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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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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...
08-10-2018
5 eerie 'UFO sightings' that sparked rumors of alien life
5 eerie 'UFO sightings' that sparked rumors of alien life
Odd-looking aircraft or lights hovering high in the sky at various times across the U.S. have prompted questions from space enthusiasts: if it's not a bird, plane or even Superman — then what is it? UFO sightings have soared in recent years, leading many to believe it's a sign of alien life.
Reports of UFOs have become so common lately people are starting to bet on when you're most likely to spot on next. Casino.org, an independent provider of online casino reviews and information, tracks the odds on its website. It even includes a history of mysterious spacecraft dating back to 1440 BC.
California alone has reported more than 23,400 UFO sightings since 1940, though the odds of seeing a strange flying object are highest in Wyoming and Vermont.
Whether you live in a state ripe for alien-like space vehicles or not, people who spot questionable objects in the sky are going to snap a picture or take a video — and there's a good chance the content will go viral. Here's a look at some bizarre "UFO sightings" that have spread online in recent years.
1. Myrtle Beach, S.C.
A photographer who was putting together a time-lapse video of a thunderstorm in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in August was shocked to discover mysterious lights hovering over the pier in the footage.
The video, which was first shared with UFO Stalker — a UFO-centric website, was posted to YouTube a month later with a caption that declared a "massive spaceship" was flying over the beach.
“I was taking the pictures off the edge of a long pier after dark, so there were no reflective surfaces around. I did not notice the objects until [I] returned home and checked the photograph and video,” the photographer, who has not yet been identified, wrote on the UFO sighting website.
2. Lake Norman, N.C.
A very shaky video of what many dubbed a UFO flying over Lake Norman in North Carolina went viral in late May.
"I was at work 2018 10:30 a.m it had been raining all morning. Rain finally stopped so we went w pick up a boat from [L]ake [N]orman.. When came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close," Jason Swing, who posted the video on YouTube on May 29, captioned the minute-long footage.
Critics questioned whether the curious flying object was simply a large drone or a blimp — with some noting a Goodyear Blimp was spotted in the sky following a NASCAR race.
The manufacturing company later confirmed they were the culprit.
"We don’t want to get in the way of a good story, but that’s definitely us," the Goodyear Blimp account wrote, according to the Daily Mail. "We left the Charlotte area 5/29 after covering the Coke 600."
3. Blue Hills Reservation, Mass.
UFO hunters got stranded for hours in the Blue Hills in Massachusetts in June 2017 after going out for a UFO-finding mission. The group of three was found several hours later, and they didn't come back empty handed.
Ramona DiFrancesco, a member of the group, told The Singular Fortean Society they spotted several UFOs while lost on the hills.
"We saw a couple. We saw some we've never seen before. We saw this one light, well, we saw these two ships that had these bright spotlights, and then we saw this weird orb thing that was like a spotlight sort of," DiFrancesco, then 18, told the paranormal organization.
The teen later showed a local news station a picture of the glowing object she captured.
Glockner claimed in a video the mysterious burst of light was a UFO racing past the International Space Station "at a very high rate of speed," adding it was "as if it knew the camera was watching."
At the time, NASA didn't directly address Glockner's video but clarified the object was likely a "distortion in a lens" and did not signify the presence of extraterrestrial life.
5. Dayton, Ohio
A 13-minute YouTube video sparked rumors of alien life outside of a military base in Dayton, Ohio, back in May 2016.
A mysterious flying object was seen peeking out of the clouds near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
A couple who live near the base captured what they declared was a UFO from their home. The video clip eventually landed in the hands of the aforementioned Glockner, who called the sighting "mind-blowing."
"There is no doubt in my mind this is either an alien craft or a very very strange drone - which I highly doubt," he told the Mirror. "[It could also be] a back-engineered alien craft that's being tested by some black project over at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base."
Fox News' Chris Ciaccia contributed to this report.
Mysterious lights were spotted above Myrtle Beach, SC, in August, raising questions about what the lights were and where they came from.
“UFOs over Myrtle Beach? Video catches mysterious lights over resort town,” reported The State, Columbia’s local newspaper, noting that the video was also posted to UFO Stalker, a UFO-centric website.
The video has also been uploaded to YouTube, with the description noting “A [massive] ‘spaceship’ was spotted apparently hovering over a beach during a thunderstorm.”
The person who submitted the video to MUFON said they were taking pictures and a time-lapse video of the thunderstorm and did not notice the strange lights until they got home.
“Taking pictures and time-lapse of the incoming storm,” the person wrote on the website. “[I] was taking the pictures off the edge of a long pier after dark, so there were no reflective surfaces around. [I] did not notice the objects until I returned home and checked the photograph and video.”
The video was taken on Aug. 5 but was only uploaded to the website on Oct. 4, 59 days later.
The person who submitted the video to the UFO sighting website said they were taking pictures and a time lapse of a thunderstorm from a pier. “I was taking the pictures off the edge of a long pier after dark, so there were no reflective surfaces around. I did not notice the objects until i returned home and checked the photograph and video,” the person wrote.
The video was posted on the UFO Stalker website late last week, but the person said they shot the time-lapse on Aug. 5.
The U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team was doing its annual pyro jump as part of the annual Sun Fun Festival on Friday night, putting off a display in which many in Myrtle Beach thought they were seeing UFOs over the ocean.
The U.S. Army and Myrtle Beach festival organizers chimed in quickly after those reports. It turned out, Sun Fun Festival organizers told The Sun News, the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights parachute team was doing its annual “pyro jump.”
The Army team parachuted from above Myrtle Beach with lights and landed on the beach in the middle of town, festival organizers said.
THIS IS THE CORRELATION BETWEEN TOAD ROCK AND ALIENS
The existence of little green men and extra-terrestrial life is a hotly debated topic, and science has yet to provide a concrete answer as to whether the residents of planet Earth are alone in the galaxy.
And if alien life does exist, has it ever paid us a visit?
UFOs - or Unidentified Flying Objects - have been mentioned in the UK since the 1950s, investigated by the Air Ministry which was then replaced by the Ministry of Defence.
The UK Government has never taken part in any long term monitoring of reports, and the MoD works on the assumption that almost every UFO report has a natural, human, explanation.
The British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) was formed in 1962 to document, and try to explain, sightings up and down the country.
They believe that every report made can be caused by the following sources:
40 per cent of reports are actually aircraft,
33 per cent of reports are actually stars and planets spotted in the sky,
10 per cent of reports are satellites and meteors entering the atmosphere,
8 per cent are described as being caused by 'other' causes, like birds, solar flares and clouds,
5 per cent of reports are actually weather or research balloons,
2 per cent are hoax reports,
2 per cent are chalked up as being hallucinations.
What happened to the last Kent Ufologist?
The inquest into ufologist Max Spiers' death has been adjourned until early 2018(Image: maxspiers.com)
'Ufologist' is the title given to a person who studies reports, evidence and other phenomena related to UFOs.
One such UFO expert was Max Spiers, from Canterbury, who passed away under suspicious circumstances in June 2016.
Max reportedly sent a text message to his mother days before he died, saying: "If anything happens to me, investigate."
An inquest into his death was first opened in December 2016 in Canterbury, and then adjourned. As of November 8, 2017, the coroner had postponed another inquest until 'early 2018' as he still required more information.
An inquest into his death will now take place in January 2019, according to Metro.
A post-mortem examination to establish the cause of death was inconclusive. His death prompted intense speculation among conspiracy theorists that his death was deliberate.
Recent unexplained activity in Kent
The light was visible from all around Tonbridge(Image: Clare Macro)
In September 2017 the people of Tonbridge were mystified when an eerie aura-like light descended upon the town.
Explanations for the eerie phenomenon ranged from aliens, aluminium in the atmosphere, and the Aurora itself.
And in 2012, BUFORA recorded the sighting of a 'rare and unusual shape' flying through the sky in Wingham, near Canterbury.
It was described as: "A solid object - dark grey/black. It was pointed at the front and square like to the back, it had about five sides, like a classic diamond icon.
"There was absolutely no way I can think of to explain what I saw, and I have seen most kinds of aircraft in flight."
Different types of UFO
Low Definition (LD) - a single pinpoint of light, a cluster of lights or a poorly defined shape.
Medium Definition (MD) - a UFO with a well defined shape.
Close Encounters of the First Kind (CE1) - events involving alleged effects on a human, animal, machine or its surrounding area which cease once the UFO leaves the location.
Close Encounters of the Second Kind (CE2) - events where alleged effects on humans, animals, machines or the environment reputedly occur and endure for a period of time following the sighting.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3) - reports which encompass claimed observations of UFO 'entities'.
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (CE4) - so-called UFO 'abductions' or incidents featuring notable psychic elements.
Instrumentally Detected Events (ID) - reports involving a stimulus reported or detected by a device during the sighting, such as a camera or RADAR scope.
Source:British UFO Research Association
Kent Live can reveal every single UFO report made to the Ministry of Defence between 1997 and 2009.
Ashford
Date /Time
Place
Report
26/12/2008 - 7pm
Kennington
Orange shape travelling NW to SW at fair pace, 2000ft plus. Bright orange. Similar shape to inverted light bulb. There was no sound.
The ship/craft moved towards Ashford and then hovered over Ashford for some time. The craft was solid.
21/09/2001 - 5.30am
Ashford
One triangular shaped object. The size of a 747, maybe bigger. It moved N-Easterly, then became stationary.
12/09/1999 - 9.20pm
Sellindge
Bright light, not blinding, was heading South.
13/08/1999 - no time reported
Tenterden
A large, brilliant light was stationary in the sky. It moved away fairly quickly and disappeared.
Bexley
Date/Time
Place
Report
20/04/2007 - 9.30pm
Bexley
There were over fifty lights floating in the sky. They were red/orange in colour.
03/08/1997 - 8.50pm
Bexley
A huge UFO. Part of it came down in the woods near Bexley.
Bromley
Date/Time
Place
Report
26/01/2009 - 6.15pm
Bromley
Three orange lights in horizontal line above the opposite side of the hill. Stopped car but saw only four lights, two separate at the top & two close together at the bottom. Top two rose and disappeared. Second two moved higher then also vanished.
11/04/2009 - 8.30pm
Bromley
A UFO.
16/05/2009 - 9.50pm
Petts Wood
8-10 bright red lights. They were hovering. They moved independently into the distance and disappeared when a light aircraft appeared.
28/07/2009 - 9.30am
Bromley
Saw an orange, yellow object in the sky, with the shape similar to a hot air balloon.
30/08/2009 - 12.10pm
Petts Wood
Saw eight orange single lights in the sky. Lights were very clear, single bright orange spot, which travelled at constant speed slowly higher into the eastern atmosphere. At first four lights in close proximity followed by four more with approx one minute.
19/09/2009 - 7.40pm
Bromley
A bright orange light moving across the sky no noise.
19/09/2009 - 9.01pm
West Wickham
Pilot: Series of 30 or more orange lights which then disappeared after moving at speed.
17/10/2009 - 10.45pm
Orpington
Twenty-five lights red and orange with vapour trail, disappearing into blue green colours, spinning.
17/11/2003 - 2.25am
Bromley
Police Officers/Police helicopter crew: There were 20-30 red flashing lights in the sky accompanied by a whirring noise.
19/05/1997 - 11.17pm
Bromley
One round shaped object, double the size of a star. White (pale), but very bright. It was stationary for a while and then travelled straight and level.
22/11/1997 - 5am
Beckenham
One, round shaped object. Had red, green and blue colours and was very bright. Was moving East.
Three very low, very bright lights were travelling in formation, then breaking off and doing acrobatics. Then a large globe-like object appeared and was changing colours in a pulsating way.
Two objects, five minutes apart heading East to West. They looked like orange fiery balls but made no sound. They travelled at the speed of a plane. They had no tail.
No firm date - 7.15pm
Dover
There were half a dozen glowing lights. They were an orange fire colour and were globular. They were silent. Were moving across the sky at the speed of a helicopter.
14/09/1997 - 10pm
Dover
A bright silver object, with red and green lights at the back. It changed to an egg shape, went bright yellow and then vanished. Moved quickly across the sky.
A bright circular amber light, the size of a 2p coin. It was moving very slowly in a straight line but once it flew over the witnesses' house it accelerated away very very quickly into the distance. It made no noise and left no vapour trail.
Sighting reported on 13/11/2008 but no firm date or time was given
Folkestone
There were lights in the sky that were circling in front of the witness's house. They were in a half moon shape.
28/01/2001 - 9.34am
Folkestone
A silver spin top, bobbing at a height of 300 feet. Was about the size of a football.
25/07/2001 - 2.10pm
Folkestone
One circular object with flashing bright lights. Was at a high altitude.
04/01/1999 - 6.30pm
Folkestone
Squashed oval shaped object. Did not have the usual aircraft lights on it.
22/07/1998 - 11.44pm
Hythe
A squashed, elongated disc with a yellow glow. It faded and then brightened.
09/04/2004 - 7.30pm
Dymchurch
Just said it was an object. That it was flying over very fast and then disappeared.
10/07/1997 - 8pm
New Romney
Two objects. Orange, green and red colours. The object was flashing. It was static.
A huge disc shaped object. Approximately twenty times the size of an aeroplane. It had five or six flashing lights on the underneath in a circular shape.
06/11/2008 - 8.10pm
Rainham
A UFO, that looked like a yellowy light. The object was quite near and fairly low down in the sky. There was no sound.
22/11/2005 - no time recorded
Gillingham
Five lights in the sky, that looked very strange. The lights were flashing.
06/08/2000 - 6.45pm
Rainham
One, possibly two small, flattened figure of eight objects, with links of red. Dull brightness. Was stationary then moved slowly.
Lights rising from the ground into the sky, much like debris from a fire. However lights were too intense to be a fire. Seen in the direction of the North Downs from Maidstone.
02/08/2009 - 9.45pm
Aylesford
Large orange glow in sky, moving slowly than disappeared. Reappeared after five minutes. Knows a bit about astronomy.
26/09/2009 - 8.50pm
Ditton
Three bright orange/red lights, followed by another three.
03/06/2006 - 5.05pm
Maidstone
A large, round, white object, with smaller, round white objects randomly scattered surrounding it. The objects started to fade.
31/12/2006 - 8.55pm
Maidstone
UFO, lights - so many different ones.
09/03/1998 - 7.45pm
Maidstone
Red and white, round flashing lights. Two and sometimes three of them. Moving around.
14/02/1997 - 3.10pm
Maidstone
Two, small, triangular shaped objects. Black in colour. The objects were heading North and then disappeared into cloud.
05/05/1997 - 9.40am
Maidstone
One round shaped object. Green in colour and was very bright. It was very fast.
20/09/1997 - 11.05pm
Maidstone
One object, 20 times the size of a jumbo jet. It was bird shaped, and very bright orange in colour. It was moving in a straight line, banking from left to right.
Sevenoaks
Date/Time
Place
Report
23/02/2009 - 7.17pm
New Ash Green
A ball of light in the clouds, moving slowly and falling apart. Had other white lights coming off it. Made no sound.
12/06/2009 - 11.10pm
Shoreham
Initially two UFOs increasing to six. Bright orange. Last four were bigger and brighter than the first two.
24/01/1997 - 8.07pm
Longfield
Three very bright objects, pulsating - white, green and yellow. They sometimes moved into a triangular formation.
An object was flying around in circles at aeroplane level and sounded like an industrial train. There was a strange flashing on the object.
24/08/2009 - 12am
Tunbridge Wells
Bright orange lights, lasted for two minutes, went out, than four more. Could have been a meteorological balloon. A very bright light.
11/08/1997 - 10pm
Pembury
A luminous, triangular shaped object that was hovering in the sky. There were four other luminous objects flying near it. The first object then disappeared.
An object, much bigger than a star. Looked like a large apple. It exploded and sparkled like a firework and then fizzled out.
11/11/2009 - 8.45pm
Edenbridge
Very bright yellow in the centre surrounded by orange outer edge, a fat boomerang on its side with a fire glow inside. Totally silent and 30-40 ft across.
No specific area reported
Date/Time
Report
05/09/2009 - 9.40pm
Semi-circle of light, golden orange, moved off towards the east. No noise heard.
11/09/2009 - 11.30am
White fixed wing object. Flying over a field. It was squared off with something behind it - no cockpit- silent not a glider.
03/10/2009 - no time reported
Little moon thing.
28/06/2008 - no time reported
A UFO.
27/05/2005 - 3.15pm
Was a small white object, that was moving parallel with an airliner.
04/07/2001 - 7am
One object. Had a bright light too. Was moving from West to East.
Aliens on Mars: Are these NASA photos of ‘ALIEN faces’ on Mars evidence of UFO activity?
Aliens on Mars: Are these NASA photos of ‘ALIEN faces’ on Mars evidence of UFO activity?
NASA pictures of Mars have sparked a frenzy with online conspiracy theorists who claim they can spot what appears to be alien faces and extraterrestrial technology in the images.
Popular UFO hunter Scott C Waring believes he found evidence of alien fossils and spacecraft in NASA’s official photos of Mars.
The conspiracy theorist shared stills of the Red Planet, snapped by one of NASA’ robotic rovers, claiming they were proof of aliens.
Pointing towards a photo of a rock, Mr Waring said: “This object does appear to be technology. Can you see the long tunnels coming out of this? The long tube?
“There’s kind of two round, tubular, larger pieces behind it, almost like a vacuum tube.
Aliens on Mars: NASA's Spirit rover snapped this photo of the Red Planet
(Image: NASA)
Aliens on Mars: Mr Waring claims these are alien faces and evidence of technology
(Image: SCOTT C WARING)
“I totally agree with you on what you see. Life has existed on Mars and maybe still does, my own opinion.”
The most likely scenario however, is that Mr Waring has fallen for the effects of Pareidolia – a trick of the mind which causes people to see faces and patterns where they do not exist.
Fames astronomer Carl Sagan suggested in 1995 the effect is an evolutionary mechanism, evolved to help people better distinguish friend from foe.
NASA explained: “Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon where people see recognisable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data.
“There are many examples of this phenomenon on Earth and in space.”
Mr Waring wrote on his website UFO Sightings Daily: “ColourUFO caught an amazing Pyramid UFO that is semi cloaked moving through the clouds.
“I have heard of pyramid clouds, but very few legit reports come in like this one.
“As you see the cam takes a photo every few seconds so there is a jump in-between, but the UFO is seen in many still shots.
“Absolute proof that aliens are active in Mexico.”
UFO sighting: Triangular orb over Mexico City ‘absolute proof’ of alien activity
(Image: GETTY)
Mexico is a hotspot for UFO sightings.
Earlier this year, a video showing a smoking crater next to a motorway lead to speculation it could be a UFO crash site.
The huge 26 feet across burning pit was filmed by shocked onlookers as a thick mist rose into the air by the Torreón to Saltillo highway in the state of Coahuila in north east Mexico.
It was said to be as deep as it was wide and, according to reports, no evidence has been found as to what caused it.
The UFO lit up the night sky
(Image: YOUTUBE)
Online theories have ranged from a crashed spaceship or a meteor falling to Earth.
One YouTube poster said: "Looks like a UFO landed and took off before anyone could see, leaving a crater.”
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see how the recent spate of mystery booms and the concurrent trend of mysterious debris falling from the sky could be completely unrelated. Several strange objects have washed ashore or on the eastern coast in recent months, only to be whisked away by unnamed ‘officials’ before anyone can take a good look at them. With so much talk of an oncoming war in space and so many tests of unidentified new space weapons, something tells me that all of these strange objects are the results of either weapons testing or something darker.
Who really knows what’s going on up there?
Of course, I could be connecting completely unrelated dots. Whatever the case in space may be, another recent example of a mysterious object crashing into a home is causing alarm and confusion and adding yet another case to the mystery-boom-and-debris pile. This week, a “large, heavy object” exploded through the walls of Arlene Silvestri’s home in Jersey City, New Jersey shortly after locals reported hearing a loud boom, and law enforcement agencies can’t yet explain what the object is or where it came from.
“My tenant from upstairs called me and said ‘there was an explosion.’ So when I came here, the fire department was already here,” Silvestri told reporters. Police arrived on the scene shortly after but so far have been unable to identify a source for the object. Whatever the projectile is, it’s oblong with one rounded end and roughly 3 feet (1 meter) in length and was propelled with enough force to blow through a nearly perfectly circular hole in a cinder block wall.
With so much orbital debris in space, it’s only a matter of time these types of events are much more common.
Police believe a nearby scrapyard may somehow be involved but have yet to definitively identify the object or determine how it might have been propelled through the walls of the home. Jersey City released a statement stating the object is a “cylinder of compressed gas or compressed air” but many locals and investigators are skeptical of the claims.
Could this mystery object be related to the others that recently fell from the skies in the Carolinas? Do these cases have anything to do with the weird mystery booms and looming war in space?
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET SpaceX heeft met succes een Argentijnse aardobservatiesatelliet gelanceerd. Bovendien slaagde de Amerikaanse raketbouwer er voor het eerst in om de eerste trap van zijn Falcon-9 draagraket aan de westkust van de VS op land te doen landen.
Vanop basis Vandenberg in Californië vertrok om 04.21 uur Belgische tijd een Falcon-9 van SpaceX. Dertien minuten later kwam de Argentijnse radarsatelliet SAOCOM-1A vrij van de tweede rakettrap. Zo’n acht minuten na de lancering keerde de booster weer terug op de lanceerbasis.
Het terug laten keren van de eerste rakettrap is een belangrijk onderdeel van de plannen van Elon Musk en zijn bedrijf SpaceX. Het is een manier om ruimtevaart efficiënter en betaalbaarder te maken. Na verschillende geslaagde pogingen op Cape Canaveral in Florida was het de eerste keer dat SpaceX dit huzarenstukje aan de westkust lukte. Bij de eerste poging was het meteen raak.
SpaceX✔@SpaceX
Falcon 9 has landed – first West Coast land landing of an orbital class rocket booster.
De geslaagde lancering én terugkeer van de rakettrap is een flinke opsteker voor Musk, die de afgelopen maanden te maken had met productieproblemen bij Tesla en onder meer een stevige boete kreeg van de beurswaakhond. Succesvolle lanceringen betekenen doorgaans ook een flinke boost voor de aandelenkoers van SpaceX. Die schommelt inmiddels rond de 28 miljard dollar (ruim 24 miljard euro), waarmee het de op twee na waardevolste start-up van de VS is. Alleen Uber en Airbnb zijn meer waard.
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Wauw: Finnen getrakteerd op wonderbaarlijk mooi noorderlicht - HLN.be
Wauw: Finnen getrakteerd op wonderbaarlijk mooi noorderlicht - HLN.be
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WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Het noorderlicht levert altijd prachtige beelden op, en ook deze zijn niet anders. De herfst in Finland is het ideale moment om te genieten van dit schouwspel. In Rovaniemi werden de inwoners op een prachtig lichtspel getrakteerd.
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GROTE RUIMTESCHEPEN KOMEN DICHTERBIJ ( VIDEO )
GROTE RUIMTESCHEPEN KOMEN DICHTERBIJ ( VIDEO )
Naarmate de wereld in ieder opzicht turbulenter wordt, zijn er steeds vaker grote ruimteschepen waar te nemen.
Nog steeds zijn deze giganten in de buurt van onze zon te zien, maar nu komen er ook steeds vaker grote UFO’s voor op of nabij de maan.
Wanneer we aan het fenomeen UFO denken, dan is dit meestal een niet al te groot vliegend object, een platte schijf met een soort koepel bovenop, een vorm die ook wel klassieke of retro UFO wordt genoemd.
Er wordt in het algemeen niet snel aan enorme ruimteschepen gedacht. Schepen die zo groot zijn dat er gemakkelijk het grootste deel van de aardse bevolking in zou kunnen verdwijnen.
En toch is dat de grootte van de onbekende objecten die regelmatig in de buurt van onze zon worden waargenomen, zoals wij al jaren schrijven:
Ongeveer tien jaar geleden verklaarden twee Russische wetenschappers dat ze hadden ontdekt dat er op ieder gegeven moment zich honderden UFO’s ophouden in de buurt van onze zon.
Dat niet alleen, maar ook dat ze hun snelheid kunnen verhogen of verlagen zonder aanwijsbare reden en dat ze een rechthoekige draai kunnen maken met onvoorstelbare snelheden, iets dat voor een normaal ruimteschip onmogelijk zou zijn. Zeker voor de waargenomen ruimteschepen die minstens zo groot zijn als onze maan.
Ook nu is het weer raak en heeft Scott Waring een object ontdekt bij de zon. Scott is ervan overtuigd dat het hier gaat om een ruimteschip.
Op de beelden lijkt het misschien niet zo groot, maar het gaat hier wel over een object ter grootte van de aarde.
Het verschijnt op een gegeven moment en accelereert vervolgens met een onvoorstelbaar hoge snelheid.
Niet alleen bij de zon, maar ook op en nabij de maan worden steeds vaker grote objecten waargenomen. Dit komt waarschijnlijk ook doordat steeds meer mensen hun telescopen op de maan richten.
De opname is op 24 september 2018 met een telescoop gemaakt door Jason Callum uit Bracknell in Engeland. Het object is aanzienlijk minder groot dan degene die door Scott is waargenomen bij de zon, maar in vergelijking tot het oppervlak van de maan, gaat het hier nog steeds over een enorm ding.
Dus blijft de vraag: “Waarom zijn al die grote ruimteschepen hier?”.
A large, strange object washes up on a beach in South Carolina. It looks like concrete but feels like foam. A few photographs were taken but, before anyone could conduct a detailed inspection, it was quickly taken away by local officials. Four days later, the speculation on what it is runs rampant while an official announcement is non-existent. And they wonder why conspiracy theories abound!
“Look at this mysterious object that washed ashore on Seabrook Island today! What do you think it is?”
On October 4, this mysterious thing (picture here) appeared on a beach on Seabrook Island, a barrier island near Charleston bordered by the North Edisto River, Bohicket Creek and the Atlantic Ocean, which spit out the strange object. The Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing awareness and education about the marine mammals of South Carolina, was the first to be notified. After determining it wasn’t a marine mammal, it posted a picture on its Facebook page and asked for help identifying it.
Did you see it?
“Check out this mystery item that washed ashore on Seabrook.”
Other than its own Facebook post, it got no help from the Kiawah Conservancy, a similar group on nearby Kiawah Island, nor from the news item in the Charlotte Observer. However, ‘someone’ noticed the postings. The object disappeared almost as quickly as it arrived, reportedly taken away by local government workers, leaving nothing behind but a few photos, a mystery and plenty of room for wild worldwide wondering.
After moving past the usual “aliens” and “alien spaceship” screams, many suggested it was a shielding or insulating part of a rocket, although the idea from some that it came from the space shuttle Challenger disaster 30 years ago is unlikely due to its relatively good condition. Other saw it as part of a marine object such as a buoy, an oil rig, a donut fender used to protect pilings or a pipeline floater. All of these, especially the last one, seem plausible
However, no one seems to have any ideas about why the object was taken away so quickly, especially if it was something as common as a foam fender or floater. Moreover, if it was an ordinary object, why has there been no announcement by any officials – government, military, marine or otherwise?
Is it something dangerous? Terrorism-related? Alien? Why such secrecy?
Will we ever find out? It’s been four days. We’ll keep watching … and wondering.
Saturnus' ringen veroorzaken flinke stortbuien op de gasreus
Saturnus' ringen veroorzaken flinke stortbuien op de gasreus
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Waterijs, maar ook organische verbindingen vallen continu vanuit de ringen in Saturnus’ atmosfeer.
Dat blijkt uit enkele van de laatste metingen die verricht zijn door ruimtesonde Cassini. “Tijdens zijn laatste avontuur dook Cassini in het onbekende gebied tussen Saturnus’ ringen en zijn atmosfeer,” aldus onderzoeker Kelly Miller. “Afgaand op eerdere studies verwachtten onderzoekers dat er water vanuit de ringen in Saturnus atmosfeer viel, dus de ruimtesonde gebruikte zijn radio-antenne als een paraplu om zich te beschermen tegen puin.” En dat was maar goed ook. “Wat blijkt: regen vanuit de ringen is meer een stortbui,” aldus onderzoeker Hunter Waite.
Butaan en propaan Onderzoekers zetten Cassini’s Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) in om meer over de samenstelling van die stortbuien te weten te komen. “Hoewel INMS ontworpen is om gassen te onderzoeken, waren we toch in staat om de ringdeeltjes te meten, omdat ze het ruimtevaartuig met zulke hoge snelheden raakten dat ze verdampten. Waterijs blijkt – samen met de nieuw ontdekte organische verbindingen – veel sneller uit de ringen te vallen dan iedereen dacht.” Al met al blijkt er per seconde tot wel 10.000 kilogram aan materiaal uit de ringen te komen zetten en in de bovenste regionen van Saturnus’ atmosfeer te belanden. “Moleculair waterstof was – zoals verwacht – het meest overvloedig voorkomende atmosferische bestanddeel,” stelt Miller. “Maar de stortbuiten bevatten zowel heel veel water als moleculen zoals butaan en propaan: het type chemicaliën dat je zou gebruiken voor een grill of kampeerfornuis.”
Over Cassini De ruimtesonde werd in 1997 gelanceerd en arriveerde in 2004 bij Saturnus. Daar heeft de sonde zo’n dertien jaar onderzoek gedaan naar de gasreus, zijn ringen en manen. De missie van Cassini kwam in 2017 ten einde toen NASA deze opdracht gaf om zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren. Nieuwsgierig naar de belangrijkste ontdekkingen van Cassini? Je vindt ze hier. Of bekijk hierde mooiste foto’s die de sonde maakte.
Variaties In totaal dook Cassini 22 keer in het gebied tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen. Hoeveel ringmateriaal de sonde tijdens die duik opving, bleek van tijd tot tijd te verschillen. Het wijst erop dat er sprake is van variaties als het gaat om het materiaal in de binnenste D-ring van Saturnus. Die variaties kunnen plaats- of tijdgebonden zijn. Dat weten de onderzoekers niet goed.
Het feit dat de ring zoveel materiaal verliest, wijst er verder op dat deze regelmatig wordt bijgevuld, Mogelijk door de naastgelegen C-ring. Verder valt er zodanig veel ringmateriaal op Saturnus dat de onderzoekers het aannemelijk achten dat de ringen van invloed zijn op de samenstelling van Saturnus’ atmosfeer.
Verre ruimtereizen leveren mogelijk grote problemen op voor maag-darmstelsel
Verre ruimtereizen leveren mogelijk grote problemen op voor maag-darmstelsel
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Kosmische straling zorgt ervoor dat het maag-darmstelsel minder goed functioneert.
Ook lijken astronauten een grotere kans te hebben op maag- en darmkanker. Dat concluderen Amerikaanse onderzoekers in het blad PNAS.
Galactische kosmische straling De beschadigingen zijn het resultaat van galactische kosmische straling (GCR). Deze straling is afkomstig van buiten ons zonnestelsel en bestaat met name uit atomen die hun elektronen verloren hebben (ioniserende straling). GCR bestaat voornamelijk uit protonen, maar ook voor een klein deel uit de kernen van zware elementen. En die laatste zijn de grootste boosdoeners voor astronauten, zo blijkt ook uit dit onderzoek. “Zware ionen zoals ijzer en silicium zijn schadelijk, omdat ze in vergelijking met fotonen zoals röntgen- en gammastraling een veel grotere massa hebben,” vertelt onderzoeker Kamal Datta. “Met de huidige technologie op het gebied van beschermende schilden is het lastig om astronauten tegen de nadelige effecten van straling met daarin zware ionen te beschermen. Hoewel het misschien wel mogelijk is om medicijnen in te zetten om deze effecten tegen te gaan, is er nog niet zo’n medicijn ontwikkeld.” Tot op heden was dat ook niet echt nodig. Tijdens korte ruimtereizen – bijvoorbeeld naar de maan – worden astronauten namelijk niet aan gevaarlijk hoge doses GCR blootgesteld. Anders wordt dat echter als we naar Mars of andere verre bestemmingen gaan.
Muizen Eerder onderzoek van dezelfde onderzoeksgroep wees al uit dat zware ionen tijdens dergelijke verre ruimtereizen een gevaar kunnen vormen voor hersenweefsel. Maar nu kunnen we daar het weefsel in het maag-darmstelsel aan toevoegen. Datta en collega’s trekken die conclusie op basis van experimenten met muizen. Deze muizen werden in drie groepen ingedeeld. De ene groep werd blootgesteld aan zware ionen zoals we die in GCR aantreffen. De andere groep werd blootgesteld aan gammastraling. En de derde groep muizen deed dienst als controlegroep en werd niet aan straling blootgesteld.
Gevolgen Het onderzoek wijst uit dat cellen in de darmen van muizen die aan zware ionen waren blootgesteld niet goed in staat waren om voedingsstoffen op te nemen. Tevens bleken in de darmen van deze muizen veel vaker kwaadaardige poliepen te ontstaan dan in de darmen van muizen die aan gammastraling of helemaal niet aan straling waren blootgesteld. Ook zijn er aanwijzingen dat de zware ionen DNA-beschadigingen veroorzaakten waardoor het aantal senescente cellen – cellen die niet in staat zijn tot een normale celding – toenam. “Deze cellen genereren oxidatieve stress en ontstekingsmoleculen die nog meer schade veroorzaken. Dit is van grote invloed op de migratie van cellen die nodig zijn om de bekleding van de maag en darmen te vervangen en zorgt ervoor dat het maag-darmstelsel trager functioneert,” aldus Datta. Het maag-darmstelsel is bekleed met weefsel dat zeer regelmatig vervangen wordt. De bovenste laag cellen wordt zelfs elke drie tot vijf dagen vervangen. “Elke verstoring van dit vervangingsmechanisme leidt tot een verslechtering van de fysiologische functies, zoals de opname van voedingsstoffen en ligt ten grondslag aan ziekmakende processen, zoals kanker,” vertelt onderzoeker Albert Fornace Jr.
Hoewel de muizen die aan zware ionen werden blootgesteld maar een kleine dosis zware ionen te verteren kregen, lijken de gevolgen daarvan permanent te zijn. En waarschijnlijk beperken ze zich ook zeker niet tot de hersenen, maag en darmen. “Wij geloven dat vergelijkbare schade optreedt in veel organen,” vertelt Datta. “Het is belangrijk om deze effecten van tevoren te begrijpen, zodat we er alles aan kunnen doen om onze toekomstige ruimtereizigers te beschermen.”
Ook Voyager 2 lijkt binnenkort de interstellaire ruimte in te vliegen
Ook Voyager 2 lijkt binnenkort de interstellaire ruimte in te vliegen
Vivian Lammerse
Voyager 2 is – na Voyager 1 – de tweede door mensen gebouwde ruimtesonde die het zonnestelsel verlaat.
Het is slechts een kwestie van tijd voordat ruimtevaartuig Voyager 2 achter zijn broer aan de interstellaire ruimte in vliegt. Al elf jaar lang reist de sonde door de buitenste laag van de heliosfeer (een enorme bubbel rond de zon en de planeten waarin de zonnewind de overheersende stroom van deeltjes is). En nu lijkt het erop dat ook Voyager 2 het diepe onbekende in duikt.
Over de Voyager-missie Ruimtesonde Voyager 2 werd in 1977 gelanceerd, een paar weekjes eerder dan zijn broer Voyager 1. Beide sondes vliegen nu al 40 jaar rond. Daarmee zijn het niet alleen de langst werkende ruimtesonde ooit, ze breken bovendien alle records al het gaat over de afstand die ze tot op heden hebben afgelegd. Geen enkel ruimtevaartuig heeft het zo ver geschopt als Voyager 1 en Voyager 2. Eerstgenoemde sonde bevindt zich inmiddels op een slordige 21 miljard kilometer afstand van de aarde. En Voyager 2 is bijna 18 miljard kilometer van ons verwijderd. Op die enorme afstand van de aarde snellen beide sondes met een onvoorstelbare snelheid van zo’n 48.280 kilometer per uur voort, in een omgeving waar nog geen enkele door mensen gebouwde sonde ooit geweest is.
Kosmische straling Eind augustus detecteerde een van de instrumenten aan boord van Voyager 2 een toename van vijf procent van kosmische straling. Kosmische stralen zijn snel bewegende deeltjes die ontstaan buiten het zonnestelsel. Met dit gegeven, en het feit dat de ruimtesonde al bijna 17,7 miljard kilometer van huis is, gaan wetenschappers ervan uit hij dicht bij de grens van het zonnestelsel is.
Toename Sommige kosmische straling wordt geblokkeerd door de heliosfeer. Maar naarmate de grens naar de interstellaire ruimte dichterbij komt, verwachten wetenschappers dat de kosmische straling alsmaar zal toenemen. In mei 2012 ondervond ook Voyager 1 een toename van kosmische straling. Dat was ongeveer drie maanden voordat de sonde de heliopauze (de buitenste grens van de heliosfeer) passeerde en de interstellaire ruimte in dook.
De afbeelding toont de positie van Voyager 1 en Voyager 2 ten opzicht van de heliosfeer.
Afbeelding: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Vergelijken Nu ook Voyager 2 in de buurt van de heliopauze komt, zijn de onderzoekers voor het eerst in staat om de reis van het ene vaartuig met de ander te vergelijken. Echter merken de onderzoekers nuchter op dat elke interstellaire reis uniek is. Voyager 2 bevindt zich daarnaast op een heel andere locatie in de buitenste regio van de heliosfeer dan zijn broer.
Al met al zijn de verwachtingen hoog gespannen en kijken de onderzoekers uit naar het moment dat de sonde het zonnestelsel verlaat. Wanneer dit precies gaat gebeuren, weten de onderzoekers nog niet. “We zien een verandering in de omgeving rond Voyager 2, daar bestaat geen twijfel over,” zegt onderzoeker Ed Stone. “We gaan de komende maanden hoe dan ook veel leren.”
Nieuwe aanwijzing dat we de allereerste exomaan op het spoor zijn
Nieuwe aanwijzing dat we de allereerste exomaan op het spoor zijn
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Ruimtetelescoop Hubble heeft verschillende aanwijzingen gevonden dat rond Kepler-1625b een maantje draait.
Al in 2017 vonden astronomen met behulp van ruimtetelescoop Kepler een eerste aanwijzing dat Kepler-1625b een maantje bezit. Maar overtuigend was het bewijs niet. “De Kepler-data volstaan niet als we zeker willen zijn van het bestaan van deze exomaan,” zo stelden de onderzoekers. “Pas nadat de observaties met de Hubble Space Telescope hebben plaatsgevonden, zou elke bewering omtrent het bestaan van deze maan geloofwaardiger kunnen worden.”
Nieuwe observaties Die observaties met Hubble hebben inmiddels plaatsgevonden, zo melden onderzoekers in het blad Science Advances. En hoewel we op basis van die observaties het bestaan van de maan niet met zekerheid kunnen bevestigen, wijzen ze er wel sterk op dat er een maantje rond Kepler-1625b draait.
Twee signalen Onderzoekers observeerden het systeem waar de exoplaneet deel van uitmaakt gedurende 40 uur met de Hubble-telescoop. Deze telescoop is zo’n vier keer nauwkeuriger dan Kepler. De onderzoekers zagen hoe de planeet voor zijn moederster langs bewoog en waren daarbij met name op zoek naar twee signalen die op de aanwezigheid van een maantje konden wijzen: een afname in de helderheid van de moederster, veroorzaakt doordat de exomaan er voor langs beweegt. En een aanwijzing dat de exomaan met zijn zwaartekracht van invloed is op Kepler-1625b waardoor deze bijvoorbeeld wat eerder aan zijn overgang – de periode waarin de planeet voor de ster langs beweegt – begint.
Nieuwe aanwijzingen En jawel, beide signalen doken op in de door Hubble verzamelde data. Zo’n 3,5 uur nadat de overgang van Kepler-1625b erop zat, werd bijvoorbeeld een tweede, veel kleinere afname in de helderheid van de moederster gezien. Deze afname kan weleens veroorzaakt zijn door de maan die – terwijl deze achter zijn planeet aanhobbelt – ook een heel klein deel van het sterlicht tegenhoudt. Daarnaast ontdekten de onderzoekers dat Kepler-1625b wat eerder aan zijn overgang begon dan verwacht. Het suggereert dat er sprake is van zogenoemde ‘transit timing variations‘ oftewel TTV’s. En TTV’s worden gezien als een sterke aanwijzing voor de aanwezigheid van een exomaan. Ze kunnen echter ook veroorzaakt worden doordat in het systeem nog een planeet verstopt zit, die met zijn zwaartekracht van invloed is op Kepler-1625b. De onderzoekers benadrukken echter dat Kepler geen enkele aanwijzing heeft gevonden dat dit systeem nog een planeet telt.
Toch houden de onderzoekers een slag om de arm; er zijn meer waarnemingen nodig om het bestaan van de exomaan te bevestigen. Maar Kepler-1625b kan zomaar de plek zijn waar we uiteindelijk – en misschien binnenkort al – de allereerste exomaan gaan aantreffen.
Astronomers might have observed the first moon around an exoplanet, the United Nations displayed a special structure called "Black Marble" Earth and a South African radio telescope array will search a million stars for alien signals. These are just some of this week's top stories on Space.com.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe passed another prominent member of our solar system as it continued onto its ultimate destination, the sun. The probe zoomed within 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) of Venus on Oct. 3.
Astronomers may have found the first evidence of an exomoon, or moon orbiting a planet outside the solar system. NASA's Kepler and Hubble space telescopes, according to new study, provide evidence that a massive moon the size of Neptune may be orbiting a gas giant planet 8,000 light-years from Earth.
Methane is a greenhouse gas that contributes to warming planets, and not a lot was known about how much short-wavelength solar radiation it absorbs. Researchers studied the methane in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn's moon Titan to learn more about its effect.
A student at Emory University is the lead researcher of an alien-hunting galactic scan. This project, which looks for light beams from alien civilizations, is called the Trillion Planet Survey, and it's observing the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies.
On Aug. 30, astronauts noticed a drop in pressure aboard the International Space Station and then found a 0.08-inch-wide (2 millimeters) hole in a Soyuz capsule that docked up there in June. Since then, NASA has conducted an ongoing investigation, and according to Russian media, this was an isolated issue and should not affect future production.
Aerospace and military contractor Lockheed Martin revealed a new moon lander design on Oct. 3. The concept for a reusable spaceship is intended to transport four astronauts between lunar orbit and that moon's surface.
A newly-spotted object in a region far beyond Pluto's orbit may be a sign of Planet Nine, also known as Planet X. Researchers dubbed the object "The Goblin," and they first spotted it using Japan's Subaru telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
When asteroid TB 145 first passed Earth in 2015, scientists took photographs and noticed the angle and indentations on the rock made it look like a solemn skull. This Fall, the "Halloween asteroid" will fly near our planet again, but not in time for Jack-O-Lantern season. It will whiz by on Nov. 11.
The MeerKAT radio-telescope array in South Africa is now partnered with the $100 million Breakthrough Listen Project, significantly expanding its reach. MeerKAT will search for alien signals by searching 1 million stars.
A large, inflatable globe called "Black Marble" Earth was displayed for world leaders at the "Space2030: Space as a Driver for Peace" Sept. 25 gathering within United Nations Headquarters. The Space Trust commissioned the structure, which measured 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) in diameter.
After 41 Years, NASA's Voyager 2 Is Close To Enter Interstellar Space
After 41 Years, NASA's Voyager 2 Is Close To Enter Interstellar Space
No one can hear you scream in space but Voyager 1 changed that and here comes Voyager 2.
Once Voyager 2 exits the outermost layer of the heliosphere, it will become the second human-made object, after Voyager 1, to enter interstellar space.
This video is a stunning presentation concerning Voyager 2's close proximity to leaving our solar system's Heliopause to enter "Interstellar space." Voyager 1 reached Interstellar space a couple of years ago with Voyager 2 slated to reach a similar "exit point" very soon.
There was a very interesting discussion back in 2014 when someone at NASA "leaked" info about Voyager 1's detection of a "WAVE" of energy that was concerning. This sparked several spin-off theories that there was some kind of "COSMIC WAVE" about to reach Earth and give human beings an "upgrade" in their DNA.
6 Things You Should Know About UFOs and the X-Files
6 Things You Should Know About UFOs and the X-Files
The X-Files Revival is still Going Strong
“They’re here, aren’t they?” said Fox Mulder, to his secret informant, known only to viewers as Deep Throat.
“Mr. Mulder,” began the old man, in a reprimanding tone, “They have been here for a long, long time.”
As many of you know, the X-Files came back in 2016 for a tenth season (approximtely 13 years after it went off the air); the revival was so successful that they did an eleventh season and plans are in the work for a season 12.
For those of you who don’t know, the X-Files was one of the most popular US TV series in the 1990s, at its height averaging 20 million viewers per episode. This September marked the 25 year anniversary of the premiere of the show!
The main protagonist Fox Mulder, is an FBI agent whose sister was taken from their room when he was a kid, in what Mulder believed was an alien abduction. This fueled his lifelong obsession with the paranormal and uncovering the truth about UFOs, Extraterrestrials, and a global conspiracy.
I watched the show religiously with friends, staying in on Friday nights when it first came on, before it got really popular and moved to Sunday nights. Years later, when I became an executive producer on the documentary Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take, made by Foster Gamble and Kimberly Carter Gamble (which involved UFOs), I started to do a little research on this subject on my own.
I originally collected this list for friends who knew about the X-File but didn’t know much about the UFO phenomenon that inspired the show. Since then, there has been quite a bit of activity in this field and the mainstream media with a news story in the New York Times (see item #5 below).
1. The X-Files wasn’t purely science fiction, according to Chris Carter.
Like many others fans, I took the X-Files to be “simply” an original work of science fiction from the show’s creator, Chris Carter. While the series is fiction, Carter himself will tell you that that many of the elements are based on real-life accounts.
When I started to investigate on my own, I started to meet people in the UFO community and started asking questions. The stories I heard sounded a lot like what I had seen in the X-files: bright unexplainable lights, triangular craft, missing time, even implants.
In fact, I was told by a mutual friend that Chris Carter discouraged his actors from attending science fiction conventions because the X-Files wasn’t purely science fiction. This is particularly true of the early episodes that involve UFO sightings: If you re-watch the very first X-files episode, Pilot, you’ll see that it says, “The following story is inspired by actual documented accounts” at the beginning of the episode.
I actually met Chris Carter a few years ago, just before they started filming the new season, at a UFO-related conference, and it was clear that he was continuing to research what people had to say on this subject. It turns out a lot of what was discussed at the conference actually made it into the new season.
2.Myth: Only people who wear tinfoil hats and tabloid reporters take UFOs seriously.
One of the persistent myths about UFOs is that people who believe in them are a “fringe” group who “live off the grid” and wear “tinfoil hats”. After having been to a dozen UFO events and meeting hundreds of UFO witnesses, I haven’t seen a single tinfoil hat (OK I saw one but that was for the benefit of reporters who wanted to take a photo of “weird UFO people”).
In fact, I have met intelligent people from all walks of life — scientists, engineers, people who worked for NASA, to independently wealthy businessmen and women. The only commonality I could find was confidence in what they’ve seen and experienced, and a strong belief that the “truth is out there” and that it should be investigated more seriously.
There are many well-known people who have had UFO sightings, and many who support finding out the truth. In Los Angeles, Dan Akroyd is a well known proponent of UFO research. (See Dan Akroyd Unplugged on UFOs).
John Podesta, who served as an advisor to President Obama and Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, has been very vocal about his interest in the subject and his desire to get the truth out, a process known to UFO enthusiasts as “Disclosure”. John Podesta tweeted in 2014 that his biggest regret in working for the Obama White House was that he was unable to secure disclosure of top secret UFO files.
Hillary Clinton, was asked about UFOs by a reporter in Conway, New Hampshire while campaigning there in 2016. Mrs. Clinton said she believed we might have been visited by aliens in the past, and that if elected president, she would get to the bottom of it.
And UFOs are not just for tabloids. Leslie Kean, a serious investigative reporter, received a copy of a report from retired French generals that said that they believed the UFO phenomena was real and should be investigated seriously (called the “COMETA” report). Kean’s book, UFOs: General, Pilots ,and Government Officials Go On the Record, is a great book for those who know nothing about the phenomenon or are inclined to dismiss it out of hand. There have been many pilots, many members of the military, and many other government officials who have been willing to speak on and off the record and Ms Kean does a great job of presenting about this phenomenon. It’s a shame that this myth is so prevalent that many “serious” scientists and engineers won’t even take the time to read books like Ms Kean’s.
3.Myth: There is no evidence of UFOs.
Many skeptics say there is no evidence that UFOs exist. They’re not quite right.
First of all, let’s start with the tons of photographic evidence — photos of odd “unidentified” objects flying over both rural and urban landscapes. The next argument skeptics make is that these pictures are all photoshopped — a charge that doesn’t hold up when the photos are from the 60’s and 70’s — I’ve seen some of these older photos, some taken by the members of the military, and they are very convincing. Moreover, when there are multiple witnesses that corroborate the photographic evidence (like in the Phoenix lights incident — more on this one below), the skeptic’s view that they must all be doctored doesn’t really hold-up.
And then there are literally thousands of eyewitness reports –ranging from places like O’Hare airport to Rendlesham Forest in the UK (in a famous military sighting).
If that isn’t enough evidence for you, Emeritus Professor of applied physics at Stanford, Peter Sturrock has studied reports and asserts there is “physical evidence”: “radar”, Professor Sturrock tell us, counts as physical evidence of UFOs.
One such well-known incident over Alaska in 1986, where a Japan Air Lines pilot, Kenju Terauchi, was flying near Mt. McKinley when he reported seeing a UFO that was “dazzlingly bright, which stopped in mid air, followed them, and otherwise shot around them …”. Terauchi said there was no way an airplane could have done that.
John Callahan, the FAA Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations branch, had the data from this incident, which covered more than a half hour. Callahan has testified many times about what he saw, “As far as I’m concerned, I saw a UFO chase a Japanese 747 across the sky for over half an hour on radar.”
If that’s still not enough to convince you that there is “some” evidence, in the abduction area, there have been physical objects (known as “implants”) that have been pulled out of abductees bodies. X-rays also count as physical evidence too. In some cases where doctors surgically extracted the implants, the metallic objects somehow evaporated; in other cases they were able to preserve them and found that they have unique “anomalous” structure, some were meant to be housed inside the human body and were only stable when implanted!
Whether you believe in aliens or not, these implants had to have been placed there by someone. The question is who? It’s unlikely abductees would have the surgical skill to put them there themselves — so who put them into their bodies? This question remains unanswered. In the original X-files, implants were a not insubstantial part of the story. Whenever the government got ahold of one, as at the end of the first episode of the X-Files, in a scene reminiscent of Raiders of the Lost Ark (or Warehouse 13 for younger syfy fans), they put it away in the midst of a giant government warehouse, to be lost forever in bureaucracy.
4.Myth: Sightings only happen in the countryside, only in the US, and only since we started flying airplanes.
Again, these are myths. There have been anomalous objects reported in the sky well before the modern era of airplanes, going back to the 1500s and beyond. In their wonderful book, “Wonders in the Sky”, Jacque Vallee ad Chris Aubeck have catalogued these sightings. Jacquee Vallee, a long time French UFO researcher, was in part the inspiration for the French scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, made by another UFO believer, Stephen Spielberg. In one of the most famous pre-airplane incidents, in 1561 a number of spheres and disks, which were red, blue, and back, were seen to come out of two vertical cylinders over Nuremberg, Germany. The residents of the town reported that these objects seemed to be fighting each other — there’s even a well-known drawing of this image.
In recent times, one of the most famous mass sightings was the Phoenix Lights. In 1997, an estimated more than 10,000 people saw a set of triangularly arranged lights not just hovering but moving over the Phoenix metro area from North to South. There were numerous photographs of the incident, and a great book (along with a documentary) by Lynne Kitei, M.D., called called The Phoenix Lights.
At first, Arizona Governor Fife Symington III made fun of the sighting and the military tried to dismiss the lights as “military flares”. But this theory didn’t hold water — the lights stayed equidistance apart, as if they were part of a single, large craft. Later, the Governor admitted that he was lying, and that he too had seen some kind of large anomalous craft in the sky that night. You don’t have to take my word for it — you can go interview people who were living in Phoenix in 1997. One witness told me she looked up, and the stars dimmed and then weren’t visible — it was definitely some type of large craft and not individual flares.
There have been other mass sightings, in Mexico City, in Russia, in South America, and elsewhere. UFO sightings are not a modern phenomenon, they are not a US-only phenomenon. UFOs are a global phenomenon, and as his secret informant told Agent Mulder at the end of the second episode of the X-Files, “They have been here … for a long long time.”
5. The Pentagon and the US Government No Longer Take UFO sightings seriously.
After a wave of UFO sightings in the 1950s and 1960s, the government and DOD put together several high profile projects to collect and investigate sightings. Since project Blue Book was shut down in 1969, the official US government and Department of Defense lines on UFOs has been: We no longer collect or investigate UFO sightings.
Just last December, the New York Times, Glowing Auras and Black Money: The Pentagon’s Mysterious UFO Program , which was covered by media internationally, was the first acknowledgement by the Pentagon since the 1960’s that they were taking UFOs seriously. Luis Elisandro, who was in charge of the program says that they took sightings, particvularly military sightings quite seriously — the Advanced Aerospace Threat Detection Program. They even released some footage and eyewitness accounts of, among other things, a Tic Tac Toe shaped UFO that military pilots were baffled by. This effort was linked to Tom De Long, the former lead singer of the rock group Blink182, who is now a major proponent of UFO Disclosure.
6. Are UFOs top secret military craft that defy gravity?
In the second episode of the X-Files, Deep Throat, and in many episodes later in the series, witnesses at the edge of military bases see UFOs at night performing maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of inertia and gravity.
These scenes are actually based on many eyewitness reports of objects and lights that hold stationary in the sky, have no apparent sound, then “jump” horizontally or vertically to a new position in the blink of an eye. The fact that these sightings have occurred often near military bases has led many, particularly in the skeptic and scientific community, to assert that UFOs are really top secret military craft that the public does not know about.
This of course, begs the question, do we have top secret military craft that can defy the known laws of physics and gravity? If so, why doesn’t the so called “scientific community” know about the science between how these craft work, why are they being hidden, and why aren’t they more curious about them?
A respected NASA scientist, Paul Hill, decided to collect reports from eyewitnesses during his 25 years working for the space agency. He wrote a book (which he wasn’t allow to publish while working for NASA), called “Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis” that was later published by his daughter, in which he categorized these maneuvers (“sudden reversal of direction”, “acute angle turn”, etc.)
If these are top secret military vehicles, where did they get the basic design and aeronautic principles from? This “top secret” military craft has been reported to be disc-shaped, and can seemingly defy both inertia and gravity. This has led the UFO community to say these top-secret craft have “anti-gravity” technology. Where did it come from?
Mark McCandlish, an accomplished aerospace illustrator, was baffled when a friend in the military told McCandlish that he’d stumbled into a hanger that had a round, bell shaped craft that was hovering over the ground. It sounds like a scene out of Independence Day, not just the X-Files. McCandlish, who has illustrated top secret military aircraft based on descriptions for the covers of magazines like Popular Science, drew the components of the ARV, or Alien Reproduction Vehicle, as it’s been called, and his drawings are readily available on-line. It resembles many reports of UFOs, including rumors of the Nazi Bell — new type of bell-shaped flying craft that the Nazis were supposedly working on at the end of World War II.
Is The Truth Out There?
As in the X-Files series, many of these facts are unknown to the general public, or they are ridiculed by so-called “experts”. In fact, the entire premise of the TV series was that a scientist, a medical doctor, Dana Scully, was brought in to de-bunk Mulder’s “unscientific” theories. As she became more involved in the investigations, she came upon more and more items that could only be classified as “unexplained” and was forced to question her own views about science and the universe.
Professor Sturrock of Stanford, who did research on the attitudes of astronomers and members of the American Institute of Aeronautic and Astronautics (AIAA) found that the more time people spent reading this subject, the more they would come to the conclusion that there needs to be more serious scientific study of UFOs. Even many members of the AIAA had seen anomalous “unidentified flying objects” but would only admit this if they were kept anonymous. Why? Because it’s not a “fashionable” area for university research to get funding, and simply telling what you saw truthfully is not acceptable in most academic and scientific circles these days.
Similarly, too many of my friends in the scientific and engineering circles, tend to dismiss UFO lore and stories as simple “crazy stories by crazy people” without having done any research of their own. The less research they’ve done, the more likely they are to dismiss UFOs out of hand. It’s very easy to ridicule or demean a group of people on the internet — but if you take the time to get to know the people that are making these claims, like Dana Scully in the X-Files, you might just find that The Truth is Out There!
While we wait for the new episodes of the X-Files revival on January 24th, I’ll leave you with another great quote from the second episode of the X-Files:
“Mr. Mulder, why are those like yourself, who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life on this earth, not dissuaded by all the evidence to the contrary?” asked the secret informant.
“Because,” began Fox Mulder, pausing for a second, “ … all the evidence to the contrary … is not entirely dissuasive.”
The old man nodded to Mulder in acknowledgement, and walked away quietly.
People have had UFO encounters since the dawn of recorded history (if not before), but with the advent of airplanes, cars, cameras and binoculars, sightings became much more common. Here are some of the most remarkable sightings of the modern era.
1. KENNETH ARNOLD, WASHINGTON STATE
Kenneth Arnold’s UFO Sighting Was Widely Reported
It started as a normal day for Kenneth Arnold in 1947. He was a private pilot, flying himself to Yakima, Washington for business. He took a small side trip, buzzing by Mt. Rainier to see if he could spot a U.S. Marine transport plane that had crashed recently—there was a $5,000 reward.
He didn’t find the plane, but what he did discover changed the world of ufology. During the flight, he saw several bright flashes. At first he thought they might just be reflections, but the “reflections” grew closer and larger, and he realized he was looking at flying objects. Geese? No, geese don’t fly at 1,200 MPH. A new type of jet? There were no contrails.
And, they were the wrong shape—they were, as Arnold put it, thin and convex. He later told reporters that the objects’ movement reminded him of saucers skipping across water, and thus was born the familiar term “flying saucers”.
2. THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES
The Large Triangular Craft That Frightened Los Angeles in 1942
It was 1942 and the United States was plunged into World War II. In February, only two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, anti-aircraft guns started firing over the city of Los Angeles. Lights had appeared in the sky, witnessed by thousands, and everyone’s first assumption was that the Japanese were staging another attack.
Strangely, the anti-aircraft fire brought nothing down, even though radar showed an “unidentifiable aerial target” over the city. Some witnesses said they saw a large object hovering in the air. Later, a journalist’s photo of the battle scene (at right) sparked controversy among UFO skeptics and only deepened the mystery—it appears to show a large black triangular craft.
3. UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL
Sure, you’ve heard of the Roswell Incident. Skeptics like to say it’s the “most thoroughly debunked UFO claim” in the world. We disagree. You can’t “debunk” something by making up explanations.
The Story Made Headlines, But The Air Force Quickly Tried to Cover Up the Incident
It was a hot day in July 1947 when New Mexico rancher Mac Brazel was out on a remote part of the Foster ranch, and when he came across strange wreckage, he wasn’t sure what to think of it. Maybe the guys at the local military base, the 509th airfield, would know something about it. When Brazel took some officers, including Intelligence Officer Jesse Marcel, to see for themselves, the military men were stunned. It was clear to them that this was indeed a crashed vehicle—and that it wasn’t from this planet.
The story hit the news wires, and calls came in from around the world. General Roger Ramey rushed to the 509th base and concocted a story about a downed weather balloon. The story stuck—”General Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer” read the headlines—and those involved were warned to never reveal what they actually saw.
Later, in old age, Jesse Marcel felt compelled to reveal the truth, and the story became the stuff of legend.
4. UFOS BUZZ D.C.
It’s alarming enough for an air traffic controller to spot seven unknown objects on radar. But when Ed Nugent spotted them in Washington D.C. in July 1952, he realized they were headed toward the White House and the U.S. Capitol building—so he raised an alert. His radar unit checked out, not malfunctioning, and the blips showed up on other radar units as well. Then the objects were sighted by pilots in the area, moving at “an unbelievable speed”.
The objects vanished within 15 minutes, but a few days later, they were back. This time, strange flying lights were noticed by the flight crew on a commercial jet over D.C. They appeared yet again the next day. President Harry Truman was so shaken up by these events that he called the head of Project Blue Book, demanding an explanation. Soon after, a standing shoot-down order was given to Air Force pilots: if you see a UFO, fire on it immediately.
You may also be interested in Part One of this two-part UFO series, where we cover other striking encounters with UFOs that landed, crashed, and buzzed by Earth landmarks.
1. UFO LANDING IN RENDLESHAM FOREST, UK
“I’ve gone on record saying Rendlesham might be the turning point in history that leads to the explanation of the UFO phenomenon.” —Nick Pope, UK Ministry of Defense
It was December 1980, and on a US military base in England, a security patrol observed a strange light descending into nearby Rendlesham Forest, and assumed one of their aircraft must have gone down.
Re-creation of the Craft that Landed in Rendlesham Forest
Sergeants John Burroughs and James Penniston were dispatched to investigate, and instead of a downed plane, they discovered a strange craft with glowing yellow and blue lights, approximately nine by six feet in size. Static electricity seemed to be emanating from it. The men stood and stared at the object for about 10 minutes, finally deciding that it did not appear to be a threat. They moved closer and observed strange hieroglyphic markings on the side of the craft.
Suddenly, an explosion of light from the ship knocked both men down; “I thought I was going to die that night,” Penniston said later. Penniston got up and touched the craft; it felt smooth and warm.
The men stayed near the UFO for 45 minutes until it began to rise through the trees, then shot into the night so quickly that Penniston later wrote in his log book, “Speed: Impossible!”
The next morning, investigators found deep, triangle-shaped impressions in the ground where the craft had been sighted. Tests showed high levels of radiation.
The ship returned for two consecutive nights; on the final night, it was witnessed by nearly 60 people.
2. THE KECKSBURG UFO CRASH
At first, they thought it was some kind of crazy meteor. The fireball that streaked across skies over Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in 1965 dropped metal debris and caused sonic booms. Eyewitnesses in the small town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania saw the UFO crash into a forest, followed by blue smoke that rose from amongst the trees. They called authorities.
Reproduction of What Witnesses Saw Near Kecksburg, PA
Meanwhile, a few brave individuals ventured into the woods to see what had crash-landed. They found the object partially buried in the ground; it was bronze in color and metallic, about the size of a car, shaped like an acorn. The witnesses noticed strange markings on its surface that resembled Egyptian hieroglyphs. Jim Romanesky, one of the observers, said that the UFO was completely seamless, almost as if it had been made of liquid metal that was poured into a mold.
When the military arrived, they cordoned off the area, detaining and removing everyone from the forest. Witnesses saw them load the object onto a flatbed truck and remove it; when an official report was issued, it said that “absolutely nothing” had been found—case closed.
3.PHOENIX LIGHTS
Phones at the police station were ringing off the hook, UFO reporting agencies were inundated with calls, the news media were receiving a flurry of reports, people were standing in the streets and pointing at the sky: there were strange lights hovering over the city of Phoenix! Thousands of people saw the Phoenix Lights that March day in 1997, including police offers, military personnel, and Arizona governor Fife Symington; eye-witnesses said that the lights appeared to be part of a massive black V-shaped craft that moved slowly and silently as it passed over their rooftops.
The first reports of the UFO came from Henderson, Nevada, where witnesses said the craft was drifting along in a southeasterly direction; it passed over other towns until it appeared over Phoenix. Air traffic controllers at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport could see the lights through their window but registered no sign of anything on radar.
The local Air Force base denied that any activity had taken place that night—then later changed the story and said that the lights had been aircraft flares they’d dropped between 9:00 and 10:00 PM that night. Problem is, the UFO lights had appeared over Henderson, Nevada just before 8:00 PM and over Phoenix just after 8:30 PM.
4. UFO OVER O’HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
“I am still in absolute wonder and amazement at what I saw that afternoon.”
—Eye-witness to the O’Hare UFO
It had been a normal afternoon at busy O’Hare International when airport employees began to notice something strange in the sky.
A Strange Disc Hovers Over O’Hare International Airport
On November 7, 2006, a metallic, saucer-like craft appeared above the airport and hovered over Gate C-17. A ramp employee was the first to see it as he helped a jet, flight 446 bound for North Carolina, push back to prepare for takeoff. Chatter on two-way radios alerted a dozen other employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors, who all ran to see the disc hovering in the sky.
The UFO lingered over the airport for about two minutes, then, as witnesses described, shot straight up at an incredible velocity and vanished, leaving a clear, sky-blue hole in the clouds.
The Federal Aviation Administration first denied they had any evidence of the matter. When a local reporter discovered a recording of an FAA official discussing the sighting with a United Airlines employee, the FAA changed the story: it was just a weather phenomenon, and there was no need for further investigation.
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