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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THAT IS AN AVERAGE OF 400GUESTS PER DAY.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
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...
20-10-2018
Exposing the Secret History of Giants and the Underground Hyperborean Gallery in Romania
Exposing the Secret History of Giants and the Underground Hyperborean Gallery in Romania
With Rosia Montana being a mining area, a number of interesting discoveries have been unearthed there over the years – one of the most interesting being a skeleton of a 10 meter (32.8 feet) tall giant which was found in 1976.
About 5,500 years ago, an underground gallery was constructed in the region by the Agathyrsi. In February 2012, a group of geologists followed the gold vein in the same place. They kept digging until they ended up at the base of the gallery. To their utter surprise, they found a gravestone which was definitely not made of common rock. The geologists took a sample, and the laboratory results revealed that the components of the tombstone included 55% 50 karat gold dust, 15% granite dust and 30% wolfram. Also, the analysis revealed that the composite rock had been made using a type of technology unknown today.
The Hyperborean Gallery
Known by the name of “The Hyperborean Gallery” or “Gallery 13”, the place of this amazing discovery is located beneath Cornea village. A number of other discoveries were made at the site in 1976. However, in the name of “security” the anthropological and archaeological discoveries were deemed too unusual and shocking for the time, so the gallery was permanently sealed.
The gravestone was not the only unusual item found inside the gallery. On it, archaeologists found a 10 meter (32.8 ft.) tall skeleton of a giant. Apparently, the giant had been buried there after his death, with his legs gathered on one side. Lacking the proper equipment necessary to analyze such a find, the skeleton was sent to Moscow. Unfortunately, nothing has been reported about the giant ever since.
The discovery of a skeleton that measures 10 meters or 32.8 Feet.
As for the tombstone, a new series of research was planned to analyze it in 2012. The relic was dug up once again and measurements showed that it was six meters (19.7 feet) wide, twelve meters (39.4 feet) long and three meters (9.8 feet) tall. It weighed almost 1700 tons and contained somewhere around 900 tons of solid gold. To make a comparison, such a quantity of gold would have required over twenty years of mining work to gather. The last thing known about the gravestone is that it had been cut up into 80 smaller pieces in order to make its transportation possible. As for its destination, it is not known where it lies today.
One of the archaeologists working in Gallery 13 took a set of photos with the gravestone and sent them to a paleolinguist. The latter noticed emerald green bas-relief writing covering the entire surface of the artifact. The text had been written in three parallel rows which started in the upper left. From there, the writing descended diagonally, similar to a serpent, and formed a spiral around a wolf head. Finally, the script ended in the lower right corner. The paleolinguist speculated that the unknown writing could be Pelasgian and that the discovery with its markings and writing clearly possessed great cultural and historical value. Nevertheless, the gravestone was cut and melted. The state obtained a share of 19 pieces, 31%, as stipulated in the local gold exploitation contract.
During the excavation, the lifting of the gravestone also revealed the entrance to a pit. The four meter (13.1 feet) diameter pit had a descending spiral stairway and a milky violet light radiated from the inside. A closer inspection of the stairs made it clear that they looked as if cut into the walls of the pit by a laser and, as for the violet light, nobody could determine its source.
Curious to find the source of the light and to see what was inside, the paleolinguist descended into the pit, but nobody else proved brave enough to join him. The night passed and the man never returned from the pit.
Ultimately, the army sealed the entry to the pit, as well as the entire Gallery 13, with cement. Those present never talked about the discoveries again - as they had been made to sign confidentiality agreements, therefore what lies beyond the staircase of the pit remains a mystery.
Romanian Giant Legends
Depending on the region of Romania where the legends come from, there are different names for giants. In the Boziorul area, giants are known as “tartars” (“tartari”), for example. A number of unusually tall skeletons have been uncovered at Scaieni, in Buzaului Mountains. For instance, when locals tried to plant apple trees on a hill, they accidentally discovered humanoid skeletons of over 2.4 meters (8.2 feet) tall along with pottery fragments.
Knowing the local legends, people from the area immediately thought about the tartars. One of these legends even claims that the mountain formation known as the “Pillars of Tainita” (“Stalpii Tainitei”) had actually been built by these giants of old. In the past, the giants were also credited for building two large underground halls somewhere beneath the mountain.
The strange formation which can be seen up on Tainita Mountain resembles a set of stone chairs. As they are found at high altitude and in a highly inaccessible area, locals claim that tartars built the chairs to sit on when they wanted to gather for council.
Another legend from Hateg Country (“Tara Hategului”), tells the tale of two giantesses who built two cities: one in Deva and the other on the peak of the Severed Mountain (“Muntele Retezat”) respectively. Upon the end of the construction, when the giantess from Deva beheld her rival’s city and saw it had turned out more beautiful, she became envious. In a moment of rage, she threw a plough towards the mountain citadel - destroying it and severing the top of the mountain at the same time. In this way, the mountain earned its name, being known ever since as the Severed Mountain.
The Retezat Mountains seen from atop one of them (Vârfu Mare, "The Big Peak").
In regions such as Teleorman, Giurgiu, and southern Muntenia, giants are known as “jidovs” (“jidovi”). A local legend speaks about a hero going by the name of Novac who fought a jidov. Once the giant was defeated, he ran away to save his life, but in his flight he left a mark on the ground. The area has been called “Brazda lui Novac” ever since. In the region there are also other formations called “maguri” by locals who believe that these have been built by giants.
A number of archaeological discoveries have been made in Giurgiu. For example, it was found that in Argedava, King Burebista had his first city (before he unified the Dacian tribes of the area). Yet, an even more interesting discovery was made between the years 1940 and 1950. In this period, archaeologists unearthed 80 humanoid skeletons which appeared to be giants. The huge skeletons measured about four to five meters (13-16 feet) in height.
Giant skeletons have been unearthed in other parts of the country as well. As one example, in October 1989, 20 giant skeletons were found in Pantelimon – Lebada.
A sculpture of a giant’s leg in Corbii din Piatra, Romania.
Other such discoveries have been unearthed at Polovragi, at Cetateni, beneath Negru Voda Monastery, and in the Bucegi Mountains - where the existence of a network of underground tunnels surprised workers.
Thus, skeletons of giants have been discovered in many places around Romania. To get straight to the point, giants have been discovered in: Scaieni in Buzau County, Mariuta in Calarasi County, Persani Mountains, Polovragi, Piatra Craiului, Tara Hategului, Cetateni beneath Negru Voda Monastery, and in many other places.
In Maramures, the Fortress of Oncesti (“Cetatea de la Oncesti”) was believed to be the home of the giants. At Argedava, giants with a height of over five meters (16 feet) have been discovered in 80 graves. Although most are suddenly “lost” after being discovered, the secret Romanian giants continue to be unearthed.
A new study has sent ripples throughout the seismological world — a team of researchers from the Australian National University have found a new way to confirm that the Earth’s core is solid.
A simplified schematic of the Earth’s structure.
If you think about it, the very fact that we know so much about the Earth’s interior is stunning. The deepest hole we’ve dug is “only” around 12 km deep, whereas the radius of our planet is 6378 km — so how could we know so much about the Earth’s structure?
Seismic waves
Scientists use many bits and pieces of information to study this structure, but the most important clues come from seismic waves. Whenever an earthquake takes place, it sends out pressure waves in all directions — much like the acoustic waves we use to speak and hear sounds. These waves propagate through the subsurface, reflecting and refracting as they move from one environment to the other. Eventually, they reach the surface, where they are picked up by seismographs — devices that measure the movement of the earth.
Using seismographs, researchers can infer a surprisingly large amount of information. For instance, by measuring the arrival time of seismic waves at different seismograph stations, the position of the earthquakes’ epicentres can be triangulated — this is how we know where earthquakes happen.
But that’s just the start of it.
A typical seismogram.
More than just data about the earthquake itself, we can derive data about the rocks through which the seismic wave has traveled. For instance, generally speaking, there are three types of seismic waves:
P or Primary waves, which are longitudinal waves (these are the fastest and the first to arrive);
S or Secondary waves, which are shear waves; and
Surface waves, which are slower than both P and S waves, but have larger amplitude and more complex movements.
A simple simulation of an S wave structure.
P waves travel through any type of medium, whereas S waves only move through solid environments — not liquid. This was a huge indication that the Earth’s outer core is a liquid, as S waves don’t appear to pass through it. It’s not a liquid in a conventional sense (think of it more like viscous, molten lava, or thick honey), but it’s definitely not a solid.
A depiction of different seismic waves propagating through the Earth.
This also revealed that the inner core is solid, as S waves appear to be able to pass through it. However, the small size of the inner core makes detecting shear waves very difficult, and this theory could still use additional verification. This is where the new study comes in.
A J wave is nothing more than an S wave that passes through the inner core — seismologists love giving different names to waves depending on where they pass through, but don’t let it confuse you, it’s still a shear, S wave.
J waves are rather elusive because they have small amplitudes, and the Earth’s inner core has a relatively small volume, which means that many seismic waves simply go around it. The small, feeble amplitude is so problematic that detecting J-waves has sometimes been referred to as the “Holy Grail” of global seismology.
However, Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić and PhD Scholar Than-Son Phạm believe they’ve found a new way to identify J waves. What they did is pretty creative: instead of looking directly at the wave as it comes, they simply ignore it for the most part and look at the wave signal hours after the largest rumbles have passed. By studying the similarities between these signals at two receivers after a major earthquake, they’re able to observe a correlation of patterns, and this correlation is the key to the J-wave identification. A similar approach was used by other scientists to study the thickness of Antarctic ice.
“Using a global network of stations, we take every single receiver pair and every single large earthquake – that’s many combinations – and we measure the similarity between the seismograms,” lead author Hrvoje Tkalčić explained.
“That’s called cross correlation, or the measure of similarity. From those similarities we construct a global correlogram – a sort of fingerprint of the Earth.”
“We’re throwing away the first three hours of the seismogram and what we’re looking at is between three and 10 hours after a large earthquake happens. We want to get rid of the big signals,” Dr. Tkalčic added.
Using this approach, they confirmed that the inner core seems indeed solid, though it seems to exhibit some differences from current models. In fact, it’s a bit like two very familiar materials: gold and platinum.
“We found the inner core is indeed solid, but we also found that it’s softer than previously thought,” Associate Professor Tkalčić said.
“It turns out – if our results are correct – the inner core shares some similar elastic properties with gold and platinum. The inner core is like a time capsule, if we understand it we’ll understand how the planet was formed, and how it evolves.”
We should still wait for additional observations to confirm this study but, for now, it seems like the information about the nature of the inner core is becoming more and more solid.
Lots of rumours about the moon right now, any are claiming the moon got hit and YouTube is deleting all videos and banning users over any footage.
What does the community know and think? Wild rumours and not much proof yet.
I don't know if you guys have noticed but there has been a lot of predictive programming that says "something big is coming". I've heard it mentioned on the radio, I've seen stuff on TV (which I rarely watch) I've seen stuff in print, social media, every media outlet you can think of has made the statement that something big is coming.
Update: As of now, YouTube did not provide any official reason for the "outage".
WETENSCHAPTijd voor een bijzondere ruimtemissie naar de planeet Mercurius: een Europese satelliet zal in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag -om 3.45 uur Belgische tijd- gelanceerd worden vanuit Frans-Guyana. Tegelijkertijd reist een Japanse satelliet mee, samen zullen ze de planeet onderzoeken.
Mercurius is de eerste en de kleinste planeet van ons zonnestelsel. Vanwege de nabijheid van de zon is het heel moeilijk om er te komen. De satellieten vliegen na vertrek één keer langs de aarde, twee keer langs Venus en zes keer langs Mercurius. Pas in 2026 komen ze in een baan rond de planeet.
De omweg moet voorkomen dat de zon de satellieten meesleurt en opslokt. Door de zon is er heel weinig bekend over Mercurius. Wat tot nu toe ontdekt is, roept veel vragen op bij wetenschappers.
Tien rondjes per dag De Europese satelliet heet MPO. Hij zal tien rondjes per dag rond Mercurius draaien, en dat minstens één jaar lang. De missie moet onder meer duidelijk maken waaruit het oppervlak van de planeet bestaat. Bovendien zal de zwaartekracht gemeten worden, en dat kan dan weer iets zeggen over het binnenste van de planeet.
De Japanse sonde Mio moet kijken naar de omgeving van Mercurius, waaronder de zogeheten zonnewind. Dat is een stroom geladen deeltjes van de zon, die de planeet continu bombardeert.
Zo dicht bij de zon is het extreem warm, ongeveer 450 graden Celsius. Dat is in principe ‘dodelijk’ voor satellieten. De Europese sonde is daarom voorzien van een ‘koeldeken’ die in het Nederlandse Noordwijk getest is. Die zorgt ervoor dat het binnen tussen de min 40 en plus 20 graden blijft. “Knus genoeg voor onze instrumenten”, aldus onderzoeker Johannes Benkhoff.
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WAS EZEKIEL DESCRIBING EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS IN THE BIBLE?
WAS EZEKIEL DESCRIBING EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS IN THE BIBLE?
Of the many accounts in the Bible of strange happenings and otherworldly occurrences, the story of Ezekiel is one of the more fascinating, especially when looked at through the lens of modern technology. When biblical texts are interpreted through this perspective in general, an interesting picture emerges of the possibility that our ancient ancestors were actually visited by an advanced race, rather than gods. This idea, known as the ancient astronaut theory, sees Ezekiel’s “vision” of the Merkabah, or wheeled chariot, as more likely to be a spaceship or space shuttle used by an advanced species to reach out to humans.
Erich von Däniken is one of the biggest proponents of this theory, providing a very compelling argument for an alternative interpretation of the Book of Ezekiel. So, compelling that his theory even reversed the entire thesis of a NASA scientist’s book aimed at disproving his claim.
ERICH VON DÄNIKEN’S CHARIOTS OF THE GODS
In the 1970s, Erich von Däniken was invited to a secret speech at NASA where he met Josef F. Blumrich. The two spoke about von Däniken’s ancient astronaut theory from his book, Chariots of the Gods, notably the idea that Ezekiel’s vision was that of a space shuttle, rather than a divine chariot. This conversation led Blumrich on a mission to disprove von Däniken’s seemingly absurd theory, so he did some research of his own and started writing a book. However, the evidence was overwhelming and Blumrich had an epiphany. Ezekiel was undoubtedly describing an advanced spacecraft. Blumrich even used Ezekiel’s description of the craft to patent his own version of an omnidirectional wheel.
THE ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORY
Ezekiel is a key figure in Judaism and is also prominent in other Abrahamic biblical texts. Ezekiel was brought to Babylon in the first captivity of Israel and is described as a prophet. One of the interesting characteristics of The Book of Ezekiel as a biblical text is that it is written using the pronoun, I, clearly showing it being written by Ezekiel himself as a first-person account, unlike many biblical texts written in the third person. This seems to lend a little more credit and personality to the story as it is told shortly after its occurrence.
Ezekiel describes seeing a wheeled chariot descend toward him from the sky, piloted by beings with the “likeness of a man.” While many biblical versions of the story describe this being on the chariot as God, von Däniken points out that the original Hebrew version never mentions God, this word was added later.
Ezekiel’s description of the wheeled chariot landing sounds much like that of the landing of a spacecraft. The windstorm, flash of lightning, and brilliant lights are reminiscent of a spacecraft coming down for a landing and kicking up dirt in a spectacle never before seen by someone of such a primitive era. Ezekiel even describes the fire powering the chariot as appearing as ‘glowing metal.’
“4I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal,5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human,6 but each of them had four faces and four wings.7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze.8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings,9 and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.”
– Ezekiel 1
There is clearly some discrepancy between this description and much of the way Ezekiel’s vision is portrayed in biblical artwork. Pictures often leave out the details involving the fire, omnidirectional wheels, and the vaulted crystal encasing over the heads of the human-like creatures.
“15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.17 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went.18 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around… 22 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome.”
– Ezekiel 1
These creatures with the ‘likeness of man,’ then take Ezekiel with them in their craft, bringing him to a ‘temple’ on top of the highest mountain. During his flight there, Ezekiel mentions feeling the hand of God on him, which could be interpreted as the force of gravity, or g-forces, felt when lifting off. He is taken to these beings’ ‘temple,’ which is likely a staging area or city where they reside.
CORROBORATING EVIDENCE
Throughout an array of biblical stories, the Ark of the Covenant presents itself as an artifact of interest for von Däniken’s theory. But it’s mention in the Kebra Nagast, an account of Christianity in Ethiopia under King Solomon, is where he sees the most relevancy. In this account, he says that it was known that King Solomon had flying machines that weren’t mentioned in the Bible as well as possession of the highly coveted Ark. These texts note that people were afraid of the Ark, as it often killed those who were in close contact with it. Was this because it was radioactive or electrically charged? Was the Ark of the Covenant a plutonium reactor?
Erich Von Däniken says he believes there are other bible verses that fit into his ancient astronaut theory, including some that hint at similar ‘temples’ or landing areas for spacecraft, much like the one Ezekiel was brought to. One such temple known as, Chavin de Huantar can be found in Peru, sitting thousands of feet high on a mountain from a culture of which little is known. The temple is decorated with winged figures and sculpted heads that appear to be wearing helmets. Von Däniken says he believes these to be of similar origin to those described by Ezekiel in the Bible. Is this actual evidence of ancient astronauts or an imaginative theory?
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Beschreef profeet Ezechiël buitenaardse bezoekers in de Bijbel? Dit zijn de aanwijzingen
Beschreef profeet Ezechiël buitenaardse bezoekers in de Bijbel? Dit zijn de aanwijzingen
In de jaren zeventig werd schrijver Erich von Däniken uitgenodigd voor een geheime NASA-bijeenkomst, waar hij Josef F. Blumrich ontmoette.
De twee spraken over het boek ‘Waren de goden kosmonauten?’ en dan met name het deel waarin wordt gesteld dat de wielen uit de Bijbel die profeet Ezechiël zag, in werkelijkheid spaceshuttles waren.
Blumrich vond dit zo’n absurde theorie dat hij besloot het werk van Von Däniken te ontkrachten.
Overweldigend
Hij ging op onderzoek uit en begon aan een boek te werken. Het bewijs was echter zo overweldigend dat Blumrich helemaal bijdraaide. Zijn boek kreeg uiteindelijk de titel ‘The Spaceships of Ezekiel’ (de ruimteschepen van Ezechiël).
Ezechiël zegt een wiel te zien dat neerdaalt uit de hemel, bestuurd door wezens die op mensen lijken.
Hoewel deze wezens vaak ‘goden’ worden genoemd, wees Von Däniken erop dat in de oorspronkelijke Hebreeuwse versie nooit het woord God wordt genoemd. Dit woord is later pas toegevoegd.
Ezechiël lijkt het landen en opstijgen van een ruimteschip te beschrijven:
Opnieuw keek ik naar de wezens, en ik zag bij elk van de vier een wiel op de grond staan, aan de voorkant. De wielen glansden alsof ze gemaakt waren van turkoois en ze hadden alle vier dezelfde vorm: ze leken op een wiel midden in een ander wiel. Hun velgen waren angstwekkend hoog, en elk van de vier velgen was afgezet met ogen. Als de wezens zich bewogen, gingen de wielen mee, en als de wezens opstegen van de aarde, stegen ook de wielen op. Als de wezens zich bewogen, bewogen ook de wielen, en als ze stilstonden, stonden ook de wielen stil. Als ze van de aarde opstegen, stegen ook de wielen op; een en dezelfde geest leidde immers de wezens en de wielen.
– Ezechiël 1
De wezens die ‘op mensen leken’ namen Ezechiël mee in hun schip en brachten hem naar een ‘tempel’ bovenop de hoogste berg.
Helmen
Deze ‘tempels’ zijn mogelijk landingsplaatsen geweest voor ruimteschepen, aldus Von Däniken. Eén zo’n tempel, Chavin de Huantar, kan worden gevonden in Peru.
Deze tempel bevindt zich op duizenden meters hoogte op een berg en is achtergelaten door een cultuur waar maar weinig over bekend is.
De tempel is voorzien van gevleugelde figuren die helmen lijken te dragen.
If there’s something strange in (or over) your neighborhood … who ya gonna call? If it looks like a UFO or a part from one, don’t call 9-1-1 or MUFON – call SpaceX. Numerous recent reports of mysterious lights in the sky and weird objects washing up on beaches are being positively identified as either SpaceX launches or SpaceX pieces. Hello, Elon? Yes, I’ll hold.
They‘re happening so often that the mystery should have worn off, but it seems people, especially Californians, are still being fooled by bright lights with colorful and ever-expanding trails. Two such “UFO” sightings that received a lot of attention occurred in October and December of 2017 in the sky over Los Angeles and southern California. Both were quickly identified as SpaceX launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base north of LA. For non-believers (and there seemed to be plenty of them), experts were accessed by SpaceX and the media to explain rocket contrails and the “twilight phenomena.”
The trailing plumes (a great name for a band) or condensation trails are caused by exhaust made up of water vapor, smoke and miscellaneous particles of burnt rocket fuel. The water vapor freezes at the tropopause boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere and the ice crystals and minute particles give the contrail its visibility. The bright colors come courtesy of the setting sun (in California) or the rising sun on Florida launches. Because of the altitude of the rocket, the sun can be below the horizon and still illuminate the trail.
What about the bright lights that make it look like a UFO mothership sending off landing parties? That’s SpaceX successfully landing the first stage of the rockets. Here’s the real question – is SpaceX launching at twilight just to mess with us? Hello, Elon? Yes, I’ll hold.
Some of those first stages are landing but others are not, which means they’re ending up, along with the second stages and miscellaneous other parts, in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. With Falcon 9 rockets being launched 63 times over the past 8 years, that’s a lot of space litter. Which brings us to North Carolina and other east coastal states where people are mistaking giant pieces of unidentifiable metal found on beaches for parts of alien spaceships. The latest was discovered this past Tuesday along the Outer Banks in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The object measured 10 feet by 6 feet and was heavy enough to require a front-end loader to remove it. SpaceX quickly claimed it as its own and probably took it to where it put another rocket piece from the nosecone found in October. What about that giant foam object that washed up on a South Carolina beach in October? SpaceX was mum on that one and its source appears to still be a mystery.
As movies like First Man remind us, rocket launches were once big events announced loudly by NASA and covered extensively by the media. While a non-military government agency may have an obligation to notify the public of launches certainly has an obligation to clean up its mess, does a private launch company? The answer should be “yes,” especially if the owners want us to buy their electric cars or order stuff from their online store. (Hello, Jeff? Yes, I’ll hold.)
So, it’s fun but unfair to just blame SpaceX. With these launches being mistaken for UFOs and even causing small “panics”; with space junk washing up on beaches and causing similar concerns; and the recent abort of a manned launch, perhaps it’s time to go back to treating these launches as a big deal and alerting the public beforehand.
Hello, somebody? Yes, I’ll hold. Could you play another song by The Trailing Plumes?
Flying saucers have been part of our cultural landscape for over 70 years. For most of this time, they have teetered precariously on the fringes of acceptable debate, widely considered to be the stuff of fantasy and paranoia.
But it may be that attitudes are gradually beginning to shift. In December 2017, the US government broke its decades of silence on the UFO issue through its proxy acknowledgement of a Pentagon UFO project called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The conclusions of the project, which ran from 2008 to 2012 at a cost of $22 million (and which continues quietly to this day), were that “aircraft” of apparently unearthly origin are routinely penetrating America’s airspace.
These aircraft, according the former head of the Pentagon project, Louis Elizondo, exhibit flight characteristics that defy the laws of our known physics. They do not belong to the United States of America, nor, apparently, to any other nation on Earth. Moreover, it also emerged that the Pentagon has recovered metal alloys from UFOs which are currently being stored and studied under lock and key by billionaire defense contractor Robert Bigelow.
Since then, a number of videos have surfaced of UFOs being tracked and pursued by military aircraft in cases investigated by the Pentagon’s AATIP program. The military officers involved in these cases were later interviewed on primetime news shows and treated by their hosts on Fox, CNN and others with the utmost respect. Could it be that the corporate media are fast recognising as legitimate a subject that for so long has served as little more than tabloid fodder? If so, we must ask ourselves a question: is it still considered kooky to believe in UFOs?
As someone who has carved himself a semi-career in the weird world of “UFOlogy,” I would of course argue that it has neverreally been kooky to believe in UFOs. Indeed, I would argue that “belief” in UFOs has never really been required. Unidentified Flying Objects, whatever they truly represent, exist. This much is clear. They are real, and governments around the world have known this for many decades.
UFOs and national security around the world
The US government’s interest in UFOs dates back to the summer of 1947 when America’s national security apparatus was besieged by hundreds of reports from concerned citizens and military personnel of what appeared to be metallic disc-shaped objects traversing the nation’s skies, sometimes in formation and often at impossible speeds. On 24 June 1947, a private aviator and businessman, Kenneth Arnold, reported seeing a chain of nine unusual objects over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. He described the objects’ movement as being “like a saucer if you skip it across the water,” inspiring the press to dub the mystery objects “flying saucers.” Many hundreds of saucer sightings were reported worldwide in the months to follow.
In 1948 the US Air Force produced its top secret and highly controversial “Estimate of the Situation,” an official report concluding flying saucers to be “interplanetary” in origin. Other factions within the Air Force, however, favoured the more palatable idea that the saucers were the product of technological innovations in the Soviet Union. Either way, secrecy regarding the issue was of paramount importance as the question of whether the objects were physically real had already been affirmatively answered in the minds of America’s military leaders. In a once secret letter to Air Force Headquarters dated 23 September 1947, General Nathan Twining, head of Air Materiel Command (AMC), stated that flying saucers were “real and not visionary or fictitious,” that they had “metallic or light reflecting surface[s],” were “circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top,” and were sometimes sighted in “well-kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects.” In a previously top secret Canadian government document dating from 1950, Wilbert Smith, head of the Canadian government’s UFO research project, noted of UFOs that “The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States government, rating higher even than the H-bomb.”
Today, numerous governments worldwide maintain dedicated and costly UFO study projects, collating and often investigating what collectively amount to thousands of UFO sighting reports made annually to authorities. In South America alone, the governments of Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Chile, and Brazil, either operate UFO investigations units or actively collect UFO sighting reports through their militaries. Other governments, including those of France, New Zealand, Denmark, Canada, and Russia, have, in recent years, released to the public thousands of pages of previously classified UFO files.
The UK government has engaged with its citizenry through a process which has seen the release of thousands of previously classified UFO files through the National Archives. According to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), UFOs (or UAPs—Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) “certainly exist,” but are “still barely understood.” In a formerly secret 400-page assessment of the UFO phenomenon released in 2006 under the Freedom of Information Act, the UK Defence Intelligence Staff acknowledged that:
“The phenomena occur on a daily, world-wide basis. That UAP exist is indisputable. Credited with the ability to hover, land, take-off, accelerate to exceptional velocities, and vanish, they can reportedly alter their direction of flight suddenly and clearly can exhibit aerodynamic characteristics well beyond those of any known aircraft or missile—either manned or unmanned.”
The report also notes that “attempts by other nations to intercept the unexplained objects, which can clearly change position faster than an aircraft, have reportedly already caused fatalities,” and warns that, with the increasing density of UAP reports in the UK air defence region, “a small possibility may exist… of a head-on encounter with a UAP.”
There appears, then, to be a broad consensus among the governments cited above: UFOs are objectively real, albeit currently not fully understood by science. They are worthy, at best, of focused study, and, at the very least, of sustained monitoring in the interests of aviation safety and national security.
It seems that UFOs, regardless of their precise nature and origin, are objectively real. Moreover, it would seem that at least some UFOs are the product of non-terrestrial intelligences and that various governments, or military and intelligence groups within them, are well aware of this fact. Let us address this preceding sentence in two parts. First, why should we indulge the notion that some UFOs may be otherworldly in nature?
We are not alone
In 2015, NASA Chief Scientist, Ellen Stofan, announced her conviction that signs of primitive alien life will be discovered within just ten years from now. “We know where to look. We know how to look,” she said while speaking at a panel discussion broadcast on Nasa TV. “In most cases we have the technology and we’re on a path to implementing it. And so I think we’re definitely on the road.”
Stofan was discussing the discovery of rudimentary alien lifeforms. However, renowned theoretical physicist Professor Mickio Kaku has gone considerably further with his suggestion that alien life may already be visiting us and that some UFOs could indeed be extraterrestrial spacecraft. According to Kaku, considering the age of the universe (13.82 billion years), many, if not most extraterrestrial civilizations will be technologically thousands or even millions of years more advanced than our own (ours is so young it barely registers on the cosmic timeline). If such civilizations exist, certain physicists, including Kaku, consider it likely that they will have developed hyperspatial technologies that enable their spacecraft to circumvent the light speed barrier, thereby opening the gates for interstellar travel.
The popular assumption in the UFO community is that true UFOs are extraterrestrial vehicles—an assumption undoubtedly reinforced by Hollywood, which prefers a simplistic approach. However, while the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) is appealing on many levels, some have argued that it fails to account for all aspects of UFO phenomena as reported by witnesses. Certainly, it has been my own experience that the closer one looks at UFOs, the harder it becomes to reconcile the phenomenon solely with visits from outer space. Indeed, in a puzzling amount of cases, the phenomenon seems to tailor its manifestations to the expectations of the individual perceiver based on spiritual or ideological values. Extraterrestrial intelligences may play some role in all of this, but it would be a mistake to consider ETs as a definitive solution to the UFO riddle.
Still, the ETH has considerable merit on the face of it. Extraterrestrial life in primitive forms almost certainly exists. If it exists, then the laws of evolution dictate that extraterrestrial intelligences far in advance of our own probably exist. As has been stated very recently by military personnel linked to the Pentagon’s UFO study program, structured craft exhibiting performance characteristics well beyond Earth’s most advanced technologies definitely exist, and have been quietly studied for years. It therefore seems not unreasonable to suggest that at least some UFOs may be of non-human origin, despite historical assertions to the contrary.
As for my suggestion that various governments—or military and intelligence groups within them—are quietly aware of the possible non-human nature of UFOs, this is a logic based not on Hollywood movies or TV shows such as Men In Black or The X-Files, but on tens-of-thousands of pages of declassified government documentation which, collectively, paints a surprisingly clear (though certainly not explicit) picture of a decidedly unearthly phenomenon that for over six decades has held, vice-like, the attention of the powers that be, not only in the United States, but around the world.
The real X-Files: UFOs and officialdom
On 31 January 1949, the FBI issued a memo on UFOs entitled “Protection of Vital Installations.” The classified document was sent to the Army’s G-2, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The memo reveals that a meeting between these authorities had recently taken place concerning UFOs, and states that “the matter of ‘Unidentified Aircraft’ or ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,’ otherwise known as ‘Flying Discs,’ ‘Flying Saucers,’ and ‘Balls of Fire,’ is considered top secret by intelligence officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.” The FBI document catalogues a list of incursions by unknown objects into restricted airspace surrounding the Atomic Energy Commission’s highly sensitive research installation at Los Alamos, New Mexico, throughout December 1948 and into early 1949.
The memo goes on to explain that “the unidentified phenomena travel at the rate of speed estimated at a minimum of three miles per second and a maximum of twelve miles per second, or a mean calculated speed of seven and one-half miles per second, or 27,000 miles per hour.” Needless to say, such speeds are well beyond the capacity of any terrestrial aircraft of the 21st Century, never mind the 20th. Even more eye-popping are the memo’s statements that “on two separate occasions a definite vertical change in path was indicated,” and that the appearance of the object was “round in a point of light with a definite area to the light’s source.” Some of the lights were “a diamond shape,” while others were “elongated.”
It should be noted that this memo came at a time when the US government was insisting to the public that flying saucers were of no defence significance and that all UFOs could be explained away either as conventional aircraft, hallucinations, misidentifications of natural phenomena, or outright hoaxes. And yet, as the document makes clear, behind the scenes, the phenomenon was deemed to be of extreme defence significance and considered “top secret.”
Almost four years later, on 2 December 1952, another jaw-dropping UFO-related document was produced, not by the FBI, but the by CIA. In a secret memo to CIA Director, General Walter Bedell Smith, the Agency’s Director of Scientific Intelligence, H. Marshall Chadwell, wrote of UFOs:
“At this time, the reports of incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention…. Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and travelling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles.”
In other words, in the absence of other satisfactory explanations, these objects were, in all likelihood, intelligently controlled craft not belonging to the United States government, nor presumably, to any other terrestrial power. Reading between the lines, it seems that Chadwell was seriously considering the possibility that these objects were of non-terrestrial origin, but he knew better than to state so explicitly in official documentation. Such discussions are better held in a quiet office, face-to-face.
To this day, despite the Pentagon’s proxy acknowledgement of its shadowy UFO study program (AATIP), the United States government remains reluctant to officially acknowledge the underlying exotic nature of UFOs (official acknowledgement opens an enormous can of worms). Other governments, however, have been relatively vocal about the phenomenon and are becoming more so with each passing year.
South American officials in particular have been especially forthright regarding military encounters with UFOs. Speaking on the direct authority of the President of Equador, Rafael Correa, Colonel Wilson Salgado of the Ecuadorian Air Force stated in an interview for the 2010 documentary UFOs in South America: Disclosure Has Begun:
The information we have available—not just our information, but also that coming from abroad, in particular the United States—makes me confident that we are dealing with… Unidentified Flying Objects. In real terms, these are extraterrestrial objects, and I’m sure of it. We share the universe with other beings.
In February 2012, Colonel Ariel Sanchez, head of the Uruguayan Air Force’s Commission for the Reception and Investigation of UFO Reports (known as “Cridovni”), told American journalist Billy Cox of the Sarasota Herald Tribune, “I believe that Uruguay, as well as Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and of course, Brazil, all have declassified only the smallest part of their files.” Sanchez said that the UFO information thus far released by these governments is but “the tip of a huge iceberg.”
Some of the most remarkable statements from military officers on UFOs have come from France, a country in which these phenomena been actively investigated at an official level since 1977. In 1999, the Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence—a military think tank—prepared a ninety-page report detailing the results of an independent study on UFOs. The white paper, now commonly referred to as The COMETA Report,was compiled by a group of thirteen retired top-tier generals, admirals, and government scientists (including the former head of the French Tactical Air Force, General Bernard Norlain, and the former head of CNES [the French equivalent of NASA]), Andre Lebeau. The report documented the existence of unidentified flying objects and their implications for national security. Copies were received by President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. The report concluded that, for a small percentage of UFO sightings, the extraterrestrial hypothesis was valid. It stated that some UFOs represent “completely unknown flying machines with exceptional performances that are guided by natural or artificial intelligence” and noted that, although the extraterrestrial hypothesis “has not been categorically proven… strong presumptions exist in its favour.” The report then goes on to consider in detail the likely consequences of open extraterrestrial contact for politics, science, and religion.
Concerning the US government’s historical UFO research, the COMETA report states:
“It is clear that the Pentagon has had, and probably still has, the greatest interest in concealing, as best it can, all of this research, which may, over time, cause the United States to hold a position of great supremacy over terrestrial adversaries, while giving it a considerable response capacity against a possible threat coming from space. Within this context, it is impossible for them to divulge the sources of this research and the goals pursued, because that could immediately point any possible rivals down the most beneficial avenues. Cover-ups and disinformation (both active as well as passive) still remain, under this hypothesis, an absolute necessity. Thus it would appear natural in the minds of U.S. military leaders, secrecy must be maintained as long as possible.”
In addition to the reams of official documents and scholarly white papers hinting at a non-terrestrial origin for UFOs, there are also many retired, and in some cases serving, government, military, and intelligence officials who have testified publicly to their own knowledge of UFOs and/or the intelligences behind them, and to the extreme secrecy surrounding these issues. Notable among these individuals are former CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter; former Special Assistant to Deputy CIA Director Richard Helms, Victor Marchetti; Senator Barry Goldwater; Gemini astronaut Col. Gordon Cooper; former UK Chief of Defence Staff and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill Norton; billionaire financier Lawrence Rockefeller; Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell; former Governor of Arizona Fife Symington; and Japanese Defense Minister Shigiru Ishiba.
And all of this is to say nothing of the literally millions of individuals from all walks of life and from every corner of the globe who, over the past seven decades, have reported seeing not only structured craft unlike anything known to have been built by man, but also—and crucially—non-human entities in the vicinity of, and inside said craft.
So, what are we to make of all this? It may very well be that our reality is drastically stranger than we have been led to believe, and that certain organisations—or certain individuals within them—are only too aware of this. The UFO phenomenon—whatever it is—shows no signs of disappearing anytime soon. In fact, mainstream media platforms are now more willing than ever to cover the UFO subject without the once-obligatory references to The X-Files and throwaway jibes about little green men and anal probes. If UFOs ever do shape up to be an ongoing hard news story, a topic of legitimate debate, will this change the social status of the UFO believer? Or, indeed, will “belief” finally be removed from the UFO question altogether?
Black UFO Over Mexico City Caught During Day Strolling Past, Oct 15, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black UFO Over Mexico City Caught During Day Strolling Past, Oct 15, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 15, 2018 Location of sighting: Mexico City, Mexico This dark craft came right out into the open and was seen when a worker came outside for his break. The UFO tilted some as it moved, which is what many UFOs do in order to control their direction. Just sad he had such a bad camera. Looks like he is using an old phone to record it. Had it been an iPhone 7-8 this video would be definitive proof of the existence of aliens. I also notice that there is a blurry field around it...just as thousands of UFO reports also describe. Scott C. Waring
A video of a UFO was caught on camera moving in the night sky above the Darling Downs.
YouTube username UFOwatcher uploaded the video to video sharing site. The footage shows a bright image flying through the sky, hundred kilometres west of Brisbane.
The camera was directed to the west, focusing at Southern Cross and Venus as what can be seen on the video.
Then a large bright object can be observed making an appearance from the bottom of the screen, reportedly travelling at a distance of between 10 and 20 km.
There are claims on the YouTube channel that the same object was spotted two days before.
Was the object in question the alien spacecraft or just an issued satellite of the government? Watch the video, and you will be the judge.
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A video of a UFO was caught on camera moving in the night sky above the Darling Downs.
YouTube username UFOwatcher uploaded the video to video sharing site. The footage shows a bright image flying through the sky, hundred kilometres west of Brisbane.
The camera was directed to the west, focusing at Southern Cross and Venus as what can be seen on the video.
Then a large bright object can be observed making an appearance from the bottom of the screen, reportedly travelling at a distance of between 10 and 20 km.
There are claims on the YouTube channel that the same object was spotted two days before.
Was the object in question the alien spacecraft or just an issued satellite of the government? Watch the video, and you will be the judge.
A baffled resident has submitted a video of what they call a UFO over Butterow, near Rodborough.
An unidentified flying object has been observed moving over the Stroud skyline. A resident spotted the strange activity and caught it on video.
A Stroud resident, who happened to be awake, saw the UFO at 3 am on one September morning.
They said the strange shape hovered above the trees, just below Rodborough.
According to the witness, they felt excitement but at the same time scared.
The witness, who chose to stay anonymous, claimed that it was not the first time they saw an unexplained object in the middle of the night.
The night owl said that they had seen a similar thing around the area before and such object had become a familiar sight to them. They further claimed that they even once saw five all at once.
I have been following Secureteam for a while now and they have this new video on a group of UFOs taking down a satellite, have a look and let me know what you think? Thanks
In 2020, China plans to send an artificial moon into space to replace street lighting. It is an earth satellite that will reflect sunlight and be about nine times brighter than the moon.
As the authors of the project, including the Institute of Space Microelectronics, claim, it will be possible to regulate the illumination zone on the Earth's surface - the light field will vary between 10 and 80 kilometers.
In 1993, the Russian 65-foot-diameter satellite, called Znamya, briefly lit the Earth like a giant orbiting night light.
According to experts, neither humans nor animals perceive artificial moonlight as a disturbance because it will be similar to dusk.
The main challenges in creating an artificial moon are the cost of the project and the technical problems of launching mirrors into orbit and assembling them in the midst of space debris.
YouTube "outage"... was it to quarantine and erase a video of something hitting the moon?
YouTube "outage"... was it to quarantine and erase a video of something hitting the moon?
Lots of rumours about the moon right now, any are claiming the moon got hit and YouTube is deleting all videos and banning users over any footage.
What does the community know and think? Wild rumours and not much proof yet.
I don't know if you guys have noticed but there has been a lot of predictive programming that says "something big is coming". I've heard it mentioned on the radio, I've seen stuff on TV (which I rarely watch) I've seen stuff in print, social media, every media outlet you can think of has made the statement that something big is coming.
Update: As of now, YouTube did not provide any official reason for the "outage".
NASA is again being encouraged to expand its search for alien life – not just intelligent life – all forms of life, including microbes.
Astrobiology is the scientific study of study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. A new report from the National Academies recommends strategies to help NASA expand its search for life elsewhere.
Image via NASA.
Late last month, I reported on how the U.S. Congress wants NASA to focus more on searching for alien technosignatures in space. In other words, Congress is encouraging NASA to look for signals from advanced civilizations elsewhere in our galaxy. On October 10, 2018, another congressionally mandated report – this time from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Washington, D.C. – urged a related search. The report asked NASA to ramp up its research on alien biosignatures, which are signatures of life in all its various forms, including microbes. It urged NASA to incorporate the science of astrobiology – the study of life in the universe – more fully into all stages of future exploratory missions to the planets of our solar system.
Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. It is an inherently interdisciplinary field that encompasses astronomy, biology, geology, heliophysics, and planetary science, including complementary laboratory activities and field studies conducted in a wide range of terrestrial environments. Combining inherent scientific interest and public appeal, the search for life in the solar system and beyond provides a scientific rationale for many current and future activities carried out by the National Aeronautics and Science Administration (NASA) and other national and international agencies and organizations.
Requested by NASA, this study offers a science strategy for astrobiology that outlines key scientific questions, identifies the most promising research in the field, and indicates the extent to which the mission priorities in existing decadal surveys address the search for life’s origin, evolution, distribution, and future in the universe. This report makes recommendations for advancing the research, obtaining the measurements, and realizing NASA’s goal to search for signs of life in the universe.
Could this be a subsurface, liquid-water lake on Mars? The bright horizontal feature in this radar image represents Mars’ icy surface. The south polar layered deposits – layers of ice and dust – are seen to a depth of about a mile (1.5 km). Below is a base layer that in some areas is even brighter than the surface reflections, highlighted in blue. Analysis of the reflected signals suggests liquid water. Subsurface regions like this should be a high priority in the search for life, according to the new report.
The National Academies will appoint an ad hoc committee to initiate a study of the state of astrobiology as it relates to the search for life in the solar system and exoplanetary systems. The primary objectives of the study will:
– Outline key scientific questions and technology challenges in astrobiology, particularly as they pertain to the search for life in the solar system and extrasolar planetary systems;
– Identify the most promising key research goals in the field of the search for signs of life in which progress is likely in the next 20 years;
– Discuss which of the key goals could be addressed by U.S. and international space missions and ground telescopes in operation or in development;
– Discuss how to expand partnerships (interagency, international and public/private) in furthering the study of life’s origin, evolution, distribution, and future in the universe;
– Make recommendations for advancing the research, obtaining the measurements, and realizing NASA’s goal to search for signs of life in the universe.
So what exactly is this report recommending? The National Academies said it wants NASA to expand on how it searches for evidence of life on other planets and moons. Future searches would include both past and present life, by using a more sophisticated catalog and framework to enhance NASA’s ability to detect – and this is significant – both life that might be similar to terrestrial life, and life that may be quite different from life as we know it on Earth.
Until now, NASA has focused on looking for evidence of life that is similar to earthly life, primarily microorganisms that use carbon, nitrogen and water. This led to the follow the water mantra that NASA has used, in particular for its exploration of Mars.
That approach makes sense to some degree, since on Earth, all life we know of requires water.
The new report from the National Academies recommends looking for alien life in two ways – both as we know it (on Earth) and as we don’t.
Image via Chart: S. Seager & W. Bains Sci. Adv. 1, e1500047 (2015)/Cone: Ref. 5.
More recently, however, scientists have been considering the possibilities of more exotic forms of life, such as organisms based on methane instead of water. In this view, places like Saturn’s moon Titan – with its liquid methane/ethane lakes and seas – might be more habitable than previously supposed. The report recommends that NASA search for so-called agnostic biosignatures – in other words, for signs of life that aren’t tied to a particular metabolism or molecular blueprint, or other characteristics of life as we currently know it.
The report also recommends a comprehensive framework be established to aid in distinguishing between biosignatures and abiotic (non-living) phenomena, and also to improve understanding of the potential for biosignatures to be preserved (or not) over long planetary time-scales. It suggests the need for in-situ detection of energy-starved or otherwise sparsely distributed life such as chemolithotrophic or rock-eating life. This includes looking for evidence of life below the surface of a planet or moon; the subsurface is now thought to be the best place to look for such evidence on Mars, for example, especially after the discovery of a subsurface lake below the south pole.
This same strategy could, of course, also be applied to moons such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which have subsurface oceans.
The recommendations also extend beyond our own solar system, saying that NASA should also use technologies in near-term direct imaging missions that can suppress the light from stars in order to image exoplanets. For more about this, read my earlier article here at EarthSky: Report calls for direct images of Earth-like exoplanets. These suggestions form a part of the National Academies’ Exoplanet Science Strategy.
Saturn’s moon Titan is another intriguing place to search for “life as we don’t know it.” Could organisms of some kind exist in its subsurface ocean or in the liquid methane/ethane lakes and seas on its surface?
The report also highlights the need for specialized measurements, equipment and analysis required to take full advantage of space missions, including some that exist outside of traditional space science fields, as well as the need for interdisciplinary, non-traditional cooperation and collaboration with organizations outside of NASA.
As also noted, NASA missions have so far mostly been based on geological interests rather than astrobiological. This again has been particularly true with Mars – the Viking missions in the late 1970s to early 1980s were the last ones to focus specifically on looking for evidence of life – the results of which are still hotly debated to this day. Since then, the priority has been to search for evidence of past habitability. Not even past life, rather just the conditions that might have made life possible millions or billions of years ago.
The report stresses that an interdisciplinary approach to astrobiology is necessary toproduce a more complete picture of life on Earth as well as other planets. That approach should integrate the physical, chemical, biological, geologic, planetary and astrophysical sciences into the study of astrobiology to show how the relationship between life and its environment changes – producing a new, more dynamic view of habitability overall. NASA should continue to actively seek new mechanisms to reduce the barriers to these potential collaborations, the report says.
The last time that NASA looked directly for life on Mars, or any other planet or moon, was with the Viking mission in the late 1970s to early 1980s.
Image via NASA/JPL.
An online event called An Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe was livestreamed on October 10, 2018, but you can still watch it again here. A prepublication version of the written report is also available here.
Bottom line: NASA needs to expand its search for signs of extraterrestrial life, according to a new congressionally-mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Previous search strategies have mostly been narrowly focused, usually not looking for evidence of life at all. Hopefully these recommendations will bring us closer to discovering the first evidence of alien biology elsewhere in the solar system or beyond.
X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 400 Days on Latest Mystery Mission
X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 400 Days on Latest Mystery Mission
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Artist's illustration of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane carrying out its mysterious duties in Earth orbit.
Credit: Boeing
The latest mystery mission of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space planehas now passed the 400-day mark .
This mission — known as Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5) — was rocketed into Earth orbit on Sept. 7, 2017, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Each X-37B/OTV mission has set a new flight-duration record for the program:
OTV-1 began April 22, 2010, and concluded on Dec. 3, 2010, after 224 days in orbit.
OTV-2 began March 5, 2011, and concluded on June 16, 2012, after 468 days on orbit.
OTV-3 chalked up nearly 675 days in orbit before finally coming down on Oct. 17, 2014.
OTV-4 conducted on-orbit experiments for 718 days during its mission, extending the total number of days spent in space for the OTV program at that point to 2,085 days.
What's up?
Most X-37B payloads and activities are classified. The only OTV-5 payload revealed to date by Air Force officials is the Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader, or ASETS-II.
Developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), this cargo is testing experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipes for long-duration stints in the space environment. According to AFRL, the three primary science objectives are to measure the initial on-orbit thermal performance, to gauge long-duration thermal performance and to assess any lifetime degradation.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane on Sept. 7, 2017.
Credit: SpaceX
Landing site
When the space plane will land is unknown. The last X-37B mission, OTV-4, touched down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 7, 2017 — a first for the program. All prior missions had ended with a tarmac touchdown at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The next X-37B mission,B OTV-6, may lift off in 2019 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V (501) rocket. Launch would be from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex-41.
Reusable vehicles
The Air Force's X-37B "fleet" consists of two known reusable vehicles, both of which were built by Boeing at several locations in Southern California, including Huntington Beach, Seal Beach and El Segundo.
The program transitioned to the U.S. Air Force in 2004 after earlier funded research efforts by Boeing, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Looking like a miniature version of NASA's now-retired space shuttle orbiter, the military space plane is 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 9.6 feet (2.9 m) tall, with a wingspan of nearly 15 feet (4.6 m). The X-37B space plane has a payload bay measuring 7 feet by 4 feet (2.1 by 1.2 m), which can be outfitted with a robotic arm. The X-37B has a launch weight of 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kilograms) and is powered on orbit by gallium-arsenide solar cells with lithium-ion batteries.
On-orbit duties
The missions of the X-37B space planes are carried out under the auspices of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, and mission control for OTV flights is handled by the 3rd Space Experimentation Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. This squadron oversees operations of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle.
This Schriever Air Force Base unit is billed as the Air Force Space Command's premier organization for space-based demonstrations, pathfinders and experiment testing. It gathers information on objects high above Earth and carries out other intelligence-gathering duties.
And that may be a signal as to what the robotic craft is doing — both looking down at Earth and upward.
Repeating ground tracks
Ted Molczan, a Toronto-based satellite analyst, told Inside Outer Space that OTV-5's orbit at the start of August was about 197 miles (317 kilometers) high, inclined 54.5 degrees to the equator. Its ground track repeated nearly every five days, after 78 revolutions.
"Maneuvers on August 18 and 21 raised its orbit by 45 miles (74 kilometers) which caused its ground track to exactly repeat every three days, after 46 revolutions. It was still in that orbit when last observed, on September 8, by Alberto Rango, from Rome, Italy," Molczan said.
"Repeating ground tracks are very common," he added, "especially for spacecraft that observe the Earth. I do not know why OTV has repeating ground tracks."
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars."
A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+.
Evidence of a big, unseen world in the extreme outer solar system continues to mount. Take the recent discovery of the distant dwarf planet 2015 TG387, known as "The Goblin." This world's highly elliptical orbit appears to have been sculpted by the gravity of a sizable planet way out there in the dark depths — as have the orbits of more than a dozen other faraway objects, researchers say.
"Planet Nine really remains the only viable explanation for all of the stuff that we observe," said Konstantin Batygin, a theoretical astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. [The Evidence for 'Planet Nine' in Our Solar System (Gallery)]
Starting the hunt
Batygin is a major player in the hunt for Planet Nine, which really kicked off in 2014.
That year, astronomers Chad Trujillo and Scott Sheppard proposed the existence of a large "perturber" far beyond Neptune. Such a planet, the scientists said, couldo explain weird features in the orbits of the dwarf planets Sedna and 2012 VP113, as well as a few other distant objects.
In January of 2016, Batygin and fellow Caltech researcher Mike Brown marshalled more evidence for this hypothetical world, which the duo dubbed "Planet Nine." Batygin and Brown also took a stab at characterizing the planet, estimating that it's perhaps 10 times more massive than Earth and orbits about 600 astronomical units (AU) from the sun on average. (One AU is the Earth-sun distance, about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
Further detections of distant objects with oddball orbits followed. Astronomers have now spotted 14 bodies that bear the imprint of a perturber's tug, Batygin said.
That imprint is primarily a pronounced clustering. Basically, the elongated portions of the objects' highly elliptical orbits point in the same direction, in a way predicted by the Planet Nine models.
The chances of such a configuration developing by chance alone are less than 0.1 percent, Batygin said. And other possible explanations fall short, he added.
For example, some researchers have proposed that the clustering resulted from the combined tugs of many small objects in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune's orbit. But a "self-modulating" Kuiper Belt would look very different from the actual belt that we see, Batygin said. And, he added, a recent study suggests that the entire Kuiper Belt (sans Planet Nine) harbors no more than 2 percent of the mass of Earth — not nearly enough to shape the bodies' orbits in the observed manner.
He pegged the probability of the world's existence at "over 90 percent." Sheppard, who's based at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., is similarly bullish.
"We think it's more likely than not," Sheppard told Space.com. "For me, personally, it's probably at the 80 [percent] to 90 percent level."
Where is Planet Nine hiding?
Batygin and Brown have systematically searched for Planet Nine over the past few years, as have Trujillo and Sheppard (who refer to the hypothetical world as "Planet X"). Both teams have been using Japan's 26-foot (8 meters) Subaru Telescope, which sits atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Other research groups around the world have joined the hunt as well. Still, it's not all that surprising that the putative planet remains undiscovered, Sheppard said.
"Where we think the planet is — hundreds of AU away, if not 1,000 AU — something even as big as Neptune would be fainter than most telescopes could see," Sheppard said.
"And most of our surveys to date do not go that faint, do not go that deep. We've covered very little of the sky to the depth that's needed to be covered to find something this faint," he added. "You can hide a very big thing in the outer solar system very easily."
Indeed, the search has so far covered just 20 percent to 25 percent of "premium sky," the regions where Planet Nine is most likely to be, both Sheppard and Batygin said.
It's tough to make predictions about when Planet Nine will finally be spotted, because astronomers don't know the object's mass, brightness or precise orbit — or even that it exists at all. But Batygin said he suspects that Subaru is capable of seeing the planet. (Subaru combines good resolution with a wide field of view. That latter quality is key. Some instruments, such as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, are probably sharp-eyed enough to spot Planet Nine but have such narrow fields of view that employing them in the hunt would be impractical.)
If Planet Nine is too faint for Subaru, then Batygin, Sheppard and other hunters likely won't despair. Help will soon yarrive in the form of powerful new instruments, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which is scheduled to come online in the Chilean Andes in the early 2020s.
"If we don't find it in the next five or so years," Batygin said, LSST "is definitely going to deliver the final word on Planet Nine."
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13 by Grand Central Publishing. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall.
Drones: they’re small, they’re kinda cute, and they’re really cool. But these little fliers can also be very dangerous, especially to air traffic.
Image credits University of Dayton Research Institute.
New research from the University of Dayton (UoD) Research Institute shows that these buzzing motes of technology pose a real threat to larger aircraft, with a direct impact able to cause severe structural damage to an aircraft’s frame.
Winging it
Given that planes are pretty big vehicles and civilian drones tend not to be that way, it’s easy to assume that the former would suffer only minor damage in the case of a collision. However, a new video released by researchers from the University of Dayton shows that this is far from the truth.
The team traditionally studies a similar hazard: that of mid-flight bird-airplane collisions. While such events aren’t too dangerous for planes, they can cause significant difficulties for pilots and some damage to the vehicle. Some of the most dangerous outcomes of a bird-plane collision include broken windows (and subsequent injuries to the crew), and engine damage. The team’s results are forwarded to the aircraft design industry, which uses the data to bird-proof their planes.
Given their background, the team wondered what the outcome of a drone-plane impact would be. In collaboration with researchers at the Sinclair College National UAS Training and Certification Center, they set up an experiment to find out. The test roughly followed the same layout as bird-impact tests: the team set up a target — the wing of a single-engine Mooney M20 — on a fixed mount, shot a drone at it at speeds similar to that of a flying aircraft, and filmed the whole thing. In effect, this simulates a plane hitting a drone during flight.
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The footage shows that a drone can cause significant damage to an airplane, should they collide at full speed. Rather than breaking apart, bounding off, or glancing off (like birds tend to do), the drone acted like a cannonball — it tore through the vehicle’s fuselage, causing extensive internal damage. Most worryingly, it chewed right through the wing’s main spar, a key structural unit that carries the plane’s weight (i.e. it’s the part that keeps the wing from breaking off). Damage to the spar has a very high chance of making the plane incapable of flight.
Drone collisions cause greater and more severe damage to planes than birds of comparative size due to their solid motors, batteries, and other parts, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported in a study last year. These parts are much stiffer than the flesh of birds (which is mostly water), so they don’t disintegrate, and most often penetrate a vehicle’s skin. That study also says the FAA gets more than 250 sightings a month of drones posing potential risks to planes, most often near airports.
The UoD team says we need to do more extensive testing — using different sizes of drones and aircraft models — to fully understand the risks involved in such collisions. Furthermore, they point to a collision between a civilian quadcopter drone and a military helicopter that occurred last year, saying that it’s nearly certain we’ll see more such events in the future. The helicopter in that collision suffered severe damage to its rotor, but was able to make it back to base, crew unharmed.
The FAA called on drone manufacturers to develop and incorporate technology to detect and avoid planes. Judging from the UoD video, that’s a good first step. Pilots definitely shouldn’t rely on sheer luck, or current planes, to save them in a drone impact — both are flimsy defenses.
Het ware doel van de piramides. Vergeet alles wat je dacht te weten
Het ware doel van de piramides. Vergeet alles wat je dacht te weten
Bijna alles wat we denken te weten over de piramides is onjuist: het doel, de leeftijd, de bouwers en locaties. Dat zei dr. Sam Osmanagic tijdens zijn BOLDtalks-lezing in Dubai eind vorige maand.
Osmanagic claimt in Bosnië en Herzegovina in de buurt van de plaats Visoko de grootste door mensen gemaakte piramides op aarde te hebben gevonden.
Sinds de ontdekking in april 2005 zijn meer dan 3000 vrijwilligers uit 62 landen bezig geweest opgravingen te verrichten in het gebied.
Complexe energiemachines
Volgens dr. Osmanagic zijn piramides niet alleen gebouwd in Egypte en Mexico, maar over de hele wereld.
Piramides zijn geen graftombes voor de farao’s, maar complexe energiemachines, aldus de amateurarcheoloog.
De oudste piramides, die in Bosnië en Indonesië, zijn ruim 30.000 jaar geleden gebouwd en dit verandert de tijdlijn voor hoogontwikkelde beschavingen, stelt hij.
De energie van piramides werd gebruikt voor interstellaire communicatie, claimt Osmanagic.
Genezing
Daarnaast ondersteunden energievelden in de piramide volgens hem genezing en de moleculaire structuur van water en voedsel. Ook zou de energie mentale vermogens versterken.
Sam Osmanagic is directeur van het centrum voor archeologie aan de American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Hij heeft 16 boeken geschreven over piramides over de hele wereld en oude beschavingen, die in 17 talen zijn vertaald.
Twee beroemde UFO-klokkenluiders sterven kort na elkaar. Dit had één van hen te vertellen over bouwwerken op de maan
Twee beroemde UFO-klokkenluiders sterven kort na elkaar. Dit had één van hen te vertellen over bouwwerken op de maan
Een beroemde UFO-klokkenluider die claimde dat hij foto’s van de NASA heeft gezien met daarop ‘buitenaardse bouwwerken’ op de maan, is om het leven gekomen bij een fietsongeluk.
Voormalig sergeant Karl Wolfe (74) fietste in Lansing in New York toen hij werd geschept door een vrachtwagencombinatie.
Hij werd met spoed overgebracht naar een nabijgelegen ziekenhuis, waar hij later aan zijn verwondingen overleed.
Niet aangeklaagd
De politie heeft een onderzoek ingesteld naar zijn dood, maar de chauffeur is niet aangeklaagd.
Wolfe werd in 2001 bekend toen hij claimde dat de NASA bewijs van ‘kunstmatige structuren’ op de achterkant van de maan verdoezelt.
Sergeant Wolfe had toegang tot topgeheime informatie en was gestationeerd op Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
Basis
In 1965 werd hij overgeplaatst naar het Lunar Orbiter Project van de NASA. Hij moest onder meer fotoapparatuur repareren.
Een collega zei tegen hem dat de NASA ‘een basis op de achterkant van de maan had gevonden’.
Hij liet Wolfe onder meer foto’s van torens, koepels en paddenstoelvormige bouwwerken op het maanoppervlak zien.
Vermoord
Sommigen speculeren dat Wolfe is vermoord. “Hoe weet je dat een UFO-insider de waarheid spreekt? Hij sterft onverwachts,” schreef Charlie Collins.
Enkele dagen eerder, op 11 oktober, overleed ook de gepensioneerde sergeant-majoor Robert Dean (89).
Dean werkte in de jaren zestig voor de NAVO op het SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) in Frankrijk.
Bezocht
Daar kreeg hij naar eigen zeggen een document onder ogen met foto’s van dode aliens en gecrashte UFO’s.
In het document werd gesteld dat de aarde wordt bezocht door meerdere buitenaardse rassen.
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