Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
03-03-2020
IS DE BEROEMDE JERUZALEM UFO TERUG?
IS DE BEROEMDE JERUZALEM UFO TERUG?
Op 28 januari 2011 daalde ’s avonds een UFO neer boven de Rotskoepel op de berg en schoot even later met een onvoorstelbare snelheid weer de lucht in. Nu duikt er een UFO op boven een klein dorp in Californië dat veel lijkt op die inmiddels beroemd geworden UFO uit 2011.
We hebben vandaag iets bijzonders dat begin vorige maand plaatsvond boven Porterville, een dorpje in de Amerikaanse staat Californië.
Er is een man die gewoon buiten loopt en in de verte boven de huizen van het dorp een vreemd cirkelvormig object waarneemt, dat stil in de lucht lijkt te hangen.
Volgens UFO onderzoeker Scott Waring lijkt dit ronde object als twee druppels water op de beroemde video die in januari 2011 boven de Rotskoepel in Jeruzalem verscheen.
De man dacht in eerste instantie aan een weerballon of een reclame object, maar kon niets ontdekken waaruit bleek dat dit object ergens mee was verbonden. Hij vertelt dat hij toen hij het object een tijdje had gefilmd hij koude handen kreeg en besloot te stoppen om later dichter bij huis nog eens te proberen.
En dan komt er inderdaad een tweede opname van nog wat dichterbij en wederom is daar totaal niets op te ontdekken waaruit zou blijken dat het ergens mee is verbonden. Het hangt volkomen stil in de lucht en als reclame object zou het ook weinig zin hebben volgens de filmer, want er staan maar een paar huizen in het dorp.
Wat helaas verder niet wordt vermeld is hoe en op wat voor manier het object vervolgens weer verdween, maar alle UFO onderzoekers die de opname hebben bekeken zijn het wel met elkaar eens dat daar daadwerkelijk iets hangt en dat niemand een verklaring heeft voor wat het dan wel is, waardoor het daarmee een UFO wordt.
Zoals gezegd is Scott Waring ervan overtuigd dat dit object veel overeenkomsten heeft met de ufo boven Jeruzalem uit 2011. Voor hen die vergeten zijn hoe die er ook alweer uit zag hierna een deel uit een eerder artikel over deze bijzondere UFO.
Heeft de Tempelberg misschien in een ver verleden ook een rol gespeeld bij de aanwezigheid van de Goden op aarde. Wordt er ook in de Tempelberg iets geactiveerd, net zoals bij de piramides?
In 2011 vond er nog een merkwaardig voorval plaats op de Tempelberg. Een gebeurtenis die door talloze mensen is gezien en vastgelegd en waarvan de mainstream-media niet wisten hoe snel ze dit tot hoax moesten verklaren.
Op 28 januari 2011 daalde ’s avonds een UFO neer boven de Rotskoepel op de berg en schoot even later met een onvoorstelbare snelheid weer de lucht in.
Voor de mainstream wereld zou het hier gaan om een hoax, in elkaar gezet door iemand die met zijn video zoveel mogelijk bezoekers wilde trekken om hiermee geld te verdienen, maar de werkelijkheid ligt ook hier zoals zo vaak wat anders.
Er is namelijk niet één opname van dit fenomeen gemaakt, maar meerdere, door verschillende mensen en vanaf verschillende posities. De kans dat deze opnames echt zijn, is dan ook veel groter dan dat ze allemaal nep zouden zijn.
Bovendien zijn er nog meer merkwaardigheden, zoals te zien in de volgende video:
Om te beginnen zegt hij dat ook hij uitgebreide analyses heeft uitgevoerd voor wat betreft de opnames van deze gebeurtenis en dat ze honderd procent echt zijn. Niet alleen zijn er door talloze verschillende mensen opnames gemaakt, het is daarnaast volgens hem nog gezien door ongeveer 10.000 ooggetuigen, bestaande uit een mix van toeristen en lokale bewoners.
Ook vertelt hij dat gedurende de kruistochten de Tempeliers een aantal heilige objecten hebben verborgen onder de Rotskoepel. Die objecten zouden dan onder andere zijn de Ark van het Verbonden de Heilige Graal.
Velen zullen zich afgevraagd hebben wat die UFO daar op dat moment te zoeken had, wetende dat ze zouden worden opgemerkt door duizenden mensen. Waarom kwam het juist naar beneden boven een tempel die duizenden jaren oud is?
Scott denkt dat hij het antwoord op die vraag heeft:
Ze noemen het niet voor niets Rotskoepel. De tempel uit die tijd werd gebouwd bovenop een rots die een heilige betekenis had. Het is een heilige rots voor zowel Joden als moslims.
Moslims zeggen dat de rots de plek is van de nachtreis van de profeet Mohammed. Op een nacht toen Mohammed lag te slapen in de buurt van Mekka kwam de engel Gabriël bij Mohammed en nam hem mee naar al-Mashjid al-Aqsa (de verste moskee) in Jeruzalem, gelegen op een steenworp afstand van de Rotskoepel.
Vanaf de rots reisde Mohammed samen met de engel Gabriël naar de hemel, waar hij andere profeten ontmoette zoals Jezus en Mozes. Ook zag hij daar zowel de hel als het paradijs en zag tenslotte God op zijn troon, omringd door engelen.
Scott zegt nu dat de UFO die we boven de Rotskoepel zien, niemand minder is dan de engel Gabriël.
De rots heeft volgens hem een heilige betekenis die heel ver teruggaat en bevat waarschijnlijk ook hele oude technologie, waarbij mensen snel konden reizen van de ene plek in het heelal naar de andere (teleportatie). Misschien kwam die UFO wel om dat dimensieportaal in de rots opnieuw te activeren. Of misschien was het Gabriël die daar nogmaals kwam ter gedachtenis aan het eerdere bezoek aan zijn goede vriend Mohammed.
De engel Gabriël was buitenaards, beschikte over vergevorderde technologie, waardoor mensen hem in die dagen alleen maar konden identificeren als een dienaar en/of boodschapper van God.
En dit is volgens Scott Waring het geheim achter de mysterieuze en tot op de dag van vandaag niet verklaarde UFO boven de Rotskoepel een aantal jaren geleden.
De ufologen zijn wel aardig met elkaar eens dat het object in Porterville een onverklaard verschijnsel is en dat het geen weer- of reclameballon is. Nu staat deze website erom bekend dat ze lezers heeft die meestal wel weten te ontrafelen wat het is, dus mocht dat dit keer ook zou zijn, laat ons weten.
Proof a Mysterious Lost Ancient Global Civilization Spanned Virtually the Entire Planet…
Proof a Mysterious Lost Ancient Global Civilization Spanned Virtually the Entire Planet…
This will likely blow your mind. 250+ photos and comparisons of ancient sites around the world, show that there is a LOT more to the story of our ancient past. Proof of a lost ancient global civilization that has been hiding in plain sight, for thousands of years.
Proof a Mysterious Lost Ancient Global Civilization Spanned Virtually the Entire Planet…
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Why Do We All Hear About UFO Sightings in the News?
Why Do We All Hear About UFO Sightings in the News?
Why do we all hear about UFO sightings in the news and there are always books, internet articles and reports on the subject? People who think they can answer this question should research a little more. They should first understand the concept of UFOs because they are hard to explain away with simple science.
Another factor is that we have been having so many wars since the 1940s and many think they are a factor or are they the driving force behind the world’s new energy technology. Why not look into all these things instead of worrying about UFOs?
There have been many different types of UFO sightings throughout history and all we are going to do is list some of them. I will be sure to give more information on each type, as time goes on.
We are all familiar with the ones reported by various military and other government agencies when dealing with these phenomena, the ones known as Extraterrestrial Space Travelers (sometimes also called Extra-Terrestrial (ET) Space Vehicles) or UFOs. These are the ones that fly around in your neighborhood and seem to be off in a totally different direction from where you live. So, one thing is for sure, no one is fooling around and they are real. You will never run out of stories about these crazy guys from outer space.
Also, the Extraterrestrial Telepathic Communication is another way these people from space to get in contact with humans. This may not be as well known or understood, but they have been recorded in many books on the subject.
If you are a skeptic you may think we are alone, but that would make a bunch of really strange creatures to be our friends, wouldn’t it? Why would these animals make up a civilization that is much more advanced than themselves and then go on to meet other intelligent civilizations that are thousands of years ahead of them? It just doesn’t make sense, does it?
Then there are the way too weird to be considered normal and even odd balls that pass through our atmosphere without the help of any rocket or aircraft that don’t leave a sign of their presence on earth. This craft may be a very curious but this is where we get into the topic of Alien Abduction’s.
Do you remember the one time when you were standing in line at a movie theater and then saw one UFO appear right above you and then suddenly zoom off into the distance and fly off into space? Well, this was only the start of one big UFO sighting story in history. Many people were complaining that it was too intense but most agree it was a very cool UFO sighting.
“We warned at the start of ZetaTalk, in 1995, that unpredictable weather extremes, switching about from drought to deluge, would occur and increase on a lineal basis up until the pole shift. Where this occurred steadily, it has only recently become undeniable. ZetaTalk, and only ZetaTalk, warned of these weather changes, at that early date. Our early warnings spoke to the issue of global heating from the core outward, hardly Global Warming, a surface or atmospheric issue, but caused by consternation in the core. Affected by the approach of Planet X, which was by then starting to zoom rapidly toward the inner solar system for its periodic passage, the core was churning, melting the permafrost and glaciers and riling up volcanoes. When the passage did not occur as expected in 2003 because Planet X had stalled in the inner solar system, we explained the increasing weather irregularities in the context of the global wobble that had ensued – weather wobbles where the Earth is suddenly forced under air masses, churning them. This evolved by 2005 into a looping jet stream, loops breaking away and turning like a tornado to affect the air masses underneath. Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, droughts had become more intractable and deluges positively frightening, temperature swings bringing snow in summer in the tropics and searing heat in Artic regions, with the violence of storms increasing in number and ferocity.”
The wobble seems to have changed, as the temperature in Europe suddenly plunged after being like an early Spring, Alaska has its coldest temps ever while the US and much of Canada is having an extremely mild winter. India went from fatal cold spell to balmy again. Has the Earth changed position vs a vs Planet X to cause this?[and from another]Bitter cold records broken in Alaska – all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy’s Law intervenes[Jan 30]http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/30/bitter-cold-records-broken-in-alaskaJim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment. While the continental USA has a mild winter and has set a number of high temperature records in the last week and pundits ponder whether they will be blaming the dreaded “global warming” for those temperatures, Alaska and Canada have been suffering through some of the coldest temperatures on record during the last week.
There has been no change in the wobble pattern, the wobble has merely become more severe. Nancy noted a Figure 8 format when the Earth wobble first became noticeable, in early 2005, after Planet X moved into the inner solar system at the end of 2003. The Figure 8 shifted along to the east a bit on the globe between 2005 and 2009, (the last time Nancy took its measure) as Planet X came closer to the Earth, encountering the magnetic N Pole with a violent push earlier in the day. But the pattern of the Figure 8 remained essentially the same. So what changed recently that the weather patterns became noticeably different in late January, 2012?
The N Pole is pushed away when it comes over the horizon, when the noon Sun is centered over the Pacific. This regularly puts Alaska under colder air, with less sunlight, and thus the historically low temps there this January, 2012 as the wobble has gotten stronger. But by the time the Sun is positioned over India, the N Pole has swung during the Figure 8 so the globe tilts, and this tilt is visible in the weather maps from Asia. The tilt has forced the globe under the hot air closer to the Equator, warming the land along a discernable tilt demarcation line.
The next loop of the Figure 8 swings the globe so that the N Pole moves in the other direction, putting the globe again at a tilt but this time in the other direction. This tilt is discernable in weather maps of Europe, again along a diagonal line. Depending upon air pressure and temperature differences, the weather on either side of this diagonal line may be suddenly warm or suddenly cold. The tilt and diagonal line lingers to affect much of the US and Canada, but the Figure 8 changes at this point to be an up and down motion, pulling the geographic N Pole south so the US is experiencing a warmer than expected winter under a stronger Sun. Then the cycle repeats, with the magnetic N Pole of Earth pushed violently away again as the Sun is positioned over the Pacific.
Would the Zetas be able to let us know what is causing the early break-up of the Arctic Ice, the ice seems to have taken on a swirling pattern at the same time, would this be wobble related?[and from another]
The ice in Canada’s western Arctic ripped open in a massive “fracturing event” this spring that spread like a wave across 1,000 kilometres of the Beaufort Sea. Huge leads of water – some more than 500 kilometres long and as much as 70 kilometres across – opened up from Alaska to Canada’s Arctic islands as the massive ice sheet cracked as it was pushed around by strong winds and currents. It took just seven days for the fractures to progress across the entire area from west to east.[and from another]http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80752&src=iotdrss A high-pressure weather system was parked over the region, producing warmer temperatures and winds that flowed in a southwesterly direction. That fueled the Beaufort Gyre, a wind-driven ocean current that flows clockwise. The gyre was the key force pulling pieces of ice west past Point Barrow, the northern nub of Alaska that protrudes into the Beaufort Sea.
The Figure 8 formed by the N Pole during the daily Earth wobble has shifted somewhat to the East, due to Planet X positioned more to the right of the Earth during its approach. This was anticipated, and well described in ZetaTalk, the Earth crowding to the left in the cup to escape the approach of Planet X, so the angle between these two planets would change slightly. This shift of the Figure 8 to the East is due to the push against the Earth’s magnetic N Pole occurring sooner each day than prior. Thus instead of occurring when the Sun is high over the Pacific, over New Zealand, it is now occurring when the Sun is high over Alaska. All the wobble points have shifted eastward accordingly.
This has brought a lingering Winter to the western US, and a changed sloshing pattern to the Arctic waters. Instead of Pacific waters being pushed through the Bering Straits into the Arctic when the polar push occurs, the wobble is swinging the Arctic to the right, and then later to the left, creating a circular motion in the waters trapped in the Arctic. Since the Earth rotates counterclockwise, the motion also takes this path. This is yet another piece of evidence that the establishment is hard pressed to explain. They are attempting to ascribe this to high pressure and wind, all of which are not new to the Arctic, but this circular early breakup of ice in the Arctic is new.
I was looking at this Mars photo when I found a face looking out to the horizon. The face sits on the side of a hill and is made of a stone substance, much like the sphinx face made in Egypt. This face has softer edges and rounder cheeks, making me believe its a woman...probably a queen or important woman in their culture. You can see her hair flowing down the back and side of her face. Extraordinary and important evidence of ancient alien cultures on Mars. They don't look too much different than we do, do they? Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Korean news shows UFO during coverage of fire in Los Angeles
Korean news shows UFO during coverage of fire in Los Angeles
South Korean news story shows some kind of solid unidentified flying object during coverage of fire and explosion in Los Angeles, California. This happened on 29th February 2020.
The scientists who discovered the object on Feb. 15 estimate that, because of the instability of its path through space, the minimoon will likely leave Earth's orbit sometime in April.
Astronomers know little about this minimoon — so little, in fact, that they can't even say if it's an artificial object, such as a dead satellite. However, they say, it's most likely a small asteroid. And although the object poses no danger to Earth, it does show how changeable our neighborhood is.
Information from the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, which keeps observation records for all known asteroids, shows that the orbit of the minimoon doesn't match the precise orbit of any known human-made object, Kacper Wierzchos, a senior research specialist for the Catalina Sky Survey and co-discoverer of the minimoon, told Space.com. The object's orbit didn't display any perturbations resulting from solar radiation pressure coming from the sun; such wiggles are common for human-made satellites in Earth's orbit.
But Wierzchos said he doesn't want to assume the minimoon is an asteroid quite yet. "The possibility it is artificial still exists, so I am trying to be cautious with every statement," he said. "I'd hate it to be artificial after [everyone is] making a fuss [about the discovery]."
The NASA-funded Catalina program at the University of Arizona is an automated survey that scans the sky for fast-moving objects. On discovery night, Wierzchos and Catalina research specialist Theodore Pruyne happened to be at the telescope, Wierzchos said. On a good night, the survey can study around 40 near-Earth asteroids, which are typically objects astronomers already know about. But on Feb. 15, something in Catalina's observations looked a little funny and didn't match anything known by astronomers. The duo submitted the discovery to the Minor Planet Center, and other astronomers soon confirmed the find.
The newly identified object, now known as 2020 CD3, was very faint when it was discovered, at only about magnitude 20. (The lower the magnitude, the brighter the object.) That faintness stretches the capabilities of Catalina and is beyond what most amateurs can see in their telescopes. (Since then, the object has faded to magnitude 23, making it visible only to the largest professional telescopes.)
In the nights after the discovery, Wierzchos and his collaborators kept following the object to try to determine its orbit. Their calculations showed that, most likely, the object was circling the sun and Earth's gravity snatched it into our planet's orbit sometime in 2017.
How did the minimoon go unnoticed for years? First, the sky is vast, and telescopes have limited time dedicated to searching for asteroids, Wierzchos said. He also cited the minimoon's faintness and highly variable orbit.
2020 CD3 has a "chaotic" orbit, he said, because it is pulled between the gravity of the moon and the gravity of Earth. Its distance to Earth varies between the equivalent of 0.2 and 4.5 Earth-moon distances (The average distance to the moon is roughly 239,000 miles, or 384,000 kilometers.) When Wierzchos last observed the minimoon, on Wednesday (Feb. 26), it was roughly 2.5 lunar distances away, he said.
Because the object's distance to Earth varies, so does its orbital period, or the time it takes the minimoon to circle Earth. Wierzchos said the object's orbital period is difficult to measure precisely, but it seems to be about a month.
Astronomers have observed 2020 CD3 only about six or seven times so far, so they don't have enough information yet to derive a "light curve," which shows the variation in an object's brightness. If they can get that data, Wierzchos said, it may help astronomers determine what kind of asteroid it is (if it is, indeed, an asteroid), how quickly it rotates and how big it is.
Assuming the object is a common type of asteroid called a carbonaceous asteroid, Wierzchos said, the minimoon is probably about the size of a car. Ideally, he hopes other telescopes will be able to observe the object before it drifts away. Telescopes he would like to see participate include Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory (which has radar optimized to get the shape and size of nearby asteroids) or large optical telescopes, such as the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
Wierzchos is scouring past data from the Catalina Sky Survey to see if 2020 CD3 showed up in past imagery and went unnoticed. He hasn't found such observations yet, but he said it's possible that Catalina or other asteroid surveyors, such as the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, have that information in their archives.
Wierzchos hopes Catalina will be able to see 2020 CD3 again before it fades. But astronomers are racing against the gravitational tug-of-war between Earth and our traditional moon. Before long, they know, the minimoon will drift out of sight, bound for new adventures.
'Kevin Costner, eat your heart out – you may want to start planning the prequel,' said the research team.
'Early Earth, home to some of our planet's first lifeforms, may have been a real-life "waterworld" – without a continent in sight.
'It may even have looked a bit like the post-apocalyptic, and land-free, future imagined in Costner's infamous film Waterworld.'
In the film, humanity struggles to survive after the ice caps melt and inundate the planet with water.
But, unlike in the movie, there were no fish – only tiny aquatic organisms called cyanobacteria.
A vista of the Panorama district looking down from the top of the ancient ocean crust to its base
The discovery, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience, is based on an analysis of rocks from Northwestern Australia's outback.
They date back to a period known geologically as the 'Paleoarchean' – spanning a period 3,600 million to 3,200 million years ago – when life consisted of nothing more complex than bacteria.
'The history of life on Earth tracks available niches,' said co-author Professor Boswell Wing, of the University of Colorado Boulder.
'If you've got a waterworld, a world covered by ocean, then dry niches are just not going to be available.'
It was identified from the chemical signatures of an ocean in a chunk of crust that's been turned on its side in the Panorama desert in the Aussie outback.
It is possible to walk across what used to be the hard, outer shell of the planet in the space of a day.
Benjamin Johnson inspects an outcrop in the Panorama district by what was once an ancient hydrothermal vent
It will take you from the base to spots where water once bubbled up through the seafloor via hydrothermal vents.
The researchers described it as a 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to pick up clues about the ocean water from billions of years ago.
'Today, there are these really scrubby and rolling hills that are cut through by dry river beds,' said lead author Dr Benjamin Johnson, now at at Iowa State University.
'It's a crazy place. There are no samples of really ancient ocean water lying around, but we do have rocks that interacted with that seawater and remembered that interaction.'
He likened it to looking at coffee grounds to gather information about the water that poured through it.
US post-apocalyptic action film Waterworld depicts a future in 2500 where every continent on Earth is now underwater, due to a rise sea levels. This projected future could resemble an early Earth
The researchers analysed data from more than 100 rock samples from across the dry terrain.
They were looking, in particular, for two different flavours, or 'isotopes', of oxygen trapped in stone – Oxygen-18 and the slightly less heavy Oxygen-16.
The ratio may have been a bit off in seawater 3.2 billion years ago – with just a tiny bit more Oxygen-18 than you'd see today.
Professor Wing said these are 'super sensitive' to the presence of continents.
Today's land masses are covered by clay-rich soils that disproportionately take up heavier oxygen isotopes from the water – like mineral vacuums for Oxygen-18, he explained.
Nostoc, a genus of cyanobacteria, under microscopic view. Cyanobacteria would have inhabited the early 'waterworld' of Earth 3.2 billion years ago
There simply weren't any soil-rich continents around to suck the isotopes up, but there could have been tiny spots of land dotted about.
'There's nothing in what we've done that says you can't have teeny, micro-continents sticking out of the oceans,' Professor Wing said.
'We just don't think there were global-scale formation of continental soils like we have today.'
The researchers are now planning to scour other, younger rock formations at sites from Arizona to South Africa to see if they can find when the land masses we know today first roared onto the scene.
'Trying to fill that gap is really important,' said Dr Johnson said.
A new study by researchers at Cambridge University suggests that the giant exoplanet K2-18b – a mini-Neptune – may be more potentially habitable than previously thought.
The red dot in the center represents the red dwarf star K2-18. The curved white lines represents the orbits of planet K2-18b and and another candidate planet, K2-18c. The broad green band is the system’s habitable zone.
Can giant exoplanets such as super-Earths or even mini-Neptunes be habitable? There’s currently a lot of debate about that question, but new findings about one such world suggest that some of them might indeed be able to support life. A research team from the University of Cambridge has announced that K2-18b, a planet a bit more than twice the size of Earth, could have liquid water and habitable conditions, even though it’s been classified as a mini-Neptune.
The peer-reviewed findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on February 27, 2020.
Water vapor had previously been detected in the atmosphere of K2-18b, as announced last September, but because the planet was classified by most scientists as a mini-Neptune, it was regarded to be very unlikely to be habitable. Planets like Neptune have deep hydrogen atmospheres and no real solid surface. Nikku Madhusudhan from Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, who led the research team, said in a statement:
Water vapor has been detected in the atmospheres of a number of exoplanets but, even if the planet is in the habitable zone, that doesn’t necessarily mean there are habitable conditions on the surface. To establish the prospects for habitability, it is important to obtain a unified understanding of the interior and atmospheric conditions on the planet, in particular, whether liquid water can exist beneath the atmosphere.
Artist’s concept of the mini-Neptune exoplanet K2-18b.
Image via mage via ESA/ Hubble, M. Kornmesser/ UCL News.
K2-18b is about 2.6 times the radius and 8.6 times the mass of Earth. It is 124 light-years away, orbiting within the habitable zone – the region where liquid water could exist – of a red dwarf star. There is also a second candidate planet closer to the star, K2-18c, but it has not been confirmed yet.
On mini-Neptunes, a thick hydrogen atmosphere is thought to surround a watery layer that then surrounds a rocky iron core. But under such conditions, the temperatures would be too high, and the water would be under too much pressure, for life to survive. This is similar to why Neptune or Uranus type worlds are uninhabitable, at least by earthly life standards, having deep atmospheres with crushing pressures, no solid rocky surface and no liquid water.
Given K2-18b’s large size, it has been assumed that it is more like a mini-Neptune than a super-Earth, which typically are a bit smaller, but still at least twice as large as Earth.
But that assessment might be changing a bit, if the researchers are right.
They found that K2-18b’s hydrogen atmosphere might not be too thick after all, and the water layer might actually be habitable, perhaps more like oceans on Earth. The researchers used the mass and radius of the planet, as well as previous observations of the atmosphere, to make a better determination of the composition and structure of both the atmosphere and deep interior. Detailed numerical models and statistical methods were used to help explain what conditions are actually like on this distant world.
There has been a lot of debate over whether K2-18b is a super-Earth or mini-Neptune. Most scientists now agree that it is a mini-Neptune.
Image via Patterson Clark/ Washington Post/ Quora.
The computer models showed that a range of conditions are possible in the planet’s interior. Those models used known atmospheric properties as constraints on which conditions are the most plausible. The potential habitability rests on just how extensive the hydrogen atmosphere is. According to study co-author Matthew Nixon at the Institute of Astronomy:
We wanted to know the thickness of the hydrogen envelope, how deep the hydrogen goes. While this is a question with multiple solutions, we’ve shown that you don’t need much hydrogen to explain all the observations together.
So what did the researchers find? According to their results, the maximum extent of the hydrogen atmosphere, or envelope, is only 6% of K2-18b’s mass. Some computer models showed it to be even less. The minimum amount of hydrogen is about one-millionth by mass, which is similar to that of Earth’s atmosphere. Under those conditions, the atmosphere would be more like that of a super-Earth, rather than a mini-Neptune.
Moreover, a number of the calculated models would allow for a world with a true ocean, not just a layer of water that is under extreme, unearthly pressure and temperature. In this scenario, the temperature and pressure would actually be similar to those in Earth’s oceans.
There’s another intriguing twist to this, as well. While the researchers did confirm the atmosphere to be composed mostly of hydrogen, with quite a bit of water vapor, as already known, they also found something puzzling. The levels of methane (CH4) and ammonia (NH3) were less than expected. According to the paper, this is evidence of chemical disequilibrium – or non-equilibrium thermodynamics – in the atmosphere, and, maybe, could even point to biological activity as a cause:
Furthermore, our constraints on CH4 and NH3 suggest chemical disequilibrium. Among other possibilities for chemical disequilibrium, e.g., photochemistry, the potential influence of biochemical processes may not be entirely ruled out. Future observations, e.g., with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will have the potential to refine our findings. We argue that planets such as K2-18b can indeed have the potential to approach habitable conditions and searches for biosignatures should not necessarily be restricted to smaller rocky planets.
On Earth, disequilibrium in the atmosphere – larger than normal amounts of oxygen and small amounts of methane – is caused by biological processes, and is a biosignature. For K2-18b however, it should be emphasized that this is just one of several possibilities, given that the planet is still much different from Earth in significant ways. As the paper stated, one other possibility is photochemistry; in this case, the chemical reactions in a planetary atmosphere caused by light or radiation from its star.
If these findings turn out to be accurate, that would greatly increase the number of potentially habitable planets out there, since worlds of this size are rather common.
Nikku Madhusudhan at Cambridge University, who led the new study.
This new paper is sure to cause some intense debate, much like last September when the water vapor detection was first reported, and most media outlets described K2-18b as a habitable super-Earth, which was misleading and premature.
Upcoming new space telescopes such as JWST and others will be able to analyze the atmospheres of planets like K2-18b and search for possible biosignatures, chemical signatures of life. That will help to determine whether any exoplanets like this, including super-Earths, could actually be habitable.
Bottom line: A new study suggests that the giant exoplanet K2-18b may be more potentially habitable than previously thought.
Some 10 billion years ago, the primitive Milky Way scarfed down a galaxy one-quarter of its own size, according to a new study.
The cannibalized galaxy, known as Gaia-Enceladus, helped to create the Milky Way (our home galaxy) and its digested remains contain clues about the origins and evolution of our cosmic surroundings.
Astronomers frequently observe mergers between distant galaxies, but it’s trickier to reconstruct the interactions that defined the modern Milky Way in part because we lack an outside perspective of our own galaxy. The Gaia spacecraft, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2013, has helped fill in some of these gaps by building the most precise star map ever produced.
The Gaia mission has made it easier to distinguish between stars that originated in the Milky Way, and those that were introduced by Gaia-Enceladus, which is named after the ESA mission. (It is also popularly known as the “Gaia Sausage” because of the sausage-shaped orbit some of its remnants follow around the galaxy’s core.)
Scientists led by Carme Gallart, an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Spain, found that some stars observed by Gaia are lower in metal content than others. Smaller galaxies are typically not as enriched with metals as larger ones, which suggests that the metal-poor stars may have originated in the Gaia-Enceladus galaxy.
The Milky Way dates back at least 13 billion years, almost to the beginnings of the known universe. Back in those early days, the galaxy was smaller and had a different structure, so Gallart and her colleagues refer to this version as the “Milky Way progenitor,” or the “primitive Milky Way,” which was distinct from its modern incarnation.
The team’s simulations predicted that once the merger occurred, many of this progenitor’s stars—which were relatively metal-rich—became heated by the influx of new galactic material. Some of the stars were thrown from the galaxy’s disk into the halo, which is a spherical structure that surrounds the entire galaxy.
Gaia’s observations confirm that these metal-rich stars are strewn through the halo, and that they had an upper age limit of about 10 billion years, suggesting that this was when the merger took place.
“A primitive Milky Way had been forming stars over a period of some [three billion years] when a smaller galaxy, which had been forming stars on a similar timescale but was less chemically enriched owing to its lower mass, was accreted into it,” Gallart’s team said in the study.
“Our age determination reveals that the stars heated to halo-like kinematics were among the first formed in the Milky Way,” they added, “just before the merger with Gaia-Enceladus took place.”
It took another two-to-four billion years for the Milky Way to absorb the smaller galaxy, the team said, and the fallout of this collision continues to spur star formation to this day.
The modern version of the galaxy we live in contains multitudes, much of which has been consumed from outside the borders of its earliest form.
Something mysterious is tugging at the hem of our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is causing a “galactic warp” at its outer edges, according to a study published on Monday in Nature Astronomy.
The Milky Way contains an estimated 250 billion stars, which cluster in spiral arms that swirl around a central supermassive black hole. But astronomers have caught glimpses of a different dynamic occurring out in the far reaches of the Milky Way, where the galactic disk appears to become flared, wobbly, or otherwise distorted by a variety of potential phenomena.
To figure out what might be causing the Milky Way’s outer warping, a team led by Eloisa Poggio, an astrophysicist at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics in Turin, measured the motions of 12 million giant stars observed by the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope.
“Our Milky Way presents a unique case study for galactic warps, thanks to detailed knowledge of its stellar distribution and kinematics,” Poggio’s team said in the study. “However, the cause and dynamic nature of the warp of our Galaxy have remained unclear due to a lack of kinematic constraints.”
In other words, scientists only began to model the Milky Way’s outer warping in detail within the past few years, due to advances in observational techniques. In 2019, for instance, a team created a captivating 3D map of the galactic warp based on measurements of 2,300 Cepheids variables, which are a special type of ultra-radiant stars (their results were published in Science )
Poggio and her colleagues have now built on these models thanks to the second major data dump from the Gaia satellite, which was released in 2018. Gaia has been constructing the most comprehensive catalog of the observable universe ever made since it was launched in 2013.
The sheer volume of observations enabled Poggio and her colleagues to measure the motions of millions of giant stars to trace out the kinematic signature of the galaxy’s warp. “We measured the speed of the warp by comparing the data with our models,” Poggio said in an ESA statement.
“Based on the obtained velocity, the warp would complete one rotation around the centre of the Milky Way in 600 to 700 million years,” she added. “That’s much faster than what we expected based on predictions from other models.”
While other teams have also used Gaia’s 2018 data to probe our galaxy’s edges, the new study aims to constrain “the possible mechanisms responsible for the warp of the Milky Way,” the team said. Suggested explanations for the warp have included longstanding torques emerging from mismatched axial motions of the disk and the galactic halo, or perhaps tidal forces from satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, which could gravitationally yank at the disk.
By modeling the motions of giant Gaia stars over time, Poggio’s team showed that the pull of a satellite galaxy is the most likely cause of the warp.
“The direction and magnitude of the warp’s precession rate favor the scenario that the warp is the result of a recent or ongoing encounter with a satellite galaxy, rather than the relic of the ancient assembly history of the galaxy,” the study says.
This finding might corroborate other recent studies that reconstruct the Milky Way’s turbulent past with nearby galaxies, which can skim material from the galaxies edges or cause disturbances by colliding with it.
It will take more observations and research to confirm that the warp is mostly caused by satellite galaxies. “Nevertheless,” the team said, “our results suggest that external forces from interacting satellite galaxies are playing an important and ongoing role in shaping the outer disk of the Milky Way.”
Skinwalker Ranch & Cattle Mutilations, it's Scarier Than You Think, Christopher O'Brien
Skinwalker Ranch & Cattle Mutilations, it's Scarier Than You Think, Christopher O'Brien
Christopher O’Brien investigated over one thousand paranormal events reported in the San Luis Valley—located in south-central Colorado/north-central New Mexico. Working with law enforcement officials, ex-military, ranchers and an extensive network of skywatchers, he documented what may have been the most intense wave of unexplained activity ever seen in a single region of North America. His ten-year investigation resulted in the three books of his “mysterious valley” trilogy: The Mysterious Valley, Enter the Valley, and Secrets of the Mysterious Valley.
His meticulous field investigation of UFO reports, unexplained livestock deaths, haunted sites, Native American legends, cryptozoology, secret military activity and the folklore, found in the world’s largest alpine valley, has produced one of the largest databases of unusual occurrences gathered from a single geographic region. He is currently working with a team of specialists installing a high-tech video surveillance and hard-data monitoring system in and around the San Luis Valley. His latest book, Stalking the Herd, is being called the most important book ever written examining our relationship with cattle and how this has manifested into the modern “cattle mutilation” mystery.
Secrets of Ancient Cosmology, the Mysteries of the Dogon Tribe of Mali
Secrets of Ancient Cosmology, the Mysteries of the Dogon Tribe of Mali
COAST TO COAST AM – Laird Scranton is the author of a series of books and other writings on ancient cosmology and language. He shared compelling perspectives on how our universe and the dimensions of time and space are believed to emerge from a non-material place, and how seemingly scientific archaic concepts formed an enduring foundation for ancient and modern religion.
The Dogon, a priestly tribe from Mali, Africa, has a culture that combines elements from at least three different ancient traditions– rituals of Judaism, practices of ancient Egypt, and a symbolic cosmology that is a close match for Buddhism, he detailed. One of the intriguing things about the Dogon is that though they were non-technological, they knew about the binary Sirius star system, which would seemingly be impossible to individuate the second star without a telescope.
Sphere UFO During Sunset Over Porterville, CA Video, UFO Sighting News.
Sphere UFO During Sunset Over Porterville, CA Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 1, 2020
Location of sighting: Porterville, California, USA
Here are two amazing videos of a black sphere UFO hovering over some homes in Porterville, CA a few weeks ago. The person recorded a sphere from 22 minutes away. Later he walked towards that area and realized it was hovering over some neighborhood homes, but no string, rope or advertising was noticeable. I made a screenshot (below) and enlarged it so that we could see its detail. The objects surface is not smooth, but sun like with ripples and waves to it. It reminds me of the UFO seen over Holy of holys, Dome of Rock Temple in Jerusalem. I will put that video below for you to compare shapes. It looks like this UFO is deeply interested in someone in one of those houses...they must be very important in some way for aliens to take notice.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
22 minutes after the first video I walked closer to the suburbs to see if I could get a closer video of whatever it was. The object floated over the homes of my neighbors and moved a few times but stayed floating over a few houses. I thought it was a weather balloon at first but no strings were visible and it didn't move with the wind, as a balloon on a string would. Also, why would a weather balloon or advertisement float over suburban homes? I have no idea what it is.
Compare with shape of UFO seen over Jerusalem in 2011 by thousands of tourists.
Ancient Alien Face Seen From Space Station Camera! March 1, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Ancient Alien Face Seen From Space Station Camera! March 1, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 1, 2020 Location of sighting: Earths orbit, from ISS Source:NASA Live cams I was watching the live NASA cams again, but instead of a UFO, I noticed two giant faces on the far left of the screen. The first fat look human like, the second looks bird like. They look like they were made by Van Gogh using powerful swirls of clouds to form them. NASA is using the infrared filter over the camera, making it purple in color. Infrared is known for cutting out reflections and revealing any cloaked objects in the area. That first face...just amazing guys. I believe it was made by an alien whose thoughts were so powerful that his telepathy accidentally created the form he was thinking about. Clouds and smoke is the most easy to move for telepathic people so this does make sense. And since many alien species out there are highly evolved, they will use pictures in their head...not word to communicate with others. Telepathic communication is the transmitting of pictures more...and not words. Just something amazing I wanted to share with you. Watch the video for more detail and to see the other bird face behind the first face. Scott C. Waring
"To record, watch and research how humanity copes and tries to deal with Coronavirus. Aliens may know than we do about its capabilities. They may be here not just to witness humanity fight the virus, but to see if we can avoid a possible ELE (extinction level event)."
See first video of the huge amount of UFOs captured on February 27, 2020 HERE. Below the second video recorded on March 1, 2020.
If you’re still watching the stars, these are the alien docs to watch. We’ll be looking at the most popular and provocative alien documentaries ever made. We’re not saying it’s aliens but . . . you should check these out. Youtube’s WatchMojo ranks the best alien docs to watch. What do you think is the best alien doc? Let us know in the comments!
UFO's in ons land: waarheid of verzinsel? Het laat de gemoederen alvast niet ongeroerd. Wellicht vindt u het maar nonsens, of twijfelt u toch? Onze mysteriereporter Carl Bries zet de feiten op een rijtje. Aan u om te oordelen...
De feiten
Van 29 november 1989 tot begin 1991 was ons land in de ban van een zeer mysterieus fenomeen. Hoog in de lucht boven voornamelijk Wallonië werden toen vreemde objecten waargenomen. Tientallen tot later duizenden mensen bevestigden wat ze hadden gezien en ook officiële instanties konden er niet omheen.
De gebeurtenissen lokten zelfs de Britten en de Amerikanen naar informatie. Wat was er destijds precies waar van wat bekend staat als ‘de Belgische UFO-golf’?Eerste waarneming
De eerste keer dat men vreemde vliegende objecten boven ons land waarnam, was op 29 november 1989. Toen zagen twee rijkswachters in de Oostkantons een vreemd vliegend object zich traag door de lucht voortbewegen. Het toestel had een driehoekige vorm en felle lichten. In het midden scheen een oranjerood licht. Het bleef enkele minuten lang boven een weide zweven en vloog dan traag verder.
Vreemd, dachten de twee rijkswachters. En zij waren niet alleen. Nog tientallen anderen zouden die dag en de dagen nadien het object hebben zien rondzweven boven Eupen en het stuwmeer van Gilleppe. Later zouden nog meer getuigen opduiken die beweerden de lichten en het voertuig te hebben zien rondzweven. Vooral in Wallonië zouden ze opduiken in het luchtruim.
Onderzoek door leger
De vele getuigenissen wekten de interesse van het Belgisch leger. Die stelde een onderzoek in. Dat werd geleid door generaal-majoor Wilfried de Brouwer van de luchtmacht. Ook hij moest uiteindelijk toegeven dat er iets aan de hand was. Hij had namelijk zelf gezien dat er vreemde objecten in de lucht hingen, in zijn geval was dat boven Waver. Die waarnemingen werden overigens gestaafd door de radargegevens. Ook daarop waren de objecten te zien.
De Brouwer getuigde van het vreemde gedrag van de objecten die zonder enig geluid konden rondvliegen. Ook konden ze zeer traag rondzweven om er daarna pijlsnel vandoor te gaan. Zoiets had hij in zijn hele leven nog nooit gezien.
Hoogtepunt
Het hoogtepunt moest tegen dan echter nog komen. In de nacht van 30 op 31 maart 1990, zo’n half jaar na de eerste waarnemingen, waren er maar liefst zo’n 13.500 mensen die beweerden iets te hebben gezien.
Het begon rond 23 uur toen de toezichthouder van het controlecentrum (CRC) in het Waalse Glaaien meldingen ontving van ongewone lichten ten zuidoosten van Brussel. Deze lichten waren volgens getuigen helderder dan sterren en wisselden af tussen rood, geel en groen. Ze vormden een perfecte driehoek. De toezichthouder vroeg aan de gendarmerie van Waver om poolshoogte te gaan nemen.
Toen de gendarmes bevestigden wat de mensen hadden gemeld en er een tweede partij lichtjes werd waargenomen, vond het CRC het welletjes. Zij stuurden enkele F-16 jachtvliegtuigen de lucht in om zo beter zicht te krijgen op de vreemde fenomenen.
Ondertussen meldden getuigen dat nog een derde reeks lichtjes zich traag voortbewogen richting de provincie Namen. Het ging dit keer over gedimde lichtjes die zich even grillig gedroegen als de tweede partij lichtjes die eerder werden waargenomen.
De piloten van de F-16’s kregen helaas geen grip op de fenomenen. Een drietal lichtjes werden waargenomen op radar, maar die bewogen zich plotseling razendsnel vooruit zodat zelfs de jets niet konden volgen.
De eerste keer dat de radar de lichtjes vastlegde, haalden ze een snelheid van rond de 240 km/u. Maar meteen daarop schoten ze weg tegen 1770 km/u! Ook hun positie veranderde voortdurend: van 2700 meter tot 1500 meter en dan daarop stegen ze weer tot 3350 meter om wederom te dalen tot bijna het grondniveau. Die eerste afdaling bereikten ze overigens in amper twee seconden. Fenomenaal. De volgende keren dat ze op radar werden vastgelegd, haalden de lichtjes dezelfde indrukwekkende toeren uit. Terwijl ze duidelijk de geluidsbarrière doorbraken, hoorde men de hele tijd niks.
De laatste getuigenis kwam van de gendarmes van Waver die eerder die nacht waren uitgerukt om verslag te brengen. Zij zagen de lichtjes een vierkant patroon aannemen alvorens ze rond 1.30 uur alle vier een verschillende richting uitschoten en definitief verdwenen.
Foto’s en filmpjes
Er kwamen nadien heel wat mensen af die foto’s en filmpjes hadden genomen van de lichten, maar geen van allen bleken duidelijk genoeg te zijn. Er werd zelfs een professor natuurkunde bijgehaald om alles te bekijken, maar ook hij kon geen conclusies trekken. Het enige wat hij kon zeggen, was dat de wazigheid te wijten was aan infrarood licht.
Toch was er één goede foto die door iemand werd genomen in Petit-Rechain. Daarop was heel duidelijk een ufo te zien. Men kon niet anders concluderen dan dat het om een onbekend object ging.
Buitenlandse interesse & mogelijke verklaringen
Door alle heisa raakte de hele zaak ter ore bij de Britten en de Amerikanen. Die wilden uiteraard meer weten. De Belgische overheid vertelde dat er inderdaad ongewone objecten in het Belgisch luchtruim waren geweest en dat er mogelijk sprake was van ufo’s.
Ondertussen kwamen er allerlei mogelijke verklaringen naar voren. De Hongaar Michael Kuzmek, een uitvinder die op dat moment in Brussel woonde, zei dat hij verantwoordelijk was. Hij was toen aan het experimenteren met zelfgemaakte heliumballonnen waar hij driehoekige platformen aan het vastgehangen. Later trok hij die verklaring weer in.
Anderen dachten dan weer dat het ging om een geheim experiment van de Amerikanen. Die zouden ons luchtruim hebben uitgekozen om net als in bijvoorbeeld Roswell met nog verzwegen projecten zich bezig te houden.
Dan was er nog een groep die een veel directere verklaring had: ons land werd in die periode bezocht door buitenaardsen. Waarom ze het hier kwamen verkennen, werd door deze groep niet uitgelegd.
Vervalsing
Zullen we ooit de waarheid kennen over wat er in die periode in ons luchtruim zich bevond? Waren het echt buitenaardsen die ons land een bezoekje brachten? Of ging het om een geheim project van één of andere buitenlandse macht zoals de VS?
Eén ding is intussen wel zeker: de foto die een hype werd was een vervalsing. De man uit Petit-Rechain verklaarde in 2011 dat hij een grap had uitgehaald met iedereen. Het was namelijk geen ufo, maar een model uit piepschuim dat hij met lampen had versierd en zo een foto van gemaakt.
Carl Bries (1983) is een sociaal werker uit de Kempen met een passie voor mysteries over heel de wereld. Hij neemt in zijn vrije tijd allerhande mysteries, waar (bewust) weinig over gesproken wordt, onder de loep. Het is aan jou om samen met hem deze mysteries te ontrafelen of ze te laten voor wat ze zijn.
The BBC's One Show has recreated an infamous UFO encounter reported in West Lothianmore than 40 years ago.
Forestry worker Robert Taylor claimed he was attacked by strange extra-terrestrial objects in Dechmont Woods on November 9, 1979.
The "Robert Taylor incident" led to that part of West Lothian being known as the "twilight zone."
Robert died in 2007, but the One Show spoke to several people who were involved in the investigation of the unusual incident.
Author Malcolm Robinson even produced the pair of trousers Robert wore on the day, showing rips which he claimed were from the alien attackers.
He told the One Show's Matt Allwright Robert first saw a large dome-shaped object when he was out for a walk with his dog.
Two balls with prongs protruding from them then lowered from the dome and approached him.
Malcolm said: "[The balls] projected these spike towards his person - his hips. Pulled him very, very forcibly, slightly upwards and towards this larger object.
"Bob said at this point he smelled a horrible burning smell.
"Then he heard a swishing sound and then bang, he lost consciousness."
An actor was used to recreate Robert's version of events. The forestry worker had tried to radio for help when he regained consciousness, but found he could not speak.
The One Show also spoke to a former Lothian and Borders police detective Ian Wark, who investigated the case. He said strange marks were found on the ground at the place Robert had pointed out.
The former detective constable said: "I've no doubt something landed there. What it was, I have no idea."
Obviously, many are skeptical of Robert's UFO story.
But it has proved an enduring story and West Lothian Council event marked out the spot on an information board.
Matt concludes by saying: "Something happened in those woods 40 years ago.
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