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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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...
06-11-2018
The US and Europe take a next step toward the moon
The US and Europe take a next step toward the moon
The European Service Module – eventually to be used to power and propel NASA’s Orion spacecraft in the 1st manned moon mission since the 1970s – leaves Europe today and arrives in the U.S. tomorrow.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft – built to carry humans – is one step closer to its first mission to fly around the moon and back, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on October 30, 2018. It said its European Service Module – which will be used to power and propel the Orion spacecraft – will be shipped this week from Bremen, Germany, to the United States on an Antonov An-124 aircraft. It’ll depart in the early hours of November 5 and arrive at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 6. The ESM, designed in Italy and Germany, is a crucial European component of NASA’s ambitious Space Launch System or SLS; the Orion spacecraft part of SLS is designed to take astronauts back to the moon for the first time since the 1970s.
The European Service Module will hold fuel in large tanks, as well as water, oxygen and nitrogen for the astronauts, while radiators and heat exchangers will help keep the module at comfortable temperatures.
The module itself resembles ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle, which has been used to bring supplies to the International Space Station. The structure is the backbone of the entire vehicle, something like a car chassis. Three types of engines will help propel Orion during its excursions, and can turn the spacecraft in all directions. The module will be built by Airbus Defence and Space, and many other companies across Europe will also supply components.
The European Service Module is an integral part of the Orion spacecraft, depicted here. Orion is designed to take astronauts back to the moon for the 1st time since the Apollo missions of the 1970s.
Image via NASA.
This is the first time that a European-built system will serve as a critical element to power an American spacecraft; this is thanks largely to ESA’s existing Automated Transfer Vehicle program, mentioned above.
So what happens next?
At Kennedy Space Center, the European Service Module will be connected to the Orion crew module and its adapter in preparation for Exploration Mission-1. This mission is planned as an initial test flight without astronauts that will travel farther into space than any human-rated spacecraft has ever ventured before. This mission is expected to launch sometime in 2020.
A second European Service Module, similar to the first, is also now being developed. This one will be able to take a human crew on a trip around the moon. All of this activity is leading up to launches with components of the Gateway – a planned human-tended outpost in lunar orbit, designed to be used for both human and robotic exploration of the moon.
Orion is similar in design to ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle, which takes supplies to the International Space Station.
Orion is the crewed capsule part of NASA’s Space Launch System, which, when completed, will be the most powerful rocket ever built. It will be able to take astronauts back to the moon, and more advanced versions of SLS will be capable of taking astronauts deeper into space, including to Mars. As outlined on the mission website:
After the first flight, the next step is to start sending people on bold missions to the moon and beyond. As SLS evolves over future missions to unprecedented accommodation of payload mass and volume and unrivaled performance, the rocket will allow NASA to send missions to deep space and reach distant destinations faster than ever before. On its second mission carrying Orion and astronauts, Exploration Mission-2, SLS will send Orion and its crew farther than people have traveled before around 250,000 miles from Earth, 10,000 miles beyond the moon.
SLS and Orion are America’s space vehicles and the foundation for missions carrying explorers to deep space. This new era of discovery requires all of humanity, including international and commercial partners, to help make these ventures possible and sustainable. Partners can help provide routine delivery of supplies and equipment needed to live and work on the moon and in deep space. SLS and Orion are planned to fly once or twice a year and will focus on dependable, safe flights for humans and large cargo.
Once operational, SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built, and will be able to take a crewed Orion to the moon and beyond
. Image via NASA.
Bottom line: The delivery of the European Service Module is another step toward the first launch of NASA’s Orion spacecraft – part of the Space Launch System – which is designed to take astronauts back to the moon for the first time in several decades. Human missions back to the moon are still some ways off, but the first launch of Orion will be a significant step closer.
Released in 2011 and said to have been taken by the KGB these images and details are strikingly similiar to the reports from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash.
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‘Oumuamua Was Alien ‘Reconnaissance Mission' Harvard Researchers Suggest
‘Oumuamua Was Alien ‘Reconnaissance Mission' Harvard Researchers Suggest
The mysterious interstellar object known as Oumuamua has a lot of uncertainty around it in the scientific community. The latest theory has suggested a new possible origin. This origin refers to Oumuamua being part of a reconnaissance mission that was started by an alien civilization looking to explore other galaxies.
This latest theory comes from a recently published study by a couple of astronomers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Data from the Pan-STARRS-1 survey in September of 2017 revealed that Oumuamua gained speed. This was surprising, as scientists predicted the mysterious rock would be slowing down. Researchers at the time claimed this increased speed was due to the outgassing, which is the release of gas trapped or frozen in the interior of the rock.
This explanation was faulty, according to astronomers Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb. Bialy and Loeb argued that outgassing could not be correct because Oumuamua would have gone into a spin if this was the case. With no spin observed, Bialy and Loeb explain the increased speed of Oumuamua away from the sun as the result of the force the sunlight exerts on its surface. Loeb explained that this will make the object lighter in weight for its surface area and allows the object to act like a light sail.
Loeb and Bialy explain the origin could be natural or artificial. It would be natural in the interstellar medium or proto-planetary disks. It would be artificial if it was to act as a probe sent for a reconnaissance mission into the inner region of the solar system.
So, it is possible that Oumuamua is actually from an alien civilization. Bialy and Loeb explain that the reason for considering the reconnaissance mission possibility is the assumption that Oumuamua following a random orbit requires the production of a certain number of objects per star in our galaxy. Loeb explains this number represents a higher abundance than expected, unless Oumuamua is a targeted probe and not part of a random population of objects.
This new theory requires much more study, which will be difficult since Oumuamua is no longer in our solar system and too far away at the present time for more observation.
An MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could emit a beacon strong enough to attract attention from as far as 20,000 light years away. Credit: MIT News
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into something of a planetary porch light—a beacon strong enough to attract attention from as far as 20,000 light years away.
The research, which author James Clark calls a "feasibility study," appears today in the Astrophysical Journal. The findings suggest that if a high-powered 1- to 2-megawatt laser were focused through a massive 30- to 45-meter telescope and aimed out into space, the combination would produce a beam of infrared radiation strong enough to stand out from the sun's energy.
Such a signal could be detectable by alien astronomers performing a cursory survey of our section of the Milky Way—especially if those astronomers live in nearby systems, such as around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth, or TRAPPIST-1, a star about 40 light-years away that hosts seven exoplanets, three of which are potentially habitable. If the signal is spotted from either of these nearby systems, the study finds, the same megawatt laser could be used to send a brief message in the form of pulses similar to Morse code.
"If we were to successfully close a handshake and start to communicate, we could flash a message, at a data rate of about a few hundred bits per second, which would get there in just a few years," says Clark, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and author of the study.
The notion of such an alien-attracting beacon may seem far-fetched, but Clark says the feat can be realized with a combination of technologies that exist now and that could be developed in the near term.
"This would be a challenging project but not an impossible one," Clark says. "The kinds of lasers and telescopes that are being built today can produce a detectable signal, so that an astronomer could take one look at our star and immediately see something unusual about its spectrum. I don't know if intelligent creatures around the sun would be their first guess, but it would certainly attract further attention."
Standing up to the sun
Clark started looking into the possibility of a planetary beacon as part of a final project for 16.343 (Spacecraft, and Aircraft Sensors and Instrumentation), a course taught by Clark's advisor, Associate Professor Kerri Cahoy.
"I wanted to see if I could take the kinds of telescopes and lasers that we're building today, and make a detectable beacon out of them," Clark says.
He started with a simple conceptual design involving a large infrared laser and a telescope through which to further focus the laser's intensity. His aim was to produce an infrared signal that was at least 10 times greater than the sun's natural variation of infrared emissions. Such an intense signal, he reasoned, would be enough to stand out against the sun's own infrared signal, in any "cursory survey by an extraterrestrial intelligence."
He analyzed combinations of lasers and telescopes of various wattage and size, and found that a 2-megawatt laser, pointed through a 30-meter telescope, could produce a signal strong enough to be easily detectable by astronomers in Proxima Centauri b, a planet that orbits our closest star, 4 light-years away. Similarly, a 1-megawatt laser, directed through a 45-meter telescope, would generate a clear signal in any survey conducted by astronomers within the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, about 40 light-years away. Either setup, he estimated, could produce a generally detectable signal from up to 20,000 light-years away.
Both scenarios would require laser and telescope technology that has either already been developed, or is within practical reach. For instance, Clark calculated that the required laser power of 1 to 2 megawatts is equivalent to that of the U.S. Air Force's Airborne Laser, a now-defunct megawatt laser that was meant to fly aboard a military jet for the purpose of shooting ballistic missiles out of the sky. He also found that while a 30-meter telescope considerably dwarfs any existing observatory on Earth today, there are plans to build such massive telescopes in the near future, including the 24-meter Giant Magellan Telescope and the 39-meter European Extremely Large Telescope, both of which are currently under construction in Chile.
Clark envisions that, like these massive observatories, a laser beacon should be built atop a mountain, to minimize the amount of atmosphere the laser would have to penetrate before beaming out into space.
He acknowledges that a megawatt laser would come with some safety issues. Such a beam would produce a flux density of about 800 watts of power per square meter, which is approaching that of the sun, which generates about 1,300 watts per square meter. While the beam wouldn't be visible, it could still damage people's vision if they were to look directly at it. The beam could also potentially scramble any cameras aboard spacecraft that happen to pass through it.
"If you wanted to build this thing on the far side of the moon where no one's living or orbiting much, then that could be a safer place for it," Clark says. "In general, this was a feasibility study. Whether or not this is a good idea, that's a discussion for future work."
Taking E.T.'s call
Having established that a planetary beacon is technically feasible, Clark then flipped the problem and looked at whether today's imaging techniques would be able to detect such an infrared beacon if it were produced by astronomers elsewhere in the galaxy. He found that, while a telescope 1 meter or larger would be capable of spotting such a beacon, it would have to point in the signal's exact direction to see it.
"It is vanishingly unlikely that a telescope survey would actually observe an extraterrestrial laser, unless we restrict our survey to the very nearest stars," Clark says.
He hopes the study will encourage the development of infrared imaging techniques, not only to spot any laser beacons that might be produced by alien astronomers, but also to identify gases in a distant planet's atmosphere that might be indications of life.
"With current survey methods and instruments, it is unlikely that we would actually be lucky enough to image a beacon flash, assuming that extraterrestrials exist and are making them," Clark says. "However, as the infrared spectra of exoplanets are studied for traces of gases that indicate the viability of life, and as full-sky surveys attain greater coverage and become more rapid, we can be more certain that, if E.T. is phoning, we will detect it."
More information: Optical detection of lasers with near-term technology at interstellar distances, Astrophysical Journal (2018). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae380
YouTube "outage"... was it to quarantine and erase a video of something hitting the moon?
For Close-Knit Planets, Sharing Life Could Be Easy
By Starre Vartan, Astrobiology Magazine
An artist's impression of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system.
Credit: SETI Institute
How could life be shared between planets in close proximity to one another? This question has received a greater insight thanks to new analytics based on previously known and new calculations.
The findingsfrom this new research are helping scientists understand how likely life would be on a given planet in such tight-knit systems if that world shows signs of habitability.
This approach began with a blasphemous-at-the-time idea: that life exists throughout the universe and can travel without supernatural interference. Anaxagoras, a 5th-century B.C. Greek philosopher, called this concept "panspermia." Kelvin, Helmholtz and Arrhenius advanced the idea in the 19th and 20th centuries by examining how life could be carried to and from Earth. In 2009, Stephen Hawking went beyond our solar system with the idea when he suggested that "life could spread from planet to planet or from stellar system to stellar system, carried on meteors." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Dimitri Veras, an astrophysicist at the University of Warwick in England and lead author of a recent paper on the subject, said, "Within the last century, [panspermia] has been focused on life transport within the solar system, including Earth."
The TRAPPIST-1 solar system, which is 39 light-years from Earth and includes seven planets packed into an orbit smaller than Mercury's, changes this Earth-centric idea. This system's sun is an ultracool red dwarf. So, even though the seven nearby planets orbit closely, they are possibly all still in the habitable zone, to varying degrees depending upon the makeup of their atmospheres. That makes this system a perfect model for exploring the idea of panspermia, per Hawking, anywhere in the universe.
The orbits of the planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are tightly arranged, especially when compared to the worlds in our solar system or even the moons of Jupiter. That increases the chances that life could be shared between them.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Three stages
But back to our solar system, where the "foundation for panspermia-related processes has been established," Veras' paper said. That includes evidence that life can survive the three stages of traveling from one planet to another: initial ejection, the journey through space between planets and impact onto a new planet. Each stage presents challenges to the survival of life.
Veras wanted to create an analytical system to quantify each of these parts to create a better understanding of the probability of the whole process occurring.
He had some information to start with: Microbes can survive ejection from a planet with life on it, as per previous studies, and even a voyage through interplanetary space, if shielded from the radiation and cold. Less is known about how well a microbe that endured space travel could survive impact on a new planet, which would be necessary for life to complete the voyage from one planet to another.
Because impact includes more unknowns than ejection and transit between planets, Veras had less-detailed information to work with in this area of his calculations.
"The physics of re-entry features complexities that are not present with the ejection and voyage phases through space," he said. "For example, frictional heating during re-entry can lead to the formation of a fusion crust [the outer layer of the meteorite that melts and ablates during atmospheric entry] on the surface of the meteorite."
To figure out how to calculate the tricky physics of atmospheric entry onto a new planet, Veras turned to some already-available math. He told Astrobiology Magazine that "Equations regarding the physics of impact have already been established and used for solar system applications, [so] we converted those for use in a general extrasolar system."
To understand the probability of ejected material traveling from one planet to another, Veras combined his equations into analytics. This way, he could figure out the whole system of panspermia, not just parts of it.
"Usually, the dynamics of panspermia is studied with numerical simulations. However, these can be slow to run and must be tailored to an individual system," Veras said. "Alternatively, analytics are much faster to use and are general enough to be applicable to a wide variety of systems." [Exoplanet Discovery: The 7 Earth-Size Planets of TRAPPIST-1 in Pictures]
Sharing life
These days, scientists know of an observable multiplanet system, TRAPPIST-1, with more than one world in the habitable zone. So, astrobiologists can use Veras' analytics to understand the probability of life being shared between planets in these extrasolar locales.
The closeness of the planets in this new system means that the chance that they can share material is high. If life began on one of the planets, can Veras' analytics tell us whether that life may have traveled to another given planet, thanks to panspermia? His equations are not meant to do that, he said. Veras said that they are "not exact" but instead "provide a sufficiently good approximation." Rather, their aim is to give astrobiologists another tool with which to assess new planetary systems.
Amaya Moro-Martin, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland who has published a paper on the probability of panspermiabetween different planetary systems, said Veras' analytics are "An impressive piece of work." This analytic approach "takes into account a wide range of physical processes that are involved in panspermia," Moro-Martin said.
Looking forward, Moro-Martin said Veras' work will be useful for when new exoplanet systems are discovered. "The framework that it establishes will help others assess whether, from the dynamical point of view, panspermia could have been feasible, given the system characteristics," said Moro-Martin, who was not involved in the Veras-led study.
Astrobiologists need to ensure that they are not limiting life to what's already known; aliens could look very different from what we expect, Moro-Martin said.
"The difficulty here is that the experiments that test survival against the hazards of outer space and atmospheric entry will be based on the organisms we are familiar with, and we have no clue what extrasolar organisms might be like," said Moro-Martin, "which opens a fascinating world of possibilities."
Nearly three years since NASA's Dawn mission arrived at Ceres, the spacecraft has run out of fuel. Is it time to start thinking about sending another mission to the dwarf planet?
The $467 million Dawn spacecraft launched in 2007 on a mission to study the two largest objects in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. After studying the asteroid Vesta from orbit for about a year, it moved on to Ceres, the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system and the largest space rock orbiting in the asteroid belt.
While in orbit at Ceres, Dawn discovered that the dwarf planet sports hundreds of weird bright spots, contains plenty of water ice and has organic molecules (the basic building blocks for life) on its surface. By the mission's end, however, scientists were still left with some big questions about Ceres and what it can teach us about the possibilities of life beyond Earth — questions that could be answered with a follow-up trip to the surface. [Photos: Asteroid Vesta and NASA's Dawn Spacecraft]
One of the last images of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows bright spots in Occator Crater. Dawn captured this view on Sept. 1, 2018, from an altitude of 2,340 miles (3,370 kilometers) above the dwarf planet's surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
"I think the kinds of questions that we are going to be left with will probably require going down to the surface, because there's only so much you can tell from orbit," Paul Schenk, a participating scientist for the Dawn mission with the Universities Space Research Association at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, told Space.com.
Specifically, Schenk said he would like to see a mission sent to explore Occator Crater, a 57-mile-wide (92 kilometers) crater containing the biggest and brightest of Ceres' spots. Like the other bright spots on Ceres, Occator Crater contains salty deposits that were left behind when briny water sprayed up from underground and then froze on the surface. This discovery by the Dawn mission revealed that the interior of Ceres is warmer than scientists previously thought. In the case of Occator Crater, a recent impact was likely the source of that heat, Schenk said.
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the bright spot in Occator Crater on Ceres. This region is officially known as Cerealia Facula.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
The most prevalent mineral at Occator Crater is sodium carbonate, which also happens to be prevalent in places on Earth that show hydrothermal activity — places like Yellowstone National Park "where certain types of bacteria are known to thrive," Schenk said. However, he said that it's "rather unlikely" that microbial life exists on Ceres, because the heat generated from impacts doesn't last long enough for life to evolve. "The impact generates enough heat to melt the ice and create the groundwaters that can then circulate in a central area," he said, but "the zone of heat contracts until the water goes away and freezes up" over the course of tens of thousands to a few million years. Here on Earth, the earliest forms of life arose 700 million years after the Earth formed.
Regardless of whether Ceres is capable of hosting life — a possibility that scientists have neither ruled out nor confirmed at this point — the hydrothermal processes seen on the dwarf planet could help scientists understand similar processes on other bodies in the solar system, like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus — two of the top contenders for hosting possible life beyond Earth. Features resembling dried-up hydrothermal vents on Mars could also have sustained life sometime in the planet's history. Like the bacteria that live in deep-sea hydrothermal vents on Earth, organisms living in similar geological features on other world don't need sunlight to survive. Instead, they would rely on geothermal energy, like hydrothermal vents and plate tectonics.
A full-color image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows how the dwarf planet Ceres would appear to the human eye.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
In the case of Ceres, getting hit with other large space rocks appears to be the source of its geothermal energy. "Hydrothermal reactions with the water are clearly bringing up minerals to the surface," Schenk said. "In order to understand how that process works on other planets, including Mars, going back and understanding that chemistry and that physics — the physical process of what actually happens, how those materials delivered to the surface and what reactions are taking take place — are going to be important to understanding hydrothermal processes throughout the solar system. We have a lot of that information here on Earth, but the chemistry of Earth's crust is very different than it is on Ceres."
Landing and roving on Ceres
Because Occator Crater holds some tantalizing clues about the conditions necessary for life to arise on other worlds, scientists are hoping to send a lander to further explore Ceres' most fascinating feature, Schenk said. Ideally, any future missions would involve a small rover like the ones that landed on the asteroid Ryugu in September.
"It would have to be able to take some instruments that can tell you some diagnostic information about the composition, so it would have to survive the landing, and it probably would need to be able to move around to get to the specific site of interest, because you have to land safely but then you have to go to the area that's interesting, which could be complicated," Schenk said. (For example, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission to Ryugu has had a difficult time finding a safe landing site on the asteroid's surprisingly rocky surface.)
While Dawn could only study Ceres from orbit, reaching a closest altitude of 22 miles (35 km), a spacecraft on the surface could learn more about the dwarf planet's composition by scooping a sample and analyzing it in situ, or inside the spacecraft itself. Dawn used spectrometers to determine what elements are on the dwarf planet's surface, but those measurements are "dominated by those materials that are spectrally active, those that reveal absorption bands at particular wavelengths," and carbonaceous materials don't show up well in those measurements, Schenk said. "Carbonaceous materials often are pretty bland, so we probably have to go down to the surface to find it."
Scientists have been working on preliminary plans for the next mission to Ceres since as early as 2008, or seven years before Dawn would become the first spacecraft to visit the dwarf planet. A proposed mission called the Ceres Polar Lander would send an orbiter-lander combo to Ceres, dropping the lander at its north pole to search for clues about life. The mission would use the same kind of soft-landing techniques NASA has used to land spacecraft on Mars.
A team of researchers with the European aerospace manufacturing company Thales Alenia Space and the University of Nantes in France presented the Ceres Polar Lander mission concept at the European Planetary Science Congress in 2008.
When the Ceres Polar Lander was first proposed, scientists thought that Ceres' north pole would be the most interesting place to study. However, this was long before Dawn discovered Occator Crater, which is now arguably the most interesting place on Ceres.
Currently, no space agencies have plans to send another mission to Ceres, but that could change now that the Dawn mission has ended. Any proposed NASA missions will have to go through a lengthy review process before they can be selected to go to Ceres, but in the meantime, scientists have plenty of data from Dawn to sift through, Schenk said. "We're only starting to understand Ceres … it's going to take a while to figure out what we're actually seeing."
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience.
It forms at speeds of more than 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h), it lies deep beneath our feet, it could destroy hopes for alien life, and — finally — scientists understand how it works.
Back in March, researchers writing in the journal Science revealed that they have found the first evidence for this ice, called "Ice VII." Scientists had predicted its existence beforehand. Under the right conditions, it was believed, ice could form in a pool of water without a layer of heat at the leading edge of its growing surface. That — along with super-intense pressures and temperatures — would allow the ice to form without most of the usual brakes that slow its growth, Science Alert reported. It would also have a different crystal structure, or arrangement of atoms. Now, scientists say they've found that elusive ice for the first time in the frozen-water cores of diamonds that bubbled up from deep inside the Earth.
The diamonds, which contained Ice VII, had come from a point inside the planet known as the mantle's "transition zone," between 255 miles and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) deep. (The mantle is the rocky layer between Earth's crust and core). And they knew that it had a crystal structure very different from the sort of ice that forms in clouds or lakes or in your freezer. [9 Strange, Scientific Excuses for Why We Haven't Found Alien Life Yet]
But they didn't know precisely how it formed, or what caused it to form that way.
New research, published Oct. 10 in the journal Physical Review Letters, found that there are particular combinations of temperature and pressure at which Ice VII forms. The mysterious Ice VII begins to form at 20,700 times Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level and 40.7 degrees Fahrenheit (4.9 degrees Celsius), and the pressure/temperature combinations get only more intense from there.
This could pose problems for the hunt for alien life, Physics Central reported. Pressure spikes — say, from meteor impacts — could cause the explosive formation of Ice VII on watery planets otherwise suited to alien life. But the mass formation of this cubic ice at ripping speeds would likely prevent any such life from forming or surviving. On worlds where this happens, life could get snuffed out before it really began.
Starman has put a lot of miles on his Tesla Roadster in the last nine months.
The red electric car and its spacesuit-clad mannequin driver, which launched on the maiden mission of SpaceX's huge Falcon Heavy rocket in February, have made it beyond the orbit of Mars, company representatives said Friday night (Nov. 2).
The second sentence of that tweet, of course, is a nod to the late, great writer Douglas Adams. "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" is the second novel in Adams' five-part "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.
SpaceX's Starman mannequin is seen inside Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster with Earth in the background, shortly after launch on Feb. 6, 2018. As of Nov. 2, the duo were beyond the orbit of Mars.
Credit: SpaceX
Like many of us, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is a big "Hitchhiker's Guide" fan, as Starman's Roadster shows. The car's entertainment display was programmed to read "Don't Panic!" — the phrase that adorns the cover of the eponymous electronic guidebook in Adams' beloved series.
"Starman" is a cultural reference as well; it's the title of a1972 song by David Bowie. And Musk said before launch that the Roadster would play Bowie's 1969 hit "Space Oddity" at full blast during its deep-space trek (though Starman cannot hear the famous tune in the airless void). Ultimately, Musk opted for Bowie's "Life on Mars" as parting music for Starman and the Tesla.
Diagram showing the orbit and current location (as of Nov. 2, 2018) of the dummy Starman and his Tesla Roadster, which SpaceX launched on the first flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket in February 2018.
Credit: SpaceX via Twitter
Musk has said that he launched the Roadster and Starman because the duo is a lot more fun than the typical inert-mass dummy payload (pun intended; sorry). Launching a satellite or other valuable spacecraft wasn't an option, given the risks inherent in maiden flights. (Musk also runs Tesla, so publicity was probably a factor as well.)
Starman and his ride — which once belonged to Musk — won't stay beyond Mars forever. As you can see in the diagram, the pair will loop back on their heliocentric orbit, eventually coming about as close to the sun as Earth does.
The Roadster and Starman will come within a few hundred thousand kilometers of our planet in 2091, according to an orbit-modeling study. The authors of that study determined that the car will slam into either Venus or Earth, likely within the next few tens of millions of years. They give the space car a 6 percent chance of hitting Earth in the next 1 million years, and a 2.5 percent chance of smacking Venus in that span. [In Photos: SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Launch Success!]
You can track the space mannequin and cosmic Tesla at whereisroadster.com, a website created by Ben Pearson, founder of Old Ham Media.
The Falcon Heavy's second mission, which will launch the Saudi Arabian communications satellite Arabsat-6A to geostationary orbit, is scheduled for January 2019.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13 by Grand Central Publishing.
Waar zitten ‘Starman’ en zijn Tesla eigenlijk? Mars voorbij - HLN.be
Waar zitten ‘Starman’ en zijn Tesla eigenlijk? Mars voorbij - HLN.be
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WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Er zweeft een auto in de ruimte, weet u nog? Het is intussen ook al even geleden dat ‘Starman’ aan zijn grootse ruimteavontuur begon in zijn rode Tesla Roadster. Waar hij nu ergens zit? Voorbij Mars, zo blijkt.
6 februari 2018. Ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX lanceert met succes de Falcon Heavy, de krachtigste raket ter wereld. Aan boord, dummy ‘Starman’ in een rode Tesla Roadster, waar SpaceX-oprichter Elon Musk voordien mee rondtoerde. Geestige omkaderingen voor een onvergetelijke ruimtereis alom: denk aan een Don’t Panic-bordje op het dashboard en muziek van David Bowie die uit de speakers knalt. Een stunt van formaat én volgens Musk het ultieme startschot van ooit ruimtetoerisme naar de maan en Mars.
Fans konden heel even de ruimtetocht van Starman live volgen en zagen de dummy bevreemdend sereen in zijn elektrische cabrio door de ruimte zweven, met onze aardbol op de achtergrond. Maar sinds 14 februari was hij niet langer zichtbaar en verdween hij in de duisternis. Klaar voor een lange baan rond de zon.
Uit een update van SpaceX over de locatie van de meest veelbesproken raketballast ooit, blijkt dat Starman intussen voorbij Mars is gevlogen. “Volgende halte, het restaurant aan het einde van het universum”, grapt het ruimtevaartbedrijf in een tweet. Niet toevallig (naast de Don’t Panic-grap) een nieuwe knipoog naar de befaamde ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’-boekenserie van auteur Douglas Adams, waar Elon Musk grote fan van is.
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99.000 keer ‘(Is There) Life on Mars’
In de ruimte is de Tesla Roadster alvast de snelste auto ooit, met een snelheid van ongeveer 42.000 kilometer per uur. Hij heeft nu al ver genoeg gereisd om alle wegen op aarde 16,4 keer te hebben gereden, schrijft fansite whereisroadster.com. Als de batterij aan boord nog werkt, heeft Starman ook al bijna 74.000 keer het nummer ‘Space Oddity’ beluisterd en meer dan 99.000 keer ‘(Is There) Life on Mars’, hoewel daar in het luchtledige van de ruimte niet veel van te horen zal zijn.
Op 8 november zal hij dit jaar ongeveer zijn verste punt tegenover de zon bereiken (249 miljoen kilometer), op 21 februari 2019 het verste punt tegenover de aarde (365 miljoen kilometer). Dan brengt zijn baan hem opnieuw dichter bij zijn thuisplaneet. Op 5 november 2020 nadert hij ‘dicht’ bij de aarde (51 miljoen kilometer). Voor een echte nabije passage is het waarschijnlijk wachten tot 2091. Dan is de Tesla vermoedelijk enkele honderdduizenden kilometers verwijderd van de aarde. Als het niet tot een ongeval komt of er zich geen ander probleem voordoet, blijft Starman nog vele jaren eenzaam rond de zon toeren, mogelijks miljoenen jaren. Volgens een studie zouden zijn restanten uiteindelijk kunnen crashen op Venus of op de aarde.
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Oumuamua: Harvard researchers suggest strange interstellar object may be alien light sail
Oumuamua: Harvard researchers suggest strange interstellar object may be alien light sail
ASTRONOMERS have spotted something really odd. And a professor suggests it was an alien solar sail sent in search for life.
Jamie Seidel
Hawking, Billionaire Announce Spaceflight to Alpha Centauri
IT WAS our first known interstellar visitor when it was detected flashing past the Sun in October last year. Dubbed ‘Oumuamua’ — Hawaiian for messenger — it was quickly determined to be not of this solar system.
Its trajectory had been traced. And the track it was on could not have possibly been an orbit around our Sun. So it must have come from deep space.
Follow-up observations after the Pan-STAARS-1 telescope in Hawaii announced its discovery revealed the object to be odd.
It was elongated. It was about a kilometre long. It was a strange reddish colour. And it appeared to have properties that belong to both comets and asteroids.
Naturally enough, some speculated it could be an alien spacecraft. SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) was interested enough to turn one of its electronic ears in its direction.
It found nothing. There were no observable omissions from the tumbling interstellar visitor.
And, as Oumuamua was moving so fast as to already whip it into the outer reaches of our Solar System, interest waned.
There just wasn’t much more we could do to check it out.
now, a new study by two Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomers has postulated that it may, after all, have been an alien object.
Professor Loeb is a committee member of the Breakthrough Starshot committee — a project announced by the late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner that seeks to speed up our search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Any examination of the unusual nature of Oumuamua must include “the possibility that it might be a lightsail of artificial origin,” he writes
An artist’s depiction of the IKAROS space probe with solar sail in flight.
Oumuamua was found to have a high density. Normally, this would indicate it was an object made of rock and metal.
This seemed to be supported as it skimmed past the Sun. No comet-like clouds of gas spun out as a tail in the solar wind.
But a spectral analysis — where light is broken down into its components to identify the chemicals influencing its colours — indicated it was much icier than expected.
After passing the Sun, it actually sped up. It should, by all accounts, have slowed down …
Unless it was a comet, venting gas from the warmer face closest to the Sun. This could give it the boost needed to increase its velocity.
So, where was that comet-like tail?
It’s still not been found.
The Harvard astronomers also point out that any such ‘outgassing’ would have quickly changed the nature of Oumuamua’s spin.
This also was not observed.
With these anomalies, Bialy and Loeb suggest there is only one other viable alternative: that it is a mechanical light sail, designed to use starlight to propel it through space.
“The first artificial relic might have just been discovered over the past year when the Pan STARRS sky survey identified the first interstellar object in the solar system, ‘Oumuamua,” Professor Loeb writes.
“We explain the excess acceleration of `Oumuamua away from the Sun as the result of the force that the Sunlight exerts on its surface,” they write. “For this force to explain measured excess acceleration, the object needs to be extremely thin, of order a fraction of a millimetre in thickness but tens of meters in size. This makes the object lightweight for its surface area and allows it to act as a light-sail. Its origin could be either natural (in the interstellar medium or proto-planetary disks) or artificial (as a probe sent for a reconnaissance mission into the inner region of the Solar System).”
This handout photo released by the European Southern Observatory on November 20, 2017 shows an artist's impression of the first interstellar asteroid: Oumuamua.
Picture: AFPSource:AFP
RETROENGINEERING OUMUAMUA
The Harvard astronomers attempted to compute the probable shape, size and mass any such interstellar light-sail would need.
It would need to survive the intense cold and extreme radiation of deep space. It would also need to be structurally rigid enough to cope with the stresses of its spin.
Their calculations state it could be achieved by an incredibly thin — just a fraction of a millimetre — thick sheet of metal.
“For a thin sheet this requires a width of ≈ 0.3−0.9 mm,” the study reads. “We find that although extremely thin, such an object would survive an interstellar travel over Galactic distances of about 5 kpc, withstanding collisions with gas and dust-grains as well as stresses from rotation and tidal forces.”
Professor Loeb states similar lightsails have already been designed and built here — such as the Japanese IKAROS and his own Starshot Initiative.
Why would such an alien ship be here?
Bialy and Loeb speculate it could be flotsam — a jettisoned solar sail floating at the whim of the interstellar winds. That would explain the lack of transmissions, they say.
“This opportunity establishes a potential foundation for a new frontier of space archaeology, namely the study of relics from past civilisations in space,” Loeb recently wrote in Scientific American.
“Finding evidence for space junk of artificial origin would provide an affirmative answer to the age-old question “Are we alone?” This would have a dramatic impact on our culture and add a new cosmic perspective to the significance of human activity.”
Equally, Loeb said, Oumuamua could be a space probe.
“The alternative is to imagine that `Oumuamua was on a reconnaissance mission,” he told Universe Today. He said the objects path was simply too convenient.
It passed within 0.25 AU (Astronomical Units, the distance of the Earth from the Sun) of the Sun which avoided the worst of its solar radiation. It then crossed within just 0.15AU of Earth.
Both astronomers concede we simply know too little about Oumuamua to reliably guess its nature. But, at the very least, for it to have the observed characteristics it has it must be an entirely new type of material or object.
EmDrive: US military research group DARPA want space drive that needs no fuel
EmDrive: US military research group DARPA want space drive that needs no fuel
A SIMPLE copper cone appears to pull propulsion out of nowhere. Now the US is betting $1.4m on this “impossible” space drive.
Jamie Seidel
Breakthrough Technology
EVERY action has an equal and opposite reaction. Or it should. It’s how rockets work: they accelerate forward by burning fuel and ejecting exhaust in the opposite direction. Now, 20 years after its was first demonstrated, the US military is interested in a drive that generates thrust from nowhere.
If it works.
Something else may be at play.
Many physicists believe it is a simple — but minuscule — error.
It’s an error that has been consistently reduced since the Shawyer EmDrive was first run in 1998.
It’s tiny. And every time someone applies new checks and balances to the process, it seems to get tinier.
But, it’s still there.
Tests by the worlds most advanced propulsion engineers, including NASA, still end up producing measurable thrust.
And, in the frictionless environment of space, that thrust accumulates. Over time, even the pressure equivalent to that of a piece of paper on your hand can accelerate a vehicle to interplanetary speeds.
It’s a prospect that has the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sinking a speculative $1.4 million into the idea.
“Given the number and diversity of claims about EmDrive and other exotic physics, my opinion then and now is that DARPA should invest modest sums to experimentally assess such claims, albeit only where credible experimental evidence exists,” former DARPA researcher Jess Sponable told Popular Mechanics.
The EM drive positioned inside a vacuum chamber for testing.
Picture: NASA/EagleworksSource:Supplied
PURSUING THE IMPOSSIBLE
It’s just a cone of copper. One end is sealed. The other is opened.
It’s then pumped full of microwaves — generated from an electrical source that could include simple solar arrays.
Microwaves do produce pressure. Just not much of it.
The idea goes that the microwaves striking the closed end of the copper cone produce pressure — in essence giving it a ‘push’. Those that go out the back produce none.
This is where physicists have a problem.
They argue this is exactly the same as someone trying to push a car by leaning on the steering while sitting in the driver’s seat.
To get thrust, basic physics means there must be a reaction to drive the process.
Problem is, the copper cone experiment is producing a measurable force.
“The DARPA mission is to embrace and advance transformational change in the US military, but … we must strive to beat the other guy to the punch line and ensure there will never again be another Sputnik moment,” Sponable told Popular Mechanics, referring to the success of the Soviet Union in getting the first satellite into space.
This illustration made available by NASA depicts the Dawn spacecraft orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres. If it was able to suck fuel from the void of space, it would not have been forced to shut down as it did this month.
Picture: NASASource:AP
NASCENT LIGHT MATTER INTERACTIONS
The science is entirely speculative. And utterly unfounded.
But DARPA has kicked off an initiative it calls NLM (Nascent light matter interactions).
It’s re-examining the properties of electromagnetic and light waves.
Specifically, it wants to test the highly theoretical proposal that it can interact with spontaneous quantum ‘bubbles’ that pop in and out of existence.
Known as Unruh radiation, it is speculated this could be the unaccounted for ‘fuel’ that provides the EmDrive’s thrust.
Called Quantised Inertia, it’s a radical concept. It would also go against existing theories of the nature of dark energy and dark matter. But these remain highly speculative, too.
Most physicists believe the ‘thrust’ being recorded by the EmDrive is an unaccounted for external influence — such as the impact of the Earth’s magnetic field on the copper making up the cone.
So DARPA will attempt to recreate this thrust through a new kind of experiment.
Instead of microwaves and copper, they will fire lasers through a loop to see how they interact. And another test will bounce lasers off assymetric mirrors.
Theoretically, these should produce the same effect as the EmDrive.
If successful, the results would be revolutionary.
Satellites would not need to carry heavy fuel into orbit. Instead, they could coast around at will. Rockets could launch much larger space probes, as these probes also won’t need to carry their own energy source.
It would also make interplanetary travel much easier.
Mostly, it would gut modern physics. Einstein’s theories of general relativity and special relativity would have to be revisited. As would Newton’s third law.
IT WAS a normal Monday morning in February 1989 when Alec Newald set off on a three-hour drive to Auckland from Rotorua in New Zealand’s volcanic heart.
However, what the 70-year-old Kiwi claims to have experienced on that journey changed his perception of the universe forever.
Mr Newald says he was taken by extraterrestrials to an advanced civilisation and stayed there for 10 days.
After passing through a winding, foggy mountain route, he arrived in Auckland feeling tired and confused.
However, he was even more confused to learn that Monday was now Thursday — 10 days later — and he had no idea how he had lost those days.
Mr Newald said he spent 10 days in the alien world.
Picture: Alec NewaldSource:Supplied
Authoring a book called Co-Evolution and talking to global UFO media outlets since his experience in 1989, the Kiwi has set out what he experienced.
Speaking on American UFO and paranormal radio show As You Wish talk radio, he recalled the moment he was “plucked” from that winding mountain road.
“I was like what the hell is going on here?” he said. “I was driving the car and it felt like a tonne of bricks had landed on me, like someone had poured cement on me. I felt like I was pushed into the seat of that car.
“I was paralysed, I couldn’t turn the wheel or apply the brakes or do anything.”
He says he was zooming down the road at 100km/h towards a cliff face at the time and he braced for the impact.
Then he said he woke in a “cavernous” space filled with flashing neon blue lights. He was convinced he was dead, as he believed he was in spirit form and he was experiencing the afterlife.
He claims to have never even thought about UFOs before that point and to have never taken drugs.
“I’m just like a wispy ghost with no form at all,” he said. “I found I could manoeuvre myself by moving my consciousness forward or sideways.”
Mr Newald says he woke in spirit form and guided by extraterrestrials.
Picture: Alec NewaldSource:Supplied
The Kiwi said UFOs couldn’t have been further from his mind before 1989.
Picture: YouTubeSource:Supplied
Surrounded by other “spirit forms”, it was then that he claims to have felt a “tap on the shoulder”.
Here’s how Mr Newald describes what happened next in his book.
“Looking up, I realised we were being approached by three aliens, the tallest of them looking like my escort from earlier on,” he wrote.
“The second one was just a little shorter and was male as far as I could tell. The third was smaller, much smaller, and walked ahead of the other two.
“He, for want of a better word was slightly built with a roundish head and rather unusual, squinty eyes which were well spaced and placed rather lower down than are our own.
“He had a very small mouth, but I did not notice any ears or much of a nose. His physical appearance, however, was of almost no consequence, for I was immediately struck with an almost overpowering feeling of his presence.
“I cannot say it was hypnotic, if anything, the opposite. It was as if his energy was being projected and absorbed by my body.”
As he moved further, he claims to have seen physical objects emerging which looked like buildings and the entities which guided him there started to take physical form.
He claims they then told him to step into a machine, which would “build a body for him” and he saw his body forming beneath him.
On As You Wish talk radio he said the aliens were trying to reconstruct themselves so they could exist on earth.
As if his alleged experience was not strange enough, he started receiving visits from officials wanting to know more about his experiences and especially about the capabilities of this extraterrestrial race once he was back on earth.
Ahead of his Sydney talk, he told extraterrestrial enthusiasts UFO Research (NSW) Incorporated the experience was a “very hard pill to swallow” and one which has dominated his life ever since.
“Try absorbing that and continue to live your life as if nothing has changed,” Mr Newald said.
“Perhaps an even bigger surprise was, with the exception of a few, the more I tried to share this information the harder my life became.
“I was ostracised by people you might have expected support from. In fact, even before I tried to share any of the things I’d learnt, my life started to become more than difficult. It became impossible to continue on as before.”
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Ik bracht 10 dagen door bij een buitenaardse beschaving. Dit is wat er gebeurde
Ik bracht 10 dagen door bij een buitenaardse beschaving. Dit is wat er gebeurde
De Nieuw-Zeelander Alec Newald zegt dat hij werd meegenomen door aliens en 10 dagen doorbracht bij een buitenaardse beschaving, zo meldt nieuwssite News.com.au.
We schrijven februari 1989. Newald is op weg van Rotorua naar Auckland. Wat er tijdens die reis gebeurde zou zijn kijk op het universum voor altijd veranderen.
Eenmaal aangekomen in Auckland voelde hij zich moe en verward. Hij kwam tot de ontdekking dat het geen maandag meer was, maar donderdag; 10 dagen later.
Verstrekkende gevolgen
Hij had geen idee wat er in de afgelopen 10 dagen was gebeurd.
Langzaam maar zeker kwamen de herinneringen terug. Newald zegt dat zijn ervaringen met vriendelijke aliens verstrekkende gevolgen hebben voor alle mensen op aarde.
Tijdens een uitzending van de Amerikaanse radioshow ‘As You Wish’ sprak hij over het moment dat hij van de weg werd geplukt.
“Ik reed in mijn auto en opeens voelde het alsof er een enorme lading bakstenen op me neerkwam, alsof iemand cement op me had gegoten,” zei hij. “Het voelde alsof ik in de stoel werd gedrukt.”
Verlamd
“Ik was verlamd en kon niet aan het stuur draaien of op de rem trappen,” vervolgde hij.
Hij werd wakker in een ruimte met blauwe knipperende lichten. Hij was ervan overtuigd dat hij dood was en in het hiernamaals was aanbeland.
“Plotseling tikte er iemand op mijn schouder,” klonk het. “Ik keek op en werd benaderd door drie aliens.”
Ze hadden volgens hem een rond hoofd, samengeknepen ogen en een hele kleine mond. Hij kon geen oren of neuzen zien.
Machine
Hij zag fysieke voorwerpen ontstaan, die leken op gebouwen en de entiteiten die hem begeleidden.
De aliens vroegen hem om in een machine te stappen, die ‘een lichaam voor hem zou bouwen’.
Newald zei dat hij na deze vreemde ervaring bezoek kreeg van functionarissen die meer wilden weten over het incident, met name over dit buitenaardse ras.
Verstoten
Hij zei dat hij het allemaal moeilijk kon geloven, omdat hij nog nooit had nagedacht over UFO’s.
“Probeer dan maar eens te doen alsof er niks gebeurd is,” zei Newald.
Hoe meer informatie hij begon te delen over zijn ervaring, hoe meer hij werd verstoten door zijn omgeving.
“Perhaps an even bigger surprise was, with the exception of a few, the more I tried to share this information the harder my life became. I was ostracised by people you might have expected support from. In-fact, even before I tried to share any of the things, I’d learnt my life started to become more than difficult. It became impossible to continue on as before.”
And yet, he keeps on trying to tell the world about his experience of being abducted by aliens and living amongst them for ten days before being dropped back in New Zealand, struggling to remember what he saw so he could tell the world – a different experience that he found far worse than his abduction. The abductee is Alec Newald and he was recently in the news as he shared his story once again, 30 years later, to an audience in Australia.
“I was driving the car and it felt like a tonne of bricks had landed on me, like someone had poured cement on me. I felt like I was pushed into the seat of that car.”
In an interview prior to his talk to the UFOR (UFO Research) group in West Ryde, New South Wales, Newald recounts how in February 1989 he was spared from what would certainly have been a fatal drive off of a cliff by aliens who transported him to their world where he found himself in what he describes as a spirit form with others in the same condition. Newald says he assumed he was dead and in the afterlife until he was approached by small beings – four-feet tall, large round heads, squinty eyes – with one as the obvious leader.
“Welcome”, he said. “I am the designated Guardian of this section. Anything that you feel you might need to make your stay with us more pleasant, ask and I shall do my best to supply it. The suit you have been given will make it possible for you to understand us, and us you”.
On his website and in his book, “Coevolution: The True Story of a Man Taken for Ten Days to an Extraterrestrial Civilization,” he describes being given a body and watching as the ship he was on descended into a huge city with various buildings that were pyramid-shaped, tubular or round. He was given a tour in a floating car described as “a stealth fighter cockpit without wings” controlled by “part mind power, part magnetic repulsion.” Newald says he was given more technical and historical information (including how these aliens affected the evolution of the planet and humans) during his stay, which lasted until he suddenly found himself back in Auckland 10 days later, confused and struggling to figure out what happened.
Newald claims he knew something big had happened to him because “some governmental agency knew about his “off world” experience, and wanted to get as much information out of him as humanly possible.” He says he was visited by “two New Zealand DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) scientists” who knew more about him than he expected … enough to convince him they were not from the DSIR. He claims to have been threatened and his flats were broken into.
Newald wrote his book to share his story and his interpretation of these experiences and has periodically tried to tell it in public, only to be “ostracized.” Some complaints are that it’s too brief and his accounts are less of a first-hand memory than an interpretation of what he thinks happened. Now Newald is back again. The world and its desire for disclosure on UFOs and aliens has changed. However, his message has not.
“In relating the details of my own experience, I hope I can somehow convey to you that the unknown need not to be something to be feared. Personally, I am looking forward to whatever the future has to offer the human race.”
A good message, whether you believe the rest of Alec Newald’s account of a 10-day alien abduction or not.
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What is behind the decline in UFO sightings?
Mystery surrounds purple lights in the sky over the US
At first I thought it was just an incidental case but the fact that these purple lights are showing up more and more in the sky over the US is a reason for concern.
Below eyewitness reports of the strange purple light in the sky reported over the past weeks:
Oct 13 – Location: Cuyahoga River, Ohio - : I went outside to be sure it wasn't a lamp light and noticed the purple sky was only in one area.” Video
Oct 13 – Location: Cleveland, Ohio – “I was heading to the gas station when I see this different color in the sky that have never been seen with my own two eyes.” See below video.
Oct 26 – Location: Dayton, Ohio – “Just recorded this on my way to work, I saw a glowing light on the highway. It looked like it was over the clouds rather than under it and it was stationary. Weird but thought you folks might like it. Could be anything and I may be just a crazy loon but whatever.” Video
Oct 27 – Location: Cleveland, Ohio – One day later another person witnessed the purple light in the sky. He said “I keep seeing this strange purple color clouds hmmm what causes this to happen?” Video
Oct 31 – Location Bellevue, WA – Witness said “Most peoples have seen this, and it is not from the skyscrapers, nor from any buildings.” Video
Nov 4 – Location: Wisconsin – “I had never seen the sky like this before - Just driving home and there it was.” Video
It is difficult to say what makes these lights appear, but it seems to me that something is going on in the atmosphere what we don’t know.
Is This The Best Video Footage Ever Filmed of the Mysterious Triangle-Shaped ‘UFO’?
Is This The Best Video Footage Ever Filmed of the Mysterious Triangle-Shaped ‘UFO’?
The mysterious triangle-shaped ‘unidentified flying object’ is perhaps one of the most famous of UFOs.
Seen on countless occasions all around the world, the triangle-shaped UFO is perhaps the ultimate proof that UFO does not necessarily mean Extraterrestrial.
All evidence currently seems to support the idea that the mysterious object is in fact nothing other than an ultra-secret flying vehicle belonging to the government of the United States.
Did the Government really reverse-engineer Alien technology and build a triangle-shaped man-made UFO? Image Credit: The Object Report.
Dubbed as the TR-3B, the triangle shaped UFO was spotted by a driver who was returning home from work when he managed to record using his mobile, one of the best videos of the mysterious flying object.
Upon reviewing the recording, he observed that he had, in fact, spotted something inexplicable, a bright triangular object, flying in the distance.
The video has already accumulated thousands of ‘Likes’ after the source, who spoke to The Daily Star on condition of anonymity, published the footage online.
What do you think, is this the actual TR-3 Black Manta?
“It looks like a TR-3B surveillance plane with the circles under each corner of the triangle, if that makes sense,” said one viewer, who was supported by others who seemed to share his view. Another commentator, curisouly, even recalled helping build such ships “in a secret governemnt base in the 1960s.”
Many UFO experts are conviced that the Tirangle-Shped UFO is in fact the so-called the TR-3 Black Manta, a surveillance aircraft of the United States Air Force, speculated to be developed under a black project.
The only evidence we currently have for such an aircraft is based largely on speculations about several reported sightings of mysterious flying wing aircraft over Antelope Valley, an area of desert in southern California.
This stretch of desert draws people interested in supernatural phenomena as well as UFO sighintgs and “black project”-related aircraft sigthings, since it is located in vicinity to several known military research and testing areas, such as Edwards Air Force Base in California, and United States Air Force Plant 42.
Several ufologists maintain that this type of stealth aircraft (the TR-3 Black Manta) is the result of decades of research and reverse engineering applied to alien spaceships that crash landed on Earth decades ago.
Rumors suggest that the TR-3 was said to be a subsonic stealth spy plane with a flying wing design. It was alleged to have been used in the Gulf War to provide laser designation for Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk bombers, for targeting to use with laser-guided bombs. The TR-3 was claimed to have been manufactured by Northrop.
Curiosuly, there have been several reports of tiernagle shaped flying pbjects in Russia, Europe, and Australia.
UFO experts as well as alien hunters argue that these events are not isolated and that the strange tirangle—shaped aircraft is real, and is the result of reverse-engineered alien technology.
However, there are those who believe that the footage filmed over Texas is not the actual TR-3 Black Manta, but most likely a reflection of light caught on the window of the car.
Anyway, let me know what you think, and post your comments below!
While the world is busy launching spacecrafts into the unknown universe its amazing that the ancient people have already developed these technologies thousands of years ago.
“The Kingdom Temple” at Egypt near the great pyramid of Giza holds numerous carvings on its roof and ceiling which resembles modern day spacecraft.
The Kingdom Temple
Vimanas In India
The Chinese discover something in the mountains of Tibet and Lhasa. They are the bundle of strange documents!
The documents are sent to Dr.Ruth Reyna, University of Chandigarh, for translation and special comments. Dr.Reyna’s findings are eye opening. She declares that the manuscripts contain the following.
Directions for building interstellar spaceships with a method of propulsion that are essentially anti-gravitational. The method was similar to that of laghima, the power of man’s ego. It is described as ‘a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gravitational pull’. Hindu Yogis claim it is a man’s laghima that allows for his body to levitate (rise defying gravity).
These machines are called astras.
The text also contains claims that ancient Indians could have sent detachments of men on to any planet.
The secrets of antima (cover of invisibility) and of garima (method of making one’s body as heavy as a mountain of lead) are revealed. The Chinese are including certain parts of this data in their space program research and study.
It has mentioned a planned trip to moon.
ANCIENT VIMANAS
In the Sanskrit epics of ancient India, aerial vehicles were known as Vimanas, and the knowledge of aeronautics was termed Viman Vidya.
Reference to ancient Indian flying vehicles comes from ancient Indian sources, many are the well known ancient Indian Epics, and there are literally hundreds of them. Most of them have not even been translated into English yet from the old Sanskrit.
The Sanskrit documents found at Lhasa, Tibet explains that the method of propulsion, was “anti-gravitational” and was based upon a system analogous to that of “laghima,” the unknown power of the ego existing in man’s physiological makeup, “a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gravitational pull.”
According to Hindu Yogis, it is this “laghima” which enables a person to levitate. Dr. Reyna said that on board these machines, which were called “Astras” by the text, the ancient Indians could have sent a detachment of men onto any planet, according to the document, which is thought to be thousands of years old. The manuscripts were also said to reveal the secret of “antima”; “the cap of invisibility” and “garima”; “how to become as heavy as a mountain of lead.”
Indian Flying Machines
Shivkar Bapuji Talpade born in 1864 was a Sanskrit scholar. His birth place is Chirabazar at Dukkarwadi in Bombay. From his young age was attracted by Vaimanika Sastra (Aeronautical Science) expounded by the great Indian sage Maharishi Bharadwaja.
One western scholar of Indology Stephen-Knapp has tried to explain what Talpade did. According to Knapp, the Vaimanika Shastra describes in detail, the construction of what is called, the mercury vortex engine the forerunner of the ion engines being made today.
Shivkur Bapuji Talpade’s unmanned aircraft flew to a height of 1500 feet before crashing down and the historian. Knapp adds that additional information on the mercury engines can be found in the ancient Vedic text called Samaranga Sutradhara. This text also devotes 230 verses, to the use of these machines in peace and war.
Rukma Vimana
The Indologist William Clarendon, who has written down a detailed description of the mercury vortex engine in his translation of Samaranga Sutradhara quotes thus ‘Inside the circular air frame, place the mercury-engine with its solar mercury boiler at the aircraft center. By means of the power latent in the heated mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in a most marvelous manner’.
Four strong mercury containers must be built into the interior structure. When these have been heated by fire through solar or other sources the vimana (aircraft) develops thunder-power through the mercury. It is also added that this success of an Indian scientist was not liked by the Imperial rulers. Warned by the British Government the Maharaja of Baroda stopped helping Talpade. His efforts to make known the greatness of Vedic Shastras was recognised by Indian scholars, who gave him the title of Vidya Prakash Pra-deep.
Anti-Gravity Studies
The Indian Emperor Ashoka started”Secret Society of the Nine Unknown Men” great Indian scientists who were supposed to catalogue the many sciences. Ashoka kept their work secret because he was afraid that the advanced science catalogued by these men, culled from ancient Indian sources, would be used for the evil purpose of war, which Ashoka was strongly against, having been converted to Buddhism after defeating a rival army in a bloody battle. The “Nine Unknown Men” wrote a total of nine books, presumably one each.
Carving of Vimanas in Indian Templses
Book number was “The Secrets of Gravitation!”This book, known to historians, but not actually seen by them dealt chiefly with “gravity control.” It is presumably still around somewhere, kept in a secret library in India, Tibet or elsewhere (perhaps even in North America somewhere). One can certainly undertand Ashoka’s reasoning for wanting to keep such knowledge a secret, assuming it exists. If the Nazis had such weapons at their disposal during World War II, Ashoka was also aware devastating wars using such advanced vehicles and other “futuristic weapons” that had destoryed the ancient Indian “Rama Empire” several thousand years before.
The ancient Indian epic describes a Vimana as a double-deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer. It flew with the “speed of the wind” and gave forth a “melodious sound.” There were at least four different types of Vimanas; some saucer shaped, others like long cylinders (“cigar shaped airships”).
In 1875, the Vaimanika Sastra, a fourth century B.C. text written by Bharadvajy the Wise, using even older texts as his source, was rediscovered in a temple in India. It dealt with the operation of Vimanas and included information on the steering, precautions for long flights, protection of the airships from storms and lightening and how to switch the drive to “solar energy” from a free energy source which sounds like “anti-gravity.”
Tripura Vimana
The Vaimanika Sastra (or Vymaanika-Shaastra) has eight chapters with diagrams, describing three types of aircraft, including apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. It also mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from which they are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which reason they were considered suitable for the construction of Vimanas.
This document has been translated into English and is available by writing the publisher: VYMAANIDASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS by Maharishi Bharadwaaja, translated into English and edited, printed and published by Mr. G. R. Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979. Mr. Josyer is the director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Investigation located in Mysore. There seems to be no doubt that Vimanas were powered by some sort of “anti-gravity.” Vimanas took off vertically, and were.
Vimanas were kept in a Vimana Griha, a kind of hanger, and were sometimes said to be propelled by a yellowish-white liquid, and sometimes by some sort of mercury compound, though writers seem confused in this matter. It is most likely that the later writers on Vimanas, wrote as observers and from earlier texts, and were understandably confused on the princible of their propulsion. The “yellowish white liquid” sounds suspiciously like gasoline, and perhaps Vimanas had a number of different propulsion sources, including combustion engines and even “pulse-jet” engines.
It is interesting to note that when Alexander the Great invaded India more than two thousand years ago, his historians chronicled that at one point they were attacked by “flying, fiery shields” that dove at his army and frightened the cavalry. These “flying saucers” did not use any atomic bombs or beam weapons on Alexander’s army however, perhaps out of benevolence, and Alexander went on to conquer India.
It is interesting to note, that the Nazis developed the first practical pulse-jet engines for their V-8 rocket “buzz bombs.” Hitler and the Nazi staff were exceptionally interested in ancient India and Tibet and sent expeditions to both these places yearly, starting in the 30’s, in order to gather esoteric evidence that they did so, and perhaps it was from these people that the Nazis gained some of their scientific information! According to the Dronaparva, part of the Mahabarata, and the Ramayana, one Vimana described was shaped like a sphere and born along at great speed on a mighty wind generated by mercury.
It moved like a UFO, going up, down, backwards and forewards as the pilot desired. In another Indian source, the Samar, Vimanas were “iron machines, well-knit and smooth, with a charge of mercury that shot out of the back in the form of a roaring flame.” Another work called the Samaranganasutradhara describes how the vehicles were constructed. It is possible that mercury did have something to do with the propulsion, or more possibly, with the guidance system. Curiously, Soviet scientists have discovered what they call “age-old instruments used in navigating cosmic vehicles” in caves in Turkestan and the Gobi Desert.
Sundara Vimana
The “devices” are hemispherical objects of glass or porcelain, ending in a cone with a drop of mercury inside. It is evident that ancient Indians flew around in these vehicles, all over Asia, to Atlantis presumably; and even, apparently, to South America. Writing found at Mohenjodaro in Pakistan (presumed to be one of the “Seven Rishi Cities of the Rama Empire”) and still undeciphered, has also been found in one other place in the world: Easter Island! Writing on Easter Island, called Rongo-Rongo writing, is also undeciphered, and is uncannily similar to the Mohenjodaro script.
In the Mahavira of Bhavabhuti, a Jain text of the eighth century culled from older texts and traditions, we read: “An aerial chariot, the Pushpaka, conveys many people to the capital of Ayodhya. The sky is full of stupendous flying-machines, dark as night, but picked out by lights with a yellowish glare-“
The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems, thought to be the oldest of all the Indian texts, describe Vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the “ahnihotra-vimana” with two engines, the “elephant-vimana” with more engines, and other types named after the kingfisher, ibis and other animals.
Unfortunately, Vimanas, like most scientific discoveries, were ultimately used for war. Atlanteans used their flying machines, “Vailixi,” a similar type of aircraft, to literally try and subjugate the world, it would seem, if Indian texts are to be believed. The Atlanteans, known as “Asvins” in the Indian writings, were apparently even more advanced technologically than the Indians, and certainly of a more war-like temperment. Although no ancient texts on Atlantean Vailixi are known to exist, some information has come down through esoteric, “occult” sources which describe their flying machines. Similar, if not identical to Vimanas, Vailixi were generally “cigar shaped” and had the capability of manuvering underwater as well as in the atmosphere or even outer space. Other vehicles, like Vimanas, were saucer shaped, and could apparently also be submerged.
According to Eklal Kueshana, author of “The Ultimate Frontier,” in an article he wrote in 1966, Vailixi were first developed in Atlantis 20,000 years ago, and the most common ones are “saucershaped of generally trapezoidal cross-section with three hemispherical engine pods on the underside.” “They use a mechanical antigravity device driven by engines developing approximately 80,000 horse power.” The Ramayana, Mahabarata and other texts speak of the hideous war that took place, some ten or twelve thousand years ago between Atlantis and Rama using weapons of destruction that could not be imagined by readers until the second half of this century. The ancient Mahabharata, one of the sources on Vimanas, goes on to tell the awesome destructiveness of the war: “…(the weapon was) a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe.
“ANCIENT VIMANA AIRCRAFT” – a Contribution by John Burrows Sanskrit texts are filled with references to gods who fought battles in the sky using Vimanas equipped with weapons as deadly as any we can deploy in these more enlightened times. For example, there is a passage in the Ramayana which reads: “The Puspaka car that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravan; that aerial and excellent car going everywhere at will …. that car resembling a bright cloud in the sky.” “.. and the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent car at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.”
In the Mahabharatra, an ancient Indian poem of enormous length, we learn that an individual named Asura Maya had a Vimana measuring twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels. The poem is a veritable gold mine of information relating to conflicts between gods who settled their differences apparently using weapons as lethal as the ones we are capable of deploying. Apart from ‘blazing missiles’, the poem records the use of other deadly weapons. ‘Indra’s Dart’ operated via a circular ‘reflector’. When switched on, it produced a ‘shaft of light’ which, when focused on any target, immediately ‘consumed it with its power’. In one particular exchange, the hero, Krishna, is pursuing his enemy, Salva, in the sky, when Salva’s Vimana, the Saubha is made invisible in some way. Undeterred, Krishna immediately fires off a special weapon: ‘I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound’.
Many other terrible weapons are described, quite matter of factly, in the Mahabharata, but the most fearsome of all is the one used against the Vrishis. The narrative records: “Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendour. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.” It is important to note, that these kinds of records are not isolated. They can be cross-correlated with similiar reports in other ancient civilizations.
The after-affects of this Iron Thunderbolt have an ominously recognizable ring. Apparently, those killed by it were so burnt that their corpses were unidentifiable. The survivors fared little etter, as it caused their hair and nails to fall out. Perhaps the most disturbing and challenging, information about these allegedly mythical Vimanas in the ancient records is that there are some matter-of-fact records, describing how to build one. In their way, the instructions are quite precise. In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara, it is written: “Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mecrcury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards. With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth.”
The Hakatha (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously: “The privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The knowledge of flight is among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from ‘those from upon high’. We received it from them as a means of saving many lives.” More fantastic still is the information given in the ancient Chaldean work, The Sifrala, which contains over one hundred pages of technical details on building a flying machine. It contains words which translate as graphite rod, copper coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angles, etc.
Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology from the Anti-Gravity Handbook by D. Hatcher Childress Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very important fact. While it assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps Governmental Military origin, another possible origin of UFOs is ancient India and Atlantis. What we know about ancient Indian flying vehicles comes from ancient Indian sources; written texts that have come down to us through the centuries. There is no doubt that most of these texts are authentic; many are the well known ancient Indian Epics themselves, and there are literally hundreds of them. Most of them have not even been translated into English yet from the old sanskrit.
The town of Levelland, Texas may have been the location of a UFO sighting that took place on November 2, 1957. It was around 11 pm when the police station received an onslaught of calls from panicked residents who rattled on about a mysterious object in the sky. More than 15 calls came in that described a “flash of light” that flew overhead. A “rush of wind” accompanied the object. The incident was blamed for the dead lights and engines of area trucks. Witnesses ranged from the typical housewife to a veteran from the Korean War. Another account described the sighting as a blue-green craft that was shaped like an egg. It was said to have quickly transformed into a fireball before lifting into the air and vanishing without a trace.
Stephensville, Texas
Amongst the 40 local residents of Stephensville, Texas to report seeing a UFO, a local amateur civilian pilot and a police officer were some of the witnesses who believed something unknown took to the sky on January 8, 2008. Some believe that a UFO hovered over the farming community for close to five minutes before streaking away into the night sky. When National Public Radio spoke to police officer Lee Roy Gaitan, he told them that he was walking to his car when he saw a “luminous object that reminded him of pictures of erupting volcanos.” The object was reported to have reached 3,000 feet in the air. Another witness said the UFO was larger than a Wal-Mart and measured at least a mile long.
Wilmington, Delaware
When Wilmington, Delaware residents looked into the evening sky on July 13, 1860, they spotted a pale blue light that just didn’t look right. In the sky, they saw something that measured 200 feet long that streaked along on a level course around 100 feet above the ground. Behind the unexplainable sight, three “red and glowing balls” trailed in 100-foot intervals. In time, a fourth object quickly joined the trio after closing in out from the rear of the main object. People described the sight as releasing sparkles that resembled the way a rocket moved. The object in the front of the pack turned towards the southeast direction and passed over the Delaware River. It then headed straight east until no one could see it again. The entire sight was thought to have lasted one minute. News of the incident appeared in the Wilmington Tribune on July 30, 1860.
Madisonville, Kentucky
It was early in the afternoon on January 7, 1948, when dozens of residents living in Madisonville, Kentucky, placed phone calls to the police regarding something strange seen in the sky. A news account to follow would describe the sight as “a circular object hovering overhead and giving off a brilliant glow.” The state police felt compelled to notify Air Force officials at Goodman Field, which was an air base located at Fort Knox. After fifteen minutes, the tower crew at the airfield may have seen the UFO as well. They radioed a squadron of P-51 fighters that had already taken to the air for an investigation of the reported object.
The Squadron leader, Capt. Thomas Mantell, Jr., was an expert pilot who had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery during the Second World War. He reported back to the base that he had seen the UFO and was in pursuit of the unexplainable object. His last radio transmission had come in at 3:15 pm, where he said, ” I’m closing in now to take a good look.” He described the sight as appearing metallic and that it was quite large in size. Three minutes had passed and Matrell crashed. He was killed on site. Official reports state that the pilot had run out of oxygen, but UFOlogists believe the explanation has something more to do with what he saw in the sky.
Los Angeles, California
It was early in the morning of February 25, 1942, when radar detectors picked up on an unidentified object situated 120 miles west of Los Angeles. The operators of the radar paid close attention to the action of this object as it quickly came within a few miles of the southern California coast. All of a sudden, the unexplainable object vanished from the screens. Time passes and an artillery officer situated along the coast reported what he believed was 25 aircraft flying at 25,000 feet.
A few minutes later, other witnesses in Santa Monica saw a balloon-like object that seemed to be carrying what appeared to be flares. Other witnesses started to report a multitude of unknown flying objects that reached speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. The sightings were so great that it causes residents in the city to fear an attack by the Japanese. This caused the firing of 1,400 rounds of ammunition at the unexplainable objects. The bullets did not seem to hit anything because no wreckages were ever uncovered. Officials believed that the incident was a blend of mass hysteria and a false alarm, but UFOlogists would like to attribute the flying craft to extraterrestrials.
A deformed sensor caused the harrowing Soyuz rocket launch abort that forced its American and Russian crew to perform a emergency landing last month, Russia's space agency Roscosmos announced Thursday (Nov. 1).
Roscosmos also released dramatic video footage from the onboard camera this morning, showing a calm ascent into space interrupted by a booster separation and sudden tumbling motion.
During the conference, officials said that the abnormal separation of one of the rocket's four strap-on boosters, which hit the core booster, was caused by a nozzle cover on the oxidizer tank failing to open. According to the press statement, that impact occurred because the separation contact sensor was deformed during assembly at its Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan. [Soyuz Space Crew Launch Failure 2018: Full Coverage]
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Just now, @roscosmos released an official cause of the emergency landing of Soyuz-2! The reason turned to be operational, due to a failed opening of the cap of the block D on 118th second. Soyuz-FG with cosmonauts on board will be launched on 3rd of December from Baikonur. #GK
"The launch ended up with a launcher failure caused by abnormal separation of one of the strap-on boosters (Block D) that hit with its nose the core stage (Block A) in the fuel tank area," Oleg Skorobogatov, chair of the investigation committee, confirmed in the translated statement. "It resulted in its decompression and, as a consequence, the space rocket lost its attitude control."
During the aborted launch Oct. 11, the crew capusle carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin was able to safely separate from the rocket after getting a warning signal during separation, firing engines to gain distance from the booster, according to NASA spokesperson Reid Weisman. The two took about a half hour to parachute down to Earth, where they were met by a search-and-rescue team.
A view of the Soyuz MS-10 booster separation as well as NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, on their way to the International Space Station when they experienced a dramatic launch abort Oct. 11, 2018.
Credit: Roscosmos
Russian officials said during the press conference that they'd created measures to avoid the issue happening again, and that resuming Soyuz launches was a priority.
They added that the uncrewed Progress MS-10 cargo ship, which launches on a Soyuz-FG rocket, will fly to the space station Nov. 16, and that the next crew launch, Soyuz MS-11, will fly Dec. 3. That flight is scheduled to carry three more crewmembers to the space station, bringing the total back up to six.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her@SarahExplains.
Op UFO gebied gebeuren er nogal eens dingen die niet te verklaren zijn volgens de gangbare mainstream opvattingen.
Zoals een bijzonder waarneming in Colombia, waarbij je het gevoel krijgt naar de bekende film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" te kijken.
Via Tyler van Secureteam komt er een hele bijzondere opname naar buiten van een aantal onbekende ruimteschepen boven het Zuid Amerikaanse Colombia.
Een voordeel dat de beelden via hem komen is dat hij bedreven is in het onderscheid maken tussen een echte en een nepopname, waardoor we er vrij zeker van kunnen zijn dat de opname echt is.
In zijn onderstaande video een drie minuten durende opname die is gemaakt door iemand op zijn balkon, ergens in Colombia. Je ziet het dak van het huis aan de overkant en op een gegeven moment verschijnen daar een viertal lichten in formatie, met daarboven nog vaag een vijfde licht zichtbaar.
De man blijft rustig door filmen en de lichten bewegen niet alleen, ze gaan ook soms uit of aan. Dan, op een gegeven moment, hoor je het geluid van een helikopter. De man draait de camera en filmt ook deze. Het schijnt echter niet één helikopter te zijn die op onderzoek is gegaan, het zijn er zelfs twee.
Wanneer je de beelden ziet, dan lijkt het heel veel op de beroemde film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, waarbij buitenaardsen contact maken met de mensen op aarde. Ook net zoals in de film gebeurt met de auto van Richard Dreyfuss, gaat ook de camera van de filmer in Colombia dood wanneer de lichten zich weg bewegen.
Enige tijd later kan de man wel weer filmen en dan komen er steeds meer lichten. Niet alleen rode, maar ook witte.
De gebeurtenis vond plaats net ten noorden van Bogota en het bijzondere is ook dat de UFO's schijnen te reageren op het moment dat de helikopters verschijnen.
Kijk en oordeel zelf wat het is dat daar in de lucht boven Colombia verscheen.
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