Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
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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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...
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UFO Seen During Moon Walk On Apollo 12 Mission, Video UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen During Moon Walk On Apollo 12 Mission, Video UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery:June 23, 2019 Location of discovery: Earths moon Source:
I was looking at the NASA Apollo archives and found this odd looking UFO in the distance. The UFO is hovering over the horizon but at a tilted angle, much like Bob Lazar said about the UFO he worked on in Area S4 needing to tilt to move. The astronauts must have seen it, its not like there is a lot to see on the moon but dust and rocks, but a UFO of this size hovering...must have really blown their minds. Scott C. Waring
Were two mysterious white objects that were spotted in the sky over Kansas City, Missouri last night evidence of otherworldly intelligence?
Nope — instead they turned out to be evidence of a strange research project the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA), Gizmodo reports, which is working on balloons that can intelligently use wind currents to steer as they stay aloft almost indefinitely.
Balloon Project
The Adaptable Lighter Than Air balloon project is working to extend the range of wind-borne navigation systems. The balloons fly at more than 75,000 feet and can take advantage of wind movement, using a sensor that provides “real time time stratospheric wind measurements.”
Local Kansas City news reported of unusual floating objects on Thursday night, and the government expressed confusion as well.
“We honestly have no explanation for the floating objects over Kansas City,” tweeted The National Weather Service in Kansas City.
Boring Balloons
While DARPA hasn’t independently confirmed that it was their balloons, a source with knowledge of the program confirmed to Gizmodo they belonged to the agency.
And before you ask, the balloons weren’t part of Google’s Project Loon either.
“While Loon does routinely fly balloons over the [U.S.] from our launch site in Nevada, we do not currently have balloons in the area where the sightings have been reported,” Project Loon’s Scott Coriell told Gizmodo by email.
The news comes after the U.S. government is officially starting to take reports of “unidentified aerial phenomenon” more and more seriously. Just yesterday, three U.S. senators received a classified briefing on UFO sightings according to Politico.
In extraordinarily salty puddles of water resembling ones you might find on Mars, bacteria can survive getting completely dried out, suggesting that the Red Planet may be more habitable than previously thought, according to a new study.
Since there is life virtually wherever there is water on Earth, research into whether Mars was once capable of hosting life — and whether it still might host it — typically focuses on the past or current presence of liquid water on or below its surface. However, the cold, thin atmosphere that Mars has nowadays means liquid water likely cannot exist on its surface for any length of time.
Still, just before dawn, evaporating frost on the Martian surface can drive humidity up to 100 percent, said the study's senior author Mark Schneegurt, an astrobiologist at Wichita State University in Kansas. At its peak, the humidity on Mars can resemble the drier parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile, the driest place on Earth aside from its poles, which nevertheless is home to life.
In addition, a variety of salts often found on the surface of Mars could absorb this moisture. Because the briny fluids that result have a lower freezing point than water, they could withstand the frigid temperatures that prevail on the Red Planet's surface — and potentially harbor life.
However, the humidity on the Martian surface plummets during the daytime as temperatures rise. As such, any microbes on Mars would likely have to deal with constantly getting dried out.
To see if life on Mars could survive these cycles of desiccation, scientists experimented with two species of bacteria taken from two highly salty areas — Hot Lake in Washington and the Great Salt Plains in Oklahoma. They grew them in the lab in a solution that was half water and half magnesium sulfate, commonly known as Epsom salt, a kind of salt common on the Martian surface.
The researchers next dried small drops of this bacterial-laden solution using water-absorbing chemicals under a vacuum, to mimic how brines on the Martian surface might evaporate. Finally, they locked the dried drops in a jar with either regular water or saltwater and let the jar fill with humidity.
Within a day, the scientists found the dried drops absorbed enough moisture from the air to make a liquid brine, at which point the bacteria revived and began to grow. Typically more than half the cells survived.
"We have the first data showing the growth of bacteria after drying and then rehydration through humidity alone, in the presence of salts that absorb moisture from the air," Schneegurt told Space.com.
These findings may expand what scientists consider habitable when it comes to dry or cold worlds, Schneegurt said. It also could mean there is a greater risk than previously thought that Earth microbes can contaminate other worlds.
In the future, the researchers may examine how well these bacteria perform at the colder temperatures typical of Mars, as well as with other kinds of salts found on the Martian surface, Schneegurt said.
The scientists detailed their findings on June 21 at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Francisco.
Some sort of a heat wave warms the rings of Uranus, even though the planet orbits far away from the sun.
New heat images of the planet, obtained by two telescopes in Chile, reveal the temperature of the rings for the first time: minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 195 degrees Celsius), or the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen.
While that sounds cold by Earthly standards, consider that most of space is much colder, approaching a temperature at which atoms stop moving. This point is called absolute zero, which is roughly minus 460 F (minus 273 C).
And Uranus itself is located pretty far out in the solar system, where the planet receives only a fraction of the heat from the sun that the Earth receives. The ice giant orbits our star at an average distance of 19 astronomical units (AU), with each AU equivalent to the average distance from the Earth to the sun, or 93 million miles (150 million kilometers).
The scientists who captured the new images said they aren't sure what's causing the relative warmth. But the weird temperature proves that the brightest and densest ring at Uranus (also known as the epsilon ring) is very different from other ring systems in our solar system.
Every giant planet in our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — has its own set of rings, but Saturn's are the most spectacular and best-understood. That's because they are easily visible even with just a small telescope and because NASA's Cassini mission studied them up close. But Saturn's rings are quite different from those at Uranus.
Uranus and its rings as seen in radio wavelengths by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in December 2017.
(Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), E. Molter and I. de Pater)
"Saturn's mainly icy rings are broad [and] bright and have a range of particle sizes, from micron-sized dust in the innermost D ring, to tens of meters [or feet] in size in the main rings," study co-author Imke de Pater, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley,said in a statement. "The small end is missing in the main rings of Uranus. The brightest ring, epsilon, is composed of golf ball-sized and larger rocks."
The epsilon ring also differs from rings observed at the other giant planets. Jupiter's rings are made of particles that are roughly a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter each, while Neptune's rings are made up almost entirely of dust. The epsilon ring doesn't even look like the main rings of Uranus, as huge tracts of dust lie in between them.
"We already know that the epsilon ring is a bit weird, because we don't see the smaller stuff," lead author and graduate student Edward Molter, who is also at the University of California, Berkeley, said in the same statement. "Something has been sweeping the smaller stuff out, or it's all glomming together. We just don't know. This is a step toward understanding [the rings'] composition and whether all of the rings came from the same source material or are different for each ring."
An artist's depiction of Uranus and its rings, which are remarkably dark but surprisingly warm.
(Image credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello)
Another mystery is how Uranus and the other planets acquired their rings in the first place. Perhaps one or more moons got too close to the planet and broke apart, as is the probable fate of Mars' moon Phobos. Perhaps moons crashed into each other and broke into pieces, which could someday happen again at Jupiter, where the orbit of a newly found moon crosses the path of several other moons. Or perhaps the rings formed from captured asteroids that crumbled once they came under the influence of a planet's gravity. The rings could also have come from debris left over from the birth of the solar system, 4.5 billion years ago.
The scientists used Chile's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Very Large Telescope to gather the data used in the new research. But the researchers said they hope still-better information about the oddball Uranian ring will come from NASA's forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope, which could gather data about the elemental composition of the epsilon ring.
In front of the larger rock formations, a tiny elongated white blob appears to be streaking past.
Nasa has previously admitted to similar anomalies in pictures taken by the probe. This image was taken on 16 June, and while conspiracy theorists have said the photograph is evidence of extra-terrestrials on the Red Planet, it appears more likely to have been a cosmic ray, some kind of camera lens flare or sunlight reflecting on rocks.
The Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars in 2012, and is armed with 17 cameras. Since then it has roamed all over the planet, beaming back huge amounts of data along with vast quantities of photographs. Many other pictures it has captured have featured anomalous lights too.
The rover has two mounted “navcams” on its mast, which act as a stereo pair of cameras – a bit like eyes. The black and white images capture panoramic 3D imagery and each has a 45 degree field of view, giving ground control crews a detailed view of the planet’s terrain.
The image in question was taken by the right navcam. Unfortunately, the left camera wasn’t looking in the same direction, and photos from the same set and time show it having swivelled down to take some kind of space selfie, showing parts of the craft over rocks and dust on the ground.
The appearance and disappearance of the unidentified white blob appears to have been rapid, as photos taken immediately before and after don’t show the same unidentified phenomenon.
When another bright spot captured in pictures taken by the rover made headlines in 2014, people claimed it was “light from an alien hut”.
But Justin Maki, the leader of the team that built and operates Curiosity’s navcams rapidly put those theories to bed.
He said: “In the thousands of images we’ve received from Curiosity, we see ones with bright spots nearly every week.
“These can be caused by cosmic-ray hits or sunlight glinting from rock surfaces, as the most likely explanations.”
Cosmic rays are formed by highly charged atomic particles, often from outside our own solar system, which travel through space at almost the speed of light and can produce visual effects upon impact. They are more common on Mars than on Earth due to the thin atmosphere which doesn’t provide as effective a barrier to cosmic radiation.
Want to Find Aliens? The Largest Dataset in the History of SETI has Been Released to the Public
Want to Find Aliens? The Largest Dataset in the History of SETI has Been Released to the Public
In 2016, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner launched Breakthrough Initiatives, a massive non-profit organization dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI). A key part of their efforts to find evidence of intelligent life is Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million program that is currently conducting a survey of one million of the nearest stars and the 100 nearest galaxies.
In keeping with their commitment to making the results of their surveys available to the public, the Listen team recently submitted two papers to leading astrophysical journals. These papers describe the analysis of Listen’s first three years of radio observations which resulted in a petabyte of radio and optical data, the single largest release of SETI data in the history of the field.
The Green Bank Telescope, located in West Virginia. Credit: NRAO
This analysis builds on the result presented by in the team in 2017, which reported on the analysis of 692 stars observed with the Green Bank Telescope. With these new results, Breakthrough Listen has completed the most comprehensive and sensitive survey in the history of SETI and highlighted the advancements they’ve made in the past three years.
These include how the Breakthrough Listen science team – from UC Berkeley’s SETI Research Center – developed specialized techniques to search for evidence of technological activity (aka. “technosignatures”). These include searches for powerful radio signals occupying a narrow range of frequencies and scans for laser flashes that could indicate optical communication or directed-energy propulsion.
They also designed new machine-learning algorithms that are being used to study unexplained astrophysical phenomena, which could be an indication of an as-yet-unknown technology. Last, but not least, are the techniques used by the Listen team to scan through billions of radio channels and filter out signals that are too narrow and well-defined to be the result of natural processes.
The vast majority of these come from local (human) sources, but the team applies two techniques to filter out these interfering signals from anything that could be an indication of an ETI. The first selected only narrow-band signals that are drifting in frequency while preserving signals that experience a change in frequency over time due to their motion relative to the telescope (aka. “Doppler drift”).
The Parkes radio telescope, one of the telescopes comprising CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility. Credit: CSIRO
The second filter removes signals that do not appear to originate from a fixed point in the sky, which effectively removes signals that are not coming from the direction of the target star. These two techniques reduce the number of signals from tens of millions to just a handful, effectively simplifying the hunt for needles by reducing the size of the “haystack”.
The few remaining signals are then carefully examined to see if they are not, in fact, human-generated radio interference. While this latest analysis did not produce any verifiable technosignatures, this latest analysis places the most stringent constraints to date on the possible existence of an ETI that uses radio frequency communications in the local area of our galaxy.
As Dr. Danny Price – a research fellow from UC Berkley and the Swinburne University of Technology and the lead author on the analysis paper – said in a recent Breakthrough press release:
“This data release is a tremendous milestone for the Breakthrough Listen team. We scoured thousands of hours of observations of nearby stars, across billions of frequency channels. We found no evidence of artificial signals from beyond Earth, but this doesn’t mean there isn’t intelligent life out there: we may just not have looked in the right place yet, or peered deep enough to detect faint signals.”
Aerial image of the South African MeerKAT radio telescope, part of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). Credit: SKA
At present, the Listen team is busy performing detailed observations of a sample of 1702 stars within about 160 light-years from Earth using the Green Bank and Parkes radio telescopes – as well as observations of a large swath of the Milky Way galaxy’s disk using Parkes. In the near future, the Lick Observatory’s Automated Planet Finder (APF) and South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope will begin observing a one-million-star sample.
These added facilities, as well as the experience gained during the last three years of the program, will also allow the Listen team to extend their efforts to higher radio frequencies, more signal types and thousands of times more stars. Meanwhile, Breakthrough Listen continues to seek partnerships with other facilities across the globe to expand the search for intelligent life.
Other information contained within the Listen archive also includes the massive amounts of optical data obtained by the APF and the team’s observations of the first repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) ever detected (FRB 121102). It also contains the results of Listen’s scans of the interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua, where the team looked for evidence of radio signals to see if the asteroid might actually be an interstellar spacecraft.
The public is invited to peruse this data in order to help find evidence of possible technosignatures. As Matt Lebofsky, BSRC’s Lead System Administrator and the head author on the second paper,explained:
“While we have been making smaller subsets of data public before in varying forms and contexts, we are excited and proud to offer this first cohesive collection along with an instruction manual, so everybody can dig in and help us search. And we’re just getting started – there’s much more to come!”
Is anybody out there? Also, arethey communicating using technologies that we might recognize? Credit: UCLA SETI Group/Yuri Beletsky, Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory
The way in which public input is being sought for the sake of SETI research is a hallmark of the current age of space exploration. More and more, public and private institutions are collaborating for the sake of mutual benefit. And thanks to improved means of information-sharing, citizen scientists and enthusiasts are also able to contribute and advance the boundaries of science.
With the way international partnerships are becoming more common and more lucrative, the possibility of their being a breakthrough (no pun!) in the next few decades is becoming more and more real.
WETENSCHAPHet Pentagon briefte onlangs drie senatoren over het stijgend aantal waarnemingen van ufo’s door piloten van de Amerikaanse Navy. Ook president Trump kreeg een korte update, gaf hij toe aan ABC News. “We houden het in het oog en u zal het als eerste weten”, zei hij over mogelijk buitenaards leven.
Donderdag nog was de speculatie in Kansas City niet van de lucht nadat verscheidene mensen er boven de luchthaven twee mysterieuze, langwerpige, wazige lichtbollen hadden waargenomen. Een lokaal tv-station tweette een aantal foto’s van de vermeende ufo’s. De National Weather Service stond perplex: “We hebben eerlijk gezegd geen verklaring voor de zwevende objecten boven Kansas City”, klonk het.
Eind vorige week was de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump in een interview met ABC News sceptisch over de toenemende ufo-waarnemingen. “Ik denk dat het waarschijnlijk... ze mogen van mij denken wat ze willen. Ze vertellen het inderdaad, en ik heb het gezien, erover gelezen en gehoord. Ik had er een korte meeting over. Mensen beweren dus ufo’s te zien. Geloof ik dat? Niet meteen”, antwoordde Trump aan George Stephanopoulos.
De journalist vroeg de president of hij het zou weten als er buitenaards leven zou worden ontdekt. “Wel, mijn fantastische piloten zouden het volgens mij weten. Onze fantastische piloten zouden het weten. We zullen wel zien. We houden het in het oog en u zal het als eerste weten.”
“Last night, DARPA launched 3 balloons from Cumberland, Maryland, in a flight test for the Adaptable Lighter Than Air prgm,” the official DARPA Twitter account posted earlier this week. “Over next few days, ALTA will demonstrate capability for wind-borne navigation of a lighter-than-air vehicle over extended ranges.”
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@DARPA
Last night, DARPA launched 3 balloons from Cumberland, Maryland, in a flight test for the Adaptable Lighter Than Air prgm. Over next few days, ALTA will demonstrate capability for wind-borne navigation of a lighter-than-air vehicle over extended ranges. (link: https://go.usa.gov/xy3k6) go.usa.gov/xy3k6
There were also reports that the objects could have been high-altitude balloons from Google. One of Alphabet Inc.’s subsidiaries is Loon, which uses balloons to bring internet access to rural and remote areas.
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BIJZONDERE UFO WAARNEMING BOVEN ZEELAND, NEDERLAND
BIJZONDERE UFO WAARNEMING BOVEN ZEELAND, NEDERLAND
Wanneer je maar goed naar de lucht blijft kijken, dan heb je grote kans dat je bijzondere dingen ziet.
Zoals een dame in Zeeland die wat foto’s maakte van een naderend onweer.
Via een lezer ontvingen wij (dank!) het volgende bericht: Vanmorgen heeft een vriendin van mij om 7 uur enkele foto's genomen in Zeeland, waarvan op 1 foto een niet goed te traceren object bevind.
Misschien kunnen jullie dit beter zien door het uit te vergroten. De foto's zijn buiten vanaf balkon genomen.
1 foto zonder object. En 1 met object.
Gisteren in dit geval is woensdagmorgen toen de dag op veel plaatsen begon met fikse onweersbuien.
De eerste foto die je ziet is dan ook een dreigende lucht te zien van een naderende onweersbui.
Op de tweede foto valt uiterst rechts een vreemd object waar te nemen.
En wanneer je dit object helemaal uitvergroot, dan is er onmiskenbaar iets vreemds te zien.
Het ziet er uit als een ufo, maar of het ook inderdaad een onbekend vliegend object is, of iets anders is nog maar de vraag.
Enkele dagen geleden publiceerden wij een aantal bekende en minder bekende foto’s van Macchu Picchu met daarop eveneens onverklaarbare vliegende objecten.
Echter, volgens Edo uit Brabant (dank) is ook daar niet alles wat het lijkt, want hij schrijft het volgende:
In het laatste artikel van gisteren staan foto's die zeer waarschijnlijk een eenvoudige verklaring hebben.
Het licht op de 1e foto komt op mij over als een reflectie van een lampje in de trein op het raam waardoor de foto is gemaakt. Aan de verticale lichte banden op de foto is duidelijk te zien dat er zeker een raam-reflectie is. Ik heb zelf ook vaak foto's door ramen gemaakt, ik herken dat.
De 2e foto doet me denken aan een roofvogel in duik-vlucht.
De 3e foto zou een zwarte vogel kunnen zijn waar de zon op schijnt, ik vermoed een Andes-condor. Tevens kan er een afwijking zijn van een aantal pixels door het computerprogramma dat een bitmap-foto omrekent tot een jpg-foto die veel minder ruimte in beslag neemt op het geheugenkaartje. Bij een lage kwaliteit jpg-afbeelding is dat normaal, zeker op pixel-niveau en daar is hier sprake van. Het gebeurt doorgaans het duidelijkst op de grens van 2 kleuren die nogal verschillen.
De 4e foto doet me met meer zekerheid denken aan een Andes-condor (zwarte vogel met een witte nek).
De 5e foto zou een laaghangend wolkje kunnen zijn, het is in het hooggebergte en een foto van de zijkant van een kleine wolk is vaak sigaar-vormig. Op de foto is goed te zien dat deze is gemaakt vanaf ongeveer dezelfde hoogte als die 'sigaarvormige wolk'. Dat is zo omdat een wolk doorgaans langer en breder is dan dat die wolk hoog is.
Wanneer het allemaal waar is wat ik nu schrijf dan betekent dat natuurlijk niet dat er geen UFO-activiteit is in de Andes.
Het zou me niet verbazen wanneer die activiteit er daadwerkelijk ook is. Het is niet rationeel om het bestaan van UFO's te ontkennen, het is absurd en bekrompen om te denken dat de Aarde de enige plaats met leven is in het Universum, ook wanneer er geen bewijs voor buitenaards leven zou zijn.
Tot zover Edo.
Zeker weten doen we het waarschijnlijk nooit, maar een goede graadmeter is dat als je iets met je blote oog kunt zien, het veel aannemelijker is dat het een echte waarneming betreft dan wanneer het alleen op camerabeelden is te zien.
Trump & Congress briefed on US Navy Pilot UF Sightings – The Connection to Space Force & Disclosure
Trump & Congress briefed on US Navy Pilot UFO Sightings – The Connection to Space Force & Disclosure
President Trump and members of the US Congress have recently received briefings about US Navy pilot sightings of UFOs. When combined with the Pentagon acknowledging that it had created a classified program to study the UFOs from 2007 to 2012 with Congressional funding, the briefings are leading to increasing speculation on whether we are on the verge of official disclosure on UFOs and their true origin.
Furthermore, the briefings are occurring at the same time as legislation for the creation of a Space Force is making steady progress through Congress. This raises the intriguing question of whether Trump and members of Congress have been told Space Force is necessary to deal with UFOs being sighted by the Navy pilots which are being viewed by the Pentagon as a potential threat.
In an interview with ABC TV host, George Stephanopoulos, President Donald Trump admitted that he received a briefing about UFO sightings by US Navy pilots that occurred in 2004 and 2015. In a June 15 story titled: “Trump briefed on Navy UFO sightings,” Politico’s Matthew Choi wrote about what Trump told Stephanopoulos:
“I want them to think whatever they think,” Trump said of the Navy pilots. “I did have one very brief meeting on it. But people are saying they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly.”
Trump was here acknowledging that he doesn’t believe in UFOs, which has the connotation of being an extraterrestrial piloted spacecraft. Reading between the lines here, Trump is hinting that what the Navy pilots saw were not UFOs but something else that he and the Pentagon knew the answer to.
When asked the question of whether he knew of an extraterrestrial connection to the sightings, he told Stephanopoulos:
“I think our great pilots would know. And some of them see things a little bit different from the past. … We’re watching, and you’ll be the first to know.”
Trump appeared to be deflecting from what he really knew about the alien connection, but one thing he emphasized was that his administration is paying attention to what the Navy pilots have been reporting. Again, reading between the lines, Trump is saying that his administration is actively seeking answers to the UFO phenomenon, and when he finds out, he will relay this to Stephanopoulos and the general public.
A few days later on June 19, Politico ran a story where it discussed three US Senators that had also received classified briefings on the UFO sightings by Navy pilots. In “Senators briefed on Navy UFO sightings”,Bryan Bender wrote:
Three more U.S. senators received a classified Pentagon briefing on Wednesday about a series of reported encounters by the Navy with unidentified aircraft, according to congressional and military officials — part of a growing number of requests from members of key oversight committees.
One of them was Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose office confirmed the briefing to POLITICO.
“If naval pilots are running into unexplained interference in the air, that’s a safety concern Senator Warner believes we need to get to the bottom of,” his spokesperson, Rachel Cohen, said in a statement.
Justifying their interest in the Navy pilot sightings as a “safety concern” is a convenient way for members of Congress to take an active interest in UFO reports, which have been officially dismissed and ridiculed for decades. This official policy goes back to 1953 when a CIA sponsored panel of scientists gave a damming report on UFO sightings that recommended a public education program to dismiss and ridicule UFO (aka flying saucer) sightings on national security grounds.
Ever since then UFO sightings have been reported by the mainstream press in a way that often mocks and ridicules the subject matter. What is very unusual today is that serving Navy pilots are given permission to talk about their sightings, and the press is giving their accounts serious attention in articles without any ridicule factor.
This is amply demonstrated in the many mainstream news stories that appeared after theNew York Times and Politico ran simultaneous articles about the Navy pilot UFO sightings back on December 16, 2017. Both newspapers discussed the pilots’ UFO sightings, leaked videos of the UFOs recorded by their planes instruments, and the connection of the sightings to the establishment of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) back in 2007 with Congressional funding of $22 million.
All this coincides with the formation of Space Force as a sixth branch of the US military, which is currently being debated by both houses of Congress. In the last few weeks, two Congressional defense committees have approved the passage of bills authorizing the creation of Space Force. It will take another month or two for both the House of Representatives and Senate to pass their respective bills, and to then resolve differences in language and priorities between the two versions for their inclusion into the National Defense Authorization Act for 2020.
One thing is becoming very clear, Space Force enjoys genuine bipartisan support in Congress, and this appears to be a result of the current media and Congressional interest in UFOs generated by Navy pilot reports and Pentagon disclosures about its AATIP program. Was Senator Warner, a Democrat, told by his Pentagon briefers that the UFOs sighted by the pilots were an unknown threat, and this is why Space Force is necessary?
A few weeks earlier, Senator Ted Cruz spoke about Space Force being necessary to deal with space pirates. He was not talking about extraterrestrial visitors, but rogue elements from different countries or corporations that could challenge US supremacy in space.
It’s not coincidental that members of Congress are being briefed about Navy pilot reports of UFOs that led to the Pentagon setting up its AATIP program in 2007. They are being told that UFOs are an unknown threat, at the same time as the Trump Administration and the Pentagon are pushing for the establishment of Space Force.
It’s widely expected that Space Force will be officially created and set up under the Department of Air Force in 2020, mirroring the relationship between the Department of the Navy and the US Marine Corps. After its official launch, the stage will be set for the Air Force to unveil the classified space technologies it has been covertly developing for decades in a secret space program, which is described in detail in my newly released book, US Air Force Secret Space Program: Extraterrestrial Alliances and Space Force.
Official disclosure is likely to unfold in different stages. The first will be that many UFO sightings involve classified technologies developed by the USAF, along with similar aerospace technologies developed by Russia and China. Disclosure of an Air Force secret space program will be an optimal way of surprising the US public with news about the different sized and shaped antigravity vehicles that have been deployed for several decades now.
The second stage of disclosure likely involves future announcements involving the capture and reverse engineering of non-terrestrial technologies that date back to the 1940s, as also described in the US Air Force Secret Space Program.
A sure sign of what lies ahead is a leaked document about Vice Admiral Tom Wilson, former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, being denied access back in 1997 to a classified corporate program involving the reverse engineering of non-human made advanced technologies.
The leaked document identifies several scientists and former military officials who could be summoned before Congress to testify about their knowledge of such a reverse engineering program. Indeed the Pentagon official in charge of the AATIP program from 2007 to 2017, Luis Elizondo, gave an interview on Tucker Carlson on May 31 admitting that some UFO technologies had been retrieved and were being studied by the US government.
Carlson: Do you believe, based on your decade of serving in the US government on this question that the US government has in its possession any material from one of these aircraft?
Elizondo: I do. Yes.
Carlson: Do you think the US government has debris from a UFO in its possession right now?
Elizondo: Unfortunately Tucker I really have to be careful of my NDA [Non-Disclosure Agreement], I really can’t go into a lot of more detail than that …
Carlson: Okay.
Elizondo: But, ah, simply put, yes.
This would set in place a means by which the Pentagon and the Trump Administration could reveal how retrieved non-terrestrial technologies were used for the USAF for the research and development of advanced aerospace technologies using antigravity, torsion field and other exotic propulsion systems.
Finally, after Space Force has been created and its arsenal of antigravity spacecraft inherited from the USAF is publicly revealed, the truth about some of the extraterrestrials currently visiting our world can be announced. Extraterrestrial disclosure can be done in a way that does not undermine public confidence over the US and other national governments being able to defend their populations against any possible hostile extraterrestrial actions.
The widespread media attention given to US Navy pilot reports, the association of the UFOs with the AATIP program, and Congressional passage of legislation establishing Space Force are all sure signs of major disclosures that lie ahead.
Bob Lazar Talks Area 51 with Rogan! His Corvette Costs Nothing to Drive!
Bob Lazar Talks Area 51 with Rogan! His Corvette Costs Nothing to Drive!
Joe Rogan talks with Bob Lazar about his experience at S-4 next to Area 51. Bob Lazar worked on E.T. (fallen angel) technology at S-4. Bob Lazar was told about element 115 while at S-4 and discussed this element when he first went public in about 1989. Officially Element 115 wasn’t put on the periodic table until 2004! Lazar saw an entire fleet of alien craft at S-4 made for small creatures to operate. Part of the ship could become transparent at times!
Bob Lazar shows his Corvette running on essentially free energy in the video below! He makes the hydrogen using solar panels and stores it in small tanks containing hydride. The hydride stores the hydrogen completely safely! You could shoot the tank or take a chainsaw to the tanks and they won’t explode! This hydride material was classified by the US Government so it couldn’t be sold to the public because it was used in nuclear power plants! It’s not dangerous at all, this was just another scam to defraud the world of a form of free energy! This proves our government is a complete fraud and totally controlled by individuals who never want you to be able to power your home or car for free using safe hydrogen! This could be done right now!
DNA Is Code But Who Coded It? No, You're Not Robot Made Out of Meat
DNA Is Code But Who Coded It? No, You're Not a Robot Made Out of Meat
Is the software that runs life the result of accumulated copying errors? Or does it require a programmer?
This episode of Science Uprising examines how Microsoft founder Bill Gates, geneticist and entrepreneur Craig Venter, and even evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins all acknowledge that DNA is like software.
As Stephen Meyer says here, we know from having lived in and observed the world that “information always arises from an intelligent source.” Simply applying that knowledge to the biological information in DNA seems to command an inference to intelligent design.
“If our DNA code is more complex than any man-made software, where did it come from and how was that software created?
People featured in this episode include Stephen Meyer, PhD, Director of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute and author of Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design; and Douglas Axe, Maxwell Visiting Professor of Molecular Biology at Biola University and author of Undeniable.
The mysterious deaths of nine skier/hikers in the northern Ural Mountains of the former Soviet Union which have come to be known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident have been investigated, debated, covered up, exposed, re-investigated and blamed on everything from an avalanche to Yeti to military tests to aliens to forest spirits to anything and everything in-between. What is generally accepted is that the primary cause of their death was hypothermia … but why did they run out into the cold? A new video connects dots from other theories and comes up with a new one involving crazed deer.
“Morning February 1, 1959, about 10 hours. After the construction of the warehouse, a group of Igor Dyatlov came out along the road to the valley of the r. Lozva to walk along the river (according to the route developed by yourself) to the foot of Mount Otorten. Having reached the lowlands of the river, the group was forced to drastically change the route due to unknown circumstances (presumably due to the fact that it was impossible to pass the stretch of track in the lowlands).”
As you may have figured out, that’s a Google translation of the Russian introduction to the video uploaded to YouTube by Pohvistnevo-Inform. (Watch the video here.)
It combines real photos from Igor Dyatlov’s team with a narration to build its case for what the makers of the video believe happened after the hikers became trapped on Mount Holatchakhl.
“Someone on duty saw a rocket in the sky and took a picture, which many received the lighted part of the frame.”
The first dots connected are a photo of a bright light in the sky which is linked to an actual launch of a military R-5M rocket at the same time on the same date. According to a document identified as the RVSN Handbook “on which the chronological index of rocket launches for the period 1947-1959 is published,” that particular launch “ended in an accident.” However, the consequences were far worse for the hikers on the mountain, one of whom photographed what may have been the flash.
“Not far from the tent at that time, according to the testimony of witnesses, Anyamov deer grazed. Frightened deer rushed in the direction of Mount Holatchahl. When a herd of deer runs into a snowstorm with a visibility of 1-2 meters, they stumble upon a tent of tourists, who receive fatal injuries when a three hundred pound carcass of a deer falls.”
There you have it. The flash of an aborted military rocket launch spooked a nearby herd of deer, causing them to severely panic (one headline used the word ‘rabid’ but it appears they meant ‘crazed’) and run in the darkness directly into the tents containing the hikers — who sustained some of the serious and puzzling injuries later found on the corpses — who then panicked themselves and cut their way out of the tents, walking and stumbling confused and wounded into the frigid darkness.
Plausible? Yes. Have these dots ever been connected in this way and that theory been presented before? That’s possible. Has anyone ever produced a video proposing it? No, which is why we’re talking about it now. While that scenario could explain the start of their end, what happened next to the hikers?
“What happened next and how the tourists died (as a result of frostbite) is described in detail in the materials of the criminal case.”
That’s not exactly true. While it’s been generally accepted that there was no crime associated with the deaths, there’s still no general agreement on the causes for the many strange circumstances found at the site over time and through various investigations.
It’s an interesting video and theory. It’s still a few dots shy of a proof.
Senators are now jumping on the UFO Disclosure wagon!
Senators are now jumping on the UFO Disclosure wagon!
Three U.S. senators received a classified Pentagon briefing on Wednesday about UFOs and a series of reported encounters by the Navy with unidentified aircraft, according to congressional and government officials — part of a growing number of requests from members of key oversight committees writes New York Times and Politico.
“If naval pilots are running into unexplained interference in the air, that’s a safety concern Senator Warner believes we need to get to the bottom of,” his spokesperson, Rachel Cohen, said in a statement.
The interest in “unidentified aerial phenomenon” has grown since revelations in late 2017 that the Pentagon had set up a program to study the UFO phenomenon.
The Navy has played a prominent role in light of the testimony of F/A-18 pilots and other personnel operating with the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier battle group off California in 2004 - 'the now famous Nimitz incident with the so-called 'Tic Tac' and the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Atlantic in 2015 and 2016 where strange craft would appear in their training airspace and persist there not for minutes, but many hours, or even days at a time.
These objects persisted, showing up at 30,000 feet, 20,000 feet, even sea level. They could accelerate, slow down and then hit hypersonic speeds.
And according to a New York Times article published on May 26th, 2019, Navy pilot Graves said that one time he almost hit one of these objects which was like a translucent sphere encasing a cube when it right past the cockpit.
The growing congressional interest is credited for playing a major role in the service’s recent decision to update the procedures for pilots and other personnel to report such unexplained sightings, which Politico first reported in April.
“In response to requests for information from Congressional members and staff, Navy officials have provided a series of briefings by senior Naval Intelligence officials as well as aviators who reported hazards to aviation safety,” the service said in a statement to Politico at the time.
The Navy had no immediate comment on Wednesday, and few details of the latest secret sessions were available.
They come several days after President Donald Trump told ABC News (video) that he, too, had been briefed on the reports. “I did have one very brief meeting on it,” he said. “But people are saying they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly.”
Trump says he doesn't particularly believe in UFOs
“There are people coming out of the woodwork,” said one former government official who has participated in some of the meetings. A current intelligence official added: “More requests for briefings are coming in.”
The sessions have been organized by the Navy but have also included staff from the under secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the sources said. Both were not authorized to talk publicly about the briefings.
Bright Orbs captured over Alegre next Porto Alegre International Airport, Brazil
Bright Orbs captured over Alegre next Porto Alegre International Airport, Brazil
On June 9, 2019 observer Marcelo Torres captured two bright orbs near Porto Alegre International Airport, Brazil.
Observer Marcelo says that he witnessed a bright yellow orb that emitted a light, then a second orb appears. The second orb even emitted a brighter light than the first one.
He states that he has filmed the two orbs from a great distance pointing to the fact that these orb are really big. He rules out that it was drone.
Absolute Proof UFOs Over Kansas City, Gov Trys Cover Up, But Fails, June 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Absolute Proof UFOs Over Kansas City, Gov Trys Cover Up, But Fails, June 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 20, 2019
Location of sighting: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Thousands of eyewitness in Kansas City saw huge UFO orbs in the sky over the city two days ago. Even the local news recorded a few and posted to twitter what they had seen. This prompted DARPA to respond saying that they had released three lighter than air objects in the area. I believe since DARPA is a government agency that it is lying to the public and trying to cover up an actual UFO fleet over Kansas City. The US government will try anything and everything to cover up actual UFO sightings and here is 100% proof that they are doing it again here! There is no way that DARPA would ever be so incompetent and so irresponsible as to release giant balloons over the Kansas City airport. That would endangers dozens of flights with hundreds of passengers each. I know for a fact that DARPA would not do something so careless.
Watch this video below as passenger jets come dangerously close to these UFOs. Dozens of videos have been posted on Youtube of the sighting. Absolutely mind blowing evidence of intelligent aliens.
Scott C. Waring
KMBC
@kmbc
We've taken several calls in our newsroom about these two orbs spotted in the Kansas City sky tonight. This picture was taken near KCI Airport.
Items in the sky over KC are @Google@GoogleLoon Balloons. They are up above 70 kft but they are so large, that you can see them. @NWSKansasCity@kmbc#kswx#mowx
Orb Fleet In Sky Over Russia Amazes Eyewitnesss May 14, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Orb Fleet In Sky Over Russia Amazes Eyewitnesses May 14, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:May 14, 2019
Location: Russia
Youtube user Vasia has only six videos posted and only this one about UFOs, the others about life in his area. This makes me believe that although the clip is short, it is real.
The movement of the orbs which appear to almost have a flitter at times is exactly what I have seen in other orb reports from the past. The color, moment, size all fall into place. This...is a UFO fleet.
What happens is a single alfa orb comes down and starts spitting out smaller orbs at about one per 5 seconds. Each orb that exists moves out and then seems to wander for a few seconds before it gets its bering on things, then darts to a nearby cloud. Such orbs are watchers...they are programmed to record everything and anything they come close to. These orbs have a telepathic communication between each other and hear the focused thoughts of humans below. Absolutely amazing.
Beyond UFOs: What Are Navy Pilots Seeing in the Skies?
Beyond UFOs: What Are Navy Pilots Seeing in the Skies?
By Wes O’Donnell Managing Editor, InMilitary. Veteran, U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force.
Note: The opinions and comments stated in the following article and views expressed in any article or by any contributor to In Military, do not represent the views of American Military University, American Public University System, its management or employees.
In recent weeks, several U.S. Navy fighter pilots have come forward to disclose encounters they experienced with unidentified flying objects while performing training missions off the U.S. East Coast in 2014 and 2015.
Both events have their share of witnesses; from highly trained fighter pilots to crew members aboard the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Princeton and witnesses aboard an E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning and control aircraft.
These men and women represent some of the most credible observers of what the Navy is now calling Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs).
According to reporting by Tyler Rogoway of The Drive “The main revelation is that technology exists that is capable of performing flying maneuvers that shatter our perceptions of propulsion, flight controls, material science, and even physics.”
Nimitz Encounter Proved Exotic Technology Thought of as Science Fiction Actually Exists
Rogoway emphasizes that “the Nimitz encounter with the Tic Tac proved that exotic technology that is widely thought of as the domain of science fiction actually exists. It is real. It isn’t the result of altered perception, someone’s lucid dream, a stray weather balloon, or swamp gas. Someone or some thing has crossed the technological Rubicon and has obtained what some would call the Holy Grail of aerospace engineering.”
Note:The “tic tac” is the nomenclature that the Navy pilots assigned to the AAVs since they looked like the popular breath mint.
For its part, the U.S. Navy has recently changed the way it handles AAV reporting, providing an official channel for servicemembers to report unidentified craft incursions into U.S. airspace. First reported by Politico, the previously unreported PR move is in response to a series of sightings of unknown, highly advanced aircraft intruding on Navy strike groups and other sensitive military formations and facilities.
This is a huge pivot from previous Pentagon public information; it represents a significant first step at destigmatizing what military aviators have been witnessing for decades. After all, if near-peer level adversaries like Russia or China have made the technological leap to aircraft that seemingly defy the laws of physics – and violate sensitive U.S. airspace at will – the U.S. military should want to know about it.
However, the simplest solution is often the right one: Is it more likely that we are being visited by an extremely advanced alien race whose motivations we are ill-equipped to understand? Or are the UFOs ours?
Allow me to present the argument against alien visitors:
The Black Budget
First, the United States has been pouring tens of billions of dollars a year into the so-called black budget since at least 1947. That budget funds black projects that are classified top secret, not itemized, and are used for intelligence operations and super-secret advanced military technologies.
In fact, in March President Trump announced a record-breaking $86 billion for the black budget for the fiscal year starting October 1.
While I was in the U.S. Air Force in 2005, I had the opportunity to chat with a visiting employee from Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP). When I jokingly asked him what he was working on, not expecting a true response, he became very serious and said, “All I can tell you, Wes, is that Star Wars isn’t just a movie.”
Remembering this conversation years later still makes me giddy with excitement about our troops wielding lightsabers in combat. However, it is much more likely that he was referring to advances in aerospace engineering.
In an interview with Popular Mechanics, the late Skunk Works chief Ben Rich said, “There are some new programs, and there are certain things, some of them 20 or 30 years old, that are still breakthroughs and appropriate to keep quiet about [because] other people don’t have them yet.”
Disinformation Campaigns by the US Air Force and Pentagon
Next, the U.S. Air Force and the Pentagon have a long and storied history of performing disinformation campaigns, often using the deep pop culture roots of UFOs to hide advances in aerospace technology. When national security is on the line, it’s better to have the public believe they saw a UFO than disclose the newest breakthrough.
A report by the New York Times in 1997 shows that the CIA and the Air Force promoted UFOs to cover up sightings of their U2 and SR-71 spy planes.
The mysterious men in black, unknown individuals in suits who show up after credible UFO sightings, are none other than members of the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations. AFOSI is a cross between the CIA and the FBI; in fact, AFOSI was modeled after the FBI. The first commander of AFOSI was former FBI special agent Joseph Carroll. Among AFOSI’s unique mission is the security of technology and information, intelligence gathering and threat assessment, mitigation and elimination.
That makes sense because, in an open society like ours, where the government cannot easily control the flow of public information, disinformation is the only viable option to maintain a degree of secrecy. For its part, the AFOSI is an expert at controlling information.
An Ideal Testing Environment
Finally, it is crucial to note the parameters of the sightings by the Nimitz crew off Baja and more recently off the U.S. East Coast.
Both crews were operating in a sanitized training environment. The aircraft were not armed because no aircrews were expecting a fight and civilian traffic is largely diverted from active military ranges.
In addition, the Nimitz was fielding a massive new upgrade to an advanced radar system for the F/A-18 Super Hornet and also a new Cooperative Engagement Capability technology. That capability implemented datalink and sensor fusion technologies for the entire carrier group, which provided advanced fidelity in the radar picture.
Imagine taking radar and sensor data from all the ships and aircraft in a carrier group and combining it into a commanding real-time view of the battlefield. Such a massive upgraded system was being tested for the first time when the Nimitz had its first encounters with the now famous tic tac UFO.
It occurs to me that a sanitized training environment and an incredible new sensor upgrade create an ideal testing condition to see if our own team can spot top secret, undisclosed aircraft.
Some Questions Remain
If the unidentified craft are ours, why were they operating dangerously close to our fighters? The New York Times reports a near-miss, in which a pilot stated that an object appearing to be a sphere encased in a cube almost caused a mid-air collision:
He and other pilots interviewed said the near-miss angered the squadron and convinced them that the objects were not part of a classified drone program. Government officials would know fighter pilots were training in the area, the pilots reasoned, and would not send drones to get in the way.
The other issue is the physics-defying performance of the craft. No matter how good our team is at aerospace development, it’s unlikely we have found a way to break the laws of physics as we understand them. The New York Times report continues: “What was strange, the pilots said, was that the video showed objects accelerating to hypersonic speed, making sudden stops and instantaneous turns — something beyond the physical limits of a human crew.”
We also must ask ourselves if it is likely that the Russians or Chinese have made some astonishing breakthrough in aerospace engineering. According to an estimate by the Moscow-based Gaidar Institute, about 21% (3.2 trillion rubles) of the 2015 Russian federal budget was “black” (that is, not itemized). This represents a doubling of the budget from 2010.
No matter who is operating the craft, we are confronting an astonishing truth: Someone or some thing is operating aircraft that seem far more advanced than any known aerospace technology currently in existence; that they can penetrate U.S.-controlled airspace at will; and that there apparently is absolutely nothing we can do to stop them.
With the Navy’s new reporting guidelines, a hopeful first step has been taken to finally bring to bear the full might of the U.S. government’s investigative powers. If it is some top secret U.S. aerospace program, then congratulations are in order for such an incredible breakthrough. If it is an adversary, then the United States has a serious problem on its hands.
Regardless of the aircrafts’ source, I suspect that all the journalists covering this phenomenon will be receiving a visit from the men in black soon. Here’s hoping they go on the record.
Using a taxonomic approach, scientists have re-identified the huge birds drawn on the desert plains of Peru as hermits or pelicans.
The team’s ornithological analysis re-classified a previously identified hummingbird as a hermit.
Photo taken by Masaki Eda.
A scientific approach has been used to re-identify huge birds etched into the desert plains of southern Peru around 2,000 years ago. The birds appear to be exotic to the region and further studies could help explain their significance. The study is published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
The lines and geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa are located some 400 kilometers south of Lima, Peru and form a World Heritage Site covering an area of about 450 square kilometers. They were carved into the ground between 400 B.C.E and 1000 C.E. by pre-Inca people, and include lines, geometric designs, and animal and plant drawings. Most of these etchings are so large that they are best seen in aerial photographs. Identifying what they represent is an essential first step towards unraveling the mystery of why they were drawn in the first place.
Masaki Eda of The Hokkaido University Museum, Takeshi Yamasaki of Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, and Masato Sakai of Yamagata University in Japan applied an ornithological approach to identify the 16 bird geoglyphs among more than 2,000 drawings present in the area. “Until now, the birds in these drawings have been identified based on general impressions or a few morphological traits present in each figure. We closely noted the shapes and relative sizes of the birds’ beaks, heads, necks, bodies, wings, tails and feet and compared them with those of modern birds in Peru,” says Eda.
As a result of this approach, they re-classified a previously identified hummingbird (Geoglyph No. PV68A-CF1) as a hermit; and a guano bird (Geoglyph No. PV68A-GF3) and a previously unidentified bird (Geoglyph No. PV68-GF1) drawing as pelicans. Other bird drawings that are thought to be condors or flamingos did not have the essential characteristics to validate such identifications, but were too inconsistent with modern Peruvian birds to justify a new classification.
Due to its long and thin bill, short legs, three toes facing the same direction, and the long tail with an elongated middle section, the previously identified hummingbird (Geoglyph No. PV68A-CF1) is re-classified as a hermit. In Peru, long and pointed tails only occur in hermits whereas the tails of typical hummingbirds are forked or fan-shaped. (Eda M., Yamasaki T., Sakai M. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. June 20, 2019)
Although the identified birds do exist in Peru, they are found in other parts of the country than where the drawings were made. Hermits, for example, are found in the forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes and in the north near Ecuador. Pelicans live along the coast.
“The Nasca people who drew the images could have seen pelicans while food-gathering on the coast. Our findings show that they drew exotic birds, not local birds, and this could be a clue as to why they drew them in the first place,” explains Eda.
Further comparisons with birds drawn around the same time on pottery and of bird remains excavated from Nasca ruins could help identify more of the birds depicted in the geoglyphs, the researchers say.
Masaki Eda of The Hokkaido University Museum
Original article:
Eda M., Yamasaki T., Sakai M. Identifying the bird figures of the Nasca pampas: An ornithological perspective. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. June 20, 2019.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101875
Funding information:
This study was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Comparative Studies of Ancient American Civilizations” (26101004).
MYSTERIEUZE GEOGLIEFEN VAN VOGELS IN PERU OPNIEUW GECLASSIFICEERD
MYSTERIEUZE GEOGLIEFEN VAN VOGELS IN PERU OPNIEUW GECLASSIFICEERD
Vivian Lammerse
Een eerder benoemde kolibrie blijkt nu een lijster te zijn…
Tussen 400 en 1000 jaar voor Christus tekenden mensen uit de pre-inca beschaving reusachtige lijnen, figuren en tekeningen van dieren en planten op de grond: de zogenoemde Nazcalijnen. De lijnen en geogliefen zijn te vinden op de woestijnvlaktes in het zuiden van Peru. Waarom deze afbeeldingen in het zand werden gezet, is tot op de dag van vandaag een raadsel. Maar nu doen onderzoekers in een nieuwe studie een poging om het antwoord dichterbij te brengen.
Meer over de Nazcalijnen In het woestijnzand van de hoogvlakte van Peru zijn tientallen figuren van dieren, honderden geometrische vormen en duizenden lijnen terug te vinden. Vermoedelijk zijn deze zo’n 2000 jaar geleden aangebracht door Nazca- en Paraca-indianen. De Nazcalijnen zijn wereldberoemd en staan bovendien op de Werelderfgoedlijst. De lijnen en figuren beslaan een gebied met een oppervlakte van ongeveer 450 vierkante kilometer. De meeste van deze tekeningen zijn zo groot, dat ze het beste te zien zijn vanuit de lucht.
Mysterie Onder de vele figuren die in het zand zijn getekend, bevinden zich ook veel vogels. En daar waren de onderzoekers het meest in geïnteresseerd. Het begrijpen wat deze vogels precies voorstellen is namelijk essentieel om het mysterie van de Nazcalijnen te ontrafelen. Uiteindelijk hopen onderzoekers antwoord te krijgen op die ene vraag: waarom werden de figuren getekend?
Vogels In de studie namen de onderzoekers zestien geogliefen van vogels onder de loep. “Tot nu toe zijn deze tekeningen geïdentificeerd op basis van algemene indrukken of een paar morfologische eigenschappen in elk figuur,” zegt onderzoeker Masaki Eda. Maar dat is volgens de onderzoeker toch echt te gering. “Wij hebben de vormen en maten van de snavels, koppen, halzen, lichamen, vleugels, staarten en voeten vergeleken met die van moderne vogels in Peru.”
Vanwege de lange en dunne snavel, korte benen, drie tenen in dezelfde richting en de lange staart met een langwerpig middengedeelte, wordt de eerder benoemde kolibrie opnieuw geclassificeerd als een lijster.
Afbeelding: Eda M., Yamasaki T., Sakai M. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. June 20, 2019.
Herzien Op die manier lukte het de onderzoekers om een beter beeld te krijgen van de vogels en een aantal ervan opnieuw te classificeren. Zo is een eerder geïdentificeerde kolibrie nu als lijster aangemerkt en een voorheen onbekende vogel benoemd tot pelikaan. Helaas lukte het niet om alle vogels onder te brengen. Zo blijkt dat tekeningen van mogelijke condors of flamingo’s niet voldoen aan de essentiële kenmerken. Maar de tekeningen verschilden teveel met moderne Peruaanse vogels om ze een nieuwe naam te geven.
Aanwijzing Hoewel de opnieuw geïdentificeerde vogels wel in Peru voorkomen, leven ze niet op de plekken waar de tekeningen zijn gemaakt. Zo worden lijsters bijvoorbeeld aangetroffen in bossen op de oostelijke hellingen van de Andes en in het noorden bij de grens met Ecuador, en leven Pelikanen langs de kust. De vraag is dus of de mensen die de figuren hebben getekend zich daadwerkelijk door echte vogels hebben laten inspireren. “Het zou mogelijk zijn dat de mensen die de tekeningen hebben gemaakt tijdens het verzamelen van voedsel aan de kust, pelikanen hebben gezien,” betoogt Eda. “Onze bevindingen tonen aan dat ze exotische vogels hebben afgebeeld, geen lokale vogels. En dit kan een aanwijzing zijn waarom ze de tekeningen maakten.”
Op dit moment blijft het mysterie dus nog onopgelost. Maar wellicht komen we stapje voor stapje dichterbij. Zo zijn soortgelijke vogels teruggevonden op aardewerk en ook in ruïnes van Naszca zijn vogelresten opgegraven. Deze vondsten zouden kunnen helpen bij het identificeren van meer geogliefen waar vogels op staan afgebeeld.
De Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter heeft een nogal opvallende foto afgeleverd. Zo kwam de ruimtesonde met onderstaande afbeelding van het oppervlak van Mars op de proppen. En inderdaad, je hebt er niet eens zo heel veel verbeelding voor nodig om er het logo van Starfleet uit Star Trek in te herkennen! Volgens NASA is het echter puur toeval.
Duinen De merkwaardige vorm dook op in het zuidoosten van de Hellas Planitia op de rode planeet. Volgens onderzoekers zou het ontstaan zijn door een wisselwerking tussen duinen, lava en zand. Zo waren er lang geleden halvemaanvormige duinen, die door het gebied bewogen. Een eruptie zorgde voor lava dat langs – maar niet over – de duinen stroomde. Nadat de lava stolde, staken de duinen er bovenuit als eilandjes. Uiteindelijk werd het zand door de wind weggeblazen, waardoor de bijzondere afdrukken in de lavavlakte zijn achtergebleven.
NASA Maar voor wie fan is van Star Trek, is de echte reden voor de opvallende duin-formatie natuurlijk maar bijzaak. Ook NASA grapt in een Tweet over de gelijkenissen met het logo van Starfleet en gooit er ook nog wat woordgrapjes over de Star Trek schepen Enterprise en Discovery in.
Brein Toch is het zien van het Star Trek-logo slechts een illusie. Een psychisch verschijnsel, dat ook wel pareidolie wordt genoemd. Ons brein is namelijk sterk geneigd om verbanden te leggen en patronen te zien. Dat komt vooral goed van pas bij het herkennen van vormen die op eventueel gevaar kunnen wijzen, zoals bijvoorbeeld het silhouet van een roofdier. Soms loopt ons brein echter een beetje te hard van stapel en ziet het verbanden of patronen die er niet zijn. Zo zien sommige mensen allerlei dieren in wolken, een gezichtje in de maan, of natuurlijk een Star Trek-logo op het oppervlak van Mars.
Het is trouwens niet voor het eerst dat er bekende figuren op de rode planeet worden gespot. Vorig jaar zag NASA bijvoorbeeld ook al de muppet Beaker op Mars voorbijkomen. En nee, ook deze is helaas niet door marsmannetjes in het zand getekend.
Bronmateriaal:
"Dune Footprints in Hellas" - University of Arizona Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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