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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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...
10-10-2018
Last call if we want to save the planet from devastating climate change, scientists warn
Last call if we want to save the planet from devastating climate change, scientists warn
A new IPCC report suggests that the world is completely off track when it comes to limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius — instead, we’re more likely to go towards 3 degrees. The window isn’t shut just yet, but we need to act now, otherwise, the worldwide damage would be massive.
The world is heating up. We can put our heads in the sand all we want, but the fact is temperatures are rising as a result of us burning CO2 — and it’s time to act. Three years ago, in Paris, world leaders made a necessary first step: they agreed to take measures to limit at 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. They even snuck in the more ambitious goal of sticking to 1.5C. While many rightfully feel that the Paris Agreement is not nearly enough and we need much more ambitious actions, it was still a critical step in the right direction. Finally, it seemed that the world had come together to tackle climate change. But in the three years that have passed, politicians have not brought about that much change. This is where the new report comes in.
The 33-page report titled ‘Summary for Policymakers’ was published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a scientific and intergovernmental body that provides a scientific view of climate change and its political and economic impacts. The IPCC is essentially the leading body monitoring climate change research, which they use to provide recommendations to policymakers.
The picture this report paints is essentially saying that our planet is feverish because of us, and we need massive investments to curb this heating.
“Scientists might want to write in capital letters, ‘ACT NOW, IDIOTS,’ but they need to say that with facts and numbers,” said Kaisa Kosonen, of Greenpeace, who was an observer at the negotiations. “And they have.”
We must try and stick to 1.5C
Man-made CO2 emissions are the main source of climate change.
Image via NASA.
Although the report bears clear scars of political interference, it still makes a few clear and undiluted points. Among them, it urges leaders to understand that there’s a huge difference between 1.5C and 2C, and we need to aim for the former, not the latter.
“The first is that limiting warming to 1.5C brings a lot of benefits compared with limiting it to two degrees. It really reduces the impacts of climate change in very important ways,” said Prof Jim Skea, who co-chairs the IPCC.
“The second is the unprecedented nature of the changes that are required if we are to limit warming to 1.5C – changes to energy systems, changes to the way we manage land, changes to the way we move around with transportation.”
A 2C warming would likely destroy around 13% of the world’s ecosystems, it would drive coral reefs essentially extinct, and cause dramatic risk for a massive number of animal and insect species. The Arctic would be completely ice-free once or twice a decade, and for most humans, summer temperatures would simply be unbearably hot. By the end of the century, the situation would likely escalate to a full-blown disaster — and considering the scale of things, the end of the century is really not that far off.
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If we manage to stick to 1.5C, that risk would be halved. But according to current projections, we’ll reach 1.5C by 2030. This seemingly small difference of a half a degree is absolutely huge. The world is already 1C warmer than pre-industrial levels, and we’re already seeing the effects.
“It’s a line in the sand and what it says to our species is that this is the moment and we must act now,” said Debra Roberts, a co-chair of the working group on impacts. “This is the largest clarion bell from the science community and I hope it mobilises people and dents the mood of complacency.”
A half of degree
The one good thing the report highlights is that we still can remain in the 1.5C warming interval — but we need massive investments, from both governments and individuals, and we need them as soon as possible.
Using electric cars can make a big difference, the report highlights.
The core of the action is transitioning to renewable energy. A 1.5C scenario requires us to generate around 75-80% of our energy from renewable sources, such as wind and solar. We also need to expand reforestation efforts, to take advantage of trees’ ability to suck out carbon out of the air. This, however, requires 2.5% of global gross domestic product (GDP), the value of all goods and services produced, for two decades, something which most governments don’t seem convinced to invest in.
Even so, this would still require us to develop technologies to take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it safely underground by the end of the century. This technology is already in its nascent stages, and there’s a good chance it will be developed in a few decades, given proper investments.
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The big problem, of course, is the 2.5% GDP figure. However, it’s important to keep in mind that we’re not talking about sending money down the drain. There’s a good chance that much of that figure will be gained back by avoiding damage caused by climate-related events such as droughts and hurricanes. There’s actually a very good chance that we will get a return on this investment.
“Every extra tonne of carbon that we dump into the atmosphere today is a tonne that will have to be scrubbed out at the end of the century,” says Myles Allen, a climate scientist at the University of Oxford, UK, and one of the lead authors of the report.
“I think we need to start a debate about who is going to pay for it, and whether it’s right for the fossil-fuel industry and its customers to be enjoying the benefits today and expecting the next generation to pay for cleaning it up,” Allen says.
Globally, 2.5% of GDP is a huge sum, and as Allen hints, no one will likely want to pay for it — even though, at the end of the day, we all have a lot to gain from it. We just need to convince policymakers to act on it. But it’s not just politicians that need to act.
What all of us can do
The problem of climate change can seem overwhelming. Here’s a huge problem that requires international, large-scale cooperation, and we’re all just one person. But each and every one of us can still make a big difference, as the IPCC report also highlights. We all have the power to change things. Dr. Debra Roberts, the IPCC’s other co-chair, explains:
“That’s a very empowering message for the individual,” she said. “This is not about remote science; it is about where we live and work, and it gives us a cue on how we might be able to contribute to that massive change, because everyone is going to have to be involved.”
“You might say you don’t have control over land use, but you do have control over what you eat and that determines land use. We can choose the way we move in cities and if we don’t have access to public transport – make sure you are electing politicians who provide options around public transport.”
Some simple lifestyle measures include:
buying and eating less meat, particularly beef;
buying and eating less cheese and butter;
eating more locally sourced foods;
wasting less food;
driving an electric or hybrid car;
using public transportation, biking, or walking;
using videoconferences instead of business travel;
using a washing line instead of a tumbling dryer;
insulating houses;
demanding clean energy and low-carbon in every product we consume.
Bizarre footage has emerged showing triangular orbs in the sky above Mexico City.
The video, uploaded by the YouTube channel 'colourufo,' has been dubbed 'absolute proof' of alien life, with the filmer claiming the strange clip shows "multiple" UFOs.
The video reportedly captured on Sunday shows a white light moving from right to left before it speeds up and disappears.
The uploader then replays the video in slow motion, which appears to give the white light a more triangular shape, as if a 'shield' has formed around it.
Pictured: The 'UFO' taking a triangular shape as a 'shield' forms around it
Pictured: Lightning appears to strike as the 'UFO' disappears
Pictured: The strange white orb in the sky above Mexico City(Image: YouTube)
The video was picked up by UFO researcher Scott C. Waring who commented on his UFO sightings blog: "This video was made by a UFO researcher in Australia watching the live Mexico City cam.
"He is famous for his hard work in the field and this time he 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," his blog post continued.
"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," he concluded."
Triangular and pyramid UFO sightings have become quite common in recent years, particularly above north and central America, but not everyone thinks they're aliens visiting Earth.
Often referred to as 'Black Triangles', some UFO experts claim people are actually seeing a top secret US spy aircraft known as TR-3B.
One of the most recent sightings occurred above Seattle, Washington in September.
(Image: Universal Images Group Editorial)
TR-3 planes do not officially exist, but according to conspiracy theorists, they are a class of US surveillance aircraft first used during the Gulf War in the early 1990s and developed in complete secret.
If Earth warms by just 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial times by 2100, rather than 2 degrees, we would see fewer life-threatening heat, drought and precipitation extremes, less sea level rise and fewer species lost.
Those findings are detailed in a report, a summary of which was released October 8, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, following its weeklong meeting in Incheon, South Korea. “This will be one of the most important meetings in the IPCC’s history,” Hoesung Lee, a climate economist at Korea University in South Korea and current IPCC chair, said in his opening address October 1.
To compile the report, the scientists sifted through more than 6,000 papers probing the impact of a global temperature hike of 1.5 degrees, sometimes working through the night, says Natalie Mahowald, a climate scientist at Cornell University and one of the report’s coauthors. But the long hours were worth it: The report’s message is compelling and urgent, she says. “Such a small change in temperature will have big impacts on people.”
Three years ago, in 2015, 195 nations signed onto the Paris agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to limit global warming to “well below” 2 degrees by 2100 (SN: 1/9/16, p. 6). Getting all the delegates on the same 2-degree-warming page was a hard-won victory. But many scientists have warned that the 2-degree target isn’t stringent enough to prevent major environmental changes affecting everything from sea level rise to water scarcity to habitat loss. During the Paris talks, more than 100 nations — including many of those most vulnerable to climate change, such as the island nation of the Maldives and drought-stricken Angola — called for a lower warming target of 1.5 degrees.
At the time, Lee noted in his Oct. 1 address, scientists knew relatively little about how to compare the risks of a 1.5-degree-warmer world with a 2-degree-warmer world. So, as part of the decision to adopt the Paris agreement, the nations invited the IPCC to prepare a report assessing those impacts.
As it turns out, the differences are stark between the two warming targets, as outlined in the new report, titled “Global Warming of 1.5° C.” In addition to fewer heat, rain and drought extremes, the impact on future sea levels would be significant. A half a degree less warming means about 0.1 meters less sea level rise on average by the next century. As a result, at least 10 million fewer people would be exposed to such risks as flooding, infrastructure damage and saltwater intrusion into freshwater resources, the report found.
Somewhere between 1.5 degrees and 2 degrees, the planet’s great ice sheets may become increasingly unstable, further increasing the potential for sea level rise. And, in the 1.5-degree warming scenario, the Arctic Ocean is projected to be ice-free during the summer only once per century. That would happen once a decade under the 2-degree scenario.
As for the planet’s other denizens, a lower temperature increase would mean less risk of habitat loss for many insect, plant and animal species compared with a full 2 degrees of warming, the report notes (SN: 6/9/18, p. 6). And other climate-related risks to these species, including forest fires and the spread of invasive species, would be less under that lower warming threshold.
RANGE LOSS Many species, including the pika, are already suffering habitat loss due to climate change.
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Much of the data analyzed in the report has been published in scientific journals over the last two years, and wasn’t available when the Paris agreement was signed. The London-based website Carbon Brief published an interactive infographic on October 4 that summarizes the results of 70 such 1.5-degree studies that show the impacts of warming targets on everything from future sea level rise to heatwaves to hurricanes.
Despite building a case for a lower temperature target, the trick will be how to get there. In 2017, the Paris accords faced a major setback when President Donald Trump announced that the United States, a major contributor to the greenhouse gases that drive warming, would pull out of the agreement. Achieving an even more stringent target seems particularly daunting.
The IPCC report examines various possible paths that scientists have examined to limit the environmental impacts of warming. Among the variables considered in these paths are when emissions are projected to reach net zero, when the amount of carbon released to the atmosphere is balanced by the amount that is being removed. Another variable is how many more emissions will be allowable in the meantime — a concept known as the carbon budget.
But almost all of the projected pathways to 1.5 degrees have one thing in common, says Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist with Carbon Brief: They overshoot that temperature threshold somewhere around 2050. “They all exceed it — and then back down,” he says.
To overshoot the mark by only a small amount, or not at all, requires reducing emissions by about 45 percent relative to 2010 levels by the year 2030, and reaching zero around 2050, the IPCC report notes. In comparison, to get to “below 2 degrees Celsius,” emissions must decline by about 20 percent by the year 2030 and reach zero by about 2075.
Barring such early, deep cuts, it will take “negative emissions” to bring the temperatures back down after overshooting the mark mid-century. Negative emissions are, essentially, a hoped-for reduction in emissions due to future technologies that will be able to remove enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reverse the greenhouse effect.
Those technologies, such as carbon capture and storage, are not yet commercially viable. And reversing the effects of the greenhouse warming is not so straightforward: “By and large, it’s generally true that there’s a linear relationship between warming and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as long as both are increasing,” Hausfather says. “But once you start sucking carbon out of the atmosphere, that linear relationship breaks. You need more negative emissions to reduce temperatures than positive emissions to increase them.”
It’s uncertain how — or if — policy makers will be able to use the findings to reshape the climate accords. During the 2015 Paris talks, a proposed 1.5-degree target was met with strong resistance from nations that would need to be on board, particularly China.
And President Trump’s administration gave a hint of its reaction when, in July, it released an environmental impact statement on the White House’s plan to freeze federal fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks built after 2020. With current levels of greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures are currently on track to rise by 4 degrees compared to preindustrial times by 2100 — and freezing the standards will further increase those emissions, the report acknowledged. But the study recommended the freeze anyway, stating that moving away from fossil fuels to make deep cuts in carbon emissions would require innovations that are “not currently technologically feasible or economically feasible.”
The challenges may seem insurmountable. But this special report — and the two years of intense research that led up to it — has also forced scientists to reassess some assumptions about what’s possible, says Kaisa Kosonen, a Helsinki-based climate policy adviser at Greenpeace International who traveled to South Korea for the meeting. Including certain factors, such as better energy efficiency in the future, can lead to “results you didn’t know even existed,” she says. “I’ve been inspired by how much optimism there still is among scientists.”
Indeed, one of the key messages from the report is that holding warming to 1.5 degrees “is not impossible,” Mahowald says. “But it will require really ambitious efforts, and the sooner the better. We have to start cutting emissions now. We have to be very ambitious on sustainable energy and sustainable agriculture,” she says. And, she notes, achieving the goal will require people to undergo behavioral changes as well, from energy conservation to changes in diet.
But people would also face huge adjustments in a world that’s 2 degrees warmer, or even higher, Mahowald warns. So despite the challenges, “it still might be easier to reach 1.5 than to adapt to those higher temperatures.”
Editor's note: This story was updated October 8, 2018, to include reaction to the report.
I spend a lot of time chasing UFO sightings and talking to alien abductees with the main goal of proving that aliens are visiting Earth. One of the things that I have always wondered about is “what do the aliens want?”. It is pretty obvious to me by now aliens do exist and the do visit the Earth. What they are doing here on Earth is an entirely different problem though. All we can do is make a logical guess based off of the information that we do have.
Learning from Alien Abductees
I have been in contact with a lot of alien abductees over the years. These people have always fascinated me. Most of them describe very similar experiences. We can try to figure out what the aliens want by what they did to these people while they had them. Hopefully their common experiences can shed some light on this mystery.
Aliens are doing Experiments on Humans
One of the common experiences of alien abductees is that they have some memory of being in some kind of exam room. They are usually on a metal table surrounded by instruments and sometimes even the aliens themselves. None of the abductees I have talked to know exactly what the aliens are doing to them but they all agree that they felt like a lab experiment. Some of these people come back with pieces of unidentifiable metal under their skin, in their teeth or even implanted all the way into a bone. These implants prove that the alien abductors have a vested interest into keeping track of these people. What kind of experiments the aliens are doing on these people is what I want to find out.
Why Would Aliens Want to do Human Experiments?
If we can figure out why aliens would want to experiment on humans we may be able to figure out what kind of experiments they are doing. I have come up with some possibilities.
Aliens are Researching Earth Germs and Viruses
Anyone that has seen the movie “War of the Worlds” has heard of the idea that aliens could be threatened by Earthly germs. This is a real possibility! Since humans have spent thousands of years building up resistance to these germs they don’t really harm us. We get sick and feel like crud for a few days and then our bodies kill the invading virus causing us to feel better. If an alien creature had no built up resistance to these viruses then they probably wouldn’t be able to fight these germs off naturally. This would be fatal to the creatures as it was in the movie. The only problem with the movie is that I seriously doubt that a super advanced species of aliens doesn’t know about Earth’s viruses and germs. It is hard to believe that aliens wouldn’t be prepared for such things. That could be one reason that they are abducting people; they are studying our illnesses so they can create vaccinations for themselves. That way they would be much safer spending more time on Earth.
Are Humans Alien Offspring?
Another reason that aliens could be showing so much interest in humans is that we could be their offspring. It is possible that at some point these alien civilizations decided to stop having sex to procreate and switched to using technology to create their children. There are many reasons that could have caused them to make this decision. That subject could be it’s own article.
Aliens could have decided to colonize Earth thousands of years ago by placing their offspring here. Humans could be either an exact copy of the alien race or they could have manipulated the DNA of creatures already on Earth combining it with their own to create an entirely new species. This would explain why they killed off all of the subhuman races besides homo sapiens. They wouldn’t have wanted their offspring to have too much competition.
Why Aliens Look Different
You may wonder why humans and aliens look different if it is possible that we are their children. There is a very simple answer to this question. Our bodies would have evolved and adapted to Earth for the last 20,000 years. This evolution would cause us to look different from our ancestors because we grew up on a different planet than they did. This is the same reason that people look different depending on which continent their family came from.
Aliens Could Want Our Planet
Out of all of the things that the aliens might want this one scares me the most. They could be visiting Earth trying to decide if they want to take it from us or not. Us humans have thought for a long time that the Earth is a very special place. We may not be wrong. We don’t know what kind of planets these aliens come from but we can assume that they require a lot of the same types of elements and minerals that we use here on Earth. It is very possible that the Earth is considered a desirable planet among alien species.
If Aliens Want Earth, What’s the Wait?
You might be asking yourself at this point why aliens wouldn’t just take the Earth if they want it? Why would they need thousands of years to decide to take it for themselves? If they haven’t taken it by now then they probably don’t want it, right?I have asked myself these same questions. There are several different answers that I have come up with.
The first possibility is that the aliens may experience time different than humans do. If they have an average life span of thousands of years, a few hundred years on Earth would seem like a very short amount of time to them. These advanced species of aliens could also be using wormholes or time travel engines in their space ships. What that means is that they could leave their planet during one century but arrive at Earth during a different century. This process could be reversed on their trip back to their home planet. To the aliens this trip could seem like a very short amount of time while thousands of years are passing here on Earth.
An Unknown Plan
Another reason that the aliens might be waiting to take the Earth is because they don’t need it yet. Our planet could be some kind “alien retirement plan”. This idea makes sense when you really think about it. Alien activity has increased since humans created atomic weapons. UFOs are constantly spotted around nuclear weapons sites and power plants. They might be concerned that we are going to blow u their investment. People have suggested that the aliens are interested in our nuclear power because they are interested in keeping the human race alive. I personally think that they are more worried about our planet. If I am right than we should really start worrying more about global warming and carbon dioxide pollution. We don’t want the aliens taking us out just to save the Earth!
Let’s Hope for the Best
When it comes down to it we can speculate all that we want but we will still have no idea what the aliens are doing here on Earth. They may be so far advanced past us intellectually that their reasoning could be incomprehensible to us humans. All we can do is go on with our lives and hope that our alien guests have no intentions of harming us. Maybe one day they will tell us about their plans for humans and the Earth. Until then; remember that the truth matters!
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Intergalactic light beams might be just the ticket for making contact with space aliens
Intergalactic light beams might be just the ticket for making contact with space aliens
The "Trillion Planet Survey" aims to search the sky for signs of light — and life.
by Seth Shostak
Possible signs of alien life haven't been spotted in the Andromeda Galaxy thus far — but that isn't stopping scientists from searching.
Alan Dyer/VWPics / VWPics via AP Images
For more than a half century, we’ve been scanning the skies for radio signals that might be evidence of an alien civilization. Now physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara are trying a different approach: scanning the skies for light beams that are monstrously intense. It’s a promising approach that could uncover aliens that have equipped themselves with the mother of all laser pointers.
The idea of using light beams to signal from one world to another isn’t new — even the Victorians considered it. In 1874, the Finnish mathematician Edvard Engelbert Novius proposed wiring up 22,000 light bulbs and using curved mirrors to focus their glow on Mars, thereby alerting Red Planet residents that they had neighbors on the third rock from the sun. He didn’t get the funding.
The Santa Barbara plan is to reverse Novius’ scheme and look for aliens who might be signaling us. Or, more accurately, inadvertently spilling light in our direction with a light source brighter than a blowtorch. The scientists plan to search for such high-tech luminaries camped out in the Andromeda Galaxy, which at 2.5 million light-years away is the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way.
Is it aliens? Scientists detect more mysterious radio signals from distant galaxy
This effort is an offshoot of another project developed at the university. Several years ago, faculty physicist Phil Lubin suggested syncing up a phalanx of high-powered lasers to produce a truly blinding light source. His idea was to use this super-laser to kick matchbook-sized space probes to nearby stars at roughly 20 percent the speed of light. This is difficult, but not impossible, and Lubin’s plan is now getting financial support from NASA and Breakthrough Starshot, a private initiative funded by venture capitalist Yuri Milner. It’s exciting to think we could send probes to the nearest stars fast enough that the project scientists will still be alive when the probes reach their destination.
But Lubin and his students also cooked up an ancillary experiment: a search for alien societies so advanced that they’ve already built powerful lasers for their own interstellar launches. These light sources would be easy to see even at astronomical distances. Indeed, by some reckonings, if you were looking down the beam of such a laser even from very far away, it would outshine stars, quasars, supernovae and — well — anything in the universe. You would notice.
The Santa Barbara team plan to use small telescopes to repeatedly take photos of Andromeda. Then they will compare these pics with older photos to see if any new “star” has appeared — possible evidence of a non-natural source. The process will be automated, and the survey can go on as long as there are interest and support.
Radio telescope antennas like these could be key in discovering life that exists outside of our galaxy.Martin Bernetti / AFP - Getty Images file
Why Andromeda? The reason is simple: choosing a nearby galaxy means the project can quickly reconnoiter a vast swath of extraterrestrial territory.
Andromeda, like the Milky Way, is thought to contain a trillion or so planets, a fact that led the Santa Barbara physicists to inventively dub their effort the Trillion Planet Survey. Most conventional searches for E.T. look for signals from nearby star systems one at a time. By examining an entire galaxy at once, the Santa Barbara scientists aim to greatly increase the chance of finding something.
There are some worries. Even if Andromeda contains a society whose super-bright lasers routinely stab the sky, the rotation of their home planet might cause this beam to sweep over Earth very quickly. If so, it could easily be missed. It’s also worth noting that Andromeda — which you can check out yourself with binoculars — has been studied nearly as much as the Bible. No one has ever seen any puzzling bright lights. In addition, astronomers hunting for supernovae have surveyed millions of other galaxies with automated telescopes. They’ve found many exploding stars, but no super-lasers.
Of course, failure to find these things doesn’t prove they’re not there.
The search for aliens has always assumed that advanced beings will either transmit an unnatural-looking signal or construct some artifact large enough to be seen with a telescope. But few searches have eyed as much cosmic real estate as the Trillion Planet Survey plans to do. And who knows? It just might turn up some society that’s truly enlightened.
Dr. Seth Shostak is senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and host of the “Big Picture Science” podcast.
“Preuve absolue” d’un OVNI ? Des orbes triangulaires repérés au-dessus de Mexico suscitent un débat sur la vie des extraterrestres
“Preuve absolue” d’un OVNI ? Des orbes triangulaires repérés au-dessus de Mexico suscitent un débat sur la vie des extraterrestres
Des orbes triangulaires ÉTRANGES repérés au-dessus de Mexico ont été qualifiés de “preuve absolue” de la vie extraterrestre, car beaucoup pensent qu’un OVNI a été repéré.
Dans le clip, un orbe blanc peut être vu dans le ciel nocturne.
Mais il semble se déplacer vers la gauche quand la caméra ralentit.
Et l’objet semble s’accélérer avant de disparaître vers la droite.
Un plan au ralenti est ensuite présenté, ce qui donne à l’orbe un bouclier triangulaire.
Le commentateur dit : “On dirait un gros OVNI triangulaire volant dans le nuage.”
Une autre photo est ensuite montrée à l’endroit où un éclair a frappé.
Lorsque la séquence est à nouveau ralentie, un très petit objet peut alors être vu s’éloigner.
Ce clip a été tourné à Mexico dimanche.
Il a été téléchargé sur YouTube par la chaîne australienne UFO channel colourufo mais elle a été reprise par le chercheur extraterrestre Scott C. Waring.
Et ces images l’ont amené à revendiquer une forme de vie extraterrestre.
M. Waring a écrit sur son site Web UFO Sightings Daily : “ColourUFO a repéré un OVNI triangulaire étonnant qui est à à moitié occulté et se déplace à travers les nuages.”
“J’ai entendu parler des nuages pyramidaux, mais très peu de rapports légitimes arrivent comme celui-là.”
“Comme vous le voyez, la caméra prend une photo toutes les quelques secondes, il y a donc un saut entre les deux, mais l’OVNI est vu dans de nombreux plans fixes.
“[La] Preuve absolue que les aliens sont actifs au Mexique.”
Ce n’est pas la première fois que l’activité paranormale fait les manchettes récemment.
« Ovni dans la Baltique: de nouvelles informations »
« Ovni dans la Baltique: de nouvelles informations »
Le mystère de l’Anomalie de la mer Baltique, une formation géologique étrange découverte par des plongeurs suédois, intrigue les scientifiques depuis des années.Elle rassemblerait à un Ovni. Dans ce reportage, de nouvelle informations sur cette découverte.
Le mystère de l’«Anomalie de la mer Baltique», une formation géologique étrange découverte par des plongeurs suédois, intrigue les scientifiques depuis des années.
L’équipe Ocean X a inspecté une zone du fond de la mer à l’aide d’un sonar et une photo a toute de suite attiré l’attention.
À une profondeur de 87 mètres, la caméra a capturé un objet en forme de disque qui ne rassemblait ni à une plante, ni à une pierre, ni à un bathyscaphe. Surtout, il ressemblerait à un Ovni, comme l’écrit l’Express.
Son diamètre est d’environ 60 mètres. L’image était plutôt floue, mais il serait possible de distinguer des formes semblables à des escaliers, à des rampes et à d’autres appareils.
Les chercheurs sont allés sur place pour étudier personnellement l’anomalie, mais ont fait face à un phénomène étrange. Lorsque le navire s’est placé au-dessus de l’objet, tous les appareils électroniques, y compris leur téléphone satellite, se sont éteints.
«Lorsque nous nous sommes éloignés de 200 mètres, le téléphone s’est rallumé, mais lorsque nous sommes revenus sur le site, il n’a pas fonctionné», a déclaré Stefan Hoherborn, plongeur professionnel.
Blades of ice rising from the surface of Europa, Jupiter’s frozen moon, will likely pose major hazards for future space missions aiming to land on the satellite.
Europa. Image credits: NOAA.
Water and ice
When it comes to space exploration, few things are as exciting as Europa. Sure, the Earth’s moon or Mars spark our imagination, but Europa is much more likely to host life — beneath its frozen surface.
Slightly smaller than Earth’s Moon, Europa is primarily made of silicate rock, but because it’s so far away from the Sun, its surface is completely frozen. Initially, astronomers didn’t give much attention to it, but the Galileo mission (launched in 1989) showed that there’s much more to Europa than meets the eye.
Current models now show that heat from tidal flexing causes the subsurface to stay liquid, enabling the Jovian moon to host an ocean of liquid water, right beneath its surface. Since liquid water is crucial for life as we know it, this makes Europa a prime candidate — and to make things even better, astronomers provided strong evidence of water plume activity on Europa, suggesting that the ocean is interacting with the seafloor, having tectonic-like activity. All of this makes Europa a prime candidate for searching extraterrestrial life.
But if we want to really see if there’s life on Europa, we need to send a lander mission there, and that’s not gonna be easy. A new paper published today in Nature Geoscience suggests that Europa’s jagged surface will make any landing mission even more difficult due to a phenomenon that’s also present on Earth: the so-called penitentes.
Penitentes
Penitentes in Aconcagua.
The penitentes were formally described by Charles Darwin in 1839: giant, blade-like ice features in the Andes mountains. When the weather is very dry and cold, the sun’s warm rays can cause parts of the ice and snow to undergo sublimation (turn from ice into vapour, without first becoming liquid).
“On Earth, the sublimation of massive ice deposits at equatorial latitudes under cold and dry conditions in the absence of any liquid melt leads to the formation of spiked and bladed textures eroded into the surface of the ice. These sublimation-sculpted blades are known as penitentes,” researchers write in the study.
A similar process has been observed on Pluto, for instance, so we know that it can happen on extraterrestrial bodies. Daniel Hobley of Cardiff University and his team investigated the conditions that could give rise to Penitentes on icy worlds such as Europa.
In a study released Monday, scientists say they've found evidence of huge, jagged "ice spikes," some 50 feet tall, on the moon's surface.
They found that conditions on Europa favour the development of penitentes, particularly at latitudes below 23°, which in turn, could threaten potential future missions.
“Although available images of Europa have insufficient resolution to detect surface roughness at the multi-metre scale, radar and thermal data are consistent with our interpretation. We suggest that penit }entes could pose a hazard to a future lander on Europa,” the study concludes.
Both NASA and ESA have Europa flyby missions scheduled for the 2020s.
BLACK EYED KIDS ALS BOODSCHAPPERS VOOR ONZE TOEKOMST
BLACK EYED KIDS ALS BOODSCHAPPERS VOOR ONZE TOEKOMST
Eenieder die te maken heeft gehad met het fenomeen Black Eyed Kids voelt onwillekeurig een bepaalde angst.
Die angst wordt nog vele malen groter als ze ’s nachts verschijnen in je slaapkamer en jou angstaanjagende beelden van de toekomst laten zien.
We hebben hier in de loop der jaren vele artikelen gepubliceerd over het verschijnsel van de vreemd uitziende kinderen met de pikzwarte ogen. Kinderen, meestal rond de leeftijd van een jaar of tien, die aanbellen met een smoesje om binnen te komen.
Mensen die de deur opendoen krijgen meestal een soort onbestemd angstig voorgevoel en doen heel snel de deur weer dicht.
Er zijn inmiddels ook al een aantal boeken verschenen over dit onderwerp en één van die auteurs is Nick Redfern. Naar aanleiding van zijn onlangs (mei 2018) verschenen boek, The Black Dairy, hebben enkele lezers onafhankelijk van elkaar contact met hem opgenomen.
Het eerste bericht dat Nick ontving was afkomstig van ene Ron die vertelde dat hij het boek had gekocht en gelezen.
Enige tijd daarna werd hij middenin de nacht wakker met een daverende hoofdpijn, een droge mond en uitslag op zijn armen. Hij was wakker, maar kon zich niet bewegen. Dit is een fenomeen dat vaker voorkomt en dat slaapverlamming wordt genoemd.
Zoals gebruikelijk wanneer zoiets zich voor doet voelde degene in kwestie angst. En dat is niet zo vreemd, want aan de rand van zijn bed stonden twee kinderen van een jaar of elf met gitzwarte ogen. Ze hadden een bleke huid en beiden hadden een zwarte capuchon.
Maar, het werd nog veel vreemder, want binnen enkele seconden werd de slaapkamer van Ron als het ware overspoeld door beelden. Apocalyptische beelden van een platgeslagen aarde, miljoenen doden en een zwarte hemel. Ron wist wat de oorzaak was: een geweldige paddenstoelwolk hing boven wat er nog van zijn stad over was.
Plotseling waren de beelden weg, evenals de kinderen. Toen hij ’s morgens wakker werd, was ook de uitslag op zijn armen weg. Dagenlang heeft Ron slapeloze nachten gehad, maar de BEK’s (Black Eyed Kids) zijn niet meer teruggekomen. Ook de nachtmerrie die Ron had met de afgrijselijke beelden is niet teruggekomen.
Een tweede verhaal heeft vorige maand plaatsgevonden bij een man uit Engeland, Adrian Clarke. Het ’s nachts rond drie uur toen hij plotseling wakker schrok en recht naar twee BEK’s keek aan het voeteneinde van zijn bed.
Ook deze kinderen hadden gitzwarte ogen, maar droegen een oranje gewaad. Plotseling zat Adrian midden in een nachtmerrie waarbij hij een wereld zag waar miljarden mensen waren omgekomen en een totaal verwoestte aarde. Ook hij was eerst volledig verlamd, maar vocht ertegen en slaagde er uiteindelijk in om de betovering als het ware te verbreken. De beelden verdwenen van het ene op het andere moment, evenals de BEK’s.
Dan is er nog het geval met een dame uit de Amerikaanse staat Virginia. Zij ontmoette Redfern persoonlijk op een festival en vertelde hem wat haar was overkomen.
Het gebeurde in april van dit jaar en ook zij werd middenin de nacht wakker en keek recht in de gitzwarte ogen van enkele kinderen die aan haar bed stonden. Eén van hen wees naar de muur van haar slaapkamer en deze veranderde plotseling in een geweldig groot televisiescherm.
Op dit scherm verschenen beelden van een kernexplosie. Jennifer vertelde dat ze niet begreep hoe ze het wist, maar dat de stad die werd verwoest door een kernbom Milwaukee was in de staat Wisconsin. Zij is nog nooit in Milwaukee geweest en heeft daar ook geen familie, vrienden of bekenden. Net zoals Ron en Adrian, was ook Jennifer dagenlang overstuur na deze gebeurtenis.
Drie verschillende mensen, zelfs in verschillende landen en op verschillende tijdstippen, die alledrie dezelfde ervaring hebben. Dat ze alledrie BEK’s hebben gezien zou misschien nog verklaard kunnen worden doordat twee van hen het boek van Nick Redfern hadden gelezen, maar dat ook alledrie dezelfde apocalyptische beelden hebben gezien is wel heel merkwaardig.
Mochten er lezers zijn die ook iets dergelijke hebben meegemaakt, laat ons weten.
NASA observeert nauwgezet de activiteiten van de bekende Yellowstone vulkaan omdat er behoorlijk wat ongewone dingen gebeuren.
Nu plotsklaps komen wetenschappers van NASA met een plan om hitte vanuit de vulkaan af te voeren, maar als het mislukt is er grote kans dat deze juist zal uitbarsten.
Het is al jaren onrustig rondom de Yellowstone supervulkaan in Amerika. Regelmatig duiken er berichten op dat een uitbarsting van deze gigant misschien niet zo ver weg is.
Ook nu is er weer een groep seismologen die waarschuwen dat de Yellowstone supervulkaan “onder druk” staat, waarmee uiteraard dan weer de vrees toeneemt dat er een uitbarsting zal volgen.
En verder:
Dat alles toch niet zo normaal is als men wil doen voorkomen blijkt ook uit het feit dat vorig jaar het speciale NASA observatievliegtuig, een Boeing 747 genaamd Sophia en uitgerust met infrarode opname-apparatuur, vluchten uitvoerde boven Yellowstone. En nu is Yellowstone weer in het nieuws en dit keer door de onverwachte uitbarsting van een geiser met de naam Steamboat Geyser. Dit is sinds 2014 niet meer gebeurd en nu zijn er drie uitbarstingen in de afgelopen zes weken. Er zijn ooit een keer eerder drie uitbarstingen in één jaar geweest en dat was in 2003. Maar, dit jaar is pas vier maanden oud en aangezien iedere keer het woord “ongewoon” wordt gebruikt, raken mensen steeds wantrouwiger. Temeer ook omdat vulkanologen zoals Michael Poland, hun uiterste best doen om haastig te zeggen dat er helemaal niets aan de hand is, maar geen verklaring kunnen geven voor deze “ongewone” uitbarstingen. Het enige dat ze kunnen zeggen is dat er geen vast tijdschema bestaat voor dit soort uitbarstingen.
We zijn net twee maanden later en wat eigenlijk niemand voor mogelijk hield, is toch gebeurd en dat is dat Steamboat Geyser nu voor de tiende keer dit jaar is uitgebarsten.
We zijn inmiddels in oktober aanbeland en de Steamboat Geyser heeft net zijn 22e uitbarsting van dit jaar achter de rug. Het hoogste aantal uitbarstingen dat ooit in een bepaald jaar heeft plaatsgevonden was 1963 toen de teller op 29 eindigde.
NASA houdt zich al heel lang bezig met de problematiek rondom Yellowstone en werkt nu aan een plan dat de wereld moet redden van een uitbarsting door deze gigant.
Die plannen bestaan volgens Brian Wilcox van het NASA Jet Propulsion Lab uit het boren van een tien kilometer diep gat in de vulkaan waardoor water naar binnen kan worden gepompt. Op deze manier kan dan de hitte in de vulkaan langzaam afnemen. Tegelijkertijd zou dan de vrijgekomen hitte kunnen worden gebruikt als een soort enorme energiecentrale.
Er zouden dan ook investeerders gezocht moeten worden die hier brood in zien, want de kosten van het boren van een dergelijk gat met bijbehorende acties zou ongeveer 3,5 miljard dollar moeten kosten.
Maar, zegt Wilcox erbij: “Dit alles moet heel voorzichtig gebeuren, want het kleinste foutje kan ervoor zorgen dat deze supervulkaan juist zal uitbarsten”.
En als dat zou gebeuren, dan krijgen we op het noordelijk halfrond een langdurige vulkanische winter met als gevolg onder andere enorme problemen met de voedselvoorziening omdat oogsten zouden mislukken. Volgens cijfers van de Verenigde Naties is de totale reserve voorraad voedsel voor de wereld slechts genoeg voor 74 dagen.
Waar het op lijkt is dat men bij NASA een beetje in de paniekmodus verkeert en dat ze “iets” moeten doen, omdat de dreiging van deze vulkaan met de dag groter wordt.
Over of het massaal ontwaken van vulkanen en andere heftige aardveranderingen moet worden toegeschreven aan een onbekend groot object in ons zonnestelsel of iets anders, schrijft een lezer het volgende:
Om te beginnen, ik ben overtuigd van het bestaan van Niburu. Maar ik sluit mij aan bij de mening van Arend Zeevat betreffende tijdstip van passage en zijn mening over Masters en Lieder.
De reden hiervoor is als volgt, ik heb een nautische achtergrond en mijn hele leven de zeeën bevaren. Zodoende heb ik altijd te maken gehad met getijden en berekeningen etc.
Zoals een ieder met een beetje opleiding weten we dat het moeilijker is om vaste stoffen te bewegen dan vloeistoffen. Dus hoe komt het dat de vaste stoffen op aarde eerder reageren op een verstoring in aantrekkingskracht dat vloeibare stoffen zoals de zeeën? Getijtafels kloppen nog steeds! Dit zou onmogelijk zijn als er een enorm groot object of stelsel al in de buurt van de zon zou zijn.
Ik denk dat net als het klimaat, ook de aardkorst onderhevig is aan cyclussen, relatief gezien is onze observatie geschiedenis erg kort en wat er buiten valt zijn louter theorieën. Van de huidige wetenschap heb ik echt geen hoge hoed op, uitzonderingen daargelaten. Veel van Uw artikelen onderschrijven deze mening.
Voor 1895 waren er (Nobel)geen prijzen en commerciële doelen(industrie) en nu denk ik dat deze prijzen en doelen een prestatie dwang creëren die de basis is van frauduleuze bevindingen.
Wat het ook moge zijn, er gebeuren steeds vaker dingen die normaal gesproken zelden of nooit voorkomen. Zoals het instorten van bruggen.
Dit is iets dat je de laatste tijd misschien nog niet regelmatig komt, maar we hebben de ineenstorting van de brug bij Genua gehad deze zomer en nu stort er een brug in over een spoorweg in Rusland.
UFO UIT MINNESOTA OOK IN NEDERLAND GESIGNALEERD ( UPDATE + VIDEO )
UFO UIT MINNESOTA OOK IN NEDERLAND GESIGNALEERD ( UPDATE + VIDEO )
Onlangs publiceerden wij een artikel waar op drie verschillende tijdstippen in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota een groot cirkelvormig object met talloze lichten werd waargenomen door getuigen.
Het ziet er onmiskenbaar uit als een (buitenaards) ruimteschip en naar nu blijkt, is hetzelfde soort schip ook al eerder in Nederland gesignaleerd.
Update: 9 oktober 2018
In het originele artikel staat het verhaal beschreven van iemand die in Nederland in 1996 een UFO heeft waargenomen die identiek is aan die onlangs door diverse mensen is gezien in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota.
Na zijn verhaal komen wij tot de conclusie dat het dan geen drone kon zijn omdat die er nog niet waren in 1996. Dat is echter niet correct, want een lezer stuurt het volgende (dank!):
Even een kleine opmerking over een zinnetje in de laatste alinea van het UFO-artikel van donderdag 4 oktober. Daarin staat dat het geen drone kan zijn omdat die tot 1996 niet voorkwamen.
Ik woon in Papendrecht maar vrijwel niemand die hier woont weet dat Aviolanda hier vroeger zat en het schijnt dat die in de jaren 50 de eerste Nederlandse drone hebben gemaakt en gebruikt is door de Marine. Dit is wat wikipedia erover te zeggen heeft, de nederlandse wiki-versie bevat nauwelijks zinnige informatie.
Vaag verhaal maar er zaten (en zitten) een aantal onzuivere bedrijven en multinationals hier waar de 35.000 schapen niks vanaf weten.
Tot zover de lezer. Als we wat verder zoeken, dan blijkt echter de drone zelfs nog veel ouder te zijn en gaat eigenlijk al terug tot de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Het gaat om drie onafhankelijke waarnemingen in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota van een behoorlijk groot cirkelvormig object dat er als volgt uit zag:
Naar aanleiding van ons artikel, ontvingen wij de volgende mail(dank!):
This evening while looking at your site I saw “Ruimteschip hangt vier minuten boven weg Update”
This gave me the goosebumps! This is exacly what my X wife and myself saw in 1996 From Oeffelt To Our House In Boekel, I didn’t have a camera with me so I didn’t take a picture but now I see it and thank you for that.
Op die website staat inderdaad het hele verhaal wat er die zomeravond in juni 1996 gebeurde tijdens een autorit van Oeffelt naar Boekel, een afstand van zo’n 26 kilometer.
De man in kwestie was samen met zijn toenmalige vriendin op bezoek geweest bij vrienden die in een vrij afgelegen boerderij in de buurt van Oeffelt woonden.
Hij kan zich die avond van 22 juni 1996 nog goed herinneren, want dat was de avond dat Nederland tegen Frankrijk speelde voor de wereldkampioenschappen.
Rond middernacht vertrekt het stel omdat de volgende dag een werkdag was en ze een beetje op tijd in bed moesten liggen. Het eerste wat de man ziet is een rond object met vele lichten dat rondcirkelt boven de boerderij waar ze op bezoek waren. Het was identiek aan die die nu wordt waargenomen in Minnesota.
Het was een kilometer of 7 richting snelweg vanaf de boerderij en de weg was verlaten en liep door een vrijwel onbebouwd gebied. De vriendin kon vanuit de auto zien dat het object hen volgde rechts van de auto en exact dezelfde snelheid aan hield. Toen de man gas gaf accelereerde de UFO ook en toen hij een bocht naar rechts maakte volgde de UFO.
De man werd een beetje overmoedig, stopte de auto en stapte uit om beter te kunnen kijken. Het object draaide rond tegen de richting van de wijzers van de klok in en stopte boven een huis aan de rechterkant van de weg. Toen begon het met de richting van de wijzers van een klok mee te draaien en bewoog zich richting auto en de man had het gevoel alsof het object met hem communiceerde. Hij schat de grootte ervan op enkele voetbalvelden, geen kleintje dus. Bovendien maakte het geen geluid. Het vloog enkele keren over de auto en tenslotte stapte de man weer in.
Omdat ze op een gegeven moment onder een bladerdak van bomen reden dachten ze het object kwijt te zijn, maar niets was minder waar. Een minuut later was het weer terug aan de passagierskant van de auto. De vrouw vroeg hem om sneller te gaan rijden en de auto zo snel mogelijk thuis de garage in te rijden, hetgeen geschiedde.
Thuis gekomen was de man toch weer nieuwsgierig geworden, liep naar buiten en zag het object hangen boven het huis van de buren. Omdat het object nu heel dichtbij was en onder een bepaalde hoek hing, had de man heel sterk het gevoel dat ze naar hem keken. De man riep naar zijn vriendin en de babysitter om snel naar buiten te komen en toen ze dat deden schoot het object weg met hoge snelheid. Het verdween van het ene op het andere moment, zonder enig geluid te maken.
De man was een voormalig sergeant bij de luchtmacht en is daardoor wel goed in staat om onderscheid te maken tussen bijvoorbeeld een helikopter en een onbekend object.
Even later kwam het object nogmaals terug en werd toen ook gezien door de babysitter en de buurman die net zelf terugkwam van een feestje. Uiteindelijk verdween het object opnieuw en ze hebben het daarna nooit meer gezien. Wel bleek later dat er die avond veel UFO meldingen waren geweest in dat gebied.
Tot zover het verhaal.
Het mooie van dit verhaal is wel dat hiermee eigenlijk wordt uitgesloten dat het waargenomen object een drone is. Simpelweg omdat die in 1996 nog niet voor kwamen.
Wij hopen dat door het lezen van dit verhaal misschien meer mensen zich iets herinneren, hetzij van die avond of een andere gelegenheid waarbij ze ook dit bepaalde type UFO hebben gezien.
Odd-shaped UFO appears during opening 2018 Youth Olympics, Buenos Aires
Odd-shaped UFO appears during opening 2018 Youth Olympics, Buenos Aires
The 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, is an international sports, cultural, and educational event being hosted in Buenos Aires, Argentina between 6 and 18 October 2018.
During the opening of the 2018 Youth Olympics thousands of people witnessed an unidentified flying object just above the Obelisco de Buenos Aires (Obelisk of Buenos Aires) a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires.
Despite the shaky video, the strange craft is clearly visible.
UFO Creates Spiral Contrail Over Moorpark CA, USA, Video, October 7, 2018 UFO Sighting News.
UFO Creates Spiral Contrail Over Moorpark CA, USA, Video, October 7, 2018 UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 7, 2018 Location of sighting:Moorpark, California, USA Source: MUFON #95416 Here is a very strange UFO as it creates spirals of smoky trail behind it. The trails start high up, not from the ground so we know its not a rocket. This UFO is hard to see at the tip of the trail, but the trail sure makes it obvious that its there. Wow! I would have loved to see that one in person. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was walking up the street with my dogs when I felt my head want to turn left. I looked up and saw 2 bright lights of different sizes facing each other. White cloud looking objects around them and various colors of pink and green below. The biggest bright light was moving backward, and the smaller light was opening and closing. It was extremely bright. A couple people stopped their car to look as well. My dogs were pulling at me and another woman walking her dogs was trying to manhandle her dogs who were acting up- all while we stared into the sky. None of us said anything to each other, which I thought later was strange. The brightest light did not waver, just kept moving backward- but the smaller light that would open and close started to fade along with the colors and not-clouds.
Then, I saw a bright orange ball what looked to be the size of a basketball (to my eye) drop out of where the smaller light had been and start to drop to the ground. I ran up to try and see where it went but, I missed it. I did not hear any sound during the event, but one of my videos recorded a super strange sound. I have photos and video, which really does not show how bright and intense it was. I felt like I had to watch this, but then started to feel frightened, so I went inside after the orange ball dropped.
White Glowing UFOs Sighted Over Lansing, Illinois October 1, 2018 Video, UFO Sighting News.
White Glowing UFOs Sighted Over Lansing, Illinois October 1, 2018 Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 1, 2018 Location of sighting: Lansing, Illinois, USA
Over a fishing village in Japan several glowing lights maneuvered around catching the attention of local residents. Because of their high speed seen by witnesses, we know they are not man made objects. Also they are near the ocean and these UFOs may have come from an underwater alien base not far away. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
The location is Izumisawa fishing port in Kikonai-cho, Hokkaido Japan. It is the original image of the in-vehicle camera when I went fishing. A semitransparent object appeared at the super high speed from behind the trees on the right side, half turned clockwise around the side of the street pole, stopped at the rear trees stand still, moved rapidly to the upper right with the momentum I will. Immediately after the object on the right side stands at the top of the trees, something flickers from the upper side of the black wig boxer on the left side, something will appear, and if you look at the image often, some shadow of the object is reflected on the top of the wappokuka .
When I saw the picture, I was watching whether insects or someone was doing kite flying, but I have not seen such a person, and I can not confirm the insect on the windowpane of the car It is. The object that appeared from the top of the one box car was confirmed to move instantaneously afterwards and change direction and go up to the sky where the clouds are bright. I also caught the science fiction movie 's spaceship fading away. It was a movie far beyond imagination that can not be imagined on the earth. OMG!!
Photographer Shane Winter captured a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket over the Old Bank District of downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, October 7, 2018, just after the 7:21 p.m. launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Winter tells Inverse he used a Panasonic GH4 camera atop a tripod on his roof in LA. First he set the camera’s built-in intervalometer to capture 600 frames per second. He then framed up the shot, set the exposure, focus, and white balance. Then it was time for the launch, which you see above.
“I tend to process through [auto exposure] as it’ll handle the [raw image format] sequence and gives me options for color over time and movement that I don’t get through image editors; the ‘camera move’ is framing shift done there,” he explains.
The result is a stunner. A version of the animation had received more than 51,000 upvotes on reddit on Monday. The most-upvoted comment? “If I had no clue that was happening and saw it in the sky I would be freaking out,” observed one redditor.
The SAOCOM 1 mission by SpaceX put two satellites into orbit for Argentina’s Space Agency, and the pair will primarily gather data about soil moisture information, according to a mission briefing released by SpaceX.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 after it returned to Earth.
This was the first mission to utilize SpaceX’s new landing pad. The pad was under construction for around four years, with a slow process in part because the company didn’t need the pad before now. It’s the first one SpaceX has built on the west coast, and it will complement the droneship Just Read the Instructions for landing first stage boosters after missions from the Vandenberg Air Force Base. While it’s easier to collect rockets when they return to land, such landings require more fuel than sea-based missions, meaning SpaceX will likely choose the right tool for the mission depending on the circumstances.
REPORT: UNLESS WE MAKE DRAMATIC CHANGES, WE’RE HEADED FOR CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
REPORT: UNLESS WE MAKE DRAMATIC CHANGES, WE’RE HEADED FOR CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
NASA
Worse Than Expected
What an alarming difference a few years can make.
According to a report released Sunday by the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change, the 2015 Paris Agreement won’t be enough to stop the most serious damage from climate change.
“There is nothing opaque about this new data,” former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told The Guardian. “The illustrations of mounting impacts, the fast-approaching and irreversible tipping points are visceral versions of a future that no policy-maker could wish to usher in or be responsible for.”
Worth The Effort
Limiting global temperature increases to fewer than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels — a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement — would have been hard. Now, it looks like we need to shoot for an even tougher limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) if we want to avoid an increase in famine, drought, extreme weather events, and the many other devastating consequences of climate change.
Jim Skea, a co-author of the report, said in a press release that “[l]imiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics, but doing so would require unprecedented changes.”
The report suggests several ways we could ensure we don’t exceed the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) limit, and as some experts feared before the report’s release, they might not be entirely realistic. Huge carbon taxes will be politically unpopular in many nations, and while systems to capture carbon might work, the technology to implement them on the necessary scale simply doesn’t exist yet.
Still, while the situation outlined in the report is daunting, we can’t close our eyes and ears to it. We need to view this report as what it is: a wake-up call to the world that we must take immediate and bold action if we don’t want to find ourselves trying to live on an unlivable planet.
UFO technology: Has US military built space ship to travel the universe?
UFO technology: Has US military built space ship to travel the universe?
A MYSTERIOUS craft has been spotted near a US military base which has led some to believe a high tech spaceship could be involved in the new age space race.
Global powerhouses are in a race to get back to the moon, and ultimately to Mars, and conspiracy theorists are speculating the US could be leading the race after spotting something suspicious.
Users of Google Earth have been trawling the online globe to spot any suspicious activity and believe they have found something in New Mexico.
Two triangular crafts have been spotted in the middle of a massive 900 metre circle in the desert of New Mexico.
To make matters more mysterious, the two crafts, one much larger than the other,were found near the Holloman Air Force Base.
The Holloman Air Force Base is something of a UFO hotspot and was centre of a 1974 documentary which claimed experts there had been in contact with aliens.
Now conspiracy theorists believe that authorities at the air force base are using their ET knowledge to get into space.
The narrator of a video uploaded to YouTube by UFO hunting channel Third Phase of the Moon said: “What’s really strange is that when I first searched these coordinates, Google Earth didn’t really work so we had to go through a few different ways of trying to find this location.
“It looks like a craft but whatever it is is very advanced as you can see there is no landing pad.
UFO technology: Has US military built space ship to travel the universe?
(Image: YOUTUBE • GETTY)
“It Could be involved with the space race.”
Some were quick to agree with Third Phase of the Moon’s theory.
One user, Amy Lou, commented on the video: “I do believe a lot of the triangular crafts that appear dark like this are our government’s replicas of alien technology. But I also believe the some are extraterrestrial in origin.”
two triangular crafts have been spotted in the middle of a massive 900 metre circle
(Image: YOUTUBE)
However, other users had more logical theories.
Armond Gillian added: “They look like a couple of shade cloth tarps to keep the sun off whoever is under them. They don't look solid. The two shapes have indentations in them. It's hot as hell out there right now.”
In an age of wild claims churned out by politicians, media and advertisers, perhaps people don’t care as much any more
Philip Jaekl
Are aliens deserting us? Or do we simply not care any more? Photograph: Joe McBride/Getty Images
This month, the two major online sites for reporting UFOs – the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network – both documented steep drops in worldwide sightings. The declines started around 2014, when reports were at a peak. They have since reduced drastically to 55% of that year’s combined total, many UFO interest groups have folded, and numerous previously classified government documents have been disclosed.
Do these declines reveal that UFO interest is becoming a blip on the human cultural radar? Perhaps UFO and alien lore is seeming more like a reflection of human culture, tied to the space age, motivated by conquering new existential frontiers.
It might not be a coincidence that the term UFO (unidentified flying object) and some of the phenomena that surrounds it – abductions and impossible technologies – are relatively recent. Before the 1940s, reports of sightings of objects in the sky were extremely rare. Centuries of recorded history give no clear indication of any such activity. Then, at the predawn of the space-age, around the time of the Roswell conspiracy, UFO culture was born, giving rise to everything from Space Invaders to The X-Files.
Possible answers as to why sightings are decreasing are varied. A key factor, however, may be that more people simply don’t care any more. As we are accustomed to being inundated with wild claims churned out by politicians, media and advertisers, the next report of a UFO is no more believed than the long-range weather forecast.
Before home video, photographs were the staple of UFO evidence. Video evidence, during the height of the 1990s UFO mania, was regarded by many as even more substantial. Amateur footage of glowing objects in the sky, as mysterious as they seemed real, made the cut for appearing on television – they were meant to be taken seriously and they fed an audience hungry for amazement, helped by a healthy dose of conspiracy theorising.
According to the cultural historian Stuart Walton, “Belief in UFOs is definitely in a state of decline, along with much else that could be classed as paranormal. Part of the reason is that the technology for providing documentary evidence of such matters is now widely available to everybody with a smartphone, and such purported evidence as there is on YouTube looks extremely threadbare.”
He adds: “It isn't so much that belief can exist without proof; it's that it must emphatically avoid proof to remain belief. We are in the process, paradoxically, of proving a negative hypothesis with UFOs: there never was any such thing.”
Indeed, indisputable evidence of intelligent life coming to Earth could be the greatest news of all time. Yet, after thousands of anecdotal, photo, and video reports have accrued over decades, what are we to conclude? With the greatest balance of scepticism and “wanting to believe”, all that can confidently be asserted is that some objects, appearing in the sky on film or video, seem unidentifiable.
Furthermore, government disclosure of its own video footage isn’t helping to maintain belief. Joseph Baker, sociology professor at Tennessee State University, says: “It’s actually better for UFOs when ufologists can claim that ‘the powers that be know everything and are hiding it from us’ rather than seeing that the government appears to have basically the same info about UFOs as the public: namely grainy, inconclusive visual evidence.”
Perhaps though, the declines in reported sightings may signify only an end to current trends in ufology. After all, from the 1940s aliens were originally characterised as saviours who could help humans transcend the cold-war paranoia of nuclear annihilation; especially marked at the time, after two world wars. But after events like Watergate and the Vietnam war fuelled distrust in government, UFOs came to be viewed more as a possible threat, and some came to believe their existence was verified in secret military documents.
Sharon Hill, a researcher on the paranormal and pseudoscience, says: “The ideas about UFOs and aliens continue to evolve as we project our social and cultural ideas on them. Since we have no single easy explanation for all these claims regarding the decline in sightings, the future vision of ufology seems rather open-ended. I don't think it's dead, just changing.”
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.
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