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In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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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 Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
05-08-2018
A Radar Blip, a Flash of Light: How U.F.O.s ‘Exploded’ Into Public View
A Radar Blip, a Flash of Light: How U.F.O.s ‘Exploded’ Into Public View
In July 1952, several U.F.O. sightings in Washington garnered headlines around the world. This one is from The New York Times.CreditThe New York Times
In the early morning of July 20, 1952, Capt. S.C. “Casey” Pierman was ready for takeoff at Washington National Airport, when a bright light skimmed the horizon and disappeared. He did not think much of it until he was airborne, bound for Detroit, and an air traffic controller told him two or three unidentified flying objects were spotted on radar traveling at high speed.
The controller told Captain Pierman to follow them, the pilot told government investigators at the time. Captain Pierman agreed, and headed northwest over West Virginia where he saw as many as seven bluish-white lights that looked “like falling stars without tails,” according to a newspaper report.
The sighting of whatever-they-were garnered headlines around the world. And in the decades since, U.F.O.s have become part of the pop culture zeitgeist, from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” to “The X-Files.” In September, a star of that long-running series, Gillian Anderson, will appear in “UFO,” a movie about a college student haunted by sightings of flying saucers. A “Men in Black” remake is in the works. And the History Channel plans to air “Project Blue Book,” a scripted series about the government program that studied whether U.F.O.s were a national threat.
And the topic is back in the headlines. Last year, The Times wrote about a little known project founded in 2007, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, to investigate U.F.O. sightings. A search of The Times’s historical archives reveals a rich bounty of U.F.O. sightings, loreand explanations since the 1950s. And who can forget in 2016 when Hillary Clinton said she would reopen the real X-files if she were president?
Captain Pierman’s 68-year-old daughter, Faith McClory, said in an interview last month that her father became something of a celebrity as reports like his in the summer of 1952 fueled fear of a space alien invasion.
“My sister has memories of men coming to our home,” said Ms. McClory, who grew up in Belleville, Mich. (She said they were reporters.) “People were enthralled with the flying saucers,” she added.
Researchers say government officials have sought to publicly debunk the existence of alien evidence ever since the Washington sightings.
“Unidentified flying objects exploded into the public consciousness then,” said Mark Rodeghier, the scientific director for the Center for UFO Studies, a group of scientists and researchers who study the U.F.O. phenomenon. “There was concern in a way you hadn’t seen before.”
It should be noted that the term U.F.O., as used by the government, does not mean extraterrestrials from outer space. It means any object in the sky that has not been identified. When asked recently about the 1952 Washington sightings, Ann Stefanek, chief of media operations for the Air Force, wrote in an email that the objects had posed no threat to national security.
In the spring of 1952, though, numerous mysterious sightings had captured the Air Force’s attention. It created “Project Blue Book” that March — the third investigative government project of its kind and the one that lasted the longest, until 1969.
The events in Washington were not the first unexplained encounter report. Debris from what observers called a “flying disc” had been spotted in Roswell, N.M., five years earlier, which Army officials said was from a “weather balloon.” By 1952, though, a number of sightings of U.F.O.s were being reported across the country and the nation was on edge.
Life magazine was one of the first mainstream magazines to suggest the phenomenon was real and revealed in an April story that the Air Force was secretly investigating. That story inspired a sharp increase in reports of sightings that summer.
The Washington sightings centered on events that started around 11:40 p.m. on July 19, as air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport noticed blips speeding near Andrews Air Force Base, according to government accounts. The unidentified aircrafts fanned out, flying over the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Captain Pierman saw them that night. They vanished around 5 a.m.
It was a second sighting a week later, though, that caused the wave of hysteria that forced the government to speak out. Albert Chop, then a spokesman with the Pentagon who was given the job of answering questions about U.F.O.s, said he was awakened by a call on the evening of July 26.
Mr. Chop described the events in a 1999 oral history to the Sign Historical Group, an association of archivists and amateur researchers who held a workshop that year to study U.F.O history. He said the new objects were spotted on radar at Washington National Airport and he was told to get there right away.
The Air Force dispatched jet fighters from New Castle, Del., to intercept the flying objects. But every time one of the jets closed in, they disappeared. When the jets backed off, they reappeared.
“It was frightening,” Mr. Chop said. “I think everybody in the room was very apprehensive.”
At one point, a pilot found himself in the midst of four unidentified aircrafts and asked what to do. “I didn’t say anything,” Mr. Chop told the interviewers. “Nobody said anything. All of a sudden these things began to move away from him and he said, ‘They’re gone!’” The pilot returned to his base.
“These things hung around all night long,” Mr. Chop added.
The next day, almost every major newspaper wrote about the U.F.O.s. “‘Objects’ Outstrip Jets Over Capital,” was the headline in The Times.
The Air Force held a press conference on July 29, 1952, to discuss the recent sightings of unidentified flying objects over Washington. Maj. Gen. John Samford, seated on the right, is who dismissed the sightings as “natural phenomena.”CreditBettmann, via Getty Images
“People didn’t know what to think of it,” said Rob Swiatek, a U.F.O. researcher and scientist, in a recent interview.“They were very disturbed.”
Public panic was a problem for the Air Force, which feared a diversion of resources during the Cold War. “The Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency became worried that the Soviet Union would take advantage of the situation and launch an attack on the United States,” Mr. Rodeghier said. “They were looking at worst-case scenarios.”
Worse, no one could explain the phenomenon to President Harry Truman, according to press reports. One theory promoted by the Air Force was that a layer of hot air in the sky, called a temperature inversion, caused radar to mistake a weather event for flying objects. “Nobody had any answers,” Mr. Chop told the interviewers. “That’s why General Samford had the press conference.”
On July 29, 1952, Maj. Gen. John Samford, the director of Air Force intelligence overseeing the inquiry, held a news conference at the Pentagon to reassure the public. He dismissed the Washington sightings as a temperature anomaly. Still, the general conceded that not all the details could be explained by natural causes. Witness reports “have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things,” he said at the time. “It is this group of observations that we now are attempting to resolve.”
After several sightings of unidentified flying objects in Washington in July 1952, government officials held a news conference, calling them “natural phenomena.” The press conference was front page news, including in The Times.
Case closed? Not quite.
“I don’t think temperature inversion had much to do with it, but the news media accepted that explanation at the time,” said Kevin Randle, a former lieutenant colonel in the Army who has studied the events of July 1952 and is the author of the 2001 book, “Invasion Washington: U.F.O.s Over the Capitol.”
In January 1953, spurred by the Washington sightings, a scientific committee led by Howard Robertson, a well-known mathematician and physicist, was formed by the government to explore the phenomenon. “One of the conclusions was that they needed to debunk U.F.O.s,” Mr. Randle said.
The committee, called the Robertson Panel, suggested in its report that the government conduct a mass media education campaign to “reduce the current gullibility of the public and consequently their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda.”
The campaign to re-educate Americans did not work — U.F.O.s have persisted as a fixture in pop culture. Besides, the government’s explanation was not that convincing anyway. Ms. McClory, Captain Pierman’s daughter, said her father did not believe that the bluish-white lights he saw were weather-related.
“I don’t want to use the words ‘cover up,’” she said, of her father’s view. “But it was very clear. He saw it. Everything was seen on radar.”
APEric Boe, Sunita Williams, Christopher Ferguson, Josh Cassada en Nicole Mann.
WETENSCHAP In het Johnson Space Center in Houston (Texas) stelt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA de negen astronauten voor die naar de ruimte vliegen met raketten van privébedrijven.
Sinds het einde van het spaceshuttleprogramma in 2011 heeft de NASA geen astronauten meer de ruimte ingestuurd vanop Amerikaanse bodem. De Amerikaanse organisatie werkte de voorbije jaren samen met Rusland voor haar ruimtereizen.
NASA-directeur Jim Bridenstine zegt dat de aankondiging hopelijk een nieuw tijdperk inluidt voor het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartprogramma.
Het nieuwe team, zeven mannen en twee vrouwen, zou volgend jaar al de ruimte ingestuurd worden. Daarvoor wordt gebruikgemaakt van raketten van twee privébedrijven, Boeing en SpaceX. De NASA laat weten dat de eerste testvlucht met de nieuwe bemanning in april zal plaatsvinden met een SpaceX-Dragoncapsule.
Voor die testvlucht zijn twee astronauten geselecteerd: Michael Hopkins en Victor Glover. Hopkins heeft al 166 dagen doorgebracht aan boord van het ISS, maar voor Glover is het de eerste ruimtereis.4
APVictor Glover, Michael Hopkins, Robert Behnken, Douglas Hurley, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Eric Boe, Josh Cassada en Sunita Williams.
In the footage, a circular cloud can be seen over a tower block.
And it looks very similar to a flying saucer, rising higher in the sky.
The strange object continues to move over the tower block, leaving the cameraman in stunned silence.
This was captured in the Russian capital Moscow – and has sparked furious debate on social media about whether alien life has arrived.
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UFO: Viewers claimed the cloud looked a lot like a flying saucer
“I also spotted some weird-looking clouds in the city centre that day but I thought I imagined it,” one viewer commented.
“I wonder what will happen next?!"
Another added: "I've been seeing things like that on the skyline for a while now but previously they seemed a little less distinct. So does that actually mean that aliens do exist?"
While a third made a chilling prediction.
"This is the end, isn’t it,” they said.
But meteorologists put these claims to bed very quickly.
The UFO cloud is believed to have been an unusually-shaped cumulus, a fluffy low level cloud.
Some observers speculated that it might have been a lenticular cloud.
They are often mistaken for UFOs because of their characteristic appearance and smooth saucer-like shape.
This is not the first time people have claimed UFO sightings recently.
A bizarre object was spotted on Google Earth last week.
While a police helicopter circled a UFO in Los Angeles earlier this month.
Bizarre UFO-wolk boven Moskou leidt tot consternatie. Bekijk hier de beelden
Bizarre UFO-wolk boven Moskou leidt tot consternatie. Bekijk hier de beelden
Na de verschijning van een wolk in de vorm van een vliegende schotel boven Moskou dachten sommigen dat de aliens op het punt stonden te landen.
Onderstaande beelden zijn gemaakt door een inwoner van de Russische hoofdstad. “Wat is dat? Aliens? Is het een UFO?” zegt hij in het filmpje, dat hij later op social media plaatste.
Het duurde niet lang voordat er fel gediscussieerd werd over het verschijnsel.
Iets vreemds
Sommigen waren ervan overtuigd dat er die dag iets vreemds aan de hand was in de lucht boven Moskou en dat meer van dit soort gebeurtenissen aanstaande waren.
“Wauw! Ik heb die dag ook vreemde wolken in de stad gezien, maar ik dacht dat ik het me inbeeldde,” reageerde Ilya.
“Ik zie dit soort dingen al langer in de lucht, maar nog nooit was het zo duidelijk te zien,” zei Kate. “Betekent dit dat aliens echt bestaan?”
Einde
Een andere social media-gebruiker merkte op: “Dit is het einde, toch?!”
Het lijkt te gaan om een cumulus- of stapelwolk, een scherp afgelijnde wolk.
Als warme lucht opstijgt zet deze uit, omdat de luchtdruk naar boven toe minder wordt, en koelt daardoor af. De waterdamp in de lucht wil dan condenseren en er ontstaat een cumuluswolk.
WAT IS DIT VREEMD WEZEN LANGS DE KANR VAN DE WEG? ( VIDEO )
WAT IS DIT VREEMD WEZEN LANGS DE KANR VAN DE WEG? ( VIDEO )
Een Canadees gezin rijdt langs de weg en stopt om een grazende eland in de berm te filmen.
Terwijl ze dit doen, komt er plotsklaps een vreemd wezen tevoorschijn uit de begroeiing langs de kant van de weg.
Aangezien het vakantie is, vandaag eens een luchtiger onderwerp, waarbij iedereen zelf een mening kan vormen over wat het nu precies is dat er langs de kant van de weg opduikt.
Enkele dagen geleden rijdt de Franstalige Canadees Audrée Tanguay Fréchette samen met zijn gezin in de buurt van de plaats Gaspésie in Quebec.
Ze zien vanuit hun auto opeens een eland langs de kant van de weg en stoppen om deze te filmen, wanneer er plotseling iets tevoorschijn komt uit de begroeiing langs de kant van de weg.
Het ziet er als volgt uit:
Volgens sommigen hebben we hier te maken met wat men een alien creature pleegt te noemen. Een voor ons mensen onbekend iets dat grote overeenkomsten vertoont met eerder waargenomen wezens.
De maker van de video heeft naar eigen zeggen geen flauw idee wat het is en vraagt het publiek om hulp bij het oplossen van het raadsel.
Hier is de door hem gemaakte videoclip.
Omdat de video vrij kort is en het allemaal nogal snel gaat, hierbij een tweede video over hetzelfde met daarin de nodige slow motion opnamen.
Niet iedereen die bovenstaande opnames heeft gezien is er van overtuigd dat het een alien is.
Er zijn een aantal mensen die suggereren dat het een vuiltje is op het raam van de auto. Daarentegen lijkt het wezen in het begin van de video heel snel te bewegen.
Iemand anders merkt op dat het niet echt kan zijn, omdat de eland niet schrikt en gewoon door blijft grazen.
Het is in ieder geval dermate interessant dat de Engelse krant Daily Mirror dit wil publiceren.
Hello, I work for the Mirror Online and I was wondering if we could use this video in our player, please?
One of the formative experiences of my childhood which I credit with launching my interest in aerial phenomena and astronomy was the 1997 visit of comet Hale-Bopp. For a few magical weeks, my father would walk me to the end of our street each night where we had a perfect view of the eerie fireball hanging in the night sky. I credit that comet (along with a healthy dose of pop culture) with instilling in the much younger me a sense of wonder about the universe and what might lie unseen just at the edges of our knowledge.
The Hale-Bopp Comet.
For others, the comet represented something else entirely. For a few dozen seekers in California, the arrival of the comet was seen as the coming of a spacecraft meant to take their souls to a new life on some non-terrestrial plane. The only hitch was they would have to commit suicide in order to board this “spacecraft.” Between March 24 and 26, 1997, thirty-nine members of the Heaven’s Gate cult led by Marshall Applewhite asphyxiated themselves with the aid of Phenobarbital-laced applesauce and vodka, believing their souls would then travel to the Hale-Bopp comet/spacecraft en route to a new level of existence. All were found with a five-dollar bill and three quarters in their pockets and were wearing identical black sweat suits and brand new black-and-white Nike Decades.
Not exactly the kind of press Nike looks for. But hey – no press is bad press. But maybe this was bad press.
Whether or not the cultists reached their cult-y space nirvana aboard the comet is anyone’s guess (spoiler alert: they didn’t). Two of the Heaven’s Gate members survived though, choosing not to participate in the suicide pact for unknown reasons. Today, the strange and unfortunate story of Heaven’s Gate has become a recurring topic in pop culture.
Which is why Heaven’s Gate is suddenly back in the news. The two anonymous surviving members of the suicidal UFO cult are currently threatening legal action against trap rap artist Lil Uzi Vert. Lil Uzi Vert (real name Symere Woods) recently released artwork on Instagram for his upcoming album Eternal Atake, featuring a design quite reminiscent of Heaven’s Gate’s keyhole-in-space logo. In response, the two surviving Heaven’s Gate members issued the following statement:
He is using and adapting our copyrights and trademarks without our permission and the infringement will be taken up with our attorneys. This is not fair use or parody, it it a direct and clear infringement.
It turns out Lil Uzi Vert has even changed his Instagram username to “Marshall Applewhite” in the past. Is this merely a case of pop culture appropriation done in poor taste, or has Lil Uzi Vert bought one too many pairs of black-and-white Nike Decades? The courts will decide.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s reputation as the number-one resting place for alien entities with distinctly bad flying skills is legendary in UFO research circles. Insiders and whistle-blowers talk about off-limits hangars and the The Blue Room. Supposedly, they are rooms, buildings, and underground bunkers that are home to the carefully-preserved remains of numerous dead extraterrestrials – if one has the correct, high-level security. If the stories are true, of course.
It turns out that, for years, Puerto Rico allegedly had its very own equivalent: the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station. But it wasn’t alien bodies that were cryogenically housed at Roosevelt Roads. Nope: it was a bunch of dead chupacabras. There just might even have been a couple of living ones there, too. So, at least, I was told on several of my excursions to Puerto Rico, between 2004 and 2015. I was not surprised to find that sifting fact from fiction, and legend from rumor, proved to be a very difficult job when it came to trying to unravel the controversial truth about Roosevelt Roads’ chupacabra stash.
The origins of Roosevelt Roads date back to just one year after the end of the First World War. It was 1919 when the then Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy visited Puerto Rico. That man was none other than a future American president: Franklin D. Roosevelt. The visit was no vacation, however. Roosevelt was there on a secret mission. He was focused on finding a suitable location where a military facility could be constructed, one that could act as a strategic outpost for Uncle Sam in the Caribbean. Roosevelt toured the island, finally pinpointing a northeast town called Ceiba, which was founded back in the 1830s, and that, today, has a population of around 13,000.
At the time, while the creation of such a base – with an airfield – could have been beneficial, it was not perceived as absolutely crucial. Things changed dramatically, however, when crazed, evil nutcase Adolf Hitler came to power in 1930s-era Germany. The world was soon to face complete and utter carnage, the likes of which it had never before seen, or since. Steps had to be taken to combat the Nazi threat. One of those steps was the creation of Roosevelt Roads, which began in 1940, one year before the terrible events at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii occurred. Roosevelt Roads ultimately became the biggest U.S. Navy base on the planet and the headquarters of the U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command (NAVSO). It remained so for decades.
On our visit to Puerto Rico in July 2004 with a crew from the SyFy Channel, monster-hunter Jon Downes and I heard a story of a UFO crash in the hills of Canovanas in 1957, one which reportedly, and quickly, led to gross mutations in the local populace. On his first trek around the island, back in 1998, Jon himself was given a number of independent accounts of this 1957 event. One of Jon’s sources was a man named Reuben, a Puerto Rican brought up in New York, but who returned to the island as an adult. Arguably, Reuben was Jon’s most significant source, since he personally took Jon and a team from the U.K.’s Channel 4 TV crew to the very spot in Canovanas where, he claimed, the craft from another world slammed into the ground, back in 1957.
Jon told me that they came to a big clearing where the path became narrow, and, on one side, disappeared altogether, into a huge saucer-shaped arena. This, according to what Reuben had to say, at least, was where the UFO had crashed. Admittedly, there was a huge indent in the side of the mountain, said Jon. No trees grew there, and it did look as if some huge object had crashed into the mountain, scooping out trees and vegetation and leaving a bare area intermittently covered with patchy grass. Returning to 2004…
While on Puerto Rico, Jon and I met with a woman named Norka, a Chupacabra witness and someone who had heard of this 1957 tale, too. This was not surprising, given that it’s hardly an unknown case among the people of Puerto Rico. Norka told us that most people identified the location as a steep hillside in Canovanas, one that military forces quickly sealed off, for a period of around three weeks. Time constraints unfortunately prevented us from taking Norka to the location identified by Reuben back in 1998, but Norka’s description of the place strongly suggested they were one and the same. There was something else too: most of those that had commented on the incident – specifically when I returned to Puerto Rico in 2008 – said that when the UFO was accessed by the military they found within it the dead bodies of a number of unearthly creatures: Chupacabras.
I had to remember that although the crash report had been around for decades, the Chupacabra aspect of the story surfaced specifically post-1995, when the Chupacabra phenomenon began in earnest. The Chupacabra link to the 1957 crash was fascinating, but it would have been even more fascinating had it surfaced prior to the 1995 outbreak. That it specifically didn’t, kept me very mindful of the possibility (maybe even the probability) that this was an elaboration, a new twist, on an old tale.
There is also a story of a UFO crashing in the heart of El Yunque in February 1984. I know that, because the basics of the account have reached me on three occasions over more than the past decade. It was early one morning when a large, circular-shaped object slammed into the ground, immediately after flying over the rain forest in a decidedly erratic fashion. To prevent people from learning the truth of the matter, a diversionary tactic was put into place that the UFO was a meteorite. Military personnel were soon on the scene – in part, to scoop up the pummeled body-parts of a couple of dead chupacabras, whose lives came to sudden and bloody ends when the alien craft hurtled violently into the forest at high speed. That’s how the story goes, anyway.
To this day, I don’t really know what to make of all this. Some of the people I spoke with came across as completely truthful and credible. Others admitted that their stories were not just second-hand, but third- and even fourth-hand, which is definitely not a good thing. I still find the stories interesting, but it will take a hell of a lot more to convince me that there are dead Chupacabras secretly hidden somewhere on Puerto Rico. Or deep below it…
HOUSTON — After years of vehicle development and building anticipation, NASA has now put the crew in commercial crew spacecraft.
The space agency on Friday (Aug. 3) announced nine men and women who will launch on the first crewed test flights and missions of new commercial spacecraft built and operated by The Boeing Company and SpaceX.
NASA's first commercial crews for Boeing and SpaceX spacecraft, from left to right: Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, Nicole Mann, Chris Ferguson, Eric Boe, Josh Cassada and Suni Williams.
Credit: collectSPACE.com
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, 48, and Douglas Hurley, 51, will fly together as SpaceX's first Dragon crew. Veterans of two spaceflights each, Behnken and Hurley will lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A — the same Florida launch pad where the space shuttle left Earth for the last time in July 2011 with Hurley as pilot.The commercial crew members took to the stage during an event led by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
NASA astronauts Eric Boe, 53, and Nicole Mann, 41, will join the commander of that same final space shuttle mission, former astronaut and now Boeing executive Christopher Ferguson, 56, as the crew of the Starliner test flight, launching atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Ferguson, who has been involved from the start in the Starliner's development, flew three shuttle missions as a NASA astronaut. Boe piloted two shuttle flights. This will be Mann's first launch, having joined the astronaut corps in 2013.
Behnken, Hurley, Boe and Mann are NASA's first astronauts to be named to the test flights of new U.S. spacecraft since the March 1978 announcement of the space shuttle's first orbital flight test crews. Ferguson will become the first former NASA astronaut to return to orbit as a company's crew member when he flies.
Prior to their maiden crewed missions, both Boeing and SpaceX plan uncrewed test flights in late 2018 or early 2019. Both companies will also conduct abort system test flights to ensure the astronauts can safely escape should their rockets go awry.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (center), with Johnson Space Center director Mark Geyer, Boeing's Leanne Caret, Kennedy Space Center director Bob Cabana and SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell introduce the first commercial crew astronauts.
Credit: collectSPACE.com
In addition to naming the crews of the test flights, NASA also announced on Friday the four astronauts who will fly aboard the first operational Starliner and Dragon missions to the space station. Both vehicles were developed in cooperation with NASA to deliver crew members to and from the orbiting laboratory.
Josh Cassada, 45, will fly with Sunita ("Suni") Williams, 52, aboard NASA's first contracted Starliner mission. It will be Cassada's first spaceflight. Williams previously logged 321 days in orbit on two stays aboard the space station, most recently returning to Earth in 2012.
Victor Glover, 42, and Michael Hopkins, 49, will fly on the first operational mission of SpaceX's crewed Dragon. It will be Glover's first time in space. Hopkins logged 166 days aboard the space station in 2014.
NASA's first commercial crew astronauts. Flying on SpaceX's Crew Dragon (at left): Bob Behnken, Victor Glover, Doug Hurley and Mike Hopkins. Flying on Boeing's Starliner: Eric Boe, Sunita Williams, Chris Ferguson, Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann.
Credit: collectSPACE.com
The two pairs of NASA crewmates will fly to the station with Russian cosmonauts and international astronauts to be announced at a later date. Between the end of the space shuttle program and the start of commercial crew operations, NASA's crew members have and are continuing to launch to the space station on Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Behnken, Boe, Hurley and Williams were named in 2015 as NASA's "commercial crew cadre" and have been working with Boeing and SpaceX on the development of the spacecraft and the simulators that will be used to train astronauts to fly. The two companies have also developed new spacesuits, modified their launch pads and established mission control teams to support the upcoming flights.
With the start of four-person commercial missions, the International Space Station crew is slated to grow by one to a seven-person residency in order to maximize the science that can be conducted on board. Boeing's and SpaceX's commercial spacecraft may also open the space station — and more broadly, Earth orbit — to more privately-funded visitors and spaceflight participants from countries that do not have their own domestic crewed spacecraft and rockets.
Un habitant de Tamarac filme plusieurs OVNI lumineux
Un habitant de Tamarac filme plusieurs OVNI lumineux
Le mardi 31 juillet 2018, dans la mâtinée, un témoin s’est réveillé et a vu un objet non identifié planer dans le ciel pendant plus de 45 minutes dans son quartier de Tamarac, une ville de l’État de Floride.
Miguel Rodriguez, qui vit dans le village de Vanguard, a vu cette lumière apparaître dans le sud-est vers 5h35 du matin. Il a rapidement décidé de commencer à la filmer entre 5h50 et 6h00 du matin. La lumière est restée dans le ciel et 30 minutes plus tard sa femme lui a envoyé une vidéo de cet OVNI qui planait toujours au même endroit.
« Il y a avait des orbes rouges et oranges qui tournaient autour de cet objet volant. Celles-ci semblaient être indépendantes de l’objet lui-même. De plus, il y avait un autre objet moins visible au-dessus », a déclaré Rodriguez.
Il a dit que l’activité entre Tamarac et Coral Springs a été étrange ces dernières années et ce n’était pas la première fois qu’il observait une telle activité surnaturelle.
Il possède une vidéo prise il y a quelques années quand il vivait à Coral Springs. Ces images montraient des orbes rouges / oranges volant à très grande vitesse dans le ciel. Toute sa famille avait été témoin de ce phénomène inexpliqué.
Rodriguez aimerait maintenant savoir si d’autres personnes ont vu cet objet ou possèdent de meilleures images.
Il conclut :
« Je crois que c’est un OVNI. J’en suis vraiment persuadé. Il n’y a pas d’autre explication. »
A drop in reports has baffled everyone investigating UFOs, according to NUFORC's director, Peter Davenport. Universal
Data from US-based NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) shows UFO reports have been in decline since 2014.
Alex Griffioen of the Netherlands' UFO Disclosure Office said fewer UFO sightings may be due to people attributing them to drones.
But Head of the National UFO Reporting Center Peter Davenport suggested reports could be being intercepted too.
Reports of UFO sightings has been in massive decline for the past few years. According to data from US-based NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) the slump started in 2014, after years of increased sightings.
Since the 1990s, the overall number of UFO observations steadily increased, reaching a peak of 8,670 reports in 2014. After that, it all went quickly downhill, as this infographic from Statista.com shows.
Alex Griffioen of the Netherlands' UFO Disclosure Office said that the quantity of reports in the Netherlands hadn't seen the same drop.Statista / National UFO Reporting Centre
NUFORC didn't have a website in the 1990s, so it makes sense that there were fewer reports received at that time, but since 2014, the number of observations at NUFORC fell to 5,500 in 2016. This figure fell again to 4,500 in 2017, and — while 2018 isn't over yet — it now stands at 1,329 reports .
Although this is still considerably more than any figure recorded in the 90s, it must be stressed that that period was pre-internet, so reports weren't yet being received via the website. This only makes the decline after 2014 all the more striking.
It's true that such incidents are more commonplace than in the 90s, but why the number has fallen so sharply after 2014 remains a mystery. Have extraterrestrial beings lost interest in us? Are we not looking carefully enough? Or is there a better explanation?
It's largely a case of guesswork but there are possible theories
"The significant decrease in the number of reports has baffled everyone investigating within the UFO field," founder and director of NUFORC Peter Davenport said to Business Insider. He's previously discussed the decline with members of the Mutual UFO Network. "They see the same trend and they're all confused by it."
According to him, there are many possible explanations. "It could just be that there are fewer and fewer incidents, but it's also possible that reports to UFO organisations are being intercepted electronically. Who would do something like that is a mystery, but if it's happening, my first suspicion would be government organisations. It's quite risky for a government to do that, but you can't rule it out, I think."
Reports of UFOs peak in 2012 due to the end of Mayan calendar
According to Alex Griffioen, one of the founders of the UFO Disclosure Office in the Netherlands, it's difficult to draw a conclusion from the NUFORC figures.
"That's just one source. A decrease in the number of reports doesn't actually equate to a drop in the number of UFO sightings. It may also mean the NUFORC website has become more difficult to find or perhaps less useful," suggested Griffioen.
The quantity of reports in the Netherlands doesn't seem to have dropped in the same way, according to Griffioen, who says the number of observations at the UFO Disclosure Office in the Netherlands peaked in 2012.
"In 2012, of course, we had the upcoming apocalypse as the end of the Mayan calendar approached," laughed Griffioen.
"The peak in our statistics around 2012 is also possibly due to certain sections of the public — who were anticipating some form of alien apocalypse — being overly alert to extraterrestrial encounters," he said.
Drones could be a likely culprit for the decrease
If the number of observations has decreased worldwide, there could be two main reasons for this according to Griffioen: "Drones are becoming cheaper and more popular, and are taking on stranger and stranger shapes every day. This applies to both military UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), professional drones for video as well as for recreational drones."
"We hear and read that they can do more and more, so people now respond to seeing strange moving lights with: 'it'll be a drone'."
Laws around commercial drones in the US have relaxed
In 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began allowing companies to send drones into the air, provided they comply with certain guidelines. Amazon, for example, started delivering via drones and CNN began using UAVs to film from the air. Until 2015, this was prohibited, unless you'd received a special exemption to carry out such flights.
In December 2015, the FAA also stipulated that drones weighing over 250 grams had to be registered with the organisation, in anticipation of the holidays when it was estimated that 700,000 drones would be purchased.
According to the Consumer Technology Association, more than 2.4 million drones were sold in the US alone in 2016, more than double the figure for 2015.
Fighter jets can sometimes look strange in the sky
The chance of encountering a drone has grown considerably, which could account for people identifying what previously would have been considered a UFO as a drone.
But in fact, there's a whole plethora of things that could be mistaken for extraterrestrial objects in the night sky, ranging from fighter jets and natural phenomena like lenticular clouds, to dirt on camera lenses and unusually-shaped kites.
Still sure you've definitely seen a UFO? For extraterrestrial visits wherever you are, you can always contact NUFORC or MUFON to log a report.
New Radio Telescope Just Detected A Mysterious Signal From Space
New Radio Telescope Just Detected A Mysterious Signal From Space
Newly built radio telescope finds a mysterious signal coming from space.
An observatory located in Canada may have already found clues to a new astronomy mystery. The new radio telescope has already picked up mysterious signals from deep space, which are known as "Fast Radio Bursts", or FRBs.
First FRB Below 700MHZ Frequency
The radio telescope, named Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) located in British Columbia, has detected the first ever FRB at a frequency below 700MHZ. The signal was located on July 25th and is named FRB 180725A.
FRB's are milliseconds-long bursts of radio signals that come from somewhere unknown in the universe. They are one of the newer cosmic discoveries, and mysteries, first being detected only a decade ago. There are some possible explanations that have been thought up already which include, bursts from magnetars, exploding black and holes and of course, advanced alien civilizations.
Not From Earth
CHIME has only been operational for less than a year, and it is designed to gather data on FRBs and other anomalies. The discovery of FRB 180725A is very preliminary. "Astronomer's Telegram" announced the discovery, attempting to encourage other astronomers to search for FRBS at all wavelengths. This announcement also states that other FRBs have been found in the last week, at frequencies even lower (400MHZ and lower) and it seems that they are not coming from Earth.
To this day, only one FRB has been found to be repeating. Known as FRB 121102, it was first discovered in 2012 and was found to repeat again in 2015. It has been traced to a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light-years away. Researches say that whatever is emitting the signal across the universe must be immensely powerful. Could it be alien life?
Maybe a lost ancient civilization that left something turned on. Whatever it is, we may not know for a while. FRB research is still fairly new to astronomers, but hopefully, astronomers across the globe can work together to try and solve these mysterious signals.
Monstrous rogue planet spotted lurking outside our solar system
Monstrous rogue planet spotted lurking outside our solar system
A unique and strange rouge planet has been just discovered outside of our solar system.
According to The Astrophysical Journal, this loner planet has an astounding and powerful magnetic field that is over four million times that of Earth. Additionally, the planet creates visually stunning auroras like nothing we have ever seen.
A planet with amazing magnetism and very close to Earth discovered by astronomers
This planet, known as SIMP, was first discovered two years ago. Initially, SIMP was categorized as a brown dwarf. However, recent findings suggest that SIMP is just small enough to be considered a planet.
SIMP is very hot when compared to other planets, with a surface temperature of over 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. This is double the heat of any planet in our solar system.
The most impressive aspect of SIMP is a magnetic field that is millions of times stronger than Earth
This magnetic field contributes to the creation of stunning light shows on SIMP. However, the auroras are generated differently than on Earth.
Jupiter produced amazing auroras as well, which occurs because electrically charged particles accelerate along the magnetic fields of the planet before crashing into atoms in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter at roughly 3,000 miles per second. A similar process occurs on Earth, which we label the northern and southern lights. The process is different from Jupiter’s in that the charged particles that create the auroras on Earth come from the Sun in the form of solar wind.
Researchers believe that the creation of auroras on SIMP is more similar to that of Jupiter’s. This indicates that SIMP may have a moon.
Astronomers are excited about the discovery of SIMP, which is located just twenty light-years from the Sun because the study of the incredible magnetic force of SIMP can provide new insights regarding how magnetic fields are created in exoplanets.
The finding of SIMP also indicates new ways of discovering exoplanets, including rogue planets such as SIMP that has not been detectable in the past.
A Spanish telescope recently captured the moments when two meteorites crashed into the Moon on two separate occasions only 24 hours apart during the middle of July.
The Meteorites Were the Size of Walnuts
The flashes were seen from Earth according to the European Space Agency. However, they pointed out that the meteoroids, which came from the Alpha Capricornids meteor shower of midsummer, would only have been about the size of a walnut. In terms of the solar system, they were minute so would not have caused any damage.
The footage of the moments the two meteorites hit the moon was captured in footage, and a statement released alongside it from the European Space Agency said that the lumps passing through the tail of Comet 169P/NEAT hit the moon.
The ESA Said Determining the Cause of the Flashes Remains a Challenge
The European Space Agency went on to say:
"For at least a thousand years, people have claimed to witness short-lived phenomena occurring on the face of the moon. By definition, these transient flashes are hard to study, and determining their cause remains a challenge.
For this reason, scientists are studying these 'transient lunar phenomena' with great interest, not only for what they can tell us about the moon and its history but also [for what they can tell us] about Earth and its future."
The Meteorite Crashes Were Detected by the MIDAS System
Space.com pointed out that the images came from the MIDAS system, Moon Impacts Detection, and Analysis System. The technology was installed in three Spanish observatories. The system comprises of high-resolution CCD video cameras, all of which were designed to pick up any flashes of light no matter how subtle they are. Researchers said the small flashes are very easy to spot when they occur during a full lunar eclipse, which is what occurred on July 27.
The flashes may have only been small but they were very interesting to researchers as they help them to find out more about meteorite impacts in locations within the solar system. A MIDAS member along with researcher of meteorites from the University of Huelva in Spain, Jose Maria Madiedo, said, "By studying meteoroids on the moon, we can determine how many rocks impact it along with how often, and from this, we can infer the chance of impacts on Earth"
A radar blip, a flash of light: How UFOs ‘exploded’ into public view
A radar blip, a flash of light: How UFOs ‘exploded’ into public view
THE NEW YORK TIMES
A headline in The New York Times from July 1952 regarding several UFO sightings in Washington. Sightings of the whatever-they-were garnered headlines around the world and caused so much concern that the government was forced to speak out.
By Laura M. Holson, New York Times News Service
In the early morning of July 20, 1952, Capt. S.C. “Casey” Pierman was ready for takeoff at Washington National Airport when a bright light skimmed the horizon and disappeared. He did not think much of it until he was airborne, bound for Detroit, and an air traffic controller told him two or three unidentified flying objects were spotted on radar traveling at high speed.
The controller told Pierman to follow them, the pilot told government investigators at the time. Pierman agreed, and headed northwest over West Virginia where he saw as many as seven bluish-white lights that looked “like falling stars without tails,” according to a newspaper report.
The sighting of whatever-they-were garnered headlines around the world. And in the decades since, UFOs have become part of the pop culture zeitgeist, from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” to “The X-Files.” In September, a star of that long-running series, Gillian Anderson, will appear in “UFO,” a movie about a college student haunted by sightings of flying saucers. A “Men in Black” remake is in the works. And the History Channel plans to air “Project Blue Book,” a scripted series about the government program that studied whether UFOs were a national threat.
And the topic is back in the headlines. Last year, The New York Times wrote about a little known project founded in 2007, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, to investigate UFO sightings. A search of The Times’ historical archives reveals a rich bounty of UFO sightings, lore and explanations since the 1950s. And who can forget in 2016 when Hillary Clinton said she would reopen the real X-files if she were president?
Pierman’s 68-year-old daughter, Faith McClory, said in an interview last month that her father became something of a celebrity as reports like his in the summer of 1952 fueled fear of a space alien invasion.
“My sister has memories of men coming to our home,” said McClory, who grew up in Belleville, Michigan. (She said they were reporters.) “People were enthralled with the flying saucers,” she added.
Researchers say government officials have sought to publicly debunk the existence of alien evidence ever since the Washington sightings.
“Unidentified flying objects exploded into the public consciousness then,” said Mark Rodeghier, scientific director for the Center for UFO Studies, a group of scientists and researchers who study the UFO phenomenon. “There was concern in a way you hadn’t seen before.”
It should be noted that the term UFO, as used by the government, does not mean extraterrestrials from outer space. It means any object in the sky that has not been identified. When asked recently about the 1952 Washington sightings, Ann Stefanek, chief of media operations for the Air Force, wrote in an email that the objects had posed no threat to national security.
In the spring of 1952, though, numerous mysterious sightings had captured the Air Force’s attention. It created “Project Blue Book” that March — the third investigative government project of its kind and the one that lasted the longest, until 1969.
The Washington sightings centered on events that started around 11:40 p.m. July 19, as air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport noticed blips speeding near Andrews Air Force Base, according to government accounts. The unidentified aircrafts fanned out, flying over the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Pierman saw them that night. They vanished around 5 a.m.
It was a second sighting a week later, though, that caused the wave of hysteria that forced the government to speak out. Albert Chop, then a spokesman with the Pentagon who was given the job of answering questions about UFOs, said he was awakened by a call on the evening of July 26.
Chop described the events in a 1999 oral history to the Sign Historical Group, an association of archivists and amateur researchers who held a workshop that year to study UFO history. He said the new objects were spotted on radar at Washington National Airport and he was told to get there right away.
The Air Force dispatched jet fighters from New Castle, Delaware, to intercept the flying objects. But every time one of the jets closed in, they disappeared. When the jets backed off, they reappeared.
“It was frightening,” Chop said. “I think everybody in the room was very apprehensive.”
At one point, a pilot found himself in the midst of four unidentified aircrafts and asked what to do. “I didn’t say anything,” Chop told the interviewers. “Nobody said anything. All of a sudden these things began to move away from him and he said, ‘They’re gone!’” The pilot returned to his base.
“These things hung around all night long,” Chop added.
The next day, almost every major newspaper wrote about the UFOs. “‘Objects’ Outstrip Jets Over Capital,” was the headline in The Times.
Worse, no one could explain the phenomenon to President Harry Truman, according to press reports. One theory promoted by the Air Force was that a layer of hot air in the sky, called a temperature inversion, caused radar to mistake a weather event for flying objects. “Nobody had any answers,” Chop told the interviewers. “That’s why General Samford had the press conference.”
On July 29, 1952, Maj. Gen. John Samford, director of Air Force intelligence overseeing the inquiry, held a news conference at the Pentagon to reassure the public. He dismissed the Washington sightings as a temperature anomaly. Still, the general conceded that not all the details could be explained by natural causes. Witness reports “have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things,” he said at the time. “It is this group of observations that we now are attempting to resolve.”
The news conference was front page news, including in The Times, which ran the headline “Air Force Debunks ‘Saucers’ as Just ‘Natural Phenomena.’”
Case closed? Not quite.
“I don’t think temperature inversion had much to do with it, but the news media accepted that explanation at the time,” said Kevin Randle, a former lieutenant colonel in the Army who has studied the events of July 1952 and is the author of the 2001 book, “Invasion Washington: UFOs Over the Capitol.”
In January 1953, spurred by the Washington sightings, a scientific committee led by Howard Robertson, a well-known mathematician and physicist, was formed by the government to explore the phenomenon. “One of the conclusions was that they needed to debunk UFOs,” Randle said.
The committee, called the Robertson Panel, suggested in its report that the government conduct a mass media education campaign to “reduce the current gullibility of the public and consequently their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda.”
The campaign to re-educate Americans did not work — UFOs have persisted as a fixture in pop culture. Besides, the government’s explanation was not that convincing anyway. McClory, Pierman’s daughter, said her father did not believe that the bluish-white lights he saw were weather-related.
“I don’t want to use the words ‘cover up,’” she said, of her father’s view. “But it was very clear. He saw it. Everything was seen on radar.”
The Beginning: UFO Encounters over Washington D.C. - Open Minds Magazine
The Beginning: UFO Encounters over Washington D.C. - Open Minds Magazine
Open Minds Magazine #1
The Beginning: UFOs Encounters over Washington D.C.
Welcome to Open Minds Magazine. In this new monthly UFO news magazine show (view above), we will take a closer look at the mystery posed by Unidentified Flying Objects, in hopes to gain a better understanding of the nature of the phenomenon and how the government, including the military, and the public react to it.
Perhaps the most thorough examination into the UFO issue was conducted by the U.S Air Force. They began their investigation in 1948. It was called Project Sign, then changed its name to Project Grudge, and finally changed its name once again to Project Blue Book.
As for the results, the Air Force states:
"As a result of these investigations and studies and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project BLUE BOOK are:(1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles."
However, upon closer examination of the thousands of files released regarding the Blue Book investigations, it becomes apparent that the Air Force's conclusions were not shared by everyone involved in the investigation, and that there were some truly fascinating cases that remain unsolved.
Often people say they will not believe in UFOs until they land on the White House lawn. Well, one of the most famous and mysterious Blue Book cases came close.
UFO sightings over Washington, DC in July 1952 made worldwide headlines and left the U.S. Air Force dazed and confused. The events spanned several days and included multiple radar identifications of unknown aircraft, some of which were correlated by witnesses on the ground. Many of the sightings caused the air force to scramble jet fighters, and in each of these cases, the UFOs outmaneuvered the jets. This all culminated into what may be the most important official U.S. Air Force UFO investigation of all time.
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Fast radio bursts – activity of galaxies or messages of extraterrestrial civilizations?
A large number of different types of signals comes from outer space – relic radiation, radiation of quasars, pulsars, neutron stars, etc. But there is a type of radio signals, the origin of which scientists can not explain until now.
“Fast radio bursts” – single bursts of high-frequency oscillations lasting several milliseconds. Such radio signals throw colossal energy into space. For comparison, the Sun needs more than ten thousand years to manifest such resultant activity!
The first rapid radio burst was found by Professor Duncan Lorimer in 2007. The signal came across accidentally – when analyzing the results of observations 6 years ago. The source of the radio burst is a point located three degrees from the Small Magellanic Cloud. What did the specialists come across? Nobody could explain.
A curious fact: during a detailed analysis of the data obtained by Professor Lorimer in 2007, it was found that the “rapid radio bursts” discovered by the scientist were nothing more than ordinary artifacts. Interference was caused by violation of the rules of operation of the microwave oven. The early opening of the microwave door and the specific position of the telescope are the causes of these artifacts.
However, it is still unknown what the nature of the other fast radio bursts is? The main assumptions supported by the scientific community are:
Interference of terrestrial instruments or the development of so-called peritones that distort the signal;
The fusion of two neutron stars, the evaporation of a black hole, as well as other exotic events of extragalactic sources;µ
In certain circles a version is expressed that the signal is a consequence of the activity of extraterrestrial civilizations.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Wetenschappers van de Cambridge University hebben zopas bekendgemaakt dat ze een aantal exoplaneten – planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel – hebben ontdekt waarop de omstandigheden zo gunstig zijn dat er aards leven kan ontstaan. Zo staat in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Science Advances te lezen. “Het brengt ons een beetje dichterbij het antwoord of we alleen in het universum zijn”, klinkt het.
UV-licht zou op de recent ontdekte exoplaneten eenzelfde chemische reactie kunnen veroorzaken als bij het ontstaan van onze planeet. De temperaturen zouden gunstig genoeg zijn, waardoor ook meteen de aanwezigheid van vloeibaar water op de exoplaneten tot de mogelijkheden behoort volgens de onderzoekers. “Deze studie stelt ons in staat om de beste plaatsen voor onze zoektocht naar leven te vinden,” zegt dr. Paul Rimmer, hoofd van het onderzoeksteam.
Hetzelfde onderzoeksteam voerde eerder al een reeks experimenten uit om te achterhalen wat er gebeurt als waterstofcyanide en waterstofsulfietionen worden blootgesteld aan UV-licht. Uit de resultaten bleek dat dit proces bouwstenen opleverde om leven te vormen. Zonder UV-licht was dit niet mogelijk.
“Ik onderzocht vervolgens welke lichtdeeltjes er in de lampen zaten”, vertelt dr. Rimmer. “In een volgende stap zal dat licht vergeleken worden met het licht van verschillende sterren. Op dit moment hebben we maar één voorbeeld - de Aarde - en dus is het logisch dat we eerst naar vergelijkbare plaatsen zoeken,” verklaart de wetenschapper.
“De frictie die ontstond en nog zou kunnen ontstaan, waardoor het begin van leven mogelijk is, fascineert ons eindeloos”, zegt Sutherland, een medewerker van het onderzoeksteam. “We weten nog steeds niet precies hoe het leven is ontstaan, hoewel we al veel weten over de gunstige omstandigheden.”
Zoektocht
Bovendien is er volgens de onderzoekers een belangrijk onderscheid tussen wat “noodzakelijk” en “voldoende” is. “Bouwstenen zijn noodzakelijk, maar misschien niet voldoende: het is best mogelijk dat je de bouwstenen mixt en dat er niets zal gebeuren. Maar hoe dan ook, moet je wel zoeken naar de plekken waar de noodzakelijke bouwstenen aanwezig zijn”, klinkt het.
Dat blijkt een aartsmoeilijke opdracht voor wetenschappers. Ons waarneembaar universum telt immers zo’n 700 miljoen triljoen planeten.
A mysterious large object is floating around outside our solar system and researchers aren’t sure exactly what it is – although it could be a rogue planet.
In the first radio-telescope detection of a planetary-mass object beyond our solar system, astronomers have found the strange celestial body has 12.7 times the mass of Jupiter. It doesn’t appear to orbit a parent star, however, and is only 20 light-years away from Earth.
“This object is right at the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf, or ‘failed star,’ and is giving us some surprises that can potentially help us understand magnetic processes on both stars and planets,” study lead astronomer Melodie Kao said.
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A brown dwarf is an object too large to be a planet, but isn’t big enough to sustain the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in its core that is vital to stars.
The object, which has been named SIMP J01365663+0933473, was first detected in 2016, but was thought to be a brown dwarf. The latest data reveals it’s younger than first thought at a relatively youthful 200 million years old, and its mass is smaller, so it could be classified as a planet. Its temperature is also far cooler than the sun, at 825 degrees Celsius. It also has a strong magnetic field, 200 times the strength of Jupiter.
The researchers were able to pick up on the object’s magnetic activity using a powerful radio astronomy observatory called the Very Large Array, a National Science Foundation facility in New Mexico.
The methods used suggest the researchers may have “a new way of detecting exoplanets, including the elusive rogue ones not orbiting a parent star,” researcher Gregg Hallinan said.
Mysterious gigantic rogue planet spotted lurking outside our solar system
A Gigantic Rogue Planet Wandering Our Galactic Neighbourhood JUST Discovered
Gigantisch mysterieus hemellichaam ontdekt buiten ons zonnestelsel. Onderzoekers weten niet precies wat dit is
Gigantisch mysterieus hemellichaam ontdekt buiten ons zonnestelsel. Onderzoekers weten niet precies wat dit is
Er vliegt een enorm mysterieus hemellichaam rond buiten ons zonnestelsel en wetenschappers weten niet precies wat het is. Mogelijk gaat het om een zware planeet.
Astronomen hebben met behulp van een radiotelescoop ontdekt dat het vreemde hemellichaam ruim 12 keer zoveel massa heeft als Jupiter en niet rond een ster lijkt te draaien.
Het object staat op pakweg 20 lichtjaar van de aarde.
Precies op de grens
“Dit object bevindt zich precies op de grens tussen een planeet en een bruine dwerg, of ‘mislukte ster’,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Melodie Kao.
Een bruine dwerg is een object dat te groot is om een planeet te zijn, maar niet groot genoeg om een ster te kunnen zijn.
Het object, SIMP J01365663+033473 gedoopt, werd in 2016 voor het eerst waargenomen. Toen dacht men dat het een bruine dwerg was.
Poollicht
Uit de nieuwste gegevens blijkt echter dat het hemellichaam jonger is dan gedacht, zo’n 200 miljoen jaar oud, en een kleinere massa heeft. Het zou dus een planeet kunnen zijn.
Het sterke magnetische veld van het hemellichaam produceert een soort poollicht dat radiostraling uitzendt.
De onderzoekers konden het object op deze manier op het spoor komen met behulp van de Very Large Array (VLA), een radiotelescoop in New Mexico.
Archeologen ontdekken ondergrondse stad en piramide in Bolivia. Wat ligt hier verborgen?
Archeologen ontdekken ondergrondse stad en piramide in Bolivia. Wat ligt hier verborgen?
Archeologen hebben in de Boliviaanse provincie Ingavi een ondergrondse stad gevonden die stamt uit de pre-Incatijd. Dat hebben de Boliviaanse autoriteiten bekendgemaakt.
Met behulp van speciale camera’s zijn luchtfoto’s en infraroodbeelden gemaakt. Aan de hand daarvan ontdekten wetenschappers een vesting net buiten de archeologische vindplaats Tiwanaku.
Er werden ook een ondergronds plein en twee platforms gevonden, die deel lijken uit te maken van een piramide.
50 jaar
De ontdekking is gedaan tijdens conserveringswerkzaamheden in het gebied door Japanse archeologen en UNESCO.
Volgens experts kan het tot wel 50 jaar duren voordat bekend is wat er onder het oppervlak verborgen ligt.
Er zullen opgravingen worden verricht in het zuidwesten en noorden om de vondst te bevestigen. Waarschijnlijk was Tiwanaku dus niet slechts een ceremonieel centrum, zoals lange tijd is gedacht.
Mysterie
Tiwanaku en de nabijgelegen piramide Puma Punku zijn met mysterie omgeven.
De gerespecteerde archeoloog Arthur Posnansky zei in 1945 dat Tiwanaku minstens 17.000 jaar oud moet zijn.
Het Tiwanaku-rijk telde waarschijnlijk zo’n miljoen onderdanen en de Inca’s beschouwden zich later als afstammelingen van deze beschaving.
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Arqueólogos descubren ciudadela subterránea junto a centro ceremonial de Tiahuanaco
Arqueólogos descubren ciudadela subterránea junto a centro ceremonial de Tiahuanaco
El Ministerio de Culturas de Bolivia presentó una investigación que permitió conocer la superficie total del área cívico-ceremonial. Así se detectó una plaza y dos plataformas de lo que se considera...
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