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This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.

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    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...
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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Be Aware of The Archons The Secret Controllers of the Human Rac

    Be Aware of The Archons The Secret Controllers of the Human Race

    Many people have heard the term “Archon” but would be hard-pressed to define it. What is an Archon?

    The Archons are a genuine species with their own proper habitat, but they have a nasty tendency to stray from their boundaries and intrude on the human realm.


    Archons are said to feel intense envy toward humanity because we possess the intentionality they lack. They are are type of collective unconscious energy forces with the intention of keeping humanity asleep. They are hidden negative controllers of humankind.

    Archons were brought into our Universe by space-faring travelers from our Universe who violated an injunction against venturing through a wormhole/stargate to a dark Universe populated by Archons.

    The real danger they pose to humanity is not invasion of the planet but invasion of the mind. They access human consciousness through telepathy and simulation. They infect our imagination and use the power of make-believe for deception and confusion and if humanity falls under the illusion of superhuman power, it becomes as good as real, a self-fulfilling delusion.

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    13-02-2019 om 19:56 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Millennium Falcon UFO appeared over a home In Canada, Feb 3, 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

    Millennium Falcon UFO appeared over a home In Canada, Feb 3, 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News.


    Date of sighting: February 3, 2019
    Location of sighting: Calgary, Canada
    Source: MUFON #98454

    A Millennium Falcon shaped UFO appeared over a home this week in Calgary, Canada. The UFOs dark silhouette really stands out as its position causes a gapping hole in the cloud floor. The UFO itself is most likely cloaked, however the UFO still has mass and that mass is pushing aside the clouds its using to hide in. I also wonder if the eyewitness looked up because they had an intuition...or feeling of being told to look up. This often occurs when eyewitness are this close to UFOs late at night or early morning. 

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    Eyewitness states: 
    Exited the garage and noticed something in sky appeared to be behind clouds so I ran and grabbed my cell phone and took 3 pictures.

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    13-02-2019 om 19:37 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Glowing Orb UFO Shows Up At Space Station Live Cam, Feb 7, 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

    Glowing Orb UFO Shows Up At Space Station Live Cam, Feb 7, 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

    Date of sighting: February 7, 2019
    Location of sighting: Space station, earths orbit
    Source: MUFON #98463
     
    This glowing orb was caught by an eyewitness who was watching the live Internet cam of the space station. The UFO is not a perfect circle, but lumpy and uneven. The dark center could be a window or viewing area for the pilots on it. This isn't the moon, because the moon is much larger, more clear and easy to make out. It could be a top secret military craft for the USA or Russia that comes near the orbit of the space station, but its shape is very odd, unlike most satellites. I would therefore conclude that it is very likely an alien craft investigating the space station. 
    Scott C. Waring
     
    Eyewitness states: 
    I was watching live feed of the international space station and before Christ Almighty this red looking ball and this almost cloud looking light started appearing and it caught my attention then this red ball comes flying from what would be northeast.

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    13-02-2019 om 19:33 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Hand Size Fossil Tooth or Claw Right In Front Of Mars Rover! Feb 13, 2019, UFO Sighting News.

    Hand Size Fossil Tooth or Claw Right In Front Of Mars Rover! Feb 13, 2019, UFO Sighting News.


    Date of discovery: February 13, 2019
    Location of discovery: Mars, Sol 2318
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    Here is something you don't see everyday. The newest Mars Curiosity rover photos shows a hand size tooth fossil near its wheels. Anyone who has ever found or bought or found fossils would recognize this right away. It can't be a coincidence that the rover stopped right in front of the fossil. Its just too obvious. I myself own two...one is a 7 inch Megaladon shark tooth and another 2.5 inch Megaladon baby tooth, but I also have many other fossils. When I saw this recent Mars photo I just knew instantly what it was. 
     
    By looking at the tooth we do know a few facts about the animal. First off its sharp, which means its a meat eater...a carnivore. Second its hand size...so that means its at least of a Megaladon shark here on Earth...thats about 17-18 meters, but it may have been a land animal so could be about 20-30% smaller than that. Was this an intelligent aliens tooth, probably not, most likely just a prehistoric period of Mars...far before any intelligent life even came about. 
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    13-02-2019 om 19:28 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Crop circle

    Crop circle

    A crop circle or crop formation is a pattern created by flattening a crop, usually a cereal. The term was first coined in the early 1980s by Colin Andrews. Crop circles have been described as all falling “within the range of the sort of thing done in hoaxes” by Taner Edis, professor of physics at Truman State University.

    Aerial view of crop circles in Switzerland

    Although obscure natural causes or alien origins of crop circles are suggested by fringe theorists, there is no scientific evidence for such explanations, and all crop circles are consistent with human causation. A person who studies crop circles is known as a cereologist.
    The number of crop circles has substantially increased from the 1970s to current times. There has been little scientific study of them. Circles in the United Kingdom are not distributed randomly across the landscape but appear near roads, areas of medium to dense population and cultural heritage monuments, such as Stonehenge or Avebury. In 1991, two hoaxers, Bower and Chorley, took credit for having created many circles throughout England after one of their circles was described by a circle investigator as impossible to be made by human hand.

    Formations are usually created overnight, although some are reported to have appeared during the day. In contrast to crop circles or crop formations, archaeological remains can cause cropmarks in the fields in the shapes of circles and squares, but they do not appear overnight, and they are always in the same places every year.

    History
    The concept of “crop circles” began with the original late-1970s hoaxes by Doug Bower and Dave Chorley (see Bower and Chorley, below). They said that they were inspired by the Tully “saucer nest” case in Australia, where a farmer claimed to first have seen a UFO, then found a flattened circle of swamp reeds.

    Before the 20th century
    A 1678 news pamphlet The Mowing-Devil: or, Strange News Out of Hartfordshire is claimed by some cereologists to be the first depiction of a crop circle. Crop circle researcher Jim Schnabel does not consider it to be a historical precedent because it describes the stalks as being cut rather than bent.
    In 1686, British naturalist Robert Plot reported on rings or arcs of mushrooms in The Natural History of Stafford-Shire and proposed air flows from the sky as a cause. In 1991 meteorologist Terence Meaden linked this report with modern crop circles, a claim that has been compared with those made by Erich von Däniken.

    An 1880 letter to the editor of Nature by amateur scientist John Rand Capron describes how a recent storm had created several circles of flattened crops in a field.

    20th century
    In 1932, archaeologist E C Curwen observed four dark rings in a field at Stoughton Down near Chichester, but could examine only one: “a circle in which the barley was ‘lodged’ or beaten down, while the interior area was very slightly mounded up.”

    In 1963, amateur astronomer Patrick Moore described a crater in a potato field in Wiltshire, which he considered was probably caused by an unknown meteoric body. In nearby wheat fields, there were several circular and elliptical areas where the wheat had been flattened. There was evidence of “spiral flattening”. He thought they could be caused by air currents from the impact, since they led towards the crater. Astronomer Hugh Ernest Butler observed similar craters and said they were likely caused by lightning strikes.

    In the 1960s, in Tully, Queensland, Australia, and in Canada, there were many reports of UFO sightings and circular formations in swamp reeds and sugar cane fields. For example, on 8 August 1967, three circles were found in a field in Duhamel, Alberta, Canada; Department of National Defence investigators concluded that it was artificial but couldn’t say who made them or how. The most famous case is the 1966 Tully “saucer nest”, when a farmer said he witnessed a saucer-shaped craft rise 30 or 40 feet (12 m) from a swamp and then fly away. On investigating he found a nearly circular area 32 feet long by 25 feet wide where the grass was flattened in clockwise curves to water level within the circle, and the reeds had been uprooted from the mud. The local police officer, the Royal Australian Air Force, and the University of Queensland concluded that it was most probably caused by natural causes, like a down draught, a willy-willy (dust devil), or a waterspout. In 1973, G.J. Odgers, Director of Public Relations, Department of Defence (Air Office), wrote to a journalist that the “saucer” was probably debris lifted by the causing willy-willy. Hoaxers Bower and Chorley said they were inspired by this case to start making the modern crop circles that appear today.

    Since the 1960s, there had been a surge of UFOlogists in Wiltshire, and there were rumours of “saucer nests” appearing in the area, but they were never photographed. There are other pre-1970s reports of circular formations, especially in Australia and Canada, but they were always simple circles, which could have been caused by whirlwinds. In Fortean Times David Wood reported that in 1940 he had already made crop circles near Gloucestershire using ropes. In 1997, the Oxford English Dictionary recorded the earliest usage of the term “crop circles” in a 1988 issue of Journal of Meteorology, referring to a BBC film. The coining of the term “crop circle” is attributed to Colin Andrews in the late 1970s or early 1980s.

    The majority of reports of crop circles have appeared in and spread since the late 1970s as many circles began appearing throughout the English countryside. This phenomenon became widely known in the late 1980s, after the media started to report crop circles in Hampshire and Wiltshire. After Bower’s and Chorley’s 1991 statement that they were responsible for many of them, circles started appearing all over the world. To date, approximately 10,000 crop circles have been reported internationally, from locations such as the former Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, the U.S., and Canada. Sceptics note a correlation between crop circles, recent media coverage, and the absence of fencing and/or anti-trespassing legislation.

    Although farmers expressed concern at the damage caused to their crops, local response to the appearance of crop circles was often enthusiastic, with locals taking advantage of the increase of tourism and visits from scientists, crop circle researchers, and individuals seeking spiritual experiences. The market for crop-circle interest consequently generated bus or helicopter tours of circle sites, walking tours, T-shirts, and book sales.

    21st century
    Since the start of the 21st century, crop formations have increased in size and complexity, with some featuring as many as 2,000 different shapes and some incorporating complex mathematical and scientific characteristics.
    The researcher Jeremy Northcote found that crop circles in the UK in 2002 were not spread randomly across the landscape. They tended to appear near roads, areas of medium-to-dense population, and cultural heritage monuments such as Stonehenge or Avebury. He found that they always appeared in areas that were easy to access. This suggests strongly that these crop circles were more likely to be caused by intentional human action than by paranormal activity. Another strong indication of that theory was that inhabitants of the zone with the most circles had a historical tendency for making large-scale formations, including stone circles such as Stonehenge, burial mounds such as Silbury Hill, long barrows such as West Kennet Long Barrow, and white horses in chalk hills.

    Bower and Chorley
    In 1991, self-professed pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley made headlines claiming it was they who started the phenomenon in 1978 with the use of simple tools consisting of a plank of wood, rope, and a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire to help them walk in a straight line. To prove their case they made a circle in front of journalists; a “cereologist” (advocate of paranormal explanations of crop circles), Pat Delgado, examined the circle and declared it authentic before it was revealed that it was a hoax. Inspired by Australian crop circle accounts from 1966, Bower and Chorley claimed to be responsible for all circles made prior to 1987, and for more than 200 crop circles in 1978–1991 (with 1000 other circles not being made by them). After their announcement, the two men demonstrated making a crop circle. According to Professor Richard Taylor, “the pictographs they created inspired a second wave of crop artists. Far from fizzling out, crop circles have evolved into an international phenomenon, with hundreds of sophisticated pictographs now appearing annually around the globe.”

    Smithsonian magazine wrote:

    Since Bower and Chorley’s circles appeared, the geometric designs have escalated in scale and complexity, as each year teams of anonymous circle-makers lay honey traps for New Age tourists.

    Art and business

    A crop circle with the logo of Swedish Railways.

    Since the early 1990s, the UK arts collective Circlemakers, founded by artists Rod Dickinson and John Lundberg (and subsequently including artists Wil Russell and Rob Irving), have been creating crop circles in the UK and around the world as part of their art practice and for commercial clients.

    The Led Zeppelin boxed set that was released on 7 September 1990, along with the remasters of the first boxed set, as well as the second boxed set, all feature an image of a crop circle that appeared in East Field in Alton Barnes, Wiltshire.

    On the night of 11–12 July 1992, a crop-circle making competition with a prize of £3,000 (funded in part by the Arthur Koestler Foundation) was held in Berkshire. The winning entry was produced by three Westland Helicopters engineers, using rope, PVC pipe, a plank, string, a telescopic device and two stepladders. According to Rupert Sheldrake, the competition was organised by him and John Michell and “co-sponsored by The Guardian and The Cerealogist”. The prize money came from PM, a German magazine. Sheldrake wrote that “The experiment was conclusive. Humans could indeed make all the features of state-of-the-art crop formations at that time. Eleven of the twelve teams made more or less impressive formations that followed the set design.”

    Aerial view of a crop circle in Diessenhofen

    In 2002, Discovery Channel commissioned five aeronautics and astronautics graduate students from MIT to create crop circles of their own, aiming to duplicate some of the features claimed to distinguish “real” crop circles from the known fakes such as those created by Bower and Chorley. The creation of the circle was recorded and used in the Discovery Channel documentary Crop Circles: Mysteries in the Fields.

    In 2009, The Guardian reported that crop circle activity had been waning around Wiltshire, in part because makers preferred creating promotional crop circles for companies that paid well for their efforts.

    A video sequence used in connection with the opening of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London showed two crop circles in the shape of the Olympic rings. Another Olympic crop circle was visible to passengers landing at nearby Heathrow Airport before and during the Games.

    A 7-acre (2.8-hectare) crop circle depicting the emblem of the Star Wars Rebel Alliance was created in California in December 2017 by an 11-year-old boy as a spaceport for X-wing fighters.

    Legal implications
    In 1992, Hungarian youths Gábor Takács and Róbert Dallos, both then 17, were the first people to face legal action after creating a crop circle. Takács and Dallos, of the St. Stephen Agricultural Technicum, a high school in Hungary specializing in agriculture, created a 36-metre (118ft) diameter crop circle in a wheat field near Székesfehérvár, 43 miles (69 km) southwest of Budapest, on June 8, 1992. On September 3, the pair appeared on Hungarian TV and exposed the circle as a hoax, showing photos of the field before and after the circle was made. As a result, Aranykalász Co., the owners of the land, sued the teens for 630,000 Ft (~$3,000 USD) in damages. The presiding judge ruled that the students were only responsible for the damage caused in the circle itself, amounting to about 6,000 Ft (~$30 USD), and that 99% of the damage to the crops was caused by the thousands of visitors who flocked to Székesfehérvár following the media’s promotion of the circle. The fine was eventually paid by the TV show, as were the students’ legal fees.

    In 2000, Matthew Williams became the first man in the UK to be arrested for causing criminal damage after making a crop circle near Devizes. In November 2000, he was fined £100 and £40 in costs. As of 2008, no one else has been successfully prosecuted in the UK for criminal damage caused by creating crop circles.

    Creation

    Detail of a crop circle in a field in Switzerland

    The scientific consensus on crop circles is that they are constructed by human beings as hoaxes, advertising, or art. The most widely known method for a person or group to construct a crop formation is to tie one end of a rope to an anchor point and the other end to a board which is used to crush the plants. Sceptics of the paranormal point out that all characteristics of crop circles are fully compatible with their being made by hoaxers.

    Bower and Chorley confessed in 1991 to making the first crop circles in southern England. When some people refused to believe them, they deliberately added straight lines and squares to show that they could not have natural causes. In a copycat effect, increasingly complex circles started appearing in many countries around the world, including fractal figures. Physicists have suggested that the most complex formations might be made with the help of GPS and lasers. In 2009, a circle formation was made over the course of three consecutive nights and was apparently left unfinished, with some half-made circles.

    The main criticism of alleged non-human creation of crop circles is that while evidence of these origins, besides eyewitness testimonies, is essentially absent, some are definitely known to be the work of human pranksters, and others can be adequately explained as such. There have been cases in which researchers declared crop circles to be “the real thing”, only to be confronted with the people who created the circle and documented the fraud, like Bower and Chorley and tabloid Today hoaxing Pat Delgado, the Wessex Sceptics and Channel 4’s Equinox hoaxing Terence Meaden, or a friend of a Canadian farmer hoaxing a field researcher of the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network. In his 1997 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan concludes that crop circles were created by Bower and Chorley and their copycats, and speculates that Ufologist’s willingly ignore the evidence for hoaxing so they can keep believing in an extraterrestrial origin of the circles. Many others have demonstrated how complex crop circles can be created. Scientific American published an article by Matt Ridley, who started making crop circles in northern England in 1991. He wrote about how easy it is to develop techniques using simple tools that can easily fool later observers. He reported on “expert” sources such as The Wall Street Journal, who had been easily fooled and mused about why people want to believe supernatural explanations for phenomena that are not yet explained. Methods of creating a crop circle are now well documented on the Internet.

    Some crop formations are paid for by companies who use them as advertising. Many crop circles show human symbols, like the heart and arrow symbol of love, stereotyped alien faces, Hoaxers have been caught in the process of making new circles, such as in 2004 in the Netherlands for example.

    Advocates of non-human causes discount on-site evidence of human involvement as attempts to discredit the phenomena. Some even argue a conspiracy theory, with governments planting evidence of hoaxing to muddle the origins of the circles. When Ridley wrote negative articles in newspapers, he was accused of spreading “government disinformation” and of working for the UK military intelligence service MI5. Ridley responded by noting that many cereologists make good livings from selling books and providing high-priced personal tours through crop fields, and he claimed that they have vested interests in rejecting what is by far the most likely explanation for the circles.

    Alternative explanations
    Weather

    It has been suggested that crop circles may be the result of extraordinary meteorological phenomena ranging from freak tornadoes to ball lightning, but there is no evidence of any crop circle being created by any of these causes.

    In 1880, an amateur scientist, John Rand Capron, wrote a letter to the editor of journal Nature about some circles in crops and blamed them on a recent storm, saying their shape was “suggestive of some cyclonic wind action”.

    In 1980, Terence Meaden, a meteorologist and physicist, proposed that the circles were caused by whirlwinds whose course was affected by southern England hills. As circles became more complex, Terence had to create increasingly complex theories, blaming an electromagneto-hydrodynamic “plasma vortex”. The meteorological theory became popular, and it was even referenced in 1991 by physicist Stephen Hawking who said that, “Corn circles are either hoaxes or formed by vortex movement of air”. The weather theory suffered a serious blow in 1991, but Hawking’s point about hoaxes was supported when Bower and Chorley stated that they had been responsible for making all those circles. By the end of 1991 Meaden conceded that those circles that had complex designs were made by hoaxers.

    Paranormal

    Sketch of a “spaceship” creating crop circles, sent to UK Ministry of Defence circa 1998.

    Since becoming the focus of widespread media attention in the 1980s, crop circles have become the subject of speculation by various paranormal, ufological, and anomalistic investigators ranging from proposals that they were created by bizarre meteorological phenomena to messages from extraterrestrial beings. There has also been speculation that crop circles have a relation to ley lines. Many New Age groups incorporate crop circles into their belief systems.

    Some paranormal advocates think that crop circles are caused by ball lighting and that the patterns are so complex that they have to be controlled by some entity. Some proposed entities are: Gaia asking to stop global warming and human pollution, God, supernatural beings (for example Indian devas), the collective minds of humanity through a proposed “quantum field”, or extraterrestrial beings.

    Responding to local beliefs that “extraterrestrial beings” in UFOs were responsible for crop circles appearing, the Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) described crop circles as “man-made”. Thomas Djamaluddin, research professor of astronomy and astrophysics at LAPAN stated, “We have come to agree that this ‘thing’ cannot be scientifically proven.” Among others, paranormal enthusiasts, ufologist’s, and anomalistic investigators have offered hypothetical explanations that have been criticized as pseudoscientific by sceptical groups and scientists, including the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. No credible evidence of extraterrestrial origin has been presented.

    Animal activity
    In 2009, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania stated that Australian wallabies had been found creating crop circles in fields of opium poppies, which are grown legally for medicinal use, after consuming some of the opiate-laden poppies and running in circles.

    Changes to crops
    A small number of scientists (physicist Eltjo Haselhoff, the late biophysicist William Levengood) have found differences between the crops inside the circles and outside them, citing this as evidence they were not man-made.

    Levengood published papers in journal Physiologia Plantarum in 1994 and 1999. In his 1994 paper he found that certain deformities in the grain inside the circles were correlated to the position of the grain inside the circle. In 1996 sceptic Joe Nickell objected that correlation is not causation, raised several objections to Levengood’s methods and assumptions, and said “Until his work is independently replicated by qualified scientists doing ‘double-blind’ studies and otherwise following stringent scientific protocols, there seems no need to take seriously the many dubious claims that Levengood makes, including his similar ones involving plants at alleged ‘cattle mutilation’ sites.”.

    A study by Eltjo Haselhoff reported that the pulvini of wheat in 95% of the crop circles investigated were elongated in a pattern falling off with distance from the centre and that seeds from the bent-over plants grew much more slowly under controlled conditions. Furthermore, traces of crop circle patterns are sometimes found in the crop the following year, “suggesting long-term damage to the crop field consistent with Levengood’s observations of stunted seed growth.”

    Magnetism
    In 2000, Colin Andrews, who had researched crop circles for 17 years, stated that while he believed 80% were man-made, he thought the remaining circles, with less elaborate designs, could be explained by a three-degree shift in the Earth’s magnetic field, that creates a current that “electrocutes” the crops, causing them to flatten and form the circle.

    Folklore

    1678 pamphlet on the “Mowing-Devil”.

    Researchers of crop circles have linked modern crop circles to old folkloric tales to support the claim that they are not artificially produced. Circle crops are culture-dependent: they appear mostly in developed and secularized Western countries where people are receptive to New Age beliefs, including Japan, but they don’t appear at all in other zones, such as Muslim countries.

    Fungi can cause circular areas of crop to die, probably the origin of tales of “fairie rings”. Tales also mention balls of light many times but never in relation to crop circles.

    A 17th-century English woodcut called the Mowing-Devil depicts the devil with a scythe mowing (cutting) a circular design in a field of oats. The pamphlet containing the image states that the farmer, disgusted at the wage his mower was demanding for his work, insisted that he would rather have “the devil himself” perform the task. Crop circle researcher Jim Schnabel does not consider this to be a historical precedent for crop circles because the stalks were cut down, not bent. The circular form indicated to the farmer that it had been caused by the devil.

    In the 1948 German story Die zwölf Schwäne (The Twelve Swans), a farmer every morning found a circular ring of flattened grain on his field. After several attempts, his son saw twelve princesses disguised as swans, who took off their disguises and danced in the field. Crop rings produced by fungi may have inspired such tales since folklore holds these rings are created by dancing wolves or fairies.

    https://www.creativespirits.net/ }

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Twitter Photo of A NASA Astronaut From ISS Sparks Claims Of UFO Monitoring Space Station

    Twitter Photo of A NASA Astronaut From ISS Sparks Claims Of UFO Monitoring Space Station

    A former NASA astronaut posted a photo from the ISS that seemed to show a UFO. The picture sent conspiracy theorists into a frenzy.

    Scott Kelly commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on Expedition 26,45 and 46. While he launched in Soyuz TMA-16M on March 27, 2015, he detailed his journey on social media, providing regular updates.

    However, he appeared to snap a photo on board the ISS a small, white object in the top right. Mr Kelly tweeted a picture of India from outer space on November 15. At first glance, the photo shows merely Southern India lit up during the night. However, some space enthusiasts were quick to notice the UFO in the top right of the picture that looked out of place.

    They said that Scott did a great shot of a UFO, but many others quickly debunked the UFO theories. Debunkers noted that the UFO was actually part of the space station. They explained that the High Definition Earth-Viewing System was mounted on the outside of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module and it resembled the same shape to that in the photo.

    However, many others suggested that it was a UFO and these debunkers were just finding ways to cover up the truth or commissioned by NASA to drive away the public to the fact on the existence of aliens and UFOs monitoring the ISS.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    13-02-2019 om 00:58 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Earthquake WARNING: ‘Huge MEGA-THRUST to strike’ by end of February

    Earthquake WARNING: ‘Huge MEGA-THRUST to strike’ by end of February

    A MEGA-THRUST earthquake could shake our planet to the core in the next few weeks according to a “tremor forecaster”.

    Planetary alignment beginning on Valentine’s Day has some earthquake forecasters on high alert, as they believe a massive “mega-thrust” tremor is on the way. Uranus, Mars, Venus and the sun are all said to be tugging on the Earth, combining to unleash a huge tremor. The planets will have a gravitational tug-of-war across our solar system and will pull from all sides on Earth’s tectonic plates.

    The forecast was made by new age  prediction website Ditrianum, run by researcher Frank Hoogerbeets. He said: “Critical lunar geometry later on the 10th and early 11th has the potential of triggering larger seismic activity, possibly into the mid 6 magnitude range, perhaps even higher.

    “Overall, the second half of February, starting around the 14th is going to be very critical with the potential of a mega-thrust earthquake between the 20th and 28th.”

    Mr Hoogerbeets fails to state where the “earthquake” might hit, but if it were to be a “mega-thrust”, it would surely be devastating for at least one country, if not worldwide.

    earthquake damage

    The earthquake has "the potential of a mega-thrust earthquake between the 20th and 28th.” 
    (Image: GETTY)

    The Dutch researcher said he reached his conclusion using his Solar System Geometry Index (SSGI) which “is the computation of a dataset for a specific time-frame of values given to specific geometric positions of the planets, the Moon and the Sun”.

    He said: “After three years of observations, it became clear that some planetary geometry in the Solar System clearly tends to cause a seismic increase, while other geometry does not.”

    But experts have consistently rejected Mr Hoogerbeets’ claims, saying that there is no way earthquakes can be predicted.

    earthquake

    Earthquake WARNING: ‘Huge MEGA-THRUST to strike’ by end of February
     (Image: GETTY)

    John Bellini, a geophysicist at the US Geological Survey (USGS) has said: “We can't predict or forecast earthquakes.

    "Sometimes before a large earthquake you'll have a foreshock or two, but we don't know they're foreshocks until the big one happens.”

    13-02-2019 om 00:17 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFO BOMBSHELL: Did the US Pentagon run a UFO program? Declassified document REVEALS all

    UFO BOMBSHELL: Did the US Pentagon run a UFO program? Declassified document REVEALS all

    THE US military operated a secret UFO research program according to recently unclassified intelligence documents, a top UFO investigator and former Ministry of Defence (MoD) insider has claimed.

    Military intelligence documents describing the US Government's alleged attempts to identify  and extraterrestrial threats have been revealed to the public. The UFO revelation comes with the release of a Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) letter to the US Congress, dated January 9, 2018. The letter, shared with Express.co.uk by former MoD UFO investigator Nick Pope, sheds light onto the US' involvement with UFO research operations. Mr Pope's investigation into the matter supports claims the US investigated extraterrestrial reports under the cover of aerospace defence pretences.

    According to Mr Pope the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which ran from 2002 to 2012 and was first made public in 2017, acted as this cover.

    In his estimate, the DIA document, which he obtained through a Freedom of Information (FoI) act, proves this.

    The UFO expert told Express.co.uk: "Ever since the existence of AATIP was first revealed in December 2017, there's been controversy about its true nature - was it a UFO program, as claimed by some of those involved, or simply a program aimed at assessing far-term aerospace threats, as some sceptics have suggested?

    "Answering that question is difficult because we still have very few official documents about AATIP, but the Defense Intelligence Agency letter to Congress that I recently obtained from the DIA's Office of Corporate Communications gives us some clear pointers.

    UFO news: Pentagon documents reveals UFO program

    UFO news: A UFO expert believes US intelligence ran a covert UFO research program 
    (Image: GETTY/NNICK POPE)

    "In the letter, the DIA describe AATIP's purpose as being 'to investigate foreign advanced aerospace weapon threats from the present out to the next 40 years'.

    "But there's a total disconnect between that statement and the list of 'products produced under the AATIP contract' listed in the letter's attachment. This list sounds like Harry Potter meets Star Trek, with papers on anti-gravity, invisibility cloaking, stargates, warp drive and wormholes.

    "The clincher is a paper on the Drake Equation, which was drawn up in 1961 by the radio astronomer Frank Drake."

    Drake's Equation is a theoretical approximation on the number of intelligent and technologically advanced species throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.

    The equation sets to answer one of the most fundamental questions of existence - are we alone in the universe?

    There's no doubt in my mind that AATIP was researching and investigating UFOs

    Nick Pope, UFO investigator

    But its presence in unclassified military documents seems ill-placed, Mr Pope argued, and suggests AATIP was indeed involved in researching extraterrestrial threats.

    Mr Pope said: "If AATIP was about aerospace threats and not UFOs, where are the papers about Russian and Chinese aircraft, missiles and drones? There aren't any.

    "Taken collectively, the papers look as if they were drawn up to answer a question along the lines of 'if we're being visited by extraterrestrials, what technologies might they be using, and can we figure out these technologies ourselves?'"

    UFO news: Pentagon documents on UFO research

    UFO news: The obtained documents show the US investigated war drives, antigravity and invisibility 
    (Image: NICK POPE)

    UFO news: Declassified documents on UFO research

    UFO news: Nick Pope, a former Mod UFO investigator, believes the document support the claim 
    (Image: NICK POPE)

    The DIA letter, addressed to former  Senator John McCain and Senator Jack Reed, outlines the AATIP's research tasks, goals and technologies.

    Among the more bizarre items listed in the letter, are reports of invisibility cloaking research, "Antigravity for Aerospace Applications", "Warp Drive, Dark Energy and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions" and aforementioned Drake's Equation.

    Mr Pope said: "The US Government seems to have been looking at all this in terms of assessing threats and opportunities, which is exactly what I would expect in an intelligence program of this nature.

    "It's broadly similar to the way we looked at the issue in the Ministry of Defence. Whatever the true nature of the UFO phenomenon, the question is whether or not anything useful can be derived from a better understanding of what we're dealing with.

    "Technology acquisition - including weaponisation - is at the heart of this.

    "Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who was the key figure in getting AATIP set up and funded, spoke to this point in a 2009 letter to the Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III.

    "He wrote that the 'technological insight and capability gained will provide the US with a distinct advantage over any foreign threats and allow the US to maintain its preeminence as a world leader' while warning that the technologies 'have the potential to be used with catastrophic effects by adversaries'."

    But the one missing piece of the puzzle is the complete lack of the term UFO through both letters - a practice, which is not at all uncommon across government departments investigating such issues.

    The MoD for instance, Mr Pope said, would refer to Unidentified Flying Objects as UPSs - Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.

    Doing this would "reframe the debate" from associations with science-fiction associations surrounding the concept of UFOs.

    Mr Pope said the pop-cultural baggage surrounding the term UFO is too counterproductive to entertain in a scientific and research environment.

    He said: "While there's no doubt in my mind that AATIP was researching and investigating UFOs, describing the program in aerospace terms makes sense.

    UFO news: Flying saucer over USA

    UFO news: The official explanation is aerospace defence against foreign powers 
    (Image: GETTY)

    UFO news: Flying saucer over America

    UFO news: AATIP looked into Drake's Equation, which estimates alien civilisations in the Milky Way 
    (Image: GETTY)

    "Part of that may have been an attempt to hide the program, keeping it off the radar with Pentagon financiers looking for cuts, and making it more difficult for journalists and the public to find it using the Freedom of Information Act.

    "That said, there are potential aerospace spin-offs too. As an example, if we can render an aircraft not just stealthy, but literally invisible, there are obvious military benefits.

    "There are potential military applications with a lot of the other things AATIP was looking at too.

    "Nowhere is this more true than in space, which along with cyberspace is probably going to be the key battlespace in any future war."

    The ATTIP was born in 2007 under the direction of Nevada Senator Harry Reid, under the guise of exploring unexplained aerospace threats.

    Between 2002 and 2012, the program received a research budget of £17million ($22million).

    The US public was made aware of the program in 2017 when a number of high profile media outlets, including Politico and The New York Times, reported on it.

    The ATTIP's 38 research initiatives were then revealed to the public on January 16, 2019, following a Freedom of Information request (FoI).

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Oldest mobility: microscopic creature moved around 2 billion years ago

    Oldest mobility: microscopic creature moved around 2 billion years ago

    BY MIHAI ANDREI

    Life on Earth has sure come a long way in the past billion years, but one particular ability may have developed much earlier than we thought: mobility.

    Fossilized traces of motility found in 2.1 billion-year-old rock. Scale bar: 1 cm. 

    Image credits: El Albani / IC2MP / CNRS – Université de Poitiers.

    Unicellular life is clearly successful — it’s been around for more than 3 billion years and it’s still going as strong as ever. But that’s not to say that pluricellular life doesn’t have anything going for it. For starters, it’s immensely more complex and diversified, capable of filling more niches and developing entire ecosystems which would be impossible in the single-celled world.

    Another advantage is mobility — or rather, potential mobility. Not all multicellular life is mobile (take plants for example), but much of it is. Now, researchers have found the earliest evidence of mobility, and it dates from a whopping 2.1 billion years ago.

    Up until recently, paleontologists thought that the earliest multicellular life emerged some 600 million years ago. But geologist Abderrazak El Albani and his team at the Institut de chimie des milieux et matériaux de Poitiers found a geological deposit in Gabon with evidence of multicellular life, dating from 2.1 billion years ago. Now, analyzing fossils from the same deposit, El Albani and colleagues have found traces of mobility, showing that this ancient life was probably much more sophisticated than we gave it credit.

    Micro-tomography is used to display the 3D morphology of tubes reflecting the paths of movement through the sediment. The tubes are filled with pyrite crystals (generated by the transformation by bacteria of biological tissue) found in layers of clay minerals. Parallel horizontal layers are fossilized microbial mats.

    Image credits: A. El Albani.

    More than 2 billion years ago, the world was a much different place than it is today, and one of the most striking differences was the lack of oxygen. Oxygen was only starting to accumulate in the atmosphere only around 2.2 billion years ago. Although it was produced by microorganisms for a long time, it couldn’t build up to any significant degree because of the vast deposits of unoxidized sulfur and iron — only after these sinks had been filled up and all the iron and sulfur oxidized, could the oxygen finally start to build up. The creatures that El Albani found traces of lived at the same time this transition was happening.

    The evidence is a set of sinuous and tubular structures. Their diameter is about a few millimeters, running through what is now fine layers of sedimentary rock. During their lifetime, these creatures inhabited a simple, shallow marine environment. Chemical analysis revealed the biological origin of these structures and that they appeared at the same time the sediment was deposited.

    The traces lie next to fossilized microbial biofilms, which formed thin layers in the sediments. It seems quite likely that the organisms behind this phenomenon moved around for nutritive elements and oxygen — both of which were produced by cyanobacteria.

    So what exactly were these creatures? It’s hard to say. However, researchers suggest they may have been somewhat similar to colonial amoebae. Amoebae are generally single-celled animals, though some multicellular creatures have amoeboid cells. These cells can sometimes live individually, or, when resources are scarce, clump up together, forming a slug-like colony which moves in search of a favorable environment and more resources. This is what researchers believe they have come across — or at least a primitive manifestation of this phenomenon.

    This study also casts an important question about the evolution of this mobility feature: why do we have this big gap, between most findings which date from 0.6 billion years ago, and this one, which dates to 2.1 billion years? Did mobility evolve back then and continuously develop but we just haven’t found traces of it, or was this experiment cut short by an unforgiving environment?

    For now, the jury is still out.

    The study “Organism motility in an oxygenated shallow-marine environment 2.1 billion years ago ” by Abderrazak El Albani et al has been published in PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1815721116

    https://www.zmescience.com/ }

    12-02-2019 om 23:07 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA finds a second huge impact crater beneath Greenland’s ice sheet

    NASA finds a second huge impact crater beneath Greenland’s ice sheet

     BY TIBI PUIU

    A new impact crater has been found under more than a mile of ice in northwest Greenland. Credit: NASA Goddard.

    A new impact crater has been found under more than a mile of ice in northwest Greenland.

    Credit: NASA Goddard.

    Scientists didn’t think they would be able to find evidence of ancient impact craters in places such as Greenland or Antarctica, which should have been cleared away by erosion by underlying ice. But, in November, researchers found a huge 30-kilometer-wide crater (19 miles) beneath Greenland’s Hiawatha Glacier. It was the first meteorite impact found beneath an ice sheet, a breakthrough moment in geoscience that combined the latest imaging technologies. Now, researchers report finding an even larger crater beneath Greenland’s thick ice. With a width of 36.5 km (22 miles), if confirmed, the new crater would be the 22nd largest impact crater found on Earth.

    Beneath the ice

    The new site was identified just 183 km (114 miles) from Hiawatha, but, judging from current evidence, the two impacts weren’t likely made during the same time. Both are fairly recent though. Scientists estimate that Hiawatha is no more than three million years old, while the new impact site in northwest Greenland was likely formed by an asteroid impact within the past 2.6 million years. Although it doesn’t have a formal name yet, researchers are considering naming it the Paterson crater, in honor of the late glaciologist Stan Paterson, who helped reconstruct climate data for the past 100,000 years using ice cores from Greenland.

    We’ve surveyed the Earth in many different ways, from land, air, and space—it’s exciting that discoveries like these are still possible,” said Joe MacGregor, a glaciologist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who made contributions to the discovery of both craters.

    MacGregor was inspired by last year’s discovery to scour topographic maps for more signs of other craters. He eventually noticed a circular pattern in an ice surface map made using data from NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites. His suspicions were confirmed by raw radar data, including those collected by NASA’s Operation IceBridge, which were used to study the topography of the bedrock beneath the ice.

    The images that MacGregor and colleagues assembled show all the hallmarks of an impact crater, including a flat, bowl-shaped depression in the bedrock, surrounded by an elevated rim and centrally located peaks. Measurements also revealed a negative gravity anomaly over the area, which is also characteristic of impact craters.

    The only other circular structure that might approach this size would be a collapsed volcanic caldera,” MacGregor said in a statement. “But the areas of known volcanic activity in Greenland are several hundred miles away. Also, a volcano should have a clear positive magnetic anomaly, and we don’t see that at all.

    Given the proximity of the two craters, it’s plausible that a double asteroid system impacted the area. In order to investigate this possibility, the researchers studied the erosion rates of the two craters. The findings suggest that the new crater is far more eroded than the Hiawatha crater, and consequently older. Previously, two pairs of geographically close craters in Ukraine and Canada were also found to be unrelated.

    The existence of a third pair of unrelated craters is modestly surprising but we don’t consider it unlikely,” MacGregor said. “On the whole, the evidence we’ve assembled indicates that this new structure is very likely an impact crater, but presently it looks unlikely to be a twin with Hiawatha.

    The findings appeared in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.TEOTWAWKI: 6 Horrible Consequences of Earth Losing It's Magnetic Shield - Happening Now Before You Very Lives

    TEOTWAWKI: 6 Horrible Consequences of Earth Losing It's Magnetic Shield - Happening Now Before You Very Lives

     
    6 Horrible Consequences of Earth Losing its Magnetic Field – There is so much about the Earth that we undervalue in our daily lives. Though human civilization has spread to every region of the world, our existence still depends on the alignment of natural phenomena that are beyond our control.
     
    I am currently living in Barrow, AK. The city that is farthest North of all U.S. cities. For months I hadn’t seen insects, birds, or any wildlife. It is usually below zero and the wind chill makes it much colder. I was outside the other day and saw a crow flying over my head. It was -20 with a wind chill of around -40. I don’t know where that bird came from, or how he was surviving here in the middle of Winter, but your mention of the waning magnetic field and bird navigation makes me think it had something to do with it. Ramosa999
     
    Earth’s magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from the Earth’s interior out into space, where it meets the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun. Its magnitude at the Earth’s surface ranges from 25 to 65 microteslas.Wikipedia

    What do you think about this video? Seems like Earth is in travesty and change to me. Let us know what you think in the comments section. Thanks for stopping by.

    https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/ }

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    Mars One wil menselijke kolonie op Mars stichten, maar is deels failliet - HLN.be

    Bron: AD.nl

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    12-02-2019 om 22:07 geschreven door peter  

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    What HAS Russia spotted in Earth's upper atmosphere? Scientists say satellite detected unexplained 'explosions of light' in cloud-free skies

    • Scientists with Lomonosov satellite say it spotted several 'explosions' of light
    • These were spotted dozens of miles above the surface, with no clouds below
    • Researchers say they may have come across previously unknown phenomenon  

    A Russian satellite designed to monitor the atmosphere for high-energy cosmic rays has detected mysterious ‘explosions’ of light miles above Earth’s surface, Russian scientists say.

    While numerous examples of unusual space weather phenomena have been spotted in the upper atmosphere before, the team operating the Lomonosov satellite say what they’ve found may be something entirely new.

    Despite the occurrence of several powerful bursts, Russian scientists say there were no signs of storms in the area, according to Sputnik.

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    A Russian satellite designed to monitor the atmosphere for high-energy cosmic rays has detected mysterious ‘explosions’ of light miles above Earth’s surface, Russian scientists say. File photo

    A Russian satellite designed to monitor the atmosphere for high-energy cosmic rays has detected mysterious ‘explosions’ of light miles above Earth’s surface, Russian scientists say.

    File photo

    The satellite, named after scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, launched in 2016 and is integrated with the Kanopus-B spacecraft.

    Its goal is to study high-energy cosmic rays, including gamma rays, magnetospheric particles, and transient light phenomena in the upper atmosphere.

    And, the scientists now say it’s spotted something odd.

    ‘With the help of the telescope, we have obtained even more important results than we expected,’ Mikhail Panasyuk, Director of the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University, told Sputnik.

    ‘It looks like we have encountered new physical phenomena. We do not yet know their physical nature.

    ‘For example, during Lomonosov’s flight at an altitude of several dozen kilometers, we have registered several times a very powerful “explosion” of light,' the director said.

    The satellite, called Mikhailo Lomonosov, launched in 2016 and is integrated with the Kanopus-B spacecraft

    The satellite, called Mikhailo Lomonosov, launched in 2016 and is integrated with the Kanopus-B spacecraft

    ‘But everything was clear underneath it, no storms, no clouds.’

    In recent years, unusual electrical discharges have been captured on film by satellites and even astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

    There are several types of luminous flashes, most notably red sprites and blue jets.

    These bursts of electricity, however, are always associated with storm clouds, making the latest discovery all the more baffling.

    The Lomonosov Project is working to get to the bottom of short-lived phenomena such as that recently detected in the upper atmosphere to understand processes beyond cosmic rays and gamma bursts.

    While they may occur high above Earth, the effects of space weather can trickle down and interfere with activity down at the surface.

    WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF 'SPACE LIGHTNING'? 

    While numerous types of space and weather phenomena have been spotted in the upper atmosphere before, the team operating the Lomonosov satellite say what they’ve found may be something entirely new.

    The team reported 'explosions' of light, though no clouds were seen in the skies below.  

    In the past, similar luminous events have been linked to 'space lightning' - but, these events are always associated with storm clouds.

    Blue jets are enormous bursts of electrical discharge spiking upward from storm clouds in the upper atmosphere.

    They emerge from the electrically-charged cores of thunderstorms and rise up to 30 miles upwards in the shape of a cone.

    Red sprites are electrical bursts of light that occur above highly active thunderstorms.

    They only last a few milliseconds and are relatively dim compared with other lightning.

    The late experimental physicist John Winckler accidentally discovered sprites, while helping to test a new low-light video camera in 1989.

    They show up red at higher altitudes and fade to blue at lower heights.

    We must take into account that the Earth’s radiation belts – the charged particles trapped by the magnetic field, can disappear, precipitate from the magnetic trap into the Earth’s atmosphere, producing in it extensive regions of ionization,’ the project’s website states.

    ‘The energy of the radiation belt particles is sufficiently high, for instance, there are relativistic electrons with energy of several MeV among them, which can penetrate deep in the atmosphere and by rate of ionization can easily compete against Auger showers.

    ‘Besides space factors physical processes near the Earth’s surface also have an effect on the atmosphere.’

    12-02-2019 om 21:45 geschreven door peter  

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    Russian Satellite Registers Unknown Physical Phenomena in Earth's Atmosphere

    MOSCOW (Sputnik) - An ultraviolet telescope installed on the Russian satellite Lomonosov has registered light "explosions" in the planet's atmosphere, whose physical nature has not been explained so far, the director of the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Russian State University said in an interview with Sputnik.

    "With the help of the telescope, we have obtained even more important results than we expected. It looks like we have encountered new physical phenomena… We do not yet know their physical nature… For example, during Lomonosov's flight at an altitude of several dozen kilometres, we have registered several times a very powerful 'explosion' of light. But everything was clear underneath it, no storms, no clouds," Mikhail Panasyuk said.

    READ MORE: LIVE FEED: China Space Station Said to Have Reentered Earth's Atmosphere (VIDEO)

    Russian astronomic satellite Mikhailo Lomonosov of Moscow State University was launched to the Earth's orbit in 2016.

    It was designed to observe transient phenomena in the upper atmosphere of the Earth as well as studying the radiation characteristics of the planet's magnetosphere and for basic cosmological research. Its weight is 625 kilograms.

    The satellite is equipped with a space telescope to measure the energy spectrum and chemical composition of high-energy cosmic rays from near-Earth orbit. Moreover, there are instrumental systems installed on board for studying cosmic gamma-ray bursts and the Earth's near-magnetosphere.

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    12-02-2019 om 21:30 geschreven door peter  

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    Russische satelliet legt volstrekt onbekend fenomeen vast in de atmosfeer. Wetenschappers staan voor raadsel

    Russische satelliet legt volstrekt onbekend fenomeen vast in de atmosfeer. 

    Wetenschappers staan voor raadsel

    Met behulp van een telescoop die is bevestigd aan de Russische satelliet Lomonosov zijn mysterieuze ‘lichtexplosies’ in de atmosfeer van de aarde vastgelegd.

    Wetenschappers hebben nog geen verklaring kunnen vinden voor dit fenomeen, zo liet Mikhail Panasjoek van de Russische Staatsuniversiteit weten.

    “Het lijkt erop dat we een nieuw fenomeen hebben ontdekt,” zei hij. “We weten nog niets over de aard hiervan.”

    Niets te zien

    Panasjoek zei dat Lomonosov op enkele tientallen kilometers hoogte verschillende zeer krachtige ‘lichtexplosies’ heeft gedetecteerd.

    “Eronder was niets te zien,” zei hij tegen persbureau Sputnik. “Geen stormen, geen wolken, niets.”

    De Russische satelliet Mikhailo Lomonosov van de Staatsuniversiteit van Moskou is in 2016 gelanceerd.

    Vluchtige fenomenen

    De satelliet, die 625 kilo weegt, is ontworpen om vluchtige fenomenen in de bovenste lagen van de atmosfeer te bestuderen.

    De kunstmaan is uitgerust met een ruimtetelescoop die gebruikt wordt om hoogenergetische kosmische straling te meten.

    Aan boord bevinden zich ook instrumenten om gammaflitsen en de magnetosfeer van de aarde te onderzoeken.

    [Sputniknews]
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    12-02-2019 om 21:11 geschreven door peter  

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    SOMS KOM JE JUWEELTJES TEGEN UIT EEN TIJD DAT NIET ALLES NEP WAS...

    In de wereld waarin wij vandaag de dag leven, worden we gebombardeerd met van alles dat nep is; van nepnieuws tot nepbeelden. 

    Veertig jaar geleden was dat gelukkig anders en wanneer je naar een prachtige opname kijkt van een sigaarvormige ufo boven een Engelse stad, dan weet je dat mensen echt (vreemde) dingen zien vliegen.

    Je wordt soms bijna moedeloos van de niet aflatende stroom nepbeelden van ufo’s op Youtube. Zo langzamerhand kan je gewoon je eigen zintuigen niet meer geloven, want zo goed als alles is te vervalsen.


    En aangezien we in een maatschappij leven waar geld God is, zijn er talloze mensen die beroepsmatig niets anders doen dan beelden vervalsen, om zo argeloze bezoekers te lokken die dan geacht worden op advertenties te klikken. 

    Daarom is het soms een verademing als er iets opduikt van een aantal jaren geleden, uit een tijd dat niet alles nep was. 

    De volgende gebeurtenis vond plaats ergens rond 1980 en dat was zeker een tijd dat er nog geen, of in ieder geval veel en veel minder, professionele vervalsers actief waren met beelden. 

    De volgende opname is gemaakt door een beveiliger uit de plaats Cheadle in Staffordshire, Engeland. De man heeft onlangs zijn opname ingestuurd naar Mufon, met het volgende verhaal.

    xxx

    Ik ben een klein beetje laat met het melden van iets dat 40 jaar geleden gebeurde, maar ik had geen idee bij wie ik zoiets kon melden en wat misschien de echte reden is, is dat ik dacht dat niemand mij zou geloven. 

    Dit is wat er gebeurde: 

    Zoals ik zei was het ongeveer 40 jaar geleden toen ik als beveiliger nachtdienst had. Het was een bitter koude nacht geweest en de grond was bedekt met ijs en de lucht was heel erg helder. 

    Ik liep volgens mijn normale routine van het ene naar het andere gebouw. Toen opeens zag ik een licht in de lucht dat erg laag vloog en recht op mij af scheen te komen vanuit een noordoostelijke richting. Natuurlijk was mijn eerste gedachte: helikopter. 

    Maar, toch was er iets vreemds. Allereerst dat het één enkel wit licht was. Toen stelde ik vast dat het toch wel heel erg dichtbij kwam en min of meer recht op mij af.

    xxx

    Ik dacht dat ik nu toch wel het ding zou kunnen horen. Je kon zo in de heel vroege ochtend een speld horen vallen, zo stil was het. Er stond ook totaal geen wind. Ik was zo geïntrigeerd geraakt door de verschijning dat ik bleef staan om het object te observeren. 

    Het kwam heel langzaam op mij af, met een snelheid van minder dan 20 kilometer per uur. Het object naderde mij tot op een afstand van ongeveer 15 meter. Ik wist dat ik iets heel buitengewoons zag. 

    Vlak voor mij, kwam het volledig tot stilstand en bleef hangen boven het dak van het gebouw in totale stilte. 

    Plotseling schoot het weg met wat wel de snelheid van het licht leek. Het deed mij denken aan een soort komeet. Ik vond absoluut geen prettige ervaring. 

    Het was veertig jaar geleden en ik kan het mij nog herinneren als de dag van gisteren. 

    Eén ding blijft een feit. Wij worden bezocht en dat is een eenvoudig gegeven. Al die 40 jaar sinds het gebeurde is er door mijn hoofd gegaan dat als ik dat weet, dan weet ik honderd procent zeker dat onze overheid en zelfs onze wetenschappers dit ook weten.

    xxx

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    12-02-2019 om 20:59 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Breakfast in Space? Kuiper Belt Snowman Object is Actually Two Pancakes

    Breakfast in Space? Kuiper Belt Snowman Object is Actually Two Pancakes

    As the New Horizons space probe bid goodbye to Ultima Thule (aka 2014 MU69 or the Snowman object in the Kuiper belt), it sent a  set of pictures that caused a WTF heard around the solar system – or at least around the space centers monitoring the travels of the little spacecraft that has already given us stunning views of Pluto. The new images of Ultima Thule show that it’s not shaped like a spherical snowman but more like two odd-shaped flat pancakes connected at one end on a tight griddle. Or is it more like NASA’s description of a “giant pancake” attached to a “dented walnut”? Where are these engineers eating breakfast?

    “This really is an incredible image sequence, taken by a spacecraft exploring a small world four billion miles away from Earth. Nothing quite like this has ever been captured in imagery.”

    Mission Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of Southwest Research Institute admits this trans-Neptunian, contact-binary, Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) is unique … but a dented walnut? That’s the smaller “Thule” part, which seems to be a little thicker than Ultima. How did the researchers discover that Ultima Thule isn’t a snowman anymore? By its shadow, or more accurately, the blackout it made as it blocked out the light of the stars behind it as New Horizons was taking its parting shots. To make it look way cooler, NASA combined a dozen or so images into a video that simulated the New Horizons flyby.

    This will undoubtedly motivate new theories of planetesimal formation in the early solar system.

    Hal Weaver, New Horizons project scientist from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, anticipated your next question, and yes, it’s a “this changes everything” moment … and there may be more. Even though New Horizons passed Ultima Thule over a month ago, it’s going to take up to 20 months for all of the data it captured to be sent back to NASA. In the meantime, the researchers will be crunching the current data, sharpening the pictures and trying to figure out how this odd-shaped, contact binary object happened. Undoubtedly, so will the Flat Earthers.

    Does it mean a name change for Ultima Thule? It’s stuck with 2014 MU69 and Snowman doesn’t fit anymore, but Ultima Thule is an unofficial nickname that’s not permanent. What should it be? The Flying Tortilla Brothers? Interplanetary House of Pancakes and Walnuts? Flap-Jacked?

    Any suggestions? Go have breakfast first.

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    12-02-2019 om 20:44 geschreven door peter  

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    New ‘Scary Known Unknown’ Asteroid Could Be One of Many

    Astronomers using a new state of the art telescopic camera have detected a strange new asteroid which is adding to the growing number of known Earth-killing asteroids zooming around in near space. Researchers believe the curious object could be part of a massive unknown population of asteroids zooming around space near the Sun and inner planets. When will the next big one hit?

    We have found an extraordinary object whose orbit barely strays beyond Venus’ orbit — that’s a big deal. In so many ways, 2019 AQ3 really is an oddball asteroid.

    That’s according to Quanzhi Ye, a postdoctoral researcher at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology. Ye was part of the team which discovered 2019 AQ3, an asteroid some researchers have dubbed a “scary known unknown.”  The object is one of the fastest known asteroids, orbiting the Sun every 165 days and is believed to be almost 1 mile (1.6 km) across – plenty big enough to kill every living thing on Earth were it to impact. More good news: 2019 AQ3 is also among the first asteroid to be found which stays within Venus’ orbit, meaning it stays relatively close to Earth, cosmically speaking.

    The asteroid is called “scary” because it is in a class of near-Earth objects (NEOs) which are so small that they aren’t quite bright enough to be detected until they’re very close to Earth. If one were to be discovered on a collision course with our planet, it would likely be too late to do anything about it except party like its the end of the world. 2019 AQ3 is a “known unknown” because while we know that tens of thousands of similar objects are zooming around in the Solar System, we’ve only just begun to identify and track these potentially hazardous NEOs. 

    There could be many more thousands that we haven’t even gotten a glimpse of yet – some of which may pose a threat to Earth. Luckily, though, researchers believe 2019 AQ3 does not endanger Earth because its orbit keeps it tens of millions of miles out of our way.

    Still, the discovery of 2019 AQ3 highlights why more and more attention is being paid to NEOs. Scientists discovered the enigmatic 2019 AQ3 last month while conducting a survey of the skies with the brand-new Zwicky Transient Facility, or ZTF. The ZTF instrument is designed to detect fast-moving or transient objects such as comets, asteroids, supernovae, gamma ray bursts, or neutron star collisions and can survey the entire northern sky in just three nights. Already, ZTF has detected almost 60 new near-Earth asteroids, one of which was detected only hours before it flew within 70,000 miles of Earth – just a third of the distance to the moon.

    While space agencies and governments are beginning to track and identify more of these NEOs, the Earth still faces a grave threat from these potentially dangerous objects. Some scientists have even alleged that NASA and other space agencies are hiding the truth about deadly asteroids and that the Earth could be in greater immediate danger than we know. Will humanity be able to take to the stars before the Earth’s slate is once again wiped clean by a massive impact?

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    12-02-2019 om 20:35 geschreven door peter  

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    Ghost Cars, Alien Cars, and Other Vehicular High Strangeness

    The road can be a strange place for sure, and there is no end to the accounts of weird happenings along the more remote roadways of the world. Among these are the numerous accounts of vehicles that seem to be beyond the normal, often with occupants every bit as bizarre and which defy all conventional attempts to explain. From ghost cars, flying cars, wheeled alien craft, and everything in between, here is a journey down a road towards a horizon of high strangeness.

    There are all sorts of very bizarre accounts of phantom vehicles that seem to range widely from ghostly apparitions to something that toes the line between the supernatural and UFOs. In the 1920s we have tales of an enigmatic phantom car from the villages of Athleague and Mount Talbot, in Ireland. In the 1920s there was frequently reported a spectral “motor-car” that went far faster than anything available at the time and which could phase through whatever got in its way. One article from Jan 22, 1927 edition of WMN said of this mysterious vehicle:

    Witnesses in the locality state that on many occasions about midnight a mysterious vehicle somewhat like a high-powered motor-car ablaze with light dashes noiselessly through the roads. There is apparently no driver, but seated in the car are a number of white-robed figures. Walls, ditches, fields, and plantations present no obstacle to the car. The superstitiously inclined connect the visitation with a tragic occurrence in a neighbouring estate when, during the recent troubles, a landlord and his wife were driving from their homes and died of fright. Local inhabitants are afraid to leave their homes after nightfall.

    In later years we have reports from the 1950s of a ghostly car said to terrorize a stretch of desolate road in Kent County, in South East England. The car was usually described as black and of a very old fashioned make and model, but was said to have the speed, handling, and capabilities of something far more advanced. While a driver was usually not seen to be present in the vehicle, which seemed to be driving itself, there are other reports that speak of a fog-like wraith said to be its driver. One report from October of 1950 said of such an account:

    Driving through Hildenborough at 7 a.m. on Sunday, a motorist observed another car parked by the roadside in a deserted spot. He saw the shadow of man outlined against the mist, in the driving seat. He got out of his own car and shook the other car violently but the huddled figure did not move. Tonbridge police were told but on investigation they could not find a car on that particular stretch of road, and now take the very material view that the silent driver was waiting for the mist to rise before proceeding.

    Some such phantom cars seem to be more along the lines of something to do with UFOs or even inter-dimensional travelers. Take some very curious accounts related by the eminent researcher Albert S. Rosales in his series of books Humanoid Encounters: The Others Amongst Us, the first of which allegedly occurred back in 1954, when witnesses Gayle and Dave Rayburn were driving along a remote swath of road called the Alcan highway, in the Northern Yukon, Canada. The rugged road was very isolated and little travelled, surrounded by a vast sea of darkened trees, and they had been completely alone on this deserted stretch of bleak highway. They would report that suddenly they had been overtaken by two absurdly fast silvery vehicles, each perched atop just one wheel and with bright single headlights. As the two bizarre contraptions rapidly passed the Rayburns, they could see that each of the weird vehicles had sitting within it a humanoid figure decked out in some sort of tight fitting sliver suit. They would whiz past the car and go flying off down the highway at incredible speeds, leaving the Rayburns alone on that dark wilderness road in a state of shock.

    The 50s had a few very bizarre reports similar to this, many of which are also compiled by Rosales. In August of 1956, a witness known only as Ms. Porta was driving along on a moped between Le Boulu and Ceret, in France, when she too was passed by two utterly unearthly vehicles, which appeared to be like motorcycles in appearance, but with a decidedly alien look to them. The two “motorcycles” were completely silent but very fast, zipping right by her without a sound, and when she looked to see who they were the frightened witness saw that each carried two passengers dressed in otherworldly satin outfits and strange helmets. At one point they let her pass them, but when when she looked back they were gone, despite there being no turnoff and nowhere they could have possibly gone.

    In 1959 we have some cases originally published in a magazine called Exploring the Unknown, which allegedly occurred along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, in the United States. Two separate witnesses, a housewife and an unrelated business man in another car, claimed that they had been behind what appeared to be two vintage cars that were mostly normal except for how old they looked. They would soon prove to have a bit of something under the hood, though, when the two mystery vehicles suddenly lifted off the ground and began to hover, before shooting away out of sight. UFOs or something else?

    One report from the 1950s that is also hard to classify was written of by the esteemed paranormal researcher John Keel, in his opus Our Haunted Planet. In June of 1955, the witness, a famous actor at the time named Telly Savalas, claimed that he had been driving along a roadway in Long Island, New York, when he suddenly ran out of gas. Marooned out there on the lonely highway, he had then gotten out to start walking, and that was when things would take a turn into the territory of the bizarre. Savalas claimed that as he walked, a ridiculously large and shiny black Cadillac had pulled up next to him, and a driver clad all in white had then asked him if he needed a ride. Savalas accepted, and during their drive the mysterious driver remained utterly silent, except to offer Savalas some money to help pay for gas. They stopped to get the gas and drove back towards the witness’ vehicle, the only conversation being when the driver suddenly mentioned out of nowhere to a perplexed Savalas that a man named Harry Agannis was a utility infielder for the Boston Red Sox. This meant nothing to Savalas, who didn’t even know who Agannis was, and it just lent to the overall creepy and surreal feeling that was beginning to unsettle him.

    When they reached the car, Savalas was more than happy and eager to get out of that Cadillac, and he filled his car with gas as the stranger watched from within his silent black car. Savalas then insisted that the man write his phone number down so that he could be repaid, which the driver did, signing it “Bill,” before driving off into the night to whence he had come. Savalas would later by chance see on TV that the man the driver had mentioned, Harry Agannis, had died that very night, and when he tried to call the phone number on the paper he soon learned from a woman on the other end that her husband Bill had died 3 years previously. Unbelievably, he would learn that the man had been dressed in a pristine white suit when he was buried. Was the man in that Cadillac the ghost of this dead husband, one of the insidious Men in Black, or what? Who knows?

    Moving into the 1960s we have a report from 1965 at a place called Cotswold Hills, in south central England. In this case a driver claims that he was suddenly passed by a vehicle that came speeding out of nowhere and which resembled a Land Rover, only far faster and more maneuverable than any such car had any right to be. This “Land Rover” also had no headlights, but rather a ring of glimmering lights on its roof. It veered in front of the startled witness and purportedly just vanished in a literal puff of smoke.

    In the 1970s there is a bizarre account from St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1971, witness Tatiana Syrchenko was on foot when she saw a very strange car that was bright red in color and with rose tinted windows approaching her. It pulled up alongside her and a man wearing black coveralls then opened the door to greet her and to offer a ride, informing her that she was in no danger. Those must have just been different times or the stranger was controlling her thoughts, because without further question she hopped into the strange vehicle with its spooky black-clad occupant. Inside it was no longer a car, but a wide, brightly lit room with two humanoid figures wearing silver coveralls. She was told to put on a set of coveralls herself, after which she was introduced to a strange elderly bearded man they called “The Cardinal,” who merely greeted her before she blacked out. When she awoke she was back at where she had started, with no sign of the vehicle she had entered and with the clock at precisely the time she had left. Just what in the world was going on here?

    In 1973 we have an account from Milroy, Indiana, where a preacher named Conner Corey was on his way home one night along a lonely road called State Road 3 when a large, dark green van swelled up out of the darkness behind him to begin to follow him very closely. Accompanying the vehicle was a droning buzz that pervaded the air all around him, and when he took a peek through the windshield he could see two passengers in the van with long hair. There was then a bright flash and Corey found himself flying through the air to be dumped in a brightly lit room with three very human-looking men who appeared to be wearing surgical clothes. The rest of the bizarre tale is explained on Phantoms and Monsters thus:

    This scene faded and was replaced by a distant aerial view of an earth-like surface. A planet or moon came up between two mountains in the distance. Following this he viewed a water covered surface from a lower altitude. Situated in the middle of this surface was a huge dark cross-like area. Two man-like figures emerged from the center of this area and became luminous. They moved toward him as if they were on a conveyor belt, and steadily increased in size. The dark eyed figures were dressed in tight-fitting suits that had a cloak and sash tied in front. The on-coming figures seemed about to burst right out of his rear view mirror, and for the first time his intense desire to watch gave way to fear. At this moment he was released as his eyes dropped from the mirror and he found himself looking at a slow moving Amish buggy as he sped down the highway. The preacher’s radio and watch malfunctioned after this event. He does not know with certainty how much time he could have lost on his journey home. He thought he was driving about 50 mph, and he was sure he traveled ¾ of a mile during the contact.

    Whatever is going on here is just about as trippy as it gets, and it is hard to even know where to begin with it. Also in the 1970s is a report from the town of Shabani, in Zimbabwe, Africa, and was first written of by UFO researcher Cynthia Hind. In August of 1975 two men driving along a remote road near the Ngesi River saw a large vehicle they at first took to be a bus, but which on closer inspection seemed to be no normal bus, with large domed windows and pillars within it. Inside the vehicle were two humanoid figures lounging about, their features indistinct due to a radiant white light that was nearly blinding in its intensity emanating from within. The two witnesses say the “bus” turned a corner and then just vanished into thin air.

    Also in 1975 is an account from the U.S. state of Minnesota, where an unidentified couple were driving one evening and stopped at a pay phone when a large black Cadillac drove up out of nowhere to completely block their path. A man dressed all in black then silently ran up to the witness with the phone and rudely tore the receiver away. The frightened couple drove off away from this obviously potentially dangerous individual, but the Cadillac followed them to yet another phone booth, where the same scene would play out again, and then a third time. Whoever this guy was, he did not want them to use a phone. Then, almost as if he had gotten bored, the mysterious man in black tore off in his Cadillac, which oddly rose up off the ground and shot off into the sky and out of sight at great speed.

    In more recent years there are some curious accounts from the 1990s, such as in December of 1993, when a witness in Vihtilajarvi, Kankanpaa, Finland was driving at night and suddenly became aware that the landscape was steadily brightening as if the sun were coming up, even though it was the middle of the night. A look up into the sky showed nothing out of the ordinary, and that was when he noticed that there were two very bright lights in his rear view mirror. These lights were blindingly bright as they came up fast behind the witness, and he could faintly make out what looked to be a red car behind them, which then went to pass him.

    As the mysterious car passed, the witness looked into the vehicle to see three beautiful women, who were a pale white and even had pure white hair. They smiled at him as they passed, and then the car sped off into the night. However, this wasn’t the end of the surreal encounter, as the witness would run into the phantom car once again a bit down the road, this time roaring at him from the opposite direction on an apparent collision course. The terrified witness braced for impact, but it never came, with the vehicle suddenly blinking right out of existence just before it hit, a mere meter away from his car. He would then get out and investigate the area, but there was no sign of the car at all, as if it had never been there.

    The following year, in September of 1994, a Radu N. Achim and his wife were driving along in Sibiu, Romania, on a perfectly clear day when they were passed by a black vehicle within which sat a pale humanoid figure wearing what appeared to be a parka that was made of some translucent material. The large car did not end up passing them at all, but rather paced them for some time. At one point Radu looked away from the strange car for a split second, and when he looked back it was just gone. There were no exits, nowhere it could have possibly gone in such a blink of an eye, but there was no sign of it anywhere. Both the witness and the wife have never been able to explain what they saw.

    One very recent incident from 2012 allegedly happened to three MotoGP race car drivers heading from an event at Phillip Island, Victoria back to their home town in Adelaide, South Australia, a journey of about 560 miles, meaning they would drive all night in shifts. At the time of their incident, one of the drivers was asleep in the back while the other two were awake in the front. It was about 4:30 AM, and they were between the towns of Nhill and Kaniva, and the witness would explain:

    I’d only seen a handful of cars between Horsham and Nhill, So I was surprised when I saw a car way off in the distance behind us, It was catching us up too. I was surprised at the speed this car was catching up, I was already going over the speed limit by 30 Km/h, I estimated it going probably 160 Km/h. Nathan suggested it might be the Police, So I dropped back to 100 Km/h, Kinda futile I know but at least we’d know if it was a copper.   Eventually the car caught us up, But just sat behind us. There was no streetlights being country Australia so neither Me nor Nathan couldn’t accurately identify the car, But I did notice the headlights on the car were very old, Like what you’d find on a Model T Ford or Brum, If you’ve ever watched that TV show. They were round and fairly dim. By this stage, We’d worked out it wasn’t a Cop. But why wasn’t it trying to overtake us? It was a single lane each side, two-way road. So there was plenty of room to pass. And I hadn’t seen a car going the other way in about half an hour. An overtaking lane approached us, So Nathan suggested I move into that lane so the car behind us can overtake. I move into the lane and guess what? The car followed. I then slow down to 80 Km/h to try and convince him to overtake, But he doesn’t, he just stays behind, Although now I can’t see his headlights at all. The car is that close to ours.

    The two increasingly worried men decided to open their windows to see if they could discern anything from the vehicle’s engine noise, but were surprised to hear that, although they were tearing along at 80 mph and the car was a mere inches from their bumper, they could hear no noise at all emanating from it, as if it were completely silent. The witness would go on to explain:

    Back at 130 km/h and the car is still behind us, Matching our speed. Still inches away from our back bumper. Both Me and Nathan were freaking out a bit now. Why wouldn’t the car pass us? Why was he driving SO close? We were approaching Kaniva by this stage, There’s a big streetlight right on the edge of the Town and then streetlights all through the main street. Finally we’d be able to identify the car! We pass through the streetlights and look behind us, The car had stopped following. Right before the streetlight. It had simply stopped in the middle of the road. We still couldn’t work out what kind of car it was, But we didn’t want to turn around and find out!

    These accounts run the gamut from the merely weird to the completely absurd, and there seems to be no easy answer for any of them, and such cases are obccured by such strange details and clues that it is hard to even know where to begin sometimes. Are they ghosts, aliens, or what? One possible explanation could be that some of these are glimpses of inter-dimensional beings, somehow pushing over into our reality for a brief time only to vanish again back to ours, our two worlds existing as one for that few seconds or minutes. It is quite possible that they are even as surprised to be here as we are, or maybe they are not the ones crossing over, but us? Other accounts could be ghosts or aliens, or of course even tall tales or hallucinations caused by tiredness, but whatever the case may be, these are some very bizarre accounts that just go to show that the road is definitely a place for weird encounters and experiences, and you never know just what you are bound to come across as you drive off down that horizon into the unknown.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Hubble Telescope Detects Mysterious ‘Dark Vortex’

    Hubble Telescope Detects Mysterious ‘Dark Vortex’

    NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered evidence of a mysterious “dark vortex,” and astronomers aren’t sure what to make of it. During Hubble’s annual survey of weather on our Solar System’s outer planets, NASA astronomers spotted a mysterious and incredibly powerful storm on Neptune and they’re unsure how it formed or what it may have in store for the eighth planet from the Sun.

    Hubble's images of the dark vortex, right, and polar region, left.

    Hubble’s images of the dark vortex, right, and polar region, left.

    NASA has seen these unexplained dark vortices before, once in 1989 when the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune and again in 2018. The vortex appears to be a massive storm spanning some 6,800 miles across and powerful enough to churn up material from much lower in the planet’s atmosphere. Surrounding the storm are what NASA calls “companion clouds,” bright white formations of methane ice crystals formed as the dark vortex swirls the air above it with powerful winds.

    These storms are thought to appear in Neptune’s atmosphere every four to six years at different latitudes, but as our observations of them are still limited at this point, that’s just a guess. It’s unknown how these dark vortex storms form, and they are so unpredictable and fleeting that NASA astronomers are barely able to collect data on them before they dissipate.

    Dark spots on Neptune

    Neptune’s storms appear as massive dark spots similar to Jupiter’s.

    That may change, though, because Hubble has embarked on a new long-term project known as the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy OPAL program, or OPAL. OPAL will create global maps of the solar system’s outer planets as they pass closest to Earth in their orbits around the sun in order to track seasonal changes in the planet’s atmospheres like these dark vortices .

    With repeated observations of these outer planets’ weather, NASA may be able to shine light on the many mysteries surrounding these distant alien worlds. More attention is being paid to the outermost reaches of our solar system where new unknown objects or undiscovered planets may very well be hiding from us. As cool as mysterious dark vortices are, we have no idea what could be out there.

    Let’s hope whatever it is doesn’t develop a taste for human flesh or any of Earth’s other natural resources.

    a star in the background: Wide Field Camera 3 photo of Uranus revealing a cloud cap on the north pole.©

    NASA/ESA/A. Simon/M.H. Wong/A. Hsu 

    Wide Field Camera 3 photo of Uranus revealing a cloud cap on the north pole.

    Dark vortex appears on Neptune

    An image of the vortex which appeared on Neptune 

    https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    12-02-2019 om 19:44 geschreven door peter  

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