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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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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...
06-11-2019
US Government Information on ETs is Hidden Really Well, According to Whistleblower Edward Snowden
US Government Information on ETs is Hidden Really Well, According to Whistleblower Edward Snowden
One of the most popular subjects among conspiracy theorists in forums and YouTube channels is the existence of aliens and UFOs. Claims on ET existence are usually supported with more than some grainy video of a light in the sky.
However, there’s one man who is significantly better positioned than most conspiracy theorists to expose a government cover-up of extraterrestrial life: that man named Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who now lives in exile in Russia.
Snowden revealed that he had searched the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) databases for proof of alien life. He said that he had ridiculous access to the networks of the military, the CIA, the NSA, all these groups. Unfortunately, he found nothing.
Snowden concluded that the information on aliens is hidden really well even from people who are on the inside.
Conspiracy theorists agree that the ET information is hidden really well, and it only means one thing to them, keep looking.
Snowden had leaked highly classified NSA information from his position as a CIA employee. He fled to Moscow after he was charged with two counts of espionage and theft of government property. He spent more than a month living in Sheremetyevo Airport terminal before eventually being granted asylum.
A strange video circulating online shows a strange cloud formation that has turned many confused observers upside down.
The video footage was reportedly shot last week in Florida by a person named "Grey Garcia" and then released on a popular YouTube channel dedicated to anomalous videos.
Unfortunately, apart from this background information, no further details about the video are available.
An odd video circulating online shows a strange cloud formation that has left many bewildered observers scratching their heads. The footage was reportedly filmed last week in Florida by an individual going by the name of 'Grey Garcia' and subsequently wound up being posted on a popular YouTube channel devoted to anomalous videos. Unfortunately, aside from that bit of background information, no other details about the video are available.
Be that as it may, the footage is rather interesting as it shows several evenly spaced stick-like clouds stretching in a long line across the sky. Dubbed a 'stairway to heaven' by some, the origin and nature of the weird formation is unknown. While it may simply be a natural meteorological phenomenon, one online viewer offered the intriguing suggestion that perhaps the series of clouds are the remnants of a skywriting message that was slowly fading away. What's your theory on what could have created the puzzling formation? Let us know at the Coast to Coast AM Facebook page.
‘Trap naar de hemel’ zorgt voor verbazing. Hoe valt deze wolkenformatie boven Florida te verklaren?
Foto: YouTube/mavi 777
‘Trap naar de hemel’ zorgt voor verbazing. Hoe valt deze wolkenformatie boven Florida te verklaren?
Op internet wordt met verbazing gereageerd op beelden van een vreemde wolkenformatie.
De beelden zouden afgelopen week in Florida zijn gemaakt door iemand met de naam Grey Garcia. Ze werden vervolgens gepubliceerd door een YouTube-kanaal dat zich bezighoudt met vreemde zaken die zich op onze aardbol afspelen.
Verder is er op dit moment nog maar weinig bekend over de videobeelden.
Trap
In het filmpje zijn meerdere stok-vormige wolken te zien die zich als een soort trap uitstrekken in de lucht.
Sommigen spraken dan ook van een ‘trap naar de hemel’, terwijl anderen dachten dat het resten waren van een boodschap die in de lucht was achtergelaten.
Natuurlijk fenomeen
Het zou ook simpelweg een natuurlijk fenomeen kunnen zijn. Vooralsnog blijft het speculeren.
Watch: Former Barack Obama Pilot On Encountering A UFO
Watch: Former Barack Obama Pilot On Encountering A UFO
JAZZ SHAW
Ever since the bombshell 2017 New York Times report about strange, unidentified craft flying in our military airspace, a number of pilots have been coming forward with their own stories. Many were military pilots of fighter jets or members of their shipboard support crew, but an increasing number of commercial pilots have been going public with their own experiences. Andy Danziger is one of the latter. The one aspect of his career that gives this story a special hook is that he used to fly Senator Barack Obama around sometimes on the campaign trail when he was running for president.
Sadly, the encounter he describes with Kennedy on Fox Business didn’t take place when the future 44th President was a passenger. (How great of a story would that have been?) This happened back in 1989 when he was a pilot on a regional airline. What he saw at fairly close range is amazing to hear him tell the tale.
For a long time, pilots were afraid to report such things officially because it could represent the end of their careers. (You don’t want crazy people flying commercial jets.) But now the atmosphere has changed and they’re less fearful of telling their stories. This is a fairly short interview, so enjoy it!
Dating from Neolithic period, temple is similar to Gobeklitepe, oldest temple in the world, says archaeologist
Halil Ibrahim Sincar
A drone photo shows a view of temple's remains belonging to the neolithic period in Dargecit ditstrict of Mardin, Turkey on October 30, 2019.
( Halil Ibrahim Sincar - Anadolu Agency )
MARDIN, Turkey
An ancient temple estimated to be over 11,000 years old has been found in eastern Turkey.
The temple dating from the Neolithic period with four monuments (steles) was unearthed in Dargecit in Mardin, an area known to have been home throughout history to Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans, among others.
Ergul Kodas, an archaeologist at Artuklu University and advisor to the excavation area, told Anadolu Agency that the temple, built with small stones and hardened clay floors, belongs to the same period as Gobeklitepe, the famed “oldest temple in the world.”
Gobeklitepe, declared an official UNESCO World Heritage Site last year, was discovered in 1963 by researchers from the universities of Istanbul and Chicago.
“According to analysis, the temple has four steles. We think it's about 11,300 years old,” said Kodas.
“Excavations are underway, but we have clearly revealed the steles. One of the four steles we uncovered was broken, but the other three were still preserved to this day as they were,” he added.
No figures were found on the steles, Kodas said, adding “This 80-square-meter temple of the Neolithic period has characteristics similar to Gobeklitepe.”
11.000 jaar oude tempel ontdekt in Turkije. Ontdek wat deze vondst te maken heeft met Gobekli Tepe, de oudste tempel ter wereld
In het oosten van Turkije is een oude tempel gevonden die naar schatting meer dan 11.000 jaar oud is, schrijft het Turkse persbureau Anadolu.
De tempel met vier monumenten (zogeheten steles) is opgegraven in Dargecit in Mardin, een gebied waar onder meer de Sumeriërs, Babyloniërs, Assyriërs, Romeinen en Ottomanen geleefd hebben.
Ergul Kodas, een archeoloog van de Mardin Artuklu University zei tegen het persbureau dat de tempel, die bestaat uit kleine stenen en vloeren van klei, uit dezelfde periode dateert als Gobekli Tepe, de ‘oudste tempel ter wereld’.
Werelderfgoedlijst
Gobekli Tepe, vorig jaar door Unesco officieel opgenomen op de Werelderfgoedlijst, is in 1963 ontdekt door Turkse en Amerikaanse onderzoekers.
“Uit onze analyse blijkt dat de tempel vier steles bevat,” zei Kodas. “We denken dat hij ongeveer 11.300 jaar oud is.”
80 meter
“Op dit moment worden er opgravingen verricht, maar we hebben de steles al blootgelegd,” voegde hij toe.
“Eén van de vier steles was gebroken, maar de andere drie zijn wel intact,” klonk het.
De tempel, met een doorsnee van ruim 80 meter, vertoont veel gelijkenissen met Gobekli Tepe, benadrukte Kodas.
Remember Harry Reid? The former US senator from Nevada and Senate Majority Leader from 2015 – 2017 is best known in some circles for his support of UFO research and full disclosure while in office, including securing secret funding for the secret study known as ATTIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program). After retiring due to a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, Reid has continued to fight both against the cancer and for the UFO cause and to clear up misinformation that has been distributed by the government about ATTIP and UFOs. He recently sat down for an exclusive interview with George Knapp, the acclaimed journalist and UFO investigator. Here are some of the highlights.
“I don’t understand what we’re seeing around the world with all these unidentified flying objects, and I want to be able to have an intelligent conversation in this regard.”
Reid is longing for the days when he was a government insider, authorizing the black budgets for ATTIP and its predecessor AAWSAP (Aerospace Weapons System Application Program). While ATTIP officially ended in 2012, there are many who believe it secretly still exists – Reid is one of them. ATTIP members ended up in Tom DeLong’s To The Stars Academy for Arts and Sciences and were responsible for the release of the Navy UFO footage in 2017. Apparently, Reid doesn’t (or can’t) talk to them intelligently about it and no one on the inside in Congress has Reid’s guts to go public.
Harry Reid
“Well, let them say something about it. I’m tired of all this, they’re getting briefings and all that. Let them step up to the plate like I did and do something publicly.”
It’s not that easy, as Reid should remember. He couldn’t get any info on what alleged UFO materials some corporations may have had in their possession. Then again, Reid himself isn’t that forthcoming with information these days either, as Knapp found out when he questioned the former senator about UFO discussions during his recent visit with Bill and Hillary Clinton. The former president expressed an interest in UFO disclosure while in office and the former presidential candidate promise she would do it if elected. Reid told Knapp that they promised to give him more dirt on their next visit – not exactly a risky promise to make to someone who’s 79 and being treated for pancreatic cancer.
“Nope, nope, but he, I didn’t want to push him, but he was very interested.”
Reid was also evasive with Knapp about a UFO conversation he had with the late astronaut and former senator John Glenn. Unfortunately, it seems all that’s available to talk to is what Reid refers to as “a fringe group of people out there who want to control this. The so-called conspiratorial folks.”
“They don’t want anybody that’s based on facts involved in this. So what do they do? They go online and try to belittle Elizondo and me and anybody else that is trying to do it in a scientific way. Elizondo is a man with a great record serving our country and people should leave him alone. And one thing about him, he’s not backing off and I appreciate that very much.”
Luis Elizondo headed ATTIP and is currently Director of Global Security and Special Programs at To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. Reid describes him as a fighter for the UFO disclosure cause and he’s encouraged by the mainstream media coverage he gets. He’s also encouraged by the willingness of the Navy to received and review UFO reports from its pilots without fear of punishment.
It would have been nice if Reid had shared more of what he knows with George Knapp, especially with his pancreatic cancer diagnosis. Fortunately, it’s in remission so he can continue to fight for UFO disclosure despite the “fringe group” and “conspiratorial folks.” Let’s hope his next conversation with George or some non-conspiratorial folks tells us more.
Mothman—or at leastsomething Mothman-esque—has been a strangely constant presence in the states around Lake Michigan since he first reappeared in Chicago in 2017. Less a typical “flap” with one extreme burst of sightings, the modern Mothman reports have slowly and steadily trickled in. This past October (a perfect time for spotting Mothman), there were two sightings of a large winged humanoid in Rosemont, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
The first sighting took place on October 5, 2019, near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The anonymous witness reported the sighting to Lon Strickler at Phantoms and Monsters. The witness initially contacted MUFON but declined to follow through with the MUFON investigator after becoming concerned that their anonymity would not be respected. The witness likely works as an Uber driver or for a similar company and was parked outside O’Hare when they saw the creature. From their account:
The encounter was so brief, but I also got a pretty good look at the creature. I was parked by the light pole. It allows me to park a little more off the road. I was fumbling around with some charging cables that lead to the backseat of the car, for my passengers to use while in the car. I had my passenger side windows down to give my A/C a break.
It was then that I saw movement and looked up to see the creature emerging out of the trees. It was large and about six to seven feet tall. It was human-like in appearance, but almost solid black. [There] were no real features on this thing, just solid black. It swiveled its head around, looking and scanning and that is where I saw the glowing red eyes. The rest of the body was thin, I remember making note that it looked like a thin person and it was sort of hunched over, because its arms were down to about it’s knees. The wings were about as wide [as] it was tall, so about six to seven feet in width and looked like the wings of a bat. When it walked it kind of had a weird sort of a waddle, not so much like a penguin but like the kind of stride that a large bird (like an Emu) would have.
Mothman is probably the spookiest dude on the planet.
The witness continued to state that there were other drivers around so someone else had to have seen it too. The witness says the creature flew off to the south and left behind a strong smell of ammonia.
The second report comes courtesy of Manuel Navarette of UFO Clearinghouse, who received a report from a man who saw the creature while he was attending a wedding at the Edward Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois on October 19, 2019. The Edward Hotel is approximately three miles north of the O’Hare Airport. The man says he stepped outside for a cigarette and was walking through the parking lot when he heard a scream that sounded like a woman’s voice. He turned on his phone’s flashlight and began looking around the area. Then he says the creature flew directly over his head. From his report:
This thing was at least six feet tall and was solid black with large wings, it looked like a giant-sized bat flew over the top of me. It was all black and kind of stuck out against the lights of the parking lot and the lights from around the area including the gas station across the street. Three other people saw it as well, including a couple who were walking across the parking lot as I heard them exclaiming about it. It flew toward the expressway and the BP gas station, this whole time it was screeching loud and flapping its wings hard like it was trying to gain height. When I lost sight of it, it was about the height of the billboard across the street still shrieking away.
Now I know I had been drinking during the wedding and was a little buzzed when I walked outside, but I was as sober as a judge after seeing this thing. It was unnatural and was pretty much the scariest thing I ever did see, but I know for a fact that I saw it and those other people saw it.
I mean, this one looks more like a Crowman, but that’s just as spooky.
The witness says he did not notice any red eyes or other distinguishing features. He also stresses that while he had been drinking he was not impaired in any way. Although, that’s usually what people say.
The second report sounds like it could be a misidentification of a large bird or something else of that nature, but in context with the first report and the string of Mothman sightings throughout this area since 2017, it becomes a bit more interesting. At this point, real or not, Mothman has permeated the collective unconscious enough that we’ll likely be hearing reports of this thing for a very long time to come.
UFOs Appear Over Bountiful, Utah On Oct 10. 2019 UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Appear Over Bountiful, Utah On Oct 10. 2019 UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 10, 2019 Location of sighting: Bountiful, Utah, USA Source: MUFON #104298 Here is a great eyewitness video of a fleet of UFOs over Utah two weeks ago. The report was just sent into MUFON today. The video clearly shows several glowing balls of light appearing next to one another. The objects do not fall and only move to the right, so that rules out military flares. The objects are huge, car size at least to be seen from such a distance...so that rules out drones. I do believe what this person is witnessing is a small fleet of UFOs that are exiting an underground base 5-6km below Bountiful city. The UFOs are appearing next to one another and assuming proper fleet positions for long distance traveling. The of course cloak as soon as they can, but still they are each visible for a few seconds. Remarkable raw footage. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was in my front yard communicating with the Amateur Radio Emergency Services Net. It was dark and I was looking West toward Antelope Island which is located in the western part of Davis County. I observed a cluster of approximately 50 bright orange lights enter the atmosphere over the island in a southerly direction. I thought a large meteor had broken up in the atmosphere, but then they hovered in a cluster and changed direction toward the East. The cluster of lights disappeared and a bright, white light was left in their place hovering. I then observed several bright white lights blinking in a sequential pattern in a straight line as they hovered. I reached for my cell phone and was able to capture some of this amazing event. I did not capture the 50 bright orange lights on video but what I did capture is pretty amazing. Later, someone I told sent me a link to a video of a cluster of bright orange lights hovering over the ocean near North Carolina on the same day. I watched the video and observed that it was exactly what I saw during the initial sighting.
Classic Disk Seen At Niagara Falls In Old Family Photo, 1910, UFO Sighting News.
Classic Disk Seen At Niagara Falls In Old Family Photo, 1910, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 1910
Location of sighting: Niagara Falls
Source: MUFON #104308
A person was going through some old photo and came across one of Niagara falls. Above the falls was a classic disk UFO. The raised upper center area is clearly a dome. The object is large and is recorded from the bottom area of the falls. It looks like its about size of a city bus. If it was hovering there, surly the person must have seen it, but if it was speeding past and inadvertently got caught in the photo, the person would not know until they saw the photos later. Either way, its an awesome classic disk.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
One day going through Family photo album I noticed this photo taken at Niagara Falls some where between 1910. No body in the family has noticed it either until I pointed it out in 2018. Look for your self and then you tell me what it is? Sure matches the description one would give back then.
Boomerang UFO Over Cuba May Be Top Secret Drone From US Navy Base, UFO Sighting News.
Boomerang UFO Over Cuba May Be Top Secret Drone From US Navy Base, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 8, 2019 Location of sighting: Cuba This boomerang UFO was seen over the Caribbean island of Cuba last summer. Although I have reported other boomerang UFOs before, this one has a rotating white object on its bottom. It seems this rotating object moves similar to that of a radar tower, focusing a 360 degree direction around it. Its very possible that this is not an alien craft, but an America secret military radar drone that the US Navy is experimenting with. You see, US Guantanamo Bay Navel Base is in Cuba and this leads me to think the US Navy are probably responsible for this craft. I am confident this craft returned to the US base soon after this sighting. Awesome video brought to my attention by Youtube Terrys Theories. Scott C. Waring
A UFO has been recorded on video hovering in the sky over the Egyptian capital of Cairo. The amazing video shows what appears to be a bright cylindrical object turning and twisting in the overcast sky. While not moving, the unusual sight seems to scare those people from the ground.
Several individuals can be heard screaming in the background while some others gasp in shock.
The clip of the UFO sighting was posted on October 29 to YouTube with the caption “Something weird in the sky.”
The user asked viewers with a logical interpretation to tell them.
The video was then picked up by popular conspiracy channel Mavi 777, where dozens wrote their thoughts in the comment section.
One wrote that he did not understand the reason people did not go closer upon seeing the objects and check it out.
Another one said that it could be just a drone.
But many others claimed that it was definitive evidence of aliens.
In recent months, cigar-shaped UFOs have been in the spotlight after a series of such sightings over the US.
It started in June when a mysterious snake-like object appeared over the Mojave Desert in California. Since, then similar UFOs have been spotted over New York City, Orlando, Washington Dc, and Michigan.
Unknown 'space station' filmed above San Diego in 'best ever UFO footage
UFOs across US 'could be Space Force craft built from secret military budget'
In this video clip, scientists pump concrete into a giant abandoned ant colony, then excavate the colony to reveal the intricate complexity of its inner structure. A must-see.
We noticed this video clip – originally published at our site in 2013 – was getting a lot of notice today. It deserves it! It’s amazing.
This video clip (from a longer documentary, Ants! Natures Secret Power) shows the excavation of a huge ant city, from a former colony of grass-cutter ants. Over the course of three days, scientists pumped 10 tons of cement into the abandoned ant hill. After weeks of digging, the scientists revealed the colony’s intricate and impressive structure. It’s amazing!
By the way, note the word abandoned. No ant genocide here, although a marvelous underground structure was altered in the name of science.
If this clip piques your interest, know that you can also view the full-length documentary here. The documentary introduces us to the world of ants through the eyes of Bert Hölldobler, entomologist and friend of world-renowned scientist E.O. Wilson. Award-winning cinematographer Wolfgang Thaler captured the scene.
The more I learn about ants, the more my mind is blown.
Video still from Ants! Nature’s Secret Power.
Bottom line: Video clip from Ants! Nature’s Secret Power by cameraman Wolfgang Thaler and entomologist Bert Hölldobler.
A RUSSIAN STARTUP IS SELLING ROBOT CLONES OF REAL PEOPLE
A RUSSIAN STARTUP IS SELLING ROBOT CLONES OF REAL PEOPLE
PROMOBOT
KRISTIN HOUSER
Robot Clones
Russian startup Promobot is now selling autonomous androids — and buyers can choose to make the robots look like any person on Earth.
“Everyone will now be able to order a robot with any appearance — for professional or personal use,” Aleksei Iuzhakov, Chairman of Promobot’s Board of Directors, said in a press release, later encouraging people to “imagine a replica of Michael Jordan selling basketball uniforms and William Shakespeare reading his own texts in a museum.”
Digital Immortality
Promobot’s Robo-C can’t walk, but its neck and torso each have three degrees of freedom of movement, according to the startup’s website. Its face has 18 moving parts, which allow the robot to produce 600 micro-expressions, and its AI boasts 100,000 speech modules.
“The key moment in development [of Robo-C] is the digitization of personality and the creation of an individual appearance,” Promobot co-founder Oleg Kivokurtsev told CNBC. “As a result, digital immortality, which we can offer our customers.”
Order Up
Promobot told CNBC it’s already taking orders for Robo-Cs and has started building four robot clones.
One of the bots will be stationed in a government service center where it will perform several functions, including passport scans. Another will be a clone of Albert Einstein for a robot exhibition.
The last two, according to the CNBC story, will be robot clones of the father and mother in a Middle Eastern family, which wants the bots for the bizarre purpose of “greeting guests.”
WASHINGTON — The coming generation of moon explorers should consider using lunar habitats as a test bed for future Mars missions, said a representative from the French space agency.
Erwan Beauvois, a space operations engineer with the National Centre for Space Studies, suggested that designers should work on designing an artificial ecosystem on the moon that would use bacteria, algae and other microorganisms to recycle air and waste and produce food. (Crewmembers on the International Space Station use a life support system instead that recycles water and oxygen but requires resupplies for items such as food.) Once the bioregenerative system is established on the moon, Beauvois argued, we should apply that same concept to the Red Planet.
"There's a long road leading to sustainability, but there are opportunities for technology transfer," Beauvois said here in his technology presentation on Oct. 23 at the International Astronautical Congress. "A good moon program is a good Mars program. If you think of the space program as a road map, it can be coherent, and it is pretty beneficial to do this."
NASA and several other space agencies and private companies are eyeing the moon as the next frontier for space exploration. As NASA plans to put humans on the surface by 2024, entities ranging from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to private company Moon Express are discussing how to build settlements and land machines to work cooperatively, potentially building a new lunar economy in the process. NASA's eventual goal is to apply the lessons learned at the moon to launch human missions to Mars.
There are vast differences, of course, between the moon and Mars, Beauvois acknowledged. While both of these locations are rocky worlds, Mars has a thin atmosphere and weather, while the moon is a nearly airless body only disturbed by radiation and the occasional micrometeorite.
The differences mean that at Mars, parts of the Red Planet environment could be integrated into a bioregenerative life support system. For example, methane or water ice resources on Mars could augment the supplies astronauts bring with them.
So why test at the moon before going on to Mars? For one thing, Beauvois said that people at both locations have the same needs. Astronauts would need to figure out how to supply their own power, to find water and to use the resources available to build structures and to live and work on the surface.
Technologies that extract water from moon dust, for example, could be applied to the regolith on Mars. The same goes for processes such as 3D printing, which would likely use the lunar (or Martian) regolith to enhance the shielding or to assist with putting together the structure. Also, astronauts on the moon could test surface fission nuclear reactors to ensure they would be useful on Mars.
Beauvois also pointed to life support systems. He suggested that designs for inflatable and transparent structures from the moon could be exported to Mars, as long as those structures were adapted for the differences in air pressure on the two worlds. The technology for water recycling, for growing plants in low light and for using biofuels in engines could also be applied in both locations.
Working on the moon could allow researchers to answer questions — such as what species grow well in these environments — before shipping these technologies farther out in the solar system, where it is harder to make adjustments as you go along, he added.
As footage of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft landing on asteroid Ryugu earlier this year played for delegates attending the International Astronautical Congress here last week, mission project manager Yuichi Tsuda interrupted an otherwise technical presentation to express excitement.
And why not? Despite encountering a rockier surface than expected, the Hayabusa2 mission made two flawless touchdowns on Ryugu. The successes let the spacecraft gather precious materials to bring back to Earth. Two hopping rovers and a lander deployed perfectly, and a third rover was deployed this fall. After18 months of operations at Ryugu, engineers have learned more about how to operate all sorts of spacecraft on a small world.
What about a follow-up mission? "There's no Hayabusa3 at this moment, but maybe in the future," Tsuda told the IAC delegates. But the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) does have other missions in the works. For example, the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is expected to explore Phobos and Deimos in the early 2020s. Just like Hayabusa2, this future mission will carry back samples from the moons for detailed laboratory analysis on Earth.
Interplanetary history lesson
Hayabusa2 was designed to broaden scientists' understanding of the early solar system, when the neighborhood was made up of small worlds such as Ryugu. By studying what these worlds are made of, we can better understand Earth's history and answer such questions as where our planet's water came from, or how organic materials and other life-friendly elements ended up on our planet.
But Ryugu, covered in boulders, turned out to be a considerable challenge for scientists. The largest rock, near the south pole, is nearly 430 feet (130 meters) across. That's a huge boulder given that Ryugu itself is less than 3,000 feet (900 m) in diameter. Tsuda described the asteroid's terrain as "very severe," with a surface so rocky that scientists had to devise a new plan to safely land Hayabusa2, which was designed with a flat target area 165 feet (50 m) across in mind.
"There were no such places on the asteroid," Tsuda said. "We were obliged to change our strategy and find a safe way, and also at the same time improve our landing performance."
Hayabusa2 engineers dropped a target marker to help the spacecraft see the white spot. The spot was so small in the pictures sent back from Ryugu that during its second descent, for example, JAXA decided to start Hayabusa2's final approach at about 100 feet (30 m), instead of the planned 150 feet (45 m), according to the Planetary Society. Mission engineers thought the lower altitude would help the spacecraft spot the marker. With the aid of more advanced image-rendering algorithms that made the surface appear clearer to Hayabusa2, the plan worked.
After making the first touchdown on Feb. 21 within 3 feet (1 m) of the small landing zone, Hayabusa2's second touchdown July 11 handily beat the mark. It gently touched the surface at an incredible 2 feet (60 centimeters) from the planned landing zone, allowing the small spacecraft to safely squeeze between several rocks that were 1.5 feet (0.5 meters) tall. "There were many fragments," Tsuda said, pointing to video footage that showed pieces of regolith flying off Ryugu's surface.
In addition to the fine-tuned landing, some of Hayabusa2's notable achievements include touching down on the surface multiple times, forming an artificial crater by firing a "bullet" into the surface, and scooping up a little subsurface material exposed by that process.
This work was achieved through years of hard work by the Hayabusa2 team, systems engineer Yuto Takei said in his own IAC presentation. Preparations included a year-long training campaign before the asteroid arrival, which allowed the team to overcome unintended obstacles, both literal and figurative, when the spacecraft arrived at Ryugu. He also praised the decision to change the landing strategy as soon as the team realized the surface was rockier than expected, which gave everyone more time to plan a successful arrival.
Hayabusa2 is expected to start preparing for its return to Earth between Nov. 12 and 18, when it will ascend to the required altitude to fire its engines for the return home. If all goes to plan, its journey back to our planet will then start in early December for an arrival late next year.
On November 5, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft crossed into interstellar space, some six years after its twin, Voyager 1, made the same transition. There, it found something new and puzzling that its predecessor had missed.
For the past year, scientists have pored over data collected during the lead-up and aftermath of the probe’s passage from the major sphere of influence of the Sun into the void between stars, called the interstellar medium
The boundary between these two realms, known as the heliopause, is a dynamic environment. This is where galactic cosmic rays, which are high-energy particles from alien stars and distant galaxies, slam into the bubble-like magnetic shield created by the Sun, which encompasses the solar system.
The Voyager probes are the only human-made objects that have ever traversed this tumultuous borderland between the Sun and the stars. While the twin probes sent back many similar observations, Voyager 2 encountered new phenomena while entering the interstellar medium, according to a packet of five new studies published on Monday in Nature Astronomy.
For instance, Voyager 2 discovered a previously unknown border just outside the heliopause, reports a team led by Edward Stone, a professor of physics at Caltech and project scientist on the Voyager program since its inception in the 1970s.
The researchers call this threshold a “cosmic ray boundary layer” because it signals where the probe experienced a shift in the gradient of cosmic rays from the great beyond and the lower-energy particles typical of the familiar environment around our Sun.
There’s evidence that Voyager 1 also encountered one of these cosmic ray boundary layers, but interestingly, it was located on the inside of the heliopause.
“There appear to be cosmic ray boundary layers on both sides of the heliopause, with the outer one only being evident at the position of Voyager 2,” Stone’s team said in the study. “This cosmic ray boundary layer on the outside of the heliopause was not evident at the place and time where Voyager 1 crossed it.”
It’s not clear why the probes ended up crossing through these layers on opposite sides of the heliopause. It could be related to the contrasting trajectories of the Voyagers, with Voyager 1 exiting the heliopause in the northern hemisphere and Voyager 2 leaving from the south.
The edge of interstellar space is also a rapidly changing environment, and the Sun’s activity had declined in the six years between the two transits, which surely influenced the conditions experienced by both probes.
Regardless, Voyager 1 recorded an influx of high-energy cosmic rays before it ever passed through the heliopause. “We had two episodes [on Voyager 1] where we were connected to the outside,” Stone said in a teleconference on Thursday. “In that case, we saw the leakage from outside in.”
Voyager 2 recorded the exact opposite phenomenon: an increase in low-energy particles from the heliosphere after it crossed the line into interstellar space.
“We can take another look at the data we have to try to understand what the process is by which the particles which are inside start leaking out,” Stone explained in the teleconference. “There appears to be a region just outside the heliopause where there’s still some connection back to the inside.”
This spilling of particles from both sides of the heliopause highlights what a bizarre environment lies at the edge of the Sun’s magnetic influence. Still, despite its apparent permeability, most cosmic rays never make it past the heliopause and into the solar system.
This has been a good deal for life on Earth because galactic cosmic radiation is damaging to biological beings. For this reason, a better understanding of the heliopause has implications for identifying potentially habitable star systems and exoplanets beyond our Sun.
The Voyagers are the first probes to send direct observations of this important boundary back to Earth, and to spend eternity beyond it. Let’s hope they are not the last.
What Voyager 2 has learned since entering interstellar space
What Voyager 2 has learned since entering interstellar space
Voyager 2 crossed into interstellar space year ago
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
(CNN) - On Nov. 5, 2018, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft became the second human-made object to cross into interstellar space. Now, scientists have shared the initial science gained by Voyager 2's historic crossing.
However, just because the probes have left the heliosphere doesn't mean they have left our solar system. That boundary is located at the outermost edge of the Oort Cloud, a group of small objects influenced by the gravity of our sun. Scientists believe it would take Voyager 2,300 years to reach the inner edge of the cloud, and 30,000 years to fly past it completely.
A suite of five studies detailing the findings was published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Lessons from interstellar space
There's a boundary where hot solar wind meets cold interstellar space, and it's called the heliopause. Mission scientists compared data from instruments on Voyager 2 to determine that the actual date of the crossing was Nov. 5, when the solar wind particles around the probe dipped greatly, meaning it left the heliosphere -- the sun's bubble-shaped boundary created by solar wind being released from the star.
The new studies confirm this date and reveal that the crossing happened in less than a day and more than 11 billion miles from the sun. Voyager 2 pushed across the heliopause from the hot, lower-density plasma of the solar wind into the cool, higher-density plasma of interstellar space.
Somehow, there is balance between these two very different regions, and astronomers believe it's the density that helps even out the pressure differences.
Voyager 1 also crossed into interstellar space in 2012, but its damaged plasma instrument couldn't provide complete data about the crossing.
"This has really been a wonderful journey that began with the launch of two spacecraft in 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn," said Ed Stone, a Voyager project scientist since 1975 and physics professor at the California Institute of Technology who authored one of the studies. "Our journey has expanded deeper and deeper into space. We had no quantitative idea of how big this bubble is that the sun creates around itself with its supersonic solar wind, made of ionized plasma, which is speeding away from the sun in all directions. And we didn't know the spacecraft could live long enough to reach the edge of the bubble, leave it and enter nearby interstellar space."
The scientists learned through Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 data of their crossings that particles of solar wind and of the interstellar space wind actually spill across the boundary. The wind from interstellar space is created by stars that went supernova millions of years ago. The mixing of these particles actually creates a layer between the heliopause and interstellar space.
Based on Voyager 2's crossing, the astronomers learned that the heliosphere has a smooth but defined boundary between the two types of plasma. They also noted a strong interstellar magnetic field, stronger than what Voyager 1 detected. The interstellar magnetic field originates from stars that exploded, expelling not only material but their magnetic fields as well.
"In a historical sense, the old idea that the solar wind will just be gradually whittled away as you go further into interstellar space is simply not true," said Don Gurnett, author of one of the studies at the University of Iowa. "We show with Voyager 2 -- and previously with Voyager 1 -- that there's a distinct boundary out there. It's just astonishing how fluids, including plasmas, form boundaries."
The interaction between the sun and interstellar space is also intriguing to the scientists. Shockwaves released by the sun can pass right through the heliopause into interstellar medium and cause disturbances, much like supernovae form shockwaves that travel through the space between stars.
All the early insight gained from this crossing is providing a complex picture of what happens in between the sun and interstellar space. This knowledge could be applied to all the stars astronomers study, because they believe other stars likely possess the same features. As they study other stars with exoplanets around them, what they learn now could be applied to other systems they discover.
Comparing what Voyager 2 learned with the data available from the Voyager 1 crossing provides interesting similarities and contrasts, Stone said. And they provide two data points based on where they crossed into interstellar space.
But the scientists still hope NASA signs off on another interstellar probe to gather more data. Thinking of the heliosphere like a wind sock, astronomers would want a probe that could essentially travel down the tail created by the sun's wind, extending the boundary of the solar system.
Extending Voyager's lifespan
The fact that both Voyager 1 and 2, which launched in 1977 to explore planets in our solar system, were designed to only last for five years and have reached 42 is a wonderfully exciting surprise, Stone said.
"The space age was only 20 years old when they launched, so it was hard to expect anything to last for 40 years or longer," he added.
But this record-setting feat wouldn't be possible without the engineers who have had to make crucial decisions that keep the twin spacecraft going. Now they have a new plan that will keep Voyager 1 and 2 awake and operating so scientists may continue to receive vital data about a part of space we've never explored.
One struggle is maintaining power, which is needed to keep science instruments running as well as the heaters that will keep them from freezing in deep space. Both probes are now more than 11 billion miles from the sun, which makes the heaters crucial for maintaining functions. If fuel can't power the thrusters that make sure both probes orient their antennae toward Earth, engineers wouldn't be able to receive data or communicate with the probes.
Over time, power system efficiency has decreased, and the generators produce 40% less than they did at the time of launch.
The thrusters on both spacecraft are also degrading. They send out small puffs that keep the spacecraft oriented, meaning their antennae are still directed at Earth. Voyager 2 will soon fire up another set of thrusters last used during its flyby of Neptune in 1989. Engineers did the same thing with thrusters on Voyager 1 in 2017.
Voyager 2 is the main priority for receiving new plans because it's collecting more data with an instrument that isn't working on Voyager 1. It's also using more power, so engineers turned off a heater for the Cosmic Ray Subsystem. That instrument dropped to minus 74 degrees Fahrenheit (23.33 °C), but it's still sending back data. This is remarkable considering that the instrument was initially tested at only minus 49 degrees Fahrenheit (9.44 °C).
The scientists can still communicate with Voyager 2, even in interstellar space, but the data takes about 16.5 hours to travel back to Earth.
With the new plan to save power and orient the spacecraft, the engineers expect that Voyager 1 and 2 will still send back data for at least the next few years.
The data gathered by the probes has helped inform NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, scheduled to launch in 2024.
"Both Voyager probes are exploring regions never before visited, so every day is a day of discovery," Stone said. "Voyager is going to keep surprising us with new insights about deep space."
ZELFS GERRIT HIEMSTRA KAN DIT NIET WEG VERKLAREN ALS WOLK ( VIDEO )
ZELFS GERRIT HIEMSTRA KAN DIT NIET WEG VERKLAREN ALS WOLK ( VIDEO )
Het is niet voor niets dat men de afgelopen jaren talloze nieuwe wolkensoorten heeft moeten bedenken.
Steeds vaker zien mensen de meest bizarre wolken boven hun hoofden verschijnen en het wordt steeds moeilijker om deze "weg" te verklaren.
Meestal heb je een soort wolkeloze lucht waar dan opeens een vreemd uitziende wolk in verschijnt. Een wolk die volgens ufologen helemaal geen wolk is, maar een ruimteschip.
Waar, of complete onzin? Zijn het wolken die door Gerrit Hiemstra verklaard kunnen worden als een bijzonder meteorologisch verschijnsel, of zit er toch meer achter. Vandaag presenteren wij een aantal voorbeelden, nieuwe en ook een aantal eerder getoonde, en bepaal dan zelf of het inderdaad menselijke of buitenaardse ruimteschepen zijn of toch gewoon wolken.
Maar, voordat we dat doen, even de trailer van een nieuwe BBC televisieserie. Het is een drieluik genaamd War of the Worlds, gebaseerd op het originele verhaal van H.G. Wells uit 1898 over een buitenaardse invasie op aarde.
Niet alleen de BBC, maar ook FOX komt met een achtdelige serie, eveneens gebaseerd op het verhaal van H.G. Wells.
Toeval? Of worden we hier voorbereid op de nep buitenaardse invasie zoals die destijds is voorspeld door de Duitse raketgeleerde Wernher von Braun?
Of de mensheid nu voorbereid of niet, of dat er echt buitenaardsen bij ons actief zijn, feit is dat er steeds vaker bizarre wolken worden waargenomen die volgens velen geen wolken zijn. Het kan dan ook bijna geen toeval zijn dat er enkele jaren geleden allerlei nieuwe soorten wolken werden bedacht. Nieuwe tot dan niet bestaande wolken die misschien moeten dienen als dekmantel voor de vele vreemde verschijningen over de hele wereld.
Enkele weken geleden verschijnt de volgende "wolk" boven het Amerikaanse stadje Rexburg in de staat Idaho.
Wat ook hier weer opvalt is dat er een "wolk" verschijnt in een verder wolkeloze hemel, althans op deze hoogte.
Het is een wolk die opvalt en daarom ook op camera wordt vastgelegd door een opgewonden vader met zijn zoontje.
Een prachtig voorbeeld van een vermomming van een buitenaards ruimteschip vinden we in een waarneming dat is ingediend bij Mufon onder nummer 91551 door een man uit Ashburn in de Amerikaanse staat Virginia.
De man in kwestie is bouwvakker en stond op 15 maart van dit jaar op de vijfde verdieping van een gebouw in aanbouw, toen hij besloot een foto te nemen. Hij was het verder vergeten en pas op 21 april heeft hij de foto bekeken.
Tot zijn grote verbazing ontdekte hij een wel hele vreemde wolk in de lucht. De foto die hij nam ziet er zo uit.
Wanneer je de wolk dichterbij haalt, dan zie je de bekende UFO vorm en ook dat het allesbehalve een wolk is.
Iets dergelijks was er enkele dagen geleden aan de hand in de Ierse stad Carlow. Daar ontstond de nodige opwinding omdat een inwoner een bijzondere foto op Facebook had geplaatst.
De lokale pers had het al over een geval voor Mulder en Scully, want wat daar boven Carlow hing, leek wel heel veel op een UFO.
Een hemel met cirrus bewolking, inclusief chemtrail, en daar ver onder en niet zo ver van de grond een wel heel bijzondere wolk.
Deze wolk werd opgemerkt door Greg MacLennan en zijn vrouw die op zaterdagmiddag een eindje waren gaan rijden en bij terugkomst deze boven hun woonplaats zagen hangen, vlakbij het station.
Greg zei tegen de lokale krant dat de wolk verdacht veel op een UFO leek of op de camouflage van een UFO en dat ze deze wolken daarom UFO wolken noemen. Verder verklaarde de man stoer niet te geloven dat het hier een UFO betrof, maar uiteraard de beruchte lenticularis wolk was. Een type wolk dat wordt gebruikt om gecamoufleerde UFO’s aan te duiden.
Wanneer je de foto echter wat meer uitvergroot, is het moeilijk om een betere opname te krijgen van een zogenaamde klassieke retro UFO. Je ziet een prachtig gevormde klassieke schotelvorm, inclusief de koepel.
Afgelopen dinsdag maakte Bob Wall, een inwoner van het dorp Terrace in het Canadese British Colombia, de volgende opname:
Alhoewel de officiële verklaring lenswolk was, waren de bewoners van Terrace er allesbehalve gerust op.
Velen vermoeden dat het hier toch gaat om een UFO in vermomming en ufoloog Scott Waring kan zich hier zelfs enorm over opwinden.
“Het nieuws zegt dat het gaat om een lenswolk, natuurlijk, gemaakt door een verdomde buitenaardse UFO in een verdomde lenswolk. Echt, mensen dragen camouflagekleren wanneer ze op jacht gaan zodat ze één worden met de omgeving en niet worden opgemerkt. Waarom is het dan zo moeilijk om te begrijpen dat buitenaardsen regels hebben waardoor het hen verboden is om zichzelf en hun schepen te vertonen aan de mensheid.
Sceptici liegen zichzelf voor omdat wanneer ze zeggen dat het mogelijk een UFO kan zijn, hun hele wereld en eigenwaarde inelkaar valt en een bedreiging vormt voor alles wat ze ooit hebben geloofd.
Daarom houden ze zichzelf voor de gek en doen dat ook met anderen om de waarheid verborgen te houden. Dat geeft de sceptici troost, net zoals een teddybeer dat bij een kind doet. Wij weten de waarheid over sceptici en over buitenaardsen”.
Weer een jaar eerder, in 2014, is wat misschien wel de mooiste opname is, gemaakt.
Het antwoord lijkt te zien in de volgende video die is gemaakt in de Atacama woestijn in de buurt van de Chileense stad Calama.
Twee mijnarbeiders rijden in een auto en zien vreemde wolkformaties in de lucht. Eén van hen pakt zijn mobiele telefoon en begint te filmen.
Dan plotseling komt er uit deze wolk of wellicht moederschip een bij ons welbekende oranje-achtige bol tevoorschijn.
In de onderstaande video kun je duidelijk zien hoe deze bol tevoorschijn komt uit de wolk en vervolgens wegvliegt.
Hebben we hier te maken met een zogenaamd cloaked moederschip dat zich verborgen houdt in deze kunstmatig aandoende wolken en die de bollen als een soort verkenners op pad stuurt?
Het heeft er alle schijn van en daarmee is deze opname misschien wel het eerste stukje bewijs dat we in handen hebben wat laat zien waar deze oranje bollen vandaan komen.
Uiteraard ontstaan er dan altijd weer discussies of deze opname wel of niet echt is. Tot nu is er, voor zover ons bekend, geen informatie over dat de opname niet echt zou zijn.
Wat het ook is, één ding is zeker, er gebeuren meer dingen in de lucht boven onze hoofden dan de meeste mensen ooit zullen zien, behalve als het als een video op hun smartphone verschijnt, dan wel natuurlijk.
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