Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
20-11-2018
Linda Moulton Howe: Something is Coming to Earth From 2.5 Billion Light Years Away (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe: Something is Coming to Earth From 2.5 Billion Light Years Away (Video)
What has been making very powerful and rapid signals in the past ten years from 2.5 billion light-years from Earth?
Linda Moulton Howe explains that the first recorded fast radio burst was in 2007 by the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
The power of that radio burst was 500 million times the power of our solar system’s sun and lasted only 5 milliseconds.
Whatever the source is has become the subject of intense speculation by astrophysicists and astronomers.
In the March 9, 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Avi Loeb
— Chair of Harvard University’s Astronomy Dept. and Director of Harvard’s Institute for Theory and Computation and the Black Hole Initiative
— proposed that fast radio bursts could be “interstellar light sails pushing payloads up to a million tons each, large enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances.”
NASADe Mars 2020-verkenner zal onder meer speuren naar microben die op leven wijzen.
WETENSCHAPNa vijf jaar uitzoeken heeft de NASA beslist zijn Mars 2020 sonde te laten landen in de Jezero-krater op de rode planeet. Dat heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau bekendgemaakt.
De onbemande sonde zal in juli 2020 op Cape Canaveral in Florida vertrekken met een Atlas-V draagraket. Lanceerbedrijf United Launch Alliance benadrukt dat het hetzelfde type zal zijn als de Atlas die destijds de succesrijke Mars Curiosity naar de Rode Planeet heeft geslingerd.
Mars 2020 zal niet alleen op zoek gaan naar aanwijzingen van vroeger levensvatbare omstandigheden en vroeger microbiologisch leven. De robotjeep zal ook stalen nemen van gesteente en de bodem, en die daar in een soort opslagplaats stockeren. NASA zegt met de Europese zusterorganisatie ESA een toekomstige missie te bestuderen om die stalen op te halen.
De Jezero-krater herbergde ooit de delta van een rivier. Die heeft mogelijk, via in de krater terechtkomend water en sedimenten, vroegere organische moleculen en andere aanwijzingen van microbiologisch leven verzameld en bewaard, zo luidt het.
For a demonstration that overturned the great Isaac Newton’s ideas about the nature of light, it was staggeringly simple. It “may be repeated with great ease, wherever the sun shines,” the English physicist Thomas Young told the members of the Royal Society in London in November 1803, describing what is now known as a double-slit experiment, and Young wasn’t being overly melodramatic. He had come up with an elegant and decidedly homespun experiment to show light’s wavelike nature, and in doing so refuted Newton’s theory that light is made of corpuscles, or particles.
But the birth of quantum physics in the early 1900s made it clear that light is made of tiny, indivisible units, or quanta, of energy, which we call photons. Young’s experiment, when done with single photons or even single particles of matter, such as electrons and neutrons, is a conundrum to behold, raising fundamental questions about the very nature of reality. Some have even used it to argue that the quantum world is influenced by human consciousness, giving our minds an agency and a place in the ontology of the universe. But does the simple experiment really make such a case?
In the modern quantum form, Young’s experiment involves beaming individual particles of light or matter at two slits or openings cut into an otherwise opaque barrier. On the other side of the barrier is a screen that records the arrival of the particles (say, a photographic plate in the case of photons). Common sense leads us to expect that photons should go through one slit or the other and pile up behind each slit.
They don’t. Rather, they go to certain parts of the screen and avoid others, creating alternating bands of light and dark. These so-called interference fringes, the kind you get when two sets of waves overlap. When the crests of one wave line up with the crests of another, you get constructive interference (bright bands), and when the crests align with troughs you get destructive interference (darkness).
But there’s only one photon going through the apparatus at any one time. It’s as if each photon is going through both slits at once and interfering with itself. This doesn’t make classical sense.
Mathematically speaking, however, what goes through both slits is not a physical particle or a physical wave but something called a wave function—an abstract mathematical function that represents the photon’s state (in this case its position). The wave function behaves like a wave. It hits the two slits, and new waves emanate from each slit on the other side, spread and eventually interfere with each other. The combined wave function can be used to work out the probabilities of where one might find the photon.
The photon has a high probability of being found where the two wave functions constructively interfere and is unlikely to be found in regions of destructive interference. The measurement—in this case the interaction of the wave function with the photographic plate—is said to “collapse” the wave function. It goes from being spread out before measurement to peaking at one of those places where the photon materializes upon measurement.
This apparent measurement-induced collapse of the wave function is the source of many conceptual difficulties in quantum mechanics. Before the collapse, there’s no way to tell with certainty where the photon will land; it can appear at any one of the places of non-zero probability. There’s no way to chart the photon’s trajectory from the source to the detector. The photon is not real in the sense that a plane flying from San Francisco to New York is real.
Werner Heisenberg, among others, interpreted the mathematics to mean that reality doesn’t exist until observed. “The idea of an objective real world whose smallest parts exist objectively in the same sense as stones or trees exist, independently of whether or not we observe them ... is impossible,” he wrote. John Wheeler, too, used a variant of the double-slit experiment to argue that “no elementary quantum phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is a registered (‘observed,’ ‘indelibly recorded’) phenomenon.”
But quantum theory is entirely unclear about what constitutes a “measurement.” It simply postulates that the measuring device must be classical, without defining where such a boundary between the classical and quantum lies, thus leaving the door open for those who think that human consciousness needs to be invoked for collapse. Last May, Henry Stapp and colleagues argued, in this forum, that the double-slit experiment and its modern variants provide evidence that “a conscious observer may be indispensable” to make sense of the quantum realm and that a transpersonal mind underlies the material world.
But these experiments don’t constitute empirical evidence for such claims. In the double-slit experiment done with single photons, all one can do is verify the probabilistic predictions of the mathematics. If the probabilities are borne out over the course of sending tens of thousands of identical photons through the double slit, the theory claims that each photon’s wave function collapsed—thanks to an ill-defined process called measurement. That’s all.
Also, there are other ways of interpreting the double-slit experiment. Take the de Broglie-Bohm theory, which says that reality is both wave and particle. A photon heads towards the double slit with a definite position at all times and goes through one slit or the other; so each photon has a trajectory. It’s riding a pilot wave, which goes through both slits, interferes and then guides the photon to a location of constructive interference.
In 1979, Chris Dewdney and colleagues at Birkbeck College, London, simulated the theory’s prediction for the trajectories of particles going through the double slit. In the past decade, experimentalists haveverified that such trajectories exist, albeit by using a controversial technique called weak measurements. The controversy notwithstanding, the experiments show that the de Broglie-Bohm theory remains in the running as an explanation for the behavior of the quantum world.
Crucially, the theory does not need observers or measurements or a non-material consciousness.
Neither do so-called collapse theories, which argue that wavefunctions collapse randomly: the more the number of particles in the quantum system, the more likely the collapse. Observers merely discover the outcome. Markus Arndt’s team at the University of Vienna in Austria has been testing these theories by sending larger and larger molecules through the double slit. Collapse theories predict that when particles of matter become more massive than some threshold, they cannot remain in a quantum superposition of going through both slits at once, and this will destroy the interference pattern. Arndt’s team has sent a molecule with more than 800 atoms through the double slit, and they still see interference. The search for the threshold continues.
Roger Penrose has his own version of a collapse theory, in which the more massive the mass of the object in superposition, the faster it’ll collapse to one state or the other, because of gravitational instabilities. Again, it’s an observer-independent theory. No consciousness needed. Dirk Bouwmeester at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is testing Penrose’s idea with a version of the double-slit experiment.
Conceptually, the idea is to not just put a photon into a superposition of going through two slits at once, but to also put one of the slits in a superposition of being in two locations at once. According to Penrose, the displaced slit will either stay in superposition or collapse while the photon is in flight, leading to different types of interference patterns. The collapse will depend on the mass of the slits. Bouwmeester has been at work on this experiment for a decade and may soon be able to verify or refute Penrose’s claims.
If nothing else, these experiments are showing that we cannot yet make any claims about the nature of reality, even if the claims are well-motivated mathematically or philosophically. And given that neuroscientists and philosophers of mind don’t agree on the nature of consciousness, claims that it collapses wave functions are premature at best and misleading and wrong at worst.
The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
Niets is vast en alles is energie. Wetenschappers verklaren de vreemde kwantumwereld om ons heen
Niets is vast en alles is energie. Wetenschappers verklaren de vreemde kwantumwereld om ons heen
Al in 1803 omschreef de Engelse natuurkundige Thomas Young iets wat vandaag de dag bekendstaat als het tweespletenexperiment.
Hij liet aan de hand van een experiment zien dat licht zich óók kan gedragen als een golf. Daarmee weerlegde hij de theorie van Newton dat licht enkel bestaat uit deeltjes.
Met de geboorte van de kwantummechanica aan het begin van de 20e eeuw werd duidelijk dat licht bestaat uit piepkleine onzichtbare eenheden energie die we fotonen noemen.
Onmogelijk
Young zette vraagtekens bij de aard van de realiteit. Sommigen stellen dat de kwantumwereld wordt beïnvloed door menselijk bewustzijn.
Werner Heisenberg zei bijvoorbeeld dat de realiteit niet bestaat totdat zij waargenomen wordt.
“Het idee van een objectieve, echte wereld – waarbij de kleinste onderdelen objectief bestaan op dezelfde manier als stenen of bomen, ongeacht of we ze waarnemen – is onmogelijk,” schreef hij.
Onmisbaar
Onlangs schreven natuurkundige Henry Stapp en zijn collega’s dat het tweespletenexperiment bewijst dat ‘een bewuste waarnemer onmisbaar is’ om het kwantumrijk te kunnen begrijpen en dat er een transpersoonlijk bewustzijn schuilgaat achter de materiële wereld.
De Broglie-Bohm-theorie stelt verder dat de realiteit zowel een golf als een deeltje is.
Of zoals Max Planck zei: “Ik zie bewustzijn als iets fundamenteels. Ik zie materie als een afgeleide van bewustzijn. We kunnen niet achter bewustzijn gaan staan.”
It looks like Peru no longer has a lock on the title of South America’s hot spot for elongated skull (not yet recognized by the Guinness folks). Archeologists have discovered 500-year-old tombs in a Bolivian quarry that contain the remains of individuals whose civilization was conquered by the Incas … remains which include the elongated skulls of people believed to have been high on the local social ladder – the only ladder safe enough to climb with those big heads.
Bolivian Minister of Culture Wilma Alanoca announced last week the discovery of a cemetery three months near the town of Viacha in Bolivia’s Altiplano (the high plains of the Andes) 20 km (12.4 miles) from La Paz. Reuters reports that it had been kept secret until the site was secured since it showed signs of previous looting. The find was made by a mining company digging just three meters down into limestone. Upon opening the tombs carved into the rocks, the workers immediately stopped and notified the government, which sent in archeologists to determine what they had uncovered. And what they uncovered had never before been seen in Bolivia. (Pictures here.)
Archeologist Jedu Sagarnaga holds a skull as part of an archeological finding, dated approximately 500 years ago, in Mazo Cruz, near Viacha, Bolivia, November 12, 2018 ( REUTERS/David Mercado )
“There are objects that are clearly attributed to the Inca culture, and others that are not Inca, but rather Aymara.”
Indigenous Bolivians
Referring to the 30-plus funerary vessels found in the tomb, archaeologist Wanderson Esquerdo was not surprised to find artifacts of the Incas, who conquered the area in the 15th century. However, the cemetery itself belonged to the Pacajes culture, which was part of the Aymara, the indigenous people of the Andes and Altiplano regions whose descendants are still found in Bolivia. The four tombs appeared to have contained the remains of over 100 individuals, along with the vessels, jewelry and funereal bundles. The jewelry — necklaces, bracelets, hair combs and headbands – indicated the tomb was used by families of mixed levels of social status.
And then there’s the elongated skulls. The presence of the skulls means the Incas used the tomb after conquering the Aymaras and that they were at the highest social level – the one that thought elongated skulls were a sign of superiority. Believe it or not, the archeologists are less interested in the skulls than in the remains and artifacts of the Amaras, a culture little is known about.
“(It’s a period when) many of the cultural patterns that today deeply mark the customs of the ethnic groups of present-day Bolivia were shaped. Although they have been the subject of some research, they are not known in depth, so the new findings will help fill the gaps of that era.”
Inca expansion
Roberto Lleras , professor at the Externado de Colombia University, will be studying the remains and artifacts after they’re analyzed at an archeological center, and then returned to a museum in Viacha. Per Bolivian law, the town is responsible for preserving both the artifacts and the historical site.
Are elongated skulls becoming so common in South America that they generate little interest and no shouts of “Aliens!”? That’s probably a good thing … although it certainly wasn’t for the poor little rich kids whose parents wanted bumper stickers on their carts that read “My child is an honor student at Big Skull Academy.”
Just a handful of days before Christmas 1977, the United States’ Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a thought-provoking paper. It was focused on how, in theory, the world of officialdom might handle the situation if it was proved that Bigfoot really exists. And other mysterious animals too.The document had the following heading: Are We Ready For ‘Bigfoot’ Or The Loch Ness Monster? I have presented for you the contents, without interruption. It begins: “What if they really did find the Loch Ness monster or the legendary Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest? Most scientists doubt that these creatures exist, but thoughts of the discovery of a new species that might be the closest living relative to man, or the possibility of finding a leftover dinosaur, excite the imagination of scientist and nonscientist alike. It also poses another question: Would such a creature be subjected to the same kind of exploitation as the giant movie ape, King Kong?
“Scientists generally believe there are still many species of birds and mammals that have not been discovered because they live in remote areas and their populations are limited. After all, the gorilla and giant panda were only legends until the late 19th century when their actual existence was first confirmed by scientists. The komodo dragon, a 10-foot-long lizard, wasn’t known to science until 1912. The coelacanth, a deep-water prehistoric fish, was known only from 65 million-year-old fossils until 1938 when a specimen was caught alive off the Madagascar coast. Just last year a Navy torpedo recovery vessel dropped a sea anchor into 500 feet of water off Hawaii. But instead of a torpedo, it hauled up a 15-foot representative of a new species of shark. The dead shark, named megamouth after its bathtub-shaped lower jaw, had an enormous, short-snouted head and 484 vestigial teeth.
Megamouth shark
“To be sure, no remains of today’ s legendary ‘monsters’ have ever been found. There are no living specimens in zoos or dead ones in museums. Most certainly, many “sightings” of these creatures are exaggerated or misinterpreted reports, and some are downright hoaxes. But finding a Loch Ness monster or Bigfoot is still a possibility, and the discovery would be one of the most important in modern history. As items of scientific and public interest they would surely command more attention than the moon rocks. Millions of curiosity seekers” and thousands of zoologists and anthropologists throughout the world would be eager to “get at” the creatures to examine, protect, capture, or just look at them.
“What would the United States Government do? ‘I doubt well ever have to do anything, because I don’ t believe there are any of the things around to be discovered in the first place,’ said Keith Schreiner, Associate Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Service is the Government agency with responsibility for protecting endangered and threatened species. ‘At least, we have the laws and regulations on the books to deal with newly discovered species.’
“Schreiner acknowledged, however, that a good deal of international cooperation would be needed if extremely rare species were found abroad. And finding one on U.S. soil would pose serious problems too, Service officials agree. Undisputed proof of a Bigfoot might cause an immediate, short-term problem no law could handle. Word of its discovery would be flashed around the world within hours. Hysteria, fear, or panic might accompany the news in the area where the creature was located. The throngs of curiosity seekers, would-be captors, and others wishing to find Bigfoot would not only create a serious threat to the animal itself, but to public safety as well. Some officials doubt whether any State or Federal action short of calling out the National Guard could keep order in the area within the first few hours or days of the creature’ s discovery. This could be essential until a team of scientists could do the necessary things to ensure the creature’s survival.
“The key law in the preservation of a species is the Endangered Species Act, which pledges the United States to conserve species of plants and animals facing extinction. This broad, complex law protects endangered species from killing, harassment, and other forms of exploitation. The Act prohibits the import and export of, and interstate commerce in, endangered species. American citizens cannot engage in commercial traffic in endangered species between nations, even when the United States is not involved. Scientists wishing to study endangered species are required to have a permit issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
“But before a creature can receive protection under the Endangered Species Act, a number of actions normally must occur which involve recommendations from the public, scientists, and State and foreign governments where the species exists. The first of these would be the species’ formal description and naming in a recognized scientific publication. In addition, if it were a U.S. species, the Governor of the State where it was found would be contacted, as would the officials of foreign governments if it were found outside the United States. Only after much information was collected could the Service make a formal determination as to whether the species should be afforded endangered or threatened status.
“For the Loch Ness monster, the first step has already been taken. Last year, a highly respected British journal published a description and proposed the name Nessiteras rhombopteryx, meaning ‘awesome monster of Loch Ness with a diamond-shaped fin.’ ‘Nessie,’ as the creature is affectionately known by believers in its existence, has been periodically sighted in Loch Ness, Scotland, over the last 14 centuries. Loch Ness is a 2.5-mile-long, cold, deep lake whose peat-stained, murky waters make positive identification of almost anything from photographs next to impossible. But the most recent reports, based on sophisticated underwater cameras and electronic gear, identify a 30-foot-long creature with a massive, humped body bearing a small head and long slender neck with an immense set of flippers. Although no presently known aquatic organism answers this description, it would fit any of various species of prehistoric, carnivorous reptiles called plesiosaurs which lived 100 million years ago.
“In recent discussion in the British House of Commons, members of Parliament were assured that if ‘Nessie’ were found it could theoretically receive immediate protection since it had already been described and named. If ‘Nessie’ were taken out of Britain illegally, it would be a violation of the U.S. Lacey Act to bring it into the United States. Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is purported to be an 8-foot, 900-pound humanoid that roams the forest and wilderness areas of the Pacific Northwest. One ‘eyewitness’ described an obviously female Sasquatch as a ‘tall, long-legged, gorilla-like animal covered with dark hair and endowed with a pendulous pair of breasts.’ It, too, has been described in publications and given a scientific name. In fact, so many people were stalking Bigfoot with high-powered rifles and cameras that Skamania County, Washington, is prepared to impose a fine of $10,000 and a 5-year jail term on anyone who kills a Bigfoot. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers even lists Bigfoot as one of the native species in its Environmental Atlas for Washington. This year the Florida and Oregon legislatures also considered bills protecting ‘Bigfoot’ type creatures. A Bureau of Indian Affairs policeman has 18-inch plaster cast footprints of the ‘McLaughlin monster,’ a Bigfoot-type creature he saw last month in South Dakota.
“Under U.S. Law, the Secretary of the Interior is empowered to list as threatened or endangered a species for 120 days on an emergency basis. For endangered species in the United States, the Secretary can also designate habitat that is critical to their survival. No Federal agency could then authorize, fund, or carry out any activities which would adversely modify that habitat. So long-term Federal protection of Nessie or Bigfoot would basically be a matter of following the same regulatory mechanisms already used in protecting whooping cranes and tigers.
“‘Under normal situations,’ Schreiner said, ‘we must know a great deal about a species before we list it. How big is the population? Does it occur anywhere else? Is the population in danger of decline? Is its habitat secure? Is the species being exploited? What is its reproductive rate? Obviously, if a Bigfoot really were found we could use emergency provisions of the Act to protect it immediately. But for the record, I seriously doubt whether such a creature really does exist.’ Along with the hundreds of requests received last year to protect more well-known plants and animals, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was queried about protection for Bigfoot and the ‘Lake Champlain sea serpent.’
“No requests have so far been received for the protection of the reputed foul-smelling Noxie monster, a 7-foot denizen of Oklahoma, or the skunk ape of the Everglades, or the infamous Mothman in West Virginia. But in time, they, too, might come. And when they do, they’ll be treated accordingly.”
The evolutionary tree of life is called as such because of the way species are interrelated to each other. From the base of the trunk, which represents the single-celled common ancestor that all life on earth shares, the tree grows and splits into branches: bacteria and other single-celled organisms split from the branch of the Eukaryotes, multi-celled organisms like plants, animals, fungi, etc. Then those branches split. Plants, animals, and fungus all go their own ways. And then again. Mammals end up on a different branch than reptiles, for instance, and then dogs, bears, and primates all end up on different smaller branches. On and on it goes until we end up with all the life we see on earth today. That’s a gross simplification, but it works. Sort of. According to a recent paper published in the journal Nature, Canadian scientists have discovered an organism so vastly different from anything else alive that they believe it requires it’s own own unique branch on the tree of life.
The organism, a microbe called Hemimastigophora, isn’t a new discovery. While it is rare, scientists have known about its existence for some time. Ten species of Hemimastigophora have been known to scientists for over 100 years. While they knew it was weird, technology and genetic science hadn’t progressed far enough to tell exactly how weird.
A simplified picture of the evolutionary tree of life.
Hemimastigophora looks like one of the terrifying creatures you might see under a microscope. It moves, it hunts prey, and it utilizes microscopic body parts to get through it’s day to day existence. It looks and behaves like a microscopic animal, but it’s not. In fact, Hemimastigophora is farther away from any other living organism than humans are from mushrooms. According to Alastair Simpson, an author of the study:
“They represent a major branch… that we didn’t know we were missing. There’s nothing we know that’s closely related to them.”
The discovery was made by Dalhousie University graduate student Yana Eglit and a team of biologists after Eglit, on a whim, collected some soil samples on a hike in Nova Scotia. Upon examining the soil samples Eglit and fellow graduate student Gordon Lax found that they not only contained the rare microbe but contained two of them, including a previously undiscovered species of hemimastigophora which they named Hemastix kukwesjijk, after a hairy ogre from the legends of the local M’ikmaq people.
Its name means “little greedy ogre.”
Genetic analysis of the Hemastix showed it’s bizarre evolutionary lineage. Despite being a small micro-organism it’s a complex multi-cellular creature which puts it in the kingdom of Eukaryotes, the kingdom that includes plants, fungi, and animals. Yet it doesn’t fit in to any of those kingdoms. The scientists have now proposed adding an entirely new “supra-kingdom” to the tree of life to account for Hemimastigophora. A supra-kingdom is a fundamental separation. Again, human beings and portabello mushrooms are part of the same supra-kingdom.
Of course, proposing a new branch on the tree of life doesn’t mean the rest of the scientific community will easily accept it, and if they do it will take a long time. Still this shows, once again, how much we have yet to learn about the this strange floating rock we call home.
This is really strange. This metallic looking UFO floated over an heavily populated area of New York four days ago. The object was very high in the sky and hard to observe, possibly spinning making it appear to be shapeshifting. The fact that its spinning makes it clear that its not a balloon which would float and drift with the wind without spinning so fast. UFOs often do spin a different speeds, so this seems to be a legit sighting. Even John Lennon witnessed a UFO in New York while standing on his patio of his penthouse apartment back in Aug 23, 1974. Just because its a populated area doesn't mean a UFO wont visit that area. UFOs visit all areas of the planet. This looks real to me. I have to say its similar to a UFO tracked by the US military on infrared camera last year. Amazing video. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
After the 1st snow in Long Island New York, the skies were not that clear but enough sunshine for some footage. The time of sighting 3:09 p.m. in Valley Stream New York. Was not able to get a great image but a decent footage since they move a bit fast along with its shape shifting abilities.
Skulls, there is something about them that draws our attention to them...probably that it forces us to face our own mortality. I think aliens face the same dilemma. Although they may life thousands or millions of years, accidents do happen and lives do get lost.
I found another face in a nebula today. Its called the Rosette Nebula. The face is similar to the skull I found on the asteroid 2015 TB145 (above photo) the got into the world news a while back. This is soooo much bigger! Russian astrophysicist back in 1964 created a scale of civilizations from type 1, humanity being slightly below that at the moment, to type 5 which are to us...like gods. It would take a type 5 civilization to be able to create a face from a nebula. Here beings would be like gods, having the knowledge to manipulate the universe as they please. Only then could an entire nebula be purposely created to become a face of their culture.
Back in 2016 I discovered the first evidence the world has ever seen of a type 5 civilization...a human face...blue at the center of a the Carina Nebula (seen in above photo). So now we not only know that two type 5 civilizations exist, but we also know what their faces look like and where in the universe they are from. Where? They will be from a location not far from the nebulas of course, so all their race could see their great creation.
Now there is a new question that arises from this evidence...since two type 5 civilizations have been found to exist, then there must be many more we don't even know about. So...the question is...is the universe unnatural? Is the universe natural, unnatural, or does it have a modified naturalness? The most exciting thing about that question is that we now have an answer based on the evidence from the Carina and Rosetta Nebulas. Whether the answer is comfortable or uncomfortable, we are headed into a new era of scientific understanding. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Irish Aviation Authority Launches Investigation After Reports Of UFOs in Northern Ireland
Irish Aviation Authority Launches Investigation After Reports Of UFOs in Northern Ireland
Social media users have been ecstatic about the footage of what some think to be a UFO above Northern Ireland.
Resident Sandy Laverty recorded the UFO sighting video on a dash-cam as they drove to work on the Cloyfin Road in Coleraine on November 9, Friday at 6:44 am.
The footage seems to show a bright object shooting across the sky.
A few minutes later on the same day, a pilot of British Airways flying over Kerry, Ireland reported observing a very bright light at 6:47 am.
Flying into Heathrow from Montreal, Canada, the pilot reported seeing an object that had come up along the left side of the airplane and then quickly veered to the north. She further revealed that the object was approximately moving at astronomical speed like it was Mach 2, which was twice the speed of sound.
The Irish Aviation Authority said that it was investigating reports of UFOs and bright lights observed off the southwest coast of Ireland.
The IAA has filed a report following reports from several small aircraft on November 9, Friday of strange aerial activity.
According to the IAA, the report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.
Social media users have been ecstatic about the footage of what some think to be a UFO above Northern Ireland.
Resident Sandy Laverty recorded the UFO sighting video on a dash-cam as they drove to work on the Cloyfin Road in Coleraine on November 9, Friday at 6:44 am.
The footage seems to show a bright object shooting across the sky.
A few minutes later on the same day, a pilot of British Airways flying over Kerry, Ireland reported observing a very bright light at 6:47 am.
Flying into Heathrow from Montreal, Canada, the pilot reported seeing an object that had come up along the left side of the airplane and then quickly veered to the north. She further revealed that the object was approximately moving at astronomical speed like it was Mach 2, which was twice the speed of sound.
The Irish Aviation Authority said that it was investigating reports of UFOs and bright lights observed off the southwest coast of Ireland.
The IAA has filed a report following reports from several small aircraft on November 9, Friday of strange aerial activity.
According to the IAA, the report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.
After researching for more than a decade, two divers found the mysterious sea creature that is leaving many people breathless and astonished. On October 25, 2018, two divers, Steve Hathaway and Andrew Buttle, were shooting a video underwater near the volcanic island of White Island located approximately 30 miles off of New Zealand’s northern-most point. In fact, Buttle’s family owns the island which has been in their family since the 1930’s. And that day in late October was when they came upon the 26-foot-long worm-like creature.
This worm-like creature is described as a pyrosome which is a colony of hundreds or thousands of very small sea creatures that come together in a tube-like mass that free-float in the water. The mysterious way that it appears, along with the bioluminescent glow have made some scientists describe them as “bizarre unicorns of the sea.”
In an interview, Hathaway explained how happy he was to have encountered the sea creature. “I’ve always wanted to see one,” he explained, “I was beyond excited, this is like finding something that you’ve dreamed of for so many years.” Hathaway has been filming mostly underwater footage for eleven years but he had never seen a pyrosome before, so when he noticed that one was lying beneath him on the ocean floor he had to capture it on video.
Scientists have said that while most pyrosomes aren’t that huge, there have been some found near Australia and New Zealand that have reached more than 60 feet in length. Perhaps the reason why they are so big is because in the springtime there is a lot of phytoplankton which pyrosomes feed on. And while pyrosomes are normally only encountered by people who spend a lot of time in the water, they have apparently been around for many years, as some of the earliest reports of seeing them date as far back as the 1800s by sailors who had witnessed the bright glow of the creatures.
Hathaway has been fascinated with the ocean since he was a young child and as an adult he founded the “Young Ocean Explorers” which helps to encourage and educate children on marine life and the oceans. He also wants to share his experience with the world. “It’s always been about wanting to go see these things for myself and then sharing them with others,” he said.
“Even the most articulate person in the world couldn’t describe the creature that we filmed,” Hathaway expressed. And he’s certainly right; seeing a 26-foot-long mysterious sea creature is definitely a once in a lifetime event that those two divers were lucky enough to capture on video. Now that’s what you call being at the right place at the right time.
The black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*.
Credit: J.Davelaar 2018.
Gravity is so strong in the vicinity of a black hole that nothing can escape its clutches, not even light. This makes that black holes very difficult to study (we aren’t able to directly image them) — they’re also incredibly frightening. Luckily, you don’t have to getspaghettified in order to see what a black hole’s environment looks like. An international team of researchers has created an immersive virtual reality simulation based on recent astrophysical models of Sagittarius A* — the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and it all looks as amazing as it sounds.
“Our virtual reality simulation creates one of the most realistic views of the direct surroundings of the black hole and will help us to learn more about how black holes behave. Traveling to a black hole in our lifetime is impossible, so immersive visualizations like this can help us understand more about these systems from where we are,” Jordy Davelaar, a postgrad at Radboud University, The Netherlands, and co-author of the new study, said in a statement.
The researchers employed the most advanced physical models to create a series of images that were stitched together, forming a 360-degree virtual reality simulation of Sagittarius A*. Using any widely available VR console, people can now dive deep into the chaos that surrounds the black hole.
Sagittarius A* is located around 26,000 light years from Earth, and scientists estimate it measures 27 million miles (44 million km) across. The black hole itself — or rather its event horizon — cannot be imaged by telescopes due to large clouds of gas and dust blocking the view.
About 1% of all matter that orbits the black hole is sucked in. The rest forms a swirling disk many light-years across that constitutes a reservoir of gas and dust that black holes feed on — and its motion is completely mesmerizing!
The realistic simulation will help researchers form a better understanding of the dynamics of black hole systems. It also serves an educational purpose by providing a compelling visual explanation of how black holes behave.
“The visualisations that we produced have a great potential for outreach. We used them to introduce children to the phenomenon of black holes, and they really learned something from it. This suggests that immersive virtual reality visualizations are a great tool to show our work to a broader audience, even when it involves very complicated systems like black holes,” Davelaar said.
Here Are Some of The Strangest Things on Earth You May Not Have Heard Of
Here Are Some of The Strangest Things on Earth You May Not Have Heard Of
HILARY BRUECK, BUSINESS INSIDER
The Earth is wonderfully weird. From tiny puddle-dwelling creatures that can survive in outer space to a paint so dark that your eyes can't actually even see it, Earth is filled with plenty of strange and incredible things - both natural and made by us.
Here are a handful of things on this planet that you probably had no idea existed.
1. Vantablack is the darkest known substance in the universe.
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Vantablack is a nanomaterial that is darker than any other substance on Earth. It was developed in the UK by Surrey NanoSystems in 2015 and is actually a collection of vertical carbon tubes that are "grown" on a substrate.
Vantablack absorbs 99.98 percent of the light that hits its surface. This means that the human eye technically sees nothing when it looks at Vantablack, making it the closest thing to staring into a black hole.
Glaucus Atlanticus is a species of sea slug nicknamed the "blue angel." This otherworldly creature is as rare as it is beautiful and is only found on the coasts of South Africa and Australia.
The slug's mesmerising looks belie a dangerous nature.
The blue angel is carnivorous and feeds on other venomous sea creatures, such as the Portuguese man o' war. It collects the venom from its prey in specialised sacs, concentrates it, then uses the venom on future prey.
3. Aerogel looks like a slice of cloud.
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Aerogel is an ultralight material made from gel and gas. It's been nicknamed "frozen smoke" or "solid cloud" because of its ethereal appearance.
Scientists have created more than a dozen recipes for different types of aerogel, but they all share a similar process: mix chemicals together, let them settle into a wet gel, and then suck all of the liquid out. The result is a substance of extremely low density that is actually 99 percent air.
Because it's made primarily of air and air is such a terrible heat conductor, placing a layer of Aerogel between a flower and a flame will protect the flower from getting destroyed.
4. Rainbow eucalyptus trees have candy-coloured bark.
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The Eucalyptus Deglupta tree may look like it has fallen out of a Dr. Seuss book, but it actually grows in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines. This unique tree has multicolored bark that features bright blue, orange, purple, green, and maroon streaks.
The unusual colours are a side effect of the tree's shedding, according to Missouri Botanical Garden – as strips of bark peel away, the tree's bright green inner bark is revealed. This inner layer slowly matures and turns a range of colours.
5. There's an underground cathedral in Colombia entirely made of salt.
The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman Catholic Church in Cundinamarca, Colombia, that was excavated from a salt mine in 1954. It is completely made of salt and is located 180 meters (590 feet) below the surface of the small town of Zipaquirá.
The cathedral includes a giant salt cross and can accommodate up to 10,000 people, though it has never been filled to capacity.
6. Goblin sharks are 'living fossils' that look straight out of a nightmare.
Goblin sharks are a rare species of deep-sea shark that are sometimes referred to as "living fossils." They are the only known remaining member of the ancient Mitsukurinidae family of sharks.
Goblin sharks are notable for their distinctive elongated jaws, which are filled with nail-like teeth. They are able to detect the electrical currents emitted by other animals and rapidly extend their jaws in order to snatch up prey.
7. Bismuth is an element with a psychedelic surface.
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You may remember the chemical element bismuth from your high school chemistry class, but you probably had no idea that it has a colourful, iridescent appearance.
Bismuth has a unique "stair step" growth pattern in which the outer edges form more quickly than the inner areas, according to Live Science. This results in a crystalline structure that appears to be made of interlocking rainbow squares.
8. This volcano in Indonesia spews bright-blue lava - sort of.
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Indonesia's Kawah Ijen volcano is remarkable for its tendency to emit oozing waves of what appears to be blue and purple lava.
Technically, the lava itself isn't blue. According to Smithsonian Magazine, the fascinating coloration comes from high quantities of sulfuric gas that emerges along with the lava. When the gas catches fire, it burns with a bright hue that makes the lava appear to be electric blue.
9. The Voynich Manuscript is mysterious book written in an untranslatable language.
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The Voynich Manuscript is a 240-page medieval tome written in an unknown language that has baffled scholars and code-breakers for years.
The manuscript is believed to have originated sometime between 1404 and 1438. It is filled with enigmatic illustrations and diagrams that seem to depict everything from unusual plants to women with swollen bellies bathing in green pools.
All attempts to translate the book's text or identify the plants depicted in it have failed.
In January 2018, a group of Canadian computer scientists announced that they may have had some limited success decoding parts of the manuscript using AI. The researchers, however, admitted that further refinement of the process and input from scholars is needed.
10. The most inaccessible place in the world is called Point Nemo.
Point Nemo is the furthest point from land on Earth. Officially known as the oceanic point of inaccessibility, it's located in the center of the triangle made by Ducie Island, Motu Nui (part of the Easter Island chain) and Maher Island near Antarctica.
It is so far from land that the closest humans to Point Nemo are usually astronauts – the International Space Station orbits the Earth from a distance of about 258 miles (415 kilometres), while the closest inhabited spot to Point Nemo is more than 1,670 miles (1,225 kilometres) away.
11. The Danakil Depression looks like the surface of an alien planet.
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Ethiopia's Danakil Depression is home to one of the most bizarre-looking landscapes on Earth.
Located in the Afar Triangle, this surreal spot is dotted with crackling lava pools, neon-coloured hot springs, and sparkling salt flats. Poisonous gases swirl around hydrothermal fields, and many of the area's pools are filled with acid.
12. There are underwater lakes and rivers within the ocean.
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Also known as brine pools, underwater lakes are bodies of water that have a much higher salinity (i.e. saltiness) than the surrounding ocean. The briny water is denser than the rest of the seawater, which causes underwater lakes to form that appear separate from the surrounding sea.
These lakes have distinct waves of their own that lap against the "shoreline," and submarines can even float on these brine pools when they descend to the ocean floor.
Unfortunately, these lakes also contain high amounts of toxic methane and hydrogen sulfide, so swimming in them would be toxic for humans.
13. The biggest living thing on Earth is a massive fungus.
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Whales, redwood trees, and elephants are all very big – but they're not the largest living organism on the planet by acreage. That title, when looking at sheer size – the Pando tree colony holds the title of the largest living organism by mass – goes to the Armillaria Ostoyae mushroom.
Nicknamed the Humongous Fungus, this mushroom has spread across 2,385 acres of Malheur National Forest in Oregon. The scientists who discovered the fungus in 2017 used DNA testing to determine that all parts of the growth are in fact different segments of the same organism.
The giant mushroom has probably been growing for between 2,400 to 8,650 years, and its caps are said to be quite delicious.
14. Tardigrades are microorganisms that can survive in outer space.
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Tardigrades, also called water bears or moss piglets, are fascinating microorganisms that can survive just about anywhere.
They prefer to hang out in moist places like mud or moss, but according to Smithsonian magazine, the creatures can survive in environments at least as cold as -328 degrees Fahrenheit (-200 degrees Celsius) or as hot as 300 degrees Fahrenheit (149 degrees Celsius).
Scientists have also found that water bears can survive radiation, boiling liquids, pressures more than six times that of the deepest part of the ocean, and even the vacuum of space.
15. There's a cave in Mexico filled with towering white crystals.
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Fittingly known as the Cueva de los Cristales or The Cave of Crystals, this enchanting cavern is crisscrossed with gleaming gypsum crystals that dwarf human explorers.
This mysterious spot was only discovered in 2000 when miners drained the water from a zinc mine beneath Naica, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The sparkling structures are so pure that scientists are unable to date themusing conventional techniques. But researchers have discovered what is believed to be a 50,000-year-old bacteria sample within one of the crystals.
In 2017, the mining company that owns the property where the cave is located allowed the cave to reflood.
These 4 NASA astronauts claim that the aliens are watching us
These 4 NASA astronauts claim that the aliens are watching us
Although there is still no clear evidence that we are being observed, these astronauts claim that some extraterrestrial beings are already among us.(aliens are watching us)
1. Edgar Mitchell
is one of the people who has traveled to the moon; in fact it was the sixth one, in 1971. His trip was meant to recover samples of the Moon and return, and it was one of his last works after almost 20 years at NASA. After retiring, he said he was “90% sure that many of the thousands of unidentified objects that have been registered since 1940 are from visitors to other planets.”(aliens are watching us)
Likewise, in multiple questions he assured that the UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) are real and that he spoke with world leaders that have come into contact with aliens, but that this information is classified. Similarly, he said that governments around the world have been hiding it from the public for more than 60 years.(aliens are watching us)
However, the man states with certainty that the Roswell Incident (in which an object of the United States Armed Forces crashed on a ranch in New Mexico, which was believed to have been the landing of an alien) was an encounter with aliens, and that the US government hid it for decades, although it has constantly been shown that the material that fell from the sky was made by humans.
Also, the man claims that the aliens stopped some nuclear bombs during the Cold War and that they have been in contact with the Vatican to help humanity.(aliens are watching us)
2. Deke Slayton .
This astronaut participated in the Mercury Project, the first space flight program in the United States whose purpose was to put a man on the Moon. He later served as Operations Director of the NASA flight team. However, before all that, in 1951 he thought he saw an alien spacecraft. “It looked like a saucer at a 45-degree angle […]. Soon it started and took off, and I could not see it anymore ». He could never see anything else during his missions as a member of the space organization.(aliens are watching us)
3. Gordon Cooper was
also part of the Mercury Project looking to put a man on the Moon, and he was the first one to sleep in space. Also, it was part of another type of missions in which he had the opportunity to fly over the planet, but like his partner Slayton, his encounter with a UFO was long before being part of NASA. Interestingly, he also mentioned having seen something in 1951 but about Germany.(aliens are watching us)
After retiring he declared: “I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews visit this planet from others, which are much more advanced than the Earth.” The man said that maybe the aliens will not communicate with us until we learn to solve our conflicts by peaceful means instead of constantly creating wars.
4. And finally, Brian O ‘Leary ,
who was part of another group of NASA astronauts who wanted to find a way to step on Mars, but eventually that project was canceled. He did some tests before finally retiring to become an academic. He became friends with Carl Sagan and taught with him at Cornell University.
In his life as a retired he claimed that there was an extraterrestrial existence on Earth that had caused strong technological advances and said, “Other civilizations have been monitoring us for a long time. Its appearance is strange from the western point of view ».(aliens are watching us)
Most of the comments of these astronauts create hope and terror in many people, are you one of those who are passionate or terrified? Leave your comment below!
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A Ukrainian Physicist Has Discovered The Secret About The Pyramids – And It Will Change The World
A Ukrainian Physicist Has Discovered The Secret About The Pyramids – And It Will Change The World
When we talk a bout Pyramids everyone immediately turns their thoughts to Egypt, the Giza plateau and the three pyramids standing tall just outside of Cairo.
However, did you know that there are more than 1000 pyramids in Central America alone? There are 300 Pyramids in China and over 200 Pyramids in Sudan. Egypt boasts only around 120 Pyramids.
But, no matter where you look, you’ll find pyramids scattered across the globe. But why? Why are these enigmatic structure located across the planet? Why did nearly all ancient civilizations across the globe, the Ancient Maya, Aztecs, Pre-Inca Cultures, Ancient Chinese, and many others build these supermassive structures? Furthermore, why are so many pyramids around the globe so eerily similar in design?
Why is it that we still can’t fully understand why the ancients built Pyramids? Were they meant to serve as eternal resting places for different Pharaohs and kings?
Or is it possible they served another, completely different purpose than what mainstream scholars are making us believe? Is it just a wild coincidence that there are thousands of Pyramids scattered all across the globe?
How are most of them so similar? Is it possible that ancient cultures were somehow interconnected thousands of years ago? And that somehow a pyramid building culture—that is now long gone—passed onto different civilizations the blueprints of building pyramids? What if after all, Pyramids were not used as tombs, but as something entirely different?
A Ukrainian scientist believes he may have finally solved the mystery behind the Pyramids and says he now understands what they were used for by ancient civilizations across the globe.
Dr. Volodymyr Krashnoholovets, a physicist from the Ukraine, who has curiously spent over a decade building and researching pyramids has been fascinated by these ancient structures for a long time.
Endorsed by the Russian government, he created a 144-foot-tall pyramid outside of Moscow. He is a man who believes to have finally cracked the mystery behind pyramids and why they were built, and according to him, this is a summary of his discoveries on the effects Pyramids:
1. Immune system of organisms improved (blood leukocyte composition increased). 2. Improved regeneration of tissue. 3. Seeds stored in the pyramid for 1-5 days showed a 30-100% increase in yield. 4. Soon after construction of the Lake Seliger pyramid a marked improvement of the ozone was noted above the area. 5. Seismic activity near the pyramid research areas are reduced in severity and size. 6. Violent weather also appears to decrease in the vicinity of the pyramids. 7. Pyramids constructed in Southern Russia (Bashkiria) appeared to have a positive effect on oil production with oil becoming less viscous by 30% and the yield of the oil wells increased according to tests carried out by the Moscow Academy of Oil and Gas. 8. A study was done on 5000 prisoners who ingested salt and pepper that had been exposed to the pyramid energy field. The test subjects exhibited a greatly reduced violence rate and overall behavior was much improved. 9. Standard tissue culture tests showed an increase in survival of cellular tissue after infection by viruses and bacteria. 10. Radioactive substances show a decreased level of radiation inside the pyramid. 11. There are reports of spontaneous charging of capacitors. 12. Physicists observed significant changes in superconductivity temperature thresholds and in the properties of semi-conducting and carbon nanomaterials. 13. Water inside the pyramid will remain liquid to minus 40 degrees Celsius but freeze instantly if jostled or bumped in any way.
All of the above-mentioned discoveries made by Dr. Volodymyr Krashnoholovets are explained in the following video presented by author and researcher David Wilcock.
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What do you think? Is it possible that after all Pyramids were not used as tombs in ancient times? Is it possible that after all, these majestic ancient structures—scattered across the globe—have a purpose that mainstream scholars have not yet identified?
A northside woman who was at Dublin Airport at the weekend managed to get a photo of a strange unidentified light she spotted in the sky.
The Dubliner - who asked not to be named - was in the airport yesterday morning when she saw a bright light appear to hover in the sky above the busy plane hub.
She told her husband what she'd seen and he mentioned that very similar lights had been spotted over Crumlin last week, just days after pilots reported seeing UFOs off the coast of Kerry.
At one point a plane flew over the light
He told Dublin Live that his wife had heard nothing about the alleged UFO sightings of the past week, but after they discussed it, they decided to get in touch with Dublin Live.
The man told us: "My wife was at the airport on Sunday morning when she saw this strange light appear in the morning sky. It was at around 7.20am, and it was there for a while in the one spot and then moved before disappearing.
"She knew nothing about the sightings last week over the airport - she also said a plane flew over past it at one stage."
A close up of the unidentified hovering object
Last week, Crumlin man Craig Keogh said he spotted an unidentified flying object as he was leaving for work.
He quipped: "I wasn't freaked - I was more puzzled to know what it was like.. someone needs to give answers or come up with some reason because me little bro is scared big time, and I'm not helping him either."
Dublin Live has contacted the Irish Aviation Authority for a comment.
At the UFO DATA conference in October 2007, I met up with veteran UFO investigator David Beezer. I’ve known David for many years and he has regularly attended many of our public events. David wanted me to read a report he had received from a RAF officer, but on the day I simply did not have the time. David made me a copy of the report in question and I read it a day or two after the conference had finished.
The report came from a Mr. Alan Turner, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), and concerned a UFO observed on radar at Royal Air Force (RAF) base Sopley in the summer of l971. I subsequently contact Mr. Turner and have his permission to document the following. His report is published in full.
Alan Turner was aged twenty-five when he joined the Royal Air Force in l966 and was commissioned that year as an Air Traffic Control Officer. RAF Sopley was a wartime bunker, which had been converted into a joint military/civilian Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (ATCRU): it closed in l974 when both the civil and military ATC functions were transferred to West Drayton.
Alan Turner remained in the RAF eventually to command the Central ATC School from 1990 to 1992. In July 1995, he was discharged from the RAF in the rank of Wing Commander.
1982: This was taken in l982 when Alan Turner was the Senior Air Traffic Control Officer at RAF Lossiemouth. He is pictured on the right.
This is Wing Commanders Turner’s account of what he personally observed at RAF Sopley in the summer of l971 in full:
In the summer of 1971, I was the Duty Military Supervisor at RAF Sopley, which was a joint military/civil Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (ATCRU). It was a Tuesday afternoon but I cannot remember the exact date. The Duty Civil Supervisor drew my attention to a situation on radar the likes of which neither of us had ever encountered.
Emanating from a point some twenty nautical miles east of the eastern extremity of the Salisbury Plain Danger Area were a series of six or seven blips moving on a south-easterly track each being separated from the other by about six miles. At about forty miles from the point they appeared on radar they disappeared to be followed almost immediately by a replacement at the point of origin.
I put the FPS 6 Height Finder onto some returns to discover that they were about 3000 feet when they came into radar cover and climbing extremely rapidly so that, by the time they disappeared from radar, they were in excess of 60,000 feet. To climb to such a height in only forty miles was beyond the ability of any fighter aircraft at the time.
The phenomenon was witnessed by four civil and six military controllers on duty at the time. I called Heathrow Radar to discover that they, also, were seeing a similar picture. The same situation prevailed in the Fighter Control Operations Rooms at RAF Neatishead. The three units involved operated different radars from each other thus different frequencies were in use. The weather forecast from the south of England was calm and sunny. I called the Met Office to confirm the strength of the upper winds to find that they were also relatively calm and were about fifty degrees off the southeasterly track of the blips; they also confirmed that there were not Met balloons/probes airborne at the time.
The winds were not strong enough, nor in the right direction, to cause the blips to travel on their observed track, especially at the speed they were travelling. It was estimated that they were doing around 250 knots, but it must be borne in mind that this was a lateral speed as seen on radar – they must have been travelling very much faster to climb over 50,000 feet in less than forty miles. Equally the weather was such that there were no ‘angels’ to affect the radar picture. “Angels” was a euphemism for, what were believed to be, ionozed pockets of air which, under very specific atmospheric conditions, were often seen on radar screens in those days: when seen, these ‘angels’ traveled extremely slowly simply drifting along haphazard tracks. In those days all radars were ‘raw’. That is to say that, whatever was within the coverage of the radar envelope and capable of bouncing (returning) the radar pulse back to the receiver, would be seen on the radar tube. Today’s radars are computerised thus such interference is processed out so as not to affect the picture.
Looking around for some other method of checking what was going on, I discovered that a controller had two Canberras on frequency returning from Germany. One of the pilots agreed to investigate so I assumed control of his aircraft and, having confirmed he was in good visual met conditions, I vectored him on to the blips keeping him regularly updated on their position relative to the Canberra. The aircraft was flying at around nineteen thousand feel and when it got within a mile or so of one particular blip, the pilot reported, in a very agitated voice, that his radar had picked something up heading down his port side by about a quarter of a mile and ‘climbing like the clappers’, it was on a reciprocal heading to the Canberra. The pilot admitted that neither he nor his navigator made any visual contact and confirmed that the weather conditions were such that they would have had no difficultly seeing something that close.
The whole episode lasted for twenty minutes or more before the blips stopped appearing. I impounded the R/T tapes and the Radar Video film and made appropriate entries in the log. Each person in the Ops Room who witnessed the incident was required to write a report. The Squadron Leader in charge of Operations collated the reports and informed higher authority. Within a couple of days I was interviewed in the Squadron Leader’s office by two men who were not identified to me. I, along with all the others in the Ops Room on the day in question, were told in no uncertain terms not to relate what we had seen until cleared to do so. About four years later I was serving at RAF Wattisham when the Station Commander asked to see me. I was told that he had a communication from the MoD about the incident at Sopley and that as ‘nothing could be confirmed’ the situation was such that doubt would be cast on anything I said about it. I took this to mean that I was no longer to remain silent.
I am at a loss to explain what I, and many other people, saw. In those days aircraft could not climb at such a rate. To be seen on displays by three different ground radars, plus the airborne radar in the Canberra, is also a mystery. The weather conditions were very definitely VMC or Visual Met Conditions; the aircraft was clear of cloud by at least a thousand feet vertically and with a forward visibility of at least five nautical miles.
Alan Turner MBE 10th November 2007.
Map: Map of the area showing the track on the unidentified radar target. Map supplied by Alan Turner.
In Mr. Turner’s letter to be dated 10th November 2007 he apologised for not remembering the exact date of the incident and believes that there are those out there that will use this to discredit his account. I’ll leave you with his final comments on the incident; “Please use the information in any way you see fit; I stand by what I saw because I know what I saw.”
1984: This is Wing Commander Alan Turner and his wife Diane at Buckingham Palace where he received his MBE from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in l984.
1994: Alan Turner at a social function during his last appointment with the RAF in l994.
Thanks must go to David Beezer for supplying the information and contact details and special thanks to Alan Turner MBE for allowing me to publish his account.
All photographs copyright Alan Turner MBE and reproduced with his kind permission.
Royal SHOCK: Prince Philip embroiled in 'close encounter with UFO'
Royal SHOCK: Prince Philip embroiled in 'close encounter with UFO'
PRINCE Philip personally congratulated a military pilot who claimed he chased a UFO out of Britain, according to the veteran involved some 40 years ago.
Major George A. Giller was an Air Force intelligence officer for the USAF, who claims to have encountered a UFO over England. He says his jet got a call from London Air Traffic Control about an aircraft that had failed to identify itself near Stonehenge, Salisbury. However, when George got there to inspect, the "floating cruise ship" darted from the scene.
Apparently Prince Philip thought it was very important and invited us to dinner
Major George A. Giller
"We were up at 33,000ft and the UFO was down at about 1,000ft," he said on Netflix film "Unacknowledged".
"We dove down on it and eventually we got close and it looked like a cruise ship at sea with all the bright lights.
"We got about a mile from it and it went up into space.
"London control just said 'you can continue with your mission' now."
CONGRATS: Major Giller claims the royal thanked him
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ALIENS: George says he saw a UFO
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However, that was not the end of the story for George, as he recalls meeting with Prince Philip as a result of his close encounter.
He added: "Apparently Prince Philip thought it was very important and invited us to dinner.
"He knew all about the fact we had chased the UFO and made me a believer in it since.
"When someone of his stature indicates they are real and from another planet, it's very convincing."
CHASED DOWN: The USAF investigated
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SPOTTED: The UFO was apparently over Stonehenge (Image: GETTY)
George gave his testimony as part of the Disclosure Project, which claims UFOs and aliens have been covered up by government agencies for years.
Dr. Steven Greer, who heads up the project, has spoken to CIA Directors, top Pentagon Generals and many military individuals about their experiences over the years.
A former traumatologist, Steven turned his interests to ufology and opened the Centre for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
UFO ‘ABANDONED’ on the moon by space travelling ALIENS - shock claim
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The massive artefact was found in the Plaskett crater – a large impact zone on the moon witch is 109 kilometres in diameter. Conspiracy theorists located the supposed UFO using satellite imagery from the European Space Agency (ESA). The sighting adds to a growing list of alien-looking objects which have been found on our lunar satellite.
UFO researcher Scott C Waring was the first to discover the potential alien spaceship, raising the theory that it looks as if it was abandoned by extraterrestrials.
He wrote on his blog UFO Sightings Daily: “I found a large triangle UFO that was sitting in the centre of a crater on the moon. The UFO is dead centre in Plaskett crater.
“ESA says that crater is 109km in diameter. That would mean this UFO is 25+ miles across!
“The shape and size would be fitting for a craft that travels across the universe. Sitting in the centre of the crater makes me wonder if its been abandoned due to being outdated?
The UFO is apparently 25 miles in circumference
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“Often I find ships in craters, however they are usually parked close to the inner edges so that they have some shelter to protect them.
“There is no intent or worry about have such protection here. I find that odd.”
Several other things have been spotted on the moon which has led some to believe there is an alien civilisation there.
Some conspiracy theorists claims the moon could be occupied by aliens and that is the reason NASA has not returned since the Apollo missions ended in the 1970s.
They suspect findings such as this and anomalies like pyramids could be monuments built by an ancient alien civilisation similar to the pyramids and other structures on Earth.
Similar anomaly hunters have found what they believe could be pyramids on Mars and other parts of the moon.
However, sceptics and NASA say the findings are just the effects of pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes in patterns or textures such as a rock surface.
Many viewers have been quick to deem the footage as a UFO sighting, pointing out the enormous amount of energy needed to light up such a large object.
One astonished viewer wrote: “It would take a lot of power to light up like that during the day on the first one the circling lights are a bit suspect.”
Another UFO believer commented: “Thank you for getting this out to people.”
However, some believe the video may have simply been a trick of the light.
GLOWING: A bright light was spotted above San Francisco (Pic: YOUTUBE/JOELCARDOSO)
One sceptical user said: “The first video is most likely lens flare from a solar reflector.
“They have been mistaken for a UFO once before from a plane. Great sightings as always though.”
The video has been viewed over 1,000 times since it was first posted yesterday (18th November).
Similar objects were seen floating in the air across Ireland last week, sparking rumours of an alien invasion on the emerald isle.
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