Fisherman Records A Video Of Mysterious Lights Over Dark Atlantic

A 90-second video has made rounds on social media after many viewers raised questions about a possible UFO sighting off the coast of North Carolina.

Video licensing agency ViralHog posted the recording on November 29 stating that it was taken on mid-November at Cape Lookout located in the southernmost point of the Core Banks.

 When asked for a comment about the possible UFO sighting, National Park Service officials at Cape Lookout National Seashore said they weren’t sure what the set of mysterious lights might be. All they could say that those lights were peculiar.

Viral Hog did not provide the name of the fisherman, but someone named C.R. Larkin posted the same video on November 24, revealing that it was recorded on November 13 off Cape Lookout, between 9 and 10 pm.

According to the story, he rebaited his hooks at around 9 pm, cast them out in to the surf and walked back to his chair. When he turned back to the ocean, he saw a very bright light in the sky that was stationary and silent. It faded in and out throughout the next hour and sometimes became multiple lights.

The lights disappeared at one point for almost 20 minutes and then reappeared much closer to his position, according to the fisherman.

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15-12-2018 om 10:52 geschreven door peter  

Alien robot spotted by NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars - shock claim

NASA’S Martian rover is not the only robot exploring Mars after UFO hunters believed they spotted an alien probe scouring the Red Planet.

14-12-2018 om 18:24 geschreven door peter  

14-12-2018 om 18:05 geschreven door peter  

Bizarre UFO Filmed Over Lake Ladoga, Russia. December 5, 2018

This footage was captured at Lake Ladoga which is in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia. In this video we first see what this person see as some lights in the sky that don't belong there but in the second where he goes to have a better look we can see the craft in all it glory and what is even more stunning is the footage catches another object move very fast to join up with this UFO...

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14-12-2018 om 17:35 geschreven door peter  

Un étrange avion furtif top secret filmé à Omaha

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• www.dailystar.co.uk 

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Blog | Why do extraterrestrial visitors come to our small planet?

 By Cheryl Costa

Why are extraterrestrials here? It’s the most common question I get asked during media interviews, at UFO conferences, and from just everyday people who know I write about the subject.

The answer isn’t easy because Earth humans don’t have a clue regarding the extraterrestrials’ interests. In our own culture we all have different motivations, be it fame, fortune, family life and other influences. We’re certainly not all the same in terms of our needs, desires and pursuits.

Cultural aspects play a big part in our interests and outlook. I’ve met people who have told me they’ve never seen Star Trek or Star Wars. I’ve also known others who have never read Harry Potterbooks or seen the movie adaptations. Just these few dissimilarities alone define a vast difference in western cultural perspective.

So when it comes to extraterrestrials, too many people try to interpret them from a specific human cultural viewpoint.

Why are extraterrestrials here? I tend to think humans are interesting to watch and study. I suppose that might be the extraterrestrial xenoanthropologist’s viewpoint.

If you are a follower of the Ancient Astronaut theory, there seems to be a huge preponderance of evidence to suggest that extraterrestrials have been visiting during human evolution. They seem to have been teaching our ancient forbearers’ arts and sciences, as well as nudging us as a species toward technologically being capable of leaving this planet in the far future.

• Related: A First Contact Event: Examining the human response to alien life

Then there’s what I call the extraterrestrial protector and nanny caretaker aspect. On the morning of April 14, 1561, the citizenry of the German city of Nuremberg awoke to a massive aerial battle going on in the skies over the city. It happened again five years later in Basel, Switzerland, on July 27 and 28 and Aug. 7, 1566. Was this a clash between an off-world aggressor species and another caretaker species?

Of course, Nuremberg and Basel were long ago, so how about something a bit more modern? In July and August 1945 the United States detonated three nuclear weapons: one in the New Mexico desert, followed by nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Shortly afterward, strange crafts in our world’s skies became a major topic of discussion.

In June and July 1947, there was a massive wave of “flying saucer-type” craft reported from 39 states via the wire services of the day. There was an exhaustive study in the 1960s by NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) author Ted Bloecher in his book Report on the UFO Wave of 1947.

Did our nanny off-world caretakers realize that our war was like primitive species playing with a box of nuclear matches? Perhaps this set off concerns with the nanny ET caretakers.

Evidence of this is well documented in Robert Hastings’ book UFOs and Nukes. Hastings interviewed more than 80 former Air Force missile officers; he heard accounts that during the Cold War unknown craft hovered over and disabled nuclear missiles and their control facilities at various times during the mid- to late-1960s. But that was 50 years ago, so what are our nanny ET caretakers concerned about these days?

In February 2018 I interviewed intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of the top-secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). He told me that the “UFOs seem to be interested in our most advanced military technology.”

Another answer seems to come from two sources. First, author Thomas Conwell, who has a series of THEY Are Here books, has spent several years studying the cluster patterns of certain types of UFOs, He has noted a trend where the nanny ET caretakers seem acutely interested in our polluted areas, strip mining and waste areas.

Second, studies of abductees and experiancers seem to indicate that the nanny ET caretakers keep telling these humans a common message: “Take care of your planet!”

So why are extraterrestrials here? I think the best answer is to protect the Earth’s human species from aggressor off-world species who would subjugate us or destroy us. The other answer seems to be to protect and guide humans from destroying itself and this lovely blue planet we live on.

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• UFO MEGA CON, Laughlin, Nevada, March 24-30
• Ozark Mountains UFO Conference, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, April 12-14
• Phoenix MUFON, Tempe, Arizona, May 11
• Pine Bush UFO Festival, Pine Bush, New York, May 18
• Michigan UFO Con-Tact, Houghton Lake, Michigan, Sept. 20-21
• Greater New England UFO Conference, Leominster, Massachusetts, Oct. 4-5

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14-12-2018 om 16:05 geschreven door peter  

Retelling the Story That First Made Area 51 a Household Name

In 1989, a man by the name of Bob Lazar's story about working on UFOs at a secret government facility in the desert sparked decades of Area 51 fan fare. Now Lazar is telling his story in full in the new documentary, 'Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers.' The film's director Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell tells Cheddar what first drew him to Lazar's story.

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14-12-2018 om 15:54 geschreven door peter  

I-Team: Local man's UFO story makes it to the big screen

14-12-2018 om 15:41 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting at Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, Kangaroo Island

Stan Gorton

 KI UFO: A cropped and zoomed-in version of Andrew Isaacson's UFO photograph taken at Cape Willoughby Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island.

International visitor Andrew Isaacson inadvertently captured an unidentified flying object while visiting Cape Willoughby Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island.

He took the photograph of the UFO at 4.25pm on Wednesday, December 5 in perfectly clear conditions.

Mr Isaacson now wants to know if anyone else saw anything else unexplained flying around the Dudley Peninsula or Kangaroo Island in the past few weeks.

“Just when I stopped taking photos and moved the camera down, I saw something out of the corner of my eye,” he said. “Whatever it was moved silently and exceptionally quickly.”

He didn’t realise he had captured the object on his camera until he got back to his accommodation and started downloading and going through his photos from the day.

His only thought was that it could have been some kind of unmanned drone, as it did not move like a plane or helicopter. 

He said it appeared to be about a “football field” distance off the shoreline below the lighthouse.

“I’d be interested to know if anyone else reported a sighting that day,” he said.

Mr Isaacson was originally from Sydney but now lives and works as an interior designer in Berlin, Germany.

He was on Kangaroo Island with his mother who was celebrating her 90^th birthday and were staying with friends at the Seaview Lodge in Penneshaw. 

 KI UFO: The original version of Andrew Isaacson's UFO photograph taken at Cape Willoughby Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island.

The Islander last reported on KI UFO after National Geographic published an article about an explained sighting over Kangaroo Island in 1969.

There have been numerous other UFO reports over the years reported in this newspaper. 

Have you ever seen any usual activity in the skies above Kangaroo Island?

We would love to hear about it – please contact stan.gorton@fairfaxmedia.com.au 

Here are some of our reader comments posted on The Islander Facebook after our previous UFO coverage:

• A friend of mine tagged me in article in the National Geographic. I live on the Dudley peninsula not far from antechamber bay, around November last year myself a friend and my 7-year-old son all saw one night what we first thought was just a satellite. But then it became brighter also changing colours from white blue to green and erratically changing direction several times before speeding off and out of sight. – Leonard Deacon

• Years ago, driving home- Nth coast road onto Pratt’s Rd, I saw a light in the sky to the west, like a star, but four times as big, and too high to be a house light. I pulled over and watched it for a while, thinking maybe it was a plane coming directly toward me, but it didn’t move. Eventually I went home, but when curiosity got to me I went back out to check it out again, but it was gone. I’ll never know what it was, but it was certainly unusual. – Liz Fogg

• There was one time when i was about 10 it was above the hill and shot to ironstone point and back .we watched it for about 2 minutes then it vanished. Others saw it too. About 1975. Never forgotten it . A huge bright light. – ​Dallys Griffiths 

• I used to see it quite often at certain times of the year. I think it was a star perhaps Venus low on the horizon to the west over Middle River. – ​Carol Houston

• I had an experience years ago coming back from Kingscote to American River, I was watching a weird light then it disappeared then a minute later this bright light came flat out behind me then shot off was very strange indeed. – ​Nikki Redman 

• I also remember Jane Bowering saying in the late 90's she had an encounter on platform highway one night. I don't think Jane is the kind of person to tell lies either. – Daniel Glasson 

• Yep, and no one believed me, lol. Saw it in Kingscote. Can’t explain it, wasn’t a plane or anything else. – Simone Yvette Halloran 

• Those are Chinese spy planes. – ​Anna Mae Junio 

• Those bloody crossroads at Destree!! – ​Natasha Jane Kearslake

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14-12-2018 om 15:24 geschreven door peter  

Teacher reveals creepy details of Aussie UFO sighting in rare audio

A key witness in a 1966 mass UFO sighting in Melbourne claimed the object was “playing games” with local planes in chilling rare audio.

Ally Foster@allyjfoster

First ever UFO footage declassified

Extremely rare audio has emerged online that is believed to be of an interview with the only adult known to have spoken out about an infamous 1966 mass UFO sighting in Melbourne.

On April 6, 1966 over 300 students and some staff reportedly witnessed a UFO flying silently in the sky before disappearing behind some nearby trees.

Andrew Greenwood was a teacher at Westall High School when the object was spotted and is one of the only adults to have spoken about his experience.

It has been 52 years since the alleged sighting but there are very few eyewitness details that have emerged in that time.

Though rare audio, believed to be of an interview between Mr Greenwood and American physicist, Dr James E McDonald, may shed some light on what really happened.

The sighting occurred at Westall High School in 1966.

Source:Herald Sun

The audio was recently published by the YouTube channel QUFOSR and claims to be a “huge piece of evidence for the case”.

A link to the audio was sent to news.com.au by the owner of the channel, who believes it may be the first time the interview has been posted online.

A recording of Mr McDonald describing the interview has been posted online before but audio of the actual interview is very rare.

Though news.com.au cannot verify the claims it is Mr McDonald and Mr Greenwood speaking on the tape, it is still brings an interesting perspective on the baffling case.

At the beginning of the interview Mr Greenwood told Mr McDonald that he initially brushed off the girl that ran into his classroom claiming there was a UFO outside.

However, at recess time, he thought he might as well go have a look outside, purely out of curiosity, it was then that he saw about 300 students and a few teachers all gathered on the oval.

“I observed the object everyone was looking at. It was grey against a blue grey sky so I didn’t see it immediately,” Mr Greenwood said.

“The only thing I’ve got to compare it against is some smaller sized cessna aircraft and it was approximately two thirds the length of one of those.”

He said it was hard to make out the exact shape but the best way he could describe it was a big plate with a bulge in the middle.

According to Mr Greenwood, the object moved in a very strange way and was a lot faster than any other aircraft he had ever seen.

“It did hover at times, it seemed to be able to accelerate and disappear out of sight and then someone would see it over in another part of the sky,” he said.

“It moved a considerable distance away very rapidly and then moved back again.”

At one point the object moved towards the crowd, but it moved in such a way that it was impossible to know it was moving until it was right in front of them.

“It came towards us, not that we could see it actually coming towards us, but we could see that it was closer now than it was before. It would go up and down. It could move slowly, but generally it seemed to hover or move really fast,” he said.

The sudden appearance of a light plane made the encounter even more bizarre, with Mr Greenwood noting the UFO seemed to be playing some sort of game with the planes.

“[The plane] approached it and then tried to move around it and [the UFO] moved over to another part of the sky very rapidly. The plane followed it over and it moved back again,” he said.

The sighting sparked a lot of speculation by the local paper.

Picture: QUFOSR/YouTubeSource:YouTube

“It seemed to be playing cat and mouse with the plane.”

More planes started to arrive and by the end Mr Greenwood said there were about five planes in the sky with the object.

According to the teacher the UFO was in the sky for about 25 minutes from when it was first noticed and then suddenly it just disappeared.

“It just vanished. It did one of its accelerations and then no one could pick it up again. It was gone,” Mr Greenwood said.

The incident understandably attracted a lot of attention from the local media, with The Dandenong Journal covering the event in great detail and running two front page stories on it.

The Age also ran a small article about the sighting, writing that the unidentified object may have been a weather balloon.

Even though it is the largest mass sighting in Australia to date, hardly any other newspapers made mention of the event, apart from The Sun and The Herald running a few cartoons poking fun at the claim.

There were no pictures of the Westall UFO but this is a photograph of another sighting that was captured just a year before. The exact location of the photo is unknown.

Source:News Corp Australia

At the time, there were a lot of claims that the government was trying to get people to stop talking about the sighting, along with several; witnesses saying sharply dressed men in black suits visited them and warned them from speaking about the incident.

Despite over 300 people seeing the light planes in the sky with the object, the closest airport, Moorabbin, denied having any planes in the sky at that time.

“I drive past (Moorabbin) several times a day and there is never a time when there’s not planes taking off or coming in,” Mr Greenwood can be heard saying.

“So I think it was rather a silly statement for them to make that at that time there were no planes in the sky.”

People are still trying to figure out what exactly those 300 people saw. Picture: Supplied.

Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

When Mr Greenwood tried to speak with the physical education teacher who also witnessed the event all she would admit is that she “saw something” but then refused to speak about it anymore.

He also said he was met with complete denial from the headmaster who didn’t want to hear anything about it and even accused him of being hung over and seeing things.

“He is one of these people that runs his school on the book and if it’s not in the book you don’t do it. And there is nothing about how to handle UFO sightings in the book. Therefore you ignore them,” Mr Greenwood said.

He said that after the incident the school received a visit from the Royal Australian Airforce but the headmaster didn’t want to hear anything they had to say and “promptly told them to get lost”.

The interview offers a rare first-hand account of what may have happened that day.

The sighting sparked worldwide interest, with people still debating about what those students and staff actually saw.

Some believe it was definitely an alien encounter while others suspect it may have been new government technology.

@allyjfoster

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14-12-2018 om 15:12 geschreven door peter  

NASA scientist says space alien search should be more 'aggressive'

Experts may have been too quick to discount the possibility that alien UFOs have paid Earth a visit.

These grey guys could already be headed for our planet.

Michael Loccisano / Getty Images for HISTORY

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14-12-2018 om 14:46 geschreven door peter  

14-12-2018 om 14:31 geschreven door peter  

MEER VREEMDE DINGEN IN DE LUCHT  ( VIDEO )

Een paar jaar geleden zag je niet of nauwelijks paarse luchten, nu is dat anders en komen ze uit alle hoeken en gaten tevoorschijn. 

Naast die vreemde luchten, lijkt er opeens ook weer een toename te zijn van onbekende objecten die door de lucht vliegen.

We beginnen met het verhaal van een lezer, die eveneens een aantal foto's meestuurt (dank!). 

Ik woon al zo lang als ik me herinner in de buurt van kassen en ben gewend aan het licht van de kassen. 

Sinds enkele maanden zie ik soms Paars in de lucht. 

Goed, het licht van de kassen reflecteert op de wolken, dat weet ik en ik weet ook dat er met paars word gewerkt sinds kort. Het gekke is, kassen zijn statisch en ze vervagen enkel als de wolken minder worden en zijn weer even fel als de wolken terug zijn. 

Dit is anders met dit paarse licht. Soms is het er een half uurtje en dan vervaagt het naar weg (zodra de zon helemaal onder is). Dan zie ik het tijden niet en ineens is het er weer. Wel altijd op de zelfde plaats. 

Kan iemand mij vertellen wat dit paarse licht is? Ik weet voor een feit dat het geen kas is, aangezien die dan structureel zichtbaar moet zijn. 

De foto’s zijn NIET bewerkt. 

De foto’s met paars nam ik toen ik ging lopen met de hond, de foto zonder paars toen ik terug kwam op het punt waar ik de foto nam zo ongeveer een half uurtje later. het licht (geel) van de kassen is er nog steeds, het paars is weg en dus geen kas. 

Gaarne indien op de website vermeld anoniem. 

Ik heb indien gewenst als bewijs dat ze niet zijn bewerkt ook een filmpje gemaakt.

Het volgende voorval betreft eveneens een soort paarse lucht, maar een ander soort paars dan hierboven omschreven.

Niet alleen een vreemd paarsachtige wolk boven Boston in de Amerikaanse staat Massachusetts, maar in of onder die wolk iets wat daar niet thuishoort. Het is een stilhangend object, bestaande uit vier lichten.

Volgens Tyler van Secureteam is dit voorval ingediend bij Mufon, de publieke database waar iedereen waarnemingen kan deponeren, maar werd de uitgebreide beschrijving van het voorval binnen de kortste keren verwijderd. Hij zegt dat deze organisatie misschien helemaal niet is wat het lijkt, maar dat deze wordt gecontroleerd/bestuurd vanuit de overheid en dat dit wellicht de reden is dat die omschrijving zo snel was verdwenen.

Dit betekent dat we van dit voorval verder dan ook vrij weinig weten, maar bijzonder is het wel.

De volgende vreemde gebeurtenis kwamen we tegen bij het Youtubekanaal van een man die regelmatig bijzondere opnames heeft, genaamd The Hidden Underbelly.

De beelden zijn gemaakt in Karelië in de buurt van een meer Ladoga genaamd. Dit alles is weer te vinden in de buurt van Leningrad en degene die dit gefilmd heeft ziet een aantal vreemde lichten aan de hemel. 

Op een gegeven moment zakt het enigszins weg achter de bomen en komt er zelfs een tweede object in beeld.

Natuurlijk moet je voorzichtig zijn met deze beelden, zeker ook omdat ze uit Rusland komen en ze daar heel goed weten hoe je nepvideo's maakt. Echter, deze ziet er zo op het eerste gezicht vrij echt uit, ook omdat je op een gegeven moment de takken van de bomen voor het object ziet. De heer Alberda zal het daar wel niet mee eens zijn, omdat hij vindt dat alles op deze website nep en GCI is, maar deze zou zo  maar echt kunnen zijn. En als dat zo is, dan is het een heel bijzondere opname.

Ongeveer een jaar geleden was de wetenschap in de ban van een asteroïde/komeet die afkomstig zou zijn uit een ander zonnestelsel. 

Echter, het gedroeg zich anders dan een normaal hemellichaam, waaronder het plotseling versnellen. Hierdoor zijn er steeds meer wetenschappers van overtuigd dat het object in kwestie, Oumuamua genaamd en waar wij ook al eerder over schreven, wellicht toch een ruimteschip is dat afkomstig is uit een ander zonnestelsel.

Nu komt er toch wel het verrassende nieuws dat een aantal astronomen aan de Harvard universiteit een onderzoek hebben gepubliceerd waarin zij bekendmaken dat ze in de buurt van Jupiter nog vier onbekende objecten hebben aangetroffen die wel eens uit een ander zonnestelsel afkomstig zouden kunnen zijn.

Objecten die zich net als Oumuamua vreemd gedragen en zich niet houden aan de regels zoals die normaal gesproken gelden voor hemellichamen, zoals plotseling versnellen, afremmen of van richting veranderen.

Grote vraag is dan natuurlijk wie of wat dat zijn. 

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14-12-2018 om 14:17 geschreven door peter  

Tornadoes From the Ground up Not in the Clouds as Once Thought

Historically, scientists assumed tornado rotation began in storm clouds, creating a funnel that travels downwards. This theory matches what storm chasers commonly observe visually in the field. Viewers often report seeing funnel clouds gradually descending until they make contact with the ground.

But new research combining a new type of Doppler radar with photos and videos of tornadoes formed by supercell thunderstorms shows the opposite is true: Tornadoes materialize from the ground up.

Weather forecasters typically issue tornado warnings based on radar observations of strong rotation above the ground, but the new findings suggest forecasters must re-evaluate their warning procedure, according to the researchers.

A tornado in Galatia, Kansas on 25 May 2012 as it was decaying.

Credit: Jana Houser.

Credit: Nick Nolte, CC-BY-3.0.

Jana Houser standing next to the Rapid X-Pol radar instrument, a new type of rapidly-scanning mobile radar system, during a storm chase on 8 May 2012.

Credit: Jana Houser.

She found clear evidence of rotation at the ground before there was rotation at higher altitudes. Houser then examined other sets of tornado data and found that in many cases, tornado-strength rotation develops at or near the ground first, rather than starting in the cloud itself. In all four datasets she analyzed, none of the tornadoes formed following the classical “top-down” process.

“It emphasizes the fact that we need to have strong, low-level, basically near-ground level rotation, located in the right spot, at the right time, with respect to the larger parent storm circulations in order to form a tornado,” Houser said.

• Jana Houser / Lauren Lipuma
• The American Geophysical Union 

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• http://www.ineffableisland.com/2018/12/tornadoes-from-ground-up-not-in-clouds.html

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14-12-2018 om 14:04 geschreven door peter  

As winter 2018 ensues here in America, the seasonal appearance of one of my favorite unusual natural phenomena–the so-called “mystery booms”–can generally be expected.

Although these unusual “booms” have a wide variety of causes, seasonal appearances in the winter months are sometimes associated with cryoseisms (more commonly known as frost quakes). These are cooler-weather localized phenomena that occur when explosive pressure builds up below ground, often around the time of the first significant freeze of the winter. After groundwater saturation occurs following periods of heavy rain, if temperatures drop below freezing it can result in fractures that result in localized tremors, and sometimes loud “booms” associated with the event.

While these localized “quakes” are an interesting seasonal phenomenon, there are interesting things that are sometimes associated with more conventional seismic phenomena too, such as luminous phenomena known as “earthquake lights.”

Unexplained illumination photographed over Table Rock, North Carolina (image by Bill Fox).

In fact, as of the time I’m writing this, a small 4.4 magnitude earthquake occurred earlier this morning near the Tennessee/North Carolina border, and many residents in my region felt the quake, including yours truly. At approximately 4:16 AM local time, I felt a light, but noticeable shaking that gently rocked my entire home. Presuming it was an earthquake (since my hometown of Asheville, North Carolina is right along the Brevard Fault), I noted the time before attempting to go back to sleep, so that I could gauge whether the timing would be correct if reports the following day indicated that a quake had indeed occurred.

Sure enough, this morning reports from around the region were commenting on the earthquake (the primary 4.4 magnitude quake actually occurred at around 6:30 AM ET, so the light tremblor I felt must have preceded the later, more significant quake). It is not uncommon for lighter quakes to accompany such a seismic event, sometimes occurring before, and after the primary quake.

Here’s where things get a little interesting though; before going back to sleep, the notion struck me to look out the window to see if there were any indications of what might have caused it (apart from my presumption that a small earthquake had just occurred). Looking out the window, I noted a bright light over the horizon in the distance, which was extremely vivid and approximately 1/4 the size of the full moon. Had this been one of the infamous earthquake lights?

Earthquake lights are believed to be natural luminous phenomena that occur around regions where tectonic or seismic activity occur. These little-understood phenomena are a subject of much debate, and theories about their appearances and types of manifestation range from plasmas akin to ball lightning, to the release of gases that become airborne and may ignite, causing illuminations that become visible as they burn.

A famous example of alleged earthquake lights that appear on a recurring basis here in my region are the Brown Mountain Lights, which have been studied a variety of times over the years (to-date, the most comprehensive scientific study occurred decades ago, as undertaken by George R. Mansfield in March and April of 1922; for more on this, see USGS Circular 646, “Origin of the Brown Mountain Light in North Carolina“). Although it was Mansfield’s contention that the distant headlights of locomotives could explain most of the lights, some anecdotal evidence may suggest that the lights are frequently seen in modern times, and often above the horizon (it is this writer’s opinion that a ball-lightning-like plasma may account for at least some of the appearances of the illuminations at Brown Mountain, as potentially documented in this footage obtained by Dr. Daniel B. Caton of Appalachian State University in 2016).

All this to say, in essence, that there is a bit of history of “earthquake lights” around the Brevard Fault area, and coinciding with a small tremblor preceding a 4.4 magnitude earthquake in my region, the thought crossed my mind that I might finally be seeing one of these elusive nocturnal illuminations. It should be noted, of course, that the area over the horizon to the East where the light appeared also happened to be the general area where Venus would be visible in the early morning hours; the problem with the Venus theory, however, was that the sky was completely overcast, with a ceiling at about 36,700 feet (according to accuweather.com). Would Venus, bright though it is, have managed to cut through the dense cloud cover over Asheville this morning?

In short, yes. Venus can appear extremely bright in the early morning sky, and dialing up some stargazing software, I was able to satisfactorily reproduce the conditions of my observation while looking due east at precisely 4:16 AM. Below is a screen grab of what I found:

So at 4:16 AM as I lay awake considering whether I had just experienced an earthquake, I looked out the window and saw no earthquake light, but instead a nearby (and very bright) planet, whose reflected sunlight was cutting through the early morning overcast and giving the distinct impression of an illumination below the cloud ceiling.

What can we learn from this? Well, one of the more interesting takeaways for me was the fact that Venus appeared just as bright in the distance even with a full cloud cover. Thanks to modern star-charting software, I was able to easily determine this (as I could have done even more easily at the time of the observation, by simply using a star watching app on my smartphone, had I not been more intent on trying to go back to sleep at that moment). However, I can see how the unusual brightness of Venus could easily give an observer the impression of a light source at a much lower altitude, due to its ability to cut right through the cloud cover.

Although it’s often said that Venus is mistaken for being a UFO (probably more often than you’d think!), this would be all-the-more understandable considering that its curious brightness can cause it to look like a peculiar light hovering in front of distant clouds. In the meantime, as for any “real” earthquake lights, I suppose I’ll just have to keep looking!

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14-12-2018 om 11:23 geschreven door peter  

Within the first week of the OSIRIS-REx probe arriving at Bennu, it has already detected water on the asteroid. On December 3, 2018, the probe reached the diamond-shaped asteroid in NASA’s first asteroid-sample return mission.

The scientific team pointed three instruments onboard the spacecraft in the direction of Bennu and started their observations. They received data from the probe’s two spectrometers – OVIRS (OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer) and OTES (OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer) – that showed the existence of molecules that contain oxygen and hydrogen atoms that are bonded together. These molecules, which are called “hydroxyls”, are believed to exist across the entire asteroid in water-bearing clay minerals that would indicate that the rocky material on Bennu connected with water at one point. Since Bennu is too small to have ever had liquid water, it’s very possible that it was present on its parent body which was a much bigger asteroid.

Amy Simon, who is the OVIRS deputy instrument scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said, “The presence of hydrated minerals across the asteroid confirms that Bennu, a remnant from early in the formation of the solar system, is an excellent specimen for the OSIRIS-REx mission to study the composition of primitive volatiles and organics.” She went on to say, “When samples of this material are returned by the mission to Earth in 2023, scientists will receive a treasure trove of new information about the history and evolution of our solar system.”

The surface of Bennu contains a mix of rocky, boulder-filled regions, as well as a few smooth regions that do not have boulders. While there are more boulders than initially thought, there is one in particular that scientists are interested in and it’s located at the asteroid’s South Pole. Initial calculations from the OCAMS (OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite) show that the huge boulder is around 164 feet high by 180 feet wide.

• Click here to see a picture of the Bennu asteroid.

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km).

Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

The mission is only conducting preliminary surveys of Bennu at this point as it performs flybys over the asteroid’s North Pole, South Pole, and equator at a distance as close as 4.4 miles. Once they determine Bennu’s mass, scientists can then create a plan for the spacecraft to enter its orbit. While performing the surveys, it also gives the Canadian Space Agency’s OLA (OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter) its first chance to make observations.

The OSIRIS-REx probe will enter Bennu’s orbit on December 31^st and will stay in orbit until the middle of February in 2019. At that point, it will leave the asteroid’s orbit and conduct more flybys for the following survey phase. The probe will get within one mile of the asteroid’s surface which will set a record for the closest orbit of a planetary body by a spacecraft, as well as another record for the smallest body ever orbited by a spacecraft. The OSIRIS-REx is set to leave the asteroid in March 2021 and head back to Earth.

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14-12-2018 om 10:59 geschreven door peter  

Triangular Craft filmed during docking procedure SpaceX Dragon Capsule and the ISS?

During the live coverage on Saturday, December 8 International Space Station crew members used the station’s 57.7-foot (17.6-meter) robotic arm to capture SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft and attach it to the orbiting laboratory.

But during the docking procedure of the dragon capsule and the International Space Station suddenly a triangular object comes into the view moving behind the Dragon capsule until it disappears into space.

It is unknown whether the object originated from the ISS or if it was a UFO.

Below the footage of the the triangular object that looks like a typical TR-3B at the moment it passes the Dragon capsule during the streaming of the docking procedure.

You can also see the object around the 1.35 mark at the original SpaceX Live stream.

  

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14-12-2018 om 10:48 geschreven door peter  

Gold UFO Seen Observing Astronaut On Spacewalk At Space Station, Dec 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: December 2018

Location of sighting: International Space Station

 

This is a golden UFO that came very close to the space station yesterday. An astronaut was outside during a spacewalk rearing the outer walls insulation when an alien craft flew past observing him on live Internet camera. 

 

The UFO is only visible due to its golden color and the bright light reflecting off the space station onto the UFO. The space station flashes at one point and the entire UFO is visible for a split second. 

 

This is 100% proof that alien craft are closely observing the space station and highly interested in how humans deal with the stress of spacewalks. 

Scott C. Waring

 

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14-12-2018 om 10:35 geschreven door peter