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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...
26-10-2018
HUGE UFO passing the MOON
HUGE UFO passing the MOON
A huge UFO has been filmed when passing the moon at a high rate of speed.
The videographer living in Perth, Australia was at his home and decided to film the Moon as it was so bright on October 24, 2018.
He noticed the UFO on his mobile as he was filming.
Videographer:her: The UFO was very fast and almost length wise to the moon. It shot straight past it on the right side and then again this time width ways going right over the top of the moon.
The video has been submitted to Mufon and can be viewed here.
NASA Has Just Released 2,540 Stunning New Photos of Mars..
NASA Has Just Released 2,540 Stunning New Photos of Mars..
If it’s quiet solitude and beauty you seek, there is no better place than the surface of Mars. Mars has earned its moniker as the red planet, but the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) can transform the subtle differences of soils into a rainbow of colours.
For 10 years, HiRISE has recorded gorgeous – and scientifically valuable – images of Mars. Its photos are so detailed that scientists can examine the planet’s features at the scale of just a few feet, including the recent crash site of Europe’s Schiaparelli Mars lander.
We combed through 2,054 of the camera’s latest pictures, released in August, September, and October, to bring you some of the best – and hopefully help you temporarily escape Earth.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A large chasm:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Some dark, rust-colored dunes in Russell Crater:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
NASA might land its next nuclear-powered Mars 2020 rover mission here.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The black splotch is where the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed. The white specks, pointed out with arrows, are pieces of the lander.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona; Business Insider
Zebra skin. Just kidding, this is a dune field that’s speckled with oval-shaped mineral deposits:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
False-coloring this image makes a giant dune and its gullies look blue.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A possible landing site for the ExoMars 2020 mission, which the European Space Agency is running.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A North Pole dune field nicknamed “Kolhar,” after Frank Herbert’s fictional world.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Carbon dioxide that turns from solid to gas carves out these strange shapes at Mars’ south pole:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A recent impact crater on Mars. (We’re pretty sure no one put out a giant cigarette here.)
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
‘Spiders’ are eruptions of dust caused by the way the Martian surface warms and cools:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Cerberus Palus crater showing off layered sediments:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
NASA keeps an eye of gullies like this for small landslides – and any water that melts in the warm sun to form darker-colored mud.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Another gully scientists are having HiRISE monitor:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Glacial terrain looks strangely iridescent:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A steep slope in Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Dunes in a Martian crater. The red bar is an artifact of NASA’s image processing:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The creation of ‘fans’ around dunes may help scientists understand seasonal changes on Mars:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Another possible landing site for the Mars 2020 mission:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Terrain near the Martian equator:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Ceraunius Fossae is a region dominated by volcanic flows and large cracks:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Beautiful texture in the region called North Sinus Meridiani:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
False colours assigned to certain minerals make Syria Planum an inky blue that’s speckled with gold:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A crater on Arcadia Planitia, a large flat region of Mars:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Layers in Martian buttes found in a region called West Arabia:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A picture of Utopia Planitia, a large plain on Mars:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A bright speckle of minerals stands out on Galle (not Gale) Crater:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A small but recent impact crater:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Blowing sand eats through the rims of older craters:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Mars in all its two-toned glory:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Seasonal dunes on Mars nicknamed ‘Buzzel’.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Ridges cross the Nepenthes Mensae region, which is often referred to as a river delta for the striking pattern:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The edges of a debris apron, where cliff material eroded away.
Ancient alien lifeforms ‘lived underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years’
Ancient alien lifeforms ‘lived underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years’
Jasper Hamill
Mars may once have teemed with alien life which lived under its surface for hundreds of millions of years.
That’s the suggestion from scientists who say ancient Mars is likely to have had an ‘ample supply of chemical energy’ which would have allowed tiny microorganisms to thrive underground.
‘We showed, based on basic physics and chemistry calculations, that the ancient Martian subsurface likely had enough dissolved hydrogen to power a global subsurface biosphere,’ said Jesse Tarnas, a graduate student at Brown University and lead author of a study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
‘Conditions in this habitable zone would have been similar to places on Earth where underground life exists.’
Scientists say the Red Planet may not always have been a dead, barren world
If life ever did exist on the Red Planet, it is likely to take on a similar form to the tiny ‘subsurface lithotrophic microbial ecosystems’ (SLIME) found on Earth.
The new study shows that a process called radiolysis in which radiation breaks down water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen parts would have created ‘plenty’ of hydrogen beneath the ancient Martian subsurface.
The researchers estimated that hydrogen concentrations in the crust of Mars roughly four billion years ago would have at a similar level to places where microbes live on Earth today.
A view of the bleak surface of Mars taken by Nasa’s Curiosity Rover
They calculated that this buried ‘habitable zone’ was several kilometres thick.
‘People have a conception that a cold early Mars climate is bad for life, but what we show is that there’s actually more chemical energy for life underground in a cold climate,’ Tarnas added.
‘That’s something we think could change people’s perception of the relationship between climate and past life on Mars.’
The Sphinx of Balochistan could be more than just a natural rock formation
The Sphinx of Balochistan could be more than just a natural rock formation
Is the Pakistan Sphinx a relic of an ancient advanced civilization?
JP Robinson, author of two books titled "The Myth of Man", has put forward the possibility of a rock formation in Pakistan as a remnant of a long-gone ancient civilization that may even predate the Egyptian Great Sphinx of Giza.
Shape Too Exact To Be a Coincidence
In the Hingol National Park, Balochistan province, there are many beautiful rock formations that are said to have been naturally formed, such as the Princess of Hope (so-called by actress Angelina Jolie). The statuesque figure appears to have a female form. Rain and winds from the nearby sea are said to be the cause of the lifelike shapes that have emerged over time.
However, Robinson believes that a rock formation in the shape of a sphinx is, in fact, a relic of a bygone civilization. Called the Lion of Balochistan, the well-crafted structure bears a strong resemblance to the Egyptian sphinx- even appearing to have a Pharaoh’s headdress. Robinson believes the shape is too exact to be a coincidence. In an article, he wrote for ancient-origins he alludes to his book "The Myth of Man" and particularly to the idea that some more modern technologies may have been in use long ago.
Robinson points out that further evidence that the structure was deliberately carved is seen in what it appears to be resting on- a temple. The rocky formation below the sphinx looks very much like a temple emerging from the mountain. He believes the Lion of Balochistan may be older than the Egyptian versions and that further investigation is needed in order to uncover the truth as to who created it and for what purpose.
As far as we know, all life requires one thing, water, and that's why scientists are fascinated by worlds they know or suspect host giant oceans: These worlds are among the best candidates for finding life beyond Earth.
And in a new report, a team of scientists summarizes what we know about each of these potential "water parks" and our long-term options for furthering that knowledge with progressively more ambitious missions. The report is on behalf of the Roadmaps to Ocean Worlds group of NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group, designed to inform a congressionally mandated research portfolio within the agency.
Other promising candidates are Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Titan, which each check a few boxes already. But even these worlds still pose very real puzzles to scientists, including whether their oceans would be at all habitable.
And there are some enigmatic worlds where scientists aren't even sure yet if water is on tap. When it comes to destinations like Triton, Ceres and Pluto, scientists have only tantalizing hints that they could be wet.
So in addition to collating the evidence to date for each potential ocean world, the team behind the new report also suggested further steps for exploring each of these intriguing worlds. In the most promising cases, that means sketching out what decades' worth of missions could look like. For Enceladus, for example, the report lists five potential mission designs of increasing complexity: plume flyby, plume flyby with sample return, lander, crawler and submarine. (Currently, NASA and other space agencies don't have any concrete plans to return to Enceladus.)
The International Space Station, as photographed by crewmembers aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2010.
Credit: NASA
The International Space Station (ISS) is a multi-nation construction project that is the largest single structure humans ever put into space. Its main construction was completed between 1998 and 2011, although the station continually evolves to include new missions and experiments. It has been continuously occupied since Nov. 2, 2000.
As of January 2018, 230 individuals from 18 countries have visited the International Space Station. Top participating countries include the United States (145 people) and Russia (46 people). Astronaut time and research time on the space station is allocated to space agencies according to how much money or resources (such as modules or robotics) that they contribute. The ISS includes contributions from 15 nations. NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia) and the European Space Agency are the major partners of the space station who contribute most of the funding; the other partners are the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
Current plans call for the space station to be operated through at least 2024, with the partners discussing a possible extension until 2028. Afterwards, plans for the space station are not clearly laid out. It could be deorbited, or recycled for future space stations in orbit.
Crews aboard the ISS are assisted by mission control centers in Houston and Moscow and a payload control center in Huntsville, Ala. Other international mission control centers support the space station from Japan, Canada and Europe. The ISS can also be controlled from mission control centers in Houston or Moscow. [Photos: Space Station's Expedition 32 Mission]
Finding the space station in the sky
The space station flies at an average altitude of 248 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. It circles the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17,500 mph (28,000 km/h). In one day, the station travels about the distance it would take to go from Earth to the moon and back.
The space station can rival the brilliant planet Venus in brightness and appears as a bright moving light across the night sky. It can be seen from Earth without the use of a telescope by night sky observers who know when and where to look. You can use our Satellite Tracker page powered by N2YO.com to find out when to see the space station.
Crew composition and activities
The ISS generally holds crews of between three and six people (the full six-person size was possible after 2009, when the station facilities could support it). But crew sizes have varied over the years. After the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003 that grounded flights for several years, crews were as small as two people due to the reduced capacity to launch people into space on the smaller Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The space station has also housed as many as 13 people several times, but only for a few days during crew changeovers or space shuttle visits.
The space shuttle fleet retired in 2011, leaving Soyuz as the only current method to bring people to the ISS. Three astronauts fly to the space station in Soyuz spacecraft and spend about six months there at a time. Sometimes, mission lengths vary a little due to spacecraft scheduling or special events (such as the one-year crew that stayed on the station between 2015 and 2016.) If the crew needs to evacuate the station, they can return to Earth aboard two Russian Soyuz vehicles docked to the ISS.
Starting in 2019 or 2020, the commercial crew vehicles Dragon (by SpaceX) and CST-100 (by Boeing) are expected to increase ISS crew numbers because they can bring up more astronauts at a time than Soyuz. When the U.S. commercial vehicles are available, demand for Soyuz will decrease because NASA will purchase fewer seats for its astronauts from the Russians.
Astronauts spend most of their time on the ISS performing experiments and maintenance, and at least two hours of every day are allocated to exercise and personal care. They also occasionally perform spacewalks, conduct media/school events for outreach, and post updates to social media, as Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, an ISS commander, did in 2013. (However, the first astronaut to tweet from space was Mike Massimino, who did it from a space shuttle in May 2009.)
The ISS is a platform for long-term research for human health, which NASA bills as a key stepping stone to letting humans explore other solar system destinations such as the moon or Mars. Human bodies change in microgravity, including alterations to muscles, bones, the cardiovascular system and the eyes; many scientific investigations are trying to characterize how severe the changes are and whether they can be reversed. (Eye problems in particular are vexing the agency, as their cause is unclear and astronauts are reporting permanent changes to vision after returning to Earth.)
Astronauts also participate in testing out commercial products – such as an espresso machine or 3D printers – or doing biological experiments, such as on rodents or plants, which the astronauts can grow and sometimes eat in space.
Crews are not only responsible for science, but also for maintaining the station. Sometimes, this requires that they venture on spacewalks to perform repairs. From time to time, these repairs can be urgent — such as when a part of the ammonia system fails, which has happened a couple of times. Spacewalk safety procedures were changed after a potentially deadly 2013 incident when astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet filled with water while he was working outside the station. NASA now responds quickly to "water incursion" incidents. It also has added pads to the spacesuits to soak up the liquid, and a tube to provide an alternate breathing location should the helmet fill with water.
NASA is also testing technology that could supplement or replace astronaut spacewalks. One example is Robonaut. A prototype currently on board the station is able to flip switches and do other routine tasks under supervision, and may be modified at some point to work "outside" as well. [Infographic: Meet Robonaut 2, NASA's Space Droid]
Records in space
The ISS has had several notable milestones over the years, when it comes to crews:
Most consecutive days in space by an American: 340 days, which happened when Scott Kelly took part in a one-year mission to the International Space Station in 2015-16 (along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko). The space agencies did a comprehensive suite of experiments on the astronauts, including a "twin study" with Kelly and his Earth-bound former astronaut twin, Mark. NASA has expressed interest in more long-duration missions, although none have yet been announced.
Longest single spaceflight by a woman: 289 days, during American astronaut Peggy Whitson's 2016-17 mission aboard the space station.
Most total time spent in space by a woman: Again, that's Peggy Whitson, who racked up most of her 665 days in space on the ISS.
Most women in space at once: This happened in April 2010 when women from two spaceflight missions met at the ISS. This included Tracy Caldwell Dyson (who flew on a Soyuz spacecraft for a long-duration mission) and NASA astronauts Stephanie Wilson and Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and Japan's Naoko Yamazaki, who arrived aboard the space shuttle Discovery on its brief STS-131 mission.
Biggest space gathering: 13 people, during NASA's STS-127 shuttle mission aboard Endeavour in 2009. (It's been tied a few times during later missions.)
Longest single spacewalk: 8 hours and 56 minutes during STS-102, for an ISS construction mission in 2001. NASA astronauts Jim Voss and Susan Helms participated.
Longest Russian spacewalk: 8 hours and 13 minutes during Expedition 54, to repair an ISS antenna. Russian astronauts Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov participated.
Structure
The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 861,804 lbs. (391,000 kilograms), not including visiting vehicles. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional five-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, gym facilities and a 360-degree bay window. Astronauts have also compared the space station's living space to the cabin of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
The International Space Station was taken into space piece-by-piece and gradually built in orbit using spacewalking astronauts and robotics. Most missions used NASA's space shuttle to carry up the heavier pieces, although some individual modules were launched on single-use rockets. The ISS includes modules and connecting nodes that contain living quarters and laboratories, as well as exterior trusses that provide structural support, and solar panels that provide power.
The first module, the Russia Zarya, launched on Nov. 20, 1998, on a Proton rocket. Two weeks later, space shuttle flight STS-88 launched the NASA Unity/Node 1 module. Astronauts performed spacewalks during STS-88 to connect the two parts of the station together; later, other pieces of the station were launched on rockets or in the space shuttle cargo bay. [Rare Photos: Space Shuttle at Space Station].
Some of the other major modules and components include:
The truss, airlocks and solar panels (launched in stages throughout the ISS lifetime; docking adapters were launched in 2017 for new commercial spacecraft)
Zvezda (Russia; launched in 2000)
Destiny Laboratory Module (NASA; launched 2001)
Canadarm2 robotic arm (CSA; launched 2001). It was originally used only for spacewalks and remote-controlled repairs. Today it also is regularly used to berth cargo spacecraft to the space station – spacecraft that can't use the other ports.
Harmony/Node 2 (NASA; launched 2007)
Columbus orbital facility (ESA; launched 2008)
Dextre robotic hand (CSA; launched 2008)
Japanese Experiment Module or Kibo (launched in stages between 2008-09)
Cupola window and Tranquility/Node 3 (launched 2010)
Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module (ESA; launched for permanent residency in 2011, although it was used before that to bring cargo to and from the station)
Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (private module launched in 2016)
Spacecraft for the space station
Besides the space shuttle and Soyuz, the space station has been visited by many other kinds of spacecraft. Uncrewed Progress (Russia) vehicles make regular visits to the station. Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle and Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle used to do visits to the ISS as well, until their programs were retired.
NASA began developing commercial cargo spacecraft to the space station under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, which lasted from 2006 to 2013. Starting in 2012, the first commercial spacecraft, SpaceX's Dragon, made a visit to the space station. Visits continue today with Dragon and Orbital ATK's Antares spacecraft under the first stage of NASA's Commercial Resupply Services program. Dragon, Antares and Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser all have received CRS-2 contracts expected to cover flights between 2019 and 2024.
Additional reporting by Space.com Reference Editor Tim Sharp.
Inspired by the natural world, researchers have designed a microdrone that can pull objects up to 40 times its weight. By anchoring itself to various surfaces using adhesive action inspired by geckos and wasps, the tiny aerial vehicle is able to lift cameras, water bottles, and even pull door handles, while the drone itself is as light as a bar of soap.
FlyCroTugs’ multimodal operation allows them to combine small size, high mobility in cluttered and unstructured environments, and forceful manipulation.
Credit: Science Robotics.
The FlyCroTugs drone was developed by Stanford’s Mark Cutkosky and Dario Floreano at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Other similar drones demonstrated previously could only lift twice their own weight using aerodynamic forces alone. To drastically improve their tiny aerial vehicle’s towing power, the researchers turned to one of the most feared predators in the insect world: the wasp.
When a wasp captures prey too big to transport by flight, it chooses to drag it using different attachment options. Researchers studied the various ways wasps choose to transport prey and computed the ratio of flight-related muscle to total mass that determines whether the predator flies or drags its prey.
“When you’re a small robot, the world is full of large obstacles,” said Matthew Estrada, a graduate student at Stanford and lead author of the new study published inScience Robotics. “Combining the aerodynamic forces of our aerial vehicle along with interaction forces that we generate with the attachment mechanisms resulted in something that was very mobile, very forceful and micro as well.”
When encountering a smooth surface, FlyCroTugs uses gecko-like grippers that create non-sticking intermolecular forces between the adhesive and surface. For rough surfaces, the tiny flying robot sticks its 32 microspines into the small pits of a surface, latching onto it.
Fitting all this hardware inside a robot with only twice the weight of a golf ball was no easy feat, but the team was up to the challenge. What they wound up with was a fast, small, and maneuverable flying robot capable of moving very large loads up to 40 times its own weight.
“People tend to think of drones as machines that fly and observe the world, but flying insects do many other things – such as walking, climbing, grasping, building – and social insects can even cooperate to multiply forces,” said Floreano in a statement. “With this work, we show that small drones capable of anchoring to the environment and collaborating with fellow drones can perform tasks typically assigned to humanoid robots or much larger machines.”
FlyCroTugs represents a paradigm shift away from drones occupying a single niche. Not only does it show that drones are excellent for navigating remote locations, but they can also be used to interact with the physical world. In tests, FlyCroTugs flew atop a crumbling structure from where it hauled up a camera and even opened a door with the help of another drone (see the video).
In the future, the team hopes to develop an autonomous system that enables them to maneuver and coordinate multiple FlyCroTugs at once.
“The tools to create vehicles like this are becoming more accessible,” said Estrada. “I’m excited at the prospect of increasingly incorporating these attachment mechanisms into the designer’s tool belt, enabling robots to take advantage of interaction forces with their environment and put these to useful ends.”
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25-10-2018
Ruimtesonde ontdekt kilometers lange, heldere strepen op manen van Saturnus - HLN.be
Ruimtesonde ontdekt kilometers lange, heldere strepen op manen van Saturnus - HLN.be
WETENSCHAP Twee manen van Saturnus hebben mysterieuze strepen op het oppervlak. Die zijn kaarsrecht, helder, tot honderden kilometers lang en minder dan vijf kilometer breed. Ze lopen parallel aan elkaar en parallel aan de evenaar. De strepen zijn gezien op Dione en Rhea, twee van de meer dan zestig manen van Saturnus.
Ze gaan dwars over heuvels en dalen heen, en zijn misschien nog vers. Het is niet duidelijk waardoor de strepen worden veroorzaakt. Ze zijn gezien op Dione en Rhea, twee van de meer dan zestig manen van Saturnus.
De planeet en zijn manen zijn in de afgelopen jaren onderzocht door de ruimtesonde Cassini. Dione heeft waarschijnlijk een ondergrondse oceaan, bleek uit eerdere metingen. “Zulke lijnen hebben we in het zonnestelsel niet eerder gezien. Als ze veroorzaakt worden door iets van buiten, is dat misschien een manier om nieuw materiaal naar Dione te brengen. En dat kan gevolgen hebben voor de kans dat de ondergrondse oceaan vormen van leven bevat”, zegt een van de onderzoekers.
Cassini
De Cassini was in 1997 gelanceerd. Na zeven jaar vliegen kwam hij aan bij Saturnus en zijn minstens 62 manen. Hij ontdekte daar onder meer oceanen op de Saturnusmaan Enceladus, en zeeën van vloeibaar methaan op de maan Titan. Afgelopen maand bleek nog dat de sonde enorme stofstormen heeft ontdekt op de planeet. Deze waren eerder alleen waargenomen op aarde en Mars.
Uiteindelijk vloog de Cassini de dampkring van Saturnus binnen, waar hij uit elkaar viel. In zijn laatste momenten verrichtte de sonde nog allerlei metingen, op een plek waar de mensheid nog nooit was geweest.
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Wereldberoemde Dode Zee-rollen in Bijbelmuseum blijken nep. Wat klopt er nog meer niet?
Wereldberoemde Dode Zee-rollen in Bijbelmuseum blijken nep. Wat klopt er nog meer niet?
Het Bijbelmuseum in Washington heeft een vijftal fragmenten die afkomstig zijn uit Dode Zee-rollen weggehaald. De rollen blijken nep te zijn.
Het museum baseert zich op onderzoek dat uitgevoerd werd in Duitsland en waaruit blijkt dat de artefacten niet zo oud zijn als beweerd.
“Hoewel we gehoopt hadden dat de tests een ander resultaat zouden opleveren, is het ook een gelegenheid om het publiek duidelijk te maken hoe belangrijk het is om de authenticiteit van zeldzame bijbelfragmenten te verifiëren,” aldus museumcurator Jeffrey Kloha. Hij benadrukte ‘transparant’ te willen zijn.
Eén van de belangrijkste
De Dode Zee-rollen zijn meer dan tweeduizend jaar oud en worden beschouwd als één van de belangrijkste geschreven bronnen over de oude joodse cultuur.
Het gaat in totaal om 900 documenten, die teruggevonden werden rond de jaren 1950 op de Westelijke Jordaanoever aan de Dode Zee.
De ontdekking is één van de belangrijkste archeologische vondsten ooit.
In opspraak
De vijf fragmenten waarvan vermoed wordt dat ze nep zijn, waren sinds vorig jaar in het Bijbelmuseum van Washington te zien.
Maar aan het publiek werd toen al meegedeeld dat de authenticiteit nog niet bevestigd was.
Het museum kwam vorig jaar al eens in opspraak toen de sponsor en miljardair Steve Green beschuldigd werd kunst uit Irak te hebben gesmokkeld.
The artefacts, thought to be part of the historic Dead Sea Scrolls, will no longer be displayed.
Academics tested the fragments and found that the “show characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin and therefore will no longer be displayed at the museum,” the institution said.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest copies of Bible text ever found, and include passages of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, that range from 1,800 to more than 2,000 years old.
“Though we had hoped the testing would render different results, this is an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of verifying the authenticity of rare biblical artefacts, the elaborate testing process undertaken and our commitment to transparency,” said Jeffrey Kloha, the chief curatorial officer for Museum of the Bible, said in a statement.
“As an educational institution entrusted with cultural heritage, the museum upholds and adheres to all museum and ethical guidelines on collection care, research and display,” Mr Kloha said.
While the cost of the scrolls has not been revealed, the museum is thought to have spent millions of dollars on them. The institution faced questions over the authenticity of the fragments even before the site opened in November 2017.
In April 2017, it sent five fragments to the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und-prüfung (BAM) a German institute for analysing materials, who tested the ink and the papyrus. The Museum of the Bible said that the recently-received report “further raises suspicions about the authenticity of all five fragments.”
The museum said that supported two other research projects on its DSS fragments. Two years ago, Brill, a leading international academic publisher, released the first in a series of planned volumes sponsored by Museum of the Bible. Edited by Emanuel Tov, Kipp Davis and Robert Duke. Mr Davis and some of the contributors raised questions about the authenticity of some of the fragments.
“My research has focused primarily on two aspects of Museum of the Bible’s fragments: scribal quality and technique in the penning of the texts as well as the physical composition and current state of the manuscript media,” said Mr Davis. “My studies to date have managed to confirm upon a preponderance of different streams of evidence the high probability that at least seven fragments in the museum’s Dead Sea Scrolls collection are modern forgeries, but conclusions on the status of the remaining fragments are still forthcoming.”
Today, many of the Dead Sea Scrolls—which total some 100,000 fragments—are housed in the Shrine of the Book, part of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The excavation and selling of fragments is outlawed under a UN convention on cultural property from 1970, which means that private sellers fight over fragments removed before that time.
The founder of the Museum of the Bible, Steve Green, who his business the Hobby Lobby craft chain, faced scrutiny over the purchase of more than 5,500 artefacts from 2010 that originated from Iraq. The chain agreed to pay a $3m fine last year to settle a case with the Department of Justice that claimed the objects were illegally smuggled. The items have since been returned.
Hobby Lobby said that it was new to the world of antiquities when it began acquiring historical items for its Museum of the Bible in 2009 and made mistakes in relying on dealers and shippers who “did not understand the correct way to document and ship” them.
Flying Saucer Spotted on Google Maps – UFO Captured on Street View in Bermuda
Flying Saucer Spotted on Google Maps – UFO Captured on Street View in Bermuda
A saucer-shaped UFO has sparked an online frenzy after it was snapped on Google Maps Street View, which enables users to observe the world from street level.
A social media eagle-eyed user claims to have observed a real flying saucer above the paradise island of Bermuda
The Reddit user, who has since deleted his account, reportedly spotted the unusual hovering object above the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo.
The UFO hunter posted his finding online saying Google Earth reveals concrete evidence of a UFO metal saucer.
The alleged UFO was reportedly snapped above Hamilton Parish, Bermuda, close to the aquarium’s Caribbean Exhibit.
The unidentified flying object seems to be flying over Bermuda’s Harrington Sound body of water.
The shape of the object is very much like a classic flying saucer.
The object in question can be found under Google Maps coordinates 32.323628,-64.738612.
A few of Reddit users say there are quite a few on Google Earth such pretty crazy things.
However, other Redditors were quick to offer more plausible explanations for the appearance of the object. They suggested the UFO was a small bird flying in front of Google’s cameras.
Nog altijd is Zuid Amerika het continent waar eigenlijk aan de lopende band UFO activiteit is waar te nemen.
Niet alleen worden ze daar in de lucht waargenomen en tijdens nieuwsuitzendingen op televisie, maar ook worden er soms plekken ontdekt waar ze landen.
De volgende foto's zijn genomen ergens in Argentinië tijdens een naderende onweersbui. Het is een bekend feit dat UFO's regelmatig opduiken in de buurt van onweerswolken. Volgens UFO onderzoekers gebruiken ze de bliksem voor het snel opladen met energie, maar datgene wat wordt omschreven als onweerswolken, betreft ook dikwijls dimensieportalen.
Het volgende voorval vond eveneens plaats in Argentinië rond dezelfde tijd in de plaats Moquehue aan de voet van het Andes gebergte.
Het is een afgelegen gebied waar normaal gesproken heel weinig mensen komen en zeker rond deze tijd van het jaar omdat de wegen in principe zijn afgesloten en pas in het voorjaar weer open gaan.
Een jongeman genaamd Rodrico reed op zijn motor door het gebied en zag een paar vreemde afdrukken in de restanten van sneeuw. Rodrico was enorm onder de indruk van het geheel en zei dat hij nog nooit zoiets had gezien.
Hij ging terug om zijn familieleden te laten zien wat hij had ontdekt en ook zij waren onder de indruk, mede omdat er nergens voetsporen of andere tekenen van menselijke activiteit te ontdekken was.
Andere bewoners uit het dorp kwamen later met de mededeling dat ze vergelijkbare afdrukken hadden ontdekt ongeveer een kilometer verderop.
We blijven nog even in Argentinië waar tijdens de presentatie van het weer op de zender C5N News, weervrouw Mariela Fernandez een UFO ontdekte op het scherm.
Het is een enorm groot scherm dat voor de weerpresentatie wordt gebruikt en Mariela moet dan ook op haar tenen staan op het object aan te wijzen.
En dit alles gebeurt allemaal in hetzelfde Zuid Amerikaanse land.
In juli 1947 stortte er een buitenaardse UFO neer bij het Amerikaanse plaatsje Roswell in New Mexico en vanaf dat moment begon de grote misleiding van de bevolking.
Nooit werd formeel naar buiten gebracht dat er buitenaardsen waren omgekomen en ook niet dat er één overleefde die tot op de dag van vandaag door de Amerikaanse overheid gevangen wordt gehouden.
Via een lezer ontvingen wij het volgende bericht (dank!):
Ik zag jullie artikel: Hier de volledige documentaire, echt het kijken waard.
Origineel artikel: 19 oktober 2018
Zelfs mensen die helemaal niets van UFO's weten, hebben meestal de naam Roswell wel eens gehoord.
Vanaf dat moment begon eigenlijk de misleiding van de bevolking op grote schaal en werd er alles aan gedaan om de werkelijke gebeurtenissen geheim te houden. Soms komen er stukjes waarheid bovenwater via mainstream kanalen en dat is vaak omdat de betrokkenen nu zo oud zijn dat ze nu wel eindelijk hun mond open durven doen.
Op 8 juli 1947 bracht de krant Roswell Daily Record het nieuws dat een vliegende schotel bij een lokale ranch was neergestort. Gisteren vertelde een CIA-agent tegen de Huffington Post dat er niets onwaar was aan het bericht dat 65 jaar geleden wereldnieuws werd.
'Het was echt geen weerballon, het was precies wat de pers er toen over schreef', zegt Chase Brandon, een voormalig CIA-agent. 'Het voertuig kwam duidelijk niet van deze planeet, het stortte neer en er waren wel degelijk buitenaardse lijken.
Maar het waren niet alleen lijken, er was ook een overlevende.
In dat kader is er nu een artikel verschenen op de website van ufoloog Scott C. Waring, waar deze zegt dat de overlevende alien van de Roswell crash nog steeds leeft.
Scott kan zich heel druk maken over het feit dat de bevolking zich zo gemakkelijk laat misleiden door de autoriteiten en ook nu is dit het geval.
Hij voert nu aan dat echte beelden die ooit op Youtube zijn geplaatst eigenlijk volkomen verdwijnen in de totale chaos die is ontstaan doordat Jan en alleman nepvideo's ging maken om toch maar vooral te proberen geld te verdienen aan de Google advertenties.
Zo schrijft hij onder andere: Omdat er zo idioot veel nep op Youtube staat, moeten we daardoor de echte, originele beelden dan ook maar vergeten? Beelden die zijn gemaakt in een tijd dat er nog geen complete industrie bestond die niets anders doet dan nepvideo's maken.
Het antwoord is uiteraard "nee" en hij komt daarbij met het volgende voorbeeld.
Een video die is gemaakt op 27 april 2000, ver voordat de neppers actief waren op dit gebied. Beelden die zijn gemaakt in een tijd dat mensen zich niet bezighielden met het maken van nep opnames om geld mee te verdienen.
Scott is er honderd procent van overtuigd dat onderstaande beelden echt zijn en dat hier sprake is van een overlevende alien van de Roswell crash. De alien die werd gevonden door Amerikaanse militairen en is meegenomen en tot op de dag van vandaag nog gevangen wordt gehouden.
En dan komt hij met een opmerkelijke stelling en dat is dat de Gray aliens in principe eeuwig leven en dat dit exemplaar misschien wel een paar miljoen jaren oud is.
Verder dat deze alien door het Amerikaanse leger is gekloond en dat er nu talloze identieke aliens voor diezelfde overheid werken in een ondergrondse basis, vijf kilometer onder de laboratoria van Los Alamos.
Dat het nu hoog tijd wordt dat de mensheid de echte beelden weer te zien krijgt en beseft dat wij niet de enige levende wezens in het heelal zijn.
As a follow-up to my chupacabra-themed “Paranormal TV: The Hazards” article, I thought I would answer a question I am often asked. Namely, are people still seeing chupacabras? Well, yes they are. Or, at least, what people assume are chupacabras. Certainly, one of the weirdest of all the relatively new accounts did not surface out of Texas or from Puerto Rico’s El Yunque rain-forest – as most of the accounts certainly did. Rather, the story came from Rukshin, in Ukraine, which is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe. In the summer of 2016, practically the whole population of the area was plunged into a collective state of fear when violent attacks on farm animals began out of the blue and in the dead of night. Frightened locals refused to leave their homes after the sun had set. Who can blame them for that? And, the local police carefully patrolled the area at all times. No wonder: a savage and violent monster was wildly on the loose. By now, you know its infamous name all too well.
As was the case in the tales that came out of Puerto Rico in the mid-1990s onward, chickens, rabbits and goats were drained (allegedly!) of significant amounts of blood. In fact, the highly emotive word “sucked” was used by the press, on what amounted to more than a few occasions. Farmers reported that the animal in their midst was strong enough to tear open metal cages with its huge teeth and powerful, bone-crunching jaws. The creepy culprit remained evasive and elusive for several, tumultuous months. That is, until the creature was swiftly killed by an irate farmer who – having had just about enough of all the mayhem – caught sight of the beast, chased after it, and then finally plunged his pitchfork into its body. The creature was slain. No doubt, the people of Rukshin sighed with relief when the carnage was over.
The local media covered the story – even providing a photo of the dead animal. It looked remarkably like the so-called “Texas chupacabra.” In other words, it was a bizarre-looking, hairless canid that resembled a coyote, but which had a few undeniably strange, physical mutations. That the attacks then came to an abrupt end, strongly suggests the hairless thing was not one of a large pack, but a solitary animal.
Mexico was also a target for the chupacabra in 2016. In fact, and very oddly, at the very same time that Ukraine was under assault. A coincidence? Probably. But, it only served to demonstrate the ever-present weirdness that dominates the saga of the chupacabra. This time, the place was Chihuahua. One particular farmer, in early June, awoke to find ten of his animals – most of them goats – “with head and neck wounds that he believes were caused by the infamous ‘goat sucker’ in a rural community southeast of Delicias,” which is located southeast of Chihuahua City, around 300 miles south of El Paso, Texas. Matters soon, and somewhat inexplicably, came to a quick end. The beast that was responsible for the attacks was never seen, but for the locals, there was only one answer: a chupacabra had been stealthily paying visits of a terrible kind.
One year later, in July 2017, there were dark murmurings of a chupacabra prowling around Riverside, California. One of the witnesses said, with a high degree of justification, that the animal he saw was “the ugliest-looking thing.” Notably, the source added that it was “at least two feet or more longer than the biggest coyote you’ve ever seen. I yelled at it, in a big deep voice, ‘Get out of here!’”
That the mysterious animal was around two-feet longer than the average coyote, suggests there was something very unusual about it. Other locals reported seeing the creature too. One told the media: “That is the strangest-looking animal I’ve ever seen.” No doubt! The witness explained that when she had the distinct misfortune to encounter it, the thing was plucking fruit from one of the trees in her front yard. She expanded: “The ears of a deer, long snout, no hair, tail like a rat, long hindquarters. I thought it might be a sick coyote, a sick wolf. But it had too many different characteristics from any of them.”
A chihuahua, not a chupacabra
Another witness was was quoted as saying: “We’re looking at it dead on. It has a body like a Chihuahua, stretched out, with a large thoracic cavity. And it has huge hind legs. It has a very narrow, rat-like face, with undulations, more like a marsupial.” The eyewitness made a very interesting and thought-provoking statement: “The donkeys that come from central Mexico, they come right through my gate. These guys, I believe, followed them from Central America.” The California Department of Fish and Wildlife were sure that the animal which caused all the fuss and fear was not a chupacabra.
Right now, in late 2018, that’s pretty much where things are at. I have a sneaking suspicion, though, that we have not seen or heard the last of the chupacabra – of Texas or of Puerto Rico. And maybe not even the end of the creature in Ukraine, in Central America, and in Russia, too. Coming to your yard late on a dark and storm-filled night? Don’t bet against it.
I don’t think it is an imaging sensor anomaly caused by a high energy particle hitting the sensor since sunlight reflects on the green anomaly.
Is it just a cosmic phenomenon or could it be something in between biological and technological or something else so out of this world that humans have yet to even fathom it?
Cigar Shaped UFO appears over Mississippi and Ohio on the same day
Cigar Shaped UFO appears over Mississippi and Ohio on the same day
A massive cigar-shaped UFO has been spotted by a witness while carrying out some construction work. He noticed the UFO hovering above the ocean and managed to catch it on video from Beach Front House, Pass Christian, Mississippi.
On the same day, October 22, 2018 at 3.40 PM another witness saw the same UFO on the way home in Ohio and he too was able to film the cigar-shaped UFO.
Research Claims UFOs Are Getting More Difficult To Spot
Hollow Sun Theory, How Aliens Have Been Using The Interior Of Our Sun, Oct 2018, UFO Sighting News.
The Hollow Sun Theory. This is a theory that I created back in 2009 when I noticed UFOs going in and out of Earths sun in SOHO/NASA sun photos. The theory is also based upon a world famous alien encounter that lasted three decades in Rocca Pia, Italy, which gave me the idea of how aliens can and do use the interior of suns. The theory states that aliens send a large craft into the suns center. This device does not need to be huge, however the energy it uses is unknown, but can last forever. This device uses beams of focused power that shoot out in all directions at once...pushing.
Imagine a tractor beam reversed. This actually is done fast with land and dirt for making underground bases so large that they have their own weather systems. Well aliens use this device for any place they want to create a city. Underwater, underground, under the surface of a burning star. When aliens decide to leave forever, all they have to do is push a button and the entire hollow area will close back in. Its that easy...for them and their tech...which is millions and sometimes billions of years ahead of our own. I learned all this was 100% possible from evidence I gathered researching the Rocca Pia, Italy Friendship case. You see, the aliens told witnesses that the base below Rocca Pia was 300x300km long and 150km high. So huge it sometimes rained inside. So creating a base or closing it up was a simple task for them. Just something to think about next time a UFO is reported near our sun in NASA/SOHO photos or when dark spots (exits) are reported in the news. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Witness filmed this stationary cigar shaped ufo on the coast of Gulf of Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Witness filmed this stationary cigar shaped ufo on the coast of Gulf of Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 2018 Location of sighting: Gulf of Mexico This UFO was spotted over the ocean at the Gulf of Mexico last week. The UFO appears long, but I believe we are looking at a disk from its side. This UFO is clearly taking its time as it moves and it looks like the lower part of the UFO is semi cloaked, revealing itself ever few seconds. I don't believe they were aware that they could be seen. I think the aliens on that ship thought their cloak was working fully, but if they had recently come out of the ocean...then the water on the ship would cause a disturbance in any cloaking device for a few minutes until the water has dripped off. Scott C. Waring
“I was actually more interested in capturing the A68 iceberg that we were about to fly over, but I thought this rectangular iceberg was visually interesting and fairly photogenic, so on a lark, I just took a couple photos.”
This time, NASA tried to avoid any conspiracy theories by allowing the photographer of the icebergs, senior support scientist Jeremy Harbeck of Operation IceBridge, to comment on what the crew saw as they flew over the northern Antarctic Peninsula on October 16 while surveying the Larsen A, B and C ice shelves for changes in glaciers that would show the impact of climate change. While these tabular icebergs (they could actually be cubes since only 10 percent of their mass is above water) are rare (two together is extremely rare), they’re not unheard of, says Harbeck.
“I thought it was pretty interesting; I often see icebergs with relatively straight edges, but I’ve not really seen one before with two corners at such right angles like this one had.”
Photo of both bergs
(NASA)
Nor had anyone else, judging by the amount of attention the pictures of the first tabular icebergs received on the Internet. As Harbeck pointed out, the berg he was really interested was A68 in the background. That one broke off of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in July 2017, reducing its size by 12 percent. Its surface area has been compared to one Delaware or two Luxembourgs, depending on which side of the Atlantic one lives, and weighed one trillion ton. It’s still close to that size, but that will change as it moves away, melts down and raises coastal waters around the world as it follows its predicted meandering path to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Of course, big is not as interesting as perfectly rectangular, so the small (possibly a mile across) but boxy bergs get the attention. Since Antarctic scientists rarely get this kind of publicity, Harbeck is undoubtedly looking for more unusual ice as this phase of Operation IceBridge continues through November 18.
Another geometric berg
(NASA)
For those who still refuse to believe NASA, why would aliens spend time cutting ice into geometric shapes? Boredom? Trying out new laser weapons? Video game player busted?
Cigar UFO over Pass Christian, Mississippi 22-Oct-2018
Cigar UFO over Pass Christian, Mississippi 22-Oct-2018
New footage of a cigar-shaped object hovering above Pass Christian, MS. This was taken on 22nd October 2018.
Witness report:
An apache helicopter passed by in low altitude, speed from the west in the Gulf Coast’s airspace. Minutes later, grayish oval-shaped elongated form passed by considerably slowly leaving ominous atmospheric anomalies in its wake. Minutes later, another smaller disc-shaped object passed by leaving atmospheric anomally.
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