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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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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...
20-08-2018
Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact - PART II
Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact - PART II
Equally advanced and more advanced civilizations
It is suggested that technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilization would probably be ethically advanced as well and would not attempt projects with severe ecological implications for other species, like the construction of a Dyson sphere.
Robert Freitas speculated in 1978 that the technological advancement and energy usage of a civilization, measured either relative to another civilization or in absolute terms by its rating on the Kardashev scale, may play an important role in the result of extraterrestrial contact.[62]Given the infeasibility of interstellar space flight for civilizations at a technological level similar to that of humanity, interactions between such civilizations would have to take place by radio. Because of the long transit times of radio waves between stars, such interactions would not lead to the establishment of diplomatic relations, nor any significant future interaction at all, between the two civilizations.[62]
According to Freitas, direct contact with civilizations significantly more advanced than humanity would have to take place within the Solar System, as only the more advanced society would have the resources and technology to cross interstellar space.[63] Consequently, such contact could only be with civilizations rated as Type II or higher on the Kardashev scale, as Type I civilizations would be incapable of regular interstellar travel.[63] Freitas expected that such interactions would be carefully planned by the more advanced civilization to avoid mass societal shock for humanity.[63]
However much planning an extraterrestrial civilization may do before contacting humanity, the humans may experience great shock and terror on their arrival, especially as they would lack any understanding of the contacting civilization. Ben Finney compares the situation to that of the tribespeople of New Guinea, an island that was settled fifty thousand years ago during the last glacial period but saw little contact with the outside world until the arrival of European colonial powers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The huge difference between the indigenous stone-age society and the Europeans' technical civilization caused unexpected behaviors among the native populations known as cargo cults: to coax the gods into bringing them the technology that the Europeans possessed, the natives created wooden "radio stations" and "airstrips" as a form of sympathetic magic. Finney argues that humanity may misunderstand the true meaning of an extraterrestrial transmission to Earth, much as the people of New Guinea could not understand the source of modern goods and technologies. He concludes that the results of extraterrestrial contact will become known over the long term with rigorous study, rather than as fast, sharp events briefly making newspaper headlines.[39]
Billingham has suggested that a civilization which is far more technologically advanced than humanity is also likely to be culturally and ethically advanced, and would therefore be unlikely to conduct astroengineering projects that would harm human civilization. Such projects could include Dyson spheres, which completely enclose stars and capture all energy coming from them. Even if well within the capability of an advanced civilization and providing an enormous amount of energy, such a project would not be undertaken.[64] For similar reasons, such civilizations would not readily give humanity the knowledge required to build such devices.[64] Nevertheless, the existence of such capabilities would at least show that civilizations have survived "technological adolescence".[64] Despite the caution that such an advanced civilization would exercise in dealing with the less mature human civilization, Sagan imagined that an advanced civilization might send those on Earth an Encyclopædia Galactica describing the sciences and cultures of many extraterrestrial societies.[65]
Whether an advanced extraterrestrial civilization would send humanity a decipherable message is a matter of debate in itself. Sagan argued that a highly advanced extraterrestrial civilization would bear in mind that they were communicating with a relatively primitive one and therefore would try to ensure that the receiving civilization would be able to understand the message.[66] Arguing against this view, astronomer Guillermo Lemarchand stated that an advanced civilization would probably encrypt a message with high information content, such as an Encyclopædia Galactica, in order to ensure that only other ethically advanced civilizations would be able to understand it.[66]Douglas Vakoch assumes it may take some time to decode any message, telling ABC News that "I don't think we're going to understand immediately what they have to say."[67] “There’s going to be a lot of guesswork in trying to interpret another civilization," he told Science Friday, adding that "in some ways, any message we get from an extraterrestrial will be like a cosmic Rorschach ink blot test.”[68]
Interstellar groups of civilizations
Given the age of the galaxy, Harrison surmises that there exist several "galactic clubs", groupings of multiple civilizations from across the galaxy.[52] Such clubs could begin as loose confederations or alliances, eventually developing into powerful unions of many civilizations.[52] If humanity could enter into a dialogue with one extraterrestrial civilization, it might be able to join such a galactic club. As more extraterrestrial civilizations, or unions thereof, are found, these could also become assimilated into such a club.[52] Sebastian von Hoerner has suggested that entry into a galactic club may be a way for humanity to handle the culture shock arising from contact with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization.[69]
Whether a broad spectrum of civilizations from many places in the galaxy would even be able to cooperate is disputed by Michaud, who states that civilizations with huge differences in the technologies and resources at their command "may not consider themselves even remotely equal".[70] It is unlikely that humanity would meet the basic requirements for membership at its current low level of technological advancement.[43] A galactic club may, William Hamilton speculates, set extremely high entrance requirements that are unlikely to be met by less advanced civilizations.[70]
When two Canadian astronomers argued that they potentially discovered 234 extraterrestrial civilizations through analysis of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database, Douglas Vakoch doubted their explanation for their findings, noting that it would be unusual for all of these stars to pulse at exactly the same frequency unless they were part a coordinated network: “If you take a step back,” he said, “that would mean you have 234 independent stars that all decided to transmit the exact same way.”[71]
Michaud suggests that an interstellar grouping of civilizations might take the form of an empire, which need not necessarily be a force for evil, but may provide for peace and security throughout its jurisdiction.[72] Owing to the distances between the stars, such an empire would not necessarily maintain control solely by military force, but may rather tolerate local cultures and institutions to the extent that these would not pose a threat to the central imperial authority.[72] Such tolerance may, as has happened historically on Earth, extend to allowing nominal self-rule of specific regions by existing institutions, while maintaining that area as a puppet or client state to accomplish the aims of the imperial power.[72] However, particularly advanced powers may use methods, including faster-than-light travel, to make centralized administration more effective.[72]
In contrast to the belief that an extraterrestrial civilization would want to establish an empire, Ćirković proposes that an extraterrestrial civilization would maintain equilibrium rather than expand outward.[73] In such an equilibrium, a civilization would only colonize a small number of stars, aiming to maximize efficiency rather than to expand massive and unsustainable imperial structures.[73] This contrasts with the classic Kardashev Type III civilization, which has access to the energy output of an entire galaxy and is not subject to any limits on its future expansion.[73] According to this view, advanced civilizations may not resemble the classic examples in science fiction, but might more closely reflect the small, independent Greek city-states, with an emphasis on cultural rather than territorial growth.[73]
Extraterrestrial artifacts
Robotic probes may be preferable to radio waves or microwaves as a means of interstellar communication.
An extraterrestrial civilization may choose to communicate with humanity by means of artifacts or probes rather than by radio, for various reasons. While probes may take a long time to reach the Solar System, once there they would be able to hold a sustained dialogue that would be impossible using radio from hundreds or thousands of light-years away.[74] Radio would be completely unsuitable for surveillance and continued monitoring of a civilization, and should an extraterrestrial civilization wish to perform these activities on humanity, artifacts may be the only option other than to send large, crewed spacecraft to the Solar System.[74]
Although faster-than-light travel has been seriously considered by physicists such as Miguel Alcubierre,[75] Tough speculates that the enormous amount of energy required to achieve such speeds under currently proposed mechanisms means that robotic probes traveling at conventional speeds will still have an advantage for various applications.[74] 2013 research at NASA's Johnson Space Center, however, shows that faster-than-light travel with the Alcubierre driverequires dramatically less energy than previously thought,[76] needing only about 1 metric ton of exotic mass-energy[77] to move a spacecraft at 10 times the speed of light, in contrast to previous estimates that stated that only a Jupiter-mass object would contain sufficient energy to power a faster-than-light spacecraft.[note 1]
According to Tough, an extraterrestrial civilization might want to send various types of information to humanity by means of artifacts, such as an Encyclopædia Galactica, containing the wisdom of countless extraterrestrial cultures, or perhaps an invitation to engage in diplomacy with them.[74] A civilization that sees itself on the brink of decline might use the abilities it still possesses to send probes throughout the galaxy, with its cultures, values, religions, sciences, technologies, and laws, so that these may not die along with the civilization itself.[74]
Freitas finds numerous reasons why interstellar probes may be a preferred method of communication among extraterrestrial civilizations wishing to make contact with Earth. A civilization aiming to learn more about the distribution of life within the galaxy might, he speculates, send probes to a large number of star systems, rather than using radio, as one cannot ensure a response by radio but can (he says) ensure that probes will return to their sender with data on the star systems they survey.[78] Furthermore, probes would enable the surveying of non-intelligent populations, or those not yet capable of space navigation (like humans before the 20th century), as well as intelligent populations that might not wish to provide information about themselves and their planets to extraterrestrial civilizations.[78]In addition, the greater energy required to send living beings rather than a robotic probe would, according to Michaud, be only used for purposes such as a one-way migration.[79]
Freitas points out that probes, unlike the interstellar radio waves commonly targeted by SETI searches, could store information for long, perhaps geological, timescales,[78] and could emit strong radio signals unambiguously recognizable as being of intelligent origin, rather than being dismissed as a UFO or a natural phenomenon.[78] Probes could also modify any signal they send to suit the system they were in, which would be impossible for a radio transmission originating from outside the target star system.[78] Moreover, the use of small robotic probes with widely distributed beacons in individual systems, rather than a small number of powerful, centralized beacons, would provide a security advantage to the civilization using them.[78] Rather than revealing the location of a radio beacon powerful enough to signal the whole galaxy and risk such a powerful device being compromised, decentralized beacons installed on robotic probes need not reveal any information that an extraterrestrial civilization prefers others not to have.[78]
Given the age of the Milky Way galaxy, an ancient extraterrestrial civilization may have existed and sent probes to the Solar System millions or even billions of years before the evolution of Homo sapiens.[79] Thus, a probe sent may have been nonfunctional for millions of years before humans learn of its existence.[79] Such a "dead" probe would not pose an imminent threat to humanity, but would prove that interstellar flight is possible.[79] However, if an active probe were to be discovered, humans would react much more strongly than they would to the discovery of a probe that has long since ceased to function.[79]
FURTHER IMPLICATIONS OF CONTACT
Theological
The confirmation of extraterrestrial intelligence could have a profound impact on religious doctrines, potentially causing theologians to reinterpret scriptures to accommodate the new discoveries.[80]However, a survey of people with many different religious beliefsindicated that their faith would not be affected by the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence,[80] and another study, conducted by Ted Peters of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, shows that most people would not consider their religious beliefs superseded by it.[81]Surveys of religious leaders indicate that only a small percentage are concerned that the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence might fundamentally contradict the views of the adherents of their religion.[82] Gabriel Funes, the chief astronomer of the Vatican Observatoryand a papal adviser on science, has stated that the Catholic Churchwould be likely to welcome extraterrestrial visitors warmly.[83]
Contact with extraterrestrial intelligence would not be completely inconsequential for religion. The Peters study showed that most non-religious people, and a significant minority of religious people, believe that the world could face a religious crisis, even if their own beliefs were unaffected.[81] Contact with extraterrestrial intelligence would be most likely to cause a problem for western religions, in particular traditionalist Christianity, because of the geocentric nature of western faiths.[84] The discovery of extraterrestrial life would not contradict basic conceptions of God, however, and seeing that science has challenged established dogma in the past, for example with the theory of evolution, it is likely that existing religions will adapt similarly to the new circumstances.[85] Douglas Vakoch argues that it is not likely that the discovery of extraterrestrial life will impact religious beliefs.[86] In the view of Musso, a global religious crisis would be unlikely even for Abrahamic faiths, as the studies of himself and others on Christianity, the most "anthropocentric" religion, see no conflict between that religion and the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.[44] In addition, the cultural and religious values of extraterrestrial species would likely be shared over centuries if contact is to occur by radio, meaning that rather than causing a huge shock to humanity, such information would be viewed much as archaeologists and historians view ancient artifacts and texts.[44]
Funes speculates that a decipherable message from extraterrestrial intelligence could initiate an interstellar exchange of knowledge in various disciplines, including whatever religions an extraterrestrial civilization may host.[87] Billingham further suggests that an extremely advanced and friendly extraterrestrial civilization might put an end to present-day religious conflicts and lead to greater religious toleration worldwide.[88] On the other hand, Jill Tarter puts forward the view that contact with extraterrestrial intelligence might eliminate religion as we know it and introduce humanity to an all-encompassing faith.[2]Vakoch doubts that humans would be inclined to adopt extraterrestrial religions,[89] telling ABC News "I think religion meets very human needs, and unless extraterrestrials can provide a replacement for it, I don't think religion is going to go away," and adding, "if there are incredibly advanced civilizations with a belief in God, I don't think Richard Dawkins will start believing."[90]
Political
Tim Folger speculates that news of radio contact with an extraterrestrial civilization would prove impossible to suppress and would travel rapidly,[65] though Cold War scientific literature on the subject contradicts this.[34] Media coverage of the discovery would probably die down quickly, though, as scientists began to decipher the message and learn its true impact.[65] Different branches of government (for example legislative, executive, and judiciary) may pursue their own policies, potentially giving rise to power struggles.[91]Even in the event of a single contact with no follow-up, radio contact may prompt fierce disagreements as to which bodies have the authority to represent humanity as a whole.[43] Michaud hypothesizes that the fear arising from direct contact may cause nation-states to put aside their conflicts and work together for the common defense of humanity.[92]
Apart from the question of who would represent the Earth as a whole, contact could create other international problems, such as the degree of involvement of governments foreign to the one whose radio astronomers received the signal.[93] The United Nations discussed various issues of foreign relations immediately before the launch of the Voyager probes,[94] which in 2012 left the Solar System carrying a golden record in case they are found by extraterrestrial intelligence.[95]Among the issues discussed were what messages would best represent humanity, what format they should take, how to convey the cultural history of the Earth, and what international groups should be formed to study extraterrestrial intelligence in greater detail.[94]
According to Luca Codignola of the University of Genoa, contact with a powerful extraterrestrial civilization is comparable to occasions where one powerful civilization destroyed another, such as the arrival of Christopher Columbus and Hernán Cortés into the Americas and the subsequent destruction of the indigenous civilizations and their ways of life.[2] However, the applicability of such a model to contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, and that specific interpretation of the arrival of the European colonists to the Americas, have been disputed.[96] Even so, any large difference between the power of an extraterrestrial civilization and our own could be demoralizing and potentially cause or accelerate the collapse of human society.[43] Being discovered by a "superior" extraterrestrial civilization, and continued contact with it, might have psychological effects that could destroy a civilization, as is claimed to have happened in the past on Earth.[23]
Even in the absence of close contact between humanity and extraterrestrials, high-information messages from an extraterrestrial civilization to humanity have the potential to cause a great cultural shock.[69] Sociologist Donald Tarter has conjectured that knowledge of extraterrestrial culture and theology has the potential to compromise human allegiance to existing organizational structures and institutions.[69] The cultural shock of meeting an extraterrestrial civilization may be spread over decades or even centuries if an extraterrestrial message to humanity is extremely difficult to decipher.[69]
Legal
Contact with extraterrestrial civilizations would raise legal questions, such as the rights of the extraterrestrial beings. An extraterrestrial arriving on Earth might only have the protection of animal cruelty statutes.[97] Much as various classes of human being, such as women, children, and indigenous people, were initially denied human rights, so might extraterrestrial beings, who could therefore be legally owned and killed.[98] If such a species were not to be treated as a legal animal, there would arise the challenge of defining the boundary between a legal person and a legal animal, considering the numerous factors that constitute intelligence.[99]
Freitas considers that even if an extraterrestrial being were to be afforded legal personhood, problems of nationality and immigration would arise. An extraterrestrial being would not have a legally recognized earthly citizenship, and drastic legal measures might be required in order to account for the technically illegal immigration of extraterrestrial individuals.[100]
If contact were to take place through electromagnetic signals, these issues would not arise. Rather, issues relating to patent and copyright law regarding who, if anyone, has rights to the information from the extraterrestrial civilization would be the primary legal problem.[97]
Scientific and technological
The scientific and technological impact of extraterrestrial contact through electromagnetic waves would probably be quite small, especially at first.[101] However, if the message contains a large amount of information, deciphering it could give humans access to a galactic heritage perhaps predating the formation of the Solar System, which may greatly advance our technology and science.[101] A possible negative effect could be to demoralize research scientists as they come to know that what they are researching may already be known to another civilization.[101]
On the other hand, extraterrestrial civilizations with malicious intent could send information that could enable human civilization to destroy itself,[101] such as powerful computer viruses or information on how to make extremely potent weapons that humans would not yet be able to use responsibly.[43] While the motives for such an action are unknown, it would require minimal energy use on the part of the extraterrestrials.[101] According to Musso, however, computer viruses in particular will be nearly impossible unless extraterrestrials possess detailed knowledge of human computer architectures, which would only happen if a human message sent to the stars were protected with little thought to security.[44] Even a virtual machine on which extraterrestrials could run computer programs could be designed specifically for the purpose, bearing little relation to computer systems commonly used on Earth.[44] In addition, humans could send messages to extraterrestrials detailing that they do not want access to the Encyclopædia Galacticauntil they have reached a suitable level of technological advancement, thus mitigating harmful impacts of extraterrestrial technology.[44]
Extraterrestrial technology could have profound impacts on the nature of human culture and civilization. Just as television provided a new outlet for a wide variety of political, religious, and social groups, and as the printing press made the Bible available to the common people of Europe, allowing them to interpret it for themselves, so an extraterrestrial technology might change humanity in ways not immediately apparent.[102] Harrison speculates that a knowledge of extraterrestrial technologies could increase the gap between scientific and cultural progress, leading to societal shock and an inability to compensate for negative effects of technology.[102] He gives the example of improvements in agricultural technology during the Industrial Revolution, which displaced thousands of farm laborers until society could retrain them for jobs suited to the new social order.[102] Contact with an extraterrestrial civilization far more advanced than humanity could cause a much greater shock than the Industrial Revolution, or anything previously experienced by humanity.[102]
Michaud suggests that humanity could be impacted by an influx of extraterrestrial science and technology in the same way that medieval European scholars were impacted by the knowledge of Arab scientists.[103] Humanity might at first revere the knowledge as having the potential to advance the human species, and might even feel inferior to the extraterrestrial species, but would gradually grow in arrogance as it gained more and more intimate knowledge of the science, technology, and other cultural developments of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization.[103]
The discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence would have various impacts on biology and astrobiology. The discovery of extraterrestrial life in any form, intelligent or non-intelligent, would give humanity greater insight into the nature of life on Earth and would improve the conception of how the tree of life is organized.[104] Human biologists could learn about extraterrestrial biochemistry and observe how it differs from that found on Earth.[104] This knowledge could help human civilization to learn which aspects of life are common throughout the universe and which are specific to Earth.[104]
Ecological and biological-warfare impacts
An extraterrestrial civilization might bring to Earth pathogens or invasive life forms that do not harm its own biosphere.[43] Alien pathogens could decimate the human population, which would have no immunity to them, or they might use terrestrial livestock or plants as hosts, causing indirect harm to humans.[43] Invasive organisms brought by extraterrestrial civilizations could cause great ecological harm because of the terrestrial biosphere's lack of defenses against them.[43] On the other hand, pathogens and invasive species of extraterrestrial origin might differ enough from terrestrial organisms in their biology to have no adverse effects.[43] Furthermore, pathogens and parasites on Earth are generally suited to only a small and exclusive set of environments,[105] to which extraterrestrial pathogens would have had no opportunity to adapt. If an extraterrestrial civilization bearing malice towards humanity gained sufficient knowledge of terrestrial biology and weaknesses in the immune systems of terrestrial biota, it might be able to create extremely potent biological weapons.[43] Even a civilization without malicious intent could inadvertently cause harm to humanity by not taking account of all the risks of their actions.[43]
According to Baum, even if an extraterrestrial civilization were to communicate using electromagnetic signals alone, it could send humanity information with which humans themselves could create lethal biological weapons.
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UFO speculation surges after North Carolina lake video goes viral
UFO speculation surges after North Carolina lake video goes viral
A video of a UFO flying over a North Carolina lake has gone viral, prompting speculation that the object in the video may not be of this world.
The exceptionally shaky video, posted by Jason Swing on May 29, was taken over Lake Norman in North Carolina. It has gone viral, having been viewed more than 250,000 times, as viewers scratch their heads trying to make sense of what they are seeing.
In the video's description, Swing says that he was at work at 10:30 a.m. on a rainy day. "Rain finally stopped so we went [to] pick up a boat from Lake Norman," Swing wrote. "When [I] came around the corner, I saw this thing sitting still, very close."
Naturally, the talk immediately turned to an extraterrestrial craft, though many commenters believed Swing's video is likely a hoax, due to the shaky footage and the fact Swing cuts off the video rather promptly.
"Next time you try and film a UFO, please try to jump around a little more. Also, adding a degree of blur would be a good touch. Geez.," one viewer wrote.
"I'm videoing a UFO. But I've got something more important to do. Later," another commenter wrote.
"Aliens always reveal themselves to people who shake uncontrollably and have no idea how to operate a zoom," another commenter wrote. "Classic alien jerk move."
Others, however, were more forgiving of Swing's shaky camera work, believing that Swing actually saw a UFO and not a toy drone or a blimp, as many in the comments have accused him of showing.
"Hello, this a great catch and I was hoping to show it on my channel with full credits and links back to yourself," wrote one commenter known as The Hidden Underbelly 2.0. "Please let me know if this would be okay with yourself. Thanks and god bless."
Others believe that the sighting was indeed the GoodYear Blimp, which was in the Charlotte area on May 29 for a NASCAR race.
The GoodYear Blimp account, however, seemed to put the kibosh on the notion that the craft was extraterrestrial in nature.
"We don’t want to get in the way of a good story, but that’s definitely us," the GoodYear Blimp account wrote, according to the Daily Mail. "We left the Charlotte area 5/29 after covering the Coke 600."
Un immense ovni triangulaire prés de l’aéroport de Genève
Un immense ovni triangulaire prés de l’aéroport de Genève
Publié le 16/08/2018
Un article de Daniel Robin, Responsable du Réseau Ovni Investigation
Dimanche 12 aout 2018 à Viry près de Genève. Il est 23h30. M. Frédéric K. et sa compagne regardent le ciel qui était dégagé.
Soudain, le couple aperçoit un immense ovni de forme triangulaire, d’un noir profond, qui est en position stationnaire pas très loin au-dessus d’eux. Puis, après quelques secondes, le triangle noir se déplace très lentement en direction de Genève. L’un des deux témoins est formel, l’engin était aussi grand que plusieurs avions de ligne !
Depuis quelques jours, le site Ovnis-Direct enregistre (grâce à son formulaire en ligne qui permet de signaler une observation) un certain nombre de témoignages impliquant des ovnis de forme triangulaire et de couleur noire.
Nous vous tiendrons régulièrement informé de la situation et des témoignages que nous recevons concernant ces engins. Il semblerait, en effet, qu’il se produise une recrudescence des observations impliquant d’immenses structures triangulaires noires. Les questions sont toujours les mêmes : d’où viennent-elles et que quelles sont leurs intentions à notre égard ? Le plus spectaculaire de ces témoignages est arrivé ce matin à 10h45 (13 juillet 2018). Voici le récit du témoin tel qu’il a été posté sur le site Ovnis-Direct :
« Voulant observer les étoiles filantes mon amie et moi, nous sommes sortis sur la terrasse. En levant les yeux vers le ciel, nous avons distinctement discerné un triangle noir avec des sortes de « feux de position » allumés à chaque pointe (angle). L’engin était pratiquement immobile, mais il a commencé une légère rotation sur lui-même. Pas de bruit à l’extérieur. J’ai couru chercher mon téléphone portable pour prendre une photo, mais à mon retour l’engin avait disparu. Ce n’était pas un avion. Nous avons clairement distingué les rebords de ce triangle gigantesque. Nous habitons proches de l’aéroport de Genève, à Viry (74580) » (Viry fait partie de l’agglomération du Grand Genève). Dès que j’ai pris connaissance de ce témoignage (je peux consulter en temps réel sur mon téléphone portable les témoignages qui sont postés sur Ovnis-Direct), j’ai immédiatement pris contact avec le témoin (M. Frédéric K.) par téléphone. Ce dernier m’a confirmé la taille imposante du triangle : plusieurs fois celle d’un avion de ligne (Airbus A320 par exemple). Il ne pouvait pas se tromper et confondre le triangle avec un avion, car étant proche de l’aéroport de Genève il a l’habitude de voir décoller et atterrir les avions de ligne. La trajectoire du triangle semblait prendre la direction de Genève.
Ci-dessus : La position de la commune de Viry, la flèche en bas à gauche, et celle de l’aéroport international de Genève, la flèche en haut. M. Frédéric K. estime à environ 15 km la distance entre son domicile et l’aéroport de Genève.
Ci-dessus : Reconstitution artistique du triangle noir observé à Viry par deux témoins le dimanche 12 aout 2018 à 23h30. A noter que selon l’un des témoins, les feux à chaque angle étaient moins lumineux et d’un diamètre plus petit.
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NASA Has Just Released 2,540 Stunning New Photos of Mars
NASA Has Just Released 2,540 Stunning New Photos of Mars
If it’s quiet solitude and beauty you seek, there is no better place than the surface of Mars. Mars has earned its moniker as the red planet, but the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) can transform the subtle differences of soils into a rainbow of colours.
For 10 years, HiRISE has recorded gorgeous – and scientifically valuable – images of Mars. Its photos are so detailed that scientists can examine the planet’s features at the scale of just a few feet, including the recent crash site of Europe’s Schiaparelli Mars lander.
We combed through 2,054 of the camera’s latest pictures, released in August, September, and October, to bring you some of the best – and hopefully help you temporarily escape Earth.
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A large chasm:
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Some dark, rust-colored dunes in Russell Crater:
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NASA might land its next nuclear-powered Mars 2020 rover mission here.
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The black splotch is where the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed. The white specks, pointed out with arrows, are pieces of the lander.
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Zebra skin. Just kidding, this is a dune field that’s speckled with oval-shaped mineral deposits:
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False-coloring this image makes a giant dune and its gullies look blue.
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A possible landing site for the ExoMars 2020 mission, which the European Space Agency is running.
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A North Pole dune field nicknamed “Kolhar,” after Frank Herbert’s fictional world.
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Carbon dioxide that turns from solid to gas carves out these strange shapes at Mars’ south pole:
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A recent impact crater on Mars. (We’re pretty sure no one put out a giant cigarette here.)
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‘Spiders’ are eruptions of dust caused by the way the Martian surface warms and cools:
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Cerberus Palus crater showing off layered sediments:
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NASA keeps an eye of gullies like this for small landslides – and any water that melts in the warm sun to form darker-colored mud.
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Another gully scientists are having HiRISE monitor:
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Glacial terrain looks strangely iridescent:
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A steep slope in Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus:
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Dunes in a Martian crater. The red bar is an artifact of NASA’s image processing:
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The creation of ‘fans’ around dunes may help scientists understand seasonal changes on Mars:
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Another possible landing site for the Mars 2020 mission:
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Terrain near the Martian equator:
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Ceraunius Fossae is a region dominated by volcanic flows and large cracks:
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Beautiful texture in the region called North Sinus Meridiani:
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False colours assigned to certain minerals make Syria Planum an inky blue that’s speckled with gold:
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A crater on Arcadia Planitia, a large flat region of Mars:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Layers in Martian buttes found in a region called West Arabia:
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A picture of Utopia Planitia, a large plain on Mars:
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A bright speckle of minerals stands out on Galle (not Gale) Crater:
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A small but recent impact crater:
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Blowing sand eats through the rims of older craters:
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Mars in all its two-toned glory:
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Seasonal dunes on Mars nicknamed ‘Buzzel’.
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Ridges cross the Nepenthes Mensae region, which is often referred to as a river delta for the striking pattern:
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The edges of a debris apron, where cliff material eroded away.
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This article was originally published by Business Insider.
Things have gotten so bad for the far left CNN that they are now being beaten in prime time by the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens show. People would rather hear theories about aliens creating the human race than listen to Anderson Cooper talk. That’s got to sting.
History Channel’s ‘Ancient Aliens’ Outperforms CNN in Primetime
CNN tanked in the cable ratings between August 6 and August 12, losing out to Fox News, MSNBC, and even the History Channel show Ancient Aliens, according to the latest data from Nielsen Media Research.
CNN’s competitors, Fox News and MSNBC, defeated CNN handily in the ratings war this week. Fox News took the number one slot for primetime viewership at 2.18 million viewers, and MSNBC came in second with 1.75 million viewers…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Tucked inside a former space shuttle parking garage is Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule. It's one of two new private space taxis that NASA has commissioned to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
On Aug. 9, Boeing invited members of the media into the company's facilities here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for a behind-the-scenes tour and a chance to meet the astronauts who will be flying the spacecraft as early as next year.
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner, the first to carry a human crew, is seen under construction inside the Boeing Starliner Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch NASA astronauts Eric Boe, Nicole Aunapu Mann and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson in 2019.
Credit: Space.com/Amy Thompson
Before Starliner becomes operational, it must go through a series of uncrewed and crewed test flights. During each of these, Starliner will launch and dock with the space station. While the capsule is in orbit, crews will evaluate the vehicle's systems, ensuring that everything is working as planned. The first of those tests, an uncrewed mission, could be carried out as soon as the end of this year, NASA officials have said.
Following that flight will be the first crewed test mission. Boeing's Chris Ferguson will join NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann and Eric Boe in the Starliner capsule as it ferries its first set of people to the space station.
This test flight, scheduled for mid-2019, could mark the first time astronauts will have launched into space from U.S. soil since the end of the shuttle program, in 2011. (However, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule — the other private astronaut taxi — is currently slated to fly its first crewed test mission in April 2019.) Ferguson, now a private astronaut working for Boeing, also flew on that last shuttle mission. "It's a really exciting time," Ferguson told reporters during the Aug. 9 event.
"What's cool is this is our ride right here behind us," added Boe, who flew on two shuttle missions. "Nicole and Chris and myself have a chance to go fly this thing sometime in the near future."
That mission will be the first spaceflight for Mann. "I'm the rookie of the team, and today I got to climb inside my first spacecraft," she told Space.com. "I thought it would be pretty exciting, but I tell you, the feeling was really overwhelming." [Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner: A 21st Century Space Capsule in Photos]
NASA astronauts Eric Boe and Nicole Aunapu Mann and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson will be the crew that flies on the first crewed test mission of the Starliner spacecraft.
Credit: Amy Thompson/Space.com
All the astronauts were excited to meet the people working diligently to construct their ride to space. "I think the most rewarding part is working with the people who are making this happen," explained NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who will be flying on the first official crewed mission with crewmate Josh Cassada.
Mann said she was thrilled to see engineers bolting in the avionics system on the spacecraft she will be flying on next year. She described the crew's visit to the launchpad, saying there are about 300 steps they'll have to climb to get to the crew access arm and the "white room" — the last stop before boarding their spacecraft.
"I can imagine the rocket [on the pad] with the Starliner stacked on top, and I look forward to the day we launch from Florida," Mann said.
When Starliner takes off, it will be perched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Ferguson explained that the last time an American launched to space aboard an Atlas was 55 years ago. That astronaut was Gordon Cooper, one of the original Mercury Seven. "To know that the last person that flew an Atlas was one of your heroes — that's pretty cool," Ferguson said.
According to Boe, it will take about 10 minutes to get to orbit aboard the Atlas V/Starliner, and the ride will be much smoother than the ones astronauts experienced on the shuttle. [NASA's Space Shuttle Program in Pictures: A Tribute]
Orbital flight testing
NASA astronaut Eric Boe (top foreground), Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson (top background) and NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann sit inside a mockup of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. The three astronauts form the test flight crew for Boeing's first crewed Starliner flight in 2019.
Credit: NASA
Ferguson said the uncrewed test mission will have about 220 flight-test objectives. For example, does the vehicle get to the proper orbit? Does it navigate itself like it should, and does the propellant system work? Can it dock with the space station? Boeing hopes to check off at least 80 percent of those objectives, Ferguson said.
The crewed flight tests will have different objectives, he said. The goal is to make sure the vehicle's systems work so that when people climb aboard, they will just be testing the human element of the vehicle — answering questions like how loud the jets are, whether the hygiene and environmental control systems work, and what the noise levels are like inside the capsulen. "We want to verify that it accommodates humans," he explained.
Ferguson also revealed that during the uncrewed test flight, crews on the ground will take over during part of the flight to ensure that the craft can be controlled from the ground as expected.
Williams said she is really looking forward to the test campaign. "This is really a test pilot's dream," she told Space.com. The veteran Williams, who will fly with rookie astronaut Josh Cassada, said she was ready to hang up her space shoes, but then this opportunity came along and she could not pass it up. "[Josh and I] can't wait to see how the vehicle docks to the space station," she explained. "It's going to do it by itself, and we're excited to see the software really work."
"I wasn't sure the [astronaut] office called the right number," Josh said when asked how he felt about being chosen. "But this is what we've been training for, and I can't possibly imagine a better opportunity in spaceflight."
Both Williams and Cassada described the generalized training astronauts receive at NASA, which includes points like what the spacecraft is supposed to do and where it's supposed to go. But coming out to the cape to train with the crew at Boeing and the actual spacecraft is an incredible opportunity, Williams said. "It's different than shuttle and [Russia's] Soyuz, because everything's already been mapped out," Williams said. "Here, it's still being created and is brand-new."
According to Williams, the big difference between Starliner and the other spacecraft she has flown is the novelty. She and the rest of the crew are essentially writing the instruction manuals that future astronauts will use to fly Starliner.
"There's definitely going to be a learning curve," she said. "Our job is to learn this spacecraft, focus on this vehicle specifically, so that it will be easier for future astronauts."
Safety first
This Boeing CST-100 Starliner space capsule will be used for an uncrewed pad abort test to check the spacecraft's emergency escape system.
Credit: Space.com/Amy Thompson
Another major difference between past vehicles and Starliner is the new craft's launch escape system: an ejection system for the crew that will whisk them away to safety in an emergency.
"We hope to never [have to] use this system," Ferguson said. "This vehicle has a full capability to abort anywhere in the ascent trajectory." The space shuttle did not have that capability.
Williams said that even though Starliner is a new vehicle, she feels it is safer than previous ones, because past lessons are being incorporated into the new craft's design. The astronauts have been lucky enough to work with the folks in Houston in simulators, making sure things get better and better, she added.
"We bring our experience from the past, and these guys are answering the call," she said. "This vehicle is better, safer and smarter than previous ones."
But "we can't eliminate all risk. We'll never get down to zero," Cassada added. "If we needed and demanded zero risk, then no one would ever leave their home."
AREA 51: THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
AREA 51: THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
A website called Area51.org naturally receives a lot of questions about Area 51, the world’s most famous secret base. Here are the answers to the most popular and interesting queries we’ve received. This is a work in progress, and we’ll refresh and repost as new intel arrives.
WHAT IS AREA 51?
It’s a top secret US government research and test facility—in other words, it’s where the US Air Force keeps its biggest secrets. For years, the base did not appear on maps and the government flat-out denied that it even existed. Even today, security around the base is extremely high, and much of the facility is said to actually be underground.
WHY IS IT CALLED AREA 51?
AEC Map with Area 51 on the Right-Hand Side
The US Atomic Energy Commission, now part of the Department of Energy, used to test atomic bombs in a huge area of desert in Nevada, originally called the Nevada Proving Ground. The test range was divided up into numbered “areas” in no particular order—the numbers seem to have been picked at random. When the CIA took over one area to make a secret base, it chose Area 51, mainly because it’s completely surrounded by mountain ranges—a natural hiding place.
Today, the name Area 51 is no longer used by government and military officials; the site has had a lot of nicknames (“Dreamland”, “The Ranch”, “The Box”), but its official name is now “Detachment 3 of the Air Force Flight Test Center”—so catchy.
WHERE IS AREA 51?
It’s as far out in the Nevada desert as you can possibly imagine. The base is intentionally in the middle of nowhere; it is, after all, where the government goes when it wants to be alone.
Area 51 is 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas, far into the high desert. The nearest highway, 375, is about 25 miles from the base’s borders—and the borders are another 20 miles from the base itself.
WHEN WAS IT BUILT?
Area 51 began its life as part of a large swath of land taken in 1951 by the Atomic Energy Commission to test atomic bombs—they needed a safe place for gigantic explosions. The “Nevada Proving Ground” was the place where the very first atomic bomb exploded, and the flash was so bright that it was seen as far away as San Francisco.
In 1954, when the government decided it needed a safe place to work on secret projects, one chunk of land in the Nevada Proving Ground was identified as the perfect place.
WHAT SECRET PROJECTS HAVE BEEN HIDDEN THERE?
The most famous secret project developed at this super-secret base is the U-2 spy plane, which was used to spy on the Soviet Union from 70,000 feet (far out of range of radar).
The SR-71 Blackbird, Developed at Area 51
Another well-known project: the SR-71 Blackbird, a fighter jet that holds the world’s record as the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft.
The missile defense system sometimes called “Star Wars” or “SDI” (Strategic Defense Initiative) was also developed there.
What about all the alien technology? It may well be hidden out there, too, but the government isn’t talking about it. Yet.
WHY IS AREA 51 SO FAMOUS?
Physicist Bob Lazar Says He Was Employed at Area 51, Where He Worked on UFOs
In 1989, a physicist named Bob Lazar appeared on a Las Vegas news program to tell his story: he’d been an engineer at Area 51, and his job was to figure out how UFO technology worked. Needless to say, that got some attention—it’s an extraordinary claim, especially because Lazar was more than willing to provide extensive details about his work, how he got the job, and what he saw at the base. Although some of his background is difficult to verify, it is now considered to be a fact that Lazar was employed at the base when he said he was, as journalist Annie Jacobsen confirmed in her book Area 51: an Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base.
Lazar’s revelations helped make Area 51 a household name. Everyone loves a mystery, and we love it even more when some of its secrets are revealed.
In the years since the initial publicity, Lazar’s story has been scrutinized and criticized by cynics, skeptics, and critics. Still, he has been consistent about what he said happened in every detail, and in the UFO community, Lazar’s name has become synonymous with Area 51 itself.
CAN I GET A JOB AT AREA 51?
If you have the right background, quite possibly! The employees of Area 51 (ahem, Detachment 3 of the Air Force Flight Test Center) are mostly civilian contractors who work for huge companies like Raytheon and EG&G Technical Services. The employee organization for Area 51 employees is called JT3, and its website has a Careers section with job openings. (“It takes special people to work for JT3,” the page sas.We bet!)
WHO GUARDS AREA 51? (OR: WHO ARE THESE “CAMO DUDES” YOU SPEAK OF?)
The Land Surrounding Area 51 is Filled with Sensors and Monitoring Equipment
Surprisingly, the large buffer zone around the Area 51 base is not guarded by military police but by private security personnel who are employees of large government contracting companies. They’re called “Camo Dudes” by Area 51 enthusiasts because they wear camouflage military-style clothing. The Camo Dudes patrol the desolate land while tooling around the desert in Chevy trucks.
The land around Area 51 is also littered with sensors and monitoring equipment to detect intruders and over-zealous adventurers. In the 1990s, an Area 51 researcher discovered that there were also monitors hidden in the public land outside the borders of the base—so even before you get anywhere near the restricted zone, they know you’re coming.
HAS ANYONE EVER CROSSED THE BORDER INTO THE RESTRICTED AREA?
Absolutely. And every last one of them was arrested by the Camo Dudes (see “Who Guards Area 51?”) and handed over to the Lincoln County Sheriff. Usually, trespassers spend the night in jail and are issued a healthy fine. Although the signs around the base warn that lethal force is authorized, we are unaware of anyone actually being shot or killed by a Camo Dude, although the dudes have reportedly harassed base viewers on occasion.
Lethal force is truly is within the dudes’ options, though; as former Area 51 guard Fred Dunham said, “If they (trespassers) demonstrate[d] they were going to try to penetrate, they (management) gave me the all-clear to waste them.”
HAS ANYONE EVER SNEAKED INTO THE BASE ITSELF?
Nope. And there is really no way to pull it off; security is far too tight, and the government has had more than half a century to perfect it. You would have to get past sensors, cameras, monitors, and Camo Dudes for some 15–20 miles, only to face formidable security at the base itself. In other words, everything you saw in that found-footage movie called Area 51 is just plain fantasy.
HOW CLOSE CAN I GET TO THE BASE WITHOUT GETTING IN TROUBLE?
The View from Tikaboo Peak, with Area 51 Distantly Visible Some 25 Miles Away
The land surrounding the Area 51 restricted zone is actually public land—not only can you walk freely on it, but you can camp there, too, and some people do just that. (With caution! This is the desolate high desert, with few public services, and few people, for that matter. Running out of water or even gasoline can mean death.)
That public land has quite a few unpaved sandy, bumpy roads, and some of them, like Groom Lake Road, lead across the border into base territory. Warning signs on the border are spaced about 50 yards (roughly 50 meters) apart—you do not dare cross. The guards already know you’re there (because the public land’s roads are lined with sensors), and you’ll be arrested if you venture past the border indicated by the signs.
Can you see anything from Groom Lake Road? Not really—maybe a Camo Dude or a sensor.
Your alternative, if you really want to see the base for yourself, is to do a grueling hike to Tikaboo Peak, which is actually the closest possible vantage point to Area 51 for those of us who don’t work there.
WHAT IS THE BLACK MAILBOX AND WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH AREA 51?
The Black Mailbox near Area 51 (photo by Rod Ramsey)
Way back before Area 51 was the most famous secret base in the world, rancher Steve Medlin had a black mailbox on Highway 375 in Nevada. It’s desolate out there; there was nothing around it for miles, so it stood out.
Later, it became a really obvious place to meet if you were a UFO hunter or an adventurer trying to get to the border of Area 51. Meet me at the Black Mailbox, dude! Its location and its ominous-sounding name made it a legend. People started putting mail in it, addressed to the aliens who live at Area 51—when they weren’t shooting it with guns or writing graffiti on it.
WHY IS IT CALLED THE BLACK MAILBOX WHEN IT’S ACTUALLY WHITE?
Rancher Steve Medlin got sick of dealing with the vandalism that comes with owning the only mailbox in proximity to Area 51. His mailbox stood on Highway 375, the only notable landmark for miles. So, when the state of Nevada decided to re-christen the road as the “Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway” in a ceremony that also promoted the film Independence Day, he saw opportunity. The original black mailbox was sold at auction for $1000 as part of the festivities, right after the part where Jeff Goldblum and other stars of the movie helped bury a time capsule. (After the auction, everyone retired to the Little A’Le’Inn for an Alien Burger. At least, I did.)
The White Mailbox, Removed in 2015
Later, a new mailbox appeared, this one painted white and made of bullet-proof materials. Under it was a second mailbox marked “Alien” to keep letters to extraterrestrials from being mixed up with Medlin’s own bills and junk mail. The white mailbox—still popularly called “the Black Mailbox”—stood for years, still a signpost and landmark associated with Area 51.
Eventually, Medlin got fed up completely; people were still vandalizing his new, tougher, bulletproof mailbox. After it was nearly destroyed in January of 2015, Medlin took the whole thing out. We’re not sure how he’s getting his mail now; maybe the Little A’Le’Inn has P.O. boxes?
WHAT IS THE LITTLE A’LE’INN AND WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH AREA 51?
The Little A’Le’Inn Has Been Featured in Movies, Books, and Yes, in Tabloids
If you stumbled into this small diner with attached motel rooms and didn’t know anything about Area 51 lore, you probably wouldn’t be much impressed. There’s a bar, a gift shop, an old Pac-Man arcade console from the ’80s.
What makes the Little A’Le’Inn (a-lee-in, “alien”, get it?) such a must-see for Area 51 adventurers is a fascinating combination of kitsch and mystery. Located in tiny Rachel, Nevada, it’s the only restaurant that’s anywhere near Area 51, and the owners (Pat Travis and her daughter Connie) are absolutely dedicated to taking advantage of that. Want an Alien Burger? You betcha. Maybe buy some Area 51 merchandise? They’ve got it for sale—actually, some of it is pretty cool; I’ve still got some of the stuff I bought there in 1996.
You don’t go to the Little A’Le’Inn for the food or the gifts, though; it’s the whole experience: you’re in a diner/bar frequented by UFO enthusiasts and Area 51 employees (seriously). It doesn’t seem like some cheesy diner. It seems otherworldly.
(Fun note: the single most surreal moment of my life was watching an Elvis impersonator [or possibly the real Elvis] sing “Viva Las Vegas” while I chomped down an Alien Burger there at the Little A’Le’Inn.)
IF I GO UFO-WATCHING NEAR AREA 51, WILL I SEE ANYTHING?
You might see something, yes. Area 51 is a test facility, so they often conduct flight tests of experimental aircraft, almost always at night. If you’re into military testing, you might very well be lucky enough to see some aircraft lights.
Of course, you may be more interested in catching a UFO in flight. Most ufologists don’t necessarily think aliens are routinely flying around or landing at Area 51; more likely, the government may be experimenting with aircraft built with UFO technology. Before you cynics start chortling, keep in mind that more than a few sky-watchers viewing from vantage points like the Black Mailbox have seen lights zooming across the sky at impossible speeds—nearly instantaneous jumps across miles of sky.
Author David Darlington, who wrote the excellent Area 51: the Dreamland Chronicles, says that though he saw many lights in the sky while researching his book, most were easily explained, but not all. “By the time I went home,” he writes, “I could explain every sighting … except one: dots that jumped through space a quarter of a mile at a time.” (Emphasis mine.)
Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway near Area 51, from an Area 51 documentary
Area 51 is really a lot of things: a secret base, sure, but also a legendary road trip in the desert southwest of the US, a magnet for paranormal claims, a UFO hotspot, and let’s not forget the rumors about alien technology. Most of all, Area 51 is a story: how it came to be, how it got to be famous, and of all the fun things that cropped up around it. Reading about it is awesome, but nothing can replace seeing it for yourself—say, in an Area 51 documentary.
Here are five movies that tell that story, revealing mysteries and unearthing even more strange questions.
1. THE ALIEN HIGHWAY
Alien Highway is not at all a typical Area 51 documentary. A fun romp through the heyday of Area 51 in the 1990s, this indie film features interviews with the late Ambassador Merlyn Merlin II (from the planet Draconis), Pat Travis of the Little A’le’inn, Glenn Campbell (of the fabled Area 51 Research Center) and a host of UFO and Area 51 enthusiasts. The film includes a drive to the border of Area 51, and a visit to the Little A’le’inn. Glenn Campbell takes us on a trip to the Area 51 vantage point known as Freedom Ridge (later made off-limits by the US government), and reporter George Knapp (who first broke the Bob Lazar story) weighs in as well. Pat Travis tells us about how they turned the little dive that was the Rachel Bar and Grill into the UFO-hunting landmark that is the Little A’le’inn.
2. AREA 51—THE CIA’S SECRET FILES
This film is the other side of the Area 51 coin: the history of the most famous secret base in the world. Here’s an Area 51 documentary that doesn’t even give a nod to the words “aliens” or “UFOs”. This is a straight-up military history story, starting with the creation of the U2 spy plane in the 1950s, and the need for a secret place to test it. We get good coverage of every declassified aircraft that has come out of Area 51, and interviews with people who worked on them. Former camo dudes also make appearances. This show is not at all dry or boring; it just doesn’t talk about aliens.
3. AREA 51 AND THE HIDDEN SECRETS OF GROOM LAKE
This Area 51 documentary starts out sober and compelling, then veers unexpectedly into the weird and unexplained. Hosted by Nick Cook, editor of the English magazine Jane’s Defence Weekly, this is an interesting blend of declassified Area 51 history with bizarre claims and suggestions that might be unbelievable if it wasn’t presented with such high journalistic standards. It’s one long road trip, taking Nick to stops that are significant to Area 51 history and bigtime government secrets. He visits the Skunkworks in Burbank, California, talks to conspiracy author Jim Marrs, interviews an Air Force officer involved with top secret projects, and chats with someone once involved with the CIA’s remote viewing program. Area 51 activist Glenn Campbell makes several appearances. And yes, finally, Nick makes his way to the border of the secret base itself.
4. BEHIND AREA 51
This short and succinct Area 51 documentary covers nearly all the most interesting things about Area 51 (its mysteries) as any longer film. It clocks in at less than 10 minutes, but still manages to work in cattle mutilation, the E.T. highway (Nevada 375), the “black” mailbox (later white), and a visit to the Little A’le’inn. The requisite trip to both gates of the secret base results in narrowly avoiding a camo dude encounter. We also get to see something we haven’t seen often: a plain white commuter bus full of Area 51 employees leaving the base. The video quality is gorgeous. We’d recommend this film for Area 51 newbies, sure. But, since it has such beautiful shots of the Area 51 environment, you should watch it—even if you’ve actually been there.
5. SECRET UFO BASE: AREA 51
If you’ve heard of Area 51, you can thank Robert Lazar.
Lazar made the secret base famous by publicly claiming that he was employed there as a scientist whose job it was to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft. You know, the kind that come from other planets and hover silently and move faster than the speed of light. His job, he says, was to figure out how that all worked.
Secret UFO Base: Area 51 covers the Lazar story in-depth—his claims, his friends, the reporter (George Knapp) who made his story public, and the industry of Area 51 that grew up around his tale. Movies have been made, books written, video games created, even a state highway was renamed, all based on what he said happened on the base. (Heck, even our very domain name owes Bob Lazar a beer.)
Whether or not you believe Lazar’s story, you’ll want to check out this Area 51 documentary. It’s entertaining, and it’ll get you asking yourself: what if Lazar is actually telling the truth?
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Ongoing extraterrestrial battle to protect the Earth
Ongoing extraterrestrial battle to protect the Earth
We were already waiting to receive a new report from our contact, the Informer. And as always it has not disappointed us in the least since in the previous dossier he informed us that he had more information on the way about recent events.
The worry reaches such an extreme that it is necessary to dose well the content exposed by this person since some points are very delicate and it is necessary to clear the mind to understand them. As we have written in previous articles, a space warfare had been developing in what is called the Kuiper Belt and near the orbits of Jupiter. This battle was being waged between Omuaomua and the Black Knights, whose purpose was and is to expel from the Earth the Gray, High Gray and also Reptilian beings.
No farther from reality at this time and without having the perception of what is happening that battle is already being fought on Earth, it will surely be a key point for the survival of humanity but it will also be a great loss of humans what is coming in the next months. Naturally, this battle that is being waged on Earth is directed and commanded by the federation, we remember that as we told you, a month ago, the safe entry of some ships of the Star Federation, of which we did not know their location, but that was later revealed the sites where these ships were and their role today, we remember that they were and are in many places on our planet.
Although it does not seem real, all this is happening, and evidently remains silent, we can not assure that some type of official communiqué is made by the large international organizations. The situation is very small as we have said, perhaps the war situation that was so much talked about at the time in various media was diverted for what was really about to happen and that today we can confirm that it is underway …
There is a very important war in which not only are fighting for humanity the stellar federation against the reptilians and grays, but the United States Navy is involved in it since the government of this country collaborates with these entities. At this point it is necessary to reload on the part of the Informant that this is a silent war, which is carried to a high level so that the rest of humanity is not involved, discarding the US Marines since they do they are involved and immersed in the deep dark mind of these races.
A few days ago a signal was received coming from the depths of the Earth and it is the fact that this race although this infiltrated between humanity, its point of control is really the interior of the Earth and these signals are possible communications with these entities that They wait in space for your intervention at any time. An intervention that we would not want to happen because if that happened it would be an open and uncontrolled war …
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Proof Of Extraterrestrial Life In North Of England
Proof Of Extraterrestrial Life In North Of England
Mutual UFO Network UK has logged 18 incidents of UFO sightings in North East since January 2015. They range from white glowing object to silent rocket and teleporting man. UFO Investigative Researcher in Hartlepool, Glen Richardson, is very much convinced these sightings prove we’re not alone.
Richardson claimed that he received approximately five messages and pictures about UFOs from the North East and UK weekly while investigating incidents for around 20 years already. While he admitted that nine out of ten reported sightings have a scientific explanation, he said that some things just can’t be explained.
Richardson firmly believes that there’s life out there and sightings such as these back that up. Many of the sightings are supported with videos and pictures. On June 27, a circle-shaped bright orange light was caught on the video above County Durham. The witness first spotted the mysterious object from their living room window. He ran through their backdoor to get a video footage before it vanished.
Another encounter happened on December 1 in Sunderland, and the witness documented it on video. The object apparently has defined lights within a square.
On May 14, snapped a picture of a plane from A1. When the witness reviewed the image and zoomed it, a strange object above the aircraft can be seen.
Mr Richardson said that some people fear to be ridiculed, but it is important for them to report incidents. He believed more investigations and more evidence would give people encouragement to report their UFO encounters.
MUFON.com listed 476 sightings across the UK between January 1, 2015, and the middle of February 2016.
Mr Richardson concluded there are substantial proofs for extraterrestrial life and predicted that there will be a known fact in the next 30 years.
People have a lot of conflicting feelings about hitchhikers. Some strange person hanging out on the side of the highway, trying to get a ride in the car that you paid good money for. Who do they think they are? Then of course there are tons of urban legends—and probably a few actual cases—of unsuspecting motorists being terrorized by psychotic hitchhikers. On the other hand, it’s a nice thing to do for someone and in return you get the most valuable currency of all: ridiculous stories. Both of those possibilities are most likely ratcheted up to the extreme when it’s an extraterrestrial hitchhiker. That might be the case with some dashcam footage out of Texas this week, which shows a short, humanoid figure looking as generically like a “grey” alien as possible standing by the side of a highway in Texas. The alien in question has green-grey skin, a classic thin E.T. or man-in-black looking face, and, yep, it’s got the pointy ears too.
Here’s the clip. You can see this short little figure off to the right of the roadway with its arms outstretched in a very unnatural position. It’s got a green hue and looks equally like a lazy depiction of an extraterrestrial and a lazy depiction of an elf. Which, if this thing is actually one of those two creatures, would make a strong case for reality itself being pretty lazy. The driver was on a highway in Corsicana, Texas when they noticed the strange figure by the side of the road. The video was sent to MUFON for further analysis and investigation. According to the witness:
“Witnessed “person” walking, dressed strangely. When I passed and looked at my mirror, it was gone.”
Actually a pretty decent depiction of the thing in the video.
So this alien fellow vanishes too. If this is an actual reptilian alien humanoid, a few questions arise. Where’s the ship? Why are you standing on the side of the road looking like you just want a hug? If you need a hug, or a ride, why’d you vanish? Are you just messing with this one guy in particular?
If it’s not an alien, and just a person dressed like they’re gunning for the “least creative” cosplay prize at ComicCon, a few questions still arise. Amazingly, they’re mostly the same questions.
Also a pretty decent depiction of the “alien” in the video, which is kind of weird, honestly.
Likely this is one of those “sightings” that we’ll never get anymore information on, unless there’s an actual invasion of little green men sometime in the near future, but something tells me I shouldn’t bet on that outcome. This is probably just a person in costume for one of the six trillion different reasons people like to put on costumes, and the person who filmed this will be haunted by it for the rest of their days.
Regardless, whether you’re an alien, an elf, a hitchhiking nerd, or just someone with too much time on your hands, I hope you get where you’re going, buddy.
Liquid water may still flow on Mars, but that doesn't mean it's easy to spot. The search for water on the Red Planet has taken more than 15 years to turn up definitive signs that liquid flows on the surface today. In the past, however, rivers and oceans may have covered the land. Where did all of the liquid water go? Why? How much of it still remains?
Observations of the Red Planet indicate that rivers and oceans may have been prominent features in its early history. Billions of years ago, Mars was a warm and wet world that could have supported microbial life in some regions. But the planet is smaller than Earth, with less gravity and a thinner atmosphere. Over time, as liquid water evaporated, more and more of it escaped into space, allowing less to fall back to the surface of the planet.
Liquid water appears to flow from some steep, relatively warm slopes on the Martian surface. Features known as recurring slope lineae (RSL) were first identified in 2011in images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The dark streaks, which appear seasonally, were confirmed to be signs of salty water running on the surface of the planet.
"If this is correct, then RSL on Mars may represent the surface expression of a far more significant ongoing drainage system on steep slopes in the mid-latitudes," a research team member told Space.com in 2012.
"The detection of hydrated salts on these slopes means that water plays a vital role in the formation of these streaks," the study's lead author, Lujendra Ojha, of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said in a statement. Vast deposits of water appear to be trapped within the ice caps at the north and south poles of the planet. Each summer, as temperatures increase, the caps shrink slightly as their contents skip straight from solid to gas form, but in the winter, cooler temperatures cause them to grow to latitudes as low as 45 degrees, or halfway to the equator. The caps are an average of 2 miles (3 kilometers) thick and, if completely melted, could cover the Martian surface with about 18 feet (5.6 meters) of water.
Frozen water also lies beneath the surface. Scientists discovered a slab of ice as large as California and Texas combined in the region between the equator and north pole of the Red Planet. The presence of subsurface water has long been suspected but required the appearance of strange layered craters to confirm. Other regions of the planet may contain frozen water, as well. Some high-latitude regions seem to boast patterned ground-shapes that may have formed as permafrost in the soil freezes and thaws over time.
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft captured images of sheets of ice in the cooler, shadowed bottoms of craters, which suggests that liquid water can pool under appropriate conditions. Other craters identified by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show similar pooling.
Evidence for water on Mars first came to light in 2000, with the appearance of gullies that suggested a liquid origin. Their formation has been hotly debated over the ensuing years.
But not everyone thinks that Mars contains water today. New research reveals that RSL may actually have formed by granular flows formed by the movement of sand and dust.
"We've thought of RSL as possible liquid water flows, but the slopes are more like what we expect for dry sand," lead author Colin Dundas said in a statement. "This new understanding of RLS supports other evidence that shows that Mars today is very dry."
That idea may have been washed away by the recent discovery of a possible subsurface lake near the Martian South Pole.
An underground lake?
Researchers made a big splash when they announced that Mars might be hiding a lake beneath its southern pole. The European Mars Express spacecraft used its Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) to detect the proposed water. Ground-penetrating radar sent radar pulses to the surface, then timed how long it took for them to be reflected. The properties of the subsurface layers affect how long it takes for the beams to return.
MARSIS' investigation revealed that the Martian south pole is composed of multiple layers of ice and dust to a depth of about nearly 1 mile (1.5 kilometers) spread over a 124-mile-wide (200 km) region.
"This subsurface anomaly on Mars has radar properties matching water or water-rich sediments," Roberto Orosei, principal investigator of the MARSIS experiment and lead author of the new research, said in a statement.
MARSIS also revealed the presence of a subsurface lake among the pockets. According to the radar echoes, the lake is no more than 12.5 miles (20 km) across, buried nearly a mile beneath the surface. The scientists aren't certain of the lake's depth, but they have confirmed that it is at least 3 feet (1 meter) deep. According to the researchers, the lake must have salt to keep from freezing.
"This is just one small study area; it is an exciting prospect to think there could be more of these underground pockets of water elsewhere, yet to be discovered," Orosei said.
Not all researchers are as certain about the presence of liquid water.
"I think it's a very, very persuasive argument, but it's not a conclusive or definitive argument," Steve Clifford, a Mars researcher at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona, told Space.com. "There's always the possibility that conditions that we haven't foreseen exist at the base of the cap and are responsible for this bright reflection."
More than three decades ago, Clifford proposed that Mars could harbor liquid water beneath its polar caps in the same way that Earth does. On Earth, lakes beneath the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are created when heat from within the planets melt the glaciers in patches. Clifford told Space.com that a similar scenario could happen beneath the Martian polar ice caps.
"The bright spot seen in the MARSIS data is an unusual feature and extremely intriguing," Jim Green, NASA's chief scientist, said in a statement. "It definitely warrants further study. Additional lines of evidence should be pursued to test the interpretation."
"We hope to use other instruments to study it further in the future," Green said.
At the center of this view of an area of mid-latitude northern Mars, a fresh crater about 6 meters (20 feet) in diameter holds an exposure of bright material, blue in this false-color image.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona [Full Story]
Searching for an oasis
When Mariner 9 became the first craft to orbit another planet in 1971, the photographs it returned of dry river beds and canyons seemed to indicate that water had once existed on the Martian surface. Images from the Viking orbiters only strengthened the idea that many of the landforms may have been created by running water. Data from the Viking landers pointed to the presence of water beneath the surface, but the experiments were deemed inconclusive. [Mars Explored: Landers and Rovers Since 1971 (Infographic)]
The early '90s kicked off a slew of Mars missions. Scientists were flooded with a wealth of information about Mars. Three NASA orbiters and one sent by the European Space Agency studied the planet from above, mapping the surface and analyzing the minerals below. Some detected the presence of minerals, indicating the presence of water. Other data measured enough subsurface ice to fill Lake Michigan twice. They found evidence that ancient hot springs once existed on the surface and sustained precipitation once fell in some areas. And they found patches of ice within some of the deeper craters.
Impact craters offer a view of the interior of the red planet. Using the ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists were able to study rocks ejected from the planet's interior, finding minerals that suggested the presence of water.
"Water circulation occurred several kilometers deep in the crust some 3.7 billion years ago," Nicolas Mangold, of the University of Nantes in France, said in a statement.
But orbiters weren't the only objects launched toward Mars. NASA's Curiosity rover is the fifth robot to land on the surface of the Red Planet in the last 15 years. Pathfinder, Phoenix, Spirit and Opportunity all took detailed measurements of the planet; all but Phoenix traveled across the surface collecting a treasure trove of information.
Images of one of Phoenix's struts taken by the lander's robotic arm camera on Sols (or Martian days) 8, 31 and 44 of th emission. The two spheroids enclosed by the circle appear to merge with each other, which some Phoenix scientists argue is a sign that the globs are liquid water.
Credit: Renno, et al., NASA
The probes dug into the ground, examining rocks and performing experiments. In 2008, Phoenix turned up small chunks of bright material that disappeared after four days, leading scientists to surmise that they were pieces of water ice. The lander went on to detect water vapor in a sample it collected and analyzed, confirming the presence of frozen water on the red planet.
Spirit and Opportunity, the twin rovers, found traces of water enclosed in rock. In a shining example of a problem becoming a solution, a broken wheel on Spirit scraped into the top of the Martian surface, revealing a layer beneath rich in silica that had most likely formed in the presence of water.
Curiosity has found yet more evidence of water flowing on ancient Mars. The 1-ton rover rolled through an ancient stream bed shortly after touching down in August 2012, and it has examined a number of rocks that were exposed to liquid water billions of years ago.
Mars missions aren't the only way to search for water on Mars. Scientists studying rocks ejected from the Red Planet found signs that water lay beneath the surface in the past.
"While robotic missions to Mars continue to shed light on the planet's history, the only samples from Mars available for study on Earth are Martian meteorites," lead author Lauren White, of the JPL, said in a statement.
"On Earth, we can utilize multiple analytical techniques to take a more in-depth look at meteorites and shed light on the history of Mars."
Historical landforms
In addition to examining the relatively recent (geologically speaking) presence of water, the various missions have also studied the surface of the planet in a historical context. The river beds of Mars don't run wet today, but scientists can study them to learn more about the evolution of the planet. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars]
The flatter northern plains of Mars may once have hosted an ocean, or possibly, as the planet cycled through dry periods, two. The more recent body of water would likely have only been temporary, seeping into the ground, evaporating, or freezing in less than a million years, scientists say.
Riverbeds and gullies indicate that water ran, at least briefly, across the surface of Mars. A hundred times more water may have flowed annually through a large channel system known as Marte Vallis than passes through the Mississippi River each year, according to estimates. The gullies themselves are smaller, likely forming during brief torrential rainstorms when fast-moving water could have carved them across the land.
Curiosity found indications that at least one region of Mars, Mount Sharp, was built by sediments deposited in a lake bed millions of years ago, suggesting large pools existed on the planet for significant time periods.
"If our hypothesis for Mount Sharp holds up, it challenges the notion that warm and wet conditions were transient, local, or only underground on Mars," Curiosity deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said in a statement.
On Earth, the land around rivers and lakes is wetter, made up of mud and clays. Such deposits exist on Mars as well, trapping water and indicating where larger bodies may have once existed.
Water on Mars may be doing something more than sitting pretty. A new study reveals that when the liquid boils, thanks to low pressures, it can make the sand levitate.
"Sediment levitation must therefore be considered when evaluating the formation of recent and present-day Martian mass wasting features, as much less water may be required to form such features than previously thought," the researchers wrote in their study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications.
Liquid gold
Water may seem like a very common element to those of us stuck on Earth, but it has great value. In addition to understanding how Mars may have changed and developed over time, scientists hope that finding water will help them to find something even more valuable — life, either past or present.
Only Earth is known to host life, and life on our planet requires water. Though life could conceivably evolve without relying on this precious liquid, scientists can only work with what they know. Thus they hope that locating water on celestial bodies such as Mars will lead to finding evidence for life.
With this in mind, NASA developed a strategy for exploring the Red Planet that takes as its mantra "follow the water." Recent orbiters, landers and rovers sent to Mars were designed to search for water, rather than life, in the hopes of finding environments where life could have thrived.
That has changed, however, with the flood of evidence these robots have returned. Curiosity determined that Mars could indeed have supported microbial life in the ancient past, and the next NASA rover — a car-size robot based heavily on Curiosity's basic design — will blast off in 2020 to look for evidence of past Red Planet life.
Extraterrestrial Cycloid Curves – Why Are They On Europa?
Extraterrestrial Cycloid Curves – Why Are They On Europa?
This video is about the cycloid curves on Jupiter’s moon Europa – they’re ridges or valleys in the icy surface that formed due to some sort of geological or tectonic-esque phenomenon. The answer involves ping pong balls, the pacific ring of fire, subduction, tidal bulges, and tailcracking,
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Extraterrestrial Cycloids - Why Are They on Europa?
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This is an image of Jupiter's moon Europa taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1998. You probably noticed that Europa's surface which is made of ice has tons and tons of cracks. But I want to direct your attention to this weird repeating arc pattern. Each segment of ARC is roughly 100 kilometers long and there are a lots of these arc patterns. Most of them are ridges raised up above the surrounding surface though a few are troughs after they were discovered. Their shape reminded scientists of a mathematical curve called a cycloid. So the Europa curves are called cycloid curves though technically they're not Cyclades. These curves are weird geological and astrophysical processes are really good at making round features more straight features or wavy features. But what causes repeated markings cycloids. Well we think that the Europan surface is made of frozen water at least several miles thick which we believe is floating on of an ocean of liquid water. This means its surface kind of works the way tectonic plates do here on Earth spreading apart and generating new ice crashing together and being subducted and so on. And here on Earth Plate Tectonics has caused cycloid curves all around the Pacific Ring of Fire. Our best guess for how the Pacific arcs form here on earth is based on the geometry of what happens when the ocean plates get pushed under continental plates because the Earth's surface is curved. You get a similar effects to what happens when you dent a ping pong ball. You might get a signal or if you press harder multiple circular arcs Cyclopes curves.
However this doesn't appear to be the answer on Europa because there are so many cycloid curves and they overlap in tons of places and none of them really show signs of one piece of the surface being pushed under another. The current best theory for the origin of the Europan cycloids has to do with Europas weird tides Jupiter which it's orbiting causes tides on Europa but they're not from daily rotation beneath a tidal bulge the way tides happen here on Earth because the same side of Europa always faces Jupiter. No Europa has tides because its orbit isn't a perfect circle it's ever so slightly elliptical. So as Europa moves closer or farther from Jupiter the nature of Jupiter's gravitational pole changes on the scale of the whole moon. These tides manifest as a kind of squeezing and stretching which due to the interaction of geometry and physics results in any given point on the icy surface being pressed together at one time in the orbits and then stretched at a later point and the aspect of tides. Key to understanding the cycloid curves is that the direction of the compression and stretching changes over the course of each orbit rotating around like the hand on a clock. Specifically the compression tension direction rotates clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and it takes one orbit to complete a full rotation so when there's enough stretching tension to form a crack in the ice the crack will start propagating perpendicular to the tension. But remember the direction of tension is changing.
If say the crack is growing to the east in the northern hemisphere the counter-clockwise changing tension will curve it up away from the equator as Europa continues orbiting. The tension will eventually turn to compression so the crack will stop growing the compression angle will continue turning though and by the time the pressing turns back to pulling the direction will have rotated back around enough that the crack will make a sharp turn when it starts cracking again after which it resumes its upward curving trajectory. There's probably a little more subtlety due to a stress strain process called Tail cracking that helps the sharp corners form for each new segment. But this is basically the best current theory explaining the Europan cycloid cracks grow because the tides from Jupiter create tension in the ice and that tension direction changes over time curving the crack. Then the process repeats again starting the crack off in the original direction curving again and so on. And that's how waves form on a frozen world. This video was supported by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Project at the Space Telescope Science Institute. There's still a ton we don't know about Europa for example the Hubble telescope has detected what we think are plumes jetting from Europe as icy surface perhaps water sprouting up through cracks and if so the plumes could give us insights into the oceans beneath the James Webb telescope will use its powerful thermal imaging and spectroscopy to investigate Europa's plumes and to study the geologic activity tides and tectonics of Europa and other outer solar system planets and moons hopefully answering questions about how they formed how they continue to behave and whether they have conditions amenable to life.
Pascagoula native finally tells the tale of amazing close encounter
Pascagoula native finally tells the tale of amazing close encounter
For 45 years, Calvin Parker kept his mouth shut about the Pascagoula alien abduction that captured America’s attention. But now he’s ready to tell his story.
Parker, who claims he was abducted and examined by alien beings while fishing on the Pascagoula River with Charles Hickson in 1973, will hold a book signing event at Main Street Pascagoula on Oct. 11, 2018, on the 45th anniversary of the alleged abduction.
“I never really told my story,” Parker said. “Nobody has ever talked to my family about it, never talked to my friends about it. I’ve always kept it quiet.”
A few months ago, however, Parker decided to share his story through a book titled Pascagoula – The Closest Encounter: My Story.
The idea came to him after attending a funeral. Visitors saw his name on the registry and began asking questions.
“They was coming up asking a lot of questions, wanting pictures,” he said. “We left the funeral because it was taking attention away from the family, but on the way home (me and my wife) talked about writing a book.”
As fate would have it, when they returned home a publisher had left a message about a book deal.
“He told me, ‘It’s your legacy. People need to know. People want to know,’” Parker said. “He said the media always changes things. They make it a little spicier. I wanted to document this and put it in a book where it can’t be changed.”
Parker said he’s eager to kick off his book signings in Pascagoula because he owes the people of Jackson County an explanation of what happened.
“I don’t know if they believe it or not,” he said. “It don’t matter to me if you believe it or not (because) I know it happened.”
The book, should help readers make up their minds, he said.
“At least read the book and get the facts, like the polygraph test, the voice stress test, the eye witnesses, the hypnosis sessions,” he said.
The book is available for purchase for $30 through Main Street Pascagoula by emailing mainstreetpascagoula@gmail.com. The book will be available for pick-up at the book signing event.
The book signing will be held at 618 Delmas Ave. from 5-8 p.m. on Oct. 11.
The book reveals all, Parker said.
“I remember everything about it,” Parker said, recounting that night in 1973.
He and Hickson, who has since died, were fishing on private property on the east bank of the Pascagoula River.
“We had seen some blue, hazy lights, and I had figured that maybe the law was coming,” he said. “We stood up and turned around, and then a real bright light appeared about the time we stood up. It was really blinding for a minute.”
He believes the blinding light was the craft’s door opening.
“We saw three figures coming toward us,” Parker recounted. “You couldn’t make it out much because of the lights, but when they got closer, you could kinda make out that they weren’t human. They were more like robotic looking.”
Two of them approached Hickson, he said, and one grabbed Parker.
“When they got a hold of me, it was like an injection,” he said. “It just took the fear and life right out of you. You couldn’t do nothing. You couldn’t talk; you couldn’t do anything but look. I couldn’t turn my head to see what was going on.”
Parker said once on board, he was put on an examination table at about a 45-degree angle.
That’s when something resembling a deck of cards with a silver bottom came out if the ceiling, he said.
“It came and hovered around my head just little bit (and) clicked four times,” he said. “I figure it was something close to an MRI.”
Then the “big ugly one” left the room, he said, and “the little feminine looking one” came inside to examine Parker.
“She pulled at my skin,” he said. “She put her fingers in my throat, nose and ears and just gave me an examination. She left the room, and the big ugly one came back in, the one I call the soldier. He came back and set us back at the river.”
Parker said he and Hickson sat on the riverbank and talked about what happened for a few minutes.
“I didn’t want to tell anyone,” he said. “But the next day, it was a media frenzy. It was national news and it still is.”
Parker believes social media has kept the abduction story alive and helped fan the flames of its popularity.
He’s been contacted by television stations and has a forthcoming radio broadcast, he said, and he wouldn’t be surprised if some movie deals come out of the book’s release.
“We’re just taking it slow and easy, not jumping into anything,” he said. “It’s been 45 years and I’ve kept my mouth shut. I kinda want to lift the cloud and lift the doubt. I just want to bring everybody together on the real facts of what happened.”
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross discusses the future of intergalactic business, trade and regulation in space. / CNBC
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By:Jamie Seidel
It's small. It's nimble. It's doing strange things over our heads. And Russia's new Kosmos 2521 satellite has the potential to bring the world's economy to its knees.
"We don't know for certain what it is and there is no way to verify it," State Department assistant secretary Yleem Poblete told a conference this week. "But Russian intentions with respect to this satellite are unclear and are obviously a very troubling development — particularly, when considered in concert with statements by Russia's Space Force Commander."
She said its manoeuvres indicated it could be an anti-satellite weapon.
And this has dire implications: Vital services such as the internet, television, telephone and GPS all rely on satellites. As does a swath of other services — such as weather forecasting and firefighting.
"In October of last year the Russian Ministry of Defense deployed a space object they claimed was a 'space apparatus inspector.' But its behaviour on-orbit was inconsistent with anything seen before from on-orbit inspection or space situational awareness capabilities, including other Russian inspection satellite activities," Poblete told a conference on disarmament in Switzerland.
Moscow immediately dismissed her comments.
US Vice-President Mike Pence speaks about the creation of a United States Space Force. Photo / AP file
The State Department's fears were "the same unfounded, slanderous accusations based on suspicions, on suppositions and so on," Russian diplomat Alexander Deynko told Reuters.
But Russia's Space Force Commander has already stated publicly it is developing "new prototypes" of space weapons.
Is this one of them?
Whatever the case, the Pentagon is clearly rattled.
"Although US space systems have historically maintained a technological advantage over those of potential adversaries, those potential adversaries are now actively developing way to deny our use of space in a crisis," a US Department of Defence report released earlier this month reads.
BATTLING IN ORBIT
While Poblete did not specify which Russian satellite she was talking about, military analysts believe it was one of a set launched on June 23. A month later, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced it had launched "a small-sized spacecraft has separated from a space platform in order to inspect condition of the Russian satellite."
Kosmos 2521 was believed deployed from another satellite, Kosmos 2519. Close by is another satellite, Kosmos 2523.
Exactly what these Russian satellites have been doing that is "very troubling" is unknown.
But Moscow has reportedly been investing heavily in obtaining the ability for a satellite to move around in orbit and interact with other satellites. This could give it the ability to attach spy equipment to an opponent's satellite, push it out of alignment, distort its signals, damage it, destroy it — or even potentially capture it.
Destroying a satellite, however, poses immense risks for all space flight activities. Fragments can cannon about above the Earth's atmosphere for centuries — striking other satellites, and adding their wreckage to the deadly debris fields.
For this reason, the world's militaries have been looking at 'non-kinetic' methods of putting satellites out of service.
This can involve the use of lasers or microwave guns to fry delicate electronics, or jam its signals. And the testing of any such technology would be difficult to discern from simple mechanical failures from the ground.
WEAPONISING SPACE
Russia is working on more than just space-based satellite warfare. It has also deployed, for the first time, ground-based laser batteries aimed at taking the down prying eyes above.
"The Russian Ministry of Defense recently announced that its Space Troops have received a mobile laser system which Vladimir Putin announced to the world on March 1 of this year. Russia's leader himself alluded to space weapons being 'more acceptable in the political and military respect'," Poblete said.
This refers to the Peresvet system President Vladimir Putin referred to when he announced six new 'super weapons' to the world earlier this year. The laser is mobile, networking generators, sensors and command-and-control systems packed on the back of trucks.
The laser is claimed to have the ability to shoot-down ballistic missiles in their orbital phase, as well as satellites.
Russia's space agency Roscosmos is also attempting to 'weaponise' a telescope. It wants "an optic detection system which includes a solid-state laser and a transmit/receive adaptive optical system."
It argues the laser cannon would be able to locate and identify space junk before slagging it.
It argues that there are already 22,000 dead satellites and large pieces of debris being tracked in orbit. In total, estimates place the amount of objects floating around up there at 170 million pieces.
Chinese researchers have also been exploring the use of lasers in space, with the potential of a space-based system being investigated earlier this year.
“Last night, at 12:19 a.m. Central Daylight Time, numerous eyewitnesses in the Southeast reported seeing a very bright fireball, which was also detected by all six NASA meteor cameras in the region. Analysis of the data indicates that the meteor was first seen at an altitude of 58 miles above Turkeytown, Alabama (northeast of Gadsden), moving west of north at 53,700 miles per hour. It fragmented some 18 miles above the small town of Grove Oak. Early results indicate the fireball, which was at least 40 times as bright as the full moon, was caused by a small asteroid 6 feet (2 meters) in diameter. We are still assessing the probability of the fireball producing meteorites on the ground – whether it did or not, it was an extremely bright event, seen through partly cloudy skies and triggering every camera and sensor operated by the Meteoroid Environment Office in the region.”
The Mars Curiosity rover captured images of this strange object on the planet’s surface on Monday. What is it? NASA scientists have figured it out.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
This small object got the attention of Mars Curiosity mission scientists this past week. NASA scientists say they were finally able to figure out what the strange fragment is.
Images captured on Monday (August 13, 2018) by the Curiosity rover’s camera show an object that looks perhaps like masking tape or a piece of peeled-off paint. Scientists initially speculated that the mysterious chunk, which they referred to as Pettegrove Point Foreign Object Debris, was a piece of spacecraft debris, or part of Curiosity itself. But now they’ve determined that it’s of natural origin.
It was analyzed by Curiosity’s ChemCam, an instrument that uses a laser and spectrometer. Results showed the object is a very thin flake of rock. “False Alarm,” said the mission team, who had initially though they’d found some kind of interesting object on the surface of Mars.
Although it turns out that this object isn’t related to the search of past or present life on Mars, Curiosity has made significant discoveries recently. For example, the rover found evidence on Martian rocks which suggests the neighbor planet could have supported ancient life. The rover’s data reveal a water lake inside Gale Crater held all the ingredients necessary for life, including chemical building blocks and energy sources.
Curiosity is also observing the Martian atmosphere to monitor the current dust storm on Mars, which is now abating. The plutonium-fueled rover has been exploring the Mars surface since August 2012.
Bottom line: A strange-looking object photographed by the Mars Curiosity rover has turned out to be a piece of rock.
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
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