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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
A new study analyzes pulses of radio waves coming from a magnetar – a rotating, dense, dead star with a strong magnetic field – located near the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.
Illustration of a magnetar — a rotating neutron star with incredibly powerful magnetic fields.
A team of scientists have analyzed pulses of radio waves coming from a magnetar – a rotating, dense, dead star with a strong magnetic field – that is located near the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. The new research provides clues that magnetars like this one, lying in close proximity to a black hole, could perhaps be linked to the source offast radio bursts, or FRBs. FRBs are high-energy blasts that originate beyond our galaxy but whose exact nature is unknown.
Our observations show that a radio magnetar can emit pulses with many of the same characteristics as those seen in some FRBs. Other astronomers have also proposed that magnetars near black holes could be behind FRBs, but more research is needed to confirm these suspicions.
Magnetars are a rare subtype of a group of objects called pulsars. Pulsars, in turn, belong to a class of rotating dead stars known as neutron stars. Magnetars are thought to be young pulsars that spin more slowly than ordinary pulsars and have much stronger magnetic fields, which suggests that perhaps all pulsars go through a magnetar-like phase in their lifetime.
This video from NASA, released in May 2018, explores the idea that radio pulsars and magnetars might be 2 sides of the same coin, that is, 2 stages in the life of a single object.
The research, published October 24, 2018, in the peer-reviewedAstrophysical Journal, looked at the magnetar named PSR J1745-2900, which is located in the Milky Way’s galactic center, using the largest of NASA’s Deep Space Network radio dishes in Australia. PSR J1745-2900 is the closest known pulsar to the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, separated by a distance of only 0.3 light-years, and it is the only pulsar known to be gravitationally bound to the black hole and the environment around it.
In addition to discovering similarities between the galactic-center magnetar and FRBs, the researchers also gleaned new details about the magnetar’s radio pulses. Using one of the Deep Space Network’s largest radio antennas, the scientists were able to analyze individual pulses emitted by the star every time it rotated, a feat that is very rare in radio studies of pulsars. They found that some pulses were stretched, or broadened, by a larger amount than predicted when compared to previous measurements of the magnetar’s average pulse behavior. Moreover, this behavior varied from pulse to pulse. Pearlman said:
We are seeing these changes in the individual components of each pulse on a very fast time scale. This behavior is very unusual for a magnetar.
The radio components, he noted, are separated by only 30 milliseconds on average.
One theory to explain the signal variability involves clumps of plasma moving at high speeds near the magnetar. Other scientists have proposed that such clumps might exist but, in the new study, the researchers propose that the movement of these clumps may be a possible cause of the observed signal variability. Another theory proposes that the variability is intrinsic to the magnetar itself.
Pearlman and his colleagues hope to use the Deep Space Network radio dish to solve another outstanding pulsar mystery: Why are there so few pulsars near the galactic center? Their goal is to find a non-magnetar pulsar near the galactic-center black hole. Pearlman said:
Finding a stable pulsar in a close, gravitationally bound orbit with the supermassive black hole at the galactic center could prove to be the Holy Grail for testing theories of gravity. If we find one, we can do all sorts of new, unprecedented tests of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Bottom line:In a new study, researchers analyzed pulses of radio waves from a magnetar near the Milky Way galaxy’s central black hole.
The bloke in this video tell us the sun is not gaseous, and is very likely liquid? .....don’t go getting to excited flat earthers, this doesn’t mean space is water and we’re under a dome there satellites, bits of rocket and probes in space
but it is not what the mainstream have been telling us it is. Which if true! What else are they wrong about?
Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica acts as a massive, frozen cork that holds back other glacial masses. If it collapses sea levels could rise. In 2019 ground measurements could reveal just how close the glacier is to collapse.
Credit: NASA/James Yungel
This past year brought tons of fascinating new information about our planet. But as scientists gaze into their crystal balls, they can see that this year is also sure to contain exciting surprises. Here we take a look at the seven most highly anticipated geophysics and Earth science expeditions, missions and meetings of 2019.
1. Inspecting Thwaites Glacier for cracks
Next summer, a major expedition will head to West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. As part of a $25 million research collaboration between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United Kingdom's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), more than 100 scientists from around the world will study the giant glacier, which acts something like a cork holding back other enormous ice masses. Should the glacier begin to collapse, these masses could slide into the ocean and melt, contributing to sea level rise. "Satellites show the Thwaites region is changing rapidly," William Easterling, NSF assistant director for Geosciences, said in a statement. "To answer the key questions of how much and how quickly sea level will change requires scientists on the ground with sophisticated equipment collecting the data we need to measure rates of ice-volume or ice-mass change." [Photos of Melt: Glaciers Before and After]
2. Creating amazing new ice maps
In September 2018, NASA launched the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), a space-based observatory peering at the poles. The mission measures the changing thickness of individual patches of ice from season to season, and can detect increases and decreases as small as a 0.2 inches (0.5 centimeters). Since its launch, the satellite has been collecting a terabyte of data a day and has already produced one of the most detailed maps of Antarctica's ice. Some initial results appeared at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2018 "and the data looks spectacular," physical geographer Michael MacFerrin of the University of Colorado in Boulder, told LiveScience. ICESat-2 will "help revolutionize our real-time views of ice sheets, sea ice and the polar regions in general," he added. "Folks are really excited to work with this dataset once it's out, and I suspect there will be first papers coming out before the end of this year in 2019."
3. Drilling into the cause of an earthquake
Off the southwest coast of Japan, deep below the Pacific Ocean, sits the Nankai Trough, an active subduction zone where one plate of the Earth's crust is slipping beneath another. It is one of the most seismically active places on the planet, responsible for the 8.1-magnitude Tōnankai earthquake that rocked Japan in 1944. This year, the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) began drilling into the fault. It is the "first [expedition] to drill, sample and instrument the earthquake-causing, or seismogenic portion of Earth's crust, where violent, large-scale earthquakes have occurred repeatedly throughout history," according to the mission's website. Rocks collected next year will be analyzed to see how slippery or solid they are, allowing researchers to "understand more about the conditions that might lead to an earthquake on these type of fault," wrote team member John Bedford of the University of Liverpool on the expedition's blog.
4. Measuring the forest and the trees
On Dec. 8, NASA launched the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation lidar (GEDI) experiment to the International Space Station. The instrument will be mounted on the outside of the station so it can peer down at our planet and produce incredibly detailed 3D observations of Earth's temperate and tropical forests. GEDI will aim to answer several fundamental questions, including how much carbon is stored in trees and how deforestation could affect climate change, according to the mission's website. This will in turn help researchers model how nutrients cycle through the forest ecosystems and, because forest heights affect wind patterns around the globe, more accurately predict weather, according to the GEDI website.
5. Exploring a buried Antarctic lake
As you read these words, scientists in Antarctica are drilling into a subglacial lake buried 4,000 feet (1,200 meters) beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Known as Lake Mercer, the body of water is completely disconnected from the rest of the world's ecosystems. Researchers are eager to explore the system and learn more about the organisms that are living there, according to the mission's official website. Once the drill reaches the body of water, "equipment will be lowered into the hole to collect samples, take readings, and photograph a subglacial world never before seen by human eyes," according to the site. [Extreme Life on Earth: 8 Bizarre Creatures]
6. Learning the history of coral reefs
Coral reefs are beautiful yet endangered underwater habitats. Pollution and ocean acidification — caused when oceans absorb carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels — are threatening reefs all over the globe. Beginning in September of next year, a team of researchers will drill into up to 11 locations beneath the oceans around Hawaii, looking to pull up samples from fossilized coral reef systems. These reefs, which will span 500,000 years of recent geologic history, will help answer critical questions about the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and Earth's temperature during this period, and how coral reefs reacted to and recovered from large-scale changes, according to the mission's website. The expedition, named the Hawaiian Drowned Reefs expedition, is being run by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), an international body that conducts scientific drilling missions.
7. Exploring the deep biosphere
For the last 10 years, scientists with the Deep Carbon Observatory have been digging into Earth to learn more about what's buried beneath our feet. In December, they announced new findings about the "deep biosphere," a subterranean reservoir of uncatalogued organisms that could dwarf the amount of life on our planet's surface. Next October, at an international conference in Washington, D.C., the organization will highlight its last decade of research and look forward to 10 more years of exciting expeditions. Researchers at the meeting will present information on "the nature and extent of carbon in Earth's core, the nature of the whole Earth carbon cycle and how has it changed over Earth's history, and the mechanisms that govern microbial evolution and dispersal in the deep biosphere," according to its website.
You’re driving alone down a dirt road, and you’re falling asleep at the wheel. Suddenly, a burst of light streaks across the sky — there’s a floating, flat shape in the air right in front of your truck, and though it soared quickly into view, it seems to have stopped completely. A beam of light shoots out from underneath the craft, and a little man with huge eyes, an enormous head, and a tiny body appears in the middle of the road. He doesn’t want to hurt you; he just wants tostick a probe in your nasal cavity.
Why does this alien encounter story feel predictable and familiar? If humans have never encountered extraterrestrial life, then how did we decide across cultures that aliens have an instantly recognizable shape? If you visit the UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico, it becomes immediately clear that humans have decided on a visual shorthand for alien life: the flying saucers, the little green men with huge black eyes, three fingers, and medical probes. But where did these cliches come from?
In the “believer” community, common threads that connect the stories of “close encounters” include certain types of aliens, spacecraft, and the phenomenon of lost or frozen time. Inverse reviewed first-hand accounts of encounters with alien life to find commonalities, and these were the four most popular descriptors we came across.
A satellite waits for communications.
4. The Gray Aliens
Non-believers often call extraterrestrials “little green men,” which is a reference to the commercialized, cartoon version of aliens. Truthfully, most people who profess to having had close encounters of the “third kind,” meaning contact with another living organism not from Earth, say the alien they met was gray.
Gray aliens — who are otherwise exactly as you’re imagining them, with big foreheads, tiny chins, bodies, and large black eyes — are understood among believers to be the most common. Or, at least, they’re the ones most likely to visit us here on Earth.
In fact, according to research compiled by author C.D.B. Bryan in his 1995 book Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: A Reporter’s Notebook on Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T., 43 percent of reported encounters with aliens describe the figure the same way. People have described the grays as having a host of different personalities, temperaments, and objectives, but among this subsection of encounters, a few things hold true. The grays are always silent, they are always intelligent, and they almost always appear in groups.
Of course, there’s the enduring question of who beat whom to the “grays” archetype: believers or pop culture. If we consider science fiction literature as the origin point of these “grays,” then H.G. Wells is the inventor. In 1893, Wells described alien beings in a short story as “gray-skinned beings who were perhaps one meter tall, with big heads and large, oval-shaped pitch-black eyes.” In a serialized novel he wrote in 1901, Wells used this same description for his invented inhabitants on the moon.
The next time this specific type of alien appeared in pop culture, it was in the collected accounts of witnesses to what’s now called the 1947 Roswell Incident. Despite not being acquainted with each other before the incident, most of the people who reported seeing aliens in Roswell after the crash described them almost exactly the way Wells had.
Despite having originated in a science fiction story, the grays are collectively considered a definitive part of the conversation about alien life. At the UFO Festival in 2016, speakers on panels repeatedly referred to “the grays” as the most agreeable and least aggressive “type” of extraterrestrial that appears in witness reports.
An astronaut repairs a satellite.
3. The Study of Humans by Aliens
It’s very rare for a witness who professes they’ve made contact with alien life to say they were outright attacked. Perhaps because violent encounters would yield physical evidence — bruises, broken bones, signs of forced entry into one’s home — most people who say they were abducted or contacted by extraterrestrials describe aliens carrying out a calm, medicinal, and sometimes invasive form of study.
That means humans tend to agree on the narrative that aliens might have visited the Earth simply to study our bodies and culture. Of course, several times throughout his life, Stephen Hawking expressed his worry that extraterrestrial contact would cast the inhabitants of the Earth as vulnerable. After all, if an alien civilization were able to find Earth and travel to us, that means their technology would already outpace ours. “One day, we might receive a signal from a planet like this,” Hawking said in 2016, referring to a potentially habitable planet known as Gliese 832c. “But we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn’t turn out so well.”
The government's stance on space travel has changed a lot in the last decade.
2. The Government Knows About These Aliens
Ever since the local government blamed the Roswell incident on a weather balloon, believers had maintained that the United States is fully aware of past run-ins with extraterrestrials. Most imagine a situation much like the one that plays out in 1996’s Independence Day, in which the president (Bill Pullman) is only told about the nation’s history of third-kind encounters when tensions between humans and aliens become untenable.
In 2014, Foreign Policy reported the US government had a contingency plan in place just in case a zombie apocalypse were to erupt, and paranormal theorists took that opportunity to investigate the government’s policy for alien life.
While the governments of the world have reportedly played around with loose post-detection policies for extraterrestrial life — tell the United Nations, share all available data, and maintain full transparency with the rest of the world — none have gone public with their plans.
When it comes to the theory that the American government knows about extraterrestrial life, hasn’t told its citizens, and is currently hiding proof, the nucleus of the conspiracy is Area 51 in Nevada. Many have claimed to have spotted evidence of alien life on the desert government property, but as far as we know, it’s only been used for experimental weapons development. That’s a creepy enough fact on its own.
Is it a cloud or a UFO? It depends on how much you're willing to believe.
1. A Flat Saucer Making Hair-Pin Turns Is Something That Happens
According to the world’s largest network of alien “believers,” the Mutual Unidentified Flying Object Network (MUFON), reports of alien encounters have made it clear that any visitors to Earth possess technology far more advanced than our own. Admittedly, if one were to search through MUFON members’ uploaded, original drawings, which they commission from those who say they’ve met aliens, there are noticeable similarities.
For whatever reason, believers don’t tend to say that alien spacecraft look like the rockets humans habitually send into the atmosphere. They’re never sitting in cars, either.
According to most eyewitness accounts, they look more like stealth drones, ranging in size from an entire football field to a single kayak. If they’re not completely smooth and saucer-shaped, they’re usually triangular in shape, and they almost always bear flashing lights.
Find out how The CW imagines alien life in the series premiere of Roswell, New Mexico on January 15th – Tuesday at 9/8c.
Het flitst in de ruimte, en niemand die met zekerheid aliens kan uitsluiten
Het flitst in de ruimte, en niemand die met zekerheid aliens kan uitsluiten
Op alle mogelijke manier wordt geprobeerd om signalen van buitenaards leven op te vangen. rr
Het kúnnen natuurlijk aliens zijn die er lol in vinden om aardlingen een beetje te stangen. Maar wellicht zijn de geheimzinnige snelle radioflitsen die vanuit de ruimte op de aarde worden afgevuurd, toch eenvoudiger te verklaren.
HILDE VAN DEN EYNDE
Ook voor astronomen blijven ze een mysterie: snelle radioflitsen, plotse uitbarstingen van krachtige radiogolven, die slechts een fractie van een seconde duren. Wat de raadselachtige flitsen doet ontstaan, is onbekend, net als waar ze hun fabelachtige hoeveelheid energie vandaan halen – één snelle radioflits slingert in een duizendste van een seconde méér energie de kosmos in dan onze zon in een jaar produceert.
Het fenomeen stelt astronomen al voor raadsels sinds in 2007 de eerste keer een radioflits werd opgemerkt door een Australische sterrenwacht. Dat ze van buiten onze Melkweg afkomstig moeten zijn, is zowat het enige dat met zekerheid over snelle radioflitsen is geweten. Tenminste, daar gaan astronomen van uit sinds ze de bron van een repeterende, snelle radioflits, FRB 121102 geheten, konden lokaliseren in een onopvallend dwergsterrenstelsel op zo’n drie miljard lichtjaar van de aarde. FRB 121102 was tot dusver de enige radioflits die meerdere keren van zich heeft laten horen – voor het vijftigtal andere waargenomen flitsen gold: één keer en daarna voor altijd Funkstille.
Aandrijving van ruimteschepen?
Tot nu. Vandaag rapporteren Canadese astronomen in het topblad Nature dat ze vorige zomer tijdens een drie weken durende waarnemingscampagne met de geavanceerde radiotelescoop Chime (in de Canadese provincie British Columbia) dertien snelle radioflitsen konden detecteren. In één geval werd een flits vijf keer herhaald, alsof iemand ergens voortdurend op de repeatknop zat te duwen.
‘Aliens!’, roept u nu en voorlopig hebben astronomen geen sluitende argumenten om die hypothese af te wijzen. Avi Loeb, een astrofysicus van Harvard, acht het bijvoorbeeld denkbaar dat de snelle radioflitsen afkomstig zijn van een stroomlekkage in de aandrijving van buitenaardse ruimteschepen. De meesten van Loebs collega’s denken daar iets nuchterder over en zoeken een verklaring voor de snelle radioflitsen in astrofysische verschijnselen. Maar ook daar is de keuze ruim: voorlopig circuleren er bijna evenveel hypotheses als er snelle radioflitsen gezien zijn. Een onlinelijstje telt er 47, waaronder bliksemende pulsars, barensweeën van prille neutronensterren en een fusie tussen neutronensterren en witte dwergen.
‘Verstrooiing’
Dat de meerderheid van de dertien nieuw ontdekte flitsen tekenen van ‘verstrooiing’ vertoont, wijst er volgens de Canadezen op dat ze uit ‘onrustige’ delen van de kosmos afkomstig zijn. Daarmee wordt niet bedoeld: zones die vergeven zijn van de aliens, maar magnetisch en anderszins bizarre uithoeken van het heelal. ‘Zoals een dichte klomp massa, een restant van een supernova bijvoorbeeld’, zegt teamlid Cherry Ng in een persmededeling. ‘Of iets dat in de buurt ligt van het centrale zwarte gat van een sterrenstelsel. Het moet een bijzonder plekje zijn, gezien de mate van verstrooiing die we waarnemen.’
Maar honderd procent zeker uitsluiten dat de flitsen afkomstig zijn van verre buitenaardse beschavingen die over een ‘grote en krachtige’ atoomknop beschikken, kunnen de astronomen nog steeds niet. Blijven volgen hoe de eigenschappen van de flitsen veranderen, in de hoop meer over de aard van het geheimzinnige verschijnsel te weten te komen, is al wat ze kunnen doen. De komende jaren wordt een aantal radiotelescopen met een groot beeldveld in bedrijf genomen, zodat naar verwachting steeds meer snelle radioflitsen gecapteerd zullen worden. Hopelijk werpen die meer licht op de zaak.
The incident described here, drawn from declassified U.S. government files, provided inspiration for Episode 1 of HISTORY's series "Project Blue Book."
In the words of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the man who investigated unidentified-flying-object reports for the U.S. Air Force in the early 1950s, the Gorman Dogfight remains one of the “classics” among UFO sightings.
The incident, which still lacks an airtight explanation, involved a 27-minute air encounter between a veteran World War II fighter pilot named George F. Gorman and a mysterious white orb at high altitude above Fargo, North Dakota. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Gorman told a local newspaper following the October 1, 1948 event. “If anyone else had reported such a thing I would have thought they were crazy.”
Captain Ruppelt operated Project Blue Book, which continued the work of Project Sign and Project Grudge, a series of hush-hush studies conducted by the U.S. Air Force between 1947 and 1969. His mission: to determine if UFOs were a threat to national security and to scientifically analyze UFO-related data.
What makes the Gorman Dogfight unique in the now-declassified pages of Project Blue Book is not only the length of the encounter, but that it was recorded both on the ground and in the sky by numerous reputable sources.
George Gorman's depictions of his UFO encounter.
The Project Blue Book Archive/The United States Air Force
Chasing—and being chased by—a light
At the time of the incident, Gorman, a 25-year-old former fighter pilot, served as a second lieutenant in the North Dakota Air National Guard. It was this role that placed him behind the flight controls of a P-51 Mustang on Oct. 1, 1948, taking part in a cross-country flight alongside other National Guard airmen.
While the other pilots landed at Fargo’s Hector Airport, on that fateful evening Gorman stayed in the air in order to get in some night-flying time in the cloudless conditions. Having circled his P-51 over a lighted football stadium, he was preparing to land at about 9 P.M. Advised by the control tower that the only other plane in the vicinity was a Piper Cub (which Gorman could see about 500 feet below him), he witnessed what he believed to be the taillight of another craft passing on the right, though the tower had no other object on the radar.
Deciding to take a closer look at the unidentified object, Gorman pulled his plane up and closed to within about 1,000 yards. “It was about six to eight inches in diameter, clear white and completely without fuzz at the edges,” he said of the object in his report. “It was blinking on and off. As I approached, however, the light suddenly became steady and pulled into a sharp left bank. I thought it was making a pass at the tower.”
Deciding to follow, Gorman tried in vain to catch up with the object, reporting that he finally got behind it at around 7,000 feet, where it made a sharp turn and headed straight for the P-51. Almost at the point of collision Gorman dived and said the light passed over his canopy at about 500 feet before cutting sharply once more and heading back in his direction. Just as collision seemed imminent once again, Gorman said the object shot straight up in the air in a steep climb—so steep that when he tried to intercept, his plane stalled at about 14,000 feet. The object was not seen again, but according to Gorman he had been engaged in aerial maneuvers with it for 27 minutes by the time he brought his plane in to land.
‘Definitive thought behind its maneuvers’
Shaken by the encounter, the pilot went on to report he noticed no sound, exhaust trail or odor from the object. And while he had reached speeds of up to 400 m.p.h. while in pursuit—he couldn’t keep up with whatever it was.
“I am convinced that there was definite thought behind its maneuvers,” Gorman said in a sworn statement to his commander. “I am further convinced that the object was governed by the laws of inertia because its acceleration was rapid but not immediate; and although it was able to turn fairly tight at considerable speed, it still followed a natural curve.”
Gorman reported blacking out temporarily due to the excessive speed he reached in attempting to turn with the object. “I am in fairly good physical condition and I do not believe that there are many, if any, pilots who could withstand the turn and speed effected by the object, and remain conscious,” he wrote. “The object was not only able to out-turn and out-speed my aircraft... but was able to attain a far steeper climb and was able to maintain a constant rate of climb far in excess of my aircraft.”
Three P-51 Mustangs circa 1945, the same aircraft George Gorman was flying during his UFO encounter.
Toni Frissell/Interim Archives/Getty Images
Other witnesses
Gorman wasn’t the only one to see the mysterious object that night. It was also witnessed by air-traffic controllers Lloyd D. Jensen and H.E. Johnson, who were manning the Hector Airport tower. According to Johnson, who reported seeing the Piper Cub and the UFO at the same time, the object was “traveling at a high rate of speed” and was “fast enough to increase the spacing between itself and [Gorman’s] fighter.” Johnson described the object as appearing to be “only a round light, perfectly formed, with no fuzzy edges or rays leaving its body.”
Dr. A. E. Cannon, the pilot of the Piper Cub, and his passenger also viewed the object—both in the sky and upon their return to the airport, where they immediately joined the traffic controllers in the tower. Cannon described the light as moving “very swiftly, much faster than the 51.” Two Civil Aeronautics Authority employees on the ground also reported seeing the object.
Could it have simply been another aircraft? Taking the technology of the time into account, Dr Travis S. Taylor, aerospace engineer and author of Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering, believes any other aircraft would have been apparent to Gorman.
Earlier that year, he points out, Chuck Yeager made his famous flight in the Bell X1 at record-breaking speed, in which he broke the sound barrier. “A craft like that would have been very obvious to a pilot in a P-51. [Gorman] would have known what he was looking at—the X1 looked like an airplane,” says Taylor. “If he was chasing something that didn’t look like a standard aircraft and he couldn’t keep up with it, either it was too far away, and he didn’t realize how far away it was, or it was moving faster than a P-51 could move.”
U.S. Air Force investigators from Project Sign (later to become Project Grudge and ultimately Project Blue Book) soon arrived in Fargo, where Geiger counter measurements of Gorman’s plane revealed heightened radioactivity, though this was later explained away as a side effect of the high-altitude flying that took place.
Was Gorman a kook, or maybe touched in the head by his war experiences? Government investigators found him to be a credible witness, noting that he “did not make the impression of being a dreamer. He reads little, and only serious literature. He spends 90 percent of his time hunting and fishing; drinks less than moderately; smokes normally; and does not do drugs. He appears to be a sincere and serious individual who was considerably puzzled by his experience and made no attempt to blow his story up.”
A model of a R-1, the first Soviet guided missile.
Mikhail Dyuryagin/TASS/Getty Images
What about Cold War testing?
One conspiracy theory speculated that Gorman’s encounter may have been with a top-secret test craft. With World War II a very recent memory, tensions in 1948 were heightened both in military and civilian circles. And as the Cold War tightened its grip on the American psyche, the U.S government sought to boost its scientific firepower with a clandestine initiative called Operation Paperclip, through which it recruited former Nazi scientists, engineers and technicians (including Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team) to America, to boost the nation’s chances in the Cold War and looming space race.
Further afield, the Soviets had begun testing the R-1 Rocket (a Soviet version of the German V-2 of WWII) the same year as Gorman’s encounter, raising questions of whether the object he and the others saw could have been a Soviet craft or weapon. “The R-1 didn’t have the range to go from wherever their launch capability was in the Soviet Union to Fargo,” says Taylor. “It was a dumb rocket. All the rockets at that time were projectiles. They used aerodynamics mostly to guide them. They could do slow maneuvers, but if they did a fast maneuver they’d start tumbling apart.”
Back in Fargo, after the Air Weather Service revealed it had released a lighted weather balloon 10 minutes before Gorman first saw the object, investigators pounced, proclaiming the balloon the likeliest explanation for the object seen.
As for the seemingly incredible movements witnessed, the report said those were due to Gorman’s own maneuvers as he tried to chase the bright object. Essentially, investigators wrote, his high speed gave the balloon the appearance of moving in opposite directions as he passed by. Added to that theory, investigators noted the bright appearance of Jupiter on that date, hypothesizing that Gorman had been attempting to chase the bright dot of the planet at the same time the weather balloon was in range.
Video: Experts recount the puzzling 1948 dogfight between World War II pilot George Gorman and a UFO, which was investigated by Dr. J. Allen Hynek.
The lighted weather balloon would become the official cause of the encounter in the Project Blue Book file.
“We were doing Project Mogul at the time, which was high-altitude balloons [fitted with high-powered microphones] that we were trying to listen to see if the Soviets were doing above-ground nuclear testing,” says Taylor, who points out that the famous Roswell, New Mexico UFO sighting was explained away as a Project Mogul balloon.
Whether Gorman was happy with the official outcome remains unknown. Maintaining his silence, he returned to the Air Force full-time, eventually retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1969. He never spoke publicly about the encounter again, though according to The Bismarck Tribune, he did tell friends “he was never convinced that he had been dueling with a lighted balloon for 27 minutes.” Gorman died in 1982.
Taylor has his own theory: “Possibly somebody was playing around with rocketry.” But, he notes, there were no known test facilities or scientists in the Fargo area when the encounter took place. All the [Operation Paperclip] Germans were at the missile grounds in White Sands, New Mexico, while rocket guru Robert H. Goddard, had died in 1945. “It makes no sense,” says Taylor, “that there was anything there that was manmade that they were chasing.”
One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe.
That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the universe.
A University of Massachusetts study found that black holes that are large and rotating enough could allow 'gentle' hyperspace travel.
HOW WOULD INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL WORK?
Black holes are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity – which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density.
This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel.
That is, a short cut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.
They are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity – which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density.
This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel.
That is, a short cut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.
Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst.
The hot and dense singularity would cause the spacecraft to endure a sequence of increasingly uncomfortable tidal stretching and squeezing before being completely vaporized.
My team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a colleague at Georgia Gwinnett College have shown that all black holes are not created equal.
If the black hole like Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then the outlook for a spacecraft changes dramatically.
That's because the singularity that a spacecraft would have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.
'Interstellar' was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua's physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.
The reason that this is possible is that the relevant singularity inside a rotating black hole is technically 'weak,' and thus does not damage objects that interact with it.
At first, this fact may seem counter intuitive.
But one can think of it as analogous to the common experience of quickly passing one's finger through a candle's near 2,000-degree flame, without getting burned.
My colleague Lior Burko and I have been investigating the physics of black holes for over two decades.
This graph depicts the physical strain on the spacecraft’s steel frame as it plummets into a rotating black hole. The inset shows a detailed zoom-in for very late times. The important thing to note is that the strain increases dramatically close to the black hole, but does not grow indefinitely. Therefore, the spacecraft and its inhabitants may survive the journey.
In 2016, my Ph.D. student, Caroline Mallary, inspired by Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film 'Interstellar,' set out to test if Cooper (Matthew McConaughey's character), could survive his fall deep into Gargantua – a fictional, supermassive, rapidly rotating black hole some 100 million times the mass of our sun.
'Interstellar' was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua's physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.
Building on work done by physicist Amos Ori two decades prior, and armed with her strong computational skills, Mallary built a computer model that would capture most of the essential physical effects on a spacecraft, or any large object, falling into a large, rotating black hole like Sagittarius A*.
What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole's so-called inner horizon singularity.
This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid.
Singularity of massive black hole or wormhole. Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst.
Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity.
In fact, there may no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.
Mallary also discovered a feature that was not fully appreciated before: the fact that the effects of the singularity in the context of a rotating black hole would result in rapidly increasing cycles of stretching and squeezing on the spacecraft.
But for very large black holes like Gargantua, the strength of this effect would be very small. So, the spacecraft and any individuals on board would not detect it.
The crucial point is that these effects do not increase without bound; in fact, they stay finite, even though the stresses on the spacecraft tend to grow indefinitely as it approaches the black hole.
WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?
Black holes are so dense and their gravitational pull is so strong that no form of radiation can escape them - not even light.
They act as intense sources of gravity which hoover up dust and gas around them.
Their intense gravitational pull is thought to be what stars in galaxies orbit around.
How they are formed is still poorly understood.
Supermassive black holes are incredibly dense areas in the centre of galaxies with masses that can be billions of times that of the sun. They cause dips in space-time (artist's impression) and even light cannot escape their gravitational pull
Astronomers believe they may form when a large cloud of gas up to 100,000 times bigger than the sun, collapses into a black hole.
Many of these black hole seeds then merge to form much larger supermassive black holes, which are found at the centre of every known massive galaxy.
Alternatively, a supermassive black hole seed could come from a giant star, about 100 times the sun's mass, that ultimately forms into a black hole after it runs out of fuel and collapses.
When these giant stars die, they also go 'supernova', a huge explosion that expels the matter from the outer layers of the star into deep space.
There are a few important simplifying assumptions and resulting caveats in the context of Mallary's model.
The main assumption is that the black hole under consideration is completely isolated and thus not subject to constant disturbances by a source such as another star in its vicinity or even any falling radiation.
While this assumption allows important simplifications, it is worth noting that most black holes are surrounded by cosmic material – dust, gas, radiation.
Therefore, a natural extension of Mallary's work would be to perform a similar study in the context of a more realistic astrophysical black hole.
Mallary's approach of using a computer simulation to examine the effects of a black hole on an object is very common in the field of black hole physics.
Needless to say, we do not have the capability of performing real experiments in or near black holes yet, so scientists resort to theory and simulations to develop an understanding, by making predictions and new discoveries.
Rotating black holes may serve as gentle portals for hyperspace travel
One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the universe. They are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity – which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density. This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel. That is, a short cut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.
Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst. The hot and dense singularity would cause the spacecraft to endure a sequence of increasingly uncomfortable tidal stretching and squeezing before being completely vaporized.
Flying through a black hole
My team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a colleague at Georgia Gwinnett College have shown that all black holes are not created equal. If the black hole like Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then the outlook for a spacecraft changes dramatically. That’s because the singularity that a spacecraft would have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.
The reason that this is possible is that the relevant singularity inside a rotating black hole is technically “weak,” and thus does not damage objects that interact with it. At first, this fact may seem counter intuitive. But one can think of it as analogous to the common experience of quickly passing one’s finger through a candle’s near 2,000-degree flame, without getting burned.
Hold your finger close to the flame and it will burn. Swipe it through quickly and you won’t feel much. Similarly, passing through a large rotating black hole, you are more likely to come out the other side unharmed.mirbasar/Shutterstock.com
My colleague Lior Burko and I have been investigating the physics of black holes for over two decades. In 2016, my Ph.D. student, Caroline Mallary, inspired by Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Interstellar,” set out to test if Cooper (Matthew McConaughey’s character), could survive his fall deep into Gargantua – a fictional, supermassive, rapidly rotating black hole some 100 million times the mass of our sun. “Interstellar” was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua’s physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.
Building on work done by physicist Amos Ori two decades prior, and armed with her strong computational skills, Mallary built a computer model that would capture most of the essential physical effects on a spacecraft, or any large object, falling into a large, rotating black hole like Sagittarius A*.
The fictional Miller’s planet orbiting the black hole Gargantua, in the movie ‘Interstellar.’interstellarfilm.wikia.com
Not even a bumpy ride?
What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole’s so-called inner horizon singularity. This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid. Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity. In fact, there may no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.
Mallary also discovered a feature that was not fully appreciated before: the fact that the effects of the singularity in the context of a rotating black hole would result in rapidly increasing cycles of stretching and squeezing on the spacecraft. But for very large black holes like Gargantua, the strength of this effect would be very small. So, the spacecraft and any individuals on board would not detect it.
This graph depicts the physical strain on the spacecraft’s steel frame as it plummets into a rotating black hole. The inset shows a detailed zoom-in for very late times. The important thing to note is that the strain increases dramatically close to the black hole, but does not grow indefinitely. Therefore, the spacecraft and its inhabitants may survive the journey.Khanna/UMassD
The crucial point is that these effects do not increase without bound; in fact, they stay finite, even though the stresses on the spacecraft tend to grow indefinitely as it approaches the black hole.
There are a few important simplifying assumptions and resulting caveats in the context of Mallary’s model. The main assumption is that the black hole under consideration is completely isolated and thus not subject to constant disturbances by a source such as another star in its vicinity or even any falling radiation. While this assumption allows important simplifications, it is worth noting that most black holes are surrounded by cosmic material – dust, gas, radiation.
Therefore, a natural extension of Mallary’s work would be to perform a similar study in the context of a more realistic astrophysical black hole.
Mallary’s approach of using a computer simulation to examine the effects of a black hole on an object is very common in the field of black hole physics. Needless to say, we do not have the capability of performing real experiments in or near black holes yet, so scientists resort to theory and simulations to develop an understanding, by making predictions and new discoveries.
On May 25, 2008, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander blazed through the Martian atmosphere and landed at the northern pole of the Red Planet. The spacecraft made history as its robotic arm was the first to touch and sample water on Mars. During the lander's three months on the Red Planet, Phoenix revealed an unprecedented amount of information about the Martian environment.
"Phoenix has given us some surprises, and I'm confident we will be pulling more gems from this trove of data for years to come," Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona in Tucson said in a 2008 statement at the end of the lander's lifetime.
"Phoenix provided an important step to spur the hope that we can show [that] Mars was once habitable and possibly supported life," said Doug McCuistion, then-director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
A "hard and risky" mission
In 2002, NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter revealed large amounts of subsurface water ice in the Martian arctic. Because of that, the Phoenix spacecraft was designed to include a robotic arm capable of digging through the protective topsoil layer to the water ice below.
The Phoenix lander was designed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver and was named after the mythical bird that regenerates from the ashes of its own death. The name was well-suited, as the designers created the spacecraft by repurposing the Mars Surveyor 2001 lander, which had been canceled. Phoenix also carried a complex suite of instruments, which were improved versions of the ones that flew on the lost Mars Polar Lander mission.
The Phoenix spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin.
Credit: SETI
On Aug. 4, 2007, Phoenix launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Delta II rocket. After a nine-month voyage, the spacecraft barreled into the Martian atmosphere on May 25, 2008.
"This is not a trip to Grandma's house," Ed Weiler, then-associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., told Space.com before the landing. "Putting a spacecraft safely on Mars is hard and risky."
During what the spacecraft's team called its "7 minutes of terror," Phoenix plunged into the Martian atmosphere at about 13,000 mph (21,000 kph) as mission control waited tensely to hear that the spacecraft had safely reached the ground. A Viking-era parachute opened when the spacecraft was 7.8 miles (12.6 kilometers) above the surface, slowing the descent. Phoenix safely touched down in the arctic plains region of Mars, called Vastitas Borealis, which was the farthest north any spacecraft had landed on the Red Planet.
Above and beyond
The Phoenix spacecraft's specialized robotic arm dug through an ice-rich layer to form shallow trenches on the Martian terrain. The arm carried samples from the ground into the tiny ovens and miniature laboratory aboard the spacecraft. Selected samples were heated to release elements that were examined for their chemical and physical characteristics.
Phoenix also carried a stereo camera on its 6.6-foot (2 meters) mast. The camera collected more than 25,000 pictures, including several sweeping panoramas. Images were also taken with the first atomic-force microscopeever used outside Earth.
The Phoenix spacecraft was a lander not a rover, and as such, it never moved from its landing site. It remained stationary during the three months of its primary mission and continued to work for more than two additional months. The spacecraft went into hibernation mode after Mars arrived at a point in its orbit where the sun was positioned too low in the sky to continue powering the spacecraft's solar cells. At that time, a dust storm also blocked what little of the sunlight managed to pierce the clouds.
But NASA didn't give up on the little lander just yet. The agency's Mars Odyssey Orbiter continued to listen for signals while flying over Phoenix. As the sun rose again on the northern plains several months later, Odyssey swooped over the landing site as many as 10 times a day for three consecutive days in January 2009. It then engaged in two longer listening campaigns in February and March.
The Phoenix spacecraft's hardware was not designed to survive the temperature extremes and heavy coats of ice from a harsh Martian winter. Phoenix was programmed to attempt to make contact if it managed to survive, but the spacecraft remained silent.
Almost a decade after the Phoenix mission ended, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a photo showing the lander, its back shell and its parachute. A comparison of the image with one taken soon after the Phoenix landing showed that dust had covered the landing scars the spacecraft previously etched on the Martian surface.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander detected perchlorates, a class of salts, in the Martian arctic's ice-rich soil in 2008.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University
Phoenix science
Phoenix's study of Mars resulted in a long list of revolutionary discoveries about the planet. One of the most notable came on July 31, 2008, when the spacecraft confirmed the presence of water ice on Mars after successfully collecting a soil sample containing ice from a trench 2 inches (5 centimeters) deep. The historic discovery marked the first time water was sampled on the Red Planet.
But Phoenix didn't stop with the discovery of water ice; it also found snow. A laser instrument designed to study the planet's atmosphere detected snow from clouds about 2.5 miles (4 km) above the spacecraft's landing site, but the snow vaporized before it touched the ground.
"Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars," researcher Jim Whiteway said in a2008 statement. Whiteway, of York University in Toronto, was the lead scientist for the Canadian-supplied Meteorological Station on Phoenix. "We'll be looking for signs that the snow may even reach the ground," he said.
Indeed, researchers determined that later into the Martian winter, precipitation likely results in a buildup of water ice on and in the ground.
Experiments on the lander also revealed signs ofcalcium carbonate, the main component of chalk, along with particles that could be clay.
Phoenix's data collection also suggested that the soil in the arctic plains was covered with a film of liquid water in the last few million years. The evidence for water and potential nutrients "implies that this region could have previously met the criteria for habitability" during portions of continuing climate cycles, researchers wrote in a 2009 paper published in the journal Science.
The mission's biggest surprise was the discovery of perchlorate in the Martian soil. A chemical that strongly attracts water, perchlorate made up a few tenths of a percent of the composition of all three soil samples analyzed by Phoenix's laboratory. That water could have been pulled directly from humid Martian air, or liquid water beneath the crust could have combined with salts as a brine that stays liquid at Martian surface temperatures.
The Phoenix lander dug several trenches in the Martian surface after landing in 2008.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University
Phoenix's legacy
The Phoenix spacecraft provided unprecedented insight into Earth's reddest neighbor, and the mission was considered a success.
"Before Phoenix, we did not know whether precipitation occurs on Mars," said Whiteway in a 2009 statement. "We knew that the polar ice cap advances as far south as the Phoenix site in winter, but we did not know how the water vapor moved from the atmosphere to ice on the ground. Now, we know that it does snow and that this is part of the hydrological cycle on Mars."
Although the mission is over, the legacy of Phoenix continues, as researchers will spend the next several years unraveling even more Martian mysteries by delving through the wealth of data the spacecraft provided.
The sun will turn to ROCK in 10 billion years’ time: Star will burn the last of its nuclear energy and become a 'crystal ball' 200,000 times denser than Earth when it dies
The sun will turn to ROCK in 10 billion years’ time: Star will burn the last of its nuclear energy and become a 'crystal ball' 200,000 times denser than Earth when it dies
The sun is destined to become a crystal white dwarf in around 10 billion years
Experts found white dwarf stars form metallic oxygen and carbon crystal cores
Crystallisation delays cooling, stars could be billions of years older than thought
The oldest white dwarfs are likely to be almost fully crystal, researchers claim
The sun will turn into a ‘crystal ball’ - in 10 billion years’ time when it dies, scientists have found.
Astronomers identified the first direct evidence that old stars turn to rock when they run out of nuclear fuel and begin to cool down.
Scientists trained the Gaia space telescope on 15,000 white dwarf candidates within around 300 light years of Earth.
They found large numbers of the stars showing signs that indicated that they have cooled down - and showed signs they were turning to rock.
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The sun will turn into a ‘crystal ball’ (artist's impression) - in 10 billion years’ time, scientists have found. Astronomers identified the first direct evidence that old stars turn to rock when they cool down
Dr Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, from the University of Warwick’s Department of Physics, said the observations proved a 50-year-old theory.
Dr Tremblay said: ‘This is the first direct evidence that white dwarfs crystallise, or transition from liquid to solid.
‘It was predicted fifty years ago that we should observe a pile-up in the number of white dwarfs at certain luminosities and colours due to crystallisation and only now this has been observed.
‘All white dwarfs will crystallise at some point in their evolution, although more massive white dwarfs go through the process sooner.
‘This means that billions of white dwarfs in our galaxy have already completed the process and are essentially crystal spheres in the sky.
'The sun itself will become a crystal white dwarf in about 10 billion years.’
Scientists trained the Gaia space telescope on 15,000 white dwarf candidates within around 300 light years of Earth. They found large numbers of the stars showing signs that indicated that they have cooled down - and showed signs they were turning to rock (file photo)
The crystal spheres are made of carbon and oxygen under such high density their crystal structure will make them appear to be like a metal - although it is possible that diamonds may also form as the star cools.
Our sun is currently a yellow dwarf star.
Over the next five billion years it will cool down - in the process first expanding into a ‘red giant’ - then shrinking down to a white dwarf and gradually harden and solidify.
Eventually white dwarfs cool down into black dwarfs when they give off no more heat.
The full findings of the study were published in the journal Nature.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EARTH WHEN THE SUN DIES?
Five billion years from now, it's said the sun will have grown into a red giant star, more than a hundred times larger than its current size.
Eventually, it will eject gas and dust to create an 'envelope' accounting for as much as half its mass.
The core will become a tiny white dwarf star. This will shine for thousands of years, illuminating the envelope to create a ring-shaped planetary nebula.
While this metamorphosis will change the solar system, scientists are unsure what will happen to the third rock from the sun.
We already know that our sun will be bigger and brighter, so that it will probably destroy any form of life on our planet.
But whether the Earth's rocky core will survive is uncertain.
An artist's illustration of a white dwarf in the process of solidifying.
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Billions of years in the future, our dead sun will morph into a giant cosmic jewel, a new study suggests.
Like the vast majority of stars in ourMilky Way galaxy, the sun will eventually collapse into a white dwarf, an exotic object about 200,000 times denser than Earth. To put that in perspective: A mere teaspoon of white-dwarf material would weigh about as much as an elephant, if you could somehow transport the stuff to our planet.
"All white dwarfs will crystallize at some point in their evolution, although more massive white dwarfs go through the process sooner," study lead author Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, a physicist at the University of Warwick in England, said in a statement.
"This means that billions of white dwarfs in our galaxy have already completed the process and are essentially crystal spheres in the sky," Tremblay added. "The sun itself will become a crystal white dwarf in about 10 billion years."
Tremblay and his colleagues analyzed data gathered by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft, which launched in December 2013 to help researchers construct the best-ever 3D map of the Milky Way. Gaia does this by precisely monitoring the positions of huge numbers of stars; the mission team aims to study 1 billion stars over the spacecraft's operational lifetime.
For the new study, the researchers looked at Gaia measurements of about 15,000 white dwarfs, all of which lie within 330 light-years of the sun. These data revealed an odd "pileup" — an overabundance of white dwarfs with certain colors and brightnesses that cannot be explained by the objects' ages or masses.
Modeling work suggested that the pileup was caused by crystallization of the white dwarfs' interiors, which released enough heat to slow down the white dwarfs' cooling over time.
"This is the first direct evidence that white dwarfs crystallize, or transition from liquid to solid," Tremblay said. "It was predicted 50 years ago that we should observe a pileup in the number of white dwarfs at certain luminosities and colors due to crystallization, and only now this has been observed."
White-dwarf crystallization is akin to water freezing from liquid to ice. But the material in this case is oxygen and carbon, and it's crystallizing at temperatures that aren't exactly chilly. The process really kicks into gear when a white-dwarf interior cools down to about 18 million degrees Fahrenheit (10 million degrees Celsius), the researchers said.
The result is likely a core composed of crystallized oxygen and a mantle dominated by carbon.
"Not only do we have evidence of heat release upon solidification, but considerably more energy release is needed to explain the observations," Tremblay said. "We believe this is due to the oxygen crystallizing first and then sinking to the core, a process similar to sedimentation on a riverbed on Earth. This will push the carbon upward, and that separation will release gravitational energy."
The new results suggest that many white dwarfs are considerably older than scientists had thought — up to 15 percent older in some cases, study team members said. Astronomers generally age these stellar corpses by taking their temperature, and crystallization slows the cooling-off process.
The study was published online today (Jan. 9) in the journal Nature.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
An artist's illustration of emissions from a fast radio burst reaching Earth. The different colors signify different wavelengths of light.
Credit: Jingchuan Yu, Beijing Planetarium
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) may not remain mysterious for much longer.
Astronomers have spotted 13 more of these extragalactic light flashes, boosting the known population by about 20 percent. And the new haul includes the secondrepeating FRB ever discovered. (All others seen to date have been one-offs, flaring up just a single time.)
"Knowing that there is another [repeater] suggests that there could be more out there," discovery team member Ingrid Stairs, an astrophysicist at the University of British Columbia, said in a statement. "And with more repeaters and more sources available for study, we may be able to understand these cosmic puzzles — where they’re from and what causes them." [8 Baffling Astronomy Mysteries]
FRBs are brief but incredibly powerful phenomena; the milliseconds-long emissions are energetically comparable to the total output of our sun over a century. But, as Stairs noted, FRBs are as enigmatic as they are spectacular. Astronomers have offered a number of possible explanations for the bursts, including merging neutron stars and advanced alien civilizations.
The new results — which were announced today (Jan. 9) in two papers in the journal Nature, and in presentations at the 233rd American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle — aren't great news for anyone holding out hope that E.T. is responsible. The more common a phenomenon is, after all, the more likely it is to have a natural explanation.
"CHIME reconstructs the image of the overhead sky by processing the radio signals recorded by thousands of antennas with a large signal-processing system," team member Kendrick Smith, of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, said in the same statement. "CHIME's signal-processing system is the largest of any telescope on Earth, allowing it to search huge regions of the sky simultaneously."
And CHIME wasn't even fully up and running when it made the new detections. The 13 FRBs were spotted over the course of a few weeks in July and August 2018, during CHIME's "precommissioning" phase. The repeater was studied for a spell beyond that; the last of its six known flashes was observed in late October, team members said.
The repeater, known as FRB 180814.J0422+73, lies about 1.5 billion light-years from Earth, the astronomers determined. That's about two times closer than the other repeater, FRB 121102, which is known to have fired off dozens of bursts over the past few years.
Canada's CHIME radio telescope (seen at night here) recently detected 13 mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs), including just the second known repeating FRB.
Credit: Courtesy Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)
Most previously detected FRBs feature radio frequencies that are around 1,400 megahertz (MHz). CHIME's range is much lower, from 400 to 800 MHz, so the new discoveries are shedding considerable new light on FRBs.
Astronomers now know that FRB "sources can produce low-frequency radio waves, and those low-frequency waves can escape their environment and are not too scattered to be detected by the time they reach the Earth," CHIME team member Tom Landecker, from the National Research Council of Canada, said in the same statement.
"That tells us something about the environments and the sources," Landecker added. "We haven’t solved the problem, but it’s several more pieces in the puzzle."
You can find the newly published Nature papers here and here.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
The CIA is putting its secret history online, uploading millions of newly declassified documents.
The documents include previously unseen information about the agency's hunt for UFOs and its work on the "Star Gate" project, which tried to teach humans to become psychic and see through walls.
One document, for instance, describes that project in detail. It shows how the CIA recruited volunteers to go through a programme of training that would let people access information without any of the usual means, and which would be used as a weapon for which there is "no known defense".
The US spy agency will put up 12 million pages into its online "reading room", where people will be able to search through the documents.
The previously classified pages include private briefs given to presidents and the information that is passed between its operatives. They cover everything from the Cold War and Vietnam to relatively modern problems like terrorism.
That means that people can see its history from its formation until the early 90s, for now. None of that is selected, the agency claims, meaning that it shows some of the agency and the US government's most controversial episodes.
The CIA has to declassify records that are 25 years old, unless they are made exempt. That means that each year it releases a whole new set of documents.
But this year that has been accompanied by the first time that the documents have been made available online. Until now, the documents could only be read on four terminals inside the US National Archives, in their original format.
Secret Space Program Whistleblowers Claim We Have Technology 1,000 Years Ahead of Anything You've Seen
Secret Space Program Whistleblowers Claim We Have Technology 1,000 Years Ahead of Anything You've Seen
If you are interested in learning more about is really going on out in space then you need to watch this video. Special access programs can be massive in scope and can remain hidden behind a veil of secrecy for decades.
In recent years, several credible whistleblowers have stepped forward to disclose the highly advanced technologies and the highly compartmentalized systems. Faster-than-light interstellar travel allowing humankind to reach the stars is no longer the stuff of science fiction.
Interviews with insiders including Emery Smith, Clifford Stone, William Tompkins, Niara Isley and Corey Goode confirm that specific factions of humans here on Earth do have autonomous possession of interstellar travel technology, and the existence of a superluminal space naval fleet comprising various sizes and classes of vessels employing tachyon drive has been concealed from the public for many years.
They Are Not Human or Alien.. They Are Both, the Hybrids Are Here!
They Are Not Human or Alien.. They Are Both, the Hybrids Are Here!
Explores the reality that there are part-human and part-extraterrestrial beings living on this planet. This video will explain how they came to be and what the motive is behind this phenomena.
Guided by their star families and other entities, they are dedicated to personal missions, which contribute to a larger process involving the flourishing of human consciousness, and the protection and evolution of life on Earth at this critical time.
Some of the experiencers are hybrid beings, embodying a significant portion of ET DNA and differentness from the rest of us. They are giving service to humanity while living among us.
Her presentation will include testimonies given in person by a few of these hybrids and visual depictions of the beings who created them, mentor them and inspire them.
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Crop Circles Discoveries That Show Some Cannot Possibly Be Manmade (Video)
Crop Circles Discoveries That Show Some Cannot Possibly Be Manmade (Video)
Are they trying to tell us something? Although some crop circles can be explained as man-made art, many still defy logic, and so have fallen onto the plates of researchers.
From America, Russia, to Japan and even Canada – crop circles have appeared all over the World. In many cases, their structure tends to be elliptical rather than circular, with the crop (mostly wheat) being either bent, flattened or woven to form complex patterns.
What we should Know, and What questions should we be asking? Jennifer will review the unique characteristics found in crop circles researched here in the states.
Various theories will be presented along with the peer reviewed scientific literature on the phenomena allowing everyone to be informed enough to make their own opinion as to what could be creating these unusual formations on the ground and find their own interpretations as to what they might mean
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETWetenschappers hebben een herhaald radiosignaal opgevangen van diep in de ruimte. Het zou afkomstig zijn van een sterrenstelsel 1,5 miljard lichtjaar van ons vandaan, zo staat te lezen in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Nature. Het is nog maar de tweede keer dat iets dergelijks wordt waargenomen en onderzoekers hebben geen idee waar het signaal vandaan komt. Ze hopen dat de nieuwe waarneming kan helpen om het mysterie te doorgronden.
Er is al veel gespeculeerd over de uitstoot van radiosignalen in de ruimte. Ze zouden kunnen voortkomen uit een heel gamma aan bronnen, van exploderende sterren tot – jawel – ruimtewezens, maar de ware toedracht is nog altijd niet bekend. Opmerkelijk: ze duren maar een milliseconde, maar ze bevatten evenveel energie als wat de zon uitstoot in 12 maanden tijd.
Het opwindende aan de nieuwe waarneming is dat het om een herhááld radiosignaal gaat. Het kwam zes keer en leek van dezelfde plaats afkomstig. Bij de meer dan 60 snelle uitstoten van radiosignalen die al werden waargenomen, was er nog maar één van dat type.
“Dat er nu een tweede waarneming is, doet vermoeden dat er nóg meer kunnen zijn”, aldus Ingrid Stairs van het Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) in British Colombia, dat de ontdekking deed. “En hoe meer gegevens we hebben, hoe groter de kans dat we deze kosmische puzzel op een dag kunnen oplossen: waar komen ze vandaan en waardoor worden ze veroorzaakt?” (lees hieronder verder)
CHIMECHIME bevindt zich in Okanagan Valley en bestaat uit vier semi-cilindrische antennes. Die scannen elke dag de volledige noordelijk hemel.
In totaal namen de wetenschappers 13 uitbarstingen waar in een periode van 3 weken tijd. Opvallend is dat de bron een heel breed gamma aan frequenties uitstootte. Zo werden er zeker 7 opgenomen op 400 MHz, de laagste frequentie waarop de signalen ooit werden waargenomen. Het houdt ook in dat er misschien nog meer kunnen zijn op nóg een lagere frequentie. Een frequentie die zo laag is dat de CHIME ze niet eens kan oppikken.
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“We weten nu dat de bronnen radiosignalen kunnen produceren op een lage frequentie en dat die golven aan hun omgeving kunnen ontsnappen en niet te veel uiteenvallen voor ze de aarde bereiken en waargenomen kunnen worden. Dat zegt ons iets over de omgeving waar ze vandaan komen en de bron. Het geeft ons meer stukjes om de puzzel op te lossen”, aldus Tom Landecker van CHIME.
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The CHIME telescope in British Columbia will search our universe for phenomena such as fast radio bursts, pulsars and more.
(CHIME, Andre Renard, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto)
This visible-light image shows the host galaxy of the fast radio burst FRB 121102.
Mysterious repeating energy bursts have been detected for only the second time.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.
The latest signals to be detected reached Earth from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away.
The most likely explanation is that they were created by powerful objects in space.
Experts have debated whether black holes or super-dense neutron stars are responsible, but others have suggested more outlandish theories.
Among them is Professor Avid Loeb, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in the US, who believes that they could be evidence of incredibly advanced alien technology.
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Over a period of three weeks last summer the team detected 13 of the flashes using a new type of radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (pictured)
FRB's were first detected accidentally in 2007, when a burst signal was spotted in radio astronomy data collected in 2001.
The new discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made by a Canadian-led team of astronomers on the hunt for FRBs.
Over a period of three weeks last summer the team detected 13 of the flashes using a new type of radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (Chime).
They found that one of the FRBs was repeating.
Of more than 60 FRBs detected to date, such repeating bursts have only been picked up once before, by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 2015.
Where the FRBs come from is not known - although they are thought to emanate from sources billions of light years away outside our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Chime astrophysicist Dr Ingrid Stairs, from the University of British Columbia, Canada, said: 'Until now, there was only one known repeating FRB.
'Knowing that there is another suggests that there could be more out there.
'And with more repeaters and more sources available for study, we may be able to understand these cosmic puzzles - where they're from and what causes them.'
Fast radio bursts are elusive signals that last just a few milliseconds, and are thought to originate billions of light-years away – but, scientists don't yet know what causes them (file photo)
Most of the 13 FRBs showed signs of 'scattering' that suggest their sources could be powerful astrophysical objects in locations with special characteristics, the scientists said.
Team member Dr Cherry Ng, from the University of Toronto, Canada, said: 'That could mean in some sort of dense clump like a supernova (exploding star) remnant.
'Or near the central black hole in a galaxy. But it has to be in some special place to give us all the scattering that we see.'
WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS AND WHY DO WE STUDY THEM?
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.
The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.
This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.
Scientists searching for fast radio bursts (FRBs) that some believe may be signals sent from aliens may be happening every second. The blue points in this artist's impression of the filamentary structure of galaxies are signals from FRBs
The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2001 but wasn't discovered until 2007 when scientists were analysing archival data.
But it was so temporary and seemingly random that it took years for astronomers to agree it wasn't a glitch in one of the telescope's instruments.
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics point out that FRBs can be used to study the structure and evolution of the universe whether or not their origin is fully understood.
A large population of faraway FRBs could act as probes of material across gigantic distances.
This intervening material blurs the signal from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the left over radiation from the Big Bang.
A careful study of this intervening material should give an improved understanding of basic cosmic constituents, such as the relative amounts of ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy, which affect how rapidly the universe is expanding.
FRBs can also be used to trace what broke down the 'fog' of hydrogen atoms that pervaded the early universe into free electrons and protons, when temperatures cooled down after the Big Bang. The new FRBs are are also at unusually low radio frequencies.
Most previously detected FRBs have had frequencies of around 1,400 megahertz (MHz), but the new ones fell within a range below 800 MHz.
In 2017 Professor Loeb and Harvard colleague Manasvi Lingham proposed that FRBs could be leakage from planet-sized alien transmitters.
Mysterious radio signals (artist's impression) have reached Earth - from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away. The strange beams are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) - and last only a millisecond (file image)
Rather than being designed for communication, they would more likely be used to propel giant space ships powered by light sails.
A light sail works by bouncing light, or in this case radio beams, off a huge reflective sheet to provide forward thrust.
Professor Loeb, who discusses the idea in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, said: 'An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.'
Mysterieuze radiosignalen uit de diepe ruimte ontdekt die ‘van aliens afkomstig kunnen zijn’
Mysterieuze radiosignalen uit de diepe ruimte ontdekt die ‘van aliens afkomstig kunnen zijn’
Astronomen hebben voor de tweede keer in de geschiedenis mysterieuze herhalende radioflitsen uit de ruimte gedetecteerd. Sommige experts zeggen dat ze bewijs kunnen zijn voor buitenaards leven.
De herkomst van deze zogeheten snelle radioflitsen is onbekend, maar de meeste wetenschappers zeggen dat ze uit een stelsel op miljarden lichtjaren afstand van de Melkweg komen.
Sommige wetenschappers, zoals professor Avi Loeb van het Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, hebben gesuggereerd dat ze mogelijk zijn verstuurd door zeer intelligente aliens.
Per toeval
De nieuwe ontdekking is gedaan met behulp van een nieuw soort radiotelescoop, de Chime-telescoop in Canada.
Voor de tweede keer werd een herhalende radioflitser gedetecteerd. De eerste werd in 2015 ontdekt met behulp van de Arecibo-radiotelescoop in Puerto Rico.
Snelle radioflitsen werden in 2007 per toeval ontdekt. Tot nu toe zijn er meer dan 60 geregistreerd.
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Waarschijnlijk zoemen er nog veel meer langs onze planeet. Nieuwe technologieën moeten het mogelijk maken om er meer te detecteren.
“Tot nu toe was er slechts één herhalende radioflits bekend,” zei dr. Ingrid Stairs van de Universiteit van Brits-Columbia.
“Nu we weten dat er nog één is, ligt het voor de hand dat er meer zijn,” voegde ze toe.
Buitenaardse zenders
“Hoe meer herhalende flitsen en hoe meer bronnen we kunnen bestuderen, hoe beter we in staat zullen zijn om dit soort kosmische raadsels op te lossen,” aldus Stairs.
In 2017 stelden Loeb en zijn Harvard-collega Manasvi Lingam dat snelle radioflitsen mogelijk afkomstig zijn van buitenaardse zenders ter grootte van een planeet.
In september 2017 kampte personeel van de Amerikaanse ambassade in Cuba met een scala aan vreemde klachten waaronder doofheid, hoofdpijn, flauwvallen, gezichtsproblemen en sommigen wisten zelfs niet meer wie ze waren.
Later gebeurde ongeveer hetzelfde met Amerikaans ambassade personeel in China en nu zouden krekels de oorzaak zijn van dit alles.
Iets dat wij nooit voor mogelijk hielden schijnt toch waar te zijn. Krekels zijn levensgevaarlijke dieren, want de geluiden die zij maken kunnen voor serieuze gezondheidsproblemen zorgen.
De mysterieuze ‘geluidsaanvallen’ op Amerikaanse en Canadese diplomaten in Cuba zijn afkomstig van bronstige krekels.
Nu hebben de machthebbers geen hoge pet op van de doorsnee intelligentie van de bevolking en beginnen de mainstream media (MSM) met de dag meer onzin te schrijven, maar dit verhaal is toch wel de overtreffende trap in het onderschatten van de intelligentie van het publiek.
'Mysterieuze sonische aanvallen' met geluidsgolven hebben de Verenigde Staten doen besluiten om een aantal medewerkers terug te halen uit de ambassade in de Cubaanse hoofdstad Havana. Ook wordt Amerikanen geadviseerd niet meer naar Cuba af te reizen.
Washington meldde vorige maand dat mysterieuze 'incidenten' op de ambassade tot fysieke klachten leiden. Verscheidene diplomaten of hun familieleden hadden last van gehoorproblemen, duizeligheid, tijdelijk geheugenverlies of andere symptomen. Vijf Canadezen op Cuba hadden vergelijkbare klachten.
De gezondheidsproblemen waren nog veel heftiger dan in het stukje hierboven staat. Sommige medewerkers werden doof, konden niet goed meer zien, vielen flauw of hadden geen benul wie ze waren.
En dat allemaal dankzij bronstige krekels.
Vanaf het begin werd het geluid omschreven als iets wat leek op het getjirp van krekels. Volgens twee wetenschappers die de opname analyseerden, is dat ook exact wat het is: het geluid van mannelijke krekels in paringstijd. Dat lieten Alexander Stubbs van de University of California in Berkeley en Fernando Montealegre-Z van de University of Lincoln in Engeland afgelopen week weten.
Het volgend is wat Tyler van Secureteam over al dit soort nonsens heeft te vertellen.
Het volgende is een deel uit een eerder artikel en vertelt precies waar ze in Cuba en China in plaats van krekels wel mee te maken hadden. Iets dat men liever niet aan de grote klok hangt en daarom komen nu de krekels tevoorschijn als schuldigen.
Electronische wapens behoren tot de best bewaarde geheimen van de wereld. Overal worden er onschuldige mensen mee aangevallen en gemanipuleerd, uitgeschakeld, gemarteld en zelfs vermoord. De meesten hebben geen idee wat hen overkomt.
Iemand die eigenlijk alles weet over dit soort wapens is Dr. Barrie Trower, een gepensioneerde wetenschapper die tientallen jaren gewerkt heeft voor de Britse overheid met microgolfstraling. Hij heeft speciale expertise op het gebied van de invloed van deze straling op het functioneren van onze hersenen.
Tijdens de Koude Oorlog al werd Amerikaans ambassadepersoneel in Moskou bestookt met elektronische microgolfwapens door de Russen. Toen er een opvallend hoog aantal kankergevallen voorkwam, werd het personeel gewisseld. Wederom, ook bij dit nieuwe personeel, deed zich hetzelfde voor. Dit weerhield de Amerikanen er echter niet van om nogmaals nieuwe menselijke proefkonijnen naar Rusland te sturen.
In het begin van de jaren tachtig vonden er overal in Europa massale demonstraties plaats tegen de plannen om hier kruisraketten te plaatsen. Zo ook in Engeland, waar rondom de Amerikaanse basis Greenham Common in het Engelse Berkshire, zich een vreedzaam vrouwen protestkamp bevond met tienduizenden vrouwen. Ook deze geweldloze samenkomst werd vanaf de Amerikaanse basis aangevallen met microgolfwapens, met als gevolg dat er onder de deelnemers veel kankergevallen, gedragsstoornissen en zodanige depressie voorkwam dat ze alleen nog maar zelfmoord wilden plegen.
Zo beschouwde de overheid het als een succes toen men een normaal gezond mens als proefkonijn nam, deze bewerkte met microgolfwapens en vervolgens een onafhankelijke psychiater liet constateren dat het individu leed aan schizofrenie, paranoïde was en volledig de weg kwijt. Dat dit proefkonijn de rest van zijn natuurlijke leven in een gesticht moest doorbrengen werd simpelweg beschouwd als een bijkomend neveneffect, de test was een succes.
Niet alleen kunnen dit soort microgolfwapens gebruikt worden om mensen krankzinnig te maken of kanker te geven, maar het is ook mogelijk om iemand stemmen in zijn hoofd te laten horen. Stemmen die deze mensen dan ook daadwerkelijk horen, variërend van de stem van een engel tot de stem van de duivel. Je merkt NIET dat je wordt bestraald.
Een misschien nog ergere verschrikking voor zover mogelijk, is de biologische oorlogsvoering met behulp van microgolfstraling. Bacteriën en virussen kunnen genetisch worden gemanipuleerd. Zo is het mogelijk voor bacteriën om tientallen of zelfs honderden jaren ergens slapend in de grond te liggen. Ze kunnen dan ineens weer tot leven komen door een bepaalde frequentie microgolf die hen raakt. Virussen daarentegen zijn niet dood en niet levend. Wel hebben ze een soort “gastheer” nodig om te kunnen bestaan en een bactierie is er zo een.
Het is daarom mogelijk virussen in bacteriën te stoppen die vervolgens in slaaptoestand gaan. Door het genereren van een bepaalde frequentie kunnen ze weer tot leven worden gewekt en daarmee de virussen eveneens geactiveerd. Je kunt bijvoorbeeld met vakantie gaan naar Noorwegen of Denemarken en daar die slapende bacteriën uitstrooien. Er gebeurt verder niets en je kunt besluiten om deze honderd jaar of een paar uur met rust te laten, voordat je ze met een installatie als HAARP weer tot leven wekt door een signaal met een bepaalde frequentie naar de ionosfeer te sturen die dan precies te laten landen op de plek waar de bacterie ligt. Je kunt je duidezenden kilometers van de plaats verwijderd bevinden en deze stralen gericht laten aankomen.
Zo vraagt ook menigeen zich af, hoe het toch kan dat de politie tegenwoordig zo gewelddadig optreedt, of dat militairen die bij speciale eenheden hebben gewerkt ineens na thuiskomst allemaal aggressief zijn zodanig dat ze zelfs hun vrouwen slaan, soms tot de dood erop volgt. Ook hier spelen frequenties weer een heel belangrijke rol.
In Engeland bijvoorbeeld gebruiken alle hulpdiensten het Tetra systeem voor communicatie. Zo vertelt Barrie Trower dat er opvallend veel kanker voorkomt onder hen. Niet alleen dat, maar ook hun gedrag wordt agressiever door de bijna permanente blootstelling aan bepaalde frequenties door het gebruik van die communicatieapparatuur.
Hetzelfde gebeurt met de speciale troepen van het Amerikaanse leger die helmen dragen waarbij hun hersenen voortdurend worden blootgesteld aan frequenties die agressiviteit veroorzaken. Dit zijn bewezen feiten, geen aannames.
Dat is dan nog los van de frequenties die misschien met opzet richting politie en militair personeel worden gestuurd om ze agressiever te maken. Dit laatste gebeurt dan waarschijnlijk in het kader van het geheime Tetra Research Project waarbij naar hartenlust geëxperimenteerd wordt met levende en onwetende proefkonijnen. Een project wat nog tot minimaal 2018 gaat duren. Nogmaals, als je wordt bestraald dan heb je dat zelf niet in de gaten. Je gedrag verandert en is onbegrijpelijk voor je omgeving en jezelf.
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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.
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