Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO's of UAP'S 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.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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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...
28-10-2018
Could The Pyramids At Giza Predate Ancient Egyptian Civilization?
Could The Pyramids At Giza Predate Ancient Egyptian Civilization?
The most mysterious ancient civilizations to ever develop on the surface of the planet is without a doubt, the great Ancient Egyptian Civilization.
The more we have ventured into the plentiful Egyptian History, the more have we been left perplexed by the complexity and advanced development of this ancient culture that developed along the Nile River.
The more we search, the more we learn how little we know.
Experts studying Egypt came across what is considered one of the oldest settlements on Earth, dating back to the Neolithic Period.
The discovery shows what Egypt was like before the “First Pharaoh’s.”
Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities explained that the ancient city, thought to be more than 7,000 years old, “offers a unique opportunity to shed light on the prehistoric communities that lived in the Nile Delta before the reign of the first Pharaonic dynasty.”
But that is just one of the many amazing discoveries that have been made so far in Egypt.
The Pyramids
The Pyramids are perhaps the biggest mystery of them all. We don’t really know how they (the pyramids) were built, how the ancients transported massive blocks of stone, hundreds of kilometers across, nor do we know why the pyramids were built.
They did not serve as tombs, as there is plenty of evidence suggesting their purpose was a far greater one.,
Reports indicate that the Pyramids at Giza show evidence of a massive flood, but despite this, Egypt has not really had significant rainfall since a least 5,000 B.C.
Researchers trying to crack the mystery of the pyramids have found silt sediments rising up to fourteen fitt around the base of the Pyramids at Giza.
Furthermore, pieces of seashells, as well as Marine fossils, have been found in this sediment. The strange part is that once carbon dating was performed on the fossils and seashells, it showed experts they were nearly 12,000 years old.
One theory is that these objects were transported by the Nile River, which floods every year. However, the Pyramids are located as much as five miles away from the Nile and are raised on the so-called Giza plateau.
This means that it is very unlikely that marine fossils and seashells discovered at the Pyramids originated from the Nile.
The Sphinx, an even greater mystery
But if we explore the Giza plateau a bit more, we will come across the Sphinx, which curiously also shows clear evidence of water damage.-
One researcher who took particular interest in the Sphinx was Robert Schoch, who identified signs of water erosion at the Sphinx. The presence of water damage on the Sphinx, also backs up the theory that the Sphinx was a massive monument carved more than 10,000 years ago.
Video – What If an Advanced Civilization of Humans Existed Thousands of Years Ago?
Video – What If an Advanced Civilization of Humans Existed Thousands of Years Ago?
Many people wonder if ancient civilizations that were advances existed on Earth many years ago and experts do occasionally discover something that changes what we know about history. But what if 100,000 years ago an ancient advanced civilization had been on Earth? That would change everything. There have been many discoveries that possibly point to advanced civilizations being on Earth many thousands of years ago.
Which leads to the question of what do we know about history really, and what do we know about the human race in the past. Mainstream researchers have suggested that mankind has been on Earth for just a couple thousand years, but recent discoveries suggest otherwise.µ
Ancient Civilization Living In Africa More Than 100,000 Years Ago
There is evidence that suggests that an intelligent civilization may have lived in Africa more than 100,000 years ago. About 150 kilometers to the west of Port Maputo; there are the remains of a metropolis that is around 1500 square kilometers. Researchers suggest that this is an ancient city that may have been just a part of what could have been an even larger community, in total around 10,000 square kilometers, which is thought to have been built between 160,000 and 200,000 years before the birth of Christ.
The geology surrounding it is interesting thanks to a lot of gold mines that can be found within the vicinity. Researchers believe that this is where a missing civilization from the past may have lived and set up gold mining.
The Amazon May Have Been Home To Lost Civilizations
Some believe that there may have been an ancient civilization predating the Inca along with their ancestors in the remote regions of the Amazon.
With deforestations happening rapidly Google Earth has led to the finding of 210 geoglyphs at over 200 different sites in the Amazon in a strip of 250 kilometers by 10 kilometers. Similar to the Nazca lines, the anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and geometric designs have to be seen from the air to be appreciated. But the biggest question remains why?
Many remains of what do seem to be part of an unknown and ancient civilization have been seen lying beneath trees among the Amazon rainforest. Researchers think that 260 long avenues with long irrigation canals and fences, which appear to have been for holding livestock in, have been seen from the air. This discovery was near to the border of Brazil and Bolivia.
The Amazons Lost Pyramids Give Hint Of Prehistoric Civilization
There are many dense and tangled jungles in the Amazon that are home to many mysteries that may help to understand just how ancient lost civilizations may have lived many thousands of years ago. Researchers have the belief that the Pyramids of Paratoari are ridge spurs that are truncated, which take the form of a natural pyramid. However, others think that the structures were made a long time ago by a civilization that hasn’t been acknowledged by mainstream history.
Trips to the region have revealed a lot of evidence about the inheritance of Incas in the region, including petroglyphs, platforms, and roads that were paved. The pyramidal structures had first been identified by satellite photographs from NASA that had been released in 1976. The photographs got numerous researchers to go out into the Manu region of the tropical rain forest in southeast Peru to try to locate the structures and find out if they had been built by a lost civilization.
The Sphinx May Be 800,000 Years
Old One of the most enigmatic and mysterious of all monuments on Earth is the Great Sphinx which is found in Giza, Egypt. The construction is ancient, and it is something that has managed to baffle researchers ever since the monument was discovered. Until recently the Sphinx hadn’t been dated as there were no records ever found or talk in the past about it. Now, however, researchers from the Ukraine have come up with a new theory, which is somewhat provocative. They believe that the Great Sphinx may be around 800,000 years old and this theory is said to have the backing of science.
The two experts say that the starting point is the paradigm shift that was initiated by Schoch and West; this had been intended to do away with the orthodox view of Egyptology when referring to the remote origins of Egyptian civilization, along with physical evidence of there being water erosion at the monuments at Giza.
Complex Lifeforms May Have Existed Long Before Humankind Existed
However, there isn’t much by way of knowledge about the origins of life along with modern civilization. Recently a study was published with experts coming to the conclusion that very different life forms, which were complex, might have once lived on Earth a long time before humankind came into existence. It is said that there had been enough oxygen in the environment to allow complex cells to evolve. Some scientists believe that we aren’t the first complex life that has been on the planet. Another complex lifeform is said to have been in existence. However, they disappeared during the long history of Earth. Then lifeforms that were complex made a reappearance after a short time.
Complex lifeforms may have been on Earth 1.75 billion years ago. But if complex life had existed in the past on Earth, why do people believe that it is unlikely or improbable that advanced civilizations might have flourished?
Even if advanced alien civilizations had been in existence in the Solar System, maybe even on Earth billions of years ago, more than likely any trace or evidence of them would have been long gone, so more than likely no one is going to know for sure.
Have the Kordylewski clouds been confirmed? They were first reported In 1961, 2 clusters of dust, orbiting at about the moon’s distance. They’re faint. Have scientists now detected them?
Diagram showing the Lagrangian points of the Earth–moon system. If they exist, Kordylewski clouds lie in the regions of L4 and L5.
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) said this week (October 25, 2018) that astronomers may now have confirmed the existence of two elusive dust clouds, orbiting Earth much as our moon orbits it, at about the moon’s distance. They are known as Kordylewski clouds, first reported by and named for Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski in 1961. If they exist, Earth’s dust cloud satellites are exceptionally faint, so that their existence is controversial. The RAS is pointing to two new papers about the Kordylewski clouds in its peer-reviewed journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. It said in a statement that a team of Hungarian astronomers and physicists may have confirmed the clouds just where Kordylewski said they would be, in semi-stable points just 250,000 miles (400,000 km) from Earth.
For comparison, the moon’s average distance is 238,900 miles (385,000 km) from Earth.
Artist’s concept of a Kordylewski cloud in the night sky at the time of the observations. The brightness is greatly enhanced; we wouldn’t really see this cloud.
If they exist, the Kordylewski clouds lie at two special points in the Earth-moon system. These points – known as Lagrangian or Lagrange points – are known to be relatively stable, gravitationally. Objects, even dust, drifting near these points would tend to move neither toward the Earth nor toward the moon. They’d tend to stay put, moving ahead of and behind the moon in orbit. The RAS explained:
Two of these so-called Lagrange points, L4 and L5, form an equal-sided triangle with the Earth and moon, and move around the Earth as the moon moves along its orbit.
L4 and L5 are not completely stable, as they are disturbed by the gravitational pull of the sun. Nonetheless they are thought to be locations where interplanetary dust might collect, at least temporarily. Kordylewski observed two nearby clusters of dust at L5 in 1961, with various reports since then, but their extreme faintness makes them difficult to detect and many scientists doubted their existence.
In a paper earlier in 2018, the Hungarian team, led by Gábor Horváth of Eötvös Loránd University, modeled the Kordylewski clouds to assess how they form and how they might be detected. The researchers were interested in their appearance using polarizing filters, similar to those found on some types of sunglasses. The RAS explained:
Scattered or reflected light is always more or less polarized, depending on the angle of scattering or reflection.
AFter they determined what to look for, the researchers then set out to find the dust clouds. They set up a linearly polarizing filter system, attached to a camera lens and CCD detector, at Slíz-Balogh’s private observatory in Hungary (Badacsonytördemic).
Then the scientists took exposures of the purported location of the Kordylewski cloud at the L5 point.
The images they obtained show polarised light reflected from dust, extending well outside the field of view of the camera lens. The RAS said:
The observed pattern matches predictions made by the same group of researchers in an earlier paper and is consistent with the earliest observations of the Kordylewski clouds six decades ago.
Horváth’s group were able to rule out optical artefacts and other effects, meaning that the presence of the dust cloud is confirmed.
Pattern of the angle of polarization of the sky around the L5 Lagrange point of the Earth-moon system. Image acquired August 19, 2017. The position of the L5 point is shown by a white dot. In this picture the central region of the Kordylewski dust cloud is visible (bright red pixels). The straight tilted lines are traces of satellites.
Mosaic pattern of the angle of polarization around the L5 point (white dot) of the Earth-moon system. The five rectangular windows correspond to the fields of view of the imaging polarimetric telescope with which the polarization patterns of the Kordylewski dust cloud were measured.
Judit Slíz-Balogh – who collaborated on this problem with the other scientists and is a lead author on one of the papers – commented:
The Kordylewski clouds are two of the toughest objects to find, and though they are as close to Earth as the moon are largely overlooked by researchers in astronomy. It is intriguing to confirm that our planet has dusty pseudo-satellites in orbit alongside our lunar neighbor.
The RAS said:
Given their stability, the L4 and L5 points are seen as potential sites for orbiting space probes, and as transfer stations for missions exploring the wider solar system. There are also proposals to store pollutants at the two points.
Future research will look at L4 and L5, and the associated Kordylewski clouds, to understand how stable they really are, and whether their dust presents any kind of threat to equipment and future astronauts alike.
Kazimierz Kordylewski proposed the existence of Earth’s dust cloud satellites in 1961, and astronomers have been arguing about them since then. Have they now been confirmed?
Bottom line:Researchers say they have confirmed the existence of the Kordylewski dust clouds, which orbit at the L4 and L5 points in the Earth-moon system. In other words, the dust clouds orbit approximately in the moon’s orbit. They move ahead of and behind the moon in orbit.
The Extraterrestrial Cigar Shaped Craft, Discovered On A South Atlantic Island?
The Extraterrestrial Cigar Shaped Craft, Discovered On A South Atlantic Island?
Google Earth has recently been the center of attention for many UFO Truth seekers after a mysterious object which appears to be some kind of crash-landed alien craft, has been doing the rounds across the internet. You can even see a trail behind it, which appears to show that the potential craft crashed through a nearby mountain – as of yet this has NOT been debunked!
Many leading UFO researchers have been using satellite mapping to zoom in and look at the alleged spaceship, near the 10,000ft tall Mount Paget. You can clearly see like an artificial trail coming from behind the huge crashed looking object. Researchers have also suggested that the length of this object is in the region of 63 meters!!!
The nearby tracks suggest the irregular-shaped object had slid through the snow prior to arriving at the final resting place on the icy island, not far from Antarctica. It has been suggested that this is/was a huge block of ice, which fell off the mountain after an avalanche the day previous to this image being taken – but a 1,000 metres is long way for a huge piece of ice to travel, leaving a perfect trail behind it!
Since it was uploaded onto the internet, the video has been viewed more than 420,000 times, attracting almost 6,000 comments in just a week!
Many people have agreed that this could be an alien spaceship.
A Frank Lucas wrote:
“That definitely looks like something was airborne and definitely crashed into that mountain.”
Meanwhile James Carter said:
“The Georgia island object is definitely not anything we can explain from looking through satellite imagery.”
Another Youtube user, Tom Brown, suggested:
“This could actually be a rocket or the left overs of a rocket. It could also be a missile that was fired for testing purposes.
“It could even be a human-made airplane or aircraft of some sort.
“Governments all around the world do all kinds of testing with air crafts for modern warfare and the perfect place to hide one that didn’t work out would be on a small island that is near a continent no one is allowed to explore.”
South Georgia Island is part of the British Overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
(Picture: Google Earth)
There have also been many others who believe that this could be some kind of rock formation which has broken away from the mountain behind it. Another government funded researcher Dave Petley, pro-vice-chancellor (research and innovation) at the University of Sheffield has stepped forward to claim the object broke off a nearby mountain and slid through the snow. On his blog, he wrote:
‘This is conventional landslide behavior on snow and ice covered surfaces, and we have seen other large isolated boulders travel long distances.’
Although this theory has not been confirmed either – interesting how government figures always confirm that it’s nothing ALIEN!?!?
Whatever this incredible look object it is, one thing is for sure that it needs far more research to be able to confirm exactly what it is. Ideally we need boots on the ground to look at this huge object face to face, although this is not the easiest part of the world to travel to.
Did the ‘mass’ slide down or out of the mountain?
U.I.P Summary
Now THIS is a very interesting story which has recently come about. Of course this object could be a large piece of rock or ice that slid off the nearby mountain (before any self proclaimed UFO debunkers/trolls start abusing us!) HOWEVER just look at the shape of the huge object and the perfect trail it left behind it!
When you watch the video it almost appears as if the object has crashed through the mountain! Of course this could be something out of nothing, but it’s important for us to cover off these stories with you as nothing has yet been confirmed what it is and the elite like to debunk pretty much everything!
We are going to do some more research into this intriguing story.
PLANET EARTH IS home to some spectacular relics from bygone eras, constructions that seem to defy the technological capabilities of their time either because they’re too big, too heavy, or too complex.
As such, some suggest the ancient builders of the Egyptian pyramids, the Nasca lines, and others were following an extraterrestrial instruction manual. Perhaps the hands that crafted these sites weren’t really of this world.
To be sure, it’s fun to think about whether aliens have visited Earth. After all, humans are on the threshold of expanding our reach in space, and places like Mars are in our sight. But the truth is, there’s no evidence suggesting that aliens have ever been here. And invoking a supernatural explanation for some of the most monumental of human achievements means skipping over the fascinating ways in which prehistoric civilizations managed to make some of the largest and most enigmatic constructions on Earth.
1. Sacsayhuamán
The ancient fortress of Sacsayhuamán contrasts with Cusco's modern buildings.
PHOTOGRAPH BY HEIKO MEYER, LAIF/REDUX
Outside the old Inca capital of Cusco, a fortress called Sacsayhuamán rests in the Peruvian Andes. Built from enormous stones that have been chiseled and stacked together like a jigsaw puzzle, some say Sacsayhuamán could be the work of an ancient civilization that had a little help from interstellar friends.
The 1,000-year-old interlocking fortress walls are made of rocks that weigh as much as 360 tons each, and which were carried more than 20 miles before being lifted and fit into place with laser-like precision.
How an ancient culture accomplished such a feat of engineering is a fun little problem to solve; turns out the Inca were as adept at building houses and fortified complexes as they were at watching the sky and keeping calendars. In fact, Sacsayhuamán isn’t the only example of this intricate masonry: Similar walls exist throughout the Inca Empire, including one in Cusco where a 12-angled stone has been carefully wedged into place.
More recently, archaeologists have uncovered traces of the rope-and-lever system the Inca used to transport stones from their quarries to their cities—a system that relied on strength and ingenuity, rather than alien architects.
2. Nasca Lines
A plane glides over an ancient spider geoglyph in the Peruvian desert.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT CLARK, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
On a high and dry plateau some 200 miles southeast of Lima, more than 800 long, straight white lines are etched into the Peruvian desert, seemingly at random. Joining them are 300 geometric shapes and 70 figures of animals, including a spider, monkey, and hummingbird.
The longest of the lines run straight as an arrow for miles. The biggest shapes stretch nearly 1,200 feet across and are best viewed from the air. Scientists suspect the Nasca drawings are as many as two millennia old, and because of their age, size, visibility from above, and mysterious nature, the lines are often cited as one of the best examples of alien handiwork on Earth. Otherwise, how would an ancient culture have been able to make such huge designs in the desert without being able to fly? And why?
Turns out, it’s rather easy to understand the how. Called geoglyphs, these enigmatic designs are made by removing the top, rust-colored layer of rocks and exposing the brighter white sand underneath.
The why is a bit tougher to comprehend. First studied in the early 1900s, the designs were initially suspected to be aligned with constellations or solstices, but more recent work suggests the Nasca lines point to ceremonial or ritual sites related to water and fertility. And in addition to being visible from the air, the shapes can be seen from surrounding foothills.
3. Egyptian Pyramids
The sun sets over the Giza necropolis on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.
PHOTOGRAPH BY EZEQUIEL SCAGNETTI, REDUX
Just outside Cairo, in Giza, the most famous of Egypt’s pyramids rise from the desert. Built more than 4,500 years ago, the Pyramids at Giza are monumental tombs where ancient queens and pharaohs were buried.
But how, exactly, did the Egyptians build these things? The Great Pyramid is made of millions of precisely hewn stones weighing at least two tons each. Even with today’s cranes and other construction equipment, building a pyramid as big as that of Pharaoh Khufu would be a formidable challenge.
And then there’s the astronomical configuration of the pyramids, which is said to align with the stars in Orion’s belt. As well, alien theorists often point to the fact that these three pyramids are in way better shape than others built centuries later (never mind the amount of work that has gone into preserving them over the past several centuries).
So are Egypt’s pyramids artifacts of aliens? Not exactly. It’s true that scientists aren’t quite sure how the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids—and especially how they did it so quickly—but there’s ample evidence that these tombs are the work of thousands of earthly hands.
4. Stonehenge
Bands of pink and purple streak the sky over Stonehenge at dawn.
PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIP KRAMER, GETTY IMAGES
A huge circle of stones, some weighing as much as 50 tons, sits in the English countryside outside Salisbury. Known as Stonehenge, the Neolithic monument inspired Swiss author Erich von Däniken to suggest it was a model of the solar system that also functioned as an alien landing pad—after all, how else could those massive stones have ended up hundreds of miles from their home quarry?
No one knows what, exactly, the meaning of Stonehenge is, but, as with all the other sites in this collection, the explanation is not aliens. Instead, scientists have demonstrated it’s actually possible to build such a thing using technologies that would have been around 5,000 years ago, when the earliest structures at the site were built.
And now, it appears as though the stones are aligned with solstices and eclipses, suggesting the Stonehenge builders were at least keeping an eye on the heavens, even if they didn’t come from above.
5. Teotihuacán
Teotihuacán’s Pyramid of the Sun rises up against the cobalt sky in Mexico City.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT FRIED, ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
Teotihuacán, meaning the "City of the Gods," is a sprawling, ancient city in Mexico that’s best known for its pyramidal temples and astronomical alignments. Built more than 2,000 years ago, Teotihuacán’s age, size, and complexity can make it seem otherworldly, but it’s very much the work of humans.
Scientists suspect that over centuries, a mix of cultures including Maya, Zapotec, and Mixtec built the city that could house more than 100,000 people. With its murals, tools, transportation system, and evidence of advanced agricultural practices, Teotihuacán is often considered much more technologically developed than should have been possible in pre-Aztec Mexico.
By far, the most well known of Teotihuacán’s buildings is the massive Pyramid of the Sun. One of the largest such constructions in the Western Hemisphere, the pyramid’s curious alignment is believed to be based on calendrical cycles.
6. Easter Island
Moai dot the grassy hills of Easter Island, a Chilean territory located in the southeastern Pacific.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOCHEM D. WIJNANDS, GETTY IMAGES
The enigmas surrounding the moai, Easter Island’s fleet of large stone figures, pretty much follow the same narrative as the other sites described here: How in the world did the Rapa Nui make these figures more than 1,000 years ago? And how did the moai end up on Easter Island?
Carved from stone, the nearly 900 human figures are sprinkled along the flanks of the island’s extinct volcanoes. The figures average 13 feet tall and weigh 14 tons and appear to have been chiseled from the soft volcanic tuff found in the Rano Raraku quarry. There, more than 400 statues are still in various states of construction, with some completed figures awaiting transportation to their intended resting place.
The reasons for carving the moai are mysterious, though they were likely sculpted for religious or ritual reasons. It’s also not exactly clear what happened to the stone-crafting Rapa Nui, but a leading theory suggests their civilization succumbed to an environmental disaster of their own making … which is something that probably could have been prevented had ancient aliens bestowed their infinite wisdom upon the culture.
7. The Face on Mars
NASA's Viking 1 orbiter took this photograph of Mars in 1976. Shadows in the rock formation create an illusion of a human face.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JPL
If Elon Musk has his way, humans will be capable of visiting the “face on Mars” sometime this century. Spotted by the Viking 1 orbiter in 1976, the so-called face is nearly two miles long and is in a region called Cydonia, which separates the smooth plains of the Martian north from the more cratered terrain in the south. At the time, scientists dismissed the “face” as shadow play, but over the decades it has become a favorite among those who suspect aliens with a penchant for building things have been visiting the solar system.
In 2001, NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor took another good look at the face—using a much higher resolution camera—and saw … no face. Turns out that what had appeared to be a face is just another boring old Martian mesa, kind of like the landforms that litter the U.S. Southwest.
But that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be fun to visit.
Le phénomène a été observé aux quatre coins de l'île ce samedi 27 octobre en début de soirée, aux alentours de 20h10. Plusieurs témoins ont parlé d'une sorte d'étoile filante qui serait passée d'ouest en est dans le ciel réunionnais. À Saint-Joseph, dans les hauts de Saint-Leu, à Saint-André, à Sainte-Marie, de nombreux témoins ont assisté au passage furtif de quelque chose dans le ciel. Les témoins décrivent une lumière jaune, orangée. La plupart d'entre eux a pensé à un météore car il y a environ un mois, un météore a bien traversé le ciel réunionnais. Mais cette fois, au vue de la vitesse, de la trajectoire et des couleurs du phénomène, des questions se posent...
Voici des images du phénomène, il n’a pas été aperçu qu’à La Réunion. À Rodrigues, il semble même plus proche, regardez :
Comme vous l’entendez sur les vidéos, les témoins du passage de cet OVNI (objet volant non identifié) sont assez dubitatifs. "C’est quoi çaaaa ? " L’hypothèse la plus crédible, c’est Actu Météo 974 qui la donne sur sa page Facebook : " L'hypothèse qui, pour l'instant tiendrait la route, serait la rentrée atmosphérique d'un morceau de fusée Falcon 9 lancée il y a environ 1 an. La trajectoire de ce débris spatial le faisait passer au-dessus des Mascareignes ce samedi vers 20h32."
C’est un certain Flavien Schmitt qui aurait mis Actu Météo 974 sur cette piste. Il a donc résolu l’énigme de ce bolide qui a fendu le ciel réunionnais ce samedi 27 octobre.
A mission began its seven-year journey to Mercury, scientists found the smallest known cannibal galaxy and a NASA scientist saw rectangular-shaped icebergs in Antarctica. These are just some of this week's top stories from Space.com.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL illustration
1. NASA will stop trying to contact silent rover
The Opportunity Mars rover has been silent for 4 months, and NASA will soon end active efforts to contact the robot. Opportunity entered low-power mode following a major Martian dust storm that blocked out the sun and kept the rover from recharging on solar power.
Two researchers detected the smallest known case of a galaxy eating another galaxy. In a new paper published on Oct. 11, the team found two different types of stars within a small nearby galaxy, and this was a sign that it had previously "eaten" a smaller neighbor.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory went into "safe mode" last week because of a glitch. But this week, the space agency announced that Chandra's science operations got going again on Sunday (Oct. 21), after mission team members established a new configuration for the piece of the space telescope that had the glitch.
A picture of a rectangular-shaped iceberg recently went viral. The "tabular iceberg" came about when it and others calved off the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica and NASA scientist Jeremy Harbeck took an image of some such icebergs during an Oct. 16 research flight over the frigid continent.
Scientists are now wondering if the features seen on the surface of Europa by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were signs of water vapor, or not. Recently, researchers looked through existing data to find the heat signals of the hot sources that would support geysers on Jupiter's moon.
Life before green plants may have been purple, so alien life might be the same color. A new research paper argues that early life on Earth could have been purple, so that means if scientists are looking for biosignatures on distant worlds, they perhaps should start looking for signs of lavender life as well.
Mercury is the destination of a joint Japanese-European mission that just launched from French Guiana. On Oct. 19 (Oct. 20 GMT) the BepiColombo mission took off and began its seven-year journey to the planet closest to the sun, and when it arrives it will separate into two spacecraft and circle Mercury for a year.
Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans
(University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
8. Signs of many gargantuan mergers spotted
A new study suggests that supermassive black holes — which can be the mass of millions of stars — probably collide and combine frequently. In 24 of the 33 objects the team studied, a particular signature appeared which is consistent with the existence of black holes tugging at each other.
At a meeting of the U.S. National Space Council on Oct. 23, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said a new crew should launch up to the space station in December despite the Oct. 11 failure of a Russian Soyuz crew capsule during flight. That crew would consist of NASA astronaut Anne McClain, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and the Canadian Space Agency's David Saint-Jacques.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is currently approaching its subject: asteroid Bennu. To ensure that the spacecraft doesn't crash into the potential dust plumes or tiny moons from Bennu or a neighbor, mission scientists conducted safety scans.
The experimental military base Tonopah Test Range in southwestern Nevada is shown in this 2017 Google Earth view, before a recent update.
Credit: Google Earth
Satellite imagery of an experimental military base that was missing from Google Maps for years is now available … but you'll have to go to New York City to see it.
Engineer Dhruv Mehrotra, a resident at the technology and art nonprofit Eyebeam, and writer Brendan Byrne leased the swatch of satellite imagery from the company Apollo Mapping for $1,984.50, after noticing that Google Maps hadn't updated an area over the Tonopah Test Range in southwestern Nevada for eight years.
The leased imagery can be shown only to people within Mehrotra and Byrne's "company," so the pair hosted an event yesterday (Oct. 25) called "Internal Use Only" to showcase the bird's-eye view of the experimental military installment. Visitors had to sign paperwork declaring themselves temporary employees of Eyebeam in order to legally see the satellite shot. [15 Secretive Places You Can Now See on Google Earth (And 3 You Can't)
Mehrotra and Byrne originally suspected government censorship when they learned that users of Google Maps were seeing 8-year-old imagery when they scrolled over Tonopah. According to a Google spokesperson who contacted Motherboard after Mehrotra and Byrne published their article, there was no censorship involved, but rather uninterest. The company licenses its imagery from third- party providers, and updates based on where users tend to browse.) The company has since updated Maps, and the aerial view of the test zone now dates to October 2017, they wrote on Motherboard. According to the Google Earth blog, most of the country's satellite imagery is updated roughly every three years, with the area in Nevada containing Tonopah Test Range an exception that "seems to have been missed."
The pair's project highlights the quilted nature of Google Maps. Some of the mapping program's imagery is aerial photography, taken from planes or helicopters, Mehrotra and Byrne wrote. Over military bases, where airspace is tightly controlled, Google tends to get imagery from private satellite companies instead.
The Tonopah Test Range is about 70 miles (110 kilometers) from Area 51, another military installment famous for UFO sightings and alien myths. According to Sandia National Laboratories, the range is used to test a variety of weapons and planes. Tonopah, according to Jalopnik, was where the slim-winged F-117, the first "stealth" aircraft in the U.S. military, was developed.
According to data from the National UFO Reporting Center, UFO sightings around the world have reached an all-time high. Statistics show individuals in the US are more likely to witness a UFO
The sci-fi series "The X-Files" popularized the saying "the truth is out there." And in the past 15 years, thousands of UFO sightings across the United States show a lot of people are still looking.
A new list of the top cities in the U.S. that have had UFO sightings from 2001-2015 has been published, with Phoenix topping the list, according to a story in the Syracuse New Times.
The data is pulled from the book "UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015," written by Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa. Published in March 2017, the book compiles "data and analysis for 100,000+ sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by individuals during the first 15 years of the 21st century."
Costa noted that Phoenix may be the most prevalent place in the U.S. for UFO sightings, perhaps due to the Phoenix Lights phenomena two decades ago.
In 1997, there were two events that occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico. Thousands of witnesses say they saw a formation of five lights in a V-shape, producing no sound and a triangular formation of lights. The U.S Air Force claimed the second group of lights were flares dropped from a A-10 Warthog aircraft.
In addition to Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago and Portland round out the top five cities on the list.
Below is the list of 25 most sightings across U.S. cities.
DIEREN Wetenschappers aan boord van E/V Nautilus, een schip dat wordt ingezet voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek, hebben met een op afstand bestuurde onderzeeër beelden gemaakt van een spookachtige octopus met doorzichtige vinnen, die lijken op flapperende oren zoals die van Disneyfiguurtje Dumbo de olifant.
De onderzoekers verkenden de Davidson Seamount, een onderzeese vulkaan op zo’n 130 kilometer voor de kust van Californië, toen dinsdag plots dit mysterieuze zeewezen verscheen, tot verrukking van de onderzoekers die hun enthousiasme hoorbaar niet kunnen onderdrukken.
Volgens Chad King, hoofdwetenschapper van de Nautilus, was het een unieke ervaring om de 60 centimeter lange octopus tegen te komen. “Het is erg bijzonder om er eentje in leven te zien. Zoiets zie je niet elke dag”, zegt hij. “Het is geen zeldzame soort, maar het is zeldzaam om er eentje tegen te komen. De kans is klein, omdat we op een klein plekje in de diepe oceaan zitten.”
Deze octopussen van het geslacht Grimpoteuthis, die omwille van hun bijzondere vinnen ook Dumbo-octopussen worden genoemd, leven in de Atlantische en Stille Oceaan op een diepte van zo’n 3.000 à 4.000 meter, waardoor ze moeilijk te bestuderen zijn. De meerderheid van hun dagen zweven de dieren net boven de zeebodem. Hier jagen ze op prooien als schaal-, schelpdieren en wormen en leggen ze hun eitjes.
Hoewel ze er schattig uitzien, zijn deze octopussen geen doetjes: wanneer ze een prooi te pakken krijgen, vormen ze met hun lichaam een ballon rondom de prooi om haar zo te verorberen.
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Geheime tunnels en kamer ontdekt onder Mexicaanse piramide. Is dit een doorgang naar de onderwereld?
Geheime tunnels en kamer ontdekt onder Mexicaanse piramide. Is dit een doorgang naar de onderwereld?
Onder de Piramide van de Maan in de stad Teotihuacan in Mexico is een nieuwe tunnel gevonden die leidt naar een geheime kamer.
De vondst is gedaan door onderzoekers van het Mexicaanse Nationaal Instituut voor Antropologie en Geschiedenis (INAH).
Projectleider Veronica Ortega zei dat in de tunnel mogelijk begrafenisrituelen hebben plaatsgevonden die verband houden met de onderwereld.
Doorgang
Met behulp van scans hebben de onderzoekers de locatie van de tunnels en de kamer kunnen achterhalen. Nu moeten ze nog zien te ontdekken hoe ze de kamer het beste kunnen bestreden.
Ze denken dat de ‘doorgang naar de onderwereld’ onverklaarbare vervormde schedels en andere vreemde voorwerpen zal bevatten.
De Piramide van de Maan is de op één na grootste piramide in Mexico. De Piramide van de Zon is de grootste.
Maya’s
Gedacht wordt dat Teotihuacan rond 100 voor Christus is gebouwd door de Tolteken.
Ortega lichtte toe dat tijdens eerdere opgravingen skeletten zijn gevonden met vreemd gevormde schedels, net als in het leefgebied van de Maya’s.
Andere ingang
De tunnel bevindt zich op een diepte van acht meter en is gelegen aan de zuidkant van de piramide. Waarschijnlijk is er ook nog een andere ingang aan de oostkant.
Experts zeiden eerder dat de tunnels mogelijk geassocieerd kunnen worden met heilige waterstromen en de onderwereld.
VREEMDE LUCHTEN ZOALS MEN DIE NOG NOOIT ZAG ( VIDEO )
VREEMDE LUCHTEN ZOALS MEN DIE NOG NOOIT ZAG ( VIDEO )
Het komt steeds vaker voor dat mensen vreemde luchten zien en daarbij opmerken dat ze nog nooit zoiets hebben gezien.
Het komt voor in alle delen van de wereld en de kleuren rood en paars beginnen steeds vaker voor te komen.
Alles wat de mainstream media doen is bijzondere kwesties afserveren als niets bijzonders, maar zonder daar een goede verklaring voor te (kunnen) geven.
We hebben gezien hoe ze uit pure noodzaak dan maar nieuwe wolkensoorten verzinnen waar je bij staat, maar feit is dat onze grootouders dergelijke luchten niet zagen.
Naarmate er meer vreemde luchten te zien zijn, zal het moeilijker worden om ook daar weer een geloofwaardige verklaring voor te kunnen vinden.
Bovenstaande zijn slechts enkele voorbeelden van het soort luchten zoals die door mensen worden waargenomen. Niet alleen zijn ze vreemd en onwerkelijk, men krijgt er ook een akelig gevoel bij.
Ze worden vaak omschreven als "scary skies", angstaanjagende luchten.
Het is niet helemaal waar dat dit soort luchten niet eerder zijn voorgekomen, maar dan moeten we wel ver terug in de tijd, tot ver voor het begin van onze jaartelling.
Tenslotte zullen wij allemaal in onze genen ergens de ervaring hebben opgeslagen van een eerdere passage van Nibiru, bijgenaamd de Verwoester. Een gebeurtenis die uitgebreid staat beschreven in de Kolbrin bijbel zoals wij al eerder berichtten:
“De donkere dagen begonnen met het laatste bezoek van de Verwoester en dit werd voorspeld door vreemde tekenen aan de hemel. Alle mensen werden stil en liepen rond met een bleek gelaat.
Angst nam de bevolking in haar grip en vrouwen werden door die angst onvruchtbaar. Ze konden niet zwanger worden en degene die het wel werden verloren hun kind.
De dagen van stilte werden gevolgd door een tijd waarbij trompetgeschal en doordringende hoge tonen werden gehoord in de hemelen en de mensen werden net zo bang als een kudde zonder herder.
De doden waren niet langer heilig en werden in het water gegooid. De pakhuizen waren volgestouwd met graan en niemand verbouwde nog wat. Het vee werd alleen gelaten en zwierf rond en dwaalde naar vreemde weiden. Hun geblaat werd genegeerd en men slachtte het vee van de buurman.
Niemand bezat nog iets. De openbare registers werden heen en weer geschoven en vernietigd. En niemand wist meer wie er slaaf waren en wie meester. De plaag waarde door het land, de rivier was bloedrood en overal was bloed. Zij die dronken van de rivier moesten onmiddellijk overgeven. Het stof beet zich vast in de huid van zowel mens als dier.
Door de gloed van de Verwoester was de aarde gehuld in een roodachtig licht. Het land was platgeslagen en verwoest door enorme hagelstenen die neer beukten op alles wat stond. Ze kwamen naar beneden in hete buien en achter hen aan kwam een soort vreemd gloeiend vuur dat over de aarde liep.
De vis in de rivieren stierf, wormen, insecten en reptielen sprongen omhoog vanuit de aarde. De duisternis van een lange nacht spreidde een zwarte mantel over de aarde waardoor iedere lichtstraal werd gedoofd. Niemand wist wanneer het dag of wanneer het nacht was want de zon wierp geen schaduw".
Dat was toen. Nu zijn de eerste tekenen zoals die in de Kolbrin bijbel worden beschreven voor eenieder duidelijk zichtbaar.
De maker van de onderstaande video noemt de verschijnselen die zich de afgelopen maand voordeden op onze aarde dan ook niet voor niets: Something strange is going on, the end of the earth”. Dat zal het niet worden want ook vorige keren waren er mensen die het hebben overleefd.
Heftig zal het wel zijn, een soort complete “reset” van onze planeet en alles wat er nu op leeft.
The strange night in a Welsh field involving 'huge UFO lights, explosions and military planes'
The strange night in a Welsh field involving 'huge UFO lights, explosions and military planes'
By Robert Dalling / Wales Online Senior Reporter
Wales' 'Roswell' is still fascinating UFO hunters two years later
A cold winter's night in south Wales back on February 26, 2016, was anything but ordinary in one Welsh town, some say.
In a scene worthy of an episode of the X-Files, multiple witnesses reported seeing a huge UFO and other lights - along with military planes, helicopters, a chase, explosions, shaken buildings, damaged trees and wreckage in Pentyrch.
An apache helicopter landing with its cockpit on fire, weird snow, and mystery men in white overalls were other reported sightings.
The activity was explained by the authorities as an Armed Forces exercise known as 'Chameleon', as was reported at the time .
But many still believe it was something out of this world, claiming to have spotted unidentified lights which did not conform to the normal idea of a military aircraft.
It echoes one of the most famous alleged UFO incidents of all time at a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico, when the US military is claimed to have captured a crashed flying saucer. The military has always said it was simply a conventional weather balloon.
'It was no exercise'
Recalling the events of that day more than two years ago, one witness, Caz Clarke said she could "categorically state it was no exercise".
"I will take a lie detector anywhere for anyone but what I witnessed will stay with me for the rest of my life," she said.
"What is more, the military knew they were coming and had a spotter plane in the air for two days waiting for 'the event'.
"When it came, four planes chased the "green" object whilst the spotter plane circled approximately six red oval objects, which formed a pyramid shape. Several red spheres hovered silently above the fields until the helicopters came."
Another witness, Mike Henbury, claims to have seen a red pulsing light, followed by two more to form a triangle descending from the clouds.
Mr Henbury said: "It looked very large indeed. I don't think it touched down totally but about 10 to 12 feet from the ground it lit up fully, showing the full outline of it, then it dimmed down."
A computer generated image of one of the sights allegedly seen on the night
(Image: Michael Hopkins)
The lights glowed different colours, including orange, according to witnesses
(Image: Michael Hopkins)
He added that black, red and green orbs emerged from it "as if they were dancing and moulding into one pulsing from red to green slowly".
Witnesses told the Swansea UFO Network they spotted a red light to the west above, and beyond the line of trees that marked the field's western extremity.
It was followed by other red lights that formed the outer edges of a huge triangle standing upright, tilted to the right, with a convex, rather than straight lower edge.
They said they did not see it 'arrive' but rather it just appeared in front of them, with a suggestion it travelled inter-dimensionally.
A small green-lighted object emerged from the top of the large structure, witnesses claimed, adding that the lights were so bright it was difficult to see their individual shape.
A line drawing by Caz Clarke of what she claims to have witnessed
(Image: Caz Clarke)
Witnesses explained that a the green object emerged from the top of the large one, four military planes arrived, two from the direction of RAF St Athan and two from the direction of Cardiff.
The green object flashed or strobed three times and headed off to the north-west towards Llantrisant and the aircraft chased it, they claimed.
It has also been recalled how the apache helicopters approached low across the fields from the south, in a pyramid formation. They were so low that the witnesses could see the grass being disturbed beneath them.
Swansea UFO Network's Emlyn Williams, Steve Drewson and Mike Maunder who recently paid a visit to Pentyrch.
(Image: Adrian White)
Another image from the recent visit to Pentyrch
(Image: Swansea UFO Network)
The large object then dipped to the right, turning on its axis, witness accounts claimed, adding that it descended below the tree line, but due to the trees having no leaves, the witnesses could see through them, and that as the object was turning on its axis, it was descending into the field to the north of where it had initially appeared.
As the object neared the ground, the bright red lights towards the bottom of the craft became brighter and changed to street-light orange. They gave off so much light that the sides of the craft were illuminated, showing a pyramid shape to it.
They told the UFO Network members that the lowest lights became really bright, almost white/orange, and released several fingers of light arcing down to the ground, like coloured lightning.
The red lights then went out and the large object was no longer visible.
The location of Wales' 'Roswell'
Garth Mountain is marked by the red pin on this Google Maps aerial image
(Image: Google Maps)
Pentyrch lies on the southern slope of Garth Mountain, known locally as 'The Garth'.
The summit is just above the village to the north and is surmounted by a bronze age burial mound, on top of which is a trig-point at 1,007 feet.
Swansea UFO Network recently visited the spot of the sighting, guided by Caz Clarke.
'Something unusual happened there'
The group claimed to have discovered electromagnetic residue which they said was evidence something unnatural occurred.
Swansea UFO Network's Emlyn Williams
(Image: Adrian White)
"We went up to the top of Garth Mountain itself which gave a good view and you can see right across where it took place," Swansea UFO network co-founder Emlyn Williams said.
"We went to the site and there is a strong EM residue in the core location to the place the UFOs were spotted. It's physical evidence something unusual happened there."
Swansea UFO Network said it was always looking for new reports of UFO sightings, and encouraged anyone with information to contact them via their website, http://www.sufon.co.uk
The long, thin, white cloud has been seen extending west of a Martian volcano since September 13. It looks as if it could be volcanic, yet it isn’t. Here’s what’s going on.
A curious elongated cloud, extending west of the Arsia Mons volcano on Mars, seen in a Mars Express image taken October 10, 2018.
The European Space Agency (ESA) said on October 25, 2018, that its Mars Express spacecraft has acquired hundreds of images over a period of weeks of a curious cloud on Mars. ESA has tracked the cloud since September 13, as it hovers in the vicinity of the 12-mile-high (20-km-high) Arsia Mons volcano, close to Mars’ equator.
It looks and sounds as if this cloud could be volcanic, doesn’t it? Yet that would be highly unlikely, since scientists have never detected any form of volcanic activity on Mars; it appears to be a geologically dead world. ESA said the cloud isn’t volcanic. Instead, it’s driven by ordinary meteorological conditions, not unlike those found on Earth. ESA explained:
In spite of its location, this atmospheric feature is not linked to volcanic activity but is rather a water ice cloud driven by the influence of the volcano’s leeward [downwind] slope on the air flow – something that scientists call an orographic or lee cloud – and a regular phenomenon in this region.
The cloud on September 21, 2018, via ESA/Mars Express.
The cloud extends about 900 miles (1,500 km) west of the volcano. As a comparison, the cone-shaped volcano has a diameter of about 155 miles (250 km); you can see a view of the region with labels here.
Mars experienced its northern winter solstice on October 16, bringing winter into Mars’ Northern Hemisphere and summer to its Southern Hemisphere. ESA said:
In the months leading up to this solstice, most cloud activity disappears over big volcanoes like Arsia Mons; its summit is covered with clouds throughout the rest of the Martian year.
However, a seasonally recurrent water ice cloud, like the one shown in this image, is known to form along the southwest flank of this volcano – it was previously observed by Mars Express and other missions in 2009, 2012 and 2015.
The cloud’s appearance varies throughout the Martian day, growing in length during local morning downwind of the volcano, almost parallel to the equator, and reaching such an impressive size that could make it visible even to telescopes on Earth.
The formation of water ice clouds is sensitive to the amount of dust present in the atmosphere. These images, obtained after the major dust storm that engulfed the entire planet in June and July, will provide important information on the effect of dust on the cloud development and on its variability throughout the year.
The cloud on September 17, 2018, via ESA/Mars Express.
Bottom line: ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has acquired hundreds of images of a curious elongated cloud on Mars, on the leeward or downwind side of a volcano.
Photographic plates going back to 1890 are providing new clues as to whether a distant exoplanet has a giant ring system, more than 100 times wider than Saturn’s.
Artist’s concept of how large the rings of exoplanet J1407b would appear in our sky, if they were placed around Saturn. For comparison, notice the crescent moon on the right side of the image.
Image via M. Kenworthy/Leiden University.
Rings around space bodies in our solar system are common. Saturn is perhaps best-known for its majestic ring system. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune all have rings as well. Even an asteroid – 10199 Chariklo – was found, in 2014, to have its own rings. But what about planets in other solar systems? As astronomers have found, giant planets are also common around other stars. It would stand to reason that some of those exoplanets should have rings. Detecting them wouldn’t be easy, since the planets are so far away and only are recently themselves detectable by modern technologies. But this month (October 15, 2018) astronomers said they’re now closer to determining if one particular candidate planet – orbiting the star J1407 – really does have rings, or not.
J1407 is a sunlike star, 460 light-years from Earth, in the direction of our constellation Centaurus. The star is only about 16 million years old, a baby in astronomical terms. In 2007, the star exhibited an odd series of eclipses that researchers said might be caused by a planet with a giant ring system. They labeled the planet J1407b.
If it exists, and if it does have rings, this planet’s ring system would be more than 100 times wider in expanse than Saturn’s.
J1407 hasn’t undergone an eclipse since 2007. Astronomers said this month they’ve now performed a new analysis of hundreds of photographic plates acquired between 1890 and 2007, and that analysis showed no other eclipses, either. Robin Mentel at Leiden University led the new research, which is published in the peer-reviewed journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Does the new work mean J1407b doesn’t exist? Or that it doesn’t have rings? Keep reading …
Old photographic plate from June 28, 1948, showing the star J1407 (circled in green), along with three other reference stars.
Image via R. T. Mentel et al.
The idea that a planet with giant rings might be responsible for the eclipses was first proposed by Matthew Kenworthy and other researchers in 2015. In 2016, their work showed that the rings would need to move against the orbital direction of the planet in order to remain stable.
No more eclipses were found in the plates between 1890 and 2007, but, these astronomers say, that doesn’t mean the planet, or its rings, don’t exist. They said it’s possible they missed an eclipse, since there are gaps in the data. Or maybe – if no eclipse took place – that negative finding helps narrow down the possible planet’s distance from its star and the length of its orbit.
If the planet really is there, Mentel and his colleagues said, the team’s calculation show that the next eclipse of the star should occur in either 2021 or 2024.
Mentel studied 490 photographic plates that had J1407 on them, the oldest being the Harvard DASCH survey from 1890. He compared the brightness of the star with two other equally bright stars close by. If the star J1407 was obscured at some point, it would appear to be fainter than the two nearby stars. As it turned out, Mentel did not detect any eclipses, even after he compared J1407 with a third star that was just as dim as an eclipsing J1407.
Artist’s concept of the possible giant ring system around the planet J1407b.
So how strong is the evidence for a ringed planet orbiting this star? It’s strong, and that’s why astronomers are looking so hard at this. As Kenworthy explained in 2015:
The details that we see in the light curve are incredible. The eclipse lasted several weeks, but you see rapid changes on time scales tens of minutes as a result of fine structures in the rings. The star is too far away to take immediate rings true, but we could based on the rapid brightness variations in the star light make a model of the ring system. If we put the rings around Saturn, we could at night seen from Earth, many times larger than the full moon.
There is probably at least a ground mass of material in the rings present, and more material may be in the satellites that provide the substructure of the ring.
Saturn with its majestic ring system.
Image via NASA.
Kenworthy also noted that there may even be a moon within the rings, after finding evidence for a hole in the ring system:
One obvious explanation is that a moon formed in this place, just as the holes are caused in Saturn’s ring structure by the moons.
If the rings are confirmed, they suggest that ring systems – like giant planets – are common in our Milky Way galaxy, including some systems that would dwarf Saturn’s rings. With astronomers now estimating billions of exoplanets in our galaxy alone, there could be many ringed worlds out there!
Bottom line: Whether J1407 actually has a planet with giant rings still isn’t known for sure, but astronomers are getting closer to an answer. Confirmation may have to wait until 2021 or 2024, when, astronomers calculate, another eclipse of the host star by the ring system might occur.
UFO Expert Says NASA Will Discover Alien Life After About 5 Years
UFO Expert Says NASA Will Discover Alien Life After About 5 Years
A government UFO investigator believes NASA could be less than ten years from discovering extraterrestrial life. He thinks that the space agency is on the right track.
Nick Pope, who formerly a Ministry of Defence UFO report investigator, believes NASA will discover aliens in the next 5 to 10 years.
The UFO expert says NASA will likely find proof of alien microbes or plants within the solar system.
However, the discovery of intelligent alien life could be the crowning glory for the American space agency.
The news comes after a group of 17 scientists urged the US space agency to search for extraterrestrial biosignatures on all of its future missions in space.
However, Mr Pope said that it was only a matter of time before efforts of NASA yield positive results.
He stated that discovering microbial or simple plant/animal life beyond our planet would be amazing, but the real prize would be finding other civilisations out there.
He claimed that NASA put more resources into finding technosignatures than biosignatures. He firmly thinks that it is only a matter of time before scientists find alien life, about five to ten years from now.
While Mr Pope thinks giving much attention to technosignatures is sensible but finding for biosignatures should never stop and should not ignore UFO data.
He also urges the space agency to prepare beforehand for the potential dangers associated with alien life discovery such as alien viruses and harmful bacteria as well as the possibility of hostile civilisations.
A 3,200-year-old ivory tablet, which has been called a “unique artifact,” has been discovered in Turkey and archaeologists believe that it may have originally come from Assyria. The tablet, which has been dated to around 1,200 BC, is 4.3 by 8.1 centimeters (1.6 by 3.1 inches), with a thickness that has been measured at 0.8 cm (0.3 inches).
As the Daily Sabah has reported, the ancient artifact that was found at the Archaeological Site of Arslantepe two years ago has now been thoroughly studied by archaeologists, and Professor Marcelle Frangipane of the Sapienza University of Rome explained, “The ivory tablet is a very important finding, as it was found for the first time here.”
Describing the artwork that decorates the ivory tablet, Professor Frangipane noted that two goat figures and a tree-like plant can be spotted on the artifact and that while it may have originally been made in Turkey, it is very likely to have originated Assyria judging by its design
“There are two goat figures and there is a plant, like a tree, between these figures. There are decorational motives around the tablet. These motives were mostly used by Assyrians in Syria. The tablet may be coming from Assyria, or may have been made here.”
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3,200-year-old ivory tablet found in Turkey’s eastern Malatya province has potential links to ancient Mesopotamian kingdom Assyria, excavation team sayshttp://sabahdai.ly/8sZK1s
3,200-year-old artifact linked to Assyria found in eastern Turkey
An ivory tablet dating back 3,200 years was found in eastern Turkey's Malatya province, giving clues on a potential link between Assyria and the region,...
According to Professor Frangipane, the carvings fashioned on the ivory tablet also bear a strong resemblance to similar artifacts that archeologists have discovered in both Syria and Iraq, and suggested that it may have once been used as a furniture decoration. However, at this time no link has been established between the artifact and these countries, and it may be that the artwork itself was prevalent at this time in different regions and that trade may have also influenced the art on the tablet.
“It might be a decoration of furniture. It is a beautiful work of art and it is important for the history of the mound. It is the same with the motives in Syria, Iraq and Nemrut [in southeastern Adiyaman]; there may be a trade relation between them.”
Excitingly, however, an ivory tablet of this kind has never been discovered in Turkey before, and Professor Frangipane has said that “these kinds of artifacts are found in Syria and Mesopotamia, but it is a unique piece for here.”
Excavations have been ongoing in the Arslantepe region of Turkey since 1961 and have been performed in a partnership between the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry and the Italian Archaeological Expedition of the Sapienza University of Rome. This area was once the birthplace of many great civilizations, including the Hittites, Romans, and Byzantines, so it makes sense that numerous ancient artifacts would be found here.
Now that the 3,200-year-old ivory tablet found in Turkey has been examined, it will be up to archaeologists to determine whether it is, in fact, Assyrian after all.
Video footage shows the bizarre anomaly that was spotted during NASA’s live feed from space.
It shows a strange grey object appearing to float above Earth.
The article appears to be shaped like an aircraft and moving south, though some believe it could be stationary on top of a mountain or the Luobubozhen facility in China.
But the person behind the camera even speculates a figure can be made out inside the UFO.
“I think it is some sort of craft”
Anonymous source
“The craft has 90 degree sharp angles and looks to be intelligently designed," they said.
“I think it is some sort of craft, but cannot work out whether it is on the ground, or flying.
“If it's on the ground its huge.”
According to the person who captured it, who wishes to remain anonymous, the clip shows: “A craft with a doorway and a being inside.”
They said: "At first I thought it was a cloud, but now I'm convinced its much more."
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BIZARRE: What could it be?
The footage was captured in September 2017, but only shared on October 1 this year.
It was shared on YouTube channel MrMBB333 yesterday and has already racked up more than 55,000 hits.
“No chance that is on the ground – looks like it's in the air,” one viewer claimed.
A research team has documented a volcanic eruption in the western Pacific Ocean that’s deeper below the ocean surface than Mount Rainier’s height above sea level.
Researchers used remotely operated vehicles to explore the deep waters of the Mariana Trench.
A team of researchers has documented a recent volcanic eruption in the western Pacific Ocean about 2.8 miles (4.5 km) below the ocean surface that they describe as the deepest known eruption on Earth – deeper below the ocean surface than Mount Rainier’s height above sea level.
The researchers say the eruption probably happened between 2013-2015 on the Mariana back-arc, a zone of the sea floor with active volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench. The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the earth’s oceans, and the deepest location of the earth itself. It’s located just east of the 14 Mariana Islands near Japan. It was created by ocean-to-ocean subduction, a phenomenon in which a tectonic plate topped by oceanic crust is subducted beneath another plate also topped by oceanic crust.
Bill Chadwick is a marine geologist at Oregon State University and lead author on the study, published October 23, 2018 in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Earth Science. Chadwick said in a statement:
We know that most of the world’s volcanic activity actually takes place in the ocean, but most of it goes undetected and unseen. That is because undersea quakes associated with volcanism are usually small, and most of the instrumentation is far away on land.
Many of these areas are deep and don’t leave any clues on the surface. That makes submarine eruptions very elusive.
The Mariana back-arc eruption was first discovered in December 2015 by cameras aboard an autonomous underwater vehicle. Photos revealed the presence of a pristine dark, glassy lava flow on the seafloor with no sediment cover. Venting of milky hydrothermal vent fluid indicated that the lava flow was still warm, and therefore very young.
Fresh lava from the sea floor.
Image via Oregon State University.
Data indicated that there had been major depth changes in the area between surveys in 2013 and 2015, the researchers said, which is consistent with an eruption. The new lava flows stretched over an area about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long and ranged in thickness between 130-450 feet (40-137 meters).
The scientists returned in April and December of 2016 and used two remotely operated vehicles to explore the site. The new observations showed a rapidly declining hydrothermal system on the lava flows, suggesting the eruption had taken place only months before its discovery the previous year. Chadwick said:
Typically after an eruption, there is heat released and venting for a few years and organisms will colonize the vents, creating a new ecosystem. But after a while, the system cools down and the mobile organisms will leave. There was still some venting, but it had obviously greatly declined.
Bottom line: An undersea volcanic eruption discovered in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench is the deepest known.
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