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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...
02-07-2018
UFO Spotted On Google Earth
UFO Spotted On Google Earth
A video footage apparently reveals evidence that aliens are real and already living among people on Earth.
As the Google Earth video zooms in on Neuquen, an Argentinian province, a UFO seems to become visible.
It looks like that the object is floating in the air over a truck running along the main road.
The discoverer, Marcelo Irazusta, claims that it constitutes clear proof of UFOs’ existence on Earth.
The shape of the object in question does not resemble any known flying thing in the planet. Furthermore, it does not look like any known flying birds.
According to Irazusta, the discovery surely deserves a fantastic diffusion, and it would be exciting that they can verify and make some comments about it.
Since he uploaded the clip to his YouTube channel, it has received thousands of views.
However, some viewers were not convinced about the wild claim.
One comment reads that it looks like a hub-cap someone threw out of a tree.
Another one adds that it could be a bird or wasp.
However, many others suggest that it certainly does not look like a bird.
Last year, the Solar System was treated to its first known tourist. 'Oumuamua, an odd, cigar-shaped body, shot through our neighborhood at high speed, following an orbit that indicates it arrived from somewhere else. Although bodies ejected from other solar systems are expected to make regular visits, this was the first one that we'd imaged sufficiently to determine that its origins were elsewhere.
The imaging, however, didn't resolve a somewhat different debate: what, exactly, is 'Oumuamua? Its odd orbit had initially had it categorized as a comet, as these tend to have more extreme orbits. But imaging didn't show any indication of gas and dust being released, as is typical when a comet approaches the Sun. That imaging also revealed that it had an elongated, cigar-like shape. Combined with its relatively rapid rotation, this would indicate that 'Oumuamua had to be fairly robust, leading to the conclusion that it was probably an asteroid.
But now, a large international team of researchers is weighing in with another vote for comet. The argument, says the team, is based on the odd behavior of 'Oumuamua, which appears to have been accelerating away from the Sun.
Gravity not enough
The new analysis is based on the fact that shortly after the body was recognized as likely to be a visitor from another solar system (or "exosolar system"), many telescopes were redirected to image it. Many of the images were of sufficient quality to provide positional information on 'Oumuamua. This let the researchers calculate the object's trajectory through the Solar System. From there, it's a relatively simple matter to calculate if that trajectory was the result of purely gravitational interactions. Here, the researchers were cautious, including "gravitational forces due to the Sun, the eight planets, the Moon, Pluto, the 16 largest bodies in the asteroid main belt, and relativistic effects."
Based on these calculations, gravity comes up short. There are 10 measurements where 'Oumuamua was more than five standard deviations away from where it would be expected to have ended up based on gravity alone. Another 25 locations are more than three standard deviations off.
The researchers then modeled an additional, non-gravitational effect based on 'Oumuamua's distance from the Sun. If the Sun was having an additional influence on its motion, then this should be able to compensate for it. It worked, in that an additional acceleration based on distance from the Sun could get 'Oumuamua's calculated motion to better match the observations. Quite a bit better, in fact, as the authors say that their modified equation "corresponds to a formal detection of non-gravitational acceleration with a significance of about 30σ." Typically, only five sigma is needed to call something a discovery.
But that doesn't tell us what's generating this additional acceleration. The researchers consider a large list of possible causes: warming-induced release of gas from 'Oumuamua, solar-radiation pressure, something called the Yarkovsky effect, friction-like effects, a single change in velocity due to a collision, 'Oumuamua being more than one fragment rather than a single body, the influence of irregular surface brightness, and 'Oumuamua having a high magnetic field.
Process of elimination
Most of these explanations are pretty unlikely. Solar radiation pressure could only cause enough acceleration if 'Oumuamua were exceptionally light, about 1,000 times less dense than a typical asteroid. There's a similar problem with an acceleration caused by 'Oumuamua radiating away heat (the Yarkovsky effect) or having the radiation pressure be off-axis due to differences in the body's surface brightness. There's no indication that 'Oumuamua is fragmented in any images, while the jolt of a collision doesn't fit the data as well as a consistent force. Small bodies don't have a large enough magnetic field to create this much force.
In the end, warming-induced gas release is the least-worst of the possible explanations. It should generate a consistent force and one that scales with proximity to the Sun, which is what seems to be happening. But it also requires that 'Oumuamua be fairly comet-like, which is inconsistent with its shape and rotation. Plus there's the fact that we didn't see any signs of outgassing, like a plume of dust or the spectral signature of gasses.
As far as directly detecting gasses, the researchers estimate that the amount of water released could be below detection limits while still producing enough force. But comets from our own Solar System also release another chemical with the water, and that should have been detected. Of course, it's possible that coming from a different solar system means that 'Oumuamua has a different chemical composition. The dust ejected along with the gas should also have been detected if it's typical of comets we've imaged before, but the dust could escape detection if its grains are sufficiently large.
Unfortunately, 'Oumuamua is now long past the point where further imaging could help clarify any of these issues. But that won't stop astronomers from arguing over the data we do have, and the new paper adds some significant points that will have to be part of any future arguments.
Pentagon Intelligence Chief: Russia And China Will Have Weapons in Space ‘In the Near Future’
Pentagon Intelligence Chief: Russia And China Will Have Weapons in Space ‘In the Near Future’
BY PATRICK TUCKER,
TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s director says the U.S. lead in space is diminishing and tomorrow’s skies will be filled with enemy robot satellites.
Russia and China are developing new space-based weapons and they’ll be ready “in the near future,” Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said Tuesday at the Defense One Technology Summit in Washington, D.C.
The countries, which Ashley called “competitors,” are developing “the ability to interdict satellites both from a ground standpoint and from a space standpoint,” he said. “The technology is being developed right now. It is coming in the near future.”
It was the most overt admission yet from an intelligence leader that Russia and China were rapidly seeking to weaponize space. But a February report from the Office of the Director of Intelligence also hinted at it.
“Russia and China continue to launch ‘experimental’ satellites that conduct sophisticated on-orbit activities, at least some of which are intended to advance counterspace capabilities,” the report said. “Some technologies with peaceful applications—such as satellite inspection, refueling, and repair—can also be used against adversary spacecraft.”
In September, 2014, Russia launched Olymp-K, which reached orbit and undertook a series of irregular maneuvers, coming within seven miles of a pair of Intelsat communications satellites. “This is not normal behavior and we’re concerned,” Kay Sears, president of Intelsat General, told Space News at the time. The incident sparked classified meetings at the Pentagon.
Since then, observers have raised alarms about three other Russian high-maneuverability satellites.
Ashley’s remark comes in the context of a new fight to establish a “Space Force,” an entirely new U.S. military service dedicated specifically to space. Ashley didn’t say whether a separate force was a good idea, but did offer that the technological advancements available to peer nations would pressure U.S.dominance in that domain.
“The competition is only going to grow,” said Ashley. “Look at the national defense strategy. There is an acknowledgement that our technological lead is vanishing… And so when you get to the warfighting doctrine you have to account for … what is the resilience you build into the domains, the redundancy? When it’s been degraded or denied, how do you fight?”
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty recognizes “the common interest of all mankind in the progress of the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes.”
However, the International Committee on the Red Cross has noted that the treaty does not expressly prohibit weapons in space “except the prohibition of weapons of mass destruction (including nuclear weapons) and the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies for exclusively peaceful purposes.”
In March, Michael Griffin, the new defense undersecretary for research and engineering, said that the United States may dust off plans from the late 1980s to put a neutral-particle beam in space that could fire at missiles on earth or other space objects.
Patrick Tucker is technology editor for Defense One. He’s also the author of The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? (Current, 2014). Previously, Tucker was deputy editor for The Futurist for nine years. Tucker has written about emerging technology in Slate, ... FULL BIO
A teen skywatcher claims to have captured a UFO hovering near an RAF base – and is convinced it could be something extraterrestrial.
Lucas Budel, 19, said he spotted the mysterious aircraft near his home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
The town is home to the RAF base which used to investigate UFO sightings and which now houses Headquarters Air Command.
In the video, a white mass can be seen making unusual movements in the sky, leaving wispy trails behind it as it goes.
Mr Budel said: 'I was just sitting in my room at my computer when I saw an extremely bright light out my window falling from the sky.
'I initially thought it was a meteor falling, which is already quite unusual to see, until its motion stopped for a few seconds and went back up.
'I was so in awe that I didn't have time to record it. It then disappeared.'
But when the supposed UFO reappeared, Lucas was ready. 'I went back to my desk and got my phone so when I saw it again I used that to record it,' he said.
A teen skywatcher claims to have captured a UFO hovering near an RAF base – and is convinced it could be something extraterrestrial.
Lucas Budel, 19, said he spotted the mysterious aircraft near his home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
The town is home to the RAF base which used to investigate UFO sightings and which now houses Headquarters Air Command.
In the video, a white mass can be seen making unusual movements in the sky, leaving wispy trails behind it as it goes.
Mr Budel said: 'I was just sitting in my room at my computer when I saw an extremely bright light out my window falling from the sky.
'I initially thought it was a meteor falling, which is already quite unusual to see, until its motion stopped for a few seconds and went back up.
'I was so in awe that I didn't have time to record it. It then disappeared.'
But when the supposed UFO reappeared, Lucas was ready. 'I went back to my desk and got my phone so when I saw it again I used that to record it,' he said.
SpaceX launches rocket carrying AI robot, strong coffee and mice for station crew
SpaceX launches rocket carrying AI robot, strong coffee and mice for station crew
By Staff The Associated Press
SpaceX rocket launches to Intl Space Station with AI on board
A SpaceX rocket that flew just two months ago with a NASA satellite is back in action, launching with fresh station supplies.
The used Falcon rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, before dawn Friday.
This AI Robot Is Changing Everything In Space
Cimon, pronounced Simon, will be launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today. Cimon is being sent to the International Space Station (ISS) to assist human astronauts there. Matthias Biniok, who led IBM's AI Project, told ABC News, “Cimon's task is to assist astronauts on the ISS. Also, Cimon is tasked with being a friendly colleague.”
It’s hauling nearly 6,000 pounds of cargo, including the first robot with artificial intelligence bound for space, genetically identical mice, or mousetronauts, and super-caffeinated coffee for the crew of the International Space Station.
A Floating 'Brain' Will Assist Astronauts Aboard the Space Station
The unpiloted ship is also transporting materials for the Canadian Space Agency, including:
57 Canadian food items such as crab, lobster and salmon pâtés, smoked salmon, and maple glazed salmon for David Saint Jacques’ December 2018 mission.
This marks SpaceX’s fastest reflight of a booster. The same first-stage booster launched the planet-hunting Tess satellite in April. The capsule, meanwhile, flew in 2016.
SpaceX won’t retrieve the booster for another flight. The company is switching to a new model.
Over the last few decades, NASA has managed to find a number of unusual things in our solar system. Among these discoveries, perhaps the most novel have been the odd shapes of various asteroids that are found to occasionally traverse our galactic region.
While the now famous, cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua is probably first to come to mind, other oddly-shaped spacefaring objects have been discovered in recent times, which are teaching us new things about space objects, their origins, and formation.
One recent example was afforded us by Japan’s space mission Hayabusa2, which managed to capture photographs of an asteroid of unusual appearance from a distance of just 40 kilometers. Dubbed “Ryugu” by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the object is considered a potentially hazardous object possessing a rare kind of reflectivity (otherwise known as “spectral type,” the official designation used by astronomers) defined as Cg. This means the surface of the asteroid has a “linear, generally featureless spectra,” with varying degrees of UV absorption.
Ryugu, as seen from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft
(Image Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, Aizu University, AIST.)
Since JAXA released its photos of Ryugu, there has been much discussion about the object’s unusual appearance. Specifically, its polyhedral shape has been likened by some to a multi-sided die, the likes of which are used in the classic fantasy roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons.
Ryugu’s shape isn’t the only association it has with myth and lore surrounding dragons; according to Spaceflight Now, its name is also evocative of these mythical creatures, borrowed from “an undersea dragon’s palace visited by Urashima Taro, a fisherman in a Japanese folk story who brings back a mysterious treasure box from the underwater castle.”
Hayabusa2 was launched in 2014, and in the days since photographs were obtained of Ryugu’s unusual shape, the spacecraft has closed its distance to approximately 20 km, with the objective of landing and extracting material for analysis, which it will retrieve and bring to Earth by the end of 2020.
In a statement, Yuichi Tsuda, the Hayabusa2 Project Manager, said of the odd space rock:
“The shape of Ryugu is now revealed. From a distance, Ryugu initially appeared round, then gradually turned into a square before becoming a beautiful shape similar to fluorite. Now, craters are visible, rocks are visible and the geographical features are seen to vary from place to place. This form of Ryugu is scientifically surprising and also poses a few engineering challenges.”
Tsuda further noted that “The Project Team is fascinated by the appearance of Ryugu,” expressing excitement on behalf of his colleagues. “I feel this amazing honor as we proceed with the mission operations.”
Ryugu may not be the strangest space rock we’ve managed to discover (especially when compared with objects like ‘Oumuamua, the newly-designated comet mentioned at the beginning of this post). Nonetheless, it bears enough unusual characteristics that its further study may bear some promise for new discoveries pertaining to off-planet affairs in our universe.
Grootste graancirkelformatie van Nederland ontdekt. Deze gerespecteerde filmmaker was getuige van de voorspelling en ontdekking
Grootste graancirkelformatie van Nederland ontdekt. Deze gerespecteerde filmmaker was getuige van de voorspelling en ontdekking
Onlangs werd de grootste graancirkelformatie van Nederland ontdekt. De Amerikaanse filmmaker William Gazecki was getuige van de voorspelling en ontdekking door Robbert van den Broeke.
“Hij was de hele week bij mij en is dus overtuigd van de echtheid,” verklaarde hij.
“Helaas denken mensen nog steeds wel eens dat ik de graancirkels zelf maak, maar tussen de voorspelling en het ontdekken van de formatie ben ik niet van zijn zijde geweken,” vervolgde hij.
Honderden meters lang
“Bovendien is de gigantische formatie honderden meters lang; dat kan ik niet eens zelf maken,” klonk het. “Daarnaast voelde hij ook de onverklaarbare energie.”
Emmy-winnaar Gazecki is zo onder de indruk van het leven van Van den Broeke dat hij een reallifesoap wil gaan maken over diens leven.
Overtuigd
“Het is sowieso geweldig dat zo’n gerespecteerd filmmaker overtuigd is van de echtheid,” lichtte Van den Broeke toe. “Het is echt te mooi om waar te zijn.”
Hij zei dat we alleen maar dankbaar mogen zijn voor zulke graanformaties. Gazecki heeft onder meer Discovery Channel en National Geographic benaderd voor een samenwerkingsverband.
WETENSCHAPPER BESCHULDIGT NASA VAN VERZWIJGEN WAARHEID OVER ASTEROÏDEN
WETENSCHAPPER BESCHULDIGT NASA VAN VERZWIJGEN WAARHEID OVER ASTEROÏDEN
NASA betekent volgens velen: Never A Straight Answer, maar eigenlijk gaat het nog veel verder dan dat en verbergen ze zelfs dingen voor de mensheid.
Deze van oorsprong occulte organisatie wordt nu aangevallen door een goed aangeschreven wetenschapper die ze beticht van “wetenschappelijk wangedrag”.
Je kunt de Amerikaan Nathan Myhrvold omschrijven als zeer bijzonder en actief. Er zijn van die mensen die van alles schijnen te kunnen en voor wie een dag geen 24, maar 36 uur heeft.
Myhrvold is de voormalige chief technology officer van Microsoft en mede oprichter van Intellectual Ventures, schrijver van een populair kookboek en daarnaast nog wetenschapper die zich met allerlei onderzoeken en projecten bezighoudt.
Peer review (Engels: peer review, ook wel aangeduid als: collegiale toetsing of onderlinge toetsing) is een methode om de kwaliteit van (geschreven) werk te verbeteren, verifiëren of controleren door het werk te onderwerpen aan de kritische blik van een aantal gelijken (Engels: peers), meestal vakgenoten of collega's van de auteur.
In dat onderzoek maakt Myrvold korte metten met de analyses van NASA voor wat betreft de zogenaamde NEO’s, de Near Earth Objects, oftewel de objecten die zich dicht in de buurt van de aarde bevinden en daardoor per definitie gevaar zouden kunnen opleveren.
De berekeningen van NASA vertonen volgens Myhrvold systematische fouten en tegenstrijdigheden.
In een toelichting via een Blog zegt Myhrvold niet specifiek dat NASA met opzet een te laag aantal NEO’s opgeeft die door hun speciale telescoop zijn geobserveerd, maar wel beschuldigt hij de NASA wetenschappers van “wetenschappelijk wangedrag”, omdat ze bepaalde dingen proberen te verbergen.
De Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is een infraroodruimtetelescoop die in december 2009 werd gelanceerd door de NASA en tot taak heeft een catalogus van infrarood-bronnen aan te maken. Met behulp van WISE is de eerste type Yster en aardgebonden trojanen waargenomen. Tevens werden enkele tienduizenden planetoïden ontdekt.
Verder geeft Myhrvold aan dat dagene wat hij wetenschappelijk wangedrag noemt in de NEOWISE onderzoeken niet per ongeluk is ontstaan, maar een systematische verdraaiing van de waarheid, waardoor de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap aan het werk ging op basis van de gedachte dat de resultaten van NASA veel accurater zijn dan ze in werkelijkheid zijn.
Hij noemt het gedrag van NASA buitengewoon misleidend. De reden dat het zo belangrijk is dat de door NEOWISE verzamelde gegevens correct zijn, is omdat honderden wetenschappers en andere ruimtevaartorganisaties deze gebruiken voor hun eigen onafhankelijke onderzoeken. En als de basisgegevens door manipulatie van NASA al niet kloppen, dan kunnen ook al die onderzoeken de prullenbak in.
Natuurlijk wordt aan alle kanten door NASA ontkend dat er iets mis zou zijn met de door hen gepresenteerde gegevens, maar dit keer is het geen aluhoedje die kritiek op hen heeft, maar een gerespecteerde wetenschapper.
Waarom NASA in dit geval de werkelijkheid verborgen houdt voor het grote en ook wetenschappelijke publiek en ze bewust op een dwaalspoor stuurt, weten we niet, al hebben we er wel gedachten over. Er is natuurlijk grote kans dat de werkelijke reden is dat een inslag van een NEO in de nabije toekomst vele malen groter is dan dat NASA officieel kwijt wil.
Sinds de oprichting van NASA in 1958 is er alles aan gedaan om de occulte oorsprong van dit instituut voor het publiek verborgen te houden. De oorsprong die direct leidt naar wat men wel het “slechtste mens ooit” op aarde noemt, Alistair Crowley.
De hoogste rangen binnen NASA werden gedomineerd door leden van de geheime genootschappen zoals de Vrijmetselaars en voormalige Nazi’s, waarvan de meest bekende Wernher von Braun is.
Dit instituut zal dan ook de laatste zijn die eerlijke informatie verstrekt aan de bevolking.
NASA to test Planetary Defense System on asteroid headed at Earth and Yellowstone update
Luminous UFO-Portal-Like Phenomenon Spotted In The sky
Luminous UFO-Portal-Like Phenomenon Spotted In The sky
Linda Miller has taken several photos in June, 2018 with a Canon Sl2 50mm at 12,9 sec exposures and in one of the images she discovered a strange unusual object what is something that isn't obvious a star, star movement or a rocket launch.
It is not clear what the phenomenon could be, but the image clearly shows a bright luminous UFO or portal-like object.
Since the image has been captured at 12,9 sec exposures the object seems to move very slowly in the sky.
Two Silver UFOs Over Easter Island On March 14, 2018, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Two Silver UFOs Over Easter Island On March 14, 2018, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 14, 2018
Location of sighting: Easter Island
Source: MUFON #93005
This UFO was one of two seen and when they were noticed by the eyewitnesses, they darted into the clouds to hide. As I have said before, UFOs use the easiest way possible to hide...within clouds. They are even capable of making a cloud around them, but this can often take minutes to do.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
My wife and I were sightseeing on Easter Island and saw two silver-shaped flying objects entering the cloud. I was able to photograph one of the objects.
Ex-NASA physics professor claims 'many governments' have covered up alien encounters and says humanity must 'face the possibility' UFO sightings really ARE alien craft
Ex-NASA physics professor claims 'many governments' have covered up alien encounters and says humanity must 'face the possibility' UFO sightings really ARE alien craft
A physics professor from University at Albany, State University of New York and former NASA researcher believes there is 'plenty of evidence to support UFOs'
He believes skepticism around UFOs prevents serious scientific research
Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom have been declassifying their UFO files since 2008
Are we alone? Unfortunately, neither of the answers feel satisfactory.
To be alone in this vast universe is a lonely prospect.
On the other hand, if we are not alone and there is someone or something more powerful out there, that too is terrifying.
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A 1990 picture of a 'UFO' taken in Wallonia, Belgium. A physics professor from University at Albany, State University of New York and former NASA researcher believes there is 'plenty of evidence to support UFOs'
As a NASA research scientist and now a professor of physics, I attended the 2002 NASA Contact Conference, which focused on serious speculation about extraterrestrials.
During the meeting a concerned participant said loudly in a sinister tone, 'You have absolutely no idea what is out there!'
The silence was palpable as the truth of this statement sunk in.
Humans are fearful of extraterrestrials visiting Earth. Perhaps fortunately, the distances between the stars are prohibitively vast.
At least this is what we novices, who are just learning to travel into space, tell ourselves.
I have always been interested in UFOs. Of course, there was the excitement that there could be aliens and other living worlds.
But more exciting to me was the possibility that interstellar travel was technologically achievable.
In 1988, during my second week of graduate school at Montana State University, several students and I were discussing a recent cattle mutilation that was associated with UFOs.
A physics professor joined the conversation and told us that he had colleagues working at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana, where they were having problems with UFOs shutting down nuclear missiles.
At the time I thought this professor was talking nonsense. But 20 years later, I was stunned to see a recording of a press conference featuring several former US Air Force personnel, with a couple from Malmstrom AFB, describing similar occurrences in the 1960s. Clearly there must be something to this.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders reaches to a question about UFOs in the White House Press Briefing Room in Washington, DC, USA 19 December 2017. The question was in response to the Pentagon's secret UFO program, recently revealed in the New York Times
With July 2 being World UFO Day, it is a good time for society to address the unsettling and refreshing fact we may not be alone.
I believe we need to face the possibility that some of the strange flying objects that outperform the best aircraft in our inventory and defy explanation may indeed be visitors from afar – and there's plenty of evidence to support UFO sightings.
The nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi was famous for posing thought provoking questions.
In 1950, at Los Alamos National Laboratory after discussing UFOs over lunch, Fermi asked, 'Where is everybody?'
He estimated there were about 300 billion stars in the galaxy, many of them billions of years older than the sun, with a large percentage of them likely to host habitable planets.
While the general public has been fascinated with UFOs for decades, our governments, scientists and media, have essentially declared that of all the UFO sightings are a result of weather phenomenon or human actions, Knuth claims.
Even if intelligent life developed on a very small percentage of these planets, then there should be a number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy.
Depending on the assumptions, one should expect anywhere from tens to tens of thousands of civilizations.
With the rocket-based technologies that we have developed for space travel, it would take between 5 and 50 million years for a civilization like ours to colonize our Milky Way galaxy.
Since this should have happened several times already in the history of our galaxy, one should wonder where is the evidence of these civilizations?
This discrepancy between the expectation that there should be evidence of alien civilizations or visitations and the presumption that no visitations have been observed has been dubbed the Fermi Paradox.
Carl Sagan correctly summarized the situation by saying that 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.'
The problem is that there has been no single well-documented UFO encounter that would alone qualify as the smoking gun.
The situation is exacerbated by the fact that many governments around the world have covered up and classified information about such encounters.
A black and white colored video from a 2004 encounter shows fighter jets closing in on an unidentified object (circled red) before it quickly accelerates out of sight
But there are enough scraps of evidence that suggest that the problem needs to be open to scientific study.
When it comes to science, the scientific method requires hypotheses to be testable so that inferences can be verified.
UFO encounters are neither controllable nor repeatable, which makes their study extremely challenging. But the real problem, in my view, is that the UFO topic is taboo.
While the general public has been fascinated with UFOs for decades, our governments, scientists and media, have essentially declared that of all the UFO sightings are a result of weather phenomenon or human actions.
declassifying their UFO files since A declassified document describing a sighting of a UFO in December 1977, in Bahia, a state in northern Brazil. Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom have been2008
WHAT ARE SOME REPORTED UFO SIGHTINGS?
Among the sightings were reports from pilots of two U.S. Navy Super Hornet fighters who spotted a UFO on a training mission.
They were 100 miles from San Diego in the Pacific when a call on their radios asked if they were carrying weapons.
The unusual request, that day in 2004, came from a naval cruiser, the Princeton, that had spent two weeks tracking unidentified aircraft.
Commanders David Fravor and Jim Slaight had only dummy missiles, but were directed to investigate objects that appeared suddenly at an altitude of 80,000ft, then plunged towards the sea.
Hovering erratically 50ft above that spot was some sort of flying craft, around 40ft long, oval-shaped and whitish.
As the pilot descended towards it, it rose to meet him, but suddenly peeled away at an immense speed that he admits left him feeling 'pretty weirded out'.
The craft 'had no plumes, wings or rotors' but, seemingly travelling at a mile a second, easily outran America's fastest military jets.None are actually extraterrestrial spacecraft.
And no aliens have visited Earth.
Essentially, we are told that the topic is nonsense.
UFOs are off-limits to serious scientific study and rational discussion, which unfortunately leaves the topic in the domain of fringe and pseudoscientists, many of whom litter the field with conspiracy theories and wild speculation.
I think UFO skepticism has become something of a religion with an agenda, discounting the possibility of extraterrestrials without scientific evidence, while often providing silly hypotheses describing only one or two aspects of a UFO encounter reinforcing the popular belief that there is a conspiracy.
A scientist must consider all of the possible hypotheses that explain all of the data, and since little is known, the extraterrestrial hypothesis cannot yet be ruled out.
In the end, the skeptics often do science a disservice by providing a poor example of how science is to be conducted. The fact is that many of these encounters – still a very small percentage of the total – defy conventional explanation.
The media amplifies the skepticism by publishing information about UFOs when it is exciting, but always with a mocking or whimsical tone and reassuring the public that it can't possibly be true.
But there are credible witnesses and encounters.
I am often asked by friends and colleagues, 'Why don't astronomers see UFOs?' The fact is that they do.
In 1977, Peter Sturrock, a professor of space science and astrophysics at Stanford University, mailed 2,611 questionnaires about UFO sightings to members of the American Astronomical Society.
He received 1,356 responses from which 62 astronomers – 4.6 percent – reported witnessing or recording inexplicable aerial phenomena. This rate is similar to the approximately 5 percent of UFO sightings that are never explained.
As expected, Sturrock found that astronomers who witnessed UFOs were more likely to be night sky observers. Over 80 percent of Sturrock's respondents were willing to study the UFO phenomenon if there was a way to do so.
More than half of them felt that the topic deserves to be studied versus 20 percent who felt that it should not. The survey also revealed that younger scientists were more likely to support the study of UFOs.
Pictured: An example of a 'UFO' triangle formation that the UK government investigated as part of its report into alien sightings
UFOs have been observed through telescopes. I know of one telescope sighting by an experienced amateur astronomer in which he observed an object shaped like a guitar pick moving through the telescope's field of view.
Further sightings are documented in the book 'Wonders in the Sky,' in which the authors compile numerous observations of unexplained aerial phenomena made by astronomers and published in scientific journals throughout the 1700s and 1800s.
Some of the most convincing observations have come from government officials. In 1997, the Chilean government formed the organization Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos, or CEFAA, to study UFOs.
Last year, CEFAA released footage of a UFO taken with a helicopter-mounted Wescam infrared camera.
The countries of Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom have been declassifying their UFO files since 2008.
The French Committee for In-Depth Studies, or COMETA, was an unofficial UFO study group comprised of high-ranking scientists and military officials that studied UFOs in the late 1990s.
They released the COMETA Report, which summarized their findings. They concluded that 5 percent of the encounters were reliable yet inexplicable: The best hypothesis available was that the observed craft were extraterrestrial. They also accused the United States of covering up evidence of UFOs.
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.
Iran has been concerned about spherical UFOs observed near nuclear power facilities that they call 'CIA drones' which reportedly are about 30 feet in diameter, can achieve speeds up to Mach 10, and can leave the atmosphere.
Such speeds are on par with the fastest experimental aircraft, but unthinkable for a sphere without lift surfaces or an obvious propulsion mechanism.
In December 2017, The New York Times broke a story about the classified Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which was a $22 million program run by the former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo and aimed at studying UFOs.
Elizondo resigned from running the program protesting extreme secrecy and the lack of funding and support.
Following his resignation Elizondo, along with several others from the defense and intelligence community, were recruited by the To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, which was recently founded by Tom DeLonge to study UFOs and interstellar travel.
In conjunction with the launch of the academy, the Pentagon declassified and released three videos of UFO encounters taken with forward looking infrared cameras mounted on F-18 fighter jets.
Pictured: A 1948 Top Secret US Air Force UFO extraterrestrial document. In December 2017, The New York Times broke a story about the classified Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which was a $22 million program run by the former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo and aimed at studying UFOs
While there is much excitement about such disclosures, I am reminded of a quote from Retired Army Colonel John Alexander: 'Disclosure has happened. … I've got stacks of generals, including Soviet generals, who've come out and said UFOs are real. My point is, how many times do senior officials need to come forward and say that this is real?'
There is a great deal of evidence that a small percentage of these UFO sightings are unidentified structured craft exhibiting flight capabilities beyond any known human technology.
While there is no single case for which there exists evidence that would stand up to scientific rigor, there are cases with simultaneous observations by multiple reliable witnesses, along with radar returns and photographic evidence revealing patterns of activity that are compelling.
Declassified information from covert studies is interesting, but not scientifically helpful.
This is a topic worthy of open scientific inquiry, until there is a scientific consensus based on evidence rather than prior expectation or belief.
If there are indeed extraterrestrial craft visiting Earth, it would greatly benefit us to know about them, their nature and their intent.
Moreover, this would present a great opportunity for mankind, promising to expand and advance our knowledge and technology, as well as reshaping our understanding of our place in the universe.
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Veel overheden stoppen geheime informatie over UFO’s in doofpot. Ex-NASA-wetenschapper en professor doet belangrijke oproep
Veel overheden stoppen geheime informatie over UFO’s in doofpot. Ex-NASA-wetenschapper en professor doet belangrijke oproep
We moeten onder ogen zien dat sommige van de vreemde vliegende objecten in ons luchtruim, die vele malen sneller vliegen dan onze beste vliegtuigen, mogelijk bezoekers uit de ruimte zijn. Hier is meer dan genoeg bewijs voor, stelt voormalig NASA-wetenschapper en professor Kevin Knuth.
Statistisch gezien moeten er talloze buitenaardse beschavingen zijn. Je kunt je dus afvragen waar het bewijs voor deze beschavingen is.
Het probleem is dat er geen goed gedocumenteerde UFO-waarneming is die kan worden gezien als een smoking gun, zegt Knuth.
Extreem uitdagend
“Een ander probleem is het feit dat vele overheden geheime informatie over zulke waarnemingen in de doofpot hebben gestopt,” aldus de professor.
Er zijn genoeg stukjes bewijs die suggereren dat er wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar moet worden gedaan, benadrukt hij.
Dat UFO-waarnemingen controleerbeer noch herhaalbaar zijn, maakt het onderzoek naar dit fenomeen extreem uitdagend.
Taboe
“Maar het echte probleem is in mijn ogen dat het UFO-onderwerp taboe is,” klinkt het.
Professor Knuth krijgt vaak de vraag waarom astronomen geen UFO’s zien. “Die zien ze wel,” zegt hij.
In 1977 stuurde professor Peter Sturrock 2611 vragenformulieren over UFO-waarnemingen naar leden van de American Astronomical Society.
Er waren 62 astronomen die aangaven dat ze onverklaarbare vliegende objecten in het luchtruim hadden waargenomen.
Disclosure
Daarnaast zei ruim 80 procent van de respondenten bereid te zijn het UFO-fenomeen te bestuderen als daar een mogelijkheid voor was.
Knuth citeerde de gepensioneerde legerkolonel John Alexander: “Disclosure is al geweest. Er zijn talloze generaals geweest die hebben gezegd dat UFO’s echt zijn. Mijn punt is: hoe vaak moeten hooggeplaatste functionarissen zeggen dat dit echt is?”
Laten we dus het taboe doorbreken en het UFO-fenomeen onderwerpen aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek, besluit de professor.
Geoloog doet opzienbarende vondst in kilometerslange tunnel. Is de aarde hol?
Geoloog doet opzienbarende vondst in kilometerslange tunnel. Is de aarde hol?
Radioshow Coast to Coast AM heeft een uitzending beschikbaar gemaakt over onderzoeker, avonturier en filmmaker Stephen Sindoni, die claimt dat er bewijs is voor de holle aarde.
Hij wijst op gesprekken met inheemse stamoudsten, die verwezen naar de holle aarde.
Sindoni noemt tijdens het gesprek het verhaal over J.C. Brown, een man die naar verluidt aan het begin van de 20e eeuw als geoloog voor Lord Cowdray Mining Company werkte.
Lemurische beschaving
Brown beweerde in 1904 onder Mount Shasta in Californië op een oude Lemurische beschaving te zijn gestuit.
Hij zou een bijna 18 kilometer lange tunnel in de berg zijn gevolgd, waarna hij naar eigen zeggen uitkwam bij een dorp met bijna vier meter grote koperen voorwerpen, standbeelden, wapens en drie meter lange skeletten.
Licht
De standbeelden straalden licht uit en om die reden nam Brown aan dat ze barium bevatten.
Sindoni sprak in de VS met een stamoudste, die hem vertelde dat duizenden jaren geleden een groep mensen uit een ander zonnestelsel naar de aarde is gekomen.
Mierenmensen
Die mensen werden volgens de stamoudste door de ‘mierenmensen’ meegenomen naar een ondergrondse plek.
“De Lemuriërs waren ruim 2,5 meter lang en mijn opa heeft ze gezien toen hij in een river bij Mount Rainier aan het vissen was,” ze de stamoudste.
Beluister het hele gesprek hieronder (vanaf 9:13):
OUMUAMUA VERSNELT PLOTSELING EN VERANDERT VAN KOERS
OUMUAMUA VERSNELT PLOTSELING EN VERANDERT VAN KOERS
Eind vorig jaar hadden we een unieke situatie, waarbij een “komeet” uit een ander zonnestelsel bij ons op bezoek kwam.
De wetenschap zat met de handen in het haar, want hoe ze ook dachten en puzzelden, Oumuamua paste in geen enkel hokje.
Eerder dit jaar hadden we te maken met een vreemd ruimteobject, dat werd omschreven en geclassificeerd als een komeet en dat van buiten ons zonnestelsel scheen te komen.
Sinds ons artikel zijn er alleen nog maar meer vragen gerezen over dit object dat inmiddels de naam Oumuamua heeft gekregen. Het object dat van een ander zonnestelsel kwam, om de zon draaide en weer verdween in de ruimte. The Minor Planet Center heeft bijgedragen aan de naamgeving, wat zoveel betekent als eerste boodschapper van ver weg.:
Accordingly, the object A/2017 U1 receives the permanent designation 1I and the name ʻOumuamua. The name, which was chosen by the Pan-STARRS team, is of Hawaiian origin and reflects the way this object is like a scout or messenger sent from the distant past to reach out to us (ʻou means reach out for, and mua, with the second mua placing emphasis, means first, in advance of).
Volgens de European Southern Observatory (ESO) is Oumuamua een object dat we nog nooit eerder hebben gezien en bestaat het uit rots of metaal met een roodachtige kleur.
Het object moet er ongeveer als volgt uit zien. Een ander fenomeen is dat het om haar eigen as lijkt te draaien en dat de lichtintensiteit varieert.
Men probeert wanhopig om voor dit alles logische verklaringen te vinden, maar slaagt daar niet zo erg in.
Men vermoedt dat het uit de buurt komt van de ster Vega, maar ook dat schijnt niet te kunnen omdat in de tijd dat Oumuamua daar is vertrokken, die ster op een heel andere plek stond. Nu denken ze dat het object misschien wel helemaal nergens thuishoort en als een soort los projectiel door de ruimte zwerft.
De wetenschap zit (ook) wat dit object betreft met de handen in het haar, want niet één van de normale verklaringen past.
Waar we hier over praten, is een groot moederschip dat ons hier met een bezoek heeft vereerd. Dat is de enige logische verklaring en ook is er ook één die past in de omschrijving van het object en de gedragingen.
Nu komen er via NASA berichten dat een team van wetenschappers met behulp van gegevens van de Hubble ruimtetelescoop en andere bronnen heeft vastgesteld dat Oumuamua opeens accelereert en van koers is veranderd.
Marco Micheli van de Europese Ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft bevestigd dat de bewegingen van het object aantonen dat er onder invloed van iets anders dan de zwaartekracht van de zon en andere planeten in ons zonnestelsel iets met Oumuamua is gebeurd.
Dan Davide Farnocchia van het NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) die volhoudt dat het object zich gedraagt als een normale komeet en dat de versnelling en koersverandering misschien wel te maken hebben met de uitstoot van gas vanaf het oppervlak van de komeet.
Echter, volgens Olivier Haunaut van het European Southern Observatory zijn er geen waarneembare tekenen van het uitstoten van gas.
Maar, omdat de wetenschappelijke gelederen gesloten dienen te blijven, komt er een soort gezamenlijke verklaring van wetenschappers waarbij ze dan concluderen dat Oumuamua een hele kleine hoeveelheid stofdeeltjes heeft uitgestoten die verantwoordelijk zouden zijn geweest voor de koersverandering. De uitstoot van die stofdeeltjes zou zo subtiel geweest zijn de wetenschappers niet in staat zijn geweest om dit op te pikken.
De verklaring: het hemellichaam bevat wél vluchtig materiaal, en via barsten en spleten in het oppervlak stromen gassen en dampen de ruimte in. Zo’n klein raket-effect beïnvloedt de beweging – denk maar aan een losgelaten feestballonnetje, dat ook alle kanten op kronkelt.
Het effect was heel klein, aldus een internationaal team van onderzoekers deze week in Nature, maar elke andere mogelijke verklaring wordt vakkundig naar de prullenbak verwezen. Conclusie: de kosmische binnendringer verloor een paar kilogram gas per seconde, vermoedelijk waterdamp en koolmonoxide. Dat is niet veel, maar volgens het astronomische hokjesdenken ben je dan toch een komeet.
Héhé, dat was even zweten, maar gelukkig is er nu een wetenschappelijke verklaring die de stofdeeltjes de schuld geeft, zodat we vooral niet hoeven zeggen dat het gewoon een groot buitenaards, intelligent bestuurd ruimteschip is.
Mysterious Sonar Anomaly investigated in ocean off North Carolina by NOAA
Mysterious Sonar Anomaly investigated in ocean off North Carolina by NOAA
A mysterious "sonar anomaly" had NOAA explorers diving off the coast of North Carolina on Wednesday, hoping for an explanation.
NOAA has not been afraid to notch up suspense about the area, noting it could be "an archaeology site, a geological formation or otherwise."
Image credit NOAA.
It's anybody's guess what "otherwise" means, but UFO enthusiasts might be tingling with ideas.
The site is being called the “Big Dipper Anomaly" by the crew aboard NOAA's Okeanos Explorer, which launched a remotely operated vehicle in the area at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Experts believed the anomaly might be a shipwreck, but were leaning toward "a geological formation with biological communities and other debris" later in the day, according to TV station WTKR in Virginia.
Image credit NOAA.
But an official accounting of their findings has not been released yet and since the location of the anomaly is being kept confidential it becomes clear that NOAA has found something very strange and unusual off the coast of North Carolina. We will keep an eye on this strange event.
Watch three live stream cameras NOAA at the following link:
Three-Fingered Mummified Aliens Found In Peru, UFO Researcher Claims
Three-Fingered Mummified Aliens Found In Peru, UFO Researcher Claims
A UFO researcher has claimed he has unearthed alien remains in Nazca, Peru in 2015. Some UFO fans quickly labelled it as evidence of ancient aliens. They argued that the strange creatures may have inhabited the Earth long before the people.
According to UFO researcher Steve Mera, DNA tests show one body to be 98.5 per cent primate, related to humans, and 1.5 per cent unknown.
Steve said they have proof that the Maria body constitutes a fantastic find. He stressed that it may alter history books forever and would go down as the most significant find of the 21st Century.
However, the World Congress on Mummy Studies has described the discovery as a fraud and called it an irresponsible organized campaign of disinformation.
Hoax debunkers offered a detailed analysis, including the fact that Gaia.com, the one spreading the information about the mummy discovery, has been alleged of promoting the idea of ancient aliens of which no actual evidence was presented.
UFO author Nigel Watson said that mummy discoveries such as this one are very probably fakes. He explained that humanoid aliens with three long fingers could not survive as they would be clumsy and incapable of making a cup of tea let alone flying a spaceship.
Nigel also pointed out the fact that the news was fed to the people via a website that you need to subscribe. He said that it could be fake news designed to indulge the fascination of people with ancient aliens and UFOs.
Large organic molecules blasted into space from deep-sea vents on one of Saturn's moons, show that it contains "all of the basic requirements for life as we know it”.
NASA Finds Ocean & Possible Alien Life on Saturn's Moon
A study of this data by an international team of researchers has found evidence of carbon-rich substances formed in the heart of the moon.
The scientists said they were “blown away” by the discovery.
“Complex organic molecules do not necessarily provide a habitable environment, but on the other hand they are a necessary precursor for life,” Dr Frank Postberg from the University of Heidelberg, who led the research, told The Independent.
“Previously it was unknown whether complex organic chemistry happens on Enceladus – and now we know.”
Dr Christopher Glein, a space scientist specialising in extraterrestrial chemical oceanography, said the new findings mean the distant moon is the only body besides Earth known to “simultaneously satisfy all of the basic requirements for life as we know it”.
He added: “We are, yet again, blown away by Enceladus. Previously we’d only identified the simplest organic molecules containing a few carbon atoms, but even that was very intriguing.”
The new discovery is the culmination of years of data gleaned by Cassini as it flew close by Saturn’s moons, collecting information as it went.
Initial surveys found evidence of an enormous ocean of water residing underneath the moon’s icy crust.
Subsequent flybys yielded signs of smaller organic compounds like methane gas, as well as hydrogen that indicated deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
“Hydrogen provides a source of chemical energy supporting microbes that live in the Earth’s oceans near hydrothermal vents,” said Dr Hunter Waite, who co-authored the study at Southwest Research Institute.
“Once you have identified a potential food source for microbes, the next question to ask is ‘what is the nature of the complex organics in the ocean?’ This paper represents the first step in that understanding – complexity in the organic chemistry beyond our expectations.”
Data collected on the red planet was far more detailed than Cassini’s Enceladus findings, but the discoveries made in the past 12 to 15 months have singled out the distant moon as one of the most likely places to support life in our solar system.
Dr Postberg said the case for alien life on Enceladus is mounting, but as it stands there are no follow up Cassini missions planned.
However, the technology to test for such life exists, and he predicts a decision will be made in the next five years about future alien-hunting missions to this elusive “water world”.
“It is of course one of the biggest science questions there are – extraterrestrial life: yes or no – and here is a spot where we can check,” said Dr Postberg. “We have a habitable environment there and we have the means to probe it to find whether there is actual life or not.”
Has alien life been discovered on Enceladus? Scientists excited by new discovery HD
Beste bewijs van buitenaards leven tot nu toe gevonden op Saturnusmaan. Wetenschappers staan versteld
Beste bewijs van buitenaards leven tot nu toe gevonden op Saturnusmaan. Wetenschappers staan versteld
Saturnusmaan Enceladus blijkt grote organische moleculen uit te stoten. Die zijn ontstaan bij reacties tussen de rotsachtige kern van de maan en het warme water van de ondergrondse oceaan.
Wetenschappers spreken van het beste bewijs van buitenaards leven tot nu toe. Hun onderzoek is gepubliceerd in vakblad Nature.
Eerder waren in het materiaal dat Enceladus uitstoot enkel eenvoudige organische moleculen waargenomen, waaronder methaan.
Diep onder de indruk
De moleculen die nu zijn gevonden, zijn ruim 10 keer zo zwaar dan methaan. Barsten in het ijs op Enceladus bleken verrassend grote hoeveelheden koolstof te bevatten.
De onderzoekers zijn diep onder de indruk van de ontdekking.
In combinatie met de aanwezigheid van vloeibaar water is hiermee aan de basisbehoeften van organismen voldaan.
Enige bekende plek
Ruimtewetenschapper Christopher Glein zei dat Enceladus naast de aarde de enige bekende plek is waar alle basisbenodigdheden zijn voor leven zoals wij dat kennen.
“We staan opnieuw versteld van Enceladus,” zei hij tegen de Britse krant Independent.
Bewoonbaar gebied
Er is een bewoonbaar gebied op de Saturnusmaan en we kunnen gaan kijken of daar al dan niet leven aanwezig is, liet hoofdonderzoeker Frank Postberg van de Universiteit van Heidelberg weten.
De gegevens zijn tussen 2004 en 2017 verzameld door ruimtesonde Cassini. De sonde is in 1997 gelanceerd om Saturnus en alle manen van de planeet in kaart te brengen.
ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) - The Bureau of Land Management is taking an interest in a New Mexico geologist's discoveries that he claims are out of this world. He believes he has found parts of the alleged UFO crash near Roswell in 1947.
"Some of it could be trash, camper trash, but some of it could be interesting,” said Geologist Frank Kimbler.
Kimbler distinctly remembers the moment he discovered debris from the suspected 1947 UFO crash site.
"I started looking around all over the place, looking to see if the helicopters were going to fly over, because you get paranoid when you read the stories of about Roswell and what's happened to people when they've come forward with stuff,” he said.
Over the past eight years, Kimbler has dedicated himself to finding physical proof of the UFO, going out to the suspected site 75 miles northwest of Roswell about a dozen times.
Using a metal detector, he's collected about 20 metallic fragments the size of a fingernail.
"Some of the material that I found out there has been tested and it has anomalies that suggest that it might be of extraterrestrial origin,” said Kimbler.
Recently, Kimbler became afraid his research was in jeopardy when the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) contacted him, wanting to meet.
Kimbler said he was positive he was just a test away from discovering the truth.
When the BLM called, he became a little paranoid and even removed his findings from the International UFO Museum in Roswell.
"I said sure, about had a heart attack. I'm going, ‘Oh, they're going to arrest me, they're going to confiscate this material,’” said Kimbler. “I always thought that I was within my legal rights as a citizen of the U.S. to go out and metal detect."
Much to his relief, that wasn't the case.
"It had a happy ending. I got clarification on the rules and regulations from the BLM and there was no confiscation of materials,” Kimbler said.
He believes the recent commercial interest in the site played a role in how the BLM got alerted to his presence and findings there.
Kimbler, a researcher with the International UFO Museum who has been featured in several documentaries, says he will continue to try and find suspected debris but will work with the BLM to do it the right way.
Mysterious metals collected near sight of the alleged 1947 Roswell UFO crash - Spacing Out! Ep. 14
Frank Kimbler, a geology and earth science teacher at the New Mexico Military Institute, spends considerable time searching the area of the alleged UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico. This professor and geologist has recovered mysterious metals from the area, and he recently appeared on the NatGeo show Chasing UFOs. We talk with Frank about his experience on the show, and about his mystery metals. We also talk about a UFO at the Olympics, William Shatner vs. Wil Wheaton, and other space and UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!
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