Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
19-09-2018
UK Researchers Just Deployed a Massive Net to Catch Space Debris
Image copyrightSSCImage captionArtwork: How the net experiment was envisioned before its deployment
Image captionThe RemoveDebris is a demonstration satellite that was launched from the space station in June
JUNKY SKIES
If aliens ever visit our planet, their first impression could be that Earthlings are a messy bunch: There’s an estimated 7,500 tonnes worth of discarded satellites, rocket parts, and other debris currently floating in our planet’s orbit.
Now, efforts are underway to clean it up. One such effort: RemoveDEBRIS. In April, the team out of Surrey Space Centre (SSC) sent its RemoveDEBRIS satellite to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft; on Sunday the satellite launched from the ISS to demonstrate one of several debris-wrangling technologies.
The short sequence shows a small, shoebox-sized object tumbling end over end about 6-8m in front of the University of Surrey spacecraft.
Suddenly, a bright web, fired from the satellite, comes into view. It extends outwards and smothers the box.
"It worked just as we hoped it would," said Prof Guglielmo Aglietti, director of the Surrey Space Centre.
"The target was spinning like you would expect an uncooperative piece of junk to behave, but you can see clearly that the net captures it, and we're very happy with the way the experiment went."
AIRBUSImage captionThe net as it was stowed in its firing mechanism
If this were a real capture, the net would be tethered to the deploying satellite, which would then tug the junk out of the sky.
As this was just a demonstration, the net and the box (which was actually pushed out from RemoveDebris to act as a target) will be allowed to fall to Earth on their own. Their low altitude means it should take only a couple of months before they burn up in the atmosphere.
There has been much talk about the need to clean up space, but the Surrey satellite is the first to try out practical solutions.
Shortly, RemoveDebris will test a new camera system to track space junk - again, on a target it has brought along for the experiment.
Later, perhaps early in the New Year, there will be a demonstration of a harpoon that can snare junk. And finally, RemoveDebris will deploy a large membrane - what is termed a "drag sail", which will brush against the high atmosphere and pull the whole mission into a destructive dive towards the planet.
Image captionArtwork: How the net experiment was envisioned before its deployment
There are now millions of discarded pieces of metal and other materials in orbit - everything from old rocket segments to accidentally dropped astronaut tools, even flecks of paint.
The fear is that if we do not soon start taking this litter out of the sky, it will become a significant threat to active satellites.
Alastair Wayman is an engineer with the aerospace giant Airbus, which is also involved in the RemoveDebris project.
"If there are collisions, as there have been previously, then they will create lots of space debris. That debris then collides with more spacecraft, and you get even more space debris. It's a kind of snowball effect," he told BBC News.
The issue of space junk is particularly pressing because a number of companies are in the planning stages of launching thousands of new satellites.
Already there are calls for a tough new approach to licensing these spacecraft that would demand operators be able to bring down rapidly any of their hardware that fails in orbit.
The miniature harpoon to be tested on the mission
DEBRIS DEMO
For this demo, the satellite released a shoebox-sized objectto act as its target, then fired a spider-like web that wrapped around the box.
“It worked just as we hoped it would,” SSC Director Guglielmo Aglietti told BBC News. “The target was spinning like you would expect an uncooperative piece of junk to behave, but you can see clearly that the net captures it, and we’re very happy with the way the experiment went.”
In a full-scale version of the technology, the net will remain tethered to the RemoveDEBRIS satellite so it could pull the captured junk out of the sky when it dives toward the Earth at the end of its mission.
But since this was just a demonstration, both the box and the net will simply burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere within the next couple of months. Had the demo occurred higher up in the atmosphere, though, both would have continued to orbit the planet along with the rest of the space junk.
TRASHTOR BEAM
In 2019, the RemoveDEBRIS satellite will demonstrate another technology — a harpoon that snares space junk. Russian scientists are also building a gigantic space laser to zap junk out of the sky, and NASA is working on a large, flat sheet it hopes to use to envelop debris.
And, really, we have no time to waste. This debris already threatens the rockets and satellites already in commission. More cluttered space could make it difficult to launch new spacecraft. If that happens, we might be stuck hoping aliens do find us — after all, we won’t be able to go out hunting for them.
Weird Infrared Signal Emanates Across Space, But What Created It?
Weird Infrared Signal Emanates Across Space, But What Created It?
By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Live Science Staff Writer
A group of researchers recently observed a mysterious infrared emission coming from near a pulsar in NASA's Hubble Space telescope data. This animation depicts one possible source of the emission: a "fallback disk" or a disk that formed from materials of the parent star falling back into the neutron star after a supernova.
Credit: ESA/N. Tr’Ehnl (Pennsylvania State University)/NASA
Space is filled with bizarre signals that we scramble to put meaning to — and now, researchers have detected yet another mysterious signal. This one emanated from near a neutron star, and for the first time, it's infrared.
So, what's nearby that could have created the weird signal? Scientists have a few ideas.
When a star reaches the end of its life, it typically undergoes a supernova explosion— the star collapses, and if it has enough mass, it will form a black hole. But if the star isn't massive enough, it will form a neutron star. [Supernova Photos: Great Images of Star Explosions]
Neutrons stars are very dense and, as their name suggests, are made up mostly of closely packed neutrons. Neutron stars can also be called "pulsars" if they are highly magnetized and rotate rapidly enough to emit electromagnetic waves, according to Space.com.
Typically, neutron stars emit radio waves or higher-energy waves such as X-rays, according a statement released by NASA yesterday (Sept. 17). But an international group of researchers from Penn State, the University of Arizona and Sabanci University in Turkey observed something interesting in NASA's Hubble Space Telescope data: a long signal of infrared light emitted near a neutron star, the researchers reported yesterday in The Astrophysical Journal.
This signal, they found, was about 800 light-years away and was "extended," meaning it was spread across a large stretch of space, unlike typical "point" signals from neutron stars that emit X-rays. Specifically, the signal stretched across 200 astronomical units (AU) of space, or 2.5 times the orbit of Pluto around the sun, according to a statement from Penn State. (One AU is the average distance from Earth to the sun — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
Such extended signals have been observed before, but never in the infrared, lead author Bettina Posselt, an associate research professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, told Live Science.
This illustration depicts a "pulsar wind nebula" another source that could have produced this infrared signature.
Credit: Pulsar wind nebula
Based on previous data, the amount of infrared radiation is much more than the neutron star should be emitting, Posselt said. So "all of the emission in infrared we see is likely not coming from the neutron star itself," Posselt said. "There's something more."
The neutron star in question, RX J0806.4-4123, is one of the nearby X-ray pulsars collectively known as the Magnificent Seven. They are bizarre characters: They rotate much more slowly than typical neutron stars (it takes 11 seconds for one rotation of RX J0806.4-4123, whereas typical ones rotate in a fraction of a second), and they're much hotter than they should be based on when they formed.
In their study, the researchers proposed two possibilities for what could have snuggled up near RX J0806.4-4123 and emitted these mysterious signals: a disk of dust that surrounds the pulsar, or a "pulsar wind nebula."
A "fallback disk" — that could stretch 18 billion miles across — could have formed from the remnants of a resident star following a supernova explosion, Posselt said. Such disks that "have been long searched for, but not found" would most likely be made up mainly of dust particles, she added.
The inner part of such a disk would likely have enough energy to produce infrared light, Posselt said. This could also help explain why RX J0806.4-4123 is so hot and spins so slowly. "The disks in the past could have provided some extra heating," and also slowed down its rotation, Posselt said.
The second explanation is that perhaps the infrared signal is coming from a nearby pulsar wind nebula.
A pulsar wind can form when electrons from a neutron star are accelerated in an electric field produced by the neutron star's fast rotation and strong magnetic field, according to the NASA statement. As the neutron star moves through space, typically faster than the speed of sound, it crashes into the interstellar medium — those tiny bits of gas and dust that reside between large celestial objects. The interaction between the interstellar medium and the pulsar wind can produce the so-called pulsar wind nebula, which could give off infrared radiation, Posselt said.
Pulsar wind nebulas are typically seen emitting X-rays, so a pulsar wind nebula that radiates only in the infrared is "definitely interesting," Posselt said.
The military is making it easier than ever for soldiers to distance themselves from the consequences of war. When drone warfare emerged, pilots could, for the first time, sit in an office in the U.S. and drop bombs in the Middle East.
Now, one pilot can do it all, just using their mind — no hands required.
Earlier this month, DARPA, the military’s research division, unveiled a project that it had been working on since 2015: technology that grants one person the ability to pilot multiple planes and drones with their mind.
“As of today, signals from the brain can be used to command and control … not just one aircraft but three simultaneous types of aircraft,” Justin Sanchez, director of DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office, said, according to Defense One.
THE SINGULARITY
Sanchez may have unveiled this research effort at a “Trajectory of Neurotechnology” session at DARPA’s 60th anniversary event, but his team has been making steady progress for years. Back in 2016, a volunteer equipped with a brain-computer interface (BCI) was able to pilot an aircraft in a flight simulator while keeping two other planes in formation — all using just his thoughts, a spokesperson from DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office told Futurism.
In 2017, Copeland was able to steer a plane through another simulation, this time receiving haptic feedback — if the plane needed to be steered in a certain direction, Copeland’s neural implant would create a tingling sensation in his hands.
NOT QUITE MAGNETO
There’s a catch. The DARPA spokesperson told Futurism that because this BCI makes use of electrodes implanted in and on the brain’s sensory and motor cortices, experimentation has been limited to volunteers with varying degrees of paralysis. That is: the people steering these simulated planes already had brain electrodes, or at least already had reason to undergo surgery.
To try and figure out how to make this technology more accessible and not require surgical placement of a metal probe into people’s brains, DARPA recently launched the NExt-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program. The plan is to make a device with similar capabilities, but it’ll look more like an EEG cap that the pilot can take off once a mission is done.
“The envisioned N3 system would be a tool that the user could wield for the duration of a task or mission, then put aside,” said Al Emondi, head of N3, according to the spokesperson. “I don’t like comparisons to a joystick or keyboard because they don’t reflect the full potential of N3 technology, but they’re useful for conveying the basic notion of an interface with computers.”
READ MORE: It’s Now Possible To Telepathically Communicate with a Drone Swarm [Defense One]
IS ER NOG IEMAND DIE HET SPROOKJE VAN DE PIRAMIDEN GELOOFT ? ( VIDEO }
IS ER NOG IEMAND DIE HET SPROOKJE VAN DE PIRAMIDEN GELOOFT ? ( VIDEO )
Op school wordt ons geleerd dat de piramiden van Gizeh zo rond 2.500 voor Christus zijn gebouwd.
Ieder normaal logisch denkend mens zal tot de conclusie komen dat dit een onmogelijkheid is, gezien de mathematische precisie waarmee deze zijn gebouwd, het enorme gewicht van de stenen en de, volgens de historici, gebrekkige gereedschappen uit die tijd.
Het volgende is wat in de Wikipedia staat over de piramiden van Gizeh:
De Piramiden van Gizeh in Egypte behoren tot de bekendste en oudste bouwwerken van de mensheid. De piramiden zijn tevens de bekendste van de Egyptische piramiden. Ze bevinden zich ongeveer acht kilometer ten zuidwesten van de stad Gizeh.
De piramiden werden gebouwd tijdens de vierde dynastie (tussen circa 2551 en 2472 v.Chr.) en zijn dankzij hun zeer stabiele constructie goed bewaard gebleven.
Deze piramiden zouden dus gebouwd zijn in een tijd waarin in ons land het volgende gebeurde:
Even voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog werden ten zuiden van Buurse in het Zendvelderveld interessante vondsten gedaan: twintig scherven van handgevormd aardewerk, acht stukken bewerkt vuursteen en een gedeelte van een stenen bijl. De vondsten wijzen op een prehistorische nederzetting die daar moet hebben gelegen. Twee van de scherven zijn versierd met een visgraatmotief. Deze versiering maakt het mogelijk om de vondsten nauwkeuriger te dateren, omdat elk tijdperk zijn eigen materialen, vormen en versieringen kent.
De versierde scherven uit het Zendvelderveld horen bij het aardewerk van wat archeologen de Enkelgrafcultuur noemen. Dit volk van boeren leefde aan het eind van de nieuwe steentijd (het neolithicum), tussen ongeveer 2900 en 2500 v. Christus. Een paar families woonden in een kleine nederzetting van niet meer dan enkele boerderijen op nog geen kilometer van de huidige Duitse grens.
We praten letterlijk over het stenen tijdperk. Misschien waren ze in Egypte iets verder gevorderd, maar toch, het gaat over volkeren op de rand van of net uit het stenen tijdperk. Neem een kwartier de tijd om de volgende video te bekijken en daarna zal je absoluut tot de conclusie komen dat deze piramiden niet door de Egyptenaren gebouwd kunnen zijn rond 2.500 voor Christus.
De redenen waarom dit zo is, zijn overweldigend en je vraagt je af hoe een zichzelf respecterende wetenschapper kan vasthouden aan het sprookjesverhaal. Er is dan ook maar één antwoord mogelijk op de vraag waarom wij en onze kinderen de onzin over de piramiden krijgen voorgeschoteld.
De reden is dat wij onze werkelijke geschiedenis niet mogen kennen. Want, als die bij ons bekend zou zijn, dan vallen de huidige machtsstructuren zoals religies met donderend geraas ineen en gaan mensen ineens zelf nadenken.
Het zou het einde betekenen van de programmering van de bevolking, want niemand zou nog een woord geloven van wat ze wordt voorgespiegeld. De mens zou in opstand komen en zou opnieuw contact willen met de verre voorouders.
Daarom is het grootste gevaar voor de machthebbers het ontdekken van onze werkelijke geschiedenis, want dat zou onmiddellijk het het einde van hun heerschappij inluiden.
Maak vandaag een begin met het zelf nadenken. Je zult merken dat wanneer je dat eenmaal doet, je veel beter bent dan je ooit had kunnen vermoeden en dingen ineens logischer zijn.
Sloop de machtsbolwerken door met nadenken te beginnen, de rest volgt vanzelf.
When one geologist stumbled across a massive mound 65 years ago, he had no idea his discovery would spark one of the world’s strangest scientific mysteries.
The site in Irkutsk, Siberia was discovered in 1949 and is a huge convex cone with a funnel-shaped recess and a rounded hill in the middle, which looks a little like an eagle’s nest with an egg nestled inside it.
The origin of the Patomskiy crater has baffled scientists for decades and theories for its existence have ranged from a nuclear blast to a secret gulag mine and even a meteorite strike.
The site in Irkutsk, Siberia was discovered in 1949 and is a huge convex cone with a funnel-shaped recess and a rounded hill in the middle, which looks a little like an eagle's nest with an egg nestled inside it
THE PATOMSKIY CRATER
The mysterious crater - also known as the 'eagle's nest' - was discovered 65 years ago in Irkutsk, Siberia, by a Russian geologist.
The cone is 80 metres tall from the lowest point of its base and measures 150 metres wide.
It is thought to be just 250 years old, although estimates differ widely.
Scientists previously suggested it was a slagheap, but now think there were not enough people living in the area to create it.
Some people believe it was made by aliens.
Scientists threw out the idea that the mound was made as the result of a uranium ore explosion as the site has low background radiation.
They have floated the idea that it could have been made by a volcano, but none have been found nearby.
An impact made by a meteorite is the favourite theory but no evidence of fragments has been found.
It is thought there is something with a high iron content over 100metres below the crater, which could be a meteorite.
The crater is 'alive' and changes shape - by rising and falling - constantly.
Trees nearby the site are reported to grow abnormally fast.
The current thinking is that the site was indeed created by a meteorite strike, but no evidence has been found to support the theory.
The cone is 80metres tall and has a diameter of 150metres at its widest. The depth of the inner circle ditch is around 10metres.
It was named Patomskiy after a nearby river and was discovered by a geologist called Vadim Kolpakov who tried and failed to arrange a scientific trip to examine the site, but numerous expeditions have taken place since and one last year collected samples.
Theories that the mound is a giant slagheap have been thrown out as there were not enough people living nearby when the crater is thought to have formed to create such a pile.
And there were never labour camps or gulags in the region.
Half a tonne of samples were taken from the site and removed by helicopter last year.
The samples led scientists to dismiss ideas of a uranium ore explosion as the background radiation at the site is low and no uranium has been found nearby either.
This left them with two main theories – one of a volcano and another of a meteorite.
However, the mysterious site has not given up any meteoritic material and the area is not thought to be volcanic.
In fact there are no volcanoes within thousands of kilometres of the Patomskiy crater and it also seems to be relatively new.
The origin of the Patomsky crater has baffled scientists for decades and theories for its existence have ranged from a nuclear bomb blast, a secret Gulag mine and meteorite strike
The cone is 80metres tall and has a diameter of 150metres at its widest. The depth of the inner circle ditch is around 10metres
Scientists thought the crater was only between 100 and 500 years old and could be the result of the Tunguska meteorite, which fell in the Krasnoyarsk region in 1908, but whose crater has never been discovered.
It is thought the meteorite was sighted just 70km away from the ‘eagle’s nest’ and that distance is a mere 10 to 15 seconds of flight.
As the Tunguska event occurred in 1908, the age coincides, but modern tests have shown that the crater is actually 250 years old – so it could have been formed by a previous meteorite that fell when the area was virtually unpopulated.
The strange mound was found in Irkutsk, Siberia (pictured) was discovered in 1949 but it was only last year that scientists took samples from the site
The crater was named Patomsky after a nearby river and was discovered in Siberia (pictured) by a geologist called Vadim Kolpakov who tried and failed to arrange a scientific trip to examine the site. The first expedition only took place last year
Scientists now think that there is something with a high iron content and ferromagnetic materials buried between 100 and 150 metres underneath the crater.
They believe it could be a meteorite or another incredibly dense object, but they are not certain.
The fact that the crater is ‘alive’ as its shape changes constantly - by rising and falling - and that the trees nearby the site are reported to grow abnormally fast, adds to the mystery.
Scientists now think that there is something with a high iron content and ferromagnetic materials buried some 100 to 150 metres underneath the crater (pictured)
It was first thought to be a meteorite crater … but it acts mysteriously like a UFO crater … and it’s in Siberia where locals fear it and some believe it could be the result of a neutron star drilling completely through the planet. So, what IS it? ‘It’ is the Patom Crater and it has baffled scientists for decades while scaring both researchers and locals with its strange and allegedly deadly powers. Now a team has developed a new theory explaining its existence that isn’t has cool as a neutron star drilling through the center of the Earth but perhaps more plausible.
The Patom or Patomskiy crater, aka “Fire Eagle Nest,” was discovered in 1949 by Russian geologist Vadim Kolpakov in the Irkutsk region of southeastern Siberia, a remote area hundreds of miles from the nearest big city. Kolpakov himself was puzzled by what he found – a circular mound made of crushed limestone measuring 520 feet (160 meters) in diameter and 139 feet (40 meters) in height, with a mound in the depressed center of the ring standing 39 feet (12 meters) high. That’s a pretty unusual 250,000 cubic meter (8,800,000 cu ft) pile of limestone weighing about one million tons. What could have caused it … or put it there?
Patomsky crater
(Dmitry Semenov: Wikipedia)
“I thought I was mad. From a distance it reminded me of a giant pit mine and I even wondered if people were there. Why would they be? This is a dense area of the taiga. Plus there were no NKVD labor camps around here – I knew it for sure. Secondly, I thought that it might be an archeological artefact, but the local Evenk and Yakut people were not ancient Egyptians. They can’t built rock pyramids.”
Kolpakov bravely climbed the mound, despite warnings from the indigenous people he had just insulted that “Fire Eagle Nest” had an evil power that caused deer and other animals to stay away from it and eventually and mysteriously killed anyone who stepped inside of it. While it didn’t affect Kolpakov, the leader of an expedition in 2005 died shortly afterward of a heart attack. Coincidence?
Kolpakov believed he was standing in a meteorite crater near the Patomskiy river. While some who agreed with him suggested it was from a fragment of the 1908 Tunguska meteorite, brave expeditions after the fateful one in 2005 determined it to be about 500 years old. Theories formed from data collected during those expeditions (and subsequently rejected) included a volcanic eruption (too small, no other craters), a super-dense, metallic, cylindrical object crashed (no one has found any metal), an underground nuclear explosion (no radiation), a spaceship landed there (and left a pile of limestone?), a fragment of a neutron star drilled through the Earth (where’s the entry hole?) or some sort of Siberia-only, warming-freezing, possibly methane-related phenomenon like the Siberian craters.
A recent article in Russia Beyond reveals the latest and most plausible theory for the Patom crater:
“A phreatic (steam) explosion, that happened either during magma emplacement into hydrous rocks or due to the faulting and decompression of heated hydrous rocks.”
A what? A hydrous rock or mineral is one which has undergone a chemical reaction that added water to its crystalline structure (amphibole, lawsonite, zoisite, chloritoid, talc, etc.). Magma emplacement is the vertical migration of magma that is driven by gravity. So, magma hits the water-filled rocks, heats up the water, creates steam, causes an explosion and leaves a crater and a mound behind to baffle natives and scientists.
This theory explains why Kolpakov felt heat, which may be the reason why animals avoid it and why vegetation may be unable to grow around it. However, if there was enough magma and hydrous rocks to form one crater, why aren’t there more?
Science, especially geology, is still leading in the race to explain the Patom Crater, despite efforts to promote pseudoscience reasons. One thing is certain — never insult or underestimate the abilities of indigenous peoples.
Hackers may have gained control over Sun Weapon Solar Observatory, New Mexico
Hackers may have gained control over Sun Weapon Solar Observatory, New Mexico
In what can only be considered one of the most bizarre information leaks of 2018, an alleged DARPA whistleblower known only as ‘Sam’ appeared on Clyde Lewis’s Ground Zero radio show on Wednesday where he made the claim that Chinese bad actors are likely to blame for hacking the National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Sunspot, New Mexico, and may have been using or intended to use the facility as a solar weapon which is what prompted the FBI to take over the facility last Thursday along with a nearby post office and several homes, reports Intellihub.
The reason they want to hack it is because the NSO in Sunspot is part of an intranet that also includes HAARP, HAMMER, and SMACC,” he explained. “Through this network we have been very successful at manipulation the solar surface and the coronasphere to the point that we can actually trigger coronial mass ejections of controlled size, duration, density, and intensity.”
The whistleblower told Lewis “they are using scalar waves to trigger them” which are “transmitted through HAARP” at “unheard of” power levels.
“Understand, HAARP is capable of transmitting signal strengths in excess of 50 gigawatts,” he said. “They require so much energy and the energy has to be such a high quality that it can only be provided by SMACC.”
National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM.
(uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs/Flickr)
“SMACC has its own nuclear reactors and you have to control the quality of electricity, the exact frequency with extremely accurate micro values all the while delivering unheard of voltage.”
“By hacking into the computers at the NSO they now have access to an intranet — the intranet connects the NSO, HAARP, HAMMER, and SMACC because they feed upon and require each other,” he explained.
“You must have a network because there are so many thousands of gigabytes of information in constant flow to make this work… it’s delicate.”
Their mission is the master control of the solar surface and the earth’s meteorological configuration — they need to control the weather — they need to control the sun — and they are oftly close.”
HAARP stands for High-frequency Active Auroral Reseach Program. HAMMER stands for High Altitude Meteorological Manipulation Energy Reseach. SMACC stands for Scalar Magnetic Amplification Cognizant Configuration.
A top secret US military aircraft has been spotted in the skies above Seattle, according to bizarre claims online.
A video, posted by an account called 'Ufo disclosure' on September 18, shows a triangular UFO speeding across the sky, not far from another aircraft.
The clip, which is captioned 'Triangle UFO or TR-3B filmed in Seattle', shows what some claim is a US Air Force spy plane.
TR-3 planes do not officially exist, but according to conspiracy theorists, they are a class of US surveillance aircraft, developed in complete secret.
Pictured: A 'Black Triangle UFO' above Seattle, WA
'Black Triangles' have also been spotted above Australia and Russia.
Pictured: A US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-117A Nighthawk taking part in a flying-display at the Dubai Air Show in 2007
(Image: Universal Images Group Editorial)
'Black Triangle' UFO sightings have become relatively common in recent years, particularly above the United States, but they have also been 'spotted' above Australia and Russia.
It's thought TR, which it has been suggested stands for 'Tactical Reconnaissance', might be to blame for the sightings.
According to some claims online, the class of aircraft was first used during the 1991 Gulf War, to pick out targets for US stealth bombers.
Of course, there is no proof these planes actually exist, but they remains subject to almost relentless Internet speculation, and sightings like this will only add fuel to the fire.
“We often think of plants as being passive and at the mercy of their environment. My jaw literally dropped when I first saw these videos … They beautifully illustrate how active and complex plants really are.”
New research explores how plant communication systems respond to threats from hungry insects. The study, published September 14, 2018, in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, suggests that once wounded, plants use calcium signals to warn distant tissues of future attacks.
The study found that a chemical called glutamate – which is an abundant neurotransmitter in animals, including humans – activates a wave of calcium when the plant is wounded.
A hungry caterpillar, first working around a leaf’s edges, approaches the base of the leaf and, with one last bite, severs it from the rest of the plant. Within seconds, a blaze of fluorescent light washes over the other leaves, a signal that they should prepare for impending attacks by the caterpillar or its kin. That fluorescent light tracks calcium as it zips across the plant’s tissues, providing an electrical and chemical signal of a threat.
Image via Toyota/Gilroy.
Gregg Howe is a professor at Michigan State University and a study co-author. Howe said in a statement:
We often think of plants as being passive and at the mercy of their environment. My jaw literally dropped when I first saw these videos … They beautifully illustrate how active and complex plants really are.
When a plant’s leaf is wounded, an electrical charge races across the plant to warn other tissues of possible danger. Howe said:
For decades, it’s been known that leaf damage, inflicted by mechanical wounding or caterpillar munching, rapidly activates defense responses in distant, undamaged leaves of the plant. But what triggers this rapid response has largely remained a mystery.
The researchers thought the trigger might be calcium. That’s because it’s ubiquitous in cells and often acts as a signal of a changing environment. And because calcium carries a charge, it can produce an electrical signal. But it is hard to track because its concentration levels spike and dip quickly.
[The researchers] developed plants that produce a protein that fluoresces around calcium, letting the researchers track its presence and concentration. Then came caterpillar bites, scissor cuts, and crushing wounds.
In response to each kind of damage, the plants light up as calcium flows from the site of damage to other leaves. The signal moved quickly, about one millimeter per second, reaching out to distant leaves in just a couple minutes.
A few minutes later, levels of a defense hormone – called jasmonate – spiked in those distant leaves. They were preparing the plant for future threats by producing noxious chemicals that ward off predators.
The results suggest that glutamate exiting a plant wound leads to rapid propagation of a calcium wave, which in turn leads to production of jasmonate and defense responses.
Bottom line: In a video from a new study, a caterpillar eats a leaf, and the plant sends a warning signal to other leaves.
Retired Air Force Commander Claims New Evidence Will Blow The Lid Off Rendlesham UFO Event
Retired Air Force Commander Claims New Evidence Will Blow The Lid Off Rendlesham UFO Event
A retired Air Force worker claims he holds strong evidence on the 1980 UFO event the Rendlesham Forest. He said he saw “some type of superior intelligence” that could “change size and shape”.
The colonel named Charles Halt gather statements from air traffic controllers who were on duty the due day close the Bentwaters Royal Air Force Base in the UK.
They told him they saw a UFO performing amazing aerial movements. They didn’t speak up until their retirement because they were scared.
The military personnel on duty in the base RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge witnessed a fast triangle UFO in the field of Rendlesham Forest. Same encounters had resumed the next night again.
Halt, who was a deputy base commander at Bentwaters, underwent a series of inexplicable lights which involved a mysterious craft moving through the trees and dropping a hot matter.
Along with a tape recording, Halt also filed a report, describing a laser-like light one of the UFOsemitted as his men were observing.
Halt told The Huffington Post that what he and the others saw in the Rendlesham forest was beyond their imagination.
“The military has nothing to do with it, other than the cover-up, but I can tell you, there is some type of superior intelligence that can change size, change shape, do funny things. What I saw, I’m firmly convinced, didn’t have anything that we know or could relate to, inside it. Maybe they’re not a being as we know, maybe they’re an entity that just has intelligence, and we just can’t relate to it.”
Photo credit: Col. Charles Halt, Ret.
Moreover, Halt explained how after many years he managed to retrieve some sworn statements from air traffic controllers who were witnesses at the same time.
“They saw the object go across their scope — a 60-mile scope — in two or three seconds. Thousands of miles an hour,” he told the BBC. “It came back across their scope again, stopped near the water tower. They observed it. They watched it go over into the forest where we were.”
A few years after the Rendlesham event passed, the air traffic controllers retired. Then, they decided to tell Halt everything they detected that night.
“They told me that they knew anytime an air traffic controller reported a UFO, they got de-certified. So they said nothing.”
Charles Halt recently blamed the US government for concealing important UFO data. Furthermore, he claims a presence of a top-secret bureau dealing with extraterrestrial activities.
Halt told the HuffPost that there is a contract civilian agency in charge of everything. He alleged this agency consists of former military and top-notch scientists.
However, his biggest frustration is the years of lies and misinformation about the Rendlesham incident. This includes the disappearance of essential files concerning the case.
In 2011, the UK declassified thousands of UFO files, but the ones connected with this one weren’t among them.
Halt said: “It doesn’t surprise me at all, because they were probably taken from them by somebody, or sent somewhere by direction. Trust me — that’s the way it works. It’s very disappointing on one hand, and it’s also frightening. Who knows what else is going on?”
Hey, Spock! Real-Life 'Planet Vulcan' Orbits Sun Featured in 'Star Trek'
Hey, Spock! Real-Life 'Planet Vulcan' Orbits Sun Featured in 'Star Trek'
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
An artist's depiction of what the newly discovered planet orbiting 40 Eridani A, a star made famous by the series "Star Trek," might look like.
Credit: Don Davis
"Star Trek's" planet Vulcan, ancestral home of Spock and his species, just became a little more real, thanks to a team of exoplanet scientists.
Because "Star Trek" creators eventually associated planet Vulcan with a real star, called 40 Eridani A, scientists have wondered for years whether a factual equivalent of the beloved science fiction planet exists, with or without pointy-eared inhabitants. And now, a team of scientists has said that the star really does host at least one planet.
"This star can be seen with the naked eye, unlike the host stars of most of the known planets discovered to date," Bo Ma, lead author of the new research and an astronomer at the University of Florida, said in a statement. "Now, anyone can see 40 Eridani A on a clear night and be proud to point out Spock's home." [The Top 10 Best 'Star Trek' Episodes Ever]
That star, located about 16 light-years away from Earth, is also known as HD 26965. It's a bit orange, because it's a little smaller and cooler than our sun. But it also has some clear similarities to Earth's star: It's about the same age and sports a fairly similar sunspot pattern. That's good news for people hoping for real-life Vulcan residents. "HD 26965 may be an ideal host star for an advanced civilization," Matt Muterspaugh, an astronomer at Tennessee State University and a co-author on the new research, said in a statement.
Two additional stars accompany HD 26965, and they would be visible from the planet's surface. The planet itself doesn't look quite as appealing as the star, because this world seems to orbit a little too close to its sun to be in the habitable zone where liquid water can be retained on the surface. However, scientists are still pinning down precisely what other characteristics determine a planet's habitability. The newfound planet is about twice the size of Earth, and its year lasts about 42 days.
The researchers behind the discovery are excited about more than just the "Star Trek" connection, though, they said. The new find is also the first so-called super-Earth discovered by the Dharma Planet Survey, which is designed to hunt down relatively small planets around relatively bright stars.
The new research is described in a paper posted to the preprint server arXiv.org on July 18 and scheduled for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society next month.
Artefacts With Extraterrestrial Carvings And Engravings Found In A Mexican Cave
Artefacts With Extraterrestrial Carvings And Engravings Found In A Mexican Cave
Mysterious artefacts with engravings of "extraterrestrials" and "Nacelle" unearthed in a Mexican cave is just mind blowing stuff and is next to incredible if you was to ask my opinion based on the evidence, the story and the actual statues themselves I can't help but get a little excited.
The prospects that this could literally change our history as we know it, but for the better and for a clean out of the lies, contradictions and other shady recognition from dubious sources?
A group of explorers discovered in a Mexican cave evidence of what they boast to be the best evidence of extraterrestrial contact on Earth. The group of explorers recently visited the cave and explored it in detail. In two cases, the researchers made unexpected discoveries, including several stones sculpted with images depicting etchings related to extraterrestrials. On the surface of the stones, the group of researchers found evidence of what many people interpret as "extraterrestrial spacecraft" and "humanoid beings"; One of the stones, apparently fractured in the past, evidently shows the top of a spaceship with a being that some people believe is not of this world.
The painting shown here contains an alleged alien who is next to a former leader of a prehispanic culture who receives a corn seed, as well as some other symbols that have not yet been deciphered; these artifacts have been nicknamed "stones of the first encounter".
It is said that local legends speak of a mysterious "ship" that has been hidden somewhere near the caves since time immemorial. This is the main reason why the group of explorers searched the area three months ago.
His research yielded totally unexpected results. They found what they believe is the ultimate proof that the aliens visited the Earth thousands of years ago and that they had direct contact with the ancient cultures that inhabited Mexico at that time. What the discovery suggests or what implications the group of explorers will have to see. José Aguayo explained how the INAH - National Institute of Anthropology and History - can not say anything about the discovery because it is not a typical archaeology for a main reason; the artifacts describe things that contradict the dominant story and differentiate everything we have been told about our history and origins.
If, at some point, the National Institute of Anthropology and History decided to collect the artefacts, it would have enormous implications for both parties since INAH, an official government agency, would essentially accept one of the most important "facts": the existence of beings. not earthly, they have directly influenced the ancient cultures of the whole world.
The story can be found in two places here in Spanish and here in English.
Here is another bit of research that I found online and guys it get's even more stranger and stranger because of the look of these incredible statues? I must admit that I wasn't them mini statues having the look of an Alien grey? That absolutely threw me for six! The classic look of the big tear shaped eyes and the big head with a small mouth, that is the look these mini sculptures, statues have. I mean, they even have a mini baby Alien grey in the arms of the "mother Alien".
Other sculptures appear to show spaceships flying through the air. The mystery objects are reportedly popular among locals who live near the caves in an unspecified area of Mexico.
Very old statues could be up to 7,000 years old some top researchers have claimed?
In this next stone is a really, odd looking and very, very bizarre engraving of what can only be described and called a UFO? You just have to look at it in full, take it in and you can see exactly what the person who engraved this stone was trying to tell us? That Aliens are real and we've been contacted by Alien in our ancestors past? It is up for grabs and up for debate but here is a tangible, physical proof of the legend, story so that for me is as good as any evidence which quite literally proves it.
UFO MANIA - The Truth Is Out There YouTube Video link can be found here:
This next stone statue is exactly how I would carve an Alien in stone. This is what it is, if you take it for what it is and don't put any long winded spin on to it, then it is just a statue of an Alien. If you put spin on to it, then it becomes anything you want it to be?
I've found some amazing images from the actual cave in Mexico and there is overwhelming evidence of Aliens who (at one time) visited Earth and who knows, they may of even influenced the concepts of ships, trade and the exchange of ideas among each other knowing the route humanity would take.
So yeah, everything since the first contact could all of been known in advance because of the Aliens known information that once a species is enlightened to trade, travel and intelligence of inventions and numbers then the route taken is pretty much mapped out already? Who knows, the Roswell crash might of been the time when sophisticated and extremely small technology was introduced to keep us on track and stop us from killing each other in more wars like world war one and world war two?
It's pure speculation but my opinions could of happened and they might of been slightly different but not a lot because all I need to do is take away the Alien element and the rest of what I said pretty much happened like I said! So don't be quick to shrug it off because just because I said the Alien word that doesn't mean it is all rubbish from then on wards?
The supposedly ancient sculptures have sparked claims that aliens visited earth thousands of years ago. Maybe they did because if this was to represent a human at that time, this would be rejected as not looking anything like a human? So it begs the question, is this really depicting a real Alien visitor because maybe these people never depicted other humans in their artwork and only their Gods and them being the visiting Aliens.
That looks uncannily similar to an Alien as we would say they look in today world? Maybe they look like this and it's an innate thought that we all have inside of what they look like?
Mr. Spock (tweede van links) met zijn opvallende spitse oren
FOTO: AP
“Fascinerend”, zo zou Mr. Spock - net als ‘Trekkies’ - vermoedelijk in zijn ruimteschip Enterprise hebben gereageerd op de mededeling van wetenschappers dat zij zijn mogelijke thuisplaneet hebben gevonden
Mr. Spock is in de legendarische sf-televisieserie ‘Star Trek’ afkomstig van de op de Aarde gelijkende planeet Vulcan. Waar die zich precies en in welk zonnestelsel bevindt is in de serie niet uitgelegd. De bedenker ervan, Gene Roddenberry, heeft in 1991 in een brief aan amateur-astronauten wel laten weten dat de ster waarrond Vulcan draait, 40 Eridani A is.
In het kader van het Dharma Planet Survey is nu een “super-Aarde” (buiten ons zonnestelsel) gevonden die rond ster HD 26965 draait, aldus een onderzoeksteam van de Tennessee State University. Zowat zestien lichtjaar van ons verwijderd draagt die de bij ‘Trekkies’ bekende naam 40 Eridani A.
De exoplaneet is ongeveer dubbel zo groot als de onze en heeft 42 dagen nodig voor een omloop. De moederster is wat koeler en wat minder groot dan de onze, maar heeft dezelfde leeftijd. Ze is bij een heldere nacht met het blote oog zichtbaar. HD 26965 zou ook een ideale partner kunnen zijn voor een geavanceerde beschaving.
Sunspot Observatory to reopen with lame excuse for FBI evac, alien truthers unconvinced - PART I
Sunspot Observatory to reopen with lame excuse for FBI evac, alien truthers unconvinced - PART I
“AURA has been cooperating with an ongoing law enforcement investigation of criminal activity that occurred at Sacramento Peak,” the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) wrote in an online statement on Sunday.
sunspotsolarobservatorySunspot Solar Observatory will transition back to regular operations starting September 17th. Full statement from AURA here: ow.ly/LeLw50iRynb Thank you for your patience during our temporary closure!
koo8212What happend something weird going on ??? 👽🔭
dat_1_alpacaYeah wtf America explain I am confusion
longhorn_aCant wait for yall to sweep this incident under the rug without ever releasing the actual cause of what was going on, in hopes we'll all just forget 😉
chef_ojs_worldOn September 6th, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) made the decision to temporarily vacate the Sunspot Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico as a precautionary measure while addressing a security issue. The facility closed down in an orderly fashion and is now re-opening. The residents that vacated their homes will be returning to the site, and all employees will return to work this week. AURA has been cooperating with an on-going law enforcement investigation of criminal activity that occurred at Sacramento Peak. During this time, we became concerned that a suspect in the investigation potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents. For this reason, AURA temporarily vacated the facility and ceased science activities at this location. The decision to vacate was based on the logistical challenges associated with protecting personnel at such a remote location, and the need for expeditious response to the potential threat. AURA determined that moving the small number of on-site staff and residents off the mountain was the most prudent and effective action to ensure their safety. In light of recent developments in the investigation, we have determined there is no risk to staff, and Sunspot Solar Observatory is transitioning back to regular operations as of September 17th. Given the significant amount of publicity the temporary closure has generated, and the consequent expectation of an unusual number of visitors to the site, we are temporarily engaging a security service while the facility returns to a normal working environment. We recognize that the lack of communications while the facility was vacated was concerning and frustrating for some. However, our desire to provide additional information had to be balanced against the risk that, if spread at the time, the news would alert the suspect and impede the law enforcement investigation. That was a risk we could not take.
“During this time, we became concerned that a suspect in the investigation potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents. For this reason, AURA temporarily vacated the facility and ceased science activities at this location.” It should be noted that AURA declined to mention whether the suspect was of extraterrestrial origin.
Given the observatory’s remote location in the mountainous Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico, this explanation may have been at least somewhat plausible, were it not for the bizarre way in which the FBI handled the September 6 evacuation of the observatory and nearby residents.
NatlSolarObservatory@NatSolarObs
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AURA Statement about the Status of the Sunspot Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico:
Did "authorities" NOT think leaving site entirely vacant & not secure for 10 days, causing those around the world 2 focus on NSO, would not in and of itself "alert the suspect and impede the law enforcement investigation" ? Y was local Sheriff not brought in? #SunspotObservatory
#SunspotObservatory What kind of security issue requires the FBI to show up and evacuate the area, but then leave the security of said area to two renta-a-cops (no offense).
Even the local Sheriff, who was kept in the dark about the investigation throughout, was skeptical.
“But for the FBI to get involved that quick and be so secretive about it, there was a lot of stuff going on up there,” Otero County Sheriff Benny House said, as quoted by Alamogordo News. “There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas, and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything.”
Sunspot Solar Observatory is one of the largest active solar telescopes in the world and is conspicuously located near the White Sands Missile Range. While the Sunspot facility itself is low security, its proximity to a US military weapons testing site and Holloman Air Force Base could make it a prime target for international (or interplanetary) espionage.
When it comes to the #SunspotObservatory bullied closure scandal, let’s see, what will the govs cover story be? Let’s guess together: swamp gas? Chinese spies? Russian spies? Just a private FBI employee educational outing? Jupiter? Terrorists from Venus? Weather balloons…;0)
Naturally, speculation throughout the entire episode was rife, but reached fever pitch upon the sudden announcement of the Observatory's reopening, coupled with the rather damp squib explanation:
Narrator voice: Authorities scrambled to stop news of First Contact, announcing “criminal activity” even as they threated scientists the Solarians first reached to keep silent or face prosecution under the Alien Enemies Act.#SunspotObservatory#SolarObservatory cc @emilylitella
Matthew R Francis@DrMRFrancis
A cryptic partial explanation of the weirdness going on at the Sunspot Solar Observatory in NM http://aura-astronomy.org/news/news.asp?newsID=389 …
Must have been quite a big safety threat if they pull out a black hawk. I think they used less material to hunt the Zodiac killer..#SunspotObservatory#FalseFlag
Bob Moore@BobMooreNews
Sunspot observatory will reopen Monday after mysteriously closing, which management now says was because of a criminal investigation of someone who “potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents.”
On the other hand, one more theory could be creative PR on the part of the Observatory. “With the excitement this closure has generated, we hope you will come and visit us as we reopen, and see for yourself the services we provide for science and public outreach in heliophysics,”Sunspot Observatory's website states. The facility has reportedly even hired private security to handle the expected increase in tourist activity at the site in the wake of the bizarre episode.
Aliens of zonnevlam? Veel vragen blijven onbeantwoord na heropening zonnewacht in New Mexico
Aliens of zonnevlam? Veel vragen blijven onbeantwoord na heropening zonnewacht in New Mexico
De zonnewacht in New Mexico die vanwege een ‘veiligheidsprobleem’ plotseling werd gesloten, is weer open.
Het bezoekerscentrum van het Sunspot Solar Observatory heeft de deuren weer geopend, zo is bevestigd.
Het observatorium, dat is voorzien van een unieke telescoop waarmee superscherpe beelden van de zon kunnen worden gemaakt, werd op 6 september opeens gesloten op last van de FBI.
Sceptisch
Het internet wil nu antwoorden. Probeert de overheid misschien bewijs voor aliens onder het tapijt te vegen?
De FBI houdt de kaken stijf op elkaar en weigert commentaar te geven op de sluiting en evacuatie van het gebouw.
De lokale sheriff Benny House, die tijdens het onderzoek in het duister werd gehouden, reageerde sceptisch op de officiële verklaring – dat er sprake zou zijn van een veiligheidsprobleem.
Geheimzinnig
Hij zei het vreemd te vinden dat de FBI er zo snel bij betrokken werd en er zo geheimzinnig over deed.
Het Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico is één van de grootste actieve zonnetelescopen en bevindt zich vlak bij de White Sands Missile Range, waar het Amerikaanse leger wapens test.
Ook veel internetgebruikers zijn sceptisch en hebben op social media hun onvrede geuit over de gang van zaken.
NatlSolarObservatory@NatSolarObs
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AURA Statement about the Status of the Sunspot Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico:
Sunspot Solar Observatory is transitioning back to regular operations as of September 17th.
Did "authorities" NOT think leaving site entirely vacant & not secure for 10 days, causing those around the world 2 focus on NSO, would not in and of itself "alert the suspect and impede the law enforcement investigation" ? Y was local Sheriff not brought in? #SunspotObservatory
#SunspotObservatory What kind of security issue requires the FBI to show up and evacuate the area, but then leave the security of said area to two renta-a-cops (no offense).
When it comes to the #SunspotObservatory bullied closure scandal, let’s see, what will the govs cover story be? Let’s guess together: swamp gas? Chinese spies? Russian spies? Just a private FBI employee educational outing? Jupiter? Terrorists from Venus? Weather balloons…;0)
Luis Elizondo shot to notoriety practically overnight last year when the Pentagon’s secretive Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was made public. Elizondo directed the now-defunct program and currently serves as Director of Special Programs at To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science – you know, that one. After The New York Timespublished a report describing AATIP and the numerous videos and reports of anomalous aerial phenomena it had collected, Elizondo began speaking out about the program’s documented evidence of aircraft which display “characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of.” AATIP made headlines for a few months before fading into obscurity like every non-political story has since 2016.
The report even included military footage of anomalous aircraft which could easily outfly the best we have in the skies.
Elizondo is back this week, this time penning an editorial for his own page on Medium.com. In the piece, titled “Why Social Stigma About Unexplained Phenomena Holds Humanity Back,” Elizondo describes how human beings “tend to avoid associating ourselves with anything that will isolate us from the larger group or make us sound strange, or that might draw negative attention from our peers.” Social media has made this worse, Elizondo writes, in that it has provided an outlet for hoaxsters, sensationalized stories, and a medium in which true believers are ridiculed in public. Sounds pretty accurate.
This isn’t the first time Elizondo has spoken out against the social stigma associated with belief in UFOs. Earlier this year, Elizondo told Las Vegas Now that many government and military officials dismiss credible UFO research out of the belief that they are somehow demonic or counter to dominant Judeo-Christian belief systems.
How much knowledge throughout history has been hidden or destroyed for the same reasons?
Elizondo claims that during the cold war, the U.S. Government actively suppressed or discredited verifiable evidence of UAP in order to keep the public focused on more important matters like defeating the Russians and keeping the economy going. At least we can be glad that’s over, right? The article adds that despite the current body of evidence which suggests that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) do indeed exist, “many people would rather look the other way than be associated with what’s been labeled ‘crazy,’ or ‘fringe.’”
Elizondo ends his piece with somewhat of a dire warning, claiming that overcoming the stigma surrounding UFOs is “key to our survival as a species:”
As a species, it’s crucial to understand the things we can’t explain, in order to survive. And that means being open to new ideas, possibilities, and data. When it comes to UFOs, ignoring the unknown is similarly harmful because it might mean failing to seize upon opportunities and new understandings. As a society, we have to recognize that stigma serves only to keep our heads in the sand. Our future depends on transparency and truth.
He’s got a point. Just imagine what could be done if all of the world’s governments could openly share UFO and UAP evidence and throw even a small percentage of their annual military budgets towards the legitimate study of these unexplained phenomena. Might we finally discover the truth about extraterrestrial visitors or unexplained phenomena? Or could the truth be much more benign and all of these stories are merely another smokescreen to hide the fact that the United States has fallen behind other superpowers in terms of aerial capabilities? In either case, we’ll likely never know.
There’s still much to be discovered under the Egyptian sands. A lot of cat people statues mostly, if recent discoveries are to be any indicator. Just a month after a sphinx in the style of the well known Great Sphinx of Giza was reportedly discovered, yet another sphinx statue has been found, according to the Ministry of Antiquities. While this newly discovered sphinx isn’t as massive as the sphinx of Giza, it’s remarkable in how well preserved it is and, unlike the claimed second great sphinx, there’s actually pictures of this one.
The sphinx was discovered during a preservation project at the temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan during efforts to protect the temple against damage from groundwater erosion. While excavating the temple, archaeologists found an incredibly well preserved sandstone sphinx buried in the sands that they believe comes from the Ptolemaic period of Egyptian history, which lasted from 320 BCE to 30 BCE.
Egypt’s General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr. Mostafa Waziri announced that a team of Egyptian archaeologists uncovered a sphinx statue at the recently excavated Kom Ombo temple http://bit.ly/2pjtSu8
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a new sandstone sphinx in the southern city of Aswan that likely dates back to the Ptolemaic era. https://www.cbc.ca/1.4826331
New sphinx statue uncovered by Egyptian archeologists | CBC News
Egyptian archaeologists draining water from a temple in the southern city of Aswan have uncovered a sandstone sphinx likely dating to the Ptolemaic era.
One of the more interesting things about this sphinx is the face. This slightly quizzical and oddly comforting cat person, head slightly askew, looking like the least terrifying temple guardian imaginable. If sphinxes didn’t by default sit so firmly in the uncanny valley, it would be adorable. In contrast to the great sphinx, which, despite the erosion, looks rather intimidating and much more like a guardian of something, this Ptolemaic sphinx might offer a more complex look at the character of the sphinx in Egyptian mythology, or show how the mythology had changed by the time the Ptolemaic dynasty of Macedonia had replaced the Egyptian Pharaohs of old.
Beyond the big one that everyone knows, there are a ton of sphinx statues in Egypt.
The Ptolemaic dynasty was the last ruling family of ancient Egypt, before the Roman empire swept in and did the Roman thing—see: Cleopatra. An insultingly brief history of the fall of the Egyptian empire goes like this: for thousands of years Egypt, was a powerful and independent monarchy. This is when many of the icons of ancient Egypt—the pyramids, Ramses II, King Tut, etc—were around. Then, around 671 BCE, the Assyrians came in and conquered Egypt. They left some Pharaohs in charge, who then, with the help of Greek mercenaries, kicked the Assyrians out and almost won back the glory of old. Then the Persian empire came from the east and said “Nah, that’s ours.” Then, Alexander the Great came out of Macedonia said “Excuse me, but I believe you’re holding my Egypt.” Being that Alexander already owned a solid chunk of the known world, it was probably true and the Persians let Egypt go without a fight. Then Alexander died and rule of Egypt passed to one of his generals, Ptolemy. He called himself Pharaoh and the Egyptians said “Sure.” Ptolemy’s dynasty would rule for roughly 300 years before Rome decided it was their turn. So it goes.
Greece had its own version of the Sphinx. While it looks friendly, this is the one that would eat you if you were bad at riddles
(Photo by Rosemaniakos CC BY 2.0)
It’s interesting to see how the iconography of Egypt remained throughout those periods of turmoil. Even after almost 400 years of getting passed around like a hot potato, the sphinx remained an important icon in Egypt. It didn’t remain unchanged though. Like much of the Ptolemaic period, you can see the Hellenistic influence creeping in and merging with with the traditional Egyptian style. Let it be a lesson to you if you’re ever trying to do some conquering of your own: don’t change the symbol, just subvert it.
They're ba-ack... And they keep coming back! Starting in 2009, hundreds of visitors have descended every Labor Day weekend on the picture perfect town of Exeter, New Hampshire for the annual Exeter UFO Festival.
This year, the festival drew a large crowd of alien enthusiasts, who spent the weekend swapping stories they insist happened. Panelists, ufologists, and the layman who swore they'd seen a flying saucer or even been abducted - there were enough out of this world tales ringing through the microphones at the Exeter fest to keep Steven Spielberg in goosebumps for the rest of his life.
Founded by local historian and freelance writer Dean Merchant and his wife Pamela and now operated as a fundraiser by the Exeter Area Kiwanis Club, the festival commemorates and celebrates the rich history of New England's "experiencers," a term applied to anyone who could have had brush with something that could be extraterrestrial. Thanks in part to a history of alleged run-ins, including 1965's "Incident at Exeter" and Betty and Barney Hill's strange nighttime 1961 sighting in Lincoln (widely considered to be the first documented claim of an alien abduction), the Granite State's wide open fields are considered especially ripe for extraterrestrial contact... so much so that this year's fest included a trolley ride that took attendees on a "UFO Safari" in the nearby fields.
Your intrepid reporter was unable to get on the trolley, but I did ride out to some of the nearby hot spots on my own, paying special attention to the site of the Exeter incident, so named by author John G. Fuller in his 1966 book on the subject. The story goes something like this: 18-year-old Norman Muscarello had been out late one night with his girlfriend and was attempting to hitchhike home down Route 150. He walked most of the way through the woods when suddenly he saw five flashing red lights that were so bright a nearby farmhouse and the surrounding area were turned red by the illumination.
When the lights moved toward him, he dove into a ditch, and when the lights then moved back toward the farmhouse and into the woods, Muscarello ran into the road and stopped an oncoming car for help. The driver took him to the Exeter police station and a patrolman named Eugene Bertrand drove back to the scene with him to see what the ruckus was about. The cop saw the lights, too — as did a second officer who he had called for backup.
It works, right? Here's what the approximate location of the Incident at Exeter looks like now, from our drive to the site:
The fest itself, held over Labor Day weekend each year, commemorates the above incident to the day, while the mysterious tale of Betty and Barney Hill occurred four years earlier. While on the road returning home to Portsmouth up north, the couple experienced an encounter much more terrifying even than Muscarello's. They say they not only saw what appeared to be a ship, they blacked out and lost time, their watches stopped, and their clothes were torn.
Their niece, Kathleen Marden, was thirteen when her Aunt Betty called her mother the next day to relay the experience. Marden has become a prominent Ufologist in her own right, and seems like the closest thing to experiencer royalty for her proximity to such a famous case. She's written numerous books on the subject, but the one that sold out at the festival was her recounting of her family's tale, Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.
"When my aunt and uncle arrived home, they took a nap, and when they woke up, my aunt called my mother," says Marden, who says she had just gotten home from school that fateful afternoon. Her aunt was concerned, says Marden, "that the craft had come so close to them they might have been exposed to radiation."
Marden's aunt also noticed new shiny spots on the trunk of their car, at the same location they had heard an intense buzzing sound during the encounter the night before. Marden and her parents and two brothers soon went to the Hills' home to hear the story. "I saw the spots," says Marden. "I held the watches."
Asked if she believed her family had been singled out for any reason or purpose, Marden put more stock in their worth than her aunt and uncle had: "Betty and Barney had the opinion that they just happened to be in the right place at the right time, or you could say the wrongtime. I believe it is more than coincidence."
As ufologist Peter Robbins, the MC of this year's fest, explains to me, Exeter is just one star in a growing constellation of UFO conventions and festivals around the country. A few others: May's convention in Portland, Oregon, a June gathering in Pinebush, NY and the MUFON Symposium, which this year took place in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
"Over the past decades, aliens have so deeply ingrained themselves into popular culture," Robbins says. "Even in the back of the minds of the most hardened skeptics, even the most conservative astronomers, they know that the universe is teeming with life."
Want to take your own road trip to a UFO fest or convention? Next up is the Greater New England UFO Conference in Leominster, Massachusetts, October 5th through the 6th. And if you miss that, start planning now for next summer: UFOs (fests) are all around you.
Iranian state media fell for a spoof of a YouTube video showing a fake UFO on US aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.
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Iranian media fell hard for a badly photoshoped video claiming to show a UFO on the deck of a US aircraft carrier.
The website used anonymous YouTube comments to suggest the US had a secret stealth jet program, and that nobody respected the military.
The video is clearly false for a variety of reasons and falls well below the standards of good reporting.
Iranian media dived deep into a bizarre conspiracy theory around a badly edited video on YouTube that claimed to show an unidentified flying object on the deck of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the US's newest supercarrier.
Tasnim News Agency, an Iranian website with close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, wrote up a YouTube video from SECTION 51 2.0, a channel that promises: "Exclusive UFO Footage from all over the world" while adding a disclaimer that the videos are for entertainment purposes only.
Tasnim buys hook, line, and sinker the UFO's presence aboard the deck of the Ford, while mistakenly referring to the US Navy aviation units captured on video as US Air Force jets.
Here's the conspiracy video, see if it looks right to you:
The video claims to have been shot in September 2018 in the Mediterranean Sea. Not only does theUS Navy not have any carriers in the Mediterranean now, the Ford, which has only just recently been commissioned, hasn't been to the Mediterranean yet.
Here's the real, unedited video from July, 28, 2017. It shows the first ever US Navy F/A-18 fighter jet's arrested landing and catapult launch from the Ford.
While the video does show an historic first in naval aviation, it's not quite first contact with alien life.
Tasnim then goes straight to YouTube's comments section on a fake video about UFOs to bash the US military and suggest deception.
"This is why no one respects the military anymore," Tasnim quoted an anonymous YouTuber as saying.
Tasnim's story on the fake video of a UFO on a US aircraft carrier has been its most-viewed article for days now, despite obvious factual problems. Whether the world has lost respect for the US military as a result of this article, or perhaps lost respect for Tasnim, remains an open question.
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