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...
19-08-2018
Odd Fireball '40 times as bright as full moon' lights up Alabama sky
Odd Fireball '40 times as bright as full moon' lights up Alabama sky
NASA has released video of "a very bright" fireball that lit up the sky over Alabama just after midnight Friday morning. The official time of sighting was 12:19 a.m. CDT.
The fireball, which is NASA's word for a very bright meteor, was described as "at least 40 times as bright as the Full Moon." It was first seen 58 miles above Turkeytown, Ala. northeast of Gadsden, according to NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center.
The fireball was moving northwest at 53,700 miles per hour and fragmented about 18 miles above the small town of Grove Oak, NASA said.
"Early results indicate the (meteor) was caused by a small asteroid 6 feet in diameter," NASA said. "We are still assessing the probability of the fireball producing meteorites on the ground."
"Whether it did or not," NASA said, "it was an extremely bright event seen through partly cloudy skies and triggering every camera and sensor operated by the Meteroid Environment Office in the region."
NASA talks about one object (meteor) but there are two bright objects which seem to come together and then explode, which you can see in the first video.
I confronted Good Year about their lies to get publicity, lets see how they or if they respond. Scott C. Waring. UFO Sighting News.
I confronted Good Year about their lies to get publicity, lets see how they or if they respond. Scott C. Waring. UFO Sighting News.
I tweeted to the Good Year company about their unethical and immoral actions to get free publicity. Lets see how they respond and how they will deny it, but the photos prove otherwise. Scott C. Waring
@GoodyearBlimp I know you lied to the public about a UFO sighting in order to get free publicity! What you did is discredited a real and important sighting to satisfy your greed! What you did is a crime against humanity! #NorthCarolina#Lake Scott C. Waring
Alien Orb Caught On Animal Forest Cam Observing Deer, Aug 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Orb Caught On Animal Forest Cam Observing Deer, Aug 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 17, 2018 Location of sighting: Bentonia, Mississippi, USA This report was just sent to me on Twitter messages by JB. This deer camera is an infrared cam. That means at night, infrared LEDs at the front of the cam light up the area in front of it for about 20-40 meters. The infrared LEDs light is invisible to the naked eye so humans and animals cannot see it. This technique of catching deer also happens to catch anything cloaked or not cloaked in the vicinity. Nothing can escape infrared. As you see from this alien orb that is spying on the feeding deer and their behavior. Orbs are used like humans use drones. Perhaps aliens may use them because our atmosphere is not safe for them to breath or our gravity, suns light or some other environmental phenomenon may harm them. So exploring with a drone seems much safer for a species that may live thousands or even millions of years in one lifetime. Scott C. Waring
The following story reports that some of the earliest galaxies ever formed are on our comics doorstep... I thought that relativity meant that looking at the oldest galaxies meant looking across the largest distances and vice versa due to expansion.. So can someone explain why 13 billion year old galaxies sit just out side the milky way when they should be 13 billion light years away.. I think?
The galaxies began to form when the universe was only about 100 million years old (Durham University/Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies/Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
they shut down big names on social media; especially ones that call out false flags. Aside from Alex Jones, they also nuked a bunch of libertarians and other accounts that you didn't notice because the mainstream media is focused on Jones.
they have a terror training camp teaching kids to do school shootings; all under FBI surveillance for a number of months. The sheriffs went into the camp against FBI orders, otherwise, we would have never heard of it.
they need a big false flag before midterms to distract from FBI/DOJ corruption, crashing currencies in emerging markets, and to take the guns.
I'm afraid they are going for their 'big move' soon. This may be the calm before the storm.
Hortend en stotend flappert ze met haar vleugels. Sierlijk is het allemaal niet, wat deze robotvleermuis laat zien. Maar wel nét echt. Via biomimetica of biomimicry imiteert de machine de bewegingen van een echte vleerhond. De robot kan zelfs ondersteboven vertrekken! De uitvinding van het Duitse Festo werd voorgesteld op de World Robot Conference in Peking.
ESADe Aeolus gaat de wind observeren vanuit de ruimte.
WETENSCHAPEen hypermoderne windhaan, dat is een Europese satelliet die komende dinsdag vertrekt naar de ruimte. De Aeolus moet, vanop 320 kilometer hoogte, de wind op aarde in kaart gaan brengen. Want hoe die precies werkt, is nu nog een groot mysterie.
Om de wind te meten, stuurt de Aeolus laserbundels richting de aarde. De dampkring kaatst de stralen terug, maar onderweg verandert het signaal door wat de straal tegenkomt. Een speciaal computersysteem, dat door het Nederlandse meteorologisch instituut KNMI is ontworpen, kan aan de hand daarvan uitrekenen welke winden de straal onderweg is tegengekomen. Een ‘windprofiel’, noemt de ESA dat.
De satelliet gaat in anderhalf uur rond de aarde draaien, van de noordpool naar de zuidpool en weer terug. De aarde trekt langzaam onder hem langs, waardoor bij elke baan een ander stuk van de planeet in beeld komt. In een week tijd is de hele planeet in kaart gebracht. De missie van de Aeolus duurt op zijn minst drie jaar, maar er is genoeg brandstof aan boord voor nog twee jaar.
ESAEen beter beeld van de wind moet betere weerberichten opleveren
Het meten van de wind gebeurt nu nog door weerstations op de grond, zoals bij het KMI in Ukkel. Af en toe gaan weerballonnen de lucht in, en vliegtuigen geven na de landing door welke winden ze onderweg zijn tegengekomen. Het probleem is dat het allemaal momentopnamen zijn. We weten alleen hoe de wind op een bepaald moment op een bepaalde plek waait, zonder totaalbeeld. Hoe de wind waait boven ontwikkelde en dichtbevolkte gebieden als Europa en Noord-Amerika, is nog redelijk goed bekend, legt Martin Kaspers uit. De Nederlander is binnen de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA verantwoordelijk voor het goed functioneren van de Aeolus.
Gaten in gegevens
“Maar we hebben geen idee van de winden boven Afrika, Zuid-Amerika, de Noordpool en de Zuidpool. We weten niet hoe hoog de wind waait, hoe hard en in welke richting. Er zitten gaten in de gegevens”, aldus Kaspers. En dat terwijl ons weer daar deels ontstaat. Een beter beeld van de wind moet betere weerberichten opleveren. “Op den duur kan dat veel uitmaken”, stelt Kaspers. “Toen het weer na de recente hittegolf omsloeg, kwam er slecht weer aan. We kregen code oranje. Maar pas op het laatste moment wisten we of het slechte weer over het westen of het oosten van het land zou trekken.” Uiteindelijk bleek de overlast mee te vallen.
ESAAeolus gaat in anderhalf uur rond de aarde draaien
Onnodig alarm voorkomen
“Met betere gegevens kan je voorkomen dat je een alarm onnodig inzet. Stel dat het KNMI code geel uitgeeft en er gebeurt niets, zeggen mensen dat het flauwekul was. De volgende keer doe je het niet en blijkt het rampzalig. Met betere gegevens kan je beter anticiperen.” De metingen kunnen ook helpen bij orkanen als Irma en José, die vorig jaar over Sint-Maarten trokken. Kaspers: “Je kunt beter voorspellen welke gebieden je moet evacueren. En je voorkomt dat je hulpmiddelen inzet waar dat niet nodig is.”
NASAEen illustratie van exoplaneten die gelijkaardig kunnen zijn aan de aarde.
WETENSCHAPIn het heelal bevinden zich talloze “waterwerelden” die volledig bedekt zijn met gigantische oceanen en mogelijk ook buitenaards leven herbergen, zo beweren astronomen. Uit nieuw onderzoek blijkt immers dat honderden planeten mogelijk bestaan uit de basisstoffen die essentieel zijn voor het ontstaan van leven.
Water is vermoedelijk een hoofdbestanddeel van exoplaneten – planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel – die twee tot vier keer groter zijn dan de aarde, zegt een groep van internationale wetenschappers. Hun bevindingen werden deze week voorgesteld tijdens de Goldschmidt Conference, een chemieconferentie in Boston.
Tot nu toe hebben wetenschappers ongeveer 4000 exoplaneten ontdekt. Volgens wetenschappers van Harvard zijn 35 procent van hen, in totaal zo’n 1400 planeten, mogelijk waterwerelden. Uit een nieuwe evaluatie van data van de Keplertelescoop, die het heelal afspeurt naar exoplaneten, en de ESA-ruimtelescoop Gaia, blijkt immers dat veel planeten tot 50 procent water kunnen bevatten. Dat is veel meer dan de aarde, waarvan water slechts 0,02 procent van het totale gewicht bedraagt.
Water is in feite een van de meest voorkomende stoffen in ons heelal.
Dr. Li Zeng, universiteit van Harvard
Verrassing
“Het was een enorme verrassing om te beseffen dat er zoveel waterwerelden zijn”, zegt hoofdonderzoeker dr. Li Zeng van de universiteit van Harvard. “Het is water, maar niet zoals we het hier gewoonlijk aantreffen op aarde. Hun oppervlaktetemperatuur bedraagt naar schatting 200 tot 500 graden Celsius”, zegt hij over de exoplaneten in kwestie. “Hun oppervlak is mogelijk gehuld in een atmosfeer die voornamelijk uit waterdamp bestaat, met een vloeibare waterlaag eronder. Dieper zal men dan naar verwachting ontdekken dat water is getransformeerd tot erg compact ijs vooraleer men de harde rotskern bereikt.”
Waar en wanneer de omstandigheden juist zijn, zal leven ontstaan en zich ontwikkelen.
Dr. Li Zeng, universiteit van Harvard
(Intelligent) leven?
“Men moet beseffen dat, hoewel water hier op aarde en andere planeten in ons zonnestelsel kostbaar en zeldzamer lijkt, het in feite een van de meest voorkomende stoffen in ons heelal is”, stelt Li Zeng.
“Leven kan een universeel fenomeen zijn”, beweert de wetenschapper. “Waar en wanneer de omstandigheden juist zijn, zal leven ontstaan en zich ontwikkelen. Het is een natuurlijk gevolg van energie en de informatiestroom in ons universum. Het leven kan zich ontwikkelen in bepaalde lagen nabij de oppervlakte van deze waterwereld, wanneer de druk, de temperatuur en de chemische omstandigheden juist zijn.”
De mogelijkheid bestaat dat ook intelligent leven zich zal ontwikkelen in een waterwereld. “De details kunnen verschillen van de ene planeet tot de andere, net zoals het leven op verschillende continenten op aarde wat van elkaar verschilt”, aldus Li Zeng.
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18-08-2018
Zijn vreemde cirkels in de lucht bewijs van eerdere universa die voor het onze bestonden? Deze wetenschappers denken van wel
Zijn vreemde cirkels in de lucht bewijs van eerdere universa die voor het onze bestonden? Deze wetenschappers denken van wel
Wetenschappers denken bewijs te hebben gevonden van eerdere universa, in de vorm van resten van zwarte gaten die uit een ander heelal zouden komen. Die zijn zichtbaar als vreemde cirkels aan de hemel.
Volgens een theorie doorloopt ons heelal verschillende stadia: het wordt geboren en uiteindelijk ook weer vernietigd. Deze theorie wordt ook wel ‘conformal cyclic cosmology’ (CCC) genoemd.
Tijdens dit proces wordt het grootste gedeelte van een universum vernietigd, maar wetenschappers claimen dat een deel van de elektromagnetische straling het recyclingproces overleeft.
Vorig universum
“Wat wij beweren is dat we resten zien van een zwart gat dat in een vorig universum is verwoest,” zei natuurkundige Roger Penrose van de Oxford-universiteit tegen New Scientist.
Het bewijs bestaat uit zogeheten ‘Hawking-punten’, vernoemd naar wijlen Stephen Hawking. Hij theoretiseerde dat zwarte gaten toch nog een beetje straling uitzenden, ook wel Hawkingstraling genoemd.
Penrose en zijn collega’s denken dat deze straling van het ene universum naar het andere wordt overgedragen.
Kleine cirkels
Op de kaart van de kosmische achtergrondstraling zien deze Hawking-punten eruit als kleine cirkels. Eerder werd gedacht dat ze werden veroorzaakt door zwaartekrachtgolven of interstellair stof.
De theorie van een universum dat steeds wordt gerecyclet is niet zonder controverse, aangezien er nog geen hard bewijs is gevonden voor Hawkingstraling of -punten.
Twee Amerikaanse piloten zagen een sigaarvormige UFO. Waarom vernietigde de luchtmacht het rapport?
Twee Amerikaanse piloten zagen een sigaarvormige UFO. Waarom vernietigde de luchtmacht het rapport?
Op 24 juli 1948 gebeurde er iets vreemds in de lucht boven de Amerikaanse staat Alabama. De overheid lanceerde in het diepste geheim een onderzoek, waarvan de resultaten uiteindelijk werden vernietigd.
Piloten Clarence S. Chiles en John B. Whitted waren op weg van Houston naar Atlanta toen ze boven Alabama een onbekend object zagen vliegen.
Hun waarneming leidde tot een topgeheim document van de luchtmacht waarin werd gesuggereerd dat sommige UFO’s ruimteschepen van andere werelden waren.
In het niets
Chiles zei in een officiële verklaring: “Er waren duidelijk geen vleugels te zien […] en er waren twee rijen met ramen, wat erop wees dat het twee verdiepingen had.”
“Je kon door de ramen heen een heel fel licht zien en onder het schip zat nog een blauw licht,” vervolgde hij.
Ze keken ongeveer 10 seconden naar het schip, voordat het recht voor hun ogen in het niets verdween.
Veel vaker
Whitted schreef in zijn officiële verklaring: “Het object was sigaarvormig en ongeveer 30 meter lang. Er waren twee rijen met ramen, twee verdiepingen. De ramen waren erg groot en vierkant.”
De piloten maakten tekeningen van het vaartuig en werden geïnterviewd door kranten en radiozenders.
Het bleek dat in de jaren ervoor veel vaker soortgelijke objecten waren waargenomen in de lucht.
Interplanetair
Onderzoekers van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht namen deze waarneming serieus omdat er twee gerespecteerde piloten bij betrokken waren die in de oorlog hadden gediend als officier.
Daarnaast waren ze zeer dicht in de buurt van het vreemde object gekomen.
Volgens Edward J. Ruppelt, een luchtmachtofficier, dachten de onderzoekers dat de UFO’s interplanetair waren.
Verbrand
Het rapport bereikte uiteindelijk stafchef Hoyt S. Vandenberg, maar die geloofde niet dat ze van andere planeten kwamen.
“Een groep mensen van het Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) probeerde de stafchef tevergeefs te overtuigen,” zei Ruppelt.
“Enkele maanden later werd het rapport verbrand,” vervolgde hij.
Meest controversiële
Vandenberg was er persoonlijk van overtuigd dat UFO’s werden gemaakt door de Sovjet-Unie.
Vanwege het gebrek aan transparantie is dit incident één van de meest controversiële UFO-waarnemingen in de geschiedenis.
TURKSE LUCHTMACHT SCHIET UFO UIT DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )
TURKSE LUCHTMACHT SCHIET UFO UIT DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )
Er is weer de nodige commotie binnen de UFO gemeenschap omdat er beelden zijn opgedoken van een UFO die uit de lucht wordt geschoten.
Het gebeurde in Turkije en de beelden lijken behoorlijk overtuigend, hoewel dat tegenwoordig ook weer niet alles zegt.
Via een aantal grote UFO kanalen zijn beelden te zien die toch wel heel spectaculair zijn.
Het is een korte video die klaarblijkelijk is opgenomen boven Turkije en het beeld is zo te zien van een druk bezochte plek in een stad op een zomeravond.
Opeens verschijnt er een snel vliegend rond object in beeld en hoor je ook het gebrul van staalmotoren van één of meerdere militaire jets.
Vervolgens explodeert de UFO, komt er ook een deel op de grond terecht, zie je een zwarte wolk en mensen die krijsend alle kanten op vluchten.
Wanneer de explosie plaatsvindt, wordt ook de filmer bijna ondersteboven geblazen en wat het ook is wat daar gebeurt, de beelden en de opname lijken echt.
Ook het kanaal waar deze video op is gepubliceerd is er niet één waar normaal gesproken zaken over UFO’s verschijnen, maar gewone alledaagse huis tuin en keuken dingen.
Volgens ufoloog Scott Waring is hier absoluut sprake van een UFO en niet van een raket of iets dergelijks omdat er anders een spoor van rook te zien zou zijn. Ook wijst hij op het feit dat het type UFO dat we hier zien er één is die veel wordt gesignaleerd op diverse plekken.
En als laatste geeft hij een waarschuwing dat als de Turken hier inderdaad een UFO uit de lucht hebben geknald ze heel gevaarlijk bezig zijn, omdat je op deze manier heel gemakkelijk een oorlog met buitenaardsen kunt uitlokken.
Is hier inderdaad sprake van een UFO die uit de lucht wordt geknald of toch iets anders?
George HW Bush Doctor Killed To Prevent Him From Revealing Truth About Aliens, UFO Sighting News
George HW Bush Doctor Killed To Prevent Him From Revealing Truth About Aliens, UFO Sighting News.
Evidence that confirms the CIA killed the doctor to prevent him from publishing a book about being the US presidents physician and the classified talks they had about him piloting a 300 meter long UFO. His death was made to send a message to the publisher who probably was waiting for the book transcript or was already reviewing it. Can the doctor of the US president write a book? Of course and some have, such as White House doctor Connie Mariano who worked for President Clinton. Why would the former US president reveal secrets to the doctor? Easy, Because George HW Bush was elderly (age 94 now) and super proud of his son about one single act of father and son love and their passion to fly. The son wanted to be just like his dad in all ways from piloting to being US president. Why was the doctor killed? Because on January 8, 2008, US President George W Bush, a military jet pilot made the bullheaded decision to fly an ultra top secret USAF 300 meter long spacecraft made with alien technology. Why? To impress his father (former US President George HW Bush, former military pilot who was living in the famous Bush Ranch at the time.
You see, President Bush was near the top secret US military base in the Black Sea off of Turkey that week. All Evidence points to Bush being in the Middle East during this time. Bush Timeline Here. January 8, 2008: President Bush releases a statement noting that the following day will be the third anniversary of the signing of the comprehensive peace agreement in Sudan and states the commitment on the part of the US to continuing to adhere to the agreement. January 9, 2008: President Bush attends the welcoming ceremony at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel during the afternoon. January 10, 2008: President Bush delivers an address at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem on the peace process in the Middle East during the afternoon. You see, 200-300 meter UFOs have been seen at an island in the Sea of Marmara off of Turkey. Just 700 miles from the King Davide Hotel. Dozens of hours of night footage recorded by a security guard don't lie. (video below).
I don't believe that the suspected killer Joseph James Pappas (age 65) did it by himself, but was programmed by CIA phychologists to do the assassination. The CIA created a program called MKUltra which was a secret project to gain mind control of anyone. As proof, I am include a page from the declassified MLUltra report below. Which is 100% proof the organisation existed from 1953 to 1977, but changes its name and went on to become an assassination programming unit afterwords. They are responsible for JFKs assassination. Click here to learn about MKUltra project. Also Project Artichoke, Project Operation Midnight Climax, Project MKNAOMI,Operation Pandora, BLUEBIRD, MKOFTEN, was also a CIA mind control project. The CIA picked Joseph James Pappas because his mother died in the doctors care 20 years earlier, he had a motive...the CIA programming unit needed a suspect like this. This and his police and weapons experience made him perfect for the program. The CIA took him and mentally programmed him to do, think and act a certain way...and at the end to kill himself. So all evidence is gone. The CIA did their job well. The CIA had to kill off President Bushes doctor, because Bush leaked many details about the alien tech USAF 300 meter ship he flew to the doctor. And there is numerous doctors of presidents who wrote books about it...the CIA knew that the doctor was going to write such a book or had already submitted a book for publication, and wanted to send a message to the family and to the publisher to be quiet. This is why doctor Mark Hassknecht was assassinated by a CIA mind controlled Joseph James Pappas. Joseph didn't want to do it, but the CIA programmed him to be a puppet to kill for them and then to kill himself to destroy the evidence. This is the truth, nothing but the truth, so help me god. Scott C. Waring
Astronaut Snaps 'Mind-Blowing' Aurora Picture from Space
Astronaut Snaps 'Mind-Blowing' Aurora Picture from Space
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
The aurora as seen from the International Space Station by astronaut Alexander Gerst.
Credit: ESA/NASA-A. Gerst
Most of us are lucky to catch a glimpse of a stunning aurora painting the skies once or twice in our lives.
But living on the International Space Station has a curious side effect, giving astronauts incredible odds of spotting the beautiful phenomenon. European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst has been aboard the space station since June as part of his second trip to space, and on Aug. 10, he shared incredible photos of the bright green waves as seen from above. "Mind-blowing, every single time," he wrote in a tweet accompanying the photo.
Alexander Gerst✔@Astro_Alex
Mind-blowing, every single time. I wonder what early explorers thought when they first saw an aurora without ever having heard about it... #ExploreFarther#Horizons
Auroras, also known as the northern and southern lights, are caused by charged particles streaming out of the sun that eventually hit Earth's atmosphere, according to NASA. There, the particles interact with oxygen and nitrogen molecules to produce light. The result is a ghostly green wave dancing across the sky near the poles.
But while auroras are beautiful, particles streaming off the sun can have plenty of less aesthetic consequences. They can put astronaut health at risk, damage satellites in orbit around the Earth and, in the most severe cases, cause blackouts in terrestrial power grids.
That's part of why NASA is so excited about its newest mission, the Parker Solar Probe, which launched toward the sun on Sunday (Aug. 12). Once the spacecraft arrives at our star later this year, it will study the highly charged particles that leave the sun and end up in our neighborhood.
Parker can't give us more auroras, but if it can help scientists better understand and predict the sun's activities, it might help people be in the right place at the right time to see the stunning view.
Yleem Poblete, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, raised the concerns about the Russian “space apparatus inspector” at a meeting of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland on Aug. 14, 2018. Russia publicly announced the launch of this satellite in June 2017, but insists that its only function is to inspect the country’s own space-based systems for damage or other possible issues and potentially service and repair them.
The Russian satellite’s “behavior on-orbit was inconsistent with anything seen before from on-orbit inspection or space situational awareness capabilities, including other Russian inspection satellite activities,” Poblete said at the gathering. “We are concerned with what appears to be very abnormal behavior by a declared ‘space apparatus inspector.’ We don’t know for certain what it is and there is no way to verify it.”
When Poblete mentioned “other” activities, she was likely referring to three additional inspector satellites that the Russians launched between 2013 and 2015. These space-based systems, also known as Kosmos-2491, Kosmos-2499, and Kosmos-2504, conducted a number of apparent tests, getting relatively close to various pieces of space debris, before going dormant in 2016. The next year, Russia turned one of them back on and sent it near to a portion of a Chinese weather satellite, which that country had destroyed in a ground-based anti-satellite test in 2007.
The video below, from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, shows one concept for using a small repair satellite to service other space-based systems.
Now it’s important to note that the concept of a small inspector satellite isn’t new and makes good sense. Sending manned missions to examine satellites and other space objects and potentially make repairs or modifications has historically been costly and complicated.
At the same time, fixing or making modifications to a satellite in space saves the trouble of building a replacement and paying to launch it into orbit. Famously, the United States sent astronauts to fix the Hubble Space Telescopein 1993 after NASA discovered a fault in the system’s main mirror.
Having a semi-autonomous, space-based repair crew of sorts on call could simplify the arrangement significantly. If nothing else, these robotic inspectors could assess the issue quickly so personnel on the ground could make an informed decision about how to proceed.
The problem is that any satellite that can maneuver itself very close to another one, and may have small arms or probes to physically interact with its target, is inherently capable of being a weapon. Any such repair system could easily smash sensitive optics and other components, or simply slam into the target, acting as a kinetic weapon. Their small size means that their terrestrial operators might be able to instruct them to try to hide near other objects, especially among the ever-expanding field of "space junk" floating around the earth, as well.
A notional Robotic Servicing Vehicle that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been working on. This kind of space-based system could also function as a weapon.
They might also be able to carry electronic warfare jammers or directed energy weapons that could blind optics or prevent a satellite from communicating information, including warnings about incoming missiles or vital intelligence data, to facilities down below. The “inspectors” could act as small intelligence agents, intercepting transmissions aimed at space-based communications systems. In that case, they might potentially send out spoofed signals with confusing messages or false navigational coordinates, as well.
Russia has since denounced Assistant Secretary of State Poblete’s comments as “unfounded, slanderous accusations based on suspicions.” However, statements from the country’s own Ministry of Defense regarding their newest inspector’s rendezvous with Kosmos-2519, another military satellite that itself has an unknown mission, strongly indicate that this satellite has a robust set of capabilities that could have a secondary military application.
“In trials involving controlling the maneuvering defense satellite, ground, and orbital communication systems were tested, and methods involving ballistic estimates and new software were employed,” Russia’s Izvestia newspaper reported based on information from the Ministry of Defense. “The space forces proved their ability to ensure the satellite's automatic undocking from the platform, the remote control of its flight, and the activation of the satellite payload, including surveillance hardware, data transfer to Earth, and data processing.”
For years, experts and others, including us at The War Zone, have pointed out the clear threat that these dual-use satellites might pose. The United States and China have and still are both actively exploring advanced space-based inspector-type systems, as well, which might set the stage for an even more complex situation that could involve groups of small satellites attacking and defending against each other. The U.S. military is also working on cost-effective, reusable hypersonic space planes, including the U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B, that could rapidly deploy small satellites for various functions or otherwise perform their own offensive missions in space.
The US Air Force's X-37B space plane.
“The potential for a serious incident in outer space is being driven by advances in technology that challenge the existing rules and norms governing space activity,” Jeffery Lewis, now in charge of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, wrote all the way back in 2004. “Micro-satellite proximity operations would be best regulated with confidence-building measures in outer space.”
More than a decade on, international rules and regulations have yet to catch up with these continued developments. Assistant Secretary of State Poblete made her comments earlier in August 2014 specifically to underscore the U.S. government’s continued opposition to a Russian-Chinese proposal for a Treaty on Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and of the Threat or Use of Force Against Outer Space Objects, conveniently abbreviated PWTT.
“How do we verify what countries say their spacecraft are doing?” she asked rhetorically. “What would be enough information to prove what the purpose of an object is?”
US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance Yleem Poblete.
The U.S. government’s position is that the PWTT is not sufficient because it does not explicitly prohibit the development or test of space-based systems, such as the inspectors, with a potential anti-satellite role. This could let countries stockpile a “breakout capability” if they ever decided to abandon the agreement.
The proposed agreement also does not ban ground-based or air-launched anti-satellite systems, which Russia and China have been developing, as well. In February 2018, the Chinese military tested what they described as an anti-ballistic missile defense interceptor, but which might be a cover for an anti-satellite weapon. Russia has publicly said that it is working on anti-satellite interceptors and directed energy weapons.
Russia and China, as well as other critics of the American position, counter by noting that the U.S. government is actively looking to militarize space and put actual weapons into orbit, ostensibly for anti-ballistic missile defense. The two countries have already responded negatively to the U.S. military’s plans for a possible space-focused military branch.
A Russian Beriev A-60 aircraft, which carries a laser weapon in its nose and that Russia has said may be able to blind or otherwise disable enemy satellites.
Without any such agreement, what constitutes an attack on a nation’s interest in space has remained up for debate. It’s a gray area made more complicated by the likelihood that the United States and its potential opponents have satellites in orbit that they don’t acknowledge are vital to national security or are up there at all.
“Is jamming an attack? Is a laser an attack? Does it have to be a kinetic hit on a satellite to be an attack?” Douglas Loverro, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, asked during a talk in 2016. “It’s really difficult to go ahead and justify how you might attack somebody’s homeland if they’ve taken out a satellite that you don’t even admit exists.”
Unfortunately, it is clear that basic definitions of what constitutes conflict in space, if nothing else, are necessary now, more than ever. Without them, there is only an increasing possibility for dangerous miscalculations.
The activities of Russia’s latest inspector satellite, China’s own anti-satellite developments, and the United States’ plans for space-based ballistic missile defense weapons all show that these issues will only continue to become more pronounced in the future, whether there is any sort of international treaty that seeks to govern military activity in space or not.
The Black Knight is allegedly an extraterrestrial satellite that has traveled in a polar orbit around the Earth for an estimated 13,000 years.
In 1899, Nikola Tesla is said to be one of the first to pick up the signal of the satellite during his radio experiments. However, some experts have suggested that Tesla actually received signals from pulsars (neutron stars) and misinterpreted his findings.
Since then, there have been many stories attributed to the Black Knight but they seem to be a hodge-podge of singular instances and events that don’t correlate with one another. Even the name “black knight” has no traceable origin story.
The picture above was taken by NASA in 1998 and is considered irrefutable evidence that the Black Knight satellite exists. Though, the official story from NASA reveals that the dark object is mere space debris. It’s said to be a piece of a thermal blanket that escaped during an EVA mission.
When I first heard of the Black Knight satellite I really wanted to believe that it existed. I’ve done a ton of research hoping that I would find some kind of evidence that the extraterrestrial satellite does, in fact, exist. To my disappointment, nothing really stood out for me. The stories and events around the satellite have no cohesive thread. (If you want to read a super comprehensive article about the history of the Black Knight and how it relates to other UFO sightings read this article: The Black Knight Sattelite: Sentinel from Space.)
The instances described to be Black Knight related could be attributed to other anomalies or paranormal events. Much of the picture “evidence” looks obviously doctored. The picture below is supposed to be a screenshot from an alleged short video of the Columbia space shuttle in the same orbit as the Black Knight satellite. You can check out one of the incarnations of the video here.
Unfortunately, the video and this picture look like a copy-and-paste job. The satellite does not move and it looks suspiciously like the object in the NASA picture turned slightly so that it’s at a different angle.
Nowhere, in any of the video descriptions did I find any kind of source cited for where this video came from or if NASA had officially released it. That, in itself, is highly suspect. NASA has a history of releasing statements for any footage or pictures that even tiptoes into the fringe arena. They like to prove people wrong.
If you want to know more about the NASA photo then check out the video below. There’s footage of the thermal blanket (that’s supposedly in the NASA picture above) escaping into space. So, you can make your own judgment about whether the NASA picture and the thermal blanket are the same thing.
I’m always skeptical of NASA’s “explanations” so I’m not entirely sure if I believe that the 1998 photo is the thermal blanket they claim. However, in my mind, there definitely was a resemblance and I could see how that official story got attached to the picture.
I can’t say for certain I believe in the Black Knight. I’m more inclined to think that it’s a cool mythology strung together through the retelling of random paranormal accounts and some really cool NASA pictures of space debris. Decide for yourself.
Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane Nears 1 Year in Orbit
Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane Nears 1 Year in Orbit
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Artist's illustration of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane orbiting Earth.
Credit: Boeing
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B miniature space plane has winged past 340 days in orbit performing secretive duties during the program's fifth flight.
The robotic craft's latest mission, known as Orbital Test Vehicle-5 (OTV-5), kicked off on Sept. 7, 2017, with a launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
As usual, Air Force officials have revealed few details about OTV-5. But we do know that one payload flying aboard the X-37B this time around is the Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader, or ASETS-11. Developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, this cargo is testing experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipes for long durations in the space environment. [The X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts]
Record-setting history
The classified X-37B program "fleet" consists of two known reusable vehicles, both of which were built by Boeing. Looking like a miniature version of NASA's now-retired space shuttle orbiter, the military space plane is 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 9.6 feet (2.9 m) tall, with a wingspan of nearly 15 feet (4.6 m).
The X-37B has a payload bay about the size of a pickup-truck bed, which can be outfitted with a robotic arm. The space plane has a launch weight of 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kilograms) and is powered on orbit by gallium-arsenide solar cells with lithium-ion batteries.
Each X-37B mission has set a new flight-duration record for the program:
OTV-1 began April 22, 2010, and concluded on Dec. 3, 2010, after 224 days in orbit.
OTV-2 began March 5, 2011, and concluded on June 16, 2012, after 468 days on orbit.
OTV-3 chalked up nearly 675 days in orbit before finally coming down on Oct. 17, 2014.
OTV-4 conducted on-orbit experiments for 718 days during its mission, extending the total number of days spent in space for the OTV program to 2,085 days.
How long OTV-5 will stay aloft is unknown. Whenever it comes down, the robotic vehicle is likely to land at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility, as the OTV-4 mission did back on May 7, 2017. That was a first for the program. All prior missions had ended with a tarmac touchdown at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Ground tracks
Ted Molczan, a Toronto-based satellite analyst, told Inside Outer Space that OTV-5's initial orbit was about 220 miles (355 kilometers) high, inclined 54.5 degrees to the equator. "Its ground track nearly repeated every two days, after 31 revolutions," he said.
On April 19, the space drone lowered its orbit by 24 miles (39 km), which caused its ground track to exactly repeat every five days, after 78 revolutions, Molczan said — a first for an OTV mission.
"Repeating ground tracks are very common," Molczan added, "especially for spacecraft that observe the Earth. That said, I do not know why OTV has repeating ground tracks."
"Ironically, the X-37B is exactly the type of program — toward giving the U.S. flexibility of operations in space — that seems to be prompting the current push for a Space Force, yet are already underway," said Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades.
Aliens are among us. The authorities remain silent
Aliens are among us. The authorities remain silent
The question whether aliens are already among us is increasingly often asked. The scientific world consider this option increasingly serious. Frank Drake is an astronomer than in the early 60 developed a famous formula, which can estimate the potential number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy.
Drake is considered the first radio – astronomer who tried to listen to the signals coming from space. He was a pioneer in the ufologist. He wasn’t supported in his approach, moreover, his studies were not considered by the scientific world.
The research for extraterrestrial phenomena began in 1947, when in the US and Australia were many appearances of UFOs. Experts claim that UFOs appear particularly close to the intersection lines of earthly force. Another area in which appearences were common is that of some sites considered sacred.
Is not known if it’s coincidence or not. Authorities and institutions responsible in this regard, continues to lead policy of not explaining what is happening. Much of the personalities who have dealt with extraterrestrial phenomena had a mysterious deaths, in some cases even talking about murder.
In march 2014, a former government adviser named Hood, made a statement that makes us ponder. He has provided a list of big ufologists who died in, at least strange, circumstances . Many have been found hanged, others shot, others had a heart attack at the age of 30. All investigations into these deaths were made in haste, cases being closed.
We present a case that occurred in 1959 in the Ural Mountains of Russia, which has remained a mystery, although many years have passed and teams of specialists were involved to determine the cause of this tragic event. Ten students from the Polytechnic University along with a guide started a hike in the Urals. For health reasons, one of the students could not cope with the walk and went back to town. The tudents were athletes, climbers and very good skiers.
Because the students have not returned to the city, as it was established, another group goes in search of them. Were all found dead.
The bodies had orange colour, the hair was white, although they were under 25 years, and two of the bodies had the tongue cut off. The bodies were found at a distance of one kilometer from where they had set up the camp. What cause these young people to leave the camp in a hurry? There has been many speculations. Maybe they were attacked by an animal, military experience or aliens?
At the site of the tragedy were no traces of a fight. One clue was clear. The camp was abandoned in a hurry, all personal belongings and also food, had been abandoned in the tents. The orange color of the bodies skin is due to a strong radiation to which they were subjected, say some experts. One of the bodies presented a hit in the chest.
Doctors claim that such a hit could not be made by a human. The impact and shot were so high that doctors have concluded that only a superhuman force could do this.
After two months, the case is closed and classified confidential because weren’t discovered evidence to clarify the investigation. For three years, the military has banned the tourists and skiers to get in that area.
The thesis of a military accident did not lead to a result. First, the nearest military base was located at a distance of 600 km, and at the place were not found traces that would’ve been an explosion or another type of chemical accident. The fact that the authorities cover up such cases, see Roswell case, USA, makes us to ask whether aliens are among us.
What in the world is going on at the New York Times? Did you happen to catch its latest pass at UFOs? They’ve shrunk from breaking the biggest related story in memory back in December to dribbling out the sort of featherweight beginners blog fare that appeared on Aug. 3. How does this happen? Who’s running the show?
All appearances aside, De Void really doesn’t like to rant. It’s usually juvenile and rarely cathartic. Plus it never changes anything. But this, this, this thing that ran in the Times two weeks ago belongs in a truly special category of regression, like four-legged tadpoles deciding they’d rather revert to gills than take their chances on lungs and land. Normally you see formula writing of this caliber farmed out to Newsweek interns, or maybe to poor overworked Wiki-trolling legacy-media newbies pressured to generate quick traffic in off-peak hours.
Questionable judgment can sometimes be amusing — but not always/
CREDIT: blog.amirkhella.com
Eight months ago, the Times startled the world by exposing the Pentagon’s $22M UFO research initiative, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. But despite intense reader interest in the 2004 Nimitz incident, in which at least one UFO was videotaped by a Top Gun F-18 pilot who was thoroughly outmaneuvered, the Times hasn’t done a lick of followup.
But suddenly, on Aug. 3, from out of nowhere, without any news peg whatsoever, with no anniversary date that ends in a 0 or a 5, or any additional eyewitnesses or supporting documentation, the Times decided to dust off a moldy oldie from 1952. It’s one of the most famous cases, involving UFOs that buzzed the nation’s capital on consecutive weekends in July that year. Perhaps feeling the need to justify recapping this old story, reporter Laura M. Holson tossed in a few quasi-newsy cultural references in the third graph, e.g., Gillian “X-Files” Anderson’s upcoming role in a UFO movie next month, and a planned reboot of the “Men In Black” franchise.
The only new voice Holson brings to light is the 68-year-old daughter of a commercial pilot who saw UFOs during one of those summer night incursions in ‘52. Too young to remember the event, Faith McClory tells the Times “My sister has memories of men (reporters) coming to our home. People were enthralled with the flying saucers.”
Her sister. Fascinating. Do go on.
“It should be noted,” the Times tells readers, “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.” Whoa, wait, what? It doesn’t mean Martians? Since, like, when? “When asked recently about the 1952 Washington sightings, Ann Stefanek, chief of media operations for the Air Force, wrote in an email that” – now this should be interesting, a PIO who probably wasn’t even born in 1952, I wonder what she’ll say – “the objects had posed no threat to national security.
OK, yo, hold up. What’s with the periods between U.F.O.? Is this another formalistic brand quirk like using a proper salutation before each and every surname reference, no matter how undeserving or grotesque? Before boiling Mr. Doe’s flayed skull in acid, Mr. Dahmer cued up Air Supply’s “All Out of Love” and contemplated refreshing his spice rack. Does anyone else but the Times put periods between UFO? It’s distracting. It’s so distracting I haven’t finished my rant yet. Back to it:
“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.’” Wow! Interesting! I wonder if anybody claimed to have picked up any of that Roswell stuff. Hm. “By 1952, though, a number of sightings of U.F.O.s were being reported across the country and the nation was on edge.”
OK, look, I can’t hang with this anymore. The thing ends with how the USAF’s official explanation of the July ’52 phenomena was temperature inversions, a hand-rinse that’s only been out there for 66 years. And this article – “A Radar Blip, a Flash of Light: How U.F.O.s ‘Exploded’ Into Public View” – ran under the Times’ heading “Science.” Even as the Times continues to ignore the continuing expansion of the story it set into motion.
The Times’ reluctance to revisit its game-changing coup got even weirder yesterday with its publication of yet another “U.F.O.” story, dateline Los Angeles, titled “They’ve ‘Seen Things.’” It’s about a guy named Robert Bingham who has attracted a considerable following for his alleged ability to “summon” UFOs into view. Not insignificantly, this piece actually references its own reporting into the Nimitz incident, but steers well clear of updating that story. Otherwise, this is just another garden-variety piece on “believers.”
So to reiterate: Who’s calling the shots on UFO coverage back in New York? Was the inclusion of the Times’ scoop on the Nimitz incident in Tuesday’s profile of Bingham a reporter’s dog whistle for management to get its s*%# together? If the Times has had a change of heart on going deep with UFOs, why bother with the sort of innocuous filler it ran on Aug. 3, or a personality piece that won’t move anybody’s bar on standards of evidence? When it comes to shepherding material with this amount of public interest from the fringe to the mainstream, the Times’ news judgement is looking more incoherent by the month.
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