Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
The full moon on the night of July 27-28, 2018, presents the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century (2001 to 2100). The total phase of the eclipse – called the totality – spans 1 hour 42 minutes and 57 seconds. That’s in contrast to the shortest total lunar eclipse of this century, which occurred on April 4, 2015, and lasted 4 minutes and 48 seconds. And it’s in contrast to 2018’s other total lunar eclipse – on January 31, 2018 – whose totality lasted 1 hour and 16 minutes.
A partial eclipse precedes and follows the total phase of the eclipse, each time lasting 1 hour and 6 minutes. So, from start to finish – on July 27-28, 2018 – the moon spends nearly 4 hours (3 hours and 55 minutes) crossing the Earth’s dark umbral shadow. Wow! That’s a long eclipse.
Adding to the excitement on eclipse night … this eclipse will happen on the same night that Earth is passing between the sun and Mars, placing Mars at opposition in our sky. In one of the sky’s wonderful coincidences, the Mars opposition happens on July 27, too. It’s not just any Mars opposition, but the best Mars opposition since 2003. Mars is very bright and red throughout July and August, 2018. But eclipse night will be a very special night. On July 27, the sun, Earth and moon are aligned – placing the moon opposite the sun in our sky – producing an eclipse as Earth’s shadow falls on the moon’s face. On the same night, the sun, Earth and Mars are also aligned, bringing Mars also opposite the sun in our sky, just like the full moon. That’s fun to think about, but there’s more for those who plan to observe the eclipse.
Picture it, if you will. During the long total phase of the July 27, 2018, lunar eclipse – the totality – the moon will turn red from sunlight filtering through Earth’s atmosphere onto the moon’s surface. And Mars will be near the moon, exceptionally bright – brighter than since 2003 – and red in color also.
Red moon, red Mars … does it get any better? Expect some great photos!
The eclipsed moon on July 27 will be close to the planet Mars, which – in July and August 2018 – is at the peak of its very special brightness as seen from Earth.
Clouded out on eclipse night, or on the wrong side of Earth? Never fear. The Virtual Telescope Project in Rome is offering a free live viewing. Click here for details. It starts at 18:30 UTC on July 27. That’s 2:30 p.m. EDT on July 27; translate UTC to your time.
Here’s another option for following the eclipse, live, free, online. This one offers a commentary in Spanish. The live broadcast of sky-live.tv starts at 18:20 UTC. It will cover both the partial and total eclipse with a commented-cam (in Spanish) and a sky-cam (only music), both located in Namibia (Africa). Click here for information.
Now for the bad news for us in North America. This lunar eclipse is primarily visible from the world’s Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand). South America, at least in part, can watch the final stages of the eclipse just after sunset July 27, whereas New Zealand will catch the beginning stages of the eclipse before sunrise July 28. North America, most of the Arctic and much of the Pacific Ocean will miss out entirely, as shown on the worldwide map below.
Worldwide map of the July 27, 2018, total lunar eclipse, via Fred Espenak’s EclipseWise.
The greatest eclipse (20:22 UTC) takes place at or around midnight for Madagascar and the Middle East. Europe and Africa view the greatest eclipse during the evening hours (sometime between sunset and midnight on July 27), whereas most of Asia, Indonesia and Australia view the greatest eclipse in the morning (sometime between midnight and sunrise on July 28).
We give you the eclipse times in Universal Time (UTC) below. You must convert these eclipse times from Universal Time into your local time. Here’s how. If it’s easier for you, the local times of the eclipse are available at TimeandDate.com (remember to put your place or country in the search box).
July 27, 2018
Partial eclipse begins: 18:24 (6:24 p.m.) UTC
Total eclipse begins: 19:30 (7:30 p.m.) UTC
Greatest eclipse: 20:22 (8:22 p.m.) UTC
Total eclipse ends: 21:13 (9:13 p.m.) UTC
Partial eclipse ends: 22:19 (10:19 p.m.) UTC
The moon crosses the Earth’s shadow from west to east, entering the dark umbra (inner shadow) at 18:24 UTC and leaving it at 22:19 UTC. The penumbra (outer shadow) is so faint that you may not notice any darkening of the moon while it’s in the penumbra.
Earth’s shadow has two parts: a dark inner umbra and lighter surrounding penumbra. When Earth’s penumbral shadow falls on the moon, it creates a very subtle eclipse – a shading on the moon’s surface. When the darker umbral shadow falls on the moon, it appears as if a “bite” has been taken from the moon’s face. Illustration via astro.washington.edu.
What causes a long-lasting total lunar eclipse?
For an especially long-lasting total lunar eclipse of 1 hour and 43 minutes to occur, the moon has to pass through the central part of the Earth’s shadow. The previous total lunar eclipse on January 31, 2018, didn’t last as long (1 hour and 16 minutes) because the moon passed to the south of the shadow’s center; and the next total lunar eclipse on January 21, 2019, won’t be as long either (1 hour and 2 minutes) because it’ll pass to the north of the shadow’s center.
In 2018, the July full moon and July lunar apogee – the moon’s most distant point from Earth in its monthly orbit – both fall on the same date: July 27, 2018. Therefore, the July 2018 full moon showcases the most distant and smallest full moon of the year. Sometimes called an apogean full moon (or micro-moon or mini-moon), this smaller and slower-moving full moon takes more time to cross the Earth’s shadow than does a full moon that’s closer to Earth and moving faster in orbit. That’s why a full moon at or near lunar apogee adds to the duration of a total lunar eclipse.
The longest possible total lunar eclipse is 1 hour and 47 minutes. In fact, the longest total eclipse of the 20th century (1901 to 2000) occurred on July 16, 2000, with a duration of 1 hour and 46.4 minutes. That’s because, at greatest eclipse, the center of the lunar disk aligned almost perfectly with the center of the Earth’s shadow.
It’s no coincidence, by the way, that the extra-long total lunar eclipses of July 16, 2000, and July 27, 2018, belong to the same Saros series and are separated by one Saros period (18.031 years).
The moon crosses the ecliptic (Earth’s orbital plane) from north to south. This descending node Saros series starts when the moon first clips the southernmost part (bottom) of Earth’s shadow and then migrates northward (upward) with each succeeding Saros period of 18.031 years. Midway through the Saros series, the full moon passes through the center of Earth’s shadow for a maximally long total lunar eclipse. Saros Series 129, of which the total lunar eclipse on July 27, 2018, is a part, lasts for a total of 1,262 years. Image via Matthew Zimmerman.
On July 27, 2018, the center of the lunar disk will swing a tiny bit north of the shadow’s center, so this total lunar eclipse with a duration of 1 hour and 43 minutes will be a few minutes shy of the maximum duration possible (1 hour and 47 minutes). Even so, this July 2018 total lunar eclipse counts as a whopper, giving us the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century.
The longest total lunar eclipses of the 20th and 21st centuries both take place in July, which is of consequence. That’s because yearly, in early July, the Earth swings out to aphelion – its farthest point from the sun for the year.
At aphelion, the Earth’s dark umbral shadow reaches its maximum length (and width) for the year. All else being equal (moon’s distance and centrality of eclipse), the greater width of the Earth’s umbra in July means a longer total lunar eclipse. Therefore, long-lasting total lunar eclipses tend to take place in a Northern Hemisphere summer (or Southern Hemisphere winter) because the umbra is wider at this time of year.
The full moon will plunge deeply into the Earth’s shadow on the night of July 27-28, 2018. Depending on atmospheric conditions, this could be an especially dark total eclipse, though you won’t know for sure unless you look!
During a total lunar eclipse, the moon always passes through Earth’s very light penumbral shadow before and after its journey through the dark umbra.
Bottom line: July 27, 2018, brings the longest total eclipse of the moon of the 21st century. It happens when the most distant and smallest full moon of the year passes through the center of the Earth’s shadow, which is at its widest in July. And it happens on a night when the moon is near Mars, which also comes to opposition on July 27. What a night!
Mars heeft enorm ondergronds waterreservoir. Wetenschappers bereiken grote doorbraak in zoektocht naar buitenaards leven
Mars heeft enorm ondergronds waterreservoir. Wetenschappers bereiken grote doorbraak in zoektocht naar buitenaards leven
Voor het eerst is op Mars een groot ondergronds meer gevonden en nooit eerder een vermoedelijk zo grote hoeveelheid vloeibaar water dat voor leven noodzakelijk is, zo hebben wetenschappers vandaag bekendgemaakt. Leven is nog niet ontdekt.
Het meer bevindt zich onder een ijslaag aan de zuidelijke pool van de rode planeet, strekt zich uit over een gebied van 20 kilometer en heeft een meter diepte, zo staat in een artikel in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Science.
Verbluffend resultaat
Het is de eerste keer dat zo een massa stabiel water op Mars is gevonden. Dit schept voorwaarden voor leven op langere termijn, zegt Alan Duffy van de Universiteit van Swinburn, die niet aan het onderzoek heeft deelgenomen.
Hij sprak van een ‘verbluffend resultaat’.
Onder leiding van Roberto Orosi van het Italiaanse Nationaal Instituut voor Astrofysica in Bologna onderzochten wetenschappers data van het radarinstrument die tussen mei 2012 en december 2015 zijn verzameld.
Komen overeen
De data komen overeen met die van meren van vloeibaar water onder de Zuidpool en de ijslaag op Groenland op onze planeet. Wetenschappers opperden dat daar microbiologisch leven kan zijn, en dus ook op Mars.
Mars is vroeger warm en vochtig geweest. Minstens 3,6 miljard jaar geleden moeten er een grote hoeveelheid vloeibaar water en meren aanwezig zijn geweest.
DE EFFECTEN VAN DE RODE DRAAK WORDEN STEEDS DUIDELIJKER
DE EFFECTEN VAN DE RODE DRAAK WORDEN STEEDS DUIDELIJKER
Enkele dagen geleden gebeurde er iets heel vreemds in het verre Siberië, waar het urenlang opeens donker werd.
Inwoners omschreven het alsof er iets zwaars op hun borst drukte en toen het weer licht werd, was alles bedekt met een laag stof.
De bijzondere gebeurtenis vond plaats in de Russische autonome republiek Jakoetië, een enorm groot gebied dat ongeveer 18 procent van de Russische Federatie vormt.
Wij praten in dit geval over het verre noorden van Jakoetië waar de inwoners vol verbazing naar de lucht keken.
Het bericht werd gepubliceerd afgelopen zaterdag, dus zal de gebeurtenis waarschijnlijk de dag ervoor hebben plaatsgevonden.
Rond elf uur ’s morgens werd het opeens donker in dat gebied, alsof er een soort zonsverduistering gaande was. Die was er niet en normaal gesproken heeft dat gebied rond deze tijd van het jaar ongeveer 24 uur per dag zonlicht. Het duurde tot rond een uur of twee in de middag tot de lucht weer enigszins begon op te klaren.
Op een gegeven moment werd het zo donker dat de mensen de lichten aan moesten doen en met een zaklantaarn over straat moeste lopen. Het gaf bij velen ook een heel vreemd gevoel, alsof er iets zwaars op de borst drukte. Toen het weer licht was, bleek alles bedekt met een dikke laag stof en niemand weet waar dit vandaan kwam.
Er wordt gesuggereerd dat het misschien as zou kunnen zijn van bosbranden, maar er waren geen bosbranden in de buurt en bovendien was het windstil.
Het bovenstaande doet heel erg denken aan een voorval eerder dit jaar, waar we toen het volgende over schreven:
Ze (Nancy Lieder) geeft nog een voorbeeld van de eerlijkheid van Poetin/Rusland en dat heeft te maken de vreemde landschappen die wintersporters onlangs zagen, onder andere in Rusland.
Bij ons wordt het uiteraard afgedaan als zand afkomstig van de Sahara, maar in Rusland is daar men niet zo zeker van.
De substantie die uit de lucht viel was vettig, olieachtig, rook vies en had een ijzerinhoud die vier keer groter is dan wat het had moeten zijn.
Weer een duidelijk teken dat we hier te maken hebben met de staart van Nibiru, die bekendstaat om het veroorzaken van dit soort effecten, zoals wij schreven in een eerder artikel:
Degene die al sinds het einde van de vorige eeuw zich bezighoudt met de planeet Nibiru of Planet X is Nancy Lieder van de website Zetatalk. Zij zegt in contact te staan met een buitenaardse beschaving, de Zeta's en van hen heel veel informatie te ontvangen omtrent het mysterieuze mini zonnestelsel.
Zo schreef zij met de informatie van de Zeta's in 1997 al over de manen van Nibiru en vergeleek zij deze met een parelsnoer en de reden daarvoor is omdat deze manen niet in een baan om de planeet draaien, maar achter elkaar als een soort slinger achter Nibiru aan zwieren.
Naast de manen bevindt zich achter de planeet een lang gestrekte roodachtige wolk bestaande uit ruimtepuin die er ook uitziet als de rode draak zoals die in de Chinese cultuur een prominente rol speelt en binnen allerlei profetieën ook wordt genoemd in relatie tot deze onbekende planeet.
At thetime of the great destruction of Earth, God caused a dragon from out of Heaven to come and encompass her about. The dragon was frightful to behold, it lashed its tail, it breathed out fire and hot coals, and a great catastrophe was inflicted upon mankind.
Indertijd gaf Nancy aan dat het er ongeveer als volgt uit zou zien:
Wanneer je de Kolbrin bijbel leest, dan zie je als het ware bovenstaande gebeurtenissen ook weer terug.
“De donkere dagen begonnen met het laatste bezoek van de Verwoester en dit werd voorspeld door vreemde tekenen aan de hemel. Alle mensen werden stil en liepen rond met een bleek gelaat.
Angst nam de bevolking in haar grip en vrouwen werden door die angst onvruchtbaar. Ze konden niet zwanger worden en degene die het wel werden verloren hun kind.
De dagen van stilte werden gevolgd door een tijd waarbij trompetgeschal en doordringende hoge tonen werden gehoord in de hemelen en de mensen werden net zo bang als een kudde zonder herder.
De doden waren niet langer heilig en werden in het water gegooid. De pakhuizen waren volgestouwd met graan en niemand verbouwde nog wat. Het vee werd alleen gelaten en zwierf rond en dwaalde naar vreemde weiden. Hun geblaat werd genegeerd en men slachtte het vee van de buurman.
Niemand bezat nog iets. De openbare registers werden heen en weer geschoven en vernietigd. En niemand wist meer wie er slaaf waren en wie meester. De plaag waarde door het land, de rivier was bloedrood en overal was bloed. Zij die dronken van de rivier moesten onmiddellijk overgeven. Het stof beet zich vast in de huid van zowel mens als dier.
Door de gloed van de Verwoester was de aarde gehuld in een roodachtig licht. Het land was platgeslagen en verwoest door enorme hagelstenen die neer beukten op alles wat stond. Ze kwamen naar beneden in hete buien en achter hen aan kwam een soort vreemd gloeiend vuur dat over de aarde liep.
De vis in de rivieren stierf, wormen, insecten en reptielen sprongen omhoog vanuit de aarde. De duisternis van een lange nacht spreidde een zwarte mantel over de aarde waardoor iedere lichtstraal werd gedoofd. Niemand wist wanneer het dag of wanneer het nacht was want de zon wierp geen schaduw".
Tales of what have infamously become known as “black helicopters” abound in the field of conspiracy-theorizing. Two of the biggest questions surrounding the phenomenon are: (a) who has the technology and power to fly such craft; and (b) from where do they operate? There are good reasons to believe that at least a part of the phenomenon had its origins at none other than Area 51 – the world’s most well-known “secret base.” Even elements of the government are puzzled by the controversy. Indeed, thanks to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, more than a few files have surface that are focused on these mysterious craft.
Official documentation on the encounters has surfaced from the Air Force, the FBI, and the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). One particular document, titled Suspicious Unknown Air Activity, provides the following: “Since 28 Oct 75 numerous reports of suspicious objects have been received at the NORAD CC. Reliable military personnel at Loring AFB Maine, Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, Malmstrom AFB, MT, Minot AFB, ND, and Canadian forces station Falconbridge, Ontario Canada have visually sighted suspicious objects. Objects at Loring and Wurtsmith were characterized to be helicopters[italics mine]. Missile site personnel, security alert teams and air defense personnel at Malmstrom, Montana report an object which sounded like a jet. FAA advised there were no jet aircraft in the vicinity. Malmstrom search and height finder radars carried the object between 9500 ft. and 15,000 ft. at a speed of seven knots.”
Of particular note is Unidentified Helicopter Sighted at Low Level Over Loring AFB, a file that adds further weight to the theory that there had been major, serious invasions of secure facilities – facilities that appeared to be not so secure, after all. Consider the following: “On 28 Oct 75, Lewis…advised that the a/c [aircraft] was first observed by Clifton W. Blakeslee, Sgt. [deleted] and William J. Long, SSgt., both assigned to the 42 SPS, who were on duty at the storage area. The initial sighting took place at approximately 1345. The a/c was observed approximately 1,000 meters north of LAFB. The a/c was subsequently observed by Lewis and others intermittently for the next hour and a half. Subsequent to the sighting by Long and Blakeslee, the a/c did not come nearer to the northern perimeter of LAFB than approximately 3 miles. Lewis observed a flashing white strobe light and red navigation lights on the a/c. The operator of the a/c either turned the lights off periodically or the a/c flew below a point from which the lights could be observed. The a/c disappeared from view and did not reappear. A search of the vicinity of the northern perimeter of LAFB by 42 SPS personnel met with negative results.”
In 1995, the U.S. magazine, Aviation Week and Space Technology, published an article (Vol. 142, No. 6) which, in part, stated that, “…the U.S. military has been working for years on at least two helicopter projects. The more recent is [the] development of a light, very quiet helicopter [italics mine] with a mast-mounted sight.”
One of those who had uncovered certain, classified data on this particular Nevada-based program was a conspiracy-theorist named Jim Keith, who died in 1999. The issue of the silent helicopters was one which particularly intrigued Keith. After all, helicopters are known for their deep, thump-thump sound. So, to encounter a helicopter that is near-silent – or, perhaps, even completely silent – would be amazing, indeed. In pursuing the tales of the silent copters, Keith found himself repeatedly pointed in the direction of Nevada. By now, you know the specific stretch of Nevada.
In February of 1995, the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper ran an article titled “Ex-Worker Describes Stealth Copter.” It was written by a journalist named Susan Greene. Commenting on all of this, Keith said: “According to statements of a former worker at Groom Lake Air Force Base, a black budget stealth helicopter was being tested at this facility as early as 1990. The code name for the helicopter was ‘T.E.K,’ which stood for ‘Test and Evaluation Project K.’”
Keith continued as follows: “The former worker at Groom Lake reported that the chopper was olive drab, riveted, and angular, with gull wing doors. An account in the Vegas paper quotes experts as saying, ‘Light, quiet and stealthy helicopters could be used for clandestine ‘Rambo-type missions,’ quick-in, quick-out assignments without being noticed.”
Of course, the mysterious helicopters were seen long before the 1990s; something which suggests the programs operating out of Groom Lake have been going on for decades – and not just since the 1990s.
Filer’s Files #29 -2018 We Lost Planes to UFOs - PART I
Valencia Island Kerry, Eire -- on June 20, 2018.
Filer’s Files #29 -2018 We Lost Planes to UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: General Chidlaw We Have Lost Planes to UFOs, Why don’t astronomers see UFOs? Black Holes, Megalithic Stones Communication, Omnec Onec and Venus, and High Speed Space Ship Earth.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Eire, Finland, Germany, and England in the United Kingdom.
Major George Filer Editor of The National UFO Center, would like to invite join him in Mt Shasta this summer July 27-29th 2018. He will present a wonderful program at the “From Venus with Love” conference.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
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General Chidlaw We Have Lost Planes to UFOs
“We have stacks of reports about flying saucers. We take them seriously when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” General Benjamin Chidlaw – US Eastern Air Defense, Air Defense Command
If Moscow should decide some mid night to attack the U.S., 900 Soviet heavy bombers could be over North America by dawn. Some 300 Red planes, manned by elite crews and loaded with nuclear or thermonuclear bombs, would streak toward vital U.S. target areas. The others, carrying TNT and fire bombs, would serve to divert and confuse U.S. defenses.
Two score well-placed hydrogen bombs could kill one-fourth of the American people; conceivably, an all-out surprise attack could destroy the nation’s will to resist and power to strike back. Hundreds of missiles from all directions could hit the US with dozens coming from under the sea submarines that can hit coastal targets in a few minutes from launch. The US could launch a devastating counter attack. Both countries would suffer heavy causalities and major destruction….Time December. 20, 1954
During the summer of 1952, Americans reported a record amount of Ufo sightings to Project Blue Book. Frank Feschino, Jr. has written a book about the 1952 summer and America’s Ufo problem. He takes the reader on a journey through Blue Book’s “Unknown” cases and other Ufo reports. He focuses on the encounters between Us. fighter planes and UFO
s with an in-depth historical account of the United States military’s “shoot down” orders.
Timothy Good writes, “The destruction or disappearance of military aircraft during interceptions of UFOs continued apace.” As General Benjamin Chidlaw, former commanding general of Air (later Aerospace) Defense Command told Robert C. Gardener (ex USAF) in 1953: “We have stack of reports of flying saucers. We take them seriously, when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” Leonard Stringfield, the former Air Force intelligence officer was told by a reliable source in the 1950s that the “Air Force was losing about a plane a day to the UFOs.” Stringfield was reliably informed. According to US Defense Department figures, from 1952 until the end of October 1956, there were 18,662 major accidents of military aircraft, broken down as follows:
Year -Air Force – Navy Losses
1952 2,274 2,086
1953 2,075 2,325
1954 1,873 1,911
1955 1,664 1,566
1956 1,530 1,358
Of this astonishing accident total, most involved fast new jets (such as those scrambled in UFO interceptions), of which 56.2 per cent were found to be caused by pilot error; 8.1 per cent by ground-crew or other personnel failure; 23.4 per cent by failure of parts and equipment in the aircraft; 2.8 per cent by various ‘unsafe conditions’, and –9.5 per cent (1,773) were due to ‘unknown factors’. Thanks to Timothy Good’ book, “Need to Know” P.172
Editor’s Comments: When I chased a UFO we exceeded the red lined aircraft air speed by 20 knots. In the excitement of the chase it is easy to exceed aircraft capabilities and often some part of the aircraft may fail. Many stories are told of firing missiles and making direct hits on the UFOs that were unharmed only to have them return the fire and destroy the interceptor.
Chidlaw entered the Air Corps Engineering School at Wright Field, Ohio, and later directed the development of the United States’ original jet engine and jet aircraft. He spent most of his career at Wright Field which established Chidlaw as an expert on materiel, especially aircraft. He became chief of the Experimental Engineering Branch, where he monitored the jet engine development. In March 1945, he took command of the Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Forces and was promoted to major general.
Wright Field Air Force Museum
Chidlaw returned to Wright Field in July 1945 as deputy commanding general for operations of what became Air Materiel Command. He was flown to Roswell, New Mexico at the time of the UFO crash announcement in July of 1947, with General Twining. . On July 26, 1947, while aboard the presidential C-54 aircraft, Sacred Cow, President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, officially establishing the United States Air Force as a separate service.
In October 1947, he became deputy commanding general of Air Materiel Command, with rank of lieutenant general, and promoted to commander on September 1, 1949. General Chidlaw was given the task to evaluate UFO sightings and his group agreed the phenomena was real and viable and should be researched. It is likely his team attempted to develop their own flying discs using the Roswell crash debris that were stored at Wright Field. On July 29, 1951, he received his fourth star and the command of Air Defense Command at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado. Most fighter interceptors were under his command and each Air Force base had a UFO Officer who could launch fighters if UFOs were in the area.
Why don’t astronomers see UFOs?
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, Peter 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.
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.
Evidence from government and military officers
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. What is CEFAA? Why was the Committee created?
The reports of pilots, both military and commercial and private, regarding having witnessed anomalous aerial phenomena, as well as the cases denounced by the general public, created the need to know what was happening in the Chilean skies, being born in this way , the CEFAA.
The CEFAA was created in late 1997 and started operating in 1998.
What is your mission?
The mission of the committee is to carry out a scientific investigation of these anomalous aerial phenomena, characterized as unidentified flying objects, in order to verify if in any way they can affect the safety of air operations.
Where do you get the information to be analyzed?
USS Submarine takes photos in the Arctic Ocean in 1971
The main source of information of the CEFAA are the various reports of pilots flying in the airspace of approximately 32 million km2, controlled by the Chilean DGAC.
Pilots flying in Chilean airspace and their aircraft are controlled by the respective Control Centers throughout the country. These centers have radars that detect the exact position of the aircraft in flight. In addition, they have recording equipment that records communications between the pilots and the Air Traffic Controllers.
In this way, when an anomalous aerial phenomenon is detected, the recording is sent to the CEFAA, where a scientific investigation is initiated by the corresponding specialists.
The committee also receives information from the general public and reserves the right to select the material that can help in the investigation of the phenomenon.
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. 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. 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?”
Last month, scientists announced the discovery of thousands of black holes at the heart of our galaxy. Now, you can explore the monster black hole at the core of the Milky Way that’s surrounded by that black-hole swarm, thanks to a new virtual tour released by NASA.
The individual black holes are estimated to be five to 30 times the mass of our sun, and all were found within three light-years from the monster black hole, called Sagittarius A*.
“Researchers combed through data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, looking for possible black holes in close orbit with a star,” researchers said in a new video posted on the Chandra website. “They found about a dozen strong black-hole candidates within a very short distance of the supermassive black hole at the galactic center. This implies the presence of other undetected stellar-mass black holes. Up to a thousand stellar-mass black holes could be present.”
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Black Hole
Some of the most monstrous black holes in the universe are growing faster than their host galaxies, new research suggests. Black holes are some of the strangest and most fascinating objects found in outer space. They are objects of extreme density, with such strong gravitational attraction that even light cannot escape from their grasp if it comes near enough.
Super massive black holes are believed to exist at the centers of most, if not all, large galaxies, where they feed on surrounding gas, dust and other material. Two new studies suggest that these massive Black Holes are much bigger than expected based on the rate at which surrounding stars are forming, the researchers said. In fact our Milky Way has one the largest Black Holes. It’s speculated the Black Holes eventually help form a Galaxy of stars as they spin around the Black Hole. Some are eventually captured within the Black holes but most develop into new suns and surrounding planets. It is now thought the black holes helped create our Galaxy on of the largest in the universe. In the past smaller Galaxy’s have been swelled up by our Milky Way Galaxy..,, observed X-ray radiation might be from rapidly rotating neutron stars that have strong magnetic fields, according to scientists at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
But if the observed sources are indeed black holes, scientists are particularly interested in those that have companion stars. One reason is that the discovery could help scientists better understand gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time caused by interactions between massive objects. The first confirmed detection of gravitational waves was in 2015, and observations continue with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and Virgo interferometer collaborations. It appears the aliens understand UFOs and are able to use them for traveling between various places in the Galaxy.
A paper based on the new Chandra results was published April 5 in the journal Nature. The work was led by Charles J. Hailey, co-director of the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory at Columbia University in New York.
Within the Galaxy there are millions of suns with millions of planets. If only one in the millions of planets has an intelligence civilization there are millions of civilized planets with intelligence life forms. Original article on Space.com.
Megalithic Stones Communication
It was the early 1970s. A zoologist had been studying bats during the night. And he was now on his way home, carrying his equipment with him. He happened to pass a group of ancient standing stones, just as the morning sun was beginning to strike the stones. To his utter surprise, the instruments started reacting. They were picking up a strong, regular and rapid pulse.
The zoologist told the story to an acquaintance whom he knew to be an investigator or earth mysteries. In turn, this man told someone at the institute of Archaeology at Oxford.
THE INVESTIGATION
As it turned out, at that time, a group of scientists and engineers was actively investigating megalithic sites across the British Isles. A research chemist named Don Robins, who was a member of that group got interested. In late October, 1978, he decided to run some tests himself.
Just before dawn, Robins picked up the group’s own broad-spectrum ultrasonic detector and took it to the
Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire. To his delight, just as the sun rose, his equipment picked up a regular rapid pulse around an isolated tall, upright standing stone (known as the king-stone) some distance from the circle proper.
Well, did this motivate the other project team members!
“Let’s scan other megalithic sites across the country,” they said. And they got busy. In fact, they kept doing this for four years.
They discovered that they were able to successfully broadcast ultra-Sonics. As time went on, they managed to acquire equipment that was capable of excluding radio interference and stray signals from local energy sources, including geological faults. The readings at the various old stone circles they now compared with readings taken at modern structures like streets and bridges, or areas of natural woodland.
They discovered that these modern structures showed no more than the expected random background noise. None of these showed anything remotely like the pulse effect of the ancient stone circles at the hour of dawn.
DELIBERATELY PLANNED?
They scratched their heads over this. Could it be that the ancient sites had actually been created specifically to generate the ultrasound? That is, was the pulse deliberately planned? For one thing, the pulse was quite independent of weather conditions. It could be measured at dawn on any day, rain or shine. Not only that, but the pulse transformed into an actual howling sound, which lasted for several hours on the mornings of the spring and autumn equinoxes.
They knew that this “no sound” result was an impossible reading, because open countryside always has a standard background of ultrasound. This is constantly generated (non-stop) by such things as the movement of grass, the rustle of leaves and even the movements of the team members themselves.
“Our equipment has surely malfunctioned,” said one of the team, to which the other members all agreed. So what did this “no ultra-sound” mean? Somehow, the great stone circle was generating an ultrasonic screen which left its interior totally silent.
Absolutely baffled by this, as well as intrigued, the team extended the scope of their measurements to include radioactivity. You see, any place in the country will produce a level of background radiation which is detectable by a Geiger counter. And the stone circles were no different. However, the stone circles were different in this respect – that they somehow generated ‘hot spots’ where the radiation was far higher than normal background radiation.
Yet when the Geiger counter was moved to the centre of the circle, the very reverse was found. ‘Cold spots’ were detected by the scientists, where the radiation dropped below normal background levels. Now engineer Charles Brooker extended the measurements still further. Back at the Rollrights circle he used a portable magnetometer. And what did this show? A seven-ring spiral of diminishing magnetic intensity. The circle was screening out electro-magnetic radiation.
These findings have not been widely publicized. However, they do suggest a sophisticated knowledge of ultrasound as well as a knowledge of various types of radiation in ancient times. It does appear that at least some of Britain’s ancient stone circles were constructed as radiation shelters – although for what purpose it is difficult to imagine.
Mile Long Cursus Carved into Ground
Editors’ Note. These ancient stone circles were built some 3,000 years ago along with Avebury hill and this cursus which matches the cylinder shape and size of the Mothership that I chased over the area while in the Air Force. The cursus is almost a mile long. The stone circles that match the smaller disk shape ships have the ability to communicate. Many of the circular burial mounds contain skeletons with exceptionally large heads thought to be non-human aliens.The ancient megalithic sites remain a mystery. I suggest space travelers visited Earth and encouraged the establishment of religion and science of the stars. The data is being hidden because they do not go along with evolution,,,they support the Bible Genesis 6:4 and other areas,,,where fallen angels or alien visitors came to Earth and mated with women and produced a hybrid offspring.These hybrids are the same as the demi-gods, Hercules, Thor, Atlas, ect… The Book of Enoch describes this account, names the fallen angels and what technology/information they revealed to man,,from aborting babies to metal working, astronomy, astrology, ect…
There has been many elongated skulls and full skeletons of these beings found,,pictures taken,,and some skulls are still in museums in Peru and England…/they do not appear human
For thousands of years Avebury’s landscape has been seen as a mysterious region. The land has a peculiar sanctity and mystical power that has attracted people for millennia.
As local authors, paranormal investigators, experienced dowsers and guides who work in conjunction with The Henge Shop, Avebury, offers you a unique insight into some of Avebury’s mysteries.
We have studied and understand the archaeology of Avebury; however archaeology alone can never fully answer why such magnificent sites as Avebury, Silbury Hill and Stonehenge were skilfully crafted by our ancient ancestors.
Omnec Onec and Venus
Omnec Onec claims to be a Venusian, Spiritual Teacher and the author of the autobiography of an extraterrestrial. “Ambassador from Venus.” Omnec Onec was born on the astral level of the planet Venus and came to Earth with her own physical body in 1955. In the Ninetees, she became publicly known with her autobiography The Venusian Trilogy.”. In this book, she portrays life on the astral level of Venus and describes why and how she was born there and why as a child she was given the opportunity to lower her vibrations, to manifest a physical body and to come to Earth at the age of seven in order to later in her life work as a spiritual teacher and fulfill her life cycles here on Earth. She is a speaker at Mt, Shasta, California Conference on July 27, 2018.
High Speed Space Ship Earth
Hold onto your chair Earth is a space ship orbiting the Sun at the speed of 108,000 km/h. 69,000 mph. The planet travels 940 million km or (584,088,920 miles during one orbit during each year. The Earth completes one orbit every 365.24 mean solar days (that might help explain the need for a leap year). The planet’s distance from the Sun varies as it orbits. Actually, the Earth is never the same distance from the Sun from day to day. When the Earth is closest to the Sun it is said to be
Earth at perihelion.
This occurs around January 3rd at a distance of 147,098,074 km. (91402505 miles) When it is at its furthest distance from the Sun, Earth is said to be at aphelion. That happens around July 4th at a distance of 152,097,701 km 94509129.8 miles.
That’s not all our wonderful Earth is now moving in six different directions with a combined speed of approximately 574,585 MPH.
69,361 MPH Spin and Orbit 43,200 MPH Towards the Lambda Herculis Constellation 15,624 MPH Solar system moving Perpendicular to Galactic
Milky Way Galaxy Plane shown in image. 446,400 MPH Orbiting the Galactic Center {or Galactic Spin Rate. ——————- 574,585 MPH Total Speed of Earth within Our Galaxy so hold on tight.
These movements suggest an intelligent universe that a supernatural God can provide life everlasting.
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Filer’s Files #29 -2018 We Lost Planes to UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #29 -2018 We Lost Planes to UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Redwood — I was taking long exposure shots with my friends on June 23, 2018, around 9:00 pm, If you look at the photo, you can see a long constant stream of light with no blinking lights at the beginning and end. It’s almost like the light exploded into place. it looks extremely strange at the beginning and end of the line. This was a 30 second exposure, and one of my friends unfortunately stood in front of my camera a couple of times. This explains why there are two gaps in the constant line. I did not hear any noise. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Object
Cudjoe Key — Hurricane IRMA passed through the Florida Keys 7 months ago.. My home there was ground zero. Devastation everywhere. I sat on my front deck about 10pm on September 23, 2017, facing North toward the Gulf of Mexico drinking a beer wondering how the hell I’m going to recover from this storm when suddenly I see a light out in the Gulf. Initially it looked like a blimp lit up from the inside. It started to get bigger and I realized it was coming toward me, as it got closer, I quickly realized this is not a blimp. OMG it’s a spaceship. A football field size tube with a half circle head on the leading edge. It’s low maybe 1000 feet up, self illuminated, coming straight for me. It’s covered in a thin layer of cloud which is rolling off the leading edge as it moves forward.. It comes right over.. I see a light in the half circle head. I think it was an energy source. It looks translucent and it’s coming to me at about 40 mph. ZERO sound. It flies into a single small cloud just above my home and doesn’t emerge. This was a mothership,
Later that night I went to sleep but woke with a splitting headache at 4:15am and from a very strange dream. I never get headaches. I get out of bed remembering the ship. I walk over to my French doors facing the Gulf and look up. There’s bright white light 50 feet up, just blinking. I freak the hell out. I bolt outside and it’s gone.. The next two nights I stand on my upper deck mentally ask them to come back. Each night a low flying V shaped craft (with no lights), looked like a v shaped boomerang flew over. I’ve had one session with a contactee psychic. She told me I was not abducted but instead Chipped. Supposedly it’s a chip for communicating. Which was why they came back the following two nights at my request. I am a retired engineer, this happened. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Object
Mount Airy – July 16, 2018, I saw an object that was moving very slow and then went in to the clouds. I came back outside and it was back. It got very close and it was still there when I went to bed. Yes, it was moving. This happened at 2:40 AM in Mount Airy, GA.
Note: It is difficult to identify this object. The photo has the appearance of a meteor, but the witness description does not suggest that it was a meteor. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Idaho Cylinder
Jerome— Myself and grandson going to work on a house on July 14, 2018. . Both of us spotted this weird cloud, a tall skinny serial cloud. A cloud like a pole made of cloud material. Angle at 3:30 pm. I took a picture with my phone. I was flabbergasted. I had never seen a cloud like that in my life. With no fires, or no other clouds anywhere It took a very long time to move away and didn’t lose shape . It was seemingly stationary for a long time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Light
Springfield — Pamela Stark shot this photo on July 15, 2018.
8:55 pm Thanks to Pamela Stark
New Jersey Lights
Delanaco — I was talking to my cousin on the phone when I watched an object go by my bedroom window. It was traveling to my east heading north going slow right above the tree line. I jumped out of my chair and told my cousin I see a UFO. I pulled up my camera and got three photos of it with one of them zoomed in. It was an oval racetrack shape solid glow. What caught my attention is that I am a pilot and you never see that color glow. I’m personally positive this is a UFO.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Light
Henderson — A large storm came through the Southeast side of Las Vegas on July 14th 2018 at 9:45pm My friend and I were outside on my patio smoking and we observed STRANGE lightning off in the distance. My friend, kept saying, “that’s some crazy War of the Worlds type stuff.” During almost the same time we both observed several flying things in the sky. One of which, was close enough for me to catch film of, quickly. It had red white and green lights. .. there were a total of 3 in the sky at the same time in different areas flying in different directions….. The one I recorded flew right over my building. My friend and I stayed on my patio for quite some time watching the storm and all the activity in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Light
Pendleton – I was talking with a veteran that lives on the street and we noticed something flashing way up away in the distance,
I looked back up and it was still in the same spot so I took my smart phone out and zoomed in and noticed it was hovering in one place. It was white and gleamed in the sun. The newspaper came up and took pictures. He was extremely excited as we all were. Another one just appeared out of nowhere and slowly descended. The one we were watching took off in a straight line for a few miles and faded away. A Vietnam vet who flew planes judged it at 250-300 feet in length. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Light
Woodridge— On July 10, 2018, my daughter, brother, mother, daughter’s friend and I have been taking numerous pictures of strange objects in the sky. On Friday night July 13, near Newington, VA we saw numerous objects in the air and took pictures.
Note: The photo sent by the witnesses is blurry making it difficult to interpret. I am assuming that the witnesses are referring to the circular blue object as “strange.” The witnesses did not provide descriptive information about the objects that they have been seeing. A request has been sent to obtain more information. Updates will be posted. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Washington Cylinder
Edmonds— I didn’t see the object in the sky until I looked at the photos I had taken from the window of a train while traveling north from Washington. We were approaching an area where ships were docked and I simply shot a photo of that scene.
When I looked at those images, this particular photo was very dark for some reason and so I almost deleted it, but then thought I should try to improve the contrast and brightness to see if it was worth saving. It was then that I noticed the rectangular, red-brown-amber ‘object’ in the sky directly above one of the ships and easily as large as the ship. I don’t think it’s a bird flying. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Wisconsin Object
Gays Mills— It was early in the morning about 2:45. AM, on July 7, 2018, when I saw a huge glowing gold star shaped thing above the treeline with an apricot colored haze. It appeared to be about the size of a full moon to me-so big that’s why I noticed and took a picture. it moved up and to the right a ways, then got half as small. It kept getting smaller and smaller/less bright so I then stopped looking. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
I was taking photos of Laneway Art with a friend and just happened to take a shot of the night sky on July 13, 2018 . Looking at the picture later I noticed this strange light and thought it was weird.
Melbourne — In Truganina-which is a suburb I was in the backyard having a smoke I looked up to see the sky at 7:55pm on 15 July 2018.. It’s a clear night and the stars were bright and visible. Then to the corner of my eye I see something moving, Was it a drone? As it flew under me, I saw that it had lights under. It was like a rectangular cigar shape. When I first observed it, it took a second to travel under me and then 6 to 8 seconds later it disappeared. It was travelling 3 times faster than a plane.. The object was flying at low altitude and I know it was a UFO. No human objects can move that fast. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Bulgaria Light
Varna— So I was testing my new phone camera and its effect to shoot 10 seconds of over exposed photos I snapped 20 photos and I didn’t see much at first. 1 day later I was admiring the ability of my phone to make so clear photos and I saw those cigar shaped ufo’s. It was so scary and the strange thing is when I was shooting the photos I was watching the sky and I didn’t see anything. Maybe they are camouflaged for our eyes and not for camera lens. I didn’t notice that I had captured four photos . This is not a plane since these objects have 7 lights on the outside. It’s not the iss because it is too fast. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Sightings
Slave Lake— I was taking a break from drawing in my room, and I decided to look out the window — As I normally do. I noticed the littlest bit of movement behind some trees on March 13, 2017.
There’s a patch of trees in the middle of my U-shaped drive-way.
From that tree line, I saw it basically glide out silently into the open.Then it just stopped. It didn’t even slow down, it looked very odd.. There’s an airport near my house, and planes fly that close to my house all the time, and its rather loud and sometimes the sound waves vibrate everything. This object did none of that. It was only there for 5 or 7 seconds tops. The sun was setting, and it was getting dim out. I managed to see some indication of shadow from whatever patterns/structures were on it. Then, it just zipped away. It sounds, and it looked, like something fictional. Similar to when you see ships in Star Wars zip away.
Bloomfield, Ontario — I just arrived back from camp for five days. Lots of sun and clear night skies. Witnessed a few UFO ‘s at night and caught a interesting one on film early morning. On July 10, 2018, while camping in Prince Edward County near the Sandbanks Provincial Park I was relaxing admiring the stars.. Something caught my attention to the west over Lake Ontario. I could see a bright neon ‘green ‘ light high in the sky – very bright. I grabbed my camera and took a video clip on night shot. As well high 30 X zoom to capture this near stationary unknown object. Took three still shots and went to bed very tired. The footage was taken 2:46 am. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDW8O_j7f1g&feature=youtu.be
Eire Object
Valencia Island Kerry— I am a photographer that on June 20, 2018. recently returned from a visit to Ireland. Today I was going through photos that I took when I noticed what I thought was an odd sized bird way out in the distance below the clouds off the beach in my photograph. I digitally zoomed in to the “Bird” and was amazed to see a DISC shaped object. The details of this photo are: File: L Room 3563,Taken with a Nikon D500 Camera, F/Stop F/11, Exp Time 1/500sec, ISO 100, Exposure Bias 0 stop, Focal length 22mm, Max Aperture- 3.7, Metering-Pattern, 35 mm Focal Length. This was taken at 16.49 on the 20thJune, 2018. I am prepared to send my photograph to you should you require this. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Finland Object
Turku — Witness drove the car when saw an object flying high in the sky near the city of Turku in Southern Finland on June 29,2018 at about 8 p.m. when the sunlight was reflected brightly from an apparent metallic looking object flying perhaps at an altitude of about 10000 meters or about the height of passenger planes which the witness first thought the object was. He stopped the car and went outside trying to film and take photos with his cell phone. The object flew strait, then stopped, continued strait and after turning 90 degrees and flying strait stopped again continuing then strait again until it vanished over the clouds. The sighting lasted about four minutes. No condensation lines were seen nor any sound heard. The magnification of the picture taken by the witness shows a mushroom-shaped object. The object resembles in fact a “thick” saucer-like ufo. The local air-traffic control found nothing particular in their log books. He says he’s always believed in ufos and phoned immediately his son and sent a picture.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Object
Arcachon — I didn’t see anything myself on June 30, 2018
I just discovered a strange object on a holiday photo.
Where and when the photo has been taken: It was Saturday 30 of June 2018 in the evening around 20:15 on a boat in the “Bassin d’Arcachon” near in France.
Me and 3 of my friends (one of them shot the photo) were on a boat trip from Arcachon to Cap Ferret. Nobody remarked the object. Only on watching the photo I’ve seen it. I don’t know what it is. Nobody of my friends has an idea. Probably it’s nothing really strange but we can’t identify it so I thought I’ll send you the photo to verify. I’m curious Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Light
Dresden— I was going outside my apartment to smoke my last cigarette before bed on July 20, 2018‘ It disappears like in the video, just gone from a moment to another. Then I saw bright lights in the sky, brighter than the stars and much closer! I tried to figure out what it could be, It was much closer than a satellite and faster. I saw a bright light moving across the sky. All I was thinking was grab a camera to get proofs, Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Englamd Orb
Herne Hill — I was filming the plane with a 90x zoom camcorder when reviewing it I spotted the object flying past it at great speed on July 9, 2018. I slowed the film and stabilized it for a better view. Objects, anomalies, metallic UFOs appear constantly above this area Second film shows a strange creature flying by another plane shot with the same 90x zoom. This time the creature was flying upwards at a lower height of perhaps 1.5 km. The object seems to have the head of a duck and tiny wings on a thin body. No idea what it is .CMS
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WHAT LIES BENEATH There may be a 20-kilometer-wide lake hidden under Mars’ southern polar ice sheets, shown here in images from NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.
GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION STUDIO MARS ORBITER CAMERA DATA/NASA
A Mars orbiter has detected a wide lake of liquid water hidden below the planet’s southern ice sheets. There have been much-debated hints of tiny, ephemeral amounts of water on Mars before. But if confirmed, this lake marks the first discovery of a long-lasting cache of the liquid.
“This is potentially a really big deal,” says planetary scientist Briony Horgan of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. “It’s another type of habitat in which life could be living on Mars today.”
The lake is about 20 kilometers across, planetary scientist Roberto Orosei of the National Institute of Astrophysics in Bologna, Italy and his colleagues report online July 25 in Science — but the water is buried beneath 1.5 kilometers of solid ice.
Orosei and colleagues spotted the lake by combining more than three years of observations from the European Space Agency’s orbiting Mars Express spacecraft. The craft’s MARSIS instrument, which stands for Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding, aimed radar waves at the planet to probe beneath its surface.
Radar runs
Repeated passes by ice-penetrating radar beamed down from the Mars Express orbiter reveal a hidden lake on Mars. The bluer the colors, the brighter the radar reflection from the material it bounced off. The blue triangle outlined in black in the middle is the purported lake.
R. OROSEI ET AL/SCIENCE 2018
Other lakes too small for Mars Express to see may also exist, perhaps forming a network of interconnected channels beneath the ice.
As those waves passed through the ice, they bounced off different materials embedded in the glaciers. The brightness of the reflection tells scientists about the material doing the reflecting — liquid water makes a brighter echo than either ice or rock.
Combining 29 radar observations taken from May 2012 to December 2015, MARSIS revealed a bright spot in the ice layers near Mars’ south pole, surrounded by much less reflective areas. Orosei and colleagues considered other explanations for the bright spot, such as radar bouncing off a hypothetical layer of carbon dioxide ice at the top of the sheet, but decided those options either wouldn’t produce the same radar signal or were too contrived to be physically likely.
That left one option: A lake of liquid water. Similar lakes beneath the ice in Antarctica and Greenland have been discovered in the same way (SN: 9/7/13, p. 26).
“On Earth, nobody would have been surprised to conclude that this was water,” Orosei says. “But to demonstrate the same on Mars was much more complicated.”
The lake is probably not pure water — temperatures at the bottom of the ice sheet are around –68° Celsius, and pure water would freeze there, even under the pressure of so much ice. But a lot of salt dissolved in the water could lower the freezing point. Salts of sodium, magnesium and calcium have been found elsewhere on Mars, and may be helping to keep this lake liquid (SN: 4/11/09, p. 12). The pool could also be more mud than water, but that could still be a habitable environment, Horgan says.
Previously, scientists have discovered extensive solid water ice sheets under the Martian dirt (SN Online: 1/11/18). There were also hints that liquid water flowed down cliff walls(SN: 10/31/15, p. 17), but those may turn out to be tiny dry avalanches. The Phoenix lander saw what looked like frozen water droplets at its site near the north pole in 2008, but that water may have been melted by the lander itself (SN Online: 9/9/10).
“If this [lake] is confirmed, it’s a substantial change in our understanding of the present-day habitability of Mars,” says Lisa Pratt, NASA’s planetary protection officer.
Though the newly discovered lake’s depth is unclear, its volume still dwarfs any previous signs of liquid water on Mars, Orosei says. The lake has to be at least 10 centimeters deep for MARSIS to have noticed it. That means it could contain at least 10 billion liters of liquid water.
“That’s big,” Horgan says. “When we’ve talked about water in other places, it’s in dribs and drabs.”
Under-ice lakes on Mars were first suggested in 1987, and the MARSIS team has been searching since Mars Express began orbiting the Red Planet in 2003. It took the team more than a decade to collect enough data to convince themselves the lake was real.
For the first several years of observations, limitations in the spacecraft’s onboard computer forced the team to average hundreds of radar pulses together before sending the data back to Earth. That strategy sometimes cancelled out the lake’s reflections, Orosei says — on some orbits, the bright spot was visible, on others, it wasn’t.
In the early 2010s, the team switched to a new technique that let them store the data and send it back to Earth more slowly. Then in August 2015, months before the end of the observing campaign, the experiment’s principal investigator, Giovanni Picardi of the University of Rome Sapienza, died unexpectedly.
“It was incredibly sad,” Orosei says. “We had all the data, but we had no leadership. The team was in disarray.”
Finally discovering the lake is “a testament to perseverance and longevity,” says planetary scientist Isaac Smith of the Planetary Science Institute, who is based in Lakewood, Colo. “Long after everyone else gave up looking, this team kept looking.”
But there is still room for doubt, says Smith, who works on a different radar experiment on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that has seen no sign of the lake, even in CT scan–like 3-D views of the poles. It could be that MRO’s radar is scattering off the ice in a different way, or that the wavelengths it uses don’t penetrate as deep into the ice. The MRO team will look again, and will also try to create a 3-D view from the MARSIS data. Having a specific spot to aim for is helpful, he says.
“I expect there will be debate,” Smith says. “They’ve done their homework. This paper is well earned. But we should do some more follow-up.”
By 2050, We Will Attend Ower Own Funerals... As Robots
By 2050, We Will Attend Ower Own Funerals... As Robots
Robotics along with virtual reality is said to be the way in the future.
This is good news for anyone who has ever wondered how many people will come to their funeral when they die as it has been said that by 2050 humans will be able to attend their own funeral in a robot body.
"If you're under 40 reading this article, you're probably not going to die unless you get a nasty disease"
Dr. Ian Pearson made the astonishing claim that by 2050 humans will be able to have their minds stored in a computer. This means that actual bodies will be made redundant. It also means that when the body dies, the brain will still live on inside a robot.
People Might Live Forever in Realistic Robotic Bodies
In the future, the brain of a person could be copied and put inside a robot that has a realistic looking face. Pearson also believes that in the future the brain will be connected to a computer. Instead of becoming just a copy of the human’s brain, it will actually be an extension of the mind.
The doctor said that when the human body dies the brain stops working. However, about 99% of the mind is fine, and it would be quite happy to continue running in the cloud, just as data does now. Pearson is under the impression that if people have saved enough data in their brain along with it being prepared, the brain could be connected up to an android, with the robot becoming the body of that person.
This essentially means that a person never dies; only the body does. It would also mean that the person would be able to go to his or her own funeral to say goodbye to their old body then continue life as before in the robotic body.
There are already super realistic faces along with bodies made from silicone on the market, some with robotics inside, sold in the sex doll market. Pearson said that the person would be the same inside, with the same thoughts, feelings, and personality, but their body would be upgraded, which means it would never get old. He said, "Still you, just with a younger, highly upgraded body."
Humans Might Live in the Real World in Robotic Bodies or in Virtual Reality
This is not the first time Dr. Pearson has made such an outlandish claim. In the past, he has talked about numerous ways of being able to beat death. These claims have included renewing body parts thanks to genetic engineering, putting humans into computers and robots, or transferring the brain of a human into a computer, allowing them to live in a virtual world.
Pearson did say that not everyone would be lucky enough to be able to live forever inside a robot. He said, "Some people may need to wait until 2060 or later until the android price falls enough for them to afford one." This means only the super-rich would be able to live on like a robot at first.
Companies Might Turn Robotic Humans into Slaves
There is also the issue of storing brains on computers. Pearson pointed this out in relation to how servers store brains along with the servers being in the hands of companies such as Facebook, Apple or Google. Pearson said, "The small print may give them some rights over replication, ownership, and license to your idea, who knows what?
"So although future electronic immortality has the advantage of offering a pretty attractive version of immortality at first glance, a closer reading of the 100 page T&Cs may well reveal some nasties.
"You may in fact no longer own your mind. Oh dear!"
There are worries that companies could copy the minds of people, then go on to sell them. A person’s brain might also be used as a worker mind, which would essentially turn the person into a slave, so it is not all good news.
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Aliens Take Disclosure Into Their Own Hands... With The Help Of Weather Cameras
Aliens Take Disclosure Into Their Own Hands... With The Help Of Weather Cameras
It seems that aliens and UFOs have taken a real liking to New York as a TV station in Buffalo has had the opportunity to capture a UFO on film for the second time this summer.
Last month the TV station showed a segment with Autumn Lewandowski showing the strange UFO in the sky in a video showing a time-lapse of the New York skyline. Viewers saw a strange glowing ball hovering around in the sky before it dipped down and then shot past the camera at high speed.
According to Coatstocoastam. com, one of the colleagues of the meteorologist for WKBW, the network channel lucky enough to catch the strange phenomenon, seemed to have trouble discerning objects in the sky as on the video they can be heard saying that there was another strange object in the video. However, this UFO was shot down fast, not literally, when Lewandowski quickly said that the object in question was a planet, not a UFO.
Could the UFO Have Been A Drone?
Lewandowski then said that perhaps the strange light in the sky had been a drone. Bear in mind that the object in the video is seen in time-lapse, which might have made it look like it was traveling at very high speed. The TV station did not show the original video so there is nothing to suggest how fast the object was actually flying.
Some UFO experts are not convinced that the object is a drone. When the object is enhanced there does not seem to be any wings or propellers on the craft, nor is there any identifiable lights, suggesting that it was a drone.
What many have found strange about the incident is that this is the second time a UFO has been captured by the TV station in two weeks. One week ago, an outdoor camera on the station captured another UFO flying around in the night sky over New York. This was an incident captured by Andy Parker for WKBW when he was presenting his weather forecast. In this instance, a light was seen to streak upwards in the sky before then curving. The weatherman was clearly shaken and asked if anyone else had seen it. He pointed out that perhaps it was a shooting star going the wrong way.
Not now, but billions of years ago, microbes might have thrived in water pools on the moon until its surface became dead and dry.
The moon as seen by the Galileo spacecraft en route to Jupiter, on December 7, 1992. A new study suggests the moon might have been a more habitable place a few billion years ago.
Image via NASA/JPL/USGS.
Could there have been life on the moon in the distant past? Our airless, mostly dry moon certainly isn’t the firstplace that comes to mind when it comes to searching for life elsewhere. Today, its radiation-blasted surface is inhospitable to life as we know it. Plus the moon has no air or liquid water. But what about a few billion years ago? An article published by scientists in the journal Astrobiology – and announced by Washington State University on July 23, 2018 – brings together the various lines of evidence for a once-habitable moon and concludes that there might have been not one but two habitable periods early in the moon’s history.
From the new paper:
Our moon is uninhabitable and lifeless today. It has no significant atmosphere, no liquid water on its surface, no magnetosphere to protect its surface from solar wind and cosmic radiation, no polymeric chemistry, and it is subject to large diurnal temperature variations. Thus, associating our moon with habitability seems outrageous, and certainly it would have been just a decade ago.
However, results from recent space missions, as well as sensitive analyses of lunar rock and soil samples, have indicated that the moon is not as dry as previously thought. In addition to the probable occurrence of water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters, spectroscopic studies also indicate the presence of hydrated surface materials at high, but not permanently shadowed, latitudes, with evidence for temporal variations over the course of a lunar day.
In addition, recent studies of the products of lunar volcanism indicate that the lunar interior also contains more water than was once appreciated and that the lunar mantle may even be as comparably water-rich as Earth’s upper mantle.
Illustration depicting the ancient moon with an atmosphere. The view overlooks the Imbrium Basin and shows volcanoes erupting and venting water vapor and other gases.
Image via NASA MSFC/Lunar and Planetary Institute.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Washington State University, led the study, along with Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and astrobiology at the University of London.
So just what does all this mean? Could there have once been some kind of simple life on the moon? This paper does not claim that, only that the moon may have once had habitable conditions.
Schulze-Makuch and Crawford describe the two potentially habitable periods, early on in the moon’s history. Their article says that microscopic lifeforms could have been possible on the moon not long after the moon formed from a debris disk 4 billion years ago and then again during a period where lunar volcanic activity was at a peak, around 3.5 billion years ago. It was during those two periods that scientists think there used to be a lot more water vapor, and other volatiles, being released from the moon’s interior. There may even have been transient liquid water on the moon’s surface.
If liquid water and a significant atmosphere were present on the early moon for long periods of time, we think the lunar surface would have been at least transiently habitable.
The idea is that outgassing of water vapor and other volatiles could have allowed for an atmosphere thick enough to keep liquid water on the moon’s surface for millions of years. It is also thought by scientists that the early moon had a magnetic field capable of shielding the surface from intense solar radiation and solar winds. As Schulze-Makuch said:
It looks very much like the moon was habitable at this time. There could have actually been microbes thriving in water pools on the moon until the surface became dry and dead.
If there ever was any life, did it evolve on the moon, or could it have come from Earth? At the time that the moon would have been habitable, Earth was teeming with microbes such as cyanobacteria, 3.5 to 3.8 billion years years ago. Meteorite impacts were more common then, so it is possible that some microbes could have been blasted into space and then fallen onto the moon.
The possibility of some kind of simple life on the early moon is an exciting one, although no direct evidence of it has yet been found. Searching for such evidence, with modern technology, would require returning to the moon and obtaining samples in areas where it might most likely be found, such as the subsurface ice deposits.
Early in the Earth’s history, when microbial life was just taking hold, impacts from meteorites could have ejected microbes into space, which then made their way to the moon.
Image via BBC/Solarseven.
Bottom line: The moon is airless and mostly dry now, but has water ice deposits in shadowed craters at its poles and below its surface. New research suggests more water on the moon billions of years ago and a possibly habitable moon, capable of supporting simple life forms, at that time. There’s no evidence yet that any such life existed, but the possibility that it could have is intriguing.
Did Ancient Mars Host an Alien Civilization? US Congressman Asks NASA Panel (Video)
Did Ancient Mars Host an Alien Civilization? US Congressman Asks NASA Panel (Video)
Is It Possible That Ancient Mars Was Host To An Alien Civilization?
This is exactly the question that Rep. Dana Rohrbacher, R-Calif., asked of a NASA panel of planetary scientists on July 18, 2017. To be clear, there is no official evidence that this is the case. Mars, as far as we know, did not host any alien civilization in the past.
Mars Was Very Different Billions of Years Ago
The Mars we know today is not the Mars of the past. Ancient Mars likely had rivers, lakes, and possibly oceans. It’s not an impossible scenario to believe that life, in some form, once existed there. That being said, the existence a full-blown intelligent civilization is another story. It took earth almost 3.8 billion years to develop intelligent life. Mars is only about 4.5 billion years old. Life would have had to begin very early in the planet’s history to have enough time to develop into something capable of meeting our definition of a ‘civilization’.
Based on what we know, ancient Mars could have looked something like this, especially if life had taken hold.
Ancient Martian Alien Civilization: Unlikely, But Not Impossible
As a rule of logic, it’s nearly impossible to disprove a negative. Though the panel of NASA scientists said it would be extremely unlikely, they didn’t quite say it was an impossibility. We understand a bit about Martian history, but our scope of research is obviously limited. If life on Mars had developed and then suffered some extinction event a few billion years ago, there would be very little evidence left today. There’s also the question as to whether humans would be able to recognize alien life at all.
What Convinced Congressman Rohrbacher to Ask This Question?
Judging from the reaction of the young man sitting behind the congressman when he finally asked the question, it’s likely that he was asking on his behalf. It’s no secret that Congressman Rohrbacher isn’t a scientist. He does, however, sit on the Committee on Science Space and Technology and has been consistently pro-NASA relative to his other Republican counterparts. He is also keen on having NASA send humans back to the moon.
The Video
You can see the congressman’s question in the video below as well as the response from NASA scientist Dr. Kenneth Farley. Farley is quick to correct Rohrbacher in that Mars was very different billions of years ago vs. thousands of years ago as the question was posed. A few billion years is a long time. If an alien civilization existed on Mars billions of years ago, the time has most likely wiped that slate clean.
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Mars' South Pole May Hide a Large Underground Lake
Mars' South Pole May Hide a Large Underground Lake
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
The Red Planet just got quite a bit bluer, with scientists announcing the discovery of what they believe is a lake that's about 12 miles across and hidden below a mile (1.6 kilometers) of ice at the south pole of Mars.
Scientists have previously offered much weaker evidence for such reservoirs, as well as strong evidence for smaller amounts of water on the planet. But the new findings are still sure to make a splash.
"It's always exciting when you talk about liquid water on present-day Mars," Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist at NASA for the Curiosity mission, told Space.com. However, he declined to say how confident he is in the study's claims, because he isn't an expert in the kind of radar imagery the team used. "It's exciting because of any implications it might have for the habitability of Mars." [Geometry Helps Solve the Mystery of Mars' Water]
And it's too early to say what precisely those implications may be. Scientists still need to confirm the discovery itself and understand precisely what characteristics that water may have, which will require missions that have yet to be designed, much less launched.
An artist's depiction of the Mars Express spacecraft orbiting Mars.
Credit: ESA
Water below the ice?
The new research builds on more than three decades of theorizing by scientists about the chances that water lurks below Mars' polar caps, just as it does here on Earth.
That idea was first proposed by Steve Clifford, now a planetary scientist specializing in water on Mars at the Planetary Science Institute based in Arizona, who was not involved in the new research. He was inspired by scientists' studies of lakes below the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets here on Earth, he told Space.com. Those lakes are created when heat from within the planet melts the glaciers in patches. He thought a similar scenario could be happening below the ice caps on Mars — we just didn't have any way to see below the ice.
The new research attempted to do just that using radar data gathered by an instrument called MARSIS, which uses pulses of radar to study the planet's ionosphere and interior structure. It has been orbiting the planet aboard Mars Express, a European spacecraft, since 2003.
An artist's depiction of Mars Express in orbit with the spacecraft's radar data on the left. The blue patch represents the team's evidence for subsurface liquid water.
Credit: ESA, INAF. Graphic rendering by Davide Coero Borga, Media INAF
The radar signals that MARSIS produces bounce back to Mars Express in different ways depending on what material they hit. And the team behind the new research said the signals MARSIS picked up over the south pole of Mars can be explained only by a large underground pool of liquid water.
"We discovered water on Mars," lead author Roberto Orosei, the co-investigator on MARSIS and a scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Italy, said in a video released with the paper. "MARSIS was able to detect echoes from beneath the southern polar cap of Mars that were stronger than surface echoes. This condition on Earth happens only when you observe subglacial water like in Antarctica over places like Lake Vostok." And while the team only has evidence for the one location, they suspect it isn't the only such subglacial lake (Antarctica hides about 400 such features).
According to the radar echoes, the lake is no more than 12.5 miles (20 km) across and is buried about a mile below the surface of the ice cap. The scientists can't figure out precisely how deep the lake is, but they have confirmed that it is at least 3 feet (1 meter) deep. It must be rather salty, because the ice above it is quite clear and therefore quite cold — if there were pure water below that sort of ice, it would be frozen, the researchers said.
The team used data spanning three and a half years to make sure that their analysis included multiple passes over the same region. They also considered a couple other scenarios that might have explained the data they saw, including a layer of carbon dioxide ice hiding below the water ice. But the researchers said they came away unsatisfied with those explanations.
Other scientists may not agree. "I think it's a very, very persuasive argument, but it's not a conclusive or definitive argument," Clifford said. "There's always the possibility that conditions that we haven't foreseen exist at the base of the cap and are responsible for this bright reflection."
An artist's depiction of Mars Express over a patch of Planum Australe, with data from the study area superimposed on the planet's surface.
Credit: USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Arizona State University, ESA, INAF. Graphic rendering by Davide Coero Borga, Media INAF
Life means water, but water doesn't mean life
If future studies confirm that the mysterious layer below the ice is indeed water, scientists will have a host of further questions to tackle about the reservoir before they can make any predictions about what the discovery means for the possibility of life on Mars. [Curiosity Rover Finds Ancient 'Building Blocks for Life' on Mars]
"If you do have liquid water and you consider its relevance to life, then you also have to go beyond just the fact that it's liquid and ask the temperature that it's at and whether it's able to be used by life," Vasavada said. "Not all liquid water is equal in terms of life's ability to use it." In particular, he pointed to the high salt content that would be needed to keep water liquid at such low temperatures. This level might overwhelm even the most salt-loving life-forms, he suggested.
Scientists on Earth have drilled through glaciers to sample the water hiding below them and have found microbial life. So if there has ever been life on Mars, that life could theoretically have survived, hidden in this or similar lakes, Clifford suggested.
"There's no reason to expect that it wouldn't continue to the present day," he said of any ancient microbial life on Mars. "The subsurface is a very, very stable environment compared to the surface of a planet. It's protected from impacts. It's protected from climate change."
Artistic impression of the Mars Express spacecraft. Credit: ESA.
Today, there’s little doubt that Mars once had liquid water on its surface at some point in its history. For example, the Curiosity rover has provided evidence pointing to this conclusion by mineralogical studies of sediment samples collected and carried out at Gale Crater. But although contemporary Mars appears inhospitable and dry as a bone, scientists have recently announced that liquid water may be nestled in some pockets beneath the surface of the Red Planet. The latest findings reported by researchers at the Italian Space Agency suggest that a 20 kilometer-wide subglacial lake lies just 1.6 kilometers beneath the surface, near the south pole of Mars.
“This is just one small study area; it is an exciting prospect to think there could be more of these underground pockets of water elsewhere, yet to be discovered,” said lead-author Roberto Orosei in a statement.
The monumental discovery of subterranean liquid water was performed with ground-penetrating radar (GPR) on the Mars Express spacecraft, a European Space Agency (ESA) probe that has been orbiting Mars since 2003. GPR works by sending electromagnetic waves towards the ground and timing how long it takes for them to return. The travel time is dependant on the material through which it passes, so this way we can figure out what kind of materials lurk beneath a surface without viewing it directly. The technology was initially developed so the military could locate mines, but today, GPR is used in all sorts of applications, such as finding avalanche victims, micro-fissures in constructions, small archaeological objects — and, now, water on Mars!
To peer inside the Martian subsurface, Mars Express is equipped with the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument, which is comprised of two 20-meter radar booms. Between May 2012 and December 2015, MARSIS surveyed the Planum Australe region, which corresponds to the southern ice cap of Mars. Its radio pulses traveled through the Martian surface and polar ice caps, then reflected back to the spacecraft’s antenna. According to the Italian Space Agency, 29 sets of radar samples were recorded, which allowed researchers to create a subterranean map almost a mile below the surface of the studied region. The map stretches about 20 kilometers across and the features identified by the scientists look eerily similar to signals generated by lakes found beneath Greenland and Antarctica on Earth.
“We interpret this feature as a stable body of liquid water on Mars,” the authors wrote in the study.
Marsis data suggests that an area of high reflectivity (dark blue) is water.
Credit: USGS ASTROGEOLOGY SCIENCE CENTER, ARIZONA STATE UN.
Although the first study suggesting liquid water might be found at the base of Martian polar caps was published nearly 31 years ago, the new findings mark the first tangible evidence of the presence of liquid water on the Red Planet.
On Earth, lakes under the Antarctic ice sheet can stay liquid even though the mean temperature at the surface is around -24 degrees Celsius. The thick ice thermally insulates such lakes, although, to be fair, the temperatures of subglacial lakes can hover below the freezing point of water. This kind of lake stays liquid because the water mixes with salts like magnesium, calcium, and sodium to form a brine which lowers the water’s freezing point. The saltier the water, the colder it has to be to turn into ice. Scientists think that the lake they’ve identified under the Martian ice cap is also briny.
“The long duration of Mars Express, and the exhausting effort made by the radar team to overcome many analytical challenges, enabled this much-awaited result, demonstrating that the mission and its payload still have a great science potential,” Dmitri Titov, Mars Express project scientist, said in a statement. “This thrilling discovery is a highlight for planetary science and will contribute to our understanding of the evolution of Mars, the history of water on our neighbor planet and its habitability.”
So, what’s next? The measurements need to be repeated, hopefully by other instruments, such as the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), in order to rule out all other explanations.
But what about life on Mars? It’s the most obvious question on everyone’s mind right now. Sheltered under more than a mile of ice, the newly identified glacial lake receives far less of the harmful radiation that strikes the Martian surface. Pressure and temperature are also at more favorable levels. Then, of course, there’s water, which by our Earthly standards is essential to life. However, no one is getting carried away right now. For instance, for the water to stay liquid, it might have to be extremely briny, which life finds challenging to cope with.
Needless to say, the findings reported by the MARSIS team are incredibly exciting, despite my cautious reporting. We’re living in very interesting times!
Filer’s Files # 28 – 2018 Astronauts Saw UFOs - PART I
Glowing Orange Lights over Jamestown, New York
Filer’s Files # 28 – 2018 Astronauts Saw UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and UFOs, Pentagon’s Secret UFO Study and Teleportation. Book of Enoch. Atlantic Ocean Ruins. Top Secret US Air Force Europe (USAFE) report November 4, 1948. Are We Alone. Possible Sphinx on Mars, and Scientists Theorize Sex on Mars May Create New Human Subspecies.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Crete, France, Guam, Lithuania, Panama, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Major George Filer Editor of The National UFO Center, would like to invite join him in Mt Shasta this summer July 27-29th 2018. He will present a wonderful program at the “From Venus with Love” conference.
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Special Projects
Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and UFOs
According to the NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the Aliens have a base on the Moon and told us in no uncertain terms to get off and stay off the Moon. According to un-confirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after that historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. I remember hearing one of the astronauts refer to a “light” in or on a crater during the television transmission, followed by a request from mission control for further information. Nothing more was heard. According to a former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA’s broadcasting outlets picked up the following exchange:
NASA: Whets there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11…
Apollo11: These “Babies” are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there, Lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They’re on the Moon watching us!
A certain professor, who wished to remain anonymous, was engaged in a discussion with Neil Armstrong during a NASA symposium. Professor: What REALLY happened out there with Apollo 11?
Armstrong: It was incredible, of course we had always known there was a possibility, the fact is, we were warned off! (by the Aliens). There was never any question then of a space station or a moon city.
Professor: How do you mean “warned off”?
Armstrong: I can’t go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology – Boy, were they big! and menacing! No, there is no question of a space station.
Professor: But NASA had other missions after Apollo 11?
Armstrong: Naturally – NASA was committed at that time, and couldn’t risk panic on Earth. But it really was aquick scoop and back
In 1979 Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems again.
Maurice Chatelain confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. Chatelain believes that some UFOs may come from our own solar system, specifically Titan. “The encounter was common knowledge in NASA, but nobody has talked about it until now.” “…all Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of it occurred, extraterrestrial origin – flying saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name. Every time the astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence.” “I think that Walter Schirra aboard Mercury 8 was the first of the astronauts to use the code name ‘Santa Claus’ to indicate the presence of flying saucers next to space capsules. However, his announcements were barely noticed by the general public. It was a little different when James Lovell on board the Apollo 8 command module came out from behind the moon and said for everybody to hear: ‘PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS.’ Even though this happened on Christmas Day 1968, many people sensed a hidden meaning in those words.” The rumors persist. NASA may well be a civilian agency, but many of its programs are funded by the defense budget and most of the astronauts are subject to military security regulations. Apart from the fact that the National Security Agency screens all films and probably radio communications as well. We have the statements by Otto Binder, Dr. Garry Henderson and Maurice Chatelain that the astronauts were under strict orders not to discuss their sightings. And Gordon Cooper has testified to a United Nations committee that one of the astronauts actually witnessed a UFO on the ground. If there is no secrecy, why has this sighting not been made public? According to a Dr. Vladimir Azhazha: “Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But this message was never heard by the public – because NASA censored it.” According to a Dr. Aleksandr Kasantsev, Buzz Aldrin took color movie film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them after he and Armstrong went outside. Armstrong confirmed that the story was true but refused to go into further detail, beyond admitting that the CIA was behind the cover-up. http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html
Dr. Werner von Braun stated, “We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose base is at present unknown to us.
More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into closer contact with those powers, and in six or nine months time it may be possible to speak with some precision on the matter.” Dr. Werner von Braun (on the deflection from orbit of a United States satellite, 1959)
Pentagon’s Secret UFO Study and Teleportation
“ Recent revelations about the Pentagon’s secret UFO study have generated headlines, controversy, and questions. Joining George Knapp in the first half was Eric Davis (who worked on the study) and previously studied UFOs and related phenomena, including the Skinwalker Ranch, as part of Robert Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science. He discussed his work analyzing UFO files, and the latest updates on the now infamous ‘Tic Tac’ UFO incident
Davis says that the efforts of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) and the Pentagon UFO program that was recently revealed were honest and legitimate programs to use the observed properties of UFOs to determine if they could be used or back-engineered with present or near-future technology. In fact, Davis said that he and others were tasked with researching “white papers” to determine if in at least 50 years in the future, humans could produce aircraft that could perform the observed characteristics of UFOs, which he said appear to be “tech that is not made on earth by humans.” As for skeptics who say that Navy and other pilots are poor observers whose testimony cannot be trusted, Davis said that as combat experts, “these guys cannot afford to have poor observational skills.” Davis also emphasized more than once that “poltergeist or psychic phenomena are a major aspect” of UFO encounters.
Dr. Davis conducted an important Teleportation Physics Study
Abstract : This study was tasked with the purpose of collecting information describing the teleportation of material objects, providing a description of teleportation as it occurs in physics, its theoretical and experimental status, and a projection of potential applications. The study also consisted of a search for teleportation phenomena occurring naturally or under laboratory conditions that can be assembled into a model describing the conditions required to accomplish the transfer of objects. This included a review and documentation of quantum teleportation, its theoretical basis, technological development, and its potential applications. The characteristics of teleportation were defined and physical theories were evaluated in terms of their ability to completely describe the phenomena. Contemporary physics, as well as theories that presently challenge the current physics paradigm were investigated.
Dr. Davis identified and proposed two unique physics models for teleportation that are based on the manipulation of either the general relativistic spacetime metric or the spacetime vacuum electromagnetic (zero-point fluctuations) parameters. Naturally occurring anomalous teleportation phenomena that were previously studied by the United States and foreign governments were also documented in the study and are reviewed in the report. The author proposes an additional model for teleportation that is based on a combination of the experimental results from the previous government studies and advanced physics concepts. Numerous recommendations outlining proposals for further theoretical and experimental studies are given in the report. The report also includes an extensive teleportation bibliography.
The teleportation concept appeared in episodes of popular television SciFi anthology series such as The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. But the most widely recognized pop-culture awareness of the teleportation concept began with the numerous Star Trek television and theatrical movie series of the past 39 years (beginning in 1964 with the first TV series pilot episode, The Cage), which are now an international entertainment and product franchise that was originally spawned by the late genius television writer-producer Gene Roddenberry. Because of Star Trek everyone in the world is familiar with the “transporter” device, which is used to teleport personnel and material from starship to starship or from ship to planet and vice versa at the speed of light. People or inanimate objects would be positioned on the transporter pad and become completely disintegrated by a beam with their atoms being patterned in a computer buffer and later converted into a beam that is directed toward the destination, and then reintegrated back into their original form (all without error!). “Beam me up, Scotty” is a familiar automobile bumper sticker or cry of exasperation that were popularly adopted from the series.
Davis, E. W. (2004), “Teleportation Physics Study,” Final Report AFRL-PR-ED-TR-2003-0034, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, Edwards AFB, CA.
There are many reports of Teleportation actually occurring particularly with the help of aliens. This study admits we are studying the problem.
An ancient source of UFOs is the Book of Enoch, that describes flying in the air, but also through outer space, including the relativistic effects mentioned—Enoch spent several days on a spacecraft, but when he returned to Earth, several centuries had passed by.
In the New Testament this Enoch prophesies “to” ungodly men, that God shall come with His holy ones to judge and convict them (Jude 1:14-15).
The two distinct paths Yahshua God described will each end at diametrically opposite destinations. One path leads to life everlasting, while the other path leads to destruction…We cannot follow both paths; we must make our selection. We must choose the right way even through it is very narrow and unpopular.
Enoch allegedly taught the sons of men the art of building cities, and enacted some admirable laws. He discovered the knowledge of the Zodiac, and the course of the Planets; and he pointed out that humans should worship God, that they should fast, that they should pray, and give offerings. Enoch writes a petition on behalf of the fallen angels, or fallen ones, to be given to a higher power for ultimate judgment.
Christianity adopted some ideas from Enoch, including the Final Judgment, the concept of demons, the origins of evil and the fallen angels, and the coming of a Messiah and ultimately, a Messianic kingdom.
. Enoch is taken up to Heaven and is appointed guardian of all the celestial treasures, chief of the archangels, and the immediate attendant on God’s throne. He is subsequently taught all secrets and mysteries and, with all the angels at his back, executes God’s decrees. Enoch was also seen as the inventor of writing, and teacher of astronomy and arithmetic, all three reflecting the interpretation of his name as meaning initiated.
The Book of Enoch answers several mysteries. The age old question “why didn’t the Gods leave evidence of their stay” is answered by the very policy of non-interference. The question of why certain knowledge is kept secret is answered by the “so that you can discover it out of your own power”. The book also somewhat confirms legends and tales of an advanced people that existed before a great flood that were destroyed because things went bad. Of course, the entire tale is indirectly confirmed by other ancient sources…Sumerian, Chinese and Pre-Columbian to name a few.
The first part of the Book of Enoch describes the fall of the Watchers, the angels who fathered the Nephilim. The remainder of the book describes Enoch’s visits to heaven in the form of travels, visions and dreams, and his revelations. The Book of Enoch was removed from the Bible perhaps it revealed too much.
The first part of the book is about “The Watchers”, a group of “angel’s sent to earth to watch over humans. 200 of those angels committed transgression by having sex with humans, creating a hybrid race called the Nephilim. Of the Nephilim it is said that they were giants and savages that endangered and pillaged humanity. It is said that the “Watchers” taught humans reading, writing, weaponry, cosmetics, sorcery, about the stars, meteorology, and many other arts and that this was problematic because it robbed humans the opportunity to discover the arts by themselves. They “revealed the eternal secrets which were preserved for heaven, which men were striving to learn.” the book says.
“The Gods” were not pleased about the intervention of “The Watchers” in human affairs. (The same story of interventionists vs. non-interventionists is told in Greek Mythology, Sumerian Mythology as well as various Asian myths about the old days of mankind). Apparently there were also experiments in cross-breeding between animals and humans going on.
“And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, who had great height and consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood.”
And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth having sex with humans and revealed to them all kinds of sins. And the women have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness.
Disgusted by all this, “the Gods” decided to have a Great Flood to rid the earth of the Nephilim and other ghastly creatures. The Bible says that the Nephilim are bound beneath the earth?- until Judgment day). Then said the Great One sent word to Noah and tell him the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole earth, that he may escape and his seed may be preserved.”
Another book in which the angels, sent by God, are referred to as “The Watchers” is the “Book of Jubilees”, the biblical book of Daniel and throughout ancient Jewish legend and folklore.
In the Book of Enoch “The Watchers” only became fallen angels after mating with humans and teaching them forbidden and secret knowledge which they, according to Enoch, were not ready for.
In Genesis we read the following about the Nephilim:
The relevance of the first Book of Enoch was recently strengthened when, among the Dead Sea Scrolls the “Book of Giants” was found, dated to 200 B.C. and talking about a time before the great worldwide flood when giants and dragons fought each other.
So in summary a group of angels were sent to earth as watchers. Since they had sex with humans we must assume that they had bodies, that they were present in physical form. A part of those angels became “fallen angels” because they intermixed with humans..
As a result of the sins a race of savage cannibalistic beasts that ate flesh and drank blood arose and turned paradise into a nightmarish place. The creator decided to have Earth destroyed with a Giant Flood which only a few species should survive. Some beings fled or were locked into the “Underworld/hell.” Apparently humankind are like children that need to be watched over by “The Watchers” but without too much intervention because it would stifle their maturity. Astronomical Book of Enoch contains descriptions of the movement of heavenly bodies and of the firmament, as a knowledge revealed to Enoch in his trips to Heaven guided by Uriel, and it describes a Solar calendar of 364 days.
Atlantic Ocean Ruins
In 1985, several hundred miles east of the Azores, a Russian submarine under the command of Nikolai Seleznev, was filming the ocean floor with a special deep-diving camera, when, at a depth of 120 feet, they noticed a string of stone columns and then a massive dome-topped building.
“We couldn’t believe our eyes,” he said. “We were viewing an entire city with magnificent boulevards and avenues and they were lined with what looked like temples and halls, government buildings and homes.”
Suddenly their power flickered. The engines shut down on their own and then the needles on the instruments, including clocks, began to quiver and run backward. Many of the crew began to hallucinate.
The terrifying experience ended as suddenly as it began, after about 15 minutes. (Australasian post, January 30, 1986)
Top Secret US Air Force Europe (USAFE) report November 4, 1948
One of these objects was observed by a Swedish Technical expert near his home on the edge of a lake. The object crashed or landed in the lake and he carefully noted its azimuth from his point of observation. Swedish intelligence was confident in his observations that a naval salvage team was sent to the lake. Operations were underway during the visit USAF’s officers. Divers had observed a previously uncharted crater on the floor of the lake. No further information is available but the observation was reliable and they believe that the depression on the floor of the lake, which did not appear on current hydrographic charts, was in fact caused by a flying saucer,
Are We Alone
Kevin Knuth is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Physics University at Albany, Stare University of New York writes, 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.
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 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.
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 Fermi paradox
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. 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 upand classifiedinformation aboutsuch encounters. But there are enough scraps of evidence that suggest that the problem needs to be open to scientific study.
Cover of the October 1957 issue of pulp science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. This was a special edition devoted to ‘flying saucers,’ which became a national obsession after airline pilot Kenneth Arnold sighted a saucer-shaped flying objects in 1947.
UFOs, taboo for professional scientists
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. None are actually extraterrestrial spacecraft. UFOs are off-limits to serious scientific study and rational discussion..
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 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 assuring the public that it can’t possibly be true. But there are credible witnesses and encounters. Kevin Knuth This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed
Possible Sphinx on Mars
NASA photographs of rock formations onMars have been interpreted as a 200 foot-tall Sphinx statue, possibly built by ancient alien civilizations, it has been spectacularly claimed. By Sebastian Kettley
Life on Mars: Did NASA capture a Sphinx photo on the surface of Mars
Online UFO hunter and self-appointed space journalist Joe White claims to have stumbled upon the crumbling remains of a long-forgotten alien Sphinx statue on Mars. Mr. White presented his bizarre claim to the public after combing through hundreds of NASA photos taken by the space agency’s Curiosity Rover. The bizarre rock formation in question at first glance appears to be reminiscent of an ancient Egyptian Sphinx statue, sparking fierce debate online. Mr. White shared the image online on his YouTube channel under the title “GIANT 200 ft SPHINX found on MARS”.
Scientists Theorize Sex on Mars May Create New Human Subspecies
Jen Krausz reports having sex on Mars could lead to a new human subspecies, an international team of scientists theorized in a new paper published in the journal Futures.
The paper found many problems with potential reproduction on Mars, the biggest being the low-gravity environment, which is about a third of Earth’s, the New York Post reported. Astronauts who have spent months or years in space have found muscles deteriorate rapidly and bone structure can be weakened without Earth’s heavier gravity.
While scientists have studied the impacts of low gravity on adult astronauts, they have never studied pregnant women or children before and don’t even know if it’s possible to carry a baby to term in low gravity.
Researchers from Poland, Brazil, and Florida contributed to the paper, noting that it may be important to reproduce on Mars to sustain a colony there.
“A manned mission to Mars and the establishment of the first human settlement in outer space was once a mere figment of science fiction, but is now being planned and expected to take place in the following 20 years,” the scientists wrote, The Sun reported.
Other potential problems with sex and reproduction on Mars include possible low sperm counts from increased radiation, a weakened immune response from lower gravity, and even erectile dysfunction from low blood pressure often experienced in low gravity conditions, The Sun reported.
Genetic engineering could resolve some of the issues surrounding sex and reproduction off-planet, but may render the offspring created incapable of life on Earth, the scientists theorized. With low gravity giants may be produced. Thanks to Newsmax
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Filer’s Files # 28 – 2018 Astronauts Saw UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files # 28 – 2018 Astronauts Saw UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Lights
Gilbert — My wife was on the balcony saw something and called me outside on December 31. 2017. When I saw these orbs (4 to 7 at one time) hovering, then ascending, then descending etc.
I immediately got my phone and asked my wife to get hers. I knew these were orbs because of the way they moved. They danced in the night sky, one or two changed from white to reddish, then green, and back to bright white, then some faded away. The others then continued to change their position until at the end there were three left which lined up vertically over each other and merged into one. When it appeared to be just one it changed into many colors and drifted away.. These images show structure, shape, lights that were at first unseen. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Los Angeles — It was Wednesday, July 4, 2018, and we were sitting on the roof watching the fireworks in the Los Angeles area. We noticed a few drones flying around. When we turned to face west, we noticed 4 objects to be a larger than a drone off in the distance. Their movements also didn’t resemble that of a drone. They were moving in a back and forth pattern with one of the objects staying stationary far above the other. They left a trailing flame as they were moving and a few minutes the objects vanished. We looked online to see if anyone else had posted regarding that sighting that same day and we found one video from Los Angeles and two with the exact same patterns posted from Denver, CO and Bothell, WA. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orbs
Orlando— Taking the dog out and looking at clouds I see a white light blinking across sky slowly. When on camera you can only see white light but there was red too. I lost it going behind tree I felt lucky.
Later I looked at recording and saw little black things were zooming past. I had to slow it by frame then I saw this thing with red round front and black tail like. It went so fast it was only in 3 frames. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Montana Object
Helena — I was outside working in the yard and I lay down on the lawn and looked up at the sky on July 9, 2018. I noticed a white colored object almost directly overhead. I thought that it might be someone with a drone which concerned me as it would be directly in the flight path of the local regional airport. I decided to try to see it better by getting our old telescope I had in my garage. I was able to see that it wasn’t a drone as it was very stable and didn’t appear to be moving. The oval shaped object had a dozen bright white lights around one side. I watched it for awhile and noticed it was very slowly moving north. The lights would shift to a different location on the object. I tried to zoom in on it with my cell phone camera, but it only appeared as a white dot with little to no detail.
Note: Social media chatter has revealed that the object was a balloon used to reflect cell phone signals. It is not known if the balloon was experimental or operative. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
New Jersey Lights
Totowa–My husband, sister and I were in my backyard on June 22, 2018, when suddenly my sister noticed these lights. We all looked up and started recording. At first I thought they were lanterns, but they were coming in the same perfect direction. One after another they came, sometimes right away, sometimes with a minute difference. They were moving to the left as another one would come, and move until we could not see them anymore. My son (15 years old) freaked out, But I knew it was not helicopters or drones because there was no noise. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Light
Glowing Orange Lights over Jamestown, New York
Jamestown — My wife and I were sitting out back of our house on July 9, 2018, and my wife exclaimed. “Wow Look at that glowing light” “Oh look there’s another!” I turned around and saw the second one clearly. It was an bright orange glowing orb moving rapidly north east. It was about the size of a softball, I grabbed my camera, came out the front door and captured a picture of the second translucent-colored orb. Ii was certainly very, very strange to see these bright orange glowing orbs 5 – 6 minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Lights
Celina— Husband and I were sitting on porch in Hamilton Ohio and saw 2 large red orbs on July 7, 2018. They was no sound and they were floating in same direction one behind the other. We knew they were not planes or helicopters. Ten minutes later I got a message from my daughter in Celina Ohio freaking out that she just saw the same thing and got pics of them and sent them to me which is what I am reporting now. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Lights
Coos Bay— I was outside and decided to use snap chat to take a photo of the sky on July 1, 2018 7, 2018. There was nothing in the sky, before or after, but sure enough in the photo there was something. I love near an air port and coast guard, so all of the planes and helicopters fly relatively low, where as this was above where they fly. Thanks to MUFON CMS
TennesseeOrb
Oak Ridge — Me and a friend noticed some cool storm clouds with lightning so I pulled out my phone and started taking burst photos to capture the lightning bolts on March 17, 2018. Later upon review I noticed a disc-shaped object that was glowing white. The photos were taken in the Dick’s parking lot in Oak Ridge near Y-12 National Laboratory. I have the full burst set of photos to prove the legitimacy of my photos. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Orb
Roanoke— On July 5, 2018 I was hiking and taking pictures at the Blue Ridge Parkway near Roanoke Mountain, I did not notice the UFO until I was reviewed the photos I took that day. My take of the object on my picture I thought was a screen error or lens flare. The clouds were very low that day so I would not have directly seen the UFO because the lighting that day. Could be a light/lens flare, however if you look at the object it has light and shade characteristics. I used a Samsung Galaxy 6+ phone to take pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Orb and Football
Kalamunda–I was sent the attached video by my friend who wanted to know if I knew what the blue object to the left of the sun was on May 23, 2018 at 11.54am in Western Australia. I watched the video and noticed a white object quickly move from top center of the frame down to the right passed the sun and it disappears out of frame at the bottom right of the frame. it appears in the video at about seven seconds and is gone again in less than a second. I have no idea what the object is.
Adelaide— Walking my dog at distance directly in front of me I saw a large football shape dark object slowly cruise west rapidly gained incredible speed on July 10, 2018. It changed direction south until out of view. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Orb
Toronto— I was taking photos downtown and an object turned up on a photo on July 9, 2018.
Then a peculiar airplane flew over.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Crete Orange Orb
Kalathas, Chania — My wife and I went for a night walk on the beach to watch the stars and look out for UFOs (if we’re lucky) as we often do. It was a windy night on July 10, 2018, so we decided to watch the waves from the car. We instantly spotted an orange orb just above the sea.! A ball of orange light was hovering and also moving to all directions around the same spot just on the horizon. Its light was slightly fading in and out until it completely disappeared about 5 minutes later. We both have seen UFOs before and we usually get crazy excited. This time it was as if it was an every day event, we didn’t feel the excitement we usually do. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Lights
Lyaud— I went out to observe the moon on June 21, 2018. I decided to take a picture of it. I go get my camera and when I came out, barely a minute later.,
I see west of the moon, two “bright spots” that appeared meanwhile, I just had time to take a snapshot before they disappear.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Guam Light Beam
Agana Springs— When I returned home . I noticed a weird nice pink cloud in the sky on September 9, 2018 so I broke out my iPhone and started taking pictures. When I got back in my house, in the first picture I noticed a BEAM coming from the sky to the roof of my nephews house!!! It was Blue Green, so I looked at the rest of the pics , and in 7-8 pics there’s 5-6 objects in the pink cloud. I know there genuine!! So you can put them through any test! I think these pics are important. I live RIGHT under the flight path of Guam’s major airport. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Lithuania Lights
Vilnius — Went to balcony for some reason, looked north and saw a red bright light 300 meters away.
I saw it shining for 2 seconds and then it just disappeared.
This sighting occurred on July 12, 2018,
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Panama Lights
David— It was Friday March 9th, 2018, when four of us gathered at the front terrace of our home at David, Province of Chiriqui, Panamá, It was 8:30 p.M, when one of the old ladies, suddenly, stopped her conversation and pointed her finger to the eastern black sky at the distance of 10 km, a brilliant light with strong red/orange and yellow lights. That thing was hovering for two minutes, then moves towards us, and then stopped, then quickly disappeared very fast to a southeast path. This situation is very strange because we live in the second city of importance in Panamá) and the airport is closed after 6:30 p.m. We heard no noise. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Triangle
Swansea == I take my dog’s on a short walk in the evenings around 10pm and in this particular evening on November 23, 2017, I was walking past the local catholic school and I looked up into the night sky and saw a sort of triangle shaped object. There were four white lights two on each side and there was a red light at the top of the object. There was no noise and as it passed over my head it changed course and flew away into the distance. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Yet another great plot for a science fiction novel is about to become reality instead. A renowned futurologist has laid out the plan for how robots will acquire human minds, then attend the funerals of the mind’s human body … by 2050. That means we’re a mere three decades away from immortality through robotics … well, those who will be able to afford it are. Should you wait to see how the novel ends before saving your money?
In a post on his Futurizon blog, Dr. Ian Pearson – former member of parliament, author, lecturer and creator of 1800+ inventions including text messaging and the active contact lens – gives his own somewhat dystopian views on the inevitable road to human androidization and beyond, which he sees occurring by 2050. He begins by predicting that we will arrive at the point with “99% of your mind is running on external IT rather than in the meat-ware in your head.” With your mind not in the clouds but in the ‘cloud’, the next step will then be easy:
“Assuming you saved enough and prepared well, you connect to an android to use as your body from now on, attend your funeral, and then carry on as before, still you, just with a younger, highly upgraded body.”
To brace readers for the big prediction/warning/plot-turn, Pearson first gives little warnings about how this will be expensive – while servers are cheap, robots are not.
“Some people may need to wait until 2060 or later until android price falls enough for them to afford one.”
Wait? Humans? Really? There must be a way to get our robotic containers for our human minds right away and at a reasonable price, right Dr. Pearson?
“Maybe your continued existence is paid for as part of an extended company medical plan.”
That’s one alternative Pearson proposes, assuming medical insurance is still around in 2050. However (there’s always a ‘however’), letting someone else own or lease your robotic body may allow them (read the fine print) to own, lease or at least access your mind, using it for good (allowing it to continue to write funny stuff for your readers) or bad (cloning an evil mind into millions of copies or adding it to a collective that will someday take over the world).
It gets worse. What if the medical plan goes bankrupt paying for replacement android bodies for millions of its immortal or vain clients? Perhaps you saw this coming and set up a fund for your children, grandchildren and beyond to pay for your upgrades and keep your robotic body in good working order. If they didn’t always listen to you when you were human, will they listen to your android self?
“After all, they know you know they have kids or grand-kids in school that need paid for, and homes don’t come cheap, and they really need that new kitchen.”
Grandpa, would you deprive your great-grandchildren of a new iPhone 500 UltraPlus just so you can have a titanium cranium?
But I “need” a titanium cranium!
OK, maybe letting a corporation specifically designed for the purpose of managing and upgrading cyborgs in return for using enough of your mind to pay for it isn’t such a bad idea. After all, businesses always have your best interests in mind, right?
“[Then] you could stay immortal, unable to die, stuck forever as just a corporate asset, a mere slave.”
Is this inevitable? Dr. Pearson claims to have an 85 percent accuracy record when looking 10 to 15 years into the future. Should we trust his predictions/warnings for 30?
Do we already know how this novel will end? Will it be worth attending your own funeral?
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27-28 July 2018 – Longest Lunar Eclipse This Century
27-28 July 2018 – Longest Lunar Eclipse This Century
The longest "Blood Moon" eclipse this century will coincide with Mars' closest approach in 15 years to offer skygazers a thrilling astronomical double bill on Friday, astronomers say.
For about half the world, the moon will be partly or fully in Earth's shadow from 17.14 to 23.28 GMT - six hours and 14 minutes in all.
The period of complete eclipse, known as "totality", when the moon appears darkest will last from 19.30 to 21.13 GMT.
Totality will last for 103 minutes, making it the longest eclipse of the 21st century. At the same time, Mars will hover near the moon in the night sky, easily visible with the naked eye.
Our neighbouring planet will appear unusually large and bright, a mere 57.7 million kilometers (35.9 million miles) from Earth on its elliptical orbit around the sun.
"We have a rare and interesting conjunction of phenomena," Pascal Descamps, an astronomer with the Paris Observatory, told AFP.
"We should have a coppery red tint on the moon with Mars the 'Red Planet' just next to it, very bright and with a slight orange hue itself."
Amateur astronomers in the southern hemisphere will be best-placed to enjoy the spectacle, especially those in southern Africa, Australia, India and Madagascar, though it will also be visible in Europe and South America.
The long duration of this eclipse is partly due to the fact that the moon will make a near-central passage through Earth's umbra—the darkest, most central part of the shadow.
Our constant companion will also be at the farthest point on its orbit from Earth, making its movement across the sky slower from our perspective, thus spending longer in the dark.
In the middle of a lunar eclipse it can look as if a red planet has taken up residence near the Earth—they are both eerie and beautiful and I'll certainly be looking out for it, reports phys.org.
Io is small, but it’s the most volcanically active world in our solar system. It has hundreds of active volcanoes. Now the Juno spacecraft has found one more.
Image generated from data collected last December via NASA’s Juno spacecraft. It’s a new hot spot now thought to be a previously unknown volcano.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM.
When it comes to volcanoes, we naturally tend to think of big eruptions like the recent ones in Hawaii or Mount St. Helens in Washington state, best known for its major 1980 eruption. Earth is a volcanically active planet, but there is another place in the solar system even more active, and that is Jupiter’s moon Io. In fact, Io is the most volcanically active body in the whole solar system, as far as we know. Space scientists have discovered more than 400 volcanoes on Io so far, with about 150 erupting at any given time, and now scientists think they’ve discovered yet another one, announced on July 13, 2018.
The possible new volcano was found in data sent back by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Jupiter. Although Juno’s mission focuses on Jupiter itself, it can sometimes observe some of the moons also, from a distance. On December 16, 2017, Juno’s Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument discovered a new heat source close to the south pole of Io that might be an undiscovered volcano. Juno was about 290,000 miles (470,000 km) away from Io at the time. As explained by Alessandro Mura, a Juno co-investigator from the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome:
The new Io hotspot JIRAM picked up is about 200 miles (300 km) from the nearest previously mapped hotspot. We are not ruling out movement or modification of a previously discovered hot spot, but it is difficult to imagine one could travel such a distance and still be considered the same feature.
Colorful Io as seen by the Galileo spacecraft in 1997.
Image via NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
The Voyagers 1 and 2, Galileo, Cassini and New Horizons spacecraft, as well as ground-based observatories, all have seen Io’s volcanoes. Why is Io such a volcanically active world? According to NASA:
Io’s surface is covered by sulfur in different colorful forms. As Io travels in its slightly elliptical orbit, Jupiter’s immense gravity causes ‘tides’ in the solid surface that rise 300 feet (100 meters) high on Io, generating enough heat for volcanic activity and to drive off any water. Io’s volcanoes are driven by hot silicate magma.
In other words, Jupiter’s gravity squeezes Io – which is the innermost of the four large Galilean satellites – like a rubber ball. The squeezing results in volcanoes.
Even the New Horizons spacecraft, en route to Pluto, caught a glimpse of Io’s volcanoes. This image show a giant plume from the Tvashtar volcano.
Image via NASA.
Close-up view of one of Io’s volcanoes, as seen by the Galileo spacecraft on February 22, 2000. Image via NASA/JPL.
Mosaic of images from Voyager 1 showing Io’s south polar region.
Image via NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/USGS.
Io’s sulfuric volcanic plumes can reach up to 250 miles (400 km) high or higher, putting on an incredible ongoing display. In contrast, the highest Mount St. Helens plume on May 18, 1980 reached about 19 miles (31 km), and the highest plume from Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines – known for its powerful 1991 eruption – got as far as 27 miles (45 km). So you see Io’s volcanoes really are explosive! Learn why at this article at Wired.
Io’s volcanic activity is so extensive that it can resurface the entire surface of this Jovian moon in only about a million years. The volcanic activity is the result of tidal heating, where the moon is “stretched” by Jupiter’s strong gravitational pull as well as the lesser gravitational effects of the other satellites. Io also has mountains, some of which are as tall as our earthly Mount Everest even though Io itself is a much smaller world than Earth.
In 2013, it was announced that Io’s volcanos are not concentrated where scientists thought they would be, and are shifted eastward for some reason. According to Christopher Hamilton of the University of Maryland, College Park, lead author of a paper about this research published January 1, 2013, in Earth and Planetary Science Letters:
Our analysis supports the prevailing view that most of the heat is generated in the asthenosphere, but we found that volcanic activity is located 30 to 60 degrees east from where we expect it to be. We performed the first rigorous statistical analysis of the distribution of volcanoes in the new global geologic map of Io. We found a systematic eastward offset between observed and predicted volcano locations that can’t be reconciled with any existing solid body tidal heating models.
Model of the possible interior composition of Io and various surface features.
Image via Wikipedia Commons/Kelvinsong.
Juno will continue to monitor Io periodically during the rest of its mission, until at least July 2021.
Bottom line: Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with over 400 volcanoes discovered so far and about 150 erupting at any given time. Now, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has discovered what appears to be yet another volcano on Io, with many more likely waiting to be found.
GOTCHA A new machine, shaped sort of like a five-fingered arcade claw, gently encloses soft-bodied sea creatures (like this cephalopod) to study before releasing them, unharmed, back into the ocean.
Like a submarine Poké Ball, a new robotic device gently captures and releases deep-sea creatures without a scratch. This critter catcher could be decked out with cameras and other sensors to give scientists an unprecedented view of life in one of Earth’s most mysterious environments.
The contraption, designed to be mounted on a remotely operated underwater vehicle, folds into a 12-sided box about 21 centimeters across. Using a joystick, an operator on board a nearby ship can carefully close this box around soft-bodied creatures, like jellies and cephalopods, that might be hurt or killed by other specimen-collection tools. Temporarily detaining creatures inside the enclosure, described online July 18 in Science Robotics, would create rare opportunities for closeup inspection of otherwise elusive deep-sea creatures.
Deep-sea free-floaters, including some jellyfish and their gelatinous ilk, are “sometimes considered the forgotten fauna,” says study coauthor David Gruber, a marine biologist at Baruch College, City University of New York. While many biologists survey the hustle and bustle of the seafloor, homing in on small creatures in open water is much more difficult, he says, so our understanding of these animals is “almost a blank slate.”
Researchers have a few tools in their arsenals for capturing open-water animals and bringing them to the surface for examination. Unfortunately, nets or suction devices well suited for nabbing sturdy deep-sea dwellers, like fish and crustaceans, can shred fragile life-forms like comb jellies and siphonophores (SN: 7/16/05, p. 46). The new creature-catching gadget offers “a really cool” way to handle the deep sea’s most delicate residents more gently, says Kelly Robinson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette not involved in the work.
CATCH AND RELEASE Watch how a new submarine “Poké Ball” nabs squishy sea creatures, like jellies and cephalopods, for examination before letting them go back into the ocean.
Zhi Ern Teoh, a mechanical engineer at Cooper Perkins Inc., an engineering firm based in Lexington, Mass., and colleagues tested their device in an underwater canyon in Monterey Bay off the coast of California. The researchers trapped and released jellyfish and squid up to 700 meters below the surface, but their machine is designed to work as deep as 11 kilometers.
Encasing animals inside this robotic box “is really the first step among many,” Gruber says. The team now hopes to rig the machine with 3-D cameras, DNA-swabbing technology and other sensors to gather information on specimens’ physiology. The chamber could also be equipped with instruments to tag animals before they’re released back into the ocean.
Using this technology to inspect deep-sea life on its home turf would be far less stressful for animals than bringing them up to the surface. At sea level, “you’ve got pressure changes, temperature changes, light changes and people staring at them,” says George Matsumoto, a marine biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, Calif., where Teoh and colleagues tested their device.
Observations of sea creatures in their element may reveal more about what they eat, where they travel, how they are reacting to changing climate conditions, as well as uncover new species. Given that we know “virtually nothing” about the deep sea, “almost anything we come up with is going to be useful information,” Matsumoto says.
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