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...
06-06-2020
Phantom Boats Drawing 'GPS Crop Circles' Keep Appearing Off the Coast of San Francisco
Phantom Boats Drawing 'GPS Crop Circles' Keep Appearing Off the Coast of San Francisco
Phantom ships that appear to be sailing in circles off the coast of San Francisco have been discovered by an analyst examining vessel tracking data. Bjorn Bergman, from SkyTruth and Global Fishing Watch, has identified nine boats broadcasting signals that suggest they were around Point Reyes, northwest of the city, when they were actually thousands of miles away.
Commercial boats of a certain size are required by U.S. and international law to have automatic identification systems (AISs). These systems provide information on where a ship is on the ocean, helping to inform maritime radar and avoid collisions.
Bergman has worked with SkyTruth and Global Fishing Watch for six years. The latter is a project to map global fishing activity using open-source data, normally on larger vessels. Using this information, the team can compare AIS data with satellite information to any find boats that may be fishing illegally.
Last year, Bergman had noticed false AIS locations appearing for several ships off the coast of China. When they got too close to a certain point on the shore, the AIS was scrambled and they appeared to be several miles away from their true location. At the time, Bergman determined this was a deliberate disruption of the GPS rather than being a malfunction of the AIS.
He then started looking more broadly for false AIS signals, and found a strange pattern, with boats appearing above Point Reyes. "Although the circling tracks look similar in both locations, the vessels on the Chinese coast were at most a few miles from the circling tracks, while the vessels broadcasting tracks above Point Reyes are actually thousands of miles away," he wrote in a blog post.
Image showing the circle tracks by the false AIS signals.
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There is no known connection between any of the boats and their true locations were scattered across the globe. Some of the boats were in locations where boats are known to have had GPS scrambled, such as the Suez Canal, while others were not. What was causing these boats to all of a sudden put out false AIS locations is unknown. Bergman said it could be related to some sort of malfunction with the GPS device, or it could be deliberate manipulation. But both theories come with problems.
Port Reyes was a U.S. Coast Guard site until 2015 when it was decommissioned, although volunteers continue to maintain the site. "It has a long history in maritime navigation," Bergman told Newsweek. "There must be some connection. I've got a lot of theories [but] we don't know One thing that could be plausible is that it's acting as a zero location because of the importance of this spot in developing maritime navigation systems. So if [a ship's] reception is blocked for whatever reason they're appearing there."
He said some have suggested the location is being deliberately selected to test a system where someone is artificially inputting data into the vessels. "It's an open question about what's being affected," he said.
Bergman hopes to find out more about the AIS devices being used on the nine ships that appeared above Point Reyes. If they were made by the same manufacturer, that would be a link that he could investigate further. That alone, however, would not explain the phantom circles. Manufacturers create thousands of devices, so even if they were the same make and model, why would only nine malfunction?
Todd Humphreys, associate professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, researches technology relating to positioning, navigation and security. He told Newsweek the circles off Point Reyes were likely the result of GPS "spoofing" devices. This technology, he said, started to become more accessible around 2016.
"Fast forward to 2020 [and] what I think we're witnessing with the strange patterns...is the emergence of commodity off-the-shelf spoofing devices," he said. "Someone somewhere is selling cheap turnkey GPS spoofers...I think that's what's going on." He said over the last year there have been instances of ships off China, Iran and Africa transported to some strange location and "dragged around a circle."
"We know it's GPS spoofing because we also see it in the data from exercise apps. Usually the false location is near the true one, but in other cases it's half a world away, like Point Reyes for a ship off the coast of Africa."
Humphreys said the most likely motive is to ward off drones and to hinder the enforcement of oil sanctions. "It's pretty remarkable that there hasn't been a concerted crackdown on this, given how important GPS is for safe navigation," he said. "If I'm right and cheap spoofers are now for sale, you can bet a lot more 'GPS crop circles' will show up in the coming months and years, with negative implications for ships, aircraft, and ordinary turn-by-turn directions."
Dana Goward, president of the Resilient Navigation & Timing Foundation, said he also believes GPS spoofing devices are responsible. "This might be for the purpose of concealing the vessels' movements for some reason," he told Newsweek. "Almost certainly these devices have become available for purchase on the internet from sites that specialize in GPS jamming and spoofing equipment. Maritime is a lightly governed domain and there are lots of reasons to conceal the movements of vessels or individuals."
He said it is not clear why the tracks are circular, but it could be a feature of the hardware and software of the spoofing device. The track pattern may have only become apparent once the devices started being used. What the significance of Port Reyes was, Goward says, is a "complete mystery."
"I served with the Coast Guard for 40 years retiring as the U.S. maritime navigation authority. I can't imagine how a closed radio station could have anything to do with a navigation issue. Pretty darn sure it is just a coincidence."
Bergman said he now plans to continue monitoring data for more false AIS locations. He hopes to see if he can get more information from the nine ships' AIS broadcasts. "Maybe there's a way to tell if this is something that came out of a receiver or if it was synthetically produced," he said. "Hopefully I'll get some more information about that."
Goward says the potential widespread use of spoofing devices is very concerning. In the U.S., Congress has passed a law for terrestrial systems to back up GPS timing signals. This should make receivers highly resistant to interference. "Furthermore, the system must be expandable into a navigation system that can be used when GPS is not available," he said.
Numerous videos purportedly showing pulsating, ball-shaped objects over the skies of Brazil have sparked a flurry of speculation about possible UFO sightings.
Twitter was flooded with videos claiming to show the bizarre phenomenon in Mage, outside of Rio de Janeiro.
In one of the clips, a gyrating blue sphere is seen floating above the city. The video was tweeted at Elon Musk.
“There are reports that something fell over there in a lake ... But it doesn't seem to be a satellite,” Andre Di Mauro wrote.
Another video shows a group of five illuminated spheres in the night sky – a bizarre visual phenomenon which “many people saw,” according to one Brazilian who shared the clip. Others posted footage of a floating red orb, as well as strange flashing lights in the horizon.
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Hey @tomdelonge yesterday in Magé - Brazil many people saw OVNI’s in the sky. Enjoy there is more vídeos like these and sorry for my bad english #aliensexist
According to reports, the terms “Mage” and “Pau Grande” – the district of the city where the alleged incident took place – trended on Brazilian social media on Wednesday.
Despite the chatter online, authorities claim they are unaware of any unusual incidents. The city issued a notice stating that it had no information on the matter, local media reported, adding that the Brazilian Air Force claims it received no calls regarding the unusual objects.
Check out this incredible photo from the ESA (European Space Agency). The photo shows the space station with the horizon of the earth beginning to light up. However there are also three glowing spacecraft to the far left of the space staton. One of the craft appears in high detail to be golden disk. The other two craft are golden orbs that are accompanying the disk. Often alien spacecraft have small orbs making orbits around the main craft in order to monitor and more safely travel. Thus they avoid any unexpected problems...like flying into something by accident. This is 100% proof that the ESA is aware of aliens near our space station and that they record them in their archives. However this photo seems to have been released to the public by accident. Scott C. Waring
Here is a cool photo from the NASA Spaceflight site. The photo supposedly shows the Aurora borealis in all its glory, however it accidentally caught a large UFO in it. The UFO was clearly inside the green area and was taking samples and taking readings from the Aurora. Aliens are interested in everything about Earth, not just the humans, not just the life forms, but all area of our planet. It wouldn't surprise me if several aliens species terraformed earth long ago as an experiment so they could record the entire planet evolving and growing through time. Why? Because those alien species are billions of years old, and have long since forgotten or lost their own history that far back. Even us humans have lost a lot of our own history of what happened just a few hundred years ago, and lost most of our history of what happened two thousand years ago. So yes, we can assume the same has happened to the alien species, but for them, they lost it many times over. Scott C. Waring
Witness Believes They Observe Air Battle Between Two UFOs
Witness Believes They Observe Air Battle Between Two UFOs
Phil Tindale explains how he and his twin brother Rob, as 10-year-olds, saw what he called hostile chase between two extremely advanced craft with one of those crashing into a tree in the South Australian town of Aldgate over 40 years ago.
A third witness reported the crash who claimed to have managed to get a close look at the craft, which looked like an eight-metre-long yellow speed boat from its underside.
However, the object had vanished by the time police arrived, leaving only strange broken branches.
Phil believes that around 95 percent of UFO sightings can be explained, but the 5% that fall into the unexplained category is quite an interesting number.
Four decades have passed, and Phil says he’s fully convinced that he saw extra-terrestrial and not military.
According to Phil, he had no real perspective on the UFO phenomenon in terms of significance and scale until the internet came.
After making contact with other witnesses and researching other people’s reports, he realised these visitations are very relevant and significant to us. The realisation prompted him to start talking about it.
Phil shared how the incident unfolded at 9:30 evening on Thursday, February 7, 1980.
His brother Rob noticed the first UFO down the valley to the south-east of Adelaide from his bedroom. Rob then called out Phil, and the then boys observed a bright yellow object just above the tree line, approximately 1km away.
After a few minutes, the second UFO, slightly larger than the first one, appeared emitting a red light. Phil described its movement as cartoon-like as it zoomed up to the yellow object, hovered and reversed, then did the same series of action again as if to prompt a reaction.
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Then the yellow craft took off with the red one in pursuit before zigzagging like two blowflies in the sky. The twin watched for about 15 minutes.
On that the same night, a 21-year-old local farmhand Daryl Browne reported witnessing a speedboat-shaped yellow object like a half-moon crashed into some trees close to the horse farm where he worked, the same area where the brothers last observed the object.
Phil added that he has no doubt that we’re being visited by something beyond our own intelligence, both from his experience and speaking with others.
"SOMETHING" stops midair and reverses during Ontario Lightning Storm
"SOMETHING" stops midair and reverses during Ontario Lightning Storm
On June 2, 2020 a photographer was taken a video of a lightning storm passing over Mississauga, Ontario, Canada when suddenly an unknown bright object flies into the storm. Then the object stops midair, reverses and disappears at high speed.
There are some strange things that happen in a lightning storm. There is the possibility that what we are seeing is a so-called ball lightning.
Ball lightning is an unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon described as luminescent, spherical objects usually associated with thunderstorms, but in this case it is not likely, since the object is not spherical.
Maybe a shooting star? But have you ever seen a shooting star that stops midair and reverses its direction?
Although it remains a mystery what the object may have been, it does appear to be under some type of intelligent control.
AIR FORCE PILOTS ARE ABOUT TO DO BATTLE WITH AUTONOMOUS DRONES
AIR FORCE PILOTS ARE ABOUT TO DO BATTLE WITH AUTONOMOUS DRONES
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War Games
The U.S. military is planning to put its combat drones to the ultimate test: a skirmish against human fighter pilots.
Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan, who’s the head of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, told BBC News that the military is interested in measuring the capabilities of AI-driven aircraft against its human pilots. While the plan isn’t to replace human crewmembers — yet — pitting the two against each other is a good way to gauge how far the AI has come.
Battle Droids
Shanahan told BBC News that the Air Force Research Laboratory is planning to hold a skirmish in which “an autonomous system [would] go up against a human, manned system in some sort of air-to-air.”
But even while announcing this air-to-air scrimmage, Shanahan added that the military’s goal for uncrewed fighter jets may have been too ambitious, saying that current systems don’t use “a lot of AI.”
Changing Course
The Air Force announced an AI initiative called “Skyborg” last March with the goal of flying fighter jets without anyone at the controls. Now, Shanahan says that the Air Force may be more interested in swarm drones and other uses for AI than necessarily taking the pilot out of a fighter plane’s cockpit.
“Maybe I shouldn’t be thinking about a 65ft-wingspan, maybe it is a small autonomous swarming capability,” Shanahan told BBC News. “The last thing I would claim is that carriers and fighters and satellites are going away in the next couple of years.”
In the last 14 years, astronomers have identified more than 4,000 planets orbiting far-away solar systems, but none seems to come close to KOI-467.04. Don’t be fooled by its unceremonious designation, for this is a rare astronomical gem.
According to a new study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany, KOI-467.04 is less than twice the size of Earth and orbits a star that is almost like a twin to our Sun. What’s more, the exoplanet orbits its star at a distance similar to that between Earth and the Sun, suggesting that its surface temperature is conducive to life.
In other words, the scientists may have found a twin solar system — all that astronomers have been wishing for since the first exoplanet was discovered in 1992.
Billions of planets, but there’s only one place like home… or is there?
There are billions — perhaps trillions — of stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone and, on average, each of those stars has at least one planet orbiting them
“We are seeing just how diverse planets are. Planets are more common than they were thought to be before the first exoplanets were found. The number of planets in our galaxy is at least as large as the number of stars. But while planets and planetary systems are so diverse, planets like Earth may be very, very rare,” Dr. Jack Lissauer, a scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center and co-investigator of the Kepler mission, told me last year at a conference in Budapest.
The vast majority of exoplanets identified by astronomers in the past are the size of gas giants like Neptune or Jupiter and orbit their parent stars much too close for life to stand a chance.
Occasionally, astronomers will come across exoplanets that are Earth-sized and potentially rocky, but these planets either orbit too close or too far away from the star. On the extremely rare occasion that scientists discover an Earth-sized rocky exoplanet orbiting in the Goldilocks Zone — or habitable zone, where the distance from the parent star is just right for liquid water to form.
But even then, things are typically far from perfect. Almost all exoplanets less than twice the size of Earth found thus far orbit around a red dwarf, which present their own set of limitations.
Red dwarfs are by far the most common types of stars in the Universe. They’re small, dim, and relatively cool, and also have a long lifetime.
Yet, although life on an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf would have twice as much time than that on Earth to evolve, it would have to overcome other important challenges.
One has to do with radiation. While the surface temperature might be just right for liquid water to form, exoplanets orbiting red dwarfs are mostly hit by infrared rather than visible light.
If that wasn’t enough, red dwarfs also regularly spew powerful solar flares that can fry nearby planets. What’s more, because red dwarfs are so faint, exoplanets hoping to harbor life need to orbit so close to the parent stars that they get deformed by the stellar gravity. This can result in tidal heating that can trigger global volcanism and turn the promising exoplanet into a hellish world.
So, it’s not just a question of exoplanet quality, stellar quality is vital too. Now, an international team of researchers think they’ve found one that checks all the boxes.
Mirror Earth and Sun
The Earth-like planet candidate that orbits a sun-like star is located over 3,000 light-years away, in the Kepler-170 system.
It was first identified in 2009 and since 2014, astronomers have found that it hosts two exoplanets, known as Kepler-160b and Kepler-160c, which are both much bigger than Earth and in relatively close orbits around their stars. Nothing to warrant particular attention so far.
But then the researchers combed the archival Kepler data of Kepler-160 hoping to perhaps find other planets using a novel method developed by Michael Hippke and René Heller, both from Max Planck. Their investigation was prompted by evidence that Kepler-160c’s orbit was perturbed — something was out there.
This is when they found another two planets, among them the exciting KOI-456.04.
“Our analysis suggests that Kepler-160 is orbited not by two but by a total of four planets,” Heller said in a statement.
“The planetary signal is so faint that it’s almost entirely hidden in the noise of the data. Our new search mask is slightly better in separating a true exoplanetary signal from the noise in the critical cases,” Heller adds.
According to Heller and colleagues, KOI-456.04 has a radius of 1.9 Earth radii (almost twice as large as Earth) and orbits its parent star every 378 days — that’s mighty close to Earth’s 365 days (or 366 days during a leap year).
As for the star, the astronomers estimate that its radius is 1.1 that of the Sun, with a surface temperature of around 5,200 degrees Celsius, just 300 degrees shy of that of the sun. Its luminosity is also sun-like.
Given this information, the researchers believe that KOI-456.04 might have an average surface temperature of around 5 degrees Celsius, as long as it has an atmosphere that can support at least a mild Earth-like greenhouse gas effect.
“KOI-456.01 is relatively large compared to many other planets that are considered potentially habitable. But it’s the combination of this less-than-double the size of the Earth planet and its solar type host star that make it so special and familiar,” Heller
Don’t get too excited, though. As a caveat, the researchers claim that they cannot entirely rule out KOI-456.01 as a statistical fluke. According to the study published in thejournal Astronomy & Astrophysics, the odds of KOI-456.04 being a real planet and not some statistical aberration is 85%. Formal planetary status requires a 99% degree of confidence.
All hope is not lost, though. Astronomers will have a good chance to confirm their findings once ESA’s PLATO space mission launches in 2026. Plato will specialize in the examination of rocky exoplanets orbiting in habitable zones around Sun-like stars, particularly focusing on the potential for these planets to hold liquid water. Fingers crossed.
World's 'oldest Mayan monument' unearthed in Mexico contains NO tributes to the 'elite' suggesting the ancient civilisation was more egalitarian than previously thought
World's 'oldest Mayan monument' unearthed in Mexico contains NO tributes to the 'elite' suggesting the ancient civilisation was more egalitarian than previously thought
The Mayan site is 4,600ft long, 50ft tall and built between 800 BC and 1,000 BC
It was found by University of Arizona archaeologists using aerial lidar images
They say it is both the largest and the oldest known Mayan site ever discovered
A 3,000-years-old Mayan temple has been discovered in Mexico, making it the ancient civilisation's oldest and largest monument.
The temple site in Tabasco, Mexico, was discovered by international team archaeologists led by the University of Arizona during an expedition in 2017.
The site, called Aquada Fénix, is 4,600ft long and up to 50ft high, making it larger than the Mayan pyramids and palaces of later periods.
It was built between 800 BC and 1,000 BC, according to the team behind the discovery.
One of the most remarkable revelations from the find was the complete lack of stone sculptures related to rulers and elites, such as colossal heads and thrones, that are commonly seen in other Mayan temples.
This suggests that the people who built it were more egalitarian than later generations of Mayans.
The site, called Aquada Fénix, is 4,600ft long, up to 50ft high and was built between 800 BC and 1,000 BC, according to the team behind the discovery
Researchers excavated parts of the massive site and were able to radiocarbon date charcoal and rocks to determine it was up to 3,000 years old
From the ground, it's impossible to tell that the plateau where this site was discovered hides something extraordinary, the research team said.
However, from the sky, with laser eyes, and beneath the surface, with radiocarbon dating, it became clear just how historically important the location was.
Located in Tabasco, Mexico, near the northwestern border of Guatemala, the newly discovered site of Aguada Fénix lurked beneath the surface.
It had been hidden by its size and low profile until 2017 when Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan from the University of Arizona made their remarkable discovery.
Located in Tabasco, Mexico, near the northwestern border of Guatemala, the newly discovered site of Aguada Fénix lurked beneath the surface
They used lidar (light detection and ranging) technology, which uses laser-emitting equipment from an aerorplane to find the site under a tree canopy.
The team then excavated the site and radiocarbon-dated 69 samples of charcoal to determine that it was constructed sometime between 1,000 to 800 B.C.
Until now, the Mayan site of Ceibal, built in 950 BC, was the oldest confirmed ceremonial centre dating back to the Mayan period in South America.
'This area is developed - it's not the jungle; people live there - but this site was not known because it is so flat and huge. It just looks like a natural landscape. But with lidar, it pops up as a very well-planned shape,' the team said.
The discovery marks a time of major change in Mesoamerica and has several implications for what we know about the period, Inomata said.
First, archaeologists traditionally thought Maya civilisation developed gradually.
Until now, it was thought that small Maya villages began to appear between 1,000 and 350 BC, what's known as the Middle Preclassic period.
This coincided with the use of pottery and some maize cultivation.
Second, the site looks similar to the older Olmec civilisation centre of San Lorenzo to the west in the Mexican state of Veracruz - but without the statues dedicated to rulers and the elite found at the Olmec site.
The fact that monumental buildings existed earlier than thought and when Maya society had less social inequality makes archaeologists rethink the construction process those sites went through
This suggests less social inequality than San Lorenzo and highlights the importance of communal work in the earliest days of the Maya.
'There has always been debate over whether Olmec civilisation led to the development of the Maya civilisation or if the Maya developed independently,' Inomata said. 'So, our study focuses on a key area between the two.'
The period in which Aguada Fénix was constructed marked a gap in power - after the decline of San Lorenzo and before the rise of another Olmec center, La Venta.
During this time, there was an exchange of new ideas, such as construction and architectural styles, among various regions of southern Mesoamerica.
One of the most remarkable revelations from the find was the lack of monuments to the 'elite', suggesting it was part of a more equal society than other later Mayan sites
'During later periods, there were powerful rulers and administrative systems in which the people were ordered to do the work,' said Inomata.
'But this site is much earlier, and we don't see the evidence of the presence of powerful elites. We think that it's more the result of communal work,' he said.
The fact that monumental buildings existed earlier than thought and when Maya society had less social inequality makes archaeologists rethink the construction process those sites went through.
'It's not just hierarchical social organisation with the elite that makes monuments like this possible,' Inomata said.
This is a map of Mesoamerica - the new site can be seen in the middle towards the top of the map. The period in which Aguada Fénix was constructed marked a gap in power - after the decline of San Lorenzo and before the rise of another Olmec center, La Venta
'This kind of understanding gives us important implications about human capability, and the potential of human groups.
'You may not necessarily need a well-organised government to carry out these kinds of huge projects. People can work together to achieve amazing results.'
Inomata and his team will continue to work at Aguada Fénix and do a broader lidar analysis of the area to find out more about the ancient site.
They want to gather information about surrounding sites to understand how they interacted with the Olmec and the Maya.
They also wants to focus on the residential areas around Aguada Fénix.
'We have substantial information about ceremonial construction,' Inomata said, 'but we want to see how people lived during this period and what kind of changes in lifestyle were happening around this time.'
The team's findings have been published in the journal Nature
WHO WERE THE MAYANS? A POPULATION NOTED FOR ITS WRITTEN LANGUAGE, AGRICULTURAL AND CALENDARS
The Maya civilisation thrived in Central America for nearly 3,000 years, reaching its height between AD 250 to 900.
Noted for the only fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, the Mayas also had highly advanced art and architecture as well as mathematical and astronomical systems.
During that time, the ancient people built incredible cities using advanced machinery and gained an understanding of astronomy, as well as developing advanced agricultural methods and accurate calendars.
The Maya believed the cosmos shaped their everyday lives and they used astrological cycles to tell when to plant crops and set their calendars.
This has led to theories that the Maya may have chosen to locate their cities in line with the stars.
It is already known that the pyramid at Chichen Itza was built according to the sun’s location during the spring and autumn equinoxes.
When the sun sets on these two days, the pyramid casts a shadow on itself that aligns with a carving of the head of the Mayan serpent god.
The shadow makes the serpent's body so that as the sun sets, the terrifying god appears to slide towards the earth.
Maya influence can be detected from Honduras, Guatemala, and western El Salvador to as far away as central Mexico, more than 1,000km from the Maya area.
The Maya peoples never disappeared. Today their descendants form sizable populations throughout the Maya area.
They maintain a distinctive set of traditions and beliefs that are the result of the merger of pre-Columbian and post-Conquest ideas and cultures.
A team of international archaeologists (led by the University of Arizona) made an incredible discovery when they came across the largest and oldest Mayan structure ever found to date. The 3,000-year-old temple site is called Aquada Fénix and is located in Tabasco, Mexico. As for its gigantic size, it measures 4,600 feet in length by 50 feet in height.
A 3D image of the Aguada Fénix site, reconstructed from data gathered during an aerial laser survey.
The Maya civilization has thrived for almost 3,000 years in Central America. They were known for having the only full written language during the pre-Columbian Americas as well as creating exceptionally advanced architecture and art. They were able to build structures that helped greatly with their agriculture. Additionally, they are well known for their incredible understanding of math and astronomy that went into building some structures like the pyramid at Chichen Itza. During the spring and fall equinoxes, the setting sun makes the pyramid cast a shadow on itself which makes the serpent appear as though it’s slithering towards the ground.
Chichen Itza
The newly discovered structure is quite unique because most other Mayan temples contain stone sculptures that depict ancient rulers and elite members of society, however, Aquada Fénix doesn’t have those. This suggests that those who constructed the temple were firm believers that everyone was equal and they didn’t have to create sculptures of those in a higher social standard.
The team used lidar technology to find the temple back in 2017 but their findings were only recently published in the journal Nature and can be read here. When the laser-emitting equipment mapped out the temple, the team began excavating the area. After radiocarbon-dating 69 samples of charcoal, they were able to confirm that the structure was built between 1,000 BC and 800 BC. Prior to this discovery, the Mayan site of Ceibal was the oldest ceremonial center which was constructed in 950 BC.
As for the newest discovery, the team said, “This area is developed – it’s not the jungle; people live there – but this site was not known because it is so flat and huge. It just looks like a natural landscape. But with lidar, it pops up as a very well-planned shape.”
One of the study’s authors, Takeshi Inomata, said that this new discovery shows the change in Mesoamerica during that time period. It was initially believed that the Maya civilization gradually developed with villages starting to show up between 1000 BC and 350 BC. And while the structure looks similar to the Olmec civilization center in San Lorenzo, it doesn’t have rulers depicted on the sculptures.
Mayan Calendar
Inomata explained this further, “There has always been debate over whether Olmec civilization led to the development of the Maya civilization or if the Maya developed independently.” “So, our study focuses on a key area between the two.”
He went on to say, “During later periods, there were powerful rulers and administrative systems in which the people were ordered to do the work,” adding, “But this site is much earlier, and we don’t see the evidence of the presence of powerful elites. We think that it’s more the result of communal work.”
The team plans to conduct a more detailed lidar scan of the site to find out as much information as possible about Aquada Fénix and the ancient Maya culture. Aerial pictures of the site can be seen here.
Everyone knows (or will eventually find out) that nothing disappears on the Internet. That’s apparently also the case in Central Italy at the foothills of the Italian Alps where a medieval ghost village pops out of a lake every few decades to allow locals a trip down 13th century memory lanes.
“So soon, from the bottom of the artificial reservoir, the stone village and the church of San Teodoro with its square bell tower could emerge again. And with them a story that has its roots over the centuries. And that became important with the conquest of the village by the Este family and with the construction of the via Vandelli, which connected Modena to Massa.”
“Artificial reservoir” gives you a hint as to why the village of Fabbriche di Careggine lies at the bottom of Lago di Vagli (Vagli Lake) but that is but a waterlogged blip in the rich history that it had before becoming the Atlantis of Italy. The village was founded in the thirteenth century by a colony of blacksmiths from Brescia, an ancient Italian city dating back over 3,200 years with a rich history in manufacturing, metalworking, textile making and other industries. The blacksmiths most likely made the 250 km (155 miles) move for better weather, easier access to the coast or an abundance of iron ore. The mills and factories they built in this new village near the town of Careggine gave it its name: Fabbriche di Careggine – the factories of Careggine.
Iron ore mining today
Under the powerful Este ruling family, Fabbriche di Careggine became the largest iron supplier in the area – helped by the construction of the Via Vandelli, a major military and industrial road. The road eventually lost its prominence under new political leaders and so did Fabbriche di Careggine. However, Vagli became a source for marble in the early 1900s and a small hydroelectric power station was built on the Edron river to serve it. Everything was fine again … until the Fascists arrived.
Italian marble quarry
The government electric company decided to dam the Edron, resulting in the creation of Lago di Vagli and the sinking of Fabbriche di Careggine. However, they built nearby Vagli Sotto in a reproduction of the urban layout of the medieval village and moved the 146 inhabitants, who said their final goodbye to their homes, the church of San Teodoro and its square bell tower in 1953.
What was that you said about the Internet and submerged Italian villages?
“… among the proposals considered within the initiative there are the opening of sites used for digital indoor museums , the creation of museum institutions in the area and local history, the redevelopment of the natural environment, including the cleaning of the Vagli reservoir through a series of activities that, through the possible emptying of the basin, provide for the implementation of maintenance activities on hydraulic works, environmental interventions with naturalistic engineering works and tourism enhancement projects.”
The current power company is considering draining the lake in 2021 for maintenance, but with the additional noble causes of promoting environmentalism and the tourism boost the reappearance of Fabbriche di Careggine will generate, assuming they go through with the draining.
Just think how much tourism business Atlantis would generate. Keep looking!
David Wilcock: Hidden Secrets of the Universe... What Does NASA Really Know?
David Wilcock:Hidden Secrets of the Universe... What Does NASA Really Know?
Incredible new discoveries are being found throughout our solar system. What information is hidden within sacred geometry and what can we learn from the universal constant of hyper-dimensional physics? Does NASA know more than they are telling us?…Archived Show… Presented by Richard Hoagland, David Wilcock.
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According to new research by SISSA, ICTP and INFN, black holes could be like holograms, in which all the information to produce a three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional surface. As affirmed by quantum theories, black holes could be incredibly complex, and concentrate an enormous amount of information in two dimensions, like the largest hard disks that exist in nature. This idea aligns with Einstein's theory of relativity, which describes black holes as three dimensional, simple, spherical and smooth, as depicted in the first-ever image of a black hole that circulated in 2019. In short, black holes appear to be three dimensional, just like holograms. The study, which unites two discordant theories, has recently been published in Physical Review X.
The mystery of black holes
For scientists, black holes pose formidable theoretical challenges for many reasons. They are, for example, excellent representatives of the great difficulties of theoretical physics in uniting the principles of Einstein's general theory of relativity with those of the quantum physics of gravity. According to the relativity, black holes are simple bodies without information. According to quantum physics, as claimed by Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking, they are the most complex existing systems because they are characterized by enormous entropy, which measures the complexity of a system, and consequently contain a lot of information.
The holographic principle applied to black holes
To study black holes, the two authors of the new study, Francesco Benini (SISSA Professor, ICTP scientific consultant and INFN researcher) and Paolo Milan (SISSA and INFN researcher), used a 30-year-old idea called the holographic principle. The researchers write, "This revolutionary and somewhat counterintuitive principle proposes that the behavior of gravity in a given region of space can alternatively be described in terms of a different system, which lives only along the edge of that region and therefore in a one less dimension. And, more importantly, in this alternative description (called holographic), gravity does not appear explicitly. In other words, the holographic principle allows us to describe gravity using a language that does not contain gravity, thus avoiding friction with quantum mechanics."
What Benini and Milan have done is apply the theory of the holographic principle to black holes. In this way, their mysterious thermodynamic properties have become more understandable: Focusing on predicting that these bodies have a great entropy and observing them in terms of quantum mechanics, you can describe them just like a hologram—they have two dimensions, in which gravity disappears, but they reproduce an object in three dimensions.
From theory to observation
This study is only the first step toward a deeper understanding of these cosmic bodies and of the properties that characterize them when quantum mechanics crosses with general relativity. Everything is more important now at a time when observations in astrophysics are experiencing an incredible development. Just think of the observation of gravitational waves from the fusion of black holes, the result of the collaboration between LIGO and Virgo, or indeed, that of the black hole made by the Event Horizon Telescope that produced this extraordinary image. In the near future, we may be able to test our theoretical predictions regarding quantum gravity, such as those made in this study, by observation. And this, from a scientific point of view, would be something absolutely exceptional.
This UFO is in an old Apollo 7 mission photo. Its on the official NASA website so there is no possibility of it being faked. The object is hovering over earth, but close to the Apollo 7 module. Aliens are deeply interested in historical events and often have a drone or piloted craft observing from a distance to see first hand how it all takes place. The written history and the actual history are often slightly different and in some cases incredibly different. So aliens try to observe first hand. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
I found this photo going through the NASA Apollo 10 index. The photo shows a triangle UFO landed on the upper right corner of the image. The alien ship is big. It is close to 5km across from nose to tail. The top of the ship has long diagonal lines that go from nose to tail, which shows its thickness and strength. The triangle craft really stands out from its environment. I am very surprised thats something this big was not deleted by NASA. But we are fortunate that NASA misses some alien artifacts...or perhaps some NASA employees actually try to let it slide through to inform the public. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Strange dark cigar-shaped UFO hovering in the sky over Tijuana, Mexico
Strange dark cigar-shaped UFO hovering in the sky over Tijuana, Mexico
Adark cigar-shaped UFO was spotted in broad daylight while hovering in the sky over Tijuana in Mexico on June 3, 2020.
The witness states: Every day I go out to see the sky for a few minutes and today I saw a dark spot on some hills and I ran through my camera and was able to zoom to see what it is and I managed to capture this.
These unidentified flying objects were filmed in the sky above Wales, UK on 3rd June 2020. Amid the otherwise cloudy skies of New Wales, England, the outlandish appearance of a few very bright beams of light caught the eyes of the spectators and filled them with awe. Initially only two bright white lights, hovering one above the another, could be seen in the sky but after just a few seconds a new quad formation of lights appeared, as if out of nowhere, in the sky at a certain distance from the initial sighting.
All these lights could be coming from a very very large spaceship or a UFO, as viewers thought, or these lights could denote multiple UFOs just flying above the town of New Wales. What is even stranger is that the quad formation of lights was blinking in an unrecognisable pattern and it had an uncanny resemblance to a hologram. It could represent some kind of a signal from aliens or they were just trying to watch a movie in against the cloudy canvas of sky.
Flashing object over Shamokin, Pennsylvania 3-Jun-2020
Flashing object over Shamokin, Pennsylvania 3-Jun-2020
This flashing unidentified flying object was recorded in the sky above Shamokin, PA two days ago.
Witness report:
As I was walking downhill, south on N. Pearl St. near 1000 N. Pearl St., in Shamokin PA I noticed a very bright white light rapidly shoot straight up into the air above the city of Shamokin. It took approx. 3 secs to move from ground level to above the city. It shot up, hovered for approx. 30-45 secs, then descended. I immediately started taking a video with my iPhone which I uploaded here.As I was watching this, my iPhone rang and the video stopped. However, I was able to take a picture of the object as it descended, right before it became invisible from my location. It made no sound whatsoever. I have never seen anything like this in Shamokin. There is very little air traffic in this area. A helicopter was spotted flying north approx. 30-45 minutes earlier, which is rare. The light flickered (as you can see in the video). it also appeared to flicker green and red for a few seconds during the sighting. I first thought this was a high end drone of some sort, but its brightness, lack of sound, and rapid movement helped push me to submit it.
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This picture taken on September 24, 2016 shows the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province
Photograph:( AFP )
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
The huge telescope started functioning in January, but has been undergoing renovation and upgrades to minimise the risk of signal interference
While the world deals with a pandemic, China is going extraterrestrial - quite literally.
Chinese state media outlet Science and Technology Daily claims that the country’s FAST (Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope) is going to start looking for alien life, rather signals starting September 2020.
The huge telescope started functioning in January, but has been undergoing renovation and upgrades to minimise the risk of signal interference which could hamper the scientific undertaking of finding aliens.
This picture taken on September 24, 2016 shows the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province
AFP
With a diameter of 500 metres, FAST marks one of the pilot state-sanctioned projects ever to focus extensively on research on the extraterrestrial.
EnGadget reported that the planned research will not disrupt ongoing missions, as asserted by Chief Scientist Zhang Tongjie.
However, Tongjie warned that they expect no signals from intelligent life, adding there exist “interesting narrowband candidate ET signals”.
Radio signals are emitted from pulsars or fast radio bursts. In case any alien life is trying to reach out to Earth, FAST will improve the chances of receiving the signals and processing those signals.
FAST is located in Pingtang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province. The dish is almost the size of 30 football fields!
Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province
AFP
UFOs?
Earlier in April, The Pentagon released a few videos, where a US Navy pilot was seen encountering unknown flying objects. The video showcased unidentified aerial phenomena, more commonly known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
According to the US Department of Defense, the video clip has been brought in the public domain by Pentagon so that people do not fall for the doctored video that was being circulated earlier.
China is currently recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, which is currently wreaking havoc across the world, with the US recording highest ever death toll for a country. Wuhan, the initial epicentre of the virus is no longer reporting new cases.
Poor harvest! Mysterious 200ft Covid crop circle appears in Wiltshire farmer’s barley field
Poor harvest! Mysterious 200ft Covid crop circle appears in Wiltshire farmer’s barley field
A 200ft-wide crop circle shaped like a Covid virus has mysteriously appeared in a farmer’s field this week.
The unusual crop formation was discovered on Friday in the Wiltshire countryside – the county said to be the epicentre of crop circle tourism – as the start of the new crop circle season begins.
Pictures of the detailed design, found in an agricultural barley field and said to measure approximately 200ft by 130ft, were shared on social media.
The 200ft-wide crop circle shaped like a coronavirus was discovered in a farmer’s barley field in Wiltshire on Friday
The unusual design appeared at the beginning of the crop cirlce season and is located in Wiltshire, said to be the epicentre of crop circle tourism
In response to the eye-catching drone snapshots, Heather Barsby said: ‘Those aliens are risking it a bit coming here during a pandemic.
‘And surely they should go into two weeks of quarantine as well before playing in the crops.’
Richard Marshall added: ‘I hope they didn’t travel more than five miles. At least we can be fairly confident there weren’t more than six of them from no more than two households.’
The exact location of the field has not been revealed to avoid visitors walking there and it is not known how it was made.
Pictures of the eye-catching design were shared on social media but the exact location has not been shared in a bid to stop people visiting the field
The sudden appearance of crop circles and their intricate designs has lead to several theories about how they are formed.
Sightings of crop circles date back hundreds of years in Europe, with some people believing they are the result of UFOs or spaceships landing in fields and flattening the crop.
In the opposing camp, people firmly believe the large designs are man-made, often causing tensions between the two groups.
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