Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
31-10-2018
Telescope Drama Could Thwart the Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life
For nearly 20 years, NASA has been planning and constructing a telescope unlike any ever built before: the James Webb Space Telescope. It will change the way scientists see the most distant galaxies and intensify the hunt for extraterrestrial life; it will answer outstanding questions about the birth and death of stars and planets. It is the future of astronomy—but it’s causing trouble. JWST’s high price and decade of delays could stymie the development of future telescopes, impacting the course of astronomy for the next 30 years.
Billed as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the JWST is a tennis court-sized, general-purpose space telescope with a 6.5-meter (21-foot) mirror that will be sent to a gravitationally stable point nearly a million miles from Earth. It will create incredibly detailed images from the infrared light of objects in space, including nebulae, exoplanets, galaxies, and stars. Looking even further ahead, NASA’s planned successor to JWST, called the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), will observe the sky with resolution similar to Hubble’s but with a far wider field of view. That would allow astronomers to answer some of the fundamental questions about dark energy, a mysterious force that seems to be driving the universe’s accelerating expansion. It would also provide a platform to test state-of-the-art components for its own successor. Four teams of scientists are already working on different concepts for the flagship mission to follow WFIRST, which would launch in the 2030s or 2040s. Three of those concepts would follow up on potentially life-harboring exoplanets spotted by JWST, while the fourth would aim to understand the origins of galaxies and the universe itself. These missions would all be expensive, similar in cost to JWST.
“[Today’s astronomers] are the first humans in history that have a chance to answer the compelling questions about whether there is life beyond Earth,” MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager recently told the Senate.
Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)
Photo: NASA
But as the JWST’s price tag has increased incrementally, from hundreds of millions of dollars to $9.6 billion, some scientists working on its successors are uneasy. Where does the extra money come from to pay for JWST’s budget overruns, and how have these delays affected public perception of these large missions? And if NASA scraps or removes certain parts from WFIRST, that might handicap future space-based efforts to detect signs of life outside the Solar System. While Congress views astronomy research more favorably, President Trump’s 2019 budget request has already suggested scrapping WFIRST.
As of now, the future of these missions and how JWST will impact them is uncertain, Scott Gaudi, Ohio State University professor and member of the WFIRST team, told Gizmodo.
As early as 1989, astronomers had an early concept of JWST as a “Next Generation Space Telescope,” the successor to Hubble. While originally envisioned as having a mirror eight or more meters (26+ feet) in diameter, budget constraints caused scientists to de-scope various goals, resulting in the 6.5-meter (21-foot) telescope concept that would become the James Webb Space Telescope. As plans developed, NASA in 2002 selected an aerospace company called TRW to build the spaceship and mirror with an $825 million budget and a scheduled launch in 2010. Northrop Grumman acquired TRW, and soon took over the telescope’s construction.
NASA’s JWST Clean Room ‘Transporter’ in 2016.Photo: NASA/Chris Gunn
Delays have marred JWST’s entire developmental history. Most recently, an independent review revealed that increase in project scope, the complexity of the telescope, overoptimism, and human errors have plagued its construction. Those human errors include the time when someone at Northrop Grumman used the wrong solvent to clean valves, and the time when loose nuts fell into the telescope during a test, according to the review. But as early as 2005, the launch had been pushed to 2013 and the cost to $4.5 billion due to “funding shortfalls,” “requirement changes,” and other issues. Fabrication began in 2011, but by then the launch was pushed to 2018 and the budget to an estimated $8 billion. Today, the JWST’s estimated cost is up to $9.66 billion, and its projected launch date is some time in 2021.
Then there’s the mere fact that huge advances in astronomy have occurred during the telescope’s development. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine explained in a Congressional hearing this past July that the study of today’s most ubiquitous astronomy topics, like dark energy and exoplanets, was only beginning when the JWST project began. “This isn’t simply mismanagement or cost overruns or delay,” Congressman Don Beyer (D-Virginia) said during the hearing. “The world of science itself is changing in ways that have impacted the project.”Essentially, the price and scope of the project have expanded as scientists have learned more about the universe and encountered more cosmic mysteries.
By 2010, it was already time to plan a successor for JWST. Every decade, committees of scientists survey the state of astrophysics and decide what kind of experiments the entire community would like to see next, including small- and medium-sized missions as well as the flagship missions. For the largest missions, teams of scientists work on multiple concepts, and the Decadal Survey committee uses these concepts to set the field’s priority for NASA.
Even back then, astronomers worried about how JWST’s cost would affect the future of observation. But then NASA received a 2.4-meter (7.8-foot) mirror from National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The mirror was initially designed for use in espionage, but would work nicely in a space telescope. The Decadal Survey moved forward with a telescope called WFIRST—a telescope with Hubble’s resolution but 100 times the viewing area. A telescope like this would help scientists determine the true nature of dark energy, a mysterious force that seems to be speeding up the universe’s expansion and that could determine the universe’s ultimate fate. NASA scrapped other concepts, like the exoplanet-hunting Space Interferometry Mission, in response.
WFIRST “was a Frankenstein creation,” Jessie Christiansen, astrophysicist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, told Gizmodo. “It was something no one really asked for until they got the mirror donated by the NRO.” But, according to the Decadal Survey, such a telescope would “settle essential questions in both exoplanet and dark energy research, which will advance topics ranging from galaxy evolution to the study of objects within our own galaxy.” WFIRST has expanded in both scope and cost since the 2010 decadal survey.
Primary Mirror Assembly WFIRST
Photo: Harris Corporation / TJT Photography
The telescope’s wide-field surveying instrument would be relatively simple compared to some instruments flown on previous NASA missions, Gaudi told Gizmodo. But WFIRST would also be the first to fly a technology in space that is important for two proposals for the next flagship space telescope: a “coronagraph.” A coronagraph is a device that blocks stars’ bright light, making the dimmer planets orbiting the star visible. If scientists hope to find life around other stars, they’ll need to image the light produced by and reflected by the planet directly. The issue is that the planet may be billions of times dimmer than the star it orbits. Scientists hope to one day spot Earth-like planets using this technology.
And here’s the most important part: Observing the light directly from planets, rather than just observing the periodic dimming produced when the planet passes in front of its star, could tell scientists whether the presence of life has altered the planet’s atmosphere the way it has on Earth. Climate change aside, life fills Earth’s atmosphere with carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, and other biological building blocks. Therefore, determining whether life exists on other planets requires observing these planet’s atmospheres to see what molecules they contain.
Image: Origins Space Telescope
Preparations for the 2020 Decadal Survey are already underway. Four teams of astronomers are preparing concept studies for WFIRST’s successor, a flagship telescope mission that would launch some time in the late 2030s or early 2040s. As happened in 2010, the survey will determine what astronomy’s most important scientific questions are, and how best to answer them using ambitious, potentially yet-to-be-developed technology. The decadal committee will move forward with a recommendation based on the goals and design of one or multiple concepts. It’s clear that hunting for signs of extraterrestrial life will play an enormous role in the discussion. Two of the concepts incorporate a coronagraphlike WFIRSTs, and three list analyzing exoplanets among their primary goals. All of them would cost billions of dollars.
The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) is the most ambitious of these four missions—and it would be truly enormous, with either an 8- or 15-meter (26- or 49-foot) mirror. It would be a sequel to JWST. Another, the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx), is built from the bottom up with observing exoplanets in mind. Both would rely on a coronagraph and a starshade, an external component that blocks the light of other stars.
HabEx coronagraphImage: NASA
Two other proposed telescopes wouldn’t rely on a coronagraph or a starshade. The Origins Space Telescope (OST) would look for exoplanets around cooler stars in the infrared wavelengths, where the difference in brightness between the star and planet isn’t as great. Its goals also include observing the formation of planets and the growing complexity of stars and galaxies. Finally, there’s Lynx, which is instead focused on high-energy astrophysical mysteries, such as the dawn of black holes and the birth and death of stars. It would be an x-ray telescope using sensitive instruments, and serve as the sequel to the wildly successful Chandra X-ray Telescope.
The National Academy of Sciences has already hinted that it favors a telescope equipped with a coronagraph or some sort of starlight-shading device, like LUVOIR or HabEx, when it comes to hunting for extraterrestrial life. From the recent Exoplanet Science Strategy report:
A coronagraphic or starshade-based direct imaging mission is the only path currently identified to characterize Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of a large sample of nearby Sun-like stars in reflected light... NASA should lead a large strategic direct imaging mission capable of measuring the reflected-light spectra of temperate terrestrial planets orbiting Sun-like stars.
Another more recent report from the National Academies outlining a strategy for the future of astrobiology calls starshades and coronagraphs “essential.”
It’s important to note that there a host of other Earth-based telescopes under development, like the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope. These ground-based telescopes are better for observing planets around cooler, small M-dwarf stars, Aki Roberge, scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center working on LUVOIR, recently told Gizmodo. Space telescopes equipped with starlight-blocking coronagraphs could better observe planets around Sun-like stars. Extraterrestrial life might exist on either, and both are part of a healthy astrobiology strategy.
Image: HabEx starshade (NASA)
The decadal space telescope proposals are already beginning to feel the heat from JWST. On June 1, NASA astrophysics director Paul Hertz emailed the concept teams, imposing a $3 billion to $5 billion cost goal for the studies. According to a press release, “With recent delays and budget constraints surrounding the two major flagship missions, the new direction will better ensure that the next flagship mission be executed on time and within budget.” However, he revised that memo two weeks later, and instead reminded teams that the second phase of their design process was beginning in which they should design a less costly architecture than their first designs. The National Academies has also recommended that these concepts think about cost and schedules. These concept studies are due to NASA by June 2019.
Some, like LUVOIR physicist John O’Meara, worry that the difficulties with JWST will cause members of the astronomy community to give up on large missions such as these in general. It’s a sentiment that some, like former NASA administrator Charles Bolden, have expressed before. “I hope they don’t do that,” said O’Meara.
JWST’s mirrors being tested at the Marshall Space Flight Center’s X-ray and Cryogenic Facility.Photo: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given
“I’m really concerned about the state of funding,” Laura Lopez, assistant professor at Ohio State University working on the Lynx team, told Gizmodo. “It feels like a precarious situation where we don’t know what will happen next year, let alone in the next 15 years.” Any large missions like these would require sustained funding for more than a decade.
And there are plenty of smaller missions whose futures might be in jeopardy due to the cost and scope of these larger projects, missions of a similar scope as Kepler and TESS.
JWST could impact these future missions directly or based on how it affects WFIRST. This past summer, Congress has held hearings grilling NASA and Northrup Grumman about the JWST’s cost overruns and delays. Northrup Grumman CEO Wes Bush told Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) that the company would not pick up the most recent $800 million cost increase. It’s unclear what will happen next.
Image: Lynx
WFIRST faces clear threats. This past year, President Trump’s proposed budget included scrapping the telescope entirely. Scientists are confident that the more space-friendly Congress won’t let that happen, but Gaudi has heard talk threatening the existence of the coronagraph as well. Should WFIRST lose its coronagraph, scientists will miss an important opportunity to try the light-blocking technology out in space before flying it on the ultimate exoplanet-hunting telescope.
Gizmodo heard several times that flying a coronagraph without testing it on some previous mission could be a very bad idea with far-reaching implications on cost and schedule. “We may save roughly $300 million by de-scoping a coronagraph,” David Spergel, Princeton astrophysicist working on WFIRST’s development, told Gizmodo, “but I suspect in the long run, it could cost a billion in development cost of LUVOIR or HabEx when the time comes to upgrade to a coronagraph capable of detecting Earth-like planets.” Gaudi said that flying a coronagraph on WFIRST would make LUVOIR or HabEx “much more palatable to pretty much everyone.”
Scientists have reminded Congress as to the coronagraph’s importance. “WFIRST’s coronagraph instrument is a technology demonstration,” Seager said recently at a Senate hearing. “It’s critical to do this to buy down more ambitious missions in the future already under study.”
Webb at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Dec. 1, 2017.Photo: NASA/Chris Gunn
For what it’s worth, the astronomers Gizmodo spoke with generally agree that JWST will be well worth the wait. But flagship telescopes are meant to advance significantly upon existing instruments—and improvement requires money. Scrapping or de-scoping WFIRST could further delay humanity’s dream to spot life on other planets, should the Decadal Survey ultimately decide to recommend a coronagraph-based mission. So, too, could fear or budgetary consequences stemming from the JWST delay.
Of course, what happens next with WFIRST is up in the air. Scientists are waiting to see what happens with the reconciliation of upcoming budgets, “and how Congress will respond to the additional delays of JWST,” said Gaudi. Given the country’s chaotic political climate, no one knows what will and won’t get funding in the future. But long-term investments require money—and representatives who are willing to allocate that money to support them.
“I’m just doing my best to provide Congress with as much information as I can so they make the best possible decision,” said Gaudi. “I hope they are ambitious and optimistic about the science.”
Open Minds UFO Radio: Chris is one of the hosts of the Mad Scientist Podcast. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering focusing on the study of nanomaterials for use as catalysts and adsorbents from Northeastern University. He has a bachelors degree in chemical engineering and philosophy from the University of New Hampshire. The Mad Scientist podcast covers the history and philosophy of science and fringe science claims and examines how societies accept technologies and sciences.
In this episode, we discuss the science necessary to prove whether an extraterrestrial civilization made a particular object. We also discuss scenarios related to the discoverers might handle such a discovery, and how mainstream science may react.
I found this article from 2016 and of course they just say it is mountain erosion.
Eric Rignot, a professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, said:
"This is just a mountain that looks like a pyramid. Pyramid shapes are not impossible — many peaks partially look like pyramids, but they only have one to two faces like that, rarely four."
A decade ago, we thought our solar system was special; today, we know it's no such thing. That revolution is thanks to the work of NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has officially reached the end of its mission.
Since Kepler's launch in 2009, scientists have spotted a total of 2,681 confirmed planets orbiting other suns within the data gathered by the instrument. Another 2,899 potential Kepler planets are still being vetted by scientists.
An artist's depiction of Kepler-22b, one of the 2,681 confirmed exoplanet discoveries made to date in the instrument's data.
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
Bill Borucki, who first dreamed up the Kepler mission and was its principal investigator until his retirement from NASA in 2015, knows many of those thousands of planets as individuals. Take, for example, Kepler-22b, which he calls one of the most interesting planets in the batch. [Gallery: A World of Kepler Planets]
"It's a planet in between the size of the Earth and Neptune, unlike any planet in our solar system; it's a planet that may very well be a water world, a world covered in an ocean, and it's in the habitable zone," Borucki said during a news conference held yesterday (Oct. 30) to mark the end of Kepler's in-space work. "It might very well have an atmosphere on a water planet that could lead to life, so it's an extremely interesting planet. It's one of my favorites."
An artist's depiction of the Kepler-444 solar system, which is made up of small, rocky planets orbiting a relatively old star.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/AMES/Univ. of Birmingham
But he's not just excited about individual worlds — the Kepler mission has identified plenty of solar systems as well, where it has spotted multiple planets orbiting one star. He's excited for what we may one day learn about the Kepler-444 system in particular, he said.
"These are small, rocky planets, and they were formed around a star that's some six and a half billion years older than our star, than our own planetary system," Borucki said. "If life has been developing over six and a half billion years before Earth was formed, there may be some very interesting lifeforms for us to find as we search these early planets."
But while Borucki is fascinated by planets that could potentially host life, he's also struck by the sheer diversity of the more than 600 solar systems Kepler has studied. Take, for example, the existence of hot Jupiters — gas giants tucked so close to their stars that they orbit in a matter of days, completely unlike our own Jupiter strolling around the sun over the course of nearly 12 Earth years.
An artist's depiction of the long-lived Kepler space telescope and some of the planets it discovered during its near-decade in space.
Credit: NASA
Discoveries like these have forced scientists to stop assuming that our solar system is like those all around us, added Padi Boyd, the project scientist for Kepler's successor mission, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
"Kepler kind of just cracked that out of being the typical expectation," Boyd said during the news conference. "Putting our own solar system into that greater context, I think is a really interesting portrait of the galaxy — our solar system is not typical. Maybe no solar system is typical; maybe they're all very different."
That wealth of solar systems has warmed the hearts of the sci-fi fans on the mission as well. For Kepler's project system engineer at NASA Ames, Charlie Sobeck, the mission has turned the type of universe he grew up with while watching "Star Trek" into reality. "I had no trouble believing that there were planets out there of all different kinds, so I had to wonder, why did it affect me so much when Kepler showed that there were lots of planets out there everywhere?" he said during the news conference.
"There's just a big difference between believing and knowing," Sobeck said. "It hit me like a sledgehammer in the chest when Kepler showed us that there really, really are planets out there of all different kinds."
NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, Passes Planet-Hunting Torch
NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, Passes Planet-Hunting Torch
This illustration depicts NASA's exoplanet hunter, the Kepler space telescope. The agency announced on Oct. 30, 2018, that Kepler has run out of fuel and is being retired within its current and safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2,600 exoplanet discoveries.
Credits: NASA/Wendy Stenzel
After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. NASA has decided to retire the spacecraft within its current, safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2,600 planet discoveries from outside our solar system, many of which could be promising places for life.
"As NASA's first planet-hunting mission, Kepler has wildly exceeded all our expectations and paved the way for our exploration and search for life in the solar system and beyond," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "Not only did it show us how many planets could be out there, it sparked an entirely new and robust field of research that has taken the science community by storm. Its discoveries have shed a new light on our place in the universe, and illuminated the tantalizing mysteries and possibilities among the stars.”
Kepler has opened our eyes to the diversity of planets that exist in our galaxy. The most recent analysis of Kepler’s discoveries concludes that 20 to 50 percent of the stars visible in the night sky are likely to have small, possibly rocky, planets similar in size to Earth, and located within the habitable zone of their parent stars. That means they’re located at distances from their parent stars where liquid water – a vital ingredient to life as we know it – might pool on the planet surface.
The most common size of planet Kepler found doesn’t exist in our solar system – a world between the size of Earth and Neptune – and we have much to learn about these planets. Kepler also found nature often produces jam-packed planetary systems, in some cases with so many planets orbiting close to their parent stars that our own inner solar system looks sparse by comparison.
"When we started conceiving this mission 35 years ago we didn't know of a single planet outside our solar system," said the Kepler mission's founding principal investigator, William Borucki, now retired from NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. "Now that we know planets are everywhere, Kepler has set us on a new course that's full of promise for future generations to explore our galaxy."
Launched on March 6, 2009, the Kepler space telescope combined cutting-edge techniques in measuring stellar brightness with the largest digital camera outfitted for outer space observations at that time. Originally positioned to stare continuously at 150,000 stars in one star-studded patch of the sky in the constellation Cygnus, Kepler took the first survey of planets in our galaxy and became the agency's first mission to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of their stars.
"The Kepler mission was based on a very innovative design. It was an extremely clever approach to doing this kind of science," said Leslie Livesay, director for astronomy and physics at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who served as Kepler project manager during mission development. "There were definitely challenges, but Kepler had an extremely talented team of scientists and engineers who overcame them.”
Four years into the mission, after the primary mission objectives had been met, mechanical failures temporarily halted observations. The mission team was able to devise a fix, switching the spacecraft’s field of view roughly every three months. This enabled an extended mission for the spacecraft, dubbed K2, which lasted as long as the first mission and bumped Kepler's count of surveyed stars up to more than 500,000.
The observation of so many stars has allowed scientists to better understand stellar behaviors and properties, which is critical information in studying the planets that orbit them. New research into stars with Kepler data also is furthering other areas of astronomy, such as the history of our Milky Way galaxy and the beginning stages of exploding stars called supernovae that are used to study how fast the universe is expanding. The data from the extended mission were also made available to the public and science community immediately, allowing discoveries to be made at an incredible pace and setting a high bar for other missions. Scientists are expected to spend a decade or more in search of new discoveries in the treasure trove of data Kepler provided.
"We know the spacecraft's retirement isn't the end of Kepler's discoveries," said Jessie Dotson, Kepler's project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. "I'm excited about the diverse discoveries that are yet to come from our data and how future missions will build upon Kepler's results."
Before retiring the spacecraft, scientists pushed Kepler to its full potential, successfully completing multiple observation campaigns and downloading valuable science data even after initial warnings of low fuel. The latest data, from Campaign 19, will complement the data from NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, launched in April. TESS builds on Kepler's foundation with fresh batches of data in its search of planets orbiting some 200,000 of the brightest and nearest stars to the Earth, worlds that can later be explored for signs of life by missions, such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley manages the Kepler and K2 missions for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation in Boulder, Colorado, operates the flight system with support from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
For the Kepler press kit, which includes multimedia, timelines and top science results, visit:
Illustration of hot clumps of gas that orbit the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Credit: ESO/Gravity Consortium/L. Calçada.
Scientists have known for a long time that at the very heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole, about four million times more massive than the Sun. As its name suggests, we can’t image a black hole directly, but cutting-edge telescopes can tease out the infrared light emitted by interstellar gas as it swirls into the black hole. Now, an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics reported evidence of knots of gas that appear to orbit the galactic center. This remarkable observation is the closest look yet at our galactic supermassive black hole and, at the same time, offers new opportunities to test the laws of physics.
The point of no return
To image things in the vicinity of Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, researchers looked to the GRAVITY project. Using a special technique called interferometry, four eight-meter-wide telescopes at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile were combined to produce images that only a hypothetical telescope as large as entire countries could produce. By the same technique, in the future, a ‘planet-sized’ instrument called the Event Horizon Telescope hopes to produce an actual image of a black hole.
The new observations measured the brightness and position of infrared flares in the vicinity of Sagittarius A*. These flares actually trace a tiny circle in the night’s sky, the researchers found, moving clockwise.
Yepun telescope, part of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Very Large Telescope.
Credit: ESO.
These kinds of outbursts had been detected before. However, this was the first time that astronomers precisely measured the flares’ positions and motions before they dissipated. Each flare moved at about 30% light speed in a 45-minute orbit around what we can only suppose is a black hole.
Earlier this year, the same team measured the relativistic distortion of light from a star, S2, during its closest approach to Sagittarius A*.
These hot spots might be produced by shock waves in magnetic fields, much as solar flares erupt from the sun. Due to the immense gravitational forces present in the vicinity of the black hole, space-time itself is twisted into something resembling a lens, which causes these hot spots, circling at 30% the speed of light, to flash beacons of light across the cosmos. And by further studying these flares, researchers hope to tease out the black hole’s spin or rotation.
All of this, of course, assuming Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct, which implies that the orbits of objects around a black hole are determined solely by the black hole’s mass and spin. If not, then the theory might need some refinement to accommodate for any observed inconsistencies.
The video was quickly picked up by popular conspiracy theory YouTube channel Third Phase of the Moon.
The narrator of the video said: “Some people are speculating that this is some kind of UFO in a crash landing situation.
“The object itself seems a little wobbly, in its own way it seems like a tadpole. This thing is unstable, it is not moving on a steady trajectory.
“We see contrails all the time, but with colours like this they stand out like a sore thumb.
UFO SHOCK: Did ‘alien spaceship’ CRASH LAND over Paris? Video sparks wild theories
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“Whatever was captured on camera is unexplained at this moment.”
Kannywhat added: “Before I recorded it, it was rapidly moving around. Strange!”
Many other people who commented on Third Phase of the Moon’s video also claimed to have experienced similar sightings.
Caligirl wrote: “I live in California and have seen a similar UFO.”
The UFO was seen wobbling over Paris
(Image: YOUTUBE)
Dane 69 commented: “I just came home from a flight from Greece, and I did see many jets with this black exhaust, I was also wondering why they are black.”
However, there are no reports of a crashed spaceship in the area others offered more logical explanations.
Even the narrator of Third Phase of the Moon questioned: “Could it be a satellite falling into Earth’s atmosphere and burning up?”
While Oliver Cook claimed: “Its just a very dirty jet. Many Russian planes are like this – they look like they are burning coal.
“Just check out MiG-29s and IL-76's, they often belch out trails like this.”
Is NASA hiding evidence of aliens on Mars? Photo of ‘smoke plume’ sparks conspiracy FRENZY
Is NASA hiding evidence of aliens on Mars? Photo of ‘smoke plume’ sparks conspiracy FRENZY
NASA has been accused of hiding evidence of alien life on Mars after astronomers photographed what appears to be a giant plume of smoke on the Red Planet.
Conspiracy theorists behind the popular YouTube channel Secureteam10 claimed the “smoke plume” is evidence of a potential “cover-up happening here”.
In a video titled Something MAJOR Happened On Mars… Are They Hiding It?, conspiracist Tyler Glockner suggested the smoke could have also come from a detonation.
He said: “What is strange here is that there are two sets of images.
“One by the European Space Agency, which clearly show what appears to be a plume coming out of this volcano.
Aliens on Mars: Conspiracists believe this is a smoke plume on Mars
(Image: ESA)
“Then we have another set of images captured by NASA and one of their probes, taken on the same day, same time and yet we see nothing.
“We see no plume whatsoever – as you guys are seeing here in this 3D model map taken by NASA – no plume whatsoever, and that’s extremely strange.
“It makes you wonder if NASA is already getting ahead of this and editing this plume out or is something weird happening here? We just don’t know yet.”
Many of the video’s viewers were sold on the alien smoke plume theory while others suggested NASA is terraforming the planet for human arrival.
Terry Powell commented: “Perhaps Mars is being terraformed to enable rich and so-called elite to move to Mars when disaster strikes the Earth.”
It makes you wonder if NASA is already getting ahead of this and editing this plume out
Tyler Glockner, Secureteam10
Ryan O’Malley said: “Maybe the secret government is terraforming the planet by sending nukes to melt the ice so it can support the breakaway civilisation.”
And Rob Bowen said: “Governments should stop hiding things from the people that pay for their things.
“We are the investors and they should not be hiding things.”
Aliens on Mars: The white streak was photographed near a dead Martian volcano
(Image: ESA)
Aliens on Mars: The European Space Agency said the plume is a cloud of evaporated ice
(Image: ESA)
However, according to the ESA, the “smoke plume” does not in any way prove to alien or volcanic activity but is instead a giant cloud of evaporated ice water.
The “elongated cloud formation” was snapped hovering near the 12-mile-high (20km) Arsia Mons volcano near the planet’s equator.
The space agency said: “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 slope on the air flow – something that scientists call an orographic or lee cloud – and a regular phenomenon in this region.”
The Martian cloud was snapped on October 10 by the Mars Express mission with the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC).
In June 1984, American Psychology magazine posed a question to its readers: “Do you believe in UFOs?” 50% of respondents said yes. A decade earlier, only 40% of respondents to the same question in a Roper Poll had replied in the affirmative. While it is impossible to accurately account for this apparent 10% increase in belief, it seems reasonable to speculate that Hollywood played a significant role. Spielberg’s iconic UFO movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind had been released to huge acclaim and box-office success in 1977. Inspired by the research of UFOlogists like J. Allen Hynek and fuelled by Spielberg’s own life-long obsession with flying saucers, Close Encounters was the most ufological movie ever made, and it treated its subject matter with respect and gravity. More importantly, and in stark contrast to the majority of Hollywood’s alien-themed output in the past, Spielberg’s film dared to present aliens as creatures of benevolence and wonder—not as invaders, but as saviours. Spielberg struck gold again with the alien saviour concept in 1982 with his blockbusting E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, which rapidly became the most successful film of all time and spawned numerous movies in the same vein throughout the 1980s.
Spielberg’s ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ (1977).
Two months after the June 1984 American Psychologymagazine reader poll revealed that fully half the country believed in UFOs, the closing ceremony of the Olympic games in Los Angeles demonstrated just how deeply UFOs and aliens had become ingrained into the American psyche—and the extent to which they had become inseparable from cinema.
The highlight of the Olympic closing ceremony that year was the staged landing of a giant flying saucer and the subsequent emergence from within of a space alien (friendly, of course) who then officially declared the games closed. In an awesome spectacle clearly inspired by the final scenes of Spielberg’s Close Encounters, the Olympic saucer communicated with the awestruck crowd below through a series of elaborate light shows, the orchestral music swelled to a crescendo, and the UFO descended to rapturous applause. It was a sight both bizarre and magnificent to behold.
Bizarrely, the event has since become the subject of conspiratorial musings in the UFO community. For years, UFO buffs have speculated that the Olympic UFO of 1984 was not a prop suspended by a helicopter, but a real flying saucer—either manmade or alien—owned by the US government and flaunted on the world stage for all to see. This idea can be traced back to Bill Cooper, author of Behold a Pale Horse, which, since its publication in 1991, has become a sort-of bible for conspiracy theorists.
In an undated interview from the early-1990s, Cooper remarks of the Olympic UFO:
“Well, it wasn’t held by a helicopter. There’s no helicopter up there holding this thing. They tell you that, but it’s not true. Can you imagine the liability that they would have if they were carrying this thing suspended on a cable underneath a helicopter over the heads of hundreds-of-thousands of people?”
Cooper then states his belief that “there was no helicopter, there was no cable,” and that the UFO was “operating under its own power.”
In his 1991 book, Cooper contended that the US government had, for decades, been working covertly with alien intelligences and that it had in its possession highly advanced technologies, including flying saucers, both manmade and extraterrestrial. He also believed that the powers that be were planning on exploiting the alien presence by staging a false flag alien invasion in order to usher in martial law and establish a one-world government. Cooper died in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies at his home in Eagar, Arizona in 2001 following charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangerment stemming from disputes with local residents. Many in the conspiracy community today are convinced that Cooper’s death was orchestrated by the New World Order because his work was too close to the truth.
In light of his well-established position that the global elite were planning a false flag ET invasion, Cooper’s statements about the Olympic UFO being real led many of his followers to believe that the 1984 Olympic closing ceremony was a test of public reaction to an alien landing, and a rudimentary dry-run for a spectacular and devastating false-flag event that was thought to be in the pipeline.
If you’re one of the people who believe Cooper about the Olympic UFO, prepare to be disappointed (or, perhaps, relieved).
It’s been known for years by anyone who has ever taken a few moments to do some digging (which apparently excludes most UFO conspiracy theorists) that the 1984 Olympic UFO was actually the work of the celebrated Disney ‘Imagineer’ Bob Gurr, who is credited with designing most of the original attractions at Disneyland.
In 2004, Gurr wrote an article for Designer Times, in which he describes in detail the time and effort that went into creating the Olympic UFO spectacle. Gurr remembers vividly the reaction to his finished product on the night of the ceremony as his UFO descended from the sky:
“An audible gasp swept the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum… Was it real? Some of the 92,000 onlookers certainly thought so. Millions of worldwide TV viewers stared in amazement….was this really happening? Or just more of what the entertainment capital of the world does for everyday life.”
Gurr then goes on to answer his own question as he recounts the origins of the project and how it all came together. Originally, the ceremony was to be produced by Disney, but, when the entertainment giant was unable to furnish a budget on time, the reins were handed over to David L. Wolper (producer of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory). Tommy Walker, who had been Director of Entertainment at Disneyland, was enlisted as Director of Ceremonies. It was Walker who suggested that a flying saucer be featured as the highlight of the 1984 ceremony, and it was Walker and Wolper who enlisted the services of Bob Gurr has head designer on the contract, which was won and carried out by Plainview of Hollywood.
Snapshots of the “UFO landing” at the 1984 Olympics closing ceremony.
The task was to create a flying saucer 50 foot in diameter fitted with hundreds of special lights. With only two months to go before the August 12, 1984 show night, the work began. “The wild contraption I envisioned got drawn up and built at a furious pace,” writes Gurr in his article, noting that the saucer had to carry a lot of equipment and also needed to be light enough to be carried by a Bell 314 big-lift Helicopter:
“So I made an outer ring of welded aluminium truss sections all pulled together by cables to a center triangular frame. This was inspired by the extremely light construction of the 1930s Hindenburg Zeppelin. The saucer looked like a slice out of the Hindenburg turned sideways.”
According to Gurr, the center frame of the saucer carried a 90 KVA 208 3 phase gas turbine generator, and, for its spectacular light display, the saucer used three-hundred-and-sixty 600 watt Ray Lites, a Pichel Industries 7K Xenon searchlight, plus “a whole bunch more lighting gizmos totalling 432 items using 238,200 watts… but not all at once!” The wiring alone stretched 1.5 miles. The total ready-to-fly weight was 3,689 pounds.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the 1984 Olympics.
Finally, after just five weeks of work, and only nine days before the show, the Olympic flying saucer was assembled and ready to fly. And fly it did—into the imaginations of the millions who watched it live, including Bill Cooper, and, in turn, numerous online conspiracy theorists who became convinced that the global elite had, that sticky August night in 1984, given us a tangible glimpse of their hidden world. The reality—that a handful of talented and determined individuals had grafted hard and fast to create a Hollywood illusion—is far less exciting than the conspiracy, but impressive nonetheless.
“But wait, what about the alien?” you may ask. The one who made his entrance in the stadium that night and greeted humanity. Shockingly, he too was of this Earth. Inside that alien costume was George Bell, a former basketball player with the Harlem Wizards and Harlem Globetrotters and, at 7 feet 8 inches, the former tallest man in the United States.
So, move on people, nothing to see here. Except, maybe, just maybe, the whole Olympic acclimation theory shouldn’t be thrown out with the rubber alien. The original contract was, of course, intended for Disney, and, ultimately, it was Disney’s chief Imagineer who realised the vision. This provides at least some food for thought in the context of Disney’s long and intriguing history with the UFO subject, which involves at least one instance of the entertainment giant working with officialdom allegedly for purpose of testing public reaction to alien reality. If you don’t already know the full story behind this, get comfy, put on your tinfoil hat, and discover The Inside Story of Disney’s Mythic UFO Documentary and Conference…
What if UFOs are trying to be seen? What if they’re desperate to be noticed? What if they’re alien long-haul truckers stuck here with a broken mothership and the only barrier between them and the their space-homes and space-children is an inability to work a can of WD40? Maybe all they’re after are some reading lessons. They’re flying around up there, going “hey look, look at me! help!” and we’re so thick-headed we shrug and say “I dunno bro, looks like a balloon.” What other reason could there be for some of the stunts these guys pull?
Take the case of this video. It purports to show a group of small UFOs “escorting” a large UFO through the skies over the Hague. If you don’t know, the Hague is the governmental seat of the Netherlands, one of the cities used for UN meetings, and home to the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (among many other fancy and important institutes of geopolitics). Imagine being so desperate for attention that you and your friends drive to the International Court of Justice—which sounds like an allegory for committing war crimes but, I assure you, it’s just a cheap joke.
Maybe the aliens would get more attention if their ships had a little more style?
If this footage is real then they clearly want our attention, but that’s a dubious claim at best. It’s a stronger case than some UFO videos (like when it’s obviously window glare or the videographer clearly hasn’t accepted that drones exist), but that’s not saying much.
The video shows a group of seemingly black objects flying at matched speed and in what looks like a sort of formation. One of the objects stands out as much larger than the rest, and does appear escorted by the smaller ones. Appeared is the operative word here. Perspective is a heck of a thing, and what we’re likely seeing is an object that’s closer to the camera than the others.
One person in the comments section suggested that it was a group of bats. Bats are normally known for twitchy aerial acrobatics, but some bats can soar. The Hague does have a thriving population of bats, as does the rest of the Netherlands. But whatever the video shows soar smooth, stable and effortless at a high altitude. They don’t really look like bats. Why not birds? The shapes are very dark and the larger one does seem more like a singular shape than it does a bird with wings and a tail but, once again, perspective is a heck of a thing.
This might be falling into that same old thick-headed trap, justifying the alien field trip to the International Court of Justice. After all, it is an unusual looking group of flying objects and, without the credentials or evidence to really make a judgement call here, it could be named a group of unidentified flying objects. It’s a safe bet that the unidentified part would be solved by better video quality.The next time aliens leave a crop circle for us it’ll probably be lined with HD cameras and zoom lenses.
Sprawled out over approximately 350,000 square miles of the African countries of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa is a vast expanse of arid, sandy savanna wilderness known as the Kalahari Desert. The word “Kalahari” comes from the local Tswana word Kgala, meaning “the great thirst”, or Kgalagadi, meaning “a waterless place,” and the Kalahari Desert certainly looks the part, with immense swaths of land that look like something from some inhospitable alien planet, all twisted scrub, gnarled dead trees and contorted rocks, and shifting red sands devoid of any source of water. This is for the most part a forbidding moonscape of a place, and it was long a domain that may as well have been on another world for outsiders, yet in 1885 one of the first Westerners to ever set foot within these badlands ventured out into an uncharted area of the Kalahari Desert and would lay eyes upon a great mystery that still remains unexplained.
The expedition was carried out by a American explorer and entertainer from New York by the name of William Leonard Hunt, who in his native land made a living performing death defying stunts such as tightrope walks over the Niagara Falls, as well as exhibiting African bushmen like a human zoo, and usually went by his alias Guillermo Farini or “The Great Farini.” In February of 1885, he set out from Cape Town South Africa, along with a contingent of fellow adventurers, some native guides, and his son, Lulu. The goal of the trip was not particularly noble, they were not there to map out a new realm of the planet or catalogue its new plants, animals, and people, but rather they were there to get rich by seeking out diamonds, which Farini had heard the region was brimming with. The adventurers penetrated out into an area of the desert never before seen by the outside world, and when they returned they did so with quite the tale to tell.
The Kalahari Desert
Upon his return to civilization, Farini immediately went about compiling a report of his findings, which he presented to the Berlin Geographical Society in 1885 and the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain in 1886, shortly after followed by a book on what he had seen and experienced out in those sun scorched wilds, titled Through the Kalahari Desert. One of the main events of these reports and the book was an account of coming across the ruins of some what looked to have been a once great city out there half-buried in the blood reds sands, and which he estimated to have been thousands of years old. Farini would write of this enigmatic lost city:
We camped at the foot of the mountain – near a rocky ridge, which looked like a Chinese wall after an earthquake – it was the ruins of a huge structure, sometimes sanded in. We carefully inspected the ruins almost a mile long, they were a pile of huge hewn stones, and Here and there, the traces of cement were clearly visible between them … In general, the wall had the shape of a semicircle, inside of which, approximately forty feet apart, were piles of masonry in the shape of an oval or a blunt ellly The height of a foot and a half … As all of them were to some extent sanded, we ordered all our people to dig out the largest of them (and this work clearly did not suit them) and found that the sand had protected the junction from destruction.
Excavations took almost the whole day, which caused a lot of indignation in Jan. He could not understand why it was necessary to dig out the old stones, for him this activity seemed a waste of time … We began to dig up sand in the middle of the semicircle and discovered the footwall of the twentieth wide, lined with large stones. The top layer was composed of oblong stones placed at right angles to the bottom layer. This bridge was crossed by another one, forming as it were a Maltese cross. Apparently, in the center of it was once some altar, a column or a monument, as evidenced by the preserved foundation – dilapidated masonry. My son tried to find some hieroglyphics or inscriptions, but did not find anything. Then he took a few photographs and sketches. Let the people who know better than me judge them by when and by whom this city was built.
In general, the ancient city was described as being quite extensive and immense, and Farini would speculate that some great catastrophe had wiped it and its people out, whoever they may have been. Considering that there was not known to have ever been any great civilization to have ever inhabited that region, and that it seemed to match stories the bushman of the area had long told of lost cities hiding out in the sands, the account grew a great amount of interest at the time, and the allure of some ancient lost people hidden away within the remote Kalahari proved to be romantic and irresistible.
A sketch of the Lost City
Fueled by the reports, the sketches, and the photographic evidence provided by Farini, there have been numerous follow-up expeditions to try and find the Lost City of the Kalahari, and to date there have been about 30 such expeditions launched over the years, none which have managed to find anything quite so spectacular as what Farini described, and some have come back doubtful of the truth of the story. One such prominent expedition was launched in 1964 by a professor named A. J. Clement, who followed what he believed to have been Farini’s original route and came across a very odd rock formation out in the desert that he believed was the very same one Farini had encountered and which could have been mistaken for something manmade, but which he concluded was merely an anomalous natural formation, most likely caused by the erosion of a particular type of igneous rock called dolerite. Indeed, Clement expressed doubt that the region could have ever supported such a legendary city at all, and would say of the Lost City of the Kalahari:
The climatological history of the Kalahari does not appear to have undergone any marked change for several thousand years, and it is obvious that no settlement of the size indicated by Farini could exist without perennial rivers or lakes in the vicinity. And, suitable conditions for the establishment of a city cannot have existed along any of the river courses for tens of thousands of years. Furthermore, if the age of the Lost City is assessed in relation to Zimbabwe and the ancient ruins of Persia, it is impossible to conceive of any in the Kalahari having been built more than 15,000 years ago.
Like all legends, that of the Lost City will be a long time a-dying, and doubtless there will still be some who are disinclined to let the matter rest in spite of all the contrary evidence. And possibly this is just as well, for there is something rather sad about the destruction of a legend.
Clement was right in the sense that there are many who have not let the legend die, and are still convinced the legendary city really does exist, with expeditions continuing all the way up the present and using new technology to help them. One recent search was carried out in 2013 by a crowd-sourced research project using Google Maps, called the Marcahuasi Project, which found anomalies in the desert that could be indicative of walls of the lost city, but it is still unknown if the images are of an ancient city, more recent abandoned irrigation circles for crops formed by the native tribes, or merely a natural formation.
Farini’s expedition in the Kalahari
Even more recently still was an expedition in 2016 by the Travel Channel series Destination Unknown, headed by explorer and host Josh Gates and equipped with state of the art technology such as aerial scans and radar. They managed to find some unusual rock formations that resemble walls and ruins, but again it is unknown if they are artificial or if they were really what Farini wrote of. One of the problems with locating the Lost City is that the area is just so remote and inhospitable, and this coupled with its sheer size makes it a formidable task to try and locate these alleged ancient ruins among the endless sands and desert scrub. Not helping matters is that Farini did not give very detailed descriptions of the actual location, and this is further exacerbated by the fact that the ruins are supposedly half buried. One member of one of the many expeditions that have tried and failed to find the city once lamented:
It’s all very vague. When you see this desert, you will understand that you can wander among the sand dunes for months and not even come close to the places where the lost city is located.
The Lost City of the Kalahari described by Farini has gone on to become a legendary, almost mythical place in the same realm as places like Atlantis, and there have been many theories as to its existence. Some think it is a real place, perhaps a city once built and abandoned by its creators due to a great drought or even that of a thriving lost civilization. Others, like Clement, think it is likely just misidentified natural rock formations. Still others point to Farini’s showman background, and claim that the whole report, the sketches, and even the photographs were likely faked, that it was all a big hoax. Considering that Farini is the only one to have documented the city in any appreciable way, and the vast stretches of harsh terrain involved, if there really is a city out there then it is very possible that it will remain buried and hidden, as it has for thousands of years and just might for thousands more yet to come.
A pair of Australian radio telescopes pointed at the same spot in the sky have revealed new clues on the nature of mysterious signals known as fast radio bursts.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely bright flashes of energy from unknown sources in deep space, and last only about a millisecond.
While the Australian SKA Pathfinder detected several such signals during its search, the Murchison Widefield Array observing the same region did not.
Scientists say the discovery is significant, suggesting fast radio bursts may only come across at higher frequencies.
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A pair of Australian radio telescopes pointed at the same spot in the sky have revealed new clues on the nature of mysterious signals known as fast radio bursts. The ASKAP managed to detect several fast radio bursts during its observation (artist's impression)
The researchers published the findings in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The Curtin University-led Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) searches at lower frequencies than CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), the team notes.
‘When ASKAP sees these extremely bright events and the MWA doesn’t, that tells us something really unexpected is going on; either fast radio burst sources don’t emit at low frequencies, or the signals are blocked on their way to Earth,’ said lead author Dr Marcin Sokolowski.
The two telescopes in the Western Australian desert were pointed at the same area of the sky at the same time.
The ASKAP managed to detect several fast radio bursts during its observation. None of the FRBs, however, were detected at lower frequencies by MWA.
‘Fast radio bursts are unpredictable, so to catch them when both telescopes are looking in the same direction isn’t easy,’ said co-author Dr Ramesh Bhat.
‘It took many months of ASKAP and the MWA co-tracking the same area of sky, ensuring the best overlap of their views possible, to give us the chance at catching some of these enigmatic bursts.
‘The challenge was in making it all happen automatically, but it really paid off.’
While the Australian SKA Pathfinder detected several such signals during its search, the Murchison Widefield Array observing the same region did not
WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS AND WHY DO WE STUDY THEM?
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.
The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.
This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.
Scientists searching for fast radio bursts (FRBs) that some believe may be signals sent from aliens may be happening every second. The blue points in this artist's impression of the filamentary structure of galaxies are signals from FRBs
The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2001 but wasn't discovered until 2007 when scientists were analysing archival data.
But it was so temporary and seemingly random that it took years for astronomers to agree it wasn't a glitch in one of the telescope's instruments.
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics point out that FRBs can be used to study the structure and evolution of the universe whether or not their origin is fully understood.
A large population of faraway FRBs could act as probes of material across gigantic distances.
This intervening material blurs the signal from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the left over radiation from the Big Bang.
A careful study of this intervening material should give an improved understanding of basic cosmic constituents, such as the relative amounts of ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy, which affect how rapidly the universe is expanding.
FRBs can also be used to trace what broke down the 'fog' of hydrogen atoms that pervaded the early universe into free electrons and protons, when temperatures cooled down after the Big Bang.
The latest findings put us another step closer to understanding the nature of fast radio bursts, which have perplexed astronomers since their discovery more than a decade ago.
‘It’s really thrilling to have a clue about the origins of these incredible bursts of energy from outside our galaxy,’ Dr Macquart said.
‘The MWA adds an important piece of the puzzle and it was only made possible with this “technological tango” between the two telescopes.
‘It’s an exciting development because it unites the two teams and it brings home the advantage of having the two telescopes at the same time.
‘Future coordination between the teams will also benefit other areas of astronomy, as complementary views from the two telescopes can provide a more complete picture of a situation.’
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Mystery of fast radio bursts deepens as new study finds they're invisible to many telescopes
Het mysterie van de onzichtbare radioflitsen. Astronomen zien iets totaal onverwachts gebeuren
Het mysterie van de onzichtbare radioflitsen. Astronomen zien iets totaal onverwachts gebeuren
Snelle radioflitsen worden sinds 2007 waargenomen. Over deze mysterieuze flitsen is maar weinig bekend.
Uit onderzoek is nu gebleken dat ze geen straling uitzenden op lage radiofrequenties, waardoor het nog lastiger zal worden om het raadsel te ontrafelen.
Australische astronomen richtten twee sterrenwachten gedurende langere tijd op hetzelfde deel van de hemel in de hoop snelle radioflitsen op te pikken.
Iets totaal onverwachts
De ene sterrenwacht detecteerde een aantal krachtige flitsen, maar de andere nam niets waar.
Het bleek dat snelle radioflitsen geen laagfrequente radiostraling uitzenden of dat die straling op de één of andere manier wordt geabsorbeerd.
“Dit zegt ons dat er iets totaal onverwachts gebeurt; snelle radioflitsen zenden geen straling uit bij lage frequenties of de signalen worden geblokkeerd op weg naar de aarde,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Marcin Sokolowski.
Onvoorspelbaar
“Snelle radioflitsen zijn onvoorspelbaar, dus het is niet makkelijk om ze op te pikken als beide telescopen op hetzelfde gebied gericht staan,” zei coauteur Ramesh Bhat.
Het gaat hier om extreem heldere flitsen afkomstig van een onbekende bron in de diepe ruimte.
Ze duren slechts een fractie van een seconde en stellen astronomen al meer dan een decennium voor een raadsel.
Utah Artifacts Links Lady of Elche As An Anunnaki Queen, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Utah Artifacts Links Lady of Elche As An Anunnaki Queen, Video, UFO Sighting News.
One of the most enigmatic feminine faces of the history of humanity, is without a doubt the one of the Lady of Elche, that dates of the Iberian culture. And although his clothing reflects his high lineage, his identity is unknown. But the enigmas are gradually being cleared and the new hypotheses of the origin of this figure are at least surprising. Does the Lady of Ancient Sumeria come? Or, maybe it was an Anunnaki queen? A medal found in Utah (in 1966 USA), which has a lady engraved identical to that of Elche, (since the Lady of Elche has the same ritual ear-rings and necklaces), would reveal the connection of both relics, despite the vast distances between Elche and Utah.
Also the earmuffs were representative of Atlantis. In Bolivia (Peru) and in the Andes they have always been a trail of Atlantis, which had a capital on Lake Titicaca, a lake that is in the mountains and with Anunnaki remains. There are legends in the area of Venus men who visited the earth and had that type of earmuffs. Very interesting link from the medal to the statue...sounds like the mystery only deepens.
UFO news: Shock claim BLACK TRIANGLE spacecraft recorded over Ohio is ‘proof of aliens'
UFO news: Shock claim BLACK TRIANGLE spacecraft recorded over Ohio is ‘proof of aliens'
A BIZARRE triangular UFO photographed over Perrysville, Ohio, is genuine proof of alien spacecraft entering Earth’s atmosphere, conspiracy theorists have claimed.
He said: “The UFO seems to almost have one, two, three tail-like appendages hanging from it behind it.
“It has three pointy ends – it’s not just two – this doesn’t look like a stealth bomber or a stealth fighter here.
“This is really, really strange and there is a huge divide in between.
“This UFO, whatever it is, is nothing like I’ve ever seen before.”
UFO news: This photo supposedly shows and alien spaceship UFO over Earth
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
Based on his calculations, Mr Waring claimed the UFO could be bigger than a Boeing 747 jet airliner – an aircraft with a wingspan of nearly 200ft (60m).
This UFO, whatever it is, is nothing like I’ve ever seen before
Scott C Waring, UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY
The supposed alien spacecraft was photographed on September 3, 2018, when it passed over a construction site in the US village of Perrysville, Ohio.
Some of Mr Waring’s supporters were stunned by the UFO photographs, claiming it is definitely the real deal.
YouTube user Xavier Perkins said: “Weird UFO. The sightings are increasing worldwide. We are definitely not alone.”
Mr Waring also noticed the black triangle appears to cast a shadow onto the clouds below, seemingly confirming his extraterrestrial theory.
He said: “The UFO is also throwing a shadow onto the cloud below, which is 100 percent amazing, because this means the UFO was freaking huge.
“I’m talking several times bigger than a 747.
“This UFO must have been cloaked because something this big would normally stand out like a sore thumb.
UFO news: Scott Waring claimed the UFO is larger than a Boeing 747
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
“So I say the digital eye caught this because it is more precise of an instrument than our flawed eye which misses out on a lot of the spectrum.”
The person who originally took the UFO photo, noted the black triangle made no jet engine sound or other noise when it passed overhead.
However, this is not the first 'black triangle UFO' to be spotted over the US and is one of many annual sightings.
A declassified UK Ministry of Defence report on so-called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) concluded most sightings can be explained by natural causes or misrepresentation.
UFO news: There is no evidence to suggest triangle spacecrafts are real alien technology
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
The secret document revealed to the public in 2006 reads: “Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere.
“They appear to originate due to more than one set of weather and electrically-charged conditions and are observed so infrequently as to make to unique to the majority observers.
“There seems to be a strong possibility that at least some of the events may be triggered by meteor-reentry, the meteors neither burning up completely nor impacting as meteorites but forming buoyant plasmas.”
Another popular conspiracy theory stipulates black triangle UFOs could be top-secret US Military aircraft, dubbed TR-3B.
Pieces Of A “UFO” Fell From The Sky And Landed In Remote Cambodian Village
Pieces Of A “UFO” Fell From The Sky And Landed In Remote Cambodian Village
Residents of a small, remote Cambodian village were woken up to quite an unusual – and somewhat dangerous – surprise last week when pieces of metal were seen raining from the sky. At the time of publication, officials are still stumped as to what could be the cause, leading some to believe extraterrestrial forces could be behind the incident.
In a statement sent to IFLScience, residents of Preah Vihear Province said they heard a loud sound around 6am local time. They ran outside to find dozens of pieces of aluminum weighing more than 40 kilograms (88 pounds) striking homes and causing damage across a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) radius. Fortunately, nobody was injured.
''I heard a big noise in the morning. I was shocked and thought something bad had happened," said villager Sok Nol. “When I went to look there was one big piece in a field and other smaller pieces around. We thought an airplane had crashed but there was no big engine.”
Residents collected the wreckage and reported it to police, who were unable to identify where it came from. Yin Chamnan, police chief of Preah Vihear, confirmed that rubble had been recovered in the village, continuing that regional police have not been able to pinpoint where the pieces came from. The case will now be handed over to a team of specialists.
Altogether, 17 pieces of aluminum and rubber reportedly fell from the sky. Viral Press
''We have found more than 17 fallen fragments of aluminum and rubber. But, we are continuing the search and are collecting further information from the people at the scene,” he said.
It has some thinking something out-of-this-world could be responsible.
''Now I think that it has come from space and landed in our village. It's confusing because nobody knows what it is,” said Nol.
Chamnan, however, has a different explanation: ''Maybe these fragments are parts of a drone that someone flew. The parts were not relatively big,” he said.
Villages say they awoke to the sounds of metal dropping around 6 a.m. local time on October 25. Viral Press
It's estimated the fragments weighed around 40 kilograms (88 pounds).
Viral Press
The fallen fragments damaged buildings over a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) radius. Fortunately, nobody was injured.
Sightings of potential alien activity have been investigated by Mecca Bingo who have analysed all UFO sightings in the UK since 2007.
According to their data, there have been four sightings in Hull in the April, May, June and July of 2013, but nothing has been reported since.
A witness in Hull at the time said: "Whilst sat in the hot tub on a Saturday night, my husband and I noticed a dark triangle shape craft glide past us that was 100% silent.
"The silence of this aircraft grabbed me most as there were no lights.
"There were lines running down either side of the triangle, and my husband said the end had scallop edges."
Watch: "Alien Autopsy Roswell UFO Crash 1947 Original footagedocumentary
So this Halloween keep an eye out for saucers in the sky, as well as the usual spooky sights.
The Mecca Bingo survey also identified the top five superstitions we believe will bring us luck:
Filer’s Files #43 – 2018 How to Communicate with ET - PART I
Olathe, Kansas Boomerang on Saturday night, October 20th, 2018
Filer’s Files #43 – 2018 How to Communicate with ET - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Gordon Cooper saw UFOs, Wilbert Smith Tells How to Communicate With Aliens, UFO Spaceship Material Studied by Top Scientists, Weather Engineering, and Hyper Alarming’ Study Shows Massive Insect Loss
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois <Kansas,, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Hungry, Italy, Mexico, England in the United Kingdom and Venezuela..
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
Astronaut Major Gordon Cooper Saw UFOs
One of the original Mercury Astronauts and the last American to fly in space alone. On May 15, 1963 he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for a 22 orbit journey around the world. During the final orbit, Major Gordon Cooper told the tracking station at Muchea (near Perth Australia) that he could see a glowing, greenish object ahead of him quickly approaching his capsule. The UFO was real and solid, because it was picked up by Muchea’s tracking radar. Cooper’s sighting was reported by the National Broadcast Company, which was covering the flight step by step; but when Cooper landed, reporters were told that they would not be allowed to question him about the UFO sighting.
Major Cooper was a firm believer in UFOs. Ten years earlier, in 1951 he had sighted a UFO while piloting an F-86 Sabrejet over Western Germany. They were metallic, saucer-shaped discs at considerable altitude and could out-maneuver all American fighter planes. Major Cooper also testified before the United Nations: “I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.” “I did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.”
And according to a taped interview by J. L. Ferrando, Major Cooper said: “For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means.”
“I was furthermore a witness to an extraordinary phenomenon, here on this planet Earth. It happened a few months ago in Florida. There I saw with my own eyes a defined area of ground being consumed by flames, with four indentions left by a flying object which had descended in the middle of a field. Beings had left the craft (there were other traces to prove this). They seemed to have studied topography, they had collected soil samples and, eventually, they returned to where they had come from, disappearing at enormous speed… I happen to know that authority did just about everything to keep this incident from the press and TV, in fear of a panicky reaction from the public.”read also: “Pioneering astronauts sees UFO“, Area 51 and Gordon Cooper’s confiscated Camera“, and “No Mercury UFO”
Filer’s Files ‘38
Wilbert Smith Tells How to Communicate With Aliens
In 1961 interview with television station CJOH, the former head of the official Canadian Government UFO investigations Wilbur Smith stated, “In 1950 I was attending a rather slow-moving broadcasting conference in Washington D.C. and found that the U.S. government had a highly classified project set up to study flying saucers. He was the Official Director of the Canadian Government’s UFO Investigation in 1950 for many years. He was one of the foremost communications experts of the day and worked as the chief radio engineer for the Canadian government. He was in charge of monitoring 50,000 radio frequencies in Canada, and ran the Top Secret “Radio Ottawa” where spies would radio in to intelligence services.
Have you communicated with aliens?
Smiths answer (A) “Some of the communications have been on a face-to-face basis but I have not been so honored myself. Some of the communications have been by ordinary radio, and I have received a few messages by this means. But by far the majority of the communications are by what we call Tensor Beam transmission, which uses a type of radio with which we are only vaguely familiar. However, the mental images of the person wishing to transmit are picked up electrically amplified and modulated into a tensor beam, which is directed to the person to whom the transmission is addressed, and within whose brain the mental images are recreated. The transmissions are therefore very precise, and independent of language. I have had some experience with these transmissions myself and can say that they are like nothing within the conventional experiences of earth people.”
They appear to be from another planet using flying saucers and the investigation of one saucer that fell in the US indicated it operated on some hitherto unknown magnetic principles. . I am convinced that they are just as real and tangible as most things we deal with in our everyday lives. I made enquires through the Canadian Embassy concerning the saucers: This is the most highly classified subject in the United State, rating higher than the H bomb. Flying saucers exist but their operandi is unknown but consecrated effort is being made by a small group headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush..
Thousands of people have seen them, many under circumstances, which virtually preclude misinterpretation, many of these sightings have been coordinated with radar fixes. Photographs have been taken and physical evidence has been accumulated.
Q: Have you, you actually handled any material believed to be from a flying saucer? A: If by that you mean material substance showing evidence of fabrication through intelligent effort and not originating on this planet, I have.
I extracted this Question posed to Wilbert Smith from your Filer’s Files 38 post. The Tensor Beam article I found on the Internet. Being a “Novice” ham operator, it piqued my interest. This all ties into the stated “fact” that back in 1950, communications took place face-to-face as well as via radio using this Tensor Beam technology, even back then. I thought you might be interested in seeing this blurb. Thanks to Joe Foster
Tensor Beam to Communicate With Aliens
Wilbur Smith’s archive reports, The information leading up to the coil’s construction came from “topside” (aliens), and therefore I feel I have absolutely no property rights to it, and I would be most pleased if data could be published to an extent which would preclude future patentability..
We were told about a system which uses a radio transmitter as an energy source but has a special antenna converter, which radiates doughnut shaped waves, which are not time functions. Following are the construction instructions. One ferrite core, material with the highest permeability and dielectric constant, about 8 inches to a foot long, and about 1 inch in diameter. About 20 feet of plastic insulated #14 electric house wire. Starting at the center of the wire and at one end of the core, wind on the wire as closely as possible, with the first turn under and then over, so that the winding will be exactly symmetrical. It will start at one end of the core and finish at the other end and will resemble a solenoid with a bifilar winding. It is important that the winding be exactly symmetrical.
The size of the coil is not critical, nor is the winding beyond the fact that it must be symmetrical. Of course the combination determines the critical frequencies at which conversion takes place. Even if you use rods as small as 1/8 inch and wind with #36 wire it should work at reasonable medium high frequencies.
When measured on a radio frequency bridge, it shows very peculiar properties. There are certain frequencies at which it is impossible to balance the RF bridge, and that is a direct contradiction to what any electrical engineer will tell you should happen with a coil wound on a ferrite core.
This coil converts ordinary radio frequency energy into a tensor beam. It depends on the particular sample of ferrite and the selection of operating frequency and power. There is definitely an optimum frequency and a minimum power to generate the beam. Your best indication is when you feed a fair amount of power into the unit without it getting the least bit warm. If it does get warm, you are doing something wrong. Incidentally, I am talking in terms of at least 100 watts RF input.
Apparently the hole down the center of the core is necessary for its proper functioning, as is an adequate power input. It will take a kilowatt comfortably, without heating at all, and we know that it will work on 100 watts, but it won’t work for us on 30 watts. It just gets hot on the lower power! I don’t know what the lower cutoff power is.
The main point is to find the frequencies at which it will “convert” ordinary radio energy into tensor energy. At these frequencies it is possible to send a kilowatt or more into the coil without it showing any tendency to get warm. Under these conditions a small but real tensor beam is being generated, and with which an expert operator can accomplish a great deal. I can’t tell you how to find the critical frequencies because each coil and ferrite core have different values, but trial and error will disclose them eventually There are several for each unit.
With regard to the antenna, this gadget isn’t actually an antenna but we call it that. It generates a special type of wave, which is not a hertzian wave. It more closely resembles the waves which follow nerves.
When connected to a transmitter, treat it as any normal antenna for loading and tuning. There will be a few points of magnetic domain resonance which will be loss, but anywhere else the device will generate the required waves. It will not matter whether or not the antenna converter is shielded as the doughnut waves go through anything. The most remarkable property of this system is that the waves can be directed mentally.
I think you might be a bit hasty in dismissing “telepathic” communication with these people from elsewhere, since I know that the system they use does resemble telepathy to some extent, but it actually is electrical, even though they have cut out most of the intervening equipment such as microphones, earphones, vocal cords etc. I have generated this energy in the lab, but I am not smart enough to do anything with it; I only know that it exists, and the boys from topside admit that it is what they use.
The tensor beam I have found to be quite unmanageable. I can generate it OK but can’t make it do much for me. You see, it is identical with the energies associated with the life functions in the human body and accordingly can be incorporated and directed with them, by mental control, by experts! I hope someday to be able to do it, but I am informed that it takes at least 10 years of concentrated training for the experts to learn how to do it.
The principle of this antenna is quite simple. It emanates doughnut shaped waves. Since the energy content is microscopic, the mass equivalent is very low and consequently they can be “budged” easily. In fact, they can be mentally directed quite easily, when once one has mastered the trick.
In construction, the antenna is merely a rod or tube of Ferrite, or Ferro cube, which has a high permeability, high dielectric constant and reasonably low loss at radio frequencies. On it is wound a winding of such type that turn by turn it is completely symmetrical, and progresses from one end to the other.
I have played a bit and found some extraordinary properties, one of which confirms the mathematics that the waves which this converter generates are not like Hertzian waves and do not depend on propagation for their continued existence. Consequently, I would have the idea that they would travel at whatever speed the sender could decree.
Some time ago we tried radio contact with the saucer people on 19,940 kc, but without much luck. Apparently, they could hear us sweeping by their receiver settings, and we could hear a powerful station sweeping erratically across 19,940 but we couldn’t tune it in. They said that it was due to the unstable nature of the earth’s tempic field. If this is the case, then the doughnut waves should be the clear thing for communicating with them. They say that is what they use.
With respect to this time business, I hope that you appreciate the fact that time is actually a field, the operation of which on matter gives us an entropy scale which we call “time”. This field is very much like electric and magnetic fields except that it is at right angles to both. This appreciation is just beginning to seep through to the consciousness of a few bold souls in the field of natural philosophy. http://www.treurniet.ca/Smith/SmithCoil.htm
UFO Spaceship Material Studied by Top Scientists
Paul Harper in the Daily Star writes, The Stars Academy, a group of former Secret Service, US government workers and scientists, claims to have seven samples from a downed flying saucer. “Each sample represents different elements of potential Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and how they operate,” the academy said. Initial studies of the objects under the Adam Research Project have thrown up some incredible results, according to reports. It is said the material was released when the unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) was transferred to the Bigelow Aerospace Company. It is a space technology company that is known for its work on expandable space station modules. They are now working on space habitats for space agencies and corporate clients. They have a long history of working for NASA. Earlier this month the Founder of Bigelow Aerospace, Robert Bigelow, announced that he is planning a real estate empire in outer space. The FAA regularly sends UFO reports to Bigelow Aerospace.
Bigelow Aerospace, founded by entrepreneur and Ufologist Robert Bigelow, 73, worked alongside government workers including Luis Elizondo and it has been reported that materials and alloys from crashed UFOs was being stored at the company’s 50-acre headquarters on the northern edge of Las Vegas.
The New York Times reported last year that “Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. “Researchers also studied people who said they experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for physiological changes.”
Alien Tech Revealed: US Government Insider Explains How UFOs Fly
Paul Harber states,-Pentagon UFO Investigator Luis Elizondo claims, “We may not be alone. He used to run the top-secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which investigated flying saucers. This groundbreaking program, which had a budget of $ 20 million allocated to it annually by the Department of Defence, was run in the Pentagon’s C RING in Washington DC. Former Nevada Senator Harry Reid pushed for its creation in 2007. Stunned US navy pilots observed a “whole fleet” of UFOs that were “going against” a 120 knots wind – in one AATIP case from 2015.
Former Pentagon intelligence official Luis Elizondo has investigated UFO reports and recently spoke at the Cherry Hill, New Jersey MUFON Conference, Advanced sensors revealed the unknown object had no propulsion system and slowed to a near stop before rotating, it is claimed.
Now Elizondo has lifted the lid on what he claims has been learned through the Pentagon program about the seemingly out-of-this-world capabilities of UFOs. He said: “I think we’ve come very close to understanding the physics of how it works, and that’s very exciting.”.
“For the first time, we have a compelling picture that what we are seeing is explained in our current understanding of physics, advanced physics, and quantum mechanics.” US defense department acknowledge UFO rotating against the wind. Incredible footage emerged last year of a sighting involving the battleship USS Nimitz in 2004 in the Pacific off the San Diego coast. Two US navy pilots, Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight, watched in amazement as a cylinder shaped object appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet before hurtling towards the sea and stopping at 20,000 feet.
When they approached for a closer look, the 40 foot long object “accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen”, said Cdr Fravor. And now Elizondo believes that they may have an explanation for how UFOs achieve such extreme speeds.
“We do believe all these observables we’ve been seeing, sudden and extreme acceleration, hypersonic velocities, low observability, trans medium travel, and last but not least, positive lift, anti-gravity – is really the manifestation of a single technology,” Elizondo said. “So it’s not five exotic technologies we’re trying to figure out, it’s one. and we think we know that one too.”
Scientists employed by Bigelow Aerospace including a physicist named Dr Hal Puthoff came to the conclusion that the craft can effectively create their own time-space bubble, which allows them to fly at such incredible speeds. “We believe it has to do with a high amount of energy and the ability to warp space-time, not by a lot, but by a little,” said Elizondo.
Elizondo claims he worked on the highly-sensitive project until October last year until he resigned over excessive secrecy and internal opposition”. He believes the existence of extraterrestrials would be “beyond reasonable doubt” if it was ever discussed in court. Dr Michio Kaku –
Weather Engineering
Mark McCandlish writes, I’ve been following these developments for quite some time in connection with weather engineering programs that have been denied to exist.
The use of Aluminum Oxide nanoparticles are being used in some jet fuels as a combustion enhancement. The evidence for this use is the so-called persistent contrail or in the vernacular, “chemtrail” that has been on the upswing since about year 2000.
Aluminum Oxide nanoparticles, (Al2O3np) were originally proposed in a NASA presentation first published about the same time can be used in cloud seeding operations and can also be used as “weather forcing aerosols” through bombardment or “painting” with microwave emissions that are absorbed by these nanoparticles causing them to heat up and result in massive convective cell action, leading to the production of storm systems and afford the control of conveyance and distribution of precipitation.
In studying this material in the OSHA Material Data Safety Sheet, I extended this investigation to the Journal of Aquatic Toxicology, where I found a paper documenting the harm these nanoparticles render in fresh water aquatic systems. In particular, these materials have a devastating effect on fresh water algae, and have a cascading effect throughout the food chain of organisms that depend on this organism and/or organisms that feed upon this organism.
Here in northern California, a local biologist I know has documented a 90% decline in fresh water aquatic invertebrates. Just a few years ago, the Summer evenings here were populated with clouds of
Note: The Aluminum Oxide nanoparticles may also be causing the heavy rain patterns and flooding occurring in many states.
Hyper Alarming’ Study Shows Massive Insect Loss
Bruce Cornet reports — Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations. The problem is more widespread than scientists realized. Huge numbers of bugs have been lost in a pristine national forest in Puerto Rico, the study found, and the forest’s insect-eating animals have gone missing, too.
In 2014, an international team of biologists estimated that, in the past 35 years, the abundance of invertebrates such as beetles and bees had decreased by 45 percent. In Europe, insect numbers are plummeting with a 76 percent decrease in flying insects in the past few decades in Germany..
“Everything is dropping,” Lister said. The most common invertebrates in the rain forest – the moths, the butterflies, the grasshoppers, the spiders and others – are all far less abundant.
“Holy crap,” Wagner said of the 60-fold loss.
Lister and Garcia attribute this crash to climate. In the same 40-year period as the arthropod crash, the average high temperature in the rain forest increased by 4 degrees Fahrenheit. The invertebrates that live there are adapted to a narrow band of temperatures and fare poorly outside them.
The loss of honeybees is crucial as they pollinate, fruits, vegetables, coffee beans, the herbs we use to season our foods, nuts, berries, cotton for clothing, clover and alfalfa which is the main feed for the cattle industry from which we get yogurt, milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, dairy and beef..
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Filer’s Files #43 – 2018 How to Communicate with ET - PART II
Filer’s Files #43 – 2018 How to Communicate with ET - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Albuquerque— I had gone outside on my patio to smoke when I saw this object. The sky was clear when I sat down on my patio chair on December 6, 2016, I looked up saw this object and thought it was not the moon. It seemed to be vibrating so I quickly snapped these photos. The first came out bright so I took another touching my photo screen camera to make it clearer. I then analyzed the photo seeing it is not the moon. I then looked up and it had disappeared at 9:05 PM. I concluded it was strange and didn’t think much of it. Recently, it had came back up in conversation which has my analyzing the situation again.. I’ve done research online and on that date the moon was about 50% full illuminating my full circle photos. , Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arkansas Soil circle
Soldotna— On May 8th we discovered a circle in the back of our yard on the lawn, there were strange puncture holes and it just looked different from the rest of the lawn. Well throughout the summer the circle has remained and the vegetation grows differently within and on the perimeter. I’ve taken pictures throughout the summers. We have also had 2 sightings in the area within the 2 years prior to this. First sighting my spouse was the only one to witness but he did capture a photo. Second sighting we both witnessed it and it actually appeared about where he saw the first sighting but it came straight toward us and actually flew over our heads past our home northwards. It was silent the whole time I believe 3 lights on it, but we couldn’t make out a shape, which is weird, It was 500-1000 feet from the ground. That’s our experience, the circle in the lawn is still there and has been all summer. It’s just strange. That I have pictures of and the first sighting. Photos are May 8, 2018- August 14, 20, October 7, and 13, 2018. October 13 photo some kind of mushrooms are growing around perimeter. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Objects
Claremont — On September 9, 2018, I reported a UFO descending down into a field of view. I was filming MUFON case 95310v and noticed in footage a UFO was moving down faintly before that at 1:00 AM. Then I noticed it was moving up before moving down. In MUFON case 95719, and it nearly crossed paths with the airplane.
I now provide the full footage showing decent (faint) then direction reversal and ascent then direction reversal again and descent (bright) then nearly touches plane.
Illinois Lights
I was driving on my way to my house my brother and my nephew were with me in the car on October 14, 2018. Suddenly we notice these lights in the sky that resemble the ufos we have seen on the TV. We knew it was not manmade that’s why I drove to the side of the road and stared to record.
There were 6 orange orbs in 2 triangle formation but by the time I pull over they start to disappear. I was really surprised by this event since this is the second time I get to witness something like this but is the first time I have video proof.bThanks to MUFON CMS
Kansas Boomerang
‘Olathe — On Saturday night, October 20th, 2018, Granddaughter and I were in the back yard about 10:30 pm. For some reason, I looked into the sky and saw what I thought was a boomerang moving in a straight line faster than low hanging clouds. We stood and watched it move West and made a 75 degree turn to the south in 17 to 20 seconds.
. A couple of minutes later the same shape and color/composition, much higher up flew south in a 12 seconds or less. I looked online and found a picture someone else took that looks just like what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Disc
Lake Charles — On October 21, 2018. myself and 2 adult relatives(and 3 kids) were driving eastbound on Route 210 when we noticed a dark object in sky.
A family member took 4 photos and was unable to film as he said it doesn’t show up. It remained visible through the entire drive on Route 210. I am glad someone else saw it and filmed it. I am glad the other person made a report…I was considering not to. Case #95795 apparently has also filmed it as well. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Light
Las Vegas— Came home from work saw the moon was out took out my Orion 6/6i and saw that on the back of the moon was a bright light.
In all the years I have been looking at the moon I never saw this. so I took my phone and mounted it to my telescope and starting video live on Facebook. after I review my video I saw it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Diamond
Wayne — We were in the house and heard loud noise October 21, 2018.
. We went outside and observed a red light in the southern sky. We jumped in the car and went to the area. We saw multiple police cars. Some from Wayne and other townships. We stayed there for 10 minutes and it did not move 1 inch. I We left and got back home. We heard shooting noises . They we heard fore works. This was no helicopter. Judge for yourself watch the video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Triangle
Winston-Salem=– I stepped out on the balcony just after 6 am on October 23, 2018,to see 50 feet above me a triangle moving at 15 mph going West with 4 huge tail lights flashing yellow-orange and red, randomly. There was a flashing red light on top as it flew out of sight. Another one was going North but 125 feet higher and directly above me came and moving about 25 mph. I saw still another one heading towards the first going 25 mph heading NorthWest. A forth one was seen one heading South at 350 feet. I called the Winston-Salem Police and gave my account at 6:15 am. At 6:30 am officer called but wouldn’t tell me if the military was in the area. Dogs were freaking out when this happened. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Light
Oklahoma City — A friend of mine sent me a 30 second video from his security camera that was apparently triggered by a cat. About 10 seconds into the video, a blob of bright light appears in the lower right hand corner and no noise with a beam of light shining from above. It appears to move around on the ground a bit then appears to raise up into the light beam from above until it disappears from view at the end of the video. Things considered: 1) Helicopter search light but not as wide and dispersed as would be..
2) Drone flying overhead but nature of the light not consistent with a known source. 3) ” The equipment is reported to be in good working order. It’s uncertain whether this is an actual UFO in itself or a projection from something above. Possibly some other reports similar around same time/area will coincide. .Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Orb
Salem — I was attempting to photograph the moon on this night of September 26, 2018.. It wasn’t till a week later on my computer I saw a blue object on the edge of the frame.
After enhancement saw there was actually two objects. Both are for sure not any known aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Orb
Manheim — My co-worker and I observed a silvery-white object high in the sky (over two miles) while we were looking North on October 24, 2018. It appeared to hover then slowly traveled west until it was out of sight after about 15-20 minutes. We were able to get a picture of it with a cell phone camera and upon reviewing the pic discovered a second similar object following behind it. There were no sounds or contrails to indicate it was a plane or other earth-based object. Initial reaction was that it was a drone or helicopter but determined it was too high in sky. We both believe we witnessed something extraterrestrial. The shape of the objects do not look like any known earth-based aircraft. We used a tool on the camera phone to circle the objects. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Disc
Dallas — We were driving across the In-wood bridge at 35 and In-wood and took many pictures back to back while driving at 50 mph across like we always do. We did not see anything until we looked at these pictures taken on September 3, 2018.
. The first time it looked as if it was flying across sky towards the east with a trail behind it and then it stopped and looks as if there was a beam coming out of it. Then a few weeks later, we took pictures again while coming across it again and caught another object just hovering there. It looks like a beam coming out of the bottom of the craft. We are not sure what this is, but when we saw it twice on a completely separate night then we knew something wasn’t right. I have not edited these pictures in anyway, but when I zoomed in, you can clearly see a dome like on this object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Object
Oso— It was October 24th, at 5 PM, I was outside when I heard a humming noise. I looked up and saw an object above me, a dark colored object in the shape of a crescent, with an elongated tip on the front, the object headed east. So I ran in the house, grabbed my camera, and took a video of it. By the time I took a video of it, it was almost gone, but I did get a little bit of the object about one minute later, it came back in the opposite direction, heading west right over my head again, and it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Ventricular UFO
On October 16,-2018, at 15:22 the flare aperture of an intense luminary was observed just below the crescent moon to the east” of the city and began a slow shift to the south “for about 30 seconds. The first few seconds of the event were very difficult, since when shooting in Canon Sx photography, it implies first setting the “fastest possible”, the linear focus of the objective in Infinity, for five seconds. The flare appeared that took a Orbital attitude, just below the moon, I managed to take the first picture at 12 Mp, then two more and finally a small fraction of video, where at least I enter the scene (the lenticula luminosa) in another four frames that could be extracted. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Cylinder
Porto Alegre— Photo taken at the airport of Porto Alegre on October 15, 2018 . Photographic appearance was only once. The object was on the horizon to the right and was observed in the form of a large white lentil. It was my wife who took the photo and I had not realized when I saw her, she had detected the anomaly. ‘Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Lights
I received a Sony Cyber-shot 35mm camera for Xmas 2013. On New Year’s Eve 2013. I was spending time with my dog over looking Halifax Harbor, Canadian Naval Base when I saw 3 lights. One was bigger and closer than the other two. I began to take pictures as they came closer. They were getting bigger, closer very quickly. Then they completely stopped for about a minute. There was no noise as they moved directly over my deck and disappeared. I analyzed the photos in my computer. Conclusion: I have ruled out faulty camera; weather; airplanes; light show; military experiment, or hoax and am at a loss to what it was. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hungary Diamond
Lake Balaton — We live in Siófok and on 13 of August 2018. at 23:50 my son and I were lying on the trampoline. My son asked me: What a ….. is that ? and pointed north. In two seconds I realized what he saw… flying very fast and had no sound. It was about 200-300 meters high, rhombus shaped and had orange light. It was like when iron is glowing from heat. It was so big like my nail on my thumb. We saw it only for a few seconds because of a tree in the garden. We did not even try to make a photo. I posted it on FB, my friend’s wife that her husband had seen it. In October 2017. my wife and I saw a small sphere above the neighbor’s house. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Disc
Rome— I was on vacation in Italy, traveling by high-speed train an hour outside Rome to Naples. I snapped some photos of the passing landscape out the window during the course of the trip on June 4, 2018 When I returned home I downloaded the photos to my computer and was showing them to my husband. At one point he said, “What’s that up at the top of the screen? It looks like a UFO.” I
hadn’t even seen the object when I was snapping the photo. It appeared in a sequence of four photos as a stereotypical “flying saucer taken over a period of 12 minutes traveling speed of about 90 mph. That would mean we covered a distance of about 13 miles. “Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Orb
San Pedro Garza Garcia — I was coming back home in the uber. When I get out from the uber I saw this object and it immediately attained my attention.
Photo was taken on September 9, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Triangle and Orbs
Enfield London –I saw a few UFOs in this area myself on October 22, 2018. I was hearing high pitched sounds that made me feel dizzy which is unusual for me, because I’m deaf. Considering the stress it has caused me and my cats with this incident I want to see if anyone else saw this craft and orbs that happened within hours of each other. It was around 7:20 pm, I was at home and I had a strong urge to look out of my window. I saw a low solid black triangle craft with three sets of dull white lights slightly cloaked as if to camouflage itself. I could clearly see the outline of this slate black triangle very faintly. It was huge about the size of a football pitch.
At 8 pm I saw this craft again but 40 minutes had been lost, as the ship glided away towards North London. At 2:35 am on my clock, I saw little sparkles of blue light floating around my living room,. My cats were alert and picked up on something being in my flat. I heard the high pitched noise again when the orbs appeared and was scared. In the morning my head and body felt pain and my wall clock had stopped at 8pm, When I was 6-7 years old and had encounters with beings negative and Positive. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Venezuela Object
Cabimas — I was at the west shore of Maracaibo Lake in in the Civic Center taking some pictures of a pier for loading oil to tanker ships. I noticed the object when I was reviewing the pictures the day after. When I saw the object in the picture, I assumed that it was a fliyng saucer due to the shape and the apparent size. The tower is on the right side of the picture and the object is near the left side of the tower top. I have captured this kind of objects in other occasions: 1.-Location and coordinates of the observer and the reference tower. 2. the picture with the object. CMS
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