Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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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...
Something is mysteriously killing the great cows of Argentina and their owners, not to mention the great chefs of Europe and the rest of the world, are getting worried … especially since the cattle appear to be being mutilated with a precision and instrumentation that may be out of this world. Aliens? Chupacabra? Something even worse? Is it worthy of a novel or a movie … or both?
The latest cattle mutilation report came less than two weeks ago from the Argentine media conglomerate Cadena 3. Raúl Báez, a cattle rancher in Villa Ojo de Agua, a village in the Santiago del Estero Province in north central Argentina, told reporters that he went out to find “ten cattle animals of his property were dead and four of them had mutilations.” The death of the cows was strange.
“He told us that it seemed strange to him that he did not observe blood and that it seems that the animals would not have defended themselves.”
The mutilations were even more mysterious, especially to a veterinarian who examined them.
“The cuts attracted his attention because that makes it a kind of laser scalpel because it has scars.”
We demand some answers!
A laser scalpel? What kind of Chupacabra has a laser scalpel, fingers to hold it and the patience to carefully remove eyes, tongues, lips, internal organs and other parts of the cow while making sure no blood was spilled? Yet “Chupacabra!” was the first cry of locals, just as it often is. However, another similarattack and mutilation in August has cattle ranchers fearing something worse … extraterrestrials. The bovines in that case had similar precision cuts and witnesses reported seeing “strange lights” before and after the attacks were believed to have occurred.
However, the residents of Villa Ojo de Agua reported no such lights in the September mutilations. Could they have been caused by something else? Yes, say animal experts … Hocicudo.
Hocicudo? Is this some kind of new cryptid? Not hardly, but people across South America might wish they were as rare as the Chupacabra. The Hocicudo is a long-nosed mouse of the genus Oxymycterus. Its 17 species include the rare Argentine hocicudo (Oxymycterus akodontius) and the more common Paramo hocicudo (Oxymycterus paramensis). Both found in Argentina. Animal expert Juan Calla Fontana says it’s common for animals to die at this time of the year in Argentina (early spring) due to exposure and lack of food. Once they hit the ground, Hocicudo move in and dine on their soft parts.
Paramo hocicudo
While that explanation sounds reasonable, it doesn’t explain the precision of the cuts that were reported in these and other mutilation cases. The cattle industry is huge in Argentina, both in exports and in feeding its beef-loving population. Could this be a party-line explanation to avoid panic among ranchers and citizens?
If you want to know who was killing the great chefs of Europe, check out the movie of the same name or the book it was adapted from. If you want to know what is killing the great cows of Argentina … keep asking questions.
At this point, it seems obvious that it’s become a question of when a war in space will break out, not if. The U.S. Military has been preparing for Space War I for some time now, and the world’s other superpowers aren’t too far behind – or maybe they’re even a step ahead. Observers have noted that many Russian spacecraft and satellites have begun behaving in unknown and unprecedented ways lately, and China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force has been spotted testing unknown low-orbit hypersonic aircraft. Where’s the Space Force when you need it?
To add more fuel to the apparent space war brewing, an unidentified new weapon was recently seen being tested by a MiG-31 aircraft at Zhukovsky Airport outside of Moscow, Russia’s base for testing new aircraft and weapons. In his analysis over at The War Zone, aviation sleuth Tyler Rogoway writes that the weapon appears to be either a hypersonic missile similar to the ones tested in China recently, or an air-to-space rocket designed to blow satellites to orbital smithereens.
The weapon, whatever it is, is labeled “81 Blue” and is nearly the size of the MiG carrying it. There are few details to go on yet, but the weapon appears to be similar to other anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons. Such air-to-space ASAT rockets have been tested by the U.S. Air Force as early as the 1980s, and with so much recent attention paid to the oncoming satellite wars, there’s no telling for what the rocket could be intended.
World superpowers have been testing anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons for decades.
If all of the attention paid to satellites and space supremacy hints at anything, it’s that war in space is coming. Soon. Could all of this recent development and testing of space weapons be related to the recent spate of mysterious booms heard round the world? At this point, I’d be amazed if it wasn’t. Just put those booms alongside other recent developments: increased sightings of fireballs in the sky; unexplained booms rattling the ground; “killer” satellites waking up and acting erratically; the United States creating a Space Force; China and Russia testing new space weapons.
It’s only a matter of time before fiery debris starts raining down around us.
Awesome UFO Footage Of Disk Over Mexico City, Sept 28, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Awesome UFO Footage Of Disk Over Mexico City, Sept 28, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: September 28, 2018
Location of sighting: Mexico city, Mexico
Source: Live Cam
ColourUFO channel of Youtube recorded this outstanding footage of a disk over Mexico City on live Internet cam. The footage clearly shows the classic flying saucer hovering over the city. Lucky for us someone was recording while watching that cam and caught this mind-blowing footage. The UFOs in Mexico City probably come from Colima or Popocatepetl which are both known for UFOs entering and exiting them. I have often said that alien bases sit 4-6km below those to volcanos in Mexico City.
Now I have followed ColourUFO for over five years. I can honestly say he puts in more hours per week than 99% of UFO researchers worldwide.
NASA and Skywatcher caught same Huge Object near the Sun
NASA and Skywatcher caught same Huge Object near the Sun
NASA’s Satellite EI 284 captured on Sep 30, 2018 01.06 AM a huge bright object that seemly leaves the Sun's surface.
On the evening of September 29, skywatcher Stefano Farigu in Italy was witnessing the sunset phase and started to photograph the Sun with a Nikon D800 camera.
Only after viewing the images Stefano noticed the presence of a bright unknown object near the Sun.
Image left: NASA images of the object -
Image right: Skywatcher images of the object.
Stefano talks about a celestial body, like the infamous planet X, Nibiru or planet Nine but since the images from NASA as well as from the skywatcher were taken within the same time frame we may assume that they have captured the same object (UFO?) near the sun.
Smiley UFO with scout fleet above Denmark was a group of unidentified flying objects caught on photo on September 19th 2018 at 3.25 PM local time. They were photographed high in the sky west south-west of Odense city. I did not see them while taking my archive photos of clouds in the sky. But two days later, now in the writing, I discovered them in one of my photos.
I am lucky that I have a Canon EOS 60D with a 300mm zoom lens producing JPEG images in the resolution of 5184 x 3456 pixels (18 Mega Pixels). A smaller resolution would have rendered these objects as fuzzy and nearly invisible blobs. But I caught them with only 190mm focal length and the largest object reveals a surprisingly strange little surprise.
It´s a smiley 🙂 with a big smile 🙂 big surprise! I can further describe this object as a light grey spherical cloud-like object with a horseshoe-shaped glowing white light on it.
Smiley UFO is luminous white
The two pictures above has been filtered with Auto Tone in Photoshop to make the objects more clear for the viewer. But in that process, the large object got a yellow-orange glow which is not the real color. In the original cropped and zoomed version below it is luminous white. It is nearly invisible in the sunlight coming from bottom left in the photo.
Image below has been processed in Photoshop (brightness and contrast adjusted).
My first thought then I saw this thing was “lens flare”. But I have never seen a lens flare with that look (on it´s face) and I have seen many. The object also comes with a small fleet of luminous orb-like objects? It is not a lens flare if you ask me. Space aliens in an extraterrestrial vehicle? We will probably never find out…
NASA’s uncrewed New Horizons probe flew past Pluto, its primary target, in 2015, but its mission is far from over. Soon it will continue on through the Kuiper Belt, and just after midnight on January 1, 2019, New Horizons will perform a flyby of Ultima Thule. The name may sound like a dragon spell from Skyrim or the name of a kindly Norwegian innkeeper, but it’s actually the common name of Kuiper Belt object KBO 2014 MU69, which floats out in space beyond the edges of our solar system. It’s among a class of objects believed to be cosmic leftovers from the early times of planetary formation billions of years ago.
Artist's illustration of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object that orbits 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto. The encounter will occur on Jan. 1, 2019. With public input, the team has selected the nickname Ultima Thule for the object, which will be the most primitive and most distant world ever explored by a spacecraft.
Credit: Steve Grivven/NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
In a live NASA Science Chat on Wednesday, three of the top New Horizons team members explained the plan for the 2019 flyby, which, at a billion miles beyond Pluto, will be the most distant planetary flyby in human history. Given this fact, KBO 2014 MU69’s name is especially fitting, as Ultima Thule is a medieval phrase that means “beyond the known world.” But New Horizons is going to make it part of our known world.
“We’re gonna zoom right up to it, image it, find out what it’s made of, find out if it has moons or rings, and lots more about it,” Alan Stern, the New Horizons principal investigator, told viewers.
What we do know about Ultima Thule is that it’s about 23 miles across and approximately 10 times the size of an average comet. We also know its trajectory, which makes it the perfect candidate for New Horizons’ secondary mission objective.
Despite its status as a secondary mission, though, the Ultima Thule flyby is taking a good deal of prep. When the Earth-based team woke the probe back up in June, they did system checks and performed system updates to support the flyby, Alice Bowman, the New Horizons mission operations manager, told viewers on Wednesday.
“In August, we transitioned the spacecraft into a mode where we could take pictures, so we are taking pictures now of Ultima Thule,” said Bowman. “We call those optical navigation measurements, and we are using those to target the object.” The image below is an example of one such optical navigation measurement.
Left: Composite image taken by New Horizons showing the estimated range of Ultima Thule in the yellow box. Right: A zoomed-in image of the area inside the yellow box, showing Ultima Thule where scientists predicted it would be.
By tracking Ultima Thule, which was only discovered in 2014, scientists have been able to identify it as a classical Kuiper Belt object, which means it’s likely one of the oldest objects in our solar system. But because it is a poorly understood object, scientists need to keep monitoring it to make sure it moves as they expect.
Researchers need to know exactly where Ultima Thule is to get as close as they want. The New Horizons team plans to fly the New Horizons probe 2,200 miles from Ultima Thule, much closer than the 7,800 miles that separated it from Pluto in 2015. Most importantly, though, the simple fact is that we know very little about Ultima Thule, and this flyby will give us some of the first facts about the ancient object.
“This has all the elements of an unbelievable set of discoveries that are justoutside our reach at the moment but will come into view soon,” Jim Green, NASA’s chief scientist, told viewers on Wednesday. “We know we’re gonna flyby January first, that’s a given. It has the excitement of what are we gonna see?”
Unfortunately, it’ll take quite some time before we find out what New Horizons sees. When the probe performs its epic flyby, it will begin sending its data back to Earth, but with the spacecraft sending a low-powered signal over 4 billion miles, the data won’t reach Earth for about a year. It’ll surely be worth the wait, though, to glimpse an object that may be even older than Earth.
THE LIFESPAN OF a typical Berndnaut Smilde sculpture is 10 seconds—just long enough to be photographed. And his sculptures are as unusual as they are ethereal: Smilde makes perfect miniature clouds in a diverse array of indoor locations, from coal mines to cathedrals.
He’s been at for several years now and calls the ever-expanding series Nimbus. Last month, he brought his weather wizardry to Frieze New York. There Smilde allowed onlookers to sit in on two days of his work inside NeueHouse, an upscale co-working space.
His materials are little more than smoke and water vapor, and the results vary with the size and temperature of the location. The space must be cold and damp, with no air circulation. Smilde creates a wall of water vapor with the type of spritzer you might use on houseplants. A smoke machine then sends a puff of faux fog on a collision course. He likes to keep the clouds no bigger than six feet so they don’t fall apart too quickly. "I really like my clouds concentrated, with a lot of texture," he says.
Nimbus Bonnefanten.
BERNDNAUT SMILDE
The artist tinkers with the formula for a few days until he’s created what he believes to be the ideal cloud. For one shoot, he might create 100 clouds to get the image.
The result is stunning, an ephemeral artwork caught just before it vanishes. The bare, often austere locations heighten the drama. While Smilde makes his clouds, he has a photographer right there to capture the moment. He prefers to work with photographers with experience shooting architecture, so the wood, metal and other elements are in sharp focus, a contrast to the soft, fluffy clouds. Smilde likes that his creations last but a moment.
"I see them as temporary sculptures of almost nothing—the edge of materiality," he says. "It looks like you can dive into them or grab them, but they just fall apart. There’s a duality that I really like where you’re trying to achieve this ideal thing that then collapses just moments later."
If he could figure out the technical aspects, Smilde would like to create clouds within the vast Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern. Marketers from cloud computing companies in Silicon Valley have approached him to make sculptures at conventions, but he’s declined. For him, it’s more than a parlor trick.
"Clouds are quite universal," he says. "Everyone can relate to them, but by putting them indoors you kind of change the context. It can become strange or even threatening. They can stand in for the divine, but also for misfortune."
Did a Huge Impact Blast Out Moons of Mars? Old Data Bolsters Theory
Did a Huge Impact Blast Out Moons of Mars? Old Data Bolsters Theory
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
Phobos is the larger of Mars' two small moons and bears the scars of millennia of small impacts.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Scientists have struggled for decades to explain how the two tiny moons of Mars came to be, but a new study relying on old data bolsters one of the two major hypotheses.
That idea argues that Phobos and Deimos formed in the aftermath of a giant impact with Mars itself, which makes an awful lot of sense given their orbital paths. But that explanation hasn't been a perfect fit: Both these tiny moons appear incredibly dark, like a certain class of carbon-rich asteroids, suggesting that they were born in the asteroid belt, flew too close to Mars and got trapped by the planet's gravity. Phobos is about 14 miles (22 kilometers) across, while Deimos is 8 miles (13 km) wide.
"The fun part for me has been taking a poke at some of the ideas out there using an old data set that's has been underutilized," lead author Tim Glotch, a geoscientist at Stony Brook University in New York, said in a statementreleased by the American Geophysical Union, which runs the journal that published the new research. [Moons of Mars: Amazing Photos of Phobos and Deimos]
That old data set was gathered in 1998 by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which measured the heat signature of Phobos, the larger of the two Martian moons. Glotch and his colleagues compared that data with data from a range of terrestrial rocks and a tiny piece of a meteorite gathered near Tagish Lakein western Canada. Scientists think this meteorite broke off from an asteroid of the same type suspected to have formed the moons.
But it turned out that the old Phobos data didn't match that Tagish meteorite very well. "In fact, what matches Phobos most closely, or at least one of the features in the spectrum, is ground-up basalt, which is a common volcanic rock, and it's what most of the Martian crust is made out of," Glotch said in the statement.
"That leads us to believe that perhaps Phobos might be a remnant of an impact that occurred early on in Martian history," he said. That old Martian material would be mixed with other material from the impact.
If the research team is proven correct, the insight would resolve the perceived flaw in the giant-impact theory of Martian moon formation. And conveniently enough, scientists may not have to go fishing through more decades-old data to answer this question.
That's thanks to a planned Japanese mission called Martian Moons Exploration. The spacecraft, which the Japanese space agency hopes to launch in the early 2020s, is being designed to orbit both moons and bring home a sample from one of them. Scientists could then study that sample, as well as asteroid samples brought back by the Japanese mission Hayabusa2and the U.S. mission OSIRIS-REx, to compare the composition of the three different solar system bodies — and, with some luck, solve the Martian moon mystery once and for all.
The new research is described in a paper published Sept. 24 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
Those bold plans include: planning a new Moon landing, long-term human deployment on and around the Moon, reassertion of America's leadership in space, strengthening private space companies, and figure out how to get American astronauts to the surface of Mars.
There are a lot of unknowns built into the plan, not the least of which is whether or not scientists can figure out a way to keep astronauts safe from the many hazards of space.
Those smarties at NASA took that into account when detailing expected timelines for completing each goal in the 21-page report - from low Earth orbit (LEO), to cislunar space and then on Mars.
(NASA)
Indeed, the timeframe within which NASA expects to reach key milestones along the way to their goals includes dates that NASA expects it will actually figure out certain parts of the plan.
That's important because it means NASA will be able to incorporate what it learns along the way.
Any claims - like the one published in NASA's new report - that astronauts will stroll around on Mars by the 2030s has flexibility built in and could change if NASA researchers hit a snag or two in the process.
For instance, NASA plans to wait until the results of the Mars 2020 mission, during which a rover will collect and analyze samples from Mars' surface, before it will even begin to draft up a budget ask for the crewed mission that is slated for some time in the 2030s.
That's just good thinking.
But before NASA even starts to think about sending astronauts to Mars, there are even more fundamental mysteries to solve.
For instance, NASA will be launching 13 CubeSats into low Earth orbit in 2020 so it can learn how to better prepare payloads for space travel, whether it be to the Moon, Mars, or beyond.
Once those satellites are in orbit, NASA hopes to use what it's learned to put astronauts in lunar orbit by June 2022.
These gaps in NASA's proposed plans aren't an accident - they represent key gaps in our understanding of space and interplanetary travel. Put another way: they represent the things NASA scientists want to learn.
And if NASA sticks to this timeline, it will hopefully achieve it, which will guide us further into exploring space.
The Center for Process Innovation, a British technology research company, thinks they’ve got the next big step in aviation transportation figured out. They want to remove the windows from passenger planes and replace them with OLED touch-screens that extend along the plane’s entire length and display the view from outside through cameras mounted on the plane’s exterior.
According to them, windows are one of the greatest sources of unnecessary weight in passenger planes. Solid walls are stronger and allow the walls to be built thinner as well. The OLED screens that replace the windows would display the view outside and allow passengers to select entertainment and stewardess service.
The technology does have its detractors, however – some are concerned about light pollution inside the cabin, and the panoramic view probably won’t do much to help those who are afraid of flying.
Why Scientists Searched 7,000 Meters Below Sea Level for a Winged Fish
Why Scientists Searched 7,000 Meters Below Sea Level for a Winged Fish
Ten years later, they finally knew where to find them.
Left to right: Purple, pink and blue. (Published in inverse.com)
By Thomas Linley and Alan Jamieson, The Conversation
From an unmanned submersible, protected by a casing of stainless steel almost an inch thick and a window made from super strong sapphire crystal, we can observe the life that thrives at our planet’s most extreme and darkest depths. Thanks to technology and sheer material strength, we can temporarily trespass into this high-pressure environment. But in stark contrast to the robust deep sea imaging equipment we rely on, the creatures our camera records look extremely fragile.
Four-and-a-half miles beneath our research vessel, which was floating on the surface of the Pacific Ocean, we captured footage of several previously undiscovered species of hadal snailfish. With delicate fins and transparent, gelatinous bodies, they are some of this environment’s most enigmatic inhabitants, fish that — at first glance — look like they should be incapable of surviving under such enormous pressures. And yet, it appears they are thriving in this strange world.
In spring, a team of 40 scientists from 17 different nations conducted an expedition to the Atacama Trench, which runs along the west coast of South America. We were there to find a particular snailfish.
The Atacama trench is the dark blue line off the coast of Chile and Peru.
On a previous expedition, our principal investigator (Alan Jamieson) had photographed a snailfish with long, wing-like fins at a depth of 7,000 meters. Only one species, Notoliparis antonbruuni was known to inhabit this area at such a depth. It had been described from a single specimen, so badly damaged that we are not able to use it to identify our images of living animals. We wanted to find this elusive winged snailfish again to learn more about it and observe it in its natural habitat.
These hadal snailfish tend to live at depths between 7,000 and 8,200 meters (“hadal” simply means anywhere below 6,000 meters), but their apparent rarity is perhaps misunderstood. Because of their extreme habitat (at least for humans), they are difficult to observe rather than actually “rare” as we know it. And with the right equipment and opportunity, we were confident, after 10 years of study, that we knew where and how to find them.
The Atacama Trench is part of the Peru-Chile subduction zone, a large 590,000 square kilometer area where one tectonic plate is being forced under another and the ocean floor quickly plunges to more than 8,000 meters. Its volume is almost the same as the neighboring Andes mountain range, which the tectonic subduction zone also creates, and exploring it is no easy feat.
Deep dive.
A Trio of Snailfish
We deployed our freefalling cameras 27 times — from the relative shallows at 2,500 meters to the trench’s deepest point, Richard’s Deep, at just over 8,000 meters. This enabled us to take more than 100 hours of video and 11,000 photographs at the seabed — and the results did not disappoint. The snailfish we were looking for made an appearance — and it wasn’t alone. Two other previously unknown hadal snailfish species were present in the footage. In fact, all three species appeared in the same shot on one occasion. Out of necessity, they were given quick, stand-in names: we called them the “purple”, the “pink,” and the “blue” Atacama snailfishes.
Left to right: purple, pink and blue.
The “blue” appeared to be the “winged” species Jamieson had recorded previously. Its long trailing fins and prominent snout resembled the Ethereal snailfish we had recorded on another expedition to the Mariana Trench, far away on the other side of the Pacific.
The “pink” species, meanwhile, was more robust and was closer in appearance to the Mariana snailfish (Pseudoliparis swirei) that we described in 2017 and which also inhabits the Mariana Trench. To see these two species — with such different body plans — sharing a trench again got us thinking: they must be doing something different to one another down there to both carve themselves a niche.
The third species, a small purple fish, looked more like the snailfish we would expect to see on the shallower abyssal plains — at a depth of around 3,500 meters. But one of these purple snailfish, just 9cm long, followed its invertebrate prey into one of our traps. This small fragile fish is currently the only physical specimen of the new species and should eventually allow us to give it a formal scientific name. And while we much prefer our video of the living animal, only a physical specimen can be deposited in a museum and used to formally describe a new species.
Meet the specimen. It died due to warm temperatures and low pressure long before it reached the surface.
Preservation
Once on the surface, we photographed this specimen while it was suspended in chilled seawater — its body is simply too fragile to support itself in air, and we didn’t want it to suffer the same fate as the poor blobfish, which, for the record, really aren’t that sad-looking (their jelly-like bodies just collapse when exposed at the surface).
Blobfish aren’t sad at all in their natural habitat.
Over the following months, we then put the specimen through several stages of preservation to avoid shrinking its largely gelatinous body. So that scientists (and the interested public) don’t have to fight over access to a single, fragile specimen, it was also CT scanned at the Natural History Museum, London, creating a detailed 3D digital model of it, inside and out. Such digital back ups are gaining traction in science – take the Scan All Fishes project, for example. And disasters like the recent fire at Brazil’s National Museum, which will have wiped out many unique specimens, also show why they are so important.
See also: First Ever Footage of Angler Fish Mating
But what have we discovered about these mysterious creatures? First, as fish approach the absolute extremes of the environmental conditions that they can cope with, they do not simply eke out an existence but thrive. It is also emerging that some trenches support not only a single specialist species but multiple species with body plans that hint at different lifestyles within the trench.
Second, the snailfish family (Liparidae) is not only the absolute winner of the deepest fish award (having been found in multiple other trenches), but species are living in trenches that at times are over 10,000km apart and entirely isolated from one another. Incredibly, snailfish exist at these extreme depths, wherever these extreme depths are, and in numbers never thought possible.
And the snailfish is just one story that emerged from our expedition. Over the coming months, we will continue to process the huge amount of data we collected, the most we have ever gathered on a single voyage. Our assessment of the large mobile animals we filmed will feed into the project’s larger goal to understand the biological and chemical processes within the trench as a whole.
Strange Blobs Beneath Earth Could Be Remnants of an Ancient Magma Ocean
Strange Blobs Beneath Earth Could Be Remnants of an Ancient Magma Ocean
By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Contributor
Credit: Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock
Mysterious blobs deep in the Earth's mantle could be minerals that precipitated out of an ancient magma ocean that formed in the collision that also created the moon.
These blobs, called ultralow velocity zones, are found very deep in the mantle, close to the Earth's core. They are known only because when seismic waves from earthquakes travel through them, the waves slow dramatically. This indicates that the blobs are somehow different from other parts of the mantle, but no one knows how.
Now, new research suggests that the blobs could be an iron oxide-rich mineral called magnesiowüstite. If so, their existence would hint at a former magma ocean that might have existed 4.5 billion years ago, when a huge chunk of space rock rammed into Earth, spun off the material that would become the moon, and possibly melted large portions of the planet. [In Photos: Watery Ocean Hidden Beneath Earth's Surface]
"If one can Identify that these patches do contain an amount of magnesiowüstite that would be an indication that there was a magma oceanand it crystallized in this fashion where the iron-rich oxide precipitated out and sank down to the base of the mantle," said study leader Jennifer Jackson, a professor of mineral physics at the California Institute of Technology.
Odd blobs
The mantle is around 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) thick, and the ultralow velocity zones are less than a mile to up to 62 miles (100 km) thick and wide, Jackson told Live Science. They slow down seismic waves that travel through them from 30 to 50 percent.
Studying these weird blobs directly isn't possible, so Jackson and her colleagues had to mimic the pressures of the deep mantle right at Earth's surface. To find out if the mineral magnesiowüstite has the kind of properties seen in ultralow velocity zones, the researchers took a small sample of the mineral, put it in a pressure chamber and squeezed it hard with a pair of diamond anvils. The whole pressurized apparatus is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand.
"Sometimes I'll say that I'm carrying around the core-mantle boundary pressure in my pocket," Jackson said.
The researchers bombarded the sample with X-rays from different angles and then measured the energy of the X-rays as they exited the sample, looking for how interactions with the crystalline structure of the mineral changed them.
Under pressure
They found that high pressures change everything. At atmospheric pressure, Jackson said, waves exiting a magnesiowüstite sample are always the same, no matter what direction they travel through the crystal. [Photos: The World's Weirdest Geological Formations]
At core-mantle boundary pressures, though, the direction the waves travel matters a lot. There can be up to a 60 percent difference in the speed of a wave going through the crystal depending on how it passes through. A transverse wave traveling through the mineral moves at a little less than 1.8 miles per second (3 km/s) in one direction and a little more than 3.1 miles per second (5 km/s) in another, Jackson said.
The fastest direction of travel for the waves at atmospheric pressure — along the edge of the crystal structure — is the slowest direction of travel for waves at core-mantle pressures, she said. The fastest direction of travel at core-mantle pressures is across the face of the crystal in the lab. These differences in how waves travel depending on the direction and the crystalline structure are called anisotropies.
What does this mean for the real mantle? Well, Jackson said, anisotropies have been observed down there, too. No one has really looked to see if ultralow velocity zones have them, but there's reason to think they might. If the cooling-magma-ocean theory is true and there is magnesiowüstite deep in the mantle, it could be pushed, squished and nudged into an anisotropic configuration by pieces of continental crust that have been pushed deep into the mantle in the process of subduction. (Subduction is when one piece of crust pushes below another and dives into the mantle, as happens along the coast of California today.)
"If we can look for it, it would be really good evidence to suggest this interaction of ancient slab subduction and ultralow velocity zones that contain this iron-rich oxide," Jackson said.
Now, Jackson hopes to work with seismologists to see if seismic waves that enter ultralow velocity zones come out differently depending on the direction of travel. If they do, it will further bolster the magnesiowüstite hypothesis.
"The presence of this mineral, being shaped by the slab, could give us insight to Earth's magma ocean and its crystallization," Jackson said.
Phosphates, essential ingredients for DNA-based life forms, may have originated from space, according to a new study that recreated the formation of the molecules in a laboratory setting. The life-seeding phosphates would have then made their way to Earth through asteroids and comets that impacted the planet billions of years ago.
Phosphate compounds may have arrived on Earth delivered by comets, such as comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM.
Without phosphates and diphosporic acid, living things wouldn’t be able to synthesize DNA. They are the main components of chromosomes, thread-like structures in which the DNA is packaged. Phosphorus is also part of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which stores energy in the cell and powers cellular processes. Bones and teeth are also made up of phosphorus.
A long-standing debate among scientists is whether these chemical compounds were forged on Earth or someplace else in the universe, hitching a ride on cosmic bodies that collided with our planet.
Although the debate sounds impossible to solve, researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manatoa have now offered compelling evidence that phosphates can be generated in space.
For their experiment, the researchers worked with the chemical phosphine, which is derived from phosphorus and can be found in the atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter or Saturn, but also those of comets such as the famous 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, explored by the Rosetta spacecraft in 2016.
First, the team recreated icy grains — the kind typically found in interstellar space — in a vacuum chamber where the temperature sat just 5 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero (-450°F/-267.7°C). Then, they added water, carbon dioxide and — very carefully because it is highly toxic — phosphine. Finally, the researchers fired ionized radiation — the kind found in cosmic rays — at this, triggering chemical reactions that formed phosphoric acid and diphosphoric acid.
“On Earth, phosphine is lethal to living beings,” said Andrew Turner, lead author of the study in Nature Communications, in a statement. “But in the interstellar medium, an exotic phosphine chemistry can promote rare chemical reaction pathways to initiate the formation of biorelevant molecules such as oxoacids of phosphorus, which eventually might spark the molecular evolution of life as we know it.”
In deep space, it’s reasonable to assume such nanoparticles became embedded in large objects like asteroids and comets, which would have eventually made their way to Earth.
“Since comets contain at least partially the remnants of the material of the protoplanetary disk that formed our solar system, these compounds might be traced back to the interstellar medium wherever sufficient phosphine in interstellar ices is available,” said Cornelia Meinert of the University of Nice.
We Just Received More Mind-Melting Photos And a Video From The Surface of an Asteroid
Japan's amazing mission is going down in history.
FIONA MACDONALD
Earlier this week, Japan's space agency JAXA made history by landing a pair of hopping rovers on an asteroid known as Ryugu, and sending back the first-ever images from the surface of a space rock.
Tf that wasn't awe-inspiring enough, JAXA has just released not only more images, but even a small video from Ryugu's surface, and all their footage is mind-meltingly wonderful.
Here's what it looks like to be standing on a rocky, rugged asteroid, hurtling through space 100 million miles (160 million km) from Earth, as the Sun's light beams and flares around you.
Rover-1A snapped a photograph of its own antenna and pin! Image taken on September 23, 2018 at 09:48 JST. [5/6] pic.twitter.com/W8zJqo2233
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Rover-1B succeeded in shooting a movie on Ryugu’s surface! The movie has 15 frames captured on September 23, 2018 from 10:34 - 11:48 JST. Enjoy ‘standing’ on the surface of this asteroid! [6/6] pic.twitter.com/57avmjvdVa
The two rovers, Rover 1A and Rover 1B, were launched onto Ryugu's surface on September 21 by their 'mothership' Hayabusa2, which had journeyed three and a half years before finally make it to the asteroid in June.
The rovers weight around 1 kg and are pretty much the size and shape of a cookie tin. They move about the asteroid's low-gravity environment by hopping, fuelled by a solar-powered internal mass that rotates to generate force.
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Twitter user Transferrins created this incredible stop-motion animation of the rover's landing on the asteroid, which shows just how nail-biting that journey was.
These new videos and images show in detail Ryugu's rugged, boulder-covered landscape, and it's the closest look we've had to date at this kind of Solar System object.
Ryugu is 900 metres (2,952 feet) wide and is thought to be a particularly ancient type of asteroid known as a C-type asteroid, dating back to the early days of our Solar System more than 4 billion years ago.
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Researchers hope that by studying it, we could learn more about the evolution of Earth.
As well as taking these breathtaking images and videos, the rovers will be measuring temperatures across the surface of the asteroid, and will also eventually collect underground material.
Ryugu is thought to contain water, which is why it's named after a magical palace at the bottom of the sea; this mission will tell us more about the object's composition.
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"I cannot find words to express how happy I am," said project manager Yuichi Tsuda when the rovers' safe arrival was confirmed earlier in the week.
"By studying asteroids, we learn more about the early Solar System and more about life itself," the 'Science Guy' and Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye tweeted as the rovers made their descent Friday.
"It is amazing to be a human living at this moment in the history of space exploration."
Despite all warnings that it’s probably a horrifically bad idea, NASA seems to be pushing full steam ahead on the search for alien civilizations. At a workshop in Houston, Texas, this week, NASA explored developments and possible investment in the search for “technosignatures” of alien life. Technosignatures refer to to any bi-product of civilization that we may be able to detect, such as radio waves like the unexplained fast burst emissions detected coming from deep space. Other technosignatures could include polluted atmospheres, laser emissions, and artificial structures.
The NASA Technosignatures Workshop looks like it was the real deal. It ran from September 26 through September 28 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. In person attendance was invitation only and limited to 50 people. The three days consisted of almost 9 hours of back to back talks exploring the current state of the search for alien life and the prospects and predictions moving forward. Organized by NASA scientists in collaboration with scientists from a variety of American universities, it shows that, at the very least, these 50 people are taking the search for not just alien life, butadvanced alien civilizations seriously. Here are the four goals of the workshop, according to the website:
1. Define the current state of the technosignature field. What experiments have occurred? What is the state-of-the-art for technosignature detection? What limits do we currently have on technosignatures?
2. Understand the advances coming near-term in the technosignature field. What assets are in place that can be applied to the search for technosignatures? What planned and funded projects will advance the state-of-the-art in future years, and what is the nature of that advancement?
3. Understand the future potential of the technosignature field. What new surveys, new instruments, technology development, new data-mining algorithms, new theory and modeling, etc., would be important for future advances in the field?
4. What role can NASA partnerships with the private sector and philanthropic organizations play in advancing our understanding of the technosignatures field?
Throughout the three days, presentations addressed topics like “Technosignatures in the context of planetary evolution,” “Future prospects and data mining for structures in transit”, and “Future Projects.” Also listed in the schedule was the ominous sounding daily “Feedback From HQ.” Then again, these scientists wouldn’t have gotten into this field if they didn’t harbor a secret desire to play secret agent.
Pictured: HQ, probably.
The workshop ended on Friday with attendees broken up into groups to discuss and compile responses on three subjects: existing upper limits of our ability to detect alien technosignatures, new initiatives and partnerships, and emerging and future opportunities.
The mentions of private investment and partnering with philanthropic groups are interesting, and while alien research isn’t known as the most lucrative field, it makes sense. What better legacy for a billionaire to buy than first contact with an alien species? If it takes the vanity of a few super wealthy people to expand our understanding of the stars, so be it.
It always comes as a surprise to learn that there are subsets within the scientific communities actually taking the search for alien life seriously. The fact that there was a three day invitation only workshop on the subject shows that top scientists do believe in the possibility of advanced alien civilizations. Although, there still seems to be an assumption that alien civilizations would resemble ours. Just because we love polluting or atmosphere doesn’t necessarily mean aliens would. We really don’t have a frame of reference on what an alien intelligence might look like. Maybe there’s only one alien and it’s a floating ball of hyper-intelligent ooze, we just don’t know.
This is really just the beginning of our exploration into the unknown of space though, and however wise it is to go looking for a species that very well may want to eat us, we seem to be ramping up the search. Only time will tell what we’ll find.
Mystery deepens: Eerie Ring of Lights appears again in the sky over Minnesota
Mystery deepens: Eerie Ring of Lights appears again in the sky over Minnesota
On September 14, a strange ring of lights like a flying saucer type has been spotted in the sky above Shakopee Archery Range, Jackson Township and above Stillwater in the state of Minnesota, see our article here.
The mysterious ring of light has appeared again and this time above Bloomington, Minnesota on September 30, 2018, see image above.
The flying saucer-like object has been photographed by a couple who were driving home from downtown Minneapolis and when they exited the highway in Bloomington, they saw a small-ish band of light in the sky.
As they continued on the road, the circular “orb-ish” object appeared to get larger, with about a dozen points of brighter light with a slightly dimmer ring connecting them. It just hovering in the sky, there was no movement and it was not the moon shining behind a cloud, according to the witnesses. Mufon case 95253.
A strange case, whether someone is joking with a drone equipped with lights or there is more going on with this ring of lights.
Eerie lights in the sky, mystery metallic discs, whizzing 'triangles' being chased by helicopters: It's all been happening in the sky above Devon in recent years.
But are these 'Unidentified Flying Objects' merely bizarre natural phenomenon or proof that we are not alone in the universe?
A recently declassified report reveals that British defence experts and the RAF spent nearly half a century trying to capture an alien spacecraft so they could use its technology to build stealth bombers and superweapons.
And in Devon there has been 10 alleged UFO or alien sightings that have been officially reported to Devon and Cornwall Police in the last three years, a Freedom of Information request revealed.
Year
Location
Summary
2015
Redruth, Cornwall
Caller only taking part of his medication and now seeing aliens
2015
Exeter, Devon
Reporting aliens
2015
Exeter, Devon
Suspicious persons in house, they could be aliens from a space ship.
2015
Plymouth, Devon
Caller states aliens are coming out of wall
2016
Plymouth, Devon
Caller seen a UFO near the woods. It "shot off into the stars" after hovering over his head…
2016
Falmouth, Cornwall
Caller states he has just seen an alien in the sky
2016
Dawlish, Devon
An alien was stood in the corner of callers room
2016
Truro, Cornwall
Further call from caller reporting aliens in her house
2017
Honiton, Devon
Said she has seen a UFO being chased by a Stealth Jet up the M5
2017
Redruth, Cornwall
States she’s been attacked by an alien
Here is a list of the most convincing recent sightings in the skies above Devon.
TIME LINE
Amazing UFO sightings in the skies over Devon
Is this proof of UFO sightings in Exmouth?
A mother and daughter from Exmouth were left baffled after spotting what they believe was a UFO in September last year.
Charlee Davis said: "I recently saw a bright light in the sky at around 10.30pm.
"Me, my friend and my mum went rushing outside and the light stood still for two minutes. We thought it was a plane until we saw that it wasn't moving. It was making no noise, and as it eventually got closer I saw five lights spinning and it was a diamond shape.
"We were thinking that it was a drone at one point, but really could not explain it. I ran off screaming!"
2. Close encounters in Chudleigh
Leslie Linton of Chudleigh had a close encounter with a UFO in March 1999 - the second sighting of a strange object flying over the town.
"It was like a big tube which was gold in colour,'' he said. "The edges seemed to be moving and it was swaying from side to side.''
Leslie, 71, of Moorview, said it was flying from the Exeter direction towards Newton Abbot.
"It frightened me for a minute because it was like nothing I had ever seen before.'
3. Was circle of light in the night sky above Paignton a UFO?
Electrician Neil Krohn didn't believe all the mumbo jumbo about UFOs - until he saw a spectacular apparition from his bathroom window in Paignton in July 2005.
Neil was shocked to see a baffling circle of lights which danced across the night sky to the accompaniment of a curious humming noise.
His 3am entertainment, also watched by his equally amazed wife Jeannette, lasted nearly an hour before the show faded away in the eastern sky at the break of day.
"I've never been taken in by all this UFO stuff you see in the news," said Neil. "I've always been sceptical until now. I really thought I was seeing things."
4. Flying saucer lights spotted in the sky over Teignmouth and Newton Abbot
Strange flying objects were reportedly spotted hovering around in the South Devon skies in December 2008.
Witnesses claimed to have seen a 'flying saucer' type craft with flashing red lights in the skies over Teignmouth and Newton Abbot.
The first sightings were over the skies of Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton.
John Rayner, of Kingsteignton, said: "I could see circular objects following each other up through the sky. They were red lights with a kind of orangy-coloured bottom."
5. Exeter woman captures 'UFO' on camera
Maria Peek spotted something odd in the sky over Exeter on New Year's Eve in 2015.
She said: "It was 3.29pm when, I noticed a strange light hovering above Exeter –I was stood on a hill in Alphington.
"It wasn't an aircraft, it was too low for a plane and it wasn't moving. It wasn't a helicopter either.
"It was silent and the only movement it made was a very slight jigger. It was too big and bright for a drone, however, something odd was in the sky."
6. Mysterious bright lights over Ipplepen on Bonfire Night
While many people were watching fireworks in the night-time sky in 1999, Susan Smith spotted something much more unusual.
Susan and her daughter Charlotte were walking home at around 6.15pm when they saw two very bright lights in the sky.
"We were near Newton Abbot library when we saw these lights over towards Trago Mills or Heathfield," said Sue, who lives in Clarendon Road.
"When we first saw the lights they were not moving but then they moved off," she said. "The two lights quickly became three and then four."
7. Crop circles appeared in fields around Totnes and Dartington
A series of crop circles appeared in fields around Totnes and Dartington in August 2014.
Five circles appeared in neighbouring farms and was the first time since the early 1990s the phenomenon occurred in South Devon.
Crop circles are more normally seen in the Somerset and Wiltshire areas of the Westcountry.
However, a team of paranormal investigators said it appeared some were formed by pranksters and 'wind damage'.
8. Cylinder floating above Torquay
Reports of a mystery cylinder floating in the sky over Torquay emerged in March, 2011.
The incident was included in a release of official files on unexplained phenomena.
Files released by The National Archives reveal how UFOs were discussed at the highest level worldwide. Among the files is a sighting reported by an un-named man from Torquay.
He wrote: "The UFO travelled towards Brixham, where it remained stationary for approximately one hour.
"The object was observed by Brixham Coastguards, which was reported to the RAF in Plymouth. The object, after remaining stationary over the town, proceeded to fly off."
9. UFOs being chased by helicopter above Exmouth
An East Devon man claimed he spotted a pair of UFOs flying above Exmouth in September 2016.
The concerned resident spotted two 'triangle spaceships' in the sky above East Devon.
The man added that he was having a cigarette in his garden when he saw two triangles flying above the Phear Park area of Exmouth.
The two triangles were then followed by what he believed to be a helicopter.
The man, who wished to remain anonymous, said: "I know it sounds crazy but I saw what I saw, I wish I got a picture. I would be very surprised if no one else saw them or heard the helicopter.
"The two of them were bouncing around and then the helicopter turned up and seemed to try chase them through the sky.
They bounced one way and then the other and then headed back in land, not towards the sea. They went off pretty quickly, not supersonic or anything, but faster than a plane.
"The helicopter was trying to follow them but gave up and headed towards Sidmouth."
10. Parachute-like objects landing in Torbay
Douglas Shelley could not believe his eyes as he witnessed two mystery parachute-like objects descend over the Bay in September, 2000.
Olive and Dennis Stairmond were similarly baffled later the same day when they saw an explosion of mystery lights from their Meadfoot Sea Road home
Douglas said: "They were like blue and red parachutes which were descending very quickly side by side at an angle.''
He had earlier heard a plane fly overhead and wondered whether what he saw was debris jettisoned from the aircraft.
"These objects were coming from the east. I don't know where they went or what they were. It's a mystery,'' he said.
11. Weird lights in the sky set pulses racing
UFO fever swept a South Devon town in July 2008 after a series of mysterious lights flitted across the night sky.
The curious heavenly light show was spotted by Wayne and Jo Taylor as they enjoyed a smoke outside their home in Barnsey Gardens, Ashburton.
Wayne said: "I just couldn't believe it. I've never seen anything like it in my life before."
A neighbour told him: "I'm glad you saw them too because I don't want people thinking I'm mad."
12. 'UFO' sightings by golfers in Torquay
The newsroom received telephone calls claiming an unusual object had been spotted in the skies over Torquay on May 24, 2004.
One golfer, playing with four others in Torquay, said the object was of a "cylinder" shape and remained static in the sky for between 10 and 15 minutes.
Another reader rang in to say he had witnessed 'cigar' shaped object in the sky at around the same time.
13. UFO sighting 2004 a hoax?
UFO fever hit South Devon with one amateur photographer snapping a "flying saucer" over Brixham in May 2004.
Some reckoned what they saw was a Jumbo jet-sized party balloon while others accepted it as a UFO.
There was a suspicion the cigar-shaped craft was nothing more harmless than a an "8 Metre Airship" sold for £12.95 by local shops.
Nick Borne from Paignton, who took the main picture, was enjoying a meal out with his family on Tuesday evening when the flying phenomenon strayed into view.
A group of teenagers using an inflatable airship on a Torquay beach claimed they were behind the UFO sightings.
14. UFO riddle of glowing orange disc above Brixham
A bright orange light in the sky above Brixham caught the eye of resident Anthony Sherwood in May 2009, and he was confident that what he witnessed was a UFO.
He watched the illuminated 'disc' from his living room window in Summer Lane.
After seeing it fly in a straight line about half-a-mile above the rooftops, Anthony stood in awe as the object headed up into the skies at a 60-degree angle before vanishing into the clouds.
"I thought at first it was an incredibly bright star but it was so bright it couldn't have been," he explained.
"Then I saw it moving and I thought it was something different. It had a constant orange glow and it wasn't flashing.
"It was definitely an unidentified object."
15. Mid-Devon UFO alert as computer worker spotted balls of light
A Mid Devon man claimed to have spotted mysterious happenings in the Devon skies in October 2009.
The 'balls of light' were spotted by computer technician Shaun Meldon from Shobrooke, near Crediton.
Mr Meldon said he saw five bright spheres as he was driving along Topsham Road, in Exeter.
"The first thing you imagine is a UFO, but they could have been meteors," he said. "They were bright orange and turned to light and dark red before going out like a cinder.
"I'm hoping someone else saw them too and that I am not going mad."
16. Orange 'strange sky thing' over Paignton
Bill and Valerie Bromfield spotted something unusual in the skies over Paignton on August 3, 1998.
The orange-coloured object was photographed by 61-yearold Valerie, of Fortescue Road, using an Olympus AF-1 camera with Agfa 100 ASA film.
"We were in our back garden one night when it was darker in the evening,'' she said.
"We saw this bright light in the sky and it just stayed there, long enough for us to take a picture. It just looked like a bright light in the clouds.
"We went indoors after a while but it hadn't disappeared.
"We didn't think it was a UFO at the time, just a strange sky thing.''
17. MoD investigated Plymouth UFO
A report of a 'pink UFO' in Mannamead in September 2008 was among unexplained sightings examined by the Ministry of Defence.
The account of the sighting says there was a floating 'large bright pink light' from which 'two small pieces' broke off.
The viewer then reports that it 'accelerated and disappeared'.
According to an official report released to the public by the MoD in 2009, other strange occurrences included a 'very bright light' which 'zig zagged across the sky' in Millbrook and Torpoint.
Four reports of weird lights were also received from Delabole in Cornwall, and there was a bizarre sighting in Exeter where a UFO was 'flying around' at 'about 250mph' looking like it was 'having trouble keeping in control'.
18. UFO sightings from across Teignbridge
Retired civil servant Malcolm Parsons was out at Stover Country Park in November 1999 when he saw a cigar shaped object moving quickly over Kingsteignton.
He claims the cigar had an iridescent glow rather than spots of light. Malcolm said it was moving slowly but like the other witnesses he maintains it was not an aircraft or a helicopter.
Dog walker Elaine McDonald was exercising her Spaniel near Dartmeet, Ashburton, when she saw a series of flashes in the sky.
They were pinpoints of light but were two random in the sky to be an aeroplane. She watched them for about five minutes but says they were not accompanied by any sound.
19. 'Amazing evidence of my alien abduction' claimed UFO spotter John Mooner
John Mooner claimed his abduction by a grey alien was caught by Google Earth.
Mr Mooner said the images - which show him 'trying to punch an alien in the face' - are 'amazing evidence' of alien abduction and they left him 'speechless'.
"I thought to myself I will view the area where I spotted a UFO from last year and look for anything out of the ordinary. I was left speechless by what I saw.
"The satellite has captured a real alien abduction taking place. The shocking thing about this was that it's me being abducted by a grey alien and the satellite image clearly shows me trying to fight off the grey alien by punching it in the face.
"Looking at the image it appears that the alien has blocked my punch and has grabbed my fist and must of been able to subdue me.
"The strangest thing about this captured incident is that I do not remember this taking place at all."
20. 'Exmouth UFO sighting rocked my skepticism'
A man who snapped photos of a mystery object above Exmouth in December 2016 said his skepticism around UFO's was rocked.
Tyron Osbourne, shocked by the soaring oval, managed to take a spooky photograph over his Brixington home.
He stared up in awe with neighbours Mark and Clare Emmins at the time, its trail appearing like a jet of flame.
Tyron said: "I have never seen anything like this. As for believing in aliens, I've always thought we are not alone in the universe and hoped to see something that would make me believe they would visit us.
"I didn't expect it to actually happen."
21. 'Orange' UFO in South Hams chase
The Torbay Investigators of the Paranormal received details of a sighting of an orangey reddish glow which was tracked along the Paignton to Totnes road and along towards Thurlestone in the South Hams in January, 2003.
The UFO was first seen by three friends as they travelled along the road.
They noticed it was rugby ball shaped and saw it again as they were driving up the hill towards Totnes. They then saw it over the Loddiswell area before it "shot off" towards Thurlestone and Burgh Island.
Spokesman and founder member of TIP, David Phillips, said: "They were so excited to see something, they travelled and followed it as far as they could."
22. Residents reported 'Strange lights' over Exeter
Residents living in the Cowick area of Exeter reported strange lights in the sky over the city at around midnight in March 2015.
One woman in Somerset Avenue described the phenomenon as a stationary "square of little red lights with a beam of light being directed toward the cattle market area."
She added that it was too large to be a helicopter.
The object was joined by "bright white objects" which after about 20 minutes moved towards Cowick and then disappeared.
She said: "I have never seen anything like it before. We get the occasional late aircraft heading for the airport but nothing like this."
23. Mysterious Brixham light show in the sky
A mysterious light show in the sky over Brixham Harbour in the April of 2006 left a Torquay couple scratching their heads.
Colin Hedworth and his wife watched five red glowing lights moving low and erratically in the sky for half an hour after returning from a night out.
Colin, who lived in Barton, said: "First there were three of them, sort of a soft amber glow like you would get with a flare, but the wind was in the wrong direction.
"Two of them went really close together, and then went away from each other into the clouds at a 45 degree angle.
"Then later, two more lights appeared."
24. Did Lee-anne see a UFO above Torbay?
UFO witness Lee-anne Taylor was baffled by the apparition which transfixed her for 10 minutes above Torquay in September 2007.
She saw mysterious red/orange lights in a Z-shape which hovered in the eastern sky in the direction of Thatcher Rock.
The vision was made all the more mysterious by the appearance of a peculiar cloud immediately above the area where the lights had made their tantalising presence felt.
Lee-anne said: "I asked my friend if he could see what I could because I thought I was going gah gah.
"And above the lights was a perfectly circular cloud, just like a plate. It looked as if someone had drawn it. It was just so weird."
25. Amateur astronomer caught UFO on camera
An amateur astronomer from Mid Devon captured a UFO on camera in October, 2009.
Lee Betts, from Newton St Cyres, said he does not believe in aliens - but he is unable to explain the strange things he saw, and admits he was, 'a bit freaked out'.
At around 8.30pm one evening, Lee went up to his bedroom, which faces north towards Raddon Hills and Cheriton Fitzpaine, and noticed a bright light outside.
Having studied astronomy on and off for years, Lee knew 'nothing pops up in the north' so he fetched his six-inch aperture telescope to take a closer look.
He saw a mysterious shape hovering around 1,000ft off the ground, four miles away. It stayed there for around an hour before disappearing in a flash of light like a shooting star. Lee calculated it was around 100ft long.
26. Unexplained lights mystified readers
There were various sightings of strange lights in the skies over Torbay in May, 2008.
The Webley family were settling in at their home in Thurlow Road when dad Gary called his family out on to the patio to have a look at some lights in the sky.
Gary said: "I was in the garden burning some wood when a bright light came over the top of the houses at a steady pace and stopped.
"It glowed and flickered for a while, moved to the right and shot off over towards Exeter.
"My wife grabbed her phone to video it as she couldn't explain it, and it frightened both my children. I consider myself a rational thinker but could not for the life of me explain what I was looking at."
27. Orange, red and green 'UFO' light show riddle
UFO fever again gripped the Bay in September 2007 when a string of witnesses recounted seeing a display of mystery lights over Paignton.
Ian Davies, manager of the Osborne Hotel in Torquay, revealed wish lanterns released by a wedding party at the hotel's Brasserie may have been responsible for prior sightings, but confirmed that the '100 or so' orange/red/green lights floating over parts of Paignton from the Dartmouth direction in September 2007 were nothing to do with him or his staff.
"I've checked — and it wasn't us," said Ian, who said the wedding guests who launched about a dozen wish lanterns at the beginning of the month had not obtained permission from staff to do so.
28. Mystified Paul claims he saw UFO over Exeter
Paul de Garis spotted something unusual in 2007 when he stepped out into his garden to have a cigarette, as his pregnant wife remained inside
Just as he lit up, a bright orange light came over head.
He said: “I think I saw a UFO or at least something quite strange in Exeter on Tuesday at around 10.45pm.”
“It was heading west to east and looked like an orange triangle-shape — it made no sound. It seemed to generate the orange light itself.”
Mr de Garis said the craft moved with such velocity it was difficult to follow.
After the sighting, Mr De Garis looked through some UFO websites to see if anything similar had been spotted by anyone else.
He said: “The thing I saw was glowing orange and it kind of jumped to the right as it travelled and kept on going in the same direction.”
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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..
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