Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
05-09-2018
Strange UFO Sighting Over Beach In Netherlands Appears On Camera
Strange UFO Sighting Over Beach In Netherlands Appears On Camera
There are a whole range of possibilities when it comes to UFO photos and videos, so many that it would be boring to list them all here. Everything from video editing, to staged, natural and ordinary objects being mistaken for extraterrestrial outer space technology.
In this video we see young adventurers having a good time in their off road vehicles spot something flying through the air, and naturally intrigued, video record it. We can suspend criticism of the shaky quality of the video, because they are amateurs and they are recording from their vehicles, which we see and hear. Forgiven.
It’s a good bet that the subject of their inquisitiveness isn’t video editing, but an actual thing in the sky. It’s the “what is it” piece of the puzzle that we should be solving. The sky is blue, with a gauzy overlay of high cirrostratus clouds. It’s a delightful sunny day. We are not going to impugn the reputations of those involved. Have they captured the scout of an invading Vogon Destructor Fleet? Shouldn’t they be running for cover (even if only to give them the false sense of security a few minutes before the earth is vaporized)? Meh…probably not.
The flight trajectory looks almost like the object is wind born…hmmm. Also, hate to say it, but we’re seeing quite a few of these types of videos lately. Especially after birthday parties and weddings, perhaps? Are you getting the drift of where this is going? If you guessed mylar party balloons, which can hold helium for a really long time, you’re not just getting warm, you’re spot on.
Everything about the flying thing in the video screams “Hey, dudes, I’m a balloon. Get over it!” Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It…it’s a balloon! Yet, the fun will never be over with UFO videos. We are all entitled to our analyses. Some might argue that the unidentified object is not traveling in a straight line, but is zig-zagging. They can prove it by the way it moves against the clouds. Some true believers might cite other subtle cues, possibly claiming high speeds that a floating balloon would be impossible to achieve, or what looks like a brief descent and then quick elevation. It’s actually hard to predict what UFOlogists can come up with to “prove” a thing on film (“film” being an outdated term, really) is actually the flying vehicle of little green men.
Videos like this one give us endless sport in the game of “what is it?” with critics debunking, and believes re-bunking! As long as there are amateur videographers without a proper zoom lens and a tripod capture strange things flying or floating through the skies, whipping out their cell phones from the backs of moving off road vehicles on bumpy roads, there will be no dry spells when it comes to enjoying home UFOmovies.
RUSSEN DENKEN DAT ER STIEKEM EEN GAT IS GEBOORD IN SOYUZ MODULE
RUSSEN DENKEN DAT ER STIEKEM EEN GAT IS GEBOORD IN SOYUZ MODULE
Nadat eerder deze week NASA volkomen voor joker stond door astronaut Chris Hadfield een oude afbeelding te laten versturen van een gat in de romp van een ruimtemodule, wordt de ruimte soap nog erger.
De Russen denken nu dat het gat in de Soyuz module niet is veroorzaakt door een kleine meteoriet, maar heel goed het resultaat kan zijn van sabotage.
Eerder deze week schreven wij een artikel over een klein gat dat ontstaan zou zijn in de aan het ISS gekoppelde Soyuz module en naar aanleiding daarvan ontvingen wij enkele reacties (dank!).
De eerste:
Die astronaut, Chris Hadfield, mag dan een foto van het gaatje in de ISS twitteren, hij is helemaal niet aan boord van het ISS. (Zie bijlage, huidige bemanning)
Ik denk... ik laat het FF weten! Haha.
Een andere lezer stuurt het volgende:
In het onderstaande artikel schrijven jullie hoe Nasa voor joker staat i.v.m. de foto die ze gebruikten ter illustratie. Deze foto komt van een vorige missie met de Solar Max uit de jaren '80.
De band Remedy drive heeft deze foto weer gebruikt voor hun cover van het album Commodity. Of de ruimtevaart nou een hoax is of niet, dit soort artikelen maakt Niburu niet echt geloofwaardig i.v.m. het slechte onderzoek dat wordt gedaan.
Volgens mij zijn jullie een van de weinigen in de alternatieve media die snapt dat Trump voor de Cabal/Deep State werkt en niet voor de burger. Hierdoor kom ik graag op jullie site maar dit soort artikelen schaad de kwaliteit van jullie site naar mijn idee.
Op onze vraag hoe hij aan deze informatie komt, ontvingen wij het volgende:
In de bijlage een tweet van het space station over de foto.
Het blijft sowieso een vreemd verhaal over dat gat. Ze hadden ook een foto van het gerepareerde gat kunnen sturen...
Terug naar het officiële verhaal met de verklaring dat het gaatje in de Soyzuz module, gekoppeld aan het ISS ruimtestation, veroorzaakt zou zijn door een micro meteoriet.
Nu komt er een nieuwe twist in het hele verhaal, want het hoofd van de Russische ruimtevaartbureau, Dmitry Rogozin, zegt dat dit gaatje weleens het resultaat kan zijn van sabotage.
Het betreffende gaatje is namelijk niet veroorzaakt door een kleine meteoriet, maar door een boor. De enige vraag die voor de Russen nog openstaat is of dit gat erin is geboord op aarde of terwijl de Soyuz aan het ISS is gekoppeld.
Volgens Rogozin zijn er meerdere pogingen ondernomen om een gat te boren en heeft degene die het heeft gedaan geen vaste hand.
Theoretisch zou het ook nog een productiefout kunnen zijn, maar dat lijkt erg onwaarschijnlijk, ook omdat er nooit eerder dit soort problemen zijn geweest met de Soyuz schepen.
De Russen zullen in ieder geval een onderzoek instellen, zowel op aarde als in de ruimte. NASA onthoudt zich van verder commentaar en verwijst naar de Russen omdat zij zich bezighouden met het onderzoek.
Een Russisch parlementslid, Maxim Surayev, suggereert dat het misschien wel is gedaan door een astronaut die heimwee heeft en zo snel mogelijk naar de aarde terug wil keren. Surayev weet waarover hij praat, want naast parlementslid is hij ook astronaut en heeft zelf, zo zegt hij, twee missies naar het ISS meegemaakt.
“Als dit gedaan is door een astronaut, dan is dat slecht nieuws. Ik hoop echt dat het een productiefout is, maar dat zou ook triest zijn, want er is nog nooit iets dergelijks voorgevallen in de geschiedenis van Soyuz schepen”.
AFP PHOTO / European Southern ObservatoryIllustratiefoto.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETHet planetair stelsel rond de dwergster TRAPPIST-1, op zo’n veertig lichtjaar van de aarde, blijft meer en meer intrigeren. Sommige van de zeven exoplaneten zouden zelfs meer vloeibaar water hebben dan onze aarde, bericht Space.com. Tot 250 keer meer zelfs.
Een nieuw onderzoek wierp meer licht op de samenstelling van de zeven exoplaneten (planeten die rond een andere ster dan de zon draaien, nvdr) rond TRAPPIST-1. “Alle planeten rond TRAPPIST-1 zijn heel aarde-achtig: ze hebben een solide kern, omringd door een atmosfeer”, vertelde Simon Grimm van de Universiteit van Bern aan Space.com. Daarnaast vond het team rond Grimm dat één planeet in het bijzonder op aarde leek: exoplaneet TRAPPIST-1e. De planeet zou een gelijkaardige massa en radius hebben, en krijgt een vergelijkbare hoeveelheid energie van de ster waarrond hij draait.
Eerder werd al gevonden dat de exoplaneten waterrijk zijn, iets dat in het onderzoek bevestigd wordt. In sommige gevallen bestaan de planeten tot vijf procent van hun totale massa uit water. Ter vergelijking: slechts 0,02 procent van de massa van de aarde bestaat uit water.
De onderzoekers waarschuwen dat er nog niets is gezegd omtrent effectieve levensvatbaarheid van het systeem. Het is wel al geweten is dat de planeten in de levensvatbare zone rond de ster draaien, wat vloeibaar water op het oppervlak mogelijk maakt. Het waren wetenschappers onder leiding van Michaël Gillon van de Luikse Universiteit die de eerste vondsten rond TRAPPIST-1 hebben gedaan. Hun eerste publicaties dateren van mei 2016.
AFP PHOTO / European Southern ObservatoryPlaneet TRAPPIST-1e zou het meest lijken op onze aarde.
Saturn’s massive hexagonal storm may be even more impressive than we realized.
Scientists have studied the remarkable six-sided vortex in the planet’s north pole since it was first discovered by the Voyager spacecraft back in the 1980s.
This low-altitude storm sits deep within Saturn’s clouds, and data captured during the Cassini data has now revealed a higher altitude counterpart that emerges as summertime approaches.
The findings mean the ringed planet may be home to two of the unusually shaped storms stacked atop one another at different layers of the atmosphere – or, it could be one massive structure that stretches hundreds of miles high.
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Saturn’s massive hexagonal storm may be even more impressive than we realized. Scientists have studied the remarkable six-sided vortex in the planet’s north pole since it was first discovered by the Voyager spacecraft back in the 1980s. Now, they've found another
‘The edges of this newly-found vortex appear to be hexagonal, precisely matching a famous and bizarre hexagonal cloud pattern we see deeper down in Saturn’s atmosphere,’ says lead author Leigh Fletcher of the University of Leicester, UK.
‘While we did expect to see a vortex of some kind at Saturn’s north pole as it grew warmer, its shape is really surprising.
‘Either a hexagon has spawned spontaneously and identically at two different altitudes, one lower in the clouds and one high in the stratosphere, or the hexagon is in fact a towering structure spanning a vertical range of several hundred kilometres.’
The Cassini spacecraft had previously spotted a warm high-altitude vortex in Saturn’s south pole during the summer.
But, despite the presence of the lower storm, no high-altitude storm was seen in the north.
A long-term study across multiple wavelengths captured by Cassini’s Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) and other instruments, however, revealed new details on the northern hemisphere as the long winter came to an end.
‘One Saturnian year spans roughly 30 Earth years, so the winters are long,’ adds co-author Sandrine Guerlet from Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, France.
‘Saturn only began to emerge from the depths of northern winter in 2009, and gradually warmed up as the northern hemisphere approached summertime.’
From 2014 until the end of the Cassini mission, the researchers used the CIRS instrument to investigate this region, Guerlet said.
‘As the polar vortex became more and more visible, we noticed it had hexagonal edges, and realized that we were seeing the pre-existing hexagon at much higher altitudes than previously thought.’
Data captured during the Cassini data has now revealed a higher altitude counterpart that emerges as summertime approaches. This means there could be two storms stacked atop one another – or, it could be one massive structure that stretches hundreds of miles
SATURN'S HEXAGONAL STORM
The mysterious six-sided hexagon on Saturn's North Pole has long captivated astronomers, and is thought to be nearly 20,000 miles (32,190 km) wide.
The hexagon is made of a band of upper-atmospheric winds which creates its shape.
A polar cyclone can be seen at its centre.
First seen by Voyagers 1 and 2 more than 30 years ago, the hexagon it thought to be fixed with Saturn's rotation.
Last year, the Cassini spacecraft provided scientists with the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling within the hexagon.
Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane were estimated to b travelling at around 330mph (150 metres per second).
The discovery suggests there are very different processes at work at Saturn’s two poles.
While the north pole is home to two hexagonal vortices, no such shape was seen in the south.
The northern storm is also much cooler, giving rise to different behaviors.
‘This could mean that there’s a fundamental asymmetry between Saturn’s poles that we’re yet to understand, or it could mean that the north polar vortex was still developing in our last observations and kept doing so after Cassini’s demise,’ Fletcher said.
Though it’s unlikely, the researchers say the two hexagon-shaped storms could be a single towering structure. They could also be two separate entities.
‘One way that wave “information” can leak upwards is via a process called evanescence, where the strength of a wave decays with height but is just about strong enough to still persist up into the stratosphere,’ Fletcher says.
The Cassini spacecraft had previously spotted a warm high-altitude vortex in Saturn’s south pole during the summer. But, despite the presence of the lower storm, no high-altitude storm was seen in the north - until now
Mysterious Hurricane at Saturn's North Pole
‘We simply need to know more. It’s quite frustrating that we only discovered this stratospheric hexagon right at the end of Cassini’s lifespan.’
Scientists are now working to better understand how lower-altitude phenomena influence the regions higher above.
‘Saturn’s northern hexagon is an iconic feature on one of the most charismatic members of the solar system, so to discover that it still holds major mysteries is very exciting,’ says Nicolas Altobelli, ESA Project Scientist for the Cassini-Huygens mission.
‘The Cassini spacecraft continued to provide new insights and discoveries right up to the very end.
‘Without a capable spacecraft like Cassini, these mysteries would have remained unexplored.
‘It shows just what can be accomplished by an international team sending a sophisticated robotic explorer to a previously unexplored destination – with results that keep flowing even when the mission itself has ended.’
Planet Nine DOES exist: 'Eternally optimistic' astronomers say we WILL find evidence of the mysterious world but warn it could be 'essentially invisible' to current telescopes
Planet Nine DOES exist: 'Eternally optimistic' astronomers say we WILL find evidence of the mysterious world but warn it could be 'essentially invisible' to current telescopes
Researchers have argued a ninth planet exists in the solar system for years
While evidence for it stacks up, no telescope has yet been able to spot it
Experts say it could be essentially invisible to existing observatories
It is one of the biggest mysteries in the universe - and could be hiding in plain sight.
Many astronomers are still convinced 'Planet Nine' exists beyond Jupiter.
'Every time we take a picture,' Surhud More, an astronomer at the University of Tokyo told the Washington Post, 'there is this possibility that Planet Nine exists in the shot.'
While evidence for its existence stacks up, no telescope has yet been able to spot it.
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Astronomers are still convinced a mysterious 'Planet Nine' exists beyond Jupiter. 'Every time we take a picture,' Surhud More, an astronomer at the University of Tokyo told the Washington Post, 'there is this possibility that Planet Nine exists in the shot.'
Michael Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, says he feels 'eternally optimistic' that someone will soon find it - but experts say it could be essentially invisible to existing observatories.
'It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the orbits of distant bodies, perhaps even tilting the entire solar system to one side,' NASA said.
Astronomers have debated whether an elusive ninth planet orbits beyond Pluto for years, but a recent study may finally prove the mysterious world is real.
Researchers spotted a distant rocky object that they suggest was pushed into an 'extraordinary orbit' by the gravitational pull of an uncharted planet.
They say that their finding bolsters the ever-convincing case that a so-called 'Planet Nine' exists.
Planet Nine was first theorised by experts at Caltech in 2016 when they spotted that a group of icy objects on the edges of the solar system have tilted orbits.
They suggested the orbits of these lumps of ice - so-called Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) - were warped by the gravitational pull of a ninth planet in the solar system.
An undiscovered world may be lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system. Astronomers have debated whether an elusive 'Planet Nine' (artist's impression) orbits beyond Pluto for years, but a new study may finally prove the mysterious world is real
The objects had elliptical orbits that pointed in the same direction and were tilted 30 degrees 'downward' compared to the plane in which planets circle the sun.
While Planet Nine has never been spotted, a number of astronomers - including scientists at Nasa - have since released research that supports the theory.
In a new paper a group of experts led by the University of Michigan describe a distant object that they spotted in 2014 that could be as large as a dwarf planet.
WHAT IS MYSTERIOUS 'PLANET X'?
Astronomers believe that the orbits of a number of bodies in the distant reaches of the solar system have been disrupted by the pull of an as yet unidentified planet.
First proposed by a group at CalTech in the US, this alien world was theorised to explain the distorted paths seen in distant icy bodies.
In order to fit in with the data they have, this alien world - popularly called Planet Nine - would need to be roughly four time the size of Earth and ten times the mass.
Researchers say a body of this size and mass would explain the clustered paths of a number of icy minor planets beyond Neptune.
Its huge orbit would mean it takes between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make a single pass around the sun.
The theoretical Planet Nine is based on the gravitational pull it exerts on these bodies, with astronomers confident it will be found in the coming years.
Those hoping for theoretical Earth-sized planets proposed by astrologers or science fiction writers - which are 'hiding behind the sun' and linked with Doomsday scenarios - may have to keep searching.
The rocky body, dubbed 2015 BP519, peaked the team's interest because its orbit is unusually tilted away from the plane that most objects that orbit the sun lie.
They used computer simulations of the solar system to explore how this strange trajectory may have arisen.
Simulations where our star system had eight planets did not reproduce 2015 BP519's tilted orbit.
When researchers added a ninth planet that matched the properties of those proposed by the Caltech researchers, the simulation reproduced 2015 BP519's current orbit almost exactly.
'It's not proof that Planet Nine exists,' Professor David Gerdes, an astronomer at the University of Michigan and a co-author on the new paper, told Quanta.
'But I would say the presence of an object like this in our solar system bolsters the case for Planet Nine.'
This image shows the orbit of 2015 BP519 (blue) as well as other TNOs as comparisons. For each orbit, the darker regions on the curve show where an object falls below the plane of the solar system. 2015 BP519 has the highest inclination of any extreme TNO discovered to date
The study adds to piling evidence for the existence of Planet Nine, though astronomers remain latched to their telescopes in search of the object.
In October 2017 Nasa weighed in on the debate, highlighting five different lines of evidence pointing to the existence of the object.
It said that imagining that Planet Nine does not exist generates more problems than it solves.
In 2016, researchers examined the orbits of six objects in a distant region of icy bodies stretching beyond Neptune. The objects had orbits that point in the same direction and are tilted 30° 'downward' compared to the solar plane in which the eight planets circle the sun
Dr Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech in Pasadena, whose team is closing in on finding Planet Nine, said: 'There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine.
'If you were to remove this explanation and imagine Planet Nine does not exist, then you generate more problems than you solve.
'All of a sudden, you have five different puzzles, and you must come up with five different theories to explain them.'
Researchers are now using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii in the hopes of finding Planet Nine, and hope that its detection will also shed light on its origin.
In 2016, Dr Batygin published a study that examined the orbits of six objects in the Kuiper Belt - a distant region of icy bodies stretching from Neptune outward toward interstellar space.
His findings revealed that the objects all had elliptical orbits that point in the same direction and are tilted 30 degrees 'downward' compared to the plane in which the eight planets circle the sun.
To investigate this further, the researchers used computer simulations of the solar system with Planet Nine included, and showed that there should be more objects tilted at 90 degrees to the plane of the eight planets.
The team realised that five objects already known to astronomers fit the bill.
Following this study, two more clues emerged about Planet Nine.
A second article by Dr Batygin's team, led by Ms Elizabeth Bailey, showed that Planet Nine could have tilted the planets of our solar system during the last 4.5 billion years.
Dr Batygin said: 'Over long periods of time, Planet Nine will make the entire solar-system plane precess or wobble, just like a top on a table.'
Finally, the researchers demonstrate how Planet Nine's presence could explain why Kuiper Belt objects orbit in the opposite direction from everything else in the solar system.
Dr Batygin said: 'No other model can explain the weirdness of these high-inclination orbits. It turns out that Planet Nine provides a natural avenue for their generation.
'These things have been twisted out of the solar system plane with help from Planet Nine and then scattered inward by Neptune.'
The researchers now hope to find Planet Nine itself using the Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, which they describe as the 'best tool' for the job.
Dr Batygin added: 'I think Planet Nine's detection will tell us something about its }.'
Planeet X bestaat echt. Astronomen zeggen dat we spoedig bewijs zullen vinden voor de mysterieuze wereld
Planeet X bestaat echt. Astronomen zeggen dat we spoedig bewijs zullen vinden voor de mysterieuze wereld
Veel astronomen zijn ervan overtuigd dat Planeet X of Planeet Negen zich schuilhoudt ergens voorbij Jupiter. “Elke keer als we een foto maken is er een kans dat hij erop staat,” zei astronoom Surhud More van de Universiteit van Tokio.
Hoewel er steeds meer bewijzen komen voor het bestaan van de mysterieuze planeet, is er nog geen astronoom geweest die hem heeft weten te spotten.
Experts denken dat het hemellichaam met bestaande telescopen simpelweg niet waar te nemen is.
Onontdekte planeet
Uit een recente studie blijkt dat er hele sterke aanwijzingen zijn voor de mysterieuze wereld.
Onderzoekers ontdekten een rotsachtig object met een ongewone omloopbaan, dat volgens hen wordt beïnvloed door de zwaartekracht van een nog onontdekte planeet.
Hoewel Planeet X nog nooit is waargenomen, zijn er veel astronomen – waaronder NASA-wetenschappers – die ervan overtuigd zijn dat hij bestaat.
Versterkt de zaak
Computersimulaties lieten zien dat de vreemde omloopbaan van het object, 2015 BP519 geheten, kon worden verklaard door een negende planeet in het buitenste deel van ons zonnestelsel.
“Het is nog geen bewijs dat de planeet bestaat, maar het versterkt de zaak wel,” zei professor David Gerdes van de Universiteit van Michigan tegen Quanta Magazine.
Astronoom Michael Brown van Caltech zei optimistisch te zijn dat iemand het hemellichaam spoedig zal vinden.
Meer problemen
In oktober vorig jaar mengde de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA zich in de discussie. Volgens het ruimteagentschap zijn er diverse aanwijzingen dat de planeet bestaat.
“Zeggen dat de planeet niet bestaat levert meer problemen op dan het oplost,” aldus de NASA.
Evidence of Communications with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Evidence of Communications with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
As we approach Open Disclosure of the Extraterrestrial presence on Earth, the next logical question will be “How do we understand and communicate with intelligent ET races?”
Evidence shows however, that some ETs have already been preparing humanity for environmental changes and open ‘Contact’ for many decades, using various forms of communication, both subtle and direct.
This has taken many forms: From physical contact with Abductees, Contactees, and certain Military personnel, communicating verbally, telepathically or via projected imagery; through to the complex geometric and SETI-like symbolism of the genuine Crop Formations.
In his Lecture presentation, Alan Foster discusses the above, and highlights the need for humanity to examine all the available evidence of ‘Contact’, in order to understand the various forms of communication and interaction.
This also furthers our awareness that humanity has untapped capabilities yet to be developed.
The critical design review for the B-21 Raider, a major milestone, is set to wrap up by the end of 2018.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force’s super secret B-21 bomber program is gliding toward a major development milestone known as the critical design review, which is set to wrap up by the end of 2018, the director of the Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office said Monday.
“We’ve been through the preliminary design review, so we’re on a path to go into a more critical design and move on with the production of not only the test aircraft, but if I have my way, make sure that we get the development done properly leading up to an on-time start of production,” Randall Walden said at a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies event. Walden’s office, the RCO, is in charge of developing the B-21 and ensuring the program’s success.
“From my perspective, this is about producing 100 bombers, not about just getting through development,” he added. “Development is a phase that leads into the fielding of this critical need. So my focus is getting the production started, but I can’t do that until we understand what the design looks like.”
There have been some challenges with airflow and wing design early in B-21 production, but those shouldn't be game-stoppers, Rep. Rob Wittman says.
By: Aaron Mehta, Valerie Insinna
Walden also acknowledged later that, while B-21 Raider production has not started, the office has begun component testing and put a subscale model of the bomber through wind tunnel tests.
He declined to detail the scale of the model or where it has been tested, but noted that there are relatively few wind tunnel facilities in the United States, such as the Propulsion Wind Tunnel Facility in Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee.
“Any aircraft program that’s going to go through development, you’re going to do wind tunnel testing, and we’re no different,” he said.
“You’re going to go from an estimate on a piece of paper and drawings to the right things that it would take to get you to build out the system, and wind tunnel testing is one of them. We’re following that logic because it makes sense from an engineering point of view.”
On Twitter, multiple aerospace wonks, including Jeremiah Gertler of the Congressional Research Service and Tyler Rogoway of The Drive, noted that the wind tunnel tests had likely happened far earlier into the program to enable the first B-21 unit to begin fielding around 2025.
Ahh, so you're saying that this is something that probably occurred earlier than these comments today would indicate. That's a good point, you're completely right.
(And thanks, you guys also post great stuff as well.)
Jeremiah Gertler@MilAirJJ
Remember also that a 2025 IOC isn't just one bomber, but a unit. Seven years from model to 5-10 built? Also, a recent wind tunnel model wouldn't really fit the spending curve. @Aviation_Intel is on point.
The Air Force wants to buy at least 100 B-21s. It awarded Northrop Grumman a cost-plus engineering and manufacturing development contract in October 2015, which was estimated to have a value of a $21.4 billion in 2010 dollars. The service has said each aircraft is set to cost about $550 million in 2010 dollars, and it is using a separate fixed-price contract vehicle for the production phase.
Warden said Monday that four bomber pilots from Air Force Global Strike Command are embedded within the program office to provide feedback to improve the B-21 and to help relay information to command head Gen. Robin Rand, who meets with Warden every month for a status update on the program.
And although the RCO is located in Washington, D.C., it also relies on engineers and experts from the Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and the Air Force Sustainment Center at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., he said.
Beyond that, very little information about the program is publicly available due to its high level of classification, including the total value of contracts given to Northrop.
Last year, Gen. Stephen Wilson, the Air Force’s vice chief of staff, told lawmakers that the B-21 had completed its preliminary design review and was proceeding on cost and schedule.
And in March, Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, expressed satisfaction with the trajectory of the program, even as he noted that the Pratt & Whitney-built engine was experiencing growing pains.
The issue, according to Wittman, seemed to center around the flow of air through the B-21 engine. Pratt & Whitney has not divulged the model of engines used to power the Raider, but it is thought that the bomber will use a variant of the F135 built for the F-35.
Those engine problems were found as the program began moving from paper design to testing real hardware, and have since been resolved, said Warden.
“Prior to anything being built, it’s predictive. So engineering predictions are made; the moment you start getting some insight into actual lab testing, it informs you to what the answer should be. So once we had that data, it was fairly easy to go: ‘Here’s the path we’re on,’ ” he said.
“We’re in that phase today of getting a good feel for each of the components, how they’re going to be integrated in and the engineering associated with that integration.”
Correction 6/27/18 at 1:51 p.m. EST: A previous version of the story misstated the location of Tinker AFB, which is in Oklahoma.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot used to be “great” — the hurricane-like storm swirling above the planet’s surface is twice as wide as the Earth and has been going strong for 150 years.
Now, it’s great for another reason: According to a team of researchers from NASA and several U.S. universities, the Great Red Spot contains the first evidence of water on Jupiter.
The team published its research in The Astronomical Journal on August 17.
High-tech telescopes located on the remote summit of Maunakea in Hawaii were used to collect data for the research project. Image Credit: Kelly Fast / NASA
TWO TELESCOPES. ONE CONCLUSION.
Two instruments located on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in Hawaii, made possible the team’s discovery of water in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
Using radiation data collected by these two instruments, the researchers determined that the Great Red Spot has three distinct cloud layers, and that the layer highest above the cloud tops is likely composed of frozen water.
“By formulating and analyzing data obtained using ground-based telescopes, our team has detected the chemical signatures of water deep beneath the surface of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot,” said researcher Máté Ádámkovics in a press release.
All told, the researchers think Jupiter could actually host much more water than we have here on Earth.
LOOKING AHEAD.
There’s a lot that this discovery of water in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot could tell us.
For one, it could help us understand how our solar system formed and why Jupiter’s atmosphere is so darn turbulent. If NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Jupiter and looking for signs of water, confirms the results of this study, we could then use the same technique to estimate the total amount of water on Jupiter and our solar system’s other gas planets: Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
And, of course, there’s always the hunt for extraterrestrial life to consider.
“[W]here there’s the potential for liquid water, the possibility of life cannot be completely ruled out,” said Ádámkovics. “So, though it appears very unlikely, life on Jupiter is not beyond the range of our imaginations.”
Mysterieuze vierkante UFO verschijnt in lucht boven Amerikaanse staat. Deze getuige slaagde erin foto’s van te maken
Mysterieuze vierkante UFO verschijnt in lucht boven Amerikaanse staat. Deze getuige slaagde erin foto’s van te maken
Op Facebook is een UFO-waarneming verschenen. Javion Hill (35) uit de Amerikaanse staat North Carolina geloofde in eerste instantie niet in UFO’s, maar daar lijkt nu verandering in te zijn gekomen.
Hij maakte diverse foto’s van een mysterieus object tijdens een storm op 18 augustus.
Op de foto is een vierkant object te zien boven de bomen. Langs de randen van het object zijn lichten te zien.
Iets abnormaals
Hill vertelde aan de Charlotte Observer dat hij zo bang was geworden dat hij die avond niet kon slapen.
“Ik was op weg naar huis en had mijn vrouw aan de telefoon,” zei hij. “Het leek alsof er een tornado aan kwam, dus ik wilde een foto van de wolken maken voor mijn vrouw.”
“Toen zag ik iets abnormaals en dacht ik: ‘Mijn god, wat is dat?’,” vervolgde hij. “Ik begon er zoveel mogelijk foto’s van te maken.”
Verdwenen
Hill stapte bij de eerstvolgende afrit uit zijn auto om een filmpje te maken, maar toen was het object al verdwenen.
North Carolina staat in de top 10 van staten waar de meeste UFO-waarnemingen worden gedaan. Sinds 1940 zijn daar al ruim 7500 UFO’s gespot.
Hill zei dat het mogelijk een vaartuig van het leger was. Sommigen stellen dat er in de regio experimentele vliegtuigen worden getest, zoals de TR-3B.
Een stuk groter
Ene Eric White zei in een reactie dat hij in hetzelfde gebied ook iets heeft gezien wat ‘in het niets verdween’.
Hill zei verder nog dat het object in werkelijkheid een stuk groter was dan op de foto. “Ik geloofde tot dat moment niet in UFO’s,” zei hij.
It was less than a week ago when the world learned that NASA instruments detected a leak in the space station that was eventually blamed on a tiny meteorite that penetrated the hullof the Soyuz spacecraft docked there and was fixed, after an astronaut plugged it with his finger, with a patch and some glue. That interesting and funny story has turned mysterious and sinister as new reports suggest the hole was not made by a meteorite penetrating from the outside … it may have been made intentionally by someone drilling from the inside. Sabotage?
“We are considering all the theories. The one about a meteorite impact has been rejected because the spaceship’s hull was evidently impacted from inside. However it is too early to say definitely what happened. But, it seems to be done by a faltering hand… it is a technological error by a specialist. It was done by a human hand – there are traces of a drill sliding along the surface. We don’t reject any theories.”
Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos, made that statement after an anonymous source within the Russian space program told the news agency RIA Novosti that “the appearance of a hole” was due to “negligence” – possibly by an employee of Energia, the maker of the Sooyuz capsule, who may have accidentally punctured the hull and secretly sealed it with glue so that it passed pressurization tests before launch. Whoa!
And that’s not the strangest suggestion. Former cosmonaut Maxim Surayev, now a politician, said it’s possible a homesick ISS crew member could have drilled the hole in order to cause a problem that would force the crew to be sent home early.
“We’re all human, and anyone might want to go home, but this method is really low. If a cosmonaut pulled this strange stunt—and that can’t ruled out— it’s really bad.”
Needless to say, the Russians aren’t happy about this and Rogozin is furious.
“It is a matter of honor for Energia Rocket and Space Corporation to find the one responsible for that, to find out whether it was an accidental defect or a deliberate spoilage and where it was done — either on Earth or in space.”
The good news is, even though this means the mysterious hole in the Soyuz spacecraft has now been patched twice – once on Earth and once in space – it’s still safe to fly because the section with the hole is destroyed during reentry.
The bad news is … this is either a cover-up of an accident or a deliberate act of sabotage to what is currently the only spacecraft being used to transport crew members to and from the ISS. That’s somewhat good news for Elon Musk and SpaceX, although his newly named crew members won’t be ready until at least late 2019. So the ISS crews must still depend on the Russian space program and Soyuz, with what may be shoddy contractors. And it’s still a possibility that the ISS has a cosmonaut with a problem.
Unless it’s an America astronaut …
Once again, science fiction plots become space travel realities.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Wait a minute … it’s a giant flat rectangle in the sky. Is it a plain?
A North Carolina man posted photographs on Facebook of what appears to be a giant square or rectangular UFO with lights around its edges hovering over Lake Norman – the 50 square mile manmade lake north of Uptown Charlotte that’s often called North Carolina’s inland sea. Is ET looking for a place to fish, waterski or get a greyish tan?
“I was on my way home with my wife on the speaker phone, and it looked like there was a tornado coming, so I was trying to take a picture of the clouds for my wife. But then I saw something that wasn’t normal and I was, like: ‘Oh my god, what is that?’ I started trying to take as many pictures of it as possible while I was driving.”
Although we appreciate the effort, it’s always better to pull off the road before taking UFO pictures. The Charlotte Observer reports that Javion Hill claims he took the photo on the dark and stormy night of August 18. Actually, Hill says he did pull over but the UFO was gone. (On the other hand, his wife was happy he made it home safely.)
If parts of this story sound vaguely familiar, on May 29 of this year, a video made the rounds of what was first said to be a giant UFO traveling over the same Lake Norman. That one was farther away and the daytime photo was blurry, but it caused the usual slurry of UFO fury until Goodyear admitted that it wasone of their blimps.
The August 18 photos by Jason Hill are clearer but dark because of the hour and the storm clouds. Since the quadrangular shape doesn’t match a blimp or any other known conventional aircraft, the speculation immediately moved to the experimental military side … and the first name that always pops up in those discussions is the TR-3B, the alleged Black Manta triangular spacecraft that is seen everywhere and confirmed nowhere. That’s entirely possible, since North Carolina has two Air Force bases east of Charlotte. However, the object Hill captured on his phone appears to be rectangular rather than 3-sided and it doesn’t have the one-bright-light-per-corner configuration often seen in alleged TR-3B photos.
What does the only confirmed eyewitness think?
“I was worried for my safety. I didn’t believe in UFOs until that moment.”
Should we? Going back to Hill’s original accounting of the event, he said he was “trying to take a picture of the clouds” for his wife. With his cell phone. Which is rectangular. And could have edge lighting. Going too fast for you? Yes, it’s entirely possible Hill was taking pictures of his phone’s reflection in the window. Or perhaps an illuminated rearview mirror or visor. Remember, It was a dark and stormy night with tornado warnings and Hill was driving. And when he stopped (and possibly rolled down his window), the UFO was gone.
With no other photographs by any other witnesses of the latest Lake Norman hovering UFO, for now the needle on the meter is hovering over “misinterpretation.”
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A Valid “Alien Threat”
Timothy Green Beckley has entitled “UFO Hostilities and the Evil Alien Agenda: Lethal Encounters with Ultra terrestrials Exposed,” The book claims Secret Government Findings Claim There Is A Valid “Alien Threat”
– UFOS COULD DOOM LIFE ON EARTH!
Here is irrefutable proof that UFOs could be perilous to your health, your well-being and even your life – and in an extreme case scenario could doom all of humanity.
PENTAGON ADMITS TO PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDY OF UFO WITNESSES
In a series of rather astonishing disclosures, the New York Times revealed in a provocative front page article that the military had spent upwards of $22 million dollars in recent years on the study of UFOs and the creation of an “advanced aerospace threat identification program.” Sightings have persisted long after the official closure of Project Blue Book – something UFO researchers have long suspected but could not prove.
Part of this multi-million dollar “Black Project” bundle was spent on an exhaustive study of the physiological and psychological effects of UFOs on witnesses. And while this hush-hush scrutiny of observers has to date never been released, an independent study indicates there is a PATTERN OF HORROR – that UFOs are no laughing matter and represent a TERRIFYING THREAT TO US ALL!
Because of the frightening nature of its fully documented findings, this may well be the most startling book you will ever read on the subject of UFOs!
“I want scientists everywhere to start looking at the evidence,” declared the late Dr. James McDonald, a respected physicist. “The matter is urgent. It must not be delayed. The world better wake up to flying saucers before it is too late.”
Indeed, the world’s safety could be at stake as this large formatted, fully illustrated, 450 page volume clearly indicates!
One high ranking military attaché with CIA connections has stated when it comes to the true nature of the UFO puzzle: “The UFO phenomenon has three separate yet related aspects: 1) – It produces real material-world events, detectable by radar and sometimes leaving behind physical traces. – 2) It is a psychic phenomenon that profoundly alters the consciousness of those exposed to it. – 3) It is apparently surrounded by deception activities which mimics it, produced by human groups. We tend to consider these elements as mutually exclusive, but they’re not; all three are explainable by demonic activity and invocation.”
Timothy Beckley
CASE HISTORIES OF UFO ATROCITIES – FROM STRANGE DISAPPEARANCES TO BIZARRE DEATHS – ARE HERE TO BE EXAMINED.
** From the “Foo Fighters” who dogged our fastest planes of WWI and II, to the battalions of well-armed soldiers who walked into a strange ground level cloud cover never to be seen again, global conflict seems to bring out the most hostile manifestations of the UFOs. From time to time America’s bravest have been seen marching into oblivion. Many top secret aerial skirmishes have victimized pilots and passengers; some planes have “gone down” without a trace; hundreds have been killed – including famous Hollywood celebrities!
** There have been terrifying incidents of flaming destruction that have incinerated individuals or rendered them helpless. In one case UFOs left a military fort and its sentries smoldering, while entire coastal towns in Brazil have been “burned out,” by what are called by the locals chupa-chupas.
** Learn about a cursed “Lethal Lake” in Texas where dozens of people have mysteriously died, while other vacationers have vanished completely on land and underwater. Entire towns have been known to disappear in association with UFOs, while unsuspecting individuals have walked off wilderness trails in front of onlookers only to slip into a parallel universe inhabited by hobgoblins, men-in-black and other cross-dimensional terrors.
** Alert yourself to paralyzing episodes of alien acts of aggression that have blacked out power systems, erased memories and crippled human beings.
Hundreds of ALARMING CASES are detailed here – and it is evident there is NO PLACE TO HIDE!
Beckley has assembled the usual suspects from among his team of collaborating writers, all of whom have collectively covered the subject of hostile aliens as thoroughly as one could wish. The resulting tome is 450+ pages of terrifying case histories, photos and art that will leave you wishing for a warm, fuzzy “ET-like” creature to land and relieve you from the dark truths you must confront as you read this gut-wrenching volume of alien evil and human helplessness.
A PRAGMATIC SCIENTIST GRAPPLES WITH THE HOSTILITY QUESTION
The late Dr. James McDonald realized that several close encounters had caused a negative impact on some UFO witnesses. UFOs had also, on many occasions, disabled the engines of automobiles and aircraft, thus creating potentially serious situations.
Dr. James E. McDonald (1920-1971) was a leading member of the University of Arizona’s Institute of Atmospheric Physics. His hypothesis that UFOs were extraterrestrial instruments on information gathering missions and his belief that the scientific reports of the time, including 1968’s Condon Report, were superficially done led him to investigate sightings and to combat governmental impediments against his research.
“UFO Hostilities and the Evil Alien Agenda” reprints a statement McDonald submitted to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics at the July 29, 1968, Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, held at the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C.
“Official statements have emphasized,” McDonald writes, “for the past two decades, that there is no evidence of hostility in the UFO phenomena. To a large degree, this same conclusion seems indicated in the body of evidence gathered by independent investigators. The related question as to POTENTIAL hazard is perhaps less clear.”
McDonald then listed several types of UFO encounter that were potentially hazardous, as when the UFOs seem able to stop a moving car dead in its tracks, to inflict mild radiation exposure and on occasion to inflict more serious physical injuries.
The careful scientist admitted that he knew of at least two cases that involved “overt hostility” on the part of the aliens. One involved a young boy in Beallsville, Ohio, who had to be treated for burns at the local hospital after encountering an oval-shaped object with lights on it. The craft emitted a flash that set the young boy’s jacket on fire.
McDonald writes. “My conversations with persons who know the boy, including his teacher, suggest no reason to discount the story, despite its unusual content.”
Another “overt hostility” case known to McDonald involved burn injuries of an even more serious nature, but he declined to give the details in his report to Congress. McDonald died in 1971 from his own hand, said to be motivated by his wife’s decision to leave him for another man and the ridicule the scientist suffered for his outspoken belief that UFOs are genuine alien spacecraft. His death is still considered “questionable” nearly 50 years later.
Diary of a CIA Operative by Alvin E. Moore
One of the chapters contributed by publisher and editor Beckley concerns Alvin Moore, one of the better credentialed figures in the field of Ufology.
Moore was educated at the U.S. Naval Academy plus the George Washington School of Law and Louisiana State University. He worked as a patent engineer and attorney for the Werner von Braun team of space scientists. He was also a nautical scientist in the employ of the Navy and a CIA intelligence officer. Beckley would later publish a book by Moore called “Diary of a CIA Operative.” Moore spent nearly 25 years researching mysterious events attributable to UFOs and extraterrestrials.
“His conclusions are utterly shocking,” Beckley writes, “and certainly deserve further investigation despite attempts by so-called ‘serious UFOlogists’ to sweep this aspect of the phenomenon under the cosmic rug.”
According to Moore, aliens known as “Skymen” have been coming to Earth and exploiting it for many years. Some of them have homes in caverns on the moon, Mars, Jupiter as well as among the asteroids. Many more originate from much nearer to the Earth’s surface, from “Sky Islands,” or even from within the hollows of our planet and possibly underwater hangars. Sky chemicals and electrostatic gravity-like force of the alien Sky Islands and Skycraft have caused legions of accidents. Skymen have kidnapped a multitude of people and have long extracted blood from animals and men, as well as committed mysterious murders.
One of the case histories Moore collected and wrote about was this one:
On the night of May 10, 1951, police found a young woman screaming on a street corner in Manila. She was crying out that she was being bitten by something and seemed to be fighting something in the air around her. She said she was being bitten by something that looked like a man with big bulging eyes, wearing a black cape, and able to float in the air.
Clarita Villanueva shows bite mark on her shoulder caused by mysterious creatures with large, bulging eyes.
After she was locked up she began screaming that the thing was coming at her through the prison bars causing punctures that looked like teeth marks being formed on her arms and shoulders. The next morning, in the presence of policemen and Medical Examiner Dr. Mariana Lara, the screaming girl was again attacked by an invisible being leaving severe bite marks near her throat..
“A number of persons who have been captured by alien ‘Skymen’ have reported their extraction of ‘blood samples,’” Moore said. But the aliens’ need for the blood probably goes beyond the mere taking of samples for medical reasons. Still, the samples’ ultimate purpose remains unknown. The late abduction pioneer Budd Hopkins, in his 2003 book “Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility and Transgenic Beings,” writes at length about events like alien ships that appear in broad daylight on a family’s front lawn to carry out an abduction, yet the whole event remains completely hidden from the neighbors.
A SERIOUS CASE OF RADIATION BURNS
Artist Carol Ann Rodriguez depicts the Cash-Landum UFO being escorted by a U.S. military helicopter. All the witnesses suffered serious radiation burns.
The Cash-Landrum case, involved two middle-aged Texas women in the wrong place at the wrong time. We relied partially on the account given by Jerome Clark in his encyclopedic “The UFO Book.”
“On the evening of December 29, 1980, near Huffman, Texas,” Clark writes, “three occupants of a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass observed a remarkable sight.
Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Vickie’s seven-year-old grandson, Colby, on their way home to Dayton, were driving through the southern tip of the east Texas piney woods when they noticed a large light above the trees some distance ahead.
“The light was briefly lost to view,” Clark continued, “but they saw it again when after rounding a curb they found themselves on a straight stretch of two-lane road on Highway FM 1485. This time it was approaching them, floating above the road at less than treetop height and belching flames from its bottom. Cash and the Landrums were only about 130 feet from the object.”
Landrum told Cash to stop the car, fearing they would get burned if they got too close, Meanwhile, it was impossible to simply drive away because the road was narrow and the shoulders soggy. Betty Cash, who was driving, knew that the car would get stuck if she tried to turn around. Since there was no other traffic on the lonesome stretch of road, she stepped out of the car, as did Vickie Landrum. Vickie returned to the car as soon as she heard Colby screaming in fear.
“The object, intensely bright and a dull metallic color,” writes Clark, “was shaped like a huge upright diamond, about the size of the Dayton water tower, with its top and bottom cut off so that they were flat rather than pointed. Small blue lights ringed the center and periodically, over the next few minutes, flames shot out of the bottom, flaring outward, creating the effect of a large cone. Every time the fire dissipated, the UFO floated a few feet downwards toward the road. But when the flames blasted out again, the object rose about the same distance. The witnesses said the heat was strong enough to make the car’s metal body painful to touch.”
The object moved higher over the treetops, the witnesses claimed that a group of helicopters approached the object and surrounded it in a tight formation. Cash and Landrum counted 23 helicopters and later identified some of them as tandem-rotor CH-47 Chinooks, routinely used by military forces worldwide.
The UFO and the helicopters were then “lost to view,” according to Clark, and the three resumed their journey. The whole incident had taken 20 minutes.
But what followed for Cash and the Landrums after their return home was unexpected sickness and misery.
Cash began to suffer a headache and nausea that would not go away, and large knots formed on her neck and scalp. Soon they became blisters. Also, her skin was reddening and her eyes swelled. She threw up repeatedly and experienced severe diarrhea. The Landrums were experiencing similar symptoms, though not as intensely.
A severe hand wound caused by a hostile UFO.
Cash’s friends soon feared she was near death because she had lapsed into near-unconsciousness. She was taken to the emergency room at Parkway Hospital on January 3, 1981. She could not walk and had lost large patches of skin and clumps of hair. The Landrums improved slightly, though the sores on their skin and the damage to their eyes persisted. Vickie suffered periodic sickness over the next few years and Colby had problems with chronic illness, sores and hair loss.
“A radiologist who reviewed the victims’ medical records for the Mutual UFO Network,” writes Clark, “concluded ‘We have strong evidence that these patients have suffered damage secondary to ionizing radiation. It is also possible that there was an infrared or ultraviolet component as well.’”
Cash and Landrum undertook a long and frustrating campaign to get compensation for their injuries from the government but were unable to prove that either the diamond-shaped craft or the military helicopters were the property of any governmental or military entity.
Cash died at the age of 71 on December 29, 1998, eighteen years to the day after her close encounter.
Landrum died September 12, 2007, seven days before her 84th birthday.
THE TIP OF THE PROVERBIAL ICEBERG
The foregoing has been just the tip of the iceberg in terms of chronicling the cases that demonstrate the negative aspects of the UFO and alien phenomenon, and Beckley has gathered a selection of writers to cover the subject thoroughly and objectively.
The hostile aliens attack us even with noxious smells and odors, as Tim R. Swartz explains in one chapter. A writer using the pseudonym Hercules Invictus gives an overview of the wicked among the Greek gods on Olympus, while Hispanic writer Scott Corrales covers the evil aliens and their intrusions into the Spanish-speaking regions of the Americas. Allen Greenfield recounts folkloric encounters with fairies that seem suspiciously like meetings with the ubiquitous diminutive gray aliens.
No one wants to abandon the cherished idea that the aliens are potentially here to save us from ourselves. But, as this book’s back cover claims, there is irrefutable proof that UFOs could be perilous to your health, your well-being, and even your life – and in an extreme case scenario could doom all of humanity. Because of the frightening nature of its fully-documented findings, this may well be the most startling book you will ever read on the subject of UFOs. Hundreds of alarming cases are detailed here and it is evident that there is no place to hide.
Note: According to the UK Daily Star News, Adolph Hitler was allegedly under the control of Reptilian aliens who directed him to destroy millions of Jews because of their high intelligence. William Tompkins stated many aliens are helpful to mankind but Reptilians spread a fog or cloud cover to downgrade human interest in science and the alien threat and create a false interest in football and other sports. They often start wars and spread disease to keep the human population lower. John Keel author of the ‘Mothman Prophesies” claims the aliens are devils. Thanks to Timothy Buckley and https://spectralvision.wordpress.com/tag/dangerous
Project 1947 UFO Reports from 1909
Sandusky, Ohio Daily Register – July 23, 1909
LIGHT IN SKIES
Attracts Attention of Night Owls Many Looked for Airship to Alight
A light believed by many to have been attached to an airship, attracted a great deal of attention in the northeastern skies about 11 o’clock Thursday night. One minute it would be large and brilliant and the next small and dim. It would remain apparently stationary for awhile and then speed along in an easterly direction at a rapid rate.
(Thanks to John Hudson)
Wilmington, Delaware MORNING NEWS – 2 August 1909
SEE AIRSHIPS AT NIGHT
People of Middletown Tell Tales of Ghostly Dirigible with Lights
MIDDLETOWN, August 1. — A mysterious airship which flies only at night is causing considerable excitement and keeping the people of Orange county residing between Goshen and Newburg up nights in their efforts to get a look at it. For the past month persons who have been out late at night have reported seeing an airship, but few believed the stories.
For a week or more the flying machine had not been seen, but at 11 o’clock last night it made its appearance near Goshen. It was flying high in the air and carried a light which attracted attention.
It flew very fast and was last seen traveling in the direction of Newburg. Those who have seen the machine say it is shaped like a balloon and has wings on each side and a cigar-shaped car underneath. The sound of a motor was distinctly heard by those who saw the machine.
(Thanks to Carl Feindt)
Willimantic (CT) Chronicle – 11 Aug, 1909
Mars Bottle
Date of discovery: Aug 26, 2018
Looking though the gigapan Mars photos, I found something that closely resembles an ancient clay bottle. It’s very similar to this 2,000 year old Roman bottle which I include into the photo for you to compare. Again I am showing you a NASA Mars photo which has been altered by NASA into a False Color…which makes the surface look red and brown. But in reality, Mars surface looks more similar to a desert on Earth. NASA adds False Color to hide from the public the fact that Mars is more hospitable than they want you to know. This way, there is no other country racing to Mars and NASA will have no competition…which gives them a lot of time to get there. Scott C. Waring Source photo: http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/210673
Moon Dark Moving Spots
Three dark spots on the moon or nearer to Earth
Moving across. I was taking a few photos of the moon with my new telescope and a few dark anomalies showed up. Maybe you have seen these before and you will know what they are. The 1st photo of the moon, DSC06272A, is pretty clear and devoid of anything unusual. The 2nd, DSC06274A, was taken just a few seconds later, and has these dark anomalies showing up.
Love and Light, Thanks to Dan Johnson
We Are Not Alone. September 4, 2018: 12 – 1 PM:.
Please note the new time for We Are Not Alone (12 noon – 1 PM). Join us then when our guest will be Chase Kloetzke, the MUFON Director of Investigations and Star Team Director. We will discuss everything from MUFON’s role in bringing about UFO disclosure and her books on the subject to the possibility of ET being other dimensional instead of extraterrestrial – perhaps both. Remember after the broadcast this show is available as a podcast from this website: click on Talk Shows–Tuesday Forum–(select date).
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Planned Parenthood
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The origins of the as Lucy Dasidowisc claims is that Adolf Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people as early as 1918. Some claim he was abducted by Reptilians who planned the extermination and war as a method in keeping world population down. The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. ‘It spread worldwide during 1918-1919. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 39 million have died of AIDS or HIV-related causes.
Since Roe vs. Wade 1973 Supreme Court ruling when seven judges in the court recognized for the first time in history that the constitutional right to privacy “is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy” Sixty million American babies have been legally aborted or about a fifth of the population. The government will continue handing hundreds of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood a company that executes over 328 thousand human children every year. The government has taken active measures to prevent the severing of the abortion industry’s tax payer pipeline. Members of Congress continue to fund Planned Parenthood. This is no longer just a Democrat initiative. The Republicans are also funding the Democrat Party while they fund abortions. Planned Parenthood, despite being a publicly subsidized organization, is somehow allowed to funnel millions back into the coffers of Democrat campaigns. This alone is enough reason to defund them. Though the sixty million of dead babies since 1973 should be an even more pressing concern. Last year Planned Parenthood aborted 328,348 babies and it managed to increase its taxpayer funding while recording another $77.5 million in profit.”.
It’s true that Trump partially underfunded the organization a few months ago. By changing certain Health and Human Services rules, Planned Parenthood will be deprived of 50 million tax dollars this year of over $500 million each year. That’s fine, but it’s not even a drop in the bucket. It still leaves about half a billion dollars on the table. Trump did about as much as he could on his own. Congress needs to act on the rest, and it has not. We gave Republicans total control of the government and they have not even managed to stop the insanely unethical practice of funding abortion conglomerates.
Thousands of families wish to adopt children but are unable to do abortions, large costs and difficult paperwork often costing $50,000 to 60,000 for an adoption. Some 20% are adopted from other countries. A better way should be found to protect the lives of the unborn.
The Government’s subsidizing of the abortion industry is wrong .
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Filer’s Files #35 – 2018 A Valid “Alien Threat” - PART II
Filer’s Files #35 – 2018 A Valid “Alien Threat” - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Keyes — On the way home there was a bright object in the sky on August 29, 2018. Once home I observed the object seemingly getting brighter then dimming until it disappeared. Five minutes later the object reappeared in the sky but a little lower on the horizon. When the object did disappear there appeared a slight fuzzy glow where it had been in the sky. It was if the object was moving directly away from my vantage point off the west coast. I’ve seen launches from Vandenberg that resemble this but according to their site there were no launches. In the attached photos it’s the light that appears just above the house across the street. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Largo— About midnight at work tonight, on August 12, 2017, I saw something that I can’t explain. Give your opinion of what you see in these pictures I took. These pictures are in no way tampered with, Anyone else see these objects in the sky? On top of getting pictures of what look like UFO’s, the skull shaped clouds atop of the moon just makes it top the cake. I saw some type of twinkle/flickering lights in the sky and took my camera phone out. And these are the results. I’ve felt eerie since taking and looking at these. Has anyone else in my area seen this? Anymore pics out there? After 1 minute, with getting Goosebumps and all the hairs on my body standing up, the objects just vanished within a blink of an eye. The was no movement at all! They just disappeared! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Object
Greenbelt Lake — On August/23, 2018 at 9PM, I felt drawn to visit Buddy Attick Park despite never having this urge at night previously, and the park being closed for the day. I parked in the parking lot of the park in pitch black, noticed one person leaving and walked to the park bench in total darkness. Bluish white and orangish white light appeared to “dance” with each other, as if in a ballet/musical production. I *may* have a few minutes of missing time, unsure, minimal if so. The sighting lasted maybe 5-10 seconds but it was absolutely unambiguous that it occurred.
They were star like points of light, one with slight bluish-white coloration, one with orangish-white coloration. A very bright white light flashed on tree tops on north side of lake following the sighting
I felt intense static electricity in the air shortly before the sighting started, my hair stood straight upland I had an overwhelming feeling of anticipation that something out of the ordinary was about to happen. A milky white residue left behind by small round objects on my car of two separate sizes impacting the glass (marble size and golf ball size. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Object
Detroit— Monday August 27th I was watching the news at 11:34 p.m. when I seen a bird fly by. I rewind the tape to see what kind of bird it was and it wasn’t a bird it was some object flying back and forth and it flew back in front of the screen,
I still don’t know what it is.
If it’s a bug it’s the biggest bug I’ve ever seen in Michigan but it flew in front of the screen and there’s six to eight frames where it looks like it has antennas and legs and wings I don’t know what it is,
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Lights
Branson– On August 26, 2018, saw a beautiful sunset decided to take some footage of it with my cell phone. I noticed other people were taking pics too. It was an unusually bright sunset which caught our attention. I didn’t see the orbs until I uploaded the video and watched it on my pc when I saw the orbs. Toward the end of the video, the orb on the right descends below the tree limb while the others remain hovering. Not much else to describe. Watch the video and look at the pics to see the orbs. Or whatever they were. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Object
Hazlet— I was sitting in my yard with my wife when I noticed how nice the clouds looked on July 27, 2018, I snapped a picture with my cell phone and noticed a black object in the picture which is circled. Snapped another picture the next day with a plane going over and the object was there again. I cannot identify what I have seen and hoped MUFON could help. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Object
Cedarhurst— While driving to JFK airport on August 29. 2018, I noticed a very odd looking Ariel craft moving in my direction across the sky.
I stopped to observe closer as a past almost over head there was no sound as if it was floating and had appendages
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Triangle
Huron — I live on a golf course on Lake Erie a quarter mile from the water. I was out on my patio early evening and looking up the sky and noticed that there was an overcast sky. I saw this strange looking grayish vapor like cloud that almost looked like a short jet stream. There were no planes in the air and the altitude was somewhat low. It appeared to me that it was out over the lake. I took a picture of the cloud and then I took two more within 5 seconds after that. Then the cloud and all objects were gone. This was not photo shopped or Faked in any way, Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Triangle
Laredo— One night as I was throwing out the trash, I was looking up at the sky and saw a light far away on January 3, 2018. At first I thought it was an airplane moving straight until suddenly it completely turned the other way around moving around faster than any plane. I told my brother to come and decide what it was. He simply said it could be a drone but I doubted since it was very high up in the sky and moved fast. Minutes later another light appeared much closer following the other. I told my brother to record them.
Then another object appeared coming out behind the house incredibly more shocking than the other two as this one was just super close to me and I could see its triangular detail. Bright white lights that would pulsate separately on the corners. Also there was a light in the middle of the black craft and as it came closer to me.
I almost thought I was paralyzed. Also because of the light becoming bigger I could see slits on the sides of the UFO. It was actually also shiny, almost like a reflecting mirror. It was bigger than an airplane. Then it turned around and headed to the west, fading away quickly. My left arm under my hand had a weird pink but perfectly shaped oval spot. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Santa Clara –I was getting cleaning supplies the I notice a strange triangular shape I quickly pulled up the star map and it was between Sagittarius and Mars I look over and see stuff moving in the air they looked like octopi then I start seeing lights disappear in the sky I come back with my dad with me and all the lights that disappeared were there again and all those octopi things weren’t there the only thing that was there was the triangular multi colored UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
West Virginia Moon
Berkeley Springs — I was taking pictures of the moon with my cell phone through my telescope’s eyepiece when all of a sudden a black object with no lights and a black tail flew across the shot in about 2 to 3 seconds. My telescope is located in my living room which faces west. It was focused on the moon rising over the mountains. It was still relatively low in the sky, so the moon looked very large through the lens. The lens was the lowest magnification- 25mm.
I was clicking the shutter button on my phone continuously and I managed to capture pictures before, during, and after the object flew in the path of my lens. The object flew much, much faster than any plane. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Object
I was at El Hornocal in Jujuy, on Friday August 25th, with friends.
We took many pictures and in one of them an object appears and it is not a picture defect or any other known object.
It is very strange. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Croatia Object
Makarska Omiš— Many UFOs or USOs came vertical from the sky and immersed in the sea.
Not far from the event, there was a light earthquake magnitude 4,5 on the same day I have make this photos with my smart phone. Photo was taken on February 3, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Denmark Object
Odense— UFO was recorded from my apartment with a HD video camcorder pointing in westerly direction back in 2011. I was filming the passing clouds and did not see the dark grey object passing by while filming. I forgot the footage and 7 years later on August 24, 2018, I found the old footage again and now discovered this black UFO flying past the camera while emitting condensation fog. This object flew in a straight line without engine sound. Actually I had a similar live sighting in same period, also with a small black or dark-grey object that also flew in a straight line. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Eire Object
Dublin— I was watching the Euronews channel with my wife, and spotted a UFO flying very fast over Croke Park Stadium in from top right over the stadium and disappear in the far side middle of the stadium while the news reader were reporting on the Pope’s visit in Ireland on August 25, 2018. I have a Sky decoder that can pause, rewind and replay video. So, I rewind and replay this in normal speed with my camcorder and slow down the speed to show the object flying more clearly. This is too fast for a plane, and you can see on the video that it’s moving over the stadium with an angle from top right to middle left in the sky above. It changes direction which is clearly not a shooting star. CMS
Georgia Light
Kutaisi— I was visiting with my sister and children on August 26, 2018. We left the house and went to our house on foot. It was dark outside, at 22 hours. The sky was a bit cloudy, as we walked and talked, I looked at the sky with the stars. A cloud appeared in the sky in the sky with a purple glow for a few seconds. Then the cloud dissolved in the sky. There were no sounds and no wind My sister did not see anything, we were sober. The object was up to 30 meters in size and the height of clouds. Searching on the network, I found an image made on February 11, 2018, exactly as I saw it. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Peru Disc
Machu Picchu— My wife and I have returned from a trip and ordering the photos I see an object present in one of the pictures on August 28, 2018.
The photos were taken by a tourist with a few seconds between them. We did not see anything but in the second photo, is it a bird? stain, UFO? etc
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Philippines Disc
Paranaque — It was back in 1992, my Eldest brother called me and my brother outside and said there was a UFO following him. Then we went outside to see a bright orange-yellow star like object. As it got closer the glow disappeared and as it came we first thought it was a comet but with no tail just a bright dot. As it came closer it reveal itself to be a flying saucer.
It became low at around a hundred feet or lesser. Then it slowly moved and hovered on the left side of our house and then slowly moved towards the top of our house. The saucer was big and had hieroglyphics of some kind of language on its side,
It slowly ascended and turned upside down revealing its top to be a dome of some kind. Then it moved and increased to moderate speed and made a U-turn and disappeared, The Saucer was glowing orange and yellow was searching for something and made no sound at all. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Puerto Rico Object
Naguabo— An object was ascending from the mountain and appears in the photo.
Its path was changing in zigzag while ascending and its apparent size increased a little bit when it was at the highest altitude.
I saw the object when reviewing the photos.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Slovenia Object
No Pri Litiji — My sister saw it while going to school with a car. First she thought it was a meteor, but it was moving up so it wasn’t one. She told this to mother but she couldn’t see it while driving. it looked like a white zeppelin but it was more lens shaped. More than five UFOs were on the same place above Slatna forest. At the end it looked like a flame. It was moving with a speed or airplane or maybe slower. If I took a flame and UFO together it looked like a fish. It was moving to south fast. about 1 kilometer away and looks like a ventricular cloud. CMS
South Korea Cylinder
I feel the UFO was following me.
It was an orange light UFO first hovering along a long change circle.
The photo was taken September 18, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Objects
Canary Islands — UFO sighting made by my mother in an airplane over the island of Lanzarote on January 5, 2018, 15 minutes after the departure. She says that varied objects of speed and from time to time stalled at the speed of the plane and therefore seemed fixed to her. She says the phenomenon was kind of bright balls with several shape changes. The sighting lasted about 4 minutes. The objects at the end began to form horizontally before accelerating vertically at an incredible speed and disappeared. She alone saw the phenomenon and did not comment on the event for fear of the reaction of people.
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If you're still mourning Gillian Anderson's retirement from The X-Files, unsure how to cope without seeing her chasing down aliens armed only with her government-issued sidearm and healthy skepticism, UFO might be the cure for what ails you.
Released today from Sony Entertainment, UFO, written and directed by Ryan Eslinger, sees Anderson returning to the genre that made her famous, this time as a math professor who plays sidekick to a talented young student during his attempt to unravel an intergalactic communiqué.
SYFY WIRE spoke with Paul M. Sutter, an astrophysicist at Ohio State University and UFO's scientific consultant, to chat about science, aliens, and making the flick.
Sutter, who also hosts the Ask a Spaceman podcast, describes his universe-encapsulating day job as trying "to understand how stuff in space works. I have a few different specialties. I'm mostly a cosmologist. I study the whole entire universe as a single physical object. So I study the big bang, I study the large-scale structure of the universe. I study the birth of the first star. I study the voids, the vast empty regions between the galaxies. There's a lot of fertile ground out there."
How does one become a UFO consultant?
I actually have no idea, even though I did it. It's not like I applied and called every producer in Hollywood saying, "Hey, if you need science advice, you know where to find me." In this case, it was a connection of a connection of a connection of a connection.
The director was looking around and the director had a relationship with Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati. He was looking around for someone to help him out with the mathematics and the science in the script as he was developing it. The producer was aware of this issue and the producer's dad is really well connected to Ohio State and knew some of the cool science and art collaborations that I'd been working on the past few years and thought I might be just the right guy.
So he called his son who called the director, Ryan. Ryan called me, and it was nerd love at first sight. It was such an unexpected connection but something I absolutely enjoyed and consider myself very lucky to be a part of.
For the movie, what did your work as a consultant entail?
It started with the script with writer/director Ryan Eslinger, as he was putting the finishing touches on the script there were some parts where the characters have to do some math and he wanted to make sure the math was right. There were parts where the characters had conversations about scientific topics, and he wanted to make sure the science was right. And there were a few places where the knowledge of science was key in order to move the plot forward and he wanted to make sure that this page connected to that page and that it all made sense and was motivated from real, grounded science.
That was the pre-production work. Once production got started, I worked with the set designers and prop people to figure out whiteboards and chalkboards and quizzes and assignments. The most surreal thing I did, second most surreal thing I did, is Gillian Anderson, who plays a math professor, I had helped Ryan shape some of her lines where she had to lecture in front of the class. And she'd also write on the board some equations at the same time she's talking. So she asked Ryan to ask me to make a video of doing that so that she could pretend to be a math professor. And that was something else.
So if she comes off in that scene as a 30-something bald guy who's kind of sarcastic, that's just method acting.
Let's talk about aliens and real-life UFOs a little bit. In your estimation, what do you think the likelihood is of there being life, not necessarily intelligent life, but life in our solar system?
Oh yeah, that's absolutely fascinating, just to entertain the notion that there's even a slim chance that there might be life right here in our neighborhood that we could go visit and talk to and shake hands or tentacles, or however it might work out mechanically, it's so tantalizing. That drives researchers.
I'm personally fascinated by and curious about it even though that's not my line of research. For a long time, we thought "this is it," the Earth is the only place with liquid water. Mars is super dry and dead, maybe it was alive at some point but that was three billion years ago so that hardly counts and that's it.
Now, with these sub-surface oceans around Europa and Callisto and Enceladus and maybe even Pluto it's like there's more liquid water in any one of these worlds than all of Earth. And life as we know it requires water, it also requires a whole bunch of other things but hey, we're checking off the first box in the checklist for hunting for life and that itself is cause for celebration. I hope so. I hope there's life.
What's your take on the Fermi Paradox?
I think the Fermi Paradox is an expression of our sheer inability to cope with the true time and distance scales when we have to start talking about things like galaxies and universes.
We're probably not alone. There's probably other life orbiting other stars. Some of them are probably intelligent. Some of them are probably in our own galaxy now. But for all intents and purposes, we are totally, 100 percent, completely isolated. Space is just too big.
It's almost like we're living on a really tiny island in a vast ocean and there are other islands out there, but we don't have the ability to get there.
We don't have a canoe. No outriggers, no sails, nothing.
Do you feel like the search for extraterrestrial life is a worthwhile pursuit on its own or do you feel like it's more important as an inspiration for getting people interested in the sciences?
Oh yeah, of course, astrophysicists and cosmologists are interested in a whole bunch of things. Some astrophysicists are hunting for life on other worlds, some astrophysicists are trying to understand how stars live and die, some astrophysicists are trying to understand how galaxies emerge.
So, of course, we all compete with each other for funding and we'd all like our personal slice of the pie to be a little bit larger than the slice of our competitors. But we do recognize that of the entire astrophysicist community recognizes that this is a valid question that over the past few decades has moved from the realm of philosophy and speculation into the realm of science.
This is a question that we have the capability to answer with the scientific method and if it is a valid scientific question then it is up for grabs as a legitimate exercise of science.
One of the focuses of the movie is mathematics. If we did encounter other intelligent life, do you feel like math would be the best foundation for developing communication with them?
There are some things that we recognize in nature that we're pretty sure are universal. That if you have any conception of logic whatsoever, that you would eventually arrive at the same conclusion. You may have different structures to represent those but the basic understanding would still be there. So perhaps mathematics is a truly universal, cross-species language. There's only one way to find out which is to actually meet someone else and give it a shot.
Maybe the better route is through common physics, things we can observe about the universe that we know that nobody else will disagree about because it's so unambiguous. Maybe that's the best route. Maybe it's little of column "A" and a little of column "B."
Can you give an example of a universal observation we might be able to use?
This is actually something that is highlighted in the film is this concept of the Fine Structure Constant.
This is a number, it's just a raw number that appears in physical theory. And the very interesting thing about this number is that it doesn't have any use. It's not measured in terms of meters or pounds or light years, it's not tied to any choice of measurement system it's just a raw number that appears in nature.
So, we're guessing that if you're intelligent and you're a fan of science and you're doing the whole science thing and you're discovering basic truths about the way nature operates, that you will eventually also discover this Fine Structure Constant because it will appear in your mathematics too, regardless of how you formulate your mathematics. Perhaps this, a common understanding of something that appears to be ubiquitous and universal, is the key that unlocks the door.
One of the common things in television and movies is when we do discover aliens they look sort of like us. Do you think there's any good reason to believe that would be the case?
As far as I understand this, there are two lines of thought here. One line of thought is to look at the variety of life on the Earth and there's some really weird stuff going on, like things in the oceans and even when we dig into our ancient past there are some true freak shows of nature. So, an alien, evolving with a completely different set of circumstances and environment and evolutionary path, would look totally different from us. Perhaps, unrecognizably so, to the point that we wouldn't even know we were looking at life if we were staring it in the face.
Or, maybe life follows convergent evolution, maybe the right special sauce that made us, us, is the only special sauce available throughout the universe and that if we met some aliens, maybe it would be likeStar Trek where they're basically us but they have some weird forehead.
The perfectly preserved remains of a baby horse belonging to a now-extinct species made headlines when they were unveiled to the world last week. Now, researchers in Russian and South Korea say that the 40,000-year-old foal, discovered in the Siberian permafrost, could be cloned back to life. If they are successful, the achievement would mark an important milestone towards the ultimate goal of resurrecting the wooly mammoth.
The 40,000-year-old horse was found buried beneath 30 meters of permafrost, which preserved it so well that its tail, mane, and hooves were still attached.
According to Semyon Grigoriev, the head of the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk, the foal was only 20 days old when it perished. But thanks to the astonishing conservation power of the permafrost from the “Mouth of Hell” — the tadpole-shaped, one-km-long crater where the horse was found, initially created by the Soviets when they cleared the forest in the area — researchers were able to recover muscle tissues from the animal.
These undamaged samples could prove extremely valuable to biotech research — among them, a project that aims to resurrect the now-extinct Equus lenesis, also known as the Lena horse.
Hwang Woo Suk flew in from Seoul, South Korea to personally supervise the DNA extraction process from the foal. If they find viable, undamaged cells, these could be used to clone this unique animal.
“We are trying to make a primary culture using this baby horse,” said Suk, a former professor at Seoul National University. “If we get live cells from this ancient baby horse, it is a wonderful promise to people in terms of cloning.”
Suk is a pioneer of stem cell research, who has fallen out of grace in the scientific community after he was found guilty of falsifying some of his findings. He admitted to using eggs from paid donors in a study that claimed to recover stem cells from a cloned human embryo. Bringing an extinct species back from the dead may be a way for the scientist to redeem himself.
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Previously, the South Korean researchers obtained living cells from a dead pet dog frozen by its owners. That was quite an important achievement because water crystalizes and destroys the cells.
Just like they would clone any other animal, the scientists plan to transplant genetic information from a specialized cell into an unfertilized egg cell whose genetic information has been destroyed or physically removed. The mare of a horse species similar to the extinct Lena will be used as a surrogate.
Once they are confident enough in their abilities, scientists plan to do the same for a wooly mammoth with an elephant as the surrogate.
Most of the world’s wooly mammoths were killed around 10,500 years ago, the prime causes are still up for debate. Human hunting, climate change or both have been identified by scientists as prime suspects. But on a small island off the coast of Alaska, an isolated population of wooly mammoths lingered on for thousands of years. They too died around 5,600 years, and with them, their entire species went extinct.
In 2014, a team of international researchers uncovered a 43,000-year-old female from the Siberian tundra which still had well-preserved muscles, kidneys, and even blood.
However, the differences between a mammoth and an elephant are much more significant than those between a modern-day horse and the extinct Lena.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
As such, cloning the Lena horse would be an immense breakthrough for scientists looking to bring back species back from the dead. There’s a lot of ground to cover though and, right now, people are probing in the dark. For instance, no one has been able to recover a living cell from ancient tissue before — which is the current plan. That would be unique in itself.
Previously, scientists led by George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard University, merged elephant and mammoth DNA — another important step for cloning the extinct beasts. While DNA can survive for a long time under the ‘freezer’, it’s far from being perfect — it’s impractical for cloning purposes since many bits and pieces have been damaged by the environment, which is why the researchers had to piece together the mammoth DNA with bits from the elephant.
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The object was spotted during a rainstorm in the US state of North Carolina last month.
Javion Hill, 35, posted several pictures on his Facebook page and said he was driving along US 74 southwest of Charlotte on August 18 when he saw the display.
The unidentified item resembles a kind of rectangular aircraft with lights activated along the edges – which UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists claim is an advanced new spy plane known as “TR-3B”.
But others claim the picture looks like the reflection of a call phone on the dash.
“I was on my way home with my wife on the speaker phone, and it looked like there was a tornado coming, so I was trying to take a picture of the clouds for my wife,” Hill told the Charlotte Observer.
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“But then I saw something that wasn’t normal and I was, like: ‘Oh my god, what is that?’
“I started trying to take as many pictures of it as possible while I was driving.”
Hill then pulled his car over at the next exit and tried to get video, but the “aircraft” disappeared.
When asked to speculate, Hill said it was possible the aircraft he saw was a military plane of some sort.
UFO conspiracy theorists have claimed the US military is working on a secret anti-gravity spy plane.
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CONVINCED: Hill (left), said he took the pictures on August 11
There is only anecdotal evidence that such a plane exists.
Some UFO observers claim to have seen an aircraft of this type over Antelope Valley in the southern California desert.
“I was worried for my safety,” Hill added.
“I didn’t believe in UFOs until that moment.”
The sighting came just two weeks after a video emerged showing what appeared to be a strange object hovering over the Lake Norman area.
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North Carolina is home to multiple military bases, including Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base and Camp Lejeune Marine Corps facility.
Kevin Knuth, who is now a professor of physics at the University of Albany, believes there is “plenty of evidence” to support the existence of UFOs in our universe.
The former NASA worker says humanity needs to “face the possibility” UFO sightings may be “visitors from afar” and insists more research needs to be done on the topic as it would benefit mankind.
Photograph of mysterious 'angular aircraft' hovering over North Carolina freeway sends UFO enthusiasts wild with speculation it could be a top-secret US government plane
Photograph of mysterious 'angular aircraft' hovering over North Carolina freeway sends UFO enthusiasts wild with speculation it could be a top-secret US government plane
Javion Hill, 35, was driving southwest of Charlotte on the night of August 18
He then noticed a strange aircraft hovering above in the night sky
The aircraft, which had lights on a rectangular perimeter, then vanished
UFO conspiracy theorists say aircraft could be new spy plane known as TR-3B
North Carolina is in the top 10 states where most UFO sightings are reported
The truth is out there - especially if you’re in North Carolina.
For at least the second time this summer, a local resident says he saw a UFO in the skies above the Tar Heel State.
Javion Hill, 35, posted a photograph on his Facebook page showing a mysterious object in the sky during a rainstorm near Charlotte.
Hill, a resident of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, said he took several photos on the night of August 18 as he was driving along U.S. 74 southwest of Charlotte.
The object resembles a kind of rectangular aircraft with lights activated along the edges - which UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists claim is an advanced new spy plane known as 'TR-3B'.
However, some online have said the picture looks suspiciously like the reflection of a cell phone on the dash.
Javion Hill, 35, posted several photographs on his Facebook page showing a mysterious object in the sky during a rainstorm near Charlotte
‘I was on my way home with my wife on the speaker phone, and it looked like there was a tornado coming, so I was trying to take a picture of the clouds for my wife,’ Hill told the Charlotte Observer.
‘But then I saw something that wasn’t normal and I was, like: “Oh my god, what is that?”
‘I started trying to take as many pictures of it as possible while I was driving.’
Hill then pulled his car over at the next exit and tried to get video, but the aircraft disappeared.
Moments later, it began pouring rain.
Hill said he was so unnerved by what he saw that he could not fall asleep that night.
When asked to speculate, Hill said it was possible the aircraft he saw was a military plane of some sort.
UFO conspiracy theorists have claimed that the U.S. military is working on a secret anti-gravity spy plane that hovers - the TR-3B.
There is only anecdotal evidence that such a plane exists.
Some UFO observers claim to have seen an aircraft of this type over Antelope Valley in the southern California desert - not far from Edwards Air Force Base.
Hill (left), a resident of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, said he took the photos on the night of August 18 as he was driving along U.S. 74 southwest of Charlotte
'I was worried for my safety,' Hill said.
'I didn’t believe in UFOs until that moment.'
The sighting of the unusual aircraft came just two weeks after a video emerged showing what appeared to be a strange object hovering over the Lake Norman area.
The footage recorded by Jason Swing on May 29, is extremely shaky but when the video isn't bouncing up and down it shows, clear as day, a large object that appears to be hovering in mid-air.
During the short clip Swing posted to YouTube he announces 'This is a spacecraft.' The clip is accompanied with a brief explainer of the video.
'It had been raining all morning. Rain finally stopped so we went (to) pick up a boat from Lake Norman,' Swing says in a post with the video. 'When (I) came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close.'
The sighting of the unusual aircraft came just two weeks after a video emerged showing what appeared to be a strange object hovering over the Lake Norman area. Though viewers thought it was a UFO, the tire company GoodYear said it was its blimp
The video garnered over 150,000 views and then it received an additional boost in viewers when on Thursday the YouTube video channel 'The Hidden Underbelly 2.0,' a site focused on UFO and creature videos picked it up.
While some people were excited about the possibility of the large object being a UFO, others wondered if the government was behind the large flying object.
GoodYear, the tire manufacturing company, saw the video, and claims, as much as some wish it were a UFO, that the object seen in the shaky footage, is its blimp that was in the the Charlotte area on May 29, for NASCAR's Coca Cola 600.
The GoodYear Blimp's account shared: 'We don’t want to get in the way of a good story, but that’s definitely us. We left the Charlotte area 5/29 after covering the Coke 600.'
North Carolina is also the home to multiple military bases, including Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base and Camp Lejeune Marine Corps facility.
7 Ancient Sites That Are Thought To Have Been Built By Aliens
7 Ancient Sites That Are Thought To Have Been Built By Aliens
You might not believe in aliens but chances are you’ve heard a lot about them. Theories about aliens and their influence over our world are something that will never die out.
There are tons of different places and things in this world that could be summed up by ‘blaming aliens’ when you actually break them down. Below I am going to go over some of the most interesting ancient sites that many believe even now were created by something or someone not of this world. Have you heard about any of these before?
7 Ancient Sites That Are Thought To Have Been Built By Aliens:
These are straight white lines etched into the desert. While they might seem random or meaningless they join together in some peculiar ways. They create several different animals and are thought to be messages from aliens here to their ships above. These drawings are at least two millennia old and are without a doubt unexplainable.
While the pyramids are well known many don’t take the time to think about how they were created. At almost five thousand years old rock and things of the sort should not have been movable at least not on the scale that was done to create such amazing things. How the Egyptians managed to pull this one off is something we will wonder about for years to come.
There have been lots of theories about alien involvement and are documentaries about it all over the web. Perhaps there is more to it than you might think.
3. Teotihuacan
This ancient city in Mexico is well known for its temples and was built over two thousand years ago. It is something many find to be otherworldly in general and could have been built by many different cultures, not just one. Considering how old it is and how advanced the entire thing is in itself, many believe it had to have some kind of extraterrestrial influence.
4. The Face on Mars
Yes, there is a strange face on Mars. It made headlines when it was first noticed and is still the topic of a lot of conspiracies even now. This face was first spotted back in 1976 and seems to have been created by someone or something, somehow. Many believe aliens built this face on Mars and we truly know nothing about it.
That being said, using a higher resolution camera, the face doesn’t seem to be present at all. Depending on who you are this either feeds into the conspiracy or breaks it apart. What do you think about the face on Mars? You can click hereto learn more about it.
The Sacsayhuaman is basically a fortress, it is made out of giant stones and took a crew of 20-30,00 men 60 years to complete. It almost looks as if something from a fairytale and is a literal work of art. It is thought that it must have been created through ancient people working with those from outside of our world. While no such link can be proven, the future may reveal more than you think.
6. Stonehenge
Stonehenge is in England and consists of a lot of stones that make up some kind of circle. It is not something we know much about and its meaning is something many ponder over even now. The stones seem to be aligned with solstices as well as eclipses and are quite unique. This one also comes with tons of different origin theories one of which being aliens. You can click here to learn more about all of these different theories.
Easter Island is also a complete mystery. The whole place is full of large stone figures that look like faces. No one knows who made them, how they got where they are, or anything else.
They are said to have been created by the Rapa Nui people but realistically, they should not have been capable of such back in that time period. These figures are over a thousand years old. Many believe something or someone from another planet may have played a big part.
Was Young, Wet Mars Once Close Enough to the Sun to 'Dance' with Venus?
Was Young, Wet Mars Once Close Enough to the Sun to 'Dance' with Venus?
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
A wet Mars could have started off near the orbit of Venus before gravitational interactions early in its life drove the Red Planet out to its current orbit.
Credit: NASA/GSFC
Billions of years ago, liquid water flowed across the Martian surface. As the Red Planet lost its atmosphere, it also lost its ability to hold on to that water — or so most theories propose. Now, a new model suggests that Mars would have started off warmer and wetter if it had begun closer to the sun and slowly moved outward.
"Mars starts off on top of Venus; then it dances outward towards Earth," Cole Brown, a researcher at Penn State University, told his colleagues. Working with planetary scientist Darren Williams, also of Penn State, Brown modeled an early solar system where Mars started off in a warmer place. He found that the process was unlikely, but possible — just over 10 percent of the worlds starting out this way successfully worked their way out to where Mars orbits today. He presented the results in June at the 232nd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Denver.
"After Mars would escape Venus, that's where things would get interesting," Brown said. [How Did the Solar System Form?]
"A Mars cannon"
The Martian surface is gouged by river-like features and spreading deltas, all of which seem to suggest liquid water once sat on the surface. At almost 4 billion years old, these features are almost as old as the planet itself, hinting that liquid water was short-lived on the Red Planet.
Four billion years ago, the young sun was dimmer, shining at only about 75 percent of its current brightness. By itself, the newborn star wasn't hot enough to keep Mars warm if the planet were sitting in its current orbit, an average of 142 million miles (229 million kilometers) from the sun, about 1.5 times as far as Earth (1.5 astronomical units, or AU).
For the planet to have been warm enough to hold water, an atmospheric blanket would have been required, Brown said. With a significant greenhouse effect, an atmosphere would allow the Red Planet to keep liquid water on the surface. Over time, researchers assume that the atmosphere was lost; spacecraft such as NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission are hunting for clues about the disappearing atmosphere.
But Brown wasn't content with this solution. "There may be another way to accomplish this result [of liquid water]," he said.
Brown and Williams noticed that the region near Venus would have been about the right temperature for a planet to hold on to water when the sun was young and dim. Using computer models, they found that the two planets could have evolved together over the course of about 100 million years — a brief enough time for liquid water to form on the surface. The two worlds would have remained tidally locked, keeping an unchanging face pointed toward each other for that brief period of time, until instabilities in their orbit finally drove them apart.
After the escape, Mars would have passed near Venus for multiple orbits. Gravity would have driven Venus inward and sent Mars spiraling outward. In this setting, it wouldn't have taken long for the Red Planet to interact with Earth — and that's where things get difficult.
In the first simulations of this scenario, gravitational interactions with Earth managed to drive the Red Planet out to its current position. But Brown and Williams noticed that the Red Planet occasionally came within 40 Earth radii of our planet — closer than the orbit of the moon. Unfortunately, the original models didn't include a moon, so they didn't chart the potential chaos. So, the pair went back and included a moon in the next iteration.
"It's kind of like if you shot a Mars cannon at the Earth-moon system," Brown said.
The pair ran 10,000 simulations with Mars entering the system at various speeds. They found that the closer Mars came to Earth's surface, the more likely it was to affect the moon — sometimes even driving it out of the system completely. In these simulations, only rarely did Mars come in close enough to affect the system, but "it's a risk we need to be aware of," Brown said.
The close encounters raised some interesting questions. The leading theoryfor the moon's origin involves a Mars-size object colliding with Earth early in the life of the solar system. The collision would have carved out a chunk of the terrestrial surface that, along with the fragments from the impactor, coalesced into the moon. The process is similar to the one simulated by Brown and Williams, though without the catastrophic impact.
"This almost tells that story, but it does not," Brown said.
The odds are slim that Mars started out near Venus. In more than half of the simulations, a traveling Mars collided with either Venus or Earth, which would have obliterated the Red Planet and any signs of water on the surface. Nearly 20 percent of the time, the Red Planet was ejected from the solar system completely, while another 10 percent of the time, it was tossed into the sun. Only 13 percent of the time was it able to successfully dance between Venus and Earth to arrive at its current position.
For now, the researchers are continuing to explore ways that Mars could have successfully moved into the outer solar system and whether Mars and Venus could have been stable while tidally locked.
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