Forest incident on Boxing Day December 1980 in Suffolk.
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ON THE INSIDE: Former investigator Nick Pope worked on the Ministry of Defence's UFO project
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MYSTERY: Rendlesham Forest has often been described as the 'UK Roswell'
Two members of the US Air Force (USAF), John Burroughs and Jim Penniston from the nearby Bentwaters and Woodbridge bases, went to investigate a suspected civilian plane crash.
They stumbled upon an unknown craft displaying strange “hieroglyphic symbols”, which accelerated away at high speed after they touched it.
The UFO was briefly tracked on radar and reportedly returned two days later and fired beams at air force crew and a “sensitive area” of the Woodbridge base, according to Mr Pope.
The former MOD expert said: “When the story about the Pentagon's secret UFO project first broke, there was an intriguing reference to AATIP having a dossier detailing the best UFO cases from around the world.
“Apart from Roswell, the Rendlesham Forest incident is the best-known UFO case in the world, so it's logical it would be in AATIP's dossier, especially as the Rendlesham witnesses were US military personnel.”
Mr Pope said that all Freedom of Information requests for details on AATIP’s work have been rejected on national security grounds.
"The Special Relationship between the US and the UK remains strong, but there's been very little intelligence-sharing about UFOs," said Mr Pope.
Mr Pope claimed that an MOD assesment talked about what kind of "novel military applications" could come from UFOs.
"Governments – even allies – are in competition with each other over this, and don't want to give their game away," he said.
He believes that the X-Files type investigations of the Pentagon project could have answers about mystery radiations associated with flying saucers.
He said: “In a later MoD intelligence assessment of the UFO phenomenon more generally, my colleagues looked again at Rendlesham, and their final report contained the bombshell sentence ‘the well-reported Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event is an example where it might be postulated that several observers were probably exposed to UAP [Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon] radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting periods'.
“I’d be intrigued to know what information AATIP has about this, and what they concluded.
“In parallel with analysing videos of military jets chasing UFOs – like the three that have already been released – AATIP seem to have looked at the physiological effects of UFOs on people who had extremely close encounters, as was the case at Rendlesham.”
The radiation could come from an "exotic energy source and/or propulsion system", some have suggested.
He revealed that scientists concluded the craft can effectively create their own time-space bubble, which allows them to fly at such incredible speeds.
He said he resigned over “excessive secrecy and internal opposition”.
With the project potentially still running, Mr Pope hopes the answers to Rendlesham could finally emerge 40 years later.
He said: “We're not too far from the 40th anniversary of what's been called Britain's Roswell, and I hope the Rendlesham witnesses – Charles Halt, John Burroughs, Jim Penniston and others – are finally going to find out what happened to them.
“It would be ironic if the answer to Britain's most famous UFO mystery was lying in a government file somewhere, not in the MoD, but in the Pentagon.”
Mr Pope has written the book Encounter Rendlesham Forest based on interviews with the two witnesses Burroughs and Penniston.
Het resulteerde in de geboorte van Phobos en Deimos: de twee kleine manen van Mars.
Over de oorsprong van de manen van Mars is al veel gedebatteerd. Sommige onderzoekers denken dat het planetoïden zijn die door de zwaartekracht van Mars zijn ingevangen. Anderen vermoeden dat ze het resultaat zijn van een enorme botsing tussen Mars en een ander hemellichaam. Die botsing zou geresulteerd hebben in een puinschijf rond Mars waar vervolgens Phobos en Deimos uit samenklonterden. Die laatste theorie lijkt te worden onderschreven door de cirkelvormige baan die de twee manen rond Mars trekken en het feit dat ze zich in hetzelfde omloopvlak bevinden.
Eerdere pogingen Natuurlijk hebben onderzoekers al regelmatig geprobeerd om die botsing tussen Mars en een ander hemellichaam en de geboorte van Phobos en Deimos te simuleren. Maar dat resulteerde helaas nooit in een goede afspiegeling van de werkelijkheid. Iets wat deels te herleiden is naar het feit dat veel van deze modellen niet gedetailleerd genoeg waren. Wat bovendien ook niet hielp, was dat veel modellen uitgingen van een botsing tussen een groot hemellichaam en Mars en zo resulteerden in enorme puinschijven, waaruit enorme manen voortkwamen die het bestaan van Phobos en Deimos praktisch onmogelijk maakten.
Hier zie je hoe groot de manen van Mars in vergelijking met onze eigen maan vanaf het oppervlak van Mars lijken. Hoewel de grootste maan van Mars zo’n 100 keer kleiner is dan onze maan, lijkt deze vrij groot, omdat beide manen veel dichter rond Mars draaien dan onze maan rond de aarde.
Afbeelding: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ.
Klein botslichaam In het blad Science Advances maken onderzoekers nu bekend dat het ze gelukt is om de botsing te simuleren en daarbij uit te komen op een situatie die recht doet aan de werkelijkheid. “Een belangrijk aspect van het nieuwe onderzoek is de omvang van het object dat op Mars botste,” vertelt onderzoeker Robin Canup. “Wij ontdekten dat er in plaats van een gigantisch botslichaam, een groot botslichaam – vergelijkbaar met de omvang van Vesta en Ceres – nodig is.” Collega Julian Salmon voegt toe: “Wij gebruikten state-of-the-art modellen die aantonen dat een inslag door een object dat qua grootte vergelijkbaar was met Vesta of Ceres een schijf voort kan brengen die in lijn is met de totstandkoming van Mars’ kleine manen. De buitenste delen van de schijf klonteren samen tot Phobos en Deimos, terwijl de binnenste delen samenklonteren tot grotere manen, die uiteindelijk naar Mars toe bewegen en geassimileerd worden.”
WIST JE DAT…
…Phobos as we speak door de zwaartekracht van Mars uit elkaar wordt getrokken en over 30 tot 50 miljoen jaar in stukken zal worden gescheurd? Waarschijnlijk ontstaat er dan een nieuwe puinschijf rond Mars.
Droog Op basis van het model kunnen verschillende interessante conclusies over de manen van Mars worden getrokken. “Het model voorspelt dat de twee manen voornamelijk bestaan uit materiaal afkomstig van Mars,” vertelt Canup. Wel zou het puin waaruit de manen zijn ontstaan tijdens de inslag van hun water zijn ontdaan. “Wat betekent dat de manen droog zijn.”
Of de modellen een goed beeld geven van wat er werkelijk gebeurd is in de jonge jaren van Mars, is nu niet met zekerheid te zeggen. Maar daar kan over een paar jaar verandering in komen. In 2024 wil de Japanse ruimtevaartorganisatie een sonde naar de manen van Mars sturen. Deze moet op het oppervlak van Phobos landen, wat materiaal verzamelen en terugbrengen naar de aarde. Dan kunnen we de samenstelling van de maan vergelijken met die van Mars en hopelijk vaststellen hoe de twee manen van Mars zijn ontstaan.
Zijn wij wel de eerste geavanceerde samenleving op aarde?
Zijn wij wel de eerste geavanceerde samenleving op aarde?
Caroline Kraaijvanger
En als dat niet zo is, kunnen we die eerdere samenleving dan opsporen?
Wij mensen vinden onszelf heel wat. We hebben in korte tijd de complete aarde gekoloniseerd en naar onze hand gezet. En bijna dagelijks worden er nieuwe technologieën ontwikkeld die ons nog meer grip geven op de aarde en zelfs ons eigen leven. We noemen onszelf intelligent en vinden onszelf heel bijzonder. Want op aarde is geen enkele soort die op ons lijkt. En ook buiten de aarde zijn we onze gelijke nog niet tegengekomen. En dan kun je geneigd zijn om onze soort als een soort kroon op een miljarden jaren durend proces van evolutie te zien. Maar is dat wel terecht? Die vraag stellen onderzoekers zich in een nieuw paper dat deze week is verschenen in het blad International Journal of Astrobiology.
Gedachte-experiment Wij mensen gaan er eigenlijk wel een beetje vanuit dat we de eerste geavanceerde, of industriële samenleving op aarde zijn. Maar hoe zeker kunnen we daarvan zijn, zo vragen professor Adam Frank, verbonden aan de universiteit van Rochester en Gavin Schmidt, directeur van het NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies zich in het paper af. Uiteindelijk keert al het leven op aarde – tezamen met zelfs haar grootste prestaties – immers terug tot stof. En zou het dan niet kunnen dat we gravend in gesteentelagen uit vroeger tijden zo’n industriële, misschien zelfs nog wel geavanceerdere beschaving dan de onze, over het hoofd zien? Het is een interessant gedachte-experiment – Frank en Schmidt denken niet echt dat er lang geleden een geavanceerde beschaving op aarde rondliep – dat onder meer kan helpen bij het vinden van buitenaards leven.
Hoe vaak ontstaat geavanceerd leven? Het is misschien wel één van de belangrijkste vragen binnen de wetenschap: zijn wij alleen? Of zijn er elders in het zonnestelsel en daarbuiten nog veel meer levende wezens te vinden? Menig onderzoeker houdt zich met die vraag bezig. En vaak ligt de focus daarbij op de zoektocht naar intelligent leven. Zo wordt er bijvoorbeeld actief gezocht naar radiosignalen afkomstig van buitenaards, intelligent leven (tot op heden zonder succes, overigens). “Eén van de belangrijkste vragen in het inschatten van de kans dat we zo’n beschaving vinden, is: hoe vaak ontstaat een industriële samenleving?” zo schrijven Frank en Schmidt. “Mensen zijn het enige voorbeeld dat we kennen en onze industriële samenleving heeft (tot op heden) grofweg nog maar 300 jaar standgehouden. Dat is maar een fractie van de tijd die we als soort bestaan en een fractie van de tijd waarin complexe levensvormen op het landoppervlak van de aarde voorkomen (vanaf ongeveer 400 miljoen jaar geleden). Die korte tijdspanne roept duidelijk de vraag op of dit al eens eerder kan zijn gebeurd.”
Van alle dinosaurussen die ooit op aarde hebben rondgelopen, hebben we er maar een paar duizend vrij compleet teruggevonden. Het geeft wel aan dat fossiele resten eigenlijk heel zeldzaam zijn.
Sporen Het paper draait ten diepste om de vraag welke sporen geavanceerde beschavingen achterlaten en of we die sporen kunnen terugvinden. Zullen toekomstige aardbewoners over tientallen miljoenen jaren fysieke resten van ons en onze bezigheden terugvinden in gesteentelagen uit onze tijd? Waarschijnlijk niet, zo stellen Frank en Schmidt. Allereerst is er de platentektoniek die de aarde voortdurend van een facelift voorziet en er onder meer in de oceanen voor zorgt dat er alleen piepjonge sedimenten (dat wil zeggen: jonger dan 170 miljoen jaar) worden bovengehaald. En ook op het land is het aardoppervlak aan verandering onderhevig; het oudste aardoppervlak dat tot op heden is teruggevonden is slechts 1,8 miljoen jaar oud. Natuurlijk zijn er op grotere diepte wel oudere sedimenten te vinden, maar hoe dieper je gaat, hoe meer die sedimenten – en alles wat daartussen te vinden was – zijn samengeperst. Wat ook niet helpt, is dat slechts een fractie van het leven op aarde fossiliseert en bewaard blijft. De kans dat door ons gemaakte objecten miljoenen jaren later terug worden gevonden, is eveneens klein. Direct bewijs voor ons bestaan hoeven de aardbewoners die over tientallen miljoenen jaren over onze planeet heersen dus niet te verwachten. Maar onze aanwezigheid kan over miljoenen jaren wellicht wel worden afgeleid uit het feit dat we ons klimaat veranderd hebben, zoveel vervuilende stoffen in het milieu hebben gebracht (van plastics tot steroïden) en met onze landbouwtechnieken een verandering op het gebied van erosie en sedimentatie hebben bewerkstelligd.
“JE WILT EEN MOOIE, GROOTSCHALIGE BESCHAVING HEBBEN DIE GEWELDIGE DINGEN DOET, MAAR DE PLANEET NIET TOT DINGEN DWINGT DIE GEVAARLIJK ZIJN VOOR DE BESCHAVING ZELF”
Paradox Ironisch genoeg zijn de activiteiten waarmee we ons over miljoenen jaren nog aan toekomstige aardbewoners kenbaar kunnen maken – het uitstoten van CO2, het dumpen van plastic en gebruik van steroïden – ook de activiteiten waarmee we ons vernietigen. Er doemt zo een interessante paradox op, zo schrijven de onderzoekers. “Hoe langer de menselijke beschaving standhoudt, hoe omvangrijker het signaal wordt dat deze achterlaat. Maar hoe langer een beschaving standhoudt, hoe duurzamer de activiteiten ervan moeten zijn, wil deze kunnen overleven. En hoe duurzamer een samenleving is (bijvoorbeeld op het gebied van energie-opwekking, productieprocessen of landbouw) hoe kleiner de voetafdruk op de rest van de planeet is. Maar hoe kleiner de voetafdruk, hoe kleiner ook het signaal dat in het geologische archief achterblijft.” Het signaal dat beschavingen achterlaten, wordt dus als het ware van nature begrensd. En daar kunnen we lering uittrekken, aldus Frank. “Je wilt een mooie, grootschalige beschaving hebben die geweldige dingen doet, maar de planeet niet tot dingen dwingt die gevaarlijk zijn voor de beschaving zelf. We moeten dan ook een manier vinden om energie te produceren en gebruiken die geen gevaar voor ons vormt.” Want we moeten ons niet vergissen: niet onze planeet, maar de mensheid staat op het spel. “Het draait niet om het redden van de aarde. Wat we ook met de planeet doen: we creëren niches voor de volgende cyclus in de evolutie. Maar als we op deze voet doorgaan en fossiele brandstoffen blijven gebruiken en de klimaatverandering die hierdoor ontstaat, negeren, kan het zijn dat wij mensen niet langer deel zullen uitmaken van de voortdurende evolutie op aarde.”
Geen bewijs Nu we weten welke sporen een geavanceerde samenleving als de onze achter kan laten, is het tijd om terug te blikken op de hoofdvraag: zijn wij de eerste geavanceerde samenleving op aarde? “Gavin en ik hebben geen bewijs gevonden voor een andere industriële beschaving,” stelt Frank. Wel stuitten ze in het geologische archief op signalen die zo op het eerste gezicht lijken op de signalen die onze beschaving achterlaat. Je moet dan bijvoorbeeld denken aan signalen uit het PETM (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum), een periode die gekenmerkt wordt door een significante opwarming van de aarde. Waar het PETM zich van het huidige tijdperk onderscheidt, is dat de opwarming ten tijde van het PETM veel langzamer ging en bovendien samenviel met enorme vulkaanuitbarstingen. En dus lijkt dat signaal niet te verklaren te zijn door een CO2-uitstotende beschaving, maar eerder door natuurlijke omstandigheden.
Afbeelding: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw.
Strikt genomen valt echter niet uit te sluiten dat de aarde vóór wij er waren nooit een industriële samenleving heeft gekend. Met name als zo’n beschaving maar kortdurend industrieel actief is geweest, kunnen we de signalen die deze achter heeft gelaten, gemakkelijk over het hoofd zien, zo schrijven de onderzoekers in hun paper.
Het opsporen van een geavanceerde beschaving die misschien nog wel voor de dino’s de dienst uitmaakte, was een leuke bonus geweest. Maar het was zeker niet het hoofddoel van de onderzoekers die dit paper schreven (sterker nog: ze geloven helemaal niet dat die er is geweest). Hun belangrijkste doel was om mensen aan het denken te zetten en de manier waarop we over de geschiedenis en toekomst van onze eigen beschaving en nog te ontdekken andere beschavingen denken, te veranderen. Het ontstaan van die beschavingen is niet het begin, net zoals het ten onder gaan van die beschavingen niet het einde is. Het is meer een cadans, waarbij de ondergang van de ene beschaving de start van de volgende kan inluiden. En als we helder krijgen hoe we die cadans in het geologisch archief kunnen opsporen, kunnen we daar in de nabije toekomst ook op andere planeten ons voordeel mee doen. “We weten dat Mars in zijn jonge jaren – en misschien Venus ook wel – veel leefbaarder was dan deze planeet nu is en het is aannemelijk dat we op een dag ook daar door de geologische sedimenten boren,” stelt Schmidt. “En dit helpt ons om na te denken over waar we dan naar moeten zoeken.”
During the late 1980s a man by the name of Bob Lazar, a former Area 51 engineer, went public with supposed inside information. What he revealed would make him an extremely controversial figure, even amongst ufology enthusiasts. There are those who believe Lazar is a government pawn whose purpose is to spread misinformation across the masses. Others speculate he’s merely a profiteer who fabricated stories in hopes of financial gain. However, some feel that perhaps this whistleblower may in fact be telling the truth.
Robert Scott Lazar was born on January 26th, 1959 in Coral Gables, Florida. He holds degrees in both physics and electronics from MIT as well as California Institute of Technology. Much of his life was spent living in Las Vegas where he dabbled in a number of scientific pursuits in attempts to better understand propulsion. After experimenting with chemistry and fireworks production, Lazar assembled a jet vehicle capable of land speeds in excess of three hundred and fifty miles per hour. Monitor newspaper featured Lazar’s twenty-two thousand horsepower car on its front page.
At this time, in 1982, Lazar attended a lecture at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Doctor Edward Teller, inventor of the atomic bomb, would be speaking. Both of the science fanatics met afterwards and quickly struck up a conversation. As luck would have it, Dr. Teller happened to be reading that very issue of Monitor paper. When Lazar pointed out the article he was advised to submit his resume for consideration. Within a few days the eager physicist was hired and became an esteemed Los Alamos staff member.
Five years later Lazar found himself working at S-4, a location one hundred and twenty-five miles north of Las Vegas and fifteen miles south of Groom Lake. Often called Area 51, or “Dreamland,” the region has captivated the masses for generations. According to the propulsion systems expert, he was recruited by the Department of Naval Intelligence to work on a secret program called Project Galileo. Unbeknownst was the fact that this specific employment opportunity would permanently turn his life upside-down.
Reaching the remote destination required quite an arduous commute. First he would drive to McCarran International Airport in Nevada and enter the EG&G Special Projects Building. An unmarked plane would then fly directly to Groom Lake. Upon landing, Lazar would embark on a windowless bus which drove across the desolate desert before finally reaching S-4. Entrance was only granted upon approval of an incredibly thorough security check. Once inside the facility he noticed a total of nine hangars built into a mountainside. Each possessed perfectly camouflaged sand-colored doors. Lazar did not have full clearance and was escorted into one of the installations by his superior.
He was led into a specific room where one hundred and twenty-two briefings were presented. A stern commanding officer instructed the new hire to read every single document. While making his way through the paperwork, a brief synopsis was found about various operations being executed at the base. Upon completing his assigned task he was informed that his position was replacing two individuals recently killed on the job. These men had been working on a craft and for unknown reasons they cut its operating reactor. The detonation caused a massive deadly explosion which could be felt from far away distances. Officials deceitfully told nearby citizens the tremor was an aftereffect of nuclear testing.
On Lazar’s third day he was brought into a building which housed nine different flying saucers. Initially he blamed experimental military technology, which would explain the massive amount of UFO sightings. However, once he physically entered a vessel all rationalizations quickly dissipated. There was an inexplicable ominous feeling that radiated throughout his entire body. Such a strong emotional response truly perplexed the left-brained scholar. Even stranger were the impractical tiny child-sized interior seats. Further meticulous inspection brought forward a startling conclusion: these vehicles could not be of an earthly origin. Contrary to his initial belief, S-4 crew hadn’t been manufacturing the crafts… they were reverse-engineering them.
During the coming weeks Lazar continued to work on several eerie devices. Each was cool to the touch and appeared to be made out of some type of metal similar to unfinished stainless steel. No noticeable seams existed so it seemed as if the craft was manufactured from a mold. Over time he discovered how the flight capabilities functioned. Every machine generated its own gravitational field and turned surrounding gravity waves in reverse polarity to that of Earth’s. Invisibility could be rendered by traveling faster than the speed of light.
On the flying device’s floor was an antimatter reactor which controlled all movements. A compound with the atomic number of one hundred and fifteen, undiscovered in 1989, served as its fuel source. Element 115 allowed the spaceships to drag points together from anywhere in the infinite cosmos. UFOs created an amplified nonlinear distortion in both space and time. Vast distances could be navigated in mere seconds. Since the apparatuses function by warping space itself infinite momentum is achieved. Limitless energy is provided through a purposely created environmental distortion.
Lazar gradually gained more knowledge regarding the mysterious activities occurring at S-4. One night he witnessed an airship performing a dazzling test flight. His colleague explained that these particular UFOs originated from Zeta Reticuli One and Two, a binary star system located thirty-nine light-years from our planet. Another occasion led to him being shown autopsy photos of an otherworldly being. Some type of organ had been removed from the creature’s open chest cavity and Lazar described it closely resembling the typical Grey Alien. Allegedly such entities are responsible for creating modern man through centuries of genetic alterations to our simian ancestors.
Eventually an inside source recounted what would become the most troubling story of all: a human-extraterrestrial war. Only ten years earlier military personnel and martian visitors maintained a working relationship. Yet the professional data exchange program would soon come to a screeching halt. One fateful day security officers attempted to gain entry into a designated ET part of the grounds. Each were equipped with sidearms which, according to Lazar, would have caused a massive explosion. When subterranean aliens attempted to stop incoming armed guards a fight ensued. Sixty-six faculty members lost their lives and prompted the decades-long correspondence’s abrupt ending.
Six months after his inceptive enlistment Lazar decided to leave S-4 Base forpersonal reasons. Before parting ways high-ranking directors threatened his life and stated that if anything were disclosed there would be major repercussions. Weeks later the ex-employee was shot at by an unmarked car while driving on the highway. Following the harrowing incident he reached out to KLAS, a Las Vegas TV station, where he gave an interview with investigative reporter George Knapp. Lazar rationalized that if he turned up dead succeeding his speaking publicly it would look incredibly suspicious for government officials. Self-preservation was his ultimate justification.
Nearly thirty years have passed since this bizarre firsthand experience made headlines. While skeptics remain critical of such claims Lazar maintains his authenticity. In 2003 Element 115 was positively identified adding further validity and potential supporting evidence. Recently a physicist named Dr. Robert Krangle came forward and stated that he did in fact work with Lazar at Los Alamos Laboratory. Perhaps with the progression of time additional professionals will open up about their own involvement. Until then whatever transpired in those Nevada hangers remains mere speculation and will provide endless intrigue for conspiracy theorists.
UNDERWATER STRUCTURE THOUGHT TO BE OVER 14,000 YEARS OLD & MAN-MADE
UNDERWATER STRUCTURE THOUGHT TO BE OVER 14,000 YEARS OLD & MAN-MADE
Massive rock structure hidden 60-100 feet underwater found in 1987 in Yonaguni, Japan. Experts call it the greatest discovery in the history of underwater archeology. Its massive size is equivelent to 2 football fields. Geological evidence shows that it was submerged during the meltdown of the last ice age which means it was built over 14,000 years ago.
Some of its peculiar details include:
-Two closely spaced pillars which rise to within eight feet of the surface; -The “Loop Road”, a 5 m (16 ft) wide ledge that encircles the base of the formation on three sides; -The “Totem”, a stone column about 7 m (23 ft) tall; -The “Dividing Wall”, a straight wall 10 m (33 ft) long; -The “Gosintai”, an isolated boulder resting on a low platform; -The “Turtle”, a low star-shaped platform; -The “Triangle Pool”, a triangular depression with two large holes at its edge; -The “Stage”, an L-shaped rock.
Ancient Aliens Season – 02, Episode – 03 (Underwater Worlds)
A mysterious undersea pyramid structure off the coast of Japan causes controversy – is this a natural geological phenomena or a man-made structure which changes the history books as we know
AMERICAN AIRLINES PILOT REPORTS UFO WITH ‘BIG REFLECTION’ 40,000 FEET OVER ARIZONA
AMERICAN AIRLINES PILOT REPORTS UFO WITH ‘BIG REFLECTION’ 40,000 FEET OVER ARIZONA
Pilots on two separate aircraft reported an unidentified flying object high over southern Arizona last month.
One of them, a commercial pilot flying a passenger jet for American Airlines, said the object was above 40,000 feet and “had a big reflection.”
The Feb. 24th incident began when the pilot of a Learjet reported an object to Albuquerque Center air traffic control while flying over the desert in southeastern Arizona.
“I don’t know what it was. It wasn’t an airplane but it was, the path was going in the opposite direction,” the pilot said.
Air traffic controllers asked the pilot of a nearby American Airlines passenger jet traveling from San Francisco to Dallas to let them know if anything passes over the aircraft.
“If anything passes over us?” the pilot asked, somewhat incredulously.
A few minutes later, he saw it ― whatever “it” was.
“Something just passed over us, like a, don’t know what it was, but it was at least two, three thousand feet above us,” he said. “Yeah it passed right over the top of us.”
The American Airlines pilot said he couldn’t make out what the object was but it “had a big reflection” and was going in the opposite direction.
Two months later, it’s still not clear what was up there.
“We don’t have any comment beyond what you hear,” FAA spokesperson Lynn Lunsford told KOB, the NBC station in Albuquerque. “Other than the brief conversation between two aircraft, the controller was unable to verify that any other aircraft was in the area.”
The reported altitude would put the UFO well above the range of consumer drones. Yet the vague nature of the sightings doesn’t completely rule out balloons or experimental aircraft.
The sightings occurred near the Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, and about 100 miles from Luke Air Force Base. Several other bases are within 500 miles. However, Lunsford implied that air traffic controllers would likely know if there was military aircraft in the air.
“We have a close working relationship with a number of other agencies and safely handle military aircraft and civilian aircraft of all types in that area every day, including high-altitude weather balloons,” Lunsford was quoted as saying.
Who Was Methuselah? A Man Who Lived For 969 Years According To The Bible
Who Was Methuselah? A Man Who Lived For 969 Years According To The Bible
Methuselah, Noah’s grandfather, is considered the man with one of the longest lifespan’s in history and is said to have lived for 969 years until the great flood swept across the land.
But not only is this Biblical character fascinating for his longevity, he is also very important for a number of other reasons.
According to Genesis, Methuselah was the eighth antediluvian patriarch, son of Enoch, father of Lamech and grandfather of Noah (who was the lastof these patriarchs).
21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him.
25 And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. —Genesis 5:21–27.
Noah’s Ark.
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Methuselah is mentioned in Genesis as the son of Enoch and father of Lamec—who in turn was the father of Noah—whom he fathered at 187 years of age.
His name has become a general synonym applied to any elderly creature, used in phrases such as “having more years than Methuselah” or “being older than Methuselah”.
A careful reading of the Old Testament reveals that Methuselah reportedly died in the year of the Great Flood.
Three manuscript traditions, the Masoretic, the Septuagint and the SamaritanTorah offer different timelines.
If we take a look at the Masoretic, an authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Tanakh for Rabbinic Judaism, was 187 years when his son was born. He died the year of the Flood at the age of 969.
The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament, the earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew indicates how Methuselah was 187 years when his son was born and died at the age of 969, but six years before the great flood.
According to the Samaritan Torah, a text of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, written in theSamaritan alphabet and used as scripture by the Samaritans, Methuselah was 67 years old when his son was born, and he died at the age of 720 years, the years the Great Flood took place.
These ‘discrepancies’ in ancient texts have been explained in a number of ways, the most obvious one being the accidental corruption by copyists and translators.
Some errors may be the result of attempts to correct previous errors.
But despite the fact that there are discrepancies in the dates, one thing remains the same: Methuselah lived beyond the life expectancy of ordinary humans.
So, what does that make him? Was Methuselah perhaps, not human?
How on Earth is it possible that someone can live for 969 years?
It shouldn’t be possible.
The Ancient Sumerian King List.
However, if we take a look at another ancient text, the Ancient Sumerian King List, we find plenty of ‘historic’ evidence of ‘Kings’ living on Earth for thousands of years.
If we take a look at the Sumerian King list we’ll see that it clearly states:
“After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug. In Eridug, Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years. Alaljar ruled for 36000 years. 2 kings; they ruled for 64800 years.”
The Sumerian King List describes eight kings who ruled over Earth for a total of 241,200 years, since the original kingship had ‘descended from heaven’ all the way to the time of the ‘Great Flood’, which swept over the land and once more “the kingship was lowered from heaven” after the Flood.
So, there we see different historical sources describing ‘people’ actually living on Earth for hundreds and even thousands of years.
But ordinary humans can’t live that long.
According to James W. Vaupel an American scientist in the fields of aging research, biodemography, and formal demography, life expectancy began to increase in 1840 with the decrease in infant mortality and adolescent mortality and has continued to rise, in an average increase of two and a half years each decade.
Vaupel’s research shows that life expectancy is likely to increase well beyond the purported limit of 85 years.
But 85 is still a long way from 969 years of life.
Our current knowledge about the lifespan of a cell leads us to suppose that the natural limit of longevity in the human being is below 150 years.
The Guinness record for the longest human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France (1875–1997), who lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days.
Some authors believe that human beings lived close to a thousand years, until after the flood, God shortened this age (Genesis 6:3) Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strivewith man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
But was it really an act of God, the fact that human lifespan was shortened?
Or is it possible that there is another, more extravagant explanation, one that suggests that in the days of Methuselah, beings not from Earth, walked on our planet?
Featured image credit:Anthony Hopkins as Methuselah in Noah (2014). Image Courtesy of Paramount Pictures
IN 1947, A HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOON CRASH LANDED IN ROSWELL. THE ALIENS NEVER LEFT
IN 1947, A HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOON CRASH LANDED IN ROSWELL. THE ALIENS NEVER LEFT
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
Let’s start closer to the beginning. On June 14, 1947, a rancher named W.W. “Mac” Brazel and his son Vernon were driving across their ranchland some 80 miles northwest of Roswell when they encountered something they’d never seen before. It was, in Brazel’s words, “a large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, and rather tough paper, and sticks.”
The metallic-looking, lightweight fabric was scattered, shredded across the gravel and sagebrush of the New Mexico desert. Brazel didn’t know what to do with the newfound items, or how they had landed on the property, so on July 4 he collected all of the mysterious wreckage he could find. On July 7, he drove it all to Roswell, delivering the goods to Sheriff George Wilcox.
Wilcox, too, was confounded.
Seeking answers, he contacted Colonel “Butch” Blanchard, commander of the Roswell Army Airfield’s 509th Composite Group, located just outside of town. Blanchard was stymied. Working his way up the chain of command, he decided to contact his superior, General Roger W. Ramey, commander of the 8th Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas.
Blanchard also sent Major Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer from the base, to investigate more thoroughly. Accompanied by the sheriff and Brazel, Marcel returned to the site and collected all of the “wreckage.” As they tried to ascertain what the materials were, Marcel chose to make a public statement. On July 8, Marcel’s comments ran in the local afternoon newspaper, the Roswell Daily Record, alongside a headline stating “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell.”
The body of the story contained a dramatic, memorable sentence: “The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into the possession of a Flying Saucer.”
“Apparently, it was better from the Air Force’s perspective that there was a crashed ‘alien’ spacecraft out there than to tell the truth,” says Roger Launius, the recently-retired curator of space history at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
“A flying saucer was easier to admit than Project Mogul,” Launius adds, a chuckle in his voice. “And with that, we were off to the races.”
It was after the close of World War II, a time when nuclear weapons cast a long shadow. Truth-telling was not a priority, and there were remarkably unusual events underscoring the situation at hand.
Everywhere you looked in 1947, the global, social and political chessboard was being re-divided. The Soviet Union began to claim eastern European nations for itself in a new post-war vacuum. Voice of America started broadcasting in Russian to the eastern bloc, peddling the principles of American democracy. The U.S. sent V2 rockets carrying payloads of corn seeds and fruit flies into outer space. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set the “Doomsday Clock” ticking, and the Marshall Plan was in the making to rebuild war-torn Europe. Small wonder that in the heat of summer that year, flying saucers became all the rage.
On June 21, Navy Seaman Harold Dahl claimed to have seen six unidentified flying objects in the sky near Maury Island in Washington state’s Puget Sound. The next morning, Dahl said he was sought out and debriefed by “men in black.”
Three days after the Dahl sighting, an amateur pilot named Kenneth Arnold said he had spotted a flying saucer in the sky by Mount Rainer, Washington.
“UFOs aren’t unusual,” Launius says. “They’re simply unidentified things you see in the sky. We’ve all probably seen them. And, if you look long enough, you’ll probably eventually figure out what it is you’re looking at. It’s not extraterrestrials.”
By the end of 1947, mass hysteria had seized the global mindset, with more than 300 alleged “flying saucer” sightings in the last six months of that year alone.
“Not that there was ever any credible evidence to support the sightings,” Launius adds.
By early July 1947, Brazel had heard tales of flying saucers in the Pacific Northwest. These sightings spurred him to show his discovery to the authorities, but just one day after the Air Force announced it had come into possession of a flying saucer, Roswell’s morning newspaper debunked the story.
A published statement from the War Department in Washington claimed the debris collected on Brazel’s ranch was the remains of a weather balloon, and the Roswell Dispatch’s morning headline, “Army Debunks Roswell Flying Disc as World Simmers with Excitement,” set the tale to rest on July 9.
“But we need to back it up, here,” says Launius. “What was really going on was something called Project Mogul.”
In this classified program, the U.S. government launched high-altitude balloons into the ionosphere, hoping to monitor Russian nuclear tests. “The Russians wouldn’t get a nuclear weapon until 1949,” Launius adds. “But we didn’t know that in 1947.”
And, Launius adds, thanks to the new, horrifyingly powerful weapon and a changing geopolitical landscape, it was a time of paranoia.
Still, if the rumor of extraterrestrial visitors had been put to rest by the government, it didn’t die as easily in the public mind.
“But that was it, really,” says Launius. “The debate was over. It was to be the end of speculation. According to the government, the matter was closed. The debris was from a weather balloon.”
Of course, though, that wasn’t the end.
There would be a 1948 report from the government about what was now being called the “Roswell Incident.” In 1950, Frank Scully, a reporter for Variety, wrote Behind the Flying Saucers, a book that detailed alien encounters from the Pacific Northwest to the towns of Aztec and Farmington, New Mexico, where aliens were now said to be landing their aircrafts in people’s backyards.
By then, enthusiasm for flying saucers had spread everywhere from Belgium to Russia and Japan. A rumor that had started as a convenient lie for the Air Force had become a distraction to the U.S. government, which was now deep into its nuclear weapons monitoring projects. “But there was no way the Air Force was going to admit what it was doing,” Launius says.
Project Mogul was conducted out of Washington, D.C. and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, with some high-altitude balloon launches taking place in the high desert near the state’s border with Texas.
Typically, a Project Mogul balloon sent into high altitude stretched 657 feet from tip to tail, 102 feet taller than the Washington Monument and twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
As balloons rode on the upper jet stream toward Russia, a long tail equipped with different types of sensing and listening devices trailed behind.
“But, obviously, something happened to this one balloon,” Launius says. “It came back to Earth and probably was spread across a wide area.”
Although much of the documentation about Project Mogul has now been declassified, Launius says that civilian access to information failed to stop the lure of extraterrestrial life.
Because the U.S. government was now in a frenzy of nuclear testing—both in the South Pacific and, later, at the Nevada Test Site—the hermetic silence around classified government programs left a certain segment of citizens suspicious. The UFO sightings continued.
“Then we get to the late 1970s and early 1980s,” Launius says. “And that period saw a real spike in extraterrestrial interest, from movies to books and other things.”
Movies such as Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and ET, plus dozens of books on the subject, brought aliens to the forefront of the public mindset once again.
“By that time,” Launius says, “people’s imaginations had gotten the best of them.”
Suddenly, there were rumors of regular extraterrestrial life on Earth, not to mention crashed spaceships. There were now stories of two alien ships crashing in New Mexico in June 1947, scattering their contents and tiny green crewmen across the landscape. Before long, any secret government property—from nuclear sites to engineering locations—was suspected to house deceased or imprisoned aliens.
This was most evident at Area 51, an off-limits airstrip and aircraft engineering and development facility inside the Nevada Test Site, about 90 minutes north of Las Vegas. It was rumored that aliens from the Roswell spacecraft and other crashed ships were either being autopsied or slid into cylindrical glass tanks containing gel-like preservatives.
The government wasn’t helping to quell speculation, either. At their most secretive sites, they posted large, unambiguous “No Trespassing” signs, often with a reminder to those who entered illegally: “Use of Deadly Force Authorized.”
And the alien hysteria had gotten even wackier. By the early 1990s, with scant evidence to support it, a global UFO and extraterrestrial industry had come into existence. There were more movies. More books. More newspaper and magazine stories, more television news segments and shows focused on visitors from space.
In Roswell, the populace had been cashing in on the alien craze for some time. The town was home to the International UFO Museum and Research Center, and even a local Wal-Mart got into the spirit, decorating its walls and front windows with green-skinned, large-headed aliens. Roswell’s civic seal sports an artist rendering of an alien, and the exterior of the local McDonald’s in town has enough spacecraft-based accessories to look like a ship preparing to take off for some distant galaxy. Along the town’s Main Street, toy aliens, flying saucers and other extraterrestrial ephemera are sold in local shops.
Roger Launius has served as the chief historian of NASA and sat on several investigative panels discussing what might exist beyond Earth, but he seems more amused by the 70 years of hysteria surrounding the “Roswell Incident” than anything else.
“Well, all I really know,” he says, “is that UFOs are exactly that. They’re unidentified objects seen in the air. But that’s not extraterrestrials.”
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXT THAT CONFIRMS ALIENS VISITED EARTH IN THE PAST
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXT THAT CONFIRMS ALIENS VISITED EARTH IN THE PAST
It has been believed for quite some time now that the ‘Tulli Papyrus’ is probably the best evidence ever of ancient flying saucers in the distant past, but leading historians have questioned its authenticity and meaning and constantly dismiss it as evidence that Earth has been visited by Extra-terrestrials – But this factual piece of historic evidence should NOT be ignored.
Like many other ancient texts around the world, this ancient piece of evidence appears to tell an amazing story, one that could potentially change the way that we look at ourselves (past, present and the future), our history and the entire Universe!
It’s believed that this ancient piece of documentation, which in fact isn’t a papyrus actually, offers the earliest proof ever of flying saucers on planet earth – The Tulli “papyrus” is a translation of a modern transcription of an ancient Egyptian document.
The Pharaoh that ruled over Egypt was Thutmose III and according to this intriguing ancient text, this mass UFO sightings happened back in 1480 BC. At this time this incredible event was recorded in history as a day of significant importance – the day that something unexplainable and shocking occurred.
Please see below an actual translation into the above text pictured:
“In the year 22, of the third month of winter, sixth hour of the day […] among the scribes of the House of Life it was found that a strange Fiery Disk was coming in the sky. It had no head. The breath of its mouth emitted a foul odour. Its body was one rod in length and one rod in width. It had no voice. It came toward His Majesty’s house. Their heart became confused through it, and they fell upon their bellies. They [went] to the king, to report it. His Majesty [ordered that] the scrolls [located] in the House of Life be consulted. His Majesty meditated on all these events which were now going on.
After several days had passed, they became more numerous in the sky than ever. They shined in the sky more than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of the four supports of heaven […] Powerful was the position of the Fiery Disks.
The army of the King looked on, with His Majesty in their midst. It was after the evening meal when the Disks ascended even higher in the sky to the south. Fish and other volatiles rained down from the sky: a marvel never before known since the foundation of the country. And His Majesty caused incense to be brought to appease the heart of Amun-Re, the god of the Two Lands. And it was [ordered] that the event [be recorded for] His Majesty in the Annals of the House of Life [to be remembered] for ever.”
This ancient old text was translated by many leading historians and scientists and is probably one of THE most important pieces of evidence of Ancient Aliens visiting earth – perhaps they have never actually left Earth?
This ancient old text was translated by many leading historians and scientists and is probably one of THE most important pieces of evidence of Ancient Aliens visiting earth – perhaps they have never actually left Earth?
This simply amazing historical event was described as being silent, but with incredible views of mysterious flying disks highly reflective, shining like the sun. According to this ancient text, the departure of the otherworldly visitors was marked by a mysterious event, as fish rained down from the heaven, almost as if some kind of unknown force affected the surroundings!
This ancient text clearly does not mention whether the ancient Egyptians did actually establish contact with these otherworldly Beings, but it is nonetheless an extremely important day in planet earths history – that is for both humanity and the ancient Egyptian Civilization at the time of this incredible event.
One VERY important thing to remember is that the Ancient Egyptians were extremely experienced and rather gifted astronomers, and it was by the year 1500 B.C, that they were already experts in this field, which means that they would not have mistaken these “fiery disks” with some kind of strange astronomical or weather phenomena – they would have described an astronomical phenomena in a completely different way. It is also rather important to remember that in these ancient documents, the “fiery disks” are described very clearly as they changed directions in the skies above the people who witnessed them, so it is very clear that we know that these objects didn’t fall, but remained in the Egyptian Sky ~this is not normal for an astronomical event (obviously).
In order to truly understand this ancient text this evidence would ideally need to be studies again in more detail. But isn’t it interesting that the original papyrus is gone!? But guess what people, top Researcher Samuel Rosenberg has already requested from the Vatican Museum an official opportunity to examine this mysterious/unknown important document, but the reply he received pretty much confirmed that ‘somebody’ does not want ANY interest shown in this key area and he had a response of:
”The Papyrus Tulli not property of Vatican Museum. Now it is dispersed and no more traceable.” Said the VATICAN museum.
It’s time to dig up the TRUTH from our past.
U.I.P SUMMARY – It appears that the Vatican are trying to hide away and archive this extremely piece of evidence, hidden on purpose away from the people of planet earth, perhaps hidden away in a secret archive, but why? Could it be that this piece of important evidence is that incredible and life changing that the elite and the heads of the Catholic church are SCARED about what this PROOF could cause amongst the masses.
This could be one of the most important pieces of evidence ever, and this could actually prove that the ET’s influenced the ancient Egyptian civilization as many Ancient Astronaut theorists believe? It is literally criminal that our so-called leaders are trying to hide this from us, however it is also very clear that the world leaders out there are playing games and trying to make us believe what THEY want us to believe!
THIS is such an important story and one that we can never ignore. SOME stupid world leaders LAUGH when the subject matter of ‘Aliens’ is raised – soon they will NOT be laughing, when the control starts slipping away from their hands and the TRUTH starts spilling out!
The Pyramids are so important to all of our history, you can feel this just by looking at them and seeing the sheer amount of energy coming from them!
The pyramids are to this day still a mystery, but a mystery that is soon about to be dragged out kicking and screaming!
If Humanity Discovered That Earth Would Be Destroyed In 400 years, What Would Be Humanity’s Response?
If Humanity Discovered That Earth Would Be Destroyed In 400 years, What Would Be Humanity’s Response?
Oh, Snap…
A rogue planet ejected from its home solar system billions of years ago has wandered through interstellar space until it crossed our solar system’s gravity well. This slight trajectory deflection has put it on a direct path for impact with Earth. Scientists detected havoc in the Oort cloud out past Pluto. The Oort cloud is in chaos. Using our best minds and observatories we determined that the object is in the magnitude in size of Jupiter. Since it is travelling at a relativistic speed we have 400 years until Earth is no more.
Would the world band together and try to figure out a way to save humanity or would it be too far away and we would just let future generations figure out the solution?
The first astronomers to detect the upcoming event might not even recognize the danger. Anything that will take 400 years to hit us will be passing through a variety of gravitational fields and will be aiming at a location that might seemingly have nothing to do with Earth.
But at some point, someone would run the numbers and discover that yes indeed, we were facing the possibility of a celestial collision. At this point, they would only be thinking in terms of probabilities and not certainties. But after they shared their findings with other astronomers, gradually a general consensus would form, that the celestial body did not represent a mere possibility of colliding with Earth, but that it almost certainly would.
By this time, the astronomers had made no attempt to hide their work so far, the news would have already hit the Internet. But very few lay people would be able to follow the math, so there might be a series of confused news articles talking about something hitting something else someday.
But gradually the articles would gain coherence, the Wikipedia entry would become clearer and more persuasive. Counter-arguments and competing mathematics would be discredited, and a general sense of disturbance would begin to spread through the planet.
The governments of the world, while saying nothing publicly, would have long-since been in communication with the astronomers, and done their own verification of the science. In addition, they would have analyzed the possible effects of an impact, the probable number of deaths, the time it might take for human civilization and economies to recover. They would have considered the options of attempting somehow to divert the oncoming celestial body, the size of the required explosion, the mass and trajectory of debris, and other details. Finally, they would reach the inescapable conclusion that the impact could not be prevented and that the destruction would be too great for any kind of recovery. In 400 years the planet would be totally destroyed, with no hope that any life would survive.
During these considerations, NASA would for several months already have been calculating the possibility of resettling a portion of humanity onto another planetary body in the solar system. They would estimate the likelihood that the destruction of Earth would affect the orbits of other planets, or that debris from the impact might fly into any prospective resettlement area.
Official government spokespeople would have no comment yet. If asked, they would simply reply that they didn’t want to “get ahead of the science,” and that “so far, nothing is known for certain.” But they’d affirm that they’d have more to say when the scientific questions had been better understood.
At this point, only a very small minority of people would be expressing any sort of outrage at their government’s silence, or at the existence of the threat itself. Those people would be quite vocal, but the Internet buzz and radio talk-show hosts would always say something along the lines of, “even if it’s real, it’s 400 years in the future. Relax.” And that would echo the sentiments of many Americans, if not people throughout the world.
Eventually, the United States, China, Russia, and the European Union would make a joint announcement. The leaders of those nations, speaking together at the United Nations building in New York City, would announce a plan to create a series of large-scale, self-sufficient settlements on several planets and moons throughout the solar system. The impending threat against the Earth would not be mentioned. When asked if there was a connection between the colonial project and the threat of destruction, the reply would be that this project was a normal outgrowth of the space programs of all developed nations, and should be welcomed as a sign of ongoing human progress.
Gradually, budgeting for the various components of the colonial enterprise would be established. Research would proceed on a number of fronts, including the construction of space elevators along the equator, habitats capable of transporting large numbers of people across interplanetary distances, and larger habitats capable of maintaining those people indefinitely at specific locations throughout the solar system. There would also be a new focus on asteroid mining and bulk transportation of non-living cargo between planets. As reported in the news, each colony would need a permanent source of raw materials, ongoing protection of necessary atmospheric conditions, and a long-term effort to transform each colonial planet and moon into an Earth-like body with appropriate atmospheric and ecological conditions. Those terraforming efforts, however, would be acknowledged to require thousands of years, and would not be a major part of the requirements for the initial set of colonial outposts.
The first colonies would be established on Mars. Many lives would be lost in those initial efforts. But the governments of the world would praise those who sacrificed their lives and would redouble the effort to address the remaining technical problems. The colonial projects would go forward, government spokespeople would say, in spite of any obstacles.
After Mars, Jupiter would also be home to many colonies, in the form of orbiting stations. These stations would have a modular construction so that they could be continually expanded. Over the next hundred years, a ring of such constructions would gradually form around the planet, syphoning its material needs largely from Jupiter’s gaseous atmosphere. The water of Ganymede and the Earth itself would begin to be harvested for use by all colonial projects.
The first wave of colonists would be highly trained specialists, capable of building the colonial infrastructure and then setting up the requirements of actual habitation.
The next wave, however, would be taken from the impoverished countries of the world. In exchange for risking their lives, they would be given commercial opportunities in the new colonies. Like the early Martian colonies, many participants in this second wave would perish as well, until each colony was securely established and tested under proper load.
The third wave would consist of the populations of wealthy nations. Tens of millions of people would migrate to thriving economies ready to receive them. The occasional atmospheric accident would be hushed up as quietly as possible. But the governments of the world would provide whatever incentives were necessary in order to keep up migration rates.
Eventually, after half the world’s population had been resettled, the governments would acknowledge publicly for the first time that within another 200 years the planet would be destroyed by a celestial collision. They would put forward the colonies as a perfectly reasonable option and offer further economic incentives for people to migrate. They would also impose new laws restricting childbirth on Earth. Later, the restrictions would be tightened until all new Earth-based pregnancies were outlawed. An underclass of undocumented natives would spring up, living largely off the grid, and difficult to gather into the migratory waves.
By now the government officials would all have migrated to the colonies themselves, remotely overseeing a set of small, isolated, local governments on Earth. Among the off-world governments, there would be ongoing negotiations, attempting to unite them all into one; but these would be slow and unpromising, given religious, tribal, and political histories on Earth. But the United Nations would be quite strong and would play a large role in ongoing decision-making for the colonies as well as for the remaining local governments on Earth.
By the time of the destruction, only a few hundred million people would remain on Earth. The impact would be streamed live to viewers in every colony. Everyone, everywhere, would feel the loss as a tragic event; and would feel the uncertainty of their own future. How could these little colonies, these little bubbles of air, with no history, ever hope to have a future? And this uncertainty would become an inspiration to young people that would rally an inventiveness and resourcefulness throughout the colonies, and would lead them to make great leaps of technological advancement and to overcome the remaining obstacles to humanity’s continued survival.
Pluto, which was once the ninth planet of our solar system, boasts an enormous ocean made of ice and water that might be containing extraterrestrial life, claim NASA scientists. Previously, researchers thought that the dwarf planet Pluto is located too far from the Sun to support biological life. Apparently, Steven Vance, an astrobiologist at NASA, believes that the ocean in Pluto might be loaded with various elements like ethyl alcohol, methanol, hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, and various other complicated particles made up of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen; all these substances are building blocks of life and one cannot negate the possibilities of alien life on the dwarf planet.
The astronomers used to think Pluto as a remote bone chilling rock planet. But with the visit of New Horizons, the assumption seemed to be a little bit different. Considering the data and information provided by the New Horizons, the hypothesis for the most appealing planet of the solar system has kept on varying. A prior study revealed that the center of Pluto is warm enough to bolster a liquid water sea, and the latest study has discovered that the source of water in Pluto may be enormous. The study also said that the source wouldn’t be less than 62 miles deep. As indicated by the group from Brown University, this is however confirmed that the in-depth water source of Pluto is at least 100 km.
In addition, scientists from NASA have also found out earth like icy features on Pluto and suspect that this can be a new beginning of discovering new life on other planets. A similar kind of weather forecasting device was used by meteorologists, to find icy features on Pluto. Through computer simulations, physicists have found out ice evaporation on Pluto. Penitents are formed by erosion. These are bowl-shaped depressions with spires around their edges. They are several meters high and icy in nature. Researchers are suspecting that these features may exist on other planets too, where environmental conditions are similar.
The new study published in the journal Nature reveals that the condition on Pluto is very similar to its moon Charon. They both have an abundant quantity of ammonia required for survival of alien life. Scientists believe that Pluto’s ocean might be harbouring bacterial lifeforms beneath the ocean.
“You do not have space for bacteria on Pluto, much less for fish or other life as we understand it here in the world. But, similar to the methane seas on Titan, Saturn’s primary moon, this research study raises the concern of whether brand-new life types might exist in these cold, unique liquids,” said lead study author Willian McKinnon. “Life can endure lots of things. It can endure a great deal of salt, severe cold, severe heat, and so on. However, I do not believe it can endure such a big quantity of ammonia. If we were to think of life in an ocean totally covered with a layer of ice, the very best we might wish for would be a type of extremely primitive life, possibly even pre-cellular.”
The Texas Town Where You're Almost Guaranteed to See UFOs
The Texas Town Where You're Almost Guaranteed to See UFOs
Marfa, Texas has been enchanted by sightings of mysterious "ghost lights" for over a century. The glowing balls of light of varying sizes show up in the sky seemingly randomly, and behave in ways that no man-made craft or flying animal should - like zipping from one part of the sky to the other, and disappearing and reappearing. You can travel to Marfa to observe the lights yourself, as they are a popular tourist attraction! But could they just be an optical illusion?
US Route 67 is a magical stretch of road, is that is where the famous unexplained lights of Marfa, Texas appear. Although they don't show up all the time, they show up frequently enough to earn a reputation not only in Marfa, but around the world.
Even scientists have tried to explain them. The University of Texas at Dallas studied the Marfa lights in 2004 and was apparently able to prove a strong correlation between highway traffic and the UFO sightings, deducing that the lights were just an optical illusion caused by passing car headlights, a popular theory at the time.
However, many still believe the Marfa Lights have a much more mysterious story than that, considering that their story began in the late 1800s, before car traffic even existed. Some believers have suggested that the Marfa Lights are a mirage created when cold and hot air mix (more specifically a "fata morgana" mirage), while others have suggested these lights could be electrical discharges in the atmosphere.
What do you think of the mysterious Marfa Lights? Could they be an example of weird natural phenomenon, aliens, or just cars headlights? Have you ever seen them in person?
Share your theories on this amazing phenomenon in the comments below or on Facebook, Twitteror Instagram!
Secret Pentagon UFO Program 'Still Exists' and It's Investigating 'Significant Pilot Encounters'
Secret Pentagon UFO Program 'Still Exists' and It's Investigating 'Significant Pilot Encounters'
Matthew Loffhagen
Image credit: YouTube
In 2017, The New York Times published one of the most important stories in recent history: the government cover-up surrounding unidentified flying objects that had secretly received $22 million in hidden funding.
According to Leslie Kean, the journalist who broke the news, this is only the beginning—genuinely important discoveries are coming from the research that the government is doing by investigating pilots' close encounters.
"This is no laughing matter," Kean recently told WTOP, before going into greater detail about how the government's ongoing program is producing results:
"The researchers in this area have always speculated and wondered what is going on behind the scenes. Is there a government investigation into this? And now we know that the answer is yes. It just establishes a credibility for the topic for people to know that our government takes it seriously enough to have put financial resources into it and to have studied it for all these years. We know that this program existed, it still exists, and it investigated military cases and very significant cases of pilot encounters with these objects."
Referencing the genuinely puzzling phenomena that the government is investigating, Kean mentioned a 2004 incident in which military pilots in the skies above San Diego saw a fleet of Tic-Tac-shaped UFOs that moved in a bizarre fashion.
"These objects in this one incident in 2004 were actually observed coming in from outer space. They came in and then they went out, up into the sky. So whatever that means, that's what happened. They were also seen able to move very, very, very fast from one space to another. Way faster than any airplane could do."
This is an incident that comes up pretty much every time the subject of UFOs is discussed; it's a rare example of a phenomenon that can't be explained away by questioning the observer's credibility. Pilot David Fravor has gone on record multiple times, insisting that he saw proof of advanced alien weaponry that could kick off a real-life War of the Worlds.
That said, it's important to note that not all experts are convinced. Many believe this is more an Orson Welles War of the Worlds situation, in which a benign incident spreads the rumor of mass panic. One expert believes that the San Diego sighting is the result of a fixed camera angle that makes the UFO look more impressive than it actually is, while another sighting of a similar UFO ultimately turned out to be a birthday balloon.
If the most compelling UFO case in history is also subject to speculation and skepticism, it's probably not wise to assume that the US government is making as much headway as Kean would like people to believe.
The subject of UFOs is very polarizing. Some people genuinely believe that they exist (sometimes in the absence of adequate proof), while others refuse to entertain the notion that these reports could be real (despite an occasional lack of an adequate alternative explanation).
For now, we'll just have to keep watching the skies, and hope that, one way or the other, we'll eventually figure out what's going on up there.
NASA's new exoplanet satellite launches successfully, Saturn played a part in the formation of Jupiter's four largest moons and the Senate finally confirms the new NASA administrator. These are just some of the top stories this week from Space.com.
Photo Credit: Orbital ATK
1. New NASA exoplanet hunter lifts off.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on April 18. The mission deployed into Earth orbit 49 minutes after lifting off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. TESS' mission is to hunt for planets circling stars relatively close to the sun.
2. Senate confirms Bridenstine as NASA administrator.
After an unprecedentedly long and contentious nomination process, the U.S. Senate voted along party lines to confirm congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) as NASA's new administrator. The 50-49 vote took place April 19. Bridenstine faced criticism for lacking scientific credentials, in addition to his statements about the LGBTQ community and climate change.
The Lyrid Meteor Shower peaks this weekend, and observers have until April 30 to see shooting stars in the direction of the constellation Lyra (the Harp). NASA recommends waiting until after the first-quarter moon sets at midnight for optimal meteor shower viewing.
Storytellers and exploration folklore inspired the names for places on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Among the new feature names are Butler Mons, named after author Octavia E. Butler; Caleuche Chasma, named after a Chilean ghost-ship tale; and Kubrick Mons, named after film director Stanley Kubrick.
Two NASA researchers traveled to the extreme environment near the South Pole in preparation for a new mission launching this September. The Ice, Could and land Elevation-2 (ICESat-2) mission will use lasers to track changes in sea ice to investigate how climate change is impacting it. To calibrate the instruments on the satellite, the scientists trekked across Antarctica.
Asteroid 2018 GE3 zipped past Earth on April 15, the day after astronomers discovered it. The space rock passed at about half the distance between Earth and the moon, according to NASA, and is at least three times the size of the meteor that exploded in the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013.
Two U.S. Air Force satellites launched on April 14 with the goal of improving military communications and space vehicle design. The U.S. Air Force Space Command mission, featuring a communications satellite and an experimental demonstrator, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
An enforcement advisory warning came out on April 12, in which the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stated that organizations launching spacecraft without appropriate regulatory approval will be penalized. Punishment might include monetary forfeitures, and as a precaution, the FCC is advising launch providers to remove any unauthorized spacecraft from their rockets.
9. Saturn played a part in Jupiter moon formation.
A research team found that Saturn's core may have formed alongside the pieces that eventually formed Jupiter's four largest moons. The ringed planet's core may have pulled on this material and scattered it toward Jupiter, where the moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto eventually settled into their current orbits.
During an April 12 hearing, NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot said that extending some upcoming space station missions could be an option to buy more time in the event that there are delays with commercial crew vehicle development. Lightfoot also answered questions about how NASA would manage with the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to the agency's Office of Education and other projects.
Strange footage has emerged of bright lights flashing on the International Space Station's live feed, with conspiracy theorists claiming it is 'an uncloaking UFO'.
The live feed caught the attention of UFO hunters after it appeared to be flashing near the ISS.
The conspiracy theorists who posted the video say whatever it is, it must be 'huge' as it was going under the ISS at some distance.
Other UFO hunters have claimed the mammoth alien craft could be 900 feet (300 metres) in diameter and fly from the Earth to the moon in less than a minute.
However, experts have debunked the claim, and say the lights are simply reflections or lens flare from the camera.
Strange footage has emerged of bright lights flashing on the International Space Station's live feed (pictured), with conspiracy theorists claiming it is 'an uncloaking UFO'
The video was posted by Belgium-based YouTube channel UFO Today and shows a live broadcast of the spaceship on the 14th April 2018.
'We can see the international space station orbiting earth when suddenly a UFO seems to be uncloaking nearby the international space station', according to UFO Today.
The UFO hunters claimed that the Earth's magnetic field was interfering with the UFO as it revealed itself, causing the lights to flash.
'It looks like the effect we see when a piece of aluminium is put inside a microwave.
'Whatever this object was, it must have been huge since it was going under the international space station at some distance', the user posted with the live feed.
Another prominent UFO hunter Scott C Waring had his own theory about the footage.
He said it was not six separate UFOs but one large one that could be as large as 900 feet (300 metres) in diameter.
'This UFO is going to blow your mind! I mean it just shows up as a single glowing orb', he wrote on his website UFO sightings daily.
The live feed caught the attention of UFO hunters after strange lights started flashing to the right of the station (pictured)
WHAT MAKES SOMEONE BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and certain psychological traits.
Narcissism and self-esteem levels have a large impact on a persons belief in conspiracy theories.
The results showed that people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
However, while low self-esteem, narcissism and belief in conspiracies are strongly linked, it is not clear that one - or a combination - causes the other.
But it hints at an interesting new angle to the world of conspiracy and those who reinforce belief.
There are widely believed to be three main reasons as to why people believe in conspiracy theories.
The desire for understanding and certainty - Seeking explanations for events is a natural human desire.
The desire for control and security - Conspiracy theories can give their believers a sense of control and security.
The desire to maintain a positive self-image - People who feel socially marginalised are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories and it gives them a sense of worth in the UFO community.
These three things tie in with the previously stated qualities and combine to create an avid conspiracy theorist.
'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', he said.
'Such a craft has the capability to fly from Earth to the moon in under a minute. Its not light speed, but its fast', he said.
However, Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said there was a simple explanation for these baffling lights.
'Often the images shown to be of UFOs near the ISS are reflections or lens flare from the camera', he told MailOnline.
The conspiracy theorists who posted the video say whatever it is it must be 'huge' as it was going under the ISS at some distance
He said the flashing lights in this clip were probably just a piece of space junk or a satellite in the distance.
'Usually people who post videos like this are more concerned about adding music to the soundtrack and putting ridiculous ideas about UFOs uncloaking themselves like a spaceship in Star Trek', he said.
The footage is the latest in a series of bizarre claims as conspiracy theorists monitor the live feed on the ISS for any anomalies.
In January, a bizarre YouTube video that some claimed reveals a ‘golden UFO’ soaring over Earth sparked fresh speculation among conspiracy theorists about an alien cover-up.
The video focuses on a 2016 clip from the International Space Station’s live feed, showing a slow-moving view over our planet – and, a mysterious glow can be seen emanating from the bottom right corner.
Just seconds later, the footage cuts out to reveal a standby message from the ISS, causing many to claim NASA was attempting to hide an object the YouTubers estimate to be ‘hundreds of miles long.’
WHAT ARE THE KEY DISCOVERIES HUMANITY HAS MADE IN ITS SEARCH FOR ALIEN LIFE?
Discovery of pulsars
British astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was the first person to discover a pulsar in 1967 when she spotted a radio pulsar.
Since then other types of pulsars that emit x-rays and gamma rays have also been spotted.
Pulsars are essentially rotating, highly magnatised neutron stars but when they were first discovered it was believed they could come from aliens.
'Wow!' radio signal
In 1977, an astronomer looking for alien life in the nigh sky above Ohio spotted a powerful radio signal so strong that he excitedly wrote 'Wow!' next to his data.
In 1977, an astronomer looking for alien life in the nigh sky above Ohio spotted a powerful radio signal so strong that he excitedly wrote 'Wow!' next to his data
The 72-second blast, spotted by Dr Jerry Ehman through a radio telescope, came from Sagittarius but matched no known celestial object.
Conspiracy theorists have since claimed that the 'Wow! signal', which was 30 times stronger than background radiation, was a message from intelligent extraterrestrials.
Fossilised martian microbes
In 1996 Nasa and the White House made the explosive announcement that the rock contained traces of Martian bugs.
The meteorite, catalogued as Allen Hills (ALH) 84001, crashed onto the frozen wastes of Antarctica 13,000 years ago and was recovered in 1984.
Photographs were released showing elongated segmented objects that appeared strikingly lifelike.
Photographs were released showing elongated segmented objects that appeared strikingly lifelike (pictured)
However, the excitement did not last long. Other scientists questioned whether the meteorite samples were contaminated.
They also argued that heat generated when the rock was blasted into space may have created mineral structures that could be mistaken for microfossils.
Behaviour of Tabby's Star in 2005
The star, otherwise known as KIC 8462852, is located 1,400 light years away and has baffled astonomers since being discovered in 2015.
It dims at a much faster rate than other stars, which some experts have suggested is a sign of aliens harnessing the energy of a star.
The star, otherwise known as KIC 8462852, is located 1,400 light years away and has baffled astonomers since being discovered in 2015 (artist's impression)
Recent studies have 'eliminated the possibility of an alien megastructure', and instead, suggests that a ring of dust could be causing the strange signals.
Exoplanets in the Goldilocks zone in 2015
In February this year astronomers announced they had spotted a star system with planets that could support life just 39 light years away.
Seven Earth-like planets were discovered orbiting nearby dwarf star 'Trappist-1', and all of them could have water at their surface, one of the key components of life.
Three of the planets have such good conditions, that scientists say life may have already evolved on them.
Researchers claim that they will know whether or not there is life on any of the planets within a decade, and said 'this is just the beginning.'
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