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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
07-03-2019
Archaeology On Mars - From The Fantastical To The Real
Archaeology On Mars - From The Fantastical To The Real
NASA’s Martian rover Opportunity breathed its last digital gasp this week. What was a busy scurrying robot picking over and investigating the Martian landscape is now a slowly decaying pile of metal and circuitry. That is to say, Opportunity has entered my world, the world of abandoned things that is archaeology.
Humans have been dreaming about Martian archaeology for well over a century now. When the Italian Astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli described seeing canali on the surface of the red planet in 1877, many in the English-speaking world began to speculate that Schiaparelli was referring to artificially constructed canals. Percival Lowell became the largest champion of this interpretation. In his 1895 book “Mars,” Lowell claimed that the canals of Mars had been built by a desperate alien race seeking to salvage what water they could from the planet’s melting ice caps.
A drawing by Percival Lowell (1896) depicting "canals" and dark areas on Mars.
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As telescopes continued to improve, the Martian canals evaporated as quickly as the water they were meant to contain, but Mars’ association with fantastical archaeology was only beginning. In an 1898 science fiction novel, “Edison’s Conquest of Mars,” author Garrett P. Serviss told of a human expedition to the Red Planet that was sent as a counter strike against the Martian invaders depicted in H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” (which was plagiarized by Serviss in his own book “Fighters from Mars”). During the assault on Mars, the invaders encountered an encampment of human slaves whose ancestors had been captured in a Martian raid on Earth 9,000 years earlier. These slaves related a great secret to their liberators, when visiting Earth the Martians had built the Great Pyramid of Egypt along with the Sphinx.
As the era of Pulp Fiction boomed, stories of the inhabitants of Mars abounded. Most successful were Edgar Rice Burroughs’ stories about the adventures of John Carter, a Civil War veteran who magically found himself on the surface of Mars. Carter encountered a Martian landscape filled with fantastical cities and alien races. The theme of ancient ruins on Mars continued to echo as Burroughs’ hero regularly found himself in long abandoned cities.
Martian ruins took on a decidedly more sinister appearance in, noted Weird Tales author, Clark Ashton Smith’s 1932 story “The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis,” which tells the story of human archaeologists visiting an ancient Martian city. As the archaeologists approached the tumbled monoliths, the story’s narrator proclaims “I have seen the hoary, sky-confronting walls of Machu Picchu amid the desolate Andes; and the frozen, giant-builded battlements of Uogam on the glacial tundras of the nightward hemisphere of Venus. But these were as things of yesteryear compared to the walls upon which we gazed.” Without revealing the ending, it should be noted that the archaeologists do not fare well when they pass within these ancient walls.
In the ensuing decades, it seemed ever clearer that Lowell’s dreams of an ancient Martian race building canals and other structures across the planet was best left to fiction, but in 1976 NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter arrived in Martian orbit and the planet’s story shifted yet again. Among the pictures sent back to Earth by Viking 1 was a photograph of a region of Mars known as Cydonia, which included a massive geological feature that appeared to resemble a humanoid face. Controversy swirled as NASA officials insisted the face was simply a geological oddity, while others began to speculate that at long last Martian monuments had been found.
Image of the Cydonia region taken by the Viking 1 orbiter.
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Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar lead the charge in proclaiming the importance of Cydonia to the public. Together they authored “Face in Space,” an article for Omni Magazine (April, 1982), as well as a book, “Unusual Martian Surface Features,” which argued that the Cydonia photos revealed not only a monumental sculpted face but also pyramids and other artificial structures. DiPietro and Molenaar attracted a great deal of attention with their claims, but ultimately it was a difficult case to prove. People either believed the official NASA statements that these were simply natural features, or they indulged their itch for conspiracy and imagined that perhaps Mars had been home to an ancient race.
As NASA began carrying out more missions to Mars, many eagerly waited to see what new images might come from Cydonia. Finally, in 2001 the Mars Global Surveyor sent back a high-resolution image of the “Martian Face.” To the disappointment of many, the face had faded to a simple rocky outcrop. The structure was photographed again in 2007 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, further dashing our hopes and dreams for an ancient Martian monument as the rocky ridges and eroded slopes came into ever clearer resolution.
HiRISE captured this image (PSP_003234_2210) of an eroded mesa made famous by its similarity to a human face in a Viking Orbiter image with much lower spatial resolution and a different lighting geometry.
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Yet all along this journey, the Martian landscape has become populated by actual human-made objects. Fourteen separate missions from four different space agencies have littered the surface of Mars with not only landers and rovers, but heat shields, parachutes, and an untold number of broken bits. As an archaeologist, I love broken bits.
The things that people make and leave behind tell a different story than written history. A physical examination of landing sites on Mars would reveal critical details about why some landers arrived safely while others crashed to never be heard from again. Even the crashed landers tell a story of human triumph and ingenuity. One day, an astronaut will walk up to the original Viking 1 lander and marvel at the accomplishments of their ancestors. The material heritage we are currently scattering across the Martian surface will stand for centuries to come as a symbol of what we as human beings can do.
Israel is planning its first mission to the moon. The launch is scheduled for April 11th.
Tucked away inside Israel’s Beresheetlunar lander, currently on its way to theMoon, is a massive archive documenting humanity’s achievements.
The collection of images, text and symbols is the first part of a project to build a “Lunar Library” and part of a bigger push to create a space-based archive of Earth.
According to the Arch Mission Foundation (AMF), the library contains 30 million pages of human history that covers a wide range of subjects, languages and time periods, all stored on a DVD-sized archive made of 25 nickel discs that are each only 40 microns thick. An 84-page document that AMF provided to Gizmodo showed subject categories in the time capsule including aerospace, mathematics, women's studies, humor and criminology.
The first four layers contain over 60,000 analog images of pages of books, photos, illustrations and documents, AMF explained. Among the included items will be a copy of The World Factbook.
When Gizmodo asked why the full list of contents was not being released, the AMF toldthe news outlet:
"We’re only announcing some of the content in the library right now because of the various partnerships we have. Much more content will be revealed. ... Rather than rely on problematic curations of material, we want to include the full breadth and diversity of recorded human knowledge and culture and a record of the life and civilization of planet Earth."
There will be more discs sent to the Moon in the coming years, including in partnership with Astrobotic next year.
The Beresheet lander was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and could reach the Moon by April 11. The lander and its time capsule will remain on the Moon indefinitely.
The Moon looms large for a number of countries’ space programs. China, for example, recently became the first country to successfully land a probe on the far side of the Moon when the Chang’e 4 lander reached the lunar surface on Jan. 2.
An artist's illustration of a Kepler-1658-like system. Kepler-1658b, which orbits its host star every 3.8 Earth days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope nearly 10 years ago.
The first exoplanet candidate ever detected by NASA's late and lamentedKepler space telescopehas finally been confirmed, 10 years after the iconic instrument's launch.
The candidate, known as KOI (Kepler Object of Interest) 4.01, was originally pegged as a possible Neptune-size planet orbiting a star a smidge bigger than our sun. KOI 4.01 was dismissed by some scientists as a false positive, however, after certain Kepler observations didn't accord with this scenario.
Specifically, Kepler saw a pronounced "secondary eclipse" in the system — a significant drop in total light caused when the candidate went behind the host star from the telescope's perspective. A Neptune-size world orbiting a sunlike star would not produce an observable secondary eclipse, astronomers said.
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Kepler-1658b was actually the first exoplanet that the Kepler space telescope identified
But a new look at archival Kepler observations has forced a rethink about the star, which is known as Kepler-1658 and lies about 2,600 light-years from the sun.
"Our new analysis, which uses stellar sound waves observed in the Kepler data to characterize the host star, demonstrated that the star is in fact three times larger than previously thought," Ashley Chontos, a graduate student at the University of Hawaii, said in a statement.
"This, in turn, means that the planet is three times larger, revealing that Kepler-1658b is actually a hot Jupiter-like planet," added Chontos, lead author of a new study announcing the world's confirmation, which was presented today (March 5) at the Kepler/K2 Science Conference in Glendale, California.
The study has also been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. You can read a free preprint of it here.
Kepler-1658b — for that is now the world's official name — zips around its host star in an incredibly tight orbit, completing one lap every 3.8 Earth days. If you were in a plane cruising through Kepler-1648b's skies, and you somehow managed to avoid incineration, that star would appear 60 times bigger than our sun does from Earth's surface, discovery team members said.
Kepler-1658 is a future version of our own star. It's rare to find planets orbiting such "evolved" stars, discovery team members said. One possible reason is that hot Jupiters eventually spiral into their host stars. But the new observations suggest that such death plunges occur over longer time spans than previously thought, adding to the mystery.
"Kepler-1658 is a perfect example of why a better understanding of host stars of exoplanets is so important," Chontos said. "It also tells us that there are many treasures left to be found in the Kepler data."
Kepler launched into orbit around the sun on March 6, 2009. The spacecraft spotted planets by noticing the tiny brightness dips caused when these worlds crossed their stars' faces from the telescope's perspective.
Kepler did this work across two missions: its primary one, which ended in 2013, and a second, broader mission known as K2, which ended this past October when the spacecraft ran out of fuel.
Kepler's work has been incredibly productive. The spacecraft is responsible for nearly 70 percent of the roughly 3,900 exoplanet discoveries to date. And, as the new study indicates, Kepler finds will continue to roll in even though the spacecraft has shut its eyes.
Indeed, nearly 3,000 candidates spotted during the original and K2 missions await confirmation by follow-up analyses or observations.
And, in case you were wondering why the first Kepler exoplanet candidate was called KOI 4.01: KOIs 1.01, 2.01 and 3.01 were known prior to the telescope's launch.
Japan's space agencycompleted a complicated touchdown maneuver at a distant space rock last month, and it has now released an incredible video from the spacecraft's point of view.
The spacecraft, Hayabusa2, is conducting a sample-return mission at a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu, and last month's touchdown was perhaps the single most important maneuver of the mission. The new video shows what happened during the procedure, which occured on Feb. 21.
First, the spacecraft eases itself down toward the asteroid's rocky surface. Then, it immediately bounces back up, leaving a burst of flying rubble in its wake as it retreats up to safety.
What we don't see in that video is what caused the chaos: the spacecraft firing its sampling apparatus — basically a sophisticated bullet — and sucking up some of the debris it created. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) practiced the procedure earlier this year on Earth, using an artificial asteroid — a glorified bucket of gravel — designed to mimic Ryugu's structure and rock composition.
But knowing that it worked on Earth isn't nearly the same as watching the procedure unfold on a distant space rock. The footage was captured by a camera that was funded by public donations, JAXA noted.
Although the sampling procedure was the spacecraft's masterpiece maneuver, the mission still has a few tasks to accomplish before Hayabusa2 heads for home. First, in April, the spacecraft will create an artificial crater, then examine it to see what happened.
There are more surface operations to come as well. In early summer, the spacecraft may touch down for a second time, inside this new crater, to get a different perspective on it. Then, in late summer, the spacecraft will deploy the last of its onboard rovers to get another look at the rocky surface.
At the end of the year, Hayabusa2 will begin its yearlong journey back to Earth — and at the end of 2020, scientists will finally be able to hold in their hands the result of last month's stunning space boop.
A key instrument on NASA’s Mars InSight rover has run into a problem — ground control suspects a stone.
A rendering of a InSight Mission Candidate Landing Site made using topography data from the University of Arizona / NASA/. Image credits Kevin Gill / Flickr.
The rover’s heat probe has struck an obstacle just below the red planet’s surface over the weekend and hasn’t been able to make progress since.
The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package Problem
“The team has therefore decided to pause the hammering for about two weeks to allow the situation to be analyzed more closely and jointly come up with strategies for overcoming the obstacle,” Tilman Spohn, the principal investigator for the heat probe, wrote Tuesday in the mission logbook.
The instrument, known as the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package, or HP³, was designed to hammer itself 16 feet (roughly 5 meters) into Mars’ underground and measure how much heat its interior leaks. This data would help researchers estimate the planet’s composition and history.
However, trouble is brewing underneath InSight — this probe (nicknamed the “mole”) encountered some kind of resistance underground over the weekend and hasn’t been able to make any progress since. Ground control (at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, California) first tried to power it up last week. This first attempt failed to reach all the way to the Mars Odyssey orbiter, however, which was supposed to pass it on to InSight.
The mole was deployed last Thursday, after the team established a stable connection to the rover. It pushed its way in the red soil and made quick progress. For about five minutes. The next four hours of hammering failed to push the mole much deeper and eventually forced the device to one side — the mole is now lodged in the underground, leaning at about 15 degrees of vertical.
Artist’s concept of InSight and its instruments. Image credits NASA / JPL-Caltech.
Current estimates place the mole at a depth of around one foot (0.3 meters). This means that the probe — measuring some 16 inches (0.4 meters) in height — is partially sticking out of the ground. Despite this, the probe likely still is burrowed “deeper than any other scoop, drill or probe on Mars before,” which was its intended purpose.
Spohn writes that the team is a bit worried but that they “tend to be optimistic.” They’re currently working on the assumption that the holdup is a buried boulder or some gravel.
This particular spot was picked for InSight to land on as it appeared to be mostly sandy and soft. However, the team was aware that such a holdup was possible. Tests carried out at JPL suggested that the probe should be able to dig its way around small rocks or layers of pebbles. Since the second attempt to hammer away at the probe didn’t do that, the team decided to put the mole on hold. They’re currently waiting to receive more data from InSight, including pictures, so they can “better assess the situation.”
But not all is lost. The probe is still intact — that’s a really good thing — so it can actually start collecting data. The team has already put it to the task. HP³ will measure how quickly a generated pulse of heat spreads through the soil. Later this week, as (Mars’ moon) Phobos passes overhead and eclipse the sun over InSight the probe will also track how the event changes surface temperatures. While not its intended role, these readings should help the team make better sense of heat flow values in Mars’ soil if and when the probe is deployed as planned.
US MILITARY TO DEVELOP HYPERSONIC “TACTICAL BOOST GLIDE” WEAPON
US MILITARY TO DEVELOP HYPERSONIC “TACTICAL BOOST GLIDE” WEAPON
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VICTOR TANGERMANN
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Defense contractor Raytheonjust signeda $63.3 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a “tactical boost glide” (TBG) hypersonic weapons program.
The weapon system could reach hypersonic speeds of up to five times the sound barrier thanks to a rocket engine. A payload will then glide the rest of the way to the intended target — completely unpowered, without the ability to accelerate again. But operators will be able to maneuver it from a distance.
“We have lost our technical advantage in hypersonics,” Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Military Times — perhaps a nod to the fact that hypersonic weapons are already being developed and even tested by both Russia and China.
Enhanced Effectiveness
The TBG system could “offer the potential for military operations from longer ranges with shorter response times and enhanced effectiveness compared to current military systems,” according to DARPA’s website.
In October 2016, Raytheon signed a separate $174.7 million contract with DARPA for the development of a “Hypersonic Air-Breathing Weapon” concept to explore the possibility of an “air-launched hypersonic cruise missile,” according to DARPA. It was also meant to offer military operations a longer range for future missions with shorter response times.
Going Hypersonic
Previous DARPA projects have explored very similar concepts. For instance, the Falcon (Force Application and Launch from Continental United States) Hypersoncic Technology Vehicle (HTV) was an unmanned military aircraft prototype that was first announced in 2003. A second iteration, the HTV-2, first embarked on a test flights in April 2010, but the mission had to be cut short when the vehicle lost ground contact.
But the U.S. command is far from giving up.
“We haven’t lost the hypersonics fight,” Selva told the Military Times.
The two red lights were spotted in the waters surrounding Bangor, Northern Ireland at the end of February.
While standing cliff side, Jackie filmed the unidentified red beams that can be seen lighting up an area under water.
Though appearing to be to from two separate sources, a cloud of light can be seen radiating while surrounding them.
Jackie shared the video with local Facebook page Bangor life, in the hope to identify what they belonged to.
Eve O’Connor, another witness, claimed the lights emerged after a “strange fog” lifted.
Once the video was posted, many started to speculate what could be responsible for the strange sighting.
The video was captioned: “She walked round to try and find out what it was.
“[There was] no evidence of divers; i.e. no bubbles and nothing left on the shoreline.
ALIEN NEWS: Is an Alien invasion responsible for the lights? (Pic: PEN NEWS)
“They flickered at times, coming on and off at random intervals. Any idea of what they could be? Is this the start of an alien invasion!?”
Eve further added: “It was like two pinky peach sheens on the water that were concentrated in the middle,”
“There had been a strange on-off fog as soon as we had left for the coastal path. I thought maybe it was the sun breaking through in a strangely specific way.
“I do believe in supernatural occurrences, but if I see something strange I like to first think of what the logical reasons may be behind it.”
Local diver Mark Piper said the site was frequented by himself and others but said nobody from the local diving community had come forward to say it was them.
“I asked around the two local clubs but no takers,” he said. “It’s a popular site at this time of year so it could be anybody really.”
The light could be seen from the Stricklands Glen area of Bangor, some 1.4 miles away.
Some viewers online suggested the sighting could have been caused by bio luminesce – the emission of light by a living organism underneath the water.
But the source of the lights is yet to be confirmed.
Ex-Agent from Area 51: Battle Between Humans and Aliens from 1978 was Real
Ex-Agent from Area 51: Battle Between Humans and Aliens from 1978 was Real
According to the claims of Thomas Castello, ex-agent of the famous Area 51, humankind almost testified a battle between humans and extraterrestrials. However, this event luckily didn’t spread outside the area where humans usually conducted experiments on aliens.
Mr. Castello said he was a photographer who worked for the US Army. Furthermore, before taking his job, he signed a contract with a confidentiality clause considering some relevant prohibited information.
According to the former employee, there was an obscure underground base where people went to search for the cure of their diseases. Among these people there were even children, he said.
Given these points, Thomas wholly negated the likelihood of interacting with any of these people.
Recently released declassified CIA data says Thomas had the chance to eyewitness numerous obscure practices. These practices included astral journeys and mind control.
Then again, the most exciting part of his claims is that he said he has seen scientists who had rather an extraterrestrial origin. Apparently, they were making experiments related to alien-human hybrids and cloning of humans and aliens.
Also eerie is that he claims he could recognize the abducted by hearing them talking nonsense because of strong sedatives.
He said he acknowledged what was happening because he was constantly seeing posters around his town about the same persons being lost without a logical justification.
He further says that was the instant when the battle between humans and extraterrestrials, called “the sweet battle” started emerging.
This war might have prompt due to increase of pressure. Aliens allegedly agitated to make an inside destruction to the genetic investigation of the humans.
All this happened because aliens wanted to keep using humankind to extend their study.
Today, nobody knows where Castello is or what is he doing; however, he sure did escape the secret infamous base.
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NASA alien planet DISCOVERY: Will NASA find life on the distant world of Kepler 1658b?
NASA alien planet DISCOVERY: Will NASA find life on the distant world of Kepler 1658b?
NASA’S discovery of a distant planet in the Kepler-1658 system could boost the space agency’s hopes of discovering alien life – but is there life on the planet Kepler 1658b?
NASAconfirmed today (March 6) a candidate planet in the Kepler-1658 star system, 10 years after it was first discovered. Spotted by NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope, Kepler 1658b remained an exoplanet candidate for a decade. Exoplanet candidates are alien worlds, which have been spotted outside of our solar system but need to be confirmed by further observations. NASA’s Kepler-1658b was the very first planet candidate spotted by the space telescope but NASA said the road to its confirmation was “rocky”.
NASA alien planet: The space agency confirmed today the existence of a distant exoplanet
(Image: Gabriel Perez Diaz/Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
“The initial estimate of the planet’s host star was off, so the sizes of both the star and Kepler-1658b were vastly underestimated.
“It was later marked as a false positive — that is, scientists thought the data did not really point to a planet — when the numbers didn’t quite add up for the effects seen on its star for a body of that size.”
Kepler 1658b bounced back and forth between being a planetary candidate and being false positive until its collected data was refined with computer software.
Ashley Chontos from the University of Hawaii, who studied Kepler 1658b’s data set, analysed the planet for her first year research project.
She said: “Our new analysis, which uses stellar sound waves observed in the Kepler data to characterise the star, demonstrated that the star is, in fact, three times larger than previously thought.
Kepler-1658b is actually a hot Jupiter
Ashley Chontos, University of Hawaii
“This, in turn, means that the planet is three times larger, revealing that Kepler-1658b is actually a hot Jupiter.”
Once the reined data poured in, confirming the planet’s status was the next logical step.
Ms Chontos contacted Dave Latham from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory with the discovery.
NASA alien planet: Kepler's observations of the scorching exoplanet
(Image: NASA)
NASA alien planet: The Kepler exoplanet resembled our own gas giant Jupiter
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She said: “We alerted and his team collected the necessary spectroscopic data to unambiguously show that Kepler-1658b is a planet.
“As one of the pioneers of exoplanet science and a key figure behind the Kepler mission, it was particularly fitting to have Dave be part of this confirmation.”
Right now, NASA’s Exoplanet Archive at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute lists a total of 3,924 exoplanets.
Out of these alien worlds, 2,338 have were discovered and confirmed by Kepler.
There are another 2,423 Kepler telescopes yet to be confirmed.
The new asteroid, nicknamed by NASA Asteroid 2019 DD, is hurtling towards a so-called “Earth Close Approach”. The startling revelation comes just three days after NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) first observed the asteroid flying through space. NASA’s JPL estimates Asteroid DD is positioned to fly past the Earth at breakneck speeds today (Friday, March 1). As the asteroid zips by, it will reach its closest possible distance to Earth around 1.06pm GMT (UTC).
Several witnesses reported seeing flying objects which were not planes hovering near Jorge Chávez International Airport on February 27. Two UFOs were witnessed by staff of the Peruvian Corporation of Airports and Commercial Aviation (Corpac) and flights were even delayed, according to ExoNews. The video, while unverified, seems to show two bright objects hovering over the airport.
While some have claimed these are simply drones, or even planes, other believe they are evidence of alien activity.
Prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring claims that UFOs are often seen hovering over airports.
Mr Waring wrote on his blog UFO Sightings Daily: “The object teased for an hour before just disappearing and flights were delayed.
“Why? Flying objects are expected at the airport making even a UFO sighting more relaxed and less of a surprise.
UFOs spotted over Lima airport in Peru claim alien enthusiasts
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“I say let them land. Give them clearance!”
This is not the first time Mr Waring has made claims that UFOs have been seen over an airport.
The UFO enthusiast even claims that aliens were responsible for the drone crisis at Gatwick in December 2018, which affected around 140,000 passengers when hundreds of flights were cancelled.
Mr Waring wrote on UFO Sightings Daily: “Here is an important question; were UFOs seen over the Gatwick Airport down played as drones to control the situation?
A UFO was also apparently seen over Gatwick
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“I cannot find any photos of a drone or UFO over the Gatwick Airport, which is strange.
“I believe that people at the airport did not see the UFO. That it was only seen on radar zooming around the airport.
“That would cause them to panic, especially if it was cloaked causing them to panic from not being able to see it.”
Life on Mars? Ex-NASA consultant finds 'PROOF' nuclear war wiped out alien civilisation
Life on Mars? Ex-NASA consultant finds 'PROOF' nuclear war wiped out alien civilisation
MARS once thrived under the rule of an ancient alien civilisation until a devastating nuclear war wiped out all evidence of life, a former NASA advisor has shockingly claimed.
Richard C Hoagland, a former NASAconsultant and conspiracy theorist, strongly believes alien civilisations once existed on Mars and other planets in the solar system. Appearing on Coast to Coast AM radio, Mr Hoagland argued there is ample photographic evidence from NASA’s Viking missions to prove his claim. Mr Hoagland said NASA photos snapped in the Cydonia region of Mars show organised structures, ancient habitats and pyramids. But the thriving alien civilisation, which dominated the Red Planet, was cut short by the destructive power of nuclear warfare.
Following a 1983 “Independent Mars Investigation” in which he took part, the conspiracist said NASA’s Viking lander found evidence of “anomalous isotopes” on Mars.
These peculiar isotopes are known as Xenon 129 and, in his opinion, strongly point towards nuclear detonations on the planet’s surface.
Together with plasma physicist John Brandenburg, Mr Hoagland and a team of investigators explored the possibility of Mars once teeming with life.
Mr Hoagland said: “John and I in 1983 had this conversation when I invited him in because I wanted him to be our nuclear expert on the team because to me some of the craters in the Cydonia region around the face and the pyramids did not look like natural meteoritic impact craters or asteroid impacts.
Life on Mars: A former NASA consultant thinks ancient Martians were wiped out by nuclear war
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“They look like the nuclear explosion tests in Nevada, in Sedan and the other named tests which were done in the Southwestern Unites States.
“And they have a different size-to-depth ratio and they really look different if you have any kind of eye for this.
“That’s why John and I began this conversation, which ultimately led him into the Independent Mars Investigation as a contributor and ultimately to write a couple of books on ancient civilisations on Mars and now to come out with the idea that the civilisations we have been looking at may have been destroyed by a global Martian nuclear war.”
The theory of nuclear warfare ravaging the surface of Mars comes from high concatenations of radioactive Xenon 129 on the planet.
The radioactive isotope is typically found on Earth near nuclear fission reactors and around the fallout from nuclear explosions.
Civilisations we have been looking at may have been destroyed by a global Martian nuclear war
Richard C Hoagland, former NASA consultant
However, Xenon 129’s presence on Mars can be explained by natural processes where cosmic radiation bombarding Mar’s paper-thin atmosphere releases the isotope from the planet’s surface.
A research paper on the subject, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, states: “The Xenon measurements suggest an intriguing possibility that isotopes lighter than Xenon 132 have been enriched to varying degrees by spallation and neutron capture products degassed to the atmosphere from the regolith, and a model is constructed to explore this possibility.”
But to many NASA sceptics and conspiracy theorists alike, such explanations are not sufficient enough.
Life on Mars: NASA's Viking lander snapped this photo of Mars' surface
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Life on Mars: Conspiracists believe pyramids and other structures exist on Mars
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Instead, researchers like Mr Hoagland choose to believe the entire solar system was at one point colonised and the evidence is out there to collect.
The problem is, the treasure trove of information flowing from the last 50 years of spaceexploration is being suppressed by the likes of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Mr Hoagland said: “We’re being prepared to confront the up to now hidden reality by NASA and all these other space programmes, that in fact, there’s enormous stuff out there to go and explore, bring home, back-engineer, create the kind of human civilisation on this planet that we all deserve.
“I don’t think we’re very many months or years away from such an extraordinary change.”
De sonde Hayabusa2 is erin geslaagd kort neer te strijken op asteroïde Ryugu en een projectiel af te vuren. Op deze beelden die het Japanse ruimteagentschap JAXA heeft vrijgegeven is duidelijk te zien hoe de sonde een lichte impact maakt op de rotsachtige formatie. De missie van deze sonde is al enkele jaren bezig, maar dit korte moment was voor de wetenschappers het absolute hoogtepunt.
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Hayabusa 2, vlak na het afschieten op asteroïde Ryugu.
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Schaduw van Hayabusa2 op de asteroïde, getrokken vanaf de sonde zelf.
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Professor Yuichi Tsuda van de “Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency” (JAXA) tijdens een persconferentie over de landing.
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De wetenschappers achter de missie in het controlecentrum van JAXA
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SECRETS OF THE DEPT... WHAT DID HAPPENED REAL IN THE PAST?
SECRETS OF THE DEPT... WHAT DID HAPPENED REAL IN THE PAST?
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1. Secrets of the Deep - Ancient Underwater Cities
Secrets of the Deep - Underwater Cities (Bimini Road and Yonaguni)
It is the stuff of lore and legend. Cities swept into the sea. Civilizations lost beneath the waves. But are these more than just myths? Are there really sunken cities and ruins that need to be discovered?
The Bimini Road, sometimes called the Bimini Wall, is an underwater rock formation near North Bimini island in the Bahamas. The Road consists of a 0.8 km (0.50 mi)-long northeast-southwest linear feature composed of roughly rectangular to subrectangular limestone blocks. Various claims have been made for this feature being either a wall, road, pier, breakwater, or other man-made structure.
The Yonaguni Monument, also known as "Yonaguni (Island) Submarine Ruins" is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan.
Masaaki Kimura, Professor Emeritus from the Faculty of Science at the University of the Ryukyus claims that the formations are man-made stepped monoliths. His ideas are disputed and there is debate about whether the site is completely natural, a natural site that has been modified or a man-made artifact. Neither the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, nor the government of Okinawa Prefecture recognize the features as important cultural artifacts and neither government agency has carried out research or preservation work on the site.
2. Underwater Discoveries That Will Make Your Jaw Drop!
3. Ten Amazing Underwater Cities That Will Blow Your Mind
4. This City Exists Or Not ? Even Scientists Are Scratching Their Head On This Question.
This city exists or not ?? Even scientists are scratching their head on this question. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Under the Antarctica. The endless search now made the researchers go to the depths of the South Pole. Recently, with the help of imaging technology scientists started to discover the depths of Antarctica. The landmass has been explored to a depth of half a mile by the researchers from Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A structure similar to the Eiffel Tower .On exploring the depths, one of the structures found was resembling the height of Eiffel Tower with a height of 300 meters. According to a documentary by National Geographic channel, the water conduits and sediment ridges found under the South Pole tell about the stability the surface gets. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Piri Reis map in the 1960s. The idea of Atlantis city under the Antarctica has surfaced earlier also in the 1960's and 70s. At the time, according to the Piri Reis map humans must have been living there. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Created by Turkish admiral. The map's name was actually kept in the name of a Turkish admiral and cartographer who made the map with the help of scholars and discovered many places through the same. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Discovered Antarctica before 1818. Antarctica situated at the South Pole was discovered in the year 1818, but according to The Epoch Times, the Reis map showed Antarctica hundreds of years back before its discovery. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Plato mentioned it first. As per the legends, Plato was the first person to come up with the idea of Atlantis city. It was cited in his dialogues, namely 'Timaeus' and the 'Critias' written around 330 B.C. as per Live Science. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Then Ignatius L. Donnelly. For two millennials after that, it did not occur to anyone about the long lost Atlantis until when the writer, Ignatius Donnelly again came up with it in the year 1881. He also believed that metallurgy, agriculture, religion, and language came from the city of Atlantis. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= And the US researchers believed this. In the year 2011, it was a team of the US researchers who believed that the legendary city was found on the mud flats of Spain in Cadiz. According to them, the city is submerged right under the north Cadiz which was swamped due to a tsunami. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
60 miles of impossibility. The team of researchers was led by the professor of University of Hartford, Connecticut - Richard Freund, who said, "It is just so hard to understand that it (tsunami) can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Richard Freund claims... According to what Plato described Atlantis 2600 years ago as 'an island situated in front of the straits called the Pillars of Hercules', in 2011 Richard claimed that, "We found something that no one else has ever seen before, which gives it a layer of credibility, especially for archaeology, that makes a lot more sense." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tsunami Prone. Freund added that it is no surprise because the area is tsunami prone. The largest of all hit Lisbon in November 1755 with a 10-story tidal wave. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Old Testament theory. There was a time around 5000 BC when people actually used to believe Atlantis to be a myth. It was believed that it was inspired from the Black Sea Floods; a flood story of the Old Testament. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The land of superpowers. With the number of misconceptions earlier, it was also believed that one could possess superpowers if Atlantis City is discovered. Well, we don't see any superpowers today so maybe if you find it, then you can have those powers. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Relation with the Minoan Civilization. Another theory of Plato only suggests that the Crete and Thera islands were earlier the city of Atlantis. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The truth? Still debatable. Whether it was mid-Atlantic continent which sunk, Antarctica only, the outcome of Black Sea floods, or the Minoan civilization; nothing has been proved yet.
5. 7 Mysterious UNDERWATER Cities
7 Submerged Cities and Settlements
From mysterious building found at the bottom of a lake left for centuries to cities which were only previously thought to exist in the realms of fantasy to a...Russian Atlantis these are 7 Underwater Cities.
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Fuxian Lake is a 212sq km body of water which stretches over three separate counties in southwest China, and for centuries locals who lived on its shores told of the strange sights they had witnessed within its waters.
For centuries many believed the ancient city of Heracleion was a myth, consigned to the realms of fantasy along with Atlantis, Valhalla, and wherever the little Mermaid lived. Heracleion was mentioned in the works of the Greek historian Herodotus as somewhere visited by Helen of Troy, but in Greek mythology she was the daughter of Zeus, so this didn’t really help lend the city an air of credibility.
Whilst some of the cities on this list were mysteriously lost to the ocean deep, we know exactly what happened to the Chinese city of Shicheng – the government flooded it on purpose in 1959.
At nearly 5000 years old the city of Pavlopetri is the oldest underwater settlement humanity has ever discovered, and after sinking sometime around 1000BC these aquatic ruins provide a fascinating snapshot into stone-age life.
Phanagoria was a huge Greek city located in modern-day Russia’s Krasnodar Krai region, and whilst some of its ruins can be found on land, approximately a third can be found at the bottom of the Black Sea.
An old Welsh legend tells the story of a legendary 6th Century Prince known as Helip ap Glanawg whose kingdom straddled much of modern-day North Wales. The tales mention how Helip had a giant palace built in the area today known as Conwy Bay, but it was destroyed after a storm struck the area and it became flooded by the sea, completely submerging both the palace and surrounding city.
Remember how we said Pavlopetri was the oldest known underwater city? Well technically it still is, but only because archaeologists are still arguing over the age of another submerged city found in India’s Gulf of Cambay.
6. Most Amazing Cities Found UNDERWATER!
Here is the top list of mysterious sunken underwater cities in the world found underwater! These strange and mindblowing but also amazing forgotten ancient underwater ruins are located deep into the ocean. Check out Alexandria, City of Cuba, Yonaguni, Lake Titicaca, Pavlopetri, Lion City, Heracleion and more underwater cities!
7. 5 Lost Underwater Cities of the Ancient World
We’ve all heard of the legend of Atlantis – the once great city, submerged under water, unseen yet compelling. But unlike this fictional island there are several real lost cities buried under layers of water waiting to be discovered. Today we bring you top 5 lost underwater cities of the ancient world that were once lost in time but has been discovered and are being explored.
Bible Proves Long-Lost City of Atlantis is in Israel, Researcher Claims
Bible Proves Long-Lost City of Atlantis is in Israel, Researcher Claims
A Biblical researcher and writer believes the sunken city of Atlantis never disappeared, and that its remains can still be found in the Holy Land.
Ryan Pitterson, a researcher and writer who focuses on ancient Hebrew thought and theology, claims that there are certain links between Plato’s tale of the lost city of Atlantis and the stories of Biblical giants known as the Nephilim.
The Nephilim were the offspring of the “sons of God” and the “daughters of men”, meaning they were half-human, half-angelic creatures. Atlantis, described by ancient Greek philosopher Plato in around 350BC, was a mythical island that sunk somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea or the Atlantic Ocean after suffering a devastating natural disaster.
Speaking on American radio, Pitterson said the story of the Nephalim matches the tale of the Greek god Poseidon, who was said to have fathered children with a human woman in Atlantis.
The researcher, who wrote the book “Judgement of the Nephilim”, is convinced that Plato's description of Atlantis matches biblical records of the mysterious Israeli stone structure, Galgal Refaim (“wheel of ghosts”) or Gilgal Refaim (“circle of giants” in reference to a biblical race of giants) in Hebrew.
"One example that really stood out for me is Plato's description of Atlantis. It's almost remarkable how similar it is to Ezekiel 31, which describes the rise of this fallen angel spawning many children and having a kingdom with an abundance of resources and rivers as well as a military power and then having it crumble. In Plato's account, it was the Greek god Poseidon who fell in love with a human woman and impregnated her”, he said on US radio.
Built in concentric circles, Gilgal Refaim is believed to date from around 3000 BCE and is commonly called “The Stonehenge of the Middles East”. Plato’s Atlantis was also said to have been built outwards in concentric circles with water running through the city.
“So right from the onset, it was a god coming to an Earthly realm and conceiving a child with a human woman in the same fashion of Genesis 6. Atlantis is described as having all sorts of great minerals — gold, precious minerals — and in a biblical account in Genesis 2, we're told the rivers that ran out of the Garden of Eden encompassed the whole line of Avila", Pitterson explained.
Is Stonehenge van het Midden-Oosten de plek waar Atlantis ligt? Bijbelonderzoeker doet opvallende uitspraken over Nephilim
Foto: Hebrew Wikipedia אסף.צ
Is Stonehenge van het Midden-Oosten de plek waar Atlantis ligt? Bijbelonderzoeker doet opvallende uitspraken over Nephilim
Een bijbelonderzoeker en schrijver meent dat de gezonken stad Atlantis nooit is verdwenen en dat de resten ervan in Israël kunnen worden gevonden. Dat schrijft persbureau Sputnik.
Ryan Pitterson claimt dat er veel overeenkomsten zijn tussen Plato’s verhalen over de verloren stad Atlantis en verhalen over reuzen in de Bijbel, ook wel Nephilim genoemd.
De Nephilim waren de nazaten van de ‘zonen Gods’ en de ‘dochters der mensen’.
Reuzenras
Het verhaal over de Nephilim komt precies overeen met dat over de Griekse god Poseidon, die kinderen zou hebben gekregen in Atlantis, zei Pitterson op de Amerikaanse radio.
De onderzoeker is ervan overtuigd dat Plato’s beschrijving van Atlantis overeenkomt met de bijbelse verhalen over Gilgal Refaim, een mysterieuze steencirkel op de Golanhoogten.
Gilgal betekent ‘wiel’ en Refaim heeft betrekking op een reuzenras dat volgens de Tenach in de regio leefde.
Stonehenge
De steencirkel zou dateren van 3000 voor Christus en wordt ook wel het Stonehenge van het Midden-Oosten genoemd.
Atlantis bestond volgens Plato net als Gilgal Refaim uit een aantal concentrische cirkels.
Gevallen engel
Pitterson zei dat Plato’s beschrijving van de stad erg doet denken aan Ezechiël 31, waarin wordt gesproken over een gevallen engel die veel nakomelingen krijgt en een koninkrijk opbouwt, dat uiteindelijk uit elkaar valt.
In het verhaal van Plato wordt de god Poseidon verliefd op een vrouw en krijgt hij kinderen met haar, aldus de onderzoeker.
Archaeologists discover 1,000-year-old 'untouched' Maya ritual site containing hundreds of ceramic vessels, burnt offerings, and fragments of bone in Mexican cave
Archaeologists discover 1,000-year-old 'untouched' Maya ritual site containing hundreds of ceramic vessels, burnt offerings, and fragments of bone in Mexican cave
The ritual cave was discovered at the ruins of the ancient Maya city Chichen Itza, on the Yucatan Peninsula
There they found about 200 ceramic vessels left as offerings, containing bone fragments and burnt materials
The team says the cave likely had been discovered, but not fully explored, by locals about 50 years earlier
Archaeologists have stumbled upon an 'untouched' ritual cave onMexico's Yucatán Peninsula that could hold the key to unraveling the fall of the Maya Empire.
At the ruins of the ancient city Chichen Itza, the team found roughly 200 ceramic vessels left as offerings more than 1,000 years ago.
And remarkably, it seems they've remained undisturbed since.
The National Institute of Anthropology and History said the vessels appear to date back to around A.D. 1000 and contain bone fragments and burnt offering materials that are being analyzed.
Archaeologist Guillermo de Anda stands next to pre-columbian artifacts in a cave at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. Mexican archaeologists say they have found offerings of about 200 ceramic vessels in nearly untouched condition. The National Institute of Anthropology and History says the vessels appear to date back to around 1,000 A.D
Archaeologist Guillermo de Anda said exploration of the cave began in 2018 after local Maya residents told experts about it.
It turned out the cave had been discovered, but apparently not fully explored, by locals about 50 years earlier.
They told an archaeologist about it then, but he ordered it sealed - perhaps to protect it - and only issued a brief report that was essentially forgotten in government archives.
The 155 ceramic braziers and incense burners found by the experts bear the likeness of Tlaloc, the rain god of central Mexico.
The Mayas also had their own rain god, Chaac, and may have imported Tlaloc from other pre-Hispanic cultures.
There were also clay boxes and other vessels. The team plans to leave all the objects in the cave.
Archaeologists have stumbled upon an 'untouched' ritual cave on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula that could hold the key to unraveling the fall of the Maya Empire. Above, pre-columbian artifacts sit in a cave at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza
Archaeologist Guillermo de Anda said exploration of the cave began in 2018 after local Maya residents told experts about it. It turned out the cave had been discovered, but apparently not fully explored, by locals about 50 years earlier
De Anda said ancient Mayas had to crawl on their bellies through the extremely narrow cave to deposit the offerings inside a few larger, higher chambers. The offerings were apparently meant to ask for rain.
The cave, called Balamku, is about 1.7 miles (2.75 kilometers) east of the main pyramid of Kukulkan, also known as El Castillo, 'The Castle.'
De Anda and his team are exploring Chichen Itza to establish the routes and sites of its underground water system.
A series of sinkhole lakes known as cenotes are visible on the surface of the Chichen Itza site, but there are other, undiscovered water sites beneath the pyramids, patios and temples.
The 155 ceramic braziers and incense burners found by the experts bear the likeness of Tlaloc, the rain god of central Mexico. The Mayas also had their own rain god, Chaac, and may have imported Tlaloc from other pre-Hispanic cultures
The National Institute of Anthropology and History said the vessels appear to date back to around A.D. 1000 and contain bone fragments and burnt offering materials that are being analyzed
Water was always central to Chichen Itza, whose very name means 'at the mouth of the well of the Water Wizards' in Maya.
De Anda said experts have crawled a few hundred meters (yards) into the cave, which in places is just 16 inches (40 centimeters) tall, in hopes of finding the connection to a cenote cave believed to lie under the pyramid of Kukulkan.
'Let's hope this leads us there,' De Anda said.
'That is part of the reason why we are entering these sites, to find a connection to the cenote under the Castillo.'
WHAT CAUSED THE COLLAPSE OF THE MAYAN CIVILISATION?
For hundreds of years the Mayans dominated large parts of the Americas until, mysteriously in the 8th and 9th century AD, a large chunk of the Mayan civilisation collapsed.
The reason for this collapse has been hotly debated, but now scientists say they might have an answer - an intense drought that lasted a century.
Studies of sediments in the Great Blue Hole in Belize suggest a lack of rains caused the disintegration of the Mayan civilisation, and a second dry spell forced them to relocate elsewhere.
The theory that a drought led to a decline of the Mayan Classic Period is not entirely new, but the new study co-authored by Dr André Droxler from Rice University in Texas provides fresh evidence for the claims.
The Maya who built Chichen Itza came to dominate the Yucatan Peninsula in southeast Mexico, shown above, for hundreds of years before dissappearing mysteriously in the 8th and 9th century AD
Dozens of theories have attempted to explain the Classic Maya Collapse, from epidemic diseases to foreign invasion.
With his team Dr Droxler found that from 800 to 1000 AD, no more than two tropical cyclones occurred every two decades, when usually there were up to six.
This suggests major droughts occurred in these years, possibly leading to famines and unrest among the Mayan people.
And they also found that a second drought hit from 1000 to 1100 AD, corresponding to the time that the Mayan city of Chichén Itzá collapsed.
Researchers say a climate reversal and drying trend between 660 and 1000 AD triggered political competition, increased warfare, overall sociopolitical instability, and finally, political collapse - known as the Classic Maya Collapse.
This was followed by an extended drought between AD 1020 and 1100 that likely corresponded with crop failures, death, famine, migration and, ultimately, the collapse of the Maya population.
Mexican archaeologists were searching for a sacred well when they instead discovered a cave at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza that contained over 150 ceramic artifacts. What’s even more interesting is that the vessels have been untouched for over a thousand years and are believed to date back around 1000 AD. In addition to the ceramic objects, there were also bone fragments and burnt offering materials that are currently being analyzed.
Archaeologist Guillermo de Anda said that after local Maya residents told experts about the location, exploration of the cave started last year in 2018. Around 50 years ago, the cave was discovered by locals but nobody went in to explore it. The locals did, however, report their findings to an archaeologist but he ordered that the cave be sealed and the only thing that was documented on it was a short report that was put in government archives.
Archaeologist Guillermo de Anda stands next to pre-columbian artifacts in a cave at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. Mexican archaeologists say they have found offerings of about 200 ceramic vessels in nearly untouched condition. The National Institute of Anthropology and History says the vessels appear to date back to around 1,000 A.D
The cave is called Balamku and it’s located around 2.75 kilometres east of the main pyramid which is named Kukulkan, or El Castillo (also known as “The Castle”).
Chichen Itza
Of the 155 found artifacts, which include incense burners, ceramic braziers, and clay boxes, some of them appear to have the face of Tlaloc who is central Mexico’s rain god. While the Mayas had their own rain god called Chaac, it’s possible that they could have brought over Tlaloc from additional pre-Hispanic cultures.
The objects that were found inside of the cave were offerings brought in by the ancient Mayas who were asking for rain. And it wasn’t an easy task to bring the artifacts to the location, as they had to crawl on their stomachs through a very narrow cave in order to get to a few bigger chambers where they placed their offerings. The team said that they plan to leave all the artifacts inside of the cave.
The archaeological team is examining Chichen Itza to figure out the routes and sites of the underground water system. While several cenotes (or sinkhole lakes) can be seen at the site, there are additional water sites that are located underneath the temples, patios, and pyramids that have yet to be discovered. Interestingly enough, “Chichen Itza” translates to “at the mouth of the well of the Water Wizards” in Maya.
Chichen Itza
Experts have already crawled into the cave (some areas which are only 40 centimetres in height), but have only gotten to around a few hundred metres in so far. They are hoping to find a connection to a cenote cave which they think is located underneath the Pyramid of Kukulkan. “Let’s hope this leads us there. That is part of the reason why we are entering these sites, to find a connection to the cenote under the Castillo,” de Anda expressed.
Archaeologists have stumbled upon an 'untouched' ritual cave on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula that could hold the key to unraveling the fall of the Maya Empire. Above, pre-columbian artifacts sit in a cave at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza
A driver has filmed a strange thing in the sky over Montreal, Canada on February 27, 2019.
At first glance it looks like it is the sun, but the sun is visible next to the object. Then maybe it could be a sun arc, a part of a so-called Halo but that does not seem to be the case either.
This circular object clearly is a stand alone object in the sky where the sun rays reflect on the object. Watch Video.
Strange sunset off coast California
Strange sunset do not you think? We are used to seeing the sunrise and sunset on the horizon line.
But something illogical could be seen on December 25 in California. The sun went into the ocean. Watch Video.
Rare figure pops up above Italy
As sunrays broke through the clouds, a fascinating view opened for a moment to those enjoying a sunset from ashore the Tyrrhenian Sea on 1 March, but only one appeared to capture it on camera.
Credit images: Alfredo Lo Brutto.
Italian photographer, Alfredo Lo Brutto from Agropoli, took note of an unusual glow in the clouds above the Tyrrhenian Sea, the figure which looked strikingly like the famed Christ the Redeemer statue towering in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro sky and posted his finding on Facebook.
Like northern lights electrifies the sky over the mystery Bucegi mountains in Romania
Photographer Răzvan Neagoe posted on his Facebook page some remarkable images what looks like northern lights electrifies the sky over the Bucegi Mountains in Romania.
Răzvan Neagoe: Sunday 24 February 2019 at sunset, bucegi offered an incredible show: the microscopic ice crystals of the clouds clouds decomposed the sunlight and offered us a true winter rainbow!
Credit images: Răzvan Neagoe.
I don't know how it was seen from other parts, but I think azuga was privileged with the optimal position for watching this show.
As in the case of polar aurorelor, the phenomenon was dynamic, sometimes more intense, sometimes more pale; it lasted in total about twenty minutes, after which the sun went down too much to form the whole spectrum, the light summed up At Orange-Red and then the darkness left.
It is remarkable that these so-called northern electric lights appeared above the Bucegi Mountains.
The Bucegi Mountains in Romania are well known for its secret underground, labyrinthine tunnel network within the mountain and supposed alien base located inside the mountain. Yet the mysterious sphinx and the Bable figures near the Bucegi Mountains.
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