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...
28-09-2018
UFO Passes Space Station On Live Cam, Sept 27, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Passes Space Station On Live Cam, Sept 27, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 27, 2018 Location of sighting: Earths Orbit at ISS I was watching the live space station cam when I noticed a UFO passing in the background. The UFO seemed bright because of the reflecting light bouncing off of it and the station. The shape was hard to make out, but it does appear to be a curved triangle in shape and could very possibly be a USAF top secret TR3B, or an evolution of that craft. Now looking at the screenshots enlarged...I see it does have four corners, not three as I said in the video. Scott C. Waring
Alien Craft Caught On NASA Camera Zig-Zagging Near Our Sun, Sept 25, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Craft Caught On NASA Camera Zig-Zagging Near Our Sun, Sept 25, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 25, 2018, 11:06 LASCO C3
Location of sighting: Earths Sun
Source: SOHO, NASA sun images
When an object travels in space in a straight line...it creates confusion about what it is...a meteor, comet or UFO? But when an object is captured by an impartial SOHO camera and is seen to weave back and forth making two 45 degree turns in just mere seconds...then we now that only an intelligently controlled craft could be capable of such maneuvers. This is 100% evidence that this is an alien craft.
Bus size UFO Passes over City In Illinois on Sept 22, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Bus size UFO Passes over City In Illinois on Sept 22, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 22, 2018 Location of sighting: Casyville, Illinois, USA Source: MUFON #95126 This rectangle UFO was seen passing over Illinois yesterday. The UFO is about the size of a city buss and is very flat. This flying object had to have been seen by thousands of residents below. So hopefully there will be a video of this uploaded so we can see its movement. I searched and could not find any other reports of this incident, but will keep you posted. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was driving down 157 through Casyville Illinois after 4pm Saturday 22nd and saw this.
White UFO Seen On Live NASA Space Station Cam, Sep 20, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
White UFO Seen On Live NASA Space Station Cam, Sep 20, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Sept 20, 2018 Location of discovery: Earths orbit at space station I was watching the NASA live space station cam looking for UFOs when I spotted this little guy. A white disk moved over the space station. It was small so I'm sure NASA didn't notice it, otherwise they would have gone to blue screen to hide it. The UFO passes the space station, but at a great distance, as if it didn't want to be noticed by the astronauts. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
“Hidden In Plain Sight” Denver’s International Airport New Ad Campaign
“Hidden In Plain Sight” Denver’s International Airport New Ad Campaign
Denver International Airport has displayed a new advertising campaign revolving around both their new construction site and the conspiracy theories that have hovered around the idea that there is more happening at this airport than meets the eye.
On Sept 4th 2018, Denver International Airport (DIA) tweeted something that is either a genius marketing ploy or a ‘hidden in plain sight’ scenario.
DIA is known for its creepy murals and a demonic blue horse statue which stands at the front of the airport as well as a statue of Anubis.
Inside the airport there are weird murals and statues that refer to a one-world government, yet a stone with a cryptic description and underneath the stone a time capsule which is to be opened by 'the people of Colorado' in 2094.
Furthermore, it is said, there is an underground area beneath the airport which is not accessible to the public.
Most of the underground areas are not being used, dead baggage equipment, long highways, and many chain link fences and locked up fences.
This underground area is just the first level that leads to secret lower levels - there are five secret underground buildings with a depth of from 75 to 120 feet on each one, all with interconnecting tunnels to each other and with 2.50 to 3.00 mile long and 16 feet wide.
These underground buildings are to serve many different purposes, such as medical research labs, prisons, work camps, military accommodations, food storage, etc.
Hiding things in plain sight is a great way to get things swept under the rug and avoided. Could this be the tactic being taken by DIA?
V-shaped UFO launched from Secret Base in Antarctica
V-shaped UFO launched from Secret Base in Antarctica
A strange V-shaped object has been spotted on Google Earth and it looks like some sort of a V-shaped UFO or stealth craft being launched in Antarctica, a smoke trail is visible behind the 10 meters long craft.
The question is whether this V-shaped object is just a shadow of a rock formation, or a rock that sticks out of the snow or.. could it be that Google Earth has photographed a UFO or man-made stealth craft launched from a secret base in Antarctica.
To the left of the possible launch path is a circular disk with a diameter of 8 meters.
Google Earth coordinates: 72°1'32.19"S 169°34'59.68"E
Japan’s space rovers successfully landed on Asteroid Ryugu (First Stunning Images)
Japan’s space rovers successfully landed on Asteroid Ryugu (First Stunning Images)
Two space rovers have landed safely on an asteroid after Japan’s spacecraft Hayabuza2dropped them there on September 13, 2018.
The scientists behind the historic mission expressed their delight as the rovers sent back the first images from the surface of the space rock Ryugu.
Photo right taken by Rover-1B on Sept 21 at 13:07 JST It was captured just after separation from the spacecraft. Ryugu's surface is in the lower right. The misty top left region is due to the reflection of sunlight. 1B seems to rotate slowly after separation, minimising image blur.
Dubbed MINERVA-II1, the robotic explorers are the first of their kind to be successfully landed on an asteroid.
The rovers will use the low gravity conditions on Ryugu to hop across the asteroid’s surface, measuring temperatures and sending images back to Earth via Hayabusa-2.
This is a picture from MINERVA-II1. The color photo was captured by Rover-1A on September 21 around 13:08 JST, immediately after separation from the spacecraft. Hayabusa2 is top and Ryugu's surface is below. The image is blurred because the rover is spinning.
Next month the spacecraft will deploy an explosive device to blast a hole in the asteroid, allowing rock samples to be taken from its depths.
Following that it will release a French-German landing vehicle known as the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) to explore the surface in greater detail.
This dynamic photo was captured by Rover-1A on September 22 at around 11:44 JST. It was taken on Ryugu's surface during a hop. The lower half is the surface of Ryugu, while the white region on the right is due to sunlight. (Hayabusa2 Project)
Unknown laser beams being fired from Saturn into deep space
Unknown laser beams being fired from Saturn into deep space
Paula Gilley has been watching the skies for quite some time looking for anomalies in the skies, besides she is watching and monitoring the Moon, Sun and other planets with her telescope.
On September 11, 2018 at 6.59pm while monitoring Saturn Paula saw something she had never seen before, more precisely, the recording shows unknown laser beams coming from Saturn.
Paula: “I bumped up contrast and saturation; I have seen many forms of pixels even square one but never have seen laser beampixels?” “That's a new one!”
Besides the interesting first video which also shows the laser beams coming from Saturn, starting at about the 2.57 mark, the second short video below clearly shows several laser beams or energy waves being fired from Saturn into deep space.
Guests and residents of Minnesota’s American Stillwater became the accidental witnesses of a bizarre phenomenon.
A vast circle made of multiple glowing balls appeared in the sky above the city later in the evening. Many witnesses managed to get the odd anomaly on videos and photographs.
Not long when all those videos and pictures got to the internet. Many ufologists concluded that it was an invisible UFO hovering above the earth.
They say the mysterious object was in camouflage to hide from human eyes, but the aircraft lights became visible to the observers.
Meanwhile, some sceptics would say it was just a spotlight on the clouds.
Either of the theories was not yet confirmed.
It was later discovered that no installations of projectors in the area at the time.
The witnesses reported the lights quickly flew to the side and did not disappear.
Some ufologists think that majority of UFOs are not alien as military and other government agencies secretly created them.
Scientists Give More Details On Cigar-Shaped UFO Moving Close To Earth
Scientists Give More Details On Cigar-Shaped UFO Moving Close To Earth
Scientists claim to have known the mysterious object that was observed flying through space. The space rock was spotted in 2017 and eventually called Oumuamua, which has been hurtling the solar system of the Earth.
A report from acclaimed astronomers of NASA, the European Space Agency and the German Max Planck Institute for Astronomy was released this week, revealing the origins of the cigar-shaped asteroid that was first noticed in October 2017.
The space rock was named by the site who first observed it and is the Hawaiian for a messenger from afar arriving first.
The report mentions that a high-powered telescope in Hawaii discovered a fast-moving object on an unbound orbit close to the Earth.
The report describes Oumuamua as a metallic or rocky object, around 400 metres in length and approximately 40 metres wide.
It also claims that the object has a density similar to a comet and has a dark red surface, which may suggest either an organic-rich surface identical to the outer solar system asteroids and comets or a surface similar to the dark side of Saturn’s moon Iapetus, containing minerals with nanoscale iron.
According to the report, Oumuamua left its home when it was ejected during planet formation and migration millions of years ago and has been linked to four possible star systems.
The report also mentions that Oumuamua moved faster than the existing laws of celestial mechanics. The Astrophysical Journal has been accepted the report.
When Oumuamua was first discovered, scientists could not explain precisely the long, thin asteroid flying so close to Earth.
The discovery sparked suggestions that the strange rock was an alien spaceship or probe exploring our solar system.
The only uncontested fact is that Oumuamua is the first object ever spotted flying into our solar system from deep space.
Watch – US Navy Aircraft Carrier Spotted With A UFO On Board
Watch – US Navy Aircraft Carrier Spotted With A UFO On Board
YouTube footage appears to show a UFO beside a Navy helicopter onboard a US aircraft carrier. It shows a US jet about to land and a fighter shadowing it while a triangular object can be seen beside a Navy helicopter.
YouTube channel Section 51 slowed down the footage for effect.
Many commenters of the video believe the object is a TR-3B, an alleged anti-gravity spy plane of the US Air Force black project.
Some explain that the object in question is being developed with the use of reverse-engineered alien technology, but it is in any case not alien as it is built on Earth.
However, sceptics suggested the object was altered using CGI technology. They explained that CGI was improving, making it almost impossible to know what was real and what was fake.
Meanwhile, ufoofinterest.org tweeted a video showing the supposed original US Navy video without a UFO in sight to prove that it had been edited.
The group called SECTION 51 hoax promoter and CGI artist.
As Seven Solar Observatories Mysteriously Closed, A UFO Spotted Near the Sun
As Seven Solar Observatories Mysteriously Closed, A UFO Spotted Near the Sun
The solar observatory that the FBI closed down under suspicious circumstances is scheduled to reopen. But one woman thinks she has the explanation for the strange closure after finding a UFO-like disc near the Sun.
The FBI mysteriously shut down the operation of the National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Sunspot, New Mexico on September 6 with officials remaining at the site.
No official explanation yet on the presence of FBI in the area.
The reopening of the solar observatory this week has sent conspiracy theorists into overdrive.
During the time the NSO has been shut down, six more observatory cameras have also gone offline. One in Spain, Chile, Australia, Pennsylvania and two in Hawaii.
Now, a person claimed that she saw a massive UFO when she snapped images of the Sun. According to the woman, she saw a gigantic UFO and a vast fleet of smaller crafts following it as they were passing behind the sun.
Some conspiracy theorists suggest that the image shows the reason the solar observatories were closed down. They believe that the move of the FBI was for them to keep the discovery under wraps.
Maria Hill of Salem, Indiana took the image on September 11. The picture seems to show spaceships luring near the Sun.
Ms Hill posted the story on Facebook alongside the images. She said that he took a picture of the Sun in the eastern sky on the morning using her iPhone8 with a camera lens adapter, but she snapped more than she expected.
Ms Hill said that she found a green circular door-like object, which was at the centre of the vortex/wormhole. She also saw a serpent snake at the top right over it, by a circular disc. She is confident this has meaning with the disc and the snake.
UFOs and Nukes – Government and Military Whisleblowers Go Public
UFOs and Nukes – Government and Military Whisleblowers Go Public
Government and Military Whistleblowers from around the world officially go public about UFO incursions at nuclear weapons facilities. This is a truly historic event taped LIVE at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
UFOs and Nukes – Government and Military Whisleblowers Go Public
UFOs and Nukes – Government and Military Whisleblowers Go Public
Government and Military Whistleblowers from around the world officially go public about UFO incursions at nuclear weapons facilities. This is a truly historic event taped LIVE at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
Japan's Hopping Rovers Capture Amazing Views of Asteroid Ryugu (Video)
Japan's Hopping Rovers Capture Amazing Views of Asteroid Ryugu (Video)
By Hanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer
Two tiny, hopping rovers that landed on asteroid Ryugu last week have beamed back some incredible new views of the asteroid's rocky surface.
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 sample-return mission dropped the two nearly identical rovers, named Minerva-II1A and Minerva-II1B, onto the surface of Ryugu on Sept. 21. In a new video from the eyes of Minerva-II1B, you can watch the sun move across the sky as its glaring sunlight reflects off the shiny rocks that cover Ryugu's surface.
"Please take a moment to enjoy 'standing' on this new world," JAXA officials said in a statement released today (Sept. 27). The video was shot over the course of 1 hour and 14 minutes beginning on Sept. 22 at 9:34 p.m. EDT (0134 GMT on Sept. 23). [Japan's Hayabusa2 Asteroid Ryugu Sample-Return Mission in Pictures]
The Hayabusa2 mission's MINERVA-II1B rover snapped this photo of asteroid Ryugu right before it hopped across the asteroid's surface on Sept. 22, 2018, at 8:46 p.m. EDT (12:46 a.m. GMT on Sept. 23).
Credit: JAXA
Unlike the rovers that have landed on Mars, these twin rovers have no wheels. Instead of rolling across the asteroid's surface, these are designed to "hop" across the asteroid's surface.
They can hop horizontal distances of up to 50 feet (15 meters), and because Ryugu's gravity is so weak, it can take them up to 15 minutes to land.
The Minerva-II1 rovers have been snapping photos both from the surface of Ryugu and from the air while performing these giant leaps. When the hopping rovers are in motion, the images they take can appear a bit distorted, as you can see in the images from Minerva-II1B above.
MINERVA-II1A captured the shadow of its own antenna and pin on Sept. 22, 2018, at 8:48 p.m. EDT (12:48 a.m. GMT on Sept. 23).
Credit: JAXA
The other rover, Minerva-II1A, managed to snap a photo of its shadow in between hops. In the rover's shadow, you can see its antenna and its "pin" — a device that helps provide friction while hopping, protects the rover's solar cells while landing, and measures the asteroid's surface temperature with a built-in thermometer, JAXA officials said in the statement.
Another view from Minerva-II1A shows a bizarre, football-shaped rock formation on the surface of Ryugu.
The Minerva-II1A rover captured this close-up shot of a rock formation on asteroid Ryugu on Sept. 22, 2018, at 8:43 p.m. EDT (12:43 a.m. GMT on Sept. 23).
Credit: JAXA
The Minerva-II1 rovers aren't the only spacecraft the Hayabusa2 mission will deploy at Ryugu. In October, it will drop a lander called MASCOT. And in 2019, another hopping rover, called Minerva-II2, will join the club.
Later next year, the Hayabusa2 mothership will descend to the asteroid's surface to collect samples, which it will bring back to Earth sometime in 2020.
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience.
A Japanese Probe Is About to Drop Two Hopping Robots Onto Asteroid Ryugu
A Japanese Probe Is About to Drop Two Hopping Robots Onto Asteroid Ryugu
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of Hayabusa2's hopping rovers, MINERVA-II1A (back) and MINERVA-II1B (foreground), exploring the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. Both rovers are scheduled to land on Ryugu on Sept. 20, 2018.
Credit: JAXA
A Japanese asteroid-sampling probe is about to get up close and personal with its target space rock.
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft will drop two tiny rovers onto the asteroid Ryuguthis week, possibly as early as Thursday (Sept. 20), if all goes according to plan.
The Hayabusa2 team began prepping seriously for the epic maneuver last week. The current schedule calls for the mother ship to descend toward Ryugu today (Sept. 19) and for the two little disk-shaped robots, known as MINERVA-II1A and MINERVA-II1B, to deploy as early as tomorrow, U.S. time. (Officials with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, have cited Sept. 20 and Sept. 21 for these events, but that's apparently on Japan time, which is 13 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Daylight Time.) [Japan's Hayabusa2 Asteroid Mission in Pictures]
Each MINERVA-II rover measures 7 inches wide by 2.8 inches tall (18 by 7 centimeters), with a mass of about 2.4 lbs. (1.1 kilogram). And they won't "rove" in the traditional sense; instead of rolling along on wheels like a Mars or moon explorer, the duo will hop from place to place on Ryugu.
"Gravity on the surface of Ryugu is very weak, so a rover propelled by normal wheels or crawlers would float upwards as soon as it started to move," Hayabusa2 team members wrote in a MINERVA-II1 description. "Therefore, this hopping mechanism was adopted for moving across the surface of such small celestial bodies. The rover is expected to remain in the air for up to 15 minutes after a single hop before landing, and to move up to 15 m [50 feet] horizontally."
The rovers will move autonomously, exploring multiple areas on the surface of the 3,000-foot-wide (950 meters) Ryugu, the update added. The duo will gather a variety of data with their science gear, which includes temperature sensors, optical sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes and a total of seven cameras that are shared by the two rovers.
The upcoming touchdowns kick off an extended surface-exploration campaign for the $150 million Hayabusa2 mission, which launched in December 2014 and arrived in orbit around Ryugu on June 27 of this year. Hayabusa2 is scheduled to drop a larger lander called MASCOT onto the asteroid next month, and another little hopping rover, MINERVA-II2, next year.
And the Hayabusa2 mothership will make several forays of its own to the surface next year, grabbing Ryugu material each time. The orbiter will leave Ryugu in December 2019, and its samples will return to Earth in a special capsule a year later.
This photo of Ryugu was taken by Japan's Hayabusa2 probe on June 26, 2018, just one day before the spacecraft's arrival at the asteroid.
Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST
Scientists will study this returned dirt and rock in detail to learn about the early history of the solar system, and the role asteroids may have played in helping life get going on Earth, mission team members have said.
MINERVA-II stands for "Micro Nano Experimental Robot Vehicle for Asteroid, second generation." The first-generation rover flew aboard the original Hayabusa mission, which arrived in orbit around the asteroid Itokawa in September 2005. In a historic first, Hayabusa returned a tiny sample of Itokawa to Earth in 2010. But its MINERVA hopper did not land successfully on the space rock.
Hayabusa2 isn't the only asteroid-sampling mission operating right now. NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe is closing in on its target, the 1,640-foot-wide (500 m) near-Earth asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to arrive in orbit around Bennu on Dec. 31 and return samples of the space rock to Earth in September 2023.
Cosmic radiation is made up of incredibly tiny particles moving incredibly fast, nearly at the speed of light — the sort of phenomenon a human body isn't very well equipped to withstand. That radiation travels across all of space, but Earth's atmosphere buffers us from the worst of its impacts. That means the farther away from Earth's surface you go, the more cosmic radiation your body absorbs. [Space Radiation Threat to Astronauts Explained (Infographic)]
An artist's depiction of ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter at work around Mars.
Credit: D. Ducros/ESA
By the time you're traveling to and from Mars, that gets to be a very big problem. "Radiation doses accumulated by astronauts in interplanetary space would be several hundred times larger than the doses accumulated by humans over the same time period on Earth, and several times larger than the doses of astronauts and cosmonauts working on the International Space Station," Jordanka Semkova, a physicist at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and lead scientist on the new research, said in a statement. "Our results show that the journey itself would provide very significant exposure for the astronauts to radiation."
Those results are based on data from the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter, a spacecraft that has been circling the Red Planet since 2016. One of the instruments it carries is a dosimeter, which has been taking measurements throughout the orbiter's journey.
According to the team behind the new research, those measurements show that just getting to and from Mars would expose astronauts to at least 60 percent of the current recommended maximum career exposure.
What precisely that recommended maximum is varies with sex and age, but it ranges from 1 sievert for a 25-year-old woman to 4 sieverts for a 55-year-old man. (The measurement of sieverts already accounts for differences in weight.)
But 60 percent just for the round-trip is particularly concerning, since presumably the point of going to Mars is to spend at least a little time on the planet's surface — ideally, without overdosing on radiation.
Child porn investigation, not aliens, triggered solar observatory closure, documents show
Child porn investigation, not aliens, triggered solar observatory closure, documents show
The entrance to Sunspot Observatory is blocked near Alamogordo, N.M., Friday, Sept. 14, 2018.
DYLAN TAYLOR-LEHMAN/ALAMOGORDO DAILY NEWS VIA AP
By ALLYSON CHIU | The Washington Post | Published: September 20, 2018
In the days following reports that a solar observatory in New Mexico had been abruptly evacuated and closed with FBI agents on the scene, the Internet exploded with theories.
Aliens? UFOs? Some other mysterious extraterrestrial encounter?
Questions outnumbered answers as the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, N.M., stayed shuttered for 10 days earlier this month, its entrance roped off with crime-scene tape and guarded by security personnel. Federal authorities remained tight-lipped, which only fueled speculation and frustrated local law enforcement, who were also kept in the dark.
On Monday, the facility reopened, and for the first time in more than a week there was finally a sliver of information about what had caused the sudden closure. The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, which manages the observatory and its surrounding buildings, said in a statement that it had been cooperating with an "on-going law enforcement investigation of criminal activity" at the site. There was no additional information, and both federal and local agencies declined to provide any details.
But, much to the disappointment of conspiracy theorists, what appears to have triggered the observatory's complete shutdown was a janitor that had allegedly been using the observatory's WiFi to download and distribute child pornography, according to newly unsealed court documents.
In July, FBI agents investigating child sexual exploitation traced the location of several IP addresses linked to child pornography activity to the observatory, according to a 39-page search warrant application.
During an interview with federal authorities on Aug. 21, the facility's chief observer said he had found, on a number of occasions, the same laptop hidden and running in various seldom-used offices around the observatory. He described the contents of the laptop as "not good," according to court documents.
A federal agent immediately went to the observatory, located deep within Lincoln National Forest, and took the laptop into evidence.
According to the warrant application, the only person in the facility at the same time the alleged child porn downloads occurred was a janitor who had started work there about a year ago. The observatory's cleaning contract was owned by the janitor's parents, authorities said.
"[The janitor] has a key to the building and unlimited access to the building, and is familiar with which offices are used only a handful of times a year," the warrant application said. The application included the name of the janitor but because he has not been charged with anything at this time, The Post is not identifying him.
The day after the laptop was seized, the janitor was allegedly seen by the chief observer leaving the office where it had been found. The janitor asked the chief observer, who relayed the interaction to federal agents, if anyone else had entered the office because the cleaning supplies he had left there were missing. Later, the janitor claimed "someone had been entering the Observatory at night, in order to steal the wireless Internet service," and expressed concerns about "lax security," court documents reported.
Then, the janitor's actions allegedly became even more bizarre, prompting the observatory's staff to become worried about their own safety. At one point, he was described as "frantic," authorities said.
Aside from continuing to "feverishly" search the facility, the documents state that the janitor said, "it was only a matter of time before the facility 'got hit,'" and that he "believed there was a serial killer in the area, and that he was fearful that the killer might enter the facility and execute someone."
In response to the janitor's behavior, the management of the observatory, without input from the FBI, shut it down and evacuated its personnel. The facility's cleaning contract with the janitor's parents was also terminated.
The FBI obtained a warrant to search the janitor's home and on Sept. 14, federal agents seized cellphones and laptops, and storage devices including SD cards, thumb drives and an external hard drive, court documents said.
No charges have been filed and an arrest warrant for the man has not been issued, Reuters reported. An FBI spokesperson told Reuters the case is still under investigation.
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Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
