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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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
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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 Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
21-09-2019
NASA deelt gedetailleerde en adembenemende foto van Mars - HLN.be
NASA deelt gedetailleerde en adembenemende foto van Mars - HLN.be
WETENSCHAP NASA heeft een gedetailleerde - en wondermooie - afbeelding van Mars vrijgegeven. Eerder deze week stuurde ook al de Europees-Russische ruimtesonde ExoMars een indrukwekkende foto van de rode planeet richting aarde.
Bovenste afbeelding werd genomen door NASA’s ruimtesonde Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, en toont een deel van de Danielson-krater. Die heeft een diameter van 66 kilometer en werd “miljoenen of miljarden jaren geleden” gevormd, aldus de Amerikaanse ruimteorganisatie. De krater bestaat uit rotsen vermengd met zand (blauwe gebieden), die bevroren raakten. Bepaalde delen op de kraterbodem vielen makkelijker ten prooi aan erosie dan andere, wat dan weer de trapachtige, uitspringende structuur verklaart.
Ook de Europees-Russische sonde ExoMars stuurde deze week een gedetailleerde foto van de rode planeet naar de aarde. Daarop zijn duinen op de noordpool van Mars te zien. De witte kleur op onderstaande afbeelding wordt veroorzaakt door droogijs, de vaste vorm van koolstofdioxide. In de lente, wanneer de zon schijnt, barst het ijs en ontsnapt er gas uit de duinen. Donker zand wordt dan omhoog gestuwd, zoals op de afbeelding duidelijk te zien is.
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Dark Disk Seen Passing Over Our Moon, Over 5km Long! UFO Sighting News.
Dark Disk Seen Passing Over Our Moon, Over 5km Long! UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:March 15, 2019, but reported today
Location of sighting: Earths moon
Source: MUFON #103464
An eyewitness caught a dark circular UFO with his camera. The cameras today often come with zooms of up to 200X so they even beat a lot of telescopes, especially for the convenience of getting photos or video. Dark circular objects have been recorded for the last decade passing over the surface of our moon. This is nothing new, but its should be a warning to the public...if NASA doesn't tell us about these unidentified flying objects on our moon...then NASA must be too frighted causing a panic in the public. Honestly...how would you feel emotionally if you heard on world news that NASA has spotted an alien craft that is 5km across near our moon? Yeah...it would cause a bit of worry.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Was taking pics of moon in succession. My last pic has dark looking object in the front of the bottom of the moon.
Dark Disk In Daytime Over Doolin, Ireland On Aug 19, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Dark Disk In Daytime Over Doolin, Ireland On Aug 19, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 19, 2019 Location of sighting: Doolin, Ireland Source: MUFON #103466 The eyewitness took a photo of his car in Ireland on a hill, and when he got home he noticed a thick disk near the clouds. The disk is wider at its center and thiner at is ends. To top it off, the disk is tilted, which Area 51 scientist Bob Lazar said is necessary if a disk is moving. UFOs can be seen anywhere in the world, although some locations seem to have a higher change of seeing one than others. In a world where everyone is looking down at their phone, its no wonder why sightings are down this year...few people bother looking up at the sky. Scott C. Waring
'Storm Area 51' raid brings crowds of ‘alien believers' to Nevada
'Storm area 51' raid brings crowds of ‘alien believers' to Nevada
For those who follow 'Storm Area 51' here is the latest news on this event... but what do you think is in Area 51?
According to RT-Ruptly - Live, visitors from around the country are trekking to the Alien Research Center in Hiko on the outskirts of the top-secret US military installation known as Area 51 in the Nevada Desert where the ‘Storm Area 51 Basecamp’ will take place Friday and Saturday.
The event, titled ‘Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us’, was called for on social media, with millions of people RSVPing. Organisers intend to raid Area 51 to “see them Aliens.”
Area 51 has long been a topic of fascination for conspiracy theorists and paranormal enthusiasts who believe it to be the location where the US government stores and hides alien bodies and UFOs.
Its existence was only acknowledged by the US government in 2013 after citizens filed a Freedom of Information Act request that called for the release of information regarding the government's activities in the area.
The 38,400-acre land area has been restricted to the public since 1958 and has armed guards patrolling the perimeter. It's also impossible to enter the airspace above without permission from air traffic control. The facility’s official name is Nevada Test and Training Range. It is a unit of the Nellis Air Force Base, located at Groom Lake, 120 miles (193 km) northwest of Las Vegas.
A mysterious star whose repeated bouts of darkening might be due to "alien megastructures," according to some researchers' conjectures, may now have more than a dozen counterparts that display similarly mystifying behavior, a new study finds.
Further research into all of these stars might help solve the puzzle of their bewildering flickering, the study's author said.
In 2015, scientists noticed unusual fluctuations in the light from a star named KIC 8462852. This otherwise-normal F-type star, which is slightly larger and hotter than Earth's sun, sits about 1,480 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus.
When the researchers analyzed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomer Tabetha "Tabby" Boyajian, then at Yale University, and her colleagues found dozens of odd instances of KIC 8462852 dimming by up to 22%, with such dips lasting anywhere from a few days to a week. These events did not appear to follow any pattern and seemed far too substantial to be caused by planets or dust crossing the star's face.
These analyses of KIC 8462852 — now nicknamed "Boyajian's star" (formerly Tabby's star) after its discoverer — raised the possibility that astronomers had detected signs of intelligent alien life. Specifically, researchers have suggested that the star is surrounded by a Dyson sphere, a hypothetical megastructure that is built around a star to capture as much of its light as possible. Mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that such megastructures could help power an advanced civilization. (Science fiction often depicts Dyson spheres as solid shells around stars, but the megastructures also could be globular swarms of giant solar panels.)
The megastructure hypothesis is near the bottom of most astronomers' lists these days when it comes to Boyajian's star, however; further analyses have pointed to more prosaic explanations, such as clouds of dust or comet fragments. Still, scientists have not yet nailed down the precise cause of the odd dimming. The answer remains elusive in part because Boyajian's star seemed unique; there were no known counterparts to provide additional clues that might help researchers solve this cosmic mystery.
Now, study author Edward Schmidt, an astrophysicist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, suggests that he may have discovered more than a dozen stars like Boyajian's star.
Alien Megastructure Star Being Investigated By UC Berkeley | Video
-Schmidt looked for counterparts of Boyajian's star using software that searched for analogous dimming events from about 14 million objects with varying brightness monitored in the Northern Sky Variable Survey from April 1999 to March 2000. He then followed up on promising candidates by examining their long-term behavior, using data from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae, ruling out sources whose dimming could be caused by conventional explanations such as an eclipsing companion star or some intrinsic variability in brightness.
Schmidt identified 21 stars that showed possibly unusual dimming. These fell into two distinct categories: 15 were "slow dippers" that dimmed at rates similar to Boyajian's star, and six were "rapid dippers" that showed even more extreme variability in their dimming rates.
"The thing that surprised me the most were these stars that had so many dips, the ones I called 'rapid dippers,'" Schmidt told Space.com. "I expected more occasional dips like Boyajian's star."
Further analysis using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory found that these potential dippers tended to be either conventional "main-sequence" stars with about the same mass as the sun or red giant stars with about twice the sun's mass. The slow and rapid dippers are seen in both groups, which may suggest that they represent varying degrees of the same mechanism, Schmidt said.
Schmidt noted that the Northern Sky Variable Survey he searched for potential counterparts of Boyajian's star did not contain records of Boyajian's star itself darkening during the year of data in that catalog. This highlights how astronomers may easily miss stars that can darken in this manner if they look only at catalogs that monitor stars for relatively short intervals of time.
"We're obviously missing some of these stars because of the catalogs we have," Schmidt said. "By looking at more catalogs, we may get a better picture of what's going on, even though it won't be a complete picture."
Future research that combs through more catalogs of stellar activity may turn up even more analogues of Boyajian's star, he said.
"I intend to try and follow up on the rapid dippers," Schmidt said. "One thing I noticed about them is that at least one seemed to be slowing way down in its dipping rate over the five years of coverage we have of it. It'd be interesting to find out what happened in its past, which may help give a better idea of what's going on with these stars."
Schmidt detailed his findings July 18 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
China's Yutu-2 moon rover captured this image from the edge of the small crater where it found a mysterious, gel-like material.
(Image credit: CNSA/CLEP)
China's lunar exploration program has released images that give us a glimpse of the mysterious material discovered on the far side of the moon.
Yutu-2, the lunar rover for China's Chang'e-4 mission, grabbed attention last month after its drive team spotted something unusual while roving close to a small crater. The Chinese-language science outreach publication Our Space, which announced the findings on Aug. 17, used the term "胶状物" (jiao zhuang wu), which can be translated as "gel-like." This notion sparked wide interest and speculation among lunar scientists.
Scientists have now gotten a look at that curious material, thanks to a post (Chinese) released over the weekend by Our Space via its WeChat social media account. Along with new images of the stuff on the moon, the post details how the Yutu-2 team carefully approached the crater in order to analyze the specimen, despite risks.
The clearest image shows two of the rover's six wheels and the contents of an approximately 7-foot-wide (2 meters) crater.
The compressed, black-and-white shot comes from an obstacle-avoidance camera on the rover. The green, rectangular area and red circle within are suspected to be related to the field of view of the Visible and Near-Infrared Spectrometer (VNIS) instrument, rather than the subject matter itself, according to some lunar scientists.
A cropped image showing the highlighted area with the crater.
(Image credit: CNSA/CLEP)
VNIS is one of Yutu-2's four science payloads. It detects light that is scattered or reflected off materials to reveal their chemical makeup. As VNIS has a small field of view, the drive team needed to carefully navigate Yutu-2 to make a detection without falling into the crater.
After obtaining the first set of data that VIRS collected at the crater in July, the Yutu-2 team deemed it to be unsatisfactory due to shadows, so the team members attempted a second approach and measurement during the following lunar day in August. According to Our Space, a satisfactory detection was made — but the results were not released.
An image showing Yutu-2's shadow and tracks from when it approached the crater.
(Image credit: CNSA/CLEP)
Clive Neal, a lunar scientist at the University of Notre Dame, told Space.com that while the image is not great, it may still give clues to the nature of the material.
Neal said that the material highlighted in the center of the crater resembles a sample of impact glass found during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Sample 70019 was collected by astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a trained geologist, from a fresh crater 10 feet (3 meters) in diameter, similar to that approached by Yutu-2.
The crater containing sample 70019, with the Apollo 17 lunar module in the background.
(Image credit: NASA)
Neal describes 70019 as being made of dark, coherent microbreccia — broken fragments of minerals cemented together — and black, shiny glass. "I think we have an example here of what Yutu-2 saw," Neal said.
High-speed impacts on the lunar surface melt and redistribute rock across the craters they make and can create glassy, igneous rocks and crystalline structures.
As for being unusual and "mysterious," as described by the initial Chinese account, "having craters looking like those from Yutu-2 and where 70019 was collected is to be expected," Neal said.
The initial observation that commanded the attention of the drive team was made from an image from Yutu-2's Panoramic Camera (PCAM). The Chang'e-3 mission's Yutu rover, which landed on the near side in 2013, returned impressive, high-resolution color images of the lunar landscape using its PCAM
The Yutu-2 team will have great images to work with, and these may suggest something different. However, images from the Chang'e-4 mission might be released publicly as long as one year after they have been taken.
An image from Mare Imbrium taken by the PCAM on Yutu-1.
(Image credit: CNSA/CLEP)
Dan Moriarty, NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, agrees that it is hard to make a definitive assessment of the substance's chemical composition, given the poor image quality and overlying colored section in the Yutu-2 image.
Moriarty told Space.com that the outlined material appears somewhat brighter than surrounding materials, though the actual brightness is hard to confirm from the photographs. If so, the contrast could be due to the differing origins of the respective materials.
"Chang'e-4 landed in a mare basalt-filled crater, which is typically dark," Moriarty said. "Highlands crustal materials are typically brighter, so that would be a potential candidate."
"It will be very interesting to see what the spectrometer sees, and if any higher-resolution images become available," Moriarty notes.
Chang'e-3's Yutu rover carried an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer for analyzing chemical composition, mounted on a robotic arm, which would be very useful for identifying such specimens. Yutu-2 instead carries the new Advanced Small Analyzer for Neutrals (ASAN), a payload from Sweden for studying how solar winds interact with the lunar surface.
A stitched image from Yutu-2 looking back toward the Chang'e-4 lander during lunar day 7, in late June and early July 2019.
(Image credit: CNSA/CLEP)
The Chang'e-4 lander and Yutu-2 completed the ninth lunar day of their mission on Sept. 5, powering down around 24 hours ahead of local sunset. Lunar day 10 will begin around Sept. 22 for Yutu-2 and Sept. 23 for the lander. (On the moon, a day lasts about two weeks.)
Yutu-2 has been heading west of the Chang'e-4 landing site in the Von Kármán crater since the historic Jan. 2 lunar far side landing, covering 934 feet (285 meters) so far.
Geheimzinnige oermens herrijst op sciencefictionachtige manier uit DNA-monster
Geheimzinnige oermens herrijst op sciencefictionachtige manier uit DNA-monster
De Denisovamens moet vanaf een half miljoen jaar geleden hebben geleefd in Azië. Beeld EPA
Een volk van stevige, gedrongen mensen met lage voorhoofden, een grote ronde hersenpan en opvallende brede monden. Zó ongeveer moet het geheimzinnige, verdwenen oervolk van de Denisovamensen eruit hebben gezien. Aldus hun DNA.
Hoewel archeologen nog nooit een skelet van een Denisovamens hebben opgegraven, wisten Israëlische onderzoekers hun uiterlijk op sciencefictionachtige manier te bepalen, door het af te lezen uit hun DNA.
De Denisovamens moet vanaf ongeveer een half miljoen jaar geleden hebben geleefd in Azië, lang voordat de moderne mens er zijn intrede deed. Maar hoe ze eruitzagen weet niemand. Archeologen hebben van de mysterieuze menssoort alleen een vingerkootje, wat kiezen en tanden en een onderkaak teruggevonden – met als bonus dat men daaruit wel het DNA van de oermens heeft kunnen halen.
DNA waarmee bio-informaticus Lian Carmel en collega’s van de Hebreeuwse universiteit van Jeruzalem nu een ruw profiel van de Denisovamens hebben opgesteld, schrijven ze in vakblad Cell. Het team voorspelde hoe hun skelet er op 32 punten ongeveer moeten hebben uitgezien – uiteenlopend van subtiliteiten zoals de dikte van hun tandglazuur tot opvallender zaken zoals de breedte van de ribbenkast.
Al met al levert dat een menssoort op die van een afstandje nog het meeste lijkt op een neanderthaler: gespierde bonken met een plat voorhoofd, een brede borstkas, wijde heupen en dikke vingers. Tot je hem beter bekijkt: vooral opvallend is dat de Denisovamens een ongewoon hoofd heeft, veel breder dan dat van hedendaagse mensen.
Helemaal verdwenen is de Denisovamens overigens niet. Nog altijd lopen modern Aziaten en Polynesiërs rond met in hun systeem zo’n 6 procent Denisova-DNA. Onder meer een genetische aanpassing waardoor Tibetanen in de Himalaya op grote hoogte kunnen overleven, lijken we te hebben overgeërfd van de enigmatische voorouder.
Reconstructie van een Denisovameisje.Beeld Maayan Harel
Scholes UFO expert claims RAF Bentwaters encounter was aliens searching for nuclear weapons
Scholes UFO expert claims RAF Bentwaters encounter was aliens searching for nuclear weapons
Revelations from Gary Heseltine come 36 years after UFOs were spotted at a Suffolk RAF base
By Susie Beever / Breaking News Reporter
A police officer's report of a UFO sighting near Emley Moor TV mast on November 2 1986 and Gary Heseltine, pictured in 1989 while training at the Ashford Police Training School in Kent
A UFO expert has made a shocking revelation about a famous British extra-terrestrial encounter.
Gary Heseltine, from Scholes, Holmfirth, claims aliens who visited RAF Bentwater in Suffolk in 1980 were interested in a “secret stash” of nuclear weapons.
Dubbed as the “British Roswell”, the site was claimed to have been visited by UFOs over three nights that December.
Gary was at the airbase while making a documentary.
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Gary, who himself has served in the RAF, says witness Colonel Charles Halt told him at the scene that the UFO had “shone a beam on the weapons storage area (WSA)”, which “had more nuclear missiles than anywhere else in Europe”.
He claims he was told the secret while touring at the site for a documentary which was never finished.
Gary Heseltine with Colonel Charles Halt when they met shortly after the UFO incident at RAF Bentwaters
Gary, 56, said: “It was the year Russia invaded Poland who were threatening to break from the Soviet regime, and the US Middle East hostage crisis.
“It was a tense time which would explain why they had weapons.”
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The claims have been backed up by Gary’s wife Lynn, who had joined the pair during filming.
Gary has now come forward with the theory after watching a documentary on UFO sightings at nuclear bases, suggesting other life forms may be interested in the weapons.
“It’s no coincidence that UFOs were turning up at that base”, Gary added.
Col Halt and the UK government have previously denied the base was holding deadly weapons.
UFO expert Gary Heseltine
The Colonel said: “My comment to Gary was, ‘it appears the beam was in or near the weapons storage area’.
“I never made such a statement about weapons to Gary. Those are his conclusions.”
Gary is the founder of UFO Truth, an online magazine on the issue.
He has been interested in other life forms since sighting a UFO aged 16 in his hometown of Scunthorpe.
He is also the organiser of a huge UFO convention which attracted hundreds of people to Holmfirth last Autumn.
Mysterieus object dat ons zonnestelsel nadert zou buitenaards ruimteschip kunnen zijn. Topwetenschapper doet opmerkelijke claim
Mysterieus object dat ons zonnestelsel nadert zou buitenaards ruimteschip kunnen zijn. Topwetenschapper doet opmerkelijke claim
mysterieus object dat zich in de richting van ons zonnestelsel begeeft, zou een buitenaards ruimteschip kunnen zijn. Dat heeft een wetenschapper gezegd in een interview met The Sun.
Verleden week kondigden Duitse wetenschappers aan dat ze een object hadden ontdekt dat onze kant op komt.
Het object, C/2019 Q4, lijkt uit een ander zonnestelsel afkomstig te zijn en vliegt in oktober langs Mars.
Niet uitsluiten
Er zijn al diverse pogingen ondernomen om C/2019 te bestuderen, maar wetenschappers hebben nog steeds geen idee wat het is.
Velen speculeren dat het gaat om een komeet.
Volgens astronoom Seth Shostak van het SETI Institute in Californië is dat nog niet zeker. “We kunnen niet uitsluiten dat het een interstellaire sonde is,” zei hij.
Oumuamua
Toch denkt hij dat uiteindelijk zal blijken dat het een komeet is.
Als blijkt dat C/2019 inderdaad uit een ander zonnestelsel komt, is het voor zover we weten de tweede keer dat een interstellaire bezoeker ons heeft bereikt.
De eerste, een sigaarvormig object genaamd Oumuamua, zoefde in 2017 langs de aarde.
Ruimteschip
Twee Harvard-wetenschappers claimden dat het een ruimteschip was.
Dr. Shostak zei tegen The Sun dat SETI C/2019 mogelijk binnenkort zal scannen.
“Ik heb aan ons SETI-team voorgesteld om dit nieuwe object te onderzoeken met de Allen Telescope Array,” zei hij.
WEDEROM SPECTACULAIRE STIJGING VAN VUURBOLLEN IN DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )
WEDEROM SPECTACULAIRE STIJGING VAN VUURBOLLEN IN DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )
Ze worden vaak vuurbollen genoemd, de brokken ruimtepuin die steeds vaker vlak langs de aarde scheren.
Het aantal van die gevaarlijke projectielen wordt groter en groter en de mensheid weet vaak niet of op het laatste moment dat ze komen.
We hebben als aarde te maken met een aantal natuurlijke bedreigingen en klimaatopwarming hoort daar niet bij.
Dat is een door de Illuminati verzonnen niet bestaand fenomeen, bedoeld om de burger nog meer vrijheden en geld te ontnemen en om te zorgen dat uiteindelijk de planeet van hen is.
Er worden fenomenale bedragen uitgegeven om deze niet bestaande bedreiging te bestrijden, terwijl wij als mensheid zo goed als niets doen tegen werkelijke gevaren.
Keer op keer lees je verhalen over brokken ruimtepuin, asteroïden, die vlak langs de aarde scheren en waarvan sommigen zelfs de potentie hebben om ons te raken.
Zo staat er nu weer een verhaal over een asteroïde met een doorsnede van 430 meter die op 24 september de aarde met een snelheid van bijna 13 kilometer per seconde zal passeren, oftewel zo’n 80.000 kilometer per uur.
Deze asteroïde is dan bekend en heeft de naam 1998 FF14. Dit object is door NASA geclassificeerd als een PHA, hetgeen staat voor Potentially Hazardous Asteroid. Dit betekent dan weer dat deze asteroïde een mogelijk gevaar voor de aarde kan opleveren.
Wanneer een dergelijk object de aarde daadwerkelijk zou raken, dan spreken we over de verwoesting van een complete streek, land of zelfs continent. Want dit object zal inslaan met een kracht van 60 ton TNT, hetgeen beduidend meer is dan de zwaarste test die ooit met een kernbom is uitgevoerd.
De volgende video is een animatie van NASA en laat zien hoeveel asteroïden er zijn ontdekt in de periode 1999 tot 2018. Een fenomenaal aantal en dit is nog slechts een fractie van de echte hoeveelheid..
Keer op keer wordt de mensheid verteld dat de kans dat een dergelijk object de aarde zal raken minimaal is en dat we ons daarover geen zorgen hoeven te maken.
Nu horen we dat wel te doen, want het aantal vuurbollen dat onze atmosfeer binnenkomt is dit jaar wederom spectaculair gestegen ten opzichte van vorig jaar.
Wat men vuurbollen noemt zijn asteroïden die als meteorieten onze dampkring binnenkomen en/of verbranden, exploderen of op de grond terechtkomen. Zoals te zien in de grafiek is het aantal van die vuurbollen dit jaar spectaculair gestegen ten opzichte van vorige jaren.
Klik op het plaatje voor een grotere versie.
Zoals is gebleken met de exploderende meteoriet boven het Russische Chelnyabinsk zijn lang niet alle objecten in kaart gebracht en heeft destijds helemaal niemand deze asteroïde zien aankomen. Sterker nog, NASA vernam via Twitter dat er boven Rusland een meteoriet was geëxplodeerd.
Er zijn natuurlijk wetenschappers die hebben berekend dat de aarde in 2032 getroffen zal worden door de asteroïde 2013 TV 135 en waarvan NASA zegt dat deze geen gevaar zal opleveren. Saillant detail is dat zo ongeveer de enige tijdreiziger die nog nooit is ontmaskerd, Scott, ook spreekt van een inslag van een asteroïde in 2032.
Of dat wel of niet gebeurt, de vraag is of het nog zolang gaat duren voordat één van die ongeleide projectielen daadwerkelijk de aarde raakt.
Misschien moet Urgenda die zich nu voor het karretje van de New World Order laat spannen met de klimaathoax zich eens gaan bezighouden met werkelijke bedreigingen voor de aarde, zoals bijvoorbeeld het bovenstaande.
Als het gezonde verstand zou regeren, dan zou een fractie van het geld dat aan klimaatidioterie wordt besteed voldoende zijn om alle ruimtepuin in kaart te brengen, systemen te ontwikkelen die op tijd mensen zouden waarschuwen als er een bepaald gebied op aarde risico loopt en werken aan manieren om de werkelijke bedreigingen onschadelijk te maken.
Maar, het gezond verstand speelt al lang geen rol meer in dit soort zaken en moeten we het maar doen met wat NASA adviseert en dat is bidden.
De dag dat de wereld stilstond, 9/11, vanwege een aanslag in het hart van Amerika, de Twin Towers, zagen veel mensen niet wat er werkelijk gebeurde.
Dat er die dag talloze ufo’s werden waargenomen die betrokken waren bij de aanslagen en die nu weer terug zijn.
We weten dat een satanische sekte verantwoordelijk is voor deze aanslagen op 9/11 en dat ze gebruik maakten van technieken die onze tijd officieel ver vooruit zijn.
Je kunt ze geavanceerde drones noemen, maar een beter woord is ufo’s, omdat het veelal kleine snel vliegende objecten zijn die ook een belangrijke rol hebben gespeeld bij 9/11, waarover later meer.
Als je als satanische sekte een dergelijke afgrijselijke misdaad hebt uitgevoerd zoals de 9/11 aanslag, dan lijkt het ook wel heel toepasselijk om tijdens de ceremonie waar duizenden mensen het verlies van hun geliefden herdenken nog eens zout in de wonden te strooien.
Tijdens de laatste herdenking enkele dagen geleden werd de hemel boven New York verlicht door zogenaamde Tribute Lights. En in de stralen van die lichten waren een aantal onbekende vliegende objecten waar te nemen, ufo’s dus.
Volgens ufoloog Scott Waring hebben we hier te maken met buitenaardse ufo’s die het, zoals hij zegt, vaak interessant vinden om historische plaatsen te bezoeken. Hij ziet het allemaal als iets heel positiefs en dat buitenaardsen op deze manier de menselijke emoties observeren.
Het zou kunnen dat hij gelijk heeft, maar gezien de gebeurtenissen rondom 9/11 denken wij dat een andere mogelijkheid voor de hand liggender lijkt.
Hier zijn de beelden van de ufo’s rondom de Tribute Lights.
We gaan even terug naar de gebeurtenissen op 11 september 2001 via een deel uit een eerder artikel, waarin wordt aangetoond dat er ook toen sprake was van ufo's.
Tot twee keer toe hebben wij een onthulling gepubliceerd die tot de meest schokkende ooit kan worden gerekend en het wordt volkomen genegeerd door de wereld.
Een lezer schrijft (dank!) het volgende:
Uiteraard zijn jullie bevindingen opmerkelijk. Maar zolang de mainstream media zwijgt kan je weinig. Tevens is het erg moedig dit soort dingen op jullie site kenbaar te maken.
Voordat je het weet krijgt iemand van de redactie een `ongeluk` tijdens een vakantie verblijf. (vooral geen verblijf boeken op de 33e etage)
Het goede nieuws voor ons is dat we geen geld hebben om met vakantie te gaan, dus hieruit blijkt maar dat Cruijff gelijk had omdat volgens hem ieder nadeel zijn voordeel heeft.
We kregen nog meer interessante informatie binnen van een andere lezer (dank!) en dat heeft betrekking op de aanslagen van 9/11 op het World Trade Center in New York.
De aanslag in Afghanistan vorige week laat zien hoe daar een UFO wordt ingezet die met aan zekerheid grenzende waarschijnlijkheid een soort geheim laser-/energiewapen gebruikt, gericht op een groep die aanwezig was tijdens een begrafenis. Nu blijkt vervolgens dat dezelfde tactiek ook is gebruikt voor de aanslagen van 9/11.
Er deden al langer verhalen de ronde over UFO’s die zouden zijn gesignaleerd en zelfs verhalen dat de vreemde bal die werd gezien een wapen zou zijn wat in de zuidelijke toren terecht zou zijn gekomen in plaats van een vliegtuig.
Maar, wanneer we alle beschikbare beelden bekijken en op een rij zetten, dan zien we een identiek scenario als wat is gebruikt in Afghanistan.
Navolgend nogmaals het traject van de UFO in Afghanistan, de explosie en vervolgens het verdwijnen van de UFO.
Bij 9/11 gebeurde er precies hetzelfde en volgde de UFO het volgende traject:
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je de UFO verschijnen, deze komt van rechtsboven.
Vervolgens verdwijnt deze achter het eerste gebouw van het WTC dat al is geraakt.
De volgende video gaat in detail in op het traject van deze UFO tot en met het punt waarop deze de tweede toren van het WTC heeft bereikt. In de video noemt de onderzoeker het geen UFO maar “the ball”.
Men gaat er vanuit dat dit een soort geheim wapen is wat in de tweede toren is gevlogen in plaats van een vliegtuig zoals men ons wil laten geloven. Ook wordt aangetoond hoe het vliegtuig later op een nogal slordige manier in de beelden is gemonteerd.
“The ball” zoals ze het noemen, is niets anders dan een UFO die door middel van een soort laser-/energiewapen een explosie veroorzaakt in de toren en daarna wegvliegt, net zoals bij de begrafenis in Kabul en de explosie en dientengevolge de vernieling van de Space X raket, een concurrent van NASA projecten.
Wanneer je het traject volgt uit het bovenstaande deel en de UFO vliegt weg na de explosie te hebben veroorzaakt, dan zou zich die bevinden precies op de plek waar deze op de volgende afbeeldingen is te zien
Na de explosie bij de tweede toren van het WTC zie je de UFO wegvliegen.
Dit wordt nog duidelijker als je de volgende bewegende beelden bekijkt.
Ook wordt in bovenstaande video het bewijs geleverd dat het vliegtuig er later in is gemonteerd en niet helemaal goed, want je ziet nog steeds de UFO.
Wat we nu hebben, is een duidelijk patroon van hoe ze dit soort aanslagen uitvoeren. Waarschijnlijk zullen er met goed zoeken nog wel meer beelden te vinden zijn en we houden ons aanbevolen mocht iemand nog iets ontdekken.
Een donkere satanische sekte die duizenden mensen vermoordt zodat ze later in de oorlogen die als een gevolg daarvan ontstaan, nog eens miljoenen mensen kunnen doden.
Een sekte die zich verbergt achter en onder het Joodse volk:
Voor hen die niet al te bekend zijn met de materie, hierbij een uitleg van enkele begrippen. Wat wij tegenwoordig Joden noemen zijn voor het overgrote deel geen Joden, maar Chazaren. Een klein elite deel van deze Chazaren vormen een geheime satanische sekte die bekendstaat onder verschillende namen zoals de Sabbateans, de Illuminati, de Rothschild mafia of de Chazaarse mafia (CM). Een afgeleide van de Sabbateans is de Chabad beweging. Zij hebben niets met het gewone Joodse/Chazaar volk te maken. Deze satanische mafia verbergt zich onder de paraplu van het Jodendom. Niet alleen hebben zij de controle over de gelduitgifte in bijna de hele wereld en de mainstream media inclusief Hollywood, zij hebben ook het machtige werktuig van het Zionisme. Dit doet zich voor als een politiek ideologische beweging, maar is in feite een geheim genootschap ter verdere controle en manipulatie van het menselijk ras.
Een dodelijke sekte, die beschikt over bijna alle technische middelen die de aarde heeft te bieden en die dit gebruikt wanneer het hen uitkomt.
Tot slot hierna nog een interessante getuigenverklaring van een man die op die bewuste dag in de stad was en vertelt hoe hij een vreemde zilverkleurige ufo zag.
Live Stream! Area 51 Raid! The Event Begins in Nevada
Live Stream! Area 51 Raid! The Event Begins in Nevada
Area 51 Raid Live Stream
The Event begins in Nevada. What was once a Hoax has now become reality. lol Pretty foolish but fun to watch I’m sure. I doubt anyone will be raiding Area 51 today.
Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force facility located within the Nevada Test and Training Range. Officially, the facility is called Homey Airport or Groom Lake, named after the salt flat situated next to its airfield.
Cosmic Disaster, Solar Micronova, Superflare, Magnetic Reversal, Crustal Displacement, Ice Age, Tsunamis, Volcanoes… it’s all here, it’s all been done before and it’s all coming again soon.
Science tells us these magnetic events come on a cycle, we are due up again now, and shocker… the magnetic field is shifting and accelerating. This is not a coincidence.
The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis suggests that there have been geologically rapid shifts in the relative positions of the modern-day geographic locations of the poles and the axis of rotation of the Earth, creating calamities such as floods and tectonic events.
Guys, these structures on the moon were found by Placitto Dominique of Youtube. The structures really stand out in the photos of the desk of the NASA scientists. At one one point in the video, the narrator asks why they scientists is so tired, that he should go home and get some rest, the scientist answers...because I'm too excited. Yes he was excited because as he said that...the building photos were right in front of him on the table! Check out the video I made to show you more. The raw footage is 100% proof that NASA knew about the existence of aliens way back in 1971! Scott C. Waring
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9 Facts About Project Blue Book, the Government’s Top-Secret UFO Program
9 Facts About Project Blue Book, the Government’s Top-Secret UFO Program
Between 1952 and 1969, the U.S. Air Force conducted a series of studies on UFO sightings called Project Blue Book. Not only is there a new History Channel series about the program, this year also marks the 50th anniversary of the project’s termination. Get to know the secretive program better.
1. PROJECT BLUE BOOK WASN’T THE GOVERNMENT’S FIRST UFO STUDY.
In 1947, a private pilot named Kenneth Arnold reportedly spotted nine glowing UFOs zooming over Washington’s Mount Rainier. The public went wild for the so-called “flying saucers.” Shortly after, the U.S. government launched Project SIGN to determine if such objects were a threat. In 1948, Project SIGN purportedly published a document called the “Estimate of the Situation,” which suggested that extraterrestrials were a possible explanation for UFO sightings. As the story goes, Air Force officials destroyed the document and launched a more skeptical investigation in the late 1940s called Project GRUDGE. Blue Book came a few years later.
2. THE “ESTIMATE OF THE SITUATION” WAS INSPIRED BY A MIND-BOGGLING EVENT.
In the 1960s, Air Force officials denied that the “Estimate of the Situation” document ever existed. Those who vouch for its authenticity, however, say the report was inspired by a 1948 UFO sighting in Alabama, after two experienced pilots saw a torpedo-shaped “glowing object” zip past their aircraft and rocket into the clouds. The report shocked and baffled many of Project SIGN’s researchers, though scientists would later claim the sighting was consistent with a bolide, or bright meteor.
3. “BLUE BOOK” WAS NAMED AFTER A COLLEGE TESTING STAPLE.
Whether UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin is debatable. What’s undeniable is that, during the 1950s, people routinely spotted (or thought they spotted) objects flying over the United States—and it was the onus of the U.S. military to figure out what they were and whether they posed any danger. Blue Book would earn its name because, at the time, Air Force officials equated studying the phenomenon with preparing for a collegiate “blue book” final exam.
4. OFFICIALS DEVELOPED A SPECIAL PROTOCOL FOR HANDLING UFO SIGHTINGS.
A central part of Project Blue Book was the creation of a standardized questionnaire for UFO sightings. Some sample prompts: “Draw a picture that will show the shape of the object or objects … What was the condition of the sky? … Did the object: Suddenly speed up and rush away at any time? Change shape? Flicker, throb, or pulsate?” Eventually, every U.S. Air Force base ended up designating a special officer to collect these UFO reports.
5. THOUSANDS OF REPORTS WERE COLLECTED—AND SOME HAVEN’T BEEN EXPLAINED.
By the time Project Blue Book was closed, officials had gathered 12,618 UFO reports. Of those, 701 were never explained. Nearly half of those unidentified UFOs appeared in 1952 when a whopping 1501 UFOs were sighted. (Interestingly, that following year, it became a crime for military personnel to discuss classified UFO reports with the public; the risk of breaking the law could mean up to two years imprisonment.)
6. PROJECT BLUE BOOK SAW FIVE LEADERSHIP CHANGES.
Each person in command saw the purpose of Project Blue Book differently. Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, for example, treated the job as a serious scientific quest and is often lauded as the project’s most impartial leader. (Notably, he is responsible for coining the term UFO.) Major Hector Quintanilla, who took over the project in 1963, was more interested in turning Blue Book into a PR front and focused on quelling the public’s interest in UFOs—a desire that would eventually lead to charges of a government cover-up.
7. BLUE BOOK MADE SUCH BAD SCIENTIFIC MISTAKES THAT CONGRESS HAD TO GET INVOLVED.
In 1965, Oklahoma Police, the Tinker Air Force Base, and a local meteorologist using weather radar independently tracked four unexplained flying objects. Under Quintanilla’s advisement, Project Blue Book would claim that these witnesses had simply observed the planet Jupiter. The problem with this explanation? Jupiter wasn’t even visible in the night’s sky. “The Air Force must have had its star finder upside-down during August,” Robert Riser, an Oklahoma planetarium director, said at the time. A series of more badly botched scientific explanations eventually led to a congressional hearing.
8. THE PROJECT’S DESIRE TO DISMISS UNIDENTIFIED PHENOMENA BOTHERED ITS SOLE SCIENTIST.
Project Blue Book had one consistent scientific consultant, astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek. In 1968, Hynek wrote: “The staff of Blue Book, both in numbers and in scientific training, is grossly inadequate … there is virtually no scientific dialogue between Blue Book and the outside scientific world … The statistical methods employed by Blue Book are nothing less than a travesty” [PDF]. Hynek held Quintanilla in particularly low regard, saying, “Quintanilla’s method was simple: disregard any evidence that was counter to his hypothesis.”
9. IN 2007, A NEW GOVERNMENT INQUIRY INTO UFOS WAS LAUNCHED.
Between 2007 and 2012, the U.S. government spent $22 million on a new UFO study called the “Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.” (Nowadays, UFOs are called UAPs, or “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”: You can watch one here.) This January, more than three dozen of the program’s studies became publicly available, revealing the government’s interest in everything from warp drives to invisibility cloaks.
Researchers Looking For Dark Matter Fail And Find Gold Instead
Researchers Looking For Dark Matter Fail And Find Gold Instead
Over the past recent years, scientists have devised several methods to detect the mysterious dark matter particles, but no one has been successful in doing so.
Any signal from dark matter is incredibly small. A research team from Swinburne’s Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Australia thus attempted to detect dark matter, deep in the core of a mine in Stawell, Victoria. However, they failed in their task.
Even though the researchers carried out the experiments, almost a kilometer down the mineshaft using a highly sensitive sensor device, the rock above them could not shield the cosmic radiations, called Muon particles, which ruined the measurements. However, there was a silver lining. The scientists ended up detecting gold in the process!
Now, muons are similar to electrons but are said to be 200 times heavier. As high atomic numbers preferentially scatter muons, heavy metal deposits like gold create shadows like bones in a medical X-Ray. Thus, researchers designed a portable muon detector, the size of a paperweight equipped with a sensor that runs our smartphones. Given its portability, it can be used to explore lower mineral boreholes.
Gold formed on quartz in a hydrothermal vein. Unspecified mine at or near Grass Valley, Nevada County. Image credits James St. John / Flickr
“The first one we built was a cylindrical piece of scintillating plastic in a paint tin. You’ve never seen anything that looked so rough and ready, but it just gave the most beautiful detections,” said Alan Duffy, an Associate Professor at Swinburne’s Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, as reported by ZME Science.
The team looks forward to reconstructing a picture of the minerals from the data in a few short weeks. The researchers also ideally want a new company to be built around the sensor after it develops the device to be sturdy enough for use in real mines.
ASTROPHYSICISTS WARN THAT ENTIRE GALAXIES “ARE BEING KILLED”
ASTROPHYSICISTS WARN THAT ENTIRE GALAXIES “ARE BEING KILLED”
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Distant galaxies are dying. Stripped of their ability to produce new stars, the unfortunate galaxies are stuck in time, slowly vanishing as their existing stars fade away or die in violent supernovas.
Now a team is investigating the nearby Virgo Cluster to figure out what’s going on in hopes that similar phenomena are happening there, project leader and McMaster University astrophysicist Toby Brown writes in The Conversation. Brown suggests that galaxies are being killed as they interact with the extreme conditions of tightly-packed galaxy clusters — but he’s not sure why.
Narrowing Down
To clarify, when Brown writes that “in the most extreme regions of the universe, galaxies are being killed,” he doesn’t mean that they’re suddenly vanishing. Rather, the formation of new stars within them is being shut down by yet-undetermined factors.
So far, Brown’s team has arrived at two possibilities, and Brown hopes that using advanced telescopes to probe the still-forming Virgo Cluster will tilt the scales one way or another.
Cosmic Starvation
The first possibility is called ram pressure stripping, a process through which all of the gas that a galaxy would use to form stars is vacuumed away by nearby intergalactic plasma. The other is that the environment inside a galactic cluster simply becomes too hot for cosmic gases to cool and condense into stars, rendering it useless as fuel.
“When you remove the fuel for star formation, you effectively kill the galaxy,” Brown writes, “turning it into a dead object in which no new stars are formed.”
Mystery object approaching us from interstellar space could be ALIEN spacecraft, top scientist admits
Mystery object approaching us from interstellar space could be ALIEN spacecraft, top scientist admits
EXCLUSIVEHarry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
A MYSTERIOUS object hurtling towards our Solar System may be an alien spacecraft.
That's the shock claim made by one space scientist, who has exclusively revealed to The Sun that our incoming visitor could be piloted by hyper-intelligent beings.
Last week, scientists in Germany announced they were tracking a distant object heading in our direction.
Dubbed "C/2019 Q4", the high-speed body appears to be on a path originating from another star system that will see it fire past Mars in October.
Despite numerous attempts to study C/2019, scientists remain clueless as to what it is. Many speculate the distant mass is a comet.
According to prominent astronomer Dr Seth Shostak, while this is the interstellar traveller's most likely identity, we can't say for sure it's not a flying saucer.
Dr Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, reckons the mysterious visitor could be an alien spacecraft
Credit: SETI
This is the first colour-composite image of the interstellar object, published MondayCredit: Gemini Observatory
"We can't rule out that this is an interstellar probe," Dr Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, told The Sun.
"If we get a closeup look, we may well see it has a metal exterior with portholes and little green faces looking out at us.
"Hwever, I would bet next month's pay cheque this is a comet."
Dr Shostak, 76, has won numerous awards for his work, which among other things involves scanning the stars for signals sent out by aliens.
Artist's impression of the interstellar object Oumuamua
Credit: Getty - Contributor
He's a top scientist at the SETI Institute, a UFO-hunting non-profit dedicated to finding out if we're alone in the universe.
If C/2019 really is from another star system, it would be only the second interstellar visitor ever known to have reached the Solar System.
The first, a cigar-shaped object called Oumuamua, took the world by storm when it careened past Earth in 2017.
A pair of Harvard scientists claimed it could be a spacecraft, sparking a frantic flurry of scans – including from telescopes operated by SETI – as the object flew by.
What is Oumuamua?
Here's everything you need to know...
Oumuamua is a cigar-shaped asteroid that sped past Earth in 2017
Some boffins think the space rock was an alien probe sent by a distant civilisation
It was spotted by scientists in Hawaii, and its name means 'scout' in Hawaiian
Researchers involved in SETI- the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence - used a powerful dish to scan Oumuamua
They found no signs of radio signals, suggesting it wasn't an alien spaceship after all
Recent research suggests that the object could have been ejected by a gas giant planet
It's now moving away from Earth so fast that we're unlikely to ever find out
Experts found no signs of alien signals, and Oumuamua whizzed past Earth before its true origin could be determined.
Dr Shostak, 76, revealed to The Sun that SETI may soon train its scanning equipment on C/2019 to look for signs of life, much like it did as Oumuamua flew by.
"I have suggested to our SETI team that we give this new object a look with the Allen Telescope Array," the Virginia-born scientist said. "So maybe we will check it out."
C/2019 was spotted on August 30 by amateur Ukrainian astronomer Gennady Borisov, and scientists around the world have pored over it ever since.
Dr Shostak is urging SETI scientists to take a look at the object with the Allen Telescope Array (pictured)Credit: SETI
"It's so exciting, we're basically looking away from all of our other projects right now," Dr Olivier Hainaut, an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory in Germany, told Business Insider last week.
Early images released on Monday suggest it's followed by a tail of dust.
That's typically what you see coming out the back of a comet, though scientists say they can't be sure that's what the object is.
Further observations of C/2019 have exposed the shape of its orbit.
The elusive visitor could be piloted by hyper-intelligent beingsCredit: Getty - Contributor
If the object is indeed interstellar, scientists should be able to study it until early 2021, when it will grow too dim to see.
They'll largely focus on what it's made of, as well as where it came from, while alien fanatics wait with bated breath.
Dr Shostak strongly believes that life exists outside of Earth, and it may have even visited our planet in the past.
"I have no doubts that aliens are out there, we wouldn't be doing our work if I didn't believe that," he told The Sun.
"It’s even possible they've visited Earth at some point, maybe a billion years ago, maybe 100million years ago. We may never know.
Mysterious object from interstellar space ‘approaching our solar system’
Consider the possibility that an asteroid may have transformed the picture of life on Earth — but forget the dinosaurs and the massive crater, and rewind an extra 400 million years from that dramatic moment.
Back then, life was primarily an oceanic affair and backbones were the latest in arrival on the anatomy scene. But unlike the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, this earlier space rock never made it to Earth. Instead, a collision in the asteroid belt flooded the solar system with so much dust that, given some other changes at the time, allowed life on Earth to flourish, new research suggests.
"Most important events in the history of life are like that," said Rebecca Freeman, a paleontologist at the University of Kentucky who specializes in this period but wasn't involved in the new research. "You get a really unique set of circumstances that all come together, and you get a really dramatic event that maybe seems like it should be due to one particular dramatic thing. But in reality, it's a more complicated system at play," she told Space.com.
The dramatic event scientists want to explain is a spree of new species. That outburst of life, which paleontologists call the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, took place in the oceans, which were inhabited mostly by spineless creatures. "This is really a world that is dominated by invertebrate marine organisms," Freeman said. "Probably the top predator would have been a cephalopod," likely an ancestral relative of today's chambered nautilus, with its intricate spiral shell.
But when Birger Schmitz, a geologist at Lund University in Sweden, went hunting for rock dating back 466 million years, he wasn't hoping to find fossilized nautiluses; he was looking for fossilized meteorites. And over the past couple of decades, he and his colleagues have found dozens of these fossilized meteorites in a Swedish limestone quarry. Each carries a chemical time stamp indicating that it was heated about 470 million years ago, and scientists have thought for a while that there might have been a massive asteroid collision around that time.
"For 25 years, I've had a gut feeling that this must somehow have had an effect on Earth, on life in particular," Schmitz said. "I felt there has to be some kind of connection." So he and his team looked to the rock. In the paper, the researchers drew on two key threads of evidence: a special form of helium and a mineral carried to Earth by meteorites.
They wanted something more difficult to find than fossilized meteorites: micrometeorites, which, like their larger siblings, carry the mineral chromite. "There are a lot more micrometeorites falling on Earth than larger meteorites, so I got one of the most crazy ideas I've had, I think," Schmitz said. "It wasn't that crazy, but at the time, it felt crazy."
A 466-million-year-old meteorite is photographed next to a fossilized nautiloid.
(Image credit: John Weinstein, Field Museum)
It meant the team had to get awfully destructive. "How would you do it if you want to find a needle in a haystack?" Schmitz said. "It's quite easy: You burn the haystack away. And this is what we do." When your haystack is limestone, burning it means dumping it — 2,870 lbs. (1,300 kilograms) of it — into hydrochloric acid to eat away the rock, leaving chromite grains behind. "They survive everything," he said of the chromites. "They survive 500 million years in the sediment; they survive all our acid treatment."
Levels of both the chromite grains and the exotic helium skyrocketed around this period — but not at precisely the same time. First, the rock shows a slow increase in extraterrestrial chromite that lasted between 2 million and 4 million years. A subset of that stretch shows a sharp increase in the grains from a particular category of meteorites, and another subset coincides with the arrival of the fossilized meteorites that have informed Schmitz's previous research. Another slightly skewed timeline charts the arrival of the extraterrestrial flavor of helium.
For Schmitz, all of those factors come together to suggest that a massive, distant asteroid collision did indeed affect life on Earth. He and his colleagues suggested that this breakup — of an asteroid stretching nearly 100 miles (150 kilometers) across — filled the inner solar system with meteorites and asteroid dust. Larger chunks would have spread from the collision site faster than smaller pieces.
The team proposed three ways in which so many asteroid fragments could affect Earth, cooling the planet. Perhaps the particles reaching Earth carried enough iron into the ocean that plant life dramatically flourished there, feasting on carbon dioxide and pulling it out of the atmosphere, the reverse of today's conditions. Or maybe particles strewn across the solar system blocked sunlight from reaching Earth.
The third possibility the team offered was that such cosmic dust trapped in Earth's atmosphere could have reflected sunlight away from Earth. That's the most plausible of the three scenarios, according to John Plane, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Leeds in the U.K. who studies cosmic dust in planetary atmospheres and has run models of the impact of increased dust levels on the climate.
The levels proposed in the new research are about 1,000 times the current levels of cosmic dust in Earth's atmosphere, which causes some subtle phenomena on our planet today, Plane said. "But obviously, if you increase it by 1,000, then there's no question it could have all of the effects that they're talking about."
Overall, Plane thought the research was intriguing. "They've made what I would regard as a pretty compelling case, which now needs to be investigated in a lot more detail," he said. "I think it's a very nice piece of work."
But the paper doesn't give the asteroid's debris all the credit for that spree of diversification. That's good, Freeman said, because many other factors would have played a role, like ocean circulation patterns and sea level rise. One particularly important factor is how land and the ocean were spread across Earth's surface at that time, with small continents stretching from the equator to the South Pole, offering many different niches for species to adapt to, she said.
Cliffs in Sweden show a gray line in the rock levels; scientists believe it was created by dust falling to Earth from an asteroid collision.
(Image credit: Philipp Heck, Field Museum)
"Continents move around really slowly, and so one of the things that's important for making these species is that you isolate populations," Freeman said. "You can find ways to link this supposed asteroid explosion space dust idea into a lot of different things; one thing you can't really blame on the asteroid is where the continents were."
The famous dinosaur scenario has led paleontologists to suspect asteroids as culprits in other events, she said. (Although some scientists think other factors played a role, there's still a clear connection between the impact and the mass extinction.) "That sent everybody into a frenzy of trying to blame meteorites for everything," Freeman said. "As a community, we've maybe pulled away from wanting to blame everything on things from outer space, but they've got some really great documentation here."
From that documentation, Schmitz is even willing to describe what time travelers might see if they stopped to visit the mighty nautiluses of the era.
"There would have been a lot more meteorites, light streaks," Schmitz said. "You could stand there, wishing things all the time, because there would be a lot of these light streaks from the sky with all the dust coming in."
The research is described in a paper published today (Sept. 18) in the journal Science Advances.
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