Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
05-10-2018
Government Worker Leaks UFO Footage Recorded In Jacksonville
Government Worker Leaks UFO Footage Recorded In Jacksonville
Comparison videos shown first to eliminate doubt. I have never seen anything stay motionless in the sky for 10-15 minutes, only to disappear.
The witness claims to work for the government and said:
"I have never seen anything stay motionless in the sky for 10-15 minutes, only to disappear. We did try to ping it with a laser rangefinder to get a distance on it. It didn't work at all, and they are usually good up to 20-30 km. I work for the government as a defense contractor. I have access to these expensive machines due to my occupation; I'm a depot level FLIR technician."
Willem de KamMet dubbele bundels laserlicht worden brokken ruimtepuin aangewezen (hier bij een repetitie op de Maasvlakte). Alle stukken afval groter dan 10 centimeter wegen bij elkaar 8 miljoen kilo.
MILIEUDe Nederlandse kunstenaar Daan Roosegaarde laat vrijdagavond met lasers zien hoeveel ruimte-afval er in het heelal zwerft. Een bewustwordingscampagne, maar hoe zinvol is dat?
Daan Roosegaarde pakt voorzichtig een plexiglazen kubusje waarin een stukje zonnepaneel gegoten is. Het reepje paneel is afkomstig van ruimtetelescoop Hubble en is meegenomen tijdens een vervangingsoperatie. Het is een van de weinige stukken gerecycled ruimteafval.
Gescheiden afvalinzameling mag op aarde gewoon zijn, de ruimte is nog steeds een dumpplek voor allerhande rommel. Van verfsplinters tot gereedschap tot raketonderdelen tot afgedankte satellieten: van alles cirkelt rond de aarde. Meer dan 29.000 stuks groter dan 10 centimeter; 8 miljoen kilogram, ofwel 8.000 Fiats Panda.
“Toen ik voor het eerst een afbeelding zag van al dat afval rond de aarde, dacht ik dat het een kunstwerk was van Jackson Pollock, of een impressie van een waterstofatoom. Maar het bleek space waste”, zegt Roosegaarde in zijn studio in Rotterdam. “Het beeld heeft een haast obscene schoonheid. Maar het is troep, mogelijk dodelijke troep.”
Lab RoosgaardeImpressie van de aarde te midden van het ruimteafval.
De ruimte is toch onmetelijk groot. Wat is het probleem?
“Je kunt denken; het zit op honderden kilometers hoogte, who gives a shit. Maar als een satelliet wordt geraakt en je ineens geen Facebook meer hebt en geen Whatsapp, dan is er ineens wel een probleem. Het lijkt dus ver weg, maar de gevolgen kunnen intiem zijn.”
Tot nu toe valt het mee, internet werkt gewoon. En je haalt dat afval niet zomaar even op.
“Niemand wil ervoor betalen. Maar als we zo doorgaan, zitten we uiteindelijk in het Kessler-syndroom (de Nasa-wetenschapper die eind jaren zeventig berekende dat een kettingreactie van botsend puin ruimtevaart onmogelijk maakt, red.) De meeste mensen hebben nog nooit van dit probleem gehoord. Ik tot een jaar geleden ook niet. Dus toen de stad Almere mij vroeg of ik een project met hen wilde beginnen, dacht ik: ik ga een Space Waste Lab maken.”
Lab RoosgaardePuin in een lage baan om de aarde.
“Al het afval groter dan 10 centimeter is in kaart gebracht en wordt gevolgd. We weten dus precies waar het is. Met groene lasers gaan we stukjes afval aanwijzen die vrijdagavond over Almere scheren.”
Dat gebeurt met twee krachtige groene laserstralen die in een punt in het zwerk bijeenkomen, als een galactische powerpointpresentatie. Met een beetje geluk kunnen toeschouwers een stukje ruimtepuin zien oplichten, als het helder genoeg is en het afval relatief laag zweeft, zegt Roosegaarde.
En dan zien we dat ruimtepuin. Wat hebben we daaraan? Daarmee is het afval nog niet opgeruimd.
“Bewustwording is stap een. Laten zien dat er een probleem is. Hoe we ervan af komen? Nobody knows.”
Stel dat iemand een oplossing vindt, dan is er nog steeds geen geld om het op te ruimen.
“Nu is vervuilen gewoon gratis, ook in de ruimte. Misschien moet er een soort statiegeld op satellieten komen. Ik geloof trouwens niet dat er gebrek aan geld of technologie is, maar een gebrek aan verbeelding.”
ESAEen buts in een van de vensters van het ruimtestation ISS.
Klein snippertje, grote impact
Doordat ruimteafval kilometers per seconde aflegt, kan zelfs het kleinste verfbladdertje al schade aanrichten als het een satelliet raakt. Zo ontdekte astronaut Tim Peake twee jaar geleden een buts in het Cupola-venster waardoor astronauten naar de aarde kijken. Alles groter dan 10 centimeter kan satellieten aan gort knallen, stelt ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA. Er suizen miljoenen verfsnippertjes en metaaldeeltjes kleiner dan een millimeter door de ruimte, en het worden er meer.
Space Waste Lab
Voor ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA is Space Waste Lab een manier om het probleem onder de aandacht te brengen van het grote publiek, dat zich tot nu toe niet bewust is van ruimteafval, zegt Michel van Pelt van ESA. “Als het publiek erkent dat er iets moet gebeuren, wordt het voor politici makkelijker en belangrijker geld vrij te maken voor opruimprojecten. Wij krijgen immers onze fondsen via de politiek.”
In het verleden kon de Spaceshuttle worden gebruikt om gestrande satellieten terug te halen, of een zonnepaneel zoals dat van de Hubble telescoop. Maar de Spaceshuttle is met pensioen. “We staan nu vrij machteloos”, zegt Van Pelt. Er zijn inmiddels wel plannen om grotere en kleinere satellieten terug te halen, maar het ontbreekt nog aan middelen om de projecten ten uitvoer te brengen.
Naast opruimen is het belangrijk het ontstaan van ruimtepuin te voorkomen. Soms met verrassend eenvoudige ingrepen. Bijvoorbeeld door de stuwstoftanks die nodig zijn om satellieten in de ruimte te laten manoeuvreren, te voorzien van ventielen. Die zorgen er aan het einde van het kunstmaan-leven voor dat de stuwstof uit de tank loopt, waardoor deze niet meer kan ontploffen. En een systeem dat de accu’s aan boord ontlaadt en ze loskoppelt van de zonnepanelen. Nu zijn ontploffende accu’s en zuurstoftanks geregeld oorzaak van een enorme wolk zwerkzooi. Het beste is, zegt Van Pelt, als satellieten zichzelf aan het eind van hun leven zelf opruimen. Bijvoorbeeld door af te remmen, waarna ze neerstorten en in de atmosfeer verbranden.
WETENSCHAPWe kunnen voorlopig enkel de ruimte in met speciale, erg dure raketten. Maar het is lang niet zo denkbeeldig dat we binnen afzienbare tijd gewoon de lift kunnen nemen naar een hoogte tot zo’n 35.000 km, waar de satellieten in een geosynchrone baan rondzweven. Japan mikt op 2050, China op 2045 om zo’n kolossale lift te bouwen. Het internationale ruimtestation ISS gaat binnenkort voor het eerst een experiment uitvoeren om de haalbaarheid van het gigantische project te testen.
Volgens NASA klopt het basisconcept van de ruimtelift alvast, en de ruimtevaartorganisatie staat daarin niet alleen. The Obayashi Corp. uit Tokio heeft al gezegd er tegen 2050 een te zullen bouwen, en China pitste daar nog vijf jaar af.
“De ruimtelift is de heilige graal van het ruimteonderzoek”, zegt de bekende futurist Michio Kaku, professor aan het City College of New York. “Beeld je in dat je gewoon op de knop moet duwen en dat de lift je naar de hemel brengt. Het zou de ruimtevaart openstellen voor de gemiddelde mens.” De ruimtelift zou het op een na grootste ingenieursproject ooit zijn, met een kostenplaatje van zo’n 10 miljard dollar (8,6 miljard euro). Maar de kostprijs per pond (453,59 gram) om een object in een baan om de aarde te sturen zou dalen van 3.000 euro vandaag naar nog geen 22 euro. Dat berekende Peter Swan, president van het International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) in Santa Ana, California.
Het idee van een ruimtelift is niet nieuw. Al in 1895 droomde de Russische wetenschapper Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ervan. Vandaag zijn specialisten het erover eens dat de ruimtelift zou bestaan uit gemotoriseerde capsules die op en neer worden bewogen langs een ketting die van de aardbodem naar de ruimte loopt. Meer bepaald van een ruimtehaven op de evenaar tot een ruimtestation in een geosynchrone baan. De centrifugale krachten veroorzaakt door de rotatie van de aarde zouden de ketting strak houden. De lift wordt aangedreven door voertuigen met magnetische lineaire motoren.
Wereldprimeur
Het ISS-experiment STARS-Me van Japanse natuurkundigen zal op kleine schaal de omstandigheden simuleren waarmee de componenten van zo’n systeem zouden te maken krijgen. Met camera’s zullen de wetenschappers de beweging van een paar kleine ‘cubesats’ over een ketting van tien meter in een gewichtloze omgeving onderzoeken. Het experiment dat de beweging van een lift in de ruimte test, is een wereldprimeur.
De proef zal gebruik maken van stalen ketting die veel te zwaar is om zich uit te strekken over tienduizenden kilometers. Meer en meer wetenschappers, onder wie Kaku, zijn ervan overtuigd dat grafeen, een ultrasterk materiaal op basis van koolstof, het meest geschikt is voor de job. Grafeen is 200 keer sterker dan staal. Voorlopig bestaat het nog maar in kleine afmetingen. Maar naar verwachting is het een kwestie van niet zo heel veel tijd om er zo’n enorme liftketting mee te bouwen.
Miracle or Mystery? Hikers saw a figure disappear on a mountain near Phoenix
Miracle or Mystery? Hikers saw a figure disappear on a mountain near Phoenix
Three young women went out hiking in the mountains of Arizona at the Dreamy Draw Mountain in Phoenix and enjoyed much more than the stunning scenery. They had a spiritual experience.
Allisa Miller, Kassi Sanchez and Jen Vickman took time off from college studies to take a relaxing break in the mountains but little did they know they would have a miraculous encounter during their hike.
The friends said that the day had not got off to the best start and they were unsure whether they should go out into the mountains hiking that day. However, something compelled them to make the climb, so they set out.
The women were making an ascent of Dreamy Draw Mountain when they came across a man at the summit that was dressed rather oddly. Miller explained by saying, "We just see a silhouette of this man, it looks like he has long hair and he's in a robe."
At first, the three young women joked that the figure looked like Jesus, but to their surprise just moments later the figure just vanished from the top of the mountain. The women climbed the rest of the way to the top where the figure had been standing, and this is when things got even stranger.
The figure left a note with a surprise.
The three friends claimed to have found an envelope lying down on the rocks. On it was written: "Do you believe in angels?" reports disclosetv.
MEER BEWIJS DAT PIRAMIDES ANTARCTICA ACTIEF ZIJN ( VIDEO )
MEER BEWIJS DAT PIRAMIDES ANTARCTICA ACTIEF ZIJN ( VIDEO )
Dat er geweldige geheimen verborgen liggen op en in het nog steeds bevroren continent Antarctica is zo langzamerhand wel duidelijk.
Ook nu zit de wetenschap weer met de handen in het haar, want er is een soort kosmische straling ontdekt, niet afkomstig vanuit de ruimte, maar ergens vanuit Antarctica.
Het is soms best wel vermakelijk om te zien hoe wetenschappers hun hoofd breken over dingen die niet te verklaren zijn. Maar ja, zij zijn de geleerden, dus moet er toch op een gegeven moment een verklaring komen die past in het mainstream geschiedenis verhaal.
En dat is jammer, want daardoor worden ontzettend veel mogelijkheden gemist die zouden kunnen leiden tot de werkelijke geschiedenis op onze aarde. Tegelijkertijd is ook bekend dat die geschiedenis door allerlei lieden het liefst verborgen wordt gehouden voor de massa.
In een uitgebreid artikel op Scientific American wordt vol verbazing gerapporteerd over een mysterieus deeltje dat afkomstig is van ergens onder het ijs van Antarctica wat de ruimte in gaat. Wetenschappers hebben geen flauw idee over wat het is, behalve dat het een soort kosmische straling is die vanuit de ruimte naar de aarde is gekomen en daar vervolgens op een of andere manier als het ware wordt teruggekaatst de ruimte in.
En dan is er een groot mysterie, want binnen de bestaande kennis van de deeltjesfysica is dat onmogelijk. Je hebt neutrino’s met een lage energie die diep tot in de aarde kunnen doordringen, maar de neutronen met een hoge energie waar we hier over praten, crashen als het ware op de aarde en stuiteren zeker niet terug de ruimte in.
Bijkomend probleem dat de wetenschappers hebben is dat dit bepaalde deeltje op geen enkele manier in de standaard past die ze voor deeltjes hebben gemaakt. Met andere woorden, dit terug stuiterende deeltje van Antarctica zet de wetenschap behoorlijk op zijn kop, want wat er gebeurt kan volgens de door hen gemaakt regeltjes niet. Regeltjes die ons worden voorgehouden als wetenschappelijke feiten.
De volgende video van Secureteam geeft wat meer achtergrondinformatie over dit mysterieuze verschijnsel op Antarctica.
Waar dit verschijnsel heel veel aan doet denken is een fenomeen dat de laatste jaren bij sommige piramides is waargenomen. Een soort felle lichtstraal die zomaar ineens de ruimte in schiet.
Door het verschuivende klimaat op aarde waarbij het in sommige streken veel kouder wordt en andere weer warmer zien we dan ook soms dingen tevoorschijn komen die tot voor kort permanent door, in dit geval, ijs waren bedekt.
En nu, voor de derde keer in korte tijd, ontdekte men een derde mysterieuze (energie)golf op 26 mei 2017.
Niet alleen neemt de frequentie tussen de golven toe, ze volgen elkaar sneller op, maar ook iedere keer schijnt het afkomstig te zijn uit hetzelfde gebied op Antarctica.
Wanneer je een lijn trekt, dan loopt deze langs het Princess Elisabeth Station naar het gebied waar eind vorig jaar een aantal piramides werden ontdekt.
De vreemde golf komt ergens vanuit dat gebied en dat zou het Elisabeth Station kunnen zijn, maar als dat zo was, dan was het ook geen mysterie geweest. En als het daar niet vandaan komt, dan moet er een andere bron niet ver daar vandaan zijn.
Mensen die Google Earth gebruiken om Antarctica te verkennen komen op regelmatige basis piramides tegen en daarmee ligt hun aanwezigheid op dit zuidelijke continent wel aardig vast.
Wetenschappers zeggen nu dat de betreffende mysterieuze deeltjes van diep onder het ijs komen en dan denk je misschien niet snel aan piramides. Maar de ijslaag op Antarctica is heel dik en (formeel) hebben wij eigenlijk nog geen flauw benul wat zich daaronder bevindt.
Nu is er echter een satellietfoto opgedoken die een soort ovale constructie onder het ijs laat zien. Het lijkt een doorsnede van ruim 100 meter te hebben en heeft alle kenmerken van een door mensen gemaakt gebouw.
Als dit inderdaad wordt bevestigd, kunnen de geschiedenisboeken op aarde worden herschreven, want dan blijkt duidelijk dat er hoogstaande beschavingen op aarde waren, voordat dit volgens onze huidige geschiedenisboeken het geval was.
Volgens de hoofdarcheoloog Ashoka Tripathi van de Universiteit van Calcutta, zijn de afbeeldingen duidelijk bewijs van vroegere menselijke nederzettingen onder de dikke laag ijs.
Hij zei, “Dit zijn duidelijk kenmerken van bepaalde door mensen gemaakte structuur. De patronen laten níets zien van wat wij normaal gesproken zouden verwachten bij een natuurlijk gevormde formatie. Wij hebben hier ontegenzeglijk bewijs van menselijke constructie”.
“Het enige probleem dat we hebben, is dat deze foto’s zijn genomen in Antarctica, onder een twee kilometer dikke ijslaag. Dat is duidelijk een puzzel waar we op dit moment geen verklaring voor hebben”
Mysterious ancient peoples seem to have had the habit of leaving behind baffling puzzles in the form of inexplicable, often indecipherable artifacts that serve to be simultaneously both alluring and baffling, and one such discovery has long lurked in the country of Costa Rico. From the late 1920s, a vast area of thick, nearly impenetrable rain forest in the Diquís Valley of Costa Rica was found to have the perfect soil composition for growing an array of different fruit. Considered to be more or less an agricultural gold mine, the United Fruit Company began moving into this uncharted wilderness in order to clear it to make way for banana plantations, but in addition to the hardships of the land itself, disease, and the thick clouds of mosquitos, they found something else out there in the jungle, something that has gone on to become one of the world’s great archeological mysteries.
In the 1930s, workers clearing the land in the valley began coming across something that they struggled to make sense of. There standing amongst the trees and underbrush were found myriad large stones, with some truly massive at up to 7 feet across and weighing around 16 tons. The strange thing was that these were no mere rocks and boulders, but were rather perfectly, or nearly perfectly formed spheres, totally smooth to the touch, and they had obviously been there for a very long time, ancient monoliths from a long forgotten time that were obviously artificial. There were also a lot of them, with around 300 found scattered about the landscape over the years.
Most would have thought of this as a major discovery, but although the workers were without a doubt baffled and awestruck, they nevertheless were not there on an archeological expedition, they were there to clear land for fruit plantation and these strange relics were getting in their way. The workers went about simply moving them out of the way with heavy work equipment and by hand, and some even thought that they perhaps had gold in them, blasting them open by drill and dynamite. This obviously damaged the spheres immensely, and by the time word got out about these magnificent ancient treasures and authorities could move in, many of the spheres were irreparably damaged or even completely destroyed, and still more of them sold off to become lawn ornaments for wealthy curiosity seekers all over the country before serious study could be carried out on them.
The first serious study done on the mysterious stone spheres was carried out in the 1940s by the researcher Doris Stone, who was actually the daughter of one of the executives of the United Fruit Company and future director of Costa Rica’s National Museum. Stone’s findings were then published in 1943 in the esteemed archeological journal American Antiquity, and this caught the attention of other researchers. One of these was Samuel Lothrop, of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, who went about a major excavation and study of the remaining spheres, carefully measuring them and mapping their positions and alignments.
Other expeditions and studies have sporadically been carried out over the years, but the spheres largely remain as mysterious as they ever were. We know their size, that they are comprised of an indigenous hard stone known as granodiorite, and we also know that they are definitely artificial. Other than that there has been much speculation and debate as to how old they are, how they were made, and who made them and for what purpose. Presenting a serious hurdle to answering any of these questions and indeed spawning further questions that could have otherwise perhaps been answered is also the fact that virtually none of the spheres remain in their original positions or alignments, with some of them completely gone, whisked far away to serve as landscape decorations, and many that do remain suffer major damage. The spheres have been rolled away or down ravines, and others have been severely damaged or destroyed by being moved, treasure hunters blowing them up, or brush by burning, which warps, chars, and cracks the otherwise smooth surface of the stones.
As to the age of the spheres, they were originally described as being truly ancient, up to 12,000 years old, but this has since been doubted. It is difficult to use radiocarbon dating methods on solid stone, so the most reliable way of guessing their age is to compare them to the pottery and other artifacts that lie within the same strata, but since many of the stones have since been moved from their original positions even this is not totally reliable. Although it is not known for sure just how old they are, based on the artifacts around and under them, the spheres have been guessed as probably dating back to between 600 and 1500 AD, but by who is also a mystery, as is how they managed to do it with the primitive tools at hand.
It has been speculated that these spheres were likely created by the ancestors of the native Boruca, Téribe, and Guaymí peoples of the area, although this is not known for sure, and there is also the idea that a lost, unknown civilization was perhaps responsible. The methods used to make the spherical boulders are also rather shrouded in mystery, as granodiorite is a very hard rock that is notoriously hard to carve, but there are some clues. Although a good number of the spheres are almost completely smooth, some of them display marks from tools that present hints to how they might have been crafted. It is thought that the people who made them would have chosen boulders that were already somewhat rounded to begin with, likely quarried from the bed of the Térraba River or the nearby Talamanca mountains, after which the heavy rocks were laboriously transported and work would begin.
There have been some ideas that the natives who made them had access to some sort of lost method such as the use of a stone softening potion of some sort, but there is little evidence to support this. The spheres are thought to have been more likely meticulously shaped through a combination of controlled fracturing, in which cracks are intentionally made, grinding, chipping, and pecking with some sort of sturdy, tool made of a similarly hard substance, possibly made of the same kind of rock as the spheres themselves. Interestingly, the outer layers of the mysterious spheres have shown evidence that they were subjected to extremes of hot and cold, likely in order to smooth them out by flaking off bits, with the heat provided by hot coals. When the boulders finally approached a suitably spherical shape, undoubtedly a labor-intensive process that would have taken large amounts of time, they would then be painstakingly polished to a fine smoothness by using materials such as rough leather or even sand. This is the commonly accepted method for the manufacture of the spheres, but it is not certain as no unfinished spheres have ever been found, and so we don’t really know for sure.
So we have sort of a plausible, albeit still uncertain, idea of who made the spheres, how, and when, but even then we are left with the why. Why did these ancient people go through all of the effort of shaping these massive boulders only to leave them scattered about the landscape? What were these enigmatic artifacts actually used for? No one really knows for sure, as there are absolutely no records of them by whoever made them, but there are theories. One is that the arrangement and alignment of the spheres, or at least the estimated positions and alignments of them, in relation to the ruins of walls, structures, and cobbles around them, suggest they may have served as some form of tool for navigation, astronomical observations, or even as a compass. The problem is, as has been mentioned, almost none of the spheres are in their original positions, making this all pure speculation. Another idea is that, because some of them have been found within what would have once been a structure or atop mounds, they may have held some religious significance or been used as status symbols. In the end, it is just as unclear as to why they were made as it is who made them and how. We just don’t know.
Of course with such an alluring mystery there have been more fringe theories presented for the mystery spheres, such as that they were brought from Atlantis or built by refugees from the legendary lost continent, and this theory was most notably proposed in the books Atlantis in America- Navigators of the Ancient World, by Ivar Zapp and George Erikson (1998), and The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization, by Colin Wilson and Rand Flem-Ath (2001). Another idea is that the people who built the spheres had the help of ancient aliens, who used their technology to make the objects, and that the spheres somehow align with similar monuments in far-flung places such as the Moai of Easter Island, Stonehenge, and even the pyramids.
In the end these strange enormous spheres have remained largely as much of a mystery as they always have been, inscrutable monoliths of another lost time and people. Presently most of the intact spheres can be found in various locations throughout the country and in museums all over the world, but being unleashed from their original jungle lair has done little to truly illuminate their origins, with their enigmas in a sense still firmly out in those wilds along with their lone remaining brethren. For now, the mysterious stone spheres offer only fleeting hints as to the meaning of their existence, and it is likely the only ones who will ever know the true answers are the ones who made them
Many UFO researchers are reluctant to address the “aliens are stealing our souls” theory. It is, after all, one of the most controversial aspects of the UFO subject. The fact is, though, that there are far more than a few such reports on record. The problem is, however, that for so many in Ufology, the subject is so troubling and disturbing they choose to outright ignore it. One of the earliest – and most intriguing – cases on record came from a man named Paul Inglesby. His real name was actually Eric Inglesby and his 1978 book, UFOs and the Christian, was published under Eric Inglesby. But, two years later, he changed his name to Paul Inglesby and from then on answered to Paul (and as Father Paul: in 1980 he converted to Greek Orthodox).
Just one year before the Second World War broke out in 1939, Inglesby – who died in 2010 – went down with a very serious case of malaria. So serious was it that for a while Inglesby perilously hovered in that mysterious domain between life and death. It was while in this limbo-like state that Inglesby had a frightening dream. Years later, he recalled how it all went down: it was an undetermined time in the Earth’s future and UFO-like craft were soaring across the fire-and smoke-filled skies of our ruined, radioactive planet and launching nuclear missiles at our major cities – killing billions and causing planet-wide destruction. The UFOs were not piloted by extraterrestrials, though, but by demonic entities whose goal was to suck out the souls of those killed in the fiery inferno, which was rapidly overwhelming the Earth and just about everything on it.
For Inglesby, it was quite literally a wake-up call. The malaria cleared up, Inglesby came out of his unconscious state, and he spent the rest of his life pursuing a career in the church and warning people to avoid the UFO issue – fearing that it would lead people to become ensnared by malevolent demonic monsters, all of which Inglesby described in his aforementioned 1978 book, UFOs and the Christian.
Inglesby’s story dates back to the 1930s, and it was in the 1950s onward that he began talking about his nightmarish dream – after he realized that what he had seen back in 1938 were images of nuclear explosions and “mushroom clouds” of the type that were all too familiar by the 1950s. It’s important to note, though, that the issue of a connection between UFOs, aliens and the human soul didn’t really surface to any kind of meaningful degree until the latter part of the 1980s – which takes us to the issue of Whitley Strieber’s bestseller of 1987,Communion.
When word of Strieber’s planned book first got out, most Ufologists assumed that the book, in terms of its content and its theories, would be fairly akin to John Fuller’s The Interrupted Journey of 1966 and to Budd Hopkins’ 1981 book, Missing Time. Both books adhered to the now-familiar theory that aliens are stealing our DNA to save their waning species. Strieber’s revelations were, in many respects, far removed from the writings of Hopkins and Fuller, which is why the book created such a firestorm in those locales where ufologists hang out. As I saw it, though, Strieber’s book was a thought-provoking breath of fresh air.
In Communion, Strieber made it very clear that his own encounters with “the Visitors” – and those of others he had spoken to – revealed a startling connection between alien abductions and the human soul; even a paradigm-shifting connection. In his book, Strieber talked about how abductees experienced their souls “dragged” from their bodies during abductions. Strieber himself was told by his abductors that they “recycled” human souls. That sounds quite comforting, as it suggests reincarnation may be a reality – something which will ensure us further lives after this one. But, was Strieber being told the entire truth by his captors? Or, was this an attempt on their part to push things down a different, more appealing path? Certainly, Strieber admitted something notable that suggests he recognized that not everything was good and positive.
Strieber said that, the more and more he dig into the matter of his encounters, and as he tried to get a handle on what was afoot, he was unable to banish from his mind the theories of Charles Fort. For those who may not know, Fort was an acclaimed writer on all manner of paranormal phenomena. His books included Lo! and Wild Talents. Fort had darkly suggested that, in Strieber’s own words in his 1988 book, Transformation, we the human race, are “animals here for the slaughter and incapable of seeing the greater and more terrible meanings that surround us.”
As for more on Charles Fort’s opinions, they can be read in his classic title of 1919, The Book of the Damned. Fort wrote: “I think we’re property [italics mine]. I should say we belong to something: That once upon a time, this earth was No-man’s Land, that other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it’s owned by something: That something owns this earth – all others warned off.”
Classic "Flying Saucer" Captured Passing The Moon By Amateur Astronomer. Berkshire, England, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 25, 2018
Location of sighting: Earths moon
This is some incredible footage of a oval UFO moving over the surface of the moon. The footage was taken using a telescope while searching for craters. This black craft matches the many other UFOs that have been recorded moving over the moons surface for the past few years. There are alien still living on our moon even today, coming and going in these ships...all the while laughing at how humanity still believes its alone in the universe.
Scott C. Waring
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This footage was captured on September 25, 2018 and shows the moment Jason Callum from the aimed his telescope at the lunar surface to get a better look at the craters. But what he ended up uncovering left him stunned. The clip, captured from Bracknell, Berkshire, shows the moment a small black object made its way across the screen, zooming from right to left. Jason attempted to follow its journey, but once the light from the moon had gone, it was impossible to track.
The witness and videographer of this strange incident said that he saw a triangle-shaped UFO with blue and grey colour moving above his head in London.
The observer stated he had sufficient time to get his 90x zoom camcorder and capture the strange moments in the video. He also managed to snap still frames of the triangle vehicle.
The UFO appeared to have unique colours and shape. The top of the object in question seems to be off-centre as compared to other reported triangle-shaped UFOs.
However, given the consideration of today’s technology, it is just wise to be sceptical as it is now easy to make something like the one on the video.
The bizarre object has a blue colour along with grey on the other side. Take a look at the video and see what you think.
Check out this footage of a UFO activity in the sky above Australia. This was filmed on 2nd October 2018.
Witness report:
Time: 20:38:47pm Direction: West, next to star HIP – 83858 The movement is very strange, appears to be moving in a curve. It’s very far away given I had to zoom in on the footage that was shot at 300mm.
ESA Just Released Photo Of The Surface Of An Alien World
ESA Just Released Photo Of The Surface Of An Alien World
Today the European Space Agency (ESA) published a fascinating photo.
The bizarre landscape comes from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The photo was taken from ESA's spacecraft Rosetta.
ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA; J. Roger – CC BY SA 4.0
This image shows a portion of 67P/C-G as viewed by Rosetta on 22 September 2014, only one and a half months after the spacecraft had made its rendezvous with the comet.
Explore the full mission image archive yourself at
Scientists Accidentally Blew Up Their Lab By Creating History's Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field
Scientists Accidentally Blew Up Their Lab By Creating History's Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field
Things did not exactly go as planned when researchers at the University of Tokyo set out to create test the properties of a new generator system. Instead, they managed to create the strongest magnetic field ever created indoors, which led to them blowing off the doors to their lab.
Strongest Magnetic Field in a Controlled Environment
A paper in the “Review of Scientific Instruments” revealed the researchers wanted to reach a peak magnetic field with an intensity of about 700 Teslas. However, in reality, they produced 1,200 Teslas. Bear in mind that the standard refrigerator magnet is only about 0.01 Tesla. While they did not mean to do it, they essentially made the strongest magnetic field in a controlled environment indoors.
However, they do have some way to go before they can claim to have generated the strongest ever field. Russian researchers did this in 2001 when they created more than twice the strength at 2,800 Teslas.
Researchers Did Not Use TNT But Still Blew the Door Off
To create the magnetic fields the researchers used “electromagnetic flux-compression”, a technique that researchers have used since the 1940s. A spike that is only brief is caused in the magnetic fields strength as it is squeezed rapidly into a smaller size. During the 1940s this technique relied on large amounts of TNT being used in order to generate an explosion that was powerful enough to cause the magnetic field to compress. The downside to this, of course, was that the technique could only be used once due to the fact the equipment was totally destroyed by the blast caused by the TNT.
The researchers in Japan wanted more control over the explosion to cause the magnetic field to compress so they refrained from using TNT, instead dumping huge amounts of energy by of 3.2 megajoules, into the generator. In order to do this, the researchers had to feed 4 million amps of current in the generator. To put this into perspective it is several thousand times that of a lightning bolt. When the coil is tightly compressed and will not go any further a shockwave is produced destroying the generator along with the coil.
In order to provide themselves with protection to keep them safe, the researchers constructed an iron cage, placing the generator inside it. While this was a good idea, the cage they constructed had only been made to be able to withstand up to 700 Teslas at the most. Of course, things went awry when they produced 1,200 Teslas by accident, which resulted in the door to the iron cage being blown off.
Researcher Admitted He Did Not Expect Magnetic Field to be so high
Shojiro Takeyama was among the researchers at the University of Tokyo taking part in the experiment. He said, "I didn’t expect it to be so high." "Next time, I’ll make [the enclosure] stronger."
A new iron cage was made and the researchers made some adjustments and are giving the experiment another attempt. They are planning to generate only 1,500 Teslas by pumping 5 megajoules of energy into the generator.
In conclusion, the researchers said:
"Only 40 years ago, magnetic fields of the order of 1000 Tesla were only reported in extremely complicated and sometimes unreliable explosively-driven systems, without any of the sophisticated levels of control. Therefore, one can say without any doubt, that the present results represent the beginning of a new era in the quest of producing and using ultrahigh magnetic fields for solid-state studies as well as for plasma fusion related experiments."
THIS will change Everything you KNOW about human history
THIS will change Everything you KNOW about human history
Is it possible that the great prophet Enoch was instructed by aliens with the engineering knowledge necessary to build the great pyramids?
Were these pyramids built at a time before the Great Floods? As new technologies explore unprecedented details of the pyramid, new questions are asked about what remains to be revealed. Perhaps Enoch's lost library remains hidden in a secret chamber inside the great pyramid.
Join Erich of Däniken on an excursion through the Great Pyramid of Cheops as he unveils hidden secrets in the familiar chambers and begins to uncover secrets yet to be discovered.
On both September 19 and 23, Arctic sea ice dropped to its minimum extent of 1.77 million square miles (4.59 million square km). The 2018 minimum ties for the 6th-lowest in the satellite record.
Arctic sea ice likely reached its minimum extent for the year on September 19 and again on September 23, 2018, according to researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA.
Scientists track sea ice in the Arctic as it grows to a maximum extent through the winter and shrinks back in the summer to its minimum extent in September each year. This year’s minimum sea ice extent – the smallest area of ice for the year – reached 1.77 million square miles (4.59 million square km). That tied with 2008 and 2010 as the sixth lowest sea ice minimum since consistent satellite records began 40 years ago.
Researchers at NSIDC noted that the estimate is preliminary, and it is still possible (but not likely) that changing winds could push the ice extent lower.
Arctic sea ice follows seasonal patterns of growth and decay. It thickens and spreads during the fall and winter and thins and shrinks during the spring and summer. But in recent decades, increasing temperatures have led to significant decreases in summer and winter sea ice extents. The decline in Arctic ice cover will ultimately affect the planet’s weather patterns and the circulation of the oceans.
The map above shows the extent of Arctic sea ice as measured by satellites on September 19, 2018. Extent is defined as the total area in which the ice concentration is at least 15 percent. The yellow outline shows the median September sea ice extent from 1981–2010.
Claire Parkinson is a climate change senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. She said in a statement:
This year’s minimum is relatively high compared to the record low extent we saw in 2012, but it is still low compared to what it used to be in the 1970s, 1980s and even the 1990s.
Bottom line: On September 19 and 23, 2018, Arctic sea ice extent dropped to 1.77 million square miles (4.59 million square km) – tied for the 6th lowest minimum in the satellite record.
The MASCOT lander captured this shot of asteroid Ryugu from an altitude of 20 meters (60 feet), just before touching down. More images and data will arrive in the next few days.
(Credit: MASCOT/DLR/JAXA)
The MASCOT has landed.
As of two weeks ago, humans had never put a single robotic explorer on an asteroid. Now we have three of them hopping about on Ryugu, a 900-meter-wide object currently orbiting on the other side of the Sun. On September 20, Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe dropped two little landers, MINERVA II-1a and II-1b. They promptly sent back dizzying images from the surface. Then last night (October 3), the mothership deployed MASCOT, a much larger rover that is now performing a battery of studies during its rushed, 16-hour lifespan. A fourth rover and sample collection are yet to come.
What we are witnessing here is not just a single spectacular mission (though Hayabusa2 certainly is), but the beginning of a new era of solar system exploration. When the New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in 2015, that marked the end of humanity’s initial reconnaissance of the nine classical planets and the beginning of a closer look at the little-explored small objects that hold so much information about the formation and evolution of the solar system, and perhaps about the emergence of life on Earth.
In 2016, the Rosetta probe made spectacular studies of Comet 67P. Later this year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe will visit another near-Earth asteroid named Bennu; other NASA missions to a double asteroid, a metal asteroid, and asteroids caught in Jupiter’s orbit are all on the way. But for now, the story belongs to Haybusa2 and the spectacular work of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). I tracked down a few of the key players to get their firsthand impressions of this historic moment.
The little MINERVA II-1 rovers before launch, and a schematic of their unusual mechanism for hopping around on Ryugu. They are solar powered, so could potentially keep operating for weeks or months to come.
(Credit: JAXA)
I asked Makoto Yoshikawa, mission manager of Hayabusa2 at JAXA, about his reaction to the first results from Hayabusa2 and its two little MINERVA-II rovers (it stands for MIcro-Nano Experimental Robot Vehicle for the Asteroid, in case you were wondering). These innovative robots, each just 18 centimeters (7 inches) wide, use a movable internal weight to jump about on Ryugu. The gravity there is so weak that wheels or legs would be useless. Yoshikawa also previewed the next stages of the mission, when Hayabusa2 will lower itself to the surface of Ryugu and collect samples to send back to Earth.
Yoshikawa: “For me, the biggest surprise was its shape. The shape of Ryugu is a spinning top, which is totally unexpected. We know some asteroids have such shape, but for such asteroids the spin period is short, just 2 to 4 hours. The spin period of Ryugu is 7.6 hours, so it is not rotating so fast. That’s why we did not expect Ryugu to look like a top. And usually the shapes of small asteroids are irregular. Ryugu is very small but has a geometrical shape, so it is very interesting.
The MINERVA II-1A rover saw its shadow on Ryugu. On an asteroid, the forecast is always sunny weather.
(Credit: JAXA)
“I am very happy for this success. I was also working on the Hayabusa mission [JAXA’s previous asteroid probe], and I felt quite pity when we failed to put MINERVA on the surface of asteroid Itokawa. Now we were able to put two small rovers on the surface of Ryugu and they send us marvelous photos. The rovers are very small but they are moving on the surface of Ryugu by hopping. It is very pleasant for me to imagine such a scene.
“The main purpose of MINERVA-II is not science but to demonstrate how to move on a surface with very low gravity. But now we know how the regolith (rocks, pebbles) look like on the surface of Ryugu. I think this will be important information to study the evolution of Ryugu. The most worrying thing is that there are no wide fields on the asteroid without big boulders. Now we are discussing how to make touchdown safely to get the samples.
“The main scientific purpose of this mission is to study organic matter and waters [hydrated minerals] on the surface of Ryugu. We think Ryugu has not changed much since it was born, so if we study such things, we can understand organic matter in the solar system before life on Earth began.”
Surface views of Ryugu from the MINERVA II rovers. The left 2 images are from rover 1B, the final one from 1A.
(Credit: JAXA)
I also contacted MASCOT project leader Tra-Mi Ho of DLR (the German Aerospace Center), the agency that co-developed the rover with the French space agency. Unlike the MINERVA-II rovers, MASCOT (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout) is designed for maximum science return. Doing that requires a lot of power, meaning that solar cells would not suffice. Instead, it carries a battery, so this is a one-shot deal: 16 hours of science, give or take, and then MASCOT will spend the rest of eternity — millions of years, at least — slumbering on the surface of Ryugu. Ho summarized what the 10-kilogram lander will be doing during its frenzy.
Ho: “MASCOT has 4 scientific instruments: MASCAM, a camera; MMEGA, an infrared hyperspectral imager; MARA, a radiometer; and MASMAG, a magnetometer. With this suite of experiments we would like to understand four main goals.
“First, the geological context of the surface. Second, the global magnetization of the asteroid and any local magnetization at the landing. Third, the mineralogical composition and physical properties of the surface and near-surface material including minerals, organics and detection of possible, near-surface ices. And fourth, the surface thermal environment, by measuring the asteroid’s surface temperature over the entire expected temperature range for a full day-night cycle. This all will give us further understanding on what C-type [carbon-rich] asteroids Ryugu are made of and learn about their evolutionary history.
MASCOT on Earth (top), and as it might appear now on Ryugu.
(Credit: DLR)
“The finding of the MINERVAs and MASCOT are very complementary. The MINERVA rovers landed on the northern latitude of Ryugu. MASCOT will land on the southern latitude of Ryugu. By correlating the observation of the instruments on-board Hayabusa2 with the in-situ measurements performed by MASCOT and the MINERVAs, along with the analysis of the retrieved samples which we foresee will be taken along the asteroid’s equatorial region, the acquired local ground truth on Ryugu can be placed into a global context.
“When I saw the first images from the MINERVAs, I was surprised and astonished at the view of such an extraterrestrial world. It is quite different from asteroid Itokawa, which was visited by Hayabusa. It looks like smoother terrains found on Itokawa are less widespread on Ryugu. The amount of stones and fractured boulders appear more hazardous, so it’s possible that MASCOT could get trapped in an unfavorable condition. It adds excitement to the adventure, though!”
Amid all the excitement over Hayabusa2 and its little companions, I also want to give props to one of the mission’s predecessors. This is the first time anyone has successfully deployed rovers on an asteroid, but this is not the first time anyone has landed on an asteroid. (And, to be fair, there have also been quite a number of comet and asteroid flybys.) The first-touchdown honor goes to NASA’s NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft in 2001. Although NEAR was designed only to orbit the asteroid Eros, mission planners devised a clever plan to crash land it so gently that it might survive. In fact, NEAR kept operating for more than two weeks, returning bonus data about the composition of Eros.
The first intimate portrait of an asteroid, and also the last image taken by NEAR Shoemaker, from 2001. At the time the spacecraft was 120 meters from Eros and falling.
(Credit: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL)
Lucy McFadden of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center was on the NEAR science team. She’s also a veteran of several other small-body missions, including the Dawn mission that is now nearing its end around dwarf planet Ceres. McFadden has some colorful recollections from her time with the NEAR mission.
McFadden: “The NEAR landing on Eros was extremely elegant, as it was not designed to do so. The engineers made it happen, and it provided us with serendipitous results. Now my colleagues will be able to compare two asteroids that vary in size by a factor of 20. Hyabusa2 will provide a lot more information, because it planned on landing and its lander has instruments designed to operate on the surface. We have the bold engineers and mission managers to thank for paving the way for today’s landed space missions.
“After the NEAR landing, we took one of our lead engineers out to dinner (to celebrate his getting a PhD–not for the landing). While at the restaurant, we heard a big uproar at the bar. We asked the waitress what the huzzah was all about. She said, ‘One of the guys had just landed his ping pong ball in a glass of beer at the end of the bar.’ We all looked at each other, and turned to the waitress and said, ‘Oh, that’s nothing. We just landed a 3-meter spacecraft on a 33-kilometer-long asteroid, 135 million kilometers away.’ We were all tremendously amused at ourselves.”
McFadden reflects that then, as now, the triumphs of space exploration provide a welcome counterpoint to the sad and maddening stories that dominate the news headlines. “At times like these, space stories play an important role,” she says. “I call it cosmic relief.”
Just wait, because the Hayabusa2 mission has a lot more cosmic relief coming our way.
NASA Solar Probe Flies By Venus on Its Way to 'Touch' the Sun
NASA Solar Probe Flies By Venus on Its Way to 'Touch' the Sun
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
A NASA sun-studying spacecraft's first Venus flyby is in the books.
The agency's Parker Solar Probe zoomed within 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) of Venus as planned this morning (Oct. 3), getting an orbit-sculpting gravity assist, NASA officials said.
The spacecraft therefore remains on course for its first close encounter with the sun, which is scheduled to take place from Oct. 31 through Nov. 11. During this 12-day stretch, the Parker Solar Probe will gather a wealth of data about the sun's structure, composition and activity.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully made its first flyby of Venus on Oct. 3, 2018 as the spacecraft makes its way toward the sun. The spacecraft will be the first to fly through the sun's outer atmosphere. Six more Venus flybys are planned.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
The spacecraft, which launched on Aug. 12, has many more such encounters on tap — a total of 24 over the next seven years. And there will be six more Venus flybys as well, which will serve to shrink the Parker Solar Probe's orbit, allowing it to get closer and closer to Earth's star over time.
During the final planned solar close approach in 2025, for example, the spacecraft will zoom within 3.83 million miles (6.16 million km) of the sun's surface. For perspective, the current proximity record —which Parker will break late this month, by the way — is 27 million miles (43 million km), set by the German-American Helios 2 mission in 1976.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will use seven Venus flybys over nearly seven years to gradually shrink its orbit around the sun, coming as close as 3.83 million miles to the sun’s surface. The first of these flybys occurred on Oct. 3, 2018.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
When all is said and done, the data gathered by the mission should greatly improve scientists' understanding of the sun and space weather, NASA officials have said. For example, the Parker Solar Probe could help solve two long-standing solar puzzles — why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than the surface; and how, exactly, the charged particles that make up the solar wind are accelerated to their impressive speeds.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13.
Astronaut Scott Kelly Fought Off Aliens In Space STRONAWith Microsoft’s HoloLens
Astronaut Scott Kelly Fought Off Aliens In Space With Microsoft’s HoloLens
ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY FOUGHT OFF ALIENS IN SPACE WITH MICROSOFT’S HOLOLENS
Think augmented and virtual reality headsets are just for games? NASA astronautScott Kelly thinks otherwise after spending some quality time with Microsoft’s HoloLens aboard the International Space Station during his recent 340-day mission. At a press conference yesterday, the astronaut said: “It worked great. I was really surprised. We messed around with it for, like, two hours, and immediately, I sensed — this is a capability we could use right now.”
Unlike virtual reality headsets, such as the Oculus Rift, Microsoft’s HoloLens overlays images onto the actual environment around you. It accomplishes this by projecting light directly onto the eyeball, literally augmenting your vision.
“It worked great,” he said today during a news briefing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. “I was really surprised. We messed around with it for about two hours, and immediately I sensed this is a capability we could use right now.”
Microsoft and NASA sent the HoloLens devices up to the ISS to see if it would work as part of Project Sidekick to assist astronauts:
“For example, ground controllers could monitor Kelly’s HoloLens view during a maintenance procedure. “I could say, ‘Hey, is this the bolt or connector you’re talking about?’ And the person [at Mission Control] could just write an arrow in your field of view,” Kelly said.”
It wasn’t all work, however. Kelly got to play RoboRaid, one of Microsoft’s HoloLens games:
“”It has alien spaceships coming inside the space station, and there’s these aliens attacking you,” Kelly said of the game. “You’ve got to shoot them with your finger. … It was kinda fun.”
As Kelly explained, that meant that a “person on the ground could be drawing things in your field of view, and pointing to things, and I could be doing the same thing.” For instance, he added, “I could say, ‘Hey, is this the bolt or connector you’re talking about?’ And [Mission Control] can just write an arrow in your field of view.” Another feature Kelly found useful was the ability to keep track of tasks with a list off to the side of his vision.
Since it’s so difficult to control your body and keep objects from flying around in the micro-gravity of space, it isn’t hard to imagine how something that makes information easily available could be useful aboard the space station.
Of course, that doesn’t mean Kelly and his fellow crew members didn’t play any games with the HoloLens. He tried a game — probably RoboRaid — where you have to fight off incoming swarms of invading aliens by shooting them with your finger. We saw the game at E3, but it’s probably a bit more surreal when you’re actually in space. Kelly said, with a grin, that it was “kinda fun.” The best part, though? This footage (above) of him and fellow astronauts playing the HoloLens game while floating in space. The future is here.
UFO sightings: MUFON’s most bizarre eyewitness alien encounters and testimonies
UFO sightings: MUFON’s most bizarre eyewitness alien encounters and testimonies
UFO sightings are a daily occurrence for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, and the organisation is always on alert for more alien encounters. Here are some of the most bizarre eye-witness accounts of UFOs.
The Mutual UFO Network was established in 1969 and has since grown to become one of the world’s largest bodies of dedicated UFO hunters.
MUFON’s goal is to study, track and gather data on daily UFO encounters from around the world.
The UFO hunters said: “As the world's oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body we aim to be the inquisitive minds' refuge seeking answers to that most ancient question, ‘Are we alone in the universe?’”
The bulk of MUFON’s work relies on user submitted reports which the organisation claims to meticulously review before publishing.
One of the more recently published UFO sightings, submitted by a witness in Singapore, concerns a “fast moving, boomerang-shaped” object in the sky.
The UFO was seen dashing across the sky under cloud cover on October 6, 2017.
The eyewitness recounted in Case 87184: “It was a very clear and cloudless night when I looked up and saw this boomerang-like, ‘cloud’ flying by.
“The ‘cloud’ had a very faint body and it maintained its shape while speeding past.”
The witness estimated the object was roughly 2km away from their position but managed to cover the entire distance along the horizon in “just a mere couple seconds”.
The witness stressed the UFO was moving to the east – against a northeastern wind.
They said: “There was no light nor sound coming from the object.”
MUFON researcher Robert Spearing has since closed the case as an Unknown UAV, or unmanned aerial vehicle.
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UFO sightings: MUFO collects eye-witness reports of alleged alien spacecraft
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UFO sighting photo: This alleged alien ship was pictured flying over Nevada, United States
Teardrop UFO in Nevada – Case 83759
Thousands of miles away in North Las Vegas, US, a witness submitted a report of what appeared to be a teardrop-shaped object flying some 500 feet above the ground.
The MUFON testimony claims the witness was outdoors shooting photographs of airplanes landing at Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada.
The testimony reads: “The UFO is too far away, about two miles, to say what it was. It was like a bright light, but when I blew it up, it looked like a smoky goldfish cracker.
“I blew it up to about 200 percent and it looked like a cloud of circular smoke. I probably don't have the best equipment to say what it was.
“And with so few pixels, well, we don't have enough solid evidence other than its descending path, which can be calculated by time to say, yes this was a UFO. But the object started up at 1,000 feet and pulled a 45-degree descent.
“And then, just disappeared.”
Nevada MUFON State Director Sue Countiss closed the case as an Unknown UAV.
Square UFO over the Philippines - Case 83456
The next case presents another oddly shaped object floating over a city but this time over Angeles City, northeast of Manila.
This UFO was spotted by a “trained US Marine observer” who was sipping a cup of coffee at 5.45am local time on May 1, 2017, during the encounter.
The witness said in their report: “I heard my dogs carrying on outside and went to investigate.
“At first, I thought they had barked at nothing, when I suddenly caught sight of the object.
“I watched it only for 30 seconds or so before realising that it wasn't a plane, helicopter, or hot air balloon and ran into the house and grabbed my cell phone as it was the closest camera available.”
The case was investigated by Chase Kloetzke who closed it as an Unknown UAV.
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UFO sighting: An eye-witness spotted this strange object over the Philippines
Low-flying triangle over California - Case 83410
A California witness claims to have seen a triangle-shaped object with seven, blinking lights pass over Fresno, US.
After the event, I realized I may have viewed a possible UFO
UFO witness, MUFON Case 83410
The UFO encounter took place on April 26, 207 around 9pm local time.
The eye-witness recollected: “I looked up in the sky and saw a triangle-shaped craft with seven white lights blinking all at the same time heading west.
“It was very clear and seemed too large to be an aircraft.
“I thought it might be a drone at first glance. But it was too large and too high in altitude to be a drone.
“The object made no noise. It seemed to be well above 500 feet at about 80-degrees above the horizon when we first spotted it.”
Adding: “After the event, I realized I may have viewed a possible UFO.”
The case was closed for MUFON by field investigator Hady Felfly as an Unknown UAV.
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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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