Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Evidence Of Intelligent Life Found On Mars, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Evidence Of Intelligent Life Found On Mars, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
While looking over a gigapan Mars photo I noticed that there were some odd anomalies that seemed to have been overlooked by NASA. One was a small face on a smooth stone. The smooth stone didn't fit in with its rough surroundings...but the detail on the stone reveals a face carved into it. It looks like some kind of dog-like face, but the cranium extends far back, making the face 3X longer.
Another anomaly was a claw or tooth not far from the face. Everyone in the area fossil hunting knows that the easiest bones to discover are the teeth and claws. They are the hardest and can last hundreds of millions of years or more. Also I found an strange bone, the end sticking out of the Mars dirt, but clearly its some kid of bone...its joint area makes that obvious.
Of course there are two sides to every story, and then there are screenshots. NASA wants to believe that the possibility of single cell life in our solar systems exists...but I present to you the evidence from intelligent species that we may or may not want to meet one day.
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A Third Explosion on the sun - Could THIS be the Culprit?
A Third Explosion on the sun - Could THIS be the Culprit?
On March 20, 2020 and on April 12, 2020 huge mysterious explosions occurred on the far side of the sun. Now, on April 18, 2020 NASA's satellites have captured a third explosionfrom which it is believed to be asteroid impacts.
But so many impacts in a short time is unusual and would suggest that we are dealing with a massive celestial body.
According to Tio Abandom who monitors the solar system, a rogue planet, Nibiru with its moons, is on its way, possible causing the asteroid explosions on the sun.
Suppose that he has it right about this planet Nibiru, then what is going to happen when it passes the sun. Is the sun heating up, because its magnetic poles are being skewered by the Nibiru system adjacent to the sun? Could it be that it results in massive earth directed CMEs causing a total black out here on earth?
I don't know but it looks like history is about to repeat itself. The images as shown in the video say enough.
Unlike Earth, the gases in Venus’ atmosphere aren’t uniformly mixed
Unlike Earth, the gases in Venus’ atmosphere aren’t uniformly mixed
MESSENGER data surprisingly show different nitrogen concentrations at different altitudes
For decades, scientists assumed that the gases in Venus’ atmosphere are uniformly mixed below an altitude of about 100 kilometers. A new study undermines that assumption.
A new look at the nitrogen on Venus may overturn a decades-old assumption about the planet’s atmosphere.
Scientists long thought that atmospheric turbulence would create a uniform mixture of gases in Venus’s atmosphere below an altitude of about 100 kilometers. That’s how it works on Earth. But data from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft now indicate that this part of Venus’ atmosphere contains layers of gas with different nitrogen concentrations, researchers report online April 20 in Nature Astronomy.
The unexpected stratification of Venus’s atmosphere may serve as a cautionary tale for astronomers analyzing the atmospheres of planets around other stars, says Patrick Peplowski, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. The new results suggest that observations of a planet’s upper atmosphere from afar don’t necessarily reflect conditions closer to the surface.
Peplowski and colleagues analyzed measurements of neutrons escaping from Venus’ atmosphere made by MESSENGER as it flew by the planet in 2007. Neutrons are produced by galactic cosmic rays hitting gas in Venus’ atmosphere between about 60 and 90 kilometers off the ground. Since nitrogen tends to absorb neutrons, the number of neutrons that escape reveal nitrogen content.
Gas at altitudes from 60 to 90 kilometers must contain about 5 percent nitrogen to create the neutron counts measured by MESSENGER, computer simulations showed. In contrast, space probes in the 1970s measured a nitrogen concentration of about 3.5 percent closer to Venus’ surface, at altitudes below 45 kilometers (SN: 12/16/78).
It’s not yet clear why nitrogen in the upper atmosphere is more abundant than in the lower atmosphere. But the apparent divide between nitrogen layers overlaps with a persistent blanket of sulfur dioxide clouds about 50 kilometers above the ground, Peplowski says. “I do wonder if it’s a coincidence, or if the same processes that form that cloud deck are responsible for somehow separating the lower and upper atmospheres.”
Interstellar comet Borisov has an unexpected amount of carbon monoxide
Interstellar comet Borisov has an unexpected amount of carbon monoxide
Second visitor from the stars has three times the CO relative to H2O than any local comets
A wispy tail of gas and dust trails behind interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, seen about 420 million kilometers from Earth in this Hubble Space Telescope picture from October 12, 2019.
Comet 2I/Borisov, the solar system’s second known interstellar visitor, probably hails from a planetary family that is chemically distinct from our own.
Martin Cordiner, an astrochemist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Dennis Bodewits, planetary scientist at Auburn University in Alabama, report the findings in two papers published online April 20 in Nature Astronomy.
Astronomers don’t know where Borisov came from. It was discovered in August 2019 on a trajectory tracing back to somewhere in the constellation Cassiopeia (SN: 9/12/19). Seeing a unique opportunity to get a glimpse at the chemistry of another star system, researchers sifted through data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile and the Hubble Space Telescope. Both observatories checked in on Borisov shortly after its closest pass by the sun in December, when the comet was just beyond Mars’ orbit.
To retain so much carbon monoxide, Borisov must have formed cold and stayed cold throughout its life. That means it likely formed in the remote outskirts of a carbon-enriched planetary system, the researchers say, far enough from its star so that carbon monoxide could readily freeze. A close run-in with a large planet may have kicked it out of its home. It then stayed brutally cold — never breaking 25 degrees Celsius above absolute zero (the temperature at which solid carbon monoxide turns to gas) — as it wandered among the stars.
The bottom axis of this graph shows the range of carbon monoxide concentrations (or amount of carbon monoxide relative to the amount of hydrogen cyanide) among solar system comets. The unusually high concentration detected in 2I/Borisov, the first interstellar comet, is highlighted in red. The comet shown on the far right is C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS), presumably, a solar system comet with CO levels estimated to be dozens of times higher than Borisov’s.
Gravitational waves have revealed the first unevenly sized black hole pair
Gravitational waves have revealed the first unevenly sized black hole pair
One big black hole and one little one partnered up, LIGO and Virgo detections show
A black hole orbiting with a much smaller partner stirred up gravitational waves (illustrated by colors in this simulation) that scientists with the LIGO and Virgo experiments detected on Earth.
As far as odd couples go, this is one for the record books.
The ripples in spacetime stirred up by two distant, merging black holes suggest that one of the pair was much bigger than the other. It’s the first definitively mismatched black hole pair spotted by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations, which search for the gravitational waves emitted in the cosmic encounters of black holes. The collision, detected on April 12, 2019, occurred about 2.5 billion light-years from Earth.
For all previous such black hole mergers, the two partners have been of similar size. But in this case, the bigger black hole had a mass about 30 times that of the sun, while the smaller was about eight times the mass of the sun, researchers with the LIGO and Virgo collaborations reported April 18 at a meeting of the American Physical Society, which was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prior to this result, scientists did not know if such lopsided partnerships existed, or how rare they might be. “This one event represents a big step forward in our understanding,” astrophysicist Maya Fishbach of the University of Chicago said in a talk at the meeting.
Understanding what types of black holes partner up could eventually help answer the question of how the duos form (SN: 6/19/16). The black holes might partner up within a dense star cluster, or when two stars are born together as twins and both collapse into black holes. Both possibilities could occasionally create unequal mass partnerships.
The researchers also tested whether Einstein’s theory of gravity still held up in this new type of black hole collision. Surprise, surprise: Einstein was right again.
The detectors of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in the United States and Virgo in Italy are currently shut down, in an early end to operations that was hastened by COVID-19. They’re scheduled to once again start observing the heavens in 2022.
Scientists just announced 2 new exciting updates about exoplanets. One is a potentially habitable world similar in size and temperature to Earth. The other is a possible new planet – possibly with rings – orbiting the closest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri.
Artist’s concept of Kepler-1649c. This world appears to be the closest analog to Earth yet found in terms of both size and temperature.
Image via NASA/ Ames Research Center/ Daniel Rutter.
Last week was very interesting for anyone who loves the idea of exoplanets, or planets orbiting other stars. Not only did NASA and the SETI Institute announce the discovery of a new potentially habitable Earth-sized world – one of the most promising yet – but there was also another possible larger planet directly imaged orbiting the closest star to our sun,Proxima Centauri. And that second planet, if real, might have a huge ring system, according to some analyses done so far.
The possibly habitable world was announced by NASA and SETI Institute scientists on April 15, 2020, with a newly published and peer-reviewed paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The larger possible planet orbiting Proxima Centauri is the subject of a new peer-reviewed paper that was submitted to arXiv on April 14 and has been accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Let’s look at these worlds, one by one.
A new potentially habitable Earth-sized world. The first planet is called Kepler-1649c. It’s 300 light-years from Earth. Astronomers found it in old data from the Kepler space telescope mission. It had been missed when the data was analyzed the first time around by a computer algorithm called Robovetter, but spotted later on when double-checked by scientists in the Kepler False Positive Working Group (FPWG). As it turned out, this this false positive really was a planet after all.
Estimated size of Kepler-1649c as compared to Earth (artist’s concept).
Image via NASA/ Ames Research Center/ Daniel Rutter.
Andrew Vanderburg, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) and first author of the new paper, said in a statement:
Out of all the mislabeled planets we’ve recovered, this one’s particularly exciting, not just because it’s in the habitable zone and Earth-size, but because of how it might interact with this neighboring planet. If we hadn’t looked over the algorithm’s work by hand, we would have missed it.
Kepler-1649c is almost the same size as Earth, only 1.06 times larger. Orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, where liquid water could exist, it receives about 75% the amount of light that Earth does from the sun, and so its temperature is estimated to be similar to Earth’s as well.Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, said:
This intriguing, distant world gives us even greater hope that a second Earth lies among the stars, waiting to be found. The data gathered by missions like Kepler and our Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will continue to yield amazing discoveries as the science community refines its abilities to look for promising planets year after year.
In terms of size and likely temperature, this is the most similar planet to Earth that has ever been found with Kepler. It’s incredible to me that we just found it now, seven years after data collection stopped on the original Kepler field. I can’t wait to see what else might be found in the rich dataset from Kepler over the next seven years, or even seventy.
These findings make Kepler-1649c one of the most promising exoplanets yet found in terms of potential habitability. One caveat to this, though, is that it orbits a red dwarf star. Red dwarfs are well known for emitting large, dangerous flares that might make it difficult for life to exist on any planet. But there’s a lot we don’t know yet about this world (and about red dwarf flares). We don’t know, for example, whether Kepler-1649c has a substantial atmosphere; if so, the atmosphere might help protect any life forms that exist on its surface.
Artist’s concept of what Kepler-1649c could like like on the surface.
Image via NASA/ Ames Research Center/ Daniel Rutter.
By comparison, TRAPPIST-1f may be even closer to Earth in terms of size. Also, it is possible that Teegarden c, TRAPPIST-1d and TOI 700 d may be closer in terms of temperature. But Kepler-1649c is intriguing, since it is now considered to be the most similar to Earth of any exoplanet found so far, in terms of both size and temperature, which orbits in the habitable zone of its star.
Kepler-1649c orbits its star in only 19.5 Earth days. This star also has at least one other known planet, Kepler-1649b, which is similar in size but orbits the star at only half the distance of Kepler-1649c. This is similar to how Venus orbits the sun at about half the distance that Earth does.
Could there be any additional planets in this system? Scientists don’t know yet, and so far haven’t found a third one. But the two known planets orbit in a stable ratio. Every four times the outer planet orbits the star, the inner planet orbits almost exactly nine times. This nine-four ratio is rather unique, and might hint at a third, still-undiscovered planet between the two known ones. If so, both the inner and outer planets could orbit in synchronicity with the middle planet, creating a pair of three-to-two resonances.
Finding planets like Kepler-1649c is exciting, since red dwarfs are the most common stars in our galaxy. Many planets have now been discovered orbiting these stars, with many more expected in the near future. Even though red darfs are volatile, this increases the chances of finding worlds around them that are actually habitable. According to Vanderburg:
The more data we get, the more signs we see pointing to the notion that potentially habitable and Earth-sized exoplanets are common around these kinds of stars. With red dwarf stars almost everywhere around our galaxy, and these small, potentially habitable and rocky planets around them too, the chance one of them isn’t too different than our Earth looks a bit brighter.
Now what about the second planet, the one orbiting Proxima Centauri? Keep reading …
Combination of five images showing the possible second planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, from the SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT). It shows a bright dot at the predicted location of the planet in April 2018 and the position where it would be now.
A second possible planet, possibly with a huge ring system, orbiting Proxima Centauri. In another interesting development, scientists may have directly imaged a new planet orbiting the closest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri. Those results, from the SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), have just been published in the paper so far, without an official announcement, but it has stirred up conversations on Twitter. Astronomer Phil Plait wrote an excellent update about it for SYFY Wire on April 16.
The possibility of a second planet at Proxima Centauri – called Proxima Centauri c – had been announced previously last January, but now another another research team thinks they may have successfully imaged it! It hasn’t been confirmed yet, and more work needs to be done, but it is certainly intriguing. The possible planet appears as a bright dot near the star, in a combination of five images taken over two months, beginning in April 2018.
Andrew Vanderburg at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA), first author of the new paper.
What’s puzzling is that the possible planet appears significantly brighter than it should. If the brightness was entirely from the light reflected off the planet itself, then the planet would be about five times larger than Jupiter. But its estimated mass is more similar to Neptune’s. So it’s possible, the researchers say, that the planet is actually smaller, but has a huge ring system around it. And if it’s a real planet, then it would be the closest one imaged so far. Previous studies suggest that Proxima Centauri c is a super-Earth; larger and more massive than Earth, but smaller and less massive than Neptune.
The other already known planet orbiting Proxima Centauri is Proxima Centauri b, with a mass about 1.3 times that of Earth, which orbits about 30 times closer to its star. Proxima Centauri is also a red dwarf star, which orbits the binary star system of two sun-like stars known as Alpha Centauri.
Both of these are exciting discoveries, even if one is a bit more tentative, and show how there are still many new fascinating worlds waiting to be discovered.
Bottom line: Last week was great for exoplanets, with a new potentially habitable Earth-sized world, and a possible new planet – that may have rings – orbiting the closest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri.
In 2019, astronomers made an incredible discovery: a comet from a different star system making a close approach to the Sun at an extremely unusual trajectory, which was later named “2I/Borisov” after the amateur astronomer who discovered it.
Observations suggest that its home star system could resemble our own. NASA scientists have even suggested that the object may hold water.
Now, a new study by an international team of researchers led by NASA has revealed something highly unusual: gas emanating from the comet contained unusually high amounts of carbon monoxide — up to 26 times higher than that of the average comet.
“This is the first time we’ve ever looked inside a comet from outside our solar system and it is dramatically different from most other comets we’ve seen before,” Martin Cordiner, astrochemist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and lead author of the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy said in a statement.
The fact that they found any carbon monoxide isn’t in itself unusual. It’s one of the most commonly found molecules in space. But the extremely high concentration puzzled the researchers.
“The comet must have formed from material very rich in CO ice, which is only present at the lowest temperatures found in space, below -420 degrees Fahrenheit (-250 degrees Celsius),” Stefanie Milam, planetary scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and co-author of the study, said in the statement.
They believe the abundance of the gas could tell us about the comet’s home.
“If the gases we observed reflect the composition of 2I/Borisov’s birthplace, then it shows that it may have formed in a different way than our own solar system comets, in an extremely cold, outer region of a distant planetary system,” said Cordiner.
Scientists suggest that 2l/Borisov could’ve spent billions of years traveling through the extreme colds of interstellar space after being yeeted out of its host system as it came near a passing star.
But we still can’t pinpoint what it’s home system looks like just yet.
“2I/Borisov gave us the first glimpse into the chemistry that shaped another planetary system,” said Milam. “But only when we can compare the object to other interstellar comets, will we learn whether 2I/Borisov is a special case, or if every interstellar object has unusually high levels of CO.”
NASA’s WFIRST mission – an infrared space observatory planned for launch around 2025 – will use the fact that the gravity of distant objects warps spacetime, bending and focusing light, thereby revealing new worlds.
Artist’s concept of how WFIRST will use microlensing – the bending and focusing of starlight via the gravity of distant objects – to search for exoplanets. WFIRST will focus on the region near the center of our Milky Way galaxy, where stars are most densely packed.
Most exoplanets orbiting distant stars are found by observing a planet transit, or pass in front of, its star. As the planet transits, the star’s light temporarily and minutely dims. The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), now being developed by NASA for a possible launch in the mid-2020s, will do the opposite. It’ll search for little surges of light that occur during what are called microlensing events, or events where the gravity of distant objects warps spacetime, bending and focusing light, in this case revealing new worlds.
Any time two stars align closely from our vantage point, light from the more distant star curves as it travels through the warped space-time of the nearer star. This phenomenon, one of the predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, was famously confirmed by British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington during a total solar eclipse in 1919. If the alignment is especially close, the nearer star acts like a natural cosmic lens, focusing and intensifying light from the background star.
Planets orbiting the foreground star may also modify the lensed light, acting as their own tiny lenses. The distortion they create allows astronomers to measure the planet’s mass and distance from its host star. This is how WFIRST will use microlensing to discover new worlds.
Pretty cool!
The new search will combine WFIRST’s results with those of the Kepler and TESS missions.David Bennett, who leads the gravitational microlensing group at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, explained that WFIRST’s capabilities as a survey telescope will be key to its potential to find exoplanets:
Microlensing signals from small planets are rare and brief, but they’re stronger than the signals from other methods. Since it’s a one-in-a-million event, the key to WFIRST finding low-mass planets is to search hundreds of millions of stars.
How microlensing can help find exoplanets. Microlensing depends on the chance alignment of two stars. As one star passes behind the other, the closer star acts like a lens, bending the light so that the brightness smoothly increases and decreases. If there is a planet is around the closer star, its gravity will also bend the light slightly, causing a spike that can be detected and measured by scientists.
WFIRST will set its sights on the star-rich center of our Milky Way galaxy. Since WFIRST is an infrared telescope, it can see through dust clouds that block visible light. That’s especially important in planet searches near the galaxy’s center because, when we look in that direction, we see vast clouds of dust in space.
Other space-based telescopes like the TESS mission and the no-longer-active Kepler mission have looked for exoplanets around stars up to about 1,000 light-years from our sun. WFIRST will look tens of thousands of light-years away, toward the more densely populated central region of our galaxy.
So far, 86 out of more than 4,000 exoplanets found have been discovered using microlensing. Most exoplanets have been found via the transit method. But the microlensing technique has a very powerful potential: the potential to find solar systems like our own. The NASA statement explained:
The techniques commonly used to find other worlds are biased toward planets that tend to be very different from those in our solar system. The transit method, for example, is best at finding sub-Neptune-like planets that have orbits much smaller than Mercury’s. For a solar system like our own, transit studies could miss every planet.
WFIRST’s microlensing survey will help us find analogs to every planet in our solar system except Mercury, whose small orbit and low mass combine to put it beyond the mission’s reach. WFIRST will find planets that are the mass of Earth and even smaller – perhaps even large moons, like Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.
So WFIRST will be able to find other worlds with masses similar to Earth or smaller, in larger orbits. It will also be ideally suited to finding ice giants, similar to Uranus and Neptune, which may be the most common type of planet in our galaxy.
Using microlensing, WFIRST will search for planets in the habitable zones of their stars, where temperatures could allow liquid water to exist.
No one detection method can find all planets, but by combining the data from missions like WFIRST, Kepler and TESS, scientists will be able to obtain a much better idea of how many kinds of planetary systems there are. According to Matthew Penny at Louisiana State University:
Trying to interpret planet populations today is like trying to interpret a picture with half of it covered. To fully understand how planetary systems form we need to find planets of all masses at all distances. No one technique can do this, but WFIRST’s microlensing survey, combined with the results from Kepler and TESS, will reveal far more of the picture.
Comparison of exoplanet discoveries from the Kepler mission and other telescopes with those expected from WFIRST. Red and black dots are large planets with small orbits found by Kepler and others. WFIRST will find planets with a much wider range of masses orbiting farther from their stars (blue dots).
Image via NASA/ GSFC (adapted from Penny et al. 2019).
Kepler’s search area was about 100 square degrees of the sky, containing 100,000 stars typically about 1,000 light-years away. TESS, on the other hand, covers the entire sky and looks at about 200,000 stars, but those stars are much closer, about 100 light-years. By comparison, WFIRST will focus on only three square degrees, but search 200 million stars up to 10,000 light-years distant.
Of the microlensing searches that have been done to date, most have been in visible light. Those searches wouldn’t be able to find planets around stars near the galaxy’s center that are obscured by dust clouds. Another microlensing survey, by the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii, has been mapping the central region since 2015. This will help pave the way for WFIRST’s upcoming observations by measuring the rate of microlensing events near the galaxy’s core.
UKIRT uses machine learning, which will also be used by WFIRST to help streamline the enormous amount of data. Savannah Jacklin, an astronomer at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, said:
Our current survey with UKIRT is laying the groundwork so that WFIRST can implement the first space-based dedicated microlensing survey. Previous exoplanet missions expanded our knowledge of planetary systems, and WFIRST will move us a giant step closer to truly understanding how planets – particularly those within the habitable zones of their host stars – form and evolve.
David Bennett at Goddard Space Flight Center, who leads the gravitational microlensing group.
As exciting as finding new worlds near the center of our galaxy is, WFIRST will be able to discover other fascinating objects as well. This includes free-floating planets, as small as Mars, not orbiting any stars, and brown dwarfs, which are too large to be planets but too small to be stars. WFIRST could also find neutron stars and black holes. Penny said:
WFIRST’s microlensing survey will not only advance our understanding of planetary systems, it will also enable a whole host of other studies of the variability of 200 million stars, the structure and formation of the inner Milky Way, and the population of black holes and other dark, compact objects that are hard or impossible to study in any other way.
WFIRST and its microlensing capabilities represent a huge step forward in the search for new exoplanets and other amazing objects in the central part of our galaxy, a region brimming with new discoveries yet to be made.
Bottom line: The upcoming WFIRST space telescope mission will use microlensing – which relies on massive objects in space bending spacetime – to search for exoplanets near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
A very unique planetary system was discovered with all six of its planets orbiting in almost perfect rhythm. The star, which is calledHD 158259, is slightly larger than our own sun and is around the same mass. It is located approximately 88 light-years away from us and is orbited by one super-Earth (which is about twice the mass of Earth) and five mini-Neptunes.
An international team of researchers studied this system for seven years and took measurements using the SOPHIE spectrograph as well as the TESS exoplanet-hunting space telescope. By using this information, they calculated the orbits of all six planets orbiting HD 158259.
(Not HD 158259 and its planets)
The fact that the planets are orbiting in an almost perfect rhythm makes it quite extraordinary. In fact, each planet orbits the star at a near 3:2 resonance with the next-closest one, meaning that every time a planet completes three orbits, the next one completes two orbits. Nathan Hara, who is from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and is the first author of the study (which can be read in full here), explained this further, “This is comparable to several musicians beating distinct rhythms, yet who beat at the same time at the beginning of each bar.”
Their orbits are incredibly quick as it takes all six planets 2.17, 3.4, 5.2, 7.9, 12, and 17.4 days to complete an orbit around the star (starting from the closest to the furthest away). Even though all six planets orbiting HD 158259 are situated close together, they may not have been formed that way. For comparison, the distance from the star to the outermost planet is 2.6 times shorter than the distance from Mercury to our sun.
Stephane Udry, who is also from UNIGE and another author of the study, explained how this would have happened, “Several compact systems with several planets in, or close to resonances are known, such as TRAPPIST-1 or Kepler-80. Such systems are believed to form far from the star before migrating towards it. In this scenario, the resonances play a crucial part.”
Hara went into further detail by stating, “The current departure of the period ratios from 3:2 contains a wealth of information.” “With these values on the one hand, and tidal effect models on the other hand, we could constrain the internal structure of the planets in a future study. In summary, the current state of the system gives us a window on its formation.”
A longtime staple of science fiction is the depiction of extraterrestrials having extremely large heads holding almost-as-large brains … think “To Serve Man,” the classic Twilight Zone episode. H.G. Wells may have been the first writer to describe aliens with big heads, and that image eventually became the ‘grey aliens’ many believe are actual extraterrestrials. Many experts paid to ponder what extraterrestrials would look like stick with the ‘big head’ idea. It turns out all of these depictions are rooted in truth … although not because these species evolved into big-brained, smart beings first. A new study of NASA astronauts found that the human brain expands during long-term space fights – a phenomena that space traveler’s skulls may have to evolve quickly to accommodate to avoid damaging their brains. Or will cranial binding return for parents who want their infants to grow up to be Mars explorers?
“When you’re in microgravity, fluid such as your venous blood no longer pools toward your lower extremities but redistributes headward. That movement of fluid toward your head may be one of the mechanisms causing changes we are observing in the eye and intracranial compartment.”
You should have planned a-head.
Detailed medical examinations of astronauts post-flight – especially Scott Kelly and his earthbound twin Mark — found problems with eyesight and cognition long after they returned, raising concerns and prompting more extensive research. In a new study published in the journal Radiology and summarized in Sci-News, Professor Larry Kramer from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston led a team which gave MRI scans to 11 astronauts (10 men and one woman) before they departed for extended stays on the International Space Station. The astronauts were then given MRIs the day after they returned from space and periodically throughout their first year back. What they found will definitely affect the future of human space travel.
“What we identified that no one has really identified before is that there is a significant increase of volume in the brain’s white matter from preflight to postflight. White matter expansion in fact is responsible for the largest increase in combined brain and cerebrospinal fluid volumes postflight.”
White matter – the fibers of the central nervous system that act as relays between brain regions – expanded astronauts’ brain and cerebrospinal fluid volumes, causing elevated intracranial pressure to what appear to be dangerous levels. How dangerous?
“We found that the pituitary gland loses height and is smaller postflight than it was preflight. In addition, the dome of the pituitary gland is predominantly convex in astronauts without prior exposure to microgravity but showed evidence of flattening or concavity postflight.”
Future astronaut?
The pituitary gland is considered to be the body’s master gland because it controls the thyroid and adrenals, the ovaries and testicles, and others, affecting the body’s hormone levels. The MRI scans found that this elevated cranial pressure lasted the entire year and can cause normal pressure hydrocephalus, whose symptoms include difficulty walking, bladder control problems and dementia.
Will future human space travelers need to develop larger skulls – either evolutionarily or artificially? As usual, more research is needed. However, it wouldn’t be the first time that H.G. Wells saw the future and depicted it accurately. Let’s hope Rod Serling and “To Serve Man” isn’t the same.
Un objet volant non identifiée filmé par un pilote de l'US Navy en janvier 2015.DR
Dans "Ovnis: une affaire d'Etats", Dominique Filhol aborde les objets volants non identifiés non comme un folklore mais comme un sujet aussi sérieux que les scientifiques, politiques et experts qui se succèdent dans ce documentaire. Parmi eux, l’ancien directeur des renseignements à la DGSE, Alain Juillet, qui a répondu à nos questions.
C’est une première : l’ancien directeur des renseignements à la DGSE, Alain Juillet, s’exprime sans tabous sur un sujet qui, pour beaucoup, sent encore le souffre: les objets volants non identifiés. Fort de son immense expérience dans le renseignement, il prône une approche pragmatique et un esprit ouvert pour élucider un mystère trop important pour être laissé aux rêveurs et aux sceptiques dogmatiques.
Alain Juillet est l’un des intervenants de haut niveau, politiques, scientifiques et militaires, qui apportent leur expertise au documentaire de Dominique Filhol, «Ovnis : une affaire d’Etats». «Il y a un terme qui revient de plus en plus souvent parmi les spécialistes du sujet c’est l'idée ‘d’intelligence non humaine’ ce terme est intéressant car il ne rejette pas l’hypothèse extraterrestre mais il englobe bien d’autres théories quant à la nature du phénomène» résume le réalisateur, marqué dès l’enfance par des témoignages spectaculaires de proches qui ont observé des phénomènes inexplicables.
Le tournage a encore renforcé ses convictions : «Le phénomène est devenu palpable. J'ai eu la chance de pouvoir filmer une réunion des membres de la commission SIGMA 2 qui étudie les Ovnis de manière rigoureuse et scientifique ou encore de rencontrer le Sénateur Harry Reid à l’origine du programme AATIP de recherche sur les OVNIs du département de la Défense américaine. Toutes ces interviews ont conforté mes intuitions.»
La succession des témoignages et des analyses dans «Ovnis : une affaire d’Etats» le rappelle : les ovnis existent, au moins comme sujet d’études mais leur nature reste insaisissable : «les hypothèses concernant la nature de ces "objets" ne se limitent pas à une origine extraterrestre.» Mondes parallèles, voyageurs temporels: rien ne peut être écarté d’un revers de manche. «Il y a aussi un courant de l’ufologie qui étudie les liens entre la conscience et le phénomène OVNI et c’est un point qu’on aborde dans le film» poursuit Dominique Filhol.
«Pour de plus en plus de chercheurs, dans les cas de rencontres rapprochées, le phénomène semble interagir avec la conscience des témoins. C’est d’ailleurs ce que certains pilotes de chasse de l’US NAVY ayant observé ces phénomènes ont relaté : ces objets semblaient anticiper les réactions des pilotes, comme s’ils étaient capables de lire dans leur esprit.»
Comme d’habitude, le sujet ovni nous emmène très loin. Un voyage moins périlleux si l’on est bien accompagné. C’est en tout cas la conviction d’Alain Juillet pour qui politiques et scientifiques doivent maintenant prendre le sujet à bras le corps.
Vous avez accepté de participer au documentaire de Dominique Filhol, «Ovnis: une affaire d’Etats». Est-ce la première fois que vous intervenez publiquement sur le sujet des ovnis ?
Alain Juillet: Oui. J’avais participé à une réunion de passionnés d’aéronautique où avait été évoqué le problème des objets non-identifiés. J’étais dans la salle et j’avais répondu à quelques questions. Mais je n’étais jamais intervenu sur ce sujet publiquement. C’est à la suite d’un entretien avec le réalisateur, Dominique Filhol, que nous avons abordé ce thème. Il m’a posé deux, trois questions et m’a dit : «ça, ça m’intéresse, je suis en train de préparer quelque chose.» C’est comme cela que ça s’est passé.
Aviez-vous un intérêt particulier pour les ovnis ?
Oui, même si je ne suis pas un passionné. En revanche, je suis, à l’origine, un homme du renseignement et lorsque l’on voit des choses inexplicables aujourd’hui, on sait qu’on pourra les expliquer demain. C’est simplement que nous n’avons pas les éléments pour imaginer ou comprendre ce qui se passe. Dans le domaine particulier des ovnis, sans parler des gens qui voient une soucoupe volante se poser dans un champ, il y des pilotes de chasse, des astronautes, des gens qui sont tout sauf des rigolos et rapportent des observations très précises. Il ne faut pas dire que ce sont des bêtises mais juste reconnaître qu’il y a des choses qui nous échappent. C’est dans cadre là que je me suis intéressé à ce problème car la première chose que l’on voit quand on étudie ce phénomène, c’est qu’à l’évidence ces engins ou ces apparitions ne fonctionnent pas selon les lois terrestres et en particulier qu’ils ne sont pas soumis à la gravitation. La question qui se pose est donc: un pays a-t-il mis au point un système qui permet d’échapper à la gravitation ? Il y a 20 ans, j’aurais répondu: «Pourquoi-pas?». Mais, aujourd’hui, si un pays dans le monde avait réalisé une telle découverte, on le saurait. Aucun progrès de cet ampleur ne peut rester secret. C’est impossible.
Si un pays disposait d’une telle technologie, elle aurait donc déjà été utilisée ouvertement…
D’une façon ou d’une autre, il y aurait eu des fuites, une indiscrétion des scientifiques qui travaillent dessus… Puisqu’il n’y a absolument rien eu, c’est que c’est autre chose et que ça échappe à la dimension terrestre.
Les services de renseignement disposent-ils des outils adéquats pour traiter des sujets aussi élusifs que celui des ovnis, dont on ne connaît pas la nature et dont l’existence même reste sujette à caution ?
Pour que le sujet les intéresse, il faut qu’ils aient reçu un ordre. Afin de de collecter des informations, il faut développer des moyens techniques et humains. Un service de renseignement ne peut travailler sur les ovnis que s’il y a un besoin qui est exprimé par ceux qui dirigent, c’est à dire par les plus hautes autorités de l’Etat. Si ces dernières considèrent qu’il ne s’agit pas d’un problème prioritaire, ce qui est en général le cas, rien ne se passe. On sait que les Américains ont lancé une étude très sérieuse avec un gros budget pour essayer de comprendre. Et il semble bien que d’autres grandes puissances, en particulier la Russie et la Chine, ont fait la même chose, sans doute pour les mêmes raisons : découvrir s’il n’y pas derrière le phénomène ovni quelque chose qui, techniquement parlant, peut être intéressant. Là, je débouche sur un autre aspect que j’évoque dans le film et qui a été expliqué par d’autres beaucoup plus forts que moi en la matière : nous passons d’une vision du monde modelée par la physique traditionnelle à une autre vision fondée sur la physique quantique. Et l’on comprend beaucoup mieux ces phénomènes à travers le prisme de la physique quantique qu’avec celui de la physique actuelle.
Dans le monde, quelques rares personnalités politiques de premier plan, comme l’ancien directeur de cabinet de Clinton et d’Obama, John Podesta, ont pris publiquement position en faveur d’une plus grande transparence des gouvernements sur les ovnis. Est-ce utile selon vous ?
Dans la compétition mondiale qui fait rage aujourd’hui, notamment entre la Chine et les Etats-Unis, il est évident qu’une arme nouvelle qui s’impose parce que personne ne sait l’arrêter donne un avantage concurrentiel au pays qui la possède. Les Russes, par exemple, ont mis au point un système de missiles sol-air, les S-400, qui font peur à toute le monde, car personne ne sait les arrêter, les Américains pas plus que les autres. Les avions de chasse préfèrent les contourner plutôt que de prendre le risque d’être abattus. Les Russes ont aussi sorti le missile hypersonique, Avangard, qu’aucune défense ne sait arrêter. Intéressante aussi cette torpille, mise au point par les Russes, dont un exemplaire aurait explosé dans le Koursk, en 2000, après être resté bloquée dans le tube lance-torpilles. Cette torpille se déplace à une vitesse incroyable, plusieurs centaines de kilomètres heure, beaucoup plus vite que tout ce que l’on a sur le marché. Pourquoi ? Parce que cette torpille se crée dans l’eau un environnement qui n’est plus de l’eau mais de l’air, ce qui réduit au maximum le frottement.
Je ne pense pas que le secret soit vraiment utile
Ce qui rejoint les recherches sur la MHD la Magnétohydrodynamique
Exactement… C’est un engin qui est redoutable car ses performances dépassent de loin celles de tous les autres. Je ne suis pas un rêveur mais quand on voit comme dans le documentaire un engin qui accélère, ralentit, passe dans l’eau, en ressort, tout cela filmé par des avions de chasse américains, on se pose des questions. Et on se dit : «N’est on pas en train d’y arriver nous aussi?». Pour en revenir à la physique quantique, elle postule que deux points séparés peuvent être les mêmes. Cela nous paraît inconcevable mais à partir de là, on peut aller très loin, jusqu’à l’existence possible de mondes parallèles. A titre de comparaison, une mouche avec ses yeux à facettes peut voir d’autres dimensions que les nôtres bien qu’elle vive dans notre monde. Peut-être existe-t-il donc des choses qui sont dans notre univers mais qu’on ne peut pas voir en temps normal car elles ne sont pas dans notre champ de vision. Mais peut-être que, de temps en temps, il se passe quelque chose, qu’un phénomène passe dans notre champ de perception avant d’en disparaître. Je ne parle pas là des «petits hommes verts». J’ai plutôt l’impression d’être dans la même démarche que certains savants et astronomes qui se disent simplement «quelque chose nous échappe».
D’un point de vue militaire, ce sont donc des recherches qui touchent à la Défense, aux intérêts nationaux… N’y a-t-il pas une contradiction entre réclamer publiquement des recherches sur le phénomène ovni et la nécessité de maintenir une forme de secret ?
Je ne pense pas que le secret soit vraiment utile, sauf si on découvre des choses inquiétantes. Mais on constate que le phénomène n’a pas manifesté, jusqu’à présent, d'intention agressive. Donc, il n’y pas de raison de s’inquiéter, on n’est pas dans un film d’horreur… En revanche, je ne crois pas qu’il soit nécessaire d’en parler trop car beaucoup de gens vont se mettre à fantasmer à tout va ! Si l’on dit «les ovnis sont peut-être une réalité» ou qu’on évoque les avancées de la physique quantique, on s’entendra répondre «oh le pauvre, il est devenu fou». Comme on sort du rapport classique que les gens entretiennent avec la science, ça risque de ne pas passer. Et il y a évidemment la possibilité que des gourous s’emparent de la question et racontent n’importe quoi. Il ne faut pas faire une promotion excessive de tout ça mais essayer de rester scientifique et de se dire : il y a quelque chose, c’est indiscutable. Un certain nombre de facteurs laissent penser que c’est à côté de nous sans provenir de nous et que, ça peut venir d’autres mondes, pourquoi pas après tout… Il ne sert à rien de rêver. J’en reviens à mon métier d’origine, il faut essayer de se demander : quelles conclusions puis-je tirer des éléments dont je dispose ? Or, je n’ai pas de conclusion, tout ce que j’ai, c’est un certain nombre d’indices qui me permettent de réfléchir sans pour autant avoir de certitudes.
Il faut penser en dehors de la boîte
On peut risquer une comparaison peut-être hasardeuse avec l’irruption du Covid-19 comme un élément radicalement nouveau dans la vie de milliards de gens. On constate que les sociétés s’adaptent et intègrent cet évènement avec calme malgré la menace. N’en serait-il pas de même avec la prise de conscience que le phénomène ovni ne provient pas de notre monde ?
Tout à fait. Je pense que les gens s’adaptent très bien. Si demain matin, on a la confirmation que les ovnis viennent d’un monde parallèle au nôtre, et bien tout le monde dira «bon, voilà, il existe un monde parallèle ». Le jour où on le dira, dans les cinq ans, tout le monde l’aura accepté comme un phénomène banal. Dans «Le crabe tambour», film que j’ai adoré, un curé breton interprète des trainées blanches dans le ciel comme des signes. Et il entraîne ses paroissiens à les suivre dans un sens, puis dans un autre. A la fin, épuisés, les fidèles rentrent chez eux et on découvre que ces signes étaient en réalité les trainées laissées par les premiers avions à réacteur qui faisaient Paris New York…
Que pensez vous du travail du Geipan qui au sein du CNES accomplit un gros travail de collecte d’informations sur les Phénomènes aériens non identifiés ?
Les gens dans le renseignement vous diront tous que le premier travail c’est la collecte d’informations. Dans un premier temps, il faut recueillir tout ce que l’on peut recueillir et ils font ça très, très bien. Ensuite, il faut sélectionner dans cette collecte ce qui apparaît véritablement sérieux, et ils le font aussi. Après cela, en ce qui concerne l’analyse elle-même de ces éléments sérieux, ce sont des spécialistes et des chercheurs de haut niveau qui doivent réfléchir là-dessus.
Le GEIPAN, malgré son travail, semble assez peu sollicité par la recherche publique ou privée…
Nous sommes le pays de Descartes, cartésien par essence, le pays des normes, des principes, des règles… Les Américains, eux, apprennent dans leurs écoles à penser «out of the box», en dehors de la boîte. Nous, nous apprenons encore à penser «dans la boîte». Je crois que ça se fera en France le jour où les gens n’auront plus peur d’être ridicules. Si l’on apprend que les Etats-Unis ou la Chine consacrent non seulement des études importantes à ce sujet, mais qu’en plus des scientifiques de haut niveau en ont tiré des réflexions dignes d’intérêt, alors nos chercheurs ne craindront plus d’être pris pour des farfelus.
Never underestimate the French. Just when you think your country is about to open its secret X-Files and reveal the truth about UFOs and extraterrestrials, France beats you to le punch. A former director of the country’s foreign intelligence agency (DGSE) opens up in a new UFO documentary and reveals his experiences and observations have convinced him that some of these unidentified crafts are from parallel worlds. Why in France? Is the cheese famous in ALL universes?
“In the particular field of UFOs, not to mention the people who see a flying saucer landing in a field, there are fighter pilots, astronauts, people who are anything but funny and report very precise observations. We must not say that they are nonsense but just recognize that there are things that escape us.”
Alain Juillet held high level positions in the French government (DGSE director, Senior Economic Intelligence Officer to the Prime Minister) in between a storied career as a business leader, educator and now a media consultant. He recently spoke to David Ramasseul of Paris Match about his participation in “UFOs: a matter of States” – a documentary by director Dominique Filhol, who talks to scientists, politicians and experts on the subject of UFOs.
Juillet begins the interview by revealing why he believes sophisticated UFOs like the ones spotted by US Navy pilots are not created by humans – humans would have leaked this kind of information that is too big for scientists, military personnel or officials to keep secret for long. That’s a common belief held by many about various conspiracy theories – it would have taken a large number of people to pull off a moon landing hoax, yet no one has leaked any explosive and conclusive data. Hard to believe, but not a surprise. Anything else, Mr. Juillet?
“We know that the Americans have launched a very serious study with a big budget to try to understand. And it seems that other great powers, in particular Russia and China, have done the same thing, undoubtedly for the same reasons: to discover if there is not behind the UFO phenomenon something which, technically speaking, can be interesting.”
By “interesting” Juillet means that something is worthy of governments spending money on … money that may exceed the secret budgets and thus be exposed to public scrutiny. He believes that the U.S. and China are “interested” because Russia has developed weapon systems which appear to be unstoppable by conventional defenses – the S-400 surface-to-air missile and the Avangard hypersonic missile are two examples. If traditional physics can’t develop a defense (or a better offense), it’s time to turn to the thing used to explain the performance of unexplainable flying objects like the Tic-Tac UFOs — quantum physics.
“To return to quantum physics, she postulates that two separate points can be the same. It seems inconceivable to us but from there, we can go very far, until the possible existence of parallel worlds. For comparison, a fly with its faceted eyes can see dimensions other than ours even though it lives in our world. Perhaps there are therefore things that are in our universe but that we cannot see in normal times because they are not in our field of vision. But perhaps, from time to time, something happens, that a phenomenon passes through our field of perception before disappearing. I’m not talking about “little green men” there. I rather have the impression that I am following the same approach as certain scientists and astronomers who simply say to themselves “something escapes us”.”
Something escapes “us” … but not GEIPAN, the investigative arm of the French Space Agency CNES whose purpose is to investigate unidentified aerospace phenomena (UAP) and make its findings available to the public. It’s no surprise this former intelligence official is interested in intelligence and proud of his own government’s UAP intelligence collection agency. Unfortunately, he believes GEIPAN is being underutilized by his country, which has a hard time “thinking outside of the box.” When will that happen … if ever?
“I believe it will be done in France the day when people are no longer afraid of being ridiculous. If we learn that the United States or China are not only devoting important studies to this subject, but that in addition to high-level scientists have drawn worthwhile reflections, then our researchers will no longer fear ‘be taken for wacky’.”
So, if you want some full disclosure from an agency that has convinced a former intelligence official that UFOs come from parallel universes, stop it with the French jokes already!
I have to admit that I was inspired to write this article by one that good mate Rich Reynolds wrote a few days ago. The title of Rich’s article is “Inside a UFO: Alien Abduction stories.” Rich began: “In a response to a comment from DrDee for a posting further down in the cycle here, I mentioned that I read some remarks about ‘seeing’ or ‘getting’ inside a UFO to find a clue as to what they are or something more: what we’re dealing with, reality perhaps? The commentary I read came from a UFO group at Facebook, I think, which deals with things UFO-related, and referenced abductees – persons who think they’ve been kidnapped by ETs.” Rich adds: “In the Barney/Betty Hill event, Betty alleged to have seen the ‘star map’ and a book, along with some observations of medical gear or lab-like appurtenances, plus entities.” With that all said, I thought today I would share with you one of the strangest cases of seeing something out of place on a UFO. You would not believe what was seen. In this case, it was nothing less than a dog! Yes, you did read that right!
ET?
The case is as fascinating as it is weird. Let’s take a look at it. The man in question was Alan Godfrey, a Yorkshire, England policeman. UFO Casebook say of the incident: “Police Constable Alan Godfrey was on patrol on the night of 28 November 1980. Just before dawn he drove along Burnley Road on the edge of Todmorden looking for some cows that had been reported missing. They were only found after sun-up, mysteriously relocated in a rain-soaked field without hoofmarks to indicate their passage. Giving up his nocturnal hunt, Godfrey was about to go back to base to sign off duty when he saw a large mass a few hundred yards ahead. At first, he thought it was a bus coming towards him that took workers to their jobs in town and that he knew passed about 5:00 a.m. But as he approached, he realized that it was something very strange. It was a fuzzy oval that rotated at such speed and hovered so low over the otherwise deserted highway that it was causing the bushes by the side to shake.”
The Dark Histories Podcast reveal what happened next: “He pulled his car over and tried to contact the station on his police radio, after getting only static as a reply, he tried his personal radio, but once again, nothing but static filled the cars interior. This in itself was not altogether unusual, as driving through the valley, it was common to meet radio black spots and so PC Godfrey did the only thing he could think of doing as an officer of the law. He stepped out of the vehicle, pulled out his notepad and pencil and drew the object he saw as it floated noiselessly above the road surface, whipping up leaves around it in a silent vortex.” The story continues: “As he continued to sketch out the object in the road, a blinding flash of white light filled his vision and the next thing PC Alan Godfrey could remember, he was continuing to drive the Burnley Road, twenty feet past where he had stopped to see the object.”
It was a classic case of alien abduction (whatever an alien abduction really is: a genuine case of kidnapping from the stars, hallucination, vision – the list goes on). The story got even stranger, however, when Godfrey went under hypnosis to try and figure out what had happened during that period of missing time. While undergoing hypnotic regression, Godfrey said that aside from seeing a human-looking entity on-board the craft, he also encountered a large black dog. He said: “Well, I think it’s a dog. Horrible. Just looks like a dog. Like the size of an Alsatian [Note: Alsatian is U.K. for a German Shepherd dog].”
This was not the first encounter Godfrey had with an anomalous hound. Years earlier, he had seen a ghostly Labrador. There was also an odd occasion – in the 1960s, and near Todmorden – when what seemed to be a woman with a large black dog stepped out in front of Godfrey’s vehicle, causing him to slam the brakes on. Both the woman and the dog vanished. It just so happens that Todmorden has in its midst centuries-old legends of what are known as the “Gabriel Hounds.” They are akin to the UK’s wider, ancient, phenomenon of so-called “Phantom Black Dogs” of the kind that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to pen the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. I said it was a strange one!
We have a long history of strange things falling from the skies. On occasion some of the most bizarre things have been reported as falling from the heavens, ranging from space junk, to meteors, to UFOs, some of which is explained and others which remain anomalies. One of the latter is a case from a remote area of Canada, where one day an outlandish stone fell from the sky, seeming to hold some inscrutable message from an alien intelligence.
It was a beautiful afternoon in the Cowichan Valley, near the Cowichan River on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It was a clear and sunny September afternoon in 1908, and 14-year-old Willie McKinnon was working in his father’s garden doing his daily chores. It was mundane work, but things were about to get very strange indeed. As Willie toiled away, he thought he could hear something in the distance that sounded almost like a rumbling train, even though there was no railroad nearby. As he looked around trying to figure out what the sound was, he was startled to realize that it seemed to be getting closer, inexorably approaching and after a few minutes becoming deafening as it reverberated through the air. That’s when something went whizzing by his head, just barely missing him, only to barrel on and lodge itself into the ground just 8 feet away from him to spray earth and rocks in all directions and create a shockwave that knocked him off his feet.
As soon as the boy checked himself to see that he was not injured he crept towards where the object had fallen, thinking it had to be a meteor that had luckily managed to miss taking his head off. Yet, as he got closer, he could see that this was no normal meteor. The smoking object in the crater was around 10 inches in diameter and seemed to be completely in one piece. Strangely, it seemed to be a perfect orb, with a smooth surface like marble, and even more bizarre still, the outer shell appeared to be etched with a series of cryptic glyphs that looked to Willie like Egyptian hieroglyphics. He circled the bizarre stone for a while and then decided to try and move it, only to find it was immensely hot. Indeed, he would report that it remained too hot to touch for over a half and hour, but as soon as it was cool enough he went about moving it back to the house.
Willie and his father then apparently went about trying to decipher the mysterious hieroglyphics, and, well, that it pretty much where the story here ends. The article in which this story appeared was in the Sept. 5, 1908 edition of the Cowichan Leader, in an article entitled, “A Message From Mars,” and it ends rather abruptly. There was no further information until a month later, when a follow up article claimed that the Dept. of Mines, Geological Survey, in Ottawa was looking for more information on the event, according to the article they were trying to get:
fuller particulars than those contained in the [Cowichan Leader] dispatch: the time of day, the nature of the sounds emitted by the falling body, their duration and the direction from which they seemed to come, the depth of the hole and the nature of the soil as well as the direction in which the earth was thrown by the impact.
It is unclear if they ever got this information or not, and making things more difficult was that Willie’s father was apparently not cooperative with those looking to investigate. He was apparently very keen to keep the stone hidden away, refused to lend it out or sell it, and was confrontational when people demanded to see it. The writer of the article laments:
The questionnaire included an offer of purchase if terms could be arranged. Whether, in fact, this meteor did make it to Ottawa and public preservation, I can’t say, alas, other than that it’s a matter of record that Willie’s father, Angus McKinnon, was known to be, at the very least, argumentative, and this suggests that negotiations would be challenging. As for the so-called hieroglyphics? Was it, in fact, a Rosetta Stone from Outer Space?
The case rather frustratingly sort of ends there, leaving us to wonder what happened to this amazing find. There is no other follow up article on the matter from the era, and it is unknown if the strange stone was ever sent off for more testing. Indeed, it is hard to verify for sure if any of this ever really happened at all, or whether it was just a piece of creative journalism on a slow news day. In the end, it is unknown where that mystery rock is, what happened to it, what its glyphs meant, or even if it ever existed at all, and it remains a strange historical oddity.
Interestingly, there was a similar case dredged up by the site Message to Eaglewhich is spookily similar. In this case the report appeared in the November 14, 1865 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and revolves around a Rocky Mountain trapped by the name of Mr. James Lumley. On one day in September of that year he was allegedly trapping out near the Great Falls of the Upper Missouri when he saw a bright light making its way across the sky, before spectacularly breaking apart on a rain of sparks, followed by a strong wind and an odor like Sulphur. He would investigate to find a swath of forest cut down by something, a trail of destruction, at the end of which lay a stone that seemed to be divided into compartments and held upon it various hieroglyphics. The story reads:
More than this, Mr. Lumley also discovered fragments of a substance resembling glass, and here and there dark stains, as though caused by a liquid. He is confident that the hieroglyphics were the work of human hands, and that the stone itself, although but a fragment of an immense body, must have been used for some purpose by animated beings. Strange as this story may appear, Mr. Lumley relates it with so much sincerity that we are forced to accept it as true.
So were these really “Rosetta Stones” from space? If so, who sent them and why? Were they ever translated, and if so what did they say? Unfortunately, considering the scant coverage of these cases it is difficult to say. If these stones ever did exist they have slipped through the cracks of history and been forgotten, maybe collecting dust somewhere or in the collection of a private collector. Maybe even lost forever. Whatever the case may be, they remain odd little curiosities, that will sadly probably never be solved.
“This particular NASA photo has a lot in it, but the crown jewel is its hieroglyphs on a large broken wall.
“The video shows writing on Mars. The writing itself is actually protruding from the wall, instead of carved deeply within it.
“There are a lot of similarities between this and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
“I went through the photo and found dozens of ancient artefacts, but picked only the best and posted them below.
“The writing is finally the absolute proof that we needed to prove that these beings were intelligent enough to have a written language.”
Ufologists around the world firmly believe that some of the images taken by NASA 4WD Alien Droid on the red planet show what appear to be intelligent markings on some of the rocks on the red planet. They argue that these markings are the remains of a long lost alien civilization from Mars that inhabited the planet in the distant past, when Mars had an atmosphere nearly identical to that of Earth, and liquid water flowing in rivers, lakes and oceans.
Scot Warring states: “A written language from another planet, it’s the final straw that will reveal disclosure. This is what we need to find more of.”
NASA peeks inside first interstellar comet, 2I/Borisov, revealing its alien composition
NASA peeks inside first interstellar comet, 2I/Borisov, revealing its alien composition
By Lonnie Shekhtman
When the scientists peeked inside the halo of gas that formed around comet 2I/Borisov as it came closer to the Sun, they detected something peculiar: 2I/Borisov was releasing gas with a greater concentration of carbon monoxide (CO) than anyone had detected in any comet at a similar distance from the Sun.
When amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov discovered an interstellar comet zipping through our solar system on Aug. 30, 2019, astronomers promptly turned their telescopes towards it hoping to catch a glimpse of this rare and ephemeral event. After all, no one had ever set eyes on a confirmed comet from a foreign star system, and it was clear from its projected trajectory that the alien visitor, named 2I/Borisov, would soon disappear from the sky forever.
Before it dimmed from view, a team of international scientists led by Martin Cordiner and Stefanie Milam at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, probed it with the world’s most powerful radio telescope. The comet was near its closest approach to Earth at about 180 million miles, or nearly 300 million kilometers, away.
When the scientists peeked inside the halo of gas that formed around the comet as it came closer to the Sun and its ices began to vaporize, they detected something peculiar. 2I/Borisov was releasing gas with a greater concentration of carbon monoxide (CO) than anyone had detected in any comet at a similar distance from the Sun (within less than 186 million miles, or 300 million kilometers). 2I/Borisov’s CO concentration was estimated to be between nine and 26 times higher than that of the average solar system comet.
Until more interstellar comets are observed, this result raises more questions than it answers. If it was unaltered during its journey, could observations of 2I/Borisov be our first glimpses of the chemistry that shaped another planetary system? Or, could this comet’s composition hint that there’s a wider diversity of CO among solar system comets than scientists are aware of?
Milam, Cordiner, and their colleagues observed the comet using a radio telescope observatory in northern Chile. Known as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the telescope is made of 66 dishes that work together to observe the sky in great detail. Radio telescopes are ideal for looking at cold, low-energy gas in objects like comets.
On December 15 and 16, 2019, ALMA pointed at a location in the sky where 2I/Borisov was expected to be. This was based on an orbit trajectory that was precise to within 1/5,000th of a degree. The telescope collected a spectrum of energy emitted by the comet’s gases which helped materialize an amorphous image of it and information about its chemical makeup.
The researchers started by looking for the most easily detectable cometary gas, hydrogen cyanide. Detecting it was not too much of a surprise, considering that other scientists using optical telescopes had found the closely related cyanide gas in 2I/Borisov.
Carbon monoxide was a different story, however. Unlike hydrogen cyanide, emissions from CO are much weaker and harder to detect. The researchers almost didn’t bother looking for the gas it in their dataset.
But when the data came back from Chile, the team’s low expectations were shattered. The signal for CO — a lot of it, relative to the other gases — was irrefutable. “As soon as the spectrum came in, we knew it was a significant result,” Milam says.
The bottom axis of this graph shows the range of carbon monoxide concentrations (or amount of carbon monoxide relative to the amount of hydrogen cyanide) among solar system comets. The unusually high concentration detected in 2I/Borisov, the first interstellar comet, is highlighted in red. The comet shown on the far right is C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS), presumably, a solar system comet with CO levels estimated to be dozens of times higher than Borisov’s. Credit: NASA Goddard/Martin Cordiner/James Tralie
Carbon monoxide is one of the most abundant molecules in space. Scientists expect to see it inside all comets, which are balls of frozen gases, rock and dust that form far away from the heat of the Sun. Yet, there’s a huge variation in the concentration of CO in comets and no one quite knows why. Some of this might be related to where in the solar system a comet was born; some has to do with how often a comet’s orbit brings it closer to the Sun and leads it to release more fragile ices.
So far, nothing explains why 2I/Borisov is “off the charts” of the carbon monoxide continuum, as Cordiner puts is. “It is dramatically different from other comets we’ve seen before,” says Cordiner, an astrochemist who led the Borisov observations.
The length of nine football fields, or 3,200 feet (975 meters), 2I/Borisov is a relatively small comet. Its path through the solar system made it clear to scientists that the comet came from outside our system and was not bound to it by the Sun’s gravity. 2I/Borisov was traveling too fast for that, at an extraordinary speed of about 74,000 miles (120,000 kilometers) per hour, in a hyperbolic trajectory that would bring it around the Sun and then fling it back out into the depths of space.
Carbon monoxide is the most volatile of all comet ices, or the quickest to vaporize in warmer temperatures. Thus, the comet likely formed very far away from its star in one of the coldest environments known, based on how much CO it had preserved. If it had formed around our Sun, 2I/Borisov would have been born in the vicinity of the Kuiper Belt. This is a donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune, where temperatures during the formation of the solar system could have reached -420 degrees Fahrenheit (-250 degrees Celsius) according to models. Scientists suspect that gravitational disturbances from young, jostling planets may have thrown 2I/Borisov out of its home star system.
“Then, after a cold, lonely voyage, 2I/Borisov made its close encounter with our solar system and started outgassing and showing us what it’s got inside,” Cordiner says.
He and his colleagues offer a few possible explanations for 2I/Borisov’s exotic CO levels, though none explains why this comet would’ve emerged this way while solar system comets didn’t. One idea is that 2I/Borisov could be a fragment of a dwarf planet that had a lot of carbon monoxide near its surface. “If that object collided with another, then the carbon monoxide-rich fragments could be released into space,” said Cordiner.
But 2I/Borisov may have simply formed as a comet with a high concentration of carbon monoxide. Or, perhaps it has a thick, thermally insulating outer layer that’s keeping gases like hydrogen cyanide and water frozen, while the more volatile carbon monoxide outgasses and appears more abundant relative to the other gases that make up comets.
2I/Borisov is not the first comet to stump scientists with its inexplicably high concentration of CO. Discovered in 2016, a comet known as C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS), was even more striking, with CO levels estimated to be dozens of times higher than Borisov’s.
Scientists determined that R2/PanSTARRS came from the Oort Cloud, a spherical shell of comets and other objects enveloping the solar system. But today’s finding raises the possibility that this mysterious comet may have originated elsewhere. Could R2/PanSTARRS and other presumed solar system comets with unusual chemistries have come from other star systems?
“It’s a provocative idea,” Milam says. “The question that will help comet observers sort this out is whether every interstellar object is going to be unusually high in CO? Will they all have this unique chemistry, or is there going to be a distribution of CO like we see in our own solar system?”
The only other known interstellar object astronomers have ever observed was 'Oumuamua. When it was discovered in October 2017 — the first interstellar object ever identified — 'Oumuamua gripped scientists and the public. But this space rock was already on its way out of the solar system, so it didn’t reveal chemical details, nor settle questions about whether it was a comet, asteroid, or something else.
With increasingly advanced technologies and more large telescopes coming online in coming years, scientists expect to see more Borisovs and 'Oumuamuas. Though these aliens will remain a relatively rare sight, Cordiner warns.
“Our solar system is so tiny compared to the distances between star systems. For an interstellar comet to come in and hit the bullseye like Borisov did is incredible,” he says.
via REUTERSDe interstellaire komeet 2I/Borisov passeert op dit moment nog altijd langs ons eigen zonnestelsel.
WETENSCHAPKomeet 2I/Borisov is nog maar het tweede ruimteobject uit een ander sterrenstelsel ooit dat we in ons eigen zonnestelsel hebben zien passeren, na de fameuze sigaarvormige ‘Oumuamua’ in oktober 2017. De samenstelling van deze 2I/Borisov blijkt nu compleet anders te zijn dan die van andere kometen. Het voorwerp bevat ongewoon veel koolmonoxide, wat iets zou kunnen zeggen over de plaats waar het ontstaan is.
De interstellaire komeet 2I/Borisov werd vorig jaar op 30 augustus gespot door amateurastronoom uit de Krim, Gennady Borisov, die er zijn naam aan gaf. Het ruimteobject zal ons sterrenstelsel ook weer verlaten, maar op dit moment raast het er nog altijd door tegen een snelheid van 33 km per seconde. Al is het inmiddels in twee stukken uiteengespat. Maar daardoor kon de samenstelling ervan worden achterhaald met behulp van de Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Het vakblad Nature Astronomy heeft twee nieuwe onderzoeken over de bijzondere komeet gepubliceerd.
“Dit is de eerste keer dat we in een komeet van buiten ons zonnestelsel hebben gekeken en het is drastisch anders dan andere kometen die we tot nu toe zagen voorbijkomen”, verklaart Martin Cordiner. ALMA vond twee moleculen in het gas dat 2I/Borisov uitstootte: waterstofcyanide (HCN) en koolmonoxide (CO). Het was de hoeveelheid koolstofmonoxide (CO) die de onderzoekers verraste. Die bleek veel hoger te liggen - tussen 9 en 26 keer meer - dan bij kometen uit ons eigen zonnestelsel. De CO-concentratie is hoger dan ooit is gedetecteerd in een komeet op minder dan 300 miljoen kilometer van de zon. Wetenschapper Stefanie Milam concludeert daaruit dat “de komeet moet zijn gevormd uit materiaal dat heel rijk is aan CO-ijs”. Dat kan volgens haar enkel in de gebieden van het heelal waar de temperatuur onder de -250 graden Celsius.
Extreem koud gebied
De koolmonoxide kan inderdaad ook volgens Martin Cordiner een aanwijzing geven van waar 2I/Borisov werd gevormd. “Als de gassen die we hebben waargenomen de samenstelling van de geboorteplaats van 2I/Borisov weerspiegelen, dan toont het aan dat die op een andere manier is gevormd dan de kometen in ons eigen zonnestelsel, in een extreem koud buitengebied van een ver planetair systeem”, aldus Cordiner.
Photo NewsOumuamua was het eerste ruimteobject uit een ander sterrenstelsel dat het onze bezocht.
In de tweede studie beargumenteert Dennis Bodewits een ander standpunt, met name dat de komeet zou kunnen zijn ontstaan rond een rode dwergster, het type dat het vaakst voorkomt in het melkwegstelsel. “Deze sterren hebben de juiste lage temperaturen en helderheid zodat een komeet zich daar zou kunnen vormen met het type samenstelling dat in komeet Borisov is aangetroffen”, aldus Bodewits.
“2I/Borisov gaf ons de eerste kijk in de chemie die een ander planetair systeem vormde”, besluit Milam. “Maar alleen als we het object kunnen vergelijken met andere interstellaire kometen, kunnen we te weten komen of 2I/Borisov een speciaal geval is dan wel dat elk interstellair object een ongewoon hoog CO-gehalte heeft.”
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Linda Moulton Howe: Could We Really Be Living in a Computer Simulated Universe?
Linda Moulton Howe: Could We Really Be Living in a Computer Simulated Universe?
Could We Really Be Living in a Computer Simulated Universe? Presented by Linda Moulton Howe Filmed by Conscious Life Expo, LA
Most of us would have likely remembered a strange or weird incident in their lives, be it incredibly rare coincidences we occasionally experience or the moment we notice a ‘jump in the Matrix’. Could the world we know really be run by some kind of computer?
Neo is a cubicle worker sidelining as a computer hacker when he learns he’s nothing more than a data point in the Matrix, a malevolent cyber-force controlling all life on Earth. Soon Neo is recruited by a covert rebel organization to take back his life and all of humanity.
Fleet Of UFOs Over Michigan During Sunset, Should We Be Worried? Video, UFO Sighting News.
Fleet Of UFOs Over Michigan During Sunset, Should We Be Worried? Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 20, 2020 Location of sighting: Rives Junction, Michigan, USA Source: MUFON #108024 Here is a great video that was just sent into MUFON today. The eyewitness recorded several glowing lights in the sky during sunset. All the lights clearly have no wings, body or tail. No sound of jets is heard. The lights were seen moving across Rives Junction in Michigan and a tiny population of just 4,600 this city probably didn't have more than a handful of eyewitnesses. This is more proof that glowing white energy orbs are monitoring our planet and how the human race reacts to lock downs and coronavirus. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I heard a weird sound Like A Pulsating hum. Thought it was coming from power substation across the street. Concerned I went to look. I opened my front door and Heard it Above the house looked up and There it was. It had a Set of 4 lights in sets of 2. 2 in front 2 behind those. One on each rear area and One big red blinking light. Out line was clearly visable and shapes see lights lit up underside. Was was very unique shape if seen again could Identify. But I have never seen Anything like this. And it flickered 3 times and Disappeared.
Another UFO Seen On Same Night But Across England! April 20, 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Another UFO Seen On Same Night But Across England! April 20, 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:April 20, 2020
Location of sighting:City of Street, England
Source: MUFON #108008
As I said in the last post, this energy sphere has been seen worldwide, and this is the second post about this orb, but this time its in the city of Street, England. Street is a village that is 520km from Coatbridge to Street. And yet the two reports came in on the same day, seen on the same day, but obviously from two different locations, different quality of phones. This is some extraordinary detail of this UFO or energy sphere. Its certainly enjoying the fact that England is on lock down and UFOs have free passage across the sky. Amazing and exciting to see two different reports with photos. Undeniable proof...that aliens are watching over the England...but are they watching because they are scared of what is about to happen to the human race? Or are they watching to understand how well humans are working together to prevent the spread of coronavirus? I wish I knew.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Observed bright light in sky in a westerly direction from my house in Street. Appeared to be star like as it was so bright, I was able to zoom in on my iPhone 11 which shows a doughnut shape.
Glowing Sphere Seen Over Coatbridge, Recording Info On Lock Down, England, April 20, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Sphere Seen Over Coatbridge, Recording Info On Lock Down, England, April 20, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 20, 2020 1:20 AM Location of sighting: Coatbridge, England Source: MUFON #108009 This particular shape of UFO is a glowing energy sphere. Its not a solid object or a spaceship with a metallic outer wall. Instead its pure energy. These have been seen around the world on a daily basis a lot over the last two months. People try to dismiss them as stars, but they often dart around high in the sky so we know its not a Venus or some other planet. It really makes sense...aliens taking notice of the humans race right now...sending these energy probes to watch, record and return with data to inform them of whats to come for humanity. You see, aliens are intelligent, deeply so, they use the data about the current situations to create thousands of possible resulting outcomes. The outcomes with the highest chance of happening...is the ones that aliens will assume will most likely happen with humanity. Think of their data gathering as...a road map to the future. Coronavirus...may be far from ending. It is even possible that the gov is downplaying the virus, which eventually they know will mutate and...cause our extinction over the next few years. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Pulsing ball of light moving at incredible speed over short distances, changing shape and size frequently. It stayed in same place for hours then slowly moved away into the distance.
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