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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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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...
26-06-2019
Why Have There Been So Many UFO Sightings Near Nuclear Facilities?
Why Have There Been So Many UFO Sightings Near Nuclear Facilities?
It started in the 1940s, near A-bomb development sites. More recently, something has been stalking nuclear carrier strike groups.
Why are so many UFOs being reported near nuclear facilities—and why isn’t there more urgency on the part of the government to assess their potential national-security threat?
Those are questions being asked by a team of high-ranking former U.S. defense and intelligence officials, aerospace-industry veterans, academics and others associated with To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science. The team has been investigating a wide range of these sightings—and advocating more serious government attention.
Their investigations are the subject of HISTORY’s limited series “Unidentified.”
Throughout history, unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs) have shocked, frightened and fascinated sky watchers. And in the last century, more than a few have been reported in military contexts. In late World War II, U.S. airmen called them “foo fighters”: strange orange flying lights by the French-German border. During the Korean War, some soldiers claimed a blue-green light emitting “pulsing rays” made their whole battalion sick with what, to some, resembled radiation poisoning.
Less known: In the last 75 years, high-ranking U.S. military and intelligence personnel have also reported UAPs near sites associated with nuclear power, weaponry and technology—from the early atomic-bomb development and test sites to active nuclear naval fleets.
The UFO-nuclear connection began at the dawn of the atomic age.
Nuclear-adjacent sightings go back decades, says Robert Hastings, a UFO researcher and author of the book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites. Hastings says he’s interviewed more than 160 veterans who have witnessed strange things in the skies around nuclear sites.
“You have objects being tracked on radar performing at speeds that no object on earth can perform,” Hastings says. “You have eyewitness [military] personnel. You have jet pilots.” Witnesses to these incidents are often highly trained personnel with top security clearances. In recent years, their reports are being corroborated by sophisticated technology.
In late 1948, “green fireballs” were reported in the skies near atomic laboratories in Los Alamos and Sandia, New Mexico, where the atomic bomb was first developed and tested. A declassified FBI document from 1950 mentions “flying saucers” measuring almost 50 feet in diameter near the Los Alamos labs. And Knapp has interviewed more than a dozen workers from the Nevada desert atomic test site, where scores of A-bombs were detonated in the post-WWII years. He says they told him UFO activity was so commonplace there, employees were assigned to monitor the activity.
In the 1960s and ’70s, repeated UFO sightings emerged at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, a storage site for nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). At one such alleged sighting in 1967, former Air Force Capt. Robert Salas says several of those missiles became inoperative at the same time base security reported seeing a glowing red object, about 30 feet in diameter, hovering over the facility. Salas, who commanded ICBMs as a launch officer and later worked in the aerospace industry and at the Federal Aviation Administration, told CNN the “missiles began going into what's called a ‘no-go condition,’ or unlaunchable.”
Observers can only speculate about the origin of these unexplained phenomena. But the repeated proximity to sensitive defense sites connected to our nation’s most powerful weapons has raised the question of whether they might originate from adversaries—known or unknown.
In late December 1980, air-traffic controllers encountered something alarming near Royal Air Force Bentwaters in England. Used by the U.S. Air Force as a European foothold during the Cold War, Bentwaters housed a secret stash of nuclear weapons in 25 fortified underground bunkers.
“We looked up on the radar scope and saw something…not like anything I’d seen before,” Ivan Barker, a U.S. Air Force air-traffic controller working that night, told HISTORY.com.
Barker, a master sergeant who was second in charge at the facility, says he was an 18-year veteran at that point and knew “about every aircraft in the U.S., NATO and the Soviet bloc.” This object, he says, shocked him and his two colleagues that night with its remarkable speed and maneuverability. On radar, it covered 120 miles in a matter of seconds, he said: “It had to be moving Mach 5, 6, 7 or 8—faster than anything other than possibly a missile.”
As he looked up from the radar to view it directly, the craft moved into close range, slowed and then stopped over the base’s water tower: “Like a helicopter hovering, except with a helicopter you get movement up and down. This was stationary. It was between about 1,500 and 2,000 feet high. The thing was…at least a city block…in diameter.”
Barker says it was shaped like a giant basketball, with portholes around the center, from which lights were emanating outward. “I was shocked… There was nothing aerodynamic about it. Basketballs don’t fly.”
It stopped over the water tower for only a few seconds, he said, before reversing course and speeding back the way it came in: “It was like—swish!—it’s gone.”
Barker didn’t report the sighting to his superiors. “You don’t understand what the Air Force did to people who reported UFOs,” he says.
Barker’s story dovetails with that of Col. Charles Halt, Bentwaters’ deputy commander at the time. Halt led a patrol that night to investigate strange colorful lights seen descending into nearby Rendlesham Forest. Halt described to Elizondo what he saw from inside the forest: a red light moving horizontally though the trees, "obviously under some kind of intelligent control.” A laser-like beam, he said, “landed 10-15 feet away from us. I was literally in shock.”
Then the beam’s source quickly left, flying north toward the base, says Halt, who audiotaped the incident at the time. “We could hear chatter on the radios that the beams went down into the weapons storage area.”
Later, his commander played the audio for a general, who dismissed the need for further investigation. They were loath to get involved, says Halt.
In recent years, sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena have emerged from America’s nuclear navy.
F-18 fighter pilots from the nuclear-powered USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group saw UAPs almost daily for several months between the summer of 2014 and the spring of 2015 while executing training maneuvers along the Eastern seaboard between Virginia and Florida, witnesses told Elizondo.
“Wherever we were, they were there,” says Ryan Graves, an active-duty F-18 fighter pilot from the USS Roosevelt, who holds a degree in aerospace engineering.
The objects appeared in three shapes, Graves says—some were discs, others looked like a cube inside a sphere, while smaller round objects flew together in formation. All lacked visible engines or exhaust systems. Some tilted, mid-flight, like spinning tops, as seen on an infrared video released by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2017. Graves and another F-18 pilot, Danny Accoin, confirm that video, along with one other released by the government, had been shot by their fellow Roosevelt pilots while in the air.
One UAP, Grave says, almost caused a terrifying collision by zipping dangerously between two planes. An aviation flight-safety report was filed, he says, but never investigated.
Graves says the unidentified objects reappeared once the Roosevelt had deployed to its mission in the Persian Gulf.
“It’s hard to find a prosaic explanation for a carrier battle group being shadowed by unidentified aircraft all the way across the Atlantic, to an area of operations overseas in the Middle East,” says Chris Mellon, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, who now serves as an integral part of the To The Stars team. “It makes an extremely compelling case for the existence of technologies we didn’t think were possible.”
Leon Golub, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told The New York Times there may indeed be several “low-probability” prosaic explanations for the Roosevelt sightings. They include “bugs in the [radar’s] code for the imaging and display systems, atmospheric effects and reflections [and] neurological overload from multiple inputs during high-speed flight.”
Still, the Roosevelt reports echo those made by Navy pilots undergoing training exercises on the other side of the country. In November 2004 pilots and radar operators from the USS Nimitz carrier fleet saw a 40-foot long tic-tac shaped object flying just above the ocean while flying 100 miles off the coast of California near San Diego. When F-18 fighter jets were scrambled to approach the object, it accelerated, easily outrunning the supersonic Navy craft.
Whereas earlier reports were career-killers for military personnel, there is an increasing openness in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill to taking these sightings seriously as potential threats. In April 2019, the U.S. Navy announced that it was updating its guidelines for how pilots and personnel should report unexplained aerial phenomena—making it easier for military members to report sightings to superiors without facing professional stigma and backlash. And Congress, beginning with former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, has taken more interest in being briefed.
George Knapp says that’s more activity than he has seen in three decades. He, and many others, think it’s overdue.
“At the facilities where we were first designing and building nuclear weapons…at the places where we were processing the fuel…at the facilities where we were testing the weapons…at the bases where we deployed those weapons, on the ships…the nuclear submarines… All those places, all the people working there have seen these things,” Knapp says.
“Are they all crazy?” he continued. “Because if they are, they shouldn't have their hands on nuclear weapons.”
Heel erg oud dus. Bob Lazar doet in dit filmpje onthullingen over buitenaards schip dat deel uitmaakte van archeologische opgraving
Heel erg oud dus. Bob Lazar doet in dit filmpje onthullingen over buitenaards schip dat deel uitmaakte van archeologische opgraving
Natuurkundige Bob Lazar werkte lange tijd in het Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Daarnaast was hij betrokken bij reverse engineering van buitenaardse technologie op een locatie die S-4 wordt genoemd, en die zich in de buurt van Area 51 bevindt.
In gesprek met Joe Rogan vertelde Bob dat hij aan buitenaardse vaartuigen werkte.
Soms was het team van Bob genoodzaakt een project te staken omdat de technologie waar ze mee werden geconfronteerd te geavanceerd was.
Archeologische opgraving
Het beheer van deze objecten is volgens hem in handen van particuliere ondernemingen.
Hij vermoedt dat de Amerikaanse overheid ook vandaag de dag nog ergens UFO’s heeft staan.
Bob weet niet precies waar deze vaartuigen vandaan komen, maar zegt zich te herinneren dat tenminste één van de objecten deel uitmaakte van een archeologische opgraving.
Heel oud
Dat zou betekenen dat de UFO heel lang geleden op aarde moet zijn gecrasht.
“Heel erg oud dus,” zei Bob tegen Rogan.
Niets
“Ik weet niet of dat het object was waar ik aan heb gewerkt, maar ik herinner me dat het iets te maken had met een archeologische opgraving,” vervolgde hij.
“Waarom hebben we hier nooit iets over gehoord?” vroeg hij.
Waarom worden er zoveel UFO’s waargenomen in de buurt van nucleaire installaties? Het leger staat voor een raadsel
Waarom worden er zoveel UFO’s waargenomen in de buurt van nucleaire installaties? Het leger staat voor een raadsel
Waarom worden er zoveel UFO’s gezien bij nucleaire installaties? Ze worden al vele decennia waargenomen: in de Tweede Wereldoorlog zagen Amerikaanse piloten al vreemde, oranjekleurige bollen in de lucht boven de Frans-Duitse grens.
Tijdens de Koreaanse Oorlog zagen soldaten blauwgroene lichten waar stralen uit kwamen die hun hele bataljon ziek maakten.
Ook bij installaties waar werd gewerkt aan atoombommen of waar kernraketten lagen opgeslagen, worden vaak UFO’s gezien.
Sneller
“Boven alle Amerikaanse nucleaire installaties – Los Alamos, Livermore, Sandia, Savannah River – zijn onbekende vaartuigen verschenen en niemand wist waar ze vandaan kwamen of wat ze aan het doen waren,” zei onderzoeksjournalist George Knapp, die hier al ruim 30 jaar onderzoek naar doet.
UFO-onderzoeker en schrijver Robert Hastings heeft meer dan 160 veteranen geïnterviewd die vreemde objecten hebben gezien in de lucht boven kerninstallaties.
“Er werden objecten gevolgd op de radar die sneller gingen dan welk object dan ook op aarde,” zei Hastings.
Vliegende schotels
Eind 1948 werden ‘groene vuurballen’ gemeld bij installaties in Los Alamos en Sandia, waar de atoombom werd ontwikkeld en getest.
Een vrijgegeven FBI-document uit 1950 verhaalt over ‘vliegende schotels’ met een doorsnee van tientallen meters nabij de laboratoria van Los Alamos.
Knapp interviewde medewerkers die zeiden dat er zoveel UFO’s werden waargenomen op plekken waar atoombommen werden getest, dat er speciale teams waren die ze in de gaten moesten houden.
Buiten werking
In de jaren zestig en zeventig werden er meerdere UFO’s gezien boven Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, waar kernraketten lagen opgeslagen.
In 1967 werden meerdere van deze raketten buiten werking gesteld terwijl er een rood object boven de basis verscheen.
Het was op dat moment onmogelijk om de raketten te lanceren.
You find your friend passed out on the ground. As you conduct that internal debate about giving him mouth-to-mouth, you search for other signs he’s alive. Breathing is always a good one; belching is better. And if your friend is belching methane, it doesn’t mean he’s alive after downing too many flaming drinks … he’s quite possibly a planet. Well, that’s what NASA scientists are saying (kind of) after the Mars Curiosity rover was checking on the planet’s breathing and found it’s belching a huge, record-breaking amount of methane into the atmosphere – the best indication so far that something is or was alive on the Red Planet.
“With our current measurements, we have no way of telling if the methane source is biology or geology, or even ancient or modern.”
That hissing sound is the methane leaking out of the celebration balloons for the “What is the Life on Mars?” reveal party. Paul Mahaffy of NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center in Maryland is the Principal Investigator on the rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) tunable laser spectrometer which has been sniffing for methane – and finding it – since it was dropped on Mars. Mahaffy, in NASA’s latest statement, is trying not to get too excited about the latest methane belch found — about 21 parts per billion units by volume (ppbv) – even though it’s more than 30 times above normal (about 0.24 ppbv to 0.65 ppbv) and three times the highest level ever detected (around 6 or 7 ppbv in 2013 and 2014).
“Combining observations from the surface and from orbit could help scientists locate sources of the gas on the planet and understand how long it lasts in the Martian atmosphere. That might explain why the Trace Gas Orbiter’s and Curiosity’s methane observations have been so different.”
In April 2019, the ESA’s Mars Express orbiter finally confirmed that June 2013 surge detected on the ground by Curiosity, but it’s been a mystery to scientists why it doesn’t detect them all. One possibility is that methane belched out of the planet is broken down before it reaches an altitude where it can be detected by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). Wouldn’t it be nice if that happened to all belches and other noxious emissions from Earth life forms? (You know who you are!)
NASA is extending Curiosity’s deployment on Teal Ridge in the Gale Crater on the chance that one big methane belch might be a sign of more to come, and those belches are a good sign of a biological cause rather than geological, which is the cause of atmospheric or surface methane.
Belches are a sign of life. Remember to mention that the next time someone complains about one of yours.
Living Donut Shaped Creatures Zoom Around Soyz At Space Station, Dec 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Living Donut Shaped Creatures Zoom Around Soyuz At Space Station, Dec 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:December 2015
Location of sighting: Space station
This was taken several years ago, but I have never seen it before and I think that these donut objects are actually alive. Just like plankton can live in space, so can these little critters. Intelligent or not, they are there, surviving in a place that we thought was impossible to thrive in. These donut shaped objects are the same objects seen long ago during the tether incident where they broke a long tether that was miles long by flying through it. They are powerful without a doubt, but are they intelligent? Only time will tell. They seem curious about the Soyus, but most forest animals display curiosity. This is really and extraordinary video made by Youtube user Of Sound Mind And Body. Incredible evidence that humans too often underestimate the powers of nature.
Angelic UFO Size Of Jupiter Exits Our Sun On NASA Image! June 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Angelic UFO Size Of Jupiter Exits Our Sun On NASA Image! June 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
I found this angelic UFO exiting our sun this week. The UFO came out right after a giant explosion happened. The UFO itself is huge compared to our sun. The angelic UFO is close to the size of Jupiter. This has to be one of the largest UFOs ever recorded exiting our sun. It moves really fast, because just a few minutes later, the photo of the same area shows it no longer there. Nothing that big could move that fast unless it has the ability to travel at light speed. Thats my friends, is an alien craft. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
'Look at that thing. It's rotating': Navy releases incredible footage of UFO tearing through the sky in video captured by pilots flying off the coast of Jacksonville
'Look at that thing. It's rotating': Navy releases incredible footage of UFO tearing through the sky in video captured by pilots flying off the coast of Jacksonville
Footage captured by pilots in 2015 has just been released by the Navy
The video's release comes less than a week since three US senators were briefed by the Pentagon about recent reports of UFO sightings by Navy pilots
President Trump revealed earlier in June he'd been briefed on the recent rise in in pilots reporting unidentified aircraft
While discussing the reports with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Trump said he didn't 'particularly' believe that the sightings were alien
'There's a whole fleet of them,' said a veteran Navy pilot while witnessing a UFO in newly released video from a military training mission.
The footage, filmed in 2015 by pilots off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, is the first glimpse of this particular mission after the program behind it was declassified.
The pilot can also be heard exclaiming, 'look at that thing, it's rotating.'
The footage, filmed in 2015 by pilots off the coast of Jacksonville, is the first glimpse of this particular mission after the program behind it was declassified
The video's release comes less than a week after three US senators were reportedly briefed by the Pentagon about recent reports of UFO sightings by Navy pilots
The video's release comes less than a week after three US senators were reportedly briefed by the Pentagon about recent reports of UFO sightings by Navy pilots.
One of those senators was Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose spokesperson said: '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,' Politico reported.
The briefing was delivered by the Navy and included staff from the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, it was also reported.
It is understood that such briefings have been on the rise since it was revealed that the Pentagon's secretive Aerospace Threat Identification Program continues to investigate reported sightings of unknown aircraft.
One of the senators briefed was Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose spokesperson said: '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'
Members of Congress and their staffers of the Armed Service and Defense Appropriations committees were also briefed, with more meetings expected to follow.
Ed Booth, an aviation expert for News4Jax, studied the newly released footage and said Navy pilots are highly trained to report these sightings.
'What this object is that shows up in this video remains to be seen,' Booth said. 'It's very interesting. It's certainly moving in ways atmospheric aircraft are not capable of moving.'
He added that seeing more pictures, or even wreckage, would shed more light on what the pilots saw.
Trump told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos (right) that he has been briefed on UFO sightings, but is not particularly convinced that they are alien
President Trump, while discussing the UFO reports with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on June 16 said he had been briefed on the recent rise in U.S. Navy pilots reporting unidentified aircraft.
Stephanopoulos pressed the president, asking what Trump made of it.
'I think it's probably - I want them to think whatever they think. They do say, and I've seen, and I've read, and I've heard. And I did have one very brief meeting on it. But people are saying they're seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly,' he said.
Asked if he thought he would know if extraterrestrial life had been confirmed, president replied, 'Well, I think my great pilots would know. Our great pilots would know.'
'I did have one very brief meeting on it. But people are saying they're seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particular,' Trump said
'They see things a little bit different from the past. So we're going to see. We're watching, and you'll be the first to know,' he told Stephanopolous.
The video's release comes as Navy pilots are reporting more and more sightings of anomalous aircraft that appear to defy the laws of physics, prompting the service to roll out new guidelines last month to log sightings - though none of the information will be made public.
A Navy spokesman told The Washington Post that the reporting on UFOs would fall under 'privileged and classified information' so that military aviation safety organizations can 'preserve the free and honest prioritization and discussion of safety among aircrew.'
Between the summer of 2014 and March 2015 these unexplained objects were spotted almost every day over the skies off the US coast
'For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the Air Force takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report,' the Navy said in a statement
The new guidelines are a response to unknown, advanced aircraft flying into or near Navy strike groups or other sensitive military facilities and formations, the Navy said.
The Navy made it easier for sailors to report UFO sightings amid fears that the mysterious unidentified flying objects could actually be 'extremely advanced Russian aircraft.'
'There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years,' a spokesperson for the Navy told Politico.
The statement continued: 'For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the US Air Force takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report'.
In recent years, there has been a need for a more formalized process of recording UFO sightings which greatly increased after World War II.
In 2017 the service said it had run a secret UFO office and spent $22 million over five years to study 'anomalous aerospace' threats.'
An Operations Specialist Seaman stands a lookout on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in a file photo. The Navy has issued new guidelines for reporting UFO sightings
But for now, the data 'remains strictly within classified channels,' said Luis Elizondo, an intelligence officer who ran the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which officially ended in 2012, according to The Post.
The Navy has pledged to update and reform their current policies for how reports of 'suspected incursions' are made to the correct authorities.
However, the Navy's new policy does not mean they believe their sailors have actually encountered alien spacecraft, but rather they believe the reported sightings shouldn't be instantly dismissed and are worthy of further investigation.
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.
In most maps of the solar system, you can expect to see the eight canonical planets (plus whatever Pluto is at the moment) trailing the fiery orange sun like polite little ducklings in a row. In biologist Eleanor Lutz's new map of the solar system, which shows the precise orbital paths of more than 18,000 near celestial objects, you'll be lucky if you can even find Mars.
Lutz is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington who spends her evenings turning public data sets into hyperdetailed works of art. In her new project, called the Atlas of Space, she's borrowed more than a decade of data compiled by the likes of NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey and other science organizations to create some of the most accurate maps of the solar system that will fit on your bedroom wall.
The map shown here, which Lutz posted to her website on June 10, was created from orbital data taken from a dozen different public databases. Going above and beyond most textbook space maps, this guide to the cosmos shows the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune in gorgeous, chaotic detail.
"This map shows each asteroid at its exact position on New Years' Eve 1999," Lutz wrote on her site. "This includes everything we know of that's over 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter — about 10,000 asteroids — as well as 8,000 randomized objects of unknown size."
Eleanor Lutz's topographic map of Mercury almost makes the hot little planet look worth visiting.
(Image credit: Eleanor Lutz/TabletopWhale.com)
This is our solar system in macro. Over the coming weeks, Lutz also plans to share some more intimate views of Earth's nearest cosmic neighbors, including topographic maps of Mercury and Venus. While these lovely maps may not take you to another world, they'll probably blow your mind a little bit.
Want a taste? Take a look at the Kuiper Belt (the outermost ring of green asteroids) on the bottom of the map.
"You might notice that Pluto is shown inside Neptune's orbit," Lutz wrote. "It turns out that about 10% of the time, Pluto is actually closer to the sun than Neptune."
Robert Friend, a decorated fighter pilot who flew 142 combat missions with the fabled Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, then became an expert on missile systems and directed Project Blue Book, the classified Air Force investigation into unidentified flying objects, died June 21 at a hospital in Long Beach, Calif. He was 99.
The cause was sepsis, said his daughter Karen Crumlich.
Col. Friend was one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, who took to the skies in World War II as the first African American military aviators. The roughly 1,000 black pilots who were trained in the program flew 15,000 combat sorties, destroyed 260 enemy aircraft and received 150 decorations of the Flying Cross and Legion of Merit, fighting the Nazi Luftwaffe while striking a blow against racism back home.
The unit’s success was widely credited with paving the way for the integration of the military after World War II, and in 2007 Col. Friend and his comrades were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, recognized for their “unique military record that inspired revolutionary reform in the Armed Forces.”
Only 11 Tuskegee Airmen who flew combat missions in the Mediterranean survive, in addition to an unknown number of maintenance and support staff — women as well as men, including Native Americans, Latinos and other people of color — according to the veterans organization Tuskegee Airmen Inc.
Col. Friend with his first wife, Doris “Bunny” Goodwin.
(Courtesy Friend family)
The son of an Ecuadoran immigrant who served in the Army during World War I, Col. Friend flew a P-47 before taking the controls of a P-51 Mustang, a single-seat fighter that he nicknamed Bunny, for his girlfriend and future wife, and decorated with the distinctive red rudder, nose and wing tips that identified many of the Tuskegee Airmen’s planes.
Frequently assigned to protect “Flying Fortress” bombers, Col. Friend served as a wingman for Tuskegee commander Benjamin O. Davis — who later became the first black general in the Air Force — and received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions on Oct. 6, 1944, when he strafed airfields in German-occupied Greece.
In a 28-year military career, he went on to serve as an operations officer in the Korean and Vietnam wars; worked on the Titan, Atlas and Delta rocket programs; and from 1958 to 1963 oversaw Project Blue Book, which collected and analyzed more than 12,000 reports of flying saucers and other mysterious airborne objects.
Col. Friend later said that he believed “the probability of there being life elsewhere in this big cosmos is just absolutely out of this world,” telling HuffPost in 2012, “I think the probability is there.” During his tenure, he said, he twice recommended that a federal agency outside of the military take on the study of UFOs.
Begun in 1952, Project Blue Book was shut down in 1969 and later declassified by the Air Force, which said that the program failed to uncover “any technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge,” or to find any evidence of “extraterrestrial vehicles.”
Col. Friend flew 142 combat missions during World War II.
(Courtesy Friend family)
Clouds, birds, jet planes and “swamp gas” were credited with spurring many of the unusual sightings, although 701 incidents remain unexplained. The program gained renewed attention in 2017, after the New York Times disclosed the existence of a secret new UFO program — the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program — and inspired a popular History television series, “Project Blue Book,” which premiered in January.
Although Col. Friend occasionally discussed Project Blue Book in interviews, he was far better known for his record as a Tuskegee Airman, notably for a two-week stretch when he twice averted disaster.
Striking an oil barge in Germany on Dec. 14, 1944, he unleashed a barrage of 50-caliber bullets that triggered an enormous, mushroom-shaped explosion, nearly taking down his aircraft. “The flame completely engulfed the diving ship,” the Pittsburgh Courier reported at the time. “Friend said it was sort of like being in hell. He managed to pull his ship out at the last moment.”
Days later, he faced bad weather and mechanical difficulties while flying over Italy. Disoriented in the darkness, praying to avoid crashing into a mountain or ejecting over the water, he took his chances and bailed out — and recalled in a 2006 lecture that he found himself parachuting toward a mountain.
“I hit the side of the mountain, slid down to the ground and saw a woman running to me with a knife in her hand,” he said, according to a Washington Post report. An alarmed Col. Friend soon found that she was no Nazi sympathizer. In an act of wartime desperation, he said, she simply “wanted the silk from my parachute.”
The oldest of four children, Robert Jones Friend was born in Columbia, S.C., on Feb. 29, 1920, and raised in New York City, where he developed an interest in aviation while watching Zeppelin airships and building model planes.
He studied at Lincoln University, a historically black school in Oxford, Pa., and received a private pilot’s license before applying in 1942 to enter the newly formed African American aviation program, part of the Army Air Forces and based at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Col. Friend served with the 332nd Fighter Group in Europe, receiving honors including the Bronze Star Medal and the Air Medal. He later studied astrophysics at the Air Force Institute of Technology and business at UCLA.
After retiring from the Air Force in 1971, he worked as a consultant on the development of missile systems and space-station components, and competed in national bridge tournaments near his home in Irvine, Calif.
His marriages to Doris “Bunny” Goodwin and Kathryn Ann Holland ended in divorce, and his wife of more than 50 years, the former Anna Rice, died in 2010. Col. Friend is also predeceased by a son, Darryl Friend, from his second marriage.
Survivors include two children from his first marriage, Thelma Hoffman and Robert Friend Jr.; three children from his second, Michael Friend, Debra Carter and Dana Friend; a daughter from his third marriage, Karen Crumlich; an adopted daughter, Clara Ann Browning, from Rice’s previous marriage; 18 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; and 14 great-great-grandchildren.
Into his 90s, Col. Friend appeared at 20 to 30 speaking engagements each year, answering questions about the Tuskegee Airmen at schools, community centers and the Palm Springs Air Museum in California, where he sometimes greeted visitors while sitting in front of a restored P-51 decorated to look like his old plane, Bunny.
He had encountered racism during the war, he told the Palm Springs Desert Sun, including moments when he felt less than welcome by white comrades who refused to bunk with him in Sicily. But he said he viewed himself less as a racial path breaker than as a pilot, telling the newspaper: “I never felt that I was anything but an American doing a job.”
Correction: An earlier version of this obituary incorrectly reported the maiden name of Robert Friend’s first wife. She was Doris Goodwin, not Doris Hall. The story has been revised.
Back in February 2019, two UFOs were reported in writing by the airport staff at Jorge Cavez International Airport near Lima, including the ground crews for two planes that had been on the runway and personnel in the control tower. At the time, this was part of a series of both confirmed and unconfirmed but leaked reports of UFOs at or near the Jorge Cavez airport. Now, nearly four months later, the Peruvian Air Force has confirmed the February 27 sightings to CNN Espanol. Has Peru beaten the U.S. to the UFO disclosure punch?
“The occurrence that you refer to -in fact- existed and for this it is necessary to point out that at that time air operations, both civil and military, were never at risk because of the location and location.”
CNN Espanol quotes major general of the Peruvian Aérwa Force Robert Baxerias Vucanovich and points out that the incident was also verified by the Information and Aerospace Interests Directorate of Peru (DINIA). CNN says its investigators also spoke to Marco A. Barraza, the principal investigator of the office in charge of the case, who confirmed that more UFO sightings are under investigation, although he did not say which ones. The “occurrence” on February 27 happened at 1:30 am. Two luminous UFOs were seen about 5 nautical miles away at an approximate height of 2,400 meters (1.5 miles) by, among others, the crew of the aircrafts LANPERU2437 and LATAM ECUADOR 1442, which were on the taxiways. The UFOs were observed for 40 minutes and were recorded on radar screens in the control tower.
I want to believe.
That’s it. Case closed. End of discussion. The Peruvian Air Force confirms the existence of UFOs at the Jorge Chavez airport in February 2019. Right?
“Since we have an anomalous aerial phenomena office, a man from CNN writes to me saying that some writings had been leaked, where a tower controller had seen a light in the sky, and he had reported it on his relay sheet, then, I respond by mail because, when you see something flying, the FAP has the obligation to investigate, but at no time did I say UFO.”
OK, Major General Robert Baxerias Vucanovich told the media site Peru21 that he didn’t say “UFO” but Marco A. Barraza confirmed they were UFOs, right? Well, the major general claims that his five-paragraph summary of the information Barraza sent him did not say “UFO” either. Peru21 checked with Barraza and he had this to say:
“In the heavens there is a series of occurrences, objects and events that have and are investigated, but as long as they do not presuppose a threat or a risk to civilian or military operations, they go into ‘another’ different category.”
Wow. Talk about taking evasive action worthy of a Tic Tac UFO. It wasn’t a threat to civilian or military operations, so it’s classified as “different.” What about all of the rest of the Peruvians on the ground … were they in danger. Major General Vucanovich?
“What we saw could be a comet, one of the many google balloons (Loon project) or what we call garbage in the air.”
Garbage in the air?
What WE call “garbage in the air” is answers like that one. Balloons are definitely a problem these days as seen recently in Missouri by numerous UFO reports of unannounced flyovers by DARPA balloons. If the sightings were balloons, the Air Force would (or at least should) definitely be able to confirm it … and admit it openly to the public. But a comet 1.5 miles high that doesn’t move for 40 minutes? Come on!
Something seems to be happening in the airspace around the Jorge Cavez International Airport in Peru. Let’s hope CNN Espanol and Peru21 do their jobs and continue to investigate these “occurrences” and report their findings to the public. Evasive action belongs in the air, not in the press conference.
Date of sighting: February 27, 2019
Location of sighting: Lima, Peru Airport
A UFO was seen over the Lima, Peru Airport last week. While airplanes were coming and going, someone noticed a hovering object over the runway. The object tased for an hour before just disappearing and flights were delayed. Apparently aliens assume that alien UFOs over an busy airport with loads of planes is would be taken better than flying over your home and hovering. Why? Flying objects are expected at the airport...making even a UFO sighting more relaxed and less of a surprise. Honestly...alien are suppose to land at the airport not your house...right? I say...let them land. Give them clearance!
Scott C. Waring
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According to Peruvian media reports on February 27, 2019, two UFOs were sighted over Jorge Chávez International Airport at 0630 UTC and they remained for almost an hour over the Lima sky according to official information from the personnel of the control tower of the airport. Flights were delayed due to UFOs sighting. The staff of the Peruvian Corporation of Airports and Commercial Aviation ( Corpac ) witnessed the UFOs over the airport and even videotaped and photographed. Corpac issued the official report, and it is the first time Corpac provides a detailed report on UFOs over international airport. According to the report, witnesses reported two UFOs over the main airport on February 27. In addition, they detailed that the objects remained for approximately one hour over the airport. The events occurred at dawn on Wednesday, February 27. The control tower workers said that the UFOs were positioned on runway 33. According to information, the UFOs were also seen by the ground crew of two planes that covered the Lima-Córdova and Lima-Quito routes. One of the unidentified objects appeared for a few moments on the radar, but moments later, both disappeared from the view of the airport staff. In the down below image, you can see the official report of Corpac and signed by the technician José Zarabia Salas, who has confirmed the UFO sighting.
The rings of Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes — they weren’t even discovered until 1977 — but they’re surprisingly bright in new heat images of the planet taken by two large telescopes in the high deserts of Chile.
Composite image of Uranus’s atmosphere and rings at radio wavelengths, taken with the ALMA array in December 2017. The image shows thermal emission, or heat, from the rings of Uranus for the first time, enabling scientists to determine their temperature: a frigid 77 Kelvin (-320 F). Dark bands in Uranus’s atmosphere at these wavelengths show the presence of molecules that absorb radio waves, in particular hydrogen sulfide gas. Bright regions like the north polar spot (yellow spot at right, because Uranus is tipped on its side) contain very few of these molecules.
(UC Berkeley image by Edward Molter and Imke de Pater)
The thermal glow gives astronomers another window onto the rings, which have been seen only because they reflect a little light in the visible, or optical, range and in the near-infrared. The new images taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) allowed the team for the first time to measure the temperature of the rings: a cool 77 Kelvin, or 77 degrees above absolute zero — the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen and equivalent to 320 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
The observations also confirm that Uranus’s brightest and densest ring, called the epsilon ring, differs from the other known ring systems within our solar system, in particular the spectacularly beautiful rings of Saturn.
“Saturn’s mainly icy rings are broad, bright and have a range of particle sizes, from micron-sized dust in the innermost D ring, to tens of meters in size in the main rings,” said Imke de Pater, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy. “The small end is missing in the main rings of Uranus; the brightest ring, epsilon, is composed of golf ball-sized and larger rocks.
By comparison, Jupiter’s rings contain mostly small, micron-sized particles (a micron is a thousandth of a millimeter). Neptune’s rings are also mostly dust, and even Uranus has broad sheets of dust between its narrow main rings.
“We already know that the epsilon ring is a bit weird, because we don’t see the smaller stuff,” said graduate student Edward Molter. “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 their composition and whether all of the rings came from the same source material, or are different for each ring.”
Rings could be former asteroids captured by the planet’s gravity, remnants of moons that crashed into one another and shattered, the remains of moons torn apart when they got too close to Uranus, or debris remaining from the time of formation 4.5 billion years ago.
Near-infrared image of the Uranian ring system taken with the adaptive optics system on the 10-meter Keck telescope in Hawaii in July 2004. The image shows reflected sunlight. In between the main rings, which are composed of centimeter-sized or larger particles, sheets of dust can be seen. The epsilon ring seen in new thermal images is at the bottom.
(UC Berkeley image by Imke de Pater, Seran Gibbard and Heidi Hammel, 2006)
The new data were published this week in The Astronomical Journal. De Pater and Molter led the ALMA observations, while Michael Roman and Leigh Fletcher from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom led the VLT observations.
“The rings of Uranus are compositionally different from Saturn’s main ring, in the sense that in optical and infrared, the albedo is much lower: they are really dark, like charcoal,” Molter said. “They are also extremely narrow compared to the rings of Saturn. The widest, the epsilon ring, varies from 20 to 100 kilometers wide, whereas Saturn’s are 100’s or tens of thousands of kilometers wide.”
The lack of dust-sized particles in Uranus’s main rings was first noted when Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986 and photographed them. The spacecraft was unable to measure the temperature of the rings, however.
To date, astronomers have counted a total of 13 rings around the planet, with some bands of dust between the rings. The rings differ in other ways from those of Saturn.
“It’s cool that we can even do this with the instruments we have,” he said. “I was just trying to image the planet as best I could and I saw the rings. It was amazing.”
Both the VLT and ALMA observations were designed to explore the temperature structure of Uranus’ atmosphere, with VLT probing shorter wavelengths than ALMA.
“We were astonished to see the rings jump out clearly when we reduced the data for the first time,” Fletcher said.
This presents an exciting opportunity for the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, which will be able provide vastly improved spectroscopic constraints on the Uranian rings in the coming decade.
Images of the Uranian ring system captured at different wavelengths by the ALMA and VLT telescopes. The planet itself is masked since it is very bright compared to the rings.
(Images by Edward Molter, Imke de Pater, Michael Roman and Leigh Fletcher, 2019)
The Berkeley research was funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NNX16AK14G). Work at the University of Leicester was supported by the European Research Council (GIANTCLIMES) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (723890)..
“We remember that we were always the first in the cosmos, and we are still the first in many ways, so we would like the first man born in space to be a Russian citizen, and the fact that a person is born healthy, and in this respect we are really competitive, because in many studies we lead.”
Russia wants to be the first nation to have a citizen born in space, and you would think its cosmonauts would be lining up for the opportunity to be the father. You would be wrong, and it’s surprisingly not because there’s a lack of female cosmonauts lining up to be the first to give birth in space. It’s because the guys are refusing to part with their essential contribution … their sperm! What gives … or in this case, doesn’t give?
“We cannot conduct through the Coordination Scientific and Technical Council, which approves of conducting experiments on the Russian segment of the ISS, such a routine procedure as cosmonauts spermograms.”
Irina Ogneva, head of the cell biophysics laboratory at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, explained the problem blocking the first space conception to RIA Novosti in rocket scientist terms. What the expression “spermogram” means is a sperm donation of the Russian-porn-magazine-in-one-hand kind. Ogneva complained that her numerous requests for donations …
“… causes everyone to smile and reject.”
That rejection of an ejection puts the kibosh on Ogneva’s experiment in spermatogenesis, which involves studying the differences in cosmonaut sperm before, during and after spaceflight. Apparently, the guys have no problem with the before and after donations … it’s the ‘during’ one that they’re reluctant to perform. Are they afraid the American astronauts on the ISS will catch them in the act and post pictures on Facebook?
What part of “Nyet!” don’t you understand?
“We constantly encounter obstacles of a moral and psychological and ethical nature. There are no cosmonauts who want to.”
Morals and ethics never got in the way of a good time in space back in “The Right Stuff” days when the early astronauts and cosmonauts were daring ex-fighter pilots sneaking sandwiches, golf clubs and more into their capsules. One can easily imagine a pinup photo taped to the wall and some “the Eagle has landed … that’s what SHE said!” gags. Nowadays, having scientists, engineers and philosophers in space is a good thing – except when a fellow scientist needs just one little spurt into a test tube. Ogneva points out to Sputnik News that sex in space not only is inevitable (if it hasn’t happened already despite the challenges of microgravity, shrinkage and lack of privacy … to name just a few that have never stopped humans before) but necessary for long space flights and colonization. She just wants to make sure the baby is born healthy despite a gestation period full of weightlessness, magnetic field changes, radiation and other stresses and dangers. If those can affect an astronaut – as the Scott and Mark Kelly twin experiments showed – then they would certainly affect an embryo that is much more sensitive to them.
How does Irina Ogneva change cosmonaut attitudes from “smile and reject” to “smile and eject”? Maybe she should offer the experiment to a paying space tourist.
Scientists have recently discovered two Earth-like exoplanets relatively close to us in comparison to other planets that have been found in the last several years. Teegarden’s star is the 24th closest star to our sun and it’s only 12.5 light years away from us in the constellation of Aries. What’s even more exciting is that these two planets – named Teegarden b and Teegarden c – are ranked in the top 19 known exoplanets that could potentially contain habitable environments. And Teegarden b ranked the highest on the Earth Similarity Index.
Mathias Zechmeister, who is the lead author of the study (which can be read here) and is also an astrophysicist at the University of Göttingen, stated, “The two planets resemble the inner planets of our Solar System.” As a matter of fact, one of the two planets could be the most similar to Earth that they’ve ever found. The planets are just a bit heavier than Earth and they’re positioned conveniently in the habitable zone, meaning that liquid water could very well be present there.
Scientists only discovered Teegarden’s star in 2003 and it’s one of the smallest stars that they’ve ever found – approximately ten times lighter than our sun and around 8 billion years old. With a star that small, they’ve had a hard time studying it in order to find any planets orbiting it. Astronomers had to use the CARMENES next-generation telescope located at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain to find out if the star had any changes to its radial velocity.
They studied the star for three years and during that time was when they discovered Teegarden b and Teegarden c. “These studies demonstrate that the signals of the two planets cannot be due to the activity of the star, even though we could not detect the transits of the two new planets,” explained astronomer Victor Sánchez Béjar who is from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (AIS).
Of the two planets, Teegarden b is the closest to the sun and has a 60 percent chance of having a temperature of between 0 degrees and 50 degrees Celsius, with the most likely surface temperature being around 28 degrees Celsius. Since Teegarden c is further away, it would have a surface temperature of around -47 degrees Celsius – similar to Mars.
The research team believes that Teegarden b does a full orbit in 4.9 Earth days, while Teegarden c completes its orbit in 11.4 days. However, it’s still possible that they could complete their orbits in even lesser time, which would reduce the possibility of them being able to sustain any life. They’re also unsure as to the length of time it takes for Teegarden to rotate on its axis.
While much more research needs to be done, it’s still exciting to think that two newly discovered exoplanets that are located not too far from us could possibly sustain life.
Grant Cameron Discovers Secret Leaked Document on Live Alien in Mexico
Grant Cameron Discovers Secret Leaked Document on Live Alien in Mexico
The leak of a 15-page note by Dr. Eric Davis of his 2002 meeting with Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson represents the most significant UFO leak of the 21st Century.
The document, a transcript of a conversation between Astrophysicist Eric Davis and Admiral Thomas Wilson , states explicitly that Admiral Wilson was told that a Special Access Program has in their possession an alien vehicle not made of this Earth.
Besides Grant Cameron discovered that there is another secret document that claims a living Alien was captured in Mexico!
Below the video in which Grant Cameron talks about the living alien that was captured in Mexico, while Richard Dolan informs us about the latest development in the so-called 'Wilson Leak'.
UFO Fleet And Plane Over Liberty, Missouri On June 20, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet And Plane Over Liberty, Missouri On June 20, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 20, 2019 Location of sighting: Liberty, Missouri, USA Source:MUFON #101418 Guys, this is very close to Kansas City, Missouri sighting of orbs. That means these orbs are the same UFOs seen in other cities over Missouri! I notice in the video that there are at least three or more orbs, but you have to make the video full screen to see them well. Also did you notice the plane? As the plane got near one of the UFOs...it actually tilted several times from side to side so that it could view the UFOs without the wings getting in the way! This pilot whomever he is has close up photos of these UFOs. This guy was about 30-50 meters from them. The city of Liberty only has about 29,000 people, so it shouldn't be hard to find out exactly who was the pilot of this plane and if he took photos or video or not. Further investigation from someone who lives in Liberty is necessary here. If that is you, please to to the local airport and show them this video. They may be able to identify it from the flight plan made that day. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Forest Camera Catches Alien Drone In Berryville, Arkansas, UFO Sighting News.
Forest Camera Catches Alien Drone In Berryville, Arkansas, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 31, 2019
Location of sighting: Berryville, Arkansas, USA
Source: MUFON #101417
This UFO was caught on a forest oudoor camera while it was in infrared mode at night. Nothing can escape infrared mode, not even a UFO if its cloaked. Lots of the recent black and white video of UFOs released by the government in the latest news is also infrared. Without it, the UFO would probably never have been seen. This UFO is the same. Its a glowing energy craft, almost jellyfish like, but probably invisible to the naked eye. Lucky for us this camera caught the little bugger as it passed. This is probably a drone, sent for gathering information. It may have been exploring nature or it may have been watching through windows or walls at the local homes. The population of Berryville, Arkansas is only about 5,000 so it is a low populated area. Perfect for doing intel gathering for aliens.
Why would aliens want to gather data? Easy, lets imagine the human species is 1,000,000 years old. Then its tech would also be very advanced and since about 100,000 years old all info was kept on computers. That data was destroyed a dozen times over by accidents or attacks, leaving the history of the race a bit of mystery. So...they watch other primitive races at various stages of evolution to learn about their own past.
Congress given 'classified' brief on 'UFOs' seen by navy pilots
Congress given 'classified' brief on 'UFOs' seen by navy pilots
Unidentified: Pilots reported seeing crafts in 2014 and 2015
Andrew Buncombe
The Pentagon has provided a classified briefing to members of Congress in the US about reported encounters by navy pilots with unidentified aircraft, some of which were said to have no visible engines and could reach hypersonic speeds.
Earlier this year, a number of pilots reported seeing the objects on an almost daily basis from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, while flying navy jets off the east coast of the United States.
Some of the encounters were even captured on video, leading the navy to announce it had updated the way pilots were to formally report the incidents.
Now, the military has provided a classified briefing on the encounters to a group of senators, after the US president said last week he had been updated on the issue.
"Navy officials did indeed meet with interested congressional members and staffers on Wednesday to provide a classified brief on efforts to understand and identify these threats to the safety and security of our aviators," the navy said in a statement, of the briefings that took place on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and Thursday.
"Navy officials will continue to keep interested congressional members and staff informed. Given the classified nature of these discussions, we will not comment on the specific information provided in these Hill briefings."
Reports suggest the briefings, first detailed by Politico, were given to members of the senate intelligence committee and their staff.
Among those who requested the update was Democratic senator Mark Warner, vice chairman of the committee.
A number of the pilots who reported the encounters had been flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana, a navy facility located in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
They told the 'New York Times' they had experienced the incidents along the coast from Virginia to Florida.
"These things would be out there all day," Lt Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot with 10 years experience with the navy, told the newspaper.
"Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we'd expect."
Another incident, that was captured by a plane's camera in 2015, showed an object flying across the ocean as the pilots questioned what it was.
"Wow, what is that, man?" one of them asked.
"If pilots at Oceana or elsewhere are reporting flight hazards that interfere with training or put them in danger, then the senator wants answers," said Mr Warner's spokesperson Rachel Cohen.
She added: "It doesn't matter if it's weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely - we can't ask our pilots to put their lives at risk unnecessarily."
Last week, Mr Trump said he had "one very brief meeting" on the encounters, adding: "But people are saying they're seeing UFOs - do I believe it? Not particularly."
As far as UFO fly-bys are concerned, a supplementary suggestion is that the Earth has been under some form of inter-planetary quarantine until now.
(Gallo)
The United States Navy will develop guidelines for pilots to report unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) — previously called unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — which enter into military-controlled air space, according to revelations from media company Politico, and The New York Times and The Washington Post.
In a statement issued to Politico, the navy acknowledged that “there have been enough strange aerial sightings by credible and highly trained military personnel that need to be recorded in the official record and studied”. On December 16 2017, the US department of defence confirmed that it operated an advanced aerospace threat identification programme (Aatip), from 2007 to 2012, and its former director, Luis Elizondo, revealed that unidentified aircraft without any visible sign of propulsion mechanisms and capable of achieving hypersonic speeds had been seen.
Two prevailing theories have gained currency about who these interstellar aviators could be. The first and more plausible suggestion is that one of the rivals to the US for global power, namely China or Russia, have developed aerial technology that far surpasses anything that is “openly” known to existing military forces. It could simply be the case that the world’s advanced militaries will be soon revealing that they have successfully tested anti-gravity aircraft, based on technology that is now routinely being tested in experimental laboratories in different parts of the world.
A number of cutting-edge technologies have been introduced progressively into human consciousness, such as autonomous drones that are capable of wreaking havoc from the sky; similarly, the radar-defying stealth bomber was also introduced gradually into our awareness. Historically, we can recall how atomic and nuclear bombs were introduced to the world by the tragic bombing of the twin cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, killing people in the order of hundreds of thousands in each explosion.
The second theory is that there is an interstellar civilisation in close proximity to Earth that has achieved interplanetary travel capability and is now reaching out to humanity to gradually make themselves known to us, so that we can begin open interaction.
As far as UFO fly-bys are concerned, a supplementary suggestion is that the Earth has been under some form of inter-planetary quarantine until now, and that there is an increased effort by our interstellar visitors to re-engage with human civilisation. Alternatively, other explanations could be based on the realisation, from the perspective of the interstellar aviators, that Earth’s civilisation has created an environmental catastrophe that threatens the solar system, and that these UFO fly-overs are an attempt to warn humanity of an impending crisis.
Whatever the reason for this emerging phenomenon, the US Navy is taking the issue seriously by confirming that it “is updating and formalising the process by which reports of any such suspected incursions can be made to the cognisant authorities”. In addition, on August 9 last year, US Vice-president Mike Pence announced that his government would take the extraordinary step of announcing the formal creation of a department of the space force in 2020, as the sixth branch of the armed forces, and legislation has been sent to Congress for consideration.
Pence said the objective of this space force will be to “develop the space war-fighting doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures for the future”. On February 19 this year, the White House press secretary issued a “space policy directive”, which stipulated that the space force’s priorities would include “deterring aggression and defending the nation, United States allies, and United States’s interests from hostile acts in and from space”. The notion that there are prospective actors who will perpetuate hostile acts “in” and “from” space, could be a recognition that there is a need to adopt a military posture against the UFOs that the navy will now formally identify and categorise. But, in the absence of sufficient information as to what exactly these UFOs are, it might be foolhardy for the US government to approach them with an aggressive posture.
Specifically, if the UFOs have demonstrated that they are in possession of advanced aerial aircraft technology, it is logical to assume that they equally possess weaponry that far outstrips our own. A far more conciliatory posture is necessary to first determine what in fact we are dealing with; it could ultimately emerge that the civilisations from where these UFOs originate could instead contribute to assisting us with addressing our multiple environmental and societal problems.
Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, suggests “that the real reason UFOs have been dismissed is because of the existential challenge that they pose for a world view, in which human beings are the most technologically advanced life-forms”. Consequently, it is unacceptable in polite society to speak about UFOs with a degree of seriousness, because of the stigma and ridicule that still persists around acknowledging the phenomena. The US Navy’s decision to implement a formal process to report and categorise UFOs will contribute towards the gradual process of disclosing what is out there, and may help shift our mindset to accepting that we are not alone in this vast universe.
Professor Tim Murithi is head of Peacebuilding Interventions at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, extraordinary professor of African studies at the University of Free State and editor of Routledge’s Handbook for Africa’s International Relations
The Declassified Document Einstein And Oppenheimer Published About UFOs and Aliens
The Declassified Document Einstein And Oppenheimer Published About UFOs and Aliens
As far back as our understanding goes it appears homo sapiens having been talking about living things from other planets visiting us.
We have ancient artifacts that discuss, "heavenly beings" and creatures from the cosmos. It is trustworthy artifacts and reliable modern documents that give weight to UFO and alien beliefs. Many people may sit chatting on forums and commenting on articles with their so-called expertise, but they aren't reliable, and reliability matters. With that in mind, does it come much better than Einstein and Oppenheimer?
Einstein is the theoretical physicist best known for his general theory of relativity. J. Robert Oppenheimer was a professor of physics at the University of California. These are two heavyweights of science.
Oppenheimer:
Einstein:
The approach to aliens and UFOs has to be a scientific one because often lots of things can be explained. In the past speculation and philosophy played their parts, but now people want facts and evidence. Fascinatingly, in 1947, these two brilliant scientists looked at the issue of UFOs in-depth and considered all possible outcomes and reasons why entities from other worlds would want to come to the planet we reside on, Earth.
The formal document written by Einstein and Oppenheimer was titled, "Relationships With Inhabitants Of Celestial Bodies." At the time it was top secret, but now it is declassified. The document was only six pages long but what it does say is incredible. It claims that the presence of UFOs is something the military accepted a long time ago. The document talks about what actions should be taken in the event of aliens coming to our planet. One brilliant quote from the document is this, "If these intelligent beings were in possession of a more or less culture, and a more or less perfect political organization, they would have an absolute right to be recognized as independent and sovereign peoples, we would have to come to an agreement with them to establish the legal regulations upon which future relationships should be based, and it would be necessary to accept many of their principles."
It's hard not to love the idea that aliens would land and have perfect political organization, meanwhile here are the homo sapiens having horrible wars with different countries hating each other.
The overall report seems keen to get across a message that people in position of power may know about extraterrestrial entities and not be telling the people. Mainly because society may crumble as peoples belief systems are completely thrown out the world. Whether the foreign beings were pleasant to us or not, mankind would be in a mess.
It is a fascinating document, which is brilliant to see from two top scientists. If you have the time to read the whole thing it is definitely worthwhile, you can find it here:
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