Le Pentagone déclassifie des vidéos de «phénomènes aériens non identifiés»

Le Pentagone a publié ce lundi trois courtes vidéos montrant des «phénomènes aériens non identifiés».  

Ces vidéos montrent ce qui semble être des objets volants non identifiés (ovni) filmés par des caméras infrarouges.  

Sur deux des vidéos, on peut entendre des personnes remarquer la vitesse remarquable à laquelle les objets se déplacent. L'une des voix indique que l’objet pourrait être un drone.  

La Marine américaine avait certifié la véracité de ces images en septembre dernier.  

«Elle les rend maintenant publiques afin de clarifier toute fausse idée du public sur la réalité ou non de ces images», a précisé une porte-parole du Pentagone, Sue Gough.  

«Après un examen approfondi, le département de la Défense a déterminé que la publication de ces vidéos ne révélait pas d’informations délicates», a poursuivi la porte-parole dans un communiqué.  

«Cela n’empiète sur aucune enquête future sur les incursions de l’espace aérien militaire par des phénomènes aériens non identifiés.»  

Selon CNN, la Marine américaine a des directives officielles sur la façon dont les pilotes peuvent rapporter ce qu’ils pensent être des ovnis.  

Les vidéos de la Navy ont été publiées pour la première fois entre décembre 2017 et mars 2018 par la To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, une société cofondée par l'ancien musicien de Blink-182 Tom DeLonge qui affirme étudier des informations sur des phénomènes aériens non identifiés.  

En 2017, l’un des pilotes ayant vu l’un des objets non identifiés en 2004 a déclaré à CNN qu’il s’était déplacé d’une manière qu’il ne pouvait expliquer.  

«Alors que je m'en approchais, il a rapidement accéléré vers le sud et a disparu en moins de deux secondes», avait expliqué le pilote à la retraite de l'US Navy, David Fravor.  

«C'était extrêmement brusque, comme une balle de ping-pong, rebondissant sur un mur. Elle frappait et allait dans l'autre sens.»  

Le Pentagone a précédemment étudié les enregistrements de rencontres aériennes avec des objets inconnus dans le cadre d'un programme classifié comme fermé depuis.  

Luis Elizondo, ancien responsable de ce programme, avait déclaré à CNN en 2017 qu'il pensait personnellement «qu'il existe des preuves très convaincantes que nous ne sommes peut-être pas seuls dans l’univers».

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28-04-2020 om 23:50 geschreven door peter  

A big asteroid will fly by Earth Wednesday, but don't panic. It won't hit us.

28-04-2020 om 23:42 geschreven door peter  

UFO Videos ‘Only Scratch the Surface’ of What the Pentagon Knows, Harry Reid Says

The former Senate Majority Leader says the "American people deserve to be informed" about UFOs.

By Jason Koebler

IMAGE: U.S. NAVY

Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid said Tuesday that the three UFO videos released by the U.S. Navy Tuesday “only scratches the surface” of the Pentagon’s research into UFOs and that the government should consider releasing more information to the American people.

Reid, who was a senator for 30 years and was Senate majority leader from 2007 to 2015, helped to create a so-called “black budget” for the Pentagon’s UFO program, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, according to a 2017 New York Times investigation that revealed its existence. The program was run by Luis Elizondo, who shared UFO videos filmed by the military with former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge’s UFO group, To the Stars Academy. The videos, called GIMBAL, GOFAST, and FLIR, have circulated widely over the last three years and were finally officially published by the Navy Monday. Elizondo now works for DeLonge’s organization.

Reid tweeted that he is “glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications. The American people deserve to be informed.”

Motherboard and Popular Mechanics have reported that the military has a classified version of the FLIR video, which was filmed off the coast of California in 2004; Reid seems to suggest that there exists many more files and documents.

Elizondo and other Pentagon officials have said that the AATIP program is intended to identify “unknown aerial phenomena,” with the idea being that advanced aircraft could pose some sort of threat to national security. While many people hear “UFO” and immediately think “aliens,” the thinking in much of the UFO community is that the U.S. government and other countries’ militaries are hiding highly advanced, stealth aircraft.

The leaking of these three videos spurred a renaissance in UFOlogy over the last few years, and their official release has created another wave of interest in the government’s UFO research. There does indeed seem to be movement in this space—last year, the military officially partnered with DeLonge’s organization to study “exotic” materials, and more details have slowly trickled out about a series of government programs that studied UFOs.

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28-04-2020 om 22:26 geschreven door peter  

More About Those Strange Things Seen On UFOs

Moving on from my earlier article – on the strange alien abduction affair of 1980 involving policeman Alan Godfrey – I thought I would share with you several more cases that involve UFOs and the strange things seen inside them. From 2003 to 2009 I lectured at Ryan Wood’s annual UFO Crash-Retrieval Conference, which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. As is so often the case at such conferences, an attendee came up to me at the 2008 event with a very strange story to tell. Aged around thirty he said that his now-retired father had worked out at Area 51 in the early 1980s, specifically in the development of Stealth technology for military aircraft. The guy said that on several occasions, in the 1990s, he had asked his father about the rumors of crashed UFOs and dead aliens held at the secret vase. His father said that the only thing he knew about aliens at Area 51 came from watching TV shows. Indeed, he told his son that he had never seen any evidence at all of alien-related activity at Area 51. But, there was one strange event that the man was willing to share with his son – and which was then shared with me.

The story told to me was that on one occasion in January 1981, a pedal bike was found deep in a remote part of the vast amount of land that is collectively known as Area 51. Yes, a bicycle. The highly-sophisticated sensors that are carefully placed all around the facility had picked up the sudden presence of something not far from one such sensor. So, a security team was quickly sent out to investigate. It was that team, I was told, which found the bike. There was, though, something very strange about the bicycle: it was extensively damaged – as if it had plummeted to the ground from a great height. The source of the story came to believe (or, more likely, to suspect) that someone had been abducted onto a UFO while riding their bike – and the bike was taken onto an alien craft, too. After which, the bike was thrown out from a great height and down onto Area 51! I guess such a thing is possible.

Moving on, and getting into really controversial areas, I have three cases on file that deal with sightings – by alien abductees – of so-called “Alien Big Cats” on-board UFOs. Yes, I can already see certain mainstream cryptozoologists clenching their fists and letting their blood-pressure soar out of control. Too bad. The UK, in particular, has a long history of sightings of Alien Big Cats, or ABCs. They are erroneously and often referred to as “black panthers.” Most cryptozoologists suggest they are escapees from private zoos and enclosures. Or, perhaps, they may have been secretly released into the wild, when their owners could no longer handle them. None of the above, however, explains why or how I have no less than three cases in my files – all from the English county of Devon, oddly – of alien abductees seeing large and menacing ABCs on-board UFOs. And at the exact time the person is at the mercy of the black-eyed, dwarfish Grays of UFO lore.

The creepiest story of all came from a Houston, Texas-based woman. She told me, back in 2002 or 2003, of her experience with the Grays in the winter of 1977. Her abduction story was very much like so many others that have become staple parts of Ufology. What set it apart, however, was when one of the Grays took out of a box and placed onto her stomach something that looked like a large spider, but with way more legs. Like something out of a horror movie it crawled up her body, onto her face, and inserted one its spindly legs into her right nostril. For a moment there was a flash of pain. Then, nothing. Except that the woman suddenly found herself back in her car that she had been abducted from, hours earlier. Should you ever be taken onto a UFO, be careful: the Grays might not be the worst thing you get to encounter!

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28-04-2020 om 21:28 geschreven door peter  

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28-04-2020 om 21:01 geschreven door peter  

Ever since their unauthorized leaks, the so-called Tic Tac UFO videos have been the darlings of the mainstream media which pretty much ignores almost all other UFO sightings and reports. If they’re covered at all, it’s usually on back pages (for those who still read newspapers) or deep withing their websites. That was the case once again this week as every mainstream media site announced that the Pentagon had “officially” released the three Tic Tac and similar videos of still “unidentified” aerial phenomena. While the mainstream salivates over this old news, let’s attempt to give the same kind of attention to another story this week of an alleged on-the-ground flying saucer-like object spotted in Antarctica using Google Earth. (Photo here.)

“In the images provided by Google Earth we can see a silver circular object that has nothing to do with the rest of the surface.”

The Tic Tac UFO

The Tic Tacs have their Luis Elizondo and Tom DeLonge – this Antarctic UFO has Marcelo Irazusta, a well-known Argentine UFO researcher. It appears he found this one in December 2019 and uploaded it then (watch it here) to the YouTube site Planeta Snakedos, where it languished until this week when a clip from the video was posted by UFOMania. The location is given as “Coordinates: 64 ° 7’2.78 “S 61 ° 40’48.23” W,” which is on Graham Land, a northern piece of portion of the Antarctic Peninsula belonging to Argentina.

“From the International space station, several unknown objects (UFOs) were captured in a video near its limits, NASA estimates to cover them up and continues with its recurring role of censoring the evidence that can support that something happens in space.”

The Tic Tacs were spotted by U.S. military personnel and equipment, so Irazusta points out that Google Earth belongs to NASA. And, like the Tic Tacs, many anomalies that appear on Google Earth or on video feeds from the International Space Station are removed, hidden, filed away and otherwise kept from the public view until they’re leaked or discovered.

“It is clearly an artificial object and very similar to classic flying saucers.”

Here’s where the Antarctic object and the Tic Tacs deviate. The Antarctic object appears to be round and reflective and some commenters estimate its size as about 15 meters in diameter. While it certainly could be a case of pareidolia – after all, Irazuta is a UFO investigator – it definitely looks like something that could be a craft. On the other hand, the Tic Tacs aren’t referred to as Tic Tacs for nothing – they look like little white oval mint candies. That’s true from the videos, the radar images, the descriptions, everything. They don’t look like any conventional or any secret-son-of-conventional aircraft developed by humans and the coverage of them doesn’t give sizes or any further descriptions that help imagine them as alien spacecraft. Yet the Tic Tacs are in The New York Times and the Graham Land object is on Planeta Snakedos.

Ice can fool the eye

“Hello community, referring to the first section of the video about the UFO in Antarctica, to say that it can be very deceptive with a block of ice, I do not discuss it, but from my point of view, totally metallic, not ice.”

Should Marcelo Irazusta send his videos (yes, he has many others) to Tom DeLonge? Or should he find some other celebrity UFO fan to sponsor him? (How about Dan Aykroyd?) Should he narrow his Google Earth searches to the U.S. in order to get a politician like former Senator Harry Reid to champion him? Should he start a GoFundMe page to raise money for his own expedition?

The point of this discussion is not to suggest the media give attention to every UFO or strange anomaly report. Rather, it’s to request that some of the attention given to the Tic Tac UFOs be directed at some other reports. Let’s use some of the energy spent demanding the truth from governments on searching for more anomalies, sightings and possible evidence of our own. Sure, it may turn out to be drones (whatever happened to those strange drones in Colorado anyway?) or shadows or reflections or something else. Don’t wait for the powers that be to give you their data – start giving it to THEM!

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28-04-2020 om 20:29 geschreven door peter  

The Hollow Earth Science, Recent Experiment Shows it Could Be Real After All

COAST TO COAST AM – Electrical engineer and physicist Brooks Agnew shared updates on a variety of topics, including his work on a North Pole Inner-Earth expedition, his theory of Earth being made of two planets, and the human consciousness evolution.

In 2007, a hypothesis was proposed that the core of the Earth might be a solid iron crystal that has been there for around four billion years. But the science behind this didn’t work, Agnew said, so a new lab experiment was conducted in 2012, which indicated that the core of the Earth has only been around for less than one billion years.

If this is the case, he continued, that means the crust is thick at the equators and thin at the poles.

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28-04-2020 om 18:31 geschreven door peter  

'The Most Dangerous Place in the History of Planet Earth' Revealed

Predator paradise – The giant predatory dinosaur Carcharodontosaurus eyes a group of Elosuchus – crocodile-like hunters – near a carcass.

Artwork by Davide Bonadonna

100 million years ago, ferocious predators, including flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters, made the Sahara the most dangerous place on Earth.

This is according to an international team of scientists, who have published the biggest review in almost 100 years of fossil vertebrates from an area of Cretaceous rock formations in south-eastern Morocco, known as the Kem Kem Group.

The review, published in the journal ZooKeys, “provides a window into Africa’s Age of Dinosaurs” according to lead author Dr Nizar Ibrahim, an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Detroit Mercy and Visiting Researcher from the University of Portsmouth.

About 100 million years ago, the area was home to a vast river system, filled with many different species of aquatic and terrestrial animals. Fossils from the Kem Kem Group include three of the largest predatory dinosaurs ever known, including the sabre-toothed Carcharodontosaurus (over 8m in length with enormous jaws and long, serrated teeth up to eight inches long) and Deltadromeus (around 8m in length, a member of the raptor family with long, unusually slender hind limbs for its size), as well as several predatory flying reptiles (pterosaurs) and crocodile-like hunters. Dr Ibrahim said: “This was arguably the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth, a place where a human time-traveller would not last very long.”

Many of the predators were relying on an abundant supply of fish, according to co-author Professor David Martill from the University of Portsmouth. He said: “This place was filled with absolutely enormous fish, including giant coelacanths and lungfish. The coelacanth, for example, is probably four or even five times large than today’s coelacanth. There is an enormous freshwater saw shark called Onchopristis with the most fearsome of rostral teeth, they are like barbed daggers, but beautifully shiny.”

Researchers from the Universities of Detroit, Chicago, Montana, Portsmouth (UK), Leicester (UK, David Unwin), Casablanca (Morocco), and McGill (Canada), as well as the Paris Museum of Natural History, have produced the first detailed and fully illustrated account of the fossil-rich escarpment, previously known as the “Kem Kem beds”. The researchers now define this sedimentary package as the Kem Kem Group, which consists of two distinct formations, the Gara Sbaa Formation and the Douira Formation.

To assemble the huge datasets and fossil images, which were originally included in his PhD thesis, Dr Ibrahim visited Kem Kem collections on several continents.

Shedding light on Africa’s ancient past is important says Professor Martill, “This is the most comprehensive piece of work on fossil vertebrates from the Sahara in almost a century, since the famous German palaeontologist Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach published his last major work in 1936.”

Contacts and sources:

• Kate Daniell
  University of Portsmouth

Publication:

• Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco
  Nizar Ibrahim, Paul C. Sereno, David J. Varricchio, David M. Martill, Didier B. Dutheil, David M. Unwin, Lahssen Baidder, Hans C. E. Larsson, Samir Zouhri, Abdelhadi Kaoukaya http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.928.47517

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28-04-2020 om 18:16 geschreven door peter  

The Navy Has Officially Released the UFO Videos

We were never supposed to see them.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

• The U.S. Navy has officially published three famous UFO videos, which leaked several years ago.
• In 2019, the Navy confirmed the legitimacy of those videos—which show bizarre encounters between Navy fighter pilots and “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but said they were never intended for public release.
• Popular Mechanics interviewed several Navy pilots who said they saw a longer, better video of the encounter than the one released to the public.

The U.S. Navy has officially published three videos that show UFOs are genuine, several years after the notorious clips first leaked online and properly ushered in the UFO renaissance. Last year, the Navy confirmed the three videos, taken by Navy pilots, indeed show “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but the service also said the footage should have never been released to the public in the first place.

The Navy just dropped the three videos—titled “FLIR.mp4,” “GOFAST.wmv,” and “GIMBAL.wmv”—on its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) page, a repository for documents released under the federal law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of U.S. government information to the public. The clips were first released in 2017 and 2018 by The New York Times and To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a UFO research group from former blink-182 member Tom DeLonge.

In November 2004, Navy fighter pilots with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group spotted a strange, Tic Tac-shaped UFO—“around 40 feet long and oval in shape”—about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. “FLIR” shows this encounter. Then, in January 2015, an F/A-18F fighter jet off the East Coast captured additional videos using the aircraft’s onboard Raytheon AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) Pod. “GIMBAL” and “GOFAST” show this encounter. In the videos, air crews loudly debate what the objects are and where they came from.

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“The Department of Defense [DOD] has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017,” Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough says in a statement.

In September 2019, the Navy admitted the clips were legitimate, and the objects shown are “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), the catch-all term for the “sightings/observations of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges,” per a spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare.

“After a thorough review,” Gough says, “the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”

Gough says DOD released the videos in order to “clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos.”

“The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified,’” says Gough.

But our reporting suggests there is more to this story. In November 2019, Popular Mechanics interviewed several Nimitz witnesses, who said they saw a longer, better video of the encounter than the one released to the public. One witness, for example, told us he “definitely saw video that was roughly 8 to 10 minutes long and a lot more clear.”

Then, in January, Popular Mechanics published a follow-up feature called “The Tale of the Tape,” a thorough examination of the video’s convoluted history that shed light on exactly how the clip made its way into the mainstream. And one month later, we revealed even more secrets about The Pentagon’s Secret UFO Program.

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28-04-2020 om 18:02 geschreven door peter  

Navy Releases Video of 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena'

The Defense Department has declassified three videos that had previously been unofficially circulating in the public. The clips show three incidents described by the Defense Department as “unidentified aerial phenomena.” One of the videos was recorded in November 2004, and the other two were recorded in January 2015.

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28-04-2020 om 17:51 geschreven door peter  

Asteroid warning: NASA tracks a 4KM asteroid approach - Could end civilisation if it hits

CLARIFICATION: This article originally claimed that asteroid 52768 (1998 OR2) will approach our planet in April, and that the rock would be "heading our way". In fact it will pass on close approach at an estimated distance of 3.9 million miles from Earth. The article was also accompanied by a graphic showing a stylised asteroid hitting Earth. The diameter of that stylised asteroid was 1,500km, not the 4.1km which asteroid 52768 (1998OR2) actually measures. That graphic has been removed. In addition, a graphic marked 'asteroid warning' has also been removed.

28-04-2020 om 17:29 geschreven door peter  

NASA Science Live: Asteroid Close Approach

Have you heard about an asteroid close-approach happening on April 29? Asteroid 1998 OR2 poses no threat to our planet, but we can still learn a lot by studying it. Don’t miss a special Planetary Defense episode of NASA Science Live on Monday, April 27 at 3:00 p.m. EDT to learn how we find, track and monitor asteroids and near-Earth Objects.

28-04-2020 om 16:55 geschreven door peter  

Pentagon Releases Statement On UFO Videos, Because Something Big Is On Its Way To Earth, UFO Sighting News.

The Pentagon on Monday released three unclassified videos showing UFOs in an attempt to assure the public that the videos, which have been circulating for years, are real. The videos have been making their rounds ever since 2007. 

"After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena," the Department of Defense said in a statement Monday.

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I find this intriguing in the fact that it was the Pentagon that made the official announcement and that they did from the DOD. For the US government to come out and admit that the videos are real means they know that something big is coming soon. For instance...earth got a new moon starting Nov 2019...the same time that Coronavirus began circulating in China. Which means...it came for a purpose...to watch, to learn and to report back all that its seen and heard. And since the probe is known by the US gov and NASA...none of which know what to do about it...the US gov is trying to quickly leak out real info to the public to make any sudden announcement less of a blow. 

Something big has been notices by the US government...something big enough to scare them. That moon may have friends on its way. And if thats true...then we are in danger. 
Scott C. Waring 

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28-04-2020 om 16:45 geschreven door peter  

Statue Found On Mars Of Half Goat Half Human Animal, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: April 23, 2020 
 Location of discovery: Mars 

 I found this strange artistic statue on Mars today. It has a nose, cheeks and eyes of a human, but ears of a goat, leges like a horse, but the back leg has the hoof reversed pointing the opposite direction. The chiseled face makes me know this is a statue that was created...although the creature looks like it just collapsed in place. Only two of its leges are visible...one front, folded under itself, and a back leg. This is very primitive art compared to human art...but I have seen some art on walls in museums that didn't deserve to be called art...for instance the art on Mars looks like something that Damien Hirst, a UK artist made. Very odd indeed, and yet...its still art. So...everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. Thats why there are artists...to show you the possibilities that exist. Scott C. Waring – Taiwan

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28-04-2020 om 16:27 geschreven door peter  

Ancient City On Venus Similar To Descriptions Of Atlantis! UFO Sighing News.

Date of discovery: April 28, 2020
Location of discovery: Venus
Source Map: 

• https://webgis2.wr.usgs.gov/Venus_Global_GIS/ (deleted by NASA)
  
  

I went to the Venus NASA map and it was no longer working. Its ok, I got my own copy of it I downloaded last year. Let me show you why they took this map down. There are many alien cities visible on this map. Some so big...they look like a single structure, but are actually bigger than the city of Los Angeles...my place of birth. Just like LA this wheel structure extends 70 km across. 

I found that the structure above has a wheel like design and is very similar to descriptions of the ancient city of Atlantis. Can you see the tunnels, the intelligent design? Its just extraordinary to see, let alone to think about. 

I never expected the US gov to take down the Venus map, but lucky I had a copy of it. I will continue to post structures from it now and then. 

And a personal message to NASA, you will never be able to hide the existence of other alien species by hitting the delete button. That is so 1980s of you. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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28-04-2020 om 16:17 geschreven door peter  

Daytime UFOs in the sky above Phoenix, Arizona?

This footage was just submitted to me through our Facebook page. It was recorded recently (April 2020) in the sky above Phoenix, Arizona.

Witness added that “They looked like birds at first”. What do you think this is?

Please leave your comments below!

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28-04-2020 om 15:00 geschreven door peter  

Pentagon formally releases 3 Navy videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena"

BY STEFAN BECKET

Washington — The Pentagon on Monday formally released three unclassified videos taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with "unidentified aerial phenomena."

One of the videos shows an incident from 2004, and the other two were recorded in January 2015, according to Sue Gough, a Defense Department spokeswoman. The videos became public after unauthorized leaks in 2007 and 2017, and the Navy previously verified their authenticity.

"After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena," Gough said.

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28-04-2020 om 14:53 geschreven door peter  

Pentagon geeft nu zelf drie gelekte UFO-video’s vrij, gemaakt door Amerikaanse marinepiloten - HLN.be

Bron: The Guardian, CNN

De grijze, korte, onduidelijke, maar wel ophefmakende beelden begonnen in 2007 en 2017 te circuleren na een ongeautoriseerd lek. Ze tonen wat marinepiloten zagen tijdens trainingsvluchten in 2004 en 2015. Twee video’s werden eerder gepubliceerd door The New York Times, de andere video werd vrijgegeven door een private organisatie. Te zien is hoe ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten pijlsnel door de lucht bewegen, ze worden maar heel kort opgepikt door infraroodcamera’s. 

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Abrupt

Vooral het commentaar van de betrokken piloten in de twee video’s uit 2015 is fascinerend. Ze zijn duidelijk onder de indruk van de snelheid van de objecten en kunnen hun ogen niet geloven. “My god. Het gaat tegen de wind”, zegt een stem. “Kijk naar dat ding!”, klinkt het. “Het is aan het draaien!” In de andere video juicht een piloot: “Yes, ik heb het”, als hij het in zijn camera kan vastgrijpen. “Kijk hoe het vliegt! Wow.”

In 2017 verklaarde de intussen gepensioneerde marinepiloot David Fravor, die de beelden uit 2004 maakte (zonder geluid), dat het object dat hij had gezien, “bewoog op manieren die hij niet kon uitleggen”. 

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Geautoriseerd

Het Pentagon zegt dat het de beelden nu besluit vrij t

e geven “om eventuele misvattingen bij het publiek weg te nemen over het vraagstuk of het circulerende beeldmateriaal wel echt was en of er meer aan de video’s was”, zo luidt het in een statement van het ministerie van Defensie. 

“Na een diepgaand onderzoek heeft het ministerie besloten dat een geautoriseerde vrijgave van deze video’s geen enkele gevoelige informatie qua capaciteiten of systemen onthult en ook geen afbreuk doet aan eventuele nog volgende onderzoeken naar ongeïdentificeerde luchtverschijnselen in het militaire luchtruim”, is te lezen. Verder klinkt het dat de fenomenen geobserveerd in de video’s onder de noemer blijven van ‘ongeïdentificeerd’.

Speculaties

Dat het Pentagon de video’s nu zelf vrijgeeft, draagt bij tot de legitimering van de beelden. Het zal ongetwijfeld alleen maar de speculaties voeden dat mensen mogelijk in contact zijn gekomen met buitenaardse wezens. 

Het Pentagon bestudeerde eerder opnames van luchtontmoetingen met onbekende objecten als deel van een ‘classified program’  dat in 2007 werd opgezet in opdracht van de toenmalige Amerikaanse Democratische Senaatsfractieleider Harry Reid. Maar in 2012 eindigde het geheime programma - het ‘Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program’ - omdat er werd geoordeeld dat er andere prioriteiten waren die budgetten nodig hadden. 

“Eindelijk”

Het voormalige hoofd van het programma, Luis Elizondo, verklaarde in 2017 aan CNN dat hij gelooft dat er “overtuigend bewijs is dat we misschien niet alleen zijn”. “Deze vliegtuigen - laten we het vliegtuigen noemen - hebben kenmerken die niet bekend zijn”, zei hij over de objecten die hij had bestudeerd. 

Ex-senator Reid tweette maandag dat hij “blij” is dat het Pentagon “eindelijk” de video’s heeft vrijgegeven, maar dat het “maar het topje van de ijsberg is van het onderzoek en beschikbaar materiaal”.

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28-04-2020 om 14:25 geschreven door peter  

China’s Mars mission named Tianwen-1, appears on track for July launch

by Andrew Jones 

The ‘Lanxingjiutian’ logo includes representations of the Latin letter ‘c’, referring to China, cooperation, and the cosmic velocity required to undertake planetary exploration. Further Chinese planetary missions will also carry the Tianwen name. 

China is understood to be planning a Mars sample return mission, a Jupiter orbiter and considering possible missions to icy giants and interstellar space. A joint near-Earth asteroid sample return and comet rendezvous mission has also been proposed.

Spacecraft delivered, rocket engines tested

Few details of the Tianwen-1 mission have been released so far. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft is expected to have a wet mass of around 5 metric tons. Launch on a Long March 5 launcher is expected from Wenchang early in the short launch window to Mars open in late July and early August.

The YF-77 liquid oxygen-liquid hydrogen engines for the Long March 5 passed tests in January. The same engines were the cause of the failure of the second Long March 5 launch in 2017.

Comprehensive software and hardware tests of the spacecraft were completed in March. The spacecraft has apparently been delivered to Wenchang Satellite Launch Center.

The test launch of the Long March 5B—currently expected in early May—will likely need to succeed for the Tianwen-1 mission to proceed. Following that mission, the Yuanwang-21 and -22 cargo vessels will collect the components of the Long March 5 for Tianwen-1 from Tianjin, north China, for delivery to Wenchang on the southern island of Hainan.µ

Tianwen-1 orbiter, lander details

The Tianwen-1 orbiter will be equipped with a high-resolution camera comparable to HiRise on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It also carries a medium-resolution camera, subsurface radar, mineralogy spectrometer, neutral and energetic particle analyzers and a magnetometer. The orbiter will also play a relay role for the mission rover.

The roughly 240-kilogram solar-powered rover is nearly twice the mass of China’s Yutu lunar rovers. It will carry a ground-penetrating radar, multispectral camera, a Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy instrument and payloads for detecting the climate and magnetic environment. The rover has a mission design lifetime of three Earth months. The rover will receive a name through a public vote closer to launch. 

China has outlined two landing areas, with a candidate landing site in Utopia Planitia. The landing ellipse is understood to be around 100 x 40 kilometers. Site selection was driven by a range of factors including flight system engineering constraints and the challenges of entry, descent and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet, and the science goals of the mission.

The Tianwen-1 spacecraft is expected to reach Mars around February 2021. However, the rover landing attempt may not take place immediately. There are suggestions that the landing segment of the mission will be conducted months later, in April. This would allow mapping and observation of the landing site, despite the availability of high-resolution NASA imagery from HiRise.

The Tianwen-1 mission will join NASA’s Perseverance Mars 2020 rover and the United Arab Emirates’ Hope Mars orbiter, which this week shipped to its launch site in Japan, in launching during the July-August Mars launch window. ESA’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has been delayed to the next opportunity in 2022.

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28-04-2020 om 01:39 geschreven door peter  

SpaceX's SN4 Starship prototype passes key pressure test

28-04-2020 om 00:56 geschreven door peter