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30-11-2018
A mysterious seismic wave rolled around the world for more than 20 minutes… And yet, it seems, no human felt them
A mysterious seismic wave rolled around the world for more than 20 minutes… And yet, it seems, no human felt them
On the morning of November 11, just before 9:30 UT, a mysterious rumble rolled around the world. The seismic waves began roughly 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte, a French island sandwiched between Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar. The waves buzzed across Africa, ringing sensors in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. They traversed vast oceans, humming across Chile, New Zealand, Canada, and even Hawaii nearly 11,000 miles away. These waves didn’t just zip by; they rang for more than 20 minutes. And yet, it seems, no human felt them.
Strange seismic waves were picked up circling the globe on November 11. Now seismologists are trying to figure out why.
via Twitter
Only one person noticed the odd signal on the U.S. Geological Survey’s real-time seismogram displays. An earthquake enthusiast who uses the handle @matarikipax saw the curious zigzags and posted images of them to Twitter. That small action kicked off another ripple of sorts, as researchers around the world attempted to suss out the source of the waves. Was it a meteor strike? A submarine volcano eruption? An ancient sea monster rising from the deep?
“I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it,” says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at Columbia University who specializes in unusual earthquakes.
“It doesn’t mean that, in the end, the cause of them is that exotic,” he notes. Yet many features of the waves are remarkably weird—from their surprisingly monotone, low-frequency “ring” to their global spread. And researchers are still chasing down the geologic conundrum.
In a normal earthquake, the built-up tensions in Earth’s crust release with a jolt in mere seconds. This sends out a series of waves known as a “wave train” that radiates from the point of the rupture, explains Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at the University of Southampton.
The fastest-traveling signals are Primary waves, or P-waves, which are compression waves that move in bunches, like what happens to an extended slinky that gets suddenly pushedat one end. Next come the secondary waves, or S-waves, which have more of a side-to-side motion. Both of these so-called body waves have relatively high frequencies, Hicks says, “a sort of ping rather than a rumbling.”
Finally, chugging along at the end come slow, long-period surface waves, which are similar to the strange signals that rolled out from Mayotte. For intense earthquakes, these surface waves can zip around the planet multiple times, ringing Earth like a bell, Hicks says.
However, there was no big earthquake kicking off the recent slow waves. Adding to the weirdness, Mayotte’s mystery waves are what scientists call monochromatic. Most earthquakes send out waves with a slew of different frequencies, but Mayotte’s signal was a clean zigzag dominated by one type of wave that took a steady 17 seconds to repeat.
“It’s like you have colored glasses and [are] just seeing red or something,” says Anthony Lomax, an independent seismology consultant.
Jamie Gurney@UKEQ_Bulletin
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This is the recording of the ~09:30 UTC Southern Indian Ocean event from Kilima Mbogo, Kenya. The signal has had a highpass filter applied to it at 0.01 Hz, 0.05 Hz, 0.1 Hz & 0.2 Hz respectively. As can be seen the signal is very low frequency @stevenjgibbons@ALomaxNet
Jamie Gurney@UKEQ_Bulletin
Narrowing the location down the origin area appears to be in the region of the Comoros/Mayotte. A news article today suggests that the Mayotte swarm which began earlier this year may indeed be magmatic-related. Was this event a submarine volcanic eruption?
Séismes : Carte et données à l'appui, Saïd Hachim revient sur l'hypothèse magmatique - Le journal...
A l’appui de notre interview de Frédéric Tronel, le directeur du Bureau de Recherches géologiques et Minières (BRGM), une note de Saïd Hachim intitulée, “Peut-être un volcan !”. Comme nous l’avons...
Based on the scientific sleuthing done so far, the tremors seem to be related to a seismic swarm that’s gripped Mayotte since last May. Hundreds of quakes have rattled the small nation during that time, most radiating from around 31 miles offshore, just east of the odd ringing. The majority were minor trembles, but the largest clocked in at magnitude 5.8 on May 15, the mightiest in the island’s recorded history. Yet the frequency of these shakes has declined in recent months—and no traditional quakes rumbled there when the mystery waves began on November 11.
The French Geological Survey (BRGM) is closely monitoring the recent shaking, and it suggests that a new center of volcanic activity may be developing off the coast. Mayotte was formed from volcanism, but its geologic beasts haven’t erupted in over 4,000 years. Instead, BRGM’s analysis suggests that this new activity may point to magmatic movement offshore—miles from the coast under thousands of feet of water. Though this is good news for the island inhabitants, it’s irksome for geologists, since it’s an area that hasn’t been studied in detail.
“The location of the swarm is on the edge of the [geological] maps we have,” says Nicolas Taillefer, head of the seismic and volcanic risk unit at BRGM. “There are a lot things we don’t know.” And as for the November 11 mystery wave, he says, “it’s something quite new in the signals on our stations.”
The early period of rumbling was also overprinted with what seemed to be the P- and S- waves of tiny tremors, explains Lomax, who spotted the faint pings by filtering out the low-frequency signals. Such pings are commonly associated with magma moving and fracturing rock as it squirts through the crust. But even those signals were a little strange, says Helen Robinson, a Ph.D. candidate in applied volcanology at the University of Glasgow.
“They’re too nice; they’re too perfect to be nature,” she jokes, although she quickly adds that an industrial source is impossible, since no wind farms or drilling are taking place in the deep waters off Mayotte’s shores.
Ekström thinks that the events on the morning of November 11 actually did begin with an earthquake of sorts equivalent to a magnitude 5 temblor. It passed by largely unnoticed, he suggests, because it was what’s known as a slow earthquake. These quakes are quieter than their speedy cousins since they come from a gradual release of stress that can stretch over minutes, hours, or even days.
“The same deformation happens, but it doesn’t happen as a jolt,” Ekström says.
These slow types of quakes are often associated with volcanic activity. At the Mount Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a similar slow earthquake and low-frequency waves were linked with a magma chamber collapsing. Slow quakes were also stunningly frequent during the most recent fiery run of Kilauea in Hawaii, which produced nearly 60 of these events between May and the end of July, sending seismic waves around the world.
Assembling the geologic puzzle
So what is actually causing the super-slow vibrations at Mayotte? A submarine eruption could produce these low rumblings, but evidence for such an event has yet to materialize.
Most current guesses revolve around resonance in a magma chamber, triggered by some type of subsurface shift or chamber collapse. The resonance itself can be any type of rhythmic motion, like sloshing of the molten rock, or a pressure wave ricocheting through the magma body, Ekström explains. Studying the intricate features of the seismic waves could yield clues to the size and shape of the molten material lurking below.
It is very difficult, really, to say what the cause is and whether anyone’s theories are correct.
“It’s like a music instrument,” says Jean-Paul Ampuero, a seismologist at the Université Côte d’Azur in France. “The notes of a music instrument—whether it’s grave or very pitchy—depends on the size of the instrument.”
The signal’s odd uniformity could be due, in part, to the surrounding rocks and sediments, Lomax adds. Perhaps the local geology is filtering the sounds and only letting this single 17-second wave period escape.
Robinson agrees with this idea, noting that the geology here is extremely complex. Mayotte sits in a region crisscrossed by ancient faults—including fracture zones from the final breakup of the southern supercontinent Gondwana. What’s more, the underlying crust is somewhat transitional, shifting between the thick continental crusts and the thinner oceanic crusts. Perhaps this complexity drives the simplicity of the escaping waves, Robinson says.
Secrets of the sea
For now, though, the lack of data makes it tough to say more about the wiggly forms. Hicks’ preliminary models hinted that the waves emanated from subsurface inflation, rather than a magma chamber draining or collapsing. But with a little additional data, the model flipped and pointed to chamber deflation instead.
It also could be a bit of both, notes Robinson: “Some collapse mechanisms, you can get inflation and deflation occurring at the same time,” she says. Or sometimes they can alternate, pumping up and down like Earth’s fiery lungs.
“It is very difficult, really, to say what the cause is and whether anyone’s theories are correct—whether even what I’m saying has any relevance to the outcome of what’s going on,” Robinson says.
BRGM plans to do ocean bottom surveys to get more detailed information about the region and investigate the possibility of a submarine eruption. In the meantime, the seismic sleuthing continues with the data that’s available. Whether the cause is ordinary or extraordinary remains to be seen, Lomax says, but the science—and the fun—is in the chase.
“Depending on what field and what time in history, 99.9 percent of the time, it’s ordinary, or noise, or a mistake, and 0.1 percent, it’s something” he says. “But that’s just the way it goes. That’s the way it should go. That’s scientific advance.”
The European Space Agency has named Oxia Planum on Mars as the landing site for its ExoMars rover, due to set down in 2021.
Map of Mars showing the 2 finalist landing sites on Mars, Mawrth Vallis and Oxia Planum. Now Oxia Planum has been given the nod for ESA’s ExoMars mission.
Image via NASA/JPL/USGS.
Mars will continue to be a busy place in the near future, with NASA’s InSight spacecraft landingjust a few days agoon November 26, and the Mars 2020 rover landingin 2021. But NASA is not the only one going back to the red planet – theEuropean Space Agency (ESA)is getting ready for its own rover mission –ExoMars– which will also land in 2021. The landing site for ExoMars wasannouncedthis month (November 2018), and the winner isOxia Planum.
The ExoMars rover mission is designed specifically to look for evidence of life on Mars, most likely underground if it exists. According to Graham Turnock, Chief Executive at the U.K. Space Agency (UKSA):
After the Earth, Mars is the most habitable planet in the solar system, so it’s a perfect destination to explore the possibility of life on other planets, as well as the history of our own.
The U.K. Space Agency is the second-largest European contributor to the ExoMars mission, with €287 million invested in the overall mission and £14 million in the instruments. UKSA also negotiated key mission contracts with ESA.
Artist’s concept of the ExoMars rover, which will land in Oxia Planum in 2021.
Image via ESA.
Oxia Planum was finally chosen over Mawrth Vallis, the other of the two finalist candidate landing sites, both of which used to be water-rich in the distant past. John Bridges, from the Space Research Centre, University of Leicester, and a member of the Landing Site Selection Working Group, explained how Oxia Planum was chosen over other candidate landing sites:
After over four years of careful study of HiRISE and more recently CaSSIS images, Oxia Planum was chosen because scientists were convinced that its fine-grained sediments, deposited during the ancient Noachian epoch were ideally suited for the Exobiology rover.
With an enormous catchment area the sediments will have captured organics from a wide variety of environments over a long period of time, including areas where life may have existed. The fine sediments should also be ideal for the ExoMars drill – it aims to get to 2 metres depth.
A large group of scientists have been working on proposing, characterising and down selecting the sites, all of which had fascinating aspects, but Oxia Planum is the clear winner on both science and engineering constraints.
A texture map of Oxia Planum, created from data taken by NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter.
Image via IRSPS/TAS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University.
As Sue Horne, Head of Space Exploration at UKSA, also noted:
I have been working on ExoMars for over ten years and am amazed at the ingenuity and dedication of UK engineers and scientists in building the rover and instruments that will work in the extreme environment of Mars.
Our end goal is in sight and it is getting very exciting.
ExoMars will be the second Mars mission, after only Mars 2020 and the Viking landers in the late 1970s/early 1980s to search directly for evidence of life instead of only focusing on past habitability. According to ExoMars 2020 project scientist Jorge Vago:
With ExoMars we are on a quest to find biosignatures. While both sites offer valuable scientific opportunities to explore ancient water-rich environments that could have been colonized by microorganisms, Oxia Planum received the majority of votes.
An impressive amount of work has gone into characterizing the proposed sites, demonstrating that they meet the scientific requirements for the goals of the ExoMars mission. Mawrth Vallis is a scientifically unique site, but Oxia Planum offers an additional safety margin for entry, descent and landing, and for traversing the terrain to reach the scientifically interesting sites that have been identified from orbit.
A portion of Oxia Planum, as seen by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
Oxia Planum is just north of the Martian equator, in a region with many channels – carved by ancient rivers – cutting through from the southern highlands to the northern lowlands. Such previously water-rich areas are prime targets for rovers and landers when searching for evidence of not only past habitability, but even life itself. Oxia Planum is at a boundary where many channels emptied into the lower plains, and those plains exhibit layers of clay-rich minerals that were formed in water-rich conditions about four billion years ago. The channels cover a large area, about 131,000 square miles (212,000 square km).
The rover will drill down into the Martian surface – up to 6.5 feet (two meters) deep – to look for organic material that could be evidence for life. It is designed to take a minimum of 17 samples to be analyzed by the Analytical Laboratory Drawer.
Comparison of different components of the ExoMars mission to the Big Ben tower in London. Right half of the image not to the same scale.
Image via ESA.
Landing on Mars is never easy, but Francois Spoto, ExoMars Programme team leader, is confident:
Our ExoMars mission combines extreme performance with the novel design features of the rover, and we are looking forward to operating the first European mission on the surface of Mars. Landing on Mars has a long chain of risks, but thanks to the combined skills and expertise of European and Russian industries working with reliable technologies, we are focused on a safe landing.
The other part of the ExoMars mission, the Trace Gas Orbiter, has already been orbiting Mars for several months now, and is analyzing the atmosphere, including looking for trace gases such as methane – detected previously by other telescopes, orbiters and the Curiosity rover – that could indicate possible current life or geologic activity.
Bottom line: The next phase of the ExoMars mission – the 2021 rover – will be an exciting one, as it explores Oxia Planum searching for signs of life beneath the once wet but now dry and sandy surface.
Mars moon got its grooves from rolling stones, study suggests
Groovy PhobosMuch of Phobos' surface is covered with strange linear grooves. New research bolsters that idea the boulders blasted free from Stickney crater (the large depression on the right) carved those iconic grooves.
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Mars moon got its grooves from rolling stones, study suggests
Computer models developed by Brown University researchers shine a light on the origin of the Mars moon Phobos’ distinctive grooves.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study bolsters the idea that strange grooves crisscrossing the surface of the Martian moon Phobos were made by rolling boulders blasted free from an ancient asteroid impact.
The research, published in Planetary and Space Science, uses computer models to simulate the movement of debris from Stickney crater, a huge gash on one end of Phobos’ oblong body. The models show that boulders rolling across the surface in the aftermath of the Stickney impact could have created the puzzling patterns of grooves seen on Phobos today.
“These grooves are a distinctive feature of Phobos, and how they formed has been debated by planetary scientists for 40 years,” said Ken Ramsley, a planetary science researcher at Brown University who led the work. “We think this study is another step toward zeroing in on an explanation.”
Phobos’ grooves, which are visible across most of the moon’s surface, were first glimpsed in the 1970s by NASA’s Mariner and Viking missions. Over the years, there has been no shortage of explanations put forward for how they formed. Some scientists have posited that large impacts on Mars have showered the nearby moon with groove-carving debris. Others think that Mars’ gravity is slowly tearing Phobos apart, and the grooves are signs of structural failure.
Still other researchers have made the case that there’s a connection between the grooves and the Stickney impact. In the late 1970s, planetary scientists Lionel Wilson and Jim Head proposed the idea that ejecta — bouncing, sliding and rolling boulders — from Stickney may have carved the grooves. Head, a professor in Brown’s department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, was also a coauthor of this new paper.
For a moon the size of the diminutive Phobos (27 kilometers across at its widest point), Stickney is a huge crater at 9 kilometers across. The impact that formed it would have blown free tons of giant rocks, making the rolling boulder idea entirely plausible, Ramsley says. But there are also some problems with the idea.
For example, not all of the grooves are aligned radially from Stickney as one might intuitively expect if Stickney ejecta did the carving. And some grooves are superposed on top of each other, which suggests some must have already been there when superposed ones were created. How could there be grooves created at two different times from one single event? What’s more, a few grooves run through Stickney itself, suggesting that the crater must already have been there when the grooves formed. There’s also a conspicuous dead spot on Phobos where there are no grooves at all. Why would all those rolling boulders just skip one particular area?
To explore those questions, Ramsley designed computer models to see if there was any chance that the “rolling boulder model” could recreate these confounding patterns. The models simulate the paths of the boulders ejected from Stickney, taking into account Phobos’ shape and topography, as well as its gravitational environment, rotation and orbit around Mars.
Ramsley said he had no expectations for what the models might show. He wound up being surprised at how well the model recreated the groove patterns seen on Phobos.
“The model is really just an experiment we run on a laptop,” Ramsley said. “We put all the basic ingredients in, then we press the button and we see what happens.”
The models showed that the boulders tended to align themselves in sets of parallel paths, which jibes with the sets of parallel grooves seen on Phobos. The models also provide a potential explanation for some of the other more puzzling groove patterns.
The simulations show that because of Phobos’ small size and relatively weak gravity, Stickney stones just keep on rolling, rather than stopping after a kilometer or so like they might on a larger body. In fact, some boulders would have rolled and bounded their way all the way around the tiny moon. That circumnavigation could explain why some grooves aren’t radially aligned to the crater. Boulders that start out rolling across the eastern hemisphere of Phobos produce grooves that appear to be misaligned from the crater when they reach the western hemisphere.
That round-the-globe rolling also explains how some grooves are superposed on top of others. The models show that grooves laid down right after the impact were crossed minutes to hours later by boulders completing their global journeys. In some cases, those globetrotting boulders rolled all the back to where they started — Stickney crater. That explains why Stickney itself has grooves.
Then there’s the dead spot where there are no grooves at all. That area turns out to be a fairly low-elevation area on Phobos surrounded by a higher-elevation lip, Ramsley says. The simulations showed that boulders hit that lip and take a flying leap over the dead spot, before coming down again on the other side.
“It’s like a ski jump,” Ramsley said. “The boulders keep going but suddenly there’s no ground under them. They end up doing this suborbital flight over this zone.”
All told, Ramsley says, the models answer some key questions about how ejecta from Stickney could have been responsible for Phobos’ complicated groove patterns.
“We think this makes a pretty strong case that it was this rolling boulder model accounts for most if not all the grooves on Phobos,” Ramsley said.
SOLVED: Strange Seismic Waves Rocked The Globe Nov. 11, Here’s What Happened
SOLVED: Strange Seismic Waves Rocked The Globe Nov. 11, Here’s What Happened
On November 11, mysterious seismic waves caused a rumble in the Indian Ocean that reverberated around the globe. Low-frequency waves shook the entire Earth for about 20 minutes that day, but scientists now believe they know what caused that strange phenomenon.
Researches have declared that they don’t think any large earthquake was responsible for the worldwide rumblings. Instead, they feel that an eruption of an underwater volcano was to blame. Well, according to scientists, it was “almost certainly” an underwater volcano, anyway…
The rumble, which was described as a monotone ring, was picked up by seismographs almost 11,000 miles (18,000 km) from Mayotte and were spotted by happenstance. A New Zealand based Earthquake enthusiast who goes by the handle @matarikipax noticed unusual seismology readings from the United States Geological Survey. The agency publishes all of its recordings for free online, allowing anyone across the globe to trawl through its data. “This is a most odd and unusual seismic signal. Recorded at Kilima Mbogo, Kenya,” @matarikipax wrote on Twitter on November 11. “The signal can be seen all around the world.”
According to The Daily Mail, a low-rumbling that could not be felt above ground was detected on November 11 and narrowed down the origin to a region just off the coast of the island of Mayotte. One scientist who has studied the charts told MailOnline that the trembling was almost certainly caused by a low-level underwater volcanic eruption off the northeast of Mayotte.
Anthony Lomax, an independent seismology consultant, said that “There has been ongoing low-level seismic activity there since May,” he told MailOnline.“‘Inflation/deflation and collapse of volcano calderas and movement of magma under a volcano can produce a wide variety of seismic signals, including long period and repetitive waves like those observed November 11.”
University of Plymouth Geology Graduate and founder of the United Kingdom Earthquake Bulletin, Jamie Gurney, said he had “no idea if a similar global signal of this nature has ever been observed.”
Scientists are working to understand what spurred the mysterious waves on that day. So far, many suspect they’re related to an ongoing seismic swarm in the region that began last May.
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Worldwide Mystery "Event" Just Happened... We Never Felt It (Video)
Worldwide Mystery "Event" Just Happened... We Never Felt It (Video)
Tyler. Hello. My belief is that a massive geological shift in the Earth’s tectonic plates is beginning to happen. To me that would possibly explain the other events that you have talked about. It’s happening on a global scale. And if the United States and the other governments around the world are detecting it they need to openly say something about it. Robert Marx
Earthquake hit San Francisco 3 hrs ago my time apparently and is affecting BC Canada, I’ve felt 2 rumbles in Northern BC, the vibes are so strange around here right now. Vinesse Bro
Scientists are giving us 8 years before our ELE. Suns dying slowly expanding, she’s burning hotter and whiter, helium hydrogen ratio is off , poles are melting as we wobble thru a magnetic and physical pole shift, earths unbalanced. Get ready. The chemtrailing program is in place to try to reflect the suns ferocity, its only buying time. John Shanks
My personal opinion is with all the oil pumped out of the earth those empty chambers left behind all around the world are starting to force the planet into survival mode . so either the chambers are filling in or the planet’s physical appearance is changing. MomoIam
Mysterious ‘extraterrestrial artefacts’ could be lurking in our solar system, Harvard astronomers claim
Mysterious ‘extraterrestrial artefacts’ could be lurking in our solar system, Harvard astronomers claim
Jasper Hamill
Evidence which proves the existence of extraterrestrial life could be hidden near Earth waiting to be discovered.
Top astronomers have called for an urgent study of ‘interstellar objects’ which arrive here from deep space, suggesting some of them could be mysterious alien ‘artefacts’.
Although scientists said it was probably a comet and blamed its trajectory on a natural process, we have been unable to unequivocally prove that it wasn’t an alien spacecraft or some other piece of extraterrestrial technology.
A view of humanity’s beautiful home
(Picture: Nasa)
Now Harvard University’s Abraham Loeb, one of the astronomers who suggested ‘Oumuamua was alien in origin, and his colleague Amir Siraj have published a paper which suggests evidence which proves the existence of other lifeforms could be lurking right under our species’ nose.
The paper claims there could be ‘tens’ of interstellar visitors like ‘Oumuamua floating through the solar system.
‘Observing or visiting such objects could allow searching for signs of extraterrestrial life locally, without the need to send interstellar probes,’ the pair wrote.
‘Exploration of trapped interstellar objects could potentially help reveal the prospects of life in other star systems as well as extraterrestrial artefacts,’ they added.
It’s important to remember that Loeb and his partner are not saying that interstellar visitors are definitely alien artefacts. The objects could also have formed naturally in other star systems, before being expelled to begin their lonely journey through the void of space.
Could this be an alien space probe? Asteroid ‘Oumuamua is still provoking debate about its origins
(Picture Getty)
‘Photographing or visiting these trapped objects would allow for learning about the conditions in other planetary systems, saving the need to send interstellar probes,’ the astronomers added.
In a previous paper, Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb suggested the elongated asteroid ‘Oumuamua might have an ‘artificial origin’.
‘‘Oumuamua may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilisation,’ they wrote.
Initially, the fact ‘Oumuamua appeared to speed up led astronomers to suggest it was a comet. These icy objects accelerate due to a process called outgassing, in which the sun heats up a comet and causes it to release gases.
But in their paper, the Harvard stargazers ruled out the possibility it was an active comet.
They proposed that it was powered along by ‘solar radiation pressure’ produced by the sun, but went on to make more ‘exotic’ suggestions to explain its acceleration.
This Nasa graphic shows the distinctive tumbling motion of ‘Oumuamua
The pair suggested it may have been a type of spaceship called a ‘light sail’ featuring a large and very thin sheet that is blown along through space by the light produced by stars.
When it travelled through the solar system, it was tumbling end-over-end, which could also mean it was a piece of space wreckage left behind by aliens.
‘Considering an artificial origin, one possibility is that ‘Oumuamua is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as a debris from an advanced technological equipment,’ the astronomers continued.
‘Lightsails with similar dimensions have been designed and constructed by our own civilization, including the IKAROS project and the Starshot Initiative
‘The lightsail technology might be abundantly used for transportation of cargos between planets or between stars.’
They said alien civilisations may jettison used cargo ships, resulting in space debris that looks a lot like Asteroid ‘Oumuamua.
Er zwerven mogelijk honderden buitenaardse objecten door ons zonnestelsel. Dit kunnen ze ons vertellen
Er zwerven mogelijk honderden buitenaardse objecten door ons zonnestelsel. Dit kunnen ze ons vertellen
Astronoom Abraham Loeb van de Harvard-universiteit, die eerder suggereerde dat Oumuamua een buitenaardse sonde is, heeft samen met zijn collega Amir Siraj een paper geschreven waarin hij stelt dat er mogelijk andere levensvormen zijn die zich recht onder onze neus bevinden.
In het onderzoek zeggen de astronomen dat er mogelijk honderden interstellaire bezoekers zoals Oumuamua zijn die door het zonnestelsel zwerven.
“Door dergelijke objecten te bestuderen of te bezoeken kunnen we speuren naar tekenen van buitenaards leven, zonder dat we interstellaire sondes hoeven te sturen,” schreef het tweetal.
Natuurlijke wijze
“Gevangen interstellaire objecten kunnen ons op deze manier iets vertellen over leven in andere zonnestelsels en andere buitenaardse objecten,” voegden ze toe.
Loeb en zijn collega zeggen niet dat interstellaire bezoekers per definitie buitenaardse objecten zijn. Het is ook mogelijk dat deze objecten op natuurlijke wijze zijn gevormd.
“Door deze gevangen objecten te fotograferen of te bezoeken kunnen we meer te weten komen over de omstandigheden in andere zonnestelsels,” aldus de astronomen.
Buitenaards schip
In een eerdere paper suggereerden Loeb en zijn collega Shmuel Bialy dat het interstellaire object Oumuamua mogelijk een buitenaards schip is.
“Oumuamua is mogelijk een werkende sonde die doelbewust naar de omgeving van de aarde is gestuurd door een buitenaardse beschaving,” schreven ze.
Lichtzeil
In hun paper schreven de Havard-astronomen dat het uitgesloten is dat het gaat om een actieve komeet.
Ze suggereerden dat het lichtzeil is, een ruimteschip dat bestaat uit grote spiegelende zeilen.
Er zwerven mogelijk honderden buitenaardse objecten door ons zonnestelsel. Dit kunnen ze ons vertellen
Er zwerven mogelijk honderden buitenaardse objecten door ons zonnestelsel. Dit kunnen ze ons vertellen
Astronoom Abraham Loeb van de Harvard-universiteit, die eerder suggereerde dat Oumuamua een buitenaardse sonde is, heeft samen met zijn collega Amir Siraj een paper geschreven waarin hij stelt dat er mogelijk andere levensvormen zijn die zich recht onder onze neus bevinden.
In het onderzoek zeggen de astronomen dat er mogelijk honderden interstellaire bezoekers zoals Oumuamua zijn die door het zonnestelsel zwerven.
“Door dergelijke objecten te bestuderen of te bezoeken kunnen we speuren naar tekenen van buitenaards leven, zonder dat we interstellaire sondes hoeven te sturen,” schreef het tweetal.
Natuurlijke wijze
“Gevangen interstellaire objecten kunnen ons op deze manier iets vertellen over leven in andere zonnestelsels en andere buitenaardse objecten,” voegden ze toe.
Loeb en zijn collega zeggen niet dat interstellaire bezoekers per definitie buitenaardse objecten zijn. Het is ook mogelijk dat deze objecten op natuurlijke wijze zijn gevormd.
“Door deze gevangen objecten te fotograferen of te bezoeken kunnen we meer te weten komen over de omstandigheden in andere zonnestelsels,” aldus de astronomen.
Buitenaards schip
In een eerdere paper suggereerden Loeb en zijn collega Shmuel Bialy dat het interstellaire object Oumuamua mogelijk een buitenaards schip is.
“Oumuamua is mogelijk een werkende sonde die doelbewust naar de omgeving van de aarde is gestuurd door een buitenaardse beschaving,” schreven ze.
Lichtzeil
In hun paper schreven de Havard-astronomen dat het uitgesloten is dat het gaat om een actieve komeet.
Ze suggereerden dat het lichtzeil is, een ruimteschip dat bestaat uit grote spiegelende zeilen.
A Christchurch resident has been left befuddled by a mysterious sea creature washed up on a Canterbury beach.
Her first thought was that it was an alien.
Photos of the bizarre creature show a skeleton with claws on its wings, two long claspers, a long tail, a long head and sharp fangs in its mouth.
Last Saturday, Hanna Mary and her mother were walking along Rakaia Huts collecting rubbish on the beach after a big storm had passed. It was then she came across the bizarre-looking creature.
The mysterious creature has a long weird looking head.
Photo / Hanna Mary
"First I thought it was a plastic sheeting. I pulled it out from underneath the sticks and it was a bit more than just a piece of plastic."
Her mother, who was further down the beach at the time Mary found the strange creature, came rushing over when she heard her daughter scream.
"She [her mother] found an interesting piece of wood, she picked it up and at the time she yelled out 'omg' and I picked up the critter and I screamed louder than she did.
"She dropped whatever she was holding and came running to me."
Is it an alien?
Photo / Hanna Mary
"My first thought was that it was something alien, but I was more fascinated than anything."
Initially, they didn't want to touch it in case it was poisonous, but Mary's curiosity gave her enough courage to take it home.
"I took it all the way home and gave it to a taxidermist next door to see if he knew what it was but he wasn't too sure either.
"That why I thought I should reach out and see if anyone else knew what it is."
When the taxidermist had know idea what it was, she turned to her family on Facebook.
"I uploaded the photos on Facebook and we were all taking guesses, most people said skate.
Don't eat me!
Photo / Hanna Mary
"A few of the guesses were a wee bit absurd because it looks so bizarre."
"Every time we tried to match it with the guesses it just didn't line up."
"My guess it that it's some sort of deep-sea skate, maybe a Bathyraja abyssicola, that might have been picked up by a trawler.
Are those claws?
Photo / Hanna Mary
"I'm hoping that I have the winning guess."
Mary explained it was bizarre that it showed up at Rakaia Huts as the beach is very rocky and has quite a big drop off to the shore, making it impossible to swim there.
Dr Malcolm Francis at Niwa has identified the creature as a male Dipturus nasutus, aka a New Zealand rough skate.
"They are called rough skate because they are very prickly ... it's quite common in Canterbury," he said.
"It's like flat shark, it has a skeleton made out of cartilage.
"They spend much of their time on the bottom."
Francis also explained that they are occasionally caught by commercial fisherman, who sell the wings, which can be eaten.
"You might see them in the fish shops in the South Island," he said.
"It might have been one that had been caught by a fisherman, thrown overboard and washed ashore.
He says you can tell it's a male because the things that looks like legs, which are actually claspers, are used for mating with a female.
"They look like a legs, but they're not," he said.
Francis said the claws on the wings are called alar spines, which only male skates have to use for mating.
"They are used to help the male hang onto the female when they are mating," he said.
Mysterieus zeewezen spoelt aan op strand Nieuw-Zeeland. Wat is dit in vredesnaam?
Mysterieus zeewezen spoelt aan op strand Nieuw-Zeeland. Wat is dit in vredesnaam?
Een inwoner van Christchurch was verbijsterd toen ze op het strand op een mysterieus zeewezen stuitte. Ze dacht in eerste instantie dat het een alien was.
Foto’s van het bizarre wezen tonen een skelet met klauwen, een lange staart, een lange kop en scherpe tanden, melden Nieuw-Zeelandse media.
Afgelopen weekend liepen Hanna Mary en haar moeder over het strand om rommel op te ruimen na een zware storm. Toen zagen ze ineens het bizarre wezen liggen.
Fascinerend
“Ik dacht eerst dat het een stuk plastic was,” zei Hanna. “Maar het bleek meer dan een stuk plastic te zijn.”
Haar moeder kwam aangerend toen ze begon te schreeuwen.
“Mijn eerste gedachte was dat het een soort alien was,” aldus Hanna. “Het was vooral fascinerend om te zien.”
Giftig
Moeder en dochter wilden het skelet niet aanraken omdat ze niet wisten of het giftig zou zijn. Uiteindelijk besloot Hanna het toch mee te nemen.
Ze liet het aan een lokale dierenopzetter zien, maar die had ook geen idee wat het was. Hanna plaatste de foto’s vervolgens op Facebook.
Diepzeerog
Ze denkt dat het misschien een diepzeerog is, mogelijk een Bathyraja abyssicola, die is opgevist door een trawler.
Volgens dr. Malcolm Francis van het Nieuw-Zeelandse National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) gaat het om een Dipturus nasutus, een rogsoort.
The trouble with so manyUFO sightingsand footage is that they all look like something a human would make. We’ve gone andanthropomorphizeda species without knowing for sure if they’re even there. It’s like stuffing a bulldog in an embarrassing Christmas sweater, but on a cosmic scale. Dogs don’t need sweaters, and aliens don’t watch sci-fi movies. If we ever get concrete, accepted, no foolin’ proof of alien life and the ships they bop around the universe in, it’s going to be weird. Really weird.
Case in point: this video (linked to the stabilized GIF version in consideration for the reader’s tolerance for frustration). That’s the real good, real weird stuff. Neon colored, oscillating space-spider strangeness.
The was allegedly taken on Thanksgiving morning, around 3-4 am, and posted to Reddit by user u/Need2believe. He says he was streaming the International Space Station feed on his TV, which is exactly what someone who goes by Need2believe would be doing at 3 am on Thanksgiving. Here’s what the poster said about it in the Reddit thread:
I wish I could give y’all more info on this thing, lol. Its definitely weird. I tuned into the ISS live stream and the object slowly moved into view after about 10 minutes, so I grabbed my phone and recorded.
The starfish thing hung around for maybe 10 minutes, the whole time flashes off white light would blink at random all over, possibly stars but the lights never flashed in the same spot. The starfish eventually rotated I’d say 180° then headed left and away from the ISS.
I also snapped pics of a white orb that seemed to have a long tail thing that was dipping into the top of Earths atmosphere then retracting away.
Also snapped these very faint green shapes that were barely visible above the Earth, the were just barely in viewing range.
All this happened for about 30 minutes before the live feed was cut. The screen showed the same image it normally does after signal loss for maybe 2 minutes then cut to a solid gray screen. The live feed came back around 30 hours.-
If anyone wants to see the other stuff just let me know y’all. Has anyone else ever seen one that is similar to this starfish UFO?
To which another predictably sarcastic user replied “he will definitely get back to you.” It’s fair. In cases like this, the witness of the alleged UFO usually never produces the other pictures. Amazingly, u/Need2believe did produce the other pictures (you can see them here: 1, 2, and 3.) They’re not great, but what do you expect? He opened with the cool stuff.
UFOs need to be weird again.
Many users seemed incredulous that the video was filmed on a cell phone, in portrait mode no less, but not everyone can immediately engage video recording software on their computer at a moment’s notice. It would certainly be nice if it wasn’t a cell phone recording of a screen, but you have to work with the tools at your disposal.
As to the ISS video feed being cut: other users pointed out that the ISS does periodically switch between its four cameras, so there isn’t anything inherently nefarious about that. The timing’s a little funny, but it’s impossible to say for certain that it was intentional.
We need less flying saucers and more impossible geometry in our skies.
Whether the video is fake or not is hard to say. Not being an expert on video production, I can’t make an educated judgement. It could obviously be another piece of footage overlaid on top of empty space, but it seems like anyone with the capability to do that wouldn’t have used a cell phone to record the video.
Without proof of its veracity, it’s once again impossible to say if this is real or not. It’s cool and it’s creepy, that’s for certain. Even if it’s fake, it’s still a lot better than another drone flying over someone’s yard.
Abraham Loeb and Shmuel Bialy, the new go-to guys for all things ‘Oumuamua – the cigar-shaped, interstellar comet/asteroid/spacecraft/noneoftheabove which zipped past us last year and that this pair thinks is some sort of extraterrestrial solar sail, have issued a new report warning that they will be issuing a lot of new reports because ‘Oumuamua is far from the only interstellar object traveling in, around or through our solar system. Not only that, the life forms – if there are any – on the objects may be frustrated and upset because their vehicle/sail/rock/paper/scissors is stuck in the solar system. Do we really need anything more to worry about?
“We find that there should be hundreds of `Oumuamua-size interstellar objects identifiable by Centaur-like orbits in polar or retrograde motion.”
These two Harvard (Loeb is a professor and Bialy a graduate student) astronomers don’t waste any time getting to the point in the opening of their new paper, “Identifying Interstellar Objects Trapped in the Solar System through Their Orbital Parameters,” which is being reviewed for publication by the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Centaurs are minor space objects orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune who earn their Greek mythological half-human/half-horse name by sharing characteristics with asteroids, comets, small planets, planet fragments and now, according to Loeb and Bialy, unidentifiable stuff that may be from another star system.
Centaur
One odd characteristic of Centaurs is their retrograde orbit of the sun, putting them in opposite rotation with all planets and most other space objects. Astronomers have recently concluded that one such Centaur — 2015 BZ509 — has been in retrograde orbit since the formation of the Solar System some 4.5 billion years ago, which makes it highly likely to have been captured from another solar system. For their study, Loeb and Bialy simulated these objects, then compared the models with data from the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan STARRS) survey which watches moving or variable sky objects.
“This yields roughly one such object (of a hundred meter size) per the volume defined by the Earth’s motion around the Sun. In total, each planetary system needs to eject about 10^{15} such objects during its lifetime… Out of those a small fraction is trapped by the Solar System, as objects pass close to Jupiter and lose energy through their gravitational interaction with it. The Sun-Jupiter system acts as a fishing net that hosts a few thousand captured objects at any time. The objects eventually get kicked out of the system, but new ones get captured, and so there is a steady population.”
The model predicted thousands of ‘Oumuamua-like objects with hundreds easily identifiable by their orbits. In fact, Siraj and Loeb identified four possible ‘Oumuamuas that have already been found — 2011 SP25, 2017 RR2, 2017 SV13, and 2018 TL6. Loeb thinks these are perfect candidates for a space mission.
Centaurs?
“Since these objects are trapped, we can fly by them, take a photograph or land on their surface. This will allow us to learn about their structure, composition and origins. It will also allow us to infer better the conditions at their nurseries outside the Solar System. And finally, it may allow us to identify objects of artificial origin, like finding plastic bottles on an otherwise pristine beach.”
Artificial origin! There he goes again. Could one of these be the wreck of an alien probe, as Loeb stated in a previous paperabout ‘Oumuamua?
“This will be revolutionary, as it will demonstrate that we are not alone and will shed light on advanced technologies beyond our own. It holds the potential for being the most important result in science and technology for centuries to come.”
The ancients never cease to baffle us with the mysterious structures and puzzles they have often left in their wake. Bizarre artifacts, strange relics, and confounding buildings or structures litter the landscape of history, often challenging us on what we think we know of ages gone by. One very mysterious such structure can be found in the country of Lebanon, where a temple and its vast monoliths have been baffling engineers and archeologists for years.
Nestled within the foothills of Lebanon’s fertile Beqaa Valley is an ancient city called Baalbek. Considering the valley itself has been continuously inhabited for approximately the past 9,000 years the city is absolutely ancient, with a long history spanning back to the dawn of civilization, and it has over the eons been passed from the Egyptians and Assyrians on to the Greeks, the Roman Empire, and beyond, and throughout it all this has long been considered a mystical and holy place by all who set foot here. The large number of ancient temples and religious ruins here are testament to this long history as a sacred place, and one of the first that was erected here was an altar built by the Canaanites in 2,000 BC for the purpose of trying to appease and harness the powers of their god Baal, who controlled rain, thunder, fertility and agriculture. When Alexander the Great swept in in 334 BC, the temple area was expanded and enlarged, and changes and additions continued on with the coming of subsequent conquerors such as the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Greeks, who called it the called Heliopolis, or “City of the Sun,” but perhaps the biggest changes were made by the Roman Empire.
Baalbek
The then ruler of the Empire, Julius Caesar himself, launched a massive campaign to erect an enormous temple complex that was envisioned as encompassing three main gigantic temples dedicated to Jupiter, god of sky and thunder, the god of agriculture and wine, Bacchus, and the goddess of love and beauty, Venus, and additionally another temple would be built in honor of the god Mercury on a nearby hill. It was an ambitious project to say the least, and indeed Julius Caesar would never see it completed as it would take around 3 centuries before the immense temples were completed. The Roman Empire was certainly the heyday of Baalbek, but although the Romans left behind many breathtaking ruins here from the era, they also left behind some perplexing unsolved mysteries.
While all of the temples of the complex are impressive, the mystery lies within the one dedicated to Jupiter, which measures 47.7 m × 87.75 m (156.5 ft × 287.9 ft), and sits elevated above the land around it, once decked out with 54 giant columns, of which only a few remain. What really makes it stand out are the three colossal megalithic blocks squatting on one side of its podium, each measuring 22 meters in length and weighing over a hundred tons, and all of them carefully and tightly linked together upon a foundation of 6 massive blocks of granite. These gargantuan stones are collectively known as the Trilithon, and they are so incredibly heavy that no one is quite sure how they were put into such a precise position there, as not only are they raised a considerable distance above the ground, but the nearest quarry for these rocks lies around 1 km away.
Massive stones at the Temple of Jupiter
The stones themselves are far too heavy for any known method the Romans had at their disposal to move them such distances or place them as they are. Even the sophisticated cranes the Romans were known to have used were not believed to be sufficient to lift such massive mighty weight, and it doesn’t look like any one even tried, as the Romans usually drilled holes into heavy rocks to help them be moved by crane, called “Lewis holes,” but the Trilithon have no such holes. So how did they do it? There have been theories that they could have been sort of rolled into place along earthen banks, or that they used some system of capstans, pulleys, or other tools to inch the rocks along with the help of hundreds of men, but no one has really been able to adequately explain it or show how it would have actually been possible with the tools available to the people of the era, and indeed moving and precisely placing such massive rocks would be quite difficult to do even with the technology we have now. At the moment no one can really figure out how they not only moved these rocks from the quarry, but also raised them and put them into such a perfectly aligned position.
Adding to the mystery is another rock of even larger dimensions lying partially buried and discarded nearby called the Stone of the South, which is 19.6 meters (64 feet) in length, 6 meters (19.6 feet) in width, and about 5.5 meters (18 feet) in height, and claimed to weigh over 1,000 tons, and within the quarry itself is yet another enigma called the “Stone of the Pregnant Woman.” This rock is 69 x 16 x 13 feet in dimension, also weighs around 1,000 tons, and in this case is still attached to the quarry, only partially unearthed as if it was abandoned in mid-construction. Both of these enigmatic giant stones are some of the oldest human hewn megalithic rocks known to man, and seem to suggest that there was still construction going on that was abandoned for reasons unknown. Indeed, no one is really even sure of why the Trilithon was built in the first place or even how old it is. Some ideas are that it was used as a retaining wall, that they were meant to be eventual foundation stones for something even larger, or that it was merely an impressive show of religious devotion, but no one really knows why it was made or why construction was seemingly halted.
Of course as with many other mysterious megalithic sites around the world there are more far out theories. Some have suggested that the Trilithon actually not only predates the Romans and the Greeks, but also was not even built by humans at all, and Baalbek is often mentioned in the same breath as ancient aliens. Why aliens would want to build it is anyone’s guess, but it remains a popular theory among ancient alien theorists, who claim that it is not just improbable that humans moved these stones, but that it is downright impossible without some incredible technology that we don’t even possess now. Other equally fringe theories are that this was the anomalous work of some lost civilization from beneath the earth that had access to antigravity technology, or that the giant blocks were actually moved by a lost race of ancient literal giants.
Making the pursuit of answers more frustrating is that there seem to be no Roman written records on the construction of this marvel of engineering, making its creators, methods, and purpose lost to the mists of time and open to debate and conspiracy theories. In the end we are left to wonder who built the Trilithon of the Temple of Jupiter and why? Indeed, how did they do it and why is there no record of it? Was this the work of some unknown Roman method of using applied physics, some previously known technology they had that was well ahead of its time? Was it the work of some lost civilization or even aliens? Why did they stop? There is no real way to know the answers to any of these questions, and Baalbek remains an enigmatic place full of great wonder, historical significance, and inscrutable mysteries.
One of the most disquieting news trends over the last few years has been the seemingly rapid proliferation of mysterious booms being heard and felt around the world. While these anomalous airborne explosions have been well-documented throughout North America and have even been under FBI scrutiny, most remained unexplained.
At least one high-profile case of mystery booms has been solved – although the explanation is somewhat more terrifying than alien spacecraft or Chinese spy planes breaking the sound barrier over residential neighborhoods. In one case, a New Jersey man was arrested for testing out homemade bombs in a would-be terrorist plot.
While those booms in New Jersey were eventually explained, dozens of more cases remained unsolved. The latest string of anomalous booms to make the news cycle happened this week in Arizona where residents report a “string of mysterious explosions” in a neighborhood in North Phoenix. Rattled residents say the booms have been happening for a few months now, but police have yet to identify a source.
This week, however, a security camera caught what appears to be an explosion occurring on a residential street. A loud blast can be heard on the footage, and a wisp of smoke and shower of small rocks can just barely be seen at the uppermost edge of the frame. Some neighbors believe “something bomb-related” is happening, while others of course think something stranger could be going on.
I still stand by my gut feeling that most of these booms are caused by secret aircraft activity.
Just last week, an extremely bright explosion was seen in the skies above California and the next day a few drivers in Arizona had their cars damaged by falling rocks. Could all of these be related? What exactly is going on out in the desert?
A huge breakthrough has been discovered in the search for alien life as astronomers have detected water in the atmosphere of a distant planet. The large gas planet, called HR 8799c, is located 179 light years away from us.
A team of researchers at Keck Observatory in Maunakea, Hawaii discovered the planet. After a picture was taken of the planet, astronomers picked apart the planet’s light by using equipment called spectrometers. The spectrometer on the Keck 2 telescope, which is called the Near-Infrared Cryogenic Echelle Spectrograph (NIRSPEC), showed the chemicals that were in the planet’s atmosphere. When experts used spectroscopy with adaptive optics to study the planet, that’s when they discovered that there is water in the atmosphere, and an absence of methane.
The planet, one of four which orbit the star HR 8799, was found 179 light years away in the constellation Pegasus
Dimitri Mawet, who is an associate professor of astronomy at Caltech, explained, “This type of technology is exactly what we want to use in the future to look for signs of life on an Earth-like planet.” He added, “We aren’t there yet but we are marching ahead.”
The planet is one of four that are orbiting the star named HR 8799 which is located in the Pegasus constellation. Astronomers have previously taken pictures of over a dozen exoplanets, but HR 8799 is currently the only multi-planet solar system that has been photographed. Scientists hope to perform the same process with other small planets that are situated close to their own stars.
Scientists at the Keck Observatory wrote that their goal is to search for chemicals such as water, methane, and oxygen which point to a habitable atmosphere on Earth-like planets. They hope to do this with a new impending instrument called the Thirty Meter Telescope which they plan to do in upcoming years – late in the 2020s.
Ji Wang is the lead author of an Astronomical Journal paper written on the new findings. He said “Right now, with Keck, we can already learn about the physics and dynamics of these giant exotic planets, which are nothing like our own solar system planets.” He also explained, “We are now more certain about the lack of methane in this planet. This may be due to mixing in the planet’s atmosphere.”
The huge gas planet HR 8799c is seven times bigger than Jupiter which is the biggest planet in our solar system. In fact, Jupiter is so massive that over 1,300 Earths could fit inside of the gas planet. And with this new HR 8799c planet being seven times larger than Jupiter, well, that’s what you call extremely massive.
This video was sent to ApexTV by a man who works as a security guard for a law office in Alaska. He was able to catch something extremely strange on a security camera in the main lobby.
What you’re about to see is immensely bizarre. Watch this and decide for yourself. Due to the appearance of the strange man, many people online have come to the conclusion that this is an actual sighting of the infamous men in black, who are said to be the ones who keep witnesses of strange events quiet about what they have seen.
Following the mysterious men in black footage Apex TV was recently able to get in contact with Nicole, who claims to be the woman from the video who appeared to have been taken by the men in black.
In a live interview with Nicole, Apex TV attempt to sort out exactly what happened in the strange piece of security camera footage.
According to Collective-Evolution it turns out that the reason for the encounter, as stated by Nicole, was simply to inquire about her pictures and her experience she had with some friends.
While she and her friends were hiking, she came across a cave and decided to check it out on her own in the morning. The cave, as she describes, was lined with crystals, but nothing out of the ordinary happened.
The Men in Black, seemed to be very curious if she saw anything while she was in the cave. After the encounter, she said she was given a vaccine. She wasn’t supposed to remember anything when she woke up as she was told, but she does. There also seems to have been telepathic communication.
Regardless of whether or not we know that this encounter is genuine, it is certainly worth considering given how much it aligns with other well documented Men in Black encounters.
UFO With Red And Green Lights Flying Low Along Road In Argentina, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 25, 2018
Location of sighting: Argentina
This video was shot by a driver over last weekend at National Route 9, on the way to La Cienaga Resevoir. The woman was traveling at night with her family when they spotted the glowing UFO lights along the road. The full video lasts 47 seconds. The woman states that the UFO, "has no wheels, legs or anything, and is in the air."
Argentina is a hotspot for UFO sightings. A lot of UFO researchers like myself believe that aliens have base entrances in the Andes Mountains which is on Argentinas western boarder. The Andes has over a dozen volcanos in which aliens could be using as entrances. Remember how the police in Denver, Colorado recorded glowing white balls of light buzzing around the Colorado Rockies? Same thing...alien chose those bases long ago to avoid human contact, but modern civilization has made most those locations accessible.
Black Triangle UFO Causes Lightning Storm On Video, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Black Triangle UFO Causes Lightning Storm On Video, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 2018
Location of sighting: unknown
This UFO was recorded during a lightning storm by a kid. The triangle UFO didn't fly into the storm, I believe its the cause of the storm. UFOs are frequently the cause of strange weather phenomenon like lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes and even earthquakes. Not all are caused by UFOs, but some are.
UFO Seen Falling From The Sky During Sunset, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen Falling From The Sky During Sunset, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 2018
Location of sighting: unknown A person recorded this falling object during sunrise this week. The object appears to fall very slowly, too slowly to be a meteor and too slow to be space garbage. It looks like a UFO that is about to land far away. During sunset when the sun is at a 90 degree angle, UFOs do become visible for a few minutes. Its the #1 time to catch a UFO if you just sit and watch the sunset. Watch a few, and you will see one in a week or less. Scott C. Waring
De aarde werd op 11 november opgeschud door vreemde seismische golven en niemand weet waarom
De aarde werd op 11 november opgeschud door vreemde seismische golven en niemand weet waarom
Mysterieuze seismische golven die drie weken geleden zijn opgepikt van Madagaskar tot Canada, stellen wetenschappers voor een raadsel.
Onderzoekers die de signalen hebben geregistreerd zeggen dat ze afkomstig waren uit een gebied voor de kust van het eiland Mayotte (foto).
De golven werden op 11 november gedetecteerd en waren meer dan 20 minuten meetbaar. De meesten hebben er niets van gemerkt.
Nog nooit
Ze lijken op golven die na zware aardbevingen worden waargenomen en die zich over enorme afstanden kunnen verplaatsen. In het gebied was op die dag echter geen zware aardbeving.
Mogelijke verklaringen voor de mysterieuze golven lopen uiteen van een meteorietinslag tot een onderzeese uitbarsting.
“Volgens mij heb ik nog nooit zoiets gezien,” zei seismoloog Goran Ekstrom van de Columbia University tegen National Geographic.
Heel vreemd
“Dat betekent nog niet dat iets heel exotisch er verantwoordelijk voor is,” aldus Ekstrom, die gespecialiseerd is in ongewone aardbevingen.
Op Twitter werd op de bewuste 11 november druk gediscussieerd over het vreemde fenomeen.
“Dit is een heel vreemd en ongewoon seismisch signaal,” schreef gebruiker matarikipax op Twitter bij een plaatje van een seismogram afkomstig uit Kenia.
Zigzagpatroon
In de loop van de dag lieten anderen weten dat de golven ook in Chili, Nieuw-Zeeland, Canada en Hawaï waren gedetecteerd.
De signalen vertoonden een zigzagpatroon en herhaalden zich elke 17 seconden, meldt National Geographic.
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Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.